1	i went and saw this movie last night after being coaxed to by a few friends of mine i'll admit that i was reluctant to see it because from what i knew of ashton kutcher he was only able to do comedy i was wrong kutcher played the character of jake fischer very well and kevin costner played ben randall with such professionalism the sign of a good movie is that it can toy with our emotions this one did exactly that the entire theater which was sold out was overcome by laughter during the first half of the movie and were moved to tears during the second half while exiting the theater i not only saw many women in tears but many full grown men as well trying desperately not to let anyone see them crying this movie was great and i suggest that you go see it before you judge
1	actor turned director bill paxton follows up his promising debut the gothic horror frailty with this family friendly sports drama about the 1913 u s open where a young american caddy rises from his humble background to play against his idol in what was dubbed as the greatest game ever played i'm no fan of golf and these scrappy underdog sports flicks are a dime a dozen most recently done to grand effect with miracle and cinderella man but some how this film was enthralling all the same br br the film starts with some creative opening credits imagine a disneyfied version of the animated opening credits of hbo's carnivale and rome but lumbers along slowly for its first by the numbers hour once the action moves to the u s open things pick up very well paxton does a nice job and shows a knack for effective directorial flourishes i loved the rain soaked montage of the action on day two of the open that propel the plot further or add some unexpected psychological depth to the proceedings there's some compelling character development when the british harry is haunted by images of the aristocrats in black suits and top hats who destroyed his family cottage as a child to make way for a golf course he also does a good job of visually depicting what goes on in the players' heads under pressure golf a painfully boring sport is brought vividly alive here credit should also be given the set designers and costume department for creating an engaging period piece atmosphere of london and boston at the beginning of the twentieth century br br you know how this is going to end not only because it's based on a true story but also because films in this genre follow the same template over and over but paxton puts on a better than average show and perhaps indicates more talent behind the camera than he ever had in front of it despite the formulaic nature this is a nice and easy film to root for that deserves to find an audience
1	as a recreational golfer with some knowledge of the sport's history i was pleased with disney's sensitivity to the issues of class in golf in the early twentieth century the movie depicted well the psychological battles that harry fought within himself from his childhood trauma of being evicted to his own inability to break that glass ceiling that prevents him from being accepted as an equal in english golf society likewise the young goes through his own class struggles being a mere caddie in the eyes of the upper crust americans who scoff at his attempts to rise above his standing br br what i loved best however is how this theme of class is manifested in the characters of parents his father is a working class drone who sees the value of hard work but is intimidated by the upper class his mother however recognizes her son's talent and desire and encourages him to pursue his dream of competing against those who think he is inferior br br finally the golf scenes are well photographed although the course used in the movie was not the actual site of the historical tournament the little liberties taken by disney do not detract from the beauty of the film there's one little disney moment at the pool table otherwise the viewer does not really think disney the ending as in miracle is not some disney creation but one that only human history could have written
1	i saw this film in a sneak preview and it is delightful the cinematography is unusually creative the acting is good and the story is fabulous if this movie does not do well it won't be because it doesn't deserve to before this film i didn't realize how charming shia lebouf could be he does a marvelous self contained job as the lead there's something incredibly sweet about him and it makes the movie even better the other actors do a good job as well and the film contains moments of really high suspense more than one might expect from a movie about golf sports movies are a dime a dozen but this one stands out br br this is one i'd recommend to anyone
1	bill paxton has taken the true story of the 1913 us golf open and made a film that is about much more than an extra ordinary game of golf the film also deals directly with the class tensions of the early twentieth century and touches upon the profound anti catholic prejudices of both the british and american establishments but at heart the film is about that perennial favourite of triumph against the odds br br the acting is exemplary throughout stephen is excellent as usual but the revelation of the movie is shia who delivers a disciplined dignified and highly sympathetic performance as a working class franco irish kid fighting his way through the prejudices of the new england wasp establishment for those who are only familiar with his slap stick performances in even stevens this demonstration of his maturity is a delightful surprise and josh flitter as the ten year old caddy threatens to steal every scene in which he appears br br a old fashioned movie in the best sense of the word fine acting clear directing and a great story that grips to the end the final scene an affectionate nod to casablanca is just one of the many pleasures that fill a great movie
1	i saw this film on september 1st 2005 in indianapolis i am one of the judges for the heartland film festival that screens films for their truly moving picture award a truly moving picture explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life heartland gave that award to this film br br this is a story of golf in the early part of the 20th century at that time it was the game of upper class and rich gentlemen and working people could only participate by being at country clubs with this backdrop this based on a true story unfolds with a young working class boy who takes on the golf establishment and the greatest golfer in the world harry br br and the story is inspirational against all odds francis played by shia labeouf of holes gets to compete against the greatest golfers of the u s and great britain at the 1913 u s open francis is ill prepared and has a child for a caddy the caddy is hilarious and motivational and steals every scene he appears in but despite these handicaps francis displays courage spirit heroism and humility at this world class event br br and we learn a lot about the early years of golf for example the use of small wooden clubs the layout of the short holes the manual the golfers swinging with pipes in their mouths the terrible conditions of the greens and and the play not being canceled even in torrential rain br br this film has stunning cinematography and art direction and editing and with no big movie stars the story is somehow more believable br br this adds to the inventory of great sports movies in the vein of miracle and remember the titans br br fyi there is a truly moving pictures web site where there is a listing of past winners going back 70 years
1	maybe i'm reading into this too much but i wonder how much of a hand had in developing the film i mean when a story is told casting the main character as himself i would think he would be a heavy hand in writing documenting etc and that would make it a little biased br br but his family and friends also may have had a hand in getting the actual details about life i think the best view would have been told from family and friends' perspectives they saw his transformation and weren't so messed up on drugs that they remember everything br br as for being full of himself the of the jesus christ pose make him appear as a martyr who sacrificed his life metaphorically of course he's obviously still alive as he was cast as himself for his family's happiness huh br br the viewer sees him at his lowest points while still maintaining a superiority complex he lies on the grass coming down from during a high by himself and with his father he contemplates life and has visions of dragons at his window he celebrates his freedom on a bicycle all while his arms his head cocked to the side br br it's fabulous that he's off of drugs now but he's no hero he went from a high point in his career in acting to his most vulnerable point while on drugs to come back somewhere in the middle br br this same device is used in ted demme's blow where the audience with the main character who is shown as a flawed hero br br however quitting is a film that is recommended mostly for its haunting soundtrack superb acting and landscapes but the best part is the feeling that one gets when what we presume to be the house of jia is actually a stage setting for a play it makes the viewer feel as if life was merely a play told in many difficult parts
1	i felt this film did have many good qualities the cinematography was certainly different exposing the stage aspect of the set and story the original characters as actors was certainly an achievement and i felt most played quite convincingly of course they are playing themselves but definitely unique the cultural aspects may leave many disappointed as a familiarity with the chinese and oriental culture will answer a lot of questions regarding parent child relationships and the stigma that goes with any drug use i found the jia story interesting on a down note the story is in beijing and some of the fashion and music reek of early 90s even though this was made in 2001 so it's really cheesy sometimes the beatles crap etc whatever not a top ten or twenty but if it's on the television check it out
1	this movie is amazing because the fact that the real people portray themselves and their real life experience and do such a good job it's like they're almost living the past over again jia plays himself an actor who quit everything except music and drugs struggling with depression and searching for the meaning of life while being angry at everyone especially the people who care for him most there's moments in the movie that will make you wanna cry because the family especially the father did such a good job however this movie is not for everyone many people who suffer from depression will understand problem and why he does the things he does for example keep himself shut in a dark room or go for walks or bike rides by himself others might see the movie as boring because it's just so real that its almost like a documentary overall this movie is great and deserved an oscar for this movie so did his dad
1	quitting may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal as a rural guy coming to beijing class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents' acting success troubles arise however when the new man is too new when it demands too big a departure from family history nature and personal identity the ensuing splits and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim br br but what an exceptionally convincing honesty and sensuousness director zhang yang and his actors bring to this journey no clichés no stereotypes no rigid gender roles no requisite sex romance or violence scenes no requisite street language and to boot no assumed money to float character acts and whims br br jia is in his mid twenties he's a talented actor impressionable vain idealistic and perhaps emotionally starved the perfect recipe for his enablers soon he's the cool actor idolized by youth he was hot in the early nineties he always had to be the most fashionable he needs extremes and goes in for heavy metal adopts earrings and a scarf his acting means the arts friends and roles but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input and his self criticism dulled by the immediacy of success opens the doors to an irrational self doubt self hatred i didn't know how to act i felt like a phony and to readily available drugs to counter them he says i had to get high to do what director wanted so his shallow identity as an actor becomes via drugs an escape from identity br br from drugs and his false life is very gradual intermittent and doggedly his own solitude space meditative thinking speech refusal replace therapy the abstract is out and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways bridges and high rises of beijing the physicality is almost romantic but is not the bike rides to park the long spontaneous walks the drenching sun and rain picnics the sky patterns and kites that absorb his are very specific he drifts in order to arrive all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity i started to open up he says of this period in retrospect and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer's positioning clumsy graceful humorous telling in a current circumstance if mind or spirit is lacking his legs can compel him to walk all night br br central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity he smashes his videos and tv and bangs his head till bloody against his john lennon forever poster he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist but he's the only viable guide he knows he even imagines himself as john's son yoko ono and adopts his mother mary as an in his hour of darkness and time of trouble the wrenching shaking pain in the park hallucinatory and ordeals music is so much more real than acting he says and speaks of lennon's influence as showing me a new way in the mental institute the life saving apples resistance nourishment reflect lennon's presence as does need to re hang his hero's poster in his room br br if lennon's influence is father's influence is grounding although father and son are both actors and users drugs and drink it is differences from his son that his change for the father is more secure in himself he accepts that he's chinese a peasant in a line of peasants a rural theater director and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions it's this recognizable identity that drives to treat him like a sounding board sometimes with anger and rage sometimes with humor the blue jeans beatles and passivity in his most crazed and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar and a fake he exposes more of himself than his father all the acts i acted before were bullshit life is bullshit and to emphatic you are not my father he softly replies why can't a peasant be your father br br under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother sister friends inmates at the rehab he makes some tangible connection to a real not whole self as the long term drug effects so does his old identity indebtedness replaces pride trust distrust integrity his black cloud all his edges soften you are just a human being he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine back home lard peasant soap is fine with him now and his once rare and true friendships begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy says of this movie it's a good chance to think about my life and i might add become a new actor one bound to art and life like lennon he has gained success without a loss of identity
1	i loved this movie from beginning to end i am a musician and i let drugs get in the way of my some of the things i used to love skateboarding drawing but my friends were always there for me music was like my rehab life support and my drug it changed my life i can totally relate to this movie and i wish there was more i could say this movie left me speechless to be honest i just saw it on the ifc channel i usually hate having satellite but this was a perk of having satellite the ifc channel shows some really great movies and without it i never would have found this movie im not a big fan of the international films because i find that a lot of the don't do a very good job on translating lines i mean the obvious language barrier leaves you to just believe thats what they are saying but its not that big of a deal i guess i almost never got to see this amazing movie good thing i stayed up for it instead of going to bed well earlier than usual lol i hope you all enjoy the hell of this movie and love this movie just as much as i did i wish i could type this all in caps but its again the rules i guess thats shouting but it would really show my excitement for the film i give it three thumbs way up br br this movie blew me away
1	i was fortunate to attend the london premier of this film while i am not at all a fan of british drama i did find myself deeply moved by the characters and the bad choices they made i was in tears by the end of the film every scene was mesmerizing the attention to detail and the excellent acting was quite impressive br br i would have to agree with some of the other comments here which question why all these women were throwing themselves at such a despicable character br br alert i was also hoping that dylan would have been killed by william when he had the chance end spoiler br br keira knightley did a great job and radiate beauty and innocence from the screen but it was sienna miller's performance that was truly oscar worthy br br i am sure this production will be nominated for other awards
1	i first saw this movie on ifc which is a great network by the way to see underground films i watched this movie and was thinking it was going to be pure drama and a story line that doesn't hold water but it really was a worth while watch the main character is in such rough shape and you hate to see him deny help but no matter what you just can't hate him his devotion to the beatles and john lennon is a great metaphor for his life and the helplessness he feels br br the atmosphere of the film is also great at times you feel like you can see what he sees feel what he feels in some situations this movie does not leave you wanting to know more or disliking a loophole in the plot there are no loopholes in my opinion i have always been a fan of foreign films especially now with movies being made so poorly in america i really enjoy the foreign settings because i feel it can take you on a trip and sometimes understand a different culture this movie did all those things to me and more please watch this movie and if you're new to foreign films this is a great start
1	i must say every time i see this movie i am deeply touched not only by the most painful four years of life but also by how his family deals with his drug addiction it is also true that getting addicted to anything such as drugs alcohol or pornography cannot only hurt you but also hurt your most important people in the world your family since family is the 1 priority in the asian culture it takes guts for the circle to gather together and show one person how much the family loves him her this is actually the first chinese movie that i actually enjoy not for the fun of it but the elements surrounding it superb acting touching story great direction make this movie worth watching what stands out the most is that and his family act out the story themselves instead of having some b movie actor trying to imitate the real person it shows the genuineness of the movie
1	my wife is a mental health therapist and we watched it from beginning to end i am the typical man and can not stand chick flicks but this movie is unbelievable if you want to see what it is like for someone who is going through these type of struggles this is the movie for you as i watched it i found myself feeling sorry for him and others like him br br spoiler plus the fact that all the individuals in the movie including the people in the mental institution were the actual people in real life made it that more real br br a must see for someone in the mental health profession
1	i saw this film at the rotterdam international film festival 2002 this seemed to be one of the less popular films on the festival however as it turned out all the more interesting br br the story of an actor trying to come to grips with himself and his environment after withdrawing from a drug addiction is based on actual facts moreover the characters playing in the film are the real people living this experience over again this time for the film which is partly set up as a stage play not only do they all happen to be good actors jia parents are actors in real life as well the methods used in highlighting their relationship towards jia are very effective br br jia is the actor of some chinese action films late eighties start nineties later you can see him in great films such as frozen and suzhou river in between these two career paths jia becomes a drug addict and looses all drive to act or even do anything productive except for making somewhat futile attempts at becoming a guitar virtuoso br br i like the way the writer of the scenario choose to emphasize on his behavior after withdrawal more than on the horror of drugs we really feel the pain and struggle jia is in at the same time we hate him for the way he treats those around him br br the film draws the viewer into a tiring pattern jia seems to be caught in dragging with him his parents and sister who try to take care of him because there are personal with the characters we feel like we are getting to know jia not only through himself but through others as well br br the film has a heavy feel but scenes of jia cycling through bejing and partying with his friends lighten the tone so does the bitter humor in a lot of events throughout the film the music is beautiful and stayed with me for a while after this is a film that might not easily appeal to many people but for those interested in the more serious and modern chinese film this is a strong recommendation
1	night of the hunted stars french porn star brigitte in fact many of the cast members in this slow moving production were porn actors at the time of its frantic filming this film is certainly different than rollin's usual lesbian vampire flicks but it's not as memorable as for example lips of blood or fascination plays an amnesiac hitchhiker who can't remember who she is or where she came from most of the film takes place in a modern apartment complex where is being held by some kind of medical group that's treating a number of people with a similar condition anyway she escapes from the monolithic office tower where the affected people are held on a highway outside of town she meets a young man who stops and picks her up night of the hunted offers plenty of nudity unfortunately the pace is extremely slow the atmosphere is horribly sad and the relationship between brigitte and another asylum inmate dominique is well developed still night of the hunted is too dull to be completely enjoyable give it a look only if you are a fan of jean rollin's works 7 out of 10 and that's being kind
1	even if you're a fan of jean rollin's idiosyncratic body of work you will be caught off guard by this exceptional foray into science fiction territory for once there's not a single vampire girl in sight true to tradition the budget proved way too tight to realize the director's vision entirely yet this is largely compensated by his obvious love of genre cinema dedication to his craft and sheer ingenuity jean claude atmospheric cinematography makes the most of the foreboding locations and philippe a k a gary contributes a startling soundtrack that fortunately doesn't resemble any of the sappy stuff he composed for hardcore br br shot in and around a paris office block before and after working hours the film was largely cast with porn regulars rollin was already quite familiar with from his michel gentil cash gathering xxx efforts most notably french f ck film royalty brigitte in the demanding lead playing elisabeth rather well i might add she's picked up wandering a nearby highway one night by robert vincent driving home at the end of a long work day barely able to piece together the string of events that got her there elisabeth seems to lose her memories mere moments after events occur even forgetting robert's name and heroic savior role before their night flight comes to an end at his apartment prior to making love she rightfully describes herself as a virgin further credit to thespian skills that she can handle the line so convincingly being after all one of the more active adult actresses of the '70s because she cannot recall a single touch preceding his because of this nifty bit of context the relatively long sex scene that follows totally eschews the gratuity of other commercial interludes rollin has had to include in other works to assure funding br br when robert leaves for work he's inevitably erased from elisabeth's feeble mind a mysterious doctor comedian bernard effectively cast against type and his menacing assistant solange striking porn starlet rachel move in on her during her absence and take her back to the place she turns out to have escaped from here we get one of the movie's strongest scenes as she's re introduced to her roommate catherine the late a k a hardcore performer cathy stewart in a quietly devastating turn both girls desperately supplying fictitious shared memories for one another in a bid to outrun their inevitable fate that deterioration is not solely limited to the mind becomes painfully clear when they are served lunch and catherine's unable to control her movements in trying to eat a spoonful of soup it's also catherine who gets to voice the filmmaker's compromise with the demands of commerce as she urges elisabeth to get naked and hold her because sex is all they have left now that both mind and physical faculties have deserted them br br several rather explicit if not quite hardcore sex scenes make up the movie's mid section and french porn aficionados should recognize the likes of alain a k a cyril val jacques and along with a blink and miss bit from future porno princess marilyn jess whose rape at the hands mouth and member of was only present in the film's rarely screened xxx version the pivotal part of a girl elisabeth almost seems to remember and whom she seeks to escape anew with is beautifully handled by the exquisite dominique in her unforgettable debut who would go on to play a sizable supporting role in franco zeffirelli's la traviata the six feet under ending reveals the deteriorating condition to be the result of a nuclear spill the quarantined patients ultimately leaving a barely breathing empty shell unceremoniously disposed off in a fiery furnace the final shot offers a particularly heartbreaking variation on that of chaplin's modern times as elisabeth approaching complete meltdown by now and a wounded robert stumble along the railroad bridge clumsily clasping each other's outstretched hands
1	i was surprised how much i enjoyed this sure it is a bit slow moving in parts but what else would one expect from rollin also there is plenty of nudity nothing wrong with that particularly as it includes lots of the gorgeous brigitte there are also some spectacularly female dead bit more perhaps but most effective there is also a sci fi like storyline with a brief explanation at the end but i wouldn't bother too much with that no here we have a most interesting exploration of memory and the effect of memory loss and to just what extent one is still without memory my dvd sleeve mentions david cronenberg and whilst this is perhaps not quite as good as his best films there is some similarity here particularly with the great use of seemingly menacing architecture and the effective and creepy use of inside space as i have tried to indicate this is by no means a rip roaring thriller it is a captivating nightmare like movie that makes the very most of its locations including a stunning railway setting at the end
1	i went into night of the hunted not knowing what to expect at all i was really impressed br br it is essentially a mystery thriller where this girl who can't remember anything gets by a guy who happens to be driving past the two become fast friends and lovers and together they try to figure out what is going on with her through some vague flashbacks and grim memories they eventually get to the bottom of it and the ending is pretty cool br br i really liked the setting of this one a desolate post modern paris is the backdrop with lots of gray skies and tall buildings very metropolitan groovy soundtrack and lots of nudity br br surprising it was made in 1980 seems somewhat ahead of it's time br br 8 out of 10 kids
1	i have certainly not seen all of jean rollin's films but they mostly seem to be bloody vampire naked women fests which if you like that sort of thing is not bad but this is a major departure and could almost be cronenberg minus the bio mechanical nightmarish stuff except it's in french with subtitles of course a man driving on the road at night comes across a woman that is in her slippers and and picks her up while in the background yet another woman lingers wearing nothing as they drive along it's obvious that there is something not right about the woman in that she forgets things almost as quickly as they happen still though that doesn't prevent the man from having sex with her once they return to paris his apartment the man leaves for work and some strangers show up at his place and take the woman away to this 'tower block' a huge apartment building referred to as the black tower where others of her kind for whom the 'no things seems to be the least of their problems are being held for some reason time and events march by in the movie which involve mostly trying to find what's going on and get out of the building for this woman and she does manage to call robert the guy that picked her up in the first place to come rescue her the revelation as to what's going on comes in the last few moments of the movie which has a rather strange yet touching end to it in avoiding what seemed to be his typical formula rollin created in this what i feel is his most fascinating and disturbing film i like this one a lot check it out 8 out of 10
1	since this cartoon was made in the old days felix talks using cartoon bubbles and the animation style is very crude when compared to today however compared to its contemporaries it's a pretty good cartoon and still holds up well that's because despite its age the cartoon is very creative and funny br br felix meets a guy whose shoe business is folding because he can't sell any shoes well felix needs money so he can go to hollywood so he tells the guy at the shop he'll get every shoe sold felix spreads chewing gum all over town and soon people are stuck and leave their shoes rushing to buy new ones from the shoe store in gratitude the guy gives felix 500 however felix's owner wants to take the money and go alone so felix figures out a way to sneak along br br once there felix into a studio and makes a bit of a nuisance of himself along the way he meets cartoon versions of comics ben turpin and charlie chaplin in the end though through luck felix is discovered and offered a movie contract hurray
1	despite the title and unlike some other stories about love and war this film isn't too sticky and pink because love is as a rose with thorns that is the four leading actors set their characters realistic and with a good sense and balance between the tragic and the down to earth br br the music and lyrics of the cabaret chanson esquire songs sung b keira knightley herself drag the viewer deeper and deeper in the film from one place to another between the brutal war and amongst the peaceful love some people may find it too much a biopic but it ís mostly a romantic story even though it consequently follows the life of dylan thomas and the triangular relationship which is steeped by joy and jealousy br br london gets visualized from another angle for once the bohemian life of dylan during the bombings of the germans is set in a floating atmosphere of small bedrooms pubs and bars the independent women the soldier and the charismatic poet are constantly swept in both feelings of love and anger br br maybe the end is too twisted and hangs somewhat loosely to the rest of the film but all in all this is a great romantic story
1	felix in hollywood is a great film the version i viewed was very well restored which is sometimes a problem with these silent era animated films it has some of hollywood's most famous stars making cameo animated appearances a must for any silent film or animation enthusiast
1	a gem of a cartoon from the silent era it was re discovered by cartoon network and was broadcast for likely the first time in decades if ever br br what makes this so enjoyable are the varied cameos douglas fairbanks is attacked by giant mosquitos will hays pays a visit as 'boss' of static studios as well as appearances by chaplin keaton and william s hart the image of chewing gum the shoes of the populace a money making idea for felix's near bankrupt shoe salesman boss cannot be described it must be viewed a terrific cultural gem
1	this short is one of the best of all time and is proof just like most of charlie chaplin's work that sound and color are not requirements for quality work in fact this cartoon uses and may have started some of the gags and devices that became standard in animation in later years like caricatures of celebrities including the afore mentioned chaplin while the characters are silent they do speak by use of word balloons just like in the comics given that felix started out in newspapers as a comic strip this device is a natural the atmosphere and style of the short is completely harmonious with that of the comic strip while adding another dimension literally and figuratively and makes this short a delight to watch well worth taking the time and effort to get most highly recommended
1	felix is watching an actor rehearse his lines a ham a ham my kingdom for a ham sandwich the dramatic guy that tells felix he'll have to sacrifice my art and go into the movies he's in tears felix just looks at him like he's nuts and shrugs his shoulders the old guy tells felix to go ye forth and find money to finance a trip to hollywood felix thinks how does he expect me to get the money br br in minutes of course this is a cartoon he spots a shoe business owner putting up a bankrupt sale on his store felix comes up with a plan to bail him out and the man promises the cat 500 if it works br br well it does but the man wants to go alone and leave felix at home in an outrageous scene felix transforms himself into a briefcase and that's how he gets to hollywood transforming himself back to cat when they get there br br we then witness felix's attempts at getting into show business his audition scenes are very funny especially with his imitation of charlie chaplin in addition there are caricatures of some famous silent film stars and executives in all quite a bit of material is in this 9 5 minute cartoon it's amazing how much more you can get in an extra 2 5 minutes assuming most animated shorts are seven minutes in length br br at any rate there were a number of laughs in here and more zany things you could only see in a cartoon like felix have a sword duel with giant mosquitoes crazy stuff
1	while i can't say whether or not larry hama ever saw any of the old cartoons i would think that writing said cartoons file cards and some of the comics would count for something br br for fans of the old cartoon this is pretty much a continuation of the same except with a few new characters and a more insane cobra commander br br we still have all the old favorites too but on a personal note one thing that always irritated me was this duke in charge stuff when there are tons of other officers around instead br br the battle sequences are similar to the old series as well the main trick here seems to be the cgi it's overall pretty good if not a little over the top
1	errol flynn's roguish charm really shines through in this entertaining and exciting but historically bankrupt biopic of the famous and some would say infamous general custer that follows his career from his first day at west point through the civil war and out west to the battle at the little big horn all the while butting heads with rival arthur kennedy and romancing pretty olivia de havilland br br some might say that flynn who delivers a great flamboyant performance as the general is basically playing himself playing custer br br a lavish production that should have been in technicolor well directed by raoul walsh they died with their boots on features some truly well staged battle sequences also it's a real treat to see anthony quinn playing crazy horse br br the previous year flynn played jeb stuart opposite ronald reagan's george custer in santa fe trail also with de havilland another action packed warner brothers production designed to make you fail history class
1	warner brothers tampered considerably with american history in big trail director raoul walsh's first rate western they died with their boots on a somewhat inaccurate but wholly exhilarating biography of cavalry officer george armstrong custer the film chronicles custer from the moment that he arrives at west point academy until the indians massacre him at the little big horn this is one of errol flynn's signature roles and one of raoul walsh's greatest epics walsh and flynn teamed in quite often afterward and they died with their boots on reunited olivia de havilland as flynn's romantic interest for the last time they appeared as a couple in seven previous films this 140 minute black white oater is nothing short of brilliant with dynamic action sequences humorous romantic scenes and stern dramatic confrontations between our hero and his adversaries one of the notorious errors involves colonel philip sheridan who is shown as the commandant at west point before the civil war indeed sheridan was a lieutenant at this point in fact the commandant was robert e lee as the earlier flynn film santa fe trail showed another historical lapse concerns lieutenant general whitfield scott scott was not the commander of union troops throughout the civil war warner brothers presented custer as a drinker probably because flynn had a reputation for drinking but in real life custer neither drank nor smoked nevertheless these as well as other historical goofs do not detract from a truly splendid film br br they died with their boots on opens with custer riding into west point military academy in a fancy dress uniform with an african american carrying his luggage and tending his dogs after the sergeant of the guard realizes that he has turned out a honor guard for a future instead of a high ranking foreign general the sergeant turns custer over to a ranking cadet ned sharp arthur kennedy of city for conquest to take charge of him sharp plays a practical job on custer by installing him in the quarters of major romulus stanley of task force who promptly runs custer out naturally the volatile custer attacks sharp in a public brawl general phil sheridan john litel of the sons of katie elder is prepared to dismiss custer from west point for conduct unbecoming as it turns out sheridan cannot expel custer because custer has not enrolled once he enrolls custer establishes a mediocre academic reputation with alacrity to fight and accumulate galore when the american civil war erupts west point graduates cadets who have not completed their education and rushes them into combat one of the last cadets hustled off to war is custer avid as he is to get into the fight custer encounters his future wife elizabeth 'libby' bacon olivia de havilland of santa fe trail and they pledge themselves to each other despite mr bacon gene lockhart of carousel who detests the sight of custer it seems that bacon ran across custer at a saloon and insulted one of custer's friends and our hero reprimanded bacon br br meanwhile back in washington custer desperately seeks a transfer to a regiment but major has him cooling his heels custer befriends rotund lieutenant general winfield scott sidney greenstreet of the maltese falcon and they share an appetite for creamed bermuda onions that becomes one of custer's characteristics not only does scott see to it that assigns custer to the second cavalry but also custer appropriates horse to get to his command during the battle of bull run 21 july 1861 custer disobeys orders from none other than sharp strikes his superior officer and holds a bridge so the infantry can cross it wounded in the shoulder and sent to the hospital custer receives a medal rather than a court martial when confederate general jeb stuart threatens the union army at the battle of gettysburg in pennsylvania scott is shocked by the chance that the south may triumph when a brigadier general cannot be found scott into promoting the first available officer a mistake is made and custer is promoted incredulous at first custer embraces the moment and cracks stuart's advance after the war custer down and starts boozing it up with the boys at the local saloons sharp shows up as a crooked railroad promoter and with his father they try to enlist custer to serve as the president of their railway so that they can obtain funds eventually libby intercedes on his behalf with general sheridan who was in command of the army and gets him back on active duty as the commander of the 7th cavalry when he takes command custer finds the 7th cavalry a drunken lot and is not surprised that sharp commands the liquor at the fort meanwhile custer has his first run in with crazy horse anthony quinn of the guns of and takes him into custody of course crazy horse escapes becomes custer's adversary and they fight br br once custer has quelled crazy horse and the indians sharp with as a government agent conspire to destroy a peace treaty with the sioux and other indian nations they also see to it that custer is brought up on charges for striking in a saloon brawl on his way to washington custer discovers the perfidy of sharp and who have drummed up a gold strike in the sacred black hills settlers rampage in and the indians hit the warpath custer sacrifices himself and his 600 men at the little big horn in a slam bang showdown against 6000 stagecoach lenser bert captures both the grit and the glory the long shot of the 7th cavalry leaving the fort at dawn is spectacular as an added premonition of custer's imminent demise libby faints after he leaves their quarters for the little big horn they died with their boots on benefits from a top notch max steiner score that incorporates the regimental tune gary owen
1	if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it this film is actually quite entertaining it's got action adventure and romance and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles as evident on this board the picture doesn't pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling to get beyond that one need only put aside the history book and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction i know i know that's hard to do when you consider custer's last stand at the little big horn and it's prominence in the history of post civil war america so i guess there's an unresolved quandary with the picture no matter how you look at it br br there's a lot to take in here though for the picture's two hour plus run time custer's arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher riding up as he does in full military regalia the practical joke by sharp arthur kennedy putting him up in the headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble br br ironically a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy as in custer's first meeting with libby bacon and subsequent encounters that include tea reader hattie mcdaniel i hadn't noticed it before in other films but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties mantan moreland so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress with that in mind the owl scene was a hoot too br br as for flynn it's interesting to note that a year earlier he portrayed j e b stuart opposite ronald reagan's depiction of general custer in santa fe trail both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland in that film reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers while in flynn's portrayal here it's more than evident but it doesn't come close to that of richard mulligan's take on the military hero in 1970's little big man let's just say that one was a bit over the top br br the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one's point of view earlier a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer's character when he stated you take glory with you when it's your time to go
1	after working on 7 movies with director curtiz the adventures of robin hood are their best achievement errol flynn got tired of his dictatorial direction and decided to work with the great raoul walsh this reunion is a happy thing for cinematography the died with their boots on is their first and best film together raoul walsh portrays the general george armstrong custer errol flynn from his debuts at west point to the civil war and finally at the battle of little big horn it's true the film shows a too heroic portrait of custer but that's not important what is important is the fact that we are transported with the passion and glory carried by the characters who can forget california joe the great queen's own with his song the touching mrs custer olivia de havilland the diabolic sharp well played by arthur kennedy br br an eternal blow remains on this epic and tragic
1	i first viewed they died with there boots on about 1970 and though it has been many years since this film and its impression remain the cast was good to excellent and the lead man was truly heroic when i first saw this film i knew the wisest as well as the only real position to have was to enjoy this film as a rousing bit of entertainment and then some i felt then as i even feel now that the silver screen does not as such provide for a true depiction of much of anything let alone the life of george armstrong custer however the director raoul walsh was to contribute to the real value represented in this film when i watched a semi documentary with other great directors like vincent wherein these central figures talked about there accomplishments with valuable comments providing a glimpse into the hollywood mind set this is what i considered something of interest and where all of this became terribly interesting and very enjoyable yet there have been so much made of all the problems with the silver screen and its story telling ability that some of the enjoyment has been lost and perhaps you would find that to be true here as well custer ranked 34 in a graduating class of 34 much has been made of custer's final class ranking but of the 68 cadets who entered the military academy with him in half of them had already flunked out or quit by graduation day june 24 1861 it is suggested in the movie as the various instructors are determining if a soldier is fit for command and then they come upon the name of george armstrong custer and there is to be certain an exchange between the two sides and here is where the sargeant on duty says in almost a low tone even to suggest as if that came out by accident his squadron would follow him to hell your at attention sargeant reprimands tape if iam not mistaken when flynn shows up at a initial battlefield it acknowledged that custer did not see action right away and indeed he was doing work as a reliable to not only sheridan but forces as well only to end up for a time with the army of the under general george there is some truth to the audacity attributed to battlefield heroics as was illustrated when in a counterattack young custer spurred his horse to the lead and boldly plunged in among the stunned confederates as a lone union soldier surrounded by rebels audacity shone through he accepted the surrender of several enemy soldiers including a rebel captain yet most outstanding was that in this action he personally captured the very first confederate battle flag taken by the army of the this notable act of courage marked him as an officer of great battlefield promise robert l bateman armchair general there is a problem here and that is the telling of the story and the truth as to george armstrong custer the story is good hollywood entertainment perhaps even great entertainment but for whatever reasons all that could be told was changed for entertainment purposes though this maybe jumping the gun it might be well to know that tom custer was to lose his life at the little big horn only a few feet from where george custer was to die as well they were brothers and tom custer to this very day holds a honorable distinction of being amongst a very small group perhaps only 3 others to have been awarded the medal of honor twice in his military career the list of engagements that the motion picture shows indicate that indeed was an active young officer he was not with union forces at either or for that matter however he was with them at the battle of and at that point in time he was actually promoted to captain by general but that was not to last as was soon to be replaced due to the historical fact that the army of the had the means and the information discovered wrapped around some cigars was general lee's plans to split his forces and yet he failed to act for some 17 hours it can be speculated that the war could of been over then and there had that occurred but when failed to act president lincoln replaced him permanently and the promotion was lost as a result greatest victory may of in fact come at gettysburg pa his forces which occupied an area called cemetery ridge at the field at gettysburg in the summer of 1863 were able to defeat a jeb stuart led cavalry of some 6 000 rebels with but a force of 2 300 i think the heroics at gettysburg by custer are worth some discussion there is speculation had in the movie that appointment was a blunder well you better guess again because not only did custer have men in his corner but he established a petition to present to the governor of the state of michigan which by the way was relatively new to the union cause and where preparing to form cavalry regiments though custer was severely for that kind of when he showed up in all that gold braid it was not by accident as you would be led to believe the truth be told defense at gettysburg prohibited jeb stuart from having lunch at the unions rear stores and protected that this action by the way occurred and it was timed to coincide with charge so to make for the greatest likelihood of success it was a critical victory and custer was at his bravest and best his men did follow him to hell and lived to tell about it
1	i was fortunate to attend the london premier of this film while i am not at all a fan of british drama i did find myself deeply moved by the characters and the bad choices they made i was in tears by the end of the film every scene was mesmerizing the attention to detail and the excellent acting was quite impressive br br i would have to agree with some of the other comments here which question why all these women were throwing themselves at such a despicable character br br alert i was also hoping that dylan would have been killed by william when he had the chance end spoiler br br keira knightley did a great job and radiate beauty and innocence from the screen but it was sienna miller's performance that was truly oscar worthy br br i am sure this production will be nominated for other awards
1	i blame birth of a nation myself for commencing the long running tradition of hollywood of history of which there can be few greater examples than this apart from getting the names of custer and his 7th cavalry crazy horse and the sioux and president grant spelt right the geography correct and the fact that custer and his men were indeed wiped out to a man the rest just takes hyperbole and invention to ludicrous limits throw in some downright hackneyed scenes of the purest exposition try custer and his wife's learning of the phony gold rush to excuse the invasion of the sioux territory custer's testimony in front of congress pleading the rights of the red indians and to top it all custer's storming into the president's office to beg to return to his post honestly there's plenty more of the same some of these scenes almost comical in their corniness and yet and yet it's still a great actioner with flynn as dashing as ever dehavilland as beguiling as ever the young anthony quinn getting a start as crazy horse and director walsh as barnstorming as ever in his depiction of crowd scenes and of course the tumultuous action sequences ford taught us in liberty valance to believe the legend before the truth here i think we're closer to the legend of the legend but hey it's only a movie and a rollicking wonderfully enjoyable classic hollywood movie at that
1	being warner brothers' second historical drama featuring civil war and battle of the little big horn general george armstrong custer they died with their boots on warner brothers 1941 was the far more accurate of the two especially when contrasted with santa fe trail warner brothers 1940 which really didn't set the bar very high br br although both pictures were starring vehicles for errol flynn there was a change in the casting the part of general custer whereas it was dutch himself ronald reagan portraying the flamboyant egomaniacal cavalryman in the earlier picture with mr flynn playing and later confederate hero general j e b or jeb stuart errol took on the custer part for they died with their boots on br br once again the warner brothers' propensity for using a large number of reliable character actors from the warner's repertory company are employed in giving the film a sort of authenticity and all is really happening right before our very own eyes major roles are taken by some better known actors and actresses such as elizabeth bacon mrs custer co star olivia de havilland ned sharpe arthur kennedy samuel bacon gene lockhart chief crazy horse anthony quinn charlie major stanley general phillip sheridan john litel the bacon's maid hattie mcdaniel br br the rest of the cast is just chock full of uncredited though skilled players such as joe sawyer eleanor parker minor watson tod andrews irving bacon roy lane chandler spencer charters frank ferguson francis ford william forrest george russell hicks william hopper hooper eddie keane fred kelsey sam mcdaniel patrick mcvey frank eddie parker addison richards ray teal jim all american himself minerva urecal dick wessel gig young and many many more br br the film moves very quickly particularly in the early goings then sort of slows down out of necessity as the story moves along to the post civil war years the assignment of custer as a colonel in the 7th cavalry and the ultimate destiny at the little big horn in montana under the guidance of director griffith veteran raoul walsh the film hits a greatly varied array of emotions from the very serious exciting battle scenes and convincing historical scenes looking as if they were matthew brady civil war photos as with most any of mr walsh's films he punctuates and the end of many a scene with a little humor but not going overboard and thus risking the chance of turning the film into a comedy farce actually br br as previously mentioned this is much more factual than its predecessor santa fe trail last time we'll mention it honest schultz honor however that is not to say that it wasn't without a few little bits of artistic and literary license as indeed just about any biopic will have it would be impossible to make any similar type of film if indeed every fact and incident were to be tried to be included in the screenplay perhaps the most erroneous inclusion as well as the most obvious of literary license is that business about custer's being accidentally promoted to the rank of brigadier general it just didn't happen that way yet the gag both helped the film to move along while it underscored the whole light carefree feeling that permeated the early part of the film br br director walsh and mr flynn collaborated in giving us what would seem to be a characterization of this legendary civil war hero that was very close to the real life man and they did this on top of the recreation of an incident being the massacre by the sioux the cheyenne and the of custer and his 7th cavalry at the little big horn at the time of its occurrence june 25 1876 custer's last stand was as big an incident and shock to the americans' national psyche as were the japanese attack on pearl harbor december 7 1941 or the atrocities perpetrated by the islamic fascists to new york's twin trade towers and the united states' armed headquarters in the pentagon arlington virginia on september 11 2002 br br just as so many films of that period of world war ii and the years immediately before there were so many incidents in it that were if not intentionally done were demonstrations of virtues that would be needed in time of another global conflict such as we were in by the time of they died with their boots on was finishing up its original theatrical release period br br poodle schnitz
1	when one stops to recollect upon the frequent on screen teaming of errol flynn and olivia dehavilland they died with their boots on 1941 is most likely the film remembered best it is the sweeping saga of general custer flynn told from the time he enters west point military academy and falls for the luscious elizabeth bacon dehavilland through his tenure during the american civil war and finally with his death at little big horn director raoul walsh mounts his historical epic on the laurels of highly questionable of historical texts rewritten by screen writers wally kline and mackenzie until truth and fiction are warped all out of proportion hence the battle against chief crazy horse anthony quinn is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians california joe charley grapewin and a absent corporation which wants to reclaim the land custer gave to the indians through the systematic genocide of the nation's first peoples br br flynn who cleverly plays custer as though he is one part arnold to two parts albert has never been more ignoble he literally oozes charm and sex appeal from every pore that easily melts the heart of his loyal heroine resident warner stock players arthur kennedy and sidney greenstreet deliver marvelous cameos that appear to have far more depth and character than is actually written into the material for them br br overall then despite its loose rendering of history in favor of a good romantic yarn they died with their boots on is ample film fodder for a saturday matinée or sunday night with one's sweetheart warner's dvd is pretty nice looking although film grain is often obvious the gray scale has been very nicely rendered with deep solid blacks and very clean whites some fading is obvious during scene transitions the audio has been very nicely cleaned up and is presented at an adequate listening level
1	the historical inaccuracies of this film have been well documented it was never intended to be serious history but an entertaining saga and there it succeeds errol flynn was never better as this role was tailored for him olivia dehavilland was never more beautiful arthur kennedy never more villainous anthony quinn never more noble than as crazy horse it had much humor and pathos and held your interest throughout the one historical aspect i found most glaringly inaccurate was the final last stand which occurred on the banks of the little big horn the film version was filmed in a desert with no river in sight however i still consider it marvelous entertainment typical of hollywood's golden age
1	it's true that they died with their boots on gives a highly fictionalized account of george armstrong custer's errol flynn life and career but a remarkable one especially with regard to the battle of the little big horn because it is not a given that a 1941 movie tries to portray both the us american cavalryman and native american leader chief crazy horse anthony quinn in a favorable light i'm almost tempted to say that little big man in its unqualified anti custer stance seems unbalanced by comparison further one should not be mislead by the title of the picture – this isn't just a movie about the battle of the little big horn it's a movie about that shows the unreliable west point cadet the famed civil war hero the indian fighter and last but not least the husband br br the movie begins with custer's time at the west point military academy where his and insubordinate behavior lead to frequent during a military exercise he meets his future wife elizabeth bacon olivia de havilland who like custer himself is a native of monroe michigan custer intends to court her but the outbreak of the civil war calls him away custer's legendary bravery is shown in a sequence of battle scenes the greatest of which is devoted to his engagement with legendary southern cavalry general jeb stuart during the battle of gettysburg while on leave he travels to monroe and courts elizabeth who promises him her hand in matrimony immediately after the war custer and elizabeth bacon are married br br with the civil war over custer is doesn't get a real command and has to go through the painstakingly slow process of promotion in the small professional american army as he starts to drink his wife intervenes in his behalf with former general in chief winfield scott custer is given the command of the us 7th cavalry which he trains to be an elite unit neither custer nor crazy horse are desirous of battle but greedy businessmen and corrupt politicians decide to build a railroad through indian lands in clear violation to earlier treaties custer explicitly acknowledges the justice of crazy horse's cause but rides into battle to do his duty as a soldier exposing the conspiracy of the moneyed interests in a letter he writes on the eve of battle br br they died with their boots on though short on historical accuracy is as good as war movies and westerns in the 1940s got both custer and crazy horse are played by major actors neither the indians nor the southern confederacy are denigrated and the courtship scenes with beautiful de havilland are just charming the only minus and that's why i can't give this picture a full 10 is the undercurrent of racism in the portrayal of african american servants elizabeth's servant is the stereotypical overweight good natured superstitious black mammy br br it is also interesting that the movie does not find fault with either custer or crazy horse but with the greed of the railroad companies pressuring washington politicians with semi criminal methods into breaking assurances they had given to the native americans just a couple of years later the insinuation that american could even think of doing anything remotely questionable would probably have been taken as a hint that the film makers were communist sympathizers br br needless to say that they died with their boots on omits the fact that custer's overly aggressive tactics often bordered on the foolhardy greatly overstates the importance of his engagement with stuart and doesn't mention the lack of reconnaissance prior to the battle of the little big horn nevertheless custer was seen as a war hero by his contemporaries and had some spectacular exploits to point to in the battles of brandy station gettysburg station and others though his feats of arms were not as decisive for the civil war as they died with their boots on suggests br br in any event they died with their boots on is a well made war movie with western elements three outstanding performers flynn quinn and de havilland and offers a positive view of native americans as well as a negative one on big money which wouldn't be seen in major hollywood productions for decades to come it would deserve a 10 if it weren't for the racist of african americans
1	the film is excellent one of the most noteworthy things about it is that flynn's performance is superb this is worth stressing as he was often derided as an actor by bette davis et al br br i remember the scene where flynn gets arthur kennedy drunk in order to take him to his doom at the battle of the little big horn the cold calculating look on flynn's face as he does so is extraordinary much better than the much vaunted spencer tracy or many other stars could have done br br the other thing to note is the excellent performance by george p huntley jr as lt queen's own butler it is baffling why he stopped making films shortly afterwards one would have thought that he would have been set up for years after as a character actor
1	now this is more like it one of the best movies i have ever seen despite it made very well on all aspects this movie was put down solely for not being too historically accurate loosen up there are tons of historical movies out there that were forgiven for not being too historically accurate and many of them do not even come close to how grand how entertaining and how captivating this movie was now this is what a movie ticket is all about you will get what you want from this movie's genre and all naysayers are those with the anti flynn syndrome this conservative rooted syndrome is very closely related to the anti elvis anti ali anti clinton anti kennedy usually caused by fear of charming individuals who have unconventional beliefs if the viewer of this movie is open minded and has the ability to separate politics from art you will find this movie not only one of the best classics but also one of the best movies of all time i rate it the second best western ever right behind wayne's the cowboys
1	this movie is good for entertainment purposes but it is not historically reliable if you are looking for a movie and thinking to yourself oh i want to learn more about custer's life and his last do not rent they died with their boots on' but if you would like to watch a movie for the enjoyment of an older western film with a little bit of romance and just for a good story this is a fun movie to watch br br the story starts out with custer's errol flynn first day at west point everyone loves his charming personality which allows him to get away with most everything the movie follows his career from west point and his many battles including his battle in the civil war the movie ends with his last stand at little big horn in between the battle scenes he finds love and marriage with libby olivia de havilland br br errol flynn portrays the arrogant but suave george armstrong custer well olivia de havilland plays the cute sweet libby very well especially in the flirting scene that custer and libby first meet their chemistry on screen made you believe in their romance the acting in general was impressive especially the comedic role although stereotypical of played by hattie mcdaniel her character will definitely make you laugh br br the heroic war music brought out the excitement of the battle scenes the beautiful costumes set the tone of the era the script at times was corny although the movie was still enjoyable to watch the director's portrayal of custer was as a hero and history shows this is debatable some will watch this movie and see custer as a hero others will watch this movie and learn hate him br br i give it a thumbs up for this 1942 western film
1	naturally along with everyone else i was primed to expect a lot of hollywood fantasy revisionism in they died with their boots on over the legend of custer just having someone like errol flynn play custer is enough of a clue that the legend has precedence over the truth in this production and for the most part my expectations were fulfilled in an admittedly rousing and entertaining way br br yet even in this obviously biased and much criticized retelling of the custer story i was struck by some of the points made in this movie that sometimes subtly but nevertheless solidly seemed to counter the typical clichés of manifest destiny and unvarnished heroism usually found in westerns of the early 20th century br br for instance even while this film attempted to whitewash it's hero certain scenes still suggested the more flawed and foolish character of the real life custer br br 1 his initial entrance at the west point front gate in which his arrogance and is a clear aspect of his character br br 2 his miserable record at west point which seems to be attributed as much to custer's cluelessness about the demands of military service as any other factor there are moments in the way flynn plays custer at west point where he seems downright stupid br br 3 custer's promotion to general is not only presented as a ridiculous mistake but it plays out as slapstick comedy i half expected to see the marx brothers or abbott and costello wander into the scene br br 4 custer's stand against jeb stuart at gettysburg is not whitewashed as brilliant military tactical leadership but is presented as reckless and wildly lucky br br 5 custer's drinking problem is certainly not ignored br br and although the music and some of the ways the indians were shown in this film were certainly reinforcements of the racist stereotype of the ignorant savage it still came as a surprise to me that the movie actually went into some detail as to why the indians were justified in attacking the whites who were moving into their land and fairly explicitly laid the blame for the battles in the black hills squarely at the foot of the white man in fact no one can argue that the clear villain of the piece is not anthony quinn as sitting bull but arthur kennedy co as the white devils making the false claim of gold in the black hills sure that part of the story is true but i didn't expect to see it portrayed quite so in a movie like this br br and one other thing usually in these films it is the indians who are portrayed en masse as drunken animals seemingly incapable of the basic common sense to avoid getting falling down drunk any time they get near alcohol in this movie it is actually the troops of the 7th cavalry and not the indians who in at least two scenes are portrayed this way br br all in all this movie slips in some surprising moments in the midst of the hollywood bunk
1	as a history of custer this even close custer dies to help the indians i am sure the other members of the 7th weren't consulted in that decision but as a western this is fun flynn looks and acts the part of the dashing cavalier and the garry owen is always nice to hear
1	so keira knightly is in it so automatically we compare this film to aside rom the fact that this film is also wartime and her appearance is these films are totally different br br the actors work well i think one good thing is there is no memorable person they are a team br br if you want a film where things happen then id advise another as the story of this film is about human interaction and their damaged by their experiences and how their lives are intertwined br br this film have genuine interaction perfect pause moments that make you hold your breath no its not exciting but it is gripping if you can empathise with these characters at moments i wondered if this film may have been better as a theatrical play rather than a movie we expect a lot from movies as everything is possible and yet with theatre we allow for interaction and rely on belief br br there are things wrong with it if your looking for a blockbuster if you look for nothing and allow the film to take you in move you allow yourself to forget these stars and not to judge them as actors but let them become people you will truly ind yourself moved br br go on give it a go
1	although they died with their boots on is not entirely historically accurate it is a very entertaining western not only is flynn the perfect custer the character actors are superb besides the action portion of the movie flynn and love scenes are very touching and believable flynn and dehavilland were very fond of each other in real life flynn was always so tormented for being not taken seriously if only he knew that there were very few actors who could play the characters he played and play them well
1	errol flynn at his best as robin hood of the west fighting military red tape confederates indians and business crooks to his great and final heroic end not to forget the ever reliable o de havilland as lady mary of the west never try to link this story to the facts and the real persons it doesn't work out just enjoy it because nobody ever claimed to make documentaries when raoul walsh and errol flynn co worked
1	the saving grace of this film is its humour playing up to the strengths of their star warner brothers cast their version of general custer as a cocky dashing irreverent prankster with a romantic streak and an unexpected strain of idealism it was robin hood all over again and flynn blossomed in the role all his best action pictures made use of his talent for mischief and comic timing and this one was no exception br br it also benefits from the return of former co star olivia de havilland despite an earlier agreement to break the partnership the part of strong minded libby custer is a better role than the sweet love interest types she had grown tired of playing for the studio in flynn's later films and after seeing the script he had specifically requested de havilland be cast so that she could do justice to the part in this final collaboration she piles all her considerable acting skill into what is at heart basically a romping adventure movie and the screen chemistry is for once she and flynn get the chance to develop their characters beyond the initial romance into an old married couple to equally winning effect br br the flynn de havilland pairing and the streak of comedy are what have provided this film's durability when most of flynn's other westerns held in such affection by the contemporary american public although allegedly not by their star have long since been forgotten the action scenes are fairly cursory despite ironically the death of an extra in a fall during one of the filmed charges and the villains of the piece turn out schoolboy fashion to be the same people who were horrid to our hero on his very first day at west point and thus continue to frustrate him throughout his career it cuts down on the cast list but it's a trifle too morally convenient br br however these are quibbles largely irrelevant to a film that never set out to be more than a rousing piece of entertainment ably aided and abetted by a sterling group of supporting players memorably including anthony quinn in an all but wordless role as the sioux leader errol flynn gallops his way through the plot courtesy of his usual arsenal charmingly sheepish looks unexpected sweetness mischievous flash point indignation cheerful fellowship and sheer high octane charisma he's a reckless braggart but you can't help but like him and it's hard to go away without the tune of threading its jaunty way through your ears for many days thereafter br br this is one of flynn's lasting hits it also contains a surprising amount of good acting amongst the fun and is a film worthy of being remembered
1	this is awesome there is no partnership quite like errol and olivia there love is genuine i'm 24 yet this flick is as captivating now as i'm sure it was 60 years ago raoul walsh is an under rated genius his direction is so sweeping so broad yet so intimate the last scene between colonel custer flynn and his wife de havilland almost brought me to tears not easy for a old guy its so heart wrenching there is also a deep christian message implicit here the faith custer has in taking your glory with you and the trust and fidelity of his wife to the extent of letting him go in order that he his moral duty to protect the innocent civilians from certain massacre there is no movie that deals with these issues quite like this a must see for anyone who wants to look at this defining moment in american and military history from the inside patriotic for all the right reasons i knew errol flynn was a star and de havilland was a screen legend this only confirms my suspicions that they are among the very greatest
1	george armstrong custer is known through history as an inept general who led his to their death at the battle of little big horn they died with their boots on paints a different picture of general custer in this movie he is portrayed as a flamboyant soldier whose mistakes and misdeeds are mostly to his love for adventure br br errol flynn plays george armstrong custer who we first meet as an over confident recruit at west point custer distinguishes himself from other cadets as beeing a poor student who always seems to be in trouble somehow this never appears to bother custer and only seems to confuse him as he genuinely does not know how he gets into such predicaments in spite of his poor standing he graduates and becomes an officer in the united states army through an error custer receives a promotion in rank before this can be corrected he leads a union regiment into battle against the confederates his campaign is successful and custer becomes an unlikely national hero custer returns to his hometown marries his sweetheart libby who is played by olivia de havilland libby is a very supportive understanding wife who steadfastly stays by his side and follows him into the frontier as he assumes leadership of the seventh regiment of the cavalry custer becomes a man of honor who strives to keep peace with the native americans to prove his intentions he enters into a treaty with crazy horse the leader of the sioux when that treaty is jeopardized by a conspiracy to spread a false rumor of gold being found in the black hills custer sacrifices his own life as well as the lives of the men under his command to prevent the slaughter of thousands of innocent settlers br br errol flynn dominates each scene in which he appears he successfully portrays custer as being flamboyant arrogant romantic and funny depending on the mood of the scene olivia de havilland's depiction of libby bacon custer as the love of his life lets us see his tender more gentle side the chemistry between dehavilland and flynn who had acted together in several other movies is so smooth and it almost makes the viewer feel like they are playing themselves and not the parts of custer and his wife the other actors portrayals of their characters truly enhance the performances of flynn and de havilland anthony quinn as crazy horse sidney greenstreet as general winfield scott arthur kennedy as edward sharp are among the other actors whose roles have made this movie entertaining br br the reviewer would rate this a 4 star movie while it is not historically accurate it is very entertaining the movie has a little bit of everything it has adventure comedy and romance so it appeals to a large variety of audiences the casting of the characters is excellent and the actors give believable performances which makes you forget it is largely based on fiction instead of fact the reviewer especially likes that the native americans were not shown to be the bad guys but just showed them as wanting to protect their sacred land br br
1	whether one views him as a gallant cavalier of the plains or a glory hunting egomaniac debates about the life and military career of george armstrong custer continue down to the present day they died with their boots on presents certain facts of the custer story and has taken liberty with others br br he did in fact graduate at the bottom of his class at west point and got this overnight promotion on the battlefield to brigadier general his record leading the michigan regiment under his command was one of brilliance br br it was also true that his marriage to libby bacon was one of the great love matches of the 19th century libby and george were married for 12 years until the little big horn what's not known to today's audience is that libby survived until 1933 during that time she was the custodian of the custer legend by dint of her own iron will and force of personality her late husband became a hero because she would not allow him to be remembered in any other way br br i think raoul walsh and warner brothers missed a good opportunity to have the custer career told in flashback olivia dehavilland should have been made up the way jeanette macdonald was in maytime and be telling the story of her husband and her marriage from the point of view of nostalgia and remembrance even then the cracks in the custer legend were appearing but if done from libby's point of view they could be understood and forgiven br br sydney greenstreet gave a fine performance as general winfield scott the only problem was that scott had nothing whatsoever to do with custer he was retired and replaced by george b in late 1861 while custer was still at west point i'm not sure they ever met but greenstreet does a good characterization of the ponderous and powerful winfield scott a nice mexican war story should have been what they gave greenstreet instead for his very accurate portrayal of old fuss and feathers br br the film though is carried by one of the great romantic teams of cinema errol flynn and olivia dehavilland this was the last of eight films they did together the last scene they ever did for the cameras was libby's farewell to george as he leaves to join his regiment for what will prove to be his last campaign both their performances olivia's especially was a high point in their careers at warner brothers we know through history that custer is riding to his doom that and the fact that this was their last screen teaming give this scene such a special poignancy if your eyes don't you are made of marble br br as history they died with their boots on leaves a lot to be desired as western adventure that successfully mixes romance with the action you can't beat this film at all
1	great historical movie will not allow a viewer to leave once you begin to watch view is presented differently than displayed by most school books on this subject my only fault for this movie is it was photographed in black and white wished it had been in color wow
1	i saw this film over christmas and what a great film it was it tells the story of custer played by errol flynn during and after his graduation from westpoint although i've heard that the film isn't very historically accurate hollywood never is i still enjoyed it as i knew little of the real events anyway br br i thought errol flynn was brilliant as custer and has since become my favourite actor his acting alongside olivia de havilland was brilliant and the ending was fantastic it brought me close to tears as he and ned sharp arthur kennedy rode to their deaths on little big horn br br i had always known that errol flynn was a brilliant actor as he was my dads favourite actor and i grew up watching his films as a child but it wasn't until i watched this film that i realised how great he actually was br br i'll give this film 10 out of 10
1	although this film changes reality to make it more heroic and entertaining sometimes fantasy is more enjoyable than real life and also nothing could be more real than errol flynn playing custer this remains the best film made about custer the music of max steiner is magnificent and also all through the film the irish song gerry owen which was a favourite of custer is played the film should have more villains because they try to concentrate all the bad guys in arthur kennedy the relationship between flynn and de havilland flows like in no other off their films together and director raoul walsh with his experience in outside scenes with a lot of actors is at his best
1	this is a wonderful film as a film it gets an 8 out of 10 as a filmed piece of accurate history one wishes to be more loving but it is a 5 out of 10 and i think i am actually being very charitable br br what was he like that man of horse and saber who was the youngest boy general in the union army of the american civil war and ended dying with all his command in the greatest military victory of the north american indian tribes opinionated militant bumptious bloody handed ambitious clever too clever indian foe indian friend and national hero his death in 1876 was treated as a national tragedy and pushed him into a position of fame equal to washington lincoln jackson and grant lee and sherman jackson it is only with a growing awareness of the mistakes made in his career the overly ambitious hot spur that his reputation declined yet to this day george armstrong custer remains the best recalled figure in our history's military annals to lose his last battle i can't really think of a similar one maybe general jonathan wainwright forced to stay with his men on the bataan death march but wainwright survived the march and the second world war br br custer has appeared in more films than far better generals due to the western adventures and little big horn pity that the details of the real career were never handled so lovingly as raoul walsh and errol flynn handled them in this film but even in 1941 the legend was still potent olivia de haviland portrayed libby custer who was recently pointed out in another film review on this thread survived george until 1933 so her effective handling of the story was still in place eight years later custer was seen as our wayward but brave knight errant and with the shadow of world war ii looming closer we had to keep the myth and bury the truth john ford would have fully understood this and approved it br br so we get the view that he was a hot spur but he was patriotic although almost pushed out of west point by which was true custer was in the class of 1861 and it would have been really stupid to be picky about such a fighter that year you see most of the so called military talent from west point from robert e lee down was southern and joined the confederacy the union needed every northern point man they could find br br custer's civil war career should be given closer study he was attached to the staff of general in chief george b and distinguished himself in the peninsula campaign and other eastern front warfare but he was a cavalryman and he would rise under the watchful eyes of grant and sherman's buddy phil sheridan in the latter parts of the war in particular he served with dash and distinction at the battle of cedar creek which ended the threat of the confederacy in the valley it also hit custer hard on a personal level his close west point friend stephen joined the confederacy and rose to a position like custer mortally wounded custer sat with all through the latter's last night alive br br following the war things fell apart he wanted to make his brevet major permanent it wasn't as it was a battlefield promotion they only had a lt to give him in the shrunken army along the frontier he tried to play politics making the error of supporting president andrew johnson on a political trip in and finding most northerners hated johnson as an inept idiot he supposedly admired the indians he certainly was eloquent in writing of them and the west but he caused a genuine military massacre in of indian women and children that ended with a court martial later during the 1870s he would support indian claims against a ring of politicians that went up to the secretary of war william belknap who bought and sold indian trading posts for profit it ruined belknap and left a black eye on the grant administration it put him into the with grant and sherman who was former commander and sheridan barely saved his career then he was sent on the final big horn campaign and immortality arrived br br that career is worth a real film but would it be too critical should we hold a man of the 1850s 1876 to the standards of 2007 would we like that done to us in a hundred years certainly it could happen but i'm not sure we'd like it br br custer 1941 style fit flynn like a glove with his giving the closest to a dance performance in any of his major films his final movie with olivia de haviland is underlined with a melancholy due to the fate of the hero's character in support actors like sidney greenstreet stanley arthur kennedy and anthony quinn did very nicely as friends foes or even treacherous sneaks kennedy as an entertaining piece of myth making it remains high but as a study of a complex military hero it is not what it should be
1	can you capture the moment when first you hear rain on a roof some things are beyond the sum of their parts expressing the poetry of life the things that matter br br poet dylan thomas captured the seemingly inexpressible a good poem helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him bob dylan named himself after him so why has it taken so long to make a film of the great dylan thomas a simple biopic could have missed the point writer sharman macdonald has taken a different better approach br br in the edge of love she creates the world of passions and complexities that fill the poems so we can swim in them the lives of four friends dylan who lusts and loves to the full wife caitlin sienna miller his feisty support war hero william cillian murphy who saves him from a street brawl and then there's his childhood sweetheart vera dear vera take your breath away vera she's caitlin's closest friend william's wife and like a muse the 'star' in dylan's dark sky br br it all kicks off in the 1940 london blitz with bomb shelters in the underground enter vera an impressive keira knightley under makeshift stage spotlights she meets dylan for the first time again in years her heart is flushed their eyes shine through the smoke of the room the purity of their former passion dylan native welsh speaker matthew rhys is no sanctified sanitised poet master of his vices he must experience them all fully he introduces his beloved wife then continues to woo vera br br the edge of love is a visual treat the soundtrack leaves you wanting for more performances are possibly the best by these actors in their careers as a lush love story it's pretty good as an insight into dylan thomas and the reality of poetry in all our lives not bad at all and as a tribute to a great man inspiring br br the production has been at pains to project the spirit of dylan thomas without compromising historical accuracy too much dramatic tension involves a pull between artistic freedom and conventional morality audiences looking for an experience based on the latter may be disappointed and it will play less well to audiences whose boundaries are those of albert square br br sharman macdonald seemed aware of the headstrong nature of artistic freedom and its limits when she spoke to producer granddaughter of the real william and vera think of all the things that you don't want me to write about she said because i have to have carte blanche for macdonald the limits were if she should cause offence to dylan's memory but for many artists especially men the limits are those which wife and family could set on them a woman is not going to let lofty ideals interfere with practical common sense issues and will even put her children's interests before her own this occasionally happens the other way round as when towering genius virginia woolf refused to let loving leonard bring her down to earth in the hours br br in spite of the tension between caitlin and vera these two women become closest buddies it is one of the main and very beautiful themes of the film br br the film's colours tell a story in themselves in a drab wartime britain caitlin and vera are vivid highlights in an ocean of grey shortly after meeting vera's lit up in lights stage persona we encounter caitlin through her searing blue eyes sparkling in a darkened railway carriage her dramatic red coat cuts a dash through streets of colourless triumphing on a beautiful staircase as she reunites with dylan but vera's lipstick red brightness is less enduring for her marriage is second best even when she has become possessed with genuine love for her husband br br outstanding cinematography extends to using montage to juxtapose images in a manner similar to juxtaposition of unrelated words to create further meaning horrific war scenes in are intercut with screams of vera in pregnancy giving birth or is it abortion we are not told immediately pain is universal and goes beyond time and place to our present day br br constant echoes of dylan's poetry throughout the film lead us beyond earthly opposites it reminds me of marlon brando reading ts eliot in apocalypse now a light beyond the horrors of the world a different way of seeing things i'll take you back to a time when no bombs fell from the sky and no one died – ever says dylan to vera as they walk along the beach elsewhere caitlin recalls childhood with vera we're still innocent in dylan she says br br there's a time to leave your knickers at home or share a universal cigarette not literally perhaps a time to be inspired enjoy what is possibly the best british film of the year
1	the custer legend a la warner brothers epic there's no casting against type here with the flamboyant flynn as the flamboyant custer in this rousing tribute not only to custer but to the men of the 7th cavalry the story traces the life of the famed 'boy general from his turbulent days at west point to his final fight at the little big horn great liberties are taken with facts here and we are presented with a custer that is much more sympathetic to the plight of the redman than history relates but this one is done on such a grand scale the battle scenes alone provided employment for every extra in hollywood down beat ending and all this is great fun
1	all in all an excellent movie from that time and source coming from warner brothers as it was peaking in craftsmanship and style just before wwii provided you don't take it at all seriously the movie really makes no claim to being historically accurate and is certainly no more or less accurate or believable than say jfk this one may actually be more honest about it though as it essentially admits along the way that it's not to be taken as particularly fact based but more of a stylishly semi heroic portrayal it's worth noting that audiences of the time were no more naive about the story than we are today the ny times review conceded that audiences would dismiss factual inaccuracies sprinkled throughout the film described the biographical account of custer's life as fanciful and pointed out that the presentation of custer's motivations regarding the final events were at odds with various historical accounts they could have really gone overboard in building up custer one supposes but they succeed admirably in depicting him as not necessarily the sharpest or most diligent guy around but appropriately determined principled and inspirational br br flynn and dehavilland doing their 8th movie together in 7 years and their last are so comfortable together and play off each other so easily at this point that it's not too difficult to overlook how thinly their courtship is written here with a first time pairing it would be hard to imagine what could really draw elizabeth to custer but these two make it work the movie is also missing their director from their previous seven films together the greatly underrated michael curtiz but given that he had worked with them on the previous year's similar themed santa fe trail it's understandable if he chose to opt out of this one they all started together with captain blood and the charge of the light brigade both terrific so we can't really blame them if they started having a tough time keeping it all fresh br br raoul walsh the director here is certainly more comfortable with the action sequences which are outstanding and everything else outdoors the interior scenes are a little more uneven but the studio craftsmen succeed in compensating for that very well as does warner bros' outstanding cast of usual suspects and new faces greenstreet gene lockhart anthony quinn arthur kennedy etc i would have liked it better if kennedy's character had been a bit less standard i generally like his work but here he seems to be hitting roughly the same notes in every scene the part could have been better written and i suppose they might have been unsure of what he could handle as he'd only been in films for one year walsh probably took him for this after doing high sierra together br br various highlights include the depiction probably imagined of the genesis of as the cavalry theme the last half hour is particularly outstanding especially with the parting of the leads echoing the end of their screen partnership followed by the final battle scenes a thoroughly rousing adventure br br 8 of 10
1	dashing errol flynn brings his usual flair for drama in this historically flawed but entertaining film of the life of george armstrong custer the dashing jovial flynn essays custer from his days at west point as a reckless headstrong cadet through the civil war years in an extraordinarily generous and partisan interpretation of history and finally as the nonpareil indian fighter whose blunder at the little big horn is excused as a sacrifice by custer of his command as a way of exposing the corruption of government officials and post traders as well as a protest of the unfair treatment of the plains indians olivia de havilland flynn's co star in several other films scores as the devoted adoring libby bacon and anthony quinn looks the part as the fierce sioux chief crazy horse the film's battle scenes are excellent the civil war battles are brief and are shown as several vignettes in which custer seemingly supported by just a handful of troopers hammers the confederate army into submission custer's last fight against the indians is a grand spectacle a savage clash between red men and white with no quarter given in a wild mix of military might between determined fighting men great direction cinematography casting and wonderful music by max steiner make this film a hollywood classic
1	i had seen this movie as a kid and loved it i loved how spunky and full of energy nikki is and how she mostly ruins perfect yuppie life and corrupts him and turns him on to her crazy ways as a kid in the 80's i saw new york exactly the way it was portrayed in this movie the domain of madonna's character with wild animals running rampant and hideous bald men chasing people around and causing havoc now as an adult i find i love the movie for the same reasons and even more so for the love story woven into the crazy antics of ms nikki finn although i would still love to go anywhere and find an indoor like in this movie pure beauty and genius
1	nicole finn madonna is just being released from prison although she is ordered to go by bus to philadelphia she wants to stick around the place she was arrested this is because she claims she has information that would clear her record griffin dunne is assigned to escort her to the bus by his future father in law will be driving around the city anyway in his future mother in law's rolls royce picking up the wedding ring and a rare big big cat for an eccentric collector nicki however starts the ensuing mayhem as soon as she jumps in the rolls to take over the driving between big cats taxi drivers hit men and a wedding cake with guns lawyer knows he's not in kansas anymore is there a way out of the madness this film is a wild trip down comedy avenue madonna and perfect foils to each other making their connection uproarious as they play out their roles as an ex con and an uptight button down lawyer respectively the script is laudable in it's ability to send the viewer into fits of hysteria as one implausible scene gives way to the next one and the next everything secondary from the supporting actors to the scenery to the costumes are also quite nice if you know someone who is in need of a jolt of joy rent this movie for them you will both be pronto
1	i have to rate this movie at a 10 i'm sorry but i think it's classic comedy then if you're rating it to other madonna movies well what you wanna tell me it wasn't her best movie ever didn't mira sorvino win an oscar for almost the same performance not ten years later please this movie deserves much more credit than it gets plus i like to think of it as an a sociological study into the lifestyles of the 80's remember when you could from sam goody and in the same day remember when women wore bushy eyebrows proudly so it was no last emperor it was still good there are certain movies i'd be willing to watch everyday three actually that pep up my day and make me smile if you like who's that girl then i'd also recommend party girl and romy and michelle's high school reunion
1	i haven't been a fan of madonna for quite sometime now however i thought i would comment on this film br br this film mistaken one of them as well as madonna was panned by the critics they were highly mistaken and many potential viewers were turned off by the bad reviews br br first madonna does an excellent job in this movie which was one of her first she plays a ditsy blonde in the film she is far from a ditsy blonde in real life most critics were somewhat prejudiced by her singing fame and didn't give her a fair shake when you view this film i hope that you understand that the accent and the goofiness is just acting she was absolutely hysterical as was the film br br griffen dunne is another person who was not given a fair review in the film if you take a look at his filmography you will see he is quite an accomplished actor br br as far as the movie itself this is something similar to pretty woman but came 3 years before the roberts gere success it's a goof ball comedy with lots of site gags slapstick and one liners some of the comedy is deadpan and takes a comedy aficionado to really appreciate the more subtle humor br br i know this doesn't tell you much about the movie however i hope this helps dispel any belief that this is a poor movie it is absolutely worth renting for an enjoyable night of great fun br br peace br br gary
1	nikki finn is the kind of girl i would marry never boring always thinking positively good with animals okay as one reviewer wrote a bit too much peroxide lipstick and eyebrows only madonna could get away with that but that's why i love nikki finn she's not your ordinary girl she makes things happen always exciting to be around and always honest sure she steals but she doesn't rob or murder unless you're out to do her in she knows which rules can be broken and which ones should be she knows what to take and what can't be stolen if you need a favor from her she's in 100 bottom line she knows how to enjoy life nikki is always loving which is why she has a way with wild animals and completely dedicated to those she loves and who love her br br who's that girl she's the girl for me
1	when i see a movie i usually seek entertainment but of course if i know what genre the move is then i will seek what it is meant to do for example if it is a deep film i expect the film to thoughts up in my cranium and make me ponder what it is saying but who's that girl is not a deep film but it is entertaining nonetheless it's a campy sort of film that's a joy to watch there's barely a boring moment in the film and there are plenty of humorous parts i've watched it when i was younger the cast is always entertaining as usual i had a small crush on griffin dunne even though he wasn't the typical male heartthrob at the time haviland morris also stars and late austrian actress bibi besch is here too overall a delight
1	why does everyone feel they have to constantly put this movie down it is cute and funny exactly what it is meant to be madonna wasn't out to prove herself as an oscar artist with this movie anyhow she was just doing what the character called for and she did it well i loved her in this movie it is my second favorite madonna movie after evita the soundtrack is excellent too it is no better or no worse than any cheesy 80's flick to all the critics just don't take it so seriously and you might have fun watching it madonna is a goddess
1	in this tv special jon is the one who needs a life the highlight of his day is counting the on the ceiling and rearranging his sock drawer not content with this forever jon takes garfield to a self help group in order to meet people how many people will be interested in a loner 20 something who's best friend is a cat br br after several failed attempts at getting a girl including one cringeworthy dance scene that rivals david fusion of flashdance and mc hammer in the office dead says jon he is more than shocked to find a cute girl who is as much as a jerk as himself br br naturally they get on but garfield is worried that john will forget about him and prefer having kids to a cat fortunately jon's new girlfriend is allergic to cats br br with slicker animation than past tv specials this feels like a longer episode of garfield and friends
1	this movie is so good i first seen it when i was six then i bought it recently and i still love it im 15 now plus the acting was great and madonna is my idol and she did a phat job alot of people didnt like this movie and i still to this day dont understand why
1	one of the funniest most romantic and most musical movies ever definitely worth renting buying especially if you have a taste for older style of cinematography br br the animals and the songs alone will make you smile while watching the movie a definite must for madonna fans o
1	for late 80s cheese this really isn't so bad there are a lot of pretty funny throwaway one liners that was grand theft thanks and madonna gives a fine performance nothing award worthy here but that goes for razzies as well as oscars i'm curious to know if the movie would have been better received if she had used her regular pre british influenced speaking voice rather than the hyper accent used instead oh well as a side note i got to meet one of the actors who played one of the motorcycle cops through my work he said that it was a fun film to work on but gave me the sad news that the actor who played buck the ups delivery guy died about a year after who's that girl
1	fantastic madonna at her finest the film is funny and her acting is brilliant it may have been made in the 80's but it has all the qualities of a modern hollywood block buster i love this film and i think its totally unique and will cheer up any droopy person within a matter of minutes fantastic
1	i had seen this movie before but i could not remember it was this fantastic it has a fun plot madonna fumbles around the city with etc causing a commotion and the music is just perfect and the happy ending that girl is a great choice for a like me in my opinion this could be even the best madonna movie i have ever seen 10 10
1	if this film had been made in the 50's or 60's critics and fans alike would have praised it i myself enjoyed the film from beginning to end it's not a timeless piece and has not aged well over the years but it is enjoyable to watch nonetheless as for mrs ritchie's acting in the film not the best on the planet but it adds to the film's unique slapstick comedy aspirations and showcases madonna's often underrated sense of comedic timing madonna plays nikki finn an ex convict who was framed for a crime she didn't commit griffin dunne plays the hapless future groom puppet who is sent to escort her from prison to the bus station where a series of unfortunate events occurs thus creating the plot and there is one folks give the film a shot you might be pleasantly surprised at how funny it really is
1	madonna gets into action again and she fails again who's that girl was released just one year after the huge flop of shangai surprise and two after the successful cult movie desperately seeking susan she chose to act in it to forget the flop of the previous movie not suspecting that this latter could be a flop too the movie received a bad acceptance by american critic and audience while in europe it was a success madonna states that some people don't want that she's successful both as a pop star and a movie star the soundtrack album in which she sings four tracks sells well and the title track single was hit all over the world as like as the world tour the truth madonna failed as an actress 'cause the script was quite weak not so bad especially for those who like the 80's it's such a ramshackle trash colorful and joyful action movie at the end it's very funny to watch it
1	i am really sad that that this film has got so much negative criticism i think it is a nice little comedy and really funny the humour in this film is kind of warm and innocent and i like it i also like madonna's character and i do not agree that she played herself she has created a character and a sympathetic one br br my favourite scenes were the fighting scene on top of the sinking car and where madonna climbs over the fence in a fancy dress to claim her love the humour in the film has a slightly touch and perhaps it is not everybody's cup of tea but it's their problem not of the film br br i found this film wholesome and sunny in fact the day i first saw it i was incredibly sad for some reason and this film lit up my day and madonna can act just take off your glasses of negative thinking
1	what's his name what clear br br that gag still gets me twenty one years after the film was released br br i loved the film back then and i love it today i must have watched this a hundred times back in the day and when i bought the dvd recently i could still remember some of the dialogue br br madonna plays nikki finn a young woman jailed for a crime she didn't commit when she gets out she decides to seek revenge br br griffin dunne whatever happened to him plays an attorney for his fiancée's father john the future father in law asks to take nikki from prison to the bus station and to make sure she gets on the bus as part of a supposed new public relations programme a seemingly easy task but there are complications aplenty some funny dialogue and some admittedly stupid but funny scenes along the way br br madonna has a stupid voice in this film which until i was able to watch with subtitles made one or two lines of dialogue incomprehensible for me hence only 8 10 but on the other hand i can't imagine her doing it in her normal voice br br this film shows madonna's comic side too lacking these days perhaps and she genuinely is funny in the role dunne makes a great foil while haviland morris is perfect as the uppity fiancée br br yes it's predictable yes the jokes could be better but i think this is a great film and will happily sit down and watch it 100 times more
1	i love this movie sure i love it because of madonna but who cares it's damn funny alanis rocks when i first saw this film in the theatres back in 1987 i thought it was all out hilarious madonna is so funny and i love her dubbed accent and wacky funky look the all time funniest part is when madonna nikki screams at a man who is about to get into a taxi and also when griffin dunne trips and falls at the apartment interview scene alanis rocks madonna's character nikki steals shop lifts and fools people throughout the whole movie her hilarious antics are enough to keep you on the floor the whole time didn't rob nothin' when you rob a store you stick up the cashier we busted a few tapes there's a bit of a difference i love that it's classic alanis rocks i don't know why this movie got slammed the way it did i see nothing wrong with it course maybe if you're a huge madonna fan then whatever she does is just awesome anyone out there who wants to see some funny classic entertainment then watch who's that girl and another very important fact that of which should be known to all man kind or at least to all that exist alanis will always rock ya completely to the end so does madonna in this film and just entirely her acting is superb
1	contains spoilers br br garfield and his owner jon arbuckle were in a rut they basically had no life at all all they did was lay around and count the ceiling jon even organized his sock drawer according to color and fabric he needed a life so he consults a book on the subject that tells him to meet a woman a bar was a great place to start unfortunately when the music started and jon hit the dance floor we see what made disco die jon killed it jon next tried to pick up girls at the video store he ended up feeling down in the mouth literally the laundromat was no prize either when jon and his would be date get a glimpse of each other's underwear jon tried to act all buff at the beach but soon he angered a real buff guy which left jon feeling once again down in the mouth literally jon then tried to pick up girls walking and jogging by no avail jon pulled out a guitar and sings the blues unfortunately when he mentioned his cat being fat a fat man walked up and stomped jon's guitar it was hopeless br br fortunately for jon an ad flashed on the tv an ad for lorenzo's school for the personality impaired it guaranteed a lifeless person to get a life in a few easy steps jon and garfield attend the class the building didn't exactly look the same way it did on tv nor did lorenzo act as peppy as he did on tv jon sat next to a pretty girl named mona so while lorenzo taught his lessons of introducing yourself checking your pulse and pretending to speak a foreign language jon and mona get to know one another they leave together forgetting all about garfield at home jon and mona just sat on the porch and talked garfield was jealous of mona for fear that she would take jon away from him garfield envisioned the future jon and mona get married she moves in and soon she gives birth to a little arbuckle who is overjoyed at pulling garfield's tale back to the present garfield would not stand for it he tried to get jon to get rid of mona until she started scratching behind his ears but then jon learned that mona was allergic to cats so that was basically the end of their relationship but they still saw each other every now and then and garfield was sure to be with them br br another hilarious garfield tv special this one was made during the run of tv's garfield and friends garfield was slimmed down somewhat somewhat since early 1980's cartoons the scenes of jon trying to pick up chicks is funny so is the one where the fat guy stomps on jon's guitar good ol' lorenzo music is back as garfield thom huge is jon frank welker the third man of 1 000 voices is lorenzo and june foray the woman of 1 000 voices is mona if you like garfield then i recommend you see garfield gets a life today it along with here comes garfield and garfield on the town were just released on dvd so check them all out today you are guaranteed a good time hey has garfield ever let you down before br br
1	don't listen to what the critics have always said about this cute charming little movie madonna is great in this clever comedy i worked at a video store for several years and suggested this movie to lots of customers no one ever brought it back and screamed at me for telling them to rent it everyone always enjoyed it it's actually a great movie for kids too
1	i kid you not yes who's that girl has the distinction for being one in a string of madonna's films that bombed but i actually liked this movie more than desperately seeking susan in susan madonna's character is relegated to being second fiddle to rosanna arquette and is not given much to work with no disrespect to rosanna but in madonna plays this zany outrageous character only done in an 80s style while it may seem cheesy today this is actually one of madonna's best and one of her most underrated films br br madonna plays nikki finn an ex con who is sent to the slammer for a crime she didn't commit she's being released from jail after four years of good behavior griffin dunne who is also a very underrated actor plays a lawyer who has the unpleasant task of picking her up from jail to take her to the bus station of course when these two get together that's when the madness happens sir john mills has a small role as the rich businessman who has a huge mansion in the middle of manhattan with a rainforest on his roof br br this movie parodies everything rich people the sleazy characters who live in harlem and totally destroy rolls royce the gay cops who follow madonna and dunne around town and dunne's stuck up fiance wendy who has purportedly slept with every cab driver in new york city played by haviland morris who was jake's girlfriend caroline in sixteen candles hilarious plus dunne is also in charge of a rare breed of leopard reminiscent of bringing up baby plus madonna had a great platinum blonde 80s look back in those days and the movie has a great soundtrack throw this all into the mix and you have the zaniness of br br madonna is the queen of deadpan acting there are times in the movie where she says a line totally straight and surprisingly it turns out to be funny that's how some of the best comedy should be played straight madonna should have done more comedy and it was a shame that she did not choose to do so later on she became much more controversial and got into more of the dark sexually charged roles in the notorious movies body of evidence and dangerous game br br some people say madonna cannot act and that is fine people are entitled to their opinion but i believe the real problem is that people cannot see the difference between madonna playing a character on film instead they still see only madonna and that is main reason why she is given more respect for her music than for her movies it's still a fun screwball comedy of the 80s not for everyone i'm sure some of you will dislike it so i would recommend it mainly for madonna fans but you never know you might be surprised and like it br br interesting note one of madonna's friends from her early 80s new york club days mundi who plays raoul was a member in the bands kid creole and the and savannah band
1	if you like madonna or not this movie is hilarious i am a madonna fan and did see this in the theater at the time of its release however over time it has not lost its silliness and pure fun sure there are some bad lines cheesy acting but the whole film is just a screwball comedy with madonna actually carrying the whole film with great bombast she is cute funny and is the only comedic role of her movie career madonna usually just plays in roles but watching her as nikki finn in this film she really seems like somebody else for once of course the film is directed by james foley who filmed the dramatic and haunting 'at close with sean penn christopher walken and co stars griffin dunn 'after who is also brilliantly cast and has fun with the material the story is nothing genius and don't expect some climatic ending but if you are ever in the mood to watch a fun clean 80's romp or if you are a madonna fan than this is a must see the soundtrack is also very notable and contains 4 madonna songs the 1 hit who's that girl the 2 hit causing a commotion and the beautiful and one of her best ever ballads the look of top 10 hit in the uk and can't stop a left over pop ditty from the 'true sessions the year before it is only on vhs but will soon be available on dvd
1	so madonna isn't meryl streep still this is one of her first films and a comedy at that give her a break sure the movie is mediocre at best and pales in comparison to its earlier counterpart w katherine hepburn bringing up baby for what it is though a piece of fluff it's quite a bit of fun to watch i've yet to hear anyone that slams madonna's acting skills back it up w evidence or even adjectives other than awful bad or other such vague descriptive words if you wanna see bad acting or justify the argument that singers should stick to singing how about whitney houston she's had the most undeserved commercial success of any actress in history and couldn't act her way out of a the american public obviously cannot discern the difference between a credible performance in a movie and star power i think madonna has always been at least credible in her movies get real people madonna bashing is so 90's
1	i saw this movie the day it opened in nyc at the ziegfield at the time madonna was not quite the cultural icon she is now she had a couple of hits was very good in seeking susan and i had tickets to see her in concert at giants stadium br br who's that girl gives madonna an actual role to play which is not just a variation of her own personality she does the madcap heroine routine better than you might think griffin dunne is very well cast as the man around to witness all the shenanigans br br the story involves a huge cat named murray a bride to be who has slept with every cabbie in nyc a mean father in law and a key there are a lot of car chases and cops trailing their path all the elements of a screwball comedy intact br br sir john mills is seen briefly he shares a glass of champagne with the leads and has the greatest apartment on the upper west side complete with a rain forest and everything br br compared to most madonna movies the ones i've been able to tolerate anyway this is fantastic on its own its not that bad 6 10 br br ps the concert was lousy
1	watching this little movie is a sheer delight from start to finish the story is always entertaining the tension never loosing up the whole cast is wonderful the teaming of walken and bracco works to perfection it is almost like an echo of a classic screwball romance bracco is very sexy and really funny as the scam artist who fights for her independence for some reason they gave walken a very strange make up and the weirdest haircut i can imagine – it's sort of a parody of the one burt lancaster had in elmer gantry for me it added to the pleasure it's the first movie i saw miguel ferrer in probably one of the most under appreciated movie actors of his generation he's very good in a small role as pimp even the jamaican thugs are a sight to behold i can highly recommend this movie
1	i loved this movie you can't buy it rent it or find it but it's a keeper br br wonderful chemistry between and walken and br br terrific non stop action and reactions loved it br br i've watched my pirated copy maybe 6 times in the last decade each time showing it to someone who never heard of it br br find this movie and watch it br br so many films are on tv over and over again without any of the wit and style of this little film br br i didn't know it was made for tv my copy is an 8 track i pirated years ago i hope it lasts
1	a quite easy to watch tale of 2 thieves with that love hate type relationship between them walken stars and is very good as the silent rogue with a scam bigger than he's letting on
1	it's strange how the least known movies sometimes end up amongst the best you've seen this movie has all the elements of a standard modern day thriller guns techno baddies cash etc and yet it stands out from your average hollywood also ran i would credit this to two very charismatic people christopher walken has a cool confidence and lorraine bracco is one of the warmest and sexiest women i've ever seen on screen another major reason why this film stands out is coz the setting shifts to after the beginning the jamaican resort is so beautiful you'll wish you were there sitting by the pool at night with a i know i did i'm very glad i saw this movie it was just too nice to miss
1	finding this piece sandwiched between a stale prequel and a rehashed 80s on a upn midday saturday program would be misleading it deserves better and definitely uses its talented leads' best attributes to its maximum advantage bracco and walken team to provide a movie that while perhaps predictable to those familiar with their genre do the streetwise routine that they are so good at portraying for a chance to ride a psychological roller coaster a la fuqua's training day dive back into the world of early '90s tv movies to find scam
1	i am a huge fan of harald and i just knew that i had to see this movie even though i can't say i'm a soccer fan but watching this just filled my heart with joy and i had a great time in the movies watching it br br bjørn fast does a tremendous job directing this movie and even though you notice the main characters are new at acting they grow with the movie and makes it what it is even though it is supposed to be a soccer movie there is surprisingly little soccer in it the whole idea is to show the six guys making up the word n o r w a y on their trip to the world cup in soccer playing in germany this year br br if you're only gonna see one norwegian movie this year this is the one
1	this was a great movie it was a completely enjoyable adolescent fantasy so what makes a movie great technical details i think that if that were the sole criteria our culture would be the poorer for it so this movie is to the godfather as new wave music is to mozart the point is it is one of the best movies of it's type i've seen the women are all beautiful as are only seen on california beaches when movies are being made it has a little of everything a kind of battlestar gallactica meets baywatch meets the playboy centerfold video meets wayne's world there is plenty of charm and a reasonable albeit predictable storyline that keeps you interested until the next bit of eye candy graces the screen joe estevez may not have his brothers career but does a good job of bringing focus to the story as the eternally adolescent uncle bud contains plenty of expected absurdities such as female rock band playing without the guitars plugged in was that intentional if you're attracted to the box rent the video you won't regret it as is promised it is good non violent erotic fun
1	is this a bad movie br br of course what were you expecting from a movie called beach babes from beyond br br it is a babes in bikini movie and has no pretensions of being otherwise given this is not a room with a view or schindler's list if you wanted a film like a room with a view then you would not be looking at beach babes from beyond but if you are looking for a good babes in bikini movie with almost no plot this is the one for you this flick delivers on what it promises and then some it is pure 100 adolescent fun br br there were lots of babes in and out of bikinis the movie was quite funny and great to watch these were some of the most beautiful women i have ever seen on home video br br every high school kid should watch at least one bad movie like this this is actually one of the most memorable movies i have ever seen so unashamedly i say again if you are going to watch only one babes in bikini movie this is it
1	i ve seen this movie twice both times on cinemax the first time in it s unrated version which is soft core porn at it s best and the second time in a trimmed down cut all the sex and most of the nudity out version which was entertaining in a typical beach movie sort of way the unrated version has a tremendous sex scene with nikki fritz a dude and a bottle of oil which is out of this world no pun intended unfortunately in the trimmed version that scene is almost completely chopped out as are all the other sex scenes rated or unrated it is still fun to watch all the siblings of bigger stars stallone sheen travolta etc trying to act we also get appearances by b queen linnea quigley and burt ward robin from the old batman series
1	this is a cut above other movies of the genre genuinely suspenseful intelligent brilliantly acted and visually stunning yes the plot can be confusing but that's partly what makes it pack such a punch watch it twice if you can you'll get almost as much out of watching it when you know the twist than you do from watching it the first time br br don't be put off by the fact that this film comes from korea a country not too familiar to most western audiences while there are elements of the film that are culturally specific the underlying themes are all too universal guilt anger loss madness and retribution all of these are handled superbly by lim su jeong as su mi the lead character also worthy of particular mention is yum jung ah who delivers a deeply creepy and unsettling performance as the stepmother br br while it has its scary moments this is not really a horror flick as most people would imagine it it's more a psychological suspense story with an element of mystery it grips you from the start and will keep you guessing until the end and possibly beyond
1	we open in a doctors room of some sort a girl is escorted to a seat across from the doctor he asks her questions silence follows he continues to ask questions ignoring the girls obvious traumatised atmosphere br br the story is about two girls who are taken home after spending some time in a mental home after an 'incident' that happened before hand they are greeted on their arrival by their trying way too hard to be nice but so totally evil stepmother who the girls obviously hold resentment for as time goes on at home the evil stepmother finds new ways to torment the girls and to top it all off there is a vengeful ghost that is far from helping the girls' recovery br br this film is amazing it has twist turns and definitely leaves you a lot to think about without not making sense the relationship between the two girls is so heartwarming it almost makes you cry at some points i know i had a teary moment of two specifically 'the cupboard scene' but what i love most about this film is the total feeling of dread all the way through to the rolling credits the soundtrack is faultless the furnishings in the house and the use of colour are fantastic a pure joy for the eyes this is a definite must see for all asian movie fanatics or any sort of movie fan an easy 10 10
1	this is one of the best movies i have ever seen br br it's so full of details and every time you see it you'll find new things like then the father is in the shower but still only hears one voice and when the girls flute they can't do it at the same time cause then there would be two girls and there aren't br br i have some problem finding out about in the middle of the movie their uncle visit them but why does his wife freak out else a fantastic movie the best asian movie ever br br i hope people will enjoy it there have been so many movie where the main character is skit so the machinist secret window and so on but this movie is way better than them
1	tale of two sisters has to be one of the creepiest films i've seen recently in the end there is no actual supernatural element despite what one is led to expect throughout the film the story seems to be about two sisters who upon returning to their father's home after some sort of absence later revealed to have been a stay in a mental institution are forced to deal with not only a seemingly schizophrenic and possibly bi polar stepmother who lashes out at the younger of the girls when the mood strikes her and cheerfully tells them she's prepared a special dinner at another time but some presence as yet unexplained it is later revealed that the younger sister is dead and exists only in the troubled minds of her older sister who was unable to save her and her step mother who was callous enough to let her die much about the specifics of the strange family is not revealed in the film but it definitely leaves a viewer with a creepy feeling and a nagging hint of confusion definitely not light viewing watch this one when you really want to think about what you've seen it's a hell of a puzzler
1	another asian horror movie packed with intense and creepy moments another asian horror trademark is the complexity of the plot which is here as well major spoiler warning br br the movie starts pretty simple two sisters go to live with their dad and stepmother after being put in a mental institution after their mother hanged herself the sisters seem very hostile towards their mother especially the elder one and they seem to ignore their father all goes smoothly until the mother locks the young sister in the wardrobe and the elder sister tells her father then it hits you your sister has been dead for years now it turns out the older sister is still not recovered from the death of her mother and what we didn't know is that the wardrobe the mother was hanged in fell on the younger sister and killed her as well as for the stepmother she is the alter ego of the older sister revealed when the stepmother actually the sister's alter ego is sitting on a couch when the real stepmother walks in i hope it has been made clearer for confused asian horror fans out there br br finally my favourite scene is the scene where the father invites friends over for dinner and one of the friends starts to choke which erupts into a panic attack very creepy 7 out of 10
1	what can i say about this film that won't give you any preconceived notions when you see it very little the plot has to do with the return from hospital of a teenage girl after she broke down what follows after that is the movie it is one of the creepiest most mind blowing films of the past several years everything about the film is just slightly off center and leaves you feeling ill at ease well after the film has ended it is not a perfect film the film has problems in its final half hour which make an already confusing story even more confused if you've read any number of other comments here on imdb and elsewhere you'll know that a great deal of time has been spent trying to unlock what actually is going on i'm not sure what i actually think of this film beyond the fact that it scared me and disturbed me in ways that most well known horror films ever have if you like horror and don't mind not having everything clearly summed up i suggest you try this since it will more than likely make your skin crawl
1	as an asian horror a tale of two sisters is actually a complex character driven psychological drama that engulfs the viewer into the problems of a seemingly normal family i was really surprised at the depth of this movie director ji kim's decision to focus more on telling a story rather than providing cheap scares has proved a correct one creating one of the most ingenious new horror movies br br a tale of two sisters tels the story as it's name suggest of two sisters su mi and the younger su yeon who after spending time in a mental institution return home to their father and apparently abusive stepmother from then on we witness how the sisters deal with their stepmother's gradually rising aggression and erratic behavior to say what would happen next would be to be spoil the entire experience so i'll just leave it at that br br the plot is very tightly written with the characters nicely fleshed out ji kim's focus on a small cast offers a much more detailed view on them and their relations to one another furthermore each of the four main cast has a vastly different role and type of character from the protective su mi the weaker su yeon the visibly uninterested father to the stepmother's frantic and later deadly behavior there is great sense of mystery with a lot of the plot not revealed up into the end and even after that the movie still leaves a great room for interpretation even after watching it once the viewer will be compelled to see it at least once more so that he can gain a better understanding to it br br the actors superbly fit their roles it is especially hard to create strong emotional scenes in psychological movies but it is a great joy when one succeeds in creating them and this is a prime example of such a feat ji kim's direction is slow paced and gripping building up tension for the film's horroresque scenes while few in number those moments are strong and quite frankly terrifying the cinematography and score are top notch further helping to establish an atmosphere fitting that of a psychological film br br a tale of two sisters is a demonstration how the horror genre is in fact so much more than a simple thrill ride with it's strong focus on character and mystery this is one complex movie that could easily seduce you in watching it again and again just so that you can understand it better
1	this was one of the few norwegian movies i actually looked forward too see it started of as a few commercials with a motley bunch at football matches then they made a movie out of it the leads are not pros and you can see that but they still do a very good job and the movie all in all blew me away br br norway is known for making crappy movies no offense but i had a good feeling about this one even thou i'm not interested in football i wanted 2 see it the story is a lot better than expected and the laughs just keep piling up there are loads of cameos from norwegian celebrities and players the characters are well portrayed and you feel for them if you're ever gonna see a norwegian movie let it be this one
1	typically a movie can have factors like arousing good feel sense of purpose plot etc there's always something that can be taken out of movies its just a matter of how compelling the reason is for me to own it in my collection of two sisters as they call it when it was released in my country has tremendous feel and an eventually mostly self explaining plot i love horror movies that revolve around a house titles that come to mind are the others the haunting the haunting of hell house this movie will be a another great example that i will remember the movie had extremely rich colour in the way the house was decorated in the clothes that the characters wore in the open daylight scenes that is in contrast to most horror movies which typically makes use of desaturated tones and gloomy environs think mizu no soko kara dark water which is another show i like that gives this film a sense of aesthetics and joy when it wasn't in its more gripping moments the characters are extremely believable this may be partly attributed to the familiar setting of this movie maybe domestic issues are easier for both myself as well as the actors to identify with and the actors become their characters with exceptional finesse the director toys with timelines in order to give the audience the story in bits and pieces allowing them to come to their own terms of interpretation instead of presenting everything in a linear fashion this is a positive aspect of this film in my opinion and perhaps it is my interpretation of this movie that allows me to find it enjoyable i would definitely look out for this on dvd
1	i must say i'm an avid horror movie fan and currently i can't get enough of foreign horror since us horror really depends too much on gore br br this movie is fantastic this movie reminded me a lot of m night's sixth sense the way the film was directed was great the director took his time to set everything up it took about a good 40 mins just to set the movie up into a horror movie i thought the movie was just a drama this movie just builds up and the pay off isn't too much br br i've never done this before but this is the main reason i liked the movie i actually screamed out loud because one scene just startled the hell out of me which is kinda pathetic but for a film to do that it's great
1	the idea is not original if you have seen such kind of story before you would know what the ending would come out after watching for the first twenty minutes the script the positioning of the actors and the screening is too obvious if you haven't seen such story before it is definitely a good experience you will enjoy the twist at the end don't forget to watch it again after you know the truth you will even more enjoy the plots even though i have a right guess at the very beginning i still couldn't help stick on my seat till the end br br conclusion a must see this one from korea is better than any recent movies of the genre from japan forget hollywood br br don't miss it
1	if you consider yourself a horror movie fan chances are you've seen hideo nakata's ring and dark water they're superb and ring's making its way smoothly into hollywood maybe dark water will be adapted soon too while ring is almost 100 pure heart pounding and nerve breaking a tale of two sister is both nerve breaking and mind twisting br br along with the other i consider this korean flick a brilliant and smart ending horror movie the only flaw this movie has is some consider its first 20 minutes rather slow it's actually typical with korean and japanese movies i consider it carefully planned rather than slow think of it as calm moment before the storm with thorough introduction of characters imho viewer will get involved more intimately with the character one of korean and japanese movies strongest point br br like ring a tale of two sister doesn't overdo ghastly appearance rather they let our mind do the intimidating job itself that way it's and horrifyingly classy at the same time i won't be surprised if hollywood remakes this movie after bringing ring and grudge ju on over this flick is not that good by the way i rate it 5 5 don't miss it
1	to most of us life is an unfolding process of love for others like soo mi however it is dominated by darkness and fear based on the korean folk tale and kim ji brilliant gothic horror story a tale of two sisters revolves around two sisters soo mi lim su jeong and soo yeon who are part of a dysfunctional family that live together in a creepy victorian style mansion feeling alienated from the world they cling to each other for survival with the older soo mi obsessively protecting the younger soo yeon against danger for soo mi however not coming to terms with the circumstances surrounding her mother's death means mental illness and a mind at odds with reality br br while we may recognize staples such as haunted houses with sightings doors that open and close on their own a cruel and overbearing stepmother and other events of high strangeness a tale of two sisters superbly explores deeper psychological meanings including the inability to let go of inner demons and the misplaced desire for revenge soo mi says do you know what's really scary you want to forget something totally wipe it off your mind but you never can it can't go away you see and and it follows you around like a ghost there is a time line but it is left for the viewer to unravel the plot cannot be summarized only suggested and the film keeps us wondering whether what is happening on screen is objective or subjective br br in the film's opening soo mi an obviously disturbed young woman is being questioned by a doctor in a setting that looks like a mental institution when the doctor asks her to describe what happened that day the film flashes back to when soo mi and soo yeon return to the home of their father moo kim su and stepmother yum jung ah the stepmother is hostile and resentful and the father is passive and distant but it is obvious that it is soo mi who is really hurting as the girls try to readjust they are constantly frightened by a presence in the house which may be nightmares or supernatural occurrences br br soo mi sees a figure at the foot of her bed that hovers over her and oozes black blood a dinner scene in which the guest apparently sees a ghost hiding under the sink and goes into convulsions a monster emerges from between the legs of one of the sisters people mysteriously disappear from photographs and many other maniacal schizophrenic devices to keep the viewer dangling on the edge of insanity while we sense that much of the story is the projection of someone's mind we do not know whose and the film keeps us constantly challenged at least until an important clue is offered in the film's second half br br shot in gorgeous low light cinematography a tale of two sisters has a unique elegance and other worldly beauty that transcends all the scares and there are plenty it is haunting in more than one sense of the word and its images may stare back at you when you least expect or want them to while the film may not offer the weary traveler much in the way of light it shows us where we can end up if we opt for the darkness in the words of a wise observer blame is never the answer whether it is blaming yourself or others rather the answer lies in stepping out of judgment entirely both of yourself and others forgiveness and understanding have great power of healing
1	three words piece of art this film is just great it's beautiful sad frightening and thought provoking at the same time the score constantly stays in my head the acting is wonderful the scenery scary and beautiful at the same time br br it was more by chance than on purpose that i saw this movie at the time i decided to watch this movie i was just bored and read lists of asian films which maybe good well i saw the title a tale of two sisters which sounded very interesting then i read the summary of the plot and decided you don't just watch this film you've gotta buy it said done i bought this film and was hooked from the very first minute br br the plot kept me interested from the beginning till the end the twist near the end of the film made me scream i really didn't see something like this coming and the ending scene made me cry it just made me cry it was so sad br br well i recommend this film to anyone who wants to see a film that combines an interesting plot with scary scenes and atmosphere although you should be aware of the fact that the ending is as i mentioned before a very sad one but this just fits in the mood of the film doesn't it
1	if there is such a thing as beautiful horror this film is one of the best in this genre it is a horror movie which despite not being void of gore scenes relies more on psychology and masterful building of the tension in order to create thrills and it is one of those movies so beautifully filmed where each scene is a full world of symbols and details all serving the scope and genre that it can be called but beautiful br br it is not an easy story with two sisters returning to their father and step mother mansion after having spent some time in a psychiatric institution they cope hardly with the death of their mother and they try to protect a world of theirs defending them against the adult world so the film seems to be at its most external layer actually the film slowly evolves to something very different at slow pace but no frame is lost to convey the sense of thrilling beauty so i will not say much more watch it it is one of the best in the genre of far east horror films that conquered recently the world cinema and it really shows that they succeeded to do it for good reasons
1	let me just say i love the horror genre to the extent that i see every single one that i can get my hands on regardless except really low quality b movie horrors which i could do without and recently have become a big fan of eastern horrors little did i know that a korean horror would be the one that tops my list beating off heavyweights such as the japanese ringu or the american ring or even quality us movies such as the sixth sense and the others and the widely acclaimed hong kong horror 'the eye' br br previously 'the had stood as my favourite horror but it seems to me that i prefer the beauty of 'the tale of two sisters' any day the story is extraordinary and rather open to interpretation thus allowing repeat viewings although chances are you'll want to watch this again and again just because the movie is so masterfully shot the story is likely one of the best in the genre to date the acting is top notch too from the entire cast and the scares when they come have the potential to rattle you like anything within the ring i did find myself glued to the screen at those points unable to take my eyes off br br still i am glad it didn't come back to haunt me later that samara did from the ring after all such feelings are unpleasant and the tale of two sisters leaves you with an uneasy feeling but one that hopefully won't leave you without sleep but leave you satisfied that you have seen something quite special but do remember if you don't understand the plot after the first viewing a repeat viewing is more than advised i personally didn't have time for this since it was late so i flicked through scenes on the dvd some numerous times until i had a good synopsis in my head and after looking on the net seemed pretty much nailed it on the widely agreed interpretation and the satisfaction from solving a puzzle like that is wonderful br br all in all a masterfully crafted horror that is unlikely to produce the same remake its been purchased by dreamworks simply because of the korean content and everyone is advised to catch this in the theaters or on dvds while they can its one of the best you will get unfortunately due to the type of movie this is there is no way to even talk about the story without spoilers so its best to do what i did watch it without knowing a single thing except its 'a tale of two sisters' and be prepared for something that is unlikely to be matched for some time
1	this movie certainly deserves to be placed within the genre of horror but not for obvious reasons the horror of a tale of two sisters lies not with sudden shocks or large helpings of cgi guts and gore it is a psychological horror movie which the viewer's curiosity from the start and builds a suspenseful aura of mystery and questions throughout best of all the ending does not provide a clear answer pushing the viewer to analyse what they have seen and make up their own mind about what really took place br br do not be put off by the seemingly slow pace at which the movie begins and don't expect to be jumping out of your seat immediately this is not the conventional hack and slash movie with orchestral stings designed to make you scared of nothing in particular a tale of two sisters slowly builds an atmosphere of terror a terror of the unknown and a fear of things which evade explanation until the very end even when the final conclusion is revealed it is not so heavy handed and obvious as to make the entire film fall neatly into place the movie requires its viewer to reflect back on what they have seen and to try and square this with the frightening revelation of the final scene some things will still be open to interpretation and this is one of the joys of watching a film such as this br br the true fear of a tale of two sisters lies not in shocks or conspicuous scares it is a psychological gut wrenching horror that defies convention and expands a genre to proportions hitherto unexplored by the traditional horror film it is no exaggeration to say that this film stands apart even from the so called 'asian horror' genre indeed it would be a mistake to align a tale of two sisters with films like ringu and the grudge this movie can be understood from a variety of standpoints some requiring no suspension of credulity others embracing the supernatural wholeheartedly br br whichever way you choose to interpret this film it is one that demands an open minded approach rewarding viewers regardless of their preconceived notions on asian cinema or horror in general
1	every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be br br the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what's going on and you really want to view it for the second time but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be br br a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b bs and lots of blood br br if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts 5 without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation and don't forget to switch the light off br br my points on different aspects br br direction 9 10 acting 8 10 atmosphere 10 10 sound effect 9 10 br br total 9 10
1	i hate football i hate football fans i hate cars but this film was the funniest thing i have seen in quite some time br br i was given the great opportunity to see this film at the weekend and all i have to say is i laughed till i cried and when is it going to be available in the uk and denmark girls this is one football film you will need to see its hilarious br br the fact that this film started out as some crazy commercial for a telephone company is just amazing the guys may not be well known actors but this is good down to earth real humour with real people and i for one applaud them for taking this to the screen br br well done
1	the finest short i've ever seen some commentators suggest it might have been lengthened due to the density of insight it offers there's irony in that comment and little merit the acting is all up to noonan and he carries his thankless character perfectly i might have preferred that the narrator be less recognizable but the gravitas lent is pitch perfect this is a short for people who read for those whose bar is set high and for those who recognize that living in a culture that celebrates stupidity and banality can forge contrary and bitter defenders of beauty a beautiful short film i was pleased at the picasso reference since i once believed that picasso was just another art whore with little talent like i assume most people until the day i saw some drawings he made when he was 12 picasso was a finer and a brilliant artist at that age than many artists will ever become in a lifetime i understood immediately why he had to make the art he became known for
1	many horror fans complain that horror has scarcely progressed in the last twenty years i was inclined to agree with this until the influx of asian horror films a trend which has admittedly grown dull however it has produced some true classics and a tale of two sisters for me at least stands out as an exceptional piece of cinema and perhaps the best horror film in a very long time br br based vaguely on a korean it tells the sad story of two mentally troubled sisters residing with their father and stepmother after experiencing a few problems on their first night back at home they determine to stick together and deny their stepmother access to their close relationship the tension rises and there is the inevitable snap but what happens after this requires more than a pair of eyes as the story takes several twists and the scares become more emotional and quite real by the end you may need a few moments to absorb it all and piece it together in your own mind but it is exactly this pairing of horror and mystery that pushes it beyond the definitions of these genres and makes it an instant classic one to watch again and again if only to work it all out
1	this isn't so much a review of a tale of two sisters as it is a discussion of some of the smaller plot details so i advise you not to read this review if you haven't seen the film because doing so will absolutely ruin a few surprises for you br br in a way a tale of two sisters is far from original at least from a purely superficial aspect some of its iconography is taken straight from ring or dark water while the storyline itself especially what calls the rubber reality aspect of the narrative is reminiscent of films like fight club lead character interacts with someone created in their mind mulholland drive character creates alternate reality in a fugue as well as other minor aspects of lost highway jacob's ladder and basically every film under the sun dealing with mental illness plus amenabar's films the others abre los ojos memento particularly with regards to the torturous nature of memory et al thankfully all these similarities do not detract from the film's overall emotional impact and i personally found a tale of two sisters an extremely moving and rewarding experience br br many people have commented on the confusing nature of the narrative but i personally found the storyline to be fairly self explanatory even if it is in part portrayed in a non sequential manner the narrative only becomes confusing for some because midway through the final third the story switches from a purely subjective setting ie soo warped perception of reality to an objective one with a flashback at the end explaining the origins of soo nervous breakdown and subsequent mental illness the shift in emphasis is bound to throw some people off guard but structurally i found it somewhat reminiscent of aforementioned mulholland drive even though we're not dealing with a character's perception of reality via a dream but instead their own schizophrenic tendencies something which in turn reminded me of another lynch movie lost highway to be honest i don't really regard a tale of two sisters as a horror movie as such but rather a tragic story of a family's breakdown as well as an honest look at a character's mental illness and i hasten to add that fans of psychoanalytical cinema are going to love this film br br that aside the cinematography in a tale of two sisters is incredible and visually this is one of the most beautiful films i've seen this side of wong kar wai's 2046 the performances are also fantastic without exception and i expect to see more of the four lead actors in the future not to mention the music but then east asian films without a great soundtrack seem to be few and far between these days br br it's very likely that some people will look past the finer artistic points of a tale of two sisters and simply dismiss it as yet another asian horror film oblivious to its aesthetic beauty and honest psychoanalytical approach but then each to their own if you can ignore some of the film's platitudinous aspects and simply take it for what it is at heart ie an extremely tragic heart breaking story then i see no reason not to recommend it
1	i watch many movies but presently my genre number one is asian horror i have just bought this dvd and i initially found an intriguing but confused film since i had not understood many parts of the story but i saw in imdb board a message titled explanation of a masterpiece all your questions answered faster load written by and i was really impressed with the high quality of the explanations this user provided to viewers like me that missed points of the story i would like to congratulate for his excellent work and suggest him to write a correct summary of this movie in imdb to help and guide other viewers br br in the end i agree that is a great korean film but i do not give ten in my vote because very few people can afford to see the same movie more than once like this film demands and without the great support of i would not be able to understand the story as a whole i intend to see this movie again in a near future my vote is eight br br title brazil fear
1	two sisters su mi im soo jung and su yeon moon young return home with their father kim gap soo jeong ah welcomes them but su manner is bitter to her su mi hates because the father let her act like the house wife after the sisters' mother died seeing her attitude is getting to treat the sisters coldly and there grows a tense atmosphere among them br br as if called in by the atmosphere series of mysterious things occur in the house when su mi is hanging her dress in her wardrobe there have been already hung a lot of dresses of the same design when she put her diary into a drawer she finds another diary of the same kind there when she is sleeping in her bed with scared su yeon a nightmare awakes her and she finds a woman standing on her and a hand dangles out of the woman's skirt br br mysterious things occur to the other people too on the evening of next weekend brother and his wife visit the family and they have a dinner together cheerfully talks about a crazy man she met when she was a child but nobody is interested in her talk she says the crazy man annoyed the brother but he says he doesn't know anything about the man br br listening to their talk the brother's wife has a panic br br after the dinner the conflict between and the sisters becomes at its worst pulls su yeon into a wardrobe and locks her in it su mi saves the crying out sister and complains to their father what has done to his daughter but his response is unexpected give me a break says he angrily su mi please don't make me tired any more br br and the following words out of the father's mouth are more shocking than what they have seen in the house br br to tell the truth i hate horror movies although i seated myself at a theater because my intuition told me the movie was something different i was regretting what my curiosity had made me act when it started showing the regret however had changed into joy for expectation ten minutes later br br this film is a tragic mystery more than a horror painful more than horrible beautiful more than sensational that may have a hard core horror fan disappointed but for a mystery fan like me this film is a must see 9 out of 10
1	i first saw this film two years ago in the cinema and fell in love with this dark tale of two brooding teenage sisters coping at home in their large country house with their father and step mother their relationship with their step mother is strained to say the least with the step mother appearing to be increasingly becoming unstable in her battles with the younger girls the film though slants with oriental style ghost effects and horror which adds a strange and unsettling aspect to the story that on first viewing is not clear but is all the more intriguing br br the direction is incredibly good and the acting is stunning with the step mother in particular incredibly good swinging from one mood style to another in the film the large house adds eeriness and there are enough points in the film where you will jump out of your seat this film to me clearly shows why korean cinema is possibly the best most original in the world at the moment you simply don't get anything like this in the western world sadly and really i can see it being influential on film makers around the world in the next decade br br highly recommended viewing in my opinion a real joy and scare
1	i just saw a tale of two sisters last night and really enjoyed it i've been a big fan of asian horror films recently and think that this is a strong entry from south korea there aren't many jump out at you scares as in the usual american horror film but the director does maintain the off kilter and foreboding mood very well especially in the awkward character interactions with each other most of the scares are more conceptual and plays on everyone's there's something under the bed fears from when they were a child but in this case it's the closet and the sink i also liked how the director was able to capture just how dysfunctional this household is through scenes such as the first dinner that the characters have together he's also good at revealing people's inner life and fragility through simple scenes such as the stepmother wiping off her make up in the mirror or her sitting in front of the flickering tv i think this film is mainly an exploration of guilt and the consequences of living with that guilt hanging over you br br major spoilers ahead do not read any further if you do not want the twists of the movie revealed i was following the story pretty well but did start getting confused during the bag dragging part however i think the flashback at the end definitely tied everything together the film is very much like the machinist in the way two of the character's joint guilt eventually leads to mental breakdowns and delusions br br here's my interpretation of the film the su yeon that we see after the girls supposed return to the house is either the delusion of su mi or the actual ghost of su yeon that only su mi can see and interact with the initial stepmother that we see is in my opinion a delusion of su mi there is a real stepmother however and she first appears in the film when she's wearing the gray pantsuit i believe it's the real stepmother that the father is talking to on the phone throughout the first part of the movie and she doesn't appear until he pick her up and brings her to the house the stepmother before that point is imagined by su mi perhaps part of her split personality that explains the bizarre dinner party sequence when the stepmother's brother looks at her like she's crazy and doesn't remember anything that she recounts i think it was su mi acting out her stepmother part of her split personality the film shows this later in the bag dragging scene and scenes such as the stepmother wiping her make up in the mirror which is revealed later to actually be su mi wiping her make up in the mirror br br i think the ghosts in the house aren't entirely imagined by su mi and are either of su yeon or the mother or both in the final flashback it is revealed the su yeon was wearing the green dress and had the hairpin in her hair when she died this is the green dress that they showed before on the ghost sitting at the dining room table while the stepmother was looking under the sink also it's the hairpin that su yeon was wearing in the flashback that appears on the floor when the stepmother is looking under the sink br br the real stepmother in the end gets punished by the ghost of su yeon who comes for in a scene a little bit like the ring after that the flashback scene ties it all together in terms of how both the stepmother was mainly responsible for her death while su mi unintentionally played a supporting role br br i wonder if the mother that su yeon sees when she goes up to her room to cry in the flashback is a ghost already perhaps by that point the mother had already killed herself in the closet that's left ambiguous br br other things that are suggested but not clearly explained in the film is that it seems like the stepmother at some point was a nurse perhaps taking care of the mother and somehow may have contributed to her death too it's not clear when her relationship with the father began and whether it caused the mother to kill herself it's also suggested that the mother had mental issues too requiring a nurse the stepmother alludes to this when she tells su mi you're beginning to take after your mother i don't think she meant just physically br br also if we accept that the initial stepmother that we see is actually su mi then there's the suggestion of incest too since the father sleeps with her is that why su mi freaks out and shouts don't touch me each time the father reaches for her in a later scenes is that the filthy things that you've done that she alludes to in a later conversation with the father this film is interesting in it's capacity for different interpretations a few of the scenes however were kind of derivative such as the woman in the black crawling around scene which reminded me of the herky jerky movements of in the ju on the grudge films also the final scene where the stepmother finally gets her just desserts is reminiscent of the ring furthermore just the idea that some characters may be ghosts is taken from the sixth sense or the others br br overall i enjoyed it however and it will be interesting to see how the hollywood remake that's already in production turns out i have to be honest i liked both the ring and the grudge so i'm not one of those snooty types who insist that remakes can't be good too one remake that i'm really excited about is dark water coming out this summer i haven't seen the original japanese version yet but both films are definitely on my to see list
1	this review is long overdue since i consider a tale of two sisters to be the single greatest film ever made i'll put this gem up against any movie in terms of screenplay cinematography acting post production editing directing or any other aspect of film making it's practically perfect in all of them – a true masterpiece in a sea of faux masterpieces br br the structure of this film is easily the most tightly constructed in the history of cinema i can think of no other film where something important occurs every other minute quite literally ji kim seems to have made a movie that practically taunts the viewer to dissect it on the most detailed of levels a seemingly insignificant object may be shown – a rack of dresses two diaries a drop of blood emanating from a floor crack a bottle of pills etc – but upon meticulous inspection turns out to be so much more – a clue that helps to make sense of that particular scene or perhaps the movie in total which almost always contributes a stirring reflection upon the psychological concepts that lurk in the background until the viewer's intelligence prompts them to spring to the forefront such an event might occur a handful of times during any other movie but in a tale of two sisters such events occur in such a rapid fire relentless fashion that the viewer must watch the film in a perpetual state of lest they miss something important in other words the content level of this film is enough to easily fill a dozen other films how can anyone in their right mind ask for anything more from a movie than this it's quite simply the highest most superlative form of cinema imaginable br br the most commonly cited criticism of a tale of two sisters is nicely summarized by zaphod b goode who falsely claims that the story is an incoherent unresolved mess that uses confusion to instill a false sense of intelligence because it does not provide a final set of facts underlying the intriguing questions he posits that ji kim tossed up a dozen possible explanations and left it at that in reality however nothing could be further from the truth a tale of two sisters provides a series of objective facts that help the viewer to identify the exact occurrences of each and every scene of the film if our good friend zaphod had been paying attention he would have noticed – for example – the series of obvious flashbacks which provide enough factual information to make sense of the film these flashbacks convincingly contradict assertion of complete subjectivity the objective elements of a tale of two sisters are so obvious to anyone willing to see them that the mere assertion of a lack of objectivity can only call into question the patience of a viewer who apparently does not want to put forth even the slightest effort whatsoever to see them can ji kim really be faulted for the impatience of viewers who lack the desire to understand his film i think not br br please note that i will not insult the intelligence of critics such as zaphod that cannot get a tale of two sisters because it really has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence as much as a lack of persistence the movie spells itself out so effectively that the only possible explanation for confusion is a lack of effort on the part of the viewer yes this film does require a rather significant amount of puzzle solving but the pieces fit together to create a beautiful picture you need only put them together remember the screenplay was written by someone with the picture already in mind – he simply separated the pieces and placed them skillfully throughout for the purpose of providing a magnificent cerebral exercise that – when completed – an ultimate form of satisfaction and state of awe br br don't misunderstand me there are films that seem to start with an incomplete picture and try to create a puzzle that is insoluble by design spider forest 2004 perfect blue 1998 and donnie darko 2001 are perfect examples of this a tale of two sisters is not it's ironic that zaphod claims darko to be more masterfully constructed than a tale of two sisters especially considering that darko not only provides almost no objective facts but also a twist ending that is the quintessential deus ex machina cliché that could be dropped at the end of any movie ever made in order to provide the ultimate in faux intelligence i'm ashamed of myself for mentioning the two films in the same sentence but the contrast is an important one although it does perplex me that zaphod would cite a movie that crumbles when exposed to even the slightest intellectual effort as a way of criticizing a film that only becomes discernible thru a significant application of intellectual effort he apparently likes his intelligent films in the most superficial form possible this is evident when he makes 17 consecutive questions in his review that are answered quite convincingly by the film itself just read the threads by within the imdb a tale of two sisters discussion forum anyone who carefully reads those threads and still asserts a lack of an objective solution to this film may as well stop watching intelligent films altogether because the answers are so damned obvious br br i'd like to say more but i've come to my 1 000 word limit all that has been said here needed to be said so be it now said
1	i love horror films but i think they work way better when they hide a dramatic impact behind the devil's backbone the exorcist for example this is that kind of film and it's not only eerie and terrifying when it has to be it is also really beautiful a tale of two sisters starts really slow so if you're in a hurry to see ghosts in the first 20 minutes you will be disappointed actually this is not a ghost story there are some it's something more complex and it's done in such a way that it beats ringu and the grudge out of the ring no sweat a is a way more clever film than those huge cultural hits because it really cares for its characters and the direction is flawless every detail in this film will leave you breathless if you're the kind of person who loves to pay attention to details while watching a movie the acting is superb specially from the stepmother and the main girl those two are worth the price of the ticket alone do yourself a favor and watch this awesome film
1	perhaps i'm one of the only avid horror fans who thinks that the recent overload of asian shockers is so over hyped films like ringu or the the eye – which are praised all over the world – simply didn't convince me and they looked more boring than frightening well this blunt opinion doesn't go for the south korean gem a tale of two sisters this is a stylish and utterly complex psychological terror tale that really gets under your skin the plot based on a local folklore tale might be a little too confusing to get this film listed among the all time greatest genre achievements but the atmosphere and tension building surely provokes feelings of great respect this is one of those few films that are impossible to label the events in two sisters qualify as mind bending horror as well as intense family drama and a deeply psychological portrait besides a mesmerizing story a tale of two sisters also has all the great elements that i feel are usually missing in asian horror films like compelling music good acting and innovative camera work the mansion were the family events take place is brilliantly illustrated like a truly creepy place where secrets and danger lurk behind every door several sequences like the dinner with relatives or the nightly appearance in the girls' room are pretty much the ultimate in eeriness they really made me feel uncomfortable and i do like to believe that i've seen my share of spooky horror a tale of two sisters is a terrific movie adventure and a definite must see for asian film fanatics a little warning for people with a short attention span though this movie forces you to have your eyes and ears focused at at all time it's also a film that requires repeated viewing even though no one will never really get it for a full 100
1	the beauty the terror the poetry the horror the innocence the guilt br br maybe that's just about all i should write in this comment for a tale of two sisters the best thing is to just watch this movie without knowing anything about it i myself didn't even know one single thing about the history of the two girls when i went into this movie i just took a look at the nice cover art didn't even read the synopsis on the back and popped it into dvd player i only knew that it won several prices on festivals around the world and that it came highly recommended br br the dvd cover read the most frightening film since the ring the grudge and dark water though the frightening part might be right you can forget about the rest because the only thing a tale of two sisters has in common with those movie is a ghostly apparition with long black hair it's even a bit unfair to compare it with those famous japanese movies because this korean movie has a lot more to offer and is in fact a bit more complicated and intelligent than those others br br this movie simply is a small masterpiece and here are some reasons without telling anything about the plot the movie itself caught me off guard at least two times with clever surprise twists and just when you think you've had the conclusion whether you get it or not that's irrelevant for the moment and you think the movie will end this movie goes on a bit longer the cinematography is amazing using bright colors during the day and dark shades at night the camera work is excellent with the director sometimes choosing impressive if not innovating angles some shots are pure poetry e g the top shot with the two sisters at the lake it all looks very stylish there are only four main characters but the intrigue surrounding them is intense the story itself starts a bit slow but there's a lot of variety in tone and emotions to keep it interesting there was even one scene when the girls took off towards the lake that suddenly had me remembering peter jackson's heavenly creatures but when the horror kicks in it's quite effective there are also a few successful surprise scares in it damn i jumped right up from my sofa the musical score is great and at times when it's not supposed to be scary i couldn't help but noticing that it had sort of an italian feeling to it a bit strange for a korean movie but nevertheless a great score so much care went into every detail of this film including a perfectly balanced surround sound br br i also think that calling a tale of two sisters just a horror movie is giving it not enough credit it's more a mysterious horror drama that works both on a psychological and supernatural level no matter how you look at it this is asian horror that ranks way up there amongst the finest it might not be gory but it gets pretty scary at times and the subject matter is pretty disturbed so if you haven't seen it yet then find a copy pop it into your dvd player go with the flow and make sure you give this movie your full attention for it's 110 minutes running time br br there i hope i did a good job praising it without spoiling anything
1	hehehe this was one of the best funny road movies ever i laughed so i fell out of the chair with many norwegian and foreign celebrities playing themselves harald is the producer known for films like agent cody banks and of course one night at br br it is about norwegian crazy fans going to the world cup in soccer in germany 2006 and all sort of crazy fun that comes with it it was hilarious i couldn't stop laughing i haven't had so much fun in ages rumors say it will come a number two but i do not know it will be hard beating this one br br recommended to everyone it is a must see film i was suppose to see it at the cinema but i had work at the times it where shown and been trying to rent it for a month but all the time rented out got it today on dvd well worth it
1	a tale of two sisters is a brilliant south korean psychological horror that left me speechless the film offers some delicious moments of ghastly horror and is extremely creepy the small cast of actors is truly excellent with lead im soo jung being especially memorable in the lead role the direction by kim ji is well handled and the cinematography is absolutely gorgeous the plot is slightly confusing but some scenes are wonderfully eerie the action is rather slow but i was not bored in the slightest i was extremely curious and intrigued the house where the film takes place looks incredibly menacing and isolated a tale of two sisters is along with ringu and kairo one of the most original asian horror films i have ever seen watch this masterpiece as soon as possible my rating 10 out of 10
1	the recent history of hollywood remakes of ghost horror films from the east has been dismal this film will inevitably suffer the same fate so get a copy on e bay or similar br br it is well photographed and the sound is superb viewing on a good screen and with a good 5 1 or dts enabled sound system is recommended obviously it is subtitled so if that puts you off then i wouldn't bother with this dubbing rarely works and simply would not do here br br it is also genuinely frightening with excellent performances from a cast who will be unfamiliar to western audiences i would particularly single out the stepmother character who was utterly brilliant the ending will have you wanting to watch it again if you can cope the plot is relentless and offers no comforting moments of release along the way br br if i do have a small criticism there is perhaps a detectable influence in certain scenes from the japanese version of the ring we have however accepted straight copies of other peoples' ideas for western films for years and so my point is a limited one which did not prevent me from giving it 10 10 i believe most fans of this genre will derive huge pleasure from this film which i for one hope goes down as a classic
1	'a tale of two sisters' or is a true masterpiece brilliant psychological thriller heart wrenching drama and gripping horror all wrapped up in one beautifully orchestrated package from the intricate plot to the beautiful cinematography to the absolutely perfect casting every aspect of this film is extraordinary br br for fear of revealing too much concerning the plot i will just say it is very satisfying while it may appear to be a little difficult to understand at first it does a good job of explaining things in the end and whether you prefer psychological thriller drama or horror i promise you will not be disappointed br br from a technical standpoint its nearly flawless the set the cinematography lighting and especially the soundtrack all are captivating the waltz seemed an odd choice at first but proved to be an ingenious choice br br as for the casting we're talking absolute perfection i'm su jeong is totally convincing as the defiant yet troubled su mi is equally convincing as her emotionally traumatized sister su yeon these two girls were magical on the screen i will certainly be looking into their other films jeong ah is cheerful and hauntingly evil as the stepmother finally su kim gives an excellent performance as the weary broken father br br i truly love this film if you have yet to see 'a tale of two sisters' i strongly recommend locating a copy it is a real gem worthy of anyone's collection br br 10 10
1	this movie was an excellent acted excellent directed and overall had an excellent story ive had real life with a boy like at the football program in my town weve had a mentally challenged boy every year practice travel and have fun with the football team this movie is really true and i can identify with it 100 a boy like just needs to feel like they belong to something they need to feel like their life is worth living thats how feels and thats why that type of program is set up at my high school this is a very touching movie that im glad has been brought to the big screen my dad and i loved it and i will always remember this for being a movie that tells a riveting story of the goodness and kindness of man
1	call it manipulative drivel if you will but i fell for it sure there could have been more character development yeah there could have been better cinematography and less of a constant movie of the week score but ed harris was impeccable cuba gooding adorable and touching and let's face it people in real life how many of us really get to know the motivation of others not many we did get a little glimpse into the coach's motivation a very provocative dialog in my opinion not to be soon forgotten so in my opinion this was a lovely tribute to one human being who broke out of his comfort zone to reach out to another human being and in the mean time touched the lives hundreds more a lesson we all need to me reminded of why is it that the right thing to do is so often the hardest thing to do i recommend this beautiful little movie to anyone with a heart you won't be disappointed and bring your kleenex 8 10
1	radio will have you laughing crying feeling this story based on a true story is the perfect movie for a couple to view there's enough for both cuba gooding jr portrays the title character to perfection his performance is worthy of an academy award nomination the compassion of the movie is obvious the movie evokes many emotions i sincerely enjoyed this film
1	excellent performances and a solid but not overplayed story helped this movie exceed my expectations this movie was far better than i was expecting after some of the reviews i had read but frankly those reviewers just got it wrong very inspiring and uplifting highly recommended
1	i thought this was a really well written film i've heard of radio the person before this movie was even created and i can't begin to describe how good cuba gooding jr was in it it will make the women cry everyone laugh and most everyone will leave smiling
1	br br having read the unemployed critic's review i went to a screening of radio not knowing what to expect thankfully the unemployed critic now appears to me anyway a frustrated film director movie critic his review is callous and totally uncalled for br br this is a movie that will make you laugh it will make you cry and in the end it will give you a moment of pause br br to paraphrase a line delivered by actor ed harris in the final barbershop scene and all this time that we thought we were teaching radio truth is he was teaching us he treats us all the time like we wish we treated each other some of the time br br yes the movie tugs at the heartstrings yes it is emotionally manipulative and yes cuba gooding jr in an oscar worthy performance is a little over the top at times see the christmas day dance scene but you know what so what every once in awhile the community of america needs to be reminded what tolerance can do for our great country we need to be reminded how great we can be br br this is a solid cast i was particularly pleased to see s portraying radio's mother do something outside of law and order i always wondered is ms a great actor or is it the quality of writing delivered buy a strong cast on law and order after watching this movie it is easy to see that she is indeed a very fine actor br br also joining the cast in small but important and powerful roles is alfre woodard as the principal debra winger in a career resurrecting role of coach jones's wife and chris as protagonist frank clay br br we cannot over look ed harris's performance as coach harold jones after reflecting on this movie and having grown up in the deep south my self it is hard to truly appreciate mr harris and his contribution to this film as coach jones ed delivers a quiet rock solid performance that of a man on a mission coach harris will not let the town or circumstances divert him from what he knows in his heart is the right thing to do br br if you see this movie make sure you hang around for the end credits you will be in for a treat as the real james robert kennedy now in his mid 50's is shown still leading the t l hanna football team on to the field every friday night br br one final note if you were a teen in the mid to late 70's this movie is worth the price of admission for the sound track alone
1	cuba gooding jr is back on top jesus he did a great job in this film i loved this movie its one of those feel good movies that makes you want to run out and volunteer at a mission or something anyway i would recommend seeing this movie in a heartbeat well worth the price of admission and as for cuba gooding jr just give him his next oscar right now
1	i've been strangely attracted to this film since i saw it on showtime sometime in the early 80's i say strangely because it is rather a ludicrous bit of soft core fluff a genre i'm not particularly interested in the dialogue is and philosophical making sense no doubt only to it's franco italian producers and the plot completely extraneous what it does achieve is a wonderfully hypnotic and thoroughly pleasant mood the scenery the beautiful philippines soft focus nudity and wonderful score all contribute to a strange and extremely watchable exercise in a sort of film making seldom seen today it is truly one of my great guilty pleasures i was fortunate enough to find it on an old laserdisc and have watched it more times than i think is healthy a worthwhile
1	i just got home from seeing radio i've not seen such an inspiring story in a long time my kids are ages 8 and 5 and i would like to take them so that they may feel the message as i did you should seek to find the best in people and love them for who they are not judge them for their differences cuba gooding jr and ed harris both deserve academy awards for this movie i don't know why we can't have more movies like this rather than the junk that is served up at theatres on a daily basis
1	this is a very moving movie about life itself the challenges a handicapped person must face in a land that expects perfection is brought to the forefront for all to see and hopefully understand it should teach the bigots of society that we are all humans and while some of us are gifted with a mind heart and sound body there are decent human beings that exist in the world that are not as lucky or maybe we're the unlucky ones we don't always see the beauty in the world because we're wrapped up in our 'blind' ambitions and see it only in one light what can this world do for me maybe we all wish we were like radio a loving happy individual who loves everyone
1	as one who frequently goes to the movies i have to say that this has been one of the most impressive movies i have seen this year ed harris and cuba gooding jr gave outstanding performances allowing viewers to get lost in the various emotions and really feel for the characters it is nice to occasionally see a movie that does not depend entirely upon special effects but allows the characters of the story to touch the human psyche on many levels i wish hollywood would produce more movies of this calibre
1	cuba gooding jr will win the oscar for best actor in 2003 and ed harris will win for best supporting actor what a beautiful and poignant film it is but be sure to bring along a box of tissues because if this film doesn't get to you then you have ice water in your veins br br it was 1976 the setting was in south carolina and the civil rights act was about ten years old we have a white high school football coach and teacher ed harris then there is a black retarded frightened but pleasant fellow cuba gooding whose greatest possessions including a radio are piled into a shopping cart which is also used as his bicycle br br ed harris takes a keen interest in the fellow for a reason explained much later on in the film he gives cuba the nickname radio and what follows is an riveting engrossing poignant exploration of the human soul br br the movie is nothing short of a masterpiece
1	inspired by true events radio is one of the best acted heart felt dramas i seen widely released in sometime it definitely is one of the year's best films of 2003 br br radio stars ed harris who is oscar worthy nonetheless in this film as football coach harold jones coach jones has been teaching football all his life and loves the game however coach jones does not spend much time with his wife and daughter played by debra winger and sarah drew one day radio played by cuba gooding jr in his best performance since men of honor comes by the football field while the coach's team is practicing for the game some members of the team then tie up radio and throw him into a building they then bang on the building and finally coach jones suspects something is wrong he comes over and helps radio who is frightened and from that point on coach jones and radio shares a very special bond radio becomes the highlight of every football game and really enjoys participating in the football games and at school events he also becomes coach jones's main interest in life over football which at first was his main priority before both his family and radio br br the movie deals with all sorts of real life problems including what your priorities are life accepting people for who they are even if they are different death and family relationships the movie touches upon all those issues and more and is extremely well done and director michael should be very proud of this film the thing i liked most about radio was how real it felt the performances were like watching something in real life occur right before your eyes radio had a great mix of comedy and drama some parts were quite funny yet other parts were very serious and sad br br in conclusion i feel that radio was very overlooked by critics only getting average reviews they must have there heads up there butts because its amazing how this film can only get 2 star reviews and something like school of rock can get 3 or 4 stars it doesn't make any sense to me also the performances as i mentioned before are top notch and oscar worthy in my opinion both ed harris who i think is underrated as an actor and cuba gooding jr should both get some kind on nomination for this movie radio is one my favorite movies of the year and gives me reason to still see some of the big hollywood movies my final rating for radio is a 9 10
1	cuba gooding jr and ed harris are touching this movie is really surprising it was enjoyable from start to finish br br the story is about mentally challenged man who helps out with a football team br br
1	this is a movie you'll either love or hate i loved it if you are looking for suspense great special effects action sophistication cynicism etc you won't find it in this movie it is a feel good movie sentimental positive uplifting the heroes of the movie are coach jones played by ed harris a man of strength and integrity and radio cuba gooding jr a mentally retarded man who finds a way to contribute to his world i guess i didn't find this movie to be sentimental hogwash as so many did because it felt very real to me i know people like these i've seen jocks who think it's fun to pick on the vulnerable i've seen men of integrity stand up for the vulnerable i've seen people who think high school football is serious business i've seen people who know what really is important in life any of these people could have been people i knew i did laugh i did cry i left the movie feeling good remembering that there are people like coach jones and radio in my world if there aren't people like them in yours you might not like the movie if you don't like a movie that shows the better side of human nature you'll hate it
1	radio was a very good movie and honestly i never cry in movies but it had me pretty close to tears it really got to me when radio's mom died and he just wouldn't get out of his room i felt really sad about how if you were mentally retarded you wouldn't really be able to understand death i really liked the movie and it's a must see
1	i'm normally not a drama feel good movie kind of guy but once i saw the trailer for radio i couldn't resist not only is this a great film but it also has acting cuba gooding jr did an excellent job portraying james robert kennedy a k a radio ed harris also did a fantastic job as coach jones i was pleasantly surprised to see some comedy in it as well so for a great story great acting and a little comedy i give radio a 10 out of 10
1	radio is a true story about a man who did what he felt in his heart was the right thing to do the viewer will be compelled to wonder what he or she would have done the adversity that coach jones and radio both faced was both tragic and predictable people did not understand nor did they want to understand but in the end the power of circumstance forced people to understand and appreciate so much more than they did before it happened radio is a mentally challenged youth who understands very little besides three of the most important things the are too often forgotten as we mature intuition compassion and love coach jones is a high school teacher who cannot ignore the plight of the underdog who is just trying to play a bad hand of cards in the best way that he knows how it was sad the way coach jones and radio met the practical joke that terrified the life out of radio was enough to make you want to severely punish not only the boys involved but every boy who knew what was going on and did nothing about it however on the positive side of the scale the incident led to a friendship that would influence so many lives in the kind of way that most of us believe only happens in the movies this movie is a real life fairy tale and not to be missed ed harris was his usual brilliance gooding was flawless radio is an inspiration
1	despite some really scenic locations in the orient and some sporadically energetic music by franco this film doesn't quite reach the level of joe d'amato's similar efforts while staying just about as trashy the author of the original book emmanuelle the joys of a woman emmanuelle directed and had a role in this film which mostly pornographically showcases a very young annie belle as she gets in a variety of oddball sexual situations her boyfriend played by zombie's al cliver actually approves of her sleeping around and even persuades her to continue her practices even after the two of them are married maria drops by as a professor who is oh so usually married simultaneously to two women one of whom is played by herself despite beginning promisingly and having a few hilarious lines of dialog like can you see me with the naked eye i can see you better naked the film shambles along up until the less than spectacular finale much like d'amato's emanuelle and the last cannibals the main characters are all in search of some lost tribe but don't get your hopes up there's no violence at all in this film and not much sex either for that matter just a lot of nudity and silly dialog i couldn't help but find some appreciation for this little film if only for the completely cornball logic the film goes by
1	is a beautiful movie based on a real story of the mentally challenged james robert kennedy nicknamed and the football coach from the t l hanna high school harold jones br br cuba gooding jr is excellent as radio i would never imagine to see him in a serious performance specially because most of the movies i watch with him are comedies ed harris is great as harold jones but this actor is great so this is not anything new br br the mentally challenged young man called james robert kennedy always walk around the t l hanna high school without bothering anyone and almost not noticed one day when the ball is throw near him he decides to stay with the ball for the impatience of johnny cash one of the best players from the football team and also one of the most unpleasant guys you would ever met one day cash decides to punish james mocking him with other football players and even go so far as to tie him up br br when coach jones discovers that horrible act he stays angry and punish all the team deciding for this day on to help james who gets the nickname because of his passion for radios in general br br the movie shows how radio becomes an adept assistant helping the team train despite hardships from the players and even getting respect from basically all the people who lives in the small city br br i would recommend this movie for everybody who wants to watch a real and beautiful story it has a life lesson specially showing us how a person can make a difference even not being what we call radio has a big heart and is incapable to hate anyone and that's a thing that we all should apply to our daily lives
1	can a mentally challenged black youth be a catalyst to unite people in a south carolina town the answer appears to be that in spite of his handicap james kennedy understood much more than what he was given credit for and went to become a fixture in the sports scene also the film is saying how many of us overlook people with problems that can be helped if only we have the patience coach jones showed to the young man because of his own guilt in his heart br br radio directed by michael is a formula film inspired on a true story yet the movie is not a complete failure because of the inspired performances the director was able to get from his wonderful cast br br coach jones is instrumental in getting the young man who is called radio because his passion for collecting them involved in sports a passion he discovers in this retarded man who has had only hard knocks in his young life coming from a poor background radio lives with his mother who is protective of him and questions the coach's intentions radio is seen by the school kids as a mascot at first then his sunny disposition wins him the acceptance of everyone because he is a good person without an ounce of malice in his body br br the film owes a lot to ed harris and cuba gooding jr who make a great pair as the coach and radio mr harris one of the best actors of our times is never boring in anything he graces with his presence he gets the essence of the principled coach who sees the possibility to make amends for something that bothers him from his past cuba gooding jr is also at his best portraying the mentally challenged young man br br the supporting cast is excellent s one of the best actresses of her generation does interesting work as the mother of radio alfre woodard another good actress plays the high school principle with style debra winger only has a few scenes in the film br br radio while being sentimental will warm anyone's heart because it shows how we tend to see some people are in our society that we know nothing about and how quick we are to judge them michael puts a lot of ideas in the proper perspective for us
1	ed harris and cuba gooding jr where cast perfectly in this film it's a heart warming story that reaffirms the belief that we can all make a difference if we just care i think there was a lot of realism with the characters the screenwriter didn't incorporate racism in the film in a way that most films do which i thought created a more realistic story line br br writers tend to inject incidents of racism in an attempt to create realism but usually go overboard br br there are so many towns like this one where people of different races live harmoniously ed harris should have been nominated for an academy award because he was great as a leader and coach realistic as a father and showed a warm caring side when helping radio
1	this was unusual a modern day film which was ultra nice in fact it was so nice it bordered on being too hard to believe in parts as i watching this based on a real life story i was thinking nobody is this nice this tolerant mainly i was referring to ed harris' role as coach jones i think they went a little overboard on his character but that's better than the reverse showing him worse than what he was in real life odd to see harris playing the role too since he has a long resume of playing nasty profane characters br br anyway i never complain about a nice feel good film and it is nice to see a bunch of well meaning kind people those folks direct their friendship love and compassion to james kennedy better known as radio a mentally slow high school kid played by cuba gooding jr the story takes place in the mid 1970s in south carolina gooding does a nice job with the role too however like sean penn's role of a mentally challenged man in i am sam an hour and a half of a character like this is plenty after that the loudness of those guys gets tiresome to hear br br note it was interesting in one of the documentaries on this dvd to find out that in real life in took years for radio to make his transformation not months as shown in the film
1	not much to it but a validation of small town values and the embracing of a mentally challenged young man into its heart br br i read some of the reviews and was surprised at some of the hostility it engendered i felt cuba gooding handled the part with dignity and respect unlike sean penn's drooling fool portrayal in i am sam br br the fact that this is based on a true story makes it all the more heartwarming sports are taken seriously in small town high school america and elsewhere i suspect and i felt the portrayal of these competitive students opening their hearts to one less fortunate rang true at least for me br br the coach was never forced to choose between his daughter and radio but rather came gently to the decision himself under radio's loving and open ways very well done to all 7 out of 10 br br debra winger we need more of you in pictures
1	corniness warning as many fellow imdb users already know i'm not a corny cheesy person if you don't want to read this kind of review then go br br to tell you the truth you're hearing this from a man who laughed through titanic and almost broke his parents' tape from continuously rewinding the propeller scene br br spoilers br br one day i went off to the theatres with two friends to see dickie roberts former child star last year in august the boring trailers rolled on until one started off so calmly it was for radio the moment i saw the trailer i just had to see this movie on opening weekend when that weekend rolled along scary movie 3 was out too so many teenagers were there waiting in line that friday night it turns out the movie sold out and those teens were so desperate to see a movie they went and also sold out good boy and radio i couldn't get a ticket and the following weeks i was busy with more important things about 5 months later my friend rented radio he let me borrow it and i watched it in my room i'll tell you this now this is the only movie i have ever seen that got me crying ever when radio's mother died it just came out automatically the next day i went off to blockbuster and bought the dvd br br well enough of my stupid personal story let me tell you about the movie br br cuba gooding jr stars as a mentally challenged man nick named radio ed harris co stars and this movie is directed by mike based on a true story radio is a teenager who has a life by spending most of his day alone he goes around with a shopping cart picking up whatever he can and is always carrying a radio around he's got his own collection at the end of every day he goes home to his mother he never went to school until later in the film one day radio passes by the local high school while the football team is practicing a football flies over the fence and radio picks it up and continues on ed harris plays mr jones the football coach they meet and this is the life of radio br br throughout the whole movie radio and coach jones spend quality time together both teaching each other things it is beautiful to see how the movie goes to the highest joys the lowest lows and just seeing radio live his life you will laugh cry and live the life of radio with him this movie holds a special place in my heart along with toy story and others this is a must see for the whole family by yourself or if you're someone who just wants a great drama radio is one of the most beautiful movies i have ever seen radio will never be forgotten by me never br br as ed harris' character said greatly near the end of the movie br br we're not teaching radio radio is teaching us br br my rating 8 10 br br eliason a
1	this is one of the best films i have ever seen how anyone can knock this movie just my imagination first of all gooding's and harris's performances were simply spectacular especially gooding that is the only way i can describe the acting spectacular you have to imagine how difficult it would be to play a character like that and pull it off then you see gooding and his performance was magical as for the plot since it was based on a true person it goes where the lives of the characters go for all the action buffs it might be a little slow but then it's not an action film i definitely give this movie a 10 it deserves nothing less
1	excuse me cuba gooding jr should have won an oscar for his portrayal in this film he was the film while the film may be lacking in some areas cuba was awesome and for me this is the best role that he has ever played the scene in the movie where he finds out that his mother has died made me break down and cry in the theater i guess i could really relate to this film because i saw the same treatment of people just like that at my own school growing up what a tragedy getting to see the real radio and coach at the end of the movie was really special too if you can watch this movie and not be moved to tears you need a heart check if you liked simon birch and the mighty you'll love radio too i wish they made more movies like this radio is the real deal
1	the fact that the movie is based on a true story contributes to a better and of course more realistic experience and keeps the viewer focused on the basic theme of the movie the story is filled with unexpected twists which keeps the viewer at all times from figuring the ending out in one moment you think that something happens to coach jones or radio well it does but certainly not what you'd expect br br the film becomes at no point boring or too sentimental and the acting performances by ed harris cuba gooding jr are some of their best in my opinion the ending puts a long lasting smile on your face and makes you wonder if what you are doing is right well i guess that was what michael mike rich were trying to do first class movie br br birch denmark
1	spoilers to understand what really happened first you have to be a warrior to stay alive in real war to think off line critically and not linear otherwise you will come to false conclusions that gray was dumb or unstable person truth is something completely different he was firm hardened veteran and only way he could be killed by capt is that he wants her to kill him it was his way out he choose it he was not man who will retire if you've never been on a first line you can't understand it he intentionally prepare his own suicide first he seduced mary jane than intentionally acted as a dumb than argue shutting incident before witnesses to protect her later after she done what he wants her to do if it comes to trial than gave her son a bullets to assure he could load her gun later came that night loaded her gun woke her up put her gun in her hands acted as he was attacking her after shot first time he raised knife and cried one kill so she shot him again and before died he put knife off like he was trying to took him back again after first shot he also gave her a message with his last cry after first kill everything will change inside your mind and destroy your life this is the the only way for me to die as a man yet to be killed by somebody i love is my choice and my only war and army is not what you thought so far grow up finally and save your life till you can she left military life at the end she did understand him and he did not die in vain the man who helped him to prepare all that and after to carry out the trial and the outcome of that trial was col sam doran with help of lt tim macy macy didn't know what is really going on and what will be the outcome but did what he was expected to do he took photos of mary jane and gray by order of col sam doran who gave that order because gray asked him to do that after she refused to leave army what col doran asked her to do col doran convinced prosecutor to charge her with a premeditated murder he knew she cant be found instead of manslaughter there was some possibility to be found with taken photos col doran also suppress argue shutting incident to escalate to prevent prosecutor to have any doubt about premeditated murder charge but let it be revealed during the trial what greatly influenced the jury i have no doubt about outcome of that trial why col doran did that way because he will do anything gray ask him to do why because he saved his life on a battlefield why mary jane choose to go to trial because she was a person who have integrity a principles and that is why gray choose her it has to be somebody deserving somebody honourable keeping his secret about what really happened that night she also prove her honour br br
1	gorgeous annie belle in her prime stars in this adventure sex movie she wears her hair in a buzz cut that is bleached platinum she and her boyfriend are visiting some tropical asian paradise they have decided to keep an open sexual relationship which is played out on their journey to find a secret society tribe where the people live one year and then are reborn in some kind of ceremony the scenery is gorgeous deep vast green gorges and jungles are explored the imagery is very similar to that of the movie black emanuelle it is rich and colorful recommended
1	this movie reminded me of the live dramas of the 1950s not like the recent which seemed more of a stunt than anything else but a true moral drama that is both engaging and thought provoking anne heche is more than credible as the army officer having an affair with her superior played by sam shepard and eric stoltz is wonderful as her lawyer defending her against the military establishment i found myself waiting for their affair to begin if only because they look so good together this movie is apparently based on a true story and it's a relief to be asked to think about real issues for a change br br directed by christopher who also did the passion of ayn rand with stolz and the prime suspect series this is a movie with panache and style and is absolutely worth seeing
1	certainly this film has the ring of truth about it as it purports to be based on actual occurrences at a marine base it deals with the attempted cover up by the local marine commander of unacceptable conduct by a marine major which resulted in his being shot to death by his former girl friend a marine captain the man and woman had been lovers but the captain attempted to break off the relation when she discovered her boy friend was married he continued to stalk her going so far as to fire his side arm in her direction at one time finally he broke into her home attacked her with a knife and was shot twice with her service pistol and killed the civilian prosecutor ruled the killing self defense but the marines decided to charge the captain with murder the major you see was a decorated hero from vietnam and an old friend of the commanding colonel at the marine base the captain too had made some enemies in her motor pool command rejecting some male advances in a very butch style br br there is considerable psychological freight motivating and controlling the actions of the principal participants in this drama which the very capable cast gets across nicely the director and editor however seem determined to obscure the happenings as much as possible with frustrating flashbacks and shifting points of view you're lucky if you know where you're at most of the time bear with them though it's a worthwhile story as the captain's court martial trial unfolds and it seems every man's hand is against her even her attorney at times br br the verdict well after all this is rather a suspense story so you'll have to see for yourself there is a kind of pacifist message folded into the film but forget about that sure war is hell but sometimes it can't be avoided we'll need those marines then even if they aren't always the best champions of fair play internally as kipling says in his poem tommy atkins br br it's tommy this and tommy that and tommy wait outside but it's room for mr atkins when the on the tide
1	excellent cast story line performances totally believable i realize the close knit group that exemplifies the marine corps but this movie brought fear to my heart the marines let principles be damned it seems that this film was based on real life incidents it shows how difficult it is to go up against the establishment anne heche was utterly convincing sam shepard's portrayal of a gung ho marine was sobering and eric stoltz as her attorney was so deft balancing his loyalty to the corp but also his loyalty to his client while high above on his tightrope he knew what his true course of action had to be but he was pulled apart by his immersion in the marine tradition loyalty to the corps above all else i sat riveted to the tv screen all in all i give this one a resounding 9 out of 10
1	the man who knew too much 1956 is a remake of a film that alfred hitchcock made in england in 1934 with the same name in my opinion his later effort is far superior many critics and fans of alfred hitchcock will argue that the remake is mediocre and doesn't have the spine tingling suspense of the original with peter lorre in both films the plot is essentially the same except the original is set in switzerland and the remake in it tells the story of a married couple james stewart and doris day vacationing with their young son and meeting a suspicious man that is very curious about their past it just so happens he's an agent that's looking for a couple involved in a plot to assassinate a world leader then he gets stabbed in a market because of it being found out that he's a spy and proceeds to fall into stewart's arms dying he tells him the whole story of the assassination plot stewart and day then find out that another couple they met were the couple the agent was looking for and have kidnapped their son the film contains excellent performances by stewart and day in a straight dramatic role as worried and frightened parents this film proved that doris day could act in suspenseful dramas as well as carefree musicals the direction by alfred hitchcock is top notch the film keeps you on the edge of your seat every minute the scene in albert hall is a classic the original is so slow paced and drab i don't know how people can compare the two just watch the remake and you'll enjoy it i give the movie a 9 out of 10
1	unfortunately due to a sluggish start i can't say that this is one of hitch's best films it very excellent none the less the film stars jimmy stewart and doris day as parents who get caught up in a political assassination plot and must try to get their kidnapped son back they both give excellent performances not surprising of course really however i was most impressed with hitchcocks amazing use of music the climax at the opera house was fantastic and using a live orchestra to create music and suspense at the same time was pure genius absolutely fantastic suspense came out of that scene also the use of doris day singing que sera sera was excellent especially when it is transposed on scenes at the end of the film so this film to me ends up being hitchcocks best use of music that i have seen to date unfortunately it had a slow start or i could have recommend this film a little more highly even then it is still well worth a look 8 out of 10
1	this is another enjoyable and entertaining hitchcock film james stewart and doris day are incredible in this movie bernard herrmann appears as himself near the climax br br the scenery and locations are great except the one scene early on where the background was obviously fake which doesn't make sense to me since scenes before and after were in the same setting and they were real location shots i've heard that hitchcock did this on purpose sometimes br br the reviews for this movie seem to be mixed i think this is a better than average hitchcock movie very entertaining and it has a great light comical scene at the end br br i rated this movie 8 out of 10 br br
1	some people say the pace of this film is a little slow but how is this different from any other hitchcock movie they all move very deliberately and as a point have spurts of suspense and brilliant montages injected through it this movie gives us just the right amount of comic relief which make the suspense scenes seem all the more suspenseful the albert hall scene is one of the best examples of pure cinema that exists in hitchcock's collection the best probably being almost all of rear window pure cinema for hitchcock meant a series of usually small pieces of film fit together without dialogue in order to tell the story visually this is of course the basic definition of the albert hall sequence as well as the shorter staircase sequence at the end of the picture br br not many slip ups by hitchcock here and the acting is superb especially by doris day in a rather surprising serious role
1	lovely little thriller from hitchcock with lots of nice shenanigans surrounding a murdered spy a kidnapped child a nasty church a foreign plot and some random jimmy stewart is as ever a great hero for hitchcock the story rips along to its cool climax at an embassy function but it lacks the brooding menace of hitchcock's black and white low budget original nevertheless yet another wonderful film from the great master's stable
1	1956's the man who knew too much is exceptional entertainment to those who prefer the 1934 original i will say that that one is faster paced and wittier however even though the american version was heaven forbid a big budget blockbuster i believe it blows the british version out of the water i think this is one of hitchcock's 10 best no small feat considering he made over 50 films and many of them were among the greatest of all time i find so many things to love br br 1 james stewart america's favorite everyman for so many years does an excellent job playing the distressed father here he can make any film enjoyable and working with such a likeable character in such a gripping story he had me rooting for him very intensely leslie banks in the original is nothing in comparison br br 2 doris day yes doris day despite all the criticisms directed toward her i think she makes the loving wife mother an extremely sympathetic person i disagree with the negative remarks towards her character just because she is soft spoken and gentle it doesn't mean she is docile and helpless i don't want to spoil anything but she does make a crucial discovery by herself after her husband has failed she gives the story a level of warmth that just wasn't there in the first one and for those who care about that this version is the way to go and i loved que sera sera i think it is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard and deservedly won its oscar it elevated the film to another level br br 3 the albert hall sequence i don't think it was too long at all i think the suspense built the whole time to that terrific crescendo and hitchcock's direction in this scene was absolutely brilliant and the assassin was truly frightening br br 4 the ending really put a smile on my face even after the aforementioned scene was over i found the rescue scene to be exciting and it was great to see the charming family together again the last line in the film is highly amusing i don't think the film started out slowly was trying to get us to know and like the and he did a great job i wasn't a huge fan of the kid playing hank but i didn't have a problem with him since hank was ben and jo's kid i cared about him too it's not like he was a brat or anything br br i found no major flaws in this movie and so many major and minor virtues way to go hitch
1	i can't believe this movie only scores 7 4 this surely ranks up with the best of hitchcock's movies such as vertigo or marnie the only reason i can think of why the score is so low is that for the most part the man renounces violence and certainly won't get a diploma in sex and crime br br what it derives its tension from is not violence it's the reckless energy of these criminals that take a child from his parents and are ready to kill the kid if the operation fails today having seen a lot of hardboiled kidnapping movies as mel gibson's ransom this seems normal but in the 1950s where family was all in contemporary america the thought of such a crime surely has stirred up emotions a lot br br and this tension still works for me today yeah these guys are selfish ignorant bastards disturbing in how they act it's a deal for them and they want to be good businessmen disregarding the fact that business here is kidnapping kids and assassinating politicians in the opera br br what makes the movie great however are the creative aspects the kinky ideas of hitchcock the outrageously disturbing scene in the church which brings it to the viewer's attention how alone how abandoned the protagonists are nobody caring nobody helping the people in the church just going home the meeting with the owner of that shop stuffing and preparing dead animals which stresses the somewhat oriental flair the movie has from the opening scenes abroad last not least the role of music in this movie br br music is the key principle here as spoiler the assassination of the targeted politician is to be done exactly in the moment of a loud tutti gong so hitchcock lets the camera follow the orchestra score and you now it will happen in a second bang and then of course doris day singing que sera which became more famous than the movie itself she sings it to notify the kid of his parents being in the embassy br br all in all a classic
1	i finally saw laure and i have to say that i equally enjoyed it and was dismayed by it what's great about it is the atmosphere the music the location the cinematography and the beautiful cast the story is non existent for sure but with these movies it doesn't really matter the pace in languid and the settings are exotic the film has a lot going for it unfortunately it also has a few things going against it the first thing is that the gorgeous annie belle and the handsome al cliver have no chemistry whatsoever because the two are playing a couple and are on screen for almost the entire length of the film the lack of chemistry between the two is a definite liability according to imdb al and annie were a real couple when they filmed this movie they sure kept their attraction to each other from showing on screen br br the other problem with laure is that some sex scenes are just ineffective or even ridiculous there's one sex scene that stands out as one of the silliest i've ever seen in any soft porn flick our young blonde couple are picked up by a helicopter pilot who happens to be a cross dresser the pilot flies over the city to pick up his girlfriend and they have an orgy of sorts in the helicopter in mid air and al cliver is filming all of this with his 16mm camera i kid you not ridiculous we later see that 16mm footage being edited on a while the footage rolls al and annie start making out this scene is actually good but the footage on the screen behind them was at times too much watching the footage of the cross dresser getting it on with his bimbo while piloting the helicopter almost had me rolling on the floor laughing out loud is this supposed to be erotic or believable in any way the last thing i want to see is a woman pleasuring a man in drag certainly when the man in drag makes for such an ugly woman while piloting a helicopter no less al and annie getting it on was cool as was the music during the entire scene i just wish the footage on the editing screen wasn't so silly br br speaking of drag another dull plot point in laure which really drags the movie to a crawl are all those moments with the great maria and his two wives a married threesome is an interesting idea but it hardly registers here as hot or even interesting the two women are sorta dull and we rarely see the three having sex in fact keeps his clothes on for almost the entire film even when he's with annie belle this is another minor complaint about laure there's nudity but it's not as much as other films of the same era it just needed more skin to punch it up br br except for those minor complaints and the drag queen moments laure is actually very watchable i love these kind of softcore films from the 1970s when the attention was set on mood and atmosphere not the crude stuff we see today br br p s make sure to watch emanuelle in egypt which stars annie al but also another famous screen couple laura gemser and gabriele the music in that movie is also great
1	less a thriller than an colorful adventure with suspenseful elements the man who knew too much should not be really be compared with such hitchcock masterpieces as vertigo rear window or psycho it is instead more akin to such enjoyable romps as to catch a thief and north by northwest shot largely on location in morocco and london the film tells the story of a married couple james stewart and doris day whose holiday is interrupted when they innocently run afoul of an assassination plot and when their young son is kidnapped in order to insure their silence br br james stewart and doris day are quite effective in their roles of the all american couple and the characters are given an unusual twist stewart a midwestern doctor is outgoing but has a touch of the ugly american abroad about his personality day who plays a popular stage and recording star who retired upon her marriage has a suspicious nature these qualities of personality and background play extremely well into the story br br the man who knew too much contains a number of famous scenes both the scene in which stewart drugs day before telling her of the kidnapping and the very complex albert hall sequence involving what seems hundreds of cuts are very powerful less often noticed although to my mind equally if not more satisfactory are the more subtle scenes in which hitchcock combines an edge of suspense along with perverse humor as when stewart attempts some detecting at a taxidermist shop and day belts out que sera sera written for this film in a most unsuitable way at an embassy cocktail party br br although the man who knew too much lacks the depth and impact of hitchcock's greater work it remains an enjoyable film and one that compares very well with his work as a whole it's hitchcock light but recommended br br gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
1	one of master director alfred hitchcock's finer films this is the story of an american and his family james stewart doris day and their young son who are vacationing in north africa stewart is a doctor and day is a world famous singer they meet a frenchman who speaks the native language and helps them out of an incident on a local bus later one the frenchman whispers something into stewart's ear after he is attacked and dying the rest of the film is a puzzle as stewart tries to save them and solve the mystery the movie is steeped in mystery and strangeness from the exotic locale to the odd occurrences you never really know what's going on in this film why people are appearing until the end and even then you're not sure the final scene takes place in albert hall and is one of the most famous in film which lasts for 12 minutes with no dialog hitchcock had originally made this film in 1934
1	this film is the one which you fall in love with alfred hitchcock shall always remain over the top of any directors of his time the most influential aspects about his films are sheer simplicity gripping drama the another best thing about hitchcock's films is a definite gripping end br br any thing said about the man who knew too much is less the cinematography acting dialogs camera works are magnificent in this movie the song que sera sera at the end shall remain in our memories for life time the film is so enjoyable from start to end that we never know when it ends rarely would hitchcock include humor in his films this film has comic scenes which fits in to the movie br br this film is absolutely brilliant as good as vertigo
1	am i the only person who believes this american version is far better than the 1934 english film the english version has no suspense looks antique and very low budget and has unexceptional acting except for peter lorre the 1956 version besides having top production values shows james stewart as the perfect american abroad and gives doris day her best role ever of particular note is the music the music of the american film is almost classic compare the albert hall' sequences of both and you will agree that the bernard herrmann music is far more exciting than the original version even though it's basically the same music the only flaw in the 1956 film is the ridiculous encounter in the taxidermy shop i would appreciate any argument that can prove to me that the english version is better
1	alfred hitchcock's remake of the man who who knew too much is usually not considered to be as good as the original but for me it is one of the best films ever i prefer it over vertigo and rear window br br like north by northwest it is the story of an average man who is unwillingly thrown into the world of international intrigue james stewart plays the father of a son who is kidnapped because he is mistaken for an international spy he will do anything to make sure he gets his son back and protect his family br br while the original was good for it's time it is hard to watch by today's standards the remake has excellent production quality an endearing doris day and a really creepy villain br br don't bother to rent this one because you will want to see it over and over
1	this isn't among my favorite hitchcock films though i must admit it's still pretty good among the things i really liked were the presence of jimmy stewart he always improves even the most mediocre material and the incredibly scary looking assassin who looks like a skeleton with just a thin layer of skin stretched over him although it cost the studio a lot of money i didn't particularly care for doris day in the film she seemed to weep a lot and belts out que sera like a yes i know that she was supposed to sing in that manner but this forever made me hate this song sorry br br the other complaint though minor i had about the movie was that it was a little too polished and hollywood esque the original version also done by hitchcock just seemed a lot grittier and seedier and this added to the scary ambiance
1	if there's one good suspenseful film this is one of them james stewart puts on a dazzling performance as american dr ben mckenna who with his wife and son are in africa on tour they stumble on a murder scene and dr mckenna's son is kidnapped hours later br br before you can say fasten your seat belts dr mckenna finds out too much about a assassination attempt and tries to stop it however other people know he can be dangerous dangerous to them that is and try to dispose of him br br eventually hank the son is found alive and well br br if you like suspenseful movies this is the one to watch br br my score 8 10
1	james stewart plays dr ben mckenna who with his wife and son are tourists in an arabian city they get caught up in the middle of a murder scene the victim whispers something in dr mckenna's ear and he is told to do something br br later his son is kidnapped the kidnappers turn out to be a man and woman he knew but the woman is a bit softer than the man br br the song que sera sera whatever we'll be we'll be is one of the best songs ever sung in any movie br br doris day play's stewart's wife and she sings the song mentioned above her performance is oscar worthy i'm surprised she wasn't even nominated br br my score 8 10
1	i have been getting into the hitchcock series very much lately i find myself always renting one of his movies when i'm at blockbuster or hollywood video like i said before hollywood is loosing it's touch incredibly i needed a reminder that there are terrific films out there not to mention i want to be a film appreciator not a movie buff is there any better way to do that than with alfred hitchcock's movies br br the man who knew too much is another great and exciting thriller starring alfred's favorite leading man james stuart and the woman who steals the show day they play husband and wife who go on vacation with their son but when a spy tells james some information that could arrest another spy his son is kidnapped and held for ransom james seems to just doubt and her ability for ideas on how to get their son back but she makes a great comeback and just about ends up being the hero of the flick br br the acting again i would say that was the one who outshined the whole cast james did a great job keeping up together these two made you sit down and never budge throughout the film i loved the little bit of comedy at the end that alfred added you'll see what i mean i would always highly recommend this film despite not being the best hitchcock film it's still a treasure br br 9 10
1	i hate to admit it but i didn't find it to be one of hitchcock's best but nonetheless a riveting climatic thriller in a remake of hitchock's 1934 movie of the same title dr ben mckenna james stewart – the man who knows too much and his wife jo mckenna doris day are in morocco with their son hank christopher when there is a case of mistaken identity and caught up in the web of an assassination plot the conspirators go to extreme lengths to prevent them from interfering with their plot kidnapping their beloved hank br br i found it surprising that doris day who i usually associate with rock hudson comedies was cast in a hitchcock film as i was watching it i soon realized that this was more of a family film compared to hitchcock's other works example psycho and she had singing ability needed to pull off que sera sera which she did beautifully she was well cast as herself and james stewart had chemistry which helped make the couple believable br br in comparison to the great director's other works i believe this isn't as good but it is still a exceedingly entertaining family thriller mystery there is also the added bonus of que sera sera which turned out to be a smash hit for doris day well directed well acted a fine film
1	i've been strangely attracted to this film since i saw it on showtime sometime in the early 80's i say strangely because it is rather a ludicrous bit of soft core fluff a genre i'm not particularly interested in the dialogue is and philosophical making sense no doubt only to it's franco italian producers and the plot completely extraneous what it does achieve is a wonderfully hypnotic and thoroughly pleasant mood the scenery the beautiful philippines soft focus nudity and wonderful score all contribute to a strange and extremely watchable exercise in a sort of film making seldom seen today it is truly one of my great guilty pleasures i was fortunate enough to find it on an old laserdisc and have watched it more times than i think is healthy a worthwhile
1	ostensibly a story about the young child of jimmy stewart and doris day the kid gets kidnapped to keep his parents quiet they know something about a plot to assassinate the ambassador of an unnamed country during a performance at albert hall in london br br the movie is rich in hitchcockian incidents a friendly but opaque frenchman seems to grill the innocent stewart a doctor from indiana a little too intensely to be merely idly curious later the frenchman shows up in arab disguise a knife in his back and whispers some information about the murder plot to stewart stewart tells his wife doris day looking very saucy indeed but refuses to cooperate with the police and risk his son's life br br instead the couple try to track down the assassins buy them off and get their son back taking them from morocco where hitchcock has given us his usual tourist's eye view of the customs locations and food to london there is a hilarious wild goose chase involving a set to between stewart and the staff of a taxidermy shop the staff are more concerned about guarding their half stuffed specimens than anything else and they shuffle around holding the carcasses of a leopard and a swordfish in the course of the scuffle stewart manages to save his throat from being cut by the swordfish bill but is bitten on the hand by a stuffed tiger the action boosted along by bernard hermann's bumptious score the scene ends with stewart rushing out the door hitchcock ends it with a shot of a lion's head gaping at the slammed door there is also a running gag well done about some visitors waiting around the couple's hotel room in london waiting for things to be explained br br there are two serious issues that are lightly touched on one is the relationship between stewart and day which is not as rosy as it ought to be considered as a bourgeois ideal she's been a stage musical star for some years and is internationally known and she's given it all up to marry an ordinary guy who happens to be a doc that's understandable in say a nurse or a flight attendant or almost any woman other than an international star with a promising career in her own right it isn't delved into but the edginess is noticeable as it was not in the original version it reminds me a little of an exchange between joe dimaggio and his then wife marilyn monroe who had just returned from entertaining the troops in korea oh joe she gushed did you ever see ten thousand people stand up and cheer seventy thousand muttered joe former hero of the new york yankees br br the second problem is one of allegiance who is of greater social value one's own young son or an unknown ambassador do we put ourselves or our loved ones at risk for the sake of national stability day is faced with this dilemma in its starkest form at the climax in the albert hall her solution opts for allegiance to political stability although her motives are problematic does she scream to save the ambassador's life or does she do so just to release the anxiety that is overwhelming her cf alec guiness falling on the detonator at the end of the bridge on the river kwai the photography is extremely good and the settings can be menacing even on a quiet street in a residential neighborhood of london it's mid day and stewart is alone and determined but frightened too there are footsteps echoing on gulliver street from someone somewhere is he being followed is his life in danger and where the hell is everybody who lives on this street hitchcock pays such close attention to location details that we can make out the garden wall bonding of the bricks beside him br br the director had a rare disagreement with francois truffaut while being interviewed for truffaut's otherwise laudatory book truffaut argued that the earlier version of the man who knew too much lacked the depth of the later version hitchcock replied it seems to me you want me to make films for the art house audience but finally agreed that the 1930s version was the work of a talented amateur and this version was the work of a professional no argument there br br this is hitchcock pretty much near his zenith
1	the man who knew too much falls into that hitchcock middle ground that characterized many of his films during the 1950s not a masterpiece of suspense by any means but an awful lot of fun nonetheless br br james stewart and doris day play a vacationing couple who get caught up in a plot heavy on foreign intrigue the famous climactic scene takes place at a classical music concert where someone is going to be assassinated during a particular cymbal clash in the score the impish hitchcock of course lets us know what that point is so that the race to stop the assassin becomes a nail biting race against the br br so much of this movie reminded me of the 1978 chevy chase goldie hawn comedy foul play that i have to believe that film was inspired by this neither film is a big deal but both are easy to enjoy br br grade b
1	dr ben mckenna james stewart and jo mckenna doris day travel to morocco for a holiday where they meet a mysterious man named louis bernard daniel on a bus the next day this man is murdered but before he dies he tells ben a secret an assassination will take place in london the crooks kidnap the couple's son hank christopher olsen making sure ben won't reveal their plan to anybody alfred hitchcock's the man who knew too much 1956 is a very intense thriller the acting is superb as it always is in films james stewart is marvelous doris day is a delightful person and actress and she gets to show her singing talents as well the song que sera sera has an important part in the movie this movie is a movie of many classic scenes in the final scenes at the albert hall done without dialogue you can barely blink your eyes this movie is fifty years old now time hasn't decreased its power in any way
1	hitchcock's remake of his 1934 film concerns about the known story of mckenna marriage james stewart doris day in the first version leslie banks edna best along with their 11 years old son travelling through morocco during vacations in a bus they know a sympathetic french person daniel in the old version pierre fresnay while they are in they also know a couple bernard miles and brenda de and happen suddenly on the scene of a killing the dying whispers a political message then the child is abducted to ensure their silence and mckenna gets help to inspector buchanan ralph truman br br this is a superb movie about a family who stumbles on to an obscure international conspiracy and then they're forced into action is excellently played by james stewart and doris day this exciting film displays suspense intrigue tension and interesting drama well written by john michael hayes and charles bennett packs an ordinary theme of the suspense magician innocent people become caught up in a cobweb intrigue and uncanny intelligent villains colorful and glimmer cinematography shot in morocco and london studios by cameraman robert though with excessive transparency for scenes lavish sets by henry hitchcock's usual and working until his recent death of course the highlights are the happenings of the famous royal albert hall of london assassination where a sneering killer reggie tries to execute while composer bernard herrmann is conducting orchestra besides at the climax doris day singing sera que meantime her son suffering risks the song won oscar for ray evans jay livingstone the story was ferociously reviewed for its double characters but today is considered a classic movie and fairly entertaining rating better than average hitchcock's enthusiastic no doubt will enjoy it
1	i put this second version of the man who knew too much to my top 10 hitchcock movies together with frenzy it's probably the most argued film among the fans of hitchcock i consider it far better than say rebecca which has gained unreasonably much appreciation br br the film contains many ingenious scenes most of them have been mentioned in other reviews but that's something to be expected from hitchcock it takes almost half an hour until things really start to happen but that time is used for preparing the following happenings which are full of intriguing suspense br br if you can ignore the clumsy rear projections the only weakness of this film is the main villain played by bernard miles who is a rather flat and undeveloped character luckily there is a creepy assassin in the form of reggie and hank the little boy isn't as irritating as most kids in old movies
1	the movie which was directed by alfred hitchcock was brilliantly made it starts with a family of three a doctor james stewart his wife doris day who is a former stage singer and their young son my guess is about 10 years old who are traveling through for leisure on the bus the bump into a french government agent and they are a little too nice to him he is killed at the marketplace after finding out the information he sought he wants to carry this information out to someone so he goes to the only person he even slightly knows james stewart the antagonists kidnap their young boy and say if he tells anything about what the agent told him his son would be killed stewart has to travel to london because that is where his son is and where the assasination that the agent told him about would be the movie is very suspenseful there are many twists and turns typical hitchcock movie also it has just the right amount of comic relief in addition to all of that it won an oscar for doris day's performance of que sara sara this movie is very good it is hard to find a problem about it i would certainly reccomend it to all hitchcock fans and all suspense fans i give this movie an a only because it is a little bit predictable
1	the man who knew too much 1955 is alfred hitchcock's own remake of his 1934 thriller about a married couple james stewart and doris day on vacation in morocco where they got caught up in a nightmare that include murder espionage assassinations and the worst of all kidnapping of their 10 years old son the movie which hitchcock himself considered superior to the original is a great fun stewart and day have a good chemistry together the film is filled with the wonderful comical scenes and dialogues as well as the scenes of chilling suspense br br the inclusion of que sera sera proved to be a stroke of genius because rarely the song fits the content and plays such an important role in the movie like que sera sera did in the man who knew too much br br hitchcock also treats us to the live music playing from arthur benjamin storm cloud for almost ten minutes while scene in london's royal albert hall where the assassination of a very important politician was attempted takes place and both the scene and the are simply marvelous
1	a film that tends to get buried under prejudice and preconception it's a remake doris day is in it she sings hitchcock's second crack at 'the man who knew too much' is his most under rated film and arguably a fully fledged masterpiece in its own right br br this is in more ways than one doris day's film not only does she give the finest performance of her career more than holding her own against james stewart but the whole film is subtly structured around her character rather than his this is after all a film in which music is both motif and plot device what better casting than the most popular singer of her generation consider day's jo mckenna has given up her career on the stage in order to settle down with her husband and raise their son this seems to be a mutual decision and she doesn't appear to be unhappy but look at the way stewart teases her in the horse drawn carriage over her concerns about louis bernard implying that she is jealous that bernard wasn't asking her any questions about her career this is clearly a recurrent joke between them she responds with a de har that denotes the familiarity of this gag suggesting that she has a certain latent resentment about her confinement and that they both realise it br br after their son has been kidnapped stewart insists on doping her before giving her the news this is a cruel scene brilliantly played by both actors which illustrates the power imbalance in their marriage he is seeking to control and subdue her reactions in essence using his professional knowledge to suppress her voice in the marriage just as his medical career has suppressed her singing career br br the potency of that voice is demonstrated in the ambrose chapel sequence when she has to reign in its highly trained clarity and volume to blend in with the congregation of female they almost act as a warning of what will become of her if she continues to suppress her talent at the albert hall it is her need to cry out to exercise those impressive lungs that saves a man's life and in the embassy finale it is her talent and reputation that allows them to locate their son by contrast all of stewart's masculine activity is counterproductive his visit to the taxidermist is a dead end he gets left behind at the church whilst everyone else moves on to the albert hall and his efforts there only succeed in getting the assassin killed thus depriving the police of potentially useful information it is only when his action is joined to his wife's voice in the rescue of hank from the embassy that he actually succeeds in doing something useful br br far from being forced into the film to give day an opportunity to sing sera acts as the first musical device in the film foreshadowing the nightmare that is about to engulf the 'the future's not ours to see' indeed it also neatly prepares the way for the finale in which the close bond mother and son share through music will allow doris to save the day br br the most famous sequence in the film makes music the central feature the build up to the assassination attempt in the albert hall this lengthy wordless sequence may be the single most extraordinary thing hitchcock committed to film the ultimate expression of his belief that films should be stories told visually we see people conduct conversations in this sequence but we never hear a word they say we don't need to the images say everything it is also his most exquisite suspense sequence with the pieces moving slowly into place as the music builds the editing is incredibly tight matched to the music perfectly there isn't a frame out of place anything that doesn't relate directly to the assassination is giving the viewer a sense of the environment the geography in which all this is playing out it builds slowly but by the end the suspense is nearly unbearable when jo screams it isn't just a relief for her but for the audience br br the ambrose chapel sequence is witty and particularly effective for anyone who has had to sit through a service at a particularly stick in the mud church the embassy sequence seems a little flat after the albert hall one that preceded it on first viewing but second time around actually seems more effective with the final walk at gunpoint really benefiting from the gorgeous use of day singing in the background reminiscent of the music as ambient noise in the score as a whole is subtle allowing the music from on screen sources to be foregrounded effectively br br bernard miles is a low key villain a little banal but with a dry wit he's outshone by brenda de as his wife who walks a fine line between sinister and sympathetic just look at the way she smokes a cigarette whilst her husband preps the assassin her stance is pure gangster's moll belying the middle england exterior but she clearly has a soft side and possibly maternal feelings towards hank br br stewart is excellent although if hitchcock really did always cast him as 'everyman' as the director's daughter seems to think then it confirms that hitchcock had a cynical view of his audience stewart played a hypocritical intellectual who espoused fascist ideology in rope a voyeur who mistreated his girlfriend in rear window and an obsessive necrophiliac in vertigo day is nothing short of phenomenal just look at her reaction to the news that her son has been kidnapped she never overdoes anything but neither does she sell it short this is one of hitchcock's most emotionally effective films he never lets us forget what the stakes are for the they feel the most fully human of all his central characters
1	many reviewers seem to prefer the original version of the man who knew too much which i have not had the opportunity to view by itself the '56 version is a very well done film the run of mid to late fifties hitchcock films including rear window dial m for murder vertigo and to catch a thief as well as this film is one of my favorite periods in his career in the man who knew too much jimmy stewart throws himself vigorously into his role as always doris day is very believable in the role of an atypical hitchcock blond i thought there was nothing fake about her performance her character may not have been written as strongly as the original but she's definitely not reduced to the role of a passive yes dear pretty thing on jimmy stewart's arm br br there were some really clever lines written for hank the couple's son who later gets kidnapped in the opening scene on the bus it's too bad christopher olsen read them so woodenly it's rare to see a good performance from a child actor in the 50s though most of the rest of the supporting actors in this film were very competent though most notably the assassin played by reggie br br some little touches that make this film undeniably hitchcockian the use of non english dialog especially french something hitch did on a much larger scale in to catch a thief the use of foreboding arabic music in the hotel when the assassin appears stewart and day talking to each other in the church singing their words to the tune of the hymn the albert hall scene specifically showing the musicians and the assassin's accomplice following the score building up tension as well as the percussionist getting the ready and finally the assassin's gun as it appears from behind the curtain it moves so slowly and precisely that it must have been done mechanically an effect hitch used at the end of spellbound also br br all in all the man who knew too much is a fun film to watch it's not as deep or as heavily laden with symbolism as some of his films vertigo strangers on a train but all the same it is one of my top five hitchcock masterpieces
1	alfred hitchcock shows originality in the remake of his own 1934 british film the man who knew too much this 1956 take on the same story is much lighter than the previous one mr hitchcock was lucky in having collaborators that went with him from one film to the next thus keeping a standard in his work robert did an excellent job with the cinematography and george editing shows his talent ultimately bernard herrmann is seen conducting at the magnificent royal albert hall in london at the climax of the picture br br james stewart was an actor that worked well with mr hitchcock in this version he plays a doctor from indiana on vacation with his wife and son when we meet him they are on their way to in one local bus and the intrigue begins his wife is the lovely doris day at her best she had been a well known singer before her marriage and now is the perfect wife and mother the film has some good supporting cast brenda bernard miles daniel alan mowbray among others do a great job in portraying their characters br br although this is a light hitchcock one can't dismiss it as a failure the man who knew too much is a change of pace for hitchcock's fans
1	distributor goodtimes home video br br plot a pretty high school student is marked for unrelenting terror in this suspense filled made for tv movie gail osborne is new in town she makes friends has a boyfriend and everything seems to be going her way that is until she gets an ominous and frightening phone call while babysitting after more and more phone calls she is raped throughout most of the movie she tries to find proof that the person did rape her br br audio video this 1987 vhs edition from goodtimes stinks there are constant lines at the bottom and top of the screen br br extras no extras from goodtimes home video br br final thoughts this suspense filled made for tv movie was made in 1978 so don't expect many deaths there are none if you can find this movie with the home video logo on the front then buy it but the goodtimes version is pretty crappy this can be a little boring but if you are patient the ending is pretty good
1	many people have the irritating habit of dying before completing a vital message thus confusing the hero not to mention the audience br br dr ben mckenna james stewart and his wife jo a former musical star doris day are vacationing in morocco with their son hank christopher olsen when they meet mr and mrs a british couple brenda de and bernard miles they are also befriended by a charming frenchman louis bernard daniel who invites them to dinner but then cancels at the last minute br br the go to a restaurant and end up having their meal with the when they spot louis bernard br br the next day in the market place they are caught in an assassination intrigue while they are wandering in the local market the crowds suddenly scatter to reveal an arab fleeing from his pursuers dr mckenna stands amazed as the arab falls into his arms a knife sticking out of his back br br gulping his last breath the dying man mutters some words and collapses dr mckenna is completely taken aback when the hood falls from his head and he is revealed as bernard in disguise mckenna is left knowing too little but as far as the assassins are concerned too much br br to prevent dr mckenna from revealing what he knows the conspirators kidnap his son as a hostage the film is primarily concerned with the dilemma of to get the little boy back safely the subplot about the assassination is just the setup br br the film is a breathless escapade the death of bernard comes suddenly and points out that death comes when we least expect it br br stewart is charged with emotion as the midwestern doctor accidentally involved in political intrigue his perceptive facial expressions and indignant delivery made him convincingly person we could easily identify with it is his temperament that actually sets the pace for the entire film br br by 1956 the lovely doris day had won increasing esteem as an actress as well as a singer she had been particularly strong opposite james cagney in the ruth biopic 'love me or leave me ' but she was still unsure of her basic thespian talents br br the casting of character actor reggie as the assassin is brilliant the man looks like a menace and his effusive portrayal radiates evil
1	alfred hitchcock's more assured telling of a film he made twenty one years earlier is infinitely superior to the original hitchcock said himself that his first version was the work of an amateur and although it certainly isn't a bad film he does appear to be right that being said this remake although definitely better still isn't among hitchcock's best work that's certainly not to say that it isn't good it's just more than a little overindulgent and that drags it down hitchcock seems all too keen to drag certain elements out and these are parts of the film that aren't entirely relevant to the plot which can become annoying some of these dragged out sequences such as the one that sees james stewart and doris day eating in a moroccan restaurant are good because it helps establish the different culture that our american protagonists have found themselves in but for every restaurant scene there's an opera sequence and it's the latter that make the film worse br br the plot follows a middle aged doctor and his wife that go to morocco for a holiday with their young son while there they meet a french man on the bus and another middle aged couple in a restaurant however things go awry when the french man dies from a knife in the back shortly after whispering something to the doctor the holiday then turns into a full blown nightmare when the couple's son is kidnapped which causes them to cut it short and go to london in order to try and find him the film has a very potent degree of paranoia about it and it manages to hold this all the way through in fact i would even go as far as to say that this is the most paranoid film that hitchcock ever made like most of hitchcock's films this one is very thrilling and keeps you on the edge of your seat for almost the entire duration with only the aforementioned opera sequence standing out as a moment in which the tension is diffused there is also more than a little humour in the movie which gives lighthearted relief to the morbid goings on and actually works quite well br br the original version of this story was lent excellent support by the fantastic peter lorre this film doesn't benefit from his presence unfortunately but that is made up for by performances from the amazing james stewart and doris day james stewart is a man that is always going to be a contender for the actor of all time' crown his collaborations with hitchcock all feature mesmerising performances from him and this one is no different although his best performance remains the one in mr smith goes to washington stewart conveys all the courage conviction and heartbreak of a man that has lost his child and would do anything to get him back brilliantly in fact that's one of the best things about this film you are really able to feel for the couple's loss throughout and that serves in making it all the more thrilling doris day on the other hand is a rather strange casting choice for this movie she's definitely a good actress but she's more associated with musicals and seeing her in a thriller is rather odd even if she does get to flex her vocal chords a little br br as i've mentioned this is not hitchcock's best film but there's much to enjoy about it and although i'd recommend many hitchcock films before recommending this one i'll definitely give it two thumbs up as well
1	the original the man who knew too much brought alfred hitchcock acclaim for the first time outside of the united kingdom of course part of the reason for the acclaim was that folks marveled how hitchcock on such a skimpy budget as compared to lavish hollywood products was able to provide so much on the screen the original film was shot inside a studio br br for whatever reason he chose this of all his films to remake hitchcock now with an international reputation and a big hollywood studio behind him paramount decided to see what the man who knew too much would be like with a lavish budget this is shot on location in and london and has two big international names for box office this was james stewart's third of four hitchcock films and his only teaming with doris day and her only hitchcock film br br i do wonder why hitchcock never used doris again at first glance she would fit the profile of blond leading ladies that hitchcock favored possibly because her wholesome screen image was at odds with the sophistication hitchcock also wanted in his blondes br br doris does some of her best acting ever in the man who knew too much her best scene is when her doctor husband james stewart gives her a sedative before telling her their son has been kidnapped by an english couple who befriended them in morocco stewart and day play off each other beautifully in that scene but doris especially as she registers about four different emotions at once br br day and stewart are on vacation with their son christopher olsen in morocco and they make the acquaintance of frenchman daniel and the aforementioned english couple bernard miles and brenda is stabbed in the back at a market place in and whispers some dying words to stewart about an assassination to take place in albert hall in london their child is snatched in order to insure their silence br br for the only time i can think of a hit song came out of a hitchcock film doris in fact plays a noted singer who retired from the stage to be wife and mother the song was que sera sera and i remember it well at the age of 9 you couldn't go anywhere without hearing it in 1956 it even competed with the fast rising elvis presley that year que sera sera won the academy award for best song beating out such titles as true love from high society and the title song from around the world in 80 days it became doris day's theme song for the rest of her life and still is should she ever want to come back br br in fact the song is worked quite nicely into the plot as doris sings it at an embassy party at the climax br br instead of doing it with mirrors hitchcock shot the assassination scene at the real albert hall and like another reviewer said it's not directed it's choreographed you'll be hanging on your seats during that moment br br this was remake well worth doing
1	anyone who has ever gone on an audition can certainly relate to this one great story of an aspiring actor and the pressures he must deal with both personally and professionally in order to make it to the big time lou myers as half step wilson provides many hilarious moments
1	many funny scenes about the people that you don't normally pay attention to in a movie and what they have to do to get work and what happens once they do lou myers was very funny as half step wilson any guy that has a tight group of friends can relate to many of the non movie related scenes scattered throughout the movie
1	fun story of a regular guy with big dreams this low budget film really hits home showing what it is like trying to become an acting success great performances by lou myers and brian's neighbor alex i giggled alot and even cried a little br br
1	i thought this was a really cute movie inspiring makes me want to try acting i love kelly ripa and it's nice that i can watch this in addition to all my children i've already watched it 3 times of course i also loved seeing joe barbara especially since another world went off the air
1	this movie was so heart warming a true testament to an actors real life everyday ups and downs it was truly a wonderful experience to share the passion of the actor on film and respect for what it must have taken off screen this film is a reminder to everyone to go for there dreams never give up hurray for the stand in
1	a superman cartoon br br a huge shipment of gold is being sent across country by train using ultra modern techniques a sophisticated gang of hooded thieves try to waylay the gold with intrepid reporter lois lane as the only passenger on board it's superman to the rescue but now that it's become a runaway train can even he stop the billion dollar limited br br this was another in the series of excellent cartoons max fleischer produced for paramount studio they feature great animation and taut fast moving plots meant to be shown in movie theaters they are miles ahead of their saturday morning counterparts
1	millions in gold is traveling by train to the us treasury traveling along is lois lane to report on it along the way the train is attacked by masked thieves they detach the car with the armed guards in it and attack the remaining ones this leads to a vicious fight between the remaining guards and the thieves the thieves overpower them but then lois lane jumps in she beats the thieves off the train at one point using a gun but the train starts to careen out of control lois can't stop it and the thieves will stop at nothing to get the gold good thing superman is on the way br br fast exciting non stop action probably one of the best of all the cartoons just great
1	there is a lot to like in this film despite its humble trappings of a preachy pc tale about rape and the perp always faring better than the victim the movie did create a fair bit of suspense in the mystery surrounding who was sending the notes i for one was sure it was the teacher in fact that would have been more probable plot wise because the idea of the best friend's boy friend kind of came out of nowhere i guess the point of that is that rape is omnipresent you never know who it is going to be ms is luminous as always yet see discussion board for my qualification of this statement like all preachy films the plot lasts 15 minutes past the climax so you might want to quit watching at that point unless you are really curious to find out what happens to phillip blythe danner as the mom is in the role she was born to play the fretting over protective mom some good 70s scenes for 70s fans the dark bar that the father goes to in order to drink away his pain is all dark stained beams barrels oak and cork a must for fans and highly recommended for fans of 70s high school melodrama or 70s kitsch in general
1	when one watches the animated superman shorts of the 1940s the similarity of the plots can become a bit boring the adversary is most often a mad scientist in a hidden threatening metropolis with some evil invention death rays mechanical monsters electric earthquake magnetic telescope what have you br br this one is refreshingly different the bad ones drive around in a car shooting and bombing but the center of action is the gold train on which lois lane travels as the only press reporter it seems train movies have their own typical ingredients from the 1903 great train robbery on and quite some are featured here cars in motion running on the roofs taking the steam locomotive from the tender in the back fighting with the engineer a switch turned to the train on a side track the fall of people or the whole train from a high bridge it's all in the few minutes of this lovely piece br br but it wouldn't be a superman film if he didn't do some incredible feats involving balancing and high precision placement to ultimately win the day if you're a fan of train movies don't miss this it's in the public domain and can be legally downloaded from archive org
1	while all of the fleischer famous studios superman cartoons are excellent billion dollar limited the third in the series is probably the best of the lot in terms of overall animation plot and pacing why it wasn't even nominated for an oscar as best animated short for 1942 incredibly enough only the first one was in inexplicable br br here lois lane is assigned to cover the transfer of one billion dollars in gold to the u s mint masked gangsters in their super powered for 1942 car take off after the train determined to get that gold without giving too much away what ensues is a thrill ride for both the characters and the audience with truth justice and superman triumphant at the end br br as they did in all the fleischer famous superman cartoons clayton bud collyer and joan alexander who played clark kent superman and lois lane on radio have the voice work honors here and fleischer perennial jack mercer gets a little to do as one of the bad guys as well
1	i was swept into this series just as surely as the sea would sweep me into its grip although it started out slowly i found that the realism in depicting the ship the variety of characters and lively dialogue keep me watching the protagonist was destined to be challenged grow and change on this voyage and i wanted to be there for it i was not disappointed the series took you from humor to tragedy and everything in between often in the same scene the same breath there was a wealth of emotional interaction and expression relentless and compelling to observe the movement of the ship added an almost fanciful component to the many scenes making the characters ill one moment and adding humor the next br br edmund talbot is a complex character the likes of which we don't see often we may know where the captain stands or mr but they are older men set in their ways talbot was young and arrogant still learning testing himself and being tested he struggled getting along with others and made mistakes like a real person would but had a heart that could be touched that grew with each hard taught experience i appreciate the excellent characterization it's too rare in movies and television
1	meticulously constructed and perfectly played to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age br br based on william trilogy these three 90 minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict aboard an aging man o' war in the early 19th century as he heads for a government position down under br br among the crew and hopeful sharing his passage are a tempestuous bullying captain jared harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny 1st lieutenant who's worked his way up from the bottom jamie and fleetingly the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally passes in the night br br quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david and screenwriters tony and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era br br shipboard life is one brutal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life's hardships man's inhumanities and his sentiments br br those who enjoyed master and commander the far side of the world or patrick o'brian's series of novels on which it was based will love this – for everyone else it's a whole new world to discover
1	i saw the second part of this beautiful period piece set on a ship sometime in the 19th century book must be responsible for some of the superb dialogue but everything else was good too i especially liked the way they created the period and feeling of being on the ship so well for me this had a feeling of completeness about it which i know i won't be able to convey in words perhaps it was the way they mixed in technical and historical details about sailing in the eighteen hundreds to the story without messing it up benedict was excellent as was the rest of the cast it's not often a mini series sends me to the zone but this one did
1	the three part series ended last night on pbs which i believe was its first wide exposure to an american audience the richness of its text and the unique quality of its filming are high points it seems very novel to view and hear an action play employing the vernacular of georgian england jane austen's filmed drawing rooms being the primary example of that form of speech yet it is the scope of drama overwhelming the senses that makes quaint language fit perfectly into each and every scene such bold exposure to an old reality is evocative of literary giants like tolstoy or shakespeare while at the same time entertaining in the manner of a c s or patrick o'brian sea saga the universality of basic human condition lies at its center br br narrator talbot as played by an actor with the almost perfectly appropriate name of benedict surely not even dickens could beat that one alternates between stodgy jingoism and extreme vulnerability an acting tour de force indeed i cannot recall among this very fine cast any misstep of interpretation that is a tribute not only to the actors themselves but to the director as well br br the most impressive element however is how perfectly life aboard a man of war en route to australia in the early 1800's is presented that is especially true of how the motion of the ship becomes almost a character itself something sea stories rarely take into account except as backdrop anyone who has ever experienced mal de mer in person will recognize it instantly and appreciate all the more how difficult it must have been to recreate within the context of filming br br this is no fanciful pirates of the caribbean some effort must be expended in attaining an understanding of its nuances
1	this is the best 3 d experience disney has at their this is certainly better than their original 1960's acid trip film that was in it's place is leagues better than honey i shrunk the audience and far more fun barely squeaks by the 3 d movie at disney mgm and can even beat the original 3 d movie experience captain eo this film relives some of disney's greatest musical hits from aladdin the little mermaid and others and brought a smile to my face throughout the entire show this is a totally kid friendly movie too unlike honey and has more effects than the spectacular
1	it's not a movie but an experience br br not the usual eye candy i thought it would be too many things are happening at once your senses almost couldn't handle it a product of cutting edge technology we were torn between just sitting back to enjoy the show and putting our 3d glasses on and off to decipher the magic the music is great it's a concert the disney characters are in it and you get to be part of their world it's funny it's magical it's exciting i know this is beginning to sound like an advertisement but it really is that awesome beats christmas in bringing out the kid in you br br this attraction alone already makes going to disney all worth it
1	i'm not a disney fan at all but i happen to be in orlando for a friend's wedding so my traveling partner and i went to disney for a few days i haven't seen a good 3 d effect in well ever so i usually try to stay away from these presentations the 3 d effect in this was so good i'm a grown man of 38 and even i wanted to try and reach out and touch it's that good word of advice at the end look to the back of the theater on the wall put it like this the first time i saw it the effect wasn't working so i told my friend it would have been nice if my friend said that's exactly what happens it's not working for some reason it's an awesome show you will not be disappointed
1	i recently visited the magic kingdom as an adult with my mom her best friend and my adult sister disney world is often mistakenly perceived as a place for just children but when you see quality shows like you realize that the magic of disney is for everyone it was such a great show that we left the theater and turned around and got in line again and then a third time it was absolutely breathtaking i would encourage anyone who goes to disney world to check out this show which is not just a show but a world wind fun filled ride with donald as he once again lets his temper get him in trouble
1	are you in the house alone belongs to the pre cable tv days when the networks were eager to offer an alternative to popular tv shows it is well made thriller with a talented cast and credible situations kathleen plays a high school student who gets a series of threatening letters everyone seems to think that it is nothing more than a prank but is really scared tony bill and blythe danner play parents ellen travolta john's sister is the high school principal and dennis quaid has one of his earliest roles as a cocky rich kid it's a competent chiller with a still relevant social message is lovely if you are 30 or older you will remember that she was very popular among youngsters blythe danner who i usually don't like gives a truly moving performance nice little film
1	this program was on for a brief period when i was a kid i remember watching it whilst eating fish and chips br br riding on the back of the tron hype this series was much in the style of and the like except more there was a geeky kid who's computer somehow created this guy he'd go around solving crimes and the lot br br all i really remember was his fancy car and the little flashy cursor thing that used to draw the car and help him out generally br br when i mention it to anyone they can remember very little too was it real or maybe a dream
1	this movie is amazing you will never laugh harder it's a target no i think it's yes it's a boob this movie gets funnier by the second like when jackie chan's character finally dies in his final fight scene this movie is like congrats if you buy or rent this you'll never return it in my opinion i didn't and i haven't found it in a store since i watched this movie once and i was forever in love with kung fu action flicks if you're looking for an amazing film in the realm of great production value good or even mediocre acting and good special effects this is not that movie if you're looking for laughs and timeless wonderment pick this up for a dollar and you'll probably never let it go with friends popcorn and drinks it's the perfect evening
1	the hand of death most definitely rates a ten on a scale of one to due in no small part to john woo's masterful direction coupled with kat's superb cinematography some of the leisurely tracking shots alone are worth the price of a rental there are moments when this one borders on becoming an art house film both james and sammo hung make for the kind of villains you can't help but love to hate is particularly good as the baddest of the bad it's a role reversal the likes of which i don't think i've ever seen before normally played a hero and in fact with his moustache i didn't even recognize him at first sammo's goofy buck teeth only make an already unsavory character seem even more flawed that he also happens to be a skilled martial artist makes him even less likable in a villain you love to hate kind of way his choreography of the fight scenes throughout is fantastic jackie chan appears briefly early on and late in the going as a blacksmith and i believe i actually glimpsed yuen biao somewhere along the way tan as the lead is nothing less than magnificent
1	the hand of death aka countdown in kung fu 1976 is a vastly underrated early work by director john woo the film stars dorian tan tan tao liang and features jackie chan sammo hung and james in significant supporting roles many people believe or have been lead to believe by deceptive advertising that this is a jackie chan film this is not a jackie chan film dorian tan is the star but jackie gives one of his best most serious early performances br br the hand of death is about a shaolin disciple named tan who is sent on a mission to assassinate a shaolin traitor named and protect a revolutionary named zhang yi woo along his journey meets up with a young named tan chan and a disgraced sword fighter chang chung known as the wanderer both men have suffered at the hands of and want to take revenge the three team up to defeat and his eight bodyguards and escort the revolutionary to safety br br the martial arts action is above average under the direction of sammo hung dorian tan uses his trademark high kicks very effectively as the northern eighteen styles kicks along with some southern five styles boxing sammo hung and jackie chan provide excellent martial arts performances as well james is not the greatest martial artist on the jade screen but does an acceptable job some of the early fights are a bit slow and seem over choreographed but the final showdowns featuring chan tan and hung are very good br br director john woo provides plenty of interesting character development in the film which is refreshing the cinematography by leung wing kat is very stylish unique and beautiful for a kung fu film of this era joseph music a combination of soft flutes and 70's shaft style orchestral pieces is kung fu cinema at its best hand of death is not jackie and sammo's usual kung fu comedy hand of death is a serious straightforward revenge driven story br br hand of death aka countdown in kung fu is an underrated classic in the old school kung fu genre the film is one of the best artistically of its time and a preview of the great things to come from jackie chan and sammo hung hung's great choreography is put on display here before his directorial debut and chan's early charisma and talent can be clearly seen br br hand of death is a solid stylish old school kung fu film and a brilliant early work of the legendary john woo br br kung fu genre rating 7 5 10 br br wanderer to tan referring to his new weapon the little eagle wing god lance br br tan just a
1	this movie is an evolutionary piece from terminator to robocop br br stan winston did the br br in this film a scientist working in a sinister robotics company with a really creepy boss they always are gets is killed by them in a horrible lab explosion and has his brain placed inside an indestructible robot body br br the rest of this movie goes on with a romance angle as this cyborg man regains consciousness and wreaks havoc while trying to communicate with his wife played by the gorgeous back then in 1986 terri austin he tries to reconnect with his old life like in that scene in robocop br br the rest of this movie is about breaking things while trying to defeat the evil his evil boss from recapturing him for some ill defined humans into project br br this film pays homage to previous movies like the day the earth stood still as the cyborg breaks free like the giant robot does br br except for the 'frankenstein designed by stan winston this movie's production values are typically canadian sleazy br br pam grier stars in this film as an hired killer commando a cheap role of the likes she was doing so much of during the 80's br br as for a sci fi horror b movie out of 4 stars this film ranks about a 3
1	the combination of amazing special effects and oscar worthy acting makes the one of the most important sci fi films of recent years for some reason still unknown to me this gem was found in a bargain bin why some worthless human thought it right to dirty a modern classic by to a bargain bin is beyond me i have never been so terrified by a man in tin foil and random bursts of fire forget terminator robocop aliens and other films that ripped off this masterpiece the is an unstoppable force
1	looks as if the robocop writer has been wholesale looting the this is a very solid horror action movie about a man set up in an accident to be used in cruel experiment anyone who have seen robocop knows the story watch out for pam grier as a bitchy and darn good looking assassin this highly effective violent and bloody horror movie may not be to everyones liking but this canadian outing is well worth seeking out for anyone who is fan of the genre 8 10
1	as a fan of robocop i always loved this movie i seen it when it first came out and finally i bought it on dvd from brazil it was never released in the us on dvd i like the film but like everything else in this world everyone has their opinion love it or hate it no matter what a movie does someone will always say why didn't they do it another way in other words you cant please everyone if you love robocop you will love this film to me its so unique thats its not cheesy or silly like a lot of lower budget movies this film always kept me interested i can see a few scenes that robocop borrowed from here but tell me what movies don't do that a lot of films use other ideas from other movies and sometimes change them around fun film
1	scientist carl well played by david gets blown up something terrible in a deliberate chemical explosion he has his brain transplanted in the body of a nearly indestructible metal cyborg suit by his evil colleagues who are led by wicked obsessive fellow scientist alex a perfectly hateful portrayal by richard cox embarks on an all out killing spree it's up to nasty mercenary hunter a wonderfully loathsome turn by the divine pam grier to put a stop to him director jean claude lord who previously helmed the under appreciated slasher psycho thriller visiting hours stages the plentiful action scenes with considerable verve and maintains a zippy pace throughout thus ensuring that this flick sizes up as an enjoyably trashy sci fi horror action outing paunchy character thesp maury chaykin easily cops top acting honors as disgusting fat creep burt who in the movie's single most tasteless sequence has a brutal fistfight with pregnant wife lauren a winning performance by the lovely teri austin stan winston's nifty make up f x and paul thrilling score further add to the overall sleazy fun
1	ascending to power in 1933 hitler and his national socialist german workers party which of course we all know as the nazis tightened their grip on the country more and more as the time went by early in their rough shod trampling of the german people they called any and all artists newspaper men and film makers into their nazi hq in order that the may be informed of just what the newly declared third reich aka expected of them br br when the master director from the german cinema's silent impressionist and expressionist era mr fritz lang was called in to meet with herr goebels he listened attentively and said nothing immediately after leaving the minister of office herr lang went directly to the train station and took a passenger directly to paris not even going back to his residence fritz lang did not return to germany at least not until many years later he remained in france eventually immigrating to the united states of america br br mr lang went right to work in america creating a variety of most enjoyable solid and substantially literate upper echelon movies for many a year included in this smörgåsbord of titles is today's lucky subject western union 20th century fox 1941 br br typically a film about the old west and pioneer days needed both quality as well as quantity of cast western union qualified on both requisites we are treated to a fine array of starring talent as well as a supporting cast which makes just about every minute and each scene a delight to our senses br br heading up the are robert young randolph scott dean jagger and virginia gilmore others prominently displayed are folks like john carradine playing not a vampire or other scary guy but a physician george slim summerville veteran character actor silent film veteran and graduate of mack sennett's keystone comedies chill wills always dependable supporting player and former singer in the avalon boys and burly bad guy barton added to this mix we have names like russell hicks victor killian minor watson george chandler addison richards irving bacon james flavin francis ford frank mcgrath and kermit maynard ken bro br br prominent in those american indians featured are chief big tree chief thundercloud and mr jay also featured is that one great representative of the aboriginal peoples of north america is that great singularly impressive and memorable example of the red man the louisiana native iron eyes cody born of sicilian immigrant parents br br the filming of the fine outdoor scenes was done on location in arizona and utah and rendered in the highest grade of available there is no monument valley but then that's the province of mr john ford in some respects this film is a far more amazing accomplishment than we might think for it took a sort of pulp magazine story adapted it to the tastes and idioms of the pre war america of the late thirties and early forties all of this being done by a german born director who was only had been in hollywood and america for the shortest length of time br br in its final analysis western union while it may not be the most historically accurate example of the western genre we just don't care it scores in all of the necessary categories needed for a great night at the movies so who really cares about little details such as accuracy br br we give mr lang and 20th century fox a rating of br br note we just saw a special on pbs station here in chicago that was all about all of the film actors directors and other artisans whom the nazi rise to power caused to take refuge in america and hollywood it seems that movie folks and scientists were the biggest export for germany at this particular time being that the scientists who built the atomic bomb as well as the future nasa people came from europe at this time br br poodle schnitz
1	okay i love this movie i watched it over and over again it is so hard to tell who the attacker is you keep thinking it's one person then another then back to the first person then another person it is so suspense full you want to fast forward your tv to the end to see who it is br br summary gail osborne is raped and left at her home she is in the hospital and begins to tell the story of how she was raped it goes from her meeting her steady boyfriend to her teacher who takes a liking to her to her ex boyfriend all different stories all suspects but who did it br br i love the acting they have a lot of great talent in here the suspense is wonderful and the settings are superb if it comes on tv watch it 1 2 stars 10 10
1	this is a very very odd film one that is so odd it's best you just see it for yourself the film begins with a jaded professor haranguing his class because the students have the audacity to not be as incredibly brilliant as he is you can tell very quickly that this man is a total cynic finding the value in practically nothing but sticking to his own inner sense of self importance additionally he seems tired and bored with the monotony of life br br later in the film he walks into a bank robbery and manages to annoy the robbers so much that one of them shoots him in the head oddly this is only half way through the film and what followed was a very bizarre narration of the final seconds of his life this is when the film becomes exciting because the style of the narration is just like one of this literature professor's novels one that is intelligently written and says things the way we wish we could all say them br br see this weird film it's amazingly compelling and not like anything i've ever seen before
1	this western was set in 1861 and had to do with the creation of the first wireless lines that were laid by western union while nice guy dean jagger sporting lots of hair did his best to get this done there was a bad guy just waiting to undo this for his own selfish reasons so it's up to either randolph scott or robert young to save the day br br this is certainly one of the better 1940s westerns i have seen and it nearly garnered an 8 it was that good however for the life of me i have no idea why fritz lang was assigned to direct this film after all he knew nothing about westerns his forte was drama and i guess this movie is a drama of sorts just set in the old west strange yes but it seemed to work out okay though i wonder how this great german director felt about being given this job br br as for the rest of the film it's exceptional with vivid color great location shooting and very good acting as usual randolph scott put in another relaxed and realistic performance i was surprised though with robert young being also cast in the film but it was a good casting decision he was supposed to be a harvard educated when i saw barton was also in the film i pretty much assumed he'd be the baddie and my thoughts were well founded since he made a career out of playing jerks as for the script it seemed pretty ordinary for the most part but the final showdown between scott and barton was a lot better than i'd hoped making this movie ending on a very high note
1	western union tells in melodramatic fashion the stringing of telegraph lines between two points out west siblings dean jagger and virginia gilmore work for western union and randolph scott and robert young work for the indians and some bad white guys get in the way but nothing can stop america's progress this sense of manifest destiny is greatly enhanced by a first rate musical score and vibrant color photography scott is a bank robber looking to mend his ways and both he and engineer young vie for the attention of the perky gilmore lots of great character actors help keep the large production moving forward
1	this is a sort of hidden gem it has little to no promotion no fanfare no classic status and it deserves all of the above one of the great directors of cinema fritz lang has created a real gem in this excellent western a fine cast led by randolph scott in probably one of his greatest performances the always sturdy dean jagger robert young as a surprisingly accomplished dude plus many veteran character actors chill wills slim summerville john carradine barton and others in an exciting zane grey story of the laying of the western union cable across country it has tense drama of humor and great effects it's reminiscent of demille in ways and yet fritz lang leaves his own stamp on it at very least this is a damned good western
1	here's another of the 1940's westerns that i watch whenever it comes on tcm or fmc because although it may be flawed historically it is extremely entertaining and well acted plus it's got randolph scott my favorite actor second only to gary cooper well ok fourth behind coop charlton heston and gregory peck but the film itself to me anyway is reasonably historically accurate and as i said before well acted and flows very well i bet i've seen it 50 or 60 times and enjoy each viewing more than the one before i have it on tape from tcm but would buy it in a minute if it ever came out on dvd see it if you haven't i guarantee you'll like it
1	lang does hawks as well as hawks does in the first part of this extraordinary western before settling down into typical deterministic dark and guilt haunted lang for the finale br br this is one of those films that shows its greatness almost instantly but at the same time very subtly vance shaw randolph scott is on horseback and being pursued we know not why he stumbles on wounded edward dean jagger and decides to take his gun and horse but discovering that is in a bad way decides to fix him up first this is conveyed mostly through facial expressions and very brief clipped dialog in 2 minutes we know that shaw is an outlaw but basically a good guy shaw ends up helping on his way to civilization then disappears br br cut to a few weeks or months later with on the mend and in charge of an expedition to lay telegraph wire going west from omaha he hires shaw as a scout who tries to leave when he finds out that is in charge but wants him anyway a debt and sensing something quality also hired is a tenderfoot son of a benefactor of the project but atypically the richard blake robert young is quite competent as he shows right away in an amusing but exciting bronco busting sequence both of the hires vie for sister sue virginia gilmore who again not typically seems quite as able to take care of herself as any man the camaraderie between the three men the comedic elements involving an unwilling cook and various rough and tumble types and the wonderfully played light romantic elements dominate the first third of the film and reminded me more of howard hawks' red river or only angels have wings than most lang but they are so well played and the action progresses so naturally that it doesn't matter and doesn't alter our pleasure if it does perhaps change our expectations as the more usual themes of the haunted past dark secrets and the immense pull of the easier destructive and evil ways come to dominate the later part of the film shaw's old pals come back to haunt him as the the wagon train and its wires move attacks mount on the crew and shaw has to wrestle with what if anything he is to tell about his tortured relationship with jack slade barton leader of the outlaws br br beautifully shot in early technicolor and moving fairly seamlessly from sound stages to western locations this is for my money easily lang's best western and one of his very best films conveying as potently as any of his films the tragic inability of men to escape their pasts and build a new future scott is as good as i've seen him showing more with a flick of an eye than a lot of actors can do in a paragraph of dialog and the rest of the cast is uniformly fine the inevitable showdown between shaw's past criminal life and his potential future is extraordinary and a surprise even for a longtime lang devotee such as myself and even in 1941 it seems there was no place more fraught with meaning on the margins of civilization than the barbershop and the dusty street outside you can get a shave you can feel like a new man but you can't really ever be one as long as the old ties are still holding you back br br genius
1	one of the best western movies ever made unfortunately it never got the recognition it deserved the storyline the action and the music was in my mind one of the best i give it a double a randolph scott gave a terrific performance along with the other members of the cast the ending was one of the best of any western made
1	if western union isn't exactly the real story of the construction of the telegraph it certainly does capture the spirit and dedication of the people involved with the project br br dean jagger is the man in charge and one fine day he's thrown from a horse and sustains some fractured ribs an outlaw on the run randolph scott finds jagger and is ready to steal his horse but changes his mind and brings jagger to help later on he's hired by western union and works for jagger br br jagger also hires a young played by robert young who's an engineer young is doing one of his few loan out films away from mgm for 20th century fox both young and scott become friends but rivals for jagger's sister virginia gilmore br br western union has plenty of action enough to satisfy any western fans the telegraph crew has to deal with outlaws indians and your garden variety labor troubles br br slim summerville as the timid cook and victor killian as the frontier character assigned to guard him have some of the funniest scenes they both provide some good comic relief br br fritz lang got good performances from his cast and kept the film moving briskly along western union is solid western entertainment
1	i first saw this film in the theater way back in the 40s when i was a kid and always remembered the ending there is nothing like the first impression but some movies are always a treat each time they are viewed something just resonates with them this is one of those films and i agree with another reviewer who said fritz lang should have directed more westerns to add to it i have always liked randolph scott and robert young in fact robert young stars in what i consider my favorite movie if i have to name just one not an easy thing to do that film is northwest passage it led me to the superb historical novels of kenneth roberts western union likewise led me to reading zane grey's novel which in this case turned out to be one of those rare cases where i like the movie better than the novel not that grey's novel is a bad one i just like the movie story better the movie in no way resembles the novel it is a completely different tale one of the biggest departures from a book i have seen br br i can't add much to the other reviews except to say i agree with many of them i too wish it would be released on dvd whatever happened to randolph scott happened to the best of me
1	fritz lang directed two great westerns western union and the return of frank james the frank james movie equals jesse james western union is one of randolph scott's great westerns i have never seen robert young in a western before he is terrific as the telegraph employee this is the only movie i can think of that is about the telegraph company opening up in the west it is a high geared story about the telegraph in the west a triangle love story and about loyalty br br the supporting cast is superb dean jagger who made a few westerns plays the telegraph manager virginia gilmore who plays mr jagger's sister is the love interest in the movie ms gilmore had a short career in movies she quit films in 1952 and became a drama coach she is primarily known as the first mrs yul brynner it is great to see slim summerville in a movie with mr scott again they were in two other great movies rebecca of sunnybrook farm and jesse james
1	hard to believe this was directed by fritz lang since he mostly directed crime dramas and mysteries this movie has a cast that includes robert young randolph scott dean jagger and john carradine scott plays an outlaw who tries to go straight and leave his old gang and winds up saving jagger's life jagger works for western union a telegraph company that plans to have telegraphs out west jagger hires a lot of men to make sure it is done because they have to worry about indian attacks and bandits scott is in charge of the men and young is a telegraph expert who can't shoot a gun but can ride scott meets up with his old gang who want to stop them but scott can't tell anyone it's a pretty good western and lang should of directed some more westerns
1	doe eyed high school student kathleen is found beaten and br br raped in the opening scenes of this made for tv movie the film br br then flashbacks to the few days before the rape as is br br harassed by a stranger br br and scott and her best friend robin and br br dennis quaid are double dating early on anxious parents br br laid back tony bill and shrill blythe danner wait at home wringing br br hands and so on right away the 1970's makes its dated br br entrance as the young couples discuss the romance and love in br br three days of the condor br br an amateur photographer begins getting threatening notes br br stuffed in her locker at school the film makers wisely give us a br br whole slew of suspects new boyfriend br br boyfriend dad ex boyfriend and what about that br br overly friendly photography class teacher who wants to be a br br little more sexy in her self portraits i knew who the rapist was br br because the video company video box has a picture of br br the attack on the back cover destroying any suspense in that br br regard br br without giving away who the attacker is begins getting br br harassing phone calls and is eventually raped the movie then br br heads south as she makes like nancy drew and secretly sets up br br a time lapse camera to catch the guy stalking another student br br finally the film makers tack on a hokey ending narration from br br about the lack of understanding for the victims of rape in that br br day and age br br the suspense here is very real without going over the top into br br scary movie stuff is very good and watch for her and br br scene in an abandoned theater both do great jobs the br br film is full of familiar faces including ellen travolta in a small role br br and everyone is professional br br this was made in 1978 and it shows i am sure no one had any br br idea that this would be reviewed in 2001 by an horror br br movie lover who needs to get to bed and be up early in the br br morning but some of the attitudes here are embarassing the br br teacher who tells to be sexy is never made to explain what br br exactly he had in mind nowadays if any high school teacher said br br that then that would have been a made for tv movie on its own br br after is raped the rapist is still a part of her life as warrants br br are issued blah blah blah there may not be a case because br br is not a virgin and cannot prove she was raped by whom br br she said many of these problems have been addressed with br br modern technology and policing efforts but this film obviously br br knew it would have a chance to add to the reform debate rape is br br an act of violence that has not gone away but efforts today to catch br br the attackers are miles ahead of twenty four years ago the br br problem is the anti rape angle feels tacked on like an br br afterthought before that we have a tight little suspenser that has br br real honest to god characterization after the rape everything br br changes and not for the better br br i remember from the '70's and '80's and who could forget br br her revealing role in the betsy but she has not done anything in br br almost ten years this is a shame since she was very good way br br back then br br i will recommend are you in the house alone based on the br br acting alone with a reluctant nod to at least the first two thirds of br br the film if you want to relive 1970's made for tv high school life br br this is your cup of tab br br this is unrated but contains physical violence some sexual br br violence and some adult situations
1	while escaping from a heist of a bank the outlaw vance shaw randolph scott helps edward dean jagger the chief engineer of the western union that is surveying the wild west and had had an accident with a horse in 1861 vance and is hired to work for the western union with the team that is installing the poles and cable from omaha to salt lake city vance and the engineer from harvard richard blake robert young flirt with the gorgeous edward's sister sue virginia gilmore and she chooses vance however his past haunts him when the outlaw jack slade barton steals the western union cattle disguised of indians br br western union is a good but predictable western directed by fritz lang the story shows the difficulties of the brave and idealistic men responsible for installing the telegraph through the west facing thieves and indians the entertaining story has action drama romance and funny situations but with the exception of the identity of jack slade there is no surprise in the story randolph scott gives another magnificent performance with a great cast my vote is seven br br title brazil os the
1	i doubt if the real story of the development of western union would ever have gained a real audience instead of talking about the building of the telegraph system out west it was the story of board rooms dominated by one of the most interesting and disliked of the great robber jay gould gould picked up the struggling company and turned it into a communication giant and part of his attempt at a national railway system to rival but this while interesting is not as exciting as the story of the laying of the telegraph lines themselves at least that is how audiences would see it jay gould died in 1892 had he lived into the modern era and invested in hollywood he probably would have agreed to that assessment too br br the film deals with how the laying of the telegraph system is endangered by indians spurred on by one jack slade barton slade a desperado is not happy with the development of a communication system that will certainly put a crimp in his abilities to evade the police in the territories he is confronted by the man in charge of the laying of the telegraph wires edward dean jagger associate richard blake robert young and a quasi lawman vance shaw randolph scott who is brother blake an with little understanding of the west is romancing sister sue virginia gilmore but finds it hard to get used to his new surroundings but he does become a close friend of shaw especially in trying to confront slade br br slade was a real western criminal by the way and the subject of a section of mark twain's roughing it he was hanged in the 1870s but he did not have any involvement in stirring up indians against railroads or telegraph companies however makes him a memorably evil and totally vicious type his killing of one of the major characters is done suddenly and from behind and he views the corpse as though he has just got rid of an annoyance but lang is responsible for that as well as other touches look at the sequence with chill wills where he is on a telegraph pole repairing it he spits tobacco juice several times while talking to young who gets a little splattered then there is an indian attack which we watch from the ground level at the conclusion young suddenly gets splattered again but it's not brown but red that covers him he looks up at the top and there is wills with an indian arrow through him br br it is an exciting film to watch and well worth catching
1	western union is something of a forgotten classic western perhaps the reason for this lies in the fact of its on dvd in the united states however all is not lost as it has now appeared on region 2 in england this being a blessing in some ways is not only incongruous but totally ironic when one considers that a movie depicting the founding and establishment of such a uniquely american organization as the western union telegraph company is without a region 1 release it beggars belief it simply doesn't make sense br br produced by fox in 1941 western union was directed by fritz lang this was only the second occasion the great german director undertook to direct a western he had done an excellent job the year before with fox's the return of frank james and would have only one more western outing in 1952 with the splendid notorious lang was no ford or hawks but with western union he turned in a fine solid western that holds up very well beautifully photographed in early three strip technicolor by edward it boasted a good cast headed by robert young randolph scott and dean jagger the female lead is taken by virginia gilmore who really has little to do in the picture an actress who never made anything of her career her presence here is merely cosmetic br br it is curious that robert young has top billing over scott it is clearly scott's picture from the very beginning when we first see him in the film's terrific opening scene being chased by a posse across the plains young doesn't have much to do throughout the movie and seems out of place in a western he just looks plain silly going up against barton in a gunfight an actor who never really distinguished himself except perhaps with crossfire 1947 young appeared in a string of forgettable romantic comedies in the forties and fifties culminating with his greatest success when for seven years he was tv's marcus md in the seventies he died in 1998 at the age of 91 br br western union recounts the connection by telegraph wire of omaha and salt lake city scott plays a reformed outlaw hired by western union boss dean jagger to protect the line from marauding sioux and to also take on and his gang who are trying to destroy the line for their own devious ends robert young is the young engineer from back east who joins the company and vies with scott for the affections of miss gilmore some comic relief is provided by and irritatingly so some would say by slim summerville and john carradine turns up in a meager role as the company doctor br br altogether though a spanking good western albeit on region 2 but in sparkling good quality that fans will be delighted with my only crib is that there are no extras not even a trailer and that terrible cover with those dull graphics ugh br br footnote interestingly the associate producer on western union was harry joe brown who later with randolph scott would create a partnership that would produce some of scott's finest westerns in the fifties
1	i saw this years ago and it's entertaining but not profound the basic story is of a young man who dreams of though he's not sure where it is or even if it really exists br br spoilers follow he finally visits it gets transformed to a creature by being bitten by another one then he has to help the other members of the because they're being attacked by canadians save for the accents they all act like good ol' boys not much in tune with the canadian psyche eh someone observed for monsters or substitute jews and for the canadians humans substitute nazis and you're supposed to get an insight into the struggle by the monsters versus the humans well maybe br br one major objection i had was that while the underground city was interesting it was rather ramshackle and frankly dirty this must be a convention for movies with underground settlements one would think that if the monsters were the good guys some would have at least a little sense of decor br br the storyline is a tad thin but that's to introduce characters but it's entertaining enough for a repeat view
1	featuring some amazing and wonderful characters a new mythology superbly designed and executed sets is a great film br br sadly the lack of a well known lead actor lead to the film finding obscurity br br perhaps also the homosexuality of the director lead to the film being unwittingly censored by the white audience the film br br none the less the film is a treasure of the monster movie superhero genre br br a sequel featuring highlander style flashbacks to different epochs in history would be interesting br br another idea would be the foundation of the new perhaps in texas somewhere or the swamps of with crocodile men and a traveling freak circus
1	blew my mind the first time i saw it and it's held up quite well over the years the sets and monster effects work are some of the best i've ever seen nobody i know seems to have seen this film which i believe tanked at the box office because of the lack of interest in horror in the early nineties it plays like a dark horrific fairy tale and is a lot deeper then you'd think with a strong message against bigotry presented by a rich mystical past that clive barker created what sucks is the film ends on a really cool sequel note that we'll probably never see my only minor gripe is that craig sheffer is only a passable actor at best and the the project might have benefited with a better actor in the part just a minor complaint though as sheffer does alright i had a similar issue with scott bakula in barker's lord of illusions not really a terrible performance but i just didn't like him in the role as much as i would have other people
1	delivers great acting and greater special effects stars david cronenberg one of my personal favorites as decker it's special effects on the monsters were so good you thought they might be really deformed clive barker however demented scored a perfect 10 on my list
1	let me say from the outset i'm not a particular fan of this kind of film but holds a certain fascination for me with a message about perspective br br back in the old days the folks who inhabit would have been called zombies the undead and according to what clive barker has given us certain members of human kind in this craig sheffer are born with the potential to become part of that world br br psychiatrist david cronenberg at first looking like the mild mannered professional has taken unto himself a fanatical mission to rid the world of the he tricks the police into killing sheffer but sheffer goes to a graveyard named cemetery where the congregate and live underground br br sheffer has also left a girl friend anne bobby who still has feelings for him even after he's been killed and is now one of the undead she tries in her own small way to be a bridge to humankind br br clive barker's creatures are a pretty gruesome looking lot and are not particularly fond of humans but it's plain to see that if humans left them alone the in turn not bother with them br br your sympathies are definitely with the especially after seeing a fanatic like cronenberg and redneck police chief charles haid in action br br clive barker's been an out gay man for some time now and some have suggested to me that the is a metaphor for gay people i can see where that would come in especially since there are a whole lot of people who don't even think of gays as anything human because they're taught that way br br granted is pretty bloody with a lot of gratuitous violence but it also does make you think and i do like the way clive barker does turn traditional theology on its head and makes craig sheffer a kind of messiah for the creatures
1	clive barker of hellraiser fame has written and produced a fantasy horror film that is funny and exciting br br the make up done by bob keen and geoffrey was fantastic it took quite an imagination to come up with these mutants that lived underground it was really a treat to see the quality of work br br it wasn't particularly horrible as the worst creature was actually a human serial killer br br i just saw craig sheffer in shadow of doubt the other day and he did a good job in this film also nothing spectacular but fair this was only anne bobby's third film and she was good also br br the ending was spectacular and the rednecks got their just desserts as did david cronenberg ha
1	this movie is masterly directed by clive barker he really knows how to establish a rapport between the audience and the characters i think there is a sequel missing for this one barker should have dedicated to the sequel for this movie instead of doing the boring lord of illusions that is one i think was a real garbage but i also think that because of this and because of the lack of the sequel has become a dark cult classic of horror films
1	an enjoyable movie without a doubt and very evocative of both its era and that very particular stage in any boy's of but i have to say that having read the very positive comments here i was a bit disappointed the period was captured but the plot was desperately thin the whole thing revolves around the most egregious bit of miscasting in the history of school plays the idea that quack quack would ever be chosen to play not only one of only three star turns but a philanderer is risible and without that nada the sub plots bore no relation that i could see to the main plot all of them could be removed in their entirety without in any way affecting the main story which surely suggests a fundamental flaw when all your sub plots look like padding you know a central idea is being stretched beyond its limits nevertheless it's a benign movie with its heart in the right place there are some fine performances and you just get the feeling that everyone involved felt deflated at the final 'cut ' that good feeling permeates the film and that has to count for something a flawed really quite good movie 7 out of 10
1	the film is one of the best horror films i have ever seen overall i'm not a big fan of horror films but there is something about this film that is more atmospheric and different from any other horror film i have ever seen many horror films i've seen i've enjoyed watching however as they are based on horror i know that the stories are unreal as they are fictional therefore i can't take them all seriously on the other hand is a unique horror genre as it has a feel of realism that i've seen in very few other horror films br br this films story on how a man gets murdered and ends up living with the undead in an underground cemetery shelter with undead monsters is the kind of story a person would get from a dreaming nightmare as its a very unique and original storyline most horror films i've seen are all quite fake but because was so incredibly sophisticated and directed with superb acting especially by craig sheffer aaron boone amazing special effects great lighting and fantastic dialogue i found this film to have a sense of depth and maturity with no silly fake horror parody whatsoever that many other horror films have as well as being horror has elements of thriller romance and action all rapped in one if you haven't seen this film i recommend you watch it as i rate it a 10 10
1	i experienced for the first time on television a year ago and i was pleasantly surprised with the results br br clive barker is said to have horror with hellraiser but this is a film that effectively stalled his cinema career somewhat what an unfortunate thing to happen because like the inhabitants of this film seems to be misunderstood br br barker has created a cross breed of genre staples in this story it begins as a traditional horror film but soon becomes a fable regarding mans inhumanity to man evoking sympathy for the devil is tough at the best of times but when the characters are as visually demonic as they are in this film it becomes nigh on impossible cue the child the practically klan like human pitchforks and holy wrath at the films conclusion becomes doubly upsetting in the face of what has gone before as a parable of ethnic tension and white supremacy this film can be quite evocative br br i pity those who will not see the film from this angle and think of it as barker's fantastical indulgence gone too far we have a genuine forgotten gem here and the sooner the studio and mr barker make nice and devote some time to it the better
1	for a movie like this there's always something to follow by in years to come clive barker the man who brought hellraiser makes a horror movie that is part goth part mythology and all horror in between are a bunch of mutants who only come out at night and roam the place called now a man name boone craig sheffer claims to suffer hallucinations he goes to this shrink dr decker david who helps boone with his problems unaware of this situation decker claims to be a purist which he's only a hate monger in disguise boone however goes into and make the claim that he's one of the mutants there but a mutant named oliver parker sees boone as meat his bite however spares boone so after he is killed by a gauntlet of fire arms he's one of them now after being mislead by decker boone does everything in his power to protect lori anne bobby from him lori saves a mutant from the sun and in return helps the others as well i liked the lady mutants one who gives a smoky kiss of death and the porcupine woman who dreamed boone show off her power that is so seductive and deadly at the same time i've enjoyed this horror movie all the way and the rule of it is never trust a shrink rating 3 5 out of 5 stars
1	this is clive barker's masterpiece in my opinion the movie has a great storyline and some amazing make up and effects the one thing i would love to see happen is a sequel the movie was set up for a sequel and with improved technology the second movie could be incredible david cronenberg must appear in a sequel as well as craig sheffer but this particular movie was a great original creative and entertaining idea and i could watch it over and over again cronenberg was perfect in this movie and sheffer added an interesting spice to the film
1	i wish there was a category to place this in other than horror it simply isn't granted it has it's horrific moments however i don't feel that makes it a horror film i will give that this movie could have been better a million little things could have been changed to make it better br br that having been said i love this movie i'm often sad that people misunderstand the whole point of it it has always been clear to me that the point of this movie was to say things aren't always what they seem sometimes 'evil' isn't br br barker was at a con i went to and he did a little talk then watch the movie thing it was very interesting many things he wished to put in the movie couldn't be and a chunk was cut out of the movie that he believed to be long lost this was a chunk that helped shed light on boone and his girlfriend as well as some other details br br i know some people are bothered by not having more information about all of the in the background however i always felt that gave the movie a more 'real' fleshed out feel i have read the novella this was based off of as well as many of the comics because of this the movie just always seemed like a staging ground for the whole story a much more involved story that sadly has never has a chance to live br br despite all of the flaws this movie might have i believe it has a lot to offer the 'monsters' are wonderful very imaginative while the acting is sometimes a bit stiff there are some very quotable lines whenever i watch it i find something new keep and eye on chest toward the end at one point decker stabs him and shortly after boone falls on a card table he ends up with a card stuck to his chest this card stays there for a while even after lori pulls the knife out it stays there until boone casually removes it i love that that was a lovely little detail i thought br br basically what i want to say is that if you are looking for a horror movie don't watch this if you believe that at times men can be more evil than anything we have ever dreamed up this is the movie for you this is a movie about how men destroy what they don't understand or fear
1	this movie is a perfect example of barkers cinematic gifts to the horror monster genre i thought this movie did a great job of keeping the feel and look of the novella and comic books or actually the comics may have come second i forget this movie was made for barker fans it helps to have read the book beforehand but isn't that important if you can follow a film i saw to anyone who is on the fence about this film read the book then re watch the film you might find a new respect for the movie i came to this movie a big fan of barker already and having read the book prior loved the film instantly there are great cameos makeup writing directing etc in this film this movie does something that most monster horror movies fail miserably at show the monsters they are there in full color not hidden in shadows and taking most of the screen time unlike other films that use quick cuts or trick lighting to hide the creature this movie celebrates the grotesque and casts them into the forefront as the good guy two thumbs up clive we're waiting for the thief of always
1	i absolutely love this movie i just managed to get a copy and saved it to watch on my birthday this movie brings up several questions one is who are the monsters of this world to be different is just that different the real monsters hide behind masks of ordinariness they are those that everyone considers a nice quiet bloke who didn't bother anybody or they are worse they are the characters such as played by men who draw pleasure and power from carving up people and creating their own books of blood i love the shapeshifters people with gifts and those that may be for people to look upon this movie touches on and explores what is normal who are 'other' and what fear does to some even though i gave this movie 10 i am still sick of women who either scream or are so set in their ways that they cant see what is happening and being a vehicle for the things that destroyed median my other complaint was why didn't they ever make a second film i for one would have loved to see a continuation of this most intriguing story that keep me captivated from beginning to end
1	it's a horror story alright but perhaps not as you know it the real monsters in this flick are humans while the monsters are human and prey as weird as that may sound i see this as monsters inc for horror film fans br br sure the effects are of a std horror film the monsters are there as in any monster based film the gore is there as well there even is a slasher in the shape of dr decker played by david cronenberg i see flash of cillian murphy as dr jonathan crane in batman begins here or is it the other way round and it is decker c who are the bad guys the monsters want mainly to mind their own business off intrusive humans more or less misguided wanting to join there society br br by the end of the film you actually grow to like the quite little monsters and the dog not perhaps what you had expected from the first few scenes
1	i'd love to see some tie in between the fury and the x men series sort of the way the second outer series would tie in particular stories and plot lines after the fact to create a story arc although one was never intended i'd also like know if some more information anecdotal or otherwise exists anywhere about the relationship and or collaboration between clive barker and david cronenberg i simply can't get my mind around the fact that david cronenberg appeared as a mere actor in a clive barker film does any additional information on the subject actually exist finally it's been 17 years since the film was released and i had hoped there would've been a sequel by now does anyone out there know if there were any plans in the making that never came to fruition or if in fact there are plans even now for a sequel
1	as an avid reader of clive barker i truly anticipated this film prior to it's release i was not let down is a horse of a different color rich in the underlying decay of western civilization and dripping with alternative existence in a way we have never seen before barker is at his best when he allows us to peek into his world of unprecedented horror yet showing us the other side of the coin here the monsters are the hideously beautiful beings while the humans are the deceptively ugly creatures of self indulgence we soon learn that we were wrong all along by far my favorite performance by the often under used craig sheffer and the added bonus of david cronenberg as decker is a cast best seen then believed the monsters are portrayed flawlessly by a bevy of english creature masters whom many also brought the to life in hellraiser including pinhead himself doug bradley is an absolute must see for any fan of the horror genre and anyone who needs just a little something more out of their horror story this is clive barker at his finest
1	i was at school in the late sixties and early seventies and this film is very much how my school was the school play where the leading actors kiss that happened at my school a crazy gang of lads my school again only when we went on a cross country run we would have a smoke 'getting the some one at my school broke in through a sky light and broke the after that they were kept in a safe and as for certain activities what can i say the film actually came out in 1982 i remember that as it was when i bought my house and the film was showing at the same time if you like british films and films about school growing up and period pieces then this is for you another film very much like it came out a few years before and i for one would like to see that again also is in the genre highly recommended but trust me 1982 is when it came out
1	i enjoyed this film the way these mutants looked along with the tone of the film is very good plus david cronenberg as philip k decker was great it makes me wonder if his personality is exactly the same in real life except for the killings of course br br i was impressed with the creatures for this film although this movie probably had a somewhat low budget the mutants creatures monsters looked great especially from 1990 this is definitely a unique film and not crap it makes me want to go find a read the novella it's based off of this is an interesting film because it shows how humans can be monsters and the monsters are the one with humanity
1	i just watched for the first time since seeing it in the theater almost 20 years ago and while i remember liking it at the time i don't remember being blown away by it like i was today i really can't complain about anything in this movie craig scheffer is excellent as the lead character of boone i never understood why he hasn't had a more successful career because most of his early work is outstanding as good as scheffer is cronenberg is even better his portrayal of the psycho dr decker is unforgettable and steals the show the rest of the cast which includes doug bradley is very good save for the ridiculously over the top redneck sheriff the visuals are good and in some shots great the danny elfman composed score is as good as it gets and is among his best work the ending was epic with nonstop action for close to twenty minutes overall is a tremendous accomplishment for clive barker and ranks as my favorite of his movies just slightly ahead of hellraiser 9 10
1	why didn't critics like this movie i don't get it this is easily my favorite clive barker effort hellraiser is a bit too rough around the edges the film just never leaves that stupid house and lets face it lord of illusions doesn't move at all i have loved barker's writing for years especially his books of blood terrifically entertaining he has a vicious side to him that is totally unlike a stephen king he freely mixes in his own homosexuality and odd religious and elements i love love love love it i also realize however that barker is as much a dark fantasy writer as he is a horror writer and fantasy just isn't my bag puts me right to sleep always has i also think barker works best with short stories his novels tend to wander a bit that was my experience when trying to read the damnation game it started out well then 100 pages in i thought where is this going because it wasn't going anywhere br br i read cabal the book was based on and thought it was good i especially like the elaboration on character the way the mask talked to him and controlled him i like the way barker simply presents it black and white there it is he gives it a simplicity that's attractive and believable when asked why decker kills he says simply because i like it probably something jeffrey dahmer said at some point br br but i actually liked the film better than cabal i adore the visual attention to detail that barker gives to his films adore it i think it is just beautiful lord of illusions had some of this as well some of the drawings in the beginning during the credit sequence it's like an entire vocabulary barker dreamed up just for the world i'd be curious to know how much was purely his design i know he is an amazing artist who his own style and language as an artist br br is also i think barker's most entertaining film it moves very quickly well edited it doesn't drag like lord of illusions does a little bit very quick everything in it is just perfect it also works as a fantastic and scary little slasher movie the stuff with the killer in the beginning killing the family and later tormenting the old man in the shop is really scary stuff that mask is frightening i'd be curious to know if barker designed that as well it's not just a hokey jason or scream type mask something about it is really disturbing br br anyway this is a great flick definitely check it out if you haven't seen it highly recommended one of my favorite horror films of all time in my opinion clive barker's best it is scary and violent though be warned
1	if you're looking for an original horror flick this might be the one for you it's strange and at times lingers on stupidity but it's just such a good looking nice sounding and original movie it never fails except maybe during the over long climax is a must see for horror fans or for fans of monster movie make up br br boone craig sheffer has been having dreams of a town called full of mutant creatures in therapy his psychiatrist dr decker horror director david cronenberg has come to the conclusion that boone is a murderer and gives him hallucinogenic pills and tells him to turn himself in after almost getting killed boone ends up at the hospital where he runs into a mental patient who also knows about and tells boone where to go located in a graveyard is inhabited by vile mutant creatures that don't let boone in after escaping with only a nasty bite boone is shot dead by the police who were lead to his location by dr decker but boone isn't dead the bite causes him to live and he goes off to meanwhile boone's girlfriend lori anne bobby tries to find boone and get to the bottom of this when dr decker also finds out about this place chaos ensues br br the plot seems long and complicated but it really isn't hard to understand the plot among other things makes this movie really interesting the make up effects are astounding the creatures look unique and amazing and make this a very appealing film to add to more senses appeal we have a musical score by danny elfman that is both lush and bouncy and fits the film like a glove the shots in the movie are also set up beautifully the cinematography is lovely and the movie sets up an atmosphere that is never broken even the acting is good with the biggest surprise being director david cronenberg giving a great menacing performance as the man who for one reason or another wants to see boone dead it's odd for a horror film to be this well done br br the problems with the movie well there are a few but the positives outweigh the negatives the script features the occasional lame jokes to try and add some humor but almost every one falls flat the mutant creatures look great and for the most part are well acted but sometimes it feels like they are just posing their awesome makeup for the camera the worst part of the film would have to be the climax it takes so long and is just constant chaos it's the portion of the film that moves from individual characters and nice tight knit shots to fiery explosions from each direction and violence happening to characters we don't know or care about br br overall this movie is amazing to look at it's a well done horror film but even with that said it has the occasional failure in character's lines and a messy climax nonetheless this is one to check out br br my rating out of 101 mins r for strong violence and language
1	adapting his own novel cabal for the screen author screenwriter director clive barker fashioned this marvelous story of outré horror and fantasy craig sheffer plays boone a young man who becomes suspected of being a serial killer the cops gun him down in front of on the surface a cemetery but which is actually a haven for monsters that have been shunned by society when they lay claim to boone and make him one of their own this causes repercussions for everybody including boone's sweet girlfriend the very cute anne bobby and dubious psychiatrist a most enjoyable david cronenberg br br displays the kind of wild and twisted imagination that i don't see in movies all that often for one thing ralph mcquarrie an old hand at conceptual art having worked on such films as the initial three star wars entries helps barker to create excellent visuals for starting right away with the opening credit sequence the visual and makeup effects are elaborate and production design and cinematography quite impressive barker and crew do a wonderful job at creating this whole other world with compelling characters it's colorful and flamboyant entertainment and is a pleasure to take in and of course there's the strong sense of social commentary regarding intolerance and bigotry not to mention the heavy consequences that can result from a person's actions br br great supporting performances add to the fun cronenberg oozes lots of malevolent intent and is a real gas as the bad doctor while charles haid is a fine love to hate him type of antagonist a rather nasty police captain doug pinhead bradley once again gets buried under heavy makeup as the weary and is solid as a rock hugh ross is great fun as as is catherine chevalier as rachel as an added bonus she bares her breasts in one sequence simon who played the in the first two hellraiser pictures turns up here as well there's even a cool cameo by 50's and 60's sci fi star john agar br br danny elfman supplies another of his fantastic scores and barker leads us steadily through the intriguing story towards a terrific apocalyptic showdown br br is an excellent genre film worth checking out for anybody who hasn't seen it i give it a hearty recommendation br br 9 10
1	is definitely my most favorite movie i've worn more than one tape as it is the make up is awesome the story is lovely it takes a few different twists and isn't quite as deep as the story it's based on cabal by clive barker but for a movie adaption it stays very true to source material the only problem with this movie were the producer's vain attempts to turn it into a teen slasher movie hence the changed ending to allow for sequels eye rolls apparently someday we're going to be getting a director's cut that will i hope clear up this bit of nonsense until then i'd suggest it to anyone who like dark fantasy type horror as opposed to freddy jason micheal type slashers i really don't know what would be comparable
1	don't ask me why i love this movie so much maybe it came at a time in my life i desperately wanted to fit in maybe it is the amazing monster effects maybe because i enjoyed the novel cabal but it's probably because i love clive barker i think it's fair to warn you the movie and the novel have no true resolve and like me you'll probably have a wtf moment at the end at least two sequels were planned but never came about due to the fact the movie flopped for a few reasons the studio made drastic cuts to the film cutting a good 30 or so minutes out of it and they did a horrible job promoting it the adverts made it look like just another cheap slasher showing mainly the button face mask decker character this is a movie about the monsters about fantasy about a place called it's a story where the monsters are the good guys there is truly nothing else out there like it it's not a movie for everybody i suppose but it stands as one of clive's many great works sit back and be prepared to be taken to where the monsters are
1	is not only great it is also unique even taking into account other barker's movies which never lack originality an amazing adaptation of a very interesting idea for a book for the horror genre it has quite a few of subtle and references certainly a lot of fun to have a a bit to think about if one cares to and not to forget a nice music score well the special effects as usual get old faster than anything but that is probably the only drawback i've just seen it again after ten years and i still find it something to recommend
1	what's fun about barker's is that it's the story of a human on a rampage a deadly threat to monsters everywhere in this one the monsters the night breed of the title are the good guys it shares its sense of celebrating the different the twisted and the dark with the first addams family movie and much of tim burton's work it also has the goriness that one expects from a piece by barker br br especially fun is the performance by cronenberg as the truly evil human doctor who is bent on destroying the as happens in most classic monster movies the villagers surround the monsters' castle with torches and pitchforks only this time the modern setting replaces the castle with an old mausoleum and the rustic weapons with guns and bombs and this time the sympathy you felt when you saw frankenstein's monster burned in the windmill is the very center of the movie br br this isn't a masterpiece and even barker has done more interesting and certainly more chilling work but it's pure fun it looks great and remains light without mocking itself worth a look
1	i was peeved that the best make up academy award went to dick tracy a horrible film with horrible make up the based on the better titled cabal novella look terrific the acting is excellent and david makes for a truly creepy and terrific antagonist br br the plot on aaron boone who has recurring nightmares about a society of monsters living under a cemetery is he making it up or are they real and calling to him his convinces him he's a murderer a slayer of families br br troubled and suicidal boone seeks refuge in but the monsters don't want him at first he is also tracked by his girlfriend lori who refuses to give up on him even after he dies and comes back cold and monstrous br br but decker isn't about to let boone continue on he raises the locals on an all out assault on like a holy war in gods name led by the devil br br barkers themes of misunderstood monsters may come from his experiences as a homosexual male but they are always strong and honest turns the genre on it's head the monsters are just trying to survive and want to be left alone but man is hunting them br br a 20 minute longer cut was originally submitted by barker but the studio chopped it into this fractured masterpiece barker is hard at work trying to locate the missing footage for a directors cut release until then this version will have to do
1	although i don't like cricket at all and i have seen this movie 13 years ago i still think it is one of the best coming of age movies i remember the day i returned home from my school and sat down to have my lunch i saw the opening titles of that movie and then i was so immersed in it that i felt i was there it really affected me personally i still remember how i felt when i first saw it i felt that the poor boy was a friend of mine going through the same adolescent experience we were having in those days what i really liked about that movie is the main theme of a shy boy fantasizing about kissing his dream girl no offense but if that was an american movie you would certainly see at a certain point mainly climax the shy boy making love to his girl and i really can't grasp this contradicting concepts till now i have a simple request if anyone knows how to get this movie on a dvd by mail please let me know cause i need a shot of memories thanks
1	it is interesting to see what people think of this movie since it is in fact quite unique though it bears some of the trademarks of clive barker's writing even though it might seem a bit cynical to say so the movie is just intricate enough to deflect those that need standard hollywood plot hooks and layered so that if you expect to be fed you will see a normal monster flick with lots of monsters and a disjointed plot br br those who need a linear specific and plot line will hate this movie because the story lies like in the novella partially between the lines or in this case partially off screen in comments and the imagination br br another possible hang up is the ending of which i can say without spoiling it that it is not entirely good and not entirely bad it is in fact not very defined at all which i know sends some people into raging tantrums about that they didn't get to know what happened but to me and to many others i'm sure just adds another dimension to the story the dimension of speculation and in addition the point that great disruption has a tendency to cause ripples that extend quite far br br there is definitely moral here but of a rather different kind than the standard hollywood in your face at the end of the movie sort of display summing that moral up is simple even though it is not quite that simply displayed prejudice and the human tendency to hate the different br br i love this movie even though as many of the reviewers have noted the expressions of the actors with the exception of david cronenberg who does a wonderful appearance are rather tacky i'm not sure they are entirely to blame for their rickety appearance and lack of depth though seeing that these are common problems in converting literature to screenplay br br all in all this is a great movie provided that you do not expect it to be a standard horror movie
1	this movie was really well written and was very entertaining there was great acting in it too luke perry did a very convincing job like he always does if you are looking for a eventful movie to watch this should be at the top of your list there is a mixture of comedy drama and action you can literally feel what the actors are feeling at points i was very impressed by this movie the special effects were very well done the whole movie was very convincing this movie is one of my favorites what happens is north america could be torn apart and jack and his team have to try and to stop an eruption by destroying north america it was a very cool and creative idea i loved this movie and i know you will too
1	this is a story of a long and awkward love the daily life of a woman of 50 years old and some people around her is depicted her daily life is so ordinary and routine that i doubted who was the real lead character in the beginning then the audiences know that the woman and a man who was her high school class mate had very tiny connection the woman has been doing the same job a milk woman and a supermarket so long there are so many slopes that delivering milk bottles is a very hard job the man had married another woman who is now dying of cancer he works at the city hall and devotedly cares her at home they never look straight nor talk each other but they never forget each other br br the original japanese title means at some time the days you read books but of course when the man said now i want to do what i've always wanted to do it was to hug her and make love with her she writes to a radio disk jockey that if god gives us time to talk we need at least a whole day dreaming of that day she has been the desire in hard work and book reading i personally know a woman who has loved a man for long years even after he married another woman and died for an accident therefore the story setting is not that special rather this movie well portrays unspoken romances in many ordinary men and women through this movie you will recall your romance that is lost long ago this is a movie with lasting effect
1	the storyline of the is a simple one of unrequited love that despite the passing of decades still remains strong now 50 years old yuko tanaka lives alone and works two jobs – one as a checkout clerk in a supermarket the other as a doing her daily round on the hills of nagasaki one of her stops is at the house of a government official who tends to his terminally ill wife yoko and used to see each other as school children but after the death of mother and father who it seems were having an affair together their own relationship was destroyed lying in her sick bed yoko knows however that her husband's feelings for the aren't completely gone and for the sake of after she has died she attempts to engineer a means of bringing them back together br br while the story might be simple the emotions it deals with and the means by which it expresses them is really where the heart and beauty of the film lie the film takes its time to show the simple daily routines of each of the characters their actions being recorded by an old lady who is writing their story for a book while looking after her own husband who is showing signs of dementia in the process it depicts the social circumstances of people from different ways of life how they interact with each other on a daily basis how relationships form and how past and present can collide the director handles this marvellously with a strong structure and visual style it's only later in the film that the story starts to follow a more conventional and inevitably melodramatic path as if it is indeed being constructed to fit the narrative structure of the book that is being written it's all validated by the emotional depths the film touches represented most effectively in the exceptional performance of yuko tanaka
1	i guess those who have been in a one sided relationship of some sort before will be able identify with the lead character yuko tanaka a 50 year old woman who is still in the pink of good health as demonstrated by her daily grinding routine of waking up extremely early in the morning to prepare for her milk delivery work where she has to lug bottles of in a bag in a route around her town like clockwork to exchange empty bottles for full ones and to collect payment and issue receipt and there's always be that one delivery stop that's right at the top needing to scale a long flight of stairs in order to achieve customer satisfaction br br and peculiar enough that stop happened to be a stop delivering to a man with whom she has been in love with for almost all her teenage to adult life and not having the product appreciated but poured down the sink having gone to the same school we see that they're not talking to each other and in their daily life always seem so close physically but yet so far away there's no eye contact save for cursory glances by chance and little acknowledgement of each other's existence we learn that they share a past that probably destroyed all notions of being together where clear attraction between the two was hampered from developing further by the earlier generation br br while i thought was an interesting woman in herself one who has kept her feelings suppressed for so long one can only wonder what kind of damage it would do if i read that the original japanese title means at some time the days you read books and it's accurate i felt the movie had a wonderful finale with that shot of her well stocked bookcase likely alluding to the fact that she's not alone after all and had probably fallen back on her crutch of sorts to deal with the pain of being alone and back to a lifestyle which she had already been accustomed to for 50 years besides immersing herself in two jobs she has those books which serve as a form of escapism and occasionally pens little sweet nothings to song dedication shows on the radio br br yuko tanaka did a commendable job as the emotionally strong woman resigned to her fate and her decision to love none other her object of affection was a more interesting character who has more facets staying true to marriage vows he spends significant amount of screen time looking after his sickly bedridden wife played by while juggling with his job of social welfare in the children's affairs department in city hall i felt that as a childless couple the job provided him a means to care not for his own but for other people's children the troubled ones who are neglected and left to fend for themselves in a rare moment of rage we see how he angrily chides such wayward parents who don't appreciate and wastes their children's lives away br br the story by kenji aoki provides little quirks to make its characters appeal and successfully attempted to provide a lot more glimpses and dimension into them as well such as how is a hopeless haiku poet despite being a member of the haiku club and supporting characters such as the aged couple where koichi lent some comical though sad moments as he slowly turned senile while wife watanabe narrates and brings us through this love story of a single woman at 50 even performance as the bedridden wife was nothing short of arresting with her character's enlightened state of knowing her husband's past and making unselfish and painful decisions in her sickly state br br it's what you can expect from a typical japanese romantic movie sans young nubile leads as star crossed lovers but with all other elements in place such as romantic set ups love songs and those quintessential restrained but affectionate behaviour i thought the story was in danger of going down the beaten track when unrequited love gets consummated but director akira managed to steer clear of the usual melodramatic moments in such stories though the story did call for some obvious plot development into the final act that you can predict especially if you're already way past your romance movie 101 br br not being your average lovey dovey story i thought the told a strong story with unrequited love as a central theme and frankly a recommended romance movie though told at a measured pace if you're in the mood for some bittersweet loving reminiscence and seeking to live without regrets
1	lead actor yuko tanaka fulfills so much in the exceptionally meditative the a tranquil on missed chances in the life of a 50 something woman charting her routine with sincerely poignant motives played out in the picturesque tranquil town of nagasaki akira unconventional romantic film so to speak is less a straight out melodrama than a deliberate introspection of its characters' surrender to their current lives as a result of a tragic past that forced them to a choice they did not call for br br perfectly embodying the requisite world weariness subjected to a spiritless routine tanaka plays a middle aged woman who before her work shift at a supermarket takes it upon herself to deliver bottles of milk among the residents of the hilly nagasaki one of the houses she constantly passes by to make such a delivery is that of a local government employee caring for her terminally ill wife and were high school sweethearts who courtesy of an ignominious event concerning their parents separated ways since then br br opening his film with the foreboding narration of a young vowing never to leave nagasaki does as such with the narrative patiently sticking with as he deftly aided by understated yet highly effective performance follows her whether she's having chitchat with her aunt watanabe on being single or when she jogs up and down the countless footsteps of their hilly town to distribute milk as she and gradually overcome the hindrances that kept them apart for years such unhurried development may not suit viewers weaned on fast paced narratives but for the rest it's a heartfelt introspection that affects powerfully and emphatically
1	a gem from japan where so many of the world's best films are being made today stylistically this isn't anything all that special it's just a simple drama with some comic overtones about recognizable people going about their lives yuko tanaka best known for voicing the character lady in princess mononoke plays a 50 year old spinster she's takes pride in her health spending each morning in a vigorous workout as she delivers milk up and down the steep hills of nagasaki after she is done with this part time job she works her regular job as a clerk at a grocery store called s mart which made this army of darkness fan giggle along her milk route lives a 50 year old man whose wife is dying it turns out the milk woman and the man a child services worker dated in high school and each apparently still have something of a crush on the other the film actually has some major narrative problems when the screenwriter actually wants the two unrequited lovers to unite he uses a pretty unbelievable deus ex machina technique the climactic sequence is also really forced but most of the film is beautifully small and observant of the two main characters as well as many side characters the film also has several subplots that seem like they will eventually weigh the film down but never end up doing so i think the best thing in the film is heartbreaking performance as the lonely milk woman who has resigned herself to being alone for the rest of her life whatever the problems were the film mostly transcends them
1	some people may call cooley high the same sort of thing as american graffiti but i wouldn't for starters in ag everyone was white whereas in ch they're all black moreover this one has a motown soundtrack specifically the movie focuses on several working class african american students in 1964 chicago and their antics the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships in their apartments we see that there's never any dad around but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest br br one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible worrying about missing school two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene and the one white guy in the movie but overall the main star is the soundtrack it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history we even have it on vinyl here at home a classic in the real sense of the word
1	you want a movie that'll take you places well this is a good pick if you were an adolescent in the era portrayed in this film the of motown or if you want to reach back and see what your parents made so much noise about i suggest you pick up this flick and give it a watch at the risk of sounding cliche you'll laugh you'll cry you'll reminisce and remember you'll go back to a time when school violence was a fist fight you'll recall with fondness your best friends from school it's a feel good movie with an edge of angst and pain and realism misconceptions losing friends deciding what to do with your life i think everyone regardless of race age socioeconomic standing can pull something from this movie and really enjoy it so take a couple hours out of a lazy day and check out this film there are much worse ways you could spend your time
1	at the surface cooley high is a snappy ensemble comedy masquerading as a period piece set in the early 60's complete with a flawless motown soundtrack but there's so much more to this film it gets better every time i see it the cast of unknowns at the time is excellent and it is notable as an all black cast film that doesn't fall into any clichés at times cooley high almost feels like an updated urban neo realist film with lots of edgy humor added in at times the rather tight budget does show but the constraints actually serve the film well there's a grit and honesty of emotion here that lends the film an immediacy lacking in most similar minded films like later car wash which was more popular but largely pointless warm hearted but also true to life this might be one of the sleepers of the 70s celebrated at the time it seems that few film freaks know about this one today their loss this is a fine fine film br br the bare bones pan and scan dvd no widescreen is testament to just how little cared for this excellent film is
1	postwar england the dawn of the atomic age yet the worries of a young schoolboy yearning to experience his first kiss cannot be derailed by something as inconsequential as the bomb this was a delightful if not educational look at young love from the vantage point of an adolescent male and his world of the br br 1940's free of political correctness and preachy messages this film exposes the viewer to the world that only the mind and br br hormones of a young teenager can create wonderful subplots br br maintain character interest ala gregory's girl and plenty br br of well blocked shots help keep up the imagery of this era this is a very good story for anyone young or old who has br br ever been in love or ever wanted to be does he ever get his wish watch it and see
1	this film held my interest from the beginning to the very end with plenty of laughs and real down to earth acting by the entire cast glynn turman preach jackson is the star of the picture playing the role of a smart guy who likes poetry and had a very sexy girl friend lawrence hilton jacobs morris was an outstanding athlete at the cooley h s and even won a scholarship to a famous college there are scenes in this picture with the chicago police department chasing all these dudes in a cadillac and a visit to the lincoln park zoo with monkey dung being thrown around the music is outstanding and there is great photography around the city of chicago great film enjoy
1	the movie was very good when it came out i attended cooley high and cooley upper grade center around 1968 i was also home coming queen and grew up and lived in the area of greens i knew a lots of people in the movie it was nice to see friends in the movie that lived in the area also and they had a chance to be a star that may have been a once in a life time experience for them i had good times growing up on the north side and tough times i can relate to the movie cooley high is no longer standing but a person like myself and others still remember the fun we had growing up attending cooley high there is a lot of history around this north side area to be told
1	cooley high was actually a drama with moments of comedy it was a reflection of high school life back in the day i attended coolidge high in washington d c from 1976 to 1979 and much of what was in cooley high was an every day thing at coolidge as a matter of fact after the movie came out everybody started calling coolidge cooley high getting high shooting dice chasing girls basement parties and fights that sums up high school life for many in d c back in the day i can't forget motown because motown music began and ended many a day back in the 70s the hits just kept coming however cooley high adds a layer of humanity over the craziness because when all was said and done just like in cooley high my classmates and i had a lot of love for each other and like the characters in cooley high there was life after high school but there was nothing like waking up every morning and experiencing each day to the fullest from to seventh period thirty years later we are getting ready to celebrate those good times cooley high is definitely a period piece that just gets better with time because like it or not the only thing left from those days are memories some good and some bad
1	this this coming of age dramedy set in chicago in the early 60's we follow a group of highschool friends as they navigate through the ups and downs of their lives the two central characters are leroy preach jackson turman and his best friend richard morris hilton jacobs both of these boys have promising futures preach is a great writer but a lazy student and has just received a college scholarship for basketball when they're not hanging out at the local diner shooting craps with their friends or hanging out at a friends house or chasing girls they're skipping school riding the trains through chicago or going to quarter parties on the weekends br br things go wrong when preach and make the mistake of getting involved with two hoods and go joyriding in a stolen car the police pursue them and they are arrested but thanks to the efforts of a concerned teacher snl's garrett morris they are released but the two hoods are not and vow to get revenge on preach and thinking they blamed the whole thing on them br br this movie is very episodic but it still works because thats what life is a series of episodes some funny some sad some romantic some bizarre the film never gets boring because all the characters are so well played and realistic and the situations are all believable and relatable like preach romantically pursuing a beautiful girl or a party turning violent when some asshole decides to start a fight or dealing with a bratty younger sibling but even when a situation isn't personally relatable like the guys pretending to be undercover cops to con a hooker out of some money so they could get all their friends into a movie the sequence is still hilarious br br high' was the basis for the classic 70's sitcom 'what's ' which aired on abc from 1976 1979 even though the show is most famous for the character rerun he is not in this film nor is there any character remotely like him the humor of that show was very broad but still funny the humor of high' is truer to life and thus more entertaining br br additionally the soundtrack is wonderful classic songs from that period by diana ross the supremes the temptations martha the and smokey robinson play throughout the film adding to the fun youthful exuberant tone of the film
1	instead watch it as a great coming of age tale about african american males in the mid 1960's in the ghettos of chicago for all of you out there under the age of 50 what's happening was a light hearted rather quirky sitcom with very few serious moments that lasted four years 1975 1979 concerning a group of young african american high school kids living in a working class neighborhood i liked it a great deal it just has no real connection to this film cooley high started out as being the basis for what's happening but its serious nature did not register well with test audiences so it was redone as a comedy even though the credits on what's happening still read that it was based on this movie br br this film starts out light but touches many aspects of life unique to the turbulent 1960's and also some other aspects of growing up that are timeless the guys deal with sex betrayal hopelessness and even early death the ending is quite powerful and serious and the film has a great motown soundtrack highly recommended unfortunately this film is not new enough to be played on premium cable channels and not considered old enough to be considered a classic movie and played in the few venues for those films either
1	cooley high is considered one of my best all time movies it certainly reminds me of days of my youth growing up in the cities of cleveland and chicago during the early mid and late 1960's what ever happened to brenda and some one to track those two down brenda for her beauty and for his innocent wit they both deserve to be recognized even 31 years after this film was debuted i think a lot of the fans of this movie would like to find out what happened to them as well as others who acted in this fun filled movie i certainly think this movie should be entered into some type of movie hall of fame all of the cast of this movie was great my opinion is of cooley high is turn back the hands of time those were the fun years
1	cooley high is such a great film that even with the period's sound track urban landscape wardrobe and slang it still doesn't feel dated the sound track by the way is a timeless classic in itself br br instead it absorbs you right into it that is a staple of a good movie from start to finish it doesn't miss a beat and i never grow tired of watching it br br it's ending is unique in the respect that it's one of the saddest and at the same time uplifting of all movie endings there may have been a few since comes to mind but cooley was the first and much more emotional
1	cooley high is one of my favorite movies ever i think i saw this movie years ago on late night tv with my mother when i was little and i thought it was so funny this movie was also referred to as a black american graffiti glynn turman is wonderful as preach and lawrence hilton jacobs is great as friend there are some other great characters in it as well and this movie has a lot of humor packed into it from the beginning of the movie where goes to home to get ready for school to the sad ending of funeral this movie is one that will get you laughing all the way there are a lot of scenes in this film that i like a lot the scene where another one of preach and friends go to the zoo with them and gets the gorilla's feces thrown on his shirt very gross but funny as well the first scene in the street corner cafeteria the quarter party at this girl's house which became a disaster due to a fight and some others are wonderful to watch this movie even has a wonderful companion soundtrack album which is packed with a lot of wonderful motown hits and artists from the early 60s only 6 songs on the soundtrack were done in '75 while the rest were from the '60s the movie is mainly about two friends who dream about getting away from their impoverished and rough neighborhood after high school but their futures seem almost out of reach due to their innocent joy ride in a stolen car that two other hoods were responsible for and relationship with his girlfriend brenda played by cynthia davis almost gets put in jeopardy go out and rent or buy this movie and be ready for a load of comical entertainment get the soundtrack too it is a lot of fun as well
1	this was the very first movie i ever saw in my life back in 1974 or 1975 i was 4 years old at the time and saw it at a drive in theatre i did not grasp that this would be a classic at the time i went to sleep about twenty minutes into the movie after seeing it on the television along with two of my other favourite movies car wash my favourite movie and the wiz which seemed to come on every year about the same time all together about 40 50 75 times i knew that here was a movie that i would have as one of my favourites those three movies were the only live action shows that i could watch as a child br br i would not consider this to be a blaxploitation movie but rather an urban interest movie and preach reminded me of some of my uncles especially the wild irish rose that they drank my mother also told me about some of the quarter parties that she attended and that some of the things that occurred in the movie were similar in nature to what occurred in real life if you are one of the two or three black people over thirty who hasn't seen this movie yet then i recommend that you buy the dvd right now i'm glad that i was around to witness some of the goings on of the era
1	read this br br boyz 'n the hood is a scene by scene complete rip off of this movie br br two friends in the hood one's focused on intellectual pursuits and the other is an athlete the friend who's an athlete gets involved with the wrong people and gets killed the athlete just happens to be washington from 'welcome back br br it makes me mad that people don't know this it blows my mind everytime i go into a video store and boyz 'n the hood is in the 'drama' section while cooley high is in 'comedy' it's an embarrassing disgrace this movie is both funnier and more dramatic than john singleton's rip off at least singleton could have had the dignity to speak out that his film was homage to cooley high but no he never said a word boys 2 men however named their hit record after this film
1	there is a great danger when you watch a film that had had such a profound affect on you the first time around that 20 years later it wont hold the same magic as it did before i must admit i wasnt expecting it to be as good as i remembered but a was pleasently suprised yang is still as fantastic as i remember it when i was a 12 year old this film has a certain type of brilliance that not many films possess it is engrossing it is acted and best of all it makes me feel like a kid again and there isnt many things that can do that john and abigail rolls in this film are 1st class and i had forgotten how good they were until now i urge any parent of teenagers to sit them down and watch this and see if it has the same affect on them as it did on me yang 10 out of 10
1	this film set the standard for african american film excellence when it was made i heard on various stories on the film through time that there was a push for an academy award nomination when it was released this film plays on various emotions and you definitely feel for all of the characters sure some of the acting is a little wooden but fortunately those parts aren't pivotal the music is sensational and if you don't think the ending is a tear jerker you have no heart in your chest if you watch cooley high you will see that many many films have copied various elements from it in order to strengthen their own films the biggest example of this is boyz n the hood
1	now i am not prone to much emotion but i cried seeing this movie it certainly has more appeal among blacks than other ethnic groups but there is something here for everyone the classic song it's so hard to say goodbye really makes this one worth watching at least once
1	shameless screen entertainment is a relatively new and british i think dvd label specializing in smutty and excessively violent cult movies – mostly italian ones from the glorious eras when everything was possible namely from the late 60's up until the mid 80's the selection feels like a crossover between the oeuvres of mondo and no shame they probably even borrowed the name of the latter and they already released some really rare sick italian puppies like ratman my dear killer killer nun phantom of death and torso the frightened woman was completely unknown to me but since fellow reviewers from around here whose opinions i hugely value described it as one of the greatest and most mesmerizing psychedelic euro sexploitation movies of its era i didn't hesitate to pick it up this is a very weird film and probably not suitable for about 99 of the average cinema loving audiences if you're part of that remaining 1 however you're in for a really unique treat the style atmosphere and content are similar to jess franco's succubus and massimo venus in furs yet they're both widely considered as classics whereas the frightened woman is virtually unknown it's all a matter of profiling and good marketing i guess the story revolves on a literally filthy rich doctor he lives in a gigantic secluded mansion owns multiple old timer cars and has a very impressive collection of artsy relics including a life size mannequin doll replica of himself with a bizarre and slightly offbeat attitude towards women he considers them a threat for the survival of the male race and thus spends his days kidnapping humiliating and sexually abusing random he picks up from the street dr sayer then abducts the ambitious journalist maria with the intention to completely crush her female spirit but he slowly falls for her just he starts to believe in actual love she strikes back with a vengeance this really isn't for everyone but if you can appreciate moody sexy bizarre scenery toys and psychedelic touches that seem utterly implausible and surreal you can consider this one a top recommendation it's slow stylishly sleazy and totally shameless entertainment all right
1	dr sayer philippe leroy a wealthy physician with psychological issues regarding the opposite sex kidnaps an employee maria dagmar lassander a free thinking liberal woman who believes men must be the ones fixed instead of females sayer retreats to his palatial estate running maria through a humiliating series of mind games threatening to molest and kill her desire it seems is to dominate her body mind and soul making her his sexual slave obeying his commands adhering to his every wish and whim after resistance at first maria slowly teeters towards his objective but has plans of her own she says she wishes to help sayer relinquish his sadistic behavior towards women so that he could love and not feel such yearning desires to harm it seems that sayer has her under his grip agreeing to certain rather embarrassing scenarios such as his toes making love to a blow up doll which is a recreation of himself often spending time topless and even getting down when she slaps him hard across the face bringing blood from his nose which almost break her but something happens as the troubled doctor slowly falls in love with maria and through what appears to be a desperate attempt to end the madness maria gains an upper hand toying with lust for her body br br more of a battle of wills a kind of sexual warfare where it seems one is in charge when in fact the other truly has the upper hand through a great deal of the film sayer mistreats maria forcing her it seems to submit to his series of psychological games of a sexual nature her attempts to escape fail because his home is such a well designed fortress it's a typical european art deco kind of palace fashioned and orchestrated by a man who has kept to this weekend retreat of his for quite a spell it features walls and doors opening at his command with an area quarantined off for his victims but once maria seemingly downs a bottle of pills as a result of her anguish at his hands the tables are turned and she has him where she wants him he finds that he actually craves her and maria uses this to her advantage playing hard to get when sayer wishes to embrace and ravage her and i could understand his frustration because she has this allure that can drive a man crazy br br i felt the film works ultimately as a war cry for women their empowerment and uprising against men who have the notion that they should always have control sexually and mentally the twist this ideal i couldn't swallow fate because of his rigorous cardiovascular activity and exercise regimen we see how he develops his toned athletic figure and how this regimen is part of the normal routine every weekend before the true mind games with his victim begin if he is so well fit and spends such time developing himself for the extracurricular activities which follow his regimen how could he suffer the fate which follows his finalizing the deal with maria at the end when she stops resisting his advances br br maria he would later admit is the first he's actually kidnapped others from the past call girls were paid for their services so that sayer could feel the power of dominating a woman even if it's all a fictitious charade brought about by a deeply troubled individual with an inability to connect with the opposite sex the spontaneous decision to do so to take a leap from the norm costs him more than he could ever know br br all this psycho sexual sub text is rather fascinating to see unravel but dagmar lassander such a yummy sex kitten was my reason for enjoying it so without her i couldn't have liked it as much because she's vital as a victim worth striving to obtain perhaps the film's highlight the delicious dance as lassander clothed in gauze unravels the wardrobe exposing her breasts to a jazzy score it's the kind of sexually seductive moment that makes your mouth water and forehead sweat dagmar lassander must've been a joy for fashion designers because she wears those clothes so well she has this kind of cool a sophistication and screen presence along with her beauty and seductive powers dagmar transcends the part to create an iconic character which would define her career even if the film isn't well known i found about through word of mouth the provocative nature of the script and risqué subject matter might not appeal to certain crowds as it deals with sex and pain in many different forms the dialogue quite illustrative and at times i couldn't help but chuckle at comments towards an imprisoned maria regarding how he enjoys making women suffer and the thrill he gets at forcing them into a type of slavery in an attempt to make the words poetic it all feels rather hokey but dagmar is the real reason to see it and the film to me works at it's best as a fetish film a possible male fantasy with this seemingly prim and proper idealist captured and held against her will forced into a precarious situation her fate possibly at the mercy of a complex and possibly dangerous masochist her submission and how she reacts towards his aggressive behavior with her there are times where she unfolds to a wavering desire to embrace him unveiling a possible attraction towards him which in itself might startle some who watch it are among the most fascinating highlights of this exploitation feature my other favorite scene besides the dance is the piano concerto with sayer fondling maria as she plays a soothing melody
1	if you need that instant buzz that only late 60s early 70s euro sex movies can give off then look no further for you have just stumbled across the mother lode subsequent tv director exercise in psychedelic porn of the soft core variety may not generally be considered as a classic of its kind but it knocks many better known titles from the likes of brass jess franco and joe d'amato for a loop radley metzger sure was hip to this way before anyone else when he picked up this marvelously twisted little number for us distribution through his company gorgeous cinematography symmetrical compositions may elicit cries of from those who swear by shoddy skin flicks shot in someone's backyard hey as far as i'm concerned it's their loss for this is one thrill ride of a movie with twists so well twisted that you may not even believe them after you have actually witnessed them on screen dagmar lassander immortalized as the gone to seed landlady from lucio fulci's house by the cemetery has never looked more exquisite than she does here subtly portraying the innocent researcher held hostage by mad medic philippe leroy with all the art house favorites to his name you wonder whether he has the good humor to mention this one on his c v as their initially violent 'relationship' turns to s m tinged love story nothing is what it seems however in this sick and imaginative gem of a movie with several truly erotic moments achieved with surprisingly minimal nudity i for one was completely baffled and enchanted by the way chose to suggest oral sex during one scene i'll let you find that one out for yourselves and gauze clad boogie to an impossibly groovy 60s tune should have become iconic in a way similar to the image of sylvia kristel reclining in that wicker chair in her emmanuelle days you may not know this film just yet but trust me once seen you'll never forget it
1	it could not have come from a different country nor from a different time this movie simply oozes psychedelia influenced late 60s italian cinema so pseudo serious and sexually free sumptuous settings and dreamy music make this a visual and aural delight plus we get the lovely dagmar lassander surely at her very best looking the kinky goings on make for a wild ride and if the romps amidst the towards the end seem overlong it is but another rather charming trait of the time you were probably expected to split those few minutes between the screen and your girlfriend and it does of course herald a twist in the proceedings it might have been better if philippe leroy didn't look quite so odd with his red hair and twisted facial expression he does well though and has many silent moments where dagmar is cavorting and he has to show a mixture of love and hate not an ordinary narrative film by any means but for those who like that something different this is certainly that
1	i had a great time watching a couple of mornings back somewhat hungover for most of the film its pretty much a two hander showing the games and weird relationship of crazy doctor philipe leroy and stunning dagmar lassander i'd seen her before in a couple of fulci films dying gruesome deaths but here she is young hip and beautiful the film is pretty predictable and certainly mild on the exploitation front but entertaining throughout owing too its marvellous colourful kitsch feel the set design music lighting and cinematography are all classic late sixties italian style a surreal feast for the eyes and ears and though the general thread of the plot is not too difficult to foresee there are more than enough unusual events and memorably bizarre sights and sounds to keep things interesting throughout both leads are pretty good and it bears repeating that dagmar lassander is really really fine the music by is gnarly too perfectly suited to the images director has come up with quite a cracker here but its not perfect though very alluring there's little substance here and the exploitation elements are about as mild as can be i guess this gives it a sort of charm and innocence but i can't help thinking that the subject matter could have done with more sleaze more threat that sorta thing especially since its pretty simple to figure whats going to happen this is i suspect a bit pointless for stronger exploitation fans and certainly not for people wanting sex or much nudity its more of a light fun pop art affair lovable but insubstantial like bubble bath recommended mainly for those fond of the 60's dagmar lassander or sweet set designs
1	as with footprints 1975 i became aware of this one purely by accident it was mentioned in a review of the libertine 1969 which i researched when that film turned up on late night italian tv as being in a similar vein incidentally i missed out on that screening of the libertine though i acquired it via the same channel later on but did manage to watch the film by way of a rental of the english dubbed r1 dvd during my sojourn in hollywood in late 2005 early 2006 actually in view of the enthusiastic reviews for it i was let down by the libertine – being too light hearted in nature for what was essentially a serious theme the sado masochistic relationship between a young couple to be honest for much of the time i was afraid that the frightened woman would go the exact same was subsequently amply redeemed by a wicked if not exactly unpredictable final twist br br the film concerns the social attitudes and dazzling creative arts prevalent in this era an eminent philanthropist philippe leroy invites a female journalist dagmar lassander at his fashionable home for the week end however it transpires that he’s a misogynist who all members of the opposite sex and would rather dominate or even kill them therefore for the first half of the narrative we see the heroine enduring pain and humiliation at hands including being forced to make love to a dummy in his own image the tables are subtly but unsurprisingly turned she not only herself from his control but teaches him that man and woman can co exist harmoniously – except that following her own personal agenda as well br br the leads are perfectly cast and the film itself often darkly comic for those in the mood furthermore it’s greatly abetted by a typically effervescent score from the ever reliable stelvio and the imaginative – even outré – look the giant structure depicting the lower section of the female form with a steel trap where its sexual organ should be seems to from freud incidentally this prop figured prominently in stills i’d seen previously from the frightened it barely registers in the film proper other bizarre touches include the preposterous radio program aberrations and the and an idyll at a castle belonging to family complete with secret passage through the wardrobe and a manservant one of the highlights then is easily erotic dance virtually in the nude – an episode which actually spearheads the of leroy eventually the two characters have a in the latter’s pool – amusingly set to a spaghetti western type theme br br in the long run for all its stylishness the film emerges as inferior to the similar but much more extreme contemporaneous japanese masterpiece by yasuzo masumura blind beast 1969 finally it’s worth noting that the frightened woman was distributed in the u s by film maker radley company films he would even employ its production designer enrico for his own camille 2000 1969 to get to the edition i watched apart from the usual shortcomings in the english dubbing department the presentation here was further marred by a rather washed out appearance and brief instances of distracting extraneous noise on the soundtrack by the way there seems to be some confusion with respect to the film’s running time its length given on various sources ranges anywhere from 84 to 108 minutes – all i can say however is that the copy i own ran for 87 minutes
1	from today's point of view it is quite ridiculous to rate this film 18 or x in the us the film has a sexual yet sublime erotic story to tell but the pictures are rather innocent throughout the movie you feel and see the spirit of the late 60s and early 70s in the fashion the dialogues and the typical experimental cinematography and lighting and this is exactly the part that makes it worth seeing
1	one year after 'love thy neighbour' made its i t v debut it followed the route taken by 'on the and son' by graduating onto the big screen in a picture made by hammer films it opens with a stirring patriotic speech the virtues of england's green and pleasant land then cuts to a shot of eddie and bill walking up a street arguing furiously this escalates into a strange sequence of white and black neighbours vandalising their each other's homes at least the original theme tune is retained even if it is sung by someone other than stuart gillies br br the local paper 'the is holding a contest to find the best neighbours the winners landing a mediterranean cruise barbie suggests to joan that they should enter the thing is can bill and eddie stay friends long enough to win it that's the main part of the plot the film is by and large episodic one chunk is lifted directly from season 1 namely bill and eddie going to the club pretending to be on 'union business' in reality they're going to see a stripper not meeting two girls another portion of the movie has bill along with other black factory workers in the series he was the only one breaking a strike eddie has helped bring about by various ploys including being smuggled in through the gates in beer barrels while another seemingly inspired by powell and driver's 'for the love of ada' sees eddie's talkative mother the magnificent patricia hayes getting friendly with bill's father charles br br the climax to episode 1 season 1 reappears in an expanded form bill once more puts on paint and a towel to terrify eddie but his friends join him and they dance round a drum containing a naked booth so that they can pretend to cook and eat him eddie then has to make his way home in the nude surprisingly there is less nudity here than there was in episode 2 season 2 br br the film ends with the reynolds and the winning the 'love thy neighbour' contest and taking the cruise together but there's an unexpected twist involving joan's sex mad brother cyril james beck 'private of 'dad's army' who is working as a steward br br this is your typical '70's sitcom into movie with all the faults usually prevalent in such films the laughs are scattered about and interest wanes after about half an hour the cast is augmented by familiar faces such as melvyn hayes cast as a character from episode 2 season 1 played on that occasion by leslie meadows bill fraser as the factory manager anna dawson lawrence who seems to have been in every '70's british comedy film mostly cast as nymphomaniacs and arthur english the director john robins was also responsible for the 'man about the house' movie br br funniest moment while eddie sleeps in a quiet part of the factory bill paints his face black the first he knows of it is when the manager's secretary screams in terror the tables have been turned
1	just as a reminder to anyone just now reading the comments on this excellent bbc mini series published in 1981 it was not available on dvd until the last few years since then it has become available but initially only in the british format for which i bought an dvd player which you have to hack illegally i suspect to see it but the series is now available through amazon com 3 discs for between 19 21 to be viewed on dvd in the us format no hacking there were 41 reviews average 5 stars this mini series is one of the very best on oppenheimer or the manhattan project or virtually anything produced by the bbc
1	this is a great comedy highlighting what it was like to live next door to racist bigot but also shows that both main characters are actually as bad as each other based on the hit itv comedy this is very politically incorrect and its all the better for it comedy after all is to entertain the movies only real drawback is there isnt much of a plot however the cast are as great as usual jack and rudolph walker make one hell of a team playing off each other in a kind of way it's been many years since i saw this movie and last week was finally able to buy it on dvd the fact that the movie still contains genuine laugh out loud moments means that i can recommend this movie just like i would of back in the 1970's
1	a slick production which holds the interest from the very first scene where max is choosing a ring in a shop much of what follows reminds us of shakespeare's a mid summer night's dream in which and fall in love with each other's girl friends here max and lucien both prone to love at first sight get mixed up with lisa and alice and alice complicates things when she calls herself lisa on top of the merry mix up max is inclined to get involved in incidents which bring back memories of two years ago and because max has a lot of these dreamy episodes we are subjected to one flashback after another too many in my opinion because at first viewing of the film i wasn't quite sure if i was in the present or the past there is much running down corridors through doorways into elevators etc i accept all that in a fast paced film but do we have to have so many people colliding with each other after four collisions it ceases to have any impact if you'll excuse the pun high marks for art design the apartment itself is really beautiful with its tasteful decor but i do ask myself how a couple of young women can afford such luxury in paris saving a person intent on suicide from jumping out of a window is always exciting and it is in this film too when max almost exits at the same time however a kiss or two soon makes him feel better if you can manage to find your way through all the flashbacks you'll finally find yourself at the airport where max's devoted sister gives him a most affectionate kiss it can be said it is she who resolves the complications of love like puck in a mid summer night's dream
1	a movie visually graceful but interesting is mainly the plot the film depicts a zigzag progress of exploring the main actor's innermost feeling max who has lived in new york for two years and intend to marry a girl he met there comes back to paris and unexpectedly meets his ex girlfriend whom he still fancies very much but finally finds out the one he loves the most in fact is her best friend non linear narration thus many flashbacks and every part are articulated quite well the three women max has met symbolize something we must pursue although possibly having no clear picture about the underlying motivations his fiancee is the one he needs rather than the one he loves and thus completely no loyalty we can see she gives him also no love but only stability true love also cannot be found in his relation with the ex girlfriend merely a fantasy for him to escape many things very romantic he has done for her but almost nothing seems amenable the one who really animates max's life in fact is her best friend the equilibrium achieved at the end is not identical to the initial equilibrium because max has understand much more about his innermost feeling the nonlinear structure makes the progress of searching look more complicated not equally ingenious as pulp fiction but things seem much more natural in the apartment max is not the only character who undergoes a transformation and in fact interesting is also the description to the good cinematography also makes her and monica bellucci look very beautiful a good commentary of today's love and undoubtedly a film worth seeing br br
1	this is easily my favourite film a tragic romance intertwined with a complex mystery whose threads are all but invisible until they all unravel at the end in one fantastic rush sheer brilliance br br i'd love to see some more of gilles work but at least according to imdb he hasn't made any other features has the high quality of this work made producing another too daunting a task has he moved back into some other sphere of creative endeavour i certainly hope this won't be his final feature but i can't really blame him if he decides to stop with this gem as his only contribution to the world of feature films
1	so here's a bit of background on how i came to see this movie as you probably know this is the original french film that was then remade quelle surprise by hollywood as wicker park well i avoided that movie like the plague when it was first released simply because a i knew it had absolutely nothing to do with wicker park and living in chicago i didn't see why they called it that it was filmed in canada for a start b i have a very hard time bothering with pointless remakes done purely because hollywood thinks we're too bone idle to read a few subtitles i am dreading the remake of infernal affairs by the way and c i can't stand josh hartnett 'nuff said there br br however i came across on tv the other day probably about half an hour in and i have to say initially it made no sense at all until about half an hour from the end when it started coming together by the end i was really surprised to find myself really into it and then the ending just seemed so good a perfect combination of story passion and ending with possibly one of the greatest musical choices i've ever seen heard br br since then i've heard a lot about the l'appartement vs wicker park argument and looking at i still say it has bugger all to do with chicago but there seemed something about it that i liked so when it was on again i watched it again unfortunately still missing the first chunk i've still yet to see it and i still thought it was pretty good heck even josh hartnett seemed good but i was curious about l'appartement and wanted to see what all the fuss was about so i waited and waited to catch l'appartement somewhere somehow netflix let me down so i ended up getting a copy from some website in ireland and i've just watched it br br it's really kind of weird but a good weird a classic french film great acting is an absolute gem sorry but she acts monica bellucci off the screen in every scene vincent cassel was a weird choice for the lead but by the end he works and i've seen jean philippe in a lot of movies and i just love him the scene where alice dumps him in the restaurant and he just looks like someone's told him his been run over was excruciating but i can honestly say having seen and pretty much expecting that to have been a scene for scene copy as about 75 of the rest of the movie had been maybe in a different order but come on the scene with the coffee in the glasses word for word you can imagine my surprise when i watched the ending of l'appartement i can literally say i was blown away hmm a bit like poor old lucien was through the cafe window really so be prepared if you've seen wicker park and you fancy taking a look at the original like i did do not make the mistake of expecting an identical movie because you'll either be disappointed or exhilarated at a piece of french movie history a prime example of how you can watch a movie think you're going to watch a pithy happy ending and get whiplash from the total spin in the opposite direction right at the end definitely catch this movie oh and while you're at maybe not too near the same time but down the road take a look at wicker park it'll surprise you too
1	gilles is playing with the audience with the story of max vincent cassel in search of his biggest lost love monica bellucci just before to get engaged to another woman uses many flashbacks sequences without warning so the best way to know where we are in the story is to watch for the actor's haircut it can get very confusing still a strong film debut for beautifully photographed by thierry the 5th element the messenger and monica bellucci is a darling to watch i felt a little disappointed near the end so i gave it 9 out of 10
1	i loved this it starts out as a fairly normal slightly ponderous french art movie and then all of a sudden halfway through it's turned on it's head this part is brilliant as you realise you have been watching 2 plots not one sadly the ending doesn't make much sense which is a great shame oh yes and it's brilliantly filmed
1	this is a wonderful thriller i watched many times and never can get enough of it's all about the obsessive love 5 people have for eachother in paris un lucky coincidences false identities the music makes it really gripping there are hardly any flaws in the characters just the end is not very credible but a definite must see still
1	a very enjoyable french film this film has many twists and turns in the plot and is superb i have found that when i lend this dvd out to a friend it seems to do the rounds before getting back to me it is really all about a man making sure he finds the right girl to settle down with
1	several years ago i saw this film without subtitles on television and despite me not understanding a word of what the characters were saying i still got the general idea and the mood of the film fascinated me no ends br br at long last i saw it again a few weeks ago my heart skipped when i saw the picture in the television guide and for 8 days until the film was really shown i told everybody i knew to go and see it the story reminded me a bit of alfred hitchcock's vertigo a slow brooding film about a guy who one day believes he sees the girlfriend that disappeared years before what follows is a wild rollercoaster ride of flashbacks changing perspectives and really inventive twists in the plot and at the end of the film i was left breathless i had definitely not got what i had expected and i had actually already seen the film be prepared to be confused br br 9 out of 10
1	like an earlier i saw it in 1980 and have never been able to shake the memory of the gripping story splendid acting and dramatic musical score it certainly contains some of sam finest work he and the writers depict oppenheimer not simply as an unjustly victimized hero which he was but also as naive fond of alcohol and snobbish a rounded portrait instead of a stereotype
1	not all movies should have that predictable ending that we are all so use to and it's great to see movies with really unusual twists however with that said i was really disappointed in ending in my opinion the ending didn't really fit in with the rest of the movie and it basically destroyed the story that was being told br br you spend the whole movie discovering everyone and their feelings but the events in the final 2 minutes of the movie would have impacted majorly on everyones character but the movie ends and leaves it all too wide open br br overall though this movie was very well made and unlike similar movies such as serendipity all the scenes were believable and didn't go over the top
1	magnificent original beautiful movie the acting is great the settings en decors are superb paris at its best but then the real paris not the famous settings and the music will do also a brilliant very detailed which i just very much love br br the best french movie i've seen and french cinema is very good
1	i think the film makes a reference to rouge of kieslowski as the whole atmosphere gives me a feeling of red it seems to be that a lot of the backgrounds contain red think of the tea room f e i also think this is one of the greatest movies of the last years
1	l'appartement is i think a very purposeful hitchcockian film the plot was rife with symbolism ie the white and red roses and plot twists which wrapped themselves up neatly the look was very parisian and pulled you closer to the story i saw it in london and very much regret that it is not out on video in the states
1	an obsessive love story where the characters have been extremely convincing i think this film highlights the talent of professional actors specially for vincent cassel who wouldn't at the time it was filmed be the first character you think of for such a role and yes he did succeed to seduce the beautiful monica beyond the film during this creation i can only say that this film should have been released at it is in the usa instead of thinking of doing a remake it is simply so french almost perverted and yet so true this film should stay untouched br br a director that should definitely get more projects as this kind of subject requires the right amount of ingredients to not make it a flop
1	in this tense and character driven romantic tragi comedy we are given an insight into the intertwining lives of four thirtysomething parisians at the centre is portrayal of max a starry eyed romeo he falls head over heels for beautiful stranger lisa bellucci encouraged by his put upon best friend lucien in an understated but effective performance he wins her heart and they live happily ever after that is until the scheming neurotic and obsessive alice the versatile becomes very involved in the lives and loves of the other three br br the rich plot is thickened by a curious chronological jumble and the movie emerges as an intricate jigsaw the eye candy of picture postcard paris at the heart of it all the use of colour does not go unnoticed particularly in lisa's spectacular apartment presumably accounting for the film's title where the reds and yellows provoke the fires of passion and lust br br the audience can relate to max he truly wears his heart on his sleeve and is constantly punished by irony and circumstance for it in one memorable scene our fated lovers agonisingly separated by a misunderstanding narrowly miss out on the chance meeting that would surely reunite them independent of one another they travel to the same destination her on the metro him in a taxi practically à yet fate seems to have it in for them and the audience is captivatingly teased br br the performances in this film are really what make l'appartement stand out i still cannot understand why vincent cassell is not a big star outside france he has presence and diversity in abundance monica bellucci real life spouse at the time of writing has recently found fame in the film industry but perhaps for the wrong reasons true she is divinely beautiful but behind that is a talented actress who can dominate a scene in classic lady' style which many british and american actresses dismiss in favour of the all too easy 'subtle' approach br br all in all watch this film i doubt you'll be disappointed it is gripping satisfying amusing sad lavish and a lesson in artistic film making
1	a lot has already been written about the film itself so instead of adding to the noise i just want to say a few words on the two female actors br br it has to be a daunting prospect for any actress to star in a sense versus the spectacular monica bellucci but pulls it off to sensational ends a film starring monica bellucci where i fall in love with the other girl that's not supposed to happen br br it's been said a thousand times but monica bellucci strikes the saddest figure in modern cinema i have never before seen such innate sadness she would not be out of place breaking lon chaney's heart
1	since the plot like vertigo or brian depalma's obsession till to the score by peter chase that reminds the sounds of bernard herrmann this little pearl seems to be sight from fews remarkable playing by and vincent cassel in a bohemian paris portrayed from the famous thierry a little cult it is a pity that the only version available on dvd are the french one and the english directed by a controversial artist as gilles it could be considered a little homage to the cinema masterworks it is a french movie and as all of them not for all we could say a cinema even if not so publicized it could be remembered for several reason
1	all credit to writer director gilles who fashioned this winding twisting tale of deceit and betrayal while keeping the utmost control he maintains the audience at arm's length never allowing them to become completely aware of the goings on even his clever denouement has you guessing br br the three central performances are also top class with vincent cassel and monica bellucci doing their utmost to add to the mystery jean phillippe supplements strength in his supporting role to give away plot details or character specifics would not be fair br br thierry uses the camera effectively to sweep us through this enigma and editing keeps the story a step ahead of us the theme from peter chase is sublime in its marriage to the ideal of the script br br many may say gilles is trying to confront several deeper issues on the them of love for me this is simply a haunting elusive riddle that weaves a fascinating web only the french are capable of such hollywood would have ruined this with a happy ending br br monday march 2 1998 hoyts croydon br br no one does thriller quite like the french when they get it right they really get it right br br vincent cassell is intriguing as the deceptive max obsessive as the new lisa and monica bellucci is mysterious as the first lisa the plot from gilles is a whirlwind of deliberate deception and fatally crossed wires br br all credit must go to his manipulation of the clever plot and the performances from the three leads as lucien jean phillippe is strong and emotional br br friday january 15 1999 video
1	this is a clever story about relationships and a display of three main categories of players in the game of relationships playboys max manipulative women alice and the fools who may be indeed in love lisa muriel and lucien br br max and alice are very unlikeable and perhaps despicable characters but who are always in control in the game leaving their partners around in the dark but as the profusely discussed ending tells us as veteran players as max and alice were they would be happy to part ways anytime they see fit as if the game was just announced to be over and each one of them could not care less to get on with his or her own life and play another game with some other anonymous people when another opportunity presented itself lisa muriel and lucien might be the ones who felt like investing something real in a relationship only not being able to realise that they were the baits in the game and the ultimate losers as far as what we were shown is concerned who knows if they are also advance players of some sort in their worlds not shown to us on screen br br this is a very fast paced delicately crafted and seductively witty story with an enticing execution by the cast it also deserves some deeper thinking how much is real in a game of relationship
1	great news there is a bbc dvd release scheduled for 31st july 2006 uk there is also a scheduled release in states don't know the date can't wait br br below is my original comment br br i agree with all the other reviewers it is simply staggering that one of the greatest tv dramas ever has never been released on dvd br br the story line is gripping the acting is outstanding and the character development is enthralling br br over here in the uk we have quite a history of getting tv drama series and films out onto dvd through popular campaigns br br it's very hard to see why the rights owners do not go into a dvd production i'm going to e mail one of the leading players in this grass roots movement and see what happens who did the production was it bbc rw
1	i just saw this film again i believe for the sixth time i will doubtless see it many more times this is one of the most brilliant french films ever made although the film is mysterious even more mysterious is what happened to the writer and director gilles for ten years he has not made another film and this was his only one the story and execution of this ingenious film are perfect and it is clearly paying homage continually to both hitchcock and buster keaton the split second timing of the movements is just as carefully controlled as the scene where the side of a house falls on keaton in 'steamboat bill and he is only not killed by inches in this film people stoop and turn and pass one another unawares and if they had been one second off they would have collided the storyline thus walks a tightrope of chance events to such an intense degree that you cannot take your eyes off the screen for even a millisecond or you will miss something crucial the haunting albeit intentionally repetitive music by peter chase is reminiscent of hitchcock's and the whole film has the same eerie quality but whereas hitchcock had one woman be two women has two women be one woman thereby inverting the plot structure there are passing references to other hitchcock films but it is which is central to the inspiration of this film the theme may seem superficially to be obsessive love but the film is really about the magic of everyday chance events the invisible threads behind the tapestry the ineffable everything is hyper charged with passionate love and desire but the desire transcends its object and struggles towards something behind and beyond the object that is why it is so easily from lisa to alice when it is realised that it is alice who is more mysterious than lisa and it is alice who truly embodies the eternal mystery the film is ultimately by she is so fascinating that she outshines monica bellucci which is really something to pull off considering that bellucci is a knockout beauty whereas is what the english call however had even at this early date more than mastered the art of whereby beautiful girls fall by the wayside and don't get noticed because is being so fascinating you can't take your eyes off her long enough even to look at the beautiful girls and you end up only thinking of her most of us remember i'm sure her father richard lying in a bathtub listening to opera in the film many years ago i would rather watch than richard lying in a bathtub but there seems to be some genetic secret to being fascinating because richard is spellbinding too and he isn't even a woman looks as if she may turn into anna magnani when she is much older and that means she will get an oscar if someone can only write another for her the girl has so much passion inside her she could set the seine on fire wouldn't it be wonderful if she and julie delpy teamed up this film made wonderful use of paris locations but where is this in the it looked like place to me maybe i missed something i must watch the film another six times just to study the precision of the timing and who brushes past whom and make sure i've got it right the whole thing is like ten gigantic simultaneous chess games played blindfolded by a grandmaster how thrilling it all is you can look through my window anytime come on over let's discuss impossibilities coincidence synchronicity everything that is going on that is invisible and how it effects the visible and once again we have here the spirit of novel embodied in a great french work of art more more more
1	is one of the most interesting movies that i have ever seen i experienced extreme frustration while watching this movie as i was gunning for the two leads to reunite that never happened in the end which disappointed me to no end but the ending lends an even more cynical touch to a generally cynical movie it is not a movie which people are likely to rewatch but one watch itself will have a deep impact on people as of now i haven't rewatched the movie and i don't think i will br br the story follows the experiences of a man max who is engaged to be married to muriel he remembers his old girlfriend lisa he considers this the love of his life as he listens by accident to lisa talking on the telephone thus he tries to find lisa here starts his extremely frustrating search for lisa there are many layers to this movie there are undercurrents of jealousy and so on there is also another character called alice who is involved in the whole confusion the movie then moves through a whole range of twists and finally leads to an ending which could be interpreted in many ways it is fascinating how this movie has only four main characters but the clever writing makes it interesting and unique what i love about the fact is that a movie about obsession jealousy is done in such a light hearted manner it has a very fast pace which is probably the reason why it can appeal to a large audience the main character max has shades of grey and i felt the ending was perfect i don't think he is supposed to be a clean character considering the fact he is searching for his long lost love while he is engaged and he also has a fling with alice br br the character of alice is even worse her manipulation and her compulsive lying can really irritate viewers that is the point i guess the scene where she breaks down in front of lucien really shows another facet of her character it shows a side of her that wants to be accepted and that she is tired of all the lying and the games and she wants to lead a normal life in the end she understands that she needs to get away from it all the ending lends a cynical touch because it seems as if max's love for alice is temporary and fake it is as if to say that love in general is a temporary emotion and it is better to choose the safe option i e muriel than to pursue something that is so fleeting i e lisa or alice in many ways this is not really a romantic movie but a satire about romance in a way br br the performances deserve high praise vincent cassel as max gives a great performance he perfectly portrays the confusion of a man who is not really sure about his engagement his geeky looks are an added advantage as it fits the character perfectly but the real star of the movie is as alice her nuanced portrayal of a woman who is jealous of alice and is in love with max the scene where she screams i am a nutcase too really shows her desperation and her yearning to live a normal life with a man who loves her br br btw i also thought lesbianism is another interpretation that can be drawn from this movie alice's actions can be explained in many ways and her unreasonable obsession with lisa may also be explained as a manifestation of a lesbian desire it may be far fetched considering she encourages lisa to forgive her current boyfriend but i got the feeling that she was a lesbian for a long time she also avoids questions from lisa regarding a boyfriend she spends a whole lot of time with lisa and she is happy during that time that may lead many to question her sexual orientation br br overall i would give it a 9 10 i think it deserves it but i subtracted one because of the rewatchability factor i think it is a perfect movie otherwise
1	this sad romance is because the director decides to break its narration and to offer the points of view of each characters so there are a lot of flashbacks of re shooting of the same scene but it would be an extraordinary moment of cinema to put all the fragments in order to see the result br br and it would worth it because it's for me just one the best french movie ever made br br it has everything br br cast first steps of monica bellucci and vincent cassel such a presence and such voices even for a hard of hearing it's symbolic for them to have fallen in love with this movie br br directing his camera is bright alive plays with the sets or can be mysterious with long close up à la david lynch br br cinematography the light is beautiful between gold and rust like their love br br a never seen before paris it's a paris out of time of more accurately a composite of a lot of districts huge search here it's look like gotham city modern and old at the same time br br music not the big orchestra but in perfect tune with the frames and the song of charles made me discover this great singer br br ah … the story as i said it's a love story but rather tragic saying that love can be for nothing that it doesn't make all people happy or isn't guaranteed for a sweet ending is great because this message isn't often told love is passion which is derivative from the latin pain you can suffer a lot when you are in love because of the why of the endless waiting the lack of courage the indecision br br and when you can ease yourself fate destiny god devil can stab you in the back just because you arrive too soon or too late and above all because love means 2 in a world of billions a lot of things can happen and as much stories can be written so what's love br br personally i lived some moments like this in a car with the dear one her mobile rings and you know it's her special friend whom she kisses goodbye and not you even if we are always together so you want to go out of this car to leave them together to not hear the sweet but cruel words but you can't because an amazing hard rain just started br br i found that this movie depicts those moments of tragedy as no one else
1	when i watched l'appartement with my girlfriend she sighed how complicated and she is right of course when you are used to simple one linear plots especially violent hero vs crook schemes l'appartement is hard to follow a couple of the negative reviewers here also have missed one or more important points other whine about the confusing flash backs come on this is not the kind of movie from which you can leave to visit the toilet come back and get hooked again within a few seconds this one demands full concentration and a keen eye on details then it is really not that hard to figure out what's happening and when the director has left more than enough clues in all scenes br br the first 3 4 of the movie centers about the question why did max and lisa split the film as my girlfriend remarked begins as a romantic suggesting that two lost lovers will find each other again having experience with french movies i predicted that the story pretty soon would get a sick twist and i was right in the end of the first part it becomes clear after many twists and turns that max and lisa were manipulated by alice max did not know that lisa had left and why lisa did not know why max did not contact her in rome and left her without a trace when she returned to paris the only one who did was alice and she had her own reasons to keep her mouth shut br br after both max and lisa have found out the truth the question of course becomes can alice's manipulations be undone well of course not time has passed by and things have changed br br many european movies use a story telling technique i fully enjoy there is no exposition of the basic conflict in the beginning after which two or more interested parties try to decide in their own advantage instead the spectator is gradually fed with bits and pieces of the plot and hardly knows more than the main characters l'appartement is a fine and subtle example of this technique in the first half alice seems to be a side character slowly it becomes clear that she is key figure br br acting is simply great vincent cassel is perfect as the somewhat naive and impulsive character who risks a secured life just to hunt a dream from the past monica is very beautiful of course but also competent jean paul provides the necessary comical touch is very convincing as the neurotic woman plagued by feelings of guilt and regret br br the only reason i did not gave it a 10 is the somewhat unsatisfying end of course it was necessary because of the desired symmetry after all the events max is exactly on the point where the movie begun only wiser and sadder alice has paid for her sins but still the little twists on the airport are a bit artificial max too easily exchanges lisa for alice alice too easily decides to reject max who has been her dream for so long max too easily returns to his fiancée but then again i don't know how how this could be achieved without sacrificing the elegant symmetry i guess sometimes artists have to give up realism for beauty
1	a wonderful story about the consequences of obsessive love with the beautiful romantic back streets of paris as its location we're transported through time and see the plot develop from the perspectives of the three main characters as the mystery unwinds
1	i watched this film for the second time tonight after about three years and it was as wonderful as before br br there are more than a dozen modern stunning french films from en couer de to the three colours trilogy and all of them are special this film is one of them a true delight with so many great things going for it from the homage to hitchcock to two beautiful ladies in and monica while monica is very beautiful is a very sexy lady and steals many of the scenes she inhabits br br i am not sure why people think this film is convoluted as the scenes are such a perfect blend of past and present acting as a counterpoint to the characters' own remarkable journey that the film simply flows and you barely realise that 116 minutes of beauty and mystery have left the viewed enchanted and bewitched br br like most french and european films this story would never translate across the atlantic as no studio could capture the magic without the life out of it with the hollywood bleaching common to most movies that become lost in translation americans make brilliant films but not of this type perhaps if they let someone like a young polanski work on it then maybe they would not totally butcher an english version br br for those who do not watch subtitled films you will spend a lifetime in ignorant bliss for those who can read then you would be yourself to miss films like this br br i would describe this as neo franco noir but only to cheese off the reviewer who called this film elitist i think i saw him doing an add for four and twenty pies he thinks is a type of french it is arty in the way that pulp fiction is arty but with more gallic faire br br 10 out of 10 with every viewing and has anyone got phone number she is the perfect french salad dressing
1	forget the recent dire american remake which sadly tarnished the reputation of the french original by virtue of the director's involvement in both this is a deftly drawn romantic 90s noir with many twists and turns it works best as a gallic ode to hitchcock's rear window because the notion of voyeurism is the constant theme that fires the intricate screenplay the story is stunningly realized like a picasso painting offering multi perspectives on the same event and demanding the viewer's participation throughout the settings music and haunting score are wonderful as well as the excellent contributions from the cast watch it more than once
1	this is a fabulous film br br the plot is a good yarn and is imaginatively told in a series of flashbacks and alternative points of view what was deliberate and what was coincidence who is in love with who br br you get the chance to put yourselves in the shoes of each of the characters in turn sometimes literally and this helps define each character to a satisfying depth br br with a bit of effort following the twists and turns you can understand each of the characters and key events in the film are reshot from the point of view of different people br br take the opportunity if it comes again to your arthouse cinema it looks good on the big screen br br more than keeping you guessing the plot twists to such an extent that you just sit and watch what unfolds i defy anyone to predict br br but more likely you will need more than one viewing i saw this at the pictures on its original release three times and it got better each time br br the acting was very good with a standout performance by as alice torn in three directions by the three other characters in the ensemble br br a classic the second best film of the 1990s
1	l'appartement has to be among the best french films i have ever seen along with hatred also starring vincent cassel and those great gerard dépardieu pierre richard movies cassel and bellucci are amazing in the leading roles aside from brotherhood of the wolves and dobermann i have not yet seen a bad movie with this couple l'appartement sucks you in from the beginning and the twists and turns keep you thrilled until the very end fragment storytelling really hasn't worked this well since pulp fiction let's just hope there won't be a godawful american remake of this unique romance mystery thriller edit guess what a godawful american remake has been made
1	this is an astonishing film a romantic thriller with a convoluted but perfectly constructed and devastatingly symmetrical plot brilliantly by the use of recurring visual motifs everything in it is beautifully filmed the women the apartments but more amazing is the devastating juxtapositioning of images almost every scene has echoes of another this is a story told in light in colour in many almost parallels every time i watch it it fills me with delight br br the acting is great too is stunning as a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown everything about her changes with her mood vincent cassel plays a very different role to his part in la haine but no less excellently shifty and sympathetic at the same time and monica bellucci ah monica bellucci well put simply she plays is the world's most perfect woman there's one small scene about three quarters of the way through where she does nothing more than smile yet in that instant says more than hours of hollywood junk br br one cannot do justice to this film without at least mentioning the superb sequential climax sad shocking ironic and subtle in turn but if one moment captures the brilliance of this work it's the scene at the start of this fabulous denouement the prospect of which has been teasingly laid before us throughout the entire story yet when the moment comes it is handled so delicately so briefly so deftly that on reflection it makes you gasp only a director of staggering confidence would dare to this vital point but the confidence is justified cinema doesn't come much better than this
1	insanely well crafted mini series br br i recall seeing most of it twice when shown on american playhouse on pbs was heavily promoted at the time i believe it might have been one of the very early mini series showing on pbs outside of the masterpiece theater series br br the full length production was shown i believe only once during its first broadcast was 6 8 hours total this length was edited down somewhat to 6 hours cut some interesting but slow scenes br br i am very much hoping that the folks holding its current rights do follow through and restore a complete not edited version to dvd not worth creating a vhs version at this point br br would fit in very well in the mini series or dramatic history genre
1	although bullet in the brain is without question superior amongst short films it largely seems more like a short piece of writing than a film and it is a little hard to feel too sorry for the teacher when his smart ass remarks get him shot but after the bullet enters his brain we begin to understand a little bit about why he became so jaded with life in the first place there is an awful amount of detail packed into this reasonably short film and this is what makes me feel that it should have been extended a little bit it seems like there's almost too much to take in at once as the details come flying at you so fast a slightly more relaxed pace and a less po faced narrator in the final section would have benefitted this film a little bit despite these complaints there is no denying that bullet in the brain is a quite stupendous work compared to many short and even full length films the makers should be applauded for trying to make such a basically emotional and literate film in the current climate of quick jokes and hollywood action
1	on the outside this film is better because of vincent d'onofrio law order criminal intent but this film is equally as good as the 1982 version in some ways the 1999 version is better because it's more up to date a decade as compared to the 27 years the actors in this film were great like terry mcmanus of hbo's oz as james daly and tony shalhoub usa's monk and gary sinise csi ny dialogue was changed for contemporary audiences nut much of the writing remained the same there were stuff that wasn't in the 1982 version that gave this one a boost in drama and comedy but in the end this film was just as great at the 1982 one character wise vincent d'onofrio playing phil romano was excellent better that paul sorvino it's a match up between stacy keach and terry in terms of james as for george i would praise shalhoub and between martin sheen as tom i would say sinise wins
1	this movie is based mainly on the emotions and interactions of people there are only three locations the school the store and the coach's house that are really used it's primarily at the coach's house however a movie doesn't need special effects or amazing views to be amazing in itself br br four friends who had bonded during their basketball days meet up one is rich important and has no real love outside of money one wants to be mayor again but his competition is turning him sour one wants to be superintendent of the school and take care of his family one is a traveling alcoholic br br first off i love the actors in this film they've all been household names to me they proved their worth here br br one of the most pivotal moments is when tom played by gary sinise blows up on the coach he yells and rants about how the coach cheated in the winning game his blows the coach's whistle and yells back his catchphrases forgive me father for i have sinned it's amazing to watch with energy that just chills you br br highly recommended to anyone who understands human emotion and doesn't need shiny effects to interest them
1	this movie is based on a play and is the second adaptation of this work paul sorvino plays the basketball coach of a team of players that against all odds took home the championship 20 years ago they have all met for a reunion terry plays james a junior high principal and will quickly get on your nerves with all his whining and feel sorry for me role vincent d'onofrio as phil plays an obnoxious businessman with just the right amount of money cockiness tony shalhoub is george the current mayor of the town and appears to be on the verge of some sort of breakdown gary sinise plays tom a writer turned alcoholic and in my opinion is excellent in the role while they are all suppose to be celebrating their championship conflicts jealousy and fighting abound as the men come to terms with what was and is now they are forced to look at their lives in a non pleasant way it's unusual to have a group of men talking and crying about what could have been and i found it interesting watching them relate to each other it's not the best movie i've seen but it's certainly good enough for a viewing
1	this is a great example of very none hollywood film making which is very thought provoking moving and not without a sense of humor kevin mckidd and paula sage are superb br br i actually watched it on late night tv and i can see why i missed it in the cinema its not the sort of film that the multi screen mega cinemas show nowadays mores the pity br br i am going to look for the dvd not for those who prefer the current trend towards special effects and no story if you liked the best selling book the curious incident of the dog in the night time you'll enjoy this film br br this film ranks beside the best of scottish films such as small faces and trainspotting all films which kevin mckidd also star in br br highly recommended
1	not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you've seen something special 7 10
1	a very moving and thought provoking film that raises issues of mental health terminal illness and euthanasia sound a bit too heavy it is a little but this is all treated in a realistically straight forward way within a story of the changes that take place to the family who have to deal with these things this is a positive story of facing up to life and responsibility that isn't overwhelm by the subject matter br br afterlife is beautifully shot and crafted film set in modern times and dealing with modern issues it is a character driven enthralling film with a strong cast and some very good performances br br unfortunate it is not the sort of film that always performs well at the box office so catch it while you can
1	i agree with andy this is a good movie kevin character is believable throughout the film we're forced to hate him and sympathise with him paula sage who plays roberta puts in a good performance too it's thought provoking and emotive without any slush over production credit to director alison peebles and writer andrea for that a very worthwhile viewing the pace of the film is just right raising just enough interest in the subject matter to reel you in rather than bombard you with facts in a documentary style nice little soundtrack to go with the film too again used sparingly not to distract you from storyline recommended
1	the film's subject is poignant and very real it happened one can debate some artistic liberties taken by director and scriptwriter the subject is what makes the film tick nothing else i saw the film for the first time after the real was gunned down in new delhi and had served several years as an elected member of parliament in india by the way she was not the first untouchable elected to parliament as some reviewers stated the so called untouchables have been elected to the indian parliament for decades in reserved br br while shekhar kapur as a director is a hero to many india because he made commercially accepted international films bandit queen and elizabeth and a tolerable kiddie movie called mister india which was accepted by the average indian audiences and even got oscar nominations for elizabeth i do not place him as a top notch film director from india he fails in every department as a director except perhaps that he succeeds in getting some above average performances from his actors subtlety finesse charm are not easy to find in his films melodrama brims in them br br his idea of using ali khan's vocal rendering of the song in the early parts of the film was perhaps his single major achievement on the undistinguished sound track of bandit queen and then perhaps the creaking doors during the gang rape sequence otherwise the film looked like a spaghetti western with sex and violence minus the great music one associates with them br br if you are looking for a good living indian film director who makes realistic cinema of international quality it is not shekhar movies you should see it is the later works of three indian film makers sen and girish and of course umrao jaan it is unfortunate that none of those directors had the financial support that kapur had to give them and their films an international viewership for instance sen's katha made in telugu or ray's based on munshi prem are more complete as films to an intelligent viewer dealing on the state of the untouchables in india sen did not have to resort to graphic sex and violence but merely suggested them of course sen's nugget did not make headlines while effort them br br to credit he is articulate and used his limited talent and modest resources in the mumbai film industry to take his products beyond home audiences for that effort i salute kapur but bandit queen will remain a great subject awaiting an accomplished director to deal with it
1	irrespective of the accuracy of facts bandit queen is a true story its true because the themes it deals with hold as much truth today as they did way back in 1994 this movie is violent powerful and thought provoking the protagonist is a woman of flesh and blood whose adversity brought out the best or worst out of her keeping the subjectivity aside there is no doubt that character from a young girl of 8 who is married off by her father to clear a debt pun intended to a gang leader who goes on to become a leader of the lower caste has evolved into a champion in her own right her portrayal is so powerful that the viewer is even willing to forgive her for a massacre br br i can understand if the western audience is not able to appreciate this masterpiece bandit queen needs to be in the indian context and not just checked out in stereotypes i may not be able to sell it on its universal appeal but its certainly a must watch for the indian audience its a shame that the movie had a delayed overtly censored release in india br br bandit queen is the story of a woman who fought against two odds in india being a woman and that too a lower caste her rebellious nature and inability to just give in caused her the most horrible experiences in life which only went on to strengthen her into a self proclaimed goddess she responded to violence with violence and dint become the submissive woman society wanted her to be call it divine justice or failure had she killed a single person she would have been hanged she killed 24 and got revered respected and glorified br br p s whoever found her character psychotic needs to be sodomized at 8 by 10 men at a go and paraded naked then they should be asked how normal do they feel
1	i saw bandit queen in 2005 over a decade after it was made amidst widespread controversy in india the language the stark treatment and the natural acting by a relatively unknown cast for that time might have been even more shocking at that time for an indian populace more familiar with fantasy cinema the film the cast and shekhar kapoor deserve accolades for the breakthrough effort br br the plot is not very different from a typical revenge drama made in various forms in india in fact there have been several fictional accounts of this particular story itself the reason why this stands out is that it's supposed to be a first person account of someone who actually went through all this and a lot else that doesn't find place on the screen and survived to tell the tale survived long enough to see her story made into a movie at least devi didn't live very long after being released from prison in 1994 br br the film scores on several counts the cinematography is brilliant the music is apt the cast many of whom became more familiar names later is very good but the screenplay is patchy things move too fast and in jerks at times it's understandable though because there are just too many strands that need to be tied together to make it all cohesive or maybe i felt that because i have read mala sen's book which is a more detailed and better though obviously not as shocking as the visual account of travails and which is purported to be one of the main sources for the film br br there are some factual ambiguities too according to devi she wasn't present when the massacre took place and despite claiming to be the dictated account of herself she is shown to participate and in fact initiate the massacre then the final scene where surrenders shows her touching the feet of the chief minister while in reality she had surrendered to a portrait of mahatma gandhi symbolic value only but shows that didn't want to show servitude to a living ordinary person it would have been nice to show the chief minister to have some resemblance to arjun singh who many remember was the cm of then br br but these are small chinks in this eminently well made movie a rare gem to come out from the mainstream indian film industry made by a man who before this was known best for the ultimate masala movie of the late 80s mr india
1	oppenheimer was a great series it was the first thing i saw waterston in and it is too bad copies aren't available a similar situation exists for glory enough for all a british series from around the same time about the discovery of i would pay a good price for both of these on dvd is it really so difficult to get oppenheimer on a dvd that is able to be played in the us another very enjoyable series again from about the same time was danger uxb a series about defusing unexploded bombs hence the name that one you can get from your local library br br pete
1	i think that the movie was really good subject acting and ali khan's music were marvellous although the director has succeeded in showing the status of women in rural areas and how they suffer at the hands of male dominated culture he has neglected character a bit and has focussed more on the violence faced by her
1	this is an excellent movie had no role model's to base her actions on yet was able to bring about very necessary change to a land that was living in darkness when it comes to female treatment i like the fact that it was a real story rather than made up it added to the horror of the story the triumph
1	the true story of devi who became a national hero in india because she fought for her rights as a woman but in a violent manner i was surprised to see a powerful film with strong images come out of india instead of the bollywood art trash classics they churn out
1	i saw this movie over 5 years ago and the subject still infuriates me as it should her anger and initiative were inspiring not that i would takeover an army and kill people but the scene at the well and at the rebel strong hold will never leave my mind this is a great film but be prepared for the strong subject matter
1	it may interest people to know that this film was made without any recourse to devi herself and when she did finally see parts of it was so enraged that she announced that the film was not to be shown in india or she would cover herself in petrol and set fire to herself i do not know whether it was shown at all or not but given her standing at the time as a rising politician i doubt it since then i saw a report that she has been ousted from office and charged with further crimes from her days and has gone into hiding as a result br br her own concerns aside this is an excellent film made all the more so by its refreshingly brutal approach none of the rose tinted melodrama one might expect from a typical indian film it should be stressed that concerns about how feminist the film's messages really are and the like are essentially irrelevant it's a true story her misgivings are it seems not with what is depicted but with the way in which the film depicts her
1	the three stooges has always been some of the many actors that i have loved i love just about every one of the shorts that they have made i love all six of the stooges curly shemp moe larry joe and curly joe all of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts in my opinion the three stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team br br one of my favorite stooges shorts with shemp is none other than brideless groom all appearing in this short are dee green the beautiful christine mcintyre doris houck alyn lockwood johnny kascier nancy saunders and emil sitka green and mcintyre provide great performances here there are so many funny parts here this is a very hilarious short there is another similar three stooges short like this one called husbands beware and i recommend both
1	there are one or two other shemp era shorts i like more i e scrambled brains but i think one can say without much argument that in this particular episode shemp gives his greatest comedic performance as a stooge after the team in 1946 br br scene for scene this episode hardly lets up from professor shemp howard's voice lessons with the glass shattering dee green to his futile attempts to win a hand in marriage this is your little will you marry me click to the uproarious finish it never fails to keep me in stitches br br i would be remiss not mention that immortal scene with miss hopkins the always lovely christine mcintyre btw isn't she rather under dressed and over amorous in greeting the man she thinks is her basil who knows maybe the actual basil was a very distant cousin which makes it legal in some states as far as i know
1	not wishing to repeat what everyone else has noted i will only say this br br nearly everybody says they loved curly best but i will put brideless groom up against any of other the stooges shorts br br i think it's the most hilarious from start to finish as well as being the most re watchable br br the off key singing student christine mcintire's cousin basil routine and of course emil j p are highlights but only around the stooges' impeccable timing and the great writing too br br nuff said
1	a three stooges short this one featuring shemp of all those involving shemp i've seen this is my favorite performance by him in a stooges short the basic plot is that shemp must get married by 6 o'clock that very evening if he's to inherit the half a million dollars a rich uncle left him in his will so shemp sets out to get himself a bride but finds it a tougher road than expected that is until they learn of his inheritance money best bits here involve shemp shaving shemp and moe in a telephone booth and larry on piano as accompaniment to shemp's voice training session also the sequence where shemp is mistaken as cousin basil and its outcome proves hilarious
1	for the record i am a curly fan through and through but i do have to say that in reality shemp wasn't really that bad yeah he might have lacked the same kind of slapstick that curly had but in his own way he was hilarious at least he wasn't as bad as joe besser br br in brideless groom shemp plays a music professor stooge a professor yeah right who recently inherited a half million dollars from a dead uncle and moe larry have to prepare him to marry a woman by six o'clock that night or no money br br this was one of the stooges' first skit with shemp before they started recycling their material perhaps it isn't surprising that shemp was part of the stooges before curly came into the picture so he seemed natural at this the slapstick gags are hilarious especially this one scene with moe and shemp in a phone booth essential stooge short to be honest
1	with sam waterston in the title role and with david suchet as teller is an example of the docudrama at its very finest well written well acted by actors who bear a believable resemblance to their historical characters highly informative and very entertaining the set designs and costumes capture the feel of the us during world war 2 and the plotting and dialog make the viewer feel as if he were really present at los and caught up in the excitement of the manhattan project the only downside is that this is a british production and some of the actors lack skill in affecting a convincing american accent the skill of current day australian irish actors taking on non native dialects is amazing the storyline is fully consistent with richard definitive history of the development of the atomic bomb sadly the mini series was shown only a couple of times on pbs at the beginning of the 1980s and then apparently vanished into oblivion br br compares favorably to the more recent 'fat man little boy' feature film with paul newman as leslie the chronically overweight and rather homely general would be thoroughly flattered and dwight schultz alumnus of tv's 'a team' as oppenheimer as a mini series is around 4x as long as the newman feature but uses the all of the additional time completely to its advantage
1	almost certainly the best three stooges short with shemp 'brideless groom' is as good as any of the trio's best shorts featuring curly memorable stooge moments abound the opening with shemp giving voice lessons to homely untalented and lascivious miss dee green wincing at her horrendous singing notes and fighting off her advances is an excellent example of shemp howard at his best many considered him the most naturally funny of the stooges br br later when moe and larry try to help him get up to find a wife and claim 500 000 shemp thinks he has cut off his head when his mirror gets flipped backward fixing the mirror he cries with relief there i pretty as a picture yea moe quickly replies trying to hem his slacks of an ape br br the best scene and maybe shemp's best with the trio comes when he pays a call on attractive young miss hopkins christine mcintyre mistaking him for long lost cousin basil she smothers him with hugs and kisses also leading to a hilarious bit between moe and larry in the hall not giving him a chance to explain his true identity suddenly the real cousin basil calls and she goes berserk slapping him repeatedly and accusing him of taking advantage of a poor … … woman that final line is delivered as she socks him in the jaw with a real punch according to shemp and crew members knocking him through the door and into the hall in a perfectly executed gag what happened kid moe asks can i help it if i ain't cousin basil shemp asks before passing out br br other classic bits include moe and shemp getting tangled in a phone booth trying to find a lost coin larry getting slapped because of shemp's bad looks his face pressed against the phone booth glass and the great girl fight in the justice of the apartment the great emil sitka delivers his classic line inscribed on his tombstone hold hands you love birds over and over as his apartment is trashed br br i prescribe 'brideless groom' as medicine for anyone who thinks the stooges' glory years ended when curly left true shemp didn't have as many great shorts with the group as curly but that was due to an increasing lack of support from columbia and his and the others' advancing ages when shemp was healthy and the trio was given decent material to work with they were still on the top of their game
1	this is the very first three stooges short with shemp that i saw and it is one of my favorites br br that is what i really liked about shemp when he returned after curly's stroke he did not try to be like curly he was his own character and that is what i admire shemp is my favorite third stooge i like him more than curly but i like curly as much as i do shemp shemp is great he's funny he's silly he's shemp br br i really loved the scene where he dropped the nickel and moe got into the booth with him to find it and they ended up getting tangled in the wires and really badly hurt br br but what i really thought was scary was when shemp had his face smashed against the glass of the phonebooth he looked like a deformed professor br br poor shemp he had a lot of bad things happen to him in this short but that is just typical three stooges they always have a lot of bad things happening to them br br this short is another must see for three stooges fans br br 10 10
1	the stooges are back and funnier than ever brideless groom in my opinion was probably the best shemp flick br br shemp has the opportunity to inherit 500 000 which was probably more than a million dollars compared to today from his dead uncle but there is a catch he has to marry someone that day by 6 o'clock shemp is a bachelor with not too many admirers except for one high pitched aggressive annoying singing student of his but he doesn't want her he wants someone a little more on the victoria's secret model type of women but obviously he has no choice since he's no collin ferrel himself but when it is printed in the papers that he is to inherit all that money if married his ex girlfriends are on the i want my man back attack br br what a great stooge flick this is up there with of all stooge flicks br br 9 10
1	with old razor blades can i help it if i'm not cousin basil i think the piano's out of tune ginger grey this is your little laughs throughout the entire 20 minute short as the boys spoof gold diggers and opera singers they even manage to show us how to properly demonstrate to some attractive ladies how to handle both a rifle and a bear trap wonder how many times they rehearsed the scene with the phone booth adding christine mcintyre and emil sitka 2 frequent collaborators to the mix makes it even better only vernon dent is missing the stooges did some great individual scenes but this was their best overall
1	clyde borrows the premise of this short from buster keaton's seven chances recently tepidly remade as the bachelor in the original buster has 24 hours to get married in order to inherit a large sum of money in this version musical teacher prof shemp has only 7 hours after all it is a short this is one of the better stooges shorts due to the storyline and wonderful routines including the telephone booth scene with moe shemp reminiscent of laurel hardy's berth marks and the marx brothers famous scene in night at the opera here the boys hold their own in their variation of this routine i'm not a huge stooges fan but this one should be noted by any student of comedy as one of their very best since the early 30s shorts
1	ok the other reviewers have pretty much covered the main points of this great little gem i e the story started out in life as material for buster keaton's silent classic 7 chances comedy or acting in any genre for that much is merely interpreting a scene and lines that someone else has written and performed before if it's not a totally original creation here we have the stooges essentially doing material that was written and performed by someone else and yet for a low budget short time span of a film they're handling things just fine regardless of what the credits say on their films real stooge philes know that they had a lot of input on lines and direction they took their work as seriously as a surgeon does a vital operation words spoken by emil sitka himself during a documentary about the boys here what appears to be their usual anarchy over something so simple as getting married is actually organized chaos every line is perfectly timed with a related physical action how many comedians are around today that can claim such mastery most obviously the seinfeld crew but none others that i've seen in the last 35 years of watching tv the critics will always pooh pooh the stooges or laurel hardy and others but then again who ever remembers the critic's names or what they said simply watch laugh and enjoy
1	the entire civilized world by now knows that this is where emil sitka says his immortal hold hands you lovebirds but shemp howard professor of music steals the show watch him tutoring dee green as she the voices of spring watch shemp as he shaves by a mirror suspended from the ceiling by a string watch him as he gets by christine mcintyre watch him and you will laugh and learn moe is no slouch either watch him as he attempts to induce a woman to sit on a bear trap larry as usual is the zen master of reaction all in all one of the very best stooge shorts you won't find one weak moment
1	this film got roasted by the boys at mst3k but it's actually a neat and nasty piece of low budget film noir the plot is tight the characters are believable within the good boy gets obsessed with bad girl genre the pacing is solid the climax is well handled and the cast is bolstered by several fine character actors true most of the time you want to hit the protagonist with a brick but he's actually quite effectively creepy when he plays the mastermind the scenes between him and his dad are quite powerful in a minimalist kind of way sure it's depressing but that's the point good movie
1	for those of you who have no idea what bug juice is or was it was a children's reality show about real kids living at summer camp bug juice is the show that inspired me to go to camp it was full of romance friendships fights overcoming your fears and dealing with the struggles of living away from home for 2 months it was an amazing show that is no longer shown on t v regularly but is amazing non the less the show was never dull and always attracted my attention it's really nice for kids who have never been to a summer camp to really see what it's like before going plus disney did a really good job of picking camps to showcase because who wants to see a show that's at a camp for like only a week the length of the camps where perfect for this show and the environment they where in was fantastic they where camps all over the u s that each provided unique activities for the campers it was a truly amazing unscripted show
1	bug juice changed my life i know it sounds strange odd weird but it did i am from england bug juice never aired there but five years ago i went on vacation with my family and saw it on the disney channel once i saw this tv series i was hooked i wanted to go it took a lot of convincing to my parents to allow my brother and i to go to i have been going since i was 12 and it was my forth year this summer if you are a teenager reading this come to this camp it changes your life you make life long friends at it doesn't matter who you are or if someone at home doesn't like you everyone likes you at camp you have so much fun if you want to have a look go on to www com and check it out for yourself it is so much fun i love it there it is my home away from home
1	president harry s truman once said that the only thing new in the world is the history you don't know br br seven years before richard superb pulitzer prize winning the making of the atomic bomb the bbc produced a seven part miniseries oppenheimer that was a character study of the people who designed and built the weapon that ushered in the atomic age permanently joining science and technology to the state and in particular the military not merely making history but changing the world forever br br the production is impeccable the casting nothing short of miraculous not only the main characters but even secondary characters bear uncanny resemblances to the persons portrayed in particular are sam waterston in the title role of american physicist j robert oppenheimer scientific director of the manhattan project who was based at the los laboratory the site for which he personally chose manning redwood as general leslie r who oversaw the entire manhattan engineering district the formal name david suchet as physicist and ultimate nemesis of oppenheimer edward teller who nearly forty years later whispered into ronald reagan's ear and brought us the strategic defense initiative star wars and jana sheldon as kitty oppenheimer the attention to detail is uniformly excellent throughout br br part thriller part love story and ultimately a tragedy this series faithfully recreates a chapter in world history and that of science that we dare not forget highest recommendation br br note viewers who enjoy this series will also enjoy jacob 13 part series the ascent of man and the bbc film of michael play copenhagen
1	i absolutely loved this show never understood why it was called bug juice though i must have been about 13 when it came out i remember they ran it over the summer holidays on channel 4 between re runs of summer and saved by the bell or something like that i remember sitting there and wishing i was at summer camp too ha ha all the kids in it looked to be having so much fun it was all about discovering who you are and growing up first kisses and all that stuff i remember there was this really cute guy in it i think he was the main reason i got up in the mornings that particular summer they should have more teen docu soaps like this i thought it was great
1	this movie should have easily qualified as a film br br that best promotes human understanding among people br br it may be rather annoying to even try to comprehend that a young jewish southern girl could would give shelter to an escaped german prisoner of war br br kristy depicts an amazing portrait of the unhappy young girl thirsting for acceptance and love michael constantine gave a remarkable performance as her difficult father and esther rolle as the maid ruth gave a superb emmy winning performance as an understanding maid caught up with these events br br bruce davison portrays the german who is supposedly not guilty of nazi atrocities this is how his role appears he has escaped but he joined the german army and he might have been a member of the hitler youth movement br br the action takes place in 1944 georgia in a rural area the townspeople are filled with prejudice even the fbi inspector acts as if he would like to get something on the jews notice the opposite interpretation that as is in bed davison is hunted down and ultimately shot it is interesting to see that society views as a traitor for harboring an escaped prisoner of war the film also deals with an extremely complex relationship that exists between father and daughter outburst at his daughter at the end is some acting as the mother barbara barrie is given little to do it was annoying that she is stereotyped as the typical jewish mother with that loud shade of lipstick on her lips br br memorably done and well worth viewing
1	this film is a study piece for my english class but it's depth and meaning has amazed me since we're looking closely into all the facts and characters in this film its and interesting tale of love hate war and prejudice well recommended br br story a girl named well off jewish patty bergen meets an escaped prisoner of war she then hides him in her playhouse in her huge gardens and as they get to know each other they begin to see the others qualities and they earn each others love patty's father despises her and treats her like dirt anton the prisoner of war almost blows his cover to protect her but patty manages to stop him before he is seen by anyone
1	this movie was one of the best i have ever seen just the other day i was reminded of this movie by something on tv it came back to me like a dam flooding over i have never been more touched by a movie than by this one after the movie was over i actually could not quit crying for about 2 hours no movie has ever moved me that way before i was 15 at the time of the movie and have not seen it since but am hoping i can find a copy to buy so that i can watch it whenever i want to if someone suggests you see this movie with them go you will not be disappointed br br peggy fries
1	i haven't seen this movie in 30 years so i don't know if i would like it as much as i did when i was 12 at the time however i loved this movie this is a great starter chick flick for young pre teen girls be careful of the ending though there are tears and harsh emotions br br looking back at it from a 2008 perspective with so much more knowledge of child psychology politics and political correctness i think it would be interesting to watch again patty's uncaring abusive father indifferent mother and favored sister all contributed toward making her vulnerable and starving for companionship patty was sad when anton left she was heartbroken when he was killed the rage that was directed toward her afterward was shocking after all she was only 12 years old br br the thing that i most strongly retained is how this movie taught me even enemy soldiers are people too not all german soldiers were hateful nazis when i was older i saw tv shows like hogan's heroes and the rat patrol which also made the point that the regular german soldiers were not the same as the gestapo br br regular soldiers were drafted the gestapo were handpicked among volunteers for their special attitudes of hate i believe that one of the privileges of being a nazi was that they had special assignments and therefore didn't go into battle their specialties were interrogation and torture br br later during the cold war i would think about russian soldiers and remember we were taught that the soviet union was evil but the reality was that russian soldiers weren't out to destroy america they had a job their government probably told them that our government was out to destroy their way of life which in a way was true since the us fought to end communism br br the lesson is still applicable today german soldiers were not the same as nazis just as muslims are not the same as al qaeda
1	summer of my german soldier was one of the many tv movies that became a staple of the small screen in the 1970s others were brian's song sybil and someone's watching me it portrays a jewish girl kristy befriending a german pow bruce davison in wwii era georgia one of the things that the movie shows is that many of the german soldiers weren't really nazis but were just drafted watching the movie i got a real sense of how things must have been in the south back then i mean can you imagine being a jewish person accused of supporting the enemy br br so i certainly recommend this movie i believe that it's always important to show the things portrayed here occasional overacting keeps the movie from being a full scale masterpiece but they usually do quite well i hope that the movie eventually comes out on dvd also starring esther rolle and michael constantine the my big fat greek wedding patriarch
1	a touching story told with tenderness awkward young jewish girl in wwii america befriends an escaped german pow who is hiding out in her clubhouse they discuss their lives and beliefs he's anti hitler she sneaks him food he becomes her only friend and ally all this reminded me of the much better theatrical film whistle down the wind where hayley mills befriends convict alan bates but you certainly can't fault the direction here which is smooth or the performances which are sterling mature in her pre teen years kristy carries most of the picture and never hits a false note suddenly when the prisoner is discovered and kristy is found out as well the movie gets very tough her father shocked and ashamed that his child would consort with that nazi lays into her with a quiet fury i have seldom seen before he tells her you are dead to me which must be devastating for a little girl to hear the final scenes don't cop out there are no big reunions no hand holding climaxes the girl has to face the world and in doing so learns a bitter lesson about neighbors friends and family a startling film
1	when i was in 7th grade back in 1977 i was asked to read the novel that this was based on as part of my english class studies i can remember being very touched by it and excited when a tv version came out a year later br br kristy was a popular tv actress when this film was produced and was already playing a daughter in a dysfunctional family on the hit tv series family it was clear that she had the range and ability to pull off this part i recall her as being a bit stiff at times but over all she does a good job she carries the movie well br br esther rolle is fantastic as the domestic who appears to be the only one in the household that seems to truly care for her barbara barrie as the somewhat frightened and slightly neurotic mother is also good as is young robin lively who would eventually appear as the black widow lana milford in twin peaks as the sweet younger sister who seems to be the focus of the parent's affection bruce davidson is also appropriately appealing as the german soldier of the title br br the best performance however belongs to michael constantine it is truly powerful and merited more recognition than it got at the time the bitterness and coldness he expresses makes the scenes in which he appears difficult to watch but makes it much easier to understand the quiet desperation of the rejected daughter constantine gives everything the right intensity and seems to have a good understanding of the underlying psychological motivations br br the film differs from the book only in some small ways it is wonderful and inspiring to watch and i hope that it gets released again on to video or dvd br br
1	i caught this one on cable and i was very surprised steady direction and some good performances accent a twisty and very engaging story this one will keep you up all night thinking about what was real and what wasn't check out jason scott lee in the lou diamond phillips role
1	this is the kind of film one initially selects to make up the numbers from video rental only to discover an under rated entertaining and enjoyable movie the opening sequence of the police arriving at a dark and rainy house wherein the wife has committed murder or is it and the remainder of the film seeks to unravel what really happened ok the film is a bit campy but has good editing and dialogue professional acting often humorous and the very last scene with the facial expression is one of the best of its' kind definitely worth watching deserving at least a 7 or an 8
1	i too found oppenheimer to be a brilliant series and one of the finest offerings ever on american pbs david suchet was particularly effective as edward teller as i recall and the overall conception was spectacularly good the only reason that the series doesn't rate a full 10 10 is for the low budget production values in some areas actual content is absolutely first rate in my recollection br br the oppenheimer miniseries will be released in the uk on july 31st it will be a region 2 pal set but it would seem that a region 1 ntsc set should be soon in the offing br br if you have a universal player in the us you can order the series right now from amazon uk br br http tinyurl com br br huzzah
1	the plot of this movie is as dumb as a bag of hair jimmy smit plays a character that could have been upset by the ridiculousness of the story he is evil and a wife beater it's a character as far from his nypd and la law roles as you could possibly get br br if you've thought he had the looks and the acting chops to play the really bad boy role her's your present br br but mary louis parker wears black miniskirts and little black throughout the movie br br she has always had some of the greatest legs in the history of the movies this makes the movie well worth it for this leg admirer br br i'd buy the dvd for this reason only if it was available
1	this movie is still alive and kicking today thanks to the presence of alan ladd this is good in one way because the movie has some interesting things to say but bad in another because everyone who watches it expecting that tough guy ladd is going to hoop through his usual paces is going to be mighty disappointed without fanfare or introduction ladd is suddenly introduced in the third reel true his role is a key one but it's small and likely to get lost in the shuffle there are many key roles in former newspaperman martin ambivalent screenplay which hits out at all political alliances and quite ruthlessly denigrates reform candidates it's the lovely and extremely talented joan woodbury who ties the various strands of the wide ranging story together unlike the usual hollywood production the plot actually proceeds in a series of jumps much like the films later turned out by the french new wave though easier to follow here especially if you are aware that the film's original title was paper bullets nonetheless some of the film's narrative and character switches are a little disconcerting particularly in the role played by jack larue who has wisely elected to act the part in a strangely non committal way one of jack's best acting jobs ever but no one is likely to notice alas
1	flipping through the channels i was lucky enough to stumble upon the beginning of this movie i must admit that it grabbed my attention almost immediately i love older films and this is or should be considered a classic one of the most wonderful rarities of this movie is that the main character was not only female but she was also a bad girl i highly recommend this movie
1	great movie good acting a wonderful script it's exciting to find out what the people are thinking and how they react on the situation they are in a pity about the ending a of text of how life went on instead of moving images was a poor choice i hope this movie attracts a lot of people it's worth it
1	this wonderful film is a love story and shows that not all relationships are destined to last even so they can be great worth the pain suffering of breakup br br director gives us an insight of the period around 1900 the way society mis treats women and how a very strong woman deals with with great costumes landscapes lovely music and good actors and acting this draws you in for the length of the movie br br at first the ending is a bit sudden a page describing the rest of her life scrolls on reflection this is a great the best way to have your own fantasy create the rest of her life br br this was the second movie for me that had people sit while the end titles by the first being schindler's list apparently the movie had this effect on everybody
1	is a classy filmed movie in the same style as the oscar winning film character 1997 but this comparison immediately urges me to add that the latter was quite more exciting br br sure is a beautiful historic costume drama with fantastic acting by in which you witness the personal growth of van in her marriage to the subtitle of this movie is 'a so it starts and ends with their marriage br br but that is where the director makes a crucial mistake exciting independent life started when the marriage ended she wrote several children's books and travelled around the world what a great life she has lived but puts back in the of convention that depressed her and that she struggled out of the thought that her life extended just her marriage to being no one else but the mother of their kids br br let's all hope for ii
1	a touching movie about a talented woman who struggles with a society and a love that structurally underestimate her the issues are subtly addressed and timeless as many of the depicted difficulties between man and woman still exist in dutch society today this movie is a tribute to all modern women without dwelling on feminism not only the story is well told the acting and the scenery are great as well
1	recovery is an incredibly moving piece of work handling the devastating effects of brain injury on not only the individual but the entire family without resorting to preaching or hollywood sappy endings tony drama presents a family in crisis in a realistic way br br highest praise goes david tennant and sarah parish for their incredible performances i had presumed before watching the drama that i would see some of their previous on screen relationship in blackpool bleed through but it never does neither actor is recognizable from any previous work and i didn't see either of them as an actor playing a part during the entire 90 minutes in addition harry performance as the son just on the cusp of starting his own life in university was fantastic throughout the piece he shows the torn nature of a teenage boy thrown into the unwilling role as man of the house br br at times nearly every character in the drama is unsympathetic as the viewer i wanted to give each of them a good smack to wake up to reality stop moping and start adjusting to the rotten but very present change in their lives but under the same circumstances i see myself acting like any of them switching between trying to show the stiff upper lip to desperation to escape to anything including behavior that is completely unlike myself it's the show's greatest strength truth without sugar coating to force us all to think what we'd be able to do under the same circumstances br br this is a difficult but must watch show i hope that it somehow manages to be shown in the u s
1	david tennant and sarah brilliant acting had me in tears as many of the scenes were so familiar to me my husband suffered a sub in 1977 and required a major operation which involved lifting his brain and plugging the leak like tricia i was naive enough to expect that he would return to being his former self after over 25 years of loving and caring for him he abandoned me without warning to go and live with a woman he hardly knew he then for and i am now going through a divorce i do hope the programme helped people to understand what it is like to cope with brain injury
1	recovery is a well judged and balanced drama of a sensitive subject that doesn't sentimentalise the main characters david tennant and sarah parish bring to the fore the complex and conflicting emotions of a couple deeply in love struggling to come to terms with the personality changes they both endure and also must make to survive a tragic accident br br tennant as alan brings humour as well as a dangerous as an engineer recovering from a memory loss brought on by a road accident alan is not portrayed simply as a victim but as human being with feelings doing the best he can to make sense of his new life sarah tricia is not a clichéd stand by her man housewife who will do anything to support her husband she struggles with falling out of love with alan as the man she once new and loved is now a completely different person a stranger to her br br contrary to some opinion this in my view makes perfect sunday night viewing too often we are shown soft family dramas or detective series like heartbeat which rot and the brain programme seem to think that the traditional day of rest is also a day when our minds go to sleep more challenging and thought provoking drama like recovery would seriously change the situation
1	i can't remember the series i believe it may have been american masters but it was broadcast on pbs around 1980 most people have some knowledge of the development of the a bomb and those that have little or none probably think it is a pretty dry subject anyone who has viewed this 7 part series does not feel that way you get to know the turmoil in mind and how the development changed his life forever you understand the tragic figure he became and why with 7 episodes you get to know the major players and the intrigue and backstabbing i have contacted pbs about the chance of obtaining a video or dvd but have never received a response too bad i would love to see it again
1	i'm so glad i taped this film when it came on bbc last month it blew my mind so gut wrenching and real david tennant is absolutely fabulous in this even though his character isn't always that easy to like or identify with the final scene where he plays the song just broke my heart those eyes br br i'm guessing that he made this film in between the dr who series and that makes it even more of an achievement for me i just love dr who and yet i saw absolutely nothing of him in mr portrayal of this man who knows that he has changed and struggles to create some sort of new identity and life br br great little intense drama
1	i was like an idiot during the last ten minutes of this exceptional piece of television i have to say that the idea of sitting down to view 90 minutes of what was bound to be pretty depressing material on a sunday was not a welcome one the thought of yet another over worthy bafta winning possibility did not me however the end result knocked me for 6 this is some of the best television i have seen in ages for years i was under the impression that all originality had left the bbc's drama department our friends in the north was the last production that truly blew me away and that was 10 years ago however faith is restored and honour is satisfied david tenant was incredible so many actors i can think of would have really gone to town on a part like this but never once did i see mr tenant as an actor or as the doctor all i saw was alan hamilton i haven't had my heart wrenched this much since daniel craigs performance as geordie peacock all those years ago sarah parish was also incredible and i really hope this role brings her better roles in the future all of the cast were great but special mention must go to the director who really placed us inside head the toaster scene in particular made me feel quite queasy
1	when i saw this on tv i was nervous whats if they messed it up millions of families like mine that live with a brain damaged man in my case my dad would be let down i watched it with my mum and we both ended up crying it was so accurate and captured how the family feels as well as the person having suffered the brain injury the actors were all wonderful and i had no complaints my mums told me she hasn't been able to stop thinking about it i hope this program made many people aware of what it's like living with brain damage and what it's like for the families more programs like this should be made i was surprised at how good it was and it's really shook me up emotionally
1	totally disgusting and cheap bawdy humor i loved it it is the most disgusting and totally horribly acted film except for nicolas read who plays an un dead court jester to comic brilliance but being that as it may i laughed so many times and i have to hand it to the film makers it wasn't pretentious or ordinary in any way raping fighting zombies on their rape victims what other movie has this not for the but with a pizza a bong and a six pack of beer you got it made if you have a cast iron stomach and a juvenille sense of humor like myself
1	i felt compelled to comment on this film because it's listed as the fourth lowest rated sci film of all time on the imdb what sure this movie is crappy but it's hilarious it's not awful on an ed wood level it's more surreal and uneven br br there are some classic moments in the film the brain surgery is gross and great and even nuttier when you consider that the film was rated pg gor chasing after his dolly before getting battery acid dumped on his face mine speeches at the beginning of the film before amir kali was but another weak nation struggling to break free from centuries of stagnant angelo also has some great lines no gor no you want these keys don't you my it is absolutely wrong that this is the 4th lowest rated sci film on the imdb because it is entertaining no matter how bad a film is if it still manages to be weird quirky unsettling or entertaining it has merit and doesn't deserve to be dumped on and dismissed i won't defend most of al adamson's films but this one along with dracula vs frankenstein and blood of ghastly horror are entertaining enough to make up for their awfulness
1	this film revolves around an arabian leader amir who dies and wants to live on so a dr lloyd trenton is being paid to transplant brain into a willing participant but in the doctors basement his dwarf assistant angelo rossitto drains young girls blood for the doctors purposes so meanwhile doctor pays a man to kill the people who assisted amir into the country which is reed hadley grant williams and various unknown bodyguards grant is the only survivor when his car crashes off the road while this has happened the doctors other assistant gor is sent out to get a body for amir and hurts him so badly dr cant operate meanwhile grant finds girlfriend regina carrol and tells her his story grant sees the man who drove him off the road and kills him then since gor failed to get a body d r puts brain into disfigured body then grant and regina go to the doctors lab an br br spoilers find out his secret soon amir gor are prancing around killing people and in the muddle of what i think is plot dr has a brain ray gun which hurts amir on command it turns out dr lloyd wants a country in which all scientists can work without law so then regina dies and at the end new body i think say that it shall be a new country blah blah br br i still don't get the ending but overall this was a very enjoyable piece of smelly cheese this film features grant williams in his second to last film roll i recommend it for any fan of al adamson or if you like brains
1	american made final entry in the blood island series of filipino horror films concerns abdul amir reed hadley ruler of a fictional country he dies of cancer yet it's figured out how to bring him back put his brain into a donor body the mad doctor in charge kent taylor puts it in a highly unlikely body the facially scarred giant manservant named gor john bloom a doctor friend of the ruler tries to remedy matters and put an end to the mad plans br br film making partners samuel m sherman producer and al adamson director corral several actors they've worked with before including taylor sexy wife regina carrol angelo rossitto and vicki they tried to go for the feel of the previous blood island entries but one can tell this was made stateside while not necessarily a good film it's got a bunch of amusing elements to add up to an entertainingly trashy whole a malevolent dwarf rossitto gory operations a rather unconvincing makeup job on bloom the political intrigue subplot caverns full of cobwebs etc the narrative is actually pretty coherent with plot twists thrown in here and there i think it could have been trimmed a bit some scenes drag but it's got its fun moments and an ending people might not expect br br for this kind of thing the acting isn't too bad both taylor and rossitto are fun the latter seems to be having quite a good time in his role is appealing enough and williams is o k in the heroic role in any event it's nice to see all of these familiar faces in one of these films br br absolutely nothing special but as a trashy b horror i use the word loosely none of this is exactly scary film it certainly amuses br br 7 10
1	brain of blood starts as abdul amir reed hadley the leader of a country called is close to death because of cancer however if he dies will tear itself apart without anyone to lead them so doctor robert grant williams one of devotees mohammed have devised a plan to take dead body to america where mad scientist dr lloyd trenton kent taylor will transplant his brain into a fresh body with a bit of plastic surgery no one will ever know he was even dead things don't go according to plan though as when the time comes to transplant brain freak assistant gor john bloom brings a dead body of someone that fell from a balcony trenton needed a strong fit living body since there's no more time he decides to use body as a temporary stop gap until another more suitable one can be found unfortunately when amir wakes up in his new body he's not very happy at what he sees i mean would you be if you found out your brain was inside a badly burned freak br br also known as brain damage the brain the creature's the undying brain this cheapo exploitation flick was produced directed by the one only al quite frankly i'm offended at the pathetic 1 5 rating brain of blood has on the imdb personally i think it's terrific fun in a so bad it's good sort of way the highly entertaining script by kane w lynn joe van rodgers is as loopy silly as they come from sloppy blood soaked brain transplants to crazed mad scientists from 7 foot tall acid scarred freaks who play with toy cars to 4 foot tall midget medical assistant's from basement dungeons to rooftop chases from car crashes to kidnaps to screaming scantily clad women from regina hair do which should get it's own mention during the opening credits to teenage girls imprisoned in the basement for blood to a laugh out loud hilarious ending which includes some deep meaningful speech it's all here brain of blood has quality cheese stamped all over it if your a fan of bad low budget exploitation flicks with a sense of fun then this film should be right at the top of your list of 'must see' films despite it's lowly 1 5 rating i am proud to admit that i liked brain of blood a lot i thought it was an absolute hoot to watch it slows down a bit at the end with a few too many shots of people wandering around doing nothing in particular but until that point it had moved along like a rocket at only 85 minutes it's relatively short it's difficult to second guess the barmy plot i just think it's loads of campy fun br br this is director adamson's masterpiece as far as i'm concerned along with dracula vs frankenstein 1971 which he made a year before this those who have seen an adamson film before will know about the none existent production values cheap special effects cardboard sets that all adds to the fun this film manages that fine between incompetence seriousness to create a memorable viewing experience i love the opening shot of which is obviously just a photo of the taj mahal in india complete with statuesque people in the foreground regina hair seems to be a separate entity on it's own it seems to change styles between shots is frankly horrendous don't get me started about her make up job either that she must apply with a a paint there is another hilarious moment when we see body has been transported to america wrapped in what looks like ordinary tin foil why is the question i asked myself why the effects are variable there's a terrible looking fake spider burned make up job is pretty bad although there is a surprisingly gory brain removal which is actually quite impressive br br the budget for brain of blood must have been practically none existent i must admit i thought lab was quite good with various computers medical instruments although the rest of the film looks cheap nasty the production values are low the music was taken from another film beast of blood 1971 the acting is awful but in a campy fun sort of way br br brain of blood may have the best title for an exploitation film ever as far as i'm concerned it's a highly entertaining piece of nonsense that i had a great time watching laughing at they just don't can't won't make them like this anymore impossible to recommend to anyone looking for a good film but bad movie lovers should enjoy it i liked it but then again i'm just weird
1	i saw this black and white comedy noir yesterday at the london film festival structurally it has been compared to pulp fiction but it is perhaps closer to the structure of amores perros and the slacker mood of kevin smith's clerks four stories intersect at a french motorway diner the first vignette has franck edouard baer bungling a hold up at the diner the waitress suzie anna takes pity and tell him her story the second has two incompetent kidnappers leon and paul serge take a teenage girl from her rich family unfortunately for them she is suicidal and her family don't appear to want her back the third is a dialogue between two ageing rock stars who bump into each other at the diner alain and playing themselves the final part is about four ex criminals who smuggle their old partner out of hospital to visit their old hideout which has since been turned into … the diner an returns to franck and suzie to complete their story not really an epilogue more a conclusion br br the structure does not really work the stories are not sufficiently intertwined as in pulp fiction nor is the diner crucial to the action to at least two of the stories in the way the car crash was crucial in the four stories of amores perros the quality of the individual stories varies the hideout story is a cute idea with a couple of good gags but does not come off and the rock star reunion is pointless and dull on the other hand the kidnap story is hilarious although its connection to the diner is tenuous the most balanced and successful story is the franck and suzie one br br this film isn't entirely successful but has moments of interest and hilarity i look forward to seeing more of writer director's samuel work
1	this is a slightly uneven entry with one standout sequence involving an over the hill gang reminiscing in the diner that once thirty years previously was their hideout one ho hum duologue between two ageing rock a noirish kidnap turned on its head and an opening sequence plus epilogue involving heist artist wannabe edward baer and current 'hot' property anna which has its moments no movie in which jean rochefort appears can be dismissed lightly and here he shines as one of the over the hill quintet indeed the film is worth seeing for rochefort alone but each of the sequences has something to offer and it's definitely worth a look
1	i watched this mini in the early eighties sam waterson proved himself to be a great actor in fact when he began law and order i was disappointed in him as it was not as powerful a role unfortunately the good roles do not pay the bills i wish i could find a copy of this rare series and review it it is both factual and entertaining everyone should see it to know what really happened i was so moved i purchased and read the book of worlds and saw how this man became an unlikely hero who was never rewarded for his insight if you get a chance be sure to watch this movie and see what a performance mr waterston can really provide an audience enjoy the movies
1	i first saw it at january 1 2009 and after a day i watched it again and i want to watch it again love everything well almost so 9 stars about it no color beautiful naive stories funny gangsters anna camera work music well sometimes you just want to listen little bit longer and the music just stops but this is not a musical after all i like anna's acting this naive wannabe gangster girl how she speaks holds the gun everything makes me smile no it's not that funny though i have laughed a bit at some moments it's just so subtle excellent work by samuel though 3d nouvelle seems weaker but they are also gangsters maybe even worse cause they are stealing ideas and the last scene is my favorite makes me feel so warm and romantic yes i would recommend this movie for the romantic souls with a taste for such art movies and i don't agree with those comparing it to pulp fiction it's not about action and twisted story though all vignettes intersect it's calm and maybe too slow movie for most of the people it's about characters their feelings very subtle anyway probably this review won't be of much help to anyone my first just wanted to express my appreciation br br spoiler this movie doesn't have a goofs section wonder didn't anybody notice that hand in the 2 part when the kidnappers decided to go home looks like a part of crew hehe i know i should better post this in forums but i don't agree with some policies here
1	this movie definitely shows something and sheds light on what happens in most institutions today and shows how one gurl just with the help of her newspaper manages to get things done her editor has complete faith in her and doesn't publish something important because it would harm her friend and when it was the right time she took the necessary action br br the movie overall got a rating of 9 from me because its got everything i mean it keeps you entertained and moreover they have acted really well for a tv movie its really high quality acting that deserves alot of credit
1	i liked this movie many people refer to it as sabrina the teenage feminist they do that with a lot of movies that melissa joan hart is in still she really surprised me in this movie because she was great in the part of mary who fights for justice when her roommate is raped you could tell that hart was extremely determined in this movie and it showed i also liked lisa dean ryan as mary's roommate she was very effective in making me feel sorry for her character after she was raped josh hopkins was good as the cocky and egotistical rapist lochlyn munro convincingly played his character the acting in this movie is better than in most tv movies in my opinion br br the movie was pretty predictable though also i expected more from the ending it was too abrupt the delivery could have been better but the performances and overall plot make up for these problems
1	i actually flipped to lifetime channel by mistake just as this movie was beginning and ended up watching it br br it certainly deals with a serious issue probably more prevalent than we realize in terms of this type of attack of a young woman by an ego maniacal fellow student who feels he's above the system and unfortunately often is br br the cast here was believable and the performances credible a lot of these canadian lifetime flicks are decidedly over the top however this is one i might label as under the top br br while appreciating the fact that it wasn't presented in an overblown fashion this film somehow seemed like a record being played at a slower speed than proper the 96 minutes seemed like many more and it had the effect of looking like a shorter film looped over and over seemingly going on and on and on and on before reaching its inevitable and predictable conclusion br br yet the engaging characters and performances made it better than the average film of this type despite these criticisms br br and while these pictures often milk the climax this one could have given it a bit more detail and length
1	in my work with the only nationwide non profit organization security on campus inc dedicated exclusively to the issue of college campus crime prevention and student awareness i see all too often the type of campus violence and cover up' through secret campus courts portrayed in the movie silencing mary ' in fact we receive numerous calls and requests for information every month from campus reporters such as mary' who are facing similar situations br br its depiction of a campus rape and the subsequent crusade by mary ' the victim's roommate and a student journalist played exceedingly well by melissa joan hart for justice was very well done and accurately researched br br this was the first television movie that i have ever seen that i felt truly reflected and encompassed all of the various complex issues associated with how rape and other violent crimes are dealt with on our nation's college and university campuses although it would not be possible to address all of these issues in depth in 2 hours this movie comes closer than any others i've seen
1	this production was quite good the usual fabulous scenery interesting quirky characters it was just so strange not to have captain hastings miss lemon and poirot's office residence so prominently featured in the original pbs bbc mysteries br br in the original series so much took place at the office hastings reading the paper while poirot exercises his little gray cells miss lemon pitching in whenever needed br br poirot without capt hastings would be like holmes without watson he can most certainly solve the crime but it is not as interesting br br and what would a poirot mystery be without hastings with his impeccable manners falling for some beautiful unattainable woman
1	count me as being one who is happy to see no hastings in this episode the poor man's dr watson does nothing for me as he simply drags down every scene he's in japp is often necessary to the story as the representative of officialdom and a little miss lemon is fine for seasoning but hastings swings from painfully dim to over mannered in different episodes if i have to sit through one more vacuous oh i say there i'll take the gas pipe br br as a general rule the more poirot you get in a poirot story the better every line for hastings is one taken away from poirot and i've never read the books so i really don't care about fidelity to christie's characters a lot of viewers reviewers seem to have a problem with separating the movies from the books if you want the book as written then read it i don't see the point of watching the television version if you know what will come next at every stage theatre is not prose don't expect a transcription
1	richard a very wealthy man has died and his relatives have assembled for his funeral included in the funeral party is youngest sister cora while none of the family has seen cora in at least 20 years they all agree that cora was always a bit different so when cora says something about having been murdered most laugh it off as one of eccentricities but someone is obviously taking cora seriously the next day cora is found dead in her bed having been beaten violently is there a connection between the two deaths it's up to hercule poirot to find a killer br br after the funeral is one of the most well put together episodes of the entire poirot series i've always been a fan of this particular agatha christie book and from what i remember the movie is as faithful to christie's source material as any of the poirot installments the mystery is top notch with plenty of clues suspects and red herrings and as i've written before i always enjoy an christie story where hercule poirot gathers everyone together in a drawing room for the final reveal it might be old fashioned but that's the way i like it getting beyond the plot technically and artistically after the funeral is a winner sets editing direction and cinematography are as good as you'll find in one of these movies the acting is equally impressive i've come to expect an enjoyable performance from david suchet as poirot and he doesn't disappoint here the rest of the cast is just as strong with monica dolan giving an especially noteworthy performance other than a minor quibble with the rapid fire way the characters are introduced i've got no real complaints it's a good show all the way around
1	although i have definitely read this particular agatha christie book at some point i didn't remember anything about it except the name which is a good thing because seeing this story unfold without knowing how it will play out allowed me to appreciate once more the sheer genius of agatha christie the way she misleads you and then pulls the rug out from under your feet is the main reason for her success and timelessness in addition to her stories the excellent production values beautiful locations wonderful music top notch acting elegant directing etc are the reasons for this series' success and timelessness and all those virtues are present in after the funeral a word of advice be alert right from the start there are clues dropped all over the place even in the opening sequence there are some quite unnerving moments as well in contrast to the peaceful looking english countryside locations and some small touches of humor a must see for mystery buffs and just a very good film in general
1	as most other reviewers seem to agree this adaptation of 'after the is very good indeed always one of my favourite poirot stories i was worried that it might be about with' well it was a little bit but only a little bit and the end the result was thoroughly entertaining david suchet continues to be well nigh faultless as poirot and as others have pointed out the other star of this show is monica dolan who surely could not be bettered as miss gilchrist i also really enjoyed fiona who was spot on as the cutting rosamund shane but really the casting was quite impeccable throughout br br one point is knocked off for the not being able to resist cramming too many revelations into the final fifteen minutes the business with the will and house deeds was all a bit unnecessary although i didn't mind how they tightened up the structure of the family in the book the family tree is really quite complicated the final moments when the murderer is revealed however are really incredibly well done and i found the very end when they all leave quite touching this is really one of the very best of the poirot series so far
1	absolutely the best thing i have ever seen on tv it was both entertaining and informative the reason i found this site is an attempt to find out how i can again see it br br in the light of present understanding of history we have to sympathize with gen leslie who was responsible for the nuts and bolts of running the manhattan project most certainly he was not as paranoid about security as most have thought in the past br br the casting for the real life people portrayed was outstanding it was the first time that i noticed sam waterston as an actor except for height he looked very much like robert oppenheimer br br the early scene in which oppenheimer is leading a class of graduate students was especially intriguing to me
1	some less than inspired opening string music notwithstanding we somehow know that from the word go this is heading straight for the big fun drawer by the time we observe monica dolan in a truly genius bit of casting delightfully goofing it up as cora early on we're already hooked but it is only later on when she reveals herself in her marvellous screen creation that deranged scheming maleficent queen of murder and deceit posing in the guise of the uptight miss gilchrist that she not only effortlessly steals the entire telemovie for herself but quite simply blows off screen anyone who comes near her including the ever well measured david suchet who himself seems to be somewhat bedazzled by her acting talents and very gentlemanly allows her to take centre stage dolan is the true engine of the film and her miss gilchrist a genuinely well rounded character in this christie rendition helped by a zesty script and the sprightly paced direction and also by the rest of the cast led by geraldine james and dominic who all display signs of sympathy for the given material and play with relish accordingly br br the production values are spot on as usual and if there are any weaker links they might be located in the comparatively substandard music score to the majority of later poirots and also perhaps in the lacking of a genuine italian born actor for the role of husband other than that this is an hour and a half of pure televisual delight which is as self indulgent and entertaining as it is lovingly put together
1	i saw this film on the a e channel this past weekend the mystery was okay i was not able to guess the culprit before the end but i enjoyed the characters and their development much more than the mystery there was a mystery about some of them especially george performed by the wonderful michael and george's cousin susannah in fact the story of those two characters left me wanting to know more from what i've tried to glee about the agatha christie book of the same title i think this film did not follow it to the letter very good performances by the actors involved especially and the lady who played cora companion
1	after the funeral was absolutely superb and by far the best episode of the season i was disappointed with cards on the table that started off so well but let down considerably by the last half hour and i didn't know what to think of taken after the flood though i do remember being confused at the end after the funeral as i've said is one of my all time favourite poirot episodes up there with five little pigs sad and the abc murders i was afraid that they would ruin the story but instead it is very faithful to the book now i will say i don't mind changes to books and try not to compare movies and tv adaptations to their sources except when the book is a masterpiece and the adaptation doesn't do it justice that's why i disliked some of the like nemesis and sleeping murder and so far out of the poirots the murder of roger ackroyd taken at the flood and cards on the table are the only ones that really did disappoint everything else ranges from good to outstanding even the recent appointment with death despite the many deviations from the book which i admit isn't a favourite was surprisingly good thanks to the marvellous production values stellar ensemble performances and outstanding music score back to after the funeral the production values are fantastic it has a really cinematic feel to it and the stunning photography and splendid scenery and costumes made it a visual feast for the eyes the music was very stirring and even haunting and the entire cast give wonderful performances david suchet is impeccable as always as poirot and geraldine james and anna calder marshall are just as terrific but for me the standout was monica dolan as mrs gilchrist she is up there with donald sumpter and polly walker as the best supporting actor actress in a poirot episode that's how good her performance was all in all a must see one of the best poirot episodes by far and one of the more faithful ones too 10 10 bethany cox
1	for those of you still in the dark i will not spoil this christie as it is definitely one of her finest works and i stress that you should see it whenever you next have free time if any of the adaptations are to be watched before or in lieu of reading the book i would suggest after the funeral for the following reasons br br i wanted to praise the performance by monica dolan miss gilchrist whose employer companion cora is brutally murdered at the outset of the film her portrayal of a shocked nervous insignificant woman is actually moving especially when she has a moment of personal connection with poirot another person who travels alone in the journey of life and when the murderer is being revealed in typical poirot denouement fashion reactions to the revelation are acting at its finest you feel as angry at the murderer as you do sympathetic to miss gilchrist something uncommon in christie lore br br although there are a couple of discrepancies between novel and film adaptation as per usual the business of the will perhaps making less sense in the film the unbelievably lavish recreation of post war england thoroughly high calibre of acting and directing and preservation if not heightening of christie's mystery and intrigue render these discrepancies insignificant br br bravo suchet dolan and the whole team for crafting this masterpiece of murder mystery theatre and the producers who gave it the green light encore
1	aunt cora had always been tactless and her well bred family ignored the remark she made after her brother richard's funeral he was murdered wasn't he they remembered it the next day when cora was found brutally murdered with a hatchet br br for some reason the poirot movies this year have been far from faithful to the original book i was disappointed about the changes made in cards on the table my favourite poirot book after the funeral is my 2nd favourite poirot book and i was scared the story would be destroyed it wasn't the movie was nearly page for page faithful throughout right down to the killer's motive all the actors were wonderful but my favourite has got to be monica dolan who gives a great performance as miss gilchrist the companion to the late aunt cora without a doubt the best poirot movie ever
1	david suchet is agatha christie's mustached detective hercule poirot in after the funeral produced in 2005 anyone who has heard david suchet speak with his own british accent knows what a shock it is because his accent as poirot is so perfect and organic to the character suchet is the poirot of agatha christie's books and although i confess a love for peter ustinov in the role his portrayal doesn't have that much to do with what christie wrote br br in this episode poirot is asked by a solicitor friend to investigate the possible murder of one of his clients on the train the solicitor recounts the events after the death a strange will the expected heir and the pronouncement of the man's sister that he was murdered when poirot meets the family he discovers adultery lots of secrets another will and murder br br the story is excellent with rich production values and a wonderful detailed depiction of the time period all of the acting is superb particularly from monica dolan who plays miss gilchrist poirot here is without hastings his beautiful office or miss lemon but he's effective nonetheless br br i had the privilege of seeing david suchet on broadway in amadeus breathtaking what an actor when he's playing poirot all i see is poirot
1	i was surprised that i liked this movie but it reminded me of a 2004 version of the first friday the 13th there were a number of cheesy elements yet at the same time there were many cool ones the story line was good predictable if you have seen more than one or two horror movies but full of one liners to make it worthwhile there are some memorable scenes worth watching a few issues i had with the plot had to do with the continuity of the characters for instance in the opening scene the scarecrows which were humans on stakes whose blood was drained to grow the crops looked very real but later in the film they looked more like fake scarecrows wearing blue colored masks there were more than several gaps in the plot and the acting was mediocre but at least it sounded like how real people talk unlike hollywood movies where the dialogue is really fake sounding when you think about it the culmination of the last scene when the main character says i'm not a baker i'm a and the head off of the scarecrow is satisfying as his friends have for the most part been killed off by these creatures at that point
1	this movie was to me a fairly enjoyable watch i mean it wasn't great but it was one of the better horror movies of late it seems to have been low almost state benefit budget size but it has it's charms like the lovely ladies in it the atmosphere was good also which is what is missing hell of a lot of horror movies these days the acting was your typical 80's low budget affair that being in case you don't know is that it is dud acting but that is what lucio fulci's movies were full of they like this movie had atmosphere what they were lacking in storyline and money etc they more than made up for in the horror gore atmosphere for the movie it's self br br it is just a typical low budget horror movie that is watchable i watched it all the way and i love horror movies i've seen movies where i just turn off within 10 to 20 minutes or sit and fast forward it if it's on video or skip scene's on the dvd this movie didn't make me want to do that i sat and watched it all the way to the end without wanting to skip parts br br i would have liked it however if the zombie type folk in this were a little more scarier as they were about as scary as having freddy kreuger as your babysitter not but seriously though if they were a little better it would have been low budget perfection maybe br br the music in this movie was top notch stuff ideal horror music so it was i've seen horror movies where the music is good or average but it could have been better thank goodness though this movie didn't have nay of the metal music in it br br i've been a die hard metal fan since 1990 but in horror movies metal music spoils it the movie looses atmosphere a lot when any type of music other than a score is playing so i'm glad there was no music in this movie other than just your typical score which was rather creepy well done br br it could have use profane grace epitaph of shattered dreams on it though as it is keyboard music no guitars no nothing except really creepy keyboard tracks like track one forever sleep you hear the wind blowing all the way through it and some goose bump inducing keyboard music that follows it ever track on that cd is the same ideal horror music at it's best it would have suited this movie perfectly br br the only unattractive chick in the movie to me was the one who got killed or so we are led to believe and hung up as a scarecrow only to get free and try to escape later every other woman in the movie was lovely indeed a big 9 out of 10 for them all except the one i mentioned above br br i wish that hollywood mainstream side of things would give money to romero and the guy who made this movie as giving it to them for movies is way better a decision made than giving it to a goon muppet called paul anderson of the resident evil mince br br well done guys it is not bad not bad at all i loved the part at the end credits when they kept showing you clips of them making the movie behind the scene's not many movies do this kind of thing which i thought added a little to the movie as it also showed you some outtakes of sorts and that's always a good thing if you ask me br br rating for this movie 8 10 rating for the lovely ladies in the movie 9 10 rating for the atmosphere in the movie 9 10 rating for the score for the film 9 5 10
1	do not expect a classic military comedy which claims to make fun of the military while only enhancing a militaristic outlook instead it deconstructs the elements that make the military such a murderous machine kind of east german version of buffalo soldiers br br nva works on a meta level that it sympathizes with its heroes' attempts to escape from army drill any which way they can it's not about loud laughs but about long lasting smiles utopian of course in one scene you will be shown the harsh reality but very thoughtful br br just to fill the required 10 lines do not go into that movie if you have been an army officer and liked your job
1	don't quite know why some people complain about this film not being a comedy and at the same time being too unrealistic if it had been realistic there certainly wouldn't have been much comedy i also don't think that a comedy needs to make you laugh aloud twenty times there was much subtle humor sweet feelings and kim frank just portrayed a dreamy character in real life there are many people whose facial expression doesn't change much so kim frank keeping his was quite all right the ending was quite unrealistic i'd say but happy it's a light hearted movie with a feel good ending i liked it loved it actually a serious part was krueger going to and i'm glad they didn't show what happened to him there showing how he was when he came back hinted at it quite clearly
1	i saw this series on pbs in 1980 in college and i still can't get it out of my head although i have never seen it since i remember every cast member the casting was perfect as mentioned in other comments the design the lighting and of course the story which is by itself is enough to keep you glued to the set probably the best tv series i ever saw next to the original roots
1	nva combines humor military comedy and teen movie although it is somehow typically german movie like sentimental i think it's a great and very funny movie you will not only laugh in nva but also get a bit of an insight in the eastern germany armed forces of the late 1980ies and how the young recruits as well as the professional soldiers experienced the fall of the berlin wall and the end of the german democratic republic br br you will enjoy nva if you liked another movie directed by leander but not necessarily if you enjoyed good bye lenin which is much more serious and less obviously funny br br the acting is acceptable but watch for former boy band singer kim frank who has only two facial expressions natural and shocked saucer eyed
1	it's just stories some we wish happen to us some we wish never happen to us all about unfulfilled desire the locations and nude bodies are beautiful but after the second story all i could think was 'it takes more than just beauty to create a real film' then of course the film unfolds the stories are moving except sophie fails to communicate her story in this film malkovich plays the story for both of them though the voiceover fails to link the stories but helps malkovich to provoke some thought br br i'd say it is worth seeing and the best of antonioni i have seen given his age remarkable
1	antonioni with wim wenders some of the best of the best story character visuals like most of their works it is not really aimed at the children or the childish don't miss the genius contained in this one
1	a wonderful cast thrown into modern mystical romances for the intellectual grown ups yes they too need a love story to stir those hidden urges without the hollywood fluff this all under the masterful direction of antonioni and wenders who both love to pin his characters in exotic locations and have them dwarfed by the surroundings with long wide shots it is great to see that there is lust in the mid life crises sector
1	beyond the clouds is an over the top artsy group of four vignettes each a offering a glimpse into a man woman relationship from the tenuous to the turbulent although the film offers superb cinematography some exquisite visual beauty and a cast of fine performers there's little meat on the bones of this fragmented work a taste of a relationship cannot impart the fullness of it and suggests that much more can be accomplished with one story in 2 hours than with four nonetheless beyond the clouds will be fodder for and a visual feast for the all albeit superficial stilted and lacking in substance
1	looks like the bet movie i've ever seen not too much for intelligent perception but so rich for perception sensitive antonioni is comparably wise to his movie so organic roles are so true situations are so real i've change my world outlook after this cinema i'm a beginner literati in russia country of tolstoy and and i'm quite sure watching antonioni is good and fun for russkies because i and we do understand his point of view so i don't understand his lesser on imdb i'm sure speaking from russia and our people we like antonioni because of his romantic soul and positive sensation of surrounding reality
1	first the positives an excellent job at depicting urban landscapes to suit the mood of the film some of the shots could be paintings by de sophie beautiful br br the negatives the stories are hard to believe unreal uni dimensional characters preen and posture 100 of the time as if they were in some kind of catwalk this is neither the antonioni of his earlier much better movies nor the wenders we've all come to know and appreciate malkovich is excess baggage in this movie
1	amazing movie some of the script writing could have been better some cliched language joyce's the dead is alluded to throughout the movie beautiful scenery and great acting very poetic highly recommend
1	if you speak french or can put up with sub titles you will really enjoy this movie if on the other hand you just want to see god's most beautiful creatures this is a must see not an ounce of silicon in sight zalman king eat your heart out sophie body is the epitome of perfection and everything i had ever fantasized about her part is even in english even the fact that she was nude with john malkovich did not detract for her beauty sophie is a ten if ever there was one chiara caselli and are 9 5s oh yeah it is a pretty good story several little vignettes are woven together in a sort of six degrees of separation style
1	this the the final feature film that michelangelo antonioni directed with the help of wim wenders and adapts from his short story collection that bowling alley on the beyond the clouds contain 4 short stories with familiar themes that we've come to be accustomed to from his earlier works and sums up those themes in vignettes which are weaved together via wenders' directed scenes involving john the director character however most of the stories seemed to offer little or no depth that we're used to from an antonioni movie while narration of supposed depth rattled on with unclear diction that sounded a tad pretentious and out of place br br nonetheless all four stories seem to touch on chance encounters and extremely quick romances that played out more like lust at first sight perhaps due to the lack of time since they're short stories anyway to allow for a more layered approach to carefully define and craft the characters as we know from a typical antonioni movie and the obsessive approach here is for the characters to disrobe to showcase a lack of deeper connection sacrificed for the immediate satisfaction of the flesh maybe this is the point to want to bring across with an observation of the more modern relationship br br the first story story of a love affair that never existed tells the romance between silvano kim rossi stuart and carmen who meet when one asks the other for directions to a hotel and later meet at a cafe it's as if fate is playing games on them when they meet but part and meet again much later but like the games people play it's almost like a l'avventura or a la notte with the lack of communication and of the expectations from the man br br john director character takes central role in the next short who exhibited some really lecherous looks toward a girl working at a shop played by sophie she is deeply disturbed and made to feel uncomfortable but somehow plucked up the courage to approach him and in what i thought was to scare him off tells him her background that she murdered her father by stabbing him 12 times but in a flash these two are off toward bedroom gymnastics br br the next short don't look for me is the longest of the lot with peter weller playing a cheating husband who has to choose between his mistress chiara caselli or his wife played by fanny ardant perhaps the more star studded of the lot with jean reno also stepping in for a coda at the end of it which sort of expands the little universe in which this short exists but unfortunately reno's involvement also got relegated to some stifle of laughter as it goes into the implausible domain with laser quick romantic there was a key element adapted from l'eclisse with a kiss between a couple through a glass panel too while the introductory tale about the story of souls was quite interesting if there's a negative theme here this short wants to play upon it'll be the duplicity of man br br in between this short and the next was a small scene which reunited our couple from la notte marcello mastroianni and jeanne moreau where the former was painting a landscape which was reminiscent of that in red desert finally we have the final shot this body of dirt with vincent perez as a young man going after a girl irene jacob whom he just met and falling in love with her only to realize that it is a love that is too late it's a relatively talkie piece just like the first story with the characters engaging in conversation while walking the streets of the city they're in which sort of brings to mind richard linklater's before sunrise br br while on the whole the movie may have succeeded as individual pieces they never quite measure up as a combined effort given the excuse to link them up was a film director's exploration of possible stories and a look for inspiration for his next film
1	i posted on imdb on this series recently giving a snail mail address at the commercial arm of the where one would write to appeal release i wrote to that address mentioning sam waterson and his popularity prominently i just received the following reply br br from hotmail com subject oppenheimer date may 14 2006 1 44 00 pm to net br br dear kate br br i work for the bbfc the british equivalent to the mpaa and we classify dvds and videos as well as films in this country anyway i am currently in the process of giving a certificate to the 1980 miniseries ' while researching the work on the imdb i noticed your post and thought you might like to know that the work is about to be released hence the need for a certificate br br i don't know which company is distributing it but keep your eyes peeled br br kind regards br br emily br br hooray br br i also want to contact netflix re purchasing this br br kate br br net i emailed the bbc recently regarding whether their terrific series oppenheimer had ever been released on video or dvd i have not been able to find it i received the following reply if you do write the bbc be sure to mention that sam waterston is very popular in the us you can also enter oppenheimer 1980 on amazon com and find a box to check to request release by the owner bbc and be notified when it's released br br kate net br br here's the reply from the bbc br br dear kate br br thank you for your e mail regarding br br i was interested to read that you would like a copy of this programme which you have enjoyed i have checked the bbc shop and on line retailers and can find no record of it being available we are unaware of plans at present to release this programme on dvd however if you would like to make a suggestion can i suggest you put it in writing to the commercial arm of the bbc br br commissioning editor bbc worldwide ltd woodlands 80 wood lane london br br may i thank you again for taking the time to contact the bbc br br regards br br elaine hunter bbc information br br original message br br comments i am trying to find a copy of the terrific bbc production a six part series made in 1980 with sam waterston from a book script by peter prince i watched parts of it then on pbs american playhouse but can't find it on video anywhere br br http www bbc co uk
1	even though the story is light the movie flows so beautifully and its visual so tranquil and poetic that it could almost carry the whole movie br br the film consists of four interconnected stories all about different aspect of attraction between man and or woman and how it frequently is ethereal their true desire seems to be always something that they cannot hold onto it will flow out like a handful of sand br br i thought the most intriguing story was the last one where the more unattainable the woman was the more the man desires her it parallels her deep love for god who is infinitely out of reach but never closer to her heart br br a very good movie 7 10
1	i saw this film for the first time last night i have been thinking about it all night and this morning i cannot say that it was my favorite film at least not yet i need to see it again br br the cinematography is stunning each shot has a lyricism that one would expect in a film that has wim wenders's name attached to it br br it is always tempting to see de in any picture of rows of orders vanishing into the gloom but in this case the analogy fits in many ways the figure of malkovich walking through the fog and wind of echoes the shadow of the off canvas statue that haunts milan in the major works of the italo greek painter he is slightly menacing a presence who watches and in his capacity as a film director exerts influence on the entire story br br the dedicated wenders fan cannot help but think a little bit of and wandering through the streets of berlin watching all but not directly interacting with the inhabitants and following the himmel uber berlin metaphor the angel or in this case malkovich the director gets to interact with one of the stories br br at this point i have to bow out of taking this line of criticism too far i need to see the movie again i am fairly sure that this is the thread that will bring monologue together br br perhaps his musings and are pretentious empty dialog that sound good but cannot possibly be parsed into real communication maybe that is the whole point of it no one can make that judgment with any degree of certainty or authority until having done his homework br br we must be careful when throwing around the word pretentious it is easy to write off anything that smacks of the intellect as pretension but that leads to a terrifying mental state one in which the only conversation seen as genuine earthy or authentic is the most banal when we shun all discussions of philosophy god existence meaning and all that brain candy we are setting our culture up to die a slow stupid and ugly death perhaps this is the warning that wenders and antonioni are giving us it certainly is not the only theme of the film but i think that it cannot be ignored br br the other and most obvious leitmotif is that of satisfaction there is a lot here on that and a thorough review of all the subtleties and consequences of the development of this leitmotif would well exceed the 1000 word limit for this review br br my advice is to see the film but i offer a caveat it is not an autonomous film at least i don't think so yet some films interact with the intellectual and artistic thinking of their times so much that the viewer needs to have a background in the zeitgeist before approaching the film par les is one of those films
1	i was stunned by this film i have been renting antonioni's films rediscovering them and this film showed me the climax and fruits of his 50 years of directing what an eye for setting color and detail i have never seen such visual beauty and poetry filmed before i had to stop after the first story and hold back the tears yes beauty moves me like it moved keats to write ode on a urn this movie is made for the mature emotionally and intellectually audience those hoping to see physical action and soap opera will be disappointed i will have to see this film several times before i can truly appreciate it and judge it this film should be required viewing for all cinematographers and directors br br possibly a truly great film on the order of kurosawa's dreams
1	beyond the clouds is in many ways the weirdest film i have ever seen not for its cult appeal gore or even for its ideas but because of the elements that combine to make this a masterpiece of cinema beyond the clouds was directed by michelangelo antonioni one of italy's most famous directors however if you gave this film only a quick watch over passively i mean it would seem one of those melodramatic and often pointless romances this movie deserves great attention to the point of embracing all its cheese by cheese i don't mean a slice but a whole brick of cheddar the music seems like it's from some italian porno the story and dialogue like they are from a corny japanese soap and the metaphors are so obvious you want to smack yourself on the head br br but once you get passed all this you are engaged in an existential work of art the cheese feeds into the subtle filming and draws our attention perfectly to what needs to be known the basic plot is of four chapters unrelated and all about love what we learn is that no matter what happens or what is said people cannot communicate to each other instead they can only communicate through each other i suppose that's why the dialogue and plot is so cheesy because the conversations are overly irrational with lack of causality and people's reaction overly melodramatic br br i left that film thinking to myself maybe all life is one big melodrama we judge our feelings towards others as real and purposeful i hate because i have reason but what does the hated think maybe they think that my hate is stupid and arbitrary in other words melodramatic br br so melodrama is actually an existential function a corny romance is simply human interaction put under a magnifying glass allowing us to see the futility of who we are and what we do br br this is a great film i recommend it to all
1	i'm not really sure what to make of this movie especially after seeing a great film like la notte unfortunately i saw this in german during an antonioni film festival at the frankfurt film museum so i didn't get to hear great voice he is supposed to tie together four stories about couples in italy however as good an actor as he is malkovich cannot rescue the most ridiculous of the four stories portrayed here a woman who comes up to him at a waterside cafe near a shop she owns and blurts out about how she killed her father nearby then the two of them go home have sex and he leaves it seems as if antonioni lost the subtlety had in earlier films like the passenger when dealing with sex and replaced it with blatant nudity br br however nonsensical the storyline is the film features two things that make it watchable eye and ear candy the actors and actresses are all beautiful people and the cinematography is marvelous scenes in old italian cities contrasting with a bit in a tall apartment building overlooking a city reminiscent of la notte br br the ear candy however is what really makes the film worth watching u2 and brian collaborated on your blue room and beach sequence both of which set the mood perfectly in the film the songs are available on passengers original soundtracks 1
1	i was stunned by this film afterwards i didn't even want to see any films for a long time any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison br br for many it may be the worst of antonioni very slow without an engaging conventional story line microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions and the worst of wenders verbose confused it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders' typical meandering hero's stream of consciousness so it doesn't produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema br br but for fans the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things br br
1	this is a special film if you know the context antonioni in his eighties had been crippled by a stroke mute and half paralyzed his friends who incidentally are the best the film world has arranged for him to a last significant film the idea is that he can conjure a story into being by just looking at it so we have a film about a director who conjures stories by simple observation and the matter of the four stories is about how the visual imagination defines love br br the film emerges by giving us the tools to bring it into being through our own imagination the result is pure movie world every person except the director is lovely in aspect or movement some of these women are and they exist in a dreamy misty world of sensual encounter there is no nuance no hint that anything exists but what we see no desire is at work other than what we create br br i know of no other film that so successfully manipulates our own visual yearning to have us create the world we see he understands something about not touching no one understands van morrison visually like he does morrison's celtic space music is predicated on precisely the same notion the sensual touch that implies but doesn't physically touch br br antonioni's redhead wife appears appropriately as the shopkeeper and she also directs a lackluster 'making of' film that is on the dvd br br ted's evaluation 3 of 4 worth watching
1	i first saw the movie a couple of years ago and was totally and utterly impressed but its sensuality it is one of the most touching films i have ever seen though it might appear a little bit pretentious and artificial too much beautiful if you will anyway one thing is for sure the camera man has done a great job each picture deserves to be cut off the film and displayed as a separate peace of art comparable to the or bernard paintings br br the music forms a perfect background for the story especially u2's one played between the first and the second novels at the beach scene as for the casting i cannot be objective since i like sophie and jean very much and cannot add more to the praising comments of others br br however the very fact that many people critics and those sophisticated in cinema criticized the movie made me watch it with a more critical eye for the second time no doubt the setting is splendid and the casting is gorgeous but this is somehow not enough to make a comprehensive and cohesive film the second novel when sophie tells her story to is somehow superficial and does not tell much about the motivations of the people involved was it only about shooting a beautiful and sensual love scene with the naked or what apparently it does not add anything to the idea of the movie and even the husky voice of is being unable to link it to the main plot br br other stories are more justified and are really beautifully shot which indulges many of the logic fallacies within them the scene when jean is overlooking the city through the huge window of his apartment on the top of the high building is absolutely incredible the feeling of moist air and fine haze which is being spread by the first scene can literally be sensed through the screen no doubt antonioni is a great master of shades and semi shades my favorite novel is the last one the most romantic deep and meaningful i guess that it the most antonioni like one in the whole movie almost a parable probably the overall positive impression from the movie is mainly due to the last one shot somewhere in a small italian town with its winding narrow streets and crooked pavements fountains with the and monumental cathedrals it was laconic but really touching br br i hope that my impressions and comments on the movie however chaotic they are would motivate somebody to spend an evening watching it it works better with the home theater having somebody caring by your side than in the movie theater enjoy br br i beg your pardon for the imperfect english and any possible misspellings
1	here's another antonioni that will be rediscovered again and again as soon as it comes out on tape or dvd i saw it a few months ago when it ran for the first time even in metropolitan movie capital l a for a couple of weeks and then disappeared art house audiences seem to have opted for their own special territory where older favorites like antonioni and resnais are only welcome as occasional br br at first i was disappointed thought the pace to be unbearably boring and that the man had lost a chance for years antonioni had found it difficult to find financing at an advanced age to add another masterpiece to his canon but knowing antonioni for what he was and how i had at first reacted to blow up and the passenger i refused to pass judgment until i had seen the film again i went back the next day and i should not have been surprised that the film kept pulling me in making me aware of things i had thought about and lost track of throughout my life driving home in a contemporary setting points exposed for the first time some forty years ago in ' forming an environment of subtle moods so and fascinatingly alienated in tone and quite comedic actually that i couldn't get enough the scene with malkovich sitting on the fancy colored swings on the windswept beach with the weather so beautifully silver and the u2 track in the background flowing through at just its rhythm had been my favorite it still was but now the whole film was just as great what a strange phenomenon the complex simplicity or the invisible complex which antonioni's eye alone seems to be able to pick up and communicate the odd thing is though it does look at first glance like a softcore porno of some kind and it does feature plenty of sex and the maddeningly gorgeous sophie and plently of other international stars to distract you this film is unmistakably antonioni's to its core but you will not sense to what a profound extent until you have seen it a few times and got used to its rhythm for example it is quite a funny film with a deep sense of humor something i did not notice at first but was turned on to by another critic and noticed to much delight on further viewings 4 before they pulled it and would've gone back for more if this film had been promoted right and people guided to a certain extent as to how to approach it i have no doubt it would have succeeded on the art house circuit like most of antonioni's '60s films but the '60s are no more and the film will have to find its audience on the small screen where half its beauty will be lost even in a letterboxed dvd version if and when it's released i urge all film nuts general or esoteric to see 'beyond the and add a piece of magic to the tragic
1	beyond the clouds is a hauntingly beautiful elegiac work of art the overall softness of the light that this movie is bathed in makes you want to touch the screen the autumnal mood conjured up could only been achieved by a director who has seen many summers of experience or to put it another way an old man i know of no other movie that captures and uses the softness of light and seasonal mood with such ravishing quality as beyond the clouds nearly all the people in this film are beautiful unless your idea of a beautiful woman is a blond bimbo that is the dialogue doesn't really matter too much not that there is much of it anyway and as for storylines forget it some films exist just as visual experiences this is one of them don't bother if you want simple entertainment this not for you br br i could about the visual perfection of this movie for days but i won't if you are at all interested in cinematography photography film direction etc watch this film
1	a true geek girl's dream high tech high drama smart guys steamy sex and large explosions very large explosions sam waterston is so natural in the role of oppenheimer that tapes of the real oppenheimer sound odd apparently he had a voice similar to ronald reagan the triumph and tragedy of oppenheimer is one of the 20th century's most stirring dramas and this movie stands as a model of what docu drama ought to be the facts are allowed to speak for themselves while the fictional parts are used to amplify and fill in the record not to call attention to themselves an interesting fact some of the technical details used had only recently been declassified and so are of special interest a must see
1	means take up and read which is precisely what i felt like doing after having seen this marvelous film br br von stimulates and inspires with this breathtaking and superbly executed adaptation of tobias wolff's 1995 new yorker article of the same name the incredible performance by tom noonan is brilliant and provocative and the editing sound design cinematography and directing are truly inspired the nuanced changes and embellishments on the original story are subtle clever and make the film cinematically more dynamic it's lyrical pacing is mesmerizing and begs you to watch it again br br watch out for this young director he's going places
1	like a lot of horror fans out there that went looking for the next great scare flick we plundered the asian horror market for whatever we could get our hands on leaving no dark haired ghost lady unturned we had good reason to do so the asian market had spawned such terrifying wonders as ringu dark waters the grudge and a tale of two sisters by the time takashi miike started ripping the mick out of the genre with one missed call in 2003 the market seemed to be drying up leaving it open for mockery and derision despite the continued hollywood remake machine working full steam ahead now don't get me wrong there were still plenty of good asian horrors being made the likes of and shutter to mention but two will stand as minor genre classics some day but the haired ghost lady had definitely had her feed at the party and was time to take that success drunk tramp home to bed then along comes a film like the curse a film that is smart enough to pay subtle homage to it's roots yet throws the out the window whilst doing it what i'm about to describe in terms of plot will probably make you think there is nothing new here at all the film is a documentary about one of japan's top paranormal investigators as he receives stories and tip offs on ghostly goings on he starts investigating the claims by a woman that she regularly hears a baby crying in the house next door yet there is no baby there apart from a middle aged woman and her son these two disappear sharpish when the reporter pokes his nose around but strange other coincidences start popping up a psychic young girl a mentally ill clairvoyant a pretty young actress who had a strange vision a lot of dead pigeons and a very sinister demon by the name of leading to a truly terrifying showdown in a small historical town br br to say any more on the plot might ruin the fun a bit the film is shot in fashion and incorporates footage from tv shows and news reports and the labels via subtitles lets you know where you are in terms of the time line the film has drawn more than a few comparisons to the blair witch project but apart from the shooting format and the creepy trip through the woods late at night the comparison ends there really br br what is refreshing about is how it doesn't pander to modern horror audiences if you are expecting ghost ladies to pop out of the attic look elsewhere the film's strength lies in it's slow gradual build up of terror a terror so profound that it will stick with you for days after watching it the climax is pretty damned freaky but just when you think the film is over you get treated to the 'real' ending when the credits start to roll and sweet holy f ck is it a killer in terms of acting it is mostly convincing you get some 'comedy' relief from the crazy tin foil covered clairvoyant but that soon dries up half way through the film the film also has a slightly feel than a lot of asian ghost horror as there is a violent streak to some of the events too br br overall is one to watch on your own late at night not since my first viewing of ringu ten years ago have i been so delightfully creeped out watching a horror film it is one that will itch away at you until it is too late then it is under your skin just let yourself go to this one completely and not a haired ghost lady in sight no wonder it has barely been released outside of japan let alone had an american remake lined up yet check this one out if you can essential viewing in my books
1	another hand held horror means another divisive movie that fans should still seek out and make up their own minds about br br imagine a cross between the blair witch project and the grudge and you're close to the overall content of this movie it's another videotaped horror but this time most of it is edited together in readiness for a video doc that was never completed by a supernatural investigator who disappeared br br i certainly had a feeling of dread while watching this movie does anyone do dreadful better than our asian friends but the creepy moments the genuinely creepy moments were sadly a bit fewer and farther between than i had hoped i also felt that i was two or three steps ahead of the investigator when apparent revelations appeared throughout so i certainly can't recommend this as highly as rec br br having said that it would be remiss of me not to highly recommend any film that goes on at length about worms contains at least two subtly spooky ghost moments and made sure that i had to put the lights back on for a while when the sun went down br br check it out if you have been enjoying some of the other hand held genre releases of late and the finale is a hair raising doozy br br see this if you like the last broadcast pulse angel heart
1	a documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the br br from the looks of it the film looks like one of those camcorder movies that have been popular these last few months even one that's going to be released next week paranormal activity however unlike movies like cloverfield rec and blair witch where most of those movies are in complete chaos and mayhem with all of the shakiness this one is basically shown in a traditional documentary style it has tv excerpts and interviews and the scares are very subtle well excluding the last 20 minutes where we go into the chaos effect and where the fear factor is raised up tremendously br br and it works the film is very engrossing and it makes you think yes you heard me right it makes you think you have to pay attention to those unrelated details given throughout the film and the payoff is great when in course of the film these things start to intertwine one another the film is also very slow moving which in this case is a good thing we as the audience get to absorb the details shown on screen however subtle or blatant they are br br above all it's a frightening little film i'm a person who is scared of ghosts and the paranormal more than killers who slashes away teenage victims so yes the film gave me some nightmares there are some images in here that are really disturbing to watch including one closer in the end where it makes you go what am i looking at well it's better left unanswered there are around ten reoccurring characters in here all of which gave authentic performances in their roles br br the only thing i don't like about the film is the ending because most questions are left unanswered the question that's it went though my mind it left a bad taste in my mouth however the rest of the film is just engrossing and really frightening don't see this alone in the dark because you'll regret that choice also i can see in a couple of years that hollywood would remake this film that will be interesting
1	i for one absolutely loved this movie br br it is not a typical asian horror where you would see a gruesome looking ghost usually a woman that is going around scaring people you barely see any ghosts for a majority of the film but the way this movie keeps you interested in the plot and characters is genius this is not the movie for you if you're into gore e g saw hostel or surprise scares where stuff pops out at you hollywood horror slasher films but this movie has an underlying creepy factor throughout the entire movie which i loved is a progressive and somewhat experimental approach to horror amongst the ridiculous remakes and unoriginal crap being released by hollywood in today's society br br please don't let the documentary style of filming turn you off why should it it is far superior to the blair witch project because for one the acting in is brilliant and it really makes you really feel like you're watching something you're not supposed to be seeing br br is definitely one of the best horror movies i have ever seen only a few films have made it into my top 5 horror and this movie holds a solid 1 spot on my list
1	being a great fan of horror especially asian horror i have seen tons of movies but this one is outstanding why it does have a plot which is unfortunately quite rare among horror movies the actors did a good job it feels like a real documentary film even if it's not it does not get boring for a moment the director cleverly combines the plot with the acts of a certain japanese magic cult perhaps this cult never existed but still it's believable it reminded me of the similarly great movie forbidden siren br br to me the one and only annoying thing about the movie was the character the psychic but this is subjective br br i recommend this movie to all fans of quality horror br br 9 out of 10
1	i can't praise this film enough it had a lot of that hand held first person shaking camera which i love and some hate because it makes them sick like rec cloverfield and blair witch project br br it is a long movie for its kind but i didn't even notice because the film was so interesting by just showing the footage from a paranormal reporter's work the movie keeps up the pace making it a real time experience for the viewer br br while i would never call this film the scariest horror ever made i'd have to say it's certainly one of the best i've seen the fear factor here is constructed by details in the images camera glitches events linked to one another which lend a very mysterious and haunting tone to the movie the horror is more in what is not shown but left to our imaginations the ending is perfect and be warned that you might have nightmares afterwards a second viewing is highly recommended though br br watch this one alone in the dark don't expect anything and you'll have fun
1	follows a documentary filmmaker kobayashi as he slowly uncovers something mysterious and evil that's leaving a trail of dead bodies in its wake after interviewing a woman who claims to hear loud baby's cries coming from the house next door where there is no baby kobayashi heads over to talk to the neighbor he's greeted with hostility by the unhinged disheveled woman maria who answers the door and promptly slams it in his face and gets a peek at her 6 year old son through a window strangely both the woman and her son disappear just days after his visit leaving behind a pile of dead pigeons on their back porch and the woman who first complained about the noises as well as her daughter are both killed in a mysterious accident not long after that this interest and he sets out on a quest to find out what's going on he soon uncovers that those with psychic abilities and extra sensory perception seem to be tuning into something sinister unexplainable and possibly even apocalyptic well known 10 year old clairvoyant and tv celebrity kana rio kanno seems to think we may all be doomed but she mysteriously disappears before she can be of much help another female psychic actress matsumoto becomes involved as does mr a mentally unstable kook psychic who wears a hat and jacket made of aluminum foil and thinks people are being eaten by what he refers to worms clues eventually lead back to the site of a small village that's now covered by a lake and the legend of an ancient demon known as br br unlike many other hand held horror flicks this one depends just as much on the plot as it does reactionary first person scares thankfully there's something of a storyline here a very interesting and intricate one at that so it doesn't rely on glimpses of horrific things through spastic camera work every once in awhile to keep your interest the way travels around following leads in search of the truth with well placed jolts along the way reminded me somewhat of the omen in its pacing the film also doesn't entirely consist of footage shot by the documentarian but weaves in news reports and television variety shows as if what we're watching is an already completed documentary that helps to break up some of the monotony usually associated with films shot in this particular style the performances are good enough not to harm any of the realism of the footage either overall it's a well made horror film with lots of plot shifts some suspense and quite a few genuinely creepy moments that's well worth checking out my only real gripe is that it could have used a little trimming here and there and seems to go on a bit too long otherwise pretty good stuff
1	this review contains some small yet significant spoilers br br br br i just finished watching my copy of br br and it was great this might sound cheesy but several times during the film i forgot it wasn't real xd the acting is convincing although the acting from kobayashi playing himself i think seems a bit hokey at times matsumoto in takashi shimizu's rinne seemed to change levels of believability throughout the movie sometimes she's really good then the next moment she's really cheesy especially at the end's exorcism and subsequent re possession br br a character that was ridiculous at first was mr a man covered in believing worms are coming to eat everyone he provides unintentional comic relief at the beginning acting like the stereotypical alien abduction type victim but near the end has some really creepy scenes br br the plot was very interesting and really kept me wondering how everything tied together there are some things that aren't really explained like a mass suicide in a tokyo park and where the reincarnated boy came from but everything else turned out fine the ending has got to be one of the most unnerving if not the scariest sequences i've ever had the pleasure to witness br br all in all is a very fun way to spend 2 hours and the new hong kong dvd provides great picture and sound most importantly the english subtitles engrish free for a great j horror experience i highly recommend picking it up
1	never posted anything here before but after watching i just felt that i had to write down my thoughts about it br br firstly do not compare this to blair witch this movie deserves far better than that simply put is probably one of the best horror movies i have ever seen and i have seen a lot br br i really liked how the movie presents itself not as a standard horror flick but as a documentary filmed by a reporter i think named kobayashi and his cameraman without spoiling to much about the plot i can say it that it starts with kobayashi doing research on a series of seemingly unrelated events that turns out to be connected to something far more darker and sinister br br while the story might not be that original in itself what really hooked me with was the incredibly eerie atmosphere if you're looking for cheap scares and seat jumping scenes this movie might not be for you this movie is all about the mood it presents with haunting images and a general feeling of foreboding suspense the documentary style filming just makes it farm more believable br br this is also helped a lot by the acting which is superb although not perfect for the general part of the movie far better than in most other movies in this type of genre br br well enough ranting from me i highly recommend to everyone it is suspenseful creepy well acted and the first movie that has scared me in ages
1	anyone familiar with horror films knows that most of them are not scary at all some people enjoy gorefests with subpar story lines and character development i personally enjoy horror films that focus on atmosphere and interesting concepts e g a tale of two sisters kairo etc whatever the type of horror film one personally likes there are only a select few that really scare you is one of them br br this is a documentary style movie which means that the entire film is a compilation of video clips that are linked by the legend of a demonic entity named the premise is that a journalist filmed his own footage by interviewing people associated with the demonic rituals associated with then compiled footage from other sources that link with his research what results is a relentlessly chilling experience that feels very real and very disturbing despite the fact that the story itself is fake br br some have compared with the blair witch project but the only similarity is the documentary style one obvious difference between the films is that scares the viewer by linking events to one another using different sources for example the journalist records the exterior of a house that he is researching and sees something strange on the porch later in the film a clip from another character's home video introduces that very same strange occurrence the viewer's memory links the two incidents and chills start running down their spine another example involves a television show with a child psychic who answers every single question correctly except for one in fact her answer is so wrong that the viewer may wonder what the filmmakers were thinking later on however that wrong answer turns out to be linked to an extremely disturbing event this is intelligent film making indeed br br another difference between and blair witch is that provides not one but two very long finales the second of which is placed a minute after the credits start to roll and is the single greatest scare scene in the history of horror cinema i do not say such things lightly it totally wrecked me in a wonderous way br br other aspects of film making are well done the legend and ritualistic background of are very interesting and most of the actors did a good job the only over the top performance comes from a guy who's supposed to be crazy anyway so that's expected the cinematography is intentionally gritty because all of the footage is supposed to represent videos shot on camcorders japanese films are not known for their special effects but the effects used here were awesome in some cases they create an other worldly feel e g the static interference or the first finale but in other cases they are alarmingly realistic e g the second finale br br when all is said and done goes down as the scariest film i've ever seen i would go so far as to say that there is no film in existence that provides such sheer terror from beginning to end like does see it now
1	has anyone found a way to purchase copies of this series yet i can see that a lot of people have inquired but i can't tell if any of them have been successful it's hard to believe that a series this good cannot be viewed by people today especially one based on real issues faced by real people during what were both tense and exciting times in our country how can this be true and what can we do to change it as an aside i agree with all the comments other writers have made about this series on this web site this is an excellent story about events that everyone should be aware of and know something about today lots of us saw this series when we were in college or around that time anyway now we want to share it with our children but we can't if that is true what would some good written materials be that would relay the same information
1	www petitiononline com petition html an excellent tv series that should be captured on dvd this was a show i rarely missed i found a petition to bring it back on dvd i recall one show where this obese lady wore a pair of glasses that let her food talk to her needless to say she could not eat her friends so she starved to death another episode had an accountant visiting an underground sewer subway security branch the accountant wanted to shut down the funding for the project as it turns out the security branch was underfunded to fight the cannibalistic creatures that lived in the dark www petitiononline com petition html
1	one reasons why they call the 80's the awesome 80's is quality television shows like the wonder years war of the worlds the series v amazing stories and many more have always left an impression to each fortunate one of us that in time will always find a way to reawaken itself to top that here comes monsters a series quite unique of its own and a theme fully dedicate to monsters may it be the good the bad and the morbid br br if you're a fan of classic shows or if you have the fascination of horror films then this one is absolutely for you provided you can find this rare gem br br even the newer generations will be in awe with some of the episode with its grittiness it's indiscriminating use of gore effects or its story telling power and simplicity i guarantee because i'm 23 br br be sure not to miss this br br although it's a show seemingly forgotten by the modern world it will always be with those who can always remember
1	i think that it's great how chiller picked up this series and showing it for this generation film making has come such a long way especially with the special effects and for one to be able to watch archived shows that they never knew existed they will certainly be able to see the progress compared to now monsters is neither lame nor spectacular but it is entertaining it takes creativity for the types of story lines they came up with and each generation seems to have it's own horror series this particular series was not as horrifying as the friday the 13th the series nor as adult oriented as the freddy's nightmares it was something that an entire family could watch and still get a laugh and a fright at the same time i am happy the chiller channel shows it in their line up i am just about caught up on the episodes i missed when i was growing up
1	this was one of the best half hour horror suspense fantasy shows of the eighties without a doubt granted the show had a barely capable cast with every single episode and it stank as far as production values i e the sets went but darn it i have to give it some credit for being gutsy with the plots i mean the plot of each episode was edgy enough that even i a hardened horror movie shock film and 70's grind house buff got a little sickened and creeped out great show just great regardless of what the other reviewers have said here my favorite episode was called bug house yeah that was the title i think anyhow it still gives me the willies every time i think about it to this day almost 20 years after it first premiered other shows like tales from the darkside the outer limits and of course the twilight zone were definitely better production values wise but in my opinion they ain't got a thing as far as plot lines go when compared to this sick little show it definitely paved the way for the even more graphic cult classic phenomenon that was tales from the crypt
1	this show has to be my favorite out of all the 80's horror tv shows like tales from the darkside also from the same creators this show is a rare gem if you agree with me please sign this petition i started to get the word out for monsters and get it out on dvd here is the petition address www petitiononline com petition html some of my favorite episodes would have to be and rain dance i also loved the opening intro with the monster family that used to creep me out one of the things i would have to ask the dvd creators to include would be the organ sound heard right before where the commercial break would be i don't know if any of you remember that part but that's one of the main things that brings back memories to me i mean come on war of the worlds the tv series already has been released on dvd so i say monsters and also tales from the darkside and friday the 13th the series should be released too we the fans need to speak our minds we need this awesome show on dvd so please spread the word
1	this picture is an interesting saga of the struggle of pioneers led by daniel boone in the wilderness of gap while being threatened by hostile indians a treacherous frenchman is the cause of all the trouble between the settlers and the red men while boone tries to convince the indians that the pioneers only want to build homes and live in peace the film has a certain appeal because it is not a polished production but there are good action scenes although somewhat violent for its time the cast is comprised of b actors but they are all good especially lon chaney as the indian chief bruce bennett is okay as boone but is a bit too clean cut and soft spoken to be believable as a frontiersman the dialogue is rather trite but the scenery lends itself to the realism of the kentucky backwoods
1	i was enchanted by debut i hope that we'll soon see more of his work i was lucky enough to catch the film during its brief nyc run and it struck me as a worthy successor to such downtown 80s flicks as desperately seeking susan and after hours but with a gentle european that made it fresh and fun a strong ensemble cast playing mostly against type was a pleasure and i thought the inter threaded plots were just right sandra bernhard puts in her best performance since king of comedy while peter stormare is hilarious and ling bai touching see it
1	despite its new york setting new york characters 'summer in the city' is not an american movie it is better than that what is most unusual is the mixing of styles and genres director shows a deft touch in combining comedy with tragedy pathos with drama br br the secret of success appears to be a of great characters each could have their own film built around them and then filling them out with beautifully realized performances from one of the most wonderfully eclectic casts one would struggle to find in the same country let alone in the same movie ranging from bai ling to ornella muti robert burke to peter stormare who here reveals that he has a lot more in him than the bad guy stereotypes he plays in hollywood pictures even sandra bernhard is funny here br br an added bonus cream on the substantial cake is john cale's soundtrack
1	this film did a wonderful job of capturing nyc stereotypes at there best if you want a simple cute story however you won't find it here the related tales are woven together in a manner that does an excellent job of capturing the close knit yet contrastingly anonymous lifestyle that is manhattan a perfect watch for those who enjoy and can laugh at new york life in its most natural state
1	i put this film in the queue on a whim after a recent trip to nyc and i couldn't believe i'd never heard of it anywhere it has all the makings of a cult classic starting with the characters they are archetypal roles we recognize from every stretch of daily life but were so nuanced and fully realized by the actors playing them peter stormare and bai ling's performances were particularly strong their interactions are poignant and grounded while at the same time brimming with a subtle quirky humor that is sadly all too rare in american films these days writer director ramin does a beautiful job of weaving these scenes together into a funny and moving portrait of a city of the past highly recommended
1	this is the best work i have ever seen on television the story is compelling all the more so because it is true the writers did their homework the accuracy of events is well documented the acting is great this has to be the best role sam waterston has ever had and the black and white cinematography was exceptional my only regret is that it is not available to buy a few years ago i contacted someone involved with the production either with pbs or in england and was told they had no plans to release it on vhs at the time this was a bbc production and ran in the u s on american playhouse there is such an interest in seeing this just hard to believe no one can make it available
1	the director ramin delivers the goods with somewhere in the city this hilarious farce i believe is in the tradition of a mel brooks comedy pokes fun at new york society by creating the believable eccentric and tragic characters of one tenement apartment building bringing them to life from the very opening one shots that introduce them peter stormare's performance as a gay shakespearean actor is absolutely award worthy and the film in general does a good job at showing the hopelessness and laugh ability of self centered ambition sandra bernhard is cast perfectly as the straight self obsessed therapist i really enjoyed sandra's performance immensely especially since i haven't really been a very big fan until now bai ling ornella muti and round out an international ensemble par excellence i loved the scene with robert john burke and his gang of idiot criminals who couldn't plan a robbery if their lives depended on it with a cameo appearance by mayor ed koch and a solid performance by paul anthony stewart the revolutionary momma's boy somewhere in the city entertains without missing a beat
1	i agree with the aussie's comments for the most part however there id seem to be a fairly decent plot if unoriginal christina kelli inherits a rural property that she intends to open a mountain lodge she gets reacquainted with chip bobby johnston whom she had known when she was growing up in there the plot thickens when james paul logan arrives with his new stripper friend lane because christina had been james' stripper friend in years gone by and the implication is that james had done her wrong somehow to add interest to the movie sophia linn monique parent a romance novelist shows up as a guest at the lodge as do eric sebastien guy and linda flower pair of lawyers from the city james the local building codes inspector on business as one of his dirty tricks to shut her down so the question is how far will james go to sabotage the lodge and will he succeed br br watch for lane here and in beauty betrayed she seems to be making a transition from the hard core business to the r world another notable is samantha mcconnell playing the role of bait clearly the most outrageous character name in the movies
1	wow i've sure seen quite a bit of kelli this summer i didn't know this woman made so many softcore flicks in the past three years it's like seeing a future softcore star blossom in front of me much like michelle hall did a couple of years ago br br passion's peak is the third quality softcore flick i've seen kelli in with girl for girl and house of love being the others desire and deception was okay but it wasn't spectacular there's spoilers in this review so read only if you want to br br the story begins with christina kelli heading out of the big city and to the mountains she has inherited a house from her dear departed grandmother and plans to turn it into a mountain lodge before she can even set her things down some woman named kim uncredited in this film but quite the aggressive one begins booking guests to stay there now she has to get the house into shape quickly in comes chip bobby johnston a childhood friend to the rescue chip helps her get the house in workable condition she hires two local slackers to work in her lodge chip's sister bait samantha mcconnell and her sex buddy hank br br now the guests start coming the first to arrive are eric and linda flower two stereotypical money first lawyers linda and eric get into a huge argument during a dinner party halfway through the film which leads to their breakup sad stuff there next there's romance novelist sophia played by b movie goddess monique parent she's using that silly alias scarlet again and she's got a very professional look this time with blonde hair of course it wouldn't be monique if she didn't have at least one scene where she plays with herself and she obliges during one of eric and linda's sex scenes br br james and lane yes the porn star lane show up for a little weekend getaway as well unbeknownst to james and christina have quite a history james and christina used to date but christina broke it off to head to this mountain lodge james comes up to the lodge to get christina back but his plan backfires christina spills the beans to which causes to walk out on him and down to the local bar to strip for the locals ends up in the sleeping bag of the now single eric and they leave together bait realizes she wants something more than just sex with hank and christine finds true love with chip with sophia soaking it all in and writing it into her next romance novel br br in fact if you ask me this whole movie played out like a romance novel i don't know if the screenwriter was going for that effect but i sure got that impression sophia had some of the best lines in this film playing up the idea that this is a live action romance novel she seems to enjoy all the fighting and backstabbing going on br br now to the sex there was a fair amount of it and it was the usual bump and grind stuff monique did her fair share of moaning in her two sex scenes this film was tapeworthy and the story will actually keep the audience somewhat interested in between the sex scenes br br women a monique was simply monique out of all the softcore actresses i've seen over the years she's the best at acting in my opinion she can really act and be sexy which is why she's holding on to the 1 position in my skinemax top 10 kelli is better at doing softcore films than she is on the soap opera passions i don't know why she's not doing more of these flower was merely background scenery for the most part in a limited role samantha mcconnell continues to impress me and lane is yet another hardcore actress crossing over into the softcore realm and doing a halfway decent job at it br br sex b it was good but not awe inspiring spectacular plenty of moaning don't watch the r rated version trust me most of the good stuff is taken out my grade is for the uncut version br br story b a solid storyline which throws in a contrived ooh the building inspector's gonna shut us down subplot toward the end which messes up things the underlying story between christina and james was nice and sophia's dialogue full of the metaphors and imagery usually found in romance novels was a nice touch br br overall b i found this movie to be quite entertaining it's not a surefire softcore hall of like girl for girl is but it's a respectable addition to the skinemax collection
1	one of mccarthy's best this movie is filled with sex and nudity it has gorgeous sexy women and some sexy settings br br believe me there are many spicy and steamy sex scenes but not as hot as the women we have outside settings a hot tub beds of course and some other nice places to have sex br br monique parent is great in the opening sex sequence where she behaves like a naughty girl is amazing she's extremely sexy and performs in at least 4 hot sex scenes my favorite is when she has sex during a picnic or something like that she has this short dress removed and the rest you can go figure it out renee rea also has a sexy sex scene where again she demonstrates that beautiful cute faces can also perform great in soft core sex movies br br the most memorable scene in my opinion comes near the ending it's a double sex feature that has to do with hottub sex intense sex and kelli mccarthy receiving it real hard so loud that the couple in the hottub feel interrupted the scene is long steamy very explicit and fun my favorite from 2001 br br the other good scenes include getting it on the woods really kinky then dressed as a bride br br renne rea always super gorgeous dressed like a skater girl has a steamy sex scene nice br br please watch this movie if you enjoy b soft core sex it's among the best from the new millennium i had a blast with it
1	this was a very nice soft core movie for both men and women plenty of nudity sex but without the overall raunch you'll usually find they could not have done a better job in casting as the entire ensemble was stunning trust me guys if you want to get your woman in the mood get something with bobby johnston in it and i'm sure lovely monique parent samantha mcconnell and the rest of the ladies would do it for any heterosexual male unfortunately bobby and monique do not share a scene together and if you are aware of a movie where they do please pm me i'd love to know the photography was much better than usual so was the story predictable but nice sweet natured and romantic at the very least it was not one of those annoying predictable murder mysteries full of bottle blonde women with huge fake breasts i give this 7 10
1	don't know what film or version jeff saw but this entire film was awesome not just poitier and going the story was riveting suspenseful and engaging and for the guy complaining about historical accuracy get real yes there were some black deputy in the indian territory but they had no authority to arrest whites outside of indian territory as a rule they did not patrol but exercised warrants on criminals only i did find it odd that corby didn't seem to have indian friends i know their numbers were diminished but it still strikes me as strange even as corby returned to his people his indian cohorts remain faceless and nameless
1	i loved this well i loved the romance part with colby and the girl rachel her name i honestly was only interested in those too i loved them in the movie i want to see more movies like that but please no more sad endings where they cant be it made me cry but the romance between them the plot the trauma everything was great i just was more into colby and rachel ha ha everything about this movie was thrilling the kind to keep you glued to your seat because i sure was honestly my only personal want would be more focused between the couple colby and rachel and at least a decent ending i hated the ending a better one could have been more thought out not the fact of forcing colby to his death and rachel having a son the ending would have killed the movie
1	this has to be one of the best movies we have seen and we highly recommend it for it's exposure of the injustices of bigotry billy wirth is an incomparable actor and truly awesome as corby white wolf however felt the story would have been enhanced if his character had more scenes this is a movie that can be watched over and over without tiring
1	i am a big fan of this film and found the tv mini series children of the dust the version fans should look for at least 20 minutes or more are cut on the dvd version of this film br br i would also suggest viewers who enjoyed this film to check out the book there is a more rounded storyline with corby and rachel more on black history and buffalo solders there were two many storylines for the series or this film br br sidney poitier only shows he gets better with age the talent just keeps growing the chemistry between his character of gypsy smith and regina taylor were wonderful viewing i also enjoyed the billy wirth joanna going storyline they seems to play off each other well br br billy wirth is of course the model of indian vision the look the attitude the dream of every woman who was wanted to be carried off in one of those romance novels by a native hero worked for me also br br much more could have been done with this storyline but it did give the viewer a brief glimpse of racial problems back in the 1880's white take over of native schooling lack of black pioneers to setup towns in the west michael moriarty maxwell as always a great actor comes across as a very caring and confused teacher not sure if the whites should be interfering with native culture br br for anyone who enjoys characters and watching them change this film is for you i thought the chemistry between poitier's character and that of the orphan very moving and thought wirth and poitier worked very well together billy wirth did some of his best scenes when working with poitier br br going got on my nerves sometimes when you want to just stop and shake her or give her a wake up and grown up call but on the whole it was a great evening of entertainment br br look for the two tape version of this mini series if you are a fan you will really see the difference
1	i don't understand why more people have not commented on this other than the fact that perhaps not very many have seen it it's an amazing cast of characters one after another after another all done by the guy who wrote the play if you don't like filmed plays you may not like this after all plays usually don't look good on tv but it's a one man show that will have you paying attention throughout highly recommended
1	i've always liked barbara stanwyck who was perhaps the hardest working lead actress of the 30's and 40's although few of her movie roles are memorable today she is remembered most for the tv show the big valley stanwyck worked so much because she was durable it seems that she would accept most any role and make the most of it to make the movie a success and so directors loved her and many an ordinary picture gained credibility by her presence br br and so it was for christmas in connecticut a very ordinary effort whose plot strains credulity and isn't even really about christmas it does however have stanwyck and dennis morgan as well as some supreme character actors including sydney greenstreet and s k so there are plot twists and funny moments which undoubtedly seemed more real in 1945 than they do today to begin the plot concerns a magazine writer stanwyck who the magazine's readers believe is a domestic goddess married with a child and living on a farm in connecticut but who is really single lives in new york city and knows nothing about cooking or could anyone get away with such a fraud even then apparently and even the owner of the magazine greenstreet is deceived although one would think that he would have long since seen though the deception but the story moves on and stanwyck greenstreet a sailor recently survived from his sunken ship morgan and stanwyck's restaurateur friend s z find themselves spending christmas in connecticut at a farm belonging to stanwyck's boorish boyfriend reginald gardiner you can imagine all the possibilities there are for this as the fraud unwinds as it must gardiner wants stanwyck to marry him to perpetuate the rouse but one wonders how she can stand him at all morgan and stanwyck fall for each other but he is supposed to be engaged and she is supposed to be married regardless they begin what seems to be a make believe affair dancing cheek to cheek and stealing off in a horse drawn sleigh meanwhile the incredibly naive greenstreet character who has seen stanwyck and morgan go off together but still doesn't get it sees one of the neighbors take back a child that has been borrowed as part of the deception and calls the cops to report a kidnapping stanwyck and morgan are arrested for stealing the sleigh and the hoax begins to unwind br br at this point the movie is funny as in ridiculous or absurd not funny ha ha and it routinely ends like screwball comedies always did the good guy gets the girl and presumably they live happily ever after br br i watch this movie every year at christmas to enjoy these character actors at their best in a story that reflects way it was in 1945 and because of a long held fascination with barbara stanwyck thank goodness it was set at christmas or like 95 percent of stanwyck's movies it would have been long ago forgotten and we would not get to see it each year anew
1	a very well directed version of eric stage play well worth checking out for great characters and for anyone who wants to see how to bring a play to the movies correctly
1	eric ability to roll from character to character in this 'one man show' exhibits his true range as a character actor each persona has their own message to convey about truth society class drugs etc this is an absolute must have for anyone who is a serious fan of acting his performance contains some of the most hilarious and real moments i have ever experienced as a viewing audience
1	this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched at the age of 12 i was up late and ran across the movie it was on the usa channel gilbert up all night i will never forget at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues some sexual you know 12 is a very rough and weird age it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl and being a young lady this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me i now have a daughter that is 12 have been searching for a couple years for this movie if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age
1	many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare however every so often a movie might come along thats honest funny entertaining and memorable the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients this film follows three friends gary rick and david the big apple misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship we follow hopeless romantic gary the main character on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it's ending if you haven't been lucky enough to see this movie yet by all means take a look sprinkled with many memorable 80s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace l a v truly is an original film a rarity among films of it's genre
1	the last american virgin 1982 was one of the few teenage comedies that i really enjoyed the subject matter and the acting was well above the usual tripe that hollywood was and still is cranking out these days but for awhile the smaller studios were producing movies about teenagers that wasn't toned downed or soften for the kiddies the men pulling the strings behind this production were from your friends from cannon br br three teenage buddies are trying to lose their virginity whilst still in high school they'll do anyone or anything to achieve their dream goal the sensitive one of the group andrew monsoon what's to find the right girl while his two best friends will take whatever they can get one day the kid finds his perfect girl diane franklin but fate would play one of their foul tricks his best friend moves on in and sweeps her off of her feet after knocking her up the sensitive kid helps the girl get back on her feet and pays for her abortion he still has feelings for her and tries to win her heart meanwhile his best friend has a very violent falling out over getting her dream girl preggers still he tries his best to get her to love him the night comes when he pops the question to her but his heart is shattered when he sees her dancing with his former best friend in tears the kid leaves the party br br what i enjoyed about this movie was that it pulled no punches instead of being filled with phony situations it was very realistic honest and brutal the movie's filled with it's share of funny moments and hysteria i have to recommend this film for fans of teenage comedies br br highly recommended
1	i see there are great reviews of this film already i've got a few points to comment on reasons i thought there was something special about this film br br first and foremost the film is realistic it may not seem realistic to an adult who has forgotten what it was like being a teenager but that's really the kind of that goes on amongst teens all the time second the good guy the guy who treats women with respect doesn't get the girls that's the way it is in real life just the same he's too nice for his own good people are just selfish third it was nice to see a fat guy who had some self confidence i mean that role already takes confidence from the actor i'm not just talking about the character overall i thought the film was a positive surprise that secretly hides amongst wacky teen sex comedies at the rental shelf don't get me wrong it's not all sad it's a good laugh as well
1	i first saw this movie when i was about 12 years old it has been one of my favorites since it's so perfect in all it's glory complete with awesome soundtrack cheesy dialog and it was both hilarious and terribly sad the first movie i really just had a fit about at the end i won't ruin it for you guys but boy is it a tear jerker i just remember feeling so sad for gary what a bunch of cool characters in this movie it's genius they are all so great even the nerdy girl gary doesn't like she had a nice little body though i can't believe all the girls go for rick he is such a sleaze ball with his handkerchief tied around his neck ha ha ha when watching this movie be prepared for lots of sex jokes complete with sexually transmitted diseases almost but a love story at heart with real problems dealing from insecurity to life altering decisions that make you think and feel genuine sorrow for the cast i love this movie if you like valley girl another all time classic you will too
1	i saw this movie for the first time just a short while ago if you ask me it does not get the credit it deserves it is a little like american pie meets fast times at ridgemont high but with more depth it handles the same issues as both movies but in a way that holds with it some grain of truth the ending is sad but that is how life is i think everyone should see it i have it on dvd form and it took such a long time to find it too that should say something heh and another thing i will add is that it is quite difficult finding the soundtrack i believe they stopped it but the soundtrack to this movie is amazing it has songs by artists like the u2 devo the cars kc and the sunshine band and many more
1	i totally loved this movie tried to buy it and can't find it a must see a movie you can watch again and again funny but also a tear jerker in one really good album for the movie it's a really good 80's movie i wish i could find a copy to buy this movie cause i would the actors in it acted really good there's a lot of people out there that probably could relate to this movie that's what makes this movie so good so go out and try to rent this one you won't regret it it's an older movie but it's worth watching i would not be surprised if they made a remake of this movie soon but i'm sure it would not be the same anyone who hasn't seen it go rent it
1	i don't think i will include any spoilers but if i do i can cover my butt the last american virgin came in a time were such teenage coming of age high school sex romps were the rave films such as 1984 hot times 1974 and the popular porky's 1981 were making mucho money yet it is the last american virgin the one that actually has a more serious plot story amidst the nudity and sexual situations it is the often told tale of three high school buddies who want to lose their virginity the go to the wrong places prostitutes the dangerous ones older woman with jealous boyfriend and the convenient ones luring their high school female counterparts the movie has a lot of funny moments and although the cast did not produce a single major movie star it is worth remembering for a fantastic 80's soundtrack that includes devo the cars journey and others by today standards is raunchy and might have grabbed a nc 17 rating but is a well told story of how sometimes personal fixation can only bring pain while love might be right in front of us it is a little piece of 80s americana and worth having in your movie collection
1	while it's not perfect it's close love barbara stanwyck sidney greenstreet dennis morgan robert shayne superman's police chief the housekeeper the waiter at restaurant felix and the judge i can go on and on this movie has been part of my family's holiday tradition since i was a youngster and my children grew up with it too the baby swallowed the watch was always my son's favorite line br br sexy barbara stanwyck in pants and gowns stole the show along with the cuddly funny s z dennis morgan has a few great songs too br br i highly recommend this movie and suggest you skip the remake blah
1	reality before reality tv copy of fast times at ridgemont high a precursor to say anything that's grittier i can't decide but the soundtrack is the 80's blondie journey devo lionel richie and u2 i can't believe this they would never throw all those genres together in a teen movie of today br br i remembered this like a teenager mainly the sex parts and not a hint of the altruism why i was a horny teenager in the 80's watching it again i just can't describe how much i love that rose play by kimberly richardson turns out to be the voice of pepper ann in the 90's and she was almost 30 when she was in last american virgin playing alongside 16 year olds fantastic complete cheese reality fantasy and comedy with a sincere cherry on top
1	i really like this movie i like it not just because it's a great early 80s movie with a great soundtrack but i found that it has some thought provoking moments they are just moments not the entire film it's definitely not like less than zero br br the scenes deal with typical peer pressure and also with more difficult problems like the betrayal of trust these problems are not easily resolved or forgotten by the characters certain scenes will stand out and invite reflection on one's own teenage experiences and how those experiences may have affected one's character and outlook as an adult br br you can watch this movie and think about the problems young adults must face and about your own experiences or you can just pay attention to the boys' quest to de themselves either way it's a good movie
1	when i watched this movie in my adolescence i attempted for the soundtrack some bands of the soundtrack i still didn't know however during the film i already noticed her quality u2 blondie police quincy jones sensational soundtrack br br in brazil there is a long time this film didn't pass in tv today he passed in cable tv and i remembered to access the site to do the comment br br the end of the film surprised me a lot but it is what happens in the real life not always what thought about being the ideal it is what happens br br the life brings us a lot of surprises
1	this movie was release when i was 15 and i could easily relate to the themes the film portrayed br br that was over 24 years ago and i haven't seen the movie since this time around i cringed at some of the acting but still appreciate the film for what it is br br life is not always fair and the good guys don't always win in fact i think the movie did well to reflect that especially as a teenager the pricks always did better with a lot of girls also it doesn't matter how nice you are you cannot make someone like you girls boys like who they want to like no matter how hard you try otherwise sometimes you just gotta let go and say next br br gary does a good job showing the intensity of his feelings for karen this is so true of teenagers when they get fixated on someone br br i remember sitting around with mates laughing our arses off at some of the antics the acting is not quite there compared with fast times at high but it kicks ass over this movie simply because has a lame viewer friendly ending where as this movie has a realistic ending nice guys finish last gary comes across as pretty lame cringe worthy material but we all know guys like this who are far to sensitive we all know a david fun guy who makes you laugh br br some people on here bag the ending but hello the ending is exactly what can happen in real life some chicks just go back for more no matter how bad the dude treats them especially at that age i have experienced that first hand br br great sound track too u2 i will follow jesus is it that old
1	as i said in the other comment this is one of the best teen movies of all time and one of my personal favorites to me this movie is the second best teen movie of all time second only to the breakfast club the last american virgin is also maybe the most honest teen movie of all time it's underrated and pretty much an unknown movie to a lot of people it comes on tbs maybe once a year but sometimes longer the first half of this movie is a sex comedy with a few honest scenes then the second half is pure honest and most of the time serious with only a few comic scenes in my opinion this is the best soundtrack of all time i've never heard this many great songs in one movie before there are 4 love songs in this movie that i think are some of the best love songs in history the movie is about a pizza boy named gary who is a virgin hes in high school who has a couple of best friends his two friends are sex teens the first half of the movie is pretty much sexual misadventures that are very funny gary is major in love with the new girl in school he later finds out that his best friend is going out with her he also cheats on the side you can feel the love gary has for this girl very much you can feel it even more in the second half gary's friend turns out to be a creep but his other friend is pretty cool the movie shows how mean people can be you can relate to a lot of this movie the plot sounds like your teen sex comedy but it's so much more than that it's a very honest movie it's also very 80ish which i love if you love the 80's or grew up in the 80's rent this movie but there may be some people that don't like the 80's but still may like this movie i first saw this movie back in 1987 i think it's very entertaining and very funny it combines very touching moments with very funny moments it's an underrated gem i have the movie i love it i give the last american virgin 1 2 out of
1	it plays like your usual teenage audience t a movie but the sentiment is incredibly bleak if it was made today it'd be considered an art house movie it goes through the usual routine of a guy trying to get laid but the results of his efforts are harsh and cruel and unsatisfying br br the whole teen flick formula is adhered to but nothing turns out the way you'd expect imagine a director's cut of 'it's a wonderful life' where at the end james stewart wasn't allowed to return to the real world an incredible film that subverts all of the expectations of the genre it makes you feel dirty afterwards there is no redemption for the characters i'm amazed it ever got made the eighties version of detective story
1	the last american virgin along with fast times at ridgemont high is one the last great teen films ever made it is tender tale of envy and unrequited love set in the early eighties much maligned by critics that it was a sophomoric banal attempt to recreate the magic of fast times at ridgemont high these same critics fail to recognize that the two films were actually filmed concurrently during late 1981 and released at only slight intervals from one another either way the studios would never allow such a bold and uncompromising portrayal of the issues many male teenagers are confronted with as they reach their sexual maturity especially considering the heart wrenching discovery the protagonist gary is confronted with in the end american pie this is not the story revolves around a trio of male teenagers and their mostly unsuccessful sexual pursuits gary is the least successful of the group hence the tagline last american virgin secretly gary lusts after karen who is involved with rick his best friend rick and karen begin having sex and karen gets pregnant only to be dumped by rick who is not interested in the obvious responsibility which lies before him gary glides into help karen which leads to the aforementioned unexpected conclusion overall as a film i find it was very successful as a comedy as a commentary on the sexual dilemmas of young men and a remarkable coming of age tale dealing with issues such as envy unrequited love and abortion which are just as pertinent today as they were over twenty years ago also it has one of the soundtracks ever made
1	spoilers this movie has it's problems but in the end it gets the message across i liked it because it ends the way things really do the nice guy tries and tries gets his heart broken several times but in the end there is no typical hollywood ending it ends the way such things always end or at least always have in my own and friends' experiences anyone who thinks that the ending to this isn't how it really happens as the first comment seemed to believing that the girl would come around realize she's dating an asshole who treats her bad because he doesn't care about her at all is either naive or lives in a more perfect world than i i give it 7 10 extra points simply because it wasn't afraid to end on a down note give no real resolution just the main character left heartbroken confused and alone as so many men of countless generations have been before
1	ahhh the '80's 1982 makes me think back to the really crazy time we were facing in america fresh off the do what feels good '70's the last american virgin comes as a wolf in sheep's clothing as yet another sex comedy' from the glory days oh sure there's sex but i can't think of another movie ok this and fast times at ridgemont high that really wasn't killing time between topless teenage scenes there was some pretty good stuff here amongst the cleavage br br the movie follows three hormonal friends gary wanting to lose his virginity rick stud incarnate and david overweight but not inexperienced as they try desperately hard to make sure gary joins the world of manhood but a funny thing happens on the way to the gary falls for karen pretty brunette who loves the bad boys and can't seem to follow through with any sexual conquest that david and rick can facilitate only trouble is rick and karen get hot and heavy and karen skips a period it's gary who is by her side as she goes to get her abortion and it's gary who truly cares but who is karen dancing with by film end rick subtract the r and add a d where necessary br br what separates this film from others from the '80's we think about is that by god they attempt some real drama here and not of the my parents just pulled in the driveway variety and you know what i bought it br br it wasn't sloppy it wasn't far fetched and when gary sees rick dancing with karen at the house party at the end of the film i actually felt sorry for the guy our teenage romeo actually believed in unrequited love and when his heart was broken at the end it all sort of touched me br br so all the t a aside there's an actually pretty believable and engaging story here oscar worthy not by a mile but i don't know that i'd lump it into the let's get laid category either like fast times at ridgemont high they actually were trying to do a true film here letting the hi jinx in between fall where it may
1	what looks like a ho hum porky's rip off turns out to be quite a touching film about being young and in love br br the story concerns three friends gary ricky and david who spend their after school hours looking for sex when a new girl arrives in town gary falls head over heels in love with her br br the film goes from being a sleazy sex film to an examination of teenage insecurities it is funny and sad at the same time it never completely gives into that love story formula that seems prominent in every movie made you know the guy meets girl guy loses girl guy gets girl back in the final frame formula that formula is tossed aside after guy meets girl maybe that is why i liked the film so much br br the soundtrack is especially good and the ending is a definite tear jerker it also might be one of the most realistic endings i've ever seen in a love story br br
1	i absolutely adore this film about a lady columnist barbara stanwyck for a major magazine who delivers a welcoming article each month that includes details about her awesome home life as a wife and mother in a beautiful connecticut home the trouble happens when the owner of her monthly publication demands that she have him and a ww2 hero as guests during the christmas holidays why is she worried because she lives in a small new york apartment isn't married and doesn't have a baby and can't cook at all hilarity and romance ensues when she tries to put on a believable act in an effort to save face keep from being fired by the magazine owner played by sydney greenstreet this is a delightful comedy one that i highly recommend to classic movie lovers
1	i have always liked this film and i'm glad it's available finally on dvd so more viewers can see what i have been telling them all these years story is about a high school virgin named gary lawrence who works at a pizza place as a delivery boy and he hangs out with his friends david joe and rick steve gary notices karen diane franklin who is the new girl in school and one morning he gives her a ride and by this time he is totally in love that night at a party he see's rick with karen and now he is jealous of his best friend but doesn't tell anyone of his true feelings br br spoiler alert br br rick asks gary if he can borrow his grandmothers vacant home but gary makes up an excuse so that rick can't get karen alone but one night rick brags to gary that he nailed her at the football field and gary becomes enraged a few days later in the school library gary see's rick and karen arguing and he asks karen what is wrong she tells him that she's pregnant and that rick has dumped her gary helps her by taking her to his grandmothers home and paying for her abortion finally gary tells karen how he really feels about her and she seems receptive to his feelings but later at her birthday party he walks in on karen and rick together again gary drives off without the girl this film ends with a much more realistic version of how life really is no matter how nice you are you don't necessarily get the girl br br this film was directed by boaz davidson who would go on to be a pretty competent action film director and he did two things right with this movie first he made sure that there was plenty of gratuitous nudity so that this was marketable to the young males that usually go to these films secondly he had the film end with young gary without karen and i think the males in the audience can relate to being screwed over no matter how hard you try and win a girls heart yes this film is silly and exploitive but it is funny and sexy actress louisa moritz almost steals the film as the sexy carmela moritz was always a popular b level actress and you might remember her in one flew over the cuckoo's nest like fast times at ridgemont high this has a very good soundtrack and the songs being played reflect what is going on in the story but at the heart of this film is two very good performances by and franklin there is nudity required by franklin but she still conveys the sorrow of a young girl who gets dumped at a crucial time she's always been a good actress and her natural charm is very evident in this film but this is still story and you can't help but feel for this guy when the film ends it's his performance that stays with you it's a solid job of acting that makes this more than just a teen sex comedy even with the silly scenarios of teens trying to have sex this film still manages to achieve what it wants underrated comedy hits the bullseye
1	yes it's a fast times wannabe but it's still decent entertainment br br some of the comedy parts are really funny the scene when the three guys visit the spanish lady is hilarious with a little flamenco music in the background the reaction when her sailor husband comes home is a riot the guys' exploits in dealing with crabs are funny as well when they try to drown them and when they visit the pharmacist br br the abortion scene is a fast times ripoff too but it does do a good job of capturing the terror of the situation you really feel for what karen is going through and for gary in his mad scramble for cash to pay for the abortion and accommodating her recovery br br the ending is painful to watch but refreshingly realistic first time viewers will not be prepared for it and it will be a shock br br there is a decent eye candy for guys with young girls and the milf spanish lady but heterosexual guys will probably want to skip the penis measuring competition br br underrated soundtrack too check out early early u2 the cars in their prime and an appropriate tearjerker song by james ingram for the surprise ending br br some people will hate it and it is somewhat dated but those who like teen flicks or grew up in the early 80s should like it
1	this is one of the best and most under rated teen movies ever made br br i saw this growing up and it was and is one of my favorites maybe not as popular as fast times but just as great br br there is a serious side to this movie as mentioned by other reviewers it starts as a comedy and morphs into a drama about halfway through that's the beauty of it though and what sets it apart you get it all humor not unlike that of fast times drama and a great great soundtrack br br i personally think every kid about to enter high school should see this it would give an idea about the journey their about to embark on cmon what kid watching this wouldn't be able to relate to someone in the movie the fact that it becomes so serious halfway though is also cool and just superbly well done you don't even see it coming definitely a lot of surprises br br spoilers don't read anymore if you don't want to know br br great knee humor who could forget the scene between gary and camilla i can still hear it oh my big strong burrito priceless br br some of the scenes between gary and karin are hard to watch particularly the final scene of coarse there are so so many women like karen out there who would have made the exact same choice she did think about it how many women reject men with hearts of gold like gary for jerks i know i've done it and so have many females i know this movie will inspire discussion and despite the countless times i've seen it still leaves me filled with admiration for the film makers and performers everyone will find someone to relate to in this movie or what's more likely more then one person br br lastly the music used is just great a lot of cars u2 lots of obscure now songs from the 80's an 80's purist's dream br br but make no mistake it is not the music that makes this movie unique it is the story itself plain and simple one of the best of it's kind and a teen movie classic
1	spoilers in this review despite a few highly improbable scenes including the boys in pe measuring their penises in a contest and the few obligatory teens trying to get laid vignettes this movie captures the painful essence of high school in ways that few teen films have ever done it achieves this by not only showing the trio of friends gary dave rick as smoking drinking ever on the prowl teens but also dwells on the nature of friendship itself as these three friends have their loyalties tested this film is a snapshot of the time when childhood ends for the shy romantic gary when he sees the lovely karen for the first time he falls instantly in love the awakening emotion in gary is writ large on the screen and he proves his love for her by taking her in when she is jilted by her lover this love for karen signals the end of gary's innocence as the bonds with his two best friends will be tested and broken over the course of the story the confident ladies man rick is the person in high school we all secretly wish we were handsome cool and always has the impossibly beautiful girls in a swoon rick turns out to be a cad but you have to bear in mind that his character is only 17 years old he panics and makes a bad decision from rick's perspective the story is also about finding the one girl of his dreams a bad breakup and then at the end reconciling the look on rick's face as gary walks in and sees karen kissing rick shows that he at last understands that his best friend and he love the same woman as in real life you don't bow out because your friend has an unrequited love this is the tragedy of the film rick is no villain and constantly through the film he reminds gary and dave that they're his best friends the soulful quality of gary's performance however is the heart of the story lawrence is a beautiful loser he does everything right his heart's in the right place and he's consumed by love for karen yet karen in the end is not moved by gary's devotion and kindness karen represents all the people in the world who take in without giving back who exist in a vacuum of their own ego and never stop to realize the emotional damage and trauma they inflict on others this film is brutal in its statements on love and friendship but that's what makes it unique among teen films it ceases being a comedy and becomes a hopelessly romantic film albeit one doomed to a tragic conclusion anyone who has ever found the girl of his dreams and did not win her will understand the heartrending crushes of high school are every bit as real as the emotional strains of adulthood and this film will remind you of that in bold strokes gary's final reversal as he drives away with the inscribed is as poignant a moment as any in cinema one feels after watching this that it's really made of two movies the first part is a silly teen sexploitation film and once the story begins it's a strongly affecting drama a terrific movie it should also be noted that the soundtrack was prescient in its selection of many rising stars including the police the cars devo oingo boingo the the waitresses gleaming spires and phil seymour
1	when i was in 10th grade me and my buddy were up late at his house and were flipping around cable and started watching this movie we watched it because it looked kind of funny and because it had boobs but then the ending came and we just sat there completely speechless i think after a minute of watching the credits roll he just sort of whimpered oh dude it goes from dumb 80's teen sex comedy to nihilistic realism so quickly that it catches you off guard i have been trying to rent this movie for years and have not been able to find it and nobody has ever seen it except for me and my friend so it seems but now it is available i highly suggest renting it and brace yourself
1	perhaps this movie was meant to be nothing but funny maybe it was meant to get teenage boys excited at all the nudity in it but what i got out of it was actually something that many people believe in and that is nice guys finish last br br there is a line in angel heart from lisa bonet's character that says it takes a bad ass to make a girls heart beat faster true most likely women always say that they want the flowers and the candy and politeness and whatever but at least at an early age they end up going for the good looking slimy disrespectful untamed guy the one they know they can't conform to their beliefs and that is part of the attraction after all what is exciting about a guy that is already the way you want him to be i believe this may have happened to boaz davidson and what he has to say in this film that is disguised with sex and nudity and parties and everything else that teens can relate to is that you will get your heart broken it happens to everyone and it will happen to you and that is a strong final statement in the film but having said all that the movie is fun it is funny and it shows the antics of highschoolers quite well br br this is a rare film that is enough to please the teenage crowd it caters to but also intelligent and poignant enough to show what it s like to get your heart broken no highschool film has ever done this better like i said i think the writers must have experienced a situation like this first hand maybe we all have br br this is an old film but if you ever come across it gathering dust on a shelf in your local video store one night pick it up you may be surprised it is a hell of a lot better than never been kissed
1	i saw this in a theatre back in 1982 i expected a stupid t a movie that's not what i got br br it's basically about three teenage boys trying to have sex we get the expected sex jokes and scenes but for once they're actually pretty funny br br yeah they're stupid but i enjoyed them anyways also there was a surprising amount of male nudity br br then the movie about halfway through takes a sudden dramatic turn as one of the boys winningly played by lawrence falls in love with a girl then the jokes stop and things get very dark i'm not going to give away what happens but i was very surprised at the sudden turn in events the movie brings up some very important subjects and treats them realistically and with intelligence and it has a real heart breaking ending br br i'm giving this a 10 because this is probably one of the best teen sex comedy dramas ever made it mixes fantasy and realism together and works what more can you ask for also it has a great soundtrack
1	feels like an impressionistic film if there is such a thing br br the story is well told very poetic the characters well developed and well acted by the interpreters or interpreted by the actors br br the film delights in its own sumptuous emotions at times and works well unless you hate such emotion in movies not so in my case br br it's a very humanistic film br br the landscape and even the extraordinary situation of the displaced cook are very poetic in their own right br br well done br br a good classic for any good film collection
1	the movie begins almost achingly slowly a romance yawn that seems to ramble off course all part of the plan then roughly one hour into this solemn movie is the feast it's worth paying attention to that first hour the feast is still solemn but humorous suddenly the withdrawn and slightly petty characters come to life and everyone you and the characters leave feeling enriched by the experience br br women will love this christians of all sorts will enjoy the profound faith demonstrated by the characters not my favorite movie of all time no dinosaurs or laser beams after all but definitely a movie i am happy to have seen not to be missed br br jim
1	simply one of the greatest films ever made worthy of sitting alongside such european masterworks as the rules of the game grand illusion andrei 8 1 2 wings of desire the night of the shooting stars la strada ordet the passion of joan of arc the four hundred blows and madame de both a blessing and an almost perfect work of art
1	barbara stanwyck probably didn't think of it but it is a relief to see her in a more becoming dark hairstyle if it wasn't a wig than the one she had to wear in double indemnity the year before that film while the premiere film noir and an all around great film gave her a great role but oh that hair here she is more chic and certainly no femme fatal but she is certainly a 40's woman she has gotten used to life without men since most of them are off at war and as a successful martha stewart like columnist she writes a homey column in which she describes her country home as the camera pans over what it really is we meet her boss sydney greenstreet who has no idea that she is living a lie and when he pushes his way in for a christmas away at her supposed connecticut home she has to come up with a husband reginald gardiner and baby before we can say jingle bells hungarian chef s z steps in to help and ends up in a pie one on one with irish una o'connor it's not it's irish stew simply takes the paprika pours most of it in and says now it's totally changing what she has prepared for lunch then when it comes to the he flips and she scoops for years a few friends of mine and i will use that line every time pancakes come up in a conversation i don't flip i scoop she won't even flip just one for greenstreet saying i've never flipped in me life o'connor can get on the nerves when she screeches over and over in some films but here she is delightfully lovable and her pairing with is very charming br br it is obvious in the romance department that reginald gardiner is not barbara stanwyck's cup of tea especially when she meets handsome dennis morgan who is a bit dimwitted when bathing the baby which eats soap causing stanwyck to get a bit alarmed he should suspect something instantly but doesn't but it doesn't matter the film is so charming with the country setting filled with snow an abundance of rocking chairs and a dog running towards them as the sleigh comes up living in new york city after 25 years in los angeles after growing up in a small town on the western side of new york state made me miss this kind of christmas while central park is beautiful after a first snow and the christmas tree at rockefeller center is too there is something about looking out at a snow covered field of trees and catch an occasional glimpse of deer rabbits or other wild life br br this is a great holiday film that can also bring on the christmas spirit out of season and makes a great pairing with another barbara stanwyck country christmas film remember the night an underrated gem add on the big city christmas of meet john doe and you've found perhaps one of the busiest stars of holiday films around
1	there is no need for me to repeat the synopsis rendered by glenn the black and white rendition is even more powerful in portraying the bleakness of country village life at that time the deep measure of friendship shown by babette toward the two elderly sisters touches the heart strings the supporting cast is excellent and their performances superb it would not be fair to single out any one character since the entire story depends on the cast as a whole i cannot put my finger exactly on why i rate this movie so highly since i am not a professional critic individual viewers may or may not agree with my rating since enjoyment of this type of movie is always in the eye of the beholder
1	this film offers many delights and surprises when and philippa beautifully sing a duet from don giovanni that perfectly describes their situation in the movie you appreciate the subtle layers of this excellent film the story unfolds in 18th century jutland and the use of period music played on period instruments is just one more fine touch you share general exquisite joy in his partaking of the en even though you are just watching a movie but you do wish for just a small sample to savor br br babette is an artist whose medium is food perhaps no other art form allows the artist to share her creations so directly br br the main theme of this movie the potential that the sharing of food has to transform how people see each other and how they see the world is much the same as the theme of but babette's feast does not hit you over the head with its message the townspeople are conservative puritans but not exaggeratedly oppressive you come to understand and respect them and ultimately to appreciate their humanity br br many issues are raised for you to reflect on the nature of art the contemplation of paths taken and paths not taken the relationship between the spiritual and the physical the effect of environment on behavior the taking of life to give life among others br br the only disappointment for me was general speech delivered at the climax of the meal i expected deep heartfelt observations but i got some vague mystical ramblings the speech had such a minimal impact that i hardly remember it br br but this understated film leaves a lasting impression the warmth it generates is in contrast to its austere backdrop you will leave the theater wanting to go out and dance under the stars
1	this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen the stark scenery the isolation the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion a backdrop for some and sophistication the acting is completely natural but for me as a the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well whether or not the cafe really exists i don't know but i do know of similar establishments and babette's menu and choice of are authentic and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be this is a 10 out of 10 film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it
1	sometimes it is difficult to watch films with subtitles in this case danish but the watching is worth it as the story progresses the reasoning for the choice of two sisters to take care of their father is questionable but their society is different their choice leaves them alone until a french woman comes there may be a question on why the french woman came to their place to stay and this is never fully developed the feast which happens later as a result of unexpected funds from france is a source of unusual pleasure to all who attend and something they have not experienced before it provides a fitting thank you for the given to the guest filmed with a dark aura and the display of poverty it is a beautiful experience for the viewer
1	this movie embodies the soul of modern elite even though the movie is 17 years old the standing principle in the movie is food is more than just nourishing matter it is also a powerful symbol and a medium for culture itself the main characters literally get drunk on the finest wine and food become inspired by idealistic thoughts and culture as they let go of their puritanism and passion denying table manners karen makes use of the difference between north europe and south europe to point out their inherently different approaches to food as the strict and and rather dull get infused with eros from south the party gets going so what are you waiting for go watch it again
1	this is one of those movies which get better with each viewing i watched it three times and actually registered on imdb because i wanted to comment on it movies about food have been done before some of them are really good as for instance a certain japanese comedy which aficionados of asian cinema will know anyway but this one really is in its own league at its core is a protestant christian parable symbolizing the ideal of kindness but far from being dogmatic it also addresses the good in each and every of us regardless of our religious beliefs or lack thereof there is a pervading understatement and refinement in babette's feast but this makes the message of the movie if anything stronger not at all weaker if you cannot attend the extraordinary physical banquet offered by babette you're still welcome to this feast of the soul highly recommended
1	it has started quietly if your are looking for an action packed movie this is absolutely not the right choice all characters are slowly depicted on the scene stroke after stroke on the scene canvas none can take away his hands to the priest and so the sisters lifespan devotion can only remain into the village philippa and martina know their destiny belong only to the village so when you understand that you are on the movie scene in the village that becomes the whole known world in that time when no technology can let you imagine anything else than the campaign the village the sea you feel the rhythm of that ancient village's life watching the movie in a cold snowy late afternoon can cause you to approach this evening dinner with some sumptuous expectations br br the final sentence that give a title to babette's sacrifice far from paris an artist is never poor br br superb photography many situations depict portraits and landscapes as they were styled on canvas there in jutland in 18th century
1	i just watched this film this morning and i found it to be a great showing of the richness of faith babette gave them another way to look at life not a replacement but an enhancement she shared all that she had with those who gave what little they had to her i see the story of god in here he sent his only son to man man could not possibly give anything that would equal that so for our small sacrifice we are given an ultimate treasure and are transformed because of it in this film the bickering townspeople have so consumed themselves with a small interpretation of god babette showed them that life and god can indeed be beautiful in it's fullest sense the love that god's son showed to man is the love we should show to one another and our lives will be the richer for it even the film is a metaphor it seems slow in the beginning but the investment of time and attention to detail is rewarded in the end it was truly a feast
1	i don't know whether this film hits my heart the way it does because of the feelings of friendship love closeness to others or the warmth of that transformation babette's cooking creates but when the feast starts and for the rest of the movie i choke up often br br yes this is a feel good movie but without a speck of or facile sentimentality please note that elements of the plot are discussed babette's feast tells its story with restraint and care and it lets us discover for ourselves the values of grace and love all we need to know is that babette stephane was a french refugee who was given shelter by two aging sisters in a tiny community on the coast of jutland the sisters lead what remains of their father's flock he was a pastor of conviction who taught that salvation comes through self denial the sisters made their sacrifices to duty and faith those who still remain honor the now long dead pastor's teachings and his spiritual guidance still as they have grown older the tiny community has become querulous and argumentative the sisters do what they can for the pastor's 100th birthday babette wishes to cook the dinner for the small group the sisters will invite the sisters reluctantly agree but when they see the supplies babette has ordered they and their guests become uneasy they are used to the community's usual fare of dried cod boiled and a soup made of bread water and a little ale even though babette over time has made improvements what they are seeing now seems close to at the dinner also will be a visitor general lorens who years earlier had chosen ambition over his love for one of the sisters br br what do we experience there is the austerity of the aging community's faith and the stone wind swept cottages they live in there is the warmth by candlelight of the sisters' small crowded dining room and then there is the transforming power of babette's artistry as we watch her cook watch erik a young boy helping her serve and pour and watch the old parishioners with the help of fine wine and exquisite cooking gradually rediscover their community and love and friendship the general serves as our unexpected guide because he is the only one who knows what extraordinary dishes they are eating the general tells a story to his uncomprehending dinner companions a story about a famed woman who was the exemplary chef at the famed café in paris this woman this head chef had the ability to transform a dinner into a kind of love affair a love affair that made no distinction between bodily appetite and spiritual appetite he too is being transformed into a man who will accept what he has become and yet will always know the value and the love of what long ago he chose not to accept an old couple kiss two old men remember past friendships and babette who spent all that she had won in a lottery on this dinner has had an opportunity to be the artist she once was in france an opportunity she accepted with love and friendship br br babette now as poor as she was when she arrived penniless years earlier will continue with the sisters the general in a carriage with his aunt returns to her estate and the elderly guests leave the sisters' home to return to their own cottages they pause and look at the clear night sky and the stars overhead they spontaneously hold hands in a circle and dance and sing this hymn br br the clock strikes and time goes by eternity is nigh let us use this time to try to serve the lord with heart and mind so that our true home we shall find so that our true home we shall find br br they smile at each other all has been reconciled br br babette's feast is a wonderful movie full of restrained emotion unspoken understandings wisdom and of course a meal that will leave you with a growling stomach as you exit the theater if you win a lottery so you could afford what babette created and have her skill and artistry here's what she served br br a la a rich turtle soup served with amontillado sherry au caviar small buckwheat pancakes with sour cream and caviar served with champagne en with sauce boned stuffed with gras and truffle in puff pastry with truffle sauce enriched with madeira served with de a fine burgundy cheese and fresh fruit baba au with fruit and fresh coffee and a fine brandy
1	food always makes a good topic in movies as chocolat showed babette's feast is the same type of thing babette stephane is a french cook who flees her native land after the repression of 1871 she moves to a very religious danish village the people in this village simply have no use for joy that is until babette cooks them one of her exquisite meals br br it's not just that this movie deals with bringing fun to a place that has never known it like other scandinavian movies and non hollywood movies in general it shows that a movie can hold your interest without the use of explosions car chases etc this is one movie that you can't afford to miss br br one more thing do you think that the danish word for feast sounds a little bit like
1	i've discovered this movie accidentally and it was really a nice surprise a christmas classic it's also one of the fine comedies of the 40s the story line is simple elisabeth lane barbara stanwyck makes out her living by writing culinary columns for a magazine at christmas time her boss alexander yardley sydney greenstreet asks her to invite a young weakened sailor in the connecticut farm she write about the only problem is she hasn't got any farm and she can't cook to get out of the jam elisabeth agrees to marry a wealthy friend reginald gardiner who has a farm and flies for connecticut with her wonderful cook uncle felix br br there's a fine direction by peter godfrey and the cast is really wonderful stanwyck has never been better as this witty and yet romantic woman greenstreet gardiner and make hilarious and human supporting characters the only weak point is the leading man dennis morgan he starts well but as the movie goes on becomes really a bore one almost feels sorry for lane to ends up with him rather than with gary cooper or david niven who both would have been more suitable for the part anyway this is a joyful christmas time movie with a refreshing score and i advice it to everyone who likes to spend funny and sweet holidays in connecticut
1	in all this dogma fuzz please note that this is the danish masterpiece of the 20th century the humour the fate the sorrow is so clean so simple so touching br br this movie is a masterpiece go see it there's nothing more to say
1	the french babbette appears at the modest house of two danish sisters wet cold and alone fleeing revolution in paris she seeks refuge in an obscure religious community on the windswept jutland coast br br unbeknownst to those who so generously take her in she is a great chef an artist of food babette gives herself to her adopted community through thrift and shared faith she leaves only when she wins the french lottery 10 000 francs she returns laden with exotic cargo the makings of a single meal commemorating the birthday of the sister's father the community's founder br br this meal looms darkly in the minds of the pleasure denying faithful but its subtleties are translated by an aging military officer who as a young man in paris learned to appreciate the sensory experience unfolding here the meal is the film's climax a communion of love in the transitory artistry of food uplifting about art love and the meaning of life
1	yes you can look at babette's feast as some sort of slap at puritanical christianity but it is much more than that the surface story of how a gifted parisian cook flees paris after one of its revolutions by the middle classes and finds herself cast ashore in jutland in the north of denmark is simply the grease that allows the deeper tale to develop br br babette is an artist one of the small army of people who are driven from pillar to post over the centuries by fatuous politicians vane greedy and arrogant who kill beauty for profit something that politics always does pace national endowment for the arts which simply creativity for propaganda purposes br br babette is on her last legs as she arrives in the tiny village where two virginal sisters reside seeing over their diminishing flock of devotees to their late pastor father they live on salt cod and black bread gruel br br babette shows these simple pious people that god is in pleasure and sensuality as well as behavioral and mental purity she also shows them how that mental purity can lead to control something we all know about in these days of the neo in government who would limit our personal freedoms because they are somehow a crime against the state or as they would tell us humanity br br babette cooks up a bang up french dinner to celebrate the 100th birthday of the late reverend the daughters and their flock think it is the devil come amongst them and vow not to notice the food or drink br br it is at this point in the preparing of the meal payed for by babette's winnings in a french lottery that i begin to tear up it is a poignance brought about in comparison to the daily vulgarity and that floods our consciousness from morning to night via the media and power mongers to gain advantage over all of us out here in the dark br br the simple sophistication of babette's art spits in the face of all the pretentiousness on display in our modern society and it hurts to watch it played out so exquisitely in this splendid film br br it is along with fanny alexander bergman my favorite film ever yet i can only watch it once in awhile because like a rare bottle of wine served with and fresh oysters it is something that must not be over done br br a great great film that should be in every movie lover's library
1	i can think of no movie that better captures the concept of grace in a theological sense the well intentioned religiosity of a small congregation gone awry after the death of their leader robs from them the very thing they preach grace the costly gift of a humbled parisian culinary genius returns them to their calling to love one another and an aging general concerned that he's wasted his life choices is a central theme as well as grace at the same time artistic gifting is recognized as having a powerful transcendent role to play in everyday life and the life to come impossible to improve or ignore this is a life changing film for those who hear its message
1	a gentle story hinting at fury with a redemptive message and glorious celebration the photography is wondrously well executed cinematographers look at this kind of film to hone their craft not just for what the eye can do to enhance a story but what the right camera vocabulary can do to heighten an emotion feeding the soul is by definition what this movie addresses but with an elegance and grace of delivery that simply doesn't not happen much anymore at least with this degree of taste restraint and finesse if you care about story and character development this is a also a great movie to see as an example of what simple lines and the right delivery can do to completely fill out a character's impression match all this with a film score that is almost minimalist in character and also perfectly conceived and you'll get this movie
1	some have commented on the subtitles not being a problem in this film i beg to differ the in the facial expressions and subtle interactions between the characters is such that you can not afford to take your eyes away for even a fraction of a second i tried to watch on the dvd in english to overcome this problem don't make this mistake the result is a travesty the only way to get the full benefit is to watch it two or three times in quick succession so you know it and then ignore the subtitles an acting master class not in the dialogue but body language br br it is the little things the postmaster shop keeper puffs out his chest and goes in to get his cap before delivering a letter from france the general's bemused expression as his delight in a bunch of perfect grapes elicits a biblical reference with a profundity worthy of 'being there' br br the cinematography is awesome and the bleak minimalist village with its washed out colour just accentuates the sumptuousness of the feast when it comes i have a friend who claims to be descended from the and who's family motto is 'if it is worth doing it is worth doing to amen br br i laugh out loud and cry each time i watch this film
1	this film says everything there is to say about religion i wish it were required viewing for all bigots and would be br br the story set in a turn of the century danish villages is about two very religious sisters whose late father was a rigid priest who discouraged all their dreams of love and exploring the world and its many beauty they are now old and their life and beauty spent their quiet new help whom they teach to cook is babette played by the lovely stephane who graced so many of her husband claude chabrol's films the life in the village is simple and the stark direction reflects that br br when babette wins the lottery she requests a chance to prepare a feast a true labour of love the course of the feast and its chief guest reveal messages of love and spirituality and how there are many ways to love god and life br br this is a must see for the devotion with which babette prepares the feast and for the speech the general gives at the end possibly the best international film of the 1980's
1	this movie is almost unknown but it is very good in a lonely danish town two old sisters live remembering a far youths when due to a strict puritan education they had to reject happiness lonely then the live in a dignified austerity until babette who flies from paris frightened by the horror of the war arrives in few time she will be able to turn the goodness and love she received when she arrived a good lottery prize lets her organize a great banquet following the best rules of french all neighbourhoods are invited all fanatically puritans they accept but they pact to not show any trace of pleasure or enjoyment as it would be a sin however the seductive force of the delicious meal they eat that they become seduced by the sensuality of french the banquet end in a very felt though quietly happiness the love between humans has awaken the miracle of rise the human kindness due to the pleasure of the sense has begun the movie is surprisingly good but it is not for all tastes during most of the movie nothing happens all is so quiet and so peaceful that during many minutes you can only see the life of the inhabitants of the town but as the movie develops it becomes more precious when babette wins the lottery prize after 30min movie the show begins the author is able with a perfect directing to show us how babette prepares the banquet how she mixes all the ingredients with the most wonderful one love all told in a quiet delicious way with a perfect knowledge of photography and acting then as the banquet goes by the quality in showing us how the mood of all eaters changes due to the meal only with first shots with impressively filmed scenes one after another is simply astonishing in addition the tact with the colours and the photography is also superb almost every scene of the movie is like a picture so work is involved there if you are able to admire good cinema and are able to realize that sometimes the way on telling you something rather than what is told is more important this is your movie if you happen to like good meals and just love the good probably you'll feel amused as most feelings of the movie will be familiar to you an oscar totally deserved the only problem is its slowness at setting up the story but i can forgive it i hope everyone too
1	if not the best movie ever made babette's feast is certainly among the most loving this is a wonderful exploration of the meaning of artistry generosity loyalty and grace humor is mixed with tender longing characters are treated with searching honesty but also deep respect there are meditations here on memory fate old age and faithfulness marvellous camera work by cinematographer seldom have wrinkled faces looked so luminous in the candle light the meal is accompanied by delicious period music mozart and simple folk hymns enjoy this feast for the eyes and the spirit for as the general says mercy and truth have met together and righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another
1	babette's feast and the horse's mouth are the two most insightful accurate films on what it is to be a real artist the key lines in babette's feast are not as some other commentators here have said an artist is never poor but two lines that come before and after it br br i was able to make them happy when i gave of my very best throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist give me the chance to do my very best br br i spent nine years producing experimental multi media music theater in san francisco raising money for productions that involved dozens of singers actors designers etc and the artists i supported stretched every penny in their effort to do their very best they were just like babette they were desperate to get every dollar necessary to do their very best work babette's art is fine french cooking and for her to perform her art at its very best costs 10 000 francs when after years in political exile from france isolated with two caring spinsters on a bleak scandinavian coast she suddenly gets a of 10 000 francs she does what every real artist would do she sees that she unexpectedly has the chance to do her very best and so she does it she spends all the money so that she can do her very best work as an artist the twist in the movie is that we don't know she is such an artist until she is actually cooking and serving the meal up until then she appears to be just a working class french lady who a bit with the and is very serious her husband and son were murdered in paris violence in 1871 br br to such an artist it is secondary whether there is an audience for the art that is competent to appreciate it that is why the author set this dinner in a community of people who could not possibly have any understanding of what they are receiving babette did not cook this meal as a gift to the two spinsters or to the religious community it was not her goal to achieve a reconciliation or spirit of good feelings among the members of the little religious sect indeed she never once leaves the kitchen to speak to any of them after the meal she is sitting alone sipping some wine not paying the slightest attention to how the guests reacted she is basking in the satisfaction of finally having the chance to have done her best as an artist br br that is why it is so satisfying and so important to the story that the general unexpectedly shows up for as babette knows instantly a general will know what she has placed before him and will appreciate it for there is a sort of tragedy in a great work of art being shown to an audience that lacks even one person competent to appreciate it she is glad very glad he came in fact he is the only guest she ever mentions during the entire dinner the only one she singles out for special treatment not either of the spinsters but she did not plan the meal knowing that such a person would come to receive it br br to anyone who has had the chance to enjoy a real first class parisian dinner as i have my father was naval attache to paris in the 1980s and i had my honeymoon in france this dinner and babette's satisfaction in making it and the pleasure it brings to the diners is absolutely convincing if any art has the power to the recipient with a sense of joy it is a fine french meal cooked and served in france this movie makes a claim about the transformative effects of great art on the recipients before the dinner the members of the little religious sect are quarrelsome up old resentments the old hymns fail to restore good fellowship people ignore them talk over them but the shared experience of sensual great art for the people can enjoy the tastes of the foods and even if they have no conception that they are experiencing great art contents the people puts them in a forgiving mood reconciles them and by making them happy encourages them to love each other and thus has a god like sacred effect of bringing peace this is the claim found in the modern art movement today that art can supplant the traditional religions in making mankind more peaceful thus contrary to those commentators here who say that this film speaks for the power of christian belief it is more accurate to say that the film claims that art can heal wounds that christian ritual cannot after all my years in the art world i have to say that this claim that art brings peace that religion cannot is overblown and invalid but it is a pretty conceit and it is the second main theme of this beautiful film br br one last note at babette's arrival at the home a particular french general is named as the person who in 1871 executed babette's husband and son and imposed a military rule that she had to flee at the end of the film as the general tells the story of the magnificent meal he enjoyed in paris many years before before 1871 at the conclusion of some military maneuvers it turns out that this same was his host at the meal as the general tells the story french general praised the chef of that meal as the greatest woman the only woman he would risk his life for of course that woman was babette thus ironically the same french general who said he honored babette above all other women was responsible for driving her away from france forever
1	a magazine columnist who writes about life on her farm house when in fact she lives in a ny apartment must come up with a plan when she learns that her publisher and a war hero will spend christmas with her after a slow start it turns into an entertaining little screwball comedy thanks to a fine cast in a big departure from her previous role as a femme fatale in double indemnity stanwyck displays a nice comedic flair morgan is smooth as the affable war hero while greenstreet is well cast as the publisher however steals the film as a chef trying to master the english language while speaking with an almost incomprehensible european accent
1	if you find the first 30 minutes of this film to be so slow that you wonder why you're watching it don't give up also hearing the danish language is a bit new to most north americans who don't see and hear a lot of danish films anyway as the film progressed it got better and better and the viewer is rewarded for his her patience br br being a fan of the movie out of africa this film piqued my interest because it's based on a short novel by karen the major character in that film br br the meal babette's feast was amazing i'm no chef but i was impressed how one interprets the story too varies i suppose depending on how much you read into this and where you stand religion wise if the latter how you look at the definition of can affect how you interpret this story br br in any case it's a fine film but don't watch this if you're dieting
1	this movie came aside as a shock in the eighties far from trends that is to say in the heart of sincere creativity stands as one of the finest movies of its time stephane the wonderful actress of her ex husband claude chabrol's greatest achievements le la rupture les noces rouges all unqualified musts for movie buffs gave a lifetime performance to see her prepare with love and affection her meal is a feast for the eyes all the people who saw this masterpiece actually tasted ate babette's culinary triumph but the most moving part of the story is its conclusion babette was a great french chef she was famous now she found a new homeland but her heyday is behind her and she won't never be allowed to come back to her dear france so the two old sisters do comfort her in heaven there will be huge kitchens where she cooks for eternity while sharing her fortune with her new friends babette changed their life she gave them pleasure and a magic evening they would remember forever in this simple but extraordinary screenplay human warmth is everywhere and i wish everybody a babette's feast would it be only for one starry night
1	the dead spots and picture postcard superficiality of out of africa just about buried any interest i might have had to read so when my brother bought me babette's feast and knowing it was based on a story i didn't exactly race to the vcr but as the titles rolled it became clear that this was no ordinary movie jutland where it's set is not africa the chill mist that collects on the camera shots is not inviting the cold forbidding sea the heavy gray clouds the pale icy green cliffs translate to hardships that show on the faces over which director gabriel axel draws the curtain the is as philippa amid the myriad merits of this movie the most memorable is that face it stands like a map laying before us the cherished wonder of her minister father's like a maze of long overlooked where the complications of her perseverance and commitment hang like gleaming br br i gather it's point how the world is drawn inexplicably to christian dedication when philippa is rejected by her only serious suitor because he fears he'll never measure up to the rules and rigors of her small religious clique and he returns to find her mistress of whom he regards as the greatest chef on the continent i figure it's also her point that christ answers the doubts and regrets of those who give up worldly success sister martina rebuffs efforts by a visiting baritone jean philippe lafont whose creates an uplifting counterpoint to the of spirit that surrounds his discovery to turn her into an opera star the title character leaves france and an enviable reputation and seeks sanctuary as the servant of two spinster sisters to pursue artistic triumphs for only god and those closest to him to witness but it's axel who weaves the of these people's lives with the richness of voice and babette table and effects a sumptuousness you'd never expect from a movie about sacrifice faith and religious conviction br br what sets this movie apart from other religious movies is its sly humor babette's feast that is the banquet itself a posthumous of the minister's 100th birthday is a beautifully orchestrated clash of sensibilities that delivers comic moments by an ensemble of actors that are unparalleled in their subtlety it's just this deft comedy that enriches the solemn sentiments at closing together they do something pious movies seldom do they leave a believer hopeful and unexpectedly resolute and humbled
1	stephane is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father one day a french woman babette comes to work for them after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which changes the lives of all those invited this is a film about human and cultural interaction reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it is also about human needs and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses a profoundly uplifting film
1	sublime perfect profound a true lesson on the idealized meaning of life we get completely caught up in the life journeys of martina and phillipa and br br babette their yearnings desires sacrifices resonant long after the movie has ended seeing it years ago as it was gaining a great deal of notoriety at the audaciousness of its subject matter half the movie being a single dinner the audience was and as some of the courses took their final br br glorious shape laughing at the reaction of the diners as they became totally seduced by the pleasures being introduced to them by babette and being totally surprised at the turn of events at the end of the film subsequently seeing the film years later after my own twists and turns of life i realized just how profound the film is on this viewing tears flowed freely the film's br br meditation on the passage of time and the way it uses a seemingly simple story to comment on life and love and art and generosity is truly something to br br cherish
1	flawlessly directed written performed and filmed this quiet and unpretentious danish film is an example of cinema at its best and if a person exists who can watch babette's feast without being touched at a very fundamental level they are a person i do not care to know br br the story is quite simple in the 1800s two elderly maiden ladies and reside in remote jutland where they have sacrificed their lives romantic possibilities and personal happiness in order to continue their long dead father's religious ministry to the small flock he served one of the women's youthful admirers sends to them a frenchwoman babette stéphane whose husband and son have been killed in france and who has fled her homeland lest she meet the same fate although they do not really require her services the sisters engage her as maid and cook and as the years pass her cleverness and tireless efforts on their behalf enables the aging congregation to remain together and the sisters to live in more comfort than they had imagined indeed the entire village admires and depends upon her br br one day however babette receives a letter she has won a lottery and is now by village standards a wealthy woman knowing that her new wealth will mean her return to france the sisters grant her wish that she be allowed to prepare a truly french meal for them and the members of their tiny congregation the meal and the evening it is served is indeed a night to remember but not for reasons that might be expected for babette's feast proves to be food for both body and soul and is ultimately her gift of love to the women who took her in and the villagers who have been so kind to her br br the film is extraordinary in every way meticulous in detail yet not overpowering in its presentation of them as the film progresses we come to love the characters in both their simple devotion to god and their all too human frailties and the scenes in which babette prepares her feast and in which the meal is consumed are powerful beautiful and incredibly memorable there have been several films that have used food as a metaphor for love but none approach the simple artistry and beauty of babette's feast which reminds us of all the good things about humanity and which proves food for both body and soul highly highly recommended br br gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
1	babette's feast for me is about healing the schism between spirit and body in orthodox christianity this puritanical community in remote denmark is missing an adequate appreciation of all of god's gifts in creation they have taken the dualism of st paul to an extreme and stress the life of the spirit not the life of the flesh both elderly sisters in their youth were frightened by the lure of love and the temptations of life outside their simple village they and their parishioners cling to the narrow biblical interpretation of their former leader and the sisters' father the aging congregation has become testy and quarrelsome and the sisters don't know what to do enter babette a french stranger and someone to whom they can show kindness they have no way of knowing that she will ultimately return their kindness and give fertile soil to their dry dusty theology babette will give everything she has and in the process will teach the sisters and their flock about grace about sacrifice about how sensual experience as in the bread and wine of the can change lives and about why true art moves us so deeply when they can forgive each other and themselves they can focus on god's love that unfolds before them in a concrete way in the present as a minister and an artist i can't recommend a movie more highly true art and true grace
1	price of honor aka price of power is an ambitious western melodrama light on the action which seeks to tell an old west version of the jfk assassination in 1881 the president travels to dallas and is shot from a window while parading thru town in his carriage corrupt officials have carried out the murder and have a humble slave take the rap our hero the earnest but bland giuliano gemma aims to unravel the conspiracy an engaging story audacious for its subject matter but entertaining despite the paucity of shoot em up action the film is a 7 out of 10 despite the poor presentation of the dvd which is overly dark with poor sound look for a good copy
1	i was unfamiliar with this film until i saw it included in a list of the top 20 spaghetti westerns i recently came across following the marathon i made these last few weeks of films from the subgenre it was auspicious then that the film had to turn up almost immediately on late night italian tv for the first time i'm pretty sure in a good number of years br br unfortunately the cable reception of the channel on which it was broadcast hasn't been great lately i recorded the film on vhs but i decided not to keep it due to this factor as it happened the very next day i watched the film i found out that it was available on a region 2 dvd from italy featuring an interview with uncredited scriptwriter ernesto gastaldi and having been sufficiently impressed i decided to order it there and then even if i knew that i wouldn't be getting to the dvd for quite a while as i like to allow some time between one viewing of a film and the next a brief parenthesis here when i recently purchased a spate of spaghetti westerns on italian dvd i opted not to order sergio face to face 1967 since i was under the impression that it was a bare bones affair however i've just learned that the disc actually contains an interview with the director as had been the case with the big 1966 which i bought it did seem baffling to me that wouldn't offer similar contribution to that film's dvd edition when he actually considered face to face as his favorite work as per the director's talent bio included on the blue underground region 1 disc of yet another spaghetti western run man run 1968 the trouble is that i loved the big so much that i followed it with a viewing of face to face via the recording i owned made off italian tv i did order the dvd of that film now especially since it's still discounted but as i said with respect to a second look at the price of power although i may still check out interview when the disc arrives br br o k rant over the film under review is quite an unusual spaghetti western and a very interesting indeed ambitious one at that being a transposition of the jfk assassination case to an old west setting actually it's reminiscent of anthony mann's terse black and white thriller the tall target 1951 which dealt with an assassination attempt on the life of then u s president abraham lincoln it features one of the most popular italian stars from this subgenre giuliano gemma in what is perhaps his most impressive western role many of his other films tended to have a light hearted bent the supporting cast includes at least two other notables van johnson in one of his few and mainly unremarkable italian films as the american president killed in post civil war dallas and fernando rey as the head of a conspiracy of southerners who not only plots his assassination but also conveniently maneuvers the new acting u s leader johnson's vice president by means of blackmail br br benito also makes a good impression as a corrupt sheriff who pursues gemma all through the picture and with whom he's engaged a couple of times in a in the dark' with the guns resting on the floor rather than in their respective holsters and the only light in the room provided by the end of the cowboys' cigars also involved is ray saunders as black sidekick whom the narrative eventually turns into the doomed lee harvey oswald figure stelvio who later cut his teeth as director on a number of is behind the film's luminous cinematography similarly luis enrique supplies yet another great euro cult score which is different enough from the style of ennio morricone as to be equally distinguishable direction here may mot be as imposing as that in other spaghetti westerns but he handles the proceedings efficiently enough the final gunfight is especially nicely done the film is certainly one of the more underrated entries in the subgenre and for those so inclined the novelty of the plot line alone should make it one to look out for
1	tonino il del aka the price of power is an excellent and enthralling spaghetti western that mirrors the kennedy assassination a great leading performance by giuliano gemma and an excellent score by luis are just two of the many reasons to watch this movie br br in 1881 texas is divided into those who appreciate the abolition of slavery and just want to live in peace and those who after 16 years still want to reinstall the confederacy in spite of warnings president james garfield who wants to establish a new policy of equality decides to visit dallas where corrupt law enforcement officials are planning his assassination bill giuliano gemma and two of his friends a black man named jack donovan ray and a crippled guy named nick manuel are determined to prevent the president's murder br br since james garfield was not assassinated by racists who wanted to reinstall the confederacy in texas but in washington dc by mentally unstable charles the storyline of price of power is of course historical nonsense since the movie however doesn't claim historical accuracy but tries to allude to the 1963 kennedy assassination in dallas the fact that the story is fictitious is legitimate br br giuliano gemma delivers an excellent performance as the main character bill benito is great as the villainous and corrupt sheriff jefferson some other good performances are those of ray as bill's black friend jack warren as arthur mcdonald the president's adviser and fernando rey as pinkerton a villainous rich businessman the score by luis is great the cinematography and locations are great and such as in earlier day of anger remind a lot of sergio leone for whom used to work as an assistant director for a fistful of dollars and for a few dollars more br br all said il del is after day of anger another excellent spaghetti western that shows both the great talent of giuliano gemma as an actor and tonino as a director the price of power is a must see for spaghetti western fans and i also highly recommend it to everybody else 8 10
1	this film reminds me very much of the later rock hudson film man's favorite sport about a fishing writer who has never fished and is forced into entering a fishing tournament in this case barbara stanwyck is a martha stewart like writer who can't cook and doesn't really have the perfect family she describes in her articles in fact she has no family at all well like rock she is maneuvered into performing in this case creating a huge holiday dinner while vacationing in the countryside since there is no family she takes home a veteran and a few friends and tried desperately not to let the cat out of the bag that she can't do any of the things she is known for doing a cute little comedy and a welcome film to the annual holiday film lineup
1	this is a gripping story that borrows elements from the kennedy assassination and uses them successfully to create an excellent western tale br br the movie has a good music score though it relies on repeating the title theme a little too much giuliano gemma and the rest of the cast are superb this is a more cerebral than usual spaghetti western that relies more on story than action and it succeeds because the story is excellent this is not to say that there is no action in the movie there is plenty and it is very well crafted this movie pulls you in right away and keeps you absorbed til the end you'll always be wondering what's in those documents everyone's after it also has some biting commentary on american politics br br this movie shows why in my opinion is in a three way tie with and corbucci for second place in the rankings of spaghetti western directors
1	in post civil war america the president van johnson travels to dallas and is assassinated by corrupt officials and businessman interested in installing the vice president whom they can blackmail due to incriminating documents a gunman gemma convinced that his black friend is wrongly accused of the assassination aims to uncover the truth tonino valeri directed this fascinating if flawed film which obviously is an allegory for the kennedy assassination the film may wrongly present blacks as slaves working on plantations in texas but the film is nonetheless enjoyable and presents an interesting interpretation that kennedy's death was the result of a coup de tat which many americans could not accept at the time oswald's murder is replayed here as the black accused of the assassination is murdered by the men responsible on route to fort worth prison this moment in the film is more melodramatic than oswald's death with his various escorts shot down before his over the top death scene nonetheless this is definitely one of the more interesting and worthwhile spaghetti westerns worth a look
1	out of the 600 or so spaghetti westerns made this has got to be in the top twenty somewhere can not believe this hasn't received any reviews gemma is excellent in this van johnson is good too though his dubbed voice is a little off but that's the charm of the italian style beautiful photography and some excellently staged action all the supporting characters are well played the severity of the racist streak in the bad guys is pretty tough even by todays standards which creates an emotional depth to character in some of the situations that take place absolutely fantastic score by luis see this is in the wonderful wide screen dvd from japan a spaghetti must have
1	i first saw this film on hbo around 1983 and i loved it i scoured all of the auction web sites to buy the vhs copy this is a very good suspense movie with a few twists that make it more interesting i don't want to say too much else because if you ever get a chance to see it you'll be glad i didn't say too much
1	i must admit when i first began watching this film i had no clue what was going on so the beginning was a bit confusing for me however that did not diminish my enjoyment of the movie the characters reveal themselves to be more complex than they may first appear and that is what makes this a memorable film at first i heard this was a real hollywood movie although it obviously lacks the stereotypical guns and fists element the convincing performances of talented actors such as martin sheen and sam neill more than make up for it i'd rather see a film with more substance than shooting any day
1	this was the film that first indicated to me what a great actor martin sheen really is he modestly claims that charlie is a better actor charlie can't hold a candle to him br br i found it suspenseful and thoroughly enjoyed the intertwining of the love story with the main plot and i usually hate love stories there's a great plot twist at the end that struck me as being fully credible particularly in the early 80's time period and probably now also br br the final scene had me on the edge of my seat this film roundly illustrates that treachery is often doled out by those we trust while declared enemies have more in common than they suspect and finally that human compassion can be found where we least expect it br br
1	enigma is a computer part which scrambles russian messages so that america can't understand them they can only be read by the intended recipient the americans know that the russians are going to transmit a message revealing the plans of five political assassinations they want to carry out br br so they send in former martin sheen to grab the and substitute a false part so they'll be able to decode the message and block the assassination attempts br br however as we listen in on the americans heads of the spy organisation we find that they already have the and they want to try to steal enigma only to convince the russians that they don't already have it they don't expect to succeed that way the russians who had stopped transmitting with enigma just in case will begin transmitting again br br enigma is in the computer in the office of dimitri somehow must gain access and in order to do that he must find out when will be out he sends in his former girlfriend karen brigitte fossey to seduce so that she can look through his papers and find out his scheduled movements karen is glad to do it as they tortured her father a university professor to death br br because we know that it's better for the americans if fails the movie becomes even more intense as a spy thriller we find ourselves hoping he can survive against the odds especially as he uses ingenious methods to beat the russians at every turn br br but what's this are karen and falling in love will win karen back or will she actually end up with the romantic twist lifts this spy thriller already worthy of a ten even higher for its originality the writing the direction and the acting all combine to make this new and fascinating twist a compellingly realistic one br br you find yourself at the edge of your seat gripping your armchair not only for the excitement of the spy story but for the intensely beautiful romantic love story as well the two themes are interwoven perfectly right up to the end you really want both sides to win so who does win in the end you'll have to see the movie and find out won't you
1	i thought this to be a pretty good example of a better soft core erotica film it has a reasonable plot about the madame of a bordello caught up in a police scheme to nab a wealthy crook br br hardcore porn star chloe nichole again shows her genuine acting ability she will occasionally appear in soft core such as body of love and lady stories nicole on the other hand leaves something to be desired in her role as the female cop
1	i saw this movie awhile back and can't seem to track it down does anyone know where i can get a hold of it i feel it is worth seeing again br br i'm sorry to say i had never heard of chloe until this film yes she can act when i first began to track this movie down i mistook it for another one of her movies sex spa the plot seems similar to me but the roles are reversed br br this is the first film i've seen dru berrymore i looked up some of her other films and i feel she looks better as a blonde br br i agree this is a good introductory movie not too soft not too hard you got to start somewhere
1	there's not much anyone can say about this flick the plot is quite simple two police officers who also happen to be lovers are using a brothel as a stakeout in order to catch a criminal with the help of the lady of the house played by hardcore chloe as anyone can guess there's a few plot twists and some blurred alliances but the writing was just horrible even for a softcore movie br br i've read some previous posts about nicole accent she plays the female cop yes it's hard to understand what she's saying at times but i think i've placed it i did some sniffing around i think she's from germany hence her odd sounding accent she makes an impression even without speaking however she's got a great looking body br br there were a couple of from behind sex scenes in this movie that were quite graphic for a softcore film excellent work there the three way scene toward the end wasn't bad either br br spoiler alert br br i kinda knew the female cop was gonna turn into a part time call girl at the end she enjoyed her three way way too much br br end spoiler br br i'm not gonna nitpick about the story too much seeing as this is a low budget direct to video softcore flick however it just seems like i've seen way too many movies in this genre with a similar type of storyline br br women b chloe and were okay as the eye candy sex b scenes were kinda short but good story c a recycled plot but whatever works eh overall b
1	add this little gem to your list of holiday regulars it is br br sweet funny and endearing
1	br br her excellency madam shabana azmi has worked in countless movies over life time i think best is yet to come br br fire is ok br br but still good days are yet to come br br hopefully in water i will be able see her better br br thanks and regards br br ps india doesn't have a director to make best use of her
1	thank you the for showing this sleazy soft core sex flick at 1 a m i truly enjoyed it to be honest i expected a lot more from a sexy cast with dru berrymore and of course the talented chloe as rebecca carter br br the production values are truly bad mainly because of the low budget but a little more effort wouldn't harm for example the cinematography makes it look like a hard core porno movie there's absolutely no effort in lightning but let's ignore that fact because let's be honest we watched pleasures of sin because of the high amounts of sex br br the sex factor is pretty good and offers steamy explicit scenes delivers the best performance of the female cast br br so my advice is watch this movie if you are in the mood for good explicit sex or just watch it if you are a fan of mrs br br recommended only for the sex scenes don't expect anything else
1	i've taken another look at this film and still consider it pretty good chloe is one of the few hardcore stars who really can act she appears occasionally in soft core such as body of love and lady stories on showtime i thought nicole did ok too with her nice body and charming accent too bad she's not in more films
1	progeny is about a husband and wife who experience time loss while making love completely unaware of what this bizarre experience means they try to go on with their lives the hubby begins questioning the bizarre event and gets help through a very annoying psychiatrist he comes to believe that aliens are responsible for this lapse in time and that the unborn baby he once thought was his and his wife's actually belongs to the aliens br br if ya ask me this is a great scifi horror story taking a highly questionable real life scenario involving alien abduction and hybrid breeding is definite thumbs up from this guy i love all things related to aliens and this story definitely delivered some good ideas so if you also share an interest in things extraterrestrial you should be pretty happy with progeny at least story wise anyways br br unfortunately the movie overall is pretty average with average acting by all actors yep even by the consistently awesome mr dourif who still does deliver the best performance though the black head doctor delivers his lines really well there are a few points in the flick where some of the delivery is cringe or laugh worthy which is fine in my book i like them cheesy and this had a little bit of some nice stinky cheese and i mean that in a good way br br anyways with a less than stellar script you can't really blame all the actors i especially didn't care for the mother hysteria the film went for she wanted a baby so badly that she'd neglect and dismiss everything her loving husband who's a doctor said to her it almost reached a point where you actually didn't care what happened to her br br the progeny is another flick by brian yuzna from the icky sticky film society again he delivers some slimy effects and again he delivers a pretty unique tale of horror if you're into scifi horror or are a fan of dourif and or yuzna films there's no real reason not to check out this flick if you get the chance a generous 7 outta 10
1	first let me review the movie this movie creeps me out and i don't even believe in aliens however the movie has its flaws br br there are three acts to this movie act one is perfect it sets up the movie and really builds up the creep factor i must say the score is great everything is set up and it's set up perfectly br br act two begins when jillian playing sherry burton goes to the shrink they hypnotize her and she recalls the abduction act two ruins the film when the aliens show up screaming mad george did the effects for the aliens i must say they did a good job except with their depiction of the gray aliens no offense but the grays looked like door prizes br br on a side note i liked how they treated hypnosis in acts one and two if you paid attention you would notice that the husband and wife had two different memories in the husband's version of events the blue light zaps them and his wife says somebody's here or something like it it makes sense the husband is concerned for his wife someone may hurt her that's his issue however in her version of events she says help me she does not say somebody's here this also makes sense the aliens are after her wanting her husband to help and save her is her issue now back to the film br br act three turns the film into a gore fest it begins with a strange procedure it's a typical gore fest but it does have a surprise ending i won't ruin it because it's actually an interesting development br br the dvd and commentaries takes itself too seriously but if you think wilford brimley saying horsesh is funny you might want to check it out in the cast interviews section now on to my praise of jillian br br i could only hope jillian will read this i had never seen her before but wow what a performance let me tell the rest of you this first of all this is supposed to be a serious film the details i will now describe may sound campy and fun like humanoids from the deep 1980 but it really isn't got that okay br br jillian is hot naturally good looking she is naked for a lot of the film a good thing unfortunately she is usually being assaulted terrorized and raped a very bad thing however she must act in a lot of this film naked she gets points for overcoming that she has to act happy sad horny afraid and physically hurt all in the span of a few moments the turnaround of emotion is astounding she has to cheer for joy when she learns she's pregnant she has to scream in terror when the aliens take out her guts she has to act very angry when her husband suggests that the baby isn't his she has to act like she's in denial saying nothing is wrong with her baby when her husband says otherwise a denial i should note that is really forced upon her by the aliens controlling her i am talking oscar caliber performance here br br then there is the rape scene it's disturbing but since it's just some rubber alien it's not too bad in this scene the alien is not a gray alien so i will describe it the alien has tentacles and it's kind of like a table jillian is on the table like part restrained by the tentacles by her head is the alien's head the alien's head is long and it flips down so that its head is now above legs then the alien's hey comes out of his forehead it's forehead sounds pretty campy right well jillian plays it straight and she pulls it off she has to act like an alien with its hey coming from its forehead is raping her and she pulls it off it's a very intense scene but that's not what makes it you see this scene is done in a flashback what makes the scene is performance recalling these events she is just lying in a hospital bed under hypnosis recalling the alien abduction but her acting here is more intense than the actual rape scene how many actors can pull off a performance in a scene that describes a rape that is more intense than the scene with the rape not many however jillian does it br br i could go on and on jillian if you ever read this i want you to know that i name withheld alias of 1 believe you are the best actress ever you are the best actress ever i could only hope you read this and take it with you always br br as for everyone else progeny 1999 is an okay to good film i would recommend it
1	minor spoilers br br a woman gets pregnant but not by her husband she develops 'something' inside her or at least thats what her husband thinks they go through a lot of hard times while she is on the brink of a nervous breakdown the husband contacts an ufo professor and with his help they try to find out what is wrong with her br br minor spoilers br br the story could have been a bit better or at least be made less predictable but the movie is catchy and it got me and my sister hooked through the entire movie without a problem the acting is very good and the filming is much better than normal if you compare this to your normal b alien movie the effects are good and something is happening every second of the movie the characters are really likable and apart from a stupid nurse in scene they are all very convincing in their roles br br i thought it was a good movie and can recommend it if you like alien monster abduction movies br br 7 10 the story could have been a bit less predictable
1	an odd beam of light penetrates the bedroom of dr craig burton arnold vosloo and his wife sherry jillian as they are making love about two hours are unaccounted for as they embrace seemingly unharmed under hypnosis during a session with psychiatrist dr susan lamarche lindsay crouse craig discovers that his wife was impregnated by aliens sherry resists this notion as absurd and is quite happy to relay news to her husband that she is indeed pregnant ecstatic after their trying for ages to get pregnant sherry is frightened at craig's persistence of the fetus not being his this stems from a check on his low sperm count with odds especially high that he could in no way have impregnated his wife awkward troubling experiences with the fetus inside her leads sherry to some scary discoveries her doctor david wilford brimley finds that the ultra sound gives some unusual results of the developing infant's appearance but it's craig who notices that it resembles an alien sparks ignite cutting out the electrical equipment even shutting off through hypnosis sherry reveals the experience of her abduction but lamarche believes her problem is psychological not physiological with no one believing his wife's alien impregnation theory craig turns to dr bert brad dourif whose work is in the studies of alien life and abduction but bert is reluctant to help craig who will go to the ends of the earth to save his wife's life from possible harm tragic results occur as lamarche and others try to keep craig from his goals of cutting the thing out believing he is mad craig will still pursue his task trying to drag bert down this path with him br br grim absorbing horror tale about one man's struggle to save his wife from the harm of beings no one else believes exist thankfully dourif's character isn't some quack nutjob but an intelligent doctor who wishes to learn more but his pursuit of the truth of aliens isn't hostile he does hope to learn from sherry but isn't incredibly demanding in this goal the story is told realistically it's easy to understand why others might deem craig off his rocker vosloo doesn't take the character too far but expresses the distress of his current situation how can he save his wife from this hostiles and prove to others that he's not nuts deserves credit for the demands of the difficult abduction scenes where her unfortunate character is naked on this table being and molested by these things crouse is fine in her limited but important role as the voice of reason in a situation where her clients seem out of control psychologically the monster effects are icky and effective i think the film works quite well and director yuzna deserves credit for restraining himself for this film at least the final twenty minutes as craig tries to perform his removal surgery with a scared bert watching the crazy situation escalate is nail biting br br you know fans of fire in the sky might dig this flick
1	this movie will undoubtably not go over well with some because most of the horror is mental but it does have a little something for almost everyone including a couple of really cool abduction scenes with aliens the film makes extensive use of alien abduction mythology while also showing a bit more intelligence about some facets of abduction myths than you would expect out of a movie jillian is excellent in what had to have been a grueling performance
1	i put in the dvd expecting camp perversion from the creators of society and re animator and was quite surprised to become involved in an authentically suspenseful tale acting was top notch nice to see vosloo in a protagonist role after a long string of villains the storyline involving and the few twists fairly surprising i figured i would fast forward through much of it to get to the abduction scenes but instead watched it through only being let down at the very end br br maybe i'm being too lenient but as i stated before i wasn't expecting much more than alien sex of course if you are looking for some hot alien sex you will be let down it was mostly quick cut exam table nonsense with a blink and you'll miss it glimpse of an interesting alien
1	it would be so easy to dismiss an alien abduction movie before even seeing it as i did but this is well worth a look if you think about it its not an easy subject matter to handle but this film manages to suspend disbelief which in itself is a feat for such a way out subject casting the main character as a doctor was a sensible move which lends credence to his willingness to believe in the possibility of alien abduction vosloo plays it very sensitively involving us in his pain and confusion at the weird events that befall himself and his wife special effects are used sparingly but to shocking effect and at times the movie is totally gripping but sadly there are a couple of points where the plot wanders and leaves some confusion also after building to a tense climax the ending is something of a let down the supporting characters were unnecessarily weak the alien hunter or menacing the psychiatrist which also served to detract br br but all in all it raised some interesting issues amongst which was a telling line how do think animals feel when we experiment on them br br the concept of lost time was also thought provoking
1	i don't see why everyone is bombing this so much i thought it was a great fun time that sadly wasn't popular enough to be that famous believe me i have seen much much worse than this if you want a bad movie see blood shack or the alien dead or something so what this is normal slasher fare but better than most and it is watchable this movie also has one of the best soundtracks i've heard some of the music is very suspenseful and the death scenes are cool too we see a very bloody body in a bathtub with the words sold written in blood on the mirror and we also get a cool double beating by a toilet with razors attached to it this was a good fun 80s slasher that's definitely worth your time despite what others say about it
1	this is a delightful they don't make em like this anymore kind of film well performed by everyone and peopled with interesting character actors an intelligent witty script acted with the right blend of broad comedy and understated humor holds up for repeated annual viewings br br warning the re make of this film with the same name directed by arnold is an unbearable mess painful to watch without a scintilla of the charm and wit of the original
1	now i've seen many many b grade films in my 15 years of living and i must say that this was one of the better ones i personally enjoyed the real estate and the storyline but it did suffer from amateur acting although adrienne barbeau did give a decent performance as lisa grant joseph bottoms couldn't hold his part well enough to be considered good the other performance which really fit the film was that of barry hope barney resnick it begins with an eager real estate agent taking an asian couple through a house only to find there's a dead girl in the shower of the it progresses with detective speculating and introduces the key characters with reasonable grace i think that for any person who's in for a giggle at the over the top drama the victim provide during the over the top gory scenes this truly is a gem xd who am i kidding it's not that great but worth a watch if you're insanely bored
1	this is a wonderful movie i've only seen it twice and i've been looking for it again for ever i'd buy it if i could find it while it's sad it shows three things how much a man can love a woman how hard some people want something and how hard people work to overcome their limitations
1	this one gets better with each new look certainly one of paul sorvino's best roles outstanding music score which was also outstanding on sound track lp so why no cd one the very early dolby stereo sound film releases by the way the original 35mm theatrical trailer for this is really great
1	when you read about this film you wanna cringe i have seen it countless times and yet i cringe myself so what is the attraction here i think that for me it's the of the romance i find it super refreshing to have an oddball coupling between this nyc jimmy breslin like columnist and a down on her luck health wise ballerina you feel embarrassed for paul sorvino at his unsubtle approach to wooing this woman like the guy in the bar who can't take a hint he's a bit overweight at least as a would be suitor for a ballerina hope that doesn't sound unkind and possibly a tad too old for her nice change of pace from greek god wooing super model the bill conti score has stuck in my head all these years later which is a pretty good sign however some of the acting is just dreadful a subplot involving a young puerto rican boy befriended by sorvino's character is just hilariously bad but the opening scene where is warming up to carole king draws you right into this story good luck finding it you'd think that lifetime would be re airing this or even we but i haven't seen it on in quite a few years
1	i was never all that impressed by night gallery but this one episode stands out br br a tv network executive auditions an odd act a young nerdy boy who proceeds to make the exec dismisses the whole thing as a flaky waste of time until both predictions come true the next morning br br what first seemed a parlor act becomes a hit show as the kid's predictions prove consistently accurate br br then one day he refuses to do the show facing imminent showtime everyone's at wit's end even threatening him with legal action if he doesn't fulfill his contract and make his daily predictions br br the young boy relents and foretells a seemingly utopian tomorrow br br after the show the befuddled executive asks for an explanation only to learn why the complete truth is too terrifying to reveal
1	i adore the chaney version of phantom and i appreciate webber's version if only for the growing interest in the book wish i find more of a mystery slash horror with the romantic aspects downplayed i don't approve of the fact that andrew lloyd webber made the relationship between raoul and christine less restrained br br luckily since this is a comedic short with only erik and christine this version doesn't even have to bother with any other characters br br i thought i would still be waiting for another version to match up performance i was dead wrong leslie nielson is fabulous as erik though of course this is a spoof it's still brilliant br br i especially appreciated the fact that erik looked more like a living corpse than an accident victim i still have as of yet to see a phantom like that other than br br however i do not recommend this short if you don't like spoofs because this is in no way supposed to be taken seriously
1	bridget fonda has disappointed me several times over the years but she had my attention in break up it's true the story is missing critical details in several places but i just kept fonda for clues about what was meaningful in the story and she didn't let me down the look in her eyes in the last scene as she musters up courage to literally put one foot in front of the other toward her uncertain future is one of the most dramatic and significant examples of face acting ever i believed her completely possibly because i've known and admired several tough broads who survived similar abusive situations and they did this without becoming man haters but that's my own hopeful projection of fonda's character at the break up
1	excellent drama very dark i have never seen california photographed in such a way bridget fonda as the deaf wife beaten by her husband is superb the film gripped me from start to finish very understated performance by sutherland the direction was very european amazing to get such a performance from fonda
1	nothing great here but a nicely acted story about an abused deaf wife fonda of a small time crook bochner who gets involved with one of her husband's plans and his mistress sutherland and weber are cops drawn into what turns out to be a unmysterious murder investigation and the story just flows along
1	i've tried to remember the name of this movie for years and years finally read something today 03 09 2005 that mentioned stacy keach's name and it reminded me that i had seen a movie that he was in in 1974 at the atlanta film festival so i did a google search for keach's movies and found the gravy train we were supposed to see duddy kravitz at the film festival but for some reason they were unable to show it and instead substituted the gravy train we were terribly disappointed that we weren't going to be able to see the much hyped duddy kravitz and had heard nothing of the gravy train and have heard nothing of it since br br however i recall we were pleasantly surprised at how good the movie was and as i recall it was quite humorous would love to find it on tape
1	christmas in connecticut is a gem of a christmas movie classic while lesser known than some others it is nonetheless a delightful way to spend an evening at holiday time i watch it every year br br barbara stanwyck is perfectly cast as elizabeth lane the single career girl way before it was popular stanwyck embodies the single girl on the rise her nyc apartment and her friendly uncle restaurateur around the corner the single girl in the city existence she can't cook yet she writes a column for a magazine br br dennis morgan is also perfectly cast as our wartime hero jefferson jones who wants to meet the amazing elizabeth lane after being lost at sea all he wants is to spend christmas in a real home which sets up the delightful madcap story that evolves it is fun from beginning to end we should all have an uncle felix too
1	these immortal lines begin the jack directed masterpiece 'the dion brothers' the plot centers around two blue collar west brothers stacy keach and frederic forrest who commit robberies in hopes of using the money to open a seafood restaurant what follows is quite an adventure and many comedic events ensue the action scenes are all top notch and consist of some nicely realized shootouts the latter of which is absolutely amazing and occurs in an abandoned building being demolished by a wrecking ball the film was written by now famous director terrence malick and features an early appearance by margot kidder all in all an excellent hidden gem of the 70s and easily one of the finest action comedy hybrids every made hopefully it gets a decent widescreen dvd release soon
1	another one that slipped by the radar of most anyone this little b produced gem is so full of new ideas in an old genre and so absolutely refreshing and inventive that a dreadful feeling about the lack of cojones in today's cinema slowly overtakes your body the final set piece is so innovative in its setting and style that it prefigures everyone from tarantino to john woo oh and if you think dying lines are all cliche wait for the dying line of ff a piece of dialogue that could have torn you with laughter will take your heart a true pleasure seek it and see it you won't be sorry
1	i managed to record the dion brothers off broadcast tv with the commercials back in the early 80s i've loaned it to many friends all of whom agree it's one of the best b bandit movies ever made one day while walking to my nyc apartment i saw stacy keach shooting a scene for his tv series mickey we had a moment to chat and i told him how much i enjoyed the dion bros and considered it a pure classic he thanked me and said it was one of the best and most memorable film experiences of his career he was very friendly and sincere and i was grateful for the few moments he took to chat with a fan this is one classic that needs to be on dvd
1	i happened to catch about the last 45 minutes of the movie late night about 8 years ago what a wild and funny 45 minutes i was absolutely knocked out by chase shoot out at the end that takes place at night inside an old hotel that's being torn down with a wrecking ball incredible i vaguely remember stacy keach stealing a cop car faking being a cop and strong arming some winos wino to keach hey why ya us keach it's my job you're correct they don't make them like that anymore great movie the hopefully it will see the light of day as a dvd along with other lost treasures hickey and being one such
1	considering this film was released 8 years before i was born i don't feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time back in january of 98 though i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas the particular theme of films this night was neglected 70's crime films and boy was her right the gravy train or the dion brothers as it appeared this print was an absolute gem wonderful performances quirky characters smart plot hilarious comedy and just an all around great time rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it in the meantime go to an indie video store and hope they have it
1	this interesting lost film written by terence malick stars stacy keach and frederic forrest as two wacky southern brothers on a quest to open a seafood restaurant margot kidder was never prettier and forrest should have been nominated originally titled the dion brothers this light hearted flick with a violent ending is a pure joy br br where is this film i've been searching for it for 30 years keach was still great back then and i'm surprised it doesn't have more of a cult following maybe it does these guys are a crack up with more ambition than brains but totally lovable dudes a 7 out of 10 if you can dig it up somewhere you'll have fun
1	unfortunately this original mix of action and laughs is kept from cinema fans as it sits rotting in the columbia vaults for all eternity a shame since this may be jack strongest film and features a witty script by a young terrence malick and fully realized performances by its two leads stacey keach and frederic forrest who turn to a life of crime so they can get the money to open a seafood restaurant many standout scenes include interrogation by bathtub and electric razor and an intense shootout in an abandoned building as it's being torn down by a wrecking ball
1	great adaptation of the christie novel surprising attention to authentic period details for the time many films of the mid 1970s early 80s that try to do 1920s early 30s look far too mid 70s early 80s for my liking so expected the worst here and was gladly proved wrong the costumes and sets are very well done i liked this production very much – largely due to the adorable francesca annis' portrayal of a carefree bright young lady frankie and james charming bobbie the pair would go on to portray christie's tommy which is funny as some contemporary book critics compared frankie and bobby to her earlier characters of tommy the supporting characters were equally well done – the over the top mrs acted by miss marple to be joan h and badger is played perfectly as the post wwi bertie wooster type
1	i saw this television version of a christie mystery story when it was shown back on channel 5 in new york city in 1980 at the time i was surprised it was not shown on channel 13 the public television station that showed most of the masterpiece theater programs but aside from some dorothy sayers lord peter wimsey stores and the the bbc productions rarely dealt with british detective stories another series the rivals of sherlock holmes had dealt with stories set in the victorian and edwardian period so a period charm was involved in getting those stories onto channel 13 br br the plot of why didn't they ask evans dealt with a young couple stumbling upon a dying man who's only last words are the question of the title of the story the novel was originally called why didn't they ask evans but subsequently was retitled the boomerang clue the young couple start investigating the murder and trace the crime to a set of people who surround a questionable doctor eric porter despite the warnings of the father of the hero john gielgud the hero james warwick and the heroine francesca annis pursue their investigation even as it gets murkier and more dangerous the death of another suspect by suicide increases the apparent dangers as the killer starts looking into silencing the two amateur detectives br br it's not a bad film although i agree it was a bit too long for a single night's entertainment if it had been done like later miss marple episodes with joan or the hercule poirot episodes in two parts it would have been better but it has it's strengths one is the proper use of porter as chief suspect and a clever scene later in the film where he appears to be spying on the young couple who are investigating the mystery if you stick to the film you will be in for a fair surprise later on br br but it has one failing when dealing with a christie novel the figures in the story have to be in a rigid schedule of movements so that the reader might be able to figure out what the secret of the plot is i will only add that if you hear the dialog at one point and how a little boy was almost killed but wasn't then you will find all the parts of the story coming together and what the villain's motivations were br br except for that and the lengthy time the telefilm takes to tell it's story it is quite a good film and worthy as one of the best programs based on a christie story in the period when their was a sudden renaissance in films based on her novels
1	this bbc version of an agatha christie book shows the pitfalls of following a book too closely christie's books tend to move at a gentle sometimes even sedate pace and evans is one that certainly does it also has a solid school of red herrings to confuse the plot this version is extremely faithful to the book which results in a very slow involved story as a christie fan i gave it 7 stars but it takes 3 hours to make its way through a relatively action free story i appreciate some of the tightening of plots that the bbc did for its later christie productions much more br br in the end this movie is a leisurely pleasure highlighted by the breathy waif francesca annis who brings considerable charisma to her role and plays off james warwick very well
1	christmas in connecticut is an absolute gem and a must see for christmas elizabeth lane a precursor to martha stewart is a magazine columnist and the ne plus ultra of the perfect wife mother and domestic goddess only thing is she is none of these things a total phony unfortunately for her she is about to be found out her publisher mr alexander yardley a brilliant comic turn by sydney greenstreet gets the bright idea of inviting a famous war hero to elizabeth's perfect farm for the christmas holiday only thing there is no farm perfect or otherwise the comedy involves how elizabeth is to keep her real identity under wraps so she will not lose her job elizabeth's colleague john happens to have a farm in connecticut so that solves that problem however he wants to marry liz but she does not want to marry him he offers her marriage though he knows she doesn't feel the same way about him that he does about her he makes the offer anyway and assures her that he is willing to wait and here barbara stanwyck as liz delivers one of the most devastating put downs i have ever heard with perfect innocence she replies could you wait that long ouch in addition the scenes between una o'conner and s z are hilarious they don't seem to like one another though one suspects they really do they are rivals in the household and s z mangled english is equaled by nora's strangled pronunciation of his name mr my name is felix it is amazing how christmas y these black and white films are great character work by all involved don't miss this one
1	brilliant work marvelous actors dissolve as brave and courageous characters all unforgettable parts in a more than intriguing and capturing action the casting is perfect both from the side of the stars like armand bernhardt kier denier but as well for new faces i was very impressed by the young actor who plays the boy gang member mustafa you trust each one from the turkish gang very convincing is michael and all white power followers i admire the music beat of the main theme of children of wax this sound track is a charming mixture of turkish hard rock and udo and in the same time children of wax a tale focusing on racial conflicts the intolerance and brutality between the skinheads and the turks
1	this film is a very descent remake of the famous fritz lang's masterpiece m murder it is well made and with a entertaining key to speak about pretty serious events and contemporary problems in but not only the whole world the ethnic intolerance is such a huge evil and very nowadays so children of wax or as it is known in us distribution reveals the question of german and hatred in an amusing way no doubt it is well appreciated to be taken for distribution by the great brothers and there is another fact i liked most is the participation in this movie of the favorite actor of lars von trier the great udo kier who shows to play with such a pleasure for the bulgarian film director ivan
1	children of wax also shown as killing grounds is an interesting mixture of genres some might think the purity of the genre can be only for good but to me the eclectic is very entertaining it is also in it's story the mixture of thriller and the popular action as well as the combination of the historic masterpiece and the ethnic plea for tolerance this film is built with the starry presence of my favorite actor the perfect armand assante but it is also marked by the acting of a shooting star – hal we have recently seen him in the tv series on hbo called sex children of wax is entertainment for the audience but the same time it has an everlasting moral for the ethnic tolerance this is a wise way to welfare discussion on the contemporary troubles of our days can be made with attractive means in this is very positive side of the film children of wax
1	i had such high hopes for retro to air this but instead of having shows such as this ones that don't get the treatment that they deserve they air things that i may have seen dozens of times before br br the was the highlight of my pre teen years i know that may seem a little bit clichéd but it's true after duke from g i joe jake is another one of those cartoon characters that i really had a crush on br br it's too bad that retro doesn't see it the same way people of my generation do otherwise retro would be a lot better than it is
1	the is one of the best cartoons ever and it needs to be put on tv and dvd so people can have younger generations enjoy such a good show that is far better than the garbage they have made in the last 14 years i have a petition online that is at the website address http www petitiononline com petition html that originally was trying to get this show on five days a week but is now trying to get this show onto dvd since the tv station it was focused on has bad public relations we all need to convince the people who own this show to put it on dvd so it can be seen by future generations also since now toys owns the toy line of this show we might want to try to convince them to make a live action movie of it just like they have done with transformers and sometime this year g i joe we need good cartoons like this one to come back and be enjoyed by the younger generations please do sign this petition so we can one day have dvds of the guys who are famous for yelling power extreme
1	this is absolutely the best 80s cartoon ever maybe the best cartoon of all time it had everything action adventure thrill and much more br br i can't imagine how hard it was for ruby spears company to make this great cartoon there has been spent a lot of money for this masterpiece of work and it was worth it for example just the beaming down scenes were hard because i wouldn't call the 1980s for a great technology year with computers like now in the world we live in so the beaming down scenes were excellent br br the cartoons will never be the same as they were before that is why i hope that they all will be released on dvd specially the as it's my favorite i have the whole complete set of 65 episodes on dvd r but it's not the same because if they were released on dvd the people in the world would be able to buy it and see the dvd's in almost every store which means a lot to the fans my good friend ted made this petition to either get the show back on tv or better on dvd that is if we get many requests to get them back on dvd br br so please help us by signing the petition at http www petitiononline com petition html
1	i saw this film at the film fleadh the year it won best short film i have to say that i thought the direction was fantastic and the performances from the key cast members were very memorable both of the main cast are definitely names to watch out for br br the final shot over the cliff was mesmerizing and i for one would like to find myself there if i was waiting for the end of the world to happen the kiss was definitely a great payoff done with great br br i can only assume that the film was shot on film and i have heard that the dop won an award at the tribeca film festival for his work on this film and i must say well deserved br br i would recommend this film to anyone who was a teenager in the 1980s it brought back some great memories and some scary ones
1	i saw this at the tribeca film festival in the family section i'm not sure either of my kids really got the movie but i have to say that it was a wonderful short film br br and me' is an interesting short film about the hopes and fears that we all felt growing up in the 1980's which in turn extends to how my kids feel today then we had regan today we got bush instead of nuclear war we have terrorism br br i really identified with the main character and i myself dated a in high school we all felt like 'nothing when we were 16 but it's great to see a film where they discover that everything matters br br again i probably wouldn't have put this in the family section there were a few too many curse words for younger children but it was a wonderful and enjoyable film to watch
1	the comments of the previous user are harsh indeed one wonders if they have even seen this beautiful sweet film as for being so nasty about it in front of the writer director well thats just plain rude for those who grew up in the eighties it is an artful piece of nostalgia and a sweet story well acted and produced irish film making sure has a lot of bitter angry people involved with it and the spleen venting comment made about this is evidence of it as people we have a choice give out and moan about the people who actually go out there and make stuff or make something yourself i know which one is easier do yourself a favour and watch this film and see how a short film is made you won't be disappointed
1	what the heck do people expect in horror films these days anyway does is have to be something grisly like or it's just crap now i don't claim to be an all knowing expert but i'm about 47 i've seen and own literally thousands of films and i honestly think this director really gave this film a good sincere effort believe me i was getting ready to cringe as soon as the dialog started assuming it was gonna be awful and i was pleasantly surprised it's no mamet script that's for sure but come on with all the horrible garbage out there especially in horror i thought this one was way closer to the top of the pile than most br br the director used a lot of neat clever camera angles the soundtrack was excellent and moody perfect for the atmosphere needed for this kind of film the editing and timing were very good and it didn't resort to the tired worn cliché of excessive 'slasher' violence for example minor spoiler during an absolutely delightful and fully gratuitous but tasty uh i mean tasteful nude shower scene i fully expect her to get sliced and diced but amazingly we just get to enjoy her heavenly loveliness and that's it end minor spoiler also the tension was built very well leading up to a nicely ambiguous ending where you are not quite sure what's what spoiler especially where in the scene where the psychiatrist leaves the girl and pinnochio alone in the office we see the doll actually talking to her but in the video recording we do not also the mom sees pinnochio moving about and being quite nasty so are both the mom and daughter mentally ill also there is the original 'killer' and what the mom had surmised about a possible evil influence but even with all that we are still not quite sure who was doing the killing end spoiler so all in all i believe that it was a good strong sincere effort to create some good ol' early full moon type style and with a lot of restraint on the violence and with no typical sleaze thrown in for no reason just the lovely innocent beautiful shower scene which i will remember to the end of my days compared to the absolute mindless drivel out there a definite strong 8 10
1	stanwyck and morgan are perfectly cast in what is in many ways a modern equivalent of dickens' christmas carol in its sensibility the success of the film depends on the casting of sydney greenstreet as the alexander yardley character yardley is the modern equivalent of dickens' scrooge in the way he control over his employees until the christmas spirit overtakes him the role is a in the park' for greenstreet who had been one of the great when he was part of the company greenstreet had only entered films five years earlier when at age 61 he was featured in what was to become a film classic the first and best film john huston ever directed 'the maltese falcon' was probably never better in his traditional role as the embodiment of middle european the attractive set used throughout most of the film is an eye pleasing gem
1	this review contains a huge spoiler but i don't know how to explain how cool it is without giving it away i saw revenge a while ago br br now you might think it's just a rip off of child's play indeed there are similarities br br however chucky was a possessed doll who works independently of the kid it is possible that is possessed with a demon or cursed or something however the puppet itself is actually completely inanimate the kid is insane and the kid is the one killing people everyone including the audience the survivors and the kid herself thinks it's the doll but it's the kid br br the nudity is almost a pity because otherwise i could tell everyone to see it because it really is an interesting horror movie
1	i know what you're saying oh man is not scary but this movie goes beyond alot more than a maniacal behind it tells the story of a mother and her daughter who is oddly attached to her doll pinnochio who seems to talk to her the only weird thing is that noone else can hear the doll except her in the end is shocking revelation that as did i will shock you watch it give it a try
1	this movie is the best horror movie i have ever seen the acting is terrible and the plot leaves a lot to be desired but the puppet gave me nightmares for weeks seriously if you have little kids don't let them see this of course i am a little biased because of an irrational fear of puppets and midgets also a body double cameo by the guy who does mini me verne and some gratuitous nudity a must in any low budget horror movie all other horror movies will forever be judged against this in my book
1	perhaps the best movie ever made by director kevin tenney well his witchboard is not on the top of my all time horror list this one is a strange fascinating mixture between pin and child's play both better than this one but not so better sure the plot is contrived and perhaps too predictable but the actors are good rosalind allen is very pleasant to the eye and so is mckenzie god bless her for the shower scene the child actress is very good in interpreting the disturbed daughter and the pinocchio puppet is scary enough to give you a few thrills down the spine for a b movie not bad at all
1	at first it seems the topical romance movie where a girl meets a boy and fall in love but the point is that this movie has a feeling others don't have the first time i saw it i couldn't see it complete because i had to leave but while i was walking along i thought i must see it again but i didn't have any opportunity by then one year went by until i saw this movie in a not free channel and i saw it and i recorded it too i saw it once twice until 200 times and not kidding i did know all the dialogues by hart and i don't know why but i saw it everyday and never got bored and i have to say that i'm not used to see a movie more than twice the act is very good gerard depardieu is a talented actor and katherine heigl too i would like her to be in a good movie because i think she can do it on balance it's a movie i can't take out of my mind
1	i can honestly tell you that this movie is the most awesome movie ever if you are in the mood for a comedy i totally recommend this movie so here's the summary there is this girl nikki who is fourteen and a half and she goes on a vacation with her father andre whom she hasn't seen for about two years she expects the vacation to be totally boring until she meets this boy ben who is much older than she is so to try to impress him she says that she isn't on vacation with her father but her lover this is a hysterical movie from beginning to end and i highly suggest it so rent it and enjoy
1	it's one of my favorite movies as much because of the location and music as the story line don't matter how many times i watch it it doesn't seem to ever get old i can almost say all the lines along with the characters now the movie is supper funny and really sweet
1	i love this film it is excellent and so funny ben is fit and i wouldn't mind meeting him on holiday i rate this film a 10 because its gr8 and i hope they never re make it because it would never be the same funny bit is wen andre is looking at the moon and he shouts at nicole to 'come outside and look at the moon' that bit always makes me laugh and never gets old another thing is nicole looks a lot older then 14 but shes a gr8 actress but i need help with something does n e 1 no the name of the song played at the end wen nicole and andre are dancing its really bugging me because i want 2 no what it is because its a nice song
1	this is one of my all time favourite films its one of those films where i know every line but can still watch it repeatedly without losing interest i always throw on this film if i'm going on holiday or if i don't want to go to the gym just seeing gorgeous body will give me the motivation i need its an easy to watch film which always keeps me smiling but i know it wont be everyones cup of tea but if like me you love films that are shot beautifully and have comedy romance and an interesting plot you will love it it is filled with great characters and ben and nikki are both gorgeous so anyone can stare at something appealing bottom line you have to give it a try i watched it on tv one day by fluke and loved it that i had to go out and track it down which took some time and i could watch it everyday my father the hero i love you
1	this is one of the best romantic movies i have ever seen especially girls who can identify with nicole will love it not only because of the handsome dalton james i also liked the music very much a highlight was land of the sea and sun from man so watch the movie and enjoy it
1	i just got this movie for christmas and have already added it to my favorites list a cute and simple story which makes a beautiful movie who could not love uncle felix or not have their mouth water at the sound of all that food definite points go to sydney greenstreet for his performance of alexander yardley and also to reginald gardiner who played john sloane the impossibly boring fiancee truly a gem to be watched every christmas
1	this is a funny movie there's not a lot of those ok the plot is a bit disturbing but very original a teen trying to get even with dad because he hasn't been around and almost sending him to jail because she lie to impress an older boy how could that not be funny plus it not the typical movie featuring teens first remake i've seen that is better than the original the only problem with both gerard depardieu with another actor this would be a perfect 10 because he plays all rolls the same way sucks another problem it's all the women melting over him that's not remotely believable he is not attractive y had a rubber troll that was better looking than him come on
1	this is one of my favourite movies ever i have seen it about a million times and would never turn down the opportunity to watch it again in fact i love it so much that i really wanted to check out the resort where it was filmed on my upcoming vacation does anyone know the name of it if so please email me i watched this movie for the first time when it was first released and i was about age and for the longest time i bugged my dad to take me to away somewhere because of course i expected the same thing to happen to me it's just such an amazing setting and such a cute puppy love story this is a definite dvd collector's must
1	this is another case of hollywood arrogance presuming to eclipse french style the original mon pere ce heros was one of the most charming films of 1991 so naturally the accountants in hollywood thought they could hire depardieu and phone the rest in they did however take the of hiring francis veber to write an english version albeit one utilising virtually every word of the original depardieu brings his gallic charm and katherine heigl shows all the promise that is now paying off the thing is that when the french make a sort of lolita lite they get away with it because the 'dirty french thinking works in their favour here the hollywood idea of lightweight subtlety is to have depardieu totally unaware that his daughter has let it be known he is actually her lover prevailed upon to play and song 'something launch into a spirited version of thank heaven for little girls see the original
1	i have a problem with the movie snobs who consider americans to be uncouth semi literates unable to appreciate the subtlety of the more sophisticated europeans les francais les just about anybody from le to whom english is a foreign language if the humour in my father the hero is different from that in mon pere ce heros it is because the french sense of humour is different from that of the american not better not more clever just different if you think it is crass for hollywood to borrow from the french cinema just consider how much the french cinema has borrowed from hollywood in the first place where would belmondo and delon have been without bogart truffaut without hitchcock jerry lewis not known for his subtle and cerebral style is in france go figure monsieur depardieu is exceptionally good as the hapless divorced father of a precocious 14 year old daughter on holiday in the bahamas together unbeknowst to him she presents him to the other people at the hotel as her lover so as to make herself more interesting to a boy she has her eye on not surprisingly complications ensue there are to green card and cyrano de bergerac amusingly inserted and m depardieu goes along with it all very good naturedly he does a good maurice impression with thank heaven for little girls which is in fact funny and rather poignant as his audience all of whom believe him to be the lover of a 14 year old girl get up and leave two by two as he away blissfully unaware of what is happening when he turns round at the end of the song to acknowledge the expected applause the expression on his face is priceless without him the movie would be very average indeed with his huge shambling figure dominating the screen it is a lot of fun no pecs no six pack just a real proper human type being formidable
1	my father the hero is sweet funny and cute gerard is awesome as andre a divorced father who takes his fourteen year old daughter nicole heigl to the caribbean for vacation while there his daughter meets a guy named ben dalton james to impress him she tells him that andre is her lover and that her father is in jail for armed robbery and her mother is a prostitute and that she ran off with her pimp everyone on the island is soon under the impression that andre's a child molester andre is between two relationships one with isabelle emma thompson who makes a cameo in the end of the film and diana faith prince from spin city my father the hero has many funny moments like when he's at a talent show and everyone tells him to play something french so he plays thank heaven for little girls from gigi everyone gets disgusted and leaves my father the hero doesn't deserve a 5 1 i think it deserves a 9 0
1	i think is a great and a very funny movie the story is so funny the daughter nicole brings her father andre in some very embarrassing situations in an effort to impress the boy of her dreams the daughter pretends that her father is her lover you just have to see heigl is lovely as nicole perhaps too lovely i'm not sure why she'd need to lie to hook anyone gerard depardieu acts very great in this comedy film he is so fun to watch if you like comedy and romantic film you just have to see this i think you can see this film many time and you will still have a good laugh br br in an effort to impress the boy of her dreams the girl pretends that her father is her lover
1	what a great movie this is i found it full of the delightfully unexpected pain of being a single father of a teenage girl and it is set in a tropical island well br br gerard brings his special european flair to this story about a divorced father of a teenage girl they are on holiday together and she begins to add to the excitement on the island in many unexpected ways but you will need to see the film for yourself to see all the hilarious situations they find for themselves br br there are a few cult classics which all teens should see this movie should be added to the list in addition to dirty dancing ferris bueller's day off bill and ted's excellent adventure rocky horror picture show and animal house my father the hero should be required film study watch it as if you had a teenage daughter and you'll be rolling with laughter watch it with your teenage daughter and prepare to be laughed at for months
1	my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger it's about andre a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter katharine heigl on a vacation hoping to get a little closer to her but of course nicole isn't that easy to get along with she just started puberty i'm guessing she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time one day at the beach nicole meets handsome ben and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie i would give my father the hero 8 10
1	this is a funny intelligent and in a sense realistic comedy about a 14 year old trying to live her first love while on vacation and also about the complex sometimes amusing sometimes touching relation between a divorced father and her growing daughter and about how far a women not only nicole the teen ager can go to get the man she loves i laughed a lot with this lively scenario that never drags
1	i watched this series after tipping the velvet for which i gave 10 10 grade i had read user comments on this and i expected an equally good series or if possible even better at this point i must emphasize that this series is good and it definitely captured me throughout it and thus worth watching however i didn't enjoy it as much as tipping the velvet for the following reasons br br 1 less passion love and related sexual content there were surprisingly little emphasis in these elements which i held integral for a love story felt like a watered down version of tipping the velvet br br 2 similarly as in tipping the velvet the story had three parts the beginning a shocking second part and the ending the second part should have been the climax of the story as in tipping the velvet but instead it was almost totally skipped perhaps due to inability to make shocking but believable asylum content the series should have been in three parts featuring two cliffhangers with a lot more focus on the second part br br 3 almost no weight was given to what were and how it affected their personalities i found it rather annoying that the series did not properly address such central topic br br 4 the ending was much more hasty than in tipping the velvet left several interesting plot lines open br br despite these shortcomings is a good series and well worth 7 10 however it is not a classic like tipping the velvet
1	i came across this movie back in the mid eighties as a teenager and it immediately became one of my favorite holiday and non holiday films as you can tell from the other reviews this movie has a very good story line and great actors signed on for it br br stanwyck is great as bride to be that is having second thoughts dennis morgan's acting is strong also he goes unnoticed in most films but was a very capable actor check out kitty in this film he plays the visiting sailor that woos stanwyck away from her husband to be br br this is a christmas classic the settings and the story make for a great christmas romance
1	i have never read sarah water's book although i have not read the book the 3 hour movie is very interesting it begins with an interesting storyline with a twisted ending i have to say these 2 actresses are amazing sally hawkins is stunning successfully portrayed the character in love with her mistress and betrayed by her love their romance slowly blossoms as they spend more and more time together the love making scene is very tender and emotional well acted the end is quite intriguing and these 2 ended up together after all they have been thru which is a bless overall it is a great movie to see a very interesting plot with excellent performances
1	after watching tipping the velvet by sarah waters i decided to watch the characters were just as good in both performances though missing rachael stirling in the adaptation of br br the story line overall was of a good choice the twisting and the of the characters were amazing excellent watch only missing rachael stirling br br if you do enjoy the romance of two girls this isn't one of the best films to watch br br it takes on a different spin from tipping the velvet but just as good br br would recommend it to everyone
1	london 1862 a young orphan named susan trinder sally hawkins grows up amongst the petty thieves known as under the guidance of mrs imelda staunton br br one evening richard the gentleman rivers rupert evans pays them a visit br br rivers has an elaborate plan to defraud the wealthy heiress maud lilly elaine cassidy br br susan agrees to help for a cut of the money and is quickly installed as maid br br upon arriving she discovers that maud is virtually a prisoner in her own house as uncle charles dance controls every detail of her life br br as the plan begins to unfold susan finds herself developing an intimate relationship with the lady of the house br br adapted from the novel by sarah waters
1	the story was well plotted and interesting by itself however it is difficult for me to write the review of this film without spoiling you to avoid that i am not going to talking the story here br br i regard this film as a good adaption of sarah water's book as compared with the previous one tipping the velvet i read the book first and then watched the dvd later the film did retain most of spirits of the main characters in the book of course due to the time limitation the film in the last 30 min seemed to be in a rush to cover the part iii of the book therefore it couldn't illustrate well the scene when they all met in the the kitchen of mr place and those after that even the book seemed to me to be a rush on that kitchen scene despite that the film actually did a good job in representing the story it really worth watching it's still unclear when bbc america can broadcast this film that's pity br br ps noticed that the ages of maud and sue were set to be 20 21 instead of 17 18 in the book the latter is more reasonable while the former is more close to the ages of actresses
1	i'm not exactly sure why i ordered from netflix probably because i enjoy bbc dramas it was on a list of recommendations i had no idea what i was about to see the plot which i will only describe in general so as not to spoil it for anyone who will see it after reading my review has more twists and turns than a mountain road in the rockies of the sort that appear in caper movies they are very unusual in a period drama not having read the novel and i do not intend to do so i was totally unprepared for the surprise that ends the first segment on the dvd and equally surprised by the subsequent twists and turns nonetheless it is extremely well acted by the two young principals by sally hawkins in particular as sue and by elaine cassidy as maud and in key supporting roles by imelda staunton as the mother figure in a house of thieves and by charles dance as the rich uncle who collects pornographic materials and who rescues young maud from the mad house where her mother lived to be his secretary the lesbian affair between maud and sue is the big news in the movie but really not its centerpiece the centerpiece is a plot to steal the fortune that maud is due on her 21st birthday the turns and twists in the plot add tension though not much credibility to the movie however no viewer is likely to doubt that maud and sue will somehow end up together improbably as the credits roll although one has been raised as a and serves a collector of pornography and the other is a pickpocket posing as a lady's maid the author obviously means for them to live together in the end it's a bit difficult to swallow since each has conspired to cheat the other despite these reservations i liked movie well enough it does not quite deserve the praise that others have lavished on it the most fearsome and interesting scenes take place inside the madhouse where one of the two young women has been confined until she is able to escape and return to london to bring the story to its unexpected conclusion sally hawkins sue is a very impressive young actress able to convey her character's cascading and changing emotions with her facial expressions and her eyes no doubt we'll see more of her i certainly hope so
1	wow where to start br br this adaptation of sarah waters' third novel is one of my all time favorite movies br br i'm not to big on fiction novels seriously i never read fiction but the book is just as fabulous as the film or should i say the film is just as fabulous as the book i just love this story br br anyway i put off watching this three hour long film 2 part series on dvd 3 part series on tv book for about a year and half it simply did not look that interesting boy was i so wrong br br i became immediately immersed into the rich and suspenseful plot utterly enthralled just like the book you cannot stop watching reading it grasps your attention for the entire 3 hours and when it does end you wish it hadn't br br the story just flows so beautifully and you'll be wondering where the time went br br the lesbian subplot was just icing on the cake the parts i love most are the subtle facial expressions and glances eye contact between the two characters you really feel their desire for one another and yet they cannot act upon it until they must br br may i point out that the lesbian theme is an important part of the film obviously at the heart of the film is a genuine unexpected love story but it is most certainly not what the whole movie is about for me that's what makes this story so unique and intriguing i've never read or heard of anything like it sarah waters is pure genius br br the twists and turns it takes leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat seriously my hands were on to my couch with every surprising plot twist and i even yelled out several times oh my god no way that did not just happen did it i never do that br br the only negative thing i have to say about this film is that i wish they'd added more from the book but obviously having the adaptation be restricted by time they couldn't add everything that i would've liked how awful it is though i think i'm just being brutally selfish now forgive me br br the last 20 minutes does seem a little rushed however they put all the important bits in where even if you only watch the film and choose not to read the book you will be most satisfied with the outcome br br the actors are just superb brilliant even sally hawkins sue and elaine cassidy maud have such great on screen chemistry they steam up your television set simply electric the emotions the desperation the struggle each of them feel is expressed seemingly effortless by these wonderfully talented actresses rupert evans plays such a good bad guy as gentleman i found myself seething every time he came on screen but loving it because he's just so damn cute and somehow still charming even though you want to wring his neck imelda staunton gives yet another fantastic performance as mrs she's such a warmhearted actress you cannot help but love her even when the character she's playing isn't as delightful everyone else in the cast were perfect they really represented the characters well and were just as i imagined them to be after reading the book br br this is a must see for any film buff actually anyone and everyone should see this movie and read the book chances are you won't be disappointed br br 10 10 stars from me there are only four other films i have given that same rating too its very rare for me to actually enjoy a film so much that i give it 10 10 this is one of those films is truly a masterpiece
1	bbc's 3 hour adaptation of the novel by sarah waters life is tough without money especially in dickensian london dark deeds lead to despicable dilemmas is love really just a luxury for the rich and free elaine cassidy as maud lilly and sally hawkins as sue trinder both give fantastic performances as the leading ladies asking this question of each other whilst rupert evans shines as the delightfully bad gentleman with great support from imelda mrs david mr and charles dance's uncle the plot twists and turns and i wasn't sure i could be led to care about characters able to hurt and use each other in this way but somehow i do care and thats because of the quality of the performances love feels like love hate feels like hate betrayal confusion well hopefully you get the idea and hopefully you will get the dvd and enjoy elaine cassidy is just great in this gorgeous in fact i have to declare i am in her fan club hi elaine
1	this movie is definitely one of the finest of its kind a age story of love and grit the depth of its story line is one that will stir the inner most emotions of love and hate with some very interesting twists this is a must have movie for not only the lesbian audiences but for all viewers i can't say much more or i will spoil the experience for a new young audience who might just be coming out another fine work for sarah waters it also is a great way for sally hawkins to win over audiences who only get a brief glimpse of her talent in another sarah waters work in tipping the velvet it is also a must see
1	the chemistry between sally hawkins and elaine cassidy was incredible they were thoroughly convincing and genuinely likable in their roles imelda staunton played the conniving mrs brilliantly despite the fact that she was a dastardly opportunist she somehow managed to have you sympathizing with her in the end rupert evans played the slime ball gentleman with sheer charm and he was a scene stealer the story itself was very unique as was the manner in which it was told the victorian england setting featuring two lesbian lead characters was intriguing and delightful there were some fantastic and unexpected twists and turns that really kept the audience engaged in the story a wonderful cast and excellent story made this film superb
1	historical drama is one of the areas where the british just can't be beat so while i'm not a huge fan of the genre i can usually be persuaded to watch something lite this if it's british and with decent actors br br i have never read anything by sarah waters which is of course something i should do hence i didn't really know what to expect from this i had heard that there would be a lesbian love story but not much more while watching it i found it to be a lot more interesting than i had anticipated without saying too much the twists and turns of the plot are unexpected as well as well crafted although there were almost a twist too many somewhere it took me a minute to get everything straight br br production values are good the actors are very solid and the pace is decent although i found it to be a bit slow in the last half hour that might just be me though i usually have a problem with movies dragging on after the plot is more or less finished all in all though this is a fairly enjoyable three hours i recommend it to anyone interested in historical dramas
1	though it's a christmas movie christmas in connecticut could have been done any time of year as it's the story of a soldier who spends what is to be an idyllic time with a martha stewart type that's what he thinks in reality the lady in question portrayed by barbara stanwyck has a popular magazine column about life on a farm with her husband and baby she has no farm no husband and no baby nor are the many recipes she hers they belong to the restaurant owner nearby when her no nonsense editor sydney greenstreet insists that she entertain soldier dennis morgan she enlists the aid of her boyfriend to use his farm and she transports herself and the restaurateur there there's even a baby well actually there's more than one chaos ensues and the charade becomes increasingly difficult to play out especially when stanwyck falls in love with morgan br br this is such a wonderful movie and even if you're gravely depressed christmas in connecticut can lift you right out of it barbara stanwyck is wonderful as the career woman turned homemaker despite not being as flashy as crawford or davis she was nevertheless able to do what any role called for she could be cheap elegant warm nasty cold and or sexy and she makes it look easy on top of that she is always attractive and alluring dennis morgan is a handsome and charming solider as an added bonus he gets to use his irish tenor fiancé reginald gardner is all business and you can tell he's not quite right for stanwyck s z as the fake uncle real chef is hilarious especially as he prays stanwyck can flip a pancake before an audience br br i can imagine the impact this delightful film had at the tail end of world war ii it must have been a real beacon for the better times to come
1	this tv adaptation of sarah waters' novel was so lovingly done i can hardly find the words to appreciate it not since tipping the velvet also highly recommended have i seen such a performance by the lead actresses this time by sally hawkins and elaine cassidy they acted with their souls and this is what gets across to the audience the supporting actors were well chosen too they made a great ensemble br br for those who think the story is just about a lesbian relationship no this is only one part the other main theme is the betrayal of the person you love and the plot has some further surprising twists so the movie should be interesting for straight people or guys like me as well
1	i never dreamed when i started watching this dvd that i would be totally mesmerized by it within minutes the story was completely absorbing and entertaining the acting was superb the biggest surprise of all was how i would be so completely enchanted by the love these two young women radiated across the screen their initial physical encounter for me was by far the most tender romantic delightful vicariously enthralling love scenes i have ever witnessed on film i literally stopped breathing i could not believe the chemistry between the two actresses with no nudity or graphic sex they conveyed more passion and titillation than any american production could ever hope to evince bravo to the author the screenwriter the director and the cast
1	i watched this movie recently and fell in love with it i loved the storyline and the actors it has a little of everything i was completely taken by the unfolding of the story it has so many surprises along the way i highly recommend it in fact i loved it so much that i ran out and bought the book i felt i had to read it in order to appreciate the art in the writing behind the movie i also wanted to make sure i didn't miss anything that was in the book but kept out of the movie i recommend people who love the movie to read the book because there is enough difference in the book especially in the second episode to want to read it it has become my favorite movie i am now a sarah waters and elaine cassidy fan
1	this movie was incredible i did not know the back story on it so i needed to let it unfold before me on dvd it had many twists and turns but still kept the story fresh and exciting the acting by elaine cassidy was in a word brilliant as well as sally hawkins the storyline is rich with plausible occurrences as well as fresh ideas from the present br br there is truly something about ms cassidy's eyes that leaves a mark this movie is a refreshing look on the way in which we look at the times' and how we view that society a very worthwhile watch
1	it is always difficult to bring a 450 pages book down to a three hours film i read the book before and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible the qualities of the book haven't been lost the dense and lively depiction of a patchwork family in london in the 1860s the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking the unexpected and surprising twists of the story the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue's point of view then from one the main actors do very good and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other because they still love each other br br for each of her books the author sarah waters has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british 19th century while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits in she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere vivid emotions and suspense
1	this was indeed an amazing adaption i missed the first episode so i unfortunately missed out on the bonding between the characters and the smooth flow of the storyline but as soon i watched the second and then the third instalment i was just blown away i ordered the dvd less than a week later and unable to wait for it to come i went straight out and brought the book from the moment i opened it i was hooked i just couldn't put it down i decided to finish the whole book before i dare watch the dvd at all i preferred the book because it got inside the characters minds you could understand totally where they were coming from and what there role was within the story they missed a lot out of the adaption which was disappointing as the book is a master piece and i think they could have done it superbly if they had been able to stretch it over a longer period of time but considering only being able to be fitted into a 3 hour slot i think it was done excellent it followed the main twisted storyline brilliantly and the actors which were enrolled as the main characters where amazing the love making scene was pure beautiful it was so tender and loving and just showed how natural homosexual love can be i was totally blown away with both the book and the tv adaption i loved both of sarah waters previous novels and also found the tipping the velvet adaption quite enjoyable but when i read and watched i knew none of her previous novels adaption could beat it sarah waters has indeed exceeded herself this time i recommend that you watch this adaption if tipping the velvet wasn't your thing then don't let it put you off this one is a whole new ball game it is a beautiful yet dark twisted story about love greed and betrayal br br a must see
1	i'm usually disappointed by what the media dubs lesbian movies these days murderous psychotic murderous lesbians women who experiment with other women but end up with men at the end ridiculously good looking women who only get w each other to turn men on etc br br thankfully is on a very high pedestal above this garbage it is a credible love story acted marvelously by every cast member down to the least of the supporting actors aside from having a very engaging central conflict the romance between the heroines is well developed and believable thanks to cassidy and hawkins br br i have also seen tipping the velvet but is far superior to the former both in character conflict development and the quality of the acting br br is both satisfying and enjoyable to watch offering lesbians everywhere a great follow up act to bound
1	i had never read any of sarah waters' novels or watched tipping the velvet i only heard about when i was flipping through the l word websites the storyline of interested me yet i passed it away thinking lesbian in victorian period that never ends well i have enough of those lesbo series and movies that go no where br br however during christmas my local dvd store gave a discount i brought the dvd and my life has never been more colourful br br this mini series deserves to be cherished and praised the acting is so great that i call it rare sally hawkins elaine cassidy rupert evans imelda staunton and many more that i can't name all brought light and darkness to their characters just by a little gesture a little look a little touch they made their characters real and as a viewer i couldn't help it but take them home keep them close br br sets in victorian area is a story of sue a thief who loves and lives with her family of pick pockets little did she know that her fate is linked to maud lily a somewhat shy timid girl grows up in a mansion miles and miles away mother left her a fortune but maud herself can't touch it unless she married worst of all uncle makes sure she never will by keeping her in the house br br enter mr a charming good looking thief with a heart as bad as any he wants fortune for himself and in order to do so he sets sue up as maud lily's maid asking sue to persuade maud to elope with him as time goes by things would be simple if sue didn't fall in love with maud br br and things would be simple if the story was what i have just told i do not wish to spoil so i would like to stop there but i can you that everything is twisted and turned before you can even aware of what has happened once it happened you then question what would happen next on top of that the story is filled with passion unlike any others there are no self searching sexuality questioning oh my god do i like girls moments because the girls in are buried so deep in their own darkness that they barely be able to care the story with such twisted plot moves as smooth as water running passionately but strangely calm br br weeks have passed since i watched yet eyes still haunt me and sue's words still warm my heart you pearl you pearl you pearl she said and such pearl it is
1	having read the book prior to watching this adaptation you would think that it would have lost some of its thrill however the story is so clever i could never tire of it br br sally and elaine really put their hearts into their roles and brought out so much of the characters i fell in love with the story and the women all over again br br beautiful to watch thanks to direction settings and despite the plot speed of television i don't feel that anything important was lost in transit it had me on the edge of my seat throughout with lots of wonderful stomach trembling moments enjoyed it thoroughly this is the kind of television i have been waiting for
1	i love sarah and was worried about the tv adaptation as i'd been disappointed by the bbc's version of tipping the velvet which although beautiful to look at was let down by hawes not being able to sing and rachael stirling not being able to act is a very tightly plotted novel with breath taking twists and turns and i wondered if this could be done justice to in just 3 hours br br i needn't have worried the adaptation was excellent very little cut out and went along at a cracking pace although i did wonder whether if you hadn't read the book would you miss things it had the look and feel of a bbc classic costume drama and i kept having to remind myself that this is a contemporary book br br the acting was stellar sally hawkins acting her heart out as sue trinder and elaine cassidy a slow burner who by the end of the story was incandescent as maud lilley the love the passion the realisation of the acts of betrayal both would have to perform were written on their faces it was a joy to watch br br i hope rachael stirling was watching that's how you play a sarah waters character
1	this is a wonderful old fashioned christmas favorite which i try to catch on tv every year if i can it revolves around a martha stewart like journalist named elizabeth lane charmingly portrayed by barbara stanwyck however in contrast to martha this lady is a phony with no domestic skills whatsoever the other cast members effectively complete the story and include dennis morgan jefferson jones reginald gardiner john sloan and sydney greenstreet alexander yardley br br elizabeth lane is a journalist who writes food articles portraying herself as a happily married country homemaker with children in reality she is a single woman living in a new york city apartment and cannot boil an egg her recipes are borrowed from her hungarian chef friend felix elizabeth gets away with her deception until the publisher of her magazine alexander yardley decides he wants a nice old fashioned country christmas and invites himself to visit her bringing with him a returning war hero jefferson jones a sailor who had been shipwrecked yardley demands total honesty of his employees to get out of her predicament and save her deception based career elizabeth borrows the connecticut country home of her longtime architect suitor john sloan a dull fussy chap who has long sought marriage she also borrows a baby actually several to pass off as her own and her sloan's br br of course this scenario makes for much merriment it's a screwball comedy and a charming romance with the added attraction of a christmas atmosphere whenever i think of this movie i picture the falling the tree beautifully decorated the fire roaring in the hearth the turkey roasting and christmas cookies baking br br why did hollywood feel compelled to do a remake i understand there is a 1992 version directed by arnold schwarzenegger and starring dyan cannon kris kristofferson and tony curtis i have not seen this modern adaptation nor do i wish to this old favorite is perfect just the way it is and a holiday 'must see' along with it's a wonderful life white christmas miracle on 34th street and of course all the versions of a christmas carol
1	having read all of sarah waters books i was eagerly looking forward to a bbc adaptation of especially since tipping the velvet had been done so well by old familiar andrew davies br br i was not disappointed with the results in fact i think this might be on a par with both romantic and entertaining and not as so many ignorant people would have you believe a pointless lesbian romp having been a fan of elaine cassidy's since seeing her guileless turn in journey i thought she embodied both hard deception and a growing fragility as maud her transformation was believable and impressive to watch i recognised sally hawkins as zena blake from tipping the velvet a small role primarily so i didn't have as many expectations but she was astounding in the role of sue trinder her eyes were mesmerising conveying everything from rage to absolute despair the two of them acting together combining these talents made this drama unmissable of course imelda staunton was amazing as usual she is unmistakably a national treasure and the supporting cast were all of a high standard even the direction from the fairly unknown aisling walsh used contrasting yet beautiful shades of blue for briar and brown for london br br however as much praise must be given to the script writer to turn a 600 page book where every line is of the highest quality into a three hour extravaganza is a huge feat he illuminated the main revelations at a steady pace whilst giving us plenty of back story and character development at the same time he has my full admiration br br in conclusion a brilliant adaptation where all involved gave 100 and making this one of the best bbc dramas i've seen
1	haggard the movie is the real life story of ryan dunn and his girlfriend who cheated on him also with the help from his two friend 1 a skate boarder who lives for nothing and 2 a trying to be funny scientist which doesn't really work played by bam and br br the film haggard the movie also has a lot of the characters from jackass etc but to say it was written by bam and co this is a very weak attempt seems to me like it was written when he was bored or as a project with they did not pay a lot of attention to br br the films also stars girlfriend jennifer who plays ryan's girlfriend who basically cheated on him again very bad acting by jennifer another actor that some people may be interested in is steve a k a hellboy played by which his character does not seem to be with the story again bad acting also this character does not really have a lot of lines in this film which basically makes it very boring but worst of all is character the voice sound like a smoker who basically has throat cancer also i think he could have been improved overall i think the characters in this film aren't with the story like in one scene it would be on one certain character a minute later a different scene different character br br to say that this is supposed to be a film sort of a documentary its not played by the characters as a documentary the acting makes you think that its a cheap attempt at making a film with your spare time br br towards the middle of the film we start to lose focus on the main character ryan dunn although a lot of the attention is on bam and brandon br br in conclusion this film is ok if you laugh at things that aren't very funny stupid stunts terrible acting and the occasional nude scene also i think there there are too many scenes of just no talking and just music 7 10
1	alright let me break it down for ya haggard is probably one of the funniest pointless movies you'll ever see it's got a mixture of a unique storyline about a guy having girl troubles and everything going backwards for him mixed in with countless humorous scenes that will keep you laughing throughout the whole movie basically if you've seen jackass or the series you'd know what to expect for humor considering it has most of the people from those movies overall i just had to give it a 10 10 because its one of my favorite movies of all time br br br br p s haggard rules
1	i just bought this movie yesterday night and i love it everyone did great acting in it especially ryan dunn and bam the whole plot was great and as dunn said in the extras on the dvd they made it seem like he was reliving the whole thing all over again this movie has made my number one spot in my favorite movies i can't stop replaying scenes over and over again just to see it again i've never done that with any other movie i would definitely recommend this to other people to watch because it is such a great movie and if you like bam it's a perfect movie for you the little montages that they show in between every scene are just great i think that those have to be my favorite parts of the movie they are very sad with mostly music from the band 'him ' which of course is my favorite band
1	i bought this movie just to see bam because i was really loving him but after seeing this i don't like him much i mean his acting was good and everything i guess but whenever it showed the totally unnecessary skate scenes i was just saying to myself alright we know you're a professional skateboarder now can we get back to ryan dunn dunn rake and brandon really made the movie in my perspective br br i noticed that obviously and missy were both in haggard but who bam was dating at the time anyways i actually enjoyed haggard and i think it's really like no other movie i've ever seen it's sort of in it's own category
1	while some of the things in haggard are dumb and unnecessary the overall package is good br br haggard follows ryan dunn and his friends bam and falcone brandon trying to win back ryan's ex br br the story is followed and developed surprisingly well it doesn't wonder off and become an episode of jackass or viva la bam although it does have a side story which doesn't hurt the main story br br and for all the bam fan boys and girls there are multiple sequences of bam skateboarding perhaps the weakest aspect of the film phil makes 2 surprisingly small appearances even don vito got a bigger but pointless roll br br if you are hoping to see a comedy and escape craziness then stay away from this movie otherwise enjoy the time you spend with it if you can find it there are some truly funny scenes in this film
1	set in bam hometown of westchester pa is a semi true story about the life of ryan dunn and his buddies falcone and br br dunn has been dumped by his girlfriend of 2 years who is now seeing a beer swilling long haired metal head named and this is driving dunn insane with jealousy br br in a desperate attempt to find out the truth about what is going on between and hellboy dunn pays his friends and falcone to break into her house and produce evidence of the affair with somewhat disastrous results for all concerned i found this movie very funny maybe partly because i am a total jackass and fan and it has to be said that a lot of the humour will probably be lost on those that do not have prior knowledge of insane brand of 'comedy' br br the movie contains much that will be of interest to skaters not least the cameo appearance of skateboarding legend tony hawk as a police officer there are also cameo's from brandon novak jason ellis and long suffering parents april and phil br br the dvd extra's include music video's from featuring brother jess on drums and favourite band him character in the movie takes his name from him frontman ville there is also a documentary and a too hot for jackass skit br br in summary as i said before this movie will mainly be of interest to skaters and jackass fans but i do feel that and co have made a great effort with and i for one thoroughly enjoyed it
1	i had been waiting to see this movie for so long and finally got to yesterday in summary i'm glad i finally did the humor is off the wall hilarious the plot is so unbelievably believable that it has to have at least some truth for it if anything stood out in this movie it is most definitely the coffee shop scene i have been there every guy has you get dumped you find out that your ex has fooled around with some guy who you are sure is an asshole now every time you see anything for the next few days you just get horrible thoughts of this placed in all the wrong areas she is screwing everyone and everyone knows it i could probably watch that man lick and finger his wallet all day long and look back at myself and laugh for having been there too
1	the movie was fantastic if your a fan of videos jackass or his show viva la bam you cant help but like it i have a few friends who aren't fans that enjoyed it and others who thought it wasn't that great those who didn't like it were mostly female friends they really didn't appreciate some of the crude humor that personally i think made the movie so funny i'm pretty sure the entire movie was filmed in bams home town which includes a lot of his regularly visited locations the cast of is made up of all his friends and buddies and also includes some big name pro too the soundtrack is phenomenal with music by him in my opinion haggard has it all a great plot characters you'll never see anywhere else plenty of humor great music and a cast that was dedicated to the project
1	this movie kicks ass bar none bam and his crue have out done themselves with this film since i got the dvd 4 days ago i have watched it three times and it gets better every time i watch it i can't wait for grind to come out in theaters if its anything like haggard it will be worth the wait br br thanks
1	i have always loved old movies but this is one of my top ten favorites it has all the charm 1940's quaintness and good old fashioned romance and it's hilarious to boot barbara stanwick plays an independent single woman who writes cooking home life articles for a famous magazine under the premise that she is a married homemaker even the president of the magazine is under this delusion enter a handsome gi played by the talented dennis morgan just rescued off of a raft along with his buddy his simple wish is to stay at the homey inn the she writes so eloquently about and relax with her famous home cooked meals she now has to frantically find a way to save her job and reputation add to this that her fiancé is in a hurry to tie the knot doesn't help the humor is superb and the chemistry between the leading characters a lot of fun throw in the character actor nicknamed cuddles who fits this name completely it becomes even more adorable this has become my must see movie that i snuggle in with a cup of cocoa each christmas season a wonderful enjoyable movie to enjoy at christmastime or anytime
1	if your expecting jackass look somewhere else this an actual movie and for the budget well done the acting isnt top noth neither is the writing but the directing was there and so was the story definetly worth the rent and possibly the buy if you really enjoy it like i did but for the person who just likes jackass rent it first
1	this movie is simply awesome it is so hilarious although the skating and other montages are played out the comedy is awesome himself and brandon are hilarious there will be moments when you can't breath you're laughing so hard plus there are scenes that you can watch hundreds of times and still laugh this is one of the funniest comedies i've ever seen
1	i personally found the film to be great i had it on pre order for a month and watched it twice the day i got it in the mail and several time since yes the time lapses may be a bit much but the rest of the movie clearly compensates for it all amature cast yet the acting was right on for each part the plot itself is just haggard there's no other way to describe it who makes a movie about someone getting f bam thats who genius simply genius two thumbs up i would be honored to work with him any day any time on any thing
1	i don't know what it is about the crew from but everything they produce seems to be genius in its simplicity and stupidity haggard is so incredibly dumb and funny that it's almost comedic excellence sometimes it makes absolutely no sense but who cares br br it made me laugh my ass off a must have for the jackass aficionado
1	i have never before seen a movie quite like this nor as funny i laughed my goddamned ass off and have watched it repetitively infact i am watching it now chad from is hot too anyway if you never liked it blow it out your ass you have no taste the movie involves ry ryan dunn having just broke up with his girlfriend turning to bam and falcone brandon for help in finding out exactly what she done with hellboy rake and with the help of chris himself they do just that br br the fender bender scene and the scene with cactus at record bin were hilarious
1	totally genius film from the crew not the jackass boys johnny knoxville chris pontius steve o etc are not in this br br film ok so maybe they'r not the best actors but its not what you call a serious film but hey there fun and its totally funny to watch who doesn't want to see don vito dressed as a roman emperor br br a total must if you like viva la bam or an amazing soundtrack provided by the almighty him and others check out the extra features on the dvd especially freestyle br br chinese rap number two seriously hilarious check this film out you wont regret it 10 10
1	this film had everything i need in a film women skateboarding violence music by h i m and tony hawk the artwork and camera effects in this film is amazing the music in this film is the best i've heard in any other film each track goes so well with its scene i thought the acting was really good considering none of bams crew have been in scripted films before although the whole concept of the film is the story of ryan dunn and his girlfriend who is sleeping with hellboy behind his back is a predictable and age old story they way its acted out is very unpredictable for example falcone and the gas tank himself dunn breaking bottles behind the and all the don vito scenes this films is a must see
1	haggard doesn't even need to be graded since it was never designed to be graded like oscar winning movies are and it was never intended to have won an oscar obviously if you just look at some of the stuff that bam and tried like the fast motion shots it comes across as a film thats something more than just or jackass even though those are cool too for pure enjoyability i definitely give this film a 10 almost every scene made me laugh until my sides hurt like trail movie if you haven't seen this see it and then buy it personally my favorite character is brandon falcone he's just so smooth and natural and random that its hilarious he great with the action figures and makes up the funniest stuff lol a diamond mountain bike haggard is definitely a movie that in overall humor is only rivaled by anchorman and napoleon dynamite
1	haggard the movie is well written well directed and well acted there are many laugh out loud moments and some terrific skateboarding scenes featuring the scenes of west chester pa are filmed beautifully and the script is just downright funny what i like about the movie is that instead of being another sappy love story or another version of jackass it takes a darkly funny look at break ups from a different perspective most break up films feature a naive woman jilted by a cheating man she then goes on to find mr right and gets to tell her cheating ex to get lost this movie takes a look at the emotional roller coaster of a jilted man without taking itself too seriously ryan dunn does an excellent job as the jilted man and with bam and brandon as your best friends trying to help you through this rough time how can you take anything too seriously it is obvious that and co are incredibly talented both behind and in front of the camera i look forward to their future films and endeavors
1	i saw this movie with hopes of a good laugh but when i watched it i didn't stop laughing for weeks they are such bad actors and it made this movie so much funnier to watch btw ryan dunn didn't eat the toy car he shoved it up his ass the random appearances from the skaters and parts were great gimme some grapes vito no your grapes are at the store i wouldn't recommend any one under 13 to watch it frankly they wouldn't understand half of the jokes in or what they are talking about i love and after watching this movie i couldn't help but go buy it or the viva la bam series what is the deal with this stupid comment thing it has to be 10 lines what kind of bull is that i should be able to write one as long or in this case as short as i want i'm just going to keep typing until it tells me i can actually send it its just a waste of time i expected to just say what i wanted it wasn't too much but then i'm told i have to keep putting more in and then it corrects my spelling so what if i didn't spell something right you get what i mean still this is ridiculously long br br those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't
1	barbara stanwyck is a sheer delight in this wartime comedy about a sailor invited to spend christmas with a popular magazine writer's family at her farm in connecticut the problem is she has no husband baby or farm as she writes about in her column and she can't even cook her wonderful recipes being provided for her by her good friend uncle felix owner of a hungarian restaurant in new york city br br things get even more complicated when her strict publisher boss invites himself along for christmas a scheme is hastily planned with her stuffy fiancé providing an actual connecticut farm neighbors providing a borrowed baby and a quick wedding planned when the publisher isn't looking but when the handsome young sailor arrives on christmas eve romantic complications ensue as the supposedly married author falls like a ton of bricks for the nice guy navy man and vice versa br br this is a charming warm film that deftly balances humor with sentiment and is a wonderful showcase for barbara stanwyck to display her considerable comedic talent aided by such marvelous character actors as sydney greenstreet una o'connor s z and many others a christmas night dance at the town hall is a toe tapping delight to see and the unexpectedly sweet and feminine side of stanwyck is a wonderful surprise for viewers who have seen her mainly as tough bitchy women in femme fatale roles truly a wonderful film that has stood the test of time
1	for a moment let's put aside the cultural aspects of this movie even if it is a very important side of it and let's look at the simple fact that this is a very nice love story two individuals find themselves in a difficult situation caused by two selfish husbands they have to live through their sad days without any ray of hope if each one of these two women had been alone imagine what kind of life each one would have had to accept they found each other and they fell in love that this love was against all the social religious and cultural laws of their environment is almost irrelevant they loved each other found relief in each other that was sufficient the reaction of the individuals around them is but a small fact that they have to accept suffer even and then they can go on with their lives their life very nice
1	one word for it hilarious i haven't watched at movie like this in a long time at points in the movie i totally forgot it was a movie i just felt like i was back watching viva la bam or even watching say my own friend going through something like this it was realistic and i liked how bam ryan rake and brandon and the rest of the guys didn't try to hard too actually act they to me were just acting like their famous idiot selves there were a few scenes that i adored more than others like in the shower holy i laughed so hard he honestly was probably my favourite character besides he really in my opinion made the movie just a bit more hilarious it's basically a must see for any fans of the crew
1	i loved this movie and i watch it everyday i think that although the acting isn't all that great it's really just a bunch of guys having fun with a script i had been looking all over for this movie for almost a year and when i found it for thirty dollars i just had to get it it is now by far my favorite movie of all time it deals with relationship failure and at the same time making a joke of it i loved all the parts with don vito especially the one where asks him for a grape when they're sitting on the porch and he tells him to eat the one rolling down the porch it really portrays him as he really is the part in the making of really touched me when they brandon novak's addiction to heroin and how much his friends and family were trying to help him a new movie that's in the making called is in production which is about the story of novak's dreams shattered by his addiction
1	when i first heard of this movie i was mildly interested the plot seemed like an opportunity for hilarity and bam as an actor and director seemed like something that might be good when i found out the movie starred ryan dunn i was even further interested i was a fan of when it was on yeah i'm that lame however i didn't have much faith in it being to good when i sat down to watch it i was afraid i was wasting my time br br but even just five minutes it it became apparent that i'd been wrong br br i thought that the comedy of this film was delightfully idiotic and definitely not suited for all kinds of people the acting was rather good much better than my expectations i thought that it was rather easy to relate to ryan's character which gave the movie a center that was believable this is key in a movie as outrageous as this and is probably why i was not a fan of borat br br the movie is not suitable at all for younger people duh and will definitely create more than it's fair share of awkward turtles if watched with parents but it's a good one for you and your buddies on a movie night
1	i didn't know what to expect from this i always considered bam and the crew a team of knuckle heads devoted to to doing stupid things for entertainment i didn't know that they could act but everyone who acted in this movie pulled off good performances the hilarity of the ' scene mixes in with ryan dunn's depression and his revenge against his ex girlfriend perfectly at times the movie some scenes seem pointless but at the same time they're funny i recommend this to anyone who likes a good laugh but this film may not appeal to those that prefer detailed story lines and a series of twists and turns
1	i first saw this movie at a video store and being the bam fan i am had to rent it to see what it was all about since i have a huge and stupid note the word stupid sense of humor i found this movie absolutely hilarious some of the parts are pointless and random but that's what makes them so amusing you'll need to think things like getting slapped in the face and bashed on the head with a watermelon are funny in order to appreciate this movie i was really impressed br br i was also surprised at the acting these people actually did a good job nothing oscar worthy but well enough to get past the amateur level teens and young adults would probably find this more entertaining because of the modern slang and situations used i wouldn't suggest watching this with your parents and vice versa br br all in all the acting was great the script was hilarious and the story is really something you can relate to
1	the movie haggard is one of the funniest movies of all time it features the cast from the movies and also has a great soundtrack if you have seen any or viva la bam you will notice that everybody from those two are in it including parents and many other people br br the story is about ryan dunn's girlfriend jennifer cheating on him and him trying to get back at her he does this by having bam and falcone her house there are many different characters with many different stories br br there is great music on the soundtrack bands such as him her kill daniel iggy and the stooges pop and new order br br if you do not like viva la bam or the movies i doubt you will like this if you do like that stuff this movie is great
1	if you are looking for a movie that doesn't take itself seriously than haggard is for you i must say before i write anything more that if you have not seen any of the camp kill yourself videos than the movie most likely won't be as funny my advice is to watch a few clips of those videos that bam and his friends made haggard does not take itself seriously at all and that was never the purpose throughout the movie you will have random moments that have nothing to do with the plot which may get annoying but its nothing that is out of control even through all that the plot does stay focused and the story of ryan dunn's character does unfold quite nicely this plot i have been told is based off a true story for the most part of ryan dunn's ex girlfriend brandon is by far the best character in the movie he has a lot of talent and knows how to make people laugh he stole the movie if you ask me overall i love this movie for its simplicity and straight up weirdness its a bam movie people its not going to be normal haggard is filled with hilarious quotes that my friends and i constantly used since the first time we saw it i've seen the movie 6 7 times and still find new things every time the soundtrack is just as good everything from kill to new order and some techno just don't go into the movie with high expectations let it all unfold and then judge it for what it is
1	if you have ever seen a bollywood movie you know they are longer than most movies due to the multiple song and dance routines each one is over five minutes long fortunately this one has fewer song and dance routines and fits into the standard movie length don't get me wrong i like bollywood movies but tend to fast forward through the song and dance portions i bought this dvd because i am an ian fan although his role wasn't as large as i hoped he still had a good amount of screen time and his character was much different than his other roles br br overall this was a good movie like most bollywood movies there is at least one element of controversy conflict of the traditional indian culture but true love triumphs over adversity and a happy ending is had by all
1	i just finished watching today and i'll begin by saying that i found this dvd on the shelves of blockbuster while strolling around looking for something new and good to watch the picture of ali caught my attention br br after drooling over ali i picked up the cover and continued to glance around the cover from the looks of it i thought the costumes were a bit over the top and then i saw the other indians on the cover and figured this was some kind of spoof film or something like that br br when i flipped over the the synopsis part and saw salman khan i did a double take salman khan in an american film with ali in a dvd at blockbuster because salman khan is to bollywood films like mel gibson is to hollywood films i had very high expectations for this film it had to be good i am very pleased to say that is a phenomenal film it far exceeded any and all of my personal expectations br br i suppose a film like this is what happens when you have a decent script a talented experienced knowledgeable and goal oriented director two incredible actors playing the lead roles and just a very hard working supporting cast and crew khan and appear to have really great chemistry together and both shine on the big screen they look really good together the musical numbers weren't bad at all which was surprising considering how cheesy and long indian films' musicals are these days and you'll be happy to know that the indian costumes are very far from being cheesy as you'll get br br the beginning of the film was kind of slow the middle was really good the scenes leading to the climax were pretty dramatic but the ending was just awesome i have a few gripes and complaints about the dvd however while i loved the widescreen aspect ratio of the dvd i didn't like the fact that several other things were left out of the dvd for starters there are no subtitles now english being my first language it's not a problem however when some of the indian actors and actresses spoke it was at times difficult to understand what they were saying captioning would have helped br br another thing that i would have appreciated on the dvd would be a blooper reel or some kind of collection of outtakes and lastly how about a menu feature that would allow us to skip right to the musical numbers man some of those songs were really good on the flip side i throughly enjoyed watching the making of br br i have tons more to say regarding the awesomeness of this film and how much i liked it but i don't have the time nor do i want to keep on writing why i enjoyed it so much i hope that salman khan does more english films in addition to his hindi films and i certainly hope this hindi film will not be ali last bollywood film and i encourage the director to continue making bollywood film hybrids featuring salman khan ali and other big name actors just make sure the scripts are original and good br br 10 10 this is just a great love story film that your entire family can enjoy
1	i had no expectations never saw previews for and enjoyed the characters contemporary music and sharp dancing in this light hearted movie even though 98 of the dialog is english great thing for me i wish the dvd had subtitles to help with some of the quick moments when the character's accent can be difficult to understand i wouldn't judge this movie against bollywood films but just on it's own merits as fun entertainment a musical people movie br br i'm hooked on ali as an actress and her interviews in the bonus material indicate she is a nice person i have since watched this movie several times gets better each time
1	personally i don't like a lot of b w movies but there's something magical about this movie br br the movie starts with elizabeth lane barbara stanwyck liz writes a magazine column about how she's the of connecticut of course she's lying this becomes a problem when her publisher mr yardley asks her to play host to a navy sailor over christmas in addition mr yardley who's going to be alone for christmas invites himself up to the farm for the christmas party from there things just go crazy br br since the movie is set on a new england farm the movie has a warm holiday feeling plus the characters are hilarious mr yardley is always shouting orders and liz's friend felix is always yelling ' when things go wrong finally the movie ends the way a christmas movie should end a jolly fat man laughs and shouts what a christmas br br in short no matter what age you are you will love this movie
1	mention bollywood to anyone with a slight familiarity with the genre and the images usually conjured up are of tacky over the top musical numbers peopled with costuming that makes vegas seem a bastion of conservatism this perception is not helped by the whiff of condescension that permeates most movies that have approached bollywood from an outsider's perspective willard carroll's romantic comedy however takes a different tack it is not a nudge nudge wink wink look at those silly people and their clueless antics but a sincere appreciation of bollywood for its vitality its lack of irony and self consciousness br br it is obvious that the director has a tremendous affection and respect for bollywood while at the same time is bemused by its aspects and if you have a familiarity with bollywood you can appreciate what he does here in making a true hybrid of bollywood and hollywood movie conventions from one of the opening shots a flashback of the salman character as a child by the sea talking with his grandmother played by helen how many salman movies start with this same premise to the flashback sequence that is incorporated into the movie that and prem has been filming anyone who has seen enough bollywood movies will recognize these references the story itself incorporates tried and true conventions from both hollywood and bollywood as well – the fish out of water meets duty to one's family at the expense of personal fulfillment the structure of the film follows the typical bollywood plot line of the more comical set up of the first half giving way to a more dramatic resolution of the second yet ultimately the sensibility of the film is that of hollywood with its understated wry humor and its story of a woman learning to believe in herself to reach self affirmation br br you couldn't have a movie inspired by bollywood if there weren't any musical numbers and this movie does not disappoint with seven of them unlike bollywood however the songs do not pop out of nowhere and transport its characters to a european locale or beach they exist as musical numbers that are part of the film that is being made reminiscent of how musical numbers were justified in busby berkeley movies as being part of a stage show or they come out of a situation where music already has a reason to be there – a sexy nightclub scene where prem teaches to dance or a beach scene where there are musicians including a cameo from the playback singer performing all reflect the emotional state of the protagonists at that point in the movie often the music will take a conventional song from one genre and put a twist on it from the other so in one of the highlights of the film where comes into her own the song is fairly typical of its genre – the female star singing and dancing among a line of women – but in this case it's blond ali looking like a total natural bollywood film star emoting and lip synching to the hindi lyrics with no subtitles br br also synonymous with bollywood are sumptuous visuals and fulfills that aspect beautifully thanks to some of the top talent working in bollywood today the cinematographer is anil mehta who was also the cinematographer for lagaan and hum dil de chuke sanam the choreographer is vaibhavi merchant and production designer is desai both from hum dil de chuke sanam and devdas you can really see the influence of hum dil de chuke sanam on this film – in fact the illuminated floor in one of the numbers was originally from taro dhol which coincidentally has an embedded pattern br br as for the cast carroll obviously has a penchant for spotting acting talent as evidenced by playing by heart – one of the first movies for both angelina jolie and phillippe and in this film he again hits the mark with ali one of the main reasons the film works is because of she makes a bitchy unappealing character sympathetic and her subsequent transformation believable and she is smart funny and sexy because she is smart and funny she and salman share excellent chemistry and that is one of the film's biggest strengths br br salman khan plays the role of prince charming here as filtered through his iconic role as prem this is old school prem however so expect a quiet subdued salman those used to him in his usual stripping avatar may be disappointed – or relieved it's a sincere and sensitive performance from him marred only by poor enunciation of his english lines br br with a refreshing lack of cynicism and unabashed embrace of romantic love the film is a love letter to bollywood and hollywood movies of yore
1	i saw at a preview showing a few days ago and found it to be a thoroughly engrossing and enjoyable film the film is about a not so successful american actress who goes to india to act in a low budget film only to find herself stranded there when she finds on arrival that the film's financing has vanished along with the producers and investors a chance encounter with an indian film shooting nearby leads her to be hired for a small dancer role in that since indian films incorporate a significant amount of singing and dancing this is a problem for who has two left feet not to mention a personality so tightly wound up and thorny that she can hardly hear the music let alone feel it as prem the choreographer of the film advices her to do br br but prem the word not the person means love and prem the person not the word seems to embody that emotion in the way he deals with all around him whether it be his production assistant friends who introduced to the shoot the narcissistic and arrogant leads of the film or the bitchy and uptight herself soon under his expert tutelage and endearing treatment finds her feet literally and figuratively br br i must say a word for those not familiar with the use of song and dance in indian films unlike american musicals the story progresses through these dance numbers as plot developments unfold and character transformations occur in parallel with the dancing it should also be pointed out that indian dance is about a lot more than mere movement an essential part of it is the enactment of the dancer's feelings and emotions while telling the story of the dance this is the main purpose of the dance and the dancer br br that reaches this stage of accomplishment is demonstrated in a stunning dance number about midway through when while performing the dance she is required to do for the film within the film also expresses her love for prem it is an amazing performance by ali especially when one considers that she is not used to dancing in her films or emoting her character's feelings via dance it shows her skill as an actress as well as how much hard work she has put into the role br br of course no romantic film can work without a credible prince charming salman khan who plays the role of prem fits the role to a t even when it turns out that he is a prince not so charming he does not lose the audience's sympathy salman has been ruling hindi cinema sometimes called bollywood for many years now and it is worth remembering that his first leading role was also as prem he is completely charming sweet adorable sexy and vulnerable for those who have never encountered him on screen before be prepared to be hit with mega doses of sheer magnetism he and ali make a lovely pair and are as well matched in their acting as in their appearance br br will they manage to work out their problems it doesn't seem possible as we hear the last song of the film a lovely blending of fact and fantasy reality and metaphor the ending certainly took some of the audience i saw it with by surprise but they were left satisfied the songs are used very cleverly they are in hindi for the film within the film sequences and in english for other occasions but their meaning is always clear from the context and choreography br br is a very satisfying romantic comedy yes there is quite a bit of humor as well in it the indian locations and costumes give it a fairy tale quality befitting a story which can be likened to a modern fairy tale br br if you are or have been curious about indian cinema but were hesitant to try it this is an excellent introduction it captures the color and vibrancy of indian films not only in the costumes and jewelry which are quite impressive but also in the lively dances and world sound music br br if you are a fan of ali you should watch it for her excellent acting in portraying a selfish demanding high woman who nevertheless has an inner attraction that inspires the love of two men if you are a girl you will enjoy admiring lovely costumes and ogling her hunk of a leading man if you are a guy you can not only admire ali in her sexy costumes but learn from salman khan what it takes to bring out the loving heart even from someone as edgy as
1	is by far the best outsider's take on bollywood i have ever seen i didn't grow up with bollywood but i've seen a few hundred of them now i'd say it leaves gurinder chadha mira nair and even merchant and ivory of bombay talkie almost in the dust willard carroll the director really loves bollywood and he has the self confidence to allow us to know it there's humor but no arch ironic distancing no of course i don't really mean this stuff as jerry lee lewis would say he gets it and so he can let us have it too the joy of a bollywood movie experience along with touches that are supplied by a westerner's stepping into the story role br br it's a story about a caustic bitchy beautiful american b movie actress she's only been in movies with numbers in their titles like fatal attraction 3 who finds herself in a different bollywood movie from the one she went to india to be in sutra 3 has folded its tents while she was en route apparently because its producers are now in jail salman khan in real life a bollywood mega mega star is the dancing master of the delightful written on the fly movie she has now been pulled into is this before or after i go blind and through the sweetness of his mildly psychically gifted character she learns more than how to find her inner ecstatic dancing ability br br the strong beginning gives you both bollywood a super energetic troupe of dancers in front of the taj mahal both funny an familiar to the western viewer as well as providing the high velocity musical thrill we love in a hindi movie and salman on screen from the outset no bollywood 20 minute wait for the hero he has on an indian costume embellished with kit carson style western movie fringe all in white br br ali actress character is pleasing to the western viewer she's blonde which is traditional for a white person in a bollywood movie and visually understandable casting but she's a robust girl not the ethereal kind of blondie we're usually presented with and she's a more or less three dimensional total bitch carrying on profane and abusive cell phone conversations with a boyfriend and agent in the us br br we also have scenes of women who are having problems with each other going out to a bar to deal with them the capacity for people not getting along to relate and have emotional conversations is traditional in hindi movies but we seldom see much of any such thing going on between women other than the discussion between mother and daughter about the daughter's choice of groom let alone strangers unrelated people let alone bar going so the spirit is the same the details are fresh and i was completely delighted by this br br i only saw it once at a preview showing attended by the director a fine speaker and question he and salman got to be brother like good friends over the making of it he loves india he has plans to make a wizard of oz movie in india i can't get too detailed about songs when i've seen them just once except to say i liked them all they range from a happy parody of the bollywood number in the movie within the movie the ladies' costumes with hats and seashell cased bodices it's a beach scene on dresses are worth the cost of a ticket alone to a lovely reflective many scened romantic song in a sadder and more serious part of the movie br br mix of hindi and english in the music and it works br br salman khan gets a lot of credit from me for openness to unusual projects this and jaan e mann and good judgment about which ones to be in carroll said he was full of suggestions and ideas all along the way and totally fine i e not narcissistic at all whether carroll accepted or rejected them clearly just a pro who loves being involved and collaborating
1	it's a unique film as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory because he seems so reserved detached he's perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him however in the deadly serious no pun intended last act when coward must make like the flying dutchman he's much less comfortable br br but his way with an epigram is peerless and hecht macarthur have given him some gems macarthur really he was the wit of the pair br br the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence hecht and cared about one thing getting their dialogue on screen note h m themselves have blink and you'll miss 'em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene br br the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward br br curious that would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary round table of which he was a founder and macarthur something of an auxiliary member br br the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story though that victory is probably due more to coward's imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot it's coward and the dialogue you remember
1	i saw this film over 20 years ago and still remember how much i loved it it really touched me and i thoroughly enjoyed noel coward's work in it highly recommended atmospheric and touching br br i think of this film from time to time and am disappointed it hasn't enjoyed as much of a revival as many classic films hadn't realized til i searched for it today that it won an academy award for best original story for ben hecht and charles macarthur br br basically it involves a nasty character who destroys another's career and is cursed because of it he dies but is allowed redemption if he can convince someone to shed a tear over him the bulk of the movies shows him in pursuit of this goal well written and lovely i had known him for his plays so i was surprised to see him in this role on tv late one night in new york a must see if you ever have the opportunity
1	spoilers spoilers it's easy to see why the script for this film won an oscar at least during the first half my head was spinning from all of the snappy lines whizzing by noel coward plays a new york publisher why don't you publish books that you like ' what and corrupt the public ' who charms and manipulates his many hangers on then he dies in a plane crash and the story turns into a bizarre flying dutchman take off in which coward must find someone who truly mourns him before his soul can rest in peace very enjoyable until it gets bizarre viewed at cinefest in in march 2003
1	noel coward is perfectly cast as a suave vain selfish well educated upper class publisher the literary crowd that congregates at his office is equally lacking in depth and seems concerned only with their status and success they constantly meet at noel coward's publishing office in the hope of gaining favor for their next book and to make sure they are not left out on the latest gossip in the artistic realm br br cora is a young idealist and poet who believes her love can change noel coward and that they can establish a long lasting relationship she ends her relationship with her fiancé to become lover however noel returns to his playboy ways after 6 months and ends the relationship this breaks heart and she eventually returns to her fiancé who has since lost his job and self respect after losing cora br br the story picks up when noel coward leaves new york city by plane chasing after a new lover a concert pianist who is just as shallow as he is however a storm is encountered and the plane crashes into the sea killing noel god takes pity on him and grants him one month on earth to find someone who will cry for him otherwise he is condemned to wander the earth never to find rest for all eternity br br the climax takes place on a dim rainy night and ends with a prayer and a miracle a strange redemption occurs the death experience teaches noel the true values of life although his former associate artists are incapable of understanding his message br br the film has beautiful music and the scenes are classic film noir unfortunately it is not on dvd or vhs for those who enjoy this type of movie it is a classic masterpiece noel coward's dialog is sharp and witty and no one could play the part better
1	the piano teacher is all about huppert's character a middle aged classical piano instructor with a stoic facade behind which lurks a powerfully compelling aberrant personality unsatisfying as a story but intriguing as a character study the film follows the huppert character through the term of her anguished relationship with a pupil delivering superb performances in the process not for everyone the piano teacher will play best with those into foreign films and character driven dramas dealing with dark issues a
1	this film is utterly amazing from the performances of huppert girardot and to haneke's screenplay and direction there is not a single misstep the film may put some people off with it's hard sexual subject matter and with it's slower pace but it really is a masterful piece of cinema so do not let it's challenging ways keep you away br br powerful and deserving every award it won in cannes
1	be prepared for the trip to haneke's la pianiste the psychological sickness of the main character wonderfully played by huppert goes beyond any limit you could expect the most stunning part of it is that you start feeling compassion for the character erika trash sexuality no nudes scenes though perversion masochism incestuous relations haneke gives us a crude meal heavy to digest sometimes the only way you can escape the extremism of some scenes is to start laughing at it the mise en is maybe not the most appealing part of the movie it has obvious austro germanic sometimes scandinavian notes static long scenes but never boring the vienna settings the french language used make the whole look like a european blend the permanent germanic music background schubert is beautifully chosen above all both of the cannes awards for best actors are well deserved one of the greatest performance of the year by one of the greatest french actress ever
1	this film is one of my favorite christmas classics sure it's fluff it's not relevant but when did movies being simply entertaining and fun become a bad thing no this movie is definitely a good thing as martha stewart appropriately would say barbara stanwyck is so appealing in this film and dennis morgan perfectly compliments her both of them have charm and warmth to spare they are assisted by a crew of those incredible character actors who seem to have disappeared since the 40's and 50's sydney greenstreet s z cuddles reginald gardiner and una o'connor among them where are characters like this today not one role could have been better cast bette davis thankfully refused this role as beneath her and she was right to refuse it she would have attempted to steam roll over everyone and everything around her and completely destroyed the film stanwyck was a strong actress but had the wisdom to play this lightly she has seldom been more appealing and is pitch perfect morgan is the essence of the nice guy because his part is the least splashy there is a tendency to overlook his skill just the fact that he could hold his own surrounded by such distinct character actors is an accomplishment in itself but he too is absolutely perfect as jefferson jones skip the ill advised and pointless 1992 remake and watch this bright sparkling holiday gift
1	i have seen this movie just once and i'm looking forward to see it again and again dear david from why did you bother to write a comment on this movie i only think we can think about you after reading you comment is that you're a non sexual person like erika in the movie and you are not ready for the new cinema that is coming up i guess you are a bit old and sexual expression is not part of your visage the cannes film festival is by far the best movie festival and i'm is my pleasure to say that this film was awarded with best actress best actor and grand prix isabelle huppert is magnificent as always who would do this movie like her one of her best performances ever the music is fantastic and once more michael haneke puts reality in the big screen it's like a kind of movie because of the topic try to see it br br
1	yes i felt like i had been gutted after first seeing it but not until the next day did i begin to see the true brilliance of this creation i won't repeat much of what has already been said by those who appreciate the film but there is one new area i want to touch on spoilers why exactly did the teacher put the broken glass in the student's pocket most reviewers have noted that it only reflected her cruelty and reaction to an unsatisfactory performance i must disagree watch the scene again huppert is moved to tears as she watches her student playing on stage the student is quite an expressive girl crying vocalizing her fears just the opposite of huppert's character there is a scene later in the film after the girl is injured when huppert discusses the accident with the girl's mother the mother visibly upset states we gave up everything so she could study piano and huppert immediately snaps you mean she gave up everything don't you br br so it was my thought that huppert was simply saving this young expressive student from her own destiny she didn't want the girl to end up like her repressed hardened condemned to a life of recitals gradually killing the soul in the pursuit of perfection maybe she saw herself on the stage years ago before things grew bad maybe she wished she had escaped when she was that age is she ruining the student's life or simply freeing her br br for me that realization made all the difference in what i experienced through this film brilliant
1	this movies made me suffer and i loved it loved it it haunted me for days i think erika is the kind of character you simultaneously loathe and lament the most terrifying sex scene ever caught on film this is the best of haneke's work so far he is the only living director to redefine pace since kubrick the violence in this film is gorgeous in a word the film is about self hatred in a sentence the film is about trying to find love in order to stop hating yourself and finding that that is a hopeless hope
1	reading through the comments there seems to be a lot of nonsense about the emotional banality of la pianiste i find this hard to comprehend given the outstanding performance by isabelle huppert huppert is gripping she manages to convey perfectly the woman on the edge full of self hate and delusion br br the film is wonderfully paced and judged it would be so easy to portray the lead as a ridiculous figure consider the scene in the porn store for instance somehow huppert is able to carry it off partly because of her brilliant performance but also because the director makes her surreal life real and identifiable br br don't ignore this film it is one of the most startling and engaging films and performances i have seen br br trust boris
1	if it is true that sadomasochism is a two sided coin which contains the whole in the diverse expression of its opposites then the cinematic portrait of erika kohut has its reality professor kohut treats her piano students with a kind of fascist sadism while longing for the same for herself her outward expression projects her desire that is why she can hurt without guilt or remorse br br along comes talented charming handsome young walter benoit who is attracted to her because of her passion and her intensity he wants to become her student so as to be close to her she rejects him out of hand but because of his talent the vienna conservatory votes him in he falls in love with her again she pushes him away but he will not take no for an answer and thereby begins his own descent into depravity and loss of self respect br br the question the viewer might ask at this point is who is in control the sadist or the masochist indeed who is the sadist and who the masochist it is hard to tell is it the person who has just been greatly abused both psychologically and physically who is actually lying wounded on the floor in grotesque triumphant and fulfillment or is it the person who is rushing out the door sated giving the order that no one is to know what happened br br but erika is not just a sadomasochistic freak she is a sex extreme freak she wants to experience the extremes of human sexuality while maintaining the facade of respectability actually that isn't even true she says she doesn't care what others think she doesn't care if they walk in and find her bleeding on the floor because she is in love love she calls it for her sex and love are one and the same br br at one point walter tells her that love isn't everything how ironic such a is to her how gratuitous the comment br br the movie is beautifully cut and masterfully directed by michael haneke who spins the tale with expert camera work and carefully constructed sets in which the essence of the action is not just clear but exemplified as in the bathroom when walter propels himself high above the top of the stall to find erika within he also employs a fine positioning of the players so that they are always where they should be with well timed cuts from one angle to another this is particularly important in the scene in which erika like a blood drained corpse caught in stark white and black light lies under her lover rigid as stone here for the most part we only see her face and the stark outline of her neck with its pulsating artery we don't need to see any more br br the part of erika kohut is perfect for isabelle huppert who is not afraid of extremes indeed she excels in them i have seen her in a number of movies and what she does better than almost anyone is become the character body and soul like the woman she plays in this movie she is unafraid of what others may think and cares little about her appearance in a decorative sense what matters to her is the performance and the challenge no part is too demanding no character too depraved it's as if huppert wants to experience all of humanity and wants us to watch her as she does she is always fascinating and nearly flawless she is not merely a leading light of the french cinema she is one of the great actresses of our time who has put together an amazingly diverse body of work br br i think it is highly instructive and affords us a wonderful and striking contrast to compare her performance here with her performance in the la from 1977 when she was 22 years old there she was apple sweet in her red hair and freckles and her pretty face and her cute little figure playing a parisian apprentice hairdresser her character was shy about sex and modest just an ordinary french girl who hoped one day to be a beautician here she is a self destructive witch bitter with hateful knowledge of herself shameless and entirely depraved br br huppert is fortunate in being an actress in france where there are parts like this for women past the age of starlets hollywood could never make a movie like this in the american cinema only a handful of the very best and hardest working actresses can hope to have a career after the age of about thirty huppert greatly increases her exposure because of her ability and range but also because she is willing to play unsympathetic roles here and also in la 1995 in which she plays a vile spiteful murderess br br do see this for isabelle huppert you won't forget her or the character she brings to life
1	overall i found this film good exceptional acting with disturbing scenes some essential some useless and weak second half contains spoilers the film is divided in 2 parts i thought the first half of the pianist was terrific we meet erika kohut wonderful isabelle huppert a piano teacher and get introduced to her world she is single struggling to find her space against an over protective and borderline mother we understand that she has lost or has seldom experienced love as a physical emotional chemistry she protects herself by being sharp and offensive to people releases her sexual tensions in sex shops as a voyeur or in sadistic self mutilations this first half is very clinical and builds an incredible tension in the film almost unbearable br br then comes walter a young handsome and outgoing man played superbly by benoit though he gets to feel erika's coldness in the beginning he seduces her and slowly wreaks erika's fortress he loves her deeply but she needs him to fulfil her sadistic desires then when she is about to fall for him he is disgusted by her world and in the end we discover that erika is unable to love or feel at all especially since walter is portrayed as someone impossible not to love this is the second half of the film very touching as we see erika's inability inexperience to love lead her to self destruction this second half seemed less mastered by haneke and sometimes had non credible ie too shocking scenes which paradoxically lessened the drama br br of course this is a crude film at least in the french version you see porn sequences from the sex shop daring mutilation and sex scenes the much talked about fellatio scene between and huppert was quite good i thought and is central to understand erika's sick relation to love as to the actors huppert is marvelous all through the film gets better and better up to perfection and girardot the mother is excellent br br
1	first of all i must say that i love this film br br it was the first film that i saw from director micheal haneke and i was impressed that how good the direction was good br br haneke surely knows how to direct actors what i found intresting is also haneke's scenario at first you saw a woman who is very straight and seems to be a good piano teacher and very well loved and respected from everybody in her entourage then you realise that she has a mother who is a freak and is too much present in her life now you know that she is deranged that she has emotional problems but you don't know exactly what and then you fall into her dark side but her dark side is only reveal when a student fall in love with her she can't herself anymore br br the roles are very and difficult to play but isabelle huppert is marvellous in her role and she deserves the recognition she had at cannes festival benoit is very solid too but a little bit eclipse by huppert's performance br br there is one thing that i found strange in the scenario is how the character played by is not very credible he is too talented it is rare that a person is a piano virtuoso but pass the most of the his time to play hockey and study it think that it is a weak point but only a minor flaw br br i just saw the movie once so i can't do a very complete critic because i didn't the movie i like what i saw so i give the film a 8 5 10 br br oh yeah as for the end haneke showed that he really wanted to shock his audience a motivation that don't think is necessary to make movies but haneke does it with style and precision that is why his film is better than baise moi for example br br vince
1	i totally disagree with the comments of one of the critics before me who bashed the film having read the book being impressed by it although this is a kind of literature that you cannot really like similar to hubert selby's writing i expected being shocked but the effect was more subtle than this isabelle hubert is a brilliant actress who manages to convey a multi layered character there are many scenes that totally focus on her and her subtle changes and i can imagine few actresses who would do so well with so much disregard for their own reputation or image there is this coldness distance cruelty and at the same time there's this helplessness hurt and pain there's a person who's in control and controlled at the same time maybe this is not realistic although when you read the newspaper you'll read about much worse than this but there's a truth to it that is very difficult to bear i think it's an excellent film but i did not enjoy watching it it's not boring but there are times when i wished it would end btw her male counterpart is very well acted as well and i think well chosen too
1	isabelle huppert portrays a talented female piano teacher who is staid unfriendly and distant in public and bitter towards her students privately she seethes with violence and frustration and her sexual life is solitary and perverse she lives with her overbearing mother who obsessively drives her to become noticed and so advance in life as a talented pianist the key to the characters of both mother and daughter is ' these characters cannot change their impulses anymore than a rabbit caught in headlights can avoid death br br the piano teacher meets a young attractive talented pianist who from the beginning is attracted to her they start a relationship in the most unconventional way but from the outset she makes perverse and violent terms that he must perform on her which sickens him enough to want to terminate the relationship before it has really begun br br the film ties itself to the female lead isabelle huppert amazes with a brutal completely convincing performance as the piano teacher she cleverly shows a woman who is drawn to beauty and perversion but her violence is fed by her perverted impulses as a film that is so character driven you know it would not work half as well had she acted poorly br br this is powerful intelligently acted and intelligently and sensitively adapted from the novel the camera work also suits the film there are what i can only think to call framing shots where the director holds a scene and forces the eye to dart about this is done extremely effectively against a blank bathroom wall and is a further testament to the director's mastery br br expect to be disturbed and sickened by this film but be brave have the guts to go and see it this is a very private look into essentially one person's life but do not expect to be entertained in the hollywood sense there are no car chases in this film
1	at the end of my review of cache i wrote that i was intrigued with haneke as a film maker this is what led me to get the dvd for la pianiste which i just finished watching about a half hour ago br br it's all been expressed here at imdb and in many of the external reviews the gruesomely twisted pathology that would 'create' an individual like huppert's erika who is still trying after years and years to please her mother at the expense of everyone and everything else in her life beginning with her self she's repressed everything that would free her from her self imposed bondage including of course her sexuality which has literally imploded to the point of madness to where she can no longer even begin to comprehend what a genuine loving impulse would feel like br br this is a graphic portrait of a severe emotional cripple one who never found the strength to get out of her childhood situation and become a functioning adult i think this subject relates to all of us we're all striving for autonomy but there are needs so many conflicting needs most of which are not even on the conscious level it also deals brilliantly with the contrast between what one fantasizes about sexually and the reality of those fantasies as well as the consequences of choosing to share one's sexual fantasies with another human being huppert's character gets what she asks for in the course of the film and it is hardly the experience she had imagined it to be br br regarding the much discussed scene in the bathroom i really appreciated how this sequence had all the possible erotic charge for the viewer i mean sucked out of it because of the prior scene where she put the glass in the girl's pocket by the time she's acting out her let's see if this guy is worthy scenario in the bathroom we've already found out that she's dangerously disturbed and so it's not a turn on her little domination session with our poor unsuspecting dupe br br i think another incredible achievement of this movie is how about halfway through it i completely forgot that it was not in english and that i was reading sub titles that has never happened before in any foreign movie and i've seen quite a few br br in this film like cache the ending is not all wrapped up in a nice little tidy bow but unlike cache we do at least get some sense of finality despite the fact that we do not even know for sure whether huppert's character is alive or dead after experiencing la pianiste when it comes to michael haneke i am needless to say more than a trifle intrigued
1	given the acting roles he played in the 1940s casper gutman ferrari mr peters jerome k ex superintendent count titus semple it surprises many of his fans to learn that originally sidney greenstreet made a name for himself in comedies in the west end and broadway he was usually such a total villain or serious actor to the public that his comic talents were ignored in fact he actually did make four comedy appearances one a spoof of his villainous portrayals with his villainy partner peter lorre in a cameo appearance his best total film appearance in a comedy was probably that of magazine publisher alexander yardley in christmas in connecticut although his autocratic half mad soap tycoon in the hucksters is a close second despite some problems with the screenplay it is a good film and usually revived in the christmas season br br elizabeth lane barbara stanwyck writes a column in american housekeeping magazine for yardley where she gives household tips and cooking recipes she is the 1945 version of martha steward except that ms steward is a cook and house owner and can vouch for trying out and testing what she advocates stanwyck can't her cooking recipes are those of her friend felix s z a gourmet chef and restaurateur the house she describes as her home a model farmhouse in connecticut belongs to her unofficial boyfriend architect john sloan reginald gardiner gardiner really would not mind marrying stanwyck but she is not fully ready to consider a final commitment to him br br as the film begins an american is shipwrecked by the nazis this is jefferson jones dennis morgan a sailor he spends two weeks in a raft before being rescued sensing publicity value greenstreet decides to grant morgan's wish to have a genuine old fashioned christmas in connecticut he basically tells stanwyck that she will entertain morgan and himself at her farm for the holidays stanwyck is unable to explain that the columns image of herself complete with her ability to flip flap jacks and raise a baby she supposedly had with her husband is a lie if she does she will be fired as will her immediate boss dudley beecham robert shayne in a moment of depression she accepts gardiner's proposal of marriage and then gardiner finds his connecticut home is dragooned into becoming the actual home of stanwyck and himself and their baby br br of course aside from putting off greenstreet's meddling curiosity stanwyck and morgan find that they are falling in love much to the annoyance of gardiner he does actually expect that stanwyck will still marry him complication following complication occurs as lies piles on lies and as neighbor's babies succeeds neighbor's babies before greenstreet begins to wonder if he is missing something but it is a comedy so everything works out well even greenstreet at the conclusion is amused by the entire madness his celebrated hearty chortle mirroring that of santa clause for a change this is not a classic comedy certainly not a great one but amusing enough for the season to be worth watching in december
1	first of all those who are faint at heart should definitely avoid this film even those like me who are desensitized to most graphically violent and sexual acts in movies should beware i'm not telling you to steer away from the film but be aware that what you're about to see is some disturbing material definitely not a pleasing film to watch but nothing is put on screen strictly for shock value but i must admit when i watched the film for a second time i had to skip to the next chapter when the razor blade scene came up br br the main character is one of the most unsympathetic sympathetic characters i can think of but we start to better realize the humanity of her character later in the film's second act in one scene she stuffs broken glass in one of her student's jacket pocket after being dissatisfied with her apparently unsatisfactory performance and getting nervous when in front of a live audience the student goes into her pocket and cries out with pain as she stares at her blood stained hand next to the razor blade scene that disturbed me most the student's mother is not much more sympathetic than she when she gets word that her daughter won't be able to play she talks about it like she also got also her hand injured being one of those spoiled mothers who tries to torture her daughter into becoming an br br though the film intrigued me and caught my interest for the most part i felt more needed to be explained about isabelle huppert's character when a woman is fascinated by sadomasochistic porno movies and engaging in that behavior herself you want to understand the root of the problem the movie establishes that she wants desperately to be loved then why the hateful attitude towards everyone why does she receive sexual pleasure from pain br br the acting is terrific and i liked the glossy stylized lighting altogether it's not a film i'd recommend if you're in the mood to be entertained but as i said it's very intriguing and i'm sure if i watched it a few more times i'd be able to spot certain subtleties that'll shed more light on aspects of the film i didn't realize initially br br my score 7 out of 10
1	as with all haneke films make your own decision don't be swayed by what you read and if you are interested in someone using the medium of film for their own unique ends see it yourself isabelle huppert is stunning in this film combined with haneke these two never pull their punches haneke reels us in with the lure of golden boy benoit but this is an anti romance as much as funny games was an anti thriller you'll have to force yourself to watch much of it and the catharsis is much more in the range of sustained anxiety than any kind of emotional release but it's incredibly nervy and thought provoking haneke continues to hold up a mirror to how western civilization is or has become people may turn their noses up at this but it's only taking what solondz did in happiness a few steps further while grounded in reality much of what erika huppert does can be viewed as emotional metaphor i'm not recommending it but i wouldn't dissuade you either it definitely divides people but given it's largely about repression that's no surprise
1	after i saw la pianiste several years ago i said to myself that i would never see it again so powerful and disturbing it was time went on but i could not get the movie and its main character erika out of my mind the story of a respected piano teacher in vienna conservatory cool and collected on the surface an expert in classical music with the inner world so dark and disturbing with the demons of fear self loathing and self destruction strong enough to ruin her demanded more than one viewing i read the book the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek the controversial nobel prize winner in literature that the film is based on and after reading it i saw the film again second time all pieces of puzzle came to the right places not very often an outstanding harrowing book is transferred to the screen with such brilliancy as le pianiste three actors gave outstanding performances franz schubert's piano music soaked in the morbid humanity is another bright star of the movie br br i only have one problem with haneke's vision there is a scene in the film where haneke made some changes to erika's character comparing to the novel in the book the furthest she went to reveal herself to walter the young student in the conservatory who became attracted to her was in a letter as soon as he realized what he was dealing with and showed to her how much he was repulsed by that she had stopped communicating with him erika of the book would never chase walter to throw herself to him she kept everything inside she did not like to act she was not a chaser she loved to watch the big scene during the hockey game was not necessary it tried to make erika sympathetic and of course huppert was heartbreaking but it took the mystery that surrounded her jelinek did not write that scene it sounded and looked false in otherwise excellent film
1	erika kohut is a woman with deep sexual problems at the start of the film we see her arriving home late when her older mother protests erika goes into a frenzy attacking the older woman without pity erika as it turns out is a musical teacher of a certain renown in the conservatory where she teaches when we next see her she is the model of composure but she shows a cruel side in the way she attacks a young male student because she feels he is wasting his time and hers the same goes for the insecure anna a talented girl who erika hates maybe because she sees in the young woman a promise that she is not willing to promote br br at the end of the day we watch erika as she goes into an amusement area and proceeds to one of the cabins where pornographic material is shown erika is transfixed as she watches the things that are being performed on the screen on another occasion erika comes to a drive in where a movie is in progress her attention goes toward a parked car in which two lovers are performing a sex act the camera lingers on erika as she is lost in reverie watching what the two lovers are doing until she is surprised by the young man inside the car erika flees horrified she's been discovered br br when a wealthy couple invites erika to perform in a recital in their opulent home she meets an eager young man walter who is related to the hosts walter is immediately taken with erika's playing the young man is a talented pianist himself his eagerness to compliment erika is met with skepticism on her part walter decides to audition for erika's master class and is accepted br br thus begins walter pursuit of erika who is taken aback when she realizes what the young man's motives really are in turn erika begins to fantasize about walter in ways that only her mind could imagining what she would like him do when and if they get together walter gets turned off by the letter erika has written to him detailing sexual acts that are repugnant to the young man br br the film's ending reminded us of the last sequence of mr haneke's current cache we are taken to a concert hall where erika is going to perform she is seen stalking the lobby looking for the arrival of walter who goes on into the hall without noticing her erika's expression to the camera reveals a lot more of her state of mind in that last minutes of the film as she flees the lobby area after inflicting a wound on herself the camera abandons her and concentrates on the building's facade that seems to stay on the screen for a long time br br la pianiste is a personal triumph for isabelle huppert this magnificent actress does one of her best appearances on the screen guided by the sure hand of michael haneke one of the most interesting directors working today ms huppert's works with economic gestures yet she projects so much of her soul as she burns the screen with her erika br br the supporting cast does wonders under the director's guidance annie girardot always excellent is perfect as erika's mother she seems to be the key of whatever went wrong with her daughter there is a hint of incest that is played with subtleness in the context of the film benoit is perfectly cast as walter this young actor does a wonderful job in the film as the young man so in love with a woman that is possessed by demons that he'll never be able to chase away or get her to love him in a normal manner br br michael haneke films are always disturbing to watch yet they offer so many rewards because he dares to go where other men don't the magnificent music heard in the film are mainly by schubert and two composers that are erika's own favorites the movie is helped tremendously by christian cinematography
1	in the first twenty minutes we are swept away by several powerfully portrayed emotions a suffocating and overbearing mother has a violent argument with her live in old daughter a piano teacher and professor of music 's love for her pupils expressed in unswerving critical appraisal the joy that music can inspire both in the listener and the performer within this short space of time our senses have been assaulted convincingly with very real characters we are also swept away by powerfully performed music and shown the difference between great and mediocre performance with a lot of attention to nuance such material alone would have been the basis for an outstanding film of widespread appeal but the trend in french cinema being what it is it goes deeper exploring the repressed sexuality of the teacher the expression of sexual freedom and subsequent breakdown within a context of passionate attraction and the inevitable cycle of real abuse we are drawn to her suffering and at least initially wonder how much suffering may be related to the accomplishment of genius particularly in the composers she admires the piano teacher contains graphic dialogue and depictions of sex and brutality in scenes that some people might rather not watch the scenes are essential to the dilemmas which the film seeks to raise and so can hardly be called gratuitous a great film it may be but mainstream viewing it is not
1	michael haneke is known for his disturbing movies like funny games this time he adopted elfriede die which is probably her best work so far jelinek always writes about abusive behaviour in families and especially of the suppression of women in a patriarchal society br br erika kohut isabelle huppert works as a piano teacher at the viennese she still lives with her mother annie they even sleep in the same bed already a hint of something strange erika bullies her students the same way she's bullied by her mother and secretly watches porn movies and plays sadomasochistic games with herself a student walter benoit falls in love with her but she refuses to simply sleep with him she wants to play her games with him but he's disgusted he reluctantly follows her rules which means disaster for both of them br br haneke has a very clear picture language everything is filmed in a almost way so the complex characters and story are enhanced br br people who don't know austria very well may be don't realize how essential the setting is for the story jelinek as well as other great austrian writers like thomas bernhard suffers from the coldness and in austrian families and society austrians at least viennese people are often unable to articulate their pains wishes they suppress their emotions so there often enough is no real love affection and nearness in their families in a society where it's more important to show a perfect facade to society even if this means to protect crimes within families as erika and her mother protect walters rape of erika to avoid a scandal than to deal with your emotional problems it's probably no wonder that sigmund freud founded the psychoanalysis in vienna erika has a cold and distant relationship with her mother they only time they share some emotions is very violent and not at all loving erika replaces her hidden emotions with wishes for violence so that she can finally release some feelings but she has nobody who really wants to speak about her emotions so in the end she has to stab herself to ease her inner pain br br isabelle huppert shows her best performance of her career as well of most other actresses with a unsmiling face you often see only a hint of emotion in her face a quick smile a glance with her eyes and in the end her pain is masterly displayed without a single tear br br benoit and annie also turn in powerful performances but the movie belongs to huppert
1	isabelle huppert must be one of the greatest actresses of her or any other generation la pianiste truly confirms it as if that wasn't enough annie girardot plays her mother and annie girardot is one of the greatest actresses of her or any other generation so as you may well imagine those pieces of casting are worth the horror we're put through isabelle and annie play characters we've never seen before on the screen a mother and daughter yes but with such virulent fearlessness that sometimes i was unable even to blink or to breath personally i don't believe in the director's intentions i don't believe they the intentions that is go beyond the shocking anecdote and the ending made me scream with frustration but i was riveted by the story written in the face of the sensational huppert and the fierceness of strength i highly recommend it to cinema lovers anywhere and to the collectors of great performances like me you can't afford to miss la pianiste
1	i saw this film at the 2001 toronto international film festival la pianiste reinforces the austrians grim thesis i'm isabelle huppert won a well deserved best actress award at cannes for her portrayal of a woman who in her efforts to attain the artistic ideal loses her humanity trapped by her talent she suppresses her emotions and her sexuality until they can only be expressed in twisted and terrifying ways when a younger student falls in love with her our hopes rise but are soon dashed by the realization that she cannot experience love the way others can it is too late for her and the film's final 30 harrowing minutes are tellingly devoid of the beautiful music that carried the first 90 minutes the message seems to be that the music itself is not enough without the life and beauty it's describing
1	if you think piano teacher erika kohut isabelle huppert in michael haneke's film la pianiste is the ultimate degree in the personification of derangement perversion and darkness i've got news for you the piano teacher in elfriede novel la pianiste on which the film was based is twice as repulsive disgusting deranged and even more fascinating though there can't be words enough to translate the level of artistic proficiency that isabelle huppert has reached here above all other mortal actresses in activity today and who else could have played this character with such emotional power complete with the best piano playing dubbing an actor could deliver br br in the novel as in the film there are two big antagonists to the heroine kohut her own mother wonderful wreck voiced annie girardot in a part originally intended for jeanne moreau and austria itself the mother personifies perception of her native austria as a country that deceptively and perversely encourages racist fascist or at least authoritarian behavior sexual and emotional repression and let's say ideals which are impossible to keep today without the danger of a mental breakdown br br la pianiste also deals with a very powerful and delicate issue how dangerous it is to reveal your innermost fantasies to the one you think you love we tend to think our own sexual fantasies must be as exciting to others as they are to ourselves which may turn out to be a huge embarrassing and sometimes tragic mistake here kohut learns the lesson in the most painful and humiliating of ways br br it must be mentioned that elfriede is one of the best known and praised authors in austria and europe well now she's got a nobel prize and that autobiographical passages can be inferred in her novel as she herself was a pianist and had a reportedly difficult relationship with her mother the novel also includes long passages about childhood and adolescence so you kind of understand how she turned into who she is now haneke chose to hide this information in the film forcing us to wonder how she got to be that way don't we all know a erika kohut out there but he very much preserves the fabric of the book in his film unbearable honesty to the point where most secretive horrendous feelings painfully emerge envy cruelty violence jealousy hate misery sadism masochism selfishness perversion etc all of them unmistakably human br br i thought la pianiste was a deeply moving film very disturbing and thought provoking with a handful of unforgettable scenes and that's just all i ask of movies it also made me buy and be thrilled by the book discover a fantastic author i hadn't read before and listen again and again to schubert so my thanks to haneke and isabelle on the other hand if you're looking for light entertainment please stay away my vote 9 out of 10
1	some users are confused about the identity of the armed men walking down the steps in the odessa staircase sequence these men are not but regular army troops br br the arrive at the scene a little later and they are the men on horses slashing at the crowd with their sabers br br to experts on russian history correct me on this if i'm wrong br br but there are a couple of lines in the movie that apparently no one has commented on after the takeover of the potemkin someone in the crowd on shore says kill the jews this is on screen for only a couple of seconds but it is there br br how cruelly typical of history not just in russia but in so many other countries to immediately and instinctively blame jews for any domestic trouble br br perhaps other parts of the movie are not historically factual but the outcry against the jews is all too real comments anyone br br also why can't speakers of english learn to pronounce the name as potyomkin instead of as potemkin there's a need in russian to distinguish the two possible pronunciations of e as either ye or as yo sometimes two dots are used to distinguish these two pronunciations but usually the difference simply has to be memorized
1	it's fun and fast paced as one falsehood leads to another and another toward an inevitable surprising conclusion the suspense separates this holiday flick from all others one wonders how the pieces are going to fit both during the movie and in the future br br the character actors laid the foundation and entertained us in the process frank jenks shows us what manipulation can get and ultimately what manipulation can cost uncle felix s z sizes up each person for us while trying to protect barbara stanwyck and this helps us decide who we are going to root for in the end br br if we could ever achieve a perfect world imperfect people would likely have to undergo a series of events such as these br br a glaring weakness is that fake baby cry after it allegedly swallowed uncle felix's watch i've heard more authentic crying from a doll in a toy store br br watch it and you'll really feel like you've been somewhere
1	i just finished watching this film for me the most outstanding work in this film was the music score while many silent film scores work very well with their scenes i feel that this is the best score i've come across the mutiny scenes in particular worked extremely well
1	this is one of the best films i've seen from the silent era sad to say i've yet to see too many with the exception of chaplin keaton stuff very visually brilliant with insanely influential style in editing and composition really unique especially for its time camera angles and extremely hectic editing definitely a must see for the film nerd br br the downside is that it is a bit too in your face about its politics i have no problem with politics in film as long as they are subtle or at least somewhat as a backseat to the story also it's not an entertainment film which is fine but it's not something i'm going to watch a billion times this is art plain and simple like it or not br br worth an a for influence alone but based on personal enjoyment i give it an a
1	i had before a feeling of for all russian films but after seeing this film i haven´t this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr he knows the art of film making and can use it very well if you find this movie buy or copy it
1	after reading a biography on the last russian nicholas ii and his failure to secure the army's support i decided to give this film a try br br i watched it with a completely open mind not knowing anything about it except its reputation br br these are the things that impressed me the most br br 1 the shots of battleships and the soldiers used as extras more than once i stopped to think if this was done in this time and place 80 of this would have been computer generated br br 2 the realism in it from the maggot infested meat to the shot of the sailor with his candle and the legend killed for a bowl of soup this movie makes no concessions to the pc cause which thankfully hadn't been invented yet br br 3 the slow descent into madness of the odessa steps sequence from the first shot when the limbless man appears you get the idea something might be wrong since the overall shots are composed though you end up feeling comfortable in your surroundings then an amputee appears and people start falling in dramatic poses still the shots are composed until the appear into scene and the incredible shot juxtapositions appear this scene is easily worth the price of admission br br 4 the fact that this movie is 100 unadulterated propaganda then again when rambo fought in afghanistan he also was having something to do with propaganda only a different kind br br overall a film marred by a bit of a slow narrative nevertheless metropolis the cabinet of dr caligari and this movie are perfect examples of inventive edgy movies that are still remembered for their merits today they really make modern movies look boring and repetitive
1	have wanted to see this for a while i never thought i'd be watching it in a damp square london with 15 000 other people and all to a new score by the pet shop boys br br quickly that experience specifically a new departure from it seemed to suffer from the same problem the hugo wolf had when he wrote his opera der corregidor the long structure was a chain of short ones i e songs produced a more fluid integrated score although it was quite static on its own terms neither could they resist song a setting of the subtitled text worked in this respect a free standing meditation on the action of the odessa steps massacre during the action of that sequence itself was i'd go so far to say counterproductive overall it was very exciting though which is surely what eisenstein was trying to achieve br br it is a very exciting film with editing taking the place of acceleration of tension or action in fact the film though beautifully shot and passionately acted it has a silent film melodrama but not in the excess of the hollywood comic style breathes through its careful editing pacing specific shots with a sense of the rate at which the audience will take them in and there's a huge range of perspective too either he had a lot of cameras or the sequences on the harbor and steps took a great deal of time br br super film which can be assessed irrespective of sound as that's how the finished product would have been conceived 8 10
1	the famous closeup of their breakfast meat crawling with maggots still is recorded by fire in my neurons or the wind filling the right places of the sails the fog better than carpenter's the fog cos is the real terror bursting out from human history instead of pirates ghosts but i tell ya' something not even the magnificent scene in performed by brian di palma with the excellent music of ennio morricone in the filmed in slow motion can equal the effect of the original masterpiece of the crowd climbing down the ladders we see not merely the baby but i remember the hand of a baby stepped by boot someone with no feet escaping at the last minute someone wearing glasses then a cut edition and then the same glasses broken by a bullet that passed through mini stories in a single scene
1	may contain spoilers but of course it does not matter br br battleship potemkin is one stunning spectacle of haunting images the visual direction is well and has been inspiring the sheer scale of the film is impressive and the technique is certainly pioneering what is really amazing is to my mind the depth and effectiveness of a film devoid of proper literary script sound save the soundtrack decent image quality the faux profound self of today exceptional acting pretense etc what you get is a purely visual experience to be remembered br br btw the previous poster noted felt after a lot of suffering to give the heroes what they wanted the problem is that you think eisenstein is building up to a big final fight and then he tricks you it's a little cheap i would've rather seen a huge final action scene br br i must warn you that the end is not cheap and eisenstein wasn't being generous to the heroes history however was potemkin really did go through the squadron as it was shown in the film br br finally i'd strongly recommend seeing battleship potemkin to anyone more or less seriously interested in cinema see it with a fellow movie buff it kept me talking for hours however if you tend to consider films generally accepted as great or classic to be slow or boring this film might not be for you yet not much cheap entertainment here br br for me though it is a full 10 10
1	based on actual events of 1905 silent film the battleship potemkin concerns an imperial russian ship on which abominable conditions lead to a mutiny shocked by conditions on the ship citizens of the port city odessa rally to the support and in consequence find themselves at the mercy of imperial forces who attack the civilian supporters with savage force br br potemkin is a film in which individual characters are much less important than the groups and crowds of which they are members and it achieves its incredible power by showing the clash of the groups and crowds in a series of extraordinarily visualized and edited sequences amazingly each of these sequences manage to top the previous one and the film actually builds in power as it moves from the mutiny to the citizen's rally to the massacre on the odessa steps the latter of which is among the most famous sequences in all of film history filming largely where the real events actually occurred director eisenstein's vision is extraordinary as he builds not only from sequence to sequence but from moment to moment within each sequence some of the most memorable images ever committed to film br br to describe potemkin as a great film is something of an understatement it is an absolute essential an absolute necessity to any one seriously interested in cinema as an art form purely visual cinema at its most brilliant often imitated seldom equaled never bested br br gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
1	this film is a benchmark in non mainstream cinema history the use of montage represents a quantum leap from the relatively simple juxtapositions of strike eisenstein's 1st film take the scene on the steps and note the repeated shot of the soldiers descending to reiterate the point of the horrors that actually did happen a highly intelligent monumental film a must see for all film students
1	potyomkin is among the finest films ever made and possibly the best of the silent era was a pioneer of film form and his use of montage editing has influenced films to this day the odessa steps massacre footage is as powerful today as it was when first seen over 70 years ago do not pass up the chance to see this film
1	make sure you make this delightful comedy part of your holiday season if you admire dennis morgan or barbara stanwyck this film is a fun one to watch they really work well together as you would see in this movie the whole cast was very entertaining since i'm a dennis morgan fan this film was a real treat but everyone can enjoy it recommended
1	this 1925 film narrates the story of the mutiny on board battleship potemkin at the port of odessa the movie celebrated the 20th anniversary of the uprising of 1905 which was seen as a direct precursor to the october revolution of 1917 following his montage theory eisenstein plays with scenes their duration and the way they combine to emphasize his message besides he uses different camera shot angles and revolutionary illumination techniques the odessa steps sequence in potemkin is one of the most famous in the history of cinema the baby carriage coming loose down the steps after its mother has been shot was later recreated in brian d' palma's the untouchables it is clear that the film is one of the best ever made considering its time and how innovative it was though you need a little bit of patience and to be a real movie enthusiast to go through its 70 minutes
1	spoilers every major regime uses the country's media to it's own ends whether the nazi banning of certain leaflets or the televised chinese alternative of square governments have tried to influence the people through different mediums since the beginning of time in 1925 though celebrating the failed mutiny of 1905 the russian communist government supported the creation of this film battleship a major piece of cinematic history it remains powerful and beautiful to this very day br br set aboard the battleship the crew are unhappy in miserable living conditions and with maggot infested food they are angry at their upper class now though after the rotten food enough is enough led by aleksandr the crew turn upon their masters and fight for their freedom br br as far as propaganda goes battleship is perfect presenting a positive light on the first unsuccessful communist mutiny the film was a useful soviet tool eighty years after the films release though and the ussr has disappeared completely off the map the amazing thing about this film though is that whilst the country it's message was intended for has disappeared the film remains a powerful and worthy piece of cinema br br written and directed by sergei eisenstein the film is surprisingly a joy to watch it is true that it is far from what we would nowadays consider 'entertainment' but the film is a beautiful piece of art br br whether it be the scenes aboard the boat or the often talked about scene on the steps of odessa everything about this film is perfectly made the music is powerful and dramatic the lighting is flawless even the acting whilst slightly overdone is perfect for the piece basically there is no way to fault this film's end product br br it's impossible to know how the russian people received this film upon it's release praising a country which has not existed for fifteen years it's difficult for us to know the full spirits that the film inspires as a piece of art though it is magnificent beautiful from start to finish it is far from an easy watch but it is well worth the effort
1	the photography and editing of the movie is exceptional for the time period eisenstein builds upon each scene of the movie leading to the the sailor's revolt and the massacre at the town as much as the movie is a high point in the cinema it is also an example of realism by 1925 the soviet government actively used the arts including film as a means to spread the message of the revolution portrayal of the revolt on the battleship offers the viewer insight into the message of the soviet elite marxist theory and perspectives of class struggle are demonstrated as the sailors who represent the oppressed workers and the officers who represent the elite of society much of the film demonstrates the communist party message and how film was used as a tool of propaganda
1	the movie touches the soul of the audience very much some scene in the movie is ultimate and tears comes out automatically i'm surprised by seeing this movie that any director can direct this type of movie in the year 1925 as a student of cinema i can say this movie helps a lot to understand use of montage first time when our teacher told us about this movie means genre of this movie we thought nothing could be there in this movie to understand but finally when sir explained it then we came to know how great this movie is lastly i can say it helps a lot understanding films and being a cinema student i can the viewers that they can see this movie
1	it was surprising that a silent film could be so easy to watch the economy with which it has been edited and the films structure itself are the main elements that contribute to this br br the film really captures the spirit of the revolution that it is dealing with you really sympathise with the sailors and citizens of course this film has it's own agenda but as it is a practically redundant cause it can be viewed as a piece of entertainment in a much clearer sense br br the tension created on the screen is excellent starting with the battleship itself and then moving onto the mainland things escalate believably and for a film of it's era it really is quite unflinching in revealing the sacrifices made by the characters in the film br br this really is worth sitting through that is if you can adjust your modern viewing habits for 90mins
1	i did something a little daring tonight when i watched this movie i attempted to wean myself from silent movie scores sure when this film originally was distributed a piano score was probably played with it oftentimes the director would choose the score himself charlie chaplin often composed the scores of his later silent films but most of the music you hear on vhs tapes over silent films is in no way the same music that was supposed to be played when the film was first released and then again there were plenty of silent films that were played without a score i do not know the history of potemkin's score so i decided to watch it for the medium this piece of art was produced within film br br soon after i turned the music off or should i say by the musical interpretation of the emotions on screen i became utterly attached to the film visually it is easily one of the most stunning of all films eisenstein was a master of composition the editing possibly the cinematic technique eisenstein is most famous for montage is extraordinary the mood of this film is anger and it stirred my passions violently br br it takes a lot of effort to enjoy a silent film especially a drama but films like battleship potemkin prove that this effort is entirely worth it come on you owe it to yourself to watch this film your education is incomplete without it
1	there are only a handful of movies that were made on such a grand scale and made such a difference in the art of movie making br br potyomkin is one of these movies and it should be on anyone's list looking to learn more about the history of cinema br br sergei m eisenstein directed this groundbreaking film that documents the horrors taking place on a russian battleship when the sailors finally retaliate against their superiors the locals embrace the them and support them things get ugly when a group of soldiers are sent to the small town to take care of business what follows is one of the most imitated scenes in the history of cinema anyone who has seen the untouchables and potyomkin knows exactly what i mean br br overall i think this movie raised the bar for film making just as intolerance did a few years earlier if you do not mind silent films do yourself a favor and see potyomkin br br if you don't like silent films watch potyomkin anyway br br
1	the battleship potemkin is now the oldest film i've seen and it is also the first silent film i've seen i heard a lot of good things about this movie so i got the tape out at home and i watched it when it ended i just thought that this was a classic masterpiece the story is based on the real life russian battleship potemkin you wouldn't think it but some of it was sad and disgusting sad being that the mother dies and the rolls down the stairway and disgusting being they have to eat rotten meat with maggots in it br br today it is still considered to be one of the best silent and russian films ever made i think that everyone should see it if they can find it you will be presently surprised at how good it is it's a must see classic 5 5
1	on june 14 1905 during the russian revolution of that year sailors aboard the russian battleship potemkin rebelled against their oppressive officers frustrated with the second rate treatment they receive and most particularly the maggot infested meat that they are forced to eat the ship's crew led by the inspirational bolshevik sailor aleksandr decide that the time is ripe for a revolution and so begins sergei m eisenstein's rousing classic of russian propaganda potyomkin the battleship potemkin ' br br the film itself is brimming with shining examples of stunning visual imagery the spectacles of an overthrown ship captain dangle delicately from the side rope over which he had been tossed the body of a deceased mutineer lies peaceful upon the shore the sign on his chest reading killed for a bowl of soup close up shots of the clenching fists of the hundreds of spectators who are finally fed up with the regime a wayward baby carriage careers down the odessa steps as desperate onlookers watch on with bated breath this scene was memorably borrowed by brian de palma for a particularly suspenseful scene in his 'the the barrels of numerous canons are ominously leveled towards the vastly outnumbered battleship potemkin br br however the film itself is best – not as a fragmented selection of memorable scenes – but as a single film and indeed every scene is hugely memorable though divided into five fairly distinct chapters the entire film flows forwards wonderfully at no point do we find ourselves losing interest and we are absolutely never in doubt of whose side we should be sympathetic towards br br the film is often referred to as propaganda and that is exactly what it is but this need not carry a negative connotation 'the battleship was produced by eisenstein with a specific purpose in mind and it accomplishes this perfectly in every way planned by the soviet central committee to coincide with the 20th century celebrations of the unsuccessful 1905 revolution was predicted to be a popular film in its home country symbolising the of russian arts after the revolution it is somewhat unfortunate then that eisenstein's film failed to perform well at the russian box office reportedly beaten by allan 1922 'robin film in its opening week and running for just four short weeks luckily despite being banned on various occasions in various countries 'the battleship fared more admirably overseas br br the film also proved a successful vehicle for eisenstein to test his theories of montage through quick cut editing and distant shots of the multitudes of extras the audience is not allowed to sympathise with any individual characters but with the revolutionary population in general eisenstein does briefly break this mould however in a scene where flees the ship officer who is trying to kill him and of course during the renowned odessa steps sequence as our hearts beat in horror for the life of the unfortunate child in the tumbling baby carriage the accompanying soundtrack to the version i watched largely featuring the orchestral works of shostakovich served wonderfully to heighten the emotional impact of such scenes br br one of the greatest films of the silent era 'the battleship is a triumph of phenomenal film making and is a significant slice of cinematic history the highly exaggerated events of the film among other things there was never actually any violent massacre on the odessa steps have so completely themselves in the memory that we're often uncertain of the true history behind the depicted events this is a grand achievement
1	the battleship potemkin was said to have been a favourite of charlie chaplin it presents a dramatised version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the russian battleship potemkin rebelled against their officers of the regime br br the film is a textbook cinema classic and a masterpiece of creative editing especially in the famous odessa steps sequence in which innocent civilians are mown down in the bloodshed the happenings of a minute are drawn into five by frenzied cross cutting the film contains 1 300 separate shots and in 1948 and 1958 was judged the best film ever made by a panel of international critics the battleship potemkin is in the public domain in some parts of the world
1	it finally hit me watching my vhs of christmas in connecticut what other film this one reminded me of if it weren't for the fact that the other was done 20 years later i'd say it was a remake br br just as rock hudson was a phony fishing expert for abercrombie fitch who had to get some on the job training at a fishing tournament barbara stanwyck plays an forties version of martha stewart br br stanwyck's a cooking columnist who's built up this whole image of living on a small connecticut farm with husband and baby cooking all these marvelous delicacies trouble is she's unmarried childless writes her column from her apartment in new york and doesn't know how to boil water but her writing is a hit with the public br br trouble comes when she's hijacked into cooking a home christmas dinner for a war hero sailor played by dennis morgan who gets to sing a couple of songs as well got to keep up the image at any cost and her publisher sidney greenstreet likes the idea so well that he invites himself to the dinner br br so with borrowed farm baby and reginald gardiner who'd like to make it real with stanwyck she tries to brazen it through br br christmas in now a yuletide classic and deservedly so the leads are warm and human and they get great support from the assembled players s z as the hungarian restaurant owner friend of stanwyck from whom she gets her cooking information and una o'connor as the housekeeper have a nice chemistry between them reginald gardiner and stanwyck have no chemistry at all obvious to all but reggie and he's funny in his stuffed shirt way br br most people remember this film as one of sidney greenstreet's few ventures into comedy if he's not an outright villain a cynical observer of life or a tyrannical tycoon greenstreet is few other things on screen christmas in connecticut gave him a rare opportunity to burlesque his own image and he made the most of it br br in a biography of barbara stanwyck she mentions she enjoyed making christmas in connecticut as a welcome change from some villainous parts like double indemnity she'd been doing recently one of the things that made doing the film so enjoyable was that between takes director peter godfrey and greenstreet would do some impromptu entertaining of cast and crew with english music hall numbers made for a relaxed and warm set and the cast responded accordingly br br now if only someone had been filming those numbers
1	the silent film masterpiece battleship potemkin 1925 was commissioned by the soviet government to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the uprising of 1905 and to establish the event as an heroic foreshadowing of the october revolution of 1917 ironically the film's director sergei eisenstein was one of the earliest and most influential advocates of a approach to film art subsequently eisenstein's formalism and suspect politics would cause innumerable conflicts with government agencies insisting on socialist realism influenced by the russian film lev and through him by d w griffith's intolerance smuggled into russia in 1919 eisenstein constructed his films from a collision of rapidly edited images a montage of shots varied in length motion content lighting and camera angle without question the most memorable illustration of eisenstein's stylistic approach and probably the single most cited and studied sequence in world cinema history is the odessa steps sequence in potemkin br br in structure potemkin is a five reeler divided into five narrative parts an organization clearly derived from the five act arrangement of western drama in men and maggots eisenstein dramatizes the pre revolutionary oppression and discontent of the working class sailors as the situation inevitably builds to mutiny even before the sailors and their upper class officers masters are visually introduced eisenstein establishes revolutionary conditions symbolically by the collision editing of waves breaking violently and ominously at sea onboard ship we witness crowded conditions eisenstein emphasizes the dehumanization with shots of arbitrary lashings harsh labor and most memorably the maggot infested meat intended for the evening's meal the ship's physician is brought forward by the other officers to declare the meat perfectly suitable to be served with the dark soup boiling like the rage in accordance with marxist the church also fails the men and we see one of them smashing a plate inscribed with words from the lord's prayer from two different camera angles in perhaps the first deliberate jump cut in cinema history br br identified by inter titles as drama on the and an appeal from the dead potemkin's second and third parts depict the actual mutiny and the funeral of its leader and first hero of the revolution united by appeals to brotherhood the initial are joined by the entire crew in an attack on the officers a chaotic scene ensues whose violent passion is served well by eisenstein's editing techniques the officers' quarters are trampled and symbols of their privilege are destroyed the ship's doctor is thrown overboard accompanied by dramatic to the maggot ridden meat and his eyeglasses dangling in the rigging tragically death is the price paid for the revolt no omelet without breaking eggs and he is laid out with dignity on an odessa pier hundreds of ordinary odessa citizens gather with the sailors to honor him and to pledge death to the oppressors shots of fists clenching and signal the birth of revolutionary consciousness br br the complex and unforgettable odessa steps sequence constitutes the film's fourth act it begins with uplifting music and a series of close ups and medium shots on the elated faces of diverse people on the shore and selected objects parasol eyeglasses baby carriage suddenly as exclaims a title card in huge letters the music stops and lines of soldiers with drawn rifles and fixed bayonets appear at the top of the steps here eisenstein releases the full force of collision editing as nearly a hundred shots are pieced together to contrast the panicked mayhem and victimization of the citizenry with the relentless assault of the soldiers driving the citizens down to the trampling horses and flying sabers of the waiting below the mise en scene is framed by a statue of caesar at the top of the stairs and a church at the bottom symbolic for russia's oppressive institutions monarchy and the orthodox christian church br br punctuating the sequence are two scenes involving mothers and children in the first a mother and young boy who had been introduced among the joyous faces in the crowd are among the first victims the boy is shot but the mother continues running until close ups of her face convey her horrified gaze at the son's fallen body being trampled by the crowd with a much slowed editing pace the camera follows the mother as she carries the lifeless body of her child up the stairs to confront the soldiers shown only in a diagonal shadow line they summarily shoot her dead after this lull the carnage continues for another several dozen cuts until a second mother is shot through the stomach the womb of mother russia as she tries to shield her baby in its carriage in a scene famously imitated in the untouchables the carriage incongruously slips down the staircase horrified faces of huddled citizens watch the slow progress to its doom when the carriage reaches the bottom there is a cut to a wielding a sword and a classic effect suggests what we do not actually see the slaughtering of this pure and symbolic innocent the final series of shots in the odessa sequence is of three stone lions one in repose one sitting up and one roaring the editing animates them into a visual metaphor of the people's awakened rage br br somewhat the fifth act returns us to the battleship as the mutinous sailors flee on the high seas and await an encounter with other ships from the fleet they and the viewer expect retribution but when the meeting occurs no shots are fired and instead all the sailors wave and throw their hats in the air in a symbol of comradeship eisenstein was rewriting history at this point since the revolution was not successfully launched for another twelve years but that quibble aside battleship potemkin stands as one of the seminal works of the silent film era and it retains extraordinary cinematic power
1	eisenstein created the russian montage theory and this film is his finest example it took years before someone could utilize his ideas and make them work the limey 1999 nonetheless the baby carriage scene really demonstrates the discombobulated nature of granted like most movies it gets long in some parts the beauty of the film is amazing one of the best silent films i have ever seen
1	sergei eisenstein's most famous movie has truly withstood the test of time the story of a mutiny aboard a warship in 1905 does have the feeling of soviet propaganda but does a good job showing the conditions that led to the revolt the scene on the odessa steps should remain seared into anyone's mind br br okay so the battleship potemkin wasn't actually the first movie to use montage but they did a great job with it here certainly any film history class should show this movie it's a great historical drama although i will admit that i don't know how accurate it is a 10 10 br br oh and we should have learned by now that potemkin should be transliterated as potyomkin
1	originally supposed to be just a part of a huge epic the year 1905 depicting the revolution of 1905 potemkin is the story of the mutiny of the crew of the potemkin in odessa harbor the film opens with the crew protesting meat and the captain ordering the execution of the an uprising takes place during which the revolutionary leader is killed this crewman is taken to the shore to lie in state when the townspeople gather on a huge flight of steps overlooking the harbor czarist troops appear and march down the steps breaking up the crowd a naval squadron is sent to retake the potemkin but at the moment when the ships come into range their crews allow the to pass through eisenstein's non historically accurate ending is open ended thus indicating that this was the seed of the later bolshevik revolution that would bloom in russia the film is broken into five parts men and maggots drama on the an appeal from the dead the odessa steps and meeting the squadron br br eisenstein was a revolutionary artist but at the genius level not wanting to make a historical drama eisenstein used visual texture to give the film a newsreel look so that the viewer feels he is eavesdropping on a thrilling and politically revolutionary story this technique is used by the battle of algiers br br unlike eisenstein relied on or the casting of non professionals who had striking physical appearances the extraordinary faces of the cast are what one remembers from potemkin this technique is later used by frank capra in mr deeds goes to town and meet john doe but in potemkin no one individual is cast as a hero or heroine the story is told through a series of scenes that are combined in a special effect known as montage the editing and selection of short segments to produce a desired effect on the viewer d w griffith also used the montage but no one mastered it so well as eisenstein br br the artistic filming of the crew sleeping in their is complemented by the graceful swinging of tables suspended from chains in the galley in contrast the confrontation between the crew and their officers is charged with electricity and the clenched fists of the masses demonstrate their rage with injustice br br eisenstein introduced the technique of showing an action and repeating it again but from a slightly different angle to demonstrate intensity the breaking of a plate bearing the words give us this day our daily bread signifies the beginning of the end this technique is used in last year at marienbad also when the ship's surgeon is tossed over the side his nez dangles from the rigging it was these glasses that the officer used to inspect and pass the maggot infested meat this sequence ties the punishment to the corruption of the czarist era br br the most noted sequence in the film and perhaps in all of film history is the odessa steps the broad expanse of the steps are filled with hundreds of extras rapid and dramatic violence is always suggested and not explicit yet the visual images of the deaths of a few will last in the minds of the viewer forever br br the angular shots of marching boots and legs descending the steps are cleverly accentuated with long menacing shadows from a sun at the top of the steps the pace of the sequence is deliberately varied between the marching soldiers and a few civilians who summon up courage to beg them to stop a close up of a woman's face frozen in horror after being struck by a soldier's sword is the direct antecedent of the bank teller in bonnie in clyde and gives a lasting impression of the horror of the czarist regime br br the death of a young mother leads to a baby carriage careening down the steps in a sequence that has been copied by hitchcock in foreign correspondent by terry gilliam in brazil and brian depalma in the untouchables this sequence is shown repeatedly from various angles thus drawing out what probably was only a five second event br br potemkin is a film that the revolutionary spirit celebrates it for those already committed and it for the unconverted it seethes of fire and roars with the senseless injustices of the decadent czarist regime its greatest impact has been on film students who have borrowed and only slightly improved on techniques invented in russia several generations ago
1	a milestone in cinematic history is one of the handful of great films out there that richly deserves to be called a classic it was the picture that made sergei m eisenstein a figurehead of film making at the time and today it is still remembered as the wonderful piece of cinema it always has been br br is a film that needs to be seen as one entity not to be picked at don't just watch those clip shows where they only present the sequence and then move on to 'citizen kane' or 'the godfather' see it all in it's glorious 75 minute running time to really understand and enjoy it don't expect every infinitesimal detail to be perfect though i mean the acting of the '20s silent era makes 'scooby doo' look like a master of understated realism certain plot points may seem illogical and some of the battle sequences look dated but it is still an immensely enjoyable movie br br the most memorable moments in the film are the mutiny on the battleship body falling off the ship the sailor under the tent at the end of the pier the mother holding her dead child the baby carriage on the odessa steps and the lion rising up to roar as further carnage ensues for each new pair of eyes that look upon it 'the battleship comes alive once again
1	battleship potemkin is a celluloid masterpiece the direction of br br eisenstein is truly a sight the film chronicles a ship of disgruntled br br sailors who are tired of being mistreated by their superior officers br br eventually the sailors finally have enough of the abuse and send the br br officers packing during this time period there was a shortage of film br br stock in the soviet union the wanted to get their message br br out to the people so they started a national film company and one of br br the members was sergei eisenstein the films were shot on miniscule br br budgets and the shortage of film stock forced to be careful br br and selective with the footage that he shot in the end eisenstein had br br to reuse footage in order to make a feature length picture br br the most famous of the action set pieces in this film is the much br br talked about massacre on the steps this scene was spoofed in bananas br br and most recently in brian de palma's the untouchables if you want to br br learn film making i strongly advise you to watch battleship potemkin br br it's one of the essentials br br a
1	quite a lot has been said about this film and its landmark importance in forming the language of film if you are interested in film history to truly understand the innovations eisenstein brings to the medium you might try viewing potemkin along side most any film made before it those of d w griffith offer a good contrast it should be allowed that eisenstein was not the only montage theorist and the principles of montage editing would likely have been discovered by another given time however even today few directors have approached the skill with which eisenstein created meaning through the combination of images at such an early point in the evolution of the medium br br if you are not interested in that sort of thing potemkin is still one of the most beautiful and moving films ever made you should see it buy it and it to your chest
1	if you're a film student or were one or are thinking of becoming one the name battleship potemkin has or will have a resonance sergei like other silent film pioneers like griffith although eisenstein's innovations are not as commonplace as griffith's and murnau has had such an impact on the history of cinema it's of course taken for granted the reason i bring up the film student part is because at some point whether you'd like it or not your film professor 9 times out of 10 will show the odessa stairs sequence of this film it's hard to say if it's even the 'best' part of the film's several sequences dealing with the at the time current times of the russian revolution but it does leave the most impact and it can be seen in many films showcasing suspense or just plain montage the climax comes to mind br br montage which was not just knack but also his life's blood early in his career is often misused in the present cinema or if not misused then in an improper context for the story sometimes montage is used now as just another device to get from point a to point b montage was something else for eisenstein he was trying to communicate in the most direct way that he could the urgency the passion s and the ultimate tragedies that were in the russian people at the time and place even if one doesn't see all of eisenstein's narrative or traditional 'story' ideas to have much grounding kubrick has said this one can't deny the power of seeing the ships arriving at the harbor the people on the stairs and the soldiers coming at them every which way with guns some may find it hard to believe this was done in the 20's it has that power like the passion of joan of arc to over pass its time and remain in importance if only in terms of technique and emotion br br of course one could go on for books which have been written hundreds of times over not the least of which by eisenstein himself on the film in and of itself battleship potemkin is really more like a dramatized newsreel than a specific story in a movie the first segment is also one of the great sequences in film as a mutiny is plotted against the captain and other head ups of a certain ship this is detailed almost in a manipulative way but somehow extremely effective montage is used here as well but in spurts of energy that capture the eye other times eisenstein is more content to just let the images speak for themselves as the soldiers grow weary without food and water he isn't one of those directors who will try to get all sides to the story he is of course very much early 20th century russian but he is nothing else but honest with how he sees his themes and style and that is what wins over in the end br br some may want to check it outside of film school as the sequence is like one of those landmarks of severe tragedy on film displaying the ugly side of revolution eisenstein may not be one of the more silent film directors but if montage detail in the frame non actors and bolshevik themes are your cup of tea it's truly one of the must sees of a lifetime
1	written by science fiction veterans gerry and sylvia anderson this space fantasy is aptly directed by robert parrish experienced american astronaut colonel glenn ross roy thinnes agrees to a manned flight to the far side of the sun the mission is to be controlled by jason webb patrick and his euro sec space agency scientist john kane ian hendry will accompany ross the two will explore a newly discovered planet that is in the same identical orbit as earth except it is always hidden on the other side of the sun ross is the only one to make it back to earth and has a very incredible story to tell special effects may be better than the story line nonetheless fun to watch the cast also includes lynn loring loni von george sewell and herbert lom
1	this movie is a gem an undiscovered gerry anderson classic br br the origins of both ufo and space 1999 are obvious from this movie including the cast list which includes the late ed bishop and george sewell who both went onto ufo br br it is unfortunate that anderson despite his many tv successes did not get a chance to develop his talent on the big screen just think what he could have done with the movie version of thunderbirds which he quite rightly disowned himself from br br i'm sure if you give doppleganger a fair chance you'll appreciate it's good qualities
1	forget jimmy stewart reliving his life and opt for this smart comedy of errors instead i suppose only institutionalized sexism explains why this flick and stanwyck's other great christmas story meet john doe aren't revered with the same level of love as well you know it's name br br stanwyck plays a food writer for a type rag who has been lying for years to her pompous publisher about the folksy setting for her recipes she's an ace b s artist until the day morgan's sailor is pulled from the ocean after 18 days afloat 6 weeks in a navy hospital released the last year of wwii the film is dusted with subtle patriotic gestures and holiday nostalgia but never sinks to sentimentality stanwyck is sexy and sassy as always and meets her match in the hunky morgan with whom it's love at first sight unfortunately she has to play married to gardiner's prissy architect who actually has been seeking her hand for years at his farm in ct just to fool her boss br br s z adds a great deal of hungarian double entendre humor in support as babs' true source of culinary talent una o'connor is hilarious as gardiner's obnoxious irish housekeeper
1	this movie has been a favorite of mine and is entwined with the christmas holidays for me for two reasons 1 growing up in the 1960s everything was space related from advertising to television programs and even santa claus found himself in spaceships during that era and 2 i saw this movie during a christmas shopping trip when i was ten years old and it brought back fond memories of my favorite tv shows when i was even younger fireball and stingray therefore i am a tad biased when it comes to this movie for personal reasons br br that said as a long time student of film this is mainly a movie for fans of gerry anderson and barry gray oh that gorgeous score whereas the casual movie watcher will be put off by the future vision from the past dig those wild cars commercial aircraft clothes etc and the so called plot twist which will cause some to groan however if you can look past the post 2001 a space odyssey desire to make a science fiction film with a far out story line and if you enjoy imaginative special effects then you will enjoy this gem from an era when man had just walked on the moon and people were still looking up at the stars in wonder and hope for the future rather than looking down at the banal trappings of the actual 21st century
1	i'm a huge space buff and at nearly 44 i've just discovered this flick for the first time i came at it in a roundabout way from space 1999 then ufo i went hunting for other anderson creations and found this was their first live action work what a home run i actually heard about this movie many years ago but never knew what it was called so i'm happy to have found it by accident br br these andersons were nothing short of amazing in their writing the execution of the completely believable and realistic looking models the quality of acting etc br br i don't think it looks dated at all let me tell you i'll take good old models over the fake looking cgi crap of today any time seriously most of the rocket scenes looked pretty real they had it down to a science if you choose to think of what you are looking at as real it isn't hard to actually believe it br br also the amount of detail in set designs the beautiful photography the whole look man i wish i could go back to that time they knew how to make great movies in the 60's personally i've lost all interest in hollywood movies today anybody with a budget can do cgi i hate it bring back the models think of all the people that style employed anyway i am ranting if you like good sci fi that's very well done you will do yourself a service by watching this
1	i first saw this in the 70s on syndicated tv and admired its production values which were high tech for the time the remastered video is rich and colorful far more intense then the pale 35 mm tv prints this movie deserves more attention it paved the way for ufo space 1999 and even star wars with its detailed miniatures and cleverly conceived gadgets sure the story of an alternative anti matter planet earth has been recycled a hundred times since star trek but the beauty of this film is its self conscious european flair for design from the rolls royce space engines to the euro sec business paper or as it was called in europe is enjoyable for the imaginary vision of europe in space in the shadow of the superpowers gerry and sylvia anderson's ambitious epic gets a little tedious when the american astronaut finally realizes that he is on the doppleganger earth and everything is literally downhill after the poetically graceful shuttle boarding sequence a mediocre story is helped along by a grand and lyrical classical score by the late great barry gray the john williams of britain
1	i have fond memories of watching this visually dazzling film as a child in the late 70s early 80s on tv now upn 9 in ny though a product of the swinging 60s this film has hardly aged the effects are just as wonderous as 2001 and in some ways superior the model work is flawless with an attractive cast great color photography and set design and an evocative score is a winner
1	journey to the far side of the sun aka doppelganger is an entertaining twilight zone style sci fi offering from gerry and sylvia anderson the team behind space 1999 ufo thunderbirds fireball 5 and others in the film roy thinnes of the invaders tv show and ian hendry star as astronauts sent on a flight to a planet which shares an exact orbit of the earth but on the opposite side of the sun hence previously hidden from view a pushy european space flight director over acted by the late patrick gets the flight fast tracked and after rigorous training the astronauts are good to go thus begins the best sequences in the film the launch flight and landing on the 'other' earth dazzling rocket miniature work by derek meddings and a dream like elegant spaceflight somewhat reminiscent of the best moments of 2001 a space odyssey are easy highlights of the movie the landing on the doppelganger earth is both exciting and eerie after this the twilight zone aspect of the film kicks in with a plot lifted almost whole from the classic tz episode the parallel that aside the film is still solid sci fi with some intriguing world' stuff to chew on backwards writing and left handed handshakes for example less successful are the scenes depicting a mid 21st century earth where all the men wear and nehru jackets and all the women wear mini skirts some of the relationships with women in the film are very 'non by today's standards as well and in the most consistent failing of most 20th century sci fi the computers telephones and other hardware are all big colorful and clunky right out of patrick the prisoner no one the digital age if one can accept these failings in foresight the movie is very interesting with a solid lead performance by thinnes as the troubled astronaut and with a nice 1960s early '70s style nihilistic ending for fans of retro sci fi like myself this is a journey worth taking
1	or to the far side of the sun' as it is more commonly known was written with input by the late donald james and produced by gerry and sylvia anderson best known for their television shows such as 'thunderbirds' br br the international space agency discovers the existence of a mysterious planet on the other side of the sun and proposes a manned flight be sent there the committee balk at the cost and the project but when a security leak at the agency is discovered fearing that the russians might get there first the project gets the green light br br american astronaut glenn ross roy thinnes is teamed with british scientist john kane ian hendry after weeks of gruelling training the phoenix blasts off heading for the unknown br br three weeks later their ship crashes in what appears to be a bleak mountainous landscape ross survives but kane is badly injured a light is seen moving towards them br br i will leave the synopsis here until this point the film has been gripping with excellent special effects by derek meddings and music by anderson's resident composer barry gray why it has not been issued on c d is a mystery but when ross and kane crash land and we discover the secret of the alien world it is a duplicate of our own everyone on it is the same the only major difference is that things are reversed it becomes less interesting and ends with a shattering anti climax i think the cinema was the wrong place to do this idea in fact gerry sylvia later did something similar on their 'space show ross risks and ultimately loses his life in an effort to return to earth his earth but why the new earth is so similar he might as well not have bothered br br roy thinnes had recently done 'the television series and gives a competent performance pity there weren't more scenes like the one where he rows with his wife ian hendry is good as but vanishes from the story too soon several actors went on to appear in the f o ' such as ed bishop and george sewell blink and you will miss nicholas courtney 'the from 'dr who' in a tiny role but the acting honours go to the late patrick as head of the character is not far removed from john the one he played in a t v 's 'the power game' webb is such a devious character he is marvellous to watch herbert contribution as a spy with a camera hidden in a false eye amounts to little more than a cameo br br like i said the special effects are marvellous as are the sets so the film is worth watching but do not expect very much to happen once the action moves to the mirror planet with a stronger script this could have been another 'planet of the apes' or dare i say it '2001 a space br br in anderson's productions he made the future seem like a great place an adventure playground where science was cool everyone had swank cars whose doors opened vertically sexy women and absolutely no suggestion that anything is seriously wrong with the world we are in the future now and people are still watching street' every other night how disappointing if a mirror earth really exists somewhere one hopes that is a better place than this one if all the women there look like lynn loring or loni von i will be on the next flight
1	this is an excellent anderson production worth comparing with the best episodes of ufo or space 1999 first series of course it isn't some sfx extravaganza or star wars pseudo mystic tripe fest but a subtle movie that has a slow pace yet it conveys the creepy eerie and uncanny atmosphere of the best anderson productions for lovers of sci fi lynn voice is absolutely awful sfx are good for this kind of product and acting is good as well two astronauts visit a planet on the opposite side of the sun but crash land home instead or do they ah every now and then peddled as the next gadget next decade' but still to happen 40 years later the device of earth's twin planet on the opposite side of the sun also returns in gamera tai 1969 so who copied whom
1	i saw this movie in the early 70's when i was about 10 yrs old on tv it was on after school and as i watched i was so drawn into the whole idea of the two astronauts going on a mission to another undiscovered planet that i asked my mom if i could get the cassette recorder out she let me so i wrapped the cord of the mic around the channel knob so the mic was hanging in front of the speaker this movie is the first one i ever paid enough attention to and cared enough about to record just the audio there were no vcrs at the time the plot will have you hanging onto every word every minute of this film the ending will blow your mind after watching the journey to the far side of the sun you will have flash backs in your mind about it for a long time i did replay the audio recording for many years and saw it over and over in my mind then maybe 15 years later when vcr's were common and they sold tapes in stores i always looked for it but never found it but when the internet came along one day i searched for it and purchased it in a second so after about 30 years after seeing it for the first time i got to see it again wow it was spectacular just for reference i must have watched it 50 times since
1	one of my favourite films whenever it is on although i do admit one time missing it when it was on last year br br despite the age of the film it doesn't look like that and the story even though it'd been done a thousand times before still felt entertaining there were one or two little niggles for me in the story but i looked past them and just enjoyed the film for what it was br br overall i give it a 7 10
1	this lesser known film starring roy thinnes from tv's invaders is actually what i consider a lost gem it was made at a time where the story was more important that the special effects though the effect are fairly good for its time a scientist that there is another world in earth's orbit directly behind the sun since the sun always blocks it from us we can never see it from earth roy thinnes is selected to go on a mission to get to this world i don't want to tell the rest of the plot because it will give the rest of the movie away let's just say there are some real surprises br br the movie is british and has that good british flavor of acting that was in such tv series like the avengers
1	at the time that this movie was made most housewives knew exactly who barbara stanwick was parodying today only some women over 50 probably remember gladys whose column wisdom ran in family circle magazine from before world war ii until the 1970's she lived on farm in and her columns were collected into a number of books seasons etc the lines that barbara stanwick recites as she types them for her column are quite typical of the ones that began a typical gladys column besides cooking and country living she got rather nostalgic and philosophical at times she talked a lot about her favorite dogs mostly cocker you might say that martha stewart is the gladys of today br br christmas is connecticut may not be any cinematic masterpiece but it is pleasant lighthearted entertainment soothing to the stressed out mind and that is good enough
1	when i saw that this film was being aired on late night tv i initially decided to give it a miss i am glad that i then started watching yes the special effects are the same as gerry andersen's puppet shows some of the actors actresses are from his other productions he obviously used the same composer later on as the cheesy soundtrack could only have come from one of his productions and the plot is as slow as a wet weekend get by all that and you have a film that shows up intriguing possibilities is there a planet on the far side of the sun is it a duplicate earth is everything about it reversed and if so do they speak english in reverse i love this dated sf if only for gerry's wonderful model cars planes buildings and spaceships some of them are not so far fetched as they seemed back then and did you see the european space centre logo very reminiscent of the euro logo of today suspend belief and spend a couple of hours watching this you will be glad you did
1	journey to the far side of the sun is about the discovery of a planet on the other side of the sun which shares the same orbit as earth and therefore has been undiscovered until a space probe on the far side of the sun photographs it of course two astronauts roy thinnes ian hendry are sent to explore it but due to a malfunction they crash find themselves back on earth only 3 weeks into their six week journey of course they're berated at least thinnes is hendry is gravely injured and grilled and asked why they turned back on their mission but it's claimed that they didn't until thinnes seems to notice a few very odd things about being back home this is excellent if somewhat talky at times and the sets and feel aren't a far cry from thunderbirds territory but will live actors for once it's no big star wars type production but more quiet science fiction that one has to think about a bit well worth seeing and it's criminal that the dvd is out of print 8 out of 10
1	gerry anderson's first live action foray in the way of a major motion picture that benefits from incredible model fx work and a great barry gray music score the reel to reel analog computers in the far off year i guess anderson really wanted a safe date of a 100 years later are a hoot to see as are the guru jacket fashions but one could easily accuse 2001 of the same violations but no one could have foreseen some things as they turn out this film was the springboard for the series ufo the following year and in fact not only had the same fx people and producers but many of the cast were regulars in that show br br it always comes off like an alternate history future more than anything else the apollo like rocket used in the lift off it always seems like this is really another planet than earth given the alternate earth plot one would assume that was the feeling they wanted we end up with an ending that posits more questions than answers that because the other earth exists every movement event and thing said is duplicated as it's happening on both worlds because of that given and the sun in between the two versions of the same person in this case glenn ross astronaut can never meet a complete accident discovered the planet in the first place when it would have most likely stayed a secret forever br br filmed mostly in portugal with fx work in england it's a must own for any gerry anderson fan i have the image bare bones dvd from a few years ago now out of print but one hopes universal will re release it with perhaps extras and even a gerry anderson commentary
1	fans of gerry anderson's productions will recognise several actors and vehicles from ufo which was made after doppelgänger as well as sound effects from various anderson series barry gray's excellent music mostly unique to this film adds to the feeling of familiarity for these reasons alone i think any gerry anderson fan would find doppelgänger worth getting br br judged simply as a film it has to be said that doppelgänger is flawed it is known that there were major problems during production and i suspect this is why there is a time consuming plot thread that ends abruptly and appears to have no relevance to the rest of the story presumably time budget constraints prevented the relevance from emerging br br distractingly the special effects range from outstandingly good better than any 1960s film that i know of to disappointingly bad br br nevertheless even with these flaws main story is well told and keeps the viewer or at least this viewer engaged throughout the ending is perhaps not what one might expect from anderson yet at the same time it is typical of anderson and it is certainly appropriate to find out what i mean you'll have to watch it for yourself
1	interesting premise interestingly worked out the strongest feature of this film is the emotional tension of the astronaut who knows a truth but is unable to convey it to others overlook the weaknesses and just enjoy the movie but be prepared for a certain level of suspense
1	all right i'll grant you that some of the science in doppelganger or journey to the far side of the sun is kind of dopey the idea of an entire planet existing undetected because we can't see it on the other side of our sun doesn't hold up at all any astronomy 101 student knows that another planet the size of earth would cause gravitational in the motions of other planets that's how astronomers deduced the existence of pluto after all and that's how they find and asteroids and moons on a regular basis br br and the idea that a mirror image earth somehow evolved in almost perfect parallel to our earth down to english speaking scientists and human counterparts for each human born on our earth that takes things out of science' fiction and into twilight zone territory that's not necessarily a bad thing but it requires a major suspension of critical thinking to accept and enjoy br br but man this movie knocked my socks off as an adolescent i was still used to fairly cheerful upbeat science fiction films when the hero won through in the end even 2001 could be interpreted as having an ending br br but in this case thinnes attempted to dock with his orbiting so he could return to his own earth only to be bounced back out of his docking berth something about 'the not being reversed because his wasn't doing the same thing apparently thinnes' had decided he was happy in his new home thinnes' ship started the descent back to the launch site and i was certain that he would somehow get the damaged craft to land safely and try again armed with the new info that would let him and his backers succeed he was the hero after all and the hero always wins through in the end br br instead thinnes couldn't maintain control of the crippled craft and the ship's subsequent crash into the launch site was so horrible and devastating that it killed everyone except for the chief project leader and destroyed all records of the project and thinnes' existence thinnes never got to go home and he perished uselessly his secrets never revealed br br except for the planet of the apes series i had never seen such a sad and downbeat ending and it always stuck in my mind especially the ferocious devastation of the crash scene near the beginning of the move you knew that spaceship was never going to fly again and the one at the very end br br i'd love to see this movie again and see how well it held up over the years
1	in this film the astronauts sent to explore a newly discovered planet must deal with several dilemmas and they do so intelligently the film approaches it's main plot theme in a unique way and unfolds it gradually though it can be guessed beforehand br br the acting is very good though sometimes stiff as some late 60s acting can be it can also be somewhat wordy and even melodramatic especially after the plot theme reveals itself visually it has a scene that resembles one in the previous year's 2001 a space odyssey and that tends to date the movie some of the actors went on to star in the 1970 tv show ufo which is delightfully campy and worth checking out on dvd br br despite these small points the space flight itself is realistic and considering this was 1969 the scenes inside the cockpit of the spacecraft also had a realistic look look for some 1990s 2000s video technology in use too one thing i suspect a love scene has been cut but i can't prove it it would have been a distraction anyway br br unlike most sci fi films this film will make you think about the plot and that's well worth a look i'm pleased to have this film in my video library
1	this is the question that astronauts roy thinnes and ian hendry ask themselves when they discover a parallel world of earth always hidden on the far side of the sun in this 1969 cult science fiction melodrama released here in america as journey to the far side of the sun the plot of the film was devised by british writers gerry and sylvia anderson the creators of such tv shows as ufo the thunderbirds and space 1999 it is exceedingly weird at times betraying the influence of the twilight zone and even stanley kubrick's classic 2001 a space odyssey the visual effects work of derek meddings who would also later work on superman the movie holds up surprisingly well under the last three decades of special effects advancements and while they are not really on the same exalted level of the kubrick film they are very superb if you don't anticipate a star wars type of a film and can overcome the occasionally trite dialogue doppelganger is a good film it was good enough for me to rank it a and consider it an undiscovered sci fi gem
1	i had never seen this movie before it aired on a local cable sci fi network it reminded me of the irwin allen tv series of the late 60's time tunnel etc excellent effects they beat star trek 5 done 20 years later but then that wasn't very hard to accomplish br br i found the script very intriguing and mature for this type of production they would have needed a few touch ups to tie some loose ends on the characters' level but for a kid movie its surprisingly interesting especially the the glimpse at futuristic euro politics surprisingly similar to today's european union br br the plot is indeed reminiscent of twilight zone in general as other users have pointed but in this case it's a compliment br br great sets by the way br br 7 10
1	this movie is surprisingly good the ninja fighting sequences were unbelievable i haven't see all sho kosugi's films but this is probably the best of those i've seen probably the most impressive fighting sequence was at the beginning when ninja killed about 20 people that was one of the most impressive ninja fighting sequences i've ever seen another good fighting sequence was at a cops funeral where the ninja provide more people to bury the last fight was also very impressive also i kinda liked the soundtrack of this movie the story was good enough for a ninja movie actually it was kinda different from other ninja movies so if you are a fan of ninja movies you'll probably like this one
1	from the perspective of the hectic contemporary world in which we live the so called good old days' always seem so much more serene and innocent an idyllic era gone by of which we have only memories and shadows that linger on the silver screen as with christmas in connecticut ' a warm and endearing film directed by peter godfrey barbara stanwyck stars as elizabeth lane a popular martha type magazine columnist who writes about life on her beloved farm in connecticut always with the latest recipe at the center of the story one of her biggest fans is alexander yardley played by sidney greenstreet the publisher of the magazine for which she writes yardley has never visited her farm and in response to an idea expressed to him in a letter from a nurse mary joyce compton he decides to spend an old fashioned christmas with elizabeth her husband and child and as a special guest a certain mr jefferson jones dennis morgan a sailor just recovered from spending fifteen days at sea on a raft after his ship was torpedoed elizabeth of course cannot refuse her boss but there are problems not the least of which is the fact that she has no farm and writes her column from the comfort of a high rise in the city it makes for a precarious situation for her as well as her editor dudley beecham robert shayne as the one thing mr yardley demands from his employees is total honesty what follows is a charming and delightfully romantic comedy that transports the audience back to a seemingly more simple time and place to share a christmas past where a warm hearth good food and kindness prevail br br barbara stanwyck absolutely sparkles as elizabeth with a smile and presence warmer than anything the grandest hearth could provide and totally convincing as a city girl entirely out of her element on the farm morgan also fares well as the somewhat naive sailor whose trust in his fellow man is admirable even with the deceptions being played out around him he's the kind of guy you know will somehow land on his feet and in the end it's elizabeth you really feel for one of the true delights of this film however is sidney greenstreet his yardley has a gruff exterior but beneath you know without a doubt that this is a man with a heart as big as texas it's a straightforward honest portrayal and it's a joy to watch him work the most memorable scenes in the movie belong to him br br the supporting cast includes reginald gardiner john sloan the terrific una o'connor norah frank jenks and dick elliott judge crothers a feel good movie that plays especially well during the christmas season though it would work any time of the year christmas in is a memorable film that never takes itself too seriously is thoroughly uplifting and will leave you with a warm spot in your heart and a sense of peace that makes the world seem like a good place to be it's a true classic and one you do not want to miss i rate this one 10 10 br br
1	this is probably the only female ninja movie ever made it's great as a b film and the action sequences are a lot of fun to watch this movie is just so deliciously 80's you'll never see another film like it check it out for some 80's retro fun
1	for many and many years gaijin have visited japan for learning martial arts instead of acquiring any knowledge on it have been told only could achieve the excelent performance required to show some techniques in a public performance such as a movie br br this one special movie made by sho kosugi not only shows all of those techniques and skills but also teaches many and many lessons on how to achieve them and one can verify that by seeing a lucinda dickey performing fantastic and unforgettable acting skills in br br i strongly recommend watching this movie more than thrice because three times is not enough to seek out hints and tips given so easily by sho kosugi to those who really seek knowledge itself the
1	wow i've never seen nor heard of this film it just came on tv 2 00 am and i am in complete awe setup a bunch of rich fat cats are out golfing one knocks a ball into the rough it lands by a ninja a tuxedoed man walks over to pick the ball up the ninja grabs it crushes it in his hand man pulls gun ninja pulls ninja blows dart into gun barrel gun explodes this is just the beginning of the greatness people everyone must see this movie 10 big ol fat stars from trusty
1	there are few movies that have the massive amount of non stop ninja action as ninja iii the domination this is a story of love redemption and revenge however this is mainly a story about flipping out and killing people for no reason at all if you've been searching for a movie where a ninja goes absolutely nuts and takes all kinds of people to their graves just because he's a ninja and he can do it this is the movie for you i can't think of any movies to compare this to because no movie is this awesome wait oh have you ever seen the thing with two heads there is a part in that where the titular thing is riding around on a motorcycle and about a million cop cars are chasing it them around but they keep crashing and what not because you can't catch the thing with two heads well that is kind of what ninja iii is like i highly recommend this film especially if you like the following things ninjas swords lucinda dickie from breakin' and breakin' 2 electric boogaloo video games about being a bouncer in a bar ambiguous and underdeveloped love stories or good ninjas
1	this is an action packed film that makes me feel very peaceful and relaxed every time i see it the film short of its conclusion demonstrates that in the face of extreme odds it is still possible to prevail br br this film is very refreshing and likely to be banned at any moment get a copy of it before the thought police burn every copy they can find they don't want you to have hope for the future or to think you have a chance br br on the other hand should political correctness fail to supress it this would be an excellent movie to release on dvd such a release could contain interviews with the writer and director and related goodies i'm sure it would sell some copies and i would be one of the first to buy it br br
1	excellent plot line makes this movie one of the classic cult ninja flicks of all time the plot being that this woman's soul is possessed by an evil ninja spirit i mean to be honest if i could obtain ninja ability through possession i would furthermore for being in the 80's and such the fact that the ninja aspect was far greater in this particular decade is evident and despite all that ninja 3 the domination manages to keep it original from the american ninja cookie cutter molds that plagued the 80's for so long this chick is definitely michael dudikoff on steroids i mean the first american ninja was great but let's get real folks it has nothing on ninja 3
1	after seeing this movie i have no choice but to write a review in the hopes that there are others like me out there who were blown away by the rocket fueled ninja action and white hot sexual titillation that is ninja iii the domination br br we all know that sho kosugi rocks that is a given but how about jordan bennett's ultra macho interpretation of his character police officer billy bravo mr bennett bravo you prove early on while trying to seduce the buxom christie played to perfection by one miss lucinda dickey of breakin' fame that you are not afraid to take chances on your craft i particularly enjoyed how you do not feel the need to step in and attempt to help her as 4 thugs try to rape her outside her gym oh you could have helped sure but by standing there and watching you let her know who was boss will wear the pants in this relationship i also enjoyed how mr bennett was not afraid to repeatedly take off his shirt or wear the wife beater tank top despite his gorilla like shoulders and back back and shoulder hair are hot and knows it and how about lucinda dickey all i can say is i see a sex bomb getting ready to explode she's got all the right moves as both a temptress and a martial arts whiz the chemistry behind dickey and bennett is what makes this movie tick you'd think she would hate him because he's kind of a cheesy jerk but no my friends the animal magnetism is too strong to resist and they bond like crazy glue sho kasugi is not as prominent as you might think though still a main character which is fine by me because all i wanted was more bennett and dickey he does seem to wear a lot of eye makeup which was nice to see the special effects wow that is all i can say i will not give away the ending but let's just say it will not disappoint i love ninja iii the domination and can only hope that there is a ninja 4 i give it a 5 out of 5 throwing stars disappoint
1	this film is the greatest ninja film ever made in my opinion and if you haven't seen it then its worth watching i would rate this film a 10 10 if you want to see more then check out http uk geocities com the opening sequence where the evil ninja is killing everyone in his way is excellent his character is the best he then has to possesses woman who finds him dying she then has to take revenge on the cops that killed him which means there's more killing and action but only a ninja can destroy a ninja so she and her boyfriend who is also one of her targets enlist the help of sho kosugi to release the evil ninjas spirit and destroy him
1	i've always been fascinated by who would know that it will go further than beyond in ninja iii it's fun creepy and intriguing a ninja gets shot up by the police and uses his spirit for revenge the victim a lovely young woman named christie lucinda dickey she falls for the cop who was involved in the shooting the love scene where she pours the on her body knocked me out the death gets the attention of another in japan named yamada sho kosugi he comes to america not only to save christie but to put the ninja back to the grave simply because he put out yamada's left eye with a throwing star the fight scenes were excellent i liked the part when the plywood falls on yamada and he splits it with his foot and when he was caught he tells the officer christie was involved with that everything will be fine rule of thumb never under estimate a ninja he took out the other cops without killing them and he did his thing without worry of course did her best trying to put the ninja in his place for using her a tool for revenge it was a good movie great for martial arts buffs 3 out of 5 stars
1	this is a pretty silly film including what may well be the least erotic come on ever to make it to the big screen the heroine pours v 8 all over herself and invites the hero to lick it off yuck and yet it also features the resplendent lucinda dickey in what is far and away her most erotic performance in those long ago days women even action heroines with real muscles were a rarity and i can still remember the way my jaw dropped when dickey took off her shirt revealing the most powerfully built female back and biceps i'd ever seen dickey's beauty and vitality carry the film she could have been a female schwarzenegger if anybody had had the vision to promote her
1	i first saw this film about 15 years ago and i have been enchanted by it ever since it is such a feel good experience that i could happily watch it at any time of the year however to me it is the ultimate christmas movie br br the fact that it is in b w is irrelevant although i often wonder what it would be like in colour you can just get that warm glowing feeling watching the christmas events unfold br br stanwyck and morgan are perfect together and greenstreet is the antithesis of his usual character is a blustering joy to watch br br it is light relief and certainly does not tax the brain but leaves you feeling glad that you saw it br br i can't wait for it to become available on dvd in the uk i shall certainly be at the front of the queue to buy it
1	as well as being a portrayal of a lesbian love story fire is also a comic satire of middle class indian culture i find this is a quality which is little appreciated about the movie these two genres i e deep meaningful alternative love story and comic satire usually mix together just as well as oil and water do but mehta somehow manages to achieve the balance to near perfection the servant behaviour the family's treatment of him the bedridden grandmother's constant inescapable presence obsession with a teachings coming from a culture much like india's these are things i can immediately identify as being typical they have been crying out to be pointed out and ridiculed while developing her primary subject matter mehta manages to achieve this secondary theme skillfully in fact much of the humour in the film which provides essential relief from the heavy subjects of taboo lesbian love and gender issues stem from this satire of the seemingly ordinary the film flows from the comic to the serious with great br br all in all brilliant use of symbolic devices radha compared to sita of legend and coming out of fire unscathed and therefore pure the lifelong desire of the young radha to see the ocean finally achieved when she gains freedom kudos to shabana azmi radha the lighting crew and deepa mehta their very un hollywood like and un bollywood like talents made this movie special one criticism the first scenes seemed rather disjointed to me in that they did not flow into each other very well br br the verdict 9 on 10 nothing less for a movie with scenes so burned on my mind
1	this might be my favorite so bad it's awesome film of all time like many pre teen children of the 80's repeat viewing of revenge of ninja spawned a ninja phase of my childhood man i thought sho k was badass back then jet li could him with both legs in a cast this movie has insane crossovers that include flashdance the exorcist and the lee van cleef ninja tv show ugh but as a friend of mine says anyone can get a good movie made it takes true genius to make a film that starts with a ninja surviving 17 shotgun blasts long enough to take over the body of instructor to get revenge wow while previous commentors have the sword flying out of the closet on the string no one has yet the powerful love scene where the sexy leading man cop takes off his shirt to reveal a mane of the fun never ends rent this
1	sam ninja 3 the domination mixes martial arts with the exorcist like horror the horror elements thrown on screen are simply laughable but the film works as a mindless action martial arts flick the fight scenes are well choreographed and exciting and the film is never boring so forget stupid dialogue lame acting and annoying soundtrack grab some beer and check this one out highly recommended
1	canadian film maker ron switzer delivers a solid non stop thrill ride of relentless horror with the superb 1991 sci fi film science crazed a hideous monster takes revenge on his mother a police officer and tenants of an apartment building brilliant practical make up and special effects designs create a truly terrifying monster especially when lurking through the atmospheric shadows and smoke of the gloomy apartment settings the characters are developed beautifully with outstanding and surprisingly touching performances from an ensemble cast produced by donna switzer newcomer ron switzer also penned the film's face paced script weaving together an engaging roller coaster ride of twists turns and terror that keeps you guessing until the last frame science crazed will no doubt leave you haunted long after the shocking conclusion highly recommended
1	for those who expect documentaries to be objective creatures let me give you a little lesson in american film making br br documentaries rely heavily on casting you pick and choose characters you think will enhance the drama and entertainment value of your film br br after you have shot a ton of footage you splice it together to make a film with ups and downs turning points climaxes etc if you have trouble with existing footage you either shoot some more that makes sense find some stock footage or be clever with your narration br br the allegation that the filmmakers used footage of locales not part of the movie favelas next to beautiful beaches does not detract from the value of the film as a dramatic piece and the particular image is one that resonates enough to justify its not quite truthful inclusion at any rate you use the footage you can so they didn't happen to have police violence footage for that particular neighborhood does this mean not include it and just talk about it or maybe put in some cartoon animation so the audience isn't duped um no br br as for the hopeful ending why not yes americans made it yes americans are optimistic bastards but why end on a down note just because it's set in a foreign country and foreign films by and large end on a down note let foreigners portray the dismal outlook of life br br let us americans think there may be a happy ending looming in the future there just may be one
1	unlike the previous poster i liked the celluloid treatment it looked good and made the movie that much more enjoyable to watch to me it didn't detract at all from the power of the documentary's content in fact i felt the slickness of the look allowed me to just lose myself that much more in the content the previous poster was fair to liken the style to a nike commercial it definitely has that look but for my tastes it worked really well and i am far from a fan of nike commercials br br in my opinion this is how documentary film making should be done i can't wait to see the next installments from these promising filmmakers
1	the producer matt stumbled upon the film's subject anderson sa leader of the music movement when on a hewlett foundation trip to rio de janeiro was so moved by story that he called his friend nyc filmmaker jim zimbalist who quit his job and joined in brazil to work on a documentary on sa favelas and the culture of violence br br the first part of the film shows you the culture of violence in favelas shantytowns where the poor live via footage of police raids and assaults on the residents the footage is graphic and shocking br br rising from the negativity of the favelas is the charismatic anderson sa who overcame a possible career in drug dealing to start the movement which combines elements of afro brazilian culture reggae ska and other elements into a fast paced percussion heavy style of music which has since spread to other parts of the world you can't help but be carried away by the music especially when you see the local children get involved in school which he founded to keep kids out of drug gangs the rest of the film follows meteoric rise and his positivity changes many of the children's lives to seek a life beyond drug running spoiler just when the filmmakers thought they had wrapped filming an unbelievable life changing event occurs of which the resolution has to be seen to be believed the film then continues and you are gripped in your seat until the end br br this film is a response to city of god and a worthy one at that the bleak situation portrayed in that movie is countered by a real example of how dwellers can overcome the dire situation they are in and use their resources to constructive ends you can't help not liking and rooting for anderson sa to succeed br br this film is terrifically shot fast paced and is quite absorbing judging by the overwhelming response of the audience at last night's screening the film should get domestic distribution in the us and the thumping soundtrack should be released as well keep an eye for this superlative documentary it is excellent
1	scintillating documentary about how a small group of idealistic young men have used music art and dance to unify and heal the community of one of the most violent slum neighborhoods in rio means neighborhood in portuguese offering to its young people a positive alternative to the lethal gangster world of drug traffickers br br in their feature film making debut zimbalist and have crafted a movie that is breathtaking because it works on so many different levels as social document it gives the facts we need to know to have a context for understanding the significance of the particular story told here the story itself is well developed with a strong narrative arc and for added measure it is shot through with keen suspense there's an arresting charismatic central protagonist anderson sa he's a savvy natural leader articulate courageous spiritually evolved a talented performer a visionary who walks his talk br br there's also plenty of music and dancing to entertain there are talking heads – mainly sa and his closest associate jose junior but they are presented with imaginative cinematic brilliance the editing nicely mixes footage of differing themes punctuated only occasionally by a few fact filled still texts the pace is as lively as the music a lot gets accomplished in 78 minutes br br afro reggae the neighborhood social club that anderson junior and a few others formed in 1993 deploy music and dance as the weapons to go up against the drug lords and the duplicitous police they teach percussion skills to any kid who wants to join a class along with dance martial arts a community newspaper the only requirement for kids to belong is no smoking no drinking no drugs there is a subtle soft sell spiritual fabric running through the movement loosely based on the hindu god shiva the destroyer of old habits br br jeff zimbalist who also was the lead cinematographer and the editor is a modern culture and media student at brown university he his chops editing feature documentaries for pbs and others and he teaches film at the new york film academy and elsewhere matt like andrew capturing the friedmans did a few years ago recently came to film from the business world br br zimbalist and together won the award for best new filmmakers at the 2005 film festival and rising was tied for the best film of the year in awards made for 2005 by the international documentary association i could go on for pages about afro reggae sa and this movie a way better idea is simply for you to go see it my grade a 10 10
1	for once a story of hope highlighted over the tragic reality our youth face rising draws one into a scary unsafe and unfair world and shows through beautiful color and moving music how one man and his dedicated friends choose not to accept that world and change it through action and art an entertaining interesting emotional aesthetically beautiful film i showed this film to numerous high school students as well who all live in neighborhoods with poverty and and gun violence and they were enamored with anderson the protagonist i recommend this film to all ages over 13 due to subtitles and some images of death from all backgrounds
1	i'm surprised with the questions and issues this documentary has brought up in the reviews here specially because they're indeed interesting questions surely the ones who could best address it would be the makers of the film themselves nevertheless i think i can shed some light upon something that i think has been overlooked which is in my opinion the purpose of the film what it is about and what it's trying to convey what's its message after all at the risk of pointing out the very obvious i'll start saying the filmmakers have an intention they're trying to tell a story extract meaning out of it and get a point across with this in mind we can shoot down many of the criticized points particularly the ones involving what people expected in contrast with what the filmmakers were really trying to show causes and consequences of violence the film is not about that it's not enlightening non brazilian audiences about the brazilian issue well who wanted to do that is this or that and supported by whom it doesn't matter in this context not enough women in the film for your tastes it's not about equality or the feminist cause every little detail about anderson's life mother son family and all the aspects and the workings of the movement well don't be so picky because it doesn't matter there's just so much length a story can have before it can't become a film anymore if the authors were to show everything everyone is expecting they'd have to make a 6 months tv series instead if you are expecting all that you approach the film the wrong way br br the film is actually about two individuals who started a movement two individuals full of ideals two individuals who thirst for change two individuals trying to do something about all the wrongdoing going around them individuals who went rock bottom and wanted to get up again it's all about finding purpose in life drawing inspiration from misery changing the destiny and becoming something else than what they were destined to be criminals and drug dealers for that matter it's about achievement and hope and not about the cruel reality of violence in rio de janeiro though it's an integral part of the film given that's what the characters are constantly surrounded by unexpectedly and not without a reason the film ends up centered much more on anderson's course through difficulties in life this is because they were faced with anderson's accident while they were shooting the film i'm not sure about this but they may have even seriously considered ending the filming right there leaving behind all effort spent but anderson wanted to keep going and so they did risking to lose in having a film with a bit of an identity crisis considering the sudden change of course but gaining in showing someone overcoming such a devastating happening it's very evident for who watches it that the film begins about and winds up about anderson it's very unique in this sense the shift of the story line maybe their only sin is not making it evident upfront which may initially rise expectations that will go unfulfilled br br as for the importance or ordinariness of anderson i'd say not everybody wants to change the whole world end all violence feed all the hungry be like mahatma ghandi be as known as mother teresa or whoever other known personalities there are it's much easier to relate to and draw inspiration from someone who is such as everybody else in fact trying to transform his or her own harsh life raising problematic kids coping with permanent injuries or diseases and even managing to pay the bills by the end of the month to understand the movie you have to see that's about leaving behind a past of involvement with drugs and crime making up for it and trying to persuade others not to go down the same troublesome path though you can criticize if the way they chose to do it is effective and doubt the ideology of the method you cannot deny their intentions br br also the perception that anderson is special or a chosen one may have partially something to do with the fact that the filmmakers became very involved in the lives of the characters they were depicting as much as becoming friends with them there's no way it wouldn't tint the whole movie with a more favorable light over anderson if a dear friend becomes paralyzed in an accident it's not just a fact you make a big deal out of it and this is not necessarily bad it's not much that they treat him like a chosen one as much as they go to great lengths trying to show him as a seed for transformation and source of inspiration br br in conclusion don't watch this documentary for the scenes of the reality of poverty and crime it contains watch it for what it is much more an inspirational story br br nike ad like seems just damn good and professionally made to me and doesn't affect or detract from the intentions of the film romanticized speculate on its credential as a documentary if you will but why not when it's supposed to cause reaction and inspire isn't trying to better people's lives through music and dance the essence of what the subjects are trying to do romanticizing the very own reality pardon me but showing just the plain facts is what reporters do and you can watch it on tv every night br br if i wanted to become a filmmaker i wish my first film would also be this great
1	rising is a documentary about the slums of rio the favelas specifically the most violent one according to this film a lot more kids have died violently in favelas over the last decade or so than in israel palestine during the same period a fact astonishing if true which shows how under recognized this social problem is in the rest of the world this is an important topic especially for those who see hope in grassroots efforts to marshal the and most at risk through a vibrant cultural program this is a compelling documentary if occasionally marred by a somewhat too personality based version of events and by grainy digital video and film that sometimes may make you think you need to have your eyes examined br br drug lords rule in the favelas and gun toting teenage boys are the main drug dealers like in parts of colombia fernando movie city of god de deus has been accused of celebrating violence de deus is another of many favelas but the early section of rising shows that in fact boys do celebrate violence and want to deal drugs where the money and the action are it's cool to carry a gun there cool to work as a drug trafficker it's fifty times more profitable than the earnings available by other means br br first discovered the movement and its leaders anderson and josé junior while visiting rio for a conference and quickly persuaded his friend and mentor zimbalist to quit his job and come down to help make a film with his own promise to fund it eloquence and charisma and a startling twist in his life make him the center of the film and its chief narrator but like the favelas themselves the film teems with other people no doubt about the fact that is a remarkable leader organizer and artist br br is compared to bosnia shooting there was very dangerous anderson friendship and protection and caution and diplomacy in the shooting enabled the filmmakers to gain access and shoot detailed footage of their subject matters while mostly there were close calls avoiding any serious confrontations with drug lords or drug dealing cops they also trained boys to use cameras and left them there on trips home that resulted in 10 of the footage including rare shots of violent incidents including police beatings it's hard for an outsider to keep track of police massacres in rio there was one in the early 1990's that looms over the story and inspired who ended his own early involvement in drug trafficking to lead his cultural movement the cops are all over the drug trade and if anybody doesn't like that the ill trained police paramilitaries come in often wearing black ski masks and shoot up a neighborhood killing a lot of innocents br br this is pretty much the picture we get in city of god except that this time junior and the other guys come in starting in but spreading out eventually to a number of other favelas to give percussion classes that attract dozens of youth girls as well as boys their cultural or program formed in 1993 is a new alternative way of life for young black men in the rio ghettos it leads them to leave behind smoking alcohol and drugs that's the rule to explode into rap song percussion and gymnastics in expressive galvanic performances eventually the best of the performers led by wind up appearing before big local audiences with local producers and their has an international recording contract br br other centers and groups have been created by or through the over the years in and other favelas to seek the betterment of youth by providing training and staging performances of music theater hiphop and dance at centers br br the performance arts aren't everything just the focal point is also a movement for broader social change gathering public awareness through such performances the centers also provide training in information newspaper radio internet e mail links hygiene and sex education to seek to bridge gaps between rich and poor black and white and to offer workshops in audio visual work including production of documentaries the program is currently active in four other favelas br br there are many scenes of street and home life in rising and they look very much like the images in city of god with the important difference that the focus and outcome are very very much more positive not that it isn't an uphill battle and the corruption of the police the inequities of the social system and the indifference of the general population of brazil are not directly addressed by any of this but there's a scene where talks to some young kids in another cynical boys not enthusiastic about and determined to work in the drug trade as himself did as a boy doesn't seem to be convincing any of them despite pointing out that traffickers don't make it to the age of fifty but we learn that the most negative boy in this group richard morales joined the movement five months later there's also the account of a freak accident that disabled but with a positive outcome br br it would be great if the images were sharper and clearer and if the story were edited down a little but this is vibrant inspiring material and represents committed risk taking documentary film making and it's nice that rising has been included in seven film festivals and won a number of awards including best new documentary filmmaker at the tribeca film festival it's currently being shown at the institute of contemporary arts in london however a wide art house audience in the us seems somewhat unlikely br br included in the 2006
1	this christmas gift arrived courtesy of tcm we had never seen the film even though we have seen most of the films of barbara stanwyck this comedy made us laugh so much that at times we had to restrain ourselves in order to hear the dialog br br this is a movie that should be seen by people suffering from stressful situations especially around christmas it would certainly lift one's spirits by just letting go the movie would make a perfect gift in the form of a dvd or a vhs tape br br christmas in connecticut was directed with great panache by peter godfrey based on a story by aileen hamilton br br the best thing in the movie is the pairing of two of the most popular stars of that era barbara stanwyck and dennis morgan barbara stanwyck always played strong willed women obviously this was a change of pace for her in this film as well as lady eve ms stanwyck displays a knack for comedy she and mr morgan who played in a lot of musical comedies make a winning combination br br there are no weak performances in the film sydney greenstreet an actor notorious for playing is a delight to watch as the rich and fat alexander yardley the man who owned a media empire and who knew a good thing when he saw it reginald gardiner an accomplished english actor adds luster to the stellar cast behind the two principals br br s z is another source of continuous mirth he plays the hungarian chef felix who has a hard time with his own version of the english language also una o'connor makes a perfect norah the housekeeper in the sloan perfect connecticut farm br br in reading other comments in this forum it's sad to learn that the glorious black and white cinematography is not appreciated by some people after all color was not widely used in the 40s and most of the classic movies have to be seen in its original format because what would be accomplished in them br br this film should be a requirement for anyone looking to spend almost two hours of uninterrupted fun at christmas time because total merriment is assured watch it with an open mind and heart an maybe you'd like to see christmas in connecticut every year
1	i actually found out about rising via the imdb website i have a particular interest in afro brazilian culture and films rising is one of those gems that gives a new meaning to human transformation beautifully documented and filmed by jeff zimbalist and matt its the story anderson sa a former rio de janeiro drug trafficker who after the deaths of family members and friends becomes a christ like malcolm x and ghandi all rolled into one sa formed a grassroots cultural movement that uses afro brazilian hiphop afro brazilian martial arts drumming and other to transform the hopeless and most times angry youth into vibrant viable caring community loving individuals br br a few years ago i remember going to a screening of city of god de deus and walked out of the theatre completely numb the images were grim yet stunning and you couldn't take your eyes off the screen i remember how hopeless some situations were in the favelas and how decadent the society was due to the governments neglect how drug trafficking was a way of life how indifferent the citizens of the slums were because death was an every day occurrence like city of god anderson sa talks about how the people of the favelas were also desensitized he talks about the police corruption and how the communities were so by drugs and gangs that you couldn't visit family members in other favelas you had to meet in a neutral location unlike city of god anderson grassroots movement provides solutions to the anger the hopelessness br br there was one part in the documentary where anderson in the spirit of a preacher approached some youth and asked them to join these jaded youth were so scarred by everyday survival and violence their role models were drug dealers and this is what they aspired to be anderson told then that drug dealers don't live very long there was reluctance of course but five months later he was able to get some of the youth to join br br the visuals in rising are beyond amazing its clear to me that jeff zimbalist and matt are not only great story tellers but visual artist as well this is a must see documentary there are some really magical and transforming moments in this documentary i don't want to spoil them for you i want you see it for yourself please tell your friends academics youth counselors family members about this wonderful film it will make you care about the world and our children br br i would give it eleven stars
1	i just love this movie and i have my tv programed to record it when it comes on again on nov 2nd it is a really nice love story with a twist the song that is played at the end of the movie is one you would not think would be a big hit but it is a song that stays in your head and i am now trying to find that song so i can hear it and play it i really have no style of the shows i see or the songs i like to hear and there for makes me pretty open to seeing things new with an open mind i would like to say there is some parts in this movie that is not meant for the whole family to watch this movie does show skin it is kinda like a lifetime movie for women about women i say watch the movie and you may just like it as much as i did
1	although this was a low budget film and clearly last minute it holds a certain charm that is difficult to pinpoint i tend to believe it is the scriptwriter grant morris see dead dog who despite the warped plot line injected a fantastic slice of humour sorely missing in many of today's box office hits definitely a must see for a sunday afternoon laughfest speaking as a true single girl and very sceptical this film did not inspire me particularly but did ignite a small flame of hope for a lovelife not my lovelife so much as my slightly crazy lovelife who lets her hamster sleep in her bed with her she may find someone
1	just as ted kramer dustin hoffman is about to get a break in his professional life his frustrated wife joanna meryl streep finally gets up the courage to leave him leaving ted to care for their five year old son justin henry being a single parent proves to be quite the chore for ted and he suffers professionally but also learns there's much more to life than a career as he continues to bond with and really get to know his own son but then joanna returns and intends to get her son back which leads to a cruel custody trial br br kramer vs kramer is a superbly well written and magnificently acted human drama that will only leave the most cold hearted a viewer untouched hoffman's growing relationship with his son is so well portrayed and the film never takes an easy way out it always feels very real and thanks to the film's low key approach it makes even more of an impact and can easily work upon multiple viewings the film's dramatic impact does not lessen br br easily recommended 10 out of 10
1	what can i say about kramer vs kramer on the surface it's rather simple but underneath it deals with emotions greater than life itself it delivers many fantastic moments it makes you laugh it makes you cry you sympathize with the characters and you care about them many films fail at this kramer vs kramer is a success br br i think everyone would agree the acting is superb once you watch kramer vs kramer for some time the acting in most other films starts to feel plastic and unemotional the actors seem to get along well with their roles and the characters really live on the screen there's some beautiful chemistry between them i think the best performance in the film comes from the young justin henry he's different from any other child actor i've ever seen he's amazingly natural br br also there's some kind of neurotic beauty in meryl streep and dustin hoffman delivers one of the best performances of his career the story is very well written it's simple but complicated at the same time the concept is the simple part the feelings associated is the complicated part of it br br if you haven't seen this film yet you're definitely missing out see it now
1	inexplicably i watched this movie for the very first time just a couple of days ago and understood from the very beginning what all the fuss is about this movie held my attention from beginning to end and ran me through the whole range of emotions and might have helped me discover a few i never knew about br br dustin hoffman absolutely shines as ted kramer he is absolutely convincing as a man having to juggle at least three different challenges in life jilted husband workaholic ad executive and loving father meryl streep as joanna kramer was less central to the movie simply because joanna was absent for a good part of it but when she was on screen she gave hoffman a run for his money the true standout though in my opinion had to be young justin henry as billy kramer children are always the innocent victim in a marital breakdown and justin seemed absolutely natural and completely believable in this role as he deals with the conflicting emotions around his mother and his adjustment to life with dad only then to have the confusion around why he should have to leave his dad when it was his mom who walked out on him young justin didn't seem to miss a beat in this very difficult role br br all in all this is an excellent oscar worthy movie whose only weak point was what i thought to be a truly disappointing decision to go for the sappy and happy ending which was totally unrealistic considering the destructive custody battle ted and joanna had gone through but there's not much else to complain about here br br 9 10
1	the academy award winning vs follows a snazzy businessman ted kramer dustin hoffman and his divorce with his bored wife meryl streep one day ted's wife leaves him and their child in search for a better life forcing ted to become closer to his son justin henry the two bond and become very close but only after some friction and just as everything is going perfect ted's wife comes back to town and wants sole custody of their son ted then goes on a mission not to let his son get taken away from him and fights his wife in court dustin hoffman gives a tremendous performance along with meryl streep and young justin henry is impressive it's a sad emotional roller coaster of a movie but it's a very well made and inspiring film the film took the oscar for best picture at the 1979 academy awards along with best actor for hoffman and best supporting actress for streep if you don't mind a tearjerker vs is a great film to watch grade b
1	kramer vs kramer won five oscars including best picture of 1979 this intense and deeply moving family drama follows an advertising executive whose life is turned upside down when his wife of eight years walks out on him leaving him to care for his son and build a relationship with him he never had robert incisive screenplay presents us flawed but real human beings with hearts souls and brains for instance in the scene where joanna announces to ted she's leaving him she doesn't just storm out the door she gives him the keys her credit cards the dry cleaning ticket tells him which bills have been paid and informs him she has withdrawn from their bank account the same amount of money she had when they were married no more this decision to leave was not a whim it was thought about and joanna felt with no other option than to leave if she was leaving she was going to do it properly and with no specific plan in mind she did not think it right to take billy dustin hoffman won an oscar for his ted kramer a man so obsessed with bringing home the bacon he had no clue that his life at home was crumbling into pieces meryl streep also won an oscar playing joanna the unhappy wife who we feel sympathy for in the beginning of the film but that all changes when she returns for her son hoffman is at the top of his form here i always tear up during the scene where he tries to explain to billy justin henry oscar nominee why his mom left and he does it all in a stage whisper or when he meets joanna upon her return and slams her drink into a wall a hoffman moment not in the script that streep was not told about in order to get a natural reaction justin henry hits all the right notes as billy the confused little boy who doesn't know why his mom is gone and doesn't know how to communicate with his father jane alexander also got an oscar nod as ted and neighbor margaret who has switched allegiances by the film's conclusion this is an intense family drama but there are laughs to be had here too billy and the chocolate chip ice cream billy pouting because ted is late picking him for a party billy catching his dad's one night stand jobeth williams on her way to the bathroom stark naked but it's the moments of human drama you remember ted running through manhattan with billy in his arms to get to the emergency room after billy falls off the jungle gym ted getting fired right before beginning his custody battle and instead of making a scene he tells the guy in a whisper shame on you and of course the finale where joanna tells ted she's not taking billy which i found a little hard to swallow why would she go to all that trouble of suing for custody and then just change her mind but this is a small quibble regarding a wonderful movie masterfully directed by robert benton and flawlessly performed by a top notch cast a must see
1	this is a phenomenal movie truly one of the best movies i have ever watched i am a serious critic and it takes much to stir me but this movie had all the right combinations for stirring the passion of the actors without the overacting the aching for all the characters involved the serious and subtle truths about marriage and divorce all make this a must see movie despite the fact that it is 1970s this is definitely not an old movie but a classic vintage movie i hope you engage with it as i did when you consider how volatile relationships of all kinds can be when you also consider how deep pain associated with love can be and how the hardest decisions to make will always be the most painful but once they are made the pain will subside but only gradually this movie certainly demonstrates that the most volatile relationships are not necessarily weak relationships and that leaving certainly is not synonymous with lost lack of love the of this movie certainly emanates from a place deep within someone's heart and mind
1	i have seen this film on 3 different occasions on the first occasion i was bowled over by this film it appeared as a very kind film to me i hated this film as a sentimental garbage on my second viewing however my third viewing reasserted my belief that it is a good film there is a lot of emotional power in this film especially scenes of emotional confrontation between mr kramer and madam kramer there are some scenes in which meryl streep appears a cruel person despite the fact that she is a beauty in real life dustin hoffman appears as a lost hero unable to grapple with the recent task of his child's custody there was even a controversy on the sets of this film according to the master cameraman nestor there was a shot in which he just escaped getting hurt as the character of mr kramer in order to show the intensity of his anger decides to break a glass hard luckily nothing happened to nestor kramer versus kramer shows the destruction of a family structure it also tells how family must be maintained if there are kids involved
1	first i loved the documentary it represents a new school history theory where a subject can reflect a wide range of social and historical issues br br i'll get the camera and dogs out of the way first i hate the blair witch quality of the camera but also understand the advantage of such a casual approach in fact i agree with the other reviewer that it gives us unprecedented access br br dogs warning i have a doctoral degree in literature which i do not use as a profession so some of my training may seep in the dogs are a beautiful metaphor for the complex relationship of human's great endeavors and our need to find the labor to achieve them the dogs might reflect their owners as one reviewer suggested but they also serve as a stand in for the workers we see in the film while this might hint at the marxist problem raised by one reviewer i think it also shows how difficult it is to labor issues no in italy may not translate as well elsewhere yikes i am a marxist at heart and hate to hear my cynical resignation hold sway it is a remarkable bait and switch the dogs are family the workers are family but in the end the dogs are the workers the last scene with the poor farmer while you may disagree with the politics the artistry of the analogy coupled with the more overt politics of the film are wonderful br br had only faulkner i am from alabama had the power of film beyond the hollywood market what interesting tales would have been told
1	this is probably the best cinematic depiction of life in a manhattan ad agency the pressure to perform client and agency demands the parties the creativity the money the cool surface with powerful corporate undercurrents br br toss in parenthood for dustin hoffman br br the movie is textured and deep it follows his internal relationship as he tries to understand and live with what's going on his relationship with meryl streep and her friend who becomes his friend and his the relationship with his son br br while meryl streep was great did she set the record for least screen time to win an oscar she sure can deliver when she is on though
1	moving beyond words is this heart breaking story of a divorce which results in a tragic custody battle over a seven year old boy br br one of kramer v kramer's great strengths is its screenwriter director robert benton who has marvellously adapted avery corman's novel to the big screen he keeps things beautifully simple and most realistic while delivering all the drama straight from the heart his talent for telling emotional tales like this was to prove itself again with places in the heart where he showed as in kramer v kramer that he has a natural ability for working with children br br the picture's other strong point is the splendid acting which deservedly received four of the film's nine academy award nominations two of them walking away winners one of those was dustin hoffman best actor who is superb as frustrated business man ted kramer a man who has forgotten that his wife is a person as said wife joanne meryl streep claimed the supporting actress oscar for a strong sensitive portrayal of a woman who had lost herself in eight years of marriage also nominated was jane alexander for her fantastic turn as the kramer's good friend margaret final word in the acting stakes must go to young justin henry whose incredibly moving performance will find you choking back tears again and again and a thoroughly deserved oscar nomination came his way br br brilliant also is nestor cinematography and jerry timely editing while musically henry purcell's classical piece is used to effect br br truly this is a touching story of how a father and son come to depend on each other when their wife and mother leaves they grow together come to know each other and form an entirely new and wonderful relationship ted finds himself with new responsibilities and a new outlook on life and slowly comes to realise why joanne had to go br br certainly if nothing else kramer v kramer demonstrates that nobody wins when it comes to a custody battle over a young child especially not the child himself br br saturday june 10 1995 t v br br strong drama from avery corman's novel about the heartache of a custody battle between estranged parents who both feel they have the child's best interests at heart aside from a superb screenplay and amazingly controlled direction both from robert benton it's the superlative cast that make this picture such a winner br br hoffman is brilliant as ted kramer the man torn between his toppling career and the son whom he desperately wants to keep excellent too is streep as the woman lost in eight years of marriage who had to get out before she faded to nothing as a person in support of these two is a very strong jane alexander as mutual friend margaret an outstanding justin henry as the boy caught in the middle and a top cast of extras br br this highly emotional heart rending drama more than deserved it's 1979 academy awards for best film best actor hoffman and best supporting actress streep br br wednesday february 28 1996 t v
1	ever since midnight cowboy' i have been on the lookout for films with dustin hoffman and have mostly not been disappointed ever since kramer vs i have been on the lookout for films with meryl streep and have mostly not been disappointed she gave a superb performance really one of her best in sophie's decision' and i lapped her up in out of africa' that these two actors came together over 20 years ago for kramer vs was definitely a very good idea the result is an excellent character drama with a theme which is still very relevant in today's society br br on divorcing everyone has a pretty bad time though the kids seem to suffer beautifully handled by robert benton in some original directing presenting some memorable scenes even the passageway takes on character and should be included in the cast and as for the breakfast scene with billy justin henry just simply magnificent just how do you get an eight year old to act benton managed it and of course with hoffman there seemed to be good electricity the result is certainly engaging endearing and convincing justin henry's performance must rank among the best 5 or 6 kids' performances of all time the best thing once again was the naturalness there was no going over the top so frequent these days br br this film came up again on the small screen the other night though i have had it in my video collection for years it is still worth watching and paying attention to everything around out of 10
1	life was going great for new york city advertising artist ted kramer he had a great job and a loving wife no actually his wife wasn't so loving for when ted returned home late from work that night his wife joanna had a suit case packed and was heading out the door he tried to stop her but she just got into the elevator and out of ted's life well now in addition to his job he's now got to mind the house as well as their 6 year old son billy ted assured his boss that his wife's leaving would not affect his job performance in any way it did however affect his performance as a father he blew up when billy spilled punch on his client artwork well some time later ted and billy receive a letter from joanna and it was obvious from her letter that she wasn't coming back ted was distraught well he was late coming home from work on billy's birthday which made billy sore at him br br ted was late to work one day and his boss yelled at him because he had missed a very important client meeting when he got home he yelled at billy for sneaking ice cream during dinner then later he truthfully told billy that the break up between he and joanna may have been his fault not billy's ted invited a good friend phyllis bernard over that night and well billy got his first look at a naked woman when ted took billy to the park the following day he fell off the jungle gym and landed face first onto his toy plane ted literally ran him to the hospital where they had to administer stitches after that life began taking a downward spiral for ted then one day out of the blue he received a phone call from none other than joanna they met in a corner café at first they have a pleasant conversation but then joanna informs him that she has returned to collect her son and take him with her ted would have none of it and stormed out well life got even worse for ted when his boss jim o'connor took him out to lunch and abruptly fired him not only that but joanna was choosing to sue for custody of billy and without a job ted didn't stand a chance in hell for winning he hired himself a lawyer john who charged a pretty penny 15 000 exact change and that's if they win br br ted was also able to find a new job it was actually a step down from what he used to do with a considerable cut in salary but he accepted with great determination finally the court date january 9 1980 arrived judge atkins presiding joanna took the stand and proceeded to question her about why she left ted and about her other relationships and how they were failures the next day ted took the stand and lawyer really grilled him like a ted's good friend margaret took the stand as well and she really didn't help matters well the judge took some time to think it over and sure enough one day informs ted that he lost joanna got sole custody of billy how typical always ruling in favor of the mother well ted and billy were just devastated about parting ways they had a tearful goodbye when suddenly joanna stopped by she and ted have a little talk and well rather than just give away the ending let me assure everybody that everything turns out alright for everybody br br this was a very good movie dustin hoffman was very good he earned that academy award i've also seen him in hook meet the and rain man which he also won an oscar for meryl streep was good she also got an oscar justin henry was good too so where was his nomination i guess the academy had a rule against giving oscars to children but the rule was lifted when haley joel osment came along this movie has great drama light comedy and is very subtle it does a good job of holding your attention i was watching rain man on tcm the other night then this came on after and i just couldn't help but watch and that's what you should do if you like dustin hoffman or meryl streep or movies of this genre then i recommend kramer vs kramer a gripping film about the pangs of two divorced parents fighting over their child i liked ted's little speech about ruling in favor of mothers all the time what was it about sex that makes a good parents actually that's how they have the child but seriously he's right why always rule in favor of the mother because she's a woman also in the cast george coe howard duff who passed away in 1990 and howland chamberlain who passed away in 1984 watch for an up and coming jobeth williams in the nudity in the hallway scene anyway see kramer vs kramer today good movie br br
1	good drama movie about a child custody case with great performances by all the actors a good example of what an excellent script can do to propel a simple story to a much higher quality the screenplay was just average though and this is what kept the movie from the list of the all time best dramas still the great acting makes this movie a good one to see if you are a fan of court dramas or a big fan of the lead actors the movie really should have been a tad longer though for more excellence but that would really be nitpicking
1	the child actor certainly deserves a lot of credit it was a pretty weak field for best picture that year i think apocalypse now should have taken it but the academy probably felt it was too violent and strange plus vietnam was still too recent meryl streep was tremendous as always playing a very unlikeable character i don't usually compliment directors but i really liked that bit with the elevator doors grade b
1	i remember going to drive inn with my parent and sister i was in grade 5 and still a kid and the drive closed down 4 years later but the film still lingers in my memory an adult movie which a kid finds entertaining that is a mark of excellence hoffman is one of hollywoods better actors and this film proves it i like the billy put down the ice cream scene and i remember the sctv version in there film i factory myself remember joe crying please email me if you like the sctv skit not a bad film at all it is a story about a father and his son touching and i love the part where hoffman talks about and how the streets change worth a second watch 7 10
1	if you asked me to pick the best acted movies ever made this movie would be on a short list along with streetcar named desire i imagine i'll discover some others that qualify but kramer vs kramer is an outstanding exercise in naturalism so its a very satisfying experience on that level just watching the marvelous probing performances of dustin hoffman meryl streep and the child justin henry in particular one of the best child performances ever br br but i also find it very satisfying to watch because its such a thoroughly involving story it always makes me forget my own problems it has such excellent narrative drive once you stick kramer vs kramer on and alice kramer leaves ted to juggle work and their young son telling him nothing more than she has to discover herself you keep watching to know that everything turns out okay for them and even once you know how things do turn out each moment of the ride just rings so brilliantly true that its a joy to watch it happen again and again br br make no mistake kramer vs kramer is not light entertainment its a very realistic portrayal of the effects of divorce on everyone involved br br 10 10 br br for one of the best scripts born out of conversations between benton and hoffman who was going through a divorce at the time ever written executed and performed beautifully and not to mention what a great involving story it is put simply a perfect film
1	i thought this film was quite good and quite entertaining for a film heavy on emotion i agree with what another user wrote about the script being sympathetic to the three main characters i think that this is what what made the film good it didn't villainies either mr or mrs kramer and it was refreshing i think to see two people essentially work the issue out on their own and eventually do the best thing for billy and although it was a little strange i actually liked the music in this film as well for some reason the music seemed appropriate for the journey that the three main characters embarked upon this movie flowed quite well and didn't doodle like some emotionally heavy films tend to do it dealt with a serious situation but didn't take itself too seriously it simply told the story in a straight forward way and it worked quite well
1	normally movies stay out of the realm of domestic drama and for good reason who wants to intentionally seek entertainment from a story about what they or those close to them have to deal with in real life divorce hurts an incredible percentage of american families of all classes and custody battles are ugly and necessary parts of it that's not escapism the number one reason the average person turns to movies that's sad reality br br normally divorce or custody is simply part of a greater story and affects the way we understand it or relate to its characters kramer vs kramer focuses on it and asks us to understand why we do it and why that makes it so troubling that's a challenge for both this film and its audience turn something so real into something that can capture our attention and then make us not feel spiteful as the mirror is held up to our face writer director robert benton definitely achieves both and in impressive fashion in adapting this novel by avery corman br br the story as one would expect is quite simple big business advertising man ted kramer dustin hoffman comes home to find his wife joanna meryl streep is leaving him and their 7 year old son billy justin henry ted then must quickly learn to be an active father in the boys' life and as soon as he does joanna brings a custody suit upon him br br to make an oscar winning drama about something so generic and particularly dialogue heavy first takes tremendous acting talent you don't get much better than hoffman and streep hoffman is in his prime in this role his first oscar win after three other notable nominations he creates a thorough character one whose self centered and quick tempered ways clearly change as he learns to be a better father and the sole care giver streep wins her first oscar in only the second major role of her career as a woman who doesn't get much screen time but must communicate both inner torment at her decision to leave as well as renewed sense of identity when she returns to take custody streep does so effortlessly the young boy justin henry who at his age was the youngest competitive category nominee in academy awards history plays the embodiment of all 7 year old children exceptionally well br br writing and direction takes these performances to the level where we see deeper into this family's troubles than we do our own and thus reconsider our thoughts about love and raising a family previous notable credits bonnie clyde and superman wouldn't indicate a strong command of family drama but the man can flat out write numerous scenes give us strong visuals that show us much more than the typical family scenarios they depict the first morning that joanna is gone and ted make's billy french toast is a classic that perfectly demonstrates all the talent going into this movie in a scene that happens in americans' kitchens every morning br br you'll rarely see a story as straightforward as kramer vs kramer done better there aren't any surprises at the end or twists and turns that will keep us desperately glued to the screen the film then has to rely on its talents and they are all sure fire delivering a new understanding of a subject that's so familiar
1	our reviewer from toronto told you what you need to know about this film except note that it needs editing the hand held technique gets really old really fast i saw this film last night in france we are in the valley which is covered with and of course wine makers they were all there in the salle de for the showing crammed in polite patient genial although my french is testy i got the gist of the film but noted that the audience loved the old terror growers interviewed esp the one from a communist village in he got a lot of laughs this is unusual in france laughing aloud there is no question which side of the terror globalization war they are on sm
1	certainly when i saw this movie at hbo i was bit erratic in following the plot but it catches my attention when seeing dustin hoffman in it honestly i'm not enthralled watching old movies but then in the long run it changes my point of view seeing this stirring film made me experience once again at my seat not noticing my tears suddenly roll down my cheek and then after let loose a heavy sigh in realizing the impact of what i've just witness kramer vs kramer was indeed one of the best classical drama movies i've witnessed for a long time that even i myself couldn't imagine how it touched me the story was strongly emotional but is not saturated with such the characters weren't unrealistic for their roles they possess qualities that make viewers like them whatever position they have in the film like the role of meryl streep she was a mother who honestly concede her mistakes at the past but then she's confident to stand up her emotional motives to get what she desires in a fair and square battle dustin hoffman was way too outstanding i can't even fathom how this guy could play seriously difficult roles and suddenly jump into another role which is completely different then performed it well even though i have already seen the movies a lot of times when i seat back and lounge at my home scanning worth movies to peer and buy a time for it catching a glimpse for kramer vs kramer will make my experience another worthwhile moment
1	kramer vs kramer is a near heartening drama about shocking drastic of the two subjects of a failed married couple meryl streep in the throes of her trademark maternal sensitivity plays an unhappy stay at home mother who feels confined to such a role and within the first five minutes of the film leaves her inattentive husband in a fantastic performance by dustin hoffman to find another role for herself hoffman is dumbstruck having absolutely no idea what to do with himself having taken so much for granted that he doesn't know the first thing about getting his son to school in the morning br br hoffman seamlessly characterizes this husband as such a juicy load of setbacks he is restless relentless and impatient but even though the positive side to those three adjectives should include just the opposite he is unremittingly fixated on whatever he turns his head to he's been focused on his career in advertising and when he is left to raise his son billy all by himself chaos in immediately he's the one throwing temper tantrums and quitting angrily halfway through an activity after awhile as he befriends his neighbor and former friend played by sexy jane alexander hoffman his jets enough to understand why his wife left in the meantime his boundless energy towards raising billy and he loses his job br br the custody battle of the title is a brilliantly grey circumstance even if the ending is a little unmotivated for the audience the last line and the last shot still have that witty screen writing touch that seemed to diminish after the magical 1970s
1	i've seen many dustin hoffman's movies like straw dogs or rain man and i liked them but his characters are much to often calm or even shy persons i expected him to be in this movie the same as he was in straw dogs but i saw a totally different person he was much more energetic in this film and kinda reminded me of al pacino in serpico the movie was very interesting from beginning to the end i liked the way dustin hoffman's character was ready to do just about everything to stay with his son this movie is also revealing personally i think it shows that people should learn to find a compromise them self without involving other people into issue
1	kramer vs kramer is the story of a marital breakup and the consequences of same they can be devastating to the partners and even more so to a minor child which in this case is played by justin henry br br what i really did like about kramer vs kramer it's greatest strength as a film is the way that parents dustin hoffman and meryl streep are presented to the audience as whole people with many sides to their nature though the film is slanted in hoffman's direction and more about his relationship with his son he's not presented as any kind of saint nor is streep a completely black villain hoffman's a career oriented man in the advertising game he's pretty much ignored his wife's dreams and aspirations still it's a big shock to him when streep says the love's no longer there and she wants out she also wants out of being a mother at least for a while br br hoffman and henry make do the best they can the pressure of being both parents causes hoffman to lose his job and he has to take a lower paying one in another agency at that point after over a year streep decides she wants custody br br both parents make compelling witnesses and state their case beautifully but in these situations the tie is always broken in favor of the mother br br dustin hoffman and meryl streep won their first of two oscars respectively for this film her in the supporting actress category i'm not sure how these things are decided streep does get less screen time than hoffman if that's the determining factor the film does focus on hoffman's relationship with his son and his evolving realization that he has his share of the blame for the marriage failure as for meryl it's a choice for her as it is for many women to balance a career and motherhood the conflict in her psyche registers for all to see on the screen br br dustin hoffman may have won that oscar partly for the same reason that spencer tracy picked up his first by performing the impossible task of not letting a scene stealing child steal the film children with their lack of inhibitions are natural actors and henry is great because he comes over as a real kid not a hollywood kid i wonder if hoffman saw captains courageous and saw how spencer tracy dealt with freddie bartholomew dustin could have done a lot worse than channel spencer tracy in his performance br br kramer vs kramer also won oscars for best picture best director for robert benton and best adapted screenplay it's an intelligent and compelling drama about adults falling out of love and trying to deal as best they can with it for themselves and their child don't miss it if ever broadcast
1	the marriage of an upscale new york city couple with child falls apart when the wife wants out it took a lot of courage for her to walk out that door a neighbor tells us the busy distracted husband takes on the motherly responsibilities and grows closer to his son but soon the wife returns highly manipulative picture doesn't give us a very realistic familial unit with young justin henry certainly not resembling the product of a marriage between dustin hoffman and meryl streep but the dynamics are intriguing and involving and director robert benton keeps the pace popping with lots of cleverness marvelous classical music canny editing and surefire bits of humor streep's character is designed to be a cold self centered witch but i was ready to feel a lot more for her than benton probably wanted it all has to be painted in terms of black and white good and bad with hoffman learning how hard his wife had it and getting a second chance at being a good parent the film never falters from its preconceived path and very fine acting nearly saves it but i'm not sure where benton was steering the film in the final act and the closing scene is awfully abrupt from
1	no this has nothing to do with the sitcom seinfeld or its eccentric and hilarious character cosmo kramer in reality kramer vs kramer is a fine drama movie without a doubt one of the finest of its kind and one of the greatest movies ever i'm glad that it won more oscars than apocalypse now because it really deserved such glory br br kramer vs kramer is an excellent film so well made and so perfectly balanced that i wouldn't change anything about it in any way there is nothing wrong with the film it's film making of the highest quality and it stands the test of time too not only it doesn't look any dated but also its cultural impact is long lasting and its realistic story remains just as significant as it was when it came out in 1979 a timeless classic they don't make movies like this today br br this movie is dramatic realistic simple but brilliant intense powerful sweet and even tragic and depressing sometimes yet it has fine humor as well it has no special effects but who cares this is not the movie or place to discuss such thing for a movie like this such thing would be pointless and absolutely unnecessary br br the story is very interesting the actors's chemistry is just perfect all of the actors are great but the 3 main ones are the very best dustin hoffman a brilliant actor has his greatest performance ever here as the lovable but distant workaholic ted kramer meryl streep is great as ted's wife joanna and cute little justin henry is terrific as the loving but sometimes stubborn billy son of ted and joanna br br the soundtrack is all instrumental and wonderful the opening song by the guitarist frederic hand is brilliant the rest of the soundtrack is mostly antonio vivaldi's classical music and is simply dazzling br br this motion picture has also an incredible development of the characters see the character ted kramer a workaholic who becomes an amazing father after being left with no choice but to take care of his son trying to adjust these new responsibilities with his job after being left by his wife joanna with this ted learns about the most beautiful things in life but also realizes how though life is with the problems in his job and the return of joanna who wants the custody of their son but even joanna changes for better and the ending is an unexpected surprise when one sees this for the first time br br this movie has also some though things such as courtroom scenes where both ted and joanna face brutal character assassinations unleashed by the lawyers another though thing to see is when poor billy falls off a jungle gym with his toy a plane and gets seriously injured on his face but then again the scene is very well made and what comes next is very intense his father runs quickly and crosses numerous blocks ignoring the traffic to take his son to the hospital br br overall this is a movie which is a good lesson of life br br this should definitely be on top 250
1	i think not i mean yeah if you compare this film to the godfather or maybe a little older film like casablanca or maybe even a little newer film like the english patient it doesn't have the camera work or the cinematography like these other films but that doesn't mean that this is a bad movie or does it i think the reason why this film is underrated is because a lot of people always compare it to other great oscar winning films you should never do that which makes it hard to understand the beauty and the realism in this movie in the categories best picture best actor in a leading role and best actress in a supporting role this film really deserved all of them the magnificent dustin hoffman gives us once again one of his best performances a couple of times in this movie i forgot that it wasn't his son because it was just so real i have never seen a film about relationships in different families where it was so easy for the actors to play that specific role but still so beautiful so dustin hoffman passes the test with flying colors in my opinion there are a few actresses in the world who deserve to be called the best katherine hepburn meryl streep jane fonda and ingrid bergman i can't help it i think she's great meryl streep even though she's in a supporting role is amazing and real and you just can't help but being drawn ed to her talent and the way she makes it hers and real wow that's all i can say justin henry was great considering his age his tears and his relationship with his mom and dad was beautiful so i say good job to cute little justin henry br br while i was watching this film for like the third time alone i couldn't stop crying i tried but i couldn't thank god i was alone this is probably the purest film i have ever seen other films that were nominated for best picture was apocalypse now norma rae breaking away and all that jazz i'm ashamed cause i haven't seen any of them but from what i've heard apocalypse now is great but when i heard about norma rae i only thought of sally field i think that considering the other nominees this film deserved it's five oscars and that it'll continue to touch and make other people cry for a long time in the future just like it has for the past 28 years good job all the actors and actresses in this film for giving us great performances and memories from watching this film that we won't ever forget br br thanks for your time
1	i consider myself lucky that i got to view a wonderful movie with two marvelous actors kramer vs kramer was great to me because i think i could relate to it br br unfortunately my parents are divorced even though i was older than billy in this movie i felt his pain and confusion having two parents who you thought were happy and end up hating each other is the worst through this movie actually i think it made me realize that my parents are people too and they had as just much pain as my sister and i had br br back to the movie this was a good one yes it's dated and meryl and dustin are very young but i would recommend this for a lot of people because i think most can relate in some way there are funny sad happy and relieving moments that are carried away terrificly by these great actors it's a good movie and deserves more credit than a 7 5 br br 9 10
1	after a decade of turbulent unrest american movies began to switch gears and turn their cameras away from war torn battlefields political corruption and general social unease to the more intimate world of family dysfunction the toll the selfish baby boomers began to take on the american family as they grew up and had kids of their own was making itself felt br br kramer vs kramer is one of the first of these dysfunctional family dramas that would continue to be so popular throughout the 1980s and it's one of the best it gets a rather bum rap now because it's known as the film that beat apocalypse now for the 1979 best picture academy award but comparing these two films is like comparing a banana to a marinated chicken breast they're not remotely the same but can't we enjoy them both director writer robert benton doesn't try to do anything fancy with his movie its strength lies in its performances those of dustin hoffman and meryl streep particularly playing a divorced couple fighting childishly and selfishly over their son the courtroom scene in which they duke it out for custody and in which each is forced to hurt the other in terrible ways is devastating and feels authentic the movie doesn't present hoffman's solid dad as a hero or streep's straying mom as a villain they're neither good or bad as people they're simply bad at being married br br the film is tear jerky at the finale but not in a manipulative way it earns its right to elicit sobs br br grade a
1	kramer vs kramer is one film to hold on too and not forget it isn't one of the most popular films ever made and is certainly one of the weakest best picture films but it does not mean it still isn't important i thought the movie was well done and made you just want to watch more and more of it the performances were the best positive for the film and dustin hoffman played one of his best roles he's ever done as the lonely workaholic who has to take care of his son as his wife separates from him billy who is hoffman's son played another great performance along with meryl streep playing the depressed mother of billy kramer vs kramer is not one of the greatest films and is not a perfect 10 but it succeeds in making the film worth watching and worth caring about it certainly one of hoffman's best films he's ever done i highly recommend it br br hedeen's outlook 9 10 a
1	is a moving and rewarding documentary in the world of wine there is a huge different between the big and the small one it's not just about size of of your vineyard but also the amount of money and power you have if you have enough money to place ads in the wine spectator and hire a so called wine except then it doesn't matter the size of your estate also in business world of today wine often has to mass marketed and suited to people's taste what is means many times wine filtered of it's origin shows the commercial side of wine in that of mega producer robert and michael the wine expert who shapes wine to the taste of today's critics like robert parker who is also in the film now these men are not evil or wrong for they have done a great deal of good for wine but they have power on a grand scale as we all know power corrupts also shows small wine makers such as aime of the and hubert de of volnay in burgundy these wine makers are not starving wine makers but they know like all great wine makers that it's about where the grapes are from the best example of this is explained not by a wine maker but by a haitian man working for neal the wine the area the grapes are grown the that matters that a guiding hand that knows this makes important real wine
1	although credit should have been given to dr for stealing the story line of horton hatches the egg this was a fine film it touched both the emotions and the intellect due especially to the incredible performance of seven year old justin henry and a script that was sympathetic to each character and each one's predicament the thought provoking elements linger long after the tear jerking ones are over overall superior acting from a solid cast excellent directing and a very powerful script the right touches of humor throughout help keep a heavy subject from becoming tedious or difficult to sit through lastly this film stands the test of time and seems in no way dated decades after it was released
1	this outstanding film has about the best acting that you'll ever see and that alone makes this a must see the entire cast is excellent but then again it had to be in order to keep up with dustin hoffman and meryl streep it didn't take me long to get hooked on this film and aside from a courtroom scene that is merely good this is top notch entertainment this is a rare film that actually deserved all the oscar recognition that it received see it for yourself and you will definitely not be disappointed
1	kramer vs kramer is a terrific drama about an unhappy woman who walks out on her husband and young son the husband now has to take up the responsibilities of taking care of the boy as he does they get to know each other better but then the mother and wife returns and she wants custody of the boy kramer vs kramer has lots of drama with some wonderful bits of comedy thrown in for good measure dustin hoffman won his first best actor oscar for his brilliant performance here most people say his performance in rainman which won him his second oscar is his best he was great in that film but i disagree that its his best in my opinion the best performance of hoffman's career is in this movie scene after scene shows us why hoffman is one of the best american actors working today he's also funny at times also giving a terrific performance is meryl streep who wasn't as well known when she made this film like she is today streep like hoffman also won her first oscar for best supporting actress for her work in kramer vs kramer as the wife and mother who tries to find herself after walking out on her family justin henry who was only 8 years old when the film came out is wonderful as hoffman and streep's son he won an oscar nomination for his role here and still to this day he is the youngest performer to receive an oscar nomination in a competitive category best supporting actor jane alexander is also fine as a family friend she too got an oscar nomination for supporting actress where she lost to co star streep kramer vs kramer is a great film from start to finish writer director robert benton has made a film that's absolutely unforgettable br br out of four
1	i hate to say it but i really do think this one's overrated and i love jackie's films it's got more plot behind it than usual but unfortunately though it has some great stuff i find it to be a bit slow all in all i say it's entertaining but not great
1	hi being able to speak cantonese i found this very funny and was able to all the jokes that one might not get due to language barriers the fight scenes are spectacular and it's a good movie however i have my criticisms first of all i find that it is not as good as the first one project a go and see that now reason is spoilers ahead don't read on if you haven't seen the film because in project a jackie ends by fighting his enemy the man he is sent to kill that is what he has been striving to do all the film and the showdown is spectacular but in a ii hough he fights chan the showdown scene between jackie and his nemesis is not long enough and the bulk of the action is against the men they are not nearly as bad enough and have only played a minor part in the film in relation to jackie so though their fight sequence is spectacular they are not the ones jackie is hunting throughout the whole of the film so thus leaving the viewer slightly unfulfilled however this is just my humble opinion so don't take it word for word go and see it yourself it is a great film in it's own right take care and hope your admiration for jackie grows yours sincerely ian ps you know the police chief in a ii he's the same guy in first strike nice to know he's still going strong
1	sequels are a capricious lot with most nowhere near the stature of the original sometimes you find a sequel that is considered better than the original some critics such as john charles have stated that project is better than the original i disagree somewhat but this movie is still a worthwhile follow up and fits well in the output of brilliant hong kong action cinema in the 1980s as well as jackie's own oeuvre i do wonder how with such an awesome release of great films that his later films were not as good he only has directed two films in the 1990s and none past that but he has had much clout in many of the films where he is not officially the director br br earlier in 1987 jackie had brain surgery following a disastrous fall in the filming of armour of god this encouraged him to work on his next film close to home this did not encourage him to stop risking his life and his stunt team for our amusement what resulted is a smash hit at home that eclipsed the original in box office 31 million hk dollars compared to 19 million for the original br br jackie chan is once again police officer extraordinaire dragon ma and he is ordered to work with three wan superintendent chun lam wai royal warriors who is the only chinese police officer allowed to have a gun yet is thought to be staging arrests to make himself look better and ignoring the crimes of a triad lord named tiger au michael chan wai man dragon lord apparently chun has too much power to be taken down directly but he is relieved of the sai wan district now he is two wan which dragon ma takes over this inefficient and corrupt office will soon get a makeover and there is a great scene where three officers who do not know who they are dealing with attempt to assault ma to teach him a lesson about complaining about police officers he soon has that district ship shape and tiger au taken care of the fight choreography and stunts with tiger and his men are quite awesome my favorite stunt was a beautifully brutal fall from the second floor into a large vase and that vase did not appear to be soft br br meanwhile a couple of subplots are happening there are pirates who have survived from the first film who are looking for revenge and food then there are revolutionaries including maggie maggie cheung in the mood for love and rosamund kwan casino raiders who are trying to raise funds for dr sun yat sen to overthrow the qing government as well as government operatives who are trying to find these rebels throw in a mixture of corrupt hong kong and british cops as well as legitimate ones and you have a stew that is getting a bit too many ingredients but yet still seems to coalesce this works well when there is a marx brothers influenced scene the marx brothers have done this type of scene a few times with the 1929 being the first at maggie's place where everyone is looking for someone while hiding from someone else many weeks were spent on this scene alone and the effort certainly shows br br there are several faults with the film there is a certain didactic nature that creeps in the film that seems a bit out of place – especially one small speech towards the end that jackie gives when dealing with the mainland revolutionaries and the extremely easy conversion of the pirates that survived from the first film female characters are once again underused and under appreciated especially maggie cheung i was not as satisfied with the continuance of the plot as much as the first film either the individual scenes dominate my feelings for the film instead of thinking of this movie as a cohesive whole i do not fault the film for not being able to have sammo hung and yuen biao like the first though i have heard the main reason behind this was that those two were filming eastern condors but i do wonder if jackie could have waited a small while to get them to perform in this – they would work together for the last time the following year in dragons forever but they are missed br br i found this to be quite an enjoyable and well made film and it is rightfully regarded as one of the better comedic action films of the 1980s this film is also quite good in a few unexpected places the art direction is superb eddie ma the costumes are exquisite the cinematography is good and the movie looks quite authentic but the stunts comedy and the action is what i remember this film for there is a chase involving a handcuffed dragon and chun that is superb part of the axe throwing scene would be used in shanghai noon the last twenty minutes is full of awe inspiring hits falls chili peppers as a mouth mace jackie writes in his autobiography about how he used real peppers in this scene you can see him in a lot of mouth pain during the outtakes at the end and is a worthy conclusion to this movie the most famous stunt from this sequence is his homage to buster keaton from steamboat bill jr 1928 with the exception that there is no hole and only a weak section where his head pops through br br fans of jackie and or hong kong action cinema should consider this a must own and watch i certainly do
1	dragon ma jackie chan is back having rid the seas of the dreaded pirate lo back on land he is assigned to the police force where he is to clean up corruption and crime in a local suburb along the way he is caught up in the fate of several chinese patriots attempting to secure sympathy and support for their revolutionary cause the chinese manchu government is after these revolutionaries and anyone that stands in their way is in trouble even if they are in the police force i had big expectations for this movie after i saw project a but sadly i was a little disappointed there is just too little action compared to the first film there is just one good fight scene until the big ending that fight scene is in the gangsters place and its good a lot of people flying all over the place and hard kicks and punches are throw jackie chan and his stunt team don't disappoint here at all the ending is very entertaining jackie chan shows us why he is the best stuntman in the world really exciting stuff the only bad thing with the ending is that the fights are too short and forgettable conclusion many funny moments good acting and crazy stunts but not enough fighting for a top rating
1	project a ii is a classic jackie chan movie with all the kung fu crazy stunts and slapstick humor you expect not as good as the prequel but still it is a great movie if you just want something fun to watch the story is simple jackie chan versus the evil men so if you want a movie that you don't have to be a to understand i would suggest this one
1	i honestly dont know why so many people hate this movie i have always thought that it was one of my absolute faves the fight with tiger and his men rocked the fight with the pirates with the axes rocked the whole skit with everyone trying to avoid one another in the house is pure genious ok so it didnt have the requisite kick ass final confrontation but the manchus were pretty good i give it a 8 10
1	this production was quite a surprise for me i absolutely love obscure early 30s movies but i wasn't prepared for the last 25 minutes of this story if by any chance you're not convinced in the first half hang in there for the finale of course you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical a fascinating viewing experience but i think the cat's paw is not available on video dvd yet watch your pbs listings
1	it's not really about wine no real targets are those who would streamline and assimilate the peculiarities of local wine production for business purposes to this end he has made an excellent objective film spirited bumptious emotional and flawed independent wine producers are juxtaposed with media and auld europeans the art of wine making against market driven product manufacture it's an open show that doesn't lead conclusion br br film is occasionally infuriating to watch cameras are neither concealed nor steadicam by any means there are also plenty of captions as well as subtitles to wade through often too short a time on screen br br however it does outdo michael moore at the game moore can't play anyway the characters speak for and therefore condemn themselves well worth a viewing 7 10
1	this film would be considered controversial today but is still very funny the racial stereotyping is done from the view of humor not hate this film strips off shows how corrupt politicians already were in the early 1930's this film proves it started before the 1970's beyond when it has accelerated in the united states lloyd is still in his typical genre here even though his character was raised in china br br the meaning of a cat's paw in this instance is a person who is running for political office but is being used by the established political machine to advance their agenda in other words they think this guy lloyd is harmless when he runs for office then when he gets elected he surprises them br br this same theme is used later in james stewarts film mr smith goes to washington stewarts is more famous has a stronger message this film is more clever subtle which are harold trademarks br br there is still the heart of romantic comedy hidden with the facade of the movie but today's mainstream audiences would still appreciate the political humor the ending is absolutely priceless i wish someone could beat today's political system in this way i was surprised how much i enjoyed this film find myself wishing harold had done more like it during the 1930's br br at least we have this one i think the person who is quoted most in the movie is fictional ling po i always thought was the wise one but this one makes me believe the wisdom of china was not limited to him is a vast field of comedy lloyd mined in this movie
1	i really enjoyed this old black and white talkie at first i didn't recognize harold lloyd as mr cobb a missionary to china coming home to find a wife there were many twists and turns in mr attempts to clean up city hall his methods of making the punishment fit the crime would likely be illegal but this is not a movie based on reality this would be a perfect movie for children except that there is female near nudity only on grace bradley the old telephones are enchanting the only fault is a problem typical of the day caucasians are used to represent chinese men this is offset by the positive way the chinese are portrayed they are the wise good and friendly guys trivia a truck appears in the movie when the police run out of black
1	for those of you looking for the crazy stunts that typified a harold lloyd silent comedy this is not the film for you what the cat's paw gives us is an interesting and atypical character for lloyd who was trying to establish himself in sound br br for me the closest movie comparison to lloyd's character is that of peter sellers in being there for all the education that lloyd has received in dealing with the world he might as well have been brought up in isolation as sellers was br br but where he was brought up was as a missionary's child in china and i don't know how much christianity he and his family were able to teach the chinese but young harold has learned the wisdom of chinese philosopher lin po whom he quotes constantly like a fortune cookie as it turns out lin po turns out to be one wise dude br br anyway lloyd's father samuel s hinds has decided his son needs some education in the modern world of 20th century america and he sends him back to be the guest of the pastor of the home church which sponsors the mission the pastor there is the perennial candidate of the movement of that town of but no sooner does lloyd arrive and the pastor dies br br now the reform movement is a sham and the pastor a patsy of the political bosses who need a straw man opponent in every election they decide lloyd just might be a better patsy than the guy who just died br br of course as it goes in these type of films the patsy proves to be not so easy a proposition in fact lloyd constantly quoting from lin po the way charlie chan used to dispense wisdom proves quite the adversary for the crooks who run in addition lloyd gains the admiration of una merkel as cynical a dame as jean arthur was in mr deeds and mr smith br br the cat's paw is still a nice political satire though it did not establish harold lloyd as big a comedy name as he was in silent films a nice cast of players was selected by director sam taylor topped by george who plays a political boss who discovers lloyd and actually proves to have a streak of honesty in him
1	this movie caught me by surprise for years i have avoided many of harold lloyd's sound pictures as well as those of keaton because they have a generally well deserved reputation for being lousy compared to the silent films because the basic formula has been lost however when i saw this film i was pleasantly surprised to find i actually liked it once i accepted it really was not a harold lloyd film despite him starring in it this is because although it is nothing like the style of his earlier films it is highly original and lloyd isn't bad playing a totally different type of character br br as i mentioned above the formula of the old films is almost completely missing here lloyd does not do the old familiar stunt work the romance is quite unlike his early screen romances and the plot is just plain weird instead of the usual roles he is the son of a chinese missionary who returns to america for the first time since he was a small boy because of this though he looks like an american except for his white suit and helmet he thinks and acts a lot like someone who is chinese in many ways he's very naive about america and is like an innocent among wolves early on he meets a man who turns out to be a local party boss this boss always produces a losing candidate for the mayoral race because he is bought and paid for by the corrupt mayor to produce a token candidate who has no chance of winning well the old geezer who they traditionally run for office just died and he decides to run the naive lloyd he hasn't a prayer of winning well the unthinkable happens and lloyd wins this and lloyd's decision to clean up the town greatly upsets the old political machine and they stop at nothing to destroy honest lloyd just when it appears lloyd is headed to jail on a trumped up corruption charge he creates a scheme that is 100 impossible and very illegal to get signed confessions from the crooks however despite this it is incredibly funny and a great ending so my advice is at the end just suspend disbelief and enjoy br br an important note this movie is definitely not politically correct the word chink is used repeatedly i found it offensive but considering the times i ignored it as you should too if however you are someone who can't and like being angry i suggest you never watch movies anyway as you are bound to become offended again and again
1	br br as a harold lloyd fan i agree with the other reviewer's comments except that i feel that movie crazy was his best sound film cat's paw is a close second but this is just my opinion br br this film is a hoot from beginning to end and in many scenes george the crook that gets him elected mayor almost steals the show especially at the end of the film br br one wishes that una character would be a bit more sympathetic to harold especially as the film progresses only in the last few minutes of the film do we find out her true feelings for him and even then there is no romance kissing etc br br this is a must see film
1	what is often neglected about harold lloyd is that he was an actor unlike chaplin and keaton lloyd didn't have the vaudeville music hall background and he wasn't a natural comedian he came to hollywood to act and he discovered he had a knack for acting funny first in shorts then in features he made a name for himself as lonesome luke a chaplin knock off with the glasses character that made him the all american boy rather than a grotesque lloyd found his stride and his movies became some of the best produced during the silent era br br he developed a reputation as a daredevil in some shorts and retained this in some of his best movies safety last for heaven's sake girl shy he was more popular than either chaplin or keaton during the twenties and he became very rich before the advent of sound br br the first sound movies were often disasters to get the most out of their sound too much dialog was used in many movies br br lloyd's acting skills were after two decades geared for silents he didn't have a bad voice its high pitch suited his glasses character and his sound films weren't the unqualified disasters of legend yet silent movies had been raised to a high art especially lloyd's which did not stint on budget and were extremely well crafted with the introduction of talkies movies had to learn to walk again and they made some missteps br br though he tried to move with the times and embraced sound lloyd's best bits from his early overly talky talkies were still visual such as the scene in movie crazy where he appears to be riding in a swank car but actually hitched a ride on his bicycle br br trying to recapture the daredevil antics that made him famous as he did in feet first was misstep in safety last his best movie and the one that deservedly or not shoved lloyd in the box as a daredevil comic he played a determined young man climbing to the top safety last had a natural structure that ascended to his character's scaling the side of the building he was obviously afraid but his fear added to the humor in feet first he arrived in a precarious building scaling position by accident his frantic cries for help detracted from the humor his character was pathetic and cringing aspiration to save his neck possibly an accurate statement of the 1930s but not amusing br br harold lloyd was not mired in the past like some wacky norma desmond he embraced sound and tried to take his movies in different directions growing and changing with the industry when feet first failed he left the daredevil business and made a satire on the talking movie industry movie crazy just as he had to flounder through many movies as lonesome luke before carving his place in movie history with the glasses character he had tried several directions in sound movies before hitting his stride in sound which he did with the br br in the he plays a missionary's son reared in china who unwittingly gets elected mayor as a front for corrupt political interests when he finds out the truth he sets himself the task of cleaning up the town only in his early forties lloyd could still act the brash young man br br yet the was another box office failure and lloyd made only three more movies including the milky way of his chief competitors chaplin still had silent movies in him and keaton was hopelessly mismanaged the and the milky way suggest lloyd might have mastered sound comedy if he had been a little younger or if audiences had given him the benefit of the doubt after his early sound br br though the movie has been unfairly maligned about the way lloyd's character cleaned up the town it suits him from his days in shorts lloyd wanted to scare his audience and the climax of the achieved it yet again in a surprising way until the trick is revealed it appears gruesome and then come the laughs br br viewed as a product of its time the is charming and funny a very well written sound comedy well acted by lloyd directed by sam taylor its curious blend of drama and sly humor make it look almost like a frank capra or preston sturges comedy
1	it has to be admitted that the best work of harold lloyd ended with his last great silent comedy speedy in 1928 after that he enters sound films like chaplin and keaton and laurel hardy and w c fields and does do better than keaton but not as well as the other three chaplin was rich enough to make his own films as producer but he paced his films so there were five years between productions laurel hardy were under the protection of hal roach so production standards for their shorts and sound films were pretty good fields first worked with mack sennett than with paramount and then free lloyd tried the route that chaplin took but with less success br br he produced his own films but unlike chaplin he did not own his own studio also his first two choices were not good especially feet first but he did begin to choose more wisely and movie crazy the cat's paw and the milky way were all good choices these three and possibly the sin of harold were his best sound ventures they are all entertaining but none are up to safety last the freshman the kid brother or speedy br br of the top four sound films the cat's paw is the most controversial ezekiel solution to ridding the city that elects him mayor is very extreme for the tastes of 2005 or is it when a movie is made dictates what it's politics are the cat's paw is from 1934 that second year of the roosevelt new deal itself rather controversial for heavier government involvement movie audiences saw films like gabriel over the white house and the phantom president where our leaders did extra constitutional actions to rid the nation of internal enemies and to force disarmament around the globe even cecil b de mille got into this act with this day and age where a bunch of teenagers use rats to force a gangster to confess his crimes br br to us the use of violence to force anyone even a bunch of goons and like alan gang to confess is repellent after all the supreme court has protected us from confession under duress what we forget is that the reforms we are thinking of did not occur until the warren court and the burger court made them for example although mr justice sutherland's opinion in the powell scottsboro boys case of 1932 guaranteed every criminal defendant had a right to counsel gideon v wainwright did not extend this to ordering court paid counsel to defendants until 1962 the miranda case with it's now well known anti self warning is from 1963 nothing like this were considered necessary in 1934 br br if you study other movies of the period up to 1954 and even to 1960 tricks are used to get confessions kirk douglas confesses his crimes in front of witnesses in i walk alone while burt lancaster holds a gun to him when lancaster leaves douglas sneers about confessing under duress only to see the gun is unloaded suddenly he realizes that legally in 1948 he has confessed without duress hate to say it to any civil reading this note but what cobb lloyd does to and his pals in the conclusion of the cat's paw was not only legal but would have led to their jail sentences in 1934 we may call it heavy handed fascistic or horrid but it would have worked legally when it was thought up
1	returning from 20 years in china a young missionary refuses to become the cat's paw for a gang of hometown hoodlums br br this movie was a bit of a departure from harold lloyd's previous movies comedy derived more from dialogue often rather serious predominates here rather than the elaborate sight gags which powered harold's classics of the past there are some splendid moments however which are pure visual fun as when harold attempts to follow a convertible down a crowded street or when he desperately tries to keep a nightclub stripper from losing her clothes there is also the climactic scene set in a chinatown basement in which harold gleefully jumps unabashedly into the darkest comedy but most of the humor derives from harold's refusal to be the patsy of the criminals who've run his hometown for years br br and it's quite a collection of crooked politicians thugs harold finds himself up against played by a bevy of fine character actors george nat pendleton grant mitchell edwin maxwell alan warren hymer stuttering fuzzy knight pert una merkel is on hand as the tobacco stand girl who catches harold's eye and keeps him intrigued by her no nonsense outlook on life br br movie mavens will recognize samuel s hinds as harold's missionary father charles sellon as an elderly clergyman and herman bing as a german gangster all uncredited also showing up for only a few seconds as an attempted kidnapper is noah young a familiar face from harold's silent films here making his final appearance in a lloyd picture br br fox gave the film fine production values especially in the opening scenes set in china
1	went to the premiere at the tribeca film festival in nyc and i absolutely loved the film i am diane's 1 biggest fan and of course as always she gave a magnificent performance i have seen every single one of her movies and i must say that this is one of my new favorites diane was funny and moving and just took my breath away donald sutherland was surprisingly humorous but also a good amount of serious anton yelchin is just a wonderful young actor and gave an amazing performance all in all i recommend this film to anyone who can appreciate an excellent movie 10 thumbs up i would definitely go see it again and again and again this is the best film of the year so far
1	this is an adaptation of a dirk wittenborn book which i did not read young finn earl lives with his mom liz diane lane in a cramped lower east side new york apartment he dreams of joining his anthropologist father studying a fierce tribe in south america liz has boyfriends and does coke when he is caught scoring coke for her one of her customers liz is a legitimate masseuse a rich mr osborne bails her out in return for being his full time personal masseuse in his huge estate in new jersey they are driven there in a limo with her strung out lying in the back seat with her dress hitched way up and panties showing this and a few low cut dress scenes is the only exploitation of ms lane some may be disappointed but i'm sorry she had to do all that stuff in unfaithful to make the a list that lady has more talent in her little finger than streep roberts and sally field do in their entire bodies and its time she was given her due when they arrive finn makes friends with grandson and has a coming of age with his new girlfriend granddaughter maya liz meanwhile joins aa and dates an aa doctor she miraculously cleans up instantly finn however does a lot of drugs along with sex with his new friends seems like an ok guy but gets jealous when osborne takes finn on a hot air balloon race instead of him and this leads to tragedy br br the genius of the story and movie is that they cut from the violent acts of the fierce filthy rich tribe to the warriors it's a little implausible though that when liz finds out what happens to her son she merely demands action from osborne and does not either contact the authorities or settle it thelma and louise style there are elements of a gothic romance with a revelation by the village idiot also they do almost no plot or character development prior to the move to liz for instance like lane's pearl kantrowitz in walk on the moon had an unwanted pregnancy with finn at 18 and felt trapped this is in the book but not the movie still these are minor shortcomings the movie will be in full release 12 31 05 over a year after the original release date and i just couldn't wait br br there were lots of red carpet moments in the theater i saw the movie at with almost the whole cast except diane lane q director dunne said she was off filming a movie i know she didn't promise to be there but i came from way out of town and it would have been such a thrill to see her in person the movie is a definite best picture contender as for acting sutherland was quite good and so was the boy who played finn lane was magnificent as always but i only recall one or two emotional scenes when she catches finn with drugs lets get f d up together mother and son and with osborne your twisted grandson she would fare better with a supporting actress nod but it wont work that way unless they give it to her for a body of work
1	just saw this movie 2 days ago a very interesting look at people and our world through the world of wine i have no special interest in wine and yet i found this very enlightening the director gave me the impression that he has the ability to show people as they are while he exposes a lot of things that are below the surface he manages not to take a stand and leave that for the viewer he shows a lot of compassion to people and dogs and sympathy and let people tell their story and in the same time exposes what they don't want to tell br br the movie shows us where our world is going to what are the benefits and what is the heavy price we pay it is a movie about the love of wine and the love of making it big personal and global character and formula br br the real stars of the people for me are the older wine makers with their disillusioned look at the world and themselves br br it takes some time to get use to the hectic camera moves and editing but it's worth it br br highly recommended
1	from the opening scenes of fierce people an interplay of tribal customs as photographed by the anthropologist father of the young narrator finn earl demonstrating why this south american tribe of is so fierce the direction of the film is nebulous are we watching a dark comedy about comparing life in the new york streets to uncivilized peoples or is this a message film of a more serious intent but as the story develops this fine line between entertainment and philosophical impact becomes increasingly clear griffin dunne's direction of dirk wittenborn's adaptation of his novel may be a bit careless at times as it strays from rational plot development but in the end there is a strong enough final impact to patch up the holes he created br br our narrator finn earl anton yelchin lives with his coke addicted masseuse sexually obsessed mother liz diane lane in new york waiting for the summer when he is to join his anthropologist father on a field trip to south america a father he knows only from letters and videos when a drug bust abruptly changes their lives one of liz's wealthy clients ogden osborne donald sutherland rescues the down and out family and moves them to his ten acre estate the epitome of wealth and power in exchange for being private masseuse liz and finn can live in the mansion with the rich' daughter mrs langley elizabeth perkins and grandchildren chris evans and maya kristen stewart osborne and his physician lead liz on the drying out path and finn bonds with osborne and his grandchildren and despite the disparity in poor versus wealthy the living situation works for a while incidents occur to alter feelings and finn is attacked and raped by a masked assailant a turning point for the film and view of the osborne family osborne reveals his past to finn and together they manage to discover the truth about troubling incident and also about the fierce disease of the wealthy class br br the film uses many clips of tribal activity during the film drawing some disturbing parallels for some of the more challenging scenes for this viewer that works well but when the director elects to place tribal individuals in full regalia within the context of the osborne estate the concept feel contrived as though the audience has to be forced to 'get it' the various subplots between maid paz de la and finn and the introduction of an obese retarded chalk artist whitney williams push the credibility edge of emphasizing the line between the wealthy and the but the performances by sutherland lane and yelchin are strong enough to make us forgive the film's lapses not a great film but one with a lot of worthy ideas splashed around on the screen of a project that often feels lost in its struggle for direction grady harp
1	to the eight people who found the previous fierce people comments by me and helpful as well as to any future site visitors who see them before their authors delete them these negative critique's are not only shorter than the site guidelines mandate but they are entirely bogus incorrect and misinformative for instance dad is in a coma not dead maya and finn even visit him in the hospital furthermore it was estate deer dwayne not blythe who knocked up the maid etc etc so if you have add which makes you incapable of focusing on the simplest details please keep your condition to yourself by not pretending to be siskel or ebert otherwise include a disclaimer with your comments
1	a brilliant and sensitive movie with interwoven plot lines as a general warning the movie turns quite dark about half way through as sudden as it is this is a change that i found fitting to the themes of the movie particularly the comparison of the to the filthy rich and as is said by finn at the end how each person makes up the tribe and how the whole tribe is reflected in each person br br anton yelchin finn earl is spectacular in this movie he is probably best known as chekov from star trek or kyle reese in terminator salvation but he's been in a whole plethora of movies you've probably never heard of alpha dog which is another brilliant performance on part house of d hearts in atlantis to name a few the point is that this kid really takes this movie and makes it his own other excellent performances from diane lane and donald sutherland are what takes this movie up a notch from great to excellent
1	i really enjoyed fierce people i discovered the film by accident searching through my on demand movie lists trying to find something interesting to watch the film is mostly about class in america and it quickly grabs your attention the characters are smart and articulate and the story doesn't stick to the usual hollywood rules br br the main protagonist is finn a precocious but underprivileged 15 year old who spends his summer with the osbourne family donald sutherland plays the patriarch ogden c osborne the seventh richest man in america diane lane plays mother a friend of ogden who is also a habitual cocaine user and a slut the own a large estate and seems to live by their own rules at first they seem charming and sophisticated but the super rich are different they are used to getting their own way the film is enjoyable mainly because it has crisp intelligent dialog superb acting and a story which takes unexpected turns it is also an r rated movie so it's not entirely wholesome br br the cast is excellent anton yelchin is believable and sympathetic in the demanding role of finn sutherland and diane lane have never been better chris evans is impressive as devious grandson kristen stewart is good as the pretty grand daughter high quality movie
1	i can't imagine why it hasn't been theatrically released yet it's got a great ensemble cast with sutherland lane and especially chris evans doing spectacular work wake up studio execs br br the story is based upon the experiences of the author screenwriter growing up as the poor kid in an extremely affluent community where class is everything and makes a difference in every aspect of life from clothing to justice br br during the film's q a the author was asked about his experiences and particularly what we don't know about the ultra rich he said they aren't stupid they're very smart as opposed to how they may portray themselves they've got plans and they are a threat br br in many ways this film is extremely timely
1	i was lucky enough to see this at this years tribeca film festival i was stunned by how well made and how entertaining this wonderful little film was director griffin dunne has done a great job assembling this film that has several characters and several story lines that blend so smoothly and seamlessly the main story involves the family and it is very thought provoking and entertaining story that involved the viewer in every scene the film as a whole has credibility and integrity yet still has that commercial edge an indie movie for the masses if you like the performances by the cast are all excellent but it is diane lane who shines the brightest diane lane is simply sensational in this wonderful film and should be oscar nominated early days i know but lane acts her socks off here
1	i thought this was a very good movie someone said it was 'sick' so they couldn't watch it i think if you realize its rated r then you will be prepared for the nudity and drug use it is a good story and the acting is amazing just can't be a prude to appreciate it its basically about a mom who does drugs and wants to get clean so she calls a very wealthy old friend and he moves them to his estate and crazy things happen i guess it is a drama i am just so sick of people who don't like movies because of cursing or nudity that is the world we live in you obviously aren't comfortable with yourself if you can't see things like this movie and it's rated r so that should tell you from the beginning that its not all peachy happy rainbows i liked it i think you will too
1	i attended a screening of fierce people at the 2006 woodstock film festival i hesitate to label it a premiere of any sort since it was shot in the spring of 2004 and had its world premiere at tribeca in 2005 it played several festivals that year release seemed imminent then it disappeared poof vanished or so it appeared to the film going public rumors of a theatrical or dvd release have popped up now and then but all proved unfounded then this screening was announced perhaps one can call it a re premiere it certainly felt as if i was witness to a buried treasure and what a treasure it was br br i suppose one could characterize fierce people as a coming of age drama but it also has elements of comedy and tragedy as well as mystery and a bit of farce thrown in in short real life that makes it hard to pigeonhole which puts it more into the category of an indie as opposed to a hollywood movie but its high production values big budget feel and star caliber cast seem at odds with the indie label so let's call it a hybrid and perhaps that's why it's been lost it defies br br meet finn earl anton yelchin 15 whose father is absent in fact finn has never known him but he sees him and hears him via the collection of home movies sent from south america dad is a renowned anthropologist and has made a name for himself by setting up shop with the the tribe of fierce people who live to kill and well procreate all their activities are built around those two tasks and finn is captivated by it mom liz diane lane is also somewhat absent although present physically she is lost in a world of cocaine and alcohol so finn becomes an adult in his little solitary world with his reels of film br br one summer mom decides to drag finn along with her into the wilds of new jersey a massage therapist mom has catered to a wealthy client ogden c osborne donald sutherland in a tour de force performance and he has invited her for an extended house call at his palatial estate tribe includes an assortment of eccentric rich kids servants and village idiots among whom finn will find himself part of his own anthropological study will his experience with dad's films help him survive life as a visitor to this tribe will he be accepted or will he be seen as an outsider concurrently struggling with his own identity as an adolescent such is the stuff of fairy tales and i suppose this would be if not for the dark underbelly which director griffin dunne and writer dirk wittenborn have infused into this magnificent story br br with anton voice over intercutting pieces of dad's home movies finn must learn to go back to being the teenager he never really had a chance to be stop being the parent to his mom allow newly sober mom to be parent to him and learn responsibility on the way to adulthood the way it should have taken place all along yet he needs to make this transformation in a dangerous dark world where playing with fire is folly to this fractured family br br this is first and foremost a story driven film and griffin dunne emphasized as much in the intro to the film he bought the rights to wittenborn's novel even as it was being written and wittenborn's own screenplay comes to life in the hands of the masterful dunne in a way that's a work of wonder br br this is also largely a character driven film and sutherland has never been better his star turn as osborne stunned those around me and will likely leave you amazed as well diane lane's character ultimately exhibits so many personalities that it's hard to imagine another actor pulling it off so well she is breathtaking but more than anything fierce people is anton film he has a long resume as a child actor but preciously little as a teen other than the little known house of d also a gem he is best known as byrd on tv's huff in january he will be seen in alpha dog also sitting on the shelf since 2004 a film i saw at sundance this year and in which he is the heart and soul his performance here goes far beyond what one would expect from someone so young and is nothing short of spectacular br br this complex quirky film has remained out of sight long enough fierce people is a treasure filled with light and shadow comedy and tragedy joy and pathos but mostly wonder
1	in the 2nd of his historical martial arts films chiba portrays his real life sensei mas oyama the film even recreates incredible feat of killing a raging bull with his bare hands oyama did this feat over 50 times in real life dynamic fight choreography featuring authentic techniques ironically this is one of the rare sonny chiba films in which he doesn't tear out or rip off body parts of opponents a must see for sonny chiba fans definitely one of his top 5 films
1	oddly enough the independent film channel showed this film a week after it showed karate bear fighter even though the bear film was the second in the trilogy and this film was the first what were they thinking while all three of these films are supposedly based on the life of this great karate master you can't help but think that they must have embellished the story quite a bit especially in this first film sure the guy evidently did fight and kill a bull and later a bear in fact he fought and killed many bulls during his career but in this film set in the early 50s at the end of the film the hero actually fights about 60 guys and kills many of them brutally i just can't imagine that this really occurred so i did some checking and found that while many of the details are correct some of this film is pure bunk yes he did kill a man in self defense and yes he did follow the widow and her son and spent a year working for them trying to get them to forgive him but the end of the film is great to watch but hogwash seeing one of his opponents get a staff thrust through his head and all the other gory details couldn't have happened or else the japanese government would have locked oyama up to protect society the film is entertaining and the fighting is excellent there are no complaints about the action or acting the only minor complaint is the camera work which is a tad sloppy during some of the fight scenes despite this minor complaint this is a most enjoyable film in many ways the wandering karate master theme is pretty reminiscent of the zatoichi films which are also lots of fun to watch but many of the exploits are truly impossible br br fyi there is an dubbed version of this film entitled champion of death and i just saw it as well it's not a bad dubbing and it was letter boxed a big plus but still i prefer the subtitled version
1	a very interesting documentary certainly a lot more than sideways a pseudo wino drama where the capitalist conspiracy is revealed in all its greed according to the documentary and confirmed by the recent publication of a biography on parker only two men dictate the nature of in the world robert parker of and michel a french wine industry expert based in bordeaux and also known as a flying the director is clever enough to insert interviews of local wine producers from many different regions of france from sicily to argentina and interviews of the biggest players in the industry such as the family to uncover the wraps on the globalization of wine making and marketing a must see for anyone interested in the dark side of the industry drinking a glass of wine will not be the same political and commercial act after watching this well made
1	mas oyama was the most successful karate master of the late 20th century he rejected the training of the karate clubs of the time focusing on an intense no holds form of training he eventually built his system into a huge business empire with hundreds of schools across the world without compromising his teachings the testing in the schools are still some of the most physically challenging tests any martial art school requires one non physical hardship oyama faced was prejudice due to his korean ancestry and he spent time proving that loyalties were to japan and japanese karate this movie series was part of that effort although anyone who had the chance to meet oyama i did would never question his allegiance to japan in this series most famous student sonny chiba is called upon to portray his master br br oyama arrives from the countryside where he has been training alone he challenges and makes short work of the established karate schools he encounters disgusted by the state of karate oyama returns to his lone training he eventually picks up a student falls in love and gets in the way of gangsters who are allied with the established karate schools in the middle of this is the legendary bullfight with a mad bull how much of the film is true is questionable br br that oyama could kill a bull with his bare hands is true he was called on to repeat this feat numerous times there are filmed instances of oyama actually doing this although sometimes the bulls seemed to be tethered as oyama was getting on in years sonny chiba portrays his master with conviction and the karate is quite good chiba may not have been the best karate practitioner but at this point in time he was certainly above average br br as a whole the movie is good much better then most martial art films in the drama department i always wondered why it's not more well known possibly it the very realistic depictions of martial arts people are shown getting tired and hurt unlike 99 of action film where the hero is a limitless fountain of energy and each blow instantly dispatches an opponent to death chiba seems so exhausted at one point that it hurts to watch perhaps viewers rather not have their entertainment reflect reality so closely br br recommended especially for martial artists
1	sonny chiba as everyone knows is the man in this film he portrays mas oyama 1923 1994 a real martial artist who fought over 50 bulls with his bare won interesting him up anyway chiba only kills one bull in the film but it's a memorable scene and as the liner notes say right up there with the zombie vs shark scene in zombi the film also offers up loads of hand to hand combat and a decent plot to boot though i don't believe all of it is true this film is the first of the oyama trilogy chiba made and is recommended for fans of martial arts action finally three neat little tidbits part of the opening theme was used in kill bill volume 1 oyama himself appears in the opening sequences and that is because he trained chiba in real life for five years
1	when it comes to movies i don't easily discriminate between crap pure crap and masterpieces i believe this movie is an absolute masterpiece and it's hard to keep me entertained for more than 90 minutes this movie ran slower than mystic river and harry potter 3 combined and i still managed to stay riveted to my seat for me it was the passion that eric bogosian put into his performance it's extremely difficult to pull off such a stunt and manage to garner any positive effect from it bogosian probably nailed one of the toughest single man performances in modern cinema i didn't have any respect for bogosian until the end of the film the entire monologue minutes before the inexorable climax was the turning point it was the key that turned me around this man hit a point so low that he knew he could never recover from it the corporate boys congratulated him on the performance his blistering prose made even the slimiest one in the cavalcade shake his head in awe it made me realize that personal integrity and hypocrisy don't matter in the world of talk radio even in the corporate world for that matter stone may have been pushing some uber liberal agenda but it was the actual movie and production that got my attention oliver stone is a minor master of the moody the final third of the film had probably the best lighting and cinematography i have seen in any film stone artfully makes the dj booth feel like five by seven cell in a nineteenth century prison visually speaking it appears that only friend is the black foam that absorbs his routine vitriol he speaks and it doesn't speak back it's a sad metaphor considering the way he treats the people who handed him his success stone and bogosian carved out a stunning film of a man who is trapped in both a prison of walls and a prison of self this man is confined to his own volition and he can never escape it the scene that made me realize his conundrum was when he was unwilling to his ex wife back he preferred his own prison instead of the world on the outside every story has a conflict and it came down to the simplest of all conflicts man versus himself presents this conflict in an intelligent gripping and artful fashion there are no hidden messages in this film and the progression of events should be expected by any astute viewer i just leaned back and let my mind be grasped by this film and i loved it it's unheralded unseen and it will never receive its due recognition let's hope it stays that way because gems deserve to be found and then hidden again it's a gem because i found it in the discount dvd bin at my local wal mart store for 5 50 it was worth the half hour i spent digging trying to find it i did and i got more than my money's worth this is one of the best movies ever made and that is worth ten reasons alone ten reasons give a score of ten br br here ends my rant
1	this is a very cool movie the ending of the movie is a bit more defined than the play's ending but either way it is still a good movie
1	this film is totally mindblowing it manages to be thought provoking funny tragic and cinematic yet claustrophobic br br although the flashbacks are unnecessary the film maintains a pacy punchy grip and the performances are all excellent in particular alec baldwin and the mesmerising eric bogosian as the film's anti hero barry
1	in my opinion this is the best oliver stone flick probably more because of influence than anything else riviting stuff full of dread from the first moment to its dark ending
1	this is a film about passion the passion it depicts is largely misdirected even for the leading man but therein lies the incredible power of this film it shows us that what we believe can be contaminated by nonsense and can even lead us to do things that are destructive to ourselves or others moreover those who try to escape from acquiring passion watch the druggie who visits the studio also risk self destruction br br the world needs to hear the message of this movie more often
1	oliver stone hits the bull's eye with this film aided chiefly by electrifying screen presence and biting brilliant screenplay every moment crackles with a steadily growing tension climaxing in a truly memorable movie going experience if there was ever an indication of a writer and a director's ability to meld two highly volatile into a seamless union of creativity then this is it the result is a powerhouse achievement made more timely now perhaps because of our culture's disturbing fascination with celebrity and it's distorted interpretations of fame br br an ultimate indictment of our society's increasing morbidity and self sickening hunger for the next big thrill br br a film not easily forgotten i highly recommend it to anyone interested in the darker side of human nature
1	with boundless raw energy and an uncompromising vision talk radio brilliantly explores the public's fondness for reducing strangers' private problems into entertainment via the radio br br eric bogosian is sensational as barry a rude in your face talk radio host he's a natural for this kind of role and fine tunes one of the most impressive interesting radio personalities i've ever seen on screen the timing and delivery of his insults to his various callers are strokes of genius br br alec baldwin also shines as barry's boss he demonstrates the same explosive cynicism that he would later display 1992's glengarry glen ross but the supporting role that truly stands out is the stoned seemingly brain dead teen played by michael wincott you have to see it to believe it br br oliver stone and robert richardson do a great job with the photography which is almost entirely confined to a single broadcasting room the claustrophobic feel of the movie perfectly mirrors its tone after all one of the major points of the film is exploiting people's private moments to draw an audience stone demonstrates that these moments are often too private for the whole world to experience br br talk radio is a film with strong emotional and cerebral impact the likes of which are seldom seen today
1	eric bogosian gives as great a performance as you'll ever see in an oliver stone film his barry character is an assault rifle disguised as a man and he blows away anyone on or off the air that offends him adapted from stage play talk radio is a vicious and frightening ride that doesn't let you off until it's too late by then you've become familiar with the fringe of racists rapists wannabe assassins and mere prank callers who listen speak and lurk in the dark of dallas nights br br stone behaves himself if that's even possible letting bogosian dominate every scene from barry's humble beginnings to the make or break point when his radio show can reach national syndication the rest of the cast are uniformly excellent as the lovers and or co workers that all have being used and tossed aside by barry in common br br the only thing i'd change is the recurring theme music bad to the bone i'd have used bachman turner not fragile a better song one i haven't heard in a film so far and a driving relentless tune whose ominous riff is like the true soundtrack to barry's life br br listen if you dare
1	i was expecting a lot from this movie and i can say i haven't been disappointed first of all this movie as a world tour of wine making let the spectator enjoy beautiful places the people interviewed are really interesting and funny too in particular hubert de the shooting may be confusing the camera always being unsteady and often focusing on secondary elements in the backgrounds you may not like it but i don't consider it as a defect br br the themes raised in the movie may be kind of confusing as well since globalization isn't the only issue discussed but managed to give his movie a consistency all along a great achievement of this movie is revealing all the characters involved in the wine industry as they really are avoiding a cliché good against evil this could be the main difference between and michael moore's documentaries point of view appears in a subtle way through opinions expressed by his favorite characters the richness of this documentary relies mainly upon the characters the history of long time wine making families such as the de the the and the lets the spectator discover that wine is somehow related to families rather than just being a business and an industry this movie doesn't make you want to drink wine but certainly make you want to discover and wine makers br br i watched this movie as a student in and let's just there are many ways to learn i give this documentary 10 out of 10 despite his technical particularities
1	talk radio sees a man somewhat accidentally stumble through life indeed the american dream from whatever bog standard and everyday job he has in a store to presenter of a local radio show before going right the way through to the same job only later syndicated nationwide it's a role he adopts out of his own aggression and natural mannerisms a frothing mad approach to freedom of speech as he attacks just about everyone and everything even those that often call up to agree with him or compliment him his role as a man that rants on all things good evil right wrong political religious moral and immoral is something that people seem to take to in one form that of 'it's entertaining and worth tuning in for' but additionally on a plane of rejection and antagonism – two things born out of the very things seemingly encouraged in professional working life in the western world this towards a man as he gets to the very top of his game by way of the american dream and dealing in freedom of speech as people take to a man but do anything but take to what it is he says br br talk radio begins with a montage of tall towering buildings in a business based area of dallas texas the skyscrapers are shot from a ow angle and tower over the viewer plus everything else in the general vicinity as this voice of one man tears through the images belting out statements and information on items as these monolithic buildings dominate out screen they are the very physical representation of capitalism while the voice of what we learn to be a radio dj is the oral representation of the free west personal speech and opinions on anything and everything stone will finish his film in the exact same manner in which he started it although the film is anything but a circular journey of any sort as the characters undergo monumental changes in both what they witness and their general livelihood rather the shots of the buildings act as an anchor around which the study is observed the ideologies and ideas of a way of life exist people subscribe to them but it does them more harm than good before the re establishment that this proud way of life still exists and will continue to exist in churning out the sorts of people on display in the film until someone or something drastically changes things br br the dj is barry a man with a radio show on a local texan station dealing with just about anything somewhat carefree attitude to some pretty explosive content is established when he flies from one call with a bigoted man whom recently visited a holocaust museum to a young drug addict whose girlfriend has supposedly overdosed and onto both the berating and mocking of a pizza shop to us the content comes across as quite shocking to these people everything seems to be business as usual which plants some serious seeds of both doubt and horror within the minds of us the newcomers to all of this br br what barry's show is about nobody ever seems to really establish everything and nothing indeed time is taken in the form of either jingles or dialogue that the shows immediately pre and post show are on specific subjects gardening for instance and are hosted by calm speaking and methodical people whom i'm sure do not flit from one random or extreme to another all the time raising the stakes one wonders what barry's jingle is the kind that plays around about lunch time during someone show coming up later the barry show featuring the village idiot and psychotic drug abusers indeed his show's introductory piece carries a matter of fact tone a shouting at the audience as a loud rock track accompanies it br br barry's success arrives in the national syndication proposal it's born out of confrontation and a relationship built on the contempt he has for his listeners and that they have for him the furthering of the material and the upping of the stakes ought to call into question just how far they think they can take this and whether this progressing down a track for sake of entertainment is really worth it it is when the show reaches this level of broadcast that barry seems to come unstuck for the first time in his broadcasting life when a supposed serial rapist calls in and leaves mostly everyone slightly stunned it's at this point the camera pauses on barry and by way of depth of focus encompasses those same looming towering buildings the film began with which stand outside of the window directly behind barry they remain tall and proud specifically of the ideologies they've been built on and this furtherance of freedom of speech in barry's show nationwide as one man climbs his ladder suddenly clashes with the sort of content that's being offered everything reaches a point too far and that with freedom ought to at least come a sense of clarity rather than a mere revelling br br oliver stone made talk radio right in the middle of both a fascinating and explosive period of film making he had in the late 1980s in this time he produced a series of really well received films in a pretty short space of time beginning with one of my favourite war films in platoon before continuing with the quite brilliant wall street and eventually finishing with 1991's jfk one might even say that this run continued on into the mid nineties with natural born killers talk radio is like its lead character in the sense it's loud booming stark and confrontational it isn't anti capitalism as much as it is focused on drawing a line between what is perceived as entertainment and what is just going too far for sake of popularity and riches talk radio is certainly a film that sticks in the memory
1	excellent and highly under rated from beginning to end one of oliver's best well scripted directed shot acted and soundtrack trivia the music during the end credits vaguely sounds like a late 90's pop hit by band br br eric and cast are brilliant let alone the callers what a whirlwind of emotions it make's your hair stand on end necks will be broke and whips will crack in a old female southern accent creepy scary than any horror movie br br 10 out of 10 br br em
1	oliver stone always ready to make politically themed movies makes another one here talk radio is loosely based on the career of alan berg a radio talk show host in denver who was murdered by white supremacists in this case the character is barry eric bogosian an outspoken talk show host in dallas who loves nothing more than to irk the people who call in as it is most of the people who call in are a bunch of racists and things may be heating up more than anyone realizes br br performance brings a light comical tone to an otherwise serious movie i really liked the scene where he jabs at a redneck who calls in granted i wouldn't call this oliver stone's greatest movie ever but it's a good reference in an era when media gets more and more concentrated good performances by ellen greene and alec baldwin also help
1	i chose this movie really for my husband who works in radio broadcasting i thought that it would be more of a movie that he would enjoy and relate too though it was from the eighties so it was a little dated this movie really draws you in at times you just want to strangle the host barry at times you just want to send some of the bigots who call in to a true concentration camp at times you really feel sorry for barry because he has truly gotten too big for his jeans if you know what i mean it was on the drama channel on encore so i am thinking this is a true story if you truly love dramas you will love this even if you don't know all the ins and outs of the broadcasting business if you are an alec baldwin fan and are watching it to see him you shouldn't his part is really a bit part in this movie
1	wow a masterpiece of a movie not to be missed br br i had no idea what this movie was when i started watching it late night i didn't find out it was a stone film until after the film when i went on imdb watching it i was mesmerized the cast especially eric bogosian is just superb one of the best scripts and camera work ever the movie drew me in and kept me entranced until the very end i did not dare blink for fear of missing something amazing how a small budget film can be so engrossing and well made while huge budget films that feature tons of action and computer generated special effects can be so incredibly boring don't miss this film
1	absolutely nothing the movies that are great in this world are not recognized unless they are filled with gunshots explosions and death this movie is filled with a man talking about showing you a more complex character than has been seen in many movies br br when a movie is incredibly fast paced but stays mostly in one location it has to be the work of a genius surprisingly enough it is this movie is directed by oliver stone and therefore is one of the best directed films of our time br br this movie's screenplay was co written by oliver stone and eric bogosian barry main character with oliver stone's help the screenplay was created as a seamless rolling script which keeps you interested the entire time if you have any amount of intelligence if you have an open mind about any subjects and the wit to comprehend others then this movie is something which you should find some way to watch immediately
1	barry is a radio phone in talk show host in dallas whose no holds barred ideas on a plethora of social issues disturb and offend many of his callers and listeners is barry a media messiah in search of truth or a social misfit out to assault his audience br br this is an intense provocative character piece about a man with almost no redeeming features who at the same time seems to be onto some really profound philosophy though co written and directed by stone this is really piece all the way and he gives an astonishingly hard edged and penetrating performance from which there is no escape barry is at times one of the most loathsome characters imaginable spewing bilious misanthropy at everyone around him particularly those who care about him but at the same time he is also strangely empathetic hypnotic sage even lovable features burn into the frame with his green eyes constantly darting around as if permanently seeking an answer to some riddle the movie is essentially an angry self righteous rant against all the bigotry injustice and banality in the world culminating in a wild three and a half minute rotating single shot of barry delivering the ultimate i hate everything speech but boy does it pack a punch the support cast are great particularly greene as the ex wife and baldwin as the boss robert richardson's keen photography manages to keep the single radio studio set looking interesting and there's a tense score by stewart copeland with a moving coda featuring that endearing phone music piece telephone and rubber band by the penguin cafe orchestra if you're unfamiliar with bogosian check out his amazing talent in this flick like his contemporaries bill hicks and denis leary he's someone who rarely appears in the mainstream media purely because his writing is so out there i find stone's movies variable i don't much care for his big successes but when he is more ordered and objective as with this or salvador and nixon he is much more incisive and arresting a great primal scream of a picture based on a play by bogosian inspired by the true story of alan berg a denver radio talk show host who was murdered by neo nazis in 1984
1	alright the first time i seen talk radio was in a video store for only 2 00 on vhs believe it or not and i looked at it and i thought it might be about howard stern because i just looked at it for about thirty seconds then just didn't see it again then i went to another store about a month later and i found talk radio on dvd for only 5 00 so i see it was directed by oliver stone and i picked it up so after the film was over i was speechless i have never seen such a film like this here's the main plot then i'll tell ya what i thought of it br br it is about a dallas talk radio host barry a jewish radio host who talks about whatever other people bring up and he and is taking everything seriously now a network wants to put his show live everywhere in the u s so barry's show gets a lot of interesting phone callers like chet a neo kent a rock n roll drugged kid john rapist and others now some of the callers sound like the same actor actresses but still i think it fits okay br br now what i love a lot about this film is the dark corners and the paranoid atmosphere of the radio station the dark music in the background fits very nicely too it has a flashback scene in the film also how he started with radio which i think they did good on br br but the great thing about the film is ending i was surprised by it and it kind of makes you feel paranoid a little about the phone callers off the air and everything about it is wonderful it also tells you how to say the right things to people over a big city like dallas one of oliver stone's underrated weakest films mentioned but i think it's his best in my opinion br br but definitely get this film if you like films with paranoia feel like films with a dark atmosphere with sinister music in the background i still watch this film a lot of the times now when i'm bored as matter fact i watched it tonight yeah if ya wanna really get the sinister feel to the film watch it at with the lights off i may sound crazy but it makes the film better br br another thing i forgot to mention is that the reason i don't think the film did so well was maybe in my point of view because of the title radio ' it doesn't sound very tricky or anything it's kind of plain a better title like the book talked to death or maybe the abusive radio host or something catchy and not plain talk radio or maybe because of universal pictures oliver stone usually didn't do universal i don't think paramount might have been a good company i don't know something about this film didn't do so well but i love it br br sticks and stones can break your bones but words can cause permanent damage
1	talk radio is of course probably not the most well known of stone's films but don't let that put you off this film is ripe for discovery i defy anyone not to be entranced by it along with the best performance of 80's cinema by eric bogosian for me along with jfk this remains stone's finest moment stone doesn't seem to comment much on it these days and didn't do a director's commentary on dvd like all his other films stone has nothing to be ashamed of most directors would kill to get a shot a film like this br br the claustrophobia of the studio is intense and the opinions of are still very crucial arguments for today the all drugs speech is powerful and you might find yourself agreeing with him in my opinion the film is about freedom of speech and how sometimes people don't like hearing things they don't agree with the speeches and conversations with the listeners are very compelling even disturbing a chill ran down my spine when a crazed man calls saying he has to rape again because the city drives him crazy is totally shocking the tension is sometimes unbearable with a scene when heavy metaller kent becomes unhinged of course does himself no favours by ridiculing him or should i say bogosian is fearless in film and performance totally mesmerising a shame th other big role was the villain in under siege 2 dear god one scene th didn't ring true was when barry's boss dan alec baldwin gets him to calm down barry doesn't seem to be the kind of person who shuts up and does as he's told it seemed a bit contrived and clichéd the scenes outside the studio are criticised for being too formulaic it's true because stone is trying to make the film more cinematic and allow the viewer to see beginnings but it doesn't entirely work br br it is a brilliantly cinematic film with extreme close ups deep focus extremely fast cuts a fantastic 360 set which is used for the final breathtaking monologue must see cinema it makes it rare because it was ignored the time but is now receiving attention again which it so richly deserves a classic th should be studied by generations of film students br br 10 out of 10 for inventive use of bad to the bone before t2 brilliant supporting cast including john c mcginley dr cox from scrubs as the sleazy stu leslie hope 24 as girlfriend john and alec baldwin as the suits and micheal wincott who plays three roles a very underrated actor the tension between the listeners and which is very heart racing times and of course kudos to the stars bogosian and stone for such a fantastic piece of cinema enjoy
1	probably one of his lesser known films it suffers from the same lack of exposure as salvador in that its actually one of his best br br written by and starring eric bogosian talk radio tells the story of an opinionated radio phone in host who upsets the wrong kind of listener the film is important and has much to say on the issues of free speech and just how free it should be and you can easily tell that it started life as a stage play know what you're getting into before you sit down to watch it and you'll be fine br br there isn't much to the acting really as bogosian pretty much steals the film he wrote and is given licence to rant i couldn't take my eyes off him and that was part of the fascination many of the listeners had the people who hated him wouldn't turn off in case they missed something br br not for everyone but a very good drama and overall a very good film
1	business vs personal conviction profit vs art br br as with any documentary that pits the capitalist large corporations against the small producer the viewer will invariably have to take the side of one or the other based on their own believes this is as much a documentary of the new standardized way of doing things that globalization is bringing us against the old traditional ways where character and the art of making things matters almost more than getting the product sold br br if you have to remember one thing from this movie it is that the masses can no longer decide by themselves they just follow the taste of one or a couple of critics that tend to and standardize taste in the same way as used to do for the fast bite something parker himself admits to in the film against a backdrop of a burger king sign it is all about image against content as another interviewee says that is the easy way the standardized way easier than taking the time for a nice wine to mature easier than to forge your own taste by trying and trying yet over again controlled branded taste is easier br br there is a glitter of hope when even some of our cousins across the ocean agree that a few people are levelling the taste of to maximize the profits and ensure a maximum of it gets sold to the grey masses individuality and difference is sacrificed for the extra buck it is nice to see that not everything or everyone is giving in to standardization even across the ocean br br as in many other areas of today's world dominance of a few and reduced freedom of choice impacts us all let everyone make up their mind and decide what to go for too much standardization kills the mind and taste difference brings innovation and healthy competition and will allow for choice and not just vacuum packed more of the same standardization sells easily and a lot and brings everyone to the same level the lower one br br on this i am going to open up a nice bottle and wish you a
1	never having seen an oliver stone film before nor any films starring eric bogosian i didn't know what to expect from this film having toyed with the idea of buying it for a while i finally got it for free as a supplement with a sunday newspaper and i was hugely impressed br br it tells the story of barry a talk radio host who can be incredibly rude towards his callers often putting them in their place before they realise what's going on though this is what has made him a popular radio show host it has also earned him numerous enemies br br the acting in this film was hugely impressive with not one dud actor in it eric bogosian is brilliant as barry the troubled talk radio host with alec baldwin turning in a strong performance as barry's boss dan it also features the voice of and cameo appearance by michael wincott my reason for wanting to see this br br the story was really well written as despite his arrogance you feel for barry as more about his troubled life is revealed and you see how vulnerable he really is br br i'd recommend this film to anyone as it is captivating and more importantly real on numerous levels two of which being that is was inspired by the life of an actual talk radio host and the fact that you do actually get radio show hosts and callers like the ones featured in the film in reality br br high recommendation and 10 10 br br aye yours cat squire
1	oliver stone is not one to shy away from a movie or theme for that matter he is eager to confront people with their fears or show them their ugly faces in the mirror look on his cv for proof this movie is not an exception quite on the contrary it is another gem that unfortunately not many have seen br br as controversial movies go this is one that you should be thankful for a movie that should encourage you to think about you the people next to you the prejudices that do exist and that everyone of us has in one form or another either we like to admit it or not but it is easier to categorize people and be like ah he's yeah he must be like now i might be reading too much into it but i don't believe that i believe that oliver stone is a very intelligent filmmaker and that he was aiming for those things and if that's something you want to explore as a movie or within yourself than watch this film and be excited
1	i have never been a great fan of oliver stone often because i have found his films to be forced preachy and generally flawed the two stone films i truly like are jfk and talk radio yet talk radio takes the cake for being stone's finest achievement stone is a director whereby you are either a fan or you are not it is safe to say that before watching talk radio i was not fond of the guy and considered one of the most overrated directors in the film industry though after watching talk radio some of my perceptions have changed talk radio is an unsettling and amusing attack on what is now known as reality tv br br talk radio follows a self indulgent dysfunctional determined hysterical outrageous and perplexing radio host named barry who hosts a controversial late night radio show in dallas quickly becoming well known for his bold and quirky air presence he becomes a late night sensation whereby depraved junkies delinquents racists sociopaths sickos perverts and morons call in to be ridiculed on air the film shows the rise and fall of the man's career carefully making an accurate portrayal on freedom of speech originally adapted from a stage play the film attaches itself to the theatre theme that it was originally built around wonderfully conveying the film's fierce nature br br with the ferocious energy and non stereotypical air talk radio brings all the hilarity behind crass media it remains even more poignant today than it was in the late '80s the film goes into depth studying the likes of arrogance self obsession offensive behaviour controversy hypocrisy and ignorance the film shows through a controlled manner how it is good to have a personal opinion and freedom of speech yet it is something that should be used wisely rather than shamefully blunt stone tries to show how freedom of speech is a crucial importance in life but is something that we should be wary and cautious about the film asks the question of is our main protagonist just the same as the sad people who call up the show br br stone fabulously creates the film's key set piece the radio station with an ambition and cold atmosphere he then succeeds in capturing the isolation fear ambiguity and the dangerous emotions that are built up at the radio station eric bogosian is perfectly cast as the isolated self absorbed and complex genius barry he fits the role perfectly letting off his lines with such enthusiasm urgency perplexity brusqueness and ultimately the bold hilarity of his offensive nature the performance brims with spark which was evidently robbed of an oscar nomination his voice suits the character being that a primary element of a radio host and his power of acting along with tragedy and comedy works brilliantly br br there is a strong use of editing in stone's films and talk radio boasts some of his cleanest most rhythmic editing he uses beautifully controlled camera techniques which differ from being calm to suddenly becoming turbulent there is a vibrant energy behind the film with its raw and wonderfully delightful script working as a centre piece for the greatness of the film the striking and virtuous cinematography stands out in the moments inside and outside the studio most impressively capturing the city at night not forgetting the hauntingly heartbreaking and yet darkly funny climatic spiral to decline is ultimately remarkable cinema br br talk radio is an essential modern masterpiece i am certain you will be surprised by just how great it really is i highly recommend talk radio for anyone interested in media or film talk radio is a fine example of top notch intellectual and insightful entertainment which still packs a well earned wakeup call finally if it was not for eric bogosian the film would not be the fun delightful and enduring masterpiece it is today
1	i tend to be inclined towards movies about people who choose to cross the barriers of censorship and express what they really want to express eric character of barry is like howard stern but much more intelligent the character itself is very fascinating as an oliver stone film i guess i was expecting more the film sags a bit during the third act plus it's pretty obvious that talk radio is based on a play with its long dialogue scenes but overall the film works bogosian is great in the lead and the fact that he also wrote the play from which the movie was based on probably helped him if you want to check out one of stone's greater films i better suggest you check out jfk or salvador this is not his best work but a good movie nonetheless
1	talk radio is my favorite oliver stone movie though he has made many great ones including salvador jfk natural born killers and platoon but i like the intimacy of talk radio a cinematic expansion of eric searing stage play that was based on a real life account of a dallas talk show host working with ace cinematographer robert richardson stone turns what could have been a very set bound exercise into a visually arresting ideological battle that presents a radio station as an arena of war bogosian is devastating as tortured on air of abuse barry and conveys the conflicted destructive nature of his character with conviction and a generous dose of self loathing alec baldwin as his alpha male boss strikes the perfect note as a man driven nuts by a guy whose he helped nurture ellen greene is fantastic as barry's sweet ex wife who ends up becoming another target of his vicious personal vitriol stone and bogosian fill every frame with interest and every line of dialog with sweet poison and cutting ambiguity john c mcginley as barry's long suffering screener technical producer stu turns in a hilarious sharp performance as does the great michael wincott the film is a flawless underrated masterpiece of superb writing awesome acting and brutal uncompromising direction the stewart copeland score is brilliant too
1	i have seen it a few times and get completely glued to it every time it is very suspenseful and intense to describe it sounds boring but it is amazing it is the kind of movie where you need can't miss a thing but if you soak it in it sticks with you long after it ends now thinking about it i don't even know what stone was trying to make us see just the story of alan green i don't think so it was a look at ignorance stupidity self absorption and a guy just loosing his grip maybe he had more grip than the listeners though i didn't like barry but still seemed worried about him for some reason i was perplexed at why i couldn't get him out of my mind when the movie ended i wish i could see inside olive stone's mind for this one
1	spoilers for some strange reason oliver stone's talk radio based on the stephen singular book talked to death and the films star eric play about the 1984 murder of denver talk show host alan berg has never gotten the recognition that it so rightfully deserved the 1988 movie was prophetic enough to recognize the underground movement that was developing in the farm and hinterland of america a movement that spawned some seven years later the likes of an angry and disgruntled gulf war veteran timothy mcveigh who's hatred for the us governments actions in texas lead to his and friend terry nichols detonation of the us federal building in oklahoma city on april 19 1995 that took the lives of 168 people the worst act of terrorism on us soil up to that time br br the movie is as far as i know the first time that any major branch of the entertainment media mentioned and elaborated on the rural militia novel the turner diaries by the late william l pierce that has since become a chilling underground classic the turner diaries forecast a domestic and utterly disastrous terrorist attack like the oklahoma city bombing on a us government federal facility which was the fbi building in washington d c br br dallas radio station talk show host barry eric bogosian is the top rated show in the dallas listening area and is now about to go national barry get's his high rating by his razor sharp wit and abusive behavior when he's on the air taking on all comers and ducking no issues no matter how unpopular or taboo they are has gotten barry to be the most listened to as well as hated man on radio barry being a showman at heart and not thinking that his talk can lead to violence keeps up his to his call in listeners as his rating go up to the but there are those in the listening audience mostly ultra right wing types that don't take too kindly to his in your face attitude one of them decides to take matters into his on hand at barry's expense br br powerhouse performance by eric bogosian as the tragic barry who crossed the line from entertainment to hard reality in his actions on the radio thinking that he's not that important to be sought out and murdered for his on the air opinions which is enemies dislike he found out only too late that there are those out there who are crazy enough to do to him on the outside also in the movie talk radio is a very young baldwin as barry's boss dan who tries to have him soften his tone but in the end goes along with his talk show style since he's killing the competition not realizing that in the end it's him that he'll end up getting killed br br both ellen green and leslie hope are the two women in barry's life his ex wife ellen and now lover and talk show producer laura whom barry uses to his advantage and almost ends up losing both of them at the same time the 1988 film talk radio is so far ahead of it's time that even if you watch it now in 2005 you still think that it's too disturbing to be shown to an over sensitive and delicate american public
1	in one of the more under seen films of the late 1980's at a time when oliver stone was riding high with platoon and wall street and before his opus born on the fourth of july he co scripted and directed this look at the world of radio specifically one radio host in the middle of texas this man is barry in a once in a career turn from eric bogosian who wrote the original play and also co wrote the script barry is like a mix of howard stern and one of those pundits you hear on the radio stations many of us might turn off he's got ideas on his mind opinions and he's not only un afraid to speak them but also to stand up against the phone callers the callers indeed are the driving force in the film as barry has to combat against the mindless the obscene the racist and the purely absent minded as this goes on he also has to contend with his boss alec baldwin and a hit or miss deal to go nationwide outside the confines of the southern way station he's in br br while after seeing the film i felt curious as to see how it would've been done on stage i'd imagine it was a one man show as bogosian has had several on the side the direction of the film is phenomenal stone has been known almost typecast as a director who loves quick cuts the limitless effects of montage and effects with the styles of camera work and other little tricks that give his films in the 90's a distinctive almost auteur look but in the 80's he had this energy and feverish quality to the look of the film and wasn't as frenzied as the other films in order to add the proper intensity that is within the studio and head space of barry he and dp robert richardson make the space seem claustrophobic at times gritty un sure and definitely on edge the scenes in the middle of the film when barry isn't in the studio are fairly standard but the style along with the substance in the radio scenes is among the best i've seen from the stone richardson combination br br and one cannot miscalculate the performance of bogosian who can be obnoxious offensive angered passive and everything that we love and hate in radio show hosts there is also a funny near distracting supporting role for michael wincott as kent michael joe who prank calls him one night and the next gets invited to the studio these scenes are a little uncomfortable for a viewer but it does get very much into the subculture head space of the 80's that barry is as intrigued as he is critical of the stoner may not 'get it' but as he says to him it's your show indeed it's hard to cover everything that goes on within the talk and there is a lot of it but it's never boring and like himself it's not easy to ignore and when bogosian goes into his climactic tirade on air with the background panning around in a continuous 360 spin it becomes intoxicating and a reason why freedom of speech is so powerful br br stone has been synonymous as a filmmaker of hot button issues who takes on subjects that were or still are controversial and gives them a life force that isn't always great but is all his own here his skills and ambitions don't get in the way of it's boosted if anything making an extremely skilled vision of what is essentially a near one man show which in and of itself is already well written
1	when you think 'oliver stone' the movies that come to mind would be his biggest and most controversial ones like platoon jfk born on the fourth of july or natural born killers talk radio usually doesn't it's a pretty small movie actually more than half the movie takes place with barry at his radio station talking into his mike but believe me this is one of oliver stone's greatest movies and should not be missed br br above all things it's a character study barry is a rude self destructive risk taking talk radio show host who says one too many things and starts to get in trouble with his boss his lover s his fans and even some nazis he doesn't like his audience and callers and a lot of them don't like him that or do like him but have no idea why but at the end he says on his show i guess we're stuck with each other br br see talk radio even if you don't like oliver stone movies you might be surprised i sure was br br my rating 10 10
1	from the offset i knew this was going to be a terrific movie the pace the cinematography personalities indigenous to the dallas area the of characters not to mention the director oliver stone and of course eric the film starts out on a friday suggestively occult in the first place and begins with a radio station in dallas that is hosting their number one talk show the barry show based on the talk radio host alan berg barry eric is the abrasive radio talk show host and his job is such whereby it is compulsory to pontificate all of the sensationalistic nuances of the radio audience feeding into his show he attempts to commiserate with a bunch of societal deviates turned lonely vulnerable obscene phone callers who have the masochistic craving to be publicly vilified barry is effective in coping with this precarious ilk by socially them rather than simply subjugating them to mere new technologies serve a purpose for the dallas radio audience and paramount concepts take a backseat to perversion talk about baseball scores orgasms and people's pets br br the whole thing is a cacophony of drug induced diatribes and a for psychopathic paranoia this high profile cannon fodder is something that barry thrives on the convoluted pathos the deranged proclivities from and of pornography and the overall pop culture afflictions serve as volatile ammunition for barry stilted battleground br br the setting for this movie is perfect in that there is a two thousand foot drop in terms of ideology in the the center of dallas there is an overbearing sense of cosmopolitan awareness whereby 20 miles away resides a significant chapter of the ku klux klan the play is based in denver that is where the actual story takes place other small theater plays depict the cities of louisville atlanta and cleveland dallas is the city where the film takes place i thought it was an excellent choice this movie illustrates how people have a horrid and erroneous and deadly of the jewish people in america whereby they control the banks their agenda is different than everybody else's and their intellectual literature leads to perversion these preconceived notions compound barry overall dilemma barry personal undoing is whereby he is irascible and non responsive to his alcoholism and his abrasive and politically controversial nature is his ultimate undoing this is what makes the film so believable br br the characters in the movie were well portrayed dan the tailor made for middle management hatchet man played by alec baldwin who was constantly monitoring barry every move laura his girlfriend also his producer will constantly feel barry is someone who is always misunderstood ellen his ex wife is a recipient of barry's anguish and selfishness but cannot quite relinquish her feelings for barry regardless of the path of personal destruction he winds up resorting to the dallas radio audience is a melting pot of socially misplaced retro bates who are dementedly amused by their own real shortcomings in part everybody's hang ups including barry own hang ups are what do barry in his audience ogles depravity solicits and ultimately becomes barry pet project for prescribed sinners social culture conflicts become barry downfall br br this movie is superb in my opinion oliver stone's best picture including platoon and natural born killers that statement in of itself tells you how magnificent a film talk radio is the story consulting and acting and co producing of eric bogosian is simply compelling the camera angles the dialogue the haunting character portrayals all top notch the cinematography of the dallas skyline at the end of the movie is terrific dallas has the dubious distinction of being deemed a mega metropolis so now just like los angeles and new york there are crack baby cases too numerous to count low cost housing neighborhoods from hell and budgets cuts that will mean there will be a significant number of people who will be dead by this time next year dallas asserts it's status as a major metropolitan area in the precarious manner by which human debauchery prevails the city has it's lynching radio listeners who have given a pejorative spin to the marvel of nationwide air wave communication these are the culprits in the movie the ghoulish tabloid derelicts who want to meet the big bad wolf and their decadent curiosity has morally obliterated the last neighborhood in america
1	i saw this at the london film festival last night apparently the shorter version james summary of the content of the film is very good very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation the effect of the mass media the power of capital and the need for diversity br br the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting but which does enable to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment br br despite the sprawling feel of the film the editing is very sharp not only giving us a parade of the world's dogs but also undercutting a number of comments with somewhat contradictory visual images and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves to a degree this evoked michael moore's recent work although operates in a more subtle way but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls' the sorrow and the pity both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of of the earth' french peasants as the stars de pere et fils were present at the screening and answered questions afterwards we do indeed all need a little disorder bravo hubert br br overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people and organise our world
1	easily one of the best indian films ever granted that's not saying much i made this conclusion after a whopping 15 minutes of watching but i can truly say that fire is also one of the really beautiful and brilliant films i've seen br br beautiful because of its imagery the best example i can give is the parallelism between the 2 female leads radha and sita and the characters of the same name in hindu mythology sita for example is the wife of the revered lord ram as legend goes ram subjugates his wife by making her walk through a fire to prove her purity ' sita in response cries and leaves him reuniting with her mother the earth this story has all sort of crazy links to the stories of the 2 indian women nandita das and shabana azmi the word fire' all of a sudden has many meanings marriage tradition religion motherhood and probably a few others i didn't catch br br brilliant because of its social overtones many who were offended by the premise for this movie should in fact be first to see fire e g my mom who actually loved it why because although fire is an attack on tradition it is also an attack on tradition in other words that is its strength not its weakness traditional conservative social mores whether indian or canadian or american or whatever are useless if they enslave you gender roles and self denial can both do this br br these are the things i took with me after seeing fire hats off to deepa
1	not a bad movie but could have been done without the full frontal nudity of a 10 year old boy in one of the opening scenes this movie has excellent dialog which is certainly common among foreign films foreign actors still know how to act as opposed to american actors who let the cgi stunts and special effects do all the work for them this film is just good old fashion acting gerarde did an excellent job as always the costumes and scenery are accurate with the time my only complaint is that they should have dubbed the english words over the french instead of using subtitles this could just be because i hate reading subtitles
1	cinema at its best is entertainment if one is to question every aspect with which one finds room for disagreement and much of recorded history is based on contemporary opinions often biased then one should leave the cinema because their prejudices will always spoil their enjoyment when i spotted an airplane flying overhead in a film dated i was amused the background scenery in casablanca is absurdly fake so do i set up a moan say that the film failed to convince fiona relax and enjoy some excellent acting decision to cast the protagonists as french polish was inspired one was immediately aware of which side each of the main characters was representing no need to dwell on the authenticity of the wigs this is powerful cinema if there is a political message which is still relevant today have a dinner party a château with the gras a with the some polish vodka and perhaps a 1961 château rothschild with the beef and discuss the political aspects of until you drop with fatigue would surely have agreed
1	many american pea brains who worship and support the political half truths of hucksters like michael moore would do well to sit through this movie more than once and see how hypnotic can scare intimidate and lie to an public and get the people they fear or loathe killed and mutilated robespierre in this fine epic kills the opposition by remote control all in a fit of self righteous devotion to his principles we get the impression that robes felt it quite justifiable to snip off his heads even as he sent his minions out to trump up false and misleading charges against the state today the captains of our rotting media institutions are much more sensitive that robes they merely murder your character with innuendo and false charges laid down without foundation or sources witness dan attempts to assassinate w's character on the eve of the 2004 election or the constant drumbeat that the 2000 election was stolen although constitutional scholars continue to scoff at such irresponsible drivel
1	this film is more than the story of it was a joint polish french production filmed at the time of the beginning of the end of the soviet system it probably helped spur the solidarity union activity it is more about poland in the 20th century than the french revolution solidarity began the end of the system this film itself is historical by it's very existence the rest is history br br aka totalitarian leaders aka when one watches this film one must remember the snowball which began in poland br br actually it could be useful for seeing the superpower struggle within the only superpower left
1	unlike http www imdb com title this movie provides no background information we are shown a snapshot of the fall of his mock process and execution but unless one studied the revolution quite extensively it is difficult to understand where characters come from robespierre and thus to appreciate them for what they are and joe could be the same person to the viewer for example robespierre were close friends since their youth and this explains how robespierre acts those who know the facts though will easily orient themselves and appreciate this good movie with actors delivering solid acting no useless subplots and good reconstruction of the times and are the best characters but all do a good job even the 'demented' saint just portrayed as sort of psychopath was a period of massacres whose importance hasn't been fully documented and that for the most part were driven by ambition greed and the settling of personal disputes fed to ignorant sans as the next epochal step against tyranny
1	i was very curious to see this depardieu outing plus the time period is definitely fascinating being a fan i was disappointed and that may be an understatement the film never really took cinematic flight there's no foundation for the animosity between and robespierre etc br br basically the script was weak adapted from the affair and yet the direction was masterful it's afterall also there were some amazing actors but they never really grab the audience's attention like they should depardieu comes off as a quasi goofy nonchalant not exactly the image we have in mind is incredible as usual but again the script puts up limits even actors of great talent can't break down and linda pop up as and saint just and if you're familiar with then you'd know them br br overall i was disappointed with this much lauded film great cast great director but no quality foundation bad undynamic script we need to get in and general j mindsets what are their motivations eh who knows one likes women the other powders himself ok so if you're looking for a great french revolution movie i highly recommend la revolution it's in two parts and oh so great excellent performances in depth script juicy tid bits definitely a satisfying experience klaus maria brandauer is a much better than depardieu the wonderful apparently took some notes from and is brilliant as robespierre see it now as for fans you're better off with man of iron marble promised land and the like cheers
1	this is a great movie to look at since it so nicely directed by but at the same time i wished the movie would had some more depth in it in terms of its story it's an historically relevant movie about the last days of the french revolution but yet the movie forgets to focus on the character's motivations making the movie perhaps a tad bit too shallow to consider this a brilliant and relevant movie to what br br somehow it doesn't make the movie any less great to watch though it's made with passion and eye for detail every aspect about the movie is good looking such as its settings costumes and camera work br br also the story still works out as powerful though at the same time it could had been so much better and more powerful with a just bit more character development and insight historical information guess if you're completely familiar with the french revolution and the stories of and robespierre in particular this movie will be a perfect one for you to watch br br it's somewhat typical for a french movie to tell a story slowly and subtle without ever stepping too much in detail often this works out charmingly but in this case the movie could had really done with a bit more depth other than that this movie is still one fine example of french cinema despite the fact that it's being directed by a polish director and stars lots of polish actors in it as well br br gérard depardieu is great in his role though the movie also decides to concentrate a lot on many other different characters the movie perhaps has a bit too many characters but each and every performance is a great one so this doesn't really ever become a big complaint other than that it slows done the story a bit at certain points br br a great movie that could had been brilliant br br 8 10
1	the film tells upon the title role gerard depardieu confronting against robespierre during the french revolution the film is based on real deeds they are the following 1794 as lawyer participated in the overthrowing of the king louis xvi and the proclamation of the republic being minister of justice in the convention and founder of club he proposed creation revolutionaries committees as the committee of public salvation which he presided but was substituted by robespierre starting a period of revolutionary dictatorship known ¨the besides in the film appear other historic personages as camille patrice now a famed filmmaker louis david saint just br br the picture especially narrates the happenings surrounding the facing off of the principal figures one time partner revolution and posterior execution although gives results a contemporary parable about the modern poland thus is and robespierre is who was the prime minister imposed the martial law in poland and with similar name than actor played robespierre gerard depardieu is excellent in the title character and magnificently portrayed also in secondaries roles are awesome actors as the recently deceased jacques dinner game crimen in paradise and angela winkler the tin drum the motion picture is well directed by considered the best polish director the flick will like to historical cinema buffs
1	if there were two parts that the physically towering ugly charismatic actor gérard depardieu was born as a frenchman to play it must surely have been cyrano de bergerac and the orator georges here he dominates the film both through the breadth of his shoulders and the power of his voice his charisma carries the part despite the fact that it is made clear that the character has as much blood on his hands as any of the rest of them feasts while the people of paris starve but he is the one man who can challenge the tyranny imposed by the dreaded committee of public safety in the name of 'freedom' and he is presented as the hero of the film despite the fact that the source play practically his opponent robespierre br br for those who know the characters from history there is interest to be had in identifying the minor parts the frog faced the cripple the prosecutor the dashing fop st just the epic painter david but the script cuts little slack in this respect names are often late in coming if minor characters are identified at all and there is no hollywood style 'info to make sure that the audience can place events in their historical context the film takes it for granted that you know what has gone before and what will happen after sometimes it takes too much for granted as when it relies on a close knowledge of dates to provide the sting to its tail in the fact that robespierre followed shortly to the scaffold br br considered as a film it's not entirely satisfactory in that it ebbs away towards the end the structure of the story leads up to some great confrontation between the protagonists in the courtroom or some dramatic climax to the trial which thanks to history never actually happens things just fizzle out there is no revolt there is no overthrow of tyranny there is no assumption of power by the victor there is no triumph on either side it may be historically accurate but it's not entirely satisfying as the outcome of a screen scenario it seems an odd place to stop as others have commented it might have been more logical to take events up to the end of the terror and show in the fall of robespierre
1	this is one of the best movies on the french revolution ever produced being a person well versed in the the period i was amazed at the level of detail the costumes are spot on even the detailed little day to day items such as ink wells serving plates etc are all perfect as an american living in france who has access to the sites in the movie through his membership in various historical associations such as the napoleonic alliance i can not over state how impressed i was with the visual accuracy of the film br br the dialogue where known is virtual quotations and the where not recorded is in character i was extremely pleased with this movie and am disappointed that it is not out on dvd yet this is how historical drama should be done must see
1	i saw this film at the 2004 toronto international film festival since i work in the wine business i had been quite eager to see this documentary and i wasn't disappointed reportedly drawn from over 500 hours of footage the good news is that will be releasing not only a theatrical cut but a ten part ten hour series of the film on dvd by next christmas thinkfilm is distributing it the bad news is that it's still a bit of an unwieldy beast when it was shown in cannes it was close to three hours long for toronto he's cut about half an hour but it still clocked in at 135 minutes now for me that's fine i love wine and i love hearing about the controversies raging in my business but not everyone wants that much br br around the globe from brazil to france to california to italy to argentina talking to wine makers and pr people and consultants and critics about the state of the wine world the theme that emerges is that globalization and the undue influence of wine critic robert parker are forcing a kind of on wine small local producers are either being bought up by larger american as well as local or are being pressured by market forces to change their to suit the palate of mr parker who dictates taste to most of the american and world markets br br it's a complicated subject and i can understand why wants to let his subjects talk there is robert patriarch of the napa wine industry and his sons tim and michael whose efforts to buy land in faced opposition from local and government officials there is founder and wine maker of iconoclastic opponent of plans and crusader for that express local terror there is robert parker himself expressing some discomfort with his influence while refusing to stop writing about the that he favours there is flying wine maker michel consultant for dozens of all over the world advising them how to make parker friendly there are many many more fascinating personalities in this documentary br br if you are a wine lover you will want to seek out the ten part series as well as the theatrical version of this film but even if you're not into wine the film is an interesting look at how the forces of globalization are changing many of the world's oldest and most established traditions the effects on local cultures and economies cannot be ignored br br 8 10
1	was a hero and one of the founders of the french revolution of this movie is set five years later and the revolution has morphed into something ugly while initially the revolution promised freedom at this point the small committee running the country is extremely repressive and is a dictatorship and his friends were angry at how the country wasn't better off in 1794 than it was before they got rid of their king so they begin criticizing the government the movie begins as the printer who makes critical pamphlets concerning the government is beaten and his business is destroyed so much for liberty equality and fraternity so as a result of being silenced this way et al begin publicly criticizing the government eventually robespierre the leader of the committee and his cronies trump up charges have a show trial and get rid of the dissent some have mentioned that the polish director also intended this to be a criticism of his own nation which at the time was soviet dominated and very repressive as well this makes sense as you see the movie unfold especially when the government destroys all dissent in the name of the people br br the acting is fine the story compelling and i have no major criticism of the film however i really wish the ending had been handled differently especially because other than history lovers and french people most probably have no idea that this execution helped to end the government after this purge of in april 1794 robespierre himself was executed in july 1794 because the country had just had enough plus those surviving frenchmen knew that they too would face the guillotine sooner or later if this sick system remained in place some sort of an epilogue would have been nice such as showing the soldiers coming for robespierre he responded by trying to kill himself first but he only succeeded in blowing off part of his face still alive he was shortly afterward this would have been a dandy little epilogue and could have been done in about five minutes however not showing a connection between death and the fall of the government is an odd thing to omit
1	french cinema had always been very strong when comes the time to present historical subjects 95 of the time they never make errors this film is of one of the best of the genre due to very very strong acting by depardieu and work as the director is truly a wonder everyone should see this great film
1	set in the 1794 the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders gerard depardieu at his finest and robespierre a commanding performance by the polish actor the moderate revolutionary has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre he is opposed to the reign of terror which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens mainly by guillotine who are thought to be opposed to the revolution is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of will lead to them being overthrown and put and his supporters on trial for being traitors this was the first french language film made by after he had arrived in france from poland his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties his previous film man of iron 1981 had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of and the polish leader general and that between and robespierre are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent the film is based on the polish play the affair written by in the 1930s and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris
1	the movie takes place during the year 1940 and the french are about to loose the war br br the movie includes all genres comedy romantic murder and history it is probable the historical part may be not as probable as the rest br br it is not however a big laugh movie but the occasional large smile
1	minor spoilers follow br br steve allen opined that topical humor about serious events might be found by many to be acceptable based on the formula tragedy time comedy 1939 before the german assault on poland was hardly a fun period and subsequent events including the blitzkrieg following the which took germany to the channel resulted in the heroic evacuation at dunkirk and gave the world the sickening spectacle of a france its honor before the nazi conqueror br br the stuff of romance comedy and a big dollop of serious drama yep director jean paul with a well matched and outstanding cast creates in bon voyage a pastiche of events and scenes from history and from imagination that is hugely entertaining br br viviane the eyed and beautiful isabelle adjani is france's top actress as war clouds gather over europe what an overused cliche sorry a veteran self with many affairs to her credit her inner motivation seems to be whatever is good for viviane is good for viviane following a premiere of her latest film after which a minister in the incompetent reynaud administration jean etienne gerard depardieu in an unusual role for him signals his interest in her she goes home only to tiredly encounter an ex lover who doesn't understand the word no she decisively resolves that issue but then frantically and enlists another former beau the still besotted frederic gregory to help deal with the mess in her flat frederic is a novelist in expectation br br a comic accident that once again highlights almost as a public service message the importance of working windshield wipers puts frederic in jail on most serious charges fortunately the breakout of the germans from their static positions forces a wholesale transfer of prisoners to the south of france but our boy escapes making his way there privately rather than as a ward of the state br br the panic and fear in france as the germans swept to victory is well portrayed and a new twist enters the story who should frederic encounter but the truly gorgeous young research assistant camille virginie ledoyen who is accompanying the obligatory jewish refugee scientist professor jean marc has some bottles of heavy water he needs to get to england of course the germans musn't latch on to this vital ingredient for you know what this part is pure fiction there was never any heavy water in france in 1940 just perrier and camille is so winsome as well as dedicated br br what next peter coyote as a supposed french journalist alex be tipped off as to his name he's really an officer in the german military intelligence a spy and he used to bed viviane too and wants a reprise of their affair apparently the kind is the only major male character who doesn't want to have it off with the actress br br what follows is a series of adventures and mishaps that are seamlessly integrated to produce a very fast paced and enjoyable film partly a tribute to and a bit of a spoof on casablanca this is is a remarkably funny movie except for the heavy nazi bits br br isabelle adjani deserves kudos for the best portrayal i've seen in years of an adorably cute total narcissist with few if any redeeming features and depardieu disloyal to and ready to jump ship and join the traitor is convincing as a man whose ardor for viviane exceeds his diluted sense of duty to the republic as a human being in power at a critical moment in french history is mundanely vile br br not shown in too many theaters bon voyage should be available for purchase or rental soon see it br br 9 10
1	a terrific fast paced screwball like comic strip drama farce set against france's 1939 implosion played with wide eyed straight faced intensity by a talented cast and with action satire social commentary and authentic period details from slick hairdos and hairdos to a fleet of citroen a rollicking soundtrack and brief but credible impersonations of charles de and marshal br br it's simply some of the best entertainment recently shown on screen devoid of presumption and message if movies were trains and there is a creative recreation of a trip on a steam driven train that works despite there being no steam locomotive an expensive prop no doubt this would be a
1	bon voyage is fun for the audience because it combines the requisite silliness of a comedy with just enough sobriety to keep viewers actively engaged and invested in the outcome most importantly though the film is also historically instructive it captures the tension of the so called phony war and later the french flight from paris ahead of the german onslaught yet bon voyage is not a war movie it is a comedy about the lives of a handful of people set against the backdrop of extraordinary times bon voyage conveys the chaos confusion and emotional bewilderment of a nation of the brink of collapse and the wide spectrum of french reactions to the new political order this film is a comedy which entertains the audience a romance which skillfully utilizes many clichés and a story of a handful of people whose nation is collapsing around them
1	i found this dvd in the library and based on the jacket notes it looked like it might possibly be interesting a black comedy set in 1940 france just as the germans are marching in boy that should have them rolling in the but it does this is a clever original suspenseful and funny film i don't recall seeing anything like it before – foreign or u s that the writer director can find humor when we know part of the outcome the germans will occupy france for four years is remarkable that he does it with such charm is part of the delight what starts off as black comedy and fluff even ends up having a couple of serious moments – including a race to spirit out a cache of heavy water which was part of the preliminary research for the a bomb and a quick history 101 intro to the beginnings of the vichy government that would govern southern france for much of the german occupation but don't let any of that that scare you off the movie itself is funny charming and romantic and races ahead at steady clip br br one of the best things about it is the combination of actors we've seen many times adjani and depardieu and others we've never heard of before along the way there are two star making turns virginie and both are impressive but mr is especially so according to imdb he was in ten films before this one – but he also won the cesar as most promising actor for this role so apparently he was not all that well known even in france he is a combination of romantic lead and comic actor – and he makes it all seem so effortless you may be reminded of cary grant in bringing up baby and arsenic and old lace – it's hard to do comedy on film because the risks are enormous that the actor can come off looking inept but grant pulled it off charmingly and this guy does also i should think we're going to hear more about him in the future br br to be sure this film won't please everyone – there's a little bit of violence although nothing you don't see on tv every day but if you're up for something original you may feel after you've seen this that you've unearthed a cinematic gem br br the so called spoiler in this comment
1	i saw bon voyage 2 days ago and i found it an excellent production the film is supposed to entertain and it does it emulates the style of the american screwball comedies of the 30s but von voyage is more refined adjani and depardieu are simply excellent in their roles the plot is simple the film starts with people involved in many situations that apparently should have nothing to do between them it is very funny how those situations become linked during the film it is good to see a french film with this kind of sense of humor i find it principally a film in which love is the main theme peter coyote as the german spy in france shows once more to be an excellent actor too
1	first a word of caution the dvd box describes this film as a comedy i don't think that was the intention of anyone connected with the film other than some marketing morons while light and a little bit funny in places it is not a comedy and if you expect that you will be disappointed br br i had never even heard of this film and had absolutely no expectations one way or the other considering that the other two dvds i picked up were big disappointments i was so happy when i saw this film the acting writing and direction were excellent the story itself definitely interested me as you don't usually see films about the final month of france before the nazi takeover in 1940 it gave some insight into the parasites that gave up so quickly and agreed to their beloved country along the way there are plots involving a selfish and weak actress played very well by isabelle adjani who looks marvelous after all these years she kills an ex lover and then finds a poor sap to take the fall this sap escapes from prison and finds her with another lover a high government official and weasel played by gerard depardieu in addition a subplot about a jewish physicist trying to smuggle out of the country is introduced and eventually this becomes the main plot the story has a lot of nice twists and turns a light sense of humor without trying to be a comedy and some genuine suspenseful moments together they create a nice package this is sure to please
1	over the years i seemed to have missed this picture of ronald reagan and due to his recent passing to the big screen in heaven it was shown on tv recently this is a great low budget b w film of the late 1930's however it is very interesting to see how criminals used their talents to steal money from insurance companies with false claims during this particular time frame i was surprised at the role ronald reagan eric gregg the killer's played in this picture along with a great veteran film star sheila gregg nightmare circus '73 who was a great supporting actor it was a great film that showed ronald reagan as a very young man reaching for the stars in his career in hollywood at the time god bless him
1	i think that the costumes were excellent and the hairdressers also performed well it has the very authentic feeling for that period of time br br i don't know if it was the computer magic or if it was real some of the big scenes have hundreds of extras in the background i was especially impressed with the scene of that bridge br br the main character the actress also performed well she showed us a nervous witty woman who knows how to use herself to seduce men to get what she wants br br some of the scenes were hilarious even though it was about 2 hours long but it was never boring a very good entertaining movie
1	was in the mood for a french film and saw this at blockbuster what a little gem it turned out to be not sure how i missed all these years but he is fantastic such innocence and grace i love his face and the way he moves isabelle adjani was hilarious reminded me of nicole kidman's over the top performance in moulin rouge she looks the same as 20 years ago truly remarkable gerard depardieu has not held up nearly as well but his acting continues to amaze he's perfect in this film will probably buy this one i enjoyed it so much if you want to see another great french movie rent noel stunning
1	even if it won't give one more than previous posts here like ruby liang's very good one i wanted to share my own point of view hope my english is understandable br br bon voyage is a rhythmic light but deep presentation of the french unorganized come down but also courage and charm all along in a brilliantly reconstituted 1940 france with many details from bordeaux luxurious hotel occupied by government hq and attacked by useless high class french to parisian coffees near le pantheon rue and 1930s cars gérard depardieu and yvan attal give their second roles a brilliant taste isabelle adjani and ledoyen are very credible in their drastically different roles and makes an bewitching performance br br much lighter than average e g american war times movies and focused on the civilians bon voyage shows a lot of things about french issues even to a french guy like me some of them quite deep
1	one comment said it wasn't a comedy mistake it was a delightful comedy of a period of history that doesn't lend itself easily to that genre very busy and active film from beginning to end often the shots out the window of the train or car were just beautiful an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours in a theater all the french historical figures like charles de and and the some of the people involved in the french resistance were included in the script which might send those who are unfamiliar with the collapse of france under the german invasion might want to research the characters were engaging and the actors portraying them were excellent recommend it 9 out of 10
1	more and more french cinema demonstrates that's the only one able to confront hollywood's and to spend high amounts on money in their movies if bon voyage had been made in the usa no one would be surprised perfectly set in france in the 40's when the nazi invasion technically irreproachable and with some of the most international french actors depardieu adjani ledoyen bon voyage centerers on two parallel stories an scientific and his disciple ledoyen who tries to hide one of his discoveries a kind of water that may work as an atomic bomb from the nazis and a poor guy in love with a well known actress adjani which ends up in prison accused of a crime he's not committed in order to protect her br br bon voyage seems to have been made in the old style without unnecessary camera movements and effects without big turns in the plot as i said before regarding to the production itself they've made a great job but the main problem with this movie is about the script is it a spy movie a romantic comedy a spy comedy a comedy of intrigue it's not clear that makes bon voyage a little unbalanced when you think you're watching a comedy suddenly changes to another story line a more dramatic one more slow i think they should've focused in one of the lines of argument the one about the spy plot and left the romantic parts in the background br br my rate 6 5 10
1	an interesting pairing of stories this little flick manages to bring together seemingly different characters and story lines all in the backdrop of wwii and succeeds in tying them together without losing the audience i was impressed by the depth portrayed by the different characters and also by how much i really felt i understood them and their motivations even though the time spent on the development of each character was very limited the outstanding acting abilities of the individuals involved with this picture are easily noted a fun stylized movie with a slew of comic moments and a bunch more head shaking events br br 7 10
1	when i went to see bon voyage i expected a good skillful on the order of grand hotel 1932 and les enfants de paradis 1944 it was better than that with few exceptions none of the characters were totally good or totally evil just as in real life the acting was wonderful especially those who played raoul and camille the photography was amazing as it recreated the period perfectly and managed to be shot in around bordeaux during a time of new public works but managed the look of june 1940 costumes and make up were accurate there is so much in this movie that it's worth a second viewing it's exciting funny and ultimately touching n b be sure to see it in a theatre with good quality projection it's in wide screen and in the theater where i saw it the in the first 30 minutes had the subtitles at the bottom in focus but the actors' faces slightly fuzzy this was ultimately corrected but detracted from the pleasure of the film
1	on its surface this is one of the most classically entertaining action comedy romance films i've seen in a long time reminding me of pleasurable old saturday afternoon movies that had just the right balance of unexpected twists well timed humor and integrated action beyond this though there is our knowledge of this film's context it has the same elements of casablanca but is set just before many of the characters would truly understand the seriousness of what was happening to their country and the world and the consequences of some of their own behavior this adds a strong note of irony to the humor we sense that one of the female characters has a radical change of hairstyle in her future this is a film that you will not regret watching
1	bon voyage has the fast pace that in some ways reminds me of the indiana jones star wars films it's as if you're on a fast train or roller coaster br br it's billed as a romance mystery thriller and farce it's all of that and more including candid observations on the reactions of french society during the nazi invasion at the start of wwii and it's also an exhibition of juggling that involves 7 main characters the scenes all seemed historically accurate to my eyes and gave an excellent feeling for the period br br all of the actors were well cast and gave great performances but imo the most superb was that by isabelle adjani who played the role of an opportunistic self centered french movie star not only did she quite convincingly play the role of a young actress perhaps half her age but she also played her amorous wiles convincingly yet in such a way that the audience sees she's only half serious and more complex as a person than just a gold digger her character and energy propel the film through from beginning to end it wasn't until i read roger ebert's review that i discovered she was 48 years old at the time of the film what beauty br br i appreciated the ending it's satisfying but lets you write your own conclusion as to what happens to the main characters br br as another user commenter observed do not arrive late you need to be there from the opening scene good advice br br i gave it 9 of 10
1	director and auteur jean pierre was 8 years old during the spring of 1940 as france's third republic disintegrated in a matter of a few weeks it was a time he says when all the adults were a little bit insane he and the production staff have lovingly and meticulously recreated that world in a film where all the characters are essentially fictional the structure a classic farce is ideal for the period as multiple plot lines zip and intersect only to come together in a logical satisfying conclusion the peg for this plot is frederic played by brilliant newcomer gregory who is fully up to playing opposite adjani depardieu and ledoyen the real strength of the film is in its supporting performances m has cast the film exquisitely with actors who volunteered ideas for both action and dialogue and who know and prove that it is possible to fully realize a character with just two short sentences of dialogue though not yet as widely influential as renoir's of the game ' voyage' richly deserves to be a companion piece to that classic though it demands a lot of the audience it gives much back one of its demands is tolerance for a certain and misdirection as to the exact genre we are watching a crime melodrama no a spy thriller ah a romantic comedy recommend it to friends just be sure to let them discover for themselves that it is a romantic comedy
1	it would seem a given but if a viewer forgets context he risks missing an opportunity of enjoyment br br it is easy to from the lofty heights of the 21st century at styles and prices of the great depression years but the intelligent viewer will remember that magic word context and better understand and thus enjoy accidents will happen br br among the actors ronald reagan again showed himself a good looking and personable guy and again gave a right on performance br br a reviewer earlier said gloria blondell played the nasty wife but that was wrong she plays the concession stand clerk who has a crush on the reagan character eric gregg but keeps hands off as long as he is married br br gloria was cute not as lushly beautiful as her sister joan she was still attractive and a good actress perhaps her looking somewhat like joan was a detriment to having a more successful career and it is certainly our loss br br sheila was mrs gregg and played it well br br other actors included dick purcell and the great earl got to play something besides a villainous cowboy br br again most of the players never attained the household name status many of them deserved but they by gosh gave good performances here in a story that is still current
1	in paris a few months before the nazi invasion the manipulative actress viviane isabelle adjani uses her former sweetheart to hide the body of a man killed by her hits the car the dead man is found and he is sent to prison when the germans invade france escapes with another prisoner raoul yvan attal and they become friends in the runaway to bordeaux they meet in the train camille virginie ledoyen the young assistant of the physicist jean marc who is trying to leave france with his research of heavy water once in bordeaux the group meets viviane with her new lover the minister of state jean gérard depardieu and is chased by a german spy the journalist alex peter coyote while paris is falling and the population is confused br br what a delightful and magnificent romantic adventure bon voyage is the excellent and complex screenplay has action romance war comedy espionage drama and lots of characters played by a fantastic cast indeed a constellation of stars the direction is stunning the music score is wonderful i really loved this marvelous film and i have to finish my review due to my limitation of adjectives to describe such a gem my vote is nine br br title brazil viagem do travel of the heart
1	it's wartime drama wwii with french and jews and germans but this one is somehow fun earnestly so director jean paul co wrote the script to his well received film bon voyage 2003 unlike director bertrand tavernier's safe conduct aka passer 2002 w d rolf gloomy sunday 1999 or w d claude lucie 1997 bon voyage is as chipper as its title sounds c'est la vie whatever and we have the beautiful talented isabelle adjani to thank for it is her delightful performance throughout as the center of attraction and attention the cause and effect of it all that made the film so enjoyable as it is hell what's another of her plan and expectations will worry about that another time the backbone of the story does revolve around a pair of young enthusiasts as and virginie ledoyen from francois 8 women as camille the incomparable gérard depardieu the witty yvan attal of my wife is an actress and versatile peter coyote juggling french english and german here are some of the stellar cast involved br br there are many characters coming and going in this plot of a movie and how it's all is a skilful knack that requires no analysis is simply a genius the story just builds upon itself one episode after another or even with overlapping events but never confusing that's the delight of it all somehow every detail turns out right on the screen and we just lap it all up like a presented french dessert literally so there's thrills tender hesitant moments and taut ominous escapes all playing out in front of our eyes br br from reading the director's note on the sony pictures bon voyage official site indicated this is his most personal and successful work ever depicting bordeaux 1940 from memories of his childhood years is very much close to his heart and he had worked and reworked the script for almost 3 years this film is a labor of love all round the cast and crew complementing the director's passion and a formidable script by collaborative writers along with the director and his son julien adaptation efforts by gilles marchand patrick and tonnerre br br music by gabriel varied in tone from his previous film scores like the english patient or talented mr ripley who provided a befitting theme that kept the pace and rhythm of the plot going almost like a train going non stop reflecting adjani's vivacious energy even when she's tired keeping her going as she meets whatever comes walking on with head held high and stylish attire always no looking back let alone time for regrets br br ah mustn't forget the wonderfully translated skilful subtitles by ian who also did subtitles for films in italian bread and tulips 2000 aka pane e the last kiss 2001 aka l'ultimo bacio and tom tykwer's heaven 2002 br br if you find this much too light a wartime relationship drama try w d aimée and jaguar 1999 in german based on a true story with brilliant performances from juliane as aimée and maria schrader as jaguar
1	this movie travels farther on 8 gunshots 2 kisses and 100 clichés than should be possible yet it still works brilliant br br as i was driving home from the theater i tried to figure out how it got away with movie staples like the pages of a novel manuscript blowing across a beach or the impossible series of fortuitous coincidences without the entire audience standing up and screaming i've seen that a million times before and you've pushed beyond the edge of believability but the actors were so enchanting and the screen so filled with believable extras that i forgot to care a friend who saw it with me said it transported him to paris so perfectly that he was disappointed when we left the theater and realized we were still in indiana br br overall a romantic comedy thriller with subtlety wit and elan
1	giant robot was the most popular japanese tv serial ever seen on indian tv it was targeted to children and we saw a robot for the first time in our life br br many indian children must have even seen a machine for the first time outside the school textbooks br br the serial also showed a child in an adults organization fighting evil no doubt many of us who have seen giant robot in our childhood long for our own robots and as a arrangement look upon our computers in the same way br br this show also portrayed ideal adults referring at jerry johnny's buddy friend and unicorn chief azuma we grew to respect japanese progress and still view japan as the ideal asian nation br br btw at that time there were no satellite tv channels in india and the govt owned broadcaster did not show much of disney cartoons i guess that was how child serials like giant robot got appreciated nowadays there is pokemon etc but they are no so fascinating or alluring as giant robot
1	i have noticed that people have asked if anyone has this show i have all 26 episodes that aired in the u s and will be willing to share these with anyone interested all i require is that you supply the vhs tapes or blank dvd's i have them on both formats and pay for shipping my email is net just send me an email and your request and i will notify you and we can make the arrangements the quality is very good and they are very enjoyable to watch especially if you have not been able to see them since they aired in the 60's it was one of my favorite shows as a child and hold a very special place in my heart because it brings back a lot of memories of my childhood as well as other shows like and astroboy br br peter
1	i'm doing a thesis on blurring the boundaries the female cross dresser and am using tipping the velvet the book as my main text any comments on gender and sexual identity gender and sexual confusion gender as a performance gender as a fiction gender imagery cross dressing as an erotic fantasy and as revolution the effect of the male costume etc etc would be much appreciated but a bit off the point has anyone seen sergio 1987 film vera its about a young lesbian possibly transsexual cross dresser i'm dying to see it because i think it'd be really helpful does anyone know where i might get a copy of it i've tried amazon and a few other sites but no luck
1	this was recommended to me by a friend that said it was cute and cuddly for a lesbian sexuality flick boy was he wrong i guess he just didn't get it growing up not understanding and then discovering yourself thru trial and tribulation is more like it br br the characters are full and vibrant and the story has enough fun thrown in thru the theater performances to keep anyone interested br br rachael stirling as nan goes thru so many tries at finding the love she desires only to find it was the one person she was scared to reveal all too and ran out on may as flo was remarkable spent a couple hours trying to recall where i've seen her before only to discover she was the quiet sister alice in last of the mohicans luckily i was raised in a liberal family and had no issues with trying a movie like this so many people are missing out on flicks like this i'm glad i took my friend's advise and tried it but i'm sure i enjoyed it more the he
1	i have to say it is a sign that this film appeals to all ages if somebody by right should be shielding themselves away from anything remotely homosexual absolutely loves this thing br br i thought every last bit of this film was amazing and the casting was superb but i have to say anna chancellor where have you been all my life br br having previously seen anna in several other things i was completely blown away by how magnificent she was br br diana may not be the most lovable of the characters but she could certainly take me home if she fancied
1	this drama apparently caused a bit of a stir six years ago when it debuted on television not taking in much tv news myself it passed under the radar but after having seen it i'm not surprised that it did cause a stir not particularly because of the content although it is a bit more than the usual tv fodder it has more to do with the reactionary media in this country anyway this three part series is based on a book by sarah waters and puts its main focus on lesbians although the plot also has room to explore some other 'dark' sides of sexuality our main character is an oyster girl named nan short for nancy from winchester she is bewitched by female to male drag performer kitty butler after seeing her at a theatre show and soon begins attending all of her shows eventually catching the eye of the performer and becoming her dresser it's not long before kitty is offered a chance to play on bigger stages in london and having become good friends with nan she invites her along for the ride the act gets bigger when nan takes to the stage also and the pair becomes a stage duo but kitty breaks heart leading her into an odyssey within london's seedy underbelly br br i must admit that my dvd collection contains no shortage of sleazy and sordid films so there wasn't anything in this one that was enough to shock me despite being rather jaded to it i have to say that i'm still surprised at anyone who says this film went too far naturally there is some lesbian sex and other stuff but it's never exploitative or overused and the film really couldn't have been made without it the main focus is always on the story and the story is really well done the film is almost three hours long in total but if anything that isn't long enough to get everything across sarah waters is obviously an inventive writer and the film remains interesting for the duration the acting is solid as you would expect but i must admit that i found lead actress rachael stirling awkward and hard to get on with at first although she grows into her role well as the film progresses the execution is a little bit of a problem and director geoffrey sax is a bit too gimmicky for my liking the story does get a little bit sappy towards the end also which is a shame because this film is at it's strongest during the dark moments episode 2 being the high point of three for me there's not really a defined point to the film or at least not one that i could see that's not important as far as i'm concerned however as tipping the velvet tells a good story and more than surpassed my expectations worth checking out for people that like this sort of stuff
1	this is a superb tv series it's sympathetic and for once realistic portrayal of lesbian women is delicately handled and well done on top of that the directing is wonderful and the settings sumptuous and rich a real treat if you missed the first one i advise you watch next weeks 9pm bbc 2
1	once again i must play something of the most of the reviews for ab tak have been extremely positive mine is positive but only slightly a 7 out of 10 is equivalent to a c letter grade from me br br it seems that a lot of the praise is rooted in two factors one that ab tak is more realistic than the typical bollywood film and two that it is trying to do things differently br br the first point i couldn't care less about i'm not looking for realism in films and so i do not score higher for a film that shows a story and characters closer to how i believe the real world to be i'm a big fan of surrealism fantasy absurdism and so on although i do not dislike realist films merely for the fact that they're realist br br for the second point i agree that it is commendable to try to do things differently however i don't think originality versus makes for a better or worse film in itself a film can be original and poor just like a film can be formulaic and excellent what matters are how well the film does whatever it sets out to do and how enjoyable or aesthetically rewarding that is to the viewer br br ab tak is based on the true story of a mumbai cop named was an encounter specialist encounter specialists who could be said to be early of real world judge are trained to operate like the criminals and gang members they pursue and they're basically given a license to kill effectively acting as policeman judge jury and executioner in a matter of moments ab tak follows the story of nana patekar the encounter specialist based on we see him at work interacting with his fellow encounter specialists and engaging in violence we see him at home trying to live a normal life in his less than luxurious surroundings we see him trying to adjust to a new commissioner halfway through the film and we see his odd relationship with a notorious indian gangster don br br all of this has the potential to make a fabulous gritty film i agree that it's nice to forgo the typical bollywood musical numbers and romances not every film needs that stuff ab tak producer ram gopal varma is famous for leaving music and romances in the background or by the wayside in many films that he's directed or produced additionally ab tak has some good performances patekar almost gives off a death wish 1974 era charles bronson vibe it also has admirable cinematography the hand held stuff near the beginning of the film was particularly effective for example it has a great score that mixes more of a moody hollywood sounding action crime score with traditional indian instruments and the violence is well done and gritty br br there is also decent exploration of subtexts including the morality of having encounter specialists the idea of following orders and so on the encounter specialists are shown having to largely divorce themselves from ideas of right and wrong more poignantly the film questions the merit of blindly following orders parallels are drawn between the encounter specialists following orders and say members of a country's military and we're shown what a corrupt situation this can lead to br br but you just knew there was a but coming didn't you director amin and his scriptwriters have created a story with far too many characters far too much sprawl and that moves a bit too slow all of these problems may be due to amin and crew looking at the godfather films which ab tak has some at least superficial resemblances to although from a policeman's perspective br br most of the encounter specialists we do not get to know very well these are shallowly drawn characters to say the least except for and for one narayan i didn't know who he was until at least halfway through the film his name is mentioned a number of times but i'd only get glimpses of him until the scene would change then everyone would change clothes by the time they appear again and i'd have to start all over figuring out who narayan was br br the same thing happened with first commissioner the film was already far into the new commissioner before i could figure out the relationships it seems like there are new characters in every scene we never learn the stories of most of them while that might have some artistic merit in that the encounter specialists are mostly killing people they do not know anything about because they're mostly doing so on orders since we do not learn much about most of the encounter specialists either it's difficult to find characters to care about and that doesn't exactly make for a gripping film br br the primary villain is but until about halfway through the film there's no indication of this he doesn't get much more screen time than the other villains parading through the film and he's literally phoning his performance in he's in another location dubai communicating only by telephone for the majority of the film we don't actually see doing much to an extent the film depends on a couple twists that not showing doing a number of things but we could see him do other things and a lot of the other villains could have been left out br br that would have tightened up the film a bit making it more focused and about a half hour shorter both of which would have benefited its impact this is not an action packed film by any means for at least the first 45 minutes or so i found myself admiring ab tak considerable style but saying okay get on with the story already
1	so far only the first episode has been shown and a great fuss has been made about the lesbian sex scenes but for those who bother to look past that they will find an incredibly beautiful love story and one that has in this episode ended in an upsetting climax cliffhanger i have found the story so powerful that i have been inspired to read the novel on which this fantastic series has been based
1	the andrew davies adaptation of the sarah waters' novel was excellent the characters of nan and and kitty were superbly portrayed by rachael stirling and kelley hawes respectively the whole series was a total joy to watch it caught the imagination of everyone across the board whether straight or gay i wish there could be a sequel
1	this is one of the best lesbian films i have ever seen this series brought joy and sadness of true love being set in the 1800's was an amazing look at lesbian lives and desires of lesbian women the cast was beyond expectation rachael stirling is an amazing actress i have never seen her other works but her portrayal of nan made me connect with her feeling her heartache and pains and love the one thing i feel most important is connecting with the characters in anything i watch if anyone has doubts on seeing this film think twice this is a must see series well done again to bbc we need more lesbian films that portrays real love and hurts like this one living in canada i had this dvd imported and i am so thrilled to have purchased it
1	the bbc surpassed themselves with the boundaries they crossed with tipping the velvet in the past they've been 'daring' with dennis potter's works but this mini series as it was screened in the uk is superb andrew davies work is top notch i've not read the sarah water's novel but i can imagine he's done it real justice i comment on the most men have watched it for that proved to be a main talking and selling point when originally advertised the fact is it the lesbian side of society in the 1800s a time when most thought it was old men and rent boys well it was lesbianism took place mainly behind closed and often respectable doors br br you can also look at tipping the velvet as a 'love story' it actually is as well as 'self that many gay bi and straight people go through and comments on this occur and repeat all the time br br if you've not seen it yet either repeated on tv or on dvd get it you'll be in for a treat and even the production and filming of it is perfect just try to hide your in parts like i said is the order of the day and beware a or two br br enjoy
1	this was one of the most emotional movies i have seen passion pleasure pain despair sorrow healing cleansing and love br br the entire movie was spellbinding everything was done so well the adaptation from the book the actors the sets the camera shots br br this movie touched me deeply in so many ways it reminded me of the despair that loosing your love can have and the time it takes to heal that wound you may love again but will always be risking the pain that comes with separation br br is this not one of the most important age old questions br br is it better to have love and lost br br than to never have loved before br br ascension
1	over the weekend i watched the movie tipping the velvet and if i was to have to score this movie out of 100 i would have to give it 100 no question asked i am a true believer in true love and this movie moved me in alot of different ways and the actors fit the parts without a but i have to say that the ending was not so great for i did not see that spark in nancys eyes when ever she looked into eyes as her eyes sparked each time she looked at kitty kitty only had to be in the room or in nancy's thought and nancy would just glow that spark kitty told nancy that she could not find her and that she looked for her but could not find her kitty was ready to give it all up to get nancy back in kitty's eyes you could see kitty's pain i believe that nancy should have let kitty see that thier love is true and strong and that she would not let her go that easy you need to make a part two and have the two make it together but you must not let anyone else play the roles it has to be the real kitty nancy or it'll never work my mother once told me that true love is just not real i am no fool i know that we all have a true love out someplace just waiting for each of us and i believe with my life that nancy's true love really is only kitty and kitty's true love is only nancy come on lets play the game the right way the only way let nancy's eyes shine again kitty lost her everything by losing nancy and kitty is not to be the only one to blame i am gay myself and being gay is not easy wake up in 1889 i'd not want to be gay kitty was lost deep inside herself and in 1889 maybe the right thing to do was to be married to a man even though you love a woman kitty needed nancy to stand up to her needed nancy to fight for her myself i remember how deeply i loved this girl and i let her get away because i thought i was doing something wrong and i went back to my ex boyfriend i thought i was doing the right thing but i know i was wrong to let go of her and i will pay for the rest of my days for like kitty i could not find her anyplace i heard that she is married to a man in the u s a someplace i even heard that he beats her i guess in the end we both lose give the two girls one more chance life can be very lonely if you are not true to you and your loved one br br thank you kristen ann
1	the andrew davies adaptation of the sarah waters' novel was excellent the characters of nan and and kitty were superbly portrayed by rachael stirling and kelley hawes respectively the whole series was a total joy to watch it caught the imagination of everyone across the board whether straight or gay i wish there could be a sequel
1	both the book and the film are excellent in their own right they do differ slightly but that enhances and not detracts from what is an excellent script and acting the historical atmosphere the young girl looking for love the amazing background of music hall and the voyage into the lesbian world of london early twentieth century make this an exceptional movie andrew davies as the scriptwriter excels himself as he writes this lesbian love story with such sensitivity rachael sterling and hawes are both excellent actresses and give these parts their best the rest of the cast are very good if there was higher than 10 out of 10 i would give it
1	this bbc series is astonishingly good fun i'd only seen a few minutes before i knew i had to own it and watch it again with all my friends i wouldn't recommend this to anyone prudish but almost anyone else is going to enjoy it from the cinema snob to the entertainment hungry masses the lead character is a lesbian but it's still worth watching if that's not your thing br br rachael stirling is incredible in a lead role that stretches her into a dazzling assortment of emotions and situations some of a bizarre nature no one who saw this series would ever say she can't act she makes us laugh cry get turned on and slap our foreheads in amazement br br you can't really compare this story to anything else it's not a rehash of style or plot it's entirely it's own comedy historical drama erotica coming of age tale musical and more br br gotta praise the bbc for making this story i can't imagine anyone in the overly prudish and formulaic u s ever doing it so stop reading about it and go buy it
1	when i rented this movie i half expected it to be a low budget plot less indy film but thought i'd give it a try i started watching part 1 and couldn't pull myself away till it ended 3 hours later it was by far one of my absolute favorite films of all time from the writing to the directing to the performances i was laughing crying and singing all the way through nan rite of passage from innocence to adulthood rachael stirling is phenomenal in this film i had never heard of her before but now i will forever remember the vulnerability and strength i felt in her performance she hawes and may are incredible as they guide you through the emotional turmoils that most feel as they deal with an alternate form of sexuality the fact that the film is set in the 1890's not only educates the audience about homosexuality in that time period but makes a statement about our society today you must see this film and probably like myself you'll be making a trip to the store to add it to your collection
1	ab tak is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai india is a hard working hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers imtiaz becomes frustrated by high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when allows him to take the lead on his first case further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics br br i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india the camera work is excellent the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds the acting pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director amin has taken liberties with factual accounts nevertheless ab tak is an extremely polished piece of film making
1	i love this movie i watched it over and over when i rented it from netflix it had a lot of substance and meaning for me i think many people will enjoy it i have read and seen quite a few lesbian stories over the years and am happy to say they are getting better and better in how they are presented they tend to have a more positive feel for the life style and feeling's of gay women its nice to see two women find themselves and be as happy as others in this society i think it is apparent that more and more movies with this theme will grace our theaters and tv screens many producers and directors are realizing that lesbians live very full and wholesome lives and that we have wonderful stories that should and can be seen by individuals as well as families without hesitation
1	a young woman leaves her provincial life for a new one in the city and there she meets another woman with whom she falls in love with their relationship turns physical quickly and they both believe that they are soul mates until one day the provincial girl comes home to find a man in their bed her lover then reveals to her that their relationship was just an experiment and she really likes men um kinda like the anne heche and ellen degeneres thing so anyway the provincial girl broken torn and shattered by this discovery moves out and begins to discover what the real world is all about as she falls into the hands of all sort of vindictive and salacious people in 19th century england
1	i loved this movie not because of the romantic story lines between women but for the visualization of human strength despair and liberation this film is a must see entertaining emotional captivating all the characters are very well written and portrayed by some very talented actors this story is a story of self discovery and sexual awakening a journey of the mind body and soul you find yourself identifying with the characters and at some points even the storyline br br i do have to say that i recommend watching the movie first then read the book if you read the book first you will be slightly disappointed the screenplay adaption cut out a lot and some things were changed some for the better and some for the worst
1	tipping the velvet 2002 tv was directed by geoffrey sax for bbc television the basic plot is a coming of age story for the protagonist nan played well by rachael stirling as a teenager nan works in her family run oyster house everyone expects her to stay at home then marry an appropriate husband and settle down to family life nan expects this too br br everything changes when nan meets kitty butler hawes a beautiful and talented performer who dresses in men's clothes and captures the hearts of her audience the audience includes nan who is sexually attracted to kitty in a way in which she's not attracted to her boyfriend br br the remainder of the film follows nan to london and through her ups sort of and her downs horrible as a lesbian and sometimes male impersonator br br as is typical for the bbc every role no matter how small is performed by an excellent actor the bbc has a depth and breadth of performing artists that is truly marvelous none of the supporting actors stands out in my mind they were uniformly good both stirling and hawes are wonderful and their acting carries the film along br br it's always sad to be reminded of how difficult life can be for someone who doesn't fit society's mold for what is normal i know it isn't easy for lesbians even in the u s even today imagine the obstacles to love and happiness for lesbians in victorian england we've come a long way but we still have a long way to travel
1	as a lesbian i am sick and tired of being portrayed in movies and on tv as a sad person forever vacillating between suicide and homicide but never destined to find happiness br br if like me you are fed up with hollywood's anti lesbian propaganda you'll breathe a sigh of relief at this delightful offering from the bbc nan is the daughter of an oyster house restaurateur who wonders why she can't feel the way she should about freddy one of the local lads who has his eye set on her she falls – and falls hard – for kitty butler a male impersonator with a visiting theatre troupe nan accompanies kitty to london as her br br not everything that happens to nan is pleasant in this story and some of the things she does are not squeaky clean either but she will win your heart and her story of love triumphant will leave you with a beautiful lump in your throat at the end br br if you are a lesbo hating macho man or a homophobic housewife or some brand of religious fundamentalist who believes that homosexuals should die and go to hell this series is not for you but if you have a heart and you believe in love you will cry at the end as much as i did
1	tipping the velvet is one of the modern day television productions that prove that some television can be just as good or even better as this is than what you see at your local theater br br if you want to read the plot read this and if you want other details skip down to the next paragraph this is the unforgettable portrait of an unconventional young girl named nan who works as a naive oyster girl until she discovers her repressed homosexuality when she falls in love with a successful woman named kitty who dresses as a male for her stage profession the young girl soon joins the act as another male impersonator and they are a major hit soon the both of them embark on a tender affair kitty eventually becomes enveloped in a marriage of convenience and ravages young heart from then on nan works as male impersonated prostitute to men looking to have sex with boys then she becomes the private sex slave to the evil and sadomasochistic diana where nan experiences severe emotional abuse when that ends badly nan is on the streets again where she recalls a young woman named florence a good hearted socialist who had the true potential of being a wonderful partner that's where nan will discover the power of socialism and learn how to get back to fame br br the region 1 transfer is of exceptional picture quality there is a very good scene selection an eloquent photo gallery and a fun interview between novelist sara waters and the film's writer andrew davies br br the sets costumes cinematography and music are gorgeous the acting writing and directing are extremely strong and filled with realism class and originality i loved the film and the novel section iii in the film is much different in the film than in the novel because section iii in the novel is great written down but isn't screen material i will be brave and say that i love the films interpretation of it much more br br this breathtaking historical ingeniously combines drama comedy erotica and romance to vibrant perfection in a way that is both deeply moving and spiritually uplifting for every mature and open minded adult who has ever felt the pleasures pains and power of falling in love and living life to it's fullest a revolutionary production an absolute must see
1	out of the top 24 lesbian films in my library i must rate this one as the number one film of all times this film will go down in history as the best in it's genre it is a story about a girl rachael stirling who goes from riches to rags and from rags to riches with her first love hawes popping in and out of her life it is set against a victorian background in the 1890's which makes it an ideal setting for some of the best entertainment in the industry this film spared no expense for music and costumes and the make up rachael and wore while on stage in the halls only added to the film's diversity br br no matter what kind of films you favor i can guarantee this film will not only amaze you but will keep your attention through all three episodes this film will be played and enjoyed for decades to come the unrated dvd collector's version is a must for anyone's library rachael stirling and hawes was the best choice for the casting in these two roles and they played them extremely well
1	for every fan of coming of age tales this 3 hour adaptation of the br br sarah waters novel is pure fun cinematic nods to baz br br kinetic style as well as to all those prim and proper period pieces br br ever present on the bbc where you're likely to have seen almost br br every prominent member of this cast it's rather bawdy and over br br the top in spots but that's just what the novel called for the cast br br is appealing and in the cases of anna chancellor and hugh br br bonneville perfect in the case of rachel sterling as our heroine br br nan you simply must overlook the fact that she's far too pretty to br br ever be mistaken for a boy and run with it it's a fantasy after all br br some fans of the novel may be put out by the various changes in br br character particularly that of may's character florence but br br the changes all work toward the greater good of this teleplay and br br provide an overall high quality entertainment value
1	i think andrew davies did an admirable job of taking a magnificent book which emulated the pace and styling of a victorian novel and turning it into a moving and entertaining film i'm glad i read twice the book first which is usually the case for me i know that one must view a novel and a film as different media and judge them accordingly but still it's often hard to read the original material after a film gives away the best parts br br i realize that davies is a very good adapter but i wish the producers had chosen a woman to write the screenplay davies as he admits in the commentary that accompanies the film on dvd wanted particularly to emphasis the more scatological bits in the book i certainly enjoyed those on film as in the book but davies missed a half dozen moments that are so excruciatingly painfully tender which he could have incorporated if his sensibility were more feminine br br i also would take issue with his use of the book's primary symbol the rose br br as the screenplay was plotted by davies the denouement was inevitable and appropriate but i really think that author waters' final nod to the rose symbol was much more interesting and i preferred way the novel let nan come of age than the way davies chose br br one quick comment about the four actors who essay the primary roles they are all wonderfully talented well except for the singing and dancing perhaps and moreover their physical presences are so much what the mind's eye sees when reading the novel before seeing the film i thought they were all terrific br br i recommend that any lesbian and anyone who loves good fiction add both the book and the dvd of tipping the velvet to their
1	it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days especially for television considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes not to mention lesbianism this has been given superb treatment and direction br br the sets and costumes are flawless the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes the protagonist is really a tragic figure but not devoid of happiness also this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism the characters are very human it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay not so with this in tipping the velvet the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means br br the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts
1	a really realistic sensible movie by ramgopal verma no stupidity like songs as in other hindi movies class acting by nana patekar br br much similarities to real
1	i have nothing but praise for this mini series it's only about a year and a half old but i have seen it twice already with greater enjoyment the second time than the first i'm seriously thinking of watching it again soon since i find it spiritually uplifting br br it is a very tender romantic drama with such beautiful performances sets costumes music and scenes that it has a resonance which places it almost in a league of its own among mini series br br some others have commented on the difficulties of living as a lesbian in britain in the 1890s nothing especially difficult about that it was only male homosexuality that was against the law as poor oscar wilde experienced to his great cost and as a great loss to the literary world anyway i digress br br in my view this is essential television it is perhaps one of the greatest tragic romantic dramas since romeo and juliet although not in the conventional sense br br 10 out of 10 from me br br jmv
1	i'm glad i read the sarah waters novel first since i had my own pictures of the characters in my head at the time the ones cast for this production however were not at all disappointing in fact after i got used to rachael stirling as nan i think nina gold did a damn fine job in the casting department can hawes be more delicious br br the bbc has done it again this is a wonderful production of a very good book and they have done it up in style if you can get your hands on this vhs dvd be sure to get the minute version the uncensored one it is a marvelous journey albeit a bit rocky at times that you won't regret taking
1	this wonderful 3 part bbc production is one of the sweetest love stories that i have seen in a while the actresses display a very high level of talent especially rachael stirling as nan she is funny seductive and cute the love making scenes and the close up kisses are very erotic regardless of one's sexual preference br br the characters are well defined and very believable i guess this is a by product of a good adaptation from a well written novel br br a truly remarkable well paced drama that picks up speed quickly after a couple of boring but necessary scenes in the beginning br br my vote 9 10
1	tipping the velvet has just three weeks ago been released in the uk and already i watch as countless letters flood to the national papers and tv guides claiming that it possesses a thin plot weak performances and an even weaker script br br you find me incensed this is heresy br br i would really like to dispel all doubt by first congratulating andrew davies on enabling geoffrey sax to create this wonderful dramatization of sarah waters' novel by him with such a fantastic script kudos but i fear i must now change tack br br i saw one of the premiere tv guides here in the uk which shall remain nameless relentlessly describing tipping the velvet as a lesbian love story if they are and i assume they are trying to promote interest in the film then this is completely the wrong way to go about it aside from the phrase being a disappointingly inaccurate description by saying such a thing they are either a turning away those who would instinctively be repelled by that subject matter or b attracting a class of people who will only watch to see some serious girl on girl action buy a video through this display of serious this and other magazines are what is a brilliant adaptation of one of recent literature's greatest works tipping the velvet is a story of love of passion of moving on of loss and of heartbreak it's not a lesbian love story no br br the end result is a stylish affair with excellent performances all round particularly from stirling hawes chancellor and may direction wise it's intoxicating and immersive sometimes fast paced sometimes not but it never ceases to be anything less than compelling as a whole it's polished and well delivered the sex is undertaken with tenderness and delicacy and although many will not class it as a real film it will remain among my favourites for some time to come
1	labeling this film a lesbian love story is about as accurate as calling pride prejudice a straight love story there's just so much more to it than that br br yes the main character is a lesbian but her story is classic a journey from childhood to adulthood from sexual innocence into maturity from personal blindness to self discovery there is a stylistic element of camp to the film's direction but it is not a hindrance rather it serves to underscore the staged and dramatic parts of the main character's life br br those who know anna chancellor from the bbc version of pride and prejudice will certainly be amazed with her here rachael stirling is stellar as the main character nan and hawes is all wide eyed goodness as her lover kitty butler chancellor might have the stand out role that is aside from sally hawkins who plays zena butler this film is not for the faint of heart but it's not a piece of pro gay advertising either it's a real story with real comedy and drama an engaging story with compelling characters and well worth watching
1	i started watching this expecting the worst i was happy to find that the film turned out to be enjoyable slightly confusing in parts like when they all started singing it gave me a chance to see daniel wu in action for the first time he is a better actor than i thought at times he seemed a bit out of place i thought purple storm deserves its hong kong legends release as it is different to most other hk films it is about a mans emotional struggles when confronted with memory loss it may sound corny but when he eventually pieces out what and who he actually is it really makes the film a lot more interesting once you get into the film you will find it keeps you gripped to it as if you miss one bit then a lot of the film wil make sense for example i missed a bit at the start and i recommend to anyone that watches this that they do not miss any of it so i can say that this film was worth watching and a grateful surprise for me that i enjoyed it
1	here we've got an intelligent mixture of typical and intelligent filmmaking not that the script has not its big holes and a few are a bit but the cinematography is a optical treat and the soundtrack is first rate the blend of fast and colorful slow sometimes nearly poetic parts has no comparison in its kind of movie so a classification is rather hard the closest genre is a disaster or with deeper human and political notes than usual well worth to be seen worldwide in cinemas but i am hoping this for so many other mostly asian movies before and nobody seems to believe me unfortunately
1	this movie gives daniel wu his chance to do a great action movie but i really find emil chow's character really great gutsy but determined to righting wrongs plus the main terrorist it gets me wondering his revolution makes me wonder if he is doing this for good or bad br br a movie that tells us about todd an amnesiac terrorist being tricked as an undercover until he learns who he really is the consequences that he makes from his terrorist family gives him a the choice of redemption br br purple storm was one of the best ones that i have seen this year the movie really stands out when it is filled with tremendous action scenes set up by stephen tung wai which won the best action sequences in the hong kong awards 9 10
1	i found it charming nobody else but kiarostami can do so little and yet get so much you might think i'm weird but i was so charmed that i couldn't speak during the movie while during other movies i comment a lot the short movie made by him for lumiere et the one with the eggs that one is unbeatable in my heart but this is wonderful too i liked it better than ten kiarostami is maybe the best director in my opinion because he can see things he doesn't need to use a lot of stuff brought from home to illustrate his images he simply grabs a camera not many can do that maybe i don't know to much about movies but i don't care about complicate stuff all someone has to do is touch my soul kiarostami does
1	i learned a thing you have to take this film like a funny period comedy if you don't want to be disappointed the film's enjoyable because it's a delicious comedy i think the over hype damaged it the too much glorified monica bellucci appears in few scenes and isn't so good as they wanted to let you believe she sounds unnatural false the best actress in this film is sabrina who speaks with a perfect tuscan accent and shines together with massimo elio is very very good the most promising young italian actor according to me daniel auteuil looks like napoleon but i preferred other actors so the most hyped performances were also the worst br br costumes and production design are okay sure american period movies are more accurate about these things because have bigger budgets but the italian ability rewards the lack of money a nice period comedy in short with a first rate casting except for bellucci and auteuil
1	this is by far one of the best films that india has ever made following are the plus points of the film br br wonderful direction cinematography and editing the editing is very smooth and the timing of is excellent br br even though the film shows the life of mumbai policemen and their hardships it never gets boring or sympathetic br br mind blowing acting by lead actor nana patekar one can surely hope that he gets nominated for the best actor for the academy awards br br controlled violence the violence is controlled and the film doesn't become a bloody mess br br no stupid songs as in usual indian movies br br
1	screened this morning for the press at roma film festival n e is easy to love first of all it can count on great production values as very few italian films nowadays can with wonderful settings and costumes the cast is great too director constantly speaks of the young lead elio as a young de niro now of course he is going a way too far but sure the boy can act i loved his performance and he did a great job with the tuscan accent daniel auteuil is a great actor and did very well as bonaparte it's really great to see him acting in italian i hope to see him working in italy again very soon the supporting cast worked well too people like or sabrina may seem unlikely choices but they all gave fine performances even massimo best known for appearing in his own moronic films and in trashy tv reality shows fitted in well and was actually funny the low point of the cast was the diva monica bellucci sure she was slightly better than usual but she managed to look and sound utterly unnatural even in the part of emilia in which with a good dose of self irony she used her own accent the script by veteran and himself is clever with lots of laugh out loud lines and a few very emotional moments too sure the ending left me puzzled the message is kind of ambiguous the whole film says that political ideals can bring you to blind hate but if you get closer you will learn that the object of your hate is after all a little human being like everyone else sometimes funny sometimes sad sometimes pathetic so that suddenly it's difficult to hate him then in the last few minutes it says that after all it would have been better to shoot him in the head at the beginning personally i dislike very much this notion e is still a pleasant film the best presented at the festival so far the other being fur and the hoax my rating is 8 10
1	martino a young teacher in the island of elba has been formed by maestro an excellent educator to be his own man and to say whatever he thinks something that gets him in trouble at the school where we first meet him because he is teaching revolutionary ideals the island is in a frenzy because of the arrival of one of the most influential men in european history of the 19th century napoleon is coming to his exile not exactly a high point in his life br br with surprise martino is chosen to accompany napoleon who is writing his memoirs and is in need of help for his own project the young man comes from a sea merchant family his brother and sister want him to go on an commercial expedition but martino has decided his place belongs in elba because he will try to assassinate napoleon little deters him after his mentor is tried for treason and condemned to be shot by a firing squad br br martino finds his consolation with the much older baroness emilia a beautiful woman in his own interaction with the deposed emperor a different kind of man emerges napoleon is seen as a more human person who really enjoys the company of martino not suspecting with the plans the young man's own plans for him unfortunately martino is not able to put his design into action because napoleon has other plans in mind br br paolo the director of caterina va in citta shows why his early promise is still there mr also collaborated with the screenplay which is based on a novel by ernesto the director shows he is as good in intimate drama as well as with this type of spectacle alessandro pesci the cinematographer does an excellent job with the images he was able to get br br elio a young italian actor is the best thing in the movie he is playing against more experienced players yet he manages to convince us he is the idealist youth trying to get justice to what he perceives is a noble cause the great daniel auteuil is a more subdued napoleon than one would expect from anyone's interpretation of this larger than life man monica is the love interest of martino but she has little to do plays
1	would you like to know why french and italians love hate each others would you like to have a glimpse of history that drives our lifetime so go to watch film in original language of course and you can look at a wonderful monica bellucci who finally speaks her native language from città di just at the border with tuscany and the rest of the characters speaking lovely sabrina and all the others daniel auteuil definitely in his shoes with napoleon a lot of fun a real fresco of the elba island landscape and a picture about the political reasons to kill or leave alive a tyrant good for all times
1	debbie vickers nell schofield and sue knight want to become one of the cool girls in their high school uncool and ugly girls had two options be a mole or a prude debbie and sue imitate them by using their cheating practices in an exam two of the cool boys garry and danny tony hughes ask them for their answers and they all get busted after a bawling out from the headmaster bud tingwell the cool girls meet them outside in the playground and confronted them about whether they dobbed on them all as debbie and sue hadn't the cool girls invited them to the for a smoke they then start to hang with them on weekends at the beach watching all the boys surf sue ends up going out with danny and debbie with garry a lot of usual teenage action takes place including sex drugs and rock and roll garry has an eventual overdose of heroin which makes debbie face the of life and she decides to learn to surf instead of just watching the boys they are not happy but watch her calling names and eventually debbie masters the board a cool early 80s aussie film
1	i don't know if i'd go as far as to say that this movie belongs to the trash' pile but it's fair to say that there are no academy award nominees here what must be considered is that most of the actors in this film weren't actually actors as such just kids with nothing better to do at the time there were many others that were offered roles in the film but turned them down to go surfing up the coast all things taken into account it really wasn't a bad movie for its time in some respects it's really not unlike today's times where peer pressure is still alive and kicking just without the mobile phones computers and other similar gadgets that kids lived without unlike this generation anyway i have to rate this flick as an old fave that i watch once in a blue moon and never take too seriously
1	movie about two australian girls debbie nell schofield and sue sue knight and what happens when they become girlfriends of two surfer guys br br i caught this at an art cinema here in america in 1981 technically i was still a teenager i was 19 so i was interested in seeing how australian teens acted script wise there's nothing new here it shows the usual teenage adventures dealing with dating sex suicide etc etc i always knew what was going to happen before it did but i was never bored what i found interesting was despite the accent and a few changes in clothes and hair these teenagers aren't much different than american teens they had many of the same difficulties and hang ups also this was based on a book from a real surfer girl and her true life adventures and i heard it was a faithful adaptation of it the acting was just ok but the actors were attractive and this was well made and pretty interesting so this is no unsung masterpiece but a pretty accurate portrayal of what it's like being a teenager and trying to be with the popular kids i give it a 7
1	i was actually satisfied when i played this game the graphics were something new the missions were great but yet i felt i wanted more out of this game for a james bond game its pretty good but not as good as his other games it would be great if they could make a for it it would be much better then this may just be cuz i'm into games as resident evil dead rising and those kind of games so it could be better but it was ok to play one thing i absolutely hated about this game was she was irritating dying all the time and she couldn't run either i recommend this game for those who like fps games more than i do 7 10 stars
1	the best bond game made of all systems it was made of the best bond movie of all time if you don't have the game goldeneye you should rent it and if you don't have the movie goldeneye you should rent it also to better understand the game the best bond game of all
1	two years after its initial release goldeneye still sits atop the field of first person shooters for the nintendo 64 even the quake and series have not had the combination of graphic detail sound quality enemy intelligence challenge and overall fun that bring me back to this game over and over again the missions each have specific objectives that force you to think as bond not just to shoot up every baddie that pops up on your screen but also to avoid cameras disable security systems rescue hostages protect the bond girl and so on q gadgets abound in this game including the famous watch the game is loosely based on the movie storyline including all the major characters and the best scenes of the movie from the dam jump to the prop plane escape to the tank chase through st petersburg even the layout is preserved where possible so you'll recognize various situations if you've seen the film other levels are added to challenge the player and string together the scenes a little more with each difficulty level the mission objectives are more difficult the enemies smarter and the bullets more lethal i still have not gotten through the 00 agent levels cheats can be opened not by entering codes or pushing buttons but by completing certain levels within a certain time frame and additional characters can be opened up for the multiplayer the multiplayer is still the best among the first person shooters it's not as crisp as but it doesn't slow down nearly as much tons of options give your friends reason to blow each other up over and over again and one more time just for kicks there are better games for the n64 such as zelda and all things star wars but rare has continued their streak of outstanding games with a first person shooter that has not and will not be surpassed until they top themselves in 2000 with perfect dark
1	this is a superb game for the n64 with superb graphics and a great one player story line and even better multi player game best played with 4 people br br the many levels and options for weapons mean that this is one of the best games around for years
1	satya was excellent company was just as good but more polished probably owing to the money earned from previous movies ab tak however is even more entertaining the dialogue is gritty crude and at times hilarious nana shines yet again in a role that only he can fulfill with authority but the supporting cast are very talented direction is tight and the story evolves at a satisfying pace with a very dramtic climax as a depiction of reality it may be over dramatised but at the end of the day it's a movie so the balance is spot on i've ordered my dvd and can't wait to see it again at home as a lover of these type of gangster flicks this is very gratifying and comes highly recommended for the refreshingly non yash raj bollywood gangster flick lovers out there
1	this is my favorite game for the nintendo 64 platform i've played many different first person shooters and i've never really liked any of them much but this game has a certain something that i can't put my finger on that makes it an amazing amount of fun maybe it's the extraordinary detail put into the game maybe it's the fluid movement of the characters maybe it's the gadgets and weapons maybe it's the suave character of james bond whatever it is this game never seems to get old no matter how many times i've played it
1	definitely the best game for n64 ever i most say i was disappointed with tomorrow never dies but the world is not enough promises to be better then goldeneye according to the website i love goldeneye so much i find something to do every time i play it i have even made up my own missions for the levels multi player is the best of any game out there and the graphics are astounding even now the first day i got this i remember wishing that they would go back and make all of the bond movies into games can you imagine driving that speed boat in live and let die and making those incredible jumps or fighting off ninjas or fighting jaws in the spy who loved me and moonraker i think fighting him in those games would be more fun then in the aztec what about chasing sanchez in the gas trucks or st in for your eyes only oh well let me get back to the game at hand all of the levels are unique and make for very fun killing environments there are many places to hide so you can sneek up on people especially statue park well this game is not worthy of renting you really need to buy it today
1	this game is not exactly the best n64 game ever sure it's good but only when there's 4 players without 4 players the only fun thing to do is take remote mines and see how many people you can kill but half of this game are levels where you have to save so you'll have to limit your use of remote mines in those levels and that gets quite boring the graphics don't exactly reach the level of super mario 64 or even mario kart 64 and if you're talking a great multiplayer in a 1st person shooter you'll have to go with perfect dark at least you can play multiplayer by yourself
1	this game requires stealth smart and a steady hand the gameplay is simply the best on top of that though are the interesting extras bullet holes stay in the walls enemies react to specific points where they have been hit by bullets there are tons of motion captured animations that make the enemies seem very real for instance when looking through a window at a guard he will stand there flies away sneezing or scratching himself the list goes on this is the best licensed movie conversion ever and it puts you in the shoes of the super spy this game is the best reason for owning an n64
1	what can be said about one of the greatest n64 games ever that the action is fast enough to keep even a seasoned fps veteran sweating bullets quite literally that the graphics are great down to the explosions that everyone loves to see that nothing is quite as fun as playing multiplayer mode and shooting your friends and siblings in the back with submachine guns br br very little beats goldeneye 007 about the only thing missing was voice acting and a bit more intelligence in the enemy soldiers if you have an n64 and you like shooting people and things crossed with espionage get a copy of this
1	ever since i first played it in 1998 goldeneye has been one of my favourite video games in fact i recently bought an n64 purely so that i could own it and play it more often the game is pretty much near perfect the single player mode does a fantastic job of immersing yourself in bond's shoes with varied mission objectives convincing weapons and great level design even though the enemies' artificial intelligence is pretty basic by today's standards that only adds to appeal the method of obtaining cheats completing levels within a strict time limit was also innovative when the title was released and even now i still haven't cracked some of them br br the game comes with a wonderful multiplayer mode for up to four players and while this isn't as advanced as the combat simulator in the game's sequel perfect dark it is still incredibly satisfying to blast your opponents to smithereens with a barrage of rc fire
1	this game has cartoon graphics not much violence and really short levels then why do people say it is so brilliant because it always holds your attention it captivates you and refuses to let go you will try for hours to try and find that damn flight recorder try to work out how to get into the room without alerting the guards etc the levels are short only when you know what to do until that you will spend hours trying to figure out where to find where to find helicopters and so on and you'll have fun all the while you are doing it well worth a rent
1	in my personal opinion i think this is the greatest video game ever created i first played this game at my friends house years ago the very next day i went out and got my own since that day close to seven years ago i have not stopped playing it i can't help it i just can't get bored of it i've been addicted to other games on other much newer systems but i keep coming back for more goldeneye every mission is amazingly fun and challenging the multi player mode was like none other i hope you can be as fortunate as i was to have played four player multi player mode because i had brothers and friends who would get together and play this game all the time
1	you wear only the best italian suits from armani hand stitched and fitted to your exact your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood you're a member of the finest polo clubs frequently dine at restaurants such as and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic 22 caliber gun you snow ski in the alps go deep sea diving in the caribbean sky dive over the and all the while your hair is never ever out of place you are bond james bond the world's most renown spy favorite son of the good queen bad boy of the british ss and perhaps the most desired man in the world the character of james bond was created by ian fleming and is the movie industry's longest lasting icon being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in 1996 and made his 007 debut in goldeneye br br this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo 64 goldeneye developed by rare for nintendo has been on the market for some time its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is and no review library would be complete without it br br let's face it most of the time movie licensed games are flops although the two seem like a good mix the results for the most part have been horrendous games like cliffhanger true lies lethal weapon and not to mention all the star trek flops are ammunition enough against this mix and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games especially if i've seen the movie at least that's how i used to think in the case of goldeneye i had more reservations than normal while not a bad movie goldeneye the film didn't have that much appeal to it and i don't rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies as a game however let's just say it's a completely different story br br the game is a first person shooter and in order to be successful you'll need at least as much brains as brawn for those who have seen the movie which i imagine is most of you reading this the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation a plot to control the world's most dangerous satellite goldeneye has begun in the ussr and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured your missions will be many the danger extreme you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known m will brief you as soon as you're ready good day james
1	i first played this around or when i was with my friends i thought the game was really great and loved it br br the game is simple on one player mode you go around as james bond and complete missions in different places like an arctic wasteland or a city my favorite was one with a tank on two player mode you and a friend choose from any character you wish and go all out with a fight through out the area you are in you will find ammo and weapons to help from hand guns to rifles to lasers and even your fists work br br again with player two mode there are lots of places to go and some to unlock i find this game really fun but also very suspenseful because you never really know where your opponent is and it's surprising to see them behind a door where you are going br br this game gets 1 2 stars or of very good go play it sometime
1	no music no stupid masala a reasonably realistic portrayal of the police system in india and based on a real encounter specialist in india that is ab tak 56 56 how many criminals the lead has killed well you already know that bit brilliance exudes nan patekar in the role as a relaxed and calculating indian cop the one liners are just hilarious the plot though slightly predictable on review is intriguing all the same another one of the films from ram gopal the factory movies which are either decent or really good ab tak meanders close to very good but yet remains one of the top 70 films released from india commercial and artsy included br br what is great is the story telling is relaxed and showcases finally in an indian flick how the police network works the cast is really damn good but seriously the one liners are funny as hell though i dont know if the subtitled version will appear as funny the producers are trying for a cannes release which is interesting made by debut director aman i think thats his name br br again 55 y o nana patekar is brilliant away from his silly shouting roles of the past just shows what a good director can do with a good actor really good stuff if you are interested in indian movies and are disgusted by the nonsense some of our guys dish out then this is definitely a relief br br again patekar is the guy who carries the movie on his shoulders and epitomises the style of the movie relaxed funny intelligent and calculating good good acting nice direction all in all great stuff recommendations ram gopal verma's company both indian flicks
1	we've all played halo and and gta and resi etc but none of them can stand up to the game itself is great i have literally burned out my n64 playing this great game along with zelda this game along alone built the mold that is essential for all modern shooters on top of that the multi player is great the story mode itself is worth playing a hundred times over and more its a great game for when your board and you want to just shoot up some people and there are endless unlock cheats aztec egyptian god knows how many multiplayer and the three difficulties as well as the famous difficulty our modern games are great but when you sit down and play this game you get a certain feeling that few other games can give you and with the online capabilities of newer shooting games we rarely see this old two on two death match style and when we do its no where near as good as this games and when you get bored of the story there are endless mysteries glitches and easter eggs to be found and taken advantage of br br this is definitely one of the greatest shooting games of all time
1	goldeneye 007 is not only the best movie tie in game of all time but it is perhaps the most influential first person shooter ever to hit the gaming console market if you aren't aware of the plot of this game that's not a problem because essential it is the same as the popular james bond movie goldeneye which was released in 1995 two years prior to this game's release br br this is a game that is filled with techniques and styles that would be mimicked in many future games to come and it gives the player a wide variety of objectives and difficult challenges the a i is smart especially on higher difficulty settings and the environments are complex enough to provide entertainment as well as difficulty to any gamer br br the introduction of logical hit points on your enemies is a great feature even bosses in this game can be taken down with a well aimed shot to the head it is this type of realism that really makes you feel like your james bond and that you can sneak in sneak out covertly taking out henchmen as you go or springing alarms and having to go through massive shootouts because of this there are many ways to beat the game and limitless possibilities for how you accomplish your tasks aka you can take easy ways or hard ways of beating levels and if you don't have a strategy guide you'll have to find out those paths by yourself which i might add is incredibly fun if you want to waste a day away br br this is one of those games that the more you play it the more you're able to value its contributions to the gaming industry each time i play it i notice aspects that have been replicated in many following fps games so if you have a nintendo 64 go ahead and dust that sucker and order a used copy of goldeneye 007 because trust me as a bond fan and a casual gamer i can say that this game is highly recommended for all those who want to step into the shoes of james bond or just have an awesome intense gaming experience br br also make sure to look out for its sister game perfect dark which is also on the n64 following the same controls and very similar weapon uses
1	there isn't much that comes close to the perfect paced storytelling and suspenseful action packed levels as goldeneye when it came out it was the greatest game of all time and even today it stays strong br br i will admit that this game did get boring after a few months of playing and by not playing it again until two years later i was thrust back into its greatest almost as if i was playing it for the first time again br br there are 20 action packed levels which is probably the most of any james bond game to date probably the most unforgettable one is the tank level which was likely the most explosive video game sequence at that time and the first person shooting as well as usage of q gadgets is what james bond fans are always dying to use br br frankly as a james bond fan i look for aspects of a true james bond experience which are now showing up in the ps2 games so this game while it has some great action and usable gadgets i was somewhat expecting a little more even back in 1997 i also disliked that this game didn't have q or m or moneypenny or anyone from mi6 while watching the movies bond interacts with these characters at least a few times throughout each movie but they are nowhere to be seen in this game and vocal dialogue would have made the game more lively rather than the text dialogue they wound up using they had the technology they just didn't use it br br probably the most annoying feature of this game is that in some ways it follows the story of the movie precisely and other ways it's incoherent for example there are two many levels where you have to protect or save even though in the movie she can take care of herself there are also some unnecessary levels like the boat level where you have to disarm some bombs which is not in the movie which adds nothing to the storyline whatsoever there are even some levels where you rescue but at the beginning of the next level she's captured again how br br oh well even those little things can't really put this game down and while i do prefer the newer games this bond experience is definitely one you won't forget br br 8 out of 10
1	this is one of my favorite james bond in games because the missions are fun to play they have lots of action in them they can be hard that makes them fun to do the weapons you use are good the way james bond look in this james bond games is pretty you can see pierce brosnan in him which is cool and all the other characters in this game look like the actors that played them in the movie there is no way that you can't have a good time playing this game i loved it also the game follows the movie pretty much maybe a few added thing but it pretty much follows the movie also the this james bond game has pretty good graphics for nintendo 64 and to bad there was no voice over actors in this game but who care as long as the game is fun to play br br overall score out of
1	goldeneye is one of the best n64 releases ever br br better than this game well star wars rogue squadron star wars episode i racer and the legend of zelda ocarina of time are far better and superior games but i still love goldeneye br br this is the best adaptation from a movie second only to star wars adaptations the story is perfect it's like you are in the movie itself br br the graphics are excellent the movements are extremely realistic the enemies' artificial intelligence are the best part in this game i loved playing the stage in which james and break from the janus base as the goldeneye prepares to burn it escaping without sounding an alarm was very difficult eluding cameras and controlling your fire are great aspects in the gameplay br br it's also the toughest game i've ever played n64 games are usually very very easy goldeneye is the one exception i'm still trying to beat the 00 agent difficult level but winning the easier levels was already a great victory i loved when alec asked for england james i answered no for me it happened just in the moment i blasted him to death just like in the movie i love accomplishing every objective br br the multiplayer gaming is even better at first i got killed every holy second now i know how to win i love forcing my playmates by playing at license to kill br br the music and sound are astounding super mario 64 looks like an atari next to this the only thing i still wanted to hear was the goldeneye theme song that plays at the end of the movie br br after zelda was released i nearly forgot i still had this game it's still excellent even if it's already surpassed i hope other 007 games are produced br br fantastic job nintendo was very smart to release this game on the n64 exclusively magnificent job nintendo
1	quite simply goldeneye is the single greatest n64 game to date the learning curve is just about perfect and you'll still be playing it with your friends months on as the multiplayer mode is nothing short of exceptional br br the system for acquiring cheats for once requires some degree of skill rather than simply knowing which buttons to press and the challenge of aztec on 00 agent level is astonishing br br all in all it's the best game i've ever played on the n64
1	ever since i've been allowed to play goldeneye once again it's been impossible to get my mind off it i'm surprised i could have gone without it it is without a doubt one of the greatest games of all time i have never played any other shooting games but i know that this one rules above all most people blame it for too much violence but i find that ridiculous there may be a few graphic antics but there's far worse out there br br most importantly it's fun with an awesome arsenal of weapons such as the rc and the classic golden gun you'll go through several challenging levels from the movie completing crucial objectives and fending off swarms of guards there are tons of awesome cheats to get and even two secret levels that you will only earn if you have the true skill goldeneye is also one of the greatest multiplayer games ever as well you can choose several characters from the movie classic villains from old 007 movies baron samedi oddjob may day and jaws and guards in the game chances are you and your partner s will be laughing so hard as you blow each other away that you'll look like bart and lisa simpson watching an episode of the itchy and scratchy show br br so if you don't have the game don't rent it just buy it it's too good to be true for cool goldeneye stuff check out com's goldeneye website every james bond lover will dig this game big time
1	goldeneye is a masterpiece the storyline is amazingly depicted the characters beautifully animated and the weapons are the storyline is so interesting even when you complete every single mission to get more levels you have to beat them on a higher difficulty and the multiplayer mode is so you pick the weapons you want to play with then play me and the three of my friends along with my brother always play goldeneye if you don't have this game i suggest you buy it
1	this episode introduces us to the formal dress uniforms worn here by captain picard commander riker and lieutenant tasha yar the plot of this episode deals with 2 groups of separate alien delegates the and the who try to capture and eat each other at every turn the 2 sides really hate each other and it is up to riker and tasha to contain them and keep them out of trouble br br meanwhile a mysterious spacial anomaly goes around the ship injuring and killing a few of the crew members but at the end of the episode this same spacial anomaly possesses a valuable member of the crowd will they be able to rescue him so that they maybe able to continue on with their on going mission of space exploration br br note this episode marks irish actor colm meaney's second appearance on tng after encounter at he portrays one of tasha's yellow shirted security guards
1	lonely among us definitely is one of the best first season episodes the storyline although somewhat confusing creates a lot of suspense supported by the creepy synthesizer driven soundtrack this is a typically alien body invasion scenario but finally turning out to no evil purpose the death of assistant chief engineer singh to me was an accident the two delegate species deliver an entertaining frame best make up so far finally adding a little black humor to the series the final scene patrick stewart obviously enjoys stepping out a bit of his picard character and exploring some new terrain as does data by posing as sherlock holmes another all time classic the special effects are also convincing and director cliff bole did his job well he is the first one trying to compensate trois lack in acting ability by improving her looks she does look beautiful in some scenes and the neck of her dress improves her appearance a lot picard's lightning scene on the bridge gives him a slight air of the emperor of star wars return of the jedi which is a personal impression but made me smile br br there's also some playing with the lighting of the corridors simulating night aboard and the first moving camera pulling back from picard when he's entering the transporter room to beam into the cloud nice work the clever cutting creating continuing dialog through different scenes troi's hypnosis report rounds up the impression of a really well crafted tng episode the first one where even wesley crusher seemed almost tolerable br br the ending however is a bit confusing just as if the producers were running out of time p for picard is a little far fetched and his return far too easy but that can be left aside regarding the many strong moments this episode has to offer
1	i love the way he experiments ab tak was a thrill to watch just as much satya and company was the new comer also lived up to his role and nana patekar was at his best was really irritating but i think he fit the character he was playing he had really ugly teeth the story has a great progress and no songs in the movie makes it better i only wish he signs up urmila for his other up coming movies i think they are the best director and actress combination i have seen i have not seen as yet but i am looking forward for it i for some reason don't find that exciting to watch on the screen unlike urmila
1	the movie is really about choices in the oppressed state of affairs as seen in fire where good women had to be obedient and do what was correct in the eyes of tradition there seemed few options for radha and sita however granted that it was not their only option what is life without desire radha questions ashok yes it's true that life provides us with a number of options but how many we can take depends on a number of external factors when your world is confined to a small indian household being a dutiful daughter in law to a silent but observant still powerful matriarch a dutiful wife of 13 years to a man who has taken a vow of celibacy due to your not being able to have a child a man who only wants you lying next to him to prove his strength in eliminating his desires i felt the ladies had little choice but to find solace in each other's company i guess the fact that so many women applauded ms mehta's work was because it provided them with an option to think for themselves an option to do what was perhaps unacceptable the lesbian scenes i felt was merely to put that point across every scene in the movie from the first at the taj mahal to the last at the mosque is etched in my mind how frustrating to be a prisoner of your feelings and desires to feel that you had to forgo the human touch to be a dutiful wife just because it is expected of you to have to suppress any desire you might have and to crave for the human touch what then is the meaning of our existence one wonders in the scene where sita is crying alone in the room and radha comes in to comfort her their lips accidentally brush against each others and it awakens a feeling in them something they have both been deprived of br br bravo to ms mehta in translating her vision so clearly i especially like the flashbacks to the young radha trying to 'see' for the ocean it is a metaphor for freedom freedom to choose freedom to transport ourselves to places we would normally be unable to reach in those scenes it is gently told to us that her sense of duty has also been passed down from her mother who i assume lives within the rich indian traditions of duty in marriage the movie is beautifully filmed and enhanced by the musical score by a r rahman since the film i have become ardent fans of the two lead actresses and the director i look forward to more of ms future productions
1	this is halfway to being a top movie the opening section which spoofs hollywood social message films is absolutely brilliant it is a riot from start to finish br br the second section which introduces us to the main characters of the story is really great too we get a lot of great comic setups top notch performances and the dialog is really dynamic br br spoiler warning br br the one think that really annoyed me about this film though is the ending which i think contradicts everything that went before my interpretation was that this film was taking the mickey out all the silly prejudices and innuendo of small town gossip and national tabloid sensationalism i loved that the film was championing the cause that a person's sexuality is not determined by their hobbies idiosyncrasies fashion sense or whatever and then the ending goes and re enforces all the gossip and stereotypes that the movie successfully lampooned in the first place it turns out everyone was 100 right this was very disappointing to what was actually a great story
1	paul jeffrey addams family values wrote this frothy tale of a mild mannered school teacher kevin kline who is outted on the academy awards by a former student turned actor matt dillon the rest of the film deals with the absurdities revolving around this setup the effect on the town his fiancee joan cusack himself and climaxes with an everybody loves everybody finale br br if you're an angry gay rights activist or a naive youth looking for an accurate portrayal of a man's struggle to come out or a 'true' depiction of gay life then save yourself the trouble and rent something else maybe beautiful thing or read a book giovanni's room if you are able to understand that this film was inspired by the of tom hanks's speech on the academy awards when he won for philadelphia and pokes fun at hollywood culture and small town ignorance and you have a fondness for '30's screwball comedy bringing up baby holiday the palm beach story then enjoy far from being a biting satire the film tries for the exuberance of a preston sturges farce and comes damn close no it's not 'deep' or neither were romy michelle 9 to 5 or young frankenstein and it doesn't pretend to be it keeps it's tongue firmly in cheek it gets too preachy and maudlin for its own good toward the end and sure some of the jokes are a bit stale there's also a locker room scene that could have been cut but after sitting through countless comedies that misfire it's like a breath of fresh air br br kevin kline and tom selleck are wonderfully game while debbie reynolds and wilford brimley add fine support the excellent joan cusack's award winning performance is stellar and the great bob newhart is well bob newhart br br the fact that many have been offended by in out is as absurd as the mentality of the townsfolk it pokes fun at personally i was more offended by philadelphia i'll take harmless fluff over sanctimoniousness anytime
1	after reading the comment made about this movie and currently watching it i can understand how the person felt about it the decisions made were after listening to common sense when the movie came out i had heard the information as to how it came about the storyline was made from an actual event during an award show an actor thanking the li'l people attributed the award to a former school teacher unexpectedly outing the person br br of course many people come 'out' of the closet most every day each outing is different for each person in real life the outcome of any individual is gonna be different as well and a willingness to accept who they are is the most important thing in life to reach personal happiness for those around them the joy and honest acceptance can make life much more fuller for the movie the outcome of how howard is is a lot more comical than real life and the acceptance of the community showed the others that howard was himself and nothing else br br overall the performances were crazy the memorable quotes and use of music add to the stereo types out there in the world but taken with tongue and cheek humour it's a movie sit down watch with an open mind and laugh your head off
1	in out in my opinion is a very hilarious movie i thought that cameron matt dillon was wrong to say that howard kevin kline was gay the part i liked most was howard's bachelor party this was because they were cracking jokes about a lot of things including barbra streisand films i also thought that emily joan cusack looked very beautiful in her wedding dress and that howard looked good in his tuxedo my favorite quote of in out is is everybody gay is this 'the twilight zone' that was absolutely hilarious the one character i couldn't stand was sonya shalom harlow this was because she was very conceited and snobby in conclusion i recommend this movie to all you kevin kline fans who have not seen it be prepared to laugh hard and have a good time when you see it
1	kevin kline offers a brilliant comic turn in the 1997 comedy in out kline plays howard brackett a small town history teacher who excitedly sits down to watch the academy awards this year because one of his former students matt dillon is a nominee he is nominated for his performance in a film where he plays a gay soldier and when he wins he thanks howard in his speech for inspiring him because howard is gay now this floors howard because he as no clue why thus guy would say this on international television howard is even engaged to be married to joan cusack in an oscar nominated performance so he has no idea where dillon s cameron drake got the idea that he is gay and finds he has to defend himself to everyone at school but is shocked that no one seemed terribly shocked by what cameron said on the oscars howard has a birthday party where he is given birthday presents like the soundtrack to yentl and ends up explaining to his guests why barbra streisand had to make funny lady his parents wilford brimley debbie reynolds are shocked but promise to support their son even if he is gay he also gets a visit from an out of town reporter tom selleck who wants to do an article about him because he's gay too the moment when selleck plants a big kiss right on kline's lips is a classic but all of these little things have howard actually questioning his sexuality and wondering if he really is gay much to the aggravation and frustration of his fiancée cusack who is beyond confused the scene where she leaves a bar in her wedding gown and stands in the middle of street screaming about the lack of single straight men in the world is a classic but what i like about this movie is the way kline fully invests in the role and was not afraid to look foolish or look gay there is a fabulous scene probably the most famous from the film where he buys a record on how to be macho and the guy on the record is talking about how real men don't dance and a disco tune comes on i will survive if memory serves and the narrator on the record says no matter what you do don't dance but howard can't help himself and he ends up shaking his groove thing all over the room it's hysterically funny and kline plays it with sincerity and gusto the film is not pro or anti gay it's just a deft and amusing character study about a man trying to figure out exactly who he is wonderful film
1	this movie is extremely funny and enjoyable with suitable funny and experienced casts i find this movie enjoyable not only by the elements of humor but also the music in various scenes kevin kline a good comedian has done a good job at being funny in many parts of the film along with tom selleck who is amazingly different from many of his other films the humor within this film are goofy which makes various exaggerations within many scenes especially the beginning bits joan cusack is also remarkably funny and exaggerated and the same goes for all the other casts this film has many elements of goofy humor and is enjoyable if you want to laugh
1	joan cusack steals the show the premise is good the plot line interesting and the screenplay was ok a tad too simplistic in that a coming out story of a gay man was so positive when it is usually not quite so positive then again it is fiction all in all an entertaining romp br br one thing i noticed was the inside joke aspect since the target audience probably was straight they may not get the gay stuff in context with the story br br kevin kline showed a facet of his acting prowess that screenwriters sometimes don't take in consideration when suggesting kline for a part br br this one hit the mark
1	this is truly a funny movie his dance scene done with the tape is one of the funniest scenes i can recall i thought the i am gay scene at the high school graduation ceremony a bit surrealistic though it was funny while watching it for the third time i started to pick up on a little small segments that i had missed one was when matt dillon's girl friend a classic ditz tried to use a dial phone which she had never used before kevin klein made this film successful along tom selleck this was also the first time i could appreciate debbie reynolds she proved that she can be funny she confirmed this in the tv series 'will and grace ' one discovery that i found after the third viewing is lauren ambrose of feet fame she sticks out with her red bangs but it is obvious that this is one of her first films bob newhart is also very funny at the high school principle
1	the first and far better of kevin kline's two gay roles the second is the dreary de lovely in which he played cole porter inspired by tom hanks' emotional acceptance speech for philadelphia in which he his high school drama teacher the nominated film in this version was obviously more forrest gump than philadelphia here the hanks character is played by matt dillon br br the reaction scenes in most of the film are very funny and as has been often pointed out are especially effective as done by kevin himself debbie reynolds tom selleck a brave move since he was himself the target of such rumors which he denied bob newhart and joan cusack as the eventually jilted bride to be br br tom hanks' actual teacher criticized the graduation scene saying people don't act that way in real life but this is a farce and not real life that being said it is not as effective as it might be and the misdirection of the final wedding scene which makes it look like tom and kevin are about to get hitched i found rather pointless annoying and a cop out br br the highlight of the film for me is of course kevin's scene with the how to be a real man audio tape and it is hilarious but certainly not at all realistic when the tape reacts to kevin's actions br br on the whole a hoot
1	i remember seeing this a long while ago and i knew most of the concept but no detail so i'm glad i watched it again from director frank oz the muppets take manhattan bowfinger basically new star cameron drake matt dillon has just won the academy award for his latest where he plays a gay soldier and he does the usual thank yous he even mentions his past school english teacher howard brackett golden globe nominated kevin kline and he outs him as gay howard is determined to clear his name and get out of the media spotlight as a denying gay man especially as his marriage to emily montgomery oscar and golden globe nominated joan cusack is on the way so it comes to the wedding day and when it comes to howard saying yes or no that is when he outs himself and admits to himself and everyone that he is gay this of course gets him fired as a teacher but everyone stands at the graduation day to out themselves in support and cameron even shows up to clear things up so that everyone especially school head tom halliwell bob newhart knows it's okay to be gay also starring tom selleck as peter malloy debbie reynolds as brackett wilford brimley as frank brackett gregory as walter brackett glenn close whoopi goldberg and jay leno the highlight of the film has to be when kline can't help dancing to diana ross's version of i will survive that must have been what convinced him of his sexuality kline is always good cusack is a surprise oscar nominee and all supporting cast members do their bit too in this very funny comedy very good
1	i almost stopped watching hindi movies because of the mediocre quality and story lines one exception for this is ramgopal verma movies this is a nice movie with great performances from the star cast this is must see movie for those who are sick of watching stupid dancing and love stories the adaptation of the story and characterization was exceptional good you should watch this movie for nana patekar based on the life of mumbai cop this movie deals in a more realistic way the film delves into the life of the common man which he has apart from being an encounter specialist i rate this as one of the best movie of the year
1	howard kevin kline teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city he is finally getting married to emily joan cusack much to his parents delight the town is abuzz too because one of its own cameron matt dillon has been nominated for an acting oscar everyone including howard and emily is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner in his acceptance speech cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man in part because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school you guessed it its howard but howard has never come out in fact he believes he is straight with the whole town and members of the media waiting and observing the happenings will howard and emily go ahead and get married or is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony this is a wonderful funny and humane film about a gay man and his situation as the man who did not realize he was gay kline is excellent and touching the rest of the cast is equally fine with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fiancé and dillon bob newhart debbie reynolds tom selleck and others on hand to delight the audience as well the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful then too the script the direction and the production are very very nice but the insightful humorous and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film's best asset no doubt for those who would be offended by a gay themed film yes just skip over this one but for everyone who wants to laugh heartily and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time this is definitely the best film out there
1	while amiable and amusing for gay audiences frank oz's film in and out about a closeted gay teacher who has been on national television by a former student has been sanitized and to appeal to the larger and more profitable straight viewers that the bird cage although audiences likely patted themselves on the back for being tolerant and liberal enough to see the film the movie revolves around kevin kline's howard brackett who is a grossly stereotyped gay man the movie asserts that a tendency to dance to disco music revel in barbra streisand movies and dress well indicates one's sexual orientation like queer eye the film actually takes a backhanded slap at straight men and stereotypes them as slovenly dim witted and lacking in taste and culture ok so in and out is only a comedy but even comedies send messages that can hurt br br unfortunately at the center of the film's humor lies a somewhat pathetic character howard is middle aged deeply closeted or in self denial and evidently has never had a sex life a three year engagement to a female teacher in the school where he works is described as a series of sunsets long talks and watching funny lady fortunately joan cusack plays howard's intended emily montgomery and she steals the show throughout most of the film's funniest moments belong to her although kline's attempts to resist dancing during an instruction tape on macho behavior are hilarious he is a gifted physical performer but the film gives him only few moments to shine matt dillon also stands out as the student turned actor and the clip from his oscar nominated film about a gay soldier is hysterical however despite the movie's gay theme there is no boy meets boy romance and only one male to male kiss and that smooch is about as erotic as the one between michael and fredo corleone in godfather ii br br although well intentioned in and out fails to address the injustices and prejudices that it illustrates howard is fired from his teaching job despite his outstanding performance and credentials yet little outrage is expressed most of the characters are more upset about the cancelled wedding than about howard's self realization which seems to take place overnight and his abrupt and unjust dismissal not surprisingly howard's parents endearingly portrayed by debbie reynolds and wilford brimley and his students rise to support him however the sugary finale is as embarrassing to the audience as it evidently was to howard brackett in the film the movie would have been more refreshing if it had revolved around a gay man who dressed like a slob was a rabid fan of football drove a station wagon listened to country music and lived on fast food despite some good performances and funny situations in and out perpetuates stereotypes and whether they be positive or negative stereotypes should be consigned to the dustbin of social history
1	a beautifully constructed and brilliantly acted comedy there is not a person in the cast who does not acquit himself or herself with hilarious distinction however the real star of the film is the unseen director frank oz who brings all the madcap sensibility and wit to this farce that he brought to miss piggy's encounters with kermit the frog this is a not to be missed film
1	the funniest performance was by shalom harlow as matt dillon's supermodel girlfriend she was more interesting to me than all the lead actors this movie got it all wrong even the most dependable actress of the century joan was not able to rise about the ridiculousness of the plot i did enjoy hearing macho man by the village people over the closing credits the rest of the movie might have been tolerable if it were to rise to that level of energy
1	hollywood movies since the 1930s have treated gays as lepers in condemning homosexuality the film industry has reflected only what the repressive society of its day espoused as an ideology for example in the 1962 otto preminger melodrama advise and consent straight actor don murray was cast as a queer congressman who commits suicide rather than confess his alternative lifestyle gay movie characters have covered a lot of ground since advise and consent in the 1997 movie in out 1 2 out of heterosexual actor kevin kline is cast as a homosexual teacher who comes out of the closet on his wedding day while the conservative hollywood of yesteryear that the congressional queer in advise and consent had to commit suicide the liberal hollywood of today dictates that the gay english teacher should be embraced rather than br br basically in out preaches good citizenship in the garb of a politically correct comedy director frank oz and scenarist scott endorse honesty as the best policy because honesty always ensures happiness high school teacher howard brackett kevin kline of the big chill will be happy only after he comes out of the closet just as his once fat but now thin fiancée emily joan cusack will only feel happy when she can ditch her diet ultimately the movie contends that straight society will accept gays when homosexuals can act with greater honesty and candor about themselves the happily gay tabloid reporter played by straight actor tom selleck here effectively dramatizes this open minded commentary br br lightweight script embellishes the true life incident that occurred at the oscars when tom hanks paid tribute to a high school teacher in in out cameron drake matt dillon a blond brad pitt style bimbo type actor wins the oscar for impersonating a fruity foot soldier drake honors his mentor howard brackett during his acceptance speech not contend to stop there the candid cameron reveals to a live television audience that howard is gay suspicion paranoia and horror set in as the media descend upon the sleepy town of green leaf indiana when would a no name high school english teacher's sexual deviance spark such massive media concern among those reporters lurks peter malloy tom selleck of high road to china and he wants to do a week long exclusive one on howard howard however wants nothing to do with the witch hunting media especially the pesky peter malloy howard denies drake's gay charges to everybody including his fiancée and his mom malloy lingers because he smells a scoop the revelation has turned green leaf upside down high school principal tom halliwell bob newhart nervously with all the media coverage halliwell warns howard that were his marriage not imminent he'd have to give him a pink slip meanwhile peter bets howard that his marriage to emily will fall through at the last moment and he'll be there to record the result on camera br br howard resorts to audio tapes about macho men he struggles to reform himself but howard's efforts are futile guilt swells up inside him and then there is peter malloy who rags him to come clean about his homosexuality finally at the altar in the sight of god howard bursts of course bride to be emily montgomery is floored by howard's gay confession predictably the school fires howard but he shows up for graduation drake shows up too and rushes to defense not only has the school stripped howard of his job but they've also given his teacher of the year award to somebody else drake appeals to the principal and wins howard the unanimous support of the community br br the biggest defect in contrived script is howard himself has created a character too chaste to be true either by gray or straight standards howard brackett looms as more of a saint than a sinner he helps one student gain admission to college and he coaches the track team how often do you hear of an english teacher doubling as a coach too everybody at his high school adores howard he doesn't have a mean bone in his body further and oz ask us to believe that nobody else in green leaf is gay where are howard's gay friends are they too scared to come to his defense no in out is not targeted strictly at homosexual audiences oz whose screen credits include cute comedies like dirty rotten scoundrels and house sitter as well as teeter on a politically correct tightrope in out is not a gay recruiting movie the filmmakers show no interest in what prompted either howard or peter malloy to prefer the gay lifestyle instead oz and are only interested in up a thin premise is he or isn't he gay they flesh it out to involve the community response to the answer finally when howard admits that he is gay the filmmakers devote the rest of the movies to showing how a conservative norman rockwell like town can accept him despite his difference br br the most shocking scenes in in out is probably when tabloid reporter malloy does a lip lock on howard straight guys kissing each other in a movie about a gay identity crisis are as hilarious as they are phony kline and selleck grind their faces together in what appears as more of a head on collision than a closed mouth kiss nothing at all like the controversial 1994 british movie priest in out emerges as an engaging but labored piece of social propaganda with its okay to be act message if ellen weren't the tv equivalent in out would probably be heading toward tv as a new sitcom watching in out is not so much about dealing with the issue of gay or straight but how to be a decent person in the last days of the 20th century what makes in out a tolerable comedy about sexual intolerance is its equal opportunity cheers and jeers about and steers
1	i have seen this movie many times and i never get sick of it it is about a man coming out of the closet that he doesn't know he is in kevin kline's character is a teacher and when one of his former students announces kline's character is gay the people in his town start to speculate whether he is straight or gay kline's character starts to wonder if he is straight or gay too the acting is absolutely fabulous and hilarious by all the cast i found the movie very funny and heart warming i love this movie it makes you laugh and makes you feel good while watching it i recommend this movie to everyone you will have a great time watching it
1	spoilers spoilers i loved the set up and consistently laughed throughout the entire movie the acting was great with my favorite part being howard's kevin kline attempts to be a manly man the fiance and parents did a great job as a supporting cast spoiler warning the acting of his conservative family's acceptance and attempts to be polite were heartwarming and believable my only problem with the end was the fact that howard was actually gay the movie is set up as a be who you want to be but the movie actually does the opposite howard's logic behind his discovery is the fact that he loves barbra streisand's movies and enjoys dancing to music his mannerisms and tastes appear to be gay and it isn't until it is pointed out to him that he realizes it rather than setting howard free it pigeon holes him oh he likes to dance to music than he must be gay his confession at the marriage felt like a bending down to society's wishes in the end the movie becomes a gay rights movie which was not the original course it almost becomes bland with the rest i believe the movie would had been ultimately better had howard been straight it would have been truer to the message
1	i watched this again after having not seen it since it first came out in '97 and it still made me laugh out loud it's skillfully written kevin kline and joan cusack are both perfect in their roles and if you can look at bob newhart in this movie and not chuckle you're more of a man than i br br for that matter i think the scenes where tom selleck kisses kevin kline where kevin kline listens to the how to be a man cassette and the post almost wedding scenes w joan cusack are three of the funniest scenes in any movie br br sure the last scene is a bit of an excuse for a happy ending but few movies are perfect
1	i saw this because my cousin is an extra in one of the wedding scenes i read somewhere that oz and wanted to poke fun at liberal message movies but the climax ends up being right out of one of those movies also some of the humor is a bit on the cloying side joan cusack was too over the top for me and someone has a strange timeline re the oscars still there were more than enough funny moments like the kiss scene the wedding that isn't and the scene with the principal to enjoy this kline as always is good but for me the real surprise was selleck whom i'm not a big fan of but pokes fun at himself nicely here
1	in out was a funny comedy with good performances by joan cusack tom selleck matt dillon and kevin kline the thought of kevin kline being gay was very funny if i was him i would hate to say i'm gay at his own wedding with his family friends and his going to be wife there very seldom would that ever happen i also loved when he was dancing around when the voice on the radio was talking to him i'd say that in out was a silly comedy with a lot of laughs and giggles this is a recommended comedy and kevin kline had a great performance as a gay guy trust me you'll like this movie br br 7 10
1	nana patekar once again proves that he is the best actor working in bombay without a doubt his recent movies involved shouting his lines that does not bode well for the theater trained thespian one wonders why he is always not given his accolades during awards season br br shakti the power was one of his flicks that was an utter along with a missed to create screen magic with amitabh bachchan br br but patekar exudes a cool calm in this film playing a cop on a sort of social justice journey ridding the streets of bombay of underworld dons in fake encounters character takes control of the screen and the viewers attention and never lets go the editing is tightly paced and there are no annoying songs to distract from the story br br along the same lines as the modern day cult classic company the movie is well acted directed and should have a long shelf life on dvd br br the final ten minutes that see nana and the main villain talk at his offshore haven are bound to be part of hindi cinema classics won't be dissapointed with this cops and robbers flick
1	in out is a comedy with a simple premise it admirably succeeds in the mission of being funny and entertaining br br the comedy in this film ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime physical comedy exists alongside dry humor with a nice veteran turn by bob newhart kevin kline is predictably in excellent form in this film alongside tom selleck not playing to his expected square jawed leading man type mr selleck plays his humor well and displays a nice sense of comedic timing the cast makes this film successful br br not all films with homosexual themes are made to advance some sort of sinister hidden hollywood liberal agenda in point of fact this film was simply made to entertain and if any part of this films makes the viewer think then it was a byproduct of the well acted work by a terrific cast of professionals frequently tongue in cheek i found myself laughing at the right moments a solid b
1	howard brackett kevin kline is a teacher who is about to get married then one of his former students wins an oscar for a film in which he plays a gay soldier and thanks howard in his acceptance speech outing him as being gay too this film follows the aftermath as reporters descend on howard's village and he tries to convince everyone that he is straight br br i love this movie kevin kline is wonderful it has some really hilarious moments and it always leaves me feeling great with an enormous grin on my face consequently it's one film that i enjoy watching as often as possible if you haven't seen it you're missing out
1	some movies want to make us think some want to excite us some want to us but sometimes a movie wants only to make us laugh and in out certainly succeeds in this department br br indiana high school teacher howard brackett kevin kline is going to be married to fellow teacher emily montgomery joan cusack in three days but the whole town is more excited about the oscar nomination of former resident cameron drake matt dillon but when cameron wins an oscar for playing a gay soldier he thanks his gay teacher howard for inspiration what follows is howard denying it in an hilarious set of mishaps in a truly screwball fashion br br kevin kline is great exuding gay stereotypes joan cusack really has a knack for screwball antics debbie reynolds is utterly hilarious as howard's mother and bob newhart is also a hoot as the homophobic principal br br gay screenwriter paul really achieves a delicate balance here he knows the stereotypes and exploits them in a way that's mostly tolerable to conservative and yet mostly inoffensive to the gay audience it's not exactly progressive but it's funny and inoffensive and definitely a step up from the previous year's the birdcage
1	i guess if they are not brother this film will became very common how long were they can keep this if we were part what should they do so natural feelings so plain and barren words but i almost cried last night blood relationship brotherhood love knot film in another word the elder brother is very cute if they are not brothers they won't have so many forbidden the hearts of their own at the very beginning the elder brother is doubtful of whether he is coming out or not at the beginning maybe the little brother being so long time with his brother and even can't got any praise from his made him very upset and even sad maybe this is a key blasting fuse let him feel there were no one in the world loving him except his beloved brother and i want to say this is a so human natural feeling there is nothing to be shamed you may fell in love your just a frail heart looking for backbone to rely on
1	first and foremost i would like to say that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual someone that cared about others appreciated others found no barely any judgment against other people and this film has i think changed my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watched it i didn't know particularly what it was about i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i was clueless and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters i was in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watched it i was blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their as human beings to their relationship i watched it a second time because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being saying to myself and others oh i accept all types of people and try not to judge them while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watched this film i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time and really looked not at the type of taboo relationship part that i'd heard about all my life but simply at two human beings in love and i loved it i loved the storyline i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film i loved the sharing of feelings and i loved the strong bonds created it is a really eye opening beautifully done film that made me cry at times and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserves love no matter what shape or form it is presented in
1	i've just seen this movie and it made me cry it's a beautiful drama about two brothers falling in love and i think it's a good idea especially for the closed minded to watch this one i have come to love the short film genre after just having seen a couple because they have to make an impression on you so fast and i have to say that this one definitely sat it's mark it described some things that i haven't ever really thought about that way incest for one br br i have to admit that i did not care too much for the ending just once i would like to watch a gay themed movie without wanting to kill myself after wards they seem to pretty much always end in tragedy it was 'cute' though how that they had to be together even if it was in death br br i gave it eight stars and i recommend it too everyone cause i think it gives an 'inside look' in the world that this movie make you enter br br thanks for listening enjoy
1	i've watched many short films in my day often i find them either too compressed throwing too much information at the viewer in the short amount of time they have to run too artsy or lacking a clear cut vision i can say none of these things about in this review i'll do my best to avoid any dramatic spoilers but i'll also assume that the reader understands that the theme of this film is brotherly incest br br as with any short film the story is fairly simple straightforward and easy to digest it's clear that the film attempts to shine a light one one of modern society's most deeply held taboos this film succeeds in every respect in the fifteen minutes of running time i found myself feeling a gamut of emotions with only a little dialog the viewer is rapidly pulled into the most personal moments and thoughts of these star crossed brothers br br from the opening scene set in their early childhood one can see the very close relationship the brothers have when the film progresses to the present day in the next scene the excellent acting and honest heartfelt performances remind the viewer that love can come in the most unexpected and harsh way as the relationship progresses any disgust the viewer may initially feel is quickly replaced by sympathy and emotional distress as the viewer suddenly realizes that there can be only one possible resolution and the aftermath of that resolution is heart rending br br anyone with an open mind would do well to watch this film and absorb its message if nothing else it boldly and honestly challenges the viewer to some of our deepest beliefs on the shame filled and secretive taboo of incest though the film is only fifteen minutes long it resonates in the viewer long after the credits roll this is perhaps my favorite short film i've ever seen i can't recommend it highly enough
1	i just watched this short at the movies br br was a very sweet sad little movie about two brothers that are in love there is some great subtle acting from both the male leads often times movies with this subject matter seem to get too caught up in the controversy and shock value of the plot that they forget that there is an actual story luckily writer director james does not do this and instead lets the story play out with honesty the sequences of the two boys first falling in love are very sweet
1	i had the pleasure of seeing this short film at the miami film festival this past saturday and let me just say i was astounded it was the only film out of the whole program that i loved it is beautifully shot composed edited acted and written after the screening i saw the director at a party and asked him what he was doing next he said that he was working on finding financing for the feature version of the short he described some scenes to me it sounded like the kind of first film that launches the greats into the industry if you ever get a chance to see this short i highly recommend taking it hats off to star crossed
1	i just saw wing i do not really know why this movie was made what is the message of this story nevertheless i liked it there are some exciting scenes in it i appreciate a strong performance by martin sheen harvey keitel is less convincing
1	i still remember watching satya for the first time i was completely blown away here was a movie that was very different so from the other gangster films that i had seen so realistic so and so believable despite company which was a very good effort and more focused on the journey of the protagonist which came close no underworld movie could ever live up to satya br br when i watched ab tak 56 for the first time i said to myself indian cops have their own 'satya' now the quote by nietzsche in the beginning itself tells you that this is no ordinary film what strikes you about the encounter at the start of the film is the relaxed manner in which it is carried out there is a cold and scary feel to it cos you realize that it is part of their routine br br ab tak 56 is not the story of an honest cop or a corrupt cop but of a cop who is ready to do what it takes to get rid of the criminals when all lawful means are exhausted with simple shots and camera angles director amin manages to capture the essence of the characters and gives a realistic and rough feel to the movie editing seems non existent and hence effective the music is also impressive and haunting and stays with you long after you've left the movie hall br br but for me what really takes the cake are the dialogues and the superlative acting from each and every character has done a brilliant job as the dialogue writer if i start listing my favourite dialogues i'm afraid i'll end up re writing the entire script of the movie br br the movie boasts of some stellar performances yashpal sharma is detestable as sub inspector imtiaz and so is as joint commissioner hrishita bhatt mohan and kunal have small roles which they play to perfection as the rookie was a revelation the scene where he has to hesitantly shoot the wounded gangster – oh my god he learns under the tutelage of and firmly believes in him br br as is impressive his conversations with are real jewels of dialogue writing never before in indian cinema has any film brought out such a beautiful relation between a cop and a gangster br br not that i have not been a fan of nana patekar before this film but this film pushed me from a fan to a devotee nana as inspector gives the performance of a lifetime and one of the best i've ever seen in hindi cinema from the way he talks to his expressions from the way he taps his cigarette to the way his tea – it's almost as if nana can do no wrong he is at his best in each and every scene especially when he's teaching about how the police force functions his cool and composed manner of doing things is scary at times his dialogue delivery and body language had me convinced that he is one of the finest actors in the country it's a shame that he did not win any popular awards for this one br br last but in no way the least amin does a brilliant job of bringing all this talent together and exploiting them to the fullest to come up with a modern masterpiece of indian cinema in an industry that is sickeningly accustomed to lifting stories from here and there amin takes an original script and brings it to life with a beautiful treatment i just hope that he continues the great work and doesn't give in to bollywood if he can do that i'm sure he'll be a force to reckon with in the coming years
1	the mere presence of sam waterston as an indian is enough to put this movie in the must see category he is both beautiful and very subtle with no lines whatsoever he is tender with his and yet we can see he is among the proudest of all young indian men martin sheen is just a dumb who decides to challenge waterston white bull for a gorgeous white horse other sub plots are really unnecessary i don't understand the part played by caroline langrishe as the poor girl who white bull kidnaps i don't know how she keeps her hands off this beautiful indian man it's a lot of fun though especially if you're a waterston fan man he looks good in this one harvey keitel's role isn't even worth mentioning to tell the truth but rent it and enjoy actually i do believe that if the music score was better it would've been a more dramatic film the music is so bad it's distracting still there's mr waterston
1	i have just read what i believe to be an analysis of this film by a lyrical irishman lovely to read br br however a concise analysis of this film is that it is a interweaving of the seven deadly sins with the four types of justice br br envy greed pride sloth anger etc and justice in the forms of blind and divine br br i could demonstrate three examples of each one for each of the three protagonists however it is much more fun to note them for oneself br br this is an excellent film br br don't miss it
1	eagle's wing is a pleasant surprise of a movie keeps the viewer interested i didn't know anything about it being made by the british until i read the other viewer comments i can understand why it won an award for cinematography for it was brilliantly presented must have looked magnificent on a vast theatre screen br br it seemed to be a lot more realistic than most westerns in portraying how the west was more truly won as well as the complexities of the characters it presents the indian sam waterson character is particularly intriguing he seems to be brutal in the savage environment he is conditioned to but displays remarkable respect for the frailties he witnesses in the white men women he encounters he is not friendly or sensitive to these intruders in his lands but he has a limit to his sense of vengeance even a compassion when he is in a position of power observing the wilting white man bent on revenge as well as the girl he kidnaps after capturing a stagecoach as such his character seems complex but to the harsh lands he lived in which were threatened by these intruders he is not heartless in his dealings with br br the magnificent horse he rides is a critical link it is interesting to note how this indian handles it compared with the martin sheen character who has it in his possession power for a time eagle's wing is an unusual western a genre i am not drawn to but i really appreciated this excellent offering which i would rate second only to a man called horse
1	8 points for take on probably what really kinda maybe more what it was like back then american indians probably stole more than killed who really knows nice slower odd pursuit means it has a pace and interesting and unique thankfully not another mindless shoot em up i thought this would suck at first i wound up getting wrapped up nice treasure good job i have hopes nobody dissects this film when the entire movie unfolds you have many unique twists impossible to determine what will be next the characters are human and have either honor or not passion or not forgiveness or not wound up loving the white horse the indian sheen even the damned desert all good
1	on first viewing this movie seems to be some kind of fairy tale about a beautiful and significantly white horse once seen never forgotten however viewed strictly within the context of the story the implication is that to survive in the immediate post civil war america one had to have a horse and not any old horse but a truly great one and eagle's wing is such a horse but for a man to be worthy of such a horse is another matter who should own it the native american or the awol soldier the story throughout pits against civilisation as has been said by other commentators it is ironic that it took an english director to perceive this fact and then develop this simple theme into a western like no other you're ever likely to see again the film is basically about this beast and the savage harshness of the environment and the people who scrape a living from it the photography and the soundtrack are exquisite martin sheen's performance is a revelation this film released in the same year as sheen's other great performance as willard in 'apocalypse now' hints at his abilities which somehow were never given such a free rein again more's the pity a comparison of the two stories throws up the surprising similarities between them not least that both films chart a man's journey into his soul in order to find redemption whereas willard is redeemed i will leave it to the viewer to decide if pike is eventually the ending is fabulous in the true sense of the word and very moving be warned altogether this is an extraordinary film
1	an unusual revisionist western well worth watching despite a slow start the film builds – with scarcely any dialogue and no subtitles – an increasingly involving and intense almost existential portrait of life in the harsh environment of the western desert the growth of the lead characters is worth waiting for and the strong central cast bring a real sense of desperation to the struggle for ownership of the all important horse how interesting that this was made by a british director i hope he's smiling now i get the impression the film was largely ignored by contemporaries but time works its usual alchemy and hidden gold shines out as it inevitably must one note jarred for me the revisionism is only carried so far sam waterston as an indian granted he plays his part with real emotion and intensity but really couldn't one american indian actor be found to do the job but his scenes with caroline langrishe have an intimacy which contrasts nicely with the immense landscape around them br br forget big bankrupt hollywood versions of the past men with big chins and swirling music this one is all about a primeval struggle between protagonists who stripped of all the trappings of 'ordinary' life come to understand what is worth fighting for impressive
1	there must have been some interesting conversations on the set of eagle's wing with martin sheen straight off apocalypse now co starred with the actor he replaced on coppola's film harvey keitel a real unloved child of a movie dating back to the last major batch of westerns in 1979 80 it was much reviled at the time for being made by a british studio and director conveniently ignoring the fact that many of the classic american westerns were directed by european émigrés which seems a bit of an over reaction br br the plot is simplicity itself as martin sheen's inexperienced trapper finds himself fighting with sam kiowa warrior over the possession of a beautiful white horse the eagle's wing across a harsh and primitive landscape in a time before the legends began aside from caroline captive irish governess the supporting cast have little to do stephane never even gets to open her mouth and it is a little slow but anthony harvey's film does boast terrific scope photography from billy williams and a good score from marc wilkinson
1	this splicing of the searchers is one of the weirdest films i've ever seen filmed by a briton in a strange unfamiliar mexico it's often said that the best films about america are made by foreigners who can approach the familiar with an outsider's eye but this crackpot film is something else though set ostensibly in post civil war america this isn't an america recognisable from myth cinema tv etc the film has an air of timeless fable about it while dealing specifically with western mythology br br director harvey uses the title horse as a focus for interconnecting stories all dealing with the traditional western clash of the primitive and civilisation the former seems to have the upper hand the vast scrub and desert of the film's landscape is unbroken ripe for allegories of the mind the only brief sites of civilisation are a stagecoach of missionaries and landowners and their hacienda from both of which derive behaviour that is anything but civilised br br the basic story intercuts three stories in one an aimless deserter pike having lost his trading partner steals a miraculous horse eagle's wing so called because of its grace and speed in the second an indian white bull owner of this horse a stagecoach and kidnaps one of its female occupants in the third the spanish men sent to find her ignore this quest in favour of a murderous plundering spree br br although a revisionist western the treatment of the indian is problematic unlike pike his character is never explained forever inscrutable denied a voice except for an excruciating snatch of song when he's not a strange other he's a symbol whose role isn't entirely worked out at one point a savage brute at another he epitomises nature and freedom br br but pike notes at the beginning that the film will attend to the period of before civilisation in many ways the film resembles 2001 a space odyssey especially its opening sequence part of the film's power lies in the connections made between the three disparate characters forcing us to view the mythic struggles and quests in a different light indian culture and catholicism is linked by superstition ritual greed and murder both pike and white bull are musical and alcoholic white bull is by both pike and the abductee as a unwittingly revealing the tactic of used by whites who infantilised the natives becoming themselves fathers br br unlike a traditional western concerned with making history civilisation and progress this film is a double detective story interrogating the past tracks remains br br what gives this film its remarkable uniqueness i think is despite maltin's racism its britishness the climactic stand off is more like an arthurian joust the film itself bravely eschews dialogue for the most part creating the kind of visual and aural tapestry malick missed in the thin red line and something few hollywood directors would have dared the existential doubling and quest motifs are more european myth than american resembling another british harvey keitel movie the br br most astonishing is the use of nature most westerns use landscape as an awe inspiring backdrop there is little sense of actually living in the west in many ways eagle's wing is like a powell and pressberger film with nature a powerful pantheistic character in its own right alive dangerous hostile beautiful there is a sublime scene reminiscent of a tale when jewellery left as a trap by white bull in the trees is suddenly blown in the wind there is a haunting tingling magical thrilling effect more reminiscent of the arabian nights than a horse opera heartstopping
1	i enjoyed this movie okay it just could have been so much better i was expecting more action than what i got which was more of a comedy than anything else granted it was serious in parts and it had a good fight scene here and there for the most part it was more romance and comedy with some action and no horror at all which is hard to do with a vampire movie a vampire hunter loses his partner and must train another his sister is going through a difficult break up but she is being pursued by a vampire of all things granted this vampire is rather nice and not into sucking blood so that is all there is really to it except for a plot of another vampire after certain royal vampires so he can gain ultimate power some of the problems with this movie is that its plot went here and there and the movie had a very uneven flow to it that and it seemed to shift genres a bit much too one minute action the next pure comedy however the girls were cute there is good action the comedy was worthy of a chuckle or two and jackie chan makes a rather energetic appearance or two this movie probably just needed more development in some areas such as the villain who is basically not really explored at all so for a movie with a few good fights and a chuckle or two this is rather good though why was it rated r i have seen stuff we have made that is pg 13 that is a lot worse than this
1	i watch a lot of vampire movies i know vampire movies hammer films have always been my favorites christopher lee will always be the best dracula br br vampire effect is a fun movie from the beginning to the end the dubbing is not great but i also like godzilla movies so i am used to badly dubbed movies anyway i liked this movie very much the sfx are great even though jackie chans part in the movie has nothing to do with the plot and seems to be added to sell the movie he is enjoyable in it the fang work is excellent the acting is not great but this could have something to do with the bad dubbing maybe the actual language would sound better with the movie if i could understand it i am sure the movie gone with the wind sounds worse in another language br br i own this on dvd and would not part with i have it sitting on my next to my hammer films dvds
1	it is by far the most definitive film on the police force which i have seen although not directed by ram gopal varma it has all the elements of an rgv film dead straight dialogues blunt treatment of the subject brilliant direction and superb performances even by those with little job to do in the movie the chemistry between nana and the don even if they are professional rivals is amazing and so are the small events like an insider not giving information to imtiaz even while he is being bashed up in the locker but only to nana when he is out the change in working conditions with the change of the senior is dealt wonderfully the first half keeps one absolutely engrossed moving like a documentary with nana acting like a mentor to explaining to him the intricacies and philosophy of the work br br overall one of the most brilliant films on cops in indian cinema definitely not to be missed
1	the twins effect is a vampire martial arts movie available in cantonese with english subtitles it is a jackie chan production and he does make a special guest appearance although it is not for those that liked shanghai noon knights and the other recent hollywood flicks he has become known for this film is a lot more special than that br br it was originally called the vampire effect but as a very popular chinese female pop duo called the twins charlene choi and gillian chung took the two leading roles the title was changed to cash in on their fame br br the film will appeal to three types of audience those who love martial arts films those who love vampire films and those who loath the rubbish films hollywood generally churns out br br the premise for the film is that vampires are about and a secret society seeks to hunt them down before we all become snacks for the undead this bloody work is carried out by some martial artists who drink a little vampire blood to give them the edge they need well it must be thirsty work things are going pretty much for the course until a particularly nasty european vamp finds out that he if he obtains a set of keys held by all the vampire princes then he can walk around in sunlight etc and generally eat when ever he wants to to say anymore on the plot would spoil the enjoyment of watching the film br br the twins consist of one assigned vampire slayer chung and the sister choi of another it is the twins that really make the film with some of the freshest and funniest acting going the fight scenes they carry out are fast and furious and well choreographed with a mix of genuine athleticism and wire work to add the cherry on the cake the twins are both quite lovely to watch too br br the direction is crisp and the script is sharp there are only 3 things that let this film down the make up for the vampires is quite poor jackie chan seems to be in the film just for the hell of it and adds nothing to its content and some of the slapstick comedy attempted by the male vampire hunter is quite lame thankfully the twins save the day bringing an originality to the film normally only found in european films the best scene for me was one of them choi communicating only by screaming her ability to convey her thoughts through this medium was a comic delight br br their are many other touches of originality in this film i particularly liked the coffin complete with surround sound stereo and tv screen and it is the films' many original touches and acting that stops this from being a tired old flop and turns it into a must see movie
1	the twins effect chinese action comedy charlene choi gillian chung br br this vampire action comedy is one of my favorites for the very fact that i was thoroughly entertained throughout the entire movie first of all the characters are memorable contributing a myriad of classic scenes charlene and gillian are naturally cute charismatic and humorous this movie was my first exposure to them and all i wanted to do was reach through my television screen and give them a really big hug the remaining cast did well in their supporting roles including jackie chan karen mok the duke josie ho edison chen anthony wong and the vampire bad guys one of which looks eerily familiar to will ferrell even the abominably horrible ekin cheng was good in this one good characters are important of course because they avoid the feeling of boredom by keeping things interesting between action sequences br br and speaking of action this film has plenty of it more importantly there is an emphasis of quality in the fight choreography one aspect that helped in this regard is the featured weapon of the protagonists – a sword with a retractable spear ended rope this weapon in and of itself opened up a variety of moves that would have been otherwise impossible josie ho and gillian chung in particular perform some wicked aerial maneuvers using these devices br br in addition the swordplay is superb and is highlighted by two great sword fights – one taking place during the opening train station sequence and the other occurring in the church finale in fact the blade wielding maneuvers showcased in this film put some other highly overrated fan favorites to great shame and i truly feel sorry for those who would cite the horribly choreographed garbage seen in ashes of time storm riders or a man called hero with the well planned precisely executed sequences seen in the twins effect it's not even close br br i can't understand why this film gets so much criticism i'm sure die hard apologists for the hong kong golden age will hate this because it doesn't fit into their narrow minded view of what hong kong action should be we should learn from the downfall of john woo a one trick pony who never learned how to re invent himself we don't need another clone we need something different the twins effect is one good example br br this film was so good that it actually set me up for being disappointed at other chinese movies with the same actors and actresses this especially applies to ekin cheng whose other films almost always suck – and yes this includes the obscenely overrated and exploitative wuxia crap mentioned in the previous paragraph even the twins have never been able to match the value of this movie when both were lead actresses in a film although they have managed to hit some good films when either one or the other takes the leading role e g beyond our ken good times bed times house of fury or when one or both are in supporting roles e g colour of the truth new police story just one look the twins effect 2 should have been a direct sequel instead of a family fantasy i am still yearning to see charlene and gillian team up and kick some butt in another movie but the fact remains that the twins effect hits on all cylinders their charisma while avoiding a descent into annoyance as in protégé de la rose noire br br all in all this film has everything one needs to be entertained and may i remind the reader that it is precisely this – entertainment – that judges the greatness of a movie more so than artsy dramatic elements or meaningless awards from established academies of critics who usually have no idea what they are talking about br br in the end the twins effect is a classic not to be missed br br rating 5 5 stars br br p s – the hollywood execs decided to slaughter this film when it was released in the u s by renaming it the vampire effect and cutting out 20 minutes of footage which includes parts of the action scenes however the final fight of the u s version does have a better soundtrack than the original version therefore i purchased both versions which allows me to first watch the original until about the 1 20 mark and then swap discs to watch the final fight on the u s version
1	fun mix of vampires and martial arts is a bit of a mess plot wise and the acting of those who dubbed the voices is almost universally bad but the premise is engaging the fight scenes are fast and flashy and the movie is often quite amusing it's a shame the story is such a wreck there are a couple of places where i had no idea what just happened it was almost as though five minutes had just been cut out and you were suddenly at the next scene without knowing how you'd got there the movie is poor at explaining things and some things don't make a lot of sense but the movie moves along so its flaws barely register not a great movie by any means but definitely a fun one
1	i think that there was too much action in the end don't you think that too there was romance adventure that just like told me to put 9 to this movie but action place was too long i liked reeve a bit i didn't understand why did he have to die i thought that one of the girls gonna die too but my lucky no one else who i liked didn't die how about you what did you liked i saw the movie twice actually and after that i bought that too it was worth it who did you liked best person the book was really really really cool and the actresses and actors too everything was perfect what was the song name in the end will someone answer my questions too please please please
1	well don't expect anything deep an meaningful most of the fight scenes are pretty decent the two leading ladies are quite endearing but their lack of hk action background shows at times the ending maybe lacks something but i quite enjoyed it none the less the cheesy humour isn't probably going to appeal to anyone who hasn't watched a bunch of hk films but if your down with that sort of thing and have a couple of hours to fill with something meaningless you could do a lot worse than this ok so you could do better but br br certainly on a par with most of the hollywood blockbuster action drivel br br 7 10
1	with a film starring the twins ekin cheng and edison chen nobody should expect a masterpiece of cinema what you do get however is a fun film which is easy on the eye and the brain there are loads of hollywood style vampires no hopping chinese bloodsuckers here cute girls handsome heroes and the occasionally very funny moment and jackie chan br br sure the kung fu relies heavily on wire work and cgi sure the script reminds you of blade and sure the whole affair is instantly forgettable br br but for a truly enjoyable piece of cinematic fluff you would be hard pushed to find better
1	this movie as my chinese girlfriend informed me features two well known hong kong pop stars while this may make the movie a mere marketing stunt i found the acting acceptable and they're both cute br br the story is pretty poor overall the vampiric traits and weaknesses are however used in humorous ways and created some uniquely entertaining bits the quarreling between the two girls made me chuckle and this gave a fine balance together with the well executed action scenes to create an entertaining movie
1	if you go into the twins effect looking for a pure hong kong movie experience you will be disappointed this is not to say it is bad but it is not a traditional hong kong action movie running in a similar vein to shaolin soccer and kung fu hustle it's resolutely silly and juvenile so if you want a good bit of serious hong kong action look to a john woo or yuen woo ping movie this movie's got a lot of flak for it's silliness and i thought the first thing i should do would be to explain what you're getting into as it's disappointed a lot of purists br br for the non purists and those with more forgiving tastes though twins effect is a delightfully silly kung fu comedy i liked it a lot for a variety of reasons not least it's wonderful female leads who spark off each other in a thoroughly entertaining comedy double act i believe this is the first movie of it's type they've been in but they hop kick and fly about like seasoned pros br br the patently ridiculous plot is handled with a great deal of care and attention and the movie is quite knowingly written making a lot of the movie laugh out loud the comedy really is the most prominent thing here and it's a subtle gentle comedy as reliant on words as inanimate objects going flying a la stephen chow it has to be said the slapstick is immense fun too the sequence with the disco dancing vampires is a total classic br br the action is a blend of two genres really it falls between the drama' wire and sword fighting which comes in more toward the end and the comedy fighting style of jackie chan coming out with a blend that though a little derivative at times is always exciting to watch and occasionally throws up some genuinely innovative encounters br br all this is great and the movie is tremendous fun all the way through despite this it does have a few sticking points for instance twins effect is in many ways much more westernised than kung fu fans are perhaps used to the inevitable comparison to the blade series is definitely sound as an example though twins effect is honestly much better than blade ever managed especially for fighting action personally it was also a bit of a shame to see the excellent anthony wong the villain from john woo's classic hard boiled so underused but the younger audience this is aimed at are unlikely to notice this or indeed know about hard boiled or his other movies so this is only really a personal gripe br br if you watch this with an open mind you'll probably enjoy it greatly like i did but you must be firmly aware it is a comedy not a balls to the wall kung fu movie keep that in mind and you'll be fine
1	like a very expensive buffy episode peppered with plenty of humor lots of wire and stunt kung fu the twins effect goes on the list of classic must see hk films the vampires have a cool blend of hopping ghost type and the pretty boy european style if you get the opportunity to see this one in the theatre it is worth a 30 minute drive otherwise buy the import dvd before someone screws it up by giving it a bad dub
1	i'm not sure what version of the film i saw but it was very entertaining br br i did not know who the twins were gillian chung and charlene choi before seeing this movie and i think the english translation of the title is somewhat misleading br br the martial arts are very nicely done i especially liked them because there was a lot of judo grappling that was filmed very nicely donnie yen see him in hero great performance as a director is great as he knows how to shoot these scenes br br everything seemed to flow for me except there is one scene where the girls are on the rooftop fighting with bamboo poles it has really nothing to do with the plot but it's still entertaining br br overall this is one of the better modern hk action flicks i've seen in a while although cheesy in some respects it still pulls it off br br definitely a 9 10
1	one should not be too critical about the director's second feature br br i really like the camera work of as mr shawn pointed out he had a unique way of looking at things br br however howcome a 14 year old boy shoot such beautiful images remember he has not got any education of any sort i don't think english is the common tongue in cape town ghettos worse still looks even smaller than his supposed age of 14 br br any way if you overcome above mentioned peculiarities you can watch the film and still enjoy it because of nice camera work
1	lotsa action cheesy love story unexpected actors and overall great fun the special effect are acceptable decent some of the fighting is kinda neat with some interesting acrobatic moves the overall story moves along and is cheesy enough to keep you wondering when the inevitable is going to happen although there is a bit of a twist just a small one the overall naivety of the movie make it quite whimsical at times cute enough chicks too what more could you want ps if you're gonna review a movie like this try to review it in terms of the category the movie would fall not necessarily where it was intended to fall ie don't bomb out good cheesy movies
1	a vampire prince falls for a human girl unaware that her brother is a famous vampire hunter that's the underlying theme of this martial arts romp which borrows ideas from underworld and buffy the vampire slayer but manages to maintain a style of its own i was bemused by the uk and hong kong title the twins effect as there are no twins involved in the story it turns out that the two main female characters are played by hong kong pop stars who perform as the twins don't let this put you off these girls can act at least well enough for this type of film and add a lot of charm to the proceedings jackie chan turns up for a couple of cameo appearances adding a dash of his own brand of slapstick mayhem to the proceedings all in all this is great fun for those who like their vampires served up with a helping of tongue in cheek humour
1	twins effect starring some of most popular stars provides one of the most enjoyable film experiences to come out of hk in sometime it has something for everyone action comedy horror romance and some drama this film can't be taken too seriously otherwise you'd go in dissapointed but if you leave your brain at the door and just watch the film for some fun you're bound to enjoy it br br great special effects excellent action cute twins cool hk actors fun film br br i'd recommend it to anyone
1	slow moving but smart passes you by as if you lived it filled with thought provoking ideas art race and being cool that one thing hit me hard was the ideas about the rock n' roll lifestyles br br all the performances were improvised i will say it again all the performances were improvised sounds like a gimmick but its not it makes these characters real and like some one you would hang with this also an amazing thing when you think about how strong the character are in this film right from the beginning in the title sequence it immediately establish ben as an outcast by the way he moves though the crowd br br okay it breaks down like this if your a person who lives the jazz rocker lifestyle of cool you will like it if your smart and understand great cinema from total crap you will love it and if your both then it might be you fav br br but if your none of these then you will probably think its boring and say it doesn't follow one line and write a crap review like ben cheshire
1	12 17 01 all i can do with this film is improvise on my impressions i wasn't given the changes don't know the score and am not schooled in the genre i always had problems following chord changes anyway trumpet player y'know so i was pretty well limited to doing the basic keep the tune in mind and ad lib around that what jammed me up about this incredibly moody black and white blues piece was the knot it gave me in my head and heart in trying to figure out whether to go with the ensemble or pick out a path along the tune story i guess i went with the tune as usual i kept getting lost on the changes too deep extensive over my head probably still it was a gas to try to keep pace i admired the actors' playing to the theme and story line i didn't see some things or things others seem to i didn't feel the light skin gal was trying to pass as much as she was either oblivious to the color issue or was trying to ignore it at first later she came back fighting the brooding light skin young man his trumpet noodling mas ludicrous was ambiguous ambivalent and perhaps his best feature remote what i thought after the shadow curtain closed on this provocative piece is the foundation of a thing like this is it a way of finding reality by setting up a stage peopling it with expressive characters and giving them a melody and theme is it any more real or truthful than a well crafted script without the benefit of editing and revising is improvisation heroic moreso than crafted work where is there greater or clearer truth in retrospective art craft or in fabrication and well i am still lost in this question i loved the film it got me lost in a cool blue foggy evening where i just had to go home and get out my horn guess what i broke out in a twelve bar blues riff tried and true couldn't make myself stray from the tune reality is just too scary jaime says give them a 7 and more i'm on break
1	improvisation was used to a groundbreaking degree in this film but it only functions as a novelty no greater truth about the situation is got by asking the actors to improvise the performances are not improved by improvisation because the actors now have twice as much to worry about not only whether they're delivering the line well but whether the line itself is any good so that's why the performances in many robert altman films are often really because the actors aren't really confident saying lines which they've made up and therefore aren't sure are any good br br and quite honestly often its not very good often the dialogue doesn't really follow from one line to another or fit the surroundings br br it crackles with an unpredictable youthful energy but honestly i found it hard to follow and concentrate on it meanders so badly br br nevertheless a fascinating raw piece of film and commendable 100 for taking the power over the green light into the street br br there are some generally great things in it this joke for example br br i'm a dancer what sort of a dancer like a ballet dancer oh no exotic br br and the whole party scene its in the following trip to the park and the scene where the boys go looking at statues br br 2 5 i wouldn't say they're worth 2 hours of your time though
1	hey belmondo look there's anna great american improvised new wave or independent you want to call it that not as good as godard or truffaut and not flawless but hey such realism style warmth and humor i love that ny accent you don't know nothing forget about it just like the french new wave it's about young people partying falling in love or just hanging around lelia goldoni is so cute she's adorable wonderful ben also good reminds me of belmondo a film you won't forget br br a steady 26 5 out of 31
1	it should be noted that this movie was not improvised as you're probably thinking of it despite what the title at the end suggests the movie was heavily scripted and rehearsed cassavetes didn't have enough money to support the inevitably high production costs of an improvisational sort of movie even if he had wanted to produce such a thing the improvisation of the movie is contained in the actors' performances and the emotions that they draw out of the lines br br that said allow me to say that this is a stunning work that i'm sure i'll come back to again and again the depths of emotion that cassavetes is able to draw out of the smallest gestures and interactions is incredible i have no idea how he was able to direct such amazing performances out of the actors especially under the conditions he worked this is truly a magnificent landmark of film that i would recommend to anyone interested in exploring beyond the hollywood mold
1	seven months since a revelatory viewing of faces i finally found a rentable dvd copy of cassavetes' first feature shot on a shoestring in manhattan and in his acting workshop on ad hoc sets shadows was the culmination of months of improvisational rehearsals in which the mostly amateur actors developed bonds with one another invented their characters and polished their techniques to give their filmed performances just the right tenor of spontaneous familiarity this intimate approach led to some incredibly daring work in e seymour cassel cramming his hands down lynn carlin's throat in an attempt to revive her from an as the actors' utter conviction here yields blisteringly honest moments like lelia and tony's post coital assessment of their relationship and ben's revulsion at a black woman's touch as a manifestation of his racial confusion and self loathing a homemade production in the best sense the out of sync dubbing and sound recording and the cinematography and up close camera setups build an immersive atmosphere that perfectly suits cassavetes' nuanced vision of human relationships as perpetual works in progress marked by desperate emotional fluctuations and wistful attempts at communication and understanding charles largely improvised jazz score is an ideal complement to the film's vision of living by the moment a mantra by which cassavetes worked and seemingly lived
1	shadows breathes the smell of new york's streets like no film before it this kick off of cassavetes' directorial work is as atmospheric as political and the initial spark for a renewal in american cinema br br maybe it solicits for watching cassavetes' first work in a double feature with another debut godard's À bout de soufflé both films shaped the cinematic production of their countries beyond decades and both breathe a peculiar lightness and which was later rarely achieved by those filmmakers in their career br br shadows tells from three afro american siblings ben ben carruthers lelia lelia goldoni and hugh hugh hurd the story is set in the new york jazz milieu and the driving rhythms on the soundtrack play a main part for the feverish sometimes almost dreamlike atmosphere which draws through the entire film there's not much happening in the plot the everyday life of the three siblings is defined by problems in love relationship or in their jobs but on both levels normality deceives without moralizing cassavetes simply describes the mechanism of racial exclusion in public and in private life it was regarding to the cinematic depiction of racism a breakthrough film in the us br br this film owes also a lot to the performances of the three leading actors which were all almost completely unknown before especially ben carruthers established with his energetic portrayal the image of a new self conception of young urban blacks in america an image which characterizes spike lee's films of the 80s and 90s revealingly none of those three doubtlessly extremely talented actors was able to start a big career afterwards hollywood wasn't and isn't ready to ethnically expand its star system and that is why goldoni hurd and carruthers only found small artistic in tv and independent films later on br br perhaps shadows is one of the less beautiful films ever shot and one of the most beautiful ones at the same time a film of shades and spaces with a camera that merely watches the stream of life in the crowded street corners bars hotel lobbies apartments inducing an intriguing ramble through new york's vibrant streets
1	this film is amazing while not perfect by hollywood standards it encompasses a gentle look at the wide divide between rich and poor black and white that is true in many parts of the world it handles the audience with kid gloves while delivering a truthful look at societal problems the children are beautiful take special note of the young man who plays the friendships that develop are universally true anyone can relate to the choices these young people have to make the influence of adults is interesting it appears to be taken from real life experiences as there are snip its of conversations and interactions much like a child would remember experiencing i would highly recommend this film
1	shadows is often acclaimed as the film that was the breakthrough for american independent cinema whether thats true or not it is an undeniably important film one whose influence can be traced all the way to today's sundance fodder here is a film which tackles controversial topics of the day namely racism and refuses to give easy answers and show them in a manipulative fashion also it deals with sex in a frank manner that hollywood wouldn't even discuss until the graduate br br still the question remains is it as powerful today as when it was originally released the answer is yes while many important films are hard to watch and dated nowadays shadows retains every ounce of emotional resonance when viewed now it deals with racism as a personal issue and not a political one so its still relevant plus it works as a great time capsule capturing the 1950s beat generation and new york art scene in a way possibly no other film has br br on a technical level its admittedly uneven cassavetes had yet to gain full confidence as a director and the choppy editing reflects the film's low budget still the film's story is remains powerful plus the acting considering the inexperience of the cast and improvisational nature is phenomenal all around the actors create realistic characters ones who remain sympathetic despite their often less than admirable actions shadows is absolutely mandatory viewing for film buffs 9 10
1	watching john cassavetes debut film is a strange experience even if you've seen improvisational films before br br the first thing you notice is it's roughness right off it's obvious some of the characters are screwing up their lines but then you step back from the situation as you sink deeper into these people's intimate exchanges and you ask yourself do i ever stumble over my words the answer of course is sure we all do it's unfortunate that most of the gaffes in this respect come early in the picture because by about twenty minutes you've sunk so deep in you wouldn't know it if a bomb went off behind you br br the next thing you notice or maybe you notice it hours or days after the film ends is that you never saw any substantial plot yet the themes and the poetry of the dialog and characters never leave you in fact the treatment of the role race plays in the everyday lives of these characters is always there but it's so ephemeral that even they aren't aware of how it's informing their opinions of themselves their self consciousness their perceived status or the fate of their relationships br br the title is appropriate because you get a full spectrum of blacks whites and grays and not just in the skin of the characters leila goldoni truly remarkable here is an afro american caucasian her two brothers are white and dark afro american the irony is that they exist in what is undoubtedly the hippest most tolerant atmosphere of the time beat driven upper east west manhatten and there are still conflicts within and around themselves br br i don't think i've ever seen a movie with such a subtle delivery or technique it's a lot like absorbing a really great piece of gallery art and then just nodding off in bliss as you think back to the images it evoked days later br br great mastering and extras on the criterion disc arguably the first truly experimental independent film ever made
1	what is there to say about an anti establishment film that was produced in a time of such colourless void social indifference and authoritarian contentment first major independent film was not an instant box office success and still has not received the critical attention it deserves i draw comparisons to this wave of american independent projects consisting of such filmmakers as robert frank and harry smith with the burgeoning scene emerging in paris in the late 1950's known as the french new wave br br they discussed poetry and philosophy and vulnerability at a time when the rest of the culture was obsessed with rediscovering american cultural supremacy even at this stage this peculiar highly spontaneous brand of filmmaking fought against the establishment of such political and bigots that held the development of the arts in check in the mid twentieth century br br film examines race relations and portrays man as weak in the face of love because we as a culture are blinded by our own race bias and prejudice the great element to most of work is that his films have almost a reversal minimalist effect a mental reaction is evoked through subtle character relations not so much imagery this is why his work seems to linger because he takes a more intimate approach to defining charcters that rely less heavily on explicit actions and more upon interpretation br br although my favourite film is 'husbands' this one is his most important
1	in the end credits of shadows after we read by john cassavetes' some white letters on the screen can be seen the film you have just seen is improvised they say i am always pursuing the fact that words are so important in movies since filmmakers started using them because basically there's no film without a screenplay and many other reasons br br cassavetes pursued the same goal and he believed in the freedom of words shadows is the perfect example it's a film with no real main characters with no real main plot lines it's mostly people in different situations talking yes some of the situations are connected but cassavetes apparently always in a rush to get to the talking uses a fast forward technique when the characters are going somewhere or escaping from someone and are not speaking br br appearances are everything in this movie for example there's a brilliant score full of jazz influences and a lot of fantastic solos and there's one character that says he's a jazz musician and plays the trumpet ben all the characters' names are the same names the actors' however we never see him play the trumpet or jam with a band he doesn't even talk about music and just wanders with his friends around the city they do talk a lot and about anything that's in their minds going from how intelligent each of them are to the hilarious analysis of a sculpture br br shadows is funny in its intellectual references in parts like the one above because these friends are not cultured the only important female character in the film lelia though wants to be an intellectual but again she has one very interesting conversation with an older man at a party about a book she's trying to write and about how to confront reality but nothing to do with being intellectual at that same party a woman is actually making an intellectual statement full of complexity and asks a guy beside her do you agree yes he says but you can tell he doesn't know what she's talking about br br another character a singer hugh talks about his glory days in occasions and we see him perform only once but no references to the musical industry there the focus of cassavetes is the singer's relationship with his manager rupert which most of the time involves chats about trivial stuff and not real 'musical' talks so the trumpet player's important deal in shadows is the time he spends with his friends the intellectual wannabe girl's is her way of handling romantic relationships one of the movie's strong points and the singer's is the bond with his br br the reason why performances are not important in this movie is simple cassavetes needed people who could master improvisation without mattering if they were actually good i believe some of them aren't but they surely know how to improvise in a scene and you can notice how well they do it shadows is not about performers it's about a way of making cinema based on the magic of conversation and there you could say that performances mean something br br that's why in every conversation the camera is like a stalker constantly on the eyes of every character constantly looking for the expressions that come with natural speech there's a scene where the trumpet player and his friends are trying to pick up some girls they are three so each of them sits beside one girl the girls are three two in three different tables they all talk at the same time and the camera shoots through the table and sometimes the friends look at each other while they say whatever they are natural
1	in many ways the filmic career of independent film making legend john cassavetes is the polar opposite of someone like alfred hitchcock the consummate studio director where hitchcock infamously treated his actors as cattle cassavetes sought to work with them improvisationally where every element in a hitchcock shot is composed immaculately cassavetes cared less for the way a scene was figuratively composed than in how it felt or what it conveyed emotionally hitchcock's tales were always plot first narratives with the human element put in the background cassavetes put the human experience forefront in every one of his films if some things did not make much sense logically so be it br br one can see this even from his very first film 1959's shadows filmed with a 16mm hand held camera on a shoe string budget of about 40 000 in manhattan with cassavetes' acting workshop repertory company and touted as an improvisatory film the story is rather simple as it follows the lives of three black sibling manhattanites benny ben carruthers a trumpeter and no account hugh hugh hurd a washed up singer and lelia lelia goldoni the younger sister of both the film's three main arcs deal with hugh's failures as a nightclub crooner and his friendship with his manager rupert rupert benny's in an about manhattan with his two no account pals and lovelife first with a white boy tony anthony ray who does not realize light skinned race even after bedding her then with stiff and proper jones who may be a misogynist br br in the first arc nothing much happens except dark skinned hugh gets to pontificate on how degraded he feels to be singing in low class nightclubs and opening shows for girly acts he dreams of making it big in new york or even paris but one can tell he is the type of man who will continue deluding himself of his meager skill for the one time we actually get to hear him sing he shows he's a marginal talent at best that rupert keeps encouraging him gives us glimpses into how destructive friendships work but this is the least important of the three while this film is better overall than say martin scorsese's first film a decade later who's that knocking at my door another tale of failed romance and frustrated new yorkers it has none of the brilliant moments acting wise nor cinematographically that that film has it also is not naturalistic for naturalism in art is a very difficult thing to achieve especially in film although the 1950s era manhattan exteriors at ground level is a gem to relive while shadows may indeed be an important film in regards to the history of the independent film circuit it certainly is nowhere near a great film parts of it are preachy poorly acted scenes end willy nilly almost like blackout sketches and sometimes are cut off seemingly in the middle all in all it's a very sloppy job especially the atrocious jazz score that is often out of synch with the rest of the film as cassavetes proved that as a director at least in his first film he was a good actor the only reason for anyone to see shadows is because cassavetes ultimately got better with later films and this gives a clue as to his later working style br br the national film registry has rightly declared this film worthy of preservation as this is all in keeping with the credo of art cassavetes long championed as typified by this quote 'i've never seen an exploding helicopter i've never seen anybody go and blow somebody's head off so why should i make films about them but i have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest way i've seen people withdraw i've seen people hide behind political ideas behind dope behind the sexual revolution behind fascism behind hypocrisy and i've myself done all these things so i can understand them what we are saying is so gentle it's gentleness we have problems terrible problems but our problems are human problems ' that this film is is true but that truth is not synonymous with its being it is in the difference between these two definitions where great art truly thrives
1	1st watched 8 26 2001 8 out of 10 dir john cassavetes well done early independent film by cassavetes introduced a style that was much different than what hollywood shows it's audience this movie also introduced some very taboo subjects especially the actual racism that probably was prevalent all over the country but was not displayed by the mostly white controlled filmmakers of the time about the only black actors that had much respect at this time were the ones that acted and displayed personality like whites aka sidney poitier besides this the idea of ending a film without truly concluding the relationships that began leaves many moviegoers dumbfounded but actually makes the viewers realize that life is like this it goes on i prefer this kind of an ending because it makes you think more about the characters and what may happen next and the conclusions are not just laid out for you the movie follows the lives of people particulary a couple of people who have a brief relationship and happen to be opposite skin colors then we watch what happens when the white man realizes what he's done this is done very well and makes the movie very special the acting is supposedly done improvisationally which makes the movie even more amazing i guess you can say i liked this movie if you can't tell if you can find it check out this classic early independent film
1	it ends with the declaration that the film you have just seen was an improvisation at once making you feel like an idiot for thinking an improvisation was an good movie and astounded at cassavetes' genius once again of course cassavetes told some guy it wasn't really an improvisation per se on his deathbed so it's the story about a light skinned black woman lelia who passes for white and her family another passing for white brother named ben and a black black brother named hughie when she falls in love with a white jerk named tony he is unpleasantly surprised when he finds out she's black and from there it goes on about the three main characters' individual aspirations and shortcomings hughie is a jazz singer in the process of becoming a failure still hopelessly depressed over tony and ben is angsty and violent in general in desperate need of something to shock him out of his stale patterns of existence overall i suppose it's really about stasis vs change in human life i suspect that cassavetes had the plot organized enough and it was just the dialogue that was improvised the dialogue itself is very uneven sometimes somebody will say something very memorable other times it's memorably awkward what's amazing is the extent of the amateur actors' embodiment of their characters cassavetes went through the acting class he was teaching at the time he decided to do shadows whispered in the ears of the ten best students and this was the result the guys playing ben and hughie are very good at first i didn't like lelia but as the film progressed you see more and more she's one of those actors who gets better as the tension and drama builds not necessarily the best with small talk shadows is hailed by many as the forerunner of the indie film movement made in 1959 and it's definitely recommended
1	john decided as his first film obviously as one shot on a shoestring in new york to not even have a script with dialog and delivers a 1959 feature equivalent of larry david's curb your enthusiasm all the actors know what to do and say and even have the right look in their eyes when they talk in other words it's one of the most realistic looks at the beat generation jazzed sweetly in it's score and telling a tale of racial tensions a group of black siblings are the center point with one trying to get better gigs than the average strip club and has a sister much more light skinned than him who gets entwined with a white man in a relationship which shatters both sides the film however isn't exclusively about that cassavettes likes to have his characters wander around new york city which not many films did in 1959 1960 and his style of storytelling is like that of the improvisational jazz artists of the day dated to be sure but worth a glance for film buffs martin scorsese named this as one of his heaviest influences
1	i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i found interesting to put it but not so special i instantly wanted to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watching his other work shadows in particular i must admit it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original absolutely but flawed and dated experiment but now upon reviewing these little imperfections make it look so fresh even today br br shot on a minimal budget of 40 000 with a skeleton six person crew shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni are light skinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing a reaction against hollywood production values cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film was shot were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles' pioneering spirit the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors but with his bebop score by charles ans shafi the film feels very different very american unlike anything made before really br br the song with the feathered girls i feel like a lolly pop or something feels like light years back to me ancient history but no matter how dated it might look it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today i think it's this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvised and without a real budget seymour cassel who acted and was involved in shadows claims it was jules dassin's the naked city 1948 that was the first and inspired them all but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers br br camera obscura 8 10
1	the remarkable sometimes infuriating often brilliant films of john cassavetes occupy a unique position in american low budget partly improvised inspired by cinéma verité documentary and related to underground film they have nevertheless frequently managed to reach a wide and profoundly appreciative audience… br br after drama studies the young cassavetes quickly made his name as an unusually unrefined intense actor often appearing in films about disaffected rebellious youth such as crime in the streets and edge of the city br br setting up an actors' workshop he worked to transform an improvisational experiment into his feature the result shadows taking three years to complete and partly financed by his performances in tv's johnny staccato was a breakthrough in american about the effect of racism on an already fraught relationship between two black men and their sister two of whom pass for white the film is impressive for its irregular seemingly formless style and naturalistic plot was minimal mood and emotional apparent truth were everything…
1	i enjoyed very much the movie wooden camera i think it's a little bit influenced by the brazilian movie city of god but maybe this parallelism between the two tracks possible to follow crime and art in social neighborhood are a reality br br i think the films made by are really beautiful i don't think it's unreal that he shoot such good films because there's a lot of artists that don't have any type of education and can be really genius br br i enjoyed very much the soundtrack it's adjusted to the pictures br br see the movie it's good to show how can be a life in a social neighborhood
1	1959 was a landmark in the world of film several great directors of the classic era were releasing career capping classics that ranked among their best just a look at the titles is instructive hitchcock's north by northwest billy wilder's some like it hot howard hawks' rio bravo douglas sirk's imitation of life add a couple from the previous year orson welles' touch of evil hitch's vertigo and nick ray's wind across the everglades and you've got a pretty good summing up of what was possible within the classic hollywood style br br at the same time two films appeared that hinted at a whole new way of making films one was jean luc godard's breathless the other was john cassavetes shadows the two films had certain things in common largely improvised acting by non stars handheld cameras low budgets and a certain youthful jazzy swagger in certain ways though they couldn't be farther apart godard was still a believer in the director as arbiter of style he knew more about film than most hollywood producers and breathless was filled with the iconography of the classic crime film cassavetes on the other hand was an actor and a refugee from new york's underground theater scene his first film shows him little impressed with the cinema and a big believer in actors godard's film constantly references it's own artifice whereas shadows aims for a certain kind of naturalism br br it doesn't reach it mainly because naturalism is a myth particularly in cinema but it feels powerful kinetic but lilting like the cool jazz on the score certainly the main inspiration for the filmmaking style on display here it ultimately doesn't hold together mainly because cassavetes' actors here are amateurish beatniks where cassavetes style requires strong imaginative actors his later work with gena rowlands ben gazarra and peter falk blows this out of the water due to the director's technical inexperience some bits of dialogue had to be redubbed later which defeats the freshness of the improvisation still it's fascinating to watch both for the great moments like the scene where leila goldoni talks about her dissapointment with losing her virginity and to watch a groundbreaking artist finding his way
1	this was really a pleasure to see the dialogue was for the most part absolutely outstanding i thought the women's roles were a little better written which is a nice surprise the performances were uniformly very good too frank gorshin overdoes it a little when he goes into his various cons but this might be his overcompensating for what i see as weaknesses in how the character is written he's very good otherwise harry groener does similarly well with a slightly underwritten character tony overdoing some of the character's angrier scenes slightly ursula burton is excellent as sister theresa really carrying the film through some of its weaknesses seymour cassel and louise fletcher are a little underused here though i liked their work as always shirley jones malick jill eikenberry and faye grant are very good also i couldn't help thinking grant reminded me a little of catherine o'hara here cloris leachman rather tears into her role with reasonably good results br br i wish there had been more of a sure hand behind the camera though sometimes the framing or staging seemed a bit off or awkward the closeups seemed overused or erratically used to me and we don't always go from scene to scene as smoothly as we'd like some of the tough guy approach to the federal agent music costuming was too over the top for me as well and the few fantasy sequences didn't really work but there are things that were very well done the opening sequence set in buffalo around 1970 for example and frankly all of the scenes regarding church work i suspect the writer and actress liked the character a lot which helps the scenes between malick and eikenberry are very good br br the plot is probably a bit there seem to be a few too many schemes going on at once to keep them all straight at times and the coincidences got to be a little too much and i was a little bothered by the ending should we really be rooting for their biggest con yet to succeed but the ride along the way is very enjoyable it would be nice to see more independent movies like this one made br br 7 of 10
1	manna from heaven is a terrific film that is both predictable and unpredictable at the same time you know that the characters after finding out that the so called gift from god was actually a loan will pay back the money and that everyone will be happy at the end but how they get there is not as obvious the scenes are often funny and occasionally touching as the characters evaluate their lives and where they are going the cast of veteran actors are more than just a nostalgia trip frank gorshin shirley jones and cloris leachman prove that they are capable of more than playing the riddler mother partridge or mary's friend phyllis while jill eikenberry and malick play characters different than we have seen on their tv series ursula burton's portrayal of the nun is both touching and funny at the same time with out making fun of nuns or the church if you are looking for a movie with a terrific cast some good music including a shirley jones rendition of the way you look tonight and an uplifting ending give this one a try i don't think you will be disappointed
1	really enjoyed manna from heaven if you liked my big fat greek wedding you will like this too once the story line is set it begins to keep you guessing the outcome i think we'll be hearing more from five sisters productions i know i'll be watching for their next movie
1	no bullets no secret agents a story that is entertaining funny and believable met some of the producers actors in this film at the theater they seemed as interesting in person as their characters on screen you may not hear about this movie on tv with high dollar ad spots but it is definitely worth checking out i have spent 8 for a movie ticket on a lot of other movies that weren't this entertaining looking forward to future projects by this production company
1	this was a great movie and safe for the entire family which one doesn't see much of anymore my wife and i and 15 year old son loved it even though you had an inkling of how it would end it continued to be a fun journey and the final ending surprised us there should be more movies like this
1	manna from heaven is a light comedy that uses exaggeration of human foibles to entertain the audience throughout the film there is the expectation that goodness will surface in each situation the result is that the movie goer finds himself herself sitting with this silly grin on his her face peace in his her heart and high expectations for human kind watching this movie was a most pleasant experience i would venture to say uplifting experience but some would say that sounds corny
1	its a feel good movie that made me feel good some in this genre can be sickly sweet but this script is restrained the movie is funny and fun the acting is great br br if this were a musical i would have left the theater humming the tunes
1	i thoroughly enjoyed manna from heaven the hopes and dreams and perspectives of each of the characters is endearing and we the audience get to know each and every one of them warts and all and the ending was a great wonderful and uplifting surprise thanks for the experience i'll be looking forward to more
1	saw the movie last night w o knowing anything about it nothing else out seemed interesting and i had a buffalo connection to this movie ub grad it was a very enjoyable movie liked the pace it picks up after a slow beginning and story well written plot and good character development and relationships highly recommend it to anyone who likes to see movies that have interesting stories found myself talking about this movie afterwards over a few beers most discussions don't last more than a few minutes
1	yes maybe there are parts of this film which require suspending belief a little but that doesn't take anything away from the film's charm and wonder it was shown as part of our town's youth film festival and was the organising favourite which is not surprising the subject matter coming together in a race torn though post apartheid south africa is highly topical and the treatment of the theme is inspirational of course as the previous comment mentions the film does have its shortcomings but the realism of the setting and the way the director treats his subject matter belies these shortcomings i saw this with my wife and we returned the same evening with the children a film to watch meditate discuss and act upon
1	inspired casting charming and witty throughout much like the currency in the opening moments of the film the story floats along magically until you are emotionally invested in its outcome the city of buffalo has never looked better kudos to the burton sisters and the entire cast for a job well done
1	witticisms colorful characters family relationships coping with hardships living with fun and humor this film has it all and more what a great 'every man and woman ' story with a top notch plot and script it offers just clean fun lots of laughter many smiles and pure entertainment for the whole family other reviewers describe the story some i'll just offer this comparison teaser — it's part best of show grumpy old men millions and some other comedy and life flicks rolled into one br br this gem of a film most likely had limited release and is probably not very available to rent but it's now out on dvd and i highly recommend it for purchase if you like good old fashioned fun and entertaining films for the family you can't miss with manna from heaven this film is a sure fire cure for the blues or to chase the gloom away on nasty weather days or rough times
1	at a time when hollywood thinks that louder faster and bloodier are better manna from heaven is comedic and touching look at something we've all thought about what would i do if a load of money fell from the sky br br interestingly it took the characters many years to realize that the money hadn't made a single difference in their lives they all become what they were destined to be unfortunately in most cases what they became was unhappy in spite of their good fortune all those years ago br br while manna offers the familiar hollywood storyline of good vs evil or in the case generosity vs greed what sets this film apart is that good wins out by converting evil not by crushing it br br i think the important message of this film is that you can change the world even if you do it one person at a time
1	if hollywood had the wellbeing of the audience at heart we would see 20 films a year with the kind of wholesome fortitude that is behind this film there are several experiences of personal growth in this movie and while the characters are still very human even the lessons learned are not that greed will profit you or do unto others whatever you want as long as you are okay with it no this is what our sad desensitized lives need more sense more love more do unto others as you would have done unto you more hope thanks ursula this movie has an intelligent wit not mama cracks that run rampant in the so called comedies people need to feel good this movie will make you feel good and possibly inspire you to better your life and the lives of others sidenote every person counts in ticket sales this is a truly independent film if you want more quality films you have to support them
1	i didn't know much about this movie going in my roommate kind of dragged me into it i was so pleasantly surprised the plot really grabbed my attention and held it and the characters are well drawn and realistic the screenplay is very clever and funny and the cast does great things with it and the best part is that it managed to be entertaining without any explicit sex or violence if this movie comes anywhere into your area you really should go see it stand up for this little film it is worth it
1	my wife and i struggle to find movies like this that are clean and yet enjoyable for adults if you can't find a cinema that is playing it call your cinema and request it bravo five sisters productions for courage tenacity and creative endeavor
1	two things can happen when an ensemble cast is brought together either you are left walking out of the theater asking why ' or you receive manna from heaven a delightful comedy from the burton sisters whose mother not only provided inspiration but the screenplay itself ursula burton plays theresa a nun whose friend's and family had always believed she was touched by g d when money falls from the sky the clan use young faith that the money was gift from the heavens to allow all their dreams to come true years pass and we find theresa returned home to her native buffalo she comes to the realization that the gift needs to be repaid and calls together her friends and family academy award winners shirley jones louise fletcher and cloris leachman to return the debt before easter sunday the money has long since been spent and all the characters find themselves in financial difficulties shirley jones and frank gorshin are a husband and wife con team that teach the all important in life of how to dress for winter in buffalo and my personal favorite they expect you to take the silverware when visiting a restaurant the audience can only hope that if theresa does reach her goal that that someone won't run off with the money the movie teaches us that it is not money but ourselves that make our and other's dreams come true every action has an outcome not just for you but the community around you when looking into the mirror we see ourselves as we'd like to be manna from heaven answers the question of how other's can see the image we'd most like to reflect the burtons have done a superb job directing the cast to break out of their shells and create new and inventive characters in the day of multi million dollar budgets this low budget indy proves it is not the cash in hand but true talent that will draw the biggest laughs malick the american president just shoot me adds a special flavor to this already talented cast
1	manna from heaven is heavenly this is a movie for the family teens and grandparents can enjoy it together but it isn't syrupy sweet or silly the characters really are characters the plot is somewhat complex and you have to pay attention but it's like putting a puzzle together as it all falls into place bit by bit the period beginning is like watching an old photo album or remembering back when it's extremely well done with very accurate hairstyles and costumes the story moves along quickly with twists turns and lots of fun br br a special treat is to watch the large cast of familiar faces many of whom we haven't seen in much too long a time part of the fun is to recognize and name them mentally as they appear though this can be distracting cloris leachman by the end of the film looks as if she's had a make over on oprah i had never seen faye grant in a movie only knew her as grace's mother in the tv series saving grace she was great even minus the southern accent and i didn't even recognize shelly duvall the five sisters who created this very lovely film are a very talented quintet and sister theresa is a heavenly treasure
1	what a great cast for this movie the timing was excellent and there were so many clever lines several times i was still laughing minutes after they were delivered i found manna from heaven to have some surprising moments and while there were things i was thinking would happen the way they came together was anything but predictable this movie is about hope and righting wrongs i left the theater feeling inspired to do the right thing bravo to the five sisters
1	i found this move beautiful enjoyable and uplifting initially the local sites in the film which was filmed here in buffalo intrigued me later i found myself lost in the power of the film how do you repay a gift from god the ability of characters to rise above their base natures and respond to the touch from god warmed my heart the entire audience applauded at the conclusion of the film i left the theater with a lilt in my step joy in my heart and hope for the human race what more can any film do hollywood i hope your paying attention america does like positive upbeat films
1	this was a random rental at the video store but i was impressed from the start wooden camera is a gem of a 2nd feature by an engaging director the film captures deeply insightful moments and several often times frustrating and complicated social interactions young interracial friends would experience in a modern post apartheid south africa the young actors are quite good and well directed in their approach to the core material and the dialogue is natural and interesting the film is very rich in visuals providing a frame by frame study of deeper understanding and fulfillment without falling into iconic stereotypes and clichés the musical score to the film adds body to the film without being obtrusive after watching it the second time i tracked down the dvd on amazon and have been happy ever since
1	being from the buffalo area i was well aware of the movie having read many articles in local publications i was most impressed with the movie especially its clever plot the acting and the local scenes nice to see so many older quality stars in the various roles i feel that especially those of us over 50 will find the movie excellent and you can leave the theater feeling that your time was well spent
1	as a native of the city where the story takes place buffalo ny it's fun to see the local sites but the story line is so local and fun too br br the small scale promoting of this film requires strong word of mouth to accomplish the wide viewing it deserves please make this film the success the big fat greek wedding was
1	manna from heaven' is a delightfully compelling film br br within the shifting paradox of values in middle class americans from 40 years ago to the present day the plot tweaks the concerns and hopes of an interesting range of damon characters br br their struggles with moral dilemmas on what might have been ' hopes to yet fulfill youthful dreams romantic yearnings and hit it big' combine to make a most entertaining film rather than relying upon in your face' sexual explicitness the burgeoning relationship between inez and mac bake is classically subtle but clear his the knot in her at the art gallery and their heat in their poker game is outstanding br br the script's crisp writing is skillfully interpreted by an outstanding star and supporting cast one of the few films i have ever to see twice in its opening run manna from heaven' definitely warrants national distribution br br conrad f
1	in the wasteland that hollywood productions have become of late this movie in and of itself is truly manna from heaven br br in what could best be described as a cute movie approximately 350 years of movie acting experience allright give or take 100 years joyously lights up the screen to tell a tale of deceit remorse and redemption about a catholic family in buffalo ny br br truly well positioned to take its place in the feel good movie genre this quiet little independent film by the burton sisters' five sisters productions company will leave a smile on your face and joy in your heart all while renewing your faith in mankind br br from the spectacular opening scene shots of buffalo ny to the final credits the film manages to tell a tale that could have been told of any family anywhere yet somehow this particular gathering of family and family by association in a small non descript house in buffalo more than fits the bill if you've never been to buffalo you'll leave the theater with thoughts of shuffling off for a visit shots of the city landmarks and surroundings help to bring a quaint down to earth tone to the film which suits it just fine the quiet beauty of the queen city of the great lakes compliments rather than detracts from the tale that is being told if only more movies would take advantage of the natural beauty of this country's second cities instead of running off to a soundstage somewhere the end results would be so much more believable br br great performances by shirley jones frank gorshin wendy malick jill and the rest of the ensemble cast prove again that true talent hollywood's flavor of the week any time br br go see this movie br br you've wandered in hollywood's desert for too long
1	we went to see manna from heaven my husband two friends and i and we all enjoyed the film the characters are funny the story is amusing and so much like real life i think that is what i liked most just seeing something believable no murders no sci fi just good clean fun it is something you could take your children or elderly parents to and not worry how many of those are around anymore
1	i thoroughly enjoyed gabrielle burton's story of a mysterious gift and how it effects it recipients in the past and present the talented burton family of five film making sisters an author mother and dancing dad offer a charming plot respectfully edited for clarity memorably chosen songs and a beautifully filmed piece that made me laugh and cry as the characters' invited me into their there was a farce like attitude about this work with touching undertones of innocent wonder
1	i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing fun filled thought provoking movie the absence of sex vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene but that's probably because i live a short distance from there even so this film could have been produced in any city it's the theme that's so important here i'm just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us try it you'll like it
1	this film is not your typical hollywood fare though the pickings are so bad i often tend to stay away from movies rather than be disappointed however this little low budget gem is thoroughly loveable and enjoyable and definitely a keeper the actors are as varied as the characters they portray the buffalo setting is charming what a pretty city and the story sparkles the lack of gratuitous violence sex and the f word doesn't detract in the least take the kids take grandma take a break from hollywood i give it an 11 out of 10
1	when i first saw the movie i thought it was sweet a family movie for the rest of the night and over the next couple of days though clever moments and funny lines kept creeping back into my thoughts and our conversation there's a lot going on classic elements of farce good character acting and malick's story line is just hysterical labelling it a feel good movie belies the wit and fun it's smarter than it seems just like it's a wonderful life is
1	the squire of is one of the sillier episodes of star trek and therefore one of the most entertaining ones the entertainment factor is generally speaking fueled by the stand off between william shatner and the episode's hilarious guest star william campbell br br during an unspecified routine mission sulu suddenly vanishes into thin air and kirk follows soon after wards spock immediately begins looking for his missing colleagues and though he'd hate to admit it friends while the two stranded crewmen must deal with the mysterious all powerful flamboyant campbell the self proclaimed squire of a being capable of creating or destroying anything he wants through the sheer power of his mind br br at first sight the plot may seem recycled from previous episodes honestly are there any sci fi shows that didn't feature at least one god like character but that feeling vanishes pretty quickly thanks to the script's winning use of exaggerated humor all conveyed through campbell's deliberately camp performance his is essentially the trek version of a spoiled child in the body of an adult while his ignorance fueled curiosity for the human race his knowledge is quite limited probably served as inspiration for gene roddenberry when he came up with the character of q for the next generation pilot some two decades after this episode aired br br in short the key to appreciating the squire of is this silly doesn't necessarily equal bad
1	this was a nice film it had a interesting storyline that was executed pretty well in the later part of the film the storyline kinda reminded me of the city of god but this one is done in a more nicer way in comparison it had what i really loved a tinge of surrealism some pretty interesting cinematography thru the wooden camera i'm not sure if it was culturally correct but it definitely widens you're view of south africa the actors were good for 1st timers most of them anyway i especially liked estelle character which made this movie pretty enjoyable what is interesting though was that it makes you ask about your own life are you really doing what you really love or do you consent to the norm the around you definitely worth a watch
1	the theme is controversial and the depiction of the hypocritical and sexually starved india is excellent nothing more to this film there is a lack of good dialogues why was the movie in english there was lack of continuity and lack of passion emotion in the acting
1	if you had asked me how the movie was throughout the film i would have told you it was great however i left the theatre feeling unsatisfied after thinking a little about it i believe the problem was the pace of the ending i feel that the majority of the movie moved kind of slow and then the ending developed very fast so i would say the ending left me disappointed br br i thought that the characters were well developed costner and kutcher both portrayed their roles very well yes ashton kutcher can act also the different relationships between the characters seemed very real furthermore i thought that the different plot lines were well developed overall it was a good movie and i would recommend seeing it br br in conclusion good characters great plot poorly written edited ending still go see it
1	general is a super being who wants to play a little game with the crew of the enterprise a lot of extremely unlikely and nonsensical stuff seems to be happening and seems obsessed with the human practices of warfare and murder he seems to need to experience what he imagines to be a thrill and has created a human environment though a few hundred years out of date in which to play out his fantasies the environment is subtly inauthentic and the crew immediately begins to spot the inconsistencies pretty soon it becomes clear that is not just an immature god but a very fallible one regardless of how you feel about this one stick around for the twilight zone like ending it is well worth it br br as many have pointed out character inspired the more developed and amusing on going character q and you can see in john construction of that personality more than just shades of campbell's it is fun to compare how the four captains we have seen coping with q all deal with him so radically differently
1	i did enjoy watching squire jerk around the crew in this episode though after a while the whole thing just seemed a little too long sure the histrionics were kind of funny for a while and the ending was a pretty good way to wrap the whole thing together i think the problem was that i enjoyed seeing when he was full of bravado and fun the fun seemed to vanish when became vindictive and nasty talk about a mood killer going from the obnoxious but affable host to the guy sentencing kirk to death but despite this the episode was enjoyable and worth my time for die hard trekkies this is a must see for others it's just a pretty run of the mill one
1	in the squire of kirk and his crew encounter a powerful super being who keeps the captain bones and a few captive for no apparent reason i could be wrong but i think this is the first star trek episode i ever saw and the program that made me hungry for more it is not one of the best episodes but the rock solid premise of an alien being who putting the crew in a corner is the kind of situation that makes the show so much fun to watch in a way the super humanoid anticipates one of star trek's most famous characters next generation's enigmatic q this episode is also memorable for creating a unique situation it is the first time uhura is part of the action and the story allows the viewer to see what an endearing character can be when the story allows her too bad the show never fully explored this iconic figure
1	an apt description by spock of an all powerful fop into whose clutches fall the crew of the enterprise this was one sector of space our starship should have avoided first sulu kirk simply disappear off the bridge a landing party follows them to the surface of an unknown planet and encounter a seemingly aristocratic man dressed in attire from an earth of many centuries past but he demonstrates abilities of someone or something far beyond human and doesn't register on mccoy's medical the officers manage to escape back to the ship but like some bad cosmic penny keeps popping up he brings them all back including some female companionship to continue his games the dilemma now takes on elements of 'the most dangerous game' out in space and there's an exasperating even infuriating aspect to the crew's utter helplessness before such unbridled power br br what really makes this a great episode is the memorable performance by guest star campbell as the overpowering but not all knowing alien his character is obviously an early version of q who was introduced 20 years later in the pilot for the tng series confrontation scene with spock stands out among all the strange drama which unfolds as usual kirk quickly begins to look for possible weaknesses in his new nemesis despite being quite outmatched the answers to exactly what or who is are right in front of us the whole time so when we do learn the truth it makes complete sense in view of campbell's pitch perfect acting he indulges himself constantly preening before some unknown audience remarking on things with a flair which is infectious but not quite right we can't quite pin it down at first but there's something missing here every few minutes his tone becomes sinister and the crew now appears to be in serious danger in a way you can't take your eyes off him always waiting to see what he does next actor john de lancie captured that similar tone as q on the next generation series
1	this is a beautifully filmed movie that questions the future of all indigenous peoples especially nomadic tribesmen focusing on the of tibet the film moves at pace that may make some western viewers uncomfortable for some peoples life still proceeds at the same pace which it has for thousands of years this film follows a group of tribesmen on their annual two month quest to get salt their tribe lives its life in a traditional manner slowly by modern standards and always accounting to their many gods this is a remarkable film one which will preserve a piece of what may unfortunately become history well worth the time don't be in a rush when you see it
1	i think gerard's comments on the doc hit the nail on the head interesting film but very long it's definitely the antithesis to the new school of flashy sexy moore style docs there is no narrator no facts or side info interlaced and no other gimmicks what you see is what you get a glimpse into the vanishing world of the of tibet as a huge doc fan i was surprised how much i lost attention with this film namely due to the length and lack of dialogue in the end though i would recommend it if the subject matter sounds interesting to you it's beautifully shot informative and presents a valuable and closing window into the way of life of the tibetan and women all important attributes of a good doc but do put on a big pot of coffee it'll help
1	a documentary about a nomadic tribe in tibet going out to a dry lake to get salt does not sound very appealing but this is not a popcorn movie but a visual cultural feast whereby you partake of a rapidly vanishing morsel of humanity the superstitions the epic songs and poetry the faith of a people who truly believe in following their own unique patterns of life are something the west had in the times of homer but that is now unfortunately completely foreign to most of us in the developed world we have lost the spiritual serenity that comes from following well established patterns of life often with dire mental consequences in our increasingly soulless society the film makers have woven us intimately into the fabric of these materially poor but spiritually rich and scrappy and made us see that there was more to life than the shopping mall and pop culture so disconnect your land lines turn off your cells turn off the driveway lights and sit back and ease yourself into a timeless adventure
1	is a long film for its genre and quite often the pace is much slower than that expected by western audiences that being said i enjoyed it thoroughly both in terms of interesting subject matter and the magnificent images this film contains some of the scenery is truly breathtaking and there is enough of interest that most should be able survive with minimal use of the fast forward br br
1	yes fassbinder and are at the top of their game back in 1973 it's about the same subject but in my opinion it's a much better movie than the matrix 1999 at least it was 200 times cheaper very nice camera work by michael and the wonderful albatross by fleetwood mac at the end fassbinder is creating a very moody tone for the whole film it's a shame this movie was never released on dvd but now after 37 years they finally came to the conclusion that this tv movie is not only one of the best fassbinder films altough there are quiet a lot best fassbinder films it's a brilliant example for a science fiction movie done without much money buy it watch it
1	it is an interesting fact that metaphysics by and formal logic and abstract form about those sciences that most people are not interested in but then around one thousand years after the computer began to usurp the human thinking and the humans who were refusing to reflect questions of being other than biological physical and chemical ones suddenly felt paralyzed because they could not cope with the consequences that this computers would bring over night r w fassbinder's welt am together with tarkovsky's solaris and godard's alphaville is probably the first movie who took the philosophical questions of emerging computer science as a basis of a story to be told in a movie the confusing questions about identities and realities are cleverly built into different interwoven criminal stories which the audience really tries to follow because it is interested to solve the cases fassbinder was a master to sell highly contents to his public by theoretical knowledge into practical appetizing forms the basis problem to understand is that an identity defines a reality but on the other side a reality also requires identity in order to be perceived the idea of a person with multiple identities is known to us solely from the standpoint of psychiatry however logically spoken the only reason why we have just one identity is the fact that our logic has only two values right and false now take a logic with just one more value i e with three then as you can easily see you have already three identities what happens now when let us say dr stiller gets killed then it is quite possible that only one of three identities is abolished and the other two remain and are able to rescue the individual from death another question is if a person with multiple identities actually feels these identities at once the idea however to display such sets of identities in a up down or down up way as shown in the scene with the elevator in the hotel is misleading since identities and hence realities are not structured in hierarchical but in a way strictly speaking there is no artificial identity either since each identity is defined over two objects who share all of their features with one another therefore the idea of assuming that every individual has just one single identity is nothing but a consequence of ancient two valued logic either a second identity would imply that a person at the same time exists and not exists but now look around and see that one and the same object which is by definition self identical is perceived by every subject in its own way if therefore every subject sees an object differently why should it no be possible for the single individual to open the borders of his two valued individuality corset with the effect that different persons can exchange their different fassbinder would five years later pick up this topic in his masterpiece despair a trip into the light
1	i am surprised that there is confusion over the title of this film quite obviously it is an investigation into the nature of modern love it is suggesting that love is love while the going is good but one in which people reserve the right to put themselves first and if the going gets tough they get out and go onto something else br br this observation has generational implications as it is coming from generation x makes comment on generation x and in the end is aimed at generation x it expresses disappointment that love has transformed from that which the baby boomers the parents of generation x had engendered in their marriages and family lives and which gave generation x the innocent and bountiful childhood it ultimately enjoyed br br the generation x attitude to love is of course flippant but as decisions are made and commitments are broken the biggest casualty are the children of generation x this is made clear at the end of the film and was so pungent i took a week to recover from the shock i received from this epiphany
1	the sf premise isn't unique although it pretty much was back then but the focus is a completely different one than in other artificial reality films especially during the first part it is an elaborate crime picture that uses the sf premise to tell an unusual crime story in which the forced detective tries to solve a mystery with the obstacle of vanishing characters and unhelpful witnesses who don't have to lie to be unhelpful instead of an unreliable narrator we have an unreliable world br br in part two we follow the main character's struggle for sanity and it turns more into a psychological examination of a character in an extreme situation he knows his very existence is nothing more than electrical impulses how does he deal with this knowledge he knows that there is a world that is more real than his but he is trapped in an artificial world a world where nobody can understand him the problem of thinking of knowing something essential about the world that nobody else knows or wants to believe is a very real one that many of us can identify with for me the film transports this hopelessness very well with its dreary artificial atmosphere which also supports the factual artificiality of the film's world br br other than 'the matrix' or 'the thirteenth it's little concerned with evoking a sense of awe for its artificial reality plot instead it very much focuses on the psychological aspects philosophy is only in so far interesting in that certain philosophical concepts are essential in how they shape and alter the character's perception of the world br br arguably it is longer than it has to be which isn't a problem if you are as captivated by it as i was and part 2 runs pretty low on steam
1	during my teens or should i say prime time i was eating up all kinds of sf novels every day of the week it was in the sixties and seventies when tv was not such a important leisure time killer like today one night in the mid seventies i watched the movie on tv i think it was and i was stunned i was impressed in a way that i can almost remember each scene even today br br nowadays i observe my kids playing the sims or something like that and i think we are close to what that movie expressed i also would highly appreciate if i could buy this movie on a dvd but in vain i tried almost everything to get a hint where the movie matrix cannot touch by far the quality and the state of art of this movie and by the way by now we do not have a glue if we were a superior reality or just one of a couple simulation models probably after our death we definitely will know
1	when i saw this film the first time i was very impressed concerning the kind of atmosphere the director creates it is also very interesting to see how they imagine the near future in the year 1974 if you see the film you will see a lot of sets and customs which are called freaky and modern again today br br the topic of the film deals with the old question what is real and what is illusion if you see the matrix you will find a lot of similarities but the two films are not comparable at all because welt am is art and the matrix is entertainment if prefer the first one br br unfortunately i lost my video copy of it br br
1	in these days of ultra fast and the internet coming up with a movie like the matrix may seem merely the next step from the term but do you remember what computers were like in 1974 right to come up with the notion of virtual reality back then is truly an amazing feat of the imagination fassbinder's movie of course has none of the massive gunslinging and pyrotechnics and a lot of 'artsy' elements instead but the atmosphere it creates is intense and poses the question how we can know what is real in a dark and gripping manner making this a chiller and a thriller for the mind it also takes it up a notch on more recent vr stories if you get out of one cyberspace can you be sure you didn't just emerge into another level of virtual reality
1	one of the best movies i ever saw a classic matrix movie for many years i have been trying to get it on vhs or dvd to no avail the german movie tv industry still prefers to let valuable cultural contributions and this is fassbinder after all rot away and collect dust in some archive rather than distribute it commercially and make a lot of money with it if that is what stimulates them instead of the promotion of creative thinking though the once told me if i paid dm 200 00 to check the copyright non and then dm 8 per minute of copying plus the cost for the materials then they will consider preparing a single copy for me some way to sell something the same problem we have with many other tv movies or series like so die and others excellent tv series never to be heard of again germany wake up br br update from march 2007 last year i finally could get a dvd copy from the of the for about 50 euro great
1	i really liked this picture because it realistically dealt with two people in love and one of them having a disorder though the ending saddened me i know that that was the best way for it to finish off i would this to everyone
1	because it's late and i'm running short on vocabulary i will describe this film as beautiful and heartbreaking begging the forgiveness of those who cringe at such cliches robin tunney does an amazing job portraying a young woman in the clutches of tourette's syndrome her character was absolutely sincere and convincing and i will follow her career wherever it goes because of this film
1	was certainly not the best movie i have seen however i cannot describe the way the movie made me feel while watching it and how i felt as it ended and also how i feel about it now very few movies have such an effect on me i like them or i do not i look at as a work of art we all see something in it and it may remind us of something or it may instill fear or fun etc this movie had me in not the best mood in fact it left me feeling empty somehow i guess because the lives these two persons led were so empty in so many ways they had no direction their only direction was to have no direction they had many problems to deal with and i guess needed to get away from what could not have been a happy life but on the way things really only got worse a steady decline from where it started it was sad as it was so well acted and i guess we have all most likely seen someone in some situation that may in some way resemble the situation these folks were in they might have had a good life if they had any idea how but it wes clear they did not know what to do so they kind of rambled to someplace they had heard about no real goal they had no idea how to have a goal they had no idea how to overcome the life that was set before them i felt bad but could not stop watching the movie only good actors can make me feel so much about a movie that i would not like if just anyone played the parts these two did a great job to the point you just did not see the acting i am very impressed and want to buy the movie when it is available on dvd you know it left me feeling a little like leaving los vegas did but again it is in a class of its own not a great movie but well worth an hour or two on the right day if you are a person who has problems i would not suggest you watch it it could depress you it depressed me and i have not the conditions these folks had
1	i tuned in to this movie because there was nothing else to watch i was immediately sucked in by the characters br br robin tunney is nothing less than spectacular in this film her portrayal of a mentally ill woman is both moving and 100 believable really this sort of thing is not easy to do she pulls it off fantastically br br we know early on this film is going to end tragically but you cannot take your eyes off of it the characters do stupid things but unlike most hollywood movies where people do stupid things because the plot demands it these people do stupid things because the are not right in the head and the things they do are completely consistent with their characters br br this is just a great example of film making imho great writing great acting great directing a film for people who think film can be more than mindless entertainment
1	i have watched this movie time and time and time again each time it makes me laugh it makes me think and it makes me cry robin does an incredible job of portraying marcy and i'm kind of glad that kate winslet and that other lady turned down her part its just one of those rolls that you know that no one else could have even compared br br its a beautiful love story of these 2 very different people in crappy situations that team up together they stand beside each other no matter what even if it is in an odd situation and crazy ways br br i'll tell you now its not for everyone out of everyone i've shown it to i'd say the results are 50 50 but if you like it you'll love it and want to share it with others 10 stars all the way
1	ok so by minute 15 in the film there's still no dialogue br br this film arrived to me in a padded sack from down under with encrypted info on the front i am a programmer from a north american fest and mod love was sent thru to me by our chief as a potential starter having at the far away moscow vary interface br br straight away i thought this film is not for us no dialogue by minute 15 but kept watching anyway well well well it built and built and built and half way in i was involved in this film because like when you go to the zoo at first you're reticent but by the time you get to the dangerous snakes bit you're totally 'there' br br this film has a not at all like the much hyped wolf creek but because it is so totally 'other' in every way shape and form and seems to weave a web made up of all the fantasies of most independent first time ie gloomy weather red neck intrigue odd splicing eerie music and a plot which though imperfect and basic has a bit in common with one of the 'great aussie movies' ie the cars that ate paris by but modern love is actually not really a very aussie movie in the sense of ocker and playful self deprecation that pervades many of that country's films it works on a more nightmarish realm from the start no cell phones no brand names no i pods no gritty urban middle class angst just a dude married to a good looker an old volvo and a little boy son who has weird teeth and chucks stuff around oh and it's set in weird sea side village where people all look slightly 'wrong ' photographed by nick matthews 2 37 and music by tom ten canoes mod luv succeeds where many movies fail ie it stands up without regard to the god forsaken country that it comes out of instead it revels in a warped but entertaining riddle which the film itself cannot solve and herein lies the weak link what on earth does this film have to do with modern love the final minutes of the film seem to give an answer or at least hints at one and as i sat and drank a coffee and ate my hershey's afterwards all that i could surmise was that this film's helmer alex will prob have a lot of fun with this one
1	i like movies about quirky people one flew over the cuckoo's nest is maybe my all time favorite so one can imagine i had a blast with this one it's definitely not one to watch if you want to walk off smiling this movie is unpredictable and intense some scenes are downright frightening even after multiple viewings because this kind of stuff really can happen it will most definitely keep you on the edge of your seat for the whole ride and after you see the ending if you're not deeply disturbed you really should check yourself for a pulse br br the acting was phenomenal marcy with her rather extreme case of tourette's shifts from quirky cute to utterly terrifying sometimes appearing so out of control that she looks like the undead seth was great too the focus of the movie definitely does not fall nearly as much on him as it does on marcy though he happens to be the one that gains the most momentum as a blossoming character br br it's a classic love story with some unconventional twists and it's also my favorite love story next to true romance there are two bad reviews for it up here but one of the people who gave such a review didn't have his facts straight and admitted to not seeing the whole film while the other was just looking for some hollywood thrills without the deep characters and perhaps was a little thrown off by the apparent shallowness of the plot seeing as the end goal revolves around stealing a black bobbi head from a toy store the point is that this movie is not for those who want to see something normal or lighthearted this one is messed up and indie as can be and won't let you go until the heavy climax
1	this movie is truly worth seeing robin tunney excels and henry thomas proves that he's one of those rarities the child 'actor' who grows up to become a real actor the characters are perfectly drawn and in the wrong hands because of their depth they could have been unconvincing but all the actors are simply astounding the cast of this movie has to rank up there with that of girl interrupted both movies coincidentally star the brilliant clea duvall the score and music selections fit perfectly and there is plenty of action to prevent the movie becoming just a character study if you want the story you won't find it in this review but i will say that the climax will haunt you for a long time
1	not only is this a very interesting exploration of tourette's and how we react to people in our lives it has some of the most well filmed views of a bleak northern winter landscape there's nothing pretty about this film but it stays with the viewer
1	wow i caught this on ifc recently after i watched but im a cheerleader id never heard of this movie but the description sounded remotely interesting i went in with low expectations and now i must say this is one of the best love stories ever in film robin tunney does an excellent job portraying a person with the relationship between the two and just the slightest details in the film are so and believable i usually hate romance and love films but this movie truly touched me i so recommend this movie to anyone with the ability of vision
1	niagara niagara is a stunning and heartbreaking story about the two outsiders seth and marcy robin tunney gives a fantastic performance as marcy suffering from tourette's getting sicker and sicker as the movie progresses this movie is not very optimistic and it's very hard emotional but at the same time very romantic it's hard to explain but see it and find out for yourself it's definitely worth it
1	henry thomas and robin are a couple of the most underrated performers in the business it's beyond me as to why they haven't received more recognition than they have this movie is a perfect example of how boundless their abilities are br br acting out the lives of folks who could be referred to as a bit odd seems to be their speciality and if these characters ain't odd i'm at a loss to find anyone who is br br the story is funny romantic dramatic complicated and tragic i hated the ending but if i hadn't i wouldn't have loved the story as a whole so there ya go
1	there are many things to admire about this film but the thing that got me above all others was the part of an eccentric recluse the sort of role that hollywood loves but which here is absolutely convincing unlike any character i've in film or in life also a very convincing disturbing depiction of syndrome
1	i watched this movie in 75 and this movie was a kind of open mind to me about how important is to care the and the wild life when i got a dog in 83 i called him in movie dog to never forget this movie br br by the way i have a copy this movie but is in portuguese language and the quality is not so good like a dvd or a new vhs i recorded almost 20 years ago and in speedy so the quality is not so good br br if somebody wish a copy i'll try convert to dvd and i can send for you ok br br a great movie and i agree that is a movie to be always watched br br waldemar sao paulo brazil
1	another must have film henry brandon is a favorite i was so surprised when i learned years ago that he was from germany because he sounds looks so typically american and wasn't he great in the searchers as chief scar another of my favorites i have it watch it over again now if i could add this one to my collection it would make my day this is a great wildlife story film for all ages the scenery is so absolutely beautiful the plight of the endangered snow leopards is told with such great emotion it will spark the interest in endangered species in anyone especially children if i could i would give a copy to all of my great
1	this is one of my favourite films dating back to my childhood set in the remote wilderness of siberia at the turn of the century a small community is stirred when an extremely cold winter forces two tigers to come down from the mountains in search of food preying on farms in this atmosphere we are introduced to a hermit fur trapper who lives out in the wilds as he comes to the village to sell his annual catch to boris his close and rather only friend in the village who runs a store at boris' request accompanies his friend's arrogant son ivan on the hunt for the menacing tigers personalities crash and tempers flare as the older more experienced criticises amateur methods an encounter noticed also by the other members of the hunt on the second day the hunters sight their prey and give chase in a thick wood ivan wounds one of the tigers which then attacks the hapless man seeing ivan with the enraged beast fires but accidently hits ivan he kills the tiger as it flees the other hunters arrive on the scene suspicious br br back in the village the doctor works to save the wounded ivan attempts to leave the village but is confronted by friends the trapper brushes them off however and speeds off with his dog drawn sled the young villagers swear after him that they'll come for him if ivan dies which he later does but before dying explains to his father that it was an accident old boris upon learning of his close friend being run out of the village straightens out the gathering lynch mob and goes out after to find him and set things right and so the main story begins br br a simple film it raises the conflict of man and civilisation versus nature mainly struggle to survive alone out in the wilderness the winter landscape is very well filmed perhaps the strongest element in the film is the soundtrack by jimmie haskell very sentimental and evocative the main theme reminiscent of adagio other movements reflect russian styles as well as a couple of folk music type tunes br br unfortunately this film is not available to buy to my knowledge which is rather a shame the copy i own recorded off tv nearly twenty years ago is slowly deteriorating this film is a must see for those who can appreciate it if they can find it 8 10
1	i saw this film via one of the actors' agents and it surely conforms with a great deal that comes out of australia in terms of the overall tone which is rightly dark and moody br br i thought the little boy in the film was excellent mostly kid actors are hammed up and embarrassing but not in this case he was really very good in terms of the surrealism thingy mentioned by well i just think this film is plain ' it's a real weirdo film with weirdo locations storyline weird stuff going on the whole time but 'good' weird as opposed to 'bad' br br its hard to think of other movies like it but its not at all like cars ate paris maybe more like a repulsion but actually i think more like a hammer movie from the 60's its certainly has an interesting mind working behind it br br my question is also about the title why modern love anyone also what did you mean by god forsaken when you were talking about australia hmmm just curious
1	i managed to obtain an original bbc broadcast of this film on video and loved it so much i had to try and locate the original video in its original box thanks go to ebay br br deleted on any format since 1990 this exceptional wildlife film is finely constructed and well acted directed by stewart mac me the scenes of leaping tigers running through the alaskan wilderness is nothing short of stunning and its timeless tale of a trapper trying to survive on his own in the frozen wastes with two young tiger cubs is moving on each viewing br br why no major company has picked up this movie to distribute on dvd is a big wonder but makes it that extra special to know its also hard to locate br br if you find this film by chance or eventually track it down to add to your collection make sure never to let it vanish out of your grasp films of this calibre as shown don't come often br br a true masterpiece in every sense of the word and highly worthy of its praised comments when the north wind blows will sink deep into your heart as soon as you see it
1	i collect films on super 8 and managed to snag a full length print of this one last week on e bay it looks like at least for the moment this is the only way to see this film in a country having ntsc video i have seen it available on region 2 dvd many times but never region 1 br br i just finished watching it a few minutes ago and i am amazed by it it's a powerful testament to freedom and finding your own place in the world the photography and music were wonderful and i really felt empathy for some of the characters br br i kind of like the idea that i was probably the only one in the usa watching when the north wind blows tonight br br long live
1	i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in 74 75 my dad took me my brother sister to cinema in england i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is 20 miles away would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it
1	this film is one of the best memories i have from childhood having always loved tigers my mum took me to see it br br it is absolutely amazing its is one of those films that leaves a lasting impression on you the image of tigers running through the snow with it all spraying around is still in my head some 25 yrs on not many films have managed that as other comments have said photography is stunning a must see i have also been looking for the film for some time with no luck at all checking amazon every now and then reveals nothing not even listed if anyone does know of a source please contact me or post here tim
1	i saw this movie alone when i was an early teen in my hometown in india at a time when the only thing that fascinated me aside from girls were tigers i came home after watching it with a glazed look in my eye wanting to be that bloke in the movie that befriended the tigers what a movie and what a moment that was the theatre i saw it in does not exist any and has given way to a shopping mall i don't know how i'd feel about it now after so many years and do not want to spoil a childhood memory by finding this movie available on dvd or something similar and not finding it interesting anymore i have learned from previous experience that a childhood memory is often tarnished when one travels life's jaded highways occasionally trying to rediscover their unadulterated past by way of movies only to find its gushing innocence completely soppy and not welcome anymore and i do not want to throw away the experiences of a memory of this movie into the wind i do not have kids so i probably am being selfish in leaving this movie in a sepia toned area of my brain not wanting it on dvd but if you are at a precocious age and want to recollect in later years memories of an endearing childhood try to watch this film if you can ever it'll be really worth it
1	if it were possible to award a 10 this would be the one film i would choose br br i remember catching this film on tv many many years ago and fortunately being prepared enough to video it now my video copy is getting old video technology is outdated and i'm starting to worry that i may not be able to enjoy the delights of this movie for much longer br br as a wildlife film it is superb as a film about the relationship between man and nature it surpasses anything screened before or since how can the film industry allow such a classic to go unnoticed and forgotten if such a thing as a lobby pressure group exists to push for the re release of this film count me in and send me the details pronto br br my guess is there's a mint to be made by anyone able to re release this in today's market
1	the feeling of the need to have someone play the role of arbiter of public taste and political correctness always manages to get under our skin it does seem that these self appointed self superior pseudo intellectual types do appear everywhere be it in one's family church or bowling league br br these are the guys who would have society completely disregard and ignore all that went before us unless of course whatever 'it' is does not fly in the face of today's acceptable language mores and general standards of proper behavior br br so it is that these latter day high tech book burners have targeted a great deal of what was hollywood's greatest achievement namely their participation in our own allied propaganda via their unselfishly crafted message and theme films br br coldly brutal in its generation the banned code and list of now unacceptable extends into the wartime cartoons that don't meet with the new touchy feely socially engineered 'official' attitudes which these thought police have foisted down upon us br br we were truly surprised to see that there seem to be volumes of such animated short subjects the majority we are aware of are from warner brothers' looney tunes and merrie melodies featuring bugs daffy elmer porky all in conflict with hitler tojo and the like surprisingly though we found an ample supply of cartoons from mgm walt disney paramount famous studios and the brothers fleischer br br you're a sap mr jap famous studios paramount pictures 1942 is a prime example of just what we're talking about br br being virtually indiscernible from the cartoons that were the output of the studios of max and dave fleischer before the 1941 business coup de tat that moved them out bringing the new name of famous studios you're a sap mr jap bore none of the bland plot elements that would reduce the latter day popeye cartoons down to the level of the ultimate formula short movie br br we all remember how we'd have popeye and olive oyl together enter bluto usually the exponent of wolf whistle and an on acceptable on screen version of a male reaction to feminine olive falls for bluto's less than honorable attentions until he gets a little too physical and invariably blurts out hey babe how 'bout a kiss at this point we hear help help popeye and the diminutive sailor shows up to save the day replete with the obligatory can of spinach do we exaggerate schultz once again this jap sap cartoon is nothing like any of that oh sure it follows the storyline of now having popeye in the u s navy the brothers fleischer put the little guy in the service in 1941 to conform to the mood in the country and as an open gesture of support for the men now being conscripted in the first peacetime draft in united states history max and dave even put popeye in service aboard the mythical battleship the u s s br br our point is just this you're a sap mr jap and others like spinach fer britain aren't cartoon vehicles for comic relief in the theatre's program at all in the true sense rather they are a sort of grouping of editorial cartoons much like those from any great metropolitan newspaper these animated shorts much like those still one panel illustrations have characters that are highly symbolic and representative of nations ideas and ideals such as a just and lasting peace in most cases the hero popeye bugs bunny or whoever is alone with the symbol of the enemy both are highly exaggerated visual metaphors for abstract concept and thought even if they are cloaked in humorous trappings for wider br br our liberal the antithesis of may not see themselves this way but for this sort of behavior they are no more than neo nazi book burners br br please allow the future generations to view and appreciate a view of past happenings that is both historical and humorous br br poodle schnitz
1	if you are very sensitive when it comes to extreme racial stereotypes this cartoon is not for you but if you are strongly interested in seeing a rare piece of wartime animation come on in br br in this cartoon popeye is patrolling the seas and discovers what looks like a japanese fishing boat the two japanese fishermen trick popeye into thinking that they want a peace treaty signed but looks can be deceiving the fishing boat turns out to be a japanese navy ship what follows is considered today to be morale boosting propaganda br br be forewarned the representations of the japanese in the film are done in a mean spirited fashion keep in mind though that there was a war going on at the time but i strongly recommend this cartoon to those who are interested in the wwii era
1	this world war ii popeye cartoon had some very good sight gags in it and its decidedly above average for its genre it was nicely drawn too with some great angles good detail and well lots of interesting sights br br what it amounts to is popeye out at sea in his little boat and accidentally running into a small japanese boat with two guys on it incidentally why were the japs always pictured with big round glasses and bucked teeth br br anyway these harmless looking japanese sailors want popeye to sign a peace treaty oh boy thinks the gullible popeye wait until the admiral sees this in one of those great artwork scenes i was alluding to above we slowly see how that little japanese ship is really a big destroyer and popeye is in deep um water why you double crossing ja pansies yells our sailor man br br how he gets out of the situation is fun to watch
1	this short was the first short released by paramount famous studios and was one of several done by the studio showing popeye engaged directly against the enemy most often the japanese while warner brothers disney and to a lesser extent other studios did shorts often depicting germans as foils the majority of famous studios efforts focused on the japanese given pearl harbor and popeye's naval ties this is quite understandable this is an average short red white an' blue and spinach for britain have aged better but it's still worth watching recommended
1	i agree with some of your comments but i have to disagree on a couple of things first this film is nothing like the cars that ate paris not imho nothing like it br br i think the film had elements of surrealism but i think the basic approach of the film maker is not surrealist per se therefore its not really like cars paris i think more like a weird euro work with some scenes bearing the hallmark of wierd not surreal br br secondly i think the music by is brilliant they used whistling that old sound from country and western records and its better than most aussie films which usually team the film maker up with a dumb sounding indy band that the company wants to push br br as for the name of the film i don't know why it's called modern love i was kinda hoping for david bowie to appear dressed in drag and lipstick opps i'm starting to show my age
1	i loved the great lighting and was warmed by this story of american working class society and life in the first half of the 20th century i was drawn in by the timeless watchability of this realistic performance see and feel the star power melancholic greek comedy anybody in the mood for a shot with a beer back or a little ginger hey waterboy
1	viewed this great classic film of greta garbo and thought her performance was excellent however the german film version which had english captions was her greatest performance greta garbo even mentioned to the press that the german film was her favorite where she had to make the change from silent films to sound greta had a high pitched voice and had to take lessons in order to lower her voice for her future roles in films this story was very sad because greta garbo anna christie ninotchka '39 was abused on a farm by young boys and her father left her years ago as a sailor and then as a coal barge captain there were many scenes of old nyc the brooklyn bridge coney island and the sky line of manhattan charles bickford matt burke days of wine roses '62 a classic veteran actor gave a great supporting role
1	anna christie 1930 released 2 21 1930 viewed 3 10 06 br br on october 24 1929 black thursday the stock market crashes now the country and indeed the world will look to hollywood for escape from the worldwide great depression br br births anne frank june carter bob newhart barbara walters doris roberts ed asner dick clark roy e disney gene hackman br br doug at long last our odyssey resumes in earnest with greta garbo's first sound film a simple character study called anna christie an excellent performance from ms garbo who showed right off the bat that her talents could carry over from the silent era i wanted to see some of her silent work but netflix doesn't seem to be stocking them how odd one thing i noticed over and over was the way the swedish accent sounds like replacing the letter j with a y sound anna ends up being the only character i liked i didn't really care for her estranged father or her would be suitor it looks like the sound recording systems are getting better nobody leaning in to talk into the mystery can but the camera still isn't moving we'll be sure to watch for that to change as our odyssey continues br br kevin our first film of the 1930's is the first sound film of silent starlet greta garbo anna christie this is a very simple movie with only about five different locations where we spend long stretches of the film's 89 minute running time often with a static camera it was great to see marie dressler in sound as well and quite hilarious as what we hear is an endless chain of heartfelt yet inebriated slurs i very much enjoyed garbo's performance as she sustains the film through even the most meandering moments i didn't really like george marion or charles bickford maybe because i wasn't sympathetic to either of them so i was relieved and excited when anna finally stands up for herself and shows them that she doesn't belong to either her estranged father or her muscle bound irish boyfriend it's also great to see that renowned silent screenwriter frances marion hasn't missed a step going from silent to sound br br last film viewed speedy 1928 last film chronologically the love parade 1929 next film the blue angel 1930
1	the magnificent greta garbo is in top form in this her first talkie she gets fine support from the rest of the cast which includes charles bickford the rugged sailor who captures her heart ms garbo gives a great performance as she usually does as the estranged daughter of a sea captain who returns after fifteen years also in the cast is that great actress marie dressler a great movie
1	was garbo's 14th film and the first in which her husky swedish voice was heard she plays the lead character anna who has struggled with being abandoned by her father chris a drunken barge owner played by george f marion and with the misfortune of the life she has has to lead to keep her head above water br br meeting irish matt charles bickford may mark the turning point for her or does it garbo looks and sounds great in this drama which although looking rather clunky and moving at a slow pace still manages to interest and engage an audience nearly 80 years later marie dressler makes an impact in the role which gave her a second flush of movie success in films such as min and bill dinner at eight and emma while marion and bickford are more than adequate br br an interesting slice of movie history garbo would do better talkies in the years following but will always be remembered for the first time she talked on screen
1	viewing both of these films concurrently is not a bad idea to get a sense of early film production and acting for the camera styles i give the nod to garbo but not by much in regard to her naturalness robeson is majestic but his performance is aimed for a large proscenium theater something else that struck me was the movies themes of empowerment for women and minorities there hadn't been any films coming out of hollywood yet that allowed the voices of marginal characters like anna and brutus to take the foreground these were very progressive films for their time it's quite probable that o'neill saw the writing on the wall way before everyone else did about the future of america
1	greta garbo stars in a very early 1930 mgm the first time talks' is a powerful movie but not for everyone the movie is filmed like a stage play short on sets and cinematography long on dialogue and dramatic characterizations eugene o'neil who wrote the play is known for his dark work and garbo's character anna christie is a bleak figure with a tortured past br br the sound quality on the dvd was mediocre not helping matters is that george f marion who plays anna's estranged dad chris is verbally hard to understand marion gives a good performance as the old drunken seamen who’s teetering on insanity with his fixation of the evil 'devil sea' but his dialogue is written with a very heavy swedish accent this is true to original play marie dressler's dialogue as marthy owens is equally hard to understand dressler believably portrays a broken down old drunken women a her dialogue also is true to original play as is charles bickford as the irish seamen matt burke who pursues anna in a troubled relationship garbo is actually the easiest to understand br br the films strong point is greta garbo she delivers a gut wrenching performance as the victim of neglect and abuse leading to a life of prostitution garbo was a huge star at the time and considered one of the most beautiful women in hollywood here her look isn't glamorous it's tortured her body posture nearly doubles over in agony she her face to become a pathetic creature on the screen garbo conveys these angst ridden feelings to the viewer to convince us of her misery br br this is dark subject matter and garbo brings it to life it’s not light fare not fun not for everyone is strong emotions dredged up from the depths for examination this is one helluva ride
1	anna christie 1930 br br anna christie has some terrific parts and some amazing performances and yet it should be even better than it is it has drama some of the scenes are really atmospheric and if the interior shots around the table are a bore other shots at night and at sea are really pretty exciting then there are the nearly historical lively scenes set in coney island even a brief jittery roller coaster ride and the episode where two women are behind a netting in separate beds and visitors to the midway can throw balls to try to tip them over and the women scantily dressed egg the men on is weirdly sexual come on kind of way all the while garbo at the front of the crowd watches br br garbo of course is what makes this movie more than just another very good early talkie she plays all sides of her character she is coy and skeptical and in some kind of inner anguish she laughs and cries withdraws and pushes outward in some ways it's a forward looking remarkable movie directed by clarence brown who has a whole series of significant films from this pre code sound era br br though based on a successful eugene o'neil play it's the writing that struggles a little as the actors seem to go through the paces at times marie dressler is great in that exaggerated way she almost trademarked and then there is greta garbo who really does have a natural presence even if it seems she's overacting just slightly at times but then so is everyone else garbo is of course famous first as a silent actress and this is her talking film debut audiences loved her enough that she made a german language version the following year
1	this film is worthwhile despite what you may hear the performance of marie dressler i hope i am spelling it right as a drunken old sot is reason enough to see this film it is an amazing performance she is in a drunken stupor in three scenes for a good long while and she never does the same thing twice you can actually smell the alcohol when she is done amazing and greta of course speaks her first lines on film and shes great the eugene o'neill story is solid and like most o'neill stories very deep and intense this is not light entertainment but if you appreciate those great character actors from the 30's and 40's you will like it some of the film is technically fuzzy but all in all worthwhile
1	and with those words one of the great movie publicity campaigns came to a conclusion talks' and she spoke those words in her first sound film an adaption of the eugene o'neil play anna christie br br unlike with some other players and some other studios mgm took great care in finding the proper vehicle for greta garbo many players who were fine in the universal medium of silent film would lose their careers because of talkies their heavy native accents would get in the way some didn't know any english br br it was no accident that anna christie was chosen for garbo first of all it being authored by one of america's leading playwrights it was the kind of literary property that would have appealed to her secondly since the title role was someone who was swedish the accent could be explained finally a lot of the kinks from early talkies had been worked out even though anna christie still made use of title cards br br like most of work it's short on action but long and deep on characterization the story takes place on the new york waterfront where garbo as anna has come to live with her father george marion marion ran away to sea years ago when anna was a baby and marion abandoned his wife anna has had to do what she could to survive in the adult world and that includes prostitution br br marion of course is glad to see her he even kicks out marie dressler the old waterfront crone he's been living with for years to make room for his flesh and blood of course both marion and garbo have their problems adjusting to each other not made easy when they give shelter to a sailor played by charles bickford who takes a fancy to garbo br br marion is repeating his role from the original broadway production the role of anna on stage was done by pauline lord anna christie ran for 177 performances in the 1921 22 season on broadway it's one of best known works and one that's revived frequently br br of course garbo's performance with perfect diction even with a swedish accent was acclaimed and her future in sound films was assured greta garbo received an oscar nomination for best actress and the film also got nominations for clarence brown as best director and william daniels for cinematography daniels should especially get a lot of kudos for the way he photographed the waterfront scenes and brown created the mood around the waterfront where the film is set br br eugene work is timeless so anna christie even with a lot of the trappings of early sound films does not date the way many films of that era do garbo also shows she mastered the subtlety needed to work in the sound medium anna christie is a classic all the way around
1	i saw this at the festival friday amid an unsettled crowd of people not helped by a poor decision by the of the event who chose a totally inappropriate short film to precede the movie and it really threw the audience when modern love came up after a light whimsical short name i forget br br people it was really silly to mix this short with modern love which is a serious drama movie a film film br br so the audience gets the teaser which is a comedy and then modern love hmmmm modern love despite my reservations strange ending a little too tangential needed a short film that was commensurate with it's oddball strangeness so my advice to the programmers for next year is to take more care planning the show br br the folks watching modern love really just didn't know what had hit them they were led up the path and this is not their fault br br modern love has some superb performances which play well against the tangential meanderings of the film a film that its maker seems to have out loud' rather than executed in the normal way a film is scripted and shot br br too bad the audience was wrong session placement wrong short film wrong approach by the well intentioned programmers who despite good efforts need to see a lot more films and travel to some other festivals
1	i'd read all the negative reviews for anna christie you know the gripes about the static camera out dated acting and wordiness of the screenplay but when i viewed it yesterday i found it remarkably affecting and enjoyable yep clarence brown's camera remains stationary for the most part and i'm pretty sure one of the microphones was concealed in the ship's light yep there's a lot of dialogue and no spectacular action sequences it's an early talkie with primitive technical aspects but then there's garbo marie dressler george f marion and charles bickford all proving that great acting is timeless br br i believe anna christie is still one of garbo's most iconic performances and it's a wonderful performance from the divine one in a role that is really quite atypical for her yes we've seen garbo weary and almost beaten yet never with bags under her eyes or her knocking back shots of whiskey garbo played so many delightful costume roles that to see her play a contemporary woman is fascinating she's not weighed down by heavy dresses or make up this performance seems quite raw from garbo br br the plot from the o'neill play follows weary swedish ex prostitute anna and her reunion with her boozy seaman father anna's had enough trouble for any girl of twenty as she tells drunken slovenly marthy dressler in a bar she finds solace in a life at sea and romance with a rough hewn but good hearted fisherman charles bickford but her past threatens to ruin it all br br charles bickford is overlooked in garbo's long line of largely inferior leading men he's one actor who can actually share the screen with her and not get swallowed up by her magical presence the pair have great chemistry together and seemed to enjoy working with one another dressler can never be accused of underplaying and once again the grand dame is up to her old tricks but she's terrific and convincing in her role never annoying as in the dreadful dinner at eight i've never really heard of george f marion before but he was wonderful as garbo's father br br this is pre code and rather gritty and dark by mgm's standards i really enjoyed it and while it may creak in some places it's still wonderful
1	for greta garbo's first talking picture mgm wisely chose eugene o'neill's prize winning 1921 play anna christie br br also wisely the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast george marion as anna's father chris and james t mack as johnny the priest transmuted to johnny the harp for films so as not to offend br br this little change is interesting like too many films accused by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins of being little more than filmed stage plays the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn't be more faithful to the property by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn't offend anyone or opening it up because they could too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place br br fortunately the respect the studio had for both o'neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion's generally sensitive screen adaptation wonder of wonders marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo's anna reveals her past on the farm to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact what the league of decency must have thought of that br br the source play's greatest problem has always been that chris's friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don't always recognize br br the perfectly cast marie dressler who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood is the perfect balance for garbo's anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only 90 minutes doesn't allow us too much time to miss her one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o'neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie second act appearance in show boat br br anna and early scene together on screen 16 minutes into the film taking each other's measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece not to be missed br br anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama it's hard to imagine that a latter day remake which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this 1930 remake it was first filmed without sound in 1923 also with george marion's original broadway chris could improve on this excellent filming br br the internal scenes hew closest to the play but the exteriors shouldn't be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set especially in the new york harbor br br nearly all garbo's naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly only the too often parodied death scene from camille 7 years later will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies but this anna christie together with the variety of her 1932 films mata hari and grand hotel and the sublime lubitsch touch on her 1939 comedy ninotchka garbo laughs surely stand as her best br br o'neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded sea plays should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s entered the conflict the long voyage home 1940 it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way
1	78 years ago the premiere of anna christie advertised by the slogan garbo talks the film runs for 16 minutes and the viewers reach the climax of curiosity greta enters the bar and gets through a long awaited transfer from silence into sound a few seconds closing her silent era and at last greta garbo says a historic line gimme a whiskey ginger ale on the side and don't be stingy baby br br anna christie 1930 is the movie by clarence brown that introduced a great silent star greta garbo to talkies nowadays we can only imagine what serious transfer it was for actors and actresses the careers of many were bound to end something we hardly or not at all see at present and it was no coincidence that it was clarence brown who directed the first talkie with the swedish beauty garbo trusted the director after two of his great silent productions flesh and the devil 1926 and a woman of affairs 1928 movies that achieved a smashing success at the box office both with garbo in the lead br br but we are in 2008 and that fact about the movie now purely historical appears to be of minor importance the question for today's viewer is not what garbo's voice sounds like but if the movie is still watchable after these 78 years in other words we all strive to answer the question if the movie has stood a test of time has it br br when i recently watched it i came into conclusion that except for some minor technical aspects including static camera anna christie is still very entertaining it's on the one hand a wonderful story of a life of a reality that the young woman faces being based on eugene o neill's play and on the other hand an artistic manifestation of true magnificence in the field of direction and acting let me analyze these two aspects in separate paragraphs br br content chris christopherson george f marion a heavy drinker lives a life of a sailor on a barge although his days are filled with sorrows he is consoled by a letter from his daughter anna garbo whom he hasn't seen for 15 years she says that she will come back to him he starts to change everything for better however forgets that his daughter is no longer a child lacking experience but a 23 year old woman who has got through various sorts of things on a farm in where she lived and worked moreover he forgets that she has a right to accept another kind of male love in her life this brief presentation of the content not from the perspective of the main character but the one which is introduced to us sooner than anna her father chris makes you realize how universal it is simply no letter from the whole text that life appears to be has been erased after all these years cases discussed here in 1930 are still meaningful and valid br br performances there are not many characters in the movie but there are two that really shine in the roles it is of course greta garbo herself who did something extraordinary in her 15 year long phenomenon the presence that strongly marked the history of early cinema something i have already discussed in many of my earlier comments on her films but here garbo is slightly different i admit that there are moments in this movie when she does not feel very comfortable with her role that seems to be caused by her new experience with sound in english however her performance is as always genuine and unique but that is what everyone has expected from garbo the true surprise of the movie for the 1930 viewers and also for us is marie dressler as marthy she is excellent in her facial expressions in her accent in the entire portrayal of a drinking woman who looks at life from the perspective of hitting the bottle her best moments include the conversation with anna christie in the bar preceded by her hilarious talk with chris the rest of the supporting cast are fine yet not great whatsoever here the german version makes up for it particularly dressler except for garbo herself constitutes an absolutely flawless choice br br if you asked me what i like about anna christie nowadays that's what i would tell you it's a classic movie however there is one more thing that i must mention at the end it is humor wonderful wit that is noticeable throughout although the content is quite serious and anna christie in no way carries a comedian spirit the only garbo's comedy was ninotchka there are such moments when you will split your sides don't skip for instance anna and matt's visit in the fun park particularly at the restaurant where he orders milk for her thinking how virtuous and innocent she is beer for himself and where suddenly marthy joins them by chance br br anna christie is a perfect movie for classic buffs and a must see for all at least a bit interested in the true magnificence of performance if you are fed up with many of those modern starlets seek such movies out and you shall be satisfied very worth your search br br skaal greta garbo skaal marie dressler let us drink a toast to the great jobs you did in the movie skaal after all these years when wine tastes much better and your spirits are with us in a different sense
1	garbo's first spoken words in this 1930 film electrified audiences and became part of hollywood legend garbo had become a star in her first american film the torrent in 1926 and audiences waited til this film to see if garbo could make the transition to talkies she did and while vilma and renee adoree fell by the wayside because of their accents garbo sailed on for another decade despite the staginess of this film garbo is really excellent especially in the opening scene with the equally great marie dressler as marthy the two great stars trade dirty looks and sharp words as they size each other up while they have a few drinks and set the tone for the remainder of the film garbo was 25 dressler was 60 charles bickford is ok as matt and george f marion is good as old chris marion originated this role on broadway in 1922 and also played it in the 1923 silent version with blanche sweet this eugene o'neill play is a true classic yet oddly was never filmed again anna christie ranks as one of garbo's greatest performances and despite the staginess of the film and the grimness of the story she is truly a marvel see this one for garbo and dressler
1	this is an amazingly well filmed early talkie adaptation of the eugene o'neill play its major drawback is a static camera and as a result it comes off much of the time as the filmed play it is which is a pity for it's a good piece of primitive moviemaking made at a time when sound was posing all kinds of technical problems and as a result most films were experimental whether or not this was their maker's intention garbo is as mysterious and charismatic as she was in her silent films and her entrance is still classic her voice is strangely deep almost boyish which only enhances her already seductively eccentric persona as her boyfriend charles bickford is appropriately virile he was apparently born craggy and a perfect counterpart to the divine garbo his irish brogue is not bad at all and he seems always a natural man of the sea very o'neill like in his independent brooding nature as garbo's very confused father george marion seems truly from another time he has the sort of face and voice open unmannered totally without guile that has vanished from the earth marie dressler is also in the o'neill swing of things her blank expression and intensity around the eyes speaks volumes as she plays her boozy character as a woman at times bordering on psychosis poetic license perhaps as this is not in the script but we can forgive miss dressler's excesses she is too good at it not to the story ends with a movement to the next thing as distinct from resolution which isn't the author's cup of tea and those who like their films neatly worked out in the end will be disappointed by the absence of any real surprise in anna christie we are in o'neill country a place of sea storms and fog a feeling of all pervading and uncertainty which we would now call or anxiety neurosis rather than analyze this mood the author simply and wisely presents it as weather land ocean and people intertwine and address one another in a unique language we feel to have heard
1	i would say that this film is disturbing the brutality is depicted in a very sick way it's like a psychosis in 40 minutes in the same time it is a cruel introspection in human behavior the scenes are ferocious starting with the butchery of the horse and ending with the brutal sex scene in the kitchen every emotion is exploited to extreme the frustration of the butcher the love for his daughter almost incestuous the rage when he finds out she has been abused every feeling is so natural and so wrong this film delivers the truth about human nature in a very honest and brutal way the message of the film is that one's life can change in a second as a consequence of one's behavior and that the most primitive emotions are the most powerful and can determine one's acting i'd loved the unique manner of filming the simplicity and the brutality accompanied with the silence in which only inner thoughts pierce through
1	the short film which got gaspar noe on the movie map introducing us to his horrific but thoroughly interesting character the butcher played brilliantly by phillipe noe's direction here has all the hallmarks of his later films showing he was carving his own voice and style from the beginning his sudden cutting along with harsh loud noise skipping flashbacks and many other techniques all are used to disconcert the viewer and it certainly works also he is not afraid of showing violence as viewers of irreversible will know here the violence is equally powerful and in the sequel seul contre tous it is almost unbearable br br the film opens with a horse being killed it is shot in the head and we watch it writhe on the floor its pool of blood flowing out we then see a human birth in all its bloody glory the daughter of the butcher he was orphaned in wwii and has grown up hating the world and everyone and everything in it he serves his customers but his interior monologue constantly reminds us of his thoughts he wants them all dead his daughter lenoir who would also reprise her role six years later is the only thing he cares about and we watch them grow older together she is however mute and the subject of bullying and toying the butcher's relationship with her is almost incestuous bathing her when she is old enough to do it herself etc but this is explored more in the next film when she is attacked by a man the butcher explodes with rage stabbing an innocent man in the mouth he goes to prison taken from the only things he wants his shop and daughter in the short 40 minutes we see all this and more his time in prison and release back to his world because of his daughter's state autistic as well i think she is bland does little except stare and is under the full control of her father the film continues in the exceptionally bleak seul contre tous if you can watch these two films this one first it has some truly excellent acting but is very difficult to watch because of the relentless tone br br 7 out of 10
1	this is the forty minute film that introduces us to the character of the butcher who will later be examined more thoroughly in the feature seul contre tous in this film it follows the early period of his life from 1965 1979 but focusing on the late seventies the first images are of a slaughter of a horse then the birth of a baby the butcher's daughter who we quickly see growing up each year the butcher played by philippe in both films is a man bitter with the world he hates many things his anger comes to a head when a man assaults his autistic daughter the butcher then maims the wrong man and finds himself in prison br br this film follows the butcher's life to just after his release from prison then seul contre tous takes over from there i watched the films the wrong way about seul contre tous first try and watch this little film first if you can
1	this was my first gaspar noe movie i've watched and i have to say i was shocked i don't mind gore in generally but this isn't even gore it's real butchering for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you can't stop and take a minute to think about it the actors did their job well representing general masks of a few people found at the bottom of a diseased society the movie is full of metaphors but i'll let you figure them out don't watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema
1	this short film certainly pulls no punches the story is of a butcher who wrongfully kills an innocent man who he believes has sexually molested his retarded daughter the film goes onto depict how the butcher serves his time and returns to life with his daughter in care and having to come to terms with a life with no future br br the graphic opening scenes of a horse being slaughtered and the full frontal birth of the butchers daughter puts you a brutal frame of mind that stays with you throughout the film br br the snappy flow of the film is very direct and adds to its brutality consequently alot of ground is covered in the 40 minutes you are taken in fully with the butchers non life particularly after he loses his daughter to social services and his business his story continues in the excellent film seul contre tous
1	i saw this film at the 3rd adelaide international film festival at the palace cinemas and was totally switched onto it in the opening five minutes thanks goodness for a film that ignores all the rubbish we often see in australian films that seem to revolve around a race b gender and c class in favour of er dare i say jolly good cinema the producer a shy slightly eccentric chap called alex introduced his film made with a bunch of his mates near the town he spent much of his childhood apparently he's spent much of the last year traveling the world with the film mostly in europe the world the film creates is both brilliant and arty not least because of strange and disconcerting editing style the gothic characters and the surreal sense of time and place that draws viewers into its nightmarish realm br br the producer returned for the q a after wards someone asked him what his inspiration was he replied south australia hear hear another asked him what a in the life of alex' entailed he replied that he drives an old ute that he has breakfast at the same table at the same restaurant that he's jolly well eaten at for the past 8 years and that he plays piano which helps him to think he doesn't drink booze and plays cricket once a week then the q and a session ended abruptly because of the next film screening so my thoughts are that for the next festival they need to extend the after film sessions
1	perhaps this movie is a little too long but it still has some charm 45 years later the main roles seem more appropriate for clark gable and vivien leigh i could care less about gary cooper but ingrid bergman is fine particularly in dark hair the movie is worth seeing for the supporting cast flora robson is terrific as a servant she is a white woman in blackface and can have an expression of evil or of a voodoo mistress jerry austin as a servant dwarf has a delightful role that keeps you chuckling despite some overlong scenes speaking of scenes florence bates steals most of the ones she is in as a dowager social lady i didn't understand the outcome of the railroad fight at the end of the movie and the last scene was pure hollywood dreck it's an odd feeling when you realize the film title refers to a railroad rather than a piece of luggage
1	i first saw this movie when i was in elementary school back in the 1960s i was fascinated with the character played by ingrid bergman and it was my introduction to the french quarter of new orleans the first part of the movie is the best as she comes back to exact some revenge on her father's wife and daughter her mother had been driven out in disgrace during this time she meets the wonderful clint played by gary cooper the chemistry between the two is great the second half of the movie takes place in saratoga ny the saratoga of the title and i never enjoy it as much as the new orleans setting but it's still very good i give this movie a ten partly out of nostalgia but mostly because it's just a darn good movie and the characters besides those of bergman and cooper are equally wonderful flora robson comes close to stealing the scenes from bergman it used to be shown on tv periodically but it's shown rarely if ever it would be a good one for one of the classic movie stations to pick up and put into their programming cycles
1	i would rate this film high on my list of ingrid bergman films ingrid's beauty aside her talent is evident in scene after scene she was sad mean witty br br snobbish flirtatious delightfully funny loving tender sorrowful distressed happy etc you name it she was all those things and more and so br br convincing ingrid plays a notorious woman clio who comes back to new br br orleans and falls for a texas gambler gary cooper clint i especially loved the scene where they are sitting at the dining table saying nothing just staring at each other she in an elegant white gown and he in a handsome white cowboy br br outfit sitting there looking at her adoringly what chemistry what love
1	i grew up in new york city and every afternoon abc would show the 4 30 movie saratoga trunk was one of the first movies i remember watching as a kid i loved this movie and it has stayed with me for years i recently watched it again and still thought it was great maybe i am just a romantic but i thought it was well done i do not want to say this movie was good only because of the main actors i really did not know who they were when i first saw this movie i guess i just knew quality acting as a child both bergman and cooper were excellent i especially loved seeing old new orleans during the time period of this movie if you ever get a chance to visit new orleans you should watch movies that show the city during that time period when you get to see some of the old homes in the french quarter not just bourbon street or uptown you can truly imagine life as it was 100 years ago br br i love old movies this one to me is a good flick
1	i have to admit i am prejudiced about my vote on this film but i have strong reasons as i know some of the true history that was given the hollywood treatment here edna ferber's novel upon which this is based is from an era where real names can't be used in a way this film is all smoke mirrors even though it was released in 1946 it was filmed shortly after casablanca ingrid bergman is at her most radiant in this movie as a brunette br br she plays a beautiful woman who is trying to trade on her beauty to get a rich husband today that is a gold digger but in this social era she is desirable the kind of woman who makes all the men want her all the old snooty society types talk of her avoid her while wishing they were her ingrid is at her best plays this role well br br some sympathy for character is raised in the new orleans section of this film as she manages to get a decent belated tomb for her mother as part of the settlement by her relatives to get her to leave new orleans the snooty family of relatives there are so by her that they will do almost anything she asks to get her to leave town br br gary cooper is good in this film though he already appears to be aging a bit to play a dashing texan bachelor gambler he pulls it off well considering that handicap which he appeared older than he was due to his real life chain smoking flora as ingrid's maid got nominated for an oscar as supporting actress in this film jerry austin as was over looked in many ways for his role but is the only comic relief in the film does it well br br when the film moves to saratoga it depicts accurately how important saratoga was in that era i like the sequence when bergman walks to the spring to get some of the sulfur water which everyone considered so healthy then when she drinks some she forces herself not to make a face and comments how good it is that she must have more br br the real history is the railroad battle which really occurred on the rail line in tunnel new york which is the actual saratoga trunk the film title is derived from this battle actually happened in between agents for andrew j p morgan the line was the economic key to the country in connecting coal country the east coast the references to it are throughout the film are very real there is even some dialog describing as a scot though the reference is vague unfamiliar to anyone not knowing the history around the battle br br the railroad line the railroad tunnel in tunnel new york zip code still exist although the film was shot in california the real tunnel is about 1 mile long it is still part of a key freight line today years after this occurred i grew up there gary cooper's line in the film while he is riding the train into the tunnel is right it is still mighty pretty country
1	i gave this movie a 10 simply out of my sick obsession with ingrid bergman lol i really think she was the best actress to ever grace this earth with her talent and all of her movies are absolutely wonderful even when they are awful because she is in them if it hadn't been her and vivien leigh as it had originally been desired i hear i would have given it a 9 0 simply because i love viv but probably not as much as i love ingrid and any other actress would have made it maybe a 6 it's a good story two wild people falling in love in a society where it bad to be bad reminds me a little of gwtw except laced with a more highbrow attitude gary cooper is very handsome as usual and of course his voice never changes the entire film but hey ingrid makes him seem so amazing and dashing and 20 times hotter than he probably should be
1	saratoga trunk is a 1945 film starring ingrid bergman and gary cooper it's based on a 1941 book by the great edna subconsciously she may have had gone with the wind on the brain parts of the story reminded me of gwtw br br set in the 1890s clio is an illegitimate child who returns from new orleans from france with a servant flora robson and a dwarf servant jerry austin she has given herself a countess title and claims to be a widow her mother killed her father by accident and his family shunned her clio takes over the old homestead with the idea of embarrassing her half sister and the wife of her father which she does by calling great attention to herself her plan is to marry someone very wealthy who can give her the security and respectability she craves then she spots clint cooper a texas gambler and falls for him the two have a volatile relationship and he doesn't have any money so she can't marry him so he leaves for saratoga springs eventually the family has enough and their attorney gives her 10 000 to get out of town she does she goes to saratoga springs and goes after the owner of the railroad bart von steed but clint is always around br br bergman is beautiful in dark hair and wearing the period costumes and cooper is drop dead gorgeous with that incredible 300 watt smile of his how she could resist him is beyond me and the love scenes whoa what chemistry the supporting cast is excellent robson and creating interesting characters and florence bates giving an excellent performance as a socially prominent woman who takes clio under her wing knowing she's a big fake br br the film runs a little long and some of the acting may seem old fashioned today but it's an absorbing story filled with atmosphere and vivid performances the ending won't come as any surprise it's a fun journey though
1	a fantastic movie and very overlooked gary has never been more handsome and ingrid is more beautiful than in any other film if you don't believe just watch the movie every cast member is wonderful the love scenes between gary and ingrid will make your pulse race the story is great the script is oscar caliber don't miss this film
1	ingrid bergman cleo has never been so beautiful gary cooper as so perfectly cast as a laconic texan who knows this gal is up to no good when the two lock eyes at the french market we know this match will be full of sparks when they stroll in her garden in her restored french quarter house and the love theme plays it is a dream for all us romantics br br the costumes are lovely the set decoration makes you wish the quarter was just that way and that saratoga still had that hotel with the wide veranda with all the old gossiping br br from edna novel the story is of revenge for old wrongs and the fights over who would run the railroads in the early days of that industry br br in the saratoga scenes florence bates as a grand dame steals every scene br br but it is the scene of cleo taking on the little lawyer her new orleans relatives have sent to buy her off that is a magic movie moment after cleo has bested him in the negotiations he looks at her with longing and says may i say you are very beautiful and cleo with a happy wicked smile says yes isn't it lucky you want to shout yes br br one of my all time favorite romantic films
1	this film is pretty good it actually is like a good wine it gets better the more you watch it the pace is pretty slow for such a high octane topic but the cinematography is beautiful and surreal there is a cool blue tint that rides the whole film there is also one great performance in gabriel performance of the character midget he is terrific why doesn't this guy work more if the film got better support he probably would have
1	received this dvd from the accent range which is a label which specializes in art house flics they released irreversible and a range of bergman's opus br br the thing that struck me about alex strangely titled film modern love is that it is an impeccable film that breathes with perfection and vision a film that takes us into the mind of mr joe average replete with voices in the head visions and madness it's set in rural redneck australia the film doesn't trivialise or praise the folks like so many australian movies ie our films are full of loveable rogues or people with hearts of gold etc etc etc br br not in this film the spirit of stanley kubrick looms large here it's not flawless but has a mesmerising attention to details a romantic streak and a mood that is bracing if not embraceable br br minor quibbles the transfer looks faulty front credits were sliced they don't fit in frame br br also one of the short films is corrupted it stops half way
1	i thought nick look at the gritty streets of new jersey where car are at an all time high was both thought provoking and entertaining this is just as good as movies like boyz n the hood or menace ii society or above the rim i thought the actors and the scenarios were suitable it had a gritty realistic feel to it and was very atmospheric whether on purpose or by raw coincidence i liked this movie a lot an underrated gem i found on tv and glad i caught it go watch this movie if you get a shot if they don't have a dvd they should release one well done nick gomez imdb rating 5 9 my rating 9 10
1	wow i love this movie this is definitely added to my list of ghetto movies br br juice starring tupac 'i don't f ' menace ii society o dawg 'i'll smoke anybody i just don't f ' new jersey drive hey they steal cars in broad daylight they obviously don't f br br new jersey drive is the best hood movie ever it is at the top of the list menace ii society is second and juice is third clockers is really stupid br br the soundtrack for new jersey drive is too mac mall young lay all about my is heard through out the movie br br lords of the underground burn rubber another good song and so is ill al scratch don't shut down on a player br br if your a fan of gta sa you'll freaking love this movie and the amazing soundtrack the soundtrack is basically rap about stealing cars movie
1	i lived in that area hoboken and jersey city for about ten years this film certainly captures the feel of that time and place the dialogue is very good the music is right and scenarios realistic as another poster said it looks almost like a documentary br br i like the way it humanizes these kids who probably would have rather have been born in westchester but fall into what kids fall into it just so happens that area is pretty rough br br they over the cops quite a bit but that's to be expected i'd say the acting is good all around too br br it gives the viewer some sense of how this idiocy is caused and gets blown out of proportion hopefully the new mayor of newark is making progress
1	this movie brings to mind boys 'n the hood menace to society south central and others of its ilk and even shares actors with some of them the film's us vs the law mentality is underscored by the all black neighborhood vs the nearly all white police force here the cops are so bad they seem like caricatures and in one scene they even ambush the boys as they drive by in a car they've just liberated from its owner it's like a bushwhacking from an old western but the contemporary setting makes it look all too real br br the story centers on young jason petty and his buddies to whom school is just an inconvenience that takes time away from their real occupation of boosting cars this happens to be newark n j a rust belt city low on jobs but notoriously high on crime in fact the problem is so severe that the cops all have car theft written on their backs to show that an entire unit must be devoted to this particular crime br br the boys use a slim jim to gleefully break into cars and go joy riding as if it's no big deal they only run into real trouble when the police ambush them the vicious nazi like lt has a vendetta against the boys seeing them not as human beings who might be worthy of redemption but as human targets in fact he's a little reminiscent of that sadistic nazi officer of the warsaw ghetto who shot down jews for pleasure in the film schindler's list when the boys steal a police car in retribution for the ambush things predictably go downhill fast they are severely beaten by the cops and jason finally ends up in prison clearly these are bad boys who'd steal your car in a minute but the film wants us to see them as anti heroes showing jason protecting his sister and his friend taking care of his own grandmother the film left us wondering whose side to take and who to feel sadder for the boys whose lives are going down the drain the honest citizens whose cars are being stolen left and right and who could be caught in the crossfire of a shootout at any moment or the city of newark itself the spirit of whose law is being betrayed by brutal soul dead cops br br in spite of the over the top portrayal of the latter the film offers a realistic looking rendering of the ghetto of the protagonists and their families and of the culture of car theft in a city where there appears to be only 2 career paths law enforcement and crime strangely the entire subject of drugs is never mentioned br br the filmmakers including producer spike lee are obviously biased against the newark police who we hope are not as bad they are portrayed here nevertheless they've given us yet another a strong affecting story about the inner city and black youth gone awry and sharron corley is fine as jason
1	this is a very realistic movie it's the most realistic i've seen on urban youth the actors were great i will look out for more films by gomez i had never heard of the film until someone mentioned it recently i bought it on dvd i was impressed i haven't seen anything come close to life as i know it in philadelphia this comes real close in fact one scene where there is an accident i won't spoil and give details reminded me of a nearly identical situation in philadelphia at first i thought gomez took the scene from that real life event but then i realized that he made the film a few years before that situation i also agree with the point that this film didn't try to broaden its appeal by putting in hollywood crap gomez also directed laws of gravity i am eager to see it
1	being from eastern pa right on the border of northern new jersey i still get a feeling like this was a documentary more so than a movie i have friends from new york and new jersey and this film represents the kind of lifestyle that still exists today in lower income outside of the big city lifestyle if you have not seen this movie and ever wondered what really goes on in the urban jungle check this movie out no really big name actors its as if they just pulled these guys off the street and said act which adds to the realism of the movie the performances are fantastic none the less see this film
1	i just wanted to inform anyone who may be interested that the the movie new jersey drive was my personal favorite off alltime i admire the work nick gomez and spike lee put into this masterpiece of a movie this movie made quite an impression on me because of its realness and its appreciation of detail of life in urban new jersey it struck a chord with me personally because i grew up with friends like those depicted in the movie it further made an impression with me because i used to spend time in several years ago so some of the characters were kept real at times this movie seemed like a documentary because you didn't know whether or not these were real events taking place although movies like boys in the hood and menace ii society grab more attention i personally feel these movies were somewhat enhanced to appeal to a broader audience new jersey drive was an uncompromising piece of in your face reality lee and gomez covered every detail in this urban drama from the music clothing slang and location unlike some of the movies i mentioned earlier the actors performed as if they weren't actors nothing was compromised in order to make good theater the only misfortune to come from this movie was the fact that many people slept on it i look forward to more works of art from nick and spike in the hopefully near future
1	i am not one to like those anime cartoons eg pokemon dragonball z naruto but bell is different in my opinion bell is more exciting has better characters and doesn't focus so much on a sort of weapon or as much as the episodes i've seen such as it the episodes big brother vs bell really focuses on the life of the strange the smart the clueless suzy and the weird bell is probably my fav cartoon for now but i encourage others to watch 1 episode of it you'll most likely will like it br br robbie h aka
1	this anime recounts the tale of the battle for king every 1 000 years 100 children are sent to earth to fight to determine who will be their next king in the original japanese the creatures are which literally means magic evil object each is paired with a human partner and given a magic the human can use this book to unleash incredible powers in the and when a is defeated their is engulfed in flames alternately a book can be captured and burned directly after that the returns to the world br br the titular character is gash in japan a 6 year old with electric powers he is paired with and 14 year old genius is initially reluctant to fight but learning that some are evil and deciding the battle for king is wrong he decided to fight to become a 'kind king' br br bell has drawn comparison to pokemon but a better comparison is to digimon like digimon the and human have a one to one symbiotic relationship also unlike pokemon both shows have an actual plot br br bell features character growth and evolving relationships and some fairly adult story lines like love vs racism slavery mind control etc it even has some decent plot twists and mysteries
1	take a young liberal idealist christopher boyce timothy hutton put in a top secret classification in a government front company because of his father's position team him up with a drug dealer lee sean penn who is wanted by the police and needs a new source of income and you have a recipe for espionage sean penn played the part of the punk drug dealer with a certain sang froid probably out of particular verisimilitude with such raunchy types the gall penn carries with him in every situation is unique he even suggests the soviets run drugs for him br br i've seen the movie over and over again and each time i see something new it seems to me that a major problem with us spy organizations is its inbreeding which leads to the hiring of an obviously unsuitable candidate by reason of temperament and inclination for a government front company br br i do recall when the escaped from prison and led the authorities on a wild goose chase i see that despite the escape he is now released a pity the soviets are no longer around to accept the wretch a cheery
1	uk born australian helmer alex calls for attention with his strange necessitating a meticulous read visually stunning modern love 2006 following the steps of a man incapable of controlling a drastic personality change spurred by the death of a close relative pic offers a fascinating examination of human psychology distributed by accent film australia br br john mark constable his wife emily victoria hill and their son edward william arrive in a small southern town to take care of his deceased uncle's don barker property while emily and edward check into a local hotel john begins to question the locals about uncle tom's death some say that he committed suicide some are unwilling to talk puzzled john comes up with a theory of his own uncle tom is alive and well hiding in the nearby bushes br br if not for the occasional lines of dialog used to ease its heavy atmospheric tone modern love could have been easily mistaken for a sokurov film shot with a 16mm camera its washed out color scheme is strangely evocative of the russian director's reflective forays into human agony perhaps it isn't a coincidence that it was at the moscow international film festival where modern love had its premiere br br looking under the surface of this unique collage of intoxicating visuals however reveals a slightly different picture while sokurov's films tend to remain painfully intimate to a point where they intentionally detach the main protagonists from the surrounding environment by blurring everything into a large splash of the director's preferred yellow modern love very much feeds off the australian countryside john's gradual psychological transformation is dependent on it and the more the story progresses the more it becomes obvious that nature was an integral part of vision br br in sokurov's the second circle a young man returns to the russian countryside to bury his deceased father in the shack where the old man once lived everything is covered with dust he gathers the few old clothes scattered around and places the body of his father in a coffin then he bids goodbye and buries it the rest of the film is a prolonged reflection on the collapse of the soviet system the loneliness and dissatisfaction many were left dealing with br br in modern love somewhat ironically love is nowhere to be seen on the contrary it is pain loneliness and dissatisfaction with modernity that suddenly invade john's life unlike the second circle however here the main protagonist has the opportunity to re embrace his modern life his wife and son await him yet he walks away slowly but surely the present begins to disintegrate under the weight of a somewhat confusing past br br i doubt intended for modern love to be so strikingly similar to what sokurov did in the second circle yet the pacing and in particular the puzzling framing are precisely what transforms this film into a near meditative experience a difficult and enormously brittle approach to deconstructing human psychology the two directors have mastered to perfection br br mark constable delivers a top notch performance as john adding even greater depth to his highly challenging character his facial expressions are outstanding both victoria hill and william match perfectly with their performances tense visual style
1	the falcon and the snowman is based on a true story christopher boyce and andrew lee the titular traitors played by timothy hutton and sean penn received their code names from the kgb why boyce was an avid and lee was a coke head the movie is based on a true story it's based on the book of the same name another reviewer asked what was their motivation disillusionment it ain't ideology it ain't pardon my bad grammar but i'm making a point here what was it if it wasn't disillusionment or ideology in a word greed by the time of the boyce lee case money became the great motivator and not ideology don't believe me then look at the walker family spy ring which was broken in the late '80s three spies did the worst damage to our national security in the '70s and '80s john walker who began his career as a spy in the '60s christopher boyce and andrew lee all three sold out this country for thirty pieces of silver if you aren't familiar with that phrase i suggest you read the bible
1	sings david in this movie but it is it's all about america so don't be ashamed to watch it just think if you can to prevent more damage you know you're just the same regular guy next door so be careful one of the best critics of common mind and friendship still don't care go for it for the music it's worth a try just close your eyes and pat and david bowie will touch you so deep you'll start to scream and while watching if you'll dare to open your eyes please don't do the popcorn stuff you're gonna miss quite a lot you may think that it's not worth but think twice and don't look at your neighbours lawn you never know what to find there is it worth try it just don't die or over it
1	true stories make the best stories don't they there's always something enjoyable about a story be it novel or movie or whatever simply by the fact that it's real makes the story all the more fascinating this movie is based on a true story of two young american men one a government employee and falcon boyce timothy hutton —and the lee sean penn a drug dealer these two begin selling government mostly cia secrets in 1975 to the soviet union br br the film focuses on the human aspect of the two men as well as their growing personal problems especially penn's character with ever drug addictions rather than glorifying their status as traitors to america which would no doubt hurt the film's credibility in the us boyce gradually becomes more cautious and eventually frustrated and paranoid as their dealings drag on and they dig ever deeper into treacherous territory becomes more dependent and addicted to cocaine and heroin as he becomes more frightened and more desperate to maintain control over a situation he has no control top of which he already has problems with the law the torment of boyce and families because of the way they lead their lives is also well portrayed and adds well to the idea that espionage against one's country even if thought to be done justly leads only to major problems and the ruination of the degradation of the friendship and trust between the two main characters br br here's the breakdown br br the good br br hutton and penn each did extensive research on the characters to capture their individual look and feel so they're portrayed with extensive depth and realism br br the acting is excellent br br the atmosphere of paranoia builds quite well br br the story is fascinating and of course as one based on actual events it has some added kick br br nice sets br br the soviets working with the boyce and are portrayed very well and not stereotyped or given evil just for the sake of making them look bad br br didn't hurt it didn't help br br the music is alright nothing perfect though br br sound effects are occasionally a little was the case with a lot of films from the seventies through the eighties br br the bad br br chris boyce timothy hutton has a relationship with a woman that we hardly know because of trouble brewing with the us and soviet governments her life can be put in this isn't as expanded upon as it feels it should've been minor problem though br br the ugly br br the apparent simplicity required to sell government secrets is a little unnerving nothing like a constant state of to keep the masses feeling as unsafe as possible br br memorable scene br br seeing the first cia report accidentally sent to the wrong place with the reason being rough night br br this was another film that suffered massive delays due to the controversial content of the story studios and producers didn't see how a movie about two american traitors could ever be accepted by american audiences luckily it's filmed and portrayed with a high degree of class and quality of course it helps that the traitorous anti heroes aren't portrayed like a couple young men who've made gross errors in judgment in their lives as such it becomes a very human drama and one portrayed very well and very believably br br acting 9 10 story 10 10 atmosphere 8 10 cinematography 8 10 character development 9 10 special effects make up 8 10 little quantity high quality nudity sexuality 2 10 one scene in a strip club violence gore 7 10 no gore just some violence music 7 10 direction 9 10 br br cheesiness 0 10 crappiness 0 10 br br overall 8 10 br br if you like films about espionage and spies then you can't go wrong here if you like dramatic films with a strong focus on the humanity of the characters then this may also work for you highly recommended br br www residenthazard com
1	this movie is very good in term of acting and plot the events and the setting i e how chris gets the job chris's work environment the face to face between the two sides etc thereof on the other hand are found to be less than realistic
1	i am not a fan of sean penn but in contrast to my german colleague whose review appears here i think he was perfectly cast as the neurotic druggy character in this film he has every nuance perfected and reminded me of several acquaintances who had similar tastes in recreational chemistry i saw this film but once 10 15 years ago and this is the only part of the film that was etched indelibly on my mind i don't say it very often but in this case i will bravo sean penn as for the story line well it's based on fact and as such it is a tragedy that people would sell their country's secrets to the then enemy again penn has shown what you can do if you disagree with the administration use the freedoms you have paid for in blood don't break the law
1	my father has worked with top secret information in the dia before and he is the one who mentioned this movie to me when i was a kid i would always ask him what would happen if he gave away secrets and he recommended this movie br br in the movie it really puts 2 almost completely different friends in a tangle they never really knew what the outcome would really be the snowman really cracked me up because the movie portrayed him as just some drug pusher that did not know what he was arguing about and in the movie it seemed like he got the worst of everything the falcon chris is just a guy that wanted to express his feelings on u s government in a very radical view br br for movie lovers this is a must see
1	christopher boyce oscar winner timothy hutton gives up on being a priest and he's returning home for an uncertain future when his best friend lee oscar winner sean penn is a drug dealer who's always gets in trouble and enjoys taking drugs a bit too much when christopher gets a job by working in a top secret government place titled boyce and lee both have wealthy families which they hoped to make it out of their own when boyce decides to take secret documents out of curiosity which these documents are supposed to be destroyed he decides to sell these secret documents for a cheap price for the soviet union with the help of his best friend but both of them never knew how far they will go for sealing documents for a living and since they are both amateurs both of them have betrayed their country for top secret information br br directed by the late oscar winner john schlesinger the believers eye for an eye midnight cowboy made an interesting character drama about two young men taking the wrong path in life oscar winners hutton and penn are both extraordinary good in the film the movie is even occasionally funny and quite disturbing at times david suchet nearly steals the show as the man who works for the soviet union this picture has a familiar cast in the supporting roles it was quite underrated when it was first released despite some great reviews by some of the top film critics this picture is actually based on a true story there's some flaws in the storytelling like these two leads characters but overall it's a movie worth seeing based on a novel by robert lindsey screenplay by oscar winner steven american gangster hannibal schindler's list
1	this moving was intriguing and absorbing however the story was a little choppy and hard to follow at times although the two principal actors did a great job just seeing penn acting with every fiber of his being and stealing every frame made this a very memorable movie later movies have revealed him to be a not just one role actor he also showed comedic flair in sweet and lowdown surprisingly talented and not the light weight i used to think he was
1	the falcon and the snowman is the story of two young men a cia employee and a drug dealer who become disenchanted with united states foreign policy and sell state secrets to the soviet union the events of the film are based on a true story br br timothy hutton and sean penn are convincing in the lead parts and develop interesting characterizations the supporting cast also performs well notably with a performance from david suchet of hercule poirot fame as a seasoned soviet agent br br the film is generally effective at setting out its premise and developing it and giving a sense of two boys caught in something they did not properly understand going in however it does seem overlong and cumbersome at points in the middle the ending however is tense stunning and effective there are some catchy rock songs included in the soundtrack but also unfortunately a repeated mellow synthesizer track that doesn't fit with a spy story there are other spy films more worth seeking out than the falcon and the snowman but it is a decent film none the less
1	director john schlesinger's tense and frantic film tells the true story of christopher boyce and andrew lee two young men who sold united states government secrets to the soviet union in the early 1970's br br timothy hutton plays christopher boyce very competently he is a young man very disillusioned by the cia's underhanded activities in allied australia sean penn as the doped up drug running andrew lee is outstanding br br the competent and professional direction of schlesinger along with some very good acting make the falcon and the snowman an espionage thriller not to be missed br br tuesday february 4 1992 video
1	ok a warning for anyone out there who is a parent or guardian be careful about who you see this film with ie do not take kids to see this film i'll explain why br br 1 the title is misleading and the film has nothing to do with romance i assume this was fully intentional on the producers behalf but is annoying 2 the film itself is really very very disturbing i have some problems first is the fact that the film is neither violent or sexual and therefore is not a 'horror film' but it is a very disturbing film and involves a child and his parents and a small town br br ok it boils down to this the film is not suitable for minors because it contains sequences and images that are unsettling and would be confusing to a child is has a bizarre quality to it and its only because it has a child in it that makes me feel its unsuitable as a parent myself i feel strongly enough to want to tell people because i read only the other day that it is having a release in theatres br br i hope im not offending the film makers by saying this but i think its my right because its getting a release and has an m rating only because its not violent or sexual just weird and unsettling but pretty good in and of itself
1	the belief in the big other as an invisible power structure which exists in the real is the most succinct definition of paranoia – slavoj zizek br br this is a review of marathon man and the falcon and the snowman two films by director john schlesinger br br though hitchcock and lang brought the conspiracy thriller to hollywood the genre only blossomed in the late 60s and 70s with films like the parallax view z marathon man capricorn one the manchurian candidate three days of the condor and all the president's men this was the age of vietnam and watergate the public deeply suspicious of all political leaders br br the genre remained quiet in the 80s and early 90s until the x files tv series sprung to life with taglines such as the truth is out there and trust no one the series posited a world of vast conspiracies and government plots the common man at the mercy of all manners of ridiculously elaborate schemes the only way out of the maze fight the future as the tagline of the series' final season proclaimed it was apparently our duty to through the labyrinth of information discovering some elusive truth that ensured our own freedom br br this trend ended with the boom of the internet conspiracy thrillers now giving way to conspiracy documentaries the internet generation lapped up such independent documentaries as loose change and zeitgeist whilst in the mainstream michael moore titillated his audience with stuff like fahrenheit 9 11 all these documentaries believed in a secret order a cabal of wealthy politicians and businessmen who conspire to reduce human rights and enslave the world they struggle to create a mono myth linking various conspiracies and hidden agendas into a single all encompassing narrative that explains the purpose and point and future of everything br br this need to streamline narratives to make them more efficient is reflected in the scientific community who battle to create a grand unification theory and ultimately a theory of everything merging everything from quantum mechanics to special relativity into one giant all encompassing formula br br so ultimately the conspiracy thriller is rooted in man's desire to have control the modern subject is one who displays outright cynicism towards official institutions yet at the same time believes in the existence of conspiracies an unseen other pulling the strings this apparently contradictory coupling of cynicism and belief is strictly related to the demise of the big other its disappearance causes us to construct an other of the other conspiracy in order to escape the unbearable freedom its loss causes conversely there is no need to take the big other seriously if we believe in an other of the other we're therefore allowed to display cynicism and belief in equal measures br br man thus seeks to assert control over a wayward universe to create a kind of paternal babysitter be it god a mathematical formula a conspiracy theory an explanation for violence conspiracies murder war etc who provides meaning and symbolic order the big other provides to the believer it's a lifestyle choice akin to religion in which his place in the world is dependent on sheer irrationality br br the problem with most conspiracy thrillers from the innocent days of hitchcock's all the way up to modern fare like the da vinci code are two fold firstly they are not incorrect in suggesting that something is wrong amongst the elite or best people but they are incorrect in and processes that are social collective and an approach which implies that it is just a question of personal morality rather than social structures secondly and most importantly these conspiracies ignore the fact that the big other simply doesn't exist there is no symbolic order pulling the strings br br some modern conspiracy thrillers eyes wide shut etc acknowledge this with their webs of lies accidents truths and half truths nothing ever adding up nothing ever making sense the real and the the truth and the desire all blurred without any identifiable ground zero but these are mostly films by intellectual directors br br compared to these modern conspiracy thrillers marathon man and the falcon and the snowman are positively archaic marathon man is a about a grad student dustin hoffman who gets embroiled in his big brother's business roy scheider which unfortunately has to do with spies guns double agents diamonds and evil nazi dentists scheider is suave hoffman is excellent and schlesinger hits us with some neat visuals the reveal of the eiffel tower is stunning but what's most interesting about the film is the way that its various plot lines don't intersect until the 1 hour mark even then it takes a further half hour for things to start making sense unfortunately the film ends with a clichéd showdown between the villain and the good guy everything neatly resolved and explained br br the falcon and the snowman is a bit more ambitious sean penn and timothy hutton play two friends who sell government secrets to the soviet union hutton works at a civil defence contractor and smuggles information out of his office and into the hands of penn a small time drug dealer who has no qualms selling to the kgb penn does this strictly for the money whilst hutton is disillusioned with the american government particularly its attempt to depose the leader of australia and so sells the secrets strictly because he hates how his country conducts crimes and games of espionage in other words the film is about a conspiracy undertaken as a response to conspiracies br br marathon man – 7 9 10 br br the falcon and the snowman – 8 10 br br aside from an oddly slapstick car crash and its clichéd ending marathon man is an effective thriller with several neat scenes the falcon and the snowman is even better penn turning in a memorable performance
1	this movie is one of my all time favorites i think that sean penn did a great job acting it is one of the few true stories that made it to film that i really like it is in my top 10 films of all time i watch it over and over and never get tired of it great movie
1	based on the true story about christopher boyce hutton and lee penn and their involvement in selling american secret government documents to the soviets during the 1970s boyce works for the government and his job is to guard these particular documents which ultimately him about his country's affairs and practices he then enlists his drug dealer friend lee who has become a wanted man to be the courier for these sensitive documents lee infiltrates the russian embassy in mexico and makes contact with alex suchet and they both begin to play the espionage game br br lee's interest is purely about money whilst boyce is acting out of anger towards the system he is involved in alex believes lee to be the inside man in the american government things start to become array when lee's drug addiction and reckless behaviour in handling the courier position offsets both alex and boyce lee becomes more paranoid and the initial espionage game becomes more deadly and consequential for everyone involved br br this is a true spy thriller without the cheesy action the character motives and analysis of real life subjects is sympathetic but very well written and the film cleverly interweaves the real life events with underlying political themes about human predatory behaviour where a bigger nation uses their political power to control the smaller nations well directed and intense in parts especially where the protagonists become immensely in over their heads in the spy game timothy hutton and sean penn give amazingly riveting performances in a film that questions authority and yet there is no simple answer to the political message or the complexity of that system the plight of the protagonists becomes the underlying message within 'the falcon and the and makes it a clever political thriller with a poignant element about society human relationships and the american system great film br br 1 2 out of
1	the falcon the snowman offers some of the best acting from its two leads hutton in a brilliantly understated role calmly portrays the confusion and angst of a man who seemingly turns traitor for no other reason than as rebellion against his father penn as the co conspirator basically just along for the ride and drug money explosively turns in one of the strongest performances of his multi talented career
1	in the movie the falcon and the snowman when they were showing christopher boyce around the complex the satellite in the background was the actual satellite that is now in space allowed interior shots also allowed both interior and exterior shots for one of the original star trek tv series the episode is the one where spock goes blind when a string of satellite lights are activated to kill the aliens christopher escaped jail and was featured on america's most wanted he was drinking in a bar when the show aired he said hey that's me needless to say he was captured and transfered to a maximum security jail
1	this movie is based on the true story of christopher boyce and his friend lee this fascinating story takes place around the time of the dismissal in which during his time as a clerk for christopher was privy to classified correspondence which admitted the cia's involvement in australian political and union circles the movie shows several scenes involving gough transmitted over us tv where events take place which confirm the classified documents that christopher had read previously the removal of gough was an organized cia coup elsewhere in the film it was mentioned that most people have no idea about the level of deception that goes on ultimately to ensure that the us is used as a vehicle to promote certain policies at the behest of everyone else in the current age nothing has changed br br christopher's life was profoundly affected read shocked by his knowledge of what and how the cia shapes foreign including the of allied nations to the united states christopher reacted probably not in the best way at the time by selling top secret information to the soviet union with lee acting as his exchange eventually christopher and were captured and convicted of treason br br on 23rd may 1982 whilst serving time in us prison christopher boyce agreed to a one and only interview with ray martin of 60 minutes australia because it was the australian connection that profoundly affected him it caused a in the australian media for about a week then it went hushed br br i liked the movie's symbolism of the falcon and in it chris was called the falcon and the snowman drug connection but in reality the title falcon was not something that was used by chris br br christopher boyce criminal or man of conscience you decide br br resources http www com boyce html
1	the falcon and the snowman is a superb example of an anti 80s film while many other films of the decade in general lacked substance this film is pure substance there's nothing stylish or fake or superfluous about it it boasts two superb performances timothy hutton and sean penn as lifelong friends christopher boyce and lee respectively hutton penn and tom cruise were a of early 80s actors who all looked headed to much bigger and better things all 3 starred in taps while penn and cruise's popularity soared hutton has been largely forgotten about and that's a shame actually hutton is the first of the 3 to win an oscar for supporting role in ordinary people in 1980 but i think his performance in this movie is even more outstanding br br hutton really captures the post vietnam war rebelliousness in his character chris boyce a failed seminary school student chris has a love hate relationship with his father well played by the great character actor pat hingle the scene where chris quotes the poem his father thought he'd long forgotten is a particularly powerful one br br chris gets job at dept of defense and uses his hatred of u s gov't and its foreign policy to sell seemingly useless plans of old projects to the soviets he gets his buddy a hyper drug dealing self server in on it to be the courier of the project plans on microfilm while chris is doing it based on his beliefs is doing it strictly for the money the soviet liaison is excellently played by david suchet penn and suchet have a real quirky chemistry and it's a kind of funny set of exchanges between them but make no mistake this film is anything but that it is a serious character study about pessimism malaise paranoia and mistrust br br again the leads make this film hutton delivers a brilliantly understated performance as chris a rather smart young man who had so much potential penn as usual does a tremendous characterization as a pathetic loser who acts before he thinks and most of the time doesn't think at all the ending of this fact based film is very saddening on several levels a truly powerful character study
1	if you're interested in learning about the 'real' side of spying this movie is for you unlike 007 movies this shows how things really go down in the world of espionage timothy hutton and sean penn both give outstanding performances in this not so well known film certainly worth watching
1	the falcon and the snowman is the true story of two college age rich kids from l a who become spies for the soviet union one played by penn is already a drug smuggler up to his eyeballs in trouble the other played by hutton lands a position at an firm where his job is to man a top secret cable facility there he learns of some of the dirty tricks employed by the cia on foreigners that america doesn't like don't forget that the movie is set the early 70s the time of vietnam and watergate appalled at what he's learned the hutton character decides to betray his country and convinces his buddy to join him neither of them is long on brains it is not long before they're way in over their heads with no way out br br this is not a thriller and is rather slowly paced if this is not a problem for you then it is well worth the rental
1	a great film in its genre the direction acting most especially the casting of the film makes it even more powerful a must see
1	i caught this movie at the cinemas at the weekend as part of the kansas international film festival which as usual has provided a thoughtful and eclectic sample of world cinema br br i have been keen on australian film for a number of years so was pleased to learn that this film was included and i was certainly not disappointed br br superbly shot firmly directed it's an eerie tale of one man and his journey to the heart of darkness as it were it reminded me a tad of lynch's wild at heart it has that strange madness in it but i was glued to the movie for other reasons namely that it presents a portrait of australia which is well very believable br br i have to the land down under a number of times once in the 1980's and again about 7 years ago with my wife br br i don't wish to go to great lengths explaining my vacations but the director appears to have a grasp on much that i find so odd and eccentric about australia a country that is responsible for the extremities of say nick cave on one hand and steve irwin the 'crocodile hunter' on the other br br one whinge i would have preferred even more of the australia much more in fact but i also realise that there's only 1 and a half hours to do it all in ' br br overall though this movie is very very accomplished
1	deepa mehta's fire is groundbreaking bold and artistic a masterful social commentary on the plight of the women from conservative upper middle class indian households this is a film no one should miss shabana azmi and nandita das give stellar performances by underplaying their characters as much as possible a r music is the work of the genius and almost plays the role of another character in the film mehta uses score and together they create such amazing sound montages that effectively portray the views of the world around radha and sita whenever they look to each other for support this film is not about lesbianism as many have branded it lesbianism is just a part of the film it is unfortunate that most people tend to write the film off calling it taboo instead of giving it a chance and looking at its real meaning
1	set in the 1970s los angeles christopher boyce has just dropped out of seminary school and returned back home were his father gets him a job where he monitors intelligence documents his old friend lee is a ratty cock drug dealer and gets caught in a set up and must choose between becoming a narc or facing a long stint in prison when up on bail he jumps and heads to mexico city chris offers lee in a partnership to be his messenger to sell secret papers to the soviet union embassy in mexico city because of the disgrace he feels about the us government's control over weaker countries to their own gain but over time the two begin to clash with their motivations and find themselves in something bigger then they had originally intended br br director john schlesinger has spun out such films like the respectable midnight cowboy marathon man sunday bloody sunday and day of the locust while the falcon and the snowman might not be held up that high there's no question that this sombre espionage drama inspired by a true incident is an unjustly overlooked character portrait everything about it is quite a subdued affair with no real grandeur qualities hitting a massive mark the driving factor of the film has got to be the admirably versatile lead performances of timothy hutton and sean penn as the two ambitious young lads chris and penn is especially good with his uneasy intensity which works well off hutton's superbly cool and collected turn what starts off as easy we watch the situation gradually crumble as the two amateurs find themselves really out of their league the strongly detailed and symbolic predatory behaviour plot mainly centres on the pair's relationship and that of their for their actions which eventually shows us the developments that led to their downfall the plan opens up like a wound to never properly heal due to drug addiction which really makes him go off the rails and leaves chris to pick up all the slack the searing political aspect is there but it focus on the themes of idealism boyce and greed lee to get its point across both don't mix and results show suspense is justified through its stimulating pot boiling script and character interactions then that of any visual gimmicks action is very little but still there's a pressure induced style to schlesinger's assured and realistically dark 'n' gritty direction pacing is mostly well handled although some sequences do seem to wallow on for too long but however it grips you as it plays on its authentically paranoid tone to slowly build up to an exploding tight latter end adeptly fleshed into the technical production is an harrowing music score and professionally poignant cinematography the supporting cast are exceptionally fine with pat hingle lori singer david suchet boris jerry hardin and joyce van patten also look out for michael ironside in a tiny part as a fbi agent br br a mostly outstanding spy film that benefits largely from talented lead performances and by not playing the usual stakes it's more an emotional ride then a complex one of twists recommended
1	john career as a film director was extraordinary we had watched this film when it first came out but wanted to see it again when it showed on cable recently the film has a faded look as one watches it today but still it is interesting because of the intense performances of the two principals br br if you haven't seen it please don't read any further br br chris and were two childhood friends that came from upper middle class backgrounds chris went to enter a seminary to be a priest but gives up became a small time drug user and trafficker the two lives seem to run parallel as the pair become involved in an illegal activity that will prove their short sightedness in fact it shows how both young men miscalculate in their attempt to fool the cia and the soviet union these two in a way were so naive in thinking they could pull something that bigger and better equipped people couldn't even imagine could be done br br chris' motivation is legitimate as he feels outraged in discovering the underhanded role of the agency for which he works in dealing with other nations in this case australia something he finds by sheer coincidence when he involves we know the whole thing is doomed because no one into drugs as he is will ever amount to anything in fact chris and had no conception of the scope of what they are trying to do or its consequences br br timothy hutton was at this period of his career an actor that was going places he had proved he had talent with his work in other films so it was a natural choice for mr schlesinger to select him a choice that pays off well sean penn also was a young actor who showed an intensity like one hadn't seen before in fact at times mr penn reminded us of a young robert mitchum in the making both actors' contribution to the film is incredible one can't think who could have played this duo but them br br the falcon and the snowman while not up to the par with other great john schlesinger's movies is an interesting look to our not too distant past
1	this movie does an excellent job of taking us all the way through the dark tunnel of espionage from the inception through the ultimate reckoning the movie's impact is made even deeper with the realization that it is based on a true story timothy hutton provides us with a quality understated performance and sean penn demonstrates why he is one of america's finest living actors as with midnight express this movie should make us all think twice about doing something we shouldn't be doing in a foreign country
1	there is something about true stories that makes them so much more interesting than fiction i guess it is the fact that truth has always been stranger than fiction the falcon and the snowman tells the true story about christopher boyce and his buddy lee boyce hutton is a former alter boy and intellectual trying to find an occupation that can support and entertain him his fbi father is able to pull some strings and get his idealist son a job working in the defense department boyce has few responsibilities and seems to be complacent drinking and goofing around with his co workers however as time goes on boyce starts to learn top secret information that causes him to doubt the morality of his government the idealist boyce soon sees the illegal operations that the cia is carrying out in above all places australia boyce eventually decides that he will leak some of the top secret info he is privy to to the kgb of course mistake is the assumption that because the usa is doing bad things the ussr is the good guy over time boyce and his drug dealing buddy lee penn start to sell their top secret information to the kgb what was once idealism turns into capitalism and espionage the strength of this movie is the incredible performances by hutton and penn although one of them starts off with the best intentions they will both soon find themselves in an unending downward spiral great direction music everything not only a great film but one of my all time favorites
1	excellent drama about 2 alienated spoiled punks who go afoul of the federal government each for his own reasons one a druggie just wants to score some bucks for his next fix but the other has a far more sinister agenda fueled in part by a resentment of his father good performances and a hot script makes this a winner
1	for the 1980s this is a very dark movie at this point filmmakers were beginning to operate under the assumption that all films require smarmy comic relief which of course is taken to the extreme today flashy action scenes even more overdone today or steamy sex scenes br br hutton and penn are stupendous in their roles as childhood friends turned soviet spies penn in particular is brilliant as hapless drug dealer lee br br what you have here is a true thriller drama there is no eye candy to speak of but the story is so compelling and the acting so superb that hopefully most people wouldn't miss it there are a couple amusing scenes in particular the one where penn tries to get his soviet benefactors involved in a major deal br br well worth watching
1	late night on bbc1 was on my way to bed but curiosity piqued at a contemporary set irish film so i stayed to watch for a few minutes and then stayed to the end i have to admit that the main attraction was the only english actress kelly reilly who is stunning to look at br br this is billed as a black comedy which is one of the hardest things to pull off it should be the perfect blend of horror and horrible laughs so that in the end you don't know why you're laughing for me martin scorsese's after hours 1985 is the best example dead bodies is more black than comedy but the plot rattles along and spirals down towards further blackness i didn't spot the final twists in the tale as some other posters here did so i was suitably surprised br br as a snapshot of the irish film industry in 2003 it all seems rather worthy it doesn't look like they spent too much on the making of it so it had a chance to make its money back the script could've been a whole lot sharper but the acting was on the whole pretty good i'm glad i watched it flaws and all tho i don't think i learnt much about ireland today especially their policing methods
1	when it comes to those eerie and uncanny little crime films the sorts that revolve around characters that are bordering on scum and inhabit equally scummy surroundings and additionally carry that wavering and bleak feel thanks to some pretty grotty cinematography and some very black comedy dead bodies is the sort of film paul wishes he could make alas the maddening and sporadic gangster no 1 as well as the equally all over the shop but interesting exercise in surrealism mixed with realism effort entitled the acid house are the only ones of his we've got to go on so far dead bodies is robert quinn's piece based on a derek landy script a film that the line between psychological horror and neo noir intermingling elements of crime and terror with themes linked to morality and unnatural obsessive disorders br br british based crime efforts carry that wavy and distorted feel like witnessing somebody's nightmare and having front row seats in the process his films are able to disgust is some areas and amuse in others what with their outlandish and all over the place approach they carry a very dream like sensibility despite being grounded in a very realistic down trodden grimy looking world – the real world with as much an emphasis on the horror and the terror of the situations his characters spawn than anything else dead bodies is a film that tackles both some pretty harrowing character driven situations as well as a brief inclusion of a study of a delicate psychological mindset only here the film balances both the eccentricity of its characters the terror of the scenarios they find themselves in and the questions of morality that arise much better br br dead bodies is effective and rather simplistic without ever feeling like manipulative its suggestive and knowing tendency to want to hammer home exactly what people are thinking and feeling does not detract from the experience early on we meet tommy mcgann scott a young lad whose girlfriend jean davis dominates him his life and the screen whenever she's on for the brief time that she is the point as to the fact his situation of living in a less than desirable house with a job stacking shelves and a partner he doesn't get on with at all well is put across in a distinct manner as is the manner in which the audience are given distinct permission to dislike jean what with the bratty spoilt and expectant attitudes she so clearly possesses later on the film will linger rather obviously on a police officer's face as suspicions and tensions rise in what is clearly a cheap and easy way to tell the watching audience that our hero is not quite out of trouble just yet br br but compare this to gangster no 1 in which such is the episodic and misguided approach applies to the material that a vital vital plot point arises when a character is spotted leaving a building by someone else out on a drive' in a scene set several months after the previous one the feeling isn't as grounded nor fulfilling dead bodies' set up is dominated by kay davis' jean a would be femme fatale just itching to pick a fight of some sort but just not really being able to find one she has lead tommy jumping through rings going there doing this and that without tommy ever really reacting in the manner he could principally because he is controlled by her promises of sex the beginning builds a certain amount of tension because of tommy's underplayed reaction to what's going on and it culminates in a distinct release when the initial incident happens and jean dies br br if the set up is simple enough then that's one thing but the pinch of the project is the manner in which tommy decides to rid jean of his hands by burying her without informing anyone of her death bar a best friend things tighten when it transpires there was a second dead body in the exact same place tommy buried jean with suspicions denials and general trouble the all round ingredients of the day it is at this point the film blurs the lines between noir and horror indeed tommy inhabits rather a large ominous spooky and even gothic house which he shares with an elder relative whom inhabits the upper areas of said house this evokes memories of hitchcock's 1960 film psycho and bates' set up that he has with his mother and where she's positioned it is additionally no coincidence this would be place of horror is the setting for unfortunate demise br br the placing of a dead body right in the hands of the hapless male lead in order for it to act as the initial incident is a classic set up for any noir from 1945 film detour right up to a more recent and more contemporary compared to dead bodies 2006 film entitled big nothing what this film unfolds into is a twisted rather unpredictable and quite frightening tale of genre hybridity and mind games told under a palette of distinctly drained visuals the voice overs and the treading on the fine line that the lead does for most of the film between right and wrong aid in pushing it into a realm of the neo noir if we consider the fact that the lead is essentially innocent and his murder charges are unfair then that's one thing but his attitudes towards jean initially saw him act without thought and his covering up of her death is the anti thesis for dropping the murder charges dead bodies is taught entertaining to watch without ever feeling exploitative and provides a consistent tone for the rather nasty physical and psychological content being explored
1	i truly fell in love with the characters they were very down to earth but each and every one of them had a hidden dark side sort of a mystery david himself was an enigma the secret fears and just secrets in general that he had there was a whole side of him that the other characters knew nothing about and it left the audience either wondering or assuming there was always a part of this man that he would keep hidden away yet he'd share a little of himself too he was the strong male lead character and i admire that type of character billy moses himself is an incredible actor who could do just about any type of part he's an amazing talent and a good man his fans love respect and support him endlessly br br since this show he's gone onto many other projects and has stretched his acting ability quite a bit more and quite well kudos to him and all the other actors from this show for doing such an excellent job i wish them all well i wish the series would've continued on it's such a shame it didn't
1	i had always wanted to see this film and the first three fourths proved i hadn't waited in vain but what the hell happened in the end i mean don't get me wrong i liked the film it definitely made me nostalgic of the realistic unique nyc of the 80s that we have lost thanks to giuliani but it's missing another half hour
1	this film really used its locations well with some amazing shots dark and disturbing the film moves very slowly but constantly keeps you watching modern love worked well in the gold coast film fantastic program this year offering audiences a glimpse at an australian cinema that is usually neglected most importantly it is refreshing to see australian cinema not taking on the cliché aussie characters and story lines we have seen done to death over the years this film would compliment any festival and will open debate after its screenings the performances and characters are well developed and the cinematography is fantastic an interesting exploration into family relationships and environments
1	fame i think was the best movie that i have ever seen in ways it was funny and dramatic but that is what makes a movie true it has a few loose ends actually a lot but i still think that it is a terrific movie some of the funny things happen in the audition at the beginning of the movie i think it is hilarious when the girl tries to act out o j simpson in the towering inferno and raul ralph goes around to every art department saying that his father was great at every one he says that his dad danced with the rockets and left ralph his tap shoes the rockets as far as i know are made up of women and the tap shoes were just regular shoes with bottle caps on the bottom also the guy who read the lines of juliet in the romeo and juliet play was funny one thing about the movie that just turns me on is the music i have never heard anything like it my favorite song is i sing the body electric and my second is the theme song itself fame irene cara has a great voice and is a great actress i like the way the movie focused on many ethnic groups it showed all of the kinds of people there actually are in what is now called la school of the performing arts this movie showed the triumphs and trials of many young performers including angelo doris bruno coco montgomery ralph leroy hilary and liza they all had a hard time but made it their own way this movie could have added on about another 30 45 minutes before the graduation but it is still my favorite movie no matter what
1	great cast great acting great music each character in this movie had their own stories and personalities and it's vivid a great movie not to be missed
1	well i am a dancer so automatically i liked this film the only thing i didn't like was they didn't have much dancing as i thought there would be but i have to say the it was a good dance film i think there should be more songs too but it was a good film as i said before my rating 9 10
1	fame had been one of my favorite movies for years it is not just an 80's musical movie of that high school in nyc it is legendary people no longer refer to the high school of performing arts but the fame school br br the characters are real they are not hollywood and their stories are real the film follows them through the four years of school starting with a powerful monologue by one student at auditions and finishing with a spectacular graduation show br br apparently some find the broadway show better however it is my opinion that you should definitely see this movie anyway and then have your own view for anyone who enjoys movie watching and would like to have the classics down this is surely one of them it is an example of one of those movies that was really great with actors that we loved for those 2 hours and then never saw them again they are classic fame students br br make fame live forever
1	although at first glance this movie looks like the story of your parent's high school life and many people will try to tell you that this movie is way outdated and i admit that that was my first impression but honestly the that are learned by the heroes heroines are def not outdated who doesn't want to be famous and who doesn't want do be accepted my their peers and the homosexual guy isn't there a whole controversy today about gay marriage blah blah this movie though released in the 80's still addresses some of the biggest issues in today's world this movie does have a little too much profanity and nudity for my taste though thus the 8 10 rating
1	i expected fame to be an uplifting film but it ended up the opposite the overall plot which follows the lives of several determined students attending a performing arts school has strong potential however fame builds its characters up beautifully and then leaves us with so many questions when its over i was very surprised when the graduation scene pops up we thought the dvd had skipped or something all of the characters have internal and external conflicts of some sort and virtually none of them are resolved when the movie ends you might think there are too many characters but its probably too many scenes its evident the film was cut up and shortened because its sometimes lacks transition i think laura dean as lisa monroe is my favorite character i really connected with her character's ambition and following her heart boyd gaines as michael the stereotypical poor student who can't read but is a divine dancer is also very good i didn't especially like irene cara's character of coco but this is not cara's fault since her script is weak and her character is not fleshed out her voice is beautiful and hearing her songs warrants watching the whole film in summary the film could use many improvements but the quality actors and great music earn its place in film history
1	this movie has become an iconic stand in for what is great about america br br fame is famous for its music and performances there are several standout actors singers and dancers including irene cara paul anne meara and the superb gene anthony ray br br the plot is not the movie it follows an interesting format but it all really ends in a kind of mush br br where parker succeeds is in pushing this movie into periodic overdrive with the extremely poignant sometimes beautiful and outright campy music score performances br br the film's climax is a song dance fest of musicians dancers score by christopher gore a wonderment to behold br br an interesting note about the magnificent and superbly talented anne meara sometimes talent must reside in the genes ms meara is married to one jerry stiller and is the mother of ben stiller
1	this movie and its subsequent tv series followup has become the iconic stand in for what is great about america br br fame is famous for its music and performances there are several standouts including irene cara paul anne meara and the superb gene anthony ray the latter who plays a walk on dancer with no academic or other than street credentials is an amazing personality and is worth watching for what is essentially a portrayal of himself a wonderment to behold as one king was apt to say br br the plot follows an interesting format chronological at times genre at other times personalities in some cases but it all really ends in a kind of mush br br where parker succeeds is in pushing this movie into periodic overdrive with the extremely poignant and sometimes beautiful and outright campy music score that matches the performers step for step br br the climax of the film is a climax for all times and this climatic complete cast of many many talented musicians and dancers and music is thankfully repeated throughout the credits these are one set of credits that are well worth sitting through an achievement for the ages the music by christopher gore is a gift to behold
1	this movie tells the story of nine ambitious teens trying to follow their dream at the infamous new york high school for performing arts coco the singer bruno the modern mozart lisa leroy and hilary the struggling dancers ralph the comedian and doris and montgomery the actors while they all think they have what it takes to really reach their goals they are going to need a lot more than just their talent they will have to deal with rejection heartbreak education pain and love in order to achieve their fame br br fame is one of the most entertaining classic and inspirational movies of all time it has everything a teen drama musical should have extremely catchy entertaining oscar winning songs performed by the amazing irene cara stunning dance numbers a very attractive cast that makes you believe in the characters and a great story including the heartbreaking scene when coco meets the video camera br br like i said the cast is awesome irene cara can really act and it's not only her singing that makes her shine here as coco lee is very good as bruno barry miller brings a lot of humor to ralph maureen is great as the outcast doris and look closely and you'll see paul of er as montgomery br br this is truly an amazing film fame really touched me and inspired me to keep following my dreams as an actor and singer any movie that moves me this much is a winner in my book a must see the film really touched me and inspired me to follow my dreams as an actor and singer
1	fame was released in the u s a year before i was born i was too young to ever remember the original version of fame and yet i heard and read numerous things about it such as the fact that it spawned a tv series and that its soundtrack was led by the irene cara moroder hit br br fame was arguably the first of its kind to portray and showcase the world of performing arts in the form of a feature length film the lives the struggles the hurdles the students and some of the teachers undergo themselves were under the eye of the viewers br br the performances were great yet one which caught my eye in particular was gene anthony ray who played the troublesome yet promising leroy angry frustrated and at first rude his character later became less angry and frustrated and more committed to his studies not just with the practical in the performing but in the theoretical too irene cara was good as coco the scene with her taking her blouse off while some pervy director was filming her was rather discomforting to watch as well as paul for his amazing portrayal of a vulnerable but closeted homosexual trying to cope with life and on a performing arts school in new york after he had been kicked out of the military when he told them he was gay ralph played by barry miller was interesting but at times his character did grate on my nerves br br the choreography was excellent there were some good dance numbers involved and the 'hot scene in the cafeteria was worth watching another scene that was great was when the song was played and all the kids started rushing out into the streets of new york and danced wildly and without a care in the world it was a street jam like no other br br the only star to ever truly benefit from this in the long run was and is debbie allen she later became a producer director and star though she mostly worked behind the scenes on shows such as everybody hates chris and the fresh prince of bel air paul later went on to star alongside peter weller in the movie where he played a villain and e r as the judgemental obnoxious doctor romano br br british director alan parker shot this really well he allowed the performers to dance act sing to their hearts content without wanting to interfere with and affect their styles br br throughout the duration of the movie we see the various stages the students encounter during their 4 years from their auditions to freshman year all the way up to graduation in new york's high school for the arts br br fame is one of those movies which caters for or is aimed at a particular audience that isn't necessarily the general mainstream movie loving community it is definitely not for everyone br br i for one enjoyed it because i have an interest in the arts not technically in terms of being a performer because i am not one but as someone who appreciates that creativity and artistic expression can be through hard work commitment and passion towards what one does with their talents therefore if you are an aspiring dancer actor or just someone who is creative you might be interested in a movie such as this though whether the events in fame are anything like what it is in a performing arts college school in real life then that is a completely different matter altogether br br the 2009 remake of this movie was released recently and frankly it virtually pales by comparison br br as for the original fame almost 30 years on though yes it is a bit dated but it is still a great movie nonetheless br br it's not an outright classic but as a 80s cult classic in line with other 80s dance hit movies such as footloose and flashdance fame hits the spot isn't it a coincidence that all those dance movies begin with the letter 'f' br br gritty moving and intriguing this one is worth a watch
1	john and his wife emily accompanied by their child edward venture from the comfortable environs of suburbia to the village where the husband spent some of his childhood there has been a death in the family and john must begin proceedings to take control of an old ramshackle cottage situated by the seaside and once inhabited by an old man who has apparently committed suicide br br sceptical about the circumstances of the death john divorces himself from his family and from reality puts his own life in peril and puts on the clothes of the old man who is now dead br br the film now changes nothing is what it seems the people of his past appear in full gothic hillbilly glory his wife worries about his mental state and his son disappears into the reeds br br john finds that the old man didn't commit suicide that his death is far more mysterious and strange in a spine chilling finale we learn that the events of the film actually never happened and that the entire narrative was imagined by the little boy edward who is struggling to come to terms with his parents' divorce proceedings br br modern love is a macabre piece of high art cinema a puzzling and perverse piece of pretentiousness full of vague suggestion and unexplored red herrings it is humourless and seemingly unconcerned with current indie trends which both validates its creators but also renders it passé br br but the weaknesses of this australian film are fully outweighed by its sheer muscular cinematic vision its bloody minded and uncompromising precision and its oddball euro horror the of script norms and lack of slick dialogue pales into insignificance against a backdrop of noir and a lead performance that needs to be seen to be appreciated br br one of the most aggressively weird australian films in years
1	film follows a bunch of students in the nyc high school of the performing arts there's coco irene cara a black singer who will make it to the top despite everything she's helped by bruno lee a white musician then there's doris maureen who wants to be an actress but she's shy and scared she becomes friends with paul purportedly the only gay student in the school and is romanced by raul barry miller then there's leroy gene anthony ray who sadly died in 2003 who's homeless and a great dancer but can't read then there's various teachers albert hague anne meara stand out trying to teach the kids br br the songs are great the title tune and out here on my own were nominated for best song fame won the dances are energetic and the young cast shows plenty of ambition and talent but this film misses the boat in the drama department many plot lines are brought up and completely left open ended by the end of the movie why did coco do a porno did doris and raul remain together afterwords did either make it how about montgomery what happened to him and did leroy ever graduate and how there are too many long speeches raul has two and moments that just lead to nothing i'm assuming there were cuts in the script i can't believe the movie just left all this open br br still it's worth seeing for the acting and again the music there's basically not one bad song and the dances go full force and at one point stop traffic literally my favorites are fame out here and i sing the body electric which is a great closing song so i recommend it but can only give it a 7 the script really needed to tie up loose ends and it didn't br br trivia they wanted to shot this film at the actual school for performing arts but couldn't get permission the dean of the school read the script and said there was way too much swearing in the film that is true there is a lot of foul language but that's how high school kids talk avoid the tv version which abysmally overdubs it
1	i saw fame when it first came out it deals with the high school class of 1980 which was coincidentally my year of graduation i saw the movie in the summer between high school and college and being a performer myself it holds a special place in my heart br br the biggest criticisms of fame usually have to do with continuity and there are definitely some story lines that either are not completed or don't make sense however those problems are more than made up for by the passion and emotion of the characters and the incredible music br br i saw it again recently and was surprised that i still loved it as much as i did the first time fame is often compared to flashdance which i don't think is fair although flashdance has some great music and jennifer beals is gorgeous i think fame is vastly superior in the development of its characters and the complexity of its stories for anyone who truly loves the arts this is a must see movie
1	fame is one of the best movies i've seen about the performing arts the music and the acting are excellent the screenplay and set design are also excellent my favorite part is when all the students start dancing and making music in the canteen i can see this movie any number of times and never get bored i give it 8 1 2 on 10
1	we enjoy a film like fame because we imagine we are there ourselves music dance and drama students enjoying our self expression this film had humour entertainment and must be an inspiration to young people to have a go at the performing arts bravo fame certainly worth 8 out of 10 br br chris
1	do not miss this picture that defies ages with no hesitation a masterpiece not only the script and the music but also casting br br cut everything contributes to the perfect achievement now nearly 25 years ago and still amazing of maturity art and br br sensitivity available now in dvd do not miss either the is perfect br br and the sound re boosted one mystery remains about this superb work why the actors did br br not succeed better after this flashing start
1	this movie was well done but it also made me feel very down at times as well for anyone that is considering show business this is a must see as it shows the raw deal in what goes on for these struggling workers the soundtrack was definitely cool and the acting and dancing complimented it nicely some of the student's attitudes might have been a little far fetched like leroy's especially because i'm sure someone like that would've been kicked out immediately for refusing to read and such if this was the real high school for performing arts the coco screen test is hard to watch for any people out there with weak stomachs please heed my warning while it's very gritty i know it's the truth on what happens so in this respect the movie is right on overall it's entertaining and even though some parts drag on the majority goes by really quickly br br final grouping br br movies probably would've skipped this one br br dvd purchase not something i'd need to see again and again br br rental worth renting at least once in your life
1	fame is a very well done portrait of the students who inhabit new york city's high school of the arts the film focuses on a group of students who dream of making it big while they perfect their craft at the now famous school director alan parker allows each of the highlighted students to mature on screen allowing you to feel a connection with each one the music here is infectious and fun the dancing is exciting and fresh the film eventually became the basis for an emmy winning television series starring debbie allen and some of the other actors from the film one of the more enjoyable dance films of the 1980's received oscars for music 8 10
1	if your looking for a movie with fantastic music nice cast and a storyline that is not to difficult to understand fame is for you br br i have several scenes that i love in this movie some make you laugh others make you contemplative the editing i think is wonderful really fast and often funny shure maybe there would have been some more potential in the whole thing all the story's stay somehow on the surface maybe a bit too many characters are involved but i don't care because the real stars are br br the musical scenes one of my favorites the hot lunch jam sequence that piece is just so raw funky and filmed in a special way style in music hell breaking loose its just electrifying i miss this raw energy in todays music clips the only similar energy i found perhaps in bette the rose all of the concert footage its about capturing something wild that is realy happening and not doing it just perfect take by take br br so fame is a wonderful nostalgia trip to when synthesizers where heavy and walk mans not available i recommend it once a year sure not for everyone
1	in new york a group of freshmen join the high school for the performing arts after being well succeeded in their audition for four years their dreams deceptions success love and personal dramas are disclosed though the insecure doris maureen the homosexual montgomery the aggressive leroy gene anthony ray the hopeful coco irene cara the ambitious ralph barry miller and their friends until their graduation day br br twenty eight years ago fame was a great success with the story of teenagers seeking a spot in the show business and i loved this movie and the soundtrack on cd i have just watched fame on dvd and presently i would say that it is a good movie with a great potential only but with too many flawed subplots the story follows too many characters and leaves many situations without answer i do not know whether alan parker had edition problems to reduce the running time of this movie but what happened for example with the ballerina that goes to a clinic for abortion what happened with leroy and his teacher did he fail due to his grammar problem what happened with coco after undressing her blouse in the apartment of that crook the musician that plays synthesizer and his proud father are left behind in the subplot anyway fame is still a delightful entertainment and a cult movie for me my vote is seven br br title brazil fame
1	of course this came out right at the beginning of the 1980s of course it did those drama students dancing in the street to irene cara's famous theme song it's an indelible eighties leg warmer style image but there's more to the film than that there's deprivation and one man's struggle to learn to read and a struggle with sexuality and an attack on a child and one girl tricked into taking topless photographs and contemplation of suicide in the end though it is also about that song
1	we see a man move from city to out back and change dramatically his family asks questions but he goes mad br br strange brilliant film for screening here in israel wonderful locations great actors a film which masquerades as a thriller but which is more a case study of madness in the lead man br br the film was way above the other films screened as part of the festival here in israel best of luck to the team who arrived at this film it's a grand guignol a little masterpiece of noir br br my only criticism which prevents a 10 is that the sound and the music is overpowering at times it tends to get in the way of the images which speak for themselves
1	high school years and decades later some look back on it with fondness others with embarrassment but few find it easy to forget it's one of the most critical phases of our lives when changes come fast and furious whether we're ready or not no longer children not yet adults irresistible forces buffet us pushing and pulling us in every direction br br fame did its best to capture this turbulent chaotic period for its cast of young characters for the most part it succeeded it meandered but did feel like a slice of life this movie holds a special place in the hearts of the class of '80 we had just bid farewell to a decade and soon to the end of three or four stimulating and sometimes difficult school years we were headed out into the cold cruel world leaving home for college then parts unknown as we approached our watershed event this newly released movie was like a two hour yearbook for us we couldn't escape the titular song on the radio that was us up there on the screen those were our friends rivals and classmates as we had faced our own dreams frustrations successes and failures br br it's especially poignant for those who attended any of new york city's other elite top tier high schools especially stuyvesant bronx hs of science or brooklyn tech like the kids here we were considered the best of the best we had no auditions but instead rigorous entrance exams perhaps even more than the performing arts kids we were expected to change the world although not necessarily become famous like them not all of us made it but the pressure cooker environment fostered extraordinary camaraderie and de corps not unlike the toe tapping hot lunch jam in the cafeteria on our own graduation day our spirits soared almost like the jubilant crescendo in the rousing finale the film leaves us fittingly on a single triumphant note at the end of i sing the body electric pointing to the blindingly bright boundless future and all the promise it held br br fame couldn't have been set anywhere else this story never would have worked in a small or suburban school los angeles has a stronger identification with movies and television but nyc is a mecca for all of the arts home not only to what was then called pa but also world renowned nyc is a cultural center unmatched by any other city in the world it's also a time capsule of the rest of the city of the time showing the seediness grit and dirt that was endemic of a new york still struggling back from the fiscal crisis that had nearly bankrupted it but most of all it showed the vitality since muted by the inroads of giuliani disney and tourism br br what i wouldn't give to be young again but with fame at least i can remember what it was like
1	i truly hate musicals because music numbers just start out of the sudden and usually spoil scenes but this one is completely different it's simply brilliant plot perhaps isn't any challenge for the viewers but the simplicity of people life stories makes this movie great br br i've seen it at least dozen times and still i'm not tired with the plot characters or music i just love the soundtrack it's the only soundtrack that i've really wanted to have and most probably will remain the only one that i owe br br for me it's a must seen kind of movie great characters compiled with entertaining songs and a lot of things to think about after the movie end
1	a recent survey of children in the uk re enforced the notion put forth by this film 27 years ago that being more than anything else young people want to grow up to be somebody famous it used to be doctors and firemen that kids wanted to be now everyone wants to be famous fame is a story of a group of kids accepted into the high school for performing arts in new york city we seen them first audition then take classes and learn about life for the next four years the film has a lot of fine qualities but ultimately leaves you feeling a little unsatisfied br br alan parker's bold directorial style fits the story pretty well the film has been classified as a musical but more than anything it is a drama musical numbers and dance routines break out here and there and parker keeps them as close to realistic as they really could have been filmed the acting is for the most part top drawer with a few exceptions the pacing is a little off particularly toward the end of the film but by that point the story has already taken a few wrong turns anyway br br first off the auditions at the beginning of the film should have a couple of the principle characters out it seems unlikely that anyone would show up and audition for one department then stumble their way through to another some of these people just don't look that talented or interested to begin with once the first year of classes gets going the film settles into a nice groove the interaction between students and teachers is very well handled and it leaves you wanting more the film begins to lose itself later on as we see more and more of the students' lives out of school some of these people just aren't worth caring about br br the film's biggest mistake is making the ralph character so prominent this guy is a boorish self centered jerk a professional a hole as he proudly declares on stage during his comedy routines the audience is supposed to somehow feel for this guy and his tragic personal situation but i was just hoping they'd throw his butt out of school irene cara maureen paul and the late gene anthony ray are the people you'll care about by the time this film is over try as i might i still can't develop abs like gene anthony ray had in this film br br overall this film is good it is memorable interesting and full of daring scenes and performances it runs maybe a little too long and perhaps some of the wrong characters get fully developed while others kind of hover in the background the musical numbers are great and there is even a surprise or two waiting to be discovered by the time the film is over though not perfect fame will be a film that lives on in one way or another for many years to come br br 7 of 10 stars br br the hound
1	1980 is brilliant it's got all these qualities that made the late 70's movies so great it is proud of its directness and not ashamed of being over the top br br what really matters here is the journey not the destination ignorant idiots with soap opera mentality will never realize that is about the struggles anxieties and triumphs of these young people not about their careers br br ironically enough none of the very talented actors of made it in hollywood marked the end of an era the end of artistic freedom and experimentation and the beginning of commercialization and political correctness it's the last statement of a generation that had a voice of its own br br 10 10
1	bobbie phillips who in her own right has amassed a great list of credits as a hard working hollywood actress shines in this third installment of upn and village chameleon series in this installment the sexual innuendo has been toned down with kam showing a caring maternal side towards a recently orphaned genius teen bobbie delivers this role to the viewers with great the action and stunts were the best in the series
1	in 2023 in a world ruled by the economical interests of the great corporations and not by the people will or politicians kam bobbie phillips is a human hybrid and international bureau of investigation agent she is a from sub human and her genetic composition is 80 human and 20 animal she has a combination of genes of cougar that gives her strength and flexibility falcon that giver her a increased capacity of seeing and hearing and chameleon that gives her the power of camouflage in the first film she was a very seductive and amoral woman using sex to achieve information i do not have watched the second yet but in this third one the story is full of action a group of scientists has been developing a new and dangerous form of power generation for fifteen years the research has not been concluded yet when one of them betrayal the other and steals the research the problem is that due to its molecular instability a black hole will be created and will suck the whole planet kam saves dr tess adkins teal the survival of the team of scientist and tries to retrieve the dangerous invent from the hands of the bad guys' there is a very strong in this gang that causes many difficulties for kam this action and sci fi television movie is better than the first one recalling the terminator' in some parts of the plot bobbie phillips is a very beautiful actress and her outfit is very cool i am becoming a fan of this good entertainment fans of sci fi movies will not be disappointed now i am trying to buy chameleon 2' my vote is seven
1	i have seen and enjoyed all of the chameleon movies and i must say they keep getting better better with each one bobbie phillips is fantastic and my granddaughter wants to be just like her i'm glad they brought in a brother character for bobbie kam so we can expect to see more exciting shows bobbie is beautiful sexy and sweet and independent at the same time and everything any female could desire to be
1	this show was incredible i've seen all three and this is the best this movie has suspense a bit of romance stunts that will blow your mind go bobbie great characters and amazing locations where was this filmed will there be more i really liked the story line with her brother looking forward to chameleon 4 and to see how the world is saved yet again
1	i was surprised to catch this on tv friday and i enjoyed it between the presence of bobbie phillips and the numerous references to everything that could be considered cyberpunk this was a fun movie to watch i enjoyed the story which reminded me of a book i've read earth david and was fun to see on tv bobbie looks great but i also enjoyed her performance as kam because she did seem different from everyone else but the greatest thing about this movie was the atmosphere that has been described in books by gibson sterling and others it was just fun to see it on tv
1	great job was very exciting and had great stunts a show that really rocked was a great job by all who worked on this one and especially the acting on bobbie phillips' part this would have been great on the big screen would like to see more of these movies of the week or perhaps a weekly series this was great entertainment and am glad i watched by far the best of the three keep up the good work upn and bobbie phillips i'll be looking for the next one
1	the most vivid portrait of small town oddity i've seen in a long time and i'm not just talking about australian films this piece of work seems to have been made under the radar and really it's an entirely fascinating piece of work that has a worldliness mostly unseen in recent film making br br at times it is rather slow and strange it seems to meander hither and thither not really sure if it's a thriller or a 'head movie' but the stunning aspect of the film by alex is its iron fisted ruthless direction it never wavers it is highly controlled precise and absolutely self assured the cinematography is some of the most artful beautiful and lyrical i've seen the sound is all psychological the music builds the tension br br by the third act the story is ramped up and episodes collide and converge don't attempt to piece together the puzzle of the last 20 minutes it's a bit of an but by that time the film has you a bit of a trance a sort of hypnosis and you've been sold a riddle that has no real answer
1	i am awed by actress bobbie phillips and her superb skill as an action star this movie is propelled by her wonderful acting and terrific action prowess i am a fan of sci fi but i must say that this film exceeds most science fiction films in it's cinematography and mostly it's of an actress whose presence supersedes the plot which is fine but is nothing new even though it looks as though this film was made for television in my opinion it is better than most theatrically released films of its kind
1	i loved this movie because bobbie phillips can really fight i always hate when actors are not believable in action parts it was great to see no offense but a woman who can skillfully perform martial arts and fighting if you compare this with most action movies with females you will definitely see what i mean they don't have to cut up the shots with someone that can fight and it flows better i was very impressed i hope there's more
1	i felt sorry enough that this film is not popular at all even in hong kong however for all die hard chow's fan this will be a masterpiece that shud not b left out this is mo lei a comedy style that based on unrealistic and ridiculous plot pioneered by chow at its peak the plot is totally absolutely ultimately 1000 times more ridiculous than any film that u can imagine the dialog is awesome no single part of the film cool down for u to stop laughing br br the plot look simple but crazy for u to start laughing it begin with chow starring a junior magistrate a corrupted one of course caught into jail when helping an innocent married woman he love at first sight to clear her from a murder charge that plot by evil minister whose son was actually the real convict chow escape from jail and run away as a refugee he intend to go to the capital to see the emperor and report the conviction on his way he manage to pick up 2 lovely women one from circus another one a prostitute while in the mean time mastering supreme skill to quarrel and bad mouth from the thin mama san who happen to be his future in law finally he able to force the emperor to re open the case by black mail the emperor whom he meet him in the brothel the emperor made him a highest level judge to judge the case with the evil minister he manage to setup some brilliant but hilarious plots to force the convict to commit the crime execute him while thrown the evil minister to jail br br the plots are really hilarious and ridiculously brilliant also not to forget the tremendous dialog that include some brilliant bad mouth quarrel between chow and the mama san quarrel between the fat mama san and thin mama san to inspire chow to learn the quarrel skill later and also quarrel between chow and the evil eunuch lee near the ending beside that some of the scenes are brilliant too br br one thing that need to mention is that to really understand the film and catch up 100 of all the elements correctly this will be a must to master cantonese really well which may be the reason why early age chow movie receive moderate response only from asian world however when chow film began to spread his influence around the globe hardcore fans like me found that his film is no more that funny like the old time
1	it is one of the best of stephen chow i give it a nine out of ten br br i was surprised to see that shaolin soccer was rated on top of all movies unbelievable
1	an especially delightful film to those of us who saw this when young because after all it was meant for the young to watch when viewing it again as an adult it's better if rose tinted spectacles can kick in it was the first of the 16 jungle jim films and later tv series chunky johnny weismuller went on to do for columbia in the last 3 films he had to use his own name though as they'd lost the rights after getting the sack from playing tarzan for sol lesser johnny sheffield also gave up playing boy to become bomba the jungle boy in a series of 12 films br br jim and party go on perilous safari to hunt down the hidden temple of manned by an obscure tribe of devil doctors who seem to have the secret of a poison that might also be a cure for edgar rice burroughs probably approved after 16 years talking weismuller seemed awkward stringing sentences together not that it mattered on the swift march we meet many of the interesting but generally playful denizens of the jungle barring the sinister crocodile going to eat the leading lady with her leg caught under a twig and the surreal elephant stampede stock footage squeezed into a corner of the frame skipper the dog and caw caw the crow had many adventures none of which turned out essential to the plot in case you were concentrating the biggest problem with the film is the farcical climax which can be exciting but also unfortunately remind you of the end of a serial part – and the original excellent serial had been made 12 years prior although personally i wouldn't have minded this going on another couple of hours as well br br the only thing heavy about this was weismuller in so many ways an enjoyable kids film from the old days not recommended for serious adults so i love it
1	the story takes place in rural germany on the eve of the second world war a unique setting with a couple of british agents being held by the germans in a farm house since they aren't technically at war yet it seems as if both sides must have realized what was coming both agents bruce lester and ray milland escape into the countryside and split up milland happens upon gypsy woman marlene dietrich one evening as she's alone at her camp preparing dinner their encounter is an amazing and captivating scene not so much for milland but for dietrich who takes sexy to a whole new plane milland disguises himself as a gypsy in order to hide from the germans but he remains committed to his mission to do with locating the scientist who knows the formula for a new poison gas but who also isn't a committed nazi the hollywood take on gypsy life and customs is predictably portrayed but the underlying knowledge that they would be one of the targets for extermination by the nazis adds a certain tension the film the line between being a serious story about the poison gas and the urgent search to get the formula and a colorful though not too convincing love story between milland and dietrich however they're both very good it's the fault of the film that didn't give them or their relationship enough dramatic realism relying on and exploiting obvious cultural differences for questionable comedic purposes nonetheless there are some tense and interesting points here and there the surprise meetings with german soldiers and gestapo agents where dietrich does a great palm reading and milland nearly as good faking one and a dinner party of germans of various stripes at which the announcement comes over the radio that germany had been attacked by poland and everyone stands and does a stiff arm salute mitchell may have missed some opportunities here and there but he fully took advantage of others
1	those reviewers who have complained that this movie lacks plausibility or has problems of construction are missing the point this is a wonderfully camp romance with plenty of play gypsies dance gypsies music that both sends up exotic love stories and celebrates them up ray milland makes an amusing foil for a dietrich with black hair tattered scarves and tons of jewelry the character's eagerness to feed milland and look after him more closely resembles the good german dietrich was off the set than her mannered vamp roles censorship being in force it's made clear that they share a caravan on platonic terms only with milland fighting off dietrich's advances with a determination remarkable for a heterosexual bachelor who might be killed any day his only excuse is that she smells so perhaps a stuffy fastidious englishman might indeed be put off br br in the small role of milland's young companion on his secret mission bruce lester adds a note of camp of a different kind we are told at the beginning that he hero worships milland and indeed he rather on him when after they are separated he meets milland now transformed into a brown skinned gypsy with a shirt open to the waist his glowing appreciation of the disguise even further suggests that not only dietrich is romantically infatuated with milland br br despite the wonderfully improbable characters and sequence of events the growing love of milland for dietrich and his acceptance of the non rational aspects of life is rather touching and when on their last night alone before he escapes he says that each of them now contain half of the other the two have become one and then darkness falls i think we can assume that the censor decided to give them a break one goof at the beginning milland who is supposed to be english refers to a lieutenant using the american pronunciation the english say since milland was british he must have been saying it that way because the american movie makers feared that american audiences would be distracted and confused by the british style
1	this film is exceptional in that marlene raymond present outstanding performances the acting in this film is the greatest strength of the production but the script direction and editing deserve applause there is an extraordinary chemistry that exsists between the two stars if you like marlene and you like raymond you'll love this film it's a classic that compares with casablanca br br
1	the film opens in a stuffy british men's club full of gents in leather chairs smoking cigars this is world a messenger delivers a small box to him which he opens to find a pair of gold earrings the site of the earrings sets off a reminiscence about the time he spent in the company of gypsies the rest of the film is flashback br br golden earrings has been a long time favorite of mine and is probably the most romantic movie i know dietrich plays against her usual type here she's dark haired earthy and not in the least bit mysterious instead of a femme fatale tower of strength and energetically sets out to use all her resources to help survive and reach his goal to make sure that he's a really convincing gypsy she pierces his ears and has him wear her dead lover's golden earrings with his clothes and some grease she transforms him from an effete british gentleman into a wild and sexy looking man br br when i was growing up i used to hear the song golden earrings which is sung in the film i think the tune is a little by dietrich there's a story the gypsies know is true that when your love wears golden earrings she belongs to you
1	having recently purchased universal's marlene dietrich dvd collection i was somewhat reluctant to watch golden earrings the idea of a 40 something marlene dietrich as a gypsy in a war time romance seemed unusual and implausible i should not have worried with all the professional talent that went into these old movies it's hard to miss really the movie was a joy to watch it's a classic br br the most interesting thing about the film was dietrich who pulls off the gypsy role perfectly the makeup lighting photography and her performance all add up to make a really startling and memorable character i had never seen dietrich play a good woman convincingly before but she does here she played a lot of heartless vamps in those great sternberg films so it is refreshing to see her in a more down to earth relaxed role playing an exotic but very human character br br overall a very nice romance the love story is believable optimistic and the happy ending is extremely satisfying
1	talking about competition features at the split film festival we have titles from all over the world china korea canada usa and australia and many of these stories are indicating that the world is really valley of tears modern love thats for sure br br in that movie by alex two younger married people and their boy are traveling from town to the coast to visit the grave and house of the man's uncle who raised him a long time ago and who died in mysterious circumstances the coastal village seems like something in an american horror film where the village is bizarre and people are uncommon mutants but episodes in alex can't be described as horror in the normal way in fact this is an extreme interesting drama where we are seeing relationships and horror through flashbacks and much more in this story and through obviously psychological facets of the actors we are shown a peep show of film some charmingly eccentric australian film making thus is the the case of always something new and fresh visual intelligence and unique sensibility of some australian directors is astonishing good movie is super there is something in the australian landscape that shows their movies so special as we have see in modern love and in ray lawrence movies lantana and jindabyne br br it seems it will be the same in future titles of alex
1	i am really surprised that this film only has a rating of 6 4 as of the time i did this review while not exactly a great film i do think it's one of the best films dietrich did and it's a shame it isn't more highly regarded i think a lot of the reason i liked the film so much is that the usual silly dietrich persona as the über vamp isn't present and her role required her to actually act i just hate seeing film after film after film in the early days of her career where she seemed more like a caricature or cliché than a real woman i don't necessarily blame dietrich for the silly vampish films she made in the 1930s audiences loved them and they did make her famous but here she showed she really could act after all just looking at her in films like morocco blonde venus and the blue angel who would have guessed that she was well cast to play a gypsy i was quite prepared to hate the film because of this casting decision but it worked she was pretty believable and a lot of fun to watch as well the film is essentially a vehicle just for ray milland and marlene dietrich the other supporting characters are very much secondary to the movie milland is a wanted spy in pre wwii germany and in his efforts to escape he stumbles upon a rather frisky lone gypsy dietrich who instantly takes him to be a fulfillment of prophecy in other words her new lover milland is quite stuffy but reluctantly agrees to travel in her wagon even putting on body paint and piercing his ears to make him look like a gypsy hence the title to the movie over time he slowly starts to realize that underneath her very uncouth exterior is quite a woman and romance slowly blossoms br br the film in a word is charming a nice romance with a good dose of comedy and fun just the sort of picture you wish hollywood still made also please note the performance of murvyn vye as zoltan he was very magnetic in the short time he was on film and i just loved his deep and beautiful voice br br finally a sad note to consider while the film is set in germany no mention is made of the upcoming gypsy holocaust during the war throughout german territory the nazis exterminated a huge percentage of gypsies and so the final nice ending to the film is a tad far fetched
1	from a bare description of the toll major plot elements one might think it's a revisionist western of the 60s or 70s br br our hero is a robber killer and arsonist br br the love interest is a single mother whose shiftless husband abandoned her and their child br br twice our criminal hero is unofficially released by authorities in return for some good deed and this is presented as a praiseworthy act br br the only acts which are presented as truly evil are the betrayal of one's family and the betrayal of a criminal associate br br the hero tries to go straight but turns back to a life of crime after he can't get a job br br the hero is on the run from both a sheriff's posse and a criminal gang br br the hero's final redemption is accomplished by strangling a man with his bare hands and tossing his body over a cliff br br and the good bad man ends the film by sending the young mother and her child back to civilization and riding off alone into the mexican desert never presumably to pay for his life of crime br br just goes to show you that there is nothing new under the sun br br of course the toll gate doesn't display quite the cynicism or moral nihilism of its successors the hero's redemption is set up when he surrenders to the posse after reading a passage from the bible can't quite imagine clint eastwood doing that br br the toll gate an excellent movie by any standard and hart was a very fine actor not given to the broad histrionics often used to convey emotion in the days before sound br br 9 10
1	this has become one of my favorite movies and certainly one of the best westerns i have ever seen having a soft spot for the genre westerns are – or were since they are no longer made very often – morality plays that too often have been denigrated by critics with intellectual pretensions i purchased the dvd sight unseen because i had read enough about william s hart's work much of which he wrote and directed to pique my interest and thought i should have at least one of his films in my video collection br br i must admit that i approached the actual viewing with some trepidation my previous experiences with silent cinema classics had left me feeling let down chaney's the phantom of the opera griffith's birth of a nation and fairbanks' the mark of zorro were fine but not nearly as good as their reputations would lead one to expect they were either too long or too theatrical or both br br the toll gate however emerged as a pleasant surprise br br it is a story told in a simple and straightforward manner black played by hart leader of a notoriously successful outlaw gang thinks the time has come for group to disband before its luck runs out he is however opposed by his chief lieutenant jordan who them all into one last holdup by promising great wealth but leads them into a trap in which he is complicit everyone is killed except who is taken prisoner when his captors recognize him as the man who once saved a number of soldiers and settlers by warning an outpost of an impending indian attack they allow him to escape free he tries to find honest work but is snubbed and ridiculed and ultimately must rob again to survive soon he is pursued not only by the sheriff's posse but also by jordan now prospering from the reward money he has collected and his henchmen his flight leads him to a remote cabin inhabited by a single mother and her little son after some initial misgivings they take him into their hearts sees a chance for a new life but with the posse and jordan closing in realizes that this may not be possible br br hart was the first great western star and the first to inject realism into the genre as one of the pioneers of movie making he created many of the characters and situations that have become cliché in westerns for more than ninety years what keeps his movies interesting however was his ability to go beyond the cliché perhaps his imitators did not go far enough so that the material appears fresh and innovative even now three such instances in the toll gate illustrate this br br 1 in one scene his character shoots into a crowd in an attempt to kill jordan and kills a bystander instead a subsequent close up shows that he is clearly frustrated the frustration however comes not from the fact that he has gunned down a man who had hitherto caused him no harm but that he missed his intended target br br 2 in another as he flees from the posse his borrowed horse steps into a gopher hole and breaks a leg hart pulls out his gun to put the animal out of its misery but before pulling the trigger gives his head a sad loving pat as if to say farewell to an old friend br br 3 and finally after he has strangled jordan and thrown his body over a cliff he returns to retrieve his guns and spots his pistol lying on the ground nearby he steps forward and gives it a swift kick before mounting his horse it is a simple gesture but it underscores the deep loathing he feels for the man who betrayed him and his comrades br br and i love the title the toll gate it is allegorical in its implication that a man cannot begin a new life until he has paid for the sins of his old one payment comes in the form of sacrifice today's more sophisticated audiences may not buy into that sentiment entirely but it can still work on you if you let it br br viewers who like their videos in pristine condition will undoubtedly object to the dvd's picture quality especially the badly deteriorated final reel i don't mind at all that a copy of this 1920 movie even exists at all is a miracle since prints of so many other silent movies have been lost if you bear that in mind and look upon the film as a piece of history its visual flaws are not that difficult to accept br br william s hart was born in 1870 in new york but grew up in the minnesota and wisconsin where he learned to speak sioux and indian sign language he counted wyatt earp and bat masterson among his friends and collected remington paintings so his knowledge of the west was first hand if his vision seems overly romanticized by today's standards it is nevertheless rooted far closer to reality than the spaghetti westerns of the '60s and '70s and the revisionist works that followed both the star and his films are overdue for re evaluation
1	i was five when the show made its debut in 1958 and at a later point was a regular viewer i remember that i really enjoyed the show along with leave it to beaver my three sons ozzie and harriet dick van dyke reruns of i love lucy the real mccoys etc i am now enjoying the first season of donna reed on dvd and have watched the first two episodes donna stone is shown to be an intelligent well mannered problem solving serene stay at home mom similar to june cleaver and in contrast to lucy ricardo in episode 2 i especially like how ms reed becomes a surrogate dad trading in her dress for sweats and boxing gloves while teaching her son how to defend himself physically against a much larger bully while none of the mothers in the neighborhood i grew up in including my own exactly met the idealistic standards portrayed by ms reed it is refreshing to see good manners and intelligent decision making prevail at the end of the day in contrast to today's accepted standards of vulgarity selfishness and indifference among one's neighbors i cannot imagine jeff and mary stone being told by their parents that trespassing in their yards is okay leaving a dog outside to bark all day is acceptable or telling their mother to shut up in a supermarket in front of everyone
1	like a lot of stars of the big screen as their careers wound down so many turned to television where probably they secured their reputations for posterity donna reed is a case in point br br i don't think donna reed ever thought that donna stone was anything challenging not to a woman who had won an oscar for playing a very different type in from here to eternity she was certainly better prepared to play wife mother and homemaker donna stone after having played mary bailey in it's a wonderful life br br donna was always beautiful and wise and ever helpful with the problems of her kids and her husband carl was not an idiot he was a pediatrician who had his office attached to the house talk about the man being ever ready in a crisis br br though this was the donna reed show because donna's husband at the time tony owen produced it yet it lasted as long as did because of the popularity of the two children shelley and paul petersen had that best selling teen record johnny angel which she introduced on the show she successfully made the transition to adult star most known for her role in coach as craig t nelson's wife br br but petersen was a bubblegum teen idol back in the day the donna reed show dare i say got most of its viewers because of him it's forgotten now but petersen also had a best selling record my dad didn't do half as well as johnny angel br br now paul petersen runs a support group for former child stars like himself so many of them end so tragically it's good work that he's doing br br the stone family was the quintessence of middle america they lived in a suburb near chicago they led wholesome lives mom and dad were always there for the kids of course the problems they had usually were nothing more than breaking curfew br br it's this series i believe was the model for the tv town of pleasantville where tobey maguire and reese witherspoon are sucked into br br i have pleasant memories of the donna reed show easy to take but not too seriously
1	while i agree this was a 1950s sitcom i don't feel it was typical firstly donna reed was a strong woman unlike the regular 50s sitcom moms she made a stand for women's worth and equality remember the episode where the tv announcer says just a housewife and donna stands up for all women do and represent especially those that don't work outside the home and when the women rebelled against something in the series it was not something trivial it was always something to show that women have the right to be treated with the same respect as men remember donna reed was married to the show's producer so she had much more input into making hers a more powerful character br br the children were intelligent but not precocious they were normal kids and they could act br br something else that made donna reed show stand out was not only did the children look like their parents but you could feel the chemistry between all the actors in the real life situation which then came out in the characters shelly and paul peterson have often written and remarked that they were treated like the children of donna reed and carl and that the adults were fiercely protective of the child actors and treated them accordingly donna and alex also had somewhat of a sexual chemistry that wasn't seen on the other family shows and the characters could be flawed and in major ways and yet accepted for the flaws and mistakes these were not super parents that did no wrong and had no emotional highs and lows they were normal people acting as normal people br br women's rights drug abuse child abuse single fathers poverty children who need good health care but can't afford it it was all shown on this show pretty groundbreaking for the era br br donna reed show didn't last for eight years without a reason and it could have possibly endured had it not been for tony owens and donna reed divorcing br br this show is highly underrated and should be shown so that other generations can appreciate quality br br in summary i agree with the original poster who obviously cares for the show but i think that the donna reed show has so much more to offer than casual entertainment
1	the quintessential housewife and perfect mother donna reed as donna stone could do it all settle spats between the children or neighbors take care of her hard working pipe smoking pediatrician husband alex and still have a stack of pancakes three types of breakfast meat and a tall glass of milk and oj ready for the kids every morning before breakfast br br over the course of the past fifty years we've lost sight of the idealistic stay at home mom family meals together at the kitchen table and preparing dinner for a hard working husband when he comes home from work br br i wish the show were available on dvd i'd discontinue my cable altogether
1	okay i know that's cliché taken on its surface this is a bad film perhaps in a league with plan 9 from outer space the dialog is suspect but the is quite enjoyable the plot is not quite believable gavin's character overacts excessively while watching the movie somethings happen that truly make you wonder handsome and kim making out on a tank gwen eating a banana in a bath just about everything gavin says and does these things taken separately are perhaps flaws taken together however they are merely quirks watching this movie with an open mind especially if you're not familiar with singaporean culture and with an open minded group of friends is guaranteed to deliver a lot of laughs and a memorable time you can't go into this movie expecting a masterpiece or even expecting to take anything serious at all if you can take this film for what it is an underdog film about underdogs filled to the brim with its own quirks then you should have a good time watching this one i've already seen it three times and i wouldn't hesitate to watch it three more times
1	jacques audiard's directorial debut see how they fall aka les is our old friend the film with two different stories that gradually converge and turn out to be the same story after all simply told from different sides it's a shaggy dog story with matthieu simpleton following unlucky in cards drifter jean louis trintignant with mutt like devotion that even stretches to killing for him when he's asked to repay his gambling debts in kind meanwhile in a slightly different timeframe jean over the hill travelling salesman becomes increasingly obsessed with finding the hit man who put his cop friend into a brain dead coma his life income and relationships gradually stripped away as he gets closer to his prey yet while it may offer the perfect setup for a modern day neo noir the film is often more surprisingly playful more interested in quirks of character and a slightly skewed sense of humor aptly served by the occasional ironic captions and alexandre desplat's half jaunty half discordant score than the traditional thriller set pieces and plot mechanics br br unfortunately the film is ill served by one of the worst region 1 dvds released in recent years the picture quality on disc is so poor at times you keep on expecting to see the audience's heads in front of the picture like a pirate disc
1	this film is full of interesting ideas some scenes are truly hilarious the dialogs are witty and colloquial the tension in the film comes not so much from the 'murder plot as from the relationship between the characters the film tells two stories in parallel br br the first story involves the characters played by trintignant and kassovitz trintignant is an ageing drifter with a somewhat ridiculous macho toughness who is followed by a naive young man played by kassovitz with plenty of good natured smiles many good moments in the film come from the contrast between the two characters for example when trintignant tries to teach kassovitz how to be intimidating br br the second story tells how a salesman played by jean gives up his job and his wife to find the murderer of a young friend plays the part with a kind of aggressive irony i wish i could describe this better br br after a while the viewer understands how both stories are connected and they meet indeed in the end in a surprising but also logical ending br br the film is a successful mixture of the witty but superficial gangster films the director's father the celebrated michel audiard used to write and the typical french film with lots of psychological depth and lots of care in the display of emotions
1	i saw this on the accent underground release with the short films i found the film at first boring and old fashioned and switched it off after the first hour i was a little drunk and tired br br i went to bed and no kidding i had a nightmare about this film within half and hour of falling asleep i couldn't stop thinking about why so i got up switched the tv back on loaded the dvd and saw the rest of the movie br br well done alex sir you've managed to implant your film into this old cynical movie goers head and that takes doing so 10 out of 10 to you br br i can't say i 'love' this film of yours but it has made a lasting impact despite its flaws and low budget etc
1	it's not hard to imagine what the main problem for a screenwriter is who wants to have 18 equally well written characters with about the same amount of screen time in a movie that last around 90 minutes it's almost impossible not to fall back on stereotypes and that is also what writer director ralf does here very few of the characters can be recognized as people that you and me know in real life many of them are just characterized with two or three attributes and stay vague i am aware of that but still think that is successful namely that it accomplishes just what it wants to it is a film with very well written dialogue extremely good acting and a film that made me laugh out loud really often i don't think that this film wants to make a deep going analysis of loneliness in our modern society or that it wants to be moral commentary on speed dating it's a movie about something that exists and people and their motivation to use it funny and entertaining
1	in complete contrast to the previous correspondent here i thought munich as it was billed when shown with english subtitles here in london at the german film festival in november 2007 was very funny very well acted and excellently scripted br br it's quite audacious to design a 100 minute film that consists exclusively and relentlessly of talking heads but i think ralf succeeded with wit and élan no standard filmic devices of say following a character's soul baring pronouncement with some meditative minor seventh chord music and long shot nature cutaways but when someone said something that revealed their souls well we were hustled on by the man with the timer for yet another superficial introduction which is of course the point the hurtling superficiality of thirtysomething urbanites where everything is down to a quick question and answer br br maybe most films are so clichéd and stupid that we english are ready to laugh at any vaguely intelligent and cinema but i can promise you that at the screening tonight cinema sun 25 nov 2007 the full audience with laughter most of the way through so i wasn't the only one guffawing br br my girlfriend who speaks german and has lived in munich thought it was hilarious i who don't speak german and have not been to munich i think thought it was hilarious i'd recommend munich to anyone especially couples looking for a smart witty original wise film about the superficiality of modern relationships and the bewilderment of the generation who feel they've missed out on the happy ever after stuff first time round br br nb in the english subtitled showing in london the subtitles which were very good were shown completely underneath the slightly reduced picture not inside it i thought this was a good thing
1	hey this ralf seems to knows a lot about people we have nine women and nine men taking part in a speed dating event each person has five minutes to talk to each opposite a good idea to make a movie out of these conversations and even better it works very very well the dialog is witty original and authentic each person is subtly characterized without falling into the cliché trap something that is unusual for german movies remember all these years we germans were tormented with silly zeitgeist comedies such as workaholic or br br but now the time has come for young german directors to do their own thing and take the risk of producing movies which are entertaining and funny and intelligent and sensitive at the same time the timing of is good too although it presents mainly dialog it keeps the tension and interest after a while you actually become curious to see how this man and that woman would do some of the participants meet later on for a two some it's fun to see them interacting together in real life of course the film has a few drawbacks it's not very cinematic but can such a movie be the musical soundtrack could have been better but all this is only marginal br br the most important thing about this movie we have some damn good actors here imagine this all of them are still pretty unknown even here in germany most were derived from the munich or bavarian theater scene but i predict that out of the 18 main actors at least 11 will quickly become very well known in the movie and tv scene over here it's great to see so many fresh and at the same time talented faces well done br br for those who want to read more here's a rundown of all 18 actors spoilers br br sebastian weber silent waters are deep memorize his flower garden monologue you can win any woman's heart with this one br br anna a hell of a woman every time she opens her mouth you can't help but laugh and feel good listen how she pronounces asshole and calls the pink shirt guy a br br felix the from above is fun to watch the inconvenient truth is that there are too many of those guys around his looks somewhat reminded me of flo weber of stiller br br katharina schubert this woman has everything love hope despair beauty her do you want children scene is a classic a great actress of whom we will hear again no doubt br br david now is this guy a loser or not almost as authentic as paul giamatti in sideways i hope this is not method acting br br julia the good looking woman in the circle julia used to play theater in my hometown kudos i think she will appear in many tv series to come br br martin the revolutionary guy catches the cutest and most conventional woman in the end would you like to share a taxi with this guy br br von she gave a stunning performance in last year her trance like performance in this movie is no less see her beautiful face and hear her dirty laugh the best scene in the movie belongs to her br br matthias i know these write down everything guys back from school i'm not sure whether the hot blond got her allergic reaction because of him or his cat portrayal of such a chicken is outstanding br br the sister in law of my ex girl friend was the same talker like her the day i met her was the only day in my life i needed tranquilizers so bad here br br thomas the nice and desperate guy in the circle has a comical talent that is way better than most so called comedians on tv br br lisa wagner the victim of sebastian's flower garden metaphor lisa's face is funny and full of melancholy her story made me feel good and sad at the same time wow br br oliver the good looking man in the circle no wonder he catches julia in the end these two really fit together i think he will appear in many tv series to come br br julia the cute conventional woman i hope she won't be underrated julia's face changes from naive to hurt to furious are great br br stephan the nature boy from likes cooking eating – and good sex watch the body language between him and the hot blond usually plays politician on stage br br anja the bargain girl has some good moments but beg your pardon fails like most actors in playing a drunk on screen br br christian plays the arrogant and narcissistic guy couldn't believe that this very actor owns two art house cinemas in munich br br plays the girl who sleeps with every man around i'm sure many male visitors will go for her i have heard she can do dramatic roles as well so i'm curious
1	currently playing at the 2007 german film festival in australia http www goethe de ins au lp htm thanks to and especially for her rundown on the actors in this ensemble cast br br in australia these movies were sub titled in english and while french movies here often get a mainstream release german movies are still to gather that sort of commercial audience but like bmws and mercedes when germans get it right i really like their films like the time here went so quickly lots of laughs from the audience as each of the 9 men and 9 women moved down the speed dating line 5 minutes at a time br br while many films are overlong this one i could have watched much more of it had the sort of characters and character development for a series given time i will re read review and reference the actors i liked and their other work with a view to keeping an eye out from them i agree most of these actors will go onto bigger and better things some very good character actors in this fine film i did see it in the program listed as a mockumentary mock or otherwise it felt very real and quite romantic in it's way br br viva la
1	i've just seen this movie in a preview and i can only recommend to watch it it was about 90 minutes long and when it was over i felt like it could go on for hours the stories of the protagonists are so realistic and you feel really at home the movie basically consists of dialogs but i wasn't bored a minute 18 people of really different characters and each one of them acted out so well i had to laugh felt awkward was sad and still felt happiness all in all it is a movie that shows the different kinds of people in our society the way they communicate and how love has changed and nowadays is handled as an economic thing dating becomes something that is similar to an audition the whole audience loved it so please watch it if there's a possibility you'll love it
1	when i first heard that this movie was going to be made i was very excited to see it the ideas to make a movie of this caliber as good as it was must have been very difficult i wasn't really sure if anyone could encompass all of the many amazing qualities in a movie but the movie did his memory justice in my opinion the most important task was to reveal to the people who the pope started out as to his days in poland all the way to his last days in the vatican this movie followed every aspect of his life thomas kretschmann the man who played the pope in his adult life and on did a very good job at getting the emotion across overall this movie was educational but also very entertaining
1	great movie about a great man thomas kretschmann is first rate as in all of his other movies i would never have envisioned him as pope john paul it speaks volumes for the casting director why do they keep casting him as german officer in the movies and he only came to universal attention after the pianist of course he looks so hot in the uniforms i know a lot of girls drool over his handsome face but this guy is a great actor and has such great potentials if you don't believe me go watch stalingrad i hope he will get a lot of excellent roles in the future with more diversity otherwise what a heartbreaking waste of great talent
1	abc's version of the life of the late pope they put it just slightly ahead of cbs's version and it may have suffered from that but the program itself was excellent it moved fast since it only had two hours with commercials also taking up time to cover this great man's long life but thomas kretschmann admirably was up to the challenge he did a remarkable job in conveying the emotions and strife that john paul endured he unlike the cbs biopic played the role from youth to old age and managed to seem realistic at both ends of the scale his credibility never wavered he has an amazing range and depth it is a shame that the program could not have been longer and more detailed but working within the time frame they did have i think they did an excellent job bringing it to the small screen
1	i read the comments about this movie before watching it and wasn't expecting much but as a b movie it's a curiosity i guess you have to be a certain type of person to enjoy this kind of thing but i seriously thought it was awesome people should watch it just for the experience because it's totally one of a kind don't expect much of it the acting is poor transitions were obviously done on a pc etc definitely a b movie but nonetheless really worth checking out very funny mild gore and some questionable themes so probably not something to show your gran but for the more adventurous viewer i'd say it's a must see
1	dominion is a good movie but not original it blends some elements of slasher movie and adventure flick the setting is wonderful the acting is acceptable and the film is fast paced and exciting highly recommended for any thriller adventure buff
1	this is a great family film dealing with down to earth people who enjoy their local interests dealing mainly with horse racing lloyd walter matthau is a farmer who also raises quarter horses and has a young son named casey who loves horses lloyd is able to raise a full grown horse who he calls casey's shadow after his son and this horse breaks all speed records and is a possible winner of a million dollar race sarah blue alexis smith becomes interested in this horse and offers to buy the horse for 500 00 dollars however this horse receives serious injuries to his legs and lloyd receives a serious set back which upsets the entire family walter matthau gave an outstanding performance and this is a great film to view and enjoy
1	this movie is a real thriller it was exciting from shortly after the start till the very end if you are a real suspense nut this is the movie for you the characters were very well developed and the scenery was beautiful the story was very well written similar to some others i have seen but quite different in several ways a must see
1	this is a very well written movie full of suspense right up to the end the setting is beautiful in contrast to the frightening action taking place there it is not your typical suspense movie but a movie well packed with interesting twists and surprises which leave you wanting and hoping for a sequel i recommend this film to all suspense lovers
1	michael has accomplished quite a feat especially considering it is only his second start as writer producer and director generally first timers lack vision and direction when helming a major production but dominion proves mr is going places in hollywood set with beautiful scenery dominion boasts experienced cast members especially thomerson james who communicate vast vision with exceptional clarity few films can mix the slasher horror genre with a genuine action adventure feel but dominion accomplished this completely this film certainly qualifies as one of the top notch films in both of these categories if you are looking for fast paced action with more than a modicum of suspense look no further i look forward to future projects with great enthusiasm well done
1	by now the game's stale right br br the jokes have been done its all over the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone after all br br wrong br br the game is still intact the jokes are here folks sure they're all rehash but so was monkey island 2 and 1 for that matter br br the difficulty is well placed somewhere between the slightly easy 1 and the ridiculously hard 2 the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate in the tradition of sub games and this game has the best joke of the whole series when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach always select you don't need to see my identification its worth the price of the game by itself
1	have pulled yet another beauty out of a seemingly bottomless bag of great games if any further proof was required that they rule this genre of gaming then this is it before actually playing the game there was a little concern about how the writers were going to keep up the pace of gags after the first two games fears were rife that it was going to wear a bit thin br br play the game and see how quickly those fears are from the introductory video with in the boat to the closing stages in the funfair the jokes just keep on coming i was a great fan of the first two games and the other works day of the tentacle sam max etc and this one does not fail to deliver the quality you will not be disappointed well i wasn't
1	first i played the second monkey island game and i liked it despite the low quality graphics and sound then a few months later i found out a new game was made i tried it out and liked it a lot first thing you notice is the great graphics the areas are huge colorful and detailed with lots to explore the game requires you to use your brain a lot as always the game is challenging with all point and click games frustrating the jokes haven't gotten old a third time around the animated cut scenes are a great addition to the game also this is the best mi game out there perhaps the best p c game too if you like cartoony games that play like a movie get this game
1	what can i say curse of monkey island is fantastic the story is good and solid but appropriately silly the jokes are hillarious the puzzles are puzzling you couldn't ask for more in an adventure game the you don't need to see my identification bit is in itself well worth buying the game for not to mention murray who has become the hot topic among many of my friends only some of whom have played the game you will love this game and if you don't too bad
1	being a huge die hard monkey island fan i this one would be terrible since ron gilbert didn't make it boy was i surprised although it's still not as good as the first two it has the comedy that i wanted i was a little nervous about the new graphics new engine and just the fact that it was on a cd but it all came together and it was interesting to finally hear the voices of your favorite characters i especially enjoyed that sword fighting had returned and the whole story about finding the big ring was just incredible go ahead and try out this two cd adventure and now we can rejoice because monkey island 4 escape from monkey island is coming out really really soon this fall
1	destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized this game deserves all the recognition it deserves at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventures are a dying breed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island prediction the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too i guarantee it
1	this was my second experience of the monkey island series the full seven years after i had been shown the first game what was my response oh great we're playing a cartoon i'm glad my brother shut me up then and played on because the jokes caught my attention once again as well as wonderful voice acting of not to mention everyone else done well i still think elaine sounds better than the cutscenes do well to illustrate something happening and the art of both the game and cutscenes are excellent when we found the cd with the originals secret and revenge we were both ecstatic and spent hours working through revenge one such moment was where we just sat down and blew half a day on it however has to be the monkey island game i've played the most especially for the return of and combat on the high seas that moment when you encounter kenny and he tells you he's gone straight and then i'm running guns had both my brother and i in tears from laughter and that's not the best part of the game not by far
1	a wonderful family movie a beautiful horse movie 75 entertainment casey buddy kelly marsh are very interesting and lovable characters the horses are real beauties br br has the horse racing as a backdrop for showing how luck is sometimes nothing but some good commonsense shows how kids can do stupid things for stupid reasons shows how adults can do stupid things for selfish reasons the very realistically portrayed characters transform the unrealistic theme of the film into something everyone can relate to br br andrew rubin puts in a wonderful performance as buddy the sensible elder brother somewhat reminded me of aidan quinn eyes speech delivery facial appearance br br casey makes you fall in love with the character because of the earnestness sarah blue is also nicely portrayed by alexis smith lloyd the father is played by walter matthau and he is the character br br though there is room for improvement in the movie its a very enjoyable feel good movie
1	the curse of monkey island is a brilliant video game and its a stroke of genius from the video game designers at to have created this sequel all the characters are brilliant the voice overs for the characters were realistic and funny a lot of effort went into this game and it deserves the 10 i gave in the vote keep up the good work
1	on account of my unfortunately not being able to find them anywhere i have not gotten to try any of the other entries in the series although i certainly would not mind and trust me i have looked for anyone who does not know this is a point and click adventure title that means that the mouse is what you use to interface with everything that you can do so with in this though there is one particular case in this where that is inaccurate i won't spoil it here for anyone who haven't yet tried it nevertheless regardless of how little experience you have with computers you can sit right down and try this there isn't even terribly many bits of this where you need to be fast or have swift reflexes heck you can adjust the speed of the text if you have it have subtitles on and thus of the talking in it and it's not enormously awkward or forced when slow your inventory is easy as well as combining or using items clicking and holding down the button at anything you can affect gives three options for what to use with it be it a person a specific part of the surroundings or an object hand push pick up open etc eyes examine look through etc and mouth eat converse etc this all adds up to a welcoming friendly environment where you can approach the plentiful puzzles the amount of them is varied based on which of the two difficulty settings you try this on at your own pace and explore and take in the dozens of individual creatively done characters and areas in this to your heart's content the length of this will be determined by how much time you take to do such you'll hear no blame from me they're worth it and your skill at figuring out the solutions there are a few points in this where you get to decide if you want the harder way of completing that or not this can be enjoyed by anyone from any age there's no material that isn't acceptable for children this is one of the products that help prove that that very fact does not have to mean that it is intolerable for older audiences the animation is quality work smooth everything moves as it should and the 3rd dimension honestly isn't that sorely missed when trying this the story telling is well done and you're never unclear as to what is going on there are numerous well directed cut scenes kept in the same colorful mostly bright 2d world as the rest with well done camera motion cartoony is an appropriate word to describe this and not only the visual style it can be applied to all of this the entire world of this is very similar to but not quite the same as ours with a mix of past and present inhabited by people and filled with things that we can sort of recognize or understand at least portions of but the absurdity makes them funny that would have to be one of the greatest strengths of this right there it's hilarious a lot of that comes from the lines spoken what is said as well as how it is and those who dig british efforts with focus on verbal the likes of 'allo 'allo or the blackadder franchise will want to check this sucker out however there are several different types of jokes including but not limited to the following satire cleverness dark spoofs irony gross out comedy not exactly my favorite aspect of this and more there's self awareness with the lead addressing you personally and for example explaining why he isn't going to do what you just asked him to there are references to pop culture through a couple of decades almost all of it works hardly any gags fall flat and if you aren't in stitches during this my best guess as to the reason would be that it's simply not compatible with your sense of humor a situation that warrants no judgment and if one suspects that could be the case and wishes to find out i suggest the demo version where you for free can see if you care for the brand of play and or laughter the plot is well written nearly all of this is really develops nicely throughout and keeps your interest well the audio is all excellent crisp and well done the sound effects are spot on the music is well composed with no exceptions the voice acting is impeccable with a celebrity or two is fantastic as gotta love that name whom you control boen is incredible as the deceased and still threatening zombie villain the designs are immensely well done highly imaginative and all fit in spite of the relatively limited disposition of our hero when it comes to pirate deeds you do get to engage in some steer a ship board that of others and match blades in a rather unique and marvelously thought up way the re lies mainly in the choices during dialog etc this is linear with a tad freedom as far as the order goes so the buccaneer sitting down with this for at least the second time has not got that large an amount of possibilities as far as being challenged by this goes unless he or she has forgotten what to do in the meantime ah nothing is perfect anyone who would care to delve into a thoroughly well crafted and fascinating fictional universe and crack up countless times should get a real kick out of this the good kind not the ones that hurt and potentially leave bruises don't forget kids do not eat books that is just begging for a paper cut i would wager a guess that those who like the others would appreciate this one too and they're not the only ones who may get into this i recommend this to apart from members of aforementioned group any fan of this genre of as well as anyone to whom this review appeals 8 10
1	another fantastic offering from the monkey island team and though it was a long time coming and had to survive the departure of ron gilbert it's another worthy installment my only gripe is that it was a little short seeming in comparison to the previous two though that might be because of a glorious lack of disk swapping roll on
1	the curse of monkey island has always been my favorite of the series a vibrant visual look an excellent soundtrack and brilliant voice cast all create a memorable and adventure br br graphics wise the game is definitely not a let down though some corners have been cut the over all feel of the game is reminiscent of disney feature length animations the gameplay is simple and even a novice will get the hang of it soon enough the game also offers a little extra for the more experienced players with its mega monkey mode br br the voice cast is one of my favorites dominic sympathetic voice makes complete and alexandra boyd is simply charming as elaine earl boen makes for a wonderfully sinister yet over the top villain also the game's charm is added by memorable characters like wally neil ross murray denny and one of my personal favorites haggis allan young voice of scrooge mcduck my hat also goes off to the late great kay and his memorable secondary role as griswold br br michael tropical and wonderful soundtrack once more graces the monkey island adventure comprising of some of the best tunes in the business the game isn't perfect and some locales are not as well detailed as other but i had no gripes with the simple ending of the game which i found very satisfying
1	i had only written one review on imdb prior to this as i consider most games as unworthy of the time and effort curse of monkey island is different br br having played and been impressed by monkey 1 and 2 i had great expectations for the third release and was not disappointed the first thing that hit me was the substantially improved graphics don't get me wrong for games made in 1990 and 1991 respectively monkey 1 and 2 were ground breaking and provided the goods well but steps up and delivers a superb cartoon style game play which is both fun and satisfying all scenes and settings have been carefully crafted and well thought out and suit this type of game perfectly the animation cgi is a mixture of realism and exaggeration a fantastic combination in this case br br for me the script has been crucial in the success of the previous two games the script is clever appropriate and above all absolutely hilarious added to this the script is now audio unlike the previous two where speech is displayed in text format at the bottom of the screen dominic voice is perfect for witty clear and slightly naive all other voice talents fit their characters perfectly especially earl boen who is the voice behind i loved every single character throughout the game not just their personalities and wit but the way each character is animated superbly and distinctively whilst on the subject of audio effects the soundtrack is worth a mention the soundtracks for monkey 1 and 2 were both monotone and despite this were very effective at giving atmosphere and representing a change in mood soundtrack is once again a step up each scene is complemented by a catchy subtle playful and if that's a word tune with a change in setting or mood the music also adapts adding to the entertainment and amusement that the game offers br br the whole idea behind monkey island is to solve puzzles and problems in order to progress this might sound easy but is actually devilishly tricky in many places some may be put off by the level of logic and amount of thinking that goes into monkey island but in reality this makes the game even more entertaining and fun and also adds to the replay value the option of the curse of monkey island or the curse of monkey island mega monkey which involves trickier and more abundant puzzles suits players of all abilities and also gives good cause to play the game at least twice whatever difficulty level you choose you are guaranteed a different game each time you replay with numerous speech options and other puzzles to solve that don't affect the outcome of the game but are just there for fun the most entertaining section of the game is ship combat and the sword fights that follow these were particularly well thought out and make the game completely worthwhile add to this a stupendous story that is non violent and suitable for all ages which will keep you hooked and wanting more until the very end br br finally in conclusion a uniquely special mention must go to the designers of this game the way each complex puzzle and problem is thought out is simply astonishing whilst gathering up items and objects during game play you can't see how each one is going to help you progress but with a little thought and perseverance solutions present themselves and for that the designers of must be highly commended br br 10 10 for the best game i have ever played not an exaggeration
1	the curse of monkey island released excactly 6 years after the success of monkey island 2 you would think with monkey island 2's wierd ending that it would finish monkey island once and for all but it all turned out to be a trick to lure into captivity but enough about that the whole jist of this is that monkey island has returned and the voices are just phenominal if were to make a movie cartoon of monkey island this would probably be what it would look like and sound like it's plot is real good and everything about it is just awesome if you haven't heard about the monkey island series buy the monkey island archives or the monkey island booty pack and play through all the games starting with the secret of monkey island then monkey island 2 and the curse of monkey island monkey island 4 was real good but this one tops them all
1	curse of monkey island is a treasure in my opinion the series as a whole was the holy grail of adventure gaming not to mention br br but to return to curse whats beautiful about is that its not afraid to be itself it does deviate from the first two but still remains faithful to the ron gilbert productions if only the same could be said about the 4th installment of the series the voice work is impeccable with dominic playing our favorite protagonist the animation while quite different than the classic pixelated characters is done beautifully it really is just absolutely gorgeous and the music is fantastic its never annoying and you never have the urge to turn it off br br although i'm not too big a fan of romance the romantic scenes and themes are not at all overpowering they also have the rare ability to come off as sweet instead of cheesy that says a lot from a girl who routinely falls asleep during chick flicks br br then of course is the classic mi element of humor is quite adept at delivering deadpan lines altogether absurdist humor and simply good fun gary coleman makes a cameo as a budding young entrepreneur and world events are discreetly jabbed at without stepping out of the bounds of the game br br its not entirely fair to compare to mi and because it truly is in a realm of its own personally i can never find a favorite between the 3 as they all are quite different from each other however if you want a swashbuckling good time with the flair of the classic series i insist you give this game a shot you will not be disappointed br br 10 10 stars hands down br br emily n
1	a group of evil businessmen need to knock down a building to build a huge complex but they can't remove the tenants the tenants and businessmen with their hired thugs clash until the film ends with one of the funniest fights ever the guy with the ginger hair who goes every time he throws a punch and the other guy who poses with a knife in his mouth instead of fighting only to be beaten off camera make this essential viewing if you like to laugh at films rather than with them
1	one of the classic low budget 70's movies this film was found in a bargain video shop in london for only interestingly the package lists the star of the film as bone' who sounds like a porn star but once the credits role it's obvious that the picture is aligned to far the right of the tv screen so that all the cast members have the last letter missing from their names br br from the moment the narrator lamely introduces us to the situation that the desperate tenants of a grimy new york city apartment block you know you're in for a rollercoaster ride of fromage the direction is from the 'ed wood one take' school if one or two extras were looking at the camera crew then what the hell br br the films finishes with a plot twist that puts the usual suspects to shame buy it now
1	this movie stands for its the funniest movie i have ever seen the lines the acting and the clothes wow talk about 70 s if you ever see this little gem buy it its worth every penny by the way the opening song is awsome if anyone know where i can find it send me an e mail
1	walter matthau can always improve a mediocre film and this movie proves it he turns in a very realistic performance as a small time horse trainer and single father not sugar coating either role br br he can be by turns soft hearted and doting then iron handed to his boys and we can see the same dichotomy in his approach to horse training we see that he doesn't want his young prospect racing horse overworked and hurt in small time races but he seems to be willing to risk the horse's life when he gets into the big time br br this is just one of matthau's wonderful performances and one that i highly recommend
1	death promise is a lost 70's exploitation gem and deserves to be seen technically somewhat of a mess and boasting a stock of amateur new yawk types this film never bores i highly recommend tracking this down it's a hoot and a half
1	first time i ever saw this was at a friends house it ended up in his parents hands by a fluke some videostore bicycle repair shop went bankrupt and treats like this was up for grabs we saw it two times in a row and almost wet are pants how hard we laughed br br i've seen historical documents like ninja mission and plan 9 from outer space and they still remain good runners up in comparison to this one br br almost 15 years after first contact it is now considered the best cult movie of all times in my circles i've showed it to all my friends we now have a tradition of searching for movies in the same category the un one br br it can't be explained or reviewed in any normal way because every scene every take every move contains at least one mistake regarding editing dialouge directing etc br br for any cult movie buff this is the ultimate prize the gem of all gems br br as for craft it can't be rated because it would even be an insult to homemade videos of birthdays and weddings br br as for pure amusement it is the funniest movie i have ever seen funnier than any comedy ever made past or present anything less than a 10 10 should be regarded as an insult to good sense of hum our
1	so i won't disagree with the critics but i really was not all that moved by this movie i was a little hesitant to rent it as i am going through some of the same things the protagonist is supposed to be experiencing yet i did rent it thinking that i might experience some catharsis or at the least understand that i am not alone while i understood the protagonist's irritation with his careless cousin i didn't feel his internal struggle with isolation as much as i would have liked i felt that much more emphasis was placed on his disruptive cousin his welcome it is a beautifully filmed movie and i did really appreciate the use of silence to bring out the feeling of isolation
1	distant is a slice of turkish life flick which follows the mundane activities of two adult male cousins one a photographer and the other an unemployed underachiever there's little doubt that auteur bilge is a work in progress with considerable talent however this little foreign minimalistic arty is so full of empty filler and so devoid of story or anything engaging or provocative that it will likely appeal to only the most avid devotees of cinema and mainstream audiences should look elsewhere i personally grew quickly bored with the slow pace of the film and found myself fast forwarding through the empty spaces and there are many between dialogue plot development and denouement distant is a very nicely done bit of b
1	my interpretation is that the term is used in the sense of the opposite of people who are not warm toward others the film reminds me of the teachings of the dalai lama in 'the art of happiness' where his main point is that the key to happiness is connecting with others not only are the characters in the film insular but they are also humorless charmless shy quiet and unfriendly these characteristics appear to prevent them amongst other things from forming and enjoying relationships and being able to talk about and deal with their problems and as a result they are terribly unhappy i see it as a strong vindication of the dalai teaching i'm not a buddist by the way if you are one of the people who thinks that their behavior is a natural response to living in a large city then i think you may be right but i recommend the dalai book city life need not be like this br br i can see why some people found it boring it does drag a bit in places and the characters are not particularly likable and it does contrast to lost in translation where the insular characters are much more likable and do connect with one another even though they don't connect with people generally
1	bilge 2002 film distant his third feature film his first was 1997's black and white the small town is a significant step up from his good but flawed 1999 film clouds of may the earlier film had potential but reeked of a small budget and improvised quality in the worst ways plot holes and wooden acting from amateurs that clouds of may succeeded on any level was a testament to talent as a budding filmmaker however distant is arrival on the international scene as a great artist one who has many of the same qualities as other great filmmakers like ingmar bergman although his screenplay is not as dialogue heavy it is just as brooding and he lacks bergman's penchant for close ups his shots are usually long shots for exteriors and medium shots for interiors and yasujiro ozu whose penetrating scenes of contemplation the bulk of the film takes place in snowy istanbul the fact that it in turkey will likely surprise some which lends the film a definite feel as well as reminding one of some of the bleak snowy urban images from kieslowski's the decalogue the natural images invoke the best of werner herzog as they tend to go on a beat or two longer than standard film theory would dictate which is what makes them even more memorable while the urban landscapes range from the nearly compositions of michelangelo antonioni to the cultural hagiography of woody allen one shot of a bench overlooking water is a direct quotation read steal from manhattan save the lack of the brooklyn bridge in the background in another scene similarly quotes a famous shot of a ship in the harbor from ozu's tokyo story yet like all great artists makes his appropriations his own art by slightly altering them and keeping them apropos to his own film's distant is a film whose title the characterization within the film and the feeling some viewers will have toward them but it does not describe the film itself for scenes stay with one long after the film ends perhaps the most memorable scene and image of the film comes when stalks his ex wife at the istanbul airport and watches her with her new husband as they head to board the plane that will remove her from his life forever as he watches her from a distance we see her catch just a glance of him watching her will she leave her husband and return to not in this film he pulls back behind a column and merely turns her head back to her future is her past and she knows how to best move on just keep moving will never get it most rarely get such moments of insight into themselves of life that some viewers will get the film and that gets his own powers of creation shows that ignorance can teach as long as one moves about it distant does albeit it at just the right length
1	the one of the best films of all times and everybody must realize this movie i m a turkish boy and a big cinema fun and in this days our cinema industry is up and is the best turkish film of last ten years and maybe one of the best films of all times director bilge is quite amazing telling story characters atmosphere is wonderful he is a minimalist director and tells about routine event family dreams expects life tells about you tells about me tells about us i promise you will find a piece of your body in this movie cinema life welcomes a new director he is waiting to realize i promise yo you will love this movie please watch it
1	a study of one of those universally familiar physical and or emotional states isolation i think the film also comments on cultural displacement too br br the film presents the experiences of two turkish men cousins one has money and the comforts that come of having 'made it' with a steady income the other has none and goes in search of work neither are happy expect no celebration of life here this is loneliness warts and all br br the film succeeds in offering a powerfully bleak traverse across the 'low of the human condition brave film making well acted and well shot in my view outdoor shots by the harbour being my own favourites a film that should inspire gratitude in anyone who is not a stranger to happiness and fulfilment in life not to mention employment everyone else will find a companion in this film a film with all the warmth and pace of an ice expect a bitter pill not a 'happy pill '
1	the only complaint i heard about this film was that it was slow though perhaps this is the point the two characters clash and the slow build up of tension between them is anxiety producing the intricate and subtle gestures and minimal dialog take the tension to a point where an otherwise normal argument shocks the audience istanbul and the outskirts are dreamy scenery captivating and the plot is thrilling not in that look the hero blew up yet another car and he's now flying with his motorcycle kind of way though i had chills down my spine as the characters moved in and out of each other's spheres and watched the fog engulf istanbul
1	perhaps many viewers who got frustrated by this film live their lives without ever thinking deeply about life itself what i want to point out here is that distant is not only an art house film but one of the best art house films from all the art house films i have seen distant is the one that really stands out as a glittering piece of gold it is even fair to say that this film's cinematography and depiction of human emotion surpass tarkovsky's nostalgia one commentator got it right that sex a jaded common feature among foreign films is surprisingly lacking in distant and in a good way what is most remarkable about distant is that it captures the details of life we usually ignore and the rich essence of our existence that often gets buried under the din and visual extravaganza of our commercialized world fortunately distant doesn't have that much to spare the audiences and what we see on the screen is a bare portrait of human beings
1	a good movie for horse enthusiasts and most others it's a horse racing movie and it's a little man gets his chance movie and it's a how far would you go movie walter once again proves his as an actor he fits right in as lloyd a louisiana cajun horse bum this movie gives you a rare screen glimpse of cajun horse drag racing he has a young quarter horse who is a top racing prospect had nothing but a filling station and a good horse the seize the opportunity to make it big by taking the horse shadow to new mexico to get ready to run in the all american but how far will lloyd go to win the fame and fortune also memorable from this movie are scenes of lloyd spitting tobacco juice and waiting for his truck to start
1	for all that has been said about the subject matter and the controversy that surrounded it please do not overlook what i feel to be the most important part of the film the salient struggles of everyone to keep their pride through their trials whether dealing with self imposed male braggadocio a sexual reawakening or even life itself everybody is human
1	this is the last film of a trilogy by the brilliant turkish director bilge whose last film which was very was shown in prestigious film festivals differing from his previous films the story of is set on istanbul which is one of the most crowded cities of the world however in film we do see only minor traces of that huge crowd rather he choose to focus on two characters one photographer and one of his relatives who comes from his small village to find a job on transatlantic ships the photographer who we understand that has also to the city seems to be inhabited the customs of the city life not only in material sense in his relation to his relative we see him first as caring and tolerant however when he could not find a job our character starts to be disturbed for sharing his private 'space' with someone whose leaving date becomes ambiguous i will not reveal the tactics he develops in order to pull his relative out of his life to prevent any harm on your viewing pleasure but it is enough to say that shows us the tactics that we acquire within the routine of life to keep our own private space in order not to communicate with other people to prevent our relationships from gaining a complex nature since our own experience we believe that is complex enough br br film presents a clear picture of what a human being becomes within the borders of modern or postmodern city by depicting the two characters in different manners but he doesn't condemn any of the two characters for doing this rather he uses the power of cinematic language to underline this difference for example in search of new opportunities we always see the character coming from the village in open spaces even within the house he prefers balcony as his favourite space on the other hand we see the photographer always within the closed spaces and generally at his home although there are more than 10 million people out there and lots of adventures lots of interesting things to discover or are there any he prefers sitting at home watching tv etc his home is like his temple a kind of sacred place br br everyone living in a big city and conscious of the experience he is living through will find something belonging to himself in if you like this film i am sure that you will like other two films the clouds of may and the town go and find them
1	this is not a film to impress you with high budget high tech shots fast camera movements or glimmering costumes thought by an overzealous and hungry director but it's a film by a director who is also a very good photographer who has a very good sense of looking at things as a human not as an half god unlike most of the directors this is not a film in which actors and actresses try to give their best 'performances' with unreal or at best learned gestures and mimics rather it's a film in which they act as real as it can be actually they are not professional actors at all the dialogues between the main characters their expressions their feelings are as real as they can easily be yours in real life you tell the same lies to the people around you with the same regrets that you avoid to express with words you show the same signs of nuisance to an unwanted guest this is the same feeling of that you get in modern city life and this is your chance to see yourself from outside impersonated by the main characters i saw all of the films of bilge incl his short film thanks to those who puts it in the dvd many would compare him with tarkovsky ozu and maybe bresson or bergman as he is emerging as a true auteur and he is sincere in saying that his films are not to make money but to give a meaning to his life that is the kind of sincerity you'll find in
1	like all good art this movie could mean different things to different people to me it means that failing to open your hart to the others could rob you of happiness and leave you with an empty live the convenience of the selfishness is like the junk food it feels good but eventually could make you sick br br almost everything i see in the us is a commercial mass production of action garbage shallow dramas and stupid comedies and this sensitive deep and poetic movie really touched me thank you bilge and all the other in the cast br br ivan
1	following the collapse of yesilcam answer to hollywood in the mid '90s few but the most prescient of observers could have foreseen such a recent pique in the turkish film industry arguably built upon the work of ex photographer bilge br br is the director's third feature and forms something of a trilogy with his two earlier pictures and clouds of may following similar themes and techniques the film finds mahmoud a commercial photographer living alone in a small istanbul apartment only visited occasionally by his brusque married lover his nephew has left his village home after the closure of a factory and the loss of his job the younger man stays with mahmoud while fruitlessly looking for work in the city drinking in cafés and nervously observing young women he never approaches br br the film's title is translated as distant and the film beautifully illustrates every possible connotation of the word physical distance from his home emotional distance from the world around him and the generational distance between the two men br br films rarely contain heightened dramatics instead allowing full and rich characters to develop from within the tightly framed static shots he acts as director producer writer cinematographer and co editor and casts friends and family in many of the roles such a confined insulated approach to film making might be expected to lead to films hard to infiltrate and connect with for most viewers making undoubted humanity all the more impressive br br is however a better cinematic formalist than dramatist taking the reigns from such past masters of cinematic language as ozu and tarkovsky after viewing i can think of few better suited to the task
1	the first time i saw the poster i was stunned by its tranquility and beauty then the city of istanbul has been haunting in my mind ever since br br not much dialogue not much music the whole film was shot as elaborately and aesthetically like a sculpture it itself is a landscape br br actually there are a lot of things going on in the film but the director deliberately omitted most dramatic parts and leave them to our imagination thus creating a really flat life mild spoiler one can see ladylove crying in the toilet and then going out without a word but not their fight one can see accompanying his mother in the hospital but not her struggle from illness the most dramatic scene in the film to me is laughing out loud for the toy soldier he bought for his niece and that's when it almost broke my heart to see this boring lonely life bursting out in such a way br br with all the trivialities in life the story presents us with pure inner world of all the characters their sadness anxiety loneliness regrets and as the story unfolded i sort of finally grasped their desperate situation where their emotions were really no way out if no outer things intervened which is exactly every loner tries to keep at all cost especially for an irresponsible artist like br br i've just finished my second watching last night i into my quilt had some vodka beside my bed and went through the whole film in a trance i felt two real lives going on one outside the screen one inside the screen i felt free from all those loneliness and anxiety 'cause the people inside were experiencing it i just had myself removed from all those things br br we cannot deny the universal problem of communication and loneliness even puts us far towards it and it becomes a vicious spiral i bet still didn't figure out a way of living in the end that's why he stepped out of his room to try to find the answers from the outer world the coldness and landscape
1	this is a film about loneliness and how the distance – physical and emotional between people tends to relationships br br the narrative is simple to the point of banality a young man from a rural village arrives in istanbul to stay with his older and successful cousin wants work in the big city after trying for a few weeks to find work without any success the strain of having living with him is too much for they quarrel – nothing physical just verbal eventually goes leaving alone again end of story br br except for the fact that the performance of the two men as relatives is one of the best on film much is said visually dialog is used to bring out disagreement distrust hostility and insecurity that exist within and between the two men br br there are many visual gems in this film for example while searching for work young needing a relationship tries in vain to gain the attention of various young women around the city the look on his face as he is thwarted every time says it all br br or wanting a cigarette opens the door to the balcony of apartment and lights up in the frigid december air leaving the door open eventually gets up from his work desk walks to the door all glass and the cousins just look at each other for what seems way too long a time then closes the door leaving out in the cold the metaphor is complete br br or cleaning up after grudgingly and with increasing anger and all the while wastes his time chasing skirts instead of looking seriously for work and spends money on a toy for a is emotional untidy impulsive and vulnerable is rational logical self confident and a demanding control freak the right brain left brain dichotomy beautifully played out by two actors who say more with a look a gesture a frown than any words can convey br br but is not completely emotionless he still loves his ex wife who tells him that she's off to canada with her husband to be affects a distant and confident friendship with his ex and makes sure that she is okay about going he wishes her well he says goodbye he leaves the coffee shop where they were talking later when she calls to say a last goodbye on the way to the airport goes there and secretly watches as she leaves the poignancy of the emotion on his face as she disappears through a door is worth the wait br br all in all this is a standout piece of work by the two main actors and the director some might argue that the pace is too slow but life goes slowly for much of the time especially for those who are alone the camera work is relatively simple also choose the scene set up the camera and lighting and let the actors move across the scene enter the scene and leave the scene all the while keeping the camera still there were a few panning shots some high angle tracking shots a few rural scenes – but much of the film is shown as though on a stage with a fixed camera and a wide angle lens except for tv and radio music within the story there is no music sound track and there are those many long silences as the two men sit and watch tv together and or engage in very limited conversation br br i saw this movie on tv so i was amused to see that on a few occasions i was watching tv as they were watching tv also the silence in the movie matched the silence in my house i was awake all others in bed my chair and position matched that of as he watched tv quite eerie giving me a sense of almost 'being there' with him… and i guess i was in a sense br br i'll say no more because i want you to savor the other scenes that i haven't described it's not a movie for everybody for sure more than any movie i've seen it shows just how much we die when we are all alone – just as we are all alone when we die face as it fades to black in the final scene will stay with me for a long long time br br highly recommended for serious movie buffs
1	when you're watching distant you know you're not watching a french movie there's little sex and it's mostly elliptical and people don't talk that much here there are a few lines scattered here and there and a couple of important conversations just to let you make sense of what's going on it doesn't look american either there aren't any car chases or shoot outs or violence unless you consider the killing of a mouse an act of blood or the daily tension of getting by a subdued catastrophe at times the relatively long held medium distance shots may remind you of asian cinema but just reminds you the director doesn't push things to the radical minimalism of some taiwanese filmmakers but then again this is not a taiwanese movie it's a turkish movie i don't know what that means i don't even know if that's supposed to mean something br br the movie doesn't have a plot proper and yet those few lines those somewhat long held shots and that often mitigated tension gradually build a sense of something happening a sense of 'plot' for lack of a better word that grows on you by the end of the movie you may get the feeling you're going to miss those two cousins who have many things in common but are worlds apart
1	for those who are like me and are used to watch and enjoy high budget hollywood films on huge screens with a surround audio this film seems to be so distant however it surprised me how close can it be to any human while i watch it it is so natural that you feel like nobody wrote a scenario or nobody directed it you are the director and you are writing the scenario while you watch it for me the time i spend on watching a film is the only time which i go to another world this film is the first sample for me which shows that it is not always a must to watch millions of dollars of budgeted films surround audio capabilities to go to another world this films sends you to another world or maybe makes you return back to yourself without millions of dollars of budget or technical capabilities i felt like that i'm reading from camus
1	hysterically painful perhaps the kind of movie chekhov would have made had he made movies what's really funny is that the two cousins have so very much in common many descriptions of their relationship on this site are dead wrong br br what's really funny and uncomfortable about these characters is that they just can't bring themselves to talk to each other or anyone else it's horrible if you've ever been too shy worried self involved or just plain scared to talk to someone and who hasn't you'll definitely see yourself in this film and it won't be pretty br br it holds a mirror up to the audience and says if you don't like what you see change it
1	it's probably a year since i saw but it has left strong memories of the two main characters jaded photographer and his naive cousin from the village br br it's a long film with very little dialogue and a quite limited plot this has evidently annoyed a fair few viewers but the film constructs such a painfully believable portrait of and that there's just as much emotional tension as in the thriller br br just to be clear there's no padding in this film in the long pauses where no one speaks there as much happening in the characters' emotions and in yours watching them as you could bear go to see it awake and alert and you'll be gripped rather than br br rings true in so many ways and that sincerity is probably its greatest accomplishment people don't grapple with events and problems so much as with each other in fact in the whole film there's probably not one point where the main characters and ex wife are not opposed br br much of it is true the world over country cousin perhaps wilfully naive expectation that a job on a ship will drop into his lap urbanised cynicism and unwillingness to sympathise with br br other truths are more specific to turkey that might be tolerating his stay with gritted teeth veering between macho ambition and wide eyed awkwardness when he tries to get to know a woman br br is undoubtedly a pretty bleak film and one strengths is not to beat us over the head with the themes he explores for me at least i believed entirely in the behaviour of his characters all the little failed attempts to connect and petty cruelties ring so true and yet i didn't leave with a message that the world is like that but instead i got this is how we sometimes treat each other
1	one of my favorite movies i like horses i like happy endings and i like walter matthau i miss him and am glad to have a great film like this to remind me why he was so wonderful watch it with your kids or your horse br br the story of an old hard boot horse trainer with kids and down on his luck if you have ever had or appreciated horse racing you will appreciate the rags to riches storyline it may be a little below but not a lot the story is the same one except it is the quarter horse version well acted correct racing terms and equipment and nice racing scenes don't take my word for it get it and make up your own mind
1	reading some of the other reviews of this film i was reminded of both good and not so good aspects of it but overall i have to say it is one of the better films i have seen from any number of genres or countries recently more than anything else it avoided many of the typical traps of more recent international cinema like taking nice pictures of landscapes or being 'hip' 'fun' or imitating american films like pulp fiction the film is unique in many ways for one thing it is a film about relationships in which sex plays no role unusual especially for foreign films it is also a film about two men's relationship to each other also unusual not a 'buddy film' no homosexual tension no ego phallic competition it uses little dialogue but communicates a tremendous amount it is a simple story yet full of complex details which are easily understood by any human being and universal in their relevance i did not find the film dark or depressing everything would seem this way if you watch hollywood happy ending films all the time but rather a true reflection of human emotions for instance in the scene where realizes his cousin is gone is you see both his feeling of relief that the cousin is gone and yet regret that he pushed him away who has not felt such ambivalence when losing a friend or lover or in some other situation it's rare to get these kinds of real human emotions displayed on film in a non cliché way as far as culture is concerned or this being a turkish film i feel it strikes the very difficult balance between being a film about realities which more apply to that place the greater struggle to make it in a turkish city versus a european one the greater contrast between country and city and a universal human story which didn't necessarily have to be set in turkey in this day and age where people around the world are consuming culture and it this film does not try to entice us as nor does it try to communicate it as a reality' or 'that's how turkey istanbul is' and yet the cultural elements are there i think the comparison to 'lost in translation' that somebody made is quite good everyone at least in the us was raving about that film i personally thought it was mediocre at best it was well put by someone as a vague story which supposedly was supposed to deal with that happens to people living or traveling overseas even if the film was supposed to be humorous the characters and their motivations or crises were never clear even for a film or comedy this is necessary and i found myself being treated to a typically story of the alienated amerian overseas going back to as for the idea that this is bad acting or too slow or has no plot i'm sorry but people who say this know nothing about film making and maybe nothing about being human no offense you do not have to be a film aficionado or cultural connoisseur to appreciate this film this film will be two hours of your time well spent
1	i am very thankful that the small college town of va near bristol tn and home of the famous barter theatre where gregory peck once acted managed to get an art film festival and show this film there is two and a hour hours from where i live but the trip was worth it in every sense of the word distant is an amazing brilliant jarring emotional captivating film as a turkish american this film was not only a testimony as to what life in turkey is like but on a larger scale it tells the world of what it is like to be turkish whether one lives in istanbul berlin montreal new york or omaha it may be two hours in length as opposed to five minutes but this is effectively our bob marley song there are so many wonderful scenes in this film it is very difficult to choose just a random few but for me one telling scene takes place in a downtown istanbul cinema the title character played by mehmet who sadly died in a car accident shortly after this film's completion follows a very attractive young woman down a staircase to the cinema's main auditorium she goes into see vanilla sky as the image of tom cruise is reflected from a glass we sense that turkish men are competing with tom cruise for their own women's affections even though tom cruise is nowhere to found in the scenes shot across the shores are also quite revealing as they symbolize the beauty yet desperate empty which are a painful fact of life in turkey in this film the gulf separates lovers and families a simple empty packet of turkish brand cigarettes and a dying mouse jump off the screen the way seagulls did in the 1982 goren yilmaz film many of films including the herd 1978 completed by and baba the father 1971 have been considered by many to be the best turkish films ever made without sometimes overblown social political anger especially in his last film the 1983 prison drama the wall distance captures the essence of turkish life quite remarkably this is a crowning achievement for a director who in my view can already be proclaimed as the turkish equivalent to directors like tarkovsky bresson and ozu i can't wait to see his other films
1	it has taken me about a year now after seeing this film to write about it lord knows i have wanted to after witnessing it i knew i saw something i hadn't seen before but wasn't sure why now after reflecting for quite some time i know it's these characters that even now i still can't stop thinking about br br distant briefly and slowly tells the story of a relative who comes from the to live briefly with a well off to do photographer in the city in hopes to find employment however it becomes clear that after the idea of being a sailor and his employment prospects dim that he's really searching for something else some sort of purpose in his life br br through all this soul searching we are taken through seasonal surroundings that are filmed exquisitely the context in which they happen makes the scenes more powerful in 2 particular ones when a girl has been following suddenly meets up with her significant other and the look of face as he looks into a basket of fish and the shot and light that reflects off his tortured face that scene in itself has to be one of the most gorgeously filmed pieces i have witness in i don't know how long br br in the end has his own demons too but ends up confronting his relative that he is not really trying to find a job and is forced to ask him to leave in a scene that is very simple but has the feeling of true heartbreak br br what the viewer is left with is lots of reflecting and pondering for these 2 people who everyone can see a piece of themselves in you should not be put off by the pace of this film it is truly worth every single breathtaking second br br rating 10 out of 10
1	people must learn to watch what is up there on the screen this is a great film that is based on a slow careful gathering of details which serve to establish the personalities of these two men the passivity of the country cousin is well described by his fear of talking to women he has at least three chances to start a conversation with a young woman and loses all of them he has many decades of ahead of him and maybe unemployment as well br br is a different case he got out of the small town by working very hard we imagine and his resentment of slackers like is palpable he leaves crumbs on the expensive carpet the slob we are shown a group of friends talking about tarkovsky among other things and we note that feels regret but only slight regret that his work has become commercial over the years the gulf between the cousins just gets wider and wider the mouse trap theme is wonderfully vivid it brings out the compassion and confusion of and the cold blooded problem solving of br br i was reminded of two classic films of men driving each other nuts les cousins by chabrol the rich boy with hitlerian pretensions played by is always in my mind and kiss of the spider woman william hurt can't figure out why everybody's so mean bilge takes his place among the dozen important directors now active i just hope that in future he will come to rely on collaborators instead of directing writing and shooting his films himself
1	2002 a turkish film shown in the u s as distant br br was directed produced written and filmed by bilge br br br br this movie is a gritty and somber version of the clash between a city mouse played by and a country mouse played by br br both men are superb actors and the plot allows them to demonstrate their acting skill tragically died in an automobile accident shortly after the movie was completed br br in most country cousin city cousin tales the contrast between rural and urban life styles is portrayed in a humorous fashion in this film there's little humor or even warmth both men br br have lost touch with human society 's work as a br br commercial photographer for a tile company gives him no satisfaction he has divorced a woman he clearly br br still loves and has no satisfying human relationships br br has lost his job because of a factory closing in his small town and doesn't have the skills or the energy to find work in the city his human interactions are primarily confined to silent observations of the other people who cross his path he's clearly a warm and caring person but can't express these qualities in an urban environment br br the cousins don't relate well to the world and they don't relate well to each other neither makes an effort to act in a way that would provide an opportunity for bonding or closeness br br in a sense this film portrays an opportunity wasted br br conceivably each cousin could have provided at least part of what was lacking in the other's life instead they steer parallel unhappy courses the two men are distant throughout which is a situation suggested by the film's title br br one of my friends mentioned the masterful way in which builds detail upon detail these details ultimately tell us more about the characters than we might have learned by simple exposition br br was shown as part of the rochester labor film series it's not a labor film in the traditional sense of that genre it is a labor film because it demonstrates the harmful effects of unsatisfying work and unemployment br br this is a quiet absorbing dark film although it doesn't make for happy viewing i walked out of the br br theater realizing that i had seen a truly creative and br br important movie this film is worth finding and seeing
1	while sleeping mr eko is assigned by his brother mccormack in a dream to go with john locke to disclose the meaning of the symbol with the pretext of chasing henry mr eko brings john with him and they find a second hatch called pearl underground the question mark symbol marked on the field where a video explains that the other hatch is a psychological experiment and people behavior pressing the buttons of the computer every 108 minutes are actually subjects meanwhile jack unsuccessfully tries to save libby br br in this episode john locke loses his faith in the island when he finds that they have been monitored in the hatch the disgusting michael sees the anguishing libby wishing that she was dead while hurley jack kate and sawyer are suffering her pain in a deep emotional contrast my vote is eight br br title brazil not available
1	in this episode locke and eko go searching for the symbol that we saw during the lock down on a previous episode michael having shot ana lucia and libby struggles with his actions as libby inches closer to death br br the most interesting thing about this episode i think is during the commercial break locke and eko find a hatch under the plane that killed boone in season one and a new training video ends with copyright the foundation 1989 in a following commercial break a rather bizarre and nondescript commercial advertises the foundation a planted commercial and the website advertised www com leads the visitor through a world of information about life on the outside of lost's storyline a must see for all fans
1	the second mr eko episode has somewhat less interesting flashbacks than the first the 23rd psalm but in just about every other department it is one of the best episodes of season 2 advancing the series' mythology background as well as the characters a new dharma initiative station the pearl is discovered by locke and eko and the orientation film that they find and watch inside completes locke's transformation from a believer orientation after the end of the film we're gonna have to watch this again to a doubter s o s did you push that button henry i need to know to a non believer after the end of the film do you want to watch this again no i've seen enough terry performance is powerful as usual every single second of my pathetic little life is as useless as that button meanwhile eko takes his place as the man who becomes sure that he was brought on the island as part of his true destiny which is to continue pushing the button other high points of are a startling unique dream sequence where person a has the dream as being person b this is the kind of bold idea that the current season of lost could use much more of and the haunting scene of libby's last word before her death and the way jack and hurley cannot possibly know its true meaning 1 2 out of 4
1	an eko centric episode the explores the aftermath of the tragic events that rocked the castaways in the previous one as the main characters john locke sawyer kate and hurley come to terms with the incident in the hatch locke and eko set out to find out where henry took off to as it turns out eko is on a mission of his own trying to figure out the symbol which locke had drawn on his sketch we see flashes of life in sydney as a priest who comes in contact with his brother through a stranger we also witness the tragedy that struck the hatch boil down to a room temperature as michael continues to remain a mystery br br an excellent lost episode with many interesting turns
1	northfork is above all a masterpiece of widescreen cinematography for this alone the film is well worth one's time the stark wide open plains and badlands of eastern montana are captured in the spare muted earth tones of autumn or early spring the gigantic grey cement fort peck dam is the film's protagonist the film comments both subtly and not so subtly on about a dozen issues of western landscape the dialogue can be trying at times yet the images and concepts are powerful enough to lift the film the 1950's period works so well here and is executed so well i think that the passing years will be kind to this film
1	another of the endless amount of cookie cutter fight to the death for the amusement of wealthy films that there were so many of in the 90s y'know the ones created by taking the words 'death' 'blood' and 'steel' and the words 'ring' 'fight' and and putting them in a random generator saying that though death match is a pretty good entry in the over used genre thanks to its exciting fight scenes and the surprisingly good acting of its kickboxer cast br br the story concerns two buddies ex kickboxing world champion john larson played by pug faced kickboxing champ ian probably previously best known for his awful performance as the main villain in ring of fire 2 and nick wallace nick hill a likable guy probably best known for the role of street fighter sergio in bloodsport 2 who work the l a docks loading crates onto ships one discovery of a of guns and a brief fight later our two heroes are jobless and propping up an l a bar sensible john larson decides to head north and look for a job headstrong nick wallace has heard of a guy paying good money for fighters to fight in private kickboxing matches why should things change says john if you need me i'll be there predictably enough it isn't long before nick has gone missing and his good friend is fighting in the deadly of death' trying to find a lead to his missing buddy br br sure enough there are no prizes for originality here but like i said before this films strength lies in its action its cast of real life fighters and the fairly good performances it manages to wring from them ian in particular surprised me previously i'd just seen him as the bad guy in ring of fire 2 and in bit parts in tripe like the steel ring and i've always been quite amused at how bad an actor he is good fighter though but in death match he's pretty good given a decent script and a haircut he proves himself to be quite the charismatic leading man and his friendship with nick is very well portrayed and hill have a nice chemistry and you really believe these two characters care for each other enough for one of them to lose a job travel halfway across the country and risk death to save the other i wish i had a friend like that br br it was also nice to see matthias hues as a villainous henchman with a little more depth than we're used to seeing from his many roles however don't be fooled into thinking he's the star just because he's on the video cover with it seems his head stuck on the body of michael from the cover of he is good while he's on screen but he isn't on much br br on the negative side the film is pretty slow when there's no fighting going on with lots of unnecessary scenes whats with gangster jimmie pointless story about his grandfather and the end fight is disappointingly short but on the whole i enjoyed it plenty of fights most of them good isn't that all we martial arts really need and of course eye candy here in the lovely form of the very pretty renee all in all a pretty entertaining kickboxing movie
1	i loved the movie northfork i knew nothing about the movie before watching it therefore i had no outside influence or information to guide me in what i was seeing unfold on the screen in retrospect i would advise anyone interested in the movie to watch it if for no other reason than the quality actors who appear in it do not read anything about the plot story line or evaluation of the movie in fact stop reading anything further in my comments although i believe they are general and would not spoil the movie for you i don't want to diminish the value of the movie to you find your own path of meaning in this film or it is diminished in its potential br br in general i found the 3 benign strangers in puzzling as the movie unfolds they could qualify as three entertaining escapees from a mental hospital or the dreams and hallucinations of a sick and feverish young boy or three angels sent to find the lost angel br br the sick and perhaps dying boy works to convince the three strangers to abandon the search for the lost angel become his guardians mother father and take him safely far away from northfork no less than 1000 miles he even declares that he is the lost angel to try to manipulate them all to be his guardian only one of the three responds to the boy on a positive basis the other two have no real enthusiasm or passion for this involvement br br the priest who is nursing the sick boy demonstrates a depth of caring for people and a deep conviction toward his faith he transcends the desolation and emptiness of northfork and its people he is the light of goodness and hope to both northfork and to the movie viewer br br near the climax of the movie the boy and new guardian journey over land to a field where a plane waits they board to find the other two strangers also on the plane in fact one is the pilot the engines start and the plane takes off br br who are the 3 strangers if only one stranger was interested in helping the boy why were all three on the plane where is the plane going did the other two find the lost angel is there a lost angel and if so who is it who are the six men dressed like undertakers if all of this is just the sick boy's feverish dreams how did one of the 3 strangers end up reaching out to help one of the men dressed like an undertaker when he jumped and hit his head neither the boy or strangers had contact with these men br br one or two sentences written under the title telling people what this movie is about is a tragic mistake this is not a spoiler it's statement about advertising only so if you haven't seen the movie northfork the questions above show only a few of the interesting and fun forks in the road of thought when you view the film northfork if you read the advertising summary of the plot of the movie before you watched it previously maybe you ought to look at some of the questions above and watch it again i know i will br br terry
1	after some further thought about this film i find it's far too easy to dismiss this as the boy's dream i have actually received some spiritual strength from northfork angels do exist we definitely are entertained by angels most of the time we aren't even aware of it at a point of spiritual and emotional in my life i personally really needed this film yes as i wrote before it speaks to so many can't wait to get to heaven br br being so sick of all of the fx and formula stuff i found this film to be genuine cinema all i can say is it touched me in so many ways that i still am sorting it all out north fork is a wonderful film one that brings the viewer's mind out of the gutter and into the heart the spiritual aspect is so very intriguing to me pay attention as you'll need to use the brain and heart god gave you to follow the story i think it's possibly a bit over the heads of some but i feel those are the individuals it speaks to most importantly i want to view it several more times just so i can take it all in br br the industry needs to study this film to realize we do exist br br my thanks to all involved in the making of this film
1	i recently attended sundance as i have often done in years past and was treated to the small pleasures of the edgy little indies the glut of dark comedies and the now predictable portraits of dysfunction but then i saw mark and michael and i remembered why i so fell in love with the movies in the first place sweeps across the screen with visionary daring and harkens back to the seminal early work of terence malick and the existential landscapes of antonioni it's an impossible film to easily explain which is one of its many strengths suffice it to say it's an adult fairy tale with many carefully layered levels of meaning it reawakened my imagination and cast an imposing shadow over all the other films i saw this year it is a work of meticulous craftsmanship and a sophistication of writing not seen in most american movies i plan to revisit this film several times when it comes to my theater for it is a beguiling piece of magic and mystery a haunting work where one can roam the plains of montana in search of angels and the very nature of heaven and earth the cast performs this piece with striking conviction particularly james woods and nick nolte who remind us of the nerve and daring displayed throughout the course of their careers maybe will help us find a new wave of american cinema where excellence in craft and writing become more the norm than the exception see it when it comes your way and take your friends for the questions will be many and the thoughts and feelings spurred by seeing will awaken memories of great movie once seen in your past and now hopefully may be returning with the advent of the polish brothers
1	at first glance a film like northfork a town set to be flooded in 1955 and a group of 6 characters who are sent out to evacuate the remaining townspeople could be just an ordinary film as we soon meet a remaining priest taking care of a sick child a greedy land owner we could be set up for a simple story we could all easily digest however when one is first introduced to this film you notice the amazing wide open cinematography and a scene involving a church hall missing a wall that opens up to the pastures and scenic view of the mountains with cattle grazing it soon becomes clear that after this scene and a few of the towns peoples introduction that this is no ordinary film and no ordinary story it is something very special and unique br br at first glance things are not as clear but the cinematography and landscape that the viewer is witness to is stunning and the characters that inhabit this small soon to be extinct area are just in word amazing it's what can either draw you in closer to this film or either have you bored sitting there waiting for something to happen br br the films deep spiritual and dream like qualities give it a slow and methodical approach which i am sure will bore some viewers but if you are patient with it and see the bigger picture the film is great to witness br br rating 8 out of 10
1	imagery controls this film the characters although interesting ultimately take a back seat the first scene i remember is a framed black and white shot of the ocean that then opens to full screen and color the bubbling of the water gives way to a small coffin that breaks the surface the theme of the movie here being that death can be accepted and brought into the realm of the living br br water as an ultimate consciousness as a tool of god is used to here to force people to get their houses in order judgment day the dead have to be accounted for and lifted to a better place whatever one has left unresolved or unsettled will be washed away there's no clinging on to the past to a buried memory of what was br br this movie has been compared to o brother where art thou and the threat of water and its use as a cleansing force is similar to that film what's different in this movie is that the coming of the water is knowable and so again the emphasis is on what needs to be done with the here and now br br i agree that the some of the scenes are reminiscent of a david lynch work take for example the dinner segment with the deep voiced and androgynous waitress one gets the same surreal feel from the setting and odd character as one does with the backwards talker in the scene from fire starter the difference is that lynch attacks us with the image to express the psychological processes of a troubled character whereas this film seems to use surreal elements to create a moral message the men in black suits can't have anything they want they must be patient and accept what is available
1	it is a rare and fine spectacle an allegory of death and that is neither preachy nor mawkish a work of mature and courageous insight northfork avoids arthouse distinction by refusing to belong to a kind unlike the most memorable and accomplished film to impose an obvious comparison wim wenders' 1987 wings of desire der himmel über berlin it sustains an ambivalence in a narrative spectrum spanning from the mundane to the supernatural this story of earthly and celestial eminent domains in the american west withholds the fairytale that marked its german predecessor in the ad hoc genre of angels shedding their wings with obsequious sentimentalism its celestial transcendence be it inspired by doleful faith or impelled by a fever dream never parts ways with crud and rot this firm grounding to great credit for writers and directors mark and michael polish
1	the stark cold landscape of big sky country with its majestic snow capped mountains juxtaposed to barren plains is put to poetic use here in this lynchian fable slide picture show about death and melancholy from the young and talented polish brothers who previously treated indie movie fans to the bizarre and fascinating twin falls idaho a film about a young woman falling in love with two brothers who happen to be siamese twins a little orphan boy is dying and a town is about to flooded in the name of progress in the form a damn and power plant with its eerily pleasing music score minimalist dialogue and character development and uncanny fantasy sequences involving some very unique angels the polish brothers put their focus on what every good film artist knows a film should be about the moving pictures the images the scenes paintings of deep beauty captured on celluloid this is best to be viewed late at night so that the haunting imagery can linger in your mind and wash over you as you drift off into sleep the fact that all of this was done on a shoe string budget of less than two million dollars puts hollywood with their bloated film costs and hollow movies to shame and indicates something grand to come from the polish brothers in the future
1	michael hypnotic northfork is a film that will stay in one's memory for quite a long time this exquisitely crafted movie that michael and mark polish wrote is visually one of the best things that came out last year from the world of independent films the movie is splendidly photographed by m david mullen with a haunting score by stuart br br if you haven't seen the film perhaps you should stop reading here br br the idea to set the film in montana was a great coup for the polish brothers never has the majestic views of the country and mountains been so vividly captured as in northfork we don't need any color the beauty is in the dark tones of the film that enhances the story of the desolation in this remote outpost br br at the center of the story is irwin the sick child under the care of the mysterious father harlan this boy is seen in his bed where the kind priest is administering the medicine for his body but is he really there at all we watch him interacting with the odd group that we first encounter around the cemetery there are two freshly open graves will one of them be for irwin br br at the same time another plot line plays parallel to this first theme we see the six men in black that have come to the area in order to remove from the area as many people as they can this will be the bed for the man made lake that will be created their reward is one acre and a half of lake front property if they move a certain amount of people br br the third story line centers on the mystical group composed by flower hercules cup of tea cod and happy they are following a possibility of a link to an angel that has been injured in this area when irwin meets them at the cemetery he offers to help only if they take him away at least a thousand miles from here we watch as the quartet examine the feathers the boy has placed among the pages of his bible could irwin be that angel br br the closing sequence show us all parties leaving northfork in different directions the men in black riding their automobiles perhaps going home to enjoy the newly acquired properties given to them as a reward the mystical group is seen boarding a plane and taking off for a higher place we also realize that the child in father harlan in spite of the and the care he received from the saintly figure has died br br michael polish got one of the best ensemble acting from all the principals nick nolte as father harlan turns a low key performance in his portrayal of this kind man james woods as walter one of the men working for the developer does a fine job the biggest surprise is duel farmer who makes an excellent impression as irwin this child actor with the right guidance shows great promise br br the mystical group is brilliantly acted by daryl hannah robin sachs ben foster and anthony edwards the man with the funny spectacles peter coyote mark polish ben foster and the rest of the cast are flawless under mr polish direction br br the beauty of the film relies in its simplicity mr vision will haunt one's memory the images of montana as perhaps an unreal landscape is one of the best things in american films in quite a while
1	the third film from the polish brothers is their best most beautiful imaginative film yet though many audiences will have a problem with lack of traditional dramatic structure stick with it jack the plot is difficult to summarize so just know that the story includes agents trying to evacuate a city god in a cowboy hat the selling of angel wings and a sick orphan but it all works m david extraordinary photography makes almost every frame exciting and wonderful to look at the performances of the actors working with the polish brothers' offbeat script are pitch perfect and give the film its emotional punch the strong willed audience member will be moved by the mythology and folk tale of the story the comic and moving actors and finally the incredible courage and command that michael polish shows behind the camera again all of these incredible and seemingly disjointed elements come together magnificently in one of the most incredible things you should run out and experience a great great great movie
1	it's a shame this movie is rated pg 13 it is really quite suitable for anyone though young kids might not follow it too well br br it belongs to that wonderful genre of serio comic ghost angel stories that would have to include everything from capra's it's a wonderful life to wenders's wings of desire br br the photography is stunning the acting first rate and wonder of wonders the tone is uplifting br br my only criticism is that there is not much ambiguity in the film the two interwoven stories seem intriguingly mysterious at first but they resolve themselves a little too nicely for my taste as the director points out in his commentary on the dvd all the ingredients of irwin's story are on his bedside table the symbolism is just a trifle too pat for me br br but what a lark my favorite scene has to be when the relocation team tries to get breakfast at a diner this is practically theatrical in its magic a tour de force of witty acting subtle playful and positively rhythmic coupled with striking cinematography and an acute eye for the grotesque br br northfork is funny touching gorgeous to look at magical with the above reservations and has not one single car chase br br an easy nine stars
1	this is a decent effort for a b movie martial arts actioner ian a former north american cruiser weight kickboxing champion is the lead and acquits himself well in the action scenes the muscular matthias hues gets a chance to add more to his martial arts bad guy persona in this film than in all of his many others and if you are a fan of the teutonic titan rent this movie now br br renee griffin is also noteworthy as the romantic interest in this film she starts off with attitude but soon warms up to the hero and they make the beast with two backs in a very stylish fashion br br the fight scenes are good in the american tradition no hong kong acrobatics here with added realism from having benny the jet urquidez playing himself as john larson's trainer br br all in all this film seems to have more sub plots than most in its genre so you get more of a story
1	it all depends on how you look at it are either halfway to heaven or halfway to hell says the priest rev harlan in northfork the polish brothers' film is an ambitious one that will make any intelligent viewer to sit up provided he or she has patience and basic knowledge of christianity the layers of entertainment the film provide takes a viewer beyond the surreal and absurd imagery that is obvious to a less obvious socio political and theological commentary that ought to provoke a laid back american to reflect on current social values the film's adoption of the surreal coffins that emerge from the depths of man made lakes to float and disturb the living who nearly crucify their feet to wooden floor of their homes angels who need multiple glasses to read etc and absurd images of half animals half toys that are alive of door bells that make most delicate of musical outputs of a harp a blind angel who keeps writing unreadable etc could make a viewer unfamiliar with the surreal and absurdist traditions in literature and the arts to wonder what the movie is un as entertainment though european cinema has better credentials in this field hollywood has indeed made such films in the past cat lee marvin and his horse leaned against the wall to take a nap several decades ago northfork in one scene of the citizens leaving the town in cars seemed to pay homage to the row of cars in citizen kane taking kane and his wife out of xanadu for a picnic br br the film is difficult for the uninitiated or the impatient film most interesting epilogue one of the finest i can recall can be heard as a voice over towards the end of the credits the directors seem to leave the finest moments to those who can stay with film to the end if you have the patience you will savor the layers of the you gulp or swallow what the polish bothers dish out you will miss out on its many flavors br br what is the film all about at the most obvious layer a town is being vacated to make way for a dam and project even cemeteries are being dug up so that the mortal remains of the dead can be moved to higher burial grounds real estate promoters are hawking the lakeside properties to 6 people who can evict the townsfolk of the 6 only one seems to have a conscience and therefore is able to order chicken broth soup while others cannot get anything served to them br br at the next layer you have christianity and its interaction on the townsfolk most are devout christians but in many lurk the instinct to survive at the expense of true christian principles exemplified in the priest many want to adopt children without accepting the responsibilities associated with such actions br br at the next layer you have the world of angels interacting with near angelic humans and with each other you realize that the world of the unknown angel who keeps a comic book on hercules and dreams of a mother finds one in an androgynous angel called flower hercules while the filmmaker does give clues that flower is an extension of the young angel's delirious imagination subsequent actions of flower belie this option you are indeed in the world of angels not gods but the pure in therefore not in the world of the living the softer focus of the camera is in evidence in these shots br br at another layer the toy plane of irwin becomes a real plane carrying him and his angels to heaven 1000 miles away from norfolk br br the final layer is the social the country is divided into two types of people fords people and chevy people is there a difference they think they are different but both are consumerist br br to the religious the film says pray and you shall receive words of fr harlan quoted by angel flower hercules to the consumerist the film says its what we do with our wings that separate us each of the 6 also have wings one duck goose feather tucked into their hat bands but their actions are different often far from angelic as suggested by the different reactions to a scratch on a car br br the film is certainly not the finest american film but it is definitely a notable path breaking work superb visuals striking performances especially nick nolte and a loaded script offering several levels of entertainment for mature audiences
1	a dreamy stunningly atmospheric film takes place in a small town of northfork montana in 1955 the government officials arrive to evacuate the town about to be inundated by a new dam there are the other visitors in the town the angels from another time but they only seen by a dying boy irvin a local priest nick nolte in a quiet heartbreaking performance takes care of the boy irvin pleads with the angels to leave the place with them br br there is some unearthly quality in the film some dignified mourning and sublime sadness when you suddenly realize the inevitable finality of everything humans and their relationships cities countries civilizations the whole world as we know it death and birth have something in common we go through them in the ultimate loneliness br br i cannot recall the film that affected me in the same way and as deeply as northfork did the film so beautiful and so tender so quiet and so powerful so heartbreaking and so moving even now after several weeks since i saw it tears come to my eyes when i only think of it br br after i saw it i had to talk to somebody about it i sent a pm to one of my friends and i asked please tell me what i just saw and my friend replied with the words you just saw one of the greatest films of modern times one of these days others will see the light
1	when northfork debuted at the cannes film festival many people didn't like it because they felt it was boring and too slow while i agree that it was slow one of the slowest movies of the year in no way was it boring as roger ebert said there has never been a movie like northfork ' i usually don't agree with ebert but for once he speaks the truth although john sunshine state may have some of the same immediate themes nothing that i have ever seen or known of can even compare to the striking originality of the polish brothers' northfork br br northfork is a perfect example of how many times it's better to trek an extra few minutes to go to an art house film instead of the latest jack black movie the plot isn't some hackneyed cookie cutter plot it's just so strikingly original a small town in montana named northfork has a dam nearby that is about to be taken down therefore the entire town must be evacuated some people however just don't want to leave in a side plot a young orphan duel is very sick and bedridden he's being taken care of by father harlan nick nolte the boy imagines himself as a fallen angel so to speak who help him out through his time of sickness br br although much of the movie is straightforward some of it could give david lynch a run for his money there's odd weather patterns a weird wooden huge dog thing and symbolism that would make fellini proud it's not as overall confusing as a lynch film but it's still quite odd that's what makes northfork so great it's so out of the ordinary and yet so simple and plausible br br northfork has a magical feel to it it's almost like you're watching something you're not quite sure what it is but you feel entranced by it as i said earlier i agreed with ebert on how this movie is unlike any other however i disagree when he says that it is not he goes on to say it's just enthralling ' perhaps he just thought he should give it good reviews because everyone else is but in lieu of how slow it was i still thought it was very entertaining something many dramas now can't do br br northfork may not be the quickest movie or the most popular movie but if you can get to and through it you'll be extremely surprised as i was br br my rating 8 10 br br rated pg 13 for brief sexuality
1	the polish brothers are unique film artists and they've really pushed the envelope here a fantasy that has points in common with wings of desire northfork tells the story of a '50s era small town in the middle of nowhere that is two days shy of being inundated and submerged thanks to the u s government's desire to make a reservoir on the place where the town stands it's a wry parable about loss and remembrance featuring angels dreams premonitions and the most hilarious government reclamation since repo man the performances are all outstanding especially nolte and woods i've noticed in reading down some of the comments that there are people who were offended simply by the fact that the polish twins use elliptical storytelling tactics and i want to say that's one of the things that makes this film so great its willingness to embrace the mysterious as an aspect of everyday life david cinematography is stunning highly recommended if you've suffered a meaningful personal loss such as the death of a parent i would even call this film necessary viewing ray
1	it's pretty evident that many of your nights were spent alone if you watched 5 minutes of the actual show instead of watching the commercial you would have seen one of the greatest television shows in canadian history being made too bad you would have been watching it alone probably the reason you hate it no game keys to the vip is hilarious light and funny guys are going to eat this show up my game is tight and i can hardly wait to get on this show the chicks were and the clubs kicked ass i'll be watching every week it makes me wonder why more great shows like this one aren't being made now it's clear that the talent in canada has the ability to produce american quality television
1	don't mind what this socially retarded person above says this show is hilarious it shows how a lot of single men are in a bar atmosphere and also shows that women are not as gullible as men think they are br br the contest aspect of the how is really cool and original its not the standard reality show that we are all used to now a days br br give it a chance everyone we are only one episode in we finally have some canadian programming that isn't absolute crap as canadians what do we normally get bon cop bad cop or corner gas come on people show that we are all not as prudish as the previous reviewer br br way to go comedy network giving a new show a chance the panel is funny and the contestants so far are pretty good
1	keys to the vip an original series by the canadian comedy network ca scored big with this entertaining yet inspirational gameshow this show is hosted by four funny good looking guys who judge others on their ability to pick up women each episode features two guys who go head to head in various pick up games there are three different sections and the winner scores a night as a vip in an exclusive toronto night club br br being a guy i naturally find this show hilarious we all know that it's hard to confront women and watching these guys do it naturally sparks the curiosity of men the guys who compete on this show might even give you a few pointers if you pay attention
1	i don't know what the last reviewer is talking about but this show is pure entertainment basically 2 dudes are put in competitions at a club to pick up girls in 3 different scenarios they mix up the scenarios for each show so it is not the same every time the panel of 4 judges is not afraid to call people out or admit it when they recognize game they will break down what the guy did wrong and what they guy did right some contestants are weak some are strong but what happens is always entertaining if you are a guy that goes out you can relate i've seen weak game i've seen strong game and this show is for real no doubt
1	for all losers who gave it negative review its because you probably have sex once in 2 years or you are in ltr with one girl for years and guess what she is going to cheat on you when player like those on that show approach her somewhere off course any male who is not as good as these guys are going to hate them and hate the show and that one chick who thinks this show is meant to mock these guys its more actually how to show clueless man how to pick up woman what these guys are doing it way better then what most man are doing not approaching at all for anybody who has open mind i recommend to read the book the game by neil strauss it deals with similar theme as this show
1	i think it is a brilliant show with cool talking heads and very cool action 2 guys who pretend to be masters in women seduction demonstrate their skills at different night clubs and 4 experts pickup artists themselves comment on them choosing the winner their jokes are amusing and some are really fun to watch more so this show really teaches men how to get in touch with women lots of expert's comments are useful while you may see how it works in the field actually i think this is one of the best tv shows and i totally recommend this to all men who like women br br ps pardon for my broken engrish
1	this show is absolutely fantastic it provides all the great drama and romance of teen shows like the oc and dawsons but it's a whole lot funnier it's a show with morals and values without everything being sugar coated and sanitised ala 7th heaven we don't have sororities or fraternities in australia and our university system is completely different so i have no idea how accurately greek life is portrayed but i don't care because this show is my new favourite any writer that can make me love a racist confederate flag waving bible basher must be genius br br and is my new pacey sorry josh jackson you've been
1	there are too many people on this board who have obviously missed the subtle wit of this series br br this show is great because it's a hilarious parody of itself guys who are self proclaimed studs are given a fair chance to convince us of their seduction abilities until they hit the field just to expose their complete lack of game on national tv – it's absolutely hilarious and the guys who are actually skilled are extremely compelling to watch as they effortlessly seduce the pretentious women that frequent these trendy nightclubs br br it celebrates unique charisma when deserved and mocks delusional when deserved either way it's always entertaining because unlike other dating shows it perfectly captures the authentic awkwardness and excitement of a pickup i highly recommend this show to anyone with a sense of humor
1	this has to be one of the best and most useful shows on tv keys to the v i p demonstrates some of the best seduction techniques and the humor that goes along with the techniques that are not up to par to the person who wrote the negative comment i only have one thing to say stop hating on us because we are better looking and have more game then you have you ever seen the inside of a club or do you just watch it on tv and your so called female friend she is not attracted to us because if guys like me saw her in the club we would just walk right by and talk to the hot girls like the ones on the show br br stop hating watch keys to the v i p and improve your game
1	i can't say this show is perfect perhaps all the previous commenters remember the old tuesday 10 30 slot taken up by the childish humour of butch elvira curt there's a space shuttle humping a 747 oh the glory of scrambling to hit any button on the remote to make it change br br face it comedy can't pull a showcase and create the comedic genius of the truly canadian trailer park boys but hey they try br br this show is by far one of the better original shows however none of the following will find themselves laughing at the apparent players who showcase their stupidity in picking up girls br br a dumb girls obviously they can't realise that they are just like the girls on the show oblivious jump on the man meat you can call yourself a whore tomorrow and get his name he looks good he must be popular and nice hahahaha oh but you'd never do that nobody would if they knew it was happening br br b guys who think women like nice guys obviously seeing these guys succeed at what you fail at or don't even get to experience is going to make your primal rages boil watch more closely they get shot down most of the time they say stupid crap br br c girls with respect for one another obviously seeing your separate distinctly female species get caught up in real world situations is wrong wrong wrong nobody gets played women are not objects they can't be played because they are all very faithful angels who are going to clubs to converse politely with one another without fear of guys trying to pick them up br br oh wait hmmmmmmmm br br as much as everybody will say that this show is not funny and that it doesn't teach you anything i have to take the opposite side the show is very good at detailing the way relationships work for both men and women the way they think and the way they think each other think and social hierarchy its funny to see and hear the guys make absolutely idiotic comments to things the women say my grandfather died recently oh well are we having fun tonight br br besides its a club the place people go to have fun and get laid no matter who you are you're going to a club to get or give attention to someone guys go there to test their game and pick up girls girls go there to flirt with guys and find the one that sweeps her off her feet the best lighten up br br if you're a guy learn a thing or two about different approaches and the different effects they have if you're a girl learn what these studly man whores really think like and learn to tell them apart from genuine guys next time you get broken up with by one of those realise its not because of him its because you're dumb and thought he was the greatest guy ever when he was quite clearly a dick to you the whole time
1	sure it seems like there is only about 17 minutes of actual content in each episode but it is certainly fun to watch you might find yourself cringing in your chair as buddy sticks his foot in his mouth and gets shot down or chuckling and shaking your head when some ridiculous line actually works the panel of hosts have more of a good natured friendly dare i say canadian style of commentary compared with cutthroat us reality programming i think the people who complain about this show don't get the joke they are taking the show more seriously than the show takes itself keys to the vip is a great caricature of reality shows sports tv culture and the club scene i hope they do another season and i'd be interested to see if a us version appears it's certainly a fun original premise
1	this is a great show despite many negative user reviews the aim of this show is to entertain you by making you laugh two guys compete against each other to get a girl's phone number simple the fun in this show is watching the two males try to accomplish their goal br br some appear to hate the show for various reasons but i think they misunderstood this as an educational show on how to pick up chicks well it is not it is a comedy show and the whole point of it is to make you laugh not teach you anything if you didn't like the show because it doesn't teach you anything don't watch it if you don't like the whole clubbing thing don't watch it if you don't like socializing don't watch it this show is a comical show if you down by watching others pick up girls well its not making you laugh so don't watch it if you are so disappointed in yourself after watching this show and realizing that you don't have the ability to pick up girls there is no reason to hate the show simply don't watch it
1	the show itself basically reflects the typical nature of the average youth partying and picking up chicks is the common weekend goal at the clubs people frown upon the show due to its perverted idea of picking up girls using technique and strategic characterization but truth be told practically every young guy is out doing it at the club overall the show really appeals to the younger population as we like to see the outcome of a player's performance at the club as the show offers a comical approach made possible by the judging panel br br 10 10 a cool fun and thrilling series that allows the audience to really interact good job boys
1	the fact that reviewers feel very intensely negative towards the show is an interesting fact all its own if you dislike it so much don't watch it br br certain reviewers assert that you have to be dumb dim witted or plain old primitive to enjoy this show au contraire my friends i am not claiming that all the contestants are smart there are smart ones and there are dumb ones but i would argue that they probably have a higher average iq than the average reviewer on this website thats right i said it there is a lot to be said for the science of seducing girls i'm sorry but please withdraw all sticks out of your asses and realize the reason you hate these guys is that they threaten you br br those oblivious to social sciences and more specifically the science behind mating are clearly going to miss the boat completely br br one thing is clear the clubs aren't the only places to meet girls i personally think that the worthwhile women don't even go to clubs so that they won't fall prey to men like the ones we see on the show but what are men like these apart from the ones whose games stink they are the epitome of men they are men who meet women in the most difficult situations these are men who take ownership of their own sexuality these men don't beg for their girlfriends to not break up with them and these men don't say ok to the phrase let's just be friends br br sound familiar in fact these are the very guys you're afraid of when you take your special long term girlfriend to the club we all are these guys know what women like again only the ones who have game br br and even the ones who are bad they are worth a laugh br br if you have gone out to a club and actually interacted with the people around you you should find this show entertaining br br look i am at a loss for why there is so much hate for this show my best guess is that it aggravates the insecurity in men who have had bad experiences in clubs or threatens men who believe women are beautiful self less creatures who just want a nice guy to buy their attention br br i personally love this show it is pure entertainment and best of all its real it is a very perceptive take on the most recent state of sexual psychology sex roles have never been so different from before and this show provides a very real view of that br br i think it actually takes some intelligence to take away something positive from this show br br this show appeals to a certain target market and if you're outside of that then i guess you shouldn't tune in to the show we could say this about any other shows though couldn't we br br grow up br br
1	i'm sure all of the canadians on imdb are all too familiar with canadian content and how much of it is well shall we say lackluster there are a select few canadian shows that are actually worth watching however this is definitely one of them br br simple premise two guys picking up girls in a bar with certain guidelines and rules add in some witty and clever commentary from a group of surprisingly likable self proclaimed alpha males and you have yourself some very entertaining programming each episode is solid if the players are sub par there are some awkward moments to be had and there is some gentle fun poked at them if the players are good it leads to moments that you just have to stand up and applaud and some comical praise lavished at them br br the premise is kind of trashy i know and as a guy who usually takes pride in the fact that i'm elevated himself above typical terrible reality television it takes a lot for me to admit that this show is actually funny and enjoyable br br one thing that must be pointed out is how the comedy network did a terrible job marketing this show for the longest time i didn't even know the premise and all i knew was that there was somehow a shirtless guy who loves involved however after actually watching the show i was surprised by how surprisingly slick it looks for canadian content despite a pretty lame opening credits sequence so give it a chance i have yet to find someone in the target demographic 18 30 year old males who have actually watched the show and not just the annoying commercials who hasn't liked it br br bring it back for a third season comedy network it actually has a good premise as opposed to some other canadian shows you've had cough girls will be girls cough i usually reserve 10 10 ratings for works of art but i just have so much fun watching this show and i think that it has been unfairly judged my many that i just had to
1	keys to the vip is one of the most entertaining informative and hilarious shows that is on television right now the idea is original and well executed as it manages to preserve the reality aspect but still remain entertaining all of the judges have a razor wit they're not the nicest at all times but if you're looking for comfort go watch a chick flick say what you like about validity of the show but it is absolutely real i know people who have competed on the show and they have confirmed this br br if you want to laugh watch this show it is on of the best comedy shows ever made
1	keys to the vip is bs br br rob vs justin in season two br br i went to school with rob and adriana you may remember her as the last girl he was picking up this was when the angry girlfriend came by they made out and left the club together they were good friends at father in br br whether or not rob planned it or they asked him to do it men should know that what they are seeing is not real and the guys on here are douche bags especially that episode br br one more line to fill space
1	as someone who was in a pan hellenic sorority i wasn't sure what to expect when i tuned into this show after seeing so many over dramatizations in made for tv movies and the craziness of the reality shows i was curious to see if greek would be able to show the true college and greek life experience br br i was very pleasantly surprised at how the show was able to give the viewer the satisfaction of identifying the ever familiar characters of this genre but it was also able to add depth to the characters greek life isn't just about parties and petty conflict although those things happen within greek life they also happen in any other social or professional circle throughout a person's life to characterize it as some exclusive experience to those in a greek organization would be false most of the story lines and situations taking place in greek can and do take place everywhere in every circle of friends on sports teams in real life but i've watched both episodes and my little sister whom i'm still very close to and i have spent both episodes laughing and being reminded of how they've truly captured the spirit of our college years and experiences br br i liked how the second episode showed how the characters struggle with the other facets of their lives school relationships goals etc telling rusty that school comes first and going to your brothers for help that was very true to life you can't stay in an organization if you have bad grades the way rusty got his assignment to his professor was far fetched but it was entertaining even the dynamic between casey and rusty it happens you grow up and whatever your relationship with your sibling s was it changes so you must adjust br br the bottom line greek is a great show great entertainment value and enough real life in there to be believable and definitely worth the viewers time
1	i thought this movie was awesome and the two guys nick and aaron are hotties i wish i could watch it over and over i loved the plot and whole concept of the movie it is great and i wish i had taped it last night nick i love you
1	i am from texas and live very close to where the actual deaths occurred so i might be a bit biased in saying that wasted is a film that you just can't get out of your head br br stahl phoenix and paul all play their characters very realistically you truly believe that they are everyday high school students who just happen to be heroin addicts the drug content is handled very graphically as well although everything that happens in the film serves a purpose and each moment the characters spiral further downward is heartbreaking i definitely recommend this film to anyone once you watch it it sticks with you
1	black tar can't be there's a documentary dark end of the street about s f street punks and b t abuse not bad quite heavy in wasted there's this stuff that looks like coke but should be something else no big deal black tar can't be there's a documentary dark end of the street about s f street punks and b t abuse not bad quite heavy in wasted there's this stuff that looks like coke but should be something else no big deal black tar can't be there's a documentary dark end of the street about s f street punks and b t abuse not bad quite heavy in wasted there's this stuff that looks like coke but should be something else no big deal
1	i saw this a good while ago but i just cant get over it i have looked everywhere to try and find out where i can get a copy of it but i have not been able to get a hold of it i really reccomend this movie and if anyone has any info about how i can get a copy then let me know thanx
1	i watched this movie the night it premiered on mtv usually to me mtv movies are kind of stupid but this one was so good summer phoenix is an amazing actress and i thought that nick stahl was good too if mtv started showing more movies like this i would probably enjoy the channel a lot more
1	spoiler begin the movie focuses on three friends samantha summer phoenix chris nick stahl and owen aaron paul the movie starts out with sam and owen as the drug addicts and chris the track star as the one who takes care of them as things get increasingly worse at home for chris he asks sam what the drug is like sam is out of rehab and sober by this point and tells him it makes everything better chris then catches up with owen and they start using it takes chris two times till he is a full time member after some trouble with a dealer and a confession to sam she gets in again so begins the downward spiral for them chris od's when he breaks a promise to sam i want some of the movie to be a surprise he dies sam gets in to college to be an architect and owen gets arrested so ends the story br br spoiler ends minor spoilers throughout br br nick stahl is amazing he will have an oscar one day his portrayal of chris was heartbreaking he was the only one that felt real in the movie as far as drug use goes aaron paul who played owen acted as if he were on speed not heroin summer phoenix was fine she is talented but what can i say nick stahl stole the movie his drugged eyes his slow movements everything was perfect br br the writers needed to show in the movie that is a main reason why people don't want to quit other then that there are hilarious scenes the mall scene and the backstreet boy scene man stahl nailed the reactions right on the head touching sad scenes like the scene between sam and chris in her bedroom after he gets beat up i and the park scene it was realistic too like s am using again when chris wanted to flush the drug down the toilet and chris using again after he goes to even though he had been clean for two weeks the pull was too strong it is all realistic br br watch the movie for a great cast great music and a semi truthful account of drug addiction
1	this movie was amazing never before have i seen such a film that brought me to the harsh reality of drug use quite like this one there is no glamorizing sugar coating or glorifying heroine this movie shows the true struggles pain and loss people go through when dealing with this drug good film decent emotionally packed acting and a great storyline a much watch br br
1	i just saw this movie tonight 5th nov 2005 for the first time i wanted to watch it cause i saw the basketball diaries leonardo di caprio and loved that but this was far more heavy going i think it had a good depiction of drugs to an extent i empathize mostly with nick character probably because if i someone i was crazy about was on that stuff i'd want to help them get off it a promising student and athlete who spends all his time training and studying well it's understandable that he'd want to try teenage life the crazy side of it and in his efforts as what begins is helping his friend he ends up addicted because he wanted to see what it is all about and because of his horrendous family situation which results in his most tragic death a truly sad film but one flaw i noticed is that you don't get a good enough insight into the damage it does to families but apart from that excellent performances on a truly heartbreaking movie
1	i wasn't planning on watching wasted when i saw the mtv preview but since i had nothing better to do or watch on a sunday night i watched it br br wasted was no requiem for a dream but it was a very good movie considering it was made by mtv one thing that drew me to watching it was summer pheonix the sister of the late and wonderful river pheonix stared i suppose talent runs in the pheonix family because she was good and so is though are river nick stahl also gives a great preformance as a junky jock there isn't much else to say about wasted it was a dark depressing and insightful look into the lives of three small town junkies i recomend it to those who like the subject 8 10
1	i saw this movie yesterday night and it was one of the best made for tv films i've seen it was very well directed and the acting was superb very convincing the music was good and the cinematography was beautifully shot take out the hopelessness out of requiem for a dream and you get wasted an excellent depiction of the world of drug addiction and its consequences given in a very open way in wich anyone can relate to cudos to mtv for giving us a good flick for a change from like crossroads
1	i am so excited that greek is back this season looks really eventful im glad that casey is trying to get serious about school but is still involved in the sorority its really funny that she wants to go into politics that they're highlighting her talent ' i loved calvin's new haircut it makes him look more mature they should shave head as well all the guys are hot but calvin is definitely the hottest i cant wait to see more of him i'm especially interested in what happens between calvin adam rusty i also love rebecca she's really pretty i actually think that rebecca calvin should hook up go for it calvin join my team
1	what can i say i couldn't sleep and i came across this movie on mtv i started watching it with every intention of changing the channel if it started to get lame as so many anti drug movies do but i got sucked into this movie and i couldn't stop watching nick stahl did an amazing job with his character and in my opinion he really made the movie something worth watching i was interested in purchasing the soundtrack to the movie or even the movie itself and mtv com was no help at all but believe it or not amazon com is taking pre orders for the august 5th release of the movie on dvd i know i had a hard time tracking it down and i'm sure other people might have had the same problem i'm buying my own copy so i can drool over nick stahl while bawling my eyes out at the same time thanks to the emotional storyline
1	this movie is about three teens who have been best friends for the longest time and go on the most messed up ride of their life when heroine becomes the choice drug in their town these three teens find themselves wrapped up in it all this movie portrays heroine addiction very well and is something you can't stop watching mtv has never been the best at doing made for tv movies but this one has to much good content to not watch it i enjoyed this film at the beginning i thought it would be the worst movie i've seen but then as it went on it got better and i couldn't turn away
1	being a high school student i have to take a health class this year the topic is drugs we learn about the harm they can cause a person from what we talk about i still believe and know that drugs can really mess a person up anyway my teacher wanted us to watch this naturally we groan and start to sleep but like the rest of my class i actually did enjoy this movie it was totally real and not sugar coated at all the characters were amazing and believable even the plot was outstandingly realistic and believable what i liked about this movie mainly was how it got the point of the drugs can take on an abuser and the consequences the person has to deal with everyone reassures themselves that nothing bad will happen to them well lets get serious anything can happen in a small town even to your best friend like sam and chris this movie shows it a person can really learn a lot from watching this it was pretty effective
1	the acrobatics mixed with haunting music make one spectacular show the costumes are vibrant and the performances will just boggle your mind simply amazing
1	wow don't watch this thinking it's going to be a relaxing circus evening it will keep you on the edge of your seat all the way through circus has never been more colourful more exciting and more breathtaking the whole concept is truely amazing you're taken into the world of du soleil and are left with a thousand thoughts when you leave there's only one thing left to do get the cd and or dvd and live through it again and again and again get addicted it's well worth it must be next to the most beautiful thing on earth and one of du best programmes
1	this performance leaves you with no wishes we saw it in germany and it is breathtaking we only got the cheap tickets at the far back but still had a view over everything that happened if you ever get the chance to see this live then go it is worth the trip and if i were you i would wait a good half an hour after the show to 'cool down' the performances are breathtaking and all around the tent there are dressed performers that are there to distract help smile and generally make the whole tent come alive the music live music is as good as the cd version perfect i bought a dvd later but the show that was filmed had less colourful costumes it's the atmosphere in the tent that sweeps you from your feet a great trip for old and young and a great film too
1	i purchased this video on vcr tape in a good will store for us 50 cents i have taken quite a few videos i purchased back for them to sell to others after i viewed them considering the 50 cent cost as a rental this is the only one that will never go back it is an explosion of artistic talent color and sound i don't know if i should calls it circus dance or both it is bigger than life itself they will only be able to do this well for just a few brief years in their life these are the performers for the performers if gene kelly and burt lancaster were alive today and saw them live they would be awe struck i would lend it to others to watch but i know if i do that i will never get it back
1	i had the pleasure of seeing live before seeing the video version of the show while nothing can compare to actually being there the people behind the video did an amazing job of capturing the flavor the feel the sensation and so much more the wonderful performances of stunningly amazing troupe are beautifully captured throughout the video flows as smoothly and artfully as the production itself a wonderful experience
1	this has to be one of the most beautifully morbid films i have ever seen has created a living painting that unfolds with horrific violence sex and a minimalist retelling of the life of jesus christ the high contrast and thick layer of grain make you question yourself as to what you are really seeing at times but the use of texture combined with the extreme contrast create an incredible viewing experience this film is not for everyone i think you have to keep an open mind and not be so quick to condemn this film for its content which if extremely rough but does make a fairly important statement about creation god and humanity whether this film is a work of art or shock value trash is open to discussion
1	if you are dating a girl that is into br br many parts of this movie were killer and the feeling you get from this movie while watching it and immediately after is enough alone to sit through it all but some things really bothered me about this film that i cant really put my finger on br br i definitely think that this movie is one that any art student or photography student should see b c of the camera style and graininess that ive never seen but that is just it it looks like an art student made it and the plot if there is any is so jumpy that you really need to be on a lot of drugs to get just what is going on
1	i cannot believe i was hooked on this show instantly after seeing the first scene i was in it deep br br anyway first of all the guys are hot cappy evan calvin fischer cappy heath cappy etc br br secondly the girls are cute sexy smart and are not afraid of being called bitches i like that which at the same time doesn't make them mean and greedy just realistic br br third the relationships are so great especially casey and cappy lately every show turns very away from it's original path and people end up with someone who wasn't even in the first season cappy and casey's relationship is true love a kind that lasts they loved each other throughout the years and it didn't end when a guest star appeared br br in todays world maybe it's kind of unbelievable for two people to love each other for a long time but it happens and people define each other in college so i knew exactly who i wanted to be with in college just like casey and cappy br br i hope there are many more seasons of this show and i hope we can see the relationship between casey and cappy now that they will probably stay together at thanksgiving love this show
1	thank god for the internet movie database when i first got this movie i watched it every night just before before bed and was getting something different out of it every time but no matter how i sliced it it came up disturbing the black and white and all the twitching really freaked me you stare at the screen unsure of what you are looking at and just when you think you got it it becomes clear and it's something completely different the imagery is very disturbing twitching and straight razors do not sit well with me in any movie still everytime i watched it i was interpreting it somewhat differently there is no dialogue ya know so i decided to check the imdb for the plot summary boy that throws me for a loop i had no idea that was supposed to be god now i'm going to watch it with this in mind and see what happens
1	begotten is black and white distorted images it looks like it could have come from the nineteenth century however the sound is crystal clear minus the sync and the addition of calm nature sounds br br this movie was very critical of the struggles of life it shows a single mother and child in a violent world that thrives on the innocent the mother is very oblivious to her surroundings this leads to lots of torture pain and death you may watch it many times and see different symbolisms plot devices and basically what does it mean br br if you appreciate art in movies then you will love it otherwise don't bother
1	begotten is one of the most unique films i've ever seen it is more to me a study of sound light and dark and movement than a real story the type of thing you see as a video at the museum of modern art than a film enjoyed at the local theater i'm not going to try to interpret the images of the mother nature the beasts in cloaks the twisted and tortured body of her child some things just defy interpretation
1	i loved it it was really gruesome and disgusting i thought that the tearing of the human flesh was thoroughly the way that it was depicting the human crucifix about jesus christ was really interesting the tearing about limbs and jaws was awesome brutally gruesome don't watch this if you have a weak heart you wouldn't be able to stand it
1	anyone who correctly identifies the opening images as god killing himself without reading the end credits certainly deserves a free ticket to a rest home in transylvania i would imagine this as being a favorite movie at twin peaks dark lodge on movie night if time existed there i would think that a better title might have been how much fun can you have with someone who's almost dead in the forest with only neolithic technology the answer it would seem is quite a bit so despite the silly god killing himself the uber pretentiousness an apt phrase taken from a previous letter the more clearly alistair crowley hi i'm the beast deal with it than christian i can't believe another viewer had the thick headedness to see the judeo christian bible in this despite all of that this is a daring important work that most people should not see i am both impressed and creeped out that it was made at all
1	first of all this is an art film and a good one at that i loved the presentation and way it was shot very cool certain scenes were some of the more graphic horror sequences i've ever seen this film did scare me not because of suspense or shock but because i was deathly afraid that i'd soon see something really appalling that did happen in a few places but mostly at the beginning this film also dragged and the 74 minutes seemed long however if you're into film you have to see this to date i've seen nothing like it 8 10
1	not really sure what to make of this movie very weird very artsy not the kind of movie you watch because it has a compelling plot or characters more like the kind of movie that you can't stop watching because of the horrifically fascinating things happening on screen although the first time my wife watched this she couldn't make it all the way through too disturbing for her runs a bit long but nonetheless a worthwhile viewing for those interested in very dark movies
1	i absolutely like this film a lot it is not very entertaining but it's a feast of bizarre and stunning images there's no dialog only some background sounds and noises if you are into something completely different and original and enjoy the obscure and bizarre then you might like this work of art looks like a film made with the very first camera ever made in a time where strange human like beings live and perform their bizarre habits god has killed himself with a razor and gave birth to mother earth mother earth impregnated herself with god's semen after an act of fellatio and gives birth to a son flesh on bone what follows are inhuman acts of ritualistic torture rape and murder for purposes we do not know or do we
1	this kind of angst can only be inside a young person who seeks very seriously his religion and his place in this world as the text in the beginning of the movie says these pictures are dead they are the past already and have been right from the moment when the product was ready but that is only for the maker of these products maybe to somebody who is in the same frame of mind i think very many people at least of those who are seriously interested in religion go through the same terrible and doubts in their personal development and that of course is the reason that art is made in the first place identification and consolation amongst fellow human beings br br this film uses very well the classic of the experimental cinema and this is where those are to my opinion in the best possible use as an instrument in telling stories and creating atmosphere to them not just as a pure abstractions or as an end in those tricks have already been made many enough times some other movies that i imagine have influenced inspired this director are eraserhead and nosferatu it's interesting how these make this movie totally timeless there is nothing contemporary in this movie or nothing from any other specific time either it could have been made a thousand years ago br br it is interesting in this story how these people treat this new born holy child they use it selfishly in their own purposes and don't even try to listen to him they beat him rip off his intestines and castrate him they drag his living body forcibly from place to place and they do the same kind of violence to his mother the story also reminds me of the borges' short story el de brodie also the critique towards the practices of the christian institutions reminds me of the great el topo br br unpleasant watch at times but beautiful very simple thought and concentrated very strong movie almost too strong the whole human energy has been concentrated to this also this movie shows that when you have the passion and ideas you can make a movie with a round zero budget br br but i have to admit it was a bit hard to watch for a contemporary viewer like myself because of the it was so slow and demanding but after all worth the suffering i have to give ten points just for the effort that somebody makes this kind of movie
1	what this movie is not cool entertaining br br what this movie is visually interesting difficult to get through intentional br br i feel that this movie puts the viewer if he or she is willing through a clip of time where they experience a world without language much like how animals must experience the world you don't really watch this movie as much as you witness an awful series of events in what feels like real time br br consistently it goes on much longer than is comfortable this movie could be edited down to a 20 minute short and it would be a totally different movie it would be cool and entertaining but the experience would be lost i have seen a lot of cool movies but i have never experienced one like this if you can get your head in the right place for this one you should be able to really appreciate but likely not enjoy what they accomplished here 10 out of 10
1	i love this show i hate when it goes to season finale because it feels like forever until the season starts again i have followed this show since its pilot then all the way threw from where rusty starts college and see's casey his sister to now where he's dating dana love this show cant wait until monday night also i am so glad that and casey finally got back together that was driving me crazy as for evan and rebecca i hope they get back together which it just feels like they will by the finale i just looked it up about the main part of the cast and i am so shocked that casey cartwright spencer grammar is kelsey grammar's daughter that just surprises me so much and the other thing that's a huge shocker is that she was born the same year as me and that she was born on my baby brother birth date with my year and i had been watching her the whole entire time and had no clue
1	sui generis folks i'm not going to lie to you is a one or two hit wonder but what a film it almost excuses suspect zero i'm also not going to pretend to understand it completely half of what makes it what it is is trying to second guess what the hell they are doing on the screen because of the chiaroscuro br br richard says it is as if a cult had re enacted for real three bible stories creation the nativity and jesus' torture and death on that's not a bad description but there seems to be more to it than the seemingly one to one religious br br there's an environmental theme right up near the surface note that toward the end after the of the landscape there are large pipes not unlike those on a construction site oh no he's going to say look at how people are raping mother nature one rarely sees a dead metaphor in action and with this much hyperbole but to see it acted out is way than language implies br br and yeah if you just want something to sync with a death metal soundtrack it does have the requisite atrocities but as for myself and others like me it's an important art film that should merit a criterion collection release ranks right up there with murnau's faust br br ray
1	god cuts himself with a straight razor afterwards he gives birth to mother earth which then gives birth through gods semen son of earth br br this is a one and a half an hour movie that sort of depicts a dark version of how god created the world its surreal dark and poetic the most important aspect of the film to me is the visuals its shot in a very grainy black and white film using both slow motion and normal shooting sometimes even fast film and stop motion the scenes are long and dragged out that sets a very weird mood no sounds were recorded when filming i think sound effects were added afterwards such as water and other ambient sounds repeated over and over as you might understand this movie is certainly not for the impatient person br br i often felt it was similar to david lynch's eraserhead only this one is even harder to understand and even more dragged out but that's okay for me i like that kind of stuff its certainly not entertainment at least not the hollywood kind so if your going to check it out i recommend you set yourself up for it be open minded and except something like the end of 2001 a space odyssey
1	this is not a story it's a bunch of psychic needles reaching for your subconscious if you wait for a story you'll be bored but if you give yourself over to it you'll be inside it's dreamworld within 10 minutes the vague but disturbing images of pain and torture in a desolate landscape leave room for your own fantasies the strange soundtrack that gives you the feeling of isolation the visual echoes of the crucifixion of christ the pulsating light and deep dark shadows they all reach to your subconscious to fill in this mind space i found myself trembling and unable to escape in front of my television it was like dreaming with eyes wide open a strange nightmare a bad trip a religious experience it touched me deep inside and marked me for live it freed my mind and gave me one of that rare experiences of loss of personality and merging with the world of archetypes a little freedom for the soul a violent freedom however not a nice movie but a very strong and unforgettable one literally my text has no spoilers for me the great surprise of this film was the unbelievable intensity of it and describing this can be understood as a spoiler the less you know about this film as you watch it the better
1	there have been many well more than a few in any case attempts over the past 30 years to create film that has an otherworldly appearance supposing that this is a film director's wish to distance himself from other movies or simply to gloss over the low budget and shabby look begotten is on the top echelon of this pile br br apart from the peerless eraserhead anyway br br painstaking process of artificially degrading his film changes it's structure completely imagine what this film would have looked like in glorious standard technicolour it can almost be envisaged as an artifact from another unknown culture some images are so far removed from what we expect to see on the screen they disturb mainly as they are dislocated this is not last house on the left disturbance more like leaving your cave for the first time and seeing the sun disturbance br br watch this fever dream if you get the chance and relish remember they make other more standard films every day they can wait
1	a warning to potential viewers of this experimental film the nature of the imagery and the effects are such that this is one of those types of films that should really be seen on film projected the created by digital transfers sucks a lot of depth and adds a lot of noise to already abstract and grainy film however since this movie is pretty much unavailable in any format i suppose you'll have to make do with what you can br br anyway this most excellent artistic endeavor comes courtesy of the guy who would eventually give us shadow of the vampire it's a dark and dirty film of the genesis of the elements as far as i can glean from the character names through a process horrifying and surreal begotten is a very good example of what is known as abject art a stylistic approach that seeks meaning through the visceral more than the thematic br br and visceral describes it not very much stuff happens in the movie technically but the levels of emotion it'll put you through are innumerable the very repetitiveness of some of the imagery creates a mesmerizing catch over the senses the sound editing and score in particular are immaculate and serve the imagery incredibly well br br fans of this film would do well to check out the collections of short films released through other cinema dvd experiments in terror i ii and iii movies such as these make me more and more certain that the realm of true horror resides in the abstract abject and non narrative rather than in spooky tales of ghosts and axe murderers br br polarisdib
1	begotten the magic the terror the slight boredom br br that begotten is for acquired tastes goes without saying you don't just happen to watch it unless your friends are real art house movie buffs you must dig the weird the macabre the bizarre you must dig cool flicks and you must dig to find diamonds br br begotten is one of the most visually dazzling and mystifying films ever known to man the visual part is something to behold something no one can prepare you for but since the film is devoid of any type of dialogue the visual part is pretty much the only part begotten is a visual film the created for the film are magical and groundbreaking but still the sight of it br br god commits suicide in a particularly gory scene then from his corpse rises mother earth who impregnates herself with god's semen and gives birth to flesh on bone a retarded child she then abandons him and he gets tortured by heathen like creatures mother comes back to save him but she and her son get murdered by the horrible creatures br br the film is about the meaninglessness of life and about the fact that we come to this planet to suffer and to die and that when something dies something else is born etc nihilism br br the film's no 1 quality is of course the visuals the setting those haunting images this other worldly quality after you're done watching you feel like an alien it's that mesmerizing br br when people say it should last instead of 70' they're right no they're not it could last it's just that everything happens to such a slow pace in fact the plot summary i provided is all that happens in the film like no kidding still it's i don't know glorious br br like a flame burning away the darkness
1	begotten is certainly an experience and a out of the ordinary experience at that the use of colour is fascinating and at times frustrating a lot of what happens on screen is incredibly difficult to make out your view is either obscured by a sudden bizarre change in colour and tone characters in the way and random cuts to the sky the sound is very haunting and a welcome addition it really aids the nihilistic and hopeless tone that smothers this film br br as for what begotten is about the rape of the environment and rebirth theory feels pretty accurate to me but i wouldn't spend a lot of time focusing on the meaning it's virtually unimportant it's clear the director didn't want to explain anything he simply presents it as it is and if you want to search for a meaning that's up to you br br watching begotten is definitely not a walk in the park but i was captivated from the opening it really is like watching a person's worst nightmare what we see is at times distressing and very unpleasant but there is a surreal dreamlike beauty in there if you're an art house experimental fan and you haven't yet seen begotten make it a priority i doubt you will ever forget it i sure know that i won't
1	e elias begotten is a one of a kind surreal depiction of the mankind's treatment of religion there are a couple of different ways you can interpret things but the plot itself is simple a god himself and out of his corpse springs mother earth mother earth then the god's corpse post mortem and then impregnates herself with what remains of his seed following this she gives birth to a messiah figure who quivers presumably in infancy but possibly with terror at being brought to life on earth this all takes place in the first 15 30 minutes and after that the rest of the film consists of robed figures dragging the messiah who is incessantly quivering or seizing across a desert landscape the robed figures pause only to the messiah then continue to drag him around br br there are a couple of ways to interpret this depending on your level of optimism and your world view it can easily be interpreted as a bleak nihilistic atheist allegory about the total lack of apparent power that christian deities can be perceived as having in a modern society that only invokes their names to advance its own selfish goals or you can interpret it as a postmodern pro christian allegory in which you view the film as being about how mankind has twisted christ's message around so much that it's original purity and innocence can no longer have relevance in a world where that message and image are inappropriately used to endorse everything from interpersonal violence to war to totalitarianism br br the visuals of this film are phenomenal and you will not see anything like it period if you can watch the original vhs release i recommend it i'm not sure if the visuals are changed on the dvd but i have seen clips of this streaming on you tube and the effects are seriously diminished on the vhs version achieved total contrast meaning there basically aren't any mid tones except for some grain in some of the shots other than that this film offers the rare opportunity to see pure white and pure black and the result is stunning hallucinatory and quite unsettling this film makes film noir look positively washed out and mediocre the shots fade into each other in a surreal manner that recalls un chien andalou without completely aping it for an effect that has been called a filmic test br br that being said the film can certainly try a viewer's patience and commitment there isn't any dialogue for starters the only sound throughout the film is a fairly constant loop of crickets chirping peppered occasionally with the gurgling and death rattles of the dying deities and an droning synthesizer texture personally i find that the film is best enjoyed listening to experimental industrial music like the instrumental nin remixes from the downward spiral era more abstract noise experimental music like f ck buttons and odd it also works quite well with apocalyptic black metal basically any music with extreme textures and or hypnotic rhythms that's one of the most amazing and versatile aspects of this film it is prime for postmodern re like projecting it during a performance of avant garde music or composing avant garde music to accompany it br br once the messiah figure is born there really isn't much change for the rest of the film meaning that you are basically sitting through at least 45 minutes or more of the messiah figure being drug around the desert and beaten it looks bleakly beautiful but there isn't really anything new unfolding it helps to cement the filmmakers intentions of communicating that for thousands of years now people have been using christ's name and image for personal benefits but can be tiresome to a casual viewer or someone with a short attention span basically if you are looking for a modern horror film with suspense look elsewhere if you are looking for a unique film experience and you aren't particularly fond of mainstream hollywood cinema this could be your quivering messiah
1	i want to preface this review by saying that i have no idea what begotten is truly about all i really know is that in the beginning god kills himself in turn birthing mother earth who proceeds to impregnate herself with god's semen she then births a son the rest is pretty subjective and you have to interpret it in your own way br br how i chose to interpret the film was this god killing himself signified the start of the scientific revolution when people started questioning the doctrines imposed by the church like the view of the universe and etc mother earth symbolized people starting to think for themselves and reject the church's it happens like this because god says so views the tribal people were the church lashing back at them trying to force christianity down their throats i'm not exactly sure how son of earth fits into all of this mother earth and the tribal people seemed to be fighting over him so maybe he represents the freedom of people or something to that effect br br i have no idea what the final parts of this movie are supposed to mean bludgeoning raping then dismembering mother earth and son of earth and grinding them into the ground like a mortar and could mean anything but that is where the fun of this film lies you can interpret it any way you want there doesn't have to be a definitive meaning to it you can let your mind wander sometimes you don't even know what you are supposed to be looking at because it is shot in a weird angle or it is too fuzzy br br the only thing that disappointed me was that i was expecting a truly terrifying film i was going into it thinking i was going to get a phone call immediately afterward with a foreboding seven days warning what i got was pleasantly different it was not scary at all but it stirred my imagination trying to decipher the movie's cryptic message was a creative challenge there were many scenes that were in fact beautiful mother earth just after she was born and the final shot of the forest path come to mind br br so overall i would have to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this film it is certainly the most abstract movie i've ever seen but that's not a bad thing
1	e elias existentialist experiment in the enduring is definitely one hell of a boring watch this is like something alexander de large was forced to watch in a clockwork orange but despite just how unwatchable this film really is it is a success br br if you are reading this and have not already seen the film then it is too late for me at least the payoff after 3 separate viewings with lots of break in between mind you was seeing the list of characters after the story was told that's when the simple message hit home but i wonder if could have told a 5 minutes story in about 30 instead of 78 br br however seeing as how the cast of credits is displayed prominently on the front page for this movie the cat is already out of the bag and you surely will only appreciate this film if you appreciate existentialist film making from the early 20th century even then you might puke br br 4 10 but i commend for crafted a piece of art even if it is unwatchable
1	when i sat down to watch greek for the first time i wasn't expecting a show with complex characters intriguing plot lines and impeccable writing but that's exactly what i got br br greek follows several college students who are in the greek system at rhodes university rusty cartwright enters rhodes as a polymer science major who aspires to be in a fraternity his older sister casey the show's center and soon to be president of zeta beta zeta the most prestigious sorority on campus isn't exactly supportive of his plans in fact none of her friends even knew she had a brother until he set foot on the college grounds on top of dealing with the fact that her dorky younger brother has been forced back into her life casey's boyfriend evan chambers soon to be president of the fraternity on campus omega chi is cheating on her with a new pledge rebecca logan diabolical president frannie is pressuring her to stay with him and she still has feelings for her slacker ex boyfriend president of the party house on campus kappa tau these characters are joined by calvin owens an athletic intelligent friend of who happens to be gay dale die hard christian and possibly racist roommate and best friend and ashleigh casey's quirky best friend and confidante br br throughout two seasons or four chapters viewers are often reminded that college life is not black and white but in shades of gray from here on out every character makes their fair share of mistakes but every one of them has redeemable qualities casey and have a complicated but beautiful relationship throughout the series rusty dale and calvin's friendship is not always perfect but they manage to survive every obstacle that is thrown at them even frannie rebecca and evan the show's villains are shown as human every once in a while br br greek shows college students at their best worst and in between it is a show that reveals college as what it truly is a four year adventure where one's morals beliefs and willpower are tested compromised and sometimes even changed br br greek has at least one season left if not more before it ends i cannot wait to see where the characters end up next greek is not your typical abc family sitcom if you want to tune in to a show that shows the truth behind human motivation greek is the show for you
1	even though it doesn't really matter to the film this is a creation myth god a convulsing bloody figure in a chair cuts his organs out with a straight razor and dies in his own filth mother earth rises from his corpse and impregnates herself with his seed giving birth to man it is however highly unlikely for you to figure any of this out without reading a synopsis first and it's not especially important to the film that you do as it's more a surrealistic art house imagery thing all in processed black and white a sick bleak atmosphere is created with the stark photography and minimal sounds mostly water dripping groans scrapes etc but each scene goes on a bit too long and so does the film as a whole this could've been great as a short film and the god killing himself scene was excellent and extremely creepy especially being the first thing you see but it's hard to be patient when it goes on for so long and you don't even know what you're seeing for much of the time br br still a good film for the original style images atmosphere and content
1	i first heard of begotten when a girlfriend of mine picked it up in a cult classics section of my local video retailer she knew i liked obscure artsy movies so i rented it and brought it home it sat on my tv for a couple of days and then i put it in the vcr just before going to bed i thought that maybe i'll see what it's like first then devote more time to it the next day what followed was that it actually woke me up i sat through the entire film and loved it after i went through the closing credits i watched it again only after you see the closing credits do you get an idea of who is who after you know that you can watch it again with renewed appreciation don't listen to the people that tear this movie apart it's not for everyone if you're someone that doesn't like reading subtitles than this movie isn't for you not that there are subtitles there's no dialog at all if you're someone that actually owns rush hour 2 then this movie isn't for you br br this movie is truly original and inspiring it does what other movies have never done it looks like nothing else and is bolder than just about everything out there from 1989 to the current date you can tell that everyone involved in the making of this movie truly love the art of what they do and understand what can be captured in cinema form br br if you're looking to be entertained then the movie isn't for you however it is pure escapism in some extreme way and in film form it's like someone attached wires to my head and taped one of my worst nightmares but this nightmare makes sense if you really sit and watch the images dissect the action of the actors and don't sit there noodling your guitar passively but watch and not blink br br people compare it to eraserhead but begotten is so much more i'm not joking when i say it is my favorite movie it's an important film visually stimulating mechanically inspiring and hypnotic one review i read about it is very true though no one will get through begotten without being marked
1	the visual effectiveness of this film is unmatched by anything i've seen and the work required to make achieve it must have been incredibly long and tedious you don't just stick kodak grainy film in your camera to get this look don't watch this film to be entertained watch it to be visually stimulated watch it to be challenged and provoked in your thoughts on film and any other topic that comes to mind religion will likely be one thought br br
1	don't watch this film while or soon after eating br br having said that begotten will stick with you for the rest of your life like it or not based on the nihilistic philosophy that life is nothing more than man above ground to paraphrase the title sequence introduction this will more than likely contain the most intense and grisly imagery you'll ever see in a film br br there is no dialogue only image after image describing the cycle of life the film's combination of stark black and white photography compounded with some truly creepy background sounds work to drive home the maker's message br br the movie begins with god portrayed as a bandaged and obviously insane man slicing open his torso with a straight razor and subsequently dying in his own filth after his death mother nature emerges from his corpse to impregnate herself with his blood and semen and gives birth to man represented by a maggot of a human convulsing on the earth br br the landscape is a barren waste populated by hulking shrouded humanoids who eventually happen upon mother nature and man after a slew of violent scenes depicting the rape of nature and destruction of man these humanoids proceed to pound the remains of the corpses back into the ground and the cycle of life begins anew br br i actually rented this from blockbuster one night based on the cover art and hype content but this is definitely not a blockbuster type film don't expect narrative dialogue or any pulled punches this is intense imagery based on a dark subject br br i give this movie some high marks for the filmwork and audio but i don't think i'll be watching it too often if again i like my movies dark and unique but this one is exponentially more than i expected
1	i saw last night and i'm of two minds on the film br br on one hand i appreciate it for being the total of a michael bay film no dialogue extremely stylized grainy b w photography some of the most genuinely horrific imagery ever set to film and a very compelling use of sound which nobody else seems to have really picked up on yet it's a reflection on a theme and it dares go where most filmmakers do not not only in terms of images but of production and concept it's a movie that most people don't understand and if you read through these comments you'll find a lot of people whose lack of ability to figure this film out results in them shrieking about with the fervor of a rattling the bars of its cage at feeding time it genuinely shocked and disturbed me and the last time a film managed to do that was a while ago br br on the other this is a thirty minute short that sprawls out to over an hour and a half i understand that there might be artistic merit in using repetition and monolithic pacing as a bludgeon but in this case it just doesn't help everything hang together imagine being approached by a ragged man on the street who you by the shoulders and says something that completely confounds the core of your being but then instead of leaving your shattered and gibbering in his wake he just keeps talking and talking and talking by the end of the movie i found myself glancing at my watch now and again br br this is not entertainment people this is this is how you people who just watched glitter if you watch movies to be entertained this will frustrate confound and possibly anger you you don't approach like a chocolate cake you want to eat because it tastes good you approach it like something on the menu you have never heard of before something you see furtive glances of through the kitchen door something that's dark and and twitches on its platter something you order not because it will taste good but because you just have to know what it's like
1	i was surfing through imdb one day when i stumbled across the curious adventures of mr noticing how obscure it was i decided to set off looking for it thanks to it didn't take me long so i bought it for a dollar and when i got home i watched it although i must say i was quite impressed br br three of the paintings in a king's apartment a shepherdess a chimney sweep and a self portrait of the king who is just as selfish and sadistic as the actual king himself come to life one night while the king is sleeping the shepherdess and the chimney sweep escape while the painting of the king calls the police in order to capture the couple fortunately for the couple mr comes in to help them often mocking the police and the king br br the back of the dvd case describes this film as a surreal visual delight and an underrated entry in the history of classic animation i couldn't agree more with it considering that much of the backgrounds look rather bizarre and many of the characters are weird which include the depressed citizens of an underground city and hungry lions that are calmed by the music of a blind man who kind of looks like andy warhol not to mention mr himself is somewhat eccentric the film is very creative and mostly fun to watch and its only flaw is that it can be slow moving but overall this film was very good and it comes recommended by yours truly br br grade b awesome
1	i just picked this up in a decent if not outstanding dvd version for one dollar at wal mart br br run out and buy it br br i'm fairly sure that this version is the short incomplete version released against the animator's wishes in the late fifties but even so at a buck it's an incredible bargain br br this film was syndicated in small chunks as a serial to local tv stations in the early 60s for the kid's shows that almost every station ran on weekday afternoons in those days mr bill and bozo monty's gang channel 4 sc and captain grady channel 13 asheville nc which is where i saw it it made such an impression on twelve or so old me that i immediately recognised it when i spotted it in wal mart tonight and grabbed it br br wonderful you should get it
1	one of the great tragedies of life is that disney is so very successful at everything that they do if they were not we might have more unique little gems of animation such as the curious adventures of mr the story is that an evil king has usurped the throne of a place called up and down land i could have the name wrong he is hated by everyone his favorite hobby is shooting birds and at some point in the past he presumably killed the wife of mr a bird played with typical flair by peter ustinov leaving him with four young chicks to raise meanwhile we see that another of the evil king's hobbies is painting he has done three paintings in particular a self portrait a painting of a shepherdess which he has fallen in love with and a painting of chimney sweep of whom he is jealous one night the shepherdess and the chimney sweep climb down out of their paintings and run away together the self portrait of the king climbs down out of his frame as well and does away with the real king you think i'm making this up its the real plot and sends the royal police force after the young lovers mr then assists the lovers in attempting to escape the king's forces br br the plot is wonderfully surreal and the setting up and down land is an incredibly imagined place full of towering buildings accessible only by elevators its an equal mixture of the worlds of metropolis and 1984 and the drawings of dr seuss br br watch it for a very unique viewing experience that doesn't fit the standard formula for most animated features
1	certainly an unbelievably refined cartoon drawn in a deliciously way and sensationally in almost any respect takes place in a kingdom ruled by a mean and heinous monarch accordingly the kingdom or at least what we surroundings of the king's palace seems devoid uninhabited br br a few inhabitants there from the the withered underground city br br an it an allegory call it a parable only do not call it a fable br br because imdb encourages and maybe for other reasons as well i will add that this cartoon is the work of the great paul
1	review is of the original 1950's version not the restored 1980's one in a land where the king likes no one and no one likes the king a shepherdess and a chimney sweep from two nearby paintings come to life and run off a portrait of the king who loves the shepherdess kills the real king and takes his place a huge bird the of the title acts as a hero of sorts and helps out our two lovers br br this is a strange strange movie no surreal very very very surreal br br the style of the background is very european while the characters are meet warner but early arty warner of the non major characters they move in both realistic and cartoon like manners br br this is an odd movie and it takes a bit to get into it but peter ustinov as the bird is a riot his kids and the puppy are wonderful there are cops in rubber ducks and a bear design that makes you smile br br and there is deep philosophy in the film about the existence of a world out there out beyond a metropolis subterranean city br br this is a really neat movie there is something just so odd and unique about it that rewards you if you stay with it for the whole ride its not perfect but what the hell br br this is a movie to search out if your local bargain dvd bin has the version paired with alice in paris buy it it should run you under ten bucks probably around five and the price is absolutely worth it especially when you realize it comes with two full length cartoons two short cartoons and several neat commercials and other fun things
1	i have watched two episodes so far i really like it even though i am no longer in college it makes me miss the wonderful college life i wish that i spent a little more time socializing i kind of identify myself with rusty when i was rushing a fraternity my big brother was not like at all i wish that i had a big brother like him so if a show like this can actually make people to identify themselves with the characters then it is a pretty good show br br it is more realistic than american pie with less explicit sex jokes can we also call this a younger version of desperate wives some of the writers must be greeks themselves the story seems to reflect somewhat of the real fraternity and sorority life it was shot in high definition and they actually filmed outside instead of inside of studios so the picture quality is very good they could easily make this a good film unlike a movie which can only last a few hours i can have about 45 minutes of fun watching it free on tv weekly br br the casting is excellent the actors are about the right age and they are new and fresh so that makes them more real this show practically is about everyone there are asian and black frat boys and sorority girls in the show as well it is almost a little shocking that they had a little story about two guys in the fraternity had sex in first episode then tried to hook up again in the second episode i don't think that i have seen anything like this on tv before this show somehow reminded me about a warner tv show of teenagers called young americans which got canceled in early 2001 in that show a girl who dressed like a man kissed a guy and that guy thought that she was a male homosexual br br greek life can be fun but on the same time students have to study for exams etc by the time when people actually have some free time in their lives there is no fraternity of sorority for them to join any more i don't know how long this show will last sooner or later those people will have to graduate college too maybe they will find some new actors for another 4 years of fun college life
1	2005 the final part of toronto based indian film director deepa mehta's elemental trilogy has been finally completed almost ten years after the release of the very first controversial element 1996 which was followed with a slightly lesser controversial sequel earth' 1998 mehta made her directorial debut with a 24 minute canadian short film 'at 99 a portrait of louise tandy 1975 but it was her canadian feature film about the life of indians living in canada that brought her fame back in east her country by me' 1991 recognition internationally came in the way of 1994 starring bridget fonda along with the actress who in 1990 won an oscar in best actress in a leading role category at the age of 80 paving the way for middle aged actresses to still have hope for her portrayal of a stubborn old jewish woman in 'driving miss daisy' 1989 late jessica tandy br br dealt with a friendship between two women from two other ends of the human lifespan a may december friendship was last picture she died the very same year br br international fame followed deepa mehta in 1996 with the release of the controversial which spread with rage among the false patriotic consciousness existing indian extremist having already explored friendship between two women in in mehta went a step further to portray a more intimate relationship between two lonely neglected women set in modern day india the suburbs of the capital city of new delhi it shows two brothers and their wives the elder brother kulbhushan kharbanda having joined a weird hindu sect leads a life of celibacy faithful to his guru of sexless existence the younger brother jaffrey is having an extra marital affair with a chinese woman alice thus both the wives shabana azmi playing the elder brothers wife and nandita das the younger wife find themselves neglected in their own way one forced to lead a celibate life thanks to her husband's eccentricities and the other whose only interaction with her husband is through sex and nothing more living in a world of in laws and being the only two outsiders in the family having nobody else to confide in the two women fall in the arms of each other thus comes the issue of lesbianism if there were an outside man's shoulder to cry on there most probably would have been chance for them to fall into the arms of a man but having no one else to confide in their need for each others support is quite obvious it does not necessarily state that all neglected women would end up taking lesbianism it just happened to exist with regard to the two women in this context all in all the movie is excellent and delves far deeper than just two women rolling in bed the key focus isn't lesbianism in the movie but the plight of modern day neglected indian wives even in the capital city the two female characters just happen to have a sexual relationship br br two years later deepa mehta's second installment was the element of mother earth released in india by the name of earth' yet another excellent movie by a great director this time in the hindi language unlike which was made in the english language br br now deepa mehta has managed to complete the trilogy despite a lot of problems having released the final installment recently no doubt it would be just as great as the other two
1	heard about this film a long while ago and finally found it on ebay for five bucks i wasn't expecting much but wow was i ever surprised it's a story of a boy and girl in love trying to escape an evil king who wants the girl for himself and takes place in a huge castle reminds me of for ps2 because some shots gave you a sense of vertigo sounds pretty standard but this movie is insane it's hard to believe such an original animated feature was made in 1952 also the king was probably one of the creepiest character's i've seen in a long time with a feminine walk weird eyes usually crossed and a soft but scary voice the only problem i had with the film was that the boy and girl had no personality and hardly even any lines except for calling for mr a large talking green bird to save them the animation was fantastic in most areas but some cells were missing from some scenes which sucked it's incredibly original with flying police and giant mechs and even laugh out loud funny at times it's a real shame this is such an obscure title because it's really a good film check it out sometime
1	i just want to comment to the woman above that the movie does credit beethoven in the begging in the beginning credits they show it thank you i think this is an amazing movie they picked just the right music for the mood of the movie the animation is wonderful and they picked the voices for the characters very well it teaches children to never give up and to always have hope princess doesn't give up and it shows children that they can do the same the movie also has humor in in for all ages parents and children to laugh at the colors in this movie are great and kids can really feel good while they are watching it i watched this movie for the first time now i am a huge fan and i'm sure your child will be too walmart sells tons of barbie and the magic of pegasus stuff so your child can continue to enjoy the movie even when they aren't watching it thank you
1	for a kid's movie this is great as an adult and mother i enjoyed watching the movie with my daughter there is a lot going on in this movie the following might be considered a spoiler barbie learns courage and learns not to judge others so quickly in this movie she also learns not to give up hope and to master her anger i loved the sense of teamwork you get from watching barbie and her sister and friends solve the puzzle there's nothing in the movie i found offensive or inappropriate for young viewers in fact i felt that the moral messages of the movie were superb and well done br br the animation was pretty good i really enjoy the ice skating scenes and think that they were very well done there's a lot of action in this film so i suspect that most kids would enjoy it not just the ones that are really into barbie my daughter actually picked it out because of the pegasus she loves horses but she enjoyed the movie very much my daughter is autistic and was able to sit through the whole movie and enjoy it she really liked the action scenes and any parts with horses involved br br one thing that i was thinking about was that many people object to barbie and ken because they are so beautiful yet i think that kids just like adults like to look at beautiful people and things it's natural as adults we enjoy watching beautiful movie stars too it's wonderful though that the barbie character and her boyfriend have a lot of personality while it's fun to watch pretty people it grows old if there is no substance behind the pretty face br br overall i'd say this is a great movie for kids and parents will enjoy it too
1	for once a barbie movie that is good i'm 18 and a embarrassed to say this but i'm hooked on these movies i hated barbie when i was younger but the movies i love shiver is so cute and i've fallen in love with him he's so cute as the polar bear and totally in love with aiden oh man i'm in love with shiver i love determination not to give up on hope and it works i love this movie and hopefully they will be other good ones barbie swan lake is other brilliant movie i would recommend this movie to children of all ages even boys because the movie is that good and i'm hard to please barbie and the magic of pegasus is a movie that is enchanting and exciting
1	i would have to say that in general barbie movies have impressed me i have a 5 year old barbie fanatic niece and she watches them all the time so needless to say i have seen quite a lot of barbie these holidays but i am not sick of them br br this film visually has a lot to offer especially the backgrounds and the animation of the characters has improved with each new movie one thing i noticed in particular was a vast improvement in the animation of hair in this film it has a lovely range of excerpts from classical music and i think that this is great as it exposes a new generation to the classics this film is well worth ago especially if you have young they will be entertained for hours
1	my 5 year old daughter is very into the barbie series of movies i've had mixed feelings about that not wanting her to buy into the whole barbie doll image of things and recognizing that the movies are a marketing ploy to convince young girls to buy more dolls and make more money for mattel this morning though she asked me to watch this movie with her and it being a lazy saturday morning and with not much else to do i agreed i don't know if the movies have been made to help market the dolls which seem to be losing their appeal a bit from what i've heard or if the dolls are there to market the movies or more likely a bit of both but whichever is the case i have to admit somewhat to my surprise this wasn't half bad br br it's a fun and imaginative story full of magical places and people and memorable characters both good and evil essentially played by barbie has to find a way to build a wand of light to reverse the evil spells of the wizard who among other things has turned her sister into a flying horse and her parents into stone the animation here was pretty good not disney calibre if one thinks of disney as the standard to aspire to but generally pretty good and while the movie is obviously tailored to young girls rather than middle aged men i still found there were enough twists and turns to make me wonder how it was all going to turn out it's true that there were some holes in the story or at least some logical inconsistencies but again one must remember the target audience who wouldn't really think of such things this is an all around decent family movie 7 10
1	normally i try to avoid barbie films but this one was unmistakably awesome kudos to the graphics and character voice overs it all flowed well this enchanting tale is a great spin off of others but is well worth buying i don't have kids but the kids i babysit including boys find it intriguing and love the extra features on the dvd i honestly don't know why this is rated so low but for kids especially your barbie lovin' 8 year old will love this its not straight forward and predictive like most movies are this childrens film has excellent morals and shows teamwork it has no swearing bits of romance if your old enough to figure it out and beautifully written storyline thats why i am giving it a ten out of ten
1	after all these years i am puzzled as to why julie brown west coast isn't a household name or a hugely famous comedic star she is one of the funniest females on the planet in this spoof she takes on madonna who is one of her favorite targets she is medusa a hugely successful singer like madonna who also happened to have documentary truth or dare julie brown spoofs madonna as medusa who came from wisconsin the land of dairy and beer i remember the segment where she went to wisconsin to visit her family and a grave i don't remember if it was a parent or her pet i remember somebody saying that medusa did nothing original she was just copying others i have to say that i hope this spoof documentary is available on dvd somewhere julie brown was at her best mocking and spoofing others
1	this parody is cleverly done from the songs express yourself becomes expose yourself like a prayer is now party in my pants and vogue is now vague to the fake interviews of the cast of the show this movie is hilarious remember madonna saying she didn't know about the rain season in asia in this one she doesn't know about the volcano season it is a precious jewel they got a lot of money on that spoof and it pays off highly recommended
1	this is one of julie's greatest tributes to music alongside her trapped in the body of a white girl album to quote the great medusa dare to go bare just wear your underwear you'll get a ride home everytime wow now that is some good advice you can dance at my party yeah justify your dance shoes you're invited to the party in my pants yeah come on boy let's dance at the party in my pants julie brown is hilarious it is almost sad that this video is only 51 minutes long but every minute is awesome
1	i watched the pilot episode for this one with high expectations having just graduated college and moved on to real life i was not in a fraternity but a lot of my best buddies were and i got to partake in a lot of the partying that they did in their house so i know what goes on to some extent br br this show is obviously a dramatization not a documentary in any way of greek life or college life for that matter although it does hold a lot of truth albeit exaggerated for the most part if you watch the show for the value it contains as a tv show and nothing more it is very entertaining much like movies such as old school porky's animal house etc if you watch it expecting it to chronicle all of your experiences in your own college life you will probably either be left wanting more or mad that they over dramatize a lot of events
1	medusa dare to be truthful is an outrageously funny parody that is a fine companion to the original madonna truth or dare julie brown's brilliant creation skewers madonna's highly entertaining documentary although it wasn't exactly daring insightful candid or truthful with a faithfulness to detail right down to the packaging i highly recommend this for madonna fans julie brown fans or anyone who enjoys sharp and clever parody
1	julie brown hilariously demolishes madonna's attempt at a rockumentary with gut ripping humor and truly original and catchy songs that rival madonna's own cinematography and sets are top notch br br kathy griffin and chris elliott offer their own injections of comedy that enhances and compliments this film appearances by bobcat goldthwait and wink martindale as themselves is an added bonus br br it's hard to tell if brown's performance is meant to insult or playfully tease madonna though i hardly think the material girl would find humor in it br br my favorite line why don't you come here to the phillipines all they eat is dog and i'm a vegetarian
1	this movie was a riot it pokes fun of madonna truth or dare in all the right places i love madonna i love julie brown how could i ask for more julie's spoof of vogue entitled vague was hysterical kelly lebrock thinks she's great she's just cold boogers on a paper plate brooke shields pam personality of spam i could've died and just wait till you see what she can do with a watermelon
1	i really liked this movie i watched it last night on the public broadcasting system the part i liked about it was the fact that they dealt with issues of today not in the future or the past they basically had some terrorists take a van or two and rent them out to be car bombs i think what the movie could have showed was people in different countries at the same time it did show the fact that england or any other country isn't prepared for an attack on the magnitude that they showed i have never heard of any of the actors or actresses in the movie so i can't really say if they are normally their parts after the movie they had this panel of experts talking about if something like that could happen here in the u s it was a thought provoking discussion
1	before seeing this picture i was quite skeptic i don't like movies with an agenda nor do i appreciate being scared into thinking like the writer i was also afraid this would be like the 2 part mini series 10 4 which had a far fetched concept little relation to the real world and very poor execution at the beginning is says this film is fiction but the events portrayed and the information about uk emergency planning are based on extensive research and the general feeling is that you're not being sold on an idea but that you're being taught a lesson in civil awareness the message that is being conveyed is obvious from the start it is coming and we're not prepared the use of real places and a scenario which not only could happen there are plans for when it does all add to the disturbing effect the movie will have on even the most cynical of viewers the movie's perspective is that of the society and it stays away from heart breaking personal moments which won't convey the message so none of the romeo juliet drama we're used to
1	seeing this film brought back to me memories of 9 11 the first thing i remember of that morning was seeing tv pictures of an airplane flying into a large building and my immediate thoughts must be a preview for a new tom clancy film br br this was not a tom clancy film this was certainly not a british version of the sum of all fears the typical tom clancy film or novel has a relatively small cast a linear plot and usually some sort of resolution this film had neither sure what i saw directly on screen was a small cast a plot and a vague resolution but like 9 11 the point was that reality was so much larger and more complex br br i work in systems planning and the reality of the disaster preparation exercise and the disaster itself is painfully obvious it's impossible to prepare for a disaster like this nor will it be any more possible to deal with this when it happens br br from the argument between the police not enough is being done to prepare and the politicians giving everybody on the tube a would cause panic to the constant loudspeaker announcements you are in no danger to your health but don't go home before we you and don't eat drink or smoke before we you i was on edge during the entire film not the slightest urge to channel surf br br this film was 90 minutes in length it could have been twice that and still not shown all the possible details instead it left enough unsaid to allow each of us to imagine the details each of us in our own way that made it so much more real to me than any tom clancy film br br i lived in london once and just off the road and i took the train from waterloo station many times as i watched dirty war i kept telling myself that this is only fiction right now br br allah and jehovah willing this film will remain fiction and sometime in 20 or 30 years my nephews may watch this film and remember the early 21st century and the panic we felt too much hopefully to the same degree as i feel currently when viewing memorabilia of the cold war with the evil communist regime of the mid 20th century and remember drop and cover exercises in school
1	dirty war is absolutely one of the best political government and well written t v drama's in the 25 years br br the acting is superb the writing is spectacular br br diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear biological and terrorist attack here on american soil br br dirty war should be made into a major motion picture it's that good i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth br br this t v drama reveals how british intelligence mi5 mi6 attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims because of england's involvement in the iraq war br br the scenes of different parts of london england are also spectacular br br dirty war is a must see
1	the film is partly a thriller and partly a public service announcement when seeing the events through the perspectives of politicians terrorists and of course victims in this smart drama lessons are given about contamination and surviving chaos while meantime the backstage look at the way crisis is managed prompts viewers to distrust guardians and to be scared by assailants the film originally aired on bbc gets to arouse effectively doubts on official performances are proper understated though never terrific the flick is just a beginning a provocative start leading to a larger discussion but it gets to work in my opinion giving the right thrills and causing the audience to reason and to ask itself questions
1	this movie was really interesting it also is quite shocking as the similar events of the movie occurred only 10 months after the movie premiered br br it was interesting seeing the problems that could be encountered and realistic enough to show that no matter how prepared you think you are you aren't if this was made for an american audience it would be different because they would have used this as a full propaganda film and not as a wake call which the bbc did it still is propaganda in some extend no film today with these themes can not be but it dealt with the issue successfully br br a film that should be shown in all terrorism counter terrorism courses but will not because it shows faults which is not allowed to be acknowledged a great film in which the bbc took a few risks and unfortunately london does not need a fictional tale any more due to the reality of july 7 2005
1	i lived in london most of my adult life before i moved stateside so missed this film when it came out and only saw this now on hbo i disagree with anyone who thinks this should have been a hollywood production the uk team gave it a chilling and foreboding atmosphere from day one and i was on the edge of my seat for the last 30 minutes wondering what was going to happen to my home city and of course nine months after the film comes out 7 7 happens yes the truth is stranger than fiction having lived in both countries it is also clear the likelihood of this happening in the uk is much greater than in the us muslims live in ghettos and isolate themselves in the uk in the us they assimilate much more readily
1	i must say i thought the show greek would be really ridiculous and stupid since i am part of a sorority i didn't want them to make greek organizations look bad br br but i think greek is hilarious yes they do have the stereotypical sorority and fraternity but it's not mocking but just cute humor br br all the characters are pretty likable minus rebecca logan i just can't stand her casey and rusty have good chemistry as brother and sister then there is who doesn't love a guy like haha his character brings so much to the show room mate dale played by clark duke is hilarious as well br br it's definitely fun to watch so tune in for season 2 i can't wait till it is back on
1	this is a pretty good made for tv flick of the 'what if' variety as in what if terrorists exploded a 'dirty in a big city in this case london lots of poking at folks that say 'we're all set in the event of an that then reveal that they're not exactly telling the full story and is anyone prepared for something like this you can bet not this shows the material for the bombs being smuggled into the country the making of the bombs the secrecy and double lives that the people behind it lead etc it also shows public servants i e firemen giving their all to save people when they aren't getting any help when the government doesn't want to send anyone else into the affected area also shows how woefully inadequate are for any such occurrence as the government talks everything up but then stands there with their mouths hanging open as the tragedy unfolds and could this happen right here in the good old usa well unless you've been living in caves for the past 20 years something already has to an extent and don't bet that anyone would be prepared for something of this nature this is fairly realistic and yes even scary well worth seeing but just hope nothing like this ever really happens 8 out of 10
1	daniel dirty war a bbc production made for television was shown recently on cable the film has a documentary style in the way it goes after the people that caused the near holocaust in one of the big metropolis of the world london in fact this film produced in 2004 is almost a cautionary tale of the events of the following year in which terrorists set explosive devices in the public transport that killed innocent people that were in the wrong place at the wrong time br br the film impresses for the pace the director and the production team gave to the project there are no dull moments in the movie as we watch the preparation by the terrorists and the people that are following their dirty work although the inevitable happens it's amazing just to think what would be the consequences if a real 'dirty was planted in such a densely populated area br br the last images of the film have a chilling effect the mob scenes and the way the whole area is contaminated send shivers of fear thinking how it could possible happen anywhere
1	well this movie certainly was in keeping with the current times no happy endings super heroes or miracles here just down to earth fiction to stimulate our minds along the lines of terrorism and what ifs kudos to percival and for an excellent screenplay and superb direction by percival films like this are needed to keep us aware of what is out there if every peace loving man and woman on earth reported obviously suspicious activities i believe terrorism could not thrive this movie showed just how hard it really is to subvert these terrorists even with good intelligence even though the film is a bit propagandist against islam the use of a muslim police officer as a main character i believe it was entirely realistic there was meant to be shock value in the bombing incident as a very clever tool to relay the humility and indignity of people caught up in an attack such as this they showed full nudity of women being post attack it didn't take me long to realize that this was meant to even further instill into the viewer that thought i e we are not in control of everything in a situation like this although this took place in london with the usual high level british acting it makes a statement for any part of the world great movies don't have to be blockbuster epic productions and this movie is very very worthy of viewing
1	the bbc and hbo teamed up to create dirty war a 90 minute tv movie about a terrorist dirty bomb attack in london the film gets down to business quickly as it packs both the terrorist and the government anti terrorist efforts into the film leaving little room for human interest subplots on the terrorist side we follow the bomb from the smuggling of radioactive materials to assembly to deployment to detonation on the government side we see pr and training exercises intelligence gathering and analysis interdiction post detonation response and follow up the film also imparts a sense of how al type terrorist cells are organized the radical islamic terrorist mentality and terrorist strategies a sort of anatomy of a dirty bomb incident dirty war will answer many questions lurking in the minds of a public becoming ever more aware of this insidious threat b
1	i just wanted to say that when i was young my favorite t v show back in the day was night heat i loved the characters and the plot of the show i thought that it was an excellent show and still do to this day i enjoy watching the reruns and i am a big fan i love the way the characters played off one another i would always stay up late to watch my favorite show with my mother who also was a big fan now i can enjoy watching my show again and listening to the theme song which i thought was a cool song for the show my favorite characters were scott hylands and jeff wincott i enjoyed watching these handsome guys take down the bad boys
1	this lasted several years despite the late hour it was on br br like a lot of 80's crime dramas it looked cold both physically and figuratively this isn't a bad thing though and the obviously low budget actually worked in it's favor gritty during a time when 'slick' was in br br allan royal's wraparound segments as the news writer gave it a slight edge br br the only actors i remembered were scott earthquake and tony sctv the cast of barely knowns was a good thing because one could see the group as a whole and not as a bunch of people supporting a 'star ' and yes that's a young clark johnson homicide in a recurring spot br br i hope a dvd release is in the future someone out there wanna get on that
1	i feel the heat i feel your beat something ain't right theme song written by b j cook from david foster's old band and wife she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc's airwaves oh night heat what a program well written well acted and totally classic crime and a good team and a dash of humour at the end i'd like to think this is really what detectives do did was a real favourite on a canadian tip i learned every canadian actor's name and style from guest spots done on night heat everyone passed through the night heat set and like law order it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama
1	i thought this was a beautiful film it is not my favourite of his films chungking express holds that spot this one is quite different from anything else i have seen of his it is slow but not annoyingly so it takes its time and ponders the characters there is minimal movement in the frame the camerawork is wonderful the acting is great the film feels like a long warm comforting drink
1	the plot of in the mood for love is simple enough a married man and a married woman though not to eachother slowly develop a romantic attachment to one another the film's pace is numbingly slow and precious little actually happens between the two yet the backdrop of hong kong in the early 1960s and director wong kar wai's keen sense for capturing the beauty of the setting as well as the principal characters make this film a joy to watch actors tony leung and maggie cheung are both excellent and wong kar wai has done an extraordinary job in capturing the feel and nostalgia of the past something so many films and directors try to do but usually fail miserably there are so many little details that add charm to the film a trademark of the director and the colors and cinematography are what send this otherwise simple story over the top as a marvelous cinematic achievement 9 10
1	for those who like their films full of exploding planets and extreme violence this is definitely not one to see in fact there is very little plot at all or at least very little that could not be summarised in a few seconds a meets b mr a falls for mrs b and has an affair with her a and b then fall in love and wonder at great length whether to have an affair themselves br br this is cantonese visconti story there is none but what you do get is a succession of wonderful images and poignantly trivial music which convey the slow passage of the central characters' emotions there is also the chance to see one of the world's most beautiful women in a succession of stunningly elegant outfits for my money it's worth seeing for that alone how could this woman ever have been an action heroine she looks as though she has stepped straight out of the pages of vogue
1	i'm not a big tv person but when i saw the premier episode of greek i couldn't wait until next week i don't miss the show for nothing br br thank god for dvr lol i'm in love with he acts like a bad boy but he is so sweet everybody has their own character so we have pretty much all types of people you could still throw in a hispanic and a chubby persons br br i didn't go to school in usa so i never liked the idea of frat houses and stuff like that so when my husband told me about the show i didn't pay attention until he asked me to watch it and since i didn't have noting better to do i agreed i laughed so hard the first night that i just needed to keep watching it br br so i'm with the other people that voted for this show to continue on i will hope for a second third and who knows how many more episodes its a really good show very funny and entertaining
1	two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes 2000 close ups it close ups of walls humans and of many other things the warm colored lighting which is also usually by the director gave the movie a warm atmosphere only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie silence and slow movements characterize the movie some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the 1960s this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema
1	the notion of marital fidelity portrayed in the film seems outdated today but it is exactly the main characters' adherence to that notion which makes the entire story so touchingly tragic it is this notion that them and allows them to stand out to as they refer to their respective spouses not be like them br br as tony leung said in the film love just happens there doesn't need to be a rational explanation as to how it happens it simply does despite their not wanting to stoop to their respective level it happened fidelity social mores and timing all conspired against this relationship coming into fruition simply being in love is far from enough br br i had the misfortune of sitting beside a young couple still in university from the snippets of conversation they kindly shared with me throughout the entire film and uninitiated to the pains of lost love and missed opportunities their gross inability to digest the subtleness and the deeper emotions evoked made me realize just how much a film such as this as well as other wong kar wei's work is wasted on the local audience
1	the chinese film title of in the mood for love is fa yeung wah it can be interpreted as those blossoming years that once were br br the whole film is a well composed piece a complex love story told in simple visual approach writer director wong kar wai has choreographed a dancing of the hearts it's she it's he it's love i can hear theme dum dum dum dum dum dum and the strings almost like a piece with prelude and epilogue br br director the use of music michael score nat king cole singing in spanish and chinese songs tunes the rhythm and lyrics prompt viewers to what she and he is feeling thinking rather than verbal dialogs i can hear nat king cole giving us the clues verde that thing fling eyes green plays when the two meet and when she's undecided br br nostalgia pervades throughout the film design details plentiful handbags and ties japanese rice cooker novelty the pattern green glass cups saucers and plates i remember dad treasured those at home session kitchen area bedroom furnishings the thermos for the take out noodles that she swings when she walks maggie cheung slender and shapely looks exquisite in those fashionable patterns colors of the traditional chinese woman clothing sam' every change of her dress denotes another day another time in the story wong kar wai is resourceful that way br br the scenes may be of the same place but it's of a different mood advanced to the next stanza up and down the stairs to the won ton noodle stand standing by the wall around the corner to the apartments as the rain pours along the corridor back and forth to his writing corner br br trivia so she helps him with his writing of his martial arts novel maggie would be able to help as she's been in kung fu martial arts movies eastern three heroes 1992 is a fun action movie with maggie cheung thief catcher chat michelle yeoh and anita as three super heroes fighting evils br br if you appreciate tony leung's performance don't miss chungking express 1994 in the second segment romance rhythm with a difference and happy together 1997 an intense emotionally colorful painting of friendships faith and fate both written and directed by wong kar wai br br being able to understand the cantonese and shanghainese dialects and having visited the official site i realized the epilogue was not quite completely translated here's sharing my version of the chinese captions br br it was kind of an unbearable encounter all along she has kept her head lowered giving him a chance to get closer he didn't have the courage to be closer she turned around walked away br br that time and place had come to past all that belonged no longer exist br br those vanished years seemingly separated by a glass gathering dust can see yet cannot grasp br br all along he has longed for all that's past if he can break through that dust gathered glass he will walk back into the times long vanished br br wong kar wai's in the mood for love brings to mind the simple poetry and wisdom of the sufi philosopher the 'inner and outer ' the and body' of life love and living br br revised ruby 2 22 01 br br
1	how do you describe perfection in the mood for love maggie cheung and tony leong practically dance on the screen and give stellar performances that stay with you hours after you've left the theatre every scene in the film resonates with the powerful combination of superb cinematography and shot selection top notch acting and the sensual soundtrack nat king cole singing in french absolutely sets the tone for the whole movie maggie and tony look marvelous with maggie slinking about in some truly glorious and tony always looking dapper i've seen this movie several times already and everytime i see it i find something new to rave about love it
1	sensitive extremely quiet paced love story between a married journalist and his young and neighbor she too also married they lived their love for a time but the obstacles and the fear of hurting their families and children invites to a separation a reflexive look on delicate question like love friendship honor and loneliness always present in human lives whether you are an american or a chinese i give this a 7 seven
1	one of if not the most visually beautiful film i have ever seen in my life there is so much to learn here in how to play with the camera color costumes and set up a shot the work that went into the official film web sites in english and french also give you a good idea of the sheer beauty contained in the film
1	having seen many of wong kar wai's other movies happy together fallen angels ashes of time i knew what to expect coming in to the theatre the cinematography would be lush the use of space and perspective would be varied the acting would be superb and at least one of the characters would be consumed by an ineffable loneliness these are after all precisely the techniques that make wong kar wai's art what it is what i was not expecting was the degree to which i was drawn into a film that some reviewers dismissed as unfinished and compelled by characters who seemed consumed by ennui br br i find it interesting how people can be so utterly unmoved by a film that so vividly displays emotions and settings many of us take for granted or work ardently to forget the overwhelming sense of grief stemming from being betrayed the guilt aroused by the thought of becoming no better than the betrayer the mundane yet profoundly intimate moments of relationships where the need to express oneself verbally is utterly superfluous this is what wong kar wai attempts to portray in the film and what he achieves so well br br too many americans are consumed by the need to have every moment of a film filled with stock dialogue witty banter disaffected sarcasm and overwrought confessions seem to be the pinnacle of the best american film has to offer wong kar wai sees things very differently instead of the character needing to keep the audience apprised of her every feeling perception or belief wong's characters make their feelings and understandings known clearly by facial gestures body positioning and yes silence br br if viewers merely contemplate this film from the standpoint of character development and action then they may be disappointed by what it has to offer if they are willing to let themselves try and what the characters are feeling then they may feel quite differently about what wong has to offer them
1	in the mood for love a teasing allegory of loneliness and longing here is a film without sex or even kissing and it is no doubt one of the sexiest and definetly the most thought provoking and psychological romance i have ever seen br br telling the story of two people who coincidentally live in the same apartment and are a door away from each other the film like and unlike random hearts is about how two people come together via the affair of their two lovers only once they receive this news they take the time to think about the consequences of an affair and each other's feelings towards having just broken up and whether or not the two people are willing enough to fall back in love br br what's terrific about the film is the way director wong kar wai presents each character's way of dealing with loneliness with maggie cheung's character he'll show her in a repeated montage leaving work going home watching her neighbors gamble head to the noodle shop leave the noodle shop and bump into her attractive age equal played by tony leung this is a clever if not subtle and knowing technique to present loneliness for it is when you are alone when you find yourself falling into a loop this movie worked for me because i can identify with that feeling
1	as with many of wong's films a lot of people find them to be boring and confusing well i like them and i like this film too i went out and rented it on dvd and i watched it 3 times it is a very subtle movie that provides an intoxicating experience for those who did not enjoy it you just wasted 2 hours of your life too bad
1	what an awesome film i came out of the theatre feeling stunned the film that i had just seen was one of the best films i have seen in my life i had my eyes glued to the screen it's very symbolic visually lush beautifully shot and gorgeously told it's basically about two people who move into a flat and live next door to each other with there partners who are assumed to be having an affair with each others partners assuming this our two heroes act out what they think their partners are getting upto there is an obvious repression of feelings for each other with the use of camera work body language and it's a visual feast and hard not to like some of the story gets slightly confusing but that's nothing the ending is one of the most beautiful and anti hollywood endings i have ever seen in my life and visually amazing the films haunting score adds to the mood i highly recommend this film to anyone with an open mind and respect what a superb film
1	i just recently stumbled upon this show when abc family had an all day marathon before season 2 premiered i remember seeing previews for the show back in 2007 and thought it would be short lived and not very well written because it was on abc family br br never doubt an abc family show this show surprised me in the best way possible not only is the show well written story lines are realistic funny and enjoyable i was expecting a lot of talk about relationships something like this guy dated that girl who dumped me for that kid etc but this show is anything but the characters are appealing and you really feel a connection between them all there is a lot of chemistry between the actors and they can really make you feel like the stuff is happening right before your eyes br br don't doubt this show it is truly enjoyable to watch and get hooked on
1	for a long time i did not know weather i liked this film or not this is surprising because i usually do know but because the film did not go anywhere i was a bit confused br br two people move into a somewhat communal household setting finding their spouses constantly working or away on business trips their attention out of sheer loneliness wanders to each other after a platonic love affair the male lead played by tony leung discloses that he has a mistress on the side su li played by maggie cheung is hurt even though their love affair has not been physically consummated leaves the country only to come back years later when everything has changed br br for the part the film is correct by never actively or actually touching the part of love but only approaching it the film admittedly says more than so many others have on the subject it is also true i think that nothing good could have come if they did go on to have the affair at least that's the feeling i get br br if we are to believe it however when marquez writes that love is a state of grace not the means to anything but the alpha and the omega an end in itself then this film falls miserably short of this as do all others or if you are inclined to entirely incomplete minimalism hits it right on the mark what films in history have achieved approached or sustained this phrase if for only a short while my honest feeling in memory is that about two when harry met sally suggests effectively this romantic perfection and the getting is all in just getting there it is interesting that in when harry met sally this is done in the course of wooing rather than in its attainment can't anyone say anything good about love after it has been achieved by two individuals nicholas spark's recent film the notebook comes closer to this perhaps than any other film are we to believe that once love is achieved it flies of the radar only to exist in perfection in some other dimension or more true perhaps becomes latent vehicle for other ends br br in the mood for love is an honest film with gorgeous and generous cinematography worthy in all respects of the best that almodovar has to offer yet all it manages to say in the end is that life is sometimes like this now this is by no means a diffident thing to say especially if said well but the problem really comes at the end of the last act when kar wai wong tries to round out the film by relating only for the second time a broader historical theme that plays in the background of the relationship which has just taken place this is a worthy effort and the variation on the musical motif played throughout the film is rather brilliant but the relatively spare indictment plays too little to have much more than a superficial effect on the inclined audience leaving the viewer to split the difference a mistake in any film a director should know where he is going and how to get there but in all honesty it is only one wrong turn however as anyone knows all it takes is one notable imperfection to spoil the perfect barrel of honey br br the effort though is definitely worth while trying to let a historical theme broaden and round out the film and raise it beyond the micro meaning of the couple but without any real foreshadowing it is the crucial mistake in a word and unfortunately it is too little too late it is also i think too much of a challenge for the non asian viewer not familiar enough with china's history to appreciate completely this sweeping stroke
1	beautiful emotional and subtle i watch this movie at an art center with a smaller screen in a film room with 95 of senior citizens i wish bigger cinema like around here would show it great cinematography by wong and christopher doyle since i understand cantonese it's a lot easier for me to understand the movie as simple as the story goes many english speaking viewers didn't get the whole story three old ladies next to me keep yapping and have no clues about the movie br br spoiler they were surprise when i mention that mr chow did sleep with mrs chen and they have a son she went to singapore trying to tell him but didn't br br spoiler br br the mandarin translation of the movie title actually means flowery like moment or memory the phrase usually used to describe beautiful and wonderful memory that was and short the whole movie pretty much fit the title not to mention the flowery cheung sam br br my favorite scene was definately the street corner in the alley it looks so beautiful the sun shining on the old and faded wall at night in the dark in the rain truely a poetic moment i felt a strong sense of intimacy of their relationship seeing them standing against the wall and talk quietly i felt a terrible heartache when mr chow was rehearsing his departing moment and mrs chen cried on his shoulder bravo wong kar wai br br as much as i like this one chungking express still top my favorite however i'll give this one a 10 as well as a point of reference cthd only got 7 br br if you love art you will love this movie don't miss it
1	kar wai wong's incredibly impressive romance that is to me perfect set in 1960's hong kong as we are shown this is set in a turbulent time tony leung and maggie cheung play chow mo wan and su li zhen chan a man and a woman who meet each other in a hong kong apartment in which they both move in chow mo wan works for a newspaper company su li zhen chan is a secretary two very different people chow mo wan and su li zhen chan create a special bond after they both find out their spouses constantly away are committing extra marital trysts with each other br br the characters of chow mo wan and su li zhen chan are nothing short of amazing both leung and cheung manage to strike such amazing chemistry with one another it's better than any hollywood romance that is put out today combined the film is all about the focus of the two leads and their feelings after the infidelities of their partners kar wai wong manages to create such strong character development between these two characters you really start to feel for them leung and cheung are both wildly amazing are better than any hollywood pairing shown on the screen today combined br br there's nothing much else to describe fa yeung nin wa other than beautiful energetic romance that also features a moody atmospheric piece with gorgeous cinematography so much elements of this movie help create it to be flawless as well as kar wai wong and the acting the cinematography from both christopher doyle and pin bing lee is haunting beautifully understated the shots from kar wai wong help makes your mind create a world of it's own a world that creates these characters original melancholic and nostalgic this film is incredibly unforgettable br br the costumes created by kar wai wong regular william chang are absolutely beautiful cheung who wears an elegant ankle deep beautifully patterned dress in every scene she's a scene stealer her costumes say a lot about her character and an emotion is fitted in all of her dresses colours which are vividly and smartly used highly original chang also the production designer creates a brilliant setting for the movies moody piece especially with the help of the marvellous music used in scenes and masterful film editing again by chang william chang seems to be incredibly versatile and is an unsung hero for this movie br br overall this movie is one of the best from this millennium incredibly compelling and filled with nostalgia the shots are mesmerising and haunting kar wai wong somewhat proves to be a master at the top of his game the acting music cinematography editing production costume and direction all help create one small little perfect film a masterpiece in romance film making visually spectacular overall a masterpiece to film making a film that reminds me of old classic hollywood was the one that never was never forget fa yeung nin wa i know i won't
1	this film is wonderful film for students of film in mainstream american film it is common to see stylistic techniques used to draw the audience into the movie in this film the director uses stylistic techniques to push the story forward br br this is a love story that offers no sex to be honest i can't even recall the characters kissing rather the plot focuses on the emotional ties between the two characters br br i would not recommend this film for everybody it is not very accessible it is very slow moving and the subtle it is a difficult film and mostly not entertaining br br i would this film to people who want to see something different it is a piece of art the soundtrack is most beautiful and visually every frame is a photograph and most beautiful of all it's not visually stimulating for the sake of being visually stimulating every frame illustrates a little bit more of the story
1	spoiler alert br br you can listen to wong kar wai's movies like a radio play invisible vibrations between the characters the rooms where they stay in the rhythm that presses them ahead attraction and dislike the whole spectrum of the atmosphere is played back by the sound track the dialogue is mostly completely unimportant br br the narration is similar to a childish amorous look at a beautiful woman and a sad man whose sorrows are noticeable but helpless in the mood for love is told from a child perspective but the child never appears as a narrator the aesthetic of the film is developed by an extreme light and color dramaturgy harsh cuts an unattached almost documentary camera and a complex unobtrusive sound br br the genius use of nat king cole's perhaps perhaps perhaps whose mysterious power grows the more often it is repeated and the melancholic waltz helps in the graceful choreography of the two protagonists maggie cheung in her beautiful dresses is brilliant the perfect vis à vis to the handsome stylish tony leung the audience assumes a romance between them but wong just sees sad resignation the two potential lovers are revolving around each other like satellites knowing that they never will share the same orbit you wish that they will find each other they won't and the emotional power of their non love sex relationship makes the movie immensely fascinating br br it is about broken luck and unspoken love in all of wong's films these are the love whether it comes too early or it comes too late to take the one and not the other person the yearning of the characters that is never satisfied their loneliness the mourning and the luck that they experience when it is too late
1	in hong kong 1962 the editor chow mo wan tony leung wai and his wife and the secretary su li zhen chan maggie cheung and her husband simultaneously move to an old building each couple has just rented a room in apartments on the same floor their wife and husband stay most of the time away from home and chow and li zhen have the same habits they like kung fu stories and noodles and soap from a restaurant nearby the building their close contact becomes friendship and a sort of platonic and repressed love later they realize that their mates are having an affair chow falls in love with li zhen but her shyness and probably repressed condition of married woman keeps her love in a platonic level 'in the mood for love' is a very slow beautiful melancholic and romantic love story with a wonderful photography and soundtrack and a very unusual edition the film had not had a screenplay and the actors were never sure about what they would be shooting later the director edited his story based on the footages when chow moves to singapore there is a gap of many years in the story until 1966 when its conclusion is intentionally open and not well defined leaving questions such as who is the boy with li zhen my vote is eight br br title brazil À da 'love on the surface of the
1	beautiful film set in 1962 hong kong about a man mr chow and woman mrs chan who become close friends when they suspect their spouses are having an affair stylistically the film is also beautiful wong kar wai uses a lot of slow motion and close ups on parts of the body feet hands waist the film itself has a reticence and properness that suggests its time period it's sexy without showing everything wong kar wai also doesn't allow the audience to see what the spouses look like suggesting that mr chow and mrs chan should be together smoking is even made to look elegant with close ups of the curls of smoke a really lovely film just prepare yourself for the ending br br
1	warning spoiler spoiler spoiler br br this is written for filmgoers who may have walked away from mood for love perplexed and confused about paths the main characters choose in life from reading other comments and reviews it seems that many viewers and critics missed some very important details which may have prevented them from enjoying this delightful tease of a movie br br we are so use to seeing blatant sex in narrations that we forget that there was a time when filmakers would suggest the dirty deed by simply showing the slack mouthed couples ride off in a sleigh or haywagon only to return into the next scene with a bulging gut or a fat toddler stuck to the hip meet your child br br the director chose the same nostalgic approach in telling the story of mr chow and mrs chan last warning spoiler spoiler spoiler br br mr chow fools mrs chan into showing her real emotions when they rehearse his departure forever next scene mrs chan leans her head on mr chow in the taxi and says i do not want to go home tonight translation let's do it br br why then did the couple just not do the modern thing of dumping their cheating spouses get a divorce raise their love child and live happily ever after the answer is that this whole story takes place in hong kong during the sixties a bastard would live in a bleak life of shame if he were the child of an adulteress whereas a legitimate child could live a tragic but noble honest life if his mother chose to raise him away from his cheating father the invisible mr chan in short mr chow and mrs chan sacrifices their relationship for the future of their child br br that is why mr chow upon learning that mrs chan lives alone with a little boy gives a knowing smile and ends his dreams of making mrs chan his mrs chow he then also realizes why mrs chan went to all the way to singapore to be with him only to reconsiders at the last and leave choosing to never see him again but not before taking some unnamed mr chow lives with this wonderful secret with no one to tell no one except for a crumbling temple wall and of course we the viewer but only if we listen
1	set in 1962 hong kong in turbulent times as we are informed this extremely intimate story of a failed romance between a two married people tied to their traditions manages to recall the essence of old hollywood in scene after scene of lush colors evocative yet restrained sensuality as opposed of the requisite sexuality and occasional nude scenes which has become part of the norm of a romance in film and the use of facial expressions to suggest subtle changes in mood or communication it's not hard to see the influence of marguerite here since she is known for minimalism in storytelling as well as describing powerful drama using the art of verbal and non verbal conversation between two characters with a strong bond as well as the use of re enacting scenes that could eventually take place in both the characters' lives from hiroshima mon amour to her pen is strongly visible here from the moment we enter the cramped rooms of mr chow tony leung and mrs su li zhen maggie cheung to the last scenes which explain the intensity of regret that he feels as he recalls the opportunity which was lost in reaffirming this relationship br br the plot even resembles something that could have written mr chow and mrs su li zhen neighbors in a tenement apartment while both being fairly successful professionals begin to discover in the most banal of ways that their spouses are cheating on them and they discover quite naturally it's with each other the question is should they act upon what they also feel towards each other or not be like their partners every scene plays with the notion that at any moment they will give in to each other and at one point it is suggested that eventually they do though as intrusive as the camera is in detailing to us their encounters which seem to occur on a daily basis as seen by the frequent changes of cheung's dresses we never see it and just as not seeing either of their spouses heightens their own love story not seeing them carry through with their attraction makes the eventual separation even the more bitter because at every moment we want for something to happen some catalyst and the only one which comes is when leung reveals to her that he loves her followed by his quietly brutal revelation that she will never leave her husband which implies that neither will he it also gives us a glimpse of what culture and timing can do from a western point of view a consummation of their romance into a more solid lasting affair would have been possible especially in the 60s but as it's hong kong cultural values are markedly different br br performances here are of the high order it's very easy to play a torrid love affair but to continually play a repressed platonic relationship that is brimming with desire only barely suggested is hard and makes all the sensuality more cerebral than palpable or visual cheung and leung smolder and their blighted chemistry lingers long after the credits have rolled
1	the most attractive factor that lies in this masterpiece of a film is not the beautiful lead actors it isn't their outstanding acting and sizzling chemistry either br br to me it is the mis en scene of the entire movie the settings the lighting the props all add to the mood for love between the main characters a whiff of smoke from chow's cigarette tells us his state of mind the ever changing tight fitting of reflects the constraints of decision making the ruins of angkor wat ties in with the deteriorating relationship of the two leads br br the excellent use of mis en scene gives the film just the right amount of feel needed to flesh out the complicated nature of the characters' relationship the film leaves the audience fruitlessly yearning for more
1	so when i first saw commercials for greek i did have a few questions to how they were going to approach greek life if they were going to give away sacred frat and sorority secrets if they were going to focus on the brother and sisterhood a fraternity or sorority brings or what most college kids think of greek life as a huge party br br luckily it covered everything the story plot was great it gave you a character to love hate someone you want to be like someone you don't want to be like and of course a crazy roommate br br it was one of my first looks at what writers believed greek life to be like and i can honestly say they hit the nail pretty dead on br br i love how one of the biggest things they covered throughout the season was the relationship between rusty and his crazy roommate its hard enough moving away from home and being forced to live in a small room with someone you don't even know then come to find out you have nothing in common probably every college bound worst nightmare br br sister casey was pretty much the typical girl on campus everyone is jealous of what didn't she have oh thats right evan all to herself rebecca and evan had an affair early into the season which made you feel fairly sympathetic for casey her character evolved and her relationship with rusty became more and more loving and outgoing br br is one of the most fun loving characters and absolutely insane one of my favorite episodes included him getting completely trashed at a strip club and rusty having to call casey to bail them out i like how they addressed the issue of gay people in greek houses calvin was a very real feeling character and i really respected him because he stuck to his standards so jen k was fairly crazy but she actually liked rusty it was surprising and i continued to question her from the start but of course i did want it to work out between her and rusty br br i am definitely looking forward to the return of greek it takes you into the truth of greek life something that a lot of people look past one of the biggest things that frats and sororities are known for is parties and drinking greek is a great show and the characters are easy to relate to
1	two people living in the same flat complex find their partners are having an affair with each other as they try and piece together how it happened they also embark on an emotional journey that for a br br building on his previous success with happy together and chungking express wong kar wai gives us this rather old fashioned and marvellous story of reawakened passions yearning and unrequited love br br possibly in the mood for love is not to everyone's taste it wanders in rather lazily at not particularly long for a film but it appears longer because not a lot really happens but this lazy feel conceals a quite tightly constructed film most of the story is cunningly woven around a series of set piece role plays where the characters act out presumed scenarios between their respective spouses trying to work out how the affair started i say cunning because of course this makes it difficult for the audience and the characters to tell what is in role and what is genuine br br if all this sounds rather arty and self conscience that's because it is unashamedly so and it is played to perfection by two of hong kong's finest maggie cheung and leung chui wai with some excellent support from ping lam siu and rebecca pan br br it is also a virtuoso performance by wong kar wai who treats the audience to a sensory and sensual overload bringing together christopher doyle who later deployed his lush over ripe style on hero and pin bing lee whose beautifully understated style can be seen on springtime in a small town was cinematographic genius it has all the bold beauty of doyle without frankly the athena poster cheesiness of his work on hero the music as always with wong is prominent from nat king cole singing in spanish to the haunting strings of the main theme it perfectly matches the eclectic beauty of the images br br all in all a top film whether judged on plot acting cinematography or soundtrack similar to but more accessible than wim wenders' wings of desire this is a beautiful old fashioned story about love lost and regained br br and watch out for tony leung's hotel room 2046 which presaged wong's recent film of the same name
1	i won't bore you with story and plot lines as they have been presented many times already on this page so… it's been along time coming since i have seen such a film beautiful elegant and restrained with a narrative pace to match a film with sensitivity and understated qualities that is rare in these times of clichéd plots the beautifully subdued photography saturated in rich luxurious colors and for lack of better words each frame is filled with an air of tension the settings and locations are used repeatedly but the film manages to breath new life into them each time they featured there always seems to be a key prop light fixture or set piece to slightly clue the audience as to where we are in the characters world br br the acting reminds me of the the bicycle thief not the style but the fact that you forget that you are watching two actors engaged in their craft there is meaning behind every gesture and almost every movement has assigned significance to explain the inside world of the characters the relationship the feelings and situation of the two lovers the dialogue is sparse but like the rest of the movie is imbued with meaning speaking of meaning the soundtrack is infectious used here it becomes a story telling device and although the film is of chinese origins even a song sung in spanish by nat king cole imparts the film with subtle meaning the orchestrated soundtrack is repetitive but the repetition is what makes it comfortable it is used in conjunction with the story and not just a means to put music to action or to cue the audience to feel a certain way at a certain plot point br br i would not recommend this film to anybody i fear most people would be jaded by the calm flow of the story but i would recommend it to someone who is looking for an alternative to the romantic schlock that fills the multiplexes on our side of the world i must say that i was completely taken by this film and continued to watch it night after night the story takes time to present itself and bears repeated viewings as very few films in this genre are open to such a broad interpretation a very beautiful movie
1	when i fist watched the movie i said to myself so a film can be made like this wong kar wai's gorgeous poetic love story captured me throughout and even after the film i must admit this is one of the best love movies maybe the best of all i have ever watched the content and the form overlaps perfectly as watching the secret love we see the characters in bounded frames that limits their movements as well as their feelings beautiful camera angles and the lighting makes the feelings and the blues even touchable i want to congratulate christopher doyle and pin bing lee for their fantastic cinematography which creates the mood for love also the music defines the sadness of the love which plays along the beautiful slow motion frames and shows the characters in despairing moods and of course the performances of the actors which makes the love so real eventually all the elements in the film combined in a perfect way under the direction of wkw and give the audience the feeling called love
1	i was recommended this film as one of the best love stories ever told and as i am huge fan of love i bought the tickets and sat myself in the theatre after 90 minutes i left the theatre with nothing but disappointment and the theme song as the only positive thing of the film i was appalled at the story itself that two people can love each other but be so afraid as to never act it i just couldn't go passed the language barrier and the cultural barrier the second time i ran into it i was in a different mood no longer had any expectation and had more patience more relaxed mind to see the film and as soon as i opened my eyes i discovered the love the beauty of the film i went beyond the language and the love story and saw the acting not even for a moment did i ever felt like they were acting and the cinematography the first time i heard a definition of what a film is i was told that it should be a chain of perfectly balanced photographs shots and this is the film to match the description almost every shot has an idea behind it and combined with the music and the light effects the result is just a masterpiece and a masterpiece is just something that you must have in your collection of films
1	in 60s hong kong a man and woman move in the same day into adjacent apartments with their respective spouses soon they suspect their ever absent spouses of having an affair with one another a strange bond emerges between the man and woman as they cope with their sadness by taking turns playing each other's spouse before a more complex bond emerges br br no summary can do it justice for hong kong auteur wong kar wai's in the mood for love is nothing short of a miracle a story about sadness that manages to be touching and at times funny a romance that never feels forced or fake no doubt the director's method has a lot to do with that br br directed from an inexistent screenplay though the concept largely flows from a japanese short story to favor improvisation the film is immediately set apart by the freshness of it's performances all the film revolves around that and the rest is pure enhancement at the core of the film are two characters that will ease into your heart and stay there long after the end credits roll maggie cheung and tony leung are simply amazing and no language barrier undermines a single fragment of immediacy and truth they display the additional material is also top notch the films is magnificent to behold in part lensed by hero 's christopher doyle and the music is heartbreaking br br this is something everybody must see if only because it is by far the most heartfelt mature and authentic love story out there unmissable
1	it's easy to see why many people consider in the mood for love to be wong kar wai's best film the toned down appeal of the film centering on the studied view of a relationship put through an emotional ringer is a retread into happy together territory but without the hyper kinetic patchwork of jarring film stocks and hyper saturated sequences that have become a trademark of kar wai's films since chungking express like soderbergh's the limey this is a different kind of curio for kar wai where dialogue and plot are forsaken by mood and composition in order to create a tale of two delicate lives in a seemingly confining emotional stasis br br it's a testament to the genius of kar wai that he is capable to making such a simple tale so resonating chow mo wan tony leung and su li zhen maggie cheung move in next door to each other within the same apartment building he's a journalist who dreams of publishing martial arts novels and she is a secretary at a shipping company their eventual coupling is obvious from the beginning but the pleasure here is the way that kar wai ambiguously paints such a journey with his grand br br the key to the success of the film is kar wai's use of the interior space playing with foreground and background planes in ways that are similar to the works of polanski during the sensuous first half of the film kar wai isolates leung and cheung within shots in such a way that the second person in a conversation is never visible kar wai is concerned with environment and space here creating a cramped emotional dynamic between his characters it's also telling that kar wai never chooses to focus on the physicality of mo wan and li spouses their faceless partners are noticeably absent from the film as they are tending to their own love affairs with each other br br this is not to suggest that in the mood for love is a confining experience because kar wai manages to his film with broad splashes of hypnotic camera movement and sound there is one shot where cheung's slow sensual rise up a metaphorical stairway turns into leung's descent down the very same stairwell their movements perfectly compliment each other bookending the shot and creating a sense of erotic duality between the two figures their souls have connected but they have yet to physically unite the erotic displacement of these scenes is both fascinating and frustrating as two star crossed lovers reject physical consummation due to their humble fidelity br br other scenes in the film are punctuated with brief slow motion shots of cheung erotically moving through her interior surroundings set to mike hauntingly beautiful score cheung's dresses beautifully compliment her exterior space as she moves slowly through her surroundings her movements slowly build up to what seems to be an inevitable fusion between li and her dream lover even though the seduction process seems to be entirely sub conscious br br if i make it seem that these two characters are more like two birds unleashing on each other it probably isn't that far fetched of a statement the tight bond these two characters have with their internal spaces is almost as intense as their relationship to the exteriors the film rarely moves into an exterior space and when the camera does it is usually to peak through oval windows and symbolic bars that always remind us that these characters are like confined animals kar wai continues to tease us even when the lovers get close enough to touch shattering the couple's proximity to each other by shooting them through mirrors or through gaps within articles of clothing located inside of a closet mother nature even seems to respond to their love lust often unleashing a soft crest of rain over the characters after their bodies have near each other br br kar wai's hauntingly atmospheric shots of a waterfall allowed leung's lai yu fai to experience a cathartic release in happy together even if leslie cheung's ho po wing was not there to enjoy it with him by that film's end love was so inextricably bound to the act of war that a third man's muted declarations of love signaled yu realization that his dreams of seeing a waterfall would bring him inner peace even if it would not bring him back his lover mo wan's journey terminates within the confines of a crumbling temple his own emotional depletion is paralleled nicely with the political climate of his country and the absence of li is only made tolerable by the fact that kar wai allows mo wan to experience a release of sorts mo wan caters to an ancient myth and his secretive release into a crack in the temple leaves him capable of living his days with the hope that all his loss and heartache somehow served a higher purpose
1	i think that new york times film critic elvis mitchell wrote the best one line review of in the mood for love when he said that it is dizzy with a romantic spirit that's been missing from the cinema forever how true those words are truly romantic films are so rare these days while films that include plenty of sex and nudity which are often portrayed in a smutty and gratuitous manner abound so given this cinematic climate wong kar wai's latest film feels like a much needed breath of fresh air in the mood for love is about the doomed romance between two neighbors mr chow played by tony leung and mrs chan played by maggie cheung whose spouses are having an illicit affair as they try not to be like them but after hanging out with each other on lonely nights while their spouses are away on business taking care of a sick mother they fall madly in love and must resist the temptation of going too far br br several factors are responsible for making in the mood for love a new classic among romantic melodramas in the best sense of that term first the specific period of the film i e 1960's hong kong is faithfully recreated to an astonishing degree of detail the clothes including maggie cheung's lovely dresses the music e g nat king cole and the overall atmosphere of this film evokes a nostalgia for that specific period second christopher doyle's award winning breathtakingly beautiful cinematography creates an environment which not only envelopes its two main characters but seems to ooze with romantic longing in every one of its sumptuous meticulously composed frame make no mistake about it in the mood for love was the most gorgeous film of 2001 it should also be mentioned that wong kar wai's usual hyper kinetic visual style is understandably toned down for this film although his pallet remain just as colorful third there is the haunting score by michael which is accompanied by slow motion sequences of e g chan walking in her elegant dresses chan and chow glancing at each other as they pass one another on the stairs and other beautiful scenes which etch themselves into one's memory the main score which makes its instruments sound as though they're literally crying is heard eight times throughout various points in the film and it serves to highlight the sadness and the longing which the two main characters feel fourth tony leung and maggie cheung both deliver wonderful performances leung won the prize for best actor at cannes and they manage to generate real chemistry on screen br br the above elements coalesce and work so nicely together to create a film that feels timeless dizzyingly romantic and in a word magical in the mood for love perhaps more than any other film of 2001 reminded me why it is that i love going to the movies and i guess that is about the highest compliment that i can pay to a film br br
1	i'm from ireland and i thought this film had the odd minute or two where accents where a little off but no worse than any brad pitt or other american doing the accent furthermore i have rarely seen any british actor handle an american or canadian accent except for colin farrel in minority report this film is a little film and it was entertaining no it wasn't a blockbuster hollywood production but frankly i'm sick of that shite i laughed more than a few times and had a good time it was definitely worth the rental the main character is a spoof on other hard british gangsters at least that's the way i saw it if you go in expecting a 100 million dollar production you'll be disappointed enjoy it for what it is a small entertaining film
1	superb and charming justin henry is beautiful as a out and mischievous howard lead singer for the top ten hit making band the turtles the real magic is the titular sequence with an academy award worthy turn by royale a performance that completely captures the mystical and yet down to earth jimi hendrix not many films unbelievably so can find the essence of a special moment in a life and times i'd like to see this available at any home video retail outlet without any hassle uh what's the deal br br thanks eddie a worthy addition to the history of the psychedelic sixties a definite twinkle in the mind's eye
1	my dinner with jimi is a glimpse at howard giddy and vertiginous ride to fame with his 60's folk rock band the turtles the turtles were kind of a 'second act during the sixties but the film clearly demonstrates that they could eat drink and party with the titans of hippie culture and not only that they had the musical chops to back it up many of the stellar acts of the era are seen as they interact with the band at work and at play this provides my only complaint about the film almost from the beginning of the movie one sees that it is nearly impossible to find actors who can convincingly impersonate such recognizable stars too often during the film i felt that i was watching an engaging exhibition of phony wigs and mustaches but if you are a fan of the music of the turtles or the swinging 60's in general this might be the film for you and don't forget to view the extras there is a very funny and informative bit by band members mark and howard about their disastrous experiences with managers and agents
1	i really like the show as a part of greek life i can say that some things are over exaggerated but overall it's still pretty damn funny br br rusty is a likable lead character his roommate is hilarious and the entire cast is entertaining in their own rights i like that it focuses on individual situations as well as interpersonal relations with the organizations br br this show covers it all and they do it without cursing or anything else that bad how else could it be on abc family br br my favorites are of course roommate and pretty much all of kappa tau this show is a great launch pad for them and i'm excited to see what doors this opens br br please renew this show next summer abc family like i said love love love it
1	i smiled through the whole film the music is great the story telling is great it's a wonderful film this picture is made with respect and a true love of the sixties
1	i have been trying to track the age of kings down for many many years my theater life was filled with the actors in this series at the time in 1960 i was not able to follow all of it as i was myself working in the theater lots of night work now in retirement i long to have this and keep it to myself please please can it not be issued on dvd i would not mind what it cost i see that there are others out there who feel the same what can we do to get this done something as great as this should not be sent into oblivion i have to write two more lines ok i can do that by saying that i want this series more than anything in the world just to be able to watch some of the finest actor of our age playing out the finest words of our wonderful shakespeare isn't that enough a
1	anyone who enjoyed this series when first broadcast i rushed home from school to see it now is of a certain age so i can only add my comments to those asking for a dvd release to enable those of us to relive the memories of first transmission before it simply becomes a piece of unremembered tv archive history if so many old tv series from the sixties and seventies can be released why not this surely the rights clearances can't be that difficult most of the shakespeare lines i can quote comes from this iconic series and i remember swapping them with my school chums as we tried to outdo each other's memories of the text peter rightly deserved the credit for having the foresight to bring it to the screen this surely was public broadcasting at its finest robert hardy and sean connery fighting to the death it's riveting stuff and from the beginning of the bbc television's golden age come on bbc clear it and license it please march 2009 so finally the dvd is here and congratulations to those who have made it happen the picture quality is remarkably good and the performances every bit as good as the memory thought now all those who for it must buy it and relive those magic moments br br uk viewers given the series was made in the uk by the bbc using british actors it's strange that the dvd release is not available there on region 2 europe dvd and can only be imported from the us and played on modified players it seems hardly likely that there are major rights issues perhaps the market was felt to be too small so why on earth wasn't it released free ' so everyone could enjoy it
1	my introduction to a lifelong love of shakespeare my brother was 5 and i was not quite 7 when chicago broadcast an age of kings it became a family ritual to watch including the reruns as an autumn series my father used to buy us a rare treat for the midwest and my mother would pop corn on the stove wonderful acting from actors whose names meant nothing to me then although i will never forget the achingly young sean connery as but do now and they published the scripts in paperback so we could follow along and figure out the language i managed to memorize most of richard iii over that so glad to see it coming out on dvd highly recommended for all ages and any level of familiarity with shakespeare or english history
1	in 1961 this series was shown on local tv here in southern california i and many others have been petering bbc for tape or dvd ever since now all of a sudden here it is on amazon i pre ordered in january and now here on march 30 it arrived it was a long wait 48 years was it worth it so far i have just watched richard ii i've only had the dvd since 2 o'clock and i can truly say yea totally worth the wait the acting direction and production are superb and even better than i remember the production is in b w but somehow it fits the video is clear and very good the sound is flawless further proof of how timeless shakespeare truly is br br i gave this 10 stars even though i have only seen 1 of the 8 plays i am sure that when i have seen them all i will change my rating to at least a 12 br br it's currently in stock at amazon us region 1 at a reasonable price br br i'd better stop now so i can get back to watching next up is henry the iv part 1 of which is my all time favorite shakespeare play
1	a great production that should be revived rebroadcast i doubt that it would be out of date i'd love to hear from anyone who knows whether videos exist of this series or any other information about where it could be found or viewed
1	i followed this entire series when i was a child in grade school by choice not because it was required for school i used to read the plays at the pace of the series the experience gave me a life long love for shakespeare and history it even gave me a bit of an acting bug although at an amateur level only whenever i read any of shakespeare's history plays the images that come to mind first are from this black and white production seen on a big furniture tv set with a rabbit ear antenna with all the ghosts and wobbles that go with that br br although the sets were minimal if i remember correctly that was totally irrelevant because the acting was so good at the time i had no idea who any of the actors were now i see that many of them have become well known over the years i particularly enjoyed and hal whom i now see were played by sean connery and robert hardy i would dearly love to see this available in video especially since many of the plays are seldom performed and even fewer are available on video it would be valuable also as a document of mid 20th century televised play production
1	it was so very long ago 1960 but i have never forgotten this series and often wished it would reappear so taken with it i corresponded with mr then president of standard oil which sponsored the presentation on pbs he sent me a photo of the tapestry actually a charcoal rendering used behind the credits br br to the opening theme music of elizabethan masque my family and i gathered around our black white tv to drink in shakespeare's words as spoken by a group of excellent but relatively unknown players at least to american audiences at the time br br we were introduced to such actors as sean connery dame judi dench tom fleming patrick garland julian glover and robert hardy i have continued to enjoy their accomplishments ever since one of the most interesting things was the way in which the actors continued to age in their respective roles as shakespeare's king plays were presented perhaps for the first time in chronological order br br i wish i could tell those actors just how much that series meant to me br br if age of kings could be revived on vhs and or dvd it would so please those of us who long to see it again and those who missed it the first time around br br good news pbs has just issued a dvd of an age of kings see their july 2009 catalog page 19 or call them toll free i just ordered mine
1	watched this on with frank baxter commenting as i recall have never seen it since but would like to find out where it is available br br it is amazing how good something can be but be in black and white and have zero special effects in fact amazing how much better something like that is
1	this series has recently been unearthed and excerpts can be seen at least within britain via http www org uk tv id index html presumably there is some hope that the series may eventually become available more widely the problem is that this series was followed by the series the wars of the roses that had a similarly stellar cast and which has been available to cable tv or at least crowding the market br br the two series are quite different in dramaturgy the wars the plays through extensive rewriting and shifting of scenes an age of kings follows shakespeare more closely both series benefit from integral casting
1	when i first heard about greek i figured i would watch it because it sounded ridiculous another of abc family's so bad they're almost good shows but tuning in with a friend from college found us both enjoying the pilot episode a lot more than we had expected br br as a member of a greek society i can say that a lot of the stereotypes that are brought up here are ones that come up almost every time someone starts talking about the sororities and fraternities on a campus and are also very fun to play with just on are own let alone to watch on a tv screen the opening scene to an only slightly dramatized version of preparing for an actual formal rush in some sororities and it continued on from there br br this isn't a show for over sensitive greeks if you get offended even at jokes about things that aren't so great about greek life then you'll spend the entire first episode and probably many other cringing and yelling but everyone else should have a ton of fun watching it it's nothing new but when it comes to college nothing ever is
1	i saw this mini series when i was in high school i remember it as being absolutely brilliant and compelling at the time i knew none of the british actors in the series but have since learned that some of today's stars performed in it including sean connery the original james bond among many other roles judi dench queen elizabeth in shakespeare in love among many other roles and atkins probably best known for creating upstairs downstairs but also superb in many acting roles like the other commentator i would like to see it again i'm certain the production remains timeless and i would hope that it has been or will be released on vhs or dvd if you get a chance to see it do not miss it
1	all right it was in black and white and probably on 2 tape which means the bbc wiped it right but it stays in my mind from all those years ago 1960 as a perfect slice of history enlivened by the most innovative editing and wonderful actors full of youth and bravado br br i want to see it again are you reading this bbc find your original 2 tapes or the 35mm film deal with the actors and directors for the rights and re issue i know i know some of them are dead some of them are missing in action br br where else will i be able to see mary morris as the heart wrapped in a tiger's where else will i be able to see paul do 'now is the winter of discontent ' or robert hardy deliver his speech about 'that idol
1	i believe it has been over 40 years since i saw this series yet memory of it hasn't faded a bit this would be a natural for dvd re issue it seems to me many of the performers have gone on to greater fame robert hardy sean connery to name a couple though it was a role i still remember judy dench then in her 20's as katherine of france henry v she was very lovely then as now br br there is a hint on this site that the series was filmed in color is this so who of us would know virtually no color tv in those days mores the pity no vcr's if so some might have recorded it as a way of teaching english history this series made it come alive in ways few class room teachers can manage br br what a fine re issue this would be
1	possibly the finest moment of tv at least in my memory as millions could watch shakespeare's gripping kings cycle richard ii richard iii play out on prime time tv i believe it was on friday nights no word was left out and the plays awoke in me who was then in elementary school a thirst for history and a hunger for shakespeare and drama br br let's see these reissued on dvd what a set this would be
1	boogie nights follows a theme that is extremely familiar to gangster films although it doesn't fit into that genre itself the rise and the fall we see the rise of several individuals some of them from complete obscurity to achieving great heights and then falling from grace due to their excesses br br i believe that this is the first feature by writer director paul thomas anderson and it's a great start i saw elements of other directors' influences such as robert altman but the film holds its own in originality and plot development br br character development is the movie's finest feature i really identified with all of the characters and felt their pain and their success with them all of the performances were brilliant it was especially good to see a small part performed by real life porn veteran nina hartley br br basically this film combines comedy and tragedy with the result being one of the best films of 1997 which was snubbed at the oscars probably due to the racy as they would say subject matter and the general conservatism of the academy
1	this film is a masterpiece it was exhilarating from beginning to end writer director paul thomas anderson's story about a porn star is told with style grace humor even poignancy the actors and the characters they play are all first rate including mark wahlberg in the lead who proves himself a solid actor and can carry a film burt reynolds gives perhaps his best performance ever as a porno director who discovers wahlberg the film recreates the late 70s and early 80s with dead on accuracy from the disco scene that begins the film to wahlberg's don johnson miami vice outfit that he wears in the final scene most regular moviegoers who see this film will no doubt compare it to pulp fiction but it really has much more in common with the films of robert altman and martin scorsese the film is a triumph in style the opening tracking shot that begins the film is just as impressive as the ones in the player and absolute beginners the editing by dylan is simply phenomenal i couldn't believe the editing didn't receive an oscar nomination good will hunting was a better edited film the best scene in the film has to be the one with the firecrackers i had butterflies in my stomach because the scene is incredibly intense when i saw the film a second time i had the exact same reaction to the scene unfortunately it may not have the same impact on tv as it did in a theater with good stereo sound it's a shame that many people didn't see this movie during its theatrical run because it is the best way to watch it anderson's use of widescreen will suffer on tv so get the dvd or a letterbox tape it is amazing how easy anderson makes it all look because this is only his second film the music sets costumes photography offbeat characters sex violence happiness and heartbreak are captured by a guy who is clearly in love with filmmaking
1	this was the best film of 1998 and one of the best of the 90's yes it is a rip off of goodfellas but as the saying goes good poets borrow great poets steal and pta has stolen brilliantly from some of the best plus added some genius touches of his own i gave this a ten which is very rare for me br br the main reason i am commenting on this though cause i could just rave all night is all those people who have seen it on vhs standard issue what are you thinking this deserves the full screen experience look at the ratio it was shot in i saw it 5 times at the cinema and haven't bothered to watch it on video br br nuff said
1	this movie has it all great actors good dialog drama comedy and excellent writing and directing by paul thomas anderson i have seen this film several times and enjoy it more each time it doesn't get old it is consistently entertaining and stimulating easily burt reynolds best role and he does a great job john c reilly and don cheadle also give excellent comedic performances there is not a weak element in this film
1	an interesting companion piece to true documentaries of john c holmes unfortunately it doesn't deal with what ultimately killed holmes and it certainly could have benefited from doing so burt reynolds and mark wahlberg got the most praise for this but i felt the true stars were julianne moore as the cocaine sniffing mother wannabe don cheadle as a black man struggling with identity as stereo salesman in some wild and william h macy who's wife is the ultimate slut not to mention a nearly unrecognizable alfred molina macy's new year's eve bash and cheadle's chance for a better life after a donut shop robbery gone wildly wrong are probably the two best scenes in the movie or at least the two best shot what this movie does best is show how power can easily corrupt in its various forms however none of the characters apparently learn anything from their dark downward spiral as they all rebound and return to their normal lives
1	as long as you can get past your puritanical instincts and realize that are people too you'll realize the depth p t anderson gives to his characters also an incredible soundtrack the songs are so tightly tied to their scenes you won't be able to hear them without thinking about the movie again br br philip seymour hoffman is worth the price of admission alone
1	i saw this movie once a long time ago just once and i didn't know where it had come from and i looked for about six years to find it and i finally found it here at imdb com just the whole concept of the movie is great i believe it's got something to do with a race of beings keeping tabs on us and our planet but there is one person who keeps out of being assimilated into conformity and the way that he does it to keep himself from being tracked and located is what keeps the movie entertaining i don't remember exactly how it ended but i remember it finished with a great climax and a good twist
1	this is a absolutely masterful stroke of genius by paul thomas anderson the writer director of this movie it really examines the pluses and minuses of the world of porn and consequences for your actions living in a world literally fueled by sex drugs and rock n' roll only of the finest casts assembled with mark wahlberg burt reynolds heather graham julianne moore william h macy philip seymour hoffman don cheadle philip baker hall and others
1	boogie nights is a masterpiece it tells a great story with flair an great direction from a very talented director this film features a cast which turn in outstanding performances though the subject matter is very controversial but it is handled with great care by very talented people this movie has an unexpected emotional impact also you will remember it long after it is over
1	what a movie it has undeniably entertaining subject matter unless you're a prude and a mature funny and complex script from paul thomas anderson magnolia hard eight pt anderson will undoubtably be around for some time the evidence is here in this epic and ambitious masterpiece every character is expertly played and touching and fully shaped from burt reynolds as jack horner the director to julianne moore his movie star and mark whalberg as dirk diggler they all are fabulous and the story wow honest look at business and failure and consequences and family one of the best movies of all time i give it a a
1	sometimes the academy doesn't recognize the potential of some films or doesn't nominate them because they are controversial or strong sometimes they are nominated but don't win anything i hope this doesn't happen this year with american beauty this is exactly what happened with boogie nights which was the best film of 1997 the academy preferred to give the best picture oscar to titanic a purely commercial and hollow film and other awards to the overrated good will hunting and the irritating full monty the other pictures which were nominated in the main category were l a confidential and as good as it gets great movies but boogie nights is still better and should have been remembered in more categories br br this amazing film tells the story of eddie adams mark wahlberg in a surprisingly great performance a 17 year old barman who takes the attention of jack horner burt reynolds in a redeeming acting a director of porn films eddie has a special 'gift' and this helps him to get into the world of porn movies he changes his name for dirk diggler and starts to make a huge success but fame doesn't last forever other characters also have their parallel stories amber waves julianne moore perfect buck don cheadle and others including heather graham an actress who accepts to do anything but she has to be wearing her roller shoes br br what could have been a banal trivial film turns into a perfect memorable one in the hands of paul thomas anderson what makes boogie nights such a great film is its execution added to a clever well written screenplay great soundtrack etc each character is very well developed and each of them has his her importance in the context each feeling weakness fear emotion is explored resulting in a masterpiece of the modern american cinema br br boogie nights is a strong impacting picture that should be seen by everyone who really likes cinema under a plot that seems banal at first impression there is a wonderful story of highs and downs things that we face in our lives it is an amazing portrait of the end of the '70s and the beginning of the '80s exactly an age of highs and downs that's what makes this film so special and a true masterpiece br br 10 10
1	the three names that mean the most to this film are burt reynolds mark wahlberg and julianne moore these three deliver the strongest performances but the entire cast does a wonderful job the film although about the porn industry does not let itself get out of hand with it's own sexual premise on the other hand there were many scenes that involved drug use and although important to understanding the characters lifestyle i think there was some overkill in this department paul thomas anderson has not done a great deal of directing but he may have been picked for this film based on his 1988 work the dirk diggler story one thing that was brilliantly portrayed is the family like atmosphere between the characters as they work live and party together although not a typical family they certainly seem to care for each other the wonderful soundtrack really helps give you a feel for the period during a time when disco was the rage there are many disco favorites on it and some other wonderful songs as well br br the story is about a gifted young man named eddie adams wahlberg that gets invited into the porn industry he changes his name to dirk diggler and becomes and adult film star almost overnight jack horner reynolds is the director that takes his films very seriously as he believes his work is more than just pornography but that they are true art however dirk becomes overly dependent on drugs and soon heads down a dangerous road where he stands to loose everything although a greater focus is placed on the character dirk there are subplots for the other characters and their trials in life you will find yourself wishing for and hoping their situations improve all in all a well done film
1	this is a classic that will be able to hold up with drama's to come simply because of the fact that it is shot with a 70's style and it's a story about the 70's it is funny action filled entertaining and sad at the same time it has the effect to pull you into the lives of these poor folks and the consequences for their actions 4 stars
1	some time ago i saw this when hbo was showing it and from what i saw of it it seemed like a good movie so i'm in blockbuster today and i see it there with the dvd's and i decide what the hell so i rent it after i finished watching it i was in shock of how good it was br br this movie just touched my heart everything in it was so amazing the stories the actors the dark humor the music oh don't get me started on the music in this film pt is one of the greats definitely the best thing to come out since quentin tarantino a god br br after i finished the first viewing i watched it again with anderson's commentary i was suprised on how such a cool guy he is br br anybody who is interested in movies at all should watch this movie if they haven't already anderson is obviously a film lover in the movie he rips off so many other directors such as the pool scene with the camera following the girl through the water obviously ripped off from i am cuba but i have no beef what so ever with that the film is very respectable with it's br br i recomend this film to anybody who can deal with some of the content of the film porn br br 10 10
1	sometime ago i watched a video of paul thomas anderson in which he express the big interest that he has in porn films and how this industry could've produce better films and in consequence a complete genre and not just sex in video tape paul thomas anderson put his own believes of porn industry in the character played in a terrific way by burt reynolds his name is jack horner a director whose biggest dream is to make a real film that can keep the viewer in suspense because of the great dramatic story and at the same time exciting with the and with the big cocks and tits soon as he meets eddie adams mark he believes that he has found the new star for his films and that's how the story of the young eddie in the porn industry begins br br the film begins with a sequence inside a night club where we can see all the persons that will be part of eddie's life and later we can see them outside the porn industry living their daily routine but soon we can see them inside the porn industry and after only one party the story of the new eddie begins the story of dirk diggler all of them will taste the real success with dirk as the main star winning lots of prizes and helping jack to make real his biggest dream with a series of films about brock landers the new character of dirk this sort of exploitation films are an amazing success and for jack are his firsts real films but here is the beginning of the end and the beginning of the horrible 80's when there is going to be ex drugs and rock roll for dirk and pals but we all know that the excesses can destroy any person and the dysfunction can destroy any porn star and here the film focuses in their lives after the total success and how everybody is having a real bad time with many problems due to society's bad look to porn industry and to a period with many excesses in decadence after trying and failing in the music industry there's a brilliant sequence that can resume in a perfect way how the things are going for dirk and his friends that sequence is the one of his first drug deal with the appearance of alfred molina which ends in a total mess is funny for us and a terrible experience for dirk and pals but there's always a solution if you get back in what you know and when dirk is back brock is back br br well i haven't mention most of the characters in my sort of a summary but i must say that all are amazingly well developed the cast is just superb with the best performance that i have seen of mark julianne moore has a powerful performance in a really moving character reilly macy hoffman heather graham guzman etc are just memorable all of their characters with funny and sad moments br br finally i really love the amazing cinematic style of anderson here with a unique view to the porn industry of the late 70's and early 80's i used to say that magnolia was my favourite of anderson but right now after watching all except sidney i can't say that i have a favourite because i love them all br br ps somewhere i read that this film is the scorsese film of anderson so i'm more than sure that if you love goodfellas and casino you will love this one too i f cking love boogie nights
1	this picture's following will only grow as time goes by better than any of the best picture nominees in 97 and it rewards repeated viewings i've seen it three times now so i know anderson was compared to some of the great american directors altman scorcese tarantino and he may have those influences but chances are after a few more films he'll be considered part of that short list himself br br one last note julianne moore's amber waves will resonate in the memory long after other 90's movie characters have faded the best performance of the year in any of the four categories
1	altman and scorsese have twisted sex together in one of the greatest american films of the past 20 years boogie nights didn't make a huge initial splash and i still don't think it's received the credit it deserves the immediate clamor surrounding the film some porn movie with marky mark was wholly without merit what paul thomas anderson has created is no less than a stunning representation of the pursuit and subsequent loss of the american dream if such a thing still exists br br for those of you who have been living in a box or a confessional for the past 8 years boogie nights tells the literal rise and fall tale of young eddie adams wahlberg eddie is just a dopey kid from torrance california who wants something more out of life his room is soaked in muscle bound naive americana his dreams are far bigger than his potential but not quite as large as his special gift his bald headed southern gent quickly raises the attention and eyebrows of the booming omni present adult film industry jack horner burt reynolds as the film's twinkle eyed papa bear gets wind of eddie's hidden talent and decides to put him in a movie br br before you can say deep throat eddie has changed his name to dirk diggler and exposed his massive member to a wide eyed public fame and fortune make acquaintance as do a bevy of local porn celebs his friends and co workers become his makeshift family but it soon proves to be a sunday picnic like no other as the feel good 70s give way to the coke addled video friendly 80s dirk co begin a dangerous br br anderson put everything he had into this glorious moving epic it sizzles and never fizzles nary a frame of this monumental picture is wasted and the characters and their dialogue live with us long after fades from the soundtrack see this one immediately and then watch it again br br and again
1	ten years before the matrix and hot on the heals of they live came this brilliant piece of low budget science fiction film making if you like bizarre unconventional intellectually challenging david lynch meets john carpenter style movie making you'll love split there are moments of true genius in the framing and cinematography look closely at a sequence shot through wine glasses in an art opening party and right after that a scene involving cue cards the plot involves a man named who lives outside of society who wants to wake us up from the dream similar to they live 1984 and the matrix it is based on the premise that we are all constantly monitored by shadowy big brother type government agents that know everything about us and have invisible robot probes constantly patrolling the city this is all revealed pretty early on in the plot possible spoiler has invented a drug that when placed in the water supply will wake everyone up from the illusion of reality along with the cinematography and the ingenious ways the director makes do with his shoestring budget the other highlights of this film are the monologues i challenge anyone to not be rewinding memorizing and quoting the classic quotes from this movie for years to come
1	a small town kid working in a big city becomes a huge star and then spirals out of control it shows you the rise to fame and then fall from fame and back to a little rise great cast of actors and a great director a great great movie called boogie nights br br p t anderson an amazing director who made boogie nights amazing from the moment the movie starts to the moment it ends you can feel how beautiful this movie is some scenes are breathtaking literally a great story a great movie mark whalberg was fantastic philip seymour hoffman was wonderful as he is in everything thomas jane also was magnificent and although he only had a small part he played it to perfection there is one scene in this movie i can't get over the drug deal gone bad scene it was amazing music acting and cinematography combined to make it amazing i hadn't seen boogie nights and thank god i did its so well rounded and i am now a huge fan of pta paul thomas anderson br br do whatever you have to do and watch this movie
1	boogie nights was without a doubt the best film of 1997 i could watch this movie over and over and over and still love it i'm in no rush to watch that overblown romance disaster epic titanic again the fact that boogie nights did not even receive a best picture nomination just goes to prove how predictable and narrow minded the academy is only atom the sweet hereafter and robert zemeckis's contact came close to being as great as boogie nights no other filmmaker in recent years has come even remotely close to making a film as good as tarantino's pulp fiction until now paul thomas anderson rose to the challenge and succeeded just as tarantino gave john travolta's career a kick p t anderson has given burt reynolds the kick that his career needs boogie nights will also undoubtedly make stars of don cheadle heather graham and john reilly overall a wonderful film the best since pulp fiction maybe even better
1	'boogie nights' uses its protagonist dirk diggler as a metaphor for accumulated celebrities from a decade in america's shameful past which was comprised of an unexpected rise in pornography therefore resulting in an abundance of corrupted youth its lead character borrows traits from a various assortment of genuine actors involving himself in many illegal affairs that have been dabbled in by celebrities in hollywood and all too often exploited by the press it seems like the sort of tall tale that might appear on an e true hollywood story special drugs sex and violence the american dream but what goes up must come down and the bigger it is the harder it falls br br dirk dreams are huge as is another valuable asset on his body real name is eddie adams a californian who dreams of becoming a star he believes that god gives one great talent to every individual on the planet and his gift is a rather unusual one after falling out with his mother eddie leaves home and meets the sleazy jack horner burt reynolds an adult film director who offers him work eddie eventually becomes a major porn star representing the leading actor in most of horner's films with newfound success eddie is told that he needs to invent a new alias for himself and so dirk diggler is born br br eddie dirk himself is primarily based on infamous porn star john holmes whose life story was adapted in 2003 with 'wonderland' which starred val kilmer 'boogie nights' is unarguably the better of the two proving that movies about pornography can be made without disgusting its target audience regular cinema goers br br the film takes place in 1977 an era of artistic pornography filmmakers truly believed that they could compensate for the low points of x rated features by adding deep stories and mesmerizing atmosphere in a way the film's director paul thomas anderson implements a very artistic approach to the project resulting in a gratuitous and artistic movie about a period in american history when smut was indeed both gratuitous and artistic anderson's style is so deep and so distinct that we soon feel as if we are reliving the era first hand not a moment goes by where we are unconvinced of the time range dealt with in the film br br all was not happy on the set of 'boogie nights' prior to filming anderson approached reynolds repeatedly asking him many separate times to play the role of horner eventually reynolds agreed but claimed that the film was horrible and the worst role of his career publicly disowning it before being nominated for a best supporting actor academy award and suddenly shutting up a year before anderson had suffered title disputes over sydney hard eight he preferred the latter title for his film and new line cinema thought the former was more marketable he essentially lost the battle and anderson wisely avoided title disputes this time around by inserting the words boogie nights into his movie through the mouth of a character br br the casting of the film is one of its finest aspects the paul thomas anderson regulars are here as well as a whole top notch cast of first timers to name some of the more well known stars john c reilly phillip seymour hoffman luis guzman william h macy heather graham and julianne moore but the entire movie essentially borders down to mark wahlberg as eddie who is surprisingly convincing in his role wahlberg previously known for his singing career and disappointing hollywood pursuits has all the necessary traits to portray such a character this is his best role to date br br anderson knows how to captivate his audience and take complete control of every scene when jack horner first meets eddie anderson slyly uses stars in the backdrop a sign of things to come and hidden symbolism as finely acute as it can be the opening scene is three minutes a long tracking shot that follows jack and amber into a night club where most of the characters are first introduced it reminds me of the discussions regarding tracking shots in robert altman's 'the it works so brilliantly in boogie nights and is the first indication that anderson knows what he is doing behind the camera his style is fast paced in the vein of martin scorsese where shots zip around quite quickly but never seem rushed incidentally anderson references two classic scorsese shots the closing de niro mirror speech from and the tracking nightclub scene from 'goodfellas' anderson is a young growing director who is remarkably mature in story and direction despite his age whereas his first feature film was noticeably wise and poignant 'boogie nights' is even more so br br 'boogie nights' began as an effort of love on paul thomas anderson's account having filmed the extraordinary hard eight in 1996 anderson's film is pragmatic to such an extreme that it almost seems genuine boogie nights invigorates us with its gratuitous content occasionally bordering on the verge of pornography only it is far more sophisticated than such trash it is a blazing wonderful modern day masterpiece that is as mind numbingly explicit as it is wild and stylish arguably anderson's best film and among the greatest and most important projects of the last decade
1	everything that you need to know about the pornography of the late 70s and early 80s is all wrapped up in paul thomas anderson's boogie nights although the film is completely fictional it is actually supposedly based on the story of porno kingpin john holmes br br in southern california in 1977 eddie adams mark wahlberg is working as a busboy in a nightclub one of the regular customers is pornographer jack horner burt reynolds and two of his starlets amber waves julianne moore and heather graham jack and eddie meet and jack realizes that eddie is well a little gifted br br so eddie stars in jack's films under the pseudonym of dirk diggler he becomes a big porno star no pun intended and seems to be on top of everything then comes the 80s when video replaces film and jack's porno empire begins to collapse along with dirk diggler and everybody else working in the field br br boogie nights is a really well filmed drama there is a little bit of violence but p t anderson makes it more stylized and it kind of is a scathing approach to the of pornography especially when vhs became the standard medium for making pornos br br a lot of bizarre and unique characters are introduced william h macy has an interesting role as someone working on the films whose wife keeps having sex with everybody i especially liked don cheadle's role as buck the stereo salesman the best performance is boogie nights was definitely burt reynolds a 90s classic
1	what has to change in today's attitude towards films like boogie nights is the approach the approach is awful comparing it to pulp fiction seeing only the pornography and all its aspects come on people there is more than that in this beautiful motion picture and to all the hasn't paul thomas anderson proved himself worthy time and time again magnolia is one of the main reasons i watch american films at all and still have faith in this industry that film making is today and what about there will be blood that is a film that will stay in film history whether u like it or not yeah you the so called consumer you know something f k you you don't deserve this you don't deserve anything so many artists today struggle to get recognition and it has become increasingly difficult to make serious films even mainstream because people just wanna see celebrities doing stupid stuff like that sell out britney spears br br anyway this was very painful for me to say because i don't want to see this i don't wanna believe that today all it matters is the adding up of numbers sales revenue and sales return i want to see magic the magic that fellini bergman and kurosawa brought and created through the language of cinema because thats what pta is doing he is creating magic
1	i rented boogie nights last week and i could tell you when i watched the film i had a blast if you think that when you watch the film you will get by the porn i mean yes if your not a porn person who can't bother being by it than this isn't the film to see but the thing is the whole film isn't really about porn well halfway through the film is about the porn industry but the other half is about the character development and the bad situations these characters go through the actors played there roles perfect especially mark wahlberg john c reilly and william h macy the sex scenes of course are terrific but mainly focus on the character's hype in porn films until there struggles excellent film one of the best br br hedeen's outlook 10 10 a
1	the brilliance of this story delivers at least one skillfully crafted message to each viewer in the audience this story is about success it's about failure it's about the choices you make in life and the choices others make for you the story deals with self realization and determination on a scale so large no camera angle could cover it within the grasp of each scene is resides an element marked for depiction within your imagination keep this in mind as you watch the movie it's more than eye candy the sexually suggestive rarely explicit scenes serve only to distract and entertain you during the tedious process of character development
1	boogie nights is one of the best films to come out of the 90's and i'd go so far as to say it should be in the imdb top 250 i can actually understand why many would dislike it due to the subject matter i personally feel however as many do judging from the this film's received by viewers and critics that it's topnotch film making br br the direction and acting in this film surpass good and reach the level of brilliance there is not one scene in this movie that isn't amazing the individual characters reach out and touch you given that this is a movie about the porn industry one wouldn't imagine the sex scenes could be handled with such sensitivity but they are the direction is among the best i've ever seen and i've seen a lot of films br br the film isn't about one particular personal individual's story it's about many it's a character study about people who have many layers to them and who maybe in an industry most would find alien but who still dream the same dreams and have both bad and good to them boogie nights draws you into their story from the beginning and though the film is long i believe almost 3 hours you honestly don't even notice and when it ends you kind of don't want it to br br i'm not easy to impress meaning there aren't many movies i'd give a 10 of 10 rating to but this is one beyond the multiple character study is the use of music in the film i have never in all my years of seeing movies seen music tell a story as well as in this movie there was such flawlessness to it you know it's not something your gonna see everyday br br burt reynold's performance was perhaps the best i've ever seen him do and mark wahlberg is incredible i'm astounded there are still people saying he doesn't act well i don't know how anyone viewing this could possibly think that but the person who really surprised me was heather who is absolutely fantastic in her role in particular the one memorable scene with burt reynolds in the limo towards the end br br again i'll echo other imdb reviewers in saying this movie is not for everybody but i still think this was topnotch 10 of 10
1	boogie nights is full of surprises nothing quite prepares one for it its soul yes it does have soul whilst tackling the tackiest of subject matter with both a wry smile and respect cast and wonderful character development the performances somehow combine the best of stage acting with improvisation within a cinema verite style br br the plot proved richer than i expected and the underlying themes are teased out quite profoundly as each b grade human being is brought through crisis into perspective br br a dream case study the film resonates the raw truth of what we all know about self esteem parental love and lack of it attention love deficit and its manifestation in adulthood the desperate need to belong something for everyone here almost camouflaged as issues of untouchables and their separate milieu but of course they are universal br br the film works on a number of levels the ironic loop is that the milieu portrayed exists only because of the voyeur who happens to be watching the film br br boogie nights is non judgmental of its subject matter and characters a rarity it deserves every accolade it has achieved and more
1	one of the things that i like about pt anderson is that he has the guts to take talent that most people push to the side or have pushed to the side and makes them stars case in point a washed up burt reynolds delivers a great performance in this film and if proving adam sander can be a great actor punch drunk love wasn't enough here comes mark like you've never seen before br br i think many people pass up boogie nights cause they are anti porn or just flat out hate the adult industry and can't overlook that aspect of this film but underneath that is a great story about characters losing everything and battle to regain themselves there is a beautiful film and it's too bad that enough people see that
1	if you listen to the pod god satan then you know what's going on with split i found that watching the film under the influence of lsd helped to deal with audio video from fantastic editing job the plot was only important from second to second the acid helped to interact with the sounds subliminal and general pace of this masterpiece don't bother writing about something out of your reach there just isn't enough of these great independent attempts at expression at it's most raw amateur level i dare anyone to make a movie that can equally mess with my head and change the way i look at visual arts and the world's reality not to mention the many realities that haven't yet been explored by this humans mind i love the vision of chris shaw i also appreciate the texturing film the begotten by e elias
1	this was a bold movie to hit indian cinemas when it was released the first movie to perhaps openly depict lesbian tendencies amongst indian women the leading actress of indian cinema shabana azmi added substance to the movie with her hot passionate scenes with nandita das br br the movie oozed with sexuality and the director used sex in the best way possible the sex was not for erotic purposes but was in the context of the movie the scene where nandita das loses her virginity to her husband certainly was the first of its kind in indian cinemas br br good acting by all the actors especially nandita das amidst criticism from the indian public
1	this is not so much of a review as it is a testament that it has been proven yet again that the academy rewards money not artistic accomplishment and i must say i am saddened that this usually artistic and intelligent band of imbd members have left this off the top 250 boogie nights is powerful raw and gutsy through script direction and acting very few movies can claim this triple crown
1	paul thomas anderson's stylish and compelling take on the 70s porn industry follows eddie adams aka dirk diggler mark wahlberg through six years of sex drugs and disco his chance meeting with pornography director jack horner burt reynolds starts his career as one of the greatest adult actors of the time character is based on real life porn actor john holmes who like dirk was renowned for being extremely well endowed this is where dirk finds initial success br br the main themes in boogie nights are the obvious ones relating to a film of this genre pornography drugs sex betrayal violence and music boogie nights deals with the pornography theme with some control it is not overplayed and the sex scenes are surprisingly minimal but mentally explicit when they take place on screen br br throughout the film cocaine is abused enormously and the film's setting los angeles 1977 1983 reflects the popularity of the drug at that time which the film captures perfectly however boogie nights does not promote cocaine as there are some scenes involving addiction and overdoses for example at jack's party they find a girl who has recently and graphically overdosed blood pours from her nose and she begins an unconscious fit the film before this scenes has been fairly upbeat and comic but from this point it foreshadows the darkness that it will occur br br the music scenes are executed brilliantly from superbly staged disco scenes to a down and out dirk singing terribly in his new music career the soundtrack too is excellent featuring tunes from the emotions the beach boys and the unforgettable sound experience the standout scene in the whole film comes down to the music dirk redd john c reilly and todd parker thomas jane visit drug dealer rahad jackson's alfred molina house in order to make some quick cash from selling phoney drugs but night sister christian which is playing in the background increases the intensity of the scene incredibly proving that music can bring so much more depth to a scene boogie nights is filled with those kind of scenes which makes the film even more fantastic br br the standout performance in boogie nights is burt reynolds as the enigmatic yet moody film director in the scene where he attacks a young guy for slating his movies it is a complete shock for the audience because before this point he has been pretty mellow and content other notable performances are julianne moore heather graham as the beautiful john c reilly and mark wahlberg who delivers the performance of his career br br boogie nights is also a surprisingly original film using common themes but filmed in its own sharp and realistic way anderson's approach has been fully captures these characters in a time when nothing seemed to be going wrong or at least until the 80s arrive from then on things turn very dark indeed and all signs of the recognisable characters and situations from the first part of the film have gone this does not however reduce the high level of engaging entertainment that this film offers br br boogie nights was not a box office success earning only £2 million at cinemas in the uk but this is not the film's or the director's concern anderson recognises quality not popularity which is evident in his three other films hard eight magnolia and punch drunk love i would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a simple parable filled with excellent and variable situations because at the end of this film you will realize that boogie nights is a simple morality tale but one which will stay in the mind days after you watch it boogie nights is at once shocking hilarious devastating and both visually and audibly outstanding
1	boogie nights is perhaps one of the greatest examples any would be filmmaker should take a long hard look at sure you could spend loads of quality time reviewing the from hitchcock to scorsese but lets follow suit for the modern generation and study half heartedly br br where to begin i suppose one could look at the film as simply a story perhaps even docudrama which focuses on the late 1970's porn industry and what an industry it was the other half could focus on the incredible detail one brillant filmmaker can achieve simply by using polyester and ahem rubber but honestly boogie nights brings back the pure no shi in your face kind of cinema i haven't experienced since the film greats of the 1970's ironic or stroke of genius the story is full of richly detailed characters all of which you either can relate too love or hate but the impact is clear you are feeling something for them among the characters the two performances which stand out are burt reynolds as director jack horner and mark wahlberg as eddie adams dirk diggler julianne moore is also brillant as is heather graham but if i focus on any one actor it would have to be john c reilly john's performance is a perfect balance of comedic timing and character driven emotion i'm a sucker for the line ever see the movie star wars people say i look like han solo anyway the look of the film is incredible the director of photography and director writer producer have come up with a vibrant colour and flashy style that compares to martin scorsese and stanley kubrick in terms of his perfection of his craft but with creating his own unique look and pushing the edge with the longest single shot ever seen that being the new year's party sequence br br the music like in any great film is a character of its own at times it consumes oneself with sorrow or grief but mainly its all about fun dancing and having a good time the spirit of the 1970's ok back to the performances br br burt reynolds plays the character of jack horner a porn director who feels the burden of what the future of film means to his genre the awful transition from shooting on film to recording on magnetic tape the lose of his art as it were and the changes in mentality to the people he works with adds the perfect blend of and sexual bravado needed for the character for all those individuals who have seen burton's planet of the apes pay no attention to the performance of wahlberg in that film rent boogie nights and see what a difference a good script can make br br julianne moore plays the would be mother to all and with that comes the torment and anguish she feels as life imitates art and she loses all those close to her heather graham is the eye candy but later holds her own and steals some of the scenes from even the great mr reynolds himself each character is multidimensional rich with life and performed by actors that seem to be picture perfect for the part br br the film itself is often funny tragic exciting and provides a uncompromising look into the lifestyle of the fast pace 1970's it makes no excuses and tells no lies and offers the audience a trip back but even more importantly the movie gives us a grand example of how films should be made and a new director whose bold visions bring back art in film
1	i've seen both movies and i saw without a doubt the re make is the best i know a lot of people would disagree those who have become fans of the original will most probably not like this re make but i thought it was well thought out and definitely scary it was so good i'm going to see it again tonight the original creeped me out because they kill the children i mean who does that in movies anyway but in this one the children have at least half a chance the only bad part about this movie is when the babysitter jill walks towards the sounds she hears and runs outside into the bushes to check for someone clearly no one in their right mind would do that whilst babysitting so that is the only thing i found wrong with the movie and even so they probably had to put that in there to build suspense i don't want to give too much away for all those who have not seen it i recommend you do instead of listening to all these people saying its crap and worse than the original it would be a better movie for teenagers as it displays things that most of us are scared of but when i was in the movies there were at least 10 adults over the age of 70 in there watching it and they enjoyed it if they enjoyed it i think you will to i give it a 9 out of 10
1	i was skeptical before going to this because of the horribly assembled trailer which made it look like an equally horrible movie i was nicely surprised by how much i did not waste my money i believe the films success comes from how creepy it really is and how the environment of the house is little things like the lights create a true uneasy feeling the shadows and ominously cold feeling of the house make it easy to tell that no matter how much you know horror films anything could happen in the film the acting is by no means perfect nor were they bad the main character is convincing even given the annoying teen dramas that surround her in the end i was thoroughly impressed with the film in most aspects br br it is definitely a film i would recommend
1	all you need is great house a babysitter and a phone simon west directs this thrilling and chilling remake of the 1979 original this version is more of a thriller than a horror flick emotionally tense with an escalating fear factor jill johnson camilla belle needs to work off an excessive cell phone bill she takes on the task of babysitting the two children of dr and mrs derek de lint and kate jennings grant the house is a beautiful wood and glass masterpiece secluded and peaceful the kids are already in bed the wind builds and is joined by down pouring rain the phone begins ringing ringing ringing the babysitter is soon in a frantic mode of survival in fear of the creepy stranger on the other end of the phone br br belle is great as the innocent smart and strong teen babysitter the voice of the stranger on the phone is that of lance henriksen while the physical stranger is played by tommy also featured are katie cassidy and brian kudos to james dooley for the atmospheric original music
1	people say that this film is a 'typical teen horror movie' well it's a horror movie with a teenage girl in it what do you expect it's a good film i counted 3 actual screams in the audience whilst the film was on and it was a very jumpy scary film i wasn't bored in the film at any point and i was even on the edge of my seat at one point the only thing that was slightly bad was that it was a tiny bit slow in getting into the actual storyline but this all led up to why she was where she was and why what happened happened the acting was good the scenery was good and the storyline was good too i hope to see a 'when a stranger calls 2' in a few months good film
1	if you have ever babysat in a house you didn't know or if you saw the original and enjoyed it then this will be a good choice ignoring the reviews and what was posted here i went ahead and rented this movie because of the memories of how the original scared me as a teen this movie has of course changed some of the original story to relate to todays teens such as the babysitter is in trouble for going over on her cell phone minutes and has to take on a babysitting job to pay her bill however it sticks to the original story line pretty well if you can relate to the babysitter not knowing the house and it's usual pops and cracks it is quite suspenseful when the killer is shown he is very creepy and you find yourself yelling at the girl to get out of the house if you have never babysat or been in a situation like this then you probably will not be able to relate and will not like it it's all about understanding her fear
1	a hundred miles away from the scene of a grizzly murder in small town american jill johnson belle settles in for a night of babysitting with the children asleep and a beautiful home to relax in she locks the door and sets the alarm but when a series of eerie phone calls from a stranger says that she check the children jill panics fear to terror when she has the calls traced and what the police find turns the perfect babysitting job into a 16 year old's worst nightmare there aren't any other lead actors in this movie camilla belle is the main star with a cute face the day she arrives to babysit she really has no idea what in the hell really awaits her br br if i were in a house like the one jill was in i would explore everything that is around the fridge would be the first person i would looks at but i'm a male and i don't babysit but what i found funny was the size of the house i was thinking would the movie be the same if the house weren't so big anyone could get lost in that huge house but this movie needed a house with a massive size br br camilla belle has a cute face a perfect smile but it's like for a movie like this the lead actress needs someone with experience i found camilla not that good i don't know maybe she thought that this could be her breakthrough role i do like her she is a cute girl but someone to have a role in this movie has to be someone how is different to take it br br this movie wasn't scary i also found this movie more like a chick flick i think the only reason this was released during the superbowl weekend was that the guys stay home and watch the game and the girls go out to go see this it also seems like a type of a movie when girls will enjoy more than guys but i did like this movie but for how it is girls just like et scared or scream this was just a pretty decent movie br br maybe anyone could like this movie there are many pg 13 horror films that never succeed this was on its own level so i kinda liked this movie i give it a 7 10
1	i was recently at a sleepover birthday party with five other girls all my age eleven all of us thinking it would be some harmless little movie such as jaws decided to rent it along with rat race we watched rat race after when a stranger calls as to ease our fear we put the movie on at 11 00 at night and lay together in our sleeping bags hiding behind covers for most of it i screamed five times which is unusual for me as i get scared in movies but never scared enough to actually scream br br all of us were terrified to even leave the bedroom as we were all positive the stalker jenkins as we called him for some reason would get us i played a mean trick one everyone was all dozing off once rat race was over i hid under my sleeping bag and said quietly and lowly have you checked the childen they all screamed like nuts and were so scared all in all i would rate this movie a 9 the only thing i didn't like was that 1 there were too many false alarms when jill thinks the stalker is there and 2 the kids never woke up during the whole thing until jenkins kidnapped them and hid them in the cupboard at which time all they did was cry like babies i would highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes thriller but one thing i am so not babysitting past 9 00 pm ever
1	this is the type of film that may need to be viewed several times to capture all of its beauty and intelligence just like curse of frankenstein from 1957 if you don't like odd non mainstream films steer clear of this masterpiece for me the artwork alone in this film is worth the purchase price of the the storyline is a bit fantastic but seems to becoming reality in our world today for being produced in the 1980s this film is proving to be a prophetic vision of whats to come with big government and big brother wanting to control and monitor us br br there are many slow sections and the dialog can be quite hard to catch in many scenes thats why i've watched it 6 times now but if you can digest it all it may prove to be well worth your time br br the film is basically about a world where people have evolved into robotic machines that have lost their individualism they are only concerned about accumulating and procreating the hero of the film has not succumb to this sickness and has not been tagged and monitored by big brother his mission is to release a secret drug into the water supply which will change the way the human robots think and allow to once again be a part of humanity br br yes its very low budget but for its time the computer effects and sound effects are very unique and the paintings are utterly fascinating if you have an open mind this film should impress and its prophetic visions are chilling
1	simon pg 13 thriller about a babysitter who gets disturbing prank calls while sitting at a mansion is neither original nor exciting enough to be called a good film although there are some elements of suspense good eye candy and decent characters the film is just another i know what you did last summer as it falls short of being taken seriously the performances were alright but nothing special with this flick i say skip it unless you are looking for a mediocre movie you can find better films than this on lifetime sometimes okay maybe not lifetime but at least usa or somethin haha br br 7 10
1	the movie is about a girl who's not going to a bonfire only because she's baby sitting that night nothing weird about that right until the phone rings until the phone rings again and again and again those are not some stupid prank calls this is for real if you wanna see how the girl reacts just watch the movie br br great atmosphere filled with scary sounds very well performed by young camilla belle who got the lead role i see in her some great potential to become a good actress this is more than only a decent thriller i have no idea why it's so underrated anyway on my opinion this movie deserves more than only 4 10 24 of all voters rated the movie with 1 get serious people you couldn't get a better thriller for a title like this
1	when a stranger calls is actually a pretty good movie i had never saw the original and so when i watched this i thought it was unique when when a stranger calls was advertised on the television the trailer gave away the ending well i never saw the trailer so when i saw this film i was surprised at how good it turned out to be i walked by it one day and decided i'd buy it and now i'm lucky i did because i thought it was a very pleasing movie that is a nice little film to own it is getting a lot of unfair treatment and if you're interested in this movie at all don't listen to all the negativity camille belle is not as bad of an actress as everyone makes her out to be and she did a great job in this movie so all you haters get over yourselves lighten up and actually try to enjoy this movie for what it is a fun teeny bopper popcorn flick if you haven't seen it please do for it is a lot more enjoyable than a lot of the other slashers being made recently
1	don't listen to most of these people ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love its about jill johnson played by camilla belle who babysits at the house and someone breaks in if you're wondering how he got in the house he went through the garage most likely so anyway don't listen to the worst acting it has amazing acting with a great story i think that there are 2 benefits that jill has 1 shes a fast runner and is on the track team 2 she got out alive lol br br it is a cool movie and quite scary check it out you will be happy with this masterpiece don't listen to the other people on the site its very good trust me i am good at reviewing movies i'm a future movie critic i totally want to buy this movie and you will too when you see it it is amazingly awesome
1	i don't watch very many 'horror' movies but one night i sat down and watched this with my cousins now we're teenagers so we tend to make fun of a lot of things but honestly the acting here really wasn't very good especially at the beginning one line that stood out was when scarlett says to jill and tiffany this is so high school while the next scene shows jill walking past a sign with their high school name on it many parts at the beginning reminded me of a corny badly written badly acted lizzie mcguire episode however as the story progressed and the cast moved on to just about only jill most of the time i was able to appreciate the movie more camilla belle did really well in this movie and i think that the other actors and actresses ruined the movie for her and i must admit this was one of the scariest movies i've ever seen well no there weren't big monsters and white faces appearing in dark corners and possessed dolls but the thing that made this movie scarier than ones containing those things is that it really could happen and this movie really reminded me of what really is scary we all know we're not likely to stumble upon the living dead any time in our lives but the idea of having a murderer inside the house you're babysitting at could really happen the only flaw with this movie is that it's one of the most cliché movies i've ever seen it has everything in it that any horror movie has ever had turning the keys and the car starts shadows in the corner turning the corners of the stairs with suspense turning around and seeing a dead body ending a fatal scene quickly with waking up from a dream etc at the suspenseful scenes it was very predictable but overall i would give it a 7 10 it's definitely worth seeing br br by the way this is my first review so i don't know if any of those things were spoilers but just to be safe
1	while i read all of the complaints about this movie before i saw it i still had interest from the preview i don't know if it was because i was expecting a bomb or what but i really enjoyed the movie the i was not very frightened at all until the second half of the movie but even then it wasn't very bad at all i think that most of the scenes and false alarms were realistic if a little too coincidental but it was necessary to move the story along i think that the house and surrounding area is the perfect setting for this type of movie it is beautiful and huge but then the same qualities that are attractive become scary i also think that the light arrangement worked extremely well because not only did they turn on upon entry but there was no way to keep them on so the house stayed dark outside of the small section jill was in br br speaking of jill i thought her part was acted pretty well at first it wasn't as believable but after a few phone calls it was fine in fact the scenes where she is frightened are acted perfectly and finally someone got the fire poker right i can't tell you how many times when i hear a noise at my house i grab the fire poker and it was a nice touch for her to do the same even though she idiotically forgets it when she needs it most br br in regards to the plot holes the movie is not perfect but almost every hole can be explained and part of the mystery is how he got in exactly how long was he watching her how did he get out to kill her friend and when exactly did the gardener die overall i enjoyed it and i was surprised how quickly it went it kept my attention and i wanted to see how it ended although the ending was very brief and left a bad taste in my mouth my only complaint other than the ending was the lack of character development they could have added ten minutes with her and her friends or something to make us feel bad for her situation more to give us a taste of her personality and to give us foreshadowing to how she will handle the situation for example the scene where she debates whether to go back for the kids it looks like some scene is missing at the beginning that talked about her only caring about herself or something
1	im a big horror fan and i quite enjoyed this remake with all these horror remakes floating about i think this is one of the better attempts br br i watched it with my two little sisters and i think it made it even better as they were quite scared also with the shouting at the screen dont do that not that way etc i thought there were some good little jumpy moments and it built the tension well br br camilla belle is absolutely stunning in the lead role and a very good actress so she holds your attention well br br overall a decent film
1	i liked this movie i'm not a big horror movie buff so i couldn't comment on similarities between this and other movies of this genre but i found this movie quite captivating the story line albeit a little obvious had some genuinely scary tense moments and the acting of the lead female role wasn't bad in anyway br br overall i'm a little surprised at the low rating this movie has gotten i watch a lot of movies working in a video store tends to help and this really isn't as bad as people seem to think i do have some criticism though the final call from the cop was terrible almost overacted the dead girl in the bathroom looked liked she was having a little sleep probably from the amount of tequila she mentioned she drank and the children's reaction to what was happening instilled in me the hope that they were ultimately killed br br hope this helps some people
1	having seen the original when i was 13 and yes i was stupid enough to watch it while babysitting i was excited to see this remake br br camilla bell did a great job as jill johnson and the fact that a teen horror flick could be made in the year 2006 without tremendous vulgarity and gore made it even that much stronger of a film i had a great time trying not to chew my fingernails off br br this film won't win anyone an oscar but it is entertaining and worth the matinée price ticket i bought to see it i think girls around the world should watch the original and the remake and then determine to never babysit again br br all i can say is i'm glad i'm too old to babysit there's just something about being in a dark creepy house with sleeping kids that makes this movie classic no blood no gore just good psychological fun winner
1	with all the shoot em up blood horror movies that have come our way in the last little while saw saw 2 the hills have eyes yes they have their place don't get me wrong i went to see when a stranger calls with my buddy the other night why because it's a remake of the 1979 classic which at the time was excellent and scared the you know what out of everyone i didn't know what to expect however i was pleasantly surprised it was a film made of mood atmosphere suspense because remember people what you can't see what you think you see what you can't hear or what you think you hear is far more scarier then what you do if you love films with mood creepiness suspense and atmosphere you'll love it it brought it back to the roots of the original halloween thumbs up a solid 8 5 out of 10 remember folks it's well done not perfect it's spooky not bloody it's creepy not gory it was nice to see a film come a long like this our minds have been conditioned and warped by the glitz and shock value of modern day horror movies we forget what's really scary
1	i went to this film having no idea what to expect i actually took a date to it in the theaters when it first came out we both thoroughly enjoyed it and it helped to have someone to discuss it with after seeing it br br i only recommend seeing this film if you appreciate non mainstream movies it's not as disjointed as liquid sky or as fanciful as forbidden zone the original plot is very easy to follow there's a lot of subtle humor br br here's a quick summary of the plot if you are completely lost a big brother type government keeps tabs on everyone in society suddenly a new person appears and there's no data on him he appears insane he may or may not be the second coming of christ the over cautious government goes into a frenzy to find him and discover his true motives the ruler is also obsessed with immortality br br some scenes are frantic while others are completely low key we follow the lead character as he encounters all different kinds of people in society br br i didn't need my consciousness altered to enjoy the film but i know that some of my friends felt that helped br br split was also filmed around santa cruz and san francisco
1	critics and audiences both pretty much panned this movie but i actually didn't think it was too bad even the critics i normally agree with thought it was crap and i normally despise pg 13 horror films so this means one of two things either 1 i'm too easily pleased and my taste in movies has dwindled over the years or 2 'when a stranger calls' isn't nearly as horrible as it's made out to be now to be fair some of the criticisms of the movie are true there's not much character development and not much happens in the story but man alive folks how much were you expecting from a movie about a babysitter being stalked cut them some slack as a former babysitter who was watching this flick late at night with the lights out i can safely say the stalker dude was one creepy mofo who knows i guess stuff like this just gives me the willies br br yes i admit i had fun watching this and i don't care how big of a minority that puts me in
1	this movie has all the qualities to be good stan singing dancing falling is very funny i think he handled his character in the best way possible it's a parody and very well done maybe times can change there's another audience but if you want to laugh come on see it
1	this stan laurel comedy short is a cute little parody of the valentino film blood and sand if you've seen blood and sand then you'll probably appreciate this film and laugh at a few of the scenes that mock the valentino film however if you have not see that movie and just watch this film you'll probably not be very impressed though i really liked the title cards us the word bull was used repeatedly in very funny ways br br stanly plays a bullfighter who seems pretty dim witted and wins only because the bulls seem to lazy and non aggressive even the bull at the end of the film who has supposedly killed ten men is obviously just a domesticated bull br br not a great film by any stretch of the imagination but still a cute and harmless film
1	stan as a bullfighter and a good one is quite a surprise usually overshadowed by oliver hardy this silent short allows him to take the lead and the limelight br br one can only draw the conclusion that his character was a parody of the many rudolph valentino movies of this era br br be prepared to laugh yourself silly at some of the dialog and keep an eye on the special effects br br i viewed this on dvd in a vol 1 2 collection
1	stan laurel it's been noted first made a real name for himself by appearing in short parodies of popular feature films in the 1920s he certainly demonstrates himself to be an excellent comic actor and performer here in mud and sand a parody of rudolph blood and sand but i think a film like this really works not because laurel was a great satirist but because it allows the audience to jump into the comedy already familiar with the situation and scenes laurel can then let loose with his inspired gags without either having to create context or to do without it i watched this the day after watching blood and sand itself it certainly enhanced the experience to know what was being parodied and where br br the scene where laurel's character vaseline if you believe the title cards or if you believe how his name gets written on the chalk board his mother out of money with a two for you two for me trick is funny on its own because it's a great gag but it's extra funny if the viewer is aware how it is taking the air out of extravagant and melodramatic promises to give his mother any luxuries she desires br br this is the best stan laurel solo work i've seen it's just plain funny even more so if you have had a chance to see the source material
1	when i saw this movie for the first time i didn't believe my own eyes in front of me there was a great and well done parody of valentino see stan laurel bullfight that way is like to see an excellent fencer in action it's a very good parody rich of ideas with a clever and charming stan old and good like whiskey or the booze up after that
1	seeing laurel without hardy in a film seems strange yet it's entertaining all the same it's a well done parody of what became a classic silent film and it showcases stan's talents very well while his pictures with oliver hardy were great these early solo efforts give you an idea of how skilled he was at his craft and how great he might have been had he continued in the tradition of keaton and chaplin as an individual star on his own the dance sequence with his real life wife in the café scene is the best part of the picture and has some pretty funny bits to go with laurel's excellent dance steps and the bullfight climax is a gem as even the bull takes a pratfall and i like the irony in the scene where he's buried in hats and comes up wearing his familiar laurel and hardy bowler hat as much as i love the laurel and hardy team and feel that there was never a funnier comedy duo on screen during their prime it's nice to see them on their own once in a while check out the fighting that hardy made with the duke as another fine example dale
1	mud and sand is one of stan laurel's spoofs of the popular movies at the time this one being of rudolph blood and sand hence stan being while partly inconsistent on characterization how did he defeat those bulls in the beginning is not explained this was mostly funny from beginning to end with one of the best sequences being a dance he does with his then common law wife mae laurel another funny sequence concerns his reluctance with romancing a femme fatale filet de sole while his wife caramel is waiting for him that shows some glimpses of his later innocent character with oliver hardy well worth seeing for anyone interested in seeing mr laurel's early work before his fateful teaming that made him popular around the world
1	if you want to see a film starring stan laurel from the laurel hardy comedies this is not the film for you stan would not begin to find the character and rhythms of those films for another two years if however you want a good travesty of the rudolph valentino blood and sand which had been made the previous year this is the movie for you all the stops are pulled out both in physical comedy and on the title cards and if the movie is not held together by character the plot of movie is used well sort of
1	this is one of stan laurel's best solo comedy's before the 1927 teaming with oliver hardy laurel is a very good actor in the film and provides good comedy the best scene in the film is when stan dances with mae laurel his real life common law wife at the cafe espanol stan does silly dances that are funny without you hearing the music i will recommend this to any stan laurel fan
1	in a very near future world a corrupt government monitors everyone constantly with computers and surveillance one man has managed to evade assimilation and operates outside the system fighting to preserve his freedom an engaging and imaginative story and some very interesting editing and camera work there are some confusing and slow parts but all in all an excellent example of what a small crew with brains and talent can do on a shoestring budget
1	based upon the novel the dismissal by rea in essence the story's about the slow friendship that develops between an italian maintenance technician vincenzo sergio castellitto who can be seen as the villainous king in prince and was the lead in bella martha and a chinese translator liu ling tai they set off actually on the wrong foot with the former chastising the latter for her inaccurate and slow translations of what he wanted to tell a chinese delegate who had bought equipment that is faulty vincenzo wants to do the right thing which is rare in these days and that is to tell the prospective buyers upfront the faults as well as the intricacies that their purchase would bring and given that he's disturbed by the fact that the deal still went ahead he takes time off to craft a component that would set things right br br but that also means to travel to china in search of the elusive machine which proves to be well hidden and seemingly having vanished without a trace with the initial reluctant help of liu they set off in this treasure hunt from city to city which brings us to lesser seen sights of china away from the and the to cities like with industrial like backdrops such as steel mills and nuclear plants with their smoke stacks the scenery the mighty river also makes an appearance along the way the usual trappings of such travelogue styled movies come into play such as the learning of culture ideals food and basically the understanding that the world is without strangers if only one makes an effort to try and connect while hints of some romance between the two leads are suggested it rarely made itself to be a moot point until perhaps late in the movie hey opposites attract no br br besides the major industrial plants and factories we get to see various cottage industry like working in sweat shop like environments and i believe cotton too along with noodle making as a film it provided me the travelling opportunity without leaving my seat to observe and credit to it for not passing judgement from a moral high ground on exploitation and the likes and kudos too for the movie to engage in dialogue based on the characters' native tongues rather than and i shall not name names here some other movie cross cultural collaborations where dialogue is forced dubbed and came off unnatural and truly irksome some might deem the supporting characters to be too kind too always opening their arms and doors to a foreigner but i would like to imagine that maybe in the more rural areas people in general tend to be more sincere friendly and basically not get caught up in the rat race to trample on others or be trampled upon br br if there's a message to take away from the movie besides the fact that i mentioned that the world is without strangers is a reminder to myself that some of the stuff i deem important may not be so to others importance is something one places upon something else and its basis really depends on how we define the boundaries we set so given our finite lifetime i think i should lighten up a bit more live and let live and sometimes in the illusion that ignorance could be bliss
1	based on the best selling novel the dismissal the missing star the latest film by acclaimed italian director gianni is the story of the growing friendship between an older italian maintenance man and a young interpreter he hires in shanghai to be his guide through china vincenzo is the maintenance manager at a steel mill in italy that has been shut down and the blast furnace sold to china when vincenzo sergio castellitto discovers that a control unit in the furnace is defective and potentially dangerous he travels to china to find the steel mill where the part has been sold in hopes of preventing a fatal accident br br the film of course is about the journey not the destination to use a familiar cliché and on that journey we are privy to an engaging look at china with all its immense beauty and complexity via the outstanding cinematography by luca the film takes us to shanghai and a trip along the river showing us coastal areas that are scheduled to be flooded when the three gorges dam is fully operative a chinese mega project that has resulted in the displacement of 1 2 million people the trip brings the travelers face to face with poverty overcrowded housing and children left to fend for themselves br br the film revolves around the relationship between vincenzo and translator liu tai ling who first meet in italy where his impatience with her translations at a dinner meeting causes her to lose her job when he tracks her down in shanghai she is working at a library and resistant to vincenzo's approach looking at his offer to help him in his travels in china as little more than a well paying job she reluctantly agrees to accompany him their relationship however grows as they move from city to city her interpretive skills much in evidence to help the bewildered vincenzo who does not own a cell phone br br as they slowly open up to each other they expose each other's vulnerability and the film delves into their past and present life and how they arrived at their present situation we meet liu's son lin wang at the home of her grandmother in china's one child policy he is one of the unwanted children who have been hidden since the father of the boy abandoned the family although the meeting between vincenzo and the boy is casual their relationship becomes central to how the story plays out br br castellitto is an excellent actor though one longs for a younger enrico lo in this role however he is emotionally distant throughout the film his expression rarely changing from a far away hangdog expression though tai ling brings a great deal of presence to the role her relationship with the much older vincenzo never seemed real to me and the ending seemed to exist only in a reality known as the movies though is one of my favorite directors coming on the heels of the brilliant keys to the house missing star is a disappointment
1	vincenzo a man that has spent years working at a steel mill as a maintenance man that the italian owners are selling to the chinese comes at the end of the meeting where the purchase is being arranged because he wants to tell the new buyers of a flaw he has discovered and he thinks he has the solution he doesn't exactly endear himself to the italian old management or to the new chinese owners he even fights with the translator about the exact term he wants to use in expressing his concern br br the next thing we see is vincenzo arriving in china trying to contact the new owners to his amazement there is someone new in charge as mr chong the man he tried to warn in italy has been fired his next quest is getting to the woman that was the translator liu he finds her working in a library but she tells him in no uncertain terms she blames him for being fired from her position liu who sees the desperation of vincenzo agrees to accompany him to find his steel mill plant br br thus vincenzo and liu begin a voyage through some of the bleak countryside that involves traveling by train steamship bus and truck to remote parts of the giant country finding the correct factory proves to be elusive at best but vincenzo discovers a life that is completely alien to him as well as finding a kind soul who doesn't hesitate to help the italian man in spite of her initial distaste for him br br gianni film is a sort of travelogue he takes the viewer into unknown territory some comments compare vincenzo to marco polo the great italian traveler although the similarities are not quite tangible the film keeps our attention in the early stages of the trip but it starts getting somewhat less enjoyable as vincenzo gets stranded after separating from liu mr is an interesting director as he clearly demonstrates with this film for which he worked on the adaptation of rea's novel which we haven't read br br sergio castellitto is the sole reason for watching the film this versatile actor brings a lot to the movie which in a way is a tour de force for him as he is seen in almost every frame of the picture the combination of and castellitto proves to be a winning combination ling tai who is making her debut as liu has some lovely moments and shows good chemistry with her co star br br luca photographed the chinese landscape in all its bleakness we see a china that is not picture post card pretty mr captures all the so typical of the areas where the film is set franco musical score serves the film well
1	the missing star who competed for the golden lion at 2006 venice film festival is a film that when you think about the first adjective that comes to your mind is intense intense looks intense sequences this movie's intensity captures the viewer since the very first scenes at the in italy i couldn't recognize the city maybe genoa or even naples although the pace is quite slow br br vincenzo the male lead and with him all the audience sees a completely different china than a normal westerner imagines horrible high rise building with about 8 hundred flat owners inside skyscrapers desolation fog and cranes everywhere but also the beauty of the river that will soon become a big lake because of the controversial dike that will wipe a lot of towns out china is a country under construction but under all these colossal public works there are still poverty and unfair laws br br we can relate more easily to this story because gianni the expert director chose two phenomenal leads sergio castellitto a well known actor in italy and the chinese surprise tai ling a total unknown girl that gives an as intense interpretation as br br the film is not perfect there are some flaws here and there but that doesn't mean it's a mediocre film try to see it
1	as a modern marco polo from venice to china here we come again taking on the task to render us the grey area in the middle of two worlds in solid colors eroded by collateral damages the pessimistic vision of europe is mutual with br br the view of that charming but puzzling country is dealt from below devoid of any claim to learn or impose opinions reality nonetheless is harsh abandoned and exploited children beehive homes backward areas is the other china we ignore vincenzo castellitto a technician of a steel factory is one of us his voyage to china is a pretext to understand to learn from the inside a country where progress and third world problems live together in an infamous balance it's not exactly clear if vincenzo knew by the first time that the mechanical component was already been fixed i think so anyway is a minor aspect liu the chinese girl is the key of the whole film she carries on her back a lot of difficulties she's got the strength to overcome but how could she fight with little money and little help br br the realistic and unbiased view of the facts by the girl refusing vincenzo's money touched me a lot a pack of bank notes can't get back her husband her baby forced to treat like a stranger for the law protect her by scorns liu knew his intentions were benign and kind far from a cold charity act their friendship is beautifully narrated the way it grows step by step dignified and formative unique a priceless legacy to keep br br some scenes are stunning either for the acting vincenzo crying on the ferry or by the dialogues at the restaurant on the railroads besides a careless editing and a pretty lazy start la stella che non is brilliant and sharp just because chronicles the untold br br in competition at 63rd venice film festival plenty bet on tai ling for the mastroianni prize dedicated to emerging stars she definitely deserved that award br br 8 10
1	when i went to the cinema i expected not much i knew nothing about this movie but it was the only movie i could see 'cause i was in a small town then so i saw this movie and i was fascinated la che non is a trip through the new industrial china and it shows it honestly you see most of the time the ugly places of china and you see what really happens with this new the main characters are sad but hopefully people he's the naive italian guy who can't believe what he see's she's a translator from china who's missing her son sometimes sad sometimes funny but every time poetic a wonderful movie with wonderful actors so only one star is missing
1	this is a wonderful new movie currently still showing in cinemas in my country its director the gianni is in my humble view perhaps the only contemporary italian director along with nanni moretti to deserve being called great that is apart from the old masters who're still around and occasionally still churning out movies it's one of my greatest regrets that contemporary italian cinema has been ailing since the mid 70s mostly due to a dire lack of funding and nurturing of new talent something which can be transferred to most fields and which makes italy one of the most static countries of our time production wise both in an industrial and cultural sense unlike say china and this among other things is precisely the subject of latest movie few directors can speak to me about the true present state of my country and the world as can yet his pictures also have a precious timelessness and universality and for those already worrying that they may be slow ponderous and worthy rest assured of the ones i've seen they most certainly aren't at least not if you're used to quality european cinema br br the basic plot outline vincenzo is a technician at an obsolete steel plant factory somewhere in italy probably the north he is played by sergio castellitto one of contemporary italy's most versatile and talented actors when a major chinese steel company purchases some of the italian steel plant's industrial machinery vincenzo who struggles to make himself understood with the non italian speaking chinese director tries to tell him that the machine is defective and its needs substituting an element he's working on custom building himself he warns them that not doing this might have very dangerous consequences meanwhile a young chinese woman called liu acts as interpreter between the two men but seems to struggle to find adequate translations for some of vincenzo's technical jargon the italian eventually loses his patience with her virtually pushing her aside and asking her to hand him the chinese italian dictionary so that he can do the translating himself br br despite vincenzo's warnings the following morning he finds that the chinese factory director and his employees have returned to their own country while not heeding his advice about the adequate use of the industrial machine at all thus vincenzo equipped with his great integrity sets off for china and here begins an endlessly fascinating road movie through china a very topical 21st century odyssey through the asian giant a latter day marco quest for the secrets of the mysterious nation not quite as in all of movies the journey itself becomes far more important than whether its ultimate mission is carried out or not in fact the way in which the point is literally brought home not without a touch of humour is a lovely poignant paradox and irony which made my eyes well up while i was simultaneously smiling the spectator is let in on the secret that vincenzo's trip was ultimately completely useless but he himself doesn't know it and goes home a satisfied man a deluded innocent at least you figure he's happy sort of br br the journeys that characters embark on totally and strips them down to their bare human essentials they are momentarily without name status or someone to put in a word for them these theo angelopoulos like themes are also explored in actually my favourite movie closely followed by la stella che non in order of personal preference in the 1994 movie two italian racketeers travel to albania to do business just like vincenzo they intend to go there do what they have to do and then go back home instead one of these two italians accidentally ends up on an almost homeric journey through this devastated land just after the fall of communism br br but let us go back to la stella che non once vincenzo is in china he predictably discovers that the seemingly simple task of handing the to its new owner is anything but straight forward the piece of new location is seemingly almost impossible to determine unless he embarks on an arduous journey through china when he comes across liu the young interpreter he'd mistreated now working as a librarian he tries to speak to her but she reacts in a hostile manner informing him that because of him she'd lost her job as interpreter back in italy played by the relative newcomer ling tai liu soon becomes a virgil to vincenzo's dante when she grudgingly figures that she could do worse than to act as guide and interpreter for the italian on his trip obviously for a consistent sum of cash this young chinese actress may not have the beauty of ziyi zhang nor the movie star glamour of gong li but her charming expressive and pretty face oozes a combination of defiant strength intelligence dignity and wry humour that'll make her features difficult to forget once you've seen the movie furthermore she and castellitto have wonderful emotional chemistry as co stars br br weaves dramas that are serious poetic mythical post neo realist and humorous all at once while maintaining a heart warming ability to explore the fleeting essence of humanity in everyday commonplace circumstances a documentary like naturalness conceals what is actually a meticulously conceived tapestry of faces and places a vista which also manages to incorporate a cinematography of breath taking beauty the photography here is functional yet gorgeous as befits a movie on the displaced in an industrial and emotional wasteland br br observant eye is a grown up disillusioned one yet also never a cynical or misanthropic one the masterful camera angles also often gives a sense of vincenzo's alienness in the eyes of the chinese bringing home a sense of objectivity and cultural impartiality that's very rare in movies about a familiar westerner exploring an unfamiliar non western country i cannot recommend this movie enough
1	this is an enjoyable movie its very realistic to the wonderful world of music i've been there and done that it shows a human element in each character and the realism that nobody is perfect these amateur musicians weren't all that bad players cleavon character marshall tucker was played very well marshall was no saint himself here he was getting paid to do a job and he's giving these guys a hard time about everything in the van on the way up there you don't bite the hands that feed you i do find it hard to believe that a player with the jazz experience he has claims he does not know any of the tunes he has a tremendous sense of predicting chord changes to tunes he does not know not common but not unheard of either he delivers a true and harsh message at the end of the movie when he tells the clarinet player its not a religion devotion is not enough on that level he is correct although i think the clarinet player could have handled the job he was practicing his butt off and vocal accompaniment music is not that hard to read very enjoyable movie
1	this movie is almost never seen today the only reason i can enjoy it again and again is from a slightly worn out vhs copy i made when the film was shown on tv in 1991 here in england br br an ensemble cast are obviously enjoying themselves and this is reflected to the viewer a razor sharp script helps things along and once you've seen this you will want to watch it over and over again br br wayne rogers is the 'star' but everyone contributes to a great film with a great jazz soundtrack to boot there are emotional moments during the film but never to the point of sickly sweet sentimentalism these are guys on the trip of a lifetime and they convey that excitement wonderfully br br highly recommended if you can actually get to see it
1	the gig is a tight funny and poignant little movie about a group of friends that have gathered together on a regular basis to play for fun the group unexpectedly lands a real paying job in musician's parlance a gig br br they travel to upstate ny for a two week gig at a summer resort minus one member who bows out due to contracting cancer at the last minute they hire a professional to take his place things get sticky as an over the hill frankie valli type attempts a comeback at the resort and tries to utilize the group as his band br br the attitude the professional bass player gave the guys rang true by signing up to play the two week gig they were taking bread out of the mouths of someone who needed the job to feed his or her family while pop rock rap country and western and r b stars make money off of albums jazz musicians have to travel abroad to make a living almost nobody gets rich the guys living their dream also cost others a needed income br br i believe that almost everyone who can play a musical instrument with some proficiency dreams about playing a paying gig one time or another woody allen and kevin bacon are two popular examples of this amateur to professional crossover i especially recommend this movie to anyone who has ever played music professionally my mom who was a musician loved it
1	i agree with this is a great movie here are some dialogue snippets br br sean connery to eden candice bergen you see the man at the well how he draws the water when one bucket empties the other fills it is so with the world at present you are full of power but you're spilling it and islam is lapping up the drops as they spill from your bucket br br the english have paid very well in the past well you'll not have your way with the americans president roosevelt will have your head for this roosevelt this president roosevelt he would try and take it himself he certainly would he is a man of grit and strong moral fiber he does not kidnap women and children what kind of rifle does he use a winchester winchester winchester i have no knowledge of this rifle you will br br teddy roosevelt brian keith the american grizzly bear is a symbol of the american character strength intelligence ferocity a little blind and reckless at times but courageous beyond all doubt oh and one other trait goes with all previous newspaper reporter and that mr president teddy roosevelt loneliness the bear lives out his life alone indomitable but always alone he has no real allies only enemies but none of them are as great as he newspaper reporter you feel this might be an american trait teddy roosevelt certainly the world would never love us it may respect us it may even grow to fear us but it'll never love us for we have too much audacity and we're a bit blind and reckless at times too
1	my wife and i endorse all the positive comments below made by other imdb members while this is no box office smash hit it has a special charm all of its own genuine and heart warming br br we saw this on video at the end of a long day we were very tired and in bed normally in a situation like this my wife drops off to sleep within minutes that is unless it is an exceptional movie and this one kept us both entertained right to the very end br br perhaps younger viewers in their teens and twenties would not like this but for the rest of us it is a true gem see it
1	this little film brings back a lot of memories both fond and foul of what can and does happen when one is a working musician the not so pleasant accommodations for the band the management of the venue jumping up and down telling you what to play the sheer ecstasy of the applause far from being farcical it is in fact very accurate in the way it depicts musicians professional and otherwise who have travelled a great distance to perform a season of gigs at a venue there are those times when everything goes perfectly there are those other times when you immediately start to miss your partner and wonder what the hell you are doing this far from home in the end you have to make the best of it because there is no other way out
1	this film gave me probably the most pleasant surprise of any i've ever seen it was not a big budget production and its premise middle age amateur jazz musicians get an unexpected professional engagement at a catskills like resort seems rather modest what's not modest is the film's success this is a little slice of life movie that is most entertaining throughout director frank d gilroy also wrote the script and it's full of interesting subplots and unexpected twists br br the actors are journeymen who do a solid job the biggest revelation to me was cleavon little he plays a professional musician who is hired to fill in for an ailing band member his attitude immediately clashes with the others while they see it as an opportunity for big fun and a once in a lifetime thing he sees it as his job and not a particularly interesting one this leads to conflict but when the group gets in trouble he steers them through little who died too young really showed me he was a fine actor with this film br br this movie is a true sleeper the kind that a film fan always hopes to discover i recommend it wholeheartedly
1	night of the demons is definitely one the definitive cheesy 80's demons horror flick in the same vein as the brilliant evil dead and demons movies this movie combines boozy sexually active teens and demons into one hell of a fun movie a definite welcome addition after the 80's were overrun by slasher flicks it was nice to see something a little different br br the plot follows a group of teens who all meet up for a halloween party at hull house which used to be funeral parlour hosted by angela about 40 minutes of boozing and eventually leads to a demon or demons finding their way out of the furnace and possessing each and every one of the teens add some snazzy make up effects lots of gore and cool looking demons and you've got yourself a sweet 80's cheese fest that would be ranked as one of the best demon related films in many horror fans' lists br br firstly i loved the setting for this movie hull house is really creepy and scary and the perfect setting for a horror movie and plus when the demons emerge that's when the action really kicks in and it becomes a night of terror and fear this movie spawned 2 sequels the first one in 1994 which was okay but nothing come pared to this and the third one titled demon house was absolutely horrendous this is one of those horrors that has definitely stood the test of time and remains a true gem of mine for many years to come br br all in all a fun cheesy flick with demons that's definitely worth checking out
1	i saw night of the demons 2 first before i saw night of the demons unfortunately my old blockbuster thought it was a good idea to have the sequel but no first one looney huh now i think all horror fans need this movie it's like mcdonald's you know it's bad for you and you'd rather have the cheesecake or whatever restaurant you prefer but you can't help but just wanting the cheap stuff br br night of the demons has it all your innocent sexy goes by the rules chicka dee your token black guy that surprisingly doesn't get killed you're slutty girl you're slutty guy you're dark girl or guy the goof ball the cheesy settings of a haunted house bad acting and lots of unnecessary nudity isn't this stuff great i mean i know deep down in my heart of movies that this was pretty bad but it was a good bad for horror movies horror fans should enjoy and dig in br br 8 10
1	kevin night of the demons is an enjoyable horror film that reminds me a little bit the evil dead on night a group of teens throws a party in hull house an abandoned funeral home on the outskirts of town lead by angela they perform a like ceremony and accidentally awaken the evil spirits that inhabit the place one by one the uninvited evil force possesses the teens turning them into bloodthirsty demons night of the demons is a perfect horror film it is scary gory and pretty atmospheric the characters are well developed and the gore by steve johnson is pretty good there is a gruesome impaling a tongue being bitten off fingers shoved into eye sockets etc the scene where suzanne linnea quigley shoves a tube of lipstick through her nipple is a hoot give this one a look followed by two sequels
1	much more than any other film from that period night of the demons represents the brainless and hugely enjoyable horror pastiche it's undemanding fun with loads of nasty make up effects gorgeous looking and horny teenagers and adorable cliché elements a group of party animals led by the alternative angela goes to celebrate halloween in an abandoned funeral home that carries an eerie urban legend it all starts out typical and innocent with dancing drinking and the occasional flirt between youngsters that can't keep their hormones under control but pretty soon a bloodthirsty demon possesses the hostess in the most ingenious ways you've ever seen the rest of the cast gets slaughtered viciously only to return as hideous creatures prowling for blood the thing that makes this film better than most cheesy 80's horror films is finds a good balance between light headed camp and atmospheric horror some sequences really are creepy and the funeral house setting supplies night of the demons with an excellent tone director tenney makes great use of the set pieces coffins a crematorium endless dark and his young enthusiast cast obviously love what they're involved in the terrific make up effects by a whole team of artists and designers are of course the obvious aspects to love and horror fanatics will absolutely love the large amount of severed limbs poked out eyes and crushed skulls the ultimate highlight however is linnea quigley's trick with the disappearing lipstick this nymphomaniac bimbo shoves an entire tube of lipstick in her nipple and continues her sexual murder spree terrific night of the demons received two sequels during the 90's and although they're still definitely worth checking out they focus more on comedy than chills
1	night of the demons 1988 was another in a long line of teen horror films that were released on video and pay t v during that mecca of film making the eighties but unlike most of the crap that was being peddled around this one was actually a decent watch a group of bored teenagers decide to party halloween night away with a pair of bizarre sisters mimi kinkade and linnea quigley at the infamous hull house your usual cast of stereotypical teenagers are invited to the party but an average teenage bash turns into a night of terror as they try to survive halloween night when they undead residents of hull house decide to crash the party who'll survive this night of bloodshed and horror br br a nice horror film that is best seen in the unrated version if you watch the r rated cut then you'll miss all of the splatter effects and nudity stay tune for the amusing epilogue a gory film that was followed by an equally entertaining sequel for horror fans only br br highly recommended
1	the eighties produced a lot of gory little horror flicks most of them within the slasher sub genre thus putting this film ahead of most of the rest of its ilk night of the demons is something of a cross between the ultimate gore film the evil dead and haunted house cum slash flick hell night films like this usually feature a deranged deformed madman as the lead bad guy but here we have bloodthirsty demons which is always more interesting than a lunatic if you ask me there's also a lot of comedy in this film and the first third of the movie could easily be the set up for a straight comedy film but once the characters enter the central location a sinister funeral home known as house' the film morphs into the horror film that you would expect given the title the plot line is as simple as you'd expect it to be and we follow a bunch of kids that decide to put on a halloween party inside said funeral home this turns out to be a bad idea however once it transpires that the house is possessed and the demons start to inhabit the kids' bodies their only salvation lies on the other side of the underground stream but finding the gate to the grounds isn't as easy as it sounds br br the film's centrepiece is the gothic mansion where the action takes place this creaky old house makes for a great horror film location the fact that it used to be a funeral home only adds to this director kevin tenney shoots the house well and a particularly good job is done of establishing the fact that the house is in the middle of nowhere and escape is difficult the comedy towards the start of the film is generally very funny and i was hoping it would keep up the laughs once the horror starts the film does have its comedy moments when the kids enter hull house but it's never overly funny and it's obvious that horror is the film's main aim not that this is a problem but the night of the demons could have been a lot better had it fused these elements properly the characters are pretty much what you'd expect from this sort of film but the acting suits the movie well and it's clear that the young cast had a good time making this movie and it translates well to the screen the effects are good in that they suit the film well and as most of the death sequences are well executed it's a good bet that most people won't get bored watching this this isn't a classic or must see film but i can highly recommend it as it offers a good time and will appeal to fans of silly horror fodder
1	a bunch of mostly obnoxious and grossly unappealing teens go to a creepy remote rundown old mortuary located nearby a cemetery to attend an anything goes all out halloween party being hosted by freaky occult obsessed oddball mimi kinkade and her vacuous boy hungry friend linnea quigley the loutish profane beer guzzling sex happy dipstick hold a séance as a joke very bad idea 'cause the desolate old dive is naturally said to be haunted by demonic spirits of course that ill advised séance awakens those decidedly grumpy and hostile evil spirits who gruesomely kill and possess a majority of the kids turning them into ugly fanged clawed boil faced murderous ghouls who wreak the usual grisly havoc throughout the duration of an especially long dark and harrowing night of pure terror br br yep this is essentially your umpteenth vigorously graphic and unrelenting wall to wall cheap shock ridden evil dead rehash replete with closed off there's no easy way out claustrophobic single self confined setting outrageously excessive splatter set pieces an incessantly pounding synthesizer score a total sense of laden grim and in your face manic careening cinematography the expected headlong rush inducing hyperactive hand held camera work smooth sinuous tracking shots crazily camera angles even the camera on a dolly doing a gracefully gliding 180 degree figure eight fortunately kevin s slick assured stylish direction keeps the extremely threadbare and derivative proceedings thundering along at a speedy clip moreover tenny gives the film an attractive polished look and effectively creates a certain crudely energetic and enthusiastically grotesque spooky ooga carnival funhouse atmosphere br br however steve johnson's marvelously gory and imaginative make up effects are the true star of the show bloodthirsty highlights include disgusting fat slob hal who played a similarly irritating obese a hole role in the immortal sorority babes in the slimeball bowl a rama around the same time having his tongue bitten off quigley shoving a whole tube of lipstick in one of her breasts and gouging a guy's eyes out while she's making love to him double a libidinous teen couple getting offed while doing exactly what you think in a coffin the chick has her neck snapped while the dude has his arm chopped off kinkade setting her hands on fire and in the film's single most nasty scene a mean old man has his throat slit from the inside out after eating an apple piece laced with razor blades the rock score likewise smokes and then there's kinkade's incredibly wild sexy and uninhibited demon dance a sizzling number accompanied by a flickering strobe light and startling jump cuts that kinkade choreographed herself okay so this overall doesn't amount to anything more than a completely mindless and pointless albeit quite nicely mounted and enjoyably vulgar hunk of blithely sleazy fright flick junk but if you're in the mood for entertainingly brain dead lowbrow horror scuzziness this cheerfully crass and juvenile dross does the trick just fine
1	i saw this film at school and absolutely loved it based on a true story this is an absolutely splendid masterpiece of a film seriously i couldn't find anything wrong with it one definite plus is how it was filmed set in morrocco in 1904 the wind and the lion is filled with stirring images like the great on horseback especially the cinematography was faultless the editing was crisp the costumes were gorgeous and the scenery was breathtaking and i have to mention the music from jerry goldsmith it was phenomenal i have used this phrase a lot recently but goldsmith ain't my favourite film composer for nothing his score here is so rousing and exciting it shows the man's true musical genius and this gem of a score should be up there with goldsmith's best scores with legend rambo first blood patton and the secret of nimh br br the action is exhilarating and the screenplay is intelligent and sophisticated the direction is sensitively handled too the performances were astounding as well with sean connery ever the picture of charisma and suavity magnificent as the great he almost dominates the entire picture on his own he is joined by a feisty candice bergen a wily john huston and a captivating brian keith in one of his more understated performances the history is fairly accurate perhaps flimsy in some areas but with the acting music and visuals so good i am past caring 10 10 bethany cox
1	i neglected this film when i used to go to the movie store but then the curiosity got to me and i decided to check it out i loved it the movie starts off with judy and jay heading for a halloween party at the abandoned funeral parlor hull house then we meet a few more characters angela and the hosts frannie max rodger sal and helen then of course they start to party and when really in the mood they decide to have a séance which awakens a demon the demon possesses angela and she starts her gruesome slaughtering will they survive the night of the demons br br the movie was overall great the gore was fine but the nudity provided by linnea quigley trash from rotld once again screws it i never was a fan of hers and never will be
1	it's the old old story kids have a party in an old house demons are unleashed death and gratuitous nudity ensues you all know it it's still a lot of fun br br many people okay many horror fans to be specific have fond memories of this movie and it's always with slight trepidation that you revisit an old movie to see if it's still as good as you used to think it was luckily this is br br it has something for everyone well everyone who happens to be male i suppose from a fun title sequence to a shoplifting scam involving cunning use of linnea quigley's ass to the mirror scene to the full on demonic fun this is a blast from start to finish br br the girls are cute the guys are male the death scenes are well done with some good gore effects and unlike some horrors from the era this actually keeps a good sense of atmosphere and even tension throughout don't get me wrong it's still fun first and foremost but it offers some nice freaky moments that should please most genre fans
1	this isn't the video nasty night of the demon as there are more than one actually there is only one but it multiplies br br after it inhabits suzanne scream queen linnea quigley she passes it on to goth girl angela amelia kinkade through a nice long kiss br br next we see linnea showing us her in the bathroom she shows a lot more as jay lance fenton thinks he is in for some fun br br soon everything literally goes to hell as bodies drop one by one and are possessed judy cathy and max philip are the last two trying to escape max isn't much help leaving it to judy to figure a way out br br the makeup was absolutely fantastic and the only thing that kept this from being even better was the extremely long build up to the action br br the old man harold who appears in the beginning will be back and get his just desserts br br linnea quigley may be the scream queen but cathy definitely showed the greatest lungs in this film
1	a group of obnoxious teens go to a former funeral parlor for a halloween party they get trapped inside and become possessed by demons that they have accidentally awakened the possessed teens start killing the others off and seem to be led by angela mimi kinkade who floats and talks in a really deep voice the remaining teens that haven't been possessed yet are forced to fight off the demons and try to escape the house br br this is a pretty decent horror film with great special effects which include linnea quigley who has a couple nude scenes as usual gouging out a guy's eyeballs and pushing a tube of lipstick into her nipple there's also a scene where a couple has sex in a coffin and a guy getting his tongue bitten out this is a great film to watch with a bunch of friends late at night while eating some pizza the terrible acting and atrocious dialog almost ruins it though overall i would give it a 7 out of 10
1	the 80's is largely considered the decade in which horror decided to have fun sometimes there were some definite brains behind it all evil dead ii night of the creeps and return of the living dead for example and then there were those movies that were mindless but had a definite low rent charm and were perfect for a night with beer and friends movies like pieces and blood diner stacked rental shelves in the 80's and 90's offering little in intelligence or craftsmanship but plenty in dumb entertainment kevin 1988 movie night of the demons is a part of this tradition stupid poorly acted and not an original bone in it's body but dammit if you don't have a good time br br the plot is so simplistic it just had to come from the 80's a group of dumb teens played by a bunch of actors in their mid to late 20's decide to go to a party at hull house thrown by angela mimi kinkade and suzanne scream queen legend linnea quigley well angela and co decide to throw a séance this turns out to be as will arrested development character gob would call it a huge mistake because a demonic force soon possesses angela and starts to get to the others as well br br take the evil dead a nightmare on elm street and your average dumb dead teen flick throw them in a blender and night of the demons is what you get the movie is anything but original and really it's not a good movie the whole thing is insanely derivative the acting is terrible the jokes often fall flat the characters are annoying especially the character of stooge and the plot holes are numerous that out of the way it's still a lot of fun so why br br well for one thing the make up and gore effects are top notch with some really memorable moments especially a nasty and just plane odd bit with a tube of lipstick that really stick out it also rarely if ever takes itself too seriously yet with the exception of some terrible puns plays it straight and never wastes the audiences time with winking self awareness plus there's a definite energy and enthusiasm to the whole enterprise that's almost impossible to resist yeah it's nothing special but it knows that and it couldn't be more proud of that fact it's a goofy party horror movie and it never pretends to be anything more br br it might not be a classic but night of the demons is a good example of horror junk food done right it might not be too memorable or original but sometimes you don't want a fancy beer sometimes you want a budweiser
1	this movie took me by surprise the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation after that we're plunged into a semi cheesy production betraying its low budget the characters typical american teens are introduced slowly with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this by the time the hits the fan we know each one of the characters and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities it's a slow uphill set up kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster thankfully once the action kicks in it's full blown old school horror steve johnson's make up effects are awesome equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films and the scares are jolting kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups the tongue in cheek sometimes cheesy humor marks this film as pure 80s horror as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like night of the living dead or hills have eyes but for true horror fans this one is worth checking out play it as the first entry on a double bill with the 1999 remake of house on the haunted hill the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking
1	i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie not just because i'm a huge linnea quigley jill fan but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times br br the special effects are awesome especially scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed br br plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill plenty of humor cool soundtrack high body count etc by the way if you have never seen this one try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing
1	i remember watching this film as a kid and i was in complete awe of it i couldn't take my eyes of the television this movie has it all for horror fans this movie had no funny moments expect a couple of one liners by stooge who was my favorite character in the film kevin tenney directed this jewel and did a wonderful job with a low budget i thought the end was awesome the only thing that could stop them was by surviving the night they were unstoppable killing machines the effects done by steve johnson we're excellent i would recommend this movie to anyone who has a love for low budget horror movies because as the old saying goes they don't make them like this anymore the sequels were pretty good too but not as good as good as the original this is a must have in any horror collection buy it if you can find it you won't be disappointed
1	this movie was great don't understand the disrespect it get's i first scene this in like 87 88 and it was actually scary if you are an 80's horror fan you should have no problem with this film it has everything that makes 80's horror great i got to meet a few of the actor's and they were cool what is not great about a creepy old house demons crazy party horny good looking young people the dialog and the special fx made this movie a classic this film also took care of one of those classic rumors about horror the black guy does not alway's have to die in the end even though this movie was great there is one thing that remains undiscovered to me what really happened to the old couple at the end was it on purpose or not that little side story thing alway's had me puzzled
1	i must say this is easily one of my favorite movies to watch on halloween the halloween party the horrid acting the guy dressed like and extra from miami vice great great great br br spoilers br br i have a huge place in my heart for random 80's horror flicks and this one reached out and tugged at my heart strings i always passes this flick at blockbuster and always laughed at the cover of the box now every weekend i would grab a random movie i had never seen before one weekend it was turn she seemed to have been taunting me for months so i took it home put it in and spent most of the movie underneath the blanket br br for me it was terrifying and gross and not just the acting some of the things they came up with for this movie was amazing i can honestly say the best part for me was watching suzanne played by a fellow stick a tube of lipstick through her nipple it was random and i loved it watching creepy angela float through the hallways and hearing her creepy demon voice was enough to have me awake all night long br br it isn't one of the most clever or best acted horror movies but its 80's cheese and its got all the elements you need creepy goth kid virgin slut naked girls scary house bad acting oh and did i mention naked girls all the elements were there and were put together in such a way that made for one of my fave movies kudos to the filmmakers
1	the wind and the lion is a marvelous sweeping motion picture it is a monument to what filmmaking once was but is no more br br connery despite the thick scottish brogue plays the very well he inspires the viewer in a way many lead characters cannot br br candice bergen in one of her early roles is marvelous as the kidnapped socialite mrs showing courage in the face of adversity and plenty of humour as well a marvelous film rent or buy it and you won't be disappointed
1	i remember seeing this film in the theater and liking it i happened to stumble upon it on fear net last month and watched it again and found it better with age first of all for those of you who describe this as 80s cheese if you objectively compare it with the horror flicks of the past 2 decades it compares quite well if stacked up against films in its unique horror sub genre which i would term action horror as opposed to psychological horror such as the shining or the exorcist br br furthermore for its budget this film really delivers the goods or in this instance bad the film actually has some character development and gives enough of a history of the infamous hull house to get the atmosphere right before the characters set foot in the front door the film also has several hilarious one liners and gives the appropriate mood that a creepy horror flick should have if you compare nod to contemporary big budget horror films such as i am legend the vincent price version was much better this film really stands out modern horror flicks have become almost completely dominated by cgi most have no plot or character at all and are completely predictable the special effects dominate these movies from start to finish and the characters are plastic if this is 80s horror cheese i'll take it over 95 of current entries in the genre br br on a closing note seeing nod again made me remember the beautiful jill and wonder why i have not seen her in more films horror or otherwise jill on the odd chance that you read this i think you are gorgeous and should have been in more films lastly if you like action horror flicks you will probably like this one a lot
1	i absolutely love this movie evil dead has nothing on this film night of the demons 2 and 3 are a total bore fest but this one is a classic it's super cheesy and the acting is alright at best but what more could you want from an 80's horror movie stooge has some of the best one liners to ever hit the screen in this one he's my favorite character a lot of people talk about the lipstick scene in this movie but my personal favorite is the ending sadly enough has nothing to do with the main characters when the old man eats his left over halloween apples in a pie and his throat is mangled from the inside out the sound track is awesome the scene with angela dancing is totally creepy especially after the strobe light comes on and you can see her jump from one part of the floor to the next with every sound of a camera shutter click on the song that's playing the make up effects in this movie are pretty sweet angela gave me nightmares as a kid if you're the type of person who demands perfection out of your filming experience you might want to give this one a pass but if you're like me and you really dig the whole halloween haunted house with the demons cliché than this one is definitely a must own
1	any movie that has a line of dialogue that goes something like this judy's getting ready for her date has to be good i found this on dvd unrated unedited and was pleasantly surprised a lot of hard work was put into making this movie i actually enjoyed this more that a lot of 80s movies i have seen great addition to my movie collection br br the buildup was great sets up the scares for the rest of the movie loved the gore and the t a i never thought eyeballs being gouged out would look like popping boils the color of the eye splatter was gross i keep thinking that looked like tiger woods but more black anyone agree
1	i originally saw this movie in a movie theater on times square in the late eighties who would have thought this film would spawn two sequels and have this cult following night of the demons was like most other films that came out at the time a group of horny teenagers find themselves trapped in some isolated local and then are killed off one at a time in various gruesome ways come to think of it the formula still is used and still seems to work as evidenced by saw ii that i recently saw br br i saw mimi kinkade at a fangoria convention about six years ago and she was so gentle hearted i guess that makes her a pretty good actress if she could make a career out of playing this demon possessed woman in all these horror flicks anyway i just this film again on vhs cassette and this movie still holds up a little slow at the beginning as i remembered when i first saw it but then it quickly picks up pace one of the eighties horror classics and worth a look
1	night of the demons is a great movie and an excellent example of how good low budget can be sure much of it is fairly predictable but somehow it's still much more enjoyable than the crap we see these days being passed off as horror i give the gore a solid 9 and the one liners are actually funny i'm still creeped out by stop looking at me the soundtrack is well done i was surprised to hear stigmata martyr from bauhaus there is also some very nice t a on display as well as some hella good make up effects the second film in the series is pretty good too but avoid the inferior third one night of the demons may be dated dark and low rent but it still has a lot of potential it's definitely worth a rental at least give it a chance tonight just stay away from any old makeup you'll understand when you see it
1	this is a great horror film for people who don't want all that vomit retching gore and sensationalism this movie has equal amounts of horror suspense humor and even a little light nudity but nothing big linnea quigley isn't over the top as she was in return of the living dead where she danced naked on a crypt but she is still essentially the same slutty character cathy is a virginal and chaste character before going on to dallas and we are also introduced to amelia soon mimi kinkade the sexy and sinister would be dark matron of the house as she and linnea are possessed and take over the house they reanimate the bodies of their dead friends to scare the limits out of the survivors i've heard a lot of people compare this movie to the evil dead but if anything this movie is a rival to that one the same way freddie rivaled jason this movie series though is far superior to that one
1	the 80s were overrun by all those halloween friday the 13th slasher style horror movies so this is something of a relief br br ten unbelievably annoying teenagers would you want to hang out with these jerks decide to throw a halloween party at a local former funeral parlor called hull house during a past life séance a demon is accidentally released and each person becomes possessed and kills off the others br br this all sounds very evil dead demons ish but tenney lends some directorial style to the proceedings there are some good one liners the music is excellent the steve johnson prosthetic make up fx are scary and linnea quigley is quite fun as a boy crazy bimbo who pokes out eyeballs with her fingers and does an amazing new thing with a tube of lipstick br br great fun on a no brainer level after checking out the breakdown of the voting and the other posted reviews i don't understand how this only received 4 out of 10 br br i give it 8 out of 10
1	public enemies is a kind of throw back to those early 1960's gangster biographies like portrait of a mobster mad dog and king of the roaring twenties although made on the cheap the film has a great deal of energy and the acting over all particularly by eric roberts and frank stallone is quite good theresa russell might seem too glamorous as ma but she has some very good moments there are two action scenes worth noting a shoot out in a hotel and a machine gun fight in the middle of the street between the barkers and the fbi both sequences are nicely done and compared to other low gangster junk like dillinger and capone this film shines
1	i found this flick enjoyable and involving to watch and i'm surprised it's rated so lowly actually i can see why it is i imagine it's the fans of eric roberts and alyssa milano that have been giving most of the 1s and 2s because if you put the tape into the machine expecting to enjoy watching something starring either or both of these two then you could be rather disappointed eric appears for about half an hour towards the end of the movie and alyssa for about 5 scenes in the second half and in those she says little and wears less although never nude if that's what you're looking for stick with embrace of the vampire although they're always a pleasure it's a pity she or eric don't get much screen time yet i still give this an 8 br br
1	this movie had a lot of ups downs the storyline is strong while telling the saga of barker growing up then her misadventures with her boys and the fbi theresa russell is very talented and her beauty even shines through as barker in public enemies the direction of mark l lester while not as good as in commando was still very interesting br br eric roberts plays a short lived part as a security guard turned thug and lover and alyssa milano plays a prostitute who hangs with the gang frank stallone plays a thug who helps out the gang while one of his exploits gets one of boy into trouble he gets himself out in a final way so to speak br br i was perplexed intrigued captivated throughout this movie so it makes me wonder what movie all these others who voted it so low watched for all those wondering umm the fbi was actually that bad in the beginning didn't have tommy guns like the outlaws had were thus at quite a disadvantage whenever they did get into with gang's of that era since everything i saw represented the 30's i felt it was more realistic than many other movies made portraying that era it is in may ways like a train wreck happening you don't want to watch but just have too enjoy
1	the wind and the lion is well written and superbly acted it is a tale that exemplifies the american spirit and the american character this movie is a story from the early 20th century that is strangely relevant to the political landscape of the world in the beginning of the 21st century it is a true classic
1	i thought this movie was good i loved the plot i loved the shoot out scenes except for a few they were not needed and i also enjoyed character she was a rider i liked that i do have to say that in this gangster movie the actors were picked well because sometimes some actors just don't fit the role however though i hate to say it but i hated the ending i felt as if it should have went in a different direction also it would have been better with a little more details its based on a true story but there was so much of the facts left out but other than that it was good if you enjoy movies on the past gangsters you'll enjoy this movie
1	i was given a dvd of public enemies and was expecting it to be the 2009 version but it wasn't it was this sure it wasn't the greatest movie i have ever seen not by any means but heck folks it was worth more that 2 8 out of 10 when i saw that abysmal rating on imdb i wondered what i was going to get but since the disc was in the player i settled down to watch it as other commentators have pointed out public enemies is not a historical movie per se and i noted that unlike the 2009 version which i haven't seen yet imdb doesn't categorise it as such br br come on people it's a story based on some real people that's all if i wanted a history lesson i'd sit at this computer and read wikipedia or something ma barker actual name arizona or barker was never even charged with any crime and as other commentators have already pointed out she probably never even took part in her sons' activities they sent her to the movies when they were working i hope she wasn't as critical as some of those who watched this movie br br theresa russell had the never too easy task of portraying a woman from the age of 17 right through to her death at the age of 52 from a young girl running from home to the hardened mother of four hoodlum sons i think she did it pretty well the cheeky little smile she used in more than one scene was classical ok i will agree with some of the critics that the direction of this film was below par and i sympathise with the actors over that theresa should have told the director to forget the topless shots they didn't contribute to the story maybe some bigger name stars would have managed to inject some of their own expertise into overriding the poor direction whereas the second graders weren't quite that brave who knows br br but whilst this was certainly no block buster it was worth more than 2 8 i have all my dvds on a personal database where i score them before looking at the imdb score although that sometimes influences slight changes later i take what i get on it's own merits rather than holding one movie up against others of the same genre and this one i felt was entertaining enough to get 6 8 yep i'll accept that such a practice does tend to depend on my mood at the time but then isn't that also true of those who vote on imdb however you may imagine my surprise when i looked at imdb and saw the pitiful score it got here br br given the surprise i decided to read a few of the other comments in the hopes of understanding the low rating and i noticed that they are quite polarised i agreed with those who said the movie was worth watching and came to the conclusion that some people are just hard to please well since some were absolutely scathing why don't they get out there and make some better movies i will look forward to the gems they must be able to turn out on the other hand if they can't do that then why don't they just shut up
1	you can't watch this film for a history lesson this was the first i had heard of the ma barker saga but i could tell almost immediately that the facts were way off and with a little internet research i realized i was of course right ma barker sure as hell isn't the sexy calculating woman the movie portrays her as and apparently did not orchestrate all the bank robbing schemes and murders that her criminal boys carried out br br but don't expect a brilliant crime drama the script and the acting are adequate the gunfights are excessive and mostly unrealistic and there is a very laughable slow motion death scene so why did i give it a 7 out of 10 br br because it was damn entertaining the gunfights are fun to watch but there are some deeper themes that emerge between them the movie has a strong sense of ego intimidation among it's cast of alpha males each of whom has his own agenda and i appreciate the minimal use of swears for the period the set pieces are great reproducing a convincing 1930s era br br so watch this film like you would a cult film and take the excessive bloodiness and ruthlessness in stride with the cheesy ultra serious comments from the fbi man who wants to take the barkers down at any cost don't take it too seriously just have fun with it and if you like this you'll love serial mom
1	it is a surprising movie that gets you in your chair waiting for the last minute of the film leaving on your leaps a sweet taste of i want more there are very good actors portuguese actors that have a lot of experience in the world of theater and films it is not a million euros budget film but still we can see the destruction of a car in an excellent perspective that gets you in the movie if you have the opportunity of getting your hands on this excellent film don't wait for another minute just see the film i think that portuguese film are increasing the quality watch out spanish producers the portuguese are getting a high quality standards i saw the film and i'm waiting for more
1	it is fantastic a sick and twisted tale of coincidence and deceit br br the story is meticulously and ingeniously constructed it is really a perfect mixture it has all from suspense to humor and the story is told with lots of originality the film is built up like a puzzle which is assembled piece by piece and resolves the story for the viewer there are plenty of surprises till the end i also had a little impression that the director has been inspired by some hitchcock work i've also seen films before where you see the same event happening from different points of view but this film goes beyond that in this movie everything is built upon what happens to a body that appears and disappears and appears again in a different location every actor in the story has his own secret and we come to realize it in a way that contributes to assembling the puzzle i loved especially the dark humor scenes which made laugh the whole theater this movie is a must see for everyone
1	since frame number 1 you know the good guy in the suit and necktie is he has no luck sorte nula or so he believes with that music on the car radio and the dubious talk by his best friend and company associate who is taking him to parts unknown through a desert road alberto wished simply to be left alone to take a flight abroad next day with… well someone we're left guessing br br the film goes a long way – that'll find short – to a closing scene with the man hearing the same music on a cab to the airport in between a number of lucky people have found different ways out of the story some dying some being born others falling into harrowing distress this time he's really or is he the film is a sort of one man show by director fernando fragata who only left the sound recording and the special effects to other competent people those who typically reject portuguese films due to sound problems and unclear speech recording must go searching for other topics to criticize this time the car crash this isn't spoilers the film is too clever for that makes for a great scene and apparently was done with cheap equipment us studios take notice you may spare a dollar or two by hiding competent portuguese directors br br the rest was done by fragata from the script to the dialogue from camera work to editing if part of the dialogue were ad libbed then he again must be congratulated for the acting direction and the casting with mostly inexperienced actors a large number of non speaking parts are credited but most of those people were used for the music video clip and the making of used extensively in the film's promotional trailer the cast has a dozen actors and actresses of whom ten relevant persons and a huge number of relationships – that are revealed step by step in a thrilling suspenseful way reminiscent of the best genre authors qv and qv do come to mind by the cat and mouse play between the director and his public and the nature of his characters br br i recommend this thriller and comedy to portuguese language speakers and if the film gets to have a decent translation of its colloquial dialogue to anyone abroad who enjoys those genres
1	sorte nula is the 1 box office portuguese movie of 2004 this extreme low budget production estimated usd 150 000 opened during christmas opposite american blockbusters like national treasure polar express the incredibles and alexander but rapidly caught the adulation of the portuguese moviegoers despite the harsh competition the small film did surprisingly well topping all other portuguese films of the past two years in its first weeks the film is a mystery murder with a humorous tone cleverly written and directed by fernando fragata who has become a solid reference in the european independent film arena did i like the film oh yes
1	this is probably one of the best portuguese movies i ever saw i absolutely enjoyed the plot because by the way the story was developing you would get more involved on how their world was really upside down there is just only one part that doesn't really seem to fit in the movie which is the girls' strip it does not add anything important to the story it looks like it's just there for a men entertaining purpose the ending is a bit unexpected though at the same time somewhat expected if you don't understand then follow me after so many strange occurrences the viewer is so used to oddities that ending the movie with totally unexpected relationships like and sounds totally natural after seeing the rest of the movie but most of all sorte nula is a movie that makes you think hard trying to solve the mysterious laugh your head off with their unlucky lives and mess with your perception of what can happen in just a few minutes when you turn your back away from something for all that i rate it 8 10
1	despite its ultra low budget sorte nula is the most successful portuguese film of 2004 and i must say a well deserved success what i love about sorte nula the most is the intricate detail that fernando fragata went to keep you interested as to what is going on and just what will happen next it's very detailed and superbly advanced for a seemingly simple love story gone bad thriller what's even more enjoyable and ironic about this is the fact that the characters are in the same situation not one of them knows the entire story and are left to their own assumptions making sorte nula a cut above the rest this is definitely not a film you want to walk out on for a bathroom break as you will undoubtedly miss something important i feel one of the film's major attributes would have to be the environment that it establishes it's creepy but hilarious at the same time i read somewhere someone quoting this film by saying it's was like watching hitchcock and i couldn't agree more i love movies like that where you have to pay attention to everything in order to fully understand what is going on 9 10
1	yesterday i finally satisfied my curiosity and saw this movie my knowledge of the plot was limited to about 60 seconds of the trailer but i had heard some good critics which caused my expectations to increase br br as i saw the movie those untied pieces had been combined in a story that was becoming quite intriguing with some apparently inexplicable details but in the end everything is disclosed as a simple succession of events of bad luck sorte nula in portuguese above everything i felt that the story made sense and everything fits in it's place properties of a good script br br i must also mention the soundtrack which helps the creation of an amazing environment br br and if you think of the resources fernando fragata used to make this film i believe it will make many hollywood producers envious
1	the portrayal of the marines in this film is spot on the action scenes are some of the best ever produced in accuracy of content the uniforms and weaponry of both the u s and german troops were perfect the costumes and weaponry of the were perfectly accurate as well this film could easily be used to teach of the period and has been used by the usmc academy for this purpose the scenes depicting roosevelt shooting and the rifles he was using was beautiful procuring so many period weapons in such good shape is testament to the attention to detail and presentation this film should be noted for is a genius
1	i consider this film to be a complete masterpiece actually i consider it to be fernando best work and undoubtedly the best of all portuguese movies i don't think you can come across such a zero budget kind of film as impressive and astonishing as this one br br the direction is done with perfection at an incredible fast pace and the music also composed by fragata is mostly excellent the story is creepy and humorous at the same time and it is certainly an advanced study of the old saying misery loves company kind of situations intertwined with a mind boggling mystery a more than perfect recipe to glue the viewers' eyes to the screen from frame one to the last br br it's been called neo hitchcock and i'll agree much like the best hitchcocks it kept me guessing during the entire film and most of my suppositions were far for what ends up being smartly revealed
1	there was a video out in america called that featured about an hours worth of banned cartoons br br most of them were wwii era that's where i first saw and heard of this one br br the rooster during the opening news broadcast turns into a with an asian face saying a doodle doo please ' after that it's eight minutes of propaganda played out like a newsreel br br viscously racist but when you look at it as the piece of history it is it can and should be forgiven br br slicing ration cards to make sandwiches br br showing the ruins of rome while calling 1 ' br br a minesweeper using a broom br br a manned bomb with the pilot saying me out of here ' br br and of course the stereotyping every japanese was drawn with big teeth constantly bowing and saying at the end of every broken sentence br br the funniest bit the air raid siren that was two bowing men stabbing each other in the tush with pins oooo oooooo br br hey aol let this one out it deserves notice my wife laughed at this and she's 100 japanese
1	it is important and only fair to remember that at the time this short was produced a state of war existed between the united states and the empire of japan add to that the enormous ill will that the beginning of the war created as well as the bataan death march and other incidents and the only thing surprising about this short and others is that there weren't more of them one other thing my only problem with this short is that it seems to try to be funny but it isn't i'm not sure that anyone connected with it really tried to make the jokes work or even cared it would have been far better if they had done what disney did with education for death and been totally serious but this short gets a bad rap and shouldn't be judged out of context the times were different then and that is an important consideration anyone expending energy trying to save the world from a sixty year old cartoon needs to take a step back as do i expending energy defending that same cartoon this should be available to interested parties even if not in wide circulation not a nice cartoon but sometimes life isn't nice recommended
1	i viewed linda and it is a top rate movie the lives of paul and his wife linda who he adored as a young man and finally married they meet another married couple jeff and stella and the foursome become very good friends but their friendship takes a twisted turn after vacationing together at beach a twist that never returns the married couples to their former status as friends br br linda is a must see the acting by virginia madsen is acceptable however richard thomas steals the movie with his incredible acting and the emotions that he displays br br a wonderful movie lotta honey
1	i have watched this movie at least ten times i do not agree with the previous comments this is a tongue in cheek movie and some of the acting is meant to be stilted men like paul cowley are few and far between women like linda unfortunately are a dime a dozen the sad thing here is that although similiar relationships like this rarely lead to murder and frame ups it is an all to familiar scenario boy worships girl girl doesn't know he exists they grow up man sees woman he fantasized about down and out and rescues her bottom line she never did love him he came along at the right time and she used him thomas is excellent as the nerdy but adequate paul his portrayal is sensitive and touching madsen is perfect as the femme fatale what really moved me was the final scene paul says he eventually cried but not for linda his wife but for the unknown girl he had watched from a distance so many years ago and longed for and loved and i loved the close up of thomas at the end
1	don't hate heather graham because she's beautiful hate her because she's fun to watch in this movie like the hip clothing and funky surroundings the actors in this flick work well together casey affleck is hysterical and heather graham literally lights up the screen the minor characters goran visnjic sigh and patricia velazquez are as talented as they are gorgeous congratulations miramax director lisa krueger
1	once the slow beginning gets underway the film kicks off and really becomes quite a lot of fun in many unexpected ways the ensemble cast is really good with heather graham perhaps being the weakest of them casey affleck as her brother is really good and extremely likeable if you catch my drift br br i highly recommend the film if you just want to have to good hours teenagers should really enjoy this film it says a lot about relationships
1	it was sad that committed lasted only two weeks in dallas theaters i thought this movie had a lot going for it the script was funny full of subtle emotional shifts and it had a good message the acting was great everyone did a superb job especially with the script's subtleties heather graham not only has beautiful eyes she has expressive eyes for that matter all the actors were attractive why it didn't do well in its theatrical release i don't know other than the studio didn't seem to have much of a push behind it but it deserved to do better and i hope it does well on video it's certainly one of my favorites for the first half of 2000
1	committed is all about graham as an irrepressible optimist who goes in search of her self estranged husband who has gone in search of himself which all leads to a sort of upbeat comedic odyssey involving a bunch of side characters and issues a fresh fun and unpredictable little flick what committed lacks in story it makes up for in good and subtle morals and if you enjoy this little chick flick which received slightly above average reviews by critics and public alike you might want to check out lisa krueger's hit indie manny lo 1996 b
1	br br heather graham is not just a pretty face she is also an extremely talented actress she adds a unique flavour to the movie overall it's an intelligent and yet compassionate look at love marriage and relationships i thoroughly enjoyed it
1	br br average adventure movie that took a serious story and it the watering down effect done particularly towards the average script snatched away this movie's place as a would be solid classic why water down such a great storyline probably because it deals with sensitive colonial subject matters and the producers do not want to create political heat just quick profits thank you the directing cinematography and soundtrack and acting was good the screenplay was average the charm of connery made up for his wrong arabic accent and all the scenes with president t roosevelt were masterpiece takes the costumes sets here was very good too bad we did not get more of a serious historical drama since this is what the story demands only for big fans of the lead actors or fans of exotic romance adventure movies
1	it is depressing that many people don't understand this movie to get caught up in the peripheral elements is to miss the true meaning of this film this film speaks to the minority of people who actually believe in love and truth it points out that in todays society too often people say what sounds good at the moment with no intention of backing things up when things get rough as someone else stated that is evident in the number of divorces some people actually believe marriage is forever forget about stereotypes or anything else but rather focus on what is important following your heart and fighting for who you believe in i liked the ending because it would have been easy to go with a sappy one but came instead with the reality that is great and you should fight with everything you have but sometimes that still isn't enough too often people just give up and forget about the magic of love late
1	this is a truly great and beautiful movie the underlying theme of this movie is the innocent child heather graham as struggling to make her naive wishes for how the world should be make sense while being incessantly beaten down by the real world it's not an unhappy movie though exactly the opposite it's a funny movie with a sad side but just thinking about the movie makes me feel so happy near the beginning of the movie beautiful vulnerable confronts a drug addict attempting to break into her friend's car she reasons with him convinces him to seek help and gives him 30 as a start at the end of the movie he reappears to pay her back explains that he is off drugs doing well and he thanks her i can hear the cynics groaning of course that would never really happen this movie doesn't take place in the real world it takes place in the world we wished we lived in the sad part is realizing we don't live there the happy part is knowing there are people wishing we did
1	in an industry dominated by men and in lack of products with a female mark on it is it always nice to see a film shown from the woman's point of view i would welcome more films from female writers and directors and i think lots of other women with me
1	heather graham married carl luke wilson and about five hundred and some days later carl is very depressed and leaves her expecting to clean the fog' in their lives faces her marriage as an important commitment to the end of her life and decides to look for carl in texas she is very supported by her brother jay casey affleck who meets her in the border of mexico there meets the confused carl and realizes that she can not change his decision while jay knows carmen patricia and starts dating her and in the end life goes on' this movie is very unpredictable having a very different story i believe it is an independent production in some parts it is a little slow and boring but there are certain dialogs that makes this movie worthwhile i liked it and my vote is seven br br title brazil até o rebels until the end' br br
1	i loved this film it has a great heart and great bones i stumbled onto it by chance and i had no recollection not even an inkling of this movie from promos or reviews or word of mouth   i remember reading many years ago a journalist who commented on the value of watching movies without having them contaminated by the pre judgement of reviews or the false shill of the promos this seems to be the single most common source of the critics' negative reaction to the film failed to meet expectations of it being a comedy or a slice of life or character driven  i had no expectation about the film and so it was comedic but i only laughed once or twice without being a comedy it was about a person but so eccentric that it wasn't slice of life it was about a character but the character was so intelligently optimistic and trusting of her instinct to life that it wasn't the angst driven sentimental melodrama so typical of american film as i wrote that i realized that writer director lisa krueger managed to poke fun at this schlock american sentimentality in the husband very cleverly too and kreuger was able to keep the cloyingly sentimental ending from the screen when the wayward husband returned with his tail shrunk between his legs ms krueger bravo   now i will be watching this film again as it is getting better and better as i reflect on it br br graham's performance as is brilliant i loved how subtly but completely she was able to portray and convey intelligent awareness of her commitment to honouring her words and actions she knew that in keeping her word with a band or friends or husband that she was setting herself up to ridicule and or disappointment in a world that was unable to honour commitment as she was able to do but even with that strength she was fully connected to humanity and embraced with a fully committed heart their frailty and failures the character of was amazingly well acted and i left the film surprised that i had no recollection of awards nominations for it okay not that surprised as american awards tend to go to women in roles filled with angst and the proper amount of nudity which this film did not have what it has was far better which was heart in this woman's discovery of herself with the assistance of new friends and a self deprecating shaman br br i admit to being a bit of a soft touch for eccentric characters who manage their peculiarities while remaining honest and true to themselves as they move through the minefield of what comprises 'proper' societal behaviour and interpersonal discourse if people must conform to normality in your world then this film will not be to your liking that was it seems one of the common threads in the critiques br br and i am always a sucker for a good play on words when it raises questions of human behaviour and ethical philosophical values until this movie i hadn't made the emotional connection between being committed to a cause or honesty or something and being committed to an insane asylum at what point does one's commitment to a personal sense of truth and action in life become a one way ticket to insanity this sounds like a simple question or one that is easily dismissed as being rhetorical but is it and yet few of the critics i think maybe two commented on this aspect of the film either directly or indirectly br br a lovely film 8 10 br br  
1	i get the feeling that lisa krueger is easy to overlook i personally found her first film 1996's manny and lo to be a wonderfully detailed character study and the performances were uniformly wonderful with special credit to mary kay place the film played for a week or two in major urban centers and vanished one or two critics really liked it but many viewed it as slight krueger's second film committed was released this year 2000 after nearly two years of delays and it similarly vanished and once again critics dismissed the film as slight and pushed the film aside at most praising heather graham's screen presence but rarely her acting ability and once again for me committed is a solid success i feel as if krueger has a genuine voice and a personal visual style and these are traits that shouldn't be so easily ignored simply because she works on a very restrained br br the title has several meanings but mostly it refers to graham 's refusal to let her husband carl luke wilson flake out and leave her she follows him from new york to el paso and becomes one of the most appealing stalkers in recent cinematic history her respect for her marriage vows leads her to mexican mysticism and self discovery and yep the plot is just that simple and thus just that easy to ignore br br of course is the crying voice of a generation whose parents divorced at a rate nearing fifty percent and for me her personal revolution against broken promises and a legacy of deceit is fairly intelligent and powerful confident in the belief that people just don't have enough faith in each other inevitably has to discover that her beliefs aren't in with those of society at large several comments her have referred to her character as one dimensional and i'm afraid that that's a simplistic reading of the film or perhaps even a misreading if were just an innocent she wouldn't be interesting at all it's the fact that she understands the world and refuses to play by the rules of the normals that makes her so interesting sociologically she's a complete deviant br br krueger sometimes falls into moments of cutesy dialogue and her direction of this film has a rather odd over reliance on shots of clouds moving across the el paso skyline however her mistakes are fairly rare and in this film as in manny and lo it's the performances that carry the day graham has never been better because she's never had a character as perfectly tailored to her as for the first time in her career graham seems comfortable playing an adult even one in slightly arrested development she carries the film perfectly luke wilson and casey affleck as brother both have a number of fine moments as do alfonso as a mexican mystic and mark ruffalo and t bo the slightly psychotic truck driver as in manny and lo the characters are part of their environments well detailed totally organic creations these characters may sometimes seem pointlessly quirky but they make sense in their context even goran visnjic as an artist turned on by devotion fits in in some strange way even though his character's is never discussed br br for me this is a movie that gains depth looking back another commenter here spoke of the stereotypical mexican portrayals and again i'm tempted to call that a misreading is looking for self justification she knows that her commitment is out of control but she's looking for any spiritual avenue that can help her make sense of herself character understands that most people don't believe in him and he plays up his own faith when he sees a woman who respects him br br i guess i can understand how this movie could be viewed as underwhelming i'd simply disagree it's consistently funny frequently hilarious and all of the characters exude a warmth which is quite wonderful br br i'm giving this one a 7 5 10 and when i log in the vote here that'll go up to an 8
1	this movie could be likened to comfort food for the soul anyone who has ever tried and tried to save a relationship could relate to this movie so many parts of it are so hilarious and so many parts are so heartbreakingly true it's not perfect in its production or even its dialog but the story is unique which is saying a lot for modern romantic comedies luke wilson is bland at best but heather graham does an exceptional job in my opinion give it a try despite the trite looking dvd cover the character of brings a lot of issues up in our culture of self service she asks us if commitment is really for the other person or ourselves truly it is ourselves following through on promises anywhere from marriage to an errand for a friend is a great feeling anymore our word is nothing but a shapeshifting puff of smoke is like a wake up call we must be conscious of our words and commitments they mean more than we think at the same time we must not commit to someone who is incapable of doing the same
1	jolene heather graham operates a night club in nyc and lives with her husband carl luke wilson a photographer after about 500 days of marriage jolene comes home to find a note from carl that he needs some space and a bouquet of daisies her favorite flower jo promptly puts the daisies in the blender and presses the button soon after she embarks on a journey to find carl somewhere out west because after all she is committed to carl however when she finally tracks him down in texas jo camps out near his home at first hoping to find clues to his decision to leave she meets a gorgeous sculptor neighbor goran can't spell his name but jo discourages his attraction to her when she learns carl may have a new girlfriend she decides to consult a mexican american mystic alfonso for advice jo is committed but does that mean anything to carl this is a very imaginative quite humorous look at the marriage vow it's quirky script and offbeat style is downright infectious graham is just great as the jilted woman who is having a hard time letting go wilson does not give his best performance but is adequate as the mixed up husband the rest of the cast is quite nice however with goran the gorgeous one wonderful as the sexy neighbor the scenery both in new york and in texas is very lovely and the costumes are fresh and fun if you like romantic comedies and independent films this one is made to order for you it walks to a different beat that is most attractive but still delivers in the ultimate happy ending category
1	heather graham sets out after her husband carl luke wilson who disappeared to clear his head about himself and their marriage who is committed to their marriage starts her journey to find carl yet on the way discovers a lot about herself on her trip she encounters a bountiful of interesting characters who unknowingly help her find her way br br in my eyes this is a classical road movie which moves just at the right pace some viewers may find it too slow throughout the movie it keeps its humorous note while responds to the craziness of the world around her with a warm knowing sometimes sad smile all actresses and actors give wonderful performances and the musical score is immaculate 9 10
1	some people drift through life moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye others latch on to a cause another person or a principle and remain adamant committed to whatever it is and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it but we're all different made of different clay ' as one of the characters in this film puts it which is what makes life so interesting some people are just plain crazy though and maybe that's the way you have to be to live among the masses who knows who knows what it takes to make things life work writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed and how one committed and obsession in committed ' starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant committed obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy too her name is and this is her story br br admittedly has always been a committed person in work relationships in life in general she's a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what and when she marries carl luke wilson it's forever the only problem is someone forgot to tell carl and days into the marriage he's gone off to himself and figure it all out when realizes he's not coming back she refuses to give up on him or their marriage maybe it's because of that she's made of regardless she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him which she does in el paso texas of all places but once she knows where he is she keeps her distance giving him his space' and not even letting him know she's there she considers carl as being in a spiritual coma ' and it's her job to keep a spiritual over him until he comes to his senses and while she watches and waits her life is anything but dull as she encounters a young woman named carmen patricia velazquez a waitress at one of the local ' alfonso who is something of a mystic t bo mark ruffalo a truck driver who has issues concerning carl and neil goran visnjic an artist who makes and takes a fancy to her for it's a journey of discovery during which she learns a lot about carl but even more about herself br br there's a touch of humor a touch of romance and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot and krueger presents it all extremely well delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining her characters are very real people with all the wants needs and imperfections that make up the human condition a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story we see it from point of view as krueger makes us privy to thoughts and therefore her motivations which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold that along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates makes for a very effective piece of storytelling there's an underlying seriousness to this subject matter but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that encounters and the result is a well textured affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life br br heather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make a character totally of her own creation she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person and one that is real and for this film to work it was imperative that be viable and believable and graham succeeds on all fronts her screen presence has never been more alluring and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes is enough to draw you in entirely it's all a part of the character she creates there's an appeal to that exudes from her entire countenance who she is inside and out she's a likable agreeable person and because you've shared her innermost thoughts you know who she is it's a good job all the way around beginning with the way the character was written to the way graham brings her so to life br br as carmen patricia velazquez is totally engaging as well her performance is very natural and straightforward and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character she has a charismatic presence but is less than flamboyant and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth she is refreshingly open and up front you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back but is totally honest on all fronts and that too is part of her appeal and as with this character is well written and velazquez brings her convincingly to life br br overall there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film including those of luke wilson casey affleck as brother jay goran visnjic alfonso and especially mark ruffalo as t bo who with very little actual screen time manages to create a memorable character br br the supporting cast includes kim dickens jenny clea du vall mimi summer phoenix meg art new york car thief dylan baker carl's editor and mary kay place psychiatrist a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture reflecting upon who we are where we're going and what we really need is an enjoyable experience a ride definitely worth taking 8 10
1	in a morocco completely invaded by europeans and americans in the beginning of the twentieth century the moroccan leader mohammed el the magnificent sean connery kidnaps the american eden candice bergen her son and her daughter his intention is to get some money and rifles as ransom for them to fight against the corrupt sultan of marc in times of election the american president theodore roosevelt brian keith agrees with the proposal however is betrayed and eden helps him to be released from the prison with the american soldiers i do not like films about explicit colonialism and lack of respect to the sovereignty of other countries but the lion and the wind' is indeed a great adventure the action scenes are very realistic candice bergen the most beautiful american actress in the is wonderful performing an abducted woman like in the remarkable movie soldier sean connery is perfect as usual as an honest and nationalist religious leader brian keith is great as the american president i do not know much about the morocco history to analyze whether there is any truth in this story but this movie is a worthwhile entertainment in brazil it is only available on vhs my vote is eight br br title brazil o vento e o the lion and the wind' br br
1	i admire deepa mehta and this movie is a masterpiece i'd recommend to buy this movie on dvd because it's a movie you might want to watch more often than just once and trust me you'd still find little meaningful details after watching it several times br br the characters except for the grandmother perhaps are all very balanced no black and white even though you follow the story from the perspective of the two protagonists there is also empathy for the other characters br br i think the imdb rating for the movie is far too low probably due to its politically controversial content
1	are very good movie she happen on a mental home in iceland e is in a leading role and is good other good actors in this movie are and i like this movie she is very good i voice with this movie
1	this film is based on a true story the author of the novel bearing the same title had a brother who turned mentally ill i found this film very moving following the main character's path down into illness to see how he tries to cope with life after diagnosis and how he makes friends at the mental institution it all is very convincing there are quite a few splendidly funny incidents also in the manuscript the title of it gives nothing away concerning the story you must watch it to understand and listen to the music which is twisting and turning your heart and soul upside down and back as the film moves on a must see for everyone
1	this movie is great best acting i have ever seen in my life e is the best icelandic actor and of course hilmir snær and great music and sound cold hard reality about a struggle of a man that has a lot of problems and the people in his life black humor mixed with great acting and this european art movies style it works it comes together in a the best icelandic movie ever made i say to you see this film you will not regret it i gave it 9 stars if you see one icelandic film in your life see this one
1	this movie is stunningly free from storytelling it's a pure experience where the music overshadow the visual impression words cannot of course enough express what should be expressed but it is the requirement of the chattering classes that chatter is put forward entered into production lines of mediocrity and therefore a necessity in order to express any sensible thought or opinion about something which should not need to be degraded by chatter therefore these elaborate opinions are put forward to satisfy those empty minds which need to be filled by noise that you will not find however hard you try in this movie
1	if this film doesn't at least be selected for an oscar nominee for best foreign film i'm going to stop waking at nights watching the event fridrik thor fridriksson has proven that money isn't the key to making a good movie but originality out of a cold country comes a warm but thought provoking film of a mentally ill man and his struggle against an insane world after an insight like this you question whether or not the man is crazy or the world he lives in
1	the movie angels of the universe is a pure masterpiece and it proves once again that you can make a brilliant movie on a low budget e g american beauty and blair witch project the director fridrik fridriksson gives the novel a new life on the white screen the movie is a breakthrough in icelandic film making because it's the biggest and the greatest movie that has been done in iceland br br the music in the film played by is very symbolic for the film it is absolutely brilliant i recommend everybody who are able to think to go and see this film as soon as possible you won't be disappointed i would bet on this film to win the best foreign film award next year – all over the globe
1	this film very succeed in the film festival in vary czech rep logically it' s based on a very good book excellent actors good camera the best director and icelandic it was probably the most black comedy i've seen br br i really do recommend it to you
1	this film by director of children of nature is powerful it has great music by and good acting it shows how sad insanity as a disease can be there are many good jokes but the humor is dark if that is not a problem then you should see this film note though this is not a comedy but a drama
1	having a close experience with one such patient is probably the best reason why i had my heart rushing throughout the entire film intense sensible moral and revealing and don't forget to check out the marvellous sound track really good
1	the movie is about paul a young man who sinks into the harsh world of insanity and his stay at the mental hospital and his friends victor viktor who during his education in england started to think he was adolf hitler peter who took to much lsd and tried to fly of a roof top the fall left no broken bones or physical damage only insanity he is with china beatle has spent most time at the hospital although viktor is slightly older then him he claims he wrote every single beatles song and send it to them by telepathy br br the novel is better then the movie and covers all of pauls life from birth to his death there is a long time since i saw the movie but if i remember it right the movie doesn't cover pauls childhood br br is funny sad and powerful if you haven't seen it watch it now and read the novel first it makes the movie better
1	i just cannot emphasize enough what a lovely movie this is just br br the memory of this movie right now enchants me if you want to br br see a sweeping epic of a movie with wonderful actors in vivid br br scenery with great dialogue reminding you of what early america br br could have been like what the world could have been like back br br then well i highly recommend this movie especially during a br br time of war and conflict in iraq when our american image is not at br br all what it used to be this movie takes you back to a time when we br br were just starting out when being an american meant really br br picking yourself up by your bootstraps and getting going when br br the world was such an untamed and unknown place well this br br movie has that and more enjoy
1	this movie i've seen many times i read the book which was written by who received the scandinavian book awards for the work the movie does not start on the same place as the book starts it happens in and the main character is young and having a good life with his girlfriend but as she breaks up the relationship with him he starts to get some headaches which make him annoyed and angry and soon he starts to have big mental problems and then the movie begins soon he is in the icelandic mental hospital called and there you get to see some great characters like viktor who thinks he is hitler and who thinks that he writes all the the beatles songs and sends them to them with mind transporting e who has the role of the main character does is so work so well that it leaves you breathless also the music in this movie is mad by and just for the music's cost you should see the movie overall a great movie meant to be seen
1	first at all if you like watching movies i recommend you not to watch this one why afterwards you won't appreciate any other movie so easily anymore br br actually i don't wanna give rise to any excessive expectations but it is almost frightening how perfect intense and beautiful this work of is when in most movies there is at least one aspect spoiling the whole thing like good actors but horrible dialogs or a nice scenery but low budget cinematography – in of the universe there is nothing of this ambivalence really everything is just great even and not least the soundtrack with the magnificent sigur br br in this story about pall a student that goes schizophrenic after being dumped by his girlfriend especially the dialogs and monologues deserve some attention together with and sometimes in sharp contrast to the plot they range from depressing and fatalistic to the whole opposite of comical and totally absurd what is more they are often with quotes from hegel and shakespeare of such a poetic beauty that the movie almost drifts into a surreal sphere and is only saved to the real world by its incredibly authentic actors br br one of the other comments was already referring to another point this movie is no trivial entertainment for relaxing in the evening despite of several comical reliefs in between it is largely disturbing partly cynical and bitter and most of all sad it is a modern poetry about a life of insanity with all its emptiness rage and solitude br br finally when you've seen the movie – watch it again there are some great visual metaphors and allusions in it that you realize only when you look twice and connect them with the of the story and of course read the book it contains a lot more of the small funny stories in between and also makes you understand some things in the movie a bit better
1	reading the other comments here at the imdb i had very high expectations before seeing of the i wasn't disappointed and giving the movie an 8 i would say that i can justify that grade br br the movie has some incredible acting especially by the main person pall the supporting actors are also doing a very good job like the patients in the mental institution the parents and the siblings of pall the music is also worth mentioning supporting the movie throughout giving depth and feeling br br although the movie is very scandinavian it doesn't leave out some humour and has a sort of objective authorship about life still if you want to see a cheesy comedy or something light weight this is not for you it is a story about people with mental problems about the way they are being dealt with in society but most of all a story about pall br br i recommend this movie to all movie connoisseurs it is one of the best movies that has ever come out of iceland if not out of scandinavia
1	it is the best film i have seen in the last 5 years surely it will be in the same row with such masterpieces as the platoon apocalypse now the doors the dog's heart russian film really the play of the boy and his parents is so good that you can't even say that they play no they live as if it was happening to them notice the smile on there faces when the main hero agrees to go for a walk with them the hate and love in one piece and the final scene br br really i'm still under impression of that film it's very hard even impossible to combine the humor and the tragedy but if you succeed and did the impact would be twice strong br br i compared it with one flew over the cuckoo's nest i like this film either and the novel itself is good too but after movie it seems simple the same difference i noticed after i watched the film american history x and romper the latter is deeper i mean milos forman only showed the material point of view of the problem you watch it then you say yes it's a good film i like him i don't like her and that's it but angels leave you a wide base to think there are no bad and good boys in the film cause each of them have the right to behave in the way they do like the girlfriend of one of the patient of course she's young and is pregnant and that is a problem for her that his husband is in the clinic but the feelings and emotional experience of her are even stronger the result is his suicide why ask him what have he done aren't you insane yourself to ask why do not support him help him understand him finally it is even funny when those people talk to each other they say genius things there are a lot of things i would like to say about this film but i'm not so good in english but i'm sure those of you who have watched the movie understand me br br good luck br br
1	as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies it's such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world i can only hope that people watch this by accident by recommendation or other br br because it's really worth while i left the cinema feeling really sad i couldn't get the tragic destiny's of the characters out of my head and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film not only was it a tragic story it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack br br if you have the opportunity watch it it's really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot br br
1	this is an important historical film since it was the the first all talking feature film br br the film was made for a mere 23 000 dollars br br it grossed over a million dollars upon its release br br this film all so helped define the gangster melodramas that were to become the bread and butter of the warner's studio in the 1930's br br the popularity of this film ended the silent era more so than its more famous part talkie predecessor the jazz singer the film deserves its place in history and not as a mere footnote br br the only actor who might be remember today that is in it was eugene palette
1	lights of new york originally started out as an experimental two reel vitaphone short that eventually into the first all talkie feature film was supposedly one of the most beautiful actresses in hollywood and sister to in my opinion the real beauty dolores costello who seemed to get all the breaks poor is best known for appearing in this pretty dreary film that bought a revolution to hollywood br br two bootleggers on the lam in main street convince a couple of small town barbers to try their luck on broadway the barbers eddie cullen landis and gene eugene palette don't realise that their barber shop is soon a cover for illegal bootlegging activities they soon do realise it and regret the day they left their small town the only thing keeping them going is the loan that eddie's mother gave them and that they desperately want to pay back eddie becomes re acquainted with kitty lewis costello a girl from his home town who has made good on broadway kitty is worried about hawk miller wheeler who is always hanging around her but eddie innocently thinks she is exaggerating as hawk already has a girlfriend molly gladys but to reassure her he gives her a little handgun to frighten unwanted admirers away hawk who has killed a police officer and has the feds closing in decides to frame eddie meanwhile molly is getting pretty fed up with hawks treatment of her and after a showdown where he tells her he is after a chicken and not an old hen the stage is set for murder br br the fact is it isn't completely awful apart from gangsters and showgirls alike speaking in their best elocution voices and that was still happening in films in 1930 gladys if a trifle melodramatic and eugene palette quite natural were okay and were the most seasoned actors in the cast there was no john or ethel barrymore to be seen cullen landis and costello soon returned to the obscurity from which they had come i also didn't notice much of the hidden mike where people had to be grouped around different objects ie a telephone or sitting on a couch before they could engage in conversation people who saw it at the cinema probably started to think that all policeman talked in that flat monotone as that trend continued in many early talkies ie little caesar 1930 in any case they were probably intrigued by the novelty of a completely all talkie with some singing and dancing film in 1928 br br recommended
1	lights of new york was the first all talking feature film there had been of course the jazz singer released in oct 1927 as the first feature film incorporating synchronized dialog however this film released in july 1928 is virtually unremembered for its place in film history it had started out as a short but gradually more was tacked on until clocking in at 58 minutes it accidentally became the first all talking feature film it opened to a grind house run and to warner bros surprise made over a million dollars that was good money back in 1928 br br the plot is quite simple two country barbers naively buy into a barber shop on broadway that fronts as a speak easy for the hawk a gangster when they learn the truth they can't afford to get out because the younger barber eddie has all of his mother's money tied up in the place kitty is the younger girlfriend and gangster hawk wheeler has an eye for turning in his older girlfriend gladys for a newer model chorus girl kitty costello a cop is killed while trying to stop the hawk's men from unloading a shipment of bootleg liquor and the hawk sees it as an opportunity to frame eddie thus getting kitty for himself br br this early talkie is loads of fun for the enthusiast of these pioneering works sure the plot is elementary and the dialog stilted but there is something you don't see much of in early talkies background musical scoring vitaphone had originally been used for this very purpose and here they are still using it for musical accompaniment along with the dialog and there are singing and dancing numbers the scenes in hawk's nightclub are used as an opportunity to show off what films could never do before musical numbers there is even a wild eyed emcee with some heavy makeup left over from the silent era that is a hoot to watch br br vitaphone could not go outdoors at this point due to the static camera so the scene in the park between the two lovers eddie and kitty is simulated and cheaply the greenery looks like something out of an ed wood movie or perhaps a high school production of our town br br gladys as the hawk's girlfriend delivers her lines with punch she's a real trooper considering what lines she has to deliver to the hawk so you think you can have any chicken you want and throw me back in the deck huh mixed metaphors anyone and then there are her final lines i've lived and i've loved and i've lost did someone get paid to write this dialog was making a good success of her talkie career after scoring some triumphs in silent films the evil sister in seventh heaven when a fatal car accident cut her career short br br then there is eugene palette the older of the two barbers in our story his frog voice natural delivery of lines and cuddly appearance gave him a long career as a character actor usually appearing as a put upon family man businessman with a gruff exterior and heart of gold in fact mr palette is the only member of this cast who still has a notable career in films just three years after this movie is released br br finally there is the question of where is that microphone hidden microphones were still stationary at this point and it's fun to figure out where they've hidden it there is one famous scene though where everybody can pretty much figure it out hawk is in his office talking to his two henchman who seem to comprehend as slowly as they talk about taking eddie for a ride if you watch this scene you'd swear the phone on the desk is a character in this film it's front and center during the whole conversation the microphone is likely planted in the phone br br there is something heroic about these pioneers flying blind in the face of the new technology of sound you have silent actors who are accustomed to using pantomime for expression vaudevillians who know how to play to a live audience but don't know how to make the same impression on a vitaphone camera booth and you have dialog writers either trying to write conversation as as they did title cards or filling up films with endless chatter br br check this one out it is not boring moves fast and is loads of fun if you know what to look for and no i don't expect this one to ever be out on blu ray but i hope that the folks at warner brothers add it to the warner archive soon so everyone can see it
1	lights of new york was the first all taking feature film coming in at a brisk 57 minutes and directed by bryan foy of the famous vaudeville family br br the story has two dopey barbers cullen landis eugene palette yearning for a chance at big city life and getting involved with gangsters and bootleg booze one of the guys gets framed for the murder of a cop but is saved at the last minute by a gun moll gladys br br much of the story takes place in a night club called the night hawk which is run by a crook named hawk wheeler who has his eye on a pretty costello who is the girl friend of landis costello gets to do a brief dance and we hear harry downing made up to resemble ted lewis sing at dawning in his best al jolson style br br the acting ranges from good palette and to awful a couple of the actors muff their lines but then keep right on with the scene as noted elsewhere this was intended to be a short 2 reeler and was made on a shoestring budget yet the sound quality is surprisingly good the voices all register clearly and there is a neat cinematic touch in the silhouette death br br the film was a box office smash even though it was shown as a silent film where theaters were not wired for the new sound technology no one expected this little film to gross an amazing 1 3 million it briefly made stars of costello and landis and certainly launched palette on his long career as a star character actor br br co stars include mary carr as the mother robert elliott as the detective eddie kane as the street cop and tom dugan as a thug
1	fascinating and amusingly bad lights of new york is the first all talkie feature and one that almost never saw the light of day br br two naive barbers eddie and gene from out of town get involved with bootleggers and end up a speak when a cop is shot by one of the bootleggers the police start to close in and the hawk who shot the officer decides to pin the murder on eddie instructing his henchman to take him for a ride but it's the hawk himself who takes the bullet in a twist that will surprise few br br shot in one week at a cost of 23 000 lights was originally meant as a two reeler but foy took advantage of jack warner's absence to extend it to six when warner discovered this he ordered foy to cut it back to the original short only when an independent offered for the film did warners actually look at the film which went on to make a staggering 1 3 million br br seen now this is an extremely hokey piece with acting that ranges from the passable eugene pallette to trance like eddie's granny in a particularly risible scene and much of the playing is at the level of vaudeville since it's an early talkie 4 part talkies preceded it that's about all the characters do and very slowly at that the script feels improvised visual style is non existent apart from the shooting scene done in silhouette and scenes grind on interminably title cards are intercut which redundantly announce characters and locales br br despite all this lights is a compelling experience as we watch actors and crew struggling with the alien technology and changing cinema for ever br br catch it if you can
1	got back from morocco then where my dad was attached to the german embassy when the film came out in europe took all my girlfriends to see it show them the beauty of the country where jimi had played and stayed where the hippies stopped after leaving ibiza and before joining goa sean combs just celebrated at a friends restaurant in recently the el was much wilder in those days than it is now the stones went there earlier brian recorded in so it's memories and family entertainment and i'm glad my son will get to know about the north of africa watching this movie candice bergen looks beautiful and connery is pretty funny indeed and teddy roosevelt as played by brian keith quite impressive
1	take away all parts of the movie that were present day and stick to the flashbacks then you would have had a great story faith and wolf's story and their relationship was the best part diaz and eccleston were wonderful brewster was ponderous to sit through surprised to see blythe danner as mom she was great also look for patrick bergen as the father always like him sleeping with the enemy this is a very hippy save the world kind of film don't care for it much but i recommend seeing it for diaz's performance alone she has excellent range and it should be used more eccleston is as always compelling he's wonderful
1	i must say that this movie had a great cast locations music and camera work cameron diaz was great she had a very exciting roll very while jordana brewster had a serious roll yet still capturing one for me very nostalgic she reminds of a female classmate of mine what realy got me in this movie were the very skillfully planned camera work and the choosing of the locations the story is very written it is a must see one the one's who are into mystery movies should watch this one i guarantee you all that it'll keep you in your seats till the end
1	well i am the target market i loved it furthermore my husband also a boomer with strong memories of the '60s liked it a lot too i haven't read the book so i went into it neutral i was very pleasantly surprised it's now on our highly recommended video list br br
1	an interesting movie with jordana brewster as a young woman who travels to europe in an attempt to find out what became of her older sister cameron diaz who mysteriously died years earlier brewster is very good and keeps you involved despite some unrealistic plotting such as having her find and start a romance with her dead sister's much older boyfriend christopher eccleston still mostly good grade b
1	serendipity i thought i was off to a bad start bringing home the wrong dvd in the case of the intruder rental staff so i did not want to see this film but i am glad i did in all my chosen movie would not have been as superb a slice film as this delectable and delicate taste of what in both us and europe can do together seven years apart two heroine sisters embark on fantastic journeys through early 1970's post student demo europe sumptuously shot in the portugal and in berlin paris and amsterdam reminiscent of the feel of the exterior shots in paul verhoeven's early masterpiece the fourth man it's touchingly acted by brewster diaz and especially christopher ecclestone the story unveils itself along an abstracted plot capturing the ephemeral emotions of these characters as they confront their relationships and see idealised images of each other and themselves shattered a movie with great refinement and taste not for arnie commando fans which is probably why the reviewer upstairs is so wide of the mark in 'his' claims that this is a girly film daft criteria wrong too well worth experimenting with
1	as a father of four in his forties i thought this film made compelling viewing if not edge of the seat stuff i deserves a far higher rating than the 4 3 that it had when i wrote this i gave it 7 br br i agree with some of the comments about the characters but cameron diaz was again sparkling in yet another very different role the plot was a little silly but the point of the film for me was beautifully summed up in the final quite surreal sequence a moving ending for any parent br br i could imagine that a young single bloke might find the film quite boring but for other people not fixed on high doses of testosterone would find something sweet in this
1	i loved it i had just sat through half of the glass house turned it off god what a morass of predictable plot and bad acting and then i saw this movie i thought it was terrific loved both cameron diaz and jordana brewster in it i liked the escapism of the whole setting the traveling around europe in the 60's thing yet they made it more realistic by showing the dark side and all of the bad things that could happen it held my attention completely even if i did think that parts were unbelievable
1	i must admit this is one of cameron diaz's unheard of films and i was also surprised that she had an important role but she was not the lead i was very touched by it as i really can identify the pain of the loss of a loved one as i have experienced it from close quarters br br both camilla belle and jordana brewster were really good in their portrayal of the protagonist phoebe and i must also hand it to the casting people for finding two actresses who look so alike that i really thought they were sisters in real life this is one of those movies cameron did for the sake of acting and not for star billing she looked the part of the gorgeous rebellious hippie who wants to change the world though sometimes she comes off as a rebel without a cause br br coming from a dysfunctional family where her only source of strength being her big sister faith little girl phoebe is understandably very upset when faith leaves for europe as she grows up she goes off in search of her sister and gradually gets disillusioned by the truth about her sister and falls for her sister's boyfriend br br great story and equally great location shooting around european i will watch it again
1	one way or the other you can't get away from the basic message the strong survive those who are psychically or emotionally sensitive leave they leave a hole behind in the lives of those who love them a hole that is seen in it's finality as selfish that's what phoebe realizes in the end just prior to helping wolf heal from his self blame she can accept closure to the missing of her sister beautiful european scenery a lot of truth in it about idealism and addiction to the next big moment for a moment i thought of the gang who was around in the early 70s i liked this movie as it reflected a time when i came of age myself
1	if i look hard enough flaws can be found in this film primarily with the script i found the character of wolf not totally convincing however those were my only complaints because when this movie started on cable i was just going to record it and watch it later however from the beginning with the eerie music and cameron diaz doing her spaced out 60's dance i was riveted i never got up until the movie was over it seemed like i never even blinked br br the acting of cameron diaz and jordana brewster was excellent the scenes were beautiful the girls were beautiful and the music was haunting and very touching the story was quite unique and at times had a surreal quality the viewer would tend to like the picture more if they had a good understanding of the state of mind of young people in the 60's and 70's especially in america many of the scenes basically succeeded in showing something of that era that is hard to pin down it was a bit more complicated than the simplistic statement that they wanted to change the world and ended up disillusioned although that may be the most obvious aspect phoebe learns more and more about this as the movie progresses br br one aspect that didn't seem to be covered by the other reviewers that might bear mentioning is the way the two daughters seem to drift through life after the death of their father they both had adored him and his presence had been a factor in their lives and obviously he had loved them dearly we read so much today about boys who lose their fathers too soon only to lose their way themselves this film covers the ripple effect of the loss of the father on the daughters left behind first on the older sister faith then on to her younger sister their mother feels inadequate to try to be both parents this type of dynamic is not covered in hardly any other movies especially in so many different layers of plot and subplot inner struggles of reality versus perceptions are gradually peeled away like layers of an onion br br speaking of plot this movie should rate higher than it has here i kept waiting for some great conspiracy to be found out concerning the death of faith how it did resolve itself surprised me even if others may have guessed much sooner br br maybe not for everybody but i could watch this movie many many times
1	now you guys i loved this film though not quite as much as farewell to the king another beloved john milius epic it was fun a lot more than if it were based on a tennessee williams drama it's a great yarn with a whiff of political correctness i love this film for its beautiful photography its humor and its criticism of the bad guys and the real bad guys the spear carriers for the world with their repeating rifles artillery and large gunboats out there in the harbor br br the standout scene is the berber with blue gray smoke from the cooking fires rising into the chill desert air it is visually eloquent highly evocative br br set in 1904 morocco wind features a helpless american woman candace bergen who is taken hostage by a dashing albeit immodest berber bandit sean connery the very model scottish muslim nomad the exciting story is based on a few historical facts the photography is milius beautiful punctuated by jerry goldsmith's outstanding score br br mrs and the conduct protracted foreplay and bounce around in the desert between even though the proudly traces his lineage back to the apes he is a perfect gentleman he even lets her keep her head after she beats him at chess a marine detachment storms the palace putting out the fires of competing with gasoline don't mess with the corps abdul br br there are many entertaining stereotypes br br despicable sultan resembles a dissipated ferret definitely not a liberal br br cruel german officer a large bellicose dachshund sporting a monocle he chooses to fight the with swords instead of gunning him down in the manner of indiana jones oblige by way of von br br dashing marine officer kicks the crap out of the of army and storms his palace while chewing tobacco his speech is mildly the begged him not to breathe on him br br the a horde of sycophants led by a charming megalomaniac none of them take baths except perhaps in camel urine br br president teddy roosevelt is undeservedly portrayed as vacuous and preoccupied with guns toys and stuffed grizzly bears br br beautiful american widow gives the men a lesson in courage as do her two children she evidently has a huge supply of clean starched clothes and rarely has a hair out of place br br the sends teddy roosevelt a message thanking him for the gift of a remington repeating rifle declaring br br roosevelt you are the lion and am the breaking wind br br how true br br please do not take my acerbic remarks to mean that i did not like the film i had almost as much fun writing this as watching da pitcher
1	it is 1969 phoebe camilla belle is an 11 year old girl growing up with an idealized vision of her 19 year old sister faith cameron diaz faith is the doer the truth seeker the fixer of all the wrongs in the world then one day phoebe and her mother gail blythe danner receive word that faith is dead faith has killed herself both phoebe and gail are overwhelmed by this news and although saddened gail mourns phoebe can't let it go phoebe decides to go to europe and find out what happened br br it is now 1977 phoebe jordana brewster is 18 and decides to go to europe over the objections of her mother to discover the truth when alive faith was inseparable from a man she called wolf christopher eccleston though wolf claimed not to know anything about faith's last days phoebe convinces him to tell her everything within days wolf realizes that he hadn't let go of the past either and he joins phoebe on her pilgrimage to portugal br br in the end wolf is able to tell of faith's decent into drug abuse and his own guilt at not preventing the suicide although angry phoebe realizes in the end how human and fragile faith really was br br i liked this movie i'm old enough to remember the bank robberies of the red army and i was 10 in 1969 this story was familiar ground for me i can still remember young men trying to decide if they should go to canada or not to avoid the draft br br the story is simple but probably occurred several times in real life during that period camilla belle was enjoyable and fun to watch as she portrayed the young adoring sister excited by what was happening around her jordana brewster slid easily into the role of the older phoebe blythe danner was the ever supportive mother a role she is all too familiar with on american tv unfortunately i would have liked to see her with stronger material to work with cameron diaz played the immature anarchist perfectly though at times her performance of a 1960s activist seemed to come off a news reel of all the characters it was christopher eccleston's wolf that made the most growth when we are introduced to the character at the beginning of the movie we can see he is a worldly man he is a patient and kind man filled with anger at the world's injustices in the end he realizes the direction he and faith are headed is wrong and begins to grow up deciding he should fight against injustice in his own way faith refuses to join him in this and it eventually leads to her death eccleston's wolf is the most real of all the characters br br i recommend this movie it was enjoyable and thought provoking the invisible circus is rated tv ma but there is very little cursing sex or violence in it the subject of the movie is the reason for the rating
1	i caught this on late late mexican cable and i have to rant about it the title was translated as secrets well there's a secret that has an important part in the movie but come on we are not stupid we know there's a novel behind this br br anyways the movie is pretty interesting and it's carried by it's solid performances the always beautiful and stunning jordana brewster and christopher eccleston deliver great performances and have such great chemistry between them cameron is also good although she has minimal on screen time blythe danner is perfect and his last appearance in the movie is touching sad great performances br br character and her sister's ex boyfriend travel to europe in order for her to deal with his demons and understand why her sister died through flashbacks we learn the sad truth and we can't help but feel sorry for the whole family the ending is truly moving br br so there's nudity but it's minimal in fact the sex scenes are artsy and do not intend to be steamy or sexy br br to be honest i kept watching it for brewster's on screen charming and beauty and i ended up liking the story and the dramatic presentations br br give this movie a try if you like solid dramatic features great movie the last last scene was very sad the two little sisters through flashbacks
1	i've seen this film three times and each time i appreciate it more i think jordana brewster should have received an emmy nomination for her real and natural performance many of us who were age at this time the story takes place will understand how real it is life for most of us is neither softly glowing romantic or harshly cynical pessimism it is a blurred balance and this film captures this balance it is well constructed too with so many fine details in its composition like the film or not judging from the extraordinarily high ratings it gets from the demographic of females under 18 we can know that this movie reveals some important truth about how young women see themselves in the world
1	the plot of this film is not complicated a very attractive young girl goes to europe in search of the reasons for her older sister's suicide ten years earlier there she meets up with her sister's former boyfriend and together they travel to all the places her sister went and gradually the reasons become clear br br but what makes this film so special and soar above the limited plot are the beautiful portrayals of the characters although the older sister's boyfriend is a drop out hippie he has noble ideals moral standards and incredible strengths and although the older sister who we see in flashbacks shares these ideals she doesn't have a sense of limitation or balance of how much is too much and although the younger girl is fiercely loyal to her sister's memory she gradually finds the strength to face the fact that her sister was only a normal girl after all br br the most special moment in the film is when the young girl and the sister's boyfriend finally stop fighting their attraction to each other i can't recall ever seeing more beautiful touching romantic tenderness in lovemaking in a film br br in all these ways this is a truly beautiful film a film to be treasured and to be seen again and again 9 out of 10
1	so it isn't an epic but for people experiencing anything similar br br sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy an br br imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br br spent for some reason it hasn't really caught on in the audience br br something i do believe is a result of the main theme why did she br br commit suicide clearly this is hardly something that us br br moviegoers will flock to had it been an european production it br br probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br br extent it is however a movie that although the realism tainted by a br br shimmering romanticized glow gives the viewer a whole hearted br br impression
1	i cannot for the life of me understand why the rating here for this movie is so low this was one of the most beautiful films i have seen this year it really struck a chord with me i had been anticipating this film for several months and i thought to myself there's no way it can possibly live up to the expectations i had for it seeing as how i built it up in my head as much as i did well needless to say not only did it meet my expectations but it far surpassed them jordana brewster and cameron diaz were excellent in every way their acting superb by far they were both in their element and completely natural for the roles the locales were absolutely gorgeous every shot filmed was perfectly captured and fit the mood and atmosphere beautifully i found this film very touching and took it very close to heart i would even contemplate saying this could be one of my all time favorites at the very least certainly i could see it again and again br br i swear i couldn't find one fault in this film it's hard to say that about any film i would highly recommend this one it's touching it's meaningful and it says a lot about human nature and family br br 10 out of 10 well done by all
1	jennifer novel was brought to the screen by canadian director adam brooks in a film that based on some comments from contributors to this forum sounds a bad proposition but in fact it's much better than one is led to believe br br this is a story about two sisters who loved one another dearly faith the fair headed and happy go lucky hippie girl takes her younger sibling phoebe under her wing phoebe plainly loves faith when the older one decides to follow her boyfriend wolf to europe on a summer vacation from berkley she promises she will send phoebe a post card every day faith does that until the cards stop coming in and one night some time later the family receives a phone call to inform them faith has died under tragic circumstances br br phoebe can't forget faith that is why after some years pass by she decides to take the same route the older sister took she takes the cards from faith and visits each place starting in amsterdam then moving on to paris and she wants to end up the trip in portugal where faith encountered her untimely death br br in paris phoebe hooks up with wolf who by now is not a hippie anymore and is living with his girlfriend wolf tries to persuade phoebe into abandoning her trip and to go back home she suspects that wolf holds the key into solving the mystery and as she is going to depart for portugal she makes a discovery when she finds a picture that clearly contradicts wolf's version he has told phoebe he feels guilty and against his girlfriend's wishes decides to accompany phoebe to the town where faith died the story changes at this point and we go back in flashbacks to what faith experienced in europe and what happened in her final days br br the best thing in the invisible circus are the performances of the principals something that mr brooks has to take the credit for the big surprise is the range of cameron diaz who as faith seems to select light comedy parts when she is quite able to do good dramatic work under the right director jordana brewster is seen as the older phoebe and makes a wonderful contribution to the film she is a stunning beauty with what seems to be a naturalness for acting christopher eccleston is wolf and shows he also is capable of doing more serious drama the sweet camilla belle plays the younger phoebe quite convincingly blythe danner appears as the mother of the girls br br the european locations are gloriously photographed by henry the film is also enhanced by the musical score of nick laird clowes and petra original song elizabeth edited with great elegance ultimately this film shows adam brooks in great form as he gives the right tone to the adaptation of the novel and gets rewarded by having the right cast doing wonders for him
1	this is a case where the script plays with the audience in a manner that serves only in extending this story to 90 minutes story starts out in 1969 where a young girl named faith cameron diaz travels to europe with her boyfriend wolf christopher eccleston but she dies under mysterious circumstances then in 1976 faith's sister phoebe jordana brewster decides to travel to europe as well and try and find out what happened to her sister in france she looks up wolf who has stayed there and she wants him to help her retrace the steps her sister took and answer some questions he is reluctant but decides to travel with her along the way he fills in the gaps of the occurrences and tells phoebe that faith had joined up with the red army who are an extremist group that is involved in terrorism phoebe and wolf engage in a romance and this complicates the trip to portugal where faith died their is several things wrong with this film and it all has to do with the script first the romance between wolf and phoebe is all wrong and does nothing for the story it rings completely false and comes across as forced it seems weird that wolf would engage in a romance with his dead girlfriends sister secondly wolf knows completely what happened to faith but only lets out little chunks of information every 15 minutes or so wolf will look at phoebe every 15 minutes and say there is something i didn't tell you gee thanks a lot wolf if wolf had come clean the first time he talked to phoebe then the film would have been over in about 30 minutes another thing that bothered me was that i don't think this film recreated the 1960's at all diaz wears hippie clothes but the time period just didn't ring true i did enjoy a few things like the authentic locations where the film was shot it is a very good looking film and the scenery is beautiful the performances are all good especially by brewster and diaz besides the fast and the furious i had never really seen brewster in anything but after watching her performance in this film i came away very impressed she's very good here and i hope better roles come her way the script is told in a very contrived way and the film never comes across as believable
1	i've never really been sure whether i liked this documentary or not it was shown on channel 4 before a cut down version of revelations and is on the revelations video tape before the uncut show the documentary is basically friends of bill saying how great he was for an hour with video clips of the show mixed in a bit like a trailer for the film you're about to watch it also features david letterman grovelling like a worm for dumping bill off the his show before he died the reason bill made a joke about how pro life people should picket funerals and letterman had pro life advertising anyway look out for the video as revelations is bill at his ranting best
1	this video is a fantastic testament and insight into the work of bill hicks thought provoking barely begins to describe it it's funny and moving and educational and a whole host of other things that are good for you make sure you see it
1	one of the earlier reviews of this movie ends with only for big fans of the lead actors or fans of exotic romance adventure movies as if those weren't reason enough to love it anyone who after seeing this movie complains about connery's accent or the lack of historical verisimilitude or the realism of the political motivations or any other extra movie concerns simply doesn't love movies see it and be awed by the star power of the two leads the exotic romantic photography and music and the bold adventure of a truly escapist film this is proof that hollywood can make 'em like they used to when it really wants to a solid 8 10
1	br br well known comedians meekly admit they wish they could do real satire like bill hicks inbetween these pitiful testimonies we are treated to what an exceptionally talented comedian can achieve when he could otherwise be chasing fame and fortune he didn't get his own talk show but at least he was no one's puppet
1	i'll put this as plainly as possible for those of you unaware of bill legacy he was quite simply the greatest stand up comedian in the world almost certainly in my opinion the greatest that ever lived his stand up idol being the great richard pryor whose battles with addiction he paralleled his death in 1994 went barely noticed in the popular media coming just weeks after kurt cobain had committed suicide his tragic death at such a young age eclipses any sense of the injustice that he was criminally ignored during his life of course but the harsh truth is clear as day nobody has stepped up to claim his mantle there is not a stand up comedian alive with nearly the skill and invention br br the observation is made in the affectionate tribute it's just a that stand up comedians often view the job as a stepping stone to richer pursuits lame movies and morally driven sitcoms made to occupy but never enrich the lives of an unimaginative audience it's everything that bill hicks spoke against his sermon was always a rallying cry for people think for themselves to authority to come together as one race br br his appeal continues to grow with every passing year since his death his star will continue to shine long after so many lesser lights have blew out once you've been exposed to his brilliant intelligent but ultimately compassionate output you will be enriched and rewarded br br the man himself was fond to quote dylan to live outside the law you must be honest' he said bill hicks was honest beyond that he was the funniest of them all
1	this documentary about the life and comedy of bill hicks features bits from revelations and other stand up gigs it also features interviews with fellow comedians and people in the industry who knew him as well as reporters and journalists who talk about how his political commentary was raw and brutal br br i enjoyed it very much i had already seen revelations but the comedy clips were still refreshing it's a nice balance of comedy and documentary that will explain popularity to non fans and please those who are already familiar with him br br i rated it a ten
1	a genius my genius i remember the exact second in 1994 i was sat in a pub in shropshire england i recall the exact seat bill hicks dies of cancer said the headline in the i felt like someone had punched me in the stomach buy this dvd if you don't find something in it one way or the other i'll be astonished br br rip bill i wish so much you were still here
1	the numbers don't lie 109 people have voted for this film that says a great deal about the standing of one of the most intuitively insightful comedians of the late 20th century and for those of you who know the work of bill hicks if he were alive today imagine what he would have to say about the boy president from his home state that his short career remains unrecognized is a sad situation and this film or rather these two films explain why first you see how his talent was obvious from the start again and again those who knew bill hicks always say he was not only funny he was also unique the film also shows how the quality of his material was too challenging for many in the entertainment industry his drinking also contributed to his career problems but that is less evident in this film and then the second film is a complete performance if you have never seen or heard bill hicks this is a wonderful introduction to the person and his dark but intelligent humor especially due to the fact that the topics are now almost 14 years old yet remain ironically up to date is underlined by the fact that many of the events took place under the first president bush br br watching them together first the biography and then the performance makes you aware of how greatly talented this young man was how quickly his life passed and how the american media can sometimes act as the great big let's make sure nothing is too provocative nothing will be too interesting and the result well as the man himself said go to sleep america your government is in control in his lifetime at least in great britian this artist was recognized for his talent and was successful there 11 years after his death 109 people at imdb can say something about the film after you've seen them both i hope you understand why more people should be listening to bill hicks
1	albert pyun delivers a very good action drama about a junkie who tries to rip off a big crime lord a lot of style and many very cool actors burt is excellent
1	when i first watched this movie i thought it was a very strange movie but i know that the director almost always has a purpose when he makes a movie so i decided to watch it one more time the second time i watched it i realised that albert puyn is a very talented and a very original film maker in the beginning the viewer was told that the movie took place a decade after the fall of the communism in the eastern europe but they had clothes and cars with a design typical for the 1950's they had plutonium which i think is a symbol for the futuristic trade i think that it means that the movie's real time is not specified the music in the movie is creating a long music video which tells some parts of the actual story in the lyrics specially for the intro and the br br albert puyn is using red and blue back color when he's showing the symbols for communism red and the capitalism and western world blue one can notice that ice t has the name mao communism and that when he's in focus the back color is red the american cop starring burt reynolds is always filmed with blue back color the club where mao and his gang hang out is also with red back color crazy six is between the red and the blue color br br the white little dog that mao had in the beginning symbolize i think the controlling force mao had the dog in the beginning but the cop took it in the end that symbolize i guess the fall of communism and the replacement of the capitalistic way of thinking from the western world in eastern europe br br i think crazy six is a very well made movie albert puyn creates an sci fi action movie with a depth it's a different but a very special movie about the communism fall in the eastern europe br br i'm looking forward to watch another spectacular movie of albert puyn
1	this film is an excellent teaching tool as a pre study of to kill a mockingbird in conjunction with a study of the novel itself caged bird can be used as an independent literary study or as an introduction to
1	oh my god i can truly say that maya angelou is one of the world's most intriguing and important people especially of my culture she is incredibly inspiring and her story is the story of a great woman when i first picked this movie up i thought to myself the cast was wonderfully put together now lets see them in action maya angelou is already my favorite and now one of my favorite actresses and speakers i believe she is the greatest of all time this movie had me on the edge of my seat and reaching for kleenex while at the same time reminding me that no matter where you come from if you decide that you are going to be great then you will be great and ester rolle played a wonderful supporting role 100 awesome and now even i know why the caged bird sings
1	i've tried to reconcile why so many bad reviews of this film while the vast majority of reviews are given a rating of between 7 and 10 the reason may be this film is kind of hard to describe in a positive review although a few have done that quite nicely already this film is confusing depressing and doesn't have a happy ending i still gave x a rating of 10 because it is basically for me literature and art combined on film that is really my favorite kind of filmmaking i've only seen two of carax's films this one and sang as with this film i'm being somewhat pretentious when i call this one of carax's best films but i am carax has a minimalist style if that type of film does not appeal to you and is boring then it would be best not to watch this but x was less minimalist than sang so it had quite a lot of intensity for a thriller at least for my taste i found it quite interesting and absorbing the two lead roles did an excellent job acting i mean the lead and the young woman he thought was his half sister catherine d is always great but her role was not very large or significant in the story but everyone did a fine job i thought the cult stuff was great it may have not been very believable but that is due to its being rather abstract there is a lot going on between the lines in this film this is a very freudian psycho thriller
1	okay i'm a history buff and okay i'm a action film junkie so of course this film is on my top ten of all time i really love the action scenes and the unique weaponry of the period i sort of have doubts about fighting two handed sword from horse back and the sword seems more katana like than like oh well i've never fought from horse back either br br i love the attempts at philosophic proverbs too the typical desert probably couldn't read the koran so they'd take his word for it several writers have criticized connery's brogue well on vacation as a youth i met a family of south africans in our west dinosaur national monument and although they spoke between themselves yeah second generation germans can hear the difference they spoke english with a scottish brogue seems that who teaches you affects your pronunciation scottish missionary
1	leos carax is brilliant and is one of the best film and camera guys in the business so it should come as no surprise that x is an almost perfect filming of the most gut wrenching story ever seriously if i could have figured out some way to climb inside my video monitor i would have thrashed pierre to within an inch of his life no one has the right to be that self absorbed and that stupid both at the same time except maybe heathcliff in emily bronte's wuthering heights after spending 134 minutes with pierre i need a large glass of brandy never have i been so angry at a main character ok having said that x is a stunning movie with one of the few totally honest sex scenes i've ever seen in any film which means another piece of brilliant filmmaking and i'm talking graphic here by the way x will beat the hell out of you though so make sure you're up for it if you decide to watch it
1	leos carax has made 3 great movies boys meet girls sang les amants du pont in fact those films were not that great but it has the violence of youth the beauty of juvenile wilderness carax in these three movies was well aware of what cinema was but he tried to make his own vision of the art without thinking about about all he have seen but using it and melting it into his times x is a very different movie because carax made les amants du pont a of 20 millions dollars a film that has destroyed everything on its way after such a movie you can't do another one in the same point of view so leos carax has to changed and he did the movie isn't as beautiful as its first it's more reasonable no more studio no more dreamed paris carax has entered at last reality it's not clean anymore it's not poetic characters carax have become a romantic in the german sense of it
1	i watched x because scott walker composed the film score and i admire his music a lot frankly i expected a somewhat pretentious and possibly incoherent french movie i was wrong the vision of the film quickly managed to engage my attention to the fullest starting with the opening sequence which shows black and white footage of military airplanes throwing bombs at graves at the sounds of music and scott walker's beautiful wailing voice the film explores the identity crisis of pierre guillaume depardieu a brilliant choice for the role and his consequential self destruction the story is divided into two parts – the first depicts carefree life in a beautiful house in the french countryside and the second follows his utter personal disintegration after he abandons everything and moves to paris to live in squalor with his supposed half sister both parts contain some amazingly stunning photography – the first very colorful and bright the second utterly gloomy and nearly apocalyptic adding up to a true aesthetic feast x is a fascinating and quite unique movie experience
1	i agree with who said that there is a lot going on between the lines in this film while i do think the pacing of this film could be improved i do think that the complexity of the relationships between the characters is fascinating br br examples br br pierre is going to marry his cousin even though his love for her seems very cousin y br br pierre and his stepmother have a rather curious relationship br br pierre lucie and seem to have a triangular relationship and the actual points to the triangle are not quite certain br br brother is a bit of a eunuch or is he br br and isabelle who is she really br br overall i think it was worth my time an interesting film and one that makes me want to read melville
1	x is a beautiful adaption of herman melville's or the the comments on here surprise me it makes me wonder what has led to the overwhelmingly negative reaction br br the shock value is the least appealing thing about this film a minor detail that has been blown out of proportion the story is of downfall and the subsequent destruction of those around him which is overtly demonstrated in his features demeanour and the dialogue and soundtrack set this film apart from any other i have seen and turn a fundamentally traditional storyline with controversial twists into an unforgettably emotional epic br br i can't stress enough the importance of disregarding everything you have heard about this film and watching as i did with an open mind you will i hope be rewarded in the same way that i was i felt on edge and nervous from around the half hour mark however the film is far from scary in any traditional sense it will leave you with 1 000 thoughts each of them at once troublesome and thrilling i know i'm gushing here but i feel the need to make up for the negative perception of this film it's the best i've seen all year
1	this movie starts off somewhat slowly and gets running towards the end not that that is bad it was done to illustrate character trait of the main character consequently if you are not into tragedies this is not your movie it is the thought provoking philosophy of this movie that makes it worthwhile if you liked dostoyevsky's 'crime and punishment you will probably like this if only for the comparisons the intriguing question that the movie prompts is what is it that makes a renowned writer completely disregard his publicly ideas for another set the new ideas are quite opposed to the status quo if you are a conservative you will not like this movie br br besides other philosophical questions i must admit that the movie was quite aesthetically pleasing as well the hillsides and beautiful scenery helped me get past the slow start also there was use of symbolism in representing the of the main characters if these sorts of things do not impress you skip it overall i give this movie a 7
1	no one would ever question that director leos carax is a genius but what we wonder about is is he an insane genius so many people hated this film i am normally the first person to accuse many french directors of making offensive boring disgusting and pretentious films such as the horrible recent film and the pointless and offensive rouges' but strangely enough i actually think that x' is an amazing film made with great skill and passion by a master of his craft and containing remarkable performances the film does carry melodrama to more extreme lengths than i believe i have ever seen on screen before but then carax is extreme that we know the film also contains what i consider way over the top or anarchist fantasies and wet dreams what with a mysterious group of young men training to fire machine guns at the bourgeoisie in between playing scott walker's rather fascinating music in a band which has its recording sessions in an abandoned warehouse filled with squatters and fires burning in old steel barrels guillaume depardieu plays a rich young man in a château whose step mother is catherine deneuve and he wanders into her bathroom while she is naked in the bath by the way but he suddenly completely when he discovers that his deceased father a famous diplomat had fathered an illegitimate daughter who had been effectively disposed of by deneuve as an inconvenience this is because the sister suddenly turns up as a kind of romanian refugee with wild dishevelled hair expressionless face and little ability to speak french coherently depardieu then transforms himself into a hero' of the far left and wants to kill or destroy his family for their hypocrisy and corruption and lives in squalor and extreme poverty while scorning a vast inheritance he then commences an incestuous sexual relationship with his half sister which is shown in an explicit sex scene which has offended many people though i have no objection to it as i think people are far too hysterical about sex especially in america where apparently it never happens the intensity of the acting and the filming make this unlikely scenario come off as an experience of powerful if depressing hyper melodrama the differences between carax making an extreme film like this and the numerous extreme french films which i think are pretentious and disgusting are 1 that carax is an excellent filmmaker and 2 he is seriously attempting to explore a meaningful if harrowing extreme emotional condition whereby a human being disintegrates and turns against his background many would say that the extreme elements in this film were gratuitous but i don't agree i believe carax was genuine and was not making an exploitation picture at all it is very difficult to defend a man who goes that far and who for all i know may be a complete madman but i believe he deserves defending for this remarkable cinematic achievement
1	at times i really when i look at the comments here it seems as if most people have seen a completely different film than i have i've just seen it and liked it not in the way that it made me happy but in the way of having seen a good film br br the film needs some patience yes and yes the main character is really annoying but that i'm sure is by intention br br maybe it really makes a difference if you watch this film in a cinema or at home most people watch films at home like they are listening to elevator music this movie definitely doesn't fit as background noise br br and no good directing doesn't mean having five laughs or explosions a second good directing means following your subject and keeping the story and actors together and while that doesn't work out perfectly at least i think it works quite good br br i liked the photography and sets even if they brink on the surreal at times the opening scene is really special br br i also liked the acting – guillaume depardieu is not playing pierre he is acting the role of a pierre who is himself playing a role pierre is not the romantic hero that he so hard tries to be he is a presumptuous and self righteous idiot a downright weakling who by and by harms all the people he claims to protect that even his love for truth is simply a pose is beautifully demonstrated by his ongoing lying and not even once asking questions or explaining himself br br people are wondering where this or that person came from and other stuff no character who is seen for more than two scenes is left unexplained there is enough information scattered throughout the film on everyone br br and even the strange building begins to make sense as soon as the target practicing is seen remember that isabelle fled from a war zone and obviously this is a refuge for fighters in a civil war most likely bosnia which was still going on when the film was produced at least that's what is hinted at by the story isabelle tells pierre when she first meets him and by the later scene where pierre shows isabelle the book with his father on the cover which is surrounded by books on bosnia
1	when melville's pierre or the ambiguities hit bookstores in 1852 his first publication since moby dick a year earlier the public response was similar to that found among the imdb reviews of x newspapers even published headlines like melville insane which of course he wasn't but when one compares the writing styles found in moby dick and pierre one finds in the latter a sharp departure from the simple and often declamatory style found in the former clearly he was mimicking the overly florid style of the now forgotten victorian romances that were easily his immortal moby dick he was not content however to turn out the sort of product that his publishers wanted and that surely would have sold his version of a victorian romance was a twisted cynical one perhaps but brilliant in its synthesis the alternate title the ambiguities is quite appropriate as pierre searches for and thinks he finds truth we become more and more uncertain what and whom to believe as he searches for happiness he becomes more and more miserable br br x is a fascinating adaptation of this novel set in modern or nearly modern france though in some ways it leaves little to the imagination and shows us graphically the incestuous relations that melville could only hint at the ambiguities which make the novel and its message so alluring are perfectly in tact the questions it raises are ones that few films have thought to ask yet the answers are left to the viewer br br i recommend a reading of the novel which is much shorter than moby dick before seeing this movie i hope more people discover this tantalizing film
1	i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie that's the way of the world it's been about 30 years since i've seen this movie and i would like to see it again earth wind fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes it was unfortunate that this group didn't take off like their counterparts in the early 70's but as previously stated racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited exposure for the african american musical groups it is good to see that earth wind fire continuing their success i would like to add this movie to my collection someone please help me if possible thank you for your attention milton shaw
1	taken the idea out of a true diplomatic incident the wind and the lion is a very good adventure film set in the deserts of africa br br el sean connery head of an arab tribe kidnaps an american woman candice bergen and her two children to obtain some concessions for his country out of american president theodore roosevelt brian keith out of this simple plot john milius gets a very complete and enjoyable movie in the genre br br the outdoor dessert locations an impressive color photography very well handled action sequences and perfect settings turn the picture in a sort of epic one with an undeniable sense of greatness the musical score is also remarkable an fits accordingly br br sean connery is very good as the arab leader and proofs he can handle almost any kind of role so is candice bergen as the woman who shows strength under dangerous circumstances but deep inside is scared and has her weaknesses she gets to admire connery and even understand his complete different focus on life arising from their also completely different cultures brian keith plays one of his best roles ever as american president teddy roosevelt br br most entertaining and very good cinematographic sample in the genre give it chance you won't regret it
1	harvey keitel gives a typically top rate performance in one of his first ever lead roles as brash ambitious uncompromising young staff producer coleman buckmaster a real talented hot shot with a discerning golden ear and the son of a famous jazz pianist to boot coleman's eager to cut some tracks with the smokin' r b outfit the group none other than earth wind fire in their awesomely funky prime but his commercial label a chord records run by uptight mob connected middle of the road square jerry a properly ed nelson wants him to record a hit single for the hideously insipid carpenters like pop pap trio the pages an allegedly squeaky clean bunch which includes smarmy pedophile step dad franklin a perfectly vile bert parks bitchy neurotic daughter a fine flighty turn by perky comely brunette cynthia bostwick and hedonistic smack addict son gary former 50's juvenile sitcom staple jimmy boyd the extremely naive and idealistic coleman must learn pronto how the music business truly works and play the lowdown dirty game as best he can or else he'll lose both the group and his credibility br br adopting an acrid incisive harsh and biased script from syndicated columnist and rock journalist robert director sig shore who's most famous for producing superfly shows a decidedly cynical and unflattering depiction of the various bribes pay offs broken promises back stabbings and double dealings which are an unpleasant yet intrinsic part of the largely corrupt rock music business with particularly thoughtful thematic asides concerning art vs commerce fighting to retain one's artistic integrity and the then recent push to rock into bland useless creatively stagnant mainstream respectability moreover this gritty downbeat gem offers a rare fascinating minutely detailed and wholly believable backstage glimpse at the recording process as recording booth console cowboy coleman struggles gamely in his own words to make chicken salad out of chicken s t appearing in nifty bits are disc jockey and legendary fifth beatle murray the k as leering lecherous dj big john little bites his hand after big john paws her thigh during a live on air interview new york soul dj and host of nbc's friday night videos frankie crocker as his own self r b singer songwriter doris troy she penned the lovely just one look as a church pianist and tubby bald 70's blaxploitation favorite charles macgregor as a priest at a wedding the rather poor sound and allan metzger's sloppy cinematography inadvertently add to the film's overall ragged rough around the edges documentary style authenticity although technically a bit lacking this movie overall still rates as one of the great most bitterly pessimistic unsung behind the scenes gems from the 70's
1	okay it's 2005 and when you finally get to look at this film you will probably exclaim that it is dated but here's the thing the screenplay was bold the exposure of the music industry at that time was as bold as well and it took some time for this to get music that was created by african americans to be promoted on the same level as white acts in some cases it still is but back in the 70's this film addressed some of the background many never knew now we've got american idol pop idol and other such things that allow us into the minds of the record execs and how they think they should market something that sells and not market talent br br when i was a kid i loved the earth wind and fire release of that's the way of the world which contained some of their biggest hits shining star reasons and the title little did i know this was a soundtrack of a movie until i moved to los angeles and got the wonderful z channel br br the z channel showed this film as part of a harvey keitel retrospective gee i had no idea harvey keitel did so many movies and when i saw this one i was surprised this movie is not a cinematic masterpiece but it does deserve more merit than it got it's a nice little film more than a vanity piece for earth wind and fire harvey keitel does a great job as a torn record executive trying to fight the system there are a lot of lessons to be drawn from this and a lot of insider trade that was exposed br br if you can find this uncut it's worth a look
1	i haven't seen this film since it came out in the mid 70s but i do recall it as being a very realistic portrayal of the music business right up there with paul simons one trick pony another vastly underrated film imo br br harvey keitel does an excellent job as a producer caught between the music he believes in and the commercial tripe the record company suits want him to work with br br since i spent my entire career in the music business as a composer arranger producer i can really vouch for the verisimilitude this film possesses br br if it should ever come out on dvd uncut i'd buy it
1	a widely unknown strange little western with mindblowing colours probably the same material as it was used in johnny guitar i guess or something which makes blood drips look like shining nearly surrealistic scenes with twisted action and characters something different far from being a masterpiece but there should be paid more attention to this little gem in western encyclopedias
1	dakota incident is a curiosity for several reasons it will be obvious from the start that it was made long before anyone ever thought of political correctness although the ward bond character softens the edge with maybe we can communicate with them after all they're humans too type of dialogue his part stands side by side with the preacher to communicate with the martians in war of the worlds in fact it's uncanny the title is curious too use of the word incident contributes an importance and sophistication to the film that probably didn't hurt the contrived assortment of characters and linda fancy dress and hat are wonderful dated touches that make dakota incident a cool western artifact from the mid fifties
1	this is a cute little french silent comedy about a man who bets another that he can't stay in this castle for one hour due to its being haunted and once the guy enters the house it looks much more like a crazed fun house or maybe like the after effects of lsd while there are ghosts and skeletons there is a weird menagerie of animals odd special effects and gags as well it's awfully hard to describe but the visuals alone make the film worth seeing however understand that the self indulgent director also had many funny gags that totally fell flat and hurt the movie his camera tricks weren't so much tricky but annoying and stupid ignore these and keep watching it does get better the film is fast paced funny and worth seeing in particular i really liked watching the acting and mugging of max linder he was so expressive and funny too bad he is virtually forgotten today for an interesting but very sad read check out the imdb biography on him
1	i used to watch this show when i was growing up when i think about it i remember it very well if you ask me it was a good show two things i remember very well are the opening sequence and theme song in addition to that everyone was ideally cast the writing was also very strong the performances were top grade too i hope some network brings it back so i can see every episode before i wrap this up i'd like to say that i'll always remember this show in my memory forever even though i haven't seen every episode now in conclusion if some network ever brings it back i hope that you catch it one day before it goes off the air for good
1	being a 90's child i truly enjoyed this show and i can proudly say that i enjoyed it big time and even more than the classical wb cartoons br br i don't know why early 90's cartoons had something special i don't know if it was the uncertainty atmosphere a generational change whatever but tiny toons kept the 90's vibe and delivered one of the most popular funny and underrated cartoons ever created br br the memories are murky but i can only say that i enjoyed every single episode and product related to the show easily none other cartoon made me laugh in a tender way before getting into dark sitcoms oriented for teenagers br br the characters were all funny and had the of not having a true lead character every single character was hilarious and deserved to be called a lead
1	after the success of muppet babies warner brothers chalked up tiny toons but instead of making bugs bunny daffy duck and all the rest of the looney toon gang kids they created new animal characters who were kids with their own distinct personalities but personalities that nonetheless mirrored their predecessors the leads included buster babs bunny no relation which became their running gag or catch phrase plucky duck hampton pig dizzy devil shirley 'the' loon montana max furball the rats and assorted animals of prep and the original looney toons cast themselves the tiny toons lived in acme acres and attended acme where the looney toon gang worked as teachers who served as mentors to the younger generation the ins and out of comedy br br during the show's run various pot shots were taken at the bush sr administration pop culture and coupled with various other gags and spoofs br br buster babs arguably the show's main characters as mentioned above were similar to bugs bunny in some respects but they also had their own differing personality ticks and comic styles namely babs' tendency to impersonate anyone and everyone while buster capable of being a great goof himself usually played straight man or straight rabbit to babs' antics plucky duck was a virtual copy of daffy duck not screwball daffy but egomaniac daffy with nearly as big an ego as daffy and just as much of an obsession with upstaging the buster babs as daffy had with upstaging bugs though he usually fell flat on his face in his attempts yet he remained strangely endearing through out hampton was an even more shy version of porky pig and he had the thankless job of playing porky to daffy shirley the blond duck gal was a new age valley girl type whom plucky would go in and out of phases of mocking or vying for her affections dizzy was the purple version of the tasmanian devil furball was the silent sylvester and was the pink bird there was also the purple female skunk who longed for a boyfriend and the pint sized versions of wile coyote and the road runner evil was defined in the form of montana max a rich kid who was always out to make a buck or make people's lives miserable there was also a deranged animal lover whom everyone feared and then there was dodo an odd thing a ma gig creature who had no clearly designated species except that he was from wacky land or something like that br br pop culture references included batman quite frequently actually michael jackson vanilla ice dances with wolves indiana jones star trek fast food joints the ten commandments the twilight zones saturday night live and even the simpsons among others br br not only funny but it also managed to be warm and touching something it's successor animaniacs never quite attained also followed by taz mania
1	ok the show was a little uneven but i still loved it i found the main two bunnies annoying but plucky were always amusing br br i really want the baby plucky episodes on dvd or even vhs please release those br br specifically the potty years episode aired on 11 22 91 the going up episode aired on 9 17 92 and the minister golf episode in 11 92 br br they are the funniest bits of the whole series and even over a decade later we still reference these bits br br i have nothing more to say please reduce the minimum to something like 5 lines and rewards us for brevity
1	1904 the north african nation of morocco is hanging onto a tenuous independence as the various european powers france germany britain russia spain and now the united states are vying for influence in the region the sultan marc is a weak puppet his uncle the who is being manipulated by the french and germans is the real power behind the throne enter berber sean connery the leader of the rif tribe and the last of the pirates who kidnaps an american missionary eden candice bergen and her two children and takes them hostage back in the us president theodore roosevelt brian keith threatens to go to war over the issue alive or dead seeing the issue as the perfect way to exercise his big stick diplomacy though secretary of state john hay john huston is not so confident however the has less sinister plans for the who are more than capable of handling themselves in any event br br john milius's great historical film based very loosely off of a true story i e was a middle aged man is a wonderful bit of escapism it has some amazing action scenes a witty well written script a fine cast enjoying themselves with the material and does not overstay its welcome like say pirates of the caribbean or the lord of the rings movies it's not really an epic film in the strictest sense but it's one of the best pure action movies ever made br br while the historical context is shaky the storyline is interesting and as some reviewers point out it is even more pertinent today than it was when made as president roosevelt says america is like a grizzly bear fierce strong but a little blind and reckless at times at the time of the film's setting america has just been propelled onto the world stage as superpower following their resounding victory in the spanish american war and roosevelt seizes this incident as a way to prove america's worth in real life it didn't quite work out that way but allegorically it works well while written from a right wing perspective milius's screenplay is pretty accurate in assessing america and its place in the world he admires roosevelt and his method of big stick diplomacy and correctly recognizes in the words of roosevelt that while america may be feared and respected they'll never be truly loved by the world no matter what they do and there are some scenes like roosevelt's target shooting of european leaders and the almost comic surprise attack by marines on the palace which show america's reckless and violent side while others the climactic showdown with the germans show their heroism br br the historical political context of the film is of course merely meat on the bones of what is essentially a rousing action adventure film there are some brilliantly done action scenes such as rescue of the from double crossing tribesmen which features some of the best swordplay in any film the opening entrance of the and the aforementioned march and attack of the us marines are brilliantly done bravura set pieces and the final battle which combines elements of lawrence of arabia and the wild bunch while a major historical fantasy a three way battle between germans americans and the is a superbly staged adrenaline pumping sequence br br the excellent cast gives some wonderful performances everyone seems to be having a fun time with the film and it shows sean connery is surprisingly convincing as a berber with a scottish accent but manages to pull off his interesting well drawn and chivalrous character who comes to respect his hostage and abhors modern warfare candice bergen an actress whom i've never been fond of gives a fine performance as the feisty eden who is every bit as tough as her captor brian keith is an amazingly convincing tr you really feel he must have been like this an athletic blustering yet practical and intelligent man with an admirable sense of self the scenes of roosevelt boxing and target shooting while discussing foreign policy are some of the greatest bad ass moments in movie history and who can forget lines like why spoil the beauty of the thing with legality john huston provides solid support as the weary cautious hay acting as a perfect foil to the much more impetuous roosevelt br br among the fine supporting cast the best are geoffrey lewis as samuel the cynical ambassador caught in the middle of the political intrigue and steve kanaly as the gung ho marine captain who cheerfully advocates and carries out military intervention as the blunt and simple solution to the whole complex situation other familiar faces such as roy jenson larry cross marc and darrell also do fine work no matter how small their role spaghetti western fans will recognize antoine saint john a fistful of dynamite as the german general and aldo as one of tribesmen br br the wind and the lion is all around a wonderfully done adventure film it has something for everyone wonderful gun and swordplay a lot of humor a tough feisty heroine and her two cute children a nice if romance and an interesting if fanciful political historical context it's not a masterpiece but hey it wasn't trying to be i give the wind and the lion a stirring nine stars and my highest recommendation
1	they just don't make cartoons like they used to this one had wit great characters and the greatest ensemble of voice over artists ever assembled for a daytime cartoon show this still remains as one of the highest rated daytime cartoon shows and one of the most honored winning several emmy awards
1	it's now 2005 and 15 years since this cartoon first aired i haven't actually watched it seriously or closely in about 10 years now that i'm an adult in my 30s i can look back with a serious eye as i watch the episodes again br br in concept the cartoon is partly an homage to the classic looney tunes but also its own original show there are a few episodes that are structured like the old cartoons for example there is a singer that attacks buster and so he exacts revenge on this singer's concert exactly like the old bugs bunny cartoon the ensuing cartoon is similar to looney tunes just in a different era if you look at the old looney tunes they did an awful lot of stuff exactly like tiny toons did the old looney tunes made a lot of social commentary and parody there were celebrity impersonations there were a lot of corny period jokes slang and dialog the comedy was surreal and wacky you can say this exactly for tiny toons as well the comedy styling is the same most definitely a throwback to the classics which hadn't been done well if at all in cartoons in the decades prior to this show we recognize the cultural references in tiny toons and we can roll our eyes when something we don't like comes up but the reason we don't think looney tunes are corny is because we weren't alive back in the 40s also looney tunes was original back in those days but today cartoons are rehashed over and over so it's easy to perceive tiny toons in an unfair light due to our exposure to current events and our overexposure to cartoons in general br br there certainly are differences in many respects the timing the delivery and obviously the duration of the shows they are two different styles from two different periods being done under two very different circumstances looney tunes being made for adults in theaters and tiny toons being made for kids watching tv even so they did a good job making an original show with original gags and still paying homage to and after the comedy stylings of the old looney tunes br br since tiny toons had a lot more time to play with they had some genuine moments of great animated inspiration you only have to look at episodes like 1 minute to 3 the baby plucky toilet episode there are so many more for example one of the best comedy dialog exchanges ever animated is in when babs and buster are on the phone in a split screen hoping each misses the other the miscommunication is spectacular notably the character development in this episode and in several others usually the ones penned by deanna oliver or sherri stoner is rather good the female characters were taken seriously as personalities and developed unusual considering the opposite is usually true for cartoons of that period br br this was the first modern cartoon that had lots of both pop culture referential and self referential humor this was way ahead of its time tiny toons really opened up a door for writers to take comic liberties that are so common in the cartoons today instead of doing the boring old crap we endured as 80s kids yes i loved transformers and thundercats but tiny toons totally jumped away from all that it was a breath of fresh air bakshi's new adventures of mighty mouse may have been a precursor but tiny toons made this surreal style of comedy cartoon writing a real success br br as a kid i totally overlooked some jokes for example one episode is an homage to the marx brothers that i completely ignored as a teen now i have a newfound respect for it there are so many inspired gags that i never noticed that are genuinely brilliant it's that kind of comedy that makes me think of looney tunes and family guy i never noticed that kind of comedy as a kid i've been thinking this for most episodes i watched recently br br you'd notice these kinds of things if you actually watched the show unlike some other reviewers here who i know are unfairly judging it i've seen all the episodes and have thought about them thoroughly exposed both as a kid and as an adult br br you can tell there was an awful lot of care taken with the voice acting too i'm not talking about just the main characters but the side characters were done really well and creatively too but back to the main characters some of the main characters were brilliant tress macneille had in my opinion her best performances in this cartoon she hasn't been the same since rob paulsen also did some incredible stuff here too br br this is all not to say the show didn't have some bad episodes it had plenty it had a lot of mediocre ones too but by far it certainly had a lot of genuinely funny episodes especially back when it first aired it was actually funny to watch br br out of 10 i give the show an 8 5 and kudos for pushing the envelope and breaking down the doors leading to a new era of cartoons
1	tesis open your eyes and the others were proof of amenabar's talent and skill as a filmmaker but in my humble opinion were also flawed films in their attempt to outsmart the audience always offering one turn of the screw too many favoring cheap thrills twists and turns over depth and resonance lucky for everyone amenabar chose a subject for his new film that would not allow a surprise ending focusing on characters and the emotional ties that bind them br br the result is a little miracle of a film beautifully written photographed scored acted and directed everyone involved in this film delivers a carrer high performance behind and in front of the cameras from the wonderful cast bardem shines but mabel rivera clara and lola give the film an amazing authenticity to exquisite lensing br br the film taps on many relevant issues and emotions effectively it addresses heart and mind with equal power and delivers a final punch that stays with you long after the credits roll this is a brilliantly executed film that not only will stand as a landmark in spanish cinema but will surely become a pleasant surprise when it opens in the abroad sony classics has paid a record 6 million dollars to distribute it don't be surprised it it manages to get in the oscar race there's no stopping amenabar br br alejandro
1	this is probably the best movie filmed in at least the last five years i've always believed that making people cry is far more difficult than making them laugh if you want to see 400 adults crying out loud in the same room go see this movie it's breathtaking javier bardem performs the role of his life you will cry you will laugh you will smile the most deserving fact is that in spain everybody knows about ramon personally i knew the full story and even the end of it so the excellence of the movie is in the way that the story is told and in this field amenabar is a the master br br this movie is a must
1	when i first saw before night falls javier bardem had just been nominated for an academy award i thought he's got it he didn't i watched mar last night please give it to him this time this is an actor convincing touching emotional brilliant see also los lunes al sol and you will understand what i am talking about he is an absolute chameleon and i swear it's not only the result of make up work this movie is so beautiful so well done the characters are so real congratulations to alejandro amenábar how about a best director nomination i also have to mention the make up artists i can't think of another word but magnificent i really hope this movie gets the recognition it deserves as far as i am concerned it already has
1	i have wrestled with death it is the most unexciting contest you can imagine it takes place in an impalpable with nothing underfoot with nothing around without spectators without clamor without glory without the great desire of victory without the great fear of defeat in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism without much belief in your own right and still less in that of your adversary if such is the form of ultimate wisdom then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be marlow in joseph conrad's heart of darkness br br it's difficult to make lyrical the subject of death in any work of art yet movies have recently made bold attempts to humanize it to the extent that it is embraced as a part of the cycle of all living things and it can be chosen rather than chosen is the operative word for alejandro amenabar's sea inside based loosely on the true story of the sailor ramon it is a drama about euthanasia without prejudice clothed in love poetry and friendship if it sounds like barbarian invasions 2003 in which a cancerous professor says farewell to lifelong friends and loves before he takes his life then you are right in fact sea is better because it spends more intimate time with the protagonist before he goes a remarkable feat with not one of those moments in the least dull or uninteresting br br javier bardem as ramon has expressive eyes and commanding voice for the romantic a combination of tough realist and poetic sufferer belen plays the disabled lawyer julia who becomes an imaginary lover for ramon increasing in radiance as her life degenerates with disease added to the already almost soap opera circumstance is lola as rosa a blue collar visitor who initially tries to dissuade ramon from seeking death but quickly falls in love with him talk about romanticizing guy has unbelievable luck attracting substantial women and he can't move a finger but talk he can proving the ultimate argument about what women want love that speaks not just makes br br i will refrain from mentioning the major motion picture now up for an oscar that features euthanasia as its climax in order not to spoil the experience for first timers sufficient it is just to say both films are successful in opening up both sides of a contentious subject without forcing a specific point of view the religious right has a right to complain that the former film and barbarian invasions celebrate suicide it has no right to accuse the beautifully balanced sea inside of the same br br a life in this condition has no dignity ramon says the irony is he conducts himself with supreme dignity that makes anyone question his determination to end his life the sea inside is a formidable entry in 2004's oscar nominations for best foreign language film
1	once again has provided us with a top quality film this director is amazing and he's proven that he's equally talented and effective when crossing genres br br the excellent character development of the movie through dialogue and personality quirks but with more subtle details as well ramon's father's gaze allows the audience to identify with the protagonists very closely making the importance and emotional impact of the events which take place all the more profound the visuals are at times simple at times stunning the dream to the beach and i think films really benefit from the fact that he also composes the music it matched the film's varying moods flawlessly br br more than just a film about euthanasia which in itself is an important issue this film tackles the duality of a man who at times genuinely seems to enjoy life albeit in a quite limited way and yet one who is unswerving in his desire to die the overwhelming sadness of the film is punctuated by well timed quips of humor which seem all the funnier because they provide a welcome respite from the melancholy you will certainly feel br br although clearly in favor of euthanasia this film does an excellent job representing the myriad points of view of ramon's friends and family most poignant was ramon's father when he said despondent there's only one thing worse than losing a child that the child wants to die br br excellent writing acting directing cinematography music 10 10
1	since many other users have already explained and commented the storyline i won't do it br br however i'd like to restate that interpretation is terrific as also are those of the other actors and actresses in this film br br reading the previous comments i've noticed that some people criticize the fact that the film doesn't show points of view opposed to euthanasia and that those little present are ridiculed in my honest opinion this is far from true br br there are many characters that move in a gray zone between loving ramón and wanting him to stay and understanding his desire to die most obvious of those are the family for instance sister in law never talks for or against euthanasia another such character is the social rights activist who in the last moment tells ramón to re think it all the scene clearly shows that she doesn't want him to die br br then there are characters who are clearly against euthanasia brother is clearly against it as is his father there's only one thing worse than the death of son and it's having a son that wants to die other users have commented that the discussion between ramón and the priest is ridiculed and filmed to make us think that ramón is good and the priest is bad well no doubt the scene is comic but that doesn't mean the priest is caricatured or ridiculed from my point of view the comedy in this scene comes from the fact that the priest is trying to convince ramón to keep on living using arguments totally alien to thinking the priest's speech goes on the line of god gives and god takes we aren't the owners of our own lives they belong to god and so on the comedy arises from the fact that ramón is atheist and all the priest is saying to him is therefore nonsense br br this film is the antithesis of it leaves the spectator the chance to think on the subject and make up his her own opinion and above anything else is a chant of freedom
1	i have seen 'the sea today and i loved it the actors of the movie are wonderful specially javier bardem of course but i thought that belén would have a better role lola clara and specially mabel rivera perform excellent interpretations and i cannot forget and joan brother and father of the protagonist br br there are two technical aspects i loved very much photography and the score by amenábar himself i liked the song 'dark by luz with music of carlos núñez br br in short i think that the spanish academy should choose 'the sea in order to compete in the oscar awards i liked other spanish productions such as almodóvar's 'bad education' but film is much better than them 'the sea deserves all the awards
1	a friend of mine asked doesn't one have to be pro euthanasia in order to like this movie is it a mistake of the movie to infer most want to end their lives interesting questions br br as far as i can see correct me if i'm wrong there is only one who wanted to end his life in the sea inside think ramón addressed this in the movie as well it is he who wants to die it is he who is fighting for his right to decide his death he is speaking for himself and not other though his pioneering work depending on one's perspective may prove beneficial or damaging to down the road his primary objective is a personal one but one thing this movie does my opinion anyway is that it forces us the viewers to ask ourselves the questions my friend so succinctly put forth br br after my first viewing of the sea inside i walked home in a conflicted blur i struggled to reconcile with this exasperating notion why would ramón want to die given the love care and sacrifices so unconditionally showered on ramón by the people surrounding him why would he doggedly cling on to his hurtful decision then on my second viewing a shared thought between ramón and the lawyer lady entered my consciousness it threw up a telling observation total dependency comes at the expense of intimacy most human beings crave for such an intimacy of course how much we value such needs depends largely on the individual br br as a person with a familial biased sensibility i empathised strongly with the in this movie why can't javier consider the sacrifice and the love from his family and friends is he blind to it all i would think not the miracle of the sea inside therefore is its insightful depiction of a very humanistic tug of war when we are faced with the of a sane but incapacitated loved one whom has expressed a calm conscious and rational intent to die what then is the right thing to do is caring for and keeping this loved one alive against his or her will a pious gesture does it show up the worth of our love or does it merely soothe our selfish fears of irreplaceable loss with so much understanding accorded to wouldn't their invalid charges by submitting themselves to the total dependency of others for survival also be an overlooked act of sacrifice rhetorical or not how much is dignity worth to an individual is living or dying with dignity a privilege or a right if we really care and love a person should we also respect their eventual decisions in life as in death a torrent of questions the movie might have asked answers to which i'm in no position to provide br br in our eagerness to intellectually the merits of pro life or pro choice we run the risk of ignoring a sea of grey that's the people most intimately affected the and the ones they care for the sea inside hence attempted to present the delicate yet complex relationship dynamics between them intuitively this film understands one thing that the nature of sacrifice is never one sided in this tug of war we should endeavour not to win arguments but to intently observe and hopefully determine who is the stronger party to make that sacrifice br br the sea inside is a sobering film it opened my eyes to things i don't wanna see and for that i am grateful
1	why couldn't the end of the movie have been sean connery's men fighting the french instead of the germans ever since the french had occupied algeria in 1830 the tribes from morocco and those of algeria were making raids on the french military and civilian settlements this movie could have been a continuous of that historical aspect where the french had seize the so his followers would not be raiding algeria and then his followers would have attacked the french to free him br br the movie is still stereotypical of shootouts between the germans and the americans when the americans shoot the germans their guns even the pistols make loud noises create large bloody bullet wounds and their enemies are screaming after being shot when germans shoot at the americans their guns don't make large sounds do not create bloody wounds and their enemies make little or no sound after being shot br br in real life the american rifle was the worst rifle america had ever produce until the early version of the m 16 came along the was hard to maintain not reliable and the rifle bolt was always jamming the german was one of the world's finest rifles we were so impress by it during spanish american war that we made a copy of it and call it the springfield rifle br br finally the people of morocco must had a word for artillery since the french were using them in their raids against morocco i didn't like it when they made the feel stupid that there was no word for artillery in the vocabulary instead the stated that the europeans had guns on wheels that make the ground shake
1	it's a soap opera drawing upon an applied ethics idea a movie about human suffering and death is not necessarily a good movie i didn't get any emotion from it the ideas are not at all new the tension lacks it becomes tedious towards the second half but towards the end i think it becomes quite interesting in a burlesque way i mean you have this middle aged paralyzed bald guy who gets more women than don juan he doesn't seem to suffer as much as you would expect from someone completely paralyzed for over 28 years he has no issues with god and one would probably expect that too the people around him seem to be the perfect slaves i can't get out of my mind bergman's cries and whispers similar to this one in many respects which simply bursts with emotions and not all of them humane etc this movie is the perfect recipe for housewives who look for some emotional thrill but don't expect to be blown away the movie is worth seeing among all the cynicism we get today for its sincere intention to present a modern ethical issue without any desire to arouse the viewer amenabar doesn't rub your face in it and he doesn't take sides he doesn't want to make us fanatics for a particular idea still i have no clue as to why this movie was so highly regarded
1	i suppose it's quite an achievement to be able to present to an audience a true tail about a frail man a tail in which the protagonist will spend the majority of the film on his back in a bed and totally unable to move and yet the achievement is in the film's effectiveness as a dramatic piece as a recollection of a true story and i guess as an argument as to why people should have the right to die if they so wish to but the film isn't a political statement and perhaps thankfully it shies away from too many scenes of debate although it does include one for the sake of argument anyway more so this is one of those foreign language films that presents its lead character as a cripple whom can do nothing but talk to the people around him and yet is able to come across as engaging and compelling anyway br br so rather than be an out and out argument the film is more a sweet yet timely dramatic piece about another person wanting something or in search of something the only difference is that by attaining this 'goal' it would mean the termination of a someone's life and it would be achieved by not physically going anywhere javier bardem plays real life ramón an individual who at a much earlier age dived into a clearing of water that was too shallow for such activity this rendered him bedridden for the rest of his life and his wish to die is the focus of chilean director alejandro film we've seen so many films in our lives in which characters have certain or targets one must meet before the film is over to provide a satisfactory experience for the audience but the change of pace in the sea inside is gentle it does not involve young energetic attractive heroes going off to do battle in far off places but a real person after something that means so much to them br br even if you do have a strong policy either pro or anti euthanasia you may find yourself hoping ramón gets what he wants at the end of it all anyway the film sets its tone very early on with ramón giving a speech on why he wants to die to watching family members immediately introducing the situation and subject to the watching audience who may not know what the film is about interestingly some of the family members are 'anti' what he wishes which might place any audience member that feels strongly about the subject in their respective shoes but the purpose of this set up is to tell the audience 'no this isn't one man after something who incidentally has the whole of his family backing him to the end' quite easily the film could've gone down a route in which it is the family vs everybody else but some are anti idea some are too young to acknowledge what's really going on and others are seemingly too distraught to even have an opinion other than they just want ramón to stick around a bit longer they love him after all br br the sea inside is a following of a story revolving around a victim of sorts ramón is a and it is his perspective we see things from this is something that may viewers or have the film come across as quite odd given we are being presented with a film from the point of view of a victim rather than an instigator or a lead character in a film that is always inducing the cause in the cause and effect drive but this is no criticism and it's a credit to the director for delivering such an approach in the effective manner in which it is the film asks questions it offers a scenario to its audience if you were in position what would you do or think about or dream of or talk about consequently dreams about lawyer are not so much shot for the audience's pleasure as much as they are an ever so slight window into one man's escapist fantasies from his predicament br br the study of julia intensifies somewhat later on when a she begins to share certain similarities with ramón and that is when she begins to have strokes that are a result of a disease of her own this trait seems timely in the progression of their relationship and adds a further ingredient of connection on top of an already engaging friendship this is because julia feels the physical pain and restriction not in a sense that she isn't able to get up and walk but i think she realises the value of life given how emotionally bad she felt beforehand while the film is based on a true story and covers the subject of euthanasia it feels like more of a down to earth drama about a man in a situation in which he is prepared to fight for what he wants but must do so verbally it's refreshing to see films like the sea inside as it not only references history and gives us an insight into that but as a stand alone film delivers on an emotional and engaging level
1	i just saw mar and felt that i had to comment on this film euthanasia is a difficult topic in any field and unfortunately is can sometimes distort the true value of a movie many people have raved about the excellent cast and it's beautiful imagery camera work certainly javier bardem is an actor that brings something extra to each film he makes to say that he encompasses the real is a little silly since i don't think that any of the reviewers have known personally to lie still and use a certain charm is a acting skill that although well performed doesn't constitute a 'perfect' performance bardem just does what he does well and that's it the camera work is beautiful and evokes feelings and perspectives that the movie itself lacks to deliver here is shown as a man that is bend on dying so much that he leaves his loving family behind and marries a woman that he only seeks out when the other will not help him in his quest for a dignified death now i'm not here to say anything about the right for or against euthanasia the problem is that when commenting movies like this you can hardly escape it the movie's subject is so strong that you're almost compelled to discuss the movie in that strong subject matter i find it a weakness for the movie unintentionally portrays as a character someone who is much smarter then his family as portrayed in the simple cousin that doesn't get the double layered poem directed towards him someone who will leave a loving and caring family because he thinks his life is a scene that is juxtaposed to the female lawyer who according to the movie makes the wrong choice ending up in a far state of dementia thus indicating that choice was the right one the woman that constantly seeks him out is almost disregarded for the beautiful lawyer but suddenly is married by when she agrees to help him die these choices make into a calculated figure no matter how charming bardem portrays him i would say it doesn't convince fully and i kinda think that amenabar didn't intend on adding this unbalanced element in his film for a young director it's still an impressive film and it certainly has it's strong moments the discussion between the priest and for instance the camera work is impressive and the film is well acted but 10 out of 10 no the movie doesn't reach that excellence
1	the sea inside 2004 javier bardem belen lola mabel rivera joan alberto jimenez jose maria pou alberto nicolas fernandez luna dir alejandro amenabar br br an inspiring tale of a living death bardem is superb br br the true life account of spanish ramon and his petition to fulfill his desire for euthanasia by the right to die may not be considered a likely source of inspiration but this film is just that br br played superbly by bardem was a virile energetic young man when he lost the function to his limbs after a tragic diving accident recounted horrifically in flashback with a visceral jolt to the senses and for nearly thirty years lay paralyzed in bed while his loving family cared to his every need although his abilities to move were nil his mind was very much active and proved skillful as an inventor poet author and artist that kept his mind busy until he could no longer bear the thought of living longer in his stunted condition br br enter beautiful yet also afflicted with a crippling disease attorney julia the ethereal who matches bardem beautifully as if they were indeed soul mates is hired to see through final wish to end his life and in turn becomes an aide de camp when he begins to open up to her like to no one ever before not too long has time passed and julia begins to investigate her past discovering many letters hidden away by his family when julia confronts ramon with this he at first is reluctant to discuss any thing with her but eventually he agrees with her that this may help his case and the project becomes a book in the making – a memoir biography by way of free style poetry and prose br br the film is a heartbreaking tale of the human spirit and how love eventually triumphs over heart ache in many forms including for ramon the unlikely love he shares with a complete stranger named rosa a single mother who sees him on tv one day inspiring her to bicycle to his remote farmhouse in spain to get to know him and possibly change his mind about ending his life br br filmmaker amenabar who co wrote with mateo gil the fascinating screenplay allows some fantasy into the mix when ramon envisions himself magically leaving his bed and flying across the bucolic landscapes to the eventual sea where he suffered so many years ago the cruel twist of fate that has imprisoned him for three decades the film is not a complete downer with a sly wit and occasionally humorous tone throughout that doesn't dilute the impact of the story's final act kudos also to the remarkable make up job by james and jo allen do a tremendous job in aging the vibrant bardem to an aging man to full effect that should get them an acadamy award nod br br bardem and deserve oscar nominations as two people with so much in common and despite julia being married to a loving doting husband that a pair of people so made for one another it is down right impossible they were never together to begin with that's just one of the cruelties that rings true but it is not by definition of the film as its whole it is a must see and one of the year's best
1	as i expected would happen too many reviews of this film from professionals and amateurs alike have focused as much if not more on the film's ideology that's because the sea inside aka mar is a film about euthanasia specifically it's a true story about an infamous named ramón who fought for many years for the right to assisted suicide who was denied that right by the spanish constitutional court and who well i don't want to ruin the ending of the film for you br br the real life catalyzed a national debate on euthanasia in spain now with producer director writer composer editor alejandro abre los ojos 1997 and the others 2001 biopic the sea inside another rhetorical aid has been provided in the international debate on this hot button issue br br but as i keep saying to deaf ears your opinion pro or con on the film's ideology shouldn't affect your rating of the film you're not supposed to be rating the philosophical or political messages that amenábar wants to make you're supposed to be rating the film as a film maybe that's a bit too idealistic as none of us can likely completely divorce our evaluations from our ideological biases but idealistic or not that's the goal br br so forget about the philosophical and political issues for a moment as a film amenábar has turned in one of his most elegant and mature works to date he does not focus on societal debates he does not focus on legal political struggles he focuses on as a man living out his days confined to a bed in his brother's home br br played here in an amazing performance by javier bardem was a as the film begins he has been a for 26 years that condition was brought about as amenábar shows us through marvelously shot flashbacks by a diving accident was distracted by a beautiful woman miscalculated the water dove in snapped his neck and almost drowned as a he eventually began writing poetry some of which was published in a book entitled el infierno letters from hell in real life book became a best seller in spain perhaps taking artistic work as a cue amenábar has created an elegantly poetic film br br most of the sea inside is set inside bedroom the focus in these scenes is complex and sublime performance as a bardem is limited to moving his head and talking he has mastered subtle changes of expression and inflection to convey a deep character with a multifaceted intellectual approach to life bardem and amenábar have often waxing philosophical in understated speech but there's always a combination of a wicked sense of humor passion for the aesthetic including music and women and a sadness and even occasionally bitterness not far below the surface different underlying emotions occasionally break through like waves on the skin of the ocean br br the people interacts with most frequently facilitate this in complex ways these others include his sister in law mabel rivera who has been his chief caretaker since accident his brother josé who is one of the vocal objectors to wish to die and with whom there is an underlying unresolved issue it seems like maybe josé was the one to save from drowning his nephew javier who is perhaps the most understanding towards him a right to die advocate clara a pro bono lawyer julia belén whom he wanted because she had a degenerative disease cerebral dominant with and and would thus by more empathic and who he falls in love with and rosa lola a local woman who works at a and moonlights as a dj who heard about him from the media who wants to convince him to desire to live and who falls in love with him br br the bulk of the film consists of these characters interacting with in his room there are also a few other ancillary characters including father who remains oddly distant and a notorious and media conscious priest padre francisco josé maría pou who does his best to change mind via philosophy theology in a scene often mistakenly characterized as comic it has an attendant comic element but the scene is primarily very serious br br that most of the film takes place in room ingeniously gives the couple significant changes in setting greater impact room has a nice big window which he says he is satisfied with as an observation point on the world maybe even more importantly he regularly imagines the window as a launching pad through which he flies across the hillsides to the ocean which he always loved and which has been the most influential force in his life it provided his living when he was younger and took his mobility away amenábar gives us a fantastical sequence of imagining one of his flights to the sea it is beautifully shot with low angles presumably from a helicopter of the hills rushing by until we follow a stream to the wide open ocean which in this film represents freedom the infinite and natural forces br br the other significant change of setting arrives with finally taking to a wheelchair he otherwise refused them saying they mocked his immobility to make an appearance in court to help plead his case amenábar gives us a poignant melancholy travelogue shot subjectively of viewing life and the world in action from the car window br br whether you agree with euthanasia or not it's difficult to deny that this is a well acted well scripted and well constructed film you may not believe that it's a ten and that's even more unlikely if you disagree with euthanasia but it's still worth watching as a fine example of artistic sophisticated film making
1	facts i mar relates the well known at least in spain story of ramón a who killed himself helped by some friends after 28 years by his condition judges had denied several times his of active euthanasia br br facts ii mar becomes the movie of the year in spain everyone talks about it politicians singers ordinary people everyone likes it even the critics' opinions are unanimous the film wins a lot of prizes golden globe oscar goya and annoys catholic community and life lovers a star is born br br facts iii the intensity and the quality of the actors in mar are just amazing and this makes mi wonder how come we have to watch the same bad young actors in the most of spanish latest movies i don't know if javier bardem is a great actor or a great imitator there's quite a difference between one thing or the other anyway his job is just impressive as well as lola belén or the job of all the guest this is the actors selection the strong point in movie br br facts iv alejandro amenábar learned his lesson there at the cinema school there's no doubt about it he's got a privileged brain he takes good control of each and every one of the technical aspects he knows what the audiences want he knows how to touch the right chord even if that turns him into such a demagogue just like spielberg is one of idols br br facts and v if you criticize a movie such as mar it will seem like you have any kind of trouble with the moral issue the story tells about there's a trap in this kind of pictures you have to differentiate between the movie itself and the moral concepts if you don't like schindler's list that does not mean that you agree with hitler's philosophy or do you so for me it is a good film and an extraordinary story since it is a real story that makes it much more extraordinary self kind and everything but neutral no matter what amenábar or bardem have said about it those characters that are not in favor of euthanasia come to no good at all 50 hard 50 way too sentimental br br epilogue mar wouldn't be by no mean in my ranking of the best 50's spanish movies of all time nobody has special merits in the story but ramon himself he is the movie now alejandro amenábar is gonna become the more international spanish director ever maybe he'll go to live to hollywood but some of us would like to watch him filming a simple story without bit final twists without living dead nor dying alive the others is still his best movie br br my rate 7 10
1	this movie tells about the real life story of ramon who lived for 27 years lying in bed after having broken his neck and fights a battle to get legal permission for someone that can assists with his death br br javier bardem is one of best actors of his generation consider this he has to carry this movie with only his face unbelievable that he didn't even got an oscar nomination now we can all see that the academy is a joke the supporting cast was terrific the optimistic rosa his lawyer julia the rest of the family each and everyone has his her own opinion about the fact that ramon wants to die br br whether your for or against euthanasia put your opinions aside because this movie deserves to be seen by people all over the world half way through the movie i started crying and it didn't stop until the credits rolled this movie is so heartbreaking but also wonderful to watch and i can't wait to see it again i give it a 9 10 and in my opinion it is by far the best film of the year so far
1	the true story of a spanish ramón who fought for decades for the right to be this film along with the best picture winner of the same year million dollar baby caused a stir that year with their depictions of disabled persons desiring death both advocates for the disabled and unfortunately for the disability advocates conservative pro life groups protested both films and their oscar nominations the nominations also came during the entire terry debacle just to put it all in some historical perspective the protests especially from the disability groups against million dollar baby make some sense – the film clearly depicted without wavering the life of a as worthless the film's central character maggie fitzgerald becomes a doesn't seem to get any counseling whatsoever no help whatsoever and immediately wants to die the film is honestly pretty dumb and the sea inside based on the true story is certainly a lot more thoughtful on the subject it most likely got railroaded into the same category as million dollar baby without its protesters having even seen it an incredibly common phenomenon the film does give time to many different sides of the argument and it immediately declares that the wish to die is that of the protagonist and the protagonist alone it is guilty of a couple of crimes though and i'd still understand why disability groups could have a problem with it first and foremost there's the protagonist's meeting with a bishop i don't look kindly on the way he's depicted his orally operated wheelchair is depicted as absurd and there's almost a comic sequence where his effeminate boy toy servants are dragging him in his chair up the stairs he can't even reach the room in which ramón is located and one of the boy toys is forced to carry the conversation between them i had to think gee maybe if ramón lived in a slightly more wheelchair accessible household he wouldn't spend his entire life in bed and might find life more fulfilling who knows how closely the film depicts the reality director amenábar the others also includes some laughable scenes that try to make this film about suicide more life affirming like a cross cut sequence where ramón looks thoughtful and his lawyer's baby is born but besides a few ugly moments the film is very good it hurts that someone may want to die when they have the ability to bring so much joy and insight into the lives of others however in the end our lives do belong to us shouldn't we have the right to choose the film's strongest asset is its supporting characters and the actors who play them it depicts how fight and decisions affect those around him with a beautiful precision the family members in particular are great and final departure from them is absolutely heartbreaking and had me in tears my favorite performance in the film comes from lola whom i also felt gave the best or at least certainly most undervalued performance in almodóvar's last year
1	the sea inside a film by alejandro amenabar br br almodovar has always single handed the flag for spanish cinema for years now out of nowhere came amenabar reinventing genres and injecting some new blood to the otherwise spanish industry now in a big gamble he switches from psychological terror to social drama well the big ones would be are audiences ready to embrace the swing and more important can he hold the flag this is the story of ramon a sailor that in his twenties was paralyzed from the neck down in an accident at the sea and his fight with the spanish government for the right to end his life the story has the traces of an afternoon made for tv melodrama and the only way this is going to work is through words and honest performances and they both come in spades mateo gil and amenabar co write in a way where the audience is not meant to be lead blind to a death end but they are encouraged to make up their own minds in the process and that is a brilliant stroke this is not a movie pro death but a movie in favour of the ultimate illusions of our time liberty there is a few laughs spare a long the way like when the church comes home in a wheel chair to deconstruct beliefs but is mostly a valley of tears through out punches coming from all fronts even when you think you are safe his father that to that point didn't make any sense comes up with the most moving line of the entire movie it is a heartbreaking experience specially when seems more full of life than most the people wandering the streets and everyone around him tries to convince him of the wonders of life even those who are helping him to die… but when you strip a man of his the film is almost exclusively built on close ups bringing a claustrophobic feeling that makes the audience more sympathetic with that's for the actors a huge challenge that must construct their whole performances with their eyes and the eyes don't lie bardem was not granted his second oscar nomination probably in favour of eastwood but in my opinion he was the only one who could have shadowed fox this role reminds me of the great gregory peck in to kill a mockingbird where the acting looked effortless and i reckon bardem has reached that status where the line of what is acting and what is real has become completely blur i was never fond of his early work but since almodovar's live flesh he is on a roll los lunes al sol the dancer upstairs and the oscar nominated before the night falls made him an international star and although he and banderas come from the same almodovar background is fascinating to see how different paths they took and how bardem has now become a real reference for spanish cinema in the whole world a golden globe 14 goyas jury prize at venice and probably an oscar with permission from the chorus boys amenabar directs co write edits and puts music to a high caliber drama he has pull it off… what about some science fiction now whose life is it anyway
1	in spain the former sailor ramón javier bardem has been for twenty eight years and is fighting in court for his right of practicing euthanasia through an association that defends the freedom of choice and leaded by his friend clara ramón is introduced to the lawyer that is defending his cause julia belén who has a degenerative fatal disease and meets rosa lola a lonely worker that has been abused by men their relationship changes the behavior and viewpoint of life of rosa and julia br br the chilean alejandro amenábar is in my opinion one of the best contemporary directors his filmography released in brazil is composed by excellent and original movies abre los ojos tesis the others and mar javier bardem is probably the best actor in spain in the present days their association produced this sensitive drama about a very polemic theme the right of committing euthanasia this drama is never corny or depressive since the screenplay uses humor as a relieve valve in the most dramatic situations the performances of the cast are perfect with characters having and defending different positions regarding this unpleasant theme the dialogs and lines are very solid and intelligent i noted in imdb plot outline that this movie is based on the real life story of ramón unfortunately neither the movie nor the dvd gives this important information my vote is nine br br title brazil mar sea inside
1	this is a perfectly watchable adventurous movie to watch with a great cast and a good story based on true events br br it's interesting to note that the story of the movie is based on true events it's above all for most part an adventurous story with all of the usual ingredients you would expect from an adventurous movies set in an arabic world so lots of sword fighting good old fashioned honor religion and a rich proud country but the movie is also filled with humor to make the movie a light and pleasant one to watch br br the constant cutting back and forth between the morocco plot involving sean connery and candice berger and the american plot line involving theodore roosevelt brian keith wasn't the best possible approach in my opinion the two things have totally different paces totally different characters it are just totally different worlds of course both story lines are connected and focuses on the same thing but the contrast between the two worlds is just too big to let it work out it doesn't at all times make the movie feel connected and a bit disjointed the american plot line is most of the time more political while the plot line is purely adventurous and action filled in the end you could perhaps even wonder what the whole point or roosevelt in this movie was seem that john milius is just a big admirer of him often the american plot line would take away most of the pace out of the far more interesting and more action filled fast paced plot line after all john milius always has been at his best as an action director br br it isn't until halve way through that the movie fully gets on steam the most and largest scaled action of the movie then kicks in especially the large scale end battle does not disappoint i wish the entire movie was like this that way this movie would had also been a better known one no doubt br br the movie has a great jerry goldsmith musical score that is perhaps way better known than the actual movie itself the movie is also a good looking one with great production design and nice looking action and battle sequences in it appereantly the movie only costs 4 000 000 to make but that is really hard to believe considering the settings and size of the movie i mean john milius his best known movie conan the barbarian cost about 20 000 000 to make but was a far more campy looking one and was less impressive on its scale br br quite funny to see an arabic speak with a big fat scottish accent but hey it's sean connery so you just simply tend to accept this he suits his role well so does candice bergen it's always hard for a female character to come across as believable and work out in a movie such as this one but she manages also john huston plays a great role in this movie br br a perfectly fine watchable movie br br 7 10
1	alejandro amenabar the young and talented spanish director clearly shows us he is a serious film maker anyone doubting it should have a look at his latest film the sea inside this is a movie that has been rewarded with numerous accolades not only in spain but throughout the world wherever this wonderful movie has been shown br br if you have not seen the film perhaps you would like to stop here br br ramon is a man confined to bed being he depends on the kindness of strangers for everything since his accident ramon only thinks in one thing alone how to end his life this is the moral issue at the center of the story based on the real ramon life br br mr amenabar tells the story from ramon's point of view there is nothing here that is false or manipulative on his part after all he relies on facts that were well known in his country as this case became a cause celebre in favor of euthanasia a theme that no one in that country wanted to deal with in spain br br with its background of being a predominantly roman catholic country spain has evolved into one of the most democratic societies in europe a distinction that is more notable because of its long years dominated by a dictator yet in spite of the advances in that society the idea of taking one's own life is something not clearly understood by the majority of its citizens who still considered this subject as something that could not be done in their country br br ramon was a man that loved life he lived an intense life as a young man when he enlisted as a sailor to discover the world having no money this was the only way for him to see other lands experience other cultures ramon's love affair with the sea is something that people in galicia learn to love from their childhood imagine how that same friendly sea is the one that takes away ramon's life as he knew it in a second ramon goes from a vibrant young man into a vegetable br br ramon's family is shattered by the experience suddenly they must leave everything aside to take care of him at home his brother and sister in law are stoic people that deal with the situation as a matter of fact their lives become something of an afterthought because ramon's life comes first they tend to the sick man without protesting or blaming ramon for the sacrifices they must make to keep him alive br br that is why in their minds the can't comprehend ramon's wishes to end it all haven't they given up having a normal life to take care of him this moral issue weighs heavily on these uncomplicated and simple people because in their minds they are doing what came naturally br br the second subject of the movie is the legal issue of the euthanasia and the well meaning people that suddenly enter ramon's life in their desire to help him put an end to his suffering there's julia the lawyer who is herself handicapped and suffers from a rare there is rosa the fish worker who becomes infatuated with ramon br br javier bardem makes a brilliant ramon his transformation is total we don't doubt from one moment he is no one else but the paralyzed man on that bed mr bardem can only use his face in order to convey all the emotions trapped inside ramon mr bardem makes this man real this is perhaps javier best role of his career he surpasses his own award winning performance as arenas the late cuban poet he portrayed in before night falls br br in the supporting roles belen makes an impressive appearance as julia the woman fighting her own physical problems lola is also effective as rosa the kindred soul that loves ramon deeply as ramon's brother shows a man at a crossroads of his own life mabel rivera makes a compassionate the sister in law that never asks anything of life but tends to ramon without questioning why she has to do it at all br br mr amenabar also has composed the haunting music score for the film he is a man that never cease to surprise one wonders what his next project will be but one wishes him success in whatever he might decide to do in the future
1	i had the privilege to watch mar last friday and i am still shocked by its beauty the powerful work of every single actor and actress and amenabar's unbelievable ability to narrate the story of ramón who was well known in spain for asking for a legal euthanasia lost the court cause and eventually died in front of a camera drinking a glass with poison freezing all our hearts with his determination not to go on living forever because of an accident br br before watching the movie i was already mesmerized by the strong in its title which i would translate as into the sea and not as some suggest out to sea and which is taken from an original poem written by the man this story is about then i watched the movie oh my friends this is cinema with a capital c the narration flows to take you to the heart of every single character reincarnated in a bardem that you forget from the very beginning is in the center as a man full of sense of humour and full of hope and his hope is to die because for him the life he is living is not worthy to be lived the rest of the characters but one dance around him and respect his decision because they see him as a human independent being forgetting he depends on the others for everything even though they do love him so much and this is what the movie is about love you can feel it you can breathe it in the skin of every character you witness the growing of the feeling within three women who meet him in the movie the member of the association that defend his right to die with dignity his friend her story in the movie is the hope for us the lucky ones that can live a normal life in this world rosa the woman who meets a good man in the middle of her list of broken relationships and pain in the hands of all the men who used her and despised her julia the woman who shares a tragic destiny with ramón and eventually acts in a way we cannot but only understand br br however before meeting these women ramón knew what was love like because you cannot meet him without loving him and he is deeply loved by his family four characters unique in their humbleness and bravery each with their own thoughts about his decision each thought respectable in its own way because the terrible thing about this story is that nobody is to blame for what happened that sadly life sometimes is that terrible from this familiar quartet i specially liked mabel rivera's work as sister in law a terrific performance br br i would like to draw attention to three episodes that are for me the best climax points i have seen in a long time and if you haven't seen the movie don't read this pass over this paragraph and read again from the next one starting mar let the movie show its secrets to you the episodes i loved were 3 the best love scene i have seen in a movie when i really felt love invading the screen is when ramón dreams awake that he is flying to meet julia in the beach and they kiss each other 2 speaking by phone with ramón the day before he is going to do it and he tells her it is better they say goodbye at that very moment not to put her in trouble with the authorities and then she knows it is the last time they are going to talk and she has fought for his right to die but she does not want to lose him because she loves him as a true friend and even though she is respecting his decision at all cost 1 the best a young ramón in the beach looking at his girlfriend under the sun jumping to the water from the rocks to a sea that is retreating we see the crash we hear his voice recalling what happened and claiming he should have died that very moment the face of bardem face downward shown to us from the bottom and the hand of a friend who pulls him from the forehead and brings him back to a life that will be a hell for him in the next 30 years there are many others like the impressive ending in spite of the fact that in spain we know too well what ramon did br br mar did not deceive me amenabar never does but this time he has to thank the actors that took part in the project and who maybe took it personally because this is not just a movie it is an to a man who died alone when he was asking to die legally which meant for him as bardem pointed out dying with the people he loved and who loved him around
1	this story about a man's 28 year struggle for a death that would liberate him from his already dead body becomes a masterpiece to be remembered thanks to a team of artists in a state of grace directed written edited and scored by alejandro amenabar it touches you from the very first images and doesn't leave your eyes and your heart to rest until the last credits thanks to alejandro and a group of wonderful actors and actresses at their best bardem is an acting animal one of those few comedians that can make a masterpiece from almost any character the supporting actresses are great in their roles and the story is told with such a sensibility that one laughs and cries in the same minute as we used to do with the great old masterpieces the year's best film in all senses 10 10
1	this small quiet harmonious movie grows into a masterpiece on human dignity it is intelligently structured filled with meaningful little details and important side plots it tells a story of one man with great humanity without positioning itself politically but fostering life as a precious right not an obligation and underlining individual's right to choose it enjoys the richness of different landscapes mental and physical and languages important detail outstanding acting by each of the actors especially unbelievable javier bardem his screen presence has such a force that you forget that this is fiction the movie has a wonderful rhythm it is beautifully shot and outstandingly directed it takes real talent to make a movie on such a difficult theme with understanding humour and heart six stars out of five
1	director and co writer alejandro amenabar didn't make things easy for viewers of his taut a bit overlong but very disturbing story accurately based on a spanish man's struggle to obtain assisted suicide mar the sea inside is gripping and its impact far exceeds the time spent in the theater br br with the award winning canadian movie the barbarian invasions folks got to see a family along with a coterie of devoted friends address the wish of a beloved albeit irascible man to end his life in that movie the center of attention suffered from progressive incurable cancer and his descent into a terminal stage was fast emotional as the scenes were death was inevitable the question was how gentle could it be made through solicited intervention br br ramon brilliantly played by javier bardem is a different story for well over two decades he's been a because of a diving accident very sharp viewers may detect a terrible irony as to why he ended in that condition because of his dive once a world traveler and lover of beautiful women he now lies trapped in an immobile body his every need attended to by a truly devoted family who willingly surrender much of their privacy and time to sustain their beloved relation br br rosa lola a single mom of two small boys enters the household out of what might have been mere curiosity to learn about the paralyzed man's plight but she becomes both an emotionally supportive centerpiece for ramon as well as an amusing but occasionally aggravating presence a nice performance by br br the problem of course is that isn't sick in the normal sense he may well live for decades more with proper care so his softly but persistently voiced desire to end his life with dignity creates a moral dilemma for friends and relatives who not surprisingly react from different ethical and religious perspectives br br ramon is the poster quad of a group dedicated to changing spain's laws concerning assisted suicide death with dignity is their watchword gene clara is a sensitive activist who enlists the aid of pro bono counsel julia belen julia has her own health issues which carry an indefinite but catastrophic happily married to a devoted spouse she bonds emotionally with her client br br what follows is an acutely sensitive interplay of values and emotions ramon lives with his brother and wife their teenage son not the intellectual ramon is and his aged dad who can't stop grieving over his son's cataclysmic descent into absolute helplessness br br the moral and legal issues are played out through excellent acting and short vignettes including a courtroom scene in which formalism triumphs over any judicial interpretation that might take into account ramon's feelings and views it may be spain but the issues are alive in most countries including the u s br br especially amusing is a shouted first floor to bedroom debate between ramon with a drop in lecturing jesuit priest also a but one whose hidebound dogma casually masks the absence of a soul br br special kudos to mabel rivera ramon's sister in law for a wrenchingly authentic portrayal of a strong woman who holds the family together and the same compliment extends to belen julia who segues from objective advocate to close friend to a woman hurtling towards a dark fate br br the director imposes no value judgments allowing each character full range to express his or her feelings effectively and at times movingly like dead man walking this movie can support any view about its deadly subject br br no one can stop a person from committing suicide if he she is determined but the universal tragedy of the world's is that without assistance life in a body in which only the heart beats and only the head can move is a sentence no court could pronounce on the most depraved of criminals br br the cinematography is well matched to the story and the beautiful scenes are an intended contrast to the limited views the once globe trotting ramon experiences from his special bed br br 9 10
1	greetings again from the darkness director alejandro amenabar creates life against all odds in this based on a true story version of one man's struggle to control his destiny the great javier bardem is fascinating to watch in his role as ramon his eyes and head movements leave little doubt what is going on in his mind the dream and fantasy sequences are not overused so prove very effective in explaining why he wants what he wants rather than force us to answer the euthanasia question the real question posed is what is love at every turn we see people in love looking for love or dying to be loved the script is tight and keeps the film moving despite being filmed mostly in one room the supporting cast is wonderful and we truly feel their pain and how each family member deals with ramon's decision this is a gem and deserves to be seen
1	many more eloquent reviews than this have described the quite spectacular acting casting and styling of this film it appears that the only negative reviews focus on a perceived imbalance in the film's handling of the core moral question euthanasia br br this film is bar the final scenes meticulous in stressing ramon's belief that he's not making some grand point but merely that for him a life devoid of dignity is a life not worth living we as viewers see an enormous amount of dignity in his life we see family and friends and culture and but for its physical limitations a life fully lived central to the tragedy of this film is that there is really only one person who thinks that ramon's life is not worth living and that is him br br to watch this film and say that the only counter argument comes from the visit of a bumbling priest is a nonsense the priest's visit is pure farce a direct assault on the simplicity of the spanish catholic church's response to the issue of euthanasia however the sister's parting words to the priest momentarily expose the powerful 'pro life' sentiments quietly underpinning the entire film we are constantly encouraged to see the hope and the beauty of a life lived with love as the film progresses we may gradually be encouraged to understand ramon's reasoning but we are never reconciled to his decision br br i do not remember a film which moved me and provoked me as much as this
1	if you go to the cinema to be entertained amused so as to fill up your time do not go out of your way to watch this film br br if you go to the cinema to appreciate the depths of human kind the feelings of real people to explore the characteriology of personalities if you go to the cinema to absorb magnificent photography be sure to put this film very high on your list preferably in first place the experience is profoundly rewarding causing the intelligent viewer to make diverse over the meaning of life itself with alejandro amenábar has surpassed the best he has done to date and even redeemed certain deviations in his earlier films which smacked a little of being aimed at hollywood this is not the case with this visual poem put to music hollywood could never get anywhere near the effect of this inspired human and humane story br br in no way should one interpret as an apologia for euthanasia this story based on the real life of the fisherman ramón is a cry from the bottom of the heart for life and love a reaching out for human compassion for understanding emotions was an articulate and intelligent man who after a diving accident off the rocks of the coast as a young man was condemned to live the next 27 years in bed a 2001 tv was the first version of this man's life on which i have already commented however amenábar has succeeded remarkably at portraying this man with his permanent enigmatic smile and witty sense of humour in an equally articulate and intelligent way br br and javier bardem rose to the occasion met the challenge head on complete with a accent producing an electrifying compelling enthralling performance such that the actor and the fisherman become fused into being the same person on screen here indeed is an occasion to doff your cap and softly mutter bardem is driven on in his task by a magnificent cast especially belén lola mabel rivera los lunes al sol qv and clara and catalan accents taking prominent part br br amenábar produces wonderful dialogues as these six rotate among themselves one on one or in groups with excellent chemistry thus demonstrating that this young chilean born spanish director is an artist who knows what he is at and how to get his results his global concept of the film includes his own music interspersed with pieces by beethoven and on record player br br whilst viewing i found myself a couple of times comparing him and this film with stephen and his masterpiece 'the qv i refer to the way in which the dialogues work with tenseness and passion and that careful sense of timing in each scene br br javier photography is superb as usual as i have mentioned elsewhere on imdb he does not simply film the events and scenes he captures even the feelings and the atmosphere of the moment deftly catches that look in the eyes light and shadows such that his work behind the camera is at once another player in the story a superb artist br br is another landmark in the history of spanish cinematography among the best five or six works of art produced here in the last 25 years this film places itself alongside such cinematographic art as 'el qv 'los santos qv 'el qv 'la de las qv 'las qv 'a los que qv and i think i must add doy mis qv br br superbly orchestrated story of a real man and those who loved him around his bedside not to be missed
1	when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world she has beautiful and charming body when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body i think male have hard to resist i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what b has said the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotions aren't conveyed properly i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity in my view tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scenes she looks a bit lusty which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes i'm a bitter critic of aishwarya rai can't help it sorry for that was a good movie by and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat i was not at all impressed
1	i saw this movie at the locarno film festival in italian speaking part of switzerland br br aishwarya rai is good looking br br i rate this movie 7 10 because of its nice moments br br spoilers ahead br br it has some really nice cinematic moments in it specially at the end br br though my general feeling is this is too long over 2 hours and 40 minutes and containing too much dialogs and nearly no dancing at all br br clearly a bollywood movie like lagaan or devdas is quite a different kind of movie compared with bali
1	writer director john milius takes a little known incident from american history and extrapolates wildly in all the right ways the result is a grand adventure tale that showcases two of its stars in memorable larger than life roles sean connery as the wily arab sheik with an inexplicable scottish brogue and brian keith as president theodore roosevelt itching for the chance to put that big stick to good use br br aided immeasurably by billy williams' glorious widescreen cinematography and a magnificent score by the always reliable jerry goldsmith this early effort seemed the harbinger of a talent to rank with contemporaries lucas coppola and spielberg although milius served up tantalizing glimpses of his ability in scripts for johnson and apocalypse now his career seemed to take a downward turn not long after he started directing ultimately foundering on dreck like conan the barbarian and red dawn br br here's hoping that he will again find his way
1	its a very sensitive portrayal of life with or constrained desires what does one do with desire in a culture and society with rigid norms one husband finds outlet with the immigrant since immigrants don't belong or aren't accepted they don't need to conform and dam their desires the other husband looks for solace in spirituality and tries to evaporate his desire into nothingness it fails of course and he breaks down in the last scene for multiple reasons sita still cared enough for him to find that moment to let him know that he is not responsible for her deviant outlet to her blocked desires the mother in her still couldn't find the strength to destroy his myth she sees him as a child who is glorifying himself in his lust control but should she give him the opportunity to finally grow up both the wives find courage and togetherness through their shared rejection by their husband br br but the final act of rejection was by the grandmother she could not break free from her rusted mindset to accept desire a decade and more of receiving care was not enough to break the shackles of her culture br br seems like it was easiest for the to let his desires flow since he's anyway damned by his culture being at the bottom of the hierarchy since there is anyway no respect and expectations might as well taste sin
1	it seems a lot of europeans and americans see indian movies for the wrong reason i see some people are complaining that this movie did not have any dance sequence a class apart from their hindi counterparts movies tend to be more realistic is one of the best young directors in india being widely known for his choice of subjects for the movies and the strength of his scripts is a perfect example a faithful adaptation of the nobel laureate novel dealing with the pursuit of sexual pleasure of a widow the director gives a new dimension to the much acclaimed and controversial work
1	its very tough to portray a tagore novel along cinematographic lines and if you forget an obscure production of 1967 then its the first time that bali has been done on a grand scale overall the sets looked fantastic with the right touches for making a successful period drama so used to doing crass commercial stuff made a good effort i saw the version and found that voice was dubbed which made her dialog delivery a bit poor while the director did a good job portraying each of the characters with finesse yet there was very little in the way of meaningful plot probably a lack of the story itself however the development of the characters including those with minor roles seem to be the strongest point its tough to make some tagore stories into films as only the visual parts seem to get realized
1	the hindi version of the film is minutes set in bengal in the early 1900's the film based on novel draws an analogy between the british colonization of india and the subjugation of women an educated and beautiful woman becomes a widow within a year of her marriage but she does not accept the constraints imposed on her as a widow by her society the film has a beautiful look to it but perhaps aishwarya rai is out of her depth in portraying strong character with its subtle combination of idealism and idealism does not come across and as a result the analogy between women and colonization remains somewhat buried
1	what do you do if you're aishwarya rai coming off of a blockbuster film like with some skeptical critics still relentlessly unsatisfied with your astounding performance or convinced by your strong screen presence and stellar acting skills what do you do go home sit down and pout no if you're aishwarya rai you sign yourself up for the next strong period piece that comes along and continue to prove yourself worthy of all the praise kudos great scripts and equally great roles and that's just what she did with and in bali a passion where she stars and shines as a young widow who causes controversy way ahead of her time directed by who later goes on to direct her in the equally stellar chatterjee devdas in costars
1	i bought the dvd a long time ago and finally got around to watching it i really enjoyed watching this film as you don't get the chance to see many of the more serious better quality bollywood films like this very well done and but i would say you need to pay attention to what is going on as it is easy to get lost when you start watching the movie don't do anything else i would actually advise people to read all the reviews here including the ones with spoilers before watching the movie sen gave her first great performance that i have seen aishwarya was easily at her best all performances were strong directing and cinematography go watch it
1	i concur with what b has said the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotions aren't conveyed properly i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity in my view tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scenes she looks a bit lusty which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes i'm a bitter critic of aishwarya rai can't help it sorry for that was a good movie by and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat i was not at all impressed
1	i saw 2 hour version of choker bali i cannot say that is long the movie has a certain natural pace to it and does not seem to lag at any time the costume and the set are reminiscent of what we would see in old movies br br aishwarya rai has done a good job of acting it is indeed a mature role with enough scope for acting within the story the script also supports the story very well acts as the unfortunate widow whose husband dies in the first year of marriage the movie is about the passions and desires of such a character and the conflict she faces with the downtrodden condition of widows in those times br br her best friend in this movie is played by sen has also been well handled her innocence and her admiration of aishwarya's capability to speak english and act educated has been done very well these are indeed some of the prevailing mindsets of those times we can see how far we have come from such an era br br the movie speaks of womens liberation as subtle line of the story i found the development of the story very similar to also written by tagore it does rope in some action from the independence struggle and puts in contrast the struggle for indian independence against the silent struggle for womens rights br br a well made movie definitely worth watching aishwarya's acting par excellence has handled the story with great care yet another classic from tagore
1	bali – a passion play br br based on novel of the same name this is a classic tale of deception adultery and relationship exploitation set in 1900 bengal director transformed the nobel acclaimed literature into a delightful visual treat br br story elaborately deals with the society through his central character the rebellious widow who wants to live a life of her own we are taken into the picturesque part of bengal where we meet our heroine the beautiful young widow aishwarya rai br br despite her gorgeous looks two handsome men the rich and his friend toto denied marrying her br br chooses a naive sen over and marries her leaving behind the country life the free spirited accompanies mother to calcutta as a caretaker soon her friendship with flourishes it looks like the two addressing each other as sand in the eyes share an enduring bond the english speaking captures a special place in the house but soon she unmasks her real face manipulating good natured gets closer with and fulfills her sexual desires br br when she is thrown out by the enraged mother of seeks solace from a reluctant the remaining part of the story shows how the lives of these four characters and culminate in an unimaginable aishwarya walks through the manipulative rebellious lady still gaining the viewer's a ballet dancer's elegance the other lead chatterjee sen and toto equally brilliant in enacting their characters br br while tagore penned this story at the turn of the 20th century the very idea of widow marriage was a taboo even among the upper class narrating the nations' freedom movement in parallel the author asserts the importance of individual freedom from the caged life kudos to the art director who gave life to the early 20th century bengal and applause to the cinematographer for capturing those sets with verve br br this play ' by tagore has been fervently converted to the screen by the filmmaker without loosing its originality
1	bali was shown at the washington dc filmfest april 15 2005 the director was there to give a short introduction and answer questions afterwards br br as always i think aishwarya did a fantastic job i can understand those who think she should be been more aggressive or more bitchy but would that really be realistic in 1904 possible maybe realistic i'm not so sure i think her interpretation was valid although there could certainly be other ways to do it br br i hate to use the word but this was the most inaccessible of the indian movies i have seen so far i know a fair amount of indian history hindu religion etc but the level of detail here was far beyond me clearly you would have a much better understanding of the movie if you were intimately familiar with hinduism and its customs esp as they were c 1904 i missed a lot of things one of them being the fact that the mother in law would want in the house as sort of a counter weight to her daughter in law br br spoilers had several things to say that explained the movie much better for me first the original version was 20 minutes longer so what was left out apparently three main things a beginning segment where aishwarya leaves e bengal for calcutta according to the director different characters are speaking w vs e setting up some of the political comments later of course all of this is lost in the hindi version and certainly to a non indian like me it wouldn't have mattered anyway but a set up of the situation sure would have next there was a segment where was writing a poem a sign of her independence etc finally some more business about the jewellery so although some people think it was too long i think the original longer version would have been clearer br br the women's hair was apparently another sign again the mother in law had short hair short hair for hindu widows her sister also a widow had longer hair more modern and of course aishwarya had extremely long waist length hair rejection of status of widowhood br br the ending really threw me all of a sudden who had never had a political thought is writing a political manifesto whoa explained that he was in locarno at a film festival when the subtitles were done the subtitles use the word country throughout letter gosh said a more appropriate word would have been i forget his exact word something like self or independence she was talking about her own liberation and finding herself not about bengal india and the british so why does just disappear the day after finding again apparently because during her stay on the she realizes that she doesn't need a man any man to define complete her she can just be herself so she rejects who she threw herself at a few months before and just goes off of course i'm not sure how she buys her next meal but that's another question br br the red shawl again she buys represents revolution as well as passion i'm not 100 sure why she puts the shawl on the dying woman but perhaps she is rejecting passion revolution the binoculars which uses throughout the movie to watch and the boat on the etc she is being a voyeur to see a life she yearns for but can't have at the end i missed this she leaves the binoculars on the table with the letter showing that she doesn't need them any more she's going off to lead her own life br br finally the tagore quote at the beginning saying how he apologized for the ending apparently tagore wrote this as a serial hooking his readers with the sexy widow bits but at the end he sold out to conservatism and had kneel down at the feet of and begging their forgiveness one of his students wrote to tagore taking him to task for his sell out ending and tagore replied with his apology for the ending in the movie of course goes in the other direction
1	i´ve been able to see this great movie at the fantasyfilmfest in berlin and when i went out of the cinema i felt like being drugged down g i´ve really seen lots of movies and there are just a few i´d call perfect like fight club or koyaanisqatsi subconscious cruelty is now one of them half of the people watching it in berlin went out of the room and i can understand this absolutely because it can be a real shock for someone living in his her perfect world day by day dreaming his her dreams not thinking bout the horror on our planet in our life i don´t think i have to describe the story of the film for you because of the people having already written on this page it´s a movie that shows everything and more gets 10 points from 10 it´d be cool if you people who have also seen it loving it would write me an e mail so far i haven´t met anyone as impressed and pleased by it as i am finally sorry for my bad english i´m not a studied person und das ist gut so
1	this is one great sweeping movie you will remember for a long time it is about history america the change of times teddy roosevelt morocco a kidnapped american and her children and the leader of the with the blood of the prophet in his veins br br this movie is based on a true story like jesse james was a banker an american was kidnapped in morocco and the marines went part way to the shores of to rescue him so much for that you know hollywood sean connery is the berber chieftain and muslim leader candice bergan is the guy who was kidnapped along with her two kids the son is rex harrison's grandson simon no less john huston is secretary of state with a great john huston style straight line at a state dinner watch out for it brian kieth is teddy roosevelt all american all male a character that is an interesting commentary as modern as today br br the sweep and beauty of the desert and morocco are shown beautifully in the cinematography in this film which will stay with you a haunting and compelling memory the score is as sweeping and exotic as the images br br this is a story about two cultures both with grand ideas and historic pasts struggling for the future without an idea at all about one another in any event the struggle comes down to might versus ingenuity br br then at the last there is the little boy remember the little boy what do you think he thinks
1	i´ve seen this piece of perfection during the fantasy filmfest in berlin and when i went out of the cinema i felt like being drugged down i´ve seen a lot of films but there are just a few that i´d call perfect like koyaanisqatsi or fight club subconscious cruelty is definitely one of them half of the people went out of the screening in berlin and i can understand them absolutely this is not a movie for normal people with dreams and illusions a person that is living in his her dreams day by day not wanting to see all the horror in our life and on our planet will be very shocked by this film if someone reads this now who has seen s c and also thinks it´s great just contact me so far i haven´t met anyone who shares my opinion it´d be cool this film earns 10 points out of 10 finally i´m really sorry for my bad english i´m not a studied person und das ist gut so g
1	the dreams of are to be feared when the right hemisphere of his characters overpowers the left shocking images of blood dismemberment and various abominations are released religion won't save you nor will mother nature or your own family dark poetry because that's what this film really is all institutions of sanctuary br br is a current crowd pleaser on the horror fantasy festival circuit the film's opening meditation on madness is both well written and profound the protagonist's desire to profane the birthing process which brought him into the hell he inhabits unfolds with horrific and credible illogic from here the film continues deeper into the and tackles mother nature offers depictions of lusty pagan fertility and writhing mushroom madness nature is exposed as blood drenched and violent in frightening enlightenment br br is disturbing to all and rewarding to those who see past the shock into the mature themes of life lust and madness this very worthy film explores cj goldman deserves kudos for his special make up as do david for unnerving sound design and suzuki for score
1	when you have waited years to see a film that you have heard on the grape vine about obviously your expectations are high right f k yeah but when this baby dropped through my door little did i know what f ed up visuals would grace my tv and warp my fragile mind first off hussein is a film fan like all of us growing up on a diet of argento fulci lynch etc and it shows in this film but in a good way although i didn't really know what the hell was going on on my first watch of this gem i was just amazed by the visuals the lighting and of course the performances from everyone who was involved must have truly believed that he was going to push the boundaries in film making which trust me he does and that he was going to have a hard job convincing the actors to do the same br br so what can i tell you about subconscious cruelty well without spoiling it its a deep insight into the human psyche with images of violent and sexual madness which toils into madness a truly unforgettable experience br br keep you eye on hussein he can only go onto better things br br i viewed the full uncut print of subconscious cruelty on a double disc dvd from infliction films which is loaded with extras please note there is a censored hong kong release out there avoid this version
1	i finally got hold of the excellent dvd of this film which is loaded with interesting extras i have read quite a lot about it and i unfortunately missed it at the stockholm film festival it doesn't quite deliver as i thought it would but it is still worth watching if you like strange and unique movies i much rather watch this again than any of the recent so called horror films vomited out of hollywood these days what detracts from the experience for me is certain music cues which sound dated and rely too much on cheap synth sounds for me all these tonal harmonic elements of the score could have been lifted out and replaced by david excellent sound design but that is just my opinion otherwise this is a daring angry picture with welcome meditative and poetic parts like the fading of the photograph sequence which is beautiful i look forward to seeing ascension and i applaud mitch and for their efforts in producing non mainstream cinema they are a great inspiration as i soon embark on my own short film production
1	masterpiece of art gore this cat is definitely a talent to look out for we have in this several longer vignettes with some shorter segues this is all in all a very powerful film that relies on its intense graphic imagery and symbolism and it is not for all viewers br br the film kicks off with a short called eyeball very short segment that has a nude woman placed on a table naked an unseen woman's hand covers the woman's face with a red cloth and makes an incision in her abdomen out of which an eyeball stalk is extracted i've got nothing too much to comment on this one due to its brevity br br human larvae is one of the films and it is a totally unflinching portrayal of a perverse act committed by a disturbed man who has an incestuous love for his pregnant sister this is one of those must be seen to be believed type things i will say that this film has some of the best effects i've seen in an indie horror film but the subject matter will make this an undeniably unpleasant experience for most not me though i live for this br br rebirth could have been cut out of this film all together this is the film's weakest segment and it has a bunch of nude people f cking bloody holes in a field and whatnot very short but this one kind of blows the film's momentum br br right brain martyrdom is one of the most profane representations of religious imagery that i have ever seen and it totally kicks ass think p christ or blood paintings of the virgin mary very hard sexual sexually violent gory imagery is presented in this piece and it is definitely not for anyone who will be offended by sacrilege br br subconscious cruelty is one of the best films i've seen under the banner of extreme horror it will be a very divisive film amongst horror fans and the filmgoing public in general some will call it trash some will call it brilliant i don't see much middle ground i thought this film was pretty damn original and i will recommend it to anyone who is adventurous enough to try it 9 10
1	going into this movie i knew two things about it i knew that it was a real extreme flick and i knew that it was somewhat artsy both appeal to me in their own right but when placed together it can be something truly unique and this was damn right without a doubt unique like i said above it is an artsy film the way they used some intense sound it reminded me a lot of an aronofsky film visually i haven't seen anything like it the cinematography and lighting were done very well the movie seriously uses visuals and sounds better than anything i've seen in a while especially when you consider the experience these young filmmakers had couple 20 year olds you really have to take your hat off to them br br the movie isn't easy to describe or even discuss there isn't an actual story… you could say it revolves around the right and left side of the brain and how they control your think it's four segments or four ideas brought alive through visual and auditory extremes there is some talking hear and there but it's mostly a non speaking film br br the first segment is the shortest and it revolves a naked body and an eyeball try and guess what wrong the second segment is my favorite it involves a brother and a sister who looks a little like sarah silverman but with bigger boobs the brother is crazy and the sister is somewhat of a whore i would say this is the most extreme of all the segments and the most well made the gore effects in this one were great the third segment revolves around a bunch of naked people it up with mother earth it's probably considered the weakest of the bunch but still is smart and well made the fourth segment is probably the strongest of the film and i'd also say the deepest for myself i'll have to view this a couple times to understand what's truly being said i know that it tackles christianity in a way that would most likely make your mother feint or throw give it a try br br subconscious cruelty was recommended to me and i'm proud to say this is now in my movie collection it's extreme violent gory very sexual and surprisingly pretty damn thought provoking the next line i'm about to say has been used in almost every review i've read for this film this movie is not for everyone now ain't that the truth if you're into extreme films and or you're just a lover of film that wants to see something check this out 8 1 2 outta 10
1	well it's safe to say that subconscious cruelty is one weird film supposedly an insight into the human mind subconscious cruelty is comprises four macabre and bizarre tales of the extreme the first segment entitled is really just a warm up but it's good in that it gives the viewer an idea of what to expect from the next three segments it simply sees a naked woman laid out on a table while another woman cuts into her abdomen and pulls out a human eyeball i've got no idea what the point is but it certainly makes for visceral viewing the following story is the best of the bunch and takes in the old favourite sick movie theme of incest the segment follows a man who lives alone with his pregnant sister he's repulsed by her pregnancy yet he wants to have sex with her anyway and naturally he gets his way this story stands out because of the monotonous and of narration as well as the ending which doesn't fail to deliver the shocks this segment is well acted well filmed and easily the highlight of subconscious cruelty br br naturally the next two sections aren't as good as the second one so the only way from there is down but director still manages to pull something out of the bag before the film ends he doesn't do it right away however as the third segment is the weakest of the film and simply sees a lot of people have sex with the ground it's very surreal and therefore memorable for that same reason but there doesn't seem to be a lot of point to it and i was in the mood for something a bit more morbid after the second section the film ends on a high however as while i'm not entirely sure what the point was the final segment features the film's best imagery this segment focuses on religion and certainly isn't for anyone that values it director has achieved something here as while this collection of four 'extreme' stories doesn't come together as a complete whole the film almost feels tasteful as it's shot in such an eloquent and eye catching manner the director would seem to have been imitating the highly respected surreal director luis buñuel albeit with gore rape and incest and if you ask me he hasn't done a bad job at all not for everyone but certainly worth a look for extreme fanatics
1	subconscious cruelty has to be one of the most disturbing films i've ever seen salo and cannibal holocaust didn't bother me that much but there's a strange psychological element to subconscious cruelty this film invades your subconscious mind with shocking taboos surrealist visuals and one of the most unsettling film scores and sound designs repulsive at times yes but its visual flair can be compared to avant gard directors such as alejandro jodorowsky dario argento dusan makavejev and david lynch take the most extreme elements of those 4 directors and throw in the graphic violence of a film by fulci and you might be able to guess what you're in for br br the film is divided into 4 parts the first part the eye is real short a narrator tells us about the the parts of the brain and its functions then a nude woman gets her stomach cut open and an eyeball is pulled out the second part human larvae is kind of like the film eraserhead but with incest it deals with a man's sexual obsession with his pregnant sister where's when you need him the third part is my absolute favorite it reminds me of begotten and jame's broughton's 1972 short film in this segment people have sex with the earth men hump bloody holes in the ground girls masturbate with tree branches the branches bleed when broken watch in horror as a man gives fellatio to a knife sticking out of a woman's vagina these people really know how to get in touch with nature br br the last part of the film is the most disturbing and at times it borders on hardcore pornography this part of the film made me think of jodorowsky's the holy mountain sweet movie and cannibal holocaust i've never been more disturbed in my life by what i witnessed a business man gets his privates pulled apart by fishhooks yuck and ouch two women urinate on a christ figure and proceed to eat him like communion bread and him with a tree branch poor guy the last part was so extreme that if i ever watch the film again i'll have close my eyes or slightly fast forward and mitch davis are obviously very talented to think they did this project in there early 20's hussein went on to direct the tarkovsky influenced ascension 2002 which is a much better film and he co write the screenplay for nacho after dark horror masterpiece the abandoned subconscious cruelty is a fascinating and unsettling journey with images that come from the unthinkable realm of everyday human minds well sort of
1	finally watched this shocking movie last night and what a disturbing mindf it is and unbelievably bloody and some unforgettable scenes and a total assault on the senses looks like a movie from the minds of lynch specifically eraserhead buttgereit and even a little of begotten what this guy does to his pregnant sister is beyond belief but then again did it really happen or is it his brain's left and right sides doing battle that's the main theme of this piece of art to draw a fine line between fantasy and reality and what would happen if the right side of the brain that dreams and fantasizes overtakes the reasoning and logical left side and the music in this movie is unbelievable a kind of electronic score that is absolutely perfect even though this movie is totally shocking and pretty disgusting in some of the most extreme scenes including hard core sex you will ever see in any movie i viewed it as a work of art and loved it and that music still amazes me i have to try and find the soundtrack if is available watching subconscious cruelty is a real event and not something the viewer will easily forget and a note to gorehounds this is a must have br br warning be careful buying this movie because some prints have fogging on the graphic sex scenes and extreme gore especially the copies from the japanese release
1	first off this film will not be for everybody there are scenes of extreme graphic violence and disturbing images that by their nature alone will turn off many possible potential viewers obviously from the reviews on this board subconscious cruelty has divided those that have seen it i'm among the ones who liked it very much for several different reasons i feel this was a very ambitious and quite competently pulled off undertaking for a bunch of 18 19 year olds with no budget and little experience i think that each aspect of the film the direction the acting though the character's performances are more likened to stage or free form performance because of the nature of the film the production the fx the score sound design all are far superior to many films i've seen that exceed these kids budget and experience ten fold i honestly haven't been this impressed with an art house style horror film since nacho genesis br br first off i'm not going to pretend to understand and or grasp all of the graphical content in this film but knowing that this wasn't a straight narrative type of film when i went into it i wasn't disappointed with how it played out subconscious cruelty is 4 relatively short vignettes that all sort of revolve around the theory of right brain left brain lust anger psychosis vs restraint compassion normalcy to very briefly give a synopsis of each chapter br br eyeball basically just has a naked girl who has an eyeball cut out of her abdomen i'm sure it's symbolic of something i don't think i was paying that much attention at that point and this one blows by pretty quick br br the next episode human larvae is a nihilistic horrific genuinely creepy story of a guy who's both in love with and repulsed by his pregnant sister who gives into his growing psychosis which leads up to the shocking conclusion of that particular chapter human larvae is the best of the bunch in my book and will probably get under your skin the dead pan narrative dialog accentuates the growing tension as you know something horrible is going to happen but you're not quite sure what it is do yourself a favor and if you are interested in seeing this film don't do too much research on it come into it with an open mind and an iron stomach and i think you be pleasantly surprised especially with this particular episode br br rebirth has a bunch of people in a field screwing the ground and blowing trees and stuff apparently an arty interpretation of the rape of the earth or something to that effect not bad but this one is pretty short too and i sorta missed the point on it br br and right brain martyrdom seems to be about religion and religious hypocrisy and also along with human larvae has some of the hardest images messages of the whole feature br br eyeball isn't anything to write home about mainly because of it's very short running time but does make a decent segue into the insanity to come and rebirth is also kind of short and not quite as thought provoking but human larvae especially and right brain martyrdom are so off the wall and well done that they more than make up for the other parts i think the main reason that i liked this one so much is that as shocking repulsive violent and excessive as it is it is also done very beautifully and you can tell this was a real labor of love from those involved nothing about the film feels cheap or rushed and even if the content isn't completely decipherable it's undeniably original and that alone up's the points some in my book not that every weird art house film that has an unintelligible plot should be praised for it's originality but subconscious cruelty is the type of film that i do think i'll watch a few more times in the near future to see what other interpretations i may gain from it again this film is absolutely not for everyone with some very extreme scenes of gore murder rape incest sacrilegious imagery etc that is definitely there to shock the viewer into taking a harder look at this film i have to say it worked for me and i'm anxiously awaiting the collaboration that is rumored to come next check this one out if you have the stomach for it 9 5 10
1	i like the wind and the lion very much it was a good movie i thought that since i'm young and it was made so long ago i wouldn't like it all that good but after i saw it i was amazed of how good it was my family liked it my friends liked it everyone i showed it to liked it i liked it because it showed how arabs and people in was treated during the early 1900's by the germans french and even the americans if i was a high school history teacher i would definitely show it to my student's from a high schooler's point of view i give this movie a good 10 out of 10 my grandparents liked it so much they bought it for themselves my little 3 year old cousins even sit down and watched it br br
1	subconscious cruelty has to be one of the most beautiful films i have ever seen still it's extremely grim and gory at times so fans of politically correct mainstream horror garbage shouldn't bother the film mixes many wonderful visuals with plenty of sleaze and gore it is extremely odd vicious and disturbing so fans of bizarre cinema won't be disappointed my favourite segment from subconscious cruelty is human larvae which shows us a twisted relationship between a young man and his pregnant sister the birthing scene is particularly nasty and not easily forgotten the last segment right brain martyrdom has to be seen to be believed it's incredibly harsh and blasphemous with scenes of genital mutilation and grisly torture we see jesus christ captured by three naked females who mutilate him ripping flesh from his chest licking a wound on his knee and pissing on him there is also a jesus statue with a projection of a swastika on it subconscious cruelty is a truly memorable film that should be seen by fans of extreme cinema check it out
1	the movie and the earth did not swallow him based on the book by tomas rivera is an eye opening movie for most people it talks about the exploitation that migrant go through in order to survive br br sergio perez uses impressionistic techniques to depict rivera's story he uses sienna and gray scale effects to depict some of the scenes and he uses specific photographic techniques to make the scenes look like they took place in the 1950s br br perez also gives life to the film by using time appropriate music including and guitar playing br br i feel that it is a good film to view because it shows in detail how migrant live what they do for entertainment and their beliefs
1	i was very moved by the young life experiences of a man who rose so high in the academic world a hard life surrounded by the love of a close family and extended family of companion workers created a person able to succeed in the world for the most part the hispanic culture is shown as i have always observed and admired hardworking optimistic and truly family oriented the points of religious superstition were quite authentic to the catholic church without a doubt the actress who played the mother deserves an academy award her prayers for her missing son moved me to tears i will recommend this stunningly thoughtful film to my friends and family
1	recently finally available in dvd 11 11 08 film and the earth did not swallow him 1994 is based on one of the most highly regarded and discussed novels in literature tomás rivera's y no se lo la and the earth did not devour him 1972 is still generally acknowledged by many critics and serious readers as the classic novel originally written in the spanish characteristic of south texas and also translated into english rivera's novel continues as an indispensable presence within the literary landscape br br film originally made as a highly rated american playhouse pbs production has taken some time to be released in dvd one can only wonder about this matter because its high quality is not an issue the film and now dvd however remains so far as i know the only cinematic adaptation of any novel and clearly is a tribute to earth's incredible staying power this cinematic version also strikes an exceptionally deep rooted nerve that is i maintain both specifically ethnic yet also generally universal doubts about earth perhaps might have arisen because it is too ethnic too alien from a basic american mainstream too much a foreign art indie too limited in economic resources yet perez in his version of art in my opinion connects very effectively artistically and creates a sharply etched portrayal of a migrant collectivity that focuses on daily family life as far as a production done with relatively limited economic resources its lovely cinematographic work and haunting music go much beyond its available funding simply viewing the film makes manifest this film's or dvd artistic value br br briefly … and the earth did not swallow him portrays in a neo naturalistic way the plight the suffering and the despair of migrant laborers as they follow the crops from south texas to minnesota in 1952 the local priests bless the beat up overstuffed vehicles of these laborers who can no longer find work in the area and must follow the agricultural trail of the migrant worker this collectivity like the depression era joads in steinbeck's the grapes of wrath forms an epic tide driven by economic need a survival instinct and anguished despair and ultimately a barely flickering faith a tribute to these people of the earth a collective hero the dvd is centered on a focal family and most especially emblematic is a young protagonist within the family a boy perhaps twelve or so this work then also functions as a ultimately the viewer's sense of identification is generated through the experiences subjectivity and the struggles of the protagonist poverty alienation child labor illness and a pregnancy death discrimination school the boy's escapism from the bullies of discrimination is spent lying down in a lovely peaceful cemetery are laid bare as matter of also symbolically worse still the problematic conflict between the youngster and his mother goes beyond socio economics and political conflict into deeper realms of psychology and metaphysics in a desperate but artistically rendered struggle the youth battles his mother an archetypical mexican american traditionalist a representative of god's will content with prayer resignation consolation and acceptance the rebellious youth cannot believe in a god that would permit such evil and suffering to be visited upon them how can god be so cruel he asks since his little sister is certainly purely innocent as to come down with serious illness in the fields at this point the boy must overcome obstacles even more daunting than poverty and discrimination the issues now include death doubt and despair and lack of meaning and he has few resources available to of character his own will power his intelligence and a powerful survival instinct in this desperate but artistically rendered struggle the unnamed youngster the central figure feels the necessity of his enduring of his achieving a heightened sense of meaning and the viewer hopes a renewed and strengthened life force that can serve as an inspiration to and others br br this stark battle makes use of a plot device just touched on by the original work to tie the episodic work together missing immigrant laborers from mexico who leave no trace upon their death although this dvd deals not with mexican but mexican american migrant laborers a highly existential work anguish and despair a quest a focus on a project and under the auspices of free will in spite of the deterministic socio economic and religious circumstances br br perez has a long list of credits basically as a documentary filmmaker his many awards are the producer paul is also well known and has been likewise honored for his work the 1994 film in fact won and deserved a number of awards first place audience favorite at the santa barbara film festival in 1995 first place at the cairo film festival and a number of other well deserved awards br br in my opinion this film and dvd earth by perez is the best film that has been made
1	i first saw all the rivers run on tv when i was a kid and loved it it was great seeing a mini series that was set and filmed in a place so close to home living fairly close to i loved going to the historic port to see the paddle steamers the first one i ever had a ride on was the philadelphia in the movie i love how it takes its time to let the events unfold nothing feels rushed as most movies are today the acting was fantastic all the rivers run was perfectly cast and i just love the crew of the philadelphia mac is always amusing to watch with his trademark raw onion sandwich after a big night out easily deserves a 10 out of 10 and is one of my favorites mini series of all time along with the dynasty
1	as an adventure mini series this is about as good as it gets i viewed it when it was originally shown on hbo sigrid is totally believable in her role as philadelphia and the whole production was first rate see all 400 minutes of it if you can i highly recommend this mini series amazing that i can't rate it officially but for you readers users i will let you know it's a solid 10
1	sigrid thornton seachange was seemingly born to fill the role of cato's philadelphia gordon in this story that is often compared with margaret mitchell's american civil war classic gone with the wind waters heaven tonight is in arguably his best role also as her love interest and the two leads head a wonderful australian cast in this arguably the most well known and best loved of australian miniseries it's br br an outstanding production all round though don't try watching all of it in one hit and it deserves to be remembered as a magnificent portrayal of life in pre federation australia rating 8 10
1	i have to hold barney drilling my head every day well i guess there must be reasons first i'm convinced that our kids are not they are just kids but they know my 1 and a half years old son selects what to see what's nice or disgusting did you see the news do you think your kids have to know the reality as it is maybe or maybe not we the adults have the responsibility about what we want for our kids and what to teach them a film of drug dealers news about massacres in middle east of course the kids must know there is a real life but they are kids let's give them some mercy what do you want for them if you wanna have kids trained on weapons or the best way to kill a neighbor go ahead impose them lethal weapon kill bill any anime tell them santa's a depraved who enters through the chimney directly to violate them i want illusions for my son don't get me wrong i'm not saying barney and friends is the best in fact the show have a lot of defects i read other comments and i agree with most maybe the happiness is made of dreams or illusions at least i want to teach him to grow without fear but cautious that learns to think and believe that everything is not serial killers or hijackers whom they're reasons to worth to grow that at least he can be a little happy with his own dreams so parents don't underestimate your kids they know what they want
1	i have seen this show when i was younger it is a really good show to watch it is very educational for children 1 to 8 years old barney is definitely super de duper b j is pretty funny bop is very cute the kids are very cool too this show is about learning about numbers kinda like sesame street but different type of show and characters like barney the purple dinosaur b j the yellow dinosaur with a baseball hat on his head and baby bop the cute green dinosaur with a pink bow the first one that started was very old barney and friends show but then the second one was different to be new episodes also the last one in the 2000 was new scene of barney's park they also have a show of barney at universal studios in florida where you see barney b j and baby bop and then when the show is done you get to go play shop and meet barney it's a very good show watch this show when you learn about many things you will like it the movie and the live show at universal studios florida
1	i can understand how barney can be annoying to some but the hatred he gets is very ridiculous barney was made simply right from the beginning and simplicity isn't bad especially for the young ones he entertains i personally find this show to be very underrated period barney friends is a very educational show in my opinion and even 17 years after its debut and nearly 21 years after the character's debut on home video he proves time and time again that he still appeals to young children maybe less so than in the early 90's where barney was the hannah montana of the time but he's still a classic as a fan of barney myself i feel that i should defend him in a way that doesn't seem like spam the way the purple guy teaches things may be very simplistic and unrealistic but would you rather have them hearing about war be thankful some one a costumed dinosaur but still is there to comfort kids and let them be kids simply in this day and age i feel that we rush our kids to grow up and barney is there to say you can still be a child at heart in addition many of barney's lessons on current episodes about plagiarism being honest and yes even death could appeal to everyone not just his target audience besides our children need to learn to be kind and respect others for who they are and he helps them do that in short barney may be annoying to some people and i completely understand why but cut him some slack all he and his friends along with hit entertainment his production company are trying to do is help kids not only learn necessary skills but to have fun and to also look at the positive parts of life if more people listened to their children's favorite character and viewed him through their eyes maybe we wouldn't be so negative about him and possibly life itself
1	this is one of my all time favourites all the actors do a great job comparing this movie to lawrence of arabia does no justice to both movies the wind and the lion levels a much lower budget with fantastic actors portraying heartwarming characters in a heartwarming atmosphere action and beautiful pictures are provided as well which all together guarantees a favourite movie to me
1	ok is barney the best children's show of all time of course not but in some of the comments left by other members of imdb you would think it was a multi million dollar production with high class actors and a ridiculous budget for special effects well guess what it's barney for god's sake he shows children good behavior good and that it's ok to be who you are for those of you who find him annoying that is because you are not five years old and the show was not meant for you to the imdb member who wrote the review on the first page i think you may have gone a little too far did you actually describe a sesame street character as down to earth grow up everyone this is a great show for and actually does help children learn in a fun and creative way
1	i was a bit surprised to see all of the hate comments on here sure it's not the best kid's show but don't people stop despising barney this much after the fifth grade br br okay everyone hates barney okay i think his voice and songs are annoying okay he's kinda creepy and strange i'm fourteen years old so i know well enough but here's the thing kids they love this show br br when i was a little kiddie of two or three my parents spent more time chasing me around the house than they did anything else nothing could hold my attention for more than ten minutes face it that's how toddlers are even the most patient ones can't sit still long enough to give their parents a break there's too much to do and see and explore too much trouble to get into br br and then came barney i don't know exactly what it is about the purple dinosaur that's so amusing to children but they sure do love it i know i did i was hooked on the show and wanted to watch it over and over yes the songs kind of drove my parents nuts but to be able to watch their kids learning and being excited over something that can really hold their attention span it's worth it i learned my and the magic words and brushing your teeth i'd grown out of it by five or six of course but by that point at least i was a little more patient and gave my parents a break br br my nieces and nephew all went through the barney stage growing up much to their mother's delight i know what keeps barney on the air he entertains of course there's big bird ernie and oscar and they're great too but at the toddler stage it seems that more kids prefer the big singing dinosaur and that's enough for me
1	barney is about imagination what you guys do not have if my never wanted to play pretend like they do in that show then i would be worried what 2 or 3 year old actually gets all that anyways its all about the colors and the singing for those of you saying that all they do on barney is eat junk food and recommend sesame street better well what about cookie monster thats all he eats but i haven't seen anyone comment that one i do agree that sesame is a better educational show but barney is just like a show for fun don't be too serious if you didn't like your child watching tv and worried about them understanding things you don't believe then you shouldn't be propping them down in front of the tv in the first place because all of that is fake everything is fake actors are fake so why don't you take your fake brains and put it to use and think if you have a problem with a fake television show for kids then turn it off and play with them yourselves and teach them what you want them to learn not big bird or bert ernie or barney someone who used to watch all those shows and turned out fine
1	i don't understand why everyone is hating on barney if you hate the show so much then don't watch it its stupid how everyone is changing the i love you son to i hate you if you don't like it fine whatever thats your opinion but there is no point to degrading the show when it isn't even that bad ok so its corny and yes it has its flaws but its a kids show kids don't want to be sad and miserable they want to be happy and barney helps that and even in the show there are moments of sadness and anger and etc and yes barney uses magic but the kids see barney as a figment of imagination kids need a place to escape to express themselves the world is a miserable and hard place we all need a place to express ourselves and be happier barney does this to us this show is great i watched barney when i was younger yes some people find it stupid but i watched it and i'm top of my class it might not necessarily make you smarter but that's not the point i believe that the point of barney is to provide a place where kids can be kids and the spirit of childhood can be expressed where imagination lives on so many teenagers now are unimaginative and are scared to express themselves barney helps encourage that barney helped me to not be afraid and to just show myself for who i am i'm a sophomore at high school now an ap student with a 4 0 a drama student with a love for theater and art and with a new baby cousin who loves barney i watch it with him and enjoy it and sing along with it yes its corny and silly and whatever but its great for kids who wants to be an adult who doesn't have time to have fun im a kid at heart and i love barney its great for kids and those who are a kid at heart br br its a great show for babies and toddlers so stop hating say that you don't like it but stop it with the dumbest show ever or a load of bull or whatever keep it to yourself take a chill pill or whatever here's something i never liked sesame street but you don't see me going grover is a load of bull or cookie monster should die or whatever i hate all of the t that people say about books or movies like barney or twilight if you hate it ok whatever no one cares don't go saying hate things about it cuz you might just offend someone
1	yes barney is nonsense now but when i was a kid it made perfect sense br br i haven't gotten any smarter but i enjoyed it as a child i was mocked because no one could say my name so i changed it ever since i was 4 i've gone by the name tina from barney because i could relate to her being from a different culture i'm 17 now and barney is a huge part of my life my name came from it i cant dis the show i grew up with no matter how stupid it seems now br br i don't care if i get blocked i have nothing more to say they shouldn't make the minimum 10 lines because some people just don't have much to say ok done
1	mighty like a moose is one of many short films director leo mccarey did starring charley chase what a dandy it is charlie and his wife both undergo plastic surgery to improve their hideous appearances unbeknown est to each other they then meet at a party and become smitten with each other now they can't allow each other to find out they're cheating that's the preposterous premise of this frantic farce vivien oakland one of the few comic short leads to have a flourishing career long after the silents is perfect as long of nose wife charley has an awful case of buck teeth which are quickly dispatched at the dentist's after a party is raided by police for no other reason then to practice raids charley and his wife frantically try avoiding each other at home for fear the alterations in appearances become known both have been photographed with their new features at the party the hilarity back home culminates in charley trying to teach the no good nick cheating with his wife a lesson the no good nick of course is the new charley which his wife comes to realize long before charley teaches a lesson in faithfulness this is one of charley chase's better efforts of 4 stars
1	okay to enjoy this silent comedy short you must suspend disbelief concerning the major starting point for the film if you can't then you'll probably be more likely to score this film a lot lower charlie chase has a huge overbite and his wife has a nose large enough to have its own area code unknown to each other they have both been saving to have surgery to correct these defects apparently plastic and dental surgery was better back in the 1920s because neither seemed to have any need to recuperate from these major surgeries and they looked just dandy right away okay remember i said to ignore this right okay well you also have to then ignore the difficult to believe idea that both could then meet and have no idea the other is their spouse okay now that you allowed yourself to accept these two silly premises the film gets really really good br br charlie makes a pass at her and she makes a pass at him both are shocked and thrilled because no one has ever really considered them attractive so because of this new vanity they agree to go on a date but they both sneak back home not wanting their spouses to know anyway they meet later and are quite attracted to each other but what about the poor spouses supposedly at home well they both learn that the other is married and both anticipate their marriages will result in divorce because they really want to be with each other late in the film charlie figures out that the woman really is his wife and he goes through a very funny sequence where he plays both the boyfriend and the old husband by changing his clothes and putting in false teeth when he plays the hubby it really is a laugh riot to see him bouncing in and out of the room as he appears to be fighting with another person you really have to see it to believe it however the wife sees an ad with charlie's before and after photos and knows what's happening in the end they both feel pretty foolish
1	minor spoilers br br if there's something in the world of silent clowns that puzzles me it is that charley chase never got his well deserved break through in the movies oh well maybe it isn't that strange really inasmuch as he never starred in any full length features but when i think of it such an explanation makes it all only more mysterious because why the heck didn't chase get any offers to play the leading lead in features one explanation is that his character no matter how amusing was simply too realistic to suit a longer story without the burlesque elements that chaplin keaton lloyd langdon and other comedians possessed it can be assumed that the comedy he made and which worked so well for twenty minutes would get repetitive after a few more reels i don't quite buy this though as chase's gag construction is magnificent and could i believe at its best maintain the interest of viewers alone for a longer period at least i am tempted to think so when mighty like a moose runs the show br br mr moose isn't extraordinary handsome and mrs moose is hardly a classic beauty he possesses the truly biggest front teeth of any human being on the planet and she has a remarkably large nose both of them takes plastic surgery without the other's knowledge and when they meet by accident just a little later he doesn't recognize his wife and she doesn't recognize her husband a number of hilarious misunderstandings begin with many clever gags all the way through i don't think i'll reveal anything further to make the viewing more enjoyable for you because if you're a fan of silent comedies or even if you aren't mighty like a moose offers so many memorable moments within such a short time that i would look upon it as a downright shame not to see it silly indeed but no less extremely funny
1	from start to finish this 1926 classic two reeler from the hal roach studios seems to sum up what was fun about the 20's it stars the now forgotten comic genius charley chase and was directed by the legendary leo mccarey who was unknown then but would earn his keep with roach and graduate to greener pastures in the 30's and 40's recently released onto video and disc this is one of the ten best examples of silent screen comedy and should be seen by audiences of all ages although today his star has virtually diminished charley chase was considered the leader in the short subject comedy field in the waning years of the silents he helped the careers of stan laurel and oliver hardy before they were brought together as a team leo mccarey and a host of other talents it is a shame that he is all but remembered today check out this little gem of a film once you do you will be seeking out other films from this classic comic he had his hand in over 300 films and many of them survive rediscover this lost giant of a film from a bygone era and its giant star
1	while it may not be his most laugh packed film mighty like a moose stands as one of charley chase's most satisfying farce comedies twenty minutes of clever sight gags nicely choreographed physical comedy and amusing quips rendered via title card of course all based on a wacky and wildly implausible premise we're told up top that this is a story of homely people a wife with a face that would stop a clock and her husband with a face that would start it again soon we meet buck toothed charley moose and his wife vivien who has an enormous nose but there's no point in discussing plausibility when our plot hinges on such a patently unbelievable series of interconnected coincidences i e first that charley would have his overbite corrected the very day his wife would have her nose fixed second that each spouse would keep their respective cosmetic surgeries secret from the other and third that when bumping into each other in public afterward charley and vivien wouldn't recognize each other sounds like a bit of a stretch doesn't it multiple stretches is more like it clearly we're in the world of farce here and just have to roll with the silly plot twists so as long as you can relax and forget about plausibility you're likely to enjoy this short br br mighty like a moose gets off to a leisurely start as the various complications of the story are established but things pick up once charley and vivien have met and made a date to attend a party together at the home of dentist they each rush home excitedly enter separately and are at first unaware of each other's presence mr mrs moose appear to be quite wealthy incidentally as they live in a mansion the size of a luxury hotel there follows a beautifully timed sequence somewhat reminiscent of buster keaton's the navigator in which husband and wife dash about the house without ever quite meeting up face to face and once they arrive at the party the comedy really kicks into high gear as charley is forced to dance with gawky wallflower gale henry henry an estimable player in her own right who starred in many short comedies dating back to 1914 is hilarious as the dance partner who brings great vigor but little grace to her dancing there's also an elegant cinematic touch during this sequence when the camera pans down to show us only the shoes of charley gale vivien and dance partner yet we're able to follow precisely what's happening between the principles by watching their feet br br unfortunately for charley and vivien the party they're attending is raided and from there on the complications multiply when they manage to escape the police dragnet and return home when charley realizes that his newly wife was attempting to step out with another man he resolves to each her a lesson while conveniently forgetting of course that he was attempting to do the very same thing the last few minutes of this film offer some of chase's funniest physical comedy capped with a good sight gag for the punchline mighty like a moose leaves the viewer with a warm glow and surely ranks with the most amusing comedies produced by the prolific sadly underrated charley chase
1	when i reviewed the video for a local magazine i called it the greatest achievement in the history of the american cinema that was not wholly tongue in cheek tw tl remains best work and it's sad that he has so little opportunity to work anymore however tw tl remains a striking exposition of what once was known as the american character largely on the strength of brian keith's superb portrayal of teddy r obviously milius and keith admired tr tremendously to make two films about him including the rough riders it's hard to fault this film at any level a splendid balance of action levity relationships and the serious topic of america coming of age in the world furthermore tw tl has exceptional appeal across the board note the stats showing it rates best with under 18 males females 18 29 and over 45 clearly candy bergen struck a responsive chord with women as well as men
1	1st watched 8 31 1996 dir tim robbins very thought provoking and very well done movie on the subject of the death penalty deserved more recognition and publicity than it received
1	one of the more lucid statements against the death penalty ever filmed quite a frontal attack against the most disgusting way of doing justice the final sequence with that parallel between the crimes that the convicted committed and his own execution are just superb br br no what about the work of sean penn and susan sarandon it leaves you breathless they're two giants and their performances achieve the highest levels of emotion br br tim robbins put clear that he's not only a good actor he's a nice director as well br br my rate 9 10
1	i have just seen this broadcast on channel 4 having seen some of the earlier comments here i think i would like to state firstly that i am not in favour of the death penalty with that out of the way i was expecting great things of this film but it just didn't quite deliver dead man walking is very cleanly done with good performances all round and a good script in fact it's hard to fault it artistically however i felt that although it attempted to confront the issues surrounding capital punishment it seemed to become sidetracked by the religious moral stance hardly surprising given that the main character is a nun although i'm not a heartless individual i didn't really empathise with any of the characters in the story if you don't take religion seriously then you probably won't see much in this film i think that peter medak's let him have it was a much more powerful and moving film and i would strongly recommend anyone considering watching this to go and see that
1	this movie has two new features in relation to the message conveyed by other equally good movies about death penalty and executions those are the stress also given to the drama endured by victims' parents without for that reason disguising the hatred and desire of revenge they feel or lessening the horror that execution represents and the christian vision of all the questions implied we must also point out that in this movie the sentenced man is not the usual nice innocent person we see in other movies dealing with executions which doesn't lead us to abandon the idea that a penal execution is no more than a legal murder anyway last but not least we must mention the extraordinary emotional weight put on the last moments of the execution course with all the catharsis shown by the last words and the detail with which the act of the execution itself is viewed in a parallel cut with images of the murder scenes in the forest to stress that we are being confronted with another murder so pitiless as the latter but performed in a cold and supposed legal way
1	i saw this movie many years ago and it has never left my list of all time best films ever made when i first watched it i was just beginning what has become a life long passion for justice it gave an interesting perspective of the death penalty and also gave me a few things to think about br br when you have a cast like this one you are right to assume it is going to be nothing short of fabulous this is by far the best role i have ever seen sean penn play along with i am sam he nails the role doesn't his actions while doing so he manages to maintain a level of debauchery throughout the movie that i think was very important up until the very end he does not try to be seen as anything more than what he is he is a sick man who regrets his past but still makes excuses for it he ends up able to redeem his sense of self worth as much as a convicted and guilty murderer can through the aid of susan sarandon's character sister helen her character taught me about good will towards others without making me forget how horrible a person's actions can be and without making excuses for them br br the supporting cast was also top notch i was surprised to see a small cameo of jack black in this film given the funny man he has become today i loved this movie for both personal reasons and just because it was a work of cinematic art and in my opinion this is one of the rare exceptions when the movie far out did the book
1	before seeing this film i suggest the viewer puts away any expectations that the victims of the crimes depicted will get equal treatment and consideration as the perpetrator there have been many films about crime victims this one is about the murderer br br dead man walking finds realism in simplicity of the story there are no crack lawyers coming to save william and no dramatic story twists the film does not attempt to put him in a good light he is guilty he is repugnant is a racist and was responsible for heinous murders given all this we are asked to do something very difficult look at him as a human being despite his crimes in this way the film challenges the notion that the death penalty provides justice whether you are for or against the death penalty the film raises questions about whether the guilty can find redemption inequity in the justice system and the of the death penalty br br great performances by both susan sarandon and sean penn in particular the last moments of the film show the true depth of penn's ability
1	just to clarify matthew wasn't a real person but a character combination of 2 killers who were both convicted and sentenced to die for a murder of two teenagers br br i read the user comments and they react as if matthew was real the character is based on a mixture of two killers elmo patrick and robert lee willie who murdered separate people and the murder itself was based on the one willie committed the conflict of both willie having someone else present and both parties swearing the other did the killing is worked into the story as well br br approach is unique in that she not only is ministering to the convicts as they wait for their death and aiding them in taking responsibility for their actions she also reaches out to the victims' families to help them know that the convict did indeed feel remorse for what they did effectively aiding both parties br br everyone posting here seems to have strong beliefs on the death sentence it's not my place to say it's right or wrong in theory punishing death with death makes some sort of karmic sense however denying a person their freedom for the rest of their days although costly makes more sense to me being stuck in a small room 23 7 with one hour of exercise for the rest of their days to be reminded of the cruel thing they did seem a more apt punishment they are technically alive but denied living say someone killed someone so they could get out of the responsibility the person they killed required like susan smith killing her poor kids by shoving her car into a lake i find it fittingly ironic that they would not get that freedom they craved and would now have to spend the rest of their days imprisoned br br point comes through the story very well she has my respect she manages to find that balance she isn't supporting a killer she is guiding them to accepting what they did if they didn't feel some kind of remorse they wouldn't be asking for spiritual guidance br br ona final note when apologizes to parent for killing his son the parents of the girl who was also murdered mutters something about why he didn't apologize for her death i think the point was that throughout the movie denies killing both kids there is doubt in mind he did both killings there is a friend who was sentenced but not to death my thought is that killed the boy and the other man murdered the girl hence was taking responsibility for what he did had he been responsible for the girl's death he probably would have apologized for that as well
1	dead man walking absolutely brilliant in tears by the end you can not watch this film and not think about the issues it raises how can you justify killing whether it be murder or the death penalty and to what point is forgiveness possible not just in a spiritual way don't watch this film when your down but watch it
1	having read most of the comments i feel like i have a word to say as well br br what bothers me most is that most people here are think that this movie is either pro or con to the subject of death penalty and whether it worked with them i remember having read an article back in 1995 when the film was published yes it has interested me so much ever since i heard that it would come out that i have not forgotten about the articles i read back then in which tim robbins said that he did not want to make a movie to convince audiences of neither one nor the other br br and i think that is completely right i have to admit that i believe that in the way he made this film he did tend a little bit to the anti death penalty side but nevertheless people are still allowed to make their own choice and this is a very rare thing in american films br br i have shown this movie to many people since it came out and i have seen all kinds of reactions death penalty supporters became opponents or became even stronger in their belief and many death penalty opponents including me grew stronger in their belief that death penalty should be abolished everywhere in the world but i have even seen opponents turn into supporters this and the fact that people here seem to fight about it shows to me that there are really many ways of looking at it so whatever effect it has on you the important thing is that it makes you think br br this is one of the few movies that really gives you the choice that does not shy away with a simple path by making the convicted either bad or innocent this may be a tough thing for people who prefer being entertained or tought a lesson there is no lesson here you need to find one yourself br br everyone praises the acting directing and the music but since this has been said so many times the i will not repeat it all again br br so if you have not seen this yet do so if you dare to be challenged
1	if you think about it it's nearly unbelievable that a film could be made about the death penalty one of the world's most controversial topics that offends neither those for nor against it's a testament to tim robbins' extraordinary intelligence and sensitivity traits that can be seen in his acting roles as well shawshank redemption jacob's ladder br br this film in fact hints at a subtle compromise between the for and against camps so subtle that it can't be put into words subtle to the point of vanishing yet one gets the sense after watching the picture that a compromise is possible that somehow it can be worked out if only we look deeply enough
1	this was my late wife's favorite film i'm sorry she did not live long enough to have the video as i'm sure she would have worn it out what can we say a great romantic story and the push off of two great men the and teddy rex sean connery and brian keith are great in these roles but while connery is his usual sexy sex it's the late brian keith who gives us a solid performance as the mercurial teddy roosevelt back up is provided with candy bergen gorgeous in her early 30s as the kidnapped american widow great back up also comes from the great john huston as beleaguered john hay geoffrey lewis from the clint eastwood films is great as the hesitant us ambassador the late with his demonically evil stare is great as the and more is given by steve kanaly and roy jensen whose faces we have seen in several backgrounds all in all this is a film filled with wonderful romance mindful of an era long gone mindless story not at all the issue of big nations pushing around smaller ones for their own interests is as true today as it was then overly romantic not really certainly not maudlin in any sense fun to watch you bet i own the video and will watch it again and again i suggest you do the same
1	this was the most thought provoking capital punishment movie ever it refused to seem one sided and the emotions felt throughout the story are as real as it can get this movie had one of the most 'human' and i use this term in a good way compassionate religious character ever this movie actually caused me to go out to find and read the book which is rare for me sister helen exerted more of a spiritual tone than a religious which is also rare and it presented both sides to the issue so that people on both sides who watched the movie wouldn't feel that a point was left out and we have the director to thank for that this is not a film for entertainment but it is film that delivers a message that can reach to the core of your heart i can't think of another film like it
1	this movie is about a very delicate argument and if you are searching for something that makes you think here you are right tim robbins has made a wonderful job and the result is a kind of docu drama that should be shown in schools for the strong themes treated what about the actors well they are simply great susan sarandon is truly 'the face of love' and sean penn is unbelievable as almost always an absolutely must see
1	tim robbins makes a wonderful film his wife susan sarandon gives a wonderful performance as the sister helen who wants to help sean penn who is of murder and who also will die of an injection 120 minutes of acting and touching scenes is what you get great acting and it is a film that gives something to think about br br susan sarandon deserves the oscar of 1995 best actress it is probably one of her greatest films ever br br i didn't see 'the will rock but i sure have to see more films of robbins br br rating 9 10 or 1 2 out of 4 go and see
1	this is the most human and humane of movies that i have seen in a long time the ironies abound susan sarandon as a nun tim robbins and susan sarandon in a movie that doesn't preach but neither does it condemn it is cinema verite at it's best and yet the story is fictionalized from several real events br br which of the two is more amazing sarandon or penn it is easy to say who is more likeable but it is hard to say who is more convincing they are simply magnificent br br you may think that all killers should be killed or you may argue that life without parole is no life and that death is more merciful whatever your personal feeling this movie gives you a chance to pause and reconsider br br at the end one simply wants to sit in silence and reflect that is what great drama does it gives catharsis it creates a moment in time a shared memory that touches our humanity
1	dead man walking is a film not about the death penalty but about the people involved in a death penalty case the killer the families whose kids were killed the nun who becomes his spiritual advisor and what happens it tells the story with little fanfare but a lot of compassion and sensitivity i have it on dvd and every time i watch it not often it's never an easy film to watch i'm more impressed by what tim robbins and the entire cast did here so revealing that it could be a documentary so compelling you can't take your eyes away so subtle and yet so powerful dead man walking is nothing short of a masterpiece it doesn't matter whether you're for or against the death penalty or even have no opinion this movie will have you thinking about the issues for sure it takes a courageous screenwriter and director to look this material in the face without flinching even once and everyone involved in the film pulls it off there isn't a single scene that rings false a masterful film but don't expect light viewing to some the final scenes could be more graphic than anything imaginable even though no blood or violence is shown you get drawn into this film and become a participant and there's a character for just about everyone to identify with 10 10
1	susan sarandon is for lack of a better word incredible in my opinion and yes i do understand that not everyone will agree with me here she is one of the greatest actresses ever and should have at least 2 oscars to her credit i mean that was an amazing performance in lorenzo's oil but then i think every performance of hers is amazing and they gave it to emma thompson what was that about and by the time she got this oscar she'd been in the industry for some 25 years i couldn't think of anyone who deserved it more especially for a performance as brilliant as her portrayal of sister helen but then again she is over and above all the artificiality of hollywood and doesn't need an oscar people know she's good anyway br br this film carries some very deep thought messages so needless to say it is not to be taken lightly tim robbins of course can't escape credit here you would think that because of his person feelings against the death penalty the portrayals made in this movie wouldn't be accurate however both sides of the death penalty debate are given even weight on one side you see the interesting side of matthew the human side which makes witnessing his death rather heart wrenching at the same time you see the way he savaged his victims and the constant torment of the understandably grief stricken parents one word for tim bravo br br a brilliant movie and like i said a well deserved and long awaited oscar for susan
1	this movie is a story of a catholic nun as an advisor of convicted killer on death row the movie describes what she does as a nun who does not have any productive role she might have had doubt in her actual role but eventually she does the role only a nun could do who has nothing but faith in christ in america there are so many movies that describe condemned criminals or jails those scenes especially execution are too much different from japan
1	the greatest effort plus the finest cast ever assembled in a movie by the director tim robbins and susan sarandon and sean penn on the front row someone said that this movie is good because directed and written by tim robbins but i convince you that sean penn and susan sarandon had give me a truly superb performance that i cried my heart out their acting is so real no doubt about it that this movie is rated 4 and 3 4 out of 5
1	i read the book before seeing the movie and the film is one of the best adaptations out there very true and faithful to the book sean penn and sarandon are amazing robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end
1	i really enjoyed this movie it challenged my emotions and beliefs making it a true piece of artwork in my book the acting was unsurpassed i would never watch this movie with anyone i could not cry around i don't think i cry harder to any movies maybe because it makes me look at myself i dunno it is a must see
1	lovely candace bergen as the widow are kidnapped and held for ransom by the sheik played by one dashing sean connery the incident comes during 1904 as theodore roosevelt runs for election to the presidency in his own right needing a good example to show off the muscular foreign policy of the united states brian keith as roosevelt issues a stunning declaration to the sultan of morocco alive or dead br br but in this adaptation of that incident the famous declaration is the only true thing about this story the in question was in reality one ion who was a greek immigrant and dilettante playboy in fact gave up his american citizenship years ago and was back as a greek national never mind that though his predicament was serviceable enough at the time br br the damsel in distress makes better screen material though so it's a widow woman and her two kids that are in harm's way here of course as presented here the incident is also used by some of our european powers to get their foothold into morocco the intrigues get far beyond one demand for ransom br br the wind and the lion is hardly history but it is an enjoyable film and sean connery is always fun to watch brian keith also fits my conception of theodore roosevelt and the scenes in the roosevelt white house do ring true to all the stories told john huston plays the ever patient secretary of state john hay who roosevelt had inherited from his predecessor william mckinley br br but kids don't use this film to skip reading a history assignment on the theodore roosevelt era
1	one of the best ever direction a thrilling and dramatic history wonderful soundtrack and most of all the incredible credibility of susan sarandon and sean penn the best and most underestimated under 40 generation actor after seeing this movie i guess if there's anyone who couldn't have any doubt about giving death to another man in spite of the ugly things he could have done
1	i must have seen this movie about four or five times already and it gets better with each viewing suffice it to say this is the best film i've ever seen and i think i've seen a lot br br but i've always wondered why this film got so shunned in some reviews or ratings for example take the imdb top 250 why does it rank only at 216 as of today surely the not in the film itself because that is nothing but flawless but in its reception the film caused controversy in its portrayal of compassion for a convicted murderer and its anti death penalty attitude and so obviously the more conservative minded user probably didn't like the film as you can see from some of the other comments so dead man walking gets a ranking that's nothing but ridiculous in relation to its quality those people didn't understand what the film wanted to say and maybe they didn't want to understand being pro death penalty so now i get it it's all political you're pro death penalty you don't like and therefore don't want to hear what the film has to say br br i'm truly sorry there are still so many people out there who simply tune out when a new perspective questions their beliefs br br mr robbins your movie's issue split people's opinions some reconsidered their point of view some simply didn't listen but you made a very important point your movie will probably never show up on any top 100 movies of all time list but it'll be remembered long after films like braveheart or babe or apollo 13 all of which were unjustly preferred over your film at the oscars 1996 are forgotten congratulations mr robbins and thank you for this important piece of filmmaking
1	how do you know if a movie is good or not it is the impact it has on you that makes the difference dead man walking upset me a great deal i watched it twice i don't know if i will be strong enough to watch it again no i did not feel good at all after watching it but the film was as successful as it can be br br robbins did a great job in incorporating all aspects of this controversial topic he avoided making an argument that could easily be seen as biased or subjective i hope that many people get to see dead man walking i believe that anyone who supports or opposes the death penalty so enthusiastically should see the movie br br i don't know what else it could take to finally convince everyone that this relic from ancient times does not have a place in modern society anymore br br the movie itself does not make an argument for or against death penalty it describes reality the reality is the best argument against the death penalty br br a 10 10 for great performances good filmmaking and for the most important film made in years br br thank you tim robbins br br
1	it was very sensitive very deep it's my favorite all the time you can't see movie more deeper than this incredible movie susan sarandon made her role as matured mind actress and she realized her role she deserved the award she convinced me with for being a nun the music was very impressive and sensitive really i liked this deep masterpiece
1	dead man walking is one of the most powerful movies i have ever seen i find it hard to believe that anyone after having seen the movie could feel indifferent about the film or its message tim robbins does not try to impose his ideas and beliefs on the viewers but manages to make a film that are in most ways sympathetic to both views on the death penalty whether it is right to murder a murderer or not i have always known where i stand in this question even as a child and this movie despite the fact that it does not really take any sides made me even surer in my conviction that it can never be right to murder anyone br br sean penn is absolutely brilliant in his portrayal of matthew his nomination for an academy award was very well deserved even if nicolas cage does a great job in leaving las vegas i would have been happier if penn had won the award susan sarandon is also brilliant and she deserved the academy award she won and tim robbins certainly deserves the vote i have given this film 9 10
1	dead man walking is a piece of incredible filmmaking all the acting is top notch and realistic and the script examines the issue of the death penalty from both sides paying equal homage to both above all this is a deeply moving story of redemption of death with dignity and loss of ego any film that deals this courageously and maturely with such incredibly difficult subject matter deserves a rating of 10 10 thank you tim robbins
1	in a world in which debatable and misunderstood subjects can be listed endlessly this powerful 1995 film takes on one at the top of that list moreover it does it objectively and realistically and with a sensibility and sensitivity that makes it a truly great film by anyone's measuring stick and to add some irony to it all even the subject matter of this film has been widely misunderstood as it is wrongly perceived that this is a film about the pros and cons of the death penalty it is not at the heart of dead man walking ' directed by tim robbins is a subject that in reality is possibly the most misunderstood of all and with good reason because it just may be the hardest thing there is for a human being to really and truly understand and it is what this film is actually all about forgiveness real forgiveness not excusing a heinous crime or the perpetrator thereof not saying that what's happened is okay but finding the strength to go on and to do so by choosing life br br director screenwriter tim robbins has crafted and delivered a faithful adaptation of the novel by sister helen in which she discusses her involvement with the death row inmates to whom over the years she has her faith in god as chronicled in the film what for her was to become a lifelong pursuit of not only justice but human dignity began with a simple letter from a death row inmate at the louisiana state prison at angola sentenced to death for rape and murder matthew sean penn was reaching out to anyone who would listen when his letter ended up in the hands of sister susan sarandon who soon found herself venturing into a territory of which she had absolutely no knowledge or experience and robbins has successfully captured sister emotional and turbulent journey succinctly while managing to keep it devoid of any maudlin sentimentality which makes it not only real credible and believable but makes it a poignant and thoroughly emotionally involving experience for the audience through the medium of the cinema what was once a personal significant emotional experience for sister becomes one for everyone who sees this film as well br br for her soul stirring impassioned portrayal of sister susan sarandon deservedly won the oscar for best actress sensitive and fraught with emotional depth her performance is incredibly touching and real especially in the way in which she conveys sister underlying natural fragility and vulnerability which she adamantly tempered with the toughness she needed to carry on with her endeavors on behalf of and in reality a total of five since she began whatever your point of view regarding the matters examined in this film sister is without question an individual of heroic proportions which sarandon exquisitely personifies here and she does it without resorting to any superfluous melodramatics but rather by keeping it real by subtly and humbly exploring the humanity of the person in a very believable expression of characterization it's an extraordinary performance arguably the best of sarandon's brilliant career br br turning in a career best performance as well is sean penn who was nominated for best actor for his portrayal of he lost out to nicolas cage who won for his performance in leaving las vegas perfect for the part in every way penn has quite simply never been better before or since he effectively presents as a real person rather than as an overblown caricature of a monster capable of perpetrating the crimes depicted here not that it makes any less despicable just the opposite in fact it makes it genuinely disconcerting to be faced with the fact that someone who looks like a guy who could live next door to you could be capable of such things and that's the strength of penn's performance it's so disturbingly real presented with depth and nuance you have but to look into his eyes to find the imperfections of a troubled soul a terrific performance and as good as cage was in vegas' penn should have received the oscar for it br br in another stand out performance raymond j barry is memorable in a supporting role as earl father of one of victims with limited screen time he nevertheless develops his character in such a way that enables you to empathize with him as well as with sister as it is through him that we are given some insight into just how complex and seemingly tenuous her position is at least on the surface barry presents in such a way that gives the necessary balance and perspective to the story which is ultimately extremely effective and helps to underscore the message of the film br br the supporting cast includes r lee emery clyde percy celia weston mary beth percy lois smith helen's mother scott wilson chaplin farley roberta maxwell lucille margo martindale sister colleen and jack black craig it is doubtful that this film will change anyone's mind one way or another about the death penalty but that was never the intention what was intended was to make a thought provoking emotionally involving film which is exactly what robbins has accomplished with dead man walking ' regardless of your personal point of view this film will have an impact and hopefully will open some minds to the true nature of forgiveness for as we see through the character of earl true forgiveness is not something one merely decides to do but is a task that can become a lifetime's work and it's possibly one of the hardest things in life to effectively accomplish and you come away from this film with an appreciation for individuals like sister who has selflessly dedicated her life to helping those in need and to filmmakers like robbins and sarandon for bringing her to life for millions of people who otherwise would never have known her i rate this one 10 10 br br
1	'it's easy to kill a monster but it's hard to kill a human being ' br br set in st thomas housing project and angola prison in new orleans dead man walking is the true story of helen susan sarandon a louisiana nun sister who befriended matthew sean penn a murderer and a rapist bound for a lethal injection machine for killing a teenage sister helen agrees to help the convict and to remain with him till the act never before attempted by a br br at their first meeting swears to the nun that his accomplice was the one who shot both of the kids and pleads her help for a new trial in order to convince the pardon board hearing to spare his br br the film challenges the audience to actually give some thought to the human consequences of the death penalty but gives voice to angry bereaved parents whose kids were shot stabbed raped and left in the woods to die br br as execution looms closer and closer his character is seen deceptively complex harboring doubts about the rightness of what they were doing to him… in one moment we hear him sensitive asking for a lie detector test to let his mother know that he is innocent in another we see him furious playing the victim blaming the government drugs blacks the kids for being there… never understood that he has robbed the and the so much giving them nothing but they are never going to see their children again never going to hold them to love them to laugh with them… br br in the scenes leading up to his execution the death row inmate drops his terrible facade and reveals his luckily both sarandon and penn are here out successfully an exquisite tangible harmony of when sarandon was looking at penn she was projecting compassionate eyes brimming with tears… she asks him to visualize her as he want the last thing you see in this world to be the face of that moment we truly believed that she'll be the face of love for him…
1	tim robbins did a masterful job directing this film i say this because he avoided convention and cliché he also oversaw superb performances from susan sarandon who won an oscar for her role and sean penn even more amazing robbins doesn't patronize he just tells the story and lets the events play on the viewer's mind this is so effective because it allows the viewer to form his own opinions on the death penalty one of the most controversial subjects of our time without being unfairly manipulated in either direction i can't recommend this film enough 9 10
1	i'm astonished how a filmmaker notorious for his political left wing fervor could make such a subtle non sanctimonious picture if you're for capital punishment you'll still be for it after seeing this if you're against capital punishment you'll still be against it but whatever your stance is this movie will at the very least make you reflect on why you feel the way you do there's not one false note in the film
1	one of the best movies i've ever seen has to be the wind and the lion gad the scenes br br bandits swarm over the wall a staid british gentleman calmly gets up from tea with candice bergen and drops three of them with a webley revolver in his coat a whisper from the ghost of empire lest we forget lest we forget br br u s marines coming ashore from the long long gone brooklyn they were carrying it should have been lees but oh wow and the winchester 97 blowing large holes in obstreperous natives and even more obstreperous and faithless europeans br br sean connery o wow wondering 'what kind of gun does roosevelt use br br teddy roosevelt brian keith o wow wondering what kind of gun does use ' and writing yet another angry letter to winchester about the stock on his winchester 95 br br armed with but a sword a prussian cavalry officer his pistol and drawing his sword honor that's something long dead from a world long gone but would never have flown a plane full of children into a building br br at magnificent best and now out on dvd
1	first off let it be known that i came into this movie not for the music actually i find it repugnant really i was interested in the psychology of the punk subculture on this point the documentary did fairly well one disagreeable aspect was the numerous scenes in which songs are played and the hyped up band and belligerent crowd are shown running amok if you've seen the first such scene you've seen them all this is party made up for by printing lyrics for some of the songs with these the audience is able to somewhat connect mentally with the band the lyrics are of far more interest than the jumble of sounds projecting from the speakers i don't know why all the lyrics were not printed scenes without lyrics slow ironic eh given the many references to the speed of the music the flow of the movie also insightful were the interviews with fans and bands though there is a letdown when the latter band's interviews prove to be not nearly as enthralling or humorous as the first two overall a good movie that i'm glad i saw i'll check out the follow ups if i ever get a chance br br favorite quote he tried to hide the fact that he couldn't play by rubbing peanut butter over himself and breaking glass br br broad punk generalization though their lack of vocabulary and hygiene and drug induced is often hilarious in the end it is understood that punks are just pathetic juveniles who rebel just for the sake of rebellion as seen through sophomoric lyrics and naive attempts to philosophize and disregarding black flag who are slightly less misguided than their peers
1	the one and the only br br the only really good description of the punk movement in the la in the early 80's also the definitive documentary about legendary bands like the black flag and the x mainstream americans' repugnant views about this film are absolutely hilarious how can music be so in a country of supposed liberty even 20 years after find out br br
1	this is one of the best films made about the 80 punk scene i saw this a few years back on a bootleg copy and was amazed very few of todays kids know the true roots of punk and this movie shows some of the 80s punk legends such as the germs and shows how it was back then nowadays so much punk has gone mainstream with mtv and radio and its nice to see the true underground rebellious movement of the original scene darby crash of the germs is one of my heros and this film shows why a must see for all punks and anyone curious about the 80s punk scene
1	penelope of wayne's world fame made her mark with the documentary the decline of western civilization about the la punk scene in the late '70s and early '80s most of the documentary features interviews with the punks and footage of concerts which often turn violent overall we get to see how the punk movement was a reaction to the hippies whereas the hippies were into being natural the punks wanted to have themselves as altered as possible what with spiked hair and all but also we see how they're really disaffected and sometimes becoming skinheads br br anyway this is a really great time capsule we're not really sure whether we want to long for that era or feel repulsed by it but this is definitely not a documentary that will leave you neutral truly worth seeing
1	debut must be one of the best music documentaries of all time and as far as i know it's also the only one that focuses on the l a punk explosion of the early eighties it's all there not just great great bands like black flag fear x the germs whose names may not mean much to you today but whose influence on today's alternative rock music can not be over estimated but also the promoters the media and first of all the audiences the punks all portrayed in a manner that makes you laugh shudder and gasp with astonishment about the energy the anger and the fury these youths put into their music where is that today the eighties may have sucked big time when it to mainstream music but the underground was rocking if you need a proof for that watch performance in decline unmatched great film how come this is not available on vid ld or dvd p s the follow up decline pt ii is hilarious too
1	br br first of all i reviewed this documentary because i had an interest in the subject it portrayed the la punks br br i listened that music and i loved that music and i read a lot of the small that were made in the early 80's and that were not so easily achieved in finland br br so if you don't like this kind of music why you write here about it i like this kind of music it speaks my soul thus i know punks from all over europe americas so why do you who find this music repugnant care to comment at all br br
1	br br first of all i reviewed this documentary because i had an interest in the subject it portrayed the la punks br br i listened that music and i loved that music and i read a lot of the small that were made in the early 80's and that were not so easily achieved in finland br br so if you don't like this kind of music why you write here about it i like this kind of music it speaks my soul thus i know punks from all over europe americas so why do you who find this music repugnant care to comment at all br br
1	i saw this movie in the theater when i was 14 and it changed my life i immediately cut off my hair and began buying all of the records of the bands in the movie these were some of the seminal bands of l a punk rock caught on film at the peak of their powers bands like black flag pre rollins circle jerks fear x and the germs have few equals in the history of punk music i can't believe this film has never been put out on video or dvd great movie for fans of punk rock
1	this review may contain spoilers the decline of western civilization what a great title eh and of coarse a great movie this is the best concert film i have ever seen a close second being the talking heads movie stop making sense i first heard of this movie when waynes world came out in 1992 i looked at the director's name penelope and thought cool name what else has he directed i thought the first name was pronounced like envelope after some time looking in movie guides i came across the critically acclaimed decline and realized penelope was a woman my mom corrected me i spent 8 years of my life trying to track this down i finally saw it on vhs in vancouver where i currently reside it was worth the wait this captures the la punk movement very well this is teen angst at it's best folks my favourite is the band the germs who need subtitles for the lyrics because darby crash sings so crazy you cannot understand it i laughed when i saw this the band black flag live in an abandoned church and the band x are a very intelligent bunch also laughed at the letter some idiot writes in to slash magazine about how we do not need to save the whales there are countless miles of ocean for us to pour toxins in i became a huge penelope fan after this and saw all her punk movies dudes was ok and suburbia is a cult classic i own both of these on vhs she is a true underground film maker and i love her stuff i would have loved to have seen this movie in 1994 when grunge was so popular i was a big nirvana fan then but alas i saw this in 2002 and by that point i had grown out of grunge and now i listen to crystal method fatboy slim quite a change of pace i know but what can you do but if you want a true depiction of the punk movement this captures it better than anything much better than 1991 the year punk broke this is a tough movie to track down but if you get your hands on it rent it even if you don't like the music it is an excellent piece of work now days it might be easier to find with dvd's being so popular by the way penelope produced a little known albert brooks movie called real life which i also own very funny stuff in todays reality tv craptacular rent decline highly recommended thanks
1	i love this film it was made just before the la punk scene changed for the worse it perfectly preserves the mood and attitude of that time and place i feel really lucky to have been present at the filming of four of the bands at the fleetwood that night the only part that doesn't fit in too well is the sections with catholic and their socio political commentary i didn't see too many people who were into that at all the rest of the film shows attitudes that i witnessed a lot people dealing with hard lives or taking a swing at the music industry and or lousy hippies i don't think i've seen a documentary that captures so authentically and personally the subject matter being covered
1	sean connery is very good as the great lord of the rif and defender of the faithful this is an adventure movie with arabs germans and the usmc all coming to grips at one point or another there is also a lot of humor in the interplay among the main and supporting characters the story is based on the true incident in which a wealthy greek american businessman was kidnapped by the in the early 1900s milius has substituted candace bergen and her two children as the victims of the kidnapping and this opens the story to a lot of literary license br br on the other hand the movie gives milius the opportunity to remind the viewer of two of the most famous though mostly forgotten political quotations of the tr era brian keith very good as tr says alive or the dead and john huston also good as sec of state john hay asks the japanese ambassador at a white house dinner you you
1	absolutely one of the 10 best music films ever a totally essential educational experience for any music fanatic especially young rock punk fans today understanding the beginnings of any particular artistic movement absolutely requires understanding the roots of the music as well as the mindset and musical environment of the times not to mention the political and social factors involved at the time and besides all that this documentary is flat out rock n roll f u n do not miss it that said can anyone tell me when if ever the decline of western civilization part 1 not part 2 the metal version will be made available again hopefully on dvd
1	the decline series is amazing and director ps can't get enough credit for making these movies i'm slightly surprised to see that not very many people have seen this one or the other two but their worth unearthing if you want the picture of punk in the trans formative years between the late seventies and early eighties the film starts out with a blistering collection of clips played over music from the band x many interviews with bands and that offer an enlightening perspective as to what surviving was like on the low rung of the mainstream rock ladder no internet crappy jobs and all out hostility collide in this genre for new kids who haven't heard of these bands or are just starting one themselves this movie is a true lesson in how to rock all the band performances and there are many are awesome especially fear who never cease to amaze me this and the second installment are amazing time capsules offering those who care a rare glimpse into the lives of these crazy people it's true punk like in the interview with darby girlfriend when their recalling a painter who mysteriously suddenly died outside their house and it took a week or so for them to figure it out they take pictures next to the guy and everyone including the had a chuckle on this one and in true form the interviewer asks the girlfriend if she was sad or upset that this guy had died while painting their house the response no i hate painters how about black flag renting their apartment rehearsal space for 16 dollars a month my jaw almost fell off at that moment seeing as i'm renting a ten by ten closet to practice in for 400 between watching this and deadwood i feel like i was born in the wrong time period just missing those cowboy days and nights of the old way the people and bands associated with the movie paved the way for what harder music today is and they did it in their own unique way brilliant film ten stars see part 2 as well its equally awesome part 3 though i don't know what to say about
1	let start off by first saying that i have been a punk fan most of my life i always kind of had a lack of respect for the la scene of the early 80's which the decline of western civilization documents with the exception of x and black flag being more of new york and english punk guy after i saw this movie that completely changed the people shown may look like a bunch of idiotic strung out kids who think they might accomplish something beyond street cree through their lifestyles but it is a great display of hedonism at it's best coupled with some fun loud rock n roll one of the best scenes and actually most insightful is the interview with claude of catholic discipline or boy' as he was known to slash magazine readers originally from france he rants about punk like a dirty old frenchman and clues in viewers to many aspects of the punk or diy attitude to music politics and life in general darby crash of the germs comes off as a complete idiot most of the time but the performance of is pretty decent complete with a young pat smear black performance with chavo pederast on vocals it was filmed a couple of years before henry rollins joined the band is decent and x and fear give the best performances in the movie look out for the interviews with the young punk kids you'll hear some of the funniest things you have ever heard in a documentary highly recommended
1	if i assume that you know what this film is about i am also forced to assume that you've come to this review knowing that you will probably watch it regardless of what i say if all this rings true read on you are likely to find some with at least part of this review if you're undecided or not really entirely certain what happened in the late '70s and early '80s in the urban and suburban youth music culture you should probably read one of the reviews which pretends to be objective instead br br although i didn't grow up in california the american punk scene was the first music scene i ever truly lived in at the height of the hardcore i was immersed in from about 1979 1981 everybody had a band and the only common between bands and indeed members of their audiences were br br the rejection of conformity br br tolerance and enjoyment of difference br br a desire to have fun hard and fast br br hairstyles politics dislike of authority figures and violent slam dancing were not integral to what i experienced though there were certainly cliques or factions who tended to be intolerant of those who did not dress speak or act punk enough and there was often a certain amount of unearned credit extended from some of these cliques to those who tried really hard to live down to the fascistic paradigm of anarchic self mutilating angry young cop haters br br although the interviews with audience punks in penelope excellent cal punk documentary decline of western civilization present a very narrow view of the subculture some of us enjoyed the interviews with the bands club owners promoters and even the security people are much more representative of at least my own perspective and memories of 'the scene' nevertheless it is possible for those who approach this with prejudices about what punk is to experience this film without having their preconceptions challenged unfortunate as this is the blame for it rests solely with those who promote believe in or feel comfortable with stereotypes not the film makers don't blame the messenger br br the music presented here is not going to be for everybody nor even most it's not the most crude stuff out there but it's loud obnoxious fast and less concerned with technique than with raw energy br br for me seeing early black flag with ron reyes singing x fear and the circle jerks was worth far more than the cost of this hard to obtain film as much as i like the germs seeing darby crash for the mess and the nice guy that he was left me a bit cold nevertheless the scenes of darby playing with his pet tarantula while shut down droned on and on in the background were precious the x interview is also great br br straightforward documentary style is supplemented by wild pans and zooms during the musical segments during the interviews framing is used very nicely to provide context for whatever is being said considering her experience and the budget did as well as anybody could have with this film br br recommended for those who appreciate what this film is actually about and for those who have forgotten those few years of fun honest direction less rebellion before punk was co opted into yet another flow within the musical mainstream and the stereotypes became more important than the basic philosophy
1	debut must be one of the best music documentaries of all time and as far as i know it's also the only one that focuses on the l a punk explosion of the early eighties it's all there not just great great bands like black flag fear x the germs whose names may not mean much to you today but whose influence on today's alternative rock music can not be over estimated but also the promoters the media and first of all the audiences the punks all portrayed in a manner that makes you laugh shudder and gasp with astonishment about the energy the anger and the fury these youths put into their music where is that today the eighties may have sucked big time when it to mainstream music but the underground was rocking if you need a proof for that watch performance in decline unmatched great film how come this is not available on vid ld or dvd p s the follow up decline pt ii is hilarious too
1	the rise of punk music was scarcely documented on film and most people tend to focus on the happenings of other cities such as london or new york penelope managed to preserve a snapshot of los angeles circa '79 which proves a vibrant and diverse art music community had spawned which rivalled any other to some the bands read like a who's who of now legendary american punk black flag x circle jerks germs fear purists argue that vital bands were missed weirdos flesheaters and that the movie was the cause of an onslaught of suburban poseurs and macho violence however the issues touched upon in the film remain relevant the intensity of the music remains unmatched and the influence continues to be seen and heard in the cliques fashions of today
1	kind of a guilty indulgence nowadays this used to be required watching when i was in high school it really is a great illumination of the burgeoning punk scene in la in 1980 as the bands play prints the lyrics in subtitles which is of course necessary if one really wants to know what the guy is screaming into the microphone but also it turns the camera's pov into that of tourist passing through this alien world the band interviews reveal an honest approach to the music that really doesn't exist anymore then again it's not as easy to come by 16 month former church closets like chavez of black flag does how many unheard of bands do you know that aren't trying like the dickens to get a record deal these guys just didn't care and who can't love the commentary of the little french dude who used to be the singer for catholic discipline of which was a member his gritty voice delivers one of the best soliloquies ever captured on film i have excellent news for the world there's no such thing as new wave whew what a relief
1	one of the major successes to the decline of western civilization filmmaker penelope indie breakthrough is that it can perhaps appeal to non punk fans as to the hardcore ones more importantly it captures a moment in history before the movement became completely market worthy when bands would play or at the least try to play in some cases in dank dirty clubs to an audience that had as much self respect as they had respect for the bands for the fan such as myself there are precious interviews with some of the quasi legends of la's punk scum some dead some still living and still hard working in the scene br br performances and interviews include the likes of the circle jerks x black flag in the pre henry rollins days catholic discipline fear the alice bag band and most memorable in my opinion being the germs while i knew of a few of the bands and performers in the film the jerks and black flag mostly i had only heard rumors about lead singer the late darby crash and from the footage in the film he seems to be one of the if not the of the punk movement he doesn't take himself too seriously he loves to drink sometimes when he speaks it's complete gibberish and the attitude he brings on stage is both funny and in a free form way exhilarating a performer like that would probably scare steve miller and jackson browne out of their skins br br decline of western civilization may not turn on every non punk fan that seeks this film out it's hard to find on video but it shouldn't necessarily turn them off either like a kind of anthropologist that's sneaked into the party gets the behavior of these people down pat their motives their likes and hatreds and the power that was their on and off screen personas a few of them almost come off as normal some don't but they're only offensive to those who aren't too open to things on top of that the film is a must see to the kinds of kids that think they're punk fans just because they listen to good charlotte and blink if you want to get the real scoop on the movement and genre of rock you profess to love give the pioneers a chance a
1	if you liked this movie be sure to check out others directed by you are in for a treat this is unfortunately not his best but still million times better than an average movie from the mainstream cinema it explores relationships especially the abusive ones has some powerful as well as sweet moments and great acting some plot inconsistencies clichés and hollow moments spoil the overall effect to the previous reviewer and his comments on the czech psyche an interesting approach but i do not see this movie becoming a czech blockbuster those folks are rather spoiled by their movie makers check out also stuff by sverak and this one lags a bit behind
1	wow at first i thought who writes these things how hard is that choice between a man who offers you and your children wealth respectability and security as opposed to a husband who offers you only oppression abuse degradation and poverty however our choices are not always as clear cut cut as one would think indeed the wealthy gentleman was all a woman could aspire to and yet the pull of her husband her sexual desire for him was almost overwhelming what to do what to do as a viewer you became as confused and misdirected as she was anyway what i really came on this site to gush about was my admiration of the voice of the i thought although it is actually the voice of an irish singer in the film looking him up i find he is glen whom i had never heard of before that day what a find i am so grateful wow what a voice what a day thank you biff
1	we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age with the likes of the four feathers 1939 and zulu simply because the imperial age was for the most part british here in the wind and the lion we see a wonderful rendering of america's own imperial age br br america's projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who despite her gentility is smitten by the rough manly nobility of her captor who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of native peoples or cultures can rest assured that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage what makes this story different are the terrific production values faultless photography composition and editing the terrific casting the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy and vivid history br br though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son every member of the family can identify with one of the characters whether it be sean connery's noble brigand candace bergen's feisty heroine john huston's wily john hay or steve spiffy radiant ruthless can do lieutenant roosevelt's big stick there is a transcendent scene at the end when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed this is high adventure at its best
1	first i have to admit that i have had some doubts about the director he has done some movies with about the recent czech east history or more precisely about families individuals how did they survive some historical moments but it was always like the food sour sweet this movie was totally different it was pure it shows the bones of life it shows the variations of human natures this film is an excellent piece of art story acting picture music but it shows you the life around you in much brighter light that we don't want to see by the way i have saw it on a dvd with english subtitles but i am afraid that in the usa i wont be able to get it
1	this film by the well known czech director and writer collaborator petr is remarkable for its but annoying and distracting in its details taking its theme and title from a robert graves poem it deals with a woman with several men and some obnoxious relatives in her life who's trying to survive and protect her two children 15 year old lucina and little blond asthmatic kuba adam the poem is much in evidence but the theme it gets a little lost br br anna the beauty and roman have lost everything in the prague floods of 2002 and have nothing left it seems but good sex which they go at with such a vengeance in their tiny apartment that lucina and kuba in front of the telly must hold their ears against the noise relishes such explicitness and skates on the edge of embarrassment or shock there's no good explanation precisely why but financial desperation has led to processing stolen cars in the big garage that his his car thief cohort drives off a posh volvo the easygoing josef has left with the keys in the ignition while visiting a large property he owns is a super nice guy but no fool his volvo is wired for tracking by satellite in cases like this and that leads the cops straight to garage and he and his cohort are off to jail br br beauty in trouble flees to the good angel on whom she can rely begins the graves poem but actually this fracas leads to when he meets her at the police station he introduces her to sushi and how to drink wine and plies her with a picture book about tuscany where he though prague born owns a lovely villa and has lived most of his life he's here to reclaim the house in prague now occupied by a couple with an ancient and infirm mother whom he allows to remain every gesture is benevolent even though he doesn't prevent from going off to jail br br in the circumstances must retreat with lucina and kuba to depend on the charity of her mother jana and the far less tender mercies of present husband the scrawny diabetic richard jiri who for the kids starting when they commit the cardinal sin of consuming his cookies proves to be the uncle from hell jiri hijacks the film at this point and never quite lets it go even in the final scene he is a figure of leering menace it is surprising that the obnoxious richard doesn't sexually abuse one or both of the children he is insistent that needs to get out on her own and when offers to take her under his wing he and richard become improbable allies improbable perhaps implausible why should like him but then what is whole story about some things the film gives too much information and about others not enough br br clearly the good angel is kind and a polished good looking older man whose manners befit his italian upbringing it's only at the end when he's pushed to the limits over his prague property by the devious occupants he proves that he is not one to won't lie down and be walked over br br also to be dealt with is religious fanatic mother jana and her interactions with and richard are something to watch but she is just another wild card that does not augment the deck br br the poem has been set to music in a czech translation and is sung on screen by the vocalist first in a tiny scene then in a more extended one staged at a prison performance witnessed by and the car thief pal if you revere as an auteur you may relish this sequence otherwise it tends to feel gratuitous also included are a number of songs by glen of the oscar award winning irish musical film 'once ' including the latter's theme song falling they feel more out of place than they would otherwise because of their familiarity from though this film came first br br people are arresting even little has his shakespearean child moments and a wealth of charm but the director and his writer seem unable to resist the temptation to digress and to over expand the property hassle endures may be useful for showing he has a tough side but such an elaborate demonstration wasn't necessary the acting is fine and there is a wonderful with quirkiness and specificity but the basic themes of love sex and money get lost in the shuffle and conflicts and how she resolves them never become clear it's fine that there is no resolution and true to the theme and to poem that still has hot sex with during a revisit to prague after moving to tuscany with and her kids but there are too many questions remaining about what to make of the obnoxious richard or of annoyingly pious mother how come all of a sudden we learn is getting letters from india purported to be from his dad who's in prison when did that come about interesting details hastily pasted in this seems a world in which you can't see the forest for the trees
1	beauty in trouble v is not a great title all the descriptions of this film fail to capture what it really is – an adult fairy tale a poor girl is wooed by a prince the girl played by the stunning anna has an isabelle huppert beauty with a red hair face and figure that are beguiling sexual and endlessly fascinating she has a louse of a husband but they have great sex the kids listen to the lovemaking through walls it's rough and passionate as the sex of the working class seems to often be portrayed in film but it's also for us to recognize that this is the thing that binds them together in an otherwise incompatible marriage the husband a professional car thief is eventually caught and thrown in jail how she got into this marriage we don't know but she is not exactly a high class herself but she's beautiful intelligent we assume and loves her gorgeous and resilient kids she deserves more and she may get the life she deserves eventually no spoiler she is forced to move back with mom after her husband is sent to jail mom has a hideous second husband read ugly stepfather he is a real horror show he borders on being a child abuser to the kids he's obsessive about cleanliness but farts at the table all the while demanding manners and decorum from the kids he's real low class socially handicapped wretch mom puts up with him like marcella's husband at least he's lusty hideous but horny the ambivalent confusing layered characterizations are what make the film so powerful and interesting these characters have flaws some seemed driven by class some by innate character these flaws and details of character are charming one minute and contemptible the next the audience really has to negotiate conflicting feeling of class sexuality ambition commitment and the role of a woman as mother and wife through the quickly changing terrain of the story at the bottom line as with many films like the wonderful icelandic movie thicker than water the children can be the victims what's right in the end may be what's best for the children – who are our salvation and our future it's a theme played out these days in films ranging from pan's labyrinth to children of men foreign cinema is recognizing in intricate morality tales that life is confusing brutal unfair and as adults we must get our act together in order to pass something worthwhile to the next generation if we give in to our baser instincts we may lose ourselves and the world in the process the extraordinary and complex and colorful characters in v speak to the qualities of what makes a man what drives a women what embodies hope what is class is it economic status of the fabric of one's character the film is richly human as embodied by the very last 2 shots which moved me incredibly and unexpectedly the director's choices are so subtle and intelligent that to compare this to an american film seems unfair americans sometimes seem to lack the desire to consider that paradoxes in human nature don't offer set resolutions but here perilously couched in ostensible fairy tale for adults are interesting moral questions don't be fooled by the simple story this is a great movie
1	this was an excellent movie i saw this at the vary iff in the czech republic and it won an award there this is the first film i've ever seen from jan the director and i was impressed it's a great story about love and family the movie has a great balance of comedy romance drama and suspense all in one i will not give away any of the plot but this is a well made film and i would watch it again if i had the chance the cinematography editing is great the film simply flows and the characters are warm and they are the kind that one can relate to i hope you can enjoy this film as i did if anyone knows where i can find this in the united states or if they plan on releasing it on dvd anytime soon please let me know
1	i recently saw this at the 2007 palm springs international film festival the film's title and in fact much of the outline of the film is from the robert graves poem beauty in trouble jan directs a screenplay by petr from a story by and the story begins in 2002 when prague is hit by one of those devastating 100 year floods that destroys the household of ana and roman and their two children kuba adam and lucina because of the moldy conditions where they now live asthma is life threatening works and runs a chop shop out of the garage they live next to shady occupation runs him afoul of the law and one of his theft victims becomes infatuated with josef is a wealthy businessman who divides his time between italy and the czech republic and offers to care and her two kids jana is marcella's mother who lives with her common law husband called uncle richie played by jirí in probably the film's best role rounding out this excellent cast is as mentally fragile mother who gives any money she gets to the local religious charlatan there is a lot going on here for a small film and it's good story with a great script and a lot of comic relief ales provides the music score with additional music from czech singer and irish singer glen there is a lot to like about this film and i would give it an 8 0 out of 10 and recommend it
1	crackerjack is a hit and miss film set in the australian suburban lawn bowls club of mick plays a who has been scoring free parking spaces at when the club is put under pressure to install poker machines in it's premises they need to raise 8000 to keep this from happening the club needs new members to help and this is where mick character comes in and has to bowl to save the club with many up and coming and aging australian actors crackerjack is a hidden gem be warned though most of the jokes are for those with a knowledge of lawn bowls but there are many amusing sight gags that provide comical relief sam johnson and judith lucy co star overall the movie should be recommended for people who play lawn bowls or have played but there is enough other material in there for an amusing play if you have a slight understanding if you enjoy australian humour i suggest you get you're bowling whites on and head on out to the theatre because this is the premiere lawn bowls comedy of the year also the only one
1	crackerjack is a funny movie everyone at the has seen it and all say the same the wheel of cheese was a great part of the movie also the loud speaker dear mr so and so you have left you right indicator on or when jack goes home and lays down on the couch and cracks a beer bowls is hard work cracked me up and when his roommate shows interest by joining the club and calling bingo number jack buying all the tickets to win the meat tray bloody great movie if you are into lawn bowls as you can relate to it if your not a lawn bowler forget it i think the evans head would rate as the best club in aus friendly people great company hi to evans head steve
1	crackerjack is another classic aussie film as so many australian films like the castle the dish and sunday too far away it goes somewhere that hasn't been widely explored in film before this time it is the game of lawn bowls and bowling clubs crackerjack is a much slower paced sports movie than many you will find such as remember the titans or million dollar the characters involved are athletes in their own right this movie is a show case of a large area of australian culture and features a sport that is popular and on the rise of popularity in australia mick presents a classic unforgettable character it really is a must see
1	coming from oz i probably shouldn't say it but i find a lot of the local movies lacking that cohesive flow with a weak storyline this comedy lacks in nothing great story no overacting no melodrama just brilliant comedy as we know oz can do it do yourself a favour and laugh till you drop
1	considering the appalling track record of mick since going out on his own i had rather low expectations of crackerjack even the promotional posters for the movie had me nervous in fact if it wasn't for the fact that i'd received free tickets to the preview i would have resisted the pressure from the missus who thinks mick's a hunk there's a worry to pay money for it br br the first few minutes of the movie had me worried it starts with one of tired get angry at insignificant things routines but that was given a neat touch which at least made it a little refreshing the rest of the script was pretty good and very light hearted even the typical mick and judith lucy humour was delivered well and whilst i never had to pick myself up from the aisles it generated a lot more chuckles that i was expecting and it was br br there's nothing new in the plot pretty predictable but it moved along quickly between one liners and other jokes i never felt it harboured on any element too long or too short mick must have worked hard on polishing his script there were a one or two late show in jokes and one or two jokes that only would get but certainly there's plenty of generic stuff in there for a wider audience br br something that i found disappointing was the relative of john clarke he just didn't seem to work as the bad guy but that doesn't detract from the movie too much br br over all i enjoyed this comedy and was pleasantly entertained for the duration of the movie i left the cinema with a decent sized grin a pretty hard thing for an australian comedy to do in my books 7 5 10 br br
1	a movie i've seen and enjoyed possibly more than any other movie i first saw it as a kid and loved the drama and the great climactic battle as i got older i enjoyed it as much or more than before but now due to all of the components that work together to make a true classic the acting is great especially keith as t roosevelt the cinematography spectacular the script is full of gems and the directing pulls it all together wonderfully it's loosely based on an actual event and it shows rush of europe and a newly america to carve up the 'sick old man' the ottoman empire as it collapses in a fashion unlike any other 'historical' movie i've seen humor drama action love it's got it all and deserves far more acclaim much like 'the great waldo
1	it is more a subtle story of the fact that in indian household how most decisions are taken by the man how no attention is paid to the desires of the lady for example how even when the husband and wife sleep together it would be a test for the husband whether he can control his desires not to give the woman pleasure and in such a type of scenario women invariably have two choices either to accept all this and take it into their own life which is usually the case or not accept this and try to mould things to satisfy themselves which makes a movie br br fire is a brilliantly directed story of the second option which women choose for themselves no sacrifice not to serve anybody else rather a decision for their own good somehow the whole idea of justifying lesbianism didn't find an acceptance in the indian audience but if one looks the whole movie from an angle of self expression then the whole debate doesn't even arise
1	while not for everyone crackerjack is a delight to watch with tongue planted firmly in cheek the likeable character of jack simpson played by mick is scamming the local for free parking and making a couple of dollars on the side selling the parking space to work colleagues when the bowling club members need to raise some money to save their club they call upon jack to join their bowling team and play competition bowls br br filled with aussie charm the laconic wit of mick is showing through he also co wrote the script reminding this viewer of his earlier work in radio perfect aussie casting with bill hunter as jack's bowling mentor stan john clarke of the games fame as the ruthless businessman and rival bowls club owner bernie fowler with samuel johnson as jack's flatmate dave and judith lucy as the jaded journalist nancy br br initially i figured only fans of would like this flick but judging by the number of the blue rinse set exiting the cinema chuckling this is a film for everyone
1	a very comical but down to earth look into the behind the scene workings of an australian bowling club the way they deal with various problems such as takeovers and general running of the club not to mention the car parking dilemma was well scripted
1	a fairly typical australian movie where the underdog saves the day inspite of himself i guess there is no real reason to see this pic if you have seen the castle or the dish it still leaves you with a positive feeling at the end and it as good or better than most hollywood stuff
1	i was reticent to see this flick before reading the external reviews and user comments posted here why firstly because mick humour can in my humble opinion be pretty crass and over the top evidenced by his ill fated of a television show some years back and secondly because good aussie comedy films are sadly as rare as the tiger br br sensibly mick has restrained his natural comedic exuberance in this surprisingly watchable movie who would have thought that a bowls club would provide the setting for one of the funniest australian films in years the cast is excellent with familiar local old timers all putting in believable performances br br interesting to see john clarke playing the villain in this piece it's a one dimensional part but jc still adds a touch of class as always good to see judith lucy also getting a guernsey or should i saw bowls uniform on the big screen she's a real talent pity a number of her retorts were expletives her own material is a lot wittier interesting character though bowls reporter on a local rag how low on the journalist food chain can one get br br crackerjack may not be the funniest film i've seen this year but it's certainly an enjoyable diversion well worth a look lots of other people obviously agree with me as it's headed to be the biggest grossing australian film this year good to see someone finally make a quirky gentle comedy without trying to sledgehammer the laughs like so many australian 'comedies' before it br br finally a bit of trivia if you're wondering which aussie rules team mick supports check out the flag on his also look out for his old partner in crime tony martin doing the announcing in the final bowls scene br br br br
1	br br crackerjack starring mick malloy judith lucy both part of the cast in the early 90's saturday night comedy show the late show bill hunter an australian movie icon and john clarke who we still see regularly on australian tv along side brian br br crackerjack is about a guy in his early 30's jack simpson played by mick malloy who pays his yearly at the local bowls club in order to get a few car park spaces for which he uses himself and rents out to others as cheap inner city parking br br the club falls on hard times and pulls all the resources and together it can jack gets a phone call telling him to turn up to next bowls match or lose his membership and his car park space br br i wont spoil the rest but the film is funny light hearted and contains everything a good aussie film should br br if your not australian then some of the jokes and humour will no doubt baffle you if you are an aussie do yourself a favor and sit yourself down to crackerjack its now available on dvd i already have my copy br br 10 10 awesome flick br br
1	this is the first feature film from australian comedian mick mick wrote the film with his brother richard with help from john clarke another comedian and actor mick john also have starring roles along with several other iconic australian actors bill hunter frank wilson et al the basic premise of the movie is that slimy jack simpson mick has become a member of a lawn bowls club for the sole purpose of getting a free car park near his work the club is in dire financial straits and calls on jack to help john clarke plays the clubs arch nemesis he is trying to take the club over and turn it into a poker machine slum jack and the other club members band together to try and save the club with many funny twists and turns and jacks eventual redemption this is quite a clever little movie it is well above mick usual gutter humor it is pretty well written and well acted the older aussie actors are brilliant bill hunter frank wilson monica maughan and the film meanders along rather then going at break neck pace but that adds to the charm of the movie there is low level coarse language
1	crackerjack is a simple but feelgood movie where the good guys are very good and the bad guys are very bad and the central character is tempted by both sides br br the combination of the central character being played by mick malloy and the central setting being the local lawn bowls clubs drew an unusually broad crowd ranging from large numbers of teenagers to large numbers of senior citizens and all laughed at the comedy br br as would be expected of a movie with mick malloy and judith lucy there was quite a bit of swearing but it was not overdone and the audience i sat with certainly enjoyed it br br mick malloy did a good job as the lazy bloke who joined the bowls club three times simply to get parking spaces one for himself and two for to others at a premium but who has everything fall down on him when he is required to play or lose his membership br br judith lucy does a fine job as his local journalist love interest and there are fabulous performances from bill hunter frank wilson monica maughan lois ramsey and many others br br john clarke's dour role as the bad guy is not one of his funniest but he gives a solid performance br br the not so subtle swipes at provide a bit of a serious note to this otherwise light comedy br br i'm sure that those who enjoyed the castle and the dish would also enjoy this movie
1	worth it for if not for mick work then for judith lucy she brings her usual classy style of unbridled foul to the role and steals the show in parts br br imho i'm not much of an autograph hunter but i have collected 3 the first is samuel l jackson's the other 2 are in this movie tony martin and mick altho martin only makes a cameo appearance not only stars but co wrote and co produced this flick i've been a fan of their for years now apparently i was the only one laughing during the on set urination in the first episode of the short lived the mick show so i went in to this with high expectations i'm happy to say i wasn't disappointed with mick doing a lot of the work on this thing there's plenty of his usual trademarks phrases like blow it out your arse and these bowls are s house are all over the place aswell as plenty of winnie blues being sucked down it's also the sort of stupid original story you'd expect from someone like him this is like one of those american sporting comedies where they make a baseball team out of prisoners or something but rather than trying to make a dull american sport like baseball or gridiron interesting this movie focuses on a sport usually left to grey army lawn bowls but the main difference between this and other sporting type comedies is that this is actually very very funny what's even better is that even tho the subject of this movie is a young lout joining an old folks game it's never insulting to the elderly and it never gets sickeningly soppy or anything it's just good laughs at genuine 1972 prices mick is great in the first real acting role i've ever seen him in as is judith lucy and the rest of the cast but then most of them have had a lot of practice this is the best australian comedy i've seen in a long time go see it and learn the joys of lawn bowls br br it's a bit like major league br br score 8 10
1	i was very impressed with the latest production from mick as a fan of his i was used to a different kind of humour than displayed here he wisely opted with a more subtle broad style of comedy in crackerjack rather than his usual low brow in your face ramblings it is at times inconsistent and un even but a decent script works past that and makes for some entertaining viewing directed by paul moloney who has directed almost every australian tv series imaginable crackerjack tells the story of jack simpson a bloke that belongs to his local bowls club for the sole reason of parking when the club hits financial trouble he is forced to bowl in an attempt to raise the funds to save the club from becoming a poker machine haven a familiar and successful formula that is handled well there is no denying that the film owes it's success to the great casting of he seemed to have a great rapport with samuel johnson and excellent chemistry with judith lucy and while the character is probably not a far stretch from his own personality you can't help but wonder why he hadn't tried his arm at film earlier to smooth out the in experienced cast the delightful frank wilson and bill hunter support and often steal their scenes they are two fine actors and the pair cruise through their roles with ease had it not been for the huge success of 'my big fat greek wedding' crackerjack would have made it to number 1 at the australian box office but when you consider what he film is about and who is involved even making it to number 2 was an outstanding effort all in all a witty feel good movie great cast great crew and a great soundtrack combine to make one of the better australian films of 2002 7 10
1	sharky's machine is easily one of burt reynolds best efforts it also stands as one of the best contemporary crime dramas erotic and violent the movie distinguishes itself by setting the story in atlanta and delivering a chaotic detective case to you the viewer on a silver platter dedicated and determined sharky must stop the murder of a lovely lady of the night who's is anything but ordinary before long sharky's crimefighting machine uncovers a conspiracy of the highest order which threatens to corrupt the inner body of atlanta as a resident of metro atlanta i recall the excitement in town during the movie's production sharky's machine goes to great lengths to give an accurate portrayal of atlanta twenty years removed and 2 000 000 more people later the film stands the test of time trust me atlanta has not changed one of the highlights of the picture is dar robinson's daring stunt a classic symbolic ending it was even featured on that's incredible abc's reality show of the period it's just too bad that hollywood does not make enough films like this one kick back each your popcorn and watch sterling silver cinema action
1	this film is well cast often silly and always funny lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director from the first hare krishna to the last you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy
1	sharky's machine is a crime drama set in early 80's atlanta it stars burt reynolds as a renegade cop who is hellbent on stopping crime and corruption in his city the story is about a dirty politician who is at the top of a crime ring that has been brining the city to it's knees sharky's link to bringing down this syndicate is a high priced hooker that he falls for during the course of the movie the action sequences are well done for the early 80's and the soundtrack score are pretty good the acting is b level but this is a pretty decent film to have in your dvd collection br br overall 7 10 br br peace br br
1	in the tradition of neo film noir flicks like chinatown this film focuses on a crime mystery in a bleak realm with a bit of character insight blended in the typical noir characters thoughout including the cop out to prove himself a damsel in distress and a bad bad guy sharky's machine gets a 9 out of 10 for its cinematography first plus its direction story strong character acting and superb jazz score available on dvd though the soundtrack itself is out of print but available used on some auction sites filmed on location in beautiful downtown atlanta novelist diehl's hometown and the uncluttered circa 1979 look of the city would make an old time atlanta citizen or visitor long for the old days before 12 lane the city a cinematographer's dream at that time this was rachel ward's first usa feature film
1	burt reynolds directed this action movie and surprise he is actually a pretty good director this movie starts off well as burt's attempted bust of a drug dealer is botched and he is down to the vice squad the ensemble cast has some pretty funny scenes as brian kieth is always eating something bernie casey has more class than all of his co workers combined and charles durning loses control of his squad br br the vice cops stumble on a high priced call girl ring that may have something to do with a series of murders spends days staking out rachel ward apartment and starts to really adore her from afar br br just when they are getting close to the crime leader is murdered i won't give away any of the surprises in the plot but the first hour of this film is great br br unfortunately the screenplay gets very clichéd and unbelievable after that br br why would burt reynolds confront the crime boss with his big secret sure it makes the guy sweat but it causes many more cops to be killed and it is not believable that and would make love after they have know each other for one day much less while their lives are in danger and at the end what happened to all the police that run into the building with our heroes isn't there a swat team also the film never actually tells you how all of the bad guys are connected and why they have to kill so many people br br there is a very effective torture scene on a boat near the end of the film which is probably the only really nail biting scene of the film it is a shame that the climax is a typical shoot em up still this film is certainly entertaining if you like crime and action movies don't think about the plot holes and you will have a good time
1	in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included if you don't like burt you may still like this if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time being from atlanta it does hit home but it's also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city chicago miami or la the film is funny at points with good plot good performances from a great supporting cast every character is real the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the 2nd half it has some good old fashion shootouts fistfights no cgi thank god real action br br if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with every which way but loose any which way you can then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this it comes off great
1	sharky's machine is clearly a burt reynolds vehicle designed to allow the star room to strut his talents and he spray paints the machine the film plot with colors from other films and other styles offering a variety of moods within a nourish story br br made in 1981 at minutes lengthy for the time period the film did well with box office at 37 800 000 it had a lot going for it burt reynolds actor and director a solid one two punch a william novel adaptation and the south land of atlanta georgia at this time a land of opportunity for film production out of hollywood br br reynolds' tom sharky falling in love with rachel ward's the hooker with a heart of gold is here echoed as it was in hustle when he played opposite catherine deneuve and that film also had a corrupt politician at its core but with downbeat ending not the hollywood happiness in sharky's machine br br the story is pure detective procedure actioner sharky a narcotics detective up a bust of a drug dealer causing the killing of some innocent bystanders and gets literally transferred downstairs to vice to deal with perverts and other m that cops consider latrine duty his new digs offers him the chance to meet many equally upstanding officers who are doing the dirty jobs no one else wants when some attention is pointed toward a certain pimp sharky looks over some evidence and discovers that one particular prostitute rachel ward is being shielded by police forces and political forces and sharky sets himself up a 24 hour surveillance force to watch her during the time he watches he learns that the current governor elect earl holliman is visiting as is a slick italian gangster victor vittorio gassman before the police can build a case with the evidence billy victor's brother a coke snorting gunman henry silva shoots through the door of apartment seemingly killing the beautiful but when sharky discovers that the murdered victim was actually a roommate tiffany wells sharky confronts victor and tells him that he is going to have him arrested sharky is captured by some ninja killers lead by smiley darryl hickman and is tortured for information to lead to but sharky overpowers them and arrests the governor and in a heated chase kills billy after he has killed victor br br reynolds wants to exhibit the inner workings of a hardened policemen falling in love but the police story plot flavored with noir element and reynolds ability at cinematic development tends to slick over the dynamics of the relationships br br we come to learn something about some of the men and this leads us to reason why they are working towards their pensions in vice instead of fighting real crime this element of the film seems sketchy under reynolds' off handed direction and performance br br there is always uniqueness to a reynolds film he likes to hire stars either character actors or others and then allow them to improvise sometimes with varying results br br with his crew in sharky's machine he gets some fine moments and sometimes some overblown but always a sense of ensemble and good natured ness with reynolds as auteur it works br br reynolds the actor auteur always seems to be smirking at himself and the viewer as if to say it's all fake but good fun br br great line in the scene with victor when sharky throws down the gauntlet you're walkin' all over people like you own 'em and you wanna know the worst part you're from out of state this seems to be the greatest insult the officer can throw at a criminal br br reynolds made the film in atlanta at his career point have shot himself reading the phone book and would have surely targeted and demographic br br the film did mark the appearance of rachel ward who was nominated as new star of the year in 1981 by the golden globe br br reynolds has always had presence and star power and has chosen to make films close to home georgia br br i got my dvd from half com for 7 99 and unfortunately it doesn't contain any commentary or making of features which is a shame maybe the next generation will have them br br the movie is still a lot of fun and both reynolds and ward are great looking actors in their prime
1	burt reynolds stars as an undercover cop who is after a crime boss rachel ward as the high price call girl he falls for burt does well in this role and i think he would've done well in more roles like this br br rachel ward is beautiful and sexy in her part good pacing and story but something is missing in the equation on a scale of one to ten 7
1	sharky you look so normal you would never get a table in this fancy cocktail restaurant bistro i on the other 'and eat grapes and pate 'ere every day you like my fur coat with all the fine trimming my enormous golden rings of gold or maybe you like these blonde you say bombshells who are all qualified in aerobics and naked who decorate my long velvety sofa like so many soft boiled on a plate of pan fried gras and you like you can't have are all mine br br you will never possess 'er as i possessed 'er domino was the best apart from maman you do not understand the art of lovemaking just look at your inferior moustache it is almost funny to me non to think of that ludicrous on your silly face as you around domino's love like the piggy seeking the truffle in the forest the forest heaving and swaying in the hot winds of desire you lose again sharky br br when i make love to the women know sharky know learn learn until become the teacher not nano maths the arts of love domino was the which i watered i watered her so very often everywhere sharky her scented petals her proud stalk everywhere she will wither under your ridiculous hose like the soufflé removed from the oven five minute too soon br br i must go now sharky you bore me so with your disgraceful behaviour it is you who will be flushed down le like the smelly thing br br bon chance
1	without a doubt the best burt reynolds film ever even better than smokey and the bandit this was probably the first real bloody cop thriller of the 1980s and delivered the perfect blend of humor action mystery and style that is missing in today's films br br this one has it all a psychotic henry silva jacked up on pcp 1 000 a night call girls ninja assassins and burt reynolds getting his fingers sliced off one by one with a butterfly knife the film is based on the novel by william diehl who also wrote primal fear another one of my all time favorites this movie is worth watching just to see henry silva get shot six times crash through a window and fall thirty stories from the top of an atlanta high rise this is probably the coolest stunt in hollywood history performed by legendary stuntman dar robinson br br robinson also played in the elmore leonard movie stick also starring burt reynolds stick features another great dar robinson stunt robinson falls from a miami apartment building and all six shots from a 44 magnum on his way down very cool stuff br br sharky's machine is my favorite police drama i never understood why this film flopped the way it did if burt did more films like this he would've built a better reputation for himself he proves to be a talented director with sharky as well as a gifted actor burt is supported by brian kieth charles durning bernie casey richard libertini rachel ward and everyone's favorite bad guy henry silva please remake this classic film get affleck and samuel l and some other hot actors and you've got a great movie just waiting to be filmed br br i give it a 9 out of 10
1	i think this is one of top five movies along with deliverance smokey and the bandit boogie nights and city heat he also directed this one so he had a talent for that too like his buddy clint eastwood i wish he made more films like this or even a sequel to machine than the likes of stroker ace or cannonball run ii this is a tough gritty cop thriller with reynolds at the top of his game having the beautiful rachel ward in it of thorn birds fame helped too henry silva is the bad guy and he always does a good job at that the film also a great soundtrack too i highly recommend this wish it was on dvd in the uk an audio commentary from reynolds would be great as well 7 10
1	an intense dark action drama with unusually rich support from casey keith et al many of whom get the best roles of their careers and run with it the film is oddly shaped often the action slows down just to let the characters get caught up in odd but well done seemingly improved dialogues during the almost all of the machine get caught up in perfectly delivered humorous monologues and reynolds the director deserves mucho credit for having reynolds the star step back and give them room and unlike most action films you really get to like the characters which makes the 2nd half when their various destinies good and bad unfold unusually affecting the combination of character development brutal violence a jazzy soundtrack tarantino must be a fan watch this then jackie brown and you'll see what i'm talking about make this occasionally flawed film the bad guys are a bit melodramatic one of the better modern cop films and in my mind superior to many of the overrated modern noirs such as body heat such
1	out to sea is a fun movie starring that wonderful duo of jack lemmon and walter matthau this film is not quite as funny as their grumpy old men comedies which it strongly resembles but there are many laughs throughout lemmon and matthau play a couple of in laws who take a cruise together once they get on the boat the thing lemmon doesn't know is that matthau has signed them on as dance hosts so they don't have to pay for the cruise this infuriates lemmon who's in no mood to dance what's worse matthau doesn't even know how to dance nevertheless they go along with it and it the process they meet some of their fellow passengers and crew members here are the crew members there's the cruise director gil played to the hilt by star trek the next generation veteran brent spiner who acts like an evil dictator there's two fellow dance hosts played by barney miller star hal linden and veteran movie musical star donald o'connor there's the ship's owner mrs carruthers played by golden girl rue as for the passengers there's vivian a widow played by gloria de haven who falls in love with lemmon there's liz played by one of my all time favorite actresses dyan cannon who falls in love with matthau there's mavis liz's mother played by veteran stage actress elaine and they meet others as well all these actors are a pleasure to watch as lemmon and matthau play off of them it's great to see cannon here see's beautiful as ever is a hoot spiner is a funny comic villain who's plays it deadly straight de haven is wonderful linden o'connor and have a good moment or two and finally the two main stars lemmon and matthau are fine as usual a nice little gem of a comedy br br out of four
1	this is the best thing burt reynolds ever did nice combination of suspense and humor with an excellent supporting cast this is a very well written and credible urban drama with a great sound track as well makes you wonder why reynolds doesn't direct more movies
1	great just great the west coast got dirty harry callahan the east coast got sharky burt reynolds plays sharky in sharky's machine and i enjoyed every minute of it playing a maverick narcotics cop in atlanta ga is just what everyone wants instead of suspension he's sent to vice squad like in the dirty harry movies or any other cop movies the captain is always going to be the jerk when i was a kid i was curious what that movie meant sharky's machine well i knew who played sharky i wonder what his machine was it was his group of fellow cops after uncovering the murder he goes all out to find the perp when it turns out to be a big time mob boss sharky doesn't play around when he gets the other prostitute into safety sharky fights back hard and good despite losing a finger to the thug and i also like the part where the bad gets blown out of the building through a plate glass window that was the bomb randy crawford's street life really put the movie in the right mood and the movie itself is really a great hit to me always rating 4 out of 5 stars
1	this is burt reynolds' citizen kane tragically nothing else he was ever involved in came close to approaching sharkey's machine it seemed to me that he put everything he had into it it is a movie that is in love with movies the opening sequence where detective single handedly rescues a bus load of hostages is an immensely exciting piece of cinema everything moves so quickly once it has started to go wrong that it appears to take on a life of its own a brilliantly achieved effect it looks cold tense and dangerous on mr reynolds' streets the precinct house looks dirty and tired full of desperate people on both sides of the law shouting cursing out trying to do deals or just stay alive into this underworld descends the recently a reward for a bungled drugs bust caused by a corrupt cop he and his team are part of the vice squad information they pick up concerning a crooked politician leads them into the world of high class call girls and ruthless drug watching the apartment of one such call girl rachel ward falls in love with her portrait on the wall i know i know and when a woman's body is found with its face shot off in one of the rooms he thinks its her well i did say it was a movie that loved movies the scene where she walks in on him works beautifully even if you have seen the original the film is full of good touches i particularly like charles war story subtly acted and shot in sharp contrast to sharkey's abduction and torture which is suitably harsh and brutal i must mention vittorio gassman and henry silva as two disparate but equally evil brothers with absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever they are full on every time they're on screen and are no loss to society when their time comes mr end being extra special indeed as has been mention this is a clint eastwood movie that clint never made the biggest compliment i can pay sharkey's machine is to point out that in my opinion clint eastwood couldn't have made a better job of it the soundtrack is of an equally high standard featuring sarah vaughan joe williams julie london chet baker and other top class artists randy crawford's street life plays behind the title sequence and i can never hear it without in my mind's eye seeing striding along the sidewalk like other i have never understood why this film was a bit of a flop i hope it is due for a critical revision particularly at a time when so many cop movies and shows without a quarter of its energy freshness and sheer joie de vivre are lauded from the rooftops if you're ever tempted to think of burt reynolds as a burnt out one trick pony put sharkey's machine in your video machine i promise you won't be disappointed
1	while he was great in boogie nights i think that this was burt reynolds' best performance he's also a great director and has made a tough violent movie that doesn't hold back a hooker's death by 12 gauge and is an excellent detective story with some great actors brian keith bernie casey etc and an outstanding jazz soundtrack 10 out of 10
1	burt reynolds' riposte to clint eastwood encroaching on his redneck comedy turf with his orangutan comedies was to make his own dirty harry in chicago style thriller sharky's machine originally intended for john boorman but in the end directed by the star himself it's an out and out commercial package with reynolds a narc who gets busted down to the vice squad literally they're in the basement who sets out to nail a mysterious crime lord who is backing earl holliman as the next governor you can guess the rest but while reynolds tends to lose sight of the story at times he has a good eye for individual scenes and almost gets a performance out of rachel ward as the high class hooker he falls for the romantic subplot is unusually well developed there are a couple of good action scenes and some nice touches such as having vittorio lookalike villain a mirror image of the hero or reynolds and a killer both staking out a witness from adjacent apartments in the same building one of the star's better films from his glory days it's no classic but it makes for a more than efficient saturday night special
1	i'm a fan of b grade 80s films in which the hero is a bit of a bad guy a strong male who finds love and this film delivers br br towards the finish you do not know how sharky will not be killed and doesn't he take a beating realistically portrayed i believe however he does and it's not via some overdone 'die hard' stunt the it' team he works with comes together hence the title his team are all characters people on the sideline at work because they don't quite conform these portrayals are funny and sympathetic they have a real feeling to them they're up against an iceman of an assassin with a good team of his own the result is a great film noir
1	dirty harry goes to atlanta is what burt called this fantastic first rate detective thriller that borrows some of its plot from the venerable dana andrews movie laura not only does burt reynolds star in this superb saga but he also helmed it and he doesn't make a single mistake either staging the action or with his casting of characters not a bad performance in the movie and reynolds does an outstanding job of directing it henry silva is truly icy as a hit man br br detective tom sharky burt reynolds is on a narcotics case in underground atlanta when everything goes wrong he winds up chasing a suspect and shooting it out with the gunman on a bus during the melee an innocent bystander dies john woo's the killer replicates this scene anyway the atlanta police department busts burt down to vice and he takes orders from a new boss frisco charles durning of oh brother where art thou in the basement sharky winds up in a real cesspool of crime sharky and his fellow detectives arch bernie casey and papa brian keith set up surveillance on a high priced call girl rachel ward of after dark my sweet who has a luxurious apartment that she shares with another girl br br is seeing a local politician earl holliman of police woman on the side who is campaigning for governor but the chief villain victor vittorio gassman of the dirty game wants him to end the affair is reluctant to accommodate victor so victor has cocaine snorting billy score henry silva of terminate billy blasts a hole the size of a twelve inch pizza in the door of apartment and kills her br br sharky has done the unthinkable during the surveillance he has grown fond of to the point that he becomes hopelessly infatuated with her sharky's mission in life now is to bust victor but he learns that victor has an informant inside the atlanta police department the plot really heats up when sharky discovers later that billy shot the wrong girl and that is still alive sharky takes her into protective custody and things grow even more complicated he assembles his machine of the title to deal with victor and his hoods br br william widescreen lensing of the action is immaculate unfortunately this vastly underrated classic is available only as a full frame film definitely contributes to the atmosphere of the picture especially during the mutilation scene on the boat when the villain's cut off one of sharky's fingers this is a rather gruesome scene br br burt never made a movie that surpassed sharky's machine
1	this was one of those films i would always come across be it on tv or cheap dvd but never struck me to give it a shot as i thought i wasn't missing out on much it was on one night and i thought oh well… why not a good decision too as i would kick myself for taking so long to get around to it for me it left me impressed as it's up there with burt reynold's best features 'deliverance' 'white and 'boogie nights' and streams back to those 70s 80s gritty hardboiled urban crime thrillers that weren't afraid to be obscure and go out of their way to set up characters pack it with realistically brutal force and effectively incorporate the local locations atlanta being the case here to the fold with grounded photography in certain shades it kind of reminded me of 'dirty harry' but that's loosely however it's honed blues score with its simmering kicks funky shifts and unhinged sounds very much had me thinking of lalo schifrin's pulsating score he orchestrated for 'dirty harry' the music soundtrack on the other hand is hit or miss br br sgt tom sharky was an atlantic narcotic agent before a slip out during a bust saw him to vice work along with his new squad they come across a prostitution ring which catches their interest due to fact it's owned by one hard to track and to convict crime lord what they dig up involves a prominent government figure and a call girl which can give them some important names but they must get to her before she's made a target br br burt reynold's acts but also directs in an firm and muscular fashion which would suit his laconically hard nosed performance and gerald di thematically hard bitten and taut screenplay that was adapted from william diehl's novel well he does show some sort of heart insightful thoughts amongst that armor within the scenes involving the fetchingly able british actress rachel ward be it the stake out scenes when he's watching her from another building and slowly becoming infatuated by her to when they finally come together but these latter interactions mid way through do slow up the momentum but give it noir like strokes the performances are fairly spot on with reynold's a great rapport with exceptional actors charles durning earl holliman brian keith richard libertini and bernie casey the scathing profanity and witty dialogues between these guys were a blast as for the corrupt villains vittorio gassman builds imposing strength and power but it's henry silva who seems born for these roles cunning and unstoppable turn that makes the show where his appearance seems to outline things to come and help them fall into place plus his adrenaline filled and violent cat and mouse climax with sharky and his team is brilliantly done br br the exciting action passages might be quick and dry but remain lethally violent like an immensely teeth grinding interrogation sequence some handy old fashion filming techniques add to the suspense the intriguing material keeps it quite tactical being character derived but when we think its smooth sailing it offers up a blunt surprise or two along with some intensely brunt confrontations
1	atlanta crime with burt reynolds sgt sharky and his tough and well oiled sharky's machine let frisco charles durning and officers papa arch brian keith casey breaking up the atlanta crime syndicate who's on the verge of putting their man in the governor's state house br br busted after messing up a major drug police sting operation with the drug dealer and a number of innocent pedestrians shot and killed sgt sharky was transfered into vice busting hookers johns and perverts sgt sharky finds a list of call girls in the wallet of a top atlanta pimp and after bugging one of the call girls apartment it turns out that she's having don earl holliman a candidate for governor as a regular costumer br br as sharky starts to investigate this strange he finds out that the good family man married with five children is also on the payroll of vittorio victor gassman the mob godfather of atlanta the high price call girl rachel ward who's involved with is tired of being a hooker and want's to leave victor's stable of call girls and live with as his live in mistress after he gets elected governor of georgia which is already a forgone conclusion but their's only one slight hitch will victor let go of her br br with the gassman syndicate the corrupt atlanta police and city officials as well as the local chinese mob sgt sharky ends up losing most of his men including two of his fingers as he brings down the gassman mafia in a final shoot out with the his mobsters at the famous atlanta plaza hotel's br br and beautiful rachel ward as is thought to have been murdered by drugged out hit man billy score henry silva who blew her face off with a shot gun but in reality it turned out that he really killed call girl room mate tiffany wells with away in the country br br sharky who was in love with from afar found out the truth about her being alive and to the surprise and shock of mob kingpin victor gassman is going to use her by getting to testify against him to put gassman and his mob away for good but the cunning and vicious victor wasn't going to go willingly and let sharky know it sooner then he thought br br blood shootout at the plaza hotel in the films final sequence with machine having it out with the almost indestructible junkie hit man billy score shooting it out on the hotel stairway both billy score and sharky's machine member arch come face to face with billy's drug induced invincibility clashing with zen reality alerting philosophy in what can best be said to be a battle of two cultures west and east
1	burt reynold's and star's in this great cop film reynold's play's the of the title who is a tough cop whilst working in undercover a drug bust goes wrong and is to vice br br the machine of the title to the motley crew to bring down a crooked governor who is involved in high class prostitution cocaine and contract murder br br the motley crew is played by brian keith favorite bernie casey richard libertini as alway's quirky as an ace sounds man durning as the chief the beautiful english rose rachael ward play's a 1000 a night hooker whom and eventually for when staking out an apartment used by the governor br br italian actor vittorio gassman play's the high pimp who has a deadly gang of at his disposal and henry desilva play's his psychotic brother hit man who is highly strung on prescription and angel dust br br the action packed finale see's the remaining member's of the engaged in a deadly shootout with desilva which in one the most spectacular ever put to celluloid br br alas hollywood has ran out of idea's and is contemplating a remake of sharky's machine why bother a 25th anniversary special edition dvd would be ideal not a silly ass remake
1	out to sea was a great movie i expected comedy and from about 10 minutes into the film to the end there was comedy and laughing points jack and walter are great together and the addition of rue made it a wonderful movie that should be seen over and over again
1	that's how burt reynolds describes this film which happens to be his best ever he plays tom sharky a vice detective who's on the trail of an international mobster vittorio gassman and the man he's financing to be the next governor of georgia earl holliman in the novel by william diehl the story is more complex because the guy's running for president this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two the filming in downtown atlanta and the plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story reynolds doesn't do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films he's very serious here especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets for a dope bust that goes wrong at times though the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster's woman only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin sharky's machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker julie london flora purim buddy de franco the manhattan transfer doc sarah vaughan and joe williams al handles the score with magic this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever check it out br br score 8 out of 10 stars
1	sharky's machine finds burt reynolds as a narcotics cop who after a failed buy and bust that wasn't his fault but that got a few people killed in it he finds himself to the vice squad in atlanta br br the prestige is hardly as good as the narcotics beat but it does have its fringe benefits one night after a roundup of working girls where one of their books falls into their hands the guys ask for surveillance on rachel ward's place she's an expensive item both notorious mobster vittorio gassman and law and order candidate earl holliman br br their surveillance however records a murder and the rest of the film is sharky and his new colleagues from vice trying to solve this prestige case br br though it's a burt reynolds film and those usually have some humor to them the comedy is kept in check as the film turns as deadly serious as dirty harry it was reported in fact that clint eastwood was offered this film br br look for some good performances by fellow vice cops bernie casey and brian keith and by henry silva the coked up brother of gassman who does the dirty work of the organization and loves his job br br it's not a bad film a mixture of dirty harry and laura why laura you'll have to see sharky's machine for that answer
1	i haven't seen every single movie that burt reynolds has ever made but this one which i've just finished watching for the third time may very well be his best it suffers only from some slow stretches burt perhaps tried to make it more arty than it should have been on the other hand he managed to avoid many of the usual cliches in the presentation of the tough cop role he plays notice for example the scene in which he attempts to kiss rachel ward for the first time or the fear he expresses just before the final showdown with the indestructible henry silva in fact silva and those two ninja assassins are three of the most memorable villains of cop thrillers of the 80s the film also has some offbeat touches a surprising amount of humor a brutal and gripping fistfight and many well directed shots
1	the jazz soundtrack makes this seem like a clint eastwood movie br br in fact the whole thing strikes me as burt doing clint the story is good and the movie is full of one liners that i carry with me to this day reynolds to bad guy i'm gonna pull the chain on you pal because you're f'n up my town and you wanna know the worst part you're from outta state br br highlights the reel to reel is nice set dressing for br br charles durning coming unglued while listening to tapes of prostitutes having sort of phone sex you'd have to see it trust me it's hilarious br br brian keith plays against type as a tough guy and does it well br br bernie preoccupation with zen br br rachel ward wow where'd she go br br doc and the tonight show band play their rears off as usual joe william's guests on vocals manhattan transfer re recorded route 66 the soundtrack lends class to the whole affair br br need i say more it might be reynold's best film ever br br yeah he plays himself as usual but it works br br enjoy
1	the above profile was written by me when i used the nick of which is still my email address i still believe andy devine's character of frisky is the best twilight episodes ever and i watch this episode at least once a year as i consider to be a fortunate man as he has many friends who love him dearly br br in case many of you are too young to remember i'm 61 andy devine hosted a children's entertainment show in the 50's i believe called andy's gang on it he had three assistants a cat named midnight who played the violin a mouse named squeaky who played an a hand organ and a devilish toad named who's could appear and disappear at will embarrassing many of andy's funny guest stars like billy gilbert
1	one of the few comedic twilight zones that's actually really good we have floyd the barber from andy griffith show the stock in trade old geezer dude from many old westerns and lovable old it also has that cool spacecraft interior that i believe was used in the sci fi classic forbidden planet or else the day the earth stood sill plus the new guys in town are driving an exotic renault i think sports car back in the days when european automobiles were known as foreign jobs in the u s the whole idea of harmonica as weapon is a hoot and the fact that buddies love him despite being the fact he's a total bs artist is a heartwarming moment
1	i always loved that scratchy voiced guy in all those westerns he was the sidekick jingles in the wild bill hickock show back in the fifties in this he has the perfect vehicle for his wonderful bragging character he is harmless and no one believes him but he is non flustered and goes on anyway when you have a guy like this there's no challenging because the details aren't there to quibble with of course in this episode he is taken on board a space ship by a group of aliens who have no sense of humor and believe everything they hear they don't have the word lie in their as it turns out he is so insufferable that they can't handle him and then of course there is the secret weapon see this just to watch andy
1	cliche romance drama movie with very simple plot but very good cinematography and script the screenplay directing and acting was also good the flow of the movie is kind of manipulative in order to bring the audience to tears through the excellent love music and circumstance which works but later on after the movie makes one feel raped in a way jones makes her character very memorable and lovable though a deeper story could have taken this movie to a higher level but still the movie delivers for it's genre only for hopeless romantics big love story fans big soap drama fans 50's cinemascope cinematography fans and fans of the lead actors
1	this movie is the best one forever upon the warm feelings of this real love story during the korean war by the story of hy sun the eurasian doctor and mark elliot an american at the shadow of different habits between east and west upon his quotation in the love scene between two lovers when he invited her to dance the relationship between east and west must be close in spite of chinese habits and customs that destiny made their great role by between them to replace the pains for both elliot suffered from failure marriage and hy sun suffered from the harmful shoot of her husband by chinese communists at the time of mao ze dung in 1949 br br she could not stop the decision of destiny in spite of her practical profile because love has a magnetic spirit for everyone seek for happiness soul and brilliant memory as the final quotation by the voice of elliot after his death and the sadness receive for hy sun for this hard situations when she went to the hill the source of this love under the tree to say goodbye for his body and live with his soul among their souvenirs
1	on a second viewing this is still a wonderful romance that is in my opinion much better than the film it came paired with on my 2 dvd set the leo mccarey weepie classic an affair to remember yet it seems to have fallen out of favour slightly only a 6 6 rating here on imdb and dismissed by many critics as gooey slush how sad because this is an intelligent romantic drama with very good work by the two leads jennifer jones and william holden if anything the film should be well remembered for the gorgeous colour cinematography and the unforgettable musical score i don't much like valentine's day but it gave me an excuse to watch this movie again and i'm glad of it while i still think holden's character death is too heavily foreshadowed taking suspense out of the final scenes this film is very moving and i really enjoy it
1	with two old friends br br i've always enjoyed both lemmon's and films and of course their team efforts are always worth watching and often hilarious br br although i didn't personally regard this film as in the hilarious category it is certainly a competent and entertaining vehicle for fans of the two principle actors and of 60s style romantic comedy plots br br brent spiner may actually steal the show in terms of laughs as the arrogant and tyrannical cruise director br br gloria dehaven proves that senior ladies can remain enormously attractive
1	after many many years i saw again this beautiful love story thinking about how would i half a century after react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women's behaviors in a small city in brazil br br this time however what caught my attention in the film was something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr han jennifer jones makes clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition as an eurasian in fact she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provided that by doing so she is not betraying her chinese side its seems to the spectator that is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them br br therefore attitudes always leave poor elliott – a determined brave and extremely practical man – anxious and perplexed without knowing how much importance to give to her words for him whose love for her is plain and simple the situation is totally clear if we love each other let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast is what she seems verbally and non verbally to answer him all the time br br in fact chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind namely the constant raids on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world for is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life not because of any objective and concrete threat as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the of a japanese invasion but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings br br in fact it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people's life totally miserable because of that mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes so that they are not taken away by jealous gods everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon peasants are advised that they should shout loudly the rice is bad the rice is bad to protect their crops from being stolen by deities and in a funeral it is recommended that the dead's family be isolated from the other people by curtains so that the gods don't take advantage of their sorrow and fragility br br in other words introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone's daily life br br as the story takes place in hong kong in 1949 it should be clear that china really was at that time almost a semi feudal society while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that launched by the usa after the first oil shock in 1973 took charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both sides of eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today br br a lot of history came into being since those old days as to china the main fact is that after several phases of a communist regime the country finally reached in the last two decades the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism and what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled in hong kong in 1949 and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it is gone completely gone in brief if that story took place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talking business as usual
1	it stars war correspondent william holden separated who falls in love with a stunning eurasian doctor jessica jones set against the stunning backdrop of hong kong the cinematography is magnificent as they rendezvous on a hill overlooking hong kong the story deals with racial tensions society frowning on mixed relations and extra marital affairs but what i love about it is the strong character of the heroine portrayed by jessica jones who is a eurasian doctor who stays humble and steadfast in her altruistic mission and stays loyal to her love despite that she gets sacked at her hospital for cavorting with a married man by high rankers one day william holden is called to the korean war which he covers and then that ill fated day she gets the news of his demise the end of course is tragic i cried when she went to their hill it was a very sweet ill fated love affair it defeats all the odds the fact that she got fired from her job how his wife would not grant him a divorce yet their great love persevered they experienced a great love despite it all i personally do not believe in extramarital affairs and think he should have not started something when he was bound to someone else and she should not have allowed herself to let it happen but despite that a truly magnificent movie i think the heroine overshadowed the hero jessica jones is sultry and gave a magnificent performance although i thought it strange they didn't not hire a real asian actress or someone with asian blood i agree with one review jessica jones oozes sexuality when she lays on the ground and looks up at william holden speaking calmly but her eyes say come take me now br br i find it a pity most great films were made before i was born it seems many hollywood movies are lacking in depth great acting and depend entirely on stunts and heavy sex scenes this is truly one of the greatest ill fated love stories in movies
1	the beautifully engaging song with the same name as the film won the best song oscar in 1955 br br love is a many thing br br it's the april rose that only grows in the early spring br br love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living br br that golden crown that makes a man a king br br once on a high and windy hill br br in the morning mist two lovers kissed and the world stood still br br then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing br br yes true love a many thing br br how can we forget such a beautiful song henry king the director had the privilege to work with jennifer jones twice that year for this film and the greatly under rated film good morning miss dove jones was nominated for thing but she could have been easily nominated for miss dove as well br br william holden is just great as the war correspondent sent to report on the communist revolution in 1949 china his love for jones an oriental doctor was endearing and so memorable to watch br br while the ending is not pleasing this is still one of the greatest romances ever put on the screen
1	this film always hits me hard emotionally at the end though the issues of the film interracial romance and adultery were controversial at the time this film goes way beyond those narrow parameters of ground breaking novelty and trail blazing uniqueness here we have a true love story as written by the woman involved in this love affair told in a brilliant aggressive style that extols the virtues and glory of mad passionate love i love this endorsement of the only emotion that makes life truly worth living jennifer jones is full of grace and william holden is simply magnificent in his role as a reporter a wonderful film that only people who have been in this kind of love can really appreciate and understand and for those who haven't yet been in love even just the hope that one day lightning can strike for you makes life worth living because love is worth having even if but for a short time even if you lose because love is the stuff the essence of life this film works for me a warmly felt experience
1	based on the 1952 autobiography a many thing love is a many thing 1955 tells the story of han focusing on the romance that han a widowed eurasian doctor in 1949 hong kong had with a married american correspondent named mark elliott i don't want to feel anything again ever han tells mark soon after they meet but the two soon develop the mutual for each other and who can blame them mark is played by william holden at the near peak of his hunky dude period the following year's picnic would be the peak in this the first of three films over the next seven years that would find holden in china 1960's the world of suzie wong and 1962's satan never sleeps being the others and dr han is here played by jennifer jones who although not a eurasian unlike yummy nancy kwan and pretty france of those other exotic holden films does a credible job of passing as one whether dressed in european frock surgical gown or hubba hubba bathing suit jones looks ridiculously gorgeous here no wonder east meets west in this film so dramatically with its two appealing lead stars breathtaking hong kong scenery beautiful cinemascope and color oscar winning costumes and that classic oscar winning title song that through the film like a lovely incense love is a many thing turns out to be quite the winning and romantic concoction han herself supposedly did not care for the picture so i can only imagine that great liberties were taken with her source material still i enjoyed it and if the film's ending causes a tear to come to the eye just remember mark's words of wisdom life's greatest tragedy is not to be loved
1	this movie is based on the book a many thing by han and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites a topic that comes from han's personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china that background and the beautiful hong kong settings gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time br br other than that the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world the acting is top notch and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined br br the cinematography really brings out hong kong especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments the ending is a real tear jerker some may consider sentimental romances passé but for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories this is a shining example
1	this film immediately catches the eye with the atmospheric aerial views of a very pretty hong hong filmed in those rich colours of 1950 films which modern blockbusters never seem to capture probably a sign of those times because this is not a high powered seen it all before film full of havoc and violence the havoc and violence are there though in the backdrop with thousands of refugees trying to get out of china this is a very moving and compelling story full of hope and love in a tragic time in recent history the story of two people from different cultures falling in love and the build up to them trying to overcome this is the heart of this very fine and moving film
1	i regard this loving and sensitively written story to be one of the screen's true masterpieces after having seen this film originally on the silver screen with my mother in los angeles california when it first came out many years passed before i would have the opportunity to experience it again the beauty quiet simplistic elegance and tranquility of the film to me set it aside from many many others of its kind yes tears still come to my eyes when i see it and hear the refrain of that once in a lifetime song perhaps still today my number one all time most beloved film i would hope this classic love story will be enjoyed and appreciated by our future generations
1	age cannot tarnish the beauty of this east west love story for me ignoring the famous and lovely title song and its lyrics what we have is a dramatized biography of two remarkable people caught in a moment of counter currents involving social conformity bigotry war doubt and the need for immense courage with hong kong as the backdrop this movie tells the story of a eurasian doctor and a u s journalist who meet and fall in love during the korean war as mark elliott william holden is intelligent breezy and a bit weak jennifer jones is perhaps well nigh perfect as dr han by turns doubt torn and ecstatic eager and hesitant others in the large cast include torin thatcher isobel murray matheson virginia gregg richard loo soo yong philip ahn jorja and donna martell many of hollywood's best oriental actors played smaller uncredited parts also the script by john patrick followed han's exquisite novel closely the direction by henry king was solid as always the thrust of the storyline is how unwilling han was to fall in love with elliott with her busy and demanding schedule as a doctor and her doubts about their future and how unafraid he was despite the intolerance and interference they faced as their affair became known the film is unarguably physically busy interesting and often beautiful also the hill to which the lovers go to be apart the lovely bay where they swim are set against an already busy and crowded business city large social events and teeming streets hospital corridors and traffic filled arteries with cinematography by leon shamroy ben makeup and helen turpin's hairstyles the great work by set decorators sound and lighting art department and all concerned this has to be one of the most memorable productions set in a major non u s city of all time and one of the most difficult to capture on film yet what one remembers most here is the lovers thankfully not extremely young facing the odds against them and assessing exactly what they are then going ahead as if love mattered and those conditions which are set up as barriers to love do not the climax of the affair is mark's going back to war thereafter han receives his letters even after she knows he is has been killed they seem messages from a better wold a world where hope is all that matters courage is the price of admittance to that world and it is always summer on a high and windy hill set apart and above a zone where beauty and individual desires can be victimized made subject to ill fortune or brushed aside by militant forces of evil truly love is a many thing dr han says and this movie stands as one of that shining proofs as a pearl timeless as a chinese proverb and lovely as polished jade set against a rough background
1	love is a many thing is set in hong kong in 1949 50 and tells the story of the relationship between mark elliott a white american journalist and han a half chinese half european doctor this story of a mixed race love affair was quite a daring theme for the fifties and as it often did hollywood tried to soften the blow by casting a white actress as the supposedly non caucasian woman who falls in love with a white man something that would be regarded as politically incorrect today but was quite acceptable then think for example of the casting of ava gardner in show boat or natalie wood in west side story the setting of the story in a british colony was also perhaps a way of exploring racial issues in a way that would cause less controversy in america loses her job in a hong kong hospital because her british superiors take exception to the fact that she is dating a white man whom she is unable to marry because his estranged wife will not grant him a divorce as was sometimes the case european colonialism was made the whipping boy for some of america's own failings imagine the that would have been unleashed had a similar film been made about a black or mixed race woman doctor in a hospital in alabama br br besides racial issues the film also raises questions of international politics referring to both the communist seizure of power in china and the outbreak of the korean war han was a real person and a well known author of the period in reality she tended to support communist regime but here she is shown as firmly anti communist this is not however primarily an issue movie about either or politics but rather a romance a good example of what would have been known at the time as a woman's picture such films although mostly made by male directors were mostly aimed at female audiences they dealt with love and romance often unhappy romance from the woman's point of view and had a strong female character in the leading role the genre often provided roles for actresses older than the heroines of standard romances earlier examples were normally in monochrome but by the fifties they generally as here used lush sumptuous colour br br although a chinese or eurasian actress would have been more convincing in the role jennifer jones does a very good job as i found william holden as mark rather uncharismatic but this does not matter much as is very much the dominant figure she is screen much more than mark and the film examines her family and professional life much more than it does his although jennifer was still strikingly beautiful she was in her mid thirties rather older than most romantic heroines of films of this period holden was about the same age unusually for the fifties when boy meets girl often meant older man meets girl br br the film is not particularly profound but is well made with some attractive photography particularly of hong kong itself reflecting the growing trend in the fifties for shooting on location rather than on studio sets seldom can hong kong have looked so beautiful the view from a hill overlooking the city takes on a special meaning as this is where and mark go for their romantic assignments the overall mood is one of poignant doomed romance a mood heightened by the atmospheric photography and the musical score including one of the most memorable movie themes ever written 7 10
1	this is the kind of movie that people of a certain age will say of i didn't think they made movies like that anymore walter matthau gives his usual over the top performance but instead of leaving teeth marks all over the scenery leaves endearing grease stains he is like that great uncle we all know that still wears plaid polyester and embarrasses everyone but we still love anyway br br jack lemmon's performance reminds us why he had more golden globe nominations than anyone else 22 he gives a true to life performance of the basically 'good ordinary man' even in the milieu of a farce br br this film will probably not appeal to people who prefer blunt humor designed to confront or offend but will appeal to people who appreciate broad farce played with a straight face br br the entire supporting cast is excellent in their ability to play such absurd characters while maintaining the reality of each character br br brent spiner gives a marvelous performance as a professional version of a lounge lizard anyone who has known professional hosts in real life will immediately recognize the type he is playing he nails the type perfectly his rendition of merits study as a perfect example of the contrast between absurd and pathetic br br the plot is rather a straight forward 'let's marry rich' theme that has the usual results just because a plot theme has been done a thousand times does not mean that it is dated but rather that it is a timeless theme br br the rest of the supporting cast shows what can happen when professionals exhibit their skills in the roles that are written for them instead of vying for the spotlight in this film even the second tier actors shine it is also obvious that they enjoyed making this film br br the plot may be standard and thin but it allows the performers to shine br br this film is a true treat for people who want to see professional actors engaging in their craft the plot falls away and the performers shine
1	i have just sat through this film again and can only wonder if we will see the likes of films like this anymore the timeless music the tender voices of william holden and jennifer jones leave this grown man weeping through joyous romantic scenes and i'm not one who cries very often in life where have our william holden's gone and will they make these moving wonderful movies any more it's sad to have to realize that they probably won't but don't think about it just try to block that out of your mind even so they won't have holden in it and he won't appear on that hill just once more either you can only enjoy this film and watch it again
1	directed by a veteran hollywood director henry king who began his career still in 1915 love is a many thing was one of his last great films it was based on a bestseller by han called simply a many thing the phrase that was borrowed by the author from the poem the kingdom of god by francis thompson where that many word love' was used in quite a different and rather transcendental context meaning the love of god made in the the film marked along with works by such directors as douglas sirk and vincente minnelli a sort of renascence of melodrama its and reaching yet again a peak of popularity br br the story begins when a handsome american reporter mark elliott played by william holden yet once again typecast in one of his irresistible roles comes to the hong kong and meets there a young and pretty han jennifer jones of half chinese half english origin who is working as a doctor at a hospital and whose husband was recently killed by the chinese communists instantly mark feels a rather strong attraction towards her but at the beginning his deep feelings are not quite reciprocated by han's heart left cold after the death of her husband i believe in human heart now only as a but very soon she yields to the persistent courting of tempting as hell mark and both of them enter a passionate relationship apparently stoppable by nothing even by the fact that mark is unhappily married and his wife doesn't want to give him a divorce or social differences and prejudices caused by han's chinese origin but still it's the fate that has a final word to say in determining the fairness of the of such a blissful loving relationship for no matter how enduring the two assume it to be the merciless time is waiting in a rather alarming form of death prepared at any given moment to prove its impermanence br br undoubtedly one of the most romantic films ever made love is a many thing features fine performances from william holden and jennifer jones wonderful academy award winning musical score by alfred newman and extremely romantic touching heart warming but ultimately heart breaking story don't miss that many film 8 10 br br
1	i first saw this film in the mid 60's when i was a teenager and it moved me so much in fact the end scene where han hears of mark's death and then rushes to the hill in disbelief where you then hear mark's voice saying give me your hand and then the image of him disappears the butterfly with it's superstitious meaning the music the shattered emotions of love of han just left me sobbing my heart out i was outwardly crying bitterly my mother and sister looked up and were shocked at my reaction i just left the room to be on my own fortunately i do not react like that any more but i always cry at the end i love everything about the film the music mostly the costumes of han and location the beauty of jennifer jones and the handsome william holden they were both at their best i have the vhs and dvd of this wonderful movie i also have two versions of the music lyrics by arthur newman and sammy i also have the book a many thing by han i recommend this film 100
1	holden and jones sizzle in this movie but not in the way we think of sizzling today it's very subtle and under the surface yet palpable jennifer jones in particular is so sexually hot in this film much more than a caricature like monroe ever was because she creates a real woman with all facets of womanhood she's intelligent intuitive graceful she's desiring and desirable br br there's a scene on that famous hill where she's lying down in the grass looking up at holden and the expression in her eyes is x rated yet in the context of the scene and character in makes complete sense you don't need to have it all said in the dialogue spelled out like the crude obviousness in most modern films it's all there in her eyes sexy yet elegant what a stunning under rated actress she was i saw her madame bovary for the first time recently and was equally blown away i'll take her over bergman davis or the two any day
1	two great stars and a legendary director created a magnificent throbbing love story that is memorable and moving on so many levels br br henry king directed jennifer jones in her first hit song of bernadette and he again directs jennifer jones in this film and miss jones is perfect in this role and gives a edgy beautiful performance that captures the conflict in the character and bill holden who hit home run after home run in the with a series of smash hit films beginning with sunset blvd stalag 17 born yesterday country girl picnic and of course river kwai is superb in this role hard to imagine anyone but holden in this movie i loved the ending and cry every time i see it for anyone who has ever loved and lost you will understand for those who haven't you won't
1	this movie will likely be too sentimental for many viewers especially contemporary audiences nevertheless i enjoyed this film thanks mostly to the down to earth charm of william holden one of my favorite stars and the dazzling beauty of jennifer jones there are some truly heartwarming scenes between the pair and the talent of these two actors rescues what in lesser hands could've been trite lines the cinematography of hong kong from the period of filming is another highlight of this movie all in all a better than average romantic drama 7 10
1	those prophetic words were spoken by william holden as a war reporter to the beauteous jennifer jones as a eurasian doctor explaining his failing marriage on the beach they start an affair despite huge odds of adultery and racial issues in hollywood of the 1950s interracial romance was allowed but only with dire consequences at the end beautiful hong kong scenery although some beach scenes look studio bound a famous title tune poetic script lovely background music by alfred newman great costumes outstanding performances especially jones directed here by henry king who also did the song of bernadette 1943 an oscar for jones still make this a world class romance weeper
1	we all want to fall in love the experience makes us feel completely alive where every sense is heightened every emotion is magnified it may only last a moment an hour an afternoon but that doesn't reduce its value because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives br br i love watching people fall in love it must have something to do with the excellent chemistry between the main characters br br mark elliott a charming sensitive american war correspondent arrives in hong kong at the dawn of the korean war he finds in han an awesome beauty of true grace br br han a lovely eurasian doctor is captivated by mark's tenderness and insight br br it was instant attraction when they first met the two commence a passionate affair leading them to fall deeply in love br br their love is so strong so wonderfully expressed that highlights elliot's married status and the difficulties of the troubled time of the korean war communism and race relations br br holden is an inspired choice for the role not only does he have an imposing screen presence but he brings the perfect mix of enlightenment compassion and emotion to the part br br opposite him oscar winner jennifer jones perfect in her oriental look radiantly beautiful in that traditional and modern asian inspired jones floods her role with personal emotion giving her character a charismatic life of its own she delivers a heartfelt performance turning her character into a woman who undergoes a spiritual and emotional awakening br br her scene in that verdant hill where she takes refuge is exquisitely touching specially when we heard mark's voice whispering we have not missed you and i that many thing br br henry king who has established himself as a masterful director of romances spreads the theme tune by alfred newman in the air above the cosmopolitan harbor his film is colorful elegant with excellent cinematography and set design br br nominated for eight academy awards this beautiful and sensitive motion picture won three best costume design best music and best score
1	this delightful movie tells the story of buds and it's incredible you'll laugh and you'll smile and you'll laugh it's really all about the laughs when jon bon jovi is funny in a movie it's a heck of a movie 'nuff said now go watch it
1	homegrown is one of those movies which sort of fell through the cracks but deserves better when i first saw it i had a luke warm reaction but over time it's really grown on me no pun intended the more i see it the more i appreciate it the writing is top notch as is the acting throw in a few surprising cameos and good direction and you end up with a great little film br br it's also good to finally see hank azaria get a chance to shine in a starring role and thornton delivers his usual quality performance even relative newcomer ryan phillippe delivers playing a friendly innocent with wit and subtlety br br on a side note homegrown is simply a must see if you're a billy bob thornton fan it appears stephen gyllenhaal was influenced by earlier thornton projects like one false move and sling blade though homegrown is certainly a lot more tongue in cheek than either and thornton's role as a character who is both sophisticated and down to earth is a perfect match for the actor
1	8 2008 when i originally wrote my comments shortly after first seeing this film i took a critical view feeling that lemmon and matthau had basically phoned in their performances which paired them in a manner they'd done several times previously br br but upon seeing it again it seemed different especially in view that neither of the two main mega stars lived a great deal longer after its release br br with the exception of spiner all of the eight principals are performers with considerable experience and likewise unavoidably a lot longer in tooth than we've seen in many of their other film and t v work but isn't almost everyone br br seeing it again while it certainly won't be regarded as a in any of their careers it is a fun film with a lot of interesting scenery as well br br from my viewpoint it reminds me that many films plays etc can often be looked at either from a very critical viewpoint or looking instead to the lighter side without expecting a film to be another citizen kane or in terms of the two leads another original odd couple it also will provide a continuing piece of nostalgia for lemmon and matthau as well as the others in the cast
1	b b thornton proves to be a great actor in this little seen movie thornton really gets into his characters literally i caught this on cable one night and enjoyed it too bad it was released nationwide in theaters the same year as fear and loathing and half baked
1	this movie was good i can't say it was one of the best but it still was good the only reason that i watched it was because of ryan phillippe he is soo hot don't get mad reese but i think that it was sort of funny not a laugh your head out kinda thing but still o k
1	you looking for a comic drama with suspense and an ensemble cast well locate this little sleeper john lithgow and billy bob are great in this little plot twister don't forget the cameo by jamie lee curtis a touch of the 60's a touch of the prince and the pauper and dash of that homegrown gold makes for a little story
1	if it wasn't meant to be a comedy the filmmakers sure goofed if they intended for it to be a comedy they hit the mark our critic says homegrown is a wonderful film filled with family values and community spirit recommends it for all audiences and says that he really liked jamie lee curtis's performance it deserves a theatrical re release
1	after seeing the trailer it was an easy decision not to see this film i mean i don't care for stupid stoner comedies i'm sure it was also an easy choice for a lot of people to get together smoke a bowl and go check out this flick with the guy from the simpsons and some guy named billy bob should have been a good time but the film's just not that funny too bad somebody had to go and bum their high br br unfortunately i found out that the trailer was misleading after it had already left the theaters so i had to wait for the video i really enjoyed it nice locations quality production and excellent performances from the entire cast looking back at it the plot twists weren't totally unexpected but i didn't find it cumbersome because the premise was so engaging br br so why was this absorbing drama marketed as a comedy did something happen to the producer leaving the associate producers to do the marketing by themselves
1	anyone who gives this movie less than 8 needs to step outside puff a couple great story br br reality is for people who can't handle drugs
1	not your ordinary movie but a good one billy bob is very funny in this movie the way he talks what he says etc i was kind of surprised when i saw it cause i just thought it was a normal comedy but it was more than that it had a very good story great characters and a good balance br br favorite part probably when billy bob is running around in his robe shooting at the
1	a fun romp a lot of good twists and turns and we were not even baked br br didn't know this movie even existed until watching the extra trailers on a monty python dvd oddly it was there along with the city of lost children and the adventures of baron br br the plot keeps you wondering throughout br br the acting was awesome hank azaria shows his talent again bill bob is billy bob br br definitely worth watching
1	a fun romp a lot of good twists and turns and we were not even baked br br didn't know this movie even existed until watching the extra trailers on a monty python dvd oddly it was there along with the city of lost children and the adventures of baron br br the plot keeps you wondering throughout br br the acting was awesome hank azaria shows his talent again bill bob is billy bob br br definitely worth watching
1	what a great little film lots of good roles from some random stars basically there are these pot growers that get caught up in a comical adventure at points the film makes you believe everyone is going to end up dead which adds to the comedy when the character of john lithgow 3rd rock re appears its impossible not to imagine the trip this may have caused like a total paradox the film is full of twists and turns that keep you guessing all the way to the end billy bob thornton astronaut farmer is brilliant in fact looking back the character is fairly similar in the fact he holds the family of pot growers together everyone involved in this film should get a big thumbs up br br as i the final scene is a dream however a nightmare at the same time i love it when hank azaria carter says at the end do you think we should do this every year i felt my self wishing they would br br i'm not going to say this film is good for everyone but as a lover of stoner movies i give it 10 10 my advice have a joint ready kick back and enjoy
1	i was totally surprised just how good this movie actually is because when i first saw it i was only mildly amused i must say however that i am still very disappointed that donald o'connor wasn't given a bigger and better role he was an enormous talent br br there is a great chemistry among all the main cast members and matthau has never been funnier br br i am tremendously glad that this picture got made because we get to see lemmon and matthau team up for the very last time in a vehicle that puts their talent to great use brent spiner proves that data from star trek the next is not the only good character he can play br br the storyline is really quite simple but the comedy and the characters work really well and i laughed heartily throughout this movie and i highly recommend it
1	this is an awesome movie and if you haven't seen it you should go to the video store right now and rent it first off the cast is superb not only does it have current stars like ryan philippe and billy bob thornton but it also has your stars of yesteryear like judge reinhold it also has numerous cameos by actors like jon bon jovi ted danson and jamie lee curtis second off the story was quite good also it was interesting how they took a plot for a stoner movie and almost made it dramatic it takes the drug situation in the united states and instead of giving it a comedic face like in half baked it has a true life lesson image like traffic so watch this movie if you're a stoner it will give you insight into something you love if you don't do drugs it will give you a more realistic view of drugs than either side wants you to see
1	the first half hour of homegrown was rather boring and not absorbing but as the film progressed so did my interest in the characters and the plot several scenes are really scary and you fear for the main characters who you actually grow attached to the story is about three hired hands on a hidden illegal marijuana farm in southern california they witness the murder of the owner malcolm john lithgow and they take over the weed for their own the three rather simple minded farm hands soon get swept up into a scary world of mafia and local interest while all of the time trying to convince everyone that malcolm is still alive while the movie had several faults and a slow beginning it turned out to be worthwhile 7 10 stars
1	this is the kind of film that might give you a nightmare besides that it's a lot of fun br br hardware wars is the only good spoof on star wars other films like spaceballs have failed this is the only good spoof film i have ever seen it doesn't rip off star wars it makes fun of it and that's what spoofs are supposed to be
1	this ranks as my favorite movie of all time it's the best spoof of a science fiction movie ever the fact that it was a sendup of star wars just made it all the better br br i love slapstick think of this as the marx brothers or the three stooges meet star wars the writing is hilarious the effects are a hoot the free association that goes on guarantees all sorts of things coming out of left field i almost wet my pants when the wookie monster accosted the princess br br space balls was a much longer movie but only had about 15 minutes of good material in it and i felt sort of ripped off afterwards like buying a burger that turned out to be mostly filler hardware wars despite being only about 15 minutes long would be worth paying a feature price imo
1	hardware wars is a hilarious 12 minute short film parody of the original star wars movie which was released just a few months after star wars in 1977 this film uses household appliances as space ships and star wars look a like actors to send you rolling around on the floor in uncontrollable fits of laughter this film has won many awards at film festivals and was the film which inspired mel brooks to write his star wars parody movie called spaceballs br br this is my favorite parody film and i recommend it to anyone who is familiar with star wars and has a good sense of humor br br
1	talk about your classics ernie the from here on out came up with a cute and creative trailer totally spoofing star wars this gem is so jammed packed with tributes and gags i laugh every time not only that when star wars did a re issue with new special effects hardware wars did the same talk about a spoof that just won't die there's a reason george lucas calls this his favorite parody he was so impressed he even hired the to work on return of the jedi don't believe me check his entry in imdb br br this has to be the first and in my opinion the best parody ever done i think the special edition was a bit overdone but on reflection i think it's perfect for the modern day re release of star wars and goes to prove that sometimes it's wrong to mess with perfection br br yes it's only 10 minutes but it's well worth your time br br you'll laugh you'll cry you'll kiss 3 goodbye well maybe 15 for the dvd but you'll be real happy you did
1	br br fourteen of the funniest minutes on celluloid this short parody is at least as much a part of the star wars saga as phantom menace and far more entertaining if you ask me hardware wars was the first in a long line of sw spoofs which form their own subgenre these days i hate to describe it too much it's so short that the premise is just about the whole thing suffice it to say that many of the most popular and familiar aspects of star wars have fun poked at them household appliances such as toasters and vacuum cleaners portray spaceships and robots the princess anne droid character wears actual bread rolls on her head instead of the famous coils of braided hair and fluke is even more of a dork than his original if that's possible ernie is one crazy son of a buck he's also the source of now the apocalypse now spoof
1	i just got the dvd for hardware wars in a shiny new package looking irresistable stuck it in my dvd player to find a slew of extra fun stuff the extra content on the dvd is even longer than the movie for those of you that have shame never seen hardware wars it one fantastically silly star wars spoof of episode iv of course household appliances such as irons toasters vacuums and a waffle maker stand in for ty fighters x wings r2d2 and the death star instead of princess leia we have princess ann droid complete with hairdo you get the point i'm sure mad silliness and a fun ride for any star wars geek like me br br now the dvd wow a director's commentary where he basically goes off on the movie making fun of himself and the project throughout an interview with on creature features remember that and hilarious director's cut and foreign version of the movie all jokes of course anyway this is great i loved hardware wars in the theater and am so glad for having the dvd in my collection wedged in between mst3k the movie and thumb wars
1	undoubtedly the funniest movie i have ever seen it's definitely worth the fourteen minutes it takes to watch i will never look at my kitchen appliances the same way again bob deserves an oscar relax kid it's only a movie
1	i caught this little gem totally by accident back in 1980 or i was at a revival theatre to see two old silly sci fi movies the theatre was packed full and with no warning they showed a bunch of sci fi short spoofs to get us in the mood most were somewhat amusing but this came on and within seconds the audience was in hysterics the biggest laugh came when they showed princess having huge cinnamon buns instead of hair on her head she looks at the camera gives a grim smile and nods that made it even funnier you gotta see played by what looks like a muppet it was extremely silly and stupid but i couldn't stop laughing most of the dialogue was drowned out because of all the laughter also if you know star wars pretty well it's even funnier they deliberately poke fun at some of the dialogue this really works with an audience a definite 10
1	walter matthau and jack lemmon both of whom are sadly missed proved once again that they were a team dedicated to their craft of bringing hilarious moments to the screen this film is just another example of this br br this time out they play two brothers in law who land on a ship as dance instructors on board br br of course their boss is a perfectionist and miserable person named gil godwin who just enjoys harassing these boys it's hilarious how lemmon gives a quick lesson in dancing to matthau and how the latter dances a riotous with the boat's owner rue br br too bad that fellow dance instructors hal linden and donald o'connor are given so little to do but their parts call for that matthau falls for dyan cannon on board with her fellow gold digging mother the usual outrageous elaine unknown to them matthau has no money either the widower lemmon falls for gloria de haven looking lovelier than ever br br the film belongs to matthau and lemmon and will serve as a further tribute to their illustrious careers
1	done on a spare change budget of twenty bucks tops this cheapie thirteen minute short cheerfully parodies george lucas' legendary '77 sci fi blockbuster star wars in the most infectiously dumb way imaginable writer director ernie delivers a winning and often gut busting blend of ludicrous sound effects ineptly staged action scenes cruddy far from special effects you just gotta love the cheesy scratched on film lasers asteroids and household appliances i mean spaceships being swung around on obvious wires badly dubbed in dialogue shamelessly hammy acting and richard wagner's rousing piece of classical music ride of the valkyries the characters are presented in suitably broad strokes my favorites are whiny wimp fluke venerable jedi knight auggie ben doggie and hateful arch villain nader who spouts nothing but incomprehensible gibberish moreover 4 q 3 is clearly based on the tin man from the wizard of oz while artie deco is definitely a cheap vacuum cleaner this film's true masterstroke is casting legendary voice actor supreme paul frees as the narrator deliciously rich and plummy histrionic tones add immensely to the considerable silly yet sidesplitting tongue in cheek merriment choice lines you'll laugh you'll cry you'll kiss three bucks goodbye a total hoot
1	the hysterical hardware wars is finally out on dvd has earned its niche among parody classics and is not only a riotous little 20 minute short but a staple in low budget film production classes which is where a lot of the film's cult status is derived from and resides with the dvd not only do we get a chance to revisit the original parody cinnamon bun head ballistic toast et al that ernie f did in 1978 but there is a lot of additional material showcasing the wit antique sideshow is a dead on parody that is very funny but makes a statement about the of ignorance and greed at the same time the director's commentary is also hysterical as is the creature feature which parodies taking a film out on the talk show circuit and actually is based on taking out on the talk show circuit albeit the public access circuit i'd love to see ernie michael and crew take on some other contemporary overblown and targets to parody like just about any film that hollywood churns out at 100 million a pop these days not so much the crafty films like spider man or men in black actually parodies themselves but any number of overblown overhyped overwrought and overpriced features br br
1	out of all the parodies of star wars i've seen this is probably the funniest not because of the premise star wars with simple electronics instead of spaceships but because of how poorly acted it is this is purposely overacted and it makes it hilarious and since everyone knows its purposely overacted no one complains the special effects were also purposely as awful as can be and include a toaster on a visible string that shoots toast and an egg beater on a string this short is funny for any fan of star wars which i'm not or anyone that has 15 minutes to kill great short br br my rating out of 13 mins not rated
1	i haven't seen hardware wars in years but i remember it as one of the most hilarious events of human experience and it was over far too soon every aspect of this movie was hilarious and it was even better than star wars i laughed i cried after watching it i asked a family member for a moment with three dollars just so i could kiss it goodbye i'm kidding about the last one i love it when ham sidekick co pilot tries to eat princess anne cinnamon hair buns and the nader character is just hilarious this film would be great to watch back to back with thumb wars and i sincerely wish there could have been a hardware wars episode ii the umpire strikes out was there
1	nothing is sacred just ask ernie these days everybody has a video camera and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying quickly written and shot and often posted directly to the internet spoofs are hot these days and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don't get off on their own self importance 25 years ago when the first star wars was made it was a different world filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare then god gave us hardware wars it was shot to look cheap or was it just cheap and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact does that take away from the experience heck no that's what makes it so great it was raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie from fluke waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i did that when i was young to the wookie monster to auggie ben nah just a little headache remark this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always
1	so funny is the perfect way to describe this 12 minutes spoof of the original star wars hardware wars is incredibly funny it is presented as the trailer of the space epic hardware wars the joke is this imagine star wars played by bad actors and incredibly bad special effects the characters include the intergalactic boy wonder fluke the ace mercenary and intergalactic wise guy ham salad nader villain and a host of other fantastic characters it is impossible not to laugh as you watch this 12 minutes treasure it's stupid but it's fun you will laugh from the start to the end and you will feel the need to watch it again and again and again and again and you will laugh every time you see it br br 10 out of 10 the funniest 12 minutes ever made you will believe it lasted a minute
1	i just want to say that i was thrilled to find these comments about the show i have tried online searches for info about the show in the past with no luck i loved the show i have a hard time getting motivated to exercise but this show made it fun as another comment mentioned that it wasn't so complicated as the routines nowadays it was an ideal workout that got the job done i would give anything to be able to buy a copy of just one workout i remember many of the moves but not nearly all of it somebody please try to get it back on the air and also make it available on dvd it is so great to know i wasn't the only one that loved that show thanks for making my day
1	after my daughter was born in 1983 i needed to lose weight i tried the 20 minute workout and i was hooked i lost about 50 lbs it was the most weight i ever lost in my life i can't believe this show is forgotten it would be a blessing if you started a cable channel strictly for exercise and included the 20 minute workout i think this was the best workout video ever made i wish i could purchase it somehow and somewhere the routine was easy to learn and you did work up quite a sweat the workouts they have today are too complicated and too hard to learn please do your best to get this video back in circulation i pray it will be a blessing to all who see and use it
1	aah yes the workout show was a great not only did many women get in shape but many teenage boys got a great workout as well i am not saying that the show was in any way not appropriate for family viewing but if you check the other works from the shows producer you will find more adult themes in his works which are also excellent many of the viewers looked forward to the show men and women alike all gained good information and a wonderful release from the workouts the girls were perfect and beautiful the show is a classic and should do well in syndication the show should still be on as there are never enough choices to view when it comes to health and beauty
1	another great performance by kiefer sutherland i love his movies because he always plays his role very well for a low budget film this was done very good and kept me on the edge the whole time i love these type of movies and i was glad i caught it on i'll be buying the dvd or tape for sure br br 9 10
1	jack lemmon and walter matthau have got to be one of the best buddies ever to work together they have made lots of movies together i think they are both fantastic when they do work together in a movie out to sea is a fantastic comedy movie i think to watch i give the movie 10 out of 10 jack lemmon and walter matthau will be remembered when the movies they did together will be on tv they will be sadly missed god bless you both
1	i thought this film was excellent quirky and different to the usual run of the mill cop catching serial killer' film kiefer sutherland was brilliant as usual i really don't think i have seen anything that he has done where he has not acted brilliantly the dialogue was funny at times lightening the mood and the plot engaging thanks to other reviewers for showing the link with alice in wonderland i hadn't picked up on those i would recommend this film to anyone who is a fan of kiefer as i am and to anyone who wants to watch an entertaining film for a couple of hours it was a shame that it wasn't released at the cinemas for a wider audience
1	i really liked this movie if other people want to give it an average around 5 0 10 that's their choice i would give it 10 10 sutherland's performance as a private eye is totally awesome the story is amazing human exciting intelligent the dialogue is good the story might not be perfect but anyway the mood of the movie is good enough to compensate for that moreover the ending is incredibly cool and their the jig saw puzzle really comes back to together so anyway i liked it i also thought the female lead actress performed very well i'm not a big fan of detective movies but this one was really good also because it doesn't give a damn about conventions of the supernatural
1	another brilliant portrayal by kiefer sutherland who plays mickey hayden a cop dealing with psychic visions of murdered victims i absolutely love movies dealing with the psychic realm and i wasn't disappointed with eye of the killer aka after alice i only wish the movie had been released theatrical first
1	alice is the kind of movie they made in the 30's and 40's never attempts to be an event just wants to entertain and it does i was surprised by kiefer sutherland in a role that could be a cliche he made it real the plot does make allusions to alice in wonderland a guy dressed in white does go through a hole and kiefer does fall down one like alice the plot does twist and turn but with a freshness you don't see in small movies i loved the direction sutherland just a very fast paced and interesting movie
1	people watch movies for a variety of different reasons this movie didn't have the big budget there's no special effects no car chases and there's no explosions actually reality doesn't have much of these either at least not in my life br br this is a very real movie about very real people none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos i am not prepared to limit the possibility of since i'm neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain br br so watch this movie for the characters it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk br br within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie excellent acting very believable br br henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his and kiefer's 'mickey' enhances the of their characters br br i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady i'm sure she and my mother in law are good friends br br there's a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them
1	working the night shift in a seedy police station stumbling through life in an alcoholic haze detective mickey hayden can hardly be said to have a firm grasp on reality to begin with but when a bump on the head unleashes terrifying psychic visions things get truly weird soon he's on the trail of a serial killer and unraveling the mystery of his beautiful first victim the elusive alice br br the role of an embittered burn out seems tailor made for keifer sutherland and he makes the most of it the plot's typical serial killer stuff but it has enough quirks twists and genuine surprises to raise it above the usual genre fare and even make up for a painfully low budget one wonders what this film could have been if there'd been money for a few more rewrites and a few more takes br br all in all 'after is a pleasant diversion for anyone but for fans of lewis carroll's 'alice' books it's a real treat from the topsy turvy reality in which things are rarely what they've seem to more obvious references a killer called 'the who leaves playing cards on his victims' bodies there's an 'alice' reference at every turn below is a list of the ones i uncovered since finding them yourself is half the fun i've marked them as spoilers br br spoilers br br cast of characters br br mickey in a sense he's alice himself wandering through strange landscapes encountering odd characters but harvey recognizing his true nature identifies him as the hapless bumbling white knight br br john hatter boss is he really you be the judge br br claudette an african american transvestite obviously the black queen br br margaret ellison mickey calls her the red queen but her brutal nature suggests more specifically the queen of hearts br br gideon wood suspected of being the jabberwocky killer his ambiguous role is more suggestive of a or a perhaps br br harvey his role as unofficial guide to 'wonderland' and his name evocative of another famous cinematic rabbit makes me think he must be the white rabbit br br dr vera swann her last name and relationship with mickey suggest the white queen br br other connections br br adventures begin when he chases a man in white and falls down a rabbit hole br br mickey drunkenly tells his cat to stop grinning at him cheshire cat br br the killer is revealed the looking glass' br br the climatic showdown ends in a swirl of playing cards just as alice's adventure did in the book br br the statues in the garden look like giant chess pieces
1	i would just like to say that the cure was a movie to help inform how people who are hiv positive have to function in life a young boy who cant go to school because he could contaminate someone and the ignorance of the boys who called them that just shows how much children are not educated about aids
1	on more than one level i can relate to what happens in this movie in a very personal way and all i can say about it is that it's true what dexter's mom tells eric at the end of the story he actually did her son by taking away his sad feelings and his loneliness br br this movie emphasis a philosophy i can very well agree with we are all going to die one day sooner or later in the end it is not the amount of time we live but the fun good times happiness we have during that time it is not the quantity but the quality that counts br br i guess all other words used here would only keep you any longer from getting to see this movie if you haven't already i really would like to see it released on dvd definitely it would be added to my 'all time right away
1	i had never heard about this movie when it was given to me to translate so i didn't know what to expect i checked it out on imdb and got curious it didn't take long to realize that this was a gem outstanding performances great story and it's both well directed and well written it's hard to compare it to other movies but stand by me comes to mind although it has as many differences from the cure as similarities the tale of an extraordinary friendship between young boys plus the dramatic and humorous elements are the most obvious similarities between this movie and stand by me other than that the cure is a fine movie in its own right well worth a wider recognition it's dramatic but also adventurous sad but also humorous i can't think of a single thing that bothers me about it having said that i don't want to give the impression that it is a perfect movie whatever that means but rather that i enjoyed it immensely was very moved by it and wouldn't change a thing in it i won't go into a detailed description of the story plot partly because it would be either too general or too revealing and partly because you can find that information elsewhere on the site in closing i can only say wonderful movie see it if you get the chance
1	so glad i have hbo right now i didn't plan on watching a movie today but when i got home and saw that the next movie on hbo was this one i decided based on the description to at least give it a shot i'm so glad i decided to watch this movie maybe this movie just caught me at a vulnerable moment i'm a little stressed out got a huge test to be studying for but it definitely gave me quite the perspective on friendship not to mention taught me a valuable lesson on empathy i'm currently one year away from graduating from pharmacy school and the whole scene involving the doctor and the nurse was definitely a learning point for me br br anyhow i just wanted to post up letting the world know this is an amazing movie and not to be missed there is definitely something for everyone in this movie
1	i got a few laughs out of this one more than a lot of other so called comedies the big ship was a knockout and getting to see a lot of it's scenery was fun as was getting to see some of dyan cannon's curves this wasn't the height of lemmon's and career but it wasn't a total dog as some suggest
1	while the romance in this film is an important aspect it is largely about the role of responsibility and duty in modern indian all of the major characters were well fleshed out and had their own inner life i recommend this strongly
1	such an awesome movie i was transfixed the entire time and so emotionally overcome in the end the two young male actors in the movie were more than compelling in their performance as their friendship and support of one another was quite believable and i thought the comparison contrast between their respective home lives vs health situations were made so very real between them the success in bringing this movie to life was obviously a team effort so to actors producers writers directors and all of production i say well played having missed the credits at the beginning of the movie it was being shown on hbo i was so very surprised that i had to actually research albeit briefly the internet in order to find the title of this movie something so great should have been known by me a clear indication that this movie must be re released
1	let me start out with saying i was very surprised with the production value of this movie i managed to catch an early showing and i have to say this is the best if not only christian film to hit theaters since the passion br br don't let the pg 13 rating scare you off the rating is appropriate because of the serious issues that are dealt with in this film divorce teen pregnancy drug use and suicide but nothing in the film is gratuitous this is definitely a movie that a junior high youth group could see without upsetting most parents and the message is wonderful the best part is this is not a film for christians it is a family film without the cheesy 7th heaven feel br br the laughs are there and several times in the theater everyone was laughing the bits of humor were natural and didn't seem scripted or forced and that made for good pacing in such a serious film teens and young adult both religious and otherwise will be able to identify with many if not all of the characters in the film and i was surprised to see such issues dealt with in this kind of film the plot is not in any way predictable and by the end hits closer to home than many will admit christians fortunately are not shown as all mighty know it all's of the word but instead people just trying to understand life humans make mistakes and no one is perfect not even in this film not by a long shot br br the acting is top notch the writing spot on and you aren't hit over the head with all the preachy christian rhetoric this is a great film that will make you and your teens think talk and perhaps question their own morality or lack thereof if you want to see a quality family film in january check your local listings for this film and you might learn something about yourself br br and i am a 25 year old male that just wanted to see a free movie
1	the cure is one of the few movies i rated 10 out of 10 i mean everything is flawless for me in this motion picture i saw it almost a year ago and yet i remember many of the scenes especially the final touching scene that comes with the credits br br the two boy actors clearly gave everything they could and this greatly contributes the excellent storyline making the film perfect br br the message is clear friendship and it's displayed throughout the whole thing br br i have nothing more to say here simplicity is one of the things i love so much about this film and of course it's fun and moving at the same time suiting people of any age br br 10 10 nicely done
1	the cure is a very touching and poignant drama the film focuses on two neighborhood boys who become good friends one of the boys has aids the boys become good friends despite erik's at first the film shows the boys journey to discover the cure which is in ohio according to the national examiner and how it affects their relationship the acting is wonderful i have never seen annabella sciorra do better and the movie is just plain touching i couldn't stop crying with the shoe scene this is a good tearjerker keep the kleenex nearby 8 10
1	this was truly a heart warming movie it is filled with so many messages loyalty friendship sickness death and the paranoia society has concerning anything they don't understand i have shed a few tears during certain movies but this movie kept the tears flowing
1	a tale of a young boy dexter joseph with aids who befriends a rough and tumble boy played by brad his exact opposite the cure is sad if a bit too soapy pull at your emotions message movie with it's heart in the right place for that fact alone it's a recommended view the highlight might be just watching them finding friendship and hanging out with each other when no one else accepts them br br however since the real story centers on the boy's aids things take off when one day at the local supermarket dexter's eye catches a checkout tabloid magazine that states a new orleans doctor has discovered the cure both of them obviously a tad naive make it a plan to set out for new orleans in whichever means possible which kinda pulled me two ways it's a mite heart warming and i hate to nit pick but i found the plot wanders in a melodramatic predictable sense and the proceedings have a coat of gloss over them like only movies can do i couldn't escape the tugging notion i was watching a road trip movie about self discovery sickness and growing up for instance i know they're young but i found it a real task to belief in the things these boys do like boiling tree leaves and drinking the hot or eating an experimental diet of chocolate bars because they believe it will combat the ravaging disease to say nothing of them making a cross country voyage as they do with no legal or downright scary repercussions still misgivings aside those movie conventions you come to expect it's a story worth seeing particularly with family
1	although flawed in it's view of homosexuals this movie will shed light for the viewer about the myths and inaccuracies concerning aids despite the depressing subject matter this film depicts a warm friendship between two boys and will make you laugh as well as cry very well acted by all especially joseph and brad the language is a little strong though appropriate and it's an entertaining and intelligent film for the whole family but remember to have the kleenex ready
1	there was nothing else on tv yesterday afternoon so i thought okay let's watch this i didn't know the plot and i had no expectation whatsoever i was thinking in a few minutes or so i will channel surf again but then story started to unfold and the characters played beautifully by the two boys the story did have unrealistic parts and scenes but overall it was a real good movie very well worth watching
1	junior high and high school teachers will find the cure an excellent teaching tool both as a companion to huckleberry finn or as a stand alone lesson although aids is supposed to be the main theme the strong text of friendship and love as they evolve between eric and dexter is a powerful message for teenagers writing prompts centered around the symbolism of the tennis shoe are particularly effective i also suggest directed class discussion about how eric evolves from manipulative user to loving friend
1	contains spoilers br br a lovely film this starring brad and the ever wonderful joseph i like joseph out of all his films i've seen to date i've loved every single one of them for many different reasons and the cure is no different brad does very well in this movie as well the cure is a drama coming of age movie from the viewpoint of an ill child and his friend br br the basic idea is dexter joseph has aids he ends up befriending the kid next door brad but erik's mum is very narrow minded ill informed and somewhat thick when it comes to dexter's illness she thinks aids is contagious like the common cold so doesn't want her son going anywhere near dexter br br after many attempts at making their own cure with no success the boys go on their way to new orleans to find the cure after reading a pamphlet about it after getting their kicks from playboy magazine dexter's health goes south shortly afterwards and as his health there's still enough life in the boy alongside erik for two pranks of pretending to stop breathing unfortunately poor dexter does indeed die from his illness leaving poor erik behind to wonder why he couldn't find the cure throughout the movie he ends up bonding more with dexter's mother than his own br br it is a very heartwarming movie to watch and is not absolutely perfect movies rarely are but you won't care less about that as you get involved in the film more a must for joseph fans one of his best performances ever very well recommended must see movie if you can find a copy
1	while this movie is not the most entertaining in the world i think it is better than most over all i mean it had it's little laughs and just all around a good feeling it's not too often we get to see two old geezers just having fun with their age and honestly having a good time with the jokes walter and jack had such a great chemistry together as friends brother in laws just watching them romancing these women was fun and you rooted for them all the way because wither we have to admit it or not for their age they still had game d i loved just the whole plot of being able to move on and having fun no matter how old you are i'd recommend this movie for a nice laugh if you want one br br 7 10
1	for all the viewers who have seen 'the cure' would agree with me on this comment that it is a superb movie and is very heartwarming joseph and brad prove their star quality in this movie along with dexter's mother annabella sciorra br br when i first watched the cure on tv i didn't know what to expect but as i watched this masterpiece it soon became clear what it was about dexter an 11 year old boy who is plagued with aids sits around his backyard playing with his toys when one day he meets his next door neighbour eric which at first is a little awkward for the 2 boys but they soon became good friends br br during the film i kept wondering what would happen to the two boys as they kept me wondering i wondered how the heck they would get to new orleans sitting a door with a sea biscuit under it pulling an crocodile behind it there were other great scenes throughout the movie br br but the part that reached out to me was the part when dexter's health started to deteriorate you just couldn't help but wonder if he was going to make it but towards the end you find out i thought at the first prank they played that dexter was really dead he obviously wasn't silly me but when they play the third something is very wrong dexter doesn't get up to laugh nor does he show any kind of laughter at that point the victim of their prank soon announces that poor dexter had died at that part i lost it i balled my eyes out and from that scene onwards i was crying you just have to as the end nears you start to understand eric's loss and then the movie ends on a nice note with dexters shoe floating ever so slowly down the river br br overall this movie was excellent it has laughter adventure emotion and sadness etc when you put that in a blender you get an excellent must watch film peter horton has done a great job directing this film and i believe its certainly one of his best but for now i will try to search for this movie on dvd if it exists that is once again a superb movie that will take you on an emotional
1	this was such a beautiful film such an amazing performance from joseph and brad very innocently written and performed a must see i cried my eyes out almost through the entire movie this is a movie that every family should sit down with their children to watch it does teach us all a very important lesson in life and how we should be approaching the harsh subject of aids how we should be teaching our children to cope with it and people around them not only with aids but with any terminal illness i hadn't even heard of this movie until i through t v one day and happen to run across it i recommend everyone to watch this just don't forget your box of tissues more movies should be made like this one extremely heartwarming
1	i really liked the movie thought it was very entertaining as well as dramatic but i just had a question about the music is the movie i haven't been able to find any kind of soundtrack if there even is one and specifically i was wondering if anyone could tell me the name of the song that is playing while the boys are going down the river on their way to new orleans i thought it was something along the lines of my great escape but i've searched on the internet books pretty much everything i could think of to try to and i just can't find it anywhere if someone could help out it would be greatly appreciated thanks
1	the cure is a fantastic film about a boy with aids i've cried about 4 times watching this film and it's just so sad i can't promise everyone will cry watching this but it will make you want to very emotional and very sad the cure is a must see movie it shows you the meaning of friendship and love and is an extremely great movie br br at first i didn't think it would be as great and wondered why my mum always cried watching it but now i know it's a stunning film that is so original and is so close to real life situations unlike most of the other films that doesn't make sense words cannot describe the greatness of the cure you just have to see it
1	when the movie the cure starts we find out about a young man named erik brad erik is a teenage boy living with his paranoid mother and living next door to him is a young boy named dexter joseph one day erik and dexter connect and head up to the supermarket where dexter gets his first taste of when erik learns out that dexter has aids he tries leaves and water tea to make it better but when the front cover of the national enquirer says a new orleans doctor has found the cure for aids the two boys will stop at nothing to get to new orleans for the cure br br in my opinion the cure is easily one of the best friendship movies ever made it shows unconditional love between a boy his new best friend and his best friend's mom everything is so well done nothing needs to be changed not only do i give this a 10 10 for being a fantastic friendship movie but it also is a sad but humorous and fun aids movie and the tragic finale with dexter's of aids is enough to make me shed a tear very well done
1	i remember when this film came out and watched it a few times on vhs i was so glad when it was finally released on dvd i was hoping for widescreen but at the point would take what was available i love how they used color in the film the outdoor scenes are so alive with color the trees are the i've ever seen most of the film was shot in minnesota a beautiful town located on the st croix river they must have really scouted locations for filming because they did a great job the story is well written and directed i would rate this as one of peter horton's best i'm also surprised that andrew the director of photography hasn't done more he did an incredible job the acting also rates up there it's amazing to see two actors of such a young age pull off this type of film annabella sciorra did a great job as dexter's mother who wouldn't want her as a mother
1	even though this film is 11 years old i just rented it yesterday and i found it to be a really touching film the story of true friendship in the face of a very real monster is an inspiration and quite touching br br while i did not care much for the amount of language used by some of the young actors especially from i understand that art is imitating life once again does a magnificent job of the rough and tough very and i mean very disturbed wannabe bully his role in the client comes to mind and does a wonderful job of the witty somewhat quirky dexter a child who realizes that his life must end too soon br br while there are so many touching and funny moments in the movie i have to say that my favorite was when the boys were cornered by pony in the abandoned church and dexter cut himself saying his blood was poison while very resourceful and somewhat amusing seeing a grown man running away from two little kids it's one of the hardest scenes in the film br br definitely check this one out but prepared with your kleenex you'll need it
1	the best movie about friendship especially between an aids infected person and a normal person this is a great movie for everyone to see even though there is strong language used i have seen it 25 times
1	the subject of children being terminally ill is difficult and saddening but 'the cure' successfully portrays the idea that it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom and if anything children need to have hope and delight in their lives if they are to find peace before the end it is also a film of remarkable bonds of friendship and the innocence of childhood br br the film sees erik a dysfunctional adolescent boy with a distant mother moving into a new area where their next door neighbour is eleven year old dexter who contracted aids through a blood transfusion after his initial fears and ignorance over aids are erik befriends dexter and their almost fraternal friendship sees them embark on a journey down the mississippi to where they have heard about a new orleans doctor who claims to have found a cure for the disease br br the talent from the two young leads of brad and joseph who play erik and dexter respectively is exceptional brad was able to portray erik's harder edge without comprising the subtle childish innocence inherent to the character while joseph depicts the sense of vulnerability to dexter's character but injects the right amount of boyish enthusiasm and zeal to highlight that his illness doesn't mean he still isn't a child who wants to run and play like any other eleven year old boy the pair's interactions create a feel in the audience that these are two boys who are genuinely close and they carry the film well annabella sciorra also delivers a touching performance as dexter's mother linda who adores her son and delights in seeing him thrive with this new friendship to erik and eventually becomes a surrogate mother figure to the other boy br br set against an excellent soundtrack 'the cure' is a very bittersweet film that manages to flawlessly weave the story of boyhood friendship that survives unflinchingly in the midst of prejudice and terminal illness without resorting to sappiness or unnecessary saccharine sweet scenes a very interesting reflection in the film is that is it the adults who have the problem with dexter's aids status whereas the children even the come to accept him as they would any other what is also very touching is how despite erik's streetwise nature he is the more naive one in his determination to cure dexter while the younger boy has this haunting sense that he knows his fate but is swept away by his best friend's enthusiasm for a cure br br i highly recommend 'the cure' for it is rare to find a film that is simultaneously sad and uplifting
1	way back in 1996 one of the airliner pilots where i used to work gave me a copy of this film he told me that it'll make me cry i never believed him and we even made bets after seeing the film i cried a bucket even after the seeing the film i found myself in the bathroom crying it was actually the most touching film i have ever seen i like the part where dexter's mom confronted eric's mother the line went something like your sons' best friend just died today and it's not gonna be easy if you ever lay your hands on him again i will kill you the last part where dexter took eric's shoe was a scene that never left my mind until today honestly just thinking about it makes my eyes teary a story of what true friendship is all about my girlfriend loved it too she hated me for letting her see the film i cried a bucket she cried a river
1	movies aren't always suppose to be about deep thoughts sometimes they're simply meant to be escapes from reality out to sea fits the bill perfectly br br a light hearted golden years romantic comedy out to sea may not be big budget you might be able to easily tell when they were acting in front of a green screen but it's still very much a movie worth watching a sweet movie that needs to be given a break br br this is just good light hearted fun it's not meant to be a deep movie it's something worth watching if for nothing else you must see it for brent humorously stiff and uptight rendition of como va gil is a character you love to hate and mr spiner pulls off the perfect evil comic foil to two beloved comedy movie gods
1	very nice movie i was browsing the channels on my tv and i usually ignore the channels that air drama movies but then i saw this channel that airs old school movies and it is where i saw this movie at first when i saw the title the cure i thought it's gonna be boring but then i got hooked when i saw brad was in this movie because of one of my favorite movie of all time is the client where brad also stars then the scenes was getting better and better the story is so beautiful and very touching i cried hard in this movie which i don't usually do great casting and there are so many beautiful lines quotes in this movie which is very striking and made me cry hard now i bought my own copy on dvd and i always recommend it to everyone
1	i had seen the cure when i was a kid and i loved it then now years later i got a hold of a copy almost by accident and watched it again being a kid you don't really have the ability to procure things for yourself that you want that is usually a of your parents but when i watched it again now i felt sorry that i did not do more to get a copy of this movie back then and consequently almost forgot about it until today br br this really is a beautiful movie it tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a hard edged misfit kid who takes his cues from his horrible abusive mother and his neighbor a slightly younger boy who has aids br br right you say another one of those a tear jerker a bucket movie a morality tail yeah i know i hate those too only this one isn't it is one of the very few movies among those many i have seen that pulls off a very rare trick it conveys a truly sad story and yes a morality tale but without a single moment where it feels cheesy forced or in any other way it shows a real relationship between two real boys who interact as real kids do and through that interaction the good natured loving character of the older boy eric starts to shine through his tough guy persona as he takes on a kind of big brotherly care for dexter his hiv positive younger neighbor together they embark on an adventure to find a cure which to erik seems to be just around the corner so that all this silly aids thing will go away and they can be friends forever br br the production is top notch but of course what really carries this movie is the performances of the two leads brad and joseph especially who is simply stunning he does convey a sense of frailty needed for an ailing boy but at the same time he manages to make dexter a truly energetic and determined character he shines at the scene where the boys confront pony his impulse to protect his older friend lunges him forth drives him to say what he says and only afterwards the horror is depicted on his face as he realizes that what he himself said is true his blood is poison also has his moments in particular the scenes with his mother he depicts perfectly how this macho street wise kid is left completely frozen and numb when faced with his abusive storming mother and can't get a word in to contradict her as she forbids his relationship with the ailing boy out of her fear and ignorance annabella sciorra also gives a memorable performance as dexter's mother who ultimately becomes in a sense a mother figure to erik as well br br i've first seen this film when i was at school back in america and loved it not at all a given concerning movies of this sort but the behavior of the kids in this movie was so real i could easily relate to them ironically enough the teacher who had shown us this movie a wonderful woman i'm still in touch with her got in trouble for it as some uptight parent complained about it having the scene when the two boys are looking at a playboy pathetic seriously will americans ever get over this ridiculous phobia i do not know there was a hardly distinguishable shot of a playboy cover in the movie and thus it is not shown in schools how sad kids need to see this movie it is more inspiring and educational than all the official after school specials put together br br oh and one more thing i know i'm rambling but nevertheless the score it's great i am a musician and as such i know dave from his records he is a well known jazz pianist and record producer up until this movie i really did not know that he did movie scores as well even though when i later checked i found out that i had unknowingly watched several movies he worked on really a wonderful job there br br all in all a solid ten i'd recommend this movie to anyone and i'm definitely going to see it with my younger siblings they can use watching a film like this among all the standard special effect hysteria they usually see
1	unbelievably close to real life feelings and emotions captured by joseph as a child affected by aids and his new young neighbor a wanna be tough redneck played to perfection by brad although the story may seem slightly farfetched the two boys attempt to river raft several hundred miles to find a doctor who claims to have the cure to aids the emotion actions and interactions of all characters involved are tragically close to real life being a big brother to a boy in a similar situation who died a few years after this film was released i strongly recommend this picture to anyone who has ever wondered what really happens in the life of a child with aids superb direction by peter horton creates the perfect mood and setting for each scene and draws the viewer into the various emotions affected by friendship illness prejudice and the final parting of two friends who fought hard to overcome adversity
1	this is one of the most touching films i had ever watched no movie has effected me the way this one did this is a great film and you have to see for yourself i'm normally impregnable with these sob story movies but this one did it for me i was in tears at the end you'll yearn for the friendship that is portrayed in this movie if i can give this movie a billion stars i could
1	for unknown reasons this beautiful masterpiece didn't get well deserved recognition and has been vastly under appreciated by many american movie critics so it's easy to understand that i've met lots of troubles trying to find this movie finally i watched it and it was so beautiful sincere and poignant that for the first time in my life i watched one movie five times in one week after getting the tape the story is focused on the friendship between two young boys erik and dexter eleven and twelve years old who are very different from each other but they are becoming the best and only friends the beauty and sincerity of their friendship have been shown in the cure so sincere and naturally as it has never been before there are so many beautiful heartfelt and poignant scenes particularly on the river which strike the heart and can't leave any human indifferent to them the movie also is full of incredibly powerful and emotional symbolism particularly strong with erik's shoe which also greatly increases visual impression from such beautiful work the story written by robert is well written and on the contrary to overwhelming majority of modern hollywood's products practically every scene every phrase and every sentence in the movie is meaningful and bring something important about characters and relations between them peter horton who as i know had no major experience in movie directing before showed his great abilities and talents in this sphere the cinematography is also superb with perfectly selected locations for the movie but the most important is perfect acting which with all above mentioned makes the cure one of the best movies ever both brad as erik and joseph as dexter created wonderful atmosphere of sincere friendship and magnificent chemistry between two main characters only one this movie i haven't seen most of their other works is enough to name them as one of the best actors of their generation annabelle sciorra also give a terrific performance as dexter's mother it's terribly sad that such talented actors didn't get wide recognition while numerous overrated stars enjoy enormous publicity and huge salaries finally it would be unfair not to mention amazing soundtrack written by david and terrific mark cohn's song one of the best songs that i've ever heard in the movies my great escape so all that i can say about the cure is one simple word – great at any point of view this movie is a beautiful heartfelt and inspiring work of all people involved in making of this masterpiece i have to credit all those people who put their hearts and souls into the movie and universal pictures which among numerous formulaic commercial projects has found a way to make such a beautiful movie but such movie so rarely come to movie theaters that very often studios themselves don't realize what gem they have made that they're unable to provide respective marketing campaign the only one minor drawback about the cure for me is its short length only 97 minutes br br i don't want to write more about the movie because it's simply impossible to put its beauty and sincerity into words so if you have any opportunity for watching the cure rent it or buy it and you wouldn't be disappointed br br 10 out of 10 sorry for my bad english
1	the cure is an outstanding real life drama that deals with a very sensitive subject it is the story of the profound and dear friendship between two boys eric and dexter the latter has acquired aids from a blood transfusion thus he and his mom annabella sciorra have become outcasts shunned by the public and labeled as dangerous company basically due to a common lack of public knowledge of the disease br br when eric brad known from 'the and and his mom move into the house next to them he has to deal with public insults and the fear of catching aids himself however eric overcomes his fear and risks everything at first he starts talking to dexter but eventually he climbs over the fence and joins the witty boy played by jurassic park's joseph and his games very quickly he develops a real friendship with dexter who is delicately built and frail due to his condition br br the central theme of the movie – the theme which makes it pervasively authentic and tragic at the same time – is how eric and dexter try to find the ultimate cure at first they experiment with all kinds of plants and leaves – which is very naive but also genuine at the same time as it shows how young kids deal with such heinous diseases and how strongly they still believe in the magic of the world when they hear about an alleged cure which has been developed in the south they do not hesitate and take off for an adventure that will bring them even closer together and symbolizes the ultimate quest for hope br br so they board a raft and head on the mississippi river what starts as a real adventure becomes a dangerous undertaking which is emotionally intriguing and instructive at the same time the scene when dexter reveals his fears and talks about the end of the universe where everything is dark and cold eric hands him his sneaker a symbol that wherever the boy may have to go eric is and will always be with him he will never have to be alone this sequence which is one of the most compelling ones of the movie features a very convincing interaction between the two actors who manage to avoid awkward and corny dialogs and deliver a very genuine performance that is eventually smashing in its tenderness and honesty br br i will not go any further in outlining the plot as i do not intend to give away too much information the ending however is emotionally tough and makes the audience so much a part of the tragedy that everyone who watches the movie will feel personally affected this aspect makes this movie so strong so outstanding and so convincing the emotional burden on every character is so real and so thrashing that even the tougher members of the audience might need some hankies br br a 10 is doing justice to this movie and is not too high a rating there is hardly any other movie i have seen in my life so far that handles such an emotional issue with so much wit and sensibility it is the story of how two boys make each other's life richer and how they teach each other lessons of life thus dexter overcomes his isolation and sadness and eric learns what really counts in life and both of them realize how much of a gift real friendship is when it comes to the hardest moments of life br br this movie is tragic – but its message is sheer inspiration
1	and i do not understand why the show gets so much beating in my opinion this show really is excellent well the first two episodes were not that great but it picks up a load of momentum at the third episode which seems to be typical for a steve moffat sitcom i would rate it among the best sitcoms britain has ever produced br br the show itself is a farce at its best it is not along the lines of fawlty towers but you definitely can rank it as high as a black adder coupling or the young ones i am watching the first season and all i can say is that i am happy i bought the dvd br br the problem probably with this show is and why it got smacked so hard according to the internet that the original press release compared it to fawlty towers and everyone was disappointed it was not well even green wing is closer to fawlty towers than this show all i can say is clear your mind from every prejudice give the show at least a run until including episode 3 and then decide for yourself br br all i can say is thanks steve moffat for writing it and thanks for the entire staff pulling it off
1	this one of the best and funniest comedy series i have ever seen all characters are brilliant br br mr david bamber is a very very irritated man irritated by everything and anyone br br he wants to do things and handle situations as best as he possibly can but he never gets it right and only gets himself deeper and deeper in trouble not supported by his wife janet who only tries to get him deeper and deeper into the trouble he is getting himself into and really does not need the help at all br br all characters are played portrayed brilliantly just imagine sending your kid s to a school like this br br it is unbelievable that people do not like it maybe some don not get the many many plays on words that are featured many times per episode br br it is also unbelievable that there is still no dvd release of it there are only 2 series br br so please release it let it go so the fans can and will enjoy it br br try it you might just like it br br just some names words from the series man helmet hot bitch mount suzy travis fellatio and many many more
1	i don't think this cartoon was as bad as some may think of course i was only five at the time it came out but i did find it very entertaining at the time and would still give it a look today if given the opportunity batman and robin being voiced by adam west and burt ward was a nice touch and gave it a sense of familiarity for me as i was also watching re runs of the campy 1960's live action show batman at that age this cartoon also introduced some new twists i had forgotten all about like bat mite for instance looking back on it i'm sure he was likely as annoying as many think but he didn't bother me much at the time the best i can recall his voice sounded like a cross between dumb donald and gee i wonder why anyway give it a look if you can and make up your own mind you might be surprised
1	interesting story and sympathetic treatment of racial discrimination son of the gods is rather too long and contains some hammy acting but on the whole remains a fascinating film br br story about a chinese passing as white starts as leaves college after being insulted by a trio of brainless co eds he embarks on a world tour to discover himself and ends up as secretary to a british playwright claude king in monte carlo he meets beautiful wagner constance bennett and they fall in love but when she discovers he is chinese she goes berserk in a memorable scene br br plagued by guilt and love goes into a mental spiral and makes a few attempts to contact after his father dies he takes over the business banking and dons chinese garb as a symbol of his hatred of the white race that has spurned him after a san francisco detective tells him the truth about his birth makes the decision to honor his chinese father and mother br br and i agree that one reviewer here never saw this film declares her love for sam before he tells her of his recent discovery and that makes all the difference in this film br br and bennett each have a few scenes where they chew the scenery but on the whole this is a solid and interesting drama frank albertson is good as the nice college pal claude king is solid as the playwright bess flowers has one scene as an oklahoma indian and e alyn warren is the chinese father dorothy mathews is nasty alice not so good are anders as bennett's father and mildred van dorn as eileen also note the gorgeous blonde to the right of at the roulette table what a stunner whoever she was
1	a competent comedy that delivers the laughs for fans of jack lemmon and walter matthau i suppose this film was made for those who enjoyed the two grumpy old men films as there seemed to be a bunch of these buddy team ups spotlighting the comical duo in their twilight years the idea is a sure fire one matthau a bumbling gambler who's thousands of dollars in debt his unsuspecting friend lemmon into taking a free cruise with him where they can meet rich old ladies the catch is they've been signed on as dance hosts and matthau can't dance br br out to sea is a funny film and not all of the chuckles are to be found courtesy of lemmon and matthau i found brent spiner best known as data from star trek the next generation to be very humorous as the snobby ball busting dance coordinator as the prissy boss of the two aging actors he manages to match them in the laughs department though the film doesn't really need any there's also a a love story or two to be found here as well involving dyan cannon who looks pretty fine for her years
1	a wealthy young man raised as a son of the gods must confront his chinese heritage while living in a white world br br although the premise upon which this film is based is almost certainly a biological impossibility and the secret of the plot when revealed at the movie's conclusion makes all which has preceded it faintly ludicrous the story still serves up some decent entertainment and good acting br br richard has the title role as the sweet natured oriental whose life is terribly complicated because he looks caucasian keeps the tone of his performance serious throughout gazing intently into the middle distance a mannerism he developed during silent days whenever his character is indecently misused he makes no attempt to replicate his classic performance in d w griffith's broken blossoms 1919 and this is to his credit beautiful constance bennett is the millionaire's daughter who makes miserable she is gorgeous as always but her behavior does not endear her to the viewer and her terrible illness in the final reel is kept mercifully off screen br br multi talented frank albertson has a small role as buddy serene e alyn warren and blustery anders play the leading stars' very different fathers while claude king distinguishes his brief appearance as the english author who befriends br br movie mavens will recognize little dickie moore uncredited playing as a tiny child br br the original technicolor of the flashback sequence has faded with time to a tint the shot purporting to be the south of france instead looks suspiciously like avalon on santa catalina island off the coast of southern california
1	this early warner brothers talkie son of the gods 1930 deals with the racial intolerance that anglo saxon americans show towards the chinese chinese americans are treated like second class citizens and whites hold them in nothing but contempt br br prolific scenarist bradley king based her screenplay on rex beach's novel about a young impressionable sam lee richard of only angels have wings who experiences racial prejudice first hand when the girls that his college chums bring along for a party reveal their racist sentiments about sam once they learn about his heritage sam goes to his father lee ying e alyn warren of gone with the wind who is a wealthy with offices not only in new york city but also in san francisco sam feels deeply wounded by the racial slurs and he wants to leave new york and go where he cannot be hurt by americans his patient father warns him that racism is a fact of everyday life and the only solution to racism is tolerance sam has yet to learn this lesson he refuses to take any more money from his father and catches a ship to london england peeling potatoes while he is on board br br during the trip he encounters a british playwright claude king of arrowsmith who needs some help writing a play about the chinese sam and he strike up a friendship and sam furnishes him with cultural information about asians while they are relaxing in france sam meets a beautiful young woman wagner constance bennett of two faced woman who falls madly in love with him it seems that and her wealthy father are vacationing in the same motel everybody at the motel knows about sam being a with the exception of sensitive about his racial heritage sam holds at arm's length until she convinces him that nothing could change her mind about him they fall madly in love together father drops the bomb on her when he reveals that sam is a and all the memories of living in san francisco and dealing with floods mind she storms into the dining room at the motel and publicly flogs sam with a riding crop in front of a room filled with on lookers br br of course sam is terribly devastated by this reversal of events he thought that loved him but she didn't about this time sam's father lee ying falls tragically ill and secretary of sorts eileen mildred van dorn of iron man sends sam a telegram about illness predictably sam rushes home to new york to be at his father's side since his public humiliation sam has vowed to show no kindness to anglo saxon americans eileen is an irish catholic and probably one of his few white friends lee ying dies and sam assumes control of the business and he practices his anti white racism until he learns that he was an anglo saxon foundling that a san francisco cop on the beat gave to lee ying and his wife to bring up the cop forgot about it until two white busy bodied social worker types wanted to take sam away from the sam learns this revelation about the same time that comes to new york and falls ill during her illness she utters his name repeatedly in her sleep and her devoted father goes to see sam and requests that sam visit her in order to help her recover unbeknownst to sam does visit her and she improves but she has no memory of his visit merely a hazy notion eventually learns the truth about sam not being a and they marry and live happily ever after br br this socially conscientious warner brothers first national pictures release contends frankly and unflinchingly with the race issue for the first hour or thereabouts before the revelation that sam has no chinese blood running in his veins catches both him as well as the audience by surprise the reconciliation between and sam stretches credibility despite their self professed undying love for each other however in the name of a happy ending that would erase all the negativity that came before it they wind up in each other's arms br br the capitulation on the race issue with the revelation that sam isn't chinese damages some of the film's moral power incredibly son of the gods is a pre code film that almost seems prudish for example sam is an american not chinese constance bennett gives a wonderful performance as a petulant beautify and she holds your attention when she whips sam with her riding crop claude king is good as and e alyn warren is convincing as lee ying interestingly warren made a career out of portraying asian characters richard is flawless as sam he delivers a highly nuanced performance despite its age son of the gods is a son of a good movie
1	i loved this movie the actors were wonderful and suited their roles the story itself was great and true the setting was perfect and the message about human response to the war danger and risk was exceptional the person who wrote the music score also did the music for life is beautiful another favourite of mine his comment was apparently that this was not a like an english movie it was like an italian movie i think he's right callum blue is perfect for the part of eric i recommend this movie to everyone who wants to watch a story that is true and morally uplifting as well as a beautiful love story
1	i have just watched this movie for the first time today and just loved it br br yes it is simple in it's storyline the sweetest love story and how any female could not fall in love with callum blue beats me br br the scenery in italy was as you would expect beautiful the baddies lost in the end and for the two lovebirds to be reunited at the end was wonderful but that scene where a certain italian was sweeping away the confetti after eric and wanda's wedding perfection br br have a cup of tea and watch a fantastic movie yes better have a tissue ready and be enthralled i know i was and hope to get it on dvd real soon all the actors played their parts perfectly this was a ww2 film you could believe in as it was so realistic and without going over the top as in other films
1	in love and war is a simple feel good tv film and should be viewed as such br br possible spoiler br br it is the story of a wwii british soldier captured with his commando by the italians and imprisoned in a former orphanage as the italians surrender to the allies the commando is freed and attempts to flee however the germans arrive and the commando is captured again only injured remains at large the rest of the film recounts how he is hidden and protected by the partisans and his survival br br end of spoiler br br based on a true story in love and war is a refreshingly straightforward film half comedy half romance the story is simple and unambiguous the is warm and sunny and the various stereotypes the desperately unorganized or romantic italians the serious stern looking germans and the phlegmatic and pragmatic british although unoriginal are still humorous nicola piovani's musical score also adds to the mediterranean flavour br br although it is far from being a tea with mussolini or a la vita e bella in love and war is a sweet simple film that will put a smile and maybe even a little tan on your face
1	this delightful well written film is based on a new york stage play bearing the same title where sir aubrey knighted sir charles aubrey smith in 1944 originated the role he plays in the film here in 1931 we see him in the early part of his acting renaissance in the very early era of talkies and in the character role that he would make his own until his death in 1948 after finishing his last performance in little women which released in 1949 br br this engaging play is about an elderly british aristocrat who locates his illegitimate children and introduces himself to them having brought them to his manor in england br br marion davies plays his daughter by error and it's a tour de force for her she is all at once endearing impatient shallow enchanting wise and compassionate while creating an indelible and beguiling character that remains well ensconced in the memory br br the 26 year old ray milland appears here in a small but prominent role having already appeared in seven other pictures then only in films for a bit more than two years br br the film should be enjoyed as a representative of 1931 hollywood factory production of course and as such is not flawless however it's a charming pleasure from first scene to the last
1	this is one of the better marion davies talkies and one of the few to allow her to exhibit her skill as a physical comedian which was so endearing in her silent films ok so she does a clunky tap number but even ruby keeler's dancing from the era does not hold up for younger generations the problem here is the script the story falls into unbelievable melodrama in the last reel it's quite stagey and is obviously adapted from a play but not well enough still there is some snappy dialogue and slapstick throughout worth a look
1	this ok comedy about an aging father c aubrey smith who decides to gather his grown children from around the world davies is working as a chorus girl in new york when she gets the news that daddy wants her hmmmm sounds familiar davies' considerable talents as a comedienne save this otherwise so so comedy as she upsets the staid british countryside with her brazen american personality not as sharp as some other davies comedies but still worth a look ray milland plays her long lost brother doris lloyd elizabeth murray and halliwell are all fun too
1	this 1931 comedy gets better with every viewing because of the comedic talents of marion davies and a terrific performance by c aubrey smith smith plays a gruff old man who gathers his grown children from his younger days as a rake in his declining years one is american davies one english ray milland who looks about 18 and one italian nina there are some surprises as the plot moves along with ralph forbes was has no appeal at all falling for davies br br davies and smith are just wonderful together and very touching davies also gets to do a few dances and make a few big entrances and of course davies is just gorgeous br br halliwell doris lloyd elizabeth murray guinn williams edgar norton and david torrence co star had they given out supporting oscar awards in 1931 smith might well have been nominated he's just excellent in this this gem
1	a grumpy old happily unmarried decides to send for his three grown up illegitimate children and provide them a home at his manor to his surprise he finds himself bonding with his uninhibited american daughter can he find satisfaction in his new role as the bachelor father br br this 1931 film in which he gives a robust performance marked the arrival at mgm of elderly sir c aubrey smith very soon to be one of hollywood's most valuable character actors with his great hooked nose brows sir aubrey looked every inch the part of the duke or general or statesman he would play so often the acknowledged leader of the british community in hollywood sir aubrey would also champion the game of in southern california he would remain very much in demand in studios all over town right up to his death in 1948 br br the film's top billed star is marion davies best remembered today as the mistress of media mogul william randolph hearst the of hearst castle the most fabulous residence on the west coast she was actually a very talented pretty comedienne for a few years hearst attempted to make her the queen of mgm with her own production company a huge bungalow dressing room but the studio already had several other queens dressler garbo shearer crawford and he eventually moved her to warner bros here miss davies gets a chance to joke clown and her scenes with sir aubrey are entertaining br br her love interest is played by ralph forbes a handsome young british actor who was just starting to find good films the trail of as the silent days ended he had all the qualities for major stardom but sadly it was not to be celebrity would come to ray milland here making one of his first screen appearances halliwell doris lloyd also appear to advantage
1	for people like me who were born long after the '60s ended we can only learn about the era through cultural artifacts of which hair is one this is certainly a well done tour de force one can get a sense of how things were for the hippie culture probably the most impressive scene for me at least is when the group crashes the rich people's party as for the movie's final scene one might interpret it as the symbolic end of everything that the '60s represented br br but no matter how one interprets this movie it's important to understand that even though the '60s themselves may have ended the movements that typified them still exist in small it's a time that people won't soon forget br br anyway this movie is one that i definitely recommend milos forman scored another great one here right between his two masterpieces one flew over the cuckoo's nest and ragtime so why did he later make a piece of crap like man on the moon starring john savage treat williams and beverly d'angelo
1	i think this show is awesome i love it and i love fabian not in a romantic kind of way but if i was there i would totally support fabian like haley did and the other girls yeah i mean if they're why don't you want to fight them back fabian is the only who have guts to confront people and say what he thinks not just stay and suck it fabian 100 i love haley too because shes like a normal girl who doesn't want to be with cows and bugs and grass everywhere and sleep in a warm bed with servants i mean if you have the chance and the money why wouldn't you do that and fabian too fabian brought pizza and just like 2 or 3 people said thanks i mean he spend money
1	this film for me and my wife is more entertaining than all the bloc buster violent thriller mystery murder movies that abound it is about real people making the best of their lives they just happen to be indian and the main characters are in law enforcement the realistic acting and the great scenery more than make up for the slightly implausible plot the sound track is by bc smith who also did the soundtrack for coyote waits and is great adam beach plays a tribal policeman who is a little bit accident prone and wes studi is the stoic consummately professional detective there are many other fine either supporting or cameo roles by graham greene cardinal etc we have also seen coyote waits another adaptation of a hillerman novel and we greatly enjoyed it too
1	i hope robert redford continues to make more films like this books are wonderful and as a young child raised in the southwest his stories hit home adam beach is a highly under rated and under used actor wake up hollywood not everyone thinks that your mel gibson's are cool many movie today want to see films that make you think i have seen all of the redford hillerman series they are thoughtful scenic and have great plots i'm hoping that if enough people write to robert redford he may decide to make a few more thank you adam beach and tony hillerman for great entertainment if anyone get's a chance to read tony latest book do so it's great i also recommend traveling through arizona new mexico utah and colorado stop at every view site and feel the setting of books amazing experience
1	joe wes jim adam re acquaint us with the beauty isolation psychological as well as physical and utter terror of murder most fowl in the southwest characterizations settings and plot continually build even if at times the personal asides leave us wanting more with some interesting alternative choices as to who done it flashbacks e g peter fonda good to see him provide clues but they don't go where you might think comic asides e g the preacher are mild and appropriate where and coyote waits start to drag thief engages the clutch and four wheels you around the next corner never quite sure what's there disagree with joe manic comment to jim chee to slow down for the potholes wrong there are no potholes in the plot just tracks to follow on to the next episode great photography as always appealing characters and more to explore
1	i caught this movie the other night on one of the movie channels and i haven't laughed that hard in a long time this movie was so funny i went out and bought the very next day i love this type of comedy it just seemed so real in the way the actors react to the different situations here i was rollin i had never even heard of it and just started watching because of the title seeing other people the title caused me to give it a shot and i'm glad i did i laughed so hard that it hurt now it's part of my collection i definitely recommend it to all those that enjoy smart ass type of comedy i will be watching this one over and over
1	seeing other people is a daring romantic comedy about a couple named ed and alice jay mohr and julianne nicholson who are engaged and plan to be wed soon they live together but are both having doubts about their relationship alice realizes she's had so few sexual relationships in the past she might just be marrying ed because she's never felt anything else so they agree to begin fooling around with other people for a while to test their own relationship br br the movie balances a prescient question by focusing too much on the what if aspects of life can it in fact do the opposite and only make you feel more constrained when ed begins having sex with a college girl he begins to become addicted and almost forget about alice when he realizes this it scares him br br i hadn't heard anything about this film in advance but i enjoyed it it's not extremely well made and definitely has that purposefully low budget indie feel to it but it's a lot better than most romantic comedies out there in the mainstream today br br check it out if you get a chance
1	i loved this movie it's a lot of laughs the acting is good and the writing is really sharp i'd rather see a hundred movies like this than three lord of the rings repeating and repeating themselves br br it's a low budget affair and seems to be shot on dv but looks good and jay mohr and julianne nicholson are great together why do you have a ten line minimum i'm not a critic just a patron br br i doubt very much that quentin tarantino could write a picture this funny without filling it with masturbatory gratuitous violence this movie should be seen on more screens than just one i laughed from beginning to end
1	i was hugely impressed with this movie if for nothing else than for the comedy it might not be the edgiest wittiest humor at all times but i found it appropriate to every scene br br the flow of the film is certainly a bit jumbled almost confusing sometimes but that is how the characters feel sometimes we're watching a bit of slapstick and other scenes revolve around a decisive discourse on relationships this might be a bit frustrating to certain viewers but it brought me closer to the characters' dilemmas of irregular chaos br br the acting is great from everyone i'm a huge andy richter fan but i wasn't head over heels for his part like everyone else seems to be he did very well but julianne nicholson and lauren graham stole the show for me both in their respective ways jay mohr performs as expected if you've seen him in other films i've always liked him br br overall the movie is very funny and offers some nice foundations for a few types of relationships when it comes to relationship questions and problems some films try to surprise there's nothing surprising about the conclusions offered here but it's entertaining to watch them be revealed throughout the film
1	i paid attention and enjoyed the very rich expressions capability of the main actress julianne nicholson i don't have words to describe how much have i been enchanted all the actors and actresses played well especially i noticed the solid good character who has been consistent in foreseeing the future andy richter who played carl i think that the idea to show a variety of friends and relatives with different opinions and the several consulting meetings is like the real world jay mohr who played ed the future husband also played very real behavior but i want to emphasize again the point of very rich expressions repertoire which julianne nicholson is capable of and does so naturally was overwhelming for me indeed the subject which this movie handles seems to me as very important and touches strongly meaningful thoughts of many people i've seen this movie several times and have not been bored it raises again and again in my thoughts
1	i happened into the den this morning during the scene where ed was engaged in the 3 way and thought my wife was catching up on some early morning porn much to my surprise it grabbed my attention and i rewound it and we started watching it at 4 30 in the morning what a very entertaining rich funny and well developed plot line and script we both thoroughly enjoyed it my wife so much that she shared the experience with her girlfriends at work going on to recommend it and say what a kick she got out of it i am in my late 40's and she in her early 50's i think this movie would have appeal to both young and old an unexpected very enjoyable surprise nice work thanks two thumbs up
1	just watched hair after a lapse of 20 years it struck home for those of us who tried to stand on the shoulders of the civil rights movement and fight the rule of privilege and power who resisted the fascism of the johnson nixon administrations who now as veterans of civil wars fought the war in vietnam every single day until finally the us beast died and fled for all who said no in many different ways it's remarkable how unsuccessful we were how large the real table was on which treat danced how driven the wizard behind the curtain we were 20 22 24 we didn't know the nature of the enemy the size of the monster who for the next thirty years and counting would continue to eat the world how could we even with smoke and the bat the bat in our hand like treat we were too young too middle class too invested too much a part of the actions we hated br br but there was a moment as andre gregory observes in my dinner with there was a moment or two somewhere back there in the late 60's and early 70's when perhaps we could have found something besides the yellow brick road something not fueled by prisons enron and dick something collaborative something innocent and critical at once something with dance br br but we missed it like kong bending a the revolution was turned in on itself into sexism racism homophobia and class crushing politics until we got to w treat would have hated w and iraq and the pathological lies if they were in that film then but the moment passed and w was almost inevitable comprehensive incompetence riding the drunken raging bull into children's lives and china shops br br we should have done something more something better but we clearly didn't know what br br now what
1	plot ed and alice are engaged they live together and are living the dull life he has slept around before meeting alice she has a lot less experience she decides she needs to sleep around before marrying he very reluctantly agrees they should both see other people for a while br br at first he is not really into it his wild days are behind him and he is simply content until one day alice comes back and tells him she made out with some random guy who of course starts to fall for her br br of course this is a bad idea which causes extreme strain on the relationship br br good movie you can see the train wreck coming but still good br br worth a rental
1	well the movie did turn out a lot better than i expected it's not boring and it's not unoriginal it's really not a silly romantic comedy the situations the characters put themselves in are very unusual of course we're still talking about a movie but the main characters are indeed plausible donald is of course an exaggeration but he's just a pawn in the movie a means to prove something the ending isn't one of those ridiculously happy always the same moral containing pieces of crap you can usually see in movies of the genre i genuinely liked it and i'm hard to please when it comes to this particular genre of movies it's worth a watch besides it's better directed than other movies the story line always stands up the characters themselves stand up and they do not experience this miraculous change and love is not revealed to them like a holly god given artifact yada yada at the end of it all you actually see yourself going through it all the movie makes you feel something you may even learn a thing or two it's not the usual hope producing tissue idiocy it's a good movie not a consolation prize for teary women around the world
1	warning contains spoilers br br written by husband and wife wally who also directed and maya forbes this indie film is one of the better romantic comedies in recent memory br br jay mohr takes a break from playing smarmy weasels to be the nice guy faced with the fact his fiancée wants to bed other people and he's allowed to do so too julianne nicholson who was so good in tully plays spunky and vulnerable with great gusto too bad she doesn't get the recognition she deserves br br good supporting performances help immensely too lauren graham who made last year's bad santa memorable plays the jaded cynical sister to perfection bryan cranston the dad on tv's malcolm in the middle gets a few funny raunchy moments and andy richter plays a genial guy who falls for a single mother helen slater in a credible albeit familiar role as a mousy woman br br what surprised me most about seeing other people was how funny it is there are some genuine laughs here ed's first attempt at meaningless sex gets some great lines and there's a ménage a trois that elicits one of the most truthful reactions from a man as the male fantasy gets tweaked br br the film's premise isn't unusual but i liked that it was alice nicholson who thought of it much to the chagrin of ed mohr given the genre you know that no matter how good her intentions are alice's plan is doomed we see how the couple works through this strange situation initially alice and ed are turned on by the idea but then the human element sets it br br i appreciated forbes and not turning this into a cheap sex romp yes there's sex and nudity but there also are real emotions at work here the other people alice and ed befriend don't want to be the objects of casual sex they have feelings too in one case too many feelings br br granted some scenes run one joke too many the richter slater subplot isn't necessary and alice does something truly uncharacteristic but that's forgivable because mohr and nicholson generate such tremendous intimacy and honesty check out the scenes where ed through alice's underwear drawer or his reaction to her announcement about ending the experiment that no matter how much we might enjoy their little game we root for this couple to succeed br br unfortunately this film got little if any publicity and a limited release hollywood studios whose romantic comedies often veer on the unfunny turgid and unsurprising would do well to learn from this intelligent and funny film
1	the best romantic comedy i've seen in years not the kind of slick over the top hollywood stuff by ben stiller or adam sandler and a lot less syrupy than a hugh grant epic julianne nicholson and jay mohr are perfectly cast and both deliver smoothly professional performances as the engaged couple who decide to spend a little time their sexual oats before marriage instead of playing it strictly for laughs the writers and director concocted a nice blend of human feelings and comedic action nicholson is just great as the awkward seductress and mohr does a great job as the man who reluctantly enters into the game but soon finds himself enjoying his flings a little too much we see just enough of the supporting characters to nicely round out the plot without distracting from the main story andy richter earnest friend and helen slater distraught single mom are particularly good there is enough meaning and emotional complexity to make this a lot more than a standard boy girl farce indeed with just a little better pacing and a tiny bit more cutting this film would be a top ten comedy
1	this indie film is worth a look because of the enormous talent of its creators wallace and marsha forbes mr has directed the young cast and he is to be praised for this effort br br the premise of the film is a cautionary tale of the danger for wanting something one can't have which is the story of alice and ed after living together for a while alice suddenly gets restless because she imagines she's lacking experience in the sex area alice and ed's relationship while not an example of ideal happiness is a comfortable way to share their lives with one another that is until the moment alice and claire her sister happened to bump into a sexual encounter by another couple that has no clue of being observed br br this incident makes alice reevaluate her own sexual life with ed she finds it lacks substance when she proposes other people' ed is shocked to put it mildly but not wanting to contradict alice he decides to go along what happens next is that both alice and ed enter into a world that's been unknown to them the people they meet in the end are not worth the trouble they sadly realize at the end they were made for each other br br the film is worth watching in order to see the amazing julianne nicholson who we happen to have liked in another indie film tully ms nicholson reminds us of a young shirley she projects such a luminous quality about her that is hard to take one's eyes from her whenever she is in a scene this young actress proves she is an accomplished performer who gets better with each new appearance basically she carries the movie her alice is a study in contrasts alice is a decent woman who thinks she is inadequate in pleasing ed because of her inexperience br br jay mohr is an excellent match for ms nicholson both do wonders together his ed is perfectly credible we have known people like him deep down inside he is a good person who suddenly gets himself in a situation he didn't call for yet he goes along only to discover he is too decent and not cut out for a life of gratuitous sex with the willing women that have no problem with a tumble in the hay just for fun br br the rest of the cast is wonderful lauren graham does some amazing work as claire alice's yuppie sister andy is also wonderful as the grounded carl the nerdy friend who finally finds out fulfillment when he meets penelope a single mother as penelope helen slater makes a albeit of a short appearance in the film br br the director is enormously gifted who will no doubt go places because he shows he is well suited for the job
1	intense funny witty and more than anything social comedy on the ways of adult dating and it's results be it good or bad mohr and nicholson are engaged couple two months away from a wedding date when a bizarre event at their engagement party forces nicholson to re think the relationship and start to date other people so she won't feel so pristine when it comes to sexual experience this leads to a disaster of events following mohr nicholson and their cohorts very intelligent and needed in this time of clumsy condescending comedy while containing your usual variety of comedic sexual and frustrated characters especially charles as a sexually frustrated sex fiend very annoying who even they seem to get the right feel to this heart felt commentary br br the film goes the way films should go these days showing that guys are sensitive at heart and have morals most of the male characters are the moralistic straight forward eyes while the woman are the fresh faced street who will stop at nothing to get pleasure guys will be appreciative of the message made for guys with self respect however it is easy to assume that most males who do see this film will use it's message of male sensitivity cover up any flaw or trait that a female might find offending still the writing formula uses this as a tool to pave the way for it's male leads particularly those of mohr richter and finding the director in a cameo as a sales man br br the females are by far the most promiscuous as they speak of nothing but pleasure and what it would be like to with someone else they have amicable traits though even though they are covered by the image of sex driven kittens very funny stuff br br on another level the film follows some of it's ensemble into different relationship work richter meets up with a stressed divorcée a very remarkable and noteworthy performance by the always reliable helen slater named penelope who is divorced with a son who hates her for splitting with his father as the two go deeper into a relationship human interest is revealed and both the comedy and tragedy of divorce and starting anew are studied br br by the end of the film mohr and nicholson have become way to deep over the heads to see what's coming next and it is up to what they have learned about each other and themselves to decide what will come next it becomes appropriate and dramatic at just the right time br br direction is emulated very well when the characters learn to face each other after all that has happened with the right ending br br all in all this film should have been released nationwide and i should hope that it is up for some academy awards maybe helen slater can finally get the recognition she deserves anywho this film is a no hits miss give it all you got romantic sex farce displayed very maturely and aesthetically br br great film
1	sophisticated sex comedies are always difficult to pull off look at the films of blake edwards who is arguably the master of the genre and you will find just as many misses as hits for if a film of this nature ever fails to work it can never fall back on the tried and true toilet humor of a teen sex comedy i e american pie or warm the audience with the sentimentality of a romantic comedy i e julia roberts' entire career it can only maintain a push to the end and hope that the audience can appreciate the almost required irony of it's resolution br br written by husband wife team wally and maya forbes seeing other people opens with engaged couple ed alice jay mohr julianne nicholson only seconds away from rear ending the car in front of them as the frame freezes we unexpectedly hear the thoughts and fears of both characters from here on out we welcome that the story about to unfold will enjoy a point of view from both sexes br br two months shy of their vows ed alice already look and act like an old married couple in an early bathroom scene their actions alone show us just how comfortable they are with each other and how long they have been together so when the line to propel the plot forward is uttered expectedly from the least likely of the two it is as if the very relationship itself is calling for a change even if it means it's own destruction br br once all the ground rules are set ed can not sleep with her mother or for that matter salma hayek the two head off in their separate directions in the hope of finding some meaningless sex to strengthen their relationship at first everything seems to go as planned as their daily trysts only help to fire up the passion between them but predictably as the deeper emotions of regret and jealousy begin to emerge they soon find themselves growing apart and on the verge of breaking up all of these actions leading to a resolution you may or may not like depending on your own degree of cynicism br br for a comedy like this you need a solid cast with supporting characters just as strong as the leads and director does not disappoint here he has cast two of my favorite actresses as sisters julianne nicholson lauren graham and allows them to play to their strengths for nicholson who has always reminded me of a young shirley maclaine she brings an air of naivete and vulnerability to alice even when her actions seems less than so and as for graham an actress who has proven she could outperform an entire howard hawks ensemble she steals every scene she is in with an edgy no bs persona br br as for the guys jay mohr is serviceable here as is josh charles malcolm in the middle 's byron cranston has to be applauded for taking on a british accent and letting it all hang out but the real treat here is andy richter and his sub plot involving single mother helen slater while his scenes almost seem to belong in another movie they are by far the funniest and his dead panned delivery steals the show br br for an independent production seeing other people has a more personal and introspective feeling something that would be noticeable absent from a big hollywood film of this kind not to mention that this film also has some genuinely funny moments unlike say most hollywood comedies in general br br rating on a 5 star system 3 1 2 stars
1	why this film was only released in 4 states is beyond me i thought this film was a divine story the name says it all seeing other people this movie has more logic than laughs which i suppose is why it works so well common sense also makes an appearance in what would seem to be another puerile sex comedy alice is getting her feet frozen in the cold when she feels irrationally about the way she might perform for her fiancé not just sexually but as a partner and friend etc this starts what seems to be an almost archetypal journey for the both of them one fling after another leads to trouble as if it wasn't a bad idea from the start witty dialogue and comic set ups make this one funny as hell nicholson and mohr set the tone of the film early on and keep the promise they anticipate other highlights are lauren graham andy richter and helen slater in her first theatrical film in 10 years climax begins to take an insane turn but a simple ending makes this one far more enjoyable than most movies today mohr fans will see something different in his ed character and fans of helen slater will enjoy her shiny moments of a quick but excellent come back any richter takes home the award for most moralistic character romantic and funny or just plain fun seeing other people is a gem which needs to be noticed
1	i channel surfed past this many times mainly because the synopsis sounded so cheesy so love american style however it turned out to be quite good very well done the two stand out features are the dialog and acting great cast the premise is actually well executed and there aren't too many weak moments i guess what i was most amazed by was how often you thought the wheels are going to come off the cart and instead the cart just banks the turns so to speak and the movie keeps flying there are some nice little sub plots particularly the relationship that develops between the character played by former conan sidekick andy richter also want to mention that the music accompanying it was good
1	i rented this movie without having heard or read anything about it what a shame this movie is intelligent witty hilarious fast paced and realistically ridiculous the characters manage to get developed without relying too heavily on clichéd tired stereotypes it was refreshing to watch i couldn't help thinking that marketing would have helped lob this not so mainstream movie into the starved for intelligent comedy mainstream the quality of the dialogue and the ease with which the actors execute a huge range of awkwardness heartbreak and comedy is so rare these days i felt that the actors must have really enjoyed participating in something this rich how is it that national treasure was number one at the box office for three weeks in a row it is so weak in too many ways to mention i guess i'm just happy that movies like seeing are still being made somewhere out there
1	this is one of the movies having made significant influence on me as a person the sound tracks are best and the performance is excellent just a great movie for ever to time limit just for the entire live you must have in your collection this is one of the movies having made significant influence on me as a person the sound tracks are best and the performance is excellent just a great movie for ever to time limit just for the entire live you must have in your collection this is one of the movies having made significant influence on me as a person the sound tracks are best and the performance is excellent just a great movie for ever to time limit just for the entire live you must have in your collection
1	i first saw this movie at a premiere party in mr hometown there between directors musicians and other norwegian celebrities i laughed and laughed i just couldn't stop if you like a comedy with black humor sharp lines and excellent acting this is one flick you have to see it's like mixing true romance with the wedding singer and add a dash of mad about you br br 10 points
1	okay maybe this movie not a revolution but it a very good piece of entertainment and it's liv tyler's variation of alicia silverstone's clueless or cameron there's something about mary br br liv plays a femme fatale which just wants to have an own house and all kinds of material comfort in it and well she does everything to get just that even crimes many crimes and she drops every boyfriend which doesn't cooperate to get these things additionally she actually doesn't mind to have some additional lovers beside her current boyfriend br br this movie is even funnier to watch if one knows that liv is actually of zodiac sign cancer and cancer are reported to be very domestic so the character liv played here is actually a parody of a cancer br br i was alone in cinema when i watched this one that was quite comfortable because i could laugh as loud as i wished all the time but it also felt strange as if nobody was actually interested in this movie br br i myself liked it very much the acting was between very good to excellent especially the main actors where brilliant there where enough jokes many of the black kind and good dialogues br br this is a trash movie and it is full of black humor if you like this kind of movies try this one
1	one night at is one of those films that starts with an awful amount of promise but as the film goes on it becomes silly and loses it's way big time liv tyler plays a manipulative woman who tries to get her own way by flaunting her body to every man she meets all of which fall under her spell there are a few funny moments in this but they get fewer and fewer as the film deteriorates into a comedy farce michael douglas who plays the assassin is good as is liv tyler although she does look like she had put on a bit of weight since this is ok but is only memorable for the scene in which liv tyler washes her car you will know what i mean when you see it 7 out of 10 just
1	each guy liv tyler meets loses their head over her not of course without some small encouragement from liv liv is at her beautiful best with matt dillon tops among the paramours interesting initial premise to tell story from perspective of each dupe degenerates into sitcom style finale not unlike blame it on rio with which it has more than a few similarities worth watching nonetheless
1	okay here's the thing i've read through the comments of other viewers some trashing the film and some saying it's the funniest darkest blackest comedy ever made whiffs of tarantino etc well not exactly but guess what it's still an enjoyable and ultimately funny film not brilliant not trash liv tyler gives a great performance and you absolutely cannot take your eyes off her she's a woman with very strong decorating ideas matt dillon a greatly underrated and under used actor is wonderful as ever he always manages to stride that delicate line between and soul and he pulls off the comedy beautifully ditto john goodman though the religious overtones probably funny in the script really don't work paul reiser is very good definitely better than he was on tv br br the usually unbearable michael douglas is actually great in this role as for his coif well see the film between this and wonder boys you're actually reminded of the fact that douglas can act the movie will make you laugh in parts okay not exactly belly laughing but definitely in the i'm amused i'm very amused category if you're renting this expecting to see another pulp fiction forget it but if want something kinda hip and kinda fun this is a damned good choice
1	if you don't have anything better to do then go ahead and rent this movie it's intelligent funny it will sure have your attention busy for a while br br i discover it by surfing channels in a boring sunday it was on cable and for the faces i saw i thought it may worth the try it made me laugh and for a movie in a sunday with nothing else on tv it was ok br br liv tyler looks amazing in the movie even though her acting is not what i expected it's kind of poor acting and for the rest of the crew i liked reba in her role as a dr also i found interesting seeing the guy from the sitcom what i like about you playing an almost gay lawyer br br as for j goodman i found it as always a very good performance michael douglas plays a small role but his characterization was hard for me to identify him br br it's also a good movie to watch with company
1	a very funny movie michael douglas' do is worth watching this flick for if for no other reason i'd like to see him do more of these low life roles he was terrific as were all the performers br br the film struck me right off as an american only funnier and easier to watch because it was in american and didn't need no subtitles br br in a funny movie with a laugh every minute or so two of the best were with john goodman not someone i am crazy about 1 he is telling the priest about jewel doing something he liked and says i had to wipe the smile off my face the visual shows he is not smiling and clearly is a guy who never smiles but probably doesn't know it 2 the scene at the end between goodman all suited up for jewel in his cop uniform and grappling with the be reiser hunched over a table and the two of them then protesting that they are not gay to another character who happens on the scene this alone deserved a special comedy academy award
1	liv in her sexiest movie br br she incorporates the femme fatale role in an astonishing way while in the same time she manages to appear a super sexy woman while keeping the sweet girl stand and not being over wicked like other similar movies e g femme fatale with rebecca br br until this movie lord of the rings was the only movie i ever saw her im hooked on with lotr br br point by lotr i had shaped an opinion that the role of the pure sweet woman was the only role that liv could interpret but when i saw one night at mc cool i absolutely changed my mind she is the sexiest woman ever br br therefore as a film is a mediocre common comedy with a confusing plot
1	one night randy matt dillon rescues jewel liv tyler from her jealous boyfriend utah andrew dice clay he takes jewel to his home but utah comes back and wants randy to open the safe at mc suddenly a shot dead then better stop here to tell the plot that´s like to explain the story of wild things what i found so interesting was the fact that the plot written by stan his first and his last work he died in july last year was told from 3 perspectives the 3 men that fall for jewel everybody of them sees her from different eyes like john goodman as the detective who tenderly falls in love with her because of being remembered of his dead wife br br no wonder that the guys fall for her liv tyler she´s a real jewel she made the big screen shining she played her role as if she was in a noir thriller sweet but in the same time she was the cool vamp who walks over dead and uses the men for her needs and of course michael douglas how could i forget him mr the bingo playing killer he was quite cool br br but in the last 10 minutes there was a little bit too much slapstick for my taste it weakened the atmosphere that part began when paul reiser as cousin carl on his leather dress for jewel the ymca song didn´t fit so much here but altogether one night at mc is a pretty cool film noir parody br br
1	this movie makes me laugh by even just thinking about it such a smart comedy very precise yet easy the casting can not be any better all actors are the best choice of their roles and they all play precisely the best and there is no stupid laughs or shouting through out the whole movie layers and the progress of story work perfectly together and the rhythm flow smoothly the greatest of all is when the village people's ymca is cued in it brings out the importance of the statute which was only briefly brought up previously in the movie which makes the smartest and funniest climax among many comedies i give it a ten especially a lot of times comedies are so underrated
1	it couldn't have come out at a worse time just as the nation was entering the reagan years the boom boom 80s the time of no regrets no concerns it got no word of mouth and opened poorly the studio ditched it but hair is possibly the best musical ever made with forman directing and choreographing it's a startlingly beautiful well acted well written triumph that few people remember the casting is perfect the musical numbers unforgettable and even the downer of an ending doesn't diminish the film's indomitable spirit br br if you haven't see this movie you haven't seen the best musical of all time seriously
1	liv tyler liv tyler liv tyler yeah it's hard to keep your mind off this fetching beauty giving an radiantly picture perfect performance as she simply has tongues wagging 'one night at is a dementedly quirky and raunchy black comedy with old fashion shades tied in to its familiar but smartly crafted and chaotic narrative which has three men lusting after the one women and she's milking it to her advantage when you see tyler no wonder why they are infatuated and would do that's anything to see 'her' happy and living 'her' dreams just like tyler there's something rather intoxicating about this feature in that we see the likes of matt dillon john goodman paul reiser who's great and especially michael douglas who plays the hired assassin with cool ease but a questionable hairdo really having a good time with their roles the consuming plot opens up with the main three characters dillon goodman and reiser telling their story of how they came to encounter this divine presence and the eventual affects that she's having on them to lead to an insane climax there's an unpredictable chain of events ranging from fruity to sensual where everything would virtually tie in together with a certain ironic snowball twist of fate for the characters that see them leaving their reserved comfort zone to fulfill this girl howard direction is colorfully zippy balancing the script's quick fire gags and frenetically fun if complicated situations one of the best under the radar comedies in the last decade which will have you under tyler's thumb
1	this movie is never going to be on a list of the top 50 films of all time but if you're compiling a list of fun films this isn't a bad place to start liv tyler is amazing captivating and luscious and everyone else is dead on right for their parts it's a 21st century counterpart to tom jones in other words just good bawdy fun i think that this may be tyler's breakthrough film on her way to major stardom with no nudity she oozes sex in this film it's no wonder all the boys give her toys how could they help but do that for a helpless innocent such as liv's jewel
1	this is a very good black comedy with a great view on how different people have a different perception of the same situations the three main characters each met a girl named jewel played by liv tyler who is a different male fantasy for each of the three men each of the three men go through the same situations but when they tell of them to other people their perception of the situation is very different from what the other two say that is a very good concept probably not entirely original but it works very well in the movie the plot is very good very bizarre and extreme which makes it a good black comedy the acting is equally good not one of the actors seemed out of place or out of their league the comedy is very black pitch black in some scenes and a lot of people will definitely be offended by it but fans of black comedy will probably enjoy it overall this movie is not for everyone's taste but most people who like black comedy will probably love it as it is definitely one of the better black comedies 7 10
1	i must admit i liked this movie and didnt find it all misogynist it could be subtitled three ways of looking at liv tyler three different men become obsessed with the same woman and tell their stories to very different characters one man john goodman tells his story to a priest the very funny richard jenkins for goodmans the liv tyler character is an idealized saint the second coming of his wife theresa for paul character who story to a shrink a fine understated performance by the great reba mcintire the liv tyler character is object of kinky sexual fantasy finally matt rather dimwitted tells his side of the story to a sleazy hit man played by micheal douglas all three of these narratives of obsession are told simultaneously and all are amusing the film ends in a bizarrely funny climax that i wont give away
1	one night at is a very funny movie that is more intelligent than what it should be its form is more sophisticated than what i expected and its randomness was superb the thoughts behind the movie sadism stupid men are are infantile that's what i have to say about this movie is that not only does it hate women but it loathes men it doesn't have any sympathy for any of the men really it seems that way because of the form but the ending says it all nobody cares br br the form has the first 2 3 of the movie told in flashback by three characters dillon the stupid bartender reiser the stupid lawyer and goodman the stupid holier than thou cop the story is therefore always perverted by their own self images and altered realities reiser's bbq fantasy is a great touch in the end we never really know the truth and nothing is what it seems dillon was never that innocent etc br br actually the rest of the movie is funny too from the randomness of the last 5 seconds of the movie to the overly obviousness of tyler's manipulations the movie seems to have an energy all its own everything is just out of the blue and nothing seems to make sense do we really care if it does no br br it is also a very dark comedy but has a shallow presentation think nurse betty or jawbreaker very candy coated outside dark chewy inside if you like your movies random dark or just purely mean see this movie this one will satisfy your urges for the strangeness that is one night at br br 8 10
1	one night at 2001 out of four br br by blake french br br according to harald the director of one night at this film is a dark comedy about the power of women over men and how a group of people can all perceive different realities it's the same story told from three different points of view and each time we tell the story we try to reveal a little bit more about what actually happened which nobody really knows br br one night at marks the feature film directorial debut of an award winning commercial and music video director who began making short films when he was eight years old i always get nervous when a director of commercials and music videos turns to filmmaking we have seen so many examples of how these guys think they are making another advertisement or music video for tv with their productions resists that tendency he captures a specific humorous truth in one night at from an inventive complex screenplay by the late stan even if it is often somewhat perplexing br br one night at features three men who share their separate experiences about a particularly beautiful young woman in some ways this movie is the comedy version of american beauty but in others it is a world apart br br it all started one night at explains each of the three men to their various listeners there is randy matt dillon a tender at the local bar and his cousin a lawyer named carl paul reiser who stays until the place closes detective john goodman arrives when the saloon becomes the crime scene of the dead boyfriend of a female fatal appropriately named jewel liv tyler randy is the first to see her as an individual treats her unkindly he stands up for her and before you can say sexy they are having vigorous sex and she moves in with him at first randy is reluctant the sex and the violence all in one night – it's a little much but who could turn a jewel like jewel away br br jewel changes the lives of each of the three men for detective she pulls him out of a hole of grief since his wife died for carl she makes him forget his loving family and nice little suburban household for randy she lights a few fires both positive and negative the later persuading him to contact a bingo playing hit man named michael douglas to put an end to her deceptive ways br br it is interesting how the movie perceives the three different chronicles even the costuming of jewel is relative to the man telling the story sees jewel as a beautiful mesmerizing gift from god carl sees jewel as two sexy legs and lots of cleavage randy is unsure what to make of her an awakening to his otherwise boring road to nowhere life the most intriguing element of this movie is jewel herself however deliciously played by the always delightful liv tyler armageddon she is not really interested in the men but what they can offer her her motives are all too simple not truthfully diabolical or evil she is simply a young lady who has learned at an early age that she can get what she wants out of life through her beauty br br the film has a lot of fun with its material from the enthusiastically entertaining cast to its violently hilarious showdown one night at takes advantage of most of its humorous ideas what makes the movie even funnier is how the three men's points of view differ the actors have a lot of fun with their characters too goodman is curiously whimsical reiser fits his kinky squirmy part quite well douglas is sly and mysterious in one of the movie's funniest performances dillon gives his character arrogant personality even though randy is a lackluster nobody liv tyler is dazzling she injects jewel with the perfect amount of boastful charisma and tantalizing wit she reminds us of mena intimate performance in american beauty br br one night at is the first film to come from michael douglas' new production company films it is a creative genuine and sexy production along the way we often become caught up in the twisty structure but that is a natural response to a movie that intentionally interweaves several angles to a single story the movie ends on a note that is both black and comedic this is another one of those comedies in which serious events take place in a humorous way i e the black comedy many films of this genre come across as either too black or too lackadaisical one night at is one of the few that actually work br br
1	brought philip larkin to life in a way that is worthy of the greatest performances of all time and not just the ones that are measured by popularity it shows a stark portrayal of life as the greatest unrecognized poet of his era which is exactly how he would have wanted it such was his disdain for and it dramatically exposes the raw beauty in the intense sadness of philips observations of our relationship with our own mortality and lays it our in a way that seems to have missed even the great philosophers for anyone interested in profound observations of our relationship with life love and death this is a must
1	i am a big fan of works i believe that he was amid the greatest 20th century poets the film itself does a great justice to the bard of hull wonderfully portrayed by all the players in their roles bonneville does do a service to the sexually repressed larkin he avoids an impression and strays from becoming a caricature the use of his poetry was the highlight of the piece itself rather than acting out the massive intensity with which larkin felt the use of his words themselves give a better insight into plot and add a much more sombre but altogether more fascinating atmosphere most enjoyable
1	what's there not to like br br i caught this again tonight and marvelled as to hugh capturing of the essence of philip larkin without resorting to tics and caricature br br there are many layers to the depiction of the complexity of the main character and hugh brings them to life his prudish mother his unresolved issues with his father and his inability to commit to one woman br br his poetry is interlaced throughout and some scenes are caught in his recounting of them to the wife of a friend whom he later propositions but quite casually almost innocently it is not difficult to see where his attraction lay for the many women who fell in love with him and knew about each other to boot and continued to see him br br cerebral fun loving jazz aficionado loyal friend it is always more than looks women moved beyond his baldness deafness and short sightedness and a beautifully nuanced performance by eileen atkins as his mum is an added bonus br br 9 out of 10
1	i just do not see what is so bad about this movie i loved this movie i thought this movie was the best film in the series though part 3 is the best in the series i still gave this film 10 out of 10 because it is great i don't see what everyone hates this movie who would not want to see just a little bit of critter action i wished that brad brown would of appeared in this one because it might of made it a little better those who like a little bit of drama because wait i won't tell you you will just have to watch it this film also contains a few popular actors who are i won't tell you because i hate it when people give spoilers so i do not want to be one of those people well i guess that is all i have to say about this movie
1	conventional and superficial portrayal was incomplete it is supposed that just a few moments with sheila makes him win her love but the story itself and the songs make it and enjoyable experience essentially the final sequence altough i don´t know why it was given a pg rating br br
1	critters 4 is a good movie a bit of a twist to the series as it takes place in space not in an earthly community good effects and acting make this movie a must see i would recommend this to horror science fiction fans everywhere br br 10 out of 10 br br fans of horror movies like this should check out puppet master skinned alive sleep away camp slumber party massacre and other full moon pictures flicks for other recommendations check out the other comments i have sent in by clicking on my name above this comment section
1	critters 4 this movie was continued after the 3rd critters movies this one was released in the same years as critters 3 was released in 1991 critters 4 takes you in space as they hunt for the humans in a space ship i doubt if there will be a critters 5 because the ending for the 4th was quite a good ending which brought the end to the critters as there was no more left i give this movie 10 out of 10
1	this movie would had worked much better if this was the first critters movie this is a low budget movie with only two 2 critters shown on screen why this looks like a fail is because this is the last critters movie and it's so low budget that it seems the director made the whole movie with his own pocket money however i did like this movie i compare it mostly with the third movie which were bad critters 4 have a more serious tone in it the first half of the movie even without seeing one critter yet you have a scary feeling watching it too bad they didn't milk out the critters i mean even if they only had two 2 puppets they could still have used them on screen a lot more the critters also have different deaths in this movie which made this a little special especially at the end with the frozen critter ug has a promotion in this part and is different in this movie which took me by surprise lastly i liked this one because it also has some kind of conclusion to the series so at least we won't see a critters 5 anymore oh one last thing i missed one scene in this movie we never see a critter shoot a spike from its back maybe these puppets didn't have that feature but i was very disappointed not seeing that in critters 3 we see a lot of spike shooting which was the only good thing i liked about that movie
1	critters 4 ranks as one of the greatest films of the twentieth century the word classic has never been so aptly used as in describing this mind blowing epic i agree that the original critters is the best of the series but the claustrophobic tension of the space station in which critters 4 is set really must be seen to be believed i strongly recommend this to anyone interested in seeing one of twentieth century's major film landmarks
1	this film is a fine example of why the shaw brothers are among the finest directors probably the best in the kung fu category the movie is well paced the story is excellent and intriguing and while the humor may not be in your face it is nested within the character interactions once the story builds up and the characters begin to assess the situation does the whole tower come crashing down in one of the best fight scenes tiger crane and crab hung gar are very present there is even a scene that mocks 18th century western social events and ends with clever and entertaining fighting the movie ends with a sudden cheesy moment but if you are a fan of the shaw brothers you'll understand that the cheese is just a topping and not the main course of the movie
1	my young auntie is unique in a lot of ways first this is hui ya hung's kara hui first action film second she was actually doing the fight scenes after having a surgery done to her a few days before filming third this movie is off the chain br br the movie starts out with wang lung wei trying to take the inheritance from his brother his brother then has kara to marry him so wang can't take the treasure the story is pretty good leading everything to it's rightful place br br in comes the action what can i say that hasn't already been said for movies like this or disciples of the 36th chambers the victim or even the magnificent butcher the fight scenes are what sales movie and this one won't have any problem doing so liu chia liang and wang lung wei engaged in a fight that you have to see to believe why have these two men not fought each other more is beyond me br br i don't want to spoil anything really but you have to see my young auntie to get the full blast of excitement my only gripe is that yuen tak was not used as broad as he was used in 3 evil masters or even invincible pole fighter 8 diagram pole fighter to excellent must see movies 9 2 10
1	if you're looking for a kung fu action movie look elsewhere while there are fighting scenes the film revolves around its provincial protagonist who struggles to find her way in americanized canton unlike most kung fu comedies the action scenes are used to reinforce the comedy instead of the other way around br br cheung is a statement about the farcical nature of kung fu movies where the stars always seem to find some reason to fight instead of some grand drama about honor and respect minor misunderstandings cause the characters to yell at each other and start beating each other up br br my young auntie as it's known in the west is the story of cheng tai nun played by kara hui who is a young woman who marries an elderly landowner to keep his from falling into the hands of his greedy and corrupt brother after he dies she moves to canton to live with her nephew played by director lau kar leung and his son ah tao played by hsiao ho br br the basis of the irony is that although cheng is the same age as ah tao her manner is more akin to her status as his step great aunt while ah tao speaks english extremely poorly plays the guitar and goes to costume parties cheng utterly fails when she tries to adapt to her lifestyle in canton complete with makeup revealing gowns high heels and dance scenes br br what makes this movie great is its realization lau kar leung is perhaps one of the greatest if not the greatest director of his generation in hong kong and kara hui won best actress at the first hong kong film awards in 1982 also this is arguably hsiao ho's finest performance his chemistry with hui is remarkable and although he went on to have a storied career in kung fu comedies often working alongside sammo hung he has the perfect combination of athleticism and comedy as the romantic tension and intrigue build in the second half of the movie his entire countenance changes no longer does he easily through life without a care in the world he becomes the straight man and his cohorts the kramer elaine and george br br my one complaint is how suddenly the comedic aspects of the film die off during the conclusion the film transitions from outright farce to dramatic intrigue with little but a change in incidental music but there is a certain symmetry in it the film begins focused on the intrigue focused more on lau kar leung's character and it ends that way too but the final scene returns to the movie's comedic roots giving conclusion to both aspects of the film
1	this is one of the great modern kung fu films a lot of the reviews seem to miss the point that the comedy is based on a quite subtle at times at other times right in your face contrast between old and new china kara hui for instance is called a country bumpkin and gets into trouble whenever she tries to adapt to the new but in the end to save her families honour dresses as an old fashioned heroine in contrast to the modern military style of hsiao ho gordon liu seems to have played his part for laughs playing off his serious monk persona with silly wigs and a guitar the end fight is simply fantastic and ends in a defeat for johnny wang rather than death kwan yung moon should be mentioned for his great playing of a thug with simply terrific and kara hui does some magnificent acting and fighting a great film
1	some martial arts purists think that comedy was the worst thing that could have happened to the old school kung fu flick and it is true that the introduction of comedy into the genre signaled the end of the chop socky period in hong kong film but the fact is one can only carry on a primarily physical exhibition of prowess for just so long then everyone gets bored with it and that's really why the chop socky died and how the hong kong new wave action film was born the producers the actors the directors all just got bored with hitting people for ninety minutes straight br br given that and given the fact that liu chia liang is a professional director with a considerable list of films in his resume this film has to be seen as something other than just another kung fu comedy rather it is a comic film within the martial arts genre and in fact one of the best ever made br br what liu has done with this film is really a pleasant surprise he has taken a martial arts plot and re constructed it along the lines of a hollywood style musical complete with episodes of singing and dancing it was around the time of the making of this film that some film makers and film fans began to recognize that the cinematic performance of martial arts really derived from the acrobatics of the chinese opera has more in common with dance than with fighting i will continue to point out this connection until most americans realize what they are actually supposed to look for when watching a martial arts film well choreographed body movements using the plot of an action film as an excuse for their performance at any rate quite clearly liu chia liang made this connection and decided he would explore it close to its limits br br the result is an incredibly charming entertainment filled with marvelously human characters attempting miraculous kung fu and tripping over their own as often as not when they do so and the film being set at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries allows liu the opportunity to explore the nature of the and modernization of china that contributed so greatly to the making of the china we know today so the film has considerable historical import as well br br also fans of stephen chow's recent kung fu hustle should really watch this movie carefully as chow clearly learned from it before the making of his own film br br a very amusing well made film oh yes and the kung fu in it is really really good br br purists won't admit it but this is probably director liu's best film
1	el padrino has just been released in europe and is really kicking ass this film with its great cast damian blood in blood out robert wager jennifer tilly robert wagner and many more is the best gangster movie since scarface a film that everyone must see 2 hours full of action with fantastic unbelievable stunt br br gracias jennifer we are eagerly waiting for part 2 does anyone know if there will be one keep up the good work i loved it
1	i first saw this movie in the theater i was 10 i just watched it a second time and i must say it was amazing the music the dancing the acting it is a great story and told extremely well i fell absolutely in love with treat williams when i was a kid after seeing him in this movie one of my favorite parts was when his mom kept yelling at him to give her his pants and then finally said how much do you need money that was classic br br moms are the best if you haven't seen this movie since it came out i say see it again it's timeless it will do what all great movies do make you laugh cry and think
1	i have seen this film more then once actually el padrino was one of the best feature films that i have seen in a great deal of time br br there was a big cast jennifer tilly faye brad dourif and damian who really shined like a real star in this part of kilo br br i heard this film was shot for under two million dollars i have seen films shot for 33 million that cant compare to the quality and production value br br damian why are you not getting offers and more film work excellent job i cant wait to see the sequel and i hope it has the same action br br jennifer tilly has made a cult classic character with br br damian moves coolly in every scene much like the movie stars of the 40's and 50's so sick of seeing these non charismatic actors like ben stiller getting all of these films when there is talent like this that have something to show a great film br br go go go kick some but in sales el padrino
1	i just finished screening el padrino in germany a great film we look forward to seeing more films from mr in the future it was wonderful to see such a well put together film with such suspense and a story that shall remain an instant classic the ending with little ambiguity leaves the story open for a sequel seeing a film with great quality truly outlines serious potential and his adept skill as a writer actor director and filmmaker has impressed many with his triumphant performance in blood in and blood out and now he has proved to all who have see his works his potential to become a critically acclaimed film maker with genuine artistic control something that few film makers can afford
1	we just finished screening el padrino in australia a phenomenal piece of film work we look forward to seeing many more films from mr in the future it was wonderful to see such a well put together film with such suspense and a story that shall remain an instant classic seeing a film with great quality truly outlines serious potential and his adept skill as a writer actor director and filmmaker has impressed many with his triumphant performance in blood in and blood out and now he has proved to all who have see his works his potential to become a critically acclaimed film maker with genuine artistic control with his lead role kilo vasquez being a perfect combination between milo from blood in blood out and al pacino from scarface the film will do wonders for us here in australia
1	i absolutely recommend this movie to anyone who wants to be entertained the directing acting and the story is brilliant definitely up there with films like scarface and the godfather this movie makes your heart race damian as well as all of the cast was amazing i would definitely rent this movie damian deserves an academy award for his acting and for the way he portrayed the life of a gangster this movie is a soon to be classic and an all around brilliant piece of film making i loved it and i give it 10 stars in a sentence the only way to describe it is a film without any flaws watch this movie and you'll see what i mean 2 thumbs up
1	i saw the film and am very pleased to see a film so different in character and story to the stupid mainstream american major productions its a film with a background interesting for young as much as all age groups contrary to certain reviews the audience seems to split my evaluation as the film is very successful wherever yet exploited worldwide for example in netherlands is was ranked number 3 negative statements must be respected but one should expect such to be guided on a fact basis if you have the chance view the film and enjoy it
1	this movie is a picture perfect action drama and thriller every scene has you sucked in i watched this movie and was amazed by how many talented actors were in the movie damian especially was great he played his role perfectly the story was made for these actors the characters make the movie so realistic this movie very simply gets an a plus from me definitely watch this film it compares with scarface but has a more in depth story this movie not only gives you a good picture of the gangster life but it also gives you the characters emotions and at the end you really feel for the main character watch this film
1	i love movies that take you into them a movie that actually leaves you feeling weak when its over and this kind of movie is rare br br damian is so talented and versatile in so many ways of writing and portraying different characters on screen this movie has a cutting edge to it a main stream cast for such a low budget why is it that a man with this much talent and charisma not to mention sex appeal in ways beyond most other actors can do this with so little money to work with these actors really believe in his script and raw talent as a director writer and actor i am so pleased to know such a modern day genius is out there letting is passion for art drive him and taking us as an audience with him damian i have heard of you through so many different circles and do not let the jealous people of this world get to you martin gets this fellini got it and you will always get it the fire and passion in you is what we love to watch on screen thankyou for being different and having the guts to write like you do you are a one of a kind director do not listen to the empty vessels
1	this movie was a modern day scarface it had me on my toes this movie is one of those rare epic films that makes you want a sequel i especially liked damian his performance deserved an academy award which he deserved for his performance in blood in blood out the only thing i didn't like was the behind the scenes because it didn't show the intensity that the movie had and i would have like to have seen less narrated scenes but the movie was great and it is in my top ten movies of all time plus the acting was great there wasn't a bad scene in the movie i loved it jennifer tilly was perfect as well as all of the cast i can't see how anyone wouldn't like this movie it was a great definitely a must see
1	i just want to say that this movie was excellent br br i loved it from the beginning until the end br br the acting was great the director did an amazing job and i would like to see it again br br jennifer tilly did a very good performance the guy that interpreted his father manny was another great actor but i can not recall his name br br i can't wait for el padrino ii br br damian looks so good and i think he is one of the most talented actors out there there is of latin actors that do a great job like it is shown in this film br br rent it rent it rent it
1	i am finally seeing the el padrino movie from what i can see it is an incredible film and lots of action damian is good director but i must admit i love his acting the best br br also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit br br however the film el padrino is a pure 10 action epic why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also br br i am one of those people who love to see artists make it br br b s
1	thank god for this movie it's a document of talent that three decades later seems even more unique and rare in retrospect br br the music is just extraordinary packed with so much talent in writing performance arrangement and production that it's absolutely infectious the lyrics and vocal arrangements are incredible the performances by under appreciated talents like nell carter and ren woods uplift my spirit every time i hear them while the film may be different from the stage version i prefer the soundtrack to the cast album which i find truly grating and under developed here the arrangements are filled out and expanded into dynamic pieces that couldn't have been produced in a stage setting br br but the music isn't the only thing extraordinary about this movie the juxtaposition of almost hyper realist dialog scenes reminds me of altman films intercut with exuberant musical and dance numbers really works all the talent in this movie directing writing photography editing music choreography casting acting costuming art direction merge perfectly into one of the best musical films i've seen br br i think it's amazing how much we know about the characters in hair based on very little information or plot they're not drawn as caricatures but as realistic and very human people we see little glimpses of where they come from but the portrait is completed by vignettes that draw the characters to the surface through accomplished acting directing and editing there's an undercurrent theme of the misogyny of berger and hud which colors their characters by exposing their reckless macho hippie ideology the scene of home life reveals important details about his psychology and the brief glimpse of claude's home tells us volumes about his background through the simple realistic and genuine interaction between claude and presumably his father br br i love the fashion in this movie it defiantly mixes sixties ideas with very seventies looks one does have to overlook treat williams' hair extensions it's a document of how chic much of the late seventies was contrary to the conventional wisdom that the era was all about bad taste claude's beige knitted tie was a hot trend of 1979 and the hair and clothing of the singers and dancers particularly those in white during the central park scene mixes up the decades in a way that suggests the timelessness of the musical's themes these elements merge with extraordinary state of the art choreography in a way that enhances the artistry of both br br hair isn't a film that rewards cynicism if you come to it with expectations then you're most likely going to be held captive by artists who aren't bound by your rules for me it opened my eyes and ears and spirit to an insightful and passionate musical dialog about war friendship and family that transcends its time and is still meaningful and relevant to me to this day
1	one of best movies ever fire it is not much about sociological description of india today it is the mind blowing use of light that never stops never becomes normal even when in this sense the movie is almost unique both leads are of very good quality the origin of das as a street performer are pretty obvious her performance is a superb but the use of the light i have look at it and looked at it again and again still mind blowing after ages nothing torrid in the story rather pure way of facing the subject in a way it is sad that in the bizarre world we live today a major art work is usually known as a gender film fire can stand face to face with dryer's jeanne d' arc or no or some of the major kurosawa movies just to name some wish my input could help a little this movie to its deserved way to fame
1	this film was one that i have waited to see for some time i was glad to find it has been everything anticipated the writing of this film has been so finely crafted and researched far beyond what is seen by the audience i found it amusing that so many people watching will not read between some very important lines but indeed if not the movie will make sense in a different way and is very brilliant the film has many stories and characters woven together around this one character kilo a man whom has rose from the streets amidst many woes and become a very powerful criminal after spending some time in prison kilo finds a loophole in the justice system and through a disturbing turn of events is released only to find everything is not at all what it seems kilo finds himself going up against the higher realm of society and political royalty in order to make clear how important a man's word is and stands for a war begins as the street is in arms against lords of wealth and corrupt power br br a build up to explosive and powerful non stop twists and turns this film will leave you riveted i found the cast of this movie to be outstanding and is not a movie to be ignored excellent go rent it today
1	this movie was simply amazing the writing was incredible as well as the directing and acting the story instantly gets you interested this movie is one of those movies that has your heart pounding the whole time as always damian is brilliant his on screen acting is as powerful as any hollywood actor the cast in this film is perfect each character made the story more complete the cinematography was captivating and it uplifted the movie i was totally stuck to the screen and couldn't stop watching it there was no getting up for popcorn or anything this movie is one of the best all year maybe even the best definitely rent this movie i recommend it this movie if u want to see great filmaking or just for pure entertainment
1	i was lucky enough to see a test screening of 'el a couple months ago in santa monica i was blown away you don't see films like this anymore in the vein of deftly tells the tragic story of kilo as he maneuvers the tough streets of la to rise above the ranks to become a drug lord of proportions the characters are complex and conflicted the emotions are real the action is fast and furious the stunts are expansive and tilly is hot she hasn't looked this good since her days i'd recommend this to anyone it's a fantastic homage to the epic action films of the late 80s and early 90s and to all the naysayers out there… watch it again you obviously had your eyes closed the first time congrats to all involved in the film i'm counting the days until the sequel is released anyone have a date on that
1	finally a gangster movie worth watching br br jennifer should get nominated for her role as tough murdering femme fatal br br this movie flies like a bird just a fast paced non stop gangster mayhem br br jennifer is just so beautiful and bad in this movie br br i was shocked to find faye dunaway still lives the cast in this movie are so fitted to their roles br br a real cool soundtrack rides along side and you get swept into the spanish soul of this film br br the story is original deep and poetic br br this flick has a lot of substance and never rests br br the gang of spanish fire just set everything on screen alight br br damian is a joy to watch and a movie star br br sit back and enjoy the ride
1	this movie is the latino godfather an unlikely mobster bridges the gap to some unlikely alliances and forms an empire i enjoyed the action and gunfights along with the brash acting and colorful characters this movie is no oscar winner but definitely entertaining hey who needs an oscar anyway br br has got some balls to direct act i think he produced it too this movie reminds me of another filmmaker who likes to do it all robert rodrigez keep it up is there a sequel in the works there are a bunch of strings that need to be tied son comes back and avenges dads death
1	i love this movie and i recommend it to anybody damian and jennifer tilly played their roles perfectly just the characters alone pull you in to the movie the directing was also magnificent the most creative shots i've ever seen i was stuck to the screen throughout the whole movie not one scene was slow the movie also has a lot of action packed scenes cars blowing up etc the movie is just an all around masterpiece if you like real entertaining movies then watch this because you'll be on the edge of your seat the whole time i put this movie on my top ten all time list because there is never a dull moment in the movie and that is my type of movie 2 thumbs up all the way up
1	the movie was better than what i expected i was working on the movie set for a short period of time when damien was making this film the gun fire stunt and acting came out pretty good on the editing tip all thou the the music wasn't all that great better music would have top this film some of the music sound like the hippie days damien remember you have gang violence gangster's some oldies or hip hop would have did it it was more realistic than blood in blood out the casting was picked real well did a good job in this film the movie brought back a fill of a life style i use to live but than at the end you do not always win and in my history thats how it was i adapted to the movie the first time i watched it damien on this film
1	i think it was a pretty good film it shows how someone grew up in an environment that created a rich and powerful man but unfortunately because of his ambition and the people around him it led to his destruction it shows that you can't trust anyone especially in a world that deals with a lot of money and envy the character that i mostly liked was she was another ambitious powerful and ruthless woman in a man's world who loved and respected kilo she also knew that business was business and a dangerous one everything she did was risky but got the job done she helped kilo become rich with her connections overall i really liked this film and have it in my collection and waiting for el padrino 2
1	this film is just really great i don't know why i alway have a weakness for damian it's not scarface but still i really enjoyed my self this is a film i can see more than ten times he really try's to make a good movie but he just can't do it i feel pity for him so maybe it's a bit of a sympathy vote i can't help it but i just can't give it less than 9 stars everyone should have seen this once in his life to see how to make a cheap film work i live in holland and bought this film for only one euro that's 1 50 dollar i would have also bought it for ten euro great great great on a little dutch film site this film gets a 101 votes here only a 260 that's not so much more so people all over the world buy this movie
1	i liked this movie that's pretty much all i can say about it lou gossett did a good job even though i'm still very disappointed in him after all the iron eagle movies and even if i was smiling on the inside when the first main teenager dies i won't give it away it was done in a nice fitting fashion pretty much everyone in this movie does a good job so check it out it's another one of those movies i found real cheap so i bought it and i recommend the same
1	treat williams reached a degree of stardom with this movie and really squandered it don't be led astray by his poor movie choices since this movie really stands out hair is a musical that really deals with the attitude and probably more so with the persona of the famed peace movement of the 60's there is a lot of spectacular music done in spectacular fashion unlike the music videos of the late 70's 80's and 90's the video flashes coincide with the subject matter of the music in other words the video makes sense when matched with the songs so you know it never could've made it on mtv the subject matter dwells on drugs and being hippies but it mostly an anti war movie dealing with the senseless tragedies of viet nam one of the protagonists is an oklahoma boy intent on making a difference believing all the patriotic dribble he is spoon fed and he happens upon a gang in new york who are more or less glorified hoodlums their characters are very unique and probably wouldn't make sense today but this bunch bands together by burning their draft cards what ensues in some spectacular scenery and mesmerizing scenes involving not only the three leads but the other 3 gang members as well as a newcomer with a small child whose entrance is easily one of the ten grandest entrances of all time in cinema partly because she sings one of the greatest songs of that generation despite their faults you come to love these people a cinematic triumph with a heart felt and grand finale
1	i don't understand how people could not like this movie you have jr the kid who played the main character in stand by me sean astin and many other great actors lots of action and fun that you don't see in today's movies anymore it's really a shame br br this is an underrated movie that is among other great movies like let's get harry the 80's and early 90's created such great movies that will never again be topped by today's standards br br they tried to somehow recreate this movie in masterminds but came up short with some really bad acting the only thing that movie had going was patrick stewart but obviously that wasn't enough
1	being raised at the time this movie was released has probably influenced my shallow mind but still this isn't a bad movie by any means it's a movie about a hostage situation involving a prep school populated to some extent by endearing teenage boys who can't seem to get out of trouble what's wrong with that it doesn't have any big special effects but so what who needs special effects cinema's decline began around the same time that special effects were popularized a coincidence i think not it turned movies with potentially good plot and feelings and turned them into a big substance less light show for innocent kids and the self medicated well you know not all movies need special effects about three fourths of the movies on the imdb top 250 are without special effects but almost all of the top grossing movies of all time have some special effects think about it star wars e t ghostbusters etc all good movies but the rest of the top grossing movies are usually cliched tripe with non sensical plots and lots of eye candy well some movies don't need ny of that junk br br excuse me for going off on a tangent which i normally do but i'm just so fed up with that special effects junk back to the point toy soldiers is simply a great movie i admit some of the content is a little corny and ripped off but so what every movie rips off another to some extent think of dogs countless appreciation sites dictate the fact that beloved quentin tarentino who i admit i like has copied many many many movies in the making of his first major film reservoir dogs many say that the entire plot is ripped off almost scene for scene from japanese and chinese gangster movies which mr tarentino loved so much and probably still does sorry once again for the tangent br br toy soldiers is fun it has the whole insubordination from teenagers to unwanted members of authority i e hostage takers it's fun to see kids take over when they're being held to something they don't want to do hell teenage angst inspired was the key topic to a great majority to 80's comedies plus there's the tension and thrill of having the characters use fire arms and knock out the bad guys etc plus there's some emotional points to the film when one of the characters dies the others have to cope and adjust it's not perfect acting but it beats most of the other tripe out there br br in short toy soldiers is exciting interesting and fun how dare you jaded blowhards rate this movie poorly shame on you all br br personal rating 8 10
1	i'm sure the film contains certain gaps in logic but i was so enthralled by it that i really didn't care the movie plays out like a fun lighthearted teen romp combined with a schwarzenegger type action flick it's packed with action packed with excitement and has some humorous moments as well sean astin is fun to watch and i haven't seen louis gossett jr since i saw in theaters he is a fine underrated actor and i love watching him on screen i just wonder what he's doing now unfortunately he might be starring in a lot of those direct to video flicks hopefully my assumption is wrong anyway this is a fun edge of your seat thriller and i definitely suggest you check it out br br my score 7 out of 10
1	'toy soldiers' is the story of five misfits boys most being sean astin wil wheaton and kieth coogan attempt to save their school from a terrorist invasion after the american government imprisons the leader's father lou jr plays the headmaster of the school a headstrong guy who tries to instill in his students a sense of discipline br br 'toy soldiers' is a funny and pretty cool action and certainly the better of hostage crisis at school movies i think most of the appeal comes from the teen cast but also the terrorists don't come off as completely useless whereas in some movies they never seem to be quite the intimidating group that they should trapped inside the boarding school and threatened to be killed if the military or police interferes this is a very formidable challenge for these group of guys who plan to save the school they're actually pretty clever about it too br br i was surprised that it was a pretty good movie it keeps a steady pace and doesn't get ridiculously sentimental or anything like that astin and jr give good performances br br i too agree that this is an underrated action movie
1	toy soldiers is an okay action movie but what really stands out is the amount of effort that the scriptwriters and director put into portraying american counter terrorist forces accurately just check out the end credits there are more than a dozen us military officers and officials listed the movie accurately portrays the fbi as having control of the hostage situation but turning it over the us army's delta force who are unnamed in the movie as the pentagon was still denying their existence at this time once the president the posse act of us code the us army forces at the end are accurately dressed and armed for the time and even the use of an ah 64 apache for air support which might seem a bit over the top is not terribly unrealistic far more expensive and frankly better movies have portrayed american counter terrorist forces with far less accuracy
1	i recently rented this movie as part of a nostalgic phase i'm going through i was born in 1980 and so film from mid 80s to mid 90s has quite an important place in my growing up br br this particular movie was one of my favourites and so i was thrilled when it became available in the uk it hasn't become worse with time it is still a great fun film with plenty of excitement in its own way sure it pales in the shadow of bigger larger budget films but don't let that stop you enjoying this br br worth a rent or even a purchase at the discount prices you'll find it for
1	this film is a perfect example of great escapism i loved this film and was sucked in from the very beginning sure it's just an action flick but isn't having fun what watching movies is all about br br the cast of this film are very strong with likable characters the friendship between the boys is so realistic and appealing it's heart warming and hilarious to see a group of teenage boys interact especially this group of boys sean astin makes a great rebel successfully avoiding being a precocious teenager br br if you want fun watch this film i thoroughly enjoyed it even though i was watching it on a very dirty and old vhs that was terrible quality go dvd's
1	oh boy my god what a movie this one this is probably the best movie by sean austin and louis jr i have seen all the comment for this movie and most of them loves this movie very much but i don't really understand why it only got 6 1 in imdb list this one should above 7 5 the plot and the script are completely perfect the acting are superbly well acted sean austin will wheaton louis jr have given an incredible and awesome performance in their career this movie contain a lot of action br br just one thing i gotta say watch it br br 10 out of 10 stars
1	this movie is my all time favorite movie it has great acting cute guys and a great plot sean astin is great in this movie it has funny moments sad moments and happy moments who could ask for anything more this movie is great
1	not only does this movie have a great title but quite simply is the greatest drama i have ever watched the viewer is drawn into the movie involving 5 young men working together to try and overcome odds sean astin as billy tepper is brilliant along with great supporting roles from t e russell wil wheaton and shawn phelan the guidance and leadership of and characters makes the movie so much better as time goes on the movie keeps gathering momentum and its a dissapointment that none of the young actors made a name for themselves in the film industry after this wonderful movie
1	i've avoided seeing this film for some time but finally picked up a copy having been born too late to see 'hair' in its contemporary setting i have just been familiar with the uk and broadway cast recordings for many years and saw it on stage in the late 1980s where it looked a little creaky but still great fun br br the film it drops some of the songs the bed my conviction frank mills and cuts others walking in space however what is left is presented very well indeed all the singers and dancers are excellent and the key performers especially treat williams as berger beverley d'angelo as sheila john savage as claude are memorable br br as a hippy celebration and anthem 'hair' manages to be remain potent even in a film made ten years too late it was no longer the era of peace love and but the time of punk rock although watching this film now in the time of iraqi problems gives a new resonance to the vietnam issues of the 1960s br br milos forman who also made 'amadeus' did a good job on directing in its scope and feel it reminds me of norman 'jesus christ especially with the joy of the scene and the intimacy of to be hard' br br i really enjoyed this film and consider it a good representation of a musical born out of the first truly hedonistic era
1	this is one of the best movies i've seen the acting is good the plot is solid and the whole movie is very believable which adds a lot to the movie i rate this at least a 9
1	yes it's not a great cinematic achievement but toy soldiers is a fun and entertaining movie the young cast does a great job with both dramatic and comedic aspects of the story and i particularly liked shawn phelan as derek yogurt i've seen this one plenty of times over the years and will probably see it several more just don't think too much and you'll love it enjoy
1	this is one worth watching although it is sometimes cheesy it is great to see a young sean astin and this ends up being quite an entertaining and humorous action movie i watched it many times when i was young and now still enjoy it when i pop the old vhs into the machine i happen to own a copy so sit back with this movie let reality go for a little while and you will be able to have a few good laughs and an enjoyable hour and a half
1	it's really not worthy of a 'best picture' consideration but as entertainment goes it does the job this is one that i've watched with pulse every time at least a dozen times br br most of these actors were unknown at the time this was done and we can recognize them from other work those that don't have current name recognition probably don't want it br br this was a fun adventure sort of like the little rascals if they just had to be serious
1	i have loved this movie since i saw it in the theater in 1991 i was 12 then and wil wheaton was my favorite actor and adolescent crush i am now 23 and i still love this movie the best part about it is whoever i am dating loves it too because it is a total macho guy movie it is wrought with enough action and mayhem to keep men with the shortest attention spans glued to the screen i only wish that it was available on dvd
1	quick summary of the book boy billy tepper about 12 years old is school's main trouble maker and if he gets kicked out of one more school he'll be sent off to boarding school his upscale boy's school in switzerland or somewhere like it gets taken over by arab terrorists why i'm not really sure billy has no friends and likes to use his laptop to hack into his school's database he with the help of two teachers thwarts the terrorists' plans and save the entire school the book wasn't bad but was sooooooo cliché br br now about the movie they switched arab terrorists to cuban terrorists and make billy about 17 and the leader of his group of friends they like to get into trouble but normal teenage stuff this movie was believable maybe not realistic but the characters are real you can watch billy joey and the rest of the guys and see real kids acting out the way they did or at least wanting to br br great action scenes not everything goes as planned for either side overthrowing the terrorists was messy and good guys did get hurt i won't say who but it is heart wrenching i know i use that word a lot sean astin is excellent as a teenager he usually played the dopey best friend this movie proved once again that he could play the leading man kid whatever the only performance that may have upstaged his was wil who played the only son of a new jersey mafia man he hated his father and everything he stood for a far cry from wesley crusher usually this genre of film is one i watch for the soul purpose of making fun but not toy soldiers the story line flows the dialogue is usually believable i can't think of a single moment where i found myself shouting at the tv oh that would so not happen great movie that should be in everyone's collection
1	i'm seldom partial to movies about smart assed teenagers who have problems with authority but toy soldiers has grown on me with repeated viewings this is as much a movie about billy tepper growing up and becoming an adult as anything else and i give credit to sean astin and writer director daniel jr that they don't make a big deal of that but let it just unfold and sneak up on you the camaraderie of tepper's friends their grief over joey's death and their joy at their survival all are genuinely moving and i have to admit i take a certain patriotic and perhaps slightly reptilian glee when the u s army guys finally move in and righteously kick some terrorist butt ooh general kramer and the heroic robert folk score is the cherry on top i'm sure i could find a hundred reasons not to like toy soldiers but as long as we don't take it too seriously i don't see the need this is one of the most entertaining bad movies in my pantheon
1	this came as a huge surprise for me i had never heard of this movie when i first saw it and the title really pointed towards something else than a great terrorist hostage situation at a high school toy soldiers has the best from it's time period of the early 90's where action movies were light hearted and very enjoyable the action is good the plot is interesting and way over the top the bad guy is a one dimensional hateful douchebag which is great louis gossett jr is in it it's simply a feel good movie which i thoroughly enjoyed br br you can't go wrong with this one if you like action i give it a solid rating of 8 10
1	i haven't seen this in years but when i was about 6 i first saw this on vhs and i must have watched it at least 10 times now like i said its been awhile so i might screw up the plot but i remember some columbian terrorists taking a prep school hostage with demands for the head terrorist the wishmaster father to be released from prison now i could just check the plot here on imdb but i'm pretty sure thats right any way a group of boys at the school decide that they're not gonna just sit around and wait to die so they decide to fight back this film has always been stuck in my mind there are so many images that i haven't forgotten like joey's i think death scene or billy spitting in the terrorists sandwiches or the one kids no idea of his name fake asthma attack just a great film it may be films like this that have given me my tolerance for film violence because if i remember right this movie is pretty graphic guys getting mowed down by helicopter machine guns a special forces guys hand getting blown off by a grenade not sure about that but i seem to remember something like that towards the end and the most bloody being the lead terrorist getting capped in the head in gory detail great action great humor good acting wonderful film experience i've got to watch this again after all these years
1	these kinda movies just don't get the credit they deserve this is my 2nd all time favorite movie stand by me being 1st the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me everything in the movie is very exceptional the script the acting the screenplay i was on the edge of my seat 80 of the time and if my mom wasn't in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta wil wheaton died i did not see that coming at all i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn't real popular back in the 90's i was born a few years after it came out so of course i didn't go see it in the theaters but im sure i would have if i would have been alive if any of my friends watched this they would be like uhh okay but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this if you haven't seen this movie or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb this is the movie for you to watch
1	i won't say anything about music because this topic can be so deep that it can become one huge separate review so let's concentrate on movie that is brilliant no doubt one of the best works of forman br br the simple story about love friendship freedom and ideals oh yes the ideals for which even pacifists are ready to go in war br br there is not a single fake word single fake character single fake feeling in the story because the love freedom and friendship isn't something complicated for the characters of movie these things aren't something that everyone can view from different angle these aren't things that need much thinking to understand their love is simple their friendship is simple their ideals are as simple as the word simple itself and that's why these characters are so deep br br berger the leader of a hippie played by treat williams is a guy who lives to live and that's the biggest happiness for him he has his ass as he sings in one of the scenes in the movie and that's enough to make him happy with his property br br berger never accepts that something can't be done and his right if he wants to go to some rich guys' banquet in his dirty old clothes and huge long hair he will do it if he want's to go to another state to just see his friend he'll do it he never thinks twice he just do it br br how why is he so powerful the answer is simple because he is free br br just watch how the wind makes the hair wave in this movie and you will understand it all maybe you will even free yourself too
1	picture this someone makes a film about the columbine or virginia tech massacre only the film is directed by the guy who did home alone i know this isn't but bare with me and stars sean astin off of goonies picture the terrorists being overpowered by buckets of water on top of doors and marbles and this is why you need to see the film unfortunately it doesn't go all the way by actually having the skateboard lying on the floor for the evil mexicans to trip on but its halfway there you have to give it above 7 for that but not a 9 because it didn't go crazy enough pity its seemed like it would be comical cheesiness well worth a cult status
1	didn't sound like it was from a fantasy film the film is dark with dark overtones the soundtrack way too uplifting to the point it intruded on the visuals i'm sure they were aiming for something militant but it just didn't work the scene when astin is attempting to escape is a perfect example why does it sound like the goonies there is no comedy there is no brightness to this br br the idea of the movie is great and the acting is very good as well i enjoyed everyone's performances it's available on online viewing br br definitely worth a viewing but write your own soundtrack
1	sean astin pulls off another amazing performance in toy soldiers he plays the highly intelligent prankster billy tepper along with wil wheaton and keith coogan who play his best friends joey trotta and jonathan during a regular day at saint school for boys a group of dangerous terrorists take all the boys and teachers as hostages and threatens to blow up the school if the leader luis cali andrew father isn't released from the american prison but these aren't just ordinary boys that are taken hostage most of these kids are the sons of very powerful people in america and half of them were expelled from other schools before they came to saint they're mouths and actions just may get them killed when the government is desperately trying to figure out a way to help billy joey and some more boys decide to take matters into their own hands
1	this is really good original ideas in the film and a great terrorist action film only second to die hard and die hard with a vengeance this film has suspense and a good plot i would recommend it to anyone with a taste in films like mine action terrorism and gangster mafia
1	i first seen this movie like a year and a half ago and i loved it i decided to get the dvd last year for my birthday it has the right amount of suspense action and drama this movie is about prep school called the regis school and its packed with rebellious kids in which one kid william tepper sean astin has a hard time adjusting due to prior rejections from other schools cause they couldn't control his rebellious act and now at the regis school committing more acts of a rebellion there school gets taken over by terrorists on a random day and which the real reason is because the leader luis andrew divoff father has been sent to prison and the leader will do anything including killing the students setting bombs and so forth in order to get his father back br br along side william tepper is his rebellious friends at the regis school one in particular is joey trotta wil wheaton in which this guy holds a troubled past of living in a mafia family and being sent to the regis school because of hating his father for who he is and which now he must deal with these terrorists taking over the school so william joey and there friends must band together to stop these terrorists from violent acts and hazardous tactics br br this movie was really awesome and i believe people should notice it more because when people think of a good hostage movie they would say die hard and even though i would have to agree with them they need to recognize that toy soldiers was a good thriller it sure had my heart beating because the students are my age and i would be scared to confront terrorists like these if they took over our school but overall this movie is really worth a good 112 minutes of your time and if i had a decision to rent or buy it i would buy it i recommend it with a lot of hype 8 10
1	this is one of the best bloke movies from the early 90's and whilst slightly dated its one of those movies that would never get made today which makes it very special in fact a very similar movie was made in the 90's called masterminds and it was a pg variation on the same theme but it was nowhere near as fun or realistic for that matter br br so what's so special about this film it's the between the main characters and the against all odds theme of the film sean astin is very likable and has starred in some of the most memorable films of the 80 90's particularly the goonies he also went onto greater things with rudy and the lord of the rings trilogy but encino man is a good trip down memory lane will wheaton from stand by me lends nice support to the film and andrew divoff is a terrific villain louis gossett jr sleepwalks in his role but he does add some brevity to the film particularly his relationship with astin's rebellious nature br br so how's the action by today's standards it's rather tedious and cheap looking almost like a tv movie but the production values are good and the violence is actually quite nasty for a film involving school students however the director makes up for the limited budget with some nicely suspenseful moments and well placed humor br br so park your brain at the door and enjoy this fondly remembered action flick but don't expect oscar material
1	colombian terrorists hold hostage a military school in the u s until their demands are met the students decide to fight back will they be able to do it br br silly premise but the film actually works the group of kids who fight were all up and coming when this film came out in 1991 sean astin looking very cute wil wheaton looking miserable keith coogan george perez the token latino who is very handsome very muscular and is mostly shown in nothing but tight underwear t e russell the token black guy and shawn phelan none of them are very good actors except astin but who cares this is a mindless action film the only other good performances are from denholm elliott having a ball as the headmaster and louis gossett jr as the dean br br other than that there's lots of action suspense explosions and little brains in other words fun br br only complaint and this is minor it's a bit too long there are three endings and there is lots of casual bloody violence the r rating was well earned still i enjoyed it a lot
1	i think that toy soldiers is an excellent movie it's one of the only movies that aside from some well known actors has an unknown cast that can actually act in my opinion the plot is captivating it keeps your attention without having an outrageous story that couldn't possibly happen in real life i think that everyone would enjoy this movie sean astin always seems to pick the perfect movies to be in that showcase his talent he's very underrated and doesn't get the recognition that he deserves other movies that he has been in other actors have been in the spotlight but this movie and rudy really showcase him because he is the main character in both i hope that he someday gets the accolades he deserves for his acting if you want to see a great movie you need to check this one out and if you are a sean astin fan you will definitely like this movie
1	this is one of those movies that are very underrated again i am voting for an underrated movie this movie has a good story line maybe a bit farfetched but it could happen sean astin one of my favorite actors again shows us a good performance the guy does a great job in acting but never gets recognized for his roles he has done well since the goonies not only him but louis jr does a swell job i thought maybe this movie would have made more money in theaters but who cares about money anyways all around this is a good movie that will have you at the edge of your seat at times and the plot will keep the movie moving itself i enjoyed this movie and hopefully the rest of you will as well
1	the best bit when the dull mobster nicholas turturro calls out to the runaway matthew modine shane come back shane and when the older wise guy asks him what are you doing he replays simply enjoying my time actually like me at the moment br br the most creepy part i've been wondering all the time of watching where did i see that girl before where where till i found out while the closing credits ohh my god she's elizabeth berkley from the fiasco but i just couldn't recognize her with her clothes on to tell you the truth i felt a brief tremor she's really cute and nice but maybe hollywood had no mercy at all br br the most sexy bit when berkley says do you mean the stuff which gives you a boner br br the most dull thing the retarded assistant after a day and a night in the back of the car is still alive and healthy at the end moreover the mexican smuggler took 3 bullets at the same car and he's not dead either br br the most ugly thing all of those murdered people as well as the numerous f ward to a boring extent br br the most beautiful thing the crazy clever script with all the funny characters and the tumultuous situations the acting looked sweet also especially from paul rodriguez who stole the show for as he had the best dialogue also br br the most disappointing thing although the direction didn't mess about the story's wittiness at all but in the same time it didn't give it a unique touch a matchless signature some kind of insane hilarity like the one in the story itself however maybe the low production wronged it well and of course the easy tasteless music which could be like that because of cheap production too br br the most confusing part matthew modine is a talented guy but what did he do exactly to be out of hollywood's a list of stars what could possibly be the thing he made or didn't make to end up in light independent jest like the shipment br br the most absent scene where did jose the mexican smuggler go at last i thought that we'll see him again at the end smuggling once more as the surviving little criminal who in a brief gimmick like this could materialize the continuous disorder of such a world br br the most question i had after the end when we'll see the shipment 2 as i'm so eager to see that fine small comic burly atmosphere again br br these were my own answers if you interested in giving answers of your own for this questionnaire please e mail me
1	this is a cult film for many reasons first because of the phenomenal success as a musical both in broadway and london then as a musical film the film is close to the play and some of the provocation of the play is no longer provocative twelve years later the discourse against the vietnam war is no longer a protest song against the war itself but a strong song demonstrating how the young people of these late 60s managed to bring the political establishment down milos forman play with some situations at the end of the 70s like the narrow minded justice the self centered umbilical righteousness of the rich or of the little ones who have just one rank of power more than the powerless he also heavily plays with the racial element and the sexual ambiguity he builds all the time the film remains pleasant and thoughtful and of course it is a tremendous thrill to remember these years when we have had the privilege and that was not a chance to live them november 11 1969 nixon ordering mass celebration for the 1918 armistice which became the order for teachers at all levels to take their students to the celebration and the march supporting thus the invasion of cambodia that was in full swing and some dare give lessons in democracy to foreign countries i also remember the long campaign for the of nixon in 1973 1974 that will eventually lead to his resignation and the swearing in of gerald ford the first vice president and eventually president of the us who had not been elected since he was appointed vice president by the senate after agnew had to resign to face trial conviction and sentence for embezzlement of course that makes us think of today when in 2000 a president of the us was not elected by the people but by the supreme court or of a war that was rejected by millions world wide from the very start and even before the start and was started against the better judgment of the united nations and of three permanent members of the security council and some speak of a new world order based on the respect of others modern western man seems to have some problems understanding that the world is changing and has already widely and wisely changed modern western man seems to be kind of out of sync and to need special evening classes to learn that democracy wants the majority in the world to be the majority and the west is far from that majority and that if the soviet block had been able to understand that market economy is not capitalism but that market economy can be either socialist or capitalist the berlin wall would have fallen but the other way round and that china has learned that lesson marvelously well and is at the foot of the wall they have to climb over to learn that their socialist market economy has to lead to political democracy but they will just like vietnam was able to reconstruct itself after thirty years of vicious war aggression and damage in other words hair is a perfect food for thought br br dr jacques coulardeau university paris dauphine university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne university versailles saint quentin en yvelines
1	a stolen shipment of the mexican viagra a beautiful girl who is trying to rebuild her life and to leave her husband a boss of the italian mafia a young sheriff who falls in love with his old sweetheart this is the plot of the shipment a country comedy located in small town of paradise arizona despite its simply and classic story the movie directed by alex wright has its fun moments when elizabeth berkley as candy porter looking at a green pill says what s this a mint candy or when the girl enters the sheriff s house and finds him completely naked or when the shipment ends up in that lake at the final sequence the cast offers some nice performances by matthew modine as the sheriff of paradise valley who still loves his old girlfriend and by elizabeth berkley who s character still loves her old boyfriend the supporting cast including nicholas turturro paul rodriguez as the mexican and g michael gray what kind of teeth makes a pleasant work too not an oscar material but not so bad a fun comedy without pretence
1	peter coyote was the only name that i recognised from the cast list so i wasn't too keen on watching this film the only comment on imdb was positive so i watched it on late night t v i would recommend this movie as a good late night viewing it's better than a lot of this genre the plot is excellent the acting isn't brilliant but it's not bad i don't usually like flashbacks but in this film they work as i've stated i didn't recognise any of the cast by name but i recognised michele lee who gave a decent hard working performance as the woman wanting to stand by her man who is lying to her was it knots landing anyhow she's wearing really well note you may enjoy it more if you miss the first few seconds of the credits i did and it helped me when you see the end credits you'll get what i mean the wayne kennedy character who is really weird takes this to a 7 rather than a 6
1	i gave this 8 stars out of a possible 10 it had an excellent plot and peter coyote and michele lee as well as the rest of the cast did their parts well br br both peter and michele were too long in the tooth for the ages their characters were supposed to be and their children in the film obviously would have been better suited being their grandchildren br br i missed the first ten minutes of this film so i don't know just how that body turned up after 25 years and got traced back to denny traynor peter character but i had no difficulty picking up on the storyline br br barbara traynor michele lee is stunned when her long time husband denny is arrested for a murder in oregon some 25 years previous a state denny claims he was never in br br however as evidence piles up against denny his story changes then his story changes again and yet again until barbara doesn't know what to believe br br barbara makes up her mind however to get to the bottom of the mystery whirling around the fateful time denny and a young girl named sherry accepted a ride from a stranger named wayne kennedy that ended in murder br br i found the film entertaining well paced and it kept me guessing as to what had really happened between those three people br br from what i saw during the closing credits this seemed to be based on a true story
1	this is a nice little lifetime movie about a guy peter coyote who's living the perfect suburban middle class life when late one night the police suddenly bust into his home and arrest him for the murder of some guy 27 years ago br br in his prison cell coyote recounts to his wife the fateful events of 27 years ago and how he came into contact with wayne kennedy the man who he supposedly killed br br from here the story is told in flashback fashion and the more you learn about wayne and coyote and how they came to meet and what happened when they did the more interested you get br br the acting isn't anything to crow about although the guy who plays wayne kennedy is pretty creepy enough the real strong point of the movie is that mystery of what actually happened on the mountain the wife spends the movie running around digging up clues to the mystery and each time something new comes up we are treated with another flashback revealing more of the mystery it's actually pretty well br br so as far as lifetime tv movie's go this little flick comes highly recommended br br enjoy
1	i usually have a difficult time watching a tv movie the extra long commercial breaks will break my concentration and i give up and find a good book this one however made me put up with the adds and stay with it to the end i realize the movie was based on a true story but it was not brought out why it took so long to find denny they had his name and i would presume his social security number while he did move around a lot it would seem he would be found as soon as his number was entered for a job etc the actors seemed a bit old for the part and a buried metal object when dug up had no rust these were only technical glitches and did not take from the file for a lifetime movie it was better than most
1	this movie is sort of similar to better off dead as it has some of the same stars this one though isn't quite as good granted it is rather funny and enjoyable there is something about better that i like well better this one has these guys going to to spend there summer vacation while there they meet this girl who's trying to save here house from this guy who wants to turn it into a lobster restaurant this guy really doesn't seem to like lobsters cause in one scene he sticks it into boiling water and puts in a stethoscope so he can hear it scream the main character is torn between this girl and the girl of the son of the guy who wants to make the restaurant somehow or another this leads to a big boat race showdown kind of like in summer rental though it works a bit better here and fits into the plot a little better though what is the deal with boat races at this time was there some weird fascination with them for the most part this movie delivers laughs at a good clip but better off dead was still better cause it was the first and the jokes worked better
1	i adore this film as much as any one adores viewing whatever it was they saw when they were young it was one of those films that home box office showed every other day throughout my youth this film is forever lodged in my brain for someone who didn't grow up around this film you may have become spoiled by the add cycle we've been in since the mid 90's and may find it more difficult to appreciate this gem cool this is as my sis was doped up on better off dead before i saw this of which i raped loved and no one no one can deny the embrace of awkward teenage humor in american cinema in the 80's this gave birth to everything we have found tiresome in teen comedies because with all the overuse of slow mo the current soundtrack the new tech i wonder if cinema will go back to these roots this is the teen comedy yes
1	one crazy summer is the funniest craziest not necessarily the best movie i have ever seen br br just when one crazy scene is done another emerges it never lets you rest just one thing after another the soundtrack is great the songs are the right ones for the scenes br br it is also a clean movie little that is dirty in it br br of course it has the story of the guys you wouldn't trust with your lunch money taking up a challenge and winning over people with more resources who'd want to see it if they failed there is a serious side in that parents and children do not live up to each others' dreams one should always have an open mind and weigh all the options this applies both to parents and children in one crazy summer the parents are wrong this is not always the case
1	i saw this movie for the first time in 1988 when it was on hbo and i loved it it was so hilarious i have seen it too many times to count i love the stork brothers and the pitiful ugly dog my favorite quote form the movie is it's so ugly it should be put to sleep i also loved it when the little sister slaps the girls on the back and their faces stick that way i love john cusack and demi moore in this movie too they were great this movie brings back memories of my college days when i first saw it i rented the movie countless times and watched it over and over my college roommate and i just couldn't get enough of it who couldn't love this crazy movie i want to buy a copy on dvd does anyone know where i can get it
1	this is classic 80's humor if you were a teen in the 80's this was a summer hit to go see it was a early look at those now super stars this and better off dead just are fun and silly movies to sit back and enjoy everyone can admit they had a crazy summer when they were a teenager even crazy family and friends like these characters to be introduced to some of these characters was so much fun the uncle who is crazy sitting every waking moment at a radio waiting to win a million dollars the grandmother who only likes the granddaughter and handed a bill to the kids after dinner the twin brothers who look nothing alike and to meet was so much fun this may not of won an award but it is just a fun movie to get lost in one afternoon
1	absolutely amazing humor up beat music and an anti war message make this probably the best movie i have ever seen br br first of all i love how clever this movie is particularly in the vietnam part of the plot it's interesting how they make the army officials enforcing the draft look ridiculous follow that with the serious situation of the actual war and then the conclusion which leaves me seething with anger at the war and yet there is absolutely no violence on the screen wow br br also the music is really cool but what is very unique in this musical as opposed to evita or wizard of oz for example is that the lyrics don't tell the story the mood does along with the visuals and between songs dialog donna is an upbeat song which emphasizes the happy mood whereas flesh failures has a driving intense beat in a minor key br br also i notice the lsd scene is not very flattering now i'm definitely not going to do drugs not that i ever intended to br br all things considered this is an amazing movie the only negative comment i could say is that it's sometimes hard to hear the dialog but who cares 10 10 stars
1	this is the follow up creation to better off dead in a competition better off dead would win hands down but for star power one crazy summer outshines savage steve's better script problems with one crazy summer casting better off dead bod was cast so much better friendship shows cusack giving hateful looks to bill murray's little bro trouble on the set more outrageous friends in but more genuine friends in bod plot was good you'll predict some of it but even the predictable parts go further than you think they could so even though this is better off dead's ugly stepsister it's worth a look see demi moore before the plastic surgery if for no other reason john cusack fans you gotta see it just to say you have if you don't like bobcat i'm sorry i don't like him either but you can't escape him in this one at least he does a great job in the film doing a tribute to another movie monster editing needed help on the beach but for most part not much to complain about overall it's good and funny but try not to compare it to bod or you'll find it lacking sigh
1	i seem to notice that a lot of people have never seen this movie and those that have usually dismiss it as garbage that's pretty bad really br br the first time i saw this movie i admittedly was almost one of those people thank god i'm patient otherwise i would have never found such a classic br br as goofy as this movie is it's also a must have for anyone who is either a fan of 80's movies or just happens to have a sense of humor br br i know that there are a lot of people out there that will tell you that this movie is sort of derivative of better off dead so what if it is they were both excellent movies br br i can honestly say that savage steve holland is a genius 10 10
1	this is from much of the same creative team behind better off dead but is not quite as good as that amazing teen comedy its a lot of fun but its all over the place and just not quite as funny curtis armstrong is used to less effect he was incredibly funny in better off dead bobcat is hilarious cusack is good demi moore is demi moore only with better hair here overall its fun and as a person from cape cod it catches the feeling of an 80s cape cod summer very effectively for some reason this film feels more mainstream than better off dead there isn't quite as much left field absurdity going on here again if you are a fan of john cusack and savage steve holland its definitely recommended
1	i really love anything done by savage steve holland the writer director of this great movie also see better off dead and how i got into college wonderful anyway this movie is really humorous and delivers some unexpected things where else but in this movie can you see demi moore as a talented singer and bobcat as a twin i recommend this to anybody looking for some old fashioned slapstick comedy george with the turtle raft not to mention some really well written sarcasm the christmas tree on the roof of the car this movie constantly throws you unexpected things even after you've seen it 100 times like i have enjoy
1	80's comedies especially ones with john cusak are awesome almost all are hillarious and instant classics and this film is no exception plenty of nods to other films i e godzilla and jaws through out the movie that are so hillarious you'll be laughing for hours some may complain that the movie is a little corny at times but hey it was the 80's and things were always a little cheesy throw in a young demi moore and an even louder bob cat and you have a laughfest on your fans if you haven't seen this you better soon
1	one crazy summer is a fun and quirky look at love through the eyes of hoops mccann what could have been hokey and dull is one of the freshest and most energetic comedies ever savage steve holland with john cusack to make the ultimate summer movie
1	if i ever write movies or make them i would want one of them to be like this one i enjoy the goof ball sense of humor and jokes contained within this movie does stupid things without looking like it the names of the places and characters are priceless generic new york high school squid george's sister etc genius i've seen this movie so many times because it was a cable tv staple while i was growing up of course i didn't get all of the jokes back than but it was still funny this movie is a time less classic
1	john cusack stars as hoops in this silly little movie that has to be one of the best of the eighties teen comedies believe it or not demi moore is his co star if you love the eighties grew up around that time or are an angst ridden teenage artist get ready to laugh wait until you see the cartoons what a riot
1	ok so there's always people out there that seem to make it a point not to like movies because they're good but instead choose to like movies based on how depressing or boring they can be or whether they're from a foreign country all that aside one crazy summer is the perfect example of what a great american teen comedy should be the jokes are a good mix of slapstick a la bobcat goldthwait surreal bobcat under the inspired direction of steve holland and dry john cusack one of the most dry and funny actors in american cinema and there is no character in this movie who does not deliver at least one funny line ok except demi moore br br yes it's immature yes it's screw ball yes bobcat dresses up like godzilla and trashes a scale model of a seafood restaurant it's also funny as hell watch it
1	what can i say about this movie except that it is great fun br br john cusack plays hoops mccann a recent high school graduate who has two choices learn to take up the family business of street sweeping or spend the summer at with his pal george calamari played hilariously by joel murray and his zany friends br br when i say zany believe me it can't get much than the stork brothers egg bobcat goldthwait and clay tom villard and ack ack raymond curtis armstrong throw in a little girl named squid and her weirdo mutt and a great performance by demi moore and you have the makings of a split your sides laughing movie br br the laughs flow freely in this movie and the story line though the typical good versus bad and good conquers is great with the twist of a regatta as the showdown br br i would recommend this movie for anyone who likes loads of laughs and a feel good time if you like to thoroughly enjoy your movies then you can't miss one crazy summer
1	milos forman's original hair was the perfect movie that actually revealed how life was changing in those years not only in the usa but especially in this country one of the plots in the film was to be used in other films to come after hair for example in american etc it was an original story with a touch of generational sadness in it the characters in the film were like lonely cells in a body that was changing all over overall a very good film perhaps a little underrated though annie role was minor but she acted very well it was the film that practically launched john savage as an actor one of the members of the chicago played his role well even though it was a minor role
1	it's a simple fact that there are many of us from the 80's generation who grew up loving those loopy john cusack comedies made by savage steve holland and while i prefer there other more bizarre out there flick better off dead it's hard for me to dislike one crazy summer a movie i grew up loving wholeheartedly as a kid into my teens was a follow up to better off dead returning cusack and curtis armstrong from that film br br cusack is hoops following graduation pal joel murray george to for the summer to each some fun on the beach hoops finds himself embroiled in a feud with a blonde buff punk named teddy whose lecherous father has designs on over homes of a neighborhood to build a giant condominium one of the homes needing it's mortgage repaid belongs to demi moore cassandra there's a race which might be their only hope of saving cassandra's grandfather's home he had recently passed but it has been won by teddy over the past many years and hoops is deathly afraid of boats over water but with the help and motivation of newfound friends such as bobcat and tom villard as auto mechanic twin brothers george and budding love interest cassandra perhaps hoops can come to terms with his fears and win the race to save the neighborhood armstrong has a supporting part as the son of a kooky manic weapons salesman general raymond sctv's joe flaherty in an inspired bit of casting ack who uses the training from his father to assist hoops and company in their goals to win the race br br memorable scenes include bobcat getting stuck in a godzilla suit running rampant across an entire model of mark metcalf barely recognizable as rather unhinged pops 's condominium hoops being chased by deranged cub scouts wishing to perform first aid george a victim of toxic flatulence bruce wagner's nutty uncle frank's increasing insanity every time he tries to better his chances to win 1 million dollars from a radio show and the wonderful billie bird as george's grandma who actually bills the group after a meal jeremy piven as you guessed it a brutish jerk who associates with teddy and causes trouble for hoops and his posse the yummy kimberly foster as cookie girl who attempts to make out with hoops while he attends a luncheon with his father and the one and only william hickey as old man who will not reward his son and grandson an inheritance if they lose the sail boat race demi moore is cute but this is cusack's vehicle though bobcat and villard steal most of the scenes their in again some delightful animation from holland are sprinkled throughout the movie hoops is an artist appropriately if you like his movies i highly recommend the underrated how i got into college
1	affable aspiring cartoonist hoops mccann a wonderfully engaging performance by john cusack and his best buddy george the deliciously deadpan joel murray go to for the summer following graduation from high school hoops george and several newfound pals come to the aid of cassandra demi moore at her most charming a singer who's family house is being threatened with demolition by the greedy clan writer director savage steve holland offers an often hilariously wacky and zesty nonstop barrage of admittedly broad and dumb but still very funny jokes the constant madcap lunacy has a real giddy good natured and infectiously inane vitality to it that's impossible to either dislike or resist moreover the lively and enthusiastic acting from a fine game cast adds immensely to the zany merriment bobcat goldthwait as the spastic egg stork tom villard as his goofy brother clay curtis armstrong as the sweet ack ack raymond mark metcalf as evil rich jerk matt as the mean teddy kimberly foster as the fetching cookie joe flaherty as the gung ho general raymond william hickey as cranky old man jeremy piven as smug preppy bully ty and john as hulking biker stan slick cinematography the hip soundtrack cory cool rockin' score and the funky animation are all uniformly excellent single funniest scene egg in a godzilla suit terrorizing a posh dinner party an absolute hoot
1	thus starts one crazy summer the evil twin of better off dead how can any movie be bad when the opening lines are sung by david lee roth br br this movie is a total blast pairing again john cusack with curtis armstrong but this time adding bobcat to the mix has great funny results hyperactive bobcat grates the nerve of everyone around curtis ak ak is the son of a deranged military with pacifist tendencies and demi moore with natural breasts wow as the love interest of once again chronically depressed cusack br br the story is well simple enough the laughs are there but both savage steve holland films have a certain quality to them they are funny but they are also sweet the scene where curtis finds a blown up doll in the target practice beach and begins about how a little girl won't be able to sleep was dumb funny and touching the animation used throughout is quite surreal the boat is hysterical complete with u sail and plush doll overall a fun film though not as good as better off dead
1	in the eighties savage steve holland put out three movies two of which are classics of what seems to be a very small genre absurdist teen comedies the third how i got into college does not measure up to better off dead and this one mainly because of it's lack of john cusack and curtis armstrong except for a tiny cameo br br one crazy summer is an underrated movie with lots of great characterizations and gags as i recall savage steve's movies were vilified as being brain dead at the time and after three movies he drifted into children's tv we could use more movies from the likes of him
1	when one thinks of soviet cinema the propaganda masterpieces of eisenstein or the somber meditations of tarkovsky generally come to mind they're great films sure but generally not the most entertaining material out there however the countries within the iron curtain apparently enjoyed their escapist musicals just as much as the states had in fact from the 1930s up until the 70s forty of these song and dance extravaganzas were released to much adoration by the public however they are completely unheard of in the west so this documentary attempts to rectify that situation it does a terrific job of both showcasing these films and putting them into the proper cultural context despite the fact i've never been a fan of musicals i found this documentary to be completely compelling from beginning to end it goes to prove that no matter how many films you manage to see in your lifetime you're only skimming the surface of whats out there br br as for the film clips themselves they're very entertaining while some of the musicals are blatant propaganda showing workers singing of how much they love working under the regime some of the films particularly the later ones look quite accomplished from a production standpoint plus they are all extremely campy because of how alien they are to my western eyes there's a few similarities between them and the american musicals i'm used to but the presence of strict government enforcing of a message gives them a surreal edge they certainly don't resemble the musicals made in the west this documentary is both one of the most bizarre and entertaining films i've seen in recent memory and its an absolute must see for any film buff 9 10
1	east side story entertains and informs about an unknown part of cold war history what is the purpose of any documentary to inform the reader through commentary and footage this one succeeds at both you will never find many movies whose clips you get to see in here because some of them have been destroyed and some are br br you get to see and her music from musicals made in east germany russia and other countries under soviet control it shows you that the people who made these movies and the people who watched them all look for same things a westerner would look for which are pretty women and men singing and dancing on the streets with smiles and hopefully white teeth
1	i wonder if i could take sitting through a whole musical comedy from russia or east germany or other countries that for decades put out almost always propagandistic film anti fascist films anti war films as this documentary points out that just reflected the dark grueling times under stalin and life behind the iron curtain it's fascinating then to see the other side of the coin the sorts of clowns and rebels with music at their side to try and please the masses more often than not stuck in the socialist walk of life one film actually seemed rather impressive called jolly fellows by the pioneer of the very small group of musical filmmakers from the clip s i saw of that film i'd wager that it was one of the only works to actually step out of itself and go into just wild manic make you laugh kind of mode but as this film shows if you were a filmmaker looking to entertain it better be with a 'message' br br through interviews some occasional quasi dramatizations of russia germany sort of motion picture association at the censorship table and clips one gets the full picture of what it was like both behind the scenes and on the screen to just make sheer entertainment for the masses some of the films well most of them as apparently only 14 screened over 40 years in the countries mentioned made a good chunk of change but for what purpose really one also gets drawn into the culture of it all how it differs greatly from the american way of 'if it works make em while they're hot' attitude but at the same time perhaps out of this repression some interesting funny and from what i saw up beat films were made they might've been fairly typical of what was asked to be shown to the masses under fond but demanding terms like life with tractors it gets to be even juicier a story though as we get shown what it was like in the 60's the last wave of musical comedies as rock and roll and pop tunes finally hit their airwaves br br in short some good stuff but only if interested really i was shown the film in a class on documentary films and half the class fell asleep so be warned on the one hand though on the other if looking for it it can make for a really rewarding trip into european film history
1	east side story is a documentary of musical comedy in stalinist russia and later in the eastern european satellite comedies with many clips from the films and commentary from the survivors although some of the stalinist films look laughingly bad the bright road being a notable exception the films from the sixties actually look pretty good my wife wants to sing the white mouse and midnight revue look particularly entertaining the producers had to contend with the censors who had the power to decide what was politically correct which led to some confusion humorous in retrospect since the people whom the censors were trying to appease were the very people who supported making the films to begin with since musical comedies were fairly rare behind the iron curtain there were only something like forty made in forty years they had a disproportionate effect upon their audiences who made major hits of some of the films br br i notice that the sound for the sixties films was much better the directors often had to make do with antiquated equipment and stringent power regulations they had to film in seven minute takes or less and dangerous br br i also notice that west side story seems to have had a strong influence on hot summer the later films may not measure up to singin' in the rain but they certainly look like they beat the hell out of bye bye birdy
1	when i went to see this documentary on communist bloc musicals i was expecting something totally demented along the lines of a communist cop rock some scenes did deliver including a rousing clip from a soviet film called tractor drivers br br you'd think that moviemakers given the task of making ideologically correct musicals that sing dance and espouse the party line face insurmountable odds and yet one of the surprises of east side story is that some of the films presented actually looked promising one was a mid 1950s east german effort called my wife wants to sing in which as the title implies an unhappy seeks to launch a singing career over the objections of her traditionally minded husband br br another genuinely interesting looking movie also from east germany was called midnight revue in this film within a film the producers spoof their own creative plight with the story of a group of filmmakers under party orders to make a musical the on screen filmmakers themselves get to do a musical number about avoiding too hot subjects very reminiscent in tone of the 1957 movie silk stockings br br the documentary is marred by somewhat insipid narration but it's still a lot of fun to watch look for the closing dedication to the person who made it all possible
1	scary in places though the effects did leave something to be desired unless you have bad eyesight or are afraid of the dark however most of the acting was convincing and most of the effects were well done i thought the creature looked a bit too much like a man in a gorilla suit for my liking it reminded me of the original pink panther film
1	i watched it because my friend said we could try it when my father asked if we'd watch it i didn't want to because it was such an old film how could that be good i finally did watch with that friend and my father my friend and i loved the film the songs are great the actors were cool and we were crazy about it i guess this shows even though it's from dad's time that doesn't mean it can't be a good film i bought the film not so long after seeing it on tv i put it on a lot and sang along with the songs i even watched it with my classmates on my birthday party it's a nice good and sometimes funny film br br if you don't try you can't say it's bad even if you think no i'm not going to watch a film from dad's time try the first part of the film you can always stop watching if you don't like it i really recommend it it's great
1	i can't believe people are giving bad reviews about this movie i wonder why maybe because of the book i have to admit it really doesn't follow the book for sure the book by dean koontz is much better but the movie is also good as well it has the suspense the acting are good especially michael ironside whom have given a superb acting in this movie br br come one give this movie a chance there are still lot more worse movie than this like sum of all fears phantoms the da vinci code this are some of the worse movie i have seen really boring if compared to watchers which really have great elements in the movie this movie contains great suspense and non stop action i'm looking for this movie but it is really hard to be found on dvd br br by da way i really recommended this movie to everybody watch it you will never regret br br 10 10
1	bears about as much resemblance to dean novel as jessica simpson does to a rocket scientist if you've read the book i suggest you put it as far out of your mind as possible before watching the movie br br watchers is your typical boy meets dog dog turns out to be super intelligent government lab experiment dog and boy are pursued by super intelligent and emotionally disturbed monster created by same lab and oh yeah did i mention the shady government agents pursuing the monster pursuing the dog movie br br corey haim is the boy barbara williams is his mother michael ironside is one of the evil government guys and sandy the dog is well the dog named here einstein in the book br br the monster effects are ridiculously cheesy much of the dialogue is laughable the script rarely makes sense or is believable a good example is haim's character's acceptance of the dog's intelligence as if every fido off the street can type messages on a computer keyboard or bark once for yes and twice for no hmm it's gotta be the puppy chow right haim's performance is enthusiastic but shaky as he carries off the stupid dialogue with the least amount of skill ironside has been the highlight of many a bad movie and this is no exception he easily gives the best performance of the movie although i'm compelled to add that the dog who's a pretty darn good actor himself comes in a close second br br all in all an atrociously dumb movie and yet and yet i watched it three times within a week and yet i can't help liking it hey what can i say i have a taste for junk and michael ironside not that i've ever actually tasted michael ironside i'm sure there are laws against that but any movie that can make me laugh that hard yes even unintentionally can't be all bad chalk it up to a guilty pleasure a yes i know it's insultingly stupid but i like it anyway movie br br it's tough for me to rate this on a normal scale i'm forced to give it a d but on my own personal cheese scale it gets bumped up to an a br br yeah i know i'm weird like that
1	i love dogs and the most interesting character in this movie is a golden retriever he is smarter better looking and more interesting than any of the human characters like many other contributors i have not read the book but i doubt that having done so would change my opinion of the movie it is predictable from the first five minutes on no surprises mad scientists create a monster that gets loose and a teen age boy and his wonder dog collaborate to destroy it all in all the movie is a dog but as i said i love dogs and will therefore give this movie a 7 10 rating watch it if it comes on tv rent it if you are bored and nothing else catches your eye but don't buy it unless it is on special
1	watchers is a fun movie if it's not taken too seriously the novel written by dean r koontz is obviously a lot better but the movie itself is entertaining in it's own way the film has a lot of changes for the novel watchers the one difference is the main character travis in the book he was an adult and an retired delta force soldier while in the film he's a teenager watchers has it's good points the film does have some gory scenes in parts i'm a fan of micheal ironside and it was cool to see him in this film he always does a great performance in all his films the costume looks kind of cheesy but the camera never really shows the creature fully until near the end of the film the dog einstien was impressive since it was well trained br br the film sees two genetic experiments escaping from a lab a dog and a monster both experiments are linked telepathically since the two animals are part of a military project were the dog would infiltrate an enemy base then the creature would attack and eliminate them the dog finds a teenager named travis who takes him home and discovers that he's intelligent and so he names the dog einstein meanwhile the is roaming around killing people and gouging out their eyes two government agents are sent to find the two experiments before this incident gets out of hand soon travis learns that his not safe as the is drawn to the dog and will stop at nothing to kill him and anyone in it's way so travis and his mom go to rescue his girlfriend who's being held at the hospital by the two agents they then hideout in the woods while the government agents and the are not far behind br br watchers is not a great adaptation of dean r koontz novel but it is a 80's horror flick some fans of the book may not want to watch this since it's not faithful to the book but fans of cheesy 80's horror movies may want to check this out
1	i would consider myself a fan of dean koontz having read a number of his novels and liked them all but unfortunately i never got around to reading watchers so i'm left with no choice but to rate this film on it's own merits rather than comparing it to the book that i haven't read i went into this expecting something awful and while i didn't exactly get a brilliant horror film i am lead to believe that it's fans of the book that are rating it down because as a film in it's own right watchers is an entertaining and somewhat original little horror movie the plot obviously takes some influence from predator and begins with an explosion at a research lab it's not long before a rancher is killed by some strange beast and the boyfriend of the dead man's daughter has picked up an ultra intelligent runaway dog a secret government agency is soon on the case as the murders continue the boy continues to be fascinated by the dog's intelligence but it somehow ties in with the murders and the agency is soon on his tail too br br the script for this film was originally written by paul haggis who later disowned it i don't know why – the writing here is nowhere near as ridiculous as his 2004 hit crash anyway the main reason this film works is undoubtedly the dog who aside from being rather cute is also the best actor in the film corey haim hot off the success of the lost boys is the human lead and actually has a rather good chemistry with the dog although it is a little bit ridiculous seeing him talk to it most of the way through the film the plot is rather convoluted and as such the film is more than a little bit messy but the ridiculousness of it all pulls it through during the more awkward moments michael ironside also appears in the film and does well as the 'bad cop' side of the government agents the monster is of course one of the most interesting things about the film and the way it goes around killing people is always entertaining and gory although unfortunately we don't get to see a lot of it and when we finally do it's rather disappointing obviously the filmmakers had seen bigfoot and the hendersons still this is the sort of film that can be easily enjoyed despite the numerous problems and i'd recommend to any viewer of eighties horror
1	when a saboteur blows up a controversial government research lab two experimental animals are loosed in a small community in washington state one is a dog with unusual intelligence the other is an outside experimental combat mammal or because of reasons divulged further into the film the hates the dog and so is trying to kill it watchers concerns the accidental involvement of travis cornell corey haim his mom nora barbara williams and his girlfriend tracey lala with the dog and as two national security organization agents johnson michael ironside and cliff blu track them down br br many comments are made about watchers being very different than the dean koontz book that serves as the launching pad for the film this is true but it should not affect your rating if you want the book read the book judge the film on its own merits not how closely it matches the book bill freed and damian lee who wrote the screenplay are just as much artists as koontz is that's not a quality comparison just a statement that they're all artists so is director jon hess their job as filmmakers isn't to slavishly follow the book as if it were a script they're adapting the book as artists to make a unique artwork it's based on the book not identical to it you have to loosen your preconceptions expectations when you watch the film because you're going to be experiencing an artwork that you are not already familiar with even if you've read novel br br so is watchers a good film it's pretty good not excellent good enough to earn a b or an 8 hess begins things on the right foot with one of the most beautifully filmed explosions i've seen in awhile unfortunately he trips a bit immediately afterward as we listen to some very thick exposition after that scene watchers threatens to become a clichéd 1980s film as we first meet travis and tracey br br veering towards cliché is a tendency continually threatened but it is only a skew more often than not hess is able to transcend well trodden territory with a number of interesting twists both travis and tracey are from single parent homes with their genders flipped both have unique mature relationships with their parents although this is a horror film a major focus is a cute intelligent canine and it often feels as much like an adventure film as it does horror a thriller or sci fi which are all genres it touches upon hess introduces a large cast of characters some not entering until late in the game yet the film is never confusing and no characters feel as if they are left in the dust all of the threads are nicely tied up in the end the structure is also complex in that there are two major villains the second becoming less obviously ill intentioned as the film progresses until a twist accompanied by brutal violence makes one antagonist clearer soon after hess gives us a nice moment of doubt with the other antagonist br br the biggest flaw in my eyes is a dreaded common one with horror films since at least the 1980s the attack scenes are shot too darkly too close too out of focus and they're edited too choppily it makes it extremely difficult to tell what's going on which saps most of the tension from scenes that should be a highlight surely part of motivation for the style and this is the typical justification for this problem was worry that the creature would come across as humorous and or fake rather than frightening and suspenseful in my view presenting the audience with a dizzying blur isn't a satisfactory solution we only get to see the creature costume makeup clearly towards the end of the film it was well done enough that better shot and edited attack scenes would have brought the film up to at least a 9 br br regardless of the degree of correspondence between the novel and the film watchers presents a gripping story using smart alluring characters it is frequently a nail biter and the horror scenes are more feral than you might expect if not exactly gory although there is a fair amount of blood in a couple scenes watchers tends to be underrated because of misconceptions about the role of film when it comes to adapting literature don't pass it up or summarily dismiss it based on a misconception
1	if you want to have a great time then this is the movie to watch br br take the premise there is this college which admits people with minimum qualifications of ba b com m com ma mba b e m tech and so you have to take into account the time consumed and thus it is obvious that all students are 40 also the school admits students of a dispensation and has a course of p hd in weight loss and the only student who failed this course is only she was a snake in the past life still not convinced ok read on br br here's a scene akshay kumar a college student is chased by and he takes out a bazooka and shoots him then throws grenades then one of the grenades hits akshay but doesn't die and continues to fight the snake plunges a half foot dagger into akshay and stomps on it but akshay is still there then akshay gets on a jet ski and follows they fight and chokes akshay underwater and finally akshay is dead so we think as soon as is out of the picture akshay swims away to raj principal of this college boxing ka professor mumbling priest br br but no one i repeat no one takes the cake but a certain mr you watch to learn more
1	this movie is without a doubt the best i have seen in my entire life the stellar star cast is only an added bonus over the amazing special effects and profound story and sublime choreography the movie is about an ancient love affair that folds down into the modern world two lovers in heaven the wrath of a great sage and are cursed subsequently the woman is born again on earth while she is in college she is raped and commits suicide the rest of the movie basically focuses on the hunting down of the people who were associated with the rape by her lover who possesses superhuman strength and the mastery of several languages delivers a very mature and deep performance in this film and all the other actors do almost as well te action scenes with akshay kumar are mind blowing and must not be missed you simply have to watch this movie
1	all the people who voted a meager 1 on this movie this is all i have to say you guys have not matured enough to enjoy cinema of this kind it takes a certain amount of dedication to reach that level of appreciation and that is the segment of people this movie was aimed at not you average movie goers by any chance back to the movie this one was a gem all right and definitely an inclusion in the bollywood hall of fame i'd give it an all time rank of no 2 surpassed only by shah's legendary this movie had an impeccable story line and created a beautiful blend between a fantasy and sci fi pan's labyrinth would have in fact been ashamed of the balance created between the parallel stories and now do i really need to mention the stellar cast and even stellar er that is a word from now performances from them a special mention goes to mr for the best debut ever in any movie on this earth every actor in this movie had been very carefully chosen and the role were tailor made for them and for their age too i must add still looks like she's 18 and wow man with that figure i would have raped her too are you wondering where did this rape thing come in suddenly yes a rape is what the premises of this movie is based on and that is so not like your average bollywood type movies if you are an atheist or an agnostic by any chance this movie is again a must for you because this movie can heal your faith i don't think it'd even be going too far saying that this movie can cure cancer only the people who need it the most fail to appreciate its power charm and undying beauty so unfortunate br br only flaw in this movie in your dreams baby this was flawless br br only minor complain the director failed to star mithun da as well br br i won't ruin it for you any further just go and watch it today and if you like it here are some more recommendation from me desh the old ramsay brothers horror movies indra the tiger and sivaji
1	this movie deserves the 10 i'm giving it br br but it's not the 10 that you'd give to movies like 'the godfather' or 'goodfellas' or 'psycho' this is the kind of 10 you give to a movie which just makes you laugh over and over again it's the most horribly written and directed movie yet it doesn't fail to entertain it has the most amateur effects yet you enjoy every moment i saw this movie today on tv and i didn't want to move away read the following dialogue to know why br br whole college is standing around who has just undergone a rape attempt and the guys who attempted the rape are asking for forgiveness br br bad guy 1 please forgive us br br bad guy 2 yes we won't do it again br br no response from br br akshay come on forgive them br br i don't know br br akshay you are a beautiful woman and even dead men can get aroused by you and these are living young males don't blame them br br yeah br br to what if they tried to rape your girlfriend br br i'd break their hands legs and kill them but anyways just forgive them br br akshay yeah if you don't forgive them then it will be as though you are too arrogant about your beauty br br now that is a true masterpiece of a dialogue this movie never fails to entertain mainly because there are so many goofs and unrealistic situations the bad guy can do basically anything he can blow a sandstorm from his mouth or he can get a motorcycle from his backside and just as easily make it disappear again br br every actor takes turns to speak one line from akshay then from then from arshad then then it's the main rule followed by the director so that equal screen time is given to each guy and then there's the all powerful pendant which can cause even a speeding car to go right through you without you being harmed all these things make it an enjoyable movie and i can watch it over and over again i think this movie can go into the comedy hall of fame if there is one br br the only problem is that it wasn't trying to be funny
1	hair is one of my favorite movies of all times even not being part of my generation i already watched this movie 9 times and i can't get enough with the beautiful message of understanding passion beauty and love this movie is against the vietnam war and shows how people should be united independent of the color origins religions and classes i love the characters berger and woof and i think central park of the 70's one of the most beautiful places i already saw in my life br br by the way i still have this music in my mind br br when the moon is in the seventh house and jupiter aligns with mars then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars br br this is the dawning of the age of aquarius the age of aquarius aquarius aquarius br br harmony and understanding sympathy and trust abounding no more falsehoods or decisions golden living dreams of visions mystic crystal revelation and the mind's true liberation aquarius aquarius br br ps i am surprised to see that the director of this movie is the same director of amadeus i just love both movies
1	i caught on the run at the screening room in new york and was immediately seduced by its true independent spirit starring michael imperioli and john ventimiglia from the sopranos cast on the run sets us up in a 24 hour wild ride in the city that never sleeps as we follow the meanderings of an introspective sales agent who is suddenly dragged by his long gone school companion just out of jail in fact he has escaped from it and is on the run looking for some action and a glimpse of life amidst the great metropolis powered by great performances this movie gives us back the old feeling of 70's pics with both characters rediscovering themselves as they blaze across town bumping into wild events and locals an to a certain side of new york that seems to be disappearing on the run displays great sensitivity and humour i predict it to be a cult classic that urges to be discovered future viewers should definitely surrender to this nocturnal trip
1	don't let the rating of 5 9 as of this writing on 12 8 02 fool you this is one excellent film br br i cannot fathom how this got such a rating considering being so solid at all levels the direction acting cinematography all good the story is interesting and original and my only inkling as far as understanding why the rating is such sits in the fact that it is probably the type of movie that people rating might not normally see br br i equate it to playing modern rock for an 80 year old you might be young brought up on it and love it but he or she has not been and as a product of a different time and taste doesn't care for it br br if you like films and can handle movies based more on real people versus those comprised of mindless action enormous flashy budgets and mediocre talent give this one a try next time you see it on br br
1	just watched this movie over the weekend and i must say i thoroughly enjoyed it the 2 italo american actors are excellent as usual michael imperioli and john ventimiglia it is obvious that the director was influenced by 2 great films of the past directed by italians primarily he was influenced by dino and his film il it is the story of 2 young men who meet by chance and become friends one is extroverted and the other is introverted they enjoy the whole day together and by the end of the day the shy one learns that there is more to life than his usual routine monotony the same thing happens to albert de santi unfortunately il has a very similar ending and this apparently influenced the director of on the run because he uses the same technique but with a twist i had expected something but was surprised to see that it turned out to be the opposite if you watch both movies you will understand the other film that influenced the director is after hours directed by the great italian american scorsese i highly recommend all 3 movies
1	i went to see this film because joaquim de almeida was in it joaquim had a fairly small part so it was good that i liked the film on it's own in fact i liked it a lot br br the film centers around two characters albert and louie albert is a shy retiring sort and louie well louie is not the story revolves around louie's request to albert to let him come over to albert's place for just a little while louie has just gotten out of prison br br albert and louie have known each other since childhood and of course they do something together there is trouble and it's albert who always takes the fall br br the action of the film is based on the adventures that ensue from louie's visit on the run is a chronicle of mad cap zany situations however bruno de almeida and scriptwriter joseph minion after hours don't always take you where you expect to go there are twists and turns that add depth to this film of course there is plenty of outright comedy but there is much subtle humor here as well br br there are some downright good performances here as well albert is played delightfully by michael imperioli he's getting fairly well days from the hbo series the sopranos br br louie is played by john ventimiglia who imbues his character with a lovable child like quality no matter what he does you just gotta love louie br br both these actors are excellent in their individual characters with imperioli you'll want to hug him and bring him home to mom ventimiglia well you won't know whether you should slap him or bring him home and not to mom p br br there are other stand out performances as well the character of rita is played by deniro yes robert's daughter the audience adored her in talking with the others who saw the film it was fun to discuss whether it was albert or louie who was their favorite of those two but everyone loved rita br br is this film perfect no i can't say that it is there were many times i wished the director had had a bigger budget to work with there were some scenes that cried out for more budgetary freedom give this guy a decent budget to work with and i believe you are going to see a film that will make you stand up and notice br br the ending sequence was a bit of a victim of budget yet budget or no budget the ending screen shot in my opinion brought together the talent of actor and director into a memorable emotionally effective scene br br
1	this b w film reached the spartan movie house of my village about 18 months after its release in those days much of our full length comedy fare hailed from denmark nils anyone so this movie struck like a thunderbolt it had me weeping with helpless mirth as we'd now put it ok so some of the sight gags were in fact recycled vaudeville but how was this boy with cheeks of brass' to know that at the time in any case my favorite scenes had jerry's unique brand of frantic clowning like that hawaii boxing match br br seeing sailor beware again fifty years later i still guffawed loudly at the goings on granted without the nostalgia component it would probably be just another fair to middling comedy but then another movie that once had me in stitches even more helplessly the spike jones outing fireman save my child now seems dated and stilted apart from some too short orchestra bits and doodles weaver scenes must be some special ingredient that makes martin lewis product stay fresher longer to me this one at least rates eight out of ten
1	this is not especially well written the songs are not memorable the cast however squeezes a lot out of this martin and lewis in the navy situation they both look great as young sailors they are believable the scenes on the submarine show how cramped it must have been on those underwater missions in the 1950s and before br br lots of sailors in many scenes hundreds perhaps in a big outdoor exercise field and again in a boxing arena br br you will see james dean in his scene he does stand out even though he is an extra here in a scene where jerry walks across a busy street we see some of his almost accident comedy which he would bring into play years later in the patsy br br dean giving jerry boxing instructions is a good comedy skit to watch for jerry in the boxing ring shows his high energy that was his trademark in the late '40s and early '50s dean and jerry dancing is a bit of a treat not great but better than most non dancing movies br br worth seeing if you don't mind black and white good ending br br tom willett
1	one has to take martin lewis like a dash of salt pepper why does martin put up with lewis then again why do all the women in this movie like jerry because he is innocently likeable martin sings a few good songs lip at least once and jerry manages to kiss more girls than in all his other movies combined i generally find that i can take just so much of jerry's antics before they become aggravating but in this film watch when jerry gets stuck outside on a submerging navy submarine excellent buster keaton should have been proud i give the film a 7
1	i liked this movie br br no one i know likes it but i do br br i didn't like it as much as the first one but it was still good the script and plot may not have changed at all but the story was better than caddyshack 1 br br the only reason i didn't like caddyshack 2 is br br no rodney dangerfield br br i think the movie would be better if rodney dangerfield had jackie mason's part although i did like jackie mason in the movie it would be alot better if they kept rodney dangerfield br br another flaw in the movie that i didn't hate as much was dan akroyd the movie was done 8 years after the first one bill murray carl could've quit his job as an assistant and joined the military you know if warner bros had thought of that it could've made the movie better also br br this was my comment for caddyshack ii br br i give it 8 2 out of 10 br br it could've been better but good nonetheless br br if you've seen caddyshack 1 and are debating on whether or not to see caddyshack 2 i say give it a try
1	the only conceivable flaw of this film is it's title please stop comparing it to the first i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first if you haven't seen the movie and are curious totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own this is a great exponent of screwy mid 80s comedy i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus i maintain the only reason this is in the imdb bottom 100 is because of its title i usually hate movies like these i e adam sandler will farrell farrelly bros but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically i dunno maybe it's like a bad relationship i can't get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure either way this is the single most underrated movie of the 80s behind 'the stunt man ' br br robert stack we love you 1919 2003
1	amazing one of my favorite movies way down at the bottom guess i can take some pride in not liking what the general populace tends to go for jackie mason is hilarious in this movie and so's randy quaid i can never get enough of his strong arm tactics just like in moving he was also notable in national lampoon's christmas vacation love that guy
1	when i was younger i saw the end of hair on tv i just watched the last 5 minutes of the film and i was really impressed by it i got goose pimples and i said to myself that i had to watch this film br br and i did and i've to say this film is amazing the songs are great the actors are very good and the message the message of this film is one of the most important ones make love no war this film is a real masterpiece meanwhile it's my favourite film br br the last song is one of the saddest and happiest i ever listened to i nearly could feel myself joining the crowd all i've got to say let the sun shine let the sun shine in
1	i am in a vast minority here i also didn't much care for the original caddyshack aside from the chase murray duo scene and select rodney jokes okay break it down rodney vs jackie both jewish and have similar humor rodney's a bigger name and more distinct jackie has an incidental and more observational approach to his jokes and is more yours' in this sequel jackie's attitude toward everything is memorable and in a way inspirational his quick lines and over confidence left me wishing i could express myself in such a way rodney was good but there wasn't enough of him and he was more 'in your face' and dismissive jackie in a rare film appearance makes a perfect sub for rodney come on a gun shaped hair dryer really look at the little things br br stack vs knight both play snobby yuppies very well ted knight despite his wonderful tv film career kinda shows his age but he does pull off the snobbish demands of the part and we want to see him fall ted looks kinda weak and is pretty annoying playing his anger and frustration too slapstick while stack is more incidentally snide and vengeful you really hate him and enjoy see him constantly fail stack wins with me br br murray vs aykroyd well both had great vintage snl like scenes with the ever present and enjoyable chevy chase ty webb i did like the murray chase one better murray plays his great annoying chatty character with obvious improv skill and is loveable yet annoying and the exact same can be said for aykroyd both get annoying after a while but it's a tie br br i really loved part 2 over the first they are 2 totally different films part one is more drug bathroom sex humor with a cast full of great names part 2 uses golf as a backdrop for a it to the rich' type of comedy that makes one feel better about being working class 80s script yes a bit far fetched yes but wasn't the first an insult to the sport of golf yes it's a movie thin story yes it's a comedy with actual humor not with besides part 2 has a much better soundtrack please don't expect this to be a sequel to part one it is 98 its own movie and shouldn't even have the name in it that said i am a big fan of caddyshack 2 and it is a great exponent of 80s fluff entertainment with quality humor viva jackie mason to all the lighten up it's a great comedy of its own randy quaid was wonderful jonathan silverman was wonderful heck everyone was all this chatting and now i feel like watching it i think i will
1	i have no idea why everyone hates this movie to call it garbage a travesty an sequel is just unfair i mean what else could they have made for a sequel then cause seriously i think it should have had a sequel rodney dangerfield says hey everyone were all going to get laid and then a little dancing and thats it thats the end of caddyshack even though the film rating on first one was r and the second one was pg it was still lots of fun br br 7 10
1	like richard pryor mason never got the material he deserved whatever you know of him is probably wrong get past the accent and go see his stand up you'll be very surprised he's one of the best stand ups i've ever seen and i have seen a lot of stand up comedy from lenny bruce to eddie murphy to jerry seinfeld to chris rock jackie mason is definitely up there he's known for being a comic's comic even howard stern said he is one of the top 3 funniest comedians ever br br the that mason is no dangerfield is ridiculous dangerfield is known for having been a huge mason fan dangerfield's career was going nowhere for a long time until he started following mason's shows that is when mason provided dangerfield with inspiration for his get no respect routine while i think dangerfield is great see them both do stand up and you'll see mason is the better comedian
1	one of the most interesting things is that this 1988 film is highly touted as an in name sequel there's nothing wrong with that except this the return of chevy chase as ty webb this connects the viewer to this character from the original caddyshack in 1980 and makes fans thinking or wanting caddyshack ii to be similar to the first one br br there are rumors that rodney dangerfield was supposed to return he carried a big part of the first film so his return would have put caddyshack 2 over the top jackie mason is the new' rodney for this movie and does a decent job even though their comic deliveries are way different dan aykroyd was great but not in the film enough he should have been involved to the tune of how much screen time bill murray got in the first one robert stack airplane was good in the new' ted knight villian role we miss you ted danny noonan should have been back so many others could have returned to show us what happened to their characters eight years later should not have undergone the total makeover it did instead the characters involved rather than the club itself should have been the main focus like they were in the first one when you watch this film keep in mind that it isn't a major sequel and you may think it's another good or bad eighties comedy fans of the first should see it but don't be shocked when the comparisons between the original and part ii are so far apart
1	everyone is entitled to an opinion the only critic who counts is yourself i think this is a great movie much better than the original br br in caddyshack rodney dangerfield is funny but obnoxious he was asked to do the sequel but things got in the way jackie mason shows the saying that less is more he is funny but a man with real family issues a more rounded person it's no drama but a movie that makes you feel actually in some points you feel sorry for jackie mason especially when his daughter walks out on him br br it has a good soundtrack and overall a good sorry a good end to the series br br in the tv show alf alf says that he cried in terms of endearment the wife kate tanner played by anne also says he cried at caddyshack 2
1	seriously if this had been the first shack movie it would have been passable as funny silly and goofy light satire commentary on the class system would make this an enjoyable late night rental br br however everyone wants to compare it to the first film and maybe that's not fair the first film is a cult classic what could possibly follow it up nothing so take this second film as a stand alone and it certainly has its moments br br jackie mason is amusing doing his best rodney wannabe impersonation is he as good as rodney no are his lines as good no but he is funny the rest of the cast falls in line as being decent but not outstanding you'll recognize faces amongst the cast and wonder how they got to where they are today br br the film is predictable but aren't most in this genre again it's not the best comedy you'll see but if you like cannonball run type fun you'll enjoy this one
1	caddyshack 2 has a dreadful reputation due only to the fact that it is a sequel to a highly held classic people have criticised the film on a lot of grounds but they all ultimately hark back to the fact that this is not caddyshack br br i would begin by saying that we should just take caddyshack out of the equation and consider this film on its own merits but i think that would be unfair the movie does have a lot in common with its predecessor the class related themes of versus and the desire to fit in to a class above your own are as prevalent here as they were in the first movie the two things that are truly lacking here are bill murray and rodney dangerfield who are replaced with dan ackroyd and jackie mason respectively br br now i am not about to try and argue that ackroyd comes close to murray in the movie but jackie mason is an admirable successor to dangerfield he comes off as a cross between dangerfield and arnold but without biting too heavily on either i wouldn't say that he is anywhere close to being as funny as dangerfield is in caddyshack but there is a whole lot more point to his character and his dilemma in the film br br chevy chase only pops up and handful of times in the movie which is another common complaint maybe these particular naysayers didn't notice that he only popped up a few times in the first movie for my money his scenes here are a lot funnier if somewhat over directed br br while i'm on the subject it is really the over direction of this movie that brings it down it comes across as far more self conscious in its attempts to get a laugh many of the jokes are laboured and there's far too much of the gopher who seems to have taken on a far more anthropomorphic personality and a voice just in case we didn't grasp the idea that its meant to be funny br br characters are similarly hammered home particularly the smarmy yuppy kids jackie mason rarely misses a beat and is consistently likable and very funny but we didn't need the tango sequence at all the director is clearly not of the same school of thought as harold ramis not to suggest that caddyshack was subtle but the jokes here are just a little overcooked and most of them are unnecessarily embellished with a quirky music cue br br all things considered this is a fun goofy movie with something to say about class and identity that very few movies at the time were saying don't be put off by the appallingly low rating on imdb check it out for yourself
1	the casting of robert culp is probably the only decent move the production team made with this film falk and culp were marvellous but as culp was not nemesis this time chemistry was lacking columbo is only as strong as his opposite number and this time he didn't have one
1	this is without a doubt one of my favorite columbo episodes ever the acting is very well done the music is very catchy the script is ingenious and the direction is fabulous br br peter falk who acts brilliantly in every columbo episodes acts particularly well in this episode br br also great performances from stephen gary alan fudge and robert culp br br the ending is absolutely brilliant and i love the way columbo describes it br br this is a columbo movie that won't go amiss
1	at the end it is clear that the murderers planted the murder weapon in mrs columbo's car and it was at the police lab br br but where did the gun under the hood used in the demonstration come from wouldn't the murderers have cleared out the stuff under the hood they had a whole week or did columbo's cops replicate the camera gun under the hood used in the demonstration how did they do that without breaking and entering the car perhaps this is why the murders seemed surprised at the end but how could columbo have replicated their camera gun device and gotten it calibrated to their key fob columbo must have gotten the gun back from and had it re planted under the hood of the car and been very lucky that the rest of the device with camera was still there and transmitting br br this was a 10 10 show until this glaring plot error at the end
1	the antiwar musical hair is my number one cult movie i do not know how many time i have seen this film in the movie theaters and on vhs or how many times i have listened the cd with the stunning soundtrack and now this masterpiece has been finally released on dvd in brazil br br the pacifist and touching story is still amazing a hymn of freedom friendship and liberty of choices and pictures the resistance of a generation against the stupidity of war i do not know what happened to this wonderful generation of the counterculture of the 70's and their dreams since the present world is probably worse than in the 70's i do not recall who won the oscar in 1979 but treat williams and john savage deserved at least a nomination for their awesome performances beverly d'angelo is extremely gorgeous in the role of a hypocrite spoiled upper class teenager i have seen hair probably more than twelve times and my eyes always get wet while berger walks to the airplane singing that's me that's me that's me and i start crying with his gravestone in the cemetery i believe this is one of the most beautiful sad and touching conclusions of the cinema history my wife my daughter and my son also love this film therefore i can guarantee that hair is timeless and recommended for any audience my vote is ten br br title brazil hair
1	i finally watched the third film in mehta's trilogy fire to begin i'd say that water was the unquestionable masterpiece on all levels fire comes next with earth close behind in order of quality fire there is so much going on in this film that i'll need a few more viewings to drink it all in the writing is superb the script creating friction that starts the entire process of heat from the beginning until the end when it really does erupt into a fire the conflicts moving into complete rupture of relationships br br mehta is one brave lady she sees with a clear eye much that is jaundiced false and repressive about the great society from which she came from india is rapidly changing these days but much of this is economic change that she met with such ferocious opposition to the making of water after having had the script cleared shows that there are still many taboo subjects which indian people more than less cannot look squarely in the face cannot examine or discuss them worse if someone like mehta has the courage to hold up a mirror to these issues she faces death threats so as much as india thinks of itself as a tolerant society the facts are not always so whereas earth was merely a historical setting of the carnage of the civil war after indian independence fire and water are pointing at personal social and religious issues which as i say are considered so strongly in a negative sense that an open artistic dialog is still many years away as i write this water is scheduled to actually be shown in india later this year i'll believe it when i see it br br fire confronts a similar sexual and emotional conundrum that i saw in a price above whether it's arranged marriages which it used to be like among jews about 150 years ago or like it is among many modern indians they have the risk of having a bad match forced upon both men and women or just plain loveless marriages however this is not the real issue mehta is clearly impatient with the totally rigid religious attitudes that either keep widows in misery water or else keep women enslaved to loveless marriages fire i am no expert regarding either the secular or hindu laws concerning divorce the film seems to imply that the stigma of divorce is almost as bad as the sad marriage in any case mehta's film is a very moving powerful attempt at sexual discourse that holds modern indian relationships up to probing scrutiny that all three of these films have made themselves felt in india as an unwarranted attack on their culture sounds to me like the predictable clamor of a repressive mindset mehta is forcing the issues to be looked at no matter how much flack i admire her work and cannot highly recommend her films enough superb disturbing provocative taboo shattering
1	i was looking forward to the guardian but when i walked into the theater i wasn't really in the mood for it at that particular time it's kind of like the olive garden i like it but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it br br i'm not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit the trailers looked good but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject waterworld plus despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect i'm still not completely sold on him something about the guy just annoys me probably has to do with his simian features br br it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers' orange face lift my concerns briefly at initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious sunglasses a tough guy toothpick in his mouth and a smirk that'd make george clooney proud yeah we get it i was totally ready to hate him br br but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs br br darn you ape man efficiently mixing tense exciting rescue scenes drama humor and solid acting the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy you can quibble about its clichés predictability and rare moments of overcooked sappiness but none of that takes away from the entertainment value br br i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys but on the contrary the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group br br do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer just think about it you get to go on dangerous missions in cold dark rough water and then you must fight disorientation exhaustion hypothermia and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded panicked people who are depending on you for their survival and if all that isn't bad enough sometimes you can't save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies br br man who wants all that responsibility not me i had no idea what it was really like for these guys and who would have thought i'd have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education br br not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers br br the gist br br moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it's like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance i saw it for free but had i paid i would've felt i had gotten my money's worth
1	sorry to repeat myself over and over but here's another great columbo episode i guess that's why i'm such a fan most episodes really are great the best episodes always have a standout feature of some sort and in this case the murderer and his accomplice are possibly the youngest ever columbo villains br br after watching a lot of episodes where columbo and his adversary act like close friends it's good to see an episode where tempers fray and bad feelings rise to the surface it just gives an episode a bit more drama and bite columbo is rapidly onto the fact that the two students who claim to be helping him are not very secretly laughing at him and feeding him false clues he happily plays along deliberately turning up the bumbling in front of them to make them underestimate him but of course he knows instantly when they are talking baloney br br the murder itself is another complicated one along the lines of the bye bye sky high iq episode with a sophisticated chain reaction of events that manages to kill the intended target while providing the assassins with a seemingly watertight alibi in the intervening years between 1978 and 1990 the technology has moved on from record players and firecrackers to remote control car locking systems and hidden cameras br br stephen puts in a great performance as justin rowe the obnoxious spoilt student gary is low key but good as his yes man friend cooper redman and it's nice to see robert culp as mr rowe justin's dad br br a very satisfying episode in all ways
1	or any stories reminiscent of the leopold and loeb case you may find this movie entertaining the cast includes robert culp with stephen and garrison as the college students br br peter falk is his usual self pretending to be tricked by the precocious students longtime companion buried alive is excellent and should do more of these menacing roles basically the two frat buddies become tired of their demanding parents who expect nothing less than academic perfection attendance at the best schools will only be financed if they conform there is an excellent scene wherein culp rakes over the coals after he gets a low grade threatens to cut off his trust funds and later says to his friend i hate him i want him dead br br all is not well in beverly hills this is always an excellent theme i believe this film came out in 1990 right after the menendez killings if you watch a killing in beverly hills and then compare it to this film you may find some interesting parallels
1	after all these years of solving crimes you would've expected criminals to know that they can't afford making mistakes with him especially not with regards to talking much this time br br columbo goes to college and actually explains his entire technique but for some reason the murderer still doesn't pay enough attention however this still creates wonderful scenes and delightful dialogues
1	columbo is guest lecturer for a criminology class the students invite him along for their after class get together the nearby parking garage they discover their regular teacher next to his car dead from a gunshot wound no columbo was not after the man's job as a class project columbo involves the students in his sleuthing br br two students tentatively identified by the viewer as culprits were in the lecture hall for the entire class furthermore surveillance camera tapes of the parking garage show that no one other than the professor entered or left after he was last seen unexpectedly departing the lecture hall br br reversing the normal routine columbo is the one that is pestered by the evil duo eager for progress reports and an ear for their theories forensic evidence is almost nonexistent solution of the case hinges on some eventual and interesting good luck br br on first viewing it seemed that columbo had swallowed whole the misdirection however on repeat viewing small details revealed that not to have been the case at all br br this reviewer has yet to tire of columbo goes to college
1	i felt that way when i saw the episode in its original run and still agree when i watch it on reruns you had the culprits totally mocking columbo throughout the episode and treating him like he has down syndrome and in the end you see their shock when columbo gets them dead to rights and arrest them you also get a realistic reaction from the arrogant preppy killers they give columbo his props and say he just got lucky i like the formula where there is an elaborate crime the killer s totally underestimate columbo and then you get their realization that columbo was totally playing the criminals i recall in the first few episodes of the post 1989 episodes they weren't following that formula and this was the first episode that i was pleased with
1	and i do peter falk has created a role that will live on forever in tv land and i'm grateful for that this isn't one of his finest hours though columbo goes to college and basically teaches how he solves a crime and yet there are bad guys who go ahead and think they're smarter than he is what all us fans know is that columbo needs a worthy opponent without a great enemy how can he be the hero in the wrinkled coat still it's better than no columbo and i'll wait and watch the next one as well
1	probably grossly underrated by all who never experienced the hell of living under communist regime although it seems hard to believe all of it happened actually the reality was even worse than the movie it resembles orwellian fiction only this is no fiction john hurt is excellent as always yes the screenplay is not full of action but life is not either plot is breathtaking yes people were shot yes thousands of them their was that they wanted to leave communist without government at times the movie drives tears in your eyes we need more movies like this to really appreciate what america provides for us excellent movie highly recommend god bless our country usa
1	fun movie the script is awful but the quality of actors saves the day john hurt is perfect as is jane alexander beau bridges is fair and the actress who plays his wife is very weak the story is the true star based on a true story the pace moves well and the whole concept of escaping east germany sucks you in and holds you joyous ending provides enough elation to compensate for script don't expect academy award quality but it's a great ride for the whole family
1	what can i say about this film other than the narrative is one of the most exciting in film history and based on a true story being old enough to remember the berlin wall when it was still used to contain a country this film gives you a dark insight into the grim incarceration of east and their desperate attempts to escape no matter what the cost the film follows the lives of two families who decide to escape using a hot air balloon manufactured by themselves forever fearing arrest by the authorities under scrutiny by neighbours they have to calculate a plan to reach the other side of the wall a tense thrilling story of courage and determination which truly pays homage to all those who succeeded and failed the treacherous journey to west berlin and freedom
1	i grew up outside of germany where they landed every detail of the film was 100 authentic the power lines that they flew over the nosy neighbors the grandmother telling the kids that they cant watch west german tv etc this movie brings back lots of good memories to those that are european a great production from disney the same movie in german has klaus lowitsch and gunter meisner using their own voices for translating the english version into german for the german version they also use birds a bird that is native to germany as background noise to let you know that you are in germany i showed this move to many of my german relative and they really liked this movie these people made made a prototype balloon which they had to give up because the materials that they used was too and the other 2 balloons that they used for the escape the burner problem was solved when they turned the propane cylinders upside down
1	the songs are fantastic and the story line is good like many other acting schools mine also produced hair for most hair production it's a golden opportunity to do nude but my production was fully dressed i don't think full frontal nudity in a movie or a play guarantees artistic quality and so did the creators of the movie the movie version is great with classic hits following each other while letting the plot develop to the chilling climax a great cast of actors dancers and singers
1	i was surprised as i watched this movie how much it had me no the actors didn't act like typical 'hollywood' actors but that's not always bad either as this film proves quite different from the disney standard it is a refreshing turn none the less they also give you a taste of what it was probably like without being a movie everyone should both see and enjoy many people love arguing over in any movie of this type but just getting the basic idea has plenty to offer mild gripe east and west germany viewed on any map would have west germany on the left side east to the right the movie at times sets you back slightly because about half of the scenes have west germany on the right side of the screen and other times on the left side even during the same events they shift back and forth perhaps just a little more consistency would have avoided this mild distraction go see it
1	i think that this film has become an important record of the most horrifying aspect of the east german regime the imprisonment of its people by what the regime called its anti fascist protective wall it is a document of desperation and courage not to be missed i would however like to comment on the actual location of this escape it did not happen in or around berlin as supposed by some respondents and was nothing to do directly with the berlin wall the escape balloon was flown over the iron curtain which not only divided germany but it divided the whole of europe at that time the balloon took off from 170 miles south west of berlin in the german democratic republic east germany and flew 14 miles to in and freedom in west germany the opening of the iron curtain in hungary in 1989 preceded the fall of the berlin wall later that year whilst the balloon flight created entertaining suspense cinema it should remain as a monument to those who lost their lives whilst attempting to escape from east berlin other parts of the or other soviet controlled states
1	this movie accurately portrays the struggle life was for the typical east german watched by the secret police friends and coworkers most easterners simply existed br br the and the were two families that decided they weren't going to take it anymore br br despite the extreme danger involved in escaping to the west they feel the rewards far outweighed the risks john hurt and beau bridges portraying the respective family heads hit upon the idea of flying over east germany's heavily fortified border br br there are tense moments as they gather and jimmy rig the necessary materials for the flight they work their day jobs and construct the balloon at night right under the noses of the authorities one of whom is neighbor klaus br br the first attempt involving only the ends in failure when the balloon crashes just a few yards from the border the crashed balloon is discovered by border guards and an relentless search begins for the conspirators who are determined to try again with sales of materials being closely monitored peter and still manage to procure bits and pieces of cloth with which to construct a second balloon for their nail biting escape to freedom the film also features a heartwarming and effective soundtrack by the late jerry goldsmith
1	a real surprise not exactly family entertainment from disney some violence lots of tense moments and a great story based on fact the theme of night crossing is determination wins never losing sight of their objective two east german families risk it all in their daring balloon escape to freedom the story is both harrowing and heartwarming time is not on their side the east german police are closing in and the outcome far from certain until the very end if you are looking for a good evenings entertainment that contains no nudity and limited violence then i highly recommend night crossing it is pure entertainment merk
1	the movie night crossing captures the feelings experienced by the vast majority of east germans during the period 1961 89 i lived in west berlin during most of 1967 and travelled through the wall into east berlin on a weekly basis why excitement crossing a border into a soviet governed country experiencing the smells and the feel of east germany which is why night crossing is excellent it captures that very feeling and it is exciting i was arrested by the in checkpoint charlie and accosted by a man in his leather coat and dark glasses i am led to believe was stasi when i watch the movie i can smell cheap diesel and cooking oil i can see the outdated vehicles the drab clothing the public wore and the lacklustre produce in shop windows it brings back memories of realising just how lucky i was to live in a free country in 1988 i toured the ddr from east to west north to south east germany had changed little since 1967 the constantly breaking down were still the main mode of private motorised transport the shops still featured nothing much to tempt me uniforms were still commonplace but the people the ordinary people were open and nice once you had gained their trust watch night crossing it's as close to the truth as any movie you will see on divided germany even closer than two other favourites the spy who came in from the cold and funeral in berlin
1	'night is about an enormous barrier designed not to keep enemies out but to keep its own people in… br br 'night is about a very long border fencer equipped with silent alarms and automatic firing br br 'night is about the denial of the basic human rights of life liberty and the pursuit of br br 'night is about the fear and pain that afflict so many br br 'night is about one attempt to risk a crossing through the border br br 'night is about a loving father whose only desire is to give his boys what should never have been taken away from them… br br 'night is about a disturbed mother who wants her babies and her husband br br 'night is about a caring husband who wants his family to be together but in a better place… br br 'night is about children who want to be free to reach at anytime the br br 'night is about a hot air balloon handcrafted and built by two br br 'night is about a balloon which could go just high enough to crash or catch fire and br br 'night is about two determined men who want their family to climb into a hot air balloon and float away to br br 'night is about the fear of getting caught by an evil br br 'night is about a sensible man who can't let bad dreams stop him… br br 'night is about an icy policeman who wants every lookout tower on full br br with exquisite music by jerry goldsmith delbert mann's 'night makes us realize the true value of freedom… br br final thoughts br br there are a few moments in everyone's life certainly in public lives that can define a person br br for those of us old enough to remember the reagan presidency seeing the clips again in the wake of his death makes it seem like those events happened just yesterday or last week the voice the expressions are all so familiar but for a large percentage of people these events might as well have happened fifty years ago if not more they are part of the distant past president reagan is a name and not much more president gorbachev is another name and not much more so how can we remember these two men who had such a huge impact on their country br br reagan and gorbachev worked together to tear down the berlin wall and to steer their superpower nations away from nuclear
1	ex reporter jacob eric roberts is hired by an acquaintance raymond j barry to find his ex wife and son heads to palm springs and quickly locates the ex laine beverly d'angelo with someone he believes to be the son a young johnny depp but things turn out to be a bit more complicated as discovers former white trash laine has definitely married up in the form of millionaire simon fleischer dan hedaya and her first son is nowhere to be seen br br director writer matthew chapman is channeling body heat here and this mid 80s neo noir is watchable enough thanks to an all star cast and nice locations d'angelo was still looking good around this time so she makes for a good femme fatale and isn't afraid to show some skin however the mystery isn't very compelling in the end co starring dennis emily and henry gibson chapman made several thrillers in the 80s but his biggest career achievement was co authoring the screenplay for the infamous color of night
1	this movie is a coveted member of my movie library while not a mainstream film it is in my view a highly effective film noir in which eric roberts is totally underrated as an actor i would qualify him as a much better actor than his sister julia who is overrated but that's another review roberts plays the down on his luck ex reporter with the perfect mix of narrative precision and jaded idealism two ingredients that are part and parcel of any effective film noir the first person narration by roberts enhances the quality of the movie and keeps us guessing on the real motive behind the crime br br set in palm springs everything about the setting in the movie progresses slowly as a metaphor for the theme of oppression roberts is oppressed by his past the police are oppressed by the rich residents of palm springs who treat them as servants the rich meanwhile are oppressed by boredom watch johnny depp's classic performance as the insightful rich kid who only wants to be loved the isolation of each character is omnipresent and is further augmented by the heat and isolation of the desert br br there is an audience for this film if they're looking for a more contemporary version of film noir while there are elements of the film that might have been tighter i recommend getting a copy of this film and putting it right between the big sleep and chinatown in your movie library the film is based on the arthur lyons book castles burning and if you like acting in this one you may want to get a copy of the ambulance in which he showcases his funnier lighter side best line in the film careful careful of what i should've asked only fools ignore the strange warnings of trailer park ladies
1	this is one of those films that for whatever reason just clicked with me everything about it is right eric roberts laconic nice investigator his voiceover narration the twisting plot dan hedaya and denis given good roles the settings the paintings in the artist studio scenes the end credit sequence and the wonderfully haunting theme music that perfectly encapsulates the mood of the whole film if i have any reservations it is about beverly d'angelo as the femme fatale but she plays her final scenes beautifully i think that director matthew chapman was trying for a sort of feel to the whole thing it didnt work but as a murder mystery its a gem
1	richard norton really lights the screen up in this portland oregon based martial arts masterpiece norton an aussie heartthrob plays the evil mr who runs a successful import export business both smuggling arms and participating in the female flesh trade usually the women are plucked from his favorite dance club with the help of a squad of goons the most well known of who is bolo yeung playing the role of ice trouble comes for when a new cop in town john kim britton lee is out to avenge his dead partners murder at the hand of organization if you have time to see only one martial arts movie this year don't miss this classic
1	i'm not a big musical fan but this is one of the few i really love unlike many other musicals such as the sound of music none of the songs are about gratuitous stuff each song is social commentary acumen on war sexuality spirituality and freedom especially amazing songs are easy to be hard age of aquarius hair flesh failures 3 5 0 0 walking in space and hare krishna totally revolutionary and wonderful i can't wait to someday see it live
1	i think that just sums up this film watch it and you'll find out why the acting of the lead character john is really really bad and he has no on screen charisma whatsoever it's very funny because of this thought as is the ending where beheads the bad guy despite the fact he is unarmed and has surrendered brilliant
1	even though i saw this film when i was very young i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison br br apart from the liberty taken right at the end the film more or less faithfully follows the true story the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that br br of the performances there is scarcely a poor performance and tommy steele is ideally cast also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan is good as always br br because the film sticks to the facts it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family
1	when commenting on this film one must realise that it is based on a true story and must therefore be reviewed for the quality and accuracy of it's portrayal of the events as well as its entertainment value it may well be implausible that jack shepherd should surrender twice to jack wild because wild had captured bess none the less it happened it must also be noted that the director was young and inexperienced which explains why he relied upon tried and tested techniques there were occasions when did not have the confidence to follow the script as written the film would be better if he had and yes i used to have a copy of the script stanley baker's copy one of five which i returned recently to my father rafe the writer
1	note i've tried not to give away any important plot twists or the ending but if you're concerned about that please think about viewing the film before reading further thanks br br this was obviously a fairly high budget production released by paramount the story follows the supposedly true exploits of man jack shepard in 1700's london he was a who got blackmailed into a life of crime by the nefarious thief taker to save his brother's life after being double crossed by the thief taker we turns into a sort of robin hood type figure and gains the support of the common folk he proceeds to make escapes from several prisons including the infamous newgate as well as having time to entertain numerous noble ladies br br i really enjoyed the film even though the plot was a bit predictable the film was shot in and wicklow ireland and the sets were very well done and seemed realistic i think captured the bustling atmosphere of london in the 1700's quite well and i enjoyed his creative use of camera angles and unlike many films depicting this period pulls no punches in showing us the deplorable conditions in which the poor lived in one scene several folks fight over a meat pie that has rolled through the filth in the street br br overall i really enjoyed this film i will admit that it lacks the wonderful scenery and underlying political commentary that clavell's next film the last valley has a parable to the vietnam war but it still merits a viewing or two it is regrettable that it has not ever to my knowledge been released on video or dvd
1	dan finnerty and the dan band are so o o o o o good they must be seen to believe does anyone out there have a copy of the bravo concert for sale please if there is an upcoming release let us all know i checked the bravo site but there is no future date scheduled for a repeat performance by the most appealing guys ever choreographed the dan band what great energy they exude flinging themselves about with cute american boy attitude based on butch sensitivity being wrapped up in sequins and tears making men and women alike fall in love with them i hope enough people can influence the powers that be at bravo to bring the show back into our lives as a semi annual special
1	this bravo special is one of the most purely entertaining things i've ever seen on tv unlike me first the gimme the worlds foremost punk cover band the dan band really must be seen to be appreciated br br on paper the dan band is just a one joke act guy sings girly songs and inserts gratuitous profanity into the lyrics if you listen to their dan band live cd that's all you'll get and it'll get old quick i only bought it because it had some songs that weren't on the tv special but what's made dan finnerty a hollywood cult hero is his amazing stage presence this guy owns his audience for every second he's onstage and the backup singers are a large part of the visual punchline as well as for the actual band they stay out of sight for the most part but are certainly much more energetic and enthusiastic than your typical lounge act backing band hopefully a dvd version will be released soon there were almost certainly some songs cut and although the heavy censoring adds a bit of unintentional humor it also removes the intentional humor br br if there is any sense in the world the vegas casino owners will soon be fighting over who can build dan his own showroom faster br br re member my name fame
1	this was really one of the most enjoyable specials that i have seen on tv he is just an incredible performer his personality shines through in each one of the songs that he does i really wish this was available as an uncut dvd so i could watch it over and over without the beeps for explicit language i have not had the chance to see him live but that is something that i really want to do now i can't forget his backup singers they really added a lot of substance and humor to the show with their campy style and flamboyant dance moves they really complement the true talent of dan i wish there were some more of the songs that are on his live cd which is also incredible it is refreshing to see someone like him perform just so incredibly personable and real i really can't say enough good things about dan and this show once again i just wish this was available as an uncut dvd
1	i laughed my ass off for an hour i had no idea who dan was why haven't i heard of dan finnerty before he's hysterical and so are his backup singers they make all of these women songs that we would never wanna hear a new experience they blow these songs away this was on bravo last night why isn't this dan guy like ultra famous great voice charisma to burn he blew me away with this show i just read on the internet that he was once a member of stomp i guess there isn't anything he can't do i saw stomp at a ucla theater years ago and those guys were amazing this show last night was done by dreamworks does that mean that spielberg did this why don't they star this dan finnerty in a movie there was a standing ovation at the end of this show and every time the camera's cut to the audience everyone was so into it singing along or dancing the whole show had this amazing energy my only complaint was that it was not longer but looking back when you see how much energy these guys put out i guess it would be impossible for any human being to perform with such gusto for over an hour man i loved this show
1	spending an hour seeing this brilliant dan finnerty and his dan band perform their special on bravo is the most enjoyable hour i've ever spent watching tv this young man dan is such an incredible talent as a singer performer and even dancer he can go from the cheesiest of ballad pop songs all of which have only been sung by women to hip hop rock also songs written for women this guy can do anything i've seen him live at least 11 times so i was not expecting just how well that his show would adapt to a television or film format but all reservations went away instantly when the show started because of dan's overwhelming star quality do yourself a favor and watch this or better yet buy it
1	i think that is one of the best russians minis for teens i think i were near 6 8 parts of the movie one boy form 6th grade found a time machine in the old house where nobody lived and he goes to the 21st century just 100 years in future in future he meat pirates they tried to steal a machine to read minds and a story started soundtrack for that movie was very popular in soviet union everybody loved that movie which was on tv every year
1	the 1979 film musical of hair was loosely based on the infamous 1960's broadway musical that became famous because of its infamous nude scene the stage musical isn't really much more than a group of skits strung together with some amusing musical numbers however for the film director milos foreman who won an oscar for directing one flew over the cuckoo's nest and the writers have taken the basic premise of the play and the score and constructed a real story to make the show more user friendly for the big screen in the film naive farm boy claude hooper john savage is about to go into the army and decides to spend a couple of days in new york where he meets a group of aging hippies treat williams dorsey wright annie golden don who get him involved in a group of nutty misadventures including the pursuit of a snooty society girl beverly d'angelo the story divides into a series of vignettes that range from the ridiculous to the sublime but it is all gorgeously photographed with a clever use of nyc locations and imaginatively staged musical numbers outstandingly choreographed by the legendary treat williams lights up the screen as berger the unconventional and free spirited hippie who does his best to get claude to loosen up and is matched scene for scene by savage as claude who brings a lovely sweetness to the role of claude annie golden is a charmer as jeannie the pregnant hippie who is pregnant by wright or doesn't know which one is the father and doesn't seem to care there is one outstanding musical number after another here aquarius is a tour through central park which includes dancing horses treat williams disrupts a fancy dinner party in i got life black boys white boys features the late nell carter and ellen foley extolling the ethnic virtues of men and easy to be hard is a powerful rendering of one of the best songs in the show by original cast member cheryl barnes who plays wright's ex girlfriend and mother of his child this is a beautifully photographed well acted sung and danced psychedelic acid trip of a movie that must be seen and once seen will initiate multiple viewings as this dazzler has to much to offer to catch it all in one showing
1	guest from the future tells a fascinating story of time travel friendship battle of good and evil all with a small budget child actors and few special effects something for spielberg and lucas to learn from a sixth grader kolya nick finds a time machine in the basement of a decrepit building and travels 100 years into the future he discovers a near perfect utopian society where robots play guitars and write poetry everyone is kind to each other and people enjoy everything technology has to offer alice is the daughter of a prominent scientist who invented a device called that allows to read minds of humans and animals the device can be put to both good and bad use depending on whose hands it falls into when two evil space pirates from saturn who want to rule the universe attempt to steal it falls into the hands of 20th century school boy nick with the pirates hot on his tracks he travels back to his time followed by the pirates and alice chaos confusion and funny situations follow as the luckless pirates try to blend in with the earthlings alice enrolls in the same school nick goes to and demonstrates superhuman abilities in pe class the catch is alice doesn't know what nick looks like while the pirates do also the pirates are able to change their appearance and turn literally into anyone hmm i wonder if this is where james cameron got the idea for terminator who gets to nick and first excellent plot non stop adventures and great soundtrack i wish hollywood made kid movies like this one
1	i was a schoolboy when i watched this film for the first time the next day i knew that all pupils of our form watched it and all were fascinated by the film as i was i think the same situation was in all forms of our school and in the whole soviet union later i watched it every time it was shown on tv and want to watch more i think that comparison with back to the future or other sci fi films is not appropriate is unique in many ways once you have watched it you never forget it br br this film is full of belief in peaceful science achievements full of belief in the beautiful future of our world it's not only the film but also a forecast of many scientific inventions and achievements the time shown in the film is the year 1984 the year of its creation and the year where a schoolboy kolya has traveled for some time and where his friend was from the year now is 2005 many inventions and achievements predicted in the film are not realized yet such as a device which can read thoughts of any animal and human to venus and mars as easy as going for a picnic in the weekend creating and launching of the satellites as a homework for pupils easy to drive flying machines which completely replaced automobiles historical identification of any kind of material or creature performed in a couple of minutes and many others meanwhile some of them nowadays became much more realistic than they seemed in 1984 just wait for br br the film also depicts typical russian schoolboys and schoolgirls and does it so naturally with their inventiveness curiosity humour look for example at you could find such character in nearly all forms of every school of the soviet union similar character was in my form too i myself as well as many my classmates fell in love at first sight with her by the way later an actress who played became a scientist i think she was as much influenced by the film as people who watched it on tv br br beautiful idea beautiful realization beautiful actors beautiful music beautiful song the wonderful far away beautiful beautiful beautiful br br the last thing i want to say is that different remakes and new versions of the song from the film and even the film itself were made later and spread on tv and in the internet all they are not even comparable with the original i should not even comment them my comment is only about the original so request the original and enjoy it
1	hollywood has turned the mafia in to a production line of output ranging from the banal to the excellent and despite some good acting and a reasonable script much of which is for a change true this home entertainment effort has to fall slap bang in the middle br br the script is not only obvious all of the checklist boxes end up being ticked but spends a lot of time trying to create a pastiche of the best of other people's work the godfather being the most obvious but there are other references too i won't bother naming them nevertheless it is a good taste borrower the producer seems to set a quota for gunshots and murder one at least every twenty minutes and the ending is weak and so what i am told there are various versions of this production so that maybe that is just the version i have seen br br gangsters don't make money they take money usually by fear some seem more in to the murder and mayhem side of the business than making money they were the ones that were the first to go in real life and here you can't make money with a gun in your hand says charlie 'lucky' luciano at one stage one of the smarter gangsters although all things are relative he was a skilled white slave trader and a drug dealer before being bundled home to italy br br the old school pete's were picked off by the new bloods who wanted the power and the money for themselves and to break free of the straight jacket of italian sicilian power rarely doing business outside themselves the young knew they needed to be allied with other groups most notably the jews who knew how to money and this is at least referenced and acknowledged what isn't made so clear is that most immigrant groups had their own mafia's but most of them made their money and went legit and why not who wants to die in jail br br joseph was a ruthless man prepared to kill if needs be but not an unfair or stupid one his story was tragic in that he could have made money in the over ground world and he showed a special skill in avoiding getting killed with a little bit of luck attached naturally br br despite the range of respectable names and three actors in the title role bruce ramsay martin landau and tony there isn't the charisma or the talent to bring us in and feel anything we are merely passive observers in a life we are glad not to have lead the people shown here were born in to a cruel world but their only mark was to make it crueler br br if you can't get enough of the gangster genre that will be better than watching godfather 1 2 for the tenth time and it is even better as basic entertainment than the horrible misfire that was godfather 3
1	i found parts of this movie rather slow especially the first part the second part seemed to go a lot faster but it's not totally clear to me as to why one part was faster than the other i somehow managed to find it enjoyable the acting was good the writing was good yet vulgar there was also another good side to it it was easier to understand than say the godfather movies you knew who was on whose side etc all in all the movie wasn't half bad
1	this movie have 4 parts and every is around 170 minutes long its based on true story of life of joe and it is telling all how he did see so in some events we can notice that we heard different about it movie make you tied up for chair till the end i think it is possible to watch all 4 in a row and not notice i watched 2 in a row and 2 next day in a row acting in movie is ok in some scenes awesome but in general could be but this movie is not about acting or special effects and glamor this one show real thing and story is key to this movie so the one who look for same spectacular rambo matrix titanic movie you can skip this one good thing in movie is that follow the main story so you will not have long and boring love scenes or any different interrupt with something not important to crime business of
1	very well done acting and directing this is a cross between the last don and godfather 2 one large plus for this production is that it is claimed to be a true story of joseph with a better music score to create mood it could have been a rival for both godfather movies
1	okay when it comes to plots this film is far from believable and also a bit silly yet despite its many deficiencies the film manages to work provided you turn off your brain and just let yourself enjoy the zaniness of it all if you can't then you probably won't like this film very much at all br br in one of the oddest plots of the 1930s robert montgomery plays a guy living near the arctic circle at a wireless station how exactly he came to such a remote outpost is uncertain but into this very very lonely and isolated existence come a steady string of guests even though it had been years since he'd seen anyone but eskimos br br first reginald owen and myrna loy arrive when their plane crashes they are supposedly on their way to montreal how they got that far off course is beyond belief reginald is a stuffy and dull fellow who is really worried about montgomery since robert hasn't seen a woman in a very long time and owen seems in constant dread that montgomery is out to steal loy for himself as for montgomery that's exactly what his plans are for the longest time you never really understand why loy is engaged to owen since he is about as appealing as soggy bread br br soon loy and montgomery fall in love but this is all for naught when out of the blue again montgomery's old fiancée arrives to announce she's there to marry him considering that for over two years she never wrote and refused to follow him montgomery naturally assumed the relationship was over but the chipper and annoying fiancée's sudden arrival is enough to destroy the plans loy and montgomery were making br br how all this is resolved is something you can just see for yourself as for the film that the plot is very silly and contrived i can't defend this but it also is pretty funny and charming and i see this film as a kooky comedy that is just a step or two below contemporary films like bringing up baby silly slight but also very charming it's worth seeing despite not being especially believable
1	the turner classic movie channel has spent the month of january doing the films of one of my favorite actors robert montgomery his films are mostly rarely watched these days except for those that were atypical for most of his career meaning that the roles that frequently reappear on television are they were expendable the lady in the lake june bride night must fall the saxon charm ride the pink horse rage in heaven the earl of chicago in short the films he fought to get the roles in because they were not the usual comic fluff he usually appeared in it's ironic that nowadays when one thinks of montgomery's career it is the films that were mostly made after 1937 that are pushed the ones that broke the original image that mgm and louis b mayer pushed the pity of this is that montgomery was a gifted comedian and saved many films from being routine br br petticoat fever is one such film made in 1936 with jim and trouble for two it was a banner year of good performances by montgomery and helped lead to his being able to convince the powers that be at mgm to allow him to play danny in night must fall the next year br br petticoat fever is set in labrador and montgomery is a weather station operator there named he has been living there for five years and has not been in the company of a woman except for inuit women for most of that time he has a girlfriend of sorts named clara winifred who he sort of proposed to but it's been two years since he has heard from her so that he believes she has given up on him br br world is rocked when sir james felton and irene reginald owen and myrna loy show up they were flying to toronto for a business meeting that felton was to address felton is engaged to but finds her enchanting and gradually she finds him equally attractive certainly the pompous self important and hopelessly inept felton is no competition it is a measure of owen's acting that he keeps the character entertaining even if one finds it hard to believe such a boob is a canadian captain of industry br br there is something surreal about this film probably due to the original play while the labrador scenery is quite phony looking it does serve it's purpose for the comedy witness th polar bear sequence but the height of the surrealism is the dinner serves his guests a dinner of which owen eats with real gusto owen a minor noble as a is dressed in normal clothing a winter suit for the climate but montgomery is dressed in his suit of evening dress as though attending a ball at the embassy loy seeing him dress up likewise puts on a gown they are being served by servant assistant the inuit otto who is wearing a suit of evening dress too it turns out that it is owen's owen who earlier insisted that change into clothing more suitable to his station is the only person who is improperly dressed for this dinner montgomery was mgm's most elegant actor in a tuxedo or evening dress franchot tone was the his closest rival it is a toss up in movie if montgomery or fred astaire was the more elegant figure in such suits hard to decide br br the course of love does not move smoothly in comedy or drama clara shows up we are tipped off too early about this at the start of the film when we see her on an ship will break with clara will irene break with felton the film is funny and loy and montgomery make a nice couple they had appeared together in one other film and both were in separate scenes in a second before this movie but this would be their last film together br br one last interesting point at the start of the film when the credits are shown you see illustrations of men and women in comic situations they are based on the art work of john held jr the great cartoonist illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s who was the recorder of the flapper and jazz age it's an unusual choice as it has absolutely nothing to do with the film's plot or labrador
1	this is a hard movie to come by in the us but if you can find it and you're interested in the life and music of percy aldridge grainger you're in for a treat it's quite historically accurate richard grainger looks astoundingly like grainger at this period in time emily karen is quite a bit prettier than the real karen but that was an inaccuracy i was happy to discover i think what really struck me though was how well captured outrageous personality barbara hershey's rose was also a treasure if she looks considerably younger than rose did at that period it is more than made up for in how well she captured rose's obsession with percy it's an easy film to recommend i should note that when she saw passion my wife had no particular affinity for or knowledge of grainger and his music but she was totally captivated by the film
1	this isn't far away from the trash that bollywood normally makes but there's just something really good about it br br the title song is one of best and is haunting throughout this is one of the films along with a must see bollywood film that made shah rukh khan and it's for this you have to check it out br br other reviews give away the story it is a fairly basic idea sharukh definitely stands out and one of his final expressions right at the end made me give this film an extra star br br its fairly cheesy but definitely worth watching if you are new to bollywood or not 8 10
1	may contain spoilers i find myself disappointed with the criticism this movie receives while it is most certainly not perfect it is much better than it is given credit for the acting and photography are excellent some of the musical numbers are great including the title number where do i go easy to be hard and black boys white boys while i have not seen the stage musical i think that it clouds the judgement of many this is not the musical you see in theatres do not attempt to compare them the theatrical musical might have been sensational to watch but it would never have had the same effect on film so a plot had to be added and the ending that has been added is just amazing the movie left me feeling like i had actually watched something important unlike most of today's movies which only satisfy on one level
1	darr although a copy of some hollywood flick is one of the best films i have seen it is not only beautifully portrayed but also has great songs and beautiful scenery shahrukh is his usual self his expressions and voice matches his character i was pleasantly surprised by sunny deol's portrayal in the film he is a bit romantic and lovable in the film unlike his other characters in his other films at times you feel like justice hasn't been done to his character sunny was intended to be portrayed as the good guy in the film but ends up looking like the villain at the end juhi chawla is beautiful and bubbly she is her usual self in short a great love story with passion
1	darr was a super hit film which was loved by many peoples it tells the story of shahrukh khans innocent obsession for juhi who loves sunny deol honestly it was a entertaining movie but if you look carefully its not too realistic shahrukh khan keeps phoning juhi and tells her that he loves her too bits he gives an announcement in college that he loves her and gives her some nice surprises like beautiful photos of her unfortunately instead of being flattered that a guy loves her too bits she gets very very scared i personally know 100s of people that get pranked by someone and these people enjoy it cos they play a long yash chopra gives us a good film that does entertain widely because of shah rukh khan's character sunny deol is suppose to be the main actor but darr belongs to shah rukh khan delivering a superb performance shah rukh khan is literally the villain of the movie but i would of been happy if he got the girl because he loves her so dearly sunny deol gives a decent performance but he beats up all those guys on his own and survives a brutal knife attack juhi chawla is cute as ever in a fairly good performance some good songs including tu mere being the best
1	darr is an brilliant movie it is 1 of my favourite films srk has done a mind blowing job in the movie br br this role couldn't have been played by anyone else because this type of role only suits srk br br srk plays a mental villain in the film br br srk's performance in this movie is the best performance ever in boll wood br br srk deserves an honour and an encouraging appeal for his fantastic performance br br juhi also delivers an excellent performance br br sunny deol looked strong and physically fit in the film
1	darr 1993 was an incredible movie in my opinion it is one of finest the movie itself triggers feelings of sympathy fear confusion happiness and sadness shahrukh's role was unbelievable in fact he gave obsession a new face juhi innocent and girlie character contrasted greatly with shahrukh's fiery and passionate character sunny deol's role made the good guy role seem like the bad guy one the fact that shahrukh not sunny captivated the audience's attention proves that everyone has that helpless inner drive to pursue something that's not really in their hands even though the movie is several years old it surpasses any recent one the song tu mere was full of passion and meaning his personality fit the role perfectly he should seriously consider re starring in a similar film
1	this movie is just brilliant srk's acting is just amazing the end is so incredibly sad i cry every time i see this film it's the kind you never get sick of and can see again and again an absolutely amazingly brilliant movie
1	watch this movie just to see shahrukh khan say i love you k k kiran it's both heartbreaking and frightening at the same time when he says this from the beginning to the end this movie made him famous and i totally recommend it d it's highly entertaining the music's wicked and you will laugh right along with shahrukh here you'll genuinely feel scared for the hero and heroine and oddly enough you will identify with at least one of the characters you will feel sad and happy and relieved and afraid at the same time go see this classic bollywood movie with your good buddies and some lovely food and have a day in and after you see the movie have the songs and scenery playing in your mind forever
1	this movie is such a good movie shah ruck khan does a great job as the crazy mad villain who is totally obsessed with br br the girl the story is fantastic the acting by all br br characters like the girl and shah ruck and sunny are all fabulous and i really love the first song especially how it comes back at the end oh and its so emotional if your a true shah ruck khan fan you have gotta watch this movie because its the best shah ruck khan movie ever he plays an excellent role and i wish he done more crazy man roles but u have to watch this what so ever this is a really good movie this is a really good movie you have to watch it it is truly amazing you have to watch it it is fabulous i can go on and on about this movie because it is a fun funny scary cool and totally fantastic movie in the world
1	this was answer to fatal attraction and this is a classic film in its own right juhi chawla was good and so was sunny deol but it was shah rukh khan who shot to fame as the stalker since then he has become a favourite of the chopra's dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge dil to pagal hai veer zaara and de india shah rukh at first appears to be a villain but then towards the end you start to sympathize with him the scripting was superb and the songs were my favourites are too mere and teri br br after the dismal failure of the underrated yash chopra fought back with darr the dialogues were memorable the k k kiran dialogue is often repeated since darr yash chopra has slipped bit dil to pagal hai was bad but he redeemed himself slightly with veer zaara which was far far better this was yash chopra's last masterpiece
1	i have seen many of shahrukh's movies and this is a very good role for him he has such versatility but he mainly stays in positive roles as rahul he is very dark and disturbing yet i found myself sympathizing with him much of the movie if for nothing else watch this movie for shahrukh he plays a very complex and real character very convincingly the story is very typical and has been done before but the character development is very strong and entertaining the opening is a little confusing but by the end it doesn't matter the songs i found very likable and give insight to what characters are thinking very clever i think this movie was very good and recommend it to all shahrukh khan fans it is a must see
1	shahrukh khan and yash chopra films have never disappointed dilwale le jayenge is a romantic classic dil to pagal hai was fresh and perfect to watch mohabbatein remains as one of my favorite movies ever and veer zaara was magical darr though not the best is a romantic thriller that is different from the aforementioned movies but definitely worth a watch and srk who blew me away with an excellent performance in repeats a villain act and this time he gets an experienced juhi chawla and sunny deol to support him br br before i comment on the acting it is not just the acting but the wonderful script that makes it worth a watch it is the writing that compliments the great acting the story is gripping but the characterization is what stands out the comedy track goes along well but the movie has the tendency of shifting at romance too much the viewer is bound to lose interest and you will make a couple of yawns but the movie is still good br br shahrukh khan is brilliant in his author backed role shahrukh khan once again is sympathetic and cruel you are bound to cry at the end juhi chawla is decent her screams are bound to become annoying after a while but in facial expression she is excellent but her ending scene she is brilliant though she was overshadowed by srk she has an author backed role that makes her very likable sunny deol is adequate his character was very likable but too perfect and it gets boring after a while he does a good job though anupam kher is really funny but his role felt a little out of place azmi supports well br br the songs are enjoyable and come at the right time jadoo teri magic at your sight is my favorite song and presentation is very 90's film like tu mere you are in front of me and hai written here are nice love songs band kar lo close the door is a decent love song also the instrumental song is danced to perfection as well as the naughty wedding song button the movie may not be perfect but it is well worth your time especially if your favorite actor is in it
1	the first time i ever saw this movie was when i was four years old i remember loving it and everything about it 13 years later i am now 17 and decided to watch it about a month ago because i am taking a 1960's class in school i didn't really know what to expect since it had been 13 years since i last saw it but i was completely blown away by it the actors were amazing the music was so fun and i now find myself singing along to every song treat williams is great as berger the leader of the hippie group who always gets what he wants one way or another except for at the very end of course john savage is actually very convincing as claude the oklahoma who falls in love with sheila beverly d'angelo d'angelo is lovely as the prim and proper rich girl who eventually rebels against her upbringing and joins the hippies the other hippies are played by annie golden don and dorsey wright annie golden is just adorable as jeannie the girl who is pregnant but still as cute and innocent as a child don and dorsey wright are good as woof and hud the other two members of the group and cheryl barnes who plays fiancée has an amazing voice br br the only problem i have with this movie however is that the relationship between claude and sheila is not very convincing they are barely ever shown together and when they are they fight remember the skinny dipping scene it seems as though their relationship is very weak and by the end of the movie we are supposed to believe they are madly in love only based on the few meetings they had i also see that many people writing reviews here are upset by the pg rating this movie has i personally would raise the rating up to a pg 13 only because there is some drug use but remember in 1979 pg 13 didn't exist i don't think the nudity is bad at all it is in no way sexual in fact there isn't really any sex at all in this movie and it is only to show the childlike innocence that the group maintains in most european countries nudity isn't regarded as something bad and i don't see why it is here in the us anyways i give this movie a high rating and i'm glad it was made back then because in the insanely politically correct world of today they wouldn't even think of making it and even if they did it would be a very watered down version and i'm sure you wouldn't get the full effect br br in conclusion this is a very underrated film that is definitely worth checking out
1	kiran comes back to home after completing her college she has got a nice charisma which always drawn men to her a dare devil navy employee is one such guy he loves her deeply and even engaged to marry her rahul is another person who is insane and he also loves br br is very close to her family and is adored by everyone in his home kiran has never met rahul but then rahul would kill anyone who comes between him and kiran so when rahul comes to know that kiran is in love with what will he do will he kill him or he himself will be punished for his devil acts
1	the movie is a very good movie one of the best from yash raj films the direction is incredible the screenplay is brilliant the story is excellent it tells about rahul who is of kiran his college friend he is a full blown psycho doing things like talking to his mother on a phone anyway she died 15 years back etc kiran is engaged to rahul does everything so he can get her he even trys to kill but he survives it he even goes to the place where they are going to their honeymoon the movie is every nes delight shahrukh is superb juhi is fairly good sunny is average is okay and so is dalip did good the movie belongs to srk the dialogues are brilliant shahrukh ones and a lot if not the overacting and comedy teri and tu mere are absolutely melodious tracks
1	i've never seen a bollywood film before but i caught the first ten minutes of this laughed myself silly and hit the r button on sky i'm glad i did i hope i don't insult anybody because basically the bf and i loved it but we couldn't take it half as seriously as the actors did especially the obsessed one who i understand is a huge bollywood star because we've seen him on the cover of lots of dvds since and i even saw a doll of him today in the bf keeps on about this bloke i am beginning to think he's obsessed he keeps saying that it's strange for the traditionally good looking one to be the anti hero of a film but then we do like films that aren't your stock predictable hollywood fare br br it was completely over the top but really good fun if all bollywood films are like this then we're watching more i have had that bloomin' song in my head all week and i can't speak a word of hindi ps any recommendations would be appreciated
1	darr is a great movie shahrukh plays an obsessed lover who will do almost anything to win over his lady which in this case is juhi chawla little does juhi know in the film that shahrukh has a major crush on her and is constantly stalking her i have to admit some of the things he did in this movie were pretty creepy like the threatening phone calls never in my life will i forget the line i love you k k k kiran br br it's just too bad that shahrukh and juhi weren't exactly together in the film but juhi and sunny do make a fairly good couple in the movie though shahrukh's role was pretty psychotic i still think he did a great job of playing it and can't possibly imagine anyone else doing that role no wonder he got an award for darr in br br juhi what can i say she looks especially amazing in this film it's not that she doesn't always look amazing in her other films but darr did give the public a wonderful image of her br br as for the music it was excellent especially teri one of my all time favorite songs i also thought tu mere was quite nice also br br a must see for everyone overall darr deserves a 9 10
1	shah rukh khan plays an obbsessed lover who would go to any lengths to get his lady juhi chawla does a wonderful job of making the best of her character and sunny deol plays the hero and action man this film is very good and i'd it to anyone
1	the story of an obsessed lover shahrukh khan and the lengths he goes to get his true love juhi chawla who's already married to her husband sunny deol the film is considered one of shahrukh khan's best performances and won him acclaim from critics and audiences alike fear that your love may not be reciprocated fear that you may lose the one you love fear that your beloved could have a change of heart in short fear is the villain in every love story br br but in fear is the ultimate expression of passion of obsession and of sacrifice is shahrukh khan story whose love and obsession for kiran juhi chawla frees him from all fears of life death is sunny deol story whose enduring love and passion for kiran gives him the courage to face the fear of death br br and finally is story who is caught between one man's love and another man's obsession she fears one fears for the other one stands for love the other for life in this battle between love life the supreme victor is love because love always wins in life death simply darr is one of the best indian films ever made
1	i generally love srk as a villain how can you not and i believe that srk and juhi are a perfect match on screen as they both are actually more nice than pretty br br this movie is great to watch although it has some major flaws br br 1 the good guy sunny not only he's so much less attractive than shahrukh what in my opinion is soooooo important in but his role lacks character it would be much better if there was a conflict between two strong personalities instead we have a conflict between a personality and an average soldier br br 2 and reactions for actions are unbelievably silly and naive even for a bollywood production br br but all this is not that important in comparison with the wonderful melodramatic atmosphere great songs really truly great and let's say it again shahrukh as a villain i just love him when he's so pagal br br a must see along with and duplicate
1	so many times bollywood has tried to remake hollywood hits only to produce total duds mercifully yash chopra's interpretation of sleeping with the enemy is an extremely stylish and well made films br br shah rukh khan is obsessed with juhi chawla who's looking her very best in here when he realizes that juhi has a fiance in sunny deol he stops at nothing to make sure she becomes his br br every frame of this film is a delight to watch whether it's shah rukh chanting his trademark i love you k k k kiran or the feel good mushy scenes between sunny and juhi who make a perfect match you won't feel like leaving your eat in boredom br br each and every song on the soundtrack is ear pleasing especially teri and tu mere like i said juhi looks like a goddess in this film darr may not be srk's best film that honor goes to but it definitely figures as one of his most flawless performances sunny is ok he's done similar roles before but he's good br br overall darr is g g g great
1	certainly not a great show but better than most other sitcoms out there at the moment it reminds of shows like married with children and roseanne as they go to places not traditionally dealt with in sitcoms it's sometimes funny even if you ignore the laugh tracks but not rip roaring hilarious br br some of the characters are pretty funny the gay friend and some of the other drop ins this is also one of the few shows where the characters soliloquy sorry for the butchered spelling actually is effective and funny br br is this an all in the family or seinfeld type show absolutely not however it is certainly better than a show like 'til probably the worst tv show of any type out at the moment br br oh and the mom is not too bad looking and the hilary character is a little hottie
1	i haven't seen this funny of a show on fox in a long time and the wait was worth it the kids in the show have something that i can relate to on every episode and even my dad will sit down and watch it it is a show not for all ages that doesn't dumb down for kids it is like still standing but to the next level the stuff that everyone says is stuff that everyone says and actions that everyone does it says stuff that we all think but in a well rounded way of presentation the first time i saw the show i could not believe that it was on fox and that it was allowed to stay on the air after a few episodes from hilary's boyfriend choices to kenny's boyfriend choices it is well worth the watch
1	now more than ever we need peace love in this world br br this film really showcases the wonderful music of the broadway show and the fabulous choreography of the legendary i saw it again after many years and it still holds up well br br thank you mgm ua for putting this on dvd i love the option of seeing in widescreen mgm rocks for doing this on many of their dvd releases br br ya gotta love treat williams as berger and john savage as claude they couldn't have picked better actors actresses for this film beverly d'angelo is such a 'hot in this film i had forgotten just how hot wow br br the supporting cast is absolutely great br br with the late great nell carter making a singing cameo in a couple of scenes as well as the kooky charlotte ray mrs garrett on of life' br br the story gets a little weak toward the end but the anti war sentiment of the late 60's still holds up and is relevant today br br it's beautifully filmed quite a bit on location and is so colorful and lovely and really brings the spirit of 1968 back on the big screen br br i saw this movie when it was released in 1979 when i was 15 and was moved by it then and it still moves me now at 40 some other reviews on here say they think it should have been made sooner i don't think hollywood was ready to make such a movie back in the late 60's early 70's br br the vietnam war ended in 1975 and the whole thing hit a little too close to home i think for this story to be filmed before it was like in 1969 70 71 br br bravo to director milos foreman i love this film br br it's nice to see it again this time on dvd it never looked better
1	i have realized that many people have commented on the nature of this show being racist and homophobic but i don't feel that is what this show is about br br the show is about parents who weren't ready for kids and are now not ready for teenagers this show helps to bring humor to a very hard topic that is sometimes over looked parenthood br br yes we have all had shows that had families in it for example family matters step by step family ties full house but it always would have the same old recipe to it's episodes steph cuts from school and gets caught by her father they have a heart to heart conversation and music is played and it's over with a two week grounding that after an aww dad gets a smile and the show is over where is the comedy in such a situation where is the realism with the war at home you get real situations from a real father type figure most parents that watch this show hear some of the lines the parents put out and they either laugh cause they know they've said it or they nod their heads cause they know they've thought it and never had the guts to say it the war at home has situations that bring out great comedy as a father thinking his son is gay doesn't sound funny most think it makes the father homophobic but the comedy comes in the bumbling father trying to talk to his son to open up what parent knows the right thing to say especially in a situation as this i greatly recommend this show to anyone that i know has a sense of humor and especially to anyone who is a young parent or was young when they had kids you relate to a show like this when you are either
1	i really like this series its funny and unique style of off the wall sometimes controversial comedy is a fresh take on the genre whilst it is a sitcom it stands out due to the what could be awkward subjects br br every aspect has a comedy turn and the show really is very good my favourite part of the program is the rather odd comments of the father dave his rants break the program up and allow a really good flow not perfect because sometimes the comedy isn't laugh out loud funny and the actors sometimes seem to be waiting for an audience response but otherwise this program is good br br i strongly recommend this program and am very sad that it has been cancelled please make another series and finish it properly
1	this was one of the few shows that my wife and i agreed on watching i was upset to hear that it was canceled especially because i didn't realize the ratings were so poor as far as i knew it was doing very well with a lot of viewers almost all my friends and most of the people i spoke to watched the show now we are stuck watching either crappy shows or dvd's how bad was the show doing does anyone know the real results of the shows viewings i know that when it went to thursdays it was more difficult for me to catch thank g d for br br anyways this was a real surprise to know that there will be no more the war at home if any other networks see this please pick up the show please
1	the war at home is a splendid television series and i don't understand because she has been annulled please fairies something to continue with this very beautiful television series with excellent and marvelous actors good recitation and good situations please we want the third series and even so many new episodes i pray you i would like if possible somehow to make to reach this and mail the interested since i can tell you that here in italy this series is very liked as in other countries of europe chest of drawers for example spain in effects as i have written above what strikes of this television series it is the good recitation of the actors and also the honest one with which numerous matters of true importance are treated i think both one of the best american television series arrive on the italian screens in these last years i pray you
1	i'm not from usa i'm from central europe and i think the show is amazingly good it can be easily compared with married with children my title says that it isn't show for conservative public i mean i'm not so liberal but it may be slight difference between european conservatism and us cons anyway show is starting to be very popular in our area and it's very bad that it contains only two seasons last episode opens many continuous and funny moments anyway i and many peoples would be glad if that would continue playing the last thing i'm thrilled about this is some moral education very nice packed into humorous scenes i mean i have seen many comedies that has over two and even more minutes of very sad in tragic scenes that absolutely don't fit into comedy war doesn't contain something like that and is made for laughing it's like the simpsons and married whose also don't have any sad or even unfunny moments i'm apologizing for my awful knowledge of english but i still hope that you will understand what i meant
1	hilarious show with so many great stories that it reflects the world today as we know it in such a funny way it literally stole my laughters for other shows i laughed so hard that i just found any other comedy shows unfunny the unique confessions of each characters is a great original technique that just makes the show funny and very humorous you may think that this is an average comedy show about hard life with a family that's what i thought at first but i found out that it holds new and unique techniques that completely sets it apart from any other average comedy show michael rapaport is a star i sure wish that this show wasn't canceled
1	this show is verging on brilliant it's a modern day married with children the scripts are witty as they are sprinkled with clever sarcasm they are also realistic dealing with issues that face many parents of teenagers today as well as the on going burden that you might not be the worlds greatest parent and how is the best way to deal with this however at the same time it manages to remain light hearted and fun which with all the drama and action on television these days is a very pleasant and welcome change it is something you can sit down in front of for 30 minutes and relax laugh and relate to it isn't the world's most hilarious comedy yet will make you laugh at least a handful of times an episode michael rapaport is brilliant in the lead as dave he fills the big shoes that the heavily sarcastic script requires and then some he and anita barone vikki have fantastic chemistry and bounce off one another very well this show has a strong future if it is marketed at the correct target audience and put in the right time slot also if fox release it on dvd the following will be stronger and larger as is a classic example with scrubs
1	like many situation comedies the war at home is getting better with each episode the characters are starting to become real and i believe them as a family i agree with many that the first few episodes were not that funny i thought the show would be canceled for sure but with the absences of malcolm in the middle and arrested development war provides much needed live action comedy for fox on sunday nights and when compared with the rest of the sitcoms airing right now war is an even better choice br br its appeal at least for me lies in its real situations teenagers have sex not every parent likes how their kids are turning out parents fight and call each other names but rather than relying on being mean like many shows everything is nice in the end which is the number one rule of a good sitcom br br one detraction from the show is the narration during in between scenes the arrested development family guy style of flashbacks work well enough but the narration can be too much br br so anyone who needs something to watch on sunday nights should check out the war at home especially considering what is on the other major networks at that time
1	this show is actually pretty good like all shows on tv it has its good episodes and its bad ones br br i have read where people compare this show to married with children and i suppose it is a similar show for the new generation however because of what was expected and allowed on tv in the days of married with children that show was taken to great extremes to show that it was in fact a television show and not meant to be take seriously br br the war at home has the luxury of being a bit more realistic the parents talk to each other like real life parents often do telling their children one thing when they will turn around and do the opposite br br sure some of the content can be considered controversial but i find this show really tries to maintain a sense of honesty like it or not there are a lot of families out there just like this one br br every episode does teach a its just that sometimes the lesson is that you will not find a perfect solution for every problem that a family may encounter and sometimes the solution is to pick the lesser of two evils we all know that in some cases as a parent the only goal you can have is to keep your kids out of really big trouble and hope that they learn right from wrong br br i respect the writers for attempting to keep the show true to life instead of having some magical ending like the cleaver family always had
1	the war at home is so good it's become my new favourite show me and my carly and april watch this together every sunday and laugh at how true to life it is i love how everyone is so sarcastic and so worried and they dwell on every little issue once someone does something stupid they never live it down and that is soooo how family is the father always harps on all three kids about every little thing i love how the parents have no idea how to deal with the kids it's so true to real family life and the fact that the parents are so overwhelmed and have no clue how to solve their teenagers problems just puts the show over the top the war at home is so brutally honest and so true to the world we live in that it has become a milestone for sitcoms to come this isn't happy days or the brady bunch this is real life
1	i have seen this movie more than 50 times in my life and each time i watch it the movie is just as entertaining as it was the first time george berger played by treat williams leads a small group of 1960's 1970's era anti war hippies living at large in new york city this small group happens upon a young man claude bukowski played by john savage who has been drafted into the us army for service in vietnam despite their best efforts to dissuade him claude does eventually report for basic training in the army still distressed over his having left them the hippie group steal a car and travel across the usa to visit claude for a couple of hours in the words of george berger to an m p stationed at the entry gate of the army base claude is temporarily stationed at in nevada the outcome is truly touching so i won't spoil it for those who have not yet seen this fantastic movie the musical score is equally fantastic don of the rock group chicago who plays the part of woof one of the hippies is a not a key character but the movie wouldn't have been the same without him beverly d'angelo who plays sheila franklin an uptown girl who is befriended by the hippie group is sensational in her role a must see film
1	this is not a great movie as tho the cast especially the kids admirably help to carry along this very sad yet contrived plot it is filled with cliché upon cliché poor family in 50's mid america dying mother alcoholic father 10 children 1 of whom has epilepsy and an awful decision to be made its very easy to watch and some of the kids performances are moving without being sickly or naff and little frank and steal the show for me with the last scene leaving me bawling no matter how many times i see it a great rainy afternoon movie i recommend to all only those with the hardest of hearts could fail to be moved by it not on a par to choice but a good tv movie equivalent
1	starring ann margret frederic forrest cathryn damon donald moffat lonny chapman patricia smith directed by john erman 12 months to live so little time to plan a future she would not share for the sake of her 10 children she must succeed br br lucile fray ann margret is the caring mother of 10 young children she is the loving wife of ivan frederic forrest a man almost crippled by arthritis she is also dying stricken by a terminal illness she has only a few months left to live her husband tormented by the painful truth turns to the bottle and with a broken heart lucile is forced to accept that he will never be able to cope as a father alone br br and so for the sake of the children she loves so much the young mother must make an agonising decision br br inspired by real life events 'who will love my children' is a tribute to one woman's courage and strength a story of sacrifice and of a dying mother's undying love br br one of the best films that i have ever seen cried from start to finish
1	i blubbered like a little girl during the ending of this movie and i dare anyone else to hold it together without a sob absolutely heart wrenching stuff yet uplifting at it's core br br a great effort on the part of ann margaret who plays a terminally ill mother of ten who knowing her arthritic steel working husband won't be able to support the family when she is gone arranges the of her children before she shuffles off the role really deserved an oscar br br you truly feel for this poor family as the dying mother gives her all to ensure that her kids don't end up in a poorly administered state orphanage system br br if you haven't seen it get it if you can
1	i have nothing but praise for this movie and cast especially ann margaret but more importantly i have praise for my in laws who were are the adoptive parents of warren and frank in real life i met most of the children at warren's wedding in 1989 this is an amazing story and is even more incredible to me knowing the family and what everyone went through it is also enjoyable for me to see how my in laws were portrayed in the movie it was pretty accurate my wife even enjoys seeing some little details such as a toaster that she remembered from her childhood yes it is a hard movie to watch but so amazing and heartfelt br br the beauty of this story for me is how many of the children passed through my in laws lives and as a result of marrying their daughter and having warren as a brother in law how many i have met in mine for the past 20 years this story has been a part of my life because of what my mother in law has shared with me that and knowing warren for what it is worth warren lives in california with his family he married his high school sweetheart who he with at his 20 year high school reunion br br there was a show in the 1980's called that's incredible they had a reunion of the family who also got to meet the cast of the show br br for anyone's interest the dvd is available in great britain and australia it is a tough video to come by here in the united states and i have not been able to find a dvd here yet
1	ann margret did the best job she has ever done in her history of film making i felt as if she was mrs there might be one or two films of ann i have not seen since her film debut in pocket full of miracles with betty davis in 1961 i feel she has been totally under rated in the industry though she was nominated for an emmy award for this role in who will love my children she was overlooked like she was nominated for an academy award for her roles in carnal knowledge and tommy she was snubbed over all i think everyone did a superb acting job including all the children in who will love my children yes it is a sad movie as true stories can be but well worth the time thank you
1	this movie is based on the true story of iowa housewife lucille fray who got breast cancer after the birth of her 10th child realizing that the state would take the children away from her ineffectual alcoholic husband she devoted the last year of her life traveling around the state to find new homes for each of the children a terrific script which still holds up 20 years after it was first made the grown children many of whom had not seen each other since their mother died in the late 50's were reunited on that's incredible prior to the film's airing in 1983 barbara stanwyck won the emmy for best actress in a tv movie or mini series but during her acceptance speech she went out of her way to single ann margret out for her moving performance
1	i originally saw this on its premiere in the uk i was mesmerised by it and it had me in tears all throughout its duration i taped it off the tv for but over the years it's worn out and tv never seem to show it therefore it was a joy to find out that true movies own the copyright and were showing it on their channels this time i taped it onto a dvd so i can enjoy it again and again br br lucile fray played magnificently by ann margret discovers she has cancer and that it is terminal her husband has arthritis and although he is loving he is an alcoholic and would be incapable of taking care of their children after she has gone therefore she has to find new homes for each of her children before she dies br br the acting is top notch the music beautiful and it has stood the test of time wonderfully it still makes me cry if you ever get the chance you would be silly to miss this it is a wonderful film a must see for everyone
1	i was still living with my parents when they aired this on dutch tv usually i was the one watching movies with the other's not caring but somehow we all sat down and watched this movie this kinda movie used to be aired at wednesday evening it is the story of a woman who'll die soon but before she dies she wants to make sure her many kids will have the best possible foster parents so we were watching this and my dad the most emotional of the four of us started to cry i followed almost immediately and before long my sister and mother were teared up too there we were totally moved by this simple but heartbreaking story if you want a good cry this is the one for you
1	this has to be the ultimate chick flick ever we taped it off the t v years ago and i've watched it about 30 times over the years i hadn't seen it for about 12 years and just recently watched this movie i'm not lying i cried from the opening credits to the ending credits this movie truly tears your heart out even if you don't have children
1	who will love my children saddest movie i have ever seen definite 10 10 released on tv in 1983 movie has been released on vhs dvd release is a must sooner rather than later mother dying of cancer must find homes for all her children before she dies because her thoughts are that her husband and father of the kids is not capable of caring for them once she has died she manages to find homes for the children except one a young boy whom is not wanted because he suffers from epilepsy very sad when your not wanted in for a real good tear jerker get your hands on this movie i'm a male even i cried when i watched this movie not to be missed
1	i first saw this film in the early 80's on cable it was unique as a statement about the sixties culture war music race and a bunch of things i'm certain i missed however about a year ago it came back into my life as i started enjoying it with my son he's a little young 9 for a lot of the themes in it but he understands dancing hippies are fun to watch and he gets the idea that end is ironic while i can't think of other films in this genre it does have a stand alone genius i love it also does a unique justice to central park most musicals are lost on me one way or another tommy was over the top and heavy handed in direction oliver seemed like crowd control on the silver screen the wall was so much abstract self important and indulgent dribble but listening to failure of the flesh from hair sounds right for our times today as it did in the eighties as it must have in the sixties truly timeless
1	i watched this film many years ago on tv and taped it from there i could never really understand why my own mother was upset watching it it was because i was so young at the time i have just sat and watched this film again i now have 2 children of my own and i had to try and fight the tears back but that didn't happen i was crying through most of the film it just to show how different you feel when you have children of your own such an amazing family such a heart wrenching film truly wonderful someone has said about 8 still living any more news are you all still in touch i would love to know touched by the film all over
1	i saw this movie when it was broadcast on television in february of 1983 i was in the hospital having just given birth to my first and only child i'll refrain from telling you the extent to which i was moved suffice it to say that the memory of the movie has remained with me to this day almost 23 years later i hope i can find a copy of this movie if such a thing was ever made this movie should be remembered fondly by anyone who ever saw it however i must admit that the fact it remains somewhat obscure is just fine by me this way it will always be a small secret to me and those who were also moved by it i never saw ms margaret perform a better part nor have i ever seen her in a more convincing role i will forever respect her just for accepting such a lovely part
1	who will love my children has changed my heart it made me cry all the way through the most i cried with was when the family had to say goodbye to the baby i cried the most with that and each time a child was adopted i cried when they had to say goodbye to their mother it was sad for them to lose their mother i felt sorry for the kid with epilepsy i was glad he was adopted by the same family as one of his brothers to me that boy i thought was the special one because he was going in a home i feel that i am special because i am in a world with syndrome and sometimes when i feel down i sometimes like to cry i really enjoyed this movie 10 out of 10 a true story very good another movie that would bring tears to your eyes i think would haver to be with http www imdb com title
1	most definitely the saddest movie i have ever seen a must see just so you can walk away and realise just how precious your life and loves are the acting is superb the story line potentially 'real' br br remains a firm favourite of mine even after all this time
1	i was just looking up who will love my children to buy when i came across this web site and an entry made by a fellow briton i am a great fan of this movie and would and have recommended it to all what i found comforting is to find someone else who also finds comfort in the good will of others i also have a son with amongst other things and it is also a fear of mine to think if anything ever happened to me and my husband that someone would not only want to take on just my beautiful 'normal' daughter but my special and gifted son also missing home and being able to relate to people raised with the same values as myself has more meaning than you know living here in the us i have yet to meet anyone who has seen this movie so to all of you reading this if you have not seen it make an effort to do so it is a very moving experience especially for anyone who is a parent or even if you just have a sympathetic bone in your body you will cry and beg after that you will count your blessings and to anyone who has ever been through an experience like or close to this one my heart goes out to you it makes me realize no matter how hard or stressful thing get just remind yourself that there is always someone worse off than you an amazing movie and what makes it more powerful is the fact that it is based on a true story do not be put off by how sad it is at the same time this movie is heart warming and makes you feel encouraged about the strength and goodness of mankind
1	i saw this movie so long ago but it remains in my memory as the saddest movie ever i cried non stop my mother will not ever watch this movie again because its almost painful to watch anyway apart from that the story isn't exactly complex ann margaret is dying and has to give away her 10 children as if that isn't bad enough it is during the depression and she has to break up the close siblings one by one i guess this was very sad to me because i too am from a very large close knit family and could identify with each child's pain of leaving their mother and siblings br br maybe i am a masochist but i would like to see this movie again because it was well done and the end surprisingly is slightly happy so at least we could smile and sob simultaneously it should come on tv sometime so i can see it again
1	forget all those sappy romantic movies involving notebooks and lip locked couples who somehow manage to go to the great beyond together after a screen lifetime of over simplified unrealistic romance forget all those shameless dog gives its life to save its family flicks although i have to admit that i have a soft spot for them myself forget ricky schroeder already displaying his propensity to overact at a tender age now that one was shameless br br this tv movie which unfortunately never seems to get aired anymore is the all time champion of tear jerkers hands down and a well written and well acted story to boot ann margret took a big chance in taking this role nothing flamboyant or sexy about her here and that's a monumental achievement in itself based on a true story she plays lucile fray a terminally ill mother who chooses to struggle till her dying breath to find good homes for her ten children instead of leaving them in the hands of unpredictable government agencies frederic forrest does a great job as her husband the good hearted but unreliable breadwinner whose crippling arthritis and personal demons make him unable to care for the kids br br the film takes us through heart wrenching process of interviewing prospective parents and then watching her kids leave home it also gives us the perspective of the children themselves and of the father grieving over the tragedy taking place now and the one sure to follow and frustrated over his inability to do more the scene in which the youngest of the children steven is taken to his new home is the most heart breaking i've ever watched now i grew up as a hopeless romantic and have spent the many years since then growing myself a harder more cynical shell i usually find more to mock than to empathize with in the sentimental cinematic tripe foisted upon us these days but this gem from the early 1980's still slays me br br i really wish that someone with a lick of marketing sense would release a dvd version of this drama among the special features one needs to include the emmy awards telecast the following year a m was nominated for this role but the award for best dramatic actress went to barbara stanwyck for thorn birds in what has to be one of the greatest moments in what is now a truly drab awards show stanwyck broke into tears during her acceptance speech and gushed out ann margret i love you which brought ann m to tears br br one final note the imdb rating for who will love my children is 6 4 as of this writing however over 75 of the ratings are in the 8 10 range mostly 10's whatever kind of system this site uses to modify the overall ratings of the movies listed by imdb it completely misses the mark on this one this one is the weeper of all time and a darn good tv movie to boot
1	i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america but this man does it for me that mustache gets me riled up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat was amazing the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would be if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself will be doing a reunion tour take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fades away vive la john denver gracias my friend o f f l fan for life
1	first of all i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary not only it had great music in it but the shots and the editing were also wonderful however all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist east meets west cliché that bothers many turks like myself okay this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering and however the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as east from the eyes of the west i mean like one jazz musician says in the film maybe there is no east and west maybe it is just a myth a lie created by the ruling leaders of western countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and keep the cash flowing br br why don't you think about that
1	i have been away from istanbul for the last 10 years during that time i constantly lived in london when i have seen the movie i realised how much i am i am not just from turkey i am a part of turkey one of my part is istanbul the sound of the istanbul the people of the istanbul br br probably faith akin thought that he has done great musical documentary but i must say it is more than that it is about putting nice blend of vastly different musics cultures approaches politics into a delicious pot br br as we all know turkey to be precise istanbul is always comes and goes between being eastern or western city as one of the band member said istanbul is a bi cultural city but much more a eastern city because we always tried to be a western city it shows we've never been one br br this movie will catch from very first second music is excellent people are fascinating especially and singers band members it is nice to see you all at a small cinema in wood green
1	the largest crowd to ever see a wrestling event in the us took place at wrestlemania 6 over 93 000 people showed up to break the rolling stones indoor record and this event didn't disappoint at all maybe the biggest match of all time took place as the immortal hulk defended his world title against the ultimate warrior there are over 12 matches in all so you get tons of action
1	a european musician and composer sets out to capture the musical diversity of istanbul a lover of experimenting with sound alexander of the german avantgarde band roams the streets of istanbul with his mobile recording studio and magic mike to assemble an inspired portrait of turkish music his voyage leads to the discovery of a broad spectrum ranging from modern electronic rock and hip hop to classical as he wanders through this seductive world alex collects impressions and tracks by artists such as neo psychedelic band baba fusion djs orient expressions rock groups and maverick rocker answer to public enemy breakdance performers istanbul style breakers digital dervish renowned canadian folk singer brenna street performers kurdish singer the elvis of and legendary divas and
1	the bridge the sound of is one of the best music documentaries that i have seen lately and is more than a film about music it is also a musical love declaration about a fabulous city one of the greatest city in europe and the world one of the most important cities for europe history and for islam the city that may bridge in the future europe and the middle east or may signify once again as is already happened in history the precipice between two worlds br br then there is the music the interesting approach that the film takes with regard to music is that it starts from modern music and we hear a lot of good rock and rap in the first third of the film an then like a backwards move in time the soundtrack takes us to the roots to turkish traditional music to commercial romances and to the exotic instruments that are basic elements in the landscape of turkish music in such a complex and conflict ridden country as turkey is the film does not avoid some of the political aspects like censorship introduced by the military rule in the 80s or the relevance of the songs of the minorities especially the kurdish one one of the best musical moments is actually provided by a kurdish singer with a fantastic voice singing in a cathedral shaped turkish bath br br one gets to love the city and its music by the end of the viewing and hearing of this film i have never been to istanbul but after having seen this film i am sure that i want to visit this place soon
1	this is a great documentary and above comments make a brief summary of how great it was so i won't repeat the same compliments but faith akin being an turkish oriented guy who probably knows about that country more than an ordinary european falls into the trap of orientalism that other western artists usually fall but come on man you are turkish blooded and your movie could be deeper and could describe what's beyond old town it's a missed opportunity for that reason performances by and are peek of the movie and a very talented and bad ass turkish rapper makes some trash talk about american gangsta rappers which i totally agree i will recommend this movie to my american friends
1	turkish german director faith head on the edge of heaven follows german musician and head on soundtrack composer alexander of to istanbul for this documentary which delves into the modern music scene of the city from to indie rock and was screened out of competition at the 2005 cannes film festival br br alexander makes for an amiable guide as he travels around istanbul with a mobile recording studio and a microphone in hand where he runs into and records the likes of classic rocker rapper kurdish singer singer and pop star as well as rock bands baba and br br the director has pulled together a diverse collection of popular performers and ground breaking acts from what was at the time a highly competitive short list to give an eclectic account of modern turkish music as seen from the streets of its cultural capital which will enchant and entertain even if at times it seems a little rushed and unfocused br br music can reveal to you everything about a place
1	turkish culture is complete with lots of different cultures different cultures have different styles of music istanbul is like the mixture of turkey it has mostly the same language but different dialects this documentary shows us these different kinds of music with different dialects and different instruments you can watch with singers and groups their performances their daily life and learn their thoughts of music the movie includes not only the music of istanbul but the life in istanbul how people communicate and what they eat and drink the surprising part is although i live in istanbul i learned lots of things from this movie
1	istanbul is a big crowded city between europe and asia too many types of people living together there for hundred years in this documentary movie you can see how music can give description about the culture of the owner race br br you would be able to hear too many types of music including rock hip hop alternative and more some of the musicians are famous in turkey some of them are famous also in europe the rest are just street musicians their music tell viewers different faces of a city br br impressive
1	this movie is one of the most memorable films i have seen i went reluctantly with a turkish friend who recommended it i am not a very enthusiastic proponent of music documentaries but when a kurdish woman banned for years from singing in turkey sings her piece the theater was in awe i would give my all to hear a cd recording of this haunting gorgeous song and she is just one of many artist interviewed and recorded speaking of their experiences of performing in istanbul even now a month later i remember the footage of singing in an acoustic auditorium and i try to remember the music as it echoed in the cinema well done to faith akin the director of this film and his great idea to capture the many splendid sounds of such a cosmopolitan city it would certainly encourage me to visit istanbul
1	i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed at first there is a gentle breeze and the leaves on the trees softly sway out there far away the bells of water carriers ring i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed br br i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed then suddenly birds fly by flocks of birds high up with a hue and cry while the nets are drawn in the fishing grounds and a woman's feet begin to dabble in the water i am to istanbul intent my eyes closed br br i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed the grand serene and cool an uproar at the hub of the market mosque yards are full of pigeons while hammers bang and clang at the docks spring winds bear the smell of sweat i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed br br i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed still giddy from the of the past a seaside mansion with dingy is fast asleep amid the din and drone of southern winds reposed i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed br br i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed a pretty girl walks by on the sidewalk four letter words whistles and songs rude remarks something falls out of her hand it is a rose i guess i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed br br i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed a bird flutters round your skirt on your brow is there sweat or not i know are your lips wet or not i know a silver moon rises beyond the pine trees i can sense it all in your heart's throbbing i am listening to istanbul intent my eyes closed br br for you br br for you my fellow humans everything is for you nights are for you days are for you daylight is for you moonlight is for you leaves in the moonlight wonder and wisdom in the leaves myriad greens in daylight yellow is for you and pink the feel of the skin on the palm its warmth its softness the comfort of lying down for you are all the greetings and the masts in the harbor names of the days names of the months fresh paint on is for you feet potter's hands sweat on foreheads bullets fired on graves are for you and tombstones jails and handcuffs and death sentences are for you everything is for you br br sea nostalgia br br vessels sail along my dreams over the roofs ships in a feast of color and poor me yearning for the sea year in year out i gaze and weep i recall my first sight of the world through a shell i pried open the water and the bluest sky and the of lump fish my blood still flows salty where the oysters slit my skin what a mad speed plunge was ours into the high seas on the whitest foam foam bears no malice like lips whose adultery with men is no disgrace br br vessels sail along our dreams over the roofs ships in a feast of color and poor me yearning for the sea year in year out br br br br i could not have said anything better than what said about istanbul about this movie all i have is praise a very nice and balanced introduction to a city and its music that connected asia europe and africa at one point of time
1	ich will herr den mein deutsch ist nicht gut br br first of all i didn't know how diverse the sound of istanbul inspite i live in turkey faith akin and alexander have made a different approach for turkish music narrating performing seeing istanbul and istanbul music from a foreigner aspect had given the real meaning of the music itself br br in this movie i had found out how different our turkish culture is how interesting our performers are and how much respect they deserve unfortunately no one have been able to serve this kind of documentary before
1	german born turkish director faith akin captures in his film the endless variety of the different styles in music and songs in istanbul a city that is a bridge between east and west a city that is uniquely located on both sides of the in europe and in asia kurdish represented by who performs her own brand of kurdish gospel music passionate and melodic we are introduced to romany to who has been called the elvis of music sounds of music are heard everywhere in the city as faith akin takes us into underground clubs to the street performers and to recording sessions german bassist alexander who comes to istanbul to play and to learn about turkish music quotes confucius to understand the place you have to listen to the music it plays akin's fine documentary does just that gives us 90 minutes of music that helps to cross the bridges for me watching the movie was especially interesting because i recently visited istanbul as a part of my vacation and spent four days there the city fascinated me by its images colors crowds vibrancy and visual beauty now i can add the sounds of music to the ever changing portrait of istanbul
1	spoilers ahead br br great wrestlemanias were still a few years away but this one was certainly good with lots of good matches and one great match br br demolition was always at their best at wrestlemania i'm glad their last wm hoorah i refuse to include the other version was a win over the colossal connection i liked the gag of andre never tagging in br br few fans know that this was the first time anyone ever beat mr perfect for some reason brutus feat was never recognized or the fact that he did it pretty easily br br the hart win over the bolsheviks was the shortest in wm history including the 24 9 second match between king kong bundy and s d jones br br i'm glad jake and dibiase got to fight at wrestlemania this made up for the fact that the feud had to be put on hold for so long br br i expected the big bossman akeem feud to heat up but the bossman just clobbered him as good as bossman was as a heel he was just great as a face he was always intense and obviously loved his job br br if the warrior just had a better work ethic and maybe tried to learn to wrestle he would have been a great wwf champion br br worth a watch especially since the boring matches are too short to complain about and the tag team matches are all very exciting
1	there are questions that sometimes hover over us and have no answer two women progressively find themselves ensnared in each other's arms as corny as the expression sounds that is exactly what happens and fins that they cannot answer their own question as to what defines their relationship when their very own society has no name to what they are deepa mehta's somewhat mis titled fire is the first of a loosely connected trilogy here linked by the theme of the elements and more symbolic than consuming fire as uncontrolled erotic passion does not make an appearance here since the women the older and more feminine radha shabana azmi and the younger more masculine tempered sita nandita das come to realize they share a lot more than common ideas and affection for each other and stand for what they believe is their passion for each other despite the opposition faced by their very traditional husbands and families as in water fire is deeply spiritual even if it technically falls into the mode of sentimental melodrama where water much like the weight of the word carries a stronger meaning that ultimately transcends its definition even so it's a very beautiful picture and a strong voice from a strong director
1	by watching this film you will not only explore the turkish music but will also explore the city of istanbul with wonderful pictures and scenes from all over the important regions of the city there are lots of delightful conversations with all sorts of musicians and their thoughts about music culture there is also discussions about the mixture of east and west like istanbul has how they make their music how do they see themselves comparing to other country's musicians it consists the music of baba the turkish queen of music an important work of art
1	faith akin has made me realize once more the deepness of my passion for this city called istanbul being addressed as a city of cultural mosaics faith akin has contributed to that addressing through the mosaics of music performed in the film what's more the climax of the film in my opinion is the scene where a turkish music diva sings at age 86 as well as she had done in her younger years and rolls the glass in the air without pouring out one drop which is a traditional act in culture she is just marvellous a turkish pop singer with her mystical and meaningful looks at the end of her song which gives the film its turkish title makes the scene no less than a climax last but not least the wonderful scenery of istanbul can make you feel nostalgic if you are away beware
1	if you're a fan of turkish and middle eastern music you're in great luck this film is a documentary of current music in istanbul spanning the traditional to the modern it's very good you could not do better if you went to istanbul yourself we get interviews with concert clips of modern musical icons a road show with a gypsy audience turkish hip hop surprisingly very very good and much much more some of the best female i've ever heard a kurdish woman singing in a steam bath who will rip your heart out lots of social and political background if this is your thing you'll have a grand time i could barely sit still in the theatre br br cd soundtrack now available on amazon pricey
1	like many other commentators here i went in expecting a taste of music that would satisfy my curiosity and got more than i asked for i heard and saw a powerful exquisite sometimes haunting sometimes touching lyrical sentimental in the truest way and absolutely stunning blend of music and musicians reminded me a lot of some forms of indian music east indian but at the same time was very very different br br starting from the the first track by baba to the kurdish singer what a voice to to the jam session or ' as we call it in india in the small turkish bar ft big fan now i enjoyed every minute and wished it wouldn't end br br one of the best music commentaries i have seen and heard in a long time br br i am craving for a cd of the sound track and hope i can find it online somewhere soon and also for old and latest albums from baba br br a day later the music is still etched in my brain and i don't want it to go away turkey and specifically istanbul now seem such beautiful and exciting places and i am going to start saving today to go take it in br br faith akin this is a gem
1	akin's prize winning 2004 movie head on gegen die wand depicted the appealingly chaotic world of a self destructive but dynamic turkish german rocker named this documentary is an offshoot of head on and explores the range of music one might find in istanbul today if one were as energetic and curious as german avant rock musician alexander of the group who arranged the sound track and performed some of the music for head on and had the assistance of a film crew and turkish speakers provided by director akin you get everything from rap to the most traditional turkish classical song with rock kurdish music and turkish pop in between it's as chaotic and open ended a world as one where east is east and west is west but the meet br br like istanbul itself which sits on the edge between europe and asia and brings the two worlds together while remaining sui generis this is a that includes turkish pop turkish traditional songs kurdish laments roma jazz musicians and group of street lively and offbeat shots of istanbul street life and some talk on camera about synthesis and some personal and musical history by singers and musicians working out of the grand hotel de in quarter where stayed at the end of head on while looking for his beloved roams around the city with crew and equipment interviewing people and recording their music br br he begins with some loud rock by the neo psychedelic band baba – these are musicians he bonded with while putting together head score and he stands in here for the absent bassist and by turkish including brave female rappers – thus causing some oldsters to walk out of the theater early on and miss the predominantly tuneful and easy to listen to sounds that makes up the bulk of the film head narrative excesses were tempered periodically by musical interludes performed by a traditional turkish orchestra sitting outdoors on the other side of the gives us the opportunity to meet and hear performances by some of the best known living turkish singers including a lady in her late eighties whose aging elegant musicians remind one of the way the great egyptian umm used to perform gets songwriter movie star to do a striking solo on the long necked he's written all his songs on and persuades the now elusive great to do a special performance of one of her most famous songs memory of istanbul this is a coup and so is the lament by a beautiful kurdish recorded in a bath whose acoustics are spectacular if only they could have turned down the heat – singer and musician's faces stream with sweat there is also a young canadian woman brenna fluent in turkish who sings turkish traditional with expression and fervor the sound mix is of high quality throughout one would like to see a sequel many great of turkish popular and classical music have necessarily been left out br br film released summer 2005 and shown at festivals in 2005 and 2006 opened at the film center in new york city in june 9 2006
1	it is a very great film documentary about istanbul and their people and it's music of every kind editing and the success of the director is very impressive i've been interested with faith akin since i saw the gegen die wand head on 305 and i admired his work very much but this one has been the most touching one for me so i'm here writing this it is not just about turks or something like that it is a very good biography of a city and how music stay alive in it we can say there are views of many people and so very variant ideas about even life and love i liked it very much and i thing anyone and everyone should see it not only but especially the ones anyhow related with turkey
1	this is such an exciting documentary it was by far one of the most fun films i've ever seen i highly recommend it to anyone it's such a fun look at different musical styles exciting people at the crossroads between modern and traditional that is istanbul and great cinematography that captures beautiful scenes in istanbul and thrace watching the film made me want to book a flight for istanbul right away br br great footage of a turkish rapper br br also his sister rapping she is awesome br br priceless performances by amazing turkish musicians br br the gorgeous voice of singing in kurdish br br and amazing clarinet and signing of a romany gypsy group from thrace br br last but not least istanbul bands mixing turkish music and rock as well as trance music baba orient expressions and others
1	this film offers you a fascinating trip through one of the most exiting cities of today istanbul and its musicians do not expect a compilation of turkish folklore or anything like that alexander a german musician and member of the cult band travels to istanbul to get to know the music scene his sparse voice overs of what he experiences are a guiding line through the film but mainly german turkish director faith akin lets various artists from istanbul do the talking and of course their music br br you meet a variety of personalities big stars and street musicians young and old people playing many different musical styles but this movie does not only introduce you to the sound of istanbul it also draws a compelling picture of istanbul today and how turkey has forged ahead in the last decade the film characterises its protagonists with subtle humour but never without respect all of them share a passion for music and the belief in its power br br akin again shows his talent to portray diversity lightheartedly when he brings you close to completely different musical scenes after his award winning feature film gegen die wand head on faith akin proves with crossing the bridge that he is equally able to touch entertain and guide his audience in a documentary if you have never been in istanbul you will want to go there after having seen the film
1	crossing the bridge the sound of istanbul received one of the most rapturous applause from the audience when it ended and very deservingly so i did not expect too much from a musical documentary but the movie proved to be much more than that it was also a visual documentary of istanbul with stark contrasts of old and new western and eastern poor and rich modern and traditional black and white photographs of old istanbul by world famous photographer were exceptional but of course main theme was music and by god what a variety of it it was in a way similar to vistas social club the love and the respect of the interviewer alexander here replacing ray cooder for the musicians exuded from the screen and engulfed us all the music was mostly very interesting the jazz session by a group of romany gypsies in a small western turkish town was mind blowing i will not be surprised if the travel agents start getting group booking requests for after the movie is released but i most loved who looked amazingly elegant in a sort of burlesque way and whilst tipping her declared courageously my voice and i are 86 years old well done faith akin i bet there are many more turkish musicians who are feeling left out go for volume ii please
1	this is a movie about the music that is currently being played in istanbul istanbul was the center of the two old world superpowers the byzantine empire and the ottoman empire today it is a megalopolis of almost 10 million so it is to no ones surprise that a lot of music is being played in istanbul with a great variety of voices styles and influences from everywhere on the globe it is turkish music of course and i was fascinated by turkish music ever since i bought my first record long time ago the movie features different singers instrumentalists and bands spoken comments from the musicians nicely illustrate the music being played and the social context in modern turkey for my perspective the most interesting comments were from furthermore the movies shows urban scenery mainly from istanbul which is very pleasant to watch br br crossing the bridge is listed as a documentary and it includes music from minorities e g and roma other important topics are omitted such as turkish jazz music or music of the and greeks br br this movie is strongly recommended for lovers of the music and culture of turkey the balkans the eastern mediterranean and the middle east it may also be worthwhile for those with a keen interest in the global effects of musical styles such as rock and roll or hip hop
1	this event defined an era of wrestling entertainment that i believe is not equaled today the colorful characters in their stereotypical garb brought a certain charm to the show that has since been raped by society and overexposed wrestling had a bit of an innocence back then a kid could watch it without watching an episode of jerry springer br br looking back now i was 5 at the time although i loved both warrior and hogan i think i enjoyed warrior more because of his mystique hogan was the branded hero who an impressive public image the ultimate warrior on the other hand was a masked man of few words an out of the limelight hero for a different audience br br this rivalry was so exciting as a kid because of this duality in me duking it out for each combatant i had a place for both of them because there was bloodshed too in this long heavy battle the stakes were high at least to me as a kid on a similar note because of hogan's defeat this made him more human i remember feeling kind of sorry for him br br all of these emotions at play in the juvenile boy's soap opera made wrestlemania vi such a great time to witness this game
1	a rare lengthy kinski feature role as crazy johnny sex crazed outlaw who is wanted in san francisco kinski's character is obsessed with raping women a sexual predator in the old west who has nothing more but stealing raping and killing on his mind this movie maybe a major disappointment for many spaghetti western fans but not for many klaus fans overall it had two things going for it a great performance from klaus kinski and a great music score by stelvio br br another story line which needed much more work done to it to be impactive but still fun to watch br br it would be nice to see this movie redone in the future since most old movies are being re made nowadays
1	klaus kinski popped up in a sizable number of spaghetti westerns throughout the 60's and early 70's he was usually cast in secondary parts as nasty villains kooky klaus lands himself a juicy lead role as crazy johnny laster a foul twitchy and deranged sex maniac who comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely heiress in order to obtain her considerable inheritance johnny and his gang become wanted fugitives after the plan goes disastrously awry writer director mario costa ably crafts a compelling portrait of a severely sick and twisted piece of sniveling low life work the plot unfolds at a steady pace the tone is appropriately gritty and serious and the exciting action scenes are staged with real skill and brio the shoot outs in rock are especially gripping and thrilling ironically dressed in white oozing oily charisma from every rotten pore and jumping on beautiful women every chance he gets kinski's johnny makes for a fascinatingly creepy and monstrous brute kinski is simply spectacular as this gloriously repellent character he receives fine support from the luscious gabriella as sweet fiery saloon girl juanita steven as the cheery riccardo giovanni as ruthless band gang leader machete giuliano as smart lawyer gary pinkerton and paolo as johnny's sensible parter glen kudos are also in order for stelvio cipriani's moody and spirited score well worth seeing for kinski fans
1	buffalo bill hero of the far west director mario costa's unsavory spaghetti western the beast with klaus kinski could only have been produced in europe hollywood would never dared to have made a western about a sexual predator on the prowl as the protagonist of a movie never mind that kinski is ideally suited to the role of 'crazy' johnny he plays an individual entirely without sympathy who is ironically dressed from head to toe in a white suit pants and hat this low budget oater has nothing appetizing about it the typically breathtaking spanish scenery around almeria is nowhere in evidence instead costa and his director of photography luciano who shot another kinski western and god said to cain lensed this horse opera in rather mundane setting around tor lazio italy and monte falls river lazio italy nevertheless the beast qualifies as a continental western because it deals with wholly unscrupulous characters and the action could be classified as film noir because the hero and heroine are trapped by intolerable circumstances that compel them to resort to criminal activities predictably their well laid plans backfire owing largely to the kinski character indeed the licentious kinski character resembles a wily e coyote type character consistently he struggles to have sex with several beautiful women but either lawmen or outlaws frustrate each of his efforts ultimately the beast amounts to a tragic character study brimming with irony the stelvio orchestral score sounds as if it were lifted by the tony anthony western the stranger returns the mario costa screenplay takes place on the western frontier between san diego and mexico that is being terrorized by a notorious mexican bandit called machete giovanni of we still kill the old way and his gang they prey on the stagecoach and nobody is safe from their the first time that we see 'crazy' johnny laster he pauses to refresh himself at a stream and spots a gorgeous looking woman washing clothes he creeps up behind her and attacks her but a bigger man armed with a rifle intervenes and he has to flee he shows up in a nearby town and a snuff snorting gunslinger recruits him to help ambush a wealthy man mr powers on the trail and rob him they wind up killing him and getting no money mr snuff accidentally leaves his snuff box at the scene of the crime and the sheriff arrests on suspicion of murder 'crazy' shoots his accomplice from his hotel room so that he doesn't have to worry about being implicated in the crime br br meanwhile a young couple in love are having trouble making their way in the world riccardo steven of requiem for a bounty killer lives a mexican couple on their ranch and helps them raise their real son juan in the village lovely girlfriend juanita gabriella of stranger in sacramento sings and dances in the cantina riccardo and juanita plan to marry but the last place that juanita wants to settle down is on a dusty ranch she dreams of living in the city but life in the city requires more money than either riccardo or she has they team up with a blond outlaw name glen paolo of shoot the living and pray for the dead and they plan to kidnap mr power's daughter nancy when she comes to get her inheritance glen makes the fatal mistake of enlisting 'crazy' johnny to help them because glen knows that johnny needs the money to get women br br they abduct powers' daughter and keep her at a remote cabin with johnny standing guard over her meantime juanita masquerades as powers' daughter and shows up in town to get the money from powers' attorney gary pinkerton giuliano of blood and black lace but he grows suspicious because juanita doesn't look anything like he remembered nancy riccardo brandishes his six gun and warns pinkerton that they have kidnapped nancy unfortunately for riccardo and juanita pinkerton can only lay his hands on 50 thousand because machete has struck such fear into the hearts of everybody that the powers' total inheritance cannot be shipped through the territory by stagecoach meanwhile back at the cabin horny johnny tries to rape nancy but she outsmarts him knows him out with a chair on the pretense of needing to be alone while she undresses after she knocks him unconscious she steals a buggy and drives it back to town johnny recovers pursues her and murders her about the same time that glen riccardo juanita and pinkerton meet him on the trail they inform johnny about the complications created by machete's reign of terror and give him 12 thousand as his cut of the money pinkerton is aghast at the sight of nancy's bloodstained corpse and threatens johnny naturally johnny guns him down in cold blood on the spot br br things really begin to deteriorate as the law in san diego sets out to capture machete glen riccardo and juanita return to mexico while johnny attacks two women at a ranch and narrowly escapes getting caught he rides to mexico finds a cantina whore and is going down on her when a bounty shoves a revolver in his face johnny confesses that he knows where they can find more money if they will release him machete's men follow up on johnny's tip and capture juanita the villagers join riccardo to attack machete and johnny rescues juanita but she dies later on after a big shoot out riccardo is left standing alone now machete and his men retaliated against his step parents not only killing them but also little juan everything that riccardo and juanita dreamed up having goes up in clouds of gun smoke for an unhappy ending 'crazy' johnny dies and never gets to assuage his lust if you think about costa's uncompromising the beast emerges as an interesting character study and an exercise in film noir in a western setting where everybody is punished
1	lloyd hamilton was one of the most imaginative and among the funniest of all the silent film comedians why is he utterly forgotten unfortunately the original negatives for a large percentage of his films were lost when the fox warehouse burnt in the early 1930s hamilton was not handsome or graceful like chaplin keaton and lloyd nor was he dapper like raymond griffith and unlike harry langdon and again chaplin hamilton did not try for audience sympathy br br however his films were hugely popular at the time of their original release and they remain hilarious today oscar levant once claimed that he asked chaplin if there was any other comedian whom he'd ever envied and chaplin instantly named lloyd hamilton the character most frequently portrayed by hamilton on screen a flat capped naff with fastidious hand gestures and a duck like walk was later adapted by vaudeville comedian eddie garr teri father and further adapted by jackie gleason as his 1950s tv character 'the poor soul' br br 'the movies' directed by roscoe arbuckle is one of hamilton's most innovative shorts and it's hilarious we first see him as a country boy bidding farewell to his family outside their homespun cottage on his way to the big city then he steps away from the cottage and we see that it's in the big city with traffic booming all round him br br eventually our hero ends up at a restaurant uncredited but it's the montmartre cafe in downtown l a where all the movie actors eat between takes there's an amusing gag when hamilton's bumpkin character meets three actors in costume and makeup as presidents washington lincoln and roosevelt this gag would have been funnier if the looked more like the originals finally our lad seats himself at a table hoping to meet a celebrity sure enough entering the restaurant and sitting at the very next table is a big movie star none other than lloyd hamilton there's a very well made double exposure shot the join is nearly invisible when lloyd hamilton as himself greets lloyd hamilton as the country boy br br sadly hamilton's peak period of creativity was very brief he began his film career in crude slapstick films as one half of a double act ham and bud opposite bud duncan and had a brief and blazing period of stardom in shorts during the late silent period sound movies were not kind to hamilton and he was quickly shoved down the cast list in some crude early talkies then he died young fortunately 'the movies' is quite funny and a splendid introduction to this unique comedians' style i'll rate it 7 out of 10
1	yes i know roscoe arbuckle didn't like to be called 'fatty' but i couldn't resist the joke br br this is a fine lloyd hamilton short from his peak period directed by roscoe the two work together with lots of good gags and usual attention to the details of shooting the picture in an interesting manner most comedians preferred flat lighting and a still camera to make them more interesting roscoe uses a couple of long tracking shots and some nice camera trickery to tell his story and to show ham as a fine actor as well as a talented comedian br br this story plays with some interesting themes like lloyd's classic move along here it's about perceptions of reality and the confusion that movies make of them or you might choose to ignore such issues and laugh your head off
1	when i saw this movie at age 6 it was in the childrens' section at video because it was animation we watched it and it was a whole different ball game a very violent story and graphic deaths are very entertaining and compelling but not for children avoid for family viewing my mom nearly had a heart attack and ripped the video apart
1	this was a great anime true the animation is old but its still worth watching and has a better plot than ninja scroll the problem that it was kinda long br br japanese movie star hiroyuki sanada who played from last samurai played the main character and it was directed by rintaro who did galaxy express 999 and metropolis br br the anime has some good animation for an old anime interesting characters like the main villain and ando and of course lets not forget the beautiful musical scores in the film br br all in all this movie is worth watching for fans of anime animation in general action and samurai ninja flicks despite the lows in the film that didn't the film from being a great film to watch br br don't miss this film
1	this is an excellent anime movie it is well animated has a good intricate plot and very good music i understand that some may think of it as a little long but i think that it is a good length and the animation is good traditional anime br br three characters br br the way they use is masterly for example the body double showing up at all these locations adds to the ominous tone of the movie the design of is good too the way he looks as a monk and in the end scene the armour he is wearing br br the old man is down to earth and a very likable character when meets him it's a turning point in the movie br br the shinobi who infiltrated clan saves life twice he stays in the background most of the movie though but he is really one of the heroes of the movie br br the plot the plot is good it is traditional without being unoriginal the historical time it is acted out in is interesting the meiji restoration the treasure is sought after by to restore the shogunate while when finds it he uses it to help the anti shogunate forces overthrow the shogunate br br the way tricks is interesting and has sort of a hamlet feel to it there is also a sweet irony to the fact that if had not gotten to become a shinobi i don't think that he had been able to kill him in the end maybe by firearm but not hand to hand combat weapons br br the plot with all the death makes it mostly very dark but there's some light moments when we see some of childhood memories all in all it's a good dark intricate plot br br the music the opening theme for example is very good with the electric guitar and drums they occasionally in that piece use what i believe to be drums but i'm not sure br br there is a lot of good music like the one played while they are traveling to the shinobi i believe the piece is called and has an incredible flute in it the flute might be a pan flute but more probably a br br the end theme no is calm and delicate the vocals are beautiful and so is the song in general br br the animation br br the animation while good is not perfect and the blood that runs down the characters do sometimes appear to be orange the transitions are interesting and i think some transitions are very nice one example of a nice transition is when and the shinobi are running there is the sunset in the background and the music is playing the transition is simple but effective and has a nice feeling too it br br my final words i think that the plot the animation the music and the characters make this into one of the best anime movies i have ever seen
1	i enjoyed this for a couple of reasons the emotional tangle was at times confusing and imperfectly resolved but the blend of newsreel footage with the film's narrative was often compelling the other element that i appreciated was the depiction of the werewolves the fanatical nazis who continued the fight after the formal surrender i don't know of another film that deals with them they assassinated of aachen on palm sunday 1945 for example and did create problems for the occupation the film then challenges the sanitized version of victory and occupation with some gritty realities the human issues are presented not so much through the characters here but through the historical reality that was gripping those who had survived hitler both conquered and victors
1	samuel fuller knows war and is one of the only directors in american movie history who could accurately portray the horrific experiences of it in a form like the motion picture his pessimism and idealism if that sounds a little odd to mix together work for him as a storyteller and at the same time he's always out to tell the truth however brutal or put into melodramatic constructs it can get verboten however deals with the post war experience as we only get in the opening scenes the big boom of war in bold for a point the opening shot is like one big exclamation point that seems to continue on into the rest of the scenes a dead soldier on the ground the camera pans up we see another soldier shot down in war torn terrain simple direct language then fuller punctuates the intensity with something interesting the title song played over the opening credits as both irony and sincerity and then beethoven music over a shoot out between americans and the nazis sgt david brent james best is shot the battle goes on and then it transitions to him being treated for his wounds br br it might lead one to believe that this will be a somewhat conventional ww2 flick somewhat in that one usually wouldn't find beethoven and later on to an extent wagner put into these images but this isn't the case instead fuller makes this a 'coming home' kind of movie though not at all in the sense that 'this soldier comes home injured and so on and so on' instead of really going home brent stays on in germany as he's fallen head over heels for the woman helga susan cummings pretty good at pulling off the german accent and wants to work in a smaller capacity in the military so he can marry her what he doesn't realize is that a she wants him more for money so she can get food for herself and brother however this gets complex emotionally at the point of revelation to the slightly naive but heartfelt brent and b there's an underground hitler youth sect called the werewolves who want to pick right up off where hitler ended starting small despite argument within the group by attacking the very government that's now embedded in germany to give them as brent describes a blood transfusion with this plus footage from the nuremburg trials and as narrated i think by fuller himself a quick no punches pulled history of the nazi war crimes piece by piece we get a multi faceted look at a society in the dire straits of an immediate post war environment while rossellini handled it his own way with germany year zero fuller tackles it with layers first there's the love story or what is the tragic downfall of a man who can't see anything past what he thinks should be reasonable that it's his wife and a child on the way that he can't leave until the revelation that he's partly been swindled baker and cummings along with harold as young confused brother perform at with the utmost detail to emotions these aren't very easy b movie parts though they could've been that then another layer is the political one the struggle of a society to come to grips with being conquered and a mentality which is made sensationalized to be sure by fuller in respect to making the nazi's a total no gray area thing they're evil particularly when they cancel out reason to meet their ends br br and finally there's the layer of style which is strangely absorbing this is probably one of fuller's films which isn't a bad thing considering it's one of his best written scripts as the characters don't talk simply or in too many platitudes with the exception of a small scene where two characters talk about the hitler youth as juvenile delinquents which is actually according to fuller's autobiography probably another layer to consider in the subtext and the 50s period of movies and fuller shoots this almost in a real european style when he's not going for fight scenes or battles as the editing isn't always very fast and sometimes a cut won't happen for a full minute or longer there's an odd tension that grows out of this especially when there's something said by a character that gets another one wild eyed or suspicious fuller could easily go for a big close up but there's a more sinister cold quality to not moving away from two people in a conversation without a simple over the shoulder deal but when it requires it like the big brawl outside the american military office or the nuremburg footage spliced into franz's memories of the werewolves fuller can be as stunning stylist as ever br br very hard to find but extremely worth it if you'r either a fan of the director's or of ww2 movies set in germany or even just a history buff verboten is an intellectual experience and a strong emotional one with a cast that is better than expected from a b movie and an attitude towards the 'other' that is equally damning and thought provoking
1	in the 1980s in wrestling the world was simple hulk hogan would take on roddy piper or bobby cronies or ted dibiase and come out victorious more often than not occasionally he would get an ally like randy savage in 1988 but mostly it was all about hulk hogan vs bobby and that's the way it should be br br but on this night that was about to change a new champion a man who the wwe thought would be their man for the 90s was crowned it didn't work out but the wwe was right about one thing was finished and a new order needed to be established br br this historic wrestlemania the first to be held outside america kicked off with rick martel defeating koko b ware koko never really had a lot of luck at wrestlemania and was taken down in short order here br br next up the colossal connection andre the giant and haku put their tag team titles on the line against demolition ax and smash and lost new tag team champions crowned br br next match saw earthquake defeat hercules hercules was another fellow who didn't really have a lot of luck at wrestlemania plenty of luck for brutus beefcake as he ended mr undefeated streak well i guess someone had to end it br br roddy piper and bad news brown fought to a double count out in a slow but fun match next up the hart foundation defeated nikolai and boris zhukov in 19 seconds not really a match unfortunately the barbarian then defeated tito santana in a short match br br the american dream dusty rhodes and then defeated the macho king randy savage and queen sherri in a messy mixed tag match this was the only female wrestling really going on in the wwe at this point of time br br next up was a fun match as the rockers marty janetty and shawn micheals defeated the orient express in a fast paced encounter there were a lot of good tag teams at this point in time jim duggan then beat dino bravo in a nothing match br br next ted dibiase put his most cherished possession the million dollar championship on the line against jake roberts roberts was distracted by virgil and counted out allowing ted to retain his title in an entertaining match and one of the longer matches on the show br br next up the twin towers collide as the big bossman defeats akeem in short order this is followed by rick rude winning a short match with jimmy snuka br br finally we come to the main event with hulk hogan putting the wwe title on the line against intercontinental champion the ultimate warrior this is an entertaining back and forth match won by the warrior after hogan missed a leg drop the crowd was extraordinary and the match was a great spectacle br br and so the torch was passed but would the ultimate warrior prove to be the champion the wwe hoped he would be
1	one of fuller's a combat veteran himself early works of average quality but accurately hits on the many conflicting aspects of life in postwar germany the main character starts the movie in as a sgt with c co which really did end the war in munich as in the movie same unit in the previous month had fought heavily in and then liberated part of the dachau facility to the uninformed the movie may seem confusing by flip flopping between showing the good bad of the german people but anyone who has been there or at least well read on it would know that most of what is portrayed in the movie are things that really did happen in 45 47 germany the only inaccuracy i noticed was minor while on a boat cruise of the rhine passing the remains of the bridge he comments he crossed there but his unit really crossed well south of there north of worms germany
1	great film about an american g i who quits the army to marry a german girl who saved his life in the last days of the war she accepts but does she do it because she really likes him or because he can support her with easier access to food and such meanwhile her brother and an old friend form an anti american terrorist group called the werewolves their purpose to drive away the occupants you might remember the same group playing a major part in lars von trier's film europa zentropa james best best known for his role as roscoe p coltrane in the 1980s television show the dukes of hazzard is shockingly excellent as the american he should have become a big movie star – at this age he reminds me very much of warren beatty the other main actors are good as well fuller's direction is quite good using a lot of long takes again although they are not nearly as complex as they were in park row the long takes more often than not consist of long scenes with a lot of dialogue the only problems lie in the script as seems to be the case with all of the fuller films that i've seen it's not too badly flawed but it ought to have been expanded fleshing out major characters and parts of the script helga the wife goes through a major change but completely off screen therefore the emotional center rests squarely on best's shoulders fuller also should have killed off the sick mother early in the film i hope that doesn't sound too harsh she just doesn't really do anything throughout the film except lie in bed she has so few lines but fuller keeps bringing her up as the film goes on i would have had her death solidify david and relationship myself and the film ends too abruptly and it lacks payoff these aren't really the biggest flaws in the world the way i described them makes them sound bigger than they are 9 10
1	just got this in the mail and i was positively surprised as a big fan of 70's cinema it doesn't take much to satisfy me when it comes to these kind of flicks despite the obvious low budget on this movie the acting is overall good and you can already see why pesci was to become on of the greatest actors ever i'm not sure how authentic this movie is but it sure is a good contribution to the mob genre
1	i don't know if it's fair for me to review this i'm not a fan of gratuitous violence i've never understood the movie industry making heroes out of mob members and cold blooded killers when the godfather came out i thought they had broken the mold but the decades have produced a series of well acted mob movies with major stars and directors doing them this one is obviously low budget but it is certainly well done at some point in all of these i feel like i want to take a shower if such characters actually exist it is hard for the soul i always intellectualize that humankind will rise above this sort of thing this kind of crud has to be stopped i hope the people that go to films like this are more voyeuristic and less vicarious i feel sort of the same way about slasher movies why do we have a fascination with death and dismemberment in fairness i am judging this on the acting and directing and for what it is it seems to work pretty well
1	first off let me say that this is probably in my opinion one of the 10 most underrated movies since this came out in 72 i absolutely loved this movie it's very urban gritty no real hollywood glam added to it you can actually feel for all of the characters in here i love the blood just splattering abound in here joe pesci was pretty good in here but to me it seems like he was definitely outdone by the lead character joe cortese now i don't know anything about him but boy can he really act i believe this movie is probably true because living in new jersey living close to philly you here this kinda thing all the time i think that if the movie had a bigger budget and say robert deniro as jerry's boss you would have a perfect movie but hey who am i to argue i was so engrossed by this film that it is already up there in my mind with mean streets i wish hollywood would go back to this urbanized gritty display of movie making it would serve them very well to do so this movie is a great drama with great actors in it and i highly recommend it to anyone
1	out of all the mafia movies i have ever seen this is one of the best for many reasons the acting from pesci cortese and vincent the story is one of the best ever in the mafia genre as it realistic the characters are people that lots of other people can relate to this movie is also great as it's dialogue is good it also has very realistic fights and action scenes this movie also launched the careers of pesci and vincent if it weren't for the success of this film casino and goodfellas might not have been as good as they were br br story 10 10 acting 9 10 realism 10 10 br br overall 10 10 br br my fave mafia movies are br br 1 goodfellas 2 casino 3 the godfather trilogy 4 family enforcer the death collector 5 the sopranos i know it isn't a movie
1	a very surprisingly underrated movie very realistic and authentic with great dialogue being italian i can definitely relate to the situations and phrases used i thought joe cortese was great as a crazy mob cowboy type and pesci and vincent were great also i liked the actor who played the boss he was very authentic i think the director ralph devito was on his way to great things but was cut down too early maybe because he knew too much i thought it was great it deserved more airplay and recognition it was a sleeper movie great very good it really had good authenticity it was well done
1	the death collector is truly a wonderful film labeled as a mean streets ripoff it has some really great stuff in it a lot of the stuff in this movie would later be used by scorsese himself including the actors joe pesci frank vincent etc
1	a very accurate depiction of small time mob life filmed in new jersey the story characters and script are believable but the acting drops the ball still it's worth watching especially for the strong images some still with me even though i first viewed this 25 years ago br br a young hood steps up and starts doing bigger things tries to but these things keep going wrong leading the local boss to suspect that his end is being skimmed off not a good place to be if you enjoy your health or life br br this is the film that introduced joe pesce to martin scorsese also present is that perennial screen wise guy frank vincent strong on characterizations and visuals sound muddled and much of the acting is amateurish but a great story
1	let me ask you one more question ha what a great soon this movie was brilliant fantastic acting great script the only reason no one noticed it was because of the low budget everyone will agree with me that its a cult just like donnie brasco it shows a young joe pesci once again as a mobster this film is up their with the cults its got some sopranos and some goodfellas chase got his idea for the sopranos when he watched this and scorsese found joe pesci while watching it that proves it must be a great am i right or am i wrong i've got to admit they showed one brilliant scene where they were throwing peanuts at a camp piano player stop with the friggen peanuts
1	wrestlemania 6 took place april 1 1990 at the in toronto ontario canada br br match 1 rick martel vs koko b ware for what it was a very solid opening match koko was always fairly popular with the fans and at this point martel was still getting over as a heel talent in the end martel is able to snag the win in a pretty non memorable match br br match 2 the colossal connection andre the giant haku c with bobby 'the brain' vs demolition ax smash for the wwf tag team championship at this point andre's health was really awful so his performance was really nothing special the crowd is 100 pro demolition in this match in the end haku is pinned and we have new tag team champions after the match andre lays out haku and and turns face at what would turn out to be his last wrestlemania br br match 3 vs hercules very short match big dominant heels were really a popular thing at the time r i p to both men in the match john earthquake passed not that long ago and same with hercules in the end earthquake pins hercules for the win br br match 4 mr perfect vs brutus the barber beefcake the first really good match of the night r i p to curt mr perfect really solid back and forth action from both of these talented guys in the end brutus gets the win thanks to a lot of his major fan support during the match br br match 5 roddy piper vs bad news brown not a technical classic but a pretty decent brawl for wrestlemania piper comes out half black half white in what is considerably a classic moment in the end both guys fight to a double count out with no clear cut winner br br match 6 the hart foundation vs the bolsheviks complete squash match the hart foundation gets an easy win surprising that wwe used to have a tag team division br br match 7 the barbarian vs tito santana bobby family fairs better in this match as the barbarian takes the win against tito santana not memorable but good to go back and watch years later br br match 8 randy savage sensational sherri vs dusty rhodes sapphire big inter gender tag team match dusty rhodes wears the uncomfortable polka dot outfit out to the ring in the end rhodes and sapphire get the win over the macho king and sensational queen sherri br br match 9 the rockers vs the orient express surprisingly another tag team match tag wrestling used to be so much better during this time period a young shawn michaels and his partner marty jannetty take a loss by count out in this match to the orient express br br match 10 dino bravo vs jim duggan duggan gets a decent reaction despite his american patriot gimmick bravo a member of jimmy hart's group comes to the ring with hart and earthquake although he has support duggan takes the win br br match 11 the million dollar man ted dibiase c vs jake 'the snake' roberts for the million dollar championship the first major main event of the night roberts was extremely over with the fans match was considerably good for what it was dibiase is able to pick up a count out win on roberts but roberts ends up possessing dibiase's money and giving it away br br match 12 the big boss man vs akeem with slick one man gang's sad attempt at being an african dream named akeem a really short match that needed some more time to develop itself as a match boss man wins with a slam br br match 13 jimmy superfly snuka vs rick rude comes to the ring with rude for this match snuka never really got it good at wrestlemania he always seemed to be on the losing end after a short 5 minutes rude gets the win over snuka br br match 14 wwf champion hulk hogan vs intercontinental champion the ultimate warrior dubbed as the ultimate challenge we get some interesting promos from both men earlier in the night the match was actually very good given that people tend to think hogan can't wrestle a lot of near falls that really got the crowd and people that watch at home into it in the end warrior gets the win on hogan and wins both titles a stunned crowd looks on as hulk hogan suffers his first loss at wrestlemania
1	it was an interesting and entertaining movie well worth watching the acting was decent but it may be out of date for some people i was glad to see cast members of such highly acclaimed movies as raging bull and goodfellas in this movie a great and dramatic ending and pretty good writing
1	i agree with vince this movie paved the way for goodfellas the scene where pesci was throwing peanuts at the piano player reminded me of his how am i funny routine in goodfellas this is a highly underrated film and deserves some attention as with many other mob films the theme of the death collector rings true always respect the don
1	surprisingly good mean streets type crime drama foreshadows elements of goodfellas and casino joe pesci's first big role clever dialog i think the maltin guide gives this a bomb rating i can only guess no one actually bothered to watch it br br saw this at tarantino's film fest and he said scorsese used a number of these actors in raging bull
1	i saw a version of this in a 4 dvd mafia collection put out by brentwood and i have to admit that it was a good film the quality was a little worse for the wear but it was a well acted and realistic drama involving low level new jersey gangsters pesci once again though steels the show
1	has anyone ever read or heard comments by scorsese or david chase soprano's exec producer about death collector family enforcer i bought the dvd after not having seen it for a while on cable like 20 years but having seen goodfellas and the entire sopranos run to date in retrospect both guys must have seen death collector family enforcer and absorbed the flavor perhaps inspiring the tone for their masterworks both of which the polar opposite of the romanticized godfather trilogy being a jersey guy it is interesting to see how the jersey meadowlands have evolved since the mid 70's it is not the swampy dumping ground it used to be although once in a while a body will turn up in a local waterway also it's a little bittersweet to seen a newly constructed world trade center in the across the river in the opening and closing scene who could have imagined
1	so ya think you've seen every mafia movie ever made here's one that nobody every heard of it's a low budget quickie b movie shot in the swamps of jersey for us mob movie fans it had a little bit of everything sex violence cursing and wise guys acting like while violence dominated the movie i found myself laughing at some familiar scenes i've since seen on the sopranos and goodfellas look for a 1977 version of the girls in the beginning of the movie br br all our favorite mobster stereotypes were featured here and as for realism joe pesci was superb portraying the classic wise guy character like we seen him do so many times over the years this was probably his first shot and it was a gem pesci fans should run to the video store to check out this flick you have to look carefully for it since it goes by different names my copy called it the family enforcer here it is known as the death collector but whatever name it goes under it's should be called a winner
1	br br very good 1970s movie about mob operations in new jersey when a maverick gangster doesn't play by the rules of the neighborhood sooner or later it's time for elimination br br joe pesci was true to his character smooth and funny he only gets better with age his face and present day fame should not have been used on the dvd cover to sell this b grade movie as he was only the third billed star br br dated 1970's printed wide lapel shirts and lesser quality background music make for a distraction nice to see the 1970's big cars br br however the acting is good br br nakedness on the part of anne johns was not needed to make this mob story work and she does not show up in the database as every acting again in any film other than this one too bad she did a good job br br moral of the story don't get your don upset with you br br if you are wanting to see something different when you wake up in the middle of the night then check out this dvd it was part of a three movie on one dvd 5 88 special at the local discount store br br
1	not a bad mow i was expecting another film based on womens issues but was pleasantly surprised at the element of suspense sure parts of the plot were pretty hokey but for the most part the movie kept me guessing was the nut bar connected with the ex husband somebody in the tavern or was it the guy person that she cut off daniel was excellent i've seen him in mom's on strike and in guilt by association both and he is very creditable especially the way he challenges his mother the way a preteen would typically act br br laura leighton also played the typical mother ex wife that both men and women can relate to she was frustrated enough to seem real br br see it if you missed it it's worthwhile
1	pulling in 2 6 million viewers one has to wonder what everyone's opinions on the storyline plot is br br reading the run down over at lifetime i was led to believe that this would be an edge of your seat thriller about a single mother being stalked and finally confronting the stalker sadly i was mistaken while the main plot is interesting enough single mother run off road one night then is stalked by same guy the reasoning behind the stalking left nothing but a really bad taste in my mouth br br laura leighton plays the victim and she does it well whether it was all those years on melrose place or not she does well in this movie playing a mother who would do anything to protect her son from harm and she's looking pretty good too these days br br leighton is really the only good thing about this movie i think many people will identify with the main character after discovering why the stalker is stalking it will be a view only once type of movie
1	i agree with all the mentioned in the other reviews but there are some beats missing here that keep it firmly inside the genre of crime drama or film noir and limit it from being a great drama beyond the limits of the elements that make up film noir not to say that the great film noirs aren't can't shouldn't be also great dramas but this one isn't br br one other note the music in the film is used sparingly but i would say is used to accentuate the action more frequently than the wife elements br br great set up to this film by the way with an abrupt sort of non ending ending that is either just right or a let down depends br br spoilers follow as to some specifics br br the big turn in the story involves the children seeing their mother die or it should be the big moment but the children are never shown to react one way or the other neither cries neither asks their father what happened the kids are good actors and the reactions of the father are i suppose what matters but this is a big misstep this is the heart of the story and the kids are kept mostly blank in their reaction they really just have none in the next scene they look as if nothing happened br br in like fashion there is a bond that forms between belmondo and ventura's characters belmondo says he knew the partner who was killed but this is never explained and has no impact dramatically on belmondo or anyone else the belmondo romantic subplot also strains credibility though it's convincingly acted ventura's character just lets belmondo involve a total stranger in their escape plan for no reason he doesn't even comment or seem to notice another gap br br the ending to the movie and i won't spoil it the ending happens off screen with a perfunctory voice over to tell you what happened i guess this tries to make it feel more true to life but again like these other missteps leaves drama off screen br br what's the point of not dealing with these issues i don't know other than maybe the goals of the film were limited to giving the audience what it wants from a crime melodrama suggest some deeper elements then move on to ignore them br br too bad there is much to recommend this film ventura is very very good but too bad it could have been a great drama as well as a crime story as with imdb favorite movie of all time the godfather this film had potential would make for a good remake though if done in the u s more problems would probably sink the film but in the hands of the right director this would be a good remake though it's doubtful ventura's performance could be topped br br so worth seeing but frustrating as a whole
1	wrestlemania 6 is an entertaining wrestlemania if not an entirely successful one the ultimate challenge is of course worth the price of admission alone but once again as with a lot of the early there's too much filler in between the crowd pops for almost everything and as always giving us the reliable announcing team of gorilla the body having a face vs face match as the main event for a wrestlemania was absolutely unheard of at this time it only made things that much more tense br br matches br br koko b ware w frankie vs the model rick martel for a 3 or so minute match this is as good as it gets i wish it was a tad longer but what i got was pretty damn good martel wins with the boston crab br br 2 1 2 5 br br wwf tag team championship demolition vs colossal connection c w bobby huge pop for demolition match itself is pretty dull i often had trouble paying attention andre really didn't do much so in a way it was more like a 2 on 1 there is solid talent involved here and it's a shame they couldn't produce better demolition wins that titles with there maneuver off the top crowd blows the roof of for the finish br br 1 1 2 5 br br earthquake w jimmy hart vs hercules i got what i expected here a standard boring filler match with earthquake doing his thing i'm not really a fan of either so it didn't perk my interest much quake wins with his sit down splash br br 1 5 br br brutus beefcake vs mr w the genius deafening pop for really good match up with sadly not enough time given to develop even further it really kept my interest and remains one of my favorites on the card beefcake wins with a slingshot to the post much to the crowd's approval br br 3 5 br br roddy piper vs bad news brown huge pop for piper nothing more than a boring brawl that does not know what it wants to be some entertaining antics from the hot rod but nothing else noteworthy for roddy painting himself half black and calling himself hot scott br br 1 5 br br the hart foundation vs the bolsheviks record breaking but other than that nothing to see here harts win with the hart attack br br 0 5 br br the barbarian w bobby vs tito santana average for the time it got but watchable nonetheless crowd was rather dead for it except for interference jessie's hilarious cracks about tito's food is more entertaining then the match itself barbarian wins with a nasty looking flying clothesline off the top br br 2 5 br br mixed tag match dusty sapphire w elizabeth vs macho king sherri big pop for dusty and an even bigger one for elizabeth who looks absolutely stunning might i add i thought it was ok it was lively at least if nothing that great i'm not a fan of so dusty and sapphire win when she rolls up sherri br br 2 5 br br the orient express w fuji vs the rockers crowd is rather anemic for this surprisingly decent no doubt but with these guys involved it should have been better the constant focus with fuji kinda detracts from the match express wins by count out when janetty gets nailed with salt br br 2 1 2 5 br br jim duggan vs dino bravo w earthquake jimmy hart duggan like an idiot brings out the american flag in canada duggan gets some solid for it too but that also may be due to bravo's canadian heritage crappy match all around i don't care for duggan but that's not why it sucked too short in the end to really matter duggan wins when he whacks bravo in the back with the two by four duggan gets splashed for his troubles br br 0 5 br br million dollar championship ted dibiase c w virgil vs jake robers w damien some slow spots but when all was said and done i had a good time two solid wrestlers giving it there all resulted in an entertaining match up crowd noticeably gets during parts of it though by doing the wave dibiase wins by count out jake has the last laugh by giving away some of his money much to the crowd's delight br br 3 5 br br big bossman vs akeem w slick nice pop for the bossman too routine and too short to really mean anything in the end akeem was a gimmick i was never too fond of bossman wins with his slam br br 0 5 br br the rhythm blues segment was pretty much a failure crowd wasn't into it br br rick rude w bobby vs jimmy snuka for a filler match before the main event this wasn't too bad if it had time to get going more it would have been excellent for sure rude wins with the rude awakening br br 2 5 br br title for title ultimate warrior ic champ vs hulk hogan wwf champ this one is all about the atmosphere from the crowd and the split crowd reaction for the most part warrior got a pretty decent pop but in my opinion it was a little underwhelming hogan dwarfs it completely with his it's one of wrestlemania's best matches in history with two people who aren't really known for there wrestling they managed to create an amazing match up that was talked about for ages i have seen this many times and my respect level grows higher for each one for their effort considering i'm not a fan of either even die hard fanatics who crave pure wrestling can't bitch about this one warrior wins with his splash br br 5 5 br br bottom line wrestlemania 6 is an entertaining entry if nothing overly special it's memorable for the main event the location and the crowd but it's not one of the best if you ask me that being said i do enjoy it and i give it my recommendation to fellow wrestling fans br br 7 10
1	this is a black and white film from france br br simple plot gangster on the run seeking getting help etc we have seen this type film many times over the years what makes this film different are mainly its acting style all the actors perform quietly no one yells hardly anyone loses his temper there are quite a few deaths some surprising there are beautiful women as well but no sex scenes no car chases either br br just talking it is so refreshing to listen to people talk here we must read subtitles as well br br the acting is near perfect by all especially the lead played by br br lino ventura in a smaller but vital role jean paul belmondo these 2 actors were among the best br br i said above the film is flawed there are a few script deficiencies in few spots they are minor the acting is the thing in this movie production is first rate as well br br ratings out of 4 88 points out of 100 imdb 8 out of 10
1	tous the big risk is a french gangster movie that doesn't try for style that's why it has style because the movie is so underplayed and so matter of fact it becomes more and more involving and because abel is played by lino ventura we wind up emotionally invested in this taciturn tough killer who loves his wife and kids has an encounter with customs agents on the shore near nice at night that neither he nor we expect and who proves just as willing to shoot a cop or a betrayer with as little emotion as flicking off a bit of lint we first meet in italy with his wife and their two small boys one about 9 and one 4 br br this man was abel sentenced to death in we're told on the run for years he had watched his resources dwindle even as his anxiety kept him on the move with the italian police closing in each day france was again his best bet maybe he'd been forgotten br br was a top gangster in paris who took care of his friends that was several years ago a heist to give him money to return to france goes very wrong now he's hiding out with his two kids he calls his friends in paris to help him out he and his kids need to get from nice to paris but the police are hunting him and they've set up for two best friends time has passed and they've moved on they don't want to put themselves at risk and for what obligation gives may to caution so they hire a young thief eric stark jean paul belmondo to pick up and the children in an ambulance then to drive to paris with heavily bandaged and the children hidden we're on a journey where options are increasingly limited where he must find ways to have his children cared for where he realizes there are no more ties of friendship where betrayal seems likely and where quite possibly his only friend left is eric stark br br this somewhat cynical movie works so well because it does its job without about there are no trench coats with pulled up collars no toying with the melodrama of the gangster code so many french directors have loved tous gives us abel a man who once was somebody who now is sliding down to be nobody and who reacts with violence and resignation br br lino ventura dominates the movie yet when he is paired with jean paul belmondo a curious chemistry happens ventura as is grim and worried about caring for his sons he is humiliated by his situation he is a tough man who sees killing someone if needed as just part of the business he's in belmondo as the young thief who initially is sent to be an expendable driver and winds up being a friend to count on provides the brightness that keeps the movie from being just one more ride down the elevator belmondo was 27 and looks younger his unlikely star power as a lead actor broken nose under jaw shines right off the screen he makes erik a match for ventura when they share a scene and belmondo's scenes with sandra milo the young woman who becomes his girl friend radiate charm and good natured sex appeal the ending is bittersweet fate and without a stylistic posture in sight we hear say gone there's nothing left it would be well worth watching tous to learn what he means br br there are many fine french gangster films i'd place this one right there with pas au and bob le to see one of lino ventura's finest performances watch army of shadows
1	i've only seen about a half dozen films starring lino ventura but this one seems very much like the others he plays a laconic criminal one who is short on words and subdued yet occasionally explosive given his quiet persona in such films as army of shadows and second breath i've noticed that his minimalist style of acting is extremely effective in other words because he is so quiet and mannered when he does bad things you tend to notice and like these other films he also has a very strong though twisted moral code br br abel ventura and his partner are both living in italy and are career criminals both grew up in france and eventually had to flea due to their criminal activities now in italy as the film begins they continue to live the life of thugs and the heat is on to catch them oddly instead of running to yet a third country they decide to go back to france even though has been tried and convicted in and if he's caught it could mean a life in prison or the death penalty much of the first third of the film concerns their covert return br br unfortunately for the return doesn't go perfectly and now it seems as if every cop in france is looking for him additionally the reaction of his old compatriots in crime is not at all what he'd expect in fact their tepid response to his return ends up unleashing a series of terrible events towards the end of the film br br along the way meets and is taken in my a stranger eric stark jean paul belmondo despite seemingly having no friends stark and his lady friend try their best to make his return successful what throws another monkey wrench into this though is two very young sons what is to do with them keep them with him in his hiding place br br overall this is a very good crime film sort of like french film noir unlike american noir the many french versions i have seen have a more realistic as well as bleak outlook to them fatalism reigns supreme that's for sure the acting is first rate especially from ventura and belmondo the direction very sure and the writing very nice though i am sure many won't like the ending it just seems to be tacked on like an afterthought i understood why they did it this way but can also see how it might leave many unsatisfied as for me it did leave me a tad flat otherwise an exceptional film
1	tous feels like the granddaddy of the sopranos in mixing the criminal and the domestic and of the buddy film to feel as contemporary as reservoir dogs br br even as these gangsters are affectionately entangled with wives children lovers and parents they are coldly ruthless and we are constantly reminded they are no matter what warm situation we also see them in they can tousle a kid's hair and then shoot a threat in cold blood the key is loyalty and the male camaraderie is beautifully conveyed without ethnic or class stereotypes even as their web of past obligations and pay backs narrows into suspicion and paranoia as the old gang is in various stages of parole retirement out on bail or into new less profitable ventures an intense accusation is of sending a stranger to perform an old escape scenario it is a high point of emotion when a wife is told off that she's not the one the gangster is friends with while virtually the only time we hear music on the soundtrack is when he recalls his wife br br in italy and france are marvelously used in blinding daylight to dark water and highways from the opening set up of a pair of brazen robbers who are traveling with one's wife and two kids rugged craggy lino ventura captures the screen immediately as the criminal dad and the second thug is clearly a casually avuncular presence in their lives as they smoothly coordinate the theft and escape in cars buses on boats and motorcycles in easy tandem this is not the cliché crusty old guy softened with the big eyed orphan these are their jobs and their families and they intersect in horrific ways br br the film pulls no punches in unexpectedly killing off characters directly and as collateral damage and challenging our sympathy for them right through to the unsentimental end which is probably why there was never an american remake br br it seems so fresh that it's not until jean paul belmondo enters almost a third of the way into the film looking so as a young punk that one realizes that this is from 1960 sultry sandra milo has smart and terrific chemistry with him from an ambulance to an elevator to a hospital bed br br while the film forum was showing a new 35 mm print with newly translated subtitles it was not pristine the program notes explained that the title refers to a kind of insurance policy and is pun on tourist class
1	career criminal and crime boss abel lino ventura has been on the run for more than 10 years hiding out in milan italy in his absence he has been sentenced to death in his home country of france for his crimes disillusioned with his life in italy and with the police there closing in on him he decides to return to his old stomping ground in paris sending his wife therese and two young sons ahead to nice abel and his next in command raymond do one final heist to fund their new lives back in france the heist proffers a meagre half million francs way less than their sources had suggested despite this and with the police in chase they both make it to nice where they hideout briefly after stealing a pleasure boat from a local they aim to make it to san remo a tourist spot where they will blend in more readily but they are stopped by armed customs officers on a deserted beach a shoot out ensues and therese and are both killed a now wounded with two kids in tow is going to be easily spotted by police so he calls on his old friends in paris to send help but they have moved on since their old friend went into hiding and are not too inclined to take a risk themselves so they send small time thief eric stark jean paul belmondo to rescue him is disgusted that such a lowly thief is sent to his aid despite the fact he hits it off immediately with the charming stark he sets out to find out why he has been snubbed but their betrayal doesn't stop there br br tous aka the big risk was written for the screen by former death row inmate and crime writer jose giovanni le le clan des with ventura already on board for the project someone unique to direct the project ventura suggested an assistant director that had caught his attention on a previous project one claude sautet best known at the time for assisting georges on les yeux sans visage sautet immediately agreed and the rest as they say is history sautet crafted a fine gangster film that plays heavily on characters and relationships constantly in hiding has plenty of time to reflect on his life past present and future his friendships that no longer seem to be what he believed they were his now deceased wife and what will become of his two young sons ventura as a character actor has always amazed me being both comfortable and convincing in both the police and criminal fraternity here his world weary performance is sublime and powerful as his world crumbles all around him as the loneliness and solitude of a man on the run kicks in ventura's former profession as a pro wrestler gets plenty of use as he throws parisien hoodlums around with a consummate ease belmondo as stark enlivens the other storyline within the film that of his budding relationship with a girl he meets on the road trip with his forthright charm his coming clean to this woman in danger that he is but a and that the only good thing about me is my left as he knocks out her aggressor is also a joy to behold as she falls for him anyway belmondo's performance was overlooked at the time as godard's a bout de soufflé was released only three weeks previous godard attaining the credit for discovering the new kid on the block his versatility within these two films being there for all to see and admire film is a classy affair using plenty of attractive locations the film also has very sparse dialogue sautet preferring to let the actors do the work with the merest of looks or glances to further the story needles to say this noir fan will be checking out more of work in the future
1	tous the big risk is repeatedly recommended every time i look up a jean pierre melville film that i had to give it a watch as soon as possible since i've been discovering melville and seemingly working backwards through his filmography it would be easy for me to mistake this as one of his films but it was made in 1960 by claude sautet before melville would come and stake his claim on french neo noir br br tous has two of the best lead men of the time lino ventura and jean paul belmondo ventura plays abel a gangster exiled in italy with his wife and two kids who wants to come back to paris because the police are closing in on him after a roaring and fast paced opening with a big surprise abel eventually gets hooked up with eric stark belmondo who wants to get into the criminal underworld stark becomes chauffeur and eventual only friend in an underworld that turns it's back on abel after everything he's done and been through the film shows the the duality of the two men the older abel at the end of his time after tragedy strikes him and the younger eric starting off the same way abel did falling in love with a beautiful woman who sticks with her man despite the world they are a part of it never ends pretty for them or their loved ones its one thing to see a individual criminal come to his demise its different when he has loved ones he risks taking down with him br br much like melville's film the seemingly simple story gets more subtlety complicated as it goes along as usual as what i feel with melville's films it left my head spinning in a good way and dying to re watch it again to pick up what i missed the first time tous is a definite keeper
1	classes tous is one of the best gangsters films noirs france has ever produced perfect cast lino ventura a young jean paul belmondo who made a bout de souffle godard's thing the same year marcel and a fine supporting cast brilliant script by josé giovanni who also wrote le the same year what a year for him wonderful black and white cinematography by and taut action first class directing by claude sautet who surpasses jean pierre melville whereas the latter films gangsters movie with metaphysical pretensions which sometimes lasts more than two hours claude sautet directs men of flesh and blood and the presence of the two children adds moments of extraordinary poignancy which melville has never been able to generate and sautet avoids pathos excessive sentimentality the last time ventura sees his children coming down in the metro subway is a peak of restrained emotion br br ventura portrays a gangster whose die is cast when the movie begins he thinks that he can rely on his former acquaintances but they are all cowards we are far from manly friendship dear to jacques becker pas au which melville was to continue throughout the sixties sometimes abetted by mean women the film noir misogyny par excellence living in a rotten microcosm ready to inform on we are far from jean seberg's simplistic behavior in godard's opus br br works wonders with the picture the scene on the beach in a night when the two children see their mother die after the shoot out with the customs officers is absolutely mind boggling br br there's a good use of voice over which sautet only uses when necessary thus the last lines make the ending even stronger than if we have attended the scenes br br claude sautet had found a good niche and he followed the classes tous rules quite well with his follow up à gauche 1965 which featured ventura again and made a good use of a desert island and a ship had he continued in that vein france would have had a howard hawks in his subsequent works only max et les 1971 showed something of the brilliance he displayed in the first half of the sixties he had become from les choses de la vie onwards the cinema de director who used to focus on tender hearted bourgeois in such works as cesar et rosalie 1972 vincent françois paul et les 1974 or 1976
1	i saw this film at film festival in 1997 where one of the screenwriters josé giovanni was being honored it ranks highly as a great noir crime drama incredible performances by belmondo and lino ventura the attention given to every character and complex psychological portrayals detailing loyalty treachery love and hope are tremendous it is an excellent drama an excellent thriller and an excellent film up there with the best of melville the title in english all risk ' in french tous is word play on ' meaning
1	the film tous directed by claude sautet was not a film to be honest i had ever really heard of until the film forum in nyc said that they would have a 2 week screening of the film with new english subtitles when i also read that it was in the vein of the classic french crime films ala jean pierre melville i jumped at the chance to check it out at best it would rank up with his great works and at worst i would get some good popcorn in a great theater it was well worth the admission as tous is one of those kinds of french films that is just waiting to be re discovered or discovered for the first time with terrific tense diligence sautet keeps the suspense at a tight pitch for the first forty minutes of the film keeping a good if not great middle section and then ending it up with what is always expected with these films but with fascinating motivations by way of the characters with a film in the vein of this sort you know how it will end but it's the cool observant journey that counts br br the film features a performance with some real truth and honesty amid the old school criminal's code by lino ventura as aldo who at the start of the film one of the best beginnings to a film in this genre and country steals a hefty amount of money with his partner in crime when there is a sudden ugly twist of fate on a beach late one night aldo is again on the run with two little kids he gets the aid of eric stark jean paul belmondo a role in tune with le only with a smidgen more humanity and charisma who is also a thief and drives him into paris but there are some problems with some of old business partner's and one old score may be just the right ticket a couple of times the plot may seem to be leisurely but it isn't like melville sautet doesn't allow any fat to his story and it's a very tightly structured film with some good doses of humor here and there i was sometimes grinning at the audacity of the criminals in the beginning chase sequence and also with a particular woman who had a finicky thing with her cat and a fish br br along with a fine score by the great george delerue exceptional cinematography and a mood that is seldom met let alone matched now tous is a reminder of that bridge between the real old school film noir and the latter day crime films gangsters in these new sort of thug life movies have a of the class and honor of the thieves in this film and is a second banana to the works of melville and jules dassin a compliment i assure you that it has a good realistic moral edge helps as well
1	odd one should be able to stumble into tous only by chance it should be on any best of film noir list including imdb's br br lino ventura is as good as ever knowing of his dire delicate family situation gives extra weight to his almost expressionless face and brief dialogues belmondo's restrained performance under firm direction only shows what a wonderful actor he could and should have been br br tous is utterly dry and cold without melville's artistic scenery pretty faces and fancy cars it is almost film noir meet neo realism few hard words to his children describing their life of secrecy from there on get a hold on your throat to the end of the film br br the final sentence of the film a voice over telling of end in no more than ten dry sombre words leaves you with a hard punch in the stomach br br a true jewel in the great crown of french film noir
1	this was a very good ppv but like wrestlemania xx some 14 years later the wwe crammed so many matches on it some of the matches were useless i'm not going to go through every match on the card because it would take forever to do br br however major highlights included the huge pop for demolition winning the tag team belts from haku and andre the giant the first ever mixed tag match featuring randy savage and sensational queen sherri vs dusty rhodes and the late sapphire and the first ever clash between the ultimate warrior and hulk hogan br br some matches were a complete waste of time like the bolsheviks vs the hart foundation was only about 40 seconds long koko b ware vs rick martel was short and big bossman vs akeem was too short br br mr perfect vs brutus beefcake and ted dibiase vs jake 'the snake' roberts were very good indeed br br overall grade b
1	this movie is simply one of the best movies i have the of owning it took me years to come up with this movie and it was well worth it the movie is meant to be anti drug propaganda but turns itself into the opposite while not even halfway through the movie the relished look on the faces of the players as they receive their bounty of drugs is pleasing to all those who observe untill the final phase pf their drug induced lives heroin comes for its say yikes this is the anti drug message that was so fabulously sought the soundtrack for this movie kicks butt by far it is one of pink best albums ever if ever the chance take a look listen and moment to witness a spectacularly made movie
1	if you get the slight enjoyment out of pink floyd's music you will love this movie the score is completely pink floyd and of course the drug element plays a major part in this movie giving you the doubts about life within the weakest moments this movie also touches the heart with the story about love and the people around you there is also a huge connection with the world around you with the environment of a personal island this thing tell me i need ten lines to sum up a movie but i am done that is all you get that is why this movie is a 6 1 which is a major upset to any movie with a score like this take a look at requiem for a dream and the fountain equally good scores for our generation but overestimated
1	i have become a big fan of the work of barbet schroeder so maybe i am already a little biased by now but i think this movie is great although there may be a few lengths it is a romantic unromantic view of the great liberation in the later sixties stylistically amazingly polished great set design and in my opinion still very watchable br br basically this is an ironic re telling of the story of adam and eve who are driven from paradise after having tasted the fruit which has turned from an apple into a hypodermic filled with heroine the woman seduces a man into using it thus accelerating his doom i say accelerating as the guy seems to be doomed and bound for an intensive life and an early grave right from the great title sequence onwards there is no place for any hope br br although the story is rather sad i was captured by the beauty both of the beautiful location ibiza and farmer i found her character was at once shallow enigmatic endearing annoying interesting and boring somehow she represents what men see in women in a basic way architecture and built artifacts in general are put to very good use – which seems to be a schroeder trademark of sorts br br there is even some humor mainly delivered by stefan the german main character and his accent his main nemesis is not a snake but an older german of dubious reputation – and provider of the heroine called wolf although it is a german name and stefan is german he pronounces it english and in fits of jealousy spits the name out at his girlfriend in regular intervals – becoming a boy who cries at times stefan has to work in order to earn a at one time the guy goes and afterward awkwardly clambers up a rock with his rubber flippers – never has male frontal nudity been funnier in movie history
1	17 02 09 more 1969 dir barbet schroeder br br for a film that most viewers have agreed is pretty average i'm impressed by quite how many differing interpretations have been offered of it i've only scoured the web quite briefly and i've already been informed that more is a 19th century style romance an allusion to the story of icarus a plain film full of dull people and of interest only to pink floyd completists it's fair to say then that critical reception is mixed i would argue that these wildly disparate readings of barbet 1969 directorial debut are proof enough that more is anything but a pretty average film br br neither is it a masterpiece of course i approached more as i did easy rider and antonioni's blowup as a 'time film a snapshot of an era despite the differences in pace style and content between these movies they all have similar flaws either vague or downright unlikeable characters acting that seems slightly adrift from reality relaxed editing and abrupt endings that have left viewers indignant these movies never try to be persuasive or meet the audience half way they are what they are man this in itself is not a problem as long as we are left with a souvenir of the experience thankfully more offers several truly memorable images sounds and suggestions to the viewer and this is what saves it br br stefan is a young man who arrives in paris fresh from his studies in germany the first part of the film follows him as he falls in with a group of french hipsters accompanies them to devastatingly cool and self conscious parties and bars before meeting estelle the two characters become sexually and romantically involved and he promises to follow her to ibiza against the advice of his friend charlie this is where the icarus thing comes into play she is the sun he is pursuing her you may now be able to guess how this all ends br br ibiza is an idyll so far away from the bustling urgency of the over populated paris that the naive stefan knows he must be on to a good thing estelle remains elusive and erratic and the island has a less desirable underbelly up until now i had cared little for either of these characters and their unfocused pursuit of somewhere to be really free but once the action is pared down to just these two the film becomes poignant quite suddenly during just one single wistful exchange of dialogue in the remote villa they inhabit the place where their volatile love i went from watching with a fading optimism to being utterly enraptured i can't think of many other films that have done this br br the relationship between stefan and estelle is real and human in that we can see it go from life defining intimacy to disillusionment and cruel coldness they take a lot of drugs and cavort naked on the the rocks and beaches their lives revolve around nothing but each other and the beautiful mediterranean surroundings for a while their situation is the very essence of freedom emotional openness and experience for its own sake but stefan is not in control and this is the downfall of more than just his future on ibiza br br pink floyd's score is a perfect fit for the exoticism the intimacy and the foreboding of more it is one of the most memorable inclusions along with the mosquito netting around bed and their hallucinogenic exuberance around the windmill which appears on the soundtrack album's front cover a scene in which they take acid to escape from heroin withdrawal is illustrative of the fundamental flaws of the couple they cannot without a crash maybe they've come too close to what they wanted br br stefan never makes contact with any family or friends from before his arrival in paris we are left to presume they have no idea where he is while other 1960s counterculture movies dwell on debauchery excess the media and voyeurism schroeder has instead presented us with a story focused upon one man who backs himself into a little corner somewhere in the world and quietly disappears
1	i would be interested to hear from the director barbet schroeder as to why he decided to make more his first film and more specifically what his interest in hippies or rather this form of the euro hippie paradise and about their demise the film is at least true enough to keep one interested but in its own kind of truth it's strange biased it's a given heroin aka horse is awful stuff rotten the conclusion for many a dumb headed drug user that sees that as the be all end all because it basically is after that everything else stops that becomes the life and it's either a continuous run for more of the same or death more starts off as something concerning a romance between a new york girl and a german man but it becomes something else for better or worse sometimes both in the same scene br br it's basically about two young people estelle and stefan who meet in a city where stefan has come as a sort of wanderer away from his home country she's wandering too sort of and is maybe too friendly with a big time pusher named wolf they end up on a remote island somewhere nearby and after a somewhat daring grab for some horse by estelle they also find a pad in the form of a seemingly house along the seashore comment on youth and sex and drugs isn't too simplistic which makes the film actually lucid and intelligent so many years later it's both direct and subtle more about the characters and then about the fact that what he's depicting could in other hands just be a propagandistic hippie exploitation picture perhaps most pleasantly and this is just a guess schroeder uses as inspiration the sort of long sequence from bergman's summer with monika two kids in an inexorable connection some good some definitely not so good set against too perfectly shot landscapes br br on the one hand i should mention that there are problems some big ones in fact the performances aren't very convincing throughout a few scenes strike some power or have the actors in a good connection with one another but klaus overplays himself even if he is an ornery german by nature in that case i would've preferred klaus kinski in the part to make it crazier but deep enough for the subject matter as does farmer to her own degree and there's gaps of naiveté in the screenplay that keep it from being as deep as it really thinks it is on the other hand there are two big things going for it nestor the great cinematographer i e days of heaven is dp and is a big boost for a first time director like schroeder nearly every image is seen with an awesome purpose or artistry be it a shot of the cliffs by the sea or sun or something as simple as the seemingly natural light of a room br br the other thing is pink floyd probably the main reason i and many others have heard of the film in the first place years before i knew really who schroeder was i saw the more soundtrack whenever i looked up pink floyd albums it's very good music throughout occasionally the mind blowing variety that gives them the reputation they deserve some of it too is a little tedious even as it is a movie that concerns free love and lots of drugs and sometimes both at the same time i wouldn't rank it anywhere near as high as a meddle or animals certainly not dark side but it too helps to elevate the subject matter another notch particularly when one least expects it or in low tones or floating in and out of buildings as stefan or other walks on the streets it's almost better atmosphere than the movie itself deserves but overall more is still worth watching as a period piece dated but potent like a less ambitious but more substantial zabriskie point
1	a german freshman stefan hitch hikes to paris during summer break were he falls for a mysterious young woman he meets in the paris freak scene he then follows her in the famous isle of ibiza the hippie joint were meets wolf a man who throws hitler knives owns bars and hotels and keeps estelle under his thumb with dope the couple tries to escape wolf stefan gets hooked with dope and jealousy for estelle who's groovy and a free spirit great photography and music plot is quite usual for the period but it's not an exploitation kind of movie cold and dramatic the moral is quite strong he was looking for the sun but i would not say it's a film against drugs even it puts on drug use
1	more maybe is mostly remembered for the excellent soundtrack composed by pink floyd in 1969 they weren't superstars yet actually they made an album with the film music no fan can miss it br br but this is also the first film of german french director barbet schroeder it's a cult movie when it was released censorship everywhere cut several scenes of sex and drugs it is also one of the first films to treat explicitly the theme of drug slavery br br a german boy travels to paris and meets an american girl they fall in love together they search for sun and exoticism but it's a too high price love she initiates him into drugs br br in the sixties anti drug campaigns were not like today there wasn't much information on the contrary in many taking drugs was a sort of spiritual experience so it's quite surprising to see a film of that period which describes a nightmarish heroin experience br br the film is simple not vulgar at all and shot in a cinema verité style actors farmer and klaus are very convincing more is a document of the end of the sixties and a document of the end of the hippies illusions as well
1	like most people i was interested in more solely because of the pink floyd soundtrack which has turned out to be the only pink floyd album that i still listen to after all these years it was quite a surprise to run across the film in a local video store in a digitally remastered version it was an even bigger surprise to find that it is a pretty good movie br br visually it is quite beautiful especially when the two main characters are cavorting on the rocks on the spanish island of ibiza and the use of the soundtrack music which as far as i can tell is exclusively by pink floyd is excellent it was a joy to watch the film with my copy of the album alongside me mentally ticking off each track as it was used in the film dave brief a spanish piece was the only one i didn't hear and several tracks are used quite prominently especially main theme and quicksilver that latter track is tedious on the soundtrack album but works very well during the title sequence of the film resurfacing at least once later on maybe now i can appreciate it on the album now that i have some visuals to accompany it in my mind br br the plot of more is a little hard to take at times especially in the early going when the film appears to be merely a vehicle to demonstrate the hipness of those involved in making it but eventually the film proves that it has much more than that to offer as the plot becomes more focused why does stefan take heroin why does anybody take heroin fully knowing the possible consequences the film does not attempt to answer that question directly but stefan's heroin use seems a logical extension of his single minded pursuit of pure pleasure br br i strongly recommend this film to any pink floyd fan who has an appreciation of the vastly underrated more soundtrack i also recommend it to anyone who has an interest in sixties counterculture and how it was portrayed in the media i have no idea how realistic this movie is since i am too young to have experienced the sixties firsthand but it does seem to capture the spirit of the times in a way that no other movie does
1	has there ever been an angel of death like farmer in barbet 1960s heroin opus sort of jean seberg with a hypodermic pink floyd score despite some ultimately insignificant weaknesses a classic shamelessly ripped off by erich segal noel black for their inept jennifer on my mind 1971 although walker playing a similar character is herself very junkie appealing in the latter mess more though is terrific a great 60s drug movie and simply an important document of its time very much a cult film so join the cult br br no american movie then as far as i can remember charts the same territory an astonishing archetype elevating this into mythic realms not for the faint hearted great sex scenes too
1	there has been a political documentary of recent vintage called why we fight which tries to examine the infamous military industrial complex and its grip on this nation it is considered both polemical and incisive in making its case against both that complex and the war fiasco we are currently involved in in iraq yet a far more famous series of films with the same name was made during world war two by hollywood director frank capra although considered documentaries and having won oscars in that category this series of seven films is really and truly mere agitprop more in the vein of leni reifenstal's triumph of the will scenes of which capra recycles for his own purposes that said that fact does not mean it does not have vital information that subsequent generations of world war two documentaries such as the bbc's lauded the world at war lacked nor does that mean that its value as a primary source is any the less valuable they are skillfully made and after recently purchasing some used dvds at a discount store i found myself with the opportunity to select a free dvd with my purchase i chose goodtimes dvd's four dvd collection of the series br br rarely has something free been so worth invaluable while there are no extras on the dvds and the sound quality of the prints varies these films provide insight into the minds of americans two thirds of a century ago when racism was overt as in many of the classic warner brothers pro war cartoons of the era and there was nothing wrong with blatant distortion of facts the seven films produced between 1942 and 1945 are prelude to war the nazis strike divide and conquer the battle of britain the battle of russia the battle of china and war comes to america br br overall the film series is well worth watching not only for the obvious reasons but for the subtle things it reveals such as the use of the plural for terms like x millions when referring to dollars rather than the modern singular or the most overused graphic in the whole series a japanese sword piercing the center of manchuria yet it also shows the complexities of trying to apply past standards to current wars the lesson of world war one avoid foreign entanglements was not applicable to world war two whose own lesson act early against dictatorships has not been applicable in the three major wars america has fought since korea vietnam nor iraq the fact that much of this series teeters on the uncertainties of the times it was made in only underscores its historic value in today's information clogged times it may not help you sort out the truth from the lies and propaganda of today but at least you'll realize you are not the first to be in such a tenuous position nor will you be the last
1	this movie is amazing you will never laugh harder it's a target no i think it's yes it's a boob this movie gets funnier by the second like when jackie chan's character finally dies in his final fight scene this movie is like congrats if you buy or rent this you'll never return it in my opinion i didn't and i haven't found it in a store since i watched this movie once and i was forever in love with kung fu action flicks if you're looking for an amazing film in the realm of great production value good or even mediocre acting and good special effects this is not that movie if you're looking for laughs and timeless wonderment pick this up for a dollar and you'll probably never let it go with friends popcorn and drinks it's the perfect evening
1	with all of mainland europe under his control hitler prepares for the last obstacle in his way before heading for north america great britain with an overwhelming edge in aircraft luftwaffe looks unstoppable on paper once in the air however the raf disrupts the paradigm by blowing the enemy out of sky air at a seven to one rate the battle of britain rages on for a over a year as the island nation is bloodied but unbowed providing crucial time for their american allies to produce more arms for the inevitable struggle br br using more staged footage than the three previous documentaries in the why we fight series the battle of britain has a more propaganda like feel to it with the dramatized some with unmistakable warners music score scenes glaringly obvious to newsreel in an ironic twist amid the devastation caused by german air attacks beethoven's seventh symphony is employed to underscore the visual suffering the story itself is one of remarkable courage by a defiant nation who refused to buckle under to the devastating attacks inflicted upon it by up until that point an invincible war machine it is the 20th century version of the 300 spartans br br there have been more exhaustively researched and better looking commercial efforts done on this battle since this film but the immediacy and motivation the battle of britain provided then will always make it a more valuable document of england during its finest hour
1	britain and france declared war on germany in 1939 but by then almost all of europe had fallen under the advance of the nazi war machine entering the war britain virtually started from scratch with scarce supplies and with an air force that was outnumbered by germany ten to one but the will of the brits was firm emboldened by their new prime minister winston churchill who declared we shall never go under br br on august 8 1940 the battle for britain was on however for the first time since hitler's declared stance to conquer the world he hit a wall though massively outnumbered the british royal air force went on the offensive and in the span of twenty eight days in september and october of 1940 german luftwaffe casualties climbed to two thousand three hundred seventy five lost planes and crew hitler's rage was seething but he had to call a momentary time out responding later in the year hitler launched a massive fire bombing of london on christmas day of 1940 when i say that there has never been a disaster movie to rival the real live footage of london in flames during this assault would be an understatement perhaps the most surreal effect of this chapter in the why we fight series would be seeing british citizens emerge from their underground shelters following the bombing raids to resume what was left of their life above ground even as you watch there is no way to comprehend the living horror these people must have gone through as the city of london was left in virtual ruin br br yet the nazis were stunned and stymied as well everything hitler wanted to believe about freedom and democracy was now turned on it's head instead of being weak willed and complacent like the french the british were not going to give up without a fight and fight they did taking the air battle to germany and responding in kind with attacks on the german homeland it was a turning point forcing hitler to rethink his strategy
1	the frozen limits is a big screen vehicle for the artists known as the crazy gang they were a group of british entertainers who formed in the early 1930s in the main the group's six men were bud allen jimmy teddy knox charlie naughton and jimmy gold hugely popular in the variety halls the group were also darlings of the then royal family the plot here sees them as the wonder boys troupe who set off to seek their fortunes in alaska after reading about a gold rush in the newspaper only problem is is that when they finally get to red gulch it turns out they are 40 years too late br br i often cringe when i see the statement it's very british because it implies that those not of the british isles may struggle to get it the reason it bothers me is because in this www internet age i have garnered a ream of non british film loving friends who have been known to split their sides at the best of ealing will hay and the imperious terry thomas so then is it true that something such as the frozen limits is unlikely to be appreciated by a non british audience well yes it's true so much here is british but really it has to be said that the classic movie fan is pretty well versed in history and when all is said and done the visual mirth here is universal with the anarchic not so wild west make over an absolute winner a winner that has every chance of being more appreciated by an american audience now than it will be by a british audience not all the comedy works and in truth the big 6 are trumped big time by a film stealing moore marriott but there are skits and parodies here that deserve respect and a nod of approval from more illustrious comedy acts you are unlikely to nearly fall off your chair like i did because of an gag but if you be a classic comedy film fan i feel sure that you will at the worst acknowledge there's some very talented people at work here br br now then dose the mounties always get their man 8 10
1	after getting thrown out of their last job and finding employment scarce in the united kingdom the six members of the wonder boys better known as the crazy gang see an advertisement for employment in the gold strike town of red gulch in the yukon territory it's from a newspaper clipping and on the back there's a story about chamberlain saying the country better be prepared for war off they go to the yukon and the frozen limits br br by the way it's case of misplaced chamberlains the clipping is forty years old and it refers to joe chamberlain and the boer war rather than neville in the current crisis but that's typical of how things go for this crew i can see stan laurel making the same mistake br br of course when they get there it's a ghost town inhabited only by young jean kent and her grandfather moore marriott he's getting on in years and is a bit touched in the head got a gold mine that he's misplaced somewhere that he goes to in his sleep that is when he's sleepwalking the gang better help him find that mine or otherwise pretty ms kent won't marry stalwart trapper anthony hulme but rather saloon owner bernard lee a fate worse than death br br this was my first exposure to the crazy gang and i can see both why they were so acclaimed in the uk and why they never made any impact across the pond the jokes come fast and furious and then were a number of things that the code in the usa just wouldn't allow the jokes are also strictly topical british and a lot just wouldn't be gotten over here br br the sight gags are universal the final chase scene is worthy of anything that the marx brothers did in america my suggestion is that if you watch the frozen limits tape it if you have a working familiarity with british history and run it two or three times just to make sure you pick up everything it will be worth it
1	i had never read much about or even seen stills of the six man british comedy group the crazy gang but my positive experiences with their contemporaries will hay and arthur askey – and especially graham high praise of the frozen limits itself “the funniest english picture yet can bear comparison with safety last and the – made me take the plunge with the bare bones r2 dvds from network of this and their subsequent film 1941 see below both of which were released earlier this year with virtually no fanfare br br a british made western is a rarity but a british western spoof is rarer still carry on cowboy 1965 was still some 25 years away incidentally going back to the silent classics mentioned by greene the film seems to me to be more obviously indebted to the gold rush 1925 and way out west 1937 besides it also plays like a variation on the white and the seven fairy tale which had just been immortalized on the screen via walt animated masterwork and where the seventh member is played by ancient comic and frequent will hay foil moore marriott the gang actually call pretty heroine eileen bell by that name throughout and there’s even an amusing sequence with the six of them preparing to go to bed and whistling the song from the disney film br br six comedians three sets of comedy duos allen knox and naughton gold may be the largest such grouping on film – though not all of their personalities emerge here my favorites were big bud looking a bit like jim backus straight man allen and squeaky voiced teddy knox however bald charlie naughton often took the limelight – since he’s the one on which the others always seemed to pick on still it’s marriott who steals the film from his very first scene – where he contrives to impersonate every official in the dilapidated theater of a ghost town a very young bernard lee is also notable as the villain of the piece br br the ore routine between and allen actually anticipates abbott and famous on first the film in fact hinges on a lot of wordplay for its humor – which doesn’t necessarily travel especially at this juncture nevertheless there are several hilarious sequences throughout – a few of which even brought tears to my eyes the opening scene where the gang are defrocked by a band of angry creditors their dressing up as indians once they hit the yukon the ruse to make everybody rich with the same piece of gold they all impersonate the sleepwalking marriott to confuse the villains a gag which may owe its origin to the marx bros ’ hilarious mirror sequence in duck soup 1933 the spot on theater sketch which pokes fun at hoary melodramas the surreal moment when pursued by the villains one of the gang climbs a staircase that is part of the painted scenery in the theater and especially towards the end when a group of singing mounted police gallop ever so slowly to the rescue despite being egged on by the increasingly impatient ranger hero br br the soundtrack and the frantic nature of the gags themselves made it hard for me to get all the jokes sometimes – subtitles would certainly have been welcome in this case the crazy gang only made five films – with the first two also being well regarded okay for sound 1937 and button afloat 1938 and a much later reunion though allen had by this time bowed out due to ill health and been replaced by eddie gray called life is a circus 1960 directed by val guest who incidentally co wrote both gang films i purchased as well as some of the afore mentioned hay and askey vehicles
1	after 10 viewings in 20 years i too think this was the crazy gang's best effort on film with more cohesion in the plot than their next best button afloat they were indeed a crazy trio of double acts thrown together mainly on stage sometimes in front of royalty until allen retired in the '40's through ill health he outlived them all by years apparently they were just as mad outside work regularly playing practical jokes on one another br br the six wonder boys troupe head for i'll get her to tell me alaska to dig for the gold that was being found there it seemed a better idea than going to mansfield because they'd been there when they get to red gulch they find their information was a mere 40 years out of date they thought that the chips that were in the guilty newspaper they'd read tasted funny but by then it doesn't matter as they've all fallen in love with snow white and want to help her grandad find his long lost stash of gold baddie bill m wants it himself however br br the number of verbal and visual puns is astonishing but most of them will probably only make sense to brits and ex pats interested in seeing '30's british b w comedies imho nearly all of the gags and routines work including the gold if patter between bud and the whistle while you work pastiche even the always getting our man mountie inserts a marvellous little film in a rather tired looking condition but utterly recommended
1	this little short absolutely fascinates me br br the only thing i've seen thus far like it is some of the work by sam the creator of dog star man however where is trying to unnerve by making us learn how to see again and provide us with an affront of head ache inducing bright colors and flashes which i still totally dig and embrace as high art this film i would characterize as very relaxing and hypnotizing man ray's general use of spinning objects camera does not create so much of a dizzy feeling but a warm flow of senses intermingling and going along with the gravity of the moving world around us br br an interesting conceit of this very short work is that as it goes along objects become more and more recognizable until we end on a nude torso of which i feel is the least feminine well rounded breasts i've ever seen the circles and spirals of shadow and light over the torso make it an object of surrealistic beauty something that you could hang on your wall and delve over forever it's because of this and other images in this film that i had to watch it again and again eventually a total seven times just because it utterly fascinates me br br polarisdib
1	this trio of 30 minute short films on gay related themes are all quite respectably executed each coming of age story is played out with pleasant charm and naturalness this film deserves to be widely distributed and easily however it isn't i had to order my video copy none of the local video stores or even the libraries had it in stock
1	it's quite an accomplishment that three stories filmed by three very different filmmakers could be simultaneously so insightful about gay bi sexual relationships and their struggles br br pool days is about the awkwardness of adolescence and the mutual attraction between an older man and a younger one a story about experience and vulnerability br br a friend of dorothy portrays a common dilemma many gay and bi sexual people experience at some point in their life the intense attraction towards someone whom is heterosexual sensitively examined this story truly left me feeling moved br br the disco years shows another version of a no win situation getting involved with someone who is not only confused about their sexual orientation but is also terrified of being exposed as anything other than straight a very empowering story for those of us who have experienced betrayal at the hands of a sexually confused and frightened person br br while these three stories will appeal to anyone who has an iota of empathy towards others they will psychologically empower those who consider themselves gay bi sexual or searching each story is uplifting in its own unique way
1	the trio are a pleasant nostalgic journey to that first hint of desire when it was still about simple exploration of the unknown before we grew up and added those complexities of hiv status emotional baggage and gotta run my just went off into the emotional mix br br the angst portrayed is pure adolescent angst but it rings true in all three stories their sweetness and positivity make you feel good that you are gay and those kinds of films are few and far between br br good news both boys life and boys life 2 are now readily available on dvd as of september 1999
1	the hand of death most definitely rates a ten on a scale of one to due in no small part to john woo's masterful direction coupled with kat's superb cinematography some of the leisurely tracking shots alone are worth the price of a rental there are moments when this one borders on becoming an art house film both james and sammo hung make for the kind of villains you can't help but love to hate is particularly good as the baddest of the bad it's a role reversal the likes of which i don't think i've ever seen before normally played a hero and in fact with his moustache i didn't even recognize him at first sammo's goofy buck teeth only make an already unsavory character seem even more flawed that he also happens to be a skilled martial artist makes him even less likable in a villain you love to hate kind of way his choreography of the fight scenes throughout is fantastic jackie chan appears briefly early on and late in the going as a blacksmith and i believe i actually glimpsed yuen biao somewhere along the way tan as the lead is nothing less than magnificent
1	these three directors are off to good beginnings the three stories are remarkably well done for independent productions and capture those traumatic feelings of coming out when you aren't really sure it's a good idea i laughed at those veiled glances around the dressing room in pool days i smiled at the notion that fans of bette midler judy garland and barbra streisand are assumed to be gay in a friend of dorothy ie browsing through the cd music racks and i cringed over the jock in the disco years whose memory of sweet sex was now blurred by liquor it all seemed so real i look forward to more offerings from this trio of directors
1	i gave 9 of 10 points i was sitting in tears nearly the whole movie because i had to laugh br br the story of course wasn't excellent but it also wasn't boring stefan are assigned to become bodyguards for the beautiful nina while doing this job they come between the front lines of and cia of course the two are neither born bodyguards nor gentlemen so they run from one disaster into another and they do this in such a funny way that when you watch some scenes you won't be able to stop the tears as actors those two dumbly grinning characters do quite well better than some so called professional br br you think the speech of the two heroes is curios or pseudo foreign well if you hear quite a lot turkish german people in munich speaking exactly like them you will remember stefan and maybe in 10 years it might have become the common speech of the youth god forbid br br so if you like to laugh watch this movie
1	first of all i am from munich where this movie takes place and believe it or not there are guys like and stefan including the silly dialect i know their comedy show from the beginning and my main fear was that the movie is just an assembling of their already known jokes but it is not the jokes are evolved through the story and make in their own special way sense but if you absolutely dislike und stefan hands of this movie everyone else it's worth viewing
1	great movie i was laughing all time through why well i am from austria i can get along with the german bavarian kind of humor so i guess this movie makes only sense watching when you are german native speaker stefan and both are talking in a new kind of turkish german accent which became really popular in our countries ger but of course they are very stupid as in every comedy your personal humor will decide whether thumb up or down
1	those two main characters and stefan are a munich comedy act i was wondering if this is one of these typical slapstick movies where the story is either not important or simply not existing but when i saw this movie i was very happy that there is a cool story and the main characters really fit in it br br all in all very amusing and not a common german movie
1	i enjoyed stefan – a cool and fast story which didn't get bogged down in detail those two guys are great to see and are able to come up with new ideas all the time the high quality of picture and cut support the movie a lot br br stefan show that the german film industry is capable of transferring successful hollywood concepts with local into our cinemas
1	i was looking in the tv guide for movies that come from germany and i found one called the so i watched it and i laughed myself silly i wanted the dvd but its not available here i could order it from germany but it doesn't have subtitles it was played again so i taped it and watch it from time to time br br anyway i looked for info on it and found out its real name is stefan but i know it by its australian title the br br some people who i know from germany do not like stefan because of their accents but not being german myself i didn't notice anything the jokes are good but some germans might find their accents off putting br br i think this movie is funny and if the dvd had english subtitles on all the extras having a 2 disk edition with only the feature having subtitles would be bad i would buy it up in a snap br br i recommend it to anyone looking for a laugh and a pretty good story
1	aaliyah blows all the female cast members out of the water including the official love interest marguerite moreau br br i would have loved to see this movie play out as power trip aaliyah is simply electrifying whenever she is on the screen she does sensual beautiful and menacing to the power of 10 watching her take on a bar full of vampires is a sight to behold br br lena olin is cast in the ungrateful role of the older woman which is hugely unjustified she looks fantastic and at 46 according to the imdb still looks stunning br br the story unfortunately is very limited plot wise we've seen it all before etc br br the most heart wrenching is death scene especially keeping in mind what happened to aaliyah after filming br br all in all a remarkable vampire movie
1	i haven't read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on but who knows maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health it isn't that this movie is necessarily bad for your health but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i've read on one hand but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire i get the feeling that she writes really good novels the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history br br still stuart townsend's voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt's vampire narrative ever did and you can tell that queen of the limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline while interview decided to go with lace and elegance queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places the costumes and rock roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack br br however i'll give credit where credit is due the soundtrack is excellent and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead br br the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom splice montage but after the first ten minutes or so the directing degenerates quickly it's as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn't enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects unfortunately queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress where are the yellow contacts where's the pale blue make up scene after scene i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem's lot and fright night when low budget was done right br br there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage props to aaliyah and may her soul forever rest in peace she might have become a renowned actress had her life not been taken from us so prematurely for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing did i mention that the soundtrack was good let's see what else can i say it wasn't too long the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything br br br br dot com
1	quite good don't expect anything high culture the acting is bad the storyline fails but it is still a fairly nice movie to watch why because it's dark a little bit stupid like unpredictable and just entertaining and fun to watch do not expect anything like i said just see it for yourself and you know what i mean br br it is a movie without a plot or memorable acting but there are enough scenes that will make you laugh cry or at least make you feel compelled to watch it to the end br br this is all i wanted to say br br 7 10
1	the hand of death aka countdown in kung fu 1976 is a vastly underrated early work by director john woo the film stars dorian tan tan tao liang and features jackie chan sammo hung and james in significant supporting roles many people believe or have been lead to believe by deceptive advertising that this is a jackie chan film this is not a jackie chan film dorian tan is the star but jackie gives one of his best most serious early performances br br the hand of death is about a shaolin disciple named tan who is sent on a mission to assassinate a shaolin traitor named and protect a revolutionary named zhang yi woo along his journey meets up with a young named tan chan and a disgraced sword fighter chang chung known as the wanderer both men have suffered at the hands of and want to take revenge the three team up to defeat and his eight bodyguards and escort the revolutionary to safety br br the martial arts action is above average under the direction of sammo hung dorian tan uses his trademark high kicks very effectively as the northern eighteen styles kicks along with some southern five styles boxing sammo hung and jackie chan provide excellent martial arts performances as well james is not the greatest martial artist on the jade screen but does an acceptable job some of the early fights are a bit slow and seem over choreographed but the final showdowns featuring chan tan and hung are very good br br director john woo provides plenty of interesting character development in the film which is refreshing the cinematography by leung wing kat is very stylish unique and beautiful for a kung fu film of this era joseph music a combination of soft flutes and 70's shaft style orchestral pieces is kung fu cinema at its best hand of death is not jackie and sammo's usual kung fu comedy hand of death is a serious straightforward revenge driven story br br hand of death aka countdown in kung fu is an underrated classic in the old school kung fu genre the film is one of the best artistically of its time and a preview of the great things to come from jackie chan and sammo hung hung's great choreography is put on display here before his directorial debut and chan's early charisma and talent can be clearly seen br br hand of death is a solid stylish old school kung fu film and a brilliant early work of the legendary john woo br br kung fu genre rating 7 5 10 br br wanderer to tan referring to his new weapon the little eagle wing god lance br br tan just a
1	in queen of the damned aaliyah was more sexy and had a bigger demanding presence she just caught your eye and attention now the movie did have faults like the lack of explaining past what i also did not like was the that the movie didn't really explain or show more of what the relationship between lestat and was or was like role was sort of limited in the movie and she didn't appear until the 2nd half of the movie and then to top it off her death came 2 quickly but i liked how fought back when the ancients tried to kill her because in the book the last fight between and the ancients was rather boring they killed in like 2 secs head got knocked off in 1 sec and lestat turned into the biggest punk in the world br br aaliyah played very well and stuart was perfect as lestat they could not have picked a better or lestat rest in peace aaliyah
1	i quite this anne rice book adaption while most of the film is filmed here in australia it offers a great amount of scenery and a fantastic area to shoot in lestat stuart townsend has recently woke up from a long period time of sleep and has decided to betray his vampire oath by revealing himself to a band when he becomes a popular movie icon his fellow vampires go mad and plot his death meanwhile jesse marguerite moreau a orphaned member of the supernatural studies who has an ancient vampire family tree has become deeply obsessed with lestat her boss david paul mcgann understands her obsession and his obsession with the vampire marius vincent perez who is an ancient vampire and the man who made lestat a vampire too jesse is given diary and reads of his first killing and an encounter with the queen of the damned aaliyah when lestat holds a concert in death valley he receives news that not only will angry vampires be there may come as well meanwhile has other plans she goes to a vampire coven a bar and kills everyone in her path with lestat tempted with and loving care by the ancient vampires consisting of marius and aunt lena olin plot against them join her or die br br i thought the film was fantastic it had great fight scenes great music and great locations aaliyah sadly passed away in a plane crash shortly before the films premiere but she looked stunning on the set and off the sets br br i gave this film 10 10 because it was a fantastic film and i urge you to see it
1	personally i loved movie my best friend told me about it so i rented it out a watched it it's amazing the music the acting the story lines the emotion everything well except for one minor fact absolutely no loyalty to the books at all i saw this movie before interview with the vampire and before i even knew the books existed so i was shocked to find how many people actually hated the movie i picked up quickly that the book fans weren't at all happy with the unfaithfulness not wanting to be hypocritical i hate the harry potter movies due to lack of book loyalty i stayed silent eventually i picked up the vampire lestat and understood immediately why everyone hated it it is completely different the movie queen of the damned is a combination of the vampire lestat and the queen of the damned but i still loved the movie from when i saw it before reading any of the books so if you haven't seen this movie or read the book watch the movie first or you'll hate it if you have read the book then you have every right to hate this movie
1	may contain spoilers ok it wasn't exactly as good as expected in fact it was a lot different than i had thought it would be but it still turned out to be a pretty good movie br br i usually don't care too much for that type of music but in this movie it worked perfectly i mean duh he's a rock star but anyway i loved stuart townsend in this and aaliyah although she had a small part in the movie was amazing br br and even though tom cruise played lestat in the interview with a vampire i have to admit that i am glad he turned down the role even though i normally hate when they use different people to play the same characters in like sequels and stuff br br overall the movie was great and i enjoyed watching it even if there were parts that could have been better great vampire movie
1	i have to say this movie is absolutely amazing i don't understand why it got such a low rating it has romance music darkness and vampires also stuart townsend did a great job of being lestat the acting was great also normally i am not into that music well sometimes but i have to say in this movie the music fit it perfectly if you like dark movies about vampires this is definitely for you or even if you don't there is a love story to this but all i can say is one word amazing my rating is defiantly 10 out of 10 anyway i seriously suggest you watch it i remember not seeing this for years i watched it again about a year ago and im addicted to it again lol great movie
1	okay first to anne rice book fans br br sure eyes are not blue sure he isn't blond in this movie but even though marius is not maker even though they completely altered the story br br how can u say its not a good movie br br this movie is the best vampire movie i ever saw and lestat is pictured perfectly in it maybe not his features but i don't think one can find a better lestat the way he speaks and the way he looks at mere mortals his arrogance and sheer love for fame is pictured flawlessly br br if u for once consider it just a movie and not try and relate every scene to the book u will love the movie as much as i do br br now to the non readers br br be prepared to fall absolutely in love with this movie it has every thing and the goth music is like an added treat the dialogues are beautiful and catching and even though its a vampire movie u will find yourself smiling at the wit of the characters and u will find yourself sympathizing with the vampires br br overall one of my fav movies 10 10
1	i remember disliking this movie the 1st time i saw it but it has grown on me i love the costumes and poses the actors make the humor the cinematography the soundtrack the scenes are very rich and it moves very quickly every time i watch it there is something new that catches my eye aaliyah as is probably the only thing that ruins it but not enough br br also the lestat in this movie is different it is not the same character you can see that the character armand has been given lestat like qualities because i'm assuming anne wanted it in but there is no reason to trash this movie just because it's not like books it's a fascinating by itself
1	this has been one of the best vampire movies that i have seen in a long time it was very seductive and alluring i liked that it did not have the usual gore and carnage that comes along with most vampire movies the music was excellent it would be great if there was a sequel
1	queen of the damned is one of the best vampire movies i had ever seen the movie had suspense action and gore the combination of the fierce demanding attitude of the queen and the rock mood of our star very well acted by stuart townsend makes a wonderfully done movie that only this combination can create i'm always the one to give advice to my friends and family members on which movies are worthy of renting and when they ask me if queen of the damned is worthy i tell them it's worthy of buying this movie is most for sure a must have in all horror movie lovers' homes
1	after going to sleep out of sheer loneliness lestat wakes from a 100 year sleep to the sounds of a new music he wants to be a part of and the band the vampire lestat is born his longing to end his loneliness and his living in the light attitude along with his music anger his fellow vampires and awaken an evil that has been slumbering for thousands of years br br this film is not for those looking for a true book to film adaptation those who have read the books and expect to see it on the screen are in for a huge disappointment this film will appeal to those who really enjoyed the interview with the vampire film br br there are a few plot holes and but as a whole this film was satisfying stuart townsend portrays lestat with a sensuality and sexiness lacking in the previous film the relationships portrayed in the film were very sexy and sizzling br br as a film the story compels you and draws you in casting is wonderful loved this story and film if you like simmering sensuality and sexual tension you'll love this film
1	my friends and i saw this at the san diego black film festival it was great stormy is a strong black woman and nana reminds me of my grandmother br br rene is fine seeing him take off his clothes was definitely worth the price of admission can someone forward me his contact info br br my friend thinks flex is the finer of the two she's been a flex fan for years though so she might be a little biased the cousins were funny and just as trifling as nana described them lol br br i am looking forward to seeing this movie again when it comes to theaters
1	i thought that this was actually the best vampire movie that i've ever seen i've seen a lot too the effects were great and the casting was brilliant it was an all around good movie the makeup and costumes were great too i would recommend it but not for kids it's not a children's movie
1	the movie although not faithful to the original novels succeeds in creating modern gothic vampire vision somebody tried to insult calling it a 1 music video clip actually it is a complement the everpresent gothic music combined with the music video like shots made the movie so moody and queen of the damned is a mood driven story br br i do not understand the die hard fans who complain on the modifications of the story the plot has been modified to be less confusing for viewers who do not know the novels the number of characters had been lessened and i have no problems with changing maker or skipping character the biggest change the romance of lestat and jesse seemed a very nice addition to me br br actually i think that a faithful adaptation would be a complete failure the slow and gloomy mood that was perfect to century new and louis's angst wouldn't fit rebellion and his music and while the book can be slow descriptive and combining multiple elements yet conveying them well the movie simply cannot do it without turning chaotic vampire lestat and queen of the damned can be split into at least three movies the creators had to choose something br br some of the special effects like the flying or walking out of the flames were the only thing i actually didn't like in this movie but death was very nice the cast was good townsend was convincing as lestat especially on the concert but i preferred banderas as armand i loved jesse and marius though and of course aaliyah was perfect with her quasi ancient egyptian accent br br so if you are into gothic music and vampiric of loneliness and eternity and you don't consider books to be movie scenarios queen of the damned is one of the few movies which show vampires as something more than blood sucking monsters but please do not compare it to the interview movie it has a completely different style precisely as much different as different were louis and lestat personally i find it thrilling first to watch a vampire's existence from louis' bottled hunger point of view and then switching to one devoid of all morals but surprisingly outgoing for a vampire lestat br br i'd give queen 8 of 10 as it had some technical flaws but i decided to give it 9 as it's vastly underrated by people who hate it simply because it didn't match their vision of the books which can be clearly seen by looking at the votes breakdown
1	despite the pans of reviewers i liked this movie in fact i liked it better than interview with a vampire and i liked this lestat stuart townsend better than cruise's attempt all the major players from the series were present talbot lestat armand pandora marius and a half dozen more albeit most of them in cameo marius lestat and were the main players and jesse of the also despite other reviews i think this movie and the music was faithful to anne rice's portrayal and ethos at least as i perceive it was pretty good as in places compelling her first entrance and mini dance scene the movie didn't capture the breadth of the books series but i thought it was a nice supplement br br i'm a big fan of this series mostly due to anne rice's style sensitivities and treatments and i found this movie a faithful and often superlative representation of the author's vision
1	it has very little to do with the books half of the characters have been eliminated the plot has been greatly altered people's parents are changed for different characters br br however if you watch it as an independent piece try and forget you ever read the books the movie is very well put together everyone is very good looking and there is even a sweet ending
1	i've seen this movie times now and still can't get sick of it it's like a frickin' drug i know a lot of people don't like it but there's something about it that just draws me in every single performance is spectacular but aaliyah is the one who steals the show she not only played the role of she became it her body movement and beauty was captured exceptionally well it's also nice to see that a black girl was chosen for the role of an egyptian queen no i'm not against white people i am one true it's not known what color the ancient egyptians really were but this was a nice change stuart townsend completely made me forget about tom cruise's of lestat and marguerite was striking once again all in all it was a good time at the movies for those who haven't seen it be sure to watch it with an open mind and not take it too seriously i mean it's a movie about a vampire who becomes a rock star take it as that
1	although this movie doesn't have the darkness of the books it is in my opinion a great movie it's great campy fun with the beautiful stuart townsend as lestat he may not have the blond hair and blue eyes that are so vividly described in the book but to be fair he would not look good with blond hair and lestat is most definitely about looking good he moves like the predator i always imagined lestat would have br br the visual effects are pretty good and the soundtrack is absolutely amazing it's not interview with the vampire so don't try to compare the two interview is louis' story this is a cut and paste version of in any case i highly recommend
1	despite a few acceptable adaptations of the books' main themes queen of the damned the vampire lestat did not stay true to anne complicated story telling the deep layers that build up all the characters were shredded apart to only their surface if not a completely different identity the chronological order of the major events in the movie seemed warped and uneven br br however there were quite a few things the movie did to deserve my rating of 7 one was that the film strongly captured the affect that lestat among other vampires had to the public especially young girls the movie also did a fairly good job focusing on the importance of heredity and history that the vampires took pride in the scenes of sensuality were also atmospherically satisfying br br the acting in queen of the damned was moderate if disappointing stuart townsend and aaliyah have a surprising chemistry though it only shows when the acting is at its best not very often the characters are nothing compared to the ones established in interview with a vampire it also lacks the emotional intelligence of the feast of all saints which is a shame because rice's queen of the damned book had that and more br br this movie doesn't give all that it appears to be the effects are dull and very disappointing the extravagance needed in many scenes is not given and the dialog is tiring the settings for many scenes are not how i pictured them in the book and i think that many of them weren't even taken from the story there are only a few areas of incoherence near the beginning and middle of the movie but it wraps itself up fairly neatly giving the viewer a full story if they had not read the book br br somethings that i feel the movie needed include a good original score howard shore or elmer bernstein instead of the mix of rock music though i had no problem with some of the songs another thing that would have made the movie better is better set direction the scenery was boring as well as unclear which is important in a story that moves around quite frequently br br overall queen of the damned was an unevenly disappointing yet somewhat satisfying adaption of the important novel with a few simple changes it may have been a very successful piece of film work i'd recommend this movie for people who has seen interview or have read the books so that they can make their own opinion on the adaption
1	if vampire tales are your cup of blood then this goth fest based on the anne rice vampire chronicles should prove to be a satisfying experience a veritable of the undead in a contemporary setting queen of the damned ' directed by michael is a story of shadows and darkness and of the unfortunate souls who dwell therein for eternity br br the vampire lestat stuart townsend bored with a world that no longer excites him has been for many years but suddenly the sounds of that world he hears from his extended slumber change and liking what he hears he ventures forth to investigate what he finds is a world filled with new sounds a new kind of music driving and penetrating sounds that assault the senses and make him feel alive and welcome and he knows that at long last his time has come that it is time for him and those like him to come out into the open and face the world on their terms toward that end he becomes the front man for a band a singer and performer unlike any the world has ever known he presents himself as a vampire and very quickly amasses a following that extends far beyond london where it all begins and will ultimately take him to death valley california where he plans to give a concert that promises to be beyond anything anyone has ever seen or experienced br br lestat is powerful without question but there are those of his kind who do not take favorably to the fact that he has revealed them one of whom is marius vincent perez a vampire powerful in his own right the vampire in fact who made' lestat so many years before and they are gathering coming together and making their plans to meet lestat at the concert and they are not going for the music but there is something else as well at one point lestat has inadvertently awakened the mother' of them all the most powerful of all the vampires aaliyah who is about to make her presence known to all and especially to the one she has chosen to rule by her side as her king lestat and at the concert rest assured will be in attendance without fail br br make no mistake this is story and presents it amid a setting rich with atmosphere and with some exquisite moments though his film has less bite to it than say interview with the vampire ' or bram stoker's dracula ' he sets a good pace and there are some scenes that provide some real thrills but overall the film isn't as soaked in menace as it could be or as much as one might expect in the final tally in fact the amount of flesh that is incinerated wins out over actual blood letting though there is more than a taste of gore and more than a fair share of lips and mouths dripping with the red stuff there's some good f x on hand too especially in the sequences that accentuate the speed of the vampires as they move and hurtle through the air faster than the naked eye can discern it's a decent job by but he could have put more teeth into it had he played up the alienation hinted at by lestat as it is you get a sense of his detachment but not enough to get you totally involved br br in interview with the vampire ' tom cruise brought some charismatic star power to the role of lestat but townsend is even more effective with a look and an attitude that captures lestat perfectly he plays him with a sense of acceptance and under closer scrutiny you may even find a hint of remorse and longing it's a good performance and one that sells his character convincingly br br as marius vincent perez does a nice job too he is in fact one of the strengths of the film though his character is a bit ambiguous that however has more to do with the way he was written than with performance which is quite good br br turning in noteworthy performances as well are marguerite moreau as jesse a young woman too curious for her own good and the gorgeous lena olin as jesse's aunt who ultimately plays a pivotal role in the outcome of the drama involving lestat and br br and as aaliyah is an absolutely riveting presence what more can one say about her other than she is a gifted performer with tremendous talent and beauty and tragically she has left us much too soon br br the supporting cast includes paul mcgann david christian manon claudia black pandora bruce spence matthew newton armand mora roger and megan with a much stronger story than the usual offerings of this particular genre anne rice fans especially will be pleased with queen of the damned ' a film nicely crafted and delivered by director and his engaging cast by focusing attention on the drama of the story and the way it's presented rather than concentrating on merely providing some cheap thrills has succeeded in turning out a true horror film that is definitely a cut above and one that just may whet your appetite for more of the same and that's the magic of the movies i rate this one 7 10 br br br br br br
1	surface is one of the greatest t v series i have seen the acting is great and the storyline enthralling each episode left me barely able to wait to watch the next i especially thought carter jenkins who played miles bennett did a superb job he is a very talented actor and i look forward to seeing more of his work br br i can't believe surface only made one season once again the public has let me down it is hard to fathom that a great shows like this one would get canceled while crap reality shows continue on year after year whoever made the decision to cancel this show really dropped the ball on this one
1	once again there's dastardly government agencies stopping at nothing to prevent public knowledge of some momentous events in this case the discovery of a new underwater species that could threaten the planet's ecology although the creature is no e t he does seem to befriend one youngster who protects it at all costs not realising it is but an infant of the species and is going to get a lot bigger – and badder this 2005 series had a lot going for it it is family drama sci fi thriller with more than a few comedic moments the characters are believable well acted and well photographed the show holds the attention of course as with any sci fi show suspension of disbelief has to be achieved and i think it is here alas the series crashed after season one so we never get a resolution infuriating there is a general comment i feel worth making here many tv networks and or film distribution companies cancel quite arbitrarily seemingly excellent tv series – particularly intelligent sci fi ones now there may be some very good reasons for this although the audiences are treated with utmost disdain and rarely told the reasons this in itself is annoying what really gets my goat is that having cancelled the series they then issue the thing as far as it's got on dvd in an obvious attempt to milk the cash cow as far as possible for previous viewers of the series that's ok they know what they're in for but … many of these unfinished series end on a cliffhanger two that come to mind immediately are surface and odyssey 5 if you've heard good things about the series and not seen it you go and buy the blasted dvd and end up with an unresolved plot issue – it makes me very angry i enjoyed surface immensely and didn't realise the poor characters would end up in a situation that looked totally untenable – and we'll never know what happened next i believe that there should be a prominent notice on all such dvd issues to the effect that the story is unfinished nowadays i check on tv series purchases imdb is an obvious excellent starting point to find out whether a 'complete' series is really complete or not buyer beware
1	true love i truly enjoyed and loved this movie it was fun funny and inspirational i just saw it on dvd how did i miss this one it's a winner i mean flex was that guy i wanted to marry him this was my 1st time seeing him as a straight leading man and he pulls it off i thought miller was the best ever and i was a felicity head too a fearless woman who only fears her nana thank you for giving women of color range in your work and she looks great tasha smith was a blast wright was priceless as nana this cute romantic comedy is a must see oh and the new comer marcus patrick is worth the surprise ladies true love karen
1	now i do understand that this film was not meant as an indictment against all indians but it is an amazing film because it dares to investigate the hypocrisy that some indians have concerning their women and sexuality i have known for some time that sexism is very common in this society with women being murdered because the husband's family doesn't want them any more after his death or because she had a small dowry as well as the frequent killing of female fetuses because they are seen as a curse instead of a blessing i also realize that some from this culture will be greatly offended by the film but the bottom line is that there is some truth to the subject matter even if the film was so strongly attacked when it debuted in india a decade ago as a result of the extreme misogyny in the movie most western audience members will be shocked or at least be emotionally pulled into the plight of the ladies in this film br br although i am a male am not rabidly feminist and i am straight the film had a strong positive impact on me and it is not an agenda film that can only be enjoyed by lesbians and man haters in fact i don't think the film is promoting hatred of men or homosexuality but instead gives a credibly argument how in the case of these two ladies it was the only reasonable alternative due to their wicked husbands yes i use the word wicked and mean it as both husbands living in this large household are intensely selfish and have no regard for their sexuality in many traditional societies this is indeed the case and women are doomed to an empty emotional existence br br one husband married a vivacious young woman sita out of family obligation this arranged marriage is uncomfortable for them both but in the beginning sita makes an attempt to connect with her sullen husband however he sees himself as a victim and could have cared less about sita and he continues to have an affair with a liberal minded chinese lady to make matters worse he did nothing to hide the affair and made no apologies in their dead marriage sex was purely meant to produce children and there was no way sita could have any of her sexual or emotional needs met and unfortunately he could have cared less br br another husband was married to a lady who was infertile radha oddly after initially trying to have children they have gone the next 13 years without any sexual contact whatsoever it's because this man has decided to become an i e in hinduism a person who gives up the pleasures of the world to gain inner enlightenment now his wanting to do this was all well and good if he was not already married and had obligations for his wife however being married this was an incredibly selfish act and like his brother he assumed his wife had no sexual feelings nor did he seem to care the closest he would allow her to him sexually was to sleep next to him as having her next to him helped teach himself to overcome the desires of the flesh this must have brought nothing but frustration to her br br so you've got two neglected and normal women living in the same household who long for emotional connection as well as an outlet for their sexual needs eventually these needs bring these sister in laws together at first just emotionally but later sexually as well the movie was brilliant how it got me to look at and understand how in some cases homosexuality is inevitable and even healthy compared to a life of emotional desolation br br late in the film when the intensity of their sexual relationship is discovered it leads to a not totally unexpected reaction from radha's enlightened husband a man who seeks religious insight and peace yet is so wrapped up in himself that true insight and growth is impossible br br this is a very challenging and adult film while there is very little nudity the subject matter is very adult and this is not a film to show your kids very disturbing indeed is one minor character who masturbates in front of an old paralyzed lady as i said this is not a film to let your kids watch however for a mature audience this is an excellent and highly erotic film that will get you to think br br the film features good acting complex characters excellent writing lovely mood music and a slow pace that might annoy some but which i found rewarding the only serious negative i cannot blame on the movie itself but on the idiots who released this on videotape this is because although the movie is in english the accents are quite strong at times and it's not always easy to understand what's being said but and this is the worst part there are no closed or open captions including them is a must for western audiences if you do watch this film see if you can find it on dvd or hopefully a newer release on video will have captioning mine sure didn't br br by the way director deepa mehta a popular female director has made several other wonderful films such as earth and bollywood hollywood a consistent theme in her films is the conflict between traditional indian culture and expectations and with a strong emphasis on female characters not surprisingly this west thinking lady makes her home in canada and is divorced a truly unusual woman to say the least for a similar film that explores traditional culture meets western culture try another canadian gem eat drink man woman
1	surface was one of the few truly unique shows on tv last season i can honestly say i modified my schedule so i could be home to watch every episode tons of action suspense science fiction etc br br story was of a boy who found an egg that hatched into a sea creature the same sea creature that had killed the main character's brother and the woman character had seen most people think it is a deadly killing machine but the one raised from the egg was very friendly br br only problem is nbc canceled it so now we'll never know what happens hopefully sci fi or some other channel will pick it up
1	i have now seen the whole of season one and can say i have not enjoyed a show of this standard in a long time it great to see a show like this in the pipeline and hope that there are many on the way the season final was the best bar none cant wait for season 2 as far as i am things can only get better like how will to change will rick get his family back and how will they get off the church roof with acting of this level it is easy to see why the show is such a big hit with people as long as people as making shows like this i will keep watching i think its hard now to come up with an original idea as so many shows have a large range of subjects so to see one as original as this is refreshing
1	i thought this was a very good tv series and i would like to see it continue it really got interesting there at the end and i really want to see where it is going from there some times we are to quick to kill a series without giving it a chance i think this one needs a chance to go on and i will definitely be waiting for it the ocean is one of the places that man knows so little about and i think that is a mystery in itself what is waiting for us beneath the waters of the world it is even said that man maybe crawled out or out of the waters many millennium ago is this a new evolution coming about are we going to move down the food chain or fight for our position
1	a new and innovative show with a great cast that keeps you on the edge of your seat lake bell is wonderful it is to bad that her other show miss match was canceled i am just glad she came back on surface i can't wait for the return of surface this show is really something unique to watch with an eerie underwater world that is akin to jurassic park this show keeps you wondering what is next is adorable even if he is going to turn into something larger and much more ominous there are so many generic shows out there that just seem to rehash the same old subjects when something like surface comes along you just have to say thank you
1	this is the first sci fi series that i have seriously become hooked on since star trek and i haven't watched trek in years it takes the invasion theme in somewhat different directions but has done it in a very exciting way it also borrows from soap opera format where it continues the arc throughout the entire year run of the series the cgi definitely doesn't overcome the plot or the characters except for the fledgling creature who is a pet with definite attitude anything that would show what he really thought about the neighbor's dog is a 1 in my book he was a stroke of genius br br i am left at the end of the finale asking questions intelligent ones i hope and crossing my fingers and toes that nbc or someone else sci fi maybe will continue to run the series and answer those questions br br a really great classy show
1	i am sorry to see that surface has not been picked up for the nbc 2006 2007 season i guess market demand for inane game and reality shows on broadcast television a reflection on our sense of culture has conquered a good story i hope and pray that some network picks it up so it will continue on as does stargate and it's spin offs br br i also hope the producers find a venue where they can produce the level of post production they wished for in a tv guide interview right now the reruns on sci fi marathons will have to do i for one would love to see where the story goes after the tsunami that ended episode 15 i would like to find out the mastermind of the efficient effort to the real identity of the creatures br br
1	surface was awesome i don't know how many mondays i survived at school just by thinking about the new episode of surface i loved it sometimes i had to call home and tell my mom to tape it for me i was pretty upset when i heard it was cancelled i mean jeez way to let us hang so they can have their new tina fay comedy you couldn't pay me to watch that i think seeing the commercials made me dumber i'm gonna miss my monday night fix of surface even if my sister did make fun of me although kidnapped does look good and they still have l o svu i think i still have to check i only wrote the 2 lines above because they said i needed ten lines
1	surface from the day its teaser first showed in the summer of 2005 was a tossup on one hand it seemed so high concept and plot driven that to the it felt like it would work out better as a motion picture or several plus it felt like it was nbc's attempt at a lost killer on the other hand one may have realized that the story was too expansive to tell in a movie or two and fans of lost seemed intrigued br br so after one and possibly only season on nbc the show is on an indefinite hiatus that could either put it in the vault on sci fi or filling a gap in nbc's lineup in the summer or fall of 2007 or beyond its ratings were some of the better on the network which isn't saying much but the show has been taken off the air with no real official announcement of its future br br so is it worthwhile yes br br surface follows a continuing story format driven by plot with next to no filler episodes almost everything that happens on the show is important to the plot much like a motion picture no filler episodes which put a pain in your side when you missed an episode yet the show's double edge helped made up for that big things seem to happen every episode but since it feels like a movie you end every episode feeling like little happened and you're left wanting more that trait of the show though shows how great it is the cast is solid the three main leads including the beautiful lake bell as laura put in a solid performance every episode each driven by their own reasons for finding studying the creatures the supporting cast including ian anthony dale and the brief performance by rade serbedzija fill out the cast well the story is slow to start my one regret it doesn't really pick up until a 3 4 episodes in to the short 15 episode season but the latter half of the season makes up for it the visual effects are stunning one's jaw will drop when you see an overhead view of one of the creatures 'attack' a ship as well br br many of the show's problems can be remedied by purchasing the complete first season and not having to wait a week or three to watch the next episode br br in short if you've missed the first season and you're curious go back and watch it it's no twin peaks in terms of quirkiness but the high concept nature of it puts in in league with that lost and other similar shows with a flair for action and adventure enjoy it
1	all i can say after watching the dvds of the first season is that i can not believe nbc green lighted this show it's so different than what's currently in vogue save for lost those who miss the x files just may have a worthy successor not as mysterious or intense as lost i find it to be overall more entertaining br br this kind of extended story is hard to make i mean it could degenerate into childish dribble if most of the elements do not cohere together but cohere they do and i think the cast is excellent the writing sharp the location and props first rate and the special effects very good for a television budget sure it pushes what is plausible but as it does it never gets so silly as to insult your intelligence br br bottomline is that this is great sci fi drama for the entire family i doubt it will be a classic with a long run like x files but in the meantime i recommend getting the dvd if you missed it like i did the first time around this fall my must see shows has just increased by one more series br br ps i just heard it got axed from nbc here's hoping sci fi picks it up
1	this show has an amazing plot with good and recognizable actors like the girl from boston legal and boris the butcher from snatch even the extras and the kid whom i thought from the commercial might be a weak link surprised me with his skill it's just the little things that the director needs to tweak like the guy who does the recap of the last episode at the beginning of each new episode needs to be fired having a narrator tell you what happened kind of ruins the story the only other small problem i had was that sometimes they take too long to do things but no where near as long as some shows like prison break anyone know when they will resume the season
1	cute movie feel good movie i had never heard of this movie but ran across it while looking for something to rent i had high hopes for this movie based purely on flex being in this movie i have never seen him in anything not worth while true to form this movie delivered for me i enjoyed the story the movie is full of great actors and actresses the hilarious tasha smith essence atkins and of course miller i really liked this movie a lot i didn't give it five stars because it did not discuss certain issues that i thought the movie should have detailed the issue was apparently resolved but i would have appreciated a discussion resolving the issues i liked the movie so much that i am now buying the movie after i've already rented and watched it
1	i am new at this so bear with me please i am a big fan of surface i thought the script and the computer graphics were exceptional as good as any sci fi flick i've seen at the theater in february the tv guide said season finale the announcer for the show said something to the effect of and now for the season finale of surface season finale not series finale i couldn't wait for fall to get here to see was going to happen next so fall gets here and it's nowhere to be found if nbc isn't going to pick it up what about sci fi or usa it seems to me that bay watch didn't last long on abc then usa picked it up and it went gang busters i bet abc was chocking ha if not a series then at least a mini series to give all us loyal fans closure what happened to our guy's trapped in the church steeple was the creature in the did he have a does the cloned guy come over to our side there are so many unanswered questions thank's for listening to me babble
1	i would like if they brought back surface i really enjoyed the show along with my family i felt the plot development and storyline were first rate like the other person said it seems that everything gets reduced to the lowest common denominator nothing but bland politically correct junk survives just look at the internet to see how many people were watching the show also it is not nice to leave us hanging as to what happened the all of the characters on the show this is the same thing that happened to the time travel show i think was called 8 days but should have been called did the olympics kill surface i know the writers strike killed another one of my favorite shows years ago called greatest american hero
1	when i started watching surface for the first time i was hooked it had everything i wanted in a show suspense action mystery great plot and a great cast of characters my whole family loved to watch the show it seems when there's a great show on tv the network usually cancels it like they seemed to do with this show they go by the nielson rating system which i think is stupid because there is a lot of junk that they seem to watch which the networks keep on the air if only there was a way for everyone to vote on a show then maybe the good shows won't get canceled when i watch tv now i only watch good shows so right now thats not watching a whole lot of tv i hope that the network brings the show back but when they make up there mind with a dumb decision they seem to stick to it i hope there's a lot of people out there that feel the same way
1	i enjoy the show surface very much the show is very entertaining and it's a clean show a show like surface is interesting it keeps my attention it has compassion and suspense i love all the cast members that are on the show they are all very good choices i think it is very important to have the right cast of any show because thats what makes any show a success and of course the scenes and the show itself television has changed so much over the years it has changed in good ways and in bad i love to watch some comedy action suspense and romance and scifi but surface is a show that i hope comes back for many seasons because it is a great show and its something that families can watch my children are grown but my husband and i enjoy watching these types of shows i appreciate your time and letting me comment my opinion br br thanks br br blackwell
1	i don't believe it sixty percent of voters voted this show as ten now how the hell is the rating a five point eight it impossible i don't get it its totally pathetic i mean how anyway the show is great the story is great and the characters are interesting definitely a ten out of ten from me i think the creatures are cool they look great and i wish i had a great show great cgi hope there's a second series as a lot went unanswered in the first season and when is gonna get any bigger as the rest of the creatures are huge again why is the rating so low when the votes were so high br br 10 10
1	someone asked why it was canceled i tell you why because reality makes money the show surface was canceled so that they could replace it with a reality show this will haunt nbc i and about half of my high school about 1000 people total have vowed to boycott nbc until they bring this show back in my area i don't know about other places but they had a great thing going with the sci fi channel where the sci fi channel would show last weeks episode at 7 00 and then nbc would show the week's new episode at 8 00 this was great because it gave you a little refresher as to what happened in the last episode i was so angry when i learned that the show was canceled and they were going to just leave them on top of the church like that
1	surface is one of the best shows that i have ever seen nbc is so stupid for canceling a great show like this and worse of all only leaving it half complete nbc or someone else should give surface at least one more season just so it can be completed it's as if nbc gave you a book to read and half way through it they decide to take it away from you and then you can never find out the ending i just want to see what happens to everyone and most importantly see what happens to i think i can say this safely about most surface fans is that we want to save has taken all of our hearts away and then nbc just cuts them in two come on nbc just give surface one more season
1	it's not often that a tv series grabs me right off the bat a recent chance download of the pilot for surface had me glued to my seat for the entirety of the episode after which i immediately set out on a fevered search to learn everything i could about this wonderful series to my chagrin i found out it had been canceled after a mere 15 episodes despite its strong ratings and extremely favorable reviews such a shame br br since then i've acquired the remaining episodes and found the first 5 or 6 to be among the best television i've ever watched just fantastic from start to finish and as another reviewer commented i loved how they ended every episode with a huge finish i imagine watching it each week i would've been screaming with tension and just captivated desperately waiting for the next episode to be released growing up i always heard that was how early serial movies used to do it ending with a huge cliffhanger to get the crowds back into the theater for the next episode br br well it seems for some reason or another the suits decided to kill this off and apparently the people behind the show must've seen the writing on the wall because after episode 6 things definitely take a turn for the worse i wouldn't say the episodes actually become boring but a lot of the plot elements become a bit more clichéd and i've got to say the final episode really left me feeling cheated i just wish the show's creators were given a fair chance the only other show that left me feeling like that was the first season of stargate sg 1 which just resonated tremendously feeling very true soulful and made from the heart surface was a great series and maybe one day some well heeled tv lover will see all the outpouring of emotion about the show's cancellation and bring back this show one can hope at least
1	spoilers whatever else can or can't be said about it surface is superbly crafted the cinematography is simply stunning to say the least and the fx are nothing if not state of the art conceptually the show offers a little bit of everything and for just about everybody parents kids fantasy and or fx fans close encounters of the third kind by way of creature from the black lagoon with a bit of jaws and godzilla thrown in for good measure say and there wasn't a single sour note struck acting wise either some surprisingly solid casting here this series surfaced seemingly from out of nowhere and by sheer dint of its straightforward storytelling carried the viewer along for the better part of an entire season all things considered a job very well done i only hope it resurfaces next season
1	what can i say i got up this morning and turned on sci fi and watched half of the first season and figured it all out strange unusual and brilliant it gives all potential and to think at first i said this looks stupid this has got to be the next best thing since x files but as always nothing will ever take down that show in my opinion i am telling you it's scary and then suspenseful and then mellow towards the end you have miles as a love puppy with a weird pet that is a new species you have two people on the run from authorities and a killer tsunami about to strike wow and did i mention miles pet is a potential killer well the rest of his species is surface is a brilliant show with spins and twists that delivers it all
1	this film was great miller and flex did a great job they both look good together and they both pulled it off tasha smith was so funny as the cousin and she couldn't stay out of her business essence held it down for her girl when she needed her was sweet and played a dear grandmother she really reminded me of my grandmother and oh i can't forget about the stripper he was so find and i didn't know if i should cover my eyes or smile while i watch him reveal his sexiness on the big screen damn he was fine looked flawless and sexy and she stepped up a notch since felicity over all the movie had a lot a list actors and actress it was funny sexy crazy touching loving emotional and wonderful this movie is a must see go it get on dvd now if don't have it
1	the problem with tv today is that people have been spoiled by lite tv viewing this type of television show is the equivalent of elevator music or easy listening jazz the typical viewers idea of continuity is remembering who got voted off the island last week and wondering who will be the next to go show them a program like surface firefly dr who or anything with a plot arc of more than three episodes and well they'll just flip back to survivor br br 95 of the sheep watching tv don't want to rack their brains they want excuses to not think they want to make sure the boob tube lives up to its name and they don't want shows that try and go any other route because of this surface and many other high quality shows that should have lasted far longer have gotten the axe br br tv viewers don't want stories or morals or philosophy or anything over a third grade vocabulary level they want people eating or over dramatized real life series no such thing you cannot observe something without changing the very nature of what you observe or hormonal shows involving groups of people having trysts and then bragging about it to their friends br br today's television is nothing but a wasteland and the few diamonds you can pick out of the dust are just tossed out because no one even knows what a diamond is anymore surface was one of those diamonds
1	i have bought the complete season of surface watched it in 3 days i was so captured by the the plot theories and basically everything about this show the actor who plays miles is great sister mother and father acted like real life family would you could connect on so many levels it's fascinating br br i find animals are so wonderful you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists br br am that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book br br love the show very much for those who haven't watched surface if you like sci fi you need to watch this
1	this dvd set is the complete widescreen 15 episode run of surface a television show made by universal in 2006 the full running time is 10 hours and 34 minutes plus a few bonus features deleted scenes cast interviews special effects featurette this was a relatively high budget show and much of the budget makes it to the screen in the form of quality production design and special effects br br unfortunately 10 hours is a lot of time and as typically happens with this type of stuff the overall quality begins to fall off in the later episodes i found the first 7 episodes discs 1 and 2 extremely engaging and the remainder a disappointment surface was produced written and directed by josh and jonas pate and it appears that they were surprised by the success of the series and unable to together enough good subsequent material as they rushed to fill the order for additional episodes it even looks like additional writers were brought in for the later episodes because the characters who were already the weakest part of the series lack consistency with the way they were played in the early episodes the series was canceled and although the last episode provides a conclusion of sorts there are still a lot of things left hanging br br it is basically a science fiction story about genetically created dragons sort of a television blend of jurassic park and et the story begins as a puzzle as a crew less navy sub is found adrift at sea boaters on a texas lake are sucked into whirlpool a lighthouse in africa is destroyed by a huge monster etc etc and as long as things stay this vague there is a fair amount of tension and suspense a human element is introduced in the form of three american families one on each coast and one on the gulf of mexico laura lake bell is a california marine biologist who discovers a strange creature rising from an undersea thermal vent on the ocean floor rich connelly jay r ferguson is diving with his younger brother in the gulf when a similar creature drags his brother away never to be seen again br br miles bennett carter jenkins is a wilmington teenager who finds some strange eggs floating in the ocean he takes one home where it hatches into an et type dragon he will spend the rest of the series trying to hide his strange pet from his family and from the local authorities these dragons may look like lizards but they are more like indestructible electric eels firing electromagnetic pulses causing lightning strikes emptying the sea of fish and reproducing like a bunch of randy rabbits when they find an undersea thermal vent of boiling water as long as it's uncertain whether or not they're intelligent extraterrestrial or harmless the premise is interesting once you begin to suspect their origin it all gets very tired and predictable br br jay r ferguson a staggeringly bad actor in the tradition of david hasselhoff essentially plays the richard dreyfuss character from close encounters of the third kind so you know that with a better actor and a better director it could have been an interesting character you will grow to hate this character more with each episode unfortunately what starts out as three parallel story lines is soon condensed into two as ferguson and bell a low budget version of sandra bullock are soon paired up and involved in a series of moronic adventures almost as improbable as the stuff jason bourne gets himself into you expect plot holes and the need to suspend disbelief in this type of show that can even be part of the fun but their adventures are not just totally implausible they are utterly and completely boring there are three consecutive episodes that feature ferguson and bell together in a that will have you longing for the excitement of an all day conference br br jenkins miles is the strongest member of the cast and the segments with his pet dragon are inter cut often enough with the boring ferguson bell stuff to keep you watching and these segments benefit from the presence of gorgeous leighton of recent gossip girl fame as his sister savannah apparently the producers picked up on the importance of this to their teenage boy target audience and the one positive thing they did with the later episodes of the series was to introduce caitlin as a first love interest for miles so as screen time decreases is gradually phased in br br in retrospect they needed a third storyline to keep viewers sufficiently engaged and it would have been better to limit the adult melodrama in favor of a second group of young actors br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
1	i like the show but come on writers get some action in it quit dragging it on and on you have a great concept and it could be a whole lot more miles jenkins is great and performs as a kid that age should act in the situation he finds himself in hey get creative with the creatures they may have telepathic capabilities or other out worldly powers the kid actors in the series are very good and convincing the parents of miles do appear to be a little too out of sense as to what is going on but develop this come on you have a great seed here and there can be a whole new twist to next season with a lot of new characters and creatures and all kinds of neat sci fi stuff if they could make a series on a witch then you should be able to make one on these creatures and kids
1	i am continuously amazed at the us networks what is the matter with them yet another very very promising series axed after just 15 episodes and we are left not knowing what the hell happens to everyone i really thoroughly enjoyed this show and am so annoyed that we will never find out what happens to the characters and the 'monsters' from the deep this show had everything humour suspense action what more could you want why oh why did the pull the plug on this it just doesn't make sense buffy went on for 7 series as did charmed and enjoyable as they were surface invasion and dead like me were even better just because a show does not get terribly high ratings doesn't mean it's rubbish and if they gave it a bit longer probably more people would catch on to it and they would end up with a big hit on their hands one season just does not give it enough time to catch on and the networks are far to eager to pull the plug they should learn that like fine and cheeses they take time to mature br br bring surface and invasion back p l e a s e
1	i love this show it's truly unique i was under the impression it was going to have more seasons in anticipation of series 2 recently i purchased series 1 to re watch it in order to be refreshed when part 2 started now after watching it i was excited and craving more so i came to the site to see the schedule for the continuation i am really disappointed to see there no longer are plans for a second series as i was eagerly looking forward to watching more of this story i think they really dropped the ball on this one there was plenty of story line left to build on and lots of unanswered questions i'm now a very unhappy view and i hope that they would reconsider their decision and pick up the story where it left off
1	this is one of the better sci fi series it involves character development a few really moments and reasonable episode scripts as one other commentator said here it looked as if it were a mini series not a full blown series with filler episodes and low budgets br br the problem with the show which in short is a godzilla series is that it started too big with incredible monsters fantastic science then it all boiled down to local americans doing stuff then the show ended too soon since the olympics were coming and hey a sci fi show is a sci fi show but half naked athletic people running around aimlessly is much more important so they only did 15 episodes instead of the expected 22 the audience was small too as people didn't really caught it on at 20 00 in the end the suits did it trust a marketing plan to destroy anything that looks remotely original and promising br br conclusion you have a show with good special effects stuff like huge monsters killing people or destroying boats then going into genetic engineering transforming people human clones end of the world also the only fillers are scenes with aggressive rednecks or other annoying people being killed for their stupidity the down side is that after 15 episodes that prepare something huge the show ends no real ending no closure just a bitter taste of cloth in one's mouth as if you just swallowed a piece of suit
1	there is no denying it sci fi on tv is difficult there are so many problems that the genre brings with it like the need for a good budget solid writing decent acting perhaps the budget and the script writing is the departments where i feel most attempts have failed so does surface succeed not completely but more so than most br br the way i see it a good sci fi show doesn't really need a lot of cgi to work nor does it need a ton of money what it needs is the capacity to create a larger than life feeling the feeling that there is more than meets the eye something to make me curious and willing to try and figure out how it's going to end adding the pieces of the puzzle and sometimes saying aha is what makes or breaks a show like this one br br surface had a couple of flaws first of all it's basic premise is not as exciting as it could have been nor is the revealed story as exciting or daring as i hoped in the beginning also the tv feeling is very present much of the time all the way from the crappy cgi that ranges from decent to awful to the rather shifting quality in the acting department also it feels sometimes a bit too family oriented in that it takes the edge of sometimes and becomes almost cutesy but aside from these flaws it's an enjoyable show maybe not as spectacular as some of the other sci fi shows out there but it manages to keep me interested the whole season and it offers a couple of nice cliffhangers between shows as well the ending for me is not that appealing i don't like shows that end without ending so to speak leaving the story unresolved it's especially unfortunate in this case since the show seems to be canceled after the first season it is as of yet undecided br br hbo is to me the benchmark for quality television their series have the best actors the best production values and above all the most solid writing this is not hbo quality but it's good for what it is good enough to want another season without a doubt
1	i came across this movie while channel surfing one day and decided to give it a chance to my surprise i enjoyed this movie i felt some genuine chemistry between cates and malcolm jamal warner it was such a lighthearted and warm movie that when it was over i felt upbeat sure this movie was predictable from the very beginning but i give it high marks for the way that it made me feel when it was over i must admit that i have never seen cates before but i feel that she can definitely act when you combine her good acting with her cute face and attractive figure she has the makings of at least becoming a well known star
1	a tender movie that represents how our daily life is a catalyst that causes us to change our thoughts behaviors and emotions into people we're not this story is a love story where true emotions arise i credit malcolm jamal warner win and cates for outstanding performances a movie definitely worth seeing a holiday roadtrip that turns into an emotional turn a round i suggest seeing it
1	watching the preview of armored i thought the movie was either going to be a very bad or a very good film thankfully the movie was entertaining suspenseful and realistic there never is the perfect crime and armored showed why the movie show perfectly when people get into stressful situation they behave like animals the last hour of the film is very entertaining matt dillon is still a very good actor hard to believe dillon is 50 years of age i would buy this movie i give armored eight out of ten not a christmas movie did i write ten lines yet nope anyways there is not to many action films armored has a lot of excitement in it which gives the movie goer a choice over another comedy
1	a fare to remember is a totally derivative almost ridiculous movie but has a warmth about it that makes it a very effective and upbeat holiday movie it stars a pretty newcomer as a high powered ad executive who right before her wedding has to rush from l a to seattle to keep a client who has rejected every other presentation she has transportation difficulties from the beginning and seemingly no money this is the first dumb thing were there no anywhere she must make a fortune at any rate she meets a cab driver warner who looks like a homeless man and he drives her to her presentation and when she emerges with a huge box of beef jerky the client's product he's there to take her to the airport all flights are canceled so in order to get to l a for her wedding she hires him to take her there br br along the way they bond and learn from each other it's a very sweet movie though there is absolutely nothing new in it it combines six days and seven nights and a few other films but the chemistry between the stars is good they're likable and the acting is good look for jerry springer as the head of the beef jerky company and a cameo by karl malden br br this is a nice film to take in over the holiday season it's on lifetime
1	most christmas movies have a redemption theme but most are a variation on a very similar plot this movie is wacky and has an unusual plot you may need to hang in there for the first half where events may seem hard to believe for a movie but not as unbelievable as real life scott adams the creator of dilbert says he's never made up anything in any of his cartoons they're all based on real life stories told to him by his fans the second half starts to fit the plot together i enjoyed it br br btw one reviewer noted that the idea of someone not having cash available is not credible in these days of but it's perfectly credible if you've lost your wallet who carries atm cards anywhere else while on a business trip
1	this movie was a suprise for me while i was surfing from channel to channel i don't know why but it filled in me with warmth and happiness this is what a high budget movie can not do mostly i liked it this is a must see one br br
1	cates does a wonderful job depicting a conflicted bride torn between the challenges that await her professionally the memories of the freedom she thought she would have when in college inspired by a famous author and the safety of her pending marriage to a man she really doesn't love this movie is definitely worth seeing as predictable as it may be the acting is inspiring and real chemistry exists between cates and malcolm warner
1	now i like victor herbert and i like mary martin and allan jones but it would have been nice to see a real biography of victor herbert walter connolly as herbert does have a decent resemblance to him in his latter years br br jones and martin sing beautifully though the herbert music is just there to adorn the plot line concerning these two musical performers jones's john ramsay is a frail character very similar to gaylord in showboat who jones also played br br as for mary martin it's a mystery why she never had a good hollywood career she did films with bing crosby and dick powell as well as this one she performed well but movie audiences didn't take to her the best musical moment in the film is jones and martin in a duet of thine alone the recordings i have of the song are individual and it was written as a duet there's also a pleasant scene with jones and martin riding bicycles swapping herbert songs as they ride br br the real victor herbert with his womanizing and his irish patriot background and his musical training in germany where he developed a love for all things german would have been a fascinating study he was also a cello virtuoso before he turned full time to composing i have to take strong exception to the reviewer who said cuddles would have been a good victor herbert as irish hello br br nice movie but the real vic would have been so much better
1	i cannot argue with other comments that the story line focuses more on the romance between the mary martin and allan jones characters much in the manner of showboat than on the life of victor herbert but in the 1930's would that have been a box office draw instead of the life of vh perhaps it should have been the music of vh there is an abundance of this br br for me the thrill of the movie came near the end of the movie when susanna foster sings land of romance it has been over a decade since i caught this movie for a second time at a local 'old movies' theater at first the audience was stunned then it burst into spontaneous applause i remember the shivers running up and down my spine my trivia memory recalled the information provided to an inquiring public by a local journalist when the movie first came out back in the late 1930's 'that note hit by miss foster was a far f above high c ' br br she may not have had four octaves a la but the then teen ager certainly had a range
1	in the changing world of cg and what not of cartoon animations etc etc was a warm welcome at least by me i think it's important to show these sort of films once in a while to preserve them and help remind us of where the originality and fun of cartoons actually came from people were talking about how it is boring because of the graphics and stuff but hey think about the films that will be considered boring if every film looked like the new state of the art ones everybody and their mother is making these days call me old fashioned but i liked it it's a wonderful story about supernatural beings and human beings and all it really needs from its audience is their imagination
1	i think that this is a fabulous movie i watched it constantly from the time i was 4 to about the time i was 8 however watching it resulted in many nightmares i particularly got them because of the guy that was always like the and his friends i am 12 and i still get nightmares about it to this day i can't fall asleep right now because i am thinking about it i love this movie but it is so scary i definitely love this movie though i have very good memories from it kate is very good at acting in this movie amazingly i never realized that it was her i also think that the graphics were very high quality contrary to what some other people think
1	basically an endearingly chintzy and moronic 1 50 version of the nifty early 80's subterranean creature feature favorite the boogens this entertainingly schlocky cheapie centers on a nasty squirmy wriggling monster who makes an instant meal out of any unfortunate souls foolhardy enough to go poking around the notoriously off limits gold spike mine your standard issue motley assortment of intrepid boneheads hard nosed mine boss cute but insipid blonde babe feisty lady geologist boozy inexplicably aussie accented seasoned old mine hand charmless doofus hunky jolly guy and arguably the most annoying character of the uniformly irritating bunch a nerdy bespectacled aspiring writer dweeb who's prone to speaking in flowery melodramatic utterances trek into the dark uninviting cave in search of gold naturally these intensely insufferable imbeciles discover that the allegedly abandoned mine is the home of a deadly ugly multi tentacled beast who in time honored hoary b flick fashion proceeds to gruesomely bag the group one at a time directed co written co produced and co edited with dumbfounding by melanie anne phillips acted with dismaying flatness by a rank no name cast further marred by lethargic pacing a meandering narrative murky under lit eye straining cinematography a shivery redundantly thudding pseudo john carpenter synthesizer score and a cruddy herky jerky stop motion animation thingie that's only quickly glimpsed at the very end of the movie this extremely clunky amateurish and hence quite delectably dreadful would be scarefest commits all the necessary bad film missteps to qualify as a real four star
1	early 80's creature feature concerns a long abandoned gold mine that some intrepid miners are determined to check out naturally they find no gold down there but one very hungry monster that slithers along in search of prey br br while i have to be honest and admit i found it dull at first i personally prefer the thematically similar the boogens it actually grew on me as it went along now the characters aren't too interesting nor the actors either the closest to an interesting character is morgan played by keith hurt in any event female lead terri is quite good looking and rolf makes his domineering jerk an easy person to hate the writer played by effects man mark wears thin quickly br br it begins in a comfortably predictable enough way with a nighttime set piece in which two victims are claimed to get things off to an acceptable start the monster itself is intriguing for its design as you can imagine it gets revealed a bit at a time until late in the game and for being the product of stop motion animation when this process was no longer used very much director melanie anne phillips directing under the pseudonym of david michael hillman and crew deserve some credit for their creation of atmosphere they manage to make the film look quite claustrophobic and gloomy and their use of lighting works well the film does build in intensity towards a pretty good ending suffice it to say they do the best they can on their low budget br br an obscure little item worth looking into for die hard horror buffs br br 7 10
1	well unlike most people i went into this movie expecting it to not be that good and it turned out to be an awesome film pretty cool plot i love the idea of it but what really made this movie was the actors they all did an incredible job and it was pretty cool to see fishburn and dillon work together it's a movie where you go in thinking right away you will be able to predict whats going to happen but it doesen't quite turn out how you predicted i don't want to give away anything about the story so i wont but i suggest giving this one a chance if you saw the movie money train and enjoyed that you would love this movie maybe everything lawrence fishburn touches is gold
1	i was completely drawn into the story but i wonder if perhaps i shouldn't have been so sympathetic to the hurt character's plight for respect because when it boils down i really think that glam reporters such as barbara walters is the devil or maybe the filmmakers were telling us that we're all unknowing supporters of fluff news stories
1	or maybe not whatever anyone thinks of broadcast news good or bad almost all the credit for that thinking belongs to writer producer director james l brooks as a screenwriter of which he has long been one of the best it is not easy to savage an entire business in this case the business being television news but to do it with a smile a wink a knowing nod and a laugh practically every step of the way to do all that takes real talent something mr j brooks has in abundance br br one user on this website in his summary asked the musical question did walter cronkite act like this no of course not and the reason for that is in walter's uh mr day the only thing that mattered was bringing the news to the people same goes for john chancellor and chet and david and douglas edwards and howard k smith sure they had to pay lip service attention to their ratings if only to please their bosses but all they really cared about was the news itself br br now of course all that has changed for the last 25 30 years in the network news business the only thing that has really mattered is ratings ratings ratings the bottom line how many bucks will our news division deliver for the network don't believe that br br let's consider the big three tom dan rather and peter jennings aka stanley stunning all three have now been on the job at their respective anchor desks for the last 15 20 years peter actually got his first shot at the national anchor desk way back in the 1960s but was totally unprepared for the job of the three dan is the one with the greatest in the field training as a reporter personally i think all three do terrific jobs as news anchors and are deserving of their positions all of which has nothing to do with why all three are actually in those jobs all three are now in their 60's dan is pushing the big 7 0 and all three are still very good looking and if you think they're still good looking now imagine how good looking they were in their 40's when all three were hired for let's say put in their current jobs but do you honestly believe that any one of these three would have been put in had he looked like let's say fred gwynne herman munster or like heaven forfend me not only that if dan were retiring tomorrow a younger than he is today walter cronkite would not be able to get his old job back why not pretty enough and it would matter not a whit that he is or once was the most trusted man in america br br and this is what broadcast news is all about tom william hurt the next pretty boy national news anchor to be who has trouble with a few minor things such as thinking for himself being able to write and knowing stuff jane craig holly hunter the brilliant news producer with news business standards and ethics all of which get thrown to the wind when even she falls for pretty boy tom and aaron altman albert brooks no relation to james l a top notch newswriter and field reporter who has no hope for a national job because he flop sweats behind the anchor desk and many other such flawed characters whom you know really do exist in the news divisions of the various networks br br network blazed the trail eleven years later broadcast news carried the torch as a worthy successor in the new millennium what will be the next movie to savage the business of network news you can use maybe or maybe not
1	spoiler alert br br i have never seen comments on a movie that i disagree with more then the comments people made on this one could learn from critical viewings of this movie as an educational film i rate it highly because it teaches how to succeed we do not watch movies to learn we generally watch for entertainment as entertainment i rate it low the ending is downbeat and cerebral intellectual this conflict results in my eight star rating the movie follows jane craig holly hunter a television news producer the network executive introduces tom william hurt to study for the on air news anchor position tom immediately charms people with humbleness another potential news anchor has been waiting for years for his on air opportunity aaron altman albert brooks altman knows all news stories inside and out br br the network executive wants on the air and jane argues saying is not ready he doesn't know the news they do not listen to her forced to place on the air jane contacts altman to get information on the news story and relays altman's comments through an earpiece to while speaks we watch the sharp contrast between altman's jane craig's words and as skillfully everything altman and jane craig say in his ear in order to make it understandable likable and entertaining the audience altman gets a chance on air and the network execs require him to seek coaching from the new guy this new news guy coaching him this is something altman does not see justified but agrees reluctantly br br coaches altman and gets excited noting hundreds of altman's shortcomings in appearance audio and vocabulary altman never considered these things before when he became an expert on the news itself the complexity of understanding what taught him causes altman to have a panicked sweating attack flop sweat when he is on the air eventually becomes the top network anchor and altman prior to being fired but fails in his attempt for a romance with jane craig because she finds out from altman that sometimes fakes circumstances in order to make people like him this turns her off of him this sends the message that in relationships we want people who are genuine and not trying to make us like them br br this movie sends the message that getting people to like you is the most important skill in a job but it is especially true in broadcast news there are many people commenting on how this is the dumbing down of tv news and how represents a good looking but dumb guy or all style but no substance the opposite is true possessed skills and very complex intellect to get people to like him including the presence of mind to know exactly how he appears and sounds when he is on camera he coaches altman to punch a word in every sentence flaw that costs him the relationship with jane craig is that he is too driven to be likable and will fake a situation many people are calling altman very intelligent or brilliant altman played by is not as intelligent as and the flop sweat scene shows that his mind could not handle the complexity that handles when on the air altman is angered by this fact that he knew the news and suceeded more by getting people to like him there are also people commenting that these things are exclusive to the tv news industry the concept that winning friends is the most important skill in a job is obviously not popular but my experience indicates it is true in most jobs as an education on how to succeed this movie is fantastic albeit unpopular educational yes but it does not have an uplifting ending
1	this movie has everything going for it fully developed characters a realistic portrayal of working washington bathed in warmth and humor that is uniquely albert brooks the dumbing down of network news is even more of an issue now than it was in 1987 remember this was pre cable so satisfying to care about complex people attempting to achieve complex goals and it all moves along with lightning speed such a true to life depiction of friendships that teeter toward romance see if you can spot john cusack as the angry messenger and do you recognize peter from real life broadcast news finally if you're from dc see if you agree with holly hunter's directions to cab drivers
1	i loved this movie the first time i saw it it gives such detail of what executives involved in the news industry will do just to get a story on the air notably jane craig rushing kenny to finish editing the piece to get it off and then joan cusack struggling to get it in and william hurt who according to jane commits an incredible breach of ethics fakes his tears during his date rape interview a flaw that is pointed out by aaron another high point is when tom uses jane for his own benefits and then turns around and sleeps with jennifer the script is brilliant and the directing is almost as good all three main actors were great in the portrayals of their characters especially holly hunter and albert brooks whom is the funniest in the film william hurt is also very good this deserved at least three oscars best actress holly hunter best supporting actor albert brooks and best picture i liked the last parts of the film where it shows them reuniting 7 years later br br 8 10
1	a truly terrific touching film female melodrama at its finest with a lot of comedy great dialogue characters and writing any woman can relate to the story because it's a classic you're in love with mr right but he has no interest in you until some guy who seems completely wrong comes along and you fall head over heels in love but of course it's not that simplistic the characters are real and all of the performances are perfect the movie is hilarious as well every scene skewers society i'd recommend this film to anyone who loves a well written screenplay of humor and melodrama you can relate to every character and the plot moves in unexpected directions a great underrated movie
1	movie watchers often say great movies must have 3 memorable br br scenes to be considered truly great broadcast news doesn't have br br three it has twice that this movie is extremely well written by br br james brooks holly hunter and albert brooks have never been br br better i love this movie for many reasons it is great because it br br makes you laugh and it makes you cry albert brooks has several br br great lines and many unforgettable scenes 1 laughed i can br br sing and read i am singing while i read with midnight train to br br georgia playing in the background 2 laughed telling the br br william hurt character that you really blew the lid off of nookie br br after watching hurt's report on date rape 3 cried when aaron br br a brooks finally tells jayne hunter that he loves her and she br br can't end up with hurt's character because he represents br br everything about journalism jayne finds finally 4 laughed who can forget the scene where aaron br br anchors the weekend news hilarious this movie should have won an oscar it has everything i love in br br movies great acting intelligent script and even a jack nicholson br br cameo
1	typically i'm a comedy guy i rented this at the video store under comedy and thought albert brooks awesome and rented it it seemed like the romantic comedy and i remembered i hated those and had the full mindset of hating this movie br br boy was i wrong br br while this is a romantic comedy it's acted by an amazing lead supporting cast brooks hunter cusack and nicholson and everything works well within itself the script sounds real and not forced like this could be happening in the news station you're watching at night it takes your emotions and makes you enjoy hunter and brooks and loathe hurt which makes the ending a bit unenjoyable and fruitless but it shows how you don't need a happy ending to end a movie you just need a truthful ending which is what everyone got not everybody's life ends well and it shows in broadcast news maybe people don't like the ending because it's not your typical happy ending associated with romantic comedies but it works it's real and it's genius broadcast news is a classic in it's time and a fine romance movie up there with casablanca well maybe not that high but it's the only other romance i can think of that i like br br broadcast news 9 10
1	i didn't like as good as it gets very much but i am a big fan of william hurt and holly hunter's work so i decided to watch this movie and the most surprising thing for me was the superb work of albert brooks here in spain he's little known and only as a 2nd division version of woody allen in the west coast he played a great part but hunter and hurt were good too specially hurt in an relatively unusual role for him hunter played the role that reminds me a bit of her part in once around lasse 1991 br br finally the rest of the cast is great too robert one of these familiar faces of the american cinema the ex bond girl lois chiles pretty good placed on that role i think the always perfect joan cusack in her early years and specially the brief of jack nicholson maybe he doesn't have any good scene but it's jack nicholson anyway the best movie by james l brooks great story well resolved and superb cast for one of the surely best movies of the 80's
1	i haven't actually seen a lot of movies with holly hunter but seeing her in broadcast news was a pleasant surprise she is a hard nosed journalist jane craig who has devoted all of her time to tv news show her colleague aaron altman has carried her torch for a long time without saying anything the love triangle is completed by tom he is the slightly aloof ex sportscaster who is the new reporter to jane he symbolizes everything she doesn't like about news reporting turning it into not serious business much to her surprise jane finds herself attracted to tom br br holly hunter is doing a great performance as the perky journalist but i don't quite see what she finds so charming about her new colleague tom it's something with them that prevents us from getting up close and personal with him almost as impressive is albert brooks who gives his all in the role of a professional who gives more than 100 percent for his job but doesn't get quite as much in return actually for a while i thought he was steve guttenberg from police academy 1984 he has a few funny lines and if this was a meg ryan picture they'd call it a romantic comedy br br running over two hours a few scenes could have been edited or left out completely eg jane's and aaron's trip to central america also i'm a sucker for happy endings and had preferred a different ending than just a reunion between the three of them seven years later
1	this is a decent movie although little bit short in time for me it packs a lot of action grit commonsense and emotions in that time frame matt dillon and the other main character does a great job in this movie the emotions and intensity were convincing and tense throughout the movie it is not typical fancy expensive hollywood cgi action movie but it was a very satisfying movie indeed for the price my evening was great because of this movie this movie is straight traditional action movie with great acting story and directing i would recommend this movie the character development of the characters were good and makes you believe that were are actually seeing a real event taking place because this movie i believe was made with cheaper budget the acting and quality were much higher
1	not only do i think this was the best film of 1987 it's probably in my own amorphous list as one of the 10 20 best films i've ever seen for whatever reason i really connected with this movie and it is one of the most personal films i had seen at that point in my life i was 26 for better or worse i strongly identified with the holly hunter character and i'm a guy she plays an extremely bright loyal and intense woman who couldn't figure out romantic relationships there were so many things that she said in this movie that were things that i would say or have said to others in similar circumstances and the ending of the movie i find to be so very very sad br br obviously this role was the big break for holly hunter clearly i was not the only one to think so highly of it
1	this is a love story set against the back drop of television news the three main stars william hurt holly hunter and albert brooks create a love triangle whilst working at the washington bureau of a tv network br br tom hurt is the handsome reporter who is being groomed to be a star jane hunter is the producer who recognises that tom lacks the intellectual gravitas to be a real journalist but falls for him anyway aaron altman brooks is the man who shares her beliefs in journalistic standards is also the man who truly loves her br br holly hunter was nominated for a best actress academy award but lost out to cher moonstruck she was robbed this is hunter's film her character jane is smart ruthless and totally driven she is also hilariously neurotic her performance is perfect just watch her face when she watches the tape of tom's interview of a rape victim the scales literally fall from her eyes br br wiliam hurt's performance is less showy he plays a man who is well aware that he is a and a fraud but is smart enough to know that his rise will be facilitated by people like jane he gives little hints of a man who is extremely calculating br br the film comments on celebrity journalism integrity and the commercial pressures on news in a medium that is focused on the bottom line it predicted that news would be dumbed down that standards would slowly be lowered due to commercial pressures br br think about this this film was released before the end of the cold war and before rise of reality tv yet it predicted the dumbing down of the news paris hilton's release from jail was treated like a major news story to see how prophetic this film is just watch your evening news and note the set the graphics and the presenters tom and his clones are well and truly alive
1	i thought it was terrific very realistic and funny dialogue and realistic action in a i didn't like how the jennifer storyline is not really concluded or how the ending doesn't give us closure holly hunter fit the part perfectly she's one crazy actress this movie is well worth seeing
1	tv news producer jane craig hunter meets tom hurt an up and coming news presenter at a seminar and their mutual attraction takes them back to her room romance however is cut short when it emerges that tom is in his own words no good at what i'm being a success at and jane realises he personifies everything she hates about where tv news is going the rub comes when tom reveals he is about to join her news bureau in washington br br jane and tom's initial attraction is therefore given a second chance but will jane be able to put aside her professional opinion of the man she finds herself attracted to and should she aaron altman brooks is jane's highly intelligent reporter colleague and confidante despite his obvious talent aaron's career is stalling as he lacks the confidence and people skills and the classic good looks to be the success that his new less qualified and less intelligent colleague tom is becoming he is also concerned that his good friend jane maybe falling in love with tom despite her better judgement as it becomes increasingly clear that aaron has his own romantic feelings for her br br this central romantic plot is set within the trials and tribulations of a tv news network office where moral dilemmas and ethics are wrestled with quickly and where appearances and dramatic effect are becoming more prevalent and important br br this is where most of the bite comes from with well observed comment and scenes one of many moments is a scene where tom meets the network's top anchorman bill a cameo role for jack nicholson for the first time and the camera focuses on their handshake in a film full of great lines and dialogue long and short you realise a lot about these two men's character from this one quick shot of two hands br br the dialogue between characters is amongst the most intelligent and witty you are ever likely to find anywhere on film and in such abundance brooks gets the best portion of them in line with his character but even the briefest conversations that are incidental and perhaps over heard by one or more of the characters as they move through a crowded room should be listened to br br hunter is a tour de force in this role for which she was rightly and not alone nominated for an oscar and for which she probably would have got if it was for a role in a film that didn't mock part of what had become a closely related industry and against a strong performance from another actress in a more traditional feel good rom com br br brooks is also excellent as the constantly frustrated and occasionally too smug for his own good aaron altman br br hurt whilst possessing the looks and providing the personality required of his character does not always convince that he is quite as dim witted the character says he is or is supposed to be he displays a latent intelligence that enables him to make the most of his apparent limitations which may be plausible but i don't think hurt quite pulls it off apart from when he tells us he stinks or doesn't get it hurt comes across as a bit smarter than that otherwise it is an effective performance in a role where his character is compromised by its intellectual limitations but brooks and hunter slightly overshadow hurt's performance it is the only negative thing i can say about the whole film and who is to say that anyone else would have done it better or come off any better when next to hunter and brooks and their performances in this movie br br support is ably provided by amongst others robert lois chiles and joan cusack and there is also a bit part role for christian of subsequent boston legal fame and the briefest of bit parts for joan's brother john cusack whose face you don't even see br br james l brooks has provided us with many great tv shows and movies and this film should rank up there with the very best of them it may not have won any oscars despite seven nominations but it did win plenty of other awards and turned holly hunter into a star
1	i don't really know when it was that tv stations began preferring to have handsome men as their reporters regardless of the mens' iqs but it was clearly a problem by the time that broadcast news came out and the movie does a really good job looking at it portraying a love triangle between pretty boy air head reporter tom william hurt intelligent but nervous reporter aaron altman albert brooks and producer jane craig holly hunter the movie pulls no punches probably the best line in the movie is when tom says something like i don't really understand any of what i'm reporting and in the era of fox news and such things a movie like this becomes even more important br br all in all definitely a movie that i recommend also starring robert lois chiles joan cusack and jack nicholson in a supporting role as the anchorman
1	if you have not seen this late 80s film about the the washington bureau of a network news station than i highly recommend it it is a sad commentary on the direction of news reporting in this country but tells the story with wit the characters are well developed and albert brooks performance is fabulous he delivers all his lines with entertaining understated comedy i am not an albert brooks fan at all so this was a welcome surprise i have a friend who works as a producer for a local news station and he advised that this is close to reality so kudos to the films writer and director for doing their research br br fun movie with a lot of insight into the world of network news it is not nearly as dark as another movie i also recommend in the same genre
1	there was broadcast news and what a good thing it was this one just plain stands up and sounds its barbaric in a manner that resonates two decades later br br there are moments especially with respect to the cutesy score when this film becomes a bit too eighties or a bit too sleepless in seattle fortunately they're few and far between br br one third social satire one third romantic comedy one third drama with three flawed but endearing people at its core it's smart and moving and almost impossibly funny holly hunter in particular may never have been more fun to watch in a comedic role and yes i'm including raising arizona her other star turn from that era in this assessment br br a legitimate classic
1	good drama comedy with two good performances from hunter hurt but albert brooks steals every scene he is in with a great script this movie soars and gives everyone a chance to show their acting talent and although joan cusack is not in this much but she has one if not the funniest scene in the movie the highlight of the movie for me was albert brooks speech on the devil only one draw back is the fact it goes little slow in places and i only got totally interested in brooks role not so much in hunter's or hurt's i give this a 7 out of 10
1	broadcast news dir james l brooks 1987 br br br br although it lacks the emotional punch of brooks's debut feature terms of endearment broadcast news is a superlative film with exceptional performances from each of the three leads and a script that feels as genuine and well researched as a hard hitting news report let it be known this is a character film first and foremost and a satire second in my mind it succeeds on both levels on its own terms the film's characters are given surprising depth and dimension while the satire remains sly and never bitter comparisons to network are unnecessary because the films have two completely separate goals and attitudes while also a great film network is a cynical and weary work in other words its mad as hell and fed up with the state of television network's style of satire feels more extreme and guerrilla in contrast the characters the news rooms of broadcast news love and live for their jobs sometimes to the detriment of their love lives they derive pleasure from the stresses and satisfactions of news reporting just as the audience derives pleasure from watching this sweet and romantically realistic masterpiece
1	spunky journalist holly hunter produces investigative news reports for a major news network she's a motor mouthed maverick dazzlingly good at her job and with little time for romantic relationships enter william hurt and albert brooks two men who vie for her love br br brooks is an old school journalist who adores holly because she represents everything good about journalism they both believe that the media exists to test the gods educate the public and fight for truth children of the sixties they embody hippie values they're defenders of the public good knights who fight valiantly with pen and camera br br william hurt in contrast is a far more complex character initially awkward clumsy and self depreciating he gradually reveals himself to be a sexy and manipulative high skilled at climbing the corporate ladder unlike holly and brooks he's symbolic of modern media values news as spectacle journalism as entertainment news anchor as celebrity truth as subject to editing board we want to despise him and his blip time junk food journalism but we just can't quite manage it he's playing the game by its own rules do we condemn him for lacking a moral backbone do we condemn the game can the game exist if its rules are disobeyed how have these rules evolved br br this isn't lumet's and network and so the film never bothers to answer or raise these questions content to keep things on the level of light comedy it ends with hurt being promoted to london division and brooks being booted to a tiny community network holly having rejected both men remains caught between them the last bastion of media integrity this spunky reporter remembers her roots mourns the loss of brooks and warns herself to be on the guard of future william hurts br br it's a cute ending but compared to network the film seems positively trite vision is one in which global media despite its offers less meaningful information he foresees a world in which globalisation has homogenized cultures information has become subject to and a handful of media monopolies control all international news this is a world in which the truth is subject to meetings and economic interests a world in which viewer ratings determine content and opinion polls dictate top stories br br perhaps this is why broadcast news which longs for the glory days of journalism ends on such a bittersweet note it knows what the future holds made in 1987 its been living it for at least a decade br br but today in the digital age things are even worse and have left a very small number of massive firms dominating the communication landscape with this has come the hyper commercialism of content the barrier between the creative editorial side and the commercial side all but collapsed today everyone might be able to start their own blog or website but these are grass roots affairs as the communication reach of the individual increases due to technological progress email internet electricity air mail etc the size of the individual's world increases likewise he must project his voice both further and louder futilely battling that deafening white noise the incessant verbal static that is the global community br br so ultimately you need two things according to democratic theory firstly you need a rigorous coming of people in power and people who want to be in power both in the private and public sector secondly you need a wide range of informed opinions on all important issues of the day in a democratic society the media system as a whole should produce this sort of culture unfortunately the structure we currently have in the global system works directly against the needs of democratic journalism and a democratic society br br 8 10 – this is lightweight stuff but a witty script some funny moments and a brief cameo by jack nicholson elevate it above most other films about journalism interestingly unlike most films about the media it never dips into satire and instead plays things as a straight love triangle br br worth one viewing
1	new guy at an armored car company gets talked into becoming involved in an armored car heist by his fellow drivers in order to score some quick cash the problem is that they really don't have much of a plan and when complications arise things turn deadly br br fast moving popcorn action film has a great deal going with it first off the film is under 90 minutes so the film doesn't really have the time to bog down in plot it cranks everything up and just goes next the film has some great action sequences so one moves towards the edge of ones seat lastly the film has a stellar cast that include matt dillon jean reno and lawrence fishburne its a first rate cast that sells and covers over the stories short comings br br this isn't brain surgery its a popcorn movie and on that level it scores highly worth a look
1	broadcast news opens with a series of brief vignettes that are a clever way of starting a story about tv anchors who have no clue as to what they're reporting about br br at a speech before a group of would be reporters all of whom are bored by her presentation most of them leave when the last one exits the co host of the event says quietly to holly hunter i don't think there will be any q a subtle line in a brilliantly written low key comedy a farce about the show biz aspect of tv anchoring br br william hurt is the inept news anchor who finds himself working with holly hunter as the network anchorman hurt badly needs help in remedial reporting and holly refuses to take the bait at first he knows he's only capable of looking good but is not a reporter he proves to be a quick study as long as his earpiece is working and he's getting all the straight info from executive producer hunter br br holly's other anchor friend albert brooks helps by feeding her information she passes on to hurt of course she becomes conflicted about her feelings for ace reporter brooks and equally strong attraction to the pretty boy anchorman hurt who's having his own dalliance with a pretty staff member br br you have to wait until twenty minutes before the film ends to find out which man she'll end up with brooks tells her that hurt is the wrong one because he represents everything she's against in this unpredictable comedy there's no telling who hunter the neurotic heroine will end up with br br fittingly holly hunter william hurt and albert brooks were all nominated for oscars brooks in supporting role as was the film itself and director writer james l brooks all in all seven well deserved oscar nominations br br the script doesn't opt for a conventional happy ending and in this case that's the only flaw for the brilliant screenplay i felt cheated and somewhat let down by the wistful conclusion
1	from producer writer golden globe nominated director james l brooks terms of endearment as good as it gets this is a really good satirical comedy film showing behind the scenes in the life of a news reporter anchor journalist or producer might be like basically jane craig oscar and golden globe nominated holly hunter falls for new reporter tom oscar and golden globe nominated william hurt but correspondent aaron altman oscar nominated albert brooks also has strong feelings for her the network prepares for big changes and sparks will fly with all members of the studio also starring jack nicholson as anchor bill lois chiles as jennifer mack mrs robert as ernie merriman school of rock's joan cusack as blair peter as paul moore christian as bobby robert as martin klein ed wheeler as george and stephen as gerald the comedy is subtle but strong the romance has it's moments and it is certainly a believable situation film it was nominated the oscars for best cinematography best film editing best writing screenplay written directly for the screen and best picture and it was nominated the golden globe for best motion picture comedy musical and best screenplay motion picture it was number 64 on 100 years 100 laughs very good
1	broadcast news is directed by james l brooks terms of endearment as good as it gets and has a great cast including william hurt albert brooks and holly hunter everyone gives a good performance but they're all too unlikable to really care about them br br some parts of the film are really brilliant such as the prologue and the short scenes with jack nicholson the main reason it doesn't entirely work is it's a film that relies on the characters being amusing rather than amusing things happening to them br br you could consider it nothing more than a drama but it's often too silly to be successful there as well still the script makes it worth a watch certainly not for everyone br br 7 0 out of 10
1	i say sadly because if you see this movie now you realize how low our media has sunk all the warning signs are in this movie br br it's a great film i think the last great james brooks film but others may disagree it has rich characters who are believable as well great acting great writing and although the music got a little cheesy i even liked that br br william hurt has never been better holly hunter is stunning and albert brooks walks away with every scene he's in this triangle of people is beautifully drawn and compelling and made the whole movie soar above it's vital and important topic of the news and how it's slowly being compromised in our nation br br watch this with network for a truly fun and frightening evening
1	james l brook is one of those directors who always seems to take a quirky look at life he isn't only the producer for the simpsons he has some classic comedies under his belt broadcast news is one of them br br although it doesn't match his later effort as good as it gets broadcast news is still a very clever funny and witty movie about a television broadcasting station and all the problems they suffer there's a great comedic sequence of physical humor where joan cusack is running around the building trying to rush a news tape to the editing room in a matter of mere minutes before it is to be broadcast live on tv br br this isn't only very truthful in terms of how hectic broadcasting stations are operated but also a skillful and honest portrayal of human beings br br a low key subtle movie with good acting especially from hurt who i don't always like so much and apt direction
1	i'm sitting around going through movie listings and not really seeing anything i want to see my appetite keeps saying something like broadcast news that's what i want something smart and funny with adult ideas and great acting and writing and a directorial style that doesn't call attention to itself this may well be hurt's best performance is this or the big chill to my mind however eccentric hurt is smart and to play an unintelligent person without making sure wink wink the audience knows wink wink hey i'm not stupid well that's fine acting right there hunter is note perfect and albert brooks is a revelation and he can read and sing at the same time great great work br br
1	essential viewing for anyone who watches tv news as it may help to become a little more sceptical or even cynical on a personal note i recall taking a course some years ago about being interviewed for tv what to do what not to do the course instructors impressed on us that tv news was a branch of show biz that depressing view which is probably even more valid today than when it was made is reinforced by this film never mind journalistic integrity what counts is the ability to look good and smile nicely and make sure you don't sweat on camera br br the interactions between the three main characters form the centre piece each with his or her own ambitions capabilities and beliefs brooks takes these differences and sets them into the volatile setting of a tv news studio and adds more than a pinch of love interest to the mixture the result is a complex if somewhat overlong portrayal of how we compromise every day in order to meet our ambitions and take others with us it is always entertaining although the final scene was perhaps unnecessary given everything that had gone before
1	excellent movie about a big media firm and the goings on both on and off camera covering several years the film centers on 3 upwardly mobile young hopefuls all striving for their place within the corporation well written dialogue flawless acting and a riveting story made for 2 hours of solid entertainment
1	this movie is one of my favorite comedies of all time the dialog is crisp the pace is fast not only is this a clever comedy this is an interesting look at what goes on behind the scenes in the television news business br br there are so many funny lines a couple of my favorites br br ernie merriman sarcastically it must be nice to always believe you know better to always think you're the smartest person in the room jane seriously no it's not it's awful br br aaron he must be good looking jane how do you know that aaron no one invites a bad looking idiot to their room br br the performances of holly hunter albert brooks and william hurt were absolutely brilliant even years later i remember this movie well often forgotten is the wonderfully funny joan cusack i love the scene where the personnel are racing to beat a deadline there are so many funny scenes that it's hard to pick a favorite i highly recommend this film
1	for me this wonderful rollercoaster of a film bears repeated pleasurable viewings its about the tangled lives of three very different people holly hunter is the obsessive workaholic producer albert plays the but brilliant journalist william hurt is the affable but dumb new kid on the block news anchor br br the classical love triangle emerges with the stunningly witty and self deprecating in love with hunter but she of course is attracted to hurt br br this film works on many levels at the very least it is a brilliant comedy with the one liners flying so thick and fast that each viewing bears a new harvest of ones that you may have missed last time its also a film about attraction and unfulfilled romance br br but perhaps most importantly the film examines the modern obsession with physical appearance and its ultimate triumph over intellect as a valued human attribute this is personified by the meteoric career success of the hurt character in contrast to relative decline br br despite being fifteen years old the film has some relevant messages about modern news values and the continuing decline in journalistic standards br br this film is a classic in every sense and it is difficult to understand why it has been so neglected
1	this movie is about six men who are assigned to transport money from bank to businesses ty hackett columbus short was in iraq for the war serving his country and now just is being helped out making a living by his friend mike matt dillon making sure he does not loose his house mike tells him that this wasn't the life his parents were expecting for him and he should be living a better life than he is now with his brother jimmy hackett andre telling ty that him and jimmy have always been family to him and would do anything to help them out mike tells ty about a plan to make a heist the money would be around 43 million split six ways among the other transport men too although ty does not like the idea he tells his friend mike as long as no one gets hurt he would be in the last night ty was forced to talk to a welfare lady about putting up his brother in foster care giving him a dilemma to lose what matters most in his life although the plan sounds safe at first greed isn't everything when it comes to taking lives br br when it comes to heists your either in or your out so when you don't go with a plan its hard to play the hero and stop greed driven people when it comes to having large sums of money this movie comes with a star studded cast to keep you interested starring jean reno laurence fishburne fred ward skeet ulrich and milo ventimiglia short i have recently only remembered him in stomp the yard which was about a kid who lost his brother and lives his dream to go to college this was probably one of his best movies i have seen him in and this one he fits the character so well it's great to see him on the big screen again in action
1	this was a really nice surprise i was up late last night and couldn't fall asleep not really thinking twice i turned on my tv and hbo was on and this film was just beginning luckily i saw the whole thing and i am very happy i did because this film was very good the actors were well cast and they did a surprisingly good job kris kristofferson delivered a solid performance there was a lot of substance behind his lines this film made me realize he's a good actor brian keith was great as his father as was trey wilson playing the colonel this was trey wilson's final role before his untimely death too bad he was a quality actor and seemed like a nice guy jobeth williams also did a nice job as kristofferson's american wife as far as the direction i had no idea franklin j schaffner was the director until i read the review in leonard maltin's movie guide this was the last film he ever made now i understand why this movie was so good schaffner also directed patton a truly great movie i haven't seen his other great film papillon while i was watching welcome home i said to myself this director really knows what he's doing not knowing that schaffner had directed it there's one really beautiful scene in a thai orphan refuge enough to bring tears to my eyes not only was this sensitively directed but it was also directed in a very economical and taut way there is nothing wasted in schaffner's effort the script was one reason this film is so good the writer doesn't weigh the actors down with too many lines it was written very simply but very effectively it just shows you that a lot can be said with few words this film also made me proud to be an american at the same time that it showed you how beautiful all people are
1	hi i have been looking 4 the soundtrack or a song from the film does anyone know who sung the title song i think it was called welcome home or coming home br br it is played throughout the film and for the end credits please can anyone help either the artist and or title of song thanks mike this is for all you movie buffs lets see if you know your stuff br br hi i have been looking 4 the soundtrack or a song from the film does anyone know who sung the title song i think it was called welcome home or coming home br br it is played throughout the film and for the end credits please can anyone help either the artist and or title of song thanks mike this is for all you movie buffs lets see if you know your stuff
1	this film is good but not schaffner s best my favourite is papillon and patton but this is a sad and very nice film kris is good in this movie and really makes a difference i am going to miss schaffner and this is his last film br br a good film by a great director 7 5 10
1	zen and the art of written and directed by david is a short film about a young man named david his friends call him zen and what transpires in one strange day of his life zen works as a for an upper middle class family the lady of the house tries to get zen to help her cheat on her husband unfortunately her son walks in on them instead of her husband from this point on the movie starts to speed through many revelations between the characters along with the eventual involvement of the man of the house zen and the art of landscaping is witty smart and overall very well written the comedic timing of the actors is also very strong it's a fun light movie that i would strongly recommend
1	screening as part of a series of funny shorts at the sydney gay and lesbian mardi gras film festival this film was definitely a highlight the script is great and the direction and acting was terrific as another posting said the actors' comedic timing really made this film lots of fun
1	when jean seduces the young gardener for the sole purpose of annoying her husband little does she realise the explosive drama that is to follow br br the short scenario does not waste a word or a frame in this brief interlude in the day of a dysfunctional family the lives of the father mother and son are all linked in some way with the gardener it's this fact that makes the script so intriguing br br for such a short film the production is every bit as professional as any major work and the casting is ideal br br a wonderful little film that can guarantee a few laughs from beginning to end
1	great little short film that aired a while ago on sbs here in aus get a copy if you can probably only good for a few viewings as you'll end up remembering the script and it's the twists that make this film so funny well directed and intriguingly scripted it's an example of just how good low budget short films can be
1	you gotta love the spaghetti western universe the vision of a west where good guys get shot point blank with no warning cartoonish villains chew the scenery in extreme close ups and the anti hero walks away from the girl in the end a lot of people call films 'depressing' i find that a bit dodgy as far as descriptions go i think bleak and unforgiving are more apt mostly because 'depressing' suggests a level of sentimentality almost every director ignored in favour of painting characters in broad strokes br br gli must be seen in all its widescreen glory before it can take its proper place in the sergio corbucci canon it's a beautiful movie and it makes sense that corbucci wanted to blow off some steam with companeros after the unremitting one two punch of the great silence and this although he would later revert back to his usual tricks with the foulmouthed sonny and jed there's still a certain amount of caricature that detracts from the overall grimness of the movie imo it hurts more than does any good to have a needless inclusion of three kids dressed like hippies skulking around town in search of gold and trouble and it hurts to have mario playing mexican one handed bandit el diablo as over the top as he always plays his characters br br those minor gripes aside there's more than enough here to wet the palate of the spaghetti aficionado shootouts galore the population of an entire town reduced to crawling naked in the dirt the typical iconic of the laconic antihero played by johnny halliday the moral bankruptcy of almost every character in the movie corbucci might never receive the acclaim of the more famous sergio or the american of the genre but you and i know that's a gross injustice for a very talented director his dynamic shot selection in depth staging with objects sticking close to the camera and receding in the background his flair for quick pacing and feverish energy in moving a story that wasn't always all that along the way he photographs open spaces everything in his work makes me sure that if corbucci was american and had emerged 15 years later along with mann and hawks the cahiers du cinema critics would have lauded him as an auteur worthy of serious critical consideration
1	cult film maker rarest of his thirteen spaghetti westerns of which i'm only left with what am i doing in the middle of the revolution 1972 to catch is one i only became aware of fairly recently via marco guide it's an atypically bleak genre gem in the style of the director's own masterpiece the great silence 1968 complete with desolate snowy landscapes br br johnny the french elvis presley whom i first saw in jean luc godard's detective 1985 is a curious but highly effective choice to play the loner anti hero hud who like clint eastwood's the man with no name from sergio leone's celebrated dollars trilogy is fitted with a steel plate armor for protection incidentally i had stunning daughter laura at the 2004 venice film festival but was distracted by the presence of her esteemed director claude chabrol is another curious addition to the fold serving pretty much the same function that frank wolff did in the great silence but acquits himself well and is amusingly clumsy in the presence of a bathing francoise fabian the latter then plays a greedy nymphomaniac of a banker's widow who seduces all and sundry in the pursuit of her goals sylvie has the other major female role as a farm girl looked after by and who at one point is into free love by apache gabriella with this is mind it's worth noting that the movie features surprising but welcome bouts of nudity from both fabian and incidentally the anachronistic addition of a bunch of long haired youths who also engage in dope smoking and revolutionary talk is a somewhat half baked attempt at contemporary relevance – but it all eventually adds to the fun besides even the black barmaid sports an afro hairdo br br mario too enjoys himself tremendously with the role of a larger than life mexican bandit nicknamed el diablo – who keeps a youthful biographer constantly by his side an element which may have influenced clint eastwood's unforgiven 1992 and at one point challenges the captive to a head butting duel having mentioned this the film also contains one very unusual of death' – as disposes of an adversary by kicking the cash register of the saloon into his face as always the enjoyably fake fistfights are accompanied by over emphatic sound effects equally typically for the genre however the wistful score by angelo francesco emerges a most significant asset actually the ambiguous ending is entirely in keeping with the film's generally somber tone – after fabian's comeuppance at the hands of the locals the hippies who had previously idolized hud suddenly turn against him when wounded and terrorize the town forcing everyone on the street and unclothed …but the unflappable gunman manages to lift himself up to meet their challenge they however scurry away at the prospect of facing him and then rides out of town leaving behind br br in conclusion i acquired this via a good quality widescreen print in italian albeit with french credits and the occasional lapse – about one minute of screen time in all – into the french language where apparently the original soundtrack wasn't available
1	in the late sixties director sergio corbucci made four spaghetti westerns in a row the classics the mercenary the great silence the specialists and companeros three of these all except the specialists are constantly turning up on ten best lists when spaghetti westerns are rated until recently all i had seen was a very poor quality compilation with some english some italian a fuzzy picture and it was nearly incomprehensible now having seen a beautiful widescreen version with subtitles still in two languages however i can safely include the specialists in that group of four classics johnny halliday is very good as the charismatic hud a notorious hand with the gun returning to to investigate the death of his brother who was lynched by the townspeople for losing their savings it involves a voluptuous beauty who owns the bank a mexican bandit leader el diablo who was once friends with hud an honest sheriff who dreams of better days and a small band of hippies well it was the late sixties and hippies were everywhere even apparently in our westerns it's not a desert western shot in the alps somewhere and is lovely to look at there is a bit more nudity than i expect in a western but that's not a bad thing sylvie is lovely as sheba who may be niece or dead brother's girlfriend that's never made clear this film deserves to be seen and once again we plea for a nice dvd with all the trimmings i think the specialists would be as well known as any of other westerns and that's high praise indeed
1	good boring or bad it's good worth your money if you can spare it for a ticket sure better than the trailer makes it seem yes oddly br br there isn't much to the script guards working at armored truck company move vast amounts of cash guards see opportunity to retire as millionaires one of them is too honest to go along with it all and a well laid plan goes to hell br br this could have been a poorly executed reservoir dogs ripoff but the skill of the cast and the director's ability to make just about anything tense pull it out of that realm and put it onto a solid footing
1	the copy of this movie that i have seen is not very good it's grainy and has almost no color in some parts it switches back and forth between english and french often in mid sentence and sometimes even in the middle of a word to make matters much worse there are no english subtitles during the french language parts which i think make up at least one quarter of the film but amazingly the movie is still very understandable and enjoyable even in this condition and i think that says a lot about how well made this film is br br this is a top notch spaghetti western with great acting an interesting storyline and an excellent music score it also has a cool protagonist a beautiful dark haired girl some strange characters and events and an overall feeling of melancholy this film has euro written all over it br br i hope there is a pristine negative or print of this film out there somewhere because it deserves a quality dvd release and when it comes out i will be one of the first in line to get it
1	the whole town of is afraid because they lynched bret dixon's brother and he is coming back for revenge at least that's what they think br br a great johnny and a very interesting early mario star in this italo western obviously filmed in the alps br br bret dixon is coming back to to investigate why his brother was lynched he is a loner and gunslinger par excellance everybody is afraid of him the mexican bandits fighting the that took their land as well as the decent citizens that lynched brother they lynched him because they thought he stole their money instead of bringing it to dallas to the safety of the bank there but this is is only half the truth as we find out in the course of this psychologically interesting western br br but beware it's kind of a depressing movie as everybody turns out to be guilty somehow and definitely everybody is bad to the bone br br still i enjoyed it very much and gave it an 8 10 strange that only less than 5 people voted for this movie as of january 12th 2002
1	loved the story of a guy that tries to get his girl back been there done that so i can relate any way i love the camera work how occasionally the camera gets left on and they are just sitting there talking about the scene or other stuff or how the camera follows him around to find the cast and what not i watched this on ifc sometime last year and i loved it so i told a few of my friends about it and some of them watched it and they too loved it check it out if you can kinda girly but its still a good film i gave it a 10 10 because of two reasons one i can relate but anyone that has ever fallen in love and made a mistake can relate two its a really creative way to make a film its like you are constantly there right in the middle of filming like i said great film
1	this is an enjoyable project that is not a film as the title suggests good performance by nadia who re enacts the role of grace i follows the re enactment of what happens to mike and grace in new york city she leaves but he wants to get in contact with her this project is his way of trying to getting in touch with her br br i saw it on ifc i have heard that it will be released on dvd as well i do like this trend of more independent projects this is an example of a good project br br i hope that he finds her br br take a look and be entertained br br
1	most movies from hollywood seem to follow one of a few pre formulated and very predictable plots this film does not and is a perfect example of what i watch ifc for br br there's a guy michael and his girlfriend left him with out a word he wants to know what happened is she ok can he say goodbye perhaps get some closure he hasn't been able to contact grace and in an effort to find her he has made a film asking for your help br br michael figures we might need a reason to help him so he tells us his story by reliving his relationship with the help of a friend nadia to play the role of grace the girlfriend who left br br hind sight is 20 20 and it is no different for michael by telling his story and getting feedback from his friends he realizes his mistakes and just how much he values what he has lost this is unfortunately a lesson we all have had to learn or need to learn and is easy to identify with that is what makes you want to hear more of michael's story and wanting to know if he finds grace
1	it is clear this film's value far supersedes the cost with which the format mini dv implies in fact the filmmaker embraces the format and incorporates it so craftily into the storyline that i forgot the fact that i was not seeing the typical 35 millimeter film it has the core appeal of indie movies like clerks the work of robert rodriguez combined with a fantastic new take on the romantic comedy genre this is not a film is an honest film with honest portrayals and it is a superbly paced narrative there is not one point in this film where i felt a scene could have or should have been omitted on the contrary the director pulls amazing performances out of truly gifted actors and does so in extremely confining circumstances from page to screen this film is a worthy and relevant story that hits on so many levels creative technical or otherwise i highly recommend it for all who enjoy cinema or those looking for a little charm in an otherwise devoid of charm medium
1	'this is not a film' works because it is so true in what it is trying to say if you ignore the dynamics of the plot and focus in on the message you will see a little bit of yourself in the main character michael whether male or female all of us have come to a point in our lives where we want to look back and a situation or a relationship did it really occur like we remembered what went wrong michael's desire to find grace is completely selfish more than anything he wants to make himself feel better about how things turned out but even so he is a sympathetic character because everyone is selfish when it comes to relationships we would not be in them otherwise as the film ends i am not sure if michael has learned anything new about himself or not our best gauge on the relationship is through his friend nadia she is the soul of the movie and reminds us of how there are always two sides to every story i found michael to be pompous arrogant and just plain clueless which is exactly why i liked him he is a real character if you've ever wanted to go back and analyze a previous relationship then this is a film for you in closing it is a film for everyone
1	i don't want to spoil the movie for anyone but this mimics life's reality in so many ways and if you are really honest with yourself you will resonate with it in agreement in at least a few of the scenes br br the acting is not only believable but convincing in a way that one to the characters moreover it's funny without trying too hard at it br br and yes i truly believe a sequel is warranted here see the movie you'll understand why br br highly recommended especially if you like movies that have a real message
1	this is not a film is a clever witty and often heart touching movie it's a retrospective of a failed relationship between michael connor michael campbell and his estranged irish girlfriend grace mckenna michael down on his luck decides to make a documentary replaying his whole relationship and what went wrong he exploits his friendship with an actor he met at the gym nadia nadia who he gets to play grace the concept of this film is very original michaels relationship is shown from every point whether it's a high or low michael campbell pulls off a fantastic performance that makes you want to help him find grace if fact most of the characters pull off great performances except the puzzler the puzzler is needed to move the plot along yet seems too surreal to exist in a coffee shop his monologues are often overdrawn and pointless this is proved when he says out of this chaos we're all trying to create order and out of the order meaning but in reality there is no such thing as meaning something only has meaning if we make it have meaning br br the commentary saves this movie the commentary is done in the vain of this is spinal tap and has michael and his brother explain the problems they had while making the film michael offers a very funny self conscious commentary that makes for some very good belly laughs br br overall i'd give this movie a 7 10
1	i've tried to reconcile why so many bad reviews of this film while the vast majority of reviews are given a rating of between 7 and 10 the reason may be this film is kind of hard to describe in a positive review although a few have done that quite nicely already this film is confusing depressing and doesn't have a happy ending i still gave x a rating of 10 because it is basically for me literature and art combined on film that is really my favorite kind of filmmaking i've only seen two of carax's films this one and sang as with this film i'm being somewhat pretentious when i call this one of carax's best films but i am carax has a minimalist style if that type of film does not appeal to you and is boring then it would be best not to watch this but x was less minimalist than sang so it had quite a lot of intensity for a thriller at least for my taste i found it quite interesting and absorbing the two lead roles did an excellent job acting i mean the lead and the young woman he thought was his half sister catherine d is always great but her role was not very large or significant in the story but everyone did a fine job i thought the cult stuff was great it may have not been very believable but that is due to its being rather abstract there is a lot going on between the lines in this film this is a very freudian psycho thriller
1	i'm not here to tell you armored is hitchcockian or fellini esquire nope referenced directors are more like don siegel charlie and walter hill the warriors those two didn't fool around with like putting women in their movies no skirts need apply they unapologetically made guy movies guns lots of guns men met violent death with a twitch of the jaw their movies were like a sap to the head you want a friend get a dog br br armored is so a guy movie dueling armored trucks bloody gunshot wounds exploding money if that doesn't get the lizard part of your brain excited then stay away br br at 88 minutes armored is all muscle without an ounce of fat we meet six security guards who drive armored trucks three per truck the six led by matt dillon scheme up a fake hijack involving two trucks their mission one day is to deliver 42 million from the federal reserve i think the idea is to drive both trucks to a warehouse stash the cash then stage a hijack sure the cops will suspect them but if they stick together they'll get through it br br trouble is one of the six played by columbus short is a at first but he faces eviction and he's the guardian for his messed up younger brother he needs cash bad br br matt dillon pleads persuades the no blood on anyone's hands a clean getaway all good no bad you'll be rich forever blue skies smiling at you br br right br br everything goes to hell of course it's one damned thing after another and the stakes keep going up and it almost all happens claustrophobically inside an abandoned warehouse somewhere in los angeles in fact the movie goes out of its way to project a backdrop of industrial urban decay i happen to like industrial urban decay br br kudos to matt dillon who plays the top bad dog he goes from charming to disappointed to frustrated to outraged to totally effing insane in the course of the movie love that guy br br also credit is due to the menacing throbbing blistering and totally sinister electronic soundtrack by john murphy i am guessing he's heard a few tangerine dream records br br also it's surprising that this is a pg 13 movie i caught one — one — f bomb in this entire movie about violent tough guy robbers on some level i like that take the kids br br the director is a hungarian who made a fine noir set in the budapest subway system called screenwriter is an out of nowhere guy called james v simpson br br a lot of the people in this movie are just starting out i am willing to bet the esteem given to this movie will rise as time goes on and these filmmakers advance in their careers
1	leos carax is brilliant and is one of the best film and camera guys in the business so it should come as no surprise that x is an almost perfect filming of the most gut wrenching story ever seriously if i could have figured out some way to climb inside my video monitor i would have thrashed pierre to within an inch of his life no one has the right to be that self absorbed and that stupid both at the same time except maybe heathcliff in emily bronte's wuthering heights after spending 134 minutes with pierre i need a large glass of brandy never have i been so angry at a main character ok having said that x is a stunning movie with one of the few totally honest sex scenes i've ever seen in any film which means another piece of brilliant filmmaking and i'm talking graphic here by the way x will beat the hell out of you though so make sure you're up for it if you decide to watch it
1	leos carax has made 3 great movies boys meet girls sang les amants du pont in fact those films were not that great but it has the violence of youth the beauty of juvenile wilderness carax in these three movies was well aware of what cinema was but he tried to make his own vision of the art without thinking about about all he have seen but using it and melting it into his times x is a very different movie because carax made les amants du pont a of 20 millions dollars a film that has destroyed everything on its way after such a movie you can't do another one in the same point of view so leos carax has to changed and he did the movie isn't as beautiful as its first it's more reasonable no more studio no more dreamed paris carax has entered at last reality it's not clean anymore it's not poetic characters carax have become a romantic in the german sense of it
1	i watched x because scott walker composed the film score and i admire his music a lot frankly i expected a somewhat pretentious and possibly incoherent french movie i was wrong the vision of the film quickly managed to engage my attention to the fullest starting with the opening sequence which shows black and white footage of military airplanes throwing bombs at graves at the sounds of music and scott walker's beautiful wailing voice the film explores the identity crisis of pierre guillaume depardieu a brilliant choice for the role and his consequential self destruction the story is divided into two parts – the first depicts carefree life in a beautiful house in the french countryside and the second follows his utter personal disintegration after he abandons everything and moves to paris to live in squalor with his supposed half sister both parts contain some amazingly stunning photography – the first very colorful and bright the second utterly gloomy and nearly apocalyptic adding up to a true aesthetic feast x is a fascinating and quite unique movie experience
1	i agree with who said that there is a lot going on between the lines in this film while i do think the pacing of this film could be improved i do think that the complexity of the relationships between the characters is fascinating br br examples br br pierre is going to marry his cousin even though his love for her seems very cousin y br br pierre and his stepmother have a rather curious relationship br br pierre lucie and seem to have a triangular relationship and the actual points to the triangle are not quite certain br br brother is a bit of a eunuch or is he br br and isabelle who is she really br br overall i think it was worth my time an interesting film and one that makes me want to read melville
1	x is a beautiful adaption of herman melville's or the the comments on here surprise me it makes me wonder what has led to the overwhelmingly negative reaction br br the shock value is the least appealing thing about this film a minor detail that has been blown out of proportion the story is of downfall and the subsequent destruction of those around him which is overtly demonstrated in his features demeanour and the dialogue and soundtrack set this film apart from any other i have seen and turn a fundamentally traditional storyline with controversial twists into an unforgettably emotional epic br br i can't stress enough the importance of disregarding everything you have heard about this film and watching as i did with an open mind you will i hope be rewarded in the same way that i was i felt on edge and nervous from around the half hour mark however the film is far from scary in any traditional sense it will leave you with 1 000 thoughts each of them at once troublesome and thrilling i know i'm gushing here but i feel the need to make up for the negative perception of this film it's the best i've seen all year
1	this movie starts off somewhat slowly and gets running towards the end not that that is bad it was done to illustrate character trait of the main character consequently if you are not into tragedies this is not your movie it is the thought provoking philosophy of this movie that makes it worthwhile if you liked dostoyevsky's 'crime and punishment you will probably like this if only for the comparisons the intriguing question that the movie prompts is what is it that makes a renowned writer completely disregard his publicly ideas for another set the new ideas are quite opposed to the status quo if you are a conservative you will not like this movie br br besides other philosophical questions i must admit that the movie was quite aesthetically pleasing as well the hillsides and beautiful scenery helped me get past the slow start also there was use of symbolism in representing the of the main characters if these sorts of things do not impress you skip it overall i give this movie a 7
1	no one would ever question that director leos carax is a genius but what we wonder about is is he an insane genius so many people hated this film i am normally the first person to accuse many french directors of making offensive boring disgusting and pretentious films such as the horrible recent film and the pointless and offensive rouges' but strangely enough i actually think that x' is an amazing film made with great skill and passion by a master of his craft and containing remarkable performances the film does carry melodrama to more extreme lengths than i believe i have ever seen on screen before but then carax is extreme that we know the film also contains what i consider way over the top or anarchist fantasies and wet dreams what with a mysterious group of young men training to fire machine guns at the bourgeoisie in between playing scott walker's rather fascinating music in a band which has its recording sessions in an abandoned warehouse filled with squatters and fires burning in old steel barrels guillaume depardieu plays a rich young man in a château whose step mother is catherine deneuve and he wanders into her bathroom while she is naked in the bath by the way but he suddenly completely when he discovers that his deceased father a famous diplomat had fathered an illegitimate daughter who had been effectively disposed of by deneuve as an inconvenience this is because the sister suddenly turns up as a kind of romanian refugee with wild dishevelled hair expressionless face and little ability to speak french coherently depardieu then transforms himself into a hero' of the far left and wants to kill or destroy his family for their hypocrisy and corruption and lives in squalor and extreme poverty while scorning a vast inheritance he then commences an incestuous sexual relationship with his half sister which is shown in an explicit sex scene which has offended many people though i have no objection to it as i think people are far too hysterical about sex especially in america where apparently it never happens the intensity of the acting and the filming make this unlikely scenario come off as an experience of powerful if depressing hyper melodrama the differences between carax making an extreme film like this and the numerous extreme french films which i think are pretentious and disgusting are 1 that carax is an excellent filmmaker and 2 he is seriously attempting to explore a meaningful if harrowing extreme emotional condition whereby a human being disintegrates and turns against his background many would say that the extreme elements in this film were gratuitous but i don't agree i believe carax was genuine and was not making an exploitation picture at all it is very difficult to defend a man who goes that far and who for all i know may be a complete madman but i believe he deserves defending for this remarkable cinematic achievement
1	at times i really when i look at the comments here it seems as if most people have seen a completely different film than i have i've just seen it and liked it not in the way that it made me happy but in the way of having seen a good film br br the film needs some patience yes and yes the main character is really annoying but that i'm sure is by intention br br maybe it really makes a difference if you watch this film in a cinema or at home most people watch films at home like they are listening to elevator music this movie definitely doesn't fit as background noise br br and no good directing doesn't mean having five laughs or explosions a second good directing means following your subject and keeping the story and actors together and while that doesn't work out perfectly at least i think it works quite good br br i liked the photography and sets even if they brink on the surreal at times the opening scene is really special br br i also liked the acting – guillaume depardieu is not playing pierre he is acting the role of a pierre who is himself playing a role pierre is not the romantic hero that he so hard tries to be he is a presumptuous and self righteous idiot a downright weakling who by and by harms all the people he claims to protect that even his love for truth is simply a pose is beautifully demonstrated by his ongoing lying and not even once asking questions or explaining himself br br people are wondering where this or that person came from and other stuff no character who is seen for more than two scenes is left unexplained there is enough information scattered throughout the film on everyone br br and even the strange building begins to make sense as soon as the target practicing is seen remember that isabelle fled from a war zone and obviously this is a refuge for fighters in a civil war most likely bosnia which was still going on when the film was produced at least that's what is hinted at by the story isabelle tells pierre when she first meets him and by the later scene where pierre shows isabelle the book with his father on the cover which is surrounded by books on bosnia
1	when melville's pierre or the ambiguities hit bookstores in 1852 his first publication since moby dick a year earlier the public response was similar to that found among the imdb reviews of x newspapers even published headlines like melville insane which of course he wasn't but when one compares the writing styles found in moby dick and pierre one finds in the latter a sharp departure from the simple and often declamatory style found in the former clearly he was mimicking the overly florid style of the now forgotten victorian romances that were easily his immortal moby dick he was not content however to turn out the sort of product that his publishers wanted and that surely would have sold his version of a victorian romance was a twisted cynical one perhaps but brilliant in its synthesis the alternate title the ambiguities is quite appropriate as pierre searches for and thinks he finds truth we become more and more uncertain what and whom to believe as he searches for happiness he becomes more and more miserable br br x is a fascinating adaptation of this novel set in modern or nearly modern france though in some ways it leaves little to the imagination and shows us graphically the incestuous relations that melville could only hint at the ambiguities which make the novel and its message so alluring are perfectly in tact the questions it raises are ones that few films have thought to ask yet the answers are left to the viewer br br i recommend a reading of the novel which is much shorter than moby dick before seeing this movie i hope more people discover this tantalizing film
1	a rare exception to the rule that great literature makes disappointing films john huston's beautiful farewell to life and the movies is almost entirely true to the narrative and the spirit of james joyce's short story a tender meditation on love death and time expressed in the events of a twelfth night party in middle class dublin circa 1910 unpromising as the material might appear the film succeeds by its willingness to tell the story on its own quiet apparently inconsequential terms rather than force a conventional cinematic shape of plot points and dramatic incidents upon it only once is the wrong note struck when old miss julia a trained singer and music teacher whose voice is supposed to have been cracked by age not shattered sings so badly that the audience burst out laughing when i saw this at the cinema fortunately the mood of hushed and gentle melancholy is re established in plenty of time for the moment of revelation between the married couple gabriel and gretta conroy in a hotel bedroom as snow begins to fall outside it's a sad story i suppose but the kind that leaves you feeling better not blue especially recommended as a date movie for people in love who aren't frightened of confronting the sweetness and sadness of life
1	in my opinion the directing editing lighting and acting minus franco were very good i must admit i was pleasantly surprised and impressed with this film i wasn't expecting much in way of camera angles sound etc but in these areas the film wasn't bad at all br br after seeing the film i personally felt frustrated with both characters because i wanted so badly for these two characters to reach out to one another and i felt like the travis franco character wasn't really affected or changed in the end after terri commits suicide although this is probably due to the lack or inability of james franco to express emotion of any kind very well in this movie i've seen a few of franco's other films and to me he just can't pull it off when a scene calls for real emotion or facial expressions the only positive he brings to the film is the possibility of more people watching this movie br br on the other hand rachel miner's portrayal of terri was well done and she looks to have a bright future ahead i could really see and feel the sadness and emptiness in her character and it made me feel for her i only wish i could have seen more into terri's life before the film ended br br for a short film this movie was good but it leaves you wanting more in the end i only wish it could have been just a bit longer to see the characters develop a little more in spite of that i hope to see more films from the director and crew in the future
1	overall a well done movie there were the parts that made me wince and there were the parts that i threw my hands up at but i came away with something more than i gone in with br br i think the movie suffers from some serious excess ambition without spoiling it let me say that the obvious references to the trial by fire in ramayana is way beyond what this movie stands for the ramayana is an epic not a 200 page book that puts down women in india the movie is about two girls married into a very distinctive indian family while the basic tenets of the unwritten laws of the family tradition seem to be that of conservative india let me assure my reader that i having lived in delhi for 12 years found entire parts that just did not ring those bells i mean some things and some actions are very true but some other stuff is just way off the mark especially today br br delhi is complicated india is complicated the director tries to simplify both and fails pretty miserably at that br br why in english can you imagine a movie about american indians in english or the french speaking in english seriously jarring even the servant spoke in fluent accented english albeit with a hint of colloquialisms in the language for believability br br but the chemistry between the leads is palpable if you like it hot this is a movie for you i think that is the biggest saving grace the development of a true real life love story br br if this film was about radha and sita then it would have got full marks from me and in being about them it could have made a subtle statement but this movie goes out there to say this is what india is and this is what indian society is like and in that respect it succeeds as much as it fails just take everything you see with a pinch of salt the dark secrets of india are not being revealed just two girls are falling in love just like it happens everywhere else
1	i first saw this film in austria when it first came out and i was entranced by it it is a passionate and deeply moving work that should be experienced by all connoisseurs of motion picture art what a shame that it has never been released in dvd format perhaps one of these days that will be rectified as it would be a shame indeed if one of the best films ever made was forgotten and left to fade away in some film vault forever br br why is it that 'b' movies like 'american wedding' and get widescreen and fullscreen releases and often a special edition with multiple commentaries and extras while great art pieces like 'the dead' are all but forgotten
1	this is possibly the most perfect film i have ever seen in acting adaptation and direction it is self contained and of a kind so there is no point in saying that it is better or worse than other great films just that it can stand by itself as a perfect work of art br br and it was fun watching confused horror fans getting up and walking out
1	john huston actor and director better known for more robust fare such as the misfits and african queen directs his daughter angelica huston in what would be his last film indeed the film was released after huston's death based on james joyce's novella of the same name the dead tells the quiet story of a new year's celebration in 1904 dublin huston his cast and his screenwriters including his son tony have created a gem of a movie the novella is among joyce's finest works as well as being the only one that is filmable the film is a tribute to huston's genius he has taken a small beautiful story and has made a small beautiful movie donal mccann and angelica huston shine although shine is too showy too flashy a word to describe their quiet understated performances the dead reflects the huston family's love for ireland and is in its own quiet way a fitting final movie for a legend
1	writers and directors by the nature of their craft stand back a frame from the action in their work to show insights about characters and situations here huston and joyce have stepped back a bigger frame yet to show us the ultimate view of what it means to be human until it's very end the movie appears to be about nothing much the kind of typical circumstances that fill every day life it is not until the end of the very final scene that we realize that it is in fact about everything br br it is not possible to watch this final scene without simultaneously feeling pity and also deep affection for oneself and the rest of fellow beings
1	because of the depth of his character studies and complexity of story lines james joyce's works do not easily translate into film yet john huston in his last film before his death achieved a perfect translation of joyce's story he received great support from his son as writer and daughter as actress
1	the dead truly is a work of art clearly john huston meant to show that he was still in the full glory of some passion by making it even as his body was failing him this movie is powerfully affecting and lingers in the mind long after it is done reading the joyce short story certainly adds more depth to the characters especially gabriel's inner turmoil but the essence is all there in this film as a statement by an artist of his love of life and his craft the dead stands alone
1	john huston made many remarkable and memorable films those most often and easily recalled were released long before his passing in 1987 it was that year however that reminded us that huston was still at the top of his game as evinced by his faithful adaptation of james joyce's acclaimed novella the dead br br once long ago a very wise man called doc asked me doesn't the dead seem remarkably more vivid and bright than any of the other stories in dubliners i tend to think that it is the story and film both contain some of joyce's societal comments and criticisms but for the most part paint a warm and loving portrait of an ireland joyce himself so often against and would shortly leave br br huston's handling of protagonist gabriel conroy who realizes the world as he sees it is nothing more than an illusion is simply remarkable to claim that the film lacks plot is to miss the point as with any of joyce's dubliners plot while most certainly present is not the focus plot is merely a tool for the of the protagonist's epiphany in addition to a seeming lack in action there is quite frankly little dialogue in joyce's short story for the director to lean on huston's ability to translate what joyce puts in words into visuals is quite possibly the movie's greatest triumph feelings thoughts gabriel's discomfort during the dance all these leap to life and come within the viewer's grasp in huston's portrayal br br to claim that huston has softened his writer's criticism of society again misses the mark while the dead may be painted with a cheerful hue the complacency and pretense of the film's characters is but a comment on society on a smaller scale we are the old aunts the embarrassing drunk the tenor with the sore throat the wife with the sad rain soaked secret even the self deluded middle aged man br br but the dead belies its title it is not a dark story nor is it really that bleak forget for a moment the snow falling on the living and the dead and the inherent symbolism in it forget the shambles of a life gabriel awakes to at the film's end it is only with the destruction of the illusions gabriel has of himself and of his world that he can truly go forward such is the central point of the film such is the central point of our lives
1	saw this film at the in london where it was showing as part of the bfi's john huston season i wasn't really sure what to expect and the first few minutes of the film gave very little away in fact the rest of the film continued to give little away no real plot no action no suspense very little drama and except for a short section at the very end no scenery br br the result of lack of all of these features was however a wonderful film i don't fully understand why but i think that its understated nature made the film almost completely perfect the acting script and most important of all the casting were all spot on and i can't remember walking away from a cinema feeling so good but i still can't work out why i just know that i will be getting the dvd this is one of those films that will i am sure be just as good on the small screen as the cinema experience provided that you can find somewhere quiet to watch it and i will be watching it again soon i will be also interested to find out what my family and friends think of it i'm sure that it will not be everybody's choice but i am convinced that a large number will agree with my view br br 9 out of 10
1	the argentinian music poet once said that some folk music repeats similarly at any country of the world they look the same but everybody consider them as their own folk music br br this film as i feel it is about the same music that repeats all over the world at some time of each country's history first a few listen it playing and try to make the others hear it then some believe that they hear it but they don't then nobody says anything and some people appear to listen to it and others recognize that they have heard it but didn't think that others might be hearing it finally everybody listen to the same music and suddenly it doesn't sound any more br br love and poetry as a real nationalism and the legacy of a father to his children br br why would he call the film the dead when nobody dies the spanish translation of the title refused to follow the same rule and we call it dubliners following james joyce's title br br a nice 1900 irish filmed postcard
1	james joyce arguably could write some of the best sentences in the english language and his short story the dead which ends his collection the dubliners its the most perfect paragraph in the english language it's fitting that john huston who held back in attempting to film this story ended his career with it as with the red badge of courage and the man who would be king huston revered the literary source but made the adaptation cinematic and with the dead which was completed after huston's death by his son tony huston we get something nearly perfect in the marriage of literature and cinema br br valuing all that cinema can do as one of the commentators points out this isn't the african queen nor does it need to be this is the kind of movie that is uncompromising for an audience all of us through portrait of an artist in school and one needs to bring the maturity of appreciating how words and images in and of themselves can touch us as with silent films huston seeks something pure here and he works with the confidence of his many years and leaves the world a masterpiece that equals joyce's original br br many veterans of the irish theater world are recruited to bring the story of a man filled with self importance and mock self doubt that's reinforced by the hosts of an annual party on the eve of the feast of the epiphany what's in store for gabriel conroy is an evening of celebration song dance poetry where he's asked to give the annual toast to the two sisters and their niece who host the party he's distracted by the task wanting to rise to the occasion and this distraction leaves him vulnerable for an earth shattering experience handed to him by his wife while his ego is shaken when he hears a story from his wife's past it's also a gift where all that seems to have mattered throughout the evening is swept away by the realization of impending mortality for all who are living br br and rather than trying to make the last famous paragraph of the story cinematic huston brings in a voice over and we hear those incredible words recited as we watch the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling it's the perfect solution to a filmmaker's adaptation br br the cast is all we would hope since this is basically a testament to the power of the written word and how it brings us together through common experience each performer seems elevated by their role anjelica huston as gretta conroy has a wide range to play and her account of a young boy who once loved her sears not only gabriel conroy but the audience as well br br when i think of anjelica huston it's the transformation she makes in this film and when i think of her father it's this film i remember first
1	this is a haunting short film both james franco and rachel miner deliver performances that hurt ring true and stay with you since this is called a tragic story this isn't much of a spoiler but i wanted to change the outcome even though it is right for the story because i had already come to care about these people i can only think of a few short films that have had that effect on me beautifully shot acted edited high caliber work all around even to the use of just the right sound and or music to advance the story the end credit song finished the job wringing even more emotion from me this is first rate from beginning to end kudos to the writer director and all involved br br this is my first review of a film in the comments section i promised to do so in exchange for a copy of the dvd the review could be good or bad just my honest opinion this is it and it's the least i can do i am so glad i got to see it
1	i've been waiting years for the dead to come out on video having pretty much worn my vhs copy to shreds this is one of the most beautiful films ever made for the holidays it takes place on the feast of the epiphany twelfth night and is a simple poignant vignette of characters attending a dinner prepared by three dublin women central to the story is a fairly loveless couple a wife who once passionately loved a young man who died for her and a man who wants to feel the same kind of passion for his wife but feels incapable all of the performances are stunning and the script weaves among the various characters at the dinner beautifully of course its source material is james joyce's short story of the same title and much of his narrative structure is kept fully intact john huston's long career as one of hollywood's greatest filmmakers had a truly fitting finale with this film which was scripted by his son tony huston stars his daughter anjelica huston and is dedicated to his wife thank you to lions gate for picking up the rights to this film and releasing it on dvd for lovers of all things irish or for folks looking for a literate subtle yet incredibly moving holiday film this is a true gem
1	naturally in a film who's main themes are of mortality nostalgia and loss of innocence it is perhaps not surprising that it is rated more highly by older viewers than younger ones however there is a craftsmanship and completeness to the film which anyone can enjoy the pace is steady and constant the characters full and engaging the relationships and interactions natural showing that you do not need floods of tears to show emotion screams to show fear shouting to show dispute or violence to show anger naturally joyce's short story lends the film a ready made structure as perfect as a polished diamond but the small changes huston makes such as the inclusion of the poem fit in neatly it is truly a masterpiece of tact subtlety and overwhelming beauty
1	this is really the only chance to see the magic of james joyce's writing brought to life his novels are all unfilmable in any real sense and this is the only long story he wrote it was john huston's last film and did not reach the screen until after he had died and it is easy to see his touch of greatness the dead is poetical in its approach on the screen telling us more about ireland than any modern movie on the ira and the troubles could ever hope to tell us hopefully more people will watch this film and get to experience the finest of both john huston and james joyce and perhaps visit this story in your local bookstore and discover that it is probably the greatest short story ever put on paper
1	i believe john the dead is a true classic not only was it final film he is quoted as saying all i know about film making is in this film the story closely adapted from dubliners by james joyce is a great ensemble piece featuring sterling performances by angelica houston john's daughter and a cast of english and irish actors who bring the story to life this is a film that should be part of any serious collection not only because it is visually elegant but because the story is timeless and very appealing the film is not hurried nor is it charged with action rather the story unfolds from within the characters who bring light and meaning to the dialog the end of the film is stunning poetic and haunting i recommend the dead without reservation as one of the finest films ever made
1	not often it happens that a great last movie becomes such a moving performed and filmed masterpiece the cast is excellent as well as the camerawork what starts up as a merry coming together of a group of well educated citizens of an early 20th century dublin turns into a dark philosophic narration about all our fear from death and the sometimes dark shadows of the past thank you mister huston for this last piece of great cinema
1	in print this is one of the greatest short stories ever written brought brilliantly and poetically to the screen by this father son team working together sadly for the first and last time it is fitting that john huston should end his career on a high note by bringing the work of one of his favorite author's to the screen in what is easily the best joyce screen adaptation huston made a career of adapting great works of literature to film usually quite successfully it is sad and somewhat puzzling that tony huston pretty much began and ended his career in film by adapting what would be his father's final project and picking up a well deserved oscar nomination in the process br br i once had the privilege of sitting in the company of the great screenwriter playwright horton foote who cited this film as one of his favorites in recent years at the time it was still a fairly recent release as a rather prolific screenwriter himself and a brilliant screen adapter of his own works as well as great authors such as faulkner and harper lee he was obviously impressed with tony huston's first time effort and possibly equally puzzled by his lack of output since then if anyone has insights to share on the topic i'd be interested to hear more
1	for his last film john huston directed his daughter anjelica in this adaptation of the story from james joyce's dubliners and he gave us one of his finest achievements to remember him by br br joyce is about as impossible to film as anyone but the dead at least presents a traditional narrative to work with much indeed almost all of the important information in the story lies in the spaces between the lines in characters' thoughts and expressions there are big moments but they're cerebral they're not the stuff of which movies are made but somehow huston gets it right and he manages a nearly flawless adaptation br br anjelica is magnificent and the movie is haunting and powerful br br grade a
1	there are so many '10 best' lists which could easily fit the dead best screen drunk best literary adaptation best use of music not specifically written for the film best use of poetry best screen speech best ensemble cast and finally perhaps best film ever made this was john huston's last and greatest film adapted by his son tony from james joyce's short story and set on the evening of the feast of the epiphany in the dublin of 1904 it is confined largely to one setting the home of the sisters and not a great deal happens in conventional terms they entertain their guests there is singing dancing and much small talk but watching this film you can't imagine anywhere else you would rather be than in this company br br finally of course it is much much more it is about love loss and regret those stable mainstays of great drama in the film's closing scenes the tenor d'arcy frank patterson sings a song 'the lass of which conjures up in the mind of gretta anjelica huston wife of gabriel donal mccann the ghost of her first and probably greatest love a boy who died in all certainty of a broken heart at the age of seventeen and suddenly gabriel realises he has never really known his wife and that he has not been the great love of her life after all emotionally these scenes are incredibly powerful firstly as gretta recounts the circumstances of her lover's death and then as the voice in gabriel's head sums up his own feelings this is great cinema the monologues superbly delivered by huston and mccann br br but then all the performances are extraordinary this is ensemble playing of the highest order and while it would be invidious to single out one performer above another has the screen ever given us a more likable genial or convincing drunk than donal donnelly or has poetry ever been delivered with such passion that sean the ira man in the quiet man brings to his reading of lady gregory's translation of here added poignancy is to be had of course from the knowledge that huston himself was close to death when he made this film which seems to me the culmination of his life's work death may well be its central theme but viewing this film is a life enhancing experience
1	john huston finished his remarkable career with one of the most perfect and sensitive movies i've ever seen for his farewell he decided to adapt james joyce's beautiful short story the dead and made not only one of the most faithful literature to film adaptations yet he also crafted a movie that more than 20 years later still surpasses a lot of contemporary cinema br br when i watched this movie a few years ago as a student at university i gazed in awe at the screen marvelling at every aspect of the movie acting screen writing direction costumes settings music cinematography thinking about it now i still can't of anything i'd criticise it for huston just knew how to tell a good story br br a good deal of credit should also go to tony huston he knew better than to meddle with a text that is not only perfection itself but already visual enough for cinema father and son let the story breathe and relish in the long fascinating conversations between characters and in the meaningful silences br br donal mccann also deserves credit for the his performance as gabriel conroy i had never seen him in movies before nor have i seen him afterwards but he gave one of the most moving performances i've ever seen br br all in all the dead is a fine cinematic experience from a legendary director who never stopped being excellent
1	easily one of my three or four favorite films definitely one for the desert island there is nothing about this film rather it glows warm and welcoming the audience is invited to a party and like any good party the joy comes in the interaction of the guests and what you learn as you progress from one to the next with apologies to joyce the film's title conjures up a number of ideas that keep audiences away the film is not horrifying it is not depressing it is a beautiful look into a time that has past within which people are growing up and others are winding down some are frustrated and others are serene and all around ever present throughout the evening are the people and the parts of people that have been laid to rest the words these exquisite actors are given to speak are perfection and set to the music of the irish brogue are an auditory feast particularly to us flat toned americans about the lack of brilliance i referred to above i take it back there is no other word to describe the final scene between anjelica huston and donal mccann it speaks quiet volumes about … well everything some lovely snowy evening rent this film and just let it happen before you no gunfights no car chases no dinosaurs – just film at its most sublime
1	travis james franco is a young man riding a train for business reasons we're to assume who leaves his beloved phone behind it gets picked up by a prostitute terri rachel miner and when he goes to her city to pick it up a series of events occur that are sure to stay with him forever br br both characters have barriers they've put up to defend themselves from communication but despite their facades it's obvious both are eager to bust them down in total there are about 30 or so spoken lines but from the way james franco and rachel miner use their faces you might as well turn off the volume words are unnecessary a scene to look out for is terri staring at herself in the mirror you can just feel her despair permeating the room br br but the movie isn't perfect it's mostly filmed using hand held cameras which gets a bit distracting mainly due to the acting of mr franco and miner and the photography the script's flaws don't stand out as much still sometimes it seems as if the story doesn't really know where it wants to go br br all in all this is the type of film that truly stays with you long after you watched it an hour after you've seen it you're still 'what if' ing yourself on the behalf of certain characters it's not flawless but still leaves you wanting more wishing it were at least 4x as long
1	the last film of john huston the great american director of the irish descent is an adaptation of the last short story in the early collection dubliners of the greatest writer ever came from ireland the film is a family affair the dying director made it based on the script adapted by his son tony huston from one of the most poignant beautiful and profound short story ever written in this language and considered by many the best english language short story john directed his daughter anjelica in what could be her finest screen performance the film is short only 83 minutes it's got no action sequences no plot it is almost non eventful and it may seem slow the guests friends and relatives come to the party that takes place in dublin during the epiphany week in january 1904 at the house of two elderly sisters who give annual dinner with music and dance what viewers see for the first hour is the ensemble conversation piece the guests talk listen to the music discuss the latest opera premiere and make jokes sometimes awkward gradually the conversation turns to the long dead friends or relatives the memory of whom never faded away br br this is the film you have to stay with let it pull you in listen to what and how the guests at the party say how they communicate pay attention to the body languages to the looks at their faces when they drift away from the light laugh and music of the present to the long gone but never in fact left most precious memories where the dead of the title are not dead but forever young and so alive if you do you will be awarded with the final scene of such emotional power and impact that it will always stay with you it will break your heart to pieces pull them together and put it back transfixed the film as well as joyce's story centers on gabriel conroy donal mccann as james joyce's alter ego gave a very moving understated performance as one of the party guests who arrives with his wife gretta anjelica huston gabriel is still in love feels close connection to and fascinated with her it is after the party he discovers that even after many years of closeness he does not know all about her past her pains her regrets and the unforgettable emotions and loss she had lived through as a young girl and he is no part of for the first time he looks at her and thinks of her not as the indelible part of his existence but as another human being with her own inner world her own loneliness and sadness and for the first time a strange friendly pity for her entered his soul it is he who narrates the final most powerful and profound lines of the story snow is general all over ireland falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling like the descent of their last end upon all the living and the dead br br if you have not seen the film or read the joyce's story please do they are truly the works of art that leave the everlasting impression and would change something in you to the best
1	it's a short movie for such immense feelings the last 20 or so minutes are among the most intense in the recent years of the industry huston john is dying and only love can make the difference the actor's work in the long evening scene is absolutely marvellous
1	an exquisite film they just don't make them like this any more we on an upper middle class family in dublin in the early part of the 20th century they are hosting an after christmas dinner for their friends and relatives their table talk is just idle chatter but it is so well written that one is engrossed away from the dinner table some fine piano playing helps to create an intimate atmosphere as if one were there as one of the guests perhaps a bit too perfect for an amateur player the odd mistake here and there would have added to the magic of this film no real story but real entertainment and an object lesson for up and coming film makers
1	so many literary adaptations are disappointments there are many reasons for that but usually it is the need to cut down a complex novel to the size of a screenplay the dead is unusual it had to be as the short story itself is a tiny relatively short gem it may in fact be the finest short story in the english language in beautifully spare language it tells of the realization of gabriel conroy that his life and the lives of so many around him are controlled by memories of the dead even his own wife of many years loved a man now dead more than him br br to bring such a short story to the cinema was always going to be tricky john huston did a magnificent job he never gave in to temptation to play it up or use fancy technique to expand on the story it is simple and true with outstanding acting the only slight miss step is the use of music to accompany the devastating final soliloquy br br its rare indeed for a movie version of a literary masterpiece to be itself a masterpiece but i think its fair to use this term for this movie its not a bravura piece of film making but it is simple and pure i always think of ozu's movies when i think of the dead its at that level of purity and simplicity and deep wisdom
1	the entire movie an artful adaptation of one of joyce's dubliners stories takes place on the night of january 6 epiphany 1906 most of the film takes place at an annual party given by three spinsters two sisters and their niece where a group of upper class dubliners gather for an evening of music and dinner while there is very little plot per se the interaction and conversation among the group reveals much about dublin in the early 20th century when the stirrings for independence were just beginning the cast all talented irish stage actors with the exception of anjelica huston are universally wonderful and one actually feels he is a guest at the gathering himself the poignant final scene between ms huston and the amazing donal mccann reveals much about the marriage of the characters there is poignancy mixed with humor and insight and for those who like quiet thoughtful movies the dead is highly recommended my wife is from dublin we make a ritual of watching this wonderful movie every january 6th after many viewings it never fails to move me and each time i glean something that i've missed before
1	i have watched thousands of movies in my life and i believe this movie is the most perfect movie that has ever been made by perfect i mean the storytelling the plot the acting the staging the camera work etc this is a lay opinion i have no background in film production a lot of movies have perfect scenes such as the bartender filing a report with the police officer in the movie fargo indeed that scene could play well as a short in the dead every scene is done to perfection making the entire movie perfect perhaps john huston sold his soul to the devil to make such a movie hopefully daniel webster has gotten him out of the contract
1	john huston was seriously ill when he made his final achievement and it's thoroughly his testament uncompromising difficult a thousand miles away from crazes and fashions it will stand as the best last film you can ever dream of a very austere screenplay no action no real hero but a group of people coping with the vanity of life the fleeting years and death the party doesn't delude people for long admittedly warmth and affection from the songs and the meal complete with turkey and pudding but the passage of time has partly ruined julia's voice first crack in the mirror then the camera leaves the room where the guests are gathered and searches the old lady's bedroom for sure hers seems to have been a happy life but it's a life inexorably coming to an end a shot shows towards the end of the movie julia on her future deathbed maybe an unfulfilled life because she remained a spinster with no children to carry on only some poor things yellowish photographs and but are a human being's hopes and dreams all fulfilled look at gretta she 's a married woman about thirty five she's still beautiful and healthy but she knows something is broken what julia is today she will be tomorrow that's why in her stream of consciousness she goes back to her past only to find out how harrowing her memories are a young man committed suicide for her a symbol of her youth now waning the final monologue if we listen closely to it involves us all in this eternal tragedy the doomed to failure human condition john huston's masterly lesson
1	this is my favourite movie of all time and i always think of it as john huston's requiem br br i must have seen it at least 20 times and never tire of it the mood the script the singing the dinner it is like being invited into someone's home and observing the events and not able to participate even though you want to it is a rare treasure this movie and i cannot write enough praise for it br br it is cast incredibly well with quite a few abbey theatre faces and also the wonderful tenor voice of frank patterson lady gregory's poem recited in the movie is one of the most moving ever written scene walking down the stairs as she listens to the song is one of the best performances every seen on film i cry every time i see it for all the right reasons br br we have all had love lost at an early age and weep for our young hopeful selves br br donal mccann acted in far too few movies for my liking he just loved stage work and stuck to it and it is our loss that we do not have more of his performances on film as he does so much with this delicate role by expression and the portrayal of a deep love for his wife that will never be reciprocated and he conveys such inner sadness at knowing this br br if you want your movies action and plot packed avoid this there really is no beginning middle or end just a lens onto the characters at a dinner party in dublin 80 years ago and all the little nuances and shadings of the personalities portrayed so beautifully br br bravo to all who were involved in this production 10 out of 10
1	flashes of lightning a sprawling cemetery the name of adam 'batman' west all pop up on screen before the opening credits are even over and yet despite these rather naff elements one dark night isn't as cheesy as it might first seem br br meg tilly jennifer's sister plays pretty student julie who reluctantly agrees to spend the night alone in a mausoleum as part of her initiation into exclusive high school clique the sisters what julie doesn't realise is that the other plan to freak her out with some ghoulish that the most recent body to be interred in the mausoleum is that of vampire' who feeds off the life force of scared young women br br admittedly this isn't the most original of set ups but thankfully there are enough inventive touches to help set this film apart from the competition my favourites being the macabre sight of everyday objects embedded in the walls of apartment and the creepy manner in which mouldy corpses float through the cold marble corridors of the mausoleum during the excellent finale hal impressive steadicam cinematography and tom wonderfully macabre special effects also add immensely to the chilling atmosphere
1	i have great memories of this movie br br i was only 12 when it was released and it scared the bejesus out of me i really miss my bejesus br br zombies graveyards how can you go wrong it's like retarded cousin br br this movie was released 1 year before the pg 13 rating was instituted br br i submit that one dark night is the goriest pg movie not scariest mind you that has ever been released br br can anyone come up with a gorier pick br br fyi i don't consider poltergeist to be gorier scarier yes but not gorier
1	this film for what it was set out to be succeeded it's a short tragic film although my choice of film are ones that really develop characters and their relationships this film is meant to just give a taste leaving you with the what happens next factor after watching it i really was wanting more more of the characters back story what influences they had to make them into the people they were i think thats what the makers intended the viewing audience to think the acting is amazing there aren't many lines in the film so their body language facial expressions and overall presence needed to be powerful enough to withhold a scene both franco and miner have that element and it shows for them especially franco to take the time to make this obviously says they believed in this film and wanted to be apart of it and for that i appreciated the film for what it was also i'm happy i own it so i can share it with other people that would've never known it existed
1	i can't describe the feeling when i got this crappy vhs rental cassette in my hands about 20 years ago somehow i got my father to rent it for me and i watched it twice with my little brother yes we got nightmares this film was originally rated as pg in the us in many other countries including finland it was restricted under 18 or 16 the film was aimed to teenagers but this must be the goriest pg rated film ever there's no bad language or nudity in it what so ever originally made in 1981 stayed on the shelves for a couple of years before release br br this is an a class b movie a true well made 80's horror flick a bunch of college girls decide to spent a night in a mausoleum not knowing that a supernatural evil awaits br br you can almost smell the rotting flesh and feel the atmosphere of this movie it's campy utterly stupid but they just can't make these movies anymore there is definitely a certain feel to this 80's horror genre this one is still effectively spooky and entertaining after all these years br br the effects are just oozing quality by ellis burman jr and thomas r burman the make up effects play a big part in this flick otherwise it would've been just a boring teen slasher br br it's now available on dvd at last and it's a special edition dvd including some extras too commentary track is interesting br br in fact this version isn't so special after all below average transfer on dvd some glitches and scratches here and there at first it was going to be released by the blue underground but unfortunately it was canceled so shriek show released it without restoring the print too bad br br great date movie br br recommended br br note i only gave 8 out of 10 because of the nostalgic values otherwise 6 out of 10
1	you have got to see this movie i saw it as a 13 year old at the theater on my very first date fast forward over 20 years and i'm now gay thanks a lot one dark night lol this movie creeped the hell out of me as a kid still do but as an adult the thrill of this movie isn't in the storyline but rather the hysterical laughs it holds highlights are listening to the names the teenagers call each other from my personal favorite to turkey also keep your eyes peeled for the scene where carol the blond head sister attempts to hang her phone up on a soda can can't believe they didn't that other highlights include adam west's overly dramatic outbursts and the gooey corpses if you're a fan of true horror i'd suggest this film just because to me it's almost a parody on horror there is def a creepy factor and the plot is a good one but don't watch it if you want to be scared out of your wits unless you're like 10 years old or something
1	i was kinda surprised by the pg rating on the back of the dvd case i certainly wouldn't want my kids watching this one i think this would scare the crap out of a 10 year old br br plot a girl trying to fit in to the clique is hazed and tormented by the 'in crowd ' they talk her into spending the night in this creepy mausoleum that reminded me of phantasm and they proceed to torment her in the night little do they know a recently deceased clairvoyant is coming back to life and raising the dead around them it sounds awfully cheesy but given the age and the budget which was no doubt pretty small this film is fun on many levels br br watch for an early eg daily as one of the in crowd brats i enjoyed it and it scared my girlfriend br br 7 out of 10 kids
1	as part of an initiation prank julie meg tilly of psycho 2 has to spend the night in a mausoleum but karl a master of telekinesis has recently died and been put in there when julie's fellow sorority sisters where he's housed the real terror starts br br this little flick had a good deal of atmosphere and i enjoyed the build up plus the last twenty minutes are just plain great anyone who's looking for a lost gem of an '80's horror movie needn't look any further highly under appreciated plus elizabeth daily is adorable br br my grade b br br media blaster dvd extras disc 1 commentary with director tom and co writer michael hawes and trailers for the being bloody terror just before dawn devil dog disc 2 alternate director's cut that's almost unwatchable due to a bad print behind the scenes featurette
1	one dark night is a staple in the 1980's low budget horror genre filled with retro puns clothing and scenery transports the viewer to a simpler time when horror films were just that horror br br nothing so intense that you can't understand whats going on the film tells a dark fable of what happens when you mess with the dead well acted by it's stable of scream queens and a fine directorial job by tom whom revels in the time and makes you believe what he's presenting there is no who done it and certainly no big twist at the end it is straight forward and in your face horror from beginning to end with a lot of 80's humor thrown in for added spice i give it 8 simply because some of the special effects fall short towards the end of the film but at least there is no cgi perfect film for new fans to the 1980's horror genre or anyone looking to re live a fun night of classic horror bliss
1	i also saw this at the cinema in the 80s and have never forgotten it even though i have never seen it again anywhere br br i don't know whether if i did see it now it would seem dated but remembering the storyline and comparing it to some of the terrible modern films i've seen on zone horror i should think it would stand up very well br br i can still remember his coffin sliding out and opening up and all the dead bodies becoming reanimated and the blue lightning having seen hundreds of horror movies and still remembering this one it must be good
1	i didn't know anything about this movie before i watched it it seems to be a lesser known teen horror from the 80's what struck me were the ways it differed from so many other movies from that era br br the first thing i noticed was how slowly this movie builds it doesn't do the typical setup of showing characters being murdered one by one it takes its time building the back story leaving a little bit of mystery about what might happen i was almost starting to think no one would even really get hurt in this movie but everything leads to the climatic sequence during the last 15 minutes and then it gets fairly graphic this was a bad time to take a snack break i almost couldn't finish my pizza once it started br br the characters also seem slightly more three dimensional than a lot of the cheap teen scare flicks there conversations were refreshingly level headed for the most part as opposed to the over the top stereotypes you'd expect for example the girl who is the popular snobby queen bee of the clique isn't constantly spouting insults at everyone but is capable of having doubts and showing some consideration for others br br so to summarize i felt this movie was somewhat original compared to what i expected and a little better made as well it drew me in kept me interested and then let me have it as i said it's pretty gory during the finale but almost family friendly much of the rest of the time i don't need to own it but i'm glad i discovered it
1	i saw this film when it was released to theaters it's definitely one to remember i had forgotten the title until recently a friend found it via online search br br one dark night is rather unusual for the suspense horror genre of the time in that it contains no blood it is of the teen fright variety yet the teens are respectable in their own ways it's a nice old school film with props and scenes that reflect the times our hero rides a motorcycle with no brain bucket for example br br as has been mentioned by previous reviewers one dark night is currently available on dvd the original negative was not available for the dvd transition some reel changes are a bit rough but this doesn't take away from the story that being said the colors are vibrant and the lighting is very good br br adam west plays a rather part in this film as son in law his role as an overbearing and indifferent husband is thankfully short br br the story builds over the course of the film unlike many horror films of the era one dark night is a great suspense story that gives the viewer time to absorb what is happening br br the final 20 minutes or so of one dark night are what make it so memorable telekinetic abilities are used to open old graves in the mausoleum pull the coffins out open them and move the corpses around attention was afforded to great detail in the final scenes the rotting worm riddled corpses look quite real
1	since jason and his ilk took over horror films circa 1980 most every horror film has involved a group of hormonally charged teenagers being chopped to bits with the focus on the chopping and not the suspense br br this little film is different made in the early 80's it does what every good horror film should do bring your worst fears to life while you sit around just knowing that these horrors are just around the corner then you make those horrors simmer just don't turn it into a lesson on the biology of butchering br br the story features meg tilly right before she had a short lived turn with fame starting with the big chill and then slipped back into obscurity in the early 90's meg plays an outcast teenager who is just dying to get into the good graces of some classic mean girls they tell her she can be part of their little group if she spends the night in a crypt the mean girls intend to scare her and cause her to leave the crypt thus giving them a double reward further tormenting the outcast girl and having an excuse to reject her br br meanwhile famed occultist karl has died a bizarre death shortly after having claimed to have discovered a way to return from the grave and upon his return command great magical powers his daughter doesn't believe this at first but she listens to a tape about her father's experiments which included his successful animation of small dead animals and of his plans to emerge from the grave with the power to animate bigger game and draw further power from these animations she also learns that she may have inherited her father's power and may be the only person who can stop him should he actually rise from the dead i think you know where this story is headed so i'll stop here did i mention the magician was entombed in the same crypt in which meg tilly's character is spending the night br br i will mention that the commercial dvd containing this film does look somewhat degraded compared to what you would expect from a film that was made so recently i saw it on tv in the mid 1980's and i remember it looking better than this the problem is that the original negative of the film was never located so the dvd had to be created from a print this means it comes complete with dirt and scratches br br this is worth checking out for any horror fan it was an independently made film and an example of the kind of unusual stuff that you could commonly find on late night tv until the infomercial turned that time slot into a vast wasteland circa 1986 only tcm underground airs this kind of film anymore
1	a bunch of sorority girls make a new pledge spend the night in a creepy mausoleum of course the recently deceased don't stay deceased for long and all hell breaks loose one dark night is an enjoyable 80's horror with some ghastly dead bodies floating around that are being controlled by the spirit of a dead psychic there is no gore and nudity but the atmosphere of a mausoleum is very eerie the acting is solid but the script takes too much time to develop the characters until the final 20 minutes that finally breaks out of his grave the cinematography is impressive and the the mausoleum is a great location for the climactic events the film takes so long to get going and this is its major flaw 7 out of 10
1	hello all denver fans br br i couldn't agree more with you guys this show was so cool and cute i i watched it as a kid in the late 80s among denver are other favourite too such as care bears and rainbow i am 24 now but it is still one of my favourite shows and my favourite cartoon from the 80s it brings back all the memories the theme tune was great too i get goosebumps whenever i hear it it is sad that it lasted such a short time but it has remained a firm favourite its great that i am not alone and that there are people out there who liked it too this is one of the cartoon shows i shall keep for future generations br br viva denver
1	one dark night is a highly overlooked and little known film from the early 80's that deserves an audience that i fear it will never get and that's a damn shame i have seen this film compared to others that have gotten a bigger name over the years most notably phantasm hell night and mausoleum this is a much different film than those and i don't see the comparisons other than the mausoleum which is a bit similar to the one in phantasm but not enough to make any real comparisons i'm not sure how this one slipped through without a broader acceptance maybe it's all in the marketing i don't know perhaps a remake would breathe new life into it unless drained all the life out of it that is i'm not too big on all the remakes that are abundant these days but i think they do work well with lesser known films except for the awful ghost ship remake which other than the opening scene and not falling blaring was utter crap so if a remake of one dark night would happen to fall into the right hands i think it would make a lot of people go and watch the original i know that's what i do if there's a remake of a film i haven't seen before so anything short of a remake i fear would not bring this film back to life unless of course got his eyes on it br br anyways one dark night is a must see for horror fans especially 80's horror fans 'cause we all know that's when the best horror movies were made creepy setting fairly good acting very good story campy what more could you want from an early 80's horror film what's that nudity and gore well sorry no nudity or gore in this film but it's still great nonetheless a solid 8 out of 10 enjoy
1	thorn bmi is out of business before they stopped making films they made a chiller of a movie using e s p and telekinesis as the basis of the daughter whose father mastered a terrible power only in the death of her father did olivia find that her father dubbed from had really murdered 6 girls and was planning two more by using the technique of vampirism br br our picture starts with 6 coroner wagons pulling in and music to match the discovery of the 6 girls dead all with their eyes wide open in a closet in the walls were all kinds of objects the men were pulling up an old man when blue lightning hit the ceiling which caused a circular hole to form only made the film more bizarre br br if you like extremely chilling scenes this for you unless you can see dead bodies from years ago in each level of decay don't view it without a friendly companion like the changeling it has some heart stopping horror in it i gave this a rating of 7 it's in color actress meg tilly debuted in this film if you can find it see it
1	this is an ok early 80's horror flick in which a young girl meg tilly is wanting to shed her goody two shoes image and becomes part of a girl gang called the sisters their initiation for her consists of spending the night in a mausoleum too bad the mausoleum is the final resting place of some psycho russian psychic and he's not quite dead yet seems this guy was found in his apartment with lots of things stuck into the walls from his telekinetic target practice plus there is a pile of young dead girls found in the closet all proof that hitch hiking can be dangerous so listen up girls the daughter of this man is rather distraught about her father's death and is confronted by a man that said he knew and given a tape to listen too her hubby adam west of batman fame is there to laugh and scoff and not much else but it seems that perhaps daughter may also have some abilities that she doesn't realize anyway having deposited their unfortunate pledge at the mausoleum the rest of the sisters take off to go get stuff like masks sheets etc to come back and scare the crap out of her but little do they suspect what's going on and they get more than the crap scared out of them for even in death is kind of a busy guy and he's reanimating lots of corpses for entertainment and it would also seem that he has a thing for jail bait overall this is acceptable horror nothing too intense but not terrible either the dvd from media blasters also contains another version of the movie that's a rough cut i guess i only watched a little of it so i don't know how different it is from the theatrical release but from what i saw i guess it's a warts and all presentation 7 out of 10
1	julie meg tilly is a goody two shoes type high school girl who determined to prove something to herself allows herself to be subjected to the rituals of the sisters a small scale clique presided over by snooty homecoming queen type carol robin evans the sisters propose that for julie's final test she will spend the night in a mausoleum preparing to drive julie up the wall but not knowing that recently deceased ill intentioned psychic is interred there and has plans to cause havoc from beyond the grave br br while this debut picture for tom friday the 13th part vi jason lives and sometimes they come back is limited by its obviously low budget it's what and his crew are able to do with it that counts it's genuinely creepy unsettling fare it might have very well scared the stuffing out of me if i were under 10 years of age and even at my current age it still got to me to a degree br br some of the effects look cheesy but the decent looking corpses and gore are created by tom burman an experienced makeup effects artist who while tending to be overshadowed by more famous names like winston baker and bottin has a good resume with other films like cat people 1982 and the beast within to his credit br br what i liked most about it was a real sense of foreboding and atmosphere an aspect missing from some of the current trendy horror movies being shown in our multiplexes br br tilly is cute and appealing in her role having recently completed her debut film work in tex before joining this production one dark night was completed some time before its release to theaters in 1983 where it actually did decent business during its first few weeks the other actors do what they have to do well enough familiar faces in the supporting cast include the equally appealing veteran singer actress voice over artist elizabeth a k a e g daily kevin peter hall for once not playing some sort of creature character but who unfortunately ends up with very little screen time and none other than adam batman west the director's wife nancy who would play in jason lives appears here as the spacey girl in front of the arcade br br it's decent b level horror entertainment maybe too cheap for its ambitions and maybe not that slick hey was just starting out but definitely good for some chills br br 7 10
1	i thought that one dark night was great it deserves a 10 as to a statement made by one user the dead were actually zombies in this movie a dead person brought back to life is a zombie regardless of the method or cause for of being brought back to life the zombies in this movie are used to frighten the girls not to feed off of them like traditional zombies this movie is a definite star among horror flicks of the 80's the score and atmosphere are quite eerie and the audience is kept in suspense throughout the mausoleum scenes the acting is actually convincing with genuine expressions of horror at the sight of the undead although i enjoy all zombie flicks this movie is a refreshing change from the typical flesh eating zombie movie
1	this is my favorite horror film a close 2nd to 'poltergeist' i saw 'one dark night' when it first came out in theaters in 1983 at the theater where i worked br br i was born in 1963 so i have a certain love for '80's horror films despite them being a little dated and the dialog not well written what i thought was so original about it was that the phenomenon of has not been addressed at least to my knowledge at that time and is a very real phenomenon br br i didn't care if adam west was in it nothing against him but his supporting role was not memorable but thought meg tilly was good casting the little known donald hutton from and from mars' as an ambiguous scientist who oversaw studies on abilities was sadly overlooked as a gay guy i was paying more attention to david mason daniels meg tilly's unfortunate but gorgeous boyfriend he's selling real estate in texas now br br i felt the film 'realistic' in two ways who was discovered to have murdered 6 girls in his surreal apartment had a funeral that was sparse in attendance reflecting the fact that not only was he mysterious a hermit but a killer as you know these types are buried without fanfare second if corpses were going to be mobile they would hover dragging their feet the filmmakers could have gone for the schlock walking groaning arms out stretched zombies but opted for what would be believable kudos the buzzing electrical discharge from eyes at his like he's overseeing his kingdom of dead cast an eerie light in the mausoleum that will stay with you for years if you've ever gone to a mausoleum even on a sunny day you will notice that they have their own rosetta lighting caused by stained glass windows don't get me started on the cavernous silence even himself looked like someone who could pass as an eccentric perverted old man the score was one of a kind and memorable and i keep kicking myself for not getting it on cassette when it first came out the track shooting was done where it was supposed to be i especially liked the carefully planned characteristics of each corpse the bride the badly child still holding its teddy bear the grandmother the tall thin black guy and the half faced world war ii vet and the green eyed elderly gent who was the first to greet the clique even corpses can be good actors i suppose the only thing i had to groan about was the arm that came out of one of the vaults and choke julie's boyfriend couldn't possibly be done unless a corpse was put in laying on it's stomach and feet first but why it looked a little to fresh too br br the film begins eerie with us never seeing face until the last quarter of the film which is like unwrapping a birthday present as he is picking up teen girl runaways in his daughter's psychic flash we then see hauling his body away in his one bedroom apartment where we see he's experimented his telekinetic craft by dishes into his wall the rest does drag as the heathers like group baits julie into a final initiation by spending the night inside the mausoleum but it is a well placed build up to the unleashing horror later the movie isn't bloody in any sense of the word the goriest part is when daughter uses a compact mirror to feed his power back to him and he bubbles then melts i've always felt that a power like could never die and a sequel could be worth looking into i can see it now one dark night ii turning in the grave but let's face it the film stands alone i heard the film had other titles but the original fits br br a remake would be pointless but if there were to be one i would write better dialog and lengthen some scenes such as show the studies on abilities done in the lab instead of hearing about it on a tape recorder in this information age something like that would be well documented on dvd and more corpses why just raise the ones in the mausoleum when power could spread to the graveyard too let's just say i'd hate to be one of the persons who had to clean up the mess at the end of the climax something that too can be shown i think having one of the initiating sisters recognize one of the corpses as a relative would have added some good if disturbing character with cg effects some awesome scenes with animating cremated remains would be off the wall br br say what you will about 'one dark night' but it has it all so see at least once in your life or death
1	famous and mysterious recluse who's some kind of lethal telekinetic psychic vampire abruptly dies under bizarre circumstances nice girl high school student julie wells a warm and sympathetic performance by the lovely meg tilly wants desperately to be accepted by the snobby clique the sisters played to sublimely bitchy perfection by leslie robin evans and the ever cuddly elizabeth daily so she agrees to spend a night in a creepy mausoleum where body has been interred as part of an initiation rite naturally still has his extraordinary powers so it's going to be a very long and harrowing night of pure nerve wracking terror for poor julie br br director co screenwriter tom who later gave us the enjoyably tongue in cheek friday the 13th part vi jason lives eschews graphic gore in favor of creating a brooding and eerie atmosphere but fails to pull this particular feat off because the first hour is way too slow talky and uneventful to be remotely scary or suspenseful however i nonetheless still found this flawed fright flick to be oddly appealing and entertaining the big hairdos a goofy music montage sequence badly timed false scares including the ubiquitous hand on the shoulder gag a scene at a glittery video game arcade kids gleefully smoking pot and the hilariously dumb teen slang brain give this picture a certain endearingly quaint 80's period charm hal handsome polished cinematography i especially dug the smoothly gliding steadicam tracking shots bob spooky yet funky synthesizer score and tom splendidly ghoulish make up f x are all up to snuff the ever stolid adam west of tv's batman fame merely takes up space in a nothing secondary part the mausoleum makes for an impressively vast and unsettling main location the grand finale with a bunch of ghastly rotting corpses popping out of their coffins and floating about qualifies as a marvelously macabre shock set piece sure this baby definitely ain't some unjustly unsung gem but it still delivers plenty of pleasingly silly and diverting cheesy fun all the same
1	well groomed well behaved teen meg tilly must spend the night in a creepy mausoleum as an initiation into a high school club problem is a powerful psychic named was just buried there that day but he isn't quite dead and he needs the life force of humans for his powers br br obscure horror film offers plenty of thrills and chills an appealing and likeable cast and most superior special effects br br my rating 7 out of 10 br br one dark night is rated r for violence and adult themes
1	by the way it looks at the other comments made it seems that a lot of people did not get the point to the flick it is not centered around zombies as a matter of fact they are not zombies at all they are a device by the wizard to scare the girls to death his main focus is on meg tilly who he wants to help him finish the job that he died while doing in the first place and what you get is a great flick with an awesome ending it is hard to find on video but every once in a while it shows up on hbo or check it out i gave it a 10 and highly recommend it
1	i actually first watched one dark night in the theater wrote a review of the film for my high school newspaper i loved it then i still love it the storyline revolves around two people first of all one woman learns that her father has telekenisis after his death she then has feelings herself about the strange powers of her father even in his death the he's buried in plays host to the other main person a high school girl doing anything to get in with a group of girls that just want to torment her dare her to stay in the all night to join their group they go back in the night to scare her find scares for themselves the cast is led by meg tilly with supporting roles by adam west and one of my personal favorites elizabeth daily aka e g daily check this one out if you love 80's movies cheesy horror movies you won't be
1	denver fans the animation is a cartoon's classic one of my favorite too and yes it was broadcast in europe as well including my tiny central european country slovenia oh how i miss the 80's cartoons honestly they were way better than today's children shows more imaginative creative full of fun with good morals more substance great storyline and excellent character voices computer animated shows of today lack all of these features so all of you who agree and want to bring back all the shows so that the kids of today's generation would see the entertainment that these cartoons brought to us please log on the side posted bellow and sign a petition for a rerun of the 80's best cartoons br br http www com 1 we want an 80s child cartoon kids show channel br br denver br br
1	one dark night has a typical teen horror film set up with a quite a unique twist the ultra brooding musical score and gothic claustrophobic atmosphere adds greatly to this small film that delivers meg tilly is excellent as julie and leads us through the maze of the mausoleum giving a sense of foreboding and loneliness the other teens are equally effective in their roles as is melissa newman the ultimate heroine of the film the special effects are excellent though dated this film is highly overlooked but that may be good so that it was never ruined by endless sequels there is a great dark magic flowing through this film once tapped into you really get it and you're in for some fun the double disc dvd is available though the original negative could not be found to restore the film maybe someday it will be located i guess in some ways the carbon in parts do help the film by giving it an old school respectability and making it more unexpected at the end when suddenly there are plenty of effects br br the second disc has a rough cut alternate version with a temp score version of the film that gives more explanation of the demise of two of the girls very poe ish the cask of amontillado comes to mind in a new way also great ending tension going in on the dark crypt opening not sure it had the punch for main stream audiences but certainly worked for me and extremely creepy also there is a making of documentary that is interesting because it gives info on what was going on at the time with the actors crew director and writer candid material then current logos discussions of shots and scenes rehearsals very unique that this stuff exists for a small film back then
1	multiply named and strangely casted one dark night aka mausoleum is one of the better early horror video rentals original and quite raw we meet adam west briefly in this film about telekinesis and teen age meg tilly is dared into spending the night in a crypt by the sisters a high school gang of hair hoppers in blue satin jackets the initiation is interrupted by the recently interred body of a mass murdering psychic wizard called surprisingly awesome make up and scare effects paints this chiller film with style and deliver a heart pounding climax
1	pistol packing pam grier takes names and kicks butt as the heroine in asylum of satan director william entertaining blaxploitation actioneer sheba baby co starring martin and austin stoker sheba baby is one of several tough chick flicks that grier appeared in during the 1970s including coffy foxy brown and friday foster the short lived co wrote this thoroughly routine private eye potboiler with producer david shelton in one night and it features a headstrong female shamus that refuses to rely on a man to help her take care of business unfortunately sheba baby isn't nearly as good as the blaxploitation movies that grier made under the supervision of director jack hill hill helmed the african american north carolina native in coffy foxy brown the big bird cage and the big doll house anybody that analyzes images of african american women in cinema should be familiar with these epics the chief problem with sheba baby is that our heroine gets too many convenient breaks naturally the secondary villains are trigger happy clowns that couldn't hit the side of a barn with a as the main antagonist dick qualifies as both an egotistical as well as smarmy villain with choice lines like anything worth having is worth stealing additionally composer monk huggins does provide a strong atmospheric orchestral soundtrack and the best song with barbara mason warbling it is good man is gone sheba baby casts grier as stylist chicago gumshoe sheba shayne she leaves the windy city to return to her hometown of louisville kentucky to help out her father when she arrives in louisville sheba learns that her father andy rudy challenger of detroit 9000 is having trouble with a local black gangster nicknamed pilot cigar chomping martin of hammer who demands that andy sell out his loan company to pilot or die br br initially pilot dispatches a goon squad to trash andy's office but our heroine's father catches them in the act they turn sheba's father into a punching bag interestingly during the fight scene rarely shows fists smashing flesh earlier andy's right hand man brick williams austin stoker of horror high had sent sheba a telegram requesting that she return to louisville but she didn't receive it immediately thanks to her lazy partner who didn't know where to find her brick and sheba hook up rekindle their romantic flames and share a night in the sack brick spends most of his time urging sheba to remain calm in the face of adversity as a former louisville kentucky police woman sheba prefers to shoot first and ask questions second after she arrives home sheba borrows her father's car and barely escapes being blown to bits as she is walking out the door to get into her father's car andy receives another harassing call from pilot previously andy had refused to discuss the prospect of selling his loan company to pilot but andy changes his mind and agrees to talk with the hoodlum a gratified pilot warns andy about the dynamite that has been attached to his ignition with a delayed action fuse in other words cranking up the car won't trigger the explosion the explosion comes ten seconds later andy and brick rescue sheba before the car blows up earlier sheba had agreed to let her father handle his problems without her interference dad i know you think i'm doing a man's job but i'm not going to sit on the sidelines just because i'm a woman sheba tells him after her near death experience sheba vows to learn who sabotaged her father's car she an old contact from her days as a cop and threatens the guy with her gun to extract the information only after sheba has ground the guy's face into a bucket of dust does he and tell her about a pay off at the town's railroad museum brick accompanies sheba and shooting ensues with a flustered pilot getting away by the skin of his chin br br later pilot sends a quintet of out of town contract thugs armed to the teeth to trash andy's office these gunsels ignore their no kill orders not only do they shoot the loan company office to ribbons but they also blast sheba's dad with a shotgun sheba retaliates in short order wielding her nickel plated revolver she guns down three of the four assailants dirty harry style the last hit man discards his weapon and pleads for mercy sheba has her finger on the trigger when homicide detective phil jackson charles kissinger of abby and a uniform cop arrive on the scene at the hospital andy shayne dies holding his daughter's hand naturally pilot is furious at this revelation and his fury borders on apoplexy afterward sheba tracks down a loan shark walker christopher joy of cleopatra jones and information out of him about the pilot while she holds him at gunpoint in a car wash this is one of the better staged scenes with lots of ominous shots of the car wash equipment whirling and humming walker warns pilot about sheba pilot and his henchmen confront sheba in a parking lot and swap lead sheba flees on foot to a nearby carnival while the police corner one of pilot's men she deals with the others pilot shoots one of his own accidentally and sheba runs him down she pins pilot to a roller coaster track and threatens to hold him there until the roller coaster cuts his head off pilot manages to escape after he has spilled his guts to sheba about the identity and phone number of the big man shark dick of the whose reputation is so immaculate that detective jackson describes him as the guy with all the right answers sheba baby isn't top notch pam grier however the idea that our heroine can handle everything by herself without help from guys makes it interesting as well as entertaining chick flick
1	if anything william was an opportunist who wanted a piece of the action in regards to whatever was popular during the time i mean a blaxploitation flick in louisville kentucky who would of thunk it i can just imagine the enthusiasm he must've had getting pam grier quite a hot item to star in his picture if you are pretty familiar with the genre sheba baby doesn't necessarily stray too far from formula despite a change of venue the film still deals with a ruthless businessman nicknamed shark who muscles in on loan companies using stooges to threaten them in order to get their signatures br br grier is sheba shayne a former louisville cop working in chicago who returns home at the request of her father's partner brick austin stoker assault on precinct 13 sheba's father despite shark's bullying tactics his man in town is pilot a wannabe gangster equipped with stooges who aren't that menacing rather buffoonish in nature so thin skinned they hire hit men outside of town to shoot up the shayne loan building won't give up his company and this eventually costs him his life when a warning through the use of brute force leads to his being killed sheba will get her revenge on all those responsible for his father's death in other words shark's ass is grass can you dig it br br seeing grier with a magnum is enough to sell this particular film the novelty of the setting being in louisville is part of the package you even get to see a speedboat chase grier in shootouts with gangsters not necessarily the most polished kind one might be accustomed to seeing in a chicago or new york during this period in blaxploitation lots of blood spurting from bullet riddled bodies torn apart by gun fire and colorful characters such as a wimpy loan shark in pimp dress named walker and pilot who is one of the least scary mobsters you are likely to see who show up during the film most having the misfortune of coming in contact with a very angry sheba the plot itself is nothing special but grier is always worth watching and orchestrates plenty of action sequences to keep his target audience entertained a modest success for and one of his more accomplished films
1	sheba baby is always underrated most likely because it has a pg rating instead of the usual r rating that a grier movie gets all that the pg means is that pam doesn't take her top off she takes her top off in every other movie she's been in though so it is more exciting than coffy more action it takes off slow but by the time she's on screen the thrills have started like dolemite martin is the heavy trying to get sheba's father but she ain't having that she wages a one woman war against martin and his gang of cronies the best scene is with a stupid pimp in his car which i'm still laughing about i thought it would be stupid because of the pg rating but i was wrong it replaces sex with violence and in a film that can only be good
1	sheba baby is another pam grier blaxploitation film it was one of pam's less visceral films of this genre pam plays sheba shane who's a chicago gumshoe sheba's father is the owner of a small loan company in missouri when local mobsters try to run her father of of business sheba goes after the bad guys br br pam grier had already made her mark in blaxploitation films by the time sheba baby came along fans of both coffy and foxy brown know that pam is capable of an explosive intensity as an actress in sheba baby the fiery performance that viewers had come to expect from pam wasn't as evident in this film not that pam doesn't kick butt in sheba baby she's just not as much of a runaway train vigilante as she was in her previous blaxploitation films br br the supporting cast in this film are a distinct disappointment so sheba baby is pam's film through and through and though pam's a bit more subdued than in her other films she still gives a compelling performance in sheba baby this film is definitely worth your time if you're an ardent pam grier fan
1	yeah i guess this movie is kinda dull compared to some of pam grier's other films the plot is overly familiar the dialog stilted and some of the acting isn't too good but it's worth seeing for the lengthy stretch near the end of the film where we see ms grier in a sexy blue with the zipper half yeah it seems like a frivolous point when discussing an actress of pam grier's talent but she also happens to be an extremely gorgeous woman and back in the day she had a body that wouldn't quit it's nice to see it being showcased in a tight rent the dvd and then tell me i'm wrong can't can you that's because you know i'm right and yes i really did give a 10 just for the scenes
1	i thought it would be more fantastic a tale but the subject is rather down to earth compared to the story about the death carriage i was expecting in fact there is much more of a social drama as usual in the european authors' movies br br actors are interesting not overacting as in the average silent movie images are not so good as to be stuck in your mind as in bergman's br br this is true the comparison between the two movies is the main point here begins with a vision of a death carriage wherein character can see his own body there are clocks without hands he is compelled to look back on what he has done wrong there is a vision of his happy family in the country in wife doesn't cheat on him before his eyes but she wants to flee with the little children because it would never get any better with him eventually confession is some kind of a live judgement br br well i would just add that destroying the door with an axe because his wife locked it and plans to go away with the children reminded me of the shining which was much more of a fantasy tale with death hanging around
1	it's a mistake to refer to any film of this era as a horror film most early german films with supernatural themes are not so much horror films as they are dark fantasies borrowed from the works of early german romantics like e t a hoffman and others in fritz lang's der tod also from 1921 death personified takes a young man away from his sweetheart but in lang's film the characters' destiny cannot be mitigated by behavior neither of the young lovers deserves to die but they are destined by circumstances to be reunited only in death br br in victor however repentance is always an option destiny can be altered and death deferred through the characters' choices although scenes of the phantom carriage collecting souls are genuinely eerie these horrific images of death as the great leveler are compromised by death's offer of redemption to the real monster of this tale david holm a brutal drunk who because of a perverse hatred of humanity spreads tuberculosis and emotional misery to everyone he comes in contact with br br one new year's eve holm is struck down in a fight with a drinking companion as the first person to die on the stroke of midnight holm must become the driver of the phantom carriage and collect souls during the new year the phantom carriage driven by an old acquaintance who had started holm on his road to ruin comes for his soul and takes him on a journey of self discovery along the way holm sees the horror he has inflicted on his family and the people who tried to help him br br perhaps my disappointment with the film's ending is a criticism of the selma novel on which the film is based but i would have preferred to see david holm unable to escape his destiny and to see his repentance come too late to prevent his wife from poisoning his two children and herself and to see holm suffer for the consequences of his sins by being made to collect their souls it would have been a fitting punishment and a horror more immense than witnessing the abuse he inflicted on others in the film however the nature of destiny isn't the message redemption is the driver of the carriage allows holm's spirit to return to his body and he rescues his family in the nick of time his repentance smacks of scrooge's repentance in a christmas carol br br if the trite and sentimental ending does not offend you there is still much to admire in the film's images the special effects are astonishing when measured by the standards of the day and still hold up which is more miraculous when you consider that these double exposures were created inside a hand cranked camera also the restored film on new dvd looks fabulous
1	once upon a time in sweden there was a poor salvation army sister at death's door she requests send for david holm but victor as david holm cannot be located because he is spending new year's eve in a graveyard with his drinking buddies dying sister astrid holm as edit wants to see if praying for mr soul over the past year has produced any results arguably it has not in the graveyard tells the story of the phantom carriage which he heard from his dead friend tore as georges according to legend the last person to die in each year must pick up the souls of all the dead people until being relieved next new year's eve br br director whose lead performance is very strong combines with photographer julius to create a visually appealing film the great double exposure effect is used frequently but never seems overdone and it doesn't make the film's other dramatic highlights any less memorable for example tearing of his sewn coat and of the door a selma story probably wasn't one you could or would want to tamper with in the 1920s which may or may not be why the ending of this film is a letdown and unlike similar spiritual stories it's difficult to suspend your disbelief if you think too carefully about what is really happening in br br 1 1 21 victor victor hilda tore
1	while caricatures and or references to entertainment industry people or things or even brands of products is usually a staple in shorts like this one they aren't used in quantity here most of the individual gags are rather generic as i'm going to give examples there will be spoilers below br br there are only three well technically four there's a quick one at the very end of the cartoon caricatures that i spotted which is kind of low for this type of short though one is a featured character with a fair amount of activity they are jack benny as jack bunny leopold and the inimitable ned sparks as a crab on a can chances are very good that if a crab was involved in a warner brothers short in the 1930s 1940s the caricature used would be ned sparks there are also references to billy rose's and a riff on a radio show character called henry aldrich coming mother a play on superman here and the villain is a take off on king kong that's it for that kind of gag br br the products themselves are mostly generic and the gags are more plays on basic items in unusual situations such as turtles coming off of cans of soup to attack the villain as tanks tomato soup cans doing the can gingerbread men who turn into using tissues for and so on the gags are very good and it's an excellent example of a bob clampett cartoon clampett had hit his stride as a director by this point and while it isn't anywhere near his best work it's nothing to sneeze at either this short can be found on looney tunes golden collection vol 3 which is an excellent set that i highly recommend this short itself is also recommended
1	victor who is the grandfather of swedish cinema directed this stark existentialist film about atonement betrayal death forgiveness guilt redemption and the bleakest moments of the human condition he stars as david holm a no good nick who responds to a moment of kindness by returning to his drunken ways only to later have to bargain for his soul with the driver of the phantom carriage death br br unlike many silent films during the period the film is nearly absent scenes with over acting the pacing does becomes tedious with its overly familiar dickensian narrative however examining the film in retrospect and in comparison to others of its time it's a very daring and unique film audiences of the time were not exposed to such subject matter and the cinematography is tremendous symbolic and accompanied by double exposure effects and multi layered flashbacks it's a genuinely creepy and frightening film for youngsters for sure br br watching the film it's easy to see the later influences this film had on swedish master ingmar bergman most of the great bergman themes are here on full display of course later starred in bergman's masterpiece on alienation and loneliness wild strawberries this would be final performance as an actor based the script on a novel by swedish writer selma of 4 stars
1	the last person who dies before new years is cursed to drive the phantom carriage for a whole year picking up the souls of the dead br br i saw a scene from this old silent swedish horror film on youtube and decided to track down the whole movie it was well worth the work finding it because it's an absolutely amazing movie for the time it was made it has a wonderfully eerie atmosphere the old time horror film makers really knew how to create the perfect atmosphere sadly many of today's film makers don't seem to understand how important setting and atmosphere are and go for the cheap jump scares the visual effects are excellent considering its date of production if you can find a copy of this i highly recommend giving it a watch 9 10
1	this landmark film can now be seen in two different versions on the grapevine video release which also includes the english translation of selma novel which she based on a swedish the first version is the swedish edit under the title of the phantom carriage the second version is a reconstruction of the way it was shown in the united states under the title of the stroke of midnight as released by metro before it was m g m the actual us release has long vanished but a detailed review in the new york times lets us know how the scenes were for domestic release and both are fascinating to see each version of this film was presented at the organ loft in salt lake city with live theatre organ scores provided by artist blaine gale a live recording was made of these performances and are included on the grapevine video dvd along with the novel and notes about the two versions while the phantom carriage follows the order of novel the stroke of midnight is in some ways easier to follow seeing the two different edits is an education in how silent films could be changed effectively for release in different countries br br some viewers look at this film as a horror film which it certainly is not this is a morality play with shades of the supernatural used to hit home its stark message the directing and lead performance by the great victor were way ahead of their time it's easy to see why m g m brought him to hollywood to direct such films as lillian gish in the scarlet letter and the wind as well as lon chaney in he who gets slapped in america he was known as victor he would also star in the lead role of ingmar bergman's wild strawberries giving a masterful performance bergman was greatly influenced by or the phantom carriage in his earlier days br br this is a powerful film that is well worth taking some time to discover and study the grapevine video release is an excellent way to do this
1	i have just finished watching this film for the first time and i must say that i am very impressed br br how bleak how full of despair how nightmarish incredible br br visually stunning several scenes are embedded in my mind the first appearance of the phantom carriage the soul of david holm as it rises from his corpse his spirit on his knees pleading br br this film takes a simple story that of the ghostly driver of the phantom carriage doomed to collect the souls of the dead for a year brings it into the present setting of the film and then uses flashbacks as a means to explain how david holm ends up in his predicament br br i would love to see this released on dvd so that more might see it everyone should
1	victor was quite the master in this film having starred in it directed it and even wrote the screenplay that's pretty amazing while today few have any idea who was he might be familiar to ingmar bergman fans as the star one of bergman's most acclaimed films wild strawberries br br as far as this film goes it's a very mixed bag on one hand you have to respect it because for 1921 it's a very good film the idea of the grim reaper sitting down with a dead man to discuss his wasted life is pretty imaginative plus the special effect of the phantom carriage is pretty convincing and technically speaking this is a well crafted film on the other hand it's an amazingly dated and preachy film more like something you'd expect to be shown in sunday school instead of in an honest to goodness theater plus some of the story elements just don't make sense instead of coming off as dedicated or good the dying salvation army worker seems like a sap a very sad and confusing sap why is she in love with this man am i missing something br br so my recommendation is that if you are insanely in love with silents like me then by all means watch it but if you aren't a silent fan this film might do nothing to convince you that this style film is brilliant because the story is so overly melodramatic and dated
1	1921 a classic film with cult status amongst the silent movies directed by victor who also plays the male main role is based on a story by swedish novelist selma the film tells the story of brutal drinker david holm who beats up his wife neglects his children seduces his brother to drinking and is blind for the love of nurse edit astrid holm david sits toward the end of the year together with his boozing buddies in the city park and tells the story of the phantom chariot who dies in the new year's eve night as the last one before dawn has to serve one year long as driver of death and release the dying souls from their bodies but david gets into a fight with his buddies suffers a hemorrhage and sinks dead on the soil meanwhile the phantom carriage is approaching the driver is nobody else than david's late friend georges who seduced him into alcohol and died one year before since david refuses to get on the carriage georges forces him together they drive to the stations where people live who suffered from david they visit the nurse edit whose love to david he was unable to recognize and whom he infected with tuberculosis so that she is dying now but her love to david will save his soul fulfilled with her spirit they get to david's wife and children david is able to prevent his wife from killing herself and her children because she does not see a way out of the misery in which david has thrown her they also visit david's brother who has committed a murder after having been seduced into drinking by david david asks georges to go back into his body because he finally sees that his way was wrong since it was georges who had seduced him once into drinking david's wish is granted he gets a second chance and georges has to be one more year the driver of the phantom carriage in order to pay for his own sins this movie belongs probably to the strongest and most impressive films ever made deplorably it is still not available on international dvd
1	not as well known as the english american german and french cinema though cinema from sweden from the was also quite good interesting and revolutionary br br this is a movie that is made great by its story the story is told in 'a christmas carol' kind of way in which the death himself confronts the deceased with his past present and what could have been it's of course a story that concentrates on morals and it does this very well the message comes across as very powerful and effective this is of course also definitely due to the effective directing from the father of swedish cinema victor br br the story is based on the novel by other swedish author selma the story is adapted by victor himself who perhaps should had taken out a few more elements to let the story and movie flow better it perhaps takes a bit too long before the movie starts to take form and the story gets clear but when the movie does take form and pace it becomes a really wonderful one br br the movie does not only have a great story it also is a good looking one the movie uses some early and effective effects and uses some different color filters to create the right mood and to indicate what it past present and br br did not only wrote and directed this movie he also plays the main character of course the acting in the movie is over the top at times by todays standards but not as bad as in for instance early german movies was the case and after all this movie is more about its story and morals than it is about the acting so it really doesn't matter much or distracts br br a really great and effective underrated silent movie classic from sweden br br 9 10
1	on a dark gloomy new year's eve night an ill nurse her life slowly away demands that david holm be presented to her at once we don't yet know who david holm is or why this nurse wishes to see him but her only dying wish is to speak with him just one more time on the other side of the town nestled comfortably amongst the gravestones of the local cemetery holm victor who also directed and two of his drunken associates merrily await the coming of the new year here we can tell just when to drink the new year in exclaims holm casting a finger towards the large clock tower that looms through the darkness little does he know however that he will not be alive to greet it br br to pass the time holm cheerfully recites a ghost story he'd once had a friend name george a merry fellow who was smarter than the rest of us on one new year's eve several years ago george has broken up a potentially disastrous brawl fearing that the final man to draw his last breath before midnight would be condemned to drive the phantom chariot for the next year doing death's bidding and collecting the souls of the deceased and gentlemen george died last new year's eve concludes holm happily not bothering to contain his mocking skepticism of the man's beliefs br br as fate has it of course an unexpected violent encounter results in holm's death just on the stroke of midnight as the man's transparent spirit rises gingerly from his earthly body he witnesses to his horror the distant approach of a phantom carriage the driver a frail cloaked figure a sickle tightly in his hand steps down from the carriage and approaches we are astonished to discover that the driver is none other than a decrepit george preparing to pass on his ghastly duty to this year's successor br br considering the era in which is made the special effects in this film are absolutely superb cinematographer julius used double exposure photography to create the eerie ghostly silhouette of the carriage and its damned driver even today the end result is highly effective a particularly impressive scene involves the phantom chariot travelling to the ocean floor to retrieve the soul of a drowned man another scene eerily reminiscent of jack torrance jack nicholson in stanley kubrick's 'the shining ' involves holm breaking down the kitchen door with an axe in order to reach his fleeing wife and children br br genuinely ominous and unsettling in its execution victor is a fine work of cinema successfully portraying holm's steady alcoholic decline his inevitable day of judgment and a final hopeful possibility of redemption
1	in the new year's eve the sister of the salvation army edit astrid holm asks her mother and her colleague maria lisa to call david holm victor to visit her in her deathbed meanwhile the alcoholic david is telling to two other drunkards in the cemetery the legend of the phantom coach and his in accordance with the legend the last sinner to die in the turn of the new year becomes the soul collector gathering souls in his coach when david denies to visit edit his friends have an argument with him they fight and david dies when the arrives he recognizes his friend georges tore who died in the end of the last year george revisits parts of david's obnoxious life and in flashbacks he shows how mean and selfish david was br br is an impressive and stylish silent movie with magnificent special effects for a 1921 movie the characters are very well developed however the story is dated and there is a weird and unexplained situation when sister edit tells that she loves david holm why should a enlightened woman love such a despicable man that wasted his life corrupting other people despite being religiously dated in the present days it gives a beautiful message of faith and redemption in the end my vote is nine br br title brazil a fantasma the phantom coach
1	masterpiece and a movie that captures the swedish soul it also served as a great inspiration for bergman the between and with in the leading role as borg from 1957 is not a coincidence don't miss it for the world
1	once again we are fortunate to see a gorgeous opening scene where the artists' work has been fully restored and we see this old time grocery store on a street corner with the snow gently falling inside are the rich colors of all the merchandise from produce to canned and boxed goods to medicine to candy etc br br in essence this is a story of those goods coming to life such as the animals on the labels of items or a pie or even a pack of cigarettes br br the whole show is narrated by jack bunny a jack benny impersonator with music from conductor leopold who was in so many looney tunes animated shorts i have lost count a lot of the humor is topical so it pays to know who little egypt and other characters the busby berkeley type aqua number with bathing suited coming out of the can and the tomato can can dance were both clever br br all of the above and more was in the first half of this slightly longer than normal length cartoon the second half was about a king kong type which escapes from the animal crackers box and terrorizes everyone that part was not much and ended on a somewhat stupid note so an a for the first half a d for the second making it about a c plus or b minus overall
1	this unfortunately is a little known film i say unfortunately because it ranks up there with the classics of the american silent screen br br it's about a legend of a phantom chariot that all over the world picking up the souls of those who have died the legend says tha the last person to die on new year's eve is condemned to drive the chariot for the next whole year br br it brings to mind the sequence of the ghost of future yet to come in dicken's famous christmas carol br br the double exposure effects of the ghosts esp when they interact with the live people are excellent br br if you love silent films you must see this it will blow you away br br norm vogel br br norm's old movie heaven http www com film film html
1	victor silent film masterpiece the phantom carriage has recently been released on dvd with a new soundtrack recorded by the duo comprising american guitarist stephen and austrian laptop artist peter has conjured an extraordinary collection of sounds to accompany and accentuate the original film footage from 1921 an ominous banging sound introduces each act and a medley of drones guitar chords and feedback ebbs and flows as the grim drama unfolds br br as impressive as the new soundtrack is the film remains the real star with its timeless rendering of a dark and dystopian fairy tale according to this tale the last person to die before the stroke of midnight on new year's eve is condemned to spend a year behind the reins of the eponymous phantom carriage collecting the souls of the dead this is the fate of the anti hero of the film david holm who is moved to painful scrutiny of his life following his untimely death and subsequent encounter with the driver of the carriage br br this film is often referred to as a horror film and although this is a fitting label the real horror here resides not in the supernatural elements but rather in the depiction of human suffering at the hands of others gives a remarkable performance as the drunken spiteful and menacing holm in life and the wretched frightened holm looking back from the land of the dead and shrinking from his past deeds br br striking imagery abounds throughout the phantom carriage and more than compensates for the inevitably limited dialogue the ill onset of midnight is powerfully illustrated through the image of a clock face hovering alone in the darkening night sky like a second moon equally impressively the dead are depicted through pioneering semi transparent imagery and the scenes of the phantom carriage riding over land and sea remain chilling to watch br br film deserves its place as one of the most esteemed silent films of all time and the new soundtrack by is a superb accentuation of its themes this is a must see
1	victor plunges the viewer into life's lower depths for much of its running time with grim scenes of alcoholic degradation family violence and suicidal despair but the most memorable passages involve the mythic image of death itself here death is embodied as a ghostly horse drawn carriage driven by a wretched sinner who was the last person to die on the previous new year's eve for one year the wretch must collect the souls of the newly departed and after twelve months of this horrible servitude the driver's own soul is finally released when the last person to die on december 31st becomes the new driver br br the scenes involving this carriage the film was known as the phantom carriage or the phantom chariot in english speaking countries are eerie and mesmerizing utilizing double exposure cinematography that was quite sophisticated for its time and still effective when seen today most strikingly the carriage travels to the floor of the ocean to collect the soul of a person who drowned as fascinating as these scenes are however the bulk of the film is concerned with the downward spiral of david holm played by the director himself in an understated portrayal of a man who has given up on the possibility of living a decent life in flashbacks we see holm enjoying a pleasant day at the beach with his wife children and brother and he appears to be a perfectly ordinary guy abruptly without segue or explanation we then see holm as an alcoholic wreck in trouble with the law and alienated from his family ordinarily this leap from before to after might feel like a story telling deficiency but in this case the filmmakers trust us to fill in the familiar sordid details on our own it's suggested that holm has been led astray by his friend georges the drinking companion who first relates the tale of the phantom carriage but whatever the cause of his downfall holm appears to be a lost cause a mean spirited drunk who takes perverse pleasure in inflicting pain on his family and in refusing to reform br br while david holm is our central figure the story's true catalyst is a young salvation army nurse who takes a sympathetic interest in his case and doggedly believes in him despite his hateful behavior when the nurse herself is dying indirectly due to her ministrations on holm's behalf she demands to see him and thus inadvertently sets in motion a chain of events that will result in his recovery br br at times this film resembles dickens' tale of scrooge in its use of ghostly visitors who inspire a deeply flawed man to take stock of his life suffer over his and reform i was also reminded of 1917 drama terje in which a man returns from jail to find his house empty and his family gone a sequence echoed here the director also reiterates a standard theme of scandinavian folklore found earlier in his berg hans a k a the outlaw and his wife 1918 that no man can outrun his fate this time however it could be argued that david holm actually succeeds in evading his seemingly inevitable fate for he's given an unexpected second chance to make amends br br viewers expecting a plunge into the supernatural will appreciate the sequences featuring the phantom carriage of the title but may not be prepared for this film's painful examination of a troubled man's alcoholic downfall but those with a taste for intense and powerful silent drama will appreciate in its entirety it stands with the best serious cinema of its era and is certainly one of most accomplished works
1	much said without words br br this is an excellent movie it was made in color not color as in today's films but a special mono color use with shadings that portrayed meaning mood sense and time it should be seen in color as it becomes an entirely different film the story by nobel prize winner selma is effectively presented one never has a clear sense of real memory or phantom changes going on in swedish society at the time are subtly layered most highly recommend try to rent it or find it on line i saw it in a swedish film class and i want to add it to my film library
1	this film is a masterpiece to put it simply especially the double exposure made by the cameraman julius it is skillfully made even with the standards we are used to today seventy eight years later viktor the director also plays the main character david holm on the night of new years eve he is killed in a fight and the legend says that the first one who dies on the new year will have to work as a soul collector in the form of a transparent ghost there is a new soul collector to be appointed every year br br the scene in which the alcoholic david holm rises up from his dead body like the soul is leaving his earthly body in the where the fight took place is a real award for a eye also when the present soul collector arrives with his horse and carriage is a beautiful but also a scary scene david holm recognizes this soul collector as a from earlier life it is now his turn to take over just like scrooge in dickens story a christmas tale david is shown what his life and doings has led to for the people around him br br the film is about the danger of abusing drugs in this case alcohol it is based upon a book by nobel prize winner selma viktor filmed a few more of her books but this is the one with the best outcome maybe because this book is the most filmic of them br br
1	one of the best silent dramas i've seen as dark and shadowy as anything the german produced but featuring performances that were quite understated and naturalistic for the day no camera mugging and no unintentional laughs due to wild eyed arm waving histrionics gave a convincing performance as the drunken mean spirited and frightening david holm br br set mostly at night in a dingy swedish slum the film had a very claustrophobic set bound feel to it aided by the low key lighting and extensive use of br br there was a deep and typically scandinavian sense of despair and hopelessness to the narrative the film begins in a rather grim present and then we're told david holm's story in a series of flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks a pretty complex story structure for 1921 where his character is offered numerous chances at redemption but he doesn't take them and we know he won't take them because we've seen him die drunk and wretched and mean as ever in the present the penultimate scene is as dark as any i have seen in all of cinema br br the writing and directing is tight and intelligent even by today's standards in several instances skillfully sets the audience up to suspect one thing and then pulls out a surprise the ending might not be such a surprise to some viewers but i didn't see it coming br br this movie deserves a full restoration and dvd release or even a crappy budget release it just needs to be out there so people can see and appreciate it br br 9 5 10 which rounds up to 10 10
1	okay so this wasnt what i was expecting i rented this film just to see how it would be since i want to see the first one anyway but this film had b movie all over it but when i watched it i realized that it was very funny for the first 30 minutes it was just how the snowman was people and one man losing his sanity but those first few minutes had some funny one liners in it when he throws up the first of his little minions i knew this would be very very funny they all act like the gremlins in the eighty four hit gremlins that it made it look like it was spoofing it and made me forget it was a b movie so if you like to laugh rent this one
1	some will say this movie is a guilty pleasure i loved this flick but i don't feel guilty about it you can tell the whole cast and crew had fun making this movie but jack frost 2 won't go over well with some people right from the beginning you can tell this movie will be cheesy and it definitely has an amateurish look to it well if you get the privilege to watch this movie after watching it remember that jack frost 2 revenge of the mutant killer snowman is a pleasure not a guilty pleasure now because i can't fill up ten lines heres some great scenes br br spoilers br br the three women on the beach had great deaths the first one had jack in a tree trying to drop icicles on one of them he kept missing so he dropped an anvil on her the next woman fell on a bed of icicles the last one was stabbed in the eyes with tongs br br the other great one was where two surfers stoners are hanging out near a frozen pole one of them gets their tongue stuck on it of course jack frost pulls him back a rips his tongue off while saying tongue a dude well you have to see it for yourself br br and of course the snowball children kicked ass br br end spoilers br br infinity stars
1	jack frost 2 is probably the most cheesiest movie i have ever seen in my life the complete title of the film is jack frost 2 revenge of the mutant killer snowman horror movie fans that have a taste for campy story lines will be delighted to watch this this film was straight to video and for good reasons here's why the acting was so atrocious and so terrible that it could cause one to cry the main character had no personality and the actor's bad acting made it all worse the screenplay was was also atrocious each character always says a cheesy line and add the cheesy lines to the bad choreography then you have something bad second the story line isn't really all that impressive but since this movie was straight to video it is forgiven the director and writer could have turned the idea of a killer snowman into something cool but they didn't they story has lots of plot holes in it in the beginning a cup of coffee gets knocked into the fish tank with the melted jack frost scientists try to restore his life but they couldn't once the cup of coffee fell into the tank jack frost was completely restored now he is immune to anti freeze in jack frost part 1 the main character's dna got mixed up with the anti freeze that was used to kill jack frost since the main character is allergic to bananas jack frost is too hence here's my point they say that sam's dna combined with jack frost's but one of the scientists had some saliva on the cup so when it fell into the tank the scientists dna would have been combined with jack another thing the special effects weren't very good either here's the good points jack frost 2 has lots of blood that looks pretty realistic even though this movie is flawed to hell it is still entertaining overall jack frost 2 is an enjoyable horror movie the first one was better though 7 out of 10
1	spoilers br br i don't care what anyone says this movie is friggin' hilarious this is the sequel to jack frost a movie about a killer snowman the snowman is created when a convicted serial killer about to be executed is taken to the execution chamber but the truck crashes with a truck carrying dna manipulation chemicals that make human dna bond with dirt or in this case snow the first movie was just boring and eventually the snowman is destroyed by pouring antifreeze on him br br or so they thought br br this movie takes place about a year after the second some scientists resurrect jack frost by mixing the antifreeze with chemicals no explanation is ever given for why they do this they just do meanwhile the who arrested frost in the first is going to the bahamas unfortunately the snowman comes with him br br this movie has it all it has talking carrots that can stand up ice cubes that explode when you stick them in your mouth and killer snowballs yes killer snowballs they even say dada like babies i'll have to give the makers of this credit the snowballs are some of the cutest little things ever dreamed up i wish that i could get one as a pet frost finally freezes the island as if a killer snowman has the ability to influence major weather patterns br br then there's the actors there's manners the fbi agent from the first movie except here he's wearing an eyepatch shiver me timbers i be an fbi agent and then there's the stereotypical british adventurer and the stereotypical black jamaican with dreadlocks and finally captain fun the man on the face of the planet bar none br br this movie isn't scary but is is hilarious i laughed my butt off the whole way through and i recommend this for anyone who likes a good bad movie br br out
1	adapted from sam shepard's play this movie retains many play like elements such as a relatively fixed setting a roadside 50's motel in the southwest and extensive intriguing dialogues a woman may is hounded by a man eddie played by sam shepard she tries to hide from him in the out of the way motel but he finds her the film explores the history of their relationship mainly from their childhoods that has led them to this point it's very easy to feel sympathy for the characters and to understand that their dysfunctional present relationship is a result of past events out of their control we mainly watch them fight make up fight make up and so on one image that stands out in my mind is of eddie hauling may over his shoulder kicking and screaming taking her somewhere she doesn't want to go br br the soundtrack is also perfect soulful country with vocals by a lesser known artist sandy rogers she has this country doll voice that almost at some points in the album this is the kind of movie that will stay lodged in some part of your brain soul in other words go see it
1	the problem with so many people watching this movie is the mindset they watch it in people come looking for a b grade horror film or a so bad it's good movie jack frost 2 is neither of these br br it is to put it simply a very good movie cleverly hidden inside a very bad one to view it as anything other than a screwball comedy easily funnier than all three absolutely scary movies combined is to the movie on a basic level it would be like watching shawshank redemption and then complaining that there were no explosions br br the premise is simple the characters from the first movie haunted by memories of jack frost take a vacation to a tropical island a new improved jack comes after them now with essentially the powers of hydro man from spider man essentially he can turn from water to snow easily and quickly divide himself multiply himself and worst of all he's managed to grow an immunity to his only former weakness antifreeze br br what's sad about this movie is that the brain dead fans of the first jack frost a simply horrible movie can't appreciate the change of tone for the sequel just as alien was a horror film and aliens was all about action jack frost was a weak attempt at gimmick horror and jack frost 2 is a cleverly written parody of the gimmick horror genre br br most of the entertainment comes the live action actors who serve admirably particularly funny among them are ray playing a caricature of a retired british colonel from the early 1900s christopher allport offering an insane hilarious spin on his wooden performance from the first film and david allen brooks taking the once serious role of manners to new totally bizarre heights br br the lack of memorable quotes disturbs me br br as a horror movie jack frost 2 revenge of the mutant killer snowman rates a zero but you have to understand it's not a horror movie
1	this movie has everything typical horror movies lack although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for dare i say oscar winner this is a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person
1	where to begin i like the scary snow monster named jack frost the whole concept works well for me we thought he'd be back and he was changing the local to a tropical resort works seeing old friends and meeting new characters scott macdonald does a great job as jack frost you can tell when an actor has fun playing a villain you can see it or in this case hear it in the performance yup jack frost 2 is a welcomed sequel that is better then the first i do have one complaint the little jacks or the as i call them they looked like hand puppets i think they could have done a better job with the the mouth could have opened wider but the cgi was good and as a whole the whole movie is worth watching over and over again if you liked jack frost then you will like this sequel no questions or debate 9 big stars
1	this is better then the first the movie opens up with sheriff sam then sam and anne pack there bags up and head to the while jack tags along br br people are shot get glass through necks get squished by get stabbed with icicles eyes gouged out head explosions drownings hangings lobsters shoved into faces slit throats freezing to death killed by snowballs arms are ripped off melted by anti freeze icicles down necks hit in face with pots and pans fingers getting' bitten off icicles through mouths bitten on the neck exploding people toasted snowballs and shoved in br br the snowballs are hilarious they put it into a blender and turn it on then it says 'that was fun' they put in in a waffle thing and it gets burnt br br this is just a great movie then they start thinking of other ways to kill it and the snowball replies 'that's not nice' br br it was worth then ten bucks spent to buy this br br 10 out of 10 stars
1	seriously i don´t really get why people here are bashing it i mean br br the idea of a killer snowman wreaking havoc on a tropical island paradise is pretty absurd the good news is the producers realized it and made it a comedy in the vein of army of darkness br br especially in the second half of the film when the little killer snowballs attack i laughed my ass off for example the put one of the little creeps into a blender a la gremlins 1 and mix it after that it morphs back into a snowball and squeals with a high pitched voice that was fun br br bottom line incredible movie rent it
1	worst horror film ever but funniest film ever rolled in one you have got to see this film it is so cheap it is but you have to see it really p s watch the carrot
1	okay i'll say it this movie made me laugh so hard that it hurt this statement may offend some of you who may think that this movie is nothing more than a waste of film but the thing that most people don't get is that this movie was intended to be bad and cheezy i mean did people actually think that a movie about a killer snowman was intended to be a masterpiece just look at the scary hologram on the jacket of the movie and you'll find your answer instead like the original jack frost which i thought was just as funny this movie turned out to be a side splitting journey into the depths of corny dialogue bad one liners and horrible special effects and it's all made to deliver laughter to us viewers it certainly worked for me br br for example anne to her troubled husband what makes you frown so heavily darling br br if that chunk of dialogue doesn't make you laugh then you have serious issues who in their right mind would utter those words in real life of course no one because it was meant to sound ridiculous just take one viewing of this movie with an open mind and low expectations and hopefully you'll see what's so damn funny about jack frost 2
1	i suppose this movie is not your typical spanish thriller as it is based in a real story that took place abroad the movie is based in the real story of french man jean claude and the real case is much more gory and scary than the film in the real story of mr the family didn't escape after years of lies he decided to end it all by killing his wife two children parents and dog and although he tried to kill himself it seems he didn't try very hard as he survived i watched the movie with people next to me talking about how it could never happen in real life that all these lies went undetected i was laughing as i had read the book about mr and knew it did happen i like josé in this movie he offered us a good performance as the rest of the crew
1	i just watched this movie at the santo domingo international film festival while watching the movie i had the feeling that i have seen a movie with a similar story before a movie with ray liotta but i can't remember much of it of course this one is a lot more dramatic especially at the end br br this is the story life becomes a lie that he can not longer sustain after 20 years lying about his entire life to his wife son and all the people he knows the truth is chasing him and there is nowhere to go br br watching emilio make up lies is exiting and funny but after a while you get tired of the same thing the affair with a young girl was supposed to ad something but it doesn't despite that the movie is still funny exiting and involving either it makes you want to help emilio with his lies or help everybody else catch him i liked the analogies photography and the good performances br br 7 5 out of 10
1	it kept me on the edge of my seat true the story has a few plot holes but the sheer tension of it the way the director just keeps challenging the premise is simply fascinating br br josé and adriana are two of spain's best actors see la vida mancha and héctor and here they appear as a happy upper middle class couple beneath it all the truth is that all of life is a lie he's not an economist never went to college or does not work in spain's central bank reserve as everybody else believes we get a few insights as to how he kept up appearances or manage to do it and while not very plausible it is still somehow believable br br the inner workings of the scam are shown intermittently but it is credible because is a source of self assurance and assertiveness he not only believes in the scam he also believes in the film premise and therefore he carries it br br sure it tests belief that a wife would not know the inner workings of a marriage's finances for almost 10 years but again since he's supposedly a brilliant economist br br it has been said in a nationalistic tone that the movie is not distinctively spanish as if that were a litmus test for good film true no or odd in this one just a taut thriller you'll want to know how this story ends once you start watching
1	warning contains mild spoiler a movie almost designed to make you pause and check your recollection of it it's confined to an almost empty motel where the huge courtyard resembles a circus ring and the rooms seem like temporary withdrawal points rather than refuges as the characters become increasingly preoccupied by the past the present increasingly falls away until the ultimate incendiary appearance of the countess in the black mercedes marks the fusion of reality and fantasy whether or not their stories are true and whether stanton is truly the father or just a crazy old man stepping into their stories seems impossible to determine the theme seems to be how love of an extreme and unconsidered nature messes with stability to the point where reality itself breaks down where exotic misplaced fantasy becomes dangerously tangible the image of the burning motel a symbol of dislocation beset by destruction is an appropriately weird ending for this strange but effective startlingly imaginative movie
1	of course how could he he obviously co opted several aspects from that excellent movie which was also based on the sensational french case of the self described doctor in the world health organization who murdered his family and himself when finally unmasked as a fraud emilio refers to his son as monster he sings to the radio in his car he hangs out on park benches and he specializes in investment schemes to defraud his family and friends all of this and more directly lifted from time out which came out the year before nobody's life it's too bad because this movie is pretty good on its own with good acting and writing whereas vincent from time out is a much more subtle character who seems to have a sense of ethics even though at times it gets twisted into knots the protagonist here seems devoid of any character at all save for his winning looks and charm seriously the part where he used x rays that show his mother in law's cancer to bilk more money from his father then utilizes a subtle twist on the same scam to avoid eviction from his fancy home for failing to pay the lease on time it's almost too much the guy has no shame whatsoever in fact he's more like the lead in stepfather than some poor schmuck who gets fired and is so humiliated that he can't face the disappointment of his family and friends and feels forced to invent a shiny new life for himself as vincent did in time out thus one could feel the tension mounting in nobody's life and the violent conclusion coming one thing nobody's life has that time out definitely lacked was a love interest apart from the protagonist's trusting wife it's not hard to understand how the sexy babysitter was able to fascinate and ensnare emile to the degree that he ignored the danger of her natural curiosity and allowed it to lay bare his less than carefully constructed con given the reservations mentioned this is a pretty good movie that we found entertaining if you long for something touching on similar elements that goes a might deeper and is more intellectually and spiritually satisfying i strongly suggest time out
1	emilio is a successful business man a perfect father and a good husband or that is what everybody think the perfect storyline he has carefully built all along these years will start closing around him all of a sudden will he be able to keep up with his own lies br br this is a very well laid out drama with great acting and steady direction even though the plot is pushed up to the limit to increase the tension the movie explores some of our worst fears do we really know the people we deal with can we be so sure br br the story develops at an increasingly faster pace as it reaches the point where emilio is not in control of his lies anymore a good deal of spanish movies have interesting stories but are far from technical proficiency the perfect rhythm and well shot scenes make the actors so credible we get inside emilio and hate him and suffer for him as his situation gets more and more desperate there is no need for any spanish folklore nor is this an attempt to create a hollywood style flick this is real spain 2002 and regardless the obvious of life existing in reality there are good chances somebody we know is not quite like the person he claims to be not just a great commercial product it will let you wondering where lies can get us to can we keep up br br well done
1	françois truffaut young jerk of the cahiers du cinema main bastion of the coming so called new wave made a big show of hating this film and even accused it of dragging french cinema into mediocrity translation truffaut who was terminally repressed sexually was already jealous of the way carné could make a huge success of a story that pushed all the right buttons of its audience and actually involved it into something important with all the trappings and seduction of sensuality in other words where the general public and many critics saw a perceptive sociological analysis wrapped in a beautiful film truffaut saw girls on the loose br br carné after all had everything that would be severely lacking from the new wave intelligence refinement humour a great talent as a storyteller a great ear for dialogue dazzling technical brilliance the capacity to make his actors do what he wanted them to do and a good dose of good taste by comparison truffaut is a provincial bore with nothing to say br br a 50's tragic remake of pride and prejudice the french answer to rebel without a cause an updated version of children of paradise les tells a story of disaffected parisian youth who have lost their way in an atmosphere of existentialism sexual liberation and disrespect for traditional and religious values some young critics perceived carné's take on the subject as the moralizing slant of an older person whereas i think what happened quite to the contrary is that carné being gay and knowing a thing or two about repression felt an untold sympathy for the young iconoclasts in his story furthermore this being a french film there is no mistaking that the rebellion in question is essentially sexual something that still had to be decoded in american films like rebel without a cause and the wild one br br carné's young people are all supremely beautiful graceful elegant spontaneous and intelligent they are gods and goddesses they drive the latest and the right cars the cut of their suits dresses and duffle coats was a high point of the fashions of the last century their haircuts are still plastered on the wall of your local hairdresser their body shape which they attained and maintained without effort is still the modern western ideal they listen to the best jazz musicians they know how to move how to be sexy and how to make love – even though the pill hasn't yet been invented they know how to negotiate different social classes and cultures unfortunately they are defined by and live by the code of the gang and their own heartless rituals that exclude sentimentality and make a sin of romantic love the only thing wrong with them is that their elders don't talk to them and vice versa the incidents depicted in this film got a lot of tongues wagging for a long time in france about the amorality and nihilism of youth while still making it a huge public and critical success br br this film is so stylish and gorgeous i suspect the older viewers who watched it wished they could be like the people depicted in the film and quite a few young filmmakers or aspiring filmmakers like truffaut developed a bad case of reflecting how they could never conceivably make a film as sexy or popular as this one although they would be very good at eventually aiming for the nihilistic bits on the other hand given a certain clichéd aspect of the script amorous misunderstanding leading to a medical emergency one can only wonder at the horribly pious and puritanical mishmash americans would have extracted from the same basic script if they had dared to tackle the subject br br interestingly the movie was filmed in the same basic locations as the american musical funny face a year earlier where hollywood saw the picturesque aspects of the gauche and existentialism carné its tragic and ironic dimension watch this trailer on youtube
1	it's generally an accepted fact that marcel carné's 1936 1946 movies are masterpieces and it's considered polite to say that the rest are mediocrities this is an unfair opinion at least two of the latter era are eminently watchable his best post war work and les the cheats br br there's a strange evolution from the prevert golden hour to les in les enfants du paradis quai des brumes or le jour se lève true love is thwarted by the villains in les true love does not exist anymore we deal with a bunch of young people who believe in nothing falling in love would be incongruous for this youth the adults are not the villains at all brother and mother are kind people but she is beyond their command very few grown ups appear anyway br br during two hours the characters do not stop playing around dancing listening to jazz records a music which was not still part of the bourgeois culture and heavily drinking when two of them discover they care for each others it will be too late br br the cast is rather good laurent as an existentialist cynic and as a rich kid are the stand outs on the other hand pascale petit and mainly jacques who married brigitte bardot the same year as les do not possess the ambiguity their parts ask for they are all smile too sweet and to nice to be believable br br oddly les was labeled nouvelle vague when you know what the priests of this cinema school the likes of godard thought of carné it's really a good joke but this disenchantment you feel throughout the whole movie is really disturbing
1	i blow hot and cold over carné he really can be a puzzle for me i think perhaps his inspiration left him a little earlier than it did for other directors of his generation certainly a man who came to maturity in the thirties with the popular front seems ill at ease in the france of the fifties with its rampant commercialism and heavy american influence he is almost thirty years older than his young stars and it shows the party scenes go on much longer than they should as if he were trying to buy time for the anemic scenario to work roland character he plays pascale older brother seems to exist only to reassure the director that his old style ideas are still sound br br at two hours this picture is far too long still let me praise pascale petit for her game performance she was a natural who should have challenged brigitte bardot for sexpot supremacy but somehow lost her way andrea is excellent too as the girl who gets pregnant and wants to marry her and make her baby legitimate yes they still thought that way in the fifties laurent is the only french actor who could play an anarchist convincingly he is great here as he rescues a cat from death then remarks he can't stand cats jacques only reminds me how mediocre he was as an actor with that constant little grin and those blank eyes
1	first i rated this movie 10 10 to me it's simply one of the best i saw since i was born i'm 23 but i saw numerous films the story is cruel but reality is too not it went deep into me and stirred my bowels i saw it about 5 or 6 years ago and it still shakes me and i still remember it br br second there is no 'national this expression is a direct translation from the french for this movie i mean it's not because it is a french movie that i put it so high it has really caught me when i saw it furthermore i don't know well marcel carne's filmography so i don't know if it is or not his best movie but i know it is not his most famous hotel du nord quai des brumes and les enfants du paradis are the most famous br br third the movie's in b w but it deals with inter temporal problems of youth not acne like love friends and studies in a modern way it could even be remade frame by frame with actual young actors a dolby tm sound and special effects a car crash it would still be a great film br br problem maybe is it a film to be seen by young adults from 16 to 25 years old and above of course for its message to be well understood did i say it was a great movie
1	this late 50s french study of disaffected youth in their early 20's actually grown up but not yet settled down into the adult world probably missed the mark by a mile in terms of being an accurate depiction of 1958 french youth don't virtually all youth films made by adults do this the ones that don't river's edge comes to mind are rare indeed but director writer marcel carne of les enfants du paradis fame is too accurate an observer of humanity to not provide an insightful view of the essence of these characters in a sense the details are not important you could change the details and set this film today and it would work just as well but the loneliness and insecurity and superficial passion and self righteous anger of the characters is captured well the young pierre brice and jean paul belmondo are in supporting roles but leads jacques laurent pascale petit and andrea play the roles with subtlety and depth there is also a fine jazz score which you can get on the cd jazz in paris jazz cinema vol 2 unlike some who have commented on the film i don't really see director writer carne as sitting in judgment on these characters he seems as though he is an objective observer to me of course these middle class characters may seem like people who are spoiled and have nothing to whine about to some working class viewers of the film and i think carne is certainly aware of this for this american viewer i watched a dubbed fairly literally i'd say version of this titled the cheaters the film provides an interesting window into the france of the 1950s it also is self consciously poetic the scene on the ledge saving the cat is but one example of this and has intellectual aspirations in that charming way that only french films can get away with i can imagine the heavy handed melodramatic shallow way this kind of material would have been handled by an american studio production and the sensationalistic moralistic suggestive way this kind of material would have been handled by american drive in exploitation filmmakers i feel that marcel carne has captured the essence of that period between say high school graduation and when by one's early 30s people have largely settled into a routine whatever that routine may be those willing to watch the film with an open mind and not fire away at the many easy targets it offers should find a serious and valuable study of people in their early twenties and even if you don't want to do that you can go in the other room while the film is playing and simply enjoy the fine soundtrack with great 50s jazz and instrumental pop including the wonderful original score by an american jazz at the philharmonic group including coleman hawkins dizzy stan getz spelled in the credits roy and ray brown
1	as an adult i am grateful to have caught this movie by chance when i was a teen during the time i was experiencing familial problems this particular movie managed to capture what i was seeing from a closeted world how much peer pressure is too much i actually had to purchase this movie because it reached me on a level unlike most films try to reach an audience how far might an individual go for social acceptance who is the bad crowd teenagers do struggle trying to find out the answers to these questions but ultimately who is the pack leader if there must be one is it the strong the beautiful perhaps the person we just all seem to like could it be the moral character as far as the movie goes the cast worked together as if it were predestined i only hope that more directors and producers try to create a piece of work that reaches all of us like this particular movie reached me i wish i could vote higher than ten because this particular title deserves much more
1	i just saw this movie on showtime in the wee hours of the night i was viewing the beginning with one eye open but instead of drifting off to sleep i became invested in this crafty nail bitter of a movie it was very believable and engaging i could have done without so much profanity as with every david mamet movie i see but thoroughly enjoyed the experience i know teenagers swear but i don't need to listen to it anyways the story had some interesting surprises which i won't reveal but if you have a chance to catch this movie on showtime i think you will enjoy it as much as i have
1	as a camera operator i couldn't help but admire the great look that this picture achieved the performances were excellent as was the story just when i thought this film was about to slow down it didn't heart pounding tension great pacing through editing and a score that knows when to be quiet all come together here under competent and capable direction the camera was always in the right place love that
1	why would i say that because when the movie ended i was in a good mood so many people exclaim at the end wow bruce willis can be funny for those of you who believe he learned how to act after the sixth sense you must be very new to his career he won an emmy for best actor in a comedy series before he did die hard it's like saying wow the sky learned to deposit snow on the ground just because it's your first winter in life the movie was hilarious what boggles my mind is how some other comments made about this movie claims that there are no memorable lines or scenes spoiler br br the i am not a loser have you ever seen a grown up scream i am not a loser before br br i thought this movie was great it was funny it was never boring and in a cheesy disney sort of way it had a point to make something to do with life and of course any kid movie trying to do that is in over it's head but for once i didn't care br br if you haven't watched it do so you'll like it
1	a stunningly well made film with exceptional acting directing writing and photography br br a newlywed finds married life not what she expected and starts to question her duty to herself versus her duty to society together with her sister in law she makes some radical departures from conventional roles and mores
1	born bad is a well put together crime drama about a group of teenage kids teens as well as young adults would find this movie well acted and entertaining the movie is similar to the black circle boys in the sense that a bunch of teenage boys go around their town making up their own rules and not caring about the consequences
1	this is a great movie for all corey feldman fans this movie has a great cast of young actors a group of teens decide to rob a bank to get some quick cash but all goes wrong when a security gets shot and they take hostages
1	i just watched the dvd version of born bad and found it to be tense gritty and near the end too graphic for the faint of heart justin walker clueless and corey feldman turn in superior performances for a low budget film this picture delivers the depth of character and clever dialogue are two things not usually seen in a roger corman picture check it out on dvd
1	this film is like the breakfast club meets mad city it's got one plot twist after another with justin walker corey feldman and james remar delivering really great performances however this movie is not for everyone if you don't like movies that go all the way with regards to violence then don't watch the last twenty minutes my wife had to leave the room of course i couldn't take my eyes off the screen this is a really gritty realistic teen drama i can't believe it came from b movie king roger corman this film is a must see for those who are not faint of heart highly recommended
1	i recently rented this video after seeing final ascent by the same writer i wasn't prepared for how intense this film would get i found it engaging from start to finish and was rooting for the teenagers to get away with their attempted crime the ending was definitely disturbing with some of its implied violence but well done i highly recommend this picture
1	this film was so well paced that i don't think i actually blinked while watching one intense situation after another kept me glued to the set however i would have liked to have seen corey feldman a lot more in this picture he just steals every scene that he is in this could be my favorite grown up corey performance the ending was clever and unlike other films which back away from severing body parts of likeable supporting characters this film goes for it i liked that it was not graphic blood and gore but left more to the viewer's imagination bravo i literally had to wipe sweat from my forehead during this particular torture scene with a paper cutter ultimately the film works because of its likeable lead character and the awesome presence of my all time favorite bad guy james remar 48 hours remember i strongly recommend this film for anyone looking to break a sweat br br
1	the of this picture was best proven on the intended target audience namely teens my 14 year old son became so engrossed in this film that i rate it considerably higher than its imitator mad city it sparked debate in our household on issues such as peer pressure and loyalty vs doing the right thing for that alone i rate this film a 10 parents should watch it with their teens and discuss it afterwards br br i very much liked the smart dialogue and consistent acting i thought that james remar was adequate in his role but the teenage cast really carried this picture other imdb users have praised corey performance which truly is inspired all in all i give this picture my highest recommendation go get this one
1	i love this film tense with great characters the kid from is excellent as is corey feldman when the kids storm the bank it is pure adrenaline inside of the bank it becomes a bit like a lord of the flies situation where they turn on each other justin walker from clueless is wonderful i saw this on showtime while channel surfing it was a pleasant surprise james remar is also quite good here as the small town sheriff taylor nichols who i love from barcelona does a nice job too as a federal agent i recommend this film for any fan of bank robbery movies with a lot of good characters i was shocked to discover that roger corman was a producer on this since the film is not a b movie
1	this movie about a group of small town teens that decide to rob the local bank is excellent brian justin walker wants to get out of his small town much like jimmy stewart in it's a wonderful life however unlike george bailey brian is going to rob a bank to finance his dream of attending art school even if his father is not supportive the offer to brian is to act like a customer and distract the guard it's a tempting offer that if offered to many i question what they would do anyways brian does it when the sheriff james remar and his force surround the bank things go from bad to worse it's a standoff with even the feds moving in to kill the kids if they have a clean shot the sheriff must prevent this and try to end the standoff in a peaceful way unfortunately tensions rise and the teens inside turn on each other some are out of control the paper cutter scene is gruesome and hard to watch very intense
1	this picture doesn't have any big explosions or expensive chase sequences however it does have really wonderful performances and an exceptional script that puts this at the top of my indie must see list taylor nichols and james remar are terrific together the young cast surprised me with really consistent acting usually indie pictures have some weak link but there are no weak links here impressive go get this one
1	i couldnt believe how well this kid did on screen you will completely forget that they are actors and loose yourself in the movie it is like watching home movies with a twist i recomend this to everyone highly
1	my wife and i loved this film smart dialogue great characters clever plot construction the pacing in this film is non stop couldn't even get to the kitchen for some munchies we have never seen corey feldman this funny taylor nichols plays a good fed my wife loves him on that married man hbo show the ensemble cast were all strong the twist at the end had us cheering that is why we give this film a standing o
1	this episode from season one titled ironically answer me is a pretty well done and memorable episode and it takes a shocking twist at the end you have jean marsh as an over the hill and washed up actress from l a who's moved to new york city for an audition and she's living in an apartment provided by an old friend oddly every night she's kept awake by a ringing phone from the next door apartment yet oddly enough the dwelling where the ringing phone continues to ring is unoccupied as the guests have been dead for many years finally she has to give in only she should have followed along and not answered the phone with no one home as it's bad to get wrapped up in a phone with a life of it's own overall good episode a strange one though about a supernatural phone still it's suspenseful and it twists well at the end
1	i can understand why others reacted rather unpleasantly towards the climax yielding a twist that really is hard to take seriously i think though that the build up to it works rather well the music quite menacing and spine tingling really provides a spooky aura matching the unforgiving sound of a constant ringing telephone that is driving struggling english actress joan matlin jean marsh bonkers she's borrowing a pal's nice apartment while attempting to jump start her career in new york city the city buildings outside the window look about as realistic as david letterman's and is unceremoniously welcome by a noisy telephone which rings quite a bit followed by loud slams against the wall searching for answers regarding the one responsible for such disregard towards her sanity joan discovers that no one rents that room and that a former tenant had in fact strangled herself without help from the manager joan will decide to find out for herself who is causing her such anguish joan discovers the room empty and the phone with a particular female voice which will haunt her br br the episode i think is a tour de force for jean marsh who is a one woman show she's the only actress visible and we follow her through the crisis which slowly erodes her the phone and the banging from that other room causing her much distress which grows into fear instead of leaving joan remains so shaken by the noise and to the breaking point where she just wishes for the phone or whoever is ringing to stop the episode provides a possible answer as to who is plaguing joan and why a character named beth comes into the story rather late as joan struggles to find out whose female voice it was across the other line who knew her name on that dreaded phone she discovers in the room across from hers the fate of beth might just tell the viewer why joan is being traumatized i think this episode is an exercise in spooks instead of credibility some didn't particularly like it but i certainly did i will admit that the phone as a physical menace crawling towards joan is hard to take seriously not to mention it's attack on her but i thought the intense opening twenty minutes before this were suitably chilling enough to make up for it
1	i know that chill wills usually played lovable old sorts in westerns but his role in this segment is something i've remembered for a long time wills could be a first rate villain yes burgess meredith's fall was correct that look in eye it expressed porcine greed ignorance and the threat of violence all at once quite a performance i think br br the segment itself was a good one too question couldn't the little black bag cure alcoholism i guess it did sort of with fall but the doctor would have been wise to apply the cure if he had it as quickly as possible to br br there is one moment that was annoying but also necessary and it is something that appears to recur in these night gallery segments it's serling's constant need to for that's what we got one more time with dr fall i don't know what was more frustrating losing the black bag and all its miracles or not being to stop fall from preaching about the benefit for humanity all while rubbing greedy face in the mud and therefore all but begging for to strike out at him but as i say it was necessary at least it was for me otherwise we wouldn't have been able to see performance discussed above all done without moving a muscle or speaking a word
1	this is a perfect movie to watch with a loved one on a cold and snowy night if you like a few laughs with your horror then this is the movie for you the makings of a real cult classic it has everything you would want to see in a horror movie a beautiful girl a hero the buffoon a monster truck and of course a family of mutant satanic killers this one is full of blood guts and gore i strongly recommend watching this one in the wee early morning hours and be careful of who sees you being entertained by the sounds of monster trucks bad but funny one liners and our hero eating eye ball stew not as good as the evil dead but a close second just remember warning do not eat before viewing this film
1	two college buddies one an uptight nerd the other a rude slob embark on a road trip through the country on the way they encounter a vicious vehicle that looks like an army tank combined with a monster truck that tries to run their car over they escape it but only enrage the mysterious and dangerous driver more when one of them takes a leak in the top hatch while at a rest stop later on they pick up a sexy hitchhiker who ends up getting involved in their life threatening situation monster man is an extremely entertaining horror comedy that has some good suspenseful moments as well as some good gory ones the two lead characters and their constant bickering is fun to watch all on its own and the end takes a tcm like turn which was very well done absolutely worth checking out
1	i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go two guys one naive and one loud mouthed a take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously hitchhiker what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie unlike so many others the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff definitely worth checking out
1	five minutes in i started to feel how naff this was looking you've got a completely hero and his overweight fool of a friend seen it all before yeah right i was getting ready to be bored out of my mind for a good few hours this is something i have become quite used to haven't we all then after a few minutes of testosterone fuelled insults and such the truck appeared okay the filming techniques used to make it look fast were clumsy but who cares that truck is amazing soon however that is taken away again and we're back to the geek and his overweight friend but now i'm satisfied that at least it won't be too terrible i then proceed to be amazed again and again by the cleverness of the film there are so many jokes at their expense it's like everyone in the world is in on this except the two of them the mind behind the makeup and effects was a genius i swear it believe me if you are a man you miss so many of the jokes in this film there is so much here that only a girl can understand br br brother bob is by far the best hillbilly killer that can be found anywhere the fact that he's sewn together just adds to the effect there are of course some really dud science facts in here but isn't that always the case when our 'hero' is having a nose bleed and using the blood to lead brother bob to his death now that is rubbish there is no way a nose bleed can be that bad and not mean a severed artery or something i'm all with the use of too much blood but that is taking it a little too far the incest jokes are a little predictable but funny nonetheless and the way brother bob meets his end is more than classic overall this movie rules it really breaks out of the overacted melodramatic strain of horror that we got so much of in 2003 2005 the end of this move simply could not have been better br br this is a definite must watch for anyone who likes their horror with several side orders of gore and attitude
1	i got monster man in a box set of three films where i mainly wanted the other two but still had a very pleasant time with it it blends horror and comedy to reasonable effect helped out considerably by the decent performances of eric as the geeky lead justin urich as his a hole friend and aimee brooks as the love interest the film is fairly predictable and mines ideas from a host of other films but stays fun throughout with some good gruesome gore thrown in sure it doesn't measure up to the classic gory comedies but this still does fine director michael davis even manages one or two creepy scenes such as in the bathroom or the bar the film is watchable throughout if a little messily plotted and written and for me it only lost it a bit towards the end when the monster man of the title starts to resemble a member of slipknot and the film tries to go more horror style but isn't twisted or convincing enough the final moments are a trifle weak as well still despite lack of much suspense and overall silliness this is a good example of unpretentious often gnarly splatter comedy that should endear itself to fans of the same
1	i got this as part of a competition prize i watched it not really expecting much from an obviously low budget production i laughed myself sick there are obvious references to other films in the horror genre texas chain saw massacre friday 13th etc all the standard clichés were there long drive through partially arid and somehow menacing countryside inbred red necks mysterious vehicles tracking you throw in some really good humorous scenes petrol from the camper van and dialogue f g virgin that's got to be an oxymoron and you have one of the best spoof horror films for years i particularly liked the way our reluctant hero used his stress related nose bleed to great advantage
1	the story is quite slow at the beginning except few interesting humour that come along the way but some of the plot still empty br br the science on how the kid entered the 21st century is still a mystery except at the end of the movie we have been shown of how br br other than that everything looks ok
1	just got around to seeing monster man yesterday it had been a long wait and after lots of anticipation and build up i'm glad to say that it came through and met my expectations on every level true you really can't expect too much from hearing the plot rundown but after reading some of the reviews for it i was ecstatic i mean what trash fan wouldn't want to see a gore flick about a deranged inbred hick mowing people down with his make shift monster truck i went in expecting a cross between road trip and the hills have eyes and got so much more this was a horror comedy that actually worked the film makers got it right when it came to making you squirm and making you howl with laughter at the same time kudos to michael davis for going all out with the gore and pushing the envelope with the humor let me list just a few reasons why i love this movie so much first off is the story it's been done to death in so many other flicks a college guy gets wind that his childhood crush is getting married he being the 25 year old virgin that he is hops in his vista cruiser and decides to take the road trip to confess his love hoping that she will fall head over hills and all that good jive hidden in the backseat of his station wagon is good buddy harley harley is the loudmouth former friend who laughs and talks just like jack black in high fidelity you can't help but like the guy but if he was your friend in real life you'd have to keep a ball bat handy laugh all you want but have you ever been hit with one to keep him in check so he's a little on the obnoxious side to say the least but you can tell that he's a loyal friend deep down anyway they're on the road and when they stop in a bar they aggravate the locals now they're being stalked by a leatherface clone in a monster truck that's it yeah along the way they pick up a gorgeous hitchhiker but i'm too lazy and hungover to go into that right now so just watch the damn movie br br second thing i love was the humor this one had some of the sickest laughs of any movie since cabin fever just how messed up is it well i won't even go into the whole cat scene and as for the corpse burrito thing i'll leave that to your virgin eyes as well the bar full of amputees was somewhat disturbing and that guy who looked like john turturro bothered me too harley although a totally obnoxious frat boy type can really sling off the one liners love the by the way i need a new pair br br the gore this one pours it on heavy while the first hour plays out as a demented road comedy the last third is all about blood and guts if the movie hadn't kept such a light tone throughout it would have been a little disturbing but seeing how it was all played for laughs there is no way possible that you will be bothered by it if you're still in your seat by the time it comes you'll probably see the humor in it too but seriously there were buckets and buckets of the red stuff there was a big plot turn that i didn't see coming and when the credits rolled i was completely satisfied i had gotten exactly what i came for and i'm really glad that i bought it much like cabin fever it's going to get a lot of replay br br the look of the movie was outstanding there was this deliberately cheap look that made the whole thing scream late 80s and i loved the exaggerated colors it's obvious that monster man was done on a relatively low budget but much like cabin fever sorry i keep comparing the two it actually works in the movie's favor cabin fever was an ode to the 70s greats this was the 80s answer to that so take that for what it's worth no cgi here this is what we all needed i'm not exactly sure why it didn't get a theatrical release because this is everything that jeepers creepers should have been thank god for lions gate
1	this is a surprisingly great low budget horror comedy it's funny and pretty well made with good performances and a really cool twist ending all the characters are pretty cool and the story while unoriginal is very good plus eric adam and justin urich harley had fantastic chemistry together one of the funniest moments in the film for me is when adam is trapped in the bathroom and harley wakes up to find that monster truck sitting there and decides to take a p ss in the truck and aimee brooks is just plain sexy plus this is one of the best low budget horror films i have seen in a long time it's very gory but in a comical way and i thought it was very well written as well plus michael bailey smith is fantastic as the monster man and had some wicked makeup it's similar to films like joy ride duel jeepers creepers etc etc and it has some suspenseful moments here and there plus the gore effects are really well done for the most part this is a surprisingly great low budget horror comedy it's funny and pretty well made with good performances and a really cool twist ending i highly recommend this one the direction is very good michael davis does a very good job here with great camera work good angles good use of colors and using a great setting plus he kept the film funny and at a very fast pace br br there is a lot of gore we get extremely bloody nose bleeds gory bloody stabbings guy is cut in half by a monster truck human remains in a cooked stew guts all over the place guys guts fall out pencil in the eyes bloody slit throat bunch of people walking around without limbs gory dead squirrel heads are squished severed limbs bloody and mangled corpses decent amount of bloodshed one very gory scene at the very end and more br br the acting is very good for a low budget film eric is fantastic here as adam he was a nerd but a very likable one he had fantastic chemistry with justin urich had some cool lines and i just loved his character he also seemed to be enjoying himself and he was especially good at the end justin urich is excellent as the ass of a best friend however i just couldn't help but love him as he was very funny and often stole a lot of the scenes i really dug him aimee brooks is gorgeous and did great with what she had to do she had good chemistry with and like was especially good at the end as i loved her mysterious character michael bailey smith is wonderful as the monster man he was very creepy looking had some awesome makeup and is now one of my favorite slashers rest of the cast do fine br br overall i highly recommend this one 1 2 out of 5
1	two city guys are driving through hicksville usa when a rusty monster truck suddenly appears and repeatedly attempts to run them off the road having picked up a mysterious blonde hitchhiker they pull up at a truck stop full of redneck amputees one of whom warns them of 'the demon out there' but they don't listen big mistake monster man by michael davis mixes comedy with horror surprisingly well the film borrows heavily from duel the blair witch project jeepers creepers and the texas chainsaw massacre the story is pretty silly but there is enough gore and violence to keep splatter freaks happy i enjoyed especially the performance of justin urich which offers the film its comedy relief still the complete lack of suspense is hard to forgive give this one a chance if you have some time to waste 7 out of 10 did i mention that aimee brooks is sexy
1	great horror comedy from michael davis iwas laughing so hard i almost peed great acting from eric as the good guy who saves the day great performance by the jack black esquire like performance from justin urich he was just divine in this film this guy deserves to be a big star also aimee brooks was good in the film as well as the girl in danger along with the guys from a killer reminiscent of jeepers creepers the gore to was given in copious amounts i loved it i just hope they release a not rated version great low budget horror comedy the dead cat in the hotel sex scene is just gruesomely funny out of
1	in the veins of jeepers creepers and the texas chainsaw massacre monster man surprisingly well made though mindless little horror throw in a little buddy comedy nice gore and intense scare it's hard no to say that monster man is really entertaining the low budget seem pretty obvious but it doesn't effected the presentation of the movie in general and put more big budget horror movies in shame br br yes the plot somewhat generic as possible pair of friend adam eric and harley justin urich are driving cross country to interrupt the wedding of a woman adam has always loved while adam is more nerdy type harley is a self proclaimed ladies man and very offensive loudmouth adding a bonus to the plot then they picked up a sexy hitchhiker sarah aimee brooks things turn into nightmare when a monster truck with scary face drive stalking them when dead body starts counting they must do the race against the time before their own life on risk br br the plot is obviously reminiscent of many prior famous horror movies but michael davis as the writer and director succeed in keeping the tension the scare is build well enough where characterization is never be the best but fairly okay the script also littered with comedies that works for the funny moments and they quite enjoyable rather than annoying and also wait for the twist in the finale it's hilarious and shocking in the same time which is pretty amusing br br as conclusion monster man surprisingly entertaining it deserves more attention in the big screen it proves that big budget doesn't make an effective horror movie but skill does something that the director has shown and delivers
1	i first saw this on demand or on tv i'm not really sure but this has got to be my all time favorite movie ever i mean this movie has blood gore laughs and chills through out the movie i recently ordered monster man from amazon and i've been watching monster man ever since i got it trust me you will love this movie br br p s the commentary on the dvd is way funny they also said something about monster man 2 during the commentary let's hope they make monster man 2 if you have the chance rent the movie or buy it you will absolutely love it this is the best movie that has come out in 2003 br br 10 10
1	adam eric and obnoxious best friend harley justin urich are driving cross country to a wedding along the way they pick up sexy hitchhiker sarah aimee brooks then for no reason a monster truck keeps trying to run them off the road and maybe kill them who is doing this and why br br pretty good horror film its energetic and full of flashy direction which gets you right into the action it's also a horror comedy most of the humor is infantile and really gross but actually somewhat funny also this movie really piles on the gore at times but that's a good thing the acting is ok overplays his nerd role a bit much urich is stuck with the hopeless role of the foul mouthed sex obsessed best friend but pulls it off brooks is good too in a limited role br br but i could see the twist ending coming long before it happened and logic totally disappears at the end especially the rescue still this is a gory sometimes funny and sometimes scary horror movie i give it a 7
1	i saw this on zone horror and fully expected it to be compete crap like most of the films they play however i was pleasantly surprised the film revolves around 2 friends and a maniac in a monster truck who is chasing them i know it sounds crap but its actually quite good the film is creepy when it intends to be and is laugh out loud funny in parts and not in an unintentional way either it is well paced and is a lot of fun as well as being very gory there's some very funny black humour thrown in as well its not the most original movie but so what if your after shakespeare then this is not it if your after a fun movie then this should be fine
1	while driving in a highway to the wedding of his beloved betty ann adam eric is surprised by his former schoolmate harley justin urich on the backseat of his car adam has broken off with the inconvenient and moron harley because of betty ann along their road trip harley makes fun of some rednecks in a bar and later their car is chased by a giant monster truck on the road after some incidents they give a lift to the hitchhiker sarah aimee brooks and sooner the trio is terrorized by a scary monster driving the monster truck br br in spite of having one of the most annoying characters i have ever seen in a horror movie the irritating harley monster man is a surprisingly good trash horror comedy the story is a collection of clichés beginning like joy ride or duel then it turns to one of the countless rip offs of the texas chainsaw massacre there is a surprising twist ending with a hook for a sequel there are hilarious scenes aimee brooks is extremely sexy and this film really entertains my vote is seven br br title brazil monster man
1	if you took a really good jack black movie added a little jeepers creepers and then a dash of joyride with a hint of texas chainsaw massacre and house of a 1000 corpses you would have monster man i went into this movie not really expecting much at all but i wound up really enjoying the movie the whole premise is really cheesy a monster man in a monster truck chases down people but it is so funny that the writer director doesn't expect you to take it seriously justin urich is a comic gem and should have a very promising career he is identical to jack black the only problem with the film is the unbelievable hero role played by eric but overall if you are looking for a really really fun movie that will crack you up until you are rolling in the aisles and at the same time scare the crap out of you check out this film
1	perhaps i was just in a really good mood when i watched this film but for whatever reason i really liked this film was it terribly original no was it a bit predictable yes and so what it was still a really nice movie i've always liked bruce willis well almost always there was hudson hawk and the fifth element after all and he portrayed a selfish sarcastic b perfectly maybe this movie isn't academy award material but it sure is feel good material go rent it
1	this was on showtime the other night and i figured it was going to be another made for video crap fest like earth vs the spider or any of those other hbo horror shorts instead i found a comedy gore classic it was legitimately funny and surprisingly the acting was quite good even my wife an overall horror hater agreed and was laughing at parts in addition the fx were high quality br br overall the film felt like a parody of joy ride jeepers creepers and the 2 main characters reminded me of the pair from shaun of the dead definitely worth watching but don't take it seriously br br the end
1	a beautiful woman a backwoods inbred monster man a super sweet monster truck a road kill zombie brother and 2 friends one anal retentive overly sensitive nerd and the other a foul mouthed adolescent slob throw them all together with a dash of jeepers creepers texas chainsaw massacre and road trip and you've got monster man a hilarious horror comedy outing that never sets out to say something it's a simple straight forward laugh fest unpretentious and well made this horror comedy is at its heart a buddy flick this film offered some hilarious and sickening set pieces i highly recommend this to fright fans looking to be entertained
1	well it has to be said that monster man is a huge mess of a film but somehow multiple different genres and a clichéd plot come together to make one of the most enjoyable modern horror films i've seen in ages the two biggest styles that the film mixes are a 'road trip' style teenage comedy and a 'texas chainsaw massacre' style redneck horror vibe and while one gets in the way of the other quite often director michael davis manages to keep things moving thanks to the fact that the constant shift in tone means that we're never quite sure where the film is going to be taken next things start out worryingly as we're introduced to two characters both irritating in different ways adam is a wussy virgin while harley is a fat big mouthed a hole they're both driving across the desert to attend the wedding of some chick they both liked in high school after a couple of strange events they pick up a hitch hiker and then find themselves being chased by some maniac in a monster truck for reasons unknown br br the idea of someone being chased by someone else in a bigger vehicle is hardly original but the way the monster truck is used here is one of the film's biggest assets the truck itself looks spooky because it's so haggard and rusty and the fact that it bounces around the screen makes the unfolding action exciting and suspenseful after a while you begin to get used to the characters and once aimee brooks enters the fray things start to look up the teen comedy side of the movie actually works pretty well as justin ulrich is always on hand to deliver some entertaining lines of dialogue and the scenes between the dorky virgin and the hot female hitch hiker are interesting enough just when you think the film couldn't possibly get any messier things take a turn for the weird in the final third without spoiling things it has to be said that monster man features the sort of ending that couldn't possibly be seen coming and along with the twist is a big surprise some people may feel ripped off by the sudden turn at the end but i actually thought it worked quite well as it fits the film in that nothing here really fits overall this isn't a 'great' film by any means but if you're looking for some silly entertainment monster man should hit the spot
1	before watching this movie from beginning to end i happened to just catch the last half hour ordinarily i don't watch a movie if i haven't seen it from the beginning but a friend had it on and once i started watching it i couldn't stop br br i'm really surprised this movie didn't get a wide theatrical release this is quite a funny movie often gallows humor and the monster and monster truck in it are quite menacing the monster makes leatherface look pretty and the monster truck is a like a cross between a world war i german artillery vehicle and a giant coffin br br a timid twenty five year old virgin guy is on a long drive to stop the woman he loves from getting married his ex best friend tags along and rags on him constantly they're menaced on the road by a vintage black hearse and the aforementioned monster truck they also pick up a hitchhiker played by the very sexy aimee brooks br br i also watched the animated trailer with the director's commentary and the electronic press kit and i found those both to be interesting i would bet that the feature commentary with the director and the two male stars is pretty enjoyable too but i have so many other movies to watch i've never seen before
1	gaming nicotine fisticuffs we're moving in a descending spiral of iniquity so says the head of st upon inspecting the master's common at the faculty and students of st have been ordered to share facilities at to avoid german bombs during world war ii then there's the masters' library the diary of samuel abridged well that's something to be thankful for what's up here the memoirs of casanova wasn't that the book we caught jessica james reading in the closet decameron nights well really what ever else this place may or may not be it's no place to bring carefully nurtured girls br br yes a terrible mistake has been made by the ministry of education is a school for boys st is a school for girls and what makes this one of the best post wwii british comedies head master is pond played by alastair sim while st head mistress is muriel played by margaret rutherford br br st says pond you don't mean to say that yours is a school for boys and girls he asks one of the early girls only girls she says cheerfully does this mean sir asks one of teachers that we are to expect 100 young girls it means that not only have the ministry made a mistake in sending a school here at all but that it is guilty of an appalling sexual aberration br br margaret miss as positive and immovable as a battleship intends to make the best of it by briskly taking over if possible alastair pond is exasperated up to his big bald head and is determined to salvage his school in the meantime there are 100 young girls and 170 young boys to be fed and places found for them to sleep along with all their teachers the cooks and caretakers totally put upon walk out miss and her girls however are up to the cooking tasks come now angela she says to one girl who is trying to stir something in a big pot haven't you made porridge before yes but no one ever had to eat it that's a defeatist attitude my dear stir it well and don't br br things are hardly going well when pond discovers four governors from a school he hopes to lead are arriving at any moment to see for themselves how well led is and miss learns that four wealthy and influential parents have just arrived to see how their daughters are doing in the new boy free they were told facilities the only solution miss and pond their teachers and their students concoct a split second shifting of classes to give the allusion that has no girls and that st has no boys after the parents inspect a dorm and leave for a class the girls in the beds duck under and the boys who'd been hidden under leap up into the beds just as the governors walk in the boys are observed at rugby and as soon as the governors turn their backs the goal posts are taken down nets for lacrosse are put up and just then the parents walk over to observes the girls one parent spots her daughter in a science class then moments later sees her in a choir practice then moments later there's angela again she says to miss why so it is she replies hustling the parents out to avoid the governors who are approaching just around the corner the child's quite ubiquitous br br when we leave everything has been discovered the students are milling about the teachers are dazed except for two who are kissing the education ministry has just sent several more of students the parents are speechless but the governors are not we're waiting for an explanation one says sharply pond holds his head and shudders can't you see i'm trying to think of one br br the film moves from one complicated and ridiculous situation after another braced by a very funny script and two hugely comedic performances by rutherford and sim droll exasperation and implacable determination are so well matched that's it's a shame this is the only movie they ever made together joyce as st tall awkward sports teacher gives them some competition if you keep your eyes open you'll also find some amusing references director frank works in including a gong at that looks just like a midget version of j arthur a faint echo of the zither theme from the third man and a shot stolen from david lean's oliver twist except this time the little boy walks up holding his porridge bowl and says please sir i don't want anymore br br frank and his partner sidney were responsible for some of the best films produced in britain during the thirties forties and fifties they wrote produced and directed sometimes doing one sometimes the other in one way or another they were responsible for such first rate films as green for danger with a masterly droll performance by sim i see a dark stranger the lady vanishes night train to munich wee geordie the belles of st the progress and many others with the happiest days of your life wrote and directed while both produced it's one of their best
1	this film is just plain lovely it's funny as hell and as old as the hills the acting is superb and it's fascinating seeing post war britain and how we used to behave in those days this seems to have been some pre runner to the st trinians films given the alastair sim and margaret rutherford connection there's also a very young george cole in there who appeared in many st trinians films but i don't myself understand the connection it was shown on recently after a biography of st trinians creator ronald however i missed enough of the biography to miss the connection with this film anyway a great film in its own right and something that should be preserved for all time
1	this film was made thirteen years before i was born but i still think it is the wittiest most harmless piece of fun ever made it simply could not go wrong with the cast of superb british character actors it boasts br br where to start alastair sim peerless margaret rutherford ditto the wonderfully innocent played to perfection by the imperious joyce the victor hyde brown a guy middleton special and the rest of the staff sum up post war middle class england to a tee br br the humour is sometimes obvious but it is of that special ealing variety and is never offensive br br i have watched this film more times than i care to remember and still laugh like a drain at the antics every time the storming of the dorms occupied by the girls school the magnificently planned but ultimately doomed twin tours of the school and the chaotic ending involving the arrival of a third school to add to the anarchy are priceless br br it's an old cliché i know but they really do not make them like that anymore how i wish they did if you haven't seen it please do you won't be disappointed
1	a bumbling error at the ministry of education results in boys school having to share with st school for girls this the respective head teachers of each school and leads to all manner of chaotic goings on however the two are forced to come to an uneasy alliance in the hope of major trouble br br the happiest days of your life is based on the john dighton play from 1948 with dighton writing the part of headmistress specifically for margaret rutherford replacing george howe from the play in the role of headmaster pond is alastair sim and here in lies the crowning glory of this filmic adaptation sim rutherford are perfectly wonderful bouncing off each other to keep what is basically a one joke movie highly entertaining directed by the gifted frank and produced by the equally adroit sidney the happiest days of your life is a quintessentially british movie obviously a precursor to the st trinians franchise the film entertains the children with it's high jinks clash of the sexes heart whilst tickling the watching adults with its very saucy undercurrent thankfully the chaotic ending cements all that has gone before it to leave this particular viewer with a grin as wide as rail station great fun 8 10
1	after a long run in the west end this charming film re cast margaret rutherford as the headmistress 'miss in this financially successful adaptation made in 1950 br br all interior shots took place at riverside studios in london the exterior scenes were filmed on location at a public girl's school near in hampshire during the 12 week shoot both margaret rutherford and joyce were staying in a hotel nearby and would often visit the school during the evenings where they would happily enjoy the company of the real school mistresses br br although the film's script contains only two original lines from the original play the leads and supporting actors are in fine form and you can only feel sympathetic for their predicament especially in the final scenes
1	the play is cleverly constructed begin with the porter rainbow let the audience see the background unfold through his eyes the film follows the play with great faithfulness working no doubt on the simple premise that it couldn't be bettered now throw in a host of superb character actors the result is a resounding triumph a definite must see
1	in this dream come true i found myself loving what was going on it's a good movie and should not be passed off as a corny fantasy movie it's too smart for that it's definitely a feel good movie but with a nice message to leave you with 7 10 b 1 2 out of
1	the happiest days of your life showcases some of britain's greatest comedy talents of its time in a traditionally farcical and upper class twit like fashion generally it is a whistle stop tour of stuffy english behaviour with the girls only school providing a great setting for the dotty goings on margaret rutherford alastair sim and most especially joyce are all fantastic giving us a lot of laughs as they express their utter horror at what they are having to deal with as the film moves on things get sillier and sillier with the tour around the school for the parents being a suitably crackers high point br br at this point i will give special mention again to joyce and her wonderful character miss she is so extraordinarily innocent silly apologetic and ineffectual that she seems to steal the whole film she provides the greatest laugh of the film when she flirts with a male teacher call me sausage br br whilst some of the film is slow or dated and not always very involving it still maintains most of its sparkle and barely pauses for romance good for a silly harmless giggle br br 7 10
1	this film without doubt is the clearest example of the british humour the germans can't understand one liners run rampant in a film spawning one of the greatest series of films in british cinema history st trinians the story of bureaucratic incompetence amid post war trials enables frank to direct maximum talent from all the cast it's probably the only film in which margaret rutherford meets her match in alastair sim for forceful characterisation she still wins though joyce bless her and richard both deserve mentions in masterpiece of english etiquette and stiff upper lip under pressure br br no rutherford sim fan would be without this in their collection absolutely brilliant why 9 10 only long
1	one of the flat out movies of all time sim and rutherford are at their best matching wits over the predicament of an all boys and all girls school sharing the same quarters slapstick has never been this sophisticated
1	from the golden period of british films this has my vote for one of the funniest of all time screened yesterday at my film society to a rapturous audience i was astonished at how well the comedy has lasted made in 1950 it is really down to the expert timing and inimitable playing from two of the finest actors britain has produced margaret rutherford and alastair sim adapted from a play by john dighton this farce is briskly handled by director frank the plot is simple a ministry mistake a girls' school on a boys' school i will always laugh when i think of this film
1	i can't remember exactly where i heard of them first but i listen to a little of one song and liked it went and bought the cd and had finally found the type of music i like i heard about this video and knew i had to have it it has a lot of clips from them playing in concert let me tell you watching this video doesn't even compare to them in concert i've seen them twice in concert and don't want to ever miss a chance to see them again the other two things it has is some interview and even a video for one of their biggest songs couple little side notes i saw them at 2001 and they ruled there but seeing them in a smaller inside stage was much better they had some really cool things to do with being able to cut out the lights the other in case anyone wonders means a devout follower
1	slipknot is a heavy metal band from the great city of des moines iowa in which the rockers wear their own distinguished mask i know someone already said this but i need to fill up space for this review the band members are joey mick sid clown james corey chris and paul this band is one of the best new heavy metal bands in my opinion and should be heard by everyone that loves hardcore rock another good movie is called which shows the band's performance at the london arena the my plague video was shot there and is included on the dvd the most kick ass song they made is also on there sic so if you love the band you need to see this and if you love heavy metal music then you have to hear this band
1	i did it too when i first saw the band i dismissed them straight away without even listening to the music then one day out of sheer curiosity i bought the cd and fell in love with it so i bought the video hold onto your lunch kids this isnt going to be pretty the video was excellent a great opportunity to hear the music see some of the promo videos and meet the band although i still dont know how they can cope with wearing those masks all the time a must for all fans of the band and fans of alternative music in general
1	this dvd usually sells for around 20 i wouldn't pay this much for the dvd if i had known what i was getting but regardless this is a pretty good disc it displays the knot in all their glory with footage from their concerts playing surfacing wait and bleed and scissors among other tracks including the spit it out music video which was apparently banned from mtv br br slipknot for those who don't know is essentially a symphony of the damned nine masked men who display total chaos on stage with machine gun drums squealing guitar and vocals that will tear your face off and leave you wanting more for those who've never seen slipknot before i cannot recommend enough you get this dvd probably off ebay or amazon so you can get a better deal br br a short though well made show of the knot br br seven out of ten
1	slipknot is a hardcore rock band from des moines iowa nine band members who all wear customized and personalized homemade masks eg 6's clown mask 0's various 8's tattered torn mask with dreadlocks the music itself seems to walk the between sane and otherwise yet is performed so brilliantly and psychotic br br welcome to our neighborhood sounds rather a generic title but the footage itself is something else interviews with the band soundbites from their latest album 2 live performances and one banned by mtv music video a brilliant homage to the classic kubrick film the shining the movie clocks in at not even half an hour but is certainly worth it it is perfect for introducing any metal hardcore fan to slipknot
1	this is one of the most enjoyable teen movies i have ever seen and that i wished was released to video it was released the same year as another great comedy in which tim matheson played a role animal house which is probably why it was overlooked br br one of the most memorable parts of this film would definitely be the soundtrack which could have and should have been a formal label release the soundtrack features a lesser known 70's act named high whose song we are the future played a marquee role in the movie's prom scene i remember purchasing the group's album out as a kid mainly because of the look of the girls and not necessarily for their musical talents br br the closing song is one of the best ballads i have ever heard and i can still hear it in my head i wish i knew the group's name so that i could look for it somewhere in cyberspace br br if you liked films such as over the edge and rich kids i think this is one that you will enjoy as well
1	at last a great film that doesn't have to be edited for profanity or sex it's a fun film that the whole family can enjoy willis is great as always rusty was delightful just enough action to keep interest going
1	i remember seeing this film in the theater in 1984 when i was 6 years old you do the math i absolutely loved it i was tarzan for the 2 weeks after seeing it climbing the furniture jumping around making monkey sounds it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this 1984 was the last time i saw that film until about a month ago it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at 3 30 am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at 9 00 am i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid br br upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that that andie macdowell's voice was dubbed by someone else ian was of course solid as usual and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan he was great the depth he managed to capture in so few lines his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark were just amazing br br as i stated earlier i am lambert fan but i'm used to highlander the hunted and fortress in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again br br so to make a short story way too long i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until 6 00am to see it
1	how his charter evolved as both man and ape was outstanding not to mention the scenery of the film christopher lambert was astonishing as lord of greystoke christopher is the soul to this masterpiece i became so with his performance i could feel my heart pounding the of the movie still moves me to this day his portrayal of john was oscar worthy as he should have been nominated for it
1	although films about edgar rice burroughs famous hero tarzan have been seen by movie goers for almost a century now this is the definitive version of the story greystoke is the actual story of the origins of tarzan as set down by edgar rice burroughs way back in the second decade of the last century i've been assured by experts br br tarzan and sherlock holmes are probably the most filmed fictional heroes in history i've no basis in fact for saying that just a gut feeling the most popular holmes was basil rathbone the most popular tarzan was johnny weissmuller and films that they made with both those characters will be criticized no end by purists br br but greystoke is the real deal a faithful adaption of burroughs first story concerning the origin of his hero i can't think of another film which shows that tarzan learned french before english but that is shown here and it's only natural since it was a french survivor of a massacred safari played by ian holm who discovers tarzan who has been raised by the apes since his parents who were shipwrecked on the african coast died there after his mother gave birth br br his parents were in fact the son and daughter in law of the earl of greystoke and the surviving earl played by ralph richardson is of course overjoyed to learn he has a grandson of course there are others who don't welcome the new heir back in society br br one who doesn't is andie mcdowell playing of course jane she does not communicate with tarzan in answer to his grunts and monosyllabic commands tarzan speaks a concise english french and understands the language of the apes as well as for the language of love tarzan and jane need no lessons br br greystoke earned three oscar nominations for best makeup in regard to the apes best adapted screenplay and a posthumous nomination for ralph richardson for best supporting actor it should also have rated a nomination for cinematography of the jungle scenes in and the scenes of the british aristocracy in several landmark places like hatfield house and blenheim palace br br for burroughs purists greystoke is the real deal
1	i have seen most of the tarzan episodes certainly the rated x with o'keeffe bo derek which is totally deplorable br br i have seen this version several times since it was originally shown br br all the cast had memorable parts great acting the ape sequences br br last night i viewed same on spanish station and other than some french dialog all in spanish br br as far as hudson not wanting andie's voice he did nothing until the very end he viewed the dailies and could have hired a dialog coach br br it seems silly that a story about apes and a man raised by them all speaking gibberish that hudson attacked andie the story line in the movie was that she was an american cousin the last time i checked carolina was in the usa br br she was beautiful in movie and her eyes and gorgeous hair alabaster skin mystified all us males she did not have to resort to bo's level br br she has remained a lady throughout the rest of her career and should look at this movie half her life ago as a starting point her performance sincerity made this movie enjoyable believable that a half wild man could ascertain her inner beauty br br great sending point for sir richardson he did steal the movie
1	i have seen most of the tarzan episodes certainly the rated x with o'keeffe bo derek which is totally deplorable br br i have seen this version several times since it was originally shown br br all the cast had memorable parts great acting the ape sequences br br last night i viewed same on spanish station and other than some french dialog all in spanish br br as far as hudson not wanting andie's voice he did nothing until the very end he viewed the dailies and could have hired a dialog coach br br it seems silly that a story about apes and a man raised by them all speaking gibberish that hudson attacked andie the story line in the movie was that she was an american cousin the last time i checked carolina was in the usa br br she was beautiful in movie and her eyes and gorgeous hair alabaster skin mystified all us males she did not have to resort to bo's level br br she has remained a lady throughout the rest of her career and should look at this movie half her life ago as a starting point her performance sincerity made this movie enjoyable believable that a half wild man could ascertain her inner beauty br br great sending point for sir richardson he did steal the movie
1	watch it with an open mind it is very different nothing's cutesy about this very well done realistic tale of tarzan the animatronics are well done for '84 christopher lambert was brilliant imitating language and behavior i wouldn't be surprised if he took lessons from jane goodall
1	while it comes no closer to the tarzan of edgar rice burroughs than say the johnny flicks did it does have it's own peculiar and entertaining slant on the story its a well done tarzan movie nice scenery good photography workable continuity and a tarzan yell that echos the one described by burroughs the players all perform well the only bad points i found were i think related it moves slow in places that slow movement makes this picture to long it could easily have been 15 to 20 minutes shorter which i think would have helped with the natural flow of the plot line and the character development but the rest of the film works well enough to carry it over these two rough spots and still leave the viewer satisfied with the flick short version of all the above its a very good tarzan movie
1	i thought this was a very daring representation of the old hokey 'tarzan' concept made so popular by hollywood weismuller et al br br yes there is a lot of silly stuff but then the idea is silly it is almost unbelievable that a human baby could be sired to adulthood by chimpanzees i am tempted to say completely unbelievable but that the concept has never been tried and there is certainly a bit too much anthropomorphism for comfort though under the circumstances i can see how that would be very difficult to avoid we also now have a much greater insight into the issues of and know that a human raised from infancy without human behavioural prompts would ultimately never learn them in adulthood br br still if you can get your head around that lot there's a great deal to admire that is both imaginative and daring lambert does the beast thing with tremendous aplomb i am tempted to say that it is the most convincing and sympathetic role i have seen him play there are plenty of other excellent performances too not least of which are sir ralph richardson and ian holm br br what is particularly disturbing and rightly so is the simian perception of humans we get to see ourselves almost from the point of view of the poor dumb helpless brutes over whom we so routinely lord it and it demonstrates well how the phony and with which we cloak and justify our conduct is no more than an expression of own selfishness and arrogance it may seem a little overstated at times especially in the hideous museum dissection rooms but what we see isn't just a truth about the victorians its a truth about the way we are today it's one that needs to be stated and cannot be stated often enough holm's character's obsession with the 'ray as a symptom of civilisation as if to possess facial hair were a primitive condition to be scorned is an excellent case in point primitive bearded readers take note br br the story is depressing ultimately it's a tragedy because even though he returns to the jungle and the freedom from moral tyranny that is truly human we know he's doomed before the third millennium is 50 years old wild simians will be hunted into extinction as bush meat and their environment developed for agriculture and mineral exploitation to insatiable human excess br br in the end it's a tale about ourselves the path to extinction that other simians tread must eventually be followed by humans br br highly recommended for its ethical take despite the hokey moments
1	before i review this film i must make a confession that is rather a bold statement to make as a film reviewer anyone who has already read any of my previous reviews may know that i've always been controversial in a low key sense giving high marks for flops such as captain america and creature and panning such film classics as alistar a christmas carol and shakespeare in love with that in mind this confession might not come as a surprise br br the simple fact is christopher lambert is probably one of my favorite actors woah now don't start getting crazy on me just yet let me explain myself i by no means think he's the greatest actor in the world i clearly confess that he is not he is certainly no morgan freeman or anthony hopkins but i would say that his acting ability is probably somewhere up there with at least bruce willis what i admire about him however are the human qualities that he brings into his action heroes he is just an average guy who laughs and cries and bleeds who is a hero because he has to be not necessarily because he wants to be it takes a lot in my opinion to be able to bring out those qualities in a character especially in the movies he's worked in and lambert's heroes are a far cry from or stallone's quite frankly lambert's characters are easier for me to relate to hence he's not the greatest actor in the world he's just a personal favorite br br i can't say that same however for his films however much i his acting it would be foolish not to confess that his choice of films leave something to be desired most of them are quite frankly terrible and any ridicule that he's gotten over the years from me isn't due to his acting but rather his bad choice in scripts br br with that in mind i can say that his debut film tarzan is one of his best films and probably his greatest performance as i mentioned it is effective of the he brings to the role and for how seriously the director writers and actors handle the material this is a far leap from the b movie action adventures with johnny from the 1940's in fact i would hesitate to call it an action movie instead it is a serious drama that takes all of e r burrough's material seriously showing tarzan's quest to discover his real family in scotland after realizing that he doesn't fit in as a white ape he is torn in between his old family and his new one which includes a wonderful sir ralph richardson in his final role in an attempt to adapt to humans his ape instincts also kick in and he can't decide what he loves more his real family or the one that he's always known all in all it is a wonderful commentary on society and a wonderful character study br br if nothing else it launched lambert into international stardom which continued will into the 1980's with films like highlander and he sicilian unfortunately it didn't last but just wait a while his latest career moves such as gideon and resurrection have proven that though he still have a long way to go he's a competent enough actor to be able to perhaps make a ahem comeback if he'll just pick his roles better br br for now however here's the verdict on his first film br br out of
1	the greatest tarzan ever made this movie is done in a way that no other tarzan ever has come close in doing it has every thing in it that you would want in a tarzan movie no other tarzan movie ever has or ever will portray the character this well i would say that if you have seen a tarzan movie and liked it you should see this one you will love it and if you have never seen tarzan you should see this one and forget the rest of them
1	i waited long to watch this movie also because i like bruce willis the plot was quite different from what i had expected but still quite good its a good mix of emotions humor and drama br br left me thinking over and again
1	i must confess that i don't remember this film very well but certainly i liked it i think it was the best adaptation from burroughs novel really and of course it's one of the best movie from christopher lambert br br a good movie about tarzan as cult as the ones with weissmuller
1	don't let the wildly varying reviews of the movie deter you you'll love it or hate it according to your own tastes however if for no other reason see greystoke to experience the excitement of a great actor grabbing your heart as he breathes life into his role ralph richardson was not a great actor for how perfectly he could handle shakespeare rather he is to be remembered for his sensitive treatment of every character he portrayed he was never indifferent to his responsibility as an actor his reading of the part of the sixth lord of greystoke his last performance is to be cherished by all who love the theatre
1	where this movie is faithful to burroughs' vision it is excellent where it departs from burroughs it is superb it is a tale of family of the seeking of a father by a real and emotional orphan lambert's speaking of one of the most anguished lines in all of cinema he was my father is enough to bring tears to the eyes of the most cynical critic not a perfect motion picture the notorious over dubbing of mcdowell's voice by glenn close is unconscionable and only in terms of a very british error but a fine if flawed masterpiece and a noble farewell to sir ralph richardson
1	there is absolutely no doubt that this version of tarzan is the closest to burroughs' vision while he gladly collected his royalties from the films produced during his lifetime he frequently made it clear that they were little more than the bastard children of his tales the film studios' ludicrous obsession with casting olympic swimmers as tarzan was beyond laughable i guess we should consider ourselves lucky that they did not set their sights on shot br br prior to this film the most faithful adaptations were in comic strips and comic books as fine as some of these were we had to wait seven decades for a filmmaker with the integrity to respect the character as he had been created
1	this is both an entertaining and a touching version of the classic tale also quite intelligent not of the 'me tarzan you jane' school at all br br it's the famous story of a child reared to manhood in the jungle by apes a titled british couple the wife pregnant is stranded in the african wilds after a shipwreck after the parents' deaths the baby is raised in the jungle by apes twenty years later this young man i e tarzan rescues a wounded belgian explorer nursing him back to health the belgian discovers evidence that his rescuer is the young lord greystoke and returns him to his rightful estate in scotland where he must adjust to civilized society br br the movie is sort of divided into two parts in the first half we see tarzan in his jungle environment not being an expert i am unaware as to the realism of its depiction of ape community life but it is certainly entertaining for me the more moving section is the second half when tarzan must meet his real family develop language skills and adjust to aristocratic british society all the while wooing jane andie macdowell he is portrayed as a 'noble savage' whether in the wild or in elegant edwardian parlors by contrast the upper crust is depicted as often far more barbaric than the jungle tarzan left br br christopher lambert is fantastic in his sympathetic portrayal of tarzan in both the jungle and civilized environments he conveys a real sense of his confusion and conflict torn as he is between the two very different worlds his original ape family and his new human one sir ralph richardson one of the old british legends is brilliant as always in the role of tarzan's grandfather the sixth earl of greystoke br br the film focuses more on tarzan's struggles in adapting to civilization and his inner conflict than on his jungle exploits this unusual take on the old classic makes it both the typical dramatic adventure but also above all a moving personal story i wasn't surprised to note here that its director is the same individual hugh hudson who also directed chariots of fire another brilliant movie
1	especially by lambert this is the essential burrough's tarzan that i grew up reading when i was a kid i have read a few negative reviews on this film and couldn't help but wonder what their issue was they obviously didn't see the movie i did or they were expecting something that was more akin to the saturday afternoon serials br br this was the tarzan that was of the novel and the film makers should be applauded for tackling the source material and taking it seriously lambert was excellent i still think he is one of hollywood's most under rated actors this was a movie that he shines in br br the photography and the apes done by rick baker both were amazing you definitely felt the since of the jungle the 2nd half tarzan's attempt at being civilized really pulls you into the emotional conflict he had was forced to resolve br br i highly recommend this film
1	i don't understand why it is so underrated on imdb this movie is just the perfection the better adaptation of all times of the myth of tarzan as a french i can say that this is the better role of christophe lambert ridiculous in a lots of movies but here absolutely wonderful charismatic incredible the plot is great well told the story magnificent the direction the atmosphere the music every things are perfect how believe these sequences with the music just simply perfect br br greystoke is truly an unbelievable movie underrated here i don't really know why but really appreciated
1	beautifully filmed acclaimed director hugh hudson chariots of fire creates a story that brings the entire legend of john clayton lord greystoke and tarzan of the apes to life with reverence and dignity and with a scope not heretofore seen in tarzan films christopher lambert makes his starring debut as the young lord raised in the wild by a female gorilla after his parents die in africa later returned to what is to him an alien world that of class and privilege he feels totally out of place once he learns what has happened to the apes that raised him and their world he realizes that he must go back a sad but triumphant story told against a background of fantastic vistas this is one of those films that is a must for every collection
1	greystoke the legend of tarzan lord of the apes is based on the classic book tarzan of the apes by edgar rice burroughs and is a more faithful adaptation to the classic book the film has some great scenery like the jungles of south africa to the greystoke mansion the acting is also great lambert did a great performance as tarzan it was also his first english speaking role the film has some funny moments sad moments and touching moments that makes this a real classic br br the film sees a boat crashing in the jungles of south africa and some time later they have a son named john the apes go into the hut and one of them kills the father the apes then take him to where they live and adopt him as one of their own as the years go by john grows up and learns to be more like the apes in his teens his foster mom gets attacked by native hunters and soon killed by them years later a group of people are going to africa on a expedition after setting up camp they're soon attacked by the natives most escape but capitaine phillippe is left behind injured by some of the arrows after hiding he meets john now an adult who takes him to his home and takes care of his wounds after a while phillippe starts to teach john how to speak english and teach him that he's not one of the apes but a person when phillippe goes to leave john goes with him after sometime they arrive at greystoke manor where the sixth earl of greystoke is shown his long lost grandson john is shown his bedroom and picture of his true mom and dad john also meets jane porter and slowly as they get to know each other he begins to have feelings for her when it's christmas the sixth earl of greystoke slides down the stairs killing himself john then starts to miss the jungle and wants to return but phillipe tells him to stay since everything they had done would be for nothing john is then torn between his life as a greystoke and the lord of the apes br br greystoke the legend of tarzan lord of the apes is a great classic that should be seen 10 10
1	i really liked the first part of this film in africa for about an hour or so until the animal cruelty by civilized humans in scotland got to me in the second half and made me so sad i couldn't watch some of it however this was done by the filmmaker to make a point that early natural scientists ruined everything alive they didn't understand by studying it literally to death without considering the rights and comfort of the animals studied which we know now shouldn't be studied anywhere but in the natural world they inhabit and as as possible i do recommend this film as it was a mostly serious and honest story of tarzan and made a point of showing the gross animal cruelty that was rampant in the 19th century scientific world as well as the pure and simple beautifully primitive life tarzan lived as a young man who was found as a baby and raised by chimps after the violent death of his parents in the african jungle br br christopher lambert was wonderful and very soulful in his life of tarzan role as was ralph richardson in his last film role as tarzan's ultra rich nobility reeking gramps in scotland andy macdowell was pretty and pretty good as tarzan's gussied up and civilized jane in her first movie role from his charismatic work in this film and his very haunting eyes i cannot understand why lambert did not later become a big star but his really bad movie choices later may have done him in the terrific ian holm as a wounded frenchman in africa helped by tarzan and who then escorted tarzan back to his previously unknown ancestral home in scotland was great as always br br i am so glad tarzan got sick of and didn't stay in the animal cruel civilized world at that time and went home to africa in the end to live out his life with his gentle and loving ape relatives who raised him instead of staying in scotland and living like royalty which would have ruined him if it didn't kill him first
1	i really enjoyed this movie yes there was disrespect throughout the movie but bruce willis learned from the kid that there is more value in others and his life of disrespect needs to change this movie was a refreshing change from the trash that hollywood is trying to shove down our throats there are some very good lessons to be learned in this movie i really believe this was one of disneys best even though a couple of things could have been left out i was impressed with the lack of swearing and lack of sexual it isn't perfect but much better than most everything else out there
1	this begins a series which i'll hopefully keep up every week end of films that came out during my childhood – in this case it's one i've only managed to catch now it was clearly intended as the last word on the subject which basically had been debased to the level of hokum over the years however in its uncompromising striving for a serious minded approach a sure measure of which is that the protagonist is never once referred to by the name he's been known all this time the world over the film makers rather lost track of the fact that the thing was intended primarily as entertainment consequently we get a decidedly staid representation of events – with more care given to meticulous period reconstruction than in providing a functional thematic environment for its mythic jungle hero even so christopher lambert rose to stardom – as did another debutante andie mcdowell playing his love interest named jane of course – with the title role which he handles enough under the circumstances however ralph richardson to whom the film is dedicated this being his swan song steals every scene he's in as tarzan's natural grandfather who in spite of showing obvious affection for his long lost kin can't bring himself to forget tradition in an effort to understand his predicament the hero in fact is much more comfortable interacting with primates even contriving after having gone back home to save his adoptive from captivity the film is otherwise very good to look at with cinematography by stanley kubrick regular john alcott no less features an appropriately grandiose score as well as remarkable make up effects by rick baker – and while essentially disappointing as a tarzan outing retains considerable value nonetheless as a prestige picture of its day
1	if you are looking for a modern film version of buster crabbe or johnny weismuller's overcoming the machinations of unscrupulous white safari guides or cunning black tribesmen while saving the animal kingdom this is not the movie for you this is a recounting of the tarzan legend from its beginning in intelligent adult terms it is beautifully filmed and faithful to the edgar rice burroughs stories br br tarzan is no action hero but a man torn between two worlds the natural and the civilized in a stunning performance christopher lambert portrays this angst with absolute realism if he slips up just once the cat will be out of the bag the audience especially the adult audience targeted by the film will laugh and the film will completely lose its grip it will plummet into the cheesy depths but lambert never lets that happen forget what you may think of him in other movies when i saw this film at the theater on its original release i thought he deserved an academy award br br the supporting cast is uniformly excellent as other commentators have noted i disagree with most of them in that i didn't find anything wrong with andie mcdowell's performance i wouldn't have nominated her for an academy award the role is undemanding but she is completely up to it such as it is i don't know why her voice was overdubbed either br br the cinematography of the african segment of the tale is absolutely beautiful it captures both the beauty of the african wilderness and the exotic expectation it holds in the collective imagination of those who have never been there the scenery is lush and exotic and the colors are vivid br br but this is also a period film and the cinematography also magnificently depicts victorian england the countryside the city and the interiors the costumes are outstanding the soundtrack is beautiful without being overwhelming or obtrusive br br there are some disturbing scenes especially for animal lovers but no more disturbing than a few scenes in dances with wolves this is an excellent film about the conflict between civilization and nature personified in the young lord greystoke convincingly portrayed by christopher lambert
1	greystoke is without doubt the best tarzan movie i have ever seen christopher lambert portrays a very believable man trying to return to the world of mankind alongside the fantastic ian holm the struggle of john to leave the jungle and the apes who raised him is quite stirring some very memorable scenes including where lambert makes the jungle noises to the romantic interest and the scene where he witnesses his ape father's death tarzans feelings for both worlds is well developed and really makes you feel for him br br an excellent and underrated movie
1	spoilers edgar rice famous character was adapted thousand of times for the screen til one's thirst is quenched notably during the thirties and the forties by hollywood its made tarzan one of the most successful cinema characters several years later hugh hudson decided to make a more ambitious version of the monkey man and it's a more natural more wild and more down to earth tarzan that he gives away here hudson skilfully avoids the clichés that you usually grant to tarzan such as his famous scream or his friendly pet cheetah not only are we far from the designed and invented character made by hollwood but we are also far from the film set used to make his stories the movie was partly made in africa more precisely in cameroon the movie introduces two obvious parts the first one which takes place in the jungle where tarzan lives among his adoptive friends the apes and considers himself as their lord but he ignores his real origins the second one in england where tarzan discovers the english society ian holm epitomizes the link between the two parts and hudson avoids all that could make the movie falls into the ridiculous thanks to a clever screenplay indeed holm teaches lambert basic rules of manners so as to behave correctly in the english society and the result works moreover in the second part no one ever laughs at tarzan and he's even really appreciated as far as the end is concerned well it's a both bitter and happy end happy because tarzan comes back to the jungle and meets again his adoptive close relatives but bitter too because this homecoming means that the greystoke line won't be ensured and is condemned to disappear christophe lambert finds here his first and last great role sadly he'll never equal the achievement of his performance in this movie and he'll play in poor and action movies nevertheless as i said previously a clever screenplay a performance of a rare quality some impressive natural sceneries both the jungle and the english country and we get a gorgeous movie it's also an excellent from a popular novel so why is it only rated barely 6 10
1	after i first saw this i thought wow this is the most spectacular movie visually speaking i've ever seen since that time i've seen some that topped it but it still ranks as one of the best in that department i'm just disgusted the long awaited dvd was so poorly done the quality of this transfer hardly better than the vhs tape br br the jungle scenes are filmed in cameroon and lush is the best adjective to describe what you see except for jungle sounds seeing is certainly almost everything in the beginning as there is almost no hearing no dialog until tarzan christopher lambert befriends ian holm and vice versa so be ready for that if you haven't watched this film br br story wise all i'll say is this is not the tarzan many of us came to know in johnny weismuller films but that's not a complaint for those craving action and don't care about cinematography as i do you just have to get past that silent introduction period br br in this tarzan version our hero goes back to scotland his roots adapts to that environment for the most part and a little too quickly for credibility frankly and then returns to the jungle without jane this is supposedly more true to the tarzan books written by edgar rice burroughs br br the special effects in here were done by rick baker one of the best in the business sharp dvd or not this is still a stunning film to view and very interesting throughout its 2 hours and 15 minutes
1	ruthless mercenary bruno rivera paul naschy in peak nasty form betrays his pregnant partner girlfriend well played by eiko in order to have exclusive on a fortune in stolen diamonds but manages to seriously wound bruno before he gets away bruno winds up in the swanky of kindly rich doctor don simon a fine performance by he also attracts the attention of simon's two hottie daughters the fiery monica luscious silvia and the sweet alicia nicely essayed by the lovely hernandez however bruno soon realizes that something is very amiss about the isolated place and plans to escape as soon as he can meanwhile the bitter tries to find bruno so she can exact her revenge on him naschy who wrote and directed as well as stars concocts one of his strangest most twisted and perverse horror vehicles ever with this little seen oddity the offbeat plot and mysterious atmosphere become more weird and unnerving as the story unfolds eventually leading to a genuinely startling surprise downbeat ending this film further benefits from occasional moments of graphic gore watch out for the memorable sequence with one poor guy being devoured alive by vicious flesh eating pigs alejandro slick cinematography and a decent sprinkling of nudity and soft core sex good supporting turns by dupre as sassy maid raquel pepe ruiz as amorous playboy don serafin and julia as the deranged teresa a pleasingly grim and worthwhile shocker
1	pretty good movie about a man and his wife who get caught up in murder and the police officer investigating the case it starts off marvelously but kind of hits a wall at a certain point we're sure we know what happened then a tiny plot thread that seems at first like a red herring pops back up and disappoints still clouzot's direction is great and the acting is quite good louis jouvet who also co starred in marcel carné's drôle de gives the best performance as the clever detective i wonder if the coen brothers were influenced by this film when they wrote fargo much like that film the police officer doesn't appear until nearly halfway through and then he becomes almost the focus of the film there's also a lot of droll comedy surrounding him although sometimes his methods seem sort of fascist
1	should we take the opening shot as a strange frame i guess we have to anyway two women are behind a closing umbrella they walk upstairs to the talent agency and we go with them and then they are never to be seen again okay how come not inside the place at the piano or even outside with the sound of the piano then track inside and over a la hitchcock so i guess clouzot is already telling us in a not very subliminal manner that we are following a segment of postwar society especially how he then uses a citizen kane like song cut up into about five pieces to show the lady singing traveling from the talent agency all the way to her first roses and applause of her vaudeville debut br br after that we are relentless observers of more or less small disgusting details of a defeated country getting off its war torn tattered knees and nobody ever handled small disgust better than clouzot in fact too bad he never tried sartre's nausea almost everything we see after the first few minutes makes us ever so slightly queasy okay okay i'm grossly overstating that let's just settle for a general feel of a lot of the film look carefully in fact and you will even see one of the cops picking his nose and in how many films has anyone ever done that then there is a very loud nose blowing bit in front of the photographer lesbian by the main cop and notice that she does not literally blink an eye or raise an eyebrow br br the point of all this is an almost feverish immersion in seemingly until you can smell practically every scene as well as see and feel it br br as for the other aspects of the movie others here have covered them in a lot more detail than i but forget about the mystery here this is the ultimate mcguffin clouzot is about as interested in the real killer as those two women coming in out of the rain in the first few seconds of the film and are never seen again from beginning to end all he wanted to do was follow a bunch of people around not even particularly interesting ones at that and say here look at this woman's twitch that man's hitching of his pants in all their insignificance years and years before tina turner was singing we don't need another hero br br even the forced levity of the ending is bleakly done in a dilapidated part of paris and rather chilly bare walled apartment with only the couples love for each other to see them through as if to say there must be two or three million like you throughout the city working your fingers off by the day for a little love at night br br from this it was just a short step to wages of fear and the ultimate in despair br br they don't even know how to make films like this anymore in the u s for that matter they didn't even know how to very much in france then much less now the relentless detail of gesture makes even the of italy look like bad psychologists which i guess makes clouzot a kind of rosselini on speed br br very enjoyable nonsense this movie the only flaw seems to me and as was pointed out by another viewer the lead woman is somehow not quite right everybody else in the film is just about perfectly cast
1	what do you get when you have a tenacious seasoned french police inspector by the name of maurice martineau is called to solve a murder case well simply a very entertaining fun film the re mastered black and white film quai des delivers the goods despite romance jealousy and marriage that seem to just get in the way towards the truth of 'who done it ' br br inch by inch technique by technique as seasoned by experience and intuition the patience of this master inspector etches into the truth but of course with the help of a bag full of dirty police interrogation tricks br br martineau is the centerpiece of this film the use by director henri georges clouzot of raucous background music to intensify the drama in grand film noir style is a wonderful wrapper around the visual experience br br martineau eventually solves the mystery and arrests the culprit hey he is good but alas martineau too can keep a dark secret in his past who is that boy that is perhaps not his son br br some things can never get solved even beyond the closing credits
1	great artists always suffered while they were young i could mention mozart and beethoven but that is not the point br br this movie was made by h g clouzot whose family wanted him to succeed in the law professions br br its main star is louis jouvet who studied and practiced as as pharmacist before becoming the greatest actor and also director of france's theater before and after wwii br br they both had health problems clouzot had tb while young jouvet had cardiac problems and died on a theater br br such events shape the character of men and women of course one might even say that today's artists are so poor because they had never suffered and fought for their lives br br to me this is the greatest of clouzot's movies wages of fear is greater in suspense diabolique also has more suspense and a better plot and is more about female evil br br quai des is more human clouzot was falsely accused by de entourage mostly communists and jews of collaboration with the nazis and banned from making films until until de left france's government in early 1946 de came back in 1958 as president br br the main characters are all good souls jenny l'amour may perform as a putain on stage but she is not a whore make synonyms of those words but they are not the same loves her husband and refuses the slight advances from her presumably lesbian friend dora the photographer br br maurice the husband is jealous and timid but runs away from the scene of the crime he is a coward because he fell in love with a woman and traded an eventually more upscale career for love br br antoine the detective interpreted by the great louis jouvet basically a stage actor performs in this french gray not noir as well as e g robinson in double indemnity shows flair for pseudo criminals tenderness for a negro son and compassion for the true author of the crime because he remembers that is father cleaned the latrines at some château br br clouzot was capable of slapping an actor's face in order to put him in the right frame of mind but deep inside he was very human br br i have his horoscope in front of me he had venus in which means open heartedness devotion charity and altruism for those who do not believe in my most sincere apologies
1	this is one of bruce's most underrated films in my opinion its an awesome heartwarming film with a neat story and an amazing performance from bruce willis all the characters are great and i thought willis and spencer breslin were just awesome together plus bruce willis is simply amazing in this this is definitely one of bruce's best comedic performances the thing was great and i thought it was very well written and made as well plus the finale is especially cool it's good natured and it was cool how you can see russell's willis character change throughout the film plus the ending was pretty good i think this should be higher then 6 0 and it's one of the best disney films i have ever seen plus it has many surprising moments throughout all the characters are extremely likable and it also has a cute love story angle too it as well plus bruce and spencer breslin both had some really funny lines holy smokes this is one of bruce's most underrated films in my opinion its an awesome heartwarming film with a neat story and an an amazing performance from bruce willis and i say its a must see the direction is great jon turteltaub does a great job here with really good camera work and just keeping the film at a very fast pace the acting is excellent bruce willis is amazing as always and is amazing here he gives one of his best comedic performances is hilarious had wonderful chemistry with both spencer breslin and emily mortimer had some funny lines and was dead on throughout the movie he was one of the main reasons i liked this movie so much willis rules spencer breslin is fantastic as the younger version of russell he was very funny and didn't get on my nerves once he is one of the better child actors out there emily mortimer is good as amy and was really cute i liked her she had decent chemistry with bruce too lily tomlin is funny as janet i liked her quite a bit jean smart is good with what she had to do which was not much rest of the cast do fine overall a must see out pf 5
1	henri georges clouzot's film is quiet an example of the french transition cinema a film between the realism of the postwar cinema and the full of magic and symbolism nouvelle vague with some spots of the american classic films but not imitating it the director tales us a story about love crime and the importance of points of view we can find great actors too suzy is impeccable br br is interesting too how we can find aspects of this film nowadays quai des inheritance is palpable in woody allen tradition plunging a crime situation in a picturesque environment the naive ending is also typical in steven spielberg's good ending films and finally i would like to point out the deja sensation during the photography session between jenny lamour suzy and dora simone in which the first one confess that she thinks her husband is being unfaithful and exactly with the woman who is photographing her that scene is exactly the one between natalie portman and julia roberts in closer mike nichols 2004
1	one of the best film i ever saw br br the performance of louis jouvet is fantastic he really his part and this is wonderful he's such a good actor that you can't think of anyone else to take his part br br and both suzy and bernard blier are good as standard french people trying to defend themselves in the struggle born with a murder br br the story is breathtaking and well built you can feel the ambiance of paris for that period which is about 1930 40 between two wars the clubs the old little buildings the neighbors br br all those things contribute to make a great movie
1	first the a cop drama crossed with a funny melodrama quay … is disconcerting independent and a menace to banality jouvet's aplomb is put to good use in a tough cop performance immediately noticeable by its vigor and exuberant force his antoine is not so much a man of intellect but a man of vast life experience and earthly instinct quay … is not subversive in the sense that today's and already yesterday's philistines enjoy using the word it is clouzot's most playful hour he tended to adapt books in a satiric note it's said that clouzot was a big reader of detective novels as a director clouzot's firm hand is successful br br it is not a mystery or a thriller but a satirical look at a parisian couple and at the police's proceedings those accustomed with clouzot's masterpiece les diaboliques might find slightly disconcerting the multiplicity of things styles elements in quay … here clouzot speaks about many things about a couple and a hidden love story simone for blier about the entertainment's world and about old spinsters about police techniques and an old bitter cop with a boy to raise etc there is a note of only in jouvet's performance but also in the film's conception br br quay is a realistic crime drama made as a satire it offers an outstanding performance by jouvet as a tough police inspector antoine is an old cop with an adventurous past he fought in africa but did not climb the stair because of his independent behaviors he lives with his son a schoolboy at work antoine is tough and merciless an able inspector bitter intelligent and harsh it is a role of great gusto very picturesque jouvet composed his character of several defining clothes his expression his funny accent his brutality and that mocking air … antoine is not made to look more clever than plausible when he interrogates blier antoine makes mistakes and his talent is presented like the talent we meet in real with errors and and defects talent is one that comes also from experience from daily not the almost supernatural genius of almost all the famous detectives br br quay … is is a realistic crime drama and also a satire and a melodrama one can consider it among the first filmic forays into the legendary toughness of the french police long ago eastwood's and wayne's harsh cops there was antoine br br the title is interesting suggesting that this is a movie about the police not about a case or a mystery br br as craftsmanship clouzot was perhaps the best and sharpest in france in the way that welles was quay … is very true to clouzot's sardonic comic sharp observations much psychology sharp irony the man was when he filmed knew what to shoot what to the introductory scenes of this film with jenny great stage success each scene is memorably shot clouzot's technical stylistic were amazing his style is inventive satirical sharp extremely limpid ingenious br br jouvet's style was exuberant powerful vehement some disliked it precisely for these features as he had been a great stage actor his movie style was deemed as too theatrical etc his antoine is a fine example of what was meant by composing a role by a composition br br jouvet had a very peculiar like a menacing bird of like van much subtler nobler and more intelligent and distinguished jouvet had this predatory ferocious air and it is useful here as he performs an old tough cop one of quay sides is that it is a jouvet recital he is immediately recognizable identifiable by the quality of his play i see that many watching this flick do not know it is a jouvet is an astounding quality in itself br br fresnay and jouvet are the two french actors that i admire the most the first one was revealed to me by a renoir drama the famous one while jouvet by a carné comedy i was charmed to see that clouzot gave leading roles to both of them br br to end a word about he wrote the novel used by clouzot who had previously adapted another novel as a fresnay comedy was an old school mystery writer in the wallace vein he became quickly outdated with the new hardboiled fashions when i was 11 i have read one of his thrillers and liked it much
1	this film is so lovingly made you want to be part of it forever the flics are straight but not without malice the goods are transparent and evildoers are hardly there even the cabaret are so naive they'll make you daydream with nostalgia in comparison to anything available on tv blier is fine if a bit one sided louis jouvet is perfect you just can't have a better copper he has the best line my dad cleaned other people's dirt and i do the same is unbearable but i guess in part it's the songs wardrobe and hairdo simone on the contrary makes a great femme fatale if a bit silent i didn't realize she may be a lesbian as imdb user and others rightly suggest
1	clouzot followed le where no one knew who was penning the poison thus everyone was suspected with another masterpiece quai des four years later in which we know from the outset or think we do whodunnit top billed louis jouvet doesn't appear for forty minutes by which time clouzot has established a rich milieu of music hall music publishers etc and a fine cast of colourful characters angela lansbury lookalike lansbury appeared in woman of paris that same year suzy scores as the chanteuse whose desire to improve her lot inspires the jealousy of her husband bernard blier who follows her to the home of an elderly letch only to find he is already dead from here things go seriously wrong his car is stolen before he leaves the premises so his pre arranged alibi is out the window whilst meanwhile unknown to him his wife confesses to the murder to the photographer neighbour a closet lesbian in love with her who volunteers to return to the crime scene and retrieve scarf and as long as she's there thoughtfully wipes her prints of the murder weapon a champagne bottle at this point investigator jouvet gets involved and from then on it's a case of keeping the plates spinning in the air clouzot's output was relatively small but virtually all of it was as spencer tracey said in another context with le de and les diaboliques still to come in short this is a must for french cinema buffs
1	is it a murder mystery is it a police procedural is it a back stage look at seedy french music halls quai des is all of these but more than anything else it's an amusing comedy of infidelity jealousy and love set in post wwii paris it may be surprising that henri georges clouzot the director of such grim films as le or such suspenseful nail as diabolique and the wages of fear is the director of this one clouzot however was a shrewd film maker in a murder mystery he tells us 'there's an element of playfulness it's never totally realistic in this i share hitchcock's view which says 'a murder mystery is a slice of cake with and fruit and if you deny yourself this you might as well film a documentary ' quai des is a wonderful film and it's no documentary br br jenny martineau suzy is an ambitious singer at music halls and supper clubs she's a flirt she's sees nothing too wrong with using a bit of sex as well as talent to get a contract her stage name is jenny and she really loves her husband maurice martineau bernard blier martineau is something of a sad sack he's her and arranger he's a bit balding a bit chubby and jealous to a fault then we have their neighbor the photographer dora simone she's blond gorgeous think of rita hayworth and capable she and martineau have been friends since they were children together dora however is definitely not thinking just of friendship when she looks at jenny then comes along georges charles a wizened rich and dirty old man who often has dora take art photographs of his young female whom he poses himself he offers a contract for a film to jenny and suggests a dinner at his home to discuss the details jenny is more than willing maurice is furious and forbids it jenny shouts right back at him you're jealous of the rich well i want my share of their dough i'm all for royalty you're dad was a laborer maurice shouts back so what under louis xv i'd have been madame de pompadour i'd have heated up their tights br br and after is found dead with a smashed champagne bottle next to his bleeding skull there's dora to try to make things safe for jenny but wait inspector antoine gets the case antoine louis jouvet is a tall tired middle aged bachelor with sore feet he has seen it all he served in the colonies with the foreign legion and returned with an adopted baby and malaria the child is now about eight years old and antoine dotes on him one of the first things antoine discovers is not only did someone brain with a bottle someone shot him in the heart who did it before long jenny maurice and dora all are making up alibis lying and at one or another point confessing how will antoine discover the murderer will we have a chance to see some great music hall songs sung by jenny everything becomes clear but only with time and detective persistence we are left with many kinds of love leading to all kinds of motives from hair trigger jealousy to longing glances and all played with a nice mixture of gallic amusement br br clouzot takes us to a paris of seedy but not threatening neighborhoods to downtrodden music publishers where tunes are played on the piano for buyers to restaurants with discrete private dining rooms most of all he takes us to the music hall where jenny often performs we can see jenny as she sings with couples in the seats and single men wearing their coats and hats in standing room and everyone smokes the first third of the film in fact takes place largely in this milieu with jenny singing about her petite tra la la her sweet tra la la we follow her from trying out the song at the publishers to a rehearsal to a saucy performance with jenny in a feathered hat a corset stockings and not much else br br blier and all do wonderful jobs but it louis jouvet who holds everything together he was a marvelous actor who disliked making films the stage was his world and he took on films only if he happened to like the director and to make money to finance his stage work jouvet was tall with a long face and broad cheekbones he was not conventionally handsome but he had what it takes to dominate a scene for a look at how skillfully he could play comedy watch him in de he's a fascinating actor at one point he says i've taken a liking to you miss dora me she asks yes because you and i are two of a kind when it comes to women we'll never have a chance jouvet brings all kinds of nuances to that line from rueful regret to a gentle amusement
1	h g had difficulties working in france after he had made le in 1943 which was produced by the german company and later judged by french as a piece of anti french propaganda louis jouvet an admirer of clouzot's work invited him to direct a thriller quai des where he played an ambiguous police inspector investigating a murder that happened in paris music hall without each other knowledge the seductive cabaret singer jenny lamoure suzy and her jealous piano husband maurice who is madly in love with her bertrand blier father of director bertrand blier trying to cover up without each other's knowledge what they believe to be their involvement in the murder enters tenacious policeman louis jouvet who is determined to discover the truth jouvet practically stole the movie with wonderfully cynic and sentimental in the same time performance his character his eagle like profile and his unique way of speaking made him unforgettable quai des witty and atmospheric observation of human weaknesses was a great comeback of h g the fine director french hitchcock
1	the extraordinarily adorable suzy plays a statuesque performer obsessed with succeeding in the theater her husband and played by bernard blier is a composed but jealous man when he finds out in a less than preferable way that his flashy wife has planned a rendezvous with a lecherous old businessman with the intention of advancing her career he loses all control and threatens the businessman with murder now at that point i must stop describing the film to you because it skates on such thin ice with its twists revelations ambiguities and suspense that to imply any of it would endanger it i am not sure how good or bad that is for this french police procedural emanating from the song and dance community though it is certainly interesting that what we do know throughout is who did not do it we just don't know who did br br the story depends upon the procedure of following clues where ideal alibis fail and where cautiously created fabrications and deceptions disintegrate interestingly this is a suspense film in which suspense is generated in spite of the knowledge one would traditionally think too much too soon br br quay of the is the least dark of henri georges clouzot's films it's nowhere near as sinister as the shocking les diaboliques as tragic as the riveting wages of fear or as eery as le maybe it is due to the of the dance halls and theater settings of 1940s france which all work as the milieu of this crime thriller br br clouzot both understands and approves of his characters even the more rotten ones where he has more of a vindictive streak with his other films where he may have had understanding for the scheming women in les diabolique or the truck drivers who sink to the level of risking horrible death in order to oust themselves from miserable life in the wages of fear there isn't necessarily support or agreement on the part of the filmmaker for these are characters who plainly made the direct decisions that determine their fate all the characters in this more settling film have scenes and moments that endear us to them even the harsh cold detective played by louis jouvet who worries about his young adoptive son amid all the trouble and despair that happens in his life at any time with the drop of a hat br br there is humor and unabashed sexiness the latter mostly on the part of that neutralize the pressure to a degree clouzot was quietly practicing his craft patient till he made his unrelenting later films in which he would permit his audiences no pardon from the tension
1	a nice humorous mix of music hall in the first third mostly and police procedural mystery as the various suspects' stories start to collapse the final exposure of the murder may come as a surprise if you don't watch closely a gritty look at paris of the time you can ignore the final scene the hollywood ending louis jouvet is best as the police inspector who seems to be just passing through but is really on top of things
1	the director loves the actress and it shows the actress inhabits the character whom we love at first sight and sound the character loves her jealous husband and he loves her his childhood friend secretly loves his wife and the fact that his friend is a beautiful woman makes the love tragic and ironic his wife is jealous of his childhood friend and thinks her attentions are out of secret love for her husband br br then there is a murder and the investigating police lieutenant who loves only his bi racial son and resents being taken from his company by the above characters who have had some unpleasant contact with the deceased and are all lying to one degree or another unravels the mystery with some of the most precise and authentic procedural detail ever captured on film br br and then there are the atmospherics of a post war paris where coal is in short supply music is filled with erotic longing and wistful memory and innocence has long ago been washed away by the rain br br all of this in a milieu of magicians whose tricks don't always work dogs who walk on their hind feet and express music criticism hungry news reporters and exhausted cops br br and then there are many of the finest actors of their generation who have been through some very bad years directed by to come full circle a man who is in love with his lead actress and who with full justification was a respected friend of picasso br br i've seen this film often and i love all of them and it
1	hello looking for a movie for the family to watch on a friday night can't find what your looking for i thought this was an extremely enjoyable movie good for the whole family i found that it had a remarkably rare combination of it being appealing to both adults and children alike it was brilliant to say the least bruce acting was top notch there was a lot of humor in it and overall a great movie in my opinion it's a must see movie and i don't think that about a lot of movies believe me when i say it takes a lot for a movie to get me to think that it's clear that there was much work done by bruce willis and cast to get this movie done excellent story good acting and again overall a thoroughly enjoyable movie
1	first of all there is a detective story by belgian andré whose au 21 clouzot had already transferred to the screen in 1942 with pierre fresnay and the same actress suzy complained about clouzot's adaptation for both movies the movie from 1942 was excellent but the detective story side had been kept so why complaining as for quai des clouzot was now in a new phase of his brilliant career after having directed le and been blacklisted he had a lot more to say than a simple whodunit complained essentially about the poor detective ending which i will not reveal of course but clouzot focused on the social vignettes on his characters's psychology and he did not give a damn about the puzzle à la agatha christie by doing so he becomes the genuine predecessor of claude chabrol who has always been closer to him than to alfred hitchcock whom he admires much though suzy has great screen presence and you will love the song she really sings she was a singer too avec son tralala bernard blier gives as ever a sparing of gestures and words performance and he really pulls it off two characters are particularly interesting and disturbing the first one dora the photographer she takes pictures of female models and clouzot by subtle touches reveals us she's a lesbian of course the word is never uttered how could it be in 1947 the police chief fabulous louis jouvet tells her you and me we are not lucky with women the portrait of this cop is very detailed we learn a lot of things about him not necessary connected with the blier plot he's a widower with a son he adores and who runs into school difficulties particularly in geometry so we get to know all the characters in depth one of the most important manifesto of post war french cinema
1	this is an exceptional picture with so much to recommend it the acting and writing are terrific and there are lots of great twists and turns in the plot as a french noir film its language is certainly a lot earthier than its american counterparts but to me this just added to the realism additionally i liked how non glamorous everyone was particularly the husband and the lieutenant about the only negative and the reason the film gets a 9 and not a 10 is because there was a glaring plot hole like another famous french film drôle de the confusion between the cops and the accused could easily have been settled in the beginning but the characters made rather stupid decisions for this you just need to suspend disbelief and keep watching the payoff is well worth the wait br br this is simply one of the finest french films i have seen period
1	quai des directed by the brilliant henri georges clouzot is a film to treasure because it is one of the best exponents of french film making of the postwar years m clouzot adapting the novel longtime defence shows his genius in the way he sets the story and in the way he all the characters in this deeply satisfying movie that as has pointed out in this forum it demonstrates how influential was and how much the next generation of french movie makers are indebted to the master especially claude chabrol br br the crisp black and white cinematography by armand has been magnificently transferred to the criterion dvd we recently watched working with clouzot makes the most of the dark tones and the shadows in most of the key scenes the music by francis lopez a man who created light music and in france works well in the context of the film since the action takes place in the world of the music halls and night clubs br br louis jouvet who is seen as a police detective is perfect in the part this was one of his best screen appearances for an actor who was a pillar of the french theater jouvet clearly understood well the mechanics for the creation of his police inspector who is wiser and can look deeply into the souls of his suspects and ultimately steals the show from the others in an unfair comment by someone in this page jouvet's inspector is compared with peter falk's columbo the television detective frankly and no disrespect to mr falk intended it's like comparing a great champagne to a good house wine br br bernard blier is perfect as the jealous husband blier had the kind of face that one could associate with the man consumed with the passion his wife jenny lamour has awakened in him martineau is vulnerable and doesn't act rationally he is an easy suspect because he has done everything wrong as he finds in the middle of a crime he didn't commit but all the evidence points to the contrary br br the other great character in the film is dora the photographer it's clear by the way she interacts with jenny where her real interest lies simone is tragically appealing as this troubled woman and makes an enormous contribution to the film suzy playing jenny is appealing as the singer who suddenly leaps from obscurity to celebrity and attracts the kind of men like the old lecher br br the film is one of the best clouzot directed during his distinguished career and one that will live forever because the way he brought all the elements together
1	quai des takes too long getting going with clouzot so enamored of his back stage milieu that he is almost in danger of forgetting the story however once it does it's clouzot at his best bertrand blier father of bertrand blier and co star of his buffet froid is the pianist who married beneath himself and who plans to kill the seedy studio mogul with designs on his wife only to find that someone has beaten him to it not only that but his carefully planned but clumsily executed alibi falls to pieces not least when a thief steals his car at the murder scene… br br the film really kicks into life with the arrival of luis jouvet's police inspector a rather wonderful creation half alistair sim in green for danger and half world weary with better dialog in a neat running gag his investigation is constantly conducted at the top of his voice against chaos and noise whether it be the noisy typewriters of the police station or a loud rehearsal the police station itself is a wonderfully realistic creation a wealth of chaotic and telling small details that makes steve once revolutionary 80's us cop shows look like antiquated museum pieces by comparison br br if suzy is a rather unconvincing femme fatale the supporting cast more than compensate with the beautiful simone a standout as the lesbian photographer in love with her from afar and constantly mistaken for blier's lover by and other interested parties only jouvet similarly unlucky with women understands and genuinely sympathises with great black and white photography by armand this is a terrific little thriller with a nice twist ending and a lovely scene with a cab driver reluctantly identifying in a police station trivia note pierre who played the playfully philosophical dr in le turns up in smaller roles as a cab driver in both quai and les br br the criterion dvd is quite superb great picture quality plus an illuminating extract from a french tv show featuring interviews with clouzot blier and
1	and i love it wonder will pick up a cult audience and once it's canceled the dvd sales will go though the roof this is a very funny show in it's own ways it's a parody of children's shows namely sesame street our puppet characters consist of a yellow furry monster with a hat whose our host clarence is a blue lizard like thing that does his own segments where he goes out on the streets him is a weird dog like thing that refers to himself in the third person is the smart one whose brain always shows then there's the newscaster and the pink puppet it's a very funny show not really as nasty as you'd expect but more the situations they take 7 year olds out on the street tell them what to say and have them make mean jokes that they don't understand my favorite segments are clarence's videos especially when somebody doesn't want to be filmed i prefer tv funhouse which was a similar show but this is still a very funny show that i hope lasts for years to come br br my rating 1 4 out of 30 mins tv ma
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1	i love this show my girlfriend was gonna get an abortion until we both watched wonder one night luckily she killed herself before the baby was born though technically i think it was considered a murder suicide br br my first thoughts upon seeing wonder now i know what god watches when he jerks off all the time br br wonder is to television what a toaster in the bathtub is to my self esteem br br you know how george w bush makes speaking gaffes all the time tyler wouldn't tyler's good tyler cuts his nails he's tyler he's good
1	seeing this show gives me respect for mtv though i imagine that mtv sees this random edgy material as its main selling point and is much less concerned with the pertinent truths it expresses br br i write and play music for a living and this show gets me really emotionally riled up for me serves a completely distinct function from most tv instead of dulling or distracting the senses which can be often really nice at times it awakens my spirit of right and wrong it makes me very uncomfortable but in a very comforting way br br i don't think a lot of viewers absorb most of this show's content but if they do kudos to television viewers everywhere
1	i'm torn about this show while most parts of it i found to be hilarious other parts of it i found to be stupid and simply shock for shock sake the off the wall parody of some of the cartoons are brilliant as indeed are a lot of the scenes with the children however i don't think it's clever getting little children to say rude things it's not that i think oh poor children they're being exploited it's just that it's really not clever it's something that anyone could do therefore making it as simple and pointless as making a paper airplane in order to make this show better they would have to stick to the natural responses from children which i think can be funnier than the scripted at time br br by far the funniest part of wonder is clarence the blue puppet who wonders around the streets talking to and annoying strangers it's really funny and it's mostly improvised seeing him in a long scene about the importance of patience test the patience of an extremely patient man was by far the funniest scene in my opinion br br you should watch this show though because all in all it's very funny even if it is stupid at times
1	i was plagued by nightmares involving sesame street and the muppet show during my childhood i loved the programs but when i slept i'd dream about muppets not unlike the ones on tv but not quite the ones on tv br br they would speak gibberish and laugh and sing while eating each other and killing each other they'd take a bite of their cute felt flesh and it would tear apart followed by arterial bleeding nice but that was the past i love this show i saw peter jackson's meet the feebles years ago and wondered why there wasn t similar work out there well here it is as sick twisted and somehow socially potent the old vision br br if you like this show and you haven't seen meet the feebles get it on amazon or some such film source you're in for a treat br br by the way clarence would totally kick dog ass
1	imagine you have the opportunity to see yourself again as a kid now think what would happen if you had the chance to speak with your younger self or even change him you would you try to influence or try to change your younger beliefs in light of your future experience or perhaps the encounter would change your older perception of life and reality br br walt disney's the kid tries to engage this complex thought by putting older self bruce willis in a collision course with younger self spenser breslin from the santa clause 2 and the cat in the hat fame the result is a sometimes funny sometimes touching encounter which makes you ponder about your own past present and future – and truly believe it is never too late to change your course
1	this was a great film in every sense of the word it tackles the subject of in a society that is quite intolerant of any deviations from the norm it criticises a great many indian customs that many find oppressive such as the arranging of marriages by others the importance of status and face religious hypocrisy sexism the valuation of women in terms of their baby making capacity the binding concepts of duty and so on at the heart of the film is a touching love story that goes beyond such limitations of the society which the two protagonists find themselves the film is well acted and genuine completely believable from beginning to end unlike most bollywood flicks the main faults of the film as i saw it was first that the two lovers seem drawn to one another not necessarily by a natural affinity for each other as much as the fact that they are stuck in dead end marriages with no passion and no rewards this may play a part in the sexual awakening of the characters but most people stuck in the same situation will not turn homosexual it seems clear from the beginning of the film that the two characters are quite heterosexual when radha does her scene at the end of the movie with she makes it quite clear that without desire she was dead and the implication was that if he had desired so he could have fulfilled her quite completely and also when sita seemed very disappointed when her husband seemed to not like her such situations do not turn people into homosexuals they may seek comfort in others in the same position but film it is not at all made clear that they are lesbians from the beginning quite the opposite some people are bisexual it is true but most tend to be either hetero or homosexual in the case of the ladies in the film both had insensitive jerks for husbands if this had not been the case would they have naturally found the need to express their desire in a relationship that they may have otherwise not have considered the film ignores this the other fault is the naming of the characters the names sita and radha seem contrived deliberately to shock and outrage imagine a film in america depicting a gay relationship between a man named jesus and another named paul by using names associated with various scriptures the film is strong enough to stand on its own and needs no such devices in my opinion at any rate the faults do not take much away from the power of the movie it is indeed a very touching and powerful story the images and characters will stay with you a long time after you leave the theatre
1	truly a wonderful movie bruce willis gives his always outstanding comedic romantic acting power to this message movie and the movie brings hope to the losers many of us know we are a gift to everyone of middle age whose spent time seems both full and yet empty there is more around the next bend and it can be great enriching and romantic leave the recent past and return to the lessons of the distant past and then take off on a favorite flight to your better future if we could re live our youthful experiences if we could really remember the events that shaped us wouldn't we find a special kind of freedom see the movie open the gift
1	it is so nice to see bruce willis come down off his action throne and let us see that he really is a talented actor he shines in this film as the near 40 year old image consultant who has totally lost touch with his inner child until he meets him face to face this is one of those rare films that doesn't talk down to its audience and truly offers something for the whole family it is about caring for each other keeping some of the child inside you and realizing that you don't grow up exactly the way you thought you would willis seems to be building an impressive track record for working with kids just witness the sixth sense with haley joel osment and he has great chemistry with spencer breslin here there is some nice photography and music and the ending is wonderful and uplifting a great film to see with every member of your family
1	as a word of explanation disney's the kid has absolutely nothing in common with the charlie chaplin 1921 classic of the same name what we do have is a pleasant enough though unbelievable feel good family comedy as only the folks at disney can provide br br bruce willis in a change of pace plays a self centered stuffed shirt of an image consultant he degrades not only his clients but those close to him as well you know that he is going to have to change before the final credits br br into his life comes a chapter from his past in the form of willis' character as a nerdy 8 year old played with cutesy pie conviction by spencer breslin disney always finds these kids somewhere this forces willis to come to grips with his past and well you know the rest br br appearing as willis' love interest is emily mortimer and lily tomlin as his executive assistant both have little enough to do as most of the movie involves the inter action between the willis and breslin characters br br the kid though not the greatest of disney movies is one nonetheless that you can sit down and watch with your family and come away from with a warm feeling
1	while my kids enjoyed the movie and announced afterward that they want to buy it later i think i got more out of it that they did the scene in the airport shop at the beginning is real life i did not use the cutting comment aloud but i thought it it is a feel good mid life movie a bit sappy and some scenes work less well than others why does the kid stay with bruce willis after he knows his mom is dying but all in all and good time it also gave our family something to talk about did my kids think my life was boring what do they expect at 40 how can you not like a movie that gets a good conversation going with your kids
1	now for sure this is one of the lightest hearted stories that bruce willis has been in to date and yet it is still touching i really like bruce's style and persona i haven't loved everything he has ever been in but he brings it to the 'big time' for me in most all his film endeavors br br the story begins he is power confidence and style with a capitol 's' he drives a porshe he lives well in a palatial estate with a grand view of the fair city that's russell he is an image consultant to those who are on the top or rising to it his acclaim he is russell he knows what it takes to make it it just seems that as life is going along swiftly and foundation ally set there is a problem an intruder at his home the alarm has been activated br br russell can't seem to figure out for the moment what is happening to him it's different and yet it is somehow familiar a small boy who looks exactly like him as their lives run smack dab into each other there seems to be a reason that is screaming out to him you have unfinished business to take care of now br br amy the supporting young lady of the story is probably the best balance that he has seen and has in his life she works with him puts up with his and yet she is smitten with russell very much so with rusty his past now in the picture and talking a mile a minute singing too late at night everything that was foundational is becoming like jelly br br willis is fun egocentric and at times out of his head in this lovable disney modern times classic 'the kid' and to add his little heavy duty side kick spencer breslin is a perfect addition to this sparkling story of childhood to adult and back to childhood adventure chi mcbride is an inspirational supporting character as he is the heavy weight champ teaching 'little' rusty how to box to defend himself against the bullies on the playground br br all in all this is a real winner of a movie with even lillie tomlin as the secretary and aide to russell i originally saw this back in and then again years later with equal enjoyment this is a shiny family comedy that has a super ending that will warm the hearts of any disney fan recommended highly
1	when the first trailer for this film was viewed by myself i was curious as to what angle the storyline would take after all the plot of having one's childhood self return to the present leaves open many options bruce willis however does a superb job in the role he was given i was surprised to see just how well he could act in this part this is also a good career move as many others have said but after seeing it i now agree this film is mainly about remembering the kid you used to be and coming to the realization that you aren't the adult you planned to be this is a wonderful story and a gripping tale that makes us all think usually we scorn at what if movies for example waterworld attempted to answer the question what if the world were to be covered with water and but truthfully nobody cared this movie however effects everyone in the theatre true young children may not fully grasp the idea of growing up and having all your dreams fizzle away but it leaves a great impact on the adults and parents of those children this movie is definitely worth seeing although it will be better the second time around because you won't be thinking so much about how the kid got there and why and all that stuff just relax and have fun and take something with you when you leave that cinema take that piece of your childhood you've forgotten and enjoy it
1	the kid at 39 years old russel has a life that most men would envy he has a great job is respected and feared has a beautiful house and makes buckets of money but everything comes at a cost in this case no social life no conscience and a fear of spending the rest of his life alone he just needs someone to show him the way br br as i watched the movie i kept wondering why disney didn't pass this film on to miramax not because it's particularly daring or edgy but because it is clearly a movie for adults this is exacerbated by the marketing campaign which is clearly targeting children it is lumped in with trailers for rugrats the movie and pokemon 2000 aren't they passe yet but i quibble br br i was impressed by the sensitive treatment of the subject matter rather than the typical male midlife crisis that involves some pathetic sap buying a porsche convertible and acting like a moron willis' character undertakes some serious introspection and takes stock of his life his guide on this journey of self discovery is himself at age 8 they never explain how rusty arrives and frankly i didn't care young innocence and unbridled optimism give him a distinct advantage in the truth he sums up russell's job as an image consultant thusly you teach people how to lie and pretend to be something they aren't in order for a good script to succeed however you need actors to bring it to life not a problem here br br although willis has thrice ignored w c fields' warnings about starring with children or animals he has lucked out once again meshing as well comedically with breslin as he did dramatically with osment willis manages to balance russell's cutthroat traits with vulnerability and confusion without becoming ridiculous breslin meanwhile gives a dead on portrayal of a kid from everyone's childhood the one that always stuck out for some reason and got picked on we also get two bonus performances lily tomlin is great as russell's levelheaded assistant and jean smart is perfect as an insightful charming anchorwoman i loved her in guinevere br br the kid is charming heavy and real and it will appeal to adults of all ages
1	from a perspective that it is possible to make movies that are not offensive to people with strong moral values this one is definitely worthwhile this is the second bruce willis film in a row that manages to tell its story with no nudity off color humor profanity or gratuitous violence i refer of course to the sixth sense both movies are engaging on more than one level this one is appropriate for children as well although as others have pointed out it isn't a flick for kids br br i was bothered that the time travel device that drives this plot is never explained except that we know russell himself initiates it as a 70 year old also why does his dying mother have to come to school to get him when he wins the fight why if as his older self says he has to fight that kid again and again for the next few years does his mother not have to come and get him every time and why he doesn't learn to kick butt in the process i also found the score rather annoying and not always appropriate to the action on stage br br good use of the red plane as metaphor however
1	the kid is a really good family movie about a stuffy image consultant russ who has lots of money a good job nice house etc the only problem is he doesn't have much of a social life as nobody seems to like him as he isn't always very nice one day though things are about to change when an eight year old version of himself magically appears this gives russ a second chance to make things right bruce willis plays the lead role here and he gives a really good performance the kid is a nice heart warming movie for everyone
1	this is a totally awesome movie if you haven't seen it yet you damn well should sure the plot is slow to develop the special effects are laughable the acting is ridiculous and the action is badly choreographed but as wrestler ddp would say that's not a bad thing that's a good thing everything about this movie is hilarious especially if you get the dubbed version which has even worse actors it's countless laughs until you get to the end yearning for the sequel where the mummy fights wrestling women thus i give it ten stars unless you're one of those and people with good taste who likes only 'high quality' films of the highest calibre i recommend this utterly movie
1	this is my first deepa mehta film i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its sita character presented as i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not sita yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta not her direction the characters big and small were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end somewhat like the end of an unmarried woman they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men and one cardboard man ashok seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him carrying his invalid mother he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and to religion br br ms mehta seems to fumble as a director however compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant as she cannot use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter not her father yet her radha of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field compare her to sen ali and she is dwarfed by these giants given her competent canadian production team and financial resources mehta's film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space malayalam and films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable br br ms das ms azmi mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors sen's gautam paar a brilliance notably absent in this film ms das due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability all in all the film's strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays
1	what a film quite possibly the best i've ever seen the direction the production the score and the cinematography wonderful the acting is also excellent and the man robot scenes have to be seen to be i can not recommend this film enough get it out on video now turn the lights down and enjoy
1	this flick was the introduction for a lot of us to the works of k gordon murray that's because it was easy to find it was on every public domain label in the vhs era and before that a late night t v cult classic double knee thigh slapper besides how do you resist the title br br for late comers a brief explanation of it's merit florida wheeler dealer k gordon murray imported mexican horror films dubbed them into english then made a mint with them at the drive in the mexican originals were weird enough to begin with american boundaries and accepted horror film conventions were cheerfully disregarded great great set design and lighting were placed beside weird or laughable special effects nothing in hollywood was as close as these were to out and out strange now mix in catholic influenced social conventions mexican folk lore and we are not in kansas anymore br br add to that the english scripts they were dubbed into most were written by who wanted words to match movements of the actors lips on screen not the literal translation as a result the american soundtracks tended to run from overwrought to down right loopy there's even a fan web site for murray that prints the best most over the top lines for each movie first time viewers to the films complain about the pacing the purple prose the production values and are told it's supposed to be that way while the people laugh with enjoyment over things normally considered fatal film flaws it all must be very confusing if you don't have a taste for it br br this one was made back to back in 1957 with the two previous films in the series the aztec mummy and curse of the aztec mummy all three are now available on the 3 disc aztec mummy collection bci and it's about time it has the k gordon murray version on one side the original mexican production on the other side the contrast between the two is fascinating a lot of the times the original spanish is not much saner br br robot mummy starts off with a nice long flashback bringing you up to speed on the previous episodes sort of continuity was tossed out the window in number two and it's downhill from there logic wise you don't even get the angel back or any mention of him in this final episode names places even family trees switch between films after a while you start looking for the continuity changes br br by now the series villain doc is totally pig biting mad nearly drooling with dementia and still wants to steal the aztec arenas is sent back to the past with another nice edit of the aztec mummy floor show and wanders out into the dark in her nightie to help find that doggone again the mummy isn't any happier with this then he was last time br br the robot actually has a production credit it was made by co s a ' i mention this because it looks like the grips came up with it between takes on a slow afternoon when the real costume went walkabout nope br br this was planned br br wait until you see the controller it runs from x box where were you when needed you the robot looks crushed to death at the end but actually came back in two more mexican made movies it had a fan base br br all in all a funny quirky finish to a three movie series sit back and enjoy
1	this was a great movie for being only 67 minutes long there was an aspect of film noir contained in this movie and i am glad that nolan picked to film it in black and white the plot is simple yet entertaining that keeps you engaged even the dialogue was good along with the acting it reminded me of what was to come in memento by not being in chronological order i liked how the main character tried to use what cobb taught him for example saying everyone has a box which he put his personal things into also on the writer's door was the batman logo which seemed ironic because christopher nolan would later direct batman begins and the dark knight two other great movies there is a great twist in the end which i'm not going to spoil for anyone who hasn't seen it even though i kind of figured what would happen when cobb gave the young man d credit card i also liked how the writer had a copy of the republic by plato one of my favorite philosophical books this is definitely a movie you need to watch more than once to get the full aspect of it plus it only being an hour long there is also a circular aspect to it by ending where it began which i thought was pretty brilliant
1	this film is superb it has the same low budget first film feel of 'pi' and 'clerks' but has the style of also by writer director christopher nolan the score sound effects photography and editing are almost prototypes and the story shows that christopher nolan is best when writing and directing don't be put off by the low budget look and acting or even the short length of the film and just watch it
1	saw this at the hong kong international film festival over three years ago i went in with no expectations since christopher nolan was a no name at the time but it sounded interesting and turned out to be one of the best things i saw at that festival it worked well on the big screen with the technique of cutting the scenes out of sequence adding to the mood mr nolan gave a good account of its making at the end enough to put anybody off starting out as a film maker i liked it better than memento although this was perhaps due to the lower expectations and the fact that it was more of an art house movie
1	i'm amazed that memento which is an excellent flick is so well regarded in the top 250 and this one doesn't even appear what the hell is that to be honest when this movie ended my knee jerk reaction was that this movie is better than memento after the euphoria of the fabulous ending wore off i concluded that they are equal in their excellence i am just confused about why its not in the top 50 along with memento i'm going to venture a guess that sadly it's because it's in black and white or because again sadly that the characters all have british accents sadly because that is no reason to not appreciate a great movie like this br br i'm telling you that if you loved memento you will love following as well brilliant
1	following is an intriguing thriller that requires constant awareness to be completely understood the plot has many twists and uses displaced chronology the event sequence complicates following following if you are willing to pay attention it is an exciting movie full of noir earmarks with the running time at 70 minutes there is a lot to take in but the fast pace helps to keep the viewer enthralled br br bill is a lonely untidy fellow who takes up shadowing people and seeing where they go what they do he is a bit too conspicuous however and eventually gets caught by a well dressed clean cut bloke named cobb cobb bill in a world the poor boy is not prepared to live in cobb is a smart rogue who seems to have complete control over the other characters by the end of the film the disjointed story is explained thoroughly the film is an excellent first effort from the talented christoper nolan who would go on to make memento one of the most original movies of our time
1	this is an excellent film but momento nolan's other big budget film is much better i would recommend people go to see momento and then if they like that see this film the film is shot in black and white which i was a bit annoyed with at first but once into the film you understand black and white is the best way for the film to be seen it is extremely gripping and reasonably easy to understand even though the way it is made is extremely clever elements of the storyline i think are a bit daft but the film is definitely worthy of a second viewing to the film has a clever plot clever twists and turns very good acting and bearing in mind the budget of the film i have to say that it is pretty amazing
1	there are two things that i noticed in this film this is not a spoiler just a mistake in storytelling when cole takes bill to his first b e he finds the box as soon as cole finds it he says the box everyone's got a box a minute later just before he dumps the contents on the floor he says we're actually very fortunate you don't see these often br br observation 2 spoiler alert br br i had to watch the thing three times i couldn't figure a couple of things out then i watched the chronological version and saw that they were having flash backs from the latter to the previous during the time changes so at some points we were actually watching three different times in about 1 min of wall time br br that was a good thing because i don't know how many more times i could watch it before returning it to netflix br br color me obsessive
1	an excellent debut movie for the the director of batman begins comes the following a movie about a man who follows other people for inspiration of characters in stories he writes one man he follows he decides to go further and the man turns out to be more than he bargained for br br using a cast of non actors and his uncle writing directing producing and otherwise completely making this movie entirely on his own with almost no budget and produced independently this movie is much more than you'd expect br br for anyone who likes memento and complex twists turns shocks and messing around with time this is definitely a movie for you
1	contains spoiler information watch this director's other film earth at some point it's a better film but this one isn't bad just different br br a rare feminist point of view from an indian filmmaker tradition rituals duty secrets and the portrayal of strict sex roles make this an engaging and culturally dynamic film viewing experience all of the married characters lack the fire of the marriage bed with their respective spouses one husband is celibate and commits a form of spiritual adultery by giving all of his love honor time and respect to his religious swami guru his wife is lonely and yearns for intimacy and tenderness which she eventually finds with her closeted lesbian sister in law who comes to live in their house with her unfaithful husband this unfaithful husband is openly in love with his chinese mistress but was forced into marriage with a unbeknownest to him lesbian they only have sex once when his closet lesbian wife loses her virginity br br a servant lives in the house and he eventually reveals the secret that the two women are lovers another significant character is the elderly matriarch who is unable to speak or care for herself due to a stroke however she uses a ringing bell to communicate her needs as well as her displeasure with the family members she lets them know through her bell or by pounding her fist that she knows what's going on in the house and how much she disapproves br br in the end the truth about everybody comes out and the two female lovers end up running away together but not before there is an emotional scene between the swami addicted husband and his formerly straight wife her sari catches on fire and at first we think she is going to die however we see the two women united in the very last scene of the movie br br the writer director of this film challenges her culture's traditions but she shows us individual human beings who are trapped by their culture and gender we come to really care about the characters and we don't see them as stereotypes each on surprises us with their humanity vulgarity tenderness anger and spirit
1	christopher nolan's first film is a 'no budget' black and white film about a unemployed writer who begins following strangers which in turn leads to robbery and also violence it is very good br br like in his later film he doesn't present the story in a linear way instead it jumps around somewhat so you end up really sucked in trying to piece it all together and early apparently random shots take on significance as the film progresses this style also means the twists are much more effective br br definitely worth seeing if you get the chance especially if you like his later work and or film noir
1	brit director nolan now has a career in america and a reputation for making movies both popular and critically acclaimed but this small film was where he started and it certainly showcased his talent with its striking black and white cinematography and storytelling that prefigures his later albeit in a less extreme way thematically and the plot reminded me of david mamet's 'house of games' but the film still feels fresh and sharp right up to the final twist of the ending whose flavour was expected but whose is unexpectedly delicious the acting on the other hand is not quite in the same class the film has a stylised quality and possibly to a greater extent than the director intended but it's still a fine debut simultaneously claustrophobic and beguiling
1	great british director christopher nolan momento insomnia directs this odd film about a struggling writer obsessed with following people this proves harmless at first but soon turns dangerous after taking the game a step further after meeting a like minded man who shows him the ins and outs of breaking and entering the two men soon get in over their heads in a strange world involving the mafia and prostitution jeremy plays the writer and alex haw the like minded friend both are great performances this low budget movie was shot total guerrilla style with no permits for any locations and no big stars but has what a lot of huge budget films don't have which is a clever script and creative direction an impressive debut by one of todays best directors good stuff
1	if christopher nolan had made memento before following then all of the flaws in following would have been corrected in memento nolan constructed the switches in time perfectly we were able to tell when it was the past when it's current etc however nolan experimented with it a little and it just doesn't work although he had a small budget and couldn't use color which is one way memento worked it was just too hard to distinguish between time on the dvd is a feature that allows you to play the scenes in chronological order i intended to write my review after watching it so hopefully it would make more sense but of course it wasn't working br br you can't blame nolan for not coming up with original ideas a young man bill jeremy is bored so he decides to follow random people on the street he finds one cobb alex haw that particularly interests him soon bill becomes friends with cobb and goes with him as he breaks into houses and robs them then a saucy young blond lucy russell enters and the movie becomes even weirder from there br br the ending of following is one of the most shocking endings i've seen sure fight club had an amazing ending but the way that ending played out was amazing i felt like someone had smacked me on the head and given me a concussion nolan has a thing for making good endings well maybe not i could guess from a mile away and can really construct a great story following may not be the easiest to follow or look at but it's such a finely crafted original story with a shocker ending that you'll probably want to watch all of its 70 minutes again br br my rating 7 10 br br rated r for language and some violence
1	a suprisingly good film considering the circumstances of its production features performances from no name actors that rival the top talent on the planet sadly none have a career br br also features the the god like ability of christopher nolan to write perfect dialogue dialogue is what carries this story which is about a man who likes to follow people for material for his books well shot very well edited even better written and amazingly well performed br br this movie has everything a great film needs except people who have seen it 9 10
1	this is definitely nolan's most and thought provoking piece not to say that memento or insomnia are bad but they were definitely up to more hollywood standards while following is more of an indie flick the story is very brilliant and very well developed overall watch this if your a fan of any of nolan's work i'm sure you'll be able to appreciate it more
1	chris nolan's labyrinth like noir about voyeurism and identity is amazing from start to finish a first film is as complex as memento or the prestige though maybe a little harder to get a handle on still it smacks of originality and creative drive and has a twist as intellectually challenging as it is realistic pulp few film makers have made as good of use of their editors and attention to narrative that nolan has the story is about a bored writer who likes to follow random strangers down the street until he follows someone whose noticed him following others and has been following him in from there the complexity escalates and identities begin to rearrange more naturalistic and realist than nolan's later work but just as razor sharp
1	following is a little known 1998 british film which was made with a budget of and has a running time of 70 minutes when watching it you'd never expect its director to go on to make it in hollywood and become one of the most acclaimed and celebrated directors of the 21st century – well everybody has to start somewhere i suppose br br the director of following as you probably already know is englishman christopher nolan who directly after following would go on to direct the critically acclaimed independent film memento a few years later he would be hired by warner bros to direct the new batman series which further brought him acclaim and so on and so forth my point is everybody has to start somewhere – even if it's not in the most astounding debut – and christopher nolan introduces himself to the world in 1998 with following br br when watching it i couldn't help but draw resemblances to another directorial debut avant garde auteur david lynch's eraserhead following is not a surrealist psychological horror film in that sense but the similarities are noticeable most notable it's shot in grainy black and white and has an atmosphere about it that makes it unique it's hard to describe in words but it loosely resembles the smoky atmosphere you'd find in the film noirs of old hence it can be said that following is a contemporary film noir or a neo noir overall it's an amalgamation of that and a psychological thriller and the story is most appropriate to these two genres br br the main character is nameless and the movie's title stems from an early obsessive compulsive trait he possessed – randomly picking out people on the street and following them sometimes even for hours on end during one of these expeditions' the main character becomes noticed by one of the people he is following and is confronted turns out that the is a man who is willing to befriend our narrator and he introduces himself his name is cobb and he's a petty burglar who invites the narrator to follow him on his burglaries br br from there the main character becomes swept up in world and he becomes embroiled in crime passion and violence as he gets more and more intimate with cobb following is not so much a character study but instead a film which follows the tumultuous relationship between these two main characters and the devastating ramifications it has on our narrator nolan succeeds in making the film resemble a film noir and emulates the respective atmosphere well br br as a thriller following is taut and atmospheric however as a film in general it's somewhat of a disappointment if not that then one could definitely call it underwhelming the entire film is shot in a non chronological and non linear fashion and it makes the story and film experience unique to some extent – this style has been done so many times now it's almost commonplace technique – and the story itself is unique to some extent br br however following is ultimately underwhelming for the entire film and is disappointingly unspectacular the story calls for more – more action more suspense and more thrills – but it becomes too embroiled in its own storyline and instead focuses on creating an intricate story following does succeed in doing that but without any other elements it's a film noir that doesn't quite work out it's got a sense of emptiness which isn't enormous but still noticeable nonetheless furthermore the film's shocking revelation at the end – almost a mandatory convention in film noirs – is one that makes us feel cheated it's unpredictable and comes out of nowhere but in relation to the story it's disappointing as it essentially makes the preceding scenes and the entire film seem like an enormous waste of time br br but the positives far outweigh the negatives and in the end following turns out to be a flawed but satisfying film yes everybody has to start somewhere christopher nolan does it with following and he does it in a fine manner a quiet meek but fine manner it's not the most astounding movie and it isn't quite worthy of the accolades the director would go on to receive in the following decade but it's still a good film nonetheless when singling out following you find a well made taut and atmospheric thriller one which lacks noticeable nuance or innovative style but still manages to grip audiences nonetheless
1	given christopher nolan's string of successful films it's a no brainer for me to want to check out his filmography watch his debut feature which is shot in black and white back in england running less than 70 minutes long done with little budget but containing all the hallmarks that has made him a master filmmaker and storyteller br br though short the film is no less gripping with its meandering plot that will leave you guessing because the premise doesn't even scratch the surface of this tale which is pretty amazing considering the depth in the structure and characterization as told we follow a writer wannabe called bill jeremy who starts a habitual obsession with following random people he fancies on the streets in a voyeuristic manner which at first could be conceived as research before he starts to make up his own rules and break them br br he meets up with charismatic cobb alex haw who turns out to be a robber with peculiar sensibilities and modus operandi and soon finds himself hooked with hanging out with him as they go about breaking and entering and speculating about their victim's livelihood as does the pursuit of a femme fatale blond lucy russell a mobster's moll who rejects his every advance br br told in a non linear fashion which comes with scenes that don't quite add up in the beginning this sets the film up for multiple viewings as you study just how nolan sustains that suspense and intrigue with you as the audience expecting and wanting more which gets duly delivered there are enough twists here which spins the film into a dizzying crescendo where loose ends begin to come together and the brilliance of the stellar story start to shine through br br it's also amazing how as a first feature shot on the cheap that something that clever and sophisticated can be conceived from his own experience in being with nolan involved in every stage of production from writing to shooting producing and directing having worked on the project for a year since shoots can only happen on weekends i guess here's an example of a successful filmmaker's humble roots which should serve as inspiration and spur new filmmakers out there now i'll patiently wait for christopher nolan's inception due out later this year whose trailer is already such a tease
1	an untidy man known as bill lives in a small dreary flat with a poster of marilyn monroe on the wall and his typewriter for company only the man can't think of anything to write he wanders around the streets following people just to see where they go maybe this will give him some inspiration to write he begins to follow a well dressed man holding a bag he follows him for a few days while in a cafe the well dressed man sits down at a table on the opposite side of bill and inquires why bill is following him the well dressed man says his name is cobb cobb then surprisingly informs bill that he is a burglar and even starts to take bill with him into houses to steal things although cobb insists he doesn't go into other people's homes to just steal he says he likes to let people know he has been there and interrupted the things they take for granted he puts knickers from another burglary into a man's trousers for example br br the film is told in flashbacks at times too the director used this technique in greater abundance in his recent feature memento bill eventually decides to cut his hair and dress in a suit on the advice of cobb he meets a blonde lady in a club who used to date the owner a bald man who is very dangerous she says we see a scene where a hammer is used by the bald man's hence men on a man's fingers in the blonde lady's flat these are some of the many pieces of the puzzle that the director shows us and they will all fit into place when we arrive at the surprising conclusion
1	previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film's plot details than i could what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually just gorgeous br br if you like movies that are wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art br br on a scale of 1 to 10 i'd give it about an 8 75 the only reason i shy away from 9 is that it is a mood piece if you are in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it's a 10 i definitely think it's a must see but none of us can be in that mood all the time so overall 8 75
1	it is an interesting exercise to witness the early works of great artists sometimes even without the 20 20 vision that hindsight offers you can see the cogs and wheels that make these people what they are following is one such look into the past of christopher nolan one of the great time warping story teller of today br br christopher nolan's style of film making puts a great deal of emphasis on the delivery of the story although people might complain it relies too much on the back and forth shifting of time i still find it fascinating to see how he uses that one technique differently each time memento was probably the most convoluted piece of story telling i have ever seen discount the hardened cynics who say it is an old piece of meat wrapped in fancy dressing memento shows how even the simplest of stories can be turned into a mind bender the prestige which was considerably stripped down in comparison still showed creativity in how its three stories were interwoven even in a jaded enterprise like the batman series did christopher nolan sprinkle some of his outstanding yarn weaving tricks breathing new life into the dark knight br br following is an intense tale of intrigue and mystery where we see a dilettante writer who becomes a reluctant voyeur who becomes an unknowing accomplice to a variety of petty crimes and finally sees an end no one could have expected having never heard of following before i had no idea what i was to expect at every point the film kept me guessing as to where it was leading me since the mystery angle was clear i was constantly trying to figure out what was going to happen next and that is where i think the film succeeds so well the film has many elements that led me off on many wild goose chases br br the film is entirely in black and white and told in multiple timelines both of which are considered gimmicky these days following does all of this in the least formulaic or contrived way possible there doesn't seem to be a reason why the story is told in the way it is but you don't feel like you are being taken for a ride the lack of pretension or self aware arrogance is what makes this style of story telling work highly recommended
1	christopher nolan's directorial debut is a memorable one the film was very well received and help land contracts for making and quite rightfully so br br following is an exquisite example of how films should be made no fancy effects or blood dripping gore just brilliant writing and good acting nolan manages to captivate us once again with his writing the actors all unknowns to me and i suppose most people did a good job bringing the characters to live they were all believable and that's all they need to be the film is confusing because it plays with chronology a lot but it's very rewarding in the end the film's a little short to be a full length feature but any additional length would've ruined the style of the movie and the brilliance of the writing would've been diminished though short the film has every aspect that makes a film attractive imo an intriguing beginning an exciting middle and a surprising end br br i dare say following is almost as good as memento his best film by far the scrambled chronology is equally masterful used in both films the amazing plot twists are present and the acting is very good br br this film was made with a mere 6000 but the quality is much higher than most almost all million dollar box office hits the use of b w may be a hard pill to swallow for the big audience following is primarily nolan showing off his skills to the studio bosses and what skills they are rarely have i enjoyed writing so much as in even pi doesn't even come close imo though it's also very good br br this is a film surely not to be missed by any self respecting movie lover if you liked memento is definitely for you
1	even with only 6 000 bucks and a cast of part time actors christopher nolan was a master nolan is in my opinion the next great and our first taste of nolan doesn't contradict that br br none of the problems that constantly plaque and discredit the low budget independent picture haunt nolan and crew our actors are inexperienced and young but they deliver and engage us in this story in all honesty i think following is nolan's best screenplay because it is the one he had the most control over it's a beautifully imagined film it takes us into a world where we don't feel limited by the constraints of budget the dialogue and atmosphere is bold and intelligent br br nolan's trademark method of telling the story out of continuity is applied for the first time here and here it is done in a way that throws the story full out at you with memento and the prestige you have to think a bit to truly get a complete grasp on the genius but nolan doesn't try to confuse people with his prototype film we can distinguish time by the appearance of our protagonist this method of telling a story is both creative and engaging i am glad that nolan has had so much success with it because his films become more than what they could be with this method the pay offs in the prestige and memento would not have been thrilling at all if the movie was told in a conventional format this idea has been done with moderate success before but nolan has truly made it his own br br the script here is nolan's finest i had some doubts about his writing abilities i all ways imagined that his brother jonathon was the writing talent but he proves me wrong with following it is a thought provoking story which makes interesting observations of people and how they function assessments about burglarizing and how it can lead you to discover what makes people tick actually sounds plausible br br my only real complaint is the camera work gets shaky at times but it doesn't take away anything from the story or the acting br br following is the first film of the man who will personify 21st century film making at it's finest
1	christopher nolan had his goals set on following in a very narrow direction and in that direction he pulled off something that reminded me of the kind of great little 'poverty row' movies the likes of directed back in the 40s only this time he's able to implement touches of homage things like black and white photography a given due to the shoe string budget but also essential to the dark crevices these characters inhabit and casting of the actors the john doe lead the slick male counterpart and the beautiful in a gritty way femme fatale while keeping it in the realm of the 90s underground indie where for several thousand dollars and specific choices in locations and music and such anything could be possible that and as well in the film noir mood nolan also puts together a cunning web of a plot maybe even more so than memento where the latter was a work of a psychology unfolding by way of a plot enriched by looking to the past inch by inch here the non linear structure serves the purpose of showing how far someone like bill can go through as dark a path as cobb only in an environment where keeping on your toes is not for someone who's not really twisted and into the deeper mind games cobb is br br of course the whole act of following someone becomes the main thrust of the story and going into it i wasn't even sure where it would lead if it might be some kind of stream of consciousness ala slacker where nolan would lead his character along to one urban british person to another but the establishment of the ties of bill to cobb are done in a quick and excellent way as we see right when cobb approaches bill at the café to ask what he's doing following him tells almost all we need to know about both that and the first robbery he brings him along for what seems to soon be a good score on the horizon is really all one big set up by cobb and his lady just called 'the maybe a too obvious homage to noir but why but this is revealed in a way that actually truly had me guessing as the manipulation of the narrative worked all the more to arouse questions not so much of why but of how the density is brought out all the greater due to the actors understanding of their essential points as characters with alex haw being brilliant as a true sociopath who can barely mask his 'deep' ideas about what it is to really take pleasure in a burglary and with that demeanor of someone who can never be as smart as he is in what he really does but is more intelligent in that naive way that stands no chance in the dank environment such as this russell almost makes it too easy even with a face that would send ana savage shaking her head br br meanwhile nolan is also on the ball with his style as a cameraman keeping nothing in that doesn't add to ambiance and suspense with the fade in fade outs not too quick to leave a lasting impression but enough to add to the 'this could lead logic of the script he follows it in hand held form as if he knows where his limitations lie and yet is fantastic at keeping the essentials close ups when need be one i loved is russell's face in a small mirror and a fairly simple techno track that never detracts sometimes as mentioned the line between seeing something in day' and seeing something that is as everlasting as a solid pulp story of low level criminals with mind games and moral ambiguity is always never totally clear which for me is practically irresistible in its dark way simply put this is one of the great calling cards i've seen from a filmmaker in recent years and should hopefully be something that future fans of nolan's other work can look forward to to discovering or even to those who think that noir has gone to the rapid editing and big gun firing dogs of the mainstream even in independent films it's a bright little 71 minutes
1	bill jeremy is an inspiring writer who hasn't gotten anything published as of yet bill also has an odd and strange habit he likes to follow people br br bill picks out some stranger in the streets diner or on the subway metro and follows them as if he were their shadow maybe bill does this to help him in inspiring himself to write the great novel that he's been dreaming about or get an article of his get printed in a major magazine maybe it's because it fills bill's lonely life with a purpose and even makes the person of his curiosity a face in the crowd with meaning and substance by his paying attention to him or her or maybe it gives bill someone to look after and care about and be responsible for besides himself bill has a simple rule that he follows religiously when he follows someone after you follow him or her to their home or place of work you stop br br one day bill follows cobb alex haw home and instead of following his rule of stopping he still keeps following cobb bill will soon realize how right he was with that rule he set for himself in following people and at the same time how wrong he was by breaking it br br amazingly good low budget movie made by christopher noland in 1998 before he hit it big in hollywood with his ground breaking and original motion picture classic momento some two years later that has already become a major cult movie br br following is actually a much better movie then momento because it's a conventional and easy to follow story compared to which was at first confusing and then when you realize what the movie is telling you in it's backward storyline very complicated whats makes following so much better is just by it being simple but at the same time brainy in it's affect on those who watch it the movie is far more direct as well as devastating and you don't have to see it over and over to get just what it was trying to tell them like momento did following is a story within a story within a story with one of the most surprising as well as simply manipulated ending if you watch the movie again and notice the clues that you'll ever see br br made with an unbelievably small budget of 6 000 00 thats less then what most hollywood movies budgets out for coffee breaks with a no name cast in black and white and just over one hour 71 minutes long hollywood as well as the motion picture industry outside of hollywood can learn a lot from chris noland in how someone with nothing more then talent and imagination can achieve what millions of dollars in most cases can't make an intelligent and at the same time penetrating film with next to nothing in money and no big name stars
1	just watched this on dvd three times once the 'normal' way once with the scenes in consecutive order in this doozy of a film noir the beginning middle and end of the story intertwine and once with the director's commentary running quite amazing a bare bones tale told with more flair energy and substance than most big budget overblown features being released today br br i think this is an even more accomplished film than the subsequent memento which turned me on to nolan in the first place can't wait to see what he does with a bigger budget and bigger box office stars in his next film insomnia
1	great film no gratuitous gimmicks like in most hollywood films everything supported the suspense of the plot b w gave it a basic no frills feel also in short it was visceral in its simplicity of cinematography and cast br br following serves as an interesting contrast to memento characters in both used manipulation and subterfuge extensively in that sense both reminded me somewhat of in the company of men also highly recommendable one difference between nolan's two films is that memento was a little easier for me to follow given that the b w scenes progress in a constant chronological direction and so do those in color i don't think that was true of following where scenes seemed to be shown at random if you have the choice between vcr and dvd i'd highly recommend dvd since that gives you the option of watching the movie a second time in chronological order not just in the scrambled albeit ingenuous order presented by nolan it also makes it easier upon a second viewing to piece the order together for yourself if you want to br br as another viewer noted one of the best things about both this movie and memento is that none of the cast were famous they were characters not big name actors who brought in personas developed in other movies br br given certain similarities in the plots i wonder if memento is sort of a remake of following but intended to reach a bigger audience like edward burns made she's the one in the mold of and with largely the same cast as the brothers
1	i just finished watching following and i thought it was great i rated it 8 out of 10 i plan on watching it again with the director's commentary and then again in chronological order br br i rented this movie because of my fascination of christopher nolan's more recent movie memento following has some similarities this movie was probably the blueprint for memento even the music in some parts is very similar br br shooting the movie in black and white gives it a mysterious feel the story and dialogue is really good the performance of the actors is believable br br christopher nolan made this movie on a really low budget i look forward to his next release insomnia a big budget movie with my favourite actor al pacino
1	the debut that plucked from obscurity one of the brighter stars of contemporary noir is an assured if limited stab at the con game and obsession filmed for zero money nolan couldn't have chosen a better subject than the drab and seamy underside of london to ply his trade given the lack of funds this short 67 min is at its best in playing with the audience's and protagonist's expectations about who is scamming whom though the initial set up does ring some alarm bells in the credibility dept the muddy cinematography he often used natural lighting due to budget can be mostly chalked up to noir stylization though the limitations do show at times br br one can easily see nolan's style developing in this fledgling effort many of the same themes of blurred identity and expectation smashing recur in memento and insomnia not a masterpiece but good and certainly worth a look for modern noir and nolan fans
1	christopher nolan's first directorial effort a year before he did memento and this is almost as brilliant as that classic he uses time in a similar manner to tell his story and it's a very clever one br br bill is this young writer who begins following complete strangers around just to see where they live and what they're all about one day he follows this man cobb who turns the tables and confronts bill who breaks down and confesses what he's up to br br cobb is a burglar and he takes bill along on a few jobs to teach him the ropes both men are voyeurs of a sort and a bond begins to grow between the two of them br br but there's an ulterior motive for cobb nurturing this relationship and it all ties in very smartly at the end no i won't spoil it but this is a very cool movie and i'm beginning to think christopher nolan is a genius br br if you like suspense films with surprise endings this one is a must see
1	it's worth boning up on the hindu pantheon before watching this film three main female deities wise sita nurturing and kali the transformer as well as three main male deities grave rama playful krishna and shiva the are all alluded to knowing the folklore as surely every indian member of an audience does lends a richness to the telling of the present day story in fact one is enacted first on stage as part of a lesson in spirituality and then in the movie's real life fire speaks out against the misogyny and homophobia in the society to which its producers are native and it does so with a beauty that weaves the message into multiple levels of the viewer's awareness making it a deeply satisfying presentation this is the finest film i've seen in the past ten years very highly recommended
1	christopher nolan's first feature film wowed critics who saw it when it first came out shot on a micro budget of 6 000 this is a student film with real class the film is shot in black and white and features people who you assume are friends of nolan's appearing in the movie this is not to say they are bad actors because they are quite good you could see jeremy and alex haw appearing in other projects but unfortunately they haven't since this was made 6 years ago br br nolan's thriller much like memento does not play chronologically it shifts the scenes around much like pulp fiction the writing is fantastic it is a great twisting thriller but because the temporal order of the film is shifted around it makes it even more interesting i thought the last ten minutes in particular when everything starts to become clear were excellent br br for a film of such a small budget and with no recognizable names at all this is so good it is superior to most that hollywood studios offer and nolan after three films this the superior memento and the not quite as good but still excellent insomnia has cemented himself as the most exciting new talent of recent times i can't wait for batman br br this film is short and sweet and certainly a great watch it is very professional and the twists are fantastic and completely surprising i also thought that the score from david was also excellent very atmospheric and had a chilly quality to it he has gone on to compose nolan's other films br br overall i would recommend this i intend to get all of nolan's films this is a low budget gem br br
1	you were on your way up and you tripped on a skirt gilligan says to jim leonard that sums up the plot of this story of up and coming leonard a young humphrey bogart when his dream gets sidetracked by the bombshell heiress carol played by dorothy leonard has been working on a new and improved motor but now his love life and motor company both have their ups and downs in this 68 minute bogart hadn't developed the quiet brooding style yet good performances by most of the supporting characters her butler his co workers a sister interlopers along the way some adult themes since it was done just before they really enforced the film code but it's still tame compared to what is on tv today directed by thornton a year before directed the incredible flying down to rio
1	humphrey bogart in his first starring role looks very young acts well but has a pronounced lisp only hinted at later in his career still he's very good and very appealing as the idealistic young inventor of a new airplane motor br br dorothy is the real star here playing a once rich woman who's torn between her real love for bogart he's broke too and the comfort and security of marrying an older man hale hamilton br br along for the ride are astrid allwyn as bogart's trampy sister bradley page as her would be producer barbara leonard as the jack kennedy as gilligan and halliwell as the faithful and wise butler br br both had been a star in silent films and bogart were trying to gain a in talkies in 1932 bogart was a slow rising actor from the broadway stage was slipping and would soon appear in skid row production like picture brides yet they are both very good here wasn't even 30 when she appeared in this film
1	i saw this episode of masterpiece theatre and immediately came to imdb to look it up i was greeted by a comment from another user who believed that it was nothing special a 6 out of 10 and underwhelming i would feel morally remiss if i didn't disagree br br now i am an avid fan of masterpiece theatre but oftentimes the stories can be a bit silly on television for example he knew he was right was absolutely horrendous carrie's war however is probably the best i've seen so far the entire cast does an excellent job and it held my interest more than any other piece i've seen recently the character mr evans is of particular interest and through subtle images of for example an untouched birthday cake or a ring my opinion of him went from bad to truly good truly his ultimate demise and the story of how everyone around him left him a cold hard man is what brought out the bittersweet in this story for me br br the end is gratifying in every sense but one that everyone did not get what they deserved but overall things worked out i absolutely recommend this to everyone
1	a delightful story about two evacuees has been turned into a nice little film by the bbc most children who like a good story will enjoy this the characters are played really well by a very good cast not sure whether our american friends will appreciate it but they do get a mention as aunty lou runs off with a gorgeous american soldier
1	having seen other bollywood flicks with salman khan in them i can say this is my favorite of the more recent ones the songs are all quite fun especially 'o priya o which seems to have a nice mix of beatles indian music and dare i say this a bit of prince the love stories are a bit more believable than say chal mere bhai the occasional focus on use of alcohol is at times troubling as it doesn't really seem to make sense to me but it's played well by khan although his voice does become squeaky when he's portraying drunkenness
1	pyaar na ho is a great family movie salman khan is looking handsome and great than ever there's even a scene where he takes off his shirt what a surprise rani mukherjee is great too pooja had very few lines to say but i'm glad she has been acknowledged for her role because she definitely has potential br br it's about prem salman khan and he is a wedding singer he is about to marry nisha raveena tandon but gets stood up prem goes to house and asks her why he was ditched and it's because her brother is ill and she needs to marry an nri rahul inder kumar to get the money to get him treated prem moves on and in comes priya rani mukherjee prem falls in br br love with priya but it's a shame she's about to get married to an nri who could this nri be priya falls in love with prem too while rahul is there with her prem gives priya an insulting comment one day and she goes off and sets off to for the wedding with rahul will prem stop her watch to find out br br the film was very funny the songs were great especially the song o priya o priya it's a shame the film flopped in india and i don't know why every film in india is going flop nowadays this film deserved to be a hit the only problem i found with the film is that they had an obsession about they think all are rich the film deserves a 9 10
1	this movie was made only 48 years after the end of the civil war most likely in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in the film there are recreations of battles and the people of the era that look rather impressive and realistic it also provides a different and more balanced view than just its contemporary birth of a nation a patently absurd and racist film because of this this short film would be excellent for use in the classroom to discuss the war and tell the story of a very young man that runs away to enlist as a drummer the boy makes good and is a hero though the film ends rather melodramatically a definite convention of the day not a great film but a decent plot decent acting and little of the over the top acting you often saw in other films of the day br br one annoying aspect of this film was the too frequent use of title cards to describe or set the stage for stuff that was really obvious it got annoying from time to time
1	i really liked this movie one thing i have noticed is that korean tv drama's are way better as far as giving you the whole story i watch movies when i do not have the time or feel like going through 16 30 episodes movies are seem to be rushed and if you do not watch carefully you may miss something br br i do feel this one was rushed and i had to rewind a few parts to try and find what i missed especially towards at the end if you like nice love stories i still think this is cute and if yo have the extra time i still think this is worth watching br br it is always nice to go back follow the actors in different movies as we do not get to follow them from when they begin as we do the actors producers and directors in our own countries
1	i was geared up to not like this movie and the first 10 minutes or so did nothing to allay my fears it starts off with 2 high school gangs squaring off against each other with bad kung fu a scenario found in countless other korean films ho hum add the fact that the story was written by the same guy who wrote he was cool which was barely passable and well i thought i was in for a nondescript 2 hours br br but don't give up so quickly a romance of their own was directed by tae kim who also did volcano high which i thought was loads of fun anyway romance of their own soon takes a turn much for the better a high school girl just having moved to seoul finds herself in the middle of attention from two prospective suitors each guy has his own merit and it is not clear which one if either would be the right pick br br what follows is not your usual teen love triangle the emotions are complex and while you may not agree with certain choices or actions as the film develops you can certainly understand why the characters make them br br the movie asks questions of the characters and the audience who does one choose at what point is one obligated to even make a choice and is it unfair to one if it seems he is being strung along after you or your heart has made a choice how do you react and how should you react when new information comes up that sheds new light on the situation there is one scene near the end that is very subtle but perfectly captures what i think would be a real life reaction instead of over the top movie reaction the subtlety is in a character in the background of the scene recent events and revelations have left him confused and emotionally overwhelmed basically he doesn't know what to make of things instead of having him act out something or look all gape mouthed dumbstruck he just stares off at some fixed point unable to react or say anything at all it's like someone just pulled the plug on him his reaction rang true to me and i appreciated the scene br br like most korean films there is a mix of action bravado slapstick and melodrama korean films often take abrupt turns see sex is zero for a great example which can be quite a shock for the uninitiated go ahead and initiate yourself with this one like it love it or hate it i think most viewers will be able to relate to and appreciate the characters' actions and reactions
1	this intelligent moving and beautiful film is a study in the ways people react to tradition reminds me of william novels br br the characters all feel trapped by the weight of the roles they are expected to assume and seek for a way to live within those roles rather than throw them off altogether but as the story develops the two wives trapped in loveless marriages draw together drawing on the strength of their friendship and love they give each other the courage to abandon their roles br br they have found that living within their traditions is no life at all it is a sort of living death without passion without true connection to others without fulfillment although they know there will be a price to be paid for their rebellion and freedom it is a price much less dear than the sacrifice called for by a comfortable predictable existence br br the screenplay is wonderful the acting marvelous near perfect
1	i was pleasantly surprised to find this movie showing as a sneak preview in my local theater br br we have all seen this plot line before top gun gi jane an officer and a gentleman but a good script still works this story is basically about the training of a coast guard rescue team with a couple of side story lines kevin costner plays a highly successful rescue team leader ben randall who is forced into heading the training team after a tough mission the movie takes us through the rigors of the training process and the personal stories of both the costner character and that of jake fischer played by ashton kutcher i am happy to say that ashton is great in this part br br there are no great surprises in this movie and you will probably realize what is coming long before it arrives however the use of humor the exploration of the toughness of the training and the fun of watching ben randall do his own thing as a trainer kept me riveted and thoroughly entertained i really enjoy watching a movie that makes the entire audience laugh out loud gasp here and there and clap at the end as a tribute to the movie br br we all had a good time despite a couple of tough moments in the movie and i think you will too
1	let's face it br br this movie is incredibly cliché as korean romance dramas and movies go first of all there's a pair of long lost siblings one of which falls in love with the other second there's a not so popular girl and two gorgeous popular guys who fall for and fight over her third one of the characters suffers from a tragic disease which eventually takes his life br br still i like this movie br br without the right actors this movie would probably have disappointed fans of the novel but because the actors fit the roles perfectly the movie is engrossing i honestly couldn't stop watching kang dong won despite his pretty face gives an awesome heartrending performance not to mention lee chung ah and jo han sun plus all the supporting actors br br i'd definitely recommend this movie to everyone
1	i watched this because a friend told me it was damn good and i watched a video on it so i was really into watching it i watched it and damn the fighting scenes are really good if the guys can't fight like that in real life they sure fooled me there isn't as much fighting as i would like i have to say but the fights that are in the movie are pretty spectacular they don't show much but you can tell it's violent and cool but there's also the plot that goes around a love triangle between the main characters though it's a bit twisted tae sung is a carefree guy who seems to love getting into trouble as well as fights he's the leader of his school and is the rival of won who's the leader of his own school a bit of a playboy hot headed and a rich boy then there's han a girl with not a lot going for her her father just passed away and she moved back with her mother the guy she liked is dating her old friend and then she meets won who goes to her school and tae sung who calls her older sister eventually she discovers tae sung is her brother fruit of one of her father's affair and he loves her despite of their blood relation meanwhile won falls for her and takes her as his boyfriend but she is torn between her boyfriend and her little brother who confesses her love to her overall it's a wonderful movie but if i was really depressed after the end and i just couldn't help but think damn are all korean movie i watch about fighting death depressing stuff incest 'cause that sure was the case with old boy and temptation of wolves it's a very good movie but people have to be ready to cry at the end
1	it's nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little cliché you cant help but like it br br i think the story was a little rushed at the end but extending that would have made the story even longer superior to other romantic comedies such as 100 days with mr arrogant and possibly tied with my tutor friend br br it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema not as great as my sassy girl but still good
1	glorifying not glamorizing world war ii br br we've had quite a few documentary series about world war ii on the regular television programming without looking up any information in some encyclopedia or film book it seems that this old memory can recollect most names entirely on it's own br br there was crusade in europe which was the title of the war memoirs of one general of the army and later the president of the united states of america dwight d eisenhower it told the story of the conflict in europe as viewed by the supreme allied commander br br then there was a crusade in the pacific subject matter self explanatory which i don't remember much about newspaper man author jim bishop was the host navigator of br br and there was the excellent winston churchill the valiant years the series was a co production of the british broadcasting corporation and the american broadcasting company it first aired in 1960 61 season here in the states and boasts of having richard burton's speaking the words of sir winston br br it is the 1952 nbc television network's production of our subject matter today this victory at sea that wins the cigar hands down br br to begin with this had to have taken the production several years of carefully and literally sorting through thousands of hours of film the movie footage referred to here was the official filmed record taken by members of the armed forces of the united states independent newsreel film motion picture record of our other allied partner nations as well as captured axis pictures from nazi germany fascist italy and imperial japan br br once that was accomplished the various corresponding film had to be cut and edited into a series of 1 2 hour installments this was done with great skill being that there were so many scene changes whether done abruptly or as a dissolve the look of ever episode appears as smooth as if it had been a single motion picture project br br the writing of the spoken word to accompany this finest of real life film was no less amazing and unique the highly polished and meaningful eloquence wastes not a word and at times even the description of action rather than exaggerating it the narration goes to mr ralph graves who was a talented actor of stage film radio and television he certainly gained a measure of immortality by way of his golden toned voicing of the written episode descriptions br br lastly victory at sea enjoys the luxury of having an original score both opening theme and incidental music penned by richard rodgers of broadway fame rodgers hart rodgers hammerstein his compositions are intricate full variable and even classic in the true sense br br the classical arrangement was played by the nbc orchestra under the direction of robert russell bennett and as a soundtrack record cassette tape compact disk it has been continually available and in demand ever since its first release 55 years ago and really small wonder for it is this musical score that is so mesmerizing to the viewer listener it truly puts the frosting on this cake br br sir winston churchill the valiant years also had a beautiful and highly memorable original score this also was composed by mr rodgers br br we had in additional ace in the hole in our house in the person of our father the late clement j ryan 1914 74 dad had been in the u s navy during the war being inducted in 1943 our pop was always on hand to explain and further elucidate any of the situations that were depicted in the series br br he and our mother the now 90 year old bertha nee ryan already had my older sister joanne 1942 90 as a dependant
1	i just found the entire 3 dvd set at wal mart in the bargain bin for 5 50 so i thought i would take another look total of 13 hours to watch it all 26 episodes i was born in 1948 and saw most of them on tv in the sixties many independent stations repeated them for many years br br better than i expected actually time has been kind to the obvious sincerity of it's creators and to the obvious gratitude and respect they give to all the allied fighting men and women more abstract and arty than a straight forward documentary but very truthful in it's depiction of the causes and final results of wwii that war was greatly dependent on sea transportation and the final victory was dependent on who achieved the final mastery of the world's oceans the allies were the ones who were able to do it br br interesting too to see how they try to strike a balance between big events and the individual soldiers and sailors that made them happen the score is impressive if a bit too much by today's standards i read somewhere that robert russell bennett contributed just as much as richard rodgers to final score i imagine that rodgers provided all the major themes and it was up to bennett to fit them to the images great job br br should be seen by every ruler or potential ruler a warning to tyrants that wars are eventually won by ideals determination and the supplies to back them up logistics their quality and delivery will determine the eventual victors the allies and surpassed the material quality of the axis attacked their very source in the process and insured their eventual defeat br br sorry to see that the producer henry lived a very short life imdb's facts were rather skimpy i have to find out more about him he did a few more outstanding documentaries before his early death might have more to say at a later time br br trivia i had all 3 lp records made of the background music pretty good overall unfortunately the producers decided to add sound effects to the last one immediately to just novelty status rather than for serious music listening too bad too because it contained some interesting but more minor themes in the series silly stuff like 16 inch guns firing torpedoes being fired bulldozers planes just for kids mainly br br
1	i spotted this film in a branch of the duane reed pharmacy in new york on holiday and it seemed like a bit of silly fun and sure enough the whole premise is ridiculous beyond words but it turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable action film for kids and their parents too br br 10 year old ricky bernard jordan garrett has his head in the clouds most of the time much to his father's larry miller dismay as a member of his school orchestra ricky and schoolmates fly to a concert performance and once again ricky's mind off' and suspects some criminal plot is happening br br reluctantly aided by best friend sashi who is a fan of hot sauce what a strange plot device that was and others they try to get to solve the mystery oh yes and ricky's skills 1 000 hours of flight simulator experience prove to be handy when he is called on to save the day in the film's thrilling climax it was good to see eric roberts and mark play parts in a family film and watching the dvd interviews everyone seems to have had great fun taking part br br i totally liked junior pilot charming and good natured performances funny plot line and a real sense of enjoyment and sheer silliness br br if you are looking for an entertaining family film you could do far worse than buy this one
1	definitely worth renting good clean family entertainment my 4 and 5 year olds and i loved it kept them on the edge of their seats i recommend parents sit with their younger children to watch this as it can be quite suspenseful for them it's not too often you can find movies that you can watch with your children and so this is a rare find some of the acting realism isn't quite there at times or maybe is a little corny but children don't seem to notice or care they love it parts are predictable but other parts are not like trying to figure out who the good guys are and who the bad guys are the movie doesn't have any really scary creepy stuff and so i doubt it will give children nightmares it does inspire children to dream which is something we need to encourage and foster more in our children rent and be blessed
1	this was a great movie it had one sot so nice outburst plus there were some very intense drama scenes which might make it inappropriate for younger viewers under 6 br br for a under the radar film the acting was quite enjoyable and touched down in our family room for a near perfect landing it held the attention of our whole family and we were kind of sorry to see it end br br this movie had elements of spy kids with young people saving the day but was given a somewhat more believable scenario the dream scenes were a distraction at first but did a great deal to establish the plot the pranks and hi jinx were also quite amusing br br we hope you like as much as we did
1	this film is titled junior pilot here on imdb but final approach at netflix go figure the movie is a delight for both the target youth audience and for adults who can suspend their maturity long enough to watch this film through the eyes of their own youth for the adult the story is quite predictable and perhaps trite and melodramatic whereas the tale may seem new and creative to youngsters who have not yet seen or read many films or books with such a story line br br in any case credit must be given to the film's creators particularly the director james and the cinematographer denis maloney for making this most entertaining and visually interesting film the cut aways to the young protagonist ricky's fantasy thoughts are hilarious as well as delightfully filmed br br the young actors give uniformly believable performances seemingly quite invested in their roles silly as many scenes are jordan garrett plays the protagonist ricky with quite well having excellent camera presence jeffrey creates a delightfully soft and sensitive shashi who of all ridiculous things thrives on hot sauce skyler and adam give solid performances as well br br as is typical of his always fine acting larry miller creates a solid parental figure around which the children's part real part fantasy world revolves compared to his father figure the other major adult roles appear to be shallow and one dimensional intentionally and quite humorously so to be sure br br this movie is a simplistic youth targeted story of course yet it is quite entertaining perhaps repeatedly so to the targeted youth crowd but also for at least one viewing by adults who retain the ability to view such a film from their once youthful perspective
1	i've just watched this with my three children boy boy and girl and this film was good old fashioned family action adventure although definitely aimed at the kid market i'd say 5 to 13 it was certainly watchable and as a parent it is a pleasure to find a movie that appeals to a broad range of ages whilst still being suitable for the whole family to watch particularly younger children br br the story revolves around ricky a bit of a nerd with a vivid imagination this can definitely be seen in his daydream sequences who foils a kidnapping and major art theft while on on board a flight to washington for a school trip ricky's dad is an airplane mechanic so ricky not only knows the structure of the aircraft inside out but is also a top gun on his computer flight simulator this comes in handy when the pilot and co pilot are out cold through a series of misadventures and there is no one left to fly the plane i don't want to give away any more of the plot
1	the thing which makes fire even more appealing to watch apart from its magical artistry is its touch of and rebellion to my mind the very character played by shabana azmi is a symbol of the indian feminine protest against the indian society the name of the movie and the scene when radha walks through flames in her kitchen are of hindu lord wife walking through fire for the proof of her as per the same narrative which appears in the film too the film could be a great inspiration for women particularly those in the to search for their liberties and to attain control of their lives
1	i never heard of mishima before i watched this film and although parts of it are a little tedious i still find myself drawn to watch it when it is repeated on the box at the beginning of the film we are told about a celebrated japanese writer behaves like a lunatic and commits seppuku in public as the film progresses you are gently inducted into twisted logic of mind the stages of his life are are presented in four chapters each chapter itself is a blend of two contrasting narratives the first continues the story with scenes from life and appear in black and white the second narrative is an adaptation of scenes from a novel and these are staged like a play and filmed in vivid colours there is a different novel staged in each chapter between each chapter the narrative returns to the present as mishima proceeds towards his eventual ritual suicide this means that the drama and tension is maintained until the end br br i suspect that many people will find this film to be boring pretentious and art house i respect that this is not a film for people who want action and a strong story line if on the other hand you are the kind of person who relishes the opportunity to penetrate the mind a bizarre man while watching his life story told in collage of beautiful pictures set to music by philip glass you will love it i loved it br br
1	i saw this originally on channel 4 uk and it was a fantastic film that left a great impression on me however i saw it on irish tv recently and there was an added narration by roy scheider we're going to need a bigger boat this ruined the film for me his droning monologue adds absolutely nothing to the film and if anything takes from the films brilliance i wonder at the new dvd version that has no roy due to legal reasons would stop people from buying it well believe me the film is much better for it br br cheers br br damian
1	this movie is a haunting telling of the life of the author and poet mishima it jumps around through his past through his last day and through some of his stories but is expertly constructed as it moves from section to section it captures the flavor of the man his work and of his times the difficult 1960s br br i think the most wonderful parts literally full of wonder are the excerpts from his works the sets especially designed to work with the camera are amazing stylized beautiful and effective they could be used as for any set designer i woke up at night dreaming of the golden pagoda br br the stories were powerful explorations of the nature of man and of art after watching this film i wanted to learn more about the works of this artist br br i highly recommend this movie for anyone interested in art poetry theater politics or japanese history
1	mishima a life in four chapters is an art house biography about yukio mishima celebrated japanese writer who bears resemblance to paul schrader's earlier character travis bickle taxi driver both of them are lonely people searching for their place in their society and when they realize that world doesn't need them they try to destroy their surrounding universe br br if you want to learn about life of mishima then you won't find a lot of information here because it shows that he didn't live a very interesting life except for his final day but if you want to understand his personality then it is the best movie of its kind as most of the movie is adaptation of his novels and also provides a guide to his thoughts this movie shows that mishima was a person who witnessed the fall of japanese culture which he was very fond of and with his final act he tried to save traditions and prove to himself that he is a real warrior but he realized that as a person he was just a man with no power to change the events
1	paul schrader and his brother leonard wrote mishima and in so doing clearly drew parallels between the life of yukio mishima and his work the film is divided into four sections beauty art action and the fateful day when mishima held an army general hostage and spoke to the garrison only to have it ridicule him and his bushido ideals of the samurai code mishima committed ritual seppuku on november 25 1970 and he planned it as a meshing of beauty art and action schrader edits scenes recreating that day with three different scenarios from novels temple of the golden house and runaway horses the moment of seppuku is perfectly realized in relation to its shocking climax via pulling back the camera while simultaneously zooming in br br black and white sequences are intermingled with the colorful moments depicted in novels the black and white scenes represent memories from childhood and youth schrader correlates some of these autobiographical moments with scenes from the novels that often parallel real life such as his stammer development of his bodybuilding obsession and his fostering of the samurai code each of the three themes of beauty art and action is exemplified in the chosen depictions from the respective novels the color sequences are reminiscent of early stagy technicolor films giving the film perhaps an intended surreal quality considering the subject matter br br ken plays the real mishima with unfailing determination headed to the general's office on that fateful day and resembles the real mishima schrader took tremendous risks with this film in focusing on the novels he did and with tying them thematically to both personal life and his literary ambitions the editing of the film between the three main sections of november 25 1970 the black and white growing up segments and the colorful novel scenes clearly point to the deliberate intersection of these elements of beauty art and action in life at times it is difficult to follow and there may be little to recommend for the uninitiated viewer of 4 stars
1	this is a movie that should be viewed and treated as a piece of art this is an oblivious labour of love by the schrader brothers about the life of yukio mishima that is full truly artistic elements the movie jumps from color to black and white past to present fictional works by mishima to him all without being confusing in the least bit the only thing that gets me is that the entire movie with the exception of the narrator's spoken parts is in japanese still a masterpiece that deserves an audience but hasn't found won criterion if you are reading this this is a film that should be released under your imprint with as much extras as possible this film truley deserves more 10 10
1	mishima a life in four chapters is a visually stunning production that handles complex issues with evocative ease it is based on the life of controversial japanese author yukio mishima who committed suicide in the 1970s it is not really a biopic at least not one in the traditional sense but an exploration of iconoclastic oeuvre the film succeeds in presenting abstract concepts in an totally engaging manner paul schrader makes you sympathize with mishima without having to deconstruct him or his work it doesn't quite solve the puzzle but it does make you understand it an added bonus as we see fury over the lack of tradition in a morally vacant modern society schrader gives us an excellent demonstration of the dichotomy between thought and execution in cinema john bailey's cinematography is spectacularly good the of composer philip glass' work is perfectly suited for the project mishima is the best film i've seen this year so far
1	mishima a life in four chapters is in my opinion the best paul schrader film to this day cinematography accompanied with philip glass mystical musical score added a completely magical aura to the story of one of the japan's greatest novelists whose originality and picturesque narrative are beautifully portrayed in this picture as any gifted character mishima was troubled with severe self conflicts the main of them being the conflict between the pen and a sword as the director puts it in his final chapter or the struggle between the sensitive poet with homosexual feelings living in a notoriously masculine society with centuries long warrior traditions thus widening the gap between the sensitive and the traditional side of mishima himself br br all schrader's films and the ones he wrote scripts for are basically stories of the inside conflict within a man that doesn't belong in an environment he lives in that also goes for mishima who apart from japanese military school upbringing is brought up with love for theater and words his demise consisted of both of these key points in his life it was about words and theatrical ending in a life long play film like this comes along once in a long while and most will have to wait a lifetime to reach this beauty 20 out of 10
1	the only pure life is one that ends with a signature in blood br br so says mishima anyway a young sheltered boy who becomes a celebrity author the life of one of most celebrated literary voices is told from three perspectives his life just before he and four members of his private army take over a japanese military base and commit ritual suicide shown in color flashbacks shown in black and white and scenes from his novels shown in a kind of dreamy technicolor set design somewhere between traditional theater and the wizard of oz these stories are often told at the same time but are edited to reinforce the slow fusing of life with his fictions until the end or the beginning when like the ancient samurai he so admires he will be at a balance of pen and sword when his words and actions are the same and he is a full and pure being br br paul schrader wrote the screen play for taxi driver and directed cat people a bizarre erotic horror film which left strange impressions on me as a boy and in mishima he comes closest to making a really excellent film br br whats interesting is to watch the poet the homosexual the shy and awkward man with a low body image who overstates his tuberculosis to get of of ww2 of which he seems forever ashamed become a body building samurai obsessed a sexual media phenomena all the while still writing prolific amounts of novels plays and short stories br br a short and sweet version is to say mishima has no father and becomes obsessed with masculinity beauty sex and self destruction in some tragic attempt to feel connected to something bigger than himself that he was always missing watching him with his fellow suicidal cadets you see him happy delivering his big paternal speech giving orders and loving the control until the speech itself the point where pen and sword meet of course this ignores the subtlety of the story telling craft here which makes this transformation so natural and remarkable br br though the story fascinating at times really isn't this movies greatest success the cinematography performances editing music by philip glass and set designs are really what make this worth seeing and more than a traditional bio pic br br one day i will pick up a mishima book he does seem to have an ear for prose and for staging ideas but for now i'm satisfied with the film br br those interested in japanese literature and post war culture should check out fans of inventive combinations of facts and fictions should enjoy as well
1	this is my favourite film and i think it is perfect unlike virtually any other film i can name i never watch this film and think it would have been better if they'd changed this or that or whatever is this the definition of a work of art i think so every in mishima is perfect and it all flows from the schrader's script i've always sort of liked paul schrader's work you can't argue with taxi driver and light sleeper is an amazing film but while his writing often seems to border on the bombastic his directing style is usually non existent this is deliberate i think because his films usually deal with a search for redemption and are set in the real world ugly and harsh his style suits his themes as he presents his characters in a simple and realistic way and lets them show the audience the truth of the situation imagine if schrader had directed taxi driver or bringing out the dead instead of scorsese but like the protagonists of those two films while mishima the man was ideal schrader material right wing vain and at odds with society his works were subtle and beautiful in fact he had a secondary writing career as a woman's writer churning out what can reasonably be described as romantic potboilers so you wouldn't necessarily imagine that schrader was the ideal man to capture that subtlety and beauty on film i think the film shows that he was the script he helped fashion splits mishima the man into three parts his life his death and his mind his life is represented in black and white still camera formal compositions his death for which he will always be best remembered is handheld documentary style and his mind is represented by the dramatised extracts from his novels each one revealing the thought processes of this complex man who hardly ever wrote a character that wasn't a reflection of himself these dramatisations are beautiful to look at thanks to eiko remarkable production design and schrader's imaginative staging in all parts the acting is superb especially from ken as mishima who captures the essential charm arrogance and narcissism of the man the photography is excellent throughout and contains images that the viewer will retain forever finally the music is simply superb perfectly matching the images although written and recorded before shooting adjusted during the editorial process and then re recorded how much the music influenced the shoot i do not know but it bonds perfectly to the image i have seen many ideas of what various people think the theme of the film is what schrader is trying to say you know the big stuff about life death etc but i do not think the film is saying anything mishima has already said it the film simply repeats
1	a fairly interesting look at some characters from india's burgeoning middle class although india is rapidly modernizing her culture is not keeping up this film involves the patriarchal society where women are not yet truly free citizens a land of arranged marriages men who dally with mistresses with total impunity and women who are expected to tolerate all this will eventually come up short i was impressed with nandita das who was quite attractive and played her character with total earnestness but i was even more impressed with shabana azmi who i understand is a long time fixture of bollywood her quiet beauty and low key psychic suffering was excellent the lesbian subtext of this film was never particularly erotic and never titillating darn worth a look for those interested in vastly different cultures
1	there are very few films that are able to tell such a complicated story on so many levels as well as mishima a life in four chapters one of the most difficult aspects of story telling is the ability to flashback and forward without losing the pace of the film this film not only flashes back and fourth with the greatest of easy but it also flows through some of yukio mishima greatest stories this film exceeds in every aspect and is a joy to watch not to mention the incredible philip glass soundtrack
1	movies are something you see on saturday night and forget by sunday morning motion pictures are works of art that stick with you forever mishima falls into the latter category this is the type of thing that should win academy awards a brilliant visual peice of film that is both depressing and uplifting instead of doing a straightforward look at the life of yukio mishima director paul schrader interweaves three adaptations of the author's stories into a look at his past and final day on earth the day he tried to lead the japanese military into rebellion in the name of the emperor failing to do that he commits ritual suicide in an ending that hits you like a ton of bricks the three short story adaptations allow a look into what led him to this and are presented in an experimental way that makes them appear to be filmed stage plays ken is magnificent as mishima despite his eccentricities he comes off as very sympathetic a man who is quite willing to die for his beliefs and does this makes the ending that much more devastating and the sense of loss more meaningful of the three story adaptations temple of the golden house and runaway horses it is the last that is the strongest and most emotional it also is the story that most closely matches mood in his final years and illustrates what truly led him to the events of november 1970 this review cannot be complete without a mention of philip glass' striking musical score not since 2001 has a film score been such a perfect compliment to it's visuals paul schrader crafted one of the most beautiful movies of the 1980s or any other decade for that matter have the hankies at the ready because the ending will leave you in tears mishima a life in four chapters reminds you that sometimes film can still be an art form and as art it is brilliant
1	it has taken several viewings for me to fully appreciate this film initially i was struck by the stylized sets but found the rest slow going and dull i thought that such a sensational subject needed the ken russell treatment to take it way over the top i now find the enforced restraint placed on the production by widow to be an asset some of the more lurid aspects of life are reiterated and dramatized by corresponding themes from his novels i think it helps to be familiar with the novels that's what finally made the difference for me still feel the film overall could be a little tighter and warmer but it's genuinely unique and deserves serious attention love the fact that the japanese characters speak japanese not english the philip glass score is mesmerizing
1	mishima is one of the greatest films ever made now i think paul schrader is the greatest screenwriter of all time but i don't really like the films he's directed of what i've seen with the exception of this and affliction but this is an amazing disturbing and highly 3 dimensional character study it follows the life of yukio mishima japan's most celebrated writer combining the last day of his life with flashbacks and his stories i don't know how but paul schrader manages to combine all of those in a very artistic way the acting is great so is the photography and a perfect score by philip glass although confusing the first viewing this is one of the few films that becomes richer with each viewing truly an underrated gem of a film
1	one would think that a film based on the life of the japanese author yukio mishima would be a daunting if not impossible task however paul schrader has indeed made a film about mishima that is both superb complex while it is not a literal biography schrader his co screenwriter leonard his brother have taken several incidents from his life including his and crafted what can best be described as incidental tableaus that are visually sparse and stunning homosexuality is almost not there due to legal threats from his widow but in spite of this the film is still terrific and one of the best films i saw in 1985 i should also mention the important contribution of philip glass who did the score which adds an additional texture to the film and is superior to the one he did for scorsese's also notable is john bailey's fine crisp beautifully colored cinematography and the great production design costumes by eiko who went on to do the memorable costumes for coppola's dracula for which she received a well deserved oscar hopefully this film will soon be available on dvd
1	the first season told pretty much how all elements of the marine corps would operate i e ground air helicopters and jets as a team that's the season i give the high rating to true there are still a lot of liberties taken in season 1 but the stories were more believable br br the subsequent seasons were a gawd awful attempt of melrose place meets top gun br br i was a marine stationed at at the time and i remember them shooting the show around the san diego area i got to talk to rod rowland and james brolin br br rowland's character was good to go br br brolin's character was good in the first season only for some reason he slacked off after the first ep of the second season br br if you want to see a little of how the marine air ground team operates then season one is the one to watch br br if you're into melrose place and soap opera like plots with an attempt to merge them into top gun then see the last two seasons
1	i would just like to point out in addition to pleading for the series to be released on dvd that a show does not have to be realistic to be entertaining these days with all the blood and gore in the news and in crime dramas reality shows etc it's nice to get lost in a good cheesy show with entertaining characters fits the bill was it emmy material no but it was awesome just the same br br i also have to put a vote in for the second cast they were more charismatic than the cast of season one i would definitely agree that the first season had a more serious vibe than the second two but i was definitely more sucked in by the latter cast even though the series has been off the air for years i'll never stop hoping that it be released for purchase
1	i heard that after the first oceans movie the sequels begin to go downhill i believe that this is not the case at least not for this film this movie is even better than the first film the original crew returns three years after they successfully robbed terry casinos now benedict is visiting each one of them personally telling them to get the money back within two weeks to do that they must do a couple heists in europe to get the money br br the acting is very good the all star cast exceeded expectations matt damon brad pitt and catherine zeta jones were probably the best in this film br br there are some confusing moments in this film but that does not matter because there are only a few confusing moments anyway this movie is only made for harmless fun br br overall this is a great heist movie i rate this movie 9 10
1	ocean's twelve is probably better than ocean's eleven i know most people would disagree but i actually liked it more after three years it was good seeing the gang return the reason behind the heist is a bit more inspired the second time around i see why they stole from benedict andy garcia in the last film this film they have a bit more motivation the second time around ocean's twelve is more entertaining and cooler than ocean's eleven with a funny cameo by topher grace saying i just walked in that new dennis quaid movie and other things i think ocean's twelve is probably the best in the series br br the plot a year or so after ocean's twelve terry benedict the guy they robbed in the last film is back and says that if ocean's eleven doesn't pay him back the money they stole he's going to call the cops so danny ocean and the gang go to europe where rusty meets his old cop girlfriend isabelle after she meets him again she begins to follow them around also the gang learns that they have an enemy who is also a thief who is a little better than they are br br with many funny scenes like when tess julia roberts goes to europe and pretends to be julia roberts ocean's twelve is a pretty clever film it's cooler funnier and more entertaining than ocean's eleven
1	ocean's 12 br br 'if you steal fifty million dollars they will find you ' alan rickman as hans die hard br br this adage certainly rings true in this sequel terry benedict has been informed that danny ocean and his were the ones who ripped him off and now he wants it all back the ocean gang need a lot of money and fast but cannot work in the states as benedict has made it impossible for them so it's off to europe to perform acts of death defying thievery whilst trying to avoid catherine zeta jones' super cop an old flame from pitt's past br br on their first heist in amsterdam they find out that who ratted on them was the 'night fox' a super slick thief with a legend complex he issues them with a challenge that could write off their debt in full or land them in some kind of uma thurman kill bill ii buried alive type sequence interesting well yes slow sort of entertaining mostly unnecessary scenes of character development plenty br br ocean and his band of merry men are charismatic if nothing else and as this is a sequel and we are all old friends we see plenty more situations and conversations too many damon's linus is more nervous than before the cousins are bickering as we knew they would bernie mac talks too much and don cheadle's cock er ney accent is as bad as ever i really like cheadle but could not abide this pitt and clooney talk like old friends filling each other's glasses and reading each other's minds however what worked so well in the last film was the lack of character development versus how slick the whole damned op was and as much as these actors work well together zeta jones fits into this film like a big square peg in a tight 11 sided hole she simply doesn't fit and her chemistry with pitt is non existent br br the stars of this film for me however were vincent cassel as the night fox and soderbergh's choice of locations cassel plays pomp and wealth as if he was born into both his night fox is arrogant cavalier with other people's lives' danny ocean and a total contrast to the ocean gang this is where i think the film loses its way cassel and the european locations provide an all too realistic contrast with the american actors and the style of the first film we want slick brash and quick witted not gritty considered and intellectual this is where the film doesn't work br br admittingly you cannot repeat the same formula twice to the letter but going to far left or right usually does more damage than good in a mainstream film like this
1	this film powerfully demonstrates the struggle of two women in love in a culture so deeply entrenched in ritual and tradition all this against a backdrop of an india which itself is struggling for freedom from these same values this film is both political and personal and never too preachy or idealistic on either front it is easy to see why fire has caused riots in india but tragic nonetheless a true film such as this one deserves to be seen by all people of the world not just privileged westerners
1	with a cast like this i knew the acting would be amazing still i was cautious as i always am of sequels would it sustain the feeling of the first film could they possibly replicate the tension and thrill of the masterful heist of ocean's 11 we'll never know because they didn't try at least not in the way i expected instead they made a light and truly funny parody of the heist genre if you want a gripping logical heist don't watch this if you want a good laugh with witty dialogue quirky characters and an absolutely genius scene where julia roberts has to impersonate herself then you'll love ocean's 12
1	film certainly can be a narrative medium but by no means is it the ideal medium literature best carries a plot because the reader can supply the imagination necessary to complete the structure film is appreciated best when viewed for what it is a series of images grouped together what soderbergh does in ocean's twelve is combine impeccable film making technique with the free flowing form of american movies from the 1970s from looking at the comments posted recently most people went in expecting a standard issue heist movie a la entrapment it seems people actually miss the tiresome clichés of romance disguised as tension between the leads and ridiculous plot twists designed to keep the audience awake soderbergh's directing prowess is reason alone to see this movie but close ups of pitt and zeta jones forty feet high on the screen don't hurt either a true treat for those who love the flickering of lights on the silver screen and a disappointment for those trying to make film something it's not
1	soderbergh is a fabulous director but nothing he could conjure could beat the amazing cast he gathered for this zenith of sequels clearly he knew this from the get go the term star vehicle has traditionally been used to refer to a movie that builds itself around one star what this film does is net a whole herd of hollywood hot shots and make them shine even brighter than before the last scene says it all all the stars sitting around with nothing happening and nothing being said we just get to see them socialize as though it were a scene from a reality show where george clooney catherine zeta jones matt damon brad pitt and don cheadle are just hanging out being themselves so the story's not important at all at least that's not where the films' greatest pleasures come from if you want a clever heist movie better stick with 11 but if star gazing turns you on this will make your day
1	i felt cheated out of knowing the whole story while there could be a twist this twist was so significant that i felt betrayed i believe it could have used a better writer who could weave all the elements of the story together better the writer could have revealed more of the 'twists' throughout the movie rather than all at once at the end that aside i believe that the actors did very well with what they had particularly matt damon who actually had a little character in his character little quirks that weren't egotistic or like a smooth criminal who always knows what he is doing the other main characters were their own separate entities who just happened to converse with one another the cohesiveness of the group in ocean's eleven was gone
1	despite what its critics ensue i enjoyed immensely for precisely what it is eyecandy for both sides of the gender spectrum soderberg has done the artsy hard edge stuff before won oscars is at the top of his game ocean's 12 is light commercial fluffy steve's day at the midway if you will i am generally not a fan of zeta jones but even i must admit that kate is stunning in this movie it's ending screams of an upcoming and i will be one of the millions who flock to see 120 minutes of george and brad and matt through clooney's digs in lago di como as they swindle some rich bad guy again and again if we tolerated 3 installments of the lord of the rings i ask if we can drool over clooney's salt and pepper lid just one more time
1	strike force or the librarians is a fun action movie that doesn't it take itself too seriously william forsythe stars as simon who is looking for a missing daughter of a wealthy client he meets up with erika eleniak who is also looking for someone her sister but there are evil bad guys afoot the most evil of them all is marcos andrew divoff marcos likes to kill people so now simon and have to team up to bring down the villains the whole cast is great with divoff stealing the movie there are also cameos by ed lauter and burt reynolds if you are looking for a good action film watch this and have a good time
1	i just called my brother paulie on the phone and he said he was watching hoods and it was funny so like i said never go against the family the demand for more lines is ok since i like to express my own opinions quite frequently if something is misspelled it's most likely my eyesight and not my brain this gives me yet another chance to take my shots at the departed when one knows exactly what is going to happen in the last scene with no prior knowledge that usually means it wasn't all that suspenseful all you need is a good directer the same guy i believe who did my favorite mob movie goodfellows but in a completely different way and then just throw in jack the great and you got yourself an oscar easy as pie i have to see hoods to make sure it wasn't better than the departed gibbs
1	hey what do you expect form a very low budget movie although i haven't seen dahmer 2002 i can say that following what the media put out about jeff this is a pretty accurate depiction i have studied the jeffrey dahmer case and learned all i can about this man this is a low budget movie but it shows the mentality of a serial killer if you can get past gore and see what the underlying story of a sick mind i loved this movie just brace yourself for low budget and no blood its a story as seen through the eyes of a killer and his actions and thoughts from childhood up through his arrest my favorite line is if they had bothered to look in the back seat it might have saved a lot of lives enjoy
1	this film is the most traumatising and painful horror film i have ever seen in my life to know that this film is based on a true story and watching jeffrey dahmer carl crew brutally murder his victims is enough to bring a tear to my eye i admit this was a low budget film with not the best dialogue however it explained why jeffrey dahmer was a maniac as he was so selfishly inwardly emotional his emotions and selfishness went so far deep into his brain that it resulted into him becoming a murderer every person that he lured back to his apartment he was attracted to and had feelings for and the reasons why he murdered them wasn't only for the thrill of killing them but because he couldn't cope with the fact of them leaving him in the scene when he killed his first victim by bashing an object at the back of the guys head from what i noticed wasn't because he wanted to kill him but because he was devastated with the idea of the guy leaving him it was from thereafter that he got use to the homicidal behaviour and made killing his hobby for both evil and emotional reasons br br the scene when he was talking while crying on the phone with his mother and telling her how much he loved her and the love he showed to his grandmother and how he didn't want to move out of her house did show that he did have love in his heart one scene that i found quite spooky and strange was when a priest overheard jeffrey in a pub inviting a guy back to his apartment and then phoned jeffrey up in a phone booth within the pub so that the guy would lose patience and change his mind on going home with jeffrey when the guy left the pub the priest then hung up the phone and was was laughing at jeffrey i also found that carl crew played a remarkable acting performance as the role of jeffrey dahmer his evil and cold blooded facial expressions before he massacred his victims were so real i was shivering in my seat his facial expressions reminded me of the way vincent d'onofrio private pyle leonard in the film 'full metal jacket' looked just before he gunned down the general in the toilet barracks br br if your an emotional person i wouldn't recommend you to watch this film but if your not than go ahead and watch it
1	this is a tough film to review since several factors need to be taken into account let's filter the more judgmental ok are you interested in the facts concerning the serial killer of jeffrey dahmer can you withstand an independent low budget film are you objective enough to not dislike a film solely due to its lack of stars or professional look well if you said yes then you should have a mind open enough to handle this one this film is an almost 100 accurate dramatization of dahmer's adult life and subsequent murder spree and is styled as an autobiography it isn't a glamorized unrealistic account that unfortunately the theatrical film dahmer 2001 was the movie begins with dahmer played quite convincingly by carl crew sitting in the police car as they raid his apartment his thoughts of what got him there are presented to us in a past tense narrated style that accurately explains much of dahmer's psychoses and motives which led him to commit murder almost 20 times we get to know the character both the devious side as well as the side that came moderately close to living a normal life it isn't anyone's fault but dahmer's that 17 people died but being a criminal psychology student i was pleased to more than just his animalistic side represented truthfully in this film you see him having a loving relationship with his grandmother as well as trying to find companionship but of course we witness the side of him that everyone remembers it should be noted that there is little actual onscreen violence with much of it suggestive in shots such as of blood or a body being struck through a blurred curtain you do see two deaths that i remember one being a pretty bloodless throat slash and the other being a man shoved alive into a barrel of acid while you don't see anything graphic this cruelty and the convincing acting of both crew and his victim make this a disturbing scene and while the actual onscreen mutilation is kept low you will see the results there is a prop hand and head or two but it seems as if this was to disturb the viewer and doesn't look to be exploitive besides these fake anatomical pieces are where the budget limitations are visible although acceptable they look enough like fakes to not be too disturbing the film actually concludes before dahmer's death in 1994 due to the fact that it was released a year or two prior that's about the only big difference from the real story and the information that remains is as i've stated very true to the facts the film quality could be better the dialogue often sounds a little too quiet and the acting of several characters is a bit hammy but it's not overboard in my opinion this is a flawed but ultimately honest and serious look into one of america's most remembered serial killers i think it's safe to say the film is memorable as well and i respect it for overcoming its limitations to deliver the story in a believable manner aided by a thoroughly excellent carl crew as dahmer
1	spoiler alert don't read on unless you're prepared for some spoilers br br i think this film had a lot beneath its shell besides the apparent connections with oldboy and park other films an incestuous relation in this one really disturbed me and also the subtle erotic theme that hung around all the vampiric physical action br br the main actor kang ho song is terrific in the of the priest sang coincidentally sang means blood in some languages who truly loved tae ju played by ok bin kim their relationship reminds me a lot of that between martin sheen and sissy spacek in badlands where the girl appears psychopathic and the man is basically wrapped around her finger br br their relationship is one thing but the girl's mother is entirely different while moving she is stiff one dimensional and taut but paralysed she says all through not moving or through the wink of an eye br br park wook has really really mastered his cinematography in this film and owes a lot to stanley kubrick there are a whole lot of beautiful shots strewn throughout the film some for simple effects and some that require several glances and probably repeated views to fully catch br br the music is quite stock using mostly strings to accompany the main it's a very good thing that the character is as withdrawn as he is while he does very little and loses at that he seems to instead be a person who thinks a lot while his love interest says and does a lot her actions display very little thought behind it in my humble opinion br br all in all a very disturbing film that is not made for action which isn't even in the same dimension as most things that are about vampires these days it's magnificent and repellant at the same time
1	this was one of my favorite shows when i was a kid it had it all music stories a talking squirrel and chuckling daisies i wanted to be one of those hippie chicks singing and swinging on a swing i'm 35 and i grew up in south jersey but we got three new york channels with our cable hook up and i think it was on channel 11 they just don't make shows like this anymore i know that makes me sound really old and it blows my mind that i grew up with only 9 channels on our tv but i could always find something cool to watch i've only talked to one other person who actually heard of and watched this show she's three years younger than me and she grew up in north jersey i would love to see this series on dvd so i could show it to my 5 year old daughter and she could see what silly but great stuff her mom used to watch i just found a vhs tape of a few episodes and a music cd from the show on ebay and i bought them right up even though they were a little pricey i can't wait to get them to re live the great memories
1	when i was five years old it was my favorite television show i remembered it was on channel 11 at everyday the show's premise was simple with carole and janis as the hostesses of this children's television show they sang songs and read stories to us as children it was done in a studio with only 54 episodes which was re broadcasted over and over i remember sherlock the puppet in the tree the show taught us how to count add subtract and the alphabet for thirty minutes a day now i learned something new with paula and janis i remember those days as pleasant memories and now i hope the children of today can learn to love simpler things like hearing stories inexpensive props riding the swings and talking to puppets the set was ideal and simple but it was carole and janis who made it worth while while i miss my childhood and those days where the most important thing was watching the magic garden life seemed so much simpler and better now i hope the kids today enjoy the show
1	i grew up in new york and this show came on when i was four years old i had half day kindergarten and this was on wpix channel 11 in the afternoon i just loved the music and stories and remember humming them around the house when playing br br i just saw part of an episode on youtube and for a moment i could remember how it felt watching those shows as a small child i of course stopped watching when i got in 1st grade because it was on before school got out no vcr's or back then i grew up not realizing that the show was still on until i was in 11th grade br br i also had no idea that there are dvd's and wish my nieces and nephews were young enough to enjoy this show but now they're all past the demographic or i'd buy all of them dvd sets this was so much better than a lot of the kid shows today
1	one of the best memories of my childhood should be on dvd it captured everything we grew up with in the seventies peace flower power and great acoustic music the two hosts carol and paula were the definitive hippies with long hair peasant blouses and bell bottoms they looked like a katherine ross ala the graduate and ali mcgraw ala love story respectively br br they made us happy with jokes from the daisy gave us lessons on being nice through conversations with the garden squirrel and entertained us with music from their guitar they were the best and carol was also the original sandy in the original production of grease cool br br this show should be in a time capsule from the era that would also include the yellow submarine arrow to the sun and thomas' free to be you me also sunshine and the point br br and last but not least that theme song see ya see ya hope you had a good good time ah ha glad we got to say good to ya hope we get get to see ya again see ya see ya glad that you could stay awhile ah ha hope we get see ya again see ya see ya
1	it's hard for me to explain this show to my grown friends i have a bunch of daisy's in the back yard which i lovingly call my chuckle patch my friends laugh at me and look at me like i have 2 heads it would be great to see this series on dvd for us folks who remember it fondly with our other childhood memories or to show our friends that there really was a chuckle patch where kids tv today is compiled of violent cartoons characters who do magic or a talking sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea the magic garden was real in the respect that it taught us good values br br i will hold fond memories of carole and paula and the chuckle patch
1	the magic garden is perhaps one of my most vivid '70s childhood memories two hippie chicks with ponytails carole and paula would swing on swings tell jokes they picked off the chuckle patch dress up with costumes they found in a giant chest called the and argue with a pesky pink squirrel named sherlock that lived in one of their trees they also could strum a mean acoustic guitar and sing a pretty melody this was a great childhood show very 70s feeling but that's the problem they don't make shows like this anymore pity that you could tell these two girls really had hearts of gold and loved kids they were really sweet magic garden is one of those shows that if they came out with a box set people would buy it because its such a mellow walk down memory lane
1	i saw this last night in fort lauderdale in general it was funny and i liked the characters especially sabrina the acting is good and the story line was ok except for the ending which left way to many strings dangling and we were like what i wanted to know what happened to the characters and it was a strange ending that could have been done so much better br br the film did portray rule life really well and we laughed throughout it has flaws that is for sure but for a first time film for ash christian i thought it was good you might want to wait for the dvd on this one but if you get a chance to see it give it a shot
1	my friends and i saw the movie last night in austin at a showing for a film festival this movie was one of the best i've seen this year it was a great comedy very original and heartfelt and funny as hell everyone in the audience was laughing throughout the entire movie texas is a big state with lots of small towns and of course plenty of teenagers who grew up as fat girls i know a lot of people will relate to this film on a personal level ashley fink and robin de jesus were awesome they were so great in these rolls it was like the script was written with them in mind and speaking of the script it was very well written very believable and ash is a great actor his facial expressions alone made me giggle it is an independent film but don't let that fool you it's a good one seeing this caliber of work from someone so young is truly inspiring
1	i caught this film at an screening in los angeles in july 2006 it's rough around the edges sound recording in particular is wobbly and often very funny the script is rather jarringly episodic and ends abruptly but ash christian infuses the film with lots of genuine heart it's also a refreshing change of pace to have a gay film that doesn't star underwear models obsessed with partying and chasing straight guys props to a warmly sympathetic jonathan as mr cox a kindred spirit to rodney ash christian the lively and spirited ashley as rodney's best friend and deborah as rodney's mom who is given the best one liners in the script and steals her every scene the film is like its writer director and a bit odd but also very sweet
1	this is a movie that has all the basic elements of its genre it makes you wanna cry it makes you laugh it disgust you it makes you angry etc br br the topic of the story is fortunately not about some disease or drugs what is the common trend in gay themed movies in these days but it focuses on the social interactions between characters what could be considered not to be in the high school elite the play and the direction could be a little bit more sophisticated but on the other hand it's somehow better so because it really shows the distress of the characters that they are experiencing if this was intended then this is a remarkable job and assuredly an achievement specially for such an young director br br it's actually a good story that gives you a little inside into how it is to be a fat girl and to acknowledge it to yourself
1	this has been edited for space br br chan wook park's new film is a complex film that is not easy to classify nominally a horror movie the central character is a vampire the film actually has elements of comedy theology melodrama cultural invasion and its analog of viral invasion of a body romance and few other things as well it's a film that has almost too much on its mind the film takes its own matters and mixes them with classic european literature in this case emile zola's it's an odd mix that doesn't always gel but none the less has an incredible power here it is almost 24 hours since i saw the film at lincoln center with a post film discussion by the director and i find my cage is increasingly rattled its not so much what happens is bothersome its more that its wide reaching story and its themes ring a lot of bells in retrospect br br the plot of the film has a will loved priest deciding that the best way to help mankind is to volunteer for a medical experiment to find a cure for a terrible disease infected with the disease he eventually succumbs and dies but because of a transfusion of vampiric blood its not explained he actually survives hailed as a miracle worker the priest returns to the hospital where he had been ministering to the sick unfortunately all is not well the priest finds that he needs blood to survive he also finds that he has all of the typical problems of a vampire and its no not possible for him to go out during the day things become even more complicated when he becomes reacquainted with a childhood friend and his family the priest some of his animal passions awakened becomes taken with the wife of his friend from there it all goes sideways br br an ever changing film this is a story that spins through a variety of genres as it tells the very human story of a man who finds that his life has been radically altered by a chance event and finds that he is no longer who he thought he was it's a film that you have to stay with to the end because the film is forever evolving into something else its also a film that has a great deal on its mind and the themes its playing with are constantly being explored in a variety of ways br br the film has enough going on that one could and people probably will write books discussing the film br br the two of the strongest parts of the film are its vampiric elements and its romance the vampire part of the tale is brilliant there is something about how it lays out the ground rules and the nature of the affliction that makes such perfect sense that it kind of pushes the old vampire ideas aside sitting in the theater last night i found myself amazed at how impressed how well it worked i think the fact that it played more or less straight is what is so earth shaking here is a vampire who just wants to have a normal life it's contrasted with what happens later it makes clear that living an existence of hunting humans really isn't going to work its not the dark world of twilight or lost boys rather its something else i personally think that the film changes the playing field from a hip cool idea or dream into something more real and tangible the sequence where the powers kick in is just way cool the romance is also wonderfully handled sure the sex scenes are steamy and well done but it's the other stuff the looks the talk the gestures outside of the sex that makes this special i love the looks the quiet stares as the forbidden couple look at each other hungering for each other and unable to act the disappointment and heartbreak of betrayal both real and suspected and the mad passion of possible consummation this is one of the great screen romances of all time it perfectly captures the feeling and emotion of deep passionate love and lust if you've ever loved deeply i'm guessing you'll find some part of your hear on screen i know i did the statement i just wanted to spend eternity with you has a sad poignancy to it it's both a statement of what was the intention as well as the depth of emotion the tragic romance will break your heart br br i won't lie to you and say that the film is perfect and great its not as good as the pieces are and almost all of them are great especially the actors who i have unjustly failed to hail as amazing the whole doesn't always come together the various genres thematic elements and tones occasionally grate against each other frequently i was wondering where the film was going i hung in there even though the film seemed to be wandering about aimlessly br br i liked the film a great deal i loved the pieces more than the film as a whole its been around in my head since i saw it and i'm guessing that it will do so for several days more like or love is irrelevant since this is a film that really should be seen since it has so much going on that it will provide you with enough material to think and talk about for days afterward one of the meatiest and most filling films of the year
1	i had read up on the film and thought it would be cute a feel good saturday night movie i wasn't expecting anything great figured it would be mostly fluff but hopefully not a totally bad experience i have to admit i was pleasantly surprised br br the dialogue was pitch perfect most of the actors were exceptionally good and it flowed nicely ash christian was perfect his ability to turn an awkward moment into something touching was nice to see he could have turned this character into something we've all seen before but instead strayed away from stereotypes and focused on the wittiness of the character it was wonderful to see jonathan again i didn't know what he would do after ashley fink is gem a great young character actress that hopefully will get more work br br there are moments in the film that could have used some work but all in all not a bad time at the cinema my friend described it as a gay angus napoleon dynamite but it's something more than that it's a character study into what it's like to grow up gay in a small town the pain is there but the humor behind that pain that only age can make clearer is magnified i look forward to seeing more of ash christian ashley fink and jonathan soon
1	a good entertainment but nothing more in this western we are between the classics and the spaghetti ones this provides us a good a conventional story but it's always a pleasure to see robert mitchum with his legendary although he isn't as fit as in the forties or the fifties and don't forget david carradine is the son of john carradine
1	burt kennedy both wrote directed this western taken from a novel kennedy was a well known good writer director mostly westerns br br robert mitchum was a star for over 20 years when he made this this role was like many he had made already one can see why he was a big star for so many years br br he filled this role easily like a well used glove br br the title character is played by robert walker jr his father a fine actor robert walker died tragically at age 32 his mother is noted actress jennifer jones br br robert was of slight build even though he had talent only made a few films he was in rita hayworth's near last film br br road to the same year was very good br br he looked very much like his father but seemed to lack his fathers charm he made only a few more movies he is still living i wish him well br br most of his scenes are with another son of a hollywood great john carradine's son david who is still making movies they made a nice team br br in westerns you always have a female character usually she is a dance hall performer today they call them hookers angie dickinson assays this role nicely also featured are western stalwarts john anderson jack kelly br br it was film in old tucson outside of downtown az the scenery is gorgeous br br typical of the older westerns there is not too much action there is some good humour the usual ending shoot out br br it is a fast enjoyable 89 minutes br br ratings out of 10 84 points out of 100 imdb 7 out of 10
1	the title role of this western is played by robert walker jr he's a young gun who with partner david carradine gets separated after doing a contract hit on a mexican general in eluding their pursuers carradine and walker become separated walker comes upon the camp of lawman robert mitchum who takes a liking to walker and makes him a protégé and reclamation project of sorts br br this is the first of two films robert mitchum did with writer director burt kennedy the second was the more humorous the good guys and the bad guys br br not that young billy young does not have its moments of hilarity but it is a story involving the walker reclamation mitchum's hunt for the bad who killed his son and a romantic triangle involving mitchum angie dickinson and town boss jack kelly br br the film abounds with nepotism david carradine is john's son dean martin's daughter deana is in this walker is the son of robert walker and jennifer jones and mitchum's son chris plays mitchum's son in some silent flashbacks br br robert mitchum got his start in westerns and always looks right at home in them angie dickinson essentially repeats the role she had in rio bravo walker had a brief career playing rebellious youths and doing a good job at it i've often wondered what happened to him he looks hauntingly like his father maybe he didn't want to come to such a tragic early end like his father br br and it that wasn't enough mitchum fans get to hear old eyes sing the title song at the beginning of the film
1	if sicily is a territory of the baroque with its doubling of perspective that's part of this movie's challenge to realism and it's an exuberant pleasure here outdoing fellini with not one but three film directors plus of course the actual bellocchio who has made some really great movies and shouldn't be touchy about his honor there is a variety of takes and casting improvisations on i with somewhere there actual marriage sicily is also taken to be a territory of skulduggery you already know this version of the island so there's no spoiler involved a comic version of which makes the picture worth seeing for sergio work with guard dogs on the floor of the great hall of a palazzo
1	there is something that one of the characters the aging film director who pretends to be dead says which may summarize all the film in italy it's the dead who rule true this is a country without a future in the hands of old and jaded men and cryptic portrait of the country on the apparently senseless story of a director who has to film marriage parties to earn a living manages to say a lot about what is not working here but foreigners may miss the point as it's not clearly expressed i understand that australian or canadian people who watch this may get bored and wonder if there's a meaning well there's a meaning but it's clear only to people who live here today and keep their eyes wide open like bellocchio surely it's not one of his best films and it's not as powerful as notte but it's worth seeing for italians who live in italy
1	this film was a wonderful romp intelligent playful mysterious full of surprises with humor in odd places and a tremendous energy the famous film director the protagonist and the events he tries to manipulate through film all become entangled in fascinating ways as he is nearly out maneuvered by a prince who has never heard of him there are wonderfully rich images throughout and paths suggested but not followed exactly what is going on with the somber wife of the pedestrian tourist wedding director the ending is so much the better for being untidy realism and logic are not what you should be looking for here if we are going to turn our weddings and our imaginative lives over to film directors we should be prepared for a wild ride this film seems to suggest
1	this is the last episode of the ova series finds himself working in an animation studio which is rather interesting if you don't know anything about the way anime studios were run besides episode 3 this was probably the least risqué but it had a nice girl interest as well as a surprise reunion from others in the previous episodes my only complaint about this episode is it seemed a little too short but at the same time this may have only been because it was the only original script for the show that wasn't based on one of the manga chapters but it ended well leaving us with the nice feeling that is permanently 25 studying on definitely watch the rest of the series all the way through you can buy the whole series for like 17 you can watch it all the way through in about 2 1 2 hours or watch your favorite episode if you have 20 minutes free time which i do if i have a lunch break at school good series check it out
1	finally other people who have actually seen this show it is the funniest anime i have ever seen but most people have even heard about it it is just hilarious 'and so kintaro will continue to ride his trusty bike and maybe one day he will save the world or maybe not' tare just some classic bits in it 'and so he will ride onto the next city because he has no choice since his brakes are broken study study study ' and some of the lessons that he writes down in his little notebook 'today i had a very educational experience i tried to look backwards but unfortunately i was already looking that way it hurt todays lesson the human head cannot turn 360 degrees '
1	someone says this anime could be offensive for girls not really embarrassing situations are funny first time i see this series i was in the video store people around me started laughing doesn't matter the age or gender a teacher said that in order to guarantee the attention of someone in a book the beginning must be entertaining and the ending shouldn't be obvious by just reading the last page during the first minutes in the series the boy is hit by a car during the last moments of the series the same car appears episodes had a touching and funny ending specially last one i don't regret to buy these series
1	the cinematography is the film's shining feature park really knows his stuff when it comes to shooting memorable scenes from behind a camera every shot is filled with vibrant colors that leap off of the screen every frame of the film seems to tell a story all on its own i hope there's a blu ray release of this film because it will look fantastic it's rather intriguing to see which elements of the vampire mythology park used for his vision sang has to drink blood to survive and to stay looking flawless has incredible strength and is vulnerable to sunlight he doesn't however have fangs and also has a reflection in the mirror br br although i've never seen the film i couldn't help but feel like this was chan wook park's version of twilight the entire middle portion of the film is devoted to sang and tae love for one another it felt like the adult version of twilight really there's a lot of blood nudity sex and even a few obscenities thrown in for good measure maybe it's the chan wook park fanboy in me but i honestly feel like i can guarantee that this is the better film of the two the psychological aspect that i love about park's previous films is in thirst as well that's a major factor for me as any film that causes me to think or is unusual in any way winds up becoming a fan favorite the soundtracks to park's films always seem to fit its respective film like a glove thirst is no exception while the soundtrack is a bit more subtle this time around it fit the overall atmosphere of the film rather effortlessly br br the middle portion of the film did seem to drag on longer than everything else in the film it's weird though as the scenes during that time are crucial to the storyline of the film and it's hard to imagine thirst being the same film if any of those scenes were cut nevertheless it is my one nitpick of the film br br chan wook park bites into the vampire mythology with thirst and puts his own dark psychological twist on it park's films always seem to have a specific formula or include most of the following great writing beautiful cinematography a solid cast some sort of psychological twist that'll mess with your head and a memorable ending thirst delivers on all fronts and will hopefully get more of the attention it deserved during its theatrical run on dvd and eventually blu ray hopefully
1	endearingly silly anime only six episodes in duration about a hapless delivery boy called kintaro well he's called a delivery boy though he is meant to be in his 20's and the adventures he has on his travels each episode sees him arriving in a new town acquiring a new job developing something of a love interest before each episode ends with him leaving br br gently sexist juvenile very immature at times this is the kind of anime that just puts a smile on the face br br not one to start with if you are not a fan of anime as this certainly won't convince you about the genre but for those who are already converted this is entertaining fluff
1	golden boy is in my opinion one the sleeper lost treasures animes out there a sexy comedy about a young man quest to find his in life and he blunders into all sort of odd jobs that somehow has this rather sexy girl who ultimately falls for him but he not really realizing it its truly something that you can easily miss if you at the name but once viewing it will fall for the comedy silliness that lies inside truly a crime that only produced 6 ova episodes and pilot movie were made however being unique as it is i'm surprised it survived to produce that many if you want a good laugh with high quality anime that is 100 cgi free check this anime out boy who one day may save the world or maybe not
1	i liked this quite a bit but i have friends that hated this there's no sex but there's very little nudity in any of the episodes which is a good thing also has a toilet fixation that's explored in at least half the episodes toilets are way more advanced in japan hmm i'm wondering why i rated this so high myself it certainly isn't that i like naked cartoon girls in some ways oe the main character is analogous to johnny bravo except instead of being an obnoxious musclebound jock is a hyperactive nerd or you can think of him as japan's answer to leisure suit larry he's easier to take if you watch it subtitled rather than dubbed but he grows on you either way if you give him a chance he is the br br the formula is the same for each episode boy meets girl boy tries to win girl's heart despite being a dorky pervert boy somehow succeeds against all odds typically the girl doesn't realize she likes until after he's beaten to a pulp and or pulled off some spectacular stunt like engineering a modern operating system in one week or winning a race against a gasoline powered motorcycle using his bicycle br br episode 1 features a rich software tycoon i think animating her boobs put a major dent in the budget because she's the only female that has this kind of animation she also dresses completely unprofessionally most people who rate this negatively probably never got past the first episode br br episode 2 has the rich young daughter who likes to tease she's only 16 but that's legal age in japan and in some states in the us i might add her father is also a brutal type that has a reputation for killing guys interested in his daughter br br girl 3 is the sweet innocent daughter of a noodle shop owner that's mixed up with a bad boyfriend aside from running interference for the maiden and being kissed by a guy there's almost no ecchi of any kind in this episode a sharp drop from the previous two nevertheless and the evil boyfriend really pound each other br br episode 4 has trying to impress a top notch swimming coach seems more about his intentions with this particular girl than any other and she's pretty direct in return br br girl 5 is the biker babe she's probably the most top heavy of the 6 although not super buoyant like girl 1 and in terms of sexuality and vulgarity this particular episode is easily the most over the top in terms of lack of realism should have broken every bone in his body at least twice during the race against the biker babe but i think the producers and writers said it's just a cartoon we can do anything this lapse in realism makes it a fan favorite br br finally episode 6 introduces a new girl that's works in animation and the previous 5 girls help as he tries to cope with impossible time and resource constraints to get an oav out the door by the deadline in terms of ecchi this one's very tame as well but there's plenty of humor the ending has all 5 extremely pretty girls from the past team up to hunt who slips away unnoticed ostensibly with the intention of gang raping him yeah that almost happens in real life someone crossed ala samurai with steve ala family matters br br all in all there's no middle ground for this you'll either hate it or love it if you're new to anime you probably don't want to start with this at the same time if you can stand characters like happosai from ranma 1 2 or johnny bravo or you like comedies that lean more heavily towards silliness but have very sexual overtones you should give it a shot
1	simply put there are two parts of this series that made me cry till my eyes fell out first the part where he was set to wash the toilet but ended up drinking the toilet water while imagining it was the hot director giving him a golden shower i laughed so hard br br second the part where he tried to prove worthy of a swimming school instructor he seemed like a pro diving in but as expected he couldn't swim proper at least however the funny part of this was when he finally reached the end and said how was that or something that was so friggin hilarious i couldn't stop laughing br br if you get the chance to see this anime series i strongly recommend it one of the best i've seen br br definitely the funniest
1	believe me when i say this show is just plain hilarious the basic story is about kintaro oe who travels from town to town taking part time jobs chasing women and learning all he can about life kintaro has to be one of the easiest to relate to characters ever made he takes everything to the extreme and it's just laugh out loud funny every time from his constant never ending quest to study life to tiny things he instantly blows up into life or death matters br br one of the funniest things about this show is simply constantly extremely over the top expressions and reactions he spends a great amount of time in various super deformed modes like dragon half or other times in less then 0 1 seconds his face will turn not just serious but manga fighter style life or death expressions like a weight lifter trying to a new record it's hilarious br br if that wasn't enough the writing is superb and the english voice acting couldn't possibly be better english va is just perfect and will have you rolling around when he's not even really saying anything the one thing to mention though is this is without a doubt an ecchi series it practically defines the word if you're an adult anime fan who can get a laugh out of movies like american pie you'll love this br br com
1	golden boy is ecchi humor bordering on hentai in the guise of educational moments the main character kintaro wanders around getting himself into the silliest situations involving women it's just that he's shy on the surface but analyses everything until he can learn something from it the most striking feature of the series are the circumstances surrounding his education which are outright embarrassing yet funny at the same time
1	although i'm a girl thankfully i have a sense of humor and realize that this really is a funny anime watching it does give you an overwhelming feeling that it's definitely a guy show but that doesn't take away from the fact that its hilarious 10 10
1	story involves ancient demon being released upon a small town on halloween night in all my life i have never seen such a cheesy film but it is so d m entertaining you can forgive its bad acting effects direction and script this is the best movie created for the halloween season since the original halloween and when they introduce linnea quigley's character for the first time she is butt naked in the shower for like 5 mins goodness they just don't get any better than this rush and buy this tape right away 5 10
1	man i can't believe the largely harsh and negative comments for this movie okay it sure ain't no sophisticated work of cinematic art but it is a good deal of entertainingly tacky fun for starters the titular pumpkin headed supernatural killer dude has to be one of the single most laughably silly and unscary things to ever stumble in front of a camera he looks like something you would see in a fourth rate carnival spookhouse secondly the moderate gore is ridiculously fake and unconvincing with the definite highlight occurring when this annoying uptight ultra conservative woman gets electrocuted by a toaster then there's the always welcome presence of the ever lovely linnea quigley who's memorably introduced taking a nice long utterly gratuitous shower that goes on for two minutes amazingly we also have appearances by deceased schlock picture legends john carradine as an evil warlock and cameron mitchell as a horror tv show host moreover scream queens brinke stevens and dawn wildsmith have fleeting cameos lead child actor ryan projects all the charm and acting ability of a moldy old tree stump pretty brunette rachel carter pops her top and bares her cute little breasts the cruddy special effects are decidedly less than special the score is suitably overwrought yet this film overall has a certain endearingly hokey appeal to it which in turn makes this honey a real delectably cheesy hoot to watch
1	my buddies and i spent the majority of a saturday afternoon watching a selection of bad movies among the flicks we watched the strongest contender for quality bad movie fare was easily jack o it's ludicrous that movies such as gigli glitter and you got served are listed in imdbs bottom 100 while they're certainly bad movies they don't belong in the bottom 100 they're robbing jack o and keeper of time etc of the bad movie greatness they so richly deserve br br so what makes jack o so great in bad movie terms for starters steve the director decided to cast his son ryan in the role of sean kelly unfortunately for steve ryan was dangerously close to being out acted by a block of wood the kid seriously has no ability to emote whatsoever the end result unintentional comic gold the kid could be listening to a joke or just moments away from getting his head smashed asunder and his expression is one of stony br br the other aspect of the movie that we found awesome was the sheer number of double dreaming sequences what is a double dream well it's when a character wakes up from a nightmare and then something equally nightmarish happens and then the character wakes up again basically they wake up after dreaming about waking up from a nightmare clever device no i believe the character of sean kelly experienced no less than 3 double dreaming sequences br br let's see what else oh yeah this movie has a veritable cast of thousands it's truly stunning to see how many speaking roles are introduced throughout the course of the movie best of all almost none of the characters have anything to do with the story they're either killed by jack o or they serve no purpose whatsoever br br jack o himself was pretty sweet like most other b movie monsters jack o has the amazing ability to seemingly teleport over great distances he's invariably hanging out somewhere in the background whenever you're dealing with a major character what's puzzling however is that when he's actually chasing someone he moves at a shambling stumbling speed and yet he's able to keep up with people who are sprinting br br that's all for now closing remarks if you're looking for a unintentionally hilarious bad movie you can't go wrong by renting this beast br br bad movie score 7 10 good movie score 3 5 10
1	i wasn't expecting much because of the harsh reviews and proceeded to enjoy the movie a great deal as a result softer colors and less stunning compositions of the shots than some of his previous films in my opinion allowed the narrative to take the focus though the religious conflict in a vampire flick was commonplace i felt like many of the other things were not for example br br how his powers were often revealed through interaction with her br br the very strong and well acted love scenes br br the symbolism of the man they killed to get closer to each other actually separating them even more br br their strong differences of what it means to be created by their prior life experiences br br the lack of scores of other vampires appearing or being created through the movie br br i've heard and read several things about used in other films' of course however i feel that tricks are used to emphasize what is happening in the scene and i feel that he does this well i don't need a director to use new tricks i prefer that the tricks that are used are used well and appropriately which i feel is the case with this film br br i recommend it
1	crazy scottish warrior race stranded deep in outer space low on food and budget free started ten now down to three who will help these men of pluck with visual effects that semi suck but i kinda liked the freaky being if i met one then i'd be fleeing but not if i had scottish mates we'd f'n swear and avoid that fate so in the end it wasn't botched it was a dvd i'm glad i watched but if they ever make a sequel dump some actors not all were equal some were good with gritty acting some were wooden and should maybe pack it in but the action kept me watching all the shooting shouting didn't stall i'll tell my friends not to fear and watch again in another year
1	i believe this film was made for the not so princely sum of but that didn't really show there wasn't anything amateurish about the production or the acting the characters were gritty and real and the location could have been any desert area in the world instead of a not too warm beach just north of the actors were quite easily acceptable as a bunch of mercenaries stranded on a mysterious deserted and uncharted planet none of them seemed to be particularly friendly with each other but were willing to fight to keep themselves and their comrades alive there weren't any great explanations of what was going on which can be really contrived so a lot of the plot was left to your imagination rather like the big empty which was a film i also enjoyed i found that i quite warmed to most of the characters there were some perhaps unintentionally amusing moments the men were so ordinary that you felt you could empathise with them and the film's climax and ending were quite poignant i think mr and his crew should be quite proud of themselves i've seen worse films with a budget of millions
1	i have to confess that i know some of those involved i was in the forerunner to the planet evil however this was more than 10 years ago and i had since lost contact with them i happened to be watching bbc scotland news and a piece regarding scottish cinema this mentioned and showed clips from the planet and comments from it's director mark this prompted me to order a copy of the film on dvd br br now to the film the level of acting writing directing and sfx is up there with some of the best around ok it's not star wars but i've seen many a hollywood product that is far inferior it is very strange watching a film spoken in my local north east scotland accent but that soon passed br br mild spoilers br br the planet draws on several sci fi classics star wars alien pitch black forbidden planet and predator a handful of the merchant crew of a deep space transport ship survive their craft being attacked and destroyed by unknown ships they escape onto a deserted desert planet one by one they are killed by invisible attackers the ships only passenger a mysterious prisoner also makes it to the planet a battle ensues as the crew fight to survive br br the planet is a brilliant piece of sci fi film making that certainly hides it's limited budget well done to mark mike and all those involved i look forward to your next work
1	people seem to be expecting citizen kane here the planet is a b monster movie and as such is good fun and different enough to be enjoyed the director clearly has something to offer not so sure about some of the cast as for the effects ain't a lot of effects budget i for one would happily recommend this outing to a sci fi head or anyone who doesn't take monster movies too seriously if so watch blue instead i noticed one review saying it had ripped off alien like alien didn't rip things off the best thing about the film the director the worst thing about the film the cast maybe it's time for the director to move from glasgow to london and find some talent in the meantime well done at least you're trying to do something
1	got this the other day from the creators on dvd i saw this advertised in a free magazine whilst family were stopping in a hotel had never heard anything about it after reading it was filmed on beach i just had to buy it i used to take the kids to the dunes in the film all the time whilst living in br br 1st off im not a big sci fi fan baring star wars i was really just wanting to see what they had done with this film location i was presently surprised this didn't turn out to be a standard sci fi more like a mix of sci fi and survival horror br br had a good storyline which was different had great special effects for the budget that it was produced with acting was better than average for a low budget film the way they have edited out the whole coastline to make it feel like the dry desert planet that they are on was nice br br weapons in the film were realistic and the creatures were cool kinda like predator in mode br br all in all i will buy any future releases from these guys maybe a all out horror next hint hint the extras on the dvd were very informative on giving background for the producers i would like to see some of them shorts included as extras on a next dvd release br br excellent work keep it up
1	i loved this movie yes it is rather cheap and i'm sure plenty of reviews will be snooty about that but my goodness what a lot they pack in for the cash involved i was reminded of the early work of sam raimi yes it is rough but has good energy and plenty of fun the acting ranges from the very good in scott ironside and shawn paul to the not so good in some of the lesser parts is it a cult movie well it grew on me first time i liked it but by the 3rd viewing i was loving it the movie is probably a 7 out of 10 but i'm giving it 8 for sheer cheek anyone who can pull this off for 8 grand is worth watching almost makes me want to visit scotland
1	i was having a horrid day but this movie grabbed me and i couldn't put it down until the end and i had forgotten about my horrid day and the ending by the way where is the sequel br br the budget is obviously extremely low but look what they did with it it reminds me of a play they are basically working with a tent a a few guns uniforms camping gear and a thing that is it for props maybe this is even a good thing forcing the acting and writing to have to step up and take their rightful place in film as the centers of the work instead of as afterthoughts used to have an excuse to make cgi fights br br the cgi is fine it is not exactly but imho it still works why because there isn't too much of it and what there is is not 'taking over' with an army of effects house people trying to cram everything they can into the shot it prompts the imagination it's some relatively simple stuff with decent composition especially the heavy freighter shot there is one long shot that must be at least ten seconds that tracks the entire length of the ship it must be a record for sci fi battle sequence film making in the past 10 years to have an action sequence that lasts longer than 0 75 seconds and some relation to the story it might look old or not 'state of the art' but it doesn't look stupid and it doesn't take away from the story br br the acting is good except the characters die too fast to get to know them the captain was great but a few of his scenes could have used another take i also got confused with his character losing his cool and stomping on a corpse i like to think captains are calm cool and in control what was going on in that scene did the other crew worry about him losing it at that moment did he feel himself losing control br br now as for the plot mostly it is good why because it doesn't try to explain itself it just happens it's called 'the planet' its a mystery get it nobody knows why there is a statue and they don't find out either the mysterious cult the weird scientist with the tattoo what do you expect to find out in less than 90 minutes this isn't war and peace and thank god it's not star wars trek either no no 5 minutes of expository boring dialog that has no purpose in the story the characters are stranded and are only able to figure out a few basic things it is not a star trek episode where they find out it's leonardo davinci or a child like space wanderer it is mysterious and i liked that i don't know why maybe i can identify with these guys more since they don't know whats happening and i don't either they don't talk a lot of space gibberish or have magic boxes telling them what is happening br br in fact i would argue that one of the weakest moments is when the turns on the crew and tries to the reason for the planet the cult etc this coincidentally has some of the weakest dialog imho in the whole movie and it interrupts the flow and some of the characters look unnatural in that scene br br ok sometimes i felt it was a little too mysterious though like why did the guy get fried through his eyes with lightning that was odd just weird the 'hamlet' ending again i would have liked to have known some of these characters better and would it have been so hard to have a 30 second rescue scene at the end this is not a serial show it was a film and we like closure in films even if they can have a sequel imagine hamlet with no of angels sing thee to thy rest' br br anyways what can i say this was well worth the dollar i payed at the 'red box' machine at the supermarket it was also imho a better piece of storytelling than parts 1 2 or 3 like i said it sucked me in wanting to know what was happening and i couldn't stop watching until the end
1	ok so maybe it's because i'm from the north east of scotland and i talk just like the guys in this film but i found this great fun cheap fun to be sure but plenty of effort has gone into making the film look great and the actors certainly give it all i was actually quite effected when they died in particulare when the captain finally fell the script well it s a game of 2 the opening half of the film is well written and sharp the last half hour is not so great with many questions left unanswered this will doubtless annoy others as it annoyed me but nevertheless good fun and a very smart first feature from
1	on many levels it's very good in fact considering that this was a low budget british indie by a first time feature director with a largely neophyte cast it's a magnificent achievement i don't know how much it cost the figure of £8 000 was bandied about in publicity but you never know how reliable a figure like that is the point is that this film looks like it cost a couple of million quid and it clearly cost a tiny fraction of that great special effects terrific production design effective props and costumes excellent photography good acting and direction an impressive score and an absolutely stunning sound mix even having said that much of the script was great the characters were clearly identified and all had something to do this is a movie about ten men all dressed roughly the same in one location and it would be easy for them to be nameless faceless blanks but these were ten characters mostly that was done through the dialogue and the way they reacted to things throughout the middle act when the plot was developing the script told the story well and showed how it affected the characters if the whole film was like the second act it would be stunning br br before the ship blows up twelve people make it to individual escape pods or which blast away from the ship they're not much more than automatic metal coffins and the poor sods inside are trapped cramped and have no real idea where they're going but that makes sense i like the e pods they're an excellent idea done very well and make more sense than a nice roomy escape capsule i also like the way that we are specifically told later that they are designed for ship to ship escape but can just about make in an emergency because let's face it these guys were bloody lucky that their ship was blown up so close to a planet that said it doesn't look to me like there are 116 unused e pods still on the freighter and you have to wonder how the prisoner is able to get into an e pod but in he gets and it has just occurred to me shouldn't the captain have gone down with his ship rather than being the first guy out of there anyway the e pods all land on a barren planet with nothing but sand and sparse vegetation or at least on a sandy sparsely part of the planet which may have icy wastes and lush jungles elsewhere nah it's a planet in a sci fi movie it will be exactly the same all over we have to accept that all the e pods come down within a few miles of each other so that the ten survivors are able to meet up firing flares into the sky to locate each other br br the captain a muscular mountain of a man who could have a pretty good career in action flicks if he gets the right agent decides that they should try and contact 'captain with whom they were intending to rendezvous but they cannot do this from the planet they need to get into orbit the engineer says that if they combine the power units from two e pods they can probably give one of them enough juice to lift itself on anti doodads high enough to blast above the atmosphere it can all be done on automatic but it will need a 'pilot' to send the signal the captain valiantly volunteers for this but in a commendably sensible move the engineer points out that putting the heaviest man into the somewhat repaired e pod is ridiculous and that it needs to be the lightest member of the team that's kid i really liked the way that he now points out that his name is david and the captain starts using it treating him with dignity and respect that was good storytelling and good characterisation
1	i was trying to work out why i enjoyed this film its not because of money spent on it that's for sure did i see a painted water pistol in there maybe they don't have the same sort of visual effects houses in the scotland or maybe they just didn't have any money the making of clearly shows a gang of very plucky guys making a movie against the odds awesome but what i really liked was the grit of the performances mike michell and patrick white play the lead parts like 2 normal guys no hollywood histrionics here br br ok so the effects work isn't very good the spaceships just don't look as good as they should in todays fx world and i've seen much better free stuff on youtube but the film holds together very well once they get to the planet was this filmed in scotland or just by a scottish crew or is it just better effects work did they edit out the water by the end i kinda loved this film and was disappointed when they all died
1	anything park chan wook creates is guaranteed to be unique brilliant and very twisted at a minimum well anything that isn't i'm a cyborg at least park's newest film titled thirst is a vampire romance erotic thriller dark comedy drama – yes that is a lot of adjectives — inspired by the 19th century french novel by emile zola titled therese park creates a uniquely korean and uniquely park vision of the vampire mythos and asks the audience to explore the dilemma of a catholic priest discovering himself having a thirst for blood and the moral and spiritual crisis that would develop park delivers on the elements you would hope but definitely falls short of masterpiece quality like oldboy or even that of lady vengeance heavily bloated with a narrative that often loses itself much less the audience thirst desperately needed another trip through the cutting room it crawls when it should be running but luckily brings it back home before losing the audience completely as negative as it may sound the positives definitely outweigh the negatives and another volume has without a doubt been added to the dark and twisted zeitgeist of park chan wook film br br check out the rest of our review at www com
1	i'd buy that for a dollar br br i did buy this film for a dollar and i've seen much worse for much more br br this is a scottish sci fi film from mark and according to the making of hysterical by the way the production only cost 8000 eight grand that wouldn't pay for half a minute in hollywood nevertheless this is top fun film making if you like things gritty then you're in for a treat these are some rough character with rough voices and harsh swearing i didn't mind but my girl friend did the actors do a fine job and it's interesting to see people that i've never heard of or seen before it meant i had no idea who was going to die first br br if you watch a movie for it's of the visual effects then watch a star wars the effects here are ok but kinda weak in space but the monsters are very well done if a bit like br br does an amazing job with not very much and i'd love to see his take on a real hollywood movie it least it wasn't predictable and i almost fell off my chair when one dude got his head blown off ok so it is a little derivative of other sci fi but for this budget it is an amazing attempt and anyone who thinks making a sci fi film for 8 g's is easy or happens a lot clearly knows nothing about the film industry br br good marks for a good film extra marks for working so hard extra extra marks for a really interesting making of no standard bull here all the problems of production are gone into making it like lost in mancha only with a film at the end but why no commentary keep going scots
1	the rating is not necessarily a smear this movie was done on a low budget but done well within its limits br br a usual pot boiler plot ship carrying a prisoner is destroyed in space people and prisoner escape in pods land on unknown planet where their presence wakes something up mayhem ensues a lot of ammo is expended br br the special effects were spare and properly done emphasizing future technology with holographic displays and controls instead of relying on bulky cheap looking plastic props plus the pacing of the story moved without allowing the viewer to lapse into boredom where they start picking things apart br br i peg this one as a lite saturday afternoon flick you can get up and hit the fridge without pausing it and it'll still be enjoyable even better your girlfriend can talk all the way through it without damaging your enjoyment and she'll be happy after all she got to talk to you it's that type of movie br br anyways the actual story line has s few holes in after they hit the planet but hey this is a guns 'n' ammo action movie cohesive story lines are not necessarily required so long as you have beer and chips at hand so don't get get yourself into a brain cramp over the ending
1	got the chance to see this at a friend's house today and was impressed with what it achieved on such a small budget not that this ever bothered me anyway since i love low budget sci fi like dr who blake's 7 and dark star hell even outland wasn't a big budget affair so whilst money helps it takes more than throwing cash at things to make them good br br the story is straightforward at first with a group of mercenaries paid to escort a prisoner through space their ship is attacked and they are forced to land on the nearest planet they then discover the prisoner has made it too he's a stone cold nut case and that's only the start of their problems br br the effects except for the gunfights are minimalistic and add to the film without overwhelming it computer effects look a bit dodgy at times but serve their purpose well and add to the story lending a futuristic feel to the proceedings films like i robot could have benefited from this approach instead of being largely style over substance and substituting special effects for a plot like all too many of hollywood's offerings br br whilst none of the actors get oscar material it's tightly scripted and shot and at an hour and ten minutes doesn't outstay its welcome the characters don't get fleshed out much but then they didn't in predator either which it resembles in feel big man mike mitchell is a good stand in for arnie and is a good combination of brains and brawn br br some people may be annoyed at the lack of explanation towards the end but i like it unlike a lot of films and shows which leave things unexplained it is not so obscure that you can't get a handle on it at all and i'd like to see a sequel where the nature of the aliens is explored further br br a cracking little film from an enterprising team done on the cheap but a fun way to pass an hour if this is what they can do on a shoestring i'd like to see what they would do with a bit more cash and hope the film industry and the talentless armchair critics don't knock all the creativity out of them first br br recommended
1	wow talk about a film that divides the audience this is a real love it or loath it kinda movie personally i really enjoyed it i noticed that other reviews are comparing it to pitch black this is kinda dumb as the only thing they have in common is sand people can be real stupid no this film is far more in common with the thing how people fail to notice is amazing they even have the same basic music lots of carpenter touches are there blue collar heroes sharp humor endless rolling landscapes full of death and things not understood perhaps what stops this film being a real classic is it's deference to other carpenter works not least dark star which it has something in common with i'd be interested to know how much it really cost 8000 is that even possible maybe it was based on a short film that cost 8000 but i did find myself strangely moved when the various space dudes died they are so underplayed that it's like watching a documentary at times having said that the script is kinda clunky and only about half of them can act however and i'm not sure the big guy playing the captain is one of them but his gun is awesome give it a chance if you like early carpenter you might fall for it just don't expect 2001
1	every once in a while you stumble across a movie that takes you by surprise and this is one of them on the surprise scale this would rate as sharing a hot tub with jessica alba whilst a band consisting of elvis jimi hendrix john lennon phil and keith moon play you music for the night the reason why this film will surprise you is that for the meagre budget they had £8 000 and that this was done by a bunch of mates who just wanted to try it out they have produced something very slick and looks easily 100 times more than its budget br br the plot is simple a crew of mercenaries carrying a dangerous prisoner through space come under attack and are forced to crash land on a nearby desolate planet after some checks not only does the planet not exist according to star charts but they are not alone as it seems and something very unfriendly begins to pick them of one by one it sounds like very standard sci fi fare mixing elements of aliens predator and pitch black but it takes all these and makes them into something that feels fresh and original br br the location shooting in this is fantastic utilising beach in to the maximum and you genuinely feel that you are one an alien world the seemingly never ending sand dunes and clever lighting effects give it a very bleak feel you truly think the crew are stranded on an alien world also the action sequences are superb the opening assault on the freighter a great showcase of what special effects can be achieved on a budget and the firefights as well as the stunning finale all showcase the inventiveness of the film br br as for the team of mercenaries the cast excels themselves for a low budget independent movie the casting here was done via local media outlets and they seem to have picked some possible stars for the future local body builder mike mitchell whilst not a natural actor slots into his role as the arnie esq leader of the mercenaries from the rest of the cast there are two stand out performances patrick wright as second in command and scott ironside as the rough and ready engineer vince both have some the best lines in the movie and scott injects a good bit of humour into the movie with his performance patrick gives a well rounded performance as the cool as ice second in command br br director mark can be very proud of what he has achieved and shows that scottish cinema need not all be and or and scottish films can be fresh inventive and most of all a lot of god damn fun this film is scottish with a north east flavour to the core and praise to the actors and directors for keeping the accents intact which adds to the charm of the piece although the budget limitations show from time to time the only fault i could find that is to be expected this film its cast and crew deserve all the success they get and then some more i for one wish mark and his crew every success and theirs is a career to keep a very close eye on br br rating 9 10 the first scottish sci fi is bold fresh and inventive a real triumph br br movie reviews news and opinion like no other plus the kick ass bi weekly pod casts br br www co uk br br contact co uk
1	the planet is an astounding piece of film making for a mere production have turned out one of the most original sci fi films for a long time br br starring the physically intimidating mike mitchell the film is a mix of great special effects strong storytelling and well planned action from the opening space battle to the pounding finale everything about this film appears well above it's budget br br to start with the special effects while certainly not revenge of the sith standard they are on level if not above the likes of babylon 5 and farscape and for a snip of a price as well the detail and the movement is superb and captures the imagination from the off the design of everything ships weapons entities is second to none the imagination and creativity involved is a real surprise for a film of this budget br br another surprise was the strength of the story and the arc it takes there are a few twists and turn most of which are well written into the script surprising and well played out i was surprised that two years in the making and first imagined 15 years ago how relevant some aspects of the story are to today's society with the happenings around the world there may be a certain resonance with the lengths the mercenaries are forced to go to in order to survive br br even the sounds effects are spot on as is the atmospheric music the use of light and costume add further to the professional look beach in looks a desolate and lonely place br br in all honesty this film looks 10 if not 100 times the budget spent and that's testament to a creative hard working team of people from the director to the cast to the effects via the producer and sound team wonderful effort i recommend you get your hand on a copy asap
1	is the longest running daily soap in germany and it's cult i started watching it from the first day on and i got hooked on it right from the start over the years so much has changed the old characters like elke tina etc left and new ones appeared like marie kai cora or john i have to say that i liked better in the years 1995 2000 because today the show focuses too much on the younger characters my favorite character is sonja because she is the most scheming person that has ever been on that soap and she is also one of the most interesting characters on the show tina was great as the first sonja but as became the recast of sonja the character got even better
1	okay i'm just going to disagree with the past comments that criticized this show i happen to think this show is awesome i mean when jasmin weber was still on and was still alive so addicting and i was surprised to learn that this was categorized as a soap because it just doesn't carry the same look and feel as soaps in america soaps here are absolutely horrific at least films on location features real music and more plausible story lines moreover the acting on for the most part is quite believable especially with josephine schmidt and felix plus soap actors are some of the hardest workers around in the business as they have the most demanding work schedules if it's ratings are that high it must be doing something right soaps in america are shown in the day time and historically have always had rock bottom ratings give a chance trust me it's good
1	an on screen caption informs us that it is 'the caribbean sea may a small lifeboat drifts aimlessly at sea containing six convicts from a shipwrecked prison ship and the ship's doctor a lt claude de ross claudio cassinelli it's night a strange current takes the boat towards a strange unnamed and uncharted island the boat hits some rocks and is torn apart one of the prisoners is killed by what appears to be a slimy mutant fish man creature the next morning morning claude wakes up to find himself washed upon a beach he finds a pool of white bubbling water and one of the prisoners dead beside it claude warns another surviving prisoner jose franco not to drink the water as it will kill him they both eventually meet up with the other surviving prisoners peter roberto posse francois francesco and skip giuseppe francois wanders off on his own to try and catch an animal for food he finds and kills a large water bird but in turn he is killed himself by one of the fish men claude jose peter and skip continue to explore the island as they put death down to an animal attack of some sort soon after skip is killed when he is impaled on a spike at the bottom of a pit now only claude jose and peter are left they stumble across a cemetery with lots of empty graves and signs of recent black magic rituals claude spots a snake on a nearby rock suddenly a shot is heard and the snakes head explodes a woman on horseback named amanda marvin barbara bach is revealed to be saviour she tells them to leave the island immediately as it is owned by a edmund richard johnson and he doesn't like visitors claude jose and peter decide to carry on regardless eventually finding rackham's large house in which they are invited to stay that night peter goes after amanda and tries to rape her in a swamp peter quickly becomes food for the fish men and a voodoo priestess called beryl cunningham who lives with performs a black magic ritual involving slitting the throat of a chicken at the cemetery the next day claude and jose decide they should leave the island as they feel very uneasy about and think he is lying to them jose rides off on horseback and is lost claude is saved from one of the fish men by amanda and is again told to leave claude wants to confront again reveals that he has a scientist and amanda's father named professor ernest marvin joseph cotten who he needs to be kept alive says that the longer ernest stays alive the chances of his own survival will dramatically increase tells claude his plan has found the lost city of atlantis at a depth of over 2 000 feet he is using the fish men as a means of getting at the lost treasures of atlantis and needs amanda and her father to control them he claims the fish men are descendants of the original inhabitants of atlantis offers claude a share of the treasure if he will help him keep ernest alive later claude remembers the name ernest marvin as a scientist who was condemned for experiments transplanting animal organs into human beings finding ernest's secret laboratory he discovers had lied to him and the fish men aren't descendants their actually genetically altered people turned into amphibious creatures by ernest's grotesque experiments has finally had enough of claude and decides to put an end to his meddling by sticking him in a large tank and slowly filling it with water as the islands volcano starts to erupt and send lava flying everywhere wants to leave the island with his treasures and amanda will claude escape almost certain death to save amanda and get off the island before the erupting volcano tears it apart directed by sergio martino i really liked this film that mixes various genres the script by sergio donati is fast paced interesting and entertaining the plot is revealed bit by bit which kept me interested in watching it all the way through i must say at this point that i've seen the original version and not the one with added scenes inserted for it's us release by roger corman barbara bach makes for an extremely attractive leading lady but i hated the way she was introduced by shooting a snakes head off i thought it was more than a little distasteful richard johnson makes a great villain and claudio cassinelli a likable hero the fish men themselves look a little fake when the camera lingers on them too long but their cool looking and i've seen worse some of the miniature effects look a little poor too but overall again i've again seen a lot worse there's no real gore violence or nudity in it but that didn't really bother me actually the photography by giancarlo and the production design by massimo combine to create a very nice looking film period costumes props and sets like rackham's house and ernest's lab with it's old scientific equipment the lush green jungle settings also add to the visual splendour on show i really liked this film and i was entertained throughout it's running time i'm not sure who i'd recommend it too as it mixes various genres i guess someone who maybe fancies something a little bit different and generally well made if you can find a copy give it a go i'm glad i did
1	this movie is based on the novel island of dr moreau by h g wells it's a fairly good one too it's at least better than the version by john frankenheimer
1	although at times i was the only one in the cinema who was laughing this is the main pleasure i took from the beautifully shot thirst laughter although sometimes it seemed that the movie had an identity crisis and didn't know whether it was a tragedy or a comedy the blackest of black humour shone through at regular intervals br br it helped of course that it the standard of acting by everyone concerned was wonderful and that i was slightly obsessed by the at times wicked leading lady who was gorgeously elegant no matter how blood soaked and malevolent she became br br i read reviews that suggested this movie was overlong i didn't think so in fact the last scenes moving and hilarious i mean the brown shoes by turns were among the best in the film
1	stalwart morally upright military doctor lieutenant claude de ross solid claudio cassinelli and several other shipwreck survivors wash ashore on a remote tropical island that's governed with an iron fist by the ruthless and sadistic edmund superbly played to the deliciously slimy hilt by richard johnson who lives on the island with the feisty amanda martin a winningly spunky performance by the ravishing barbara bach and her unhinged rogue biologist father professor ernest martin a marvelously dotty portrayal by joseph cotten moreover de ross discovers that professor martin has control over a dangerous race of beasts who are being exploited as slave labor by director co writer sergio martino relates the lively and absorbing story at a constant snappy pace offers a flavorsome evocation of the lush and remote tropical setting does an expert job of creating and maintaining a creepy and mysterious atmosphere in the spooky opening third further spices things up with a nice line in dry humor and stages the exhilarating action loaded climax with considerable rip roaring aplomb while the central premise is obviously inspired by the island of dr moreau the story nonetheless is given a great deal of freshness and intrigue because of martino's artful melding of such diverse elements as voodoo the lost underwater city of atlantis a rousing mondo destructo climactic volcanic eruption buried treasure unscrupulous genetic experiments and even some exciting fisticuffs between de ross and during the thrilling conclusion into an altogether dynamic imaginative and often immensely entertaining whole the sound acting by the sturdy cast qualifies as another substantial plus cassinelli makes for a likable hero johnson essays his juicy villain part with supremely lip smacking aplomb bach rates as a quite fetching damsel in distress plus there are neat supporting contributions by beryl cunningham as sinister voodoo priestess franco as the superstitious jose and roberto posse as surly troublemaker peter giancarlo fernando's sumptuous widescreen cinematography delivers a wealth of striking visuals while luciano throbbing tribal score hits the funky spot the amphibious humanoid creatures are pretty gnarly looking too an extremely fun flick
1	watching this odd little adventure movie it's hard to believe that it was directed by the same man who brought us such high quality giallo classics as the strange vice of mrs wardh and the case of the scorpion's tail but it has to be said that despite it's low quality production values island of the fish men is an entertaining ride and one that surely deserves more praise than it's getting like many italian films from the seventies this is one is a rip off of a successful american film the one in question this time being the critically panned island of dr moreau sergio martino's film takes ideas such as mutation greed and adventure and moulds it into one slightly compelling film which makes up for what it's lacks in coherency and logic with a load of mostly intriguing ideas the central plot follows a boat which crashes on a small island it quickly becomes apparent that not everything about this place is normal and it soon transpires that half of the population has been turned into fish men a cross between a man and a fish which exist for purely selfish reasons br br the truth about this movie is that it's a lot more fun if you ignore the trashy production values the central monsters look completely ridiculous and much of the movie takes place on sets that look like they cost someone a few pennies but the movie is well shot in spite of this with the underwater photography being a particular highlight and the pacing of the movie is well done in that the film never becomes boring the way that the plot comes together isn't exactly genius but it takes in a lot of ideas and i've seen films made on plots with much less thought put into them than this one the biggest location standout in the film is definitely the lost city of atlantis to be honest i'm not a massive fan of adventure movies and therefore don't see this lost city get mentioned much but it is always nice to see it in a movie the central island location is good in that it provides an apt setting for the story and also provides the movie with the right amount of mystery as martino makes good use of the voodoo theme overall this isn't exactly a classic and there are certainly a lot worse trashy adventure movies out there than this one
1	lt claude claudio cassinelli and several prisoners from his sunken ship wash ashore on an island owned by edmond richard johnson following a few random prisoner deaths takes in claude and his two remaining prisoners luckily for everyone barbara bach just happens to be on the island too unluckily there are some crazy who like to kill people br br this italian produced exploiter seems to have it all a touch of creature from the black lagoon mixed with dr moreau with a dash of white zombie voodoo and atlantis stuff despite some wonky looking costumes the film does benefit from some beautiful location photography and a nice twist about halfway through all of the actors are good and joseph cotton even pops up as a old biologist director sergio martino handles himself well enough as there is action ever 10 minutes or so that can't be said for his belated follow up the and their queen 1995 easily one of the and most off base sequels since highlander ii
1	i saw this movie on television as and loved it i heard an interesting story about this film when roger corman released it to drive ins in the summer of 1981 his trailer department sent out an advance trailer which was not actually footage from the film it was allegedly footage of a naked woman being chased around a laboratory set by a monster during the film's opening at drive in's irate customers complained the did not see the movie they paid to see theater owners called corman and said their customers felt ripped off so corman had to run off copies of the footage and send the positive film to theater owners to splice into the film themselves since the footage was never part of the film negative it has not appeared in any video dvd or television broadcast has anyone ever seen this footage anyone who saw this film at a drive in in the summer of 1981 remember this
1	action packed with my favorite type of creature i won't give any of it away if you have'nt seen it cause it's worth taking the time to sit down and unravel in the mystery of things as presented in this film it did gets slow at times and those were the moments my mind wondered which does easily anyways but moist of it kept me quietly thrilled where you keep it in your head instead of letting it out probably the mood i was in at the time special effects and action sequences you could feel made up for the occasional lulls of course a of movies out there exactly like this the film still has it's own style and flavor which i respect from underground independent horror movies anyways
1	although the video box for many copies of this film claims it is about people turned inside out this is a total lie in fact apart from the opening segment the film isn't even a horror movie with its sunken treasure legions of fish people and mad scientists it's a lot more like a doug mcclure adventure movie obviously this film is no work of art but it's kind of fun to watch just be warned that the beginning is quite gory
1	when a group of escaped convicts manage to flee to a remote island they soon find that their new home is inhabited by a strangely menacing doctor richard johnson of zombi 2 fame a mad scientist joseph cotten his beautiful daughter barbara bach and a horde of superstitious natives the tribesmen say that the doctor has created grotesque half human half fish creatures for evil secretive purposes and though at first the prisoners do not believe this as they disappear one by one they begin to change their minds is a very entertaining mix of mysterious island and humanoids from the deep there is plenty of gore with really cool decapitation scene and throat tearing to boost the acting is so so but the film is fast paced and entertaining give it a look 8 out of 10
1	fans of euro horror flicks video dvd store movie madness has a whole section devoted to this genre can't afford to miss sergio martino's gut busting l'isola degli uomini pesce called in the united states here's the lowdown some shipwreck survivors land on an uncharted caribbean island in the island is inhabited by a landowner a scientist joseph cotten and his daughter barbara bach sure enough it turns out that the landowner is making the scientist create a race of fish men and while the fish men remain calm as long as they can drink their potion they get nasty otherwise br br this movie is sort of a mixture of genres euro horror swashbuckling voodoo and maybe a little bit of the island of dr moreau but it's mostly an excuse to have the fish men disembowel trespassers ya gotta love that i wouldn't be surprised if the euro horror genre gave quentin tarantino some of his ideas for grindhouse after all the european horror directors have no scruples about what they show this is one that you're sure to like br br so joseph cotten is the only cast member from an alfred hitchcock movie i mean shadow of a doubt who later co starred with ringo starr's soon to be wife and audrey hepburn's ex by whom i mean mel ferrer in an italian horror flick the things that we see in life
1	is an italian fantasy film l'isola degli uomini pesce bought by roger corman and released through his new world pictures of course corman has to carve his initials on it by having one of his lackeys dan t miller direct some additional gore footage before he has it released in the states br br l'isola degli uomini pesce is a very entertaining retelling of the island of dr moreau it is and claudio cassinelli is shipwrecked on a mysterious island with a few newly escaped convicts claudio comes across the stellar barbara bach and richard johnson johnson plays the dastardly edmund a man who is able to manipulate scientist joseph cotton into turning the local native population into amphibious deep sea diving creatures they look like a cross between the black lagoon creature and one of the humanoids from the deep by convincing cotton that the mutations are being created for the highest of scientific and humanitarian motives br br having discovered the lost city of atlantis is using the amphibious creatures to loot its treasures sexy barbara bach plays daughter who has a psychic link with these mutations in one memorable scene bach takes a midnight swim with these mutants wearing only a thin white cotton dress that leaves little to the imagination claudio discovers one of the convicts he has befriended has been turned into a gill creature and then all hell breaks loose br br filmed at the same time and in the same location as zombi 2 richard johnson didn't even have to change suits between films the house where the experiments take place is the same house johnson uses to conduct experiments in zombi 2 talk about economic filmmaking br br the additional footage features a few bloody beheadings way to go roger and a laughably bad cameron mitchell doing his best pirate imitation all that's missing is the parrot br br spanish title le continent des
1	this movie surprised me the box is misleading the tagline is misleading and the costumes and tone of the film are misleading the movie is quite gory well acted and beautifully shot the special effects are top notch and seem to be ahead of their time until you realize this movie came out in 1979 not in 1963 like it's tone would suggest it is a unique take on the dr moreau story and one of the better versions filmed the first fifteen minutes are the highlight and the most shocking but the film doesn't ever really fall apart definitely worth seeing if you are a fan of dramatic costume horror classics and gore fests
1	they say that it is always better in horror movies to leave things to the imagination of the viewer to hide certain details from the audience in order to tickle their sense of imagination dip into their fears and let that give birth to their darkest thoughts br br that was not the case when i watched under the american title thirst now playing at select theaters near you seems like the film makers did not want to spare you any details there will be blood in this film and you will try to look away br br for rest of review please visit http without blogspot com 2009 08 thirst aka html thanks and hope you enjoyed reading above
1	i work at a movie theater and every thursday night we have an employee screening of one movie that comes out the next day today it was the guardian i saw the trailers and the ads and never expected much from it and in no way really did i anticipate seeing this movie well turns out this movie was a lot more than i would have thought it was a great story first of all ashton kutcher and kevin costner did amazing acting work in this film being a big fan of that 70's show i always found it hard thinking of kutcher as anyone but kelso despite the great acting he did in the butterfly effect but after seeing this movie i think i might be able to finally look at him as a serious actor br br it was also a great tribute to the unsung heroes of the u s coast guard
1	i finally got a chance to settle in and compare the two versions of this film currently going around first the good old scummy sleazy embassy vhs print called and then a new fully restored italian dvd by everyone's new favorite media company no shame of italy br br the american adverts about men turned inside out is as everyone says totally misleading and indicative of a roger take on what otherwise would be a superior fantasy adventure thriller for grown ups the complete italian version is a somewhat sprawling well designed and deliberately paced take on island of dr moreau and there's nothing wrong with that it's a sumptuous handsome euro horror outing with a brain good plotting character development location shooting period costuming and sets etc br br but i must admit that the 14 year old knucklehead weed still lurking somewhere inside of me got a bigger kick out of the more lurid sleazy and unkempt roger corman version which has some nice over the top gore a flashy but preposterous opening segment and then the bulk of martino's original film albeit somewhat abridged to make room for roger's idea of entertainment the pacing was somewhat quicker the shock sequences closer together and you see just as much of ms bach's fantastic form as you do in the extended italian version br br i still don't have much of an idea about what the specific story concerns though there are a number of plot twists and incidental characters that were somewhat hard to keep track of a local voodoo subplot didn't help much and it's funny how everything culminates in just another fistfight between the noble castaway prisoner and the mad scientist perhaps a few more viewings are in order i will say this fans of the movie should avail themselves of one of these pal imports and take a look at what is actually a movie rather than just another murky old home video the widescreen shot compositions once again reveal that martino had an eye for filling his screen with interesting stuff nobody gets their heads ripped off like in the print but it's still interesting stuff and once again proof that while his standards may have been pretty much confined to the area around the gutter roger corman new good trashy fun when he had it made for him and side by side these are actually better movies than they had to be br br 7 10
1	sure most people will designate island of the as silly and trashy hokum but can you honestly name one other movie that brings forward this many exhilarating themes this italian gem stands for pure entertainment and features stuff like voodoo volcanic eruptions mutant fish creatures the mysterious continent of atlantis treasure hunting a remote island filled with death traps and utterly mad scientists all this and much more in one simple movie yes please close minded opponents of italian horror cinema can easily tag this film as a cheap exploitation version of the island of dr moreau but the truth is that this is so much more island of the delivers thrills and adventure from start to finish with surprisingly convincing special effects and astonishingly stylish camera work the story promisingly opens with a small group of prisoners survivors of a shipwreck washing ashore a tropical island they encounter the sadistic edmond who rules over a native a legion of genetically created monsters that live in the island's swamps there are so many twists and additional sub plots in the story that it's almost impossible to write a summary but trust me this gem is worth checking out sergio martino once again proves that he's an ingenious filmmaker who has the talent to be commercial minded and creative at the same time he makes great use of the beautiful island location and also the interior sets look very impressive the staggering underwater footage and imaginative scenery really lift this film high above the normal standards of late 70's exploitation i don't quite understand why roger corman reworked the original so much and released it on the american market under a different title because there are very few elements open for improvement the cast members are all sergio martino regulars with the exception of the great joseph cotton is a neat supportive rule and give away great performances in case you can get your hands on the recently restored german version you're treated to fifteen uncut minutes of extra action see it
1	this is a very odd movie for harold lloyd at least in regard to the sweet character he played in movies throughout the 1920s and 30s instead of a nice guy he and pollard are con men out to rob everyone blind in a particularly successful con chester pretends to have lost a very valuable ring and a bit later harold finds it as a stooge is also looking for the ring the ring of course is a cheap one dropped and then found by harold but the greed of the stooge is so great he convinces harold to say nothing and sell him the valuable ring and then they run away to enjoy their luck again and again they find until they meet up with a woman who herself is a con woman working with a guy doing fake she arranges a nifty con and takes all the money they stole and has a cop standing by to make sure they give her the money br br as luck would have it the two con men stumble into the lady's shady business when no one is home soon the lady returns and messes with their minds releasing a lot of dirty tricks to punish them for their wicked ways br br all around this is a completely odd and contrived film but it is also exceedingly funny as the jokes work very well and lloyd and pollard make an excellent team plus while creepy and strange i liked seeing pollard dressed like a lady
1	i just watched this an early harold lloyd short film that featured his glasses character on kino video's dvd of the harold lloyd collection he's actually a con man with snub pollard as his partner who gets discovered by bebe daniels who herself performs fake what she discovers is that lloyd and pollard bilk many customers by dropping fake rings that are lost i'll stop there and just say this was quite funny especially when harold and snub enter the place bebe works and encounter some creepy contraptions and put on costumes like snub trying one of outfits not too much slapstick but what there is of was also quite funny so on that note i recommend are crooks dishonest
1	was struck at how even the acting was throughout william haines had an acting range that is wonderful for silent film not over the edge there are moments where the camera work is most excellent and combined with the story like when he is waiting to see the superintendent very well done br br thoroughly enjoyed the flick br br
1	a brash self centered army cadet arrives at west point with a dangerous wise guy attitude towards the corps br br in a role obviously tailor made for him william haines shines in this highly enjoyable tale of honor friendship a grade a scene stealer haines during the first half of the film is up to his usual silly billy behavior which under normal circumstances should have gotten him confined to the the last half however becomes very serious leading up to haines' moral redemption and giving him a fine opportunity to exhibit his acting talents if west point does not quite reach the caliber of haines' previous tell it to the marines 1926 this is doubtless due to the absence here of a costar of the charisma quality of lon chaney for haines to interact with however this tribute to the army is very effective entertainment and should be appreciated on its own merit br br joan crawford appears as haines' love interest playing the virginal daughter of the local innkeeper joan is pert pretty and especially shines in her first scenes when she meets haines on a hudson river ferry and is subjected to his usual immature antics haines crawford made five silent feature films together and were tremendous friends for life he was the much bigger celebrity at this period and gave her many hints for getting ahead in hollywood a superstar herself by the early 1930's she reciprocated after his from mgm in 1932 by encouraging his career change to interior decoration br br little william bakewell is effectively cast as a who idolizes haines their relationship is actually given more of a sentimental treatment than that of haines crawford br br the film was made with the full cooperation of the war department extensive location filming at the academy helps tremendously with the production's ambiance which was given splendid production values by mgm br br west point has been recently restored and given a rousing new score by david davidson
1	haines is excellent as the brash cadet who thinks west point will really amount to something now that he has arrived haines displays his easy goofy comic persona as he takes on west point and joan crawford the local beauty great fun for the first half and amazingly touching after haines's character goes too far and nearly gets shunned by fellow cadets the new humility filled haines get s minute reprieve to play in the bill football game against navy and despite a broken arm wins the game great rousing entertainment by mgm in this haines formula film shows billy at his best william bakewell also scores as the skinny follower the handsome but goony character would be played by clark gable cary grant gary cooper and others in later decades another take on the beautiful but daffy dames played by carole lombard and marion davies west point is a winner
1	i found west point to be an agreeable film although i doubt that i would watch it again the performances were convincing with william haines as yet another obnoxiously amusing young man that has his come uppance by film's end it's hard to believe that stardom beckoned joan crawford less than a year after this film was made as she looks rather awkward at times br br i would apply the comment made by another concerning ramon huddle 1932 to this film as well there is a great film waiting to be made here but there is something lacking the backdrop and integration of the corps was well utilized but i was less involved than i thought that i would be perhaps haines' character went too far or got away with too much his repentance did not seem genuine enough and what kind of message did it send for him to run every play in the last minutes of the army navy game where's the corps in that might as well have taken out the other ten men and let him do it all himself also i doubt very much that william weak puny character would ever have a real life counterpart at west point br br all this aside the film is sometimes very moving and inspiring it is a fine look into the daily practices of an honorable institution thank goodness that tradition still means something at west point too unlike the vapid traditions of ivy league schools only half heartedly engaged in these days br br as to the score it was appropriately martial but there was a distinct over use of snare drums using them for knocks on the door scene transitions et as well as in well over half the scenes got to be rather tedious it rather lessened the viewing experience i was ready to say i get the point already br br with that enjoy the film but don't expect too much emotional involvement
1	william haines sparks this tale of a brash cadet who thinks west point will really be something now that he has arrived terrific goony comic performance by haines was his trademark one that made him a top box office star from 1928 1932 and one of mgm's biggest stars joan crawford and william bakewell are fine too and although this storyline may seem trite now this was a huge hit putting haines and crawford in a college football a national craze during the 20s story after haines blows off his big mouth one time too often and nearly gets shunned by fellow cadets he turns in a wonderful performance as he swallows his pride and gets into the big game against navy even with a broken arm he wins the game for army and regains his place at west point it's easy to see from this film and show people with the always underrated marion davies why billy haines was a huge star of the time he needs and deserves to be remembered
1	it is a shame that this series hasn't been remastered and produced on video by warner or some other professional movie house br br copies of most episodes are available but are usually of poor quality being copies of copies of copies br br as i understand it 92 episodes were produced during its run but only 15 are noted here br br some of the series writers such as richard matheson went on to become noted authors br br excellent series well written well staged and well produced br br michael br br thailand
1	the definition of a vampire is an inhumane corpse supposed to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living nearly nails this concept on the head minus the cliché of pointy fangs and neck biting being an r rated movie i knew this was actually going to pertain to vampires actually being vampires which means that the characters in the movie are going to do what vampires actually do without restraint and rightfully lack any glamorous moments in comparison to twilight having viewed chan wook park's preceding oldboy i had very high expectations of br br i anticipated some awkward plot sequences with our anti hero known as priest sang and was very impressed by his performance as a holy man who is forced into this quandary of being humane and obeying his thirst as a vampire spoiler after the initial premise of him surviving the defective blood transfusion he starts to crave blood and discovers his super strength and his flying ability the screen shots do his transition phase without overbearing on exposition he starts drinking the blood of the dying and those who wish to be euthanized for moral reasons the oft tragic and dysfunctional love affair the priest has with the manipulative tae is very riveting as they are played by the host's ho song and actress ok vin kim the special effects are properly placed in the backdrop and while it doesn't offer anything new in the ways of stunts and cgi it didn't impose itself into the plot driven and character developed premise the story and the pivotal plot points are very perverse and grotesque yet very original in its own korean style br br there aren't many negatives i can say about sometimes i ask myself if the priests transition phase could have showed more of the priest having an emotional crisis with his transformation but then again this would have made the movie 3 hours long the movie was long to begin with on the same token vampires really don't have much in the way of expressing emotions to begin with as mentioned before this movie is very tragic so don't expect anything hopeful while watching this br br overall is delightfully dark morbid and original i strongly recommend this movie for serious viewers who are past the teenage phase of twilight this is definitely the korean answer to the swedish let the right one in which is also a good movie
1	at the same time john russell was playing ranch owner nathan trying to free his no good brother claude akins from sheriff john wayne in rio bravo he was working the other side of the law on television these years were probably the high point of russell's career his most noted screen role and his most famous television role marshal dan troop of laramie in lawman br br russell kept law and order in laramie the same way that james arness did it in dodge city on gunsmoke unlike gunsmoke laramie never developed the all the minor characters that gave you the feel of dodge city at the time instead it concentrated on russell taking care of business and learning the business of law to his eager young deputy peter brown br br brown played deputy johnny mckay who was a most respectful young man constantly referring to his boss as mr troop he was pretty handy with a shooting iron but was inclined to be impulsive good thing marshal troop was around br br the other series regular was the kitty russell of laramie lily played by peggie castle this is where lawman most resembled gunsmoke there was an unspoken understanding between russell and castle that even the smallest of children couldn't have missed and i wasn't the smallest of children when lawman was in first run br br sadly peggie castle developed substance abuse problems after run ended i remember a small obituary marked her passing in the first half of the seventies she was one beautiful woman br br lawman was good no nonsense western from that golden era of the adult television western it was one of the best
1	the theme song often goes through my head after all these years i was never much of a tv watcher probably because i was just entering my busy teen years when my family bought our first set in 1948 and it never became part of my life but from the first episode of lawman i was hooked and it is the only tv show i've ever scheduled my week around br br intelligent believable well written and well acted and john russell is still to me the most beautiful man i ever saw peter brown was no dog either o br br i agree that it is one of the most underrated tv series of all time i hope i can find some episodes for my grandchildren to watch
1	johnny crawford is great in this movie of a troubled teen coming of age in a generation that was in the middle of a cultural and spiritual upheaval billy graham does a good job of portraying life in this sweet sometimes corny but all the way sincere flick he gives us a look at not only the social scene but gives good solid advice that holds true today about morals decisions the generation gap teen dating some of the statistics that are given in this movie are astounding they sound like today's stats just to see billy in his younger days is worth seeing it's an awesome movie it made me realize that human nature does not change even though hair fashion and language may change humans are still struggling with the same issues they have been struggling with for thousands of years
1	subject matter quantum physics and stephen hawking br br soundtrack phillip glass br br have i died and gone to heaven br br you will be enraptured
1	an introspective look at the relationship between hawking and the space time contingent this film the and laws and there relation to einstein's theory of general relativity br br the film is methodically directed exposing details of the man hawking as well as his work black holes interviews with his family are a little too long so sadly there is less development of his theories and ideas br br a philip glass soundtrack superbly compliments the film only one other man could compose such haunting melodies jean michel jarre br br overall i would highly recommend this movie on the basis of hawking's of and his adequate explanation of an event horizon
1	stephen hawking has one of the greatest minds or if that's too simplistic to coin for him one of the most curious and daring that also happens to be trapped in a body crippled by a disease that leaves him in a wheelchair and a computer to communicate perhaps i didn't know enough about hawking going in i always knew him as 'that guy speaking like a computer who knows a lot about like the universe and stuff you know' that he is british that he was a rather normal kid and perhaps most remarkably the disease that could have possibly left him dead at 21 put him in the position of putting his life in focus br br according to errol morris's equally curious and coolly visually dazzling portrait in a brief history of time hawking was already brilliant in spurts when other oxford students were faced with daunting equations he answered more than three times the amount in an hour's time but when faced with challenges mostly from other theories by other scientists he bounced back with his own beneath some of the complex scientific talk and if you got any less than a b in astronomy like me you'll need to keep your ears especially perked up in explanations of time's possible infinity or the peculiarities of the black hole there's a human being who just wants to enjoy his goose on his birthday br br morris captures hawking just right for those who can't get enough of his theories on how particles may be going in and out of a black hole or if there is even a creator or not depending on how much one takes into account einstein and time but he also captures the back story on the man and his condition which creates this as something much more interesting than if morris had done one or the other too much talk about the cosmos would make one's head hurt and too much about his personal life and one might wonder what all the fuss is about this bloke who's book of the film's title was on bestseller lists for over five years br br almost in spite of his appearance hawking defines what it is to be a conscious entity in a universe which he observes he won't be apart of if and when the universe goes another 10 billion years from now through it all in a brief history of time we get a glimpse of a genius and his humility not to mention his colleagues and ten cents here and there through an unfathomably hypothetical and mathematical thought process of the universe
1	a brief history of time the cosmological content of this documentary is fascinating the thoughts provoking and the man brilliant yet i had a hard time enjoying this documentary br br the way the family members and professors are interviewed feels so unnatural these members were interviewed on specifically built sets and were directed uncomfortably mostly their accounts came across as very acted and forcefully directed the deliberate non inclusion of asked questions manipulates the given information into a very harsh and impersonal format br br i do not know who are responsibly for the interviewing but they did a dreadful job and with that took away from the viewing experience br br overall still a fascinating documentary well worth seeing if only for the interesting concepts presented
1	stephen is a genius he is the king of geniuses watching this movie makes me feel dumb but it's a great movie not highly entertaining but very very intriguing the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen a man who makes einstein look average and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe time the galaxy and black holes everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they'll write it all down well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig's disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes awesome you won't be the same after you see it
1	i have been a huge errol morris fan ever since i saw thin blue line and heard it saved a life to date this movie is his best piece of work br br the plot is a mixing of stephen hawking's book of the same title intertwined with the man's life the story is told through interviews with family friends and himself br br don't be fooled it totally sounds boring but the whole package is dynamic and thought provoking the blending of life and theories is seamless and thoroughly entertaining i was particularly moved at how well they humanize this genius and omniscient man tho physically powerless hawking's greatness and shear brilliance is encapsulated into a real live human being that we are allowed to laugh at and aw over at the same time br br find this movie watch it and enjoy and if the studio who owns this picture reads this a 15 year anniversary edition would be perfect now
1	based on stephen hawking's a brief history of time this amazing film by morris documents the the life and work of one of the greatest minds in the history of astronomy he has contributed more to science despite his debilitating disease als than an able bodied scientist could only dream of br br the film begins by telling of hawking's childhood and how he was a poor student that was recognizably bright he slacked his way through college and university where he was diagnosed with the disease that would take away normal functions of his body but would allow him to continue living and thinking perfectly br br morris discusses how the brilliant mind of stephen developed from childhood to the present at one point his mother tells how when she was pregnant she bought a astronomical atlas to read while in the hospital hawking himself narrates the timeline of his discoveries while morris interviews close friends and colleagues whom have been lucky enough to befriend the magnificent man br br he tells how he was first intrigued by the discovery that the universe was expanding similar to how a star would expand we also know that stars eventually die and become what is now known as black holes if this is the case will the universe not too begin to contract reversing itself until we reach the big crunch as hawking puts it and when the universe does begin to will time not reverse when posed this question i began to think that death may not be the end perhaps one day time will go backwards and our death will become our rebirth and our birth our death the universe is one big cycle just like everything else in life br br this is what hawking is telling us everything in the universe recycles itself this is completely logical and can make your mind wonder in a million directions pondering it this is why i love this film and why it is a must see an 11 out of 10 morris never ceases
1	i hate vampire movies with that said this one was very interesting to me i do want to point out one thing tho literally means bat in korean and we all know that in many classic vampire stories you see count dracula or vampires turning into a bat and fly away or we also know that bats are mammals that can fly thus many them to be exceptional as i watched the film i realized that the theme of bat is deeply embedded in this movie more than just to make the bat vampire connection br br duality of human nature if you ever read fables there is this one fable where mammals and birds are fighting and a bat just can't seem to take a side and it tries to play both sides to his advantage mammals and birds find out what this bat has been doing and banish the bat out of their lands at the end of the story br br the two contradicting sides of human nature are constantly at battle throughout the film ex sang blind priest friend sang effort to quench thirst and his sexual desire tae ju playing both sides her ordinary boring life vs her thrill seeking vampire adventure etc won't ruin too much u have to watch the film and this theme is beautifully presented on a plate with delicious sides of romance sex violence religion dark comedy tragedy vengeance you name it br br i feel like many would find this movie boring and too long but this film is very fresh and new something that i haven't seen b4 yet i wouldn't say this is cw park's best work but it is mos def the strangest to comprehend yet darkly intriguing
1	a brief history of time is not only a documentary on the beginning and the ending of the universal and reality as we know it this is a story about the man and the genius known as stephen hawking it is his story that reflects the story of time and change throughout the history of the universal the style of the documentary editing style of the interviews begin and end with a quick fade to black almost like blinking in between segments and interviews the documentary gives you an odd feeling like this is the view point of stephen hawking and not the eye of the camera the running time is only a little longer than an hour it is a short story then again its subject matter could be talked about for days and days an interesting and proud story
1	warning may contain some minor spoilers br br hard to say anything bad about this movie except for one thing br br you don't get to see it much anymore then again maybe that's because you have to be home in the morning or at 3 am to catch it the fox movie channel br br too bad for this is another gem lost to time clifton webb takes his patented sour know it all demeanor he had perfected as lynn sitting pretty and sequels and turns boy' br br actually it's like this br br webb plays robert jordan the host of a sunday children's educational program that is losing audience share and the network breaks it to him that he needs to do something about it or else br br part of the problem may be due to the fact that the married host has no children br br bummer but as such things happen the local church pastor needs a leader for an unruly troop of boy scouts and finds a willing victim ahhhh 'volunteer' in the host so jordan he takes the position br br problem solved right br br wrong this being a movie there are other problems br br for example it turns out one of the scouts is the son of his boss at the tv station which causes a little friction especially since the kid is overweight has asthma as well as an attitude br br and he is the more reasonable one br br also there is this cub scout mike george winslow who wants to hang around being the type br br as it turns out the reason is that he has no folks of his own but is cared for by a relative who hasn't much time for him br br it is things like this that makes his job harder than expected br br all in all webb becomes more understanding of kids and not only saves his show but learns a rewarding lesson and eventually even adopts mike br br still a great movie after all these years
1	robert jordan is a television star robert jordan likes things orderly on time and properly executed in his world children are to be seen not heard so why would mr jordan want to become the master of a rambunctious band of boy scouts ratings his staff figures that if learns how to interact with the youth they will be more inclined to watch his show of course watching jordan cope comprises most of the fun br br like mr and mr goes to college this one is sure to please br br anyone interested in obtaining a copy of this film please write to me at iamaseal2 yahoo com
1	robert jordan is a television star robert jordan likes things orderly on time and properly executed in his world children are to be seen not heard so why would mr jordan want to become the master of a rambunctious band of boy scouts ratings his staff figures that if learns how to interact with the youth they will be more inclined to watch his show of course watching jordan cope comprises most of the fun br br like mr and mr goes to college this one is sure to please br br anyone interested in obtaining a copy of this film please write to me at iamaseal2 yahoo com
1	robert jordan is a television star robert jordan likes things orderly on time and properly executed in his world children are to be seen not heard so why would mr jordan want to become the master of a rambunctious band of boy scouts ratings his staff figures that if learns how to interact with the youth they will be more inclined to watch his show of course watching jordan cope comprises most of the fun br br like mr and mr goes to college this one is sure to please br br anyone interested in obtaining a copy of this film please write to me at iamaseal2 yahoo com
1	this movie was never intended as a big budget film but was a cute little picture that pretty much anyone could enjoy it probably won't change your life but it is certainly charming and engaging br br clifton webb plays a curmudgeon that's certainly not new who has a tv however his ratings are failing and he is worried about cancellation so he decides maybe he is too out of touch with kids as he and his wife have none of their own so he volunteers as a and regrets doing this almost immediately remember he is a curmudgeon and doesn't particularly like kids to make things worse one of the kids really likes him and follows him like a lost puppy no matter how indifferently he acts towards the kid the child just wants to spend time with him the kid is cute and nearly steals the show all by himself br br what happens next and the twists and turns of the movie are something you'll just have to find out for yourself understand that this is a light cute and yet not cloying movie you'll probably enjoy
1	a middle aged man robert jordan set in his ways takes on a boy scout troop after his predecessor leaves under duress jordan takes on the pack mostly to learn what the boys like so he can revive his flagging radio program which is losing it's appeal to the younger set he has a rough go at first with the boys especially so with mike an 8 year old who forms an attachment for the older man which is anything but reciprocated do things work out for jordan and the scouts check out this entertaining and amusing film from the old days
1	clifton webb as mr is one of the all time greats for comedy and remembering an innocence now diminished in the world i cannot understand why the networks like american movie classics and such do not show this movie although i have requested it time and again br br this movie should be shown to children now for its portrayal of loyalty respect dedication and resolve to achieve the best possible on an individual basis there is so much low self esteem talked about in present daily lives but this movie among many many others would be a wonderful learning tool for the present day younger generation to see what can be accomplished by common sense and decency and pride in yourself and your achievements to better yourself sad that this type of movie does not appeal to modern audiences it certainly appealed to us 'baby generation of yesterday old lessons are universal and timeless
1	i saw this mini movie when it first aired and loved it it kinda funny to see how far people will go for money it's also funny to see how much a boyfriend can be whipped whipped enough to kill i think the cast was great especially the character kristin without her smooth talking and deceptive looks the movie would have not been the same br br i never use to watch usa but now it is one of my stations br br
1	a proof that it's not necessary for a movie to have a deep many layered story and other sophisticated elements to be a good movie even if the story could be expanded in many directions especially in more sociological way people lust for money it seems that it's perfect just the way it is through many sudden changes it takes the spectator to the end without any unnecessary complications and without letting the spectator taking the eyes of the screen br br but the acting for me isn't so good with the exception of lindsey the others were average or even worst in some scenes they just empty stared in front of themselves for exception of lindsey which was more convincing it's a really simple movie for just laying back and enjoying br br 7 10
1	we all know what chan wook park can do if you haven't seen oldboy or the sympathy trilogy for that matter you are missing out on some of the best films made this century but i'm not here to talk about them i'm here to talk about thirst br br this movie is not what you would expect yes it is a vampire movie but at the same time it is also a very twisted tale of romance between a priest and a young girl i wont get into the synopsis you can read that above but instead tell you what this movie has to offer chan wook park is a master of cinematography and this movie is no exception with some very surreal scenes backed by intense lighting he sets the mood perfectly in almost every scene the movie does start a bit slow but i felt this was necessary to build a relationship with the characters once things start moving along it almost never lets up until the credits roll thirst is predominantly a love story but not in the same sense that you would think the relationship between the lead characters is very intense but at the same time almost disturbing chan wook park is no stranger to controversy as we know and this film touches on taboo almost as much as oldboy the end scene is by far the most powerful in the movie and perhaps one of the best conclusions to a film i have seen br br overall this is an exceptional film that i feel all movie buffs should see it is an exciting and admittedly different take on the world of vampires and the romance is far from sappy or boring this movie is gritty selfless and beautiful in all the wrong ways obviously it is not for everyone but chances are if you are reading this review you are already interested see it do not hesitate
1	the man with the golden arm otto preminger's controversial panoramic crime drama plays itself out among the mental descriptions of its living and architectural occupants in rhythmic lashing arrangement opening the film a closeup from within a bar of frankie looking in through the window already tells us to the prominence that the protagonist's subjective experience will grasp pulled in the direction of increasingly slighter spaces the film shuts itself off as the local gangster's long drawn out poker game shuts itself from the daylight bolts itself in as sinatra's frankie machine has himself locked in a room in the celebrated scene of his harrowing struggle to overcome his habit in delving into the shapes and faces of its jazzy urban haven the visual traffic in the man with the golden arm characterizes skewed psychological circumstances forming an overpowering environment as maintained by the recurring tracking shots into closeups of frankie's eyes br br the grace of this fiery drama striking as early as the exciting opening crane shot displays the command over the perceptible world that studio production allows the wonderfully dilapidated urban sets define an independent place with no beginnings or ends an indeterminate state the sort that in reality hardly last as long as this skid row seems to before being gentrified or leveled the flair of certain performances particularly robert as the wonderfully named underworld gambling boss and arnold as frankie's trusty four eyed lapdog becomes this fiery surreal feature pleasingly the premise of drug addiction sinatra's powerhouse performance elmer bernstein's infectious forceful jazz score and saul famous influential and controversial opening sequence centering on the animated paper cut out of a heroin addict's arm ensured that in its era the man with the golden arm presses forward upon the cause for realism in the still reticent hollywood it is impressionistic and subjective as i say but its intent its force and its spirit are much closer to home br br what absorbs me the most in this film is its aspect as a gangster film it has the illegal card games short cons the fights the guns the double crosses characters on the lam a femme fatale a stunningly sexy gun moll the shady nightclubs and urban landscape but it does more than exploit this environment for entertainment really it is the perfect environment and genre in which to tell this story a crime ridden urban borough where it's all too comfortable to escape through a bottle or two or three or four or drugs a transient dose that really just functions to keep one in obscurity from any enlightenment and all the clear scenarios the world could bid
1	but quite dated today otto preminger made this movie without the certificate of approval that was needed then it was enormously courageous and risky as he could have lost his investment and future br br the film is not true to the wonderful book and is unfortunately hollywoodized br br frank sinatra and i've never been a fan playing frankie machine is astonishing in his performance one forgets it is frank up there the level of realism he brings to the role of a jonesing drug addict has to be seen to be believed br br kim novak eternally gorgeous and talented does not disappoint in the role of the devoted outsider always there for frankie br br supporting roles particularly a young handsome and talented darrin mc gavin are faultless br br eleanor parker playing frankie's wife is hopelessly inept she swings from irritating to melodramatic and is far too over the top a forgettable performance br br the stagey cheap settings are appalling as if a firm gust of wind would blow the whole tacky painted cardboards over the horizon almost laughable at times in their tawdry cheapness br br the music was irritating poundingly so at times as if each nuance of the script example when louie is getting frankie his fix out of a drawer had to be underscored at a high level br br 7 out of 10 sinatra truly deserved his oscar nomination worth seeing
1	the moon is blue director otto preminger tackled even more taboo subject matter in his controversial 1955 release the man with the golden arm whereas he had incensed the motion picture association of america with his use of the words virgin and mistress in his mild 1953 comedy the moon is blue preminger went far beyond what any movie had attempted with the man with the golden arm since dick powell made his law and order epic to the ends of the earth 1946 about thwarting the international traffic in narcotics based on nelson novel that won the 1950 national book award this gritty uncompromising minute black white melodrama deals with heroin addiction initially when preminger's film came out the motion picture association of america would not issue its seal of approval because the filmmakers depicted addiction to narcotics this groundbreaking film qualified as the first major motion picture to handle narcotics from the dope fiend's perspective and actually showed the paraphernalia that junkies wielded to shoot up heroin the production code that filmmakers must refrain from showing characters using illicit narcotics nevertheless united artists released this unique frank sinatra picture and it grossed over 4 million dollars br br the critical and commercial success of the man with the golden arm eviscerated the production code as a result the mpaa the code so that filmmakers could delve into other taboo subjects such as drug abuse kidnapping abortion and prostitution the film received three academy award nominations oscar nominations went to sinatra for best acting joseph c wright and darrell for best art direction set decoration black and white and elmer bernstein for best music scoring of a dramatic or comedy picture indeed elmer bernstein made a name for himself with his jazzy score the producers had thought about casting marlon brando in the title role but sinatra beat brando to the punch eleanor parker kim novak arnold darren mcgavin and robert strauss co starred with ole blue eyes mcgavin was particularly memorable as a sleazy heroin dealer while eleanor parker played the protagonist's wife with a dark deep secret of her own that comes as quite a shock br br the man with the golden arm refers to protagonist frankie ability to manipulate a deck of cards frankie deals cards for zero robert strauss of stalag 17 but he has been out of chicago for the last six months in a federal narcotics hospital recovering from heroin addiction not only has frankie licked the habit but he also has learned how to play the drums and plans to embark of a music career optimistic as frank is about his future he finds himself facing his past all over again when he returns to his old stomping grounds wants him to deal for him again and nifty louie darren mcgavin of counter attack tries to induce him to resume his heroin usage meanwhile frankie comes home to his invalid wheel chair bound wife eleanor parker of escape from fort bravo who manipulates him with guilt frankie was drunk when he had a car accident and wound up in a wheel chair frankie shows up with high hopes and a drum set but sees no future for him as a musician and urges to go back to work for frankie plans to visit a music promoting and one of his own friends sparrow arnold of my sister eileen shoplifts a business suit from a department store for frankie after frankie refuses to work for because he is going to see musical agent harry lane will wright of the wild one turns both frank and sparrow into the police meanwhile gets department store to drop the shoplifting charges the suit was worth 37 00 frankie agrees to resume dealing for and the hustler bails him out not long afterward despite his resolution to shun heroin use frankie breaks down and pays louie the 2 00 for a fix br br eventually frankie meets harry lane and lane warns him that he is catches frankie shooting up that he will have nothing to do with him what poor frankie doesn't know is that has recovered her ability to walk but she uses his guilt about the accident to hold on to him is also jealous of her downstairs neighbor molly kim novak of picnic frankie's former sweetheart who hustles drinks at a nearby strip bar called the safari club when complains about headaches that frankie gives her practicing on his drum set frankie moves them downstairs into molly's apartment and louie are planning a big poker game with sam george e stone of guys and dolls and williams george mathews of gunfight at the o k corral two big time gamblers who have heard about frank and his legendary 'golden arm ' and louie persuade a reluctant frankie to deal for 250 after an early winning streak frankie starts losing and he cannot reverse his bad luck in fact frankie spends about two days dealing exhausted his nerves shot and desperate for a fix he falls apart on the second day and and williams catch him cheating louie refuses to give frankie a fix so frankie knocks him out and his apartment for the heroin br br preminger pulls no punches in the man with the golden arm and the film is pretty disillusioning none of the characters here are remotely sympathetic essentially they are either hustlers or hustled sinatra gives another dynamite performance as does mcgavin and parker to be sure the man with the golden arm has lost much of its impact in the intervening 50 or more years but it still ranks as a landmark film
1	a truly excellent look at the world and the realities of being a heroin addict the movie is one that will hit much too close to home to those who were involved in the drug culture and have knowledge of what being or being around a heroin addict really is good movie which will never truly be outdated excellent performances by all involved and the minimalist set is preminger's way of showing how bleak a world can become worth a look an education of sorts the golden arm is a worried look at the truth of the underground life of pain a junkie lives in
1	just getting released from a six month drug rehabilitation program and having served his time for dealing cards in illegal gambling card games frankie machine frank sinatra has high hopes for going clean and finding a new life as a big band drummer however upon returning to his old crime ridden chicago neighborhood he soon finds the pressure mounting from those around him including his wheelchair ridden wife eleanor parker to return to the old money making dealer lifestyle that first got him started on the path of self destruction that is being an heroin addict br br it's very rare that a film has so many great character performances as this one does frank sinatra is superb as frankie machine and realistically portrays the symptoms of a drug addict going through withdrawal arguably better than anyone else had ever been done before him sinatra seems to possess a keen understanding and awareness of his character here and expresses the constant battle for control over his own life that is forever going on inside the heart of the man that is frankie machine parker as his crippled wife wants to possess frankie forever to have him deal to make good money so as to take care of her and pay her ever mounting medical bills she seems terrified by anything she sees as a threat to her control over him such as the freedom the life of a drummer might offer or anything that might change the status quo between them br br onlooker molly kim novak a girl who lives in the same building and seems to possess real strong genuine feelings for frankie having no desire to control him but only to help him proves the best thing frankie has going for him in the world if he can just stay straight long enough to wake up and realize it darren mcgavin as the heroin drug peddler louie however is always there just waiting in the wings knowing just the right buttons to push just the thing to say to get a former addict to revert back to that old habit one profitable to louie but deadly for the addict br br the setting too seems to take on a life of its own constantly dark gritty seedy and crime ridden with nowhere near enough positive things to look forward to in life a place where it's all too easy to escape via a bottle or drugs a quick fix that's truly no fix at all but only works to keep one in the dark away from the daylight and all the bright prospects the world might have to offer it's a neat touch that when frankie is on the right track the setting always seems brighter than when he's headed down the wrong road while some argue it is a bit dated to me this is a gritty film featuring a realistic inner war within a man for control over his own fate one that features very strong character performances by all involved given that the man with the golden arm gets my highest possible recommendation
1	i saw this movie about 12 years ago and i can still remember it as if i just saw it recently that is how much this movie has affected me br br considering this is a movie from the 50's i think it was ahead of its time it surprised me as in how it maintains its integrity in this subject some might have considered taboo back then very realistic in showing the tumultuous and journey that an addict chooses to embark on one can only imagine how the audiences were affected by the realism of this movie back in those days br br i personally think is was one of frank sinatra's top five performances in the big screen br br when others are discussing movies dealing with mental illness and or addiction i always recommend the man with the golden arm as one of the top five to watch
1	star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br one time heroin addict frankie machine frank sinatra gets out of prison to his bumbling jailbird partner sparrow arnold needy cripple of a wife eleanor parker and bit on the side molly kim novak he's trying to make it big as a drummer in a band but until his big break comes along he's stuck doing the only other thing he was any good at other than being a junkie dealing cards in high stakes games and try as he might even prison hasn't cured him of his addiction to the devil's drug causing him to lie to and deceive all those around him and driving him to desperate measures to feed his habit his yearning to come off it is his only motivation towards a happy ending br br when people think of frank sinatra they generally think of classic high pitched songs like under my skin new york new york and it had to be you but lest anyone forget he was actually a renowned actor too and if his performance in the acclaimed from here to eternity wasn't enough he will also be remembered for this cutting edge drama dealing with what was at the time the ultra taboo subject of drug abuse br br the film is often listed as one of the first to feature graphic heroin use probably the reason behind the 15 certificate in a time when it was a subject that was still very much pushed underground in his portrayal of the main protagonist sinatra is fine perfectly conveying the despair desperation and sincerity of a man losing every second chance that is being given to him his cold turkey scene is much more intense than ewan mcgregor's in trainspotting the first co star to make an impression is parker as demanding needy cripple of a wife using her husband's guilt and sense of duty to all the effect she can novak as his secret lover still manages some strong moments but is less of a star than parker does his usual comic relief thing as the bumbling sidekick who trails the leading man around with his waspy new york accent br br director otto preminger does allow the pace to drag a bit sometimes but this is still a powerfully absorbing film all the way with plenty of unexpected twists and turns and which should be admired for being one of the first films to bring such a grim subject so powerfully to life
1	the man with the golden arm was one of the first films to have as its main topic and in some respects the message the tragedy of heroin addiction it's nowhere near a great film but its importance lies in otto preminger's dedication to making it feel real and on the edge of melodrama and naturalism what i liked is that it's not so much an expose of junkies if you want the best expose of that read naked lunch if you can get through it anyway besides the point but the nature of the urban environment frankie machine lives he expects after he gets out of prison for dealing to go on the straight and narrow to become a drummer in a band and make it legit as a musician but he has his crippled wife who can't work and needs money and often complains and then there's the old neighborhood he can't escape seeing louie darren mcgavin who is still doing back room card games and yes pushing dope like mean streets it's hard to escape the minutia unless you leave br br but then again it's hard for frankie machine not to try and operate naturally in this urban quarter it's just that he can't escape the temptation of junk when he's booked on a phony theft charge with his friend he sees a junkie freaking out and it puts back the fear of going back on into his clean self and personifying frankie is sinatra and i can't see anyone else who could've played him even original choice brando he fits into the neighborhood and seems like the kind of guy who should be a step ahead of the game but there's also a vulnerability to sinatra that he pulls out wonderfully and by the time we see him going in molly's apartment it's believable even if it's not the kind of thing those from 'my' generation would think of heroin i e trainspotting and certainly requiem for a dream if for nothing else you want to watch the movie to see what happens to sinatra as this character br br the flaws however come in some of the other performances though it's a little tricky eleanor parker seems to be overacting for a good portion of the movie fooling frankie that she's really crippled when in reality she can walk and is fooling him for one reason or another but then it becomes clearer as it goes along she's supposed to be nuts and nuts with jealousy and on that level it starts to get better meanwhile kim novak is good though not vertigo worthy as the possible girl in the side but more like the voice of reason in the story then there's a detective who might be one of the most one note characters performances ever and also sparrow frankie's nerdy friend and the characters of louie and and they're all played as one might expect them to actually mcgavin is better than ok as far as casting other talent around sinatra preminger doesn't do all that great and frankly some scenes kind of fall flat br br but there's a lot of fascination in the man with the golden arm and not just as some dated piece of sociological interest it works as compelling drama and as a message piece conveyed without being preachy or campy it's a genuine article just not exceptional
1	great book great movie great soundtrack frank sinatra shows in this movie that when he wanted to put the effort in he could act the ending is a bit schmaltzy but for the time it's understandable the studio wanted a happy ending the graphic nature of the heroin addiction groundbreaking for the period is a plus add the terrific soundtrack and you've got one of the great american movies
1	a dark and painful look at the perils of drug addiction sinatra is wonderful in this film just watching his frenzied writhing and screaming and destructive rage near the end of the film is enough to make anyone think twice about trying heroin maybe they should show this to kids in health class instead of the mindless drivel we are compelled to endure year after year br br it's the story of a man who is simply trying to make a new clean life for himself after being in prison trying to rid himself of his drug habit and his job of dealing cards in illegal gambling operations who is pulled down pulled back into the muck by the evils of human nature he is being taken advantage of by his employers the drug dealers and even his enigmatic crafty yet stupid wife br br even if you didn't like the film itself it's worth seeing just for the soundtrack it's all heavy swinging jazz with large drum and brass sections this with its groovy yet slightly sinister sound helps set the mood along with the grinning snaky drug and card dealers who always seem to hover like vultures around frankie machine br br i recommend this to anyone especially if you like film noir zoot suits fedoras or jazz
1	i'm the first to recognize that chan wook park's thirst is exceptionally well made but spending over two hours with tae ok vin kim is enough for anyone to tolerate for such a length of time sang kang ho song is a priest desiring to volunteer for experimental studies on those willing to subject themselves to rigorous injections concerning a specific virus which kills infectiously instead of legitimately dying becomes a vampire always yearning for the blood gives for him to fight off an infectious disease which returns causing the symptoms which flat lined him to begin with bumps sores and the body vomits blood sunlight as is known in the vampire genre causes torturous death if exposed to for a length of time falls in lust with tae the wife of sickly childhood friend kang woo ha kyun shin tae was taken in by mrs ra hae kim regarded as a puppy and practically used as a domestic animal to be ordered around ta is miserable in this situation and begins a torrid affair she with soon manipulating him into perhaps killing kang woo by having him believe she's a victim of abuse his priesthood dives headlong into the relationship with tae soon a willing participant in killing kang woo this incident which tae woo contributed to using a boat in the middle of a lake both proceeded to burying him underwater tae woo keeping him kang woo from re surfacing as he attempted to re enter will haunt both as circumstances arise with kang woo missing got rid of him where police would not find his corpse soon mrs ra suffers a stroke though one finger and the ability to blink her eyes contribute mightily as the story progresses showing that she more aware than they are led to believe and gives tae a special birthday gift vampirism in doing so has created a monster tae admits though a slip of the tongue that in fact kang woo never hurt her and as she for blood it is soon realized that killing for a supply doesn't bother her morally or psychologically tae becomes such a hand full has to take desperate measures if he is to stop such a menace to society himself included br br i will say that thirst is one of the best horror films i've seen regarding 2009 it's a methodical approach park takes and we are led down a dark road with and tae as they commit terrible deeds with nothing positive ever to come from their unholy union innocent people die because of love what once was lust shifts into an obsessive love by the end for tae and it will cease to end if he doesn't make a painful choice we see inside their heads their souls and it isn't always pretty 2 hours with them can be quite exhausting but credit to the director for pulling no punches in regards to devious behavior and how the powers of vampirism can be given to the wrong people seen as a rather pleasant soul at the opening accepts hell for tae so one could look at thirst as a unique love story but not exactly a healthy one br br in regards to the violence while park does have a tendency to pull away from extremely graphic details there's enough sadism involved to perhaps turn the stomach a bit at the very least the way the violence is carried out may be certain to leave a lasting impact the sexual situations between and tae can be pretty heated and erotic while also sordid and morally reprehensible the movie i think is still quite a complex examination of the lengths one will go to remain attached to an object of affection lust
1	from the crash of the opening theme the man with the golden arm is classic 1950's entertainment no subtlety here frank comes home from prison with a monkey on his back and goes right back to the old neighborhood where the old scumbags still lurk this is a tale of his dark ride with all of his emotional baggage intact the performances are all a bit overripe but that's part of the fun of watching darren mcgavin and arnold are unforgettable and almost steal the show this and the manchurian candidate are the two greatest chairman of the board films in my humble opinion don't miss either one of them
1	a truly excellent look at the world and the realities of being a heroin addict the movie is one that will hit much too close to home to those who were involved in the drug culture and have knowledge of what being or being around a heroin addict really is good movie which will never truly be outdated excellent performances by all involved and the minimalist set is preminger's way of showing how bleak a world can become worth a look an education of sorts the golden arm is a worried look at the truth of the underground life of pain a junkie lives in
1	great little ground breaking movie in 1955 about an important subject br br i wasn't expecting much from sinatra's performance and was pleasantly surprised by it loved kim novak she was gorgeous br br loved the jazz score by elmer bernstein as great as that by schifrin for bullitt i am very surprised it doesn't seem available on cd if anyone knows about the soundtrack's availability on any other format they should post it here somewhere br br preminger's direction was as usual borderline flawless br br haven't read nelson novel nor have any idea how faithful the screenplay was to it the subplot of frankie as a hot card dealer was a bit of a surprise too as were a few other things but see for yourself it's very much worth seeing
1	spoiler in fifth paragraph this was an amazingly frank uh huh uh huh picture for 1955 otto preminger and carlyle productions took a chance by making it the motion picture association of america balked at a film that openly shows a junky jabbing a syringe full of heroin into his arm frank sinatra took a chance both on playing an addicted musician and at falling flat on his face in a role that required at least twice as much acting as he'd ever done all in all these gambles paid off the movie is a classic though it's not perfect br br nelson novel may be great but it has far too much going on to fit comfortably into a two hour movie 'the man with the golden is minutes and often feels much longer however in my opinion it's not just frankie machine sinatra that makes the film but the other characters and their sub plots all involving frankie ultimately it's not just frankie who has the addiction everyone and everything seems to be dependent on him and he feels it keenly when the pressure gets to be too much the drums start pounding on the soundtrack and frankie steps across the street with his well dressed friend louie br br it's an exaggeration to say that frank sinatra's music career was ever really in the doldrums but in the early 50's he was in limbo between his days touring with big bands and the las vegas era 'from here to established him as a serious actor and his career as a singer rebounded as well but 'the man with the golden was still a significant challenge the whole show sinks or swims with his performance he pulls it off with such skill that for several minutes at a time i forgot i was watching frank sinatra he must have known junky musicians and exploited that knowledge to the utmost br br set side by side with billy wilder's masterpiece 'the lost weekend' there is more emphasis on the sociological causes of addiction in 'the man with the golden arm ' whereas don ray milland in 'the lost weekend' seems to struggle mostly against himself frankie machine is beset by external forces and he takes refuge in the needle neither approach is wholly right or wrong mostly because addiction is impossible to fully explain but it seems like this film might have benefited from a little more insight into frankie's internal struggle br br spoiler one of the problems i have with this film is the clichéd reliance on quitting cold turkey i realize that 'the man with the golden was probably setting the trend rather than following it but that doesn't make it any better in the beginning of the movie frankie has to all appearances kicked his habit with the help of a doctor and a treatment facility of some sort naturally the drama of the film requires that he but i found the all american ideal that a man has to face his problems alone or maybe with the help of a good woman out of place here going cold turkey and riding off into the sunset with kim novak seemed too unrealistic the end of 'the lost weekend' was similar but in my opinion was a little less rosy
1	lots of scenes and dialogue are flat out goofy but when you add it all up i e daily cycle from depressing to depressing bar to depressing burlesque hall to depressing smoke filled poker games and back home again you get a weird sense that somebody somewhere is trying to give a faithful depiction of the life circa 1955 whether it's sinatra who obviously would have bumped up against this type of character growing up in hoboken and working in numerous bands or preminger who uses the soundtrack and the frankie subtext to slip the addict's interior worldview past the hays code cage you get a good companion piece to on the waterfront which was filmed almost exactly the same time sort of a faux realist work that leaves you realistically wondering how deep the drug culture is embedded in american life
1	otto preminger was one of the great maverick film directors like john huston he was a character from one of his own movies like mr huston he was a wonderful ham who slipped in and out of performance at random but the final product of his labours was unmistakably his own with a few exceptions films are now made by corporations not individuals and as a result are usually highly polished packages a product in much the same way as a golf ball a tin of dog food or a motor car is a product the involvement of human beings in the process is almost incidental such is the appetite for the product that there appears no end to the line of well finished glossy superficially entertaining but ultimately empty films that flood the countless tv channels and movie outlets there is no time for a man like mr preminger to stand a little apart from the torrent of product and craft a personal work of art of course there has always been the art for art's sake money for christ's sake ethos in film making but now has in all but name been consigned to history's cutting room floor today otto preminger would be lucky to get a job delivering pizzas in hollywood half a century ago having made the hugely influential laura where the sidewalk ends and the moon is blue he set about filming nelson controversial novel the man with the golden arm in his eccentric and individualistic manner rather than take his camera out onto the streets he stayed in the studio and used stylised almost expressionistic sets quirky casting mr frank sinatra hot from his success in from here to eternity the young inexperienced but breathtakingly beautiful miss kim novak and mr arnold a man whose oddities were after his own heart and a remarkable era defining score by elmer bernstein featuring the cream of west coast an otto preminger film was always an all round experience to be considered as a whole rather than breaking it down into acting directing photography what appeared on the screen was preminger's vision his creation and his interpretation of novel not a film of novel any one of twenty competent hollywood hacks have produced that from the first hi hat cymbal beat that accompanies saul iconic title sequence we are drawn into preminger's take on what is nowadays called the life in truth a murky area occupied by hustlers junkies cops drug dealers stone gamblers jazz musicians their women and hangers on the lines are blurred in the life and it's dog eats dog down there the inhabitants circle each other like sharks looking for a sign of weakness to be exploited frankie machine mr sinatra a professional card dealer ex junkie and aspiring jazz drummer is a born victim when things get tough he goes back to the needle although he kicks the habit by going cold turkey there are absolutely no guarantees that he won't go straight back on it further down the line mr sinatra's depiction of an addict in the throes of withdrawal has divided the critics but the fact of the matter is that even fifty years later most of us have probably never seen such a thing in real life so we don't know how accurate the portrayal is when i first saw the film in the late 50s i was very impressed watching it recently on video it seemed to put it unkindly hammy perhaps he is a victim of his own success as many actors subsequently doing cold turkey have with the passing of the years taken his performance and refined it somewhat arnold is outstanding as pal sparrow a performance he exceeded only in it's a mad mad mad mad world try and watch it on the big screen and view it as the cinematic vision of a true auteur a giant amongst today's pygmies otto preminger
1	frank sinatra has one of his best roles as a reformed heroin addict coming back to his chicago neighborhood after an extensive stay in a clinic he plans to stay off the drug and find work as a drummer but he can't avoid running into his old friends he had been arrested originally not for any drug related charge but because he was caught dealing in an illegal poker game his skill at poker has earned him the nickname of the man with the golden arm and the men who run the game one of them being his former heroin connection want him to deal again meanwhile frank has to take care of a woman whom he injured in a car accident eleanor parker and make up with his old girlfriend molly kim novak the film is great at putting us in sinatra's mental state when he feels sure of himself at the beginning of the film i felt good for him but when a promised phone call doesn't come one day he descends into depression and goes back on the smack later when he finally gets to audition he arrives completely strung out his embarrassment when he can't play the correct beat is devastating he had such big dreams and the other musicians don't even pay him a bit of attention as he rushes out of the room the film moves quickly and it shows frank's drug problem in a realistic light without turning into a social message picture the actors are uniformly fine elmer bernstein's score is one of the best of its time the only thing i don't like about the film is the ending br br spoilers br br although i really like the character of and parker is very good in the film they could have done a little more to fill in her backstory the ending is a little too pat while there is surely pathos that will remain with the characters after the film closes death ties up all the loose ends a bit too neatly frank is free to love molly and he won't go to jail also his dealer is dead so at least the immediate threat is gone well i guess in hollywood there's always a desire to tie everything up in a neat little package it harms the film a little but as it stands it's still one of the best and most adult movies about drug addiction i can think of 9 10
1	if you like your films to pull your emotions out of you if you like your films with a guy you can root for and relate to if you like your films in black and white you gotta see this film watch it from start to finish because you don't want to miss a beat it is sometimes slow and it makes you wonder when something is going to happen then when the plot begins to unfold you will be on the edge of your seat i know i was my mother told me about this film as our family had some of the same things going on in it as the film does we loved frankie who plays the lead convincingly what ever you think about frank sinatra put that aside in the film he is skinny and he doesn't sing so keep an open mind for the era it was made in it tells a story that is still being told today in homes all across the nation and quite possibly the world please watch if you like older films give this one a try
1	frank sinatra took this role chewed it up with the rest of the scenery and spat it out his way is stagey the ending is trite some of the scenes need a little more cutting but that's all it's great entertainment from start to finish and while you watch it you realise that sinatra that long dead mor crooner had junkies gangster card games and the whole us urban hustle thing in his blood he didn't learn it from an acting coach there are all sorts of directorial touches to keep you amused and the non dated soundtrack cooks all the way the marathon card game beat goodfellas sopranos etc by forty years so it wasn't faithful to the book what movie is and i can't imagine it being remembered if brando had been let loose on it the cold turkey scenes would have been embarrassing instead of edgy convincing and moving with sinatra no one else has mentioned the seedy lazy cynical cops absolutely spot on and eleanor parker would have driven me to smack
1	i have never been as surprised by a film that was this old only the treasure of the sierra madre holds up this well performance wise as someone that has seen heroin addiction first hand i was shocked at how realistic this film was frank sinatra's performance is completely uncompromising realistic and heart wrenching otto preminger's direction is perfect for the film with long takes and a very mobile camera br br kim novak's performance is good as is eleanor parker's in fact the entire supporting cast works very well with understated performances as befitting this film's style the documentary style is part of what keeps this film up to date highly recommended br br 8 0 out of 10
1	the priest into profound love and suffering showed not the result of love but the process of love and salvation has high beauty of human or vampire http plaza co jp diary br br and the love of femme fatale is not notorious but lovely in taking the responsible death as a vampire she did not keep falling deep into the paradise lost but decided to leave human alone fragile but lovely femme fatale this movie made me think about suffering between human and vampire that far beyond priest and salvation also i thought about love adam was not so responsible for eve's but this adam priest sacrificial and responsible to pick eve up from the paradise lost vampire's world another symphonic poem of adam eve paradise lost
1	i am fifteen years old and have seen thirty three of sinatra's films not counting videos of tv shows and documentaries and have been unimpressed by only two of them the clouds roll by and the miracle of the bells don't really count however considering that in the first all he does is sing a magnificent ol' man river and in the latter he's not half bad only the picture is pathetic my favorite records radio shows tv shows and movies concerning sinatra change virtually every day everything taking on a different connotation at each viewing and occasionally seeming the best thing he ever did and occasionally the worst until the cycle comes around again but there are a couple things that are beyond comparison when it comes to movies the man with the golden arm heads that list everybody who knows anything about sinatra knows he thought this was his best ever performance he was oscar nominated it was the first serious look at drug addiction etc etc the jazz score is unforgettable kim novak's likable despite a ludicrous accent eleanor parker is annoying and waaaay too dramatic the turtle like arnold is amusing the first time but more embarrassing every time out and darren mcgavin makes a wonderfully slimy drug dealer the sets are unconvincing at first glance it seems a peculiar mixed bag tossed together by the great otto preminger with an off center charm br br then you come to sinatra like everything else in his life other than music reports of his acting are alway divided in half directors like fred zinnemann frank capra billy wilder stanley kramer martin scorsese peter bogdanovich and otto preminger all agreed that had sinatra worked as hard on his films as he did on singing he'd have been among the greatest actors in the world if not the greatest humphrey bogart even said this guy has the most natural acting talent i've ever seen not bad for a man who never took an acting lesson in his life was at the same time producing the discography that would make him the greatest singer of the 20th century and did almost all his scenes in one take br br in direct conflict with all of this are those other reviews and biographies that sniff haughtily about what a lousy actor was this mr sinatra and how many bad movies he made the question will never be answered to everyone's satisfaction because controversy was among sinatra's greatest assets and both arguments were in a sense playing into his hand in any case at this time in this role sinatra is magnificent a reviewer said in the late fifties sinatra may not be the greatest actor in the world but there is none more fascinating to watch no matter what sinatra is doing in a film it's hard to take your eyes off him this of course is a charisma that i've only seen in a handful of other people orson welles richard burton marlon brando montgomery clift perhaps james cagney there's no real definition for it and it often makes it hard to figure out whether you're really enjoying a performance or just spellbound but that quality on display here is what makes the movie sinatra is downright riveting real intense transcending decades and thousands of paper doll pop stars with something called quality like it or not this is a one man show with a few character actors hanging around in the background he covers every emotion with remarkable subtlety from sweet lonely tenderness with kim novak to the terrifying shock of frank sinatra frank sinatra whimpering and screaming in the agony of cold turkey sinatra was right this is his best performance no question br br i was eight when frank sinatra died i wasn't around for all the years of bobby soxers and aweigh '' mr ava gardner and here to eternity albums with lamp posts and lovers kennedy vegas ring a ding ding basie and mia and reagan and concerts from madison square garden to south africa to the white house to the sands i can't say i like sinatra because i heard him at the paramount or because i hear september of my years the usual excuses and my excuse when i was eleven i watched a movie called on the town
1	rather than go on location and make a realistic film about drug addiction in the windy city director otto preminger decided to go the opposite way and make his movie appear as artificial as possible thus flying in the face of the fashion set by men like kazan huston and zinnemann who were making their pictures all over the world nelson on whose novel the movie is based went on record as despising it what one wonders was preminger up to and why did he do the movie this way br br the sets in the film are so minimal as to suggest a mr magoo cartoon louie the drug pusher is attired as to resemble the sort of gangster the artists at mad magazine used to draw arnold wonderful comedian that he was seems out of place in a serious picture like this and his very appearance topped off by an exaggerated and over sized baseball cap elicits laughter robert strauss another actor best known for humorous roles is likewise out of place as his large heavily face and runyonesque delivery of lines seems more appropriate to a jerry lewis movie against all this stars frank sinatra kim novak and eleanor parker have to work overtime to just keep the viewer from snickering sinatra is jittery and manic throughout suggesting a man ill at ease with himself hence wholly appropriate for the role of a drug addict miss novak plant like and sublimely deadpan is sympathetic and seems a product of the artfully dingy slums she graces in the film parker is pure hollywood and very hard working as the crippled and crafty she is never convincing but then neither is the film br br i wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone interested in a realistic depiction of the lives of drug addicts in america the caligari sets alone make it unbelievable preminger may have been aiming for a dream effect as the cardboard backgrounds give the proceedings the surreal feeling of a nightmare operetta perhaps harking back to preminger's early days in vienna
1	otto preminger's the man with the golden arm is a reference to heroin addiction something that must have been rather risky to film back in 1955 fifty years ago the censors today still have a problem with drug content in films br br the lead role was originally offered to marlon brando then snatched by frank sinatra before brando could respond sinatra convincingly portrays a pro card dealer and ex heroin addict who returns home to the city only to find himself battling the demons of temptation br br preminger is one of my favorite directors his anatomy of a murder starring james stewart is a brilliant and revolutionary courtroom drama preminger pretty much helped change the face of cinema back in the '50s anatomy of a murder was extremely controversial when it came out due to both its plot and content references to rape women's panties seduction etc and the man with the golden arm deals with a topic that is equally volatile br br however preminger pulls it off without becoming exploitative this is like a forerunner to the panic in needle park 1971 and bears more than a few similarities in terms of general motifs to the classic billy wilder movie lost weekend starring ray milland these three films in particular are probably the best movies about alcoholism predating the 1980s and still remain relevant today
1	this is easily one of the best movies of the 1950s otto preminger directed only four or five really good movies and this is one of them frank sinatra gives his best performance and the music score by elmer bernstein is dynamite from the opening titles by saul bass to the hysteria of drug addict frank going cold turkey this is a riveting movie with kim novak giving a very good performance eleanor parker giving a very bad performance as well as darren mcgavin as the reptilian pusher and arnold as frank's grifter pal beware of bad prints this movie is in the public domain so some copies are pretty rough
1	i've always enjoyed frank sinatra's music and just recently i wrote a term paper about his life story i've been fascinated by the life and legend of ol' blue eyes however i've never seen any of his movies so i wanted to see if his acting was as great as his singing well it was i was blown away by his performance in this movie he really does a tremendous job as recovering heroin addict frankie machine who's trying to put his life back together and audition as a drummer for a local band br br otto preminger's direction is great as well i haven't seen any of his other movies i read his biography on the imdb he seems like one of those directors who was sorely misunderstood and people had conflicted thoughts about him seems like the kind of person who appeals most to cult enthusiasts i haven't seen enough of his films to know for sure if he's really brilliant but now i'm curious i want to see more of his films because judging by his attempt with the man with the golden arm this guy has talent i also loved the music for this movie the score definitely contains the kind of music that i'll remember if i ever happen to hear it again that's when you know you have a great score br br the supporting performances are fine as well including darren mcgavin as the local drug pusher eleanor parker as frankie's wheelchair bound wife and kim novak as his lover br br it's interesting to see how filmmakers handled the subject of drug abuse as opposed to modern attempts in films like trainspotting and requiem for a dream back in 1955 just mentioning the word drugs caused controversy and if you watch the film they kept the subject on a very discreet level there's only one scene where frankie is actually getting heroin injected into his arm and they showed a close up of the reaction of his face rather than showing the needle graphically poking into his veins but it delivered its message without making it feel watered down in a powerful drama like this with powerful performances and direction like this you don't need graphic portrayals of drug abuse to keep the audience intrigued br br the man with the golden arm is a dramatic gem that all film buffs should check out it really is an amazing piece of work br br my score 8 out of 10
1	frank sinatra did so many excellent things in the world of entertainment that it's hard to single one out as the best if i had to name the best thing he ever did though it would be his performance as frankie machine the heroin addicted musician and poker dealer who is saved just barely by the love of a good woman played by an exceptionally kim novak the cold turkey scenes between sinatra and novak are terrifying and heartbreaking the movie is very nearly perfect in fact from saul title graphics to the ground breaking jazz score by elmer bernstein it might not be the sort of thing anyone thinks of in regard to the 1950s but it's a must see nevertheless
1	the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction the other two were monkey on my back and a of rain but i think of the three this one is the best br br maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet who knows maybe preminger couldn't get enough money to pay for the location it's the only flaw i find in the film br br frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him br br first bob strauss who wants him back dealing especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra's services back secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who's working a con game to beat all just to keep him around br br frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film but lost to ernest borgnine in marty sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn't won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak's apartment will leave you shaken br br eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role she's really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody she might have been nominated for this 1955 marked the high point of her career br br darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl br br elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in not a place you'd want to bring up your family
1	mild spoilers frankie machine had been dealt a bad hand in life a card dealer at an illegal gambling den in his chicago neighborhood he was busted when the joint was raided by the cops and given six months in jail br br while behind bars frankie was treated for his heroin addiction at the prisons hospital and learned how to play the drums as part of his rehabilitation program now out of prison and back in his old neighborhood frankie is trying to put his life back together by getting a union card in the musicians union and then a job as a drummer in a band and put his old life behind him but instead it catches up with frankie in no time at all in the man with the golden arm br br otto preminger's ground breaking 1955 film about heroin addiction with frank sinatra giving the performance of his life as the drug addicted card sharp frankie machine the man with the golden arm frankie tries to getaway from the life that he lead but has this monkey or better yet gorilla on his back that just won't let him performances by the entire supporting cast starting with frankie's friend sparrow arnold sparrows attempt to get frankie back on his feet by shoplifting a suit of clothes for him ends up putting him and frankie in the slammer and almost back to prison until his former boss at the gambling den bailed him out br br there's frankie's psychically as well as emotionally crippled wife eleanor parker who sees that her hold on frankie is slipping and is slowly driven to madness murder and suicide there's frankie's drug dealer louie with darren mcgavin in one of his first acting roles who's hold on frankie is only good as long as he stays addicted and louie goes out of his way to make sure that he does br br there's the owner of the gambling joint that frankie works at as it's top card dealer robert strauss who like louie goes out of his way to get frankie back to work for him even though if he's arrested again frankie's hopes for a new and better life will go down the drain and then there's frankie's next door neighbor and friend molly kim novak who goes to almost impossible lengths to get him over his addiction by locking him up in her apartment it's there that he goes cold turkey and almost ends up dying trying to kick the habit in one of the most harrowing sequence ever put on film br br a no holds barred movie with explosive performances by everyone involved makes the man with the golden arm one of the great classics of realism in motion pictures coming out of the 1950's
1	we have moved far beyond this tentative foray into a forbidden area drug addiction for the 1950s as such the film may seem dated the man with the golden arm served its function is peeling back a layer of the underside of society an eye opener to a southern country boy in 1955 when i first viewed this film in the theater after some serious consideration about being too young i was allowed to go it was powerful and affecting then and still maintains some sharp painful moments of the soul stripped naked as a movie depicting the loneliness at the core of being it succeeds br br filled with angst frank sinatra in his best role creates a vulnerability that makes him sympathetic to the viewer he conveys his helplessness and in a beautifully restrained performance as a voice of common sense in the dead end urban jungle kim novak as molly is quite good she is compassionate and yet stands on solid ground the interaction between sinatra and novak is really good darren mcgavin plays a slimy character and does it very well eleanor parker is superbly irritating and painfully insecure in her role of the pathetic the crippled wife of sinatra arnold is another unlikely survivor of the street regarded as pitiful and despicable his character sparrow provides tart comedic moments br br the music is almost the star of this film brooding frenetic moody poignant elmer bernstein's score perfectly accentuates the tensions of frankie spiritual weakness and physical need for heroin molly's theme is bittersweet and captures aurally what the film depicts visually i know of no other soundtrack that effectively complements the tension and defeat within a man as effectively as does this one
1	a group of teens that have broken into a huge department store are attacked by a crazed police man exciting and suspenseful throughout and refreshingly devoid of extreme violence and gore but those aussie hairstyles and accents are a bit much to take and they can induce headaches but this is still a good thriller 7 out of 10
1	there's this whole theory of horror that some people adhere closely to that the monsters and the violence should be kept off screen park chan wook throws that concept completely out the window and shows directly what he wants and what he wants to show is pretty much anything he can think of leaving it to the actors and dialog to create subtlety from a stylistic perspective park seems willing to do just about anything to get his point across whether it's long involved ensemble scenes with the camera whizzing around a mah jong table or entire weeks confined to a single shot between two other scenes dialog from the scenes before and after bleeding over them park doesn't keep to a specifically structured style but focuses more on telling the entire story of a couple's relationship from virginal remove through utter codependence to utter self annihilation and uses vampirism as the link and as the drama it's that simple and that complex at the same time br br you gotta give him credit too many people are ready to compare any modern vampire movie to twilight with twilight almost always being the lesser of the works but here the stories are actually comparable but this one is more raw and honest none of this sparkly coming in the window during the night to talk crap but anything ranging from the dirtiest most desperate and virginal sex scene to eventual spousal abuse as the two leads begin to vie for power over one another it's the same deal guy and girl meet girl finds out guy is a vampire decides to join him anyway but with no happily ever after just straight up limited time as they become forced to keep each other closer and closer and run out of options the girl's motivations are particularly interesting as one desperately craving power and attention to a fault foiled by the guy who just wants to live a good life as best he can under the circumstances but is a hypocrite who cannot admit that he's merely using his vampirism as an excuse to act against his moral training br br the movie isn't perfect and it does tend to stretch there's no three act five act or any act structure here just scene after scene of character building and dysfunctional romance but what's great about it is that park chan wook is willing to show everything frankly and honestly while delighting the horror sensibilities of tension and gore he also provides an expertly chosen soundtrack to hit the emotional high notes in a pretty effective way too br br polarisdib
1	there are only a few movies which can be called must see' and is one of those films in many ways it was ahead of it's time and you can tell it was a source of inspiration for several better known films copied by many equaled by none this truly is one great movie br br the story is complex but unfolds itself as a taut yet frequently amusing thriller and highly thought provoking exploration of the nature of humanity the story takes place in a post apocalyptic world where people must live underground and chaos reigns c thomas howell is a one who protects the populace for various religious leaders by killing off any unfit members of the society the whole idea made me think about our society it's really a brilliant social commentary which is more than i can say for certain recent sci fi action blockbusters matrix reloaded and revolutions didn't make one feel that any real innovation was taking place just dull video game effects but shepherd scores on the action scale too br br not once does this movie let the viewer catch their breath peter hayman proves himself to be one of the few genius action directors we're talking 100 high grade down home kung fu fighting it was excellent really good special effects shoot outs bleak futuristic cyber punk noir the film really has its own elements br br when talking about shepherd it's impossible not to mention how much style it has the vision of this city is really stunning it recalls images of tim burton's very memorable vision of gotham in batman and these sights are photographed by mears with a degree of skill that puts gordon willis and conrad hall to shame even the special effects proved amazing doubtless the scenes where fighting occurs are landmarks in all of filmmaking this movie is a ballet of awesome visual display br br still at the base of it all there lies an interesting story carried through by a strong cast the acting especially rowdy piper and the plot are both great and excellently directed in contrast with loads of futuristic films made with a strong artificial flavor the characters are believable and the dialogue is natural and full of wit i'm always proud to see a great film like shepherd come along it's a damn shame that it didn't receive good distribution and made nothing in the box office it's a rarity worth searching for this movie will impress you and make you feel 10 times cooler for having seen it
1	this is a very strange series with dean learner i really didn't understand the guests i knew they weren't serious but whether they were really them was unclear because i guess i'm just that stupid i don't know if this classes as a spoiler but the guests aren't real like in ali g or anything they're played by one man or so i believe i love the serious look that he's got going on its like that programme that was on on a sunday morning that i forget the name of lol i also really like the suit and moustache thing he has got going on its quite hot he's insensitive which is one of the funniest qualities i also like the way he has of the programme it makes it seem more authentic
1	a spin off comedy talk show from the creators of marenghi's the new series man to man with dean learner focuses on manager publisher and publicity agent as played by richard br br nightclub owner restaurateur publisher international playboy dean learner is a one man brand br br after his co funded channel 4 television hit garth marenghi's darkplace he now invites you into his luxury penthouse flat for an all new entertaining and immensely stylish tv talk show br br man to man with dean learner will feature all dean's remaining celebrity friends as well as plenty of live music and fine fish dish cuisine in a show that reeks of class but not fish br br i attended two of the live recordings and it had me in stitches there are distinct comparisons to alan me knowing you' in the layout but richard and matt unique writing style take it to another level br br if your a fan of darkplace then you can't miss it catch it when its aired late this summer
1	after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that and would be able to create anything half as good as garth yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show on the good episodes as darkplace i cant argue that 2 of the episodes really that good but the other 4 certainly make up for it if i had to pick 2 great episodes id go for driver steve pronounced pissing and the great garth to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have'nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie his argument with def over their name all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes
1	the first episode of 'man to man with dean that just aired was at least up to scratch with most episodes of marenghi's and had me at my hope it keeps up the good work of on my tv richard is one of the best in the new breed of alternative comedy i hate this phrase but am too lazy too think of another one comedians on tv today i'm glad that on a trip of local dvd retailers today garth marenghi's darkplace was sold out across the board even from his brief stint in nathan barley i knew that was a serious talent and i'm sure he would have been great as dixon in 'the mighty to continued success in the vein of these programs i also felt it necessary to extend my review in order to secure a place on this public domain
1	the soap is an interesting movie and very brilliant at parts you must watch it for its strong characterisation and the risks the plot about two troubled individuals falling in love takes you must know the story through various other reviews so lets speak about what is brilliant about this movie br br firstly the two protagonists are so real and such intriguing personalities the first being a woman who has opted out of a four year relationship and is angry enough to sleep with anyone coming her way the second being a man who has always wanted to be a woman whose pain and loneliness is shown with so much sensitivity and brilliance you hate the former and your heart bleeds for the latter br br the second thing about this movie is the entire concept of loving one for who one is irrespective of gender so would you still love your partner if he she were to change his her sex the movie explores that idea and it is a beautiful one br br but there is one point where the movie fails i wish the relationship between the protagonists had developed in a better way that what they feel is love doesn't come across till the end but watch it and post your thoughts on it here
1	a strange relationship between a middle aged woman and a transsexual who gonna be a woman soon charlotte and both trapped by their inanimate lives and don't know how to get out of them charlotte is an owner of a beauty clinic she has broken up with her aggressive ex husband moved into an apartment alone with all the furniture packed except her big bed veronica lives downstairs with her poor dog she's sensitive and desperately bothered by her mother's visiting and the bad relationship with her dad her only hope is that the upcoming transsexual operation will turn her into a real woman and then everything will be fine all she can do now is waiting for an approval certificate br br then these two individuals meet by chance and gradually they are all involved into other's lives there are some sparkles between them but no one is brave enough to face the truth because they are not willing to accept the change as most people do eventually the ending is quite satisfying and leaves some imagination for us to think about it br br the director's great work gives me an great impression she handles the development of characters very well the emotional atmosphere is quite full and intense also i am so obsessed with the gloomy lights all over the apartment but full of desire br br two main characters are played by and david they are amazing in their roles a very impressive performance and the chemical reaction between them is genuine and convincing br br this swedish indie film is about encountering and change no matter you're homosexual or heterosexual male or female the oddness of life exists everywhere whenever you fall across it you'll be hesitate and bewildered but at least don't be afraid follow your heart and choose the right way
1	this film is a very beautiful and slow film there is nothing hollywood about it it is very danish and the characters are very real it is the first danish film to take up this transsexual theme it is really about love that has no gender i would not say it is about lesbian love even though the two main characters the transsexual veronika and charlotte are attracted to each other it is a story about love and life br br the story pretty much takes place in the two apartments there is almost no background music which makes it seem more real and intense the two actors playing the main characters are great they really make them seem real they are not archetypes but real people you could meet in the street i think it is the first time i have seen a transsexual portrayed this well very well done
1	this british documentary was recently shown on comedy central during their best of… week and can also be seen on south park's second season dvd i remember seeing many commercials for the dvd showing clips of this documentary most of which occurs with matt stone trey parker and some other guy in a hot tub it was funny when i saw it in the commercials but i was used to seeing it by the time i saw the actual documentary br br overall goin' down to south park is a fairly funny and interesting look at how south park episodes are made and of the series' history going back to when matt and trey came up with the idea in college however there was something about the tone of this documentary that actually felt sort of depressing it's not as fast paced rapid fire and as lively as the actual south park episodes instead it kind of has a slow dry wit style which at times can be funny but most of the time you're just waiting for something to happen if you get the chance to watch it by all means go for it but i don't think you're really missing much if you never see it br br my imdb rating 7 10
1	going' down to south park is a 1hr long documentary about south park with interviews with trey parker and matt stone and all the other people who work on south park there really isn't much to say it shows the history of south park and what it takes to make one episode it is basically a behind the scenes of the show it shows the different merchandise that south park has made it was really comedy central who put it out it also shows the controversy which was caused by south park it shows plenty of funny clips from the show as well it's a fairly funny documentary any fan of south park should check this out you can find it on youtube br br 9 10
1	a beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire br br physical and psychological changes lead to his affair with a wife of his childhood friend who is repressed and tired of her mundane life br br the one time priest falls deeper in despair and depravity as things turns for worse he struggles to maintain whats left of his humanity br br the vampire movie should have really been extinct now thanks to the poor efforts of the twilight and underworld franchises but the director injects new blood into the story of the vampire by putting simple things into perspective br br these vampires have reflections and no fangs but still feed and die the same making the main protagonist a priest really opens up a can of worms for questioning ones acts the priest primarily feeds to make himself better but when he meets his friends unfulfilled wife carnal instincts set in br br what makes this film intensely erotic is that when the couple consent for the first time they are experiencing something they have never before forbidden passion which makes the scenario all that more sensual br br chan wook adds some much needed humour into the film but this is only realised in the final third of the movie we see the daughter lift her mother in the chair in front of everyone and when she realises her own strength just puts the chair down and carry on hilarious br br and the final act wouldn't be out of place in a carry on film or even the three stooges as the couple fight for survival death respectively br br cgi is subtle and fantastic and the scenes with them jumping from building to building is so graceful you could be watching ballet br br the vampire genre feels fresh and vibrant after this but more importantly has the eroticism and intensity that most vampire films are missing these days it's violent but from the director in question i wouldn't expect anything different br br a really interesting story with fantastic characters and beautiful cinematography
1	trey parker and matt stone the creators of south park finally get out of their grueling schedule to talk to the cameras while sipping champagne in their hot tub at first when watching this i did not sense as much sarcasm as there was in this i knew they were joking when they would complain about different actors on the show and when trey said he wasn't going to give his mother any of his money but there is so much sarcasm throughout that this documentary is more of a mockumentary full of inside jokes br br this documentary shows everything about south park up until the second season anyways it shows what goes on behind the scenes with the animation and the recording it has interviews many of which are fake interviews but some amongst all the fabrications give insight into the show clips from both of trey parker's spirit of christmas shorts are shown as are many good clips from the show if you were a south park fan then this should have quenched your thirst for show knowledge back in late 1998 when this was made now obviously the show has changed but this is still interesting br br what we have here is an amusing documentary where trey parker especially and matt stone come off as arrogant jerks and that's exactly what they wanted to come off as they may be this way in real life but here it was a joke a 51 minute long insightful joke br br my rating out of 51 mins not rated contains language and sexual content
1	well i saw that yesterday and it was much better than the other making off from vh1 too bad than this one it's pretty outdated but you get to see all the staff who makes south park very interesting stuff br br it's also funny than this documentary portrays trey and matt like selfish greedy snobs creators who doesn't work and spend all the time having fun or relaxing which is kinda ironic because they work pretty hard on the show br br it also shows all the animation process to make a south park episode interview with the actors who brings character's voices and much more br br if you're a fan of south park i highly recommend you this
1	ok when i rented this several years ago i had the worst expectations yes the acting isn't great and the picture itself looks dated but as i sat there a strange thing happened i started to like it the action is great and there are few scenes that make you jump brion james maybe one of the greatest b grade actors next to bruce campbell is great as always the story isn't bad either now i wouldn't rush out and buy it but you won't waste your time at least watching this good b grade post apocalyptic western
1	it has to be said that this film is definitely one of the better bargain bin movies out there i'd feel a bit cheated if i had paid for it but at about £1 50 i felt that i definitely got more than my monies worth br br the film can't quite decide if it wants to be mad max or one of the clint eastwood man with no name spaghetti westerns and as such is stacked with clichés from both even the manic loony who hangs out with the bad guys in mad max is there br br that guy from blade runner also cops a good billing although he only turns up at the beginning and the end of the movie br br favourite bit for me the punch up on top of the oil refinery if you look closely you can see the post apocalyptic rush hour traffic thundering past in the distance as the two protagonists knock seven bells out of each other br br get several in a few pizzas and sit back and enjoy what is ultimately lightweight but entertaining drivel
1	spoilers extremely brutal police drama set in san francisco involving a sting operation that goes terribly wrong a cop det falon sam elliott mistakenly and savagely beats to death an undercover policeman winch mike watson thinking that he murdered his partner det sam levinson mike burstyn a partner who unknowing to falon was dirty br br getting the lowdown that a group of policemen under his command are dealing drugs by knocking off drug dealers of their cocaine and heroin and then selling it back to them captain paul sorvino sets up a number of sting operations in his precinct with one of the cops targeted being det levinson levinson's partner det falon who's as honest as the day is long has no idea of levinson's corruption when det falon find's his partner det levinson stabbed to death outside a bar were they were at drinking the night away he goes nuts and attacks and beats to death the man on the scene winch winch who was not responsible for levinson's murder was in fact there to get him to turn and gives up the names of his fellow drug dealing corrupt cops br br with the help of striper and girlfriend sally mimi craven falon has body put in a car and drives down to the docks dumping it in san francisco bay feeling that the cop killer got just what he deserved what falon doesn't know is that the two cops later put on the case of murder holloway dan richard were the one's who murdered him br br it's not until much later that falon realizes that his partner was dirty when he was assigned together with rookie detective michael murrow esai morales on the winch case and tries to cover up his involvement in death new partner senses that he's anything but interested in finding killer and slowly puts two and two together br br the two dirty cops holloway trying to cover up their role in both levinson murder whom they killed fearing that he's about to turn evidence on them as well as their drug dealings the two crooked cops set up ex con jerome johnson perry moore by breaking into his apartment and planting drugs there and then to make it look like a drug hit brutally murdering him and his wife this happens right in front of the couples two year old son in one of the most shocking and sickening murders scenes ever put in a movie br br not satisfied with killing levinson and johnson together with his wife holloway and get to girlfriend sally who was a junkie and being supplied with her drugs by the late det levinson the two corrupt cops stick a needle in sally's arm forcing her to overdose not realizing by sticking the needle in her left arm that she's left handed which would make it physically impossible and which also alerts falon who finds her body that sally was in fact murdered and didn't kill herself voluntary or by accident br br falon begins to come to his senses when he's later approached at his old watering hole by holloway and and asked to join them in their drug dealing operation falon angrily refuses but now he knows that like his partner the late sam levinson that he knows too much and is now a marked man br br meanwhile det murrow now a lot smarter and wiser by getting to know what his partner falon is all about confronts falon about death only to get knocked out and cuffed to a sink at the bar that falon was at with falon now smashed from his drinking but with a full head of steam goes outside to meet holloway and knowing that no matter what happens he'll end up on the losing end br br tough and uncompromising movie about police corruption with sam elliott as the old veteran who thinks he's seen and knows everything about crime and police work but has a lot to learn still he overlooks his partners det levinson whom he worked with for 20 years secret life as a drug dealer that not only leads to him murdering an innocent man but ending up being killed himself
1	ah when good actors take on bland material if you are thinking of this movie as a tight police thriller you may be disappointed while the situations are very true to life the plot proceeds at a very predictable clip and you can pretty well see what lays ahead way before the actors take you there many of the criminals and secondary figures are really just stereotypes in motion much of the dialog is just plain silly br br but if you love to see good actors rise above this kind of material and make something of it then you will love this movie sam elliott is nothing short of brilliant in taking the one note character of detective falon come alive with depth and pathos those of you who have never seen elliott emote that much beyond his usual scowling stoic stances will be delighted at the range of emotion he depicts in this film and also in his early fifties in this film he looks fantastic his bare chest scene gives hope to middle aged men everywhere esai morales does a wonderful job elevating his role as det eager beaver new police partner he could have easily played it as a robin to elliott's batman but instead he breathed a genuineness and passion into this role he makes it work despite some of the lame lines he is given to say br br paul sorvino is fun to watch he plays the eccentric police captain he seems to know he is slumming in this movie and is having a ball doing it he makes it fun for us too br br this movie is very by the numbers in plot but makes up for it with great performances sam elliott fans should definitely get this one as it is suck a kick to see him spread his wings and do so much more than he usually is allowed to do
1	sam elliot is brilliant as a tough san francisco detective charlie fallon when his partner is killed while meeting with an informant fallon snaps beats the informant to death and dumps his body in a river the next day fallon is assigned a rookie partner and given the task of investigating the informants murder sam elliot does a good job of portraying a man who tortured by the guilt of his own murderous actions and grief over the death of his partner who may have been involved in police corruption
1	from the start you will like sam elliott's character falon a trustworthy cop that is notably loyal to his partner but too loyal and too when seeing his partner dead in an alley cause he then kills who he thought to be the assailant before giving him a chance to explain falon is an alcoholic and that tends to sway him from being in self control though he manages to direct his attention towards finding who's really behind his partners death he carries along a rookie as his new partner which seems to be seen too often in films but esai morales does well in accompanying sam elliot though puzzling pieces begin to fit to where morales begins a self approved investigation towards falon he mainly wants to find the answers since fallon isn't letting him in on the whole story and does not like what he finds there is not a last minute showing at who the bad detectives are which is okay and they are not able to sway falon into joining them leading to a dramatic ending fine acting all the way around with a touch of humor from paul sorvino who is the captain of detectives it's a good movie that will make you want to see it several times so it qualifies as a must see and a good addition to a movie collection filmed in san francisco
1	i'm rating this pretty high just because of sam elliott i could've done without the female nudity but i'd sit through almost any nonsense in order to see sam strut his stuff he gets to spout wonderfully cynical witticisms many of which i agree with and it's a joy to see him in a role in which he actually gets to emote instead of just standing around scowling and looking virile as can be my boyfriend opined that this movie is in a couple of ways similar to a film in which ed harris had a hispanic partner in the police sense of the term who was a little to prove himself you can draw your own conclusions on that score but if you like sam you'll like this you could say i'm biased but who isn't in some way i'd buy this on dvd in a heartbeat
1	a sleeper i had never even heard of this movie until i was channel jumping one night i've been a police officer myself for 25 years and thought this was a true to life movie non police critics are rating the movie purely from a critic's point of view and not from a police officer's point of view this is real
1	of the korean movies i've seen only three had really stuck with me the first is the excellent horror a tale of two sisters the second and third and now fourth too have all been park chan movies namely oldboy sympathy for lady vengeance and now thirst br br park kinda reminds me of quentin tarantino with his irreverence towards convention all his movies are shocking but not in a gratuitous sense it's more like he shows us what we don't expect to see typically situations that go radically against society's morals like incest or a libidinous blood sucking yet devout priest he's also quite artistically inclined with regards to cinematography and his movies are among the more gorgeous that i've seen br br thirst is all that being about said priest and the repressed conscience less woman he falls for and more it's horror drama and even comedy as park disarms his audience with many inappropriate yet humorous situations as such this might be his best work for me yet since his other two movies that i've seen were lacking the humor element that would've made them more palatable for repeat viewings
1	all the reviewers are making one big mistake this movie was not suppose to be taken seriously br br it was made for kids and teens of the late 80ies or early and as such it was truly a film of it's time if you hated that period or love the first movie so much that you can't even take a joke about it then this is garbage but only because it wasn't meant for you the low budget here and failure of the beastmaster 1 at the box office grossed under four mil with a nine mil budget were obviously the reasons to drop the seriousness of the original and to put it in the present day you can complain about the story dialog or logic but again this was made to run not to win races if the movie had tried to take itself seriously it would be a total failure but it doesn't do that for a second in our world dar sees a movie theater that's advertising the beastmaster 2 enough said to paraphrase clint eastwood from dirty harry movies this movie knows it's limitations it's more of a comedy parody then usual adventure soundtrack for the time was also great actors aren't taking themselves that seriously either so even the usually irritating spoiled rich brat role played here very well by young kari wuhrer turns out good br br so if you are nostalgic for the 80ies cheese culture or you liked the first part and don't mind going out on a cheese limb you'll have tremendous fun with this attempt to revive dar in the this is not really the sequel to the first and don't watch it if that's what you want it's more of a what if fantasy sequel br br as for the why different dimension and not just different time question when in history did we have those tall winged humanoid creatures that suck the flash of bones from the end of part 1 by the way the movie ends in the zoo because of an attempt at a cheap big finale it's suppose to be the best place for dar to show all his moves him being the manipulator of animals
1	i liked this movie way too much my only problem is i thought the actor playing the villain was a low rent michael ironside of ironside is just a low rent jack nicholson i guess mike was busy that year with highlander 2 the sadly beastmaster 2 would have been a much better career move it is certainly the best of the beastmaster series and in many ways reminiscent of that great big screen classic masters of the universe not only does it star the incomparable mark singer it also features an amazing supporting cast specifically the second girl from sliders uncle phil from fresh prince of and evil chick from superman 2 it rocked my world and is certainly a must see for anyone with no social or physical outlets beastmaster forever roll
1	when i was younger and today mr bean is a work of genius three time bafta nominated rowan atkinson stars as the almost silent miming human looking alien dropped onto earth causing chaos and mischief wherever he goes he has tried to do an exam put his pants on in front of blind man he didn't know he was blind gone to church tried to dive at a swimming pool made lunch on a park bench seen a scary movie changed in his car had a picnic with a fly intruding spent christmas with his girlfriend matilda ziegler looked after a baby in been to room of the queens hotel in won a pet contest with his teddy driven on top of his mini on a new chair and even met and knocked out the queen guests included rudolph walker richard briers angus nick hancock from they think it's all over caroline quentin the day today's david schneider richard wilson the fast show's maynard and the vicar of roger lloyd pack it was nominated the baftas for best comedy programme or series and best light entertainment programme rowan atkinson was number 18 on the 50 greatest british actors he was number 24 on the comedians' comedian and he was number 8 on britain's favourite comedian outstanding
1	there was once someone in my family not saying who it is because of personal reasons who thinks that mr bean is always so silly in whatever he does on the comedy series imagine how i felt at that time shocked instantly br br there are more reasons than one why i love watching mr bean being one of those earliest shows on the local television here in my country where i first grew up watching it's just one of those things which had stuck into my head there was even once my friends and i talked about few of the selected episodes and we just laughed together br br it's always silly funny and hilarious in whatever antics rowan atkinson as mr bean will do in each episode though lately at times it may show some of the repeats here it never failed to bring back those childhood memories of mine in fact i can dare say this is the very first show which introduces me about the kind of shows which come out of the uk as i was growing up br br the comedy series definitely really wicked as what the brits may be saying
1	this is one of my favorite t v shows of all time rowan atkinson is simply a genius and it's only fitting that i chose this to be my 1000 review i can't begin to tell you how much i love mr bean he's the man and what amazes me is how he gets out of these incredibly difficult situations and he is always so creative plus robyn driscoll also deserves accolades he is also a genius my favorite bit that he has done is the amazing adventures of mr bean and while all the rest of them are amazing this remains my true favorite plus i wish the show didn't stop so soon each episode is brilliantly written and they were all masterfully directed plus each episode is a classic in my eyes this show is incredibly popular and i can definitely see why as it's quite possibly the funniest show ever the character actors all played there roles really well especially robyn driscoll and matilda ziegler as irma this is one of my favorite t v shows of all time rowan is simply put a genius and an incredibly talented comedian possibly the best and it's only fitting that i chose this to be my 1000 review f you haven't seen this show drop what your doing right now and go check it out you will not regret it trust me it's one of the best t v shows ever and i will continue to watch the show over and over again i never tire of it mr bean rules out of 5
1	the 1990s was a great decade for british sitcom with many popular creations such as one foot in the grave absolutely the thin blue line the empire and men behaving badly arriving onto tv screens for the first time br br however mr bean is hands down the greatest sitcom of the 1990s br br mr bean represents the first major attempt at a throwback to the era of silent greats such as charlie chaplin and buster keaton for several decades it brings to the audience a single character mr bean played to perfection by rowan atkinson br br many people who have commented on this page as well as on the message boards on this and other websites have engaged in debates about whether or not mr bean has a mental disability or has significant learning difficulties arising from such a disability however i believe this debate is unnecessary because i highly doubt that the creators of this show expected anyone in the audience for a single moment to even consider mr bean in such a context br br mr bean is shown to be a character who seems to have very few friends rarely speaks and chooses to solve problems by himself with no guidance from others some of his methods to approaching day to day tasks such as preparing lunch or going to the dentist are approached in a manner bizarre to anyone watching the show this is where the humour derives from mr bean is not necessarily someone with a mental disability he may just be an eccentric person accustomed to dealing with things his own way and naturally some of his methods to completing a single task often result in disaster which we then see mr bean try to resolve br br sometimes we see mr bean show a mean or petty streak often trying to compete with those around him or play pranks on those least expecting it but no real harm comes to anyone at the end of the day and outcomes are always reassuring br br unlike most examples of british comedy in the past 30 years mr bean is simple inoffensive harmless u rated entertainment suitable for everyone in the family to enjoy it is for this reason why the tv series became a big hit in dozens of countries throughout the world it is also why it will still be remembered in several decades from now when lots of other tv shows will have come gone and been forgotten br br some critics claim the show only appeals to children yet i laugh just as much at mr bean's antics now as i did when i first saw the episodes as a kid in the 1990s rowan atkinson has used his natural ability to create effective visual gags that seem just as funny on repeat viewings as they did the first time br br the tv series has to date spawned two spin off movies bean and mr bean's holiday as one familiar with the type of humour shown in the tv series would expect it does not translate to success on the big screen the two movies do little justice to the tv series and fail to truly capture the magic of the episodes the greatest failing in both movies perhaps resides in the change of setting in both movies the producers take mr bean out of his normal british surroundings into america the first movie and france the second movie as a result the movie characters around mr bean respond differently to his behaviour than their tv series counterparts both movies re use gags from the tv series and the evidence shows that the gags were done right the first time in the second movie mr bean is shown to be behaving out of character with some aspects of his personality exaggerated to the point where some gags seem dumb rather than funny at various times i found myself thinking that the character i was watching was not mr bean but a pale caricature it is clear that rowan atkinson was not enjoying himself as much as he did in the tv series his heart just wasn't in the performance after the second movie came out he stated publicly that he would not play mr bean again i realise how he felt br br returning to the tv series each episode shows evidence of meticulous planning in terms of writing and execution in every single scene even the weakest episode is still highly enjoyable and well ahead of the two movies br br my favourite episodes are the first three these set the high standard that was to continue i consider the final episode to be the weakest but still hilarious nonetheless br br to summarise mr bean is a truly superb sitcom suitable for all the family rowan atkinson is a true comic genius and the evidence is in the 14 episodes of this tv series my recommendation watch and enjoy but only see the movies if you consider yourself a die hard fan after seeing the tv series
1	because mr bean almost never speaks i heartily recommend using a dvd player with the teacher holding his finger over the pause play button at the end of any age group's lesson simply devote 5 minutes to pausing and playing the dvd encouraging students to shout out the answers to what's this what will happen what's happening what's wrong or any other question that elicits responses from that new vocabulary and grammar br br because everyone's looking at the tv normally shy students become vocal because the dvd can be started or stopped at any point it's a perfect filler for the awkward between times while students are leaving and arriving br br i tried other dvds notably tom jerry cartoons and red skelton dvds but no others were as good as mister bean at holding students' constant attention
1	this tv series is about a foolish and unconventional english gentleman who gets up to all sorts of merry mishaps br br i remember watching mr bean with my family back in 1990 when i was still a child my family laughed so hard at every episode and the contents of which still come up in our daily conversations twenty years later the memorable scenes which are still in my head include mr bean attempting to get out of his car park shooting out the lights counting sheep and him in the swimming pool we bought all the mr bean videos on vhs no mater how expensive they were it was worth it because we watched them over and over again it is so rare to see a very funny tv series that is suitable for all ages
1	mr bean has shaped the face of british tv comedy he has proved that you do not need wicked words or wit a massive budget a great deal of intelligence or even any intelligence to make something brilliant and mr bean is one of those characters who you just can't forget some of these episodes had me in stitches yes they're not realistic at all and they're all pretty stupid but to be honest realism is one of the barriers bean has broken on its way to greatness rowan atkinson and co always manage to cook up interesting new ideas and hilarious new gags remember when mr bean drove his green mini whilst sitting on a sofa on the roof mr bean is one of those things that never gets weak the movie wasn't as good as this but bean has introduced a distinct new sense of humour to the world and kids and adults alike will marvel at its immense fun factor extras and little britain can be damned this is british comedy at its best and most original these escapades never get old 10 10
1	mr bean has always been my favorite no matte how many times you watch the same thing the show never gets monotonous or repetitive mr bean is one of the greatest comedians in the world who doesn't need to even speak to make people laugh his gestures his facial expressions and his face itself is so funny to watch the situations which he faces on the show is simply hilarious and the way he handles them is even greater there is simply no reason why this show shouldn't receive a 10 because it is fabulous its something that would even make the most serious or sad person in the universe laugh some of my all time favorites episodes from the show are 1 when mr bean at a hotel 2 the one where he watches the scary film 3 mind the baby the diaper scene especially in fact all the episodes are so good that it is really difficult to criticize the show mr bean can go to any heights to prove that he is funny including completely stripping himself in one of the episodes the way he handled that situation was simply mind blowing 10 out of 10
1	director park chun wook returns with what must be one of the and at the same time most serious vampire flicks in movie history br br trusting the latest hollywood fad vampires these days are supposed to be rather asexual love lorn instead of the evil rampantly sexual blood sucking mind manipulating man beasts of yore this is the film you want to see if you want to remember the sticky thrills of the past well at least in the second half br br starts out with a lengthy character exposition culminating in a slightly different love story the vampire transformation of a priest is over quite some time sidelined by the romantic and sexual aspects of the story which makes for some awkward viewing but the last 40 minutes or so are surprisingly gory well maybe not so surprisingly if you know and 'i'm a cyborg but that's ok' but i guess it's fair to say that beats park's earlier films in terms of in your face violence br br all in all be warned that this is neither art cinema nor a horror flick it may be too disgusting for many and too tame for some is original entertaining and fortunately a little less weird than park chun earlier endeavors
1	rowan atkinson delivers an unforgettable performance as the clueless mr bean who never goes far without his teddy bear the appeal of mr bean is largely his childish behavior and innocence we don't know if he came from the sky or another planet he is the kind of strange character that you can't make up quite easily he is often alone and used to it he has a hard time communicating through speech which might be why we only hear his grunts at times there are other characters who speak to him and he responds the character of mr bean is a mystery and still is he lives alone and does the unthinkable when he can do the sensible thing mr bean is rather an odd man out who does not mind it much he rather live a simple life with his yellow car and teddy bear and hopes to get to work on time
1	rowan atkinson's mr bean ranks right up there with laurel hardy buster keaton the marx brothers and other comedy greats i have never seen people laugh out loud so heartily and literally fall out of their chairs as when i introduced them to mr bean via my videos and now dvds i'll never forget the first time my brother saw him he was over for a visit and i asked him if he'd ever seen mr bean who he said so i got out my video and showed him the one where mr bean is in church and starts to nod off my brother laughed so hard he fell out of the chair and was holding his stomach from laughing so hard he became an instant fan of mr bean we all know how hilarious these episodes are but the fun is in sharing them with others i have seen so many people laugh 'til it hurts favorite episodes are the visit of the queen the hotel room stay late for the dentist appointment the christmas episode a classic plus kids love it and the new year party rowan atkinson is a comic genius
1	rowan atkinson's creation mr bean has stood the test of time and will be forever etched upon the memory of those who viewed it br br living alone and appearing not to have a job of any description mr bean goes around doing day to day activities in a rather comedic fashion the mistake prone mr bean induces heartfelt laughter when put even in the most simplest situations though he barely spoke any coherent words his jovial actions more than made up for this br br even when driving in his beloved mini mr bean still manages to cause inadvertent chaos not very much is known about his background but his ability to draw tears of laughter from the audience at his funny shenanigans is well known br br before he found fame nick hancock can be seen in a couple of the episodes
1	this is a wonderful family sitcom rowan atkinson has appeared in to other excellent sitcoms the thin blue line better than this and blackadder not better than this br br mr bean is a no talking human disaster he goes to places and gets himself in absolute mayhem the mayhem includes climbing up to the top diving board and is too frightened to jump off taking about 20 minutes until some kids eventually throw him off ending up inside a washing machine and driving his car while sat on a roof bean drives a mini and has a teddy br br this was quite similar to the baldy man a series staring gregor fisher who says very little but gets himself in mayhem best episode do it yourself mr bean episode 9 bean hosts a new years eve party then gets some stuff for decorating his flat but has too much stuff and has to drive his car on the roof
1	the last time i laughed this much it's a testament to the talent of rowan atkinson that he has managed to create a comic character with several layers and a clearly defined personality without hardly ever speaking a word the whole success of the program rests on atkinson's shoulders but he carries it with ease despite the fact that the show only ran for one season anyone even vaguely in touch with pop culture recognizes the rubber faced social so great is the talent and effort put into the performance at times exasperating at times lovable mr bean is an innocent unlucky chap who also happens to be evil incarnate the brilliance of this character cannot be put into words you have to see for yourself br br the show gets almost too depressing at times like in the infamous new year's eve sketch or when bean celebrates his birthday by going alone to a restaurant offering himself a congratulatory card signed by himself and being served a stake he doesn't quite fancy still there are times when you can't help but feel impressed by the inventive methods by which bean gets himself out of trouble like when he disposes of said stake in numerous clever ish ways or when he changes into swimming trunks without taking his trousers off first whatever your reaction to bean and his unorthodox lifestyle you're bound to throw fits of laughter while watching br br finally i'd like to point out that although bean is classified as a program for children it is just as enjoyable for any grown up with a sense of humour because the more adult jokes will go over the heads of the little ones and the intelligent slapstick yes there is such a thing is funny no matter what age you are bean is the truest definition of a family show this is justly a classic and it always brightens up my day
1	mr bean starring the legendary rowan atkinson was a huge hit during its run in the 1990s and i probably first saw it when i was around ten shortly after it ended so i was seeing reruns i certainly wasn't much of a fan at the time and didn't see too many episodes i didn't really get into the show until my late teens just a few years ago which was when i finally watched every episode unlike before it made me laugh many times and since then that has always been the case during repeat viewings of episodes br br mr bean is a mysterious self centred antisocial extremely naive buffoon whose best friend is his teddy he is pretty much isolated from society and life is not easy for him as he constantly struggles with very simple things this is because he lacks some fairly basic knowledge and has the mind of a child he finds himself in various kinds of trouble wherever he goes and comes up with very bizarre ways to try and solve the problems he faces not only does he often cause trouble for himself but sometimes for other people as well which he often doesn't tend to realize in other words mr bean is a walking disaster br br the humour in this show is very visual and there is very little dialogue the gags are almost always sight gags which is mostly what the show is about while there may be an occasional lacklustre gag i would say the vast majority of them are funny often hilarious there are so many highlights while mr bean is certainly not the most sophisticated comedy ever made it's still great for many of those who like visual humour and due to the very limited dialogue you don't even have to speak fluent english to enjoy the show which is why it has received such a world wide reputation the show ran for a few years but the episodes were made very gradually so only fourteen were made in total nonetheless it is a classic series and deserves its wide appeal
1	mr bean was great fun i loved it every episode was really funny rowan atkinson was perfect for this role he's a funny looking bloke and his facial expressions were hilarious br br the series was so successful that they even made a mr bean movie in 1997 which was also pretty funny by the way br br it's funny seeing all the adventures and situations he gets himself into this series was a classic for sure and i still watch an episode from time to time br br mr bean is well worth a 10 10 in my book fans of offbeat comedy must check this out
1	star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br mr bean rowan atkinson is in this world but not of this world his mind simply doesn't seem to comprehend things the way an average person would and his life is one long disaster because of this getting himself into constant mishaps and far out zany situations which he is left to sort out on his own as he doesn't seem to mix with anyone and he rarely speaks but he never gives up and despite the simplest of tasks being a constant struggle for him applying his own zany methods of solving the problem always pays off for him in the end br br to look at the sorry state of modern british humour with all it's focus of sex and general vulgarity you'd be forgiven for forgetting that a show like mr bean was made at one time there's nothing unsuitable going on here just good clean u rated humour of the type tommy cooper and the like made in the 50s and i find it just as laugh out loud funny now in my early 20s as i did when i was a young boy in the early 90s br br although i can look at it a little deeper now and see there must be more to this character than than meets the eye there must be a reason why he does things the way he does and things seem to keep going wrong for him as others have noted it looks like he may have a type of autism in fact i'm so convinced about it that i really think were a professional psychologist to analyse him i think mr bean could be the first famous fictional character to be diagnosed with something like syndrome br br if you'd like to see some truly hilarious british humour at it's very best before it all became obsessed with sex and vulgarity then this would come highly recommended shows like little britain do work because it's well realised but it's really just as vulgar as the rest shows like this show we were more restrained and civilised once and hopefully we might start putting out this type of humour more again sometime soon
1	hearkening back to those good old days of 1971 we can vividly recall when we were treated with a whole season of charles chaplin at the cinema that's what the promotional guy called it when we saw him on somebody's old talk show we can't recall just whose it was either griffin or woody woodbury one or the other the guest talked about sir charles' career and how his films had been out of circulation ever since the 1952 exclusion of the former little from los on the grounds of his being an undesirable alien no schultz he's not from another planet br br charlie had been deemed to be a due to his interest and open inquiry into various political and economic systems everything from the anarchist movement from the '20s and before the craze to socialism in its various forms were fair game for discussion at chaplin's hollywood parties which of course meant the inclusion of the soviet style which we commonly call communism br br compounding mr chaplin's predicament was both confounded by one little detail he had never become an american citizen br br anyhow enough of this background already br br suffice it to say that he had become non in the united states of america it was high time to get the old films out of the mothballs and back out to the movie houses it'd sure be a great gesture by us easily forgiving and quickly forgetting br br it would be a fine gesture to the great film making artist besides the academy of motion pictures arts sciences was planning to honor chaplin with a special tribute at the 1972 oscar show this would surely be a tearful yet joyous packaging of pathos a plenty for having america invite charlie back and have him come and receive a special academy lifetime achievement award in front of a world wide television audience numbering in the millions br br besides that would be a natural for promoting the chaplin season at the theatre remember the little tramp was as astute as a bu man as he was as a film maker the program consisted of showings of modern times city lights the great dictator verdoux a king in new york and finally the chaplin revue we remember being very excited in the anticipation of the multi date film fest br br in our fair city of chicago it was booked for the carnegie theatre on rush street the festivities lead off with modern times and all of the others would be shown one at a time each staying for whatever period was necessary in order to satisfy the public's desire to view each picture as we recall the very last on the schedule was the chaplin revue br br in retrospect we look back and wish that they had begun the run with revue as there were undoubtedly legions of moviegoers much like ourselves who knew very little about his accomplishments in motion pictures except for those keystone essanay and mutual silent shorts that were being shown as regular feature on so so many kiddy shows all over the country oh well once again no one consulted me br br concentrating on today's honored guest film the chaplin revue we found that it was actually three separate pictures carefully bound together by the use of narration by chaplin himself some lively themes and incidental music once again written by chaplin and some happy talk and serious narration ditto by chaplin he opens up the proceedings by making use of some home movie type of film depicting the construction of the chaplin studio in hollywood as well as some film taken of some rehearsal time showing director chaplin demonstrating just what he wants to a group of actors br br this segment was well done and well received by the audience both the building humor and the rehearsal were amplified by making them seem accelerated the rehearsal naturally the building by use of speeding up the camera's photographic process the old trick makes it appear that the buildings were almost building themselves br br this amalgam of shorts incorporated three of chaplin's short comedies from his stint with first national pictures roughly that being 1917 to 1923 the choice was well thought out and gave us a wide variety of subject matter and mood br br first up was shoulder arms charles chaplin productions first national pictures 1918 as the title suggests it is a tale of world war i released in october of 1918 with about a month to go before the armistice day of november 11 it was a comedy of comical army gags and a romance between private chaplin and a french girl miss edna the levity is fast physical and in the grand old tradition of ridiculing the enemy the german army br br displaying an excellent example of the old adage about children and dogs bringing folks together the next film a dog's life chaplin productions first national 1918 traces the parallel lives of chaplin's tramp and a newly adopted stray scraps the movie story involves families two of them one homo sapiens one canine and both supplying us with some big surprises br br as the finale we have the pilgrim chaplin first national 1923 was a good choice to have as the finale it was bright light and tight it was an excursion into the area of the western spoof comedies of such type having been done since by every comedian and team the pilgrim in the story is not of your standard thanksgiving variety but rather a dude or tenderfoot who has ventured out west the tramp is not only that guy but his character is an escaped convict who is mistakenly thought to be the new clergyman of a western town's church br br our rating that is schultz and me is that's four br br poodle schnitz
1	most of chaplin's most famous films are his full length features and i assume most people have at most seen only a few clips of him from his pre feature days when he starred in dozens and dozens of comedy shorts this is really a shame as some wonderful shorts are pretty much waiting to be discovered by the world in the 21st century br br if someone watches this film they have an excellent chance to see some of chaplin's better shorts because chaplin himself chose these three shorts and strung them together with a bit of narration to make this 1959 feature film this is great for several reasons first in chaplin's earliest films from 1914 1915 his character of the little tramp is still in its earliest incarnations or is absent altogether plus even when he is there he was often mean spirited and self centered something very alien from the little tramp we have grown to love second because the shorts that were chosen were in great condition if you watch this film you won't need to worry about watching scratchy film with gaps and lousy musical accompaniment that doesn't fit the action a common problem br br so for a great look at chaplin's shorts at their finest give this film a chance it's sure to provide you some excellent laughs
1	chan wook park you have to hand it to the guy in my eyes he's not only a brilliant director but a brilliant director who can turn his hand to any genre and often provides something refreshing yet still ultimately satisfying br br thirst is essentially a vampire tale but one that plays fast and loose with some of the rules of the subgenre kang ho song plays father sang a man who unselfishly gives himself over to a research program and then unselfishly kind of catches the disease they are trying to cure dies and comes back all thanks to the blood he was transfused with being the only one out of five hundred to survive he becomes quite the celebrity to those who know him and all he wants is to get back to normal normal however now involves being able to leap great distances without injury wanting to drink blood and getting severely hot under the collar when rays of sun get on his skin it's not long before he's living with a rather dysfunctional family unit who knew him in his childhood and while he hides his new strange lifestyle he finds himself drawn into a complex love triangle becoming more acceptable of darker thoughts and sliding down a slippery slope that could lead him from man to beast to monster br br deftly blending a number of genres park's movie felt much fresher and more original to me than let the right one in to use a recent example and genuinely impressed me with it's approach to material that could easily have felt as well worn and rehashed as any number of other vampire movies we've seen over the years it's a mixture of horror melodrama and comedy while also pondering ideas such as strength of faith the power over life and death the downside of immortality etc etc br br some people have complained that this genre blending approach weakens the movie but i personally found that it was a lively entertaining and always enjoyable movie helped by a great central performance from song as the tortured priest and fantastic turns from a supporting cast with no weak links many characters get to move through a range of emotions and all do so with skill and believability especially the young woman played by ok vin kim who becomes the object of the priest's love lust and affection br br fans of asian cinema and park in particular and also fans of poe's the tell tale heart watch and learn should lap this up it's yet another classy movie from a man who seems to take everything in his stride and always manages to put out nothing less than solid entertainment br br see this if you like near dark aka cemetery man
1	i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher both have delivered less than memorable performances films while the underlying general storyline is somewhat familiar this film was excellent both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film's most unforgettable emotional moment the specific storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job responsibility to save lives at sea the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and wowing i haven't seen such angry seas since the perfect storm co star clancy brown hbo's carnivale great to see him again played the captain of the coast guard's alaska base in a strong convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins the film wonderfully and finally gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard it had the audience applauding at the end
1	the three shorts included on this compilation issued in 1959 are timeless chaplin classics nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either chaplin's score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done the problem with this compilation is a minor one yet annoying the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the 24 frame p s speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at 20 frames p s this results is jerky motion that doesn't look very attractive and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time it's just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored the films look dirty as they did in 1959 and are still stretch printed there are separate restored versions of these classics available even on dvd and it would not be a problem to restore the image but alas this has not been done br br a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article but i say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating the shorts are still worth '10'
1	in the late 1940s there was a short film series entitled flicker flashbacks in which excerpts from silent dramas featuring the likes of mary pickford and blanche sweet were played for laughs scratchy clips from antiquated old movies were rearranged projected too fast and given an overlay of music and lame quips the attitude expressed through this brutal treatment pretty much summed up mid century hollywood's view of its early days silent cinema was considered hokey florid a little embarrassing and only good for a chuckle during the 1950s this attitude gradually began to change for a number of reasons james agee's famous 1949 essay on the silent clowns for life magazine was a factor but television played a major role in viewers with silent movies admittedly the tv networks sometimes handled the material as crudely as the flicker flashbacks people but higher toned series such as silents please treated the films with respect another milestone was robert compilation feature the golden age of comedy which proved to be something of a surprise hit when it was released to theaters late in 1957 br br i don't know if charles chaplin was aware of film or its success at the box office but it was around this time that he decided to launch a theatrical re release of three of his best short comedies a dog's life shoulder arms both made in 1918 and the pilgrim made in 1922 and released the following year these three movies happened to work well as a trio since they contrast nicely in plot theme and setting in addition all three feature familiar faces from chaplin's stock company some of whom play multiple roles in each short at the time of the re release the films hadn't been publicly screened in over thirty years so perhaps chaplin was concerned about maintaining his reputation with a new generation of movie goers especially since his best work was seldom shown on television in the new early days br br unfortunately chaplin apparently concluded that the films moved too quickly at the old silent projection speed so the decision was made to stretch print them which meant that every other frame was printed twice maybe he wanted to avoid the flashbacks' look but this wasn't the best way to go about it aesthetically speaking the results were awful and practically destroyed the movies' flow of action but nonetheless that's how the chaplin revue was released to theaters in 1959 and that's the version that was transferred to video and made commercially available by playhouse video in the 1980s i purchased a vhs copy of the movie at the time and was terribly disappointed with the jerky stop and start rhythm of the films br br it's a particular pleasure to find that david shepard's restoration of chaplin's compilation originally produced for the laser disc format is a vast improvement over the playhouse video version for the most part the projection speed has been corrected the stretch printing is gone at any rate though the action seems to drag a bit at times for example in a dog's life during edna charlie's awkward dance in the green lantern cafe bare arms appear visibly blurred at another point during the trench scene in shoulder arms when charlie is relieved from sentry duty the action appears oddly slowed down for a few moments but this may be the result of a maneuver by the film to cover a bit of decomposition over all picture quality is fantastic considering the age of the movies themselves br br other bonuses the revue begins with rare behind the scenes footage taken at the chaplin studio this includes shots of an obviously staged jokey rehearsal session where chaplin diminutive actor loyal underwood as well as scenes of charlie at his dressing table putting on his makeup and trimming the famous mustache these scenes are accompanied by chaplin's narration delivered at a rapid clip chaplin also composed a new musical score for the compilation and in my opinion his themes for the revue rank with his best compositions especially the pieces used during the café sequence in a dog's life the only exception is the song written for the pilgrim a pseudo singin' cowboy number called bound for texas sung style by matt monro sounding rather like gene autry which is distractingly anachronistic and out of place otherwise throughout the rest of the revue the music is perfectly suited to the action and the atmosphere br br it feels as though the image release of the chaplin revue is in a sense its long postponed debut presenting these classic comedies the way they were meant to be seen all along in this form the revue ranks with chaplin's most durable and enjoyable works
1	this movie gets a 10 because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can't expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn't matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a dream come true
1	i honestly have to say that a cat in the brain is one of the most fun and unintentionally hilarious films i've ever seen this film is packed with stupid dialog ridiculous scenes and a self involving plot starring legendary horror director lucio fulci himself br br the threadbare story line is about an aging director fulci who is also named lucio fulci in the film who is starting to go nuts and because of all the vicious things he's put down in film over the past many years he goes to a shrink who hypnotizes fulci and tells him that he will believe himself to be a killer but that the shrink will actually be the one doing the killing the rest of the film is made up of shots from the film that fulci is directing during all this action scenes of the shrink killing people all the while grinning like a f cking moron and some of fulci's hallucination sequences oh and a few tits thrown in for good measure as well br br a cat in the brain is completely over top and ridiculous in every sense the gore is classic fulci nasty and strong with some really decent scenes the chainsaw of a female corpse is pretty cool as is the chainsaw beheading of a small boy lots of stabbings and other cool kill scenes make this one a pretty non stop bloodbath the ridiculous dialog lick it lick it as well as some of the insanely goofy scenes the nazi orgy the opera singing slap fest and the running down of an innocent hippy come easily to mind make this one fun as hell not nearly as dark as some of fulci's other films cat is more of a self indulgent horror comedy that if it wasn't meant to be funny is actually kind of sad i say to grab a fifth of cheap bourbon and settle in to this one i watched cat with a few friends and we laughed the entire time this is the feel good movie of the summer recommended 8 10
1	this is an interesting movie i think it's very humorous although the humor is very black fulci is good and funny acting himself it's a really funny and truly crazy self portrait of an artist i make horror films if i would make love films no one would buy tickets and it's really sexy movie also almost all the time there is some action or tension going on and many sexy girls women maybe it goes to the core of why anyone starts to do movies art in the first place it's a real psychedelic trip maybe best seen a little drunk or some similar state of mind there is some really nasty gore scenes also of course because it's lucio fulci as a matter of fact some of those scenes are quite disgusting anyway it's one of the three best and most complete fulci films i've seen the others are house by the cemetery zombi haven't seen the beyond actually the script is to my opinion quite ingenious you could see this movie as a portrait of an extreme neurotic or a person who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder fashionable words the character has a compulsive need to confess crimes or bad thoughts especially crimes he hasn't even done and he questions himself all the time what if i have done it what if i want to do it have i done it do i want to do it he overreacts and exaggerates his thoughts i'm sure fulci has been interested of psychology and maybe even read something of the area in his house by the cemetery movie for example there is a character named this is maybe the most concentrated and personal movie fulci did i also like the simplicity of the photography pictures in this film only thing that disturbs me a little bit is the sadism especially towards women i don't quite understand why is it entertainment is it art is it horror anyways and overall this is really interesting and well made movie definitely recommended classic film at least for fans or anyone interested of this genre for the others it may be too much
1	lucio fulci was one of the most prolific italian directors by the time of his death in 1996 yet his career had long since descended into a downward spiral of increasingly futile genre entries that could barely stand in the shadow of his earlier work for much of the '70s into the mid '80s he cranked out such stylistically distinctive horrors as city of the living dead the beyond and the brutal giallo the new york ripper fondly remembered by fans like myself and while cat in the brain falls in with the era of fulci's decline as a filmmaker it is a shocking darkly hilarious that while a clearly inferior work the framing effects and acting are below par proves an interesting open ended meditation on pop psychology and film's ability to make no mistake cat in the brain is a total gorefest and as disjointed as fulci's previous films but it deserves credit for trying to be something more in a deliciously tongue in cheek touch fulci plays himself a director in the midst of filming yet another violent horror flick who comes down with perverse murderous hallucinations after visiting a shrink who puts him under hypnosis his dreams and reality begin to intersect to the point where the viewer cannot discern the two the recent dvd from grindhouse releasing mentions cat as an heir apparent to the likes of eraserhead and it does carry a similarly disquieting awkwardly funny quality associated with the best surrealist art
1	fulci does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made answer yes cat in the brain also known as nightmare concert is fulci's last masterpiece yes it is no matter what some people will say about it there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci's movies br br fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself who plays well horror splatter gore director who thinks he is slowly going insane it's filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here being fulci flick you need to know it's gory how much well pretty much i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore and believe me it's a hard to archive even the braindead didn't stop it is all about gore almost every scene revolves about fulci who after being hypnotized by evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor which starts to spit some ooze from it's wounds forget the beyond or zombie 2 this is the goriest fulci movie now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie he is such a brilliant director some funny moments and lines happens from time to time like one where fulci says making gore movies is kind of a sickness ending is very good considering that fulci and most of the italian horror masters is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes if you are fun of the fulci make sure you check it out if you have a weak stomach avoid this and repeat its only a movie ps some of the gore scenes within this movie chainsaw dismemberment full tongue torn out eyeballs torn out maggot infested corpses zombies decapitations face being in boiling water stabs in the shower to head throat slit many parts of the body and organs being toast aside hammer smashed face
1	in the late eighties and early nineties the decline and death of independent video companies like vestron and media effectively shut off italian horror films for much of it's american audience coincidently italian genre films also declined in quality and profitability br br occasionally movies like primal rage sequels like beyond the door iii troll 2 and a few dario argento films limped out onto video but most remained unreleased until dvd in the us for nearly a decade or longer movies from these lost years became very sought after and talked about among horror fans br br of these films cat in the brain is probably one of the most hyped of all due to the legions of lucio fulci fans and the fact that it was not only directed by but also starred their idol fulci himself br br though not quite fulci's best it's still better than most of his later efforts his rabid fan base will probably love it italian horror and giallo aficionados might also enjoy it depending on their tastes but i'm not sure about anyone else people who only watch hollywood stuff might not want to take the word of the many glowing reviews here br br one thing i personally found fascinating were the scenes featuring probably benito mussolini's only lasting contribution to italy cinecitta studios the name is instantly recognizable to any fan of italian movies until i saw it here i could only imagine what it looked like
1	the one who says that lucio fulci is not one of the most important names in the history of splatter is probably mad the italian director is a legend among hardcore horror fans and his work exceeds the barriers of the genre who can forgot his western crime or fantasy flicks this is probably his goriest film and unfortunately one the last a horror director fulci as himself starts hallucinating about gruesome murders he goes to a psychiatrist who makes him believe he is the criminal in this time the doctor begins a long chain of serial crimes with such a plot the movie should have been filled with something and there are corpses crashed or melted heads stabbings decapitations chainsaw dismemberment and many others kind of boring sometimes the film is saved by the excessive violence that will definitely please the gore addicts
1	i couldn't help but relish the entire premise of cat in the brain because it dutifully explains a director's steadily going mad seeing people murdered from past movies he has made even mundane activities such as cooking a meal in the microwave or running a faucet of water yield some horrific butchery from a film in the past director fulci playing himself is directing ghosts of and can not seem to deprive his mental well being from constant murder he seeks help from a psychiatrist who instead uses fulci's work as a method to execute a series of innocent people hypnotizing the director into thinking that perhaps he's responsible br br this is obviously a film playfully poking fun at fulci's image while exploring the themes of how such a profession which produces so much death and destruction rarely untamed could mold and shape a legacy the film features pretty much a wrap around story surrounding non stop graphic violence with every possible way to kill a woman expressed in grisly detail this has a shower murder hitchcock never could direct or probably want to the film's savagery compliments the mental state of fulci's fulci i know during the running time reality and cinematic fiction have fused and fulci can find no escape the ending explaining the old cliché it's only a movie couldn't work any better than it does here fulci's boat says perversion excellent touch and he sails off i can only wish this was his final film because that's a perfect close if there ever was one david l thompson is the deranged psychiatrist planning to kill his adulterous wife kennedy is a cop fulci fears had a family murdered by the fiend br br the ultra violence in the film features plenty of unique ways to take a head off such as the door to a chest a scythe a chainsaw and hatchet the most brutal violence derives from nasty chainsaw activity as a dead body is hacked to pieces how a gardener's chainsaw work on a log fits beautifully in one nightmarish hallucination sequence the most shocking use of a chainsaw is when a little boy gets decapitated the opening scene with the puppet cat tearing away feasting on fulci's brain is a howler the scenes which are spliced within the film featuring a horrified fulci looking on are obvious but i couldn't help but enjoy this anyway
1	the great thing about thirst park's latest film is that it's the anti twilight some of you may take that as a minus but in reality it's a big plus park takes the method of vampirism seriously and as well the torrid love story between sang and tae we see the conflicts of both of the characters sang being a priest who undergoes a medical experiment that unbeknownst to him turns him into a sickly but true blue vampire and tae with her mother and idiot brother the latter is killed by sang as in a very strong melodrama there's nothing terribly weepy or insipid with the story and characters at any point and the implications put forth from religion early on sang for example is seen as a healer of sorts since he rose from the dead thanks to his vampirism even as he just can't be that and knows it on top of those about good vs evil push it up into another plane cinematically br br that thirst also rises up to the awesome standard of artistry that park has displayed with oldboy lady vengeance and the underrated i'm a cyborg but that's ok should be taken as a given thirst is a film with a juicy narrative and bizarre suburban characters and is shot and edited with an eye for a mood that is part satiric part romantic erotic part dramatic and lastly fantastical and it doesn't always treat as something of a simple horror movie set up though as a horror movie park has more than his share of scary scenes it's more akin to the movie near dark which never mentioned the word vampire but let you know it was and treated it with sincerity and a kind of lucid track of attention and that the disease itself and its effect on a person's existence is perhaps scarier than the killings or bloodshed once you see one vampire jump up really high or heal its wounds you've seen em' all br br thirst also has a wicked sense of humor much like oldboy only here with a bite pun intended meant to emphasize bizarre physical states of being an example of this can be found with the priest's predilection of sucking off of blood from people in comas by taking their blood tube and suckling on it on the floor or the manner in which tae holds on to one scrap of humanity by keeping her mother alive even as she's had something like a stroke and can only blink her eyes and tap one finger as a means of reacting to the blood suckers who've brought pain and horror to her home but these moments are like icing on the cake to make it a complete experience what makes thirst last in the mind is how elements come together of drama and existential pains of a surreal sense of catholicism i especially loved the dynamic between sang and the other priest who gives his arm up for blood sucking but really wants to be a vampire too and of the erotic the scenes where the priest finally gives in to tae are incredible in their pace and length of shots and how real it gets not in a pornographic manner but in the sense of these characters' release and escape which doesn't last long over the scope of the story br br if it's not as great as oldboy it's not something to about not all films park directs will reach the stature of his masterpiece and at the least he'll always be known as the man who directed that movie but is an excellent addition to his oeuvre and to the serious streak of vampire movies in general the film making is crisp and exciting and even dangerous and what a white room of the characters live in the humor is dark and hilarious the acting is intense and moody especially from subtle strokes from song kang ho and the quirky evil and surprising vulnerability from kim ok vin and the ending when it does finally get there is one of those truly superb vampire movie endings you'll be talking about for years in a good way in a battle between thirst and twilight thirst takes the knock out in the first round between let the right one in or near dark it's tougher to call 9 5 10
1	un gatto nel or nightmare concert as it's more commonly know amongst english speaking audiences starts as horror film director lucio fulci played by the man himself lucio fulci goes to lunch after filming a very gory violent scene however he orders steak has a horrible vision relating to cannibalism the grotesque visions hallucinations dreams continue begin to affect his mental state fulci decides to seek help contacts professor egon schwarz dvid l thompson for psychiatric help schwarz claims that fulci cannot separate fantasy from reality agrees to help him however schwarz has a more sinister ulterior motive as a serial killer starts to brutally kill prostitutes fulci thinks he might be responsible br br this italian production was co written directed by lucio fulci who also stars in the film as a horror film director named lucio fulci which doesn't really feel like a lot of effort went into it anyway un gatto nel is gory if nothing else for that alone i rather liked it the script by fulci john fitzsimmons giovanni antonio is nothing more than a threadbare excuse to edit together lots of gory footage from other italian films it serves it's purpose well enough i suppose to see fulci on screen has a certain fascination if your a fan of his or are familiar with his films the ending is very rushed almost as if they ran out of money as it just has a policeman telling fulci they killed the killer that's it another thing about that ending when the two cops put the white sheet over the dead killer in the field then they walk away leaving it there without any other police presence i mean would the police in italy just leave a dead body in the middle of a field on it's own it moves along at a good pace if you like your gore then you have to see this although if you don't like gore then you'll hate it with a passion it all depends on your disposition so the choice folks is yours br br director fulci was never the most artistically adept filmmaker it shows here as his footage is bland flat looks like it was shot for tv the footage from the other films 7 in total doesn't match the stuff fulci shot it is obvious that this has been pieced together from different films if your looking for gore you've hit the jackpot people are dismembered with chainsaws put through meat grinders faces are melted there are a few decapitations there are some slit throats someones body is gorily crushed under a car a tongue is ripped out someone has their throat crushed as a wheelchair runs over it there are loads of stabbings someone has their guts removed with a hook there's a rotten corpse complete with maggots someone hand is cut off someone has their head bashed in their eye falls out a gory death by piano wire as it slices through someones throat there are loads of severed limbs gallons of blood splashed around a scene of some cats eating brains there's more as well having said that some of the special effects are a bit fake look cheesy br br with a supposed budget of around 100 000 it shows this is pretty cheap looking it has no visual style or artistic merit but then again why would you want those when you can see a nazi orgy sequence wall to wall gore the acting in this is terrible including fulci br br un gatto nel is a top film if your a gore hound like me however if your looking for something with a little bit more substance or indeed any substance then this ones not for you this is the sort of film which divides people straight down the middle you'll either love what it does or hate it
1	cat in the brain is a series of extremely violent sequences knitted together by a plot that feels more like an overview describing director lucio fulci's most notorious years of film making the movie could also be seen as a dark comedy of sorts effectively spoofing the various claims that violent cinema causes violence in real life fulci goes further than that he casts himself as the star the central figure of the film thus showing the audience who is the man behind all the cinematic gore cat in the brain is not about presenting a clear story and following it instead it pokes fun at some of the clichés that have been surrounding the horror genre for years br br lucio fulci plays himself as a horror director struggling to keep his humanity intact years of violent film making have finally began to reach him it starts slowly and meat in general begin to disgust him his colleagues assure fulci that all he needs is some rest but that doesn't help and soon the grotesque ideas for his movies begin to overwhelm his daily thoughts in an attempt to find a cure for his dangerously maddening mental state lucio starts going to the local psychiatrist unfortunately that does more wrong than good and fulci is thrown into an even bigger mess as the psychiatrist turns out to be a psychopath who mimics the murders from fulci's films in real life br br the film retains all the trademarks of italian splatter cinema good or bad they are all here so any comments about the acting or the technical aspects and budget constrains are quite irrelevant as to the quality of the film it is a visual experience no doubts about it fulci throws in an incredible amount of violence easily surpassing pretty much everything he's made amputated by chainsaw limbs cannibalism child murder decapitation these are just some of the many grotesque acts witnessed in cat in the brain some of them are obviously recycled from a few the director's less profile movies but they don't stand out of the context and actually feel quite at home here as i noted before the movie exists much better as a satire of the genre rather than a serious piece the way some of the violence is presented does help establish that idea such sequences shortly after climax are rejected by the reality in the film as they are revealed to be actually scenes inside a movie that fulci's character is directing this sort of film in film presentation lessens somewhat the impact of the gore but in no way does it make it an easy to watch film oh no this is far beyond and above the levels of gore found in mainstream horror and gorehounds will in no doubt be satisfied with that fact br br lucio fulci was a very polarized figure people either hate his work or love it cat in the brain won't convince any of fulci's detractors in the opposite but it is nevertheless an interesting part of his filmography one that fans should really check out
1	fulci is one of my all time favorite italian splatter directors he is also a very good story teller mixing horror the supernatural and psychedelic themes altogether very well this film was truly his last great story before he directed such disappointments as voices from beyond the story is simple as fulci plays himself a horror director after years of filming splatter and gore films it seems that fulci starts to suffer a breakdown in which he starts hallucinating about people being slaughtered he decides to see a psychiatrist who only makes matters worse when he convinces fulci that he is killing people br br fulci used gore scenes from several pictures around the same time these films i don't believe he directed but certainly produced some of those films are massacre directed by andrea bianchi burial ground touch of death directed by fulci the murders secret and i can't remember the rest of the films br br nightmare concert is a very underrated film even by fulci fans but i loved this movie and have watched it many times already it is sad that fulci didn't get a chance to direct anything worth while after this but nonetheless this is a great film and i do recommend it to any fulci fan whether you like it or not 9 10 stars
1	un gatto nel cat in the brain is one of the goriest horror movies ever made there is a lot of blood and gore including chainsaw butchery bloody stabbings and numerous decapitations the film is also interesting as self parody of fulci but the gore and violence is the key element in it some of the gore fx were taken from own fulci's movies alice lo and i di both 1988 plus gore fx taken from fulci supervised the snake house aka bloody psycho by massacre by andrea bianchi non paura della marta by mario bianchi non si sevizia i bambini by giovanni and luna di sangue aka dalla morte by enzo all 1989 the scene where brett halsey beats the woman's face to pulp is from alice lo a film fulci had made for italian tv in 1988 the of the female corpse at the beginning is taken from the same film as is the head in the microwave and the guy that gets driven over and over again highly recommended especially if you like extreme cinema
1	lucio fulci's cat in the brain is an inventive and somewhat egotistical tale of a director's decent into madness the director in question is fulci himself who stars in the film fulci has become known to horror fans everywhere as 'the godfather of gore' and for good reason as he has provided us with some of the nastiest and most gruesome films ever to grace the silver screen from the eyeball violence in films like 'zombi 2' to a man been hacked to death with chains in 'the beyond' all the way to the full on gore fest known as 'the new york ripper' if you want gore and let's face it who doesn't fulci is your man however all this catering for gorehounds like you and i has taken its toll on fulci's mental state and he's quickly delving into madness brought about by what he films fulci's problems don't end at his mental state either as his psychiatrist that he has gone to see about his problem has took it upon himself to take up murder as a hobby using fulci's films as blueprints for the murders br br i've got to say the acting in this film is absolutely atrocious there is one scene in particular that involves a hooker and it's only fit to be laughed at for both it's acting and it's stupidity fulci takes the lead role of the film obviously he's not an actor and it shows but his performance is actually the best in the film it's even safe to say that one the whole the acting is bad for an italian horror film of course nobody goes into an italian horror expecting good acting so it's somewhat forgivable but i do think that fulci could have hired some better ones bad dubbing doesn't exactly help either however something that does help is the fact that the terrible acting is counterbalanced by lots of gore and it's extreme to say the least people get their heads cut off a woman is slain in the shower and unlike psycho here we really see it people are hacked up fed to pigs and there's lots and lots of cinema's finest melee weapon the chainsaw on display which delighted me no end the amount of gore is massively over the top a lot of the time which gives the film something of a feel but cat in the brain is obviously a tongue in cheek film anyway br br it would be hard to make a film about yourself and not come across as being a bit of a big head and fulci does indeed come across as a bit of a big head in this movie his name is mentioned often and he's on screen nearly all the time it's not too much unlike 'new nightmare' in the ego stakes but it's obvious he had a good time making this and i for one had fun watching it so we can forgive him a little egotism the film's ending lets it down i saw it coming a mile off but then didn't seriously think that the movie would take that route but i was wrong it did unfortunately the ending left me cold and the film is a better watch if you turn it off just before the final two minutes however despite it's ending and terrible acting cat in the brain is a lot of fun and will please fulci enthusiasts no end and it is therefore recommended
1	well this is new famous italian horror director lucio fulci shoots a film about a famous italian horror director called lucio fulci after years and years of witnessing gruesome horror sequences it becomes hard for lucio to separate reality from fiction and he often hallucinates about committing violent murders he quickly descends further into a seemly endless spiral of madness and venom even the dedicated psychiatrist can't seem to keep fulci on the right track now when it comes to pure fun and entertainment value cat in the brain certainly is one of fulci's most pleasant films the gore is overpowering and copious to say the least the amount of filthy massacres is impossible to describe especially when you manage to get your hands on the fully uncut version referred to with the aka nightmare concert decapitations all around victims ' intestines are spread on all sides of the screen and the chainsaws are working overtime the film also becomes unintentionally funny quite soon since it's so exaggerated and a perfect experience to watch with a group of friends when there's beer in the fridge of course from a more professional viewpoint this production can't exactly be called a masterpiece there's not the least bit of tension or atmosphere to detect and the characters are completely empty headed in order to make more room for the gore characters are just being introduced for 5 seconds and subsequently die a horrible death especially compared with fulci's highlights like the beyond or don't torture a duckling this film looks like a quickly warmed up snack the best way to interpret cat in the brain is like a personal statement made by fulci and a direct attack towards censorship perhaps after seeing so many of his films – especially the latter ones – being cut by censorship committees and bashed by pseudo artistic critics he wanted to avenge himself by delivering a gory mess that simply can't be cut if you take out all the explicit violence and the truly sick make up effects you only got about 10 minutes of footage left especially because the insane killings re occur later in the film as fulci hallucinates about them again you can almost hear our director think stuff like let's see how you're going to censor this now even the entire development of the murder investigation happens in the background are the victims missed by any of their friends or relatives are there any police officers looking for clues that'll lead them to the killer you don't know and lucio doesn't bother to inform you about that because that would lead to sequences that don't require cutting oh and it's pretty damn pretentious as well the name mr fulci or even lucio is mentioned every 3 minutes 34 times throughout the entire movie to be exact and our director clearly enjoys being in the spotlights for a change hey i certainly don't blame him after over 30 years of delivering amusing movies he deserved to have a little extra fun you're a god mr fulci
1	i don't know what it is exactly but the film is happily sitting on my shelf with no thought of ever leaving me fulci has crafted one of the most ridiculous bizzare cheez infested and well unique movies i've ever seen not sure what else to say about it but i love this movie the steak scene is absolutely uproarious and the whole nazi torture orgy fiasco is strangely hilarious i'm not sure what fulci was trying to do but has anyone heard that based on this film fulci accused wes craven of ripping him off with scream cat in the brain is a must for bad movie lovers everywhere yes i'll definitely say it's not a good film but i guarantee certain scenes will stick in your mind forever this is an exercise in craziness people i guess if i were a serious critic i'd give it a 3 but on sheer enjoyability again i can't really explain my affections i'd give it a 7 really whacked out flick
1	this film with only two characters takes you closer to these two people the interrogator and the prisoner than most films take you to any character however well crafted br br the sheer confusion terror and pain which madeleine stowe's character undergoes is deeply disturbing as is alan sadistic yet charming interrogator br br this film is all too possible and builds to a shocking climax the effect of the film as a whole leaving you sitting in silence at the end it'll haunt you for a long time
1	simply beautiful one of the best mind umm screws in existence both rickman and stowe play their roles to the hilt in this tale of a childrens' book writer who maybe has written a subversive tract moscow could learn a few things from the torture techniques in this film they could also do worse than hiring alan rickman five out of five stars and at present 1 20 2000 2 on my top 100 films of all time list
1	this movie had me stuck in this endless loop of thinking about it for days afterward granted i am not the movie snob that some folks around here appear to be but i thought this was amazingly well acted and a powerful creation if lacking a little subtlety in i happen to admire movies that can effectively recreate the sensation of watching a stage play it creates an eeriness that works well with this flick i am also a great fan of alan rickman so that might be my bias personally i found the lack of spatial landmarks a good thing this could in fact be anywhere and probably is i say go easy on what was a powerful experience for me and likely for anyone involved in any sort of political activity
1	korean cinema has the ability to turn genres on its head and the latest by the celebrated director chan wook park is a tale of a good pious priest who becomes a vampire add a temptress leading him astray and a cast of eccentrics and you have a wonderful recipe br br directed in part in a style similar to the sympathy trilogy it's as sumptuous as it is dark steering clear of cliché it does offer some new tricks in the overdone vampire genre its an existential movie trying to capture the moral conundrum of how exactly a person has to choose to live with their conditions rather than revel in the blood lust however the film doesn't take itself too seriously and there is boundless humour throughout br br our leads play their roles to perfection playing with our emotions and revelling in the dark humour there are moments of reflection on the whole moral conundrums involved in the film but its never preachy some might find it overlong and it can lull at points but it's worth giving it a chance to the end br br if you like left field films then there are fewer better than this one of late dark and engrossing it will pull in a crowd one i'd recommend you give a try
1	closet land is not at happy movie neither is it connected to any kind of social realism this is perhaps its strength the distance from specific time and nations strengthens the message makes it more powerful and rips away the burden of nationalism and propaganda you often sense in movies made to criticize nations in of ones own i am of course primarily speaking of the usa propaganda in some commercial film br br bit closet land is so much more than a message it is a film of pure surrealistic beauty filled with the same clean clinical form you find in work such as 1984 and it's equals br br i am of old a big fan of alan rickman the man with the golden sarcasm and i might add the sex appeal the between him and madeleine stowe is brilliant everytime i see him he seems to play a character even nastier than the last one br br but enough the film lacks in action i dont want any crashing cars but i want something to happen except pure talk after an hour i got really tired of the the predictable actions and more than anything i wanted a more complex view of it all the world the former lives of the characters and all the rest of the framework that was missing for some people a nice touch for me something less positive br br anyway closet land is a movie worth it's time if you are ready to make a trip into the abyss of the human nature br br and of course for us who really loves the always evil alan rickman
1	closet land is an amazing terrifying piece of cinema it features only two actors in a single set but never loses your attention the set design is imaginative and troubling the staging of scenes maintains your attention while adding to your own sense of confusion and terror the acting is outstanding with alan rickman and madeleine stowe having the duty of carrying every scene br br i first saw this film in 1991 soon after it came out on video it didn't play in theaters where i lived not surprising given its political content it should be seen though it features a brilliant staging of the torture and interrogation techniques used by repressive societies to instill fear and obedience in its citizens the country is never named which makes it all the more striking it could be anywhere east west 3rd world 1st world it illustrates what happens when a small group of people decide what is best for everyone when government becomes the ruler of the citizens rather than the servant br br madeleine stowe is a children's author who has been dragged from her bed in the night and subjected to terror and torture she finds herself in a room with alan rickman a seemingly pleasant at first it seems a horrible mistake and she is free to go but fear causes her to remain and the terror escalates she is increasingly subjected to physical and mental torture the interrogator uses sensory deprivation temporal manipulation confusion auditory manipulation role play and twisted logic to break down the author she is humiliated and forced to endure strenuous bodily positions deprived of food and water br br through it all she refuses to give in to do what the interrogator asks she is told that it will all end if she just signs a confession a simple little act she refuses through it all she employs defense mechanisms that have developed since childhood it is slowly revealed that she was the victim of childhood sexual abuse to survive she developed fantasy worlds and characters that would take her away from the abuse these mechanisms allow her to transcend her torture and turn the tables on her interrogator she starts attacking his own beliefs and profession forcing him to examine his own life and motives in the end she is free because she maintains the freedom of thought the interrogator is the one trapped by the state br br this movie was made during the height of the cold war apartheid and at a time when the crimes of many governments throughout the world made daily news it is even more timely in a world where enemy combatants are held and interrogated in secret prisons denied legal rights or counsel where ethnic cleansing lays waste to whole societies and humanitarian aid is denied it demonstrates that the individual can stand up to the state or other by refusing to give in to fear and terror
1	i caught this movie late one night and never knew what hit me this was one of the most disturbing movies i have ever seen yet had me on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next alan rickman is an excellent bad guy but this character beats all others i've never been so affected by a movie it's been 6 years and i still can't forget closet land
1	this is the most difficult movie i have ever seen the emotional content is horrific yet unforgetable a woman who is accused of being a political activist is brought in for questioning the whole movie revolves around her interrogation alan rickman and madeline stowe have intense and powerful roles for which they deserve oscars for their performances
1	the film deals with universal themes mentioning no specific country as its context it could happen anywhere and has in substance if not form those concerned about 1st amendment issues censorship et al but don't want to be bored with lectures need art such as this to illustrate dramatize teach inspire br br rickman is certainly an under appreciated character actor he shines in this film showing off multiple acting talents that you must see i have yet to see him give a bad performance though even in not so great films stowe gives perhaps her best performance and proves that she possesses one of the most striking pair of eyes in hollywood in two words stunning convincing br br the set design perfectly matches the situation in function and mood the sound editing heightens to appropriate effect the total contrast conveyed through the animation sequences is a perfect symbolic device and the welcome and only respite to the bulk of the story's necessary venue the script is tight and essential with engagingly dramatic yet realistic dialogue i e as it might be and ought to be perhaps the most amazing aspect to contend with is the fact that 1 this is the director's first time out and 2 he is the writer in one phrase a tour de force with three recommendations see it own a copy see it repeatedly to fathom all its secrets and grasp all it genius
1	this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks it has so many layers i've watched it over and over and always pick up on something new i am amazed at the depth of the acting and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star
1	the good news the director is reportedly committed to the cause of amnesty international and eager to deliver a solid message about the freedom of expression and the evil of oppression the plot is distinctly original and the actors are two of my absolute favourites the not so good news 'original' is not everybody's when visiting the movies or video stores also noted critics like mr maltin and roger ebert have dismissed the film as a genuinely failed attempt to convert a play from stage into cinematic form if i remember correctly the title is taken from the fairy tale stowe's character has written and which has made her a possible subversive and suspect person in the fictitious place where the story takes place her dreams are dangerous to the government represented here by rickman as the intense manipulative interrogator since those two people are virtually the only ones appearing in the film altogether the director is in for a real challenge in keeping the viewer's attention in the end i found the whole thing fascinating not flawless and definitely not for everyone but rewarding it's nowhere near a masterpiece like kieslowski's 'a short film about or as explanatory as 'dead man but if you're into those films or any of costa gavras political thrillers you may appreciate this one as well just don't expect any sermons or action sequences
1	this is an amazing movie and is very clever at using the few actors and sets it is also very shocking the physical and psychological torture both explicit and implied is mixed with calm and even humourous stretches so the horror is always unexpected and brutal i'm not soft but this would have to be the most shocking film i have ever seen the message of this film is definitely delivered with a sledgehammer this is the film i will always remember both actors for
1	ms stowe is sensational in this power drama about a secret policeman who interrogates a children's author because he believes she is trying to plant ideas in her writings that are contrary to the state's this is an incredibly powerful film both performances are worthy of more recognition as is the message of this movie put this on your must see list if you can locate it
1	rarely does a film capture such intense drama and emotion what makes this film so unsettling is that the drama feels so real it's almost hard to remember that it's only a movie this is by far madeline stowe and alan performance of their careers the film almost feels like a theatrical production the way it is staged and lit the only bad thing about this movie is that it's very difficult to get a copy of it i have yet to see it other than on laserdisc this truly powerful film deserves a digitally remastered transfer and special edition treatment on dvd it really is that good
1	after watching oldboy i was a little disappointed by the rest of park's work some of it is good but it never approaches the level of humour and originality that oldboy had this one does it is nothing like oldboy in plot or style but the same level of quality is there br br the acting is good with kang ho song ok bin kim and ha kyun shin delivering excellent performances kim in particular manages to swap from the creepy horror scenes to the surreal comedy without the slightest misstep br br the plot is strange with lots of twists and turns and takes a big swipe at the vampire clichés br br the directing is spot on with tons of pace and humour throughout and some of the most memorable scenes i have ever seen it does boast what is probably the weirdest love scene you will ever see br br this is just a great film
1	what would it be like to be accused of being a subversive this is what this film explores through the eyes of 2 characters one being the accused subversive the other being the interrogator it is a frightening journey from the beginning to the end this film is not for everybody and if you do not understand political governments thoroughly you will never get the point of this film as proved by 90 of the reviews here
1	this movie took me by surprise i first saw it more than 10 years ago and it stays with me still it's got it's just plain boring points and i personally would have ended it differently this has not in the least bit discouraged me from watching it over and over and recommending it to others the acting is fantastic the cast and director do an amazing job with the script and anyone who likes 'different' movies who has the patience to sit and say what the hell is this and allow themselves to be drawn in should give this film a chance if you just want alan rickman to be goofy or to see things explode this is not the movie for you
1	i really love this movie it has a very real feel to it i believe it was never popular because of the subject matter however because of the subject matter it makes the movie all that much more important br br this is an a movie and i recommend it highly if you liked 1984 book or movie i think you will like this one as well br br this is harsh to say the least including mental and physical acts of torture some pretty vile not for the week at heart or stomach no gore but his movie is so great at projecting the mental anticipation it doesn't need blood and guts br br if you are not a realist or a person i don't think you will enjoy it it leaves you with an uneasy feeling about humans what they're capable of and the very real possibility that our government s does not necessarily have our personal best interest in it's heart
1	i am profoundly grateful to have seen this movie the acting is astonishing the movie itself is powerful and clear and the issues involved are handled with subtlety and depth br br this is an important movie it could be profoundly transformative br br i would pay good money never ever to see it again because it is so good and so complex it is extremely difficult to watch i admit that my taste in movies tends strongly toward light entertainment the visual medium can be so powerful that i tend to avoid it for anything really important those of you with greater fortitude than i have may find it easier to handle br br but i strongly encourage people to see it at least once preferably with others so you can talk to each other and have someone around to remind you that there's more to the world than the movie
1	even the trailer for this movie makes me cry like the first time i saw this movie not for people who are easily upset by intense material the finest performances by alan rickman and stowe without a doubt this dreadful tale of a society with the power to kidnap and torture it's citizens for any reason whether they are or the writer of children's books will chill you to the bone i saw it when it first came out 1991 and i remember every frame it still scares the hell out me today it's happening now br br apparently imdb requires ten lines to meet their criteria for a film review imdb might want to get a grip some of us are a little more succinct about writing opinions
1	this two character drama is extremely well acted and has a valid message and some truly shocking moments shocking not because they are graphic but because you're not prepared for them when they come but eventually it does become oppressive just like the somewhat similar a pure formality did still alan rickman should have gotten an oscar nomination for his multi dimensional performance no doubt about it 1 2
1	closet land tells a powerful story and has many different subtle elements you could read lots of stuff about the movie's plot before hand but you don't really need to all you need to know is that the movie is all about an interrogation along the way we learn lots of things about the interrogator and the person being interrogated we also learn that the world can be a dark and scary place especially when you have absolutely no control over it br br in the end the movie amounts to a warning really though the movie has several different aspects to it about what happens to people's freedoms when they look the other way and ignore injustices happening to those around them br br if you've got about an hour and a half and know where you can rent this i strongly recommend that you do so
1	this movie gave me recurring nightmares with alan voice representing an omnipotent insidious fascist ruler the scariest movie i have ever seen psychological terror more powerful than anything any horror movie has ever achieved alan voice will always represent to me the power and terror of a totalitarian state reminiscent of orwell's 1984 this movie describes to those who don't care the reality of a large part of current world governments this film is disturbing but in a way that everyone should watch it it's a description of a reality that no one should ever have to experience but so many do
1	acting of course think about it closet land could easily have turned out so horribly an entire movie filmed in one room with only two people they better have some damned interesting things to chat about br br but it didn't turn out horribly on the contrary thanks to incredible portrayals by both stowe and rickman closet land is a masterpiece in its own right br br that's not to say it is for everyone persons who have had their attention spans decreased through glitzy sex scenes and random gun fire may have trouble digesting closet land however those who can appreciate good story telling without explosions should give it a look no matter how many video stores you have to call to find someone who has it in stock
1	this film hits the heart with a reality like no other i have seen it shows what us what we in a democratic society take for granted and just what we are lucky enough not to be experiencing the acting in the film is superb sometimes you have to remind yourself that the movie is a dramatization and not real life mr rickman does wonders with his role as he does with all roles making the interrogator fully dimensional and human the set is incredible it gives the feeling of 'in the round theater which does not add or take away from the emotion of the action this movie seeks to open the eyes of the viewer and i'd say they have made a success of that goal
1	now that i have seen it it was not what i was expecting at least not until the very end i read some of the other reviews before picking up a used copy of this from amazon and was glad i did having been first introduced to park's work via oldboy i was curious to how he'd treat the genre and was rather pleased at the clever manner in which he executed it i think park has matured in terms of presentation because while oldboy and some of his other work has very nice and deliberate camera work he has some nice innovations in that i had not seen in other vamp movies for example the scene where father is realizing the beast growing within him as he gives his shoes to the always barefoot tae ju and he is able to see the blood pumping through tae skin and his eye's widen in blood lust for it that was a nice effect i was also happy that park did not cg the crap out of the movie and the is in fact very little cg at all i came away from being totally set up to think one thing was going to happen and get taken for a ride in true park fashion additionally i liked that park played with a little symbolism and reversal whereas we don't usually get this is asia cinema during the beginning of the movie we see the plot develop slowly and get to know the characters and you feel like an invisible observer to the thing that are transpiring park treats you a little like ghost of christmas future coming to show you albeit a bit boringly what life is like outside your world ah but then we start to feel a little kinship with the befallen father and his burgeoning lust for tae ju and conflict with duty as a priest we almost start to root for them even until park not so nicely slaps us back into reality and we really see that in the end is a movie about moral dilemma and right and wrong it won't spoil it if i tell you to watch from the mindset of a priest and i think you'll come away from it with what park wants you to come away with don't expect oldboy and stylization because that's not what you'll get here a very interesting take on the genre indeed those who missed the many literary elements and religious allusions watched some other movie not after watch let the right one in it's also not what you'll expect either
1	closet land was sponsored by amnesty international and does have a lot of political overtones but there's so much more to this richly stirring story than that br br this is not just about the political tension of the late 80s it's about the personal persecution that a woman puts herself through as a child who was molested by a family friend we see the subtle allusion to the parallels of a dishonest government society structure and the culture of sexual predation where one in four young children are molested and one in three women has experienced some form of rape br br for me it brings up a chilling chicken and egg question does the attitude of our sexual repression leading to predation create the political environment of fear and censoring or does the socio political dysfunction fuel a culture of sexual predation the psychological ramifications of even asking this question force us to a place where we are brought to develop our own answers br br in the end our young lady writer stowe has a similar moment to the one at the end of labyrinth she realizes in one shining brilliant moment that the idea of having her power stolen from her by the secret police rickman is an illusion no one can steal your power they can only trick you into giving it up and then you have the right to take it back at any time br br this is not a movie to be entered into lightly and you most certainly do enter it the minimalist aspects coupled with the child like animation stirs the deepest parts of the psyche and leaves no viewer unchanged
1	closet land the title itself conjures up thoughts of secrets and that is really what's at the heart of this amnesty international film government secrets personal secrets both are integral pieces of this story br br by far the greatest acting seen in too long a time both alan rickman and madeleine stowe were phenomenal in their portrayal of a government interrogator and victim respectively with only the two actors in this unusual standard length film it is instantly clear that both actors were dedicated and talented enough to pull the viewer into this tiny bubble of a world and shut the door br br a word of caution br br what isn't mentioned on the description of this movie is that there is a subplot that deals with childhood sexual abuse while there is no graphic detail about the abuse the nature of it may be difficult for some viewers to watch especially given the intensity of the film on whole br br i'm not a big fan of amnesty international films but this movie drew me in because the acting was so exceptional and i can't help but make this movie one of my personal favorites
1	rachel and chuck valerie harper gerald mcraney decided the city is too busy and dangerous for their family so they packed up their reluctant son gregory and daughter tammy lauren and moved back to a lake like the one rachel lived at as a child br br they say you can not go home again but this is an ideal rural home with what at first seems like a mayberry feel later the residence seems to be more like the people in deliverance soon bodies start turning up and everybody looks suspect with the exception of a few friendly faces this does not keep the family from enjoying running around and messing around in the woods br br we find that they have to be super ignorant to find the secrets and not tell anyone until they get ax as the antagonists br br can the ignored young stevie save his parents or will their pursuer s put his her foot in it br br this film is more than most parodies as it was played with strait faces they could not have chosen better actors and daryl anderson was exceptionally creepy an added plus is that they let us know what is happening before the characters find out instead of pulling a clue out of the hat after the fact anyway this made for tv movie is good for a few laughs
1	the premise of the story is common enough average family wants out of the rat race wants to find the simple life so they move from sherman oaks california to lake kids in tow br br the lake is beautiful they have leased an old house but wait there may be something in the lake people are being murdered and no one knows how never mind why gerald mcraney is excellent a familiar face for lifetime viewers valerie harper is also good since this film was made in '88 maybe the writer should produce a sequel br br you will also enjoy barry corbin as the town eccentric and darryl anderson as a bruce dern lookalike crazed military man br br while the story plot is a bit over the top if you are a movie buff you will be reminded of similar scenarios from psycho deliverance as well as other horror stories of that genre several camera shots and sequences will give you a sense of deja vu br br sit back and enjoy if you don't take it too seriously it is very entertaining and better than for example the more recent movie br br i know what you did last summer it seems they made better movies in the good old 80's
1	this is one of those classic american made for tv movies that are just made for watching on a rainy afternoon although the script is highly implausible it never takes itself too seriously and neither do the cast which leads to a great tongue in cheek murder mystery horror film best enjoyed with a bid bag of popcorn or box of chocolates a big bonus of this film is the fantastic location filming and despite the strange goings on and even stranger residents round lake i for one would not mind living there br br all in all a great film to watch over and over again
1	not a film of entertainment but of real lives limited ambition for the working class in 60's enjoyable because of my upbringing not sure it'd work for most people typical loach full of tv actors actresses of 70's 80's 90's
1	recently released on british dvd this is a good movie as long as you have an attention span and iq of more than a fruit fly not as depressing as it could have been this is kitchen sink at its most dirty terrance stamp is great in it the music is sweet carol white is very believeable as the single mum tart who can't stop loving criminals br br my favourite scene is where carol and her friend who works in the pub with her the one with the enormous beehive hairdo which comes down over one eye sit and gossip about all the men who walk past br br the only thing that marred this was the shakey acting of carol's first husband but if you can get past that you're ok and donovan provides some of the most languid mellow bittersweet lyrics to come out of the 60s
1	one of the best of the 'kitchen fantastic views of london and invaluable snippets of working class life of the 60's loach's eye seems to capture everything yet makes no judgment a taste of things to come as with and 'sweet it serves as a cinematic social history of britain carol white is completely convincing you love her fancy her want to take care of her but hold your head at her self destructive decisions and still follow her in some vain hope well backed up by terence stamp fresh off 'the collector' also catch 'the and a plethora of english faces all looking very young set to tones stamp sings 'yellow is the in a lovely scene ending with him saying getting better ain't i song also used in 'the rules of i think watch carol whites screen mum getting ready to 'go out and get a putting on her false eye lashes to the sound of on the radio priceless a treasure for anyone who was around at the time and a reminder of how good life is now in england incidentally soderburgh used clips from in 'the
1	ken loach showed the world the down and out flip side of swinging london with poor cow about london woman joy carol white hooking up with a thief and having a son with him only to see the man end up in the slammer while his friend terence stamp manages to help her out some he proves to be little better in what a loser he is it soon becomes clear to joy that she's going to have to make a serious decision about where she's going in her life br br one thing that i determined i don't know whether or not this is accurate was a use of irony in the movie her name is joy but she experiences no joy in her life even if that wasn't intended it's still a movie that i recommend to everyone featuring songs by donovan one of which colors appeared in another terence stamp movie the limey which incidentally came out in 1999 when i was as old as my parents were when poor cow came out
1	back in the 60's this grim study of joy a young proletarian wife was the introduction to the career of ken loach who became one of the most distinguished and respected british filmmakers of all time by then i knew very little about brecht politics or the reality of the under privileged and i was quite impressed by the aesthetic of the film its free style its austere color cinematography and monologues in front of the camera i was also much surprised to find that terence stamp who had become a celebrity thanks to billy budd the collector and modesty blaise had so little screen time although 20th century fox distributed poor cow in panama loach did not stay in mainstream cinema which this film hardly is and i lost contact with his films i just heard of his successes kes family life black jack until i caught up in the 80's the beautiful title song by donovan by the way is available in his anthology troubadour
1	no pun intended i'm not going to spoil anything about the story but it's safe to assume that you already know what kind of character the main actor portrays and of course being a priest while being naughty exaggerates all that plus this is the most erotic movie from park chan wook yet br br if you have seen previous works movies you know he is very visual in a good way and it shows again here while it strays away from the vengeance theme of his prior movies on the surface it still has quite some heat hidden underneath and when that boils quite a few bad things start to happen but through all that dark there also moments of light fun to be had too a very stylistic and though provoking movie that lives outside the mainstream and does a very good job
1	i sort of liked this columbo movie its atmosphere which was real thriller like and its approach even at times reminded me of film noir in the movie its first 30 minutes or so it's really nice and done in a good old fashioned way with the right camera angles and use of light it doesn't mean instantly that this movie is a brilliant one though but its solid enough to consider this a good late columbo movie entry it's definitely a better movie than the average columbo movie entry br br 26 years after his previous columbo movie appearance george hamilton returns once again to play the main lead opposite peter falk again as the murderer in a total different and new role of course i liked him in his role and he was a good columbo who gave the good old lieutenant some good competition they had some nice sequences together problem with the 'modern' new columbo movies always sort of had been that it didn't feature a good well known actor opposite peter falk this movie obviously doesn't suffer from this problem but i must say though that this movie doesn't feature peter falk at this best he has certainly played the character better and his performance isn't quite consistent enough within this movie which is probably also due to he movie its director daryl duke who also directed the really dreadful movie tai pan among many other projects br br it has a rather good and enjoyable story but the fact that the same sort of plot to cover up the murder had been used before in an earlier columbo movie also doesn't help of course it got used before in the 1975 movie columbo playback nevertheless it of course also still has plenty enough 'original' moments of its own with its story even though of course in essence every columbo movie is more or less the same but oh well that is what made the columbo series so great and consistent if it ain't broke don't fix it br br it also is true that within this movie more clues than usual are left out for the lieutenant which doesn't mean that the movie its murderer is more stupid or sloppy but i more see it as the writers being more overly enthusiastic than others it doesn't make the movie or story bad and it in fact perhaps even makes it more enjoyable to see columbo hard at work and discovering all kind of small but important clues luckily the movie is also filled with some enjoyable effective relieving columbo comedy br br simply a good late columbo movie entry br br 7 10
1	after being off the air for a while columbo returned with some new made for tv mysteries that while not being as good as the original series are better than the shows that were done in the later '90s br br murder can be hazardous to your health used the then and i guess now if you think about it true crime shows as the situation for a murder the murder is committed by a very successful egomaniacal true crime show host george hamilton in a nice bit of casting his chain smoking nemesis who lost the job to him played by peter haskell attempts to blackmail hamilton when he discovers a porno video hamilton made with an underage actress in his salad days hamilton uses haskell's cigarettes to deliver the death blow via poison giving himself an alibi as well br br columbo is brought in to find out what happened you know the rest highly entertaining
1	this movie takes the psychological thriller to new depths well written by shane black the film is executed phenomenally by the cast under the watchful eye of director jack clearly is a director that we should look out for in the future his strength lies in his adaptation of personal experiences both on screen and in the classroom br br this thought provoking film is a must see for anyone who can appreciate action drama suspense and mystery as with all good films the viewer goes on a journey of their own to find their individual interpretation of the movie the mystical aspect of the film is intriguing and adds to the suspense you find your self looking for the answers along with marquette audiences have liked the movie on the festival circuit with many awards received they must have agreed that a w o l 2006 is well worth watching br br i'd love to own a copy how do i go about getting one
1	if you're into alternate realities contemplating what's real and what's just a fantasy this is an edge of your seat thriller that'll keep you guessing and really make you think try to get a copy of it and see for yourself i watched it at an l a film festival recently and it was by far the best one in the group that i saw it helped that it was actually about something unlike the others that were screened it's very well directed and the production value is top notch i would compare it to jacob's ladder in that it keeps you guessing as to what the true reality is of the world that we're in you should definitely try to hunt this film down and if it's screening at any festivals near you try to check it out
1	i too saw this film at a film festival but unlike the previous poster i found it both interesting and original in a sea of terrible features shorts are often twice as bad do to small budgets and poor acting a w o l however is a taut little thriller that hearkens back to the outer limits the performances are solid not that one would expect otherwise from morse or mcginley and the directing is sharp and on the money i personally find it difficult to reconcile the previous poster's comments with the film i saw a w o l is quite aptly written by shane black who as is usually the case plays with the genre both paying homage to the stories pulp sensibilities while simultaneously winking at the audience and never taking itself too seriously all in all a w o l proves to be an extremely well executed and fun film
1	excellent story wonderful acting amazing production values and a cool action packed short with a perfect twist at the end what a great short film br br i saw this film in vail or aspen at a film festival and was wowed by it then i saw it again at another festival where it won again and i was even more impressed because subtle touches become evident the second time around for a short film this packs a lot of clever layers into a short time br br awol is not for the faint of heart but it is very well done and completely impressive for a short film for any film actually it's an interesting story told very well and every scene moves the story which reveals good film making instincts went into making this film the film looks gorgeous and david morse is also stunning with a dynamic performance delivered in every scene watching his character attempt to defeat the life is throwing him makes a great viewing experience br br it also should be noted that when tortures of war are in the headlines everyday the lines between reality good and evil can get very gray while the rhetoric gets loud and attempts to make things black and white awol smartly allows the audience to decide for themselves what they think the message is what is real and what is not which adds to the mystery br br both times i've seen it the audience was way more into this movie than the others playing with it which is saying a lot there are a lot of shorts out there right now but few deliver the kind of all around excellence and complex subject matter that awol does br br it sounds to me like the previous reviewer is off his or her rocker or has some personal agenda because this really is a great example of short independent film making i see a lot of short films and i must say if only all the shorts making the festival rounds were this good then the shorts business would have some serious legs
1	i gave this 9 stars out of a possible 10 if it had had just a teensy weensy bit more plot line i would have given it 10 br br nonetheless it is a highly interesting film br br judith playing a likable old floozy should have been given the oscar for her performance br br emily grace portraying alice whom i had never seen before also does an excellent job and has the sexiest body i think i've ever seen on film br br in a beat to heck old car alice has lit out from the n e for florida where she has a friend or maybe it's her sister i'm not sure and that's my fault not the film's and high hopes of going to college which she and her family can't really afford br br she seems rather vulnerable out there on the road alone and sure enough she encounters some slightly rough looking characters and shortly after that it's discovered there's a hole in one of her tires br br she is at a rest stop at the time and is assisted by a woman named sandra and her husband bill an older couple who are traveling in an rv br br they're going south to florida and take her under their wing but is everyone quite the way they're presenting themselves flashbacks and paranoia enter the story as our young heroine learns some new lessons about life
1	what alice found is the greatest movie that nobody's ever heard of i underestimated it when i heard of it and i though that it would all sex no plot and just really stupid but in reality it was really good they say all indie movies suck but this one and napoleon dynamite didn't suck i asked my friend who'd seen it before i did and she said that alice has all these three ways and you see all this nudity but no there is no three way that i remember and little nudity the movie did have a point and it taught me never trust hitchhikers i liked that in the end they got alice a little dolphin in the end on her way to flordia i totally suggest seeing this movie
1	fantastic film wow this is really a treat i can't believe that i discovered such a gem of a movie br br a pretty young girl traveling south to florida meets a friendly older couple with an rv after she has a flat at a rest stop however she learns that things aren't as they seem and the couple gets a bit creepy after she spends some time on the road with them br br everyone in it was just so perfect for their parts you just about believe that you are watching this happen in real life in front of you br br newcomer emily grace did a fantastic job as the really cute yet somewhat shy alice emily gives you the feeling that you can understand what she is experiencing and you can see just how she got into the situation that develops in the film i'm sure we'll be seeing emily in more films in the future br br contrary to what some others have said the lighting and photography in this were just perfect the editing was done well too just the right way to put together images of the highway to give you the feeling that you are traveling along with the cast on their road trip br br i didn't see it on the big screen but i can only urge everyone to go out and see it more films like this are exactly what we need br br sf
1	i wasn't expecting a whole lot when i rented this film as a lot of independent films seem to be a bit overrated these days well hollywood films too for that matter but this movie was fantastic really great it's too bad it didn't reach a huge audience because it's just superb i really love alice's determination it really makes me look upon my life as a gift and i see how privileged i am just to have an education but all of that aside this movie really proves that a good artist can tell a good story no matter what the budget it's an excellent film and everyone should watch it they will love it and definitely learn something from it i don't have to be roger ebert to know it's one of the best movies i've seen all year and certainly one of the most truthful
1	the vampire craze has in my opinion actually proved its worthiness of such infamous there were many sub genre films last year from a multitude of countries i've reviewed many and have a few more to discuss forgive my indulgence but since i've recognized the trend as a phenomenon which it is and coincidentally features my favorite horror staple i'm going to now move outside of north america for a bit and introduce you to hopefully meaning films that you didn't see as of now br br of the many effects of twilight is the creation of guy and girl vampire movies i hate this sexist which has the effect of polarizing an entire generation of fans into sides i think men are prone to hate meyer's work and its offspring to some degree because they feel some sense of betrayal that an archetype which was always theirs is now liberated women may be unlikely to enjoy future neutral pics since they grew up with ironclad expectations that were enforced four times we need more directors to create vampire films which either gender is capable of enjoying unequally if vampires are going to survive the craze and remain relevant cue thirst this korean film was directed by park chan wook of oldboy fame there are two ways to dissect it either it between gender expectations and is universally marginally enjoyable or it is a floundering mess that doesn't decide which target audience it prefers and should therefore be viewed by no one don't let me convince you that the film has no inclinations its director is a man whose fame is story driven action films its protagonist is male and has a passive aggressive interest in his lover more on this later still his desire for a woman he has known both before and after mortal life is not contrived and his attention is returned there is a male slant to this picture yet it is not so one sided that women could not enjoy it the same cannot be said of or new moon br br the plot follows an emile zola novel called which i have not read according to wikipedia the novel is about an affair that develops between a married woman and a single man he kills her husband during a fishing trip and begins dating her the two of them are incapable of having sex because they picture the dead man's body between them they are thus driven to insanity but care for the woman's ailing mother at the novel's conclusion they try to kill each other discover each other's plans and commit suicide br br now this nearly 150 year old french novel into modern south korea and you've got thirst chan wook doesn't embellish the story enough to elevate this to must see he often ignores many of his own ideas in favor of following his inspiration i think the most memorable parts are when his scruples are unhinged by narrative his use of the mother in law as the foil for their bad romance is just perfect see it br br the protagonist is originally a devout christian who becomes a vampire after a faulty blood transfusion following his volunteering for a new medicine he thus becomes the god he once was smitten with people flock to him and view him as a grand healer ok that's really cool and could have provided a great basis for his relationship yet this idea is given little idea screen time as he changes into a realistic christ figure who tries to maintain his virtue even though his lifestyle demands that he relinquish it instead of confronting the delusional people he instead blood out of comatose hospital patients br br let's continue with the christian allusion the woman tricks the vampire man into killing her husband her overprotective mother in law suffers a stroke and eventually warns friends of the family of her daughter in law's treachery finger the man kills her but resurrects her the two of them invite former friends over and the woman begins mercilessly harassing the humans the man says enough is enough and decides to drive to a beach and forces her into waiting for sunrise with him they both die but he for her crimes and his own but the film portrays her evil more prominently br br the woman character is a caricature and her profession offers an explanation for her behavior she is a housewife with no education while the man is a priest whose mortal life was restrictive vampirism magnifies their characteristics she becomes a monster like one would expect of someone without knowledge he becomes a demigod with a spirit his life is how atheists view themselves and her life is how religious people view those without divine intervention
1	this is most likely the best picture not many will see it presented a culture in a real way a must see for all who like indie and for those who don't i think this movie will draw more into the indie scene the acting was top notch the character of alice was so well with perfect this movie be brought to the mainstream i think it would do alice is the most real look at an element of our culture that i have seen since go ask alice a look that is untouched by the hollywood hand movies like this show young people that these things aren't glamorous but that they are real and compelling if you liked pieces of april you will love this one
1	at the story it is reality mixed with americana and very original br br emily grace is a young girl tired of her boring life working at a minimum wage job in new england her sleazy boss propositions her she quits and takes a little bit of cash from the register driving from new hampshire to miami florida is not a short trip and her ford escort dies out she then meets a personable older couple portrayed by judith and bill raymond they have an rv and graciously offer to help her out it isn't safe for a girl to be alone on the road especially i 95 br br emily grace is very realistic as alice and initially lets the judith character help her buy her decent clothes cosmetics etc at first it is a nice vacation for alice who hopes to hook up with her girlfriend who attends college in miami there is interesting cinematography as the trio drives the rv down to florida the rest stops bland scenery and eventually beautiful mountains of north carolina br br eventually there is something awry and the character apparently has fabricated stories about her daughter as well as her husband who now seems a bit sinister br br i will not spoil the outcome of this film but it ends positively as the audience waits in suspense this film reminded me a bit of spielberg's duel while it was initially not as menacing the moral of the story is you never know what people are thinking especially if you are driving cross country beware you will enjoy this film
1	judith as the scamming old whore is awesome emily grace the young girl is innocent and exciting as she learns whats going down excellent direction and camera story is dark and disturbing supporting cast is good shows what happens and can happen with a run of bad luck great independent film small cast pace is slow at first and then moves good a good movie to show your teen age daughter who has aspirations of leaving home early for the open road and adventure this movie film has a low budget feel to it but it works because of the low lifes and areas that these people move in i will never stop a rest stop again with out thinking of this movie and checking my tires before i go
1	i just saw this on cable i liked it it held my interest and the dramatic choices were good the old couple were very good and good at being subtly creepy the cinematography is not so great but the shabby video also adds to the sense of realism so its a trade off you know at times the girl would hit the new england accent to hard the accent would sort of come and go anyway i thought the film was well done overall though the storyline was strong and dramatic tension was held because you felt their was some subtle mystery going on even though things seemed mundane good job on a low budget another good suny purchase filmmaker way to go
1	a great performance by emily grace i stumbled upon this movie while browsing my satellite listings and was curious by the summary of the plot giving by my satellite service provider i was high entertained and had much compassion for the character alice played by emily grace the story had me guessing in what would happen to alice and was not predicable the overall story was refreshing and had some great twists to the supporting characters the ending of the story ended on a rather fair way i will purchase this dvd to add to my library i am a new fan of emily grace and i high anticipate in seeing more from her performances
1	at the first glance of this film the camera angles immediately make you think that this is a low budget film that will bore you to tears or make you press the stop button surprisingly the storyline comes forward and is played through the screen in a way that i feel most would relate to i scored this movie at 7 but like most would felt it should be a 10 you will understand as you watch it because its a rare thing for a film to be in touch with a persons feelings and how life should be shown by a tv set most films try to leave you in awe of their special effects twists and turns etc this film dealt a true hand showed a good film backed by an alabama style storyline that most would feel was a good waste of a couple of hours wish i had put the popcorn maker on after all well done
1	six out of seven people who took the time to comment on this movie have very positive responses the one negative review happens to reside or did on the first page of the movie's location in the imdb br br i found what alice found to be one of the best movies almost no one's heard of that i have seen this year it's 6 4 rating is misleading and may be more a function of the difficult subject matter than the quality of the movie who would think that a movie purportedly about truck stop prostitution would be worth seeing guess again br br for me alice was a positively gripping psychological thriller i was virtually on the edge of my seat the entire time it's a very credible story with a realistic script and is very well cast in a fairer world actress judith would win awards for keeping you guessing whether she was good or evil br br ignore the rating and see this terrific movie and by the way i wish there was a soundtrack album
1	there's nothing much to the story a young woman steals some money from the dreary vermont supermarket where she works decides to run away to florida where he has dreams of attending school with her friend julie and encounters an odd couple on the highway if you remember the elderly couple from rosemary's baby you have some idea of what these two are like bill has a comical face and is retired from the army sandra is an ex stripper now become a whore although we don't find this out at once they're affectionate helpful and full of common sense br br they more or less adopt the girl alice and promise to give her a ride in their elaborate rv although they are not driving directly to florida br br this is where the film could have gone one hundred percent wrong all the film makers had to do was turn the elderly couple into the personification of evil they would take the virginal alice handcuffed to the bed or whatever and sell her body to any driver who has a lot of money and likes rough sex alice would have had a heck of a time escaping with lots of aborted attempts before the final shootout but no the couple really is pretty nice and alice is far from virginal alice overhears sandra with a customer asks about the business and tries to turn a trick on her own bill prevents anything from happening and insists she do the job right if she's going to do it at all they don't talk her into it they guide her br br alice makes several hundred dollars which is several hundred dollars more than she had when she met the couple bill and sandra keep her money in the safe where customers aren't going to find it alice misunderstands she doesn't find whoring very pleasant work and she thinks she'll never be paid off because every time she asks to be dropped off sandra responds with what not here honey not in the middle of nowhere however after she is talked into handing her gun over to sandra the couple give her the money she wants and rather lovingly release her to continue her trip to florida br br you know what i found the most tragic moment in the film it had nothing to do with prostitution or thievery alice has been expecting to room with her friend julie after she arrives in miami julie is after all a legitimate student but when alice calls her friend from someplace in alabama to assure her she's on her way but will be late julie hesitates and says well my mother doesn't think you should room with us and to tell you the truth my roommate isn't cool on it either i invited you down sure but i thought it was just like a visit for a week or something go back to milford alice there is a long silence before alice hangs up br br only one shot is fired a few white frames of film and no one is hit tears appear only once nobody slugs anybody else no car explodes in a fireball no cop chases them down the interstate br br the direction is occasionally clumsy too much cross cutting between sandra trying to disarm alice and alice's hand holding the wobbling pistol there is hardly any musical score there is brief male and female nudity and it's awkward as it's probably supposed to be alice isn't unattractive but she is not either she sports asiatic eyes a kind of robust version of molly parker the cinematography looks cheap and the colors are washed out the direction is a straightforward narrative with a few illuminating flashbacks nothing is wasted and it was all evidently shot around connecticut the city sticks in my mind because i drove through it after one of its floods and remember the cars caked with a film of mud all the way up to the door handles br br i don't know exactly what alice found i dread even thinking that the answer to the riddle is that she found herself the acting isn't bad at all judith is better than that it's definitely worth seeing a quiet orderly film that treats the audience like adults
1	this is a very amazing movie the characters seemed so realistic to me it was hard to believe they weren't real people being from the south i thought judith character seemed especially real and as everyone else has mentioned she does an outstanding acting job the characters are not beautiful and look nothing like the average hollywood stars their imperfect bodies and personalities seem so much more natural and real br br one reviewer mentioned that the main character alice had no good reason to run away from home which is true she didn't have any moral or upstanding reason to run away such as escaping child abuse etc i thought that she was just fed up with dead end jobs in a working class life and wanted to flee down to florida where her friend lived the appealing and privileged life of a college student in miami the actress shows alice's confusion uncertainty and questioning turn into and willingness to take control of her life with impressive naturalness the film also shows how alice is trapped in situations with seemingly no options causing her to panic take action and reach out for help br br at first the grainy filming style put me off and made me think that it was a very low budget or homemade movie but in actuality it is very well done the home movie quality really makes you feel like you are there with the characters a part of their rv trip across the country this is definitely a film worth seeing although i don't quite understand all the descriptions of it as a heart warming coming of age tale it is rather vulgar and disturbing at times even if it is not completely sad in the end
1	while i can understand some of the points made regarding the cinematography i thought a more purposeful approach would have better supported the low fi home movie feel i must say that i thought the script and acting of what alice found were excellent dean bell has crafted a real gem that judith charms with character driven delight her performance of sandra is a pleasure unfolding alternately as diabolical and romantic we are at once intrigued and repulsed by her actions and never given more information than is necessary her's and the supporting cast's efforts meet bell's post modern fairy tale with arms wide open emily grace's alice is infused with a eyed magic she seems to mold like clay before us morphing into some sort of beautiful lost beast by the end we are at odds with words as she is saying goodbye to her mother kudos also should be doled out to jane lincoln taylor whose mother provides the right amount of tragic historic weight and justin parkinson whose shy first time john sam provides one of the sweetest if not most awkward sex scenes in film bell has created a first rate story and assembled a plethora of talent to make it
1	from the director of oldboy comes this slick vampire flick kang ho song stars as a priest who is accidentally changed into a vampire while being cured of a deadly mysterious virus his vampirism and priesthood are quite at conflict but he is able to survive by robbing the hospital's blood bank and unconscious patients who might not mind some blood because of his supposedly miraculous survival he comes into the lives of ha kyun shin's family shin has cancer and his mother believes that song can cure it unfortunately song's vampirism raises his levels of lust to a height where he can't help but fall for shin's young wife ok vin kim kim is intensely interested in the world of vampirism and the two become lovers the film from there goes in weird directions that i think one should experience for themselves what really should be mentioned is chan wook park's mastery of the medium of cinema my god i've rarely seen such a masterful visual artist at the peak of his powers the major flaw of the film is that it's a little incoherent especially near the beginning park is interested in telling his stories mostly in the visuals which can be difficult to follow at times but when it works man does it fly the film is also perversely hilarious the final sequence easily one of the best of the decade is simultaneously heartbreaking and delightfully ridiculous ok vin kim should become a worldwide star after this film she gives one of the best performances of the year
1	it's a sad state in corporate hollywood when a movie surprises you by not taking routes you've been seeing in the movie house since day one i had literally no idea how this film was going to end because it went left when i expected it to go right when i expected a zag etc this could have easily unraveled into generic suspense thriller or depressing white trash drama but it stayed a course all its own till the end it is a sad story though not because of what happens to alice but because of the sad world that surrounds her and leads her down this path br br the plot has a quiet dignity of form that's usually reserved for theater but the pacing could use some tightening up either way it's a very good film and for some reason i suspect sour grapes from those who have scored this one low
1	having worked professionally with young girls on the run i found this film surprisingly authentic i would never have found it had a friend not loaned his videotape there are classic themes here coming of age mother daughter estrangement the limited choices of the underprivileged who is the good samaritan tragedy is in every life the many layers or relationships flashbacks are meaningful when alice acquires a gun we know she has some familiarity with how to use it and it does not end in cliché the cast really sells their roles it is adult material and the audio is a bit too grainy allow it 15 minutes to so to draw you in
1	this is a low budget well acted little gem alice a small town massachusetts teenager fed up with her existence takes to the road to escape her mother who flips burgers and her own job as a check out in a super market she sets out for florida and to stay with her wealthier high school friend who is a freshman at miami after her car suspiciously breaks down on the and she loses all her money she ends up with a retired couple in an rv who also happen to be traveling to florida the couple brilliantly played by judith ivy and bill raymond are overly hospitable and it turns out a prostitute and and her pimp slowly alice is lured into truck stop prostitution as the rv meanders down the in the general direction of florida through intermittent flashbacks we learn a little more about alice and her desire to leave tiny milford we also see the couple in a new light and their life and the choices made by the couple and alice all seem quite credible an excellent well made film that you will think about when it is over
1	writer director dean bell offered many surprises and engaging moments in this modest yet compelling road film his dialogue was snappy and his use of very short flashback sequences was especially effective in the film's narrative structure br br at the heart of the film is the character of alice who is running away from her new england past in a desperate effort to get to florida along the way she travels with a pair of eccentrics bill and sandra who incredibly make the attempt to groom alice as a prostitute earning money at truck stops br br as a newcomer performing in her first screen role emily grace as alice is sensational there is not a false note in her character choices but the film is worth watching above all for the wily yet sensitive character of sandra as masterfully created by judith there is an especially sly subtext to virtually every moment in which is on camera as a viewer i found myself stopping the tape hitting rewind and reviewing her scenes in order to attempt to discern the psychological subtleties br br the film raises the following question about the characters are bill and sandra good or are they an evil pair of dickensian predators preying upon the youthful alice one of the strengths of the film is that it never quite fully answers that question alice seems more self confident than she started out as a result of her experiences with bill and sandra but is she really a better person br br part comedy part road picture and part coming of age drama this carefully crafted film succeeds in involving us on many levels
1	until i did a web search on what alice found i didn't realize that the name of the film is embedded in the title of one of lewis carroll's books the book's complete title is through the looking glass and what alice found there br br the alice of the film comes from a background quite different from that of lewis carroll's alice her fresh and assertive character however is similar the movie alice begins as a young woman in new hampshire who steals money from her ass patting boss and takes off for miami vaguely planning to study marine biology and play with dolphins she encounters a middle aged couple in a motor home the husband's retired from the military who rescue her from a strange man at a roadside stop and from her car's breakdown perhaps caused by their br br as it turns out the couple is heavily involved in truck stop prostitution and see sweet young alice as a promising recruit the wife played by judith in a performance worthy of some big award buys alice sexy clothing and shows her how to apply hot makeup initially alice passively accepts her ministrations and with the couple's instructions does several tricks the encounter shown in the most detail is quite different from most cinematic sex but may be typical of what most often happens in real life the man is shy and deferential and apologizes for finishing too fast br br what's wonderful about alice and different from her prototypes from clarissa to sister carrie is that she learns from her experiences and asserts herself this is how things really are prostitution is everywhere people are neither all good or all bad alice leaves the motor home with her well earned money and a feeling of mutual respect
1	what alice found was a pleasant discovery as written and directed by a dean bell this is combination of a road movie with a cautionary tale as well as a voyage of discovery br br if you haven't seen the film maybe you should stop reading here br br alice is a case study of a young woman that wants to break away from the unhappy life she leads in a new england town her pretext for leaving is going to join her best friend who is away studying at a miami university alice is the product of a single mother's home one that is struggling to make ends meet in sharp contrast with the life of ease her friend seems to inhabit in flashbacks we get to see alice's life before going on the road br br alice like her namesake in alice in wonderland embarks in a trip to the unknown that life hasn't prepared her for the highways of america are full of predators in search of the weak and innocent alice meets with disaster when her car breaks down the road and a friendly southern couple come to her assistance when a strange man approaches in the darkness with the excuse he wants to help her sandra and bill convince her to come along in their plush r v on her way down south br br nothing has prepared alice for what this couple turns out to be after all in her sheltered life she hasn't dealt with what sandra and bill her new benefactors do during the overnight stays at the rest stops in the american highways it comes as a shock to her the realization that the kind sandra is nothing but a prostitute that plies her trade among the truck driving populace one meets in those places br br alice brilliantly played by emily grace is a study in how the young woman awakens to the new reality she can't escape in fact sandra makes it seem so easy that alice tries her luck at the oldest profession on earth in order to raise some badly needed money br br judith gives a tremendous performance as sandra ms is perfect as the seemingly normal woman one wouldn't suspect she is doing the nasty with clients she and bill find along the route they travel ms is amazing when she reveals the truth about her life to an accusing alice as the husband bill raymond is good in his portrayal as the husband that in reality is a procurer br br under the excellent direction of mr dean bell the film is not afraid to go to places mainstream films dare not to go congratulations to this director who has written a plausible story and has gathered the perfect cast to play it for our benefit
1	just finished this impressively nutty affair and whilst i can't say as it was as good as i had hyped it up to be in my mind it was still an effective and at time pretty nasty piece of brain warped and misogyny fuelled j trash its story tells of a poor gal searching for her sister who winds up getting raped and drugged by yakuza scumbags and the helpful lady doctor who sets out to avenge her doing so in bizarrely gruesome fashion after a similar bout of rape and drugging oh yeah and there's a bit of straightforward sex in there as well sadly its all soft core as per the japanese disapproval of below the belt nudity but is minimal in fact only really noticeable in a hilarious blow job scene although writer director kazuo komizu fails in creating an especially compelling tale this is at least pretty scuzzy stuff diving early on into the well of filth with a pretty unsettling rape made worse by the fact that the gal looks kinda young though i'm pretty sure she was of age also for the most part this is pretty professional looking stuff maybe not stylish but it has a certain flair and the content is handled reasonably well with particular kudos for largely avoiding having to employ much things are mostly sex rape based for about two thirds of the sharp runtime and its pretty watchable if you groove to such fare it gets a bit numbing after a while but the ladies are easy on the eye and it is reasonably harsh at times the music from takahashi is occasionally effective though hardly a key part of the show it does in a few spots complement the action neatly at any rate enough for me to notice it more important are the effects by which pack an impressively splattery punch when they appear helped out by the lunatic nature of the climactic shenanigans things even pull to a curiously affecting ending sure it ain't a weepy or anything but for a film so gutter level for most of its runtime it is relatively poignant altogether this is a pretty entertaining diversion for mean spirited trash fans especially those with a taste for japanese adventures i could really have done with a longer revenge section and more gore also perhaps more of a point brains but hey it kept me watching and it is pretty nicely stocked with memorably wtf moments so if you dig this sort of degenerate junk probably worth your while just maybe don't expect the second coming
1	if they gave out awards for the most depraved and messed up movies in the world japanese cinema would clean up their exploitation cinema wipes the floor with most other contenders the most extreme examples being absolutely jaw dropping exercises in bad taste nauseating gore freakish weirdness and misogynistic sex br br guts of a beauty is a prime example of such whacked out filth offering discerning viewers just over an hour of full on debauchery and gratuitous violence topped off with some very insane j splatter goodness br br the film opens with a young woman named whose search for her missing sister has led her into the hands of some nasty yakuza who proceed to rape her and shoot her full of strong dope called angel rain after the gangsters have finished having their fun with the poor woman she manages to escape and flees to a nearby hospital where sexy psychologist megumi attempts to help however the distraught and confused ends up throwing herself off the hospital roof turning into a water melon as she hits the ground at least that what it looked like to me br br seeking to avenge death lures a member of the yakuza to her office and whilst jacking him off him into attacking his fellow gang members after goes slash happy with a knife in the yakuza hq he is severely beaten and stabbed forced to tell of his meeting with and then hacked into itty bitty pieces br br the psychologist is then captured by the gang subjected to a spot of forced buggery whilst simultaneously being forced to give head to a yakuza slut and injected with angel which she promptly it the gangsters then plonk her body in the boot of their car along with the remains of ready for disposal br br before they can ditch the corpses however the super dope has an unexpected effect on she returns from the dead as a monster with a toothy penis and a ravenous gash and hellbent on revenge sets about killing the yakuza one by one this leads to some memorable scenes of outrageously gory splatter including a messy head a man being suffocated by the monster's oozing vagina and a woman being screwed to death by its giant gnashing phallus br br as you can most likely tell from the above synopsis this is some crazy screwed up stuff and probably not to the taste of most sane people but for those weirdos who have long tired of mainstream cinema and are already well versed in asian excess guts of a beauty should prove to be delightfully diverting and deviant fun br br 7 5 out of 10 rounded up to 8 for imdb
1	kazuo komizu strikes again with entrails of a beautiful woman the sequel to entrails of a virgin this time around the story is based around a psychologist megumi who decides to take on the yakuza to avenge the suicide of a doped up and raped patient that winds up on her doorstep one day when she gets over her head and the yakuza capture her she learns their insidious plat of doping up girls and selling them into slavery it apparently ends badly when she overdoses from the cocaine but she soon melds with another body to be disposed of to dum dum – super slime this he she it makes mince meat out of the yakuza and saves the really br br well it is better than entrails of a virgin but not by much most of the film a whopping 67 minutes consists of rape and sex with fogging and the usual ho hum stuff almost towards the end we finally get our gore groove on with a few cool sequence like an alien inspired penis monster through the stomach scene and a gooey but it still suffers from a hyper low budget feel that makes it fun but can't elevate it from z grade soft horror core fare
1	guts of a beauty is a bit better than its predecessor guts of a virgin although this film isn't really a sequel in the sense that it has absolutely nothing to do with the first installment i did find beauty to be a little stronger and better put together all the way around than virgin but then again that's not really saying much br br beauty starts off as a pretty rough and straight faced exploit film a couple of yakuza cats are holding a young woman prisoner and begin gang raping her in pretty brutal fashion as this nastiness is going on the head guy tells the girl that they did the same to her sister and sold her into slavery in africa and that they're gonna do the same to her they then shoot her up with some drugs and rape her some more she somehow gets away and ends up at a clinic where the nurse there listens to her sob story the ends up freaking out from the stress of her prior experience and commits suicide the clinic worker moved by the young lady's story decides to take revenge on the gang by seducing one of the lower level guys and trying to hypnotize him to make him kill the yakuza leaders this whole plan backfires so now ms vigilante clinic worker gets exposed to much the same treatment that our original got only worse some pretty rough butt rape ensues along with the pre requisite gang rape she too is drugged but the drug has a strange side effect on our seemingly hapless victim it turns her into a raging blood demon no sh t that's what really happens this is when beauty really takes off with some pretty f cking insane kill scenes including a very classy chest burst rape that looks like a cross between alien and a bad porn and my favorite a head engulfed by demon vagina kill complete with demon vagina slime that has to be seen to be believed br br definitely some promising stuff going on in guts of a beauty but still very disjointed feeling beauty almost feels like two different films being forced together in a non compatible way still i have to give the film credit the rape scenes are very rough and misogynistic and the kill scenes are just totally off the wall a solid 7 10 for another crazy j horror classic
1	i won't bore you with any synopsis chances are you already know them and hopefully you are already familiar with park chan work br br i strongly disagree with some of the other commentators in saying that park has not moved on from the vengeance trilogy blah blah blah because you know what he has the vengeance trilogy were different from each other in style to begin with how can you even compare the and subtlety of sympathy for mr vengeance with the frantic and extravagance of oldboy park chan wook has incredible style but his movies don't all share the same style that has been true and remains true with the release of thirst br br thirst is an incredible picture it literally has everything you want in a movie jaw dropping violence tasteful gore great humour incredible suspense and even very realistic sex scenes the story is so crazy that at no point can you guess what will happen next i'm so happy to say that park is back in top form with this fantastic dark comic vampire love story watch it as soon as you can
1	this movie i would like to say was completely great i can see how many people would think that it's just a shocker film this isn't completely untrue but it's as much of shocker fiction as chuck books are one of my favorite movies of all time no is a certain type of crudely made movie that you can have just about any reaction to it's scary funny silly gross full of off the top material and to some people arousing the fist time i saw this it was with my friend and his mother had brought it home for him to see it he said it was just some screwed up japanese movie but i saw so much more of it it's badly made yes but it has a certain type of poignancy as to be beautiful too as the director says himself this is a shocker movie made for a certain reason its like atrophy if you leave audiences soft then the entire human race is going to be soft i think this is a good philosophy and i agree with it one hundred percent no is the type of movie that gang rapes the hell out of fitness yogurt and all of this new wave stuff
1	i know that guts of a beauty and guts of a virgin are crap films and are hated by many but i'm gonna put myself under the bus here and say i like 'em especially guts of a beauty aka entrails of a beautiful woman watched it the other night with some folks at the pad and i was surprised how well it actually went over br br entrails is the type of madcap cheapo horror softcore sleaze epic that you really just don't find too much of outside of asia specifically japan in this case it's basically a rape revenge flick with a reincarnated monster instead of some silly shotgun murders or a motorboat propelled noose or even a ticked off daddy with a chainsaw that stuff's just silly wouldn't you rather see a monster with a hilarious little snake monster for a br br perversion factor this movie is high in graphic sometimes wacky rape sequences fake pop shots and satisfying masturbation and monster sex sequences that you oughta like if you like corman nuggets like humanoids from the deep i dunno maybe that's a stretch but i personally didn't think entrails of a beautiful woman let me down as an avid fan of asian sleaze and bizarro b pics br br yeah i know sometimes some of my recommendations are not always everyone's cuppa tea even for those of you who like the same kind of garbage as i do but i stand behind this one 8 10
1	entrails of a beauty features a gang of yakuza blokes gang raping a woman and they drug her and later on she dies and returns as this big slimy monster with a huge penis that has sharp teeth and also a big sloppy vagina crazy film but not very good the gore doesn't come until the last 20 minutes and most of the film is a standard soft core sex with lots of rape worth checking out unfortunately heavily censored optically and nowhere near as much fun as entrails of a virgin
1	i recently saw episodes 1 4 and now i can't wait for 5 6 to be available i've heard they are coming soon log seems destined to become a cult hit among the university crowd and all others with a taste for quirky comedy it's obvious that the budget was small but the care taken in crafting the script is quite evident in fact the simplicity of the show allowed me appreciate the writing and the acting more is a master of the put down i just wish i could remember all the best ones for later use on unsuspecting co workers let's just say that if you don't like log i'll personally see to it that your undies get extra
1	i first heard about log when i was on the for the local science fiction convention craig linden banks sophie banks and brian came out to show the video and give a couple of panels on making tv on a shoestring budget i have to say that i was very pleased when i finally had the chance to see the show comparisons with red dwarf are inevitable since the first seasons of red dwarf were also shot on a low budget although log has to set some kind of record for the least amount of money spent per minute of air time and thus have to make up for the lack of eye candy with good writing and acting linden banks who plays chief petty officer blather does a particularly good job of presenting an earnest but clueless persona br br original idea was for the story to be told in two minute interstitials shown in between other shows over the course of an evening although for some reason space didn't get how cool an idea this would have been and so the interstitials were all rolled up into a one hour show which space normally showed in two half hour episodes the existing dvd doesn't include episode 3 which premiered at con in seattle in 2005 or episode 4 which was previewed at in vancouver in 2006 but if you're in touch with your local fannish community you may catch news of a showing somewhere near you
1	after the death of all senior officers commander craig scott of the laundry and morale corps finds himself promoted to command of an intergalactic spaceship owned by corporation its chief mission is to search for planets and of course long term coffee markets br br craig scott and his second in command chief blather find themselves ill prepared for command except insofar as they are fully able to keep the crew's undies clean which is not to diminish the importance of clean undies especially when incompetent commanders cause those same undies to be well soiled on a regular basis br br the episodes are presented as a series of short 2 3 minutes reports by the commander to earth the humor is a mix of wry deadpan and outrageous physical comedy think yes minister meets red dwarf but on a shoe string budget all the usual plot devices of sci fi are here aliens nuclear weapons computer malfunctions but each is improved by the fresh lemony scent of high grade laundry br br log is definitely low budget but the somewhat cheesy effects and props fit the absurd premise of the show remember those hilarious hockey helmets they wore on the old battlestar galactica with the brand name still visible okay there's a lot of that in log but it's cute br br log ain't high art but that's not what it's trying to be it's just a little bit of off kilter fun it does a good job of being that
1	a kooky but funny bit of diversion you kind of have to see it from the beginning to follow what's happening but each report to earth has it's own little joke pretty good special effects for a very low budget sci fi t v show it's fun to watch sort of in the vein of red dwarf but even more low budget for someone who's just coming in in the middle of one of the episodes what you have to realize is that these guys are all incompetent because they've been moved up the ladder of command because the other officers died also the main guys are from the laundry corps which is why they have laundry in everything if you like red dwarf you'll probably like this slightly different t v concept in that all you see is the report each day br br it would be better if this were explained more not just in the very beginning of the first episode but then it was pretty hard to figure out what had happened in red dwarf too if you hadn't been told
1	visconti's death in venice qualifies as one of the most beautiful films ever made while watching we acknowledge we are in the hands of a visionary genius endlessly opulent death in venice surely is but in other important ways it's an unsatisfying film thomas mann writes with contempt and from a distance of von literary career and output of his imperious manner his layer upon layer of programmed self conscious behavior when appears and obsession arises it's evident that hasn't the slightest idea who he is beneath his gilded age trappings and carefully lived life in fact upon seeing the ' as mann sometimes calls him splits in two no 1 absorbs the sight of a beautiful 14 year old boy then attempts to intellectually process the giddy jolt in blood pressure as he would a work of art a work of art but no 2 emerges as a stalker who takes control of then replaces the rational no 1 like the original his sexual doppelganger is mortified to make human contact with the object of his obsession and thus remains a far off ideal thomas mann has no mercy for this game every shred of self knowledge comes too strong and too late the excitement of sexual flush is too great to resist that venice is gripped by disease means nothing to except that his game now has higher stakes when he finally whispers beneath his breath 'i love you ' he knows that all is lost and the abyss awaits is any of this filmable perhaps and visconti creates a visual feast impossible to look away from but there are errors he and dirk bogarde create as sympathetic mann again did not pov dominates the film and we are expected to identify but nowhere on screen is there a man being torn apart from within bogarde between the sublimely controlled and the ridiculously temperamental with ease but what's underneath reactive performance has no mann writes a character who is in his imagination doing the dance of the seven veils all too aware of the consequences such freedom invites yet unable unwilling to resist also visconti's screenplay creates a character not in the original alfred a friend of to dramatize mann's discussion of art and artists these scenes are badly written disasters and the actor who portrays alfred is difficult to watch also visconti's is a gilded age teutonic composer which i think works for the film and the symphonies of substitute for novels great music unfortunately is badly recorded and very badly played so death in venice as visconti hands it to us is not the complete success it might have been but as a purely visual experience its power cannot be denied all students of film especially cinematography will want to take a look
1	luchino visconti has become famous to the world after his marvelous production the leopard movie fans got to know the style of the director who introduced himself as one among the post war new realists an aristocrat who developed his individual free thinking and consequently expressed them as an artist however when applied to this movie morte a venezia based upon the novel by thomas mann it's a slightly different story br br the entire film is at first view so unique so psychological and so much influenced by the various thoughts of an artist both director and main character gustav von that it seems to be unwatchable for many viewers therefore such opinions about the movie rose as being too slow unendurable or endless boredom why the reason seems to lie in a significant view widespread nowadays good movie is parallel to flawless action here it would be appropriate to say good movie is parallel to no action as a matter of fact everyone would be able to say one sentence about the whole movie's content and that would suffice all that we find in morte a venezia has a sense of vague reality filled with both and shallowness that appear to be significant for the sake of each single moment and it is so when we notice the psychedelic scenes in venice when we see gustav at the railroad station when we are supplied with his intensely emotional memories the insight into his decaying mind is sometimes so intense that the only way for the viewer to go on watching the film is to do his her best to feel and experience rather than see and think all is doomed to fade to wither like flowers on meadow when their time comes in other words all has a sense of loss and death without many events or even dialogs as a result it is quite unlikely that you will get the idea of the movie after a single viewing it must be seen more than twice with the mind that is constantly open if you'll like it or not that's a different story very personal one br br the artistic values are the factor that is noticeable at first sight and stays with us throughout beauty as something very meaningful for the main character that appears to come and leave rest as something he's heading for so badly and which comes to him in the most unexpected way feeling that he finds in a teenage boy who appears as a model of all the dreams and desires as a forbidden fruit of homosexual lust which vanishes the costume designer piero does a splendid job in this movie through lots of wonderful wardrobe he supplies us with a very realistic view of 1911 when the action takes place the cinematographer pasqualino de santis provides us with a terrific visual experience that can be called a real feast for the eyes and in the background comes gustav music the composer whose life inspired thomas mann to introduce the character br br the performances are top notch particularly from dirk bogart as the main character gustav von who wants a rest after hard artistic job and vainly attempts to find it in crowded venice for the majority of the film we have a great insight into his thoughts feelings and acts of anger exhaust and despair though sometimes depressing he keeps us on the right track till the end not losing hope for the less tragic end andersen depicts the model of decadent homosexual desire but also a model of beauty and purity that appears to last pretty short adieu it was all too short says the main character a great though very controversial job is done by mark burns as a sort of super ego alfred with whom gustav polemics about such ideals as beauty justice hope human dignity for alfred beauty belongs to the senses how freudian yet how dangerous the idea might be and ever present in artistic italian movies of the time here as an elegant lady from poland mother br br memorable moments indeed constitute the movie's strong points yet not all viewers will find them unforgettable they similarly to the whole odd movie require much effort to get onto the right track in director's individual ego and within the four walls of his psyche among such scenes i consider the beach sequence pretty important particularly the way gustav observes the physical distance accurately represents the lack of courage to come closer i also appreciate the shots when gustav is sitting in the gondola and the city's view moves in the background how memorably that may raise existential thoughts of transfer aren't we people a sort of in the world in the journey that life is br br in the end i must tell you one important thing i had found morte a venezia extremely weird until i started to look deeper at what the director is really trying to convey then every scene turned out to be meaningful in its interpretation with which you don't have to agree i hardly agree with anything the main character does but you should at least tolerate this as something the author badly wanted to say listen to his voice allow him for a few words in one page of reality br br therefore there is a long way towards understanding the film since not many movies like that were being made in 1971 and are being made now paradoxically it seems that we are all bound to have the right feelings about this film in the long run similarly to that we are all bound to experience once a strange unavoidable usually unexpected reality that death is 7 10
1	this is a ravishing yet spare adaption of thomas mann's novelette of the same title dirk bogarde gives his finest screen performance he himself believed so the dialogue is minimal so his face must register the nuances of his anguished character a composer a writer in the novelette the only major alteration who travels to venice in 1910 visconti revels in the portrayal of beauty it's passing and the whiff of decay beneath trained as an opera director visconti blends music and imagery seamlessly in his finest film since the leopard another stunning film which greatly influenced coppola's sicily in the godfather
1	thirst br br i found that this film was beautifully crafted the cinematography was well above excellent i though almost any frame could be frozen and you would have yourself an exquisite photograph the use of color stands out most in many instances the camera was gliding through the scene and the work was flawless br br park chan direction was fantastic he had me believing unwaveringly in his far fetched universe there were several touches of verbal and visual humor of a dark nature that just added another depth to the picture as a whole br br the acting i would not call outstanding but it suited the film and worked well enough br br for me the only place where this film lacked was in the story at times i will not lie the goings on between characters just did not make sense sometimes the story flow was clunky overall i was disappointed with the subdued narrative and i felt it ran a little too long br br but i still recommend this film for its vision its visual flourish its dark humor and at the end of the day it is an interesting film even if imperfect 9 10
1	relish every moment of this languorous spectacle with music to match 5th is gorgeous but listen to the vocal portion of the 3rd symphony so beautifully utilised in this film there are many aspects to this film but the main subject is the overpowering force of beauty its spontaneous nature absence of logic for love and adoration i am also an ardent fan of bogarde and believe he was rarely as wonderful try him in the servant however note i multiple viewings
1	br br this film is a summary of visconti's the decadence of nobility death aesthetic search homosexuality all mingled with melancholic mastery slow paced just to make you to contemplate all its beauty which is in the music and the images as well as in the story this is the type of film we are not allowed to enjoy anymore brave deeply personal and intelligent the genuine fruit of a genius like visconti
1	morte a venezia is one of my favorite movies more than beautiful it's really sublime it gives you important aesthetic experiences it's a masterpiece i also recommend the novel luchino visconti is a genius
1	death in venice is a movie i need to see once every ten years it is always different because i am always at a different stage of life br br the movie is about art beauty longing death some scenes are painfully slow others simply annoying to watch especially if you have seem them before yet i would not want to miss a single frame the music is repetitive the main theme of the from fifth is used again and again yet i would not want to miss a single note when the last image fades the last note dies i am left numb and exhausted br br this movie is a monument to film making as with most really good movies the saturday evening crowd should stay away from it and this is simply the best movie ever
1	caution spoilers br br although this film moved a bit slow at times the brilliant scenery richness of the characters and powerful themes make morte a a rewarding experience i have not read thomas mann's book but i am certain that visconti's visual splendour musical score and powerful evocation of conflict and desire must do it justice br br the study of gustav von alludes to the human tendency to rationalize and our emotions behaviour and passion this tendency is demonstrated in the scene in germany between alfred and gustav when alfred describes music as being both mathematical i e and emotional this conflict arises again in the scene where young is alone playing in lobby of the hotel and gustav recalls his visit to a bordello where he is drawn to a prostitute who plays the same song in his flashback after paying the prostitute gustav is clearly physically seized by the consequences of his actions this reaction acts as a reminder of the moral reaction to the temptations that represents br br ultimately gustav is forced to make his biggest decision stay in venice and resign himself to his lust and temptations or flee venice to save his own life his early attempt to flee venice at the train station resulted in a futility and foreshadows the outcome of prolonging his stay br br complimenting the captivating character interaction visconti's powerful scenery especially of venice at dawn and the final scene of walking into the water and pointing to the horizon renders this film a true masterpiece
1	if all movies had to be destroyed and only one could be spared death in venice would have to be it it is a monument in movie history much criticized for being slow boring and too obvious in stating it's point an old man discovers beauty in a young boy and is tragically destroyed first mentally then physically we should appreciate this movie for what it is a was shot over 30 years ago and it portrays a period even further back at the beginning of the twentieth century br br life was slow then compared to now people were supposed to behave in a certain way hiding their true emotions even from themselves director visconti and dirk bogarde the leading actor admirably succeed in showing how the aging composer von discovers his romantic interest in a young boy for a man like von in his time this must have been a shock too powerful to come to terms with we see his inner struggle mostly on the face of bogarde against the beautiful backdrop of venice and accompanied by the most wonderful music composed by gustav br br this movie is slow there is no denying it no special effects car chases or fights to keep the audience pinned to their seats no perverted sex scenes either the interaction between man and boy is limited to stolen glances from afar and the occasional smile br br so basically nothing much happens in this movie not if you want your senses to be hit like a base drum if you want them to be played like the strings of a violin in a romantic concerto this is the movie to do it
1	the greatest tragedy man faces is that capable so often of the divine he settles for the banal from this fact does so much great tragedy emerge death in venice is one of very few films with the patience and bravery to tackle this fact head on it confronts the human eye with beauty and inspiration in their two most inevitable human forms self denial and decay undoubtedly this is the greatest film to have no discernable influence on mainstream cinema its refined look echoey sound mixture of languages and highly challenging themes being impossible to copy as much an accident of its peculiar production as of the vision of its director the central performance at once rigid aroused and vulnerable in the face of expression and decadence highlights bogarde as if not the best british actor of his generation then certainly the most adventurous able to hold on to sympathy as his desires take him over and interesting despite the endless close ups and score playing above him not one for a friday night with your girlfriend but certainly ok if you want to explore the limits of human spiritual limitation
1	a film to divide its viewers just criticism points at its funereal pace over used snap zooms and persistent lingering gazes between the protagonists advocates point to dirk mighty performance and pasqualino de benchmark photography of venice br br taken altogether this might suggest an indulgent romanticised for the nobility of homosexual love at a time 1971 when it was becoming legal in fact visconti has succeeded in making a richer more complex film than such a single issue vehicle he has knit his ideas foibles and all into a meticulously paced arc br br inside this does indeed sit the central performance of rather than a simpering johnny come lately gay he manages to give a pathetic composer beaten by tragedy and misunderstood integrity who sees salvation in his mesmerised staggering around an increasingly hellish venice after the boy is a straight metaphor for the artist's tenacity for truth in the teeth of the dilettante mob and it is explicitly cut with such a flashback br br music is possibly a little over used although it is well appropriated the italian overdub is a wearing anachronism but thankfully the acting doesn't suffer too much 7 10
1	his music especially what we hear of it here is very slow from around the time of bach's death composers had been working out ways of making music progress at a slower and slower pace over a century later wagner and then wrote pieces that are about as slow as it is possible for music to get of course one can cheat by writing a 4 4 march and then a tempo of say 1 but that tempo wouldn't be the correct tempo wagner and wrote music that is properly played at a snail's pace given that the slowness in no sense sounds too slow snail's pace is the wrong expression a critic wrote of a famous wagner conductor he doesn't beat time he beats eternity for all i know this was meant as a compliment br br i get the feeling that around the early 1970s directors worked out how to make the slowest possible films there's death in venice and there's solyaris i much prefer the former for one thing solyaris steps over the line or some line and becomes soporific death in venice is gripping from beginning to end not much happens but it all happens in the right sequence at the right pace with photography you can get lost in br br another way of cheating with music by the way is to write something that doesn't really have a tempo at all such music sounds slow but is really just just as many films feel slow because they lack rhythm and form death in venice isn't one of them beautiful in every respect it will remind you of the timelessness and of quality you need no theoretical knowledge to respond to visconti's mastery as you do to respond to a lesser director's incompetence it's a great work
1	i'm not sure where to start with this in short it was a disappointing movie having taught the novella i was aware that it would be a hard story to turn into a movie the movie has a couple of interesting lines mainly between alfred and but it doesn't represent the debate on art that basically shapes the novella br br for one i was expecting an older and a younger in the book is fourteen but he is described as pure ideal innocent whereas in the movie he reeks of sexuality and is a tease he is an accomplice to he always looks back at him almost in the book it is who steals glances at the boy as for i imagined something closer to the professor turned clown in the blue angel based on a story by thomas mann's brother heinrich than this forty year old with hardly any gray hair in all fairness i do think that dirk bogarde did a good job but either someone else should have done that or he should have made to look older at the beginning br br i know that the discovery of homosexuality is important to the story but the movie minimizes the talk about art and the duality between the apollonian and inspirations and focuses instead on obsession of and does not justify it i liked the fact that music was used because ultimately he did inspire mann to write his story i'm not sure turning into a musician was a particularly good move or the creation of alfred who i don't remember in the book br br and one thing that really got to me was the sound and how it did not match the actors' lips i was wondering if it was dubbed because i expected it to be in italian but then i remembered that each italian movie i have watched has this problem it just bothers me because these directors fellini is the other person i'm thinking of are supposed to epitomize perfection in italian cinema and here are their characters laughing without sound then you hear a noise that doesn't correspond to their faces i'm thinking of the scenes when almost collapses and starts laughing this scene could should have been the strongest but it was annoying instead
1	if you love chan wook park you know what to expect his films are brutal poetic tragic and artistic with splashes of very grim humor thirst is clearly park's style and i loved every second of it from the cinematography every shot is gorgeous and creative to the story which blends shakespearean tragedy murderous love gothic horror and layered character drama the characters are complex and there is plenty of moral ambiguity to go around even the most sociopathic character evokes sympathy the direction is restrained and the performances are nuanced like sympathy for mr vengeance there are too many subtleties to take in on the first viewing chan wook park is an intelligent bold consistently surprising filmmaker it's unpredictable scenes go from brutal and heart wrenching to laugh out loud hilarious in an instant this is closer to lady vengeance then sympathy for mr vengeance as far as being over the top and comical but like lady vengeance it's incredibly rich thought provoking and rewarding br br if you like beautifully told vampire stories let the right one in or are a fan of chan wook park seeing thirst should be obvious easily one of the best films of 2009
1	as others that have commented around the web i'm a 130 pilot in the coast guard having said that and being the skeptic i am i went expecting the over the top cheese factors there was some cheese but all in all not much and the film was pretty accurate br br i watched the trailer again today after seeing the film yesterday i've realized the trailer gives the impression the movie is nothing but rescue after rescue action scenes this isn't the case br br the movie is truly more character story driven than action the inner struggles both costner and kutcher are dealing with is revealed further into than movie than costner's is br br of course there is a minor love story no surprise there but for the most part the movie tells the tale of two lives that come together and after some time help each other heal old wounds br br as girlie as it sounds costner and as much as i try not to like him kutcher do actually work quite well together and compliment each other very well in the movie br br as critics have stated you've seen it all before top gun officer and a gentlemen etc but what movie hasn't been remade a million times br br i can recall only one f word being spoken and can't really recall any other language br br the movie is 2 hours and for some may tend to get a little long towards the end br br you'll laugh you may cry but i can honestly say it was worth the 4 i paid br br i hope you enjoy the movie
1	br br philistines beware especially american ones this has all the elements you'll hate a approach to film language a painterly sense of composition an intense homoerotic focus to its elegant narrative a wonderful and unusual use of music and even worse it's based on a story you'd probably hate as well if however you do feel that films don't to have derivative plotlines be full of action and crappy dialogue don't need the visual grammar of mtv tv commercials then watch this it's one of my favourite films and is perhaps visconti's most perfectly formed piece of work it's sublime like the movement of he uses insistently throughout the film
1	i saw this film many years ago and absolutely hated it i could not wait for it to end and would have walked out but there was a girl sleeping on my shoulder you know what i have never forgotten this film and more i would say that it continues to haunt me with its images and music over the years how many movies have i wept over and laughed over in the then forgotten as soon as i hit the street like you see i can't even think of one rarer are films like death in venice that enter your consciousness and work sea changes the french like to say film is an art and movies like this one prove they are right i give it 10 stars up from the 3 i gave it the night i saw it
1	visconti's masterpiece i admit that i am unfamiliar with much of his work but i cannot imagine his other work surpassing this fabulous film last night i watched death in venice after an absence of about 25 years and was totally captivated by all that i saw this was a pastiche composed of many elements the extraordinary shots directed by primarily his love of long languorous shots of people dining swimming walking and containing a significant character passing through this mass of people the cinematographers brilliant interpretation of visconti's shot selection the acting by the principles without over riding dialog and conveying the scenes complexity through facial features alone br br it is true young people watching this film for the first time must be aware that they are watching a unique film a film that could not be made in 2006 a film whose time rests in those brief handful of years in the sixties and early seventies of the last century when artistic license was passed to film directors and money men took secondary roles as many of the recent imdb commentator's have written this film in their judgment is long boring too little action and pretentious i suppose by the standards of hollywood pap these comments contain merit unfortunately they tragically minimize the amazing beauty and depth of this work and others like it from those years br br please if you have not seen death in venice rent a copy and immerse yourself in a film and story from another time you will be rewarded
1	personally i can only but agree with stephen 12 indulge there's really no point in trying to this film i like movies where nothing explicitly happens herzog's der has got the same nothingness though that movie is less convincing since the climaxes are rather in the beginning of the story so herzog had to focus on nature versus kinski morte a venezia is wholly different though since it has several climaxes turns etc in fact from the point where luggage is lost the movie almost to its grand finale his final of sand begin running through the hourglass after the moment of bliss where he fantasises about warning the polish family and caressing hair br br you can if you want to seek some real clues symbols in this one his trying to leave behind his luggage from the moment he arrives the pointing at the end the fact that in the whole film content and form are completely in but there's no point in doing this it won't make the film better or worse since its force lies in the whole undertow which is never made explicit tons of history decaying europe the end of the 'romantic era' as we've come to know it which has proven to be only the beginning of it individual emotions expression are more important now than they ever were but wait now i myself am beginning to develop the one minor tiny flaw of the film the 'let's talk about art' parts now there's one thing never to do i myself believe it could have been expressed by other means furthermore i believe it becomes already very clear in the rest of the film br br i don't like explicit films i can read books so i don't want a storyline that speaks merely to my rationale i prefer films that you cannot explain in words but only in film lynch's lost highway weir's at hanging rock and roeg's man who fell to earth also belong in this category for then and then only it has a reason to exist as film and not merely as a book so what about thomas mann's novella i've never read it but forget about it the movie gives a different point of view it says things you can never say in a book it uses the movie art to make you feel through images and music the same thing that mann made you feel using text equally brilliant but different worlds
1	contains spoilers br br luchino visconti's film adaptation of thomas mann's novella is visually if not philosophically faithful to its source opera offers a more faithful reading of the apollonian dionysian struggles which consume the aging writer it is certainly one of the most gorgeous films ever made br br in the visconti version the emphasis is more on the physical aspects of the story never has venice looked more beautiful and alluring more decadent and effete if you've read the novella it's like having the descriptions on its pages come to life dirk bogarde gives an outstanding performance as gustav von although he has very little dialogue he conveys the bitterness aroused passion and finally pitiful yearning of through facial expressions alone the young actor who plays the beautiful object of desire was perfectly cast he too plays the part with facial expressions and gestures the character is pivotal to the story so any actor in this role must be worthy of inspiring passion and desire visconti with his incredible eye for beauty knew exactly what he was doing and changing from a writer to a composer based on gustav and then using music especially the from the 5th symphony was another brilliant stroke although i'd read the mann story before the film music and death in venice will always be inextricably linked in my mind as will the haunting images which appear throughout the film especially that last one of dying on the beach as walks slowly into the sea br br one day this film will be released in dvd widescreen format and its visual splendors completely restored to us
1	from the first to the last scene of the movie director visconti excels at his art to the extent that the movie is ensured to remain as a cultural treasure for only god knows how long it is perfection as a movie that is but the story has some minor shortcomings br br thomas mann's novel is also a perfect piece of art so of course it is impossible to bring into another media visconti follows the story pretty much and it is only when he allows himself to deviate slightly that the transition falters and no matter how wonderful the scenery is the tension in the air between the characters the hundreds of subtle signals and allegories the almost unbearably heightened serving of music still the minute anomalies in the plot disturb me br br maybe i'm just a victim of man's desire to flaw the flawless nevertheless i will offer one example which i regard as crucial br br warning spoilers br br in mann's story eats the strawberries which probably contain the disease that will kill him after giving up his frustrated chase of the boy in venice unable to catch one delight he settles for another which poisons him it is very subtle in the book but it is there the forbidden fruit of sorts but more a sign of him surrendering life itself br br in visconti's film he also eats strawberries but in a rather insignificant scene by the beach the chase in venice ends in a much more melodramatic way it works too but lacks some subtlety indeed and also the multi layered symbolism giving food for thought br br but that's all forgiven when the film allows us to feast on beautiful sceneries faces and constellations and certainly as many other symbols as we can possibly digest the last gesture of standing in the water being the equally sublime and mysterious finale
1	it may be hard to explain how but this film is a masterpiece perhaps because i never imagined that a plot like this or a film with so few words would convey all this poetry the true poetry and aristocracy of human passions and obsession bogard is amazing and needless to say that venice is utilised as a perfect scenery dark sinking and dreary just like soul and classical music is more that a simple background escort to human feelings in my opinion a classic masterpiece of european film making
1	i can't quite explain why i find this so alluring and the leopard not it may be because the focus here is on all that was great with that film those intimate moments that visconti can render so magnificently like that film it has a majestically slow pace but this time it isn't overlong it's the kind of film where nothing happens but twenty minutes passes like that i think that must be due in part to the way the film deals with flashbacks that act as their own mini story like the leopard it has a sympathetic lead who brings out the same kind of worn pathos though performance is more willing to open itself to being unlikable especially in look he has a really stupid grin that's easy to dislike it's often quite beautiful in the quiet moments it's the opulence of visconti's films the grandeur of the ball scenes that i find tedious as they exchange individual clarity with mass precision but here that is part of the point gustav surrounded by a visual din br br the way in which the object of affection is introduced to us is quite brilliant the camera shows a girl girl girl then this beautiful feminine featured boy it's like an allusion to shakespeare's and it doesn't feel heavy handed it's not until the camera views fully pulls back and we see his long slender legs that we realize he is not a boy but an adolescent at first we're forced to question attraction in an uncomfortable way visconti must have known that and he doesn't shy away from it visconti is extremely patient with gustav we get a sense of the man we know him it's a largely silent performance and when he does open his mouth it's to spew venom no wonder he wants the angelic open featured boy to project himself onto there's a difference with we never know him just as we never know a handful of fellini grotesques but that's because his life is another its own film but it's not as flirtatious as it's been made to seem there is one scene however where he twirls around a pole that's too much isn't necessarily leading him on he's looking at him visconti just zooms in is all br br the film doesn't detail gustav as being gay isn't even really male he's a version of a boy delicate pale wispy with golden locks that everyone seems to love including one gorgeous slightly older young man who he wrestles with the closest they go to showing what could be understood as a reference to homosexuality is the famous barber scene which unlocks his repressed vanity br br it isn't totally successful the whole section with alfred is a waste and some unnecessary scenes people carrying bags in long shot could have been excised some parts are heavy handed such as when boat pulls in and rowdy boys pass him by the looks on his face are too obvious but during the same scene gustav throws a fit wanting a new something so unexplainable that it makes up for it but there are some scenes touching for the first time that build up a remarkable quiet intensity repeating a piano song again and again the notes quivering in the air may be the best example of the anxiety the film has there is one discussion that contains a debate i'm especially interested can art be spiritual if it satisfies the senses or does it have to go beyond them we can consider tarkovsky who both visconti and mann to be the prime example of someone going beyond mere sensory sensations i think this one manages to do both 9 10
1	in luchino visconti's film death in venice it is not only the beauty in the surrounding world that decays but in the pursuit of beauty itself gustav von decays into a mere shell of a man to understand the decay we must acknowledge the beauty which enchants us it is best described and explained in a quote from socrates found in thomas mann's version of death in venice beauty alone is lovely and visible at it is the sole aspect of the spiritual which we can perceive through our else the divine if reason and virtue and truth were to speak to us through the senses should we not perish and become consumed by love we see in the film this very thing happen the man becomes enveloped by a longing for beauty which turns into a longing for the boy even though the levelheaded part of his mind tells him that adoration of beauty can lead to sensuousness and abandon he cannot contain himself br br it would be easy to describe this as a beautiful film early on we see the extravagance of the parlor and we are treated to a perfect summarization of turn of the century upper class life all captured on film perfectly by cinematographer pasqualino de santis but visconti does not indulge in the picturesque aspects of venice instead the glorious and sensuous artistic achievements of the past are based on materialism and sensuous beauty and these things are relegated to the past the city we know to be of incomparable beauty and uniqueness is nothing more than a leisure resort with a nosy hotel staff the streets become exhausting labyrinths filled with disgusting filth and rot the city decays in step with the protagonist only through the flashbacks are we allowed a glimpse of why this famous composer is a frail and innocuous man the death of his daughter and presumably his wife along with the failure of his music allow us to understand why he is destroying himself br br alfred with whom has in depth conversations on the meaning of beauty and who can create it but alfred is more than a friend he is alter ego and what alfred says the composer's own doubts and fears the scene in which decides to leave venice is immediately followed by a clip of alfred telling him that he is weak alienated and lacks feelings in the end we might be able to conclude that these flashbacks are not reality at all it is a decay of memory rather than objective renderings of the past these flashbacks become distorted memories we can say that these are decayed memories because even alludes to it he declares reality distracts and degrades us and following the scene in the travel agent's office we see confront and his family and warn them leave venice but directly after the encounter we see him sitting with the clerk again and realize it was all in his imagination he employs long scenes without dialogue that are framed by the poignant music of gustav he allows the viewer's mind to wander as we watch life and respectability decay with the beauty around him br br slowly the viewer realizes that our hero is overwhelmed by exhaustion that is mixed with a growing awareness that the town is suffocating in filth the crumbling city sets the stage for the middle aged man's attraction to it is romantic longing for something so idealized and ambiguous that it can never be consumed even in fantasy the beauty of this polish boy a fire in him that at first makes him glow then consumes him the film concludes with von sitting feebly in a beach chair watching fight with his friend we see the black dye from his hair running down on his cheek and it looks like rotten blood it is a vision of his life's moments though before his last breath the final decay has happened all around him the city is soiled and with it he has become what he detests as dies he has the same painted face as the old man on the ferry at the beginning of the film a man that had disturbed him it was the pursuit of beauty that initiated his decay in the pursuit of artistic beauty he could not sense his own demise and that of the city around him his sensuality is indulged in while constantly kept in check by the presence of death and decay it is these three themes that tie the damned and death in venice together beauty death and decay these themes are visconti's art the beauty of his work is in the decay of beauty itself br br in this film we are treated to the of one great man we see the honored composer gustav von in the pursuit of true and pure beauty and it is in the pursuit of this trait that it decays all around him and leads him to a miserable lonely death watching the target of his affection i believe that through these movies visconti is trying to tell us that what is beautiful cannot last decay is intrinsic in the world around us and when we become distracted it can destroy the splendor in death in venice it is because of culture and through the pursuit of beauty that all is deleted beauty and are woven together like thorns in visconti's works at once beautiful and destructive it is these themes that define his art
1	story of a strange love and a fall desire poem about beauty and his perfection fear and touch a slice of visconti and mann and an agonize venice know if it is a masterpiece a poem or the reflection of a film director's world it is absolutely a memento mori and a exploration of illusion a old mirror of limits signs and death's delicacy a trip in an old space nostalgic cruel and splendid death is a trip copy in the immediate reality and the essence is the music a soft sweet music like honey or winter's fire like every regret and every sorrow like a refuge in deep solitude gustav is gay by accident he is the researcher of last form of god's presence the beauty that beauty who gives life's sense who is sin and virtue in same time the gift of expectations and sufferings he dies because he has right to hope to believe in the reality of miracle and in his way a victim no way only may give the freedom like an insignificant sacrifice who saw the sun can hope to live in same condition
1	not for the squeamish but the number of twists inventive uses of situations using vampire mythology gorgeous visual extremes together with interesting and quirky characters make this one of the most stunning horror films i've ever seen it descends into utter madness along with characters but never seems exploitative or horrific without purpose there are copious amounts of bloodletting accompanied by some nasty sucking and squishing sounds but also subtle moments where you laugh out loud as he tends to do chan wook park keeps you off center with leaps in time and plot and situation that you have to fill in for yourself forcing your involvement in the story and characters br br and there's a lot of literal leaping keeping in the vein of vampire myth pun intended they have superhuman strength and can nearly leap tall buildings in a single bound to coin a phrase the first time our heroine is carried by the across the tops of buildings by the troubled vampire priest it has all the magical romance of lois lane and superman but this romance becomes increasingly disturbing but driven by a strange and conflicted 'love affair' not by mere horror br br the acting is superb particularly ok vin kim the gorgeous actress in the female lead role who at 22 shows a range that is remarkable the character borders on a kind of black widow film noir type she careens from innocent to impish to vixen to demon with utter conviction this is a really smooth and nervy performance br br if you love real art in horror or are a fan of oldboy don't wait for the video see it immediately
1	set in venice mainly on the visconti's death in venice is a triumph of filmmaking combining the excellence of dirk characterisation and expert photography of the resort area in all its various daily moods for those who love venice this is a film to cherish br br music frequently heard throughout the film heightens the drama the mood it creates is not always happy but then what else would you expect with a title like that br br there is not a lot of dialogue in the film rather sparse in fact it's mainly background noises and chatter and laughter among the hotel guests the intriguing part is to interpret the exchange of glances between gustav von a composer of some renown and a slim teenage youth who see each other from time to time across the tables of the hotel dining room on the beach and at odd unexpected places around venice they seem to acknowledge each other's presence shyly at first with little more than the suggestion of a smile but later with a strong and riveting and urgent gaze br br each viewer will have his own interpretation the composer has lost a child of his own is this behaviour an expression of yearning for the child he loved is it perhaps a sexual attraction towards this fragile young man with his dazed somewhat girlish stare could he be discovering some new inspiration for a yet unwritten musical masterpiece who knows br br from beginning to end this film captures the true spirit of 19th century venice the elegance of the ladies the deck chairs on the sand the children frolicking in their neck to knee bathing costumes the glow of sunsets and a general feeling of satisfaction with the world while some may think the pace is rather slow at times the film has an overall gentle quality but with a simmering indecision between two repressed human beings be prepared for a sad and beautiful ending
1	are sea side resorts the sad dreary places they're always depicted as in movies and novels certainly this movie along with the near contemporary don't look now depicts venice as a particularly squalid and decadent tourist trap for a more light hearted approach see just married with ashton kutcher and brittany murphy having never been to venice i can't say for sure but it does make a perfect setting for this somber but sumptuous spectacle from luchino visconti one of the great of world cinema having seen the movie i now wish i had gotten around to reading the thomas mann novella it's based on which also inspired an opera by sir benjamin britten since i don't know the back story and the movie has little in the way of plot or exposition i'm left wondering about dirk bogarde 's obsession with young is he a homosexual a pedophile or is his longing for the beautiful youth something more innocent perhaps reminds him of what he could have been and now knows he never will be those who complain of the slow pace of this movie should stick to car crashes and kung fu at 2 hours and 15 minutes it's not particularly long and it moves at a leisurely but hardly sluggish pace the film benefits from the ravishing music of gustave on whom character is clearly based dirk bogarde gives a moving performance and the movie is graced by the presence of one of italy's great beauties as mother
1	thomas mann's controversial novel is the basis for the film a death in venice although in the book the hero is an author in the film the director luchino visconti who also wrote the screenplay transforms him into a composer as such the author composer gustav von dirk bogarde on the verge of mental exhaustion is a burned out artisan after a long and successful career now seeks the peace and tranquility of a less hectic life he decides to go on vacation to venice where he hopes to rejuvenate his dwindling ambition however while staying at the picturesque seaside resort he captures the attention of a beautiful young teenage boy who eyes him with curious interest and is immediately smitten by him although gustav is captivated by the wondrous youth he nevertheless must find some private time away from the boy's governess nora ricci while having to cope with a invading plague which seems to have infested the city the movie dialog like the novel remains subtle as are the few brief encounters between the boy and the artist in the end the audience unlike the book is hampered with innuendos and imaginative flights of fancy their affair is never given wing substance or opportunity and were it not for the brief resolution in the book the film allows only the possibility of 'what if ' nevertheless one can sympathize with the hero and wish him a moment's peace to obtain that which is forbidden elusive but definitely criticized by prying eyes great story and a bogarde classic
1	cinema's greatest period started in post war europe with italy's neo realist movement during the next 2 or 3 decades that followed france's new wavers caught everyone's attention and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere making bitter masterpieces but in 1971 luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle geographically speaking with his miraculous work death in venice which might as well be called the death of cinema after the sixties wound down so did the great european filmmakers who with some exceptions generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats coppola scorsese co this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up not just of visconti's particular obsessions but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies and rest assured you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here he's not playing to the crowd folks either you get behind him and follow along or you get left behind the pacing is a challenge slow but never without emotional weight incidents are few and far between but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos br br we will probably never be in such rarefied company again in terms of the movies one of the century's great writers who inspired the tale thomas mann one of the greatest filmmakers directing it visconti one of the greatest actors in the lead role dirk bogarde and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background gustav 5th symphony taking full advantage of ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast visconti changes the main character into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer even making bogarde up to look like geeky mustache specs shaggy hair duck like walk bogarde by the way delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies it's a largely silent performance and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse br br cinema just doesn't get better than this i'll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it's too slow but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie's thematic concerns i e which is the better path to aesthetic perfection passion or discipline and the suddenness and of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers of course some viewers will sleep through this movie anyway a nonstop stream of and beautiful dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture but this movie is actually about something and what it's mostly about is suffering romantic capital r suffering in particular as a suffering romantic himself visconti knew he spoke br br spoiler i guess if for nothing else see death in venice for its portentous opening credits and for its unforgettable ending with jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty dying head and onto his chalk white face meanwhile off in the distance young the object of dying desire stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about love lust beauty loss the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life and cold death in the midst of warm sunny beauty death in venice is a miraculous work of art br br dvd tip as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece the damned i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie it's ostensibly in english but the dvd's sound seems muddy and there's a lot of italian spoken during the film anyway br br
1	i first saw death in venice 1971 about 15 years ago found it profoundly moving and often thought about it watching it again few days ago i realized that it is close to the top of the great works of cinema with hardly any dialog it captivates a viewer with the beautiful cinematography the fine acting and above all the music without which the movie simply could not exist br br death in venice is a stunning luchino visconti's adaptation of the thomas mann novella about a famous composer in the novella he was a writer but making him a composer in a movie was a great idea that works admirably gustav von loosely based on gustav who travels to venice in the summer of 1911 to recover from personal losses and professional failures his search for beauty and perfection seems to be completed when he sees a boy of incredible divine beauty dirk bogard follows the boy everywhere never trying to approach him the boy belonged to very rare creatures that own an enigmatic and inconceivable power which captivates you enchants you conquers you and makes you its prisoner became one of the prisoners of spellbinding charms he became addicted to him he fell in love with him was it bless or curse for him i think both he died from unreachable impossible yet beautiful love which object was perfection itself the last image eyes captured was that of the boy's silhouette surrounded by the sea and golden sun light nothing could compare to the beauty and charm of the scene and to take it with you to the grave is the death one can only dream about if he could probably would've said i was able to witness one of the faces of perfection i could not bear it but i was chosen to learn that it exists here in this world and i can die in peace now because it did happen to me br br unforgettable music gustav haunting of his fifth symphony found perfect use in a perfect movie it reflects every emotion of a main character it sobs it longs it begs for hope and it summarizes the idea that once you are blessed to encounter beauty you are condemned to die i may come up with hundreds movies that use classical music to perfection but nothing will ever compare to death in venice i dare say that music is its main character it would change and sound differently depending on what was happening on the screen it sounded triumphantly when returned back to venice to what he thought would be his happiness but turned to be his death it sounded gloomy when he first entered venice from the sea you can hear so many different feelings in it tenderness and adoration confusion and self loathing worship and melancholy but always love that gives the purest happiness and breaks the hearts literally the movie for a viewer is similar to what the boy was for the aging composer writer artist we are enchanted and captivated by its power and beauty as much as was by the boy's mysterious charm
1	brett piper again makes a very good film that is trashed by the so called film experts it is low budget but fun and the leading lady is very sexy i wish i could see more of irene joseph good viewing fun i bought the dvd and enjoyed it the special effects are stop motion animation and much better than the computer generated crap they call effects today i always enjoy brett piper movies and if you liked this i recommend bite me screaming dead and anything else he has done i look forward to seeing more of his work and well as more of ms joseph i simply cannot see why this woman hasn't been in more movies as her acting is excellent
1	i bought this dvd from walmart for cheap thinking it would be a typical crap straight to video monster junk but it turned out much better than expected there isn't really any criticism to say about it it's obviously low budget but that just adds to the cheesy old fashioned fun it's very cool and entertaining br br there's everything horror sex a great plane crash and good characters and i'd say it's pretty original cuz it really doesn't come off as any other movie i've seen it has it's own unique look which i liked very much that's why this film deserves credit i look forward to seeing more of these awesome movies from the scare master brett piper whom i've never heard before this one br br the dvd menu is really creative with groovy music playing over it so it's perfect just to keep it on when you're not yet ready to sit down and watch it it also includes some special features which are really interesting but we never get to see the director or hear him in the commentary must be shy this comes out of studios in vermont usa i highly recommend it to all horror buffs you'll love it
1	in defense of this movie i must repeat what i had stated previously the movie is called it has a no name cast and i do not mean no name as in actors who play in little seen art house films i mean no name as in your local high school decided to make a film no name and it might have a 2 dollar budget so what does one expect hitchcock br br i felt the movie never took itself seriously which automatically takes it out of the worst movie list that list is only for big budget all star cast movies that takes itself way too seriously the movie the oscar comes to mind most of sylvester stallone's movies the two leads were not hepburn and tracy but they did their jobs well enough for this movie the woman kicked butt and the guy was not a blithering idiot the actor who played the old man was actually very good the man who played anal retentive professor was no clifton webb but he did a god job and the for lack of a better were played by two competent actors i laughed at the 50 cent special effects but that was part of the charm of the movie it played like a hybrid tremors meets night of the living dead the premise of the movie is just like all giant bug movies of the 50's a meteor or radiation stir up the ecosystem and before you know it we have giant ants lobsters rocks or lizards terrorizing the locals a meteor was the cause of the problems this time i was was very entertained i didn't expect much and i go a lot more then i bargained for
1	ok i am a sucker i loved it i had no expectations and had them all fulfilled it was a terrible movie i loved it i have managed to wear out a dvd from over use no one can understand my obsession i can't either to tell the truth for those who have seen the movie this will come as no surprise but i asked the clerk at the video store if i could buy a copy and i could because there were two in stock and only one had been check out and over half of the time it had been to me br br now the movie is terrible the special effects are terrible the acting is terrible but i loved it the actors are silly the plot silly the goofs numerous like being able to see through the monsters the looked like they were made out of plastic garbage bags maybe they were there was light underground tnt wasn't deafening etc br br you must really love b movies to get any enjoyment out of this alcohol helps enormously for others
1	this is a low budget stop motion monster movie from brett a barbarian in dinosaur hell piper and it delivers just what i'd expect from such a production light hearted though cheesy dialogue some cute actresses and lots of stop motion critters that's why i've given the film 10 out of 10 because it delivers what i expected it to deliver and a bit more brett doesn't penny pinch when it comes to putting his critters on screen he hurls lots of bugs at his cast for the finale and anyway i love stop motion monsters which compared to cgi critters in bigger budgeted movies just seem to be that much fun to watch
1	i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i was at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killers the plot does sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and as you know saturn is the emotion planet it all falls into place makes complete sense and it's then that you know you aren't simply watching another silly 80's slasher with a pea brain plot thank god for that seriously though bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise but it more than makes up for that with it's originality having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the 13th clone i know what i'd choose br br also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it's silly plot dug it into is the fact that it's extremely entertaining many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore this film however keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry there's nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but that's not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows there wasn't any room for a chainsaw which is a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it
1	as is the case with many films of this ilk my non catholicism got in the way of my understanding it the church has this mass of rules which have been put together over centuries we have a short time to learn them and have to accept them at face value then throw in some bad guys getting revenge for a long distant act against them working under these rules and attempting to circumvent them and you have this book and movie i found myself thinking that's pretty cool why did they do that there's this casual thing in the robert langdon character where no matter what the issue he seems to always make the right first move i suppose it's like watching csi where they solve incredibly complex cases in a matter of days they know the lay of the land in this film there is so much land and so little time to really understand everything that is going on but if you create robert langdon you need to set him to work that's ok because heroic nerds like him have been saving the day forever i thought the film was fun i thought the da vinci code was fun too interesting and not as bad as people seemed to think this is a marvel to look at and never stops for a second
1	i recently got the movie and all i can say it is a good movie there's a lot of famous rome monuments and historical locations it is from the same writer and director from the da vinci code tom hanks stars along with ewan mcgregor and the movie starts out with the space and time experiment in sweden until one of the canisters is stolen by the church's most hated enemy the the plot is hard to discuss about without spoiling anything its a race all of rome following the trail to get to the secret meeting place while racing against time to find the path of the over all its a movie worth seeing hell i watched it 3 times and i still like it so in the end go buy it it is a lot better than the movie 2010 and the ending has one awesome plot twist
1	first i gotta say that this film is way less pretentious than the da vinci code sure you have the religion vs science problem but it doesn't try to make a big statement about it its basically an action thriller that moves from one scene to another very well one scene particularly that involves fire i found extremely well done br br second the changes from book to film although when i was following the development of the film i complained about the change of some characters and the complete removal of others i gotta admit i was wrong it was refreshing that the film didn't follow the book in exactly the same way like it was done in da vinci if you are a purist of the book some of them may upset you though however the big twist is still there so don't worry about that finally i'm glad they removed some silly sub plots and didn't even try to hint at the possibility of langdon and getting together br br the performances are really good but nothing out of the ordinary that's okay for a film like this br br i'd give it a 9 10 mainly because it delivers what it promises entertainment pure entertainment
1	so first things first br br angels and demons is a much better and very different film than the da vinci code br br following the recent slew of comic book movies remakes and questionable resurrections of aged franchises it is refreshing to watch a very solid and entertaining film that is devoid of shaky cam filming techniques lens flare excessive gci and over the top action sequences br br in this respect angels and demons almost feels old fashioned it offers a good and considered debate on the age old subject of religion vs science offers an insight in to the parallels between the grand houses of god in rome beautifully shot by the way and the temple of modern science that is large facility br br hanks is hanks pretending to be the smart guy and he fits the role much better second time around than his wooden performance in da vinci good support is offered by a rock solid cast with a particular highlight being armin mueller stahl's stoic cardinal but the films main saving grace is it's pace for the entire running time i was totally engrossed in the story and the film never really gave me time to sit and pick apart its faults in logic br br my only serious criticism is that some of the science depicted is at best debatable regards real world authenticity but that is not the fault of the film makers rather an observation of the old adage that you should never let the truth get in the way of a good story br br speaking of which the story is a cracker mixing adventure and a race against time with a good sprinkling of intelligence and a nice twist or two along the way br br overall i would highly recommend this to fans of either of the national treasure movies which this clearly mimics but with a much more serious vibe and fans of ripping adventure tales in general
1	as i sat in the theater almost crying to myself in dismay over the atrocity ron howard and tom hanks call the da vinci code i could not see the light at the end of the tunnel that is angels and demons br br hanks and company are back for the sequel prequel angels and demons and they have learned their lesson br br acting wise everyone is much better is very good as and better than the girl who played sophie tom hanks is very good as always he is better in this though because he works harder at giving the movie the feeling that it is a thriller i think ewan mcgregor does the best job of any of the actors he might even deserve a nomination come march but doubtful he had me convinced right until the very end he's dynamic and faithful but rational and realizes that the church needs to put their past behind them the minor actors also do very good jobs br br technically and visually the movie is much improved the cinematography is much much better and the visual effects are superb the final explosion sequence at the end is excellent howard does a masterful job taking you through a tour of rome br br pacing wise ron howard does an amazing job this time around at keeping the story moving and not boring us with a history lesson deemed at denouncing christianity the movie also makes you feel like more is at stake in our feeble minds discovering whether or not jesus had children is not as high up on the list compared to a cataclysmic explosion killing thousands including the roman catholic church part of the reason i think the story is so fast paced is due to the excellent score i cannot say enough about the score it was epic at times like something from lord of the rings but then sometimes it felt like a bourne movie which is a nice mix br br my only complaint about this movie is that it is ridiculously far fetched the chances of the being someone of ewan age are highly improbable and the chances of a cardinal with an adopted son getting elected pope are even more ridiculous not to mention the whole antimatter thing which has yet to be created and dan brown wrote the book in 2003 br br overall angels and demons is much tighter faster paced more exciting and more important movie than the da vinci code this is must see thriller for anyone who loves history and mystery combined into one
1	as a fan of the book this work is fantastically adapted remaining true to the source materials and demonstrating an honest respect for the literary work the intrigues translate well to film by virtue of ron howard's good eye for detail and sound devotion to authenticity br br i like hanks as robert langdon his portrayal is genuine and earthy with only the barest glint of the kip we all knew and loved back in the day he is a good dramatic actor and while i miss his comedic efforts i do enjoy his more serious performances br br the subject matter is no less controversial than the davinci code and the vatican seems to never learn their lesson as with the aforementioned film the holy see issued a scathing rebuke and called for a global catholic boycott of the film which of course generated millions in ticket sales br br although the story of the god particle was played down dramatically and the science was written out of this piece of science fiction the fiction that was left was entertaining and extremely well done and the truth be known people who have not read the book will not notice any missing or lesser element to the story as the screen version carries the main story well on its own br br in fact it is not necessary to have seen the first installment of this franchise in order to enjoy this second which should have been a prequel in all honesty although that does not lessen the effectiveness nor does it meddle with the continuity or flow of this second work br br all in all this is good for a friday saturday night's viewing although the execution may be a bit rough for the small ones br br it rates an 8 8 10 from br br the fiend
1	still haven't read a single dan brown book but i watched all his movies adaptations i won't fall into the game to rate this one with the previous because the scope isn't really the same actually this one is a thriller a race against time filled with puzzles br br the plot is very twisted imaginative and the cast is excellent i never been a great fan of hanks but he delivers well i noticed his jeans shirt the one spilled with blood because i search for one like this in vain the italian is a brilliant newcomer for me but i really applauded ewan macgregor portrayal his inner faith and calm is really impressive br br i really like the debate between science and religion the action taking place in the vatican it felt like vacation at last i am not sure it helps to add new converts into with all the gold and man presence displayed any one would ask what charity means and why women are so dismissed of the church life whereas they stand for half or more the believers
1	was excited at the opening to hear part of de but wanted more so i bought said hans zimmer piece possibly the most inspiring and beautiful 4 minutes of music ever written this movie is an exciting thriller masterpiece even w o the religious considerations you get to tour the vatican and parts of rome with excellent cinematography the opening at where the god particle or largest quantity of antimatter is created with stunning visuals is an immediate clue which foretells the excellence of this movie who doesn't love hanks the storyline and twists in this film are just superb and well drawn out until the amazingly twisted climax this film suggests a satisfying compromise between science and religion though plenty of closed heads will persist on both sides science without religion is lame religion without science is blind a einstein
1	this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown i can't say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy given the excellent story the result could have been better though the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing sound effects and sound tracks were very good acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak for people who didn't read the book things may look happening too quickly from my point of view instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican you see neither of it in the movie too much rush and using the time not in a good way these are main problems of the movie so it is worth watching but could have been done better
1	robert langdon hanks is called to rome to help decipher the mystery behind the before a new science experiment blows up the city br br the da vinci code broke records in 2006 but for the vast majority of dan brown followers it did not do his award winning book justice and though running at a good 2 and a half hours seemed to bore many br br having read the book i was perhaps one of the few who enjoyed tom hanks and audrey tautou attempt to solve the mystery of the murder in the louvre but for angels and demons the scales were raised once more as lead star and director return br br having asked around most people seem to prefer angels and demons to the da vinci code for an entertaining read and it seems as critiques and fans whilst still not fully justified prefer this latest adaptation to the 2006 release br br this howard picture certainly has a more clinical energy and exercise to it as unlike da vinci tom hanks' robert langdon has only one night to solve the mysterious activities of the forgotten in the vatican and because of the time limitations the action and desperation up the ante and deliver an excitement that certainly beats the da vinci code but also generates plenty of twists and stunning murder sequences br br the interesting factor of this 2009 release is the constant elements being justified for the murders earth wind water and fire are all included in drastic and powerful sequences to pronounce a feeling of overall power to the situation br br this really does justify the tag of thriller with a constant tension and sharp drama with the issues and beliefs once more given a full working over br br just like 3 years ago there are many debates and discoveries of symbols once believed to be lost forever and langdon is again the key character to show everyone the light in and amongst the controversy of other pressing circumstances br br it is fair to say dan brown is a complex writer he certainly likes to cram issues and dramas in amongst his action and thrilling sequences as well as trying to discover the there is also the scenario of the election of a new pope the dealings with a new scientific experiment and the power of religion is again present all interesting to discover and listen to if occasionally the debates and dialogue tend to send your mind drifting but as there is so much in the novel this was always likely br br ron howard who kept a frankly ordinary type of direction rolling in da vinci returns in perhaps the worst way possible his jerky ever moving camera styling does nothing to keep the pressure up and we can never fully accept what is happening on screen thanks to this frankly awfully portrayed style he is certainly no paul greengrass and this is by no means bourne br br slick and stylized this is faster and more interesting than da vinci
1	three children are born at the exact same time during a lunar eclipse just before their 10th birthday they embark on a killing spree bloody birthday is a typical slasher from early 80's it's a pretty average stuff with plenty of nudity the evil children never generate any menace and there is almost no suspense there is also no gore or scares in bloody birthday but the film is mildly entertaining unfortunately no real explanation is provided for the kids sudden homicidal mania the murder scenes are quite gruesome for example we've got death by handgun baseball bat skipping rope and shovel so if you're a fan of early 80's slasher movies give this one a look
1	i was at the premier of the movie last night in rome i am not an expert in the book however there are a great deal of changes from the book to the movie the pacing of this movie is much faster than the davinci code many things were trimmed otherwise this would be a 4 hour movie many things were also changed to give the movie a fast pace i think what matters is the feel of the movie and that works well for hanks brown and company br br there are some things in the book that would appear very implausible in the movie form i am not giving any spoilers except to say the ending of the movie is handled in a slightly different way how leonardo was found is also different those who see the movie might be interested in reading the book to get the full details of the story some minor details are are also cut from the movie br br although they did film in rome they had to recreate interior shots since i went on a walking tour of rome the day before the movie i can say that the interior sites are authentic in look and feel kohler is not in the movie and not much is shown about hanks does a good job and there are some interesting scenes involving the vatican archives of course they had no access to that area and i am not sure if anyone actually knows what the vatican archives look like has her break in this movie as victoria and does a good job as eye candy for hanks br br this movie should be received better by the critics and public but you never know ron howard mentioned several times in interviews and as we saw him and the cast before the movie that this is just a movie
1	i go to the movies to be entertained i was very entertained by the first film in this series the davinci code it had plenty of twists and turns throughout to keep me very interested angels and demons is no different if you enjoyed the davinci code then you will undoubtedly enjoy this movie as well angels and demons is made pretty much with the exact same style as the previous film but faster paced which i liked ron howard kept me glued to my seat for the full two hours without boring me one bit br br what i really liked about this movie was that even though it is obviously fictitious they leave enough real history to make it seem very believable if there is one thing that i didn't like about this movie it is that the plot itself is very unbelievable don't want to give any spoilers but hey it's a movie i was entertained throughout the whole thing and was very satisfied with what i saw
1	i read angels and demons about 3 years ago and i can honestly say to is one of the few books that i couldn't put down while reading br br the movie however was pretty much what i expected a lot of action with somewhat of a mystery storyline tom hanks plays in my opinion a much better role of professor langdon than in the da vinci code br br you won't have to worry about this being as bad as the da vinci code this is everything that it wasn't much more interesting more action more suspense and less of the unneeded controversy if you haven't read the book no worries you will still find it very interesting and if you have read the book well lets say you might be a little let down because i found many scenes missing that i was looking forward to br br overall pretty impressive film for any everyday movie goer but maybe not something too special for dan brown fans
1	where da vinci code introduced us to dr robert langdon and his knack for solving puzzles angels and demons ups the ante by providing a huge puzzle with an 8 hour limit br br with a cast of award winning actors ron howard does a good job of directing a story that was easy to follow and even easier to accept the da vinci code threw so many angles at you in such a short time that a quick bathroom break would leave you a bit confused on return i didn't feel this was with angels and demons the plot was straight forward and the action kept the interest level peaked throughout br br cardinal strauss armin mueller stahl was easily my favorite character in the movie his portrayal of the elitist yet misunderstood rank of the catholic church was very good and combined with the victim of his treatment patrick mckenna ewan mcgregor you will find yourself choosing sides immediately upon introduction there isn't a great amount of tom hanks time as the film focuses more on story than character development and this did well with me being that i had more than enough introduction from the first movie br br unfortunately i found character to be an unnecessary femme assistant in the quest since her lines were a bit limited and seemed much like an afterthought she does play a key role in the beginning of things but she soon fades into the background of being langdon's familiar more so than a necessary partner br br the plot is as such one of the organizations that the catholic church wronged in the past there have been quite a few has sought revenge in a most artistic manner some men of the church are kidnapped and are set to be executed at specific times until an ultimate end to the church itself will happen dr robert landon is brought in to help decipher the clues and teams up with the beautiful a scientist who witnessed a colleague die at the hands of the church's enemy br br music staying relevant and the cinematography beautiful i could chime on about this menial things but what makes angels and demons absolutely work is it's conclusion it was by far one of the most amazingly surprising endings i have seen in a movie and i was impressed at how off guard i was when it hit me like anyone else i appreciate a great wrap up and this movie wraps it up quite tight and drops a pretty bow on it needless to say i left the theater pleased at the movie in it's entirety br br if you are religious and unsure if this movie will offend your catholic principles i can say that where the davinci code painted catholicism as a shady cover up group of sadists angels and demons paints them with a much lighter brush the church is shown as being a collective of good men who are made to suffer for the sins of evil and misguided men who wore their colors and even a few who have infiltrated their modern ranks
1	before seeing the sneak preview today of angels demons i cleared my mind of any uncertainties that might hold me back from enjoying it the enormous amount of hatred towards dan brown the fact that it was written by dan brown and because dan brown's name is slapped on all of the posters i went in with an open mind and expected the worse but instead what i got was a 2 and a half hour roman cat and mouse game with forrest gump and that is by all means good entertainment value br br the movie hangs loosely on the actual novel itself harvard robert langdon hanks jets off to rome after the sudden death and the re election through papal arranging all of this is the patrick mckenna mcgregor however he soon learns of a new threat one that involves a secret brotherhood making its presence known an anti matter time bomb that vatican city is now targeted with and the kidnapping of four cardinals langdon using his intellects and trust me you'll be hearing a lot from it is given the task of finding and rescuing them using the mysterious path of illumination aiding him on the quest is scientist who is also the co creator of the anti matter br br the movie itself runs at an uneven pace one minute langdon and the swiss guard are speeding to save a branded cardinal the next minute he bores you with pointless information about every random object he passes evidently slowing the book's much anticipated action thriller sequences down it makes for an interesting read on paper but on screen it can go either way br br the character's are decently written onto the big screen ewan mcgregor does a convincing performance as the quiet but knowledgeable patrick mckenna famous accent included tom hanks is slightly more agile intellectually and physically since his last performance in the mediocre da vinci code plays commander richter the straight faced leader of the swiss guard unfortunately neither his nor performance are worthwhile ones and instead of playing a part in the story they are just kicked aside as assets br br however angels demons accomplishes what could never a thrilling fast paced movie filled with satisfying explosions beautiful recreations of st peter's square and including many of the churches and a pulsing bomb counting down the midnight hour ron howard does a decent job at directing this second langdon adventure this time taking in much criticism and almost completely exchanging the boring dialogue for tense chases almost br br while newcomers might call it a national treasure 3 with a much larger threat there is still enough contagious suspense thriller eye candy and brilliant still shots of rome to breathe in fans of the book might feel differently towards the movies drastic changes but considering the amount of blasphemy and inaccuracy it generates a d does exceedingly well at keeping the viewer locked on to the screen this time rather than on their sleepy shoulder br br a good book to movie adaption that will both appeal and entertain br br 7 4 10
1	tom hanks returns as dan brown's robert langdon in his first adventure angels demons which hollywood decided to make after the da vinci code given the latter's more controversial subject striking a raw nerve on the faith itself the catholic church was up in arms over the first film but seemingly nonchalant about this one and it's not hard to see why considering ron howard had opted to do a flat out action piece that serves as a great tourism video of rome and vatican city and would probably boost visitor numbers given the many beautiful on location scenes save for st peter's square and which was a scaled model used br br so i guess with the bulk of the budget going toward the sets the ensemble cast had to be scaled down tried to step into the female void left by audrey tautou but given tautou's character then having a lot more stake in the film scientist had a lot less to do other than just waiting in the wings to change some batteries on a canister filled with anti matter in the book she's the fodder of course for langdon to converse his vast knowledge of the vatican the and the great feud between the two but here she's neither love interest nor his intellectual equal br br ewan mcgregor on the other hand chews up each scene he's in as patrick mckenna who is temporarily taking care of the papal office while the other prominent cardinals are in the sistine chapel to elect a new pope and he plays patrick with that glint in the eye with nuances enough to let you know there's more than meets the eye there's no surprises here for readers of the novel but mcgregor's performance here is one of the highlights of the film as hanks plays well tom hanks br br the book itself is rich with arguably accurate content as always and had a lot more plot points on science versus religion and a wealth of information that dan brown researched and linked together in an engaging fictional piece of work while reading the book some years ago i thought that should a film be made of it it's easy to lapse and dwell more on the set action pieces sadly that's what this ron howard film did with a pace that doesn't allow a temporary breather unlike the first film where you had the characters sit down for some discussion time over a cup of tea this one moved things along so quickly it's like reading the book all over again page after page being skipped just to get to the thick of the action br br catholic reviewers have called angels demons harmless because i guess it didn't dwell on its many controversies unlike the da vinci code which struck a raw nerve at the centre of the faith and if anything this film served as a great tourism promotional video with a nice showcase of the many prominent touristy landmarks that would entice many around the world to go pay a visit naturally certain areas like the catacombs beneath st peter's and the vatican archives remain out of bounds but the walk along the path of illumination now that's almost free br br nothing new for those who have read the book other than to see it come alive but for those who haven't this film may just compel you to pick up dan brown's novel just to read a bit more about the significance about the landmarks and characters such as galileo michelangelo and who are intricately linked to the plot but much left unsaid satisfying pop corn entertainment leaving you with nothing spectacular
1	yeah i know my title sucks i couldn't think of any other title x ice is a brilliant first season episode very interesting idea and good acting as well the whole worm looking thing was really creepy in my opinion i've never been a fan of insects so all the insect episodes are creepy to me x anyway lets go on to the good and bad things about this episode br br the good the parasite thing awesome br br scully finally trusting mulder awww 33 br br it was a good idea to put another parasite in the ear though if someone told me they had to put that thing in my ear i think the whole cabin would be dead br br the bad how did the dog stay alive for so long br br how didn't huffman get those black spots or maybe she did but no one saw it br br conclusion very good episode especially for season 1 8 10
1	this definitely the most tension filled x files episode of the first season this episode is what i think of when i hear x files the plot is simple but exiting our main cast plus a few scientist go to investigate an outpost in which it's research team appears to have killed each other it turns out a small parasite that got dug up from the ice had infected the research team the parasite attaches itself to the brain and causes paranoia and insanity soon none can tell who they can trust or who's infected or not br br this episode was a direct tribute to john carpenters great horror film the thing the thing is set in antarctica and a team of scientist find a destroyed outpost in which it's occupant have been killed or killed themselves an alien that had been buried in the ice for a years had been out it has the abilities to imitate any life form therefore the main characters can no longer distinct friends from foes br br believe me the thing is one of the most exiting and tension filled horror movies you'll ever see if you liked the episode ice i advice you to see it or if you have only seen the thing i advice you to see ice br br ice is the best direct tribute homage to john carpenter's the thing i have ever seen and it lives up to it's inspiration as one of the best x files episodes i give it a 10 10
1	this is one of the best episodes from the entire x files series creepy beyond words the tension and suspense in this episode is very well executed in its entire 45 minutes it managed to be almost as scary as an entire movie this episode joins the ranks of best episodes with such greats as home humbug bad blood and for being the best in their respective season br br mulder and growing relationship is put to the test in this episode can they really trust each other this episode also contains a tiny scene that will leave romantic viewers smiling br br mulder bring your
1	okay that was just brilliant i wish that the rest of season 1 had been this strong it really needed more episodes like this br br the cast worked perfectly even though they were all nobodies back in the day writing was fantastic and so was the editing great job in all accounts br br the episode was thrilling suspenseful and just kept you guessing until the very end which is what most episodes had tried but failed until now br br the first five star episode for me really good almost like a movie i didn't even remember it being this good i think it's even better than the great horror movie called 'the thing'
1	i thought i was going to watch another friday the 13th or a halloween rip off but i was surprised it's about 3 psycho kids who kill there's not too many movies like that i can think of mikey children of the corn and a few others it's not the greatest horror movie but it's a least worth a rent
1	fbi agents mulder and scully get assigned to probe the mystery of what happened to an arctic drilling team in this early 'x files' episode that david duchovny himself considers one of their first rockin' episodes it pays loving homage to the much lauded john carpenter 1982 theatrical feature the thing and one can see the similarities visually color and lighting schemes combine to give the story a hellish quality production design art direction are especially impressive the shots of the exterior of the arctic camp are so reminiscent of the earlier film as to automatically create feelings of deja vu for some viewers naturally our heroes are threatened by the weather so the sound design involving wind evokes memories of the thing br br the culprit is an ancient worm that had been exposed to the team once inside a host it stimulates aggressive behavior this allows the paranoia aspect to take full hold and the way the script is set up we can't be too sure of who's infected and who's not this gives rise to the inevitable scene of testing this episode certainly works at portraying the way that tensions can cause breakdowns in groups it even allows mulder and scully to have moments where they're not sure if they can trust each other br br guest starring are a good small group of actors xander berkeley felicity huffman and steve hytner as the scientists obliged to accompany mulder and scully on the mission and jeff kober as the pilot who takes them to the camp you can also see one time jason voorhees portrayer ken as one of the ill fated original team members br br incidentally there's one direct link between and the thing art director murray who worked on both projects br br 8 10
1	this was truly a tense and dark episode excellently executed wonderful acting and atmospheric directing is one of my favorite episodes along with and 'home' these are quite good in dark atmosphere in my case it seem quite realistic to me their paranoia their suspicion and their ever growing rage was perfectly executed by the great actors however had a problem that i got over after a few watches it was too short i wanted more br br overall had what 98 of all x files episodes have excellent acting intense story writing gritty directing all the works br br 10 out of 10
1	ice the limerick br br a virus pulled out of the ice br br just didn't know how to play nice br br if infected you'll kill br br because you are ill br br the cure is to be infected twice br br ice is a great episode one of the greats from season 1 that began shaping the show and if you ask me you really couldn't ask for much better throughout the entire series it starts out with an awesome teaser which in my opinion is really one of the best teasers of the series also a group of scientists in alaska have drilled something out of the ice core which has for some reason caused them to kill each other now mulder and scully are sent with three other scientists to investigate what happened as mulder says this is either because they are brilliant or expendable i take this to mean that they had better be brilliant or else the group soon finds out that the cause of mayhem is a small parasite pulled out of the ice core a little worm that gets into the bloodstream and causes violent behavior since the pilot is infected the rest of the show turns to a suspenseful sort of who done it paranoiac thriller as the others begin to suspect each other of being infected this is not helped at all by an overly paranoid doctor hodge who is un trusting of anyone which we learn early on by the first thing he asks to see everyone's credentials to make sure we are who we say we are events lead to finding out the one who is infected and learning how to cure them br br there are a number of things i like about the episode and of course certain characters that i want to smack in the face from this episode as well as a couple loopholes but most can be attributed to heightened caution and not thinking clearly i like bear from the moment i first meet him its a shame he has to die i also like the scene shown from the other scientist's point of view as mulder and scully argue in the other room it gives an interesting twist to our typical perception as a viewer and for me seems to say maybe we shouldn't assume that just because someone is government means they know all sorts of conspiracy secrets as much as hodges frustrates me in this episode i do think that mulder was as much to blame for some of the rash actions taken as any i really like scully in this episode first of all she can tackle like a frickin linebacker second i really like the focus on her terror of what can happen to them out there and how she tries not to let trust and friendship of mulder keep her from her judgment i love the scene when she goes into the room to sleep and first looks as the picture of the previous group all hugging and the birthday presents from them to whoever used to sleep in that room and then how she suddenly freaks out and pushes the dresser in front of the door and in a final touch of subtlety as she sits on the floor with her knees pulled into her chest we see the bottom of a poster on the wall that says bosom buddies this is such great writing a way to say without any words that scully is worried that she may not be able to trust even her very best friend br br unfortunately this heightened suspicion leads the group to believe mulder to be infected since he murphy's dead body even though they haven't inspected him at all to find out for sure that was my main problem with the behavior of the characters is they could easily have solved all the suspicion simply by giving blood but i guess i probably would have acted rashly in that situation too but then stupid hodges decides that he has to assume mulder is infected even though mulder willingly surrenders and then is going willingly to be inspected and almost infects mulder in the process luckily he sees that it is really dasilva that is infected and we finally reach a resolution at least as much as you can expect from an x file the government wastes no time in torching the evidence as always happens in these cases and mulder is left with yet another frustrating unsolved case in closing i give ice and easy 10 10 and i leave you with a haiku br br we're not who we are it goes no further than this it ends right here right now
1	wow it's hard to put into words my feelings for this episode ice is one of the best episodes of season one for sure it's my favorite of the season six people and a dog in a claustrophobic structure isolated in the middle of the arctic with an unknown organism that causes murderous aggression the drama can't get any better than that paranoia reigns supreme as even mulder and scully have doubts about each other's sanity i've heard people complain about this episode's similarities to the movie 'the thing' i haven't seen it so i wouldn't know ice is more than worth watching just to see mulder and scully truly testing their still developing trust of one another this episode is intense and suspenseful to the end you won't be disappointed
1	a true stand out episode from season 1 is what ice is an artic location claustrophobic conditions and a general feel of paranoia looming in the freezing air makes this is a must see episode from season one the previous occupants of the artic station mulder scully and four others go to have either killed each other or killed themselves a virus is bringing out murderous aggression and is responsible for bringing out deadly paranoia and fear mulder and scully actually begin to question each others sanity tension is that high the writers have to receive great credit for creating that sort of scenario where the atmosphere is so tense mulder and scully come into conflict in such a direct manner
1	a team varied between scully and mulder two other scientists a pilot and the guy who plays bana on seinfeld go up to an arctic research post where all members have died off by either killing each other or killing themselves they discover there's a worm a virus that is parasitic to the point of madness and death the problem is after a certain dog lashes out anyone could be infected but who this is not just my favorite episode of season 1 but also one of my favorites from the show the arctic environment the characters and of course like carpenter's the thing it's a lot of fun watching these even tempered characters suddenly start to flip out in dramatic scenes and the visual effects of the worm and its effects under the skin are cheesy i didn't mind them at all the drama between the characters ends up working more than it would usually because of the tension and because all of the actors including the bana guy understand what's going on in the story and as usual i loved the ambiguity of the ending highly recommended
1	this isn't a bad tv movie is short for which means penal such were formed due to the increasing demand for soldiers as the soviet union was taking heavy casualties all through out the war these consisted of convicts and dishonored soldiers who were given the chance to clear their names by proving themselves in combat they were looked down upon as scum and were expended easily during combat without much regret or much honor on the part of military they were often sent on suicide missions and suffered extreme casualties the ones who refused to fight were executed on sight needless to say their lives sucked br br there were some very nice performances by the cast especially by who played aleksandr who played and roman who played major however the series isn't really that addictive in part because it's too long it could've a lot shorter and as effective br br although it's about war has very mild violence and pretty much no gore it relies solely on the actors to make it work and after all it's a tv series so the producers didn't want to scare off the viewers and the sponsors br br explores the cruelty of the soviet regime and why so many men chose to fight the nazis instead of joining them personally i'd rather be a fascist then a communist given the circumstances presented in the film one character explains that the soviets stripped his farm clean and his family died of starvation out of anger he burned it down which got him arrested for destroying property and he ended up in the penal battalion as a criminal reminisced on how his mother killed her youngest son to feed the rest of the family both men explained that they fought for their motherland rather than the for the soviets br br the penal battalion had one marine naval infantry who raped a girl killing his comrade in the threatened his other comrade to keep his mouth shut about both ordeals and then feigned injury when it came to fighting on top of all that the girl committed suicide due to shame i imagine if enough marines watched this movie they'd pick up banners and riot on the streets calling for a boycott or an official apology from the producers br br to say the least i'd recommend it to anyone with the slightest interest in the former soviet union or world war ii i don't think i wasted 500 minutes of my life
1	penal battalion is a moving and mostly honest look at the lives and deaths of soviet soldiers who were sentenced to wash away their crimes with blood during world war two one can almost call it the russian equivalent of highly acclaimed band of brothers miniseries br br formed in july of 1942 on the eve of battle of stalingrad the penal were considered expendable units and suffered horrible casualties sometimes as high as 90 prisoners of gulag political prison concentration camps soldiers who were captured by germans but managed to escape soldiers accused of protocol were all given a chance to join the and prove that there were not traitors of the motherland with their lives those who sustained injuries and those who died in battle were considered rehabilitated and were reinstated in the eyes of the law br br this miniseries features a look at one such under the command of an honorable officer who was captured by the germans was shot and left for dead it features a colorful and varied group of people thrust into a situation from which there is no escape the authoritative yet honorable crime boss the fist and his little gang of criminals a young jewish intellectual who struck his anti semite officer father orthodox priest mikhail who joins the battalion when his parish is destroyed in the house to house fighting political prisoners who hate the regime that condemned them to the gulag but who are nonetheless willing to fight one last time for their people and country must all find their courage and their reasons to keep on living and to keep on fighting br br although set during a war not every episode features combat in fact what combat scenes there are are often chaotic sporadic and short which was probably the intent of the director in between the miniseries focuses on various relationships between the cast their backgrounds their thoughts and tragedies the rape of a young woman by one of soldier and then his execution execution for supposed awol periods of boredom on the march the celebration and subsequent consequences of finding a german bunker stocked with food and champagne the moral dilemma of officers unable to save their men from their own superiors cheating on a spouse and other situations feature prominently the camera is unflinching it does not turn away from the ugliness of war and the ugliness of human nature nor from raw human emotions the dialog likewise does not censor out the swearing br br the acting is superb and deep and the script is likewise well written everything from rage to weariness to resignation to finding a scrap of joy to hang on to is rendered almost one complaint might be that some of russian linguistic and cultural idiosyncrasies may not always be understood by someone not familiar with the language and culture because it is a history drama in a sense some of the terms and situations military rank mention of other battles certain historical references may be lost on some viewers this understanding is not needed to thoroughly enjoy but these references are a nice touch of authenticity another complain that could be is an occasional anachronism and bending of history to suit the plot but frankly this is such a riveting miniseries that one will likely forgive these slight mishaps
1	is the story only russians could tell about the second world war the largest front of the whole conflict has been ironically the least appearing subject on the silver screen after the war while the western allies war effort has been pictured in almost every possible detail and manner the east has been left out or the job has been left to only some old propaganda movies of little else than historical footage value br br there is no chance that could compete with band of brothers in every detail but neither you want to look at the screen with examining petty visual effects in mind that the soldiers are russians is enough big reason to forgive the less eye captivating battle scenes and you can concentrate on the story that is the most interesting so much different was the war in the eastern front and the nature of the russian army that you might wish people to produce more dramatizations from the other fronts and of armies br br is no way perfect but it has some rare specialties that augment the overall rating it tends to crush myths people have about the second world war the true heroes were russian people and not their leaders who sent them to missions where they could only perish another great myth bust is that it presents the enemy who does not pick up his gun as an equal human being an advancement that has been difficult to try in many acclaimed films as well shows how the war in the eastern front was a war of survival and how the clash of the isms grinds people into dust
1	many experienced and excellent actors mixed together in an ongoing plot of an untold part of world war ii on the eastern front characters well portrayed and unforgettable one episode leaves you wishing for the next pay attention to the closing credits were the thousands of are listed an untold story involving hundreds of thousands of individuals sometimes brutal sometimes romantic always filled with real people and dialog produced with excellent sets and camera work heroes and villains criminals and priests patriots and traitors portrait of people struggling to survive and overcome a most terrible time i wish to buy a copy for my own collection so to be able to enjoy the series repeatedly
1	three kids are born during a solar eclipse and turn into vile murderous little tykes who're above suspicion by everyone save for joyce lori and her younger brother timmy that's the story in a nutshell the acting in this one is tolerable for the most part notable for mtv j julie brown not the one showing some skin and a very early part albiet small for michael dudikoff not a great film by any stretch of the imagination but in the 'killer kids' sub genre it's a bit of a guilty pleasure br br eye candy julie brown shows t a the only film thus far to claim that honor sylvia wright gets topless br br dvd extras r1 16 minute interview with producer max rosenberg wherein he insults the director and canada great stuff biography of ed hunt and trailers for kiss of the don't open the door a red band one for homework which features nudity br br my grade b
1	with the war not going well for the soviet union stalin accepted volunteers from the prisons and used the prisoners as shock troops this is the story of one such battalion there are petty crooks political prisoners soldiers kicked out of other units gray haired veterans of the white army plus some dangerous criminals br br they are thrown into battle ill equipped untrained and face the threat of the nkvd if they show signs of cowardice or failure br br the special effects are rudimentary and many of the minor characters are one dimensional but the overall story is very human and riveting br br i have not seen a version with subtitles or dubbing viewing the show required liberal use of the pause button and explanations from a native speaker of russian
1	rififi directed by jules dassin is in line with the melville crime pictures particularly bob le and to a point le rouge of being totally focused on story and character and making sure not a word is spoken that doesn't need and was ahead of its time it still has a kind of professionalism among its characters a kind of respect if not for selves than for others a kind of duty that rings well in post ww2 france its actors carry faces for these characters that say 'we know what these guys are about' and from there the story takes off maybe it's because i have a weak spot for heist pictures particularly where we see just the nuts and bolts err actual physical side of how a heist is pulled off br br one of the problems with how the actual heist is filmed in today's movies is that it's all very fast i e snatch or done in ways we've seen too many times before dassin like melville years later decided to create practically a silent film of a heist sound effects included the tension that builds up in this scene may not top what melville had in but on its own level it achieves its own greatness and momentum and just as crucial originality to what's been done before there are some kept close ups for example as the safe is being cracked that mark some of the best i've seen from france at that time an added plus for the film aside from the larval stage new wave touch to the film which in the end makes it a little more modern is that the story works so well and differently it becomes completely about character at points and then keeps up the thrills the last ten to fifteen minutes are down right miraculous like with another classic heist picture the asphalt jungle it's not even the last stop that matters but all about how much one will go past the call of duty putting humanism over greed br br you almost wonder in all the exhilaration of the camera flying by the trees at a high speed with the car that he might just make it dassin has here a very entertaining and intuitive film of its genre with a nifty little musical number as well
1	fantastic movie one of the best film noir movies ever made bad guys bad girls a jewel heist a twisted morality a kidnapping everything is here jean has a face that would make bogart proud and the rest of the cast is is full of character actors who seem to to know they're onto something good get some popcorn and have a great time
1	run don't walk to rent this movie it is re released on an excellent dvd version it is primo acting directing cinematography in the world of suspense film noir tribute this to the blacklisted american director jules dassin who also plays the italian safe cracker see it
1	the ultimate gritty heist film elements of bogie welles sinatra will leave you sweating satisfied in comparison it really upsets the proverbial apple cart to see recent films such as oceans eleven remake reviewed in such high regard especially in europe films like rififi must be shown spoke about and kept alive to remind younger pathetic critics what true classic noir is br br criterion should be commended in their flawless and classy transfer
1	rififi is a great film that is overlooked it's a crime drama where a man gets out of jail and plans another job it's an over used story but this one is different from the others they round up the usual suspects for the job this film takes a look at how the family gets torn apart as time goes on the actual heist scene is one of the best i have ever seen instead of a suspenseful soundtrack the director decided to go with silence around thirty minutes of silence this fits the mood perfectly and is often copied these days of course things get out of hand and people die and it ends in a great ending that builds up in suspense br br so if you're looking for a great film noir that not a lot of people talk about this is a great pick up
1	rififi is a terrific heist movie and one from which subsequent heist films have drawn ever since jules dassin had a feel for the seedy underworld in which these thieves live you will not find here the hollywood glamour of ocean's eleven the robbers in rififi don't rob for the thrill and they're not playing a game they rob to survive to pay for their children's upbringing to prove to themselves and others that they still have something to offer the world the much lauded heist scene is a nail biter filmed in virtual silence i did have the feeling that the plot went on a bit longer than it needed to but the high speed race to deliver the child to his mother that ends the film is classic br br be warned this movie is very bleak but it's also very good br br grade a
1	what a gas of a movie film noir has always been one of my favorite genres but this one stands apart from the rest only the big sleep out of the past murder my sweet and the killers can come close to this caper classic i know these four american films i mentioned are not caper movies per se but rather detective stories with complicated story lines which still exude a gritty quality about them similar to rififi br br what is different here is the way jules dassin sets into motion the total ambiance of the film not only in the gritty realism of the principals but also in the usage of the streets of paris as a subliminal character and co conspirator unto itself the movie centers around le a dark moody and complicated ex con getting pulled into one last shot at the hefty payoff even though he is an unsmiling and hard nosed tough guy one still senses in him a yearning for some kind of redemption by himself from the demons of his past hey he saved little toni dassin picked the right guy jean for that role br br that aside the rest of the story development kind of falls into place as we journey through the famous silent caper scene to the the eventual demise of the principal perps only their women survive except for ida mario's honey they seemed to best understand the underlying futility of it all
1	to start with i have done some further research on the film jules dassin directed and acted in this extremely imaginative and different film noir crime film secondly this was a very low budget film created in the rennaissance of the prime moment of film noir thirdly the where the robbery was attempted is an actual the producers of rififi asked them to film their surprisingly i quote jules dassin in a recent interview on the subject surprisingly for some not very obvious reason they were delighted at the idea of a crime film being set in their shop br br it's impeccable characters and plot fit in so beautifully with their surroundings to add on to my praise i will say this some might say that this was a typical hollywood film on the contrary this set the base for the regular plot of a hollywood crime film br br i would like to say that i support this fresh idea of a film where not only one side wins and that side doesn't always have to be the good one for once i can say that a film is not predictable ten stars
1	this 1955 heist film follows tony le recently released from prison for theft as he undertakes the robbery of his life he teams up with his old heist buddies and they bring in an expert safe cracker cesar from milan played by jules dassin who also directed he only directed because he had been blacklisted as a communist in the u s and couldn't work in hollywood the brilliance of this film is the 1 2 hour during the robbery during all this time there is no dialogue and no music only the muted sounds of digging through the floor or drilling the safe this increases the suspense and draws you in they get away with several hundred million francs worth of jewels but a jewel offered to a dancer by cesar brings their haul to the attention of a trio of brutal brothers they set out to get the stash for themselves and bring misfortune in their wake great heist gangster movie but i prefer j p melville's films in this genre br br this movie is like some lemonade i had last night i had gone to a caribbean restaurant and the lemonade was made with sugar cane juice instead of sugar it also had a lot of ice and was heavy on the lemons leaving it fairly sour which i like the sugar cane juice imparted a subtle slightly more mellow taste to it than actual sugar and the ice made sure it was cold and refreshing as i sucked it down 7 5 10 http blog myspace com locoformovies
1	three children are born during a solar eclipse and ten years later this has somehow caused them to grow up without as their simultaneous tenth birthday celebrations approach they become cunning and calculating cold blooded murderers nice girl local teen joyce russel lori finds herself confronting these little terrors when most others are falling for their angelic br br hearkening back to films like the bad seed and village of the damned this films' premise of evil children may not be wholly original but it's still pretty disturbing all three of the child actors elizabeth hoy billy jacoby and andy freeman are chillingly convincing director ed hunt and his co writer barry pearson maintain the unpleasant yet compelling mood for the duration of the film they go so far as to have the little girl charge admission for an unwilling peep show involving her older sister future stand up comedienne and mtv personality julie brown whose striptease is a real eyeful br br name actors susan strasberg as an icy teacher and jose ferrer with barely any screen time as a doctor add to the proceedings with their presence while k c martel one of the youngsters from the original the amityville horror is very likable as kid brother other familiar faces like ellen geer b movie he man michael dudikoff cyril o'reilly porky's dance of the damned joe penny 'jake and the and william the hidden can be seen as well br br touching upon such parental fears as children playing with guns that they've discovered and being locked inside old refrigerators bloody birthday is a little more than just a slasher variation with kids as antagonists aided and abetted by arlon obers' music score this film sticks in the memory more than some of its brethren without lots of gore to fall back on although that arrow through the eye gag works quite well br br bleak nasty and downbeat bloody birthday is worth a look for the curious br br 7 10
1	american expatriate jules dassin makes an award winning french gangster film the plot involves tony the a hoodlum just out of prison who takes his band of thieves on a 240 million jewel heist unfortunately his ex wife's relationship with a notorious gangster named an italian safe cracker named cesar with a weakness for women and the missteps of his own friend jo cause the successful heist to turn into a bloody race against time as holds jo's son hostage for the cash in typical crime never pays tragedy fashion br br the rififi in the title is explained in a song to mean slang for basically violence and sex and the full title du rififi chez les means roughly some naughty in the house of men which is pretty much where the fatal flaw of the characters take place leave it to a gangster film to place most of the emphasis on the missteps on the women but this time jo's wife gets the last laugh if you could call it a laugh when she predicts all of you are just going to kill each other the characters aren't the most sympathetic and the women are mostly weak but dassin still builds an extremely well crafted suspense film out of them as they pull off a heist that requires the utmost quiet hide the goods and then attempt to survive what basically becomes a cross country cat and mouse game in the mix are some very amazing photography and a fine attention to detail in editing leading to a pacing and visual experience that well overstates the otherwise generic plot it's not only easy to see why this is held as a classic it's also easy to see why it's among the top 250 on the imdb it's suspenseful visually magnificent full of sex and violence and maintains that classy gangster attitude we film buffs like so much
1	there are not many films which i would describe as perfect but rififi definitely fits the bill no other heist film has come close to it before or after the plot is simple but engrosses you it never ceases to amaze me how absolutely gripping the film is every time you view it you care for all the characters even though they are bank robbers because they are presented as human beings with all their problems and flaws it's hard to imagine any other actor besides jean in the role of tony le when the members of the crew are each talking about what they are going to do with their money and finally get to tony his answer and the expression on his face says it all while the 30 minute heist sequence is the most famous part of the movie and rightfully so the film actually gets better afterward the director jules dassin knew what he was doing when he decided to not have any music during the heist scene or the final shootout but instead inserted a great climactic score during tony's final ride towards his destiny to think that if dassin an american director had not been blacklisted in hollywood and forced to work in france this masterpiece of cinema would never have been made the way it was it certainly wouldn't have been as good if it was made as an american film during that time it was absolutely horrible what dassin had to go through but he did achieve his greatest work because of it to the benefit of all of us i'm just cringing at the thought of the upcoming al pacino remake most heist films since rififi have already borrowed from it in some way or another there's no reason to remake this masterpiece other than money leave the classics alone
1	you can take the crook out of the joint but it seems exceedingly more difficult to take the joint out of the crook we've seen this kind of character in this kind of situation before and since in movies like bob le elevator to the gallows pas au the anderson tapes etc too many times to mention what helps make this one one of the more notable is of course the heist itself which plays out in real time and the demeanor of the lead bogart would think twice before crossing this guy the ironic ending is perfectly suited to this story it almost demands it all around one of the better films noir
1	it's a mystery to me as to why i haven't caught up to this masterful 50s caper film – turned brooding noir until now but i'm certainly glad to report that it didn't disappoint i haven't seen any of jules dassin's american films for several years but based on this i'll probably be going back and re watching brute force and night and the city quite soon br br jean a name unknown to me but a face rather familiar in its world weariness and coldness has recently completed a lengthy stay in prison and as is the way in these films hey there wouldn't be a story otherwise isn't coping well with the straight life an opportunity presents itself an easy multi million dollar jewel heist that can be done at night with no fear of discovery by a few men the taut filming of the robbery half an hour of total silence is what people most remember about the film of course and indeed it's pretty remarkable but i liked the half completed location of the final shootout once the robbery has gone sour thanks to the big mouth of one of the thieves the excellent portrayal gritty sides of paris in stark black and white and channeling of both eddie constantine and humphrey bogart in his spare but brutal performance br br perhaps it's a bit too sentimental in the end but this is one of those classics that really does live up to its reputation just as pure entertainment even if what it has to say about the human condition isn't exactly deep or thought provoking george at turns modernist romantic and jazzy score is another highlight
1	i have been wanting to see this since my french teacher recommend it to me over forty years ago perhaps the long wait was worth it since the criterion collection dvd restoration is impressive br br in its outline this movie follows the time worn script a quartet of men diligently plot a difficult heist of a bank vault the heist takes place a small seemingly insignificant event leads to the ultimate demise of all even though the heist footage is transfixing it occurs rather early and is ultimately not at the core of the film this film separates itself from the typical heist movie by giving us insights into the personalities of the characters and their motivations its plays as much as a drama as it does a thriller relationships play a big role and a kidnapping is tacked on giving us two movies for the price of one br br john plays the idea man tony le always referred to as le with such world weariness that he could have just stepped out of a camus novel tony has just recently gotten out of jail and resists re entering the life of crime until he has a highly unpleasant interaction with his ex lover who has taken up with another man where as punishment he physically whips her with a belt thankfully that scene occurs off camera but you are not likely to forget it after that sobering event since there seems little hope of reviving that relationship tony meets with two of his old partners in crime jo and mario and decides to join them in one last big heist they enlist the services of cesar an italian safe cracker played by director dassin himself and we are off to the heist br br the heist goes off without a hitch but womanizing bent is a personality trait that turns out to be fatal for all concerned however we can understand his attraction to the nightclub singer he has fallen for since there is a brilliant set piece where she performs a sexy and cinematically inspired nightclub act it has to be one of the most memorable scenes from any noir film br br it is established early on that tony has a close relationship with jo and his family in fact jo's son refers to him as uncle i think it is partly to help jo's family that tony agrees to the heist the ending scenes where tony saves the life of jo's kidnapped son partially redeems his more brutal and amoral actions but only partially
1	the fact that after 50 years it is still a highly watchable movie says a lot about it it is more intelligent and interesting than almost all recent movies of the same genre you can find and has a certain endearing feeling of innocence to it i am not a big fan of this type of movies but i could watch the whole thing without being bored which makes it a good movie to watch with someone who does not necessarily share your taste in films i liked the black and white palette the excellent casting the clever heist scene that keeps you guessing about what trick they will pull next and the ending like everyone else watching the heist sequence makes one realize the power of silence which is unfortunately so underused in today's cinema
1	i heard they were going to remake this french classic in 2007 and i see it is in development for this will be a shame as hollywood kicked writer director jules dassin out because of the infamous blacklist they should not have the right to remake any of his films br br i love caper films and film noir and this combines the best of both br br tony jean gets out after doing a and after he beats up his old girlfriend marie he plans a big score with his friends mario robert manuel and jo carl what makes this a great caper flick is the attention to detail in planning the robbery you see that reflected in the george clooney vegas capers nothing is left to chance br br the caper goes off great but marcel sends his sons robert hossein and pierre after tony and the gang after blowing it with mario they kidnap jo's son lots of bullets fly before it is over br br a great film by a great director the standard by which other caper films are measured
1	in order to pull off a job like this caper in rififi e g the score and its opines one has to have nerves of steel this one apparently demands and commands it jules dassin is the master br br i was on the edge of my seat throughout it deserves to be better known even though it was not at the time of its release in 1954 due one supposes to the director being blacklisted in the hypocritical hollywood of its day br br i would recommend this film to anyone who has not has the pleasure of seeing it br br i cannot give it enough stars
1	after seeing naked city and night and the city which is still my favorite dassin i was more than excited to watch his masterpiece o word criterion rififi br br now i am a little bit disappointed about the story br br so i have at least these five questions in my mind br br 1 in the final countdown louis shot from the inside a house the main character tony le he couldn't know if he is still alive or not but he didn't care about it and ran directly after it outside the house with the money to reach his car so of course tony wasn't dead and shot him big br br 2 in another important scene the specialist in cesar gave directly after the robbery as a present a diamond ring which was a part of the robbery a woman which was working for louis in a night bar stupid because before this character wasn't that stupid and of course louis knew directly that tony planned the jewel robbery small br br 3 after the gangsters behind louis murder mario and his wife tony and his best friend joe planned a revenge against louis gang at the same time they don't care for the security of joe's wife and his five years old child of course louis gang kidnapped the son cheap and simple br br 4 the perfect heist of course this is the best 30min long scene in the whole plot without any word spoken in the whole time but was this a perfect heist comparing with other movies which handle with this theme i could only smile when for example tony was taken a fire extinguisher to banned the alarm also too simple br br 5 the gang went to the house of mario because they knew however the jewels will be there then they murder mario and his wife and then they are not searching for it no they ran directly out of the apartment and more they not observing the apartment after it so tony can go after a while which was the same day inside to take the jewels big br br over all it's a good movie because of the brilliant 30min silent heist scene because of the very good cut the end scene in the car through paris is stunning because of a very good actor called jean because of this black white fever you will get while watching it because of some other reasons too other user wrote about but please don't tell me this is a stunning story
1	a recent re issue of the french crime film original title rififi chez les with its famous 20 minute silent jewel heist sequence now comes in the us in a gorgeous new print from the criterion collection with improved subtitles and some extras jules dassin was an american born julius dassin in connecticut who was forced to make films in europe because he was blacklisted rififi was well publicized in the us and did well in art houses later dassin became a lot more famous in the us for 'never on sunday' 1960 starring his wife the greek actress and political activist melina greece was again glamorized and popularized for americans and others with anthony quinn in 1964 the which was even a big hit in cairo the new rififi dvd includes a recent interview with dassin i did not previously realize that one of the main robbers cesar the milanese was played by dassin who stepped in when the original actor became unavailable he's one of the most memorable characters a dandified italian safe cracker who speaks no french br br although this classic has all the trappings of french film noir the black and white twilight world of well lit apartments shiny black cars men in suits the nightclub scenes including a dramatically filmed and lit title song performed at the club the stony faces and the in hand or mouth i don't think it's as atmospheric or has quite as distinctive a style as melville's films do but there's the mesmerizing robbery which still holds up today as a tour de force it goes like clockwork with a fine sense of craft and teamwork among the robbers some nosy cops are efficiently dealt with things quickly go wrong after they go home and distribute the loot when one of the players gets sloppy and gives a dame a ring with a million dollar in it has there ever been a heist film whose perps lived happily ever after br br it's the wordless heist sequence that guarantees this a special place and dassin an american director who had an unusually varied and exotic career deserves full credit for that he took a novel so conventional he was going to reject it and added some key elements that make it special in the event he couldn't pass on doing the adaptation he needed the money too much jean who plays the lead character tony le was an actor rather down on his luck his grim face is perfect for the role he was later to play the lead in dassin's he who must die 1957 which used french actors in greece for a political tale is a somewhat disappointing 1964 caper film it pales compared to that also got us distribution it does have a good setting but it's wasted gone all bland and bright and of dassin's post hollywood oeuvre 'never on sunday ' with its catchy theme song and charismatic heroine is the popular choice and won best film at cannes 1960 'he who must die' the political choice the genre choice an odd piece is his with and tony perkins 1962 purists of tough guy hollywood genre work would eschew these and favor dassin's early films which include a prison drama force' 1947 a cop flick 'the naked city' 1948 and two hard core noirs highway' 1949 and 'night and the city' 1950 personally i tend to like french noir and american neo noir spinoffs better than the original american noir source material hence my enduring fascination with but dassin is rather unique in having not only made hollywood noir but then going over to paris and producing a memorable example of its fifties french derivative
1	story about three eclipse maybe even indigo ha children beginning their love for murder oh and the people who are hot on their trail br br bloody birthday a pretty mediocre title for the film was a nice lil surprise i was in no way expecting a film that dealt with blood thirsty psychopath kids and i may say it's also one of the best flicks i've seen with kids as the villains by the end of the movie i seriously wanted these kids to die in horrible fashion br br it's a really solid 80s horror flick but how these kids are getting away with all this mayhem and murder is just something that you can't not think about even the slightest bit of investigation would easily uncover these lil sh ts as the murderers but there seems to be only a couple police in town well by the end only one and he seemed like a dimwit so i suppose they could have gotten away with it haha yeah and i'm a chinese jet pilot br br nevertheless this movie delivered some kids who were more than entertaining a lot of premarital sex and a decent amount of boobage no if you're put off by the less than stellar title dash it from your mind and give this flick a shot it's a very recommendable and underrated 80s horror flick
1	du rififi chez les is a brilliant film which studies criminal minds and allows viewers to have a better understanding of criminals who are fundamentally not different from ordinary folks like us what director jules dassin shows is that criminal do have families and they care a lot for them that is why they adhere to a strict code of honor for them a family is not only made up of wives mistresses and children but also include casual acquaintances and close friends contrary to what many might find it hard to believe jules dassin has not tried to glorify crime in his film as rififi makes it clear that crime never pays it shows that all kinds of bad activities result in some kind of human loss apart from its philosophical stance is worth watching for its technical finesse while watching one of the film's most brilliant sequences about breaking of a safe one would find it hard to believe meticulous precision with which criminal minds execute their plans this is a scene which nobody has dared to copy in hollywood
1	as far as i am concerned this film noir had two totally different things going for it as opposed to the film noirs i am used to viewing 1 the setting is paris france 2 there is 28 minute scene with no dialog br br both make this movie a bit unique at least to english speaking film noir fans actually an american jules shot the film so it's not entirely a european film initially i was disappointed in this after i had watched the first 40 minutes it's an expensive dvd and i was bored however once that silent segment started the actual heist you already know what's it about the film picked up considerably and just got better and better br br in fact i thought the best part of the story was what happened after the heist the best aspect of the entire film was the cinematography this is what makes the disc worth owning it's excellent film noir photography and a real travelogue for those of us who have never seen paris and this is paris in the mid 1950s there are lots of bleak but interesting rain soaked paris streets and buildings i found fascinating to view in fact there were many more of those great shots than of london in the much better known film the third man br br the lead actor in here jean i think his name is also is interesting to view someone described his face as a cross between humphrey bogart and harry dean stanton and that sums it up perfectly a warning for those not expecting profanity or nudity in a classic film this is france not the united states so there is a little bit of both in here i appreciate the dvd offering the choice of subtitles or a dubbed version too
1	if the caper genre owes a lot to walter huston it also has a debt of gratitude to jules dassin a man that was ahead of his times and who suffered a lot because of his blacklisting when edward accused him of being a communist the end of his american career would have meant the end of mr dassin but moving to europe proved he was bigger than the same people that had contributed to his hollywood demise br br rififi is an elegant film in which all the right elements come together thanks to mr dassin's vision he decided to adapt auguste le novel because he saw the possibilities for turning it into a caper film that became an instant classic jules dassin was penniless in paris when he discovered the city that were going to serve as the background to his film the bad weather paid off for mr dassin as the streets were always wet and not much had to be done to show them that way br br when we first meet tony he is playing cards tony appears to be in bad health he coughs all the time and sweats profusely after losing all his money he goes to see jo the swede who tells him about a possibility for a robbery at maupin webb the fancy jewelry store at a tony section of paris they pass the idea through mario who suggests cesar the milanese an expert safe cracker br br tony who has come out of prison recently learns that his former lover is now with a creep that owns a night club upon confronting instead of love all he feels is contempt and the meeting ends badly and he throws her out of his place has no love for tony who is his natural enemy because of his connection with br br when the day arrives the gang is able to get to the apartment building where on the second floor right above the jewelry store the owner lives but he is away everything goes well and the gang gets away with the jewels cesar the milanese a typical ladies' man takes a ring as a souvenir which in turn he gives the chanteuse at the night club this tactical mistake is the spark which unravels the well thought plan br br jean made an excellent tony he showed a tired man who was possibly doing his last robbery carl robert manuel and the director jules dassin are seen as jo mario and cesar the quartet jewelry thieves marie plays marcel plays with a subdued intensity robert hussein who would go to direct movies later on makes an impression with his remi one of men br br the film best asset is the great camera work by philippe who captured the atmosphere of paris and the locales where all these criminals operate from georges music plays well with the action in the film jules dassin was peculiar in his choice of films that he directed and unfortunately that is our loss because this man was a genius as proved mainly with the naked city night and the city and rififi
1	this film is a work of pure class from start to finish for a moment forget the famous 28 minute no dialog heist forget that it's set in paris and forget it's noir the film itself the premise and the execution make this a pure gold experience it's sharp intelligent and thought through in great detail just like the heist itself it portrays real characters that are not only believable but whom you empathize with it's a film that doesn't glamorize the notion of a robbery but shows it for what it is theft it shows that a heist is hard work and ultimately not worth doing now all things considered put on top of that a daring 28 minute sequence with not a word spoken and set in gorgeous paris with truly great attention to detail and fantastic cinematography and that last scene when you look up and see those trees wonderful use of raw and basic filming techniques it is a master piece in my view and i'm glad to have seen it
1	the minutiae of what's involved in carrying out a robbery is what makes this one of the best of all heist movies then there's the robbery itself a wordless thirty minute nail biter that has never been surpassed followed by what is probably the cinema's most pronounced example of dishonor among thieves as things begin to spectacularly unravel and we have what is unquestionably the greatest of all heist movies br br this was a tough and unsentimental film when it first appeared in 1955 and it is just as tough and unsentimental today it displays some of the edgy brutality of dassin's earlier brute force there isn't a flabby moment or duff performance in the entire film and dassin captures the milieu of seedy clubs and parisian back streets like no one else and the final drive through paris by a dying man is one of the most iconic closing sequences of any movie a classic
1	or vice versa br br this is a french film noir directed by an american film maker jules dassin who had to leave the country because of being blacklisted by hollywood thanks to huac the premise of the story is rather familiar one last jewel heist for tony le and his buds and so is the ending with everybody getting well no spoilers here for sure since this is the sort of film in which tension toward the ending is important br br dassin filmed in realistic lighting in black and white on the streets of paris using actors and actresses who are not glamorous the engaging sometimes intruding score by georges nicely enhances the movie and will remind viewers of many a similar score from american film noirs from the forties and early fifties jean plays the hardcore consumptive lead in a fedora much as humphrey bogart might have played him tony's recently out of prison past his prime but still tough and decisive when he has to be his mind still sharp when focused the kind of anti hero whose eyes water even though the tears will never fall br br dassin plays the italian and would be ladies man who knows the rules but gets careless br br in film noir we are forced by the logic and focus of the film to identify with the bad guys often there are levels of bad guys the good bad guys we are identifying with and the bad bad guys who are out to do in our good bad guys and then maybe there's a really bad bad bad guy or two here we have remi played by robert hossein a slightly sadistic druggie then there are the cops who are irrelevant or nearly so in more modern film noir the bad guys are not even good bad guys and they get away with it or something close to that in the old film noir which evolved from the gangster films of the thirties the usual motto following the old hollywood code was crime doesn't pay with every criminal having to pay for his or her crime before the end of the movie br br probably the most impressive feature of rififi is how nicely the film moves along the plot unfolds quickly and seamlessly much the way the great film directors always did it directors like stanley kubrick louis malle and the best of hitchcock some have actually compared this to kubrick's the killing 1956 and suggest that kubrick stole a little well directors always steal if need be and there are some perhaps telling similarities such as it being one last heist for the protagonist and having the girl gum up the works the similarities may go deeper because as this film was nearing its end i suddenly thought oh no the suitcase in the back seat is going to fly out of the convertible hit the ground burst open and all the money is going to fly into the air those of you who have seen the killing may recall what happened to the money near the end of the film which reminds me of another film with something bad happening to the money oliver stone's u turn 1997 starring sean penn there the money in his backpack gets blown to smithereens by a shotgun blast ha ha ha getting the dubbed version of this film would be an act of sacrilege since the dialogue when there is some the heist itself is done entirely without dialogue about 30 minutes worth is terse and easy to follow requiring only an occasional glance at the subtitles which by the way are quite utilitarian and guiding as opposed to having every word spelled out br br one other thing all the brutality is done as sex used to be done in film that is off camera a guy gets his throat slit we don't see it i kind of like this approach we don't have to see the gore you could almost let your kids see rififi almost br br catch this one now and be on the lookout for a hollywood reprise starring al pacino and directed by harold becker coming out next year in which you can be sure that the violent scenes will be played out in full
1	after five years in prison tony le jean meets his dearest friends jo carl and the italian mario robert manuel and they invite tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show window of the famous jewelry webb ltd but he declines tony finds his former girlfriend marie who became the lover of the gangster owner of the night club l' d' or louis pierre and he humiliates her beating on her back and taking her jewels then he calls jo and mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry they invite the italian specialist in and elegant wolf cesar vita to join their team and they plot a perfect heist they are successful in their plan but the d juan cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress br br du rififi chez les is a magnificent film noir certainly among the best i have seen the screenplay has credibility supported by an awesome direction of jules dassin stunning performances of the cast and great cinematography jean has outstanding performance in the role of a criminal with principles guided by the underworld rules the famous long silent sequence of the heist is amazing and extremely tense and certainly among the best ones of the cinema history i am listing this great movie in my list of favorite movies ever my vote is ten br br title brazil rififi
1	i see alot of movies at the cinema 103 so far this year and i have to say that this is by far and away the best film i have seen this year even though it was released back in 1954 br br i sat in awe and watched this work of genius and felt quite ashamed that i had never even heard of it before my local art house cinema decided to show it for a week on what looked like a new print br br the best part of the whole movie has to be the 28 minute break in where there is no speech and no music merely the sound of the men carrying out the heist pure quality br br although really dark in places it is lightened with the dry humour br br not many films score 10 out of 10 but this does and also gets a gold star for effort br br if you ever get a chance to see this movie please do not hesitate it's a classic br br
1	rififi jules dassin france 1955 br br to me it seems a very risky idea to attempt a hollywood remake of jules dassin's 1955 classic rififi planned for release in 2007 al pacino apparently is gonna play the lead taking on the role of tony le risky business how they're gonna pull this off br br ironically dassin was blacklisted in hollywood and went on to try his luck in france and made this little masterpiece aptly called by some the of all caper and heist movies in my opinion it remains a one of a kind classic beautifully filmed with one of the most memorable endings ever to be put on film whatever one's opinion of the film br br in the last couple of years rififi has become dangerously overpraised nevertheless this french noir classic shouldn't be forgotten go see it before the remake is out there in order to have some ammunition for comparing the two br br camera obscura 9 10
1	rififi deservedly gets a lot of mention for the famous heist scene and indeed that scene deserves all the credit it gets it's a masterful piece of suspense character interaction and photography but rififi isn't just this one scene every scene in the film is as masterfully put together and as a whole the film is not only taught with suspense plot and character but an adroitly told moral tale that set the scene for film noire for years to come br br cinematically and technically the heist sequence may be the most impressive scene of the film but for me it's the final scene that holds the most power tony le hallucinogenic drive towards redemption
1	bloody birthday plays on the assumed innocence of children and shows them as bloodthirsty monsters steven andy freeman curtis billy jayne credited as billy jacoby and debbie elizabeth hoy were all born on the same day during an eclipse besides sharing a birthday they also share a love of murder and they're not picky about who they kill either young billy elizabeth and andy play the parts of these emotionless monsters quite well but they know when to put on the charm too but they can't go on fooling everyone this is an overall good horror flick its not too unrealistic there are a few good moments of suspense and the kids portrayed the roles well the grown ups are pretty hammy though i'd say its well worth seeing i own a copy myself
1	du rififi chez les rififi 1955 can on the surface be described as a french variation on john huston's seminal heist film asphalt jungle 1950 the difference between the two films is rififi 1955 pays a little more attention in detail to the robbery sequence also the police aren't involved in the aftermath of the robbery in rififi as much as in asphalt jungle in the end rififi 1955 is in my opinion a slightly better film than asphalt jungle 1950 remarkable noir picture that defines 1950s french cinema br br spartacus 1960 may have been the one which broke down the infamous blacklist but in my opinion rififi 1955 was the film that began to break apart the unbreakable hollywood blacklist first film in five years for jules dassin who was victimized by the mccarthy communist hunt of the late 40s to early 50s he got some sort of retribution when rififi 1955 became a success around france and europe thus defying the hollywood blacklist in a major way that probably inspired others to do the same rififi 1955 is the most important film of dassin's career because it not only restored his name but also gave him a second chance at making films br br jules dassin gave the and its ever growing audiences a masterpiece of influential proportions his handling of the material is exceptional and direction of the actors is flawless builds up tense situations with precise craftsmanship dassin came full circle in the film noir genre by directing his best and last noir rififi 1955 marked the end of dassin's period in filmmaking when he was involved in doing noir pictures br br rififi 1955 is the number one film in an arsenal of thirty plus films for director jules dassin a masterpiece in acting cinematography directing editing and writing not a film to leave your seat for one minute because there is always something memorable going on as brilliant as anything by jean pierre melville who was a master of this type of film masterpieces such as rififi 1955 are relatively small compared to the probably billions of films made in motion picture history br br the one fascinating aspect of rififi is the precise planning and careful execution of a robbery that takes up a bulk of the minute duration the main characters plan and execute the jewel heist in the same way a film director prepares for the pre productions production and post production of a film shows how difficult a jewel heist like in rififi 1955 is in committing and why very few would do something like it the fact that the scene hardly contains a mess up like in other heist films turns this scene into something even greater close as one can get to having a perfect sequence in a motion picture br br lack of unnatural sound in the landmark minute heist sequence puts it in a realm of absolute realism any dialogue or and music would ruin any suspense and tension the director is trying to create the use of natural sound makes the heist sequence a rewarding film viewing experience now filmmakers and producers would use dialogue and music in a scene like this because of a lack of confidence of a mainstream patience sustains a level of consistency that never once lets down br br maintaining a high level of suspense is what makes the heist sequence tick to perfection the director achieves suspense in the heist sequence that's rarely equaled in most robbery scenes from heist films jean and the rest of the main actors contribute to the suspense with some low key acting getting suspense put in a scene is a task few are capable of doing the robbery sequence of rififi 1955 reaches a hitchcockian level of suspense and tension br br many filmmakers from the years following du rififi chez les 1955 have been influenced if not inspired by it one filmmaker influenced was jean pierre melville original choice for director of rififi who used variations of the heist sequence in le 1961 and le rouge 1970 another filmmaker influenced was stanley kubrick who made a similarly themed film in the killing 1956 also quentin tarantino whose debut feature reservoir dogs 1992 was inspired by this film other film directors influenced are john woo michael mann paul schrader ringo lam etc br br du rififi chez les 1955 is comparable to bob le 1955 in many ways one jules dassin and jean pierre melville directed groundbreaking films in rififi 1955 and bob le 1955 two each film involves an aging criminal who plans and carries out a daring heist three bob le and rififi finishes in fatalistic fashion four each film shares many motifs and situations that classify the two as film greats br br part of charm are the colorful characters that surround the story such as tony le jo le mario and cesar le most of the violence is implicit yet effectively brutal the main characters led by tony le abide by a strong outdated code of honor that is of sam peckinpah and john woo jean becomes the role of tony le with his cynical outlook and tired looks du rififi chez les rififi 1955 became a favorite of mine the moment i saw it on the big screen from beginning to end
1	in this election year where so much idealism is attached to one of the candidates it is poignant to watch a film that warns us not to make an idol out of anyone running for public office br br luke is the writer and director of choose connor there are significant parts of the film that reveal that he is a when it comes to telling stories via the cinema br br go see this movie before the election and then ponder why and for whom you will cast your vote br br let you eyes be opened like those of the young protagonist br br a mix of citizen kane advise and consent and paths of glory by a young director as talented as those who made the films listed above
1	the plot line is an expose of the under belly of american politics while the theme seems common what makes the movie is the unconventional way the story is told br br the characters are played with conviction you feel the innocence of the lead and his innocence lost the politician is the prince of double talk a real snake br br the camera work is impressive it affirms the nuances of the acting and dialogue ditto for the music br br the story uses a parable style with where the message is filled with double entendres a very canny strategy by the writer director the tension in the storyline is carried through to the last scenes br br the movie was like a good mystery book something was afoot you knew it was bad you didn't know exactly what it could be you had your suspicions and when the evil was revealed you let out your breath you hadn't noticed you were holding in saddened shaking your head br br a story well written and well told 3 cheers to a young writer director
1	i was amazed at the quality of this film particularly after seeing pictures of the barely adult director all 140 lbs of him truly a boy directing a movie about a boy i look forward to seeing more luke films br br i did think this one was a bit too long there was too much time spent showing connor being unsuccessful and unwilling to make a move on owen caleb didn't try hard enough owen being so young could have easily become closer to caleb and later decided it wasn't his preference and owen would still have learned the valuable lesson about corruption and politics instead he didn't give himself a fair chance to learn about his sexuality and what about poor caleb owen could have been a good influence br br though the film intends to show owen as a hero who overcomes perverted corruption i felt sad for owen he was offered the opportunity to have some boy boy fun with caleb who was extraordinarily beautiful owen didn't have to go along with the political perversion as offered but he could have tried to have some fun with caleb and still walked away when he wanted it was clear that owen was in charge no one forced him to do anything he didn't want to do but he could have had more fun and with a very hot boyfriend at that br br i hope luke makes more movies where appealing young characters have more fun
1	over the many years there are some films that just slip by hardly anyone views br br choose conner is one of those films br br this small gem played at some festivals had a short 2 week run in a small theatre in west hollywood making all of about br br it is now on dvd i do hope many more will now see this br br it is a strange drama of a shrewd youngish politician who influences a very bright 15 year old lad this politico also has a handsome nephew about 17 years old who befriends the 15 year old lad br br the above paragraph is slightly vague as to what occurs so is the film that is what i appreciated we do not get all the facts much is left to our own thinking you will hear dialog that makes this logical br br steven weber wings is our politician his role is slightly vague this is another point for the audience to ponder br br alex d linz is our 15 year old he was about 17 when they made this movie but easily can pass for younger he has been in films tv since he was a young child he is a very good actor is quite convincing br br escher holloway is the older teen this role is his first major part he too is excellent br br now i am saving the best for last the writer director br br luke is not yet 23 years old for a first effort a big thumbs up i do hope he as well as our 2 lads have a long career br br ratings out of 4 86 points out of 100 imdb 8 out of 10
1	everything about choose connor was top drawer especially the script and the very proficient work done by the 21 year old director writer producer luke a talented young man from whom to expect great things all the acting was credible the dialogue smart the theme important loved it br br saw it at the 2007 woodstock film festival where it was screened twice and went over tremendously with the audiences it's more than just a coming of age movie this kid learns a hard heartbreaking lesson about trust politics and the system how things really work to suit the personal agendas of those in powerful positions br br i would recommend this movie to anyone with a working brain
1	if there are people that don't like this movie i don't think they are human this film deploys all emotions and shows many sides of judith light's character made in 1997 this is one of the best movies i have seen and really the film that judith light has starred in to make me a huge fan of hers this movie although sometimes you want to rattle the son for trusting her so much is incredibly moving i cry at the end every time and it takes much to do that to me the plot doesn't have much to it but the acting provided by judith light is incredible she looks beautiful the whole time and by the end you don't want the fate imposed by the courts to happen to her overall a movie worth my highest praise thank you for making it and redefining my view on the death penalty i eagerly await this movie to come out on dvd or some other form of media since lifetime is starting to issue some movies to customers although i don't have high hopes for this one because this took place almost 9 years ago which is still hard to believe since this movie is still ingrained into my head after all this time
1	an incredible performance this is one of the best films i have seen ever i know this is being said a lot but i bet you will not regret watching this film br br it's great from the very beginning to the last second the acting of especially the mother played by judith light is so convincing there are not many other films i've seen that could compare to it and it seems it's impossible not to feel anything for the people in this drama br br there are lots and lots of movies made every year but if you have to choose just to see a few in your life make this one of them
1	when i first saw this movie back in the middle of january 2005 i didn't like it i thought it was too weird and thought that some parts that the main star judith light acted were so unlike her which of course is true and then i watched bits of it the next day when it re aired and i felt pretty much the same then i watched it again two sundays ago march 20th 2005 and i began to really enjoy it and this time i taped the entire thing i even cried the first 2 times but mainly because the actress was actually crying and i am a big fan of hers br br it is a very well acted and done tv movie judith light is one of my favorite actresses and i think she does a superb job in this film i keep watching it over and over it's a sad movie but very good br br if you have not seen this movie i definitely recommend it it's not usually my type of movie but i did enjoy this one a
1	the movie was certainly true to the real life story on which it was based it was hard for me to find newspaper articles about the actual facts but when i located them i could see that truth in this case was stranger than fiction judith light was frighteningly evil in her role as the mother in this movie so much so that it was difficult to separate her from the role the mark i think of an excellent performance rick schroder was appropriately clueless as her son who also defended her in court an example of how hard it can be in some circumstances for a child to accept the actions of a parent no matter how criminal they may be one can find fault with the movie but not with its treatment of the reality on which it was based
1	this agreeably perverse and oddball early 80's teen body count flick may never reach the astonishingly bent pinnacle of the deeply unsettling and criminally underrated murderous moppets movie devil times five but it's still an above average killer kid opus nonetheless br br the slim but serviceable plot centers on a trio of misfit tykes two bratty boys and one creepily twinkle eyed albeit angelic looking little girl who are all born during a solar eclipse on june 9th 1970 when the strange antisocial trio who stick together in a tightly self contained and exclusive circle reach ten years of age they suddenly go homicidally bonkers and declare open season on the hapless unsuspecting local yokels of the heretofore sleepy and peaceful california suburb of meadowvale writer director ed hunt the usually incompetent unsung hack responsible for such wonderfully wretched clunkers as the delightfully dopey starship invasions the uproariously inane jesus christ vigilante parable alien warrior and the stunningly silly the brain does a pretty solid and capable job here the kill scenes are abundant and reasonably brutal the arrow through the eye gag is especially nasty there's a sizable smattering of gratuitous nudity and soft core sex a goodly amount of tension is neatly created and maintained some nice dollops of dark humor punctuate the arrestingly warped mayhem and the surprise grim ending manages to be truly jolting br br moreover the top drawer cast further elevates the proceedings to the perfectly watchable and absorbing jose as a small town doctor future jake and the tv series star joe penny as an amateur the prey 's lori as the plucky babysitter heroine susan strasberg as a bitchy school teacher american ninja 's michael dudikoff as a jock and cyril o'reilly the lonely misanthrope vampire in the hauntingly melancholy dance of the damned as a libidinous teen dude who gets bagged while doing just what you think with some naked hot chick in back of a parked van billy jacoby who went on to star in such late 80's direct to video dross as dr alien and andy freeman and especially the eerily adorable elizabeth hoy are genuinely creepy and convincing as the terrible of chillingly evil and amoral rugrats and yes that's none other than julie brown the brassy comedienne who scored a surprise top 40 hit with the hilarious novelty tune the homecoming queen's gotta gun as the lovely vacuous full breasted redhead bimbo who does a great lengthy totally extraneous yet still sizzling and much appreciated nude striptease while dancing in her bedroom to a cheesy blaring rock song all in all this baby sizes up as a sturdy and satisfying slasher item
1	a story of love between two people at the end of wwii beautifully filmed very romantic and yet rather fatalistic fable of budding love and war that would not end if you want happy endings don't watch movies
1	there is one of the best movies directed by that story told about young writer who is his place after a second war he's survive german camp excellent true atmosphere action goes in camp for displaced placed main hero played by one of the best polish actor daniel finally fall in love but unfortunately his lady has been killed there was beautiful scene when he is talking with american soldier and says about death his girl nothing is happen simply you're shootin' to us now he's condition of soul has been destroyed 10 10
1	po like many films of is perhaps not understandable for the rest of the world story based on the few short stories of who during wwii was the prisoner of dachau and camps in his books describes inhuman life in the nazi camps from the point of view porte parole of author who also was on the privileged position among the prisoners was merciless for the humanity and merciless for himself he describes the human history as the endless chain of exploitation and humiliation ironically after the returning to poland he stopped writing artistic prose and became communistic propagandist producing stream of anti and anti american press publications after few years he committed suicide in the movie changes point of view character created by the plays only supporting role story is focused on the poet destroyed burned out by the war and and his one day love affair with nina jewish girl who escaped from communistic poland although she actually hates jewish life and mentality as the background we can observe sad grotesque of so called displaced persons life who after the liberation are settled by the americans in ss barracks marches patriotic kitsch mixed with hunting for the extra dose of food and or prostituting german girls br br
1	aside from the fact that the women in the film are stunningly beautiful and all the camp prisoners are too fat this film rings true on the chaos of the post war br br beautiful photography and a powerful national expression of the polish national character br br it's very slow at points but its entire pacing is so different from american and western european films that it's quite refreshing br br both lead actors do a very good job on the dvd version you can see interviews with the principal actors and crew and the lead actress has gained about 50 lbs and lost all of her beauty but in 1970 she was a stunner
1	in landscape after the battle in the second era of his filmmaking career depicts emotional and psychological confusion in a former nazi prison in poland freed immediately after the wwii br br a hand held camera explores a lot of extreme close ups and vivid colors the end credit as graffiti on of freight train cars symbolically concludes the film the soundtrack is great except vivaldi which sounds tacky in pop art fashion in the opening sequence
1	landscape after a battle opens with escaping prisoners over a snowy field full of fences in rather funny movements accompanied by four seasons a touching opening but we soon enough learn to know these prisoners as a mob and when they also treated burry a man alive the protagonist stops for a moment but is soon more engaged in finding books from the camp than caring about his neighbour br br the rest of the film is set in an american camp from where the prisoners are not released in some kind of semi freedom semi camp a perfect set for a study of war criminality american camps polish nationalism grief and human misery in general br br film makes an important turn in comes women and with them film changes light colour and temper at the same time it turns out that these prisoners were slaves in holocaust i think a main underlying political theme of the film must mankind's treatments of jews under and after the world war and not only the nazi but mankind letting it happen and even forcing them out of europe after the war on an emotional level the film is about grief and the problem with letting grief come how environment makes grief difficult and how difficult it can be to share grief for people with different experiences br br but the film is a carpet of underlying contradictions humour irony and sudden beauty a couple of times during the film a gypsy prisoner plays on an harp an emotional tune brutally rejected speaking by the protagonist that example picks up an important essence of the film's style and theme when it comes to humour its very comic how the protagonist constantly looses and finds back his glasses in crowds in hay stacks etc br br its not hard to understand spielberg's respect of when you see this film the great treatment of light can be compared with spielberg on his best the grunwald speaks for itself it only brings the film out of the camp but it brings the film to dream and eternity with profound beauty anyhow there is also another scene i can't let go without comment its the christian supper undoubtly ironical but simultaneously deeply religious we see the moment everybody falling on their knees while the protagonist is saved from isolation by the priest to serve as a comic altar boy his bells are mocking the scene but also gives it emotion and love when nina gets her bread sun light falls upon her and bells ring its the peak moment of the film br br main actors are excellent in their roles as the perfect protagonist the doubting reflecting mind unable to put all the aspects of his mind and emotion into life beautiful is with great body acting debuting in a character unable to express all her inner in her proud movements br br those who try to describe everything often are unable to take nothing in consideration this is what manages his films are either very moving deep or beautifully shot but pays attention to life's and society's a moment of joy for one is the moment of irony for a second the moment of grief for the third a moment of nothing for the fourth br br there is at least two reasons to pay attention to films of this period first is the remarkable free expression of deep political impact this country was the first to overthrow communism twenty years later second is the development of a and narrative language that kusturica has rose to grandeur
1	of course i am going to think it was a great movie i recognized several people i didn't see during filming also i was the one playing the guard about an hour into the movie in the death row exercise yard asking for a light for a cigarette i also changed this one scene they had originally had it set to go into the rec yard and straighten out the inmate and turn him around and walk him out the director said it is taking to long what would you do gower i said we need to go in and hook the arms and drag him out backwards that way your camera can stay on his face as we take him off set i also lived at this same prison as a young child as my father was the assistant warden of security i am also a current employee with the tennessee of corrections as a supervisor at the maximum security institution even though a lot of the movie was a joke the part i was in was reality enough also in the bar scene the dancer kicking high in the air and leaving the stage was an actual stripper i use to work with at a club called the classic cat
1	andy mcdermott tom everett scott is a shy american teenager spending vacation in paris with his friends brad and chris andy saves the gorgeous julie delpy from committing suicide in eiffel tour and has a crush on her he does not know that she is a werewolf they go to an underground party and are attacked by werewolves andy is wounded and becomes a werewolf he is advised that the only way to become normal again is killing the werewolf that attacked him and eating its heart this movie is a violent black humor movie the special effects and the soundtrack are excellent highlighting the song of the band bush i do not know why some readers compares this movie with the masterpiece 'an american werewolf in london' the stories have nothing in common only an american teenager werewolves and a city in europe highly indicated for fans of werewolf and black humor movies my vote is seven br br title brazil um em paris an american werewolf in paris
1	is it full moon tonight oh it doesn't matter they can change whenever they want cuz of that drug what was i thinking if its full moon tonight geez br br i really like this movie there's romance suspense horror and hot stuff i like the first half of the movie when the guy saves the girl from killing herself by jumping and catching her that was really cool the setting of this movie is in the city of love which is paris in france the cemetery scenes are nice it gives you chills not knowing what will happen there or who's behind the walls the scenes that makes you jump out of your seat is really cool even they got me on that scenes his friend who died and the girl whom he killed in the cemetery but still shows themselves to the lead character sorry i forgot his name was really funny the actors did a good job plus the make up crews the part when they're all partying in an abandoned church i can't believe people would that because even though that's an abandoned church that is still god's house i bought this movie long time ago and i do not regret buying it i'm a horror movie lover i give this movie 5 stars out of 6 for the people who are open and loves movies like this give it a try you might like it
1	this movie is not as bad as some say it is infact i think it s more enjoyable than the original maybe that s why some people hate it as much cos they dont want to admit it s a good not great movie br br most if not all fx were done by c g i which i didn t mind at all cos it was an enjoyable movie phil chris was in my opinion the best guy in the movie julie delpy was rather attractive she brought the sexiness to the movie br br there were a lot of wisecracks in the movie which i thought were good this movie is in my collection but the original is not because i dont like it as much as this one i was not bored when i watched this movie it kept me watching unlike some horror movies i could mention like oh say driller killer suspiria dario argento s movie thats to name but two br br this is an ok werewolf film it should be in people s collection if they like werewolf movies maybe i ll get the original at some point maybe i have only one complaint and that is phil chris should have been in it more than he was but apart from that the movie was fine br br rating for this movie 8 10 an ok werewolf movie not the worst one out there br br
1	this movie is great 80's sleazy slasher movie about three kids born during an eclipse so they kill everyone they see the reason they kill makes practically no sense but it just adds to the charm of this movie and dang these kids are crazy especially curtis if you've seen the movie you know who i am talking about that kid's although the movie doesn't have much gore it is entertaining and for some reason you kind of care about the characters it also has some nice nudity has some decent acting as well really a decent 80's slasher movie it's worth a look if you ever get the chance to see it you'll have nightmares about those darn kids though i guarantee you
1	i went to an advance screening of this movie thinking i was about to embark on 120 minutes of cheezy lines mindless plot and the kind of nauseous acting that made the postman one of the most malignant displays of cinematic blundering of our time but i was shocked shocked to find a film starring costner that appealed to the soul of the audience shocked that ashton kutcher could act in such a serious role shocked that a film starring both actually engaged and captured my own emotions not since 'robin have i seen this costner full of depth and complex emotion kutcher seems to have tweaked the serious acting he played with in butterfly effect these two actors came into this film with a serious focused attitude that shone through in what i thought was one of the best films i've seen this year no its not an oscar worthy movie it's not an epic or a profound social commentary film rather its a story about a simple topic illuminated in a way that brings that audience to a higher level of empathy than thought possible that's what i think good film making is and i for one am throughly impressed by this work bravo
1	i have never seen american werewolf in london but this movie was very entertaining when renting it i thought it was a horror movie but it turned out to be more of a comedy with some horror aspects i thought the transformation sequences were nicely done but effects wise the best scenes were those where the effects and the lighting built off each other nice the transformations reminded me a lot of werewolf transformations in other movies but the werewolves themselves are very beastly and not very dog like gore i do believe there is too much in this movie which really takes away from the horror when every frame has blood in it taking the violence seriously is hard br br j hurst 8th grade
1	ok most of us agree that this is a weak attempt at a remake but at the same time it's also a different movie in its own right don't get me wrong 'american werewolf in london' is a superior film but 'american remake in paris' is a decent movie as well br br first off the only real similarities are the title 2 american and werewolves other than those 3 things 'american remake in paris' stands apart fairly well on its own with its special blend of humor action adventure and horror most of the people who say this film is better than the original are the youth of today's generation that think any movie made before 1990 is total crap while those of us who grew up in the 80's can appreciate older films and what they have added to the horror films of today what a lot of people fail to realize is that without the old classic films including the b w ones horror wouldn't be what it is today now i'm getting a little off the beaten path br br an american werewolf in paris is a good attempt at re creating a classic but it will never surpass the original ever with that said this is still a very entertaining film to watch and i do recommend it i'm giving it a 7 out of 10 maybe that's being a little generous but i've seen much worse attempts at trying to re create a classic
1	i just finished a double feature night of an american werewolf in london paris let me start by saying london still holds up after all these years and the transformation sequence is by any standard quite impressive the film was funny and scary also a bit of gore now lets get to paris its enjoyable a few scars lots of gore not as exciting or eerie as original but it does have a few laughs in what has become quite the fashion these days in films so maybe in that sense it was ahead of it's time the transformations cgi while good for the technology of its time are nowhere near as impressive as the original i gave this movie a 7 because i have to admit it was enjoyable i laughed a lot and found tom everett scott to be so silly that at first i wanted to dislike his performance only to end up liking it go figure julie delpy was competent as was the direction it's the script that lacked a bit of shine finesse i read here that john landis was supposed to direct to bad he didn't i am quite sure it would have been a different movie altogether i also noticed some discussion of a sequel what if well no one has noted the obvious it should be in american and here is my title an american werewolf comes home or in dc that would be fun all those political dogs need a good scare you simply must see the original in it's new dvd transfer with dolby 5 1 sound and see both of these on an hdtv with turned on nice
1	the title suggests that this movie is a sequel to an american werewolf in london none of the characters from the previous movie return and aren't even mentioned in this movie by name so as a sequel fails one would say br br i dare to say the opposite br br an american werewolf in paris is a charming effective horror movie it's one of the better werewolf films i have seen in a long time too and i have seen quite my share such as an american werewolf in london the howling wolfen the wolfman and the underworld trilogy br br the story tells of three americans visiting paris on a vacation at the top of the eifel tower one of them saves a woman trying to commit suicide what starts out as a romantic relationship slowly turns into a nightmare when the dark secrets that lurk in the city are revealed br br i really liked the acting in this film especially the two stars of the movie the woman who tried to commit suicide and the guy who saves her they have good chemistry together but the other two americans also play their roles nicely i didn't really find anything annoying about the acting so thumbs up for that br br the effects on the werewolves are nice it doesn't look too cheap or fake to me of course the opinions are divided about this subject but let's just say that i wasn't disappointed br br there's also a good amount of humor in this movie there are some really funny scenes you will probably remember for a long time br br so to sum it up an american werewolf in paris might not be a direct sequel to it's predecessor but it's still an enjoyable movie perfect for fans of werewolves 7 out of 10 stars
1	three american lads are backpacking their way around europe challenging each other to accumulate as many daredevil stunts and hot babe lays as they can but andy seeks true love he finds this during their jump attempt on the eiffel tower when he comes across and breathtakingly saves a suicidal and heart burstingly beautiful julie delpy his attempts to find this girl and the secret he uncovers lead he and his friends into an fast paced adventure full of action romance gore and inspired humor without ever taking itself to seriously or striving to be anything other than a wildly entertaining 90 minute ride i have seen this film a number of times and found it a much more rewarding experience than the 'london' original although both films are so different it is not fair to compare the two or even to consider this a sequel
1	i have mixed emotions about this film especially as it compares to its forerunner br br an american werewolf in london that film had it's funny moments it was still more of horror tale than anything else this updated version now set in paris does not have that edge at all and simply isn't in the same class but it does have some good things going for it that the first film did not have and overall it's still fun to watch br br so werewolf purists aside most of whom think this film is pure garbage compared to the london version i'll still give it decent marks since i don't care what others think i liked it even though i agree london is better and i prefer that version too br br the first 30 40 minutes of this movie is strictly played for laughs including a hysterical scene with a balloon in a restaurant it also introduces the lead female character played by julie delpy i don't see enough of this actress she doesn't seem to make that many films or least ones i hear about over here in america this french actress has a face that is classic beauty so the film got points for having her in it and she looks great br br when the horror starts it can get scary and the special effects are good i also liked the lack of profanity in this film unlike the first one no f words and no lord's name in vain amazing br br however there are plenty of sexual remarks and there is one scene with a guy running out of bar tied to a cross which was blasphemous to me the soundtrack is heavy metal which isn't appealing to a middle aged guy like me either this film is geared a lot more toward 20 somethings if that helps anyone br br it's entertaining just don't expect it to live up to the first film
1	to paraphrase birch i kind of like this movie it's the exact opposite of everything i hate in a film br br this obscure film was too low key and intelligent to get a theatrical release any chance for success would have needed a costly promotional campaign and a coming of age story where nothing spectacular happens where instead the focus is on character development has a limited target audience whoever heard of a mature teen movie br br but if you have an opportunity to see this or if you can part with a few bucks for the dvd you could do a lot worse my teacher's wife is nothing revolutionary but it has a lot going for it and holds up well to repeated viewings br br jason london as high school senior todd boomer is the star and fits this character as well as his parts in the man in the moon and dazed and confused he is helped out by exceptional work from his supporting cast tia carrere in the title role is a revelation she can act as todd's calculus tutor and love interest christopher mcdonald as the teacher in a nice self parodying performance and alexondra lee as todd's best friends and jeffrey as his father br br as someone commented earlier this is a mature teen movie because the romantic relationships are universally unsuccessful at least by traditional happy ending standards even todd's parents are indifferent to each other with his father panting after the title character and his mother leslie literally on the telephone during her entire time on screen a device that provides increasing comedy relief with each successive appearance the london carrere romance has unexpected charm and is far more believable than any other older woman storyline you are likely to find br br but the real strength of the film is the evolving relationship of the three friends there is no overwrought melodrama here just three immature people who alternate between testing and trusting each other subject to all the dynamics that three young people can bring to this kind of thing they actually manage to pull off a believable three person relationship perhaps the first one in cinema history br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
1	tia carrere was the reason i decided to watch this film as neither the title nor the cover would have been enough to make me spend my time and money on this film – which goes to show me and everyone that a dvd shouldn't be judged by it's cover br br spoilers the film felt like it was along not really going anywhere for the moment – the awkwardness of paul around girls being almost too embarrassing to watch and the fringe on the otherwise attractive kirsten beck as alexondra lee being too school girlish to watch where those really fashionable in 1995 br br the relationship between vicky mueller tia carrere and todd boomer jason london was tantalising from the start of though that first meeting across the lake – magical what a beautiful coincidence they should meet again just as he has behaved like a complete moron boomer with two as in in front of alexondra a shame really that we as the audience knew who vicky mueller really was well… the title did give that away wouldn't you think br br what really surprised me was the acting especially in the scene where vicky gives todd a metal version of his alter ego the dog character in the little white jewellery box the actors really managed to recreate that tingling sensation of a first kiss – point of no return for todd and vicky a shame really that the film ends with focus on after getting over todd's fathers harvard drive his re uniting with his friends i could envision a whole new film – following vicky to new york – there must be a good art university there that todd could attend br br nevertheless a film that does just what we want hollywood to entertain us for the duration of the film did anyone else notice how none of the loves are happy ones in this film todd's mother is slightly insane on the phone 24 7 his dad doesn't find her attractive any more todd's teacher obviously is disenchanted by his wife and vice versa – todd himself enters into a wonderfully erotic daring relationship which however nice it may be would realistically be very difficult to maintain age difference maturity difference etc and alexondra do not get together because alexondra is not mature enough to handle a relationship her reactions towards the condom the cheating zak's advances etc are all very immature and often involve running away and himself the poor guy – is too much of a best friend like a brother guy to pull even alexondra br br mind you good film though i gave it an 8 10 brilliant performance by the actors who bring the script to life
1	as talk shows go larry king live is not bad and since he occasionally gets good guests it's a show to turn on once in awhile but not compulsively when bill maher carl bernstein a former president or other substantive guests sit across from him it's not too bad other times he tends to host guests involved in the latest celebrity scandal which contributes absolutely no intelligent information to the country and feeds a largely uneducated public that wants to hear the latest gossip about movie and tv stars during the oj simpson trial it seemed like every other guest on his show was related to the case but is this really journalism or the national enquirer on the tube sometimes it comes off a little bit like trash television jerry springer in a sit down interview with phone calls instead of a live audience br br on the other side king's show is definitely much better than bill o'reilly whose show is nothing more than a political platform of the rush limbaugh variety that said larry king is not a bad interviewer but alas he is not a great one king does not always come off like he completely when intellectual material is being presented especially if it is by a scholar or historian with a new book on subtle aspects of politics always seems like the minute king can't quite deal with the issue at hand that's when he turns to the phone calls maybe hoping someone out in the country will have a better question than he has he might interview someone like david but may not have read any of his books sort of like the movie producer that never bothers to read the script br br when it's an entertainment celebrity no problem he can come off like he's thoroughly knowledgeable since the material is not that substantive anyway talking to elizabeth taylor about her relationship with richard burton is not exactly rocket science and i notice he usually has seen the star's latest movie watching a movie takes much less time and contemplation than reading a book however if it's the likes of john dean or bob woodward king comes off a little like he didn't quite finish his homework so off to the phones br br if you are looking for real in depth interviewing terry gross of npr is probably the best interviewer in the united states she reads and or researches everything written by or about her guests beforehand and has a working knowledge of those areas i don't see king quite doing that granted he probably has an audience 1000 times larger than terry gross which may say more about the american audience than king in short larry is better than bill but not as good as terry
1	i've been a fan of larry king's show for awhile i think he does a terrific job overall and i don't think he ever out as so many people seem to believe he's a subtle scorpio he gets his in when he needs to just as he managed to do last night with paris hilton during her first post jail tv interview br br the thing about this entire case that has really amazed me is that hilton is still apparently clueless about why judge gave her what she believes was a too harsh sentence and what's more actually made her serve it in all the time she was in jail supposedly alone 23 hours a day in her cell she never once in her mind rewound the events which led to her being given the sentence that judge saw fit to impose on her she never once realized that it just might have set off a major red flag when she 1 showed up late in court for the original hearing and 2 proceeded to inform him when he asked her did she not know that her license had been suspended did she not get the papers in the mail that i have people who read that sort of thing for me br br all the time she was in her cell she never came to the realization that this action showing up late and that statement and more importantly the attitude the utter cavalier disregard for the court system and the law in general and her driving privileges in particular that she displayed just might have made judge pardon the pun go sour on her br br last night on king's show after giving lip service to how she has been changed forever by her traumatic experience how she has learned her lesson she answered his question do you think you got a raw deal with a resounding yes and during the course of the conversation if you can call it that she said more than once that she did not feel she deserved what had happened to her king asked gently more than once if she does not feel she creates the situations in her life that she finds herself in to which she pretty much stared at him blankly she basically therefore holds the conscious belief that she's been victimized in this situation she does not understand how she herself caused it that day in court by her cavalier attitude with the judge i feel this is very sad tragic even considering what a huge role model hilton is to some people and it renders anything she said last night about her so called rehabilitated state into the realms of complete and utter cluelessness contradiction and hypocrisy br br during the course of the interview hilton alluded to spending a lot of time in her cell reading the bible at the end of the interview king scored major points by asking her what her favorite bible passage was she responded by groping perplexedly at her pathetic notes completely superficial non insights which she had read on air as if she were nelson or something and finally grunting out i don't have a favorite passage br br judge in my book is a hero and after last night so is larry king for subtly exposing hilton for what she truly is
1	sorry about the extremely clever summary phrase i don't know what i was thinking but i really couldn't help myself br br i've been meaning to see 'bloody for a long time and i must say that it was a pleasant surprise to find a copy of this film by accident and for such a low price and believe me i live in a small south american village and these things are very unlikely to happen it's a real shame that some of these from the 80s are now almost completely forgotten 'bloody is one of those movies that surprisingly ages well enough to remain watchable nowadays not a masterpiece for sure but still entertaining and guess what it doesn't really have unintentionally funny scenes i know it's a shocker if we keep in mind that this is a low budget flick from the early 80s about a group of evil children who kill people but trust me the movie manages to remain respectable and watchable for the most part br br in 'blood the story revolves around three children who are born during a a total eclipse according to during eclipses the sun and the moon block saturn which controls emotions as a consequence the three children who are born that day eventually become uncaring and evil since they don't experience any feelings of remorse whatsoever these 10 year old kids gang up against basically everyone who stands in their way including their own parents and siblings and kill them the body count increases day after day and the police authorities believe that there's a psychopath lurking around the place in the meantime debbie curtis and steven don't hesitate to keep butchering people since nobody seems to suspect of those sweet angel faces br br like i was saying before 'bloody is surprisingly not funny i know i said that before but i'm truly surprised by this i was expecting some hilariously bad scenes but the movie proved me wrong true it's not exactly what most people would consider a horror movie but if i have to be fair i'd say that the story is decently executed one of the most important reasons why one would normally expect laughable situations like i did it's because in these kind of movies in which the main villains are children the young actors tend to be plain awful and they make the whole thing laughable let's face it kids tend to be horrible actors which is understandable and we can't blame them for that but to my surprise the three young actors who played the merciless killers in this film looked very disturbing and not at all funny the rest of the actors are also good and if you're a george clooney fan you can see his uncle playing a doctor in this movie yeah i know right who cares also julie brown the great actress singer comedienne and gay icon gives a solid performance as the naughty older sister and in case anyone is interested in nudity she also strips in one of the scenes and she looks great naked too bad she didn't have more time on the screen though julie is p br br so basically this movie is fine if you're in the mood for some modest horror from the 80s my only objection regarding 'bloody would be the way to justify the children's motives this is perhaps one of the lowest points of the film let's see if children who were born during an eclipse end up being heartless killers then how come these three were the only ones who actually murdered people i'm sure there were other children who had been born the same day and during other days of total eclipse too oh well overall no big deal it's just a simple observation that's all i've seen worse trust me take 'the children' 1980 for example in which the precocious killer get their evilness after being turned into zombies by toxic cloud no believe me 'bloody is far more decent and if you enjoy simple slashers you're going to enjoy this one very much br br so now you know you're invited to the children's birthday party and the hosts will be serving a delicious poisoned cake for you and the rest of the guests come on you can't miss it
1	saturday afternoon is one of harry langdon's best known short subjects and with good reason it is one of his funniest and best films the plot such as it is is an old staple a hen pecked husband sneaks away for a night out with a his pal and a couple of other girls it's a solid and well used comedy plot but the difference here is harry langdon himself his slow ineffectual befuddled innocent character has somehow floundered his way into a marriage with a woman who feels that he of all people must be ruled with an iron fist and he is only thrust into cheating on her because he can't say no to the of the chummy vernon dent and the cute fluttering of the girl br br it's a very adult problem to be thrust onto such a helpless childlike character harry doesn't want to cheat but he can't do anything about it in a wonderful bit of comic business he can't bring himself to blow the new girlfriend kiss goodbye he slyly pushes the kiss at her underhand and wipes off his hand as if to chastise it the film is a three reel comedy ten minutes longer than the two reelers harry langdon had previously been starring in for mack sennett with no more plot perhaps it was even designed to be a two reeler this works beautifully since it gives him as much time as he needs to inject the slow reactions and bewildered glimpses and half actions where so much of his comedy lives br br he's at his best here and the show is really harry langdon's curious magic and ability to spin comedy out of almost nothing his little half smiles his look while handling the money he has hidden under the rug childlike attempts to enter the fight at the end i think his comedy makes us recognize something fundamentally innocent and confused in ourselves that makes us feel like the whole world is too much for us yet at the same time by allowing us to understand what harry does not such as the fact that the women he good heartedly brings to his friend to cheer him after he thinks the date has been blown are in fact whores he forces his to realize with a little bit of sadness that we are not that innocent anymore his comedy is just as capable of making us audibly say awwww as it is making us laugh often at once br br here harry wants to refuse to cheat on his wife he wants to tell his wife whose boss and take some power back in his relationship he wants to fight back against the two violent men at the end of the film but he just can't affect his surroundings that much and sometimes we all feel like that br br the film is perfectly directed by frequent langdon director harry edwards it moves at a quick pace and never stalls while at the same time making time for and presenting to best effect harry langdon's still reactive comedy vernon dent a frequent foil to langdon plays one of the roles here where he becomes almost a comedy partner in his very effective pairing with harry the gags spaced out in a way that gives maximum effect too and harry gets his own version of a lloyd or keaton style stunt at the end here the comedy is not in harry's big reactions to the danger of sitting perched between two moving cars but in his slowness to take it in br br this is a hilarious film and a perfect example of the comedy of one of the most unique an talented humorists that i know ever to have existed
1	if as i just pointed out in the goat keaton is following the tradition of the comics finding themselves at odds with the law this langdon short the last released before he did tramp tramp tramp was based on another comic ploy being married to a shrewish spouse and trying to get away for some secret two timing dating laurel hardy did this in several films as did fields and chaplin br br i have a problem with it why do these characters always marry such nasty women and there is an interesting sociological side issue why don't you find female comics married to male counterparts to these shrews i can't recall any except in a carol burnett skit where the two nastier members of two couples discover that they prefer having someone give it back as good as they get a kind of mutual sado masochism but also reassurance that their not married to a namby pamby type as for the fact that the comics do marry shrews i suppose one can imagine they get what they deserve or do they ollie really deserves a wife who throws pots and dishes at him yeah he went to that convention in sons of the desert that ruined her plans but he wanted to get some private time there is nothing suggesting he and stan cheated on their wives actually he is creamed by mae busch because he lied to her while stan collapsed and told the truth to his wife br br here harry's wife alice ward is shown at the start talking to her mother about how she keeps him under strict control we see harry at his job it is saturday morning and the job ends at noon for the rest of the weekend this was before the idea of a five day a week 40 hour a week job in industry he works in a where he hits red hot metal into shape an early joke about langdon he is a small light man not the muscular type to swing a sledge hammer he just misses his streetcar trying to give a man a light he calls home to explain things and gets an earful from the missus for being two minutes late br br on the way home harry meets his pal steve vernon dent who has met two nice sweet girls who would just love to have a date harry is hesitant but agrees to it after talking to the girl he agrees to pay for the hot dogs for the foursome he has a 1926 silver half dollar in his pocket but his plans seem derailed when his wife discovers his hidden cache of coins he keeps it hidden under the living room rug and finds it by walking along the edge of the rug but his wife spies on him and confiscates all of it later she overhears him talking to himself and berating her in contempt she gives him back a dime and says he can treat his date to a soda br br but harry has a second cache of coins and dresses up for the date and goes out he and dent are apparently late and dent blames harry but harry tries to make it up to him he produces two prostitutes they get into a quarrel when dent wisely says they are not the type of girls he'd term as nice eventually the girls do show up and the date begins but soon harry is hiding in the rumble seat as his wife drives past in her roadster and the girls boy friends turn up angry at their two rivals br br the short works well and is amusing and gives one a better idea of the persona that harry langdon developed in his brief stardom as a comic master he is constantly put upon by others he misses his streetcar because some stranger keeps asking for a smoke and a light and in the end the stranger gets his own the nice girl who is harry's date has a little dog who chases him away he rests between two cars that both start driving away and he ends up wrapped around a pole it certainly demonstrates that langdon had his screen persona down pat by the time that he made his features if only he could have kept the complex whole together beyond those three first features
1	harry langdon's saturday afternoon is often ranked among the greatest silent comedies at least where short subjects are concerned and therefore may come as a bit of a letdown for some unlike some of the other recognized classics such as keaton's cops or chaplin's the immigrant this film is in some respects a familiar conventional situation comedy and doesn't offer much in the way of belly laughs one may even wonder whether langdon belongs in such rarefied company nonetheless in my opinion it's a perfectly charming comedy in its minor key way and harry is fascinating to watch br br for a modern viewer raised on tv sitcoms the plot of saturday afternoon may suggest the honeymooners or its many spin offs two dim guys one of whom is married and very much under his wife's thumb try to sneak out with a couple of good time girls for a fun afternoon but everything goes wrong and they wind up having to fight the girls' tough guy boyfriends does this sound familiar and perhaps a little dreary well the premise was already shopworn when this film was made but beyond that nothing about langdon was typical he was odd starting with the fact that he looked like a middle aged baby who was half asleep any freudians who catch saturday afternoon will have a field day with the scenes between this timid pudgy faced baby man and his stern gently domineering mommy wife when harry tries to hide money under the rug but she catches him in the act and forces him to hand it over you'd swear you're watching an interaction between a 6 year old boy and his mama and maybe that's why harry langdon gave some people the creeps and still does br br but he's a compelling screen figure and it's not what he does so much as the way he does it in that scene with the coins under the rug for instance harry finds the coins by placing one foot before the other carefully like a tightrope walker counting off his paces until he finds the right spot and his technique is hypnotic langdon moved like no one else whether or not he makes you laugh the guy is mesmerizing seemingly in a world of his own where the plot of his films is concerned harry is curiously passive and almost never drives the story forward himself in the finale of saturday afternoon when the big fistfight is taking place harry's co star vernon dent is in the thick of the action but harry is in a daze for much of the time and winds up sort of punch drunk between two cars sitting on the running board of one but with his feet on the other while they race through the streets it's a memorable image and as the critic walter kerr wrote it encapsulates langdon's screen persona quite perfectly he's a passive figure who somehow finds himself in the middle of frantic action blinking while the world rushes past it's also worth noting that langdon and dent who worked together frequently have a rapport in this movie that suggests a blueprint laurel hardy would follow when they teamed up a year or so later langdon's style was a likely influence on stan laurel especially here br br saturday and its star may not be for everyone but the film is well worth a look and you might find that langdon makes an impression that's hard to shake
1	i enjoyed some of the older doctor who many years ago so when the new one came out i just had to check it out i was so pleased with the characters the story lines the updated look i became hooked from season 1 27 for the old fans through to season 2 28 it just keeps on getting better it ties in nicely with the old shows too although you don't have to know the old shows to enjoy this newer version br br even though there has been a change of cast i highly recommend doctor who with chris eccleston and with david tennant br br i like that they've given the characters so much depth the doctor seems more vulnerable in this series maybe because he is the last the range of emotions which chris and david show are truly remarkable and i felt their pain anger and sense of adventure right along with them br br billie piper rose brings a very human element to each episode although she is much than i would be with her talent billie will go far in the industry
1	for those with access to the bbc or the cbc this has proved to be spectacular like battlestar gallactica this is a show rebuilt from the ground up but in the case of dr who they saved the best parts i can't believe i am saying this but this is by far the best dr who this has none of the cheap production values and sometimes slow plodding of the old show the acting is quite good and there is a real sense of continuity and history the new doctor is easily the equal of the great tom baker and the writer former lead seems to have made even the minor characters come alive br br i know i'm gushing but this should be on everyone sci fi geeks list i just don't know why it hasn't made its way here whatever you do if you ever loved dr who or sci fi see this
1	one of the most successful shows in television history is back now i admit i never got into the original show okay so i never watched it at all but the new show is impressive br br sci fi has premiered the first two episodes rose and the end of the world this weekend we meet rose a twenty something clerk who is chased by remote controlled mannequins she is rescued by a mysterious stranger who calls himself the doctor using the internet she finds a conspiracy buff who warns her that wherever the doctor goes death follows when her geeky boyfriend mickey is replaced by an impostor the doctor informs her of a plot to use earth as a breeding ground for more of these plastic monsters whom the doctor has been fighting across space and time traveling in a tardis disguised a 50s style police call box br br she helps him save the world there wouldn't be a show otherwise and decides to join him but when he puts her life in danger he is distraught and questions whether her company was worth the risk br br although the special effects are kinda lame and the some of the scenes are a bit choppy doctor who is after two episodes aired in the us a smart well written work apparently the second season has already aired in the uk so i predict the same success here
1	russell t davies has been tasked with re creating a slice of my childhood hiding behind the sofa watching scary monsters battle with dr who he and his crew are clearly all true devotees of the original series br br in much the same way as the star trek movies used their budget to make the gene original concept far more believable russell t davies has both money and the advantages of excellent cgi to create the best monsters ever i am sure that this series was made with a budget that anticipated both export and dvd sales and it really feels as if no expense was spared br br the accompanying series dr who confidential shows the work that goes into each episode which is a really useful behind the scenes insight interviews with the cast and writers help retell the story from each characters perspective and are far more useful than simply watching the whole programme over again br br how does david tenant rank in the pantheon of his illustrious predecessors time will tell but tonight seeing billie piper play alongside elisabeth who was the doctor's companion in the 1970's confirm that she has both the acting ability screen presence and script to be the no 1
1	if you're a long time fan of the doctor and you cringed when you heard they were making another series rest easy it more than meets the high expectations of the original the pacing is much quicker than the original shows fitting more often into 50 minutes episodes rather than the average 90 minutes the writing is excellent the acting superb the hardest and best thing to get used to is the production values of the new series compared to the original it's got some now although i will always have fond memories of bubble wrap and hand puppet monsters if you're not a fan or if you tried the original and couldn't get a handle on it jump in with both feet now everything you really need to know about the doctor they'll tell you as they go along this series was written with minimal references to the doctor's enormous back story specifically to encourage new viewers admittedly i'm only seeing the first new series now as it's being shown on the sci fi channel in other words probably cut to ribbons for time constraints but i'm looking forward to future episodes either on broadcast tv or on dvd july 4th can't come soon enough
1	as a fan of the old doctor who and after the mediocre fox movie i was dubious of this new series of doctor who i gave it a chance though and am so glad i did br br yes some episodes aren't as brilliant as others but they are all enjoyable and yes eccleston's doctor is far from any we've had before but eccleston's doctor is just about the best there is his performance is at times comical at others dramatic sometimes completely crazy but always fantastic br br this and bille piper as rose make this series a cut above the rest camille is also fantastic as rose's mum and there is a depth to this series not present previously this series is incredibly powerful especially considering its sci fi i mean who'd have thought you could ever have felt sorry or even cried for a dalek prior to this how many times in this series' history have we had moments like those with rose's dad the emergency doctor and the 'you were fantastic so was i' final speech i advise anyone whether a fan of doctor who or even tv drama to buy this set on dvd it truly is fantastic br br now only 4 episodes through the latest series and looking forward to the new i have to say that david doctor is just not as good of course you may disagree but i don't think his doctor is capable of those emotional moments seen in the previous series i also have to say that in my opinion so far this series has not been as good as the last however the return of sarah jane was a fantastic episode a true gem not to say this series is not good just not quite as good br br so whether you like it or not and whether you prefer tennant or eccleston the doctor is back and he's here to stay fantastic almost as many fantastic 's as the doctor
1	i have some of the older videos and dvds of dr who i've played them over and over i adore each of the doctors for different reasons but due to a man in the bbc hierarchy dr who was canceled even though it was still one of the mainstays of the bbc line up with the departure of sylvester mccoy the doctor stayed alive through the fans bbc graciously allowed fans to write books and cartoons the momentum of dr who has been steady even after 1989 then they took a chance with paul mcgann the movie was flawed but it gave the bbc an idea of what we wanted in 1999 the man was gone and the newbies at the bbc felt it was time to bring the doctor back it was a complete success here in america the sci fi channel took a chance and it has become a complete success as well although the writers were having to start over and explain the dr who mythology for new viewers it is incredible to me that they have done it in season 1 staring christopher eccleston with russell t davis as lead writer and phil collinson as producer the doctor has come back to us and in each episode we learn more about who the doctor is the doctor who universe has always been about choice love and sacrifice this is what they provided it makes me want more and it saddens me that mr eccleston has chosen to leave the show my first doctor was doctor no 3 jon pertwee's doctor mr eccleston needn't worry about his position in the dr who universe it is as solid as the rest he is the 9th doctor i didn't know of mr eccleston prior to his performance in dr who but i do now i wish there was some way he could know there is push out in the dr who fan community to find his other work and enjoy it we have already seen that he is a great actor
1	three ten year old children born at the same time during a solar eclipse begin to slyly murder anybody that offends them br br while killer kid movies weren't exactly new at the time of this twisted 80's slasher the theme of children as murderers works nicely for this film bloody birthday does deliver some good chills and suspense while managing to be a competent killer thriller with some strange qualities it a fine line between cheesy and creepy but it does remain entertaining throughout with an interesting plot there's some strong murder scenes as well as a good bit of nudity to establish this as a solid slasher guilty pleasure br br the cast does a fairly good job young stars elizabeth hoy and k c martel deliver some menacing performances while rising star julie brown does a striptease before a memorable murder scene veteran star susan strasberg does well as the teacher and jose ferrer has a cameo appearance br br all around this off beat slasher entry isn't bad though it's admittedly not flawless but it is well worth watching for genre fans br br out of
1	i love pop culture but i was a little apprehensive when i first heard about this then i seen an episode and i love it i was a little upset when i found out that christopher would no longer be playing doctor who he was probably the best one they've had he fits the character so well it's sad to see him go i really don't think that the new guy is going to pull off the doctor as well as br br i think everyone can overlook the cheesy effects in some spots and the creatures such as the the story lines and characters can more than make up for that i'm currently waiting for season two and i will review that as well in case for any reason quality goes down br br anyways i think everyone should try to see one episode i did and i have been loving it ever since well written well casted and well produced this show is worth the hour of viewing doctor who gets a 10 10
1	first off i have been a fan of the show back when my pbs station started showing it back in 1981 i learned many things about the show and the people who were in or contributed to the show br br this latest installment of doctor who made a great impression on me the original series aka classic series was made fun of by the bad special effects and or wobbly sets well this is no more true the special effects are awesome but what is even better is the writing you get a chance to learn more about our beloved doctor and maybe a bit of a reason why he loves the planet earth so much without giving too much away it is a very worthwhile series to watch christopher eccelston brought a side of the doctor that we never get to see a bitter and angry one but yet lovable at the same time br br a must see
1	i love dr who so much i believe that david tennant is the best dr the show has ever had and billie piper the best companion i liked the way the dr and rose had such a connection and a great relationship and the dr came close a few times to expressing his love for rose it sadly came to an end after only 2 seasons i will miss watching rose heaps and think that the show will not be the same without rose but david is still there to make me laugh and make me happy to watch him play this fantastic role i rate this show 110 it is fantastic the graphics and monsters in this show are wonderful and every storyline is different but somewhat connected and i have actually learned somethings about love the world and relationships from this show therefore it must be one of the most fantastic shows of all time
1	i was like watching it right and i was all like oh this is so totally awesome full and then i was all like ya quite good indeed so i really enjoyed all the amazing dangers and all the british people and i think that the doctor is very a good doctor in his way of doing such wonderful doctor y things and he was a very strange man and i was like maybe i won't like this guy because hes a new doctor and i like the old doctor thats not this guy but then i watched him and i was like oh this is awesome and i liked it so then i watched and enjoyed the great evil enemies and the great conquering of the evil guys and the happy doctor who is quite scary and happy looking
1	i write this after just seeing the latest episode broadcast in the uk and to me it must be a tough job to keep up the standard the last episode shown called blink has elements of gothic horror all to do with statues that aren't quite what they seem the doctor and martha don't appear much but that doesn't detract from a well crafted episode the general standard has built to a high level and the last three episodes the two parter with the family and the latest have to me been the best that the current team have ever done br br it's not just david tennant holding it together the whole supporting cast week in week out are helping as well for those awaiting series 3 abroad the wait is is well worth it
1	i'm a next generation person i've never saw the original doctor who but i have heard about the series that sparked a great fan base in the past and still making its mark in the century the new doctor who started in 2005 but for those that live here in the states like myself we pretty much see it as new episodes on sci fi channel or bbc america from season one we are introduce to a new player rose tyler billie piper and a pretty cool new doctor played by christopher misspelled last name sorry these two go on some many amazing and very extremely dangerous missions to save the world every now and then they have companions from rose's ex boyfriend mickey to the now ever present jack harkness who can now be seen on the spin off torchwood from season one to season two the pace is just about right the stories can be from the outlandishly weird to the most action packed paced driven but either way its one ride from the start of the theme song which is very catchy br br in season two he becomes different and changes and now the new doctor david tennant continues the fight to save the world with rose and from this point there can be some that say some of the season wasn't as good but i have to disagree and it was sad to see rose and the doctor part ways but it leaves the opening companion role to martha played by the very sexy who helps continue the fight to save mankind season three now is more on the action adventure level and sometimes on the emotional but not as much as the first two seasons here the relationship between the doctor and martha is fitting but the attractiveness can be rushed into at times and the obviousness comes into play that she's not rose tyler being that you experienced her company in the first two seasons and not in the third season it can be a bit awkward it was for me cause you get use to rose and her ways and now to see someone who at times don't really question the doctor on an emotional level but all the same makes the pace very exciting for viewers which keeps you at the edge of your seat br br all in all this is one thrill ride of a television show i would give it more but there are some flaws to this show as well that i can't mention cause its sometimes hard to pick up but just one does which is the doctor and martha's relationship is rushed and not leveled on the get to know you base i've seen good shows on british tv but this is by far one of the coolest sci fi adventures for the old and new generation to experience but you don't have to take my world for it step into the tardis and join the adventure
1	unlike most people who've commented i was born after the last sylvester mccoy episode and so couldn't have compared the two centuries of doctor who at first i thoroughly enjoyed it when christopher eccleston took control of the tardis and the continuation of the series i have since then seen old episodes of doctor who and some where great but like the doctor the series needed to regenerate to continue the 21st century doctor who's are great i thought martha was great almost a match for the doctor and if jack's appearance is anything to go by she's going to be brilliant when she cameos in series 4 or 5 br br speaking of jack the spin of torchwood is also brilliant and you should watch both of these programmes though this is definitely more suitable for kids however if you insist that this isn't the same and just isn't doctor who please just stay in your basement br br 10 10
1	as soon as the credits rolled on saturday night you could feel it in the air that the doctor was most definitely back br br watching those iconic moments where christopher eccelston met billie piper was the beginning of a huge long adventure br br with this new series it brings with it in which the previous version of the show lacked for the emotion between the doctor and his companion which they seemed to dismiss in the old series as well as the doctor actually falling in love with a companion and receiving her love in return yet as we know the doctor shall forever remain lonely as the end of season 2 proved he could not stay with a companion forever watching those moments your eyes filling with tears as the doctor says his final farewell to the only companion he has ever loved were moments beautifully written and acted br br this show however proved it can live on as the doctor meets many other companions along his lonely yet exciting journey through his never ending life br br new doors and secrets every episode it's a sure show for the family to enjoy br br as christopher eccelston once described the show the journey of a lifetime
1	honestly i don't really understand why there has been so much controversy about this show it embraces the elements of the original while expanding on them the storytelling has been updated and while some of the episodes seem to be a bit fast that is a good thing br br christopher eccleston is perfect in the role easily as good as tom baker br br rose is one of the best companions on par with sarah jane smith or br br i like the concept that the have been destroyed no more with the doctor acting as president emeritus and it adds something to the character to be the only one left br br the sfx are outstanding especially in comparison to the original br br take it from me and i was a huge dr who geek i actually took notes while watching the show all the way from dr number 1 to dr number 8 i tossed the horrible movie out of cannon personally this is the best sci fi show on tv right now possibly ever watch it and buy the dvd
1	okay i grew up on who but haven't loved a doctor since tom baker christopher eccleston made me love who again and i'll be furious with him forever for leaving br br the writing is grand the acting superb the directing which was dreadful in the old days is just fantastic i was very skeptical about this programme and watched it merely out of being forced but am now a huge fan and love it i have a of a dalek screaming exterminate then br br a few of the things i love about the new programme 1 people actually notice when rose billie piper disappears off the planet some of the old shows an assistant would drop off for a while and then come home like nothing has happened no one noticed 2 chris eccleston's doc loves rose romantic or not will be debated but there is no doubt that 9 loves and cares about his companion he'd destroy the world if he had to to save her which the old show was lacking often a doctor wouldn't care if he never saw his assistants again 3 they talk and think like real people when rose is shown something outlandish or new such as aliens she acts like a real person would gobsmacked i never liked it when an assistant from the old show who never saw anything alien would just fit right in and adapt instantly i want to see the surprise on rose's face when she sees a plastic dummy come to life she gives that to me br br the few things i don't like about this series 1 nearly everything happens on earth london or cardiff and i was sort of hoping for a more off world sort of show 2 that eccleston left so quickly he really made the show brilliant br br but i can let those few things go i far more enjoy the series than i ever expected to so i don't mind if they have stuff set on earth br br just don't take this show seriously it's fun it's smart it's entertaining but it's not a super serious heavy duty show it's pure fun and pure british and i can't get enough watch it with an open mind and just put your brain into neutral and enjoy br br ps don't watch series 2 or later series 1 was brilliant the first few episodes of series 2 were good but don't watch it once it gets to love and monsters utter rubbish completely destroys the show
1	this movie is not the scariest of all time but it is a great example of a campy eighties horror flick low budget no stars lots of inventive death scenes and enough nudity to keep the teenagers in their seats the premise is interesting and fun and the three evil kids play their parts well a nice starting point for just say julie brown exposing her talents early in her career this film won't be seen by many but for fans of 80's horror it's a must
1	i watched all of the doctor who episodes that my local pbs station played while growing up got introduced to the doctor by way of john pertwee as well as camera copies of doctor who sent to america by uk fans to their us counterparts i had a great time w the show but it never seemed to take itself seriously i mean as seriously as a sci fi show about a time traveler could be i went to the cons did the costume bit doctor 5 6 and tegan were my costume characters loved it then it all came to a sudden halt program politics and lack of interest and funding turned doctor who into a old antique that drifted into the ethos br br when i heard that the sci fi channel had picked up the new doctor my first thought was cool now my 11 year old son can see what i've been babbling on about all these years and know what the heck a tardis is i have several phone boxes and of various sizes around the house i didn't expect the excellent quality of story character development and f x i was to say the least pleased for the first time i found a doctor that wasn't a curmudgeon a clown a fop a trip head a pussy or a jerk christopher eccleston is by far the most believable doctor to date now now calm down tom baker fans don't get me wrong i loved almost every doctor and his quirks but christopher gave something to the doctor that he'd never had before real word believability i'm just sad that he decided against another season i'll try out david tennant as i would any other doctor but now the bar has risen br br bad wolf rules br br 2008 update i love david tennant his mod persona is something that my generation remembers my son's generation can deal with and fashion gestapo can relax he's a little more human than christopher but not as as other former doctors i miss rose i dig martha and what were they thinking with donna noble it's still the best ride on tv
1	doctor who is amazing it is everyones of it must be the boys will like the monsters and the action and adventure and the girls will like the emotion and feelings that go around br br billie piper was extraordinary as rose tyler she was so emotional and made rose so real br br david tennant is also so witty and funny and it is so enjoyable to watch br br but now billie has left and rose is stuck on a parallel universe with her on off boyfriend mickey and her mother and father he died when rose was a baby but this pete tyler is from the parallel universe it will be very strange with martha being the new companion as i have only ever seen it with rose apart from the runaway bride with catherine tate br br better be good br br but nobody can beat rose
1	i have just watched the season 2 finale of doctor who and apart from a couple of dull episodes this show is fantastic br br its a sad loss that we say goodbye to a main character once again in the season final but the show moves on br br the bbc does need to increase the budget on the show there are only so many things that can happen in london and the surrounding areas also some of the special effects all though on the main very good on the odd occasion do need to be a little more polished br br it was a huge gamble for the bbc to bring back a show that lost its way a long time ago and they must be congratulated for doing so br br roll on to the christmas 2006 special the 2005 christmas special was by far the best thing on television
1	as a child i was never in a situation where i could be introduced to dr who and though i had heard of the series in passing i never really realized exactly what it was it was then with some hesitation that i sat down to watch the ninth doctor and his antics having be told that he was something like arthur dent from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy but cooler i can't believe what i've been missing out on seriously why had no one told me about this before my entire childhood was deprived of doctor who adventures me being a tremendous fan of most sci fi and fantasy adventures honestly i thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to any future episodes br br i have to admit that at first i was not so sure that billie piper would be the best actress but i'm happy to say that she did very well i thought and added a very realistic touch to the series i think actually that was one of my favourite aspects of the series the contrast between great alien conflict scenes contrasted with the infuriating normality of the south london council estate life i'm always interested in instances where people's ideas about the world are drastically challenged and how people can take any situation and edit it in their minds so that it may fit in with their mundane lives i also loved christopher eccleston i haven't seen many of his films and i've never seen another actor as dr who but i thought his portrayal of the doctor was brilliant immensely likable and yet dark enough to make you wonder i find that many other characters with his sort of character history tend to be a bit two dimensional they have all the right emotions and actions but they always seems slightly shallow this doctor on the other hand earned my loyalty with his stratified personality i agree with some of the other comments that a higher budget for the special effects aliens and whatnot might have been a bit more effective but then again this isn't about special effects though they help from what i've read and heard from long time dr who fans it's the spirit of the whole things that really counts and i don't think they did a bad job with what they had i quite liked all the aliens but my favourite had to be the daleks if i ever knew anything about dr who before watching the series it was that there were things in it that looked like dustbins on wheels previous to watching i was quite sceptical about these pepper pots threatening the existence of humanity but some of them were quite scary which i loved of course br br overall a good show i look forward to future episodes with delight the doctor has a new fan
1	i get a kick out of the new who fans who call it excellent their entitled to that opinion but the new series isn't quite there yet it's getting there it's definitely good br br first the good things the special effects are obviously better nearly 20 yrs later since the last episode of doctor who battlefield was aired br br one thing the bbc has always liked is doctor who except when they tried to cancel in the 70's and 80's however the anticipation and the pressure was great but i think the new series has passed the test it's good it's still not excellent because it does have it's flaws some of the stories dalek were very poor i assume it was written in a couple of minutes by some idiot who never bothered to remake the dalek character or never bothered to watch the old series br br aliens in london was by far probably the best episode so far it started a new storyline about aliens which has lasted across several episodes including boomtown br br now the other bad things the companion rose billie piper isn't great she's actually quite annoying but as is dr who a young teeny bopper had to be eventually chosen and she got the part br br christopher eccleston is pretty respectable he's started to catch his niche he tried to play the character straight then funny always missing the right punchline but he's taken it much more serious and it shows br br continuity wise there still some issues that didn't get resolved well paul mcgann was still the doctor before this but he didn't get put back br br aside from that though the series overall is pretty good i haven't missed an episode and it never gets boring so i recommend any doctor who fan to check it out and see the new doctor who series
1	2005 will go down in 'dr who' history as its most incredible year everything seemed to click a first rate new doctor and companion big audiences 10 million for the first episode and christmas special major awards critical acclaim and those idiots who spent years giggling at the seeming inability to negotiate stairs were well and truly silenced but then christopher eccleston dropped a bombshell quitting after just one series it looked like the honeymoon was over luckily the public appears to have embraced his successor the excellent david tennant on top of this the show boasts fine s f x like the spaceship crashing into 'big ben' in of london' and superb story lines such as 'tooth of ghosts the new 'dr who' is basically the same as the old only updated for the 21st century some fans have accused russell t davies of 'ruining' the show they need to remember that there was no show for sixteen years until he came along
1	i seriously enjoy dr who br br seriously don't just dismiss me as a sci fi person because i'm not normally i caught on because a friend got me hooked when they started watching it it is actually really funny and more often than not it's fast paced all of my family watch it pretty much and that's a miracle br br christopher is pretty good but david tennant is brilliant i think it's because he made the doctor so manic and it's just nice to have that little bit of eccentricity in a tv character again br br i don't know what it is about it but everything manages to work like clockwork br br all i'm going to say is just try it one episode probably best if you don't pick the second half of a two parter though
1	it was september 2003 that i heard the bbc were going to resurrect doctor who and make it bigger and better but i'd heard these rumours in the press before and thought that's all they were rumours but it was then mentioned that russell t davies was going to produce and write the show and then one saturday afternoon in march 2004 channel 4 news interviewed the actor cast in the title role christopher eccleston yes that christopher eccleston an actor i've always been impressed by since watching his film debut in let him have it and if he was getting interviewed on television it must have been true as the months passed more and more information was leaked billie piper was being cast the daleks would be returning and the mill the hollywood effects company who had done the fx for gladiator were contracted to do the special effects for the show for several weeks before the first broadcast trailers galore heralded the return of the new series massive billboards in london informed the public about the return of the show tabloid newspapers carried massive photo spreads of the aliens appearing and christopher eccleston appeared on programmes as diverse as blue peter mastermind which had a special doctor who night edition this morning and friday night with johnathan ross in fact this new series of doctor who must have been the most hyped programme in the history of british television it had better be bloody good br br so was it bloody good undoubtedly it has been a major success with nearly every episode making the top ten shows in the tv charts to give you clue of its rating success only one episode the ark in space episode two febuary 1975 from the old series had made it into the top five tv chart the opening series episode made number three with two more episodes either beating or equalling the previous record and this is in an era where there's far more competition in terms of tv stations and choice let's laugh and cheer at the fact doctor who stuffed hit me baby one more time celebrity wrestling and mauled ant and saturday night takeaway of course much of the success is down to the breath taking visuals and the casting of a well known prestigious actor in the role for the most part everything you see on screen here equals anything you'll see in a spielberg hollywood movie there's a dalek invasion force numbering tens of thousands exotic aliens a 19th century cardiff that looks like a 19th century cardiff and night filming that is actually night filming and not done by sticking a dark filter over the screen i promise you'll be hearing a lot more from the directors who worked on this series joe especially will one day be in the hollywood a list br br there are some flaws to the new series of doctor who and all of them should be laid at the door of russell t davies it may be contentious whether the soap opera and post modernist elements are successful or not in my opinion they're not but what's not in dispute is that the weakest scripts are all written by rtd as i mentioned in my review of casanova he cheats the audience and he does the same thing here when faced by armed soldiers pointing their guns at him the doctor bellows attack plan delta which makes no sense to anyone in the audience but allows him to escape from a tight spot a naked captain jack suddenly pulls out a laser he's been hiding and rtd scripts are full of these type of cheats and deus ex machina type endings in fact the final episode is spoiled greatly by the ridiculous concept of what the bad wolf is which seems to have got rtd out of a tight spot more than the doctor and of the endings i'm trying to remember if any of them were actually down to the doctor more often than it's a supporting character or the doctor's companion who saves the day the show is called doctor who not rose tyler so can we see the title character save the day please just like he did in the classic series one final point about the portrayal of the doctor is the way he's written as a grinning loon eccleston is best known for his serious and gloomy roles and he's absolutely breath taking at scenes when he's showing grief like the tear running down his face in the end of the world but more often than not he's written as a tom baker on speed character it's obvious why eccleston hasn't done much comedy in his career he's not very good at it br br am i starting to sound like i hate this show sorry i didn't mean to but it's just that while some have been met or surpassed some others haven't and they're nearly all down to russell t davies who thankfully is contributing less in the way of scripts in the next series of doctor who let's see more traditional stories of a human outpost being under threat from monsters like we saw in the 1960s and 70s imagine a story like the sea devils with a massive budget directed by joe oh and one last request can we see these next time trailers scrapped they reveal all the best bits of next week's episode
1	i never saw doctor who before at least not in any focused way so i was new to the concept i have to say that the new show works very well it's funny it really also ought to say comedy in the genre description many plot turns are only acceptable because of their comedic value it's well written and it's making a meager budget go a long way the human dimension is very strong and engaging which is very rare in current tv shows br br i've seen the first eight episodes and 6 8 were my favorites so far even types of stories that are all too easy to screw up with time travel saving one's dead parents and that sort of stuff works out amazingly well here br br christopher eccleston is a joy to watch as the witty and light hearted though occasionally morose doctor if they can find a good replacement for him i'll be quite surprised but i'm willing to give the new guy a chance there's little doubt however that the eccleston episodes are going to go down in history as classics br br the relationship between the doctor and rose is particularly refreshing the doc is much more of a father figure to her than a romantic interest and yet there are hints of romantic innuendo between them which however is much more emotional and human than sexual br br a good show the biggest drawback is the low budget a show like this ought to have better special effects and why they don't simply use some cheaper effects i don't know in this day and age sfx don't have to cost a bundle just look at the star wars revelations fan film br br 8 out of 10
1	i remember being so excited on saturday nights when i was a kid waiting for dr who i thought it was the best show ever made then i grew up dr who went off the air and no one i knew had ever heard of it then i found out there was going to be a new series i was a little nervous about it was it going to live up to the expectations i had carried around since i was little would they screw it up would the dr suck would his assistant suck would they create a more intimate relationship with the dr and his assistant yes no no no no this show is wonderful i love the new dr i love his assistant i love the show and i find myself excited on friday nights now waiting for the new episode i'm just now seeing 2005 episodes as i live in the states so i'm a little behind the rest of you i hope the next dr is as great as this one
1	an absolute classic of 80's scare flix this one isn't like any other as it pits pint size wild eyed psychotic youngsters with an urge to kill against all the grown ups in town bud from just one of the guys 80's gold again plays one of the killer kids and he's paired up with one of the little girls jake blues tries to purchase in the blues brothers there is a third blond boy but he keeps disappearing from the movie for whatever reason the violence is hilarious at times and also surprisingly gruesome in spots the demonic gang of smiling kids though somehow possessed by extra planetary means bear little resemblance to the droid ish children of the damned who never thought to use pistols crossbows and shovels to kill those pesky adults julie brown not downtown julie brown the other one shows her rack like three times as she dances around in her bedroom this movie is a rarity that i cannot believe i missed growing up in the 80's this would have been my absolute favorite movie as a kid if i had seen it where is the sequel the ending begs for this movie is just incredible seek it out at all costs
1	first off i never got into dr who until recently honestly i never got the opportunity to watch any of the previous incarnations pun intended since it was never big here in the us as it is everywhere else br br that said i must say obviously that after finishing the 2nd season that this is one of the best sci fi shows i've ever seen br br now i watch a lot of sci fi shows from all over and this show stands out br br the first season was tops to begin with with christopher eccleston in the title role and i thought he was terrific of course so was the lovely billie piper who just adds such humanity and warmth to the character of rose that no one could've done it better let's not forget as jackie and noel clarke as mickey ricky who are just a blast to watch then there's david at first i thought he was too gawky looking to play the character his ears but after watching the 2nd season he fits in just fine his sharp acting and physical comedy is almost flawless he's great with snappy dialog and can turn serious without batting an eye br br aside from the great acting from the cast is the acting from most of the guest actors that have appeared a lot of them are veteran actors but some are new to me and are damn fine br br the production and direction of the show is top notch occasionally there'll be some cheesy effects here and there but that's always been a factor in the original series and like those episodes is negligible br br my favorite thing of all about the series the stories writing folks is always the key to great entertainment russell t davies has written many of the episodes along with a few other writers and they have done an excellent job they've managed to bring excitement ingenuity intelligence and fun with clever concepts and great dialog i also appreciate the fact that they can breach the older past story lines and enemies well my friend explains much of this to me while we watch the show and respectfully br br i won't mention anything about the 2nd season and how it ends since the sci fi channel just started airing the 2nd season br br i wouldn't want to spoil it it's so much fun and excitement you'll never want to take your eyes away nor miss a word of dialog br br it really is that good br br ps thanks to the producers for nicholas briggs back exterminate
1	i loved this show such talent and i am so disappointed that it is canceled after only just beginning i looked forward to this show all week long and so sorry for the people who were hoping to be the one i would have loved to see who would have won it just began and in my opinion it should not have been canceled i hope these young artist have been viewed by talent scouts and have the opportunity to reach their goals i voted and sat waiting for it to come on never knowing that it was canceled and i could not believe that it was i am amazed that it had low ratings because it was in my opinion one of the best reality shows on tv
1	i was really beginning to enjoy this show it just started out slow and it wasn't given the chance it deserved it is summertime so many people are not at home watching television i know there are a few talent and singing competitions but i enjoy them as do many other believe it or not when american idol is done for the year i miss it even though this was not american idol i thought it had potential i feel bad for the singers on the show who wee really starting to grow on me i wish they would reconsider and put the show back on i think it was a hasty move to cancel my only complaint about the show is i did not care to much for the judges
1	i was very disappointed when this show was canceled although i can not vote i live on the island of i sat down to see the show on tuesday and was very surprised that it didn't aired the next day i read on the internet that it was canceled br br it's true not every one was as much talented as the other but there were very talented people singing br br i find it very sad for them br br that they worked so hard and there dreams came tumbling down br br its a pity br br
1	this is a very modest very lovely movie with a great score by carmichael and frank loesser with a standout number we're the couple in the castle that is totally evocative of the period and harks back to penthouse serenade just as the opening premise coming may well have inspired fred and yip opening woody's coming in rainbow six years later i totally agree with those posters who have noted that were the name disney appended to this it would by now have achieved 'classic' status rather than have fallen into neglect it's wonderfully inventive never more so than when objects barely noticed in the 'real' world assume a much greater significance both pro and con in the insect world actually it is a classic albeit a minor one
1	while disney have been the animation studio for the past 70 years there have always been rivals to their supremacy when this review was written in 2009 for example companies like dreamworks and to a lesser extent warner brothers and were bringing out animated movies that could be said to challenge the disney dominance back in the beginning in that late '30s and early '40s heyday when disney was serving cinematic like snow white dumbo and fantasia the competition was provided by brothers dave and max fleischer despite releasing two very commendable films they never quite cornered the market – many attribute their downfall to the commercial failure of mr bug goes to town released the same week as the attack on pearl harbour which gave the american public something more significant to think about than going to the cinema to watch a cartoon that this film has faded into relative obscurity is a travesty br br in a patch of overgrown garden in the city a bunch of bugs are in dire danger humans use the land as a shortcut litter and cigars and other hazards right on top of the homes as they go honey shop owner mr bumble voiced by jack mercer fears that the future is bleak and wonders how he will ever be able to raise his daughter honey voiced by pauline in more secure surroundings a highly unscrupulous creature bagley c beetle voiced by pierce offers to provide her a safer place to live if she will accept his hand in marriage but honey is much more interested in her childhood sweetheart the cheerful and optimistic voiced by stan freed believes that everything is about to be resolved for the better but is left looking foolish when bagley beetle and his pair of comical sidekicks manipulate the crisis to their own devious end only at the very end as their patch becomes the foundation for a huge new skyscraper do the bugs switch loyalty back to as they look to him to lead them a new safe home away from the destructive influence of humans br br what really works in this film is the delightful characterisation – all the bugs are cleverly developed and designed for maximum audience appeal the bumbling villains swat the fly and smack the mosquito hilarious names if you stop to think about it are particularly memorable equally admirable is the storytelling drive – even the youngest of children can enjoy this story while at the same time it skillfully conveys a message for older audiences about the way human carelessness can impact upon the survival of wildlife time has inevitably dated some aspects of the film and when viewing it the audience needs to accept and forgive these occasional signs of general age and wear but on the whole mr bug goes to town is an accomplished funny and very slickly presented animation with a worthy message to boot
1	wow i saw this movie and up on the same day within an hour of each other at different theaters i saw mr bug first and was then totally disappointed in up 's follow up what a beautiful and touching film movies of the 1930s and 40s to us nowadays can be with their melodramatic acting and dialog but as animation the same melodrama and groaning humor can be wonderful and the soft organic lines of 30s drawing and the music just puts you in a nice comfortable mood and you can enjoy the show with all its little characters ladybugs grasshoppers bees snails flies mosquitoes beetles crickets and more each with all their own cute little but not overbearing idiosyncrasies the interaction with the human world from nemesis cigar smokers high heel wearers innocent kick the can playing kids to the kind hearted and to the unknown destroyers is realistic and fascinating you care for the bugs and dick and mary the protagonist is not some perfect superman who comes to set things right but a starry eyed optimist who leads everyone down the garden path literally and every time you think it's going to end happily in 1930s style along comes another roadblock i was on the edge of my seat much more than with up i walked out of the movie theater grinning and chuckling something that hasn't happened in a long long long long time
1	there was a time when not all animation was disney or pixar its so nice to see this wonderful film again and i actually got hold of a good reasonable copy on dvd be careful as its out of the public domain and there are some really bad copies around i got a very good copy by a company called flashbacks and its quite good in the old days i watched it on black and white on tv and its magic to see it in colour very much better than some would have you believe the songs are delightful and the colour is great interestingly the characters are really well developed which is odd in animated movies i loved and the villain mr beatle is a real cad its incredibly imaginative the way inanimate objects like cotton reels old tins become part of the environment and have new functions is great the use of insects is amazing considering the much creatures most people sadly think are repugnant hopefully we may never step on an insect again the insects enemy is man in reality of course its the insects that will survive no matter how hard we try to rid ourselves of ants here in australia they keep coming back the battle has been lost and we have to live with them there are several scenes that stand out such as when and mr bumble are caught in a watering can the great flood and the journey to the top of the building are all wonderful its also rather anthropomorphic but in a way thats charming the human characters look very like the ones in gulliver and its incredibly effective the wedding scene looks beautiful its a crime this movie has not been hailed as a classic the only jarring note for me is the occasions in the film when the characters slip into verse speaking verse spoils the narration and it was no needed the verse is awful and spoils an other wise good script its great and kids will love it its a joy to look at there's a very clever ending too
1	normally i am a typical creepy crawly girl but after watching this film on youtube of course i'm having different perspectives and also i did not know that my favorite animation studio fleischer's made another film that's about community of insects whose city garden home is threatened by humans lighted cigars and cigarette butts footsteps etc and how a plucky young grasshopper named saves the day and wins the heart of honey the bee i love the lovely ms honey you know after watching the film the bugs reminded me of the some of the bugs from don and out of the songs in the film i love we're a couple in the castle when i sing that song it almost made me cry br br this wonderful film was the second and final feature to come out of the fleischer studio the film was originally going to be released on november of 1941 but since the fleischer's rival disney released dumbo weeks earlier paramount changed the date to december of the same year but mr bug unfortunately went into a then unrealized trap of terrible timing having the misfortune of opening two days after the attack on pearl harbor mr bug was a financial disaster and led to the of max and dave fleischer from the studio they had established in 1919 and reorganized the company as famous studios another huge factor in their departure was the fact that max and dave fleischer were no longer speaking to one another due to disputes how sad it was overall i love both films from the fleischer bros gulliver and mr bug
1	people who know me say i have a weakness for animated films br br to be fair those people are half right my actual weakness is for exceptionally well done animated films such as this vintage family flick from max and david fleischer br br you may be thinking to yourself well if it's so great why haven't i heard of it fair question this movie was released the same week as the attacks on pearl harbor the unavoidably bad timing caused the film to sink into relative obscurity things are looking up though because it has finally been released on dvd under the title br br it's funny that the film went through all this because it kind of mirrors the actual plot although some people claim that the movie is trying to send an environmental message ugh i personally think that the movie's main idea is perseverance through adversity and hard times after all the country had barely pulled out of the depression at the time br br our grasshopper hero desperately wants to help his endangered community problem each time he tries whether through the ill will of others or through simple bad luck he fails miserably and slowly begins to earn the disdain of the very people he's trying to save although he does his best to maintain a positive outlook he occasionally breaks down and it's only through the encouragement and support of his friends that he gets back on his feet and fights the good fight just a healthy reminder that when all is said and done no one is really self sufficient br br okay you're saying it has a good message two actually does that really make it exceptionally well done br br my answer partially br br it's not just the message that makes this movie special it's the characterization this is one of those films where you can just see the personality of each cast member in their animation you almost don't even need the spoken lines a good way to sum it all up is energetic or lively a lot of movies have used the selling point lovable cast of characters whenever i hear that line it always makes me think of this movie br br case in point the bad guys swat the fly and smack the mosquito many movies have lovable villains but i don't think you'll find any as entertaining or endearing as these fellows forget that 3 stooges cartoon from the 60s swat and smack are the closest thing to an animated version of moe and curly but sadly not larry that you'll ever find virtually all of the funniest moments somehow involve this gruesome twosome yeah they're rotten no but you still care about them that's the kind of power you only see from a really talented writer director and crew br br the movie has two brief jokes revolving around racial stereotypes native americans and chinese i don't think they were intended to be malicious but they're there regardless they didn't bother me but it'd be pretty unfair of me not to warn someone who potentially would be bothered by them br br so if you share my weakness and i think you do give this one a go
1	i can't believe i rarely ever see this title mentioned by all you eighties horror freaks and i definitely won't be joining all my fellow reviewers here in saying that 'bloody is awful viewing on the contrary i enjoyed it very much and i was pleasantly surprised by the and surprise twists it offers don't just refer to this film as being 'another 80's slasher' because the victims here are rather unlikely and so are the killers we're introduced to three cherubic looking youngsters who were all born during a solar eclipse at the moment they were delivered planet saturn was blocked by both the sun and the moon and due to this the kids are emotionless and seemly without conscience this really starts to show around their tenth birthday as they go on a merciless killing spree br br granted this stuff is incredibility far fetched and even slightly offensive but seriously who cares unlike many other horror films from this period it at least attempts to bring something original and imaginative for once the kids' acting is good and the entire film has a creepy atmosphere and grizzly music the murders sequences are grim and tense and it's always eerie to see them getting committed by angel faced kids i don't know who hired the 3 kids but they did a good job especially the girl and the kid with glasses are highly memorable the bleak images of the heartless trio remind you of classic highlights such as of the damned' 'the bad and of the damned' this film is nowhere near as memorable as these milestones but great fun and not one horror lover will regret watching this br br bloody birthday was written and directed by ed hunt not particularly the greatest genius in cinema but a pleasantly deranged fella who also brought us immensely entertaining cheesefests like 'the brain' and 'starship if all this isn't enough to convince you yet bloody birthday has a lot of nudity and not just any nudity but a topless dance act by mtv vj julie brown oh and keep your eyes open for a completely redundant cameo by joe penny later the star of tv series 'jake and the check it out
1	when goes to town he discovers nothing but bad news for his little insect neighbors in the can this honest good natured grasshopper save his sweetheart miss honey bee from the machinations of the evil c bagley beetle and also lead his friends to a safe new home before it's too late br br while not one of the great animated features a very new art at the time this film was created is an enjoyable film which should bring pleasure to uncritical viewers technically it is well made with animation of a generally high quality the movie's main drawback is that none of the characters really have any heart' they don't come alive' on the screen in the way jiminy cricket did a year earlier in pinocchio br br however it is ultimately unfair to compare the fleischer studio output with that of disney max dave fleischer had their own star to follow their contribution and it would be a considerable one would be in the realm of the one reel cartoon with their popeye and betty boop series they created alternate realities as viable as any produced by other cartoon studios was their second experiment with feature length animation after gulliver's travels in 1939 and henceforth they would expend their energies again on the cartoon short subject in fact the first in the highly acclaimed superman series was already in release br br story owes a great deal to frank capra with it's energetic go get hero up against powerful societal forces indeed the film's original title was mr bug goes to town which immediately puts one in mind of gary cooper or jimmy stewart and their capraesque adventures br br jack mercer famous as the voice of popeye here speaks for two very different characters old mr bumble swat the fly movie mavens should be able to catch veteran voice actors pinto colvig mae both in uncredited roles br br the film has some pleasant songs supplied by carmichael frank loesser of which be my little baby bumble bee' is the most familiar we're the couple in the castle' is a fine romantic tune which deserves to be rediscovered br br it is unfortunate that the film's initial animation with its sweep out of the heavens and past the in depth new york skyline is obscured behind the opening credits
1	well i may be bias as i grew up watching a vhs copy of this film that is now ready to snap and have just spent the last couple of hours tracking down a dvd copy as a birthday for my dad the film is so harmless and inoffensive it suits all ages much better than anything disney ever made in my opinion and i used to work in the disney store the characters are enjoyable and the award for best scene is a tie between the disrupted wedding especially the musical talents of swat the fly and smack the mosquito and the amazing night club scene the musical numbers still have me humming 20 years after i first watched it there is no other film that i can better recommend whilst baby sitting and in fact every child i know thanks to my loving parents have seen this film many times it will always get top marks for its fabulous love story a brilliant baddy and over all originality
1	mr bug goes to town was the last major achievement the fleischer studios produced the quality of the superman series produced at the same time is evident in this extraordinary film br br the music and lyrics by frank loesser and carmichael with assistance by veteran sammy are quite good but not as much as the scoring of the picture by leigh harline who also scored snow white for disney atmospheric music is superb and a treat for the ears br br the layout and staging of the picture was years ahead of it's time and once again the fleischer's background artists outdid themselves the beauty of the film cannot be denied and while the grasshopper is the star the characters of swat the fly and smack the mosquito steal the picture voicing by jack mercer of popeye fame is priceless kenny gardner brother in law of guy lombardo and a featured vocalist in his band does his usual pleasant job in the role of dick br br the movie has been criticized for all the wrong reasons the fleischer studios were animation experts par excellence and this shows very clearly in the finished product the movie is tuneful the story great for all ages and the final scenes of the bugs scrambling for their lives upon a rising skyscraper is some of the best staging and animation of any animated film past and present br br do not miss this wonderfully hand drawn film also don't fail to appreciate the title sequence with the most elaborate example of max fleischer's remarkable 3 d process which took four months to construct and employed 16 000 tiny panes of glass in the electrified buildings of manhattan br br do not miss mr bug goes to town aka goes to town i'll wager you'll be bug eyed at the results
1	is a charming if slightly animated movie that considering it was made in the 1941 has stood the test of time incredibly well now i have to admit i have a soft spot for to town' as it is called in the united kingdom having watched a vhs version taped of the tv by our parents many times with my siblings imagine my surprise when i woke up this morning just in time to catch it on channel four at never the less the film was just as delightful as i remembered it with the animation standing the test of time and a lovely moral tale which should appeal to parents and children alike maybe one day i to shall share this forgotten classic with children of my own with a nice running time for kids 88 min's and a simple yet involving storyline there really is something for everyone in this tale of the little guy coming good i really could see this being successfully remade in cgi take note pixar
1	what i liked best about this feature length animated film from 1941 is the great feel it gives for the early 1940s it's the songs the clothing automobiles buildings lingo of the day etc you feel like you've stepped back into time br br from reading some of the reviews here i see this was a hard luck film being released a couple of days before the pearl harbor attack wow no one would be interested in going to the movies for a feature length cartoon during those eventful and shocking days i'm sure too bad because the folks missed some nice animation would have really impressed back then almost 70 years ago the colors are nice drawings are good and story involving as we root for the bugs led by and and his beautiful girl honey to make it happily ever after and out of harm's way it's also about all of them finding a spot they can live and not worry about humans trampling them br br there is a nasty villain though c bagley beetle and two of his henchmen those helpers swat the fly and smack the mosquito are comedians complete with their brooklyn ese accents the story is a familiar one where a nasty old man wants to marry the sweet young thing and uses unscrupulous means to force her hand the good guy meanwhile has the decked stacked against him but in the very end of course prevails br br my favorite part this will sound worse than what it was was when good guy got temporarily electrocuted and he danced in black and white that was fantastic animation br br you know it's a good thing i didn't see this as a very little kid i would have been afraid to play outside and squash all those nice bug people you never know what or who is in that grass beneath your feet
1	i have viewed this cartoon as a child a father and now a grand father it is my favorite cartoon i love the characters the great little tunes and the very good drawings i totally love the main song which comes up throughout the cartoon i think it is a beautiful little cartoon everyone i have shown it to simply loves it it is too bad it opened on such a bad day pearl harbor bombing if it wasn't for the bad timing it would have been a great success i hope i can find a dvd of it because all the vhs tapes don't do it justice br br i think if anyone shows it to their child they will come up with the same result they will just love it br br
1	hello again i have been thinking about this movie all my life i saw it when i was 5 years old in los angeles california in 1942 what a wonderful story of being good to one another kindness and charity you forget it is the bugs relating to one another it was just as if they were people i love this movie and so do my adult children such beautiful color in this movie i need to see this movie again there is a story about an envelope in the movie that i just can't remember the why of it br br thanks for listening
1	i have for years remembered a song just a couple in a castle no twenty moonbeam square just a couple in castle in the air i couldn't find the song but i remembered that it it had to do with cartoon bugs i located a reference to the movie on the web i had seen the movie when i was only 9 year old at the pa theatre i was pleased to find that it had kenny gardner the singer with guy i am a lombardo fan and then to see that it was produced by the fleisher bros who did another very good full cartoon feature of travels also remembered fondly also the songs were associated with carmichael and frank loesser who are among the very best no wonder i remembered the film the song and the colorful animation as a full musical this is a movie which should be remembered as a one of the best of the early full musicals now that i remember it the plot may not have been earth shaking but was very well presented and makes for a easy to watch delightful movie
1	mr bug goes to town was one of those films that i grew up hearing about however a copy could never be obtained until now i just watched this film on dvd and thought it was a delightful and charming film with wonderful animation a good plot and great songs if this film was made by disney then the film would be considered a classic however because it was made by a little known film studio that is long gone the film has slipped through the cracks br br the film was made by the max fleischer studios at their miami fl studios and was released through paramount pictures the film was to have had its premiere on dec 7th 1941 the date of the bombing of pearl harbor though this probably did hurt the release of the film the film did play at some movie theaters for up to a year as evidenced by doing some research the film was called a family favorite by most of the major american newspapers the film continued to be re released about every year or so usually around holidays like easter at least in major cities br br in the mid 1950s this film was re released under a new name goes to town named after the lead character in the film br br the film is a true period piece capturing a slice of americana as it was back in the late 30s and 1940's the animation is great and many of the characters are very cute the animation of the humans in the film is via the rotoscope process meaning that actors were filmed and then that footage was traced over by animators giving the movement a very real look br br the studios were one of several animation studios making animated cartoons back in the 30s and 40s while some of the fleischer characters like betty boop popeye and the superman cartoons are better known the work of the studio is more or less forgotten br br almost as a whole the body of work of the fleischer studios are in the public domain all of the superman cartoons are public domain all but one of the color classics series are public domain and the film gulliver's travels is also in the public domain this film never appears to have been released in the us on vhs or dvd but was released in europe however some looking around on the internet can very quickly produce you with a copy i recommend the search
1	i first watched this in black and white circa christmas in the early sixties when it was shown on british television i was absolutely hooked and watched it over again whenever it was repeated on tv possibly two or three times only as it happens if only we'd had video recorders then br br as outlined by other contributors the plot describes the return of the grasshopper after a period spent away to a forties american city he finds that all is not as he left it and his good insect friends who live in the just outside the garden which belongs to a songwriter and his wife are now under threat from the ones' who are trampling through the broken down fence which the property using it as a shortcut br br insect houses are being flattened by their feet and are also often burned by cast away cigar butts and matches old mr bumble and his beautiful daughter honey childhood sweetheart are in grave danger of losing their honey shop to this threat br br to compound their problems devious insect c bagley beetle has romantic designs on honey bee himself and hopes with the help of his henchmen swat the fly and smack the mosquito to force bumble to give him her hand in marriage br br will the heroic and fearless win the day and manage to save the community of bugs from their dastardly fate and especially his precious honey from hers enjoy the classic songs katy did katy didn't is a superb swinging upbeat example and the colourful visuals as the tale unfolds br br time has not blunted my fascination for this masterpiece of animation and story telling and i was much pleased to find that it had been released to video although i later found out that it was in ntsc pal format never mind i sent off for the video immediately and only then bought a portable tv video combination complete with ntsc playback br br i have enjoyed many nostalgic viewings since then and have even discovered that the tv rights have switched from bbc who informed me they were unlikely to ever show the film on any of their stations to filmfour who have at last been showing it on their digital stations in early 2007 br br my granddaughter aged three was absolutely entranced while we watched it together and this is a child who has been influenced by the digital age and the resulting computer generated productions br br i would thoroughly recommend this film for any age and especially the youngest of viewers br br give max fleischer a posthumous oscar
1	interesting cartoon included on the dvd of the lost skeleton of cadavra i especially like the way the color was used in the background art very artistic for columbia whose cartoon department generally had a very low budget and the results looked like it br br i do wonder however how a certain um finger gesture ever got past the censors granted the gesture in question was seen a lot less frequently in 1937 than it is today you'd think someone besides the animators would have noticed though especially since it's seen three times in the scene in question and based on the context i suspect that its inclusion was intentional something the animators slipped in just to see if the censors would notice
1	leslie excellent book on the tells the whole story of the fleischer's big move of their entire animation unit to florida and their subsequent ejection by paramount br br mr bug goes to town didn't destroy the animation credit with paramount although it's often told that way and this was paramount's favorite version of the story according to the big studio more than anything wanted to get their mitts on the animation studio and ease the famously bickering brothers out of the picture altogether mr bug provided them the pretext to do just that the sad closing of a great quirky innovative chapter in american animation br br i wanted to comment also that the film actually debuted december 4 1941 not december 7 that may have been close enough to do the trick anyway in terms of national mood damaging the film's success but another part of the legend of this troubled little film is that it was killed by having the bad luck to be in the theaters at the same time dumbo released october 23 1941 was still doing very brisk holiday business i haven't done the research into box office numbers but i'd say that concurrent presence in theaters likely had an impact on mr bug movie going was at an all time high at this period and successful films could go strong in theaters for months something unimaginable in these typically short run quick to dvd days
1	goes to town was the second and last full length animated feature made by max and dave fleischer who created a parallel universe to disney while disney's films are well remembered today both of the fleischer films gulliver's travels and this one are forgotten br br is a spellbinding original not an adaptation like the first picture that is a major plus one would think no the critics rarely on the sides to begin with tore into them for this yes the story is not as tight as gulliver but how can you hate a film that flaunts itself so joyfully br br it is filled with great musical numbers and a very involving story which would be a crime to reveal the characters are lovable and charming and there is heart in this film br br the really outdid themselves here and never quite did so again most of their time would be devoted to one reelers after this tanked at the box office it's a shame they didn't continue making features who knows their next attempt may have become the masterpiece they were aiming for br br out of 4 stars
1	a pity nobody seems to know this little thriller masterpiece where bigger budgeted movies fail terminal choice delivers lots of thrills shocks and bloody violence a little seen gem that deserves being searched for in your local video shop that anonymous guy beneath is quite right when he says you'll never trust hospitals again it is that effective good ending too not really a twist but it doesn't end the way one thought it would yep that's ellen barkin in an early role
1	could this be one of the earliest colour films it's actually the second this is a very beautiful piece of film produced by thomas edison this was one of many of his other films br br i think this is the most beautiful of any thomas edison films it shows a girl dancing and moving her dress all around which turns red with the film it's just beautiful br br you are watching history when you watch this you are watching what began to make movies of the day great this may not have a plot or anything very interesting but this is the second colour film ever br br i recommend this to everyone especially if you're teaching students about filming or something of the sort you have to show them what began color films
1	like all of the very earliest films this movie is very very short lasting about one minute so because of its brevity it's not really possible to compare it to more modern films but for its time it's actually a very remarkable film much of this is because the prints were hand painted making annabelle appear red and other colors as she does her amazing dance i've actually seen two different versions one where she is red and another where she changes color throughout i think the red one depicted on the dvd the great train robbery and other primary works is the best of them the dance itself is very hypnotic and much like a piece of amazing performance art and unlike other one minute or less films of the day this one is one i could see repeatedly it's just that visually compelling and odd br br if you want to see it online there is a 36 second version on google video type in serpentine dance
1	in this approximately 34 second thomas edison produced short we see annabelle moore performing the fuller choreographed serpentine dance in two different fantastical flowing robes br br moore was one of the bigger stars of the late victorian era she was featured in a number of edison company shorts including this one which was among the first kinetoscope films shown in london in 1894 br br fuller had actually patented the serpentine dance which moore performs here in robes as well as entire frames that are frequently hand tinted in the film presaging one of the more common symbolic devices of the silent era supposedly the moore films were popular enough to have to be frequently redone including the version available to us now may be a later version remake moore became even more popular when it was rumored that she would appear naked at a private party at a restaurant in new york city she later went on to star as the gibson bathing girl in the ziegfeld follies in 1907 she appeared there until 1912 br br the short is notable for its framing of motion which especially during the second half becomes almost abstract it somewhat resembles a morris louis painting even though this is almost 60 years before louis' relevant work br br you should be able to find this short on dvd on a number of different anthologies of early films
1	i was surprised once more my darling had not generated enough votes at this writing for a user rating it's a screwy comedy i have enjoyed many times over the years robert montgomery's mission places him in some very improbable situations and he's just the man for the job he maintains his trademark befuddled look throughout the film and hysterically too ann blyth plays his precocious eccentric pursuer who assumes a relationship that does not exist her character is kooky enough to warrant the unearned nickname killer but remains cute and cuddly br br among the glut of b movies from the late 1940's and 1950's once more my darling is a standout this one is worth looking for
1	this is the sort of unknown and forgotten film one dreams about discovering in watching old videos it is a superb comic gem with brilliantly funny writing embedded in the marvellous array of characters a wonderfully inventive and funny musical score and witty light direction from montgomery himself this is one to watch over and over montgomery is a bit part actor who finds himself assigned by his military reserve division to infiltrate a young home to discover the identity of her former beau a suspected jewel thief while the premise is rather preposterous the results are hilarious montgomery is the befuddled plant ann blyth is a marvel as the romantically obsessed terribly earnest debutante and the parade of comic characterizations from veteran stage actress jane lawyer mother to lillian randolph's take charge maid are all fabulous br br oddly enough this only earned an oscar nom for sound when it deserved top nods for direction screenplay and musical score br br do not miss it it's one of hollywood's best
1	i like the good things in life as much as anybody i suppose but until about five years ago opera didn't figure into my entertainment choices oh i made a few attempts to learn what all the fuss was about i'd watched several television productions notably parts of wagner's ring cycle on public television hoping to understand other people's fascination with the art form and i knew i could like parts of various operas i remember being surprised as a kid that i actually liked the snippets of madame butterfly in my geisha and i enjoyed the opera scenes in moonstruck and pretty woman but unlike the characters in those films i just didn't get it br br then in 1995 i saw a live performance of rigoletto presented by the new york city opera company and that night i got it what a wonderful glorious pageant of color and music and raw emotion and i do mean emotion with a capital e the key i think is that the operatic music allows the performers to over act freely and believably in a way that would seem silly if their words were just spoken everything hinges on the music of course and when the music is magical as it is in rigoletto an opera can be a magnificent entertainment br br a sympathetic family member gave me a laserdisc copy of the 1982 tv production of the opera and i've found that since i can't see live performances of rigoletto live on a regular basis this video version is a fine substitute luciano pavarotti is perfect in the part of the duke is excellent as his mean spirited court jester rigoletto and beloved daughter gilda is played by the somewhat plain featured the sets and costumes are lavish and the location shots on the river late in the film bring a heightened sense of drama to the story that could never be matched on a stage br br if you've never seen rigoletto or if you think you don't like or understand opera i urge you to find this one on videotape and buy it or rent it if you don't like this if this production of rigoletto doesn't make you appreciate the power of the art form of opera well just give it up and move on to something else but i suspect if you're new to opera as i was that you'll be pleasantly surprised br br bill anderson
1	pavarotti and the entire cast are superb in this beautifully filmed opera by giuseppe verdi the world's finest composer of operas the soprano is particularly spectacular with her perfect pitch the title role is well enacted and well sung the entire production is as perfect as one could expect br br a masterpiece of cinematography br br
1	having just seen walt disney's the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub the colors compared to the earlier black and white are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one's off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short it does get a little repetitious near the end still skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony
1	the cast for this production of rigoletto is excellent sings gilda magnificently and passionately luciano pavarotti also sings splendidly is a fine fedora is a famous older singer who sings the maid giovanna sings sings both rigoletto and as rigoletto is probably the most convincing acting singer in this hard to beat ensemble of great singers kathleen in the contessa all principals are well known and world renowned br br this is an exciting rigoletto visually as well as musically br br i have it on both laser disc and dvd you should have it too
1	i saw this movie when i was very young living in houston texas i really enjoyed this movie and i wrote to jean peters in hollywood and i told her how much i enjoyed seeing her in this movie she sent me an autographed photo this movie was directed by jacques tourneur and besides jean peters in the starring role it also stars louis debra paget and herbert marshall it was released in 1951 in color and is 81 minutes long jean peters was married to howard hughes she also starred in viva zapata with marlon brando anthony quinn who won an oscar for playing the role brother marlon brando starred as zapata 1952 and she also starred in captain from 1947 with tyron power since then i've been trying to find a place where it is available but so far i have not been successful does anybody have any suggestions about where i can find and purchase this movie it this comment contains spoilers i am unaware of it
1	sometimes it's hard to be a pirate but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with mr thomas gomez eminently when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun m louis is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody's idea of a lady pirate there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret
1	this is one of several period sea faring yarns of its era which has the added distinction although not in itself unique of a female buccaneer at its center at first both leads – jean peters and louis – might seem miscast but they grow nicely into their roles eventually thanks no doubt to the talented players herbert marshall thomas gomez and james robertson justice who support them velvety voiced marshall is uncharacteristically cast as the obligatory philosophical lush of a doctor and gomez is suitably larger than life as the pirate br br the cast is completed by debra paget as wife who incurs the jealous rage of the tomboyish titular character in whom instills the first pangs of love which however does not spare him the occasional flogging or sword wound incidentally the film was the second exotic teaming of and paget in one year following delmer bird of paradise the direct result of this unexpected softening of character is her falling out with crew and her unlikely climactic sacrifice in order to save the lives of the stranded paget and marshall br br while the film is not a particularly outstanding example of its type jacques energetic direction and franz grandiose score ensure an above average effort that moves along at a brisk pace incidentally tourneur had already done service in the genre with the superior burt lancaster vehicle the flame and the arrow 1950 as usual with vintage technicolor productions the cinematography gives the film a sumptuousness that is invigorating by the way differing running times are given for this film 81 or 87 minutes and for the record the version i watched was the shorter one
1	this movie was much better than i expected jean peters actually does a passable job as a pirate and does decent work in her sword fights to the extent she may have a double doing the action it's hard to tell but peters herself obviously is doing a good deal of it and doing it well with a good and serious script this could have been an excellent film but it's basically cheesy still entertaining however not up to a regular jacques tournier film but definitely above a regular jean peters film color is typical of this '50s time period ie too garish and not realistic the actors for and her first mate and the drunken doctor were good louis jordan was a bit weak i don't think debra paget was right either but certainly jean peters and debra paget were probably the two best looking female stars in the '50s
1	i like the film it´s the best pirate movie i watched hitherto forget silly errol flynn stuff and pirates of the caribbean this movie is wonderful melancholic i compare it with johnny guitar at the sea side but 3 years earlier two women fighting for a man where mad love might lead one br br the character of the female anti heroine anne providence is superb acting without compromise like a child lost alone on her search for a own female identity in a real world she´s a quite strange movie hero not a funny pirate as most of her companions in this genre not making jokes all the time fighting for the poor and good and only killing the stupid spanish or british soldiers or better sly governors but she´s murdering all the poor prisoners of war after she captured a ship look careful at this at the start of the movie she´s primitive she can´t even read she is and she an alcoholic she looses all her friends as consequence of her obstinacy and she´s wearing rags most of the film this film shows a pirate hero a little bit as he or in this case she but there has been a female anne buccaneer anne might have been in brutal reality br br the film is quite short and the story is told in a breathtaking manner certainly a film from the 1950s has no exciting special effects for present time viewers the ships swim very obvious in a bath tube but this real drama about love that kills trust betrayal revenge hatred and sacrifice drives one crazy maybe anne is even supposed to be judas and jesus from nazareth in one person being betrayed by her friend the french as jesus after being disappointed by the friend delivering him to a death penalty as judas than getting remorse about this like judas who commits suicide according to the gospel of matthew and in the end sacrificing herself for the rescue of the beloved enemy as jesus but even if you are not interested in this philosophical questions of guilt and atonement the film brings a lot of cheap action as sword fights and burning plastic ships for a very short one and a half hour
1	directed by jacques tourneur cat people out of the past night of the demon and written by phillip dunne how green was my valley anne of the indies is a quite interesting adventure pirate movie its main character of captain anne providence is based on a real woman pirate anne who actually lived and sailed through 18th century's atlantic br br the film begins with the sea battle where anne's jean peters pirate ship attacks a trade ship that was on its way to europe from the south america as a result a treasure of great value is captured along with a handsome french officer pierre la rochelle louis who is taken prisoner anne ends up falling in love with him and apparently her feelings are reciprocated but it's only till she sets him free when she discovers that he has a beautiful young wife molly debra paget with whom he pretty much in love with anne begins planning revenge on both of them but in an unexpected twist of fate ends up making a great sacrifice in order to save them instead the pirate movie cliché figure of black also makes his appearance here this time played by thomas gomez br br though anne of the indies probably appears to be no more nor less than a revisiting of pirate movie clichés it still has its classical moments in beautiful visuals and sea battle sequences filmed in technicolor as well as in some aspects of the story and most of all in personal touches in directing of all of it by jacques tourneur 7 10
1	it would be great if a discussion on this medium length film is initiated with a brief tale about hypocrisy of hollywood people it was in 1988 that chuck norris saw this film at cannes international film festival he made a silly remark by uttering that the senseless killing depicted in 5 is far more effective than killings which have been filmed in his hollywood films with him as a potent action star he was speaking about an innocent taxi driver whose face is brutally disfigured in kieslowski's film by a reckless psychopath who hits him cruelly with a big stone there should be absolutely no justification for violence and its perpetrators in a dignified human society this is the reason why chuck norris' statement appears as a cruel joke which defends violent means in a society which is increasing becoming restless an honest reviewer would not be making a mistake if he she states that kieslowski's film 1 5 has universal connotations this is because the events depicted in 5 can happen in any part of world the best lesson which gives to us concerns levels of violence which are acceptable in a just society this is the reason why the brutal slaying of an innocent cab driver is capable of causing a feeling of in us we would not feel the same hatred for homicide when it appears in films featuring arnold schwarzenegger chuck norris and jean claude van damme as they appear much too artificial one can easily grasp that special effects and modern studio techniques can charm only toddlers but make no sense to serious film enthusiasts kieslowski also champions helplessness of human beings in rescuing fellow humans beings from the clutches of death and misery this is particularly interesting as time and again it has been proved that strict laws and capital punishments have not been able to prevent homicide
1	a brutally straightforward tale of murder and capital punishment by the state so painfully slow and accurate in the description of capital punishment from the preparation of the to the victim p ing in his own pants before dying it has the power to change your mind about death penalty the whole originated from this story the screenwriter was the powerless lawyer unsuccessfully trying to defend and then console the accused
1	i am part of my surroundings and i became separate from them and it's being able to make those clearly that lets us have an identity and what's inside our identity is everything that's ever happened to us' in fires in the mirror br br pieces like decalogue v used to intimidate me i felt that if i accepted them than i would be compromising something what i thought before really isn't worth getting into i understand what naturalism is trying to say i experienced a tangible and one that fell into existence piecemeal and one that's still alive that i still have to reckon with it's still working inside me br br the film wasn't sympathetic per se it doesn't need to say that the death penalty is a wicked thing there are certainly wicked people whether or not they should die is for another film what decalogue shows is that good beautiful people exists who kill other people when their society and primal urges jack them up br br the of naturalism is what has helped me to appreciate decalogue v it's not worth the writing space to go into why i would not let myself before but i see now the worth in making art like this to people or perhaps to make people do something br br there's a method to compromise of his light much of that meaning makes sense only in retrospect this should not be too strange of an idea after all how much of respectable science does not gain meaning in retrospect i wince when i say it but naturalism seems so much more productive and so much less nihilistic when i have the power to say to myself 'this ruin this process this natural process makes me want to buck the system ' br br i do not think naturalism is painting a doomsday portrait of humanity telling us to give up our powdered wigs and head to the woods instead i think that it is cataloging proofs and experiments that we are of course free to ignore we can ignore it all we want if we want to give the more corpses to bury br br for surely despite their aesthetic specifically designed without sympathy towards their characters' likely and catastrophic fate they are impassioned by inaction and i do see the delightful risk in the hope that the audience will understand what's to be done with what they see as has been mentioned there's danger in the hopeless seeing their fate immortalized in stone there's danger in the hopeful disparaging the natural because it doesn't correspond to their world view br br and i don't think that the need be either wealthy or fortunate i have not seen it but it seems that the film american beauty proves the inadequacy of circumstance as a provider of vision or comfort there are as well as as well as beggars who wonder where within themselves their humanity is who grieve because they can't find anything that separates them from their landscape br br landscapes can be powerfully and beautifully portrayed but in reality landscapes do not enact they change sure and dramatically but only by a large set of natural law which no one truly have power over but it cannot be changed itself
1	in 1929 director walt disney and animator ub changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their silly symphonies series the skeleton dance and disney had been collaborating together since the early 20s in disney's laugh o gram cartoon series however their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio that was the birth of celebrity productions where continued developing his style and technique and where he created the character of flip the frog while his work kept the same high quality it wasn't really popular and by 1936 the studio was closed later that year was hired by columbia pictures and decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance this time in color br br 1937's skeleton frolics is essentially a remake of the 1929 classic the skeleton dance the movie that borough him fame and fortune like that short film it is set on an abandoned graveyard where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play the dead rise from their coffins ready for the show that's about to begin as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra and begin to play a happy tune now it's not easy to be a musician made of just bones as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts however the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra it's hard to dance with loose body parts everything ends at dawn and just when the sun is about to rise again the skeletons run towards their graves br br directed and animated by ub himself skeleton frolics follows faithfully the pattern set by the skeleton dance years before although with a crucial difference did the whole film in technicolor the bright tonalities allowed to create a more visually appealing film and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before it is certainly a more experimental film than the skeleton dance although sadly this doesn't mean it's necessarily a better film for starters the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney with the only differences being the music more on that later and the color effects it looks beautiful no doubt about it but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all br br however it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film after all executes it in a wonderful way but the fact that the musical melody created by joe for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w stalling for the skeleton dance in other words while tune is effective and appropriate for the theme it's easy to forget about it rapidly while song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable being a musical film this is of high importance and so the mediocrity of the music brings down flawless work of animation personally i think that with a better musical accompaniment skeleton frolics would be remembered as fondly as the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking as it's still a fun film to watch br br it's kind of sad that most of the work did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success however it must be said that if lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer disney's main rival he did not lack the quality of those companies' films it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney's mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney despite its shortcomings skeleton frolics is a very funny and visually breathtaking film that while not exactly the most original and fresh film one just can't help but thinking of the skeleton dance while watching it it definitely reminds us that skeletons are still here to haunt us and inspire us br br 8 10
1	the 5 may be considered a violent accusation against the death sentence according to the fifth commandment thou shalt not kill not by chance it puts the concept of a state fully complied with the provisions of an unjust law on the same plane as the figure of a murderer but the law might not imitate the nature it might correct it states piotr the counsel for the defense a real catalyst character the punishment is a form of vengeance aiming at returning evil for evil without preventing the crime but in the name of whom the law takes its revenge really in the name of the innocent ones the horrifying and detailed sequences of the last half hour of a man sentenced to death give value to the uselessness of the deterrent function applied to the death penalty with the purpose of intimidating all potential criminals desperate plights don't demand desperate remedies kieslowski says in his message teaching us how can be the act of disobedience to a commandment of god that judges punishment the same way as crime is judged there are three different moral attitudes here the innate sense of rebellion of the murderer aiming at rousing the hostile torpor of the surrounding environment the strong sense of chronic indifference of the victim inclined to laugh at other people's requirements the deserving behavior of the counsel for the defense always ready to fight against adversity in favor of human life the struggle for life is ruthlessly all of the time the characters are plunged into scenes of affliction and distress in an urban landscape accented with greenish tones and seen in its own reflections through the windshield of a taxi everything in 5 conveys a dreadful sense of estrangement and isolation descriptions of a waste of violence and folly scenes of precarious conditions of work sinister appearances of buildings immersed in an anonymous aura of desolation aimless wanderings through environments the main character is compelled to struggle with an opponent stronger than himself a town completely wrapped in profound indifference apparently hostile deaf to all his mute calls for help while a faded photo of a little girl in a first communion dress goes on gnawing his soul he's irremediably directing his steps towards a disconnected route to damnation seen through the of the 18 mm wide angle camera lens aiming at distorting every details altering the reality making it fade out in remote and alien echoes kieslowski doesn't bring extenuating circumstances seasoned with honey tongued tones of melodrama in favor of the defendant differently from some hollywood stereotypes like i want to live by robert wise he doesn't slip on the banana peel of useless pathetic scenes to guilt and to the brutality of the crime not interested at all in psychological motivations to justify any display of extreme or violent behaviors and refusing to include any useless judicial proceedings in other words in opinion a crime is always a crime according to the principle of par he puts the prosecutor on the same plane as the condemned man using many signs or symbols to represent a society seen in the most sinister light and we can't remain indifferent even if we don't agree with him screams of anguish touch our hearts with pity in the same manner that terri eyes do
1	five was an interesting viewing experience for me because of the question kieslowski seems to subtly ask the audience three men are the focus of this chapter and kieslowski present the two involved in murder with traits both good and bad in one's case almost overwhelmingly bad with such vile characters i found myself almost glad that they would receive some sort of punishment however when the time comes for the murder and it's subsequent effect on the murderer kieslowski takes an interesting angle and seems to ask those of us who shared my view are you not as guilty as this man this sort of indirect address of the audience makes the finale of five that much more profound as kieslowski as usual doesn't stay within the literal confines of his theme just as the other parts of the don't take their theme in it's literal sense neither does five it asks us what is murder who is more guilty of murder and what should be the appropriate punishment if any it's a fantastic film and typical of kieslowski absolutely stunning
1	this is the episode that probably most closely relates to it's partner law thou shalt not kill in that it directly brings up the ever controversial issue why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing is wrong this issue is presented in two parts within the episode before the killing when the film shows the dichotomy between the idealistic up and coming lawyer and the street thug so caught up in his ways that his life is merely a representation of what he's supposed to do followed by the period after the trial and before the execution when both are made to suffer for the deaths they feel responsible for and thus share br br one of the great things about the way these episodes work are in the both small and big ways the story is fully developed so that we understand both the motivations and histories of characters we're only able to spend slightly less than an hour with for all his criminal intentions and mockery the killer is still very sympathetic revolving the most important part of his actions around a history of accidental death his way of killing is more a desire to control death than it is any desire to actually destroy similarly the lawyer's idealistic naivety shows one unwilling to allow death to happen in a world where he can't control it their meeting is indeed important they both have to give in to it while not propagating it br br as an aside it's interesting how much this episode affects viewing of rouge kieslowski's later completion of the trois colours trilogy one of kieslowski's biggest influences seems to be the idea of justice and considering that the decalogue is a meditation on something that represents divine justice this one seems almost the most self conscious br br polarisdib
1	having seen the full length film kieslowski made out of this episode of the decalogue years ago came back to this viewer as we watched the complete ten vignettes as with the other films this one is loosely based on the fifth commandment or thou shalt not kill br br kieslowski writing with took a look at the mind of a young man who commits a heinous crime in murdering an innocent person to vent his own frustrations this installment has a dostoyevskian character that kept reminding us about crime and punishment or at least some of the qualities of the novel are passed to the aimless youth who apparently has no redeeming qualities br br the story shows the young man as he roams the streets of the city without a clear idea of what to do or where to go the only tender moment he displays is when he visits the photographer's place to ask to have an old picture of his sister restored kieslowski leaves it up to fate to have the murderer board a taxi with the intention of robbing the driver but it's his anger and frustration that get the best of this youth to kill a man that didn't deserve to die the last moments of this criminal is one of the most gripping sequences in any film past or present br br the other element in the story is the relationship between the public defendant and the criminal nothing can prevent the court to condemn to death the young man the lawyer feels at the end he has failed his client and goes to the judge to see where he went wrong all he is asked by the young man is to retrieve the picture and send it to his mother br br kieslowski's account of how he interprets the fifth commandment makes for a surprising film that will stay in the viewer's mind long after this episode is forgotten
1	three distinct and distant individuals' lives intersect with the brutal killing of one by another the one hour film only reveals the event that brings the three individuals together only after half the film is over i have seen other segments of the but this one struck me as the most sparse one in dialogue and yet most fascinating in structure br br the film opens with a law student practicing a mock plea of defense for a man charged with murder obviously the same arguments must have been repeated by the man as a full fledged lawyer but this is never shown on screen at least in the short 1 hr version of 5 we are made to imagine that this must have been the case a cab driver who is a misanthrope has two facets to his character the good side feeds a mangy dog cleans his cab meticulously picks up dirty rags thrown by people who lack civic sense and remembers his wife while dying the bad side frightens small poodles refuses to give a ride to a drunk probably worried that he will puke in the cab and ogles at pretty girls the repulsive protagonist who murders without mercy drops stones from bridges on fast moving traffic and pushes strangers into without any provocation is also a person who can make innocent young girls laugh kieslowski's film and the script thus present the good and the bad side of two of the three main characters br br yet the film is not about capital punishment but more a treatise on killing the fifth commandment thou shalt not kill is explored theologically even god spared cain ' sociologically the tenderness of brutes to children and poor forlorn dogs and psychologically after effects of drunken night with a male friend that led to the accidental death of his sister whose photograph he carries with him what makes ordinary persons turn into killers this is never fully explained but suggestions are legion br br in kieslowski's world there is a pattern where events and people are interlinked in a cosmic sense note the resemblance of clown to the killer as it hangs from the mirror in the cab kieslowski and the young idealist lawyer seem to ask us to look at the commandment literally and figuratively why do we kill are the people legally killed truly bad is there a force beyond society the drunken night that led to life of a girl that makes us into abhorrent murderers br br it would be missing the forest for the trees to discuss the two detailed killings in the film both without mercy the film invites the viewer to contemplate why we are asked by god not to kill br br i understand a longer full length version of the film was made by kieslowski but even this short 1 hr version is superb with its bleak and sparse script intelligent editing interesting cinematography and top notch direction that provides much more than the sum of its parts br br this segment anticipates the more wholesome 6 7 and 8
1	well i fear that my review of this special won't heed much different observation than the others before me but i literally just watched it during a pbs membership drive and frankly i'm too excited not to say anything to really appreciate the enigma that is barbra streisand you have to look back before the movies before the broadway phenomenon of the mid 60's when television was still a young medium there was a form of entertainment very prominent on the air that is but a memory today musical variety some musical shows were weekly series but others were single one time specials usually showcasing the special talent of the individual performer this is where we get the raw uninhibited first looks at streisand she had already been a guest performer on other variety shows including garry moore ed sullivan and scored a major coup in a one time only tandem appearance with the woman who would pass her the baton of belter extraordinary judy garland in 1966 color me barbra introduced barbra streisand in color hence the title but copied the format of her first special a year earlier almost to the letter in 3 distinct acts we get an abstract streisand in an after hours art museum looking at and sometimes becoming the works of art a comic streisand working an already adoring audience in a studio circus populated with many fuzzy and furry animals and best of all a singing streisand in mini concert format just well frankly just doing it br br it amazes me that she still had the film debut of funny girl yet to come as well as turns as songwriter director and political activist here she is barely 24 years old doing extraordinary things because as she puts it in her own on camera introduction 'we didn't know we couldn't so we did ' the art museum sequence is shot in philadelphia over one weekend immediately after the museum closed to the public on saturday evening and apparently done with only one color camera yet there are cuts dissolves and tracking shots galore resulting in one rather spectacular peak moment the modern slightly beatnik flavored gotta move after getting lost amongst the modern jazz club bongos begin with streisand emerging in a psychedelic gown and glittering eye makeup doing the catchy staccato tune with almost androgynous sex appeal it is not until act 3 believe it or not that the moment is matched or bettered by another feat in the concert sequence in a white gown and pearl earrings streisand recites the torchy any place i hang my hat is home tearing into the final notes and revealing one of those climactic belts that makes you scream like a little girl even if you're 44 years old and a guy just plain old great television check it out
1	a year after her triumphant first special my name is barbra barbra streisand with her production team to produce this follow up cbs tv special in then revolutionary color first broadcast in march 1966 color me barbra follows a similar format to its predecessor three segments the first two with unique concepts the first takes place in the after hours halls of the philadelphia museum of art where dressed as a period maid she roams the galleries and becomes part of the artwork through song in various guises streisand expresses a variety of moods from the comedy schtick of the minute waltz to the melodrama of non c'est rien in a painting to the beatnik style frenzy of gotta move set to abstract art my favorite moment in the special is when she transforms into a dead ringer of queen while singing a haunting rendition of rogers and hart's where or when br br opening with another comic monologue full of silly non sequiturs this time in french the second segment is back in the studio for a brightly colored circus medley where she interacts with animals including her beloved poodle sadie she finds an appropriate context for sam you made the pants too long with a bevy of penguins and comically compares her profile to an with we have so much in common as with the first special the program ends with a riveting solo concert in which she sings some chestnuts any place i hang my hat is home where am i going and starting here starting now among them also included is the brief introduction she filmed in 1986 ironically dressed in all white when the special was first released on vhs the juxtaposition of locale and song is even more effective than in her first special and a 23 year old streisand is in peak form
1	follow up to 1965's my name is barbra and shot in brilliant color color me barbra has la streisand alternating nostalgia clowning comedy feminine romantic angst and beguiling seriousness for a crazy quilt hour of show biz razzle dazzle she's a cut up and a femme fatale a sprite and an enigma with her egyptian eye make up and ever changing hairstyles she's also a chameleon her voice is rich and moving even if a few of her songs are not one kiss yesterdays the circus sequence isn't as intriguing as the museum trip with the conceit of barbra becoming the images in the paintings an idea which works better than you may think the circus medley built around songs featuring the word face is girlishly cute without ever really becoming enchanting still this is a lively jazzy special not quite as emotionally tantalizing as my name is barbra but certainly a sterling sophomore effort
1	after the across the board success of my name is barbra cbs television permitted barbra to create an even more elaborate follow up as her second special streisand wisely knew in order to follow in the ground breaking success of my name is barbra that her second special would indeed need to raise the bar even further in inventiveness and spectacle not surprisingly she succeeded once again even more impressively streisand managed to mount this large production without sacrificing the intimacy and vision of my name is barbra br br once again the special is divided into three distinct acts filming on location at bergdorf goodman's department store was so successful in the first special that streisand and company decided to film on location once again for the first act of this second special the decided upon location this time was the philadelphia art museum which would allow endless chances for barbra to enter different art works that would correspond with the songs being performed in addition to the numerous artistic possibilities that this location made possible the museum would offer the perfect opportunity to take advantage of filming in color br br after the recording of draw me a circle that is set against the opening credits barbra then dashes around the museum in a maid costume to the strains of kern and yesterdays she stops to admire various paintings and statues often becoming the character that is depicted and singing a thematically appropriate song streisand performs a bittersweet rendition of hammerstein and one kiss as thomas concert singer delivers a hilariously campy performance of minute waltz as marie antoinette embraces abstract art with the frenetic rhythm of peter gotta move and performs a wrenching rendition of non c'est rien as a distraught girl the high point of act i however is when streisand compares profiles with the bust sculpture of egyptian queen while singing a tour de force rendition of rogers and hart's where or when the act ii circus medley allows streisand to interact with various farm and circus animals while singing various songs with farm circus animal themes some highlights include barbra singing were thine that special face to a baby elephant performing i've grown accustomed to that face as a serenade to a piglet the campy sam you made the pants to long sung to a group of baby penguins and barbra comparing profiles with an while crooning we have so much in common streisand also swings on a trapeze and leaps from a trampoline to the chorus of spring again and then slows things down by performing a haunting version of i stayed too long at the fair while seated alone on stage barbra also gets the chance to show off her pet poodle sadie in this segment and even speak a little french br br the act iii concert is once again the high point of the hour dressed in a white wool dress the concert segment is performed on a uniquely designed stage with a partial staircase that leads nowhere streisand opens the act with a sultry rendition of harold anyplace i hang my hat is home before launching into heartfelt versions of the familiar standard it had to be you and the rarely heard c'est si bon it's so good streisand then really amazes the audience with a breathtakingly powerful soaring performance of the sweet charity ballad where am i going of which streisand delivers the definitive rendition of streisand also introduces the then newly written richard jr david shire ballad starting here starting now which contains an impassioned vocal from streisand that ranks among the very best vocal performances of her long career br br more than anything else color me barbra was a showcase for streisand's ever increasing mega watt star power despite the presence of even more visual razzle dazzle streisand herself is always the main attraction her voice sounds as beautiful as ever and this special was the first to showcase how strikingly she photographs in color as with my name is barbra color me barbra was another rating smash and spawned yet another top five gold selling soundtrack album simply put color me barbra defies tradition and emerges as a sequel that is nearly on par with a classic original
1	what kind i say about this movie well for starters i thought that this film was okay not the greatest not worst i said this cause i thought that the script was great and original really different and refreshing now i wouldn't say that it's the greatest film that i've seeing cause of the acting the actors that played each role seems that they played them without emotions as if they took the life out of them when the wife laughed or cried this didn't look real to me for some reason that's just an example but sincerely all the characters didn't act real at all i wish i could say more positive things about this film so you guys can see it at least once but how can i do that since i know that i'm not going to see this movie again i rented this film from the library of my school without hearing anything about the film itself or the director i took a chance because the story that was describe on the back sounded really interesting and it really was
1	first time i saw this great movie and alyssa my star playing frances ella fitz was so great in this movie it was just so real and her little dog so cute i saw it the first time when i was like 11 years old and it was the best movie i had ever seen and you know what i still think so 10 10 greatest ever
1	i'd be hard pressed to say what is it that makes this film so important to me while a very good movie this is definitely not the most outstanding fassbinder's film still along with the american soldier it keeps making it into my personal list of favorites whenever i get to thinking about it
1	like margot in fear of fear falls victim of her ambitious husband like fox in fox and his friends is driven into suicide by his boyfriend who took all his money away like in the wife who goes to prison in order to give his cheating wife a chance to get rid of him like hermann hermann who seeks refuge in insanity in order to flee his stupid wife and bankrupt company so also hans is a victim of the german society after world war ii in r w fassbinder's the merchant of the four seasons simply from the fact that fassbinder played through social abuse between men and women as well as between hetero and homosexual couples it should be clear that he does not any sex br br in hans case there are the women who drive him into despair illness and finally death when he comes back from the foreign legion where he flew because he could not stand anymore the pressure of his mother she complains that he is still alive while the good boy from her neighbor had been killed then hans gets a job as a policeman but is surprised by his foreman while he is seduced by a prostitute after having lost his job he works as a fruit merchant with little income going from backyard to backyard crying out his produce his mother one of his sisters and her husband are ashamed to have such a street worker in their family the love of his life she has no name in the movie refuses to marry him because his job does not fit together with her social status and origin so he marries whom he does not love and who does not love him from her constant pressure on him he flees into drinking one evening after his wife was stalking him he explodes and hits her she flees to her family for which this event was just what they have been waiting for when is calling a lawyer for divorce hans suffers a heart attack decides to stay with him but from now on he is not allowed anymore to do heavy work and to drink alcohol so he starts to feel more and more superfluous gets quieter and quieter and more and more depressive when he finds out that cheats him he chooses to end his life but not like hermann hermann by having a trip into the light of madness but he drinks himself to death in front of their little daughter and his boozing buddies fassbinder said in an interview that hans knew what he was doing the question however is did hans just kill himself because he could not stand anymore his miserable environment or did he make self justice
1	the merchant of four seasons isn't what i would call a happy movie at all or even one that impressed me to the point of praising it to the sky there are other fassbinder flicks for that like veronika voss and the underrated satan's brew but it's certainly no less than a fascinating experiment in taking a look at those in a society that you and me and others we know might possibly know or not really want to know i imagine in the early 70s in germany a generation coming out of ww2 had a stigma to live with but tried their best just to get by this is a stigma that floats all over this film and in many instances in fassbinder's work in general but especially because with four seasons he takes his eye on the middle class and a particular married couple the distanced depressed angry hans the fruit seller and his long suffered wife that is nothing short than trying for realism in the guise of melodrama if cassavetes were a crazy german he might make this film maybe even as just a lark br br the story sounds simple enough where drinking gets out of control he beats his wife this scene is one of the toughest to take maybe in just any movie the way fassbinder's camera lingers without a cut as his wife is left helpless and their daughter trying to stop him in his frenzy and then she's ready to leave him as he stands in the room her family holding him back she makes the call for divorce and he gets a heart attack right there he recovers his business suddenly starts booming again with some help from some good or not so good employees and yet this only continues his longing for another woman and his despair in general br br and yet it's in this simplicity that fassbinder tries and succeeds for the most part in attaining a mood of dread of a tense vibe in a kitchen or in the bedroom or out on the street that you can cut with a knife and bleed out the weakest part of this all may be the acting at least that was my initial impression hans played by can be a stilted presence with only the slightest movements in his face and eyes and for a while it doesn't look like he's much of a good actor the actress playing his wife hermann and her sister fassbinder hanna schygulla fare better but only cause they're given more to do conventionally like cry or look concerned it takes some time to adjust to what is essentially a void in his guy hans of something from his own psychological self torment or self pity that pervades himself and those around him who just want to get on with some sense of normalcy especially once hans gets successful br br not everything clicks together in the merchant of four seasons but enough did to make me recommend it to those looking for a different slice of life than you might be used to with more modern american movies fassbinder's world here is a combat between the melodrama he loves in cinema and the harsh crushing sense of humanism that he feels personally and puts into characters that for better or worse we somehow identify with are the epps a family you know of or could you even be them who's to say it's a methodical study of tragic emptiness in the human spirit and its goals are all attained
1	the merchant of four seasons was rainer werner fassbinder's first shot at mainstream acceptance in a turbulent career of just fifteen years he managed to create an astounding body of work in film and theater both as a performer and a creative producer actor and director although this movie might not appeal to many viewers the film has much to offer the storyline is fairly straightforward a man is ostracized from his upper middle class family due to emotional and economic problems and proves unable to control his downward spiral the merchant of four seasons is shot with a slavish devotion to elegant detail and each set is very carefully designed and constructed every object on set seems painstakingly arranged so as to provoke layers of emotional texture many religious paintings and icons decorate the walls of the various rooms and seem to speak to desperate quest for spiritual meaning or direction in his life much thought was given to how lighting and color were employed to contrast and enhance the drama several times during the film i froze the frame to marvel at the beauty of the shot's composition i streamed this film and the print was nearly flawless and second to none fassbinder employs his actors in an almost vehement anti style he does everything possible to prevent the actors from reacting in a normal or colloquial manner and this creates a rather stilted effect however by doing so he injects an almost reality' to the narrative rather than the presentation of a mundane melodrama the actors almost militant lack of affectation forces the viewer to confront the film in a different manner fassbinder's film intentionally prevents the viewer from easily connecting with the characters' trials and tribulations you are constantly on the outside looking in this will be a disconcerting experience for many but i found it to be a unique and satisfying artistic adventure
1	in fassbinder's earlier films his ideas sometimes his ability to execute them he was always a great writer but it took him some time to get his style of camera work and storytelling down pat br br the merchant of four seasons is one of fassbinder's first movie to make great use of color from the bright green pears in the cart to the bright red roses at the funeral a funeral in a fassbinder movie who'd have thought br br his camera work was getting there too but it was still fairly minimalist the occasional zooms seem a bit uncomfortable at times and unnatural but then again fassbinder was still coming out of his purely avant garde phase this might be because michael isn't behind the camera but instead the slightly inferior dietrich br br still this is fassbinder and you get your fix here broken dreams shown so vividly and unflinchingly as to alienate audience and drive them into a depressed stupor just what the doctor ordered an early classic that shows remarkable progression when compared to his first films released only 2 years prior
1	ostensibly hans ' isolation and despair are caused by a stereotypically frigid bourgeois mother a nagging wife and a lover's rejection and despite the complex portrayal hans himself doesn't precisely make these claims the above must be a substantial part of fassbinder's thinking as well his use of freud and marx but the viewer may look no further than gender and sexism to locate the truer cause of his crushed spirit br br first it's highly unlikely that his mother's lack of love pushed him into signing up with the foreign legion it was far more likely and is in part indicated that it was a quest for adventure male camaraderie escape from the female world of mother and sister and male identity itself which both the legion and war offered br br second hans loses his successful job as a policeman because of his own sexism by falling for a prostitute's wiles at work he not only rubber stamps prostitution as an oppressive institution but shows that he cannot even control his sexuality in a professional arena and is even willing to jeopardize a desirable career br br third he commits serious verbal abuse against his wife in front of his sheep like male buddies making no distinction at all between her absence or when she shows up looking for him presence in fact he is more brutal in her presence br br a few hours later in a violent and drunken state he beats his wife in front of their daughter who intervenes on her mother's behalf the terror he instills in her and his daughter are palpable but both he and the audience move on with nary a whimper of conscience or protest why because his wife is cruelly characterized as both nagging and sexually promiscuous yes this this may be fassbinder's view of what capitalism does to women owned insecure and a commodity but this hardly brutality nor fassbinder's exploitation of her in the battery scene br br and then there is this male role pressure which hans could choose to reject and protest but instead accepts he's too short for a male and too un heroic to achieve the worldly success the male role recommends but how can these be causes of despair when he not only gains his lost love as a mistress but marries a tall woman who is considerably more attractive than himself finally hans allows harry his war comrade to remain over his wife's convincing plea to the contrary on in their house by this decision he not only makes it clear that he is more tied to harry than to his wife but that male bonding supersedes his love of women and supersedes in the end his own life because it is harry's superior competence and spirit around the house that causes star to fall hans the merchant may be to a degree the victim of capitalism but more to the point he is the victim of his own allegiance to his own male identity his inability to let it go is the ultimate cause for his isolation and despair br br this is something that is lost i think not only on fassbinder but also on han's sister anna although only to a degree lost for anna's and fassbinder's support of her brother over her mother only goes so far she is quite insistent that only he can save himself that her support and love cannot it itself end his self loathing unfortunately she does not offer any of this same support and love for his wife who must be much more embittered than hans but who in the end is able to pick up the pieces and save herself and daughter and present a marked contrast to han's fall
1	the merchant of four seasons is a film about a lack of love the film starts off with the main character hans returning from a spell in the foreign legion he returns to his mother not to be told how much she loves him or how much she's missed him but to be told that he is worthless and even worse that she would have preferred the man he went with to have come back instead it is the character's relation to women that makes this film so hateful the fact that his wife is taller than him is symbolic of his relation to the other gender he is consistently humiliated by them and it is through his relations with them that his life isn't as great as it could have been this is also shown clearly by the way he treats his wife after a drink he lost his job as a policeman through lust for a woman and even his wife a woman that is supposed to love him never really shows any affection for him even at the end his wife is more bothered about what her and her daughter will do than the state of her husband br br the merchant of four seasons is a thoroughly unpleasant film there isn't a scene in the movie where someone is happy and not only that but the movie seems deliriously blissful to wallow in the misery of it's central characters the movie is certainly not recommended to anyone who is currently having a hard time that's for sure despite all the misery the film never steps out the bounds of reality every event in this movie can and most probably has happened and that only serves in making the movie more shocking the film is of course helmed by rainer werner fassbinder the cult german director that committed suicide in 1982 this is only my second taste of the man's work but through just two films it is easy to get an idea of the type of art that he creates both films are downtrodden and gritty yet realistic pieces of art his characterization in this movie is subtle we only ever get to know the characters through their and not through their character this is a very clever way of showing the audience that it is their surroundings that define the people in the film not the people themselves and as nearly everyone that sees the film knows what living in an urban society is like it wont difficult for the majority of people to relate to br br the merchant of four seasons is not a film that is easily forgettable the movie is high on substance and low on style and that makes for a very memorable picture and one that everyone who considers themselves to be a fan of cinema should experience it is with that in my mind that i give this film my highest recommendations it's not sweet and it's not pleasant but you will not see a more realistic portrayal of depression and this is most certainly a movie that will stay with you
1	i remember seeing this movie back when it was released and i still remember the 'buzz' i felt when i left the cinema everything about this movie is magnificent the music is top notch and i still play the soundtrack after all these years br br i have seen this movie so many times and yet i still get yearnings to watch it again and again nicholas cage was great and whenever i see cameron dye in anything nowadays i always associate him with this movie it is too bad the rest of the cast didn't go on to greater things but maybe that is part of this film's charm br br i won't do a film school critique as i am sure all the analysts out there can find fault if they wanted to but what i will say is that this movie defined my teenage years and still continues to influence my life over 20 years later the movie 'feels' great and stirs up emotions when you watch it well it did for me and i cannot recommend it highly enough for anybody who has not yet seen it br br you either 'get' the movie or you don't those of you who 'get it' will be rewarded with a unique movie experience
1	happy 25th birthday to valley girl great soundtrack plausible story wonderful performances captures the spirit of the 80's the slang of the and the outcasts a wonderful rendition of high school life and gritty downtown from a suburban perspective br br the soundtrack contains songs by modern english josie cotton sparks josie cotton the the psychedelic furs men at work the flirts and br br this movie truly is romeo and juliet minus the double suicide set in 1980's los angeles julie's dad played by frederic forrest sonny bono anyone is hysterical as a hippie idealistic dad who wonders how he sprung such a materialistic offspring yet he doesn't judge ya dig
1	valley girl launched nicolas cage's career and was an 80's version of romeo and juliet it is a definite example of an 80's teen classic nicolas cage deborah foreman and elizabeth daily all have brilliant portrayals in this movie but it will never top fast times at ridgemont high as the ultimate 80's teen flick because if it weren't for fast times then the 80's generation of teen flicks would just be a big blow to the head that's for sure
1	a real life alaskan adventure is a great tv film for all ages the movie focuses around fizzy alyssa milano who wants to go on travel for gold in alaska the only person who hires her is pierce thomas madison bruce campbell what comes next for her is an adventure she will never forget this tv film was just great the acting is 1 especially by bruce campbell and alyssa milano and i also learned some information about the i recommend this tv film to all without hesitation it is also based on a true story br br 10 10
1	brilliant and moving performances by tom and peter finch
1	this is good movie that is flawed in many ways with low production martha coolidge herself said she only had 350 000 dollars to work with this is a movie that i loved growing up in the midwest i remember friends and i having the nostalgia trip on this movie 10 years ago great things about this movie great cast with hungry actors and a hungry director bad points of this movie to small of a budget calling for way too much improvisation if martha coolidge had been given more money and time on this movie then the results would of been even better they should have taken the story from an early 20's prospective and not from a 15 17 year old high school stand point most of the actors actresses were in their early to mid 20's trying to play 15 17 year olds come on the music is extremely memorable and the two soundtracks get played all the time in my car the best scenes in this film take place in seedy hollywood clubs by nicolas cage's character i gave this film a high rating of 9 10 for five reasons nicholas cage's improvisational on the spot acting the camera work and angles are excellent given the budget they had and only being able to have one take of each scene the music and lingo are captured perfectly and forever again the music is incredible and carries the story along from scene to scene and finally martha coolidge could turn a weak script unknown actors and a very very low budget and 20 days of shooting the entire movie into such a good and memorable movie is astounding
1	this is a romantic albeit cheesy movie that is one of my all time favorites it is one of the many classics of the 80's genre like pretty in pink or some kind of wonderful br br nic plays the traditional punk guy in love with the traditional valley preppy girl julie it is a heartwarming love story that makes you root for him to win the girl in the end br br true most of the acting sucks but br br i have been in love with nic since seeing this in the theaters and have seen nearly every movie he's been in since he's really grown as an actor but it is obvious in this early movie of his that he had a lot of potential br br if you love 80's movies you will love this classic br br go rent it
1	i'm glad cage changed his name from and got this part on his own light hearted no deep thought needed but a cute piece about opposites attracting though her parents are still hippies captures the voice of the early 80's the whine of the valley and the funk of the other side one can see the beginning of cage's talent
1	i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time i have seen it well over 100 times actually had to buy a new copy as a result of it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again buy a copy now it is a classic
1	valley girl is an exceptionally well made film with an all around great cast even though the dialogue is a bit dated now when the movie was released it was very hip to this day i know many people teenagers included that cannot form a sentence without using the word like that is without a doubt the legacy this movie will leave a rating of 8 was given for this like most excellent movie
1	i've seen this movie quite a few times and each time i watch it the quirkier and funnier it becomes perhaps its the lack of research that went into nicolas cage's character's persona or just the cheesiness factor because it was such a typical eighties film nonetheless it's a cute love story with extremely funny unique characters i think it's right up there with fast times and weird science quintessential eighties flicks
1	sweet rich valley girl develops crush on a punk from the alley and when her snobby friends disapprove of him she's forced to choose between her heart and her popularity very funny romantic comedy blends in elements of black comedy and '80's cheese that make this all the more fun to watch the movie not only follows the life of the valley girl and her punk but her friends too as they shop party hang out and go to the mall if the dialogue doesn't have you laughing non stop for a week the music will songs like johnny are you queer are found throughout also elizabeth daily is a funny existential character and the prom king queen speech at the end is hilarious
1	there were a lot of dumb teenage getting sex movies of the 80s and a lot of slasher flicks but there were only a handful that were made with thought made you laugh and captured the time period right this was one of them cage is hillarious so is forman who from her bio has from the hollywood limelight i'd love to see this released on dvd with in a special version with commentaries by cage and forman wishful thinking i know ever want to plan a true 80s movie weekend rent this sure thing and 16 candles and breakfast club it will take you back to a totally rad time which it seemed at the time was a lot more simple memo to studios time to release the dvd
1	valley girl is the definitive 1980's movie with catch phrases filtered throughout this wonderfully acted movie the characters are so convincing that you forget it is a movie and not a video of an actual day in the life of any high school usa this flick is to the 1980's what the brady bunch tv series is to the 1970's if you don't like it well then gag me with a spoon
1	this typical teenagers movie is one of the best beside the story is good the music is well accompany the movie all along br br although i do not enjoy classic movie unless it is classic and better written script this one is exceptional maybe the hair style and language should be change a bit in the 80's i believe offensive language is still rarely heard br br
1	here is a movie of adventure determination heroism bravery plus it's set back in the late 1800s which makes it even more interesting it's a wonderful adventurous storyline and alyssa milano is wonderful at playing the wholesome confident no nonsense fizzy a great role model this is one of my favorite movies it is a movie to be watched again and again and will inspire you and enrich your life without a doubt not only is the storyline excellent but the movie also has fabulous scenery and music and is wonderfully directed this movie is as good as gold
1	what can i say this movie has it all romance break ups rich kids punks and preps this is my all time favorite movie that i can recite line for line i remember when it first came out i was 14 and couldn't get in so finally got to see it on cable i was hooked wanted to move to california and be a valley girl hey i even remember the song by moon zappa do you tried in vain for years to get the never produced soundtrack now you can find it on rhino records
1	nicolas cage and deborah foreman provide stunning performances in this 80's tour de force a great 80's movie akin to fast times at ridgemont high i highly recommend this movie to any child of the 80's who hasn't seen it it's a cult classic
1	for the most part romance films were never my cup of tea but valley girl is one of the few romance films i not only could sit through but actually enjoy nicholas cage is great in his first role and deborah foreman is cute beyond belief there are some side stories that tend to become muddled but not enough to diminish this film
1	one of the better teen comedies to be filmed during the 80's valley girl has a young nicolas cage in a starring role deborah foreman is fun as the object of cage's desire and whatever happened to her look for veteran actors colleen camp and frederic forrest as julie's hippie parents they're quite funny
1	we still really love the movie and soundtrack valley girl i have owned it on video for eons and wore out the original soundtrack i have several friends with whom i get together and we have 80's raves parties where we get together and play 80's music and run valley girl on the big screen and we're all in our 30's now we have an awesome time br br it's all in good fun like ya know
1	i just love this film it totally rocks nicolas cage looks hot and tommy does not i definitely feel that fred and randy should have had a little more time together on screen cause they're totally cool my favorite part is when he says peter piper picked a pepper i guess i did
1	putting aside the i'm so sure s and totally gnarly s this is one of the sweetest and lifelike romances portrayed on film deborah foreman where is she now as julie and nicolas cage as randy are as classic as romeo and juliet tony and maria jake and samantha you can't help but fall in love with them plus the soundtrack the sparks the furs the flirts and of course modern english is also outstanding for fans of films about young love i'd equally recommend the recent film all the real girls by david gordon green
1	i remember seeing this film when i was 13 years old and i fell in love with it and i was a big fan of the film and the characters i adored my favorite character was stacey heidi because she made me laugh when she showed no interest in fred cameron dye who really liked her and i was hoping that in the end that they would get together then her boring boyfriend ralphie christopher murray because he ignored her and hung out with his friends i love the cast and the story i always love the part when fred try to get together with stacey and i always remember when he chased her around the car but it was so good i'll always remember cherish that in my teen years now that i am 33 years old and i picked up my copy on dvd and will look forward seeing it
1	20 years later and this movie still has echoes of its greatness floating around never has a movie surpassed valley girl's incredible soundtrack the movie completely encapsulated the 80's to such a perfect degree that it could only be realized this many years later nicolas cage at his best a movie that just has so much character to it that it makes you realize how sad hollywood has become as far as quality goes the special edition dvd is loaded with tons of extras and well worth it to purchase it as you'll have plenty of material to sift through for sure
1	this gem captures early 80's life brilliantly as a grad '83 boy br br myself i must say that valley girl along with fast times at br br ridgemont high stands out as the class of the teen sex film br br genre the characters are accurate representatives of the era the br br vapid mall chicks pseudo punk rebels preppy jocks are all br br represented here br br i have seen this over ten times now the music in the film was top br br notch unfortunately these tunes could were never as popular in br br their era as those by arena like journey styx or br br before the soundtrack existed i searched out records br br and tapes it was the 80's after all of josie cotton sparks br br and modern english br br this movie deserves respect it isn't just a good 80's teen flick it is br br a great film period
1	while boris is off to fight in war against the germans for his mother russia his beloved veronika marries his conniving cousin mark aleksandr in a moment of weakness shortly after her parents were killed in an air raid over moscow through various trials and betrayals veronika will await word or letter from boris no matter how long it takes holding hope that he will return to her br br powerful piece of film making boasts simply incredible photographic work by cinematographer sergei some of the many magnificently framed moving shots include the scene where the camera follows veronika through a crowd of loved ones saying goodbye to each other as she rushes through the mob of bodies to say goodbye to boris and doesn't quite reach him even as we watch boris looking impatiently into the swarm without luck the sequence after the air raid where veronika walks up the standing stairs circulating up the destroyed building she once called home and the scene where mark makes his lustful move on veronika as another air raid continues just outside the building as wind rustles the curtains and flashes of light inside are just two of many examples where sergei shows his genius at framing images that will last forever on film but without the power and tragedy of the story regarding how war can forever shape the destiny of a couple who dearly deeply love each other this film couldn't hold up with the beauty of the visual alone together however we're left with an amazing film simply a haunting masterpiece from the soviet union after stalin breathed his last breath i feel honored just have such a great film
1	this is the essence of the early eighties the malls the credit card machines the food the punk hair color the soundtrack i am in love with this movie this sweet intelligent romeo juliet teen flick is instantly addictive br br martha coolidge is one of my favorite directors she really employs her actors like john hughes and steven soderberg so check out joy of sex and real genius the soundtracks for valley girl are great if you can find a copy of the film buy it it's out of print and very hard to come by
1	i really liked this movie it totally reminds me of my high school days the soundtrack is awesome i am a huge nic cage fan and this is my favorite movie that he is in i love the storyline it is a total love story against the odds kind of thing i think anyone who graduated in the early eighties 1980 1984 should see the movie it totally brought back memories of high school for me
1	this movie is one of my all time favorite movies and is what made me a lifelong nicolas cage fan back in the mid 80's i taped this movie when vcr's were impossible to do this with and would watch it over and over nicolas cage is just brilliant here and he looks wonderful and has no affecting acting isms see peggy sue got married to know what i mean about that i measure all his performances against this one he was so perfectly cast as the cool punk guy with the edgy friends the music was great the the furs modern english men at work whenever i hear melt with you i am taken back to the finale of this movie br br what ever happened to his cute costar deborah foreman and his hysterical friend cameron dye certainly took a different turn than nicolas interestingly the slutty friend elizabeth daily ended up being the voice of tommy from the rugrats she is billed as e g daily for that horrid show bizarre br br if you want to take a great trip back to the 80's watch this movie it is definitely a classic like totally
1	but perhaps you have to have grown up in the 80's to truly appreciate this movie if you love the early 80's this is definitely a must see also one of the best soundtracks ever
1	it was 1983 and i was 13 i watched valley girl on hbo one night when my parents were working after it ended i wanted to talk with someone about it immediately turns out my best friend watched it too and it became our favorite movie every weekend after that we watched it until we could recite it we woke her parents up late at night laughing hysterically we began to worship the main character julie played by the beautiful deborah foreman i am not saying this is a great classic although it is for me personally and i understand that the whole valley girl talk becomes annoying but that was the 80's but deep down at the heart of the movie it is a love story and a familiar but good one girl meets boy and there are sparks from both sides an instant connection julie's friends don't like him he doesn't fit in doesn't go to their school doesn't have money they like her better with her ex boyfriend the football player even though he is a jerk she makes the ultimate sacrifice her own happiness for her friends' happiness and she has these really cool supportive hippie parents it is one of nicholas cage's first movies and his first starring role one minute he is absolutely hilarious and the next incredibly touching and romantic his friend fred is pretty funny too if you were a teenager in the 80's you will love this movie or at the very least it will bring back memories it is no longer my favorite movie but it is still one of my favorites probably in my top 10 i am eagerly awaiting it's release on dvd if they ever release it you can go to deborah foreman's website to sign a petition to get it released on dvd and there are 2 soundtracks from the movie that are must haves if you like 80's music
1	valley girl will always hold a special place in my heart i would say this is certainly the best of the 80's teen sex comedies but that is a back handed compliment this is a good movie period it is very specific in time and place nearly twenty years later this is a marvelous snapshot yet its story remains timeless this is just romeo and juliet minus the death after all nicolas cage is wonderful showing all the early promise that it turns out he has squandered on overblown action crapola deborah foreman is the revelation of this movie and i can't believe she didn't go on to have a bigger career someone rediscover her quick this is sweeter and gentler than most films of the genre the requisite nudity seems thrown in by contractual obligation and while not groundbreaking it certainly is nice to see this kind of movie that respects its characters and doesn't crucify its shallow young girls for having fun even foreman's crew of best friends misguided by peer pressure are never presented as villains indeed her friend stacy forced to w cage's friend fred has a good time despite her protests and makes out w fred in the backseat this will take you back to the early 80's if you were there but it holds up quite well today warning to those unfamiliar with the movie do not watch one of vh1's seemingly continual showings of it go rent it in its unedited glory otherwise you are missing some of the movies' most potent time specific dialogue and one can't write about valley girl and not mention the soundtrack of great 80's tunes most of them by one hit wonders which are not only integral to the sense of time and place in this movie but thematically well chosen see it awesome little flick fer
1	this film is the most romantic in years david duchovny is superb make you cry smile and dream minnie driver and james belushi are very good too but david is astonish don´t miss the opportunity to see this little film and fall in love with bob and grace run don´t walk
1	i don't normally go out of my way to watch romantic comedy and maybe i will in the future after seeing return to me the plot was simple and no secret after the publicity you don't have to be einstein to guess what will happen after the first 15 minutes what you can do is relax and let the cast take you into a world where the chemistry abounds and the good guys win and you can just laugh and have a good time i love this movie and have the dvd on order
1	bonny hunt scores a coup with her directorial debut minnie driver and david duchovny have that indescribable something called chemistry sure the plot is unlikely but that doesn't stop one from enjoying this film carroll o'conner does a great job as grace's grandfather other great character actors play his card buddies jim belushi is hilarious as the down to earth husband of megan part of the extended family br br faith family and marriage are respected a few sexual references and salty words are used but in context and with gentle humor br br and in the background that wonderful dean martin tune return to me br br recommended
1	this movie is very well done although the ending is given away too early in the film the four elderly men in the restaurant are what makes this film fun to watch minnie driver is a very talented actress and comes across wonderfully on screen
1	in my review just submitted i referred to the young actress lead as when it should have been veronika i was so involved with character and the action i guess that i wasn't that concerned with names anyway she and the film are brilliant as i said the cinematography and the director's use of montage are worthy of eisenstein and his cameraman the production design is top notch the placement of actors in the foreground middle ground and background within any given mise en scene is worthy of study stunning memorable camera movement and an ending that has an emotional punch that leaves hollywood films far behind gee heroic self sacrifice instead of walking into the rainbow thanks again john hart
1	this movie is sweet not cloying just warm spirited and kind i found it only mildly funny and the premise is wildly improbable but the characters are so charming especially minnie driver's that they had my full attention right from the beginning and soon had my affection too br br bonnie hunt has done a great job in her directing debut and a good job with the writing as well i highly recommend this movie and will see it again i'm sure
1	i think the romance of this movie helps couples develop a deeper appreciation for each other although i saw one goof in the early part of the movie it was fairly well done the plot can make you cry if you think about the situation enough i loved it watched it twice already and highly recommend it
1	i will start by saying i have always been a bonnie hunt fan she always adds life to any character she plays and she did a wonderful job in her directorial debut br br i have to admit this is a chick flick but keeping that in mind it is a wonderful story it touches on many emotions and elicits all sorts of reactions br br this film depicts real life like people with real life like situations tho i have to exclude the coincidence that is the major part of the film br br it's a love story not just of a man and a woman but the love of family friends and loved ones past even pets br br i really enjoyed it well worth the rental or the purchase
1	this film is great well written and very entertaining david duchovny shows once again that he is much more than fox mulder and the performances by the old men are funny as can be old married folks like me will appreciate the connection between two hearts
1	there are so many positive reviews on return to me that my opinion is not necessary to encourage you to watch this movie however i feel the need to express my admiration for this unique movie bonnie hunt has proved that she is not only an exceptional actress but also a marvelous director and script writer this movie has everything and is full of humanity tenderness sense of humor don't miss it don't wait any longer and regarding the poor reviews don't pay any attention some viewers forget that this type of movies have to be watched with your heart not only with your eyes if some viewers prefer notting hill or you've got mail that's their mistake for me return to me is a true gem an unforgettable movie
1	this movie is so cool it told me to enjoy every moment in life to its i think that bonnie hunt jerry maguire writes well and i am so happy that she gave aging actors opportunity to have such big roles in the movie that is really neat in a society that worships wealth health and youth it was nice to see a movie about normal people the movie reminded me a lot of while you were sleeping which i really love if you don't like this movie you should work on your sensitivity skills br br favorite quotes megan dayton i'm just saying for safety don't shave your legs because then you definitely won't let it go too far grace briggs megan it's a first date megan dayton i married a first date i'm sure you plan on being level headed but once you're in the moment the male brain seems i don't know everything they say suddenly seems brilliant hairy legs are your only link to reality favorite scenes megan good will hunting riding her bike all the scenes in the garden the conversation and comradery among the grandpa and friends in the restaurant please do not miss this movie it will warm up your heart
1	this is a true feel good movie full of genuine sweetness and admirable people although the premise requires a significant suspension of disbelief it is worth the trouble to do so the director writers and actors truly convey what it feels like to be in love
1	i love this movie at first i didn't expect much of this movie since i didn't hear anyone talk about it and it seemed like it went on video soon after it had just opened in the theatres i also didn't think david and minnie would make a good on screen couple i've expected a lot out of on screen couples since i saw you've got mail and sleepless in seattle with tom hanks and meg ryan personally i think joely richardson should've played part and vice versa i don't know i just think joely should've stayed in the movie longer with david they seemed perfect for each other but it just figures that in a movie the girl next door always gets the guy like in while you were sleeping i was very wrong though this movie was fantastic everything was done brilliantly bonnie hunt did a great job of directing the lines were perfect with the wise cracks everywhere br br warning spoilers ahead br br i love how everything intertwined with each other for example in the beginning elizabeth and bob were talking about going to italy and in the end bob meets grace in italy sydney the ape doing the hand thing with grace like he had done with elizabeth is an example too br br notice spoilers end now br br one thing i didn't like about the movie was it was a little well i just don't think a man could get over his wife in a year when she was the only woman he had ever been with his entire life you'd think he'd isolate himself from the world for years before even coming out of his house to talk someone instead he goes on a blind date a year later and falls instantly in love with a woman he's never seen in his life but feels a connection with br br over all it was a splendid movie it had me crying two or three times and it had me laughing countless times the scene in the restaurant with bob's picky date for bottled water was hilarious it is definitely up there with great romantic comedies like you've got mail sliding doors and while you were sleeping br br go rent it today
1	return to me is a charming gem of a movie with an absolutely star studded cast who can go wrong with this modern day fairy tale it also includes many many jokes written by the funny girl herself bonnie hunt who wrote and directed this film david duchovny is also very good showing a different approach then from his everday alter ego mulder on my favourite show the x files a great date movie
1	this movie doesn't have any pretense at being great art which is good but it is a well written script with well developed characters and solid acting i think if i wrote it i could do without the drama surrounding the wife but it wasn't distracting enough to detract from the main story concerning minnie driver's character i think that all too often hollywood abandons an attempt at real quality writing to try and inject more visual drama when with an adult themed movie such as this the emotional type of drama is all that's really needed and probably more believable too overall it's a very well done offering and well worth seeing
1	this film is undoubtedly one of the greatest landmarks in history of cinema by seeing this film we can only retrospectively notice that world cinema in 1950s had such a purely humanistic dramaturgy such a strong and adequate use of sound image montage and almost religious admiration of ethical choices in human life cinema was then not only one form of arts it was much higher than ordinary life and it gave many people hope to live after the tragic war it is said that even picasso was moved and cried that such a work of art can appear only once in 100 years audience that time was also different i read that after seeing kurosawa's ikiru live in its first release young couple quietly told each other it is a good film isn't it i think contemporary cinema though technically developed and opened some new narrative perspective has lost the most important reliance of audience was once really the most popular art from and unlike modern fine arts and contemporary music gave millions of people hope and ideals in this point of view must be in the pantheon of classics of all the time as city light ikiru and la strada
1	gracie minnie driver a woman in her late twenties is on a waiting list for a heart transplant bob david duchovny has just had the tragedy of losing his wife in an automobile accident one can guess the outcome gracie receives bob's wife's heart although they have no knowledge of each other yet a year later gracie is feeling like a new person while bob is just beginning to think about his social life when a friend sets him up on a blind date bob finds himself interested in the waitress gracie at the restaurant where the date occurs they begin to see each other how long will it be before the truth materializes and what will be the consequences this lovely funny and touching movie is one of the best romantic comedies ever constructed the two stars dazzle as the couple only heaven could bring together and the supporting cast of bonnie hunt jim belushi and carroll o'connor are just marvelous as well taking place near chicago the neighborhood setting is likewise charming and beautiful let's make that for the costumes and script if you know someone who goes ga ga over love stories you will be in their good graces forever if you introduce him or her to this fine movie
1	i saw this movie a fews years ago and was literally swept away by it so charming and so very romantic david duchovny and ms driver have chemistry that is so hot you will need to take off a layer of clothing the supporting cast is 100 top notch just watching caroll o'connor and robert loggia play off one another is pure poetry bonnie hunt and jim and a wonderful team and some of the films most charming moments are when they are on the screen like jim belushi screaming at his children to go to sleep forever or him dancing in the kitchen this film made we wish i knew people like that in my own life not to mention what woman does not want david duchovny for a boyfriend
1	awesome movie great combination of talents i'm a huge fan of david duchovny and he is outstanding in this movie i would love to see him in more movies of this nature his talents are definitely under used and has so much more to offer besides agent mulder although i'm a huge fan of that series too anyway i want to see more of him he is easily the cary grant of our generation if you haven't seen this movie you must great love story that shows love never dies it's with you forever minnie driver is great and how can you go wrong with a cast containing mr o'connor and mr loggia and mr belushi this movie didn't get any type of awards nod but deserved one great job bonnie hunt by the way the soundtrack is great too
1	especially considering i can count on one hand the romantic comedy films i have ever enjoyed br br minnie driver is very good as the heart transplant patient who has a mysterious connection to duchovny's recently deceased wife i can think of several awful films which have used this story line i think there was an lmn movie with jane seymour this film however is a keeper br br duchovny is sympathetic and the scenes with his dog are cute and sad the dog misses his deceased wife all of his friends want him to find a replacement and there is an amusing scene where he is on a blind date and driver is the waitress his date is horrible and he finds himself intrigued by minnie driver br br caroll o'connor is also good in one of his last roles as the curmudgeonly grandfather bonnie hunt and james belushi this is the only film i have liked him in round out the comedy aspect of the film br br this is a good film because the story works it is not overly romantic and does not insult the audience's intelligence highly recommended 9 10
1	a delightful and wonderful film which has entered my pantheon of great romantic comedies in many ways it's even better than when harry met sally it wears well on viewing and re viewing the cast is excellent and both david duchovny and minnie driver give us really believable characters
1	i must admit that i didn't get around to seeing this movie in the theater as it was released at the beginning of a summer blockbuster season this cute little film couldn't help but get a bit lost in the shadow of multi million dollar special effects movies could it br br return to me has a lovely and simple story at its core and is extremely well directed and written by bonnie hunt who has been in a number of major pictures as an actress herself along with this one the charming story is beautifully woven with clever comedy and brought to life with superb performances by veteran as well as younger actors br br to those who say that david duchovny hasn't really had a good shot at breaking out of his fox mulder mold i agree i've seen his other film work and is by far the best thing he could have done for himself minnie driver is simply beautiful charming funny and lively in her role as grace br br outside of these two leads however you are surrounded by grace's close knit family and friends jim belushi is an absolute stitch bonnie hunt is a stable and real life force i cannot however go without mentioning the talents of robert loggia and the dearly departed carroll o'connor ironically i watched this film again on dvd only the day before he passed away this was his last film and he gave a performance that an actor of his calibre could certainly be proud to leave as the finale to a great career br br overall return to me turned what would have still been just a fun love story and grew it into a film that has become one of my favorites take the time rent this one it's well worth the effort
1	this particular film was one that i wanted to see in theaters but never got around to it when i finally rented it in the summer of 2001 i enjoyed it so much that i went out and bought the dvd soon after bonnie hunt and don lake did a wonderful job with the screenplay and are wonderful to listen to on the audio commentary that is included on the dvd they did a great job in creating characters that you really care about i really felt a whirlwind of emotions watching this film including sadness anxiety and joy the film also does a great job in showing the importance of family a rarity in film today which is a reflection of the director bonnie hunt based on the comments she made on the dvd david duchovny showed me here that there is life beyond fox mulder giving a wonderful performance with some pretty poignant scenes i highly recommend that you give this movie a viewing i am really thankful to the creators of this film they have given me a wonderful piece of cinematic viewing that i will recommend to all my friends i have seen a lot of movies over the years and it is very rare that i come away with such a feeling of satisfaction after watching a film i will watch this time and time again for years to come return to me reminds me that there are still moviemakers out there that know how to sincerely please their movie audiences thanks
1	this is one of those movies that has everything in it i don't think i would get tired of seeing it hopefully more movies like this one will be made in the future the casting was perfect in all respects in a sense the song sung by engelbert humperdink i never got to say goodbye is the song come to life you will most definitely laugh and cry throughout the entire scenario for sure i'm just surprised that i had never seen it before this past weekend i think that it's positively worth seeing and your heart will be glowing it would be nice to cuddle up with your honey sip a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy being in the presence of each other there is so much heart and emotion at times you honestly don't know where to turn you will know exactly how the character feels true family expression is available all the way through in fact at times you'll even think you are part of that family or they a part of yours see it
1	i watched this movie again yesterday with a 20 year old intern from my office ok it was the quiet day after thanksgiving and we both loved it i love the unique plot david duchovny david allen greer and the way the dog keeps waiting at the door isn't part of each of us just like that dog after someone we love dies br br i also love the old folks at the restaurant they remind me of some of the older people around southern new england where your ethnic group is a very important topic of discussion and i love the wedding at the end br br minnie driver is great in this movie and bonnie hunt should have won an award for everything br br bonnie make more movies
1	i love this movie br br this beautiful charming love story drew me in immediately with its lovable characters and heart warming romance i became so attached to the characters throughout the film that i felt as if i knew them personally the storyline is very enchanting and it brought me to tears in several touching moments duchovny and driver have a very cute chaste relationship that you can't help getting involved in this one's worth watching more than once and showing to all your friends i'm just curious why wasn't this a big hit br br i give this a 10 out of 10 spectacular film and this is coming from a guy who thinks that 9 out of 10 movies aren't even worth watching
1	i watched this movie on tcm last night all excited expectation having last seen it twice in its memorable 1957 release in toronto i told my wife who hadn't seen it before to watch for the thrilling long tracking shot no cuts where veronika is seen on a bus on her way to find her boris in a hand held frame that certainly predates the modern steadicam the shot then pulls back up and cranes pun unintended over the street as she exits the bus and darts among the tanks to cross the road then i remember that no cuts we follow her up close to the fence as she peers through anxiously looking for him but does not find him but we do continue to follow veronika as she searches the faces of harried recruits and their emotionally racked women all extras and each one a gem of riveting behavior how one wonders did and his cameraman set up this extraordinary sequence but what did i see in this version after crossing the street dodging the tanks the scene abruptly ended and cut back to scenes at the apartment before continuing to the soldiers and their families at the fence seems to me that this film was not only restored but also re edited what a downer
1	i saw this movie with my mother and i loved it it was such a sweet story not to mention funny because of the supporting cast they never make movies like this ever my favorite part is when grace minnie driver finds out about her boyfriend's wife's death and that she has the deceased wife's heart and she screams what was god thinking i do believe everyone no matter who you believe in has thoughts like that once in awhile but while it's very sappy it just might make you believe in true love and destiny for once and for all sigh br br the comedic timing between bonnie hunt and jim belushi will just make you crack up especially in the aforementioned scene it's terrible and yet so funny they make a good pair and i hope to see them again in something soon 10 10 stars
1	i love this movie it has everything bonnie hunt did a fantastic job co writing directing and co starring in this film david duchovny is just plain hot and minnie driver is as cute as ever combine all that talent with david allen grier carol o'connor robert loggia richardson and jim belushi you have a oscar worthy movie i'm surprised they didn't get one if you haven't seen it go rent the dvd watch it once then put directors commentary on bonnie hunt is fabulous
1	my two daughters ages 11 and 13 and i were lucky enough to see a screening of this movie last night we were all pleasantly surprised to see how entertaining and funny this movie was david duchovny was very appealing as the male lead and minnie driver gave her usually competent performance some of the scenes are laugh out loud funny especially one scene minnie driver has with a fellow transplant i liked the fact that it was a movie that i could watch with my children and i wasn't embarrassed by any scene whatsoever everyone in the movie theater was laughing and enjoying themselves thumbs up bonnie hunt
1	when i saw the trailer for this film i said out loud to no one in particular this film is going to bomb i also said that about the matrix and look at what happened there now i am not a box office guru by any stretch but i usually have a pretty good gut about what is going to be good and what is going to really suck in this case i was blinded by my complete and utter apathy towards david duchovney let me put it to you a different way i don't like his as a person from what i have read of him in interviews he is unbelievably pre madonna like and he is full of himself considering all he has done is x files or as an actor playing god was a really poor film but he came off thinking that for some reason he deserved big bucks on the big screen but i am happy to say that even though those things may still be true about the man return to me is delightful and has it's heart in the right place bonnie hunt has directed a beautiful story and she has told it with class and grace this is one of the most romantic films i have seen and even though it may seem to be a bit sad and maudlin in its premise give it a chance and you will be hooked br br it has to be said and this pains me to do so that the reason this film works so well is because of the story and the cast duchovney and driver are so wonderful and believable here that i honestly wanted to cry along with them there is one particularly powerful scene when duchovney comes home after his wife has died and he slumps down on the floor of his house as it always does the family dog looks to the door to wait for his wife to come walking in she doesn't and with his shirt collar still stained with blood rob duchovney tells him that she is not coming home ever he then calls the dog over to him and they seem to share a cry together the dog lets out a small moan and then rob cries and this is one of the most realistic moments of pain i have ever seen in any character in any movie you can feel his pain and at that moment i forgot i was watching an actor that i generally don't like and i felt that i was watching someone that i knew the loss of his beloved this is powerful stuff br br another strength of the film is the supporting cast bonnie hunt has combined an ethnic melting pot of irish and italian characters that share a common bond they share a pub called italian pub that is a delicious name all by itself and heading the scale of clashing cultures is carol o'connor and robert loggia these are two proud old men that love their homeland but love their granddaughter and niece i think it is respectively and that is the character played by minnie driver this scenario is ripe for comedy and hunt doesn't miss anything here br br bonnie hunt and james belushi also share some funny moments together as the middle aged married couple and belushi gets top points as he accepts humility gracefully and shows off his ample keg of a stomach for laughs with his family consisting of three or four kids there is very little time for him and the wife to have quality time and again hunt handles this with perfect elegance br br this is a wonderful story of finding true love knowing how lucky you are to have true love and the power of friendship and family return to me is a wonderful romance and even though i still don't have a great admiration for david duchovney i have to admit that he was perfect in this role and i could not picture anyone else playing his character he was sensitive and believable and the movie was good because of him not just because of him but he sure added to the flavour br br if you are a sucker for a good romance and you want a good cry then this is the film for you br br 8 5 out of 10 i will see anything that bonnie hunt puts out with her in the director's chair
1	i just watched this move for the 5th or 6th time and am still in love with it it still makes me cry and sing and worry and celebrate br br i almost wrote bonnie hunt a letter to tell her how much i love it david duchovny's grief scene is so flippin real minnie driver is so natural and honest my favorite line is when duchovny says i miss elizabeth but i ache for grace oh man i'm crying just thinking about it also bonnie hunt and jim belushi are the perfect chicago area couple i know them i swear i'm related to them i'm sure br br this movie is in my three times a year rotation i'd watch it once a week but i'm afraid i'd get too used to it i always want to make it a special day when i watch it
1	return to me is a movie you will want to own it is a story of inspiration and family love that appeals to all ages the story though seemingly impossible aspires to divine intervention when a man looses his wife in a tragic accident and finds that love again in the woman who receives his wife's heart david duchovny and minnie driver give warm hearted performances as the designated to be lovers who meet by chance but the real story lies in the friends and family around them who love and support them in times of trial carol o'connor as minnie driver's grandfather is authentic in every scene bonnie hunt as the friend whose wit and encouragement underlines minnie as a is funny yet warm in the scenes especially with james belushi as her husband classic scenes and writing makes this story so enjoyable and touching to watch over and over again thank you for making a movie that demonstrates families and friends as close knit caring people who love each other through difficult times
1	as a non theist im not going to comment on the great mans theory which changed the world 150 years ago safe to say science is based on evidence religion is based on blind faith nuff said there then br br the film was produced by the bbc and to be honest it could quite easily have been shown on television while the acting is superb the film itself isn't really worthy of a full blown cinema release that said if it reaches a wider audience this way then so be it but i have seen many period style dramas on bbc tv and they were well up to the finished standard of this just don't expect too much of a big budget thrill ride when going to see it br br in some ways i found the movie almost going out on a limb to apologise to religious fundamentalists while it attains a good sense of tension the whole way through i couldn't help wanting it to get to the publication of the origin of species much quicker than it actually did you'll wait right until the end for that and it seemed to dwell much more than i was ever aware on darwin's struggle with himself and his wife emma portraying him almost as some kind of insane lunatic at times which is hardly true there are many other errors and facts missing in relation to the real story of the lead up to the publication of origin too but the whole premise of the movie focuses almost entirely on the difficulty darwin faced domestically with the book and a small portion on the death of his beloved daughter annie this gives the film its most moving scene where annie passes away as she asks one final time to hear darwin tell her the story of a captive orangutan which died of pneumonia though you'll probably feel a bigger connection with the primate in that scene than with darwin's daughter br br with the early controversy apparently surrounding the movie in the usa it will work well to promote it and ensure many more people will get to see it but to be honest there is actually very little in it that insults any mythical its hardly headline news about a theory that has been around 150 years after all but as fundamental christians and many other religions which we're all well aware of like to wave a placard or two whenever possible i guess this movie is as good excuse as any personally i cant see what all the fuss is about but maybe they're just around
1	last year was the 200th anniversary of charles darwin's birth and the anniversary of the publication of the origin of species so it's fitting that jon creation got released the movie focuses on the period of darwin's paul bettany life while he was writing his famous work and the mild strain that it put on his family life br br i guess that the movie overplayed darwin's tension with his religious wife emma jennifer connelly and his guilt over his deceased daughter annie but i still like the thought of darwin's theory working like a karate chop on religious dogma as it was the us was one of the last countries in which creation found a distributor due to the creationism evolution debate yes it's still going on br br all in all this isn't a masterpiece but i recommend it the same way that i recommend inherit the wind i hope that one day the creationism evolution debate won't be an issue if this film helps put the debate to rest then more power to everyone in the movie also starring martha west jeremy northam toby jones and benedict
1	as this movie unfolds you start to feel the conundrum of human existence if you carry with you questions inner wars unsolved puzzles about the meaning of life then you will feel this movie with every morsel of your body charles darwin begins a war with an utterly predictable ending war with god his theories resemble the fact that god has nothing to do with mankind has nothing to do with the amazing world that we live in savage harsh ironic and chaotic this words surround the mind of the character thrown into an universe of material truth who slowly pushes hope for god out from his mind nevertheless the movie as charles darwin still sees wonder and beauty beyond god in the universe of infinite evolution
1	i have read reviews of this film that found it and i am at a loss to understand why this should be so from the beginning i found it a remarkable experience and a complete joy to watch br br spoiler the opening titles overlay a beautiful visual of the evolutionary process and this introduces the story with a serene and sweeping style the film isn't about the process itself though it concerns charles darwin's struggle with his conscience his love for his wife his deceased daughter and his search for truth br br the appearances of his daughter are the manifestations of a tormented mind that knows it has killed god the daughter is an adult making adult comments about his work and torturing darwin with personal doubts was he in some way responsible for her death husband and wife in real life paul bettany and jennifer connelly give truly wonderful performances as charles and emma darwin as does martha west as annie bettany's size and awkward gait give darwin's character a genuine sense of reality whilst connelly seems very comfortable with her english accent and occasionally somewhat severe persona br br it's easy to misunderstand the times in which this film resides the grip that religion had on society and the inner struggles that a man like darwin must have endured to seek the truth in what he witnessed science and religion have always been awkward bedfellows and although it didn't cost him his life as it did with so many earlier men and women science put a barrier between husband and wife fact and faith this film portrays that barrier supremely well br br i give creation ten stars because i think it's beautiful profound superbly well acted and a genuine no extraneous frills required look at one of the world's true geniuses br br what seems obvious to everyone today well almost everyone see bill maher's wonderful religulous was hidden for millennia the truth once it was discovered was undoubtedly painful for many creation examines that pain and the realisation that we are all that we possess br br a wonderful cinematic experience
1	if you believe that any given war movie can make you really feel the war you need to see called the cranes are flying in english it tells the story of veronika tatiana and boris who are in love on the verge of wwii they are walking along the waterfront watching the cranes fly by when the war starts boris is promptly sent off to war veronika hides out with a family and ends up marrying the son whom she does not love boris meanwhile continues trotting through the countryside fighting the nazis and experiencing all the horrors of war until he he runs out of energy when veronika working in a military hospital receives this news she refuses to accept it until boris' body arrives home on one of the trains simultaneously the radio announces that germany has surrendered and the allied powers have won the war the soviet union lost 27 million citizens but it's the start of a new era br br this movie did a very good job showing the human impact of the war not only in the battlefield but also how it affected the civilian population this is definitely a movie that everyone should see
1	i believe the reason this movie did not get the recognition it deserves is because of the many misconceptions of darwin pro and con i would say the real man is depicted here without sterility he is what he is although the movie is but a snapshot of the man the technique of storytelling expanded his life far beyond the years touched on in the movie this is deep movie a pondering of modern life and the way we think and can provoke a study into the man whose thoughts and other who used him have certainly affected our lives there are some movies that the historical context is so great that it is the primary job of the actors to stay out of the way the history carried the day and the actors did their job good work to them i say
1	real life husband and wife paul bettany and jennifer connelly star in creation which recounts the period of charles darwin's life prior to the publication of on the origin of species in 1859 his infamous world changing tome on evolution and natural selection darwin's research created an enormous rift a schism between the believers of his day and scientists he was said at the time to be going to war against god and even to have killed god br br the film revolves around darwin's life with his wife and four children jennifer connelly is excellent as his extremely devout and loving wife a revealing scene at the beginning when she leads the dinner table in prayer and charles fails to say amen is foreshadowing of what will follow and of the stark differences between the two she is convinced that he will be eternally damned and bring misfortune to their family by rejecting god br br darwin is torn between his strong love for his wife her faith and his even stronger reason there are beautiful moments of him observing animals dissecting their behaviors and the sequences that make up their lives explaining phenomenons of selection to his children the first born annie having a very morbid curiosity we see him interacting with england's first orangutan jenny playing with it as if it were a child deciphering her every look and action br br annie the eldest child later dies and charles becomes haunted by her death having been closest to her in my opinion this part was too long bizarre and drawn out i did not like the trippy scenes where he seems to be losing his mind and is pursued by the ghost of his daughter shouting and ranting although charles thinks that his wife blames him for her fatal sickness she very poetically says the truth is if i knew then what i know now i would marry you tomorrow their bond is solid and unbreakable despite tremendous differences of belief br br when charles finishes his manuscript he hands his wife the final copy telling her she can burn it if she does not agree she stays up reading it nights on end and finally presents him with a package the book ready to be sent to its publisher in the end reason and perhaps love as well triumph as he makes an accomplice out of his adversary br br it is fascinating that darwin received a full christian burial at abbey proof that his ground breaking ideas were seen as controversial of course but were already then recognized as vital knowledge for the advancement of the human race br br the movie definitely draws heavily on darwin's family life its joys and its troubles i happened to like this aspect but fabio said it was like watching a documentary on i quote hitler's passion for ping pong this is true in some respects and i can't disagree with his desire to have learned more about charles darwin's theories from this film than we do it remains nevertheless a well executed and acted period drama br br my rating 7 7 total score 14
1	paul bettany did a great role as the tortured father whose favorite little girl dies tragically of disease for that he deserves all the credit however the movie was mostly about exactly that keeping the adventures of darwin as he gathered data for his theories as incomplete stories told to children and skipping completely the disputes regarding his ideas br br two things bothered me terribly the soundtrack with its whiny sound practically shoving sadness down the throat of the viewer and the movie trailer showing some beautiful sceneries the theological musings of him and his wife and the enthusiasm of his best friends as they prepare for a battle against blind faith thus the movie completely br br to put it bluntly if one were to remove the scenes of the movie trailer from the movie the result would be a non descript family drama about a little child dying and the hardships of her parents as a result clearly not what i expected from a movie about darwin albeit the movie was beautifully interpreted
1	this is definitely a touching movie and a great expression of charles personal struggle the movie is not only about his struggle to get his book the origin of species published but also his relationship with his oldest daughter his daughter was at start the only person in his family to approve of his views something that she as well had to pay for een more than him at times br br now this is not an evolutionary propaganda film as a matter of fact i think it managed to stay very neutral a hard thing to do in my opinion of course it does not condone the way the characters was treated by the church quite the opposite actually if you need me to use the big words to shed light on this film it will be liked by and atheists alike but goes away from the movie talks about evolution and that's it br br paul bettany as charles darwin was incredible of course we all may think of darwin as that old man with the funny beard but this movie centers around the man in his late 20's early 30's jennifer connelly emma darwin is great as always but the actor who impressed me was martha west as annie darwin daughter definitely on of the best child actors of the decade the story is about darwin and his daughter and it is beautifully acted br br except for a few jumps in time that was momentarily confusing the production of this film is pretty flawless some scenes were darwin observes nature is just marvelous and is almost like taken out of a high production national geographic documentary br br i must admit though i'm not quite sure of why they chose creation as the title i doubt it is an irony the movie is too respectful for that well i'm sure there's a meaning too it just don't let it scare you away br br i give this movie a 9 10 this is truly a great tribute to charles darwin and please give it a chance
1	wow fantastic film in my opinion i wasn't expecting it to be this good i was captivated from start to finish it's a very well made and educational film that really gives us a fascinating insight into the trials darwin had to go through in order to convey his ideas to the world chronicling his life as he writes origin of the species fighting both personal demons as well as the ignorant society of the time in order to do so he struggles hard with his mind body and soul as personal matters get to breaking point and even his family seems to slip away whilst the rest of the world stand against him as he knows that his findings literally shake the very foundations of their lives culture and meaning of existence it's a subtle movie not over exaggerated in any way in that typical hollywood way this is a bbc produced british film yet thankfully very powerful in meaning and this is thanks to the amazing well directed scenes as well as the superb acting by bettany connelly acts as more of a light supporting role but i did enjoy her in this and she's as good as to be expected as always her chemistry alongside her husband was definitely strong and endearing you could feel the connection and their real life husband wife bond definitely shines through their performances but the star of the show is definitely bettany and he does a brilliant job a very touching performance i both understood and sympathised with him as he battled his own degrading health and impending insanity to try to understand what he has uncovered and come to terms with what it all really is and means as he found his thinking contradict his feelings and found himself losing it all including his wife who of course was a firm believer in religion and a strict christian whilst he was in the realm of science two worlds which could not see eye to eye so their relationship was at stake too br br anyway a really very good well acted emotional drama and dare i say i did shed a tear during the tragic climax which was truly heartbreaking as well as beautifully poignant and moving the film is symbolic and very intellectually artistic as well in fact i can't wait to watch it again as there was a lot to take in first time round which i missed easily one of the best films i've seen this year
1	i saw this film on at the cambridge film festival br br the beagle's only in a couple of short flashbacks the whole thing is about darwin's life from to 1859 when he was ensconced in kent with his growing family 200 pages of origin had already been drafted and he was wondering whether to complete the book br br the script is based on book annie's box annie charles's daughter died when she was 10 it is mostly a family drama but does include sex scenes however the participants are married both on and off screen not too exciting not much science but a well made film that's pleasant to watch and pushes the right emotional buttons a bit of a romantic weepie actually i suppose the conclusion is that you can be an agnostic free thinking scientist from an atheist family background and still be an emotional romantic as well as an excellent father br br some of the characters and darwin himself state or wonder whether he killed god but the viewer is able to doubt that what is beyond doubt given the deadly struggle for survival and the web of predation on the meadow bank well known before darwin and completely and the failure of darwin's prayers is that the idea of a kind god who loves his creatures is untenable br br i really cannot see many americans to it very much some may have problems with the title which is probably the most controversial thing about the film or with the fact that bettany does not have horns a tail and a pitchfork
1	i saw the world premiere at the toronto international film fest this is a great film br br real life husband and wife paul bettany and jennifer connelly star as charles and emma darwin in the midst of their struggle through the writing of and decision to publish origin of species their consideration of the ramifications it may have for their family and the future of humankind are conveyed in such a manner that one suspects only an off screen couple could achieve br br jon who gave a heart felt introduction and john do and excellent job of bringing biography to life they created some very poignant and human moments great cinematography and sets and a generous helping of tongue in cheek about the still divisive theory of evolution br br the surprise star is martha west who plays annie darwin the character around whom much of the story unfurls she plays the precocious young girl to a tee if this performance is anything to go by her star should be on the rise br br all in all a great film and although it is a period drama the issues that drive it are still very much alive today
1	simply put paul bettany and jennifer connelly were remarkable the movie is less about the raw science of darwin's beliefs and holds the focus very strongly on his relationship with his family primarily his wife emma and daughter annie br br toby jones gives a wonderful turn as thomas the great defender of darwin's beliefs and the rest of the cast is up to the task of sharing screen time with bettany and connelly br br but it is those two who carry the movie their real chemistry is apparent from beginning to end but develops transcendence as darwin grapples with his demons the scene where darwin relates the ending of the story of jenny the orangutan to his dying daughter annie is utterly gripping the world premiere audience at the tiff was spellbound bettany's performance will be recognized as one of the year's best in short order equally magnificent is connelly's work playing the religious wife of a man who in huxley's words killed god br br the film moves slowly through the entire spectrum of darwin's grief relishing every detail of bettany and connelly's acting br br brilliant
1	this sitcom was a big crowd in the year 1984 1985 that was a time people could see deserted streets in most of the over crowded indian cities whenever there were sitcom on indian television screens all this was the result of the setting up of television relay stations across the entire indian nation this was one of the essential elements of the modernization of indian television network strategy adopted by the late indian prime minister indira gandhi it was also continued by her son rajiv gandhi this series provided clean entertainment which a large majority of indian television audience watched on their black and white television sets a funny thing about this series is that it was sponsored by an indigenous company dealing in ayurvedic products a couple of days ago i caught sight of some episodes of this series but the overall laughter equation was missing this goes on to prove that may be with the ever changing passage of time entertainment material lose their charm and hold over people's minds
1	i was a huge fan of this series yesterday i watched it again on dvd i was apprehensive about whether laughs would come or not but in a few episodes i was laughing hysterically and some episodes were good acting wise bedi raja satish shah is brilliant whereas is plain bad but i think she gets the job done maybe a better actress could have been used in place of her this series shows what good clean comedy is br br if this series were to air in the current year i would have given it 9 10 and to think that this series is almost 25 years old and its comedy is still good i give it 10 10 i would highly recommend this series for watching on dvd
1	this is a magnificent and in many ways impressive film i saw it on tv as a little boy with my throat almost strangled with tears and again today on the magnificently restored criterion dvd br br cranes is the very essence of the war weepie imagine umbrellas of cherbourg with no music and no color or waterloo bridge with no class consciousness br br tatiana a cross between vivien leigh and bjork is deeply affecting as a pretty girl whose fiancé enlists and doesn't write or come back br br the fiancé boris dies on the front and his death scene is indescribably romantic very daring too because so close to over the top but that scene will stay with you br br although the soviets were so defined by wwii the movie is quite unspecific and more powerful for it the pre war and post war scenes have a very 1957 feel there is no attempt at period detail the whole film becomes more and more stylized until the siberian scenes which feel like a modern opera set that is a compliment the cathartic final scene is milked to its last drop there again comparable to cherbourg the production feels like a big budget those staircase scenes must have cost a pretty br br go for it don't expect a bitter socialist pill although it is of course very sad the cranes are flying is an impressive slice of world cinema quite advanced considering where and when it was made
1	i saw this title again on i also asked my nephew who was 17 to watch the same with me i am 35 and he is 17 he liked it and i did too it still is funny a little childish a times but still very clean entertainment satish shah is hilarious in multiple roles this sitcom would still fare better than many of the recent serials on tv but obviously some people obviously like mundane fares that come out today it would have been nice that shafi inamdar would have continued for all the seasons he is no longer alive today i would wish if someone could list all the episodes here br br who can forget the lines yeh kya ho raha hai what a relief boss hai 30 years ka experience hai br br and the title track yeh jo hai teaching us to live the life as it comes and take enjoyment out of it the life of common people br br i still like this sitcom it may not seem as funny at times but certain episodes are still hilarious
1	one of the best sitcoms to run on indian television along with bhai and great acting well paced and an extremely amusing script made this a truly memorable series the fun filled opening montage sung by none other than the inimitable kumar gave a very accurate picture of what one could expect i used to borrow it from my local video library years after doordarshan had stopped airing it i wish indian television would revert back to serials such as these rather than the asinine soaps and reality television which is all its good for these days anyone who's found of genuinely good comedy ought to go and get this series you'll might also enjoy a couple of pakistani sitcoms such as ups and downs and aur which are certainly comparable to india's best
1	i am a firm believer that a film tv serial or any form of art should and would be fully appreciated once the timing factor as to when written produced or conceived should be taken in to account br br yeh jo hai is one such series i remember watching it in the mid 80's on tv and the re runs via the video cassette libraries during early 90's and laughing out loud and being addicted to it that made me buy the full series dvd set and surprise of surprises the comedy and the moments of the good 'ol days simply fell flat for me even the very popular 30 years ka experience and sofa cum bed did not invoke the kind of mirth i thought it would the timing factor for the 80's this was the showstopper the main event the mother of all tv comedies and it worked during the age and time perhaps the same cannot be said right now but nonetheless watching the dvd did bring back pleasant memories br br i wish the seasons with shafi inamdar and were longer satish shah has been un believably good as the heart of the show with equally effective support cast of farida jalal tiku talsania and the neighbours bedi hams throughout br br all in all an experience that will bring back memories for those who saw it during the prime times might not appeal to the younger viewers or first time watchers
1	it's taken years for cult icon bruce campbell to get this project off the ground but he finally has it's here and what a great piece of schlock entertainment it is looking at the plot it sounds like two things a great base for a very silly b movie and a shameless excuse for bruce campbell to what he does best evil dead ii style slapstick humour and this film delivers on both counts the man with the screaming brain is comic book nonsense all the way through but there's some really great scenes and it's almost impossible to be bored with this movie bruce campbell wrote directs produces and stars in this film and while it's not quite citizen kane it has to be said that this is an achievement for the man most famous for battling off his own hand in a woodland cabin the plot follows american businessman william cole on a business trip to bulgaria with his girlfriend the trip goes awry however when he his girlfriend and his taxi driver end up dead thanks to the same woman mad scientist stacy keach is on hand to merge cole and the taxi driver's brains into one and we've got a cult flick on our hands br br the first half hour or so is entertaining and features a few laughs but once the main plot point has been executed the movie really picks up bruce makes best use of the scenario in all kinds of silly situations from changing his clothes in a waste bin to deciding with the taxi driver in his brain what to eat in a restaurant the humour is mostly of the slapstick variety and anyone who enjoyed evil dead ii which should be anyone who's seen it will no doubt enjoy this too it does feel like campbell is playing to his strengths a little bit too much with this whole project but if you tuned in and didn't see bruce doing what he does best disappointment would ensue besides that no disrespect to the man but he's never been the actor with the greatest range despite being lots of fun the movie isn't great as it gets a little bit too silly at times and there's a whole sub plot with a robot that i didn't like but overall the man with the screaming brain is a film that we sadly don't see too much of nowadays the film is an all out no holds barred b movie and it deserves respect for that if nothing else
1	now the sci fi channel original company has made some pretty crappy films house of the dead 2 all souls day etc but when you leave the job entirely to horror master actor writer and now director bruce campbell you get one of the best damn made for tv independent horror films ever made i normally hate these movies in my previous review house of the dead 2 i could not believe how horrible the film was but somehow i took a liking for this film a very good liking for this film the violence is good and so is the black comedy in the film and i recommend you get it a true bruce campbell masterpiece well since there is only a few more lines left i can say whatever i want about this movie
1	its really been a long time since the last time somebody created a movie such as like this on a so called b movie maybe it was not a great movie but it is fun to watch classic bruce cambell it has its good parts funny ones disgusting ones even artistic ones br br spoiler ahead br br br br the part where his wife as a dummy robot avenger is about to die i don't know about you but it made me feel so weird so sad and disgusted in a good way i compare this scene with the scene form the fly 2 where his dog as a monster dies makes you think oh my god br br br br no more spoilers br br if you are a bruce cambell fan you definitely wanna have this movie in your collection if you are generally interested in movies you might wanna just think that the movies target is to make you smile gross you out don't worry not that bad though and make you have a good time with your buddies attention i said buddies not possible future girlfriend
1	ok well no one in their right mind s would pick up a movie titled the man with the screaming brain and expect it to be serious this is an outrageous b movie and that means a truly hokey plot strange characters clichés over the top action and oh so cheesy one liners for that odd segment of the population including myself that gets a kick out of that kind of thing this is a gem br br the acting is better than expected stacy keach is embedded in his character bruce campbell brings a spirited convincing performance his physical comedy skills are truly impressive in this movie and hearken back to the evil dead films
1	or if you've seen the evil dead trilogy and or bubba ho tep then you should know that his movies are total farces with man with the screaming brain he goes all out again in this case he plays smarmy american businessman william cole visiting bulgaria when do we ever get to see that country when a woman kills him so strange scientist ivan stacy keach replaces half of cole's brain with the brain of a former kgb agent leaving him acting sort of like steve martin in all of me br br yes the whole movie is pretty much an excuse for pure nonsense much of the real humor comes from evil dead director sam raimi's brother ted as nearly brain dead assistant the two men have a relationship more like laurel and hardy or gilligan and the skipper br br so just understand that this is a totally silly movie and you won't be a bit disappointed i liked it anyway
1	an awesome made for the sci fi channel movie which by far surpasses many of the poor previous efforts they've churned out bruce campbell is on superb form as a possible investor who gets caught up in a bizarre experiment led by a delirious professor stacey keach and his half wit assistance ted raimi the film is pure b movie gold and its great to see keach and ram up on screen with bruce and the fact that a lot of the film works purely on bruce's comic slapstick acting is what make it hilarious and makes me ask the question why isn't this guy getting more of his scripts commissioned it indeed a sick world definitely worth a watch
1	man with the screaming brain certainly isn't a perfect movie but i'm pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career slapstick sarcasm cheese action and happy endings campbell is as a writer uneven there are lots of things in the story that don't make a great deal of sense why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other better incarnations the scene in the restaurant where and william battle for control of william's body is straight out of evil dead ii there are however lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue what are you looking at the movie looks like a sci fi channel original probably because it was the acting is actually pretty good i particularly enjoyed tamara as she was ruthless and cunning yes but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored ted raimi handled the standard bumbling assistant role admirably enough and bruce is funny as the arrogant sardonic condescending american jerk now that he's writing his own films you'd think he'd give himself a role that he hasn't been typecast in already man with the screaming brain is a bizarre nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously
1	i'm out of words to describe the beauty of the cranes are flying but i'll try anyway to write about it it's a powerful and delicate love story that takes its place in the second world war it's the classic story of lovers boris veronika separated by the war and of what comes between them the film's images are so gorgeous that you'll be carried away the film technique is in perfect unison with the emotion br br there are few scenes that portray directly the war a bombing wind lightnings explosions that will have important consequences in the life of the main protagonist veronika who waits for the return of boris and there's another scene on the front where we we will be confronted by a emotional visual hurricane showing the images played in boris' mind another scene works as the leitmotif of the film and provides its title the cranes flying in the sky this image stands as a the symbol for nature and its seasons and underlines the final message of the film not to give up hope and fight for a better future br br is a great director this film is visually stunning and it also touched me deeply it is not just pure technique br br is perfect as veronika what more can i say the film transcends the time it was made the action takes place during the second world war but it could have happened anytime anywhere as long there are wars great or small the film and its message will remain relevant
1	some spoilers it took some 19 years for bruce campbell to finally put his masterpiece man with the screaming brain on the screen but campbell had to alter his story by having it due to financial problems take place in sofia bulgaria not where he initially wanted it to be filmed in los angeles california br br in the film campbell plays us pharmaceutical tycoon willian cole who travels together with his spoiled rotten wife jackie antoinette byron to the former communist republic of bulgaria it's there that william wants to help finance almost non existent mass transportation system br br it's poor william's misfortune to get involved with both gypsy woman tamara and her ex boyfriend an ex kgb taxi driver the two william will unwittingly end up their brains inside william's skull because of jealousy and vindictiveness br br after murders both william and their bodies are delivered to mad scientist dr ivan stacy keach by his loyal assistant ted raimi to have their brains experimented with dr has this theory in that two heads are better then one and now with the material william available to him dr at last is finally going to prove it what dr is going to sadly find out is that by fusing the two heads or brains together their brain waves will overlap and cause them to not only malfunction but turn against each other br br william with right lobe fused into his damaged brain is out to find and make her pay for the damage she caused both him and for his part is stuck in william's head who's likes and dislikes in both food and drink are totally opposite to his own this causes a lot of tension and hostility between the two brains in them fighting for control of william's body br br things get even more screwed up when jackie finding out that murdered her husband william confront her in the dangerous and high crime section of call gypsy town and ends up being murdered herself brought back to dr by his assistant it's determined with no body available to plant jackie's brain inside of an experimental robot that been working on the operation is a rousing success but the only drawback is that jackie with her brain inside the robot has to have her brain every few hours or like a real brain lacking oxygen she'll die together with the robot's batteries br br combination 1930's like screw ball comedy and horror flick with both william turning the bulgarian town of upside down in trying to find and make her pay with her life for the sad state of existence she put them both into br br spoiler alert it's dr who in fact saves the day by discovering how to keep the two brains from fighting and thus cooperating with each other this is done by him instead of fusing the brains together dr keep them independent by implanting a cell wall in between the two uncooperative of gray matter
1	normally i do not review online but it's saturday and i'm trapped in my room on a rainy day with nothing to do but watch sci fi movies and xena warrior princess i can't get the damned the song out of my head it's been there for the past ten years or so just pops up randomly when someone me does something idiotic if you have any complaints about this movie and actually post them on the internet do you have any idea how much of an idiot you look like if you expect more out of bruce campbell than what he puts out in the most literal sense than why in g d's holy name do you watch his movies no one watches a bruce campbell movie when they want to see something genius and intelligible we watch them so we feel better about ourselves like those people who watch jerry springer and eat chunky monkey and to be easily entertained by mindless psycho babble i personally love bruce campbell movies i'm not a complete idiot in fact i see myself as an intellectual and a scholar haha shut up ally his movies reflect insane random quirky ridiculous ideals which anyone with a brain screaming or no can enjoy that and he was kind of sexy on xena warrior princess even with the facial hair i rate this movie an excellent 10 just because i can if you can't take simplistic plot schemes if any hot babes in sci fi splendor leather spandex and familiar if not exhausted views of insanity then fer out loud don't watch the movie or any that so much as mention the name bruce campbell oh yeah ted raimi was awesome in this movie way to go ted you did the best with what you had
1	i haven't seen so many people packed outside a theater since star wars episode iii both shows sold out and for good reason the man with the screaming brain was the best movie to see with a crowd full of geeks hey i'm a dork too br br bruce campbell was present and had the whole crowd in stitches the movie was cheesy in the best possible way it may be the funniest movie that bruce has done ted raimi steals the show with his bulgarian hip hop and zany facial expressions he is a laugh riot who knew that ted could rap br br i changed my mind the person who stole the show was actually a robot there is nothing funnier than a robot doing the robot br br as for bruce's performance i take the 5th thanks bruce thanks for being cool thanks for taking the time thanks for all of the fun
1	i saw this last week during bruce campbell's book tour i thought it was amazing almost everything i would expect from a bruce campbell sci fi movie its campy and very funny ted raimi was also hilarious and extremely goofy the plot is wacky an american business man goes to bulgaria and is killed stacy keach plays a mad scientist who saves brings bruce campbell back to life by implanting half of the brain of an ex kgb turned cabbie bruce campbell spends the rest of the film trying to avenge his death and has many internal arguments between himself and the kgb agent the movie has all the great bruce campbell slap stick and humor the movie is somewhat predictable i knew once the wife was killed that she would be sharing a brain with her killer however i didn't go to see this movie because i thought it would have an oscar winning script i went to see it because it was a bruce campbell sci fi movie and i was not disappointed in the least i highly recommend that you go see him on his book tour or wait and watch it on the sci fi channel next month although before the movie he said the sci fi channel did cut some of the movie out to make it tv friendly if you are a fan of bruce i highly recommend it
1	this was a funny movie just having seeing the evil dead trilogy not a week ago and left wanting for more i got as many bruce campbell movies as i could including really bad ones this one is funny without being exceptional but as sure as hell original br br i mean you've got mad scientists superhuman cyborgs half brain freaks gypsies ex kgb cab drivers jealousy murders of passion love romance sex action and what more all with the same 6 actors br br you really have to see it and enjoy it i can't explain it in a text box i guess it is not so much a cult movie as evil dead was but it certainly has that bruce campbell touch i love ted raimi lends a hand tamara looks both beautiful and interesting she has gone a long way from the hooker in friday the 13th and vladimir also shows a lot of promise as an actor although he will probably be cast as secondary character in hollywood movies his entire career br br bottom line funny movie if you liked evil dead you'll like this too
1	ah classic comedy at the point in the movie where brains get messed together a two minute scene with bruce campbell beating himself up partially reminds me of how simplistic movies and ideas can grab you and wrap you into a whole movie br br for years and years bruce campbell knows what kind of movies we want out of him we want to see weird movies like bubba ho tep we want to see cameo roles in sam raimi movies and we want to see 'man with the screaming brain' with the title alone one knows that it's going to border that completely silly type of movie like army of darkness only with more silly and less monsters br br the idea of the movie is simple bruce sees doctor doctor has new idea bruce gets bad things happen to him on way to see doctor coincidentally it's the thing the doctor wanted to show him that saves him hilarity ensues br br with the addition of ted raimi as a weird russian guy and journeyman stacy keach as dr ivan it's funny that does this movie complete funny never a point of scary br br if you like the silly bruce campbell you'll like this then again why would you be watching this if you didn't like bruce campbell
1	this is screamingly funny well except when bruce is in the hospital scene which is a little sad br br ted raimi and stacy keach are both excellent and worth watching br br sure it's not a big budget suit controlled blockbuster but it's everything it promises to be and more and btw the women are wonderful in their parts though i don't know them from other movies i'd welcome seeing them again br br the two brain walking scene is inspired and certainly a showcase for bruce's outstanding physical comedy he is one yummy guy br br thanks bruce for your brain this is your baby
1	okay so i love silly movies if you enjoy silly sci fi movies over the top movies or if you are a fan of mr bruce campbell i would go see this movie this movie is all that i wanted it to be being a fan of over the top movies this fit the bill every time i thought to myself this movie would be the best movie ever if blank would happen then just as i thought it blank would happen it's a wonderful silly 'b' movie if you are a fan of campbell i'd say 'see it' bring your friends laugh at it it's fun it's not classic or anything but if it's on tv some night watch it it has become for me a movie i would file under indulgent movies movies that may not be good but after a hard day of work i could come home and watch this list also includes and kumar go to white castle' of and ' intolerable br br if you feel like a over the top wonderfully slightly bad movie watch this if not go rent bubba ho tep
1	i saw it last night and i was laughing out loud for the whole second half of the movie the whole audience was bruce campbell has made a damn funny movie i don't want to give anything away but when the film turns and gets wacky it gets really wacky just one funny scene after another my hats of to mr campbell and crew for pulling this off on such a tiny budget bruce was there to introduce the film and do a q and a which was a treat a lot of the questions people were asking were pretty lame but bruce would turn it around on them and be all sarcastic he was great anyway loved the film i'll be looking forward to seeing this on dvd later this year b sure to check it out on the sci fi channel this fall i highly recommend this one
1	these are the kinds of movies i loved and still love growing up unlike big budget movies that crate huge plot holes and never acknowledge them this movie takes in all in stride and just makes something you can sit back and enjoy br br there was some film student earlier that complained it wasn't a list material but that is not the point the point of this movie is that no everyone likes huge cgi cliché' filled movies there are a lot of people who like movies that are meant to just entertain you and not get as much money as they can br br besides its also nice to know that good ol' bruce isn't dead yet
1	sick of the current cinema output particularly american cinema i've been making an effort to see the oscar winning foreign films that's when i came across this gem slow to start it picks up nicely once war is declared basically an old fashioned girl waits for boy to return from war story the performances the cinematography make this so very much more why as the young woman didn't become an international star after this is beyond me though she has remained successful in her own country you take the journey with her young defiant impetuous young girl who through the ravages of war becomes a very sober somber woman who keeps a glimmer of hope her final scene is devastating we love her as much as the camera does and the camera work was this the pioneer in hand held camera work it truly adds an immediacy to the story and the beauty of it like when character is running up stairs and next to a fence i am humbled and grateful to see this film
1	shot entirely on location in bulgaria the man with the screaming brain is a hilarious love story between two rich ugly american types and a murderous hotel maid gypsy br br william cole and his wife jackie arrive in bulgaria on a business trip and catch a cab driven by hustler things start to go awry when the maid murders and william and a mad scientist implants a piece of brain in william's head robots eventually become involved as do gypsies with broken fingers head injuries bruce campbell riding a pink vespa with prissy little streamers and all of me style physical comedy by a character at war with a voice in his brain who controls half of his body br br the man with the screaming brain is an incredibly funny film it has the most hilarious tracking shot i have ever seen when bruce campbell's character fresh from the lab and complete with giant forehead scar and blue hospital pajamas runs into a square and scares a crowd of people and a falling down the steps murder scene that had the entire test screening audience screaming laughing the whole thing is a damn riot from beginning to end and i would recommend it to any fan of physical comedy bruce campbell or b movies in general
1	i went to see this movie at a book signing in lexington ky last night after a wonderful night that consisted of a few brief words with mr bruce campbell you have to say it all not just bruce or mr campbell d friends while the books were being signed and a session with our favorite killer the lights dimmed br br so as not to spoil anything i wont go into detail but i loved the movie mr bruce campbell did a wonderful job keeping the classic b movie feel the characters were classic 'b' characters the place was refreshing what movies do you know of that are based in bulgaria and the setting was both near original and fun on top of that the humor that is throughout the movie that kept the audience laughing through much of the movie br br while this movie dosen't have as great of a general appeal to people as some it is a beacon of fun and laughter in a season of as mr bruce campbell put it 'b movies' that are listed as 'a movies' bewitched dukes of hazard charlie and the chocolate factory come on guys
1	i don't know what some people were thinking when they said this movie was bad it was great classic bruce campbell yes it was low budget and the special effect showed this but that is not what you see a bruce movie for you watch it for bruce also ted was excellent i found this movie hilarious and entertaining i still crack up when i recall bruce on that pink moped now i will admit this movie is not for everyone if you don't like b movies you probably won't like this one if you crave big budget effects and actors steer clear but if you like slap stick and off the wall sci fi plots this movie is for you br br hail the king baby
1	i was fortunate enough to catch a midnight screening of this movie tonight i must say i was expecting a horribly cheap movie with bad acting and a mediocre plot i was completely mistaken this movie was not only incredibly entertaining but everything about it i simply loved bruce campbell was as amazing as ever the biggest surprise was none other than ted raimi you know sam's little brother he played the mad doctor's henchman to the greatest extent somewhere between physical comedy and clever dialogue he did nothing but shine but i really cannot ignore the magic that is bruce campbell though i did think that ted raimi stole the show bruce did what he does best on the big screen somewhere between the sketchy nasty american business man and the tragic victim he displayed the same energy that he has always shown to be incredibly attractive to audiences the movie itself was often interrupted by applause from the viewers the crowd was definitely excited with each little turn that the movie took br br this movie may not be oscar material but my goodness it was amazing i would highly recommend this to any bruce campbell fan also anybody that likes campy sci fi movies do yourself a favor and watch this can't wait till this makes it out to dvd br br take it as you want to br br the fed
1	i find this film meretricious tentative lethargic and skillfully a bad choice of entertainment on celluloid but i admire the courage to throw away a script turn the camera on and act a fool i find the performances lighting cinematography sound and whatever film school laws d' martin broke funny speaking from a film directors perspective there is times i just want to drop everything and have fun on the set this film looks like fun when other aspiring film directors ask me advice i just tell them to watch any film by rudy ray moore they always return a puzzled look asking me why not watch the masters woody allen scorsese lucas capra i laugh and include that you always want to know what not to do in cinematic story telling first
1	if you watch this movie you'll be quoting it and referring to it for a long time to come it's been years since i saw dolemite and i still quote it to this day it's a true classic it is so mind numbingly awful that it makes a hilarious view every terrible line of dialogue is totally amazing every wobbly shot a work of art and every punch and kick so woefully executed you won't believe your eyes it's all i can say if i really get into how mesmerizing this movie is i won't be able to stop and i'll go way over the imdb 1000 word limit br br please please watch this movie you'll be in hysterics either 1 10 or 10 10 depending on your sense of humor
1	this movie is funny in more ways than one it's got action it's got humour it's got attitude it's got dolemite's all girl army of kung fu and that's just what the movie offers as a film it's also badly acted by some the mic makes more than one cameo appearance and some punches miss by feet but when you make a movie this cool who's got time to pay attention to those details this movie rocks rent it tonight if you can find it i had to buy it to see it but i don't regret it
1	the best so bad it's good movie ever made rudy ray moore is my personal hero whether dealing with day to day life or pimping ho's down the block i can always look to him for inspiration and guidance when it comes to blaxploitation the man nobody is meaner watch dolemite as he and his army of all female kung fu killers take down mr big and willie green awesome plot huh there are so many one liners that multiple viewings are necessary to improve your vocabulary if you say a couple of lines from dolemite you are instantly cool if you are in the mood for a laugh riot rent this movie also check out the human tornado disco godfather and petey the devil's son in law now can you dig that br br you no business barring insecure rat soup eating '
1	yes this is one of the greats of the black action genre confusing mixture of racist comedy and racist violence at times reaching a disturbing pitch even for a fan of the genre this movie isn't your shaft in the park wonderful bits of rudy ray moore comedy stand up that don't seem funny at least not to a white boy like me but great in context much better than its dissimilar sequel the human tornado
1	anybody interested what black film making was like in the 70's watch this film some the dialog in this film is so funny ie the summary of my submission also watch out for the boom mic to show up in some of the scenes as well as some of the best karate action ever don't take this movie seriously or you will be disappointed go into it with an open mind and step into the world of one the the baddest mutha in the world dolemite editing wise its put together like it was sliced with a razor but once again this film is so much more than what you see in the movie it has influenced the black community in ways you cant understand
1	this is a fantastic film the acting is some of the best i've seen is obviously very beautiful and she automatically draws you into the film with her believable acting the the cinematography was extremely ahead of its time watching it i could see parallels of cinematography used today this is truly a groundbreaking film because of the cinematography and acting the audience can feel the change in tone from beginning to end as the tone in the environment in the movie changes it's a very touching and powerful piece my friend told me it was must see and i definitely agree with her this is one of those films that you watch and never forget everyone should see this intensely moving film this should be put on everyone's movies to see before whatever list
1	the dresser is perhaps the most refined of backstage films the film is brimming with wit and spirit for the most part provided by the energetic character of norman tom although his character is clearly gay and certainly has an attraction for the lead performer albert finney that he assists the film never dwells on it or makes it more than it is br br the gritty style of peter yates that worked so well in bullitt is again on display and gives the film a sense of realism and coherence this is much appreciated in a story that could so easily have become tedious in the end the dresser will bore many people silly but it will truly be a delight to those who love british cinema br br 7 7 out of 10
1	the various law order and csi franchises had better be glad doesn't pass through the lady cops and would all be enthralled and the males be subject to such soul shivering badge melting warp speed kicks wouldn't you just love to see david caruso's horatio and that know it all on csi get hush puppies pulled from their respective asses ice t might start crying and get back on the trail br br low low budget bad but enthusiastic acting and a vision at what nightclubs offered to its patrons funk bands soul singers the last vestiges of old style circuit entertainers that dance troupe james brown wilson pickett otis redding and a host of others came from those clubs to glory while their peers labored on in local or regional stardom rudy ray moore came from that background and the character of is a mix of the bold black who through he shouldn't have went to the joint the swine didn't have a warrant how his middle aged self maintained a loyal stable of kung fu is a mystery only a student of cults can explain but all that is beside the point it's a glorious home movie of a legendary performer that compared to the mirrors of actors ranging from established hollywood to indie film hits its mark a fun dumb movie
1	this movie is all about blaxploitation there is absolutely no plot at all a pimp stops some bad guys with his kung fu to try to get his nightclub back rated r for strong language and a brief sexual situation
1	dolemite may not have been the first black exploitation flick to come along but it certainly is one of the best it is a pivotal film in the black exploitation genre as where it caused a dramatic shift between the films that came before it in contrast to the films that came after it it wasn't necessarily a poignant or moving film about black culture and it's fight to overcome issues like racism or anything as important as that but it was the story of one bad assed dude fighting whitey with his army of hot kung fu mama's it was a guilty pleasure great fun and best to watch it with friends 10 out of 10
1	dolemite is one of the best movies featuring a pimp as a hero who takes down the man meanwhile hooking up with all the finest women that the ghetto has to provide mind you that these women know karate and are fine foxy ladies br br spoiler the end fight scene is pretty crazy with dolemite ripping the heart out of willy green make sure your copy is unrated br br plus there are a cast full of innovative brilliant characters like the hamburger pimp reverend mayor queen bee and others the apparel is great and the sets are full of 70's style there are a few mess ups in the production such as boom mikes accidentally appearing among other things but that adds to the charm and laughs br br i would recommend drinking a 6 pack before and during this movie and keeping squares and the man a far distance away
1	citizen kane the godfather part ii martin's dolemite this is the single greatest piece of celluloid ever created and unleashed upon humanity rudy ray moore in a role that transcends academy awards stars as dolemite the baddest cat in the universe he clearly does not take any jive from no turkey i myself am unfortunately a turkey and proves it with his powers of rapping pimping and karate chopping this is blaxploitation at its absolute finest a shining example of the genre with its low budget continuity errors and hatred for rat soup eating expletive expletive the true godfather of rap not this new ali nonsense moore is something of a juxtaposition of acting technique somehow managing to be the most charismatic awful actor of the 1970's and thats saying something this one is highly recommended folks if not for the one liners alone
1	certainly this film is not for everybody but for anyone with a sense of humor and love of period film buy this immediately where else can you get a run down of fashion a period vocabulary primer karate trained hookers crime a rap about the sinking shoot outs and a co star named queen bee watch for her moving crying scene early on in the wardens office with a filming style a cross between a porno movie dawn of the dead and car wash you cannot go wrong this is one to watch over and over you put the kids to bed
1	of course seeing a few boom mikes doesn't mean anything does it lord rudy ray moore and martin really put this one together didn't they i laughed a lot as often happens in these types of movies but i don't know what i was supposed to laugh at because i laughed at so many other things i am not saying the movie was bad but i will say that a little more editing would have done wonders i am a huge fan of blaxploitation so i don't think that it was horrid but i know that the human tornado was several times better than this i think that those who can make it through this movie might need a colt 45 or two afterward i mean it really helps you to not notice the boom mikes when you watch it again
1	rudy rae moore is getting out of prison and getting revenge often referred to as the godfather of rap he should also be the godfather of great movies the non stop action will keep you on the edge of your seat and will leave you begging for more luckily rudy comes back as dolemite in human tornado so sit back relax and have the rewind button ready because you won't believe your eyes
1	yeah i read david lee roth's autobiography crazy from the heat which by the way is an amazing read and says this was his favorite blacksploitation movie as a kid in fact he says he always imagined himself as a black guy in southern cal mr roth is quoted as saying br br we saw every blacksploitation picture and those movies were a huge influence on me trouble man superfly foxy brown shaft cleopatra jones blacula rudy ray moore doin' his dolemite vibe i saw all of those br br he goes on to say br br dolemite rudy ray moore was one of the originals he was a blue comic doing blue humor like redd foxx did on early party records so he was the most perfect to play a new secret agent his answer was not bonds james bond his answer was dolemite motherf we would wait for that line in all of his movies get whitey would show up in every single movie at least once and we would wait for that too they had the cars they had the shoes they had the guns the haircuts the slang and the scams and we all knew that all those beatific resolves at the end of the movie were white bull he's trying to feed hungry children but he's actually a pimp bull that was designed to make it palatable to our moms and dads so they'd let us go see the picture br br spoken like a true genius so upon reading about dolemite in mr roth's book i immediately bought in on dvd and i really like it yeah it's super low budget and yeah i hate rap but as a fan of tarantino movies i can see many similarities especially some of the 70's fusion funk ala jaco music throughout the film i also love the scene where the two cops him for coke and then one of them snorts a whole bunch of it like he'd done it a thousand times before and says something like aww yeah that's the real mccoy and then he continues to talk and has a little bit of coke still on his lip classic some of the violence is a little over the edge but shocking which i would consider to be a positive quality not as predictable as i assumed it would be definitely going to pick up the human tornado very soon 10 out of 10
1	dolemite is awesome rudy ray moore's kung fu pimp with horrible choreographed action sequences is about as close as you can get to becoming a spoof of a genre without actually being spoof citizen kane this may not be nor les infant au but this is undoubtedly genius in it's own right the production values in this movie are so bad they could qualify as existential special effects the plot drags a little in the middle but the power of such a cheap premise as kung fu hookers is enough to bring all but the film lovers through the infamous ever present boom mike evokes shades of the gloriously incompetent ed wood and never grows unfunny i sometimes wonder if the boom mike was left in on purpose as commentary on the ridiculous aspects of movies in general but i usually get distracted by erotic scenes that lack eroticism to the point of high art everything is this movie is alive and breathing dripping with desperate longing to be simultaneously loved and reviled it works br br 9 out of 10
1	fabulous cinematography from sergei help to make this a stunning piece of work the opening scenes are as if one is through some master photographer's album and as the story begins to unfold we are swept away with both the events depicted and the beautiful look all is well shot but there are several whole sequences that are simply breathtaking difficult to describe without 'spoiling' but suffice to say one is a very intense scene during an air raid and the lady left behind and her lover's brother are at odds as the sirens whine and the windows shatter another superimposes a swirling staircase and a spinning shot of tree tops and even develops into a fantasy sequence soviet film making of the highest order
1	dolemite is a blaxploitation film about well dolemite and his army of kung fu killer women led by queen bee he fights to get his club the total experience back from willie green by utilizing their kung fu abilities and their devotion to him i liked this movie because of the witty dialogue and also the use of rudy ray moore's ability to preach to his brothers in rhyme
1	a blaxploitation classic this movie was terribly influential in rap music for the toasts that rudy ray moore performs toasts are long rhyming stories that are funny and deliver a point and you can see how they would naturally evolve into rap for more on toasts rudy ray moore and why this movie is important go to dolemite com br br which leaves us just to talk about the movie itself this movie packs in a great deal of laugh at the funny outfits and hairstyles bang for the buck as nearly every shot has some sort of outrageous element or dialogue it starts as dolemite is being released from prison in order to find out who framed him and bring him to justice i was unaware that prisons release people so they can prove their own innocence but that's me i'm a neophyte in the prison scene he is helped in this by queen bee who is dolemite's lead prostitute and has been running his brothel while he's been gone she has also put all of his prostitutes through karate school so now he has an army of female karate fighters br br i watched this movie in two parts which is usually a mistake but in this case it provided an interesting contrast the first part i watched on my lunch break while exercising and wasn't enjoying it much at all it struck me as particularly poorly made blaxploitation with a ludicrous story shoddy i guess that makes it sound like it had some tons of outrageous locales outfits and dialogue but i wasn't enjoying fact it kind of made me feel dirty let's face it a white guy watching something like this to laugh at the outfits and the things the characters say is essentially getting an enjoyment out of it that is racist how ridiculously those black people dress what silly things they say i wasn't really enjoying it wasn't laughing and wasn't looking forward to watching the rest br br later that night when i was in a much more relaxed state i watched the legitimately loved it like disco godfather which i had watched a few days previously this has a warmth and sweetness at its core that makes it likable even when it's silly or violent the character of dolemite has an element of self parody about him that makes the whole thing fun and the appearance of several actors who were also in disco godfather implies that we're watching the group effort of a bunch of friends who just want to make something fun together even the poor dubbing karate fights and everything else just makes it that much more charming br br what i find interesting about the dolemite films is that they have some moral ambiguity i don't see in other blaxploitation films and certainly in very few mainstream films in this one there is an african american woman who gives a speech about the white mayor saying he has done more for the black community than anyone we later find out that the mayor is surprise corrupt but i like that the movie would present this woman as essentially misguided and not try to redeem her in some other way there's also the figure of the hamburger pimp who is presented as a useless junkie and no one makes an effort to find some redeeming socially positive angle to what he is he just is in disco godfather the religious character lady reed plays is presented as just nuts for wanting to pray for her child hopelessly lost to angel dust i like that the films would present such harshly critical portrayals of people in their own community without sugar coating or trying to redeem them to make them more palatable br br there are a lot of elements such as when dolemite says move over and let me pass or i'm gonna be pulling these hush puppies out your a there is queen bee reaching over and answering the phone dolemite's total experience and you will not be able to miss though you may wish to cover your eyes the extended nude scene by the repulsive mayor i am all for mustachioed pervy older men but even i have and my limits are usually a few miles past most people's so be warned the dvd i had is clearly edited which is noticeable in certain of the dialogue scenes and at the end when dolemite's killing of a major character with his bare hands obviously excludes the main event br br if you do get the dvd however be sure to watch all three trailers for the dolemite films as they are a hoot i wasn't going to watch the human tornado but after seeing that trailer you'd better believe that i am also there is a scene in the dolemite trailer that i don't remember from the movie when dolemite swings at a mexican looking thug obviously misses and the guy flips himself into a nearby car trunk br br after watching the first half i was going to say to skip this and watch disco godfather as the film making and story has marginally improved but after really enjoying the second half i would advise watching this one over disco godfather as this one is even more fun outrageous and good has those toasts which even if one doesn't understand the roots and nuances of the form are still something to see br br check out other reviews on my website of 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1	being a bit of a connoisseur of garbage i have stumbled across this little treasure action romance crooked cops violence its all here and not a single one has been pulled of right i was in love immediately then a funny thing happened about the second time around i became addicted i thought it was going to be a one rent and chuckle kind of movie br br rudy ray moore knew what he wanted to see in a movie he didn't have the money to make it look good but he did it anyway that's very commendable it also shows he was making the movie for his self i don't know how many of you have heard rudy ray's music but if you haven't he has a whole slew of albums reaching into the fifties
1	dolemite is for me an object of my deepest affection it's got everything a gang of karate fighting prostitutes dolemite punching his fist through willie green's director martin stomach high pumps and 100 gallon dalmation print hats moore's unique comedy raps actually toasts are close to the roots of hip hop no wonder dr dre mentioned dolemite 3 times on his classic album the chronic add the best list of characters to ever grace a movie like the horny preacher the hamburger pimp and of course the one who no one knows until it's time credit should be given for style to director martin a fella who doesn't get as much attention as he should around film fan circles i've been looking for a copy of his and fred movies from the early 70s for years and can't find them br br a lot of people are really down on this movie and say it's really bad and it is true that you can see boom mikes appearing everywhere look to dp nicholas josef von sternberg for whom i think this was a very early effort there are a lot of things going for this movie number one there is no other movie like it number two you get to see rudy ray moore do a highly sanitized everyone who hasn't seen moore's outrageous live act will have to use their imaginations cinematic version of his toasts plus him living the life of his comic book character come to life the action scenes are pretty poor but the characters' dialogue when they're talking trash more than makes up for it it's full of strange little details like the fact that the hamburger pimp is wearing a dolemite t shirt inside out was this intentional or did the guy just pick up whatever shirt was lying on the set and put it on that keep you coming back to watch it again and again br br at least i have br br
1	1975 is a cult classic starring rudy ray moore as the pimp superhero out to wrong rights whilst challenging the man along the way he has two enemies that no good willie green and the sleazy mayor watch dolemite kick punch slap and pimp his way across the screen what's the man's name dolemite br br interesting film that paved the way for a generation of rappers and performers to sell more of his party albums rudy ray moore made several on the cheap films during the seventies self produced and marketed he catered towards a specific audience some people call it blacksploitation others call it trash i call it entertaining dolemite was followed by the semi sequel the human tornado and a direct to video return of dolemite 25 years later br br highly recommended a definite cult classic br br footnotes if the film was properly matted on video you wouldn't see the boom mikes dolemite was cut to receive an r rating
1	what a trip down memory lane br br do not look for great acting believable plot lines or anything resembling a quality movie br br this is pure blaxploitation at it's finest outrageous outfits dialog objectification of women and the sleaziest cops you can imagine br br this vanity piece by the godfather of rap rudy ray moore who left us for good last week is the standard by which all blaxploitation is measured br br you not only see blaxploitation at it's finest but get glimpses of his comedy genius and see why his records were kept under the counter
1	this is definitely one of the ultimate cult classics and is a must see for all psychotronic fans why it has everything a great 70s exploitation film should have over the top dialog bad acting enthusiasm sex sleaze political incorrectness violence and many other elements of a good cult classic are included in other words dolemite is a must see br br as with a lot of these films the plot makes little to no sense what i picked up from it is that pimp hustler dolemite got framed up for having stolen furs and half a million dollars worth of narcotics while he was doing time his arch nemesis willie green the same man who framed him took over his nightclub however the sympathetic warden the only white character in the whole movie that isn't completely evil or incompetent decides to spring him free to stop the evil willie green and his drug trafficking luckily he knows kung fu as does about 50 to 75 of the characters in this film do and even more luckily while he was locked up the madam queen bee sent all his to kung fu school with this army of kung fu fighting his words not mine on his side he plans to take back the nightclub from willie green however two racist white cops try to frame him up again and have him thrown back in jail br br as i said earlier don't try to follow the plot i've seen this movie about five times and there are many elements that seem to have no connections to anything else supporting characters wander in and out of the film i'm still attempting to figure out what was up with reverend gibbs the mayor and the hamburger pimp who cares ultimately the scenes with these characters are all priceless as for the dialog its horrible with even worse delivery since rudy ray moore was originally a comedian i begin to wonder if this film was meant to be a spoof or a serious action film it seems he couldn't decide which one lines such as yeah i'm so bad i kick my own ass twice a day call for further investigation either way the film is hilarious and the plot has more holes than a swiss cheese factory another hilarious element is some of the most unerotic uses of sex and nudity ever in film actors that you would never want to see naked get naked including the mayor and queen bee not to mention the fact that the boom mic seems to show up in every other scene br br most of all moore shows incredible enthusiasm he seems to be having a generally good time and is certainly charismatic his comedy raps proved to be a huge influence on latter day gangsta rap including dr dre who sampled him on his groundbreaking 1992 album the chronic as technically inept as the film is it is culturally influential even more important it is an all around good time the biggest crime an exploitation film can commit is being boring and this for all its flaws is quickly paced and entertaining in other words if you dig this kind of film you'll love dolemite if you don't dig it you're a no business born insecure jock jawed f a 7 10
1	i saw this movie on tv and loved it i am a real disaster film fan and this one was great the cast was made of some really interesting people connie is always great and william devane is in a league of his own he can play both comedy and thriller in the same movie like few others can the story line is great too the thought of being able to follow a time line of what will happen and to use this time line to prevent a global disaster is an interesting idea and this movie brings it out in such a way that is almost totally believable
1	well made documentary about a sailing race sanity and the loss of both br br i remembered reading sir francis account of his trip around the world when i was in high school as i watched this film what an adventure that was br br deep water tells an equally fascinating story br br it takes a special person and an excellent sailor to manage a non stop trip around the world alone br br this film does a great job of demonstrating that br br i love to sail and my brother races j 30s br br but i could never accomplish such a feat
1	this is an excellent documentary about a story i hadn't heard about before the first solo non stop sailing race around the world took place in 1968 69 and involved a handful of racers it's a truly fascinating story about man vs nature and man vs himself the story focuses on donald the tragic figure in this story the film elegantly combines interviews with footage which was shot by the sailors themselves aboard their boats the story is very suspenseful and sad as we learn the details behind the history of donald this is one of the best documentaries of the past few years it has true human emotion in it as the men face this almost impossible task of navigating the world non stop on their own
1	director mikhail film the cranes are flying is a glorious piece of cinema from the screenplay by viktor based on his own play shows us a vision of the heroism of war and the suffering by those left at home inundated with countless war movies showing us the and the carnage the topic itself becomes tedious and avoidable however this russian gem shows how the tale of hardship can be told in a different way by telling us straight from a soldier's mouth how war is hated by all that they hope those who died did so for a cause that will allow for peace and the end of fighting we see a new vision of wwii we have young men volunteering to wage war for peace to keep their families and loved ones safe at home rather than draftees fighting a battle they don't believe in with so much hatred towards our current situation in the middle east and how people are dying for no reason against their will it's nice to see a film that shows just how selfless and heroic these soldiers are as well as those awaiting their return br br communist russia shows how involved all were in the war while boris may have volunteered to go to the his father is head doctor of a hospital aiding in the of soldiers injured and his sister is helping him there as well as his girl veronika doing all she can to keep her mind off the fact that no letter has arrived from her love an entire city comes out to send the boys off in celebration even the factory that boris and his friend work for send representatives over with gifts of gratitude whether this is all a glorified look into russia at the outset of wwii or not i don't know there are no protests or badmouthing of these boys risking their lives for a country it is all praise and thanks some in america could learn a lesson from this because whether you agree with the war at hand or not protesting and wreaking havoc in its name only sullies what these men and women are sacrificing each and everyday br br the acting is top notch throughout but some deserve singling out i really enjoyed in a small role as boris' grandmother she is the one family member he can trust and her sadness at his leaving is very evident on her face and through her body language as the patriarch fyodor brings what is perhaps the best performance as spoken at the end about fathers needing to choke back hidden tears epitomizes those sentiments he puts on a tough exterior especially cracking jokes and riding his son hard when he finds out about his volunteering just hours before he must leave but when boris exits to go to the assembly station we see the true pain of the man seated in sorrow at the table he loves his son dearly and although he may not be able to show it to him his actions throughout the film express it to the audience is effective as boris a happy go lucky young man and idealist doing what he believes is right and aleksandr is good as the villainous mark staying home due to his talented piano skills or maybe just to steal his cousin's love that love played by really draws the audience in to her grief and slim glimmer of hope the true star of the film she must go through many emotions on a journey where she does lose her way needing to steer back on course hoping that she did so soon enough for boris' return br br besides the realism to the story as well as being unafraid to use tragedy to get the theme across i also loved the visual style of the film sergei cinematography is amazing especially when considering the movie was shot in fullscreen it is one thing to create stunning compositions in a widescreen panorama it is completely different to do so in a square frame right from the beginning we get a beautiful static shot of a winding along water a bridge in the background at the top as our two lovers skip their way up the screen and into the distance there are multiple instances of the camera being behind barriers yet still allowing for the action to be seen creating unique spatial depth and interest at all times sharp angles are utilized as well as careful blocking to allow for overhead shots and exaggerated juxtapositions of characters in frame together br br the real feats however are those instances of the long shot used well towards the end to follow veronika through the mass of returning soldiers it is magnificent earlier on as she roams through those saying goodbye to their loved ones while she searches for boris her own farewell needing to be said the planning for this shot must have been extensive because while she weaves in and out of people the camera focuses on couples kisses people yelling to one another and more all purposely in frame at specific moments while the camera moves through everyone needed to hit his mark precisely and it leads to a brilliant piece of cinema it's just one part of an overall masterpiece of tone and style the cranes are flying shows how successful placement and mise en can be in showing the audience what it needs in as simple a way as possible composition and professionalism from the actors and crew can work wonders adding something that huge setpieces and special effects can never do
1	filmmakers made a rather boring everyman's story look interesting and complex by focusing on his wife back at home at the same time we're exposed to a truly original existential french loner br br the film is more than a documentary hardly ever do i feel that i've experienced something that's accidentally profound which makes it all the more profound br br film has visually interesting interior moments absolutely loved the journey the filmmakers took me on quite a lot of europeans in the credits hopefully pbs will screen this so that it reaches a wider audience in the usa
1	even if you do not typically enjoy documentaries odds are you will find this one fascinating not only does it have a well mapped out plot that while easy to follow contains its interesting detours it also has a very strong emotional resonance and not one that relies on a simple specific tone instead the emotions here are as profound and turbulent as the seas featured br br that being said if you know nothing of donald and the 1968 single boat race around the world as was the case for me please stop reading and rent view this film br br spoilers follow br br my friend brian recommended this at the same time that my aunt had sent me a clipping linking this film with antonioni's work in 2007 i was mesmerized by several of antonioni's films still am to connect this film to antonioni i think is a bit of a stretch the character most likely to be seen in one of movies is francoise de it's funny on the main imdb page he isn't even listed as playing himself which is probably a function of his lengthy name as opposed to his self realization since sails right out of the race that could be considered is a bit like anna in l'avventura quite a major minor character br br while there are many things to love about this film the actual footage from the time the stoic best friend the sheer power of the roaring forties i walked away with a simple connection a man truly at sea there have been times in my life where i wonder how i got to such a point caught between dreams and reality feeling like a stowaway in my own skin it may be that i'm reading too much into this documentary and that in turn the directors read too much into but i found that sense as spell binding as the other secrets kept in this film br br on the odd chance that wife who seemed a remarkable study in restraint with understandably conflicted overtones and his children so young in the found footage and still young at this late date in the sense of their pain and pride for their father i am certain the comments here and the film itself fail to catch the man that your father was in his death however he has given the world a glimpse of something like a lost myth he is a pre gps odysseus never finding his body adds to the air of frail immortality if not the stature of a cosmic being of which he had writ br br this film sticks with you after the viewing as if you expect another twist to emerge from the deep waters or at the very least you hope for the sequel br br hunger 8 10
1	have you ever found yourself watching a film or documentary and having to hold yourself back from screaming things like no don't do it no well it's time you do and undoubtedly deep water is the one to get you started br br the story is based on that of donald and his entry into the first round the world yacht race to be undertaken by individuals in 1968 that word individuals is important as the men who set off on this nearly suicidal escapade head out alone br br most of the men are well knowns in the sea faring communities of england where they launch from but one of them is the unknown dark horse and his name was donald struggling financially enlists a backer who can take everything from him should he fail to at least attempt to make it through a large portion of the race he could take his home his property everything br br now finds himself between a rock and well deep water either attempt the race with an unproven ship and an unproven captain or lose everything you own which was significant since had a wife and several children you'll note the term unproven captain in there too not only was he unproven he'd never been out on the open sea did i mention suicidal flicking between archival footage of the pre and post race and those of friends family and acquaintances of today deep water is put together masterfully initially seen as a poor sap who got in over his head the film gradually shows you the limited choices had after months and months out on the water his ship leaks equipment breaks psyche stretched to the breaking point and beyond finds himself lost in an internal struggle with no successful way out it is interesting too to see the psychological breaks that other racers have as they deal with their solitary confinement on board their respective boats br br the wave like emotions that you'll feel as you watch this astounding documentary may make you a bit ill not unlike trying to get your sea legs and you'll probably be frustrated at the choices being made perhaps just as frustrated as poor mr br br the ending is also amazing in that we get to see the actual ship that sailed sitting deserted and rotting on a caribbean beach not unlike other things that felt deserted and rotting toward the end of this poorly thought out race br br incredible
1	if extreme activities and i don't mean the hollywood ones like x games and the people who pursue them interest you then seek this doc out br br this is one of those truth is stranger than fiction tales of donald obsession to prove himself against great odds those odds were stacked by mother nature the media and his own mind it is also about a time lost to us although it was only 40 years ago br br the filmmakers have done a great job in gathering a wide range of material to tell his story and the story of the great race that consumed him br br i couldn't help but to think about timothy and the apollo astronauts in the 2 great docs grizzly man and in the shadow of the moon while experiencing you don't simply watch this story br br if you live in a big city buy it or rent it it is worth the effort to find i had to travel 100 miles to l a to buy it and i am glad i did
1	deep water 2006 br br it is indifferent it's there waiting for you to make one slip up those words paraphrased are perhaps the best sum up of the nature of the ocean i have ever heard muttered its furies are boundless not least of which her loneliness those words come from the mesmerizing and heartbreaking documentary deep water it is the story of donald an amateur sailor who partook in the 1969 sunday times race around the world if you do not know his story it may be best to stop reading now don't read this or any other information on or the race find the film and just watch it br br after the first solo of the ocean in 1967 adventurers and watchers of adventurers began seeking the next one up this time the journey would have to be done without making landfall or stopping along the way having fallen on hard times saw the race as a great chance to get his family back on their feet he had lived through financial hardships as a child and wanted part in going back to such a life so he set out to find sponsors and soon did in stanley best and rodney the two men spelled the potential cash cow and granted a boat on the condition that if he should pull out of the race he would be forced himself to pay the expenses his boat however was in serious need of repairs and he feared it would not be ready in time for the final departure day he was informed however by his that he simply must go – after all they up the dough and expected it back many a time over br br the details of the story are infamous boat began taking on water and his progress slowed to a crawl faced with the decision of trying to round the horn of africa certain death in such a boat or turn back financial devastation and he searched for a third option he chose to hide out alone on his yacht waiting for other competitors to round cape horn in south america from there he would rejoin the race he reported false positions and record breaking speeds then he stopped all communication for fear that his position would be given away he also had to painstakingly construct fake log books for each day of a journey he did not take eventually the loneliness the guilt and the realization that he would likely be caught weighed too heavy on his final log entries make the musings of a kurtz seem entirely sane only a few weeks from home he turned his boat away from home and is reported to have jumped overboard soon thereafter br br odyssey is a fascinating one and its ending is heartbreaking but strikes of inevitability our dreams so often turn into fears and the consequences of our actions often leave us so few options for a happy ending it is a story of a descent into madness teased on by the infinite abyss of the cruel seas the filmmakers do a wonderful job in telling this story it's put together with chilling audio and video recordings done by and narrations of his ever increasingly maddening log notes the story starts slowly and may distract some viewers but the rewards of the story are entirely worthwhile as it progresses br br there are also inquiries into some of the other competitors such as frenchman bernard who was on par to likely win the speed competition only to pull out and begin a second trip around the world also in the film is robin knox johnston who was the winner of the competition he donated his prize money to the family br br to read briefly on the saga simply does not do justice it's interesting of course but a quick browse bypasses the raw emotions and oddness presented here the final moments of deep water are genuinely heart breaking hearing the thoughts of his widowed family and the adoration and understanding of his friends this is a fascinating story and it is that which carries the documentary into such great channels
1	this is a story about a journey made by a man who once had a dream and guts donald was an english businessman and amateur sailor who competed in the sunday times golden globe race a single handed round the world yacht race br br i was very intrigued by the story after listening to a radio interview from the producer john who is also the producer of touching the void one of the first documentaries that made a commercial success in 2003 i had gone to the cinema with great hope and not much previous knowledge on the historic event and i'm relieved that it didn't let me down for 92 minutes i was led through a haunting story and came out with much to think about br br without any reenactment this film made great use of the limited audio and video archive footage they found and turned it into a compelling story which allowed the audience to understand from a personal level the story unveiled itself as people who had direct links to the events including his wife and his son and the eventual winner also the only one who made it back out of the 9 competitors robin knox johnston gave their own accounts of what happened almost 40 years ago br br logs journals that he kept during the days at sea are so haunting that it made it much easier for me to come to understand what being in total isolation can do to a man while body was never found the other competitor nigel whose yacht sank just weeks before claiming the prize for fastest passage committed suicide three years later after unsuccessful attempts at properly completing a br br everything could take its toll especially the sea br br the director louise osmond was also at the q a session after the showing together with producer john i had no idea that it's a female director and that just came as a very nice surprise the film is getting a limited release in the uk a couple of days in certain cinemas catch it in cinema while you can unless you have a state of the art sound system that can recreate the sound of the bashing southern ocean then i'm sure they'll soon have it on dvds too
1	ideas are dangerous comment by one interviewee br br dvd rating b 4 out of 5 8 out of 10 worth the time br br a great story for adults or teen boaters but not for children none of the stupid violent crime stuff so often mistaken by hollywood these days as quality work and it can be used as a trainer film on what proper boating preparation is all about or not about prior to sailing the seven seas the movie starts out somewhat slowly to develop the story as most documentaries do but as it draws the viewer into the saga emotions begin to in one's head emotions include anger sadness and disbelief the era late 1960's br br that solo sailing around the globe is dangerous is not surprising what is surprising is all the twists that viewers wouldn't expect its not your average group of guys in a sailing race each boat was different as allowed by the race rules each solo sailor had different levels of ability as allowed by the race rules there were well known sailors among them and a few not so well known one was considered a mystery man as nobody seemed to have any knowledge of his ability at all each boat was allowed to depart at will so long as all were underway by a certain date and this was of course prior to modern electronics that allow boaters to communicate with shore about vicious storms etc br br actual video and audio recordings are interspersed with interviews of family members and others involved the mood of the interviewees is always somber despite the years that have passed br br the main character don is the focus of attention how his journey relates to those who he not only wanted to beat but due to circumstances of his own creation had to beat he had to win the story was about what that circumstance did to his life as he moved south west across the atlantic ocean over a years time alone on the water br br do not fail to view the special features section of the dvd once the film is finished the entire saga isn't fully understood w o viewing the 'bonus' stuff br br in the end once you've watched everything on the dvd you will likely just shake your head and exclaim 'wow ' and keep in mind that is why the story has remained alive for the last 40 years br br spoiler do not fail to view the special features section of the dvd once the film is finished one sailor who was headed back to england after the globe decided on the fly that no he was going for another spin and the film records his spouse's opinions about that decision the opposite story unfolds as another sailor wishes the race allowed two on board so he could take his wife along and their photos demonstrate a very warm union between them the interview with an ex paratrooper who had actually rowed a boat across the atlantic with a friend prior to the solo sail race was incredibly funny as he described not even knowing how to sail and who thought the bad things happening to him were 'normal ' too many people think that setting sail in the open sea can be an romantic adventure without mishap don't you be one
1	note this should probably be read only after watching the film br br it is very rare to find a documentary or movie that focuses on the loser deep water does just this making it one of the most thought provoking films in a very long time it does not provide us with a hero to look up to but rather an anti hero who forces us to look into ourselves br br the film is about a group of men who attempt to sail around the globe singlehandedly and without stopping only one makes it several die one decides not to return home each of them on a psychological journey intriguing enough to merit entire films for themselves yet the most interesting is donald or rather the way that he is portrayed by the filmmakers and our reactions to him as viewers br br by any standards this man should be considered a despicable character yet why is he depicted so heroically why are we so sympathetic to him from the beginning he made all of the wrong choices he risked his family financially to get the boat he left at a more dangerous time to get more publicity he ignored all of the warnings despite his lack of experience he chose to lie instead of admitting defeat these choices snowball until the inevitable and final one suicide all for what a place in history a feeling of accomplishment perhaps what is important to consider is whether this mans situation was inevitable br br each individual must ask himself if his natural human drive for fame and accomplishment would bring him to such recklessness and i believe that examining your own reaction to story will offer at least some answer to that question
1	i happened upon this by chance i was at my friends house and he had just started watching it so i sat down thinking we would shoot the breeze whilst this was playing in the background however within seconds i was immersed in this docu drama and we both spent the rest of the time completely focused on this and not saying a word to each other br br i never knew the tale of the the first solo around the world yacht race let alone the tragic events of one man's attempt against the odds which set out to be his redemption for all of his misfortunes in life but ultimately ends up becoming an example of them having not known of the story i did watch this with the same fervor as i imagine those who were reading about the race at the time it actually was happening engulfed in what was taking place and eager for more information hoping the lone amateur was going to pull it off against the odds and beat the pro's which makes the shocking twists of the story all the more tragic i felt like i was living the story br br the story is told with great care and the interviewees have clearly had time to reflect on the tragedy which gives great insights but is also contrasted nicely by the archive footage of interviews at the time of the tragedy the recordings and photographs of the lone sailors is also excellently used and the insights into the minds of the sailors and how solitude was affecting them was superb br br i'm shocked that this story isn't more widely known or has been turned into a movie but also thankful thankful that we have this drama documentary to tell the tale from those who knew the man instead of some wishy washy movie adaptation and thankful that i caught this gem of a film by pure chance br br it's a must see whether you like documentaries or not
1	i remember the events of this movie the ill fated cruise of donald in 1968 in the golden globe single handed around the world yacht race i was a 13 year old living in england the previous year francis later sir francis he was knighted for his exploits had completed the first solo of the globe i remember it mostly because we were given time off school to watch his return on a grainy black and white tv and then his by the queen it provoked a huge outpouring of patriotic fervor in the uk it all seems so quaint now became a national hero but he had stopped half way in australia to re fit his yacht so the next logical step for was to attempt the journey without stopping br br it's important to remember that this was a world pre gps when communications on land were still pretty erratic never mind in the middle of the ocean now with gps that fit on a key chain and calculate a position within a anywhere on earth it's hard to recall a time when you could go to sea and quite literally vanish as donald did br br a number of signed up all men back then including mystery man essentially a weekend sailor had not been a spectacular success in any previous enterprise including careers in the british army the air force and as an electronics entrepreneur selling navigation aids he wanted to do something big with his life and he saw the five thousand pound first prize well over 100 000 in today's money and the ensuing publicity as a means of kick starting his business he signed a deal with a sponsor that proved more watertight than his boat and which meant failure would bankrupt him and soon found himself a popular figure with journalists as he prepared for the race now the brits always love the idea of the gutsy amateur taking on the think eddie the eagle losing endless olympic ski jump competitions and the amateur riders who regularly start the grand national horse race the public up to see him set off but his boat wasn't really ready and even as he started the last competitor to leave the uk must have known he didn't seriously have a chance but too much was riding on him to quit br br in the wonderful archive footage we see doubt written all over his poor wife's face left behind with their 4 children she is interviewed movingly throughout the film together with one of sons she was in a no win situation had she attempted to stop him she would have been considered a spoiler but afterward she was with doubt as to whether she could have saved his life by stopping him faced with the certain truth that his boat was leaking and would never make it through the southern oceans and unable to turn around and face ridicule bankruptcy and ignominy devised a plan to cheat laid up offshore argentina and brazil out of radio contact he waited for the leaders to round cape horn and start back up the atlantic thinking he could sneak in at the end of the line and pretend he had sailed all the way around the globe he elaborately his logs and made 16mm films and audio recordings to back up his plan but as one after another the other competitors dropped out he realized that in fact he would come in 2nd and his logs would be scrutinized unable to face certain detection his journal suggests he lost his grip on reality and eventually committed suicide his yacht was found he never was br br this beautifully edited film also follows the journey of bernard an experienced and enigmatic french sailor who was in second place and certain of the fastest journey prize when he abruptly left the race unable to deal with the clamour and publicity he knew he would face and sailed into the wide blue yonder eventually pulling up some 10 months later in tahiti having spent some seven years working at sea myself albeit on very different ships to these i well understand the pull of the ocean standing on deck seeing water in every direction to the horizon knowing there's a couple of miles of water below you nothing between you and oblivion but a thin metal hull without easy access to tv or radio even nowadays on most working ships you feel pretty isolated it's possible to truly escape from the responsibilities of everyday life for a while there is some thoughtful analysis of what drives people to attempt this kind of very long lonely journey and the effect it has on the human mind most people would think that attempting to raise 4 children is adventure enough but much is made of the need for self discovery in the hardships at sea the search for self br br i strongly suspect that robin knox johnston the ex navy guy who won the race and many since probably knew pretty well who he was before he set off which was why he succeeded not just in winning the race but also retaining his sanity en route those who went searching for something profound within themselves may not have entirely liked what they found br br the marvelous archive footage of britain in the late 60s is almost reason enough to watch this did it really look quite that bad i don't remember it looking quite so dowdy but perhaps we blot out the worst aspects of the past but overall it is an excellently well made and engrossing movie highly recommended
1	mikhail the cranes are flying is a superb film winner of the golden palm at cannes film festival it has an excellent cinematography and performance by the only russian actor ever to win an award in cannes for a performance she plays veronika a teenager in love with her boyfriend happy and without preoccupations with plans of getting married her life will get upside down when world war ii strikes and her boyfriend volunteers to the army the film depicts the effect of war on a teenager love and on the people that stayed and saw their loved ones go and fight waiting for a letter or other information it is a portrayal of lost innocence does a magnificent job and her character transformation will break your heart the camera movement is fast with a lot of close ups it is a dancing camera the first scene in the stairs is fantastic but it isn't the only one there is later a scene when veronika attempts committing suicide and another in my opinion one of the most powerful scenes in movie history the bombing of house when she runs the stairs in the middle of fire to find her apartment completely destroyed simply great 10 out of 10
1	this is a gem as a film four production the anticipated quality was indeed delivered shot with great style that reminded me some errol morris films well arranged and simply gripping it's long yet horrifying to the point it's excruciating we know something bad happened one can guess by the lack of participation of a person in the interviews but we are compelled to see it a bit like a car accident in slow motion the story spans most conceivable aspects and unlike some documentaries did not try and refrain from showing the grimmer sides of the stories as also dealing with the guilt of the people don left behind him wondering why they didn't stop him in time it took me a few hours to get out of the melancholy that gripped me after seeing this very well made documentary
1	deep water examines the pressures and ambitions on an ordinary man in a compelling documentary the testimony and archive footage are a fascinating insight to the late 1960's and a ground breaking round the world yacht race the personal conflicts of duty to family self and reputation are played out in one of the most memorable and affecting films i have seen i was not familiar with the history of this story and the drama was successfully and clearly directed the story is mostly respectful to the participants with heroes and villains implied rather than ruthlessly exposed most of the interpretation is left open to the viewer allowing room to personally relate to the situations and characters this movie is a bitter sweet experience with an entertaining mix of thoughtful suspense joy and drama
1	this is an account of events that have been covered in print several times and i had read two books 'a voyage for and 'the strange last voyage of donald before seeing the film in sheffield just before christmas i must say it exceeded all expectations in its telling of the 1968 sunday times golden globe yacht race these men set out to do something that had never been done before with no support vessels wooden boats no satellite phones no gps and just their wits and skill to get them round the globe in one piece not to mention the months of solitude the thundering southern ocean little sleep and boats that were often literally falling apart around them br br this documentary is excellently put together in my opinion tightly edited well paced with superb narration the archive footage and the interviews are fascinating and bring the story to life clare interview footage is especially revealing and moving as she relates the events that led up to her husband donald departure from the doubts and fears in his mind and her reaction as subsequent events unfolded br br i was moved and had even shed a tear or two by the time the credits started rolling and overheard other people expressing similar feelings br br the two books i mentioned above are useful for more detail and back story which couldn't have been fitted into the 90 minutes and i would recommend those too br br this is ultimately a true story of human courage and human frailty a must see for anyone interested in sailing adventure human endeavour and real life heroes
1	1931 also presented an american tragedy the original tale of who will he take up with poor girl or rich girl this was a truly entertaining film babs stanwyck was a pretty as she could be ditto sally blane monroe unmemorably played husband i had never heard of him but i thought he bore a good physical resemblance to bing crosby of the big broadcast even a receding hairline and ears ricardo cortez the rich playboy with a heart of gold a true movie pioneer going back the dilemma is resolved at the end to the strains of the title and i believe annette had the hit recording although the off screen voice did very well i also enjoyed the dance hall scenes i'm sure they were authentic the band a leading one of the time was superb good job lionel barrymore
1	one of the last films directed by lionel barrymore ten cents a dance stars barbara stanwyck as the dance hall girl barbara in her sixth role stanwyck looks quite plain jane in this one and opens with her getting chewed out by the dance hall manager then along comes rich guy bradley carlton ricardo cortez who wants to sweep her off her feet cortez and stanwyck had made three films together in the 1930s then she meets eddie who's very different from the dashing carlton the writer jo swerling had worked on some biggies its a wonderful life guys and dolls and gone with the wind so i was surprised that the characters and script in this were so ordinary the story starts getting more interesting about halfway thru and is very similar to the bride walks out from 1936 also starring stanwyck t b w o is much more clever but also more tame due to on of the hays code
1	this is one of barbara stanwyck's earlier films and it sure does have an unconventional theme she's making money by dancing with men at a dance hall she really doesn't like the work but it's a living her boyfriend seems like a pretty nice guy but she's also pursued by rich guy ricardo cortez well after marrying it turns out her nice guy is a thieving womanizing weasel and rich cortez turns out to be a heck of a guy by the end of the film barbara simply has had enough as any sane woman would walk from this horrid marriage br br in the 1920s and early 30s hollywood did pretty much anything it wanted and some of their films had themes or scenes that would surprise many today such as nudity adultery and bad language while ten cents a dance isn't a blatant example of this morality it does have a theme that never would have been allowed after the toughened production code was created and enforced starting in 1934 in some ways the code was great after all parents didn't need to worry about what their kids saw in films such as nudity in ben hur 1925 however it also tended to sanitize some of the movies far too much and there is no way this particular film could have been made and approved because it tends to glorify divorce a serious no no 1934 and thereafter this is really a shame as i don't think ten cents a dance was bad at all to discuss this especially since the star barbara stanwyck was married to a philandering thief even so allowing the film to end with her divorcing him and marrying a man who himself was twice divorced just couldn't have been br br overall the film is interesting and thought provoking plus it was well paced and suited its relatively short run time give this one a look br br fyi sadly ricardo cortez was actually not hispanic but changed his name because of possible prejudice because he was jewish he was an excellent leading man of his time but today is all but forgotten
1	this relic from before the days of the production code and the hays office is good fun not great but entertaining br br based on a song by rogers hart that was an enormous hit at the time the story revolves around dance hall girl barbara stanwyck who is romanced by wealthy businessman ricardo cortez who was indecently handsome but whose heart belongs to her bookish neighbor monroe she and marry but keep it a secret while she dismisses cortez who still holds out hope she helps hubby get a job in cortez's company but married bliss quickly turns sour as develops a taste for the high life and steps out with a college sweetheart and gambles in high stakes bridge yup i know it's pretty funny finally he embezzles 5 000 from cortez and is about to go on the lam when his devoted wife goes to cortez and i won't reveal anything else although the ending was certainly a surprise br br stanwyck is the best thing about this movie in one of her earliest roles she's quite accomplished is the weak point he's unattractive and sniveling while cortez is amazingly suave and sexy while his performance is earnest but unremarkable br br while ostensibly a drama it's filled with laughs many as some elements of this movie have aged very poorly but there are a lot of good witty lines at one point stanwyck says to cortez my brains are in my feet while yours are in that's pretty darn suggestive for 1931 there's a lot of bawdy and suggestive stuff in this flick in the last days before the code down and whitewashed everything an amusing antique a good reminder of how far we haven't come in 70 years this story could very easily be changed to fit 2003 but could keep the basic plot with the original ending in place
1	this is a forgotten classic of a film and harmony karin borrowed a ton from it for gummo gummo is good river's edge is way way better its no secret that keanu reeves isn't the best actor whoever walked the earth no in fact he's a horrendous actor but he was born for some roles ted preston esquire from bill and ted and his role in this film he is perfect as a sort of good natured but very apathetic and confused teenager then there's crispin glover i think his performance in this film is the best of his career he is phenomenal as the drugged out character then there's dennis hopper who is perfect as well this movie is simply amazing and if you haven't seen it run out and watch it today its brilliant one of the best portrayals of modern america i've seen
1	river's edge was one of the most disturbing films of 1986 and for a year that also saw blue velvet you know thats saying something viewed today its lost little of its power and remains much better than the overrated kids the previews for kids played it up to be an expose of the deterioration of the nation's youth in reality it was little more than an exploitation film based mostly around shock value river's edge was promoted as a teen exploitation flick but was in actuality much better the only times it goes from being disturbing to distasteful is the constant image of the dead nude body outside of that the film is thought provoking and for all its minor flaws quite realistic br br keanu reeves known for being a particularly wooden performer gives his best performance as a burned out teenager ione skye is equally sympathetic and likable dennis hopper on the comeback trail with this blue velvet and hoosiers gives a great performance as the creepy yet pathetic hippie generation leftover crispin glover while always entertaining to watch seems a bit out of place as the manic stoner and leader of the group the best performance however is definitely daniel roebuck as the murderer john roebuck is frighteningly emotionless its a shame he didn't become a bigger star as hes a much better actor than reeves br br the film is overall fantastic and daring don't mistake this for another lame john hughes clichéd high school flick such as the breakfast club this is a shocking piece of nihilism that resonates with the viewer fans of this movie are advised to check out a canadian film from 1981 called out of the blue directed by dennis hopper its another shockingly bleak examination of the generation gap and despite its obscurity may have been an influence on river's edge 7 10
1	river's edge is more than just the story of a murder it's an indictment of the wave of apathy that has plagued pockets of youth for decades now our main characters are a group of what my high school would have referred to as stoners one of them just decided to strangle his girlfriend because she apparently had the nerve to talk sh t to him this dangerous young man played by daniel roebuck has an intensity that will startle you he takes the other kids in the group out to show them his girlfriend's body and strangely enough nobody seems really freaked out about it the balance of the film punctuates the desperate circumstances in which these people live and how guilt is eventually able to worm its way inside even these apathetic kids br br river's edge is certainly not condoning or championing the behavior of its characters we clearly see the dangers presented by such unchecked apathy and having only the desire to get drunk or high we are shown the dysfunctional home lives these kids have and perhaps this is meant to explain their awful behavior but could it only be unstable homes that lead to this type of destructive living crispin glover is his usual whacked out self he drives around town in a state of complete paranoia after the murder he tries to sympathize with why his friend had to commit the crime but clearly he does not understand what could have made the young man do it dennis hopper plays an older man these kids get their dope from though he is certainly a rebellious figure he cannot relate to the apathy and rage of the younger generation witness his confused reaction as roebuck describes how killing his girlfriend made him feel as wild as hopper's character is even he knows this young man should not be walking the face of the earth br br what will you think of these kids well there is really no way to like their characters some are less despicable than others but you cannot help either hating or feeling sorry for them twenty years later there is still an apathy alive and well in a great many young people out there when do these kids get lost what makes so many of them want to act anti social this film and the questions it poses about teenagers will stick with you for a while that's a fact br br 8 of 10 stars br br the hound
1	like in a circle the movie leads back to its point of departure the image of the cranes that are crossing a sky they represent the freedom to realize your life as you wish in order to aspire the greatest possible fulfilment br br in the beginning veronica and boris experience such a promise of happiness and their eyes follow the path of the cranes in exhilaration it seems as if they might be able to live according to their dreams br br but man is not a bird life draws up its own rules from which no human can escape and which we cannot change not even by making a supreme effort war breaks out and without much hesitation boris signs up for the front in order to fulfil his patriotic duty he cannot even say good bye to veronica for she arrives late at the assembly point from which the soldiers are sent away surrounded by a jubilant crowd all her attempts to attract boris' attention must inevitably fail br br boris eventually gets killed in war without veronica learning about it for the moment his brother mark a vigorous musician who obtained the from military service by corruption is eager to take his place veronica initially resists but in a frightful night of bombing she finally falls victim to his charms a marriage takes place which is never accepted by the family br br soon feelings of guilt seize hold of veronica and she realizes that boris' return is the one and only thing she actually longs for she therefore eases her bad conscience and despair by the self sacrificing work in a field hospital br br when war finally is over once again a crowd of enthusiastic people gathers in order to cheer the victorious soldiers again veronica is among them forcing her way through a wall of bodies in her hand she is carrying a bunch of flowers until she finally has to give it away to complete strangers for one of the has just dashed her hopes by confirming the sad certainty of boris' death br br once again the cranes invade the sky drawing their wayward lines but now veronica is watching them on her own and the look in her eyes is a different one she has had to accept the impossibility to live according to preconceived plans to follow the guidelines of your dreams for all humans are nothing but helpless puppets hanging on the inscrutable strings of fate br br
1	i just glanced over another comment posted here in which the writer discusses the disturbing ways the teenagers in this film use the body of their dead friend one overlooked in this statement is perhaps the most unsettling of them all no surprise it's what crispin glover's character does he is thrilled over one of his friends murdering another friend of his the killer's girlfriend not because did not like this individual rather he is excited about her death because it gives him something to do this poor boy is bored in life and dead inside that a murdered friend is something to get excited about because it provides him with something to focus on
1	i think this is a pretty good movie but one thing makes it very interesting to me it is blatantly obvious once you look out for it the main characters in this movie are the inspiration for the bullies on the simpsons is jimbo john is and tony is dolph there is even an episode of the simpsons where jimbo uses the line i poked her with a stick br br the jimbo connection is the most obvious with the knit hat and long hair and the voice has the shaved head unlike john but is the big dumb one the tony dolph connection is pretty obvious with the long parted haircut and even the second tier status
1	crispin way of acting and not only his is tremendous you really want to believe him because his body language and performing fits the person perfect he gives this extraordinary bit of personality that makes this movie a cult as well as which role is done very well by dennis hopper it's about choosing the right or wrong side without logical thinking about the scene friendship is more imported and that's exactly what i think is what makes choices this difficult rivers edge lets you experience this with serious tones and family i really enjoyed it watching i saw it a month ago for the first time but if you like a nice 80s feel this is the one that you have to see i'ts a same that i didn't know of it earlier
1	i was flipping through the channels and had to stop and laugh when i came across this movie it was so clearly about teens in the early 80s and i called my mom hahaha turn to channel such and such the kid totally looks like if dad were a kid br br um yeah turns out this movie is about my dad his friends br br even without it being about loosely based on my dad's childhood i'd say watch this movie br br it is just bizarre to say the least the apathy instilled in teens even back then this is a good human interest and showcases some strange sides of the psyche
1	i have seen this movie three times going back to vcr's in the 1980's and again on the channel last night feb 11 2010 based on a true story which i remember being in the news during the early 1980's i've decided that i find it too disturbing to watch ever again yet it's hard to look away from a car accident the creepiest character is joshua john miller who plays reeves little brother br br the story this movie was based on can be found anywhere on the internet just google it it's about anthony jacques who murdered marcy conrad in california in 1981 the characters portray generation x pre grunge borderline sociopaths with the exception of reeves who grows a conscience br br old hippies did a great job raising that generation br br for such a young kid i thought joshua miller was excellent as the serial killer in the making character in actuality he went to yale and has written screenplays as well as directed his acting capabilities in this film were amazing just the way he treats his little sister by drowning her doll and tearing up her dolls grave gave me the shivers it gave me nightmares even with whats happening in our world today in 2010 it still is the most degenerate film i've seen to date br br the apathy and dysfunction of these families is enough to make one puke this thrill kill almost makes the manson murders pale in comparison br br glover got a little too much into character he wound up on david to discuss his role and almost kicked the host in the head glover had to seek psychiatric help after portraying his character br br also fight the good fight to the great dennis hopper you're one of the best
1	river's edge is an extremely disturbing film written by acclaimed american screen writer neal jimenez it is based on an actual event which happened at a time when most of american youngsters were trying to make sense of their lives this is one of the most outstanding films made by american director tim hunter much of film's attention is focused on a reckless murder committed by a feckless teenager this unfortunate event sets in motion a whole range of questions about real motivations of youngsters in american society those who saw this film during its initial release must have had vivid memories of great actor dennis hopper in a confused role as a sympathetic social outcast matrix star keanu reeves also looks good as one of the teenagers before he reached star status at a time when teen flicks are made without any kind of serious preparation it is hoped that river's edge cannot simply be ignored as just another silly teen flick it had massive impact on people who lived during turbulent times of the past when being an inhabitant of a sleepy town was akin to not having being born for today's generation with their heady overdoses of internet props such as facebook twitter and river's edge might appear to be outdated but its importance cannot be denied by any serious film admirer
1	although i was hoping that i'd like it a little more this was still certainly an impressive film there were great performances by all the leads and the story while not what i'd call chilling was still effective and it kept me interested for me the best part of this film was the look of the picture for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well i also thought that the low budget suited this movie for i don't think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim all things considered it fell a little short of my expectations but i'm still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie
1	i finally saw this on video after years of hearing about it it is by no means a perfect movie but it is oddly hypnotic one of those rare special films that creates its own world br br spoilers first the bad stuff the scenes in class are excruciating even if the subject is social studies this guy is way over the top his speeches are so overwrought they are laughable and no teachers i ever had would grill their students like that and tell the ones who protest to shut up these scenes are brief but they break the mood and pull the viewer out of the story next how the heck does just walk out of the police station near the end also what happened to samson's car after the first scene of him riding into town he spends the rest of the film being around by or end spoilers br br ahhh this guy is great dennis hopper effortlessly steals the movie in the mail i love company you're my friend every line is a classic he gives an internal logic that makes the story work incredibly he actually makes the audience feel empathy for this guy especially when samson talks about his samson's future br br by contrast crispin glover is hard to take sometimes yet the scenes of him driving around in the beetle are perfect kids with cars in high school always have something to do and buds to do it with matt's low key attitude makes a good foil for their friendship is believable glover's mannerisms are a little much but he is consistent throughout he drives the plot and exudes a sense of urgency that no one else does just try to imagine this flick if were as much of a zombie as matt or samson snoozefest br br spoilers what makes river's edge unsettling is the fact that samson is not really evil in the usual sense he is kind of a boring guy who got sick of being taken for granted in other words he is like thousands of other boring guys after he kills jamie he starts to unravel which creates some suspense as we wait to see when he will snap again end spoilers br br part of this movie's appeal is the way the action stays centered around the teens and their point of view the parents are comic relief mom tony's dad or overwhelmed matt's mom this underlines how the kids hang together for the attention no one else gives them it keeps the story focused on the relationships within the clique and emphasizes that the only adult they can relate to is river's edge is a textbook on alienation it conveys how awkward mysterious and disconcerting adolescence is like no other film
1	this film is so 1980's and that is what i like so much about it it does an excellent job of conveying the feel of that odd decade the reality that russian nukes could wipe you out at any time reagan in the white house telling everybody that things were great while more and more social programs were slashed young people dropped out but not as far as their parents of the 1960's did young people still went to school they just smoked so much dope that their were all but dead nothing effected them not even the death of one of their classmates at the hands of one of their friends how weird is it to realize that the murder was wrong but you are not sure why watching the characters deal with the crime is fascinating and telling of a very sick society glover is great keanu is great hopper is incredible one of the most memorable movies i have ever seen
1	i didn't expect much from this movie it was just one of those movies i thought i'd just watch because it was on television i certainly underestimated this movie br br it's about a guy who kills his girlfriend and brags to his friends i was very happy with the acting they had the characters played well it was a particularly great scene when dennis hopper and john daniel roebuck are talking to each other about why john killed jamie it's upsetting to hear how he explains that he wanted to feel control and thats why but had loved the girl he had killed felt remorse while john felt nothing hell he was proud of what he'd done it really makes you think about people keanu reeves did a great job as matt and ione skye was good it's weird to see her as a valedictorian in 'say and her as clarissa every actor did great at acting it was real nice for a change it was a great movie and i would definitely say i recommend it
1	it's not difficult after watching this film to see why post silent soviet cinema is held in such little critical esteem don't get me wrong the cranes are flying is for the first half at least supremely entertaining boasting a lightness of touch completely unexpected from its country of origin a fresh brisk spacious technique that eventually irritates as much as it initially charms two stunning subjective set pieces and a romantic verve that flirts with but never quite topples into lelouch territory it's just that in its subsuming of vast social national and world events to a love affair it is essentially no different from a conventional hollywood movie br br of course in a soviet union that emphasised the state above all else and in an era world war two that suppressed individualism and liberty to uphold murderous symbolism this of two appealing young lovers is a relief and the thematic similarities all consuming love rent apart by war with two of the most wonderful of all films seventh heaven les parapluies de cherbourg also adds to its potential loveability br br the story is simple enough boris a young factory worker from a bright medical and artistic family and veronika a student conduct a breezy relationship at night their only free time cousin mark a composer also has eyes on veronika when the nazis invade russia boris secretly volunteers to the chagrin of his family and lover he promises to write to veronika but never does thinking maybe she hasn't bothered to see him off or perhaps the mail is simply unreliable parents die during an air raid and she moves in with family helping out at the hospital where his father tends wounded soldiers br br distressed by silence veronika is also by the attentions of mark who has gained from military duty by bribing a local official she is eventually worn down and marries him to the disapproval of her adopted family boris meanwhile is killed in action veronika disgusted with herself and an adulterous mark refuses to believe this and awaits his return fostering a young orphan bearing his name br br the title refers to the birds the couple see at the height of their love symbolic perhaps of its transcendant power but this is illusory the cranes fly in a v formation and this shape pervades the entire film through the geometric shapes of buildings interiors exteriors of people composition camera angles the heroine's name or by editing in which feet walking southwest in one story are met by feet walking southeast in another br br this serves to fatally trap the lovers who have no control over their destinies and also suggest the stalinist power that is never specifically mentioned in the film although the pair seem to be free in space whether literally in an environment or privileged in generous close ups they are always torn apart by circumstances families by crowds see the brilliant if obvious sequences where veronika is engulfed by tanks or the pair fail to meet in a huge crowd or simply by the film's structure which is constantly distancing through their closeness although at the beginning the lightness and brightness of style suggest a beautiful romantic idyll it is constantly being broken by strange edits or camera angles of distracting snatches of music br br what is most remarkable is how these blocks to romance are achieved by rather than emphasising historical forces the whole film but especially the war itself is strangely unreal and dreamlike we are never shown its harsh brutal actuality just its effects on the lovers in fact it is transformed into a majestic spectacle devoid of nasty germans br br on the home front the air raids create delicious effects of light and shade or ruins of almost gothic decadence in the bunker the threat to the soviet empire is less important than perceived indifference the empty moscow spaces the lovers initially than veronika with her mother walk though are less actual locations than emotional spaces br br when mark tries to force himself on veronika the air raid is less a destructive reality than a symbolic release of sexual and emotional frustrations this is a brilliant sequence filmed with silent expressionistic terror in which the screen seems to burst with hysteria and violence all the more compelling for the earlier scenes' wistful gentleness br br it's not much different at the front either where fights over girls' honour are more urgent than tactics nazis or despair the movement of boris and his wounded comrade into a final space is a further of the experience of war its setting in a forest giving it a sexual dynamic and boris' final pre death flashback is an extraordinary mixture of dream wish fulfillment and heightened anxiety in which what is wished for becomes menacing and grotesque br br from this point on the film becomes a little less interesting slightly more obvious one more grasp for expressionist overload attempted suicide and her rescuing the infant is clumsily handled and her sombre guilt casts a paralysing shadow over the whole film the use of deep focus at first ravishing soon becomes wearing devoid as it is of any of the moral force or meaning welles brought to its use in citizen kane after what seems a quietly sly critique of totalitarianism in favour of the individual is cruelly betrayed at the end when individual suffering as so often in russian art transmutes into symbolic i e sexless hope a pity
1	loosely based on actual events river's edge is a film much in the style of david lynch about a group of teenagers who are aware of a murder committed by one of their friends but no one does anything about it for a long time with top notch acting by crispin glover and dennis hopper we are able to forgive the average acting by everyone else in the film br br the film begins with a young boy tim joshua john miller dropping a doll off of a bridge murder 1 tim then hears someone yelling when he looks up he sees samson daniel roebuck standing on the bank of the river with the dead naked body of his girlfriend behind him murder 2 samson eventually shows the body to his friends all of which are horrified not only because of the murder but also because the victim jamie was a friend of theirs despite all of this no one goes to the police you may think this is unrealistic but this is what happened in the real story if you are familiar with the story of alpha dog 2006 you will know that the same thing happened there as well through all of this crispin glover is working to keep samson safe although no one including samson seems to care about keeping him out of harms way as time goes on we learn that dennis hopper a middle aged shut in who deals drugs to the local teenagers has also killed a woman before murder 3 from here things begin to close in on samson and his friends and eventually everything is revealed but not in the way you may be expecting br br in the film we learn of three murders each one with a different reason a different reaction and a different effect on those involved when tim drops his younger sister's doll off of the bridge we are never made aware of his motive however we do see the reaction of the younger sister she cries and screams while her mother consoles her later her older brother matt keanu reeves helps her put a cross in the yard in remembrance of her doll the murder of jamie horrifies everyone except samson who is apathetic to the whole situation and when asked by why he did it samson replies with she was talking sh t but they do not sob or scream the run away and go on with their lives trying to forget what had happened in situation he did not kill his girlfriend out of hate we never really know why he killed her but we see that is not proud of what he had done he even mentions that he is sorry and that her loved her from this we see the different ways we can be affected by death in the film it is easy for us to identify with the teenagers because they do not know what they feel or how they should feel about the death of their friend in much the same way we the audience do not know how to feel because we do not know jamie we are obviously saddened by the death and realize that samson should be arrested but we don't feel strongly for jamie as an individual br br there are several similarities between river's edge and twin peaks 1990 1991 especially in the overall feel of the film i wonder if mark frost and david lynch were thinking of river's edge when they were creating their series after all tim hunter did go on to direct three episodes of twin peaks br br crispin glover's performance as the hyperactive frantic is an oscar worthy performance always in a rush and always worried about keeping samson from getting caught is an intense character that seems to be on speed if you have seen crispin glover in any film you know that he can deliver a line like no one else it is always a treat to see him perform the other great performance in river's edge is by dennis hopper his portrayal of the shut in drug dealer who has one leg and an sex doll he talks to named elly reminded me of a more toned down and more humorous version of frank booth hopper's character in david lynch's film blue velvet 1986 br br river's edge is great film and i believe it shows us how easy it is to be apathetic when in reality we need to step up and speak out against the evils in the world
1	a teenage film about angst friendship loyalty and growing but this isn't a happy outing on its part due to the circumstances and life changing dilemmas surrounding the premise what eventuates is quite numbing haunting and downright cold however i was expecting something a little more powerful and effective and while engrossing and unforgettable it didn't entirely stir up much in the way of emotions the performances are reasonably a mixed bag but there's a brutal honesty to them all dennis hopper and especially daniel roebuck are crispin glover eccentrically over does it and keanu reeves' dead as wood turn seems to pay off in his custom slacker role joshua john millar is quite good and so is ione skye jim metzler chimes in with a short but highly engaging performance the story is dramatically confronting character laced and harrowing in its eventual breakdown where it infuses a gritty and painful punch jürgen swirling music score is simmering with anxiety tension and wonder as the morals and commitments are tested and learnt
1	pot seeking pre teen joshua miller as tim throws his sister's doll into the river while daniel roebuck as samson howls and smokes a cigarette after killing as jamie the doll washes away but the naked young woman stays by the river's edge for any to see viewing the dead body are a group of twenty something teenagers mostly classmates of the naked corpse stoners keanu reeves as matt and crispin glover as are found most camera worthy the friends wonder what to do about their guilty beer guzzling killer friend br br veteran in the cast dennis hopper as keeps the heads fed mr hopper once killed a woman he lives with one of those life sized sex dolls with a mouth apparently ready for action ione skye leitch as clarissa is a more living doll and she is waiting for reeves to kiss her their copulation is notably cross cut with a flashback to the opening strangulation an actual teenager in her first feature role ms leitch is the daughter of sixties singer donovan make other quirky connections on your own br br you can read a lot into the movie or not depending on your mood some of the characters' backgrounds may be a little too subtle most obviously the killer teen was teased note his weight attitude and toilet connected nickname some of the characters' relationships and motivations are too vaguely defined but the cast certainly keeps the material interesting and director tim hunter photographer frederick elmes and writer neal jimenez are obviously skilled br br river's edge 8 27 86 tim hunter keanu reeves crispin glover dennis hopper joshua miller
1	apparently this movie was based on a true story i'm not sure how accurate it is though but it really reminded me of how when i see that someone has been murdered on the news it's amazing how much it doesn't affect me sure i think it's terrible but i honestly don't care i move on it seems that murder is trivial now this is what river's edge shows nobody really seems to care about this girl and her death not even the killer then what's the point br br the killer in this story is john and for the large amount of the movie he hides out with another killer named played by dennis hopper is older and you can see the generational gap he says he loved the girl that he killed when he asks john if he loved the girl he killed he simply replies she was okay the movie only seems to offer one solution life is more important than death a character's life is spared people get second chances and one hopeless case is killed br br the acting is really good after watching this movie i could only come to the conclusion that crispin glover is either a brilliant actor or a terrible actor i still have no idea he was my main reason to see this movie though but the best performance is clearly given by dennis hopper br br even though the fashion is really 80's and characters sometimes mention then current issues i still think river's edge is as relevant today as ever br br my rating 10 10
1	i'm not sure whether i like this film or not i think it is creepy and completely weird crispin glover as always gave a great performance as i think his performance was really good and one of his best but i don't like the character at all keanu reeves performance was really good and i truly felt for his character over all i think the whole cast gave great performances as felt like the characters were real i disliked some but genuinely felt sorry for others keanu reeves i would like to know if that was the original ending that the film was supposed to have as it didn't end how i expected it to i was disappointed in the ending and i don't feel that it did the rest of the film justice if you are into creepy weird and really well different movies go for this one if you like things that are normal please stay away
1	imdb forces reviewers to type a certain amount of lines but all i really want to say is this is an incredible film and you can't consider yourself a film fan without having seen it you ought to just trust me on this one and stop reading this review and get the movie and push play but i have to type something so let me point out the following br br 1 river's edge contains what still may well rank as crispin glover's all time funniest and best performance in a film and if you have been following crispin glover at all you know that that alone justifies giving it a 10 funny lines galore br br 2 river's edge contains the second most memorable performance of dennis hopper's career other than the one in blue velvet and it is really excellent dennis hopper is really funny br br 3 river's edge contains the best performance of keanu reeves' career and it is excellent it was the role he was born to play he has plenty of good lines but one in particular is really really funny listen close when his character and the step dad are talking to one another br br still the best stoner film it is much more than just that it tends to show up in the drama sections of film rental stores but if this is a drama it's the funniest drama of all time
1	i really don't have any complaints about this movie except for the disturbing scenes with the body i fell upon it while switching around the tv one night the acting was actually amazing i didn't expect it to be better than it appeared i thought keanu's who looks the same since 1986 which is a very good thing hehe acting was really great and crispin played his character perfectly this movie is a hidden gem its a fresh awaking of reality to the '80s compared to the other teen movies done by the brat pack even though i do like those alot too all in all i give it thumbs up
1	after reading some of these reviews it is apparent that some have missed the point what is great about this film here comes the point what is incredible about this film what is astonishing about this film is that there is no proselytizing there is no preaching there is no preaching there is no preaching life goes on it is a masterpiece in letting an audience think for its collective self these are just kids doing what kids do without consciousness we all went to school with kids like these we are being numbed by fiction movie tv news based reality invention br br dennis hopper the great girlfriend alone and his relationship with her is worth the price of renting this movie br br there have been few movies before or since that measure up to the intelligence of this film amen br br
1	i hope the writer director editor and composer and let's not forget producer read this because their work was truly incredible on this movie let me start by saying that i am in no way affiliated with this movie i am only a regular guy who has been a fan of this movie for about 12 years and have seen it about 8 times br br every second of this movie is touching every scene is classic the acting is real the movie is honest you can relate to these characters as people not actors br br this tale follows three distinct killers at different stages in their lives the story is carefully thought out and every sub plot is intertwined and woven together culminating in a message that leaves us pondering the values of right and wrong that each of us carries inside br br crispen glover daniel roebuck dennis hopper and joshua john miller as a 12 year old boy give absolutely amazing real performances i've seen this movie about 8 or more times and i still get so absorbed in their performances that i forget i am watching a movie it's that good great job everyone who worked on this great job br br the music is also wonderfully matched and haunting with the chosen cast the carefully timed editing and pacing the mood and tone and even the subject matter the director made some of the best decisions for a movie i've ever seen br br this movie is real it's honest it's a true movie experience which i will never forget you may not be into the subject matter but it is something you cannot ignore ultimately it's about people being people and everyone can relate to that i recommend this movie to fans of drama suspense and horror above almost every other film
1	i can remember a college professor commenting as to how disturbing this film was reflecting the apathy of adolescents this was before generation x br br in a way most of us are products of the same consumer culture these high school kids spend their time drinking getting high and wondering what to do about the body left on a riverbank br br what would they do today would things be different some very important questions there are some excellent scenes with keanu reeves and the dysfunctional family he lives with his 11 year old brother going out to get wasted the mother has no idea what to do spends her time drinking with her boyfriend br br this film was a bit before its time in that it addresses the problems in lower class american society these kids had no outlet what is available for them in this dirt water town all in all a few interesting social commentaries are presented and there are no solutions 9 10
1	unlike the many who have posted here i'm not movie literate i stumbled across this movie by accident channel surfing and couldn't surf away this is a truly incredible movie worthy of all the praise the critics and those on this site have heaped on it the actors are terrific tatiana is beautiful and innocent her fiancé boris is sweet and patriotic you couldn't help but feel boris' father's exasperation and sorrow as he upbraids his son for such foolishness as volunteering to serve in the great war br br others have summarized the movie so well so i'll just mention a couple of scenes that moved me the most when boris' brother reveals to his family that he has broken trust with his brother and has to marry tatiana twisted mouth shows her revulsion at this betrayal even though her part in the unfaithfulness might have been through rape you fear that the rest of the movie might right this wrong by visiting just destruction on tatiana and the brother or worse show tatiana destroyed by an immoral descent into cigarette smoking decadence since this isn't french existential cinema the latter doesn't happen thankfully br br another scene that tears at your heart is when the unnamed musician soldier who was saved by boris returns to tell boris' father of the death of his son he unwittingly breaks the news to tatiana i can't describe the sorrow of this scene still tatiana finds finds a straw to grab and hope that boris will yet come home the musician actually never saw boris buried after all br br i won't mention more scenes but do want to observe that the touches of soviet political correctness didn't detract at all from the film boris' brother is revealed as the piano playing anti soviet slacker that someone who steals his brother's wife to be would have to be no doubt he gets at least a tenner at the conclusion of the film the ending when tatiana finally learns for certain that boris is dead still manages to end with cheerfully and full of hope for the future you don't even want to imagine the tears and catharsis that must have swept through the theater when survivors of that war with their own losses in mind first saw this movie br br incredible go see it
1	i have seen this movie a number of times and find it very compelling and sad the lack of real emotion from most of the characters is very disturbing they seem empty hopeless the story is based on a real event br br a teenage girl is murdered by her boyfriend for no obvious reason apparently he just felt like it then he boasts about it to his friends and as they don't believe him he takes them to view the body a number of times no one reports the murder there are two strong leads keanu reeves and crispen glover crispen glovers character is seriously annoying br br keanu's character matt appears to be the only one who has a sense of right and wrong this is keanu at his best a flawless performance and very believable anyone who thinks this man can't act should watch this movie matt's little brother is almost the most disturbing character in the movie only twelve and no compassion or love factor in his life it is very sad to think there are kids out there like this it really makes you grateful for what you have 9 10
1	river's edge is an excellent film and it's a shame that it hasn't made more of a mark for itself in cinematic history there were a number of gritty films based around school kids made in the eighties but of all the ones i've seen this is certainly the most nihilistic and disturbing the film takes a storyline that is disturbing in its own right and adds the theme of teenage slackers and their uncaring attitude about things which takes the story onto another level the film works because the central story is interesting and it's played out by complex characters the film begins with a murder we then follow the murderer nicknamed john as he goes back to school and tells all his friends about what he has done rather than give the expected reaction most of them hardly react at all and the strongest reaction that the murderer gets comes from who makes it his number one priority to help john clear up the mess he's in and get him out of it the other friends mull over the crime and before long one of them goes to the police br br river's edge features a host of great performances from its young cast keanu reeves has a reputation for wooden acting and for good reason but he fits in very well to this early role and this performance is easily one of his best crispin glover is the biggest standout as the slightly insane glover always stands out in every film he's in and while he does go over the top a little bit he convinces well as the lead in this movie reeves and glover receive good support from a talented young cast that includes daniel roebuck and joshua john miller as well as the great dennis hopper in another wild role the film features a very gritty picture which bodes well with its nihilistic tone the central characters are all of the generation and the way that they genuinely don't seem to care about the murder of their friend is more shocking than the murder itself and the point that the film tries to make about modern society is both strong and well defined the film is also rather funny owing to some of the characters' lines but the humour is pitch black and clearly this film was never meant to be a comedy overall this is an excellent and memorable film that is definitely worth seeing
1	less than zero could have been the 80s movie that reveals teenage apathy in its most extreme form had they actually stuck to the damn book but where they hadn't this movie presents does the job and leaves you with the creepiest feeling when its all over in ways not done until the late nineties with larry clark's movies 'kids' and ' br br societal outcast teens are faced with a rather curious dilemma they don't treat it much like one when their estranged friend daniel roebuck boasts to them that he killed a teenage girl near the river's edge in their suburban town keanu reeves may be the only civilized character among the bunch the only one willing to exhibit any sort of conscience anyway while the others either don't do anything about the girl's death or want to help their friend hide the body br br i don't know who is more sick in this film crispin glover who becomes nearly obsessed and quite paternal in trying to protect the friend and hide the crime by smuggling him out of the state dennis hopper an on edge drug dealer who clings to a female blowup doll that befriends the teens as a dealer of course and suddenly becomes involved in the events or josh miller who plays reeve's little brother tim he appears to be the most apathetic of them all at least until his emotional breakdown at the end it is definitely not peppy 80s teen fare obviously and certainly makes the point strikingly clear about the serious detachment these kids deal with despite a bizarre series of events thanks to many great performances all around even reeves proved some acting capability br br help yourself to a comedy to recover if it rocks you too hard
1	i just saw this movie for the second time i first saw it back in the mid 90's as a vanguard video selection it has retained it power br br it is interesting from several aspects one is that it is based on a true story two is it is a launching pad for two interesting actors keanu reeves and crispin glover and three it has dennis hopper in one of his better social misfit psychotic character roles br br the movie is also a study in the way people act in different settings you have characters in one on one family peer group school general society settings etc the story does well in demonstrating how a person will act in each setting br br i wish i could find the details of the actual murder to compare to the movie i saw a short bit that indicated it occurred in california and that several schoolmates were taken to view the corpse br br this is a good choice for a rainy night video rental be prepared to feel unsettled at the end
1	this film is one of the best of 1986 with creepy yet intriguing performances from crispin glover and dennis hopper the reagan years were pretty bleak for a lot of people not just teenagers but this flick really captured the desperation and despair well directed with great script apparently based on a true story i don't really see any weaknesses in this the opening shot was brilliant br br keanu reeves was decent for a change and miss skye was right on the money hopper had three other great performances that same year blue velvet texas chainsaw ii and hoosiers i imagine this has a cult following and i wonder how this picture would fare if it was re released super stuff
1	one of the better movies to come out of the 1980's this based on fact movie tells the story of a disturbed high school student who murders his girlfriend leaves her naked body on a river bank and brags about it later to his friends what is just as bad is their inability to feel anything about it br br disturbing but incredibly compelling look at aimless and apathetic kids who have no respect for their parents or any sort of authority who seem almost doomed to live lives of rebellion and recklessness this drama hits hard and is impossible to forget the young cast does a creditable job even keanu reeves in one of his earliest roles is better than usual of course there's no reason for the character of crispin glover to be as crazed and off the wall as he is but that's just glover being himself veteran dennis hopper has an especially good role as a loner who despite his own sordid past is saddened by the attitudes of this group of kids i would like to point out the chilling performance by daniel roebuck as the young murderer he's an under rated actor and aside from hopper his is probably the best performance in the film br br i saw river's edge for the first time a long time ago when it first started being shown on cable tv movie channels however i didn't catch all of it i saw it in its entirety for the first time a number of years later and now i've seen it again for what is probably the definitive time br br some potently affecting moments include madeleine's constance breakdown where she wails that maybe she should leave her children just like their worthless father did i also liked the scenes where matt reeves faces off with his disturbed younger brother joshua miller and when the teacher mr jim metzler the fact that the girl has died and that none of his students seem to care br br i will never forget this film not as long as i live it's too saddening for that br br 10 10
1	river's edge is not a pleasant film to watch but it is an incredible one having viewed it many years ago i truly think it would still have the ability to shock were it to be re released or remade or something perhaps no movie ever made has captured the of young suburban inertia like this frightening movie given that this is based on a true story it is even more disturbing very well acted and just unpleasant at many times to watch but also a little known masterpiece and a truely important film should be a mandatory to watch shown nationwide in all fantastic
1	this is actually the first movie i ever saw in a theatre where the people didn't leave immediately when the end credits started in stead they remained seated for a few minutes gaping with their mouths open staring in the infinite trying to understand what they 've just seen br br the only thing i can say try to go watch this movie with as little knowledge about it as possible so did i i gave it a 10
1	fair and nifty little science fiction horror fantasy thriller about a well known video game designer geller jennifer jason leigh whose latest game not only draws the attention of people who volunteer to try the game but one who nearly kills her and her game too since she forced to stay out of sight is stuck with ted jude law a marketing trainee p r nerd to be her bodyguard even though he only has a gun that's made out of flesh and bone and the bullets are teeth director david cronenberg has well used some bits from his earlier films videodrome scanners the fly etc and placed it into certain parts of the story with some good timing law and leigh are fine here and so are some of the supporting cast ian holm willem dafoe sarah christopher eccelston and so on that has an international twist to it dafoe is anything but devilish as gas a deceiving garage mechanic one of the movie's best scenes is witnessing ted eat fish and frogs and construct a gun and admit to i can't help myself manages to show that he cronenberg is up to his old tricks and it still works like a charm
1	this was a movie i came across by accident i was flipping through and saw it was on showtime so i watched it now i watch it at least once a month this is a movie that is filled with symbols that might cause some people to trash it don't listen to people that hate this movie if they want an action movie with expensive f x they should have rented a movie that promises them if you are in the mood for a good sci fi i highly recommend if purchasing on dvd i recommend the alliance atlantic edition of the film it contains many more extras than the dimension films edition
1	the aftermath of world war two almost resulted in the death of soviet cinema in the early years of the 1950s film production came close to a complete standstill a mere nine feature films were released in 1951 and the work of all filmmakers was closely monitored and often censored by the government following the death of joseph stalin in 1953 filmmakers were given greater artistic freedom with their pictures though many remained reluctant to challenge the heroic optimistic and propagandistic stance towards warfare that had been prevalent in previous years it wasn't until 1957 that director mikhail and writer viktor became bold enough to produce what is widely considered the first post stalin soviet masterpiece the cranes are flying ' one of the finest depictions of war i've seen from any country or time period not only was the film lauded for its artistic brilliance in the soviet union but international recognition was soon to follow and film was honoured with the palm d'or at the 1958 cannes film festival br br 'the cranes are is both an invigorating visual feast and an audacious humanistic portrayal of war unlike many soviet war themed films of the time it was less constrained by the archetypal figure of the traditional war time hero and more concerned with the futility brutality and indeed the inevitability of conflict love as a cinematic concept is too often idealised as a notion that somehow conquers all and endures endless hardship and yet the reality is substantially less romantic in the film two lovers veronika and boris separated by the advent of the wwii widely known in the soviet union as the great patriotic war 1941 1945 pledge to marry after the war but tragedy denies the couple their wish driven to betrayal by the unending torment and uncertainty of waiting veronika agrees to wed boris' cousin mark aleksandr a handsome but unworthy youth the film may conclude with the proud victory of the soviets and a patriotic flag waving parade but the optimism of this sequence is overwhelmingly eclipsed by the bittersweet tragedy of our young female protagonist who wanders through the celebrating crowds br br perhaps the most remarkable feature of 'the cranes are is sergei inspired and dynamic hand held cinematography which realistically and captures the chaos and confusion of war not necessarily in the hail of gunfire and the cries of dying comrades in fact only one of the film's sequences joins boris on the eastern front but from the perspective of the family and friends who are left behind in one particularly impressive oft cited long shot the camera follows veronika as she frantically searches for boris in a crowd of departing recruits and their families the hand held camera smoothly follows the girl off a bus jostles through the crowd alongside her capturing momentary snippets of loved ones saying farewell to their sons and husbands before unexpectedly above the crowd as veronika disappears into the dust of a passing squadron of army tanks a breathtaking movement that offers scope and urgency to the dramatic episode first acquired his filming experience as a military cameraman during the war and obviously fell in love with the storytelling possibilities of hand held photography the camera he once declared can express what the actor is unable to portray his inner sensations the cameraman must act with the actors
1	i have seen this movie twice and it's theme is an invigorating one i have been into computers for many years now and this movie inspired me in a technologically sense as does a fresh love which stoked the furnace of my poetic passion in the heat of infatuation very original idea great allurement in the way it holds you as it tells it's story to minds that need a release from the every day realities of this life
1	david cronenberg movies are easily identifiable or at least elements within the movie stand out as his trademarks fetishism the blurring between the organic and squishy throbbing things that shouldn't be squishy and throbbing is classic cronenberg briefly it's about a future generation of computer games but instead of a video monitor visuals are supplied by your mind the game plugs directly into a in the base of your spine and while the game is running the player can't tell reality from game jennifer jason leigh plays the game's developer guiding a marketeer jude law through the game's paces while in the game they uncover strange goings on and possible crimes but are they real or is it the game not even the game's author knows br br the movie is quite a treat keeping the viewer engaged but in the dark until the final minutes another thing i like about is that it doesn't use a heavy reliance on special effects it's the story itself that propels the movie recommended for the saturday night when science fiction is called for
1	the movie is about a futuristic video game on a pod system that is almost like virtual reality the only copy of the video game is damaged when an assassination attempt is made on the designer jennifer jason leigh unless it can be repaired the many years and 38 million dollars spent on the development will all go to waste the only way to repair the game however is to actually go in the game with the only person she feels she can trust jude law this movie was pretty good but doesn't really pick up until very late in the film the best thing about this film were the twists toward the end definitely worth seeing 7 10
1	i loved this movie but then again i am a big cronenberg fan if you have not seen a david cronenberg film then this is not a good place to start scanners the fly rabid would be a place to start and then work up to videodrome before checking this one out this is certainly one of his best and takes the interactive game phenomena one step beyond br br in this game the players plug a bio engineered game pad through a jack inserted into their spinal cord and get into the game directly through their nervous system it is very hard to tell you more without giving away the story and the plot but it is enough to say that this is a game you will not forget it is full of cronenberg's slimy body works dark foreboding scenery all populated by a great cast including jennifer jason leigh jude law and willem dafoe who take the situation they find themselves in very seriously these people will do what they can to figure out the game and then to win at it like other movies of his there is no shortage of imagination or parts where you sink to the seat but like an auto accident you don't look away if you liked any of the movies mentioned above then by all means go out and get this one
1	yes i have noticed that there are other comments i think that is a good sign for a movie even if some are negative i have seen this movie 2 and a half times i adore it and would watch it again it is very smart but i can understand why some people would hate it they don't get it's appeal yes i have a weird taste in movies but this is a great movie some of the lines are just so quick like the whole scene in the chinese restaurant i started dying laughing that and when he was in the assembly line talking to the contact jude law was wonderful though it was humorous him trying to cover up his wonderful accent anyways i do not consider myself the movie goddess as some critics of this movie and if you have nothing better to do than write pseudo intellectual movie commentaries about films you hate online i feel sorry for you why don't you write about movies you like like me i just love how everything ties together it keeps you guessing even though you guess wrong the ending was interesting and not overdone it was purely clever i would not compare it to the matrix because i think people then get the wrong idea i went into this movie expecting nothing except jude law and a sci fi i was blown away i have no clue about any other of films but love this on its own merit another clever thing was the foreshadowing with the dog definitely watch this movie
1	this was a great movie i would compare it to the movie the game you get to the end of the flick and cant move your brain has been removed and shaken not stirred and put back in your head dont plan anything after this movie you will need time to think about what just happened br br dont come to this movie expecting the matrix style multi millions spent on special effects this movies special effects come from the actors they keep you involved no they suck you in and dont let go for the entire duration of the movie great acting great plot very enjoyable film i cant say enough also very original plot plenty of twists and ideas that i would have never thought of the ending is abrupt and leaves you hanging wondering was that real is this really the end good ending not saying that it is bad just leaves you wondering and a little frazzled br br great movie for those who like action like a good plot dont get up for a bathroom break on this movie you will come back lost and like mind games because thats exactly in a nutshell what this is
1	a bit the movie in the movie case or as the theme is virtual game here which is the reality or even more frightening which reality is the real one as any cronenberg there are organic things like the pod and that wonderful idea the organic gun a weapon made of bones and tissues that shoots teeth if there are some slower moments the sets designs and ideas are there with some thoughts of revolution can be not liked because the way the movie is happening is quite unusual and sometimes disturbing but it's definitely worth it
1	br br my favorite science fiction incredible ride through mistrust and the warping of reality probably the best performance i have ever seen jude law play incredibly original with interesting character developments and a story line that twists and turns so rapidly that it takes a couple of minutes after the film to fully grasps its genius even more fun watching it again for the end changes the beginning
1	now being a fan of sci fi the trailer for this film looked a bit too how do i put it hollywood but after watching it i can gladly say it has impressed me greatly jude is a class actor and miss leigh pulls it off better than she did in delores it brings films like the matrix 12 monkeys and the cell into mind which might not sound that appealing but it truly is one of the best films i have seen
1	br br is simply david cronenberg's best movie all the people compare it to the matrix they're not even similar if you enjoyed cronenberg's other works just a little bit you'll love this one
1	this movie won a special award at cannes for its acting and it's not difficult to see why a few spoilers but for the ending you'll have to watch the movie a simple story in moscow on the eve of war between russia and germany in ww ii veronika tatiana is in love with boris aleksei but they have a spat when she learns that he has enlisted in the army boris leaves for the front before veronika can tell him she loves him boris is shot but his ultimate fate remains unknown to veronika or his family mark boris' cousin rapes veronika who feels obligated to marry him degraded and demeaned by the cowardly mark veronika clings to the hope that someday boris will return superb camera work and wonderful set pieces by director for anyone interested in film technique another movie by i am cuba has at least two superb set pieces one of them a long tracking shot that begins with a funeral procession through the streets of havana rises two stories to a cigar factory tracks though the window and follows the procession down a long long avenue all without a cut superb acting particularly by and as boris' uncle that is made all the more poignant by sheer understatement a devastatingly romantic movie with a heart stopping performance by this movie is frequently linked with the other russian classic ballad of a soldier
1	this movie is breath taking and mind blowing but i think maybe it can only be appreciated by die hard rpg it is like a game one problem is the plot is too game like and just has too many twists the twists are excessive jude law gives a very good performance i really like him in this movie just as jerome in gattaca and joe in a i
1	the bottom line is if you come looking for a sci fi thriller horror film the matrix is what you'll like if like me you long for the rare true science fiction film involving characters with depth and provocative thought about where science will take us then you need to see
1	was a good film at the first i was wondering what is going on organic pods made out of mutant reptiles which connected you and other players to a surreal virtual reality game via a umbilical cord well it seems a little odd br br but once it gets going its a pretty good film with a few twists with a great open ending and the good aspect of throughout the film is entertaining too see as your not sure whats coming next br br security personnel throw away the metal detectors they have bone guns
1	combines director david cronenberg's traditional love of blood and gore and exploding heads with the more confusing aspects of a reality twisting david lynch film and it actually works effectively i won't bother trying to give even the bare bones of a plot synopsis here because it'll only cause more confusion all you need to know is that the film is about a virtual reality computer game that is so incredibly lifelike that it becomes difficult to tell the difference between reality and virtual reality the film almost seems to abandon its technology fearing point at the end but then it throws in the final twist in the very last line of dialogue br br there's also some very gross sexual imagery based around the in the protagonists backs as well as some very gross acting from jude law he manages to come off as naive and stupid and boring and any other annoying habit you can care to think of jason jennifer leigh comes off much better and everyone else can be called a supporting character including willem dafoe in a functional if unspectacular role as a money crazed mechanic overall is a very effective sci fi film about the possibilities technology can present and the possible consequences it will receive
1	warning plot spoiler br br the always abnormal movies of david cronenberg certainly are an acquired taste fans of his earlier films will probably like but it definitely isn't one for the squeamish all of the usual elements are here a game pod made out of skin hooked into your back buckets of blood a gun made out of bones and a manic mechanic to name but a few the result is good in parts bad in parts and just plain weird in others but one thing the film has is undeniable originality br br despite the excessive use of… weirdness it does prove a point virtual reality games can have a dangerous effect on some people in the movie a character shoots someone dead claiming that he was annoying' assuming that she was still in the game but it leaves the question as to whether that really happened or if it was an occurrence in this stunningly life like game leads to a conclusion that can be responded to in several ways br br despite some extra gadgets and gook it was simply your classic it was all a dream… or was it' twist it is a smart surprise and answers a few questions but giving that the entire film was leading up to this moment is a bit disappointing at only 97 minutes it could have went on a bit longer too in a peculiar way the film raises moral issues but answers them in a violent and rather inappropriate way br br jennifer jason leigh appears here in her first big role in quite a while but her character doesn't have enough qualities to make her jump off the screen or even give her a likeable character jude law on the other hand equipped with a curious american accent is good as your average joe sucked into this abnormal world we see the film through his perspective br br is far from flawless but it certainly is a movie experience to remember there's tonnes of weird characteristics to match the similar styles of david lynch what next being consumed by a question mark it definitely isn't for all tastes but it is rewarding enough to recommend my imdb rating 6 2 10
1	so let's begin br br the movie itself is as original as cronenberg's movies would usually appear br br my intention to see it was certainly being one of my favourite actresses she is as lovely as usual this cutie br br i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers still it's quite interesting and entertaining to follow br br the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array br br recommend with confidence
1	i always believed that a film that's plot is centred around a virtual reality video game never sounds as though it's going to be anything special but proved i couldn't have been more wrong this film is unbelievable and whilst highly entertaining offers so much more than that from start to finish this film has you to the point where you can have so many ideas you can not make a final conclusion david cronenberg has a talent for this as he does so many things br br is pure cronenberg the way it's written and the way it's directed is very unique to his style and that can only be a good thing cronenberg set himself a clear target with this film and that was to keep the audience guessing which he did with apparent ease his fondness for the grotesque is not as predominant in this film as it is in the fly or naked lunch but there are still some elements such as the game pods and how they are made that can make the audience wince with regards to his earlier work is more a combination of videodrome and a less violent scanners a pretty awesome combination setting the film in the not too distant future was a really good decision as it allowed cronenberg to be extremely imaginative with the films surroundings and also enabled him to visualise more concepts allowing for less inhibited writing it was important that the film didn't become over confusing and cronenberg avoided this very well by keeping things relatively simple besides if he wanted to make an unwatchable film he'd know how to do it a lot better than this br br boasts an extremely talented cast of character actors and all perform very well jennifer jason leigh gives the standout performance as the game designer who spends more time out of reality than in to it leigh is sexy and commanding in her role as and she really gets her teeth in to the role the emotional range she shows in the film is particularly impressive making her completely believable if you can believe anything jude law is also good and is very convincing in his character's fear of implantation the chemistry between these two is very electric and gives the film an extra bit of flavour ian holm and willem dafoe are just two of the great actors in support who add further depth to the film with very colourful performances the cast of the film isn't huge but definitely has the 'quality is better than ethic which works very well br br as well as being entertaining and thought provoking touches social issues such as control and loss of self this further demonstrates the film as an intellectual vessel and could also explain why it wasn't a huge hollywood hit has so much to offer and although it isn't to everyone's taste those who like cronenberg's work or who like science fiction will almost be certain to like this film it is one of those films that needs to be watched with an open mind but it really is something special
1	the producers of this picture are hungarians it's not by crazy artistic momentum that x and z are capitalized in the titles considering that the word means 'god' in hungarian by the way david is the word for god in hungarian hum is that so br br let's consider this movie as 'a history of violence' science fictional sibling both films have in common the strength of blowing up respective genres thriller and drama in the 2005 one and fx ed as hell' science fiction in the one we're looking at right now everything he does have a meaning and is surrounded by details the nod to phil k dick who wrote in the days of perky pat by creating a fast food restaurant the nod to stanley kubrick by using 2001's naming pattern as ibm became hal one letter down in the alphabet in the 1968 movie in 'classic 40 becomes 60 one letter up when cleans up port the nod to david cronenberg by using witty kind of formula 'death to ' 'long live' and by taking another medium for central theme of a picture tv in videodrome video games and virtual reality in in 1983 you penetrated a tv set in 1999 you're penetrated by a game welcome to canada br br the nod to good taste by getting peter cinematography howard shore's music and ronald sanders's editing a team that wins for everyone born in the early 80's with a super a genesis or an arcade stick in the hands this movie rings a bell enough with the nods the plot jennifer jason leigh stars as a game designer who creates a virtual reality game that taps into the players' minds as we can see on the movie main details page that's the story in the story to me this picture is about a 'reality young couple infiltrating the 'brand new virtual game' presentation session to destroy its programmer i assume that what we see in the last five minutes is reality if there's such thing as reality jennifer jason leigh is always playing a game designer in the game they're in and the end of the movie is the reality with video games freaks giggles big hairy dogs plastic textures helmets and stuff and 9mm handguns what you see is true they play during an hour or so in this game there's a game in which plays genius programmer and jude law a marketing trainee associated with game they play because is very concerned about her health the thing you plug your nervous system in in order to play she has to plug herself and in then wins the game and back in the reality they kill nourish programmer br br playing and is about facing your essence face your subconscious while its creating a virtual reality you'll have to overcome in unexpected ways to win the game by playing the game the girl playing the 'reality turns into a br br what game would have played to feel his abstract da term to be truly engaged in the world br br and what about yes friedrich god is dead and you know what willem dafoe stands for him god the br br yes we do construct a narrative for ourselves and losing this thread we follow from one day to the next disintegrate people as personalities discusses the fact that reality is the whole perception of itself by anyone who engaged it truly and we could sometimes get some neat stuff a perception of virtuality in virtuality in reality
1	after his earlier movie videodrome which definitely shows similarities to this movie director david cronenberg again ventures himself in the world of virtual reality in which truth and fiction mix it's virtual reality taken to a whole other level br br is an highly original movie that is well directed and acted out but above all very well written the movie features a fascination and well thought out concept which gets greatly executed by director david cronenberg br br is a movie that knows to constantly fool you just when you thought you figured things out another surprise awaits around the corner things are never like how you think they are especially when the line between truth and fiction gets explored you just never really know what is the reality and what is the game world right till the ending it makes the characters and events all very unpredictable and also provides the movie with a great ending that will leave you thinking even more br br the movie has a perfect kind of game play storytelling mostly with its character appearances and its puzzling events they have to complete a certain step or task first before they can continue in the world and find out what their purpose in the game is br br the movie knows how to create a perfect balance between realism and surrealism without ever going over the top with either one the storytelling keeps the movie as simple as possible though of course the movie isn't always that simple to follow because of its events dialogs and unusual environments br br the movie is not only just weird though i was actually surprised to see that videodrome has an higher rating on here thought it's a far more inaccessible and 'odd' movie the movie is also still made entertaining and has a good fast pace it doesn't ever allow the movie to get stuck in its more philosophical moments and deeper meanings it also makes this movie perfectly watchable for people who normally don't watch this sort of movies br br the movie is good looking with subtle effective special effects a great visual look that also provides the movie with a certain required feeling br br the movie is well cast with jude law in a role you don't too often see him in that of a shy insecure person it once more shows how actually versatile law as an actor is and that he is way more than just another pretty face from hollywood jennifer jason leigh also was a great female lead she hasn't really played ever that many big parts in big productions but with this movie she shows why she nevertheless always have been regarded as a big movie star the movie also features some other well known actors in much smaller roles such as ian holm and willem dafoe br br an highly original movie that is well worth watching especially if you have seen videodrome previously br br 8 10
1	is an exploration of reality and virtual reality wherein characters run from realm to realm landscape to landscape trying to beat a game they know not the goal of or exactly where it's leading them within that virtual reality game is more layers of virtual reality games calling into question which reality they arrive from is the real one br br of course it's not spectacular at hiding the fact that it's not going to reasonably answer to a true reality instead tossing the idea of whether it's real or a video game into question even up to the end i'm not even sure cronenberg pretends that twist won't be there it's so incredibly obvious in a sense it's kind of disconcerting br br the problem with this film though is its base nature in a sense cronenberg is questioning reality and criticizing game play yet the same things that he uses to criticize game play makes him revel in it the violence the discontinuity the lack of focus and in a sense the even if there isn't such in the film i have once heard someone state that cronenberg's violence is actually a criticism of in media but he hides that well with the fact that he derives such incredible pleasure in ripping new orifices into humans animals and amorphous piles of biological sludge br br what is brilliantly written and done about this movie is the use of video game conceits not being able to say exactly what you want to say during cut scenes relative lack of surroundings or surroundings that don't make sense only a few people around where it feels there should be many and vice versa all of that stuff along with the motif of penetration it definitely deconstructs the video game reality in a way that's nauseating and absurd but it does it even better by replacing video game electronics with literal pods of biological matter that squirm and shift and are frankly disgusting to the one of the most horrifying degrees for what it's worth this film causes a reaction in you br br but what for it criticizes virtual reality but it's a movie it is its own virtual reality it seems to criticize the banality of video game plot lines and character design yet it maintains that banality it definitely seems to worry over whether killing a video game character is more okay than killing an actual human being and how video games can be confused with reality and cause people to not think about the consequences of their actions in real life and yet i say again it derives the utmost pleasure from ripping people objects beasts things and organisms into bloody shreds br br so whereas it has a key focus of angst it doesn't really do anything with it not really only what it does do is present that angst in such an original way it can't really be denied its own moment of splendor br br in a sense it'd be much easier to just hate this movie for being gory and violent because there's no good reason i can see for loving it and yet i can't disregard it as mediocre or bad it'd be easier to simply not be able to take it but since i can there's nothing i can really do with it i do believe it is a little excessive it really didn't need to go as far as it went but cronenberg's intentions are so mixed up and confused i don't know if that was cronenberg's flaw or cronenberg's point and i don't think there's really any way to figure it out except maybe ask him directly br br polarisdib
1	russian actress tatiana reminds me so much of the young audrey hepburn and the camera in the cranes are flying seems to love her just as much she is the focal point of a bittersweet war romance against the background of world war ii in moscow br br the film is almost poetic in its gorgeous b w cinematography which was the main reason for watching the film in the first place since i had never heard of it and decided to give it a try when it aired on tcm br br it's a very moving love story about a girl's deep love for a man who is suddenly swept away by his role as a soldier drafted in wartime russia she's unable to forget the memory of her romantic attachment to him but inexplicably marries someone else who has forced himself on her a pianist who soon realizes that she still loves the soldier she hopes to hear from their marriage is a troubled one because she can't let go of her remembrance of a happier time with her soldier sweetheart br br by the end of the story she accepts the idea that he's never going to return and is able to face reality and cope with the situation there's a very poignant final scene at a train station where arriving soldiers are greeting their loved ones and the tearful girl shares the joy of the returning soldiers by giving some flowers from her bouquet to the joyous families br br the stylish and striking camera work is what carries the film as well as the honestly played story br br tastefully done but perhaps the english subtitles didn't tell the whole tale because some of the plot elements seemed a bit blurred to me as if they had been glossed over br br summing up easy to see why it won awards at the cannes film festival reminded me in style of another great russian film ballad of a soldier
1	an absorbing exploration of virtual reality although it is not yet clear how much the director himself intended this film deliberately takes you through several layers of artificial reality leaving only subtle clues about which layer of virtual reality you are in an confusion for the viewer to ponder br br also can be seen as a satire of video games the whole movie though may fall into the fallacy of form here it seems unable to escape from the video game genre which it imitates thus the satire becomes problematic br br a number of interesting ideas throughout though the biological mutant is one the interface of technology and biology the cyborg urge to transcend reality and philosophical allusions such as the title's to along with existential questions i e the game characters are partly scripted or determined and yet partly free to alter their fate and they wonder at how strange that feels in the game one character then notes that this existential confusion is just like real life thereby erasing again the distinction between the virtual and the real likewise with the observation that it is unpleasant to stumble around in a world where you don't know what will happen next and you're not sure how to play since you have to stumble around just to find out the goal and the unknown rules a virtual game within the game is titled also a critique of how virtual violence makes us unable to feel the effects of real violence even the heroes at every level of existence find themselves confused about violence they don't like it but it is thrilling and part of the game which then they fear is real br br the game creator the god of the system is assassinated in the end yet that very scenario is played out in direct parallel to a video game we've just witnessed and the onlookers believe that it is still just part of the virtual reality in the end the film does not resolve the doubt about whether or not this is real but the point is clear to me anyway means da you are there you are thrown into a set of rules and mysteries at every level virtual reality recapitulates reality and its common game motifs express like a royal road to the unconscious our own fascination with violence br br nevertheless while cronenberg affirms these philosophical allusions in an interview about the film he claims that he is very much against the reality underground name of terrorist group portrayed in the film both in the game and in the 'real' level seems that cronenberg himself did not put that much thought into the film though his impressive education comes through the interview in cineaste gives the impression of a middle brow intellectual who's trying to be avant garde by inclination cronenberg is simply on the side of free imagination the clichéd bourgeois modernist credo despite the acknowledged ambivalence there my impression here might be due to one limited interview still seems to miss the point that his film betrays the fallacy of form here imitating computer games while doing a satirical critique of them but a critique that is unable to transcend the same form probably because he actually thinks that it is imaginative and radical yet the film's imaginative world is less bearable and more jejune than our own all too real world it remains trapped in the computer game worldview
1	we're both stumbling around together in this unformed world whose rules and objectives are largely unknown seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand so says ted in the film which for some people sums up life and probably is a film about existence what is real and what is unreal and how you tell the difference or not the last line of the film is superbly ambiguous br br the film seems like a shaggy dog story indeed it has a real shaggy dog in it but it takes you along on an interesting ride full of provocative cronenberg touches that will make you look at amphibians game pods fish spines and bones in a new light some bits are quite icky it takes place in a rural setting where the gas station is called and a chinese restaurant is called 'chinese restaurant 'the film has an engrossing texture that is leagues away from your usual big budget science fiction movie you can read many things into the film and it repays watching more than once br br the main actors are jude law who is ok and jennifer jason leigh who is great some roles don't suit this very talented actor but when she has a good role like this she is unmatchable her unconventional beauty and fascinating voice suits the part of looks great in a short black skirt too there are other familiar actors but they are not given much to do it looks good sounds good and a howard shore score complements the film very well cronenberg is possibly the alfred hitchcock of the sci fi horror genre no matter what film he makes he is always worth watching
1	david cronenberg's is a well designed reflection of the philosophy of existentialism it addresses the problems of a culture that is plugged into technology that it can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality or between the organic and the mechanical the movie shocks the audience with its replacement of mechanical technology with organic one in this context the technology is able to be part of human body after playing the virtual reality game of the real world feels like a game and as a result human behavior change in order to apply violent game urges even when the game is over in technology has evolved from machinery to biological organisms that plug directly into the human nervous system an idea that reflects marshall belief who is a well known media theorist that computers are extensions of human consciousness like telephone is an of the ear television is an of the eye telegram is an of the central nervous system high tech virtual reality is an of human consciousness in technology is biological and thus more human than it is in our world but as technology becomes organic humans become more mechanical and therefore less free unable to resist their game urges is a virtual realty simulation of man's existence jean describes a society in his book of simulacra and simulation which all power to act has been transformed to appear the world has passed into a pure simulation of itself in it is obvious to see society with the themes of the invasion of the body the loss of control and the transformation of the self into other br br while you are in the consciousness slowly replaces with another identity your role in the game which is a reflection each individual's real life subconscious while you gain the control of your life step by step the aura of your real life for simulations or simulacra have become more than real ' our like cronenberg's world of computer simulation now feels and for all intents and purposes is more real than what we call the real world ' the purpose of the game which can basically be called is quite metaphorical because you can not even know what is experience unless you experience it as say that life without an exact explanation is absurd the game of is absurd too cronenberg ironically reflects the absurdity of our lives for instance in the game the other roles just stand still unless you ask them a pre programmed question and when you put their aimless funny looking state of being into the representation of our lifes the exposed absurdity really shocks br br the theme of the game is to understand what it is for this hidden metaphorical question creates anguish over the people who play they have no doubt about their existence however they do not know the underlying reason of their existence the essence br br have held that human beings do not have a fixed nature or essence as other animals and plants do each human being makes choices that create his or her own nature in the formulation of the 20th century french philosopher jean paul sartre existence precedes essence choice is therefore central to human existence and it is inescapable even the refusal to choose is a choice freedom of choice entails commitment and responsibility because individuals are free to choose their own path have argued they must accept the risk and responsibility of following their commitment wherever it leads ' perhaps i should mention deals with the concept of freedom of choice too you achieve your final role in the game by taking right decisions if you don't than the game becomes and boring so you begin to interrogate the game your existence rather than your essence you suddenly become from the game and realize your position outside the game well as a last word is a well designed reverse simulation of life thus existentialism br br
1	who should watch this film anyone who has ever taken acid read philip k dick thought the premise of the matrix was better then the special effects has an interest in philosophy or likes having their sense of reality messed with i laughed out loud at this film just because it was so outrageous and so spot on this film is great this film is cool it is better than the matrix by a long shot i didn't fall asleep in for a kick off action special effects films bore me stupid and despite a plausible philosophical gloss that is exactly what the matrix is is gross it is disturbing and it is funny david cronenberg has done some shonky stuff rabid and some works of genius too videodrome is another one worth checking out as is stephen king adaptation the dead zone but this is one of my all time favourites i can't remember the ending which is a good thing cos it means i can watch it again or perhaps i never watched this film at all maybe it's an implanted memory or maybe it 'really' happened to me i don't know at any rate it is now seamlessly stitched into my overall illusion of reality and i'm glad
1	david cronenberg much like colleague david lynch is an acquired taste a director who plays with themes like reality perversion sex insanity and death is bound to get the most extreme from audiences he proved this with films as the fly naked lunch crash and capital x capital z and more recently spider it's best to see with a clear mind try not to read too much about the plot or it'll be ruined for you what i can tell you is that cronenberg takes you on a trip down into the world of videogames that acts as a metaphor for any kind of escapist behaviour living out fantasies is something people always dream of but how far can you go into it before reality gets blurred and the fantasy takes over and turns into a nightmare those are the themes touched in an exploration of identity the human psyche physical bodies being invaded by disease and most importantly reality itself br br the story and directing are excellent cronenberg knows his trade very well and succesfully brings to life an artificial world avoiding the usual pitfalls and clichés linked to stories such as this the film shows some pretty disgusting stuff but is unusually low key in the gore department in comparison to other work the shock effects he plays on are never over the top and the plot progression is very intelligent and creative it's not the most intellectual movie ever but it will leave you thinking about it wondering and pretty confused br br the acting gets two thumbs up as well both protagonists jennifer jason leigh and jude law play their parts perfectly and cleverly portray their character's shifting moods and identities the dialogue may seem a little stale and clinical at times but that is part of the effect cronenberg was going for to create a disaffected and alien atmosphere that puts you quite at unease supporting actors as ian holm don mckellar and an especially creepy willem dafoe lift the movie even higher with their disturbingly familiar performances br br this movie takes some getting used to but if you can appreciate the dark tone blood imagery and existentially warping story you'll love it
1	everybody seems to compare this to the matrix and the 13th floor and when i first saw it i would have agreed i was expecting the matrix and was a little disappointed but upon repeated viewings my respect for this movie has grown immensely br br the thing to keep in mind is that the matrix is a great action movie with some philosophical mumbo jumbo thrown in the 13th floor is a passable action movie with some slightly more interesting philosophical mumbo jumbo thrown in is not an action movie at all and is not as many seem to believe about reality or any such deep concept it's about the human tendency to intentionally replace reality with an artificial both in its origin and in its behavior world of make believe br br the most chilling moment in the movie is when geller repeats her scripted line it's at that point you realize that the people in the game have voluntarily surrendered their free will in order to participate in a story this is made even more frightening at the end when d'arcy nader or rather his player comments on the possibility of spending one's life in the game i sympathize completely with the realist philosophy that providing interesting worlds in which people simply locate the correct predefined path to the end goal is ultimately a recipe for a soulless existence living in the game is not living at all but is a tempting way to spend one's time on earth as comments about the real world there's nothing going on here might as well jack into someone else's imagination and pretend to be doing something interesting although i have to ask whether cronenberg considers this a self indictment considering that he himself offers up worlds to be experienced in 90 minute snippets br br upon leaving the theater after first watching this movie i thought it was one of those movies that was watchable only to see how it ended but having seen it a couple more times thank you scifi channel i've realized how much deeper it goes seriously if you've only seen it once it deserves another viewing
1	this film is the most impressing turkish film that i have ever seen probably okul is the first turkish horror film i must say that i were excited while watching the movie because of some reasons the first reason is that the story is impressive i mean that at the end of the film you realised all the details about movie this makes the film attractive and the other reason is that no turkish man made such a movie like that before this shows that turkish film improves itself by time although the first trial to make a horror movie it was really successful i advice all of you not to miss this movie
1	i've watched the movie actually several times and what i want to say about it is the only thing that made this movie high rank was the incredible performance absolutely nothing but that not even those silly model named deniz and some of these popular names at times in the movie is definitely very talented i've seen a few jobs he made and been through even though this is kind of horror movie he's doing really good job in comedy movies and also in dramas too i bet most of you all saw the movie and tv series those two would go for an example all i'm gonna say is you better watch out for the new works coming out from then you'll see keep the good work bro much love
1	okul is the first of its kind in turkish cinema and it's way better than i expected those people who say it's neither scary nor funny have a point it's not all that great indeed but it must be kept in mind that everyone involved with the movie is rather amateur so it's basically a maiden voyage and comparing this one to other films such as the 1st class garbage propaganda this movie is pretty damn good br br one thing that must be said it deals with the highschool students' life in turkey very realistically that's exactly how it goes the scenes that are meant to scare are somewhat cheap and hollywoodish most of them even if not all but that religion lesson scene made me laugh in tears and performs the best acting of this flick as a religion teacher br br it's not a waste of your time go and watch it you'll find it rather amusing especially if you know turkey enough to relate to turkish school lives
1	this movie coming from turkey where you can't find any tradition of horror movies first i was afraid of watching just an adaptation but after seeing it i have changed my mind it has original scenario a love movie using horror thema most of the players are not famous young people but their performance is that a new generation is coming maybe this is a sign that turkish cinema is coming back after 20 years
1	while watching this film recently i constantly had to remind myself that it was made in 1957 and in the ussr that makes it all the more remarkable many of the cinematographic effects in the film seem cliched in 2002 but they were quite original in 1957 i first saw this film in 1963 when it was first released in the us and i was struck by its originality then now just having seen it 40 years later i have no reason to change my mind
1	this is one of my three all time favorite movies my only quibble is that the director peter yates had too many cuts showing the actors individually instead of together as a scene but the performances were so great i forgive him br br albert finney and tom are absolutely marvelous brilliant the script is great giving a very good picture of life in the theatre during world war ii and therefore what it was like in the 30s as well lots of great subtle touches lots of broad overplayed strokes all of it perfectly done scene after scene just blows me away and then there's the heartbreaking climax
1	my boyfriend and i went to watch the guardian at first i didn't want to watch it but i loved the movie it was definitely the best movie i have seen in sometime they portrayed the very well it really showed me what they do and i think they should really be appreciated more not only did it teach but it was a really good movie the movie shows what the really do and how hard the job is i think being a would be challenging and very scary it was a great movie all around i would suggest this movie for anyone to see the ending broke my heart but i know why he did it the storyline was great i give it 2 thumbs up i cried it was very emotional i would give it a 20 if i could
1	a ghost story on a typical turkish high school with nice sound and visual effects brothers had made their first shots on a tv show a couple of years ago as far as i know that was kind of a turkish x files they had very nice stories but lacked on visual effects this time it seems they had what they needed and used them well this movie will make you laugh that's for sure and as well it might have you scared it has a nice plot and some young bright actors in it if you are a high school student in turkey you will find so many things about you here there are many clues in the movie about its story and ending some you understand at the moment some will make sense afterwords the dialogs were written very cleverly so these make the movie one of the best movies made in the last years do not forget this movie is the first of its kind in the turkish film industry
1	here's one of the more pleasingly scuzzy 70's blaxploitation grindhouse items it's a pervasively low rent pimp opus which comes across like a sleazier version of the mack john daniels the studly womanizing hairdresser hero mr jonathan in the immortal black shampoo gives an excellent steely portrayal of the baron a ruthless business savvy forever on the make all powerful flesh peddler who much to the dismay of his bitter brutal italian rivals reigns supreme over the sunset strip when not locking horns with his fellow no count criminal pals or doing his best to avoid being busted by the local vice cops daniels is leading a sweetly average existence as your standard garden variety suburbanite dude complete with caring wife and loving kids in some typically humdrum california small town br br the glaringly absurd premise alone promises top rate trashy greatness of a decidedly grade b schlock picture variety george deserves kudos for his hilariously ludicrous script matt commendably tactless and tasteless direction delivers the junky goods by the slimy bucketful thus making this film a hugely enjoyable serving of celluloid grime among the assorted squalid delights to be savored herein are plentiful gratuitous female nudity coarse dialogue beautifully gaudy me decade threads halter tops felt hats sparkling day glo jewelry loud suits an intensely funky r b score by smoke some hopelessly pathetic acting the little old lady who lives next door to daniels is excruciatingly shrill a memorably nasty turn by patrick wright as a sadistic goon a couple of cool action set pieces the climactic slow motion barroom massacre seriously cooks more lurid travelogue footage of the sunset strip than you can shake a feather boa at said footage allegedly includes the actual hookers and blades of the sunset strip in hollywood effectively cinematography by ken a few sicko sexual fetish tableaux some raw explicit violence a prostitute has one of her breasts cut off and amusing supporting performances by familiar schlock feature richard kennedy and george buck flower as a pair of racist corrupt browbeating police detectives sure this movie ain't art but it's certainly artless enough to qualify as a deliciously grungy chunk of entertainingly sordid cinematic swill
1	you got to see it to believe it shot in hollywood on the strip in the middle of the sleazy anything goes 70s this cheaply made flick must of really packed the inner city theatres back in the day then again i bet it had a one week run actually its pretty hilarious the acting is dreadful the direction non existent but the hair clothes rotten pre disco music and the general out and out sleaziness of the story are mind boggling sleazy its very sleazy highly if you can find it
1	possible spoilers included but nothing critical given away br br i just watched this classic low budget movie on video and was knocked out by the level of energy present on screen all the actors do themselves proud especially john daniels must see another of his films not only does this movie boast great performances but manages stylish sequences like when the baron throws someone out of a window and we see shards of glass falling into a swimming pool which erupts from the impact of the fallen man i love the way slow motion photography was used in 70's cinema dreamy and hypnotic cool and witty black dudes spout great one liners while slimy seedy lumps of white trash come to unpleasant ends i love it my rating 10 10 if this ever comes out on dvd count me in for a purchase
1	i started to watch this show by accident but i love it the fact that main character is in a wheelchair is something that lacking in television especially for kids shows my five year old nephew as most children do would just stare at people who were in wheelchairs or had some other type of handicap but after he watched pelswick it just seemed to be a normal occurrence to him every time he saw a wheelchair he would simply say like pelswick and go on with what ever he was originally doing and yes the animation is a little crude but if you can stand to watch through the first season of the simpsons then this isn't that bad the genie is actually an angel who is there to help pelswick learn lessons in life he can not walk some else said he could walk some of the time i've seen every episode and he never to my recollection walked he is a he has no feeling below his armpits he mentions it in an episode as for the humor if you can get a copy of the episode which lampoons boy bands you will instantly love this show
1	eve is an eye opener because of the great sceneries and the tech no music in the backgrounds we hear this movie shows a good aspect on the human body being god's creation and to considerate about it viewers can earn better respect on the legendary story of adam and eve either if it's true or just a fairy tale depending on what we believe from watching this movie actress model inger impersonation of eve is so good there's no good word to describe her performance and i can't imagine having another actress being eve this movie to me comes in really handy for the type of therapy of stress relief we'd never fell so relax then before from watching this movie this movie is a masterpiece god supposedly wanted this movie to be made in the first place br br mr
1	the story of a little girl who was driven once by fear and now by pain she becomes woman and a vengeful crime fighter her power is to manifest strong anime characters onto herself this movie fuses animation with live action as she wields her animated sword through all that stands before her she struggles to deal with life her demons and her fears br br young emily watched her parents fight and argue she watched her dad leave her emily soon discovered she had the power to do something about it emily grew through life traveling as a loner and at night she had the power to make a difference in the world br br this movie is a great blend of animation and real action there are many themes and metaphors that run deep through the movie this movie is broke up as a 12 part series
1	drawn by pain is easily one of the best pieces of cinema i have ever seen here are my reviews of the episodes released so far br br episode one was even better than i expected and from everything i had heard about it i expected quite a lot i am very impressed with the actors already the father was creepy and played perfectly the little girl is so expressive she uses her eyes to convey such emotion the animation was superb the cinematography was amazing each camera angle capturing the feeling of the scene perfectly the editing was done so well each scene blending seamlessly into the next the music captured the emotions quite well and drew you into the story i just can't say enough about how wonderful this episode was it definitely my appetite for more br br episode 2 was even better than the first one everything i said about the first episode carries through only you get to see even more of the character development i can not wait to finally see episode 3 or the rest of the series for that matter what is developing is an intriguing character driven storyline with all the trappings of a big hollywood production but without the pretension so much is said with so few words this series is something like you've never seen and perched to become a real success br br this episode was freaking awesome no other words describe it wow everything that i've said about the previous episodes holds true for this one and yet it was even better i don't know how you manage to take something amazing and make it even better the further character development proves that this is a completely character driven piece the cinematography excels as it always has and draws you into emily's pain fear hate and emotional roller coaster i can't wait to see episode 4 or the rest of the series for that matter you have truly outdone yourself br br as much as i have loved the other episodes episode 4 is the best yet i love the character progression i feel like we are really coming to know emily her pain and her internal struggle the other themes i've stated in past reviews are continued great cinematography the writing is superb the actors are right on with their portrayals and have made the characters their own and the animation is simply amazing another great job from the crew
1	this young filmmaker has a talent for capturing his audience quickly with unusual camera work and sparse but intense scripts the concept here of combining animation with live footage is remarkably well executed and the soundtrack is very good br br the decision to release the movie in twelve parts online puts the onus on the director to make each episode fascinating enough for the viewer to invest in buying each upcoming episode i only wish all motion pictures had this kind of commitment to keeping their audiences entertained throughout their stories br br highly recommended
1	this new movie by is awesome check it out and you'll be amazed the story of emily waters once a girl from a broken home whose only means of escape from an abusive father was through her until one night her drawings manifested into reality and saved her and now using this power she fights against those who would do evil both live action film and hand drawn animation blend together to create a unique and original experience that will shake your soul and blow you away the music is incredible as well it really the emotional experience and draws you deep into the conflict directed by jesse and animated by erica starring the beautiful marissa with music by nico rowland daniel collins jeff matt and support this film and support he is a very talented guy go see his film shades of grey as well
1	i had long wanted to watch this romantic drama with a wwii setting and now that i have all i can say is that it's a veritable masterpiece of russian cinema br br soviet films are known for their overzealous propagandist approach but thankfully this one's free of such emphasis with the interest firmly on the central tragic romance between a promising artist and a vivacious girl doomed by the outbreak of war for which he gladly volunteers but from which he'll never return the girl a remarkable performance from is also loved by the young man's cousin and when she doesn't receive word from her boyfriend gives in to the latter and marries him he however is an aspiring concert pianist bitter about the war having curtailed his chances for success and knowing too that the girl's still devoted to the soldier begins to neglect her finally word reaches the girl of her loved one's death but by the end of the film she has learnt to accept this as a sacrifice to their native country and is content to live with her memories of him br br the film features some truly amazing camera work which makes extremely judicious use of the screen space and by frequently adopting tracking tilted and high or low angle shots renders great power to the unfolding emotional drama individual sequences are equally impressive two in particular the stunning scene frenetically edited and sped up to boot in which the girl saves an abandoned boy from being trampled by a truck and the young man's premature demise in an unfortunate incident at the front undoubtedly one of the best of its kind i've ever watched with the sun moving away from him symbolizing the life that's seeping out of his body as he imagines the wedding day he'll never have also notable however is the scene where the girl goes to look for her parents in her home that's been hopelessly devastated during an air raid as is her final violent capitulation to the concert pianist which she tries to resist by repeatedly slapping him in the face taking place during a later air raid and making particularly effective use of a set of billowing curtains br br disappointingly the r1 dvd of this outstanding film is a bare bones affair the ruscico edition features a few supplements but being an export tends to be heavily overpriced and hard to track down to boot criterion released it in conjunction with another war themed russian classic ballad of a soldier 1959 which my pal at the local dvd rental outlet has told me is forthcoming br br the only other film i've watched from this director is the arctic epic the red tent 1969 albeit via the much shorter u s release version a star studded international production based on true events given the unmistakable artistic quality of the cranes are flying i regret missing out now on his famous documentary i am cuba 1964 a number of times when i was in hollywood late last year apart from receiving a one week theatrical run it was shown more than once on tv accompanied by a feature length making of
1	jesse yet again delivers after almost 12 months of hype about his upcoming production it finally reaches the dark world of the internet with more than a brilliant approach to amateur film making br br is a original nail biting commentary on a troubled child growing into an even more troubled adult if i had more than two thumbs i would give more but i think two will be enough br br great work from all cast especially by marissa and elizabeth the character of emily as an adult has given me shivers so far and i'm afraid of where she'll go next br br an excellent watch
1	this was a modern tv classic the story goes like this bob has a girlfriend named alicia bob and alicia are in love and want to get married bob has a bud named owen who he works with owen is jealous of alicia he likes hanging around with bob now owen hangs around with bob and alicia bob and owen have a secretary named heather heather is very accident prone she is also if you haven't guessed it is kind of lonely she too hangs around with bob and alicia and owen sometimes alicia wishes bob didn't have any friends br br by the end of the first season it looked like owen finally found himself a real girlfriend bob and alicia went driving on the night before their wedding making out in a tiny car and then getting stuck way out in the middle of nowhere what happened next what about poor heather did anyone get married sorry series ended br br not even a plea from tv guide made fox think twice about putting it back on the air it was a great show with a great cast i loved heather too she looked cool in those glasses and was hilarious i miss this show a lot this is like reading a good book with the ending missing sad
1	i enjoyed this show it was on in the uk but not at peak time and they seemed to move it all over the schedules so i wasn't able to watch them all i was surprised when it didn't return and had no i idea why still don't know but i guess that's not important br br great performances from the two leads they were very believable as friends the two supporting actresses also added well to the mix i guess it was part of a whole load of shows that were lifestyle centred friends being the obvious main one but sex in the city came along a few years later br br the characters get take out coffee they drink at nice bars that sort of thing a little woody in a way
1	jon cryer reprises his role as a neurotic guy in two and a half men which he perfected in this series he longs to have a good relationship with a girl like his coworker has developed and the tet a tet between him and his partner's girlfriend's best friend are pretty funny then they realize that they're attracted to each other and start dating in one of the funniest lines on tv ever i think in the final episode he and his partner are discussing that he wants to propose to the girl br br his partner prepares him for the moment by suggesting what's the worst that can happen she says no br br armed with newfound optimism he proposes to his date over dinner to which she replies br br god no br br i laughed so hard i cried
1	rock star' is not on its way to any stairway to heaven' category as one of the best rock films of all time but it does make you from time to time because of its high level energy the film's theme is on a die hard rock group fanatic who actually becomes the lead singer of his favorite band the story is based upon the true story on what happened to the heavy metal band judas priest if you think this movie is filled with a witty screenplay and intellect direction then you got another thing however what did shook me all night was the fine acting of jennifer aniston as the rock star's devoted girlfriend i could not say the same about the rock star himself mark wahlberg was much better as a porn star than a rock star i did enjoy the 80's retrospect journey the movie it reminded me of my teenage years where everything smelled like teen spirit' i guess the film is worth a viewing but for you to have a better time watching it make sure you bring along some girls girls girls ' average
1	this is the second movie about 1985 the other one was 'the wedding whilst the was portraying the pop side of the 80's 'rock star' is all about metal br br mark wahlberg plays a talented singer in a tribute band of some famous rock act of the time and jennifer aniston plays his girlfriend when his fixation rewards him his whole life changes in a day br br the story doesn't get too dramatic and it only scratches the surface of the life of a rock star sex and drugs are very limited in this movie but it is full of roll the music is fantastic and the concerts are directed brilliantly the whole concert feeling is very well captured since they used real audiences no cgi here br br great direction and a brilliant performance by marky mark who acts like a true metal dude br br 'rock star' is all about fun and if you had anything to do with the old metal scene you are going to love this movie br br 10 10
1	i loved this movie it is a very simple plot and from what i understand it is based on a true story growing up in the 80's with hard rock hair metal may have something to do with my love of this film but even aside from the music it is a really fun movie to watch give it a try you will like it unless you are the hardest of critics and only like movies of citizen kane caliber
1	after reading previews for this movie i thought it would be a let down however after i got my region 1 dvd the dvd was available before the film hit the uk cinemas i was pleasantly surprised strong performances from all cast members make this a very enjoyable movie the fact that the script is quite weak means that you dont get bogged down in story and therefore the repeat viewing factor is greater i recommend this movie to one and all br br
1	after reading previews for this movie i thought it would be a let down however after i got my region 1 dvd the dvd was available before the film hit the uk cinemas i was pleasantly surprised strong performances from all cast members make this a very enjoyable movie the fact that the script is quite weak means that you dont get bogged down in story and therefore the repeat viewing factor is greater i recommend this movie to one and all br br
1	well let me put it this way i have always been one of the hardcore brothers i've always loved rock music and especially heavy metal that's why this movie is like a gift from god i believe this movie is one of the best movies ever well except from neverending story and star wars of course it's great to hear all the classics like long live rock and roll dio ted nugent songs by jon bon deep purple ac dc and several other legendary rock bands heavenly absolutely gorgeous wonderful i hope they will make more movies like this otherwise it's just crap movies like that ac in da usa or what they call it and 8 miles bulls well i strongly recommend this anyway everything i'm missing is a couple of songs but except from that it's one of the best movies ever ten out of ten
1	a true masterpiece of the soviet cinematography it's a shame for the soviet union that was never given an opportunity to play in the western movies but then again she would probably never find herself there in she is unforgettable this was one of the few movies where i was crying br br in addition to and who are top rate it was a brilliant work of the director and the operator which made this movie an all time classics world wide just remember the scenes of piano music and proposal under the heavy german bombardment or the death of boris with a swirling sky above his head and his last visions appeared blurred in those skies the very simple means but the great technique added to the emotional weight mind you 20 years before the star wars 41 years before titanic and with a soviet budget
1	this was an interesting movie i could have done without the bathroom scene and the seduction scene ewwww other than that i loved the head banging music this movie revolved around chris parents are awesome they totally support their sons interests and believe in him enough to support him now that is awesome what really surprised me was the chris's realization at the end it was not quite the hollywood ending on his road to self discovery the overall rise to stardom and the fall of it was quite a roller coaster ride
1	i love this movie first and foremost because of mark wahlberg is in it and secondly because the end justifies the means there is something about this film that sucks you in and allows you to feel all of the emotions the characters are feeling jen aniston is great as the girlfriend in this movie it takes a look at the rockstar lifestyle that so many hardcore rockers lived back in the day perhaps these days they have gotten just smarter it takes through a rainbow of emotions and has a lot of subtle facets to allow the light through like a diamond this movie shines you won't waste your popcorn on this one semi chick flick but my husband enjoyed it too there's some laughs thrown in too
1	i watched this movie the other night and i have to admit it was quite possibly the best film of this generation turns out i wasn't born until 1988 but i can relate to this motion picture like cary grant can relate to having an std or burt reynolds to being a burnout marky mark did not decline in awesomeness after his brief stint in new kids on the block which i will from here on refer to as the best band in the world aka like it's totally a morality tale about trannies an' poop so pay attention i love all y'all and continue to support marky because he needs us now more than ever he's the only who survived the de
1	so you wanna be a rock star see this movie you don't like rock you say or you're really into heavy metal then put on your favorite album and dream yourself away this movie has nothing to offer rarely have i ever seen a movie being able to portrait the dream of being in a rock band as good as this i had long hair during the late 1980's and early nineties and i have played guitar for the last 15 years or so did i like rock star oh yes the music is good not great the actors are good and believable even jennifer aniston plays her part to perfection and mark wahlberg is perfect as the wannabe rock singer so you know what you're going to get a movie about dreams coming true being stepped on and finally figuring out what life is really about it's a good solid seven out of ten no more no less
1	this film is great with some of the best songs preformed by bon jovi and kiss the film is about a man named chris mark wahlberg who is the biggest fan of a band named steel dragon and then when he gets the gig for lead singer his world changes upside down with great acting by jennifer aniston this film is a must see for rock lovers br br 4 5 stars
1	i was very excited to see rock star because i am a big fan of mark wahlberg's i was surprised to have liked it more than i originally thought i would the script did leave something to be desired but the movie's performances made up for it there were a few moments when visions of spinal tap came rushing back and i can't help but think this movie would have been even better as a mocumentary but i digress br br wahlberg continues to demonstrate his talent as he plays with believability an ordinary guy whose biggest dream comes true he does it with the wonder and innocence that make you not only believe him but also make you really care about his character br br jennifer aniston who hasn't impressed me in movies up to this point is surprisingly good as the girlfriend manager she shows more real emotion than i've seen in her last few movies combined br br but above all it's the music in this movie that really draws you in peppered with some 80's tunes let's face it bon jovi would have any 80's music fans rocking in their seat the movie really rocks with the original steel dragon songs and wahlberg's performance of them br br i plan to see this movie again but first i'm going to rush out and buy the soundtrack
1	rock star is a nice movie everyone is nice even the guys who aren't supposed to be nice really are nice chris is a nice guy who learns a lesson in life he goes back to his girlfriend emily who is also nice br br it's a good movie despite all the niceness maybe i'm just used to all the angst of the x gen music in some ways the film was a caricature of rock stars and not hard edged enough to be believable br br mark wahlberg's acting is quite good jennifer aniston played her role well but it was uncomplicated she was a nice girl br br go see it if you have ever been to a rock concert or seen spinal tap go see it
1	i seen this movie when it came out i thought what an average movie i have now realized that this director was ahead of his time this is a great movie and great soundtrack i have seen my share of rock films but although this is far from spinal tap which i did not like this film does take us into the life of an 80s rocker wanting to be nothing but this is nothing more than our inner child wanting to grow up and to be a rock star yeah i said it everyone wants to grow up and be on the spot light weather said or not this movie just puts you in the core of emotions and you can almost feel the excitement of izzy i must admit the acting was less par but still the music and story was enough to hold you in to it till the credits rolled worth the watch especially if you are a fan of ye ole mighty hair bands
1	warning possible spoilers br br 'rock star' is one of the solid rock movies i have ever seen the original idea of the script focuses on a young singer in the 80s leading a tribute band of one of the most famous hard rock bands of the period he is not only playing their music to the note but also living the life of his idols when his friends in the tribute band expel him in search of some originality the destiny plays him a good turn and gets hired to replace the lead singer of the idols band a dream came true well almost while starting to live the life of the famous including the drug and sex excesses of the rock scene of the 80s he will also have to face the problems in relationship with his supportive girlfriend and will be eventually need to answer questions about creativity and having a saying in the music of the band br br i liked the film one of the reasons being that it is one of the first times that the life and music of the hard metal rock bands is shown in a realistic manner fans of the music genre will be satisfied by the soundtrack the overall idea is original and the issues of how an artist lives his life and creates his art are being rendered in a sensible and balanced manner acting is quite good with mark wahlberg better than in most of the other action flics i saw him lately and jennifer aniston in tune with the nice girl who knows a lot about life role more problematic is the ending which is quite conventional and may disappoint it looks like the main character after quiting the big and famous band has found his own creative path however in an ironical twist the music he is playing in the club at the end is the worst in the whole movie br br 8 10 on my personal scale worth seeing however expect exposure to a high dose of metal if you do not like this kind of music you may chose to avoid this film
1	what to say about a movie like rock star a lot actually this is the type of movie that is almost tailer made for the critics to slam it is also a movie i as a major hard rock fan enjoyed no loved actually while all the while being very consciously aware of its many flaws and that the movie while a decent effort in some respects missed the chance it had to escape into greatness and become a rock movie classic oh well br br i loved this movie and would see it again and again but i know that's purely based on my own personal tastes rock star is a movie that will appeal to anyone who has experienced elements of the rock or hard rock lifestyle and wants to go down the road to nostalgia it was a great time for metal heads and it's nice to have a movie that effectively captures that long forgot by many non rock fans time effectively as i think that rock star has done that is one of the film's strengths the concert footage you will feel like your right there with them and how could any hard rock fan not love that as far as setting the atmosphere rock star gets a 10 of 10 it also gets a 10 of 10 for pure entertainment if you want a movie to just let yourself go and free flow into some great memories of good times past then this is the movie for you it is also the reason why i loved this movie so br br but it isn't a great movie i understand that and were it my actual job to review movies professionally i'd probably have to be a bit hard on this one the problem with rock star is the character development br br what is wrong with the character development is this there isn't any none the movie has certain scenes few and far between but they are there that do touch on greatness warning brief scene spoilers 3 examples 1 when izzy makes his debut on stage including the fall he takes br br 2 the first after show party with emily anniston and izzy br br 3 a little in the beginning when the original lead singer is casually dismissed fired the whole business as usual tone sets the stage for what's to come it's played very effectively br br but the problem is nothing ever does come there is little to no character development of anyone in this movie peoples' persona's are merely touched on but never fully explored i don't think that's the fault of the actors actresses particularly anniston who tries hard they just are not given much to work with it's just that the script was weak and lacked the ability to go beyond the formula feel into true movie depth rock star was so sugarcoated at times including towards the end it was almost ridiculous and though those scenes i mentioned were outstanding and very believable sadly much else in the movie wasn't br br another reviewer mentioned the lack of buildup towards the end and i agree but there was actually a lack of buildup about anything why does izzy leave at the end because he misses his girlfriend and the band won't let him write songs it tests the limits of believability and frankly the end was just corny made no sense and had no reality to it at all br br watching this it's almost like watching a movie where the makers of it said ok this happens here and then this happens and then this etc etc etc by the end it's no longer a movie about a boy who's dream came true it's just another thickly formulated love story and you wonder why so much detail is left out br br i hope i'm not being to hard on rock star because i truly loved it but not for the right reasons i would have liked to love this as a great movie about the highs and lows of rock fame instead i loved it for it's 80's period feel the clothes the hair the lights the life although many others loved it to i suspect most are people who lived the life of a rock fan like i did or some who play i'd have liked to see the movie cross over and just be respected for being a good well told movie instead of a cliché i think one of the problems was the length i myself hate over long films but this was one that really should have been longer if a movie is done really right the length is not even felt there is just to much to the story for it to be as short as it was that's one reason why there doesn't seem to be much development of either the story or the human beings portrayed in the movie br br so to wind down this is a movie you can greatly get into but not a great movie see it for fun see it for entertainment see it to go back to that great great space in time when metal wasn't just a part of life it was life and for those non rock fans see it to get a little glimpse into a life that meant and still means so much to so many of us
1	in moscow the young couple veronika t and boris are in deep love for each other with the world war ii boris volunteers to join the army and is sent to the front on the day before birthday and they do not have the chance to say goodbye to each other while waiting for news from boris veronika is raped by boris' cousin mark a and they marry each other however veronika does not forget boris and keeps waiting for him br br is an impressive and heartbreaking romance in times of war the direction is excellent and uses ellipses along the story inclusive in the capital scene when veronika is raped by mark the camera work is amazing with sophisticated planes and angles and long traveling the scenes of veronika in the middle of the tanks or in the train station with many are awesome the magnificent cinematography is highlighted by the restored image of the dvd t has an extremely beautiful face and a touching and sensitive performance the speech in the last scene makes another great example of an anti war movie my vote is nine br br title brazil as when fly the stork
1	mark in a great role a rock star to the extent of knowing all his songs imitating him to perfection and dressing like him when the opportunity comes for him to take over his idol's role in the band he jumps at the opportunity however the role of a rock star may not be what it is cracked up to be and relationships can change this movie certainly struck me as having the theme of what you attain for may not be what you think it is once you get it overall a really good movie with great performances from all the cast as well as the two leads mark and jennifer aniston it did make me feel sad especially when emily jennifer aniston met up with chris in seattle and saw the depths to what he had sunk if anybody ever dreamed of being a rock star or a groupie they should watch this movie to see that the lifestyle although glamourous for a while is very lonely and ultimately not what you may want
1	if you like the 80's rock you should definitely see this movie i've only seen it recently and completely fell in love with it br br overall the movie is very entertaining provides you with a great load of rock tunes and not a single second of the movie do i find boring it was a great idea that some of the real life musicians were in this doing what they do best i was happy to see as well as elias they all delivered solid performances i tend to agree with a lot of people saying that the first half of the movie was much better than the second one specially in the terms of the script that could have been worked on a bit better but not a major biggie one thing that did bother me a bit was jennifer aniston's performance i thought she wasn't the right person for this role i just couldn't see her as a rock star girlfriend but as the movie goes on you somehow realize that she did a good job with this there is a certain amount of honesty and sincerity she delivers that just doesn't live you cold br br to summarize a good and a funny movie that doesn't go deep into characters but provides you with a good fun a sense of nostalgia and of course the mighty vocals by jeff scott soto and mike
1	nothing really unpredictable in this movie but a solid flick in all respects everything from acting to cinematography was solid not a perfectly linear plot line but there wasn't anything you couldn't see coming perhaps a tad melodramatic at points but again a fairly decent movie none the less definitely worth checking out if in doubt of what film to rent over the weekend give this a go though you may not feel like running out and buying it i found it to be quite worth while
1	i must admit i wasn't expecting much on this movie i was surprised i truly enjoyed it as much as i did the script wasn't oscar material but it wasn't horrible either the acting was great by mark wahlberg jennifer aniston had a great supporting role and looked lovely as ever what made this movie for me was the music if you do not like 80's glam metal or hair bands then you probably wont like this movie its all about being a rockstar some cliche's were present but didn't bring down the movie at all i would recommend it to anyone who likes rock and roll and remember to stand up and shout 8 of 10 for great acting and awesome music br br jason
1	i've been looking forward to the release of this movie since i first heard the concept two years ago and i was not disappointed i won't bother summarizing the story since everyone else has but i will say that it was just plain entertaining throughout the performances were great as was the music and the main characters were likeable br br my only complaints are 1 the story was definitely lacking the movie wrapped up very abruptly in fact the writing became pretty lax in the second half as though the writers weren't sure what to do with the plot since the plot wasn't nearly as important as the music and the action this didn't really affect the entertainment value of the film so this is not as major a complaint as it would seem br br 2 this is really nitpicky but the music that the characters in the movie were listening to was sometimes dated after 1985 when the movie was set devil inside was from 1987 and ac are you ready was from 1990 among other mistakes this bothers me a bit since they obviously went to lengths to make a good period piece they could have checked the copyright date on these songs to make sure they were 1985 or earlier again not a big deal br br oh i thought of something else that was strange the steel dragon band members were supposed to be english but for some reason bassist jeff and ozzy guitarist played band members and they each had a couple of speaking lines in american accents that was kind of lazy also but it was still cool to see actual musicians playing musicians so i will forgive that as well br br i could probably nitpick all day but i don't want to give the impression that this wasn't a super entertaining movie i will probably buy the dvd when it comes out and i will certainly buy the soundtrack cd simply for the six steel dragon songs some of which were sung by the singer from the band if you remember them the highlight of the film was possibly a great outtake where mark wahlberg is to a rock song on stage and suddenly someone plays good vibrations by marky mark and the funky bunch the surprised look of mark's face is priceless classic rock and roll flick score 8 10 due to extreme entertainment
1	rock star is a well told hollywood style rendition of the tale based on fact actually on how ripper became rob replacement for judas priest mark wahlberg poured on his likable boy ish charm and performed with believable admirably something he has been known to do since the release of boogie nights br br stephen herek no stranger to musically themed movies takes the audience through the wonders of the breakneck lifestyle of an extinct species the hair metal rock god wahlberg's izzy acts as the film's host plays the everyman who gets to see his wish come true his likable character quickly wins over the heart of the viewer who wants to see him succeed and gets the chance to give him the metal goat horn hand sign several times over br br the only real complaint with the story is that the supporting cast namely the other members of the band were not fleshed out or even introduced properly more interaction with these life long rock musicians would have amplified and solidified new surroundings br br naturally rock star is filled with great music rabin's score the steel dragon's original work and plenty of 80's style metal hits makes this soundtrack a must have let's all hope that films like rock star not only give a credibility to a style of music that helped define a generation but also spark a very needed revival
1	rock star 2001 out of four br br by blake french br br rock star is the story of a nobody who becomes propelled into fame only to realize living his dream is not the way he imagined it we have seen all this before in better movies but this human story does capture the world of rock and roll with a brutally honest and insightful edge it garners a recommendation because of its visualization of the atmosphere the script by crazy beautiful director john stockwell portrays the hard core universe with memorable images it doesn't explain what it is about it shows us br br rock star originally titled metal god stars mark wahlberg as chris izzy cole a pittsburgh office supplies salesperson who dreams of becoming bobby beers the fiery lead singer for the heavy metal rock group steel dragon although chris already sings for his own tribute rock group called blood pollution instead of writing his own songs he insists on performing only those by steel dragon and only in the exact way they perform them his group becomes irritated with chris' obsessions and gives him the boot br br this devastates chris as well as his supportive parents and faithful girlfriend emily jennifer aniston from tv's friends he then receives a phone call it's the steel dragon band they have seen chris' tapes and want him to replace the recently fired lead singer in an instant chris rockets into the dizzying world of sudden stardom from the biggest rock fan to the biggest rock star unfortunately it's not as rewarding as he expected br br a true story inspired the rock star concept an ohio supply salesman tim ripper owens really did replace rob the lead singer in judas priest after initially singing for a tribute band the rest of the film is probably fiction although most of what happens must represent the experiences of many other bands the film details the various ordeals of being a rock star it explores the aspects of touring personality differences the danger of drug abuse and violence struggling relationships sexual freedom dishonesty and the extreme measures of the producers all to please the fans and keep popularity high br br i have seen all of mark wahlberg's movies and this is the first that has earned my affection wahlberg a former singer model has made movies like fear boogie nights three kings and most recently tim burton's lacking remake planet of the apes i am starting to admire the young actor more and more although he has not performed in many successful films he has taken many chances and done a variety of roles rock star is his best film to date i can't think of many actors who could have convincingly portrayed chris cole's struggles and aspirations wahlberg truly makes rock star rock br br jennifer aniston lights up the screen as well she creates a chemistry rich relationship with chris that induces audience participation it's tragic of what happens to their relationship we care about these characters a great deal br br during the film concert scenes director stephen herek who also directed holy man and the live action version of 101 dalmatians creates a gripping atmosphere he captures the scenes with an intense urgency and a raw unmistakable energy the musical numbers provide the film with the best most involving scenes br br unfortunately herek cannot sustain the energy and zest throughout at the three quarters mark he looses the spark as the movie becomes dull and unpleasant i understand where the story needs to go in order to portray the negative side of fame but this movie loses everything it previously had going for it in almost famous a much better film about rock and roll there is a certain amount of interest and life in even the most sorrowful scenes here it feels as if the filmmakers lose their passion br br the message comes a bit too late and suddenly in the story the film turns into a morality tale that wants to provide us with a sappy destination the filmmakers might as well stop everything appear on screen and say now audience the moral of the story we understand the theme but it's too instantaneous the personal discovery for chris' must be gradual br br fortunately all of this happens in the last twenty five minutes of the film hardly enough to completely destroy an entire eighty five minutes of a reasonably good feature rock star is not a great movie see almost famous if you want a remarkable film about rock and roll but for marky mark it's a turning point in his career br br
1	surprisingly well acted well written movie about hard rockin' but decent young man getting that much hoped for ticket to stardom his favorite heavy metal band wants him to replace their lead singer not far fetched the film tries keeping things in perspective and doesn't go over the top it certainly makes you think twice about those lingering adolescent fantasies about being in the music business but the script despite solid dialogue follows a tried and true formulaic pattern and gets bogged down by its own clichés in the final act i enjoyed it much more than the sugary fluffball almost famous it has a nice bitter edge to go with its heavy metal decadence but a stronger finish might've made it more memorable 1 2 from
1	i'm an action movie fan but until today i've never seen a preview or an ad for this movie in italy so i went to see the long kiss goodnight on pay tv hoping for nothing special br br but what a surprise this movie is great the only problem i found is the presence of some holes in the plot but the rest is the most entertaining intriguing and funny action movie ever made br br the transformation of samantha charly from ordinary wife teacher to cool blooded agent recovering from amnesia seems to be a good idea the action scenes and the stunts are the best i've ever seen samuel l jackson adds some of the best lines i have ever heard and his chemistry with geena davis is good br br and what about geena she is wonderful she plays the best action heroine ever seen and does strong convincing acting and fantastic stunts br br so i think this movie had weak performances at box office and bad critics because most reviewers and some kind of public have a hard time with strong female lead roles br br 9 10
1	this is one of the best action films i have seen portrayal of the tough as nails gentle mother was superb and samuel l jackson just keeps you laughing all the way through with his classic one liners sure there were a few holes in the actual story but this fast paced flick keeps you on the edge of your seat to the end br br i felt geena was a perfect choice for the role of sam charly and her versatility as an actress is evident for her role as the mother in the recent movie both samuel and geena were well supported by david morse brian cox sweet little yvonne zima and newcomers sexy craig bierko and melina this film accentuates the growing trend of strong female character and the diversion away from traditional male female stereotypes as we see sam charly davis and mitch jackson hurtling from one disaster to the next br br while i and many others loved this movie it is fair to say that there will always be people that don't and that's fine each to their own i highly recommend this film to action fans for its hilarious scenes and fast paced action
1	it does not surprise me that this short 91 minutes b w movie that was made 50 years ago in the soviet union during the short period called or the thaw has gained so much love and admiration among the movie lovers over the world it is sublime and beautifully filmed some scenes feel like there were made way ahead of their time sergei camera work and creative discoveries were included in the text books and widely imitated the film tells the moving and timeless story of love destroyed by merciless war but eternally alive in the memory of a young woman it is also the film about loyalty memories ability to live on when it seems there is nothing to live for it is about forgiveness and about hope the film received absolutely deservingly the grand prix at cannes film festival and tatiana was chosen as a recipient of a special award at cannes for playing veronika the young girl happily in love with the best man in the world in the beginning of the movie after separation with her beloved who went to the front the loss of her family in the bomb ride and the marriage to the man she never loved and only wished he never existed she turned to the shadow of herself she became dead inside her long journey to redemption to finally accepting death of her beloved and to learning how to live with it is a fascinating and heartbreaking one and it simply won't leave any viewer indifferent br br for me the movie is very personal and dear because i was born and grew up in the city where its characters lived and were so happy in the beginning i walked the same streets squares and bridges over the river every family in the former soviet union had lost at least one but often more than one family member to a combat or to the concentration camp or to the ghetto or to hunger cold and illnesses during wwii and my family is not exception my mother and grandmother knew the horrors of war and never healing pain of losses not just from the movies and the books cranes are flying speaks to me clearly and honestly and touches me very deeply it is a masterpiece of movie making but it is a part of my life my background my memory and my past
1	terrific movie if you did not watch yet you must watch geena davis and samuel l jackson are amazing in this movie br br great actors good story incredible action scenes the long kiss goodnight br br i give it a 10 a 4 stars
1	br br spoilers in this review br br the long kiss goodnight is yet another prime example of a common affliction of many modern films it starts off on a very interesting concept a trained assassin whose memory was erased regains consciousness of herself and the initial setup is engaging but then it seems the writers don't know very well where to go next and the whole thing trails off down increasingly confusing and or inane paths leaving the disappointing taste of something that was ok but promised to be a lot better the baddies are remarkably unremarkable and even jackson's comic sidekick turn seems more like something from his pre pulp fiction days it looks like harlin as in cutthroat island made every effort so that no one would upstage his then wife her character is by far the best of the film and this fact only makes you feel even more frustrated that they weren't able to do something better with it br br however there is still something about this film which for me sets it apart from the run of the mill hollywood actioner and places it above average if only just it is something very subtle i can't quite put my finger on it's a disturbing cold dark even sickly edge a nightmarish and unreal feel a decadent air a mean streak which keeps cropping up in various ways it's in the dark reddish photography and almost permanent night the characters dwell in it's in samantha's dreams in front of the mirror it's in her vicious eyes and smile whenever she's about to kill a man or when she announces how she will enjoy watching her nemesis die with her daughter listening it's in mitch's comeback at the wheel of a car while he is spurting so much blood from his mouth he can hardly speak i don't know it's an atmosphere something i can't define but which gives me the creeps a bit and which makes this film still oddly intriguing for me
1	almost no cinema experience can beat a good thriller with a sense of humor geena davis is a schoolteacher housewife who suffers from amnesia even on the pta but then an auto accident awakens the woman she used to be and it's hot samuel l jackson is hilarious as the low rent private eye who tries to help davis find her past only to find out he's in way over his head davis has some hilarious lines too and the interaction between her and jackson works surprisingly well br br look for brian cox the original hannibal and david finally managing to shed his st elsewhere tv image the film is directed by davis' husband who almost seems to have built the whole film around her but it works br br i pull out this dvd and rewatch it often i still love the makeup scene is geena hot or what
1	i was happy to find out that at least now this movie is beginning to get the appreciation it deserves just view those votes not top class action like die hard or lethal weapon but still something like a solid 7 out of 10 fine script good actors with working chemistry and a director who knows what he wants sadly this was director harlin's last good film deep blue sea managed to reach 'an ok rollercoaster status but cutthroat island and especially driven are well deserved flops personally i think the turn off at the box office might have been the woman as an action star theme well give her a chance because davis does deliver a performance above par and after all this film doesn't concentrate so much on the feminine side but instead on good ol' action jackson as a sidekick is given a lot of room in here plus his share of action and about a thousand killer wisecracks and on the plot from shane black the writer of lethal weapon and the last boy scout the latter of which as a movie is on very many levels much like this one the theme the clever plot also as good and as underrated overall if one hasn't seen this one yet don't forget to rent it for the next quiet saturday night
1	i love this film i've seen it 1000 x on dvd and i cant say enough about it it has it all comedy awesome action and incredible stunts fx samuel jackson steals the show here big time i dont think there isnt a moment that he's in that he isnt funny everyone knows that when you make an assumption you make an ass out of you and the f x are great the bridge truck explosion is incredible although the sound isnt all that great when samuel drives out of the truck the sound is off a little i think and what he says is priceless for those of you who own it on dvd put the audio in french it's even emotional moments are great when the bad guy discovers that sam's charlie's daughter is his is great this is a great film that no action fan can do without i also reccomend cutthroat island aside from all the negative publicity it kicks
1	i'm a geena davis fan for life because of this movie i've always loved samuel l jackson and the two make a great pair on screen this said i think is the best action movie i've ever seen forget the twist endings that audiences have now come to expect and that filmmakers now try mostly failing to incorporate into their movies br br 10 10
1	i think shane black is one of the all time greatest action screenwriters ever he gave us the awesome at it's time lethal weapon shooting mel gibson to super stardom then followed that up with the second best movie bruce willis has ever been in the last boyscout stumbled a bit with the last action hero but redeemed himself with this one the long kiss goodnight br br if you're a fan of action films this has it all action comedy thrills then tops it of with more action comedy and thrills geena davies is great samual l jackson is even greater don't miss it br br 9 10
1	rent this i own the dvd got it for 9 99 a steal being so under rated sure there are better movies movies with fewer or no holes in the plot or action but i don't have that problem with this movie for me if a movie stays true to itself honest and exploitive of its flaws and virtues obviously in the name of entertainment then it has fulfilled its purpose i got me to care because its makers cared the entire movie is preposterous from beginning to end but its makers took the whole undertaking seriously and i did not feel manipulated into taking the movie seriously and that is so true because i want to take every movie seriously yet many oh so many let me down for all of its this movie is almost perfect and completely entertaining what a funny screenplay it also has become eerily relevant in light of the events on 9 11 in no way do i seek to minimize the loss but this movie incorporates the of the wtc collapse before it happened in ways that we will never see had the movie been made after those events br br it's either gone for good or here to stay wouldn't you agree
1	when this movie came out i had seen geena davis play only soft feminine roles this movie was anything but soft and feminine great lines great action she and samuel l really clicked too violent for the kiddies but if you and your significant other are trying to agree on a movie try this one on for size go geena go geena
1	the long kiss goodnight has just about everything action fans want a witty screenplay by the guy who wrote lethal weapon samuel l jackson and great action set pieces by renny harlin br br seriously underrated one of the best action movies ever
1	one of those films that i happened across through the criterion collection and as usual indulged as a change of pace that turned out to be a great decision i was almost mesmerised by the quality of the film the story it told and the way it was told the almost minimalist feel to the film with sparse dialogue and almost constant music just added a whole evocative level to the film this really is a superb film to spend some time with and enjoy
1	this is movie is actually one of my all time favorites i'm not a renny harlin fan because most of his movies suck but hits its mark time after time is about a woman named samantha cain davis who suffers from amnesia she is married with a kid and as she i'm a goddamn member of the pta and then her world comes crumbling down as the pieces fall into place about her earlier identity samuel jackson plays a con artist cop who does pi gigs he is dragged along by her to solve her identity and to get paid some cash for his work along the way we find out samantha is really charlie baltimore a secret spy that was left for dead years earlier the plot is great making this story seem real and jackson does a great job as second fiddle to davis whom always does a great acting job the explosions are endless the action is intertwined with memorable scene after memorable scene pretty impressive visually though the kid got on my nerves at the end watch out of the cars i'm tired of little kids screwing up a film to be saved but still this movie is worth it as the kid adds to the film again this movie is really good i never understood why it didn't make more at the box office but if it was a man starring in the movie i'm sure it would have grossed a hundred million what is good is that over the years more people are discovering this movie and giving it good marks as the average of this film on this site has risen over the years i hope it goes up further as this is one great action film and i love action films
1	let me start by saying overall i enjoyed the long kiss goodnight i would give it a 7 10 the good 1 acting samuel l jackson is entertaining in almost any role in this movie he doesn't play his usual character the type that is in control instead geena davis is in control and sam is along for the ride his timing on his lines are great and he is the high point of the movie geena davis also gives a great preformance as samantha caine charlie baltimore she is a believable action hero and i don't think too many other actresses could pull off the preformance geena does 2 the action this is a very action packed movie things are pretty much always crashing or blowing up or someone is chasing someone else the special effects are pretty good especially for being almost 8 years old i can see some green screen stuff but it doesn't detract too much from the acting br br the bad 1 why did it take half of the movie to set up the plot this film needed to be edited in the script stage so that it didn't run as long as it did maybe a drama or something can run this long but people really need to be into the movie the entire time to sustain it i think that if you can stick out the first half you will be the second half 2 geena davis is cold weather and a tank top but she never seems cold 3 some things are unrealistic sam jackson flies through a giant sign after he is blasted out of a room and then he lands in a tree and just gets up when you see this part you will think it's a gag overall fun movie 7 10
1	i thought this was a great action flick a very good role for geena davis she is a very versatile actress one of my next to angelina jolie i actually watched the long kiss goodnight right after seeing the new tomb raider movie it got me thinking charlie or lara which one would win in a fight either way both women are very strong intelligent characters that are fun to watch especially when they're kicking butt i just hope to see geena in another film soon seems like she's been out of the spotlight a bit too long it would be especially nice to see her in another film with samuel l jackson now they make a great duo watch this film if you haven't you won't be disappointed
1	a wonderful christmas story on the moving theme of susie homemaker finds her inner amazon no i'm serious geena davis's amnesia starts to improve when she is knocked on the head from this familiar beginning we move in an unexpected direction good pace good action fun story lots of explosions and mayhem
1	i had never heard of this film till it popped up on cable tv and i can't understand why geena outdoes arnold as an action hero in this film geena is an ex cia assassin who is brainwashed and given an identity as a schoolteacher with a quiet family life in a rural town she continues that life for 8 years with a husband and daughter clues start coming to her that she may have been someone else especially when someone tries to kill her it seems that her former employers have discovered that she never died and want to make sure that she does she hires samuel l jackson who is a former police officer together they form a pair that is as entertaining as mel gibson danny glover when geena finally regains her memory she undergoes a transformation into the killing machine she once was with the song she's not there playing in the background what follows is geena and samuel have to go after the bad guys and hopefully stay alive all through the rest of the film geena has to decide who she really is the killing unfeeling machine the mother schoolteacher with the quiet family life or a combination of both especially since the bad guys grab daughter great action scenes that rank up with any of the die hard movies
1	there is a serious scene in this movie a scene that lets you know that his film won't be pulling many cheap punches it takes place in a crowded train station and the protagonists are ambushed by assassins with automatic weapons they make a break for it and just manage to get out in a hail of gunfire the main hall of the train station is now filled with corpses of innocent people that were caught in the crossfire some would call that too sad and or grim to put into what is supposed to be an enjoyable action flick i call it honesty most action movies tend to lean toward the safe side of showing violence and plot elements this mostly means that in spite massive shootouts innocent people tend not to die or at least we don't see them die the violence is all purely the good guys versus the bad guys with mainly the bad guys dying a bit of common sense clearly shows this to be absurd br br renny harlin showed a hint of this in his first and sadly only hit die hard 2 the villains intentionally crash a plane full of people to get their point across the scene was also filmed with a backup scene of a cargo plane with only a few people on board going down but the grimmer and probably more realistic scenario ended up being used however to fit the spirit of the first film die hard 2 was mostly a fun action movie here that grimmer and more convincing edge is pervasive the violence is bloody the one liners are hilarious but with a certain style that more echoes natural human sarcasm than clichéd film wisecracks at key moments of action the plot is also packed with more malicious intent than most action films the villain is not just some rogue out for revenge or a mad grab at power it is less ridiculous but also more frightening than that from recent films the bourne trilogy almost gets there with its less cheesy than usual action film style but this film is from 1996 and 7 years before the bourne identity with matt damon made it to the big screen br br another interesting aspect is that the main hero is actually a heroine and this is well before the movie version of tomb raider became a hit what's more is that this heroine genuinely looks like she could take down john mcclane and then take his still lit cigarette this movie marks geena davis's second action heroine role and she still didn't manage to score a hit while angelina jolie stars in tomb raider years later and scores a hit the reasons are beyond me completely br br lastly this movie isn't all dark edged there are many outrageous and spectacular set pieces that one can only see in an action film the climatic explosion of a chemical bomb is an absolutely spectacular display of movie pyrotechnics with more than one law of physics taking a convenient break thus there is formula here but it is the anti formula for the everyday hollywood action movie formula 9 10 br br classification 13 violence profanity
1	i have seen this film probably a dozen times since it was originally released theatrically anyone who calls this movie trash or horrible just doesn't understand action films or recognize a good one perhaps to some the incidents and outcomes may seem far fetched but in my opinion screenwriter shane black lethal weapon kiss kiss bang bang crafted one of the most well thought out action adventures you will ever come across over the top or not this film flows like clockwork and the action just keeps coming the final action sequence is one of the best i have ever seen in any film the cast in this film crackles davis gave a tremendous performance and its a damn shame there was never a sequel samuel l jackson is hilarious as her sidekick mitch a down on his luck private eye trying to help her discover her lost past and make a few bucks if baffles me how anyone could not like this film it packs so many thrills and its so funny the wisecracks in this film still make me laugh just as hard 10 years later in my mind the first matrix film and the long kiss goodnight were easily 2 of the best and most original action flicks of the 90's incidentally shane black made a fortune when he sold this script at the time it was the highest selling screenplay and its worth every penny it's so sad that audiences never gave this movie a chance cause they would have witnessed renny harlins best film and davis like you have never seen her before long live the long kiss goodnight
1	i am a happily married 49 year old female who just happens to love this movie to death br br geena davis' character is strong smart and kick ass i thought she did an excellent thats an understatement job in this movie br br i'm not real big on action movies but i thought it was sooooooooooo sexy and entertaining br br she is my alter ego when she starts putting that assault rifle together in the old hotel room i got chills she did it like she knew what she was doing thats one of my many favorite parts in that movie br br i think she deserved an oscar for her acting and physical roles br br i'm going to have on my back i'm one of those girls who will never be a victim i'm like her secretly and isn't that oh so sexy
1	i enjoyed this film immensely i'm really into films where females kick lots of butt so this film already had my hopes up for some decent entertainment my hopes were met and exceeded less than 20 minutes into the film the action humor and wit this film contained easily made it one of my favorite films of all time it had sam jackson and his undeniable screen presence geena davis as i've never seen her before demanding your respect and flat out taking it even if you don't want to give it br br geena plays samantha caine an amnesiac desperate to remember something about her past but quickly realizing the more she finds out the more she wants to forget and eventually becomes consumed until finally samantha is so more and charly is all that's left but now can charly and sam two completely different women possibly exist in the same body we have characters that pop in and out of the film that nurture each side of sam charly like sam jackson and craig bierko craig is also irresistible as timothy the sexy bad guy with no conscience br br this film was perfectly casted and perfectly acted over the top and wonderfully entertaining you watch the impossible happen and applaud when it does so worth your time watch it you won't be sorry
1	this film is a great rampage of action and comedy it gets right in to it right from the start there's no boring build up the chemistry of the leading roles adds to the excitement and anticipation of the ending even though my suspicions were not satisfied the special effects worked brilliantly and were believable would have liked a different ending but it still had me reeling in emotions the story line unfolds well however it is a film you have to watch from start to end carefully to pick up on all the details to fully understand and get maximum enjoyment br br
1	i would like to tell you just a few things before considering seeing this movie if at one point or another you thought you've seen good camera work be prepared to be amazed by this movie for the record this movie was made in 1957 in russia but the technique used here is probably something that we've seen much later in the western world about 20 years later the level of emotions through the film varies quite a lot happiness love war despair joy but in the end you remain with something quite unique the joy of seeing one masterpiece of filmmaking the young directors from our time should study more this kind of movies and maybe they will be able to create something similar even though i think movies like this are very hard to come by if you've seen i am cuba then this movie would appeal to you very much but if not be prepared for a unique experience the russian directors have something in common very small budgets great actors and a joy of creating art and yes they are able to create more masterpieces than all the western world together i am not a big fan of russia actually i hate everything that's communist but the film making in that part of the world manages to create such feelings that are hard to describe br br enjoy it br br
1	i feel extremely sad for some of the people who have been reviewing this film it is apparent that their standards are so high that they will never be able to enjoy a film just for enjoyment sake or perhaps their enjoyment is derived from the act of picking films apart looking for any reason at all to dislike them br br the long kiss goodnight is an action film in every sense of the word sure there are holes in the plot big enough to drive a semi through but none of them are enough to stop the flow of the film itself i have never been a big geena davis fan but i was impressed with how she was able to create two very different characters samantha cain and charlie baltimore in my opinion it wasn't even necessary to have changed her physical appearance to differentiate between the two her acting was more than enough to do the trick br br more than anything else though this film was craig in another's hands the character of timothy could've been just another interchangeable villain his decision to play him with a more casual approach was just the right counterpoint to all of the action scenes it isn't often that you find an actor who can express himself so well with just his facial expressions point in case the scene in the freezer with charlie and her daughter where most films would've cluttered the moment of revelation with unnecessary dialogue eyes told the whole story br br the basic plot thin to be truthful a seemingly average housewife who suffers from amnesia slowly discovers that she had been an assassin as her memory returns so do the people who want the assassin dead is she really samantha the cookie baking housewife or charlie the cold blooded assassin or maybe a little bit of both for me the long kiss goodnight was an enjoyable journey to find out
1	the long kiss goodnight is an enjoyable and very cool action thriller and a career breakthrough for geena davis the plot is very familiar to that of the bourne identity but so what the fight scenes are a real treat for the eyes and the plotline is strong enough to keep you engaged for the 2 hours br br it's directed with a slick sense of style and avoids most action cliches geena davis is great as an action chick and gets past her usual good wife role samuel l jackson is good as usual as the supporting player the film's baddie is overly cheesy though and you can tell what's going to happen to him br br it breaks away from the usual run of the mill actioners such as commando and on deadly ground and is definetly one of the best actioners in years good fun and good popcorn entertainment 7 4 10
1	i hadn't planned on leaving a review but seeing some of the other dreadful reviews for this movie i had to say something br br i'm not going to give away the ending or anything but i do give away some important plot points in this review so you should be aware of that the short non spoiler version of my review samuel l jackson and geena davis both kick butt in this movie and it's a lot of fun watch it br br this movie is one of my favorites of all time geena davis is perfect as the action heroine torn between her existing life as a housewife and mother and the memories that are resurfacing of her former life as a cia assassin her performance is superb as she plays both facets of this relatively complex character perfectly br br samuel l jackson's performance is as always also excellent as the private investigator that geena davis' character hired to look into her forgotten past he does a great job of playing the unwitting sidekick to geena davis' tough character some of the lines he utters in this movie are the best he's ever used in any movie he's been in br br seriously if you haven't seen it do it's a fantastic story with lots of unexpected twists and turns and it's extremely well directed and acted
1	this is a film that in no way reflects the real world nothing in this film makes any real world sense or has any real world logic it operates entirely in its own little world and your ability to accept it or not will determine your love or hate for this film br br i love the film br br somewhere at the very beginning i bought into the completely unreal premise of the hit woman regaining her memory as the past comes back to haunt her there was a moment early on where i remember accepting that this was going to be one of those movies where the heroine was going to know nothing until it was needed despite all logic that it wouldn't happen that way oh its one of those films i said to myself and was hooked as the film took off on a wild two hour chase br br this is an action film with brain and brawn as things follow there own internal logic and you actually have to pay attention to follow some of the twists and turns i like this a great deal and am pleasantly surprised when i bump into people who feel the same way too people either love it or hate it if they've ever heard of it at all br br if you like action films this is a film to definitely try you may not like it but it certainly worth the effort to find out br br and as always leave reality at the door
1	a small town schoolteacher geena davis slowly begins to realize that she has suffered amnesia and really use to be a secret government assassin soon there are men after her and a small time private detective samuel l jackson br br this was action packed with some great special effects and really funny one liners especially from jackson although the action may get a little silly at times who cares after all aren't movies meant to be a good time br br craig bierko is fun as a ruthless villain the movie itself was an all around good time just don't expect to have to think too much about it because then if you take it too seriously then the movie actually won't be fun but stupid instead br br this movie doesn't deserve to be called stupid or any other bad name
1	not a box office success no one really knows why it may have failed simply because of its title it looks as though you need a two word tough guy title to attract a sufficient proportion of the idiot crowd die hard lethal weapon hard weapon die lethal etc talking about the long kiss goodnight will get you nowhere but for once renny harlin has made a good action movie a large part of the reason for this lies in the fact that the central character samantha earns our affection and interest early on as she becomes charly again we're torn we certainly want charly to thwart the bad guys and all that but we don't want her to lose touch with samantha in order to do so even though we like charly too geena davis all of her considerable charm on both halves of the central character samuel l jackson plays second fiddle for a change it turns out he's good at it that was a compliment br br intelligent far superior to anything in the die hard series if i were more cynical i'd add it's not surprising that it didn't do well but i don't really feel that way it is surprising that it didn't do well
1	definitely a movie for people who ask only to be entertained and who do not over think their movies br br lots of action lots of great dialogue e g fun to quote a little intrigue and stuff blowing up all over the place samuel l jackson and geena davis had great chemistry violent but not gory the fact that the female part was the competent action lead is a pleasant turn about br br have seen the movie more than a dozen times and still enjoy it enough to put it back in my favorite films rotation every 3 or 4 months i initially rented the movie because samuel l jackson was in the film but was caught up in the events surrounding samantha's quest to regain her memory and have never looked back br br all you cerebral folks out there suspend disbelief for once take yourself a little less seriously you might actually enjoy yourselves
1	this is by far my favorite action movie but what makes it work is not the elaborate renny harlin explosions and shoot em ups it's the shane black script and its deft delivery by geena davis and samuel l jackson br br the chemistry between the two principals merited a sequel thank god it was never made too much danger of marring the original br br 'the long from quotable scene to action scene to quotable scene and back again never a dull moment br br this has to be jackson's funniest role ever and the amazing thing is that he is playing one of the most normal characters of his career no quirky tarantino hit man super cool shaft or borderline psycho soldier in jackson is the everyman we identify with the poor schmuck gets dragged along on this crazy woman's odyssey to uncover the dangerous secret of her past br br though the story claims that davis's character samantha caine is suffering from amnesia the writer and director treat her condition as if it were a multiple personality disorder br br samantha caine is not just a new identity taken by the amnesiac charly baltimore she is a separate fully developed personality the traumas suffered by samantha in the first half hour of the movie help the submerged dissociate personality of charly to emerge again br br the materials of her past life excavated by jackson's detective mitch facilitate charly's resurfacing good timing too considering the target samantha makes of herself br br but charly has to fight herself to remain the dominant personality one gathers from bits of dialogue that the warrior personality charly developed after her father died and she was recruited by the chapter br br in the eight years charly was buried in the psyche though her samantha identity developed into the dominant personality she's even funnier that charly this was probably due to becoming a mother because it's the reunion with her daughter that breaks charly's struggle to suppress samantha leading to their apparent integration by movie's end br br it's impossible to choose a best quote from this film br br now you're a sharpshooter br br i saved your ass it was great br br continue dying out br br i sock 'em in the jaw and yell goes the br br and a couple of dozen more many too raunchy to quote here br br geena davis looks great and comes off as an action hero without glossing over the fact she's turning forty listen to history do the math br br fantastic soundtrack too santana muddy waters elvis marvin gaye br br i give 'the long kiss a 9 only because i don't believe in a perfect 10 seen it a dozen times and it still stays fresh nice twisted holiday flick to place on your shelf next to 'it's a wonderful life '
1	amazing amazing amazing what more can be said jacobi is the best hamlet ever to grace the stage and captures every inch of the character every nuance and element of hamlet is depicted and depicted well some people have complained about his age but you honestly cannot tell when watching the film if anything he looks drastically younger than 40 i only wish a more worthy ophelia could have been found her acting is passable but she just doesn't look the part the only real exceptional performances come from jacobi and stewart who is a great claudius the rest of the cast is good but jacobi is what truly elevates this teleplay
1	i have watched every version of this play that i can think of including several on the stage and sir derek jacobi is absolutely the best hamlet i have ever seen br br he has the most wonderful voice for stage acting and his expressive face will take you on a roller coaster of emotions throughout this play the way in which he delivers his lines takes you on a journey through madness he as hamlet can in an instant be loving soft and gentle and in another instant be raging against the hell that is his life you believe that he is in pain you believe that he is angry you believe that he is not a little mad you believe he is hamlet br br of course some of the thanks obviously goes to shakespeare but without an excellent actor to get the words from the page to the stage it doesn't really matter how well written a play is br br if you like shakespeare you absolutely must see this version if you don't like shakespeare you absolutely must see this version you will come away with a new appreciation for shakespeare if you do the nuanced performance that sir derek gives will leave you breathless
1	the plot of this movie is set against the most terrible war in history of mankind the violent clash between adolf hitler's germany and soviet russia from 1941 '45 br br with the western areas of their country thoroughly devastated and 20 to 30 million russian people killed the vibes of this conflict can be felt in russia up to the present day let alone back in 1957 when memories were still very fresh and painful br br this very black setting strongly contrasts with the fine and coherent style of beautiful shots its simple story deals with human behaviour in times of war bravery love patriotism weakness cowardice and corruption all beautifully tied together by a toy squirrel br br add to this the truly magnificent acting and it's easy to understand why this movie is so famous really one of the very best ever made br br
1	1 i've seen hamlet branagh is too old speaks frequently with a high pitched voice unwillingly funny not a convincing hamlet and his directors qualities poor see also much ado about nothing from branagh the funny parts of the dialogues have mostly been cut out not speaking of the directors mistakes in the dialogue cuts 2 i've seen hamlet 2000 i think the scenario is an interesting idea but such lousy actors all of them 3 orson welles hamlet is ok but this bbc hamlet is the best jacobi is convincing seems a bit of a lunatic very suitable and patric stewart wonderful and claire bloom is a very attractive queen you believe those actors what they are saying i think this is the best compliment
1	i have seen this play many times from olivier to branagh and this remains the one version that always stands out in my memory many actors have captured aspects of this character but for me it is always derek jacobi's performance they are compared to and all others just come up a bit short
1	part of the bbc filming of all of shakespeare's classic plays this version of hamlet does nothing to dispel my particular impression that it is one of shakespeare's most over rated plays and hamlet himself a not particularly moving and tragic character i feel no sympathy for him and i didn't after watching this br br even when you have great actors like the great derek jacobi in the role of the dane and patrick stewart as claudius and jonathan hyde as rosencrantz it cannot disguise the lack of passion in the storyline and when a good actor like jacobi injects passion into it he renders the entire role incomprehensible i just could not connect his of the character to what he was saying and this killed it for me that said he does get the to be or not to be speech right as his actions with a dagger make clear the character's suicidal intentions at that point in the play br br the supporting roles to me better written and consequently better played are enjoyable notably ward's loopy ophelia and stewart's well detailed interpretation of claudius br br at four and a half hours it is very long and best watched in bite sized chunks check it out if you're interested but be prepared for a long watch
1	i was never in the past interested in this play although love shakespeare and have seen most of his plays now and enthusiastically studied some at school something about this story and all the fuss about it seemed to put me off i never bothered to try to see hamlet until fairly recently deciding i should at least try to watch it and i borrowed the olivier version from the library well i struggled with it olivier seemed far too old not only in his looks but in his acting of the part the play had been enormously cut to fit a more conventional movie length and i think must have missed out too much as i found it difficult to concentrate on it soon became bored and annoyed by it i still think olivier's henry v is the best version i've seen of that rousing play tho' admit i haven't rewatched the beeb version yet and can't recall how it was when first shown br br i heard of the branagh full length version of hamlet although i enjoyed his much ado i think the beeb version is far better and i wasn't entirely impressed by his henry v but i was off branagh a bit after seeing his disappointing effort at a musical of love's labour's lost which is a play i like and was so well made by the beeb br br finally acquiring the complete beeb shakespeare on dvd recently i soon rewatched one of my most favourite shakespeare plays richard ii and was simply enthralled by jacobi in the part so was immediately persuaded to watch his hamlet next what a revelation this play now is for me yes it is splendid but i feel it needs an actor you can with to play hamlet and this for me is jacobi amazing intriguing to note that although he is older than i understand the character hamlet was it doesn't show whilst in olivier it did now i note he's also in the branagh version and had much to do with training branagh so i shall have to watch that to see what does with claudius i'm interested to discover jacobi has trained branagh as yes you can certainly see the influence br br and now i'm going to watch it all over again
1	let's face it there is no perfect production of hamlet it's simply far too long and varied and cerebral to get completely perfect across the board especially what with the challenges of elizabethan english and shakespeare's dialogue in any staging of it there are bound to be certain moments scenes or intonations that one disagrees with i've seen a lot of filmed hamlet productions olivier gibson branagh scott and now this bbc film with jacobi in terms of faithful full length productions this one ranks up there with the very best br br most hamlet productions are drastically cut because to perform the entire play takes a stage time of four to five hours this production appears to be complete that is all of the original shakespeare dialogue is intact and so it's essential for scholars and shakespeare lovers and though the lines seemed rushed on rare occasion for those less completely familiar with the text for the most part the script is well acted well spoken and well performed subtitles are available and very helpful although upon occasion they lag slightly behind br br jacobi does a quite admirable job with theatre's longest and most impossible role i actually cried when hamlet dies and i don't think i've done that before patrick stewart as claudius and claire bloom as gertrude are excellent as are ward ophelia and david laertes and the rest of the very on point cast sets are minimal so we can thankfully concentrate on the play without distraction or attention paid to non essentials br br at 3 hours and 45 minutes this full length hamlet is a long haul to sit through but again if you want the real deal it's 100 worth it even if one needs to take an intermission for oneself i highly recommend this production to all shakespeare lovers and scholars
1	if you wish to see shakespeare's masterpiece in its entirety i suggest you find this bbc version indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but performance as hamlet and patrick stewart's as claudius are well worth the effort br br it never ceases to amaze me how clear hamlet is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard every film version of hamlet has tinkered with its structure olivier concentrated on hamlet's indecision gibson on his passions jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet's character together with the aid of shakespeare's full script br br why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately hamlet says i am very proud ambitious hamlet is extremely upset not only for his father's death and suspected murder or his mother's marriage to his uncle but also and mostly because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius marriages between royal kin is not unknown done for political reasons but that her marriage solidified claudius' claim to the throne before he could return from to claim it for himself he is therefore impotent to do anything about it and this is true even after he hears his father's ghost cry vengeance he cannot simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so he must out the king's secret and here is the tragedy at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius' guilt in public he has opportunity to kill him and does not why he wants it all he wants revenge the throne and the damnation of claudius' soul in hell hamlet himself in classic tragic form his own hubris is his undoing he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz guildenstern ophelia laertes gertrude claudius and hamlet himself
1	absolutely the most thoughtful spiritually deep intense hamlet ever done no other version comes close jacobi has the best understanding of the role of all the actors that have played it patrick stewart's claudius is ferocious and still sympathetic i particularly like the two doofuses playing and guildenstern very feckless and yet sinister some might gripe about the need for a strong ophelia she's not a strong person that's the point and ward hits the proper nuances amazing simply amazing every one of the more than two dozen times i've watched it
1	i saw this version of hamlet on television many years ago and have seen every other version since whether television or movie however this is the one that remains the truest depiction of the story for me most excellent derek jacobi made hamlet real for me before i saw this version shakespeare was simply gibberish to me and i never tried to understand the elizabethan english having seen jacobi's hamlet several times not only increased my knowledge of literature but also that of my family i promptly checked the play out of library and read it and poured over the accompanying recording jacobi's rendition attracted me to a deeper knowledge and yet i have been searing for a video of it for years and years to no avail it gets a very high rating from viewers why then has it not been released on video it's the only hamlet that i'd invest in
1	i have seen all the film interpretations of hamlet from sir lawrence olivier to mel gibson gasp derek jacobi captures the true essence of the character from the beginning to the brutal climax superb acting all around this one should not be missed
1	this production of hamlet prince of denmark is by far the best that i have seen although it may not have the production value of some of the more recent adaptations it does have the most important element sir derek jacobi as hamlet br br jacobi's portrayal of the disturbed prince is multi layered and riveting his displays of emotion swing from hatred to sorrow love to and everywhere else on the map but without seeming forced or over the top in fact some of the more powerful sequences occur when he underplays them with stillness soft speech and thoughtful expression as to whether or not he interprets hamlet as mad or sane well you should decide for yourselves i changed my mind more than once at one point it seems he has thought himself sane and merely playing at madness but suspects that he is actually mad after all a revelation to himself captured beautifully having performed the part of hamlet on stage more times than any other actor in history jacobi's affinity for the role then comes as little surprise br br as for the production itself it is presented as a kind of filmed copy of the stage play with little special effects or fancy camera work minimal sets and no musical accompaniment to speak of this production relies on the acting prowess of the cast and the words of shakespeare to evoke the emotion and interest of its audience and it works the other players are top notch as well particularly patrick stewart's claudius and claire bloom's gertrude together the cast present a seamless ensemble br br the last but far from least element that makes this production stand out is the play itself here it is presented in its entirety a rarity on film but oddly enough i never noticed the time i was too busy getting caught up in the story i suspect that you will too
1	love and war did happen on the other side of the iron curtain and by looking at it love was just as strong as in the west and war was often more poignant should i say more realistic br br this film is as much about war and love as it is about the soviet thaw of mr k's era it also reminds us than the best war movies were not necessarily made in the 1990's with rivers of and millions of usd spent on special effects and marketed actors br br this movie is a classic of soviet cinema and a outstanding picture of one of the greatest human tragedies war br br
1	i've seen various hamlets and i've taught the play as i watch jacobi i'm tempted to think that he's every bit as intelligent as hamlet himself so alive is he to every nuance of this character's wit he deepens rather than solves every puzzle regarding hamlet's character he illuminates line after line word after word shining light into this sparkling mind at the same time however we cringe at the horror hamlet feels at his betrayal far more than with any other actor because jacobi feels the pain more profoundly than anyone else and we shudder at hamlet's own betrayals because jacobi is not afraid of the baseness to which hamlet can descend in short jacobi gives us hamlet in full and hamlet in full is the greatest character in literature that's why i'm satisfied that jacobi's hamlet is the finest performance i've seen by an actor
1	caught this film on tcm in the early a m it was amazing br br starting out slow but ominously scott is a shady character who preys on women in this case two women who happen to be due an inheritance in southern california br br the sets of the beach and neighborhoods of the 1940's are original and intriguing the title may have been more creative but the theme and nefarious shadows of human nature are intriguingly exposed almost in a hitchcockian version br br scott reminded me of the character uncle charley in shadow of a doubt one of hitch's reputed favorite films the audience learns we truly do not know what lurks in the dark side of the human mind this film is a displaced gem and well worth purchasing 10 10
1	this is a great little movie full of interesting characters and situations while not in the same class as some of the better known movies of its time it is still extremely watchable and memorable the scene where zachary scott sitting on a bus casually steals the airman pin from the lapel of a coat thrown over the seat next to him is terrific it defines his character beautifully a guy who's so low he'll purloin something of value to a war veteran to use as a prop in his various he lies easily as the situation calls for and captivates the women in the household with his irresistible charm and that killer smile br br i couldn't help wondering if this movie was made to capitalize on the success of mildred pierce scott and bruce bennett were teamed again and faye emerson bears some resemblance to joan crawford with her facial bone structure and large eyes also the mona freeman character is not unlike the odious veda in mildred pierce br br i agree with a previous comment that the ending to the movie was too pat with the convenient tumble over a cliff for ronnie mason zachary scott's character also in one of the final scenes we see bratty mona freeman reunited with the boyfriend she had previously scorned in favor of the older smoother zachary scott i think the script should've called for her to be chastened for her behavior and for her cruelty toward her sister instead of treating it as just a typical adolescent episode but these are minor flaws in an otherwise enjoyable and well made movie
1	between the ages of 30 and 51 when he died of a brain tumour zachary scott made 70 films he was introduced in 1944 in jean 'the mask of where he played the next year 1945 he made three films of which this is one he is best remembered by cineastes as the star of jean renoir's 'the one of the 1945 films where he had a sympathetic role however he often played creepy characters and in this film he is a sociopathic killer of women for money so what happens here he lives in a house with three women so watch out faye emerson who also appeared in plays the older of two daughters in the house she falls in love with scott and they become secretly engaged then her kid' younger sister played effectively by mona freeman who resembles bonita granville both in looks and in behaviour returns from boarding school and reveals casually in conversation with scott that she has inherited a tidy sum so scott turns his sights on her instead with all the torrid jealousies seething in the household which that was bound to arouse things get tense and then they get meanwhile plans for murder are going forward in the mind of the calculating scott but it turns out that he is not the only one with such intentions he is also being searched for as a result of his last kill with which the film has opened so that we know his back story james wong howe gives effective noirish cinematography to this tale which was directed by frenchman robert florey who had moved to hollywood some time earlier the film is an effective psychopath in the house mystery which can cause a bit of wear of the edges of some seats for those of such an inclination
1	robert florey and james wong howe gave this a frightening expressionistic look scenes are shot at weird angles especially scenes involving figurative and literal lady killer zachary scott his sociopathic behavior presages another superb medium budget movie the stepfather by more than two decades br br the entire cast is excellent though though no fault of her own it's hard to think of joyce compton as anyone but the singer in the awful truth scott bennett emerson decamp especially and though playing an older woman looking gorgeous they couldn't have been topped br br setting a creepy lodger in the house of women story against a background of psychiatrists is a risky trick that pays off beautifully nothing corny at all beautifully nothing corny at all br br the resolution is a little pat unfortunately not getting together with bennett that makes sense but scott is dispatched too quickly i seem him more as a mr ripley character who could have escaped everything the the murder rap the jealous sisters and disappeared into the great world beyond this story that would not have impeded the essentially happy ending of the secretary and her boss finally getting together
1	zachary scott does what he does best i e plays a worm in danger signal a 1945 b movie also starring faye emerson mona freeman and rosemary decamp scott plays a writer who kills women after he gets their money on the lam from his last murder he rents a room in the home owned by the family hilda emerson and her mother mary scott throws himself at emerson and she's dazzled mid romance her younger sister anne freeman comes home from a medical treatment when she mentions that she was uncle favorite and he left her 25 000 big bucks by 1945 standards scott loses interest in poor hilda and makes a play for anne anne looks like rebecca of sunnybrook farm until she starts sneaking around with scott overnight she ages 10 years and becomes downright nasty to her sister finally getting the message that her tenant is no good hilda calls in a psychiatrist rosemary decamp to psyche him out and advise her br br psychological dramas were all the rage during and after world war ii and scott does an excellent job as a smooth sociopath this was his forte as a weak willed sheriff in flamingo road he exhibited no real presence as for two timing we saw him do that in mildred pierce where he proved himself particularly good at it emerson is a bookish stenographer with her hair pushed off her face and her big glasses but after hours she's lovely and gives a strong performance decamp was always an underrated actress here she sports a soft german accent and is delightful br br this is a highly entertaining film though a very routine story the acting truly elevates it
1	this film was full of suspense and was well directed the black and white effect made it a great mystery fay emerson hilda who was married twice to the famous musician henderson and also the son of elliott roosevelt son fell madly in love with zachary scott ronnie mason marsh ronnie wins the hearts of all the ladies in the picture even mona freeman anne and proposes marriage whenever he can rosemary decamp dr jane silla famous radio and tv actress in the 30's and 40's played mostly small town mom's warned the ladies about ronnie mason's sick mind and the abusive childhood he had when growing up which caused his love hate relationship with women fay emerson and zachary scott would have been greater stars with more rewarding roles but their lives were short lived in real life this film is beyond it is a trully great 1945 film classic for many generations to view and enjoy
1	this is film is probably one of the best i've seen so far i would put it only second to all about lily chou chou because it kind of gives me the same vibes '9 souls' is about 9 prisoners who have just escaped prison to go and find some counterfeit money stored in a time capsule at mount fuji primary school they later find out that there wasn't much there and set off on their own ways the first half of the movie is just a time for the characters to be introduced and for the main points to be stated it is a comedic yet serious part of the journey the second half moved me to tears as the movie progresses each character goes and tries to fulfill their dreams but unfortunately ending somewhat badly in the end only 2 of the 9 escapees are left the way that each character left the scene was very sad and you will probably feel tears in your eyes a beautiful film directed fantastically this is a movie for people who have enjoyed other films such as 'blue
1	i watched 9 souls in 12th international film festival september 2006 where the director was also present and answered many questions of the audience this road film is about 9 fugitives all very different characters from each other they decide to stay together travelling with their red van across japan every time the van stops we see these 9 fugitives trying to escape from their past in order to build up a new life or to fulfil a dream however no matter how hard they try it seems impossible and their violent past comes after them and leads them to their final destruction br br though a very pessimistic film it is not a dark film on the contrary it is full of beautiful pictures surreal elements and elegant humor heroes cannot escape their prison and they face a divine punishment for their crimes they are small pieces of a beautiful painting where the tower of tokyo depicted as a huge knife turned upside down prevails
1	a great film every moment masterfully conducted by and his crew the actors give credible performances all around the visuals are haunting beautiful and sometimes hauntingly beautiful shots of the japanese country and city landscapes the sounds courtesy of japanese band are never overly edgy as one would expect from band made soundtracks it's strangely atmospheric and well suited to the scenes they're on br br all in all they worked everything out perfectly well if they were to give any justice to the story perfection is the only thing anyone could have accepted br br the real greatness of 9 souls is the compelling story the prison break movie maybe something of a lost genre these days and road trip movie losing it's appeal due to the way the world is getting smaller but this story easily mixes something fresh to those two genres br br 9 convicts are given freedom and possibly the opportunity to regain their places in society will society accept them will they be truly free of their dark pasts and can they stick together long enough to stay alive and find out br br each convict has an interesting history their crimes are as varied as their apparent fates a sense of brotherhood among them keeps the story high on drama and supplies it with hilariously comedic situations and due to the nature of their backgrounds violence is always something waiting to happen br br after all that all i can say is go give it a watch
1	if you're looking for a typical war movie this is not it so a note to all the testosterone pumped carnage craving war buffs out there don't bother although the film is about russian characters in wwii don't expect to see any nazis cannons blood gore etc it's not a film about people who cause a war or who fight a war it's a film about ordinary people who war happens to and the choices they make in dealing with it br br acting cinematography writing all perfect 10s here you'll certainly appreciate it if you're russian like me but even if not you'll probably love it if you speak no russian look for the ruscico russian cinema council dvd version it's got subtitles in about 14 different languages but the english dubbing on this one i'd say is just as good it's of course not as good as the original russian track some stuff is lost in translation but just as good as the english subtitles so go check it out especially if you're studying film in any aspect
1	highly recommended to all those who appreciate watching movies great acting perfectly surreal awkward humor requisite prison sh t accurate depiction of the male condition music is also spot on i think the artist is dip but not sure the short loop of the title credit song on the dvd menu is well timed and sounds like one thing to know is that imdb maintains a ridiculous policy of a minimum comment length based on not characters not words but rather lines measuring post quality and quantity based on lines in the bold era of and flexible web based typography is like smoking poles your comment does not contain enough lines the minimum length for comments is 10 lines of text please see the guidelines attempts to pad the comment with junk words can result in your account being blocked from future submissions
1	when a bomber a patricide a pornographer and a mad biker together with various other forms of social scum have had enough of their sh infested cell they spot a rat and look for the hole escaping from the sewage the group of 9 souls take advantage of their new found freedom and head for civilization what soon follows is not surprising complete mayhem and terror follow in their wake it seems that each has some unfinished business to take care of br br loosely based on the great escape 9 souls is by far in the top 5 best films i've seen this year running at right around 2 hours 9 souls will deliver a story so powerful it'll literally leave you breathless the beautiful yet subtle use of the rolling country sides adds the realism that is expected from this story the vision of director blue spring porno star is completely mind boggling as he implements a sense of pity towards the characters as quickly as each character grasps their dream it's as quick as it's torn from them now all responsibility of the success of this film should not fall solely on the shoulders of the director yet props must go to the actors as well this film was full of excellent acting from top to bottom ryuhei matsuda the son of matsuda of audition delivers a stellar performance and seems to bring some of his mothers eeriness to the screen br br i must give props to dvd as well this is the 6th film of theirs i've seen now and they seem to get better and better each dvd the sound quality is perfect and the picture clean and crisp it's very annoying trying to watch a film that is too dark in transfer so the discs from theses cats are nice br br bottom line is this film will soon receive masterpiece status by viewers' world wide keep an eye out in 2005 for 9 souls it's really amazing film to watch
1	to be totally honest i wasn't expecting much at all going into 9 souls even after reading heap upon heap of praise plied upon it but to say i was surprised would be a major understatement in short i was totally blown away br br the basic plot is as simple as they come nine prison inmates ranging from a drug pusher all the way up to multiple murderer's escape from prison and go in search of a secret stash presumed to be forged money hidden by a tenth inmate who cracked and was dragged away by guards shortly before their escape but it's the direction that director takes this simple story that is so brilliant and original perfectly blending drama comedy and violence creating a truly one of kind movie that to be seen not only fans of asian cinema but cinema in general br br superbly acted emotional funny violent and at times very surreal this is a movie has it all
1	finally third time lucky this film has been always been on my mind but my first viewing i forgot about it and only caught the second half of the film then only a couple months later i had the my second chance of watching of it so i decided i would record it only to discover that my timer went off late and again i missed the first half of the flick i wasn't going to allow that to happen again so when it came on tv again i thought bugger it i'll wait until it comes on then i will record it and it was a good choice i would have just watched the film but they always put on around midnight br br after discovering a hole in their crowded cell nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe which a fellow prisoner known as the counterfeit king said he had hidden they think that this key could be an opening for a hidden loot of counterfeit bills on this journey they naturally see this as an opportunity to pick up their lives before they were although things don't turn out the way that they intended to with most of the criminals plans going astray br br 9 souls is an perky spiritual journey from japanese director which flung it's viewers into a film of two totally different halves the first half of the story plays out more like a psychical comedy with the criminals bonds and the situations they find themselves being the selling point but all that makes way to a moralistic and consequence drama packed second half where the real trouble begins with some quite nasty and bloody moments replacing the goofball tone it started off with while the first half is quite amusing with its on the road screwball doodling and offbeat banter but it's really the genuinely haunting latter half with it's peculiar turn of events that hit you so hard with some surprising touches that make you really sympathise for these very human characters even though they are not truly innocent from their crimes you just become entrenched by these flesh out characters in the first half that when you see them spiral into their downfall you know it's an effective drama when you become shell shocked in the dramatic change the nine characters get enough screen time to truly understand their personal story and what weakness would eventually bring them down the way the plot works out is that and are the lead characters and we mostly see it from their perspectives the escapism tale is an unquestionably engaging character study that's clear in it's goal and puts to you many questions on society and the path you choice to take to escape life and free yourself from these restraints br br while the symbolic story is full of clarity and vividly told the visual element doesn't go by unnoticed because there's just a dreamy and trance like vibe that channels itself into the unique atmosphere what highly contributed to that factor and gave the film a lift was the sweepingly moody instrumental rock soundtrack the mellow atmospheric gel it was able to create in many scenes left me rather breathless with the everlasting emotions it was able to provoke simply beautiful and downright powerful control on that front the pacing for such an long film 2 hours seems to breeze by and editing is swiftly done because we are just so wrapped up in it all the hypnotic photography is crisp in detail while the performances by the cast as a odd bunch of criminals are that of high quality with each one providing enough personality and features to separate themselves br br i found 9 souls to be a pleasing and quite an amazing surreal film that stirs up the emotions and then it smacks you with an almighty wallop when it changes direction highly recommended
1	what i got was something better br br just like many movies i've commented on as of recently i'd been looking forward to this one for a while especially after i saw one of other films blue spring which is easily in my top 20 favorite films i loved the trailer for 9 souls and i thought it sounded very good i didn't hear anything bad about it now i know why br br this movie starts up as sort of a comedy then during the last half of the film it quickly becomes something else it becomes more dramatic as each of the characters face their own tragedies each character gets just enough screen time and you care about what happens to each of them even though there are 9 characters we have to learn and care about within just two hours pulls it off brilliantly br br after i saw blue spring i was hoping the soundtrack would be at least a little bit as good as it was in that film i got my wish because the soundtrack to 9 souls was also incredible the music used in each scene more specifically the more dramatic ones is just simply wonderful i loved every second of it br br i wasn't sure whether or not i wanted to see another film but after i saw this i'm going to definitely also because i read the plot for it and i think it sounds really good i'm looking forward to it on the r1 dvd of 9 souls there are two interviews with he says he's completed another film and he wants to start writing the screenplay for his next i can't wait for both br br i highly recommend this film you must see it now
1	the third film i got to watch at the philly film fest was this outstanding drama from japan after breaking out of prison nine escaped convicts plan to find the key to the universe that a tenth convict who didn't break out told them about along the way we get to know each of these men fairly well each has their own dreams for much of the movie it seems to be mostly a comedy but a shift takes place that the film ends up a tragedy all of the actors give great performances i can't say much more without spoiling the film but suffice it to say that you end up feeling for some of these individuals at 2 hours this film is a tad to long but good none the less i have no qualms recommending it with the warning that it does have a bit unsettling violence for the tender hearted hit a home run this time out and it makes me want to search out his prior films as well as look forward eagerly to his future ones br br my grade a
1	when the noble clan is decimated by the usurping clan loyal retainer jun escapes with his lord's eight year old son and his daughter they are sheltered by the priestess who serves the god majin a vengeful spirit imprisoned in the giant stature carved into the side of a local mountain ten years later and seek vengeance against lord but are captured in the attempt and sentenced to die priestess desperately attempting to save her master threatens with the god's displeasure only to be slashed to death for her efforts a vain cruel narrow man orders statue to be destroyed in order to crush any last vestiges of hope among the remaining loyalists but the god majin who hitherto has been silent has other ideas br br daimajin is an enthralling timeless deeply moving fairy tale lavishly produced on a respectable budget it is a film about values the values of nobility of justice of decency of loyalty of self sacrifice and of love it is about hierarchy and rule and of the consequences of failing to live up to the responsibility that rule entails these are things that are not talked about much in our times except by scribbling toads like william bennet but are nonetheless relevant and daimajin shows us why br br daimajin is a perfect example of why japanese cinema is so glorious the values listed above have palpable relevance for those involved in this film as they do for many a japanese filmmaker there is no lip service no condescension no irony here instead there is an authentic effort to conjure a world where these values can once again have life and to show what happens when they fall into abeyance just compare daimajin or the lone wolf and cub series or any kurosawa film to the egregious tarantino's nihilistic kill bill b to see what i mean br br in a film whose contributing talent is so uniformly excellent i would merely like to point out master akira majestic score the talent and beauty of actors jun and and the stunning portrayal by her death scene is one of the most moving and meaningful that i have ever witnessed
1	evil warlord puts a town through pain and suffering not long before they call upon giant stone samurai for help soon comes and really gets the warlord with all his might the revenge climax is really funny as daimajin guys under his feet and crushes guys with his fist and even drives a spike though a man's heart
1	this movie was made by daiei studios known for its gamera movies it is about a samurai lord who was murdered by one of his own men he claims his throne forcing his former's two children to flee into the woods where they hide near a huge stone statue for 10 years in those time that passed the new samurai lord has proved to be very brutal and ruthless towards the village people and the valley therefore it seems that the good people's only hope is the stone statue which is where a demon god sleeps they want the god to help them br br this samurai movie brings to us traditional japanese aspects including sword fights geisha and worshipers it is a superb and powerful story of survival and hope with the protagonists attempting to triumph over pure evil it is full of excitement particularly the parts where the children struggles to remain in hiding as the evil warlord is out to get them in addition it has beautiful cinematography with luscious landscapes of the village and countryside instantly reminds you of the ancient times in japan br br as with most samurai movies like the seven samuari and the last this movie is no less than pure sometimes graphic action there are several disturbing scenes in the film therefore it is not the casual sci fi film yet it is strong and powerful and delivers a message that a good natured human can overcome any adversaries as depicted in this film even the young innocent girl can calm the wrath of the demon god the scenes of the demon god known as daimajin trampling on its enemies and anything that stands in his way will instantly remind you of a godzilla or gamera film overall a powerful and serious yet hopeful film br br so be careful with your samurai sword you wouldn't want to rattle cages br br grade a
1	like another poster mentioned ch 56 a local boston tv station showed this multiple times over the years on saturday afternoons they paired it with the first sequel return of the majin br br now i haven't seen it since then but it never left me aside from the atrocious dubbing and faded color this was a pretty good fantasy technically it isn't horror until the statue comes to life at the end it's just about a village ruled over by an evil man there's a giant stone statue there that the villagers keep praying to to help them to no avail but things go too far the statute comes to life and destroys the bad guys but then it starts going after the good guys too well done with some cool special effects at the end loved how he got rid of the main bad guy also there was an enchanted forest worked in which was kind of interesting too br br no masterpiece but an unusual combo fantasy horror film worth catching but not if it's the dubbed print
1	1956 was the 20th congress of the communist party and the soviet premier made a speech denouncing stalin and the stalinist and the gulag labor systems revealing information that was previously forbidden publicly revealing horrible new truths which opened the door for a new soviet cinema led by mikhail once head of film production this film features a red army that is not victorious in fact they are encircled in a retreat mode with many people dying including the hero in a film set after 06 02 41 the german invasion of russia when germany introduced the barbarossa plan a blitzkrieg invasion intended to bring about a quick victory and the ultimate enslavement of the and very nearly succeeded actually getting within 20 miles of moscow in what was a red army wipe out a devastation of human losses 15 to 20 million russians died or 20 of the entire population historically this was a moment of great trauma and suffering a psychological shock to the russian people but the red army held and prolonged the war 4 more years until they were ultimately victorious br br during the war stalin used the war genre in films for obvious morale boosting introducing female heroines who were ultra patriotic and strong and idealistic suggesting that if females could be so successful and patriotic then russia could expect at least as much from their soldiers stalin eliminated the mass hero of the proletariat and replaced it with an individual bold leader who was successful at killing many of the enemy an obvious reference to stalin himself who was always portrayed in film as a bold wise and victorious leader but changed this depiction as the cranes are flying was made after death causing a political thaw and creating a worldwide sensation winning the cannes film festival palm d'or as well as the best director and best actress reawakening the west to soviet cinema for the first time since eisenstein's ivan the terrible in the 40's br br this film featured brilliant breathtaking and extremely mobile camera work from his extraordinary cinematographer sergei using spectacular crane and tracking shots images of wartime battlefields moscow and crowded streets that are extremely vivid and real another brilliant scene features the lead heroine veronica who hasn't heard from her lover boris in the 4 years at war so he is presumed dead but she continues to love him expressed in a scene where she runs towards a bridge with a train following behind her a moment when the viewer was wondering if she might throw herself in front of that train instead she saves a 3 yr old boy named boris who was about to be hit by a car another scene captures the death of boris on the battlefield who dies a senseless death and his thoughts spin and whirl in a beautiful montage of trees sky leaves all spinning in a kaleidoscope of his own thoughts and dreams including an imaginary wedding with veronica this film features the famous line you can dream when the war is over in the final sequence when the war is over the soldiers are returning in a mass scene on the streets veronica learns boris died all are happy and excited with the soldier's return but veronica is in despair passing out flowers to soldiers and strangers on the street in an extreme gesture of generosity and selflessness revealing cranes white and gray floating in the sky br br the film was released in 1957 in russia and according to some reviews the silence in the theater was profound the wall between art and living life had fallen and tears unlocked the doors br br br br
1	the many other comments about the film say it all just like to add that we showed it last week to around 30 at our community cinema and it got an overall average score of 8 6 we'd 100 recommend it then for today's audiences especially if they can see it on a real cinema screen and can talk about it with others afterwards as our audience did br br the sheer power of the acting performances by the whole troupe was incredible and quite spellbinding of course finney and were truly the stars but everybody was thoroughly well cast for our afternoon audience the majority of whom are senior citizens the fact that the plot could be followed with such ease because of the clarity of speech and the wonderful non use of camera and sound was a great influence br br how delightful many said to see a really great film that's british still not dated twenty years on not full filled with blood guts not confusing because of bob about all over the place camera shots and back and forth through time story lines no seedy sex scenes such views were even uttered by some who were younger
1	nice combination of the giant monster and samurai genres the giant monster majin god of the mountain is an aloof and forbidding figure that comes across very much like the old testament god raining destruction and punishment on those who his holy ground but it's interesting to note that what finally awakens him is not the suffering of the people but a pointed and personal insult it's beautifully photographed with solid acting great miniatures and a wonderful score by the great akira majin is not a 400 foot monster like godzilla he's 2 1 2 times normal size so the evil samurai he stomps into the ground get a good look into his contemptuous eyes as he bears down on their fortress and smashes it to smithereens not much in terms of extras but it's nice to see this forgotten minor classic rescued and restored to the digital format
1	for those of you who've wondered what an art house monster movie might be like wonder no more the daimajin trilogy circa 1966 was just such a series more period samurai epics than anything else these three movies just also happen to feature one of the most literally monstrous deux et machinas ever there's not a single facet of these gems that is unpolished from the scenario s to the performances to the filmmaker's craftsmanship even the special effects are handled with well above average skill and are integrated in most instances almost seamlessly into the movie s if you're a gojira fan or a fan of samurai movies or one of us who just likes a good movie regardless of genre i highly recommend the daimajin trilogy
1	ruthless evil warlord superbly played to the hateful hilt by cruelly mistreats the peaceful residents of a small village the giant stone statue majin eventually comes to life to destroy and his wicked minions director and screenwriter tetsuro yoshida give the compelling story all the power and simplicity of an ancient age old legendary there's a very strong sense of an ancient time and faraway remote place it's specifically set in feudal japan the good guys are noble and appealing while the villains are truly nasty and detestable the occasional stirring swordfights are staged with considerable skill and gusto the special effects are fine and impressive the serious tone and steady pace never falter for a minute and last reel rampage of savage destruction is extremely lively exciting and more than a little scary moreover the fantastic elements of the narrative are given substantial credibility by being firmly grounded in a throughly believable dark harsh and gritty world this film earns bonus points for depicting majin as more of a brutal and frightening force of angry vengeance instead of a pure spirit of absolute good veteran composer akira supplies a typically rich robust and rousing score morita's sharp moody cinematography likewise hits the bull's eye the capable cast all give admirably sound and sincere performances with especially praiseworthy work by jun as the valiant protective and endo as mean henchman highly recommended
1	with its by adv films i've had a chance to watch the giant majin for the first time without the deep cuts and unkind words of a late night horror chiller theaters guess what it's a pretty damn good movie br br the sets are authentic the acting in subdued and believable and the giant majin is stately powerful and i loved the subtle fantasy touches the enchanted wood luck charm etc and the of the god as a little less than 'good' br br this movie is begging for a remake in the new century
1	this film is absolute cinematic genius it has a well brought together cast who give an almost magical performance the effects are nothing but stunning and the story will keep you hanging off your chair right the way through the movie jack long plays the part of abbot white exceptionally well he provides an immensely thrilling portrayal of absolute evil if your a kung fu fan or just an action movie enthusiast this film is an excellent choice for anyone who is lucky enough to find a copy for any big kung fu fans this movie provides a compelling insight into the world of shaolin this film is definitely 10 10 quality and should be considered as one of the greatest eastern movies of all time
1	this is one of the best martial art kung fu movies of all time if u love martial art movies this is a not to miss from flying nuns to training monks this movie has top kungfu styles and a good story line its about a priest from the wu dang clan trying to eliminate all the fighters to be claim the title of being the best in martial arts after killing key members of the temple the faith of the is remained in the hand of two boys secretly training under a monk the white abbot or the priest from the wu dang clan develops new techniques that turn him into iron well this a not to miss classic it involves ninjas and nuns fighters it a great classic
1	i've just revisited this fondly remembered bit of cinematic madness from my early days and must urge you to beg steal or borrow it br br the story begins with a duel between a righteous shaolin priest and our villain abbot white needless to say abbot white kicks buddhist ass and wages his campaign against shaolin unhindered with the aid of his new ninja allies a golden clad one who fights with a gold ring a black clad one who fights with a spear and my favourite one who fights with a pair of knives who can disappear and reappear as a flying carpet the rest of the story concerns the training of the disciples of the shaolin monks killed by abbot white one of whom is alexander lo rei whilst we are treated to the punishing training sequences the two young avengers must go through to learn the shaolin finger jab technique needed to defeat abbot white's invincible armour technique we see some of the ways our villain keeps in shape mostly using taoist magic to extract the blood from naked ladies we all know how this is going to end but it's the psychedelic trip in between that we're here for in conclusion this is a good example of what taiwan was doing when hong kong was getting sick of martial arts movies and that is making more and more outrageous martial arts movies this movie is very well choreographed has some nudity some gore and enough balls to the wall to keep even the most jaded viewer entertained visit your local today br br
1	alexander lou star of classics such as 'the super and vs headlines here in this entertaining martial arts fest br br the plot involves the evil abbott white who boasts some humongous and frankly somewhat scary looking white eyebrows enlisting the aid of a ninja clan in order to overthrow the shaolin temple br br this goal he achieves and furthermore wipes out most of it's members although needless to say one or two do manage to survive and rather predictably go on to exact eventual revenge upon the miscreant abbott br br ok so the plot isn't exactly pushing the envelope in terms of creativity but does anyone watching a film with a title like tang vs aka 'the ninja hunter' really care much for such an inconsequential factor as a plot of course not it's the fights that matter in these films and by gum you get your moneys worth here there's some superbly choreographed martial arts on display from everyone involved in this and rarely a minute seems to goes by without a fight breaking out for some reason br br if your at all into martial arts movies then this is a must see
1	ninja hunter aka wu tang vs ninja is pure entertainment from start to finish due to its outrageous characters nonsensical plot and lack of any pretensions whatsoever the makers of this film have given us a truly ott masterpiece which has to be seen to be believed br br the plot centres around wu tang villain abbot white who wants to destroy the shaolin monks and become supreme martial artist in order to do so he teams up with a clan of ninjas led by three masters – gold ninja white mustachioed ninja and black ninja – and succeeds in destroying the shaolin temple and most of its inhabitants however there are some survivors it is their job to pass on the knowledge of the shaolin finger jab to a new generation who must defeat the ninjas and abbott white if peace and order is to be restored br br unfortunately abbott white is a difficult foe to beat since he is able to make himself virtually indestructible by sucking the life force out of hot naked chicks an excuse for some welcome gratuitous nudity br br other treats in store for viewers include loads of very impressive fighting despite some of it being speeded up some really amazing outfits the aforementioned gold ninja abbott white's yin yang suits and even some assassins wearing swastika tunics a ninja turning into a flying carpet plus some cheesy gore for good measure and i nearly forgot to mention the really impressive eyebrows on display in this movie – surely a good reason not to pass up on this gem
1	without doubt grand champion has the most impressive cast of aaa level stars and musicians ever gathered together for a fun g rated family adventure this is a must buy for every video collection director barry skillfully combines the drama of the rodeo 4h competition for the grand champion cow with a touching and funny story of perseverance against difficult challenges joey lauren adams delivers her typically solid performance as the well intentioned mother but the star of the show is 12 year old emma roberts whose on camera presence is a glowing as that of her famous aunt julia you can expect a lot from this young roberts as is already proving itself in her new hit nickelodeon series
1	the story told by the cranes are flying is not admittedly all that original young lovers are separated by war bad things happen to both we've seen it many times before br br nonetheless we haven't seen it filmed this well with bold shots that take liberties to emphasize separation or destruction or hopelessness all the more remarkable coming from the soviet union and reason to conclude that tarkovsky is not the last word in modern era soviet cinema br br i was reading chekhov's three sisters the other day and chanced upon what may be the meaning of the title of this film in act 2 objects to the notion that we must live our lives without meaning or understanding br br surely mankind must believe in something or at least seek for the truth otherwise life is just emptiness emptiness to live and not to know why the cranes are flying why children are born why there are stars in the sky either you must know why it is you live or everything is trivial mere pointless nonsense br br likewise veronika has a hard time believing that the war and her and others' sufferings have been pointless better to assign a meaning to live as if one's life is significant and not to give in to despair it is perhaps this thinking that prompts her to her final act in the film br br btw as a minor correction to one other comment here there may be a pattern of in the film though i hadn't noticed them myself but the first letter of name is not a further instance of this in the alphabet her name begins with a letter which looks like an english b
1	first i am a teenager ok and i have to say this movie was pretty good i think any kid ten and under will like it but people my age an up might be a little um a well we'd describe the movie as lame but i liked it it may be that i still act like a kid or i visit a cattle farm every weekend but this movie was cute i did like how the actors were like kids not little blonde cutesy pies wearing three layers of clothes a trendy hat and about a thousand like most shows today to name a few drake josh lizzie mc guire well any kid show and the setting was perfect but there was a flaw the family was in debt right why in the world did their internal house look like something out of a western versace store that was one flaw br br the cameos are great there's about five hundred of them and the only explainable one is julia roberts being the main little girl's aunt how in the world did they get everyone else this movie seemed to be on a tight type budget br br i liked this movie it was a fun one to watch and i thought some parts were far fetched like a cow selling for 750 000 ha my butt a cow sells for that much but otherwise it was good i liked it and i could watch it again but i'd never buy it there's not even special features on the dvd what's up with that but do rent it especially if you have little kids running around the house
1	i had the privilege of being one of the still photographers on the set of grand champion and enjoyed every minute of the 42 days i worked on the movie i have been in the photography business for 25 years and have worked on 16 movies and i can't think of a time when i enjoyed providing my craft more the kids were wonderful to work with and little emma roberts has so much energy she's a real trip she even grabbed one of my camera during the scene rehearsal and started shooting some of her images were used for pr i could have made more money working for a production with a bigger budget but i doubt i would have had the fun and been around so many great actors and the great people of west texas as i was
1	i have watched grand champion all the way through at least twice now i enjoyed the movie's story the characters and the actors were not bad it is refreshing to see a g rated movie this is a feel good movie the story is mostly from the view of the children the interactions between the kids and the adults makes the story interesting i recommend this movie if you are looking for a family film if you liked the little rascals you will probably enjoy this i viewed this movie on cable either on encore or showtime family this is not a movie that i would have gone to see at the theatre but i only go to the theatre for the effects of the big screen so most comedies romantic films or dramas i do not go for big screen i wait for tv cable edition get your kids together pop some popcorn and enjoy
1	we all enjoyed the movie it is a very charming family film with many fun cameos it was fun to see austin musicians charlie joe ely and robert earl keen in the film as well as turns by famous actors julia roberts and bruce willis emma roberts is especially cute in the film however all the children are good the west texas scenery is great as is the soundtrack full of texas artists the last half seemed a bit far fetched to me however my son was interested throughout the film which is not so often with him something in the storyline was captivating for children having shown calves as a child i really liked the ending that is definitely not the way it really works unless you have
1	it was easy to get lost in the simplicity and light hearted humor of this year's best family film grand champion the story of a 12 year old boy buddy that with the help of his sister mom and best friend is determined to raise a grand champion steer it is a whimsical journey to the big competition after hokey pokey is crowned grand champion he is auctioned for 000 to pay for the kids college education buddy finds out that the next time he sees hokey it would be on a bun the kids conspire to steal the prize winning steer vowing to save him from the bbq this is where the fun begins julia roberts larry george strait natalie steven bland tommy guy tuff and so many more stars create the backdrop for all the antics you wont believe who actually won the steer at the auction he looks good in a mustache the soundtrack is rich with tunes from george strait natalie willie nelson and more where else can you experience movie stars country western stars and rodeo stars only in texas only in grand champion br br it is masterfully crafted simple little film that may be the best movie you see this year the movie opens in select cities on friday august 27th 2004 br br another great film from rope the moon and productions is in a whisper keep an eye out on the cable networks for this one
1	this is the kind of movie that i grew up on it is great family fun that the kids love and the parents enjoy as well i wish more films like this were made it's a great story about a little boy who raises a bull with his mother and sister and shows it all the way up to the national grand championship where he wins then he's scared that someone's going to barbecue his bull so he kidnaps it and heads home with it i was really excited when i first saw this film in the theater and was surprised to see george strait julia roberts and bruce willis in this little film the music was great with all kinds of huge country names like willie nelson and the dixie chicks anyone who doesn't enjoy this movie doesn't have any children or never was a kid them self
1	everybody interested in texas needs to have this dvd it's just a good movie about real texas with great scenes it took a bunch of texans to do this right hollywood never would have gotten it there are so many subtle things that put in the movie and may not have even thought about but it makes the show br br guest cameos are not seen as cameos at all each star fits in perfectly and does not distract from the film many of the guests spots blend so perfect that when the credits roll you will go back through the movie to find the character roll is dead on it could not have been done any better in real life br br the second half of the movie is completely different from the first it get's a little hokey but that's alright somehow the storyline works the hokey stuff is like an after school special but it looks believable and natural br br i have never heard anyone use the sonny pruitt line before other than locals that i grew up with that was the icing on the cake for me br br definitely a collectible right up there with pure country express jr bonner texasville the last picture show giant and of course hud br br '86
1	my mom and i went to the ft worth premiere mainly to see george strait but ended up getting the chance to see the movie premier at bass hall what a wonderful beautiful film which not only depicts the beautiful texas landscape but also had a great feel good storyline it was well written directed and produced and my mom and i loved it from start to finish thank you jay for giving us the opportunity to be a part of the premiere of this wonderful movie it was a night we will never forget as if seeing the movie was not enough we also were fortunate enough to be sitting 4 rows in front of my favorite singer george strait thank you thank you thank you keep up the great work and again thank you br br debbie maureen ft worth tx
1	i loved this movie my daughter is 3 1 2 and a country girl at heart there are not any movies for young children i loved this one because the worst thing in it was when one of the boys said stupid i applaud them for stepping out and making a true family movie i rented it the first time we saw it and know looking to buy to add to our collection my daughter can not stop talking about it it goes along with our lifestyle we live in east texas i hope to see more family films like this one she even named one of our calves hokey pokey keen i can not say enough about this movie i look forward to many more films like this one
1	not all movies are oscar worthy but let's face it sometimes these types of movies are more fun to watch and leave a longer and lasting impression this one left me smiling and happy and i couldn't wait to hug my own son anyone who has had a pet no matter what type knows what it feels like to lose one i believe most people would identify with buddy almost losing his best friend who he raised from birth bruce willis was great as the tycoon turned nice guy and joey lauren adams was convincing as a good mother the little boy who played buddy had a cherub face and his sister and friend edgar played terrific backup roles liked the movie a lot and it was something the whole family could enjoy thanks
1	having long disdained network television programming i remember the first time i caught an episode of police squad it was totally by accident it was during the show's initial network run on abc in early 1982 i am a chronic channel surfer and was flipping the dial one evening when suddenly appeared police squad 's opening credit sequence on my tv screen i immediately recognized it as a sendup of the opening credits of m squad starring lee marvin one of my all time favorite cop shows i stopped surfing then of course came headquarters getting shot up followed by the immortal rex hamilton as abraham lincoln by now i was saying to myself what the heck is this then came special guest star georg stanford brown getting flattened by a plummeting safe i was hooked from that moment the episode was ring of fear a dangerous assignment with its comic references to on the waterfront and muhammed ali but most memorable of course were all the sight gags and non sequiturs leslie nielsen and alan north in their loose parody of lee marvin and paul of m squad were an absolute riot finally i said to myself a network television program truly worth watching wouldn't you know it would be canceled just a few weeks later leave it to the networks i should have known anyway i just bought the dvd collection of all six episodes and they are just as funny today as they were 27 years ago the naked gun movies were terrific as well but i really missed alan north he was so good as ed peter lupus as what were they thinking casting oj in that part and especially william johnny the guy great stuff
1	my children dd 7 and ds 10 enjoyed the movie so much they were squirming in their seats it was good old fashioned rated g family fun this movie was made for kids someone really understands them br br it was fun to see julia roberts brice willis garth brooks and the other stars make their cameo appearances br br as someone who lives in the city the fictional big texas was modeled after i can say that they did an honest and accurate portrayal the kids looked like kids not like superstars br br i hope everyone supports this movie to send the message to hollywood that we need more movies like this go see it then spread the word
1	went to the preview engagement of grand champion today dallas fort worth austin snyder and a couple of other texas cities there are so few movies suitable for young children but this one is and it's great though the plot is a little hokey also the name of the steer in the movie it is a wonderful story for children and i enjoyed it too br br the film pretty well represents west texas ranch family life although a little exaggerated director author barry ought to get it right since he grew up in that environment he called the film his love letter to texas br br joey lauren adams plays the single mom of buddy jacob fisher and sister emma roberts watch emma roberts julia roberts' niece she's very good and i think she will be in more films there are also cameo appearances from julia roberts bruce willis musicians george strait charlie robert earl keen joe ely and rodeo legends larry and tuff br br if you have young children or just want to see a feel good movie check out grand champion when it comes to your city supposedly later this month y'all will enjoy it and it will make you feel good br br i guess since i'm from west texas i might be a little biased nah i'm impartial the film is excellent
1	grand champion is a bit old fashion at first glance andrew morton at the fort worth star telegram said it best if walt disney had hailed from texas he would have made grand champion br br the movie does not have the video and special effects but it has heart and soul the kids are great and the array of stars is incredible i bet bruce willis and julia roberts are proud to be in a movie that their kids can actually see g rated br br this is a masterfully crafted simple little film made in texas by texas barry take your kids take your kids friends take grandma too they will all enjoy it and you will too
1	this is a new barbie movie the graphics were really good they made the movie seem partially realistic i used to do ballet and this movie made me want to continue it this movie was kind of like a cinderella movie but a little bit different a father of 12 princesses gets very sick his cousin poisons him and wants the throne the girls find a secret magical land thanks to their dead mother's stories its up to them to save their father and society with the help of their handsome prince it was a funny movie and me and my friend had fun watching it we enjoyed it a lot and also enjoyed the indian talking parrot the music was very nice and made the movie even greater it had a great classical orchestra the voices were great and the characters were adorably sweet and cute i liked it so enjoy the movie its great for the family all in all i'd watch it again
1	this is a new barbie movie the graphics were really good they made the movie seem partially realistic i used to do ballet and this movie made me want to continue it this movie was kind of like a cinderella movie but a little bit different a father of 12 princesses gets very sick his cousin poisons him and wants the throne the girls find a secret magical land thanks to their dead mother's stories its up to them to save their father and society with the help of their handsome prince it was a funny movie and me and my friend had fun watching it we enjoyed it a lot and also enjoyed the indian talking parrot the music was very nice and made the movie even greater it had a great classical orchestra the voices were great and the characters were adorably sweet and cute i liked it so enjoy the movie its great for the family all in all i'd watch it again
1	i have a old daughter and before this movie she was all about the disney princesses now she watched this movie and all she can talk about is princess genevieve and all her sisters i definitely recommend this movie for all young girls this movie is one of the best from the barbie collection it shows all the good values that any mother would love to encourage on there little girls with the great songs and dance moves it gets my daughter up and trying to mimic the moves the extras are also good one even works on how good your memory is i would definitely have say it is a must see for kids and grown ups alike
1	i feel that this movie is different from so many others in that it shows a family of girls who actually care about each other they may have faults but bitterness and put downs have no place with these girls try to find that on tv or in the usual movies it is a breath of fresh air to see girls being feminine wearing beautiful feminine dresses and shoes contrast that with the apparel in stores today i e raggedy and faded jeans and jackets etc the story line has an evil thread running through but that is what makes it more realistic and interesting i know that it is animated but it still gives you a feeling that families can stick together and come out okay i would recommend this movie for boys and girls alike
1	i thought this movie was perfect for little girls it was about a magical place where genevieve and all her sisters could do what they wanted to do the most anytime they'd like most little girls would like this story even though there is the thought of death in it although no one dies the king almost does but little girls would not understand it so it adds up to make a perfect story all the events add up creating a great plot that can have a meaning if you dig deep enough this story is perfect for little girls and since it is a barbie movie the kids can have more fun with it especially if they have barbies of their own anyone can have fun with it though because it is so cute and understandable overall i think this movie is a good movie for everyone especially little girls and will give anyone a smile at least once during it
1	this movie was very cute and totally little girl appropriate my nieces have watched it non stop since they've gotten it and as a result i've seen it nearly 4 times all the way through i can't get enough of it the cgi images are great to watch the humor is good and the ballet portrayals are excellent although the story line has a few holes no little girl will pick up on them and as an adult the movie is so charming that one hardly even notices just keep in mind that it is a barbie movie and though cheesy at times in my experience this one lives up to the high standard which the other barbie princess movies have set for it i would recommend this to anyone who has a little girl who has always wanted to be a princess it teaches a good lesson as well everyone is special and different in their own way and everyone can make a difference
1	this is a nicely done story with pretty music lots of dancing lots of big sister little sister interaction almost all of it positive and lots of wishes granted there are funny moments that older children and adults will enjoy such as when king randolph exclaims they're just shoes aren't they and tender moments such as when princess genevieve comforts her youngest sister lacey after a blunder br br the animation is perhaps not as good as disney but it still is very good the facial expressions are nuanced particularly for genevieve king randolph duchess and her servant derek the cobbler and little princess lacey my only quibble on the animation is in the dance sequences where the dancing princesses become absolute carbon copies of each other without the slightest deviation even the three youngest copy the dance steps perfectly i would have liked to see a little more individualism in the dancing considering that these girls are not professional or chorus dancers br br the resolution of the story is handled cleverly to get rid of a villainess without actually hurting her there is some violence done to guards in the story and the monkey is mean to other animals in the story br br my 4 year old daughter loves this movie and has watched it repeatedly and i have found it to be quite acceptable for her to watch
1	nothing like this was seen on tv at that time and probably never will again from the first image of that police light blinding you and from there you heard the words police squad in color you were to see that this in no way was an ordinary sitcom br br also to kill off a guest star and then never refer to him again where had you ever seen that before then the actual show started and if you did not pay attention you would miss several jokes in the background don't pay too much attention to one thing or you would be sorry this was the show that video recorders were made for way before married with children or the simpsons br br the stories did in no way make sense and the dialog was sometimes so weird that you had to think about it for 5 minutes before realising that it was a joke br br the characters frank and ed came right out of dragnet and they were absolutely straight no funny accents or expressions but instead there were puns and twisted sentences played absolutely deadpan only once as i can remember were there a segment played for silly laughs a scene involving a trip to a dentist suction and a whole lot of saliva br br there were some tedious moments like the informer johnny and an appearance by some celebrity that was strictly a one joke moment but they had to use it in all six episodes oh well everything can't be perfect the important thing is that the rest of the time you were knee deep in tears of laughter br br leslie nielsen was fortunate that this revived his career when they put the frank character in 3 features but it must have been an achilles heel as well can you remember seeing him in anything except naked gun type work since and don't count the awful mr magoo reworked for live action he probably made a lot of money though
1	i missed the full four hour version when it was originally released in theaters because it played one week i had to settle for seeing the shorter two and a half hour version a year or so later and was left stunned by what i saw i left the theater thinking i had witnessed a masterpiece and wondering what the full version was like br br the full version is mostly good but it has sequences that are so incredibly dull that the whole movie is pulled down and almost sinks beneath the waves br br the problem is entirely in the editing which should be labeled as the final word on excess there are times when things go on and on and on and nothing happens shots of people in a city that go on much too long with no purpose in the narrative we get beautiful vistas and visions of such beauty that they bring tears to your eyes but they are used too frequently as a place holder instead of as punctuation or to set a place much of the longer version seems to be on screen simply because it looked good br br i've attempted to actually sit down and watch heavens gate with out resorting to the fast forward button but somewhere along the way i find i can't stand it any more br br i wish mgm would take pity on us and release the shorter version to dvd as well as the huge dinosaur perhaps as a two pack so that we could see which is the better version and whether cimino was mad or not br br and while they were at it why not include the once rumored johnson county war edit that ran 90 minutes supposedly united artists tinkered with a further cut in the hopes of getting some of their money back whether it was ever done or still exists is up in the air but it would be interesting to see
1	though this film destroyed director and screenwriter michael cimino's career and bankrupted united artists it still stands as one of the top movies of all time there are plenty of reasons to prematurely dismiss this movie for sure among them its length its technical problems its colossal mistreatment of animals on set the list goes on and on and yet for all of this it remains a film that captures something it is a classic example of naturalistic storytelling on par with strindberg its moments lasting as long as they might in reality having not been dumbed down for good cinematic timing it feels real in its moments of anger love and war and hopelessness this film should be seen by any person who appreciates film and storytelling
1	i actually liked this movie even though this movie seems to be so hated and i think it's even better then the deer hunter which was overrated both this movie and year of the dragon are very underrated although i could see why someone would not like this movie at three and a half hours the movie just goes on too long and the second half of the movie is much better than the first half kris kristofferson and christopher walken are fighting over isabelle huppert but she can't make up her mind about which one to be with sam waterston is the villain who has a list of 125 people to be killed who is says are and thieves there is a great cast that also has jeff bridges brad dourif and a young mickey rourke
1	if this film had been directed by dw griffith or stanley kubrick it would be recognized for what it is a cinematic masterpiece told with depth and subtlety and passion a film with no equal in the visual realm it is unremittingly stunning and also very brutal in its depiction of our great heritage of greed and annihilation and of course what the reviewers could not abide is it doesn't tell a simple narrative dick and jane tale like 99 of hollywood output its characters are complex and confused by their passions and thoughts fears and emotions they even appear to be thinking something your average movie reviewers do not understand and cannot abide so they destroyed it see the original uncut wide screen version it is stunning
1	this great film never showed up in my town so actually i didn't have any opportunity to watch it until the late when i caught it on german television i was expecting something of a disaster and found instead a well acted grand western with superb location work the tiny tube couldn't really damage it and there's almost not a dull moment in this 4 hour film so i hope to see it once again on the big screen what a spectacle that would be don't miss it if you ever have the chance unfortunately the harsh treatment of heaven's gate at its opening ruined michael cimino's career and he moved from the passable year of the dragon to the boringly ludicrous the sicilian and the dumb desperate hours
1	so many of us who are devoted to the art of the motion picture will disregard or forget that movies are also business ventures most of the time they are far too costly to produce to be anything else in light of this it often seems a miracle to me that really great ones do get made every now and then once in a while the film makers will go so far over budget in producing a film that the businessmen responsible for funding the enterprise will be badly hurt financially and will of course become very angry about this i'd like to know precisely how it happens that this has often led to both the big studios and some major critics gunning for the picture when it is at last released terrible expectations are generated and often what people expect to see clouds their perception of what they are viewing br br you can see this phenomenon at work in the imperfect but magnificent '62 re make 0f mutiny on the bounty and you can definitely see it in the reaction to heaven's gate cimino took too long and cost united artists way too much money in making this picture the company was fatally wounded by his excesses and no doubt powerful people were out to see his reputation forever ruined when this strange mammoth epic was finally released there are always many film goers who dislike long weighty pictures the storytelling in this film is not accomplished with great economy or a brisk pace like stanley kubrick cimino often chooses not to spell out the particular statement he is making with a given scene rather he draws it out in such a way as to make the viewer feel like they are living in the moment providing time for his own imagination to participate deeply in what is being presented a lot of folks don't react all that favorably to this approach they want the story to move quickly and clearly and they easily become impatient and confused by this sort of film these factors doubtless contributed to the box office failure of heaven's gate br br by nature a film editor i am deeply frustrated by two problems with this film here and there a scene is clearly too long and could easily have been trimmed without harming its effectiveness then we come to the massive drawn out battle scenes at the end of the picture where these are concerned the clarity of the storytelling is indeed damaged if you liked the film up to the point where these occur your understanding of what is supposed to be happening is likely to become unclear and this is indeed a frustration not having seen all the rough footage i can not tell if actual re shoots would have been needed or whether some critical plot elements might have been made clearer by careful re editing of some moments given the time and money that were poured into this picture more care and thought should have been given to this problem br br there are other problems some occasional weak acting some dialog that doesn't ring true but these are really minor concerns the reason i am so troubled by the problems stated above is that like so many these days i too feel that in all heaven's gate is so splendid to behold and so magnificently deals with major historic political and sociological issues that it is just short of a masterpiece despite its shortcomings it is so dramatically and visually powerful that it stands head and shoulders above most other hollywood films i have ever seen i'd like to re mix a lot of the sound i'd like to re direct and re edit the scene where ella is killed but the greatness of this picture is such that these considerations really do become trivial when compared with the value of the total production i should add that it should always be seen on a giant wide screen to achieve the glorious effect that it is so capable of delivering
1	i only saw this film once a quarter of a century ago yet it's impact has never left me and i can still remember even now my reactions to it i was mesmerised by the breadth and the sheer beauty of so much of the photography i was astounded that an american studio could produce such a european film with it's slow pace and its unfocused plot the lack of any strong characters felt like a flaw but i raged at the completely unnecessary ending on the yacht which seemed as though it was bolted on to give some kind of plot cohesion and which was entirely at odds with the style of the rest of the picture it was also refreshing to see a western which made no pretence about the brutality and exploitation that so often was the unfortunate detritus of the american dream the western scenes and sets also had an authenticity which was entirely new to me and which the recent deadwood series the film was massively cut for the american audience and its my very real wish that in these days of director's cuts that michael cimino is given the opportunity of a fresh edit in the light of reflection a cut which could turn this ill fated movie into the masterpiece it had the potential to become i have now seen the original first cut and the network of relationships makes so much more sense although christopher walken is responsible mainly for carrying this off if only de niro and not kris kristofferson had played the main lead there was still a massive preoccupation with creating the reality and atmosphere to the detriment of a good script nevertheless the camera work was so cleverly handled that at times you could almost believe you were inside the action yourself and there were many special moments everybody arguing in the hall in different languages trying to overcome their national differences and seek some unity of action in face of the impending disaster gave a real insight into the difficulties facing the welding together of the usa especially when the threat came from a combination of the old elite and money faltering approach to ella when she first visited his cabin stood in stark contrast to the violence that was to follow and was another one i had a special showing with a large group of mates to see the new cut and we all enjoyed it whilst having varying reservations this revisionist and much closer to the truth version of events was probably too much for americans to take when the film was first released but we all felt it had enormous merit and that its place in cinema history was also due for major revision
1	i'ts like going around in a museum you can appreciate the great talent of the main composer michael cimino this fabulous art of light vilmos zsigmond as i said i'ts like being in heaven discovering all the creation this man can applied to a single frame imagine when you can look at a moving picture of this artist i can say this film is one of the best
1	by the time it opened heaven's gate had become to its detriment more a cultural phenomenon than a motion picture at a time when concern about excessive budgets and directorial arrogance were growing it was a convenient target as it was a far over budget work by the latest auteur to hit hollywood who had not yet established the track record that would have given him the benefit of the doubt among critics and the industry alike as someone pointed out at the time no one was going to jump on warren beatty's even more costly and dark reds because beatty was one of us while michael cimino had not achieved that status br br but heaven's gate was also affected by a cultural change taking place at that time the political move and toward a more patriotism and of the myth of the west and the western a few years earlier cimino's of the frontier might have seemed timely fresh and a necessary but by 1980 in the wake of the reagan revolution it was thought of as nearly un american br br which is a shame because the film seen from the vantage point of several decades away is a fascinating and thought provoking look at that particular time and place as a world where life was in words nasty brutish and short kristofferson plays james an upper class who in search of adventure becomes a sheriff in wyoming where he finds himself having to lead a resistance by the settlers and squatters against an attack by a mercenary death squad hired by wealthy landowners including lifelong best friend in a more innocent time and his rag tag army of poor farmers would emerge triumphant but this is anything but a traditional western and when the u s cavalry joins the fight here it isn't on the side of the good guys br br much like the deer hunter cimino's previous film heaven's gate spends a great deal of time building up the details of the lives of its principals giving the film an at times leisurely pace that nevertheless leads to a gripping conclusion with excellent acting a fine musical score and the visual texture that makes one believe one is actually seeing the old west through new eyes heaven's gate is a film that rewards repeat viewings i only wish that mgm would put out a new dvd with an improved transfer and a commentary by cimino nonetheless the current version is satisfactory enough to let viewers see what critics in 1980 possibly blinded by the film's cultural subtexts managed to miss that heaven's gate is a great film
1	i watched the longer version and could not take my eyes off the screen minutes passed and yet it seemed like only an hour had gone by the characters were very believable and entertaining and the photography was excellent the story pulled me in and held my attention i will definitely watch this again and again this true story telling at it's best not hollywoods usual cheap thrills and skin deep glitz i've seen a quite a lot of reviews on this movie most seem to pan the film or give it faint praise basically it's a great film that received unfairly harsh reviews watch it for yourself with an open mind if you like westerns historic period pieces albeit historically inaccurate you'll enjoy the movie superb 10 10
1	two years after the success of 'airplane' jim abrahams and jerry david zucker created this brilliant sitcom starring the great leslie nielsen as plain clothed detective 'frank also in the cast was alan north as 'captain ed ed williams as and william as 'johnny the shoe shine boy' 'police squad ' featured unashamedly corny jokes and clever visual gags playing in the background each episode would conclude with a mock freeze frame in which the characters in frame stand completely still one of the best sequences saw one of the characters pouring coffee into a cup while standing still causing the cup to overflow guest stars were killed off in the opening titles one included georg stanford brown being crushed by a falling safe despite gaining positive reviews and much critical acclaim ' only lasted for six episodes before being cancelled this didn't mean the end though five years later the show was transferred to the big screen for the first in the trilogy of the 'naked gun' films
1	the deer hunter's success with critics and publics alike led united artists to give cimino carte blanche on heaven's gate an epic western about the 1892 johnson county wars… br br the elliptical story about the persecution of lowly european born farmers by cattle was a muddled mixture of class conflict sumptuous pageant and underwritten stereotypical however cimino's fetish for authenticity and his sweeping sense of scale ensured that the film running at nearly four hours – was rarely br br its undeserved status as a cause with critics divided as to whether it was a masterpiece or a fiasco derived from its inflated blamed for the studio's financial problems cimino became a scapegoat for hollywood's general decline and the film edited into an incomprehensible short version after its initial release was a commercial
1	i've been a fan of heaven's gate since its first release i've seen it at least half a dozen times and have long thought of it as a masterpiece so it was with excitement and a sense of anticipation that i took myself off to see the restored director's cut br br to my surprise i was disappointed on seeing it again and have since revised my estimation of the film heaven's gate touches upon greatness in parts but overall lacks the thematic and narrative consistency and the passionate urgency characteristic of a truly great film br br firstly two technical problems the sound quality is throughout the film verging on at times some of this perhaps is intentional a way to mimic the chaos and confusion of history as it is unfolding but at key points one is unable to register what it is the characters are saying br br the cinematography is similarly the images lack sharpness and of detail the result is a certain graininess and lack of pictorial sharpness which succeeds in blurring foreground and background br br structurally the narrative is off key throughout as if cimino can't quite make up his mind as to the effect he is after he wanted an epic for sure but a pastoral or dramatic epic the film sits uneasily and unconvincingly between styles and perhaps even genres at times it reminded me of terrence malick's of heaven' or even 'elvira in its languid pace and elegant scene painting at other times it threatens to turn into a robust 'western' more akin to 'the wild bunch' in fact the latter film offers an instructive reference point for an assessment of as it shares the same period concern and employs a similar tone of ambivalent nostalgia for a darker yet more heroic america br br this structural and thematic uncertainty isn't helped by the poor quality script which often sounds forced and jarring to the ear the result is an inauthentic sense of period speech br br the near greatness of heaven's gate resides in its set pieces the roller skating sequence in particular is astoundingly beautiful one of the most evocative scenes ever put to film br br another set piece which works very well in terms of unifying theme mood and setting occurs when kristofferson and huppert go riding in the new rig to the lake and she washes herself while he naps in the shade the languid pacing evocative music and monumental scenery combine in this scene to convincingly portray the love story which might just lie at the heart of the film and which could have been its saving grace if pursued more convincingly br br some critics have complained about the length of the film this in itself doesn't bother me a good film can't be long enough the restored minutes are critical in restoring the motivation and characterization absent from the cut version and they are full of pictorial interest br br perhaps the chief glory of heaven's gate lies in the achingly evocative soundtrack the repeated waltz motif and its different throughout full band guitar solo fiddle etc lends a haunting quality to the foreground action and establishes a thematic consistency lacking in the narrative itself br br despite its obvious flaws most notably the absence of a compelling narrative there is a sense of grandeur about the film one leaves the cinema with a rueful sense of missed greatness and a wish that cimino could revisit the film with the wisdom of time and hindsight to put right what is so badly amiss
1	i was expecting this movie to be a stinker but i wanted to see for myself but i was surprised how good of a movie this was i know longer movies often don't do well at the box office but why this was pulled and not allowed to be viewed by the public is beyond me it maintained my interest throughout and the scenery and photography is breathtaking at times the plot was good and the morality play was a good one i liked the realism which was along the lines of unforgiven i had to rent this movie to see it but it was definitely worth it
1	i first saw this film when released in 1980 from other sources i've learnt that the only release of the minute cut was in new york city after which it was severely cut to 149 minutes so i guess i saw the shorter version first which at the time i thought was a very interesting anti western if a trifle confusing br br so it was with even more interest that i finally obtained a dvd of the full length version i'm glad i did because this second viewing has confirmed for me that the movie is a true classic and the critical vitriol poured on michael cimino was unwarranted to say the very least br br yes it's a long movie but so have been many others for example once upon a time in america 1984 at 227 minutes cleopatra 1963 at minutes the ten commandments 1956 at 220 minutes spartacus restored version 1960 at minutes gone with the wind 1939 at 222 minutes and others so it can't be the fact of running time that made so many froth at the mouth way back when heaven's gate came on the scene br br but note this all of those above movies have everything to do with reinforcing myths about history and heroes br br not so heaven's gate in this narrative the american west is shown in all its grim and unrelenting harshness injustice and poverty and that's probably the first reason why so many disliked this film it laid out the circumstances of the johnson county war of 1892 in wyoming showing how the wyoming stock growers association hired 50 assassins to hunt down and murder a large group of european immigrants accused of cattle rustling and all with the assistance and conniving of authorities right up to the president of the united states for an essay on that war with the background and what happened there is a link at wikipedia under johnson county war br br very few like to be reminded of the really dirty periods in their country's history and which fly in the face of what the country is supposed to be had it been a documentary it would have been barely palatable for most as entertainment it was almost bound to fail commercially and be torn to shreds by the shrill and infamous br br leaving aside the socio political diatribe for a moment that cimino launched herein what about the narrative – the story of the three main characters well it probably wasn't unusual for men of that time to fall for a local prostitute just as it's probably not unusual now it's a fairly standard love triangle whereby ella must choose between the two men and ultimately decides upon the younger man nathan who although not above resorting to cold blooded murder when it suits him shows more spirit and commitment than the older james or jim as most people in the film say for some that part of the story threads too slowly perhaps in the context of the wider narrative about the war however it is i think entirely appropriate br br and that war is depicted graphically viciously and cruelly with scenes of carnage that are exquisitely staged and edited flawlessly – although in the final massacre between the association and the immigrants i'm certain that some scenes of wagons blowing apart are repeated a minor point and perhaps brought about when the minute cut was restored any way you look at it though it hits you in the face with the noise dust chaos and confusion of war br br which brings me to another criticism by others the noise and dust is such that it's often difficult to hear the dialog and even see clearly what is happening i'll admit that i found that to be a trifle annoying at first even to replay parts to try to catch the image or the words – until i realized that really wasn't necessary if you accept the director's intent life is chaotic it is difficult to hear and see in crowded situations and in war it's the sine qua non of this mise en scene in short it's as though you truly are present in and within the scenes br br and what of the title from shakespeare it refers to a figurative nearness to god and so if you equate god with the natural world the stunning scenery that pervades the movie – and it is stunning hauntingly equal to that of david lean's doctor zhivago 1965 – is a useful metaphor i tend to think however that cimino had something more to say namely the idea that the brave immigrants – the god fearing salt of the earth – were denied entry to heaven on earth and the freedom to build a life for themselves in the land that espouses to be freedom's champion br br was that cimino's intent – to gut the myth of the american west to show how in america only the rich get rich while the poor are massacred one way or another throughout history is that anything new not really as we all know where it really hurt however is in showing how america was not and by implication is not the land of the free and the home of the brave instead after absorbing this narrative we are left with an impression that the underpinnings of america have more to do with a land of dispossessed slaves and a home for
1	until today i thought there only three people including me who considered heaven's gate 1980 to be a masterpiece and perhaps the last great western since the 1970 after little big man 1970 johnson 1972 the outlaw wales 1976 and the long riders 1980 br br i was stunned and pleased to see that 22 5 of those voting at imdb rate this movie a 10 as do i a recent book the worst movies of all time includes heaven's gate through it's production and release it was vilified as no movie since cleopatra almost twenty years before at one time it was considered the most expensive over budget movie of all time surpassing even cleopatra it was blamed for the downfall of its studio united artists until everyone finally saw all the studios were falling michael cimino fresh from his glory with the deer hunter was hated and despised for his success and movie making excess but clearly that was petty jealousy at its worst br br cimino ended up fashioning one of the great expositions of the american experience this film is not to be missed but any serious student of american filmmaking
1	i seriously don´t know why this movie got such a hostile reception when it was first released sure it´s overlong and somewhat gratuitous in its depictions of sexuality and violence but so are lots of well regarded movies i seriously don´t think that the people who hated gate really understood it gate in its uncut form much like the deer hunter shows the gross differences of living an insecure and dangerous life like the immigrants and in wyoming and living in comfort and privilege like the settled americans in wyoming and in the prologue and epilogue living a hard life is painful but it can also be invigorating as opposed to the dull life leads in the epilogue also as michael cimino took great pains to make the picture historically accurate it is fascinating as a document of and maybe indictment of american life in old west wyoming the dialogue is often genuinely clever and emotional combined with great music and cinematography the movie works like a truly poetic work of art granted gate with its refusal to patronize the viewer is not for all tastes however hollywood turns out so much commercial dreck each year which is so much easier to dismiss as mindless eye candy even when an example of it becomes a blockbuster that gate and cimino really do deserve more respect all people should see the uncut version at least once and then they should make up their own mind br br
1	is not a masterpiece which apparently was what it needed to be upon first release to justify its great cost and more importantly the continued uneasy reliance of hollywood on the auteur model of film making yet seen today at last on dvd in a cut of minutes is a superb film it is a touch lethargic in pace but at least it is paced quite apart from the incompetence of construction that marks many films today there have been many films which deliberate in form have been severely damaged by being hacked down with no care for rhythm so the films become shapeless and confusing beyond this the criticisms leveled at the film have become in retrospect quite lame if the good guys and bad guys are too obviously pronounced for a serious film and yes sam mustachioed fur clad villain is comic opera and not in the multi leveled manner of bill the butcher from of new york' and yes the townsfolk do seem a touch 'fiddler on the roof' on occasions then a few dozen serious films made since then including 'titanic' and the which bears certain similarities and is a notable failure in convincing qualities compared to this film can be castigated for exactly the same reason br br also despite accusations the film has a plot quite a well essayed plot at that it simply does not bow to standard form quality by providing titan heroes rafts of sub plots and confusion it experiments with telling in a manner more like much smaller modest films by carefully caught moments of character interaction and well textured pageant like explosions of communal action as with the opening at harvard and most specially the wonderful scene where the johnson county folk following the lead of a brilliantly physical fiddler make celebration on roller skates br br 'the deer hunter' was a critical and commercial success but abandoned the first half's inspired mosaic like accumulation of detail and i think in a manner similar to criticism of robert penn warren's novel 'all the king's men' and its dictionary of stunts if cimino had not had such a strong grasp of the conventions of hollywood epics he might have made a special rare work of art based in honest of people within their milieu in contrast succeeds in screwing its narrative momentum and tension upwards in a slowly expanding arc until the finale explodes whilst not abandoning the mosaic approach br br the central romantic triangle for instance resists standard inflections a decent intelligent but psychically defeated man james kris kristofferson competes with a hot shot but identity challenged young gunman nate champion christopher walken for the hand of a young madame ella watson isabelle huppert there is no self conscious bed hopping no slaps in the face recriminations or typical sad sack moments but more a sad and distanced decision by ella to choose the younger man whom she loves less because he is ready to make the commitment ella emerges as the film's true hero huppert's performance though initially awkward is really quite excellent balancing a dewy emotionalism with a hard hammered spirit attempting first to rescue nate and then the resistance party of immigrants into an enterprising defence subsequently is stung into action as friends die indeed in the process of overcoming so many traps of cliché and style successfully and willfully throws off the defeated outsider heroes grace note of so many '70s westerns and portrays an eventual vigorous cheer the heroes rallying to a compromised but still relished victory br br the social conflict of so many '70s westerns at last into a fully fledged war where capital attempts a crushing final victory over the miscreants who stand in their way suddenly they find a and more powerful people's army led by the man who played the thoroughly destroyed billy the kid a decade before this is what led the film to be described as the first marxist western but really it simply deflowers a theme of the genre extant well before the '60s such various and classic old school works as william wyler's 'the and even tell awfully similar stories it is simply here that the romantic myth of the gunslinger has been replaced by the romantic myth of the people's revolt in a spectacular exiting but realistic and thus chaotic finale the marauding is attacked ringed by dust clouds punctuated by fallen horses writhing bodies and gunfire puts his classical education to work finally by stealing a roman trick and bringing the cattlemen to the brink of annihilation before they are rescued by the cavalry another distinctly touch but surely not so offensive after 'little big man's unrelenting depiction of native american massacres really it's hard to think of a more heroically american vision of grassroots resistance the film's only real dead spot stands as an unnecessary coda indicating eventual a rather potted piece of tragedy br br despite then certain failings and a slow mid section is a supreme piece of work a genuine attempt to create a contemporary western and a new kind of epic if one has to still join the chorus that reckons cimino was absurd in his behaviour on set and expenditure it is regretfully when today flops like 'the adventures of pluto and 19 the see nearly a hundred million dollars sink down the drain and yet a tag of infamy still hangs on this film one ponders what exactly its grim death signified the attempt at original style the bawdy sexuality the very hard won sense of detail the breathtaking rigor of the film making and what is being filmed all throw into contrast what is sorely lacking in so much contemporary hollywood product
1	i saw heaven's gate on its opening week nearly twenty years ago tickets were sold in advance based on the great anticipation of seeing cimino's long in the making follow up to his 1978 masterpiece the deerhunter the reviews came in and critics trashed the film with an influential new york film critic led the way and most critics followed suit and the 40 min film was pulled from distribution united artists had cimino shorten the film by about an hour and it was re released many months later to equally horrible reviews and to dismal business the film at that time cost about 40 million dollars now considered low budget making it one of the most expensive in history and cimino had free rein on the project with endless retakes despite it being only his third film the deerhunter had also received a negative backlash based on a perceived political ideology which was not popular i mention all this to present a possible bias building up against cimino at the time i thought the film was very good and when i saw the shorter version it was still very good only less so the film showed up again in a museum in the early 1990's they were supposed to show the long version but they could not find an existing print nevertheless seeing the film years later i now thought heaven's gate was a masterpiece finally the long version started to appear in a few select cities i got to see it recently and it was well worth the wait heaven's gate begins with the graduation ceremony at harvard university two of the graduates are kris kristofferson and john hurt and we some of the flaws in their characters early on despite the mandate joseph cotton gives in his speech to the graduating class to use their education to enlighten and improve their country many of the graduates behave as if they are part of an elite country club the film flashes ahead 20 years to johnson county in wyoming a cattle company called the stockholders association has hired poor people to shoot 125 poor immigrants claiming they are cattle thieves kristofferson sides with the immigrants while john hurt is part of the association although hurt is totally against this insane action he is too ineffectual a character to do anything about it a massacre takes place but the immigrants do well in defending themselves a united states cavalry comes to the rescue of the association to allegedly arrest them after most of the damage has been done when in fact they sanctioned the mass killing kristofferson also suffers a great personal loss and the film ends with him years later as part of the elite class of his harvard days married bored on a yacht living but dead on the inside br br this is a very complex film which is brilliant in every department such as it's themes structure direction cinematography writing music editing set designs and acting kristofferson walken hurt huppert dourif bridges waterston and cotton are all excellent portraying very complex characters some of the major complaints i read about this film state that is ugly to look at incoherent too long that the characters make no sense and that the words are often unintelligible in its defense heaven's gate has the look of photographs of that period just as mccabe mrs miller did some of the scenes are smoky looking to suggest the industrial revolution or sometimes horses wagons people are passing by from all sides creating a sense of reality the critic who called it one of the ugliest movies ever made likes to use his thumbs a lot but in spite of all that the composition of each frame and the cinematography are impeccable the film makes a great deal of sense if you pay attention to it everything is not spelled out for the viewer and one has to observe closely to understand the motivations of the characters or its themes as to its length it is a beautifully structured piece at times moving poetic exhilarating or devastating with virtually one great scene following another at times some of the words are unintelligible especially in some of the scenes bustling with activity but one could understand such a cinematic film as this through its use of film language the glances between characters or their actions one day soon this film should be re released in its full length so that people and critics could give it a second chance do not let michael cimino become another orson welles under appreciated in his lifetime and not able to make the kinds of great films he is capable of making
1	thursday june 15 9 30pm the egyptian br br saturday june 17 11 00am the egyptian br br he spent most of his life in pursuit of a good time and he caught it eric idle br br harry nilsson left brooklyn like holden caulfield i was fifteen eventually he ended up working as an usher at the la paramount and within a few years fell back into one of the greatest songwriting careers in the history of american music 'who is harry nilsson and why is everybody talking' about him ' chronicles the legendary life of … the best songwriter of our generation writer director john produces a 'who's who' of musical royalty from brian wilson and al to paul williams randy newman and ray cooper his voice was a medical instrument it would heal you assorted archives include his 1969 appearance on after dark' and bbc special the john lennon brandy alexander smothers brothers at the troubadour comeback show heckling debacle is one memorable recounting among so many they seem to virtually squeeze enchanting music out of this comprehensive and bitter sweet bio doc br br he was a wonderful perpetrator br br … i woke up three days later getting a massage in phoenix
1	i saw this movie in santa monica on aug 23 and it has stayed with me i want to thank the filmmakers for digging into the details of harry's enigmatic eccentric life and also for showing the flaws and failings of nilsson the man thanks for showing the good and bad the ups and downs and for uncovering that amazing bbc footage the film is also a great showcase of a vast amount of music really well placed throughout the film i recommend this movie to anyone who likes good documentaries especially if you are interested in harry nilsson or the music scene of the early 70's some reviewer at the ain't it cool website wrote that this was the best movie movie they saw at the santa barbara film festival and i believe it the film is informative funny sad touching and full of awesome music it succeeds on all levels really really good
1	i remember watching police squad when it first came on abc in 1982 and i thought it was a very funny show thanks to the many sight gags non and scripts filled with word play in one episode there was a line where a man named once was shot twice br br but unfortunately abc canceled the show after only six episodes i felt it deserved a much longer run but a network executive thought the show demanded too much attention of the viewer because of all the sight gags in each episode one that i remember was in the opening where the episode's title was different from the one shown on the screen br br leslie nielsen's portrayal of frank was deadpan yet very funny and his role was in the narrative style of jack webb of dragnet alan north did well and peter lupus in one of his few roles since mission impossible wasn't bad as but the one character that stood out was johnny the boy played by william after giving advice to there were cameos from dick clark dr joyce brothers and then dodger manager tommy lasorda br br even though police squad had a short life on abc the zucker brothers didn't give up on the concept which turned out even more successful in the naked gun movie franchise i'll close with a regular closing gag freeze the ending right here
1	this tough to see little picture played at the mods rockers 2007 festival it is a wonderful and loving look at harry nilsson using many famous faces who sit for interviews rarely seen tv performances and behind the scenes footage of nilsson at work there's even a few shots from son of dracula this movie is the final and fitting tribute to one of the finest voices the most clever songwriter and the funniest man in popular music it's a crime that this man's name is not as well known as some of the songs he wrote and or performed his friends tell incredibly funny stories about this talented hulk with a subconscious wish for self destruction as a bonus you even get eric idle performing the song with wrote for final album during the closing credits it's funny it's sad it's not in general release if this picture plays anywhere near where you live see it
1	i was lucky enough to have seen this film at it's seattle film fest screening and was blown away by how great it was this is without a doubt one of the best music documentaries i've ever seen and i've seen a lot this is a loving look back at the life and times music and relationships of one of music's true legends harry nilsson deserves to be up there with the likes of gershwin cole porter and all the other great song writers of 20th century standards he was considered a peer by all four members of the beatles who all called him a 5th beatle and one the same wavelength as themselves br br harry refused to tour so many today don't remember him and those born after his heyday are unaware of who he was this is tragic everyone should have the opportunity to be exposed to this wonderful talent this film is a step in the right direction to finally give the man his due unfortunately the film has yet to have wide distribution or even a dvd so for the time being good luck in getting to see it br br if you are someone with the power to put together a dvd distribution deal please contact the film makers this film needs to be available hey vh 1 how about screening it on air then maybe putting it out on dvd harry nilsson deserves nothing less
1	on the enigmatic singer songwriter who according to friends' accounts spent the last 15 years of his relatively short life seemingly on a mission of self destruction he died at 52 overweight and dissipated of heart disease after a protracted rampage of virtually non stop overindulgence in alcohol cigarettes marijuana and cocaine raucous partying and flagrant misuse of his vocal instrument he to a friend that he shouted out his lyrics at one performance with such force that spattered blood was left on the microphone br br all of this despite the fact that he was 1 widely considered to have perhaps the most gifted pop singing ability of his generation 2 successful after years of effort in terms of industry acclaim a grammy an oscar a decent recording contract with a top label and at least two stellar albums originals and 'a little touch of in the night' standards and 3 very happily married for the third time with a lovely young family that he seemed to adore br br the film's strengths begin with the completeness of its account of life including fine use of archival film footage and many stills of nilsson the editors do an especially good job of bringing movement to the stills we learn of his close ties to john lennon and later ringo starr lennon often said that nilsson was his favorite american musician br br even more impressive are the talking heads often a documentary's weakest aspect here we get people like perry botkin jr ray cooper mickey dolenz terry gilliam mark hudson eric idle rick randy newman van dyke parks jimmy webb and robin williams all telling amazing stories about nilsson – many uproariously funny others deeply pathetic and everyone conveying their deep affection for him equally informative and moving are interview segments with wives – annie and una his son zach and cousin doug best set of heads i can recall in a br br the most glaring deficiency of the film is that it crowds out music even the performance of his greatest hit without you is cut short after about 8 bars arrrrgh there is no excuse for this not given that the movie runs a full two hours as it is lose a few head shots and we could have heard at least that song through and perhaps one or two more like one or his oscar winning cover of everybody's talking ' the filmmakers are simply too intent on plumbing psychological mystique and not attentive enough to his music my grades 7 5 10 low b seen at the reel music series 01 07 07
1	saw this film during the mod rockers fest in august i was so inspired and touched harry had an amazing life and one of the best and distinct voices ever recorded for those of you who don't know about harry nilsson do a little research and you'll see that harry has probably found his way into your life in one way or another maybe it was his 70s special the point or everybody's talking from midnight cowboy for me it started with people let me tell you bout my best friend the theme song from the courtship of eddie's father watching this film you can really feel the love and admiration from harry's true friends and peers don't shed a tear for harry he had a ball br br brett
1	i saw this superb documentary at the santa barbara int'l film festival it is extremely absorbing and very well crafted drawing you into the life and career of harry nilsson one of the most overlooked musical talents of the 1960's and 70's while i was familiar with his better known compositions one is the number without you i learned about this man's brilliant writing and beautiful singing if you love music you'll find plenty to draw you in to his world which unfortunately spiraled out of control as his success increased and his past haunted him however sad he nonetheless was completely devoted to his family and you will find yourself so glad to have met this man the profile is effectively told through own words and those of his friends and colleagues a virtual who's who of rock who loved and respected him don't miss this
1	sony pictures classics i'm looking at you sony's got the rights to harry records you need to distribute the film and you'll get radically increased sales of his back catalog anyhow this is a great study of a fascinating musician woefully full of great stories greater music and it could have been 3 hours longer and i'd have loved it even more saw it at the american mods rockers festival at the aero theatre in santa monica where it played to a packed house they were turning people away at the door i went to many of the mods rockers festival films and let me assure you that no other film came even close to selling out let alone turning people away see it in the theatre buy the dvd and make sure some slow on the uptake company cough sony cough picks it up asap
1	more exciting than the wesley snipes film and with better characters too the last vampire hunter must save los angeles from a coven of vampires out to conquer the city aided by a tabloid journalist lost of fun and the names of the characters are great
1	hard justice is an excellent action movie the whole movie is really nothing but shooting and fighting but it does have a very good vampire plot for the people who say they don't make shoot em ups and fighting films like they use to well this one is really hard core don 'the dragon' wilson is excellent and his character is really cool in the movie nicholas guest was very good as well and he arguably steals the show he really performs as a fantastic villain melanie smith was also good i think that this very fine looking actress is very underrated michael cavanaugh was good it was really cool to see vince in this film as for the action it is truly awesome with all of the gun fights and the super cool fighting scenes the fighting in this picture is really some of the greatest i have seen there is so much that happens in the 86 minute run time for the action fans you will be blown away by all of the fire power and superb fighting that this film has to offer night hunter is a movie that isn't easy to locate and if you are at a video store and you see it for sale buy it up because this movie is big keeper and plus the box is cool there is a ton of action that has to be seen to be believed look and see if you can find some good deals on ebay half com amazon com's z shops and market place sellers in my opinion night hunter is one of the greatest fighting films that i have ever watched and the characters are so neat if you like don 'the dragon' wilson and want to see nicholas guest in a great performance then i strongly recommend that any action movie fan who loves shoot em ups fighting movies and vampire films and has been disappointed by other movies that has the look of a true non stop action flick but fails to deliver it to get and buy night hunter today
1	yes indeed we have a winner a winner in best dumb action movie br br the only reason i chose to vote a 10 for this movie is because it's so incredibly bad made that it actually becomes funny br br night hunter is basically about jack cutter a vampire hunter vampire hunters have been in his generation for centuries apparently and his mission being that he has to kill the last remaining vampires br br this movie contains one of the cheesiest scenes i have ever seen in my life not to mention the really bad gun shooting scenes when people are shot in this movie blood splatters thick as ketchup all over the place this makes the movie seem so cheap and lame that you just lose interest a constant shaking of the camera is what annoys me the most during the fight scenes this is i suppose done to create an action effect though in my opinion it gives no effect whatsoever its completely ridiculous br br all stunt scenes are done extremely badly e g a scene where the dead vampire leader gets thrown off a roof when the corpse hits the ground it bounces like a wobbly rubber doll a scene where jack sniffs the ground getting a vision was so lame it got me laughing hysterically br br lame music cheesy scenes bad acting and plain dumb filming techniques are obviously the functions that make this movie such a malfunction to state that this is a good movie would be the same as stating that nuclear bombs are good for humans clearly those of you who say that this is one of the best action movies haven't seen many in your life br br this is basically a b class vampire action movie that deserves 0 10 but which i'll give 10 10 just for its ability being the lousiest action movie i have ever seen of making me laugh and because i just can't live without it
1	night hunter is a sold b style action movie get a life and grow up people don the dragon wilson is a kick boxer hall of fame and not an actor if your looking for an oscar it's not here brother looking for kick ass action movie with lower then low budget this is it the plot line may have been a little thin but what b movie isn't i understand everybody is a critic and how one man's junk is another man's treasure get real people judging every movie like it is an oscar contender just silly awesome fight scenes mixed with a new twist on vampire moves see it if your a fan rent something else if your a hater
1	a criminally short lived show that went on to spawn three movie spin offs naked gun 1 2 3 this is fast paced in your face rapid fire comedy that has more hits than misses br br leslie nielsen plays detective lieutenant sergeant frank an incompetent detective who bumbles and fumbles his way through cases with the capable assistant of his boss capt ed br br the story lines are spurious at best but it's deliberate as the goodness here lies not in the storytelling but in the weaving of a constant flurry of jokes along with some genuinely weird and wonderful characters br br the jokes themselves come in many forms be it wordplay slapstick puns or background gags most of them hitting the spot though some fall a little flat it's inevitable with this every few seconds' approach that some will fail but the ratio is good br br the characters are a delight from the guest star of the week dying in the opening seconds of every episode the laboratory scientist who appears to be conducting cruel and unusual experiments on children to the shoe shine who is some form of oracle the writing is witty and sharp as a br br though not especially successful at the time it rapidly developed a cult following many blaming the shows' relative lack of success on being way ahead of its time and too sophisticated for the target audience chief amongst them none other than matt 'the simpsons' groening and he should know br br dated by todays standards if you can see through that aspect you're in for a treat
1	night hunter starts in as a young jack cutter chris is unexpectedly handed the family tradition of becoming a vampire hunter when a fellow vampire hunter sid sid haim betrays his family hands them over to the vampire's to aid jack on his quest he is given a book that contains the name of every vampire alive or dead whichever way you look at it jump to los angeles where the now adult cutter don 'the dragon' wilson also credited as co producer has but four names left in the book including argento vince carmella sophia crawford together they are the last of the american vampires as they all dine in a restaurant cutter crashes the party kills them job done right wrong as king of the vampires bruno fischer nicholas guest calls in the last four remaining vampires from around the world the french tournier maria ford the asian ron yuan ulmer david sangster vincent to track cutter down kill him meanwhile detective's hooper marcus aurelius browning cash casey don't have a clue a nosey reporter named raimy baker melanie smith becomes involved in the battle between cutter the vampire's on which the very fate of earth rests br br directed by rick jacobson i thought night hunter was quite a fun way to pass 85 odd minutes the script by william c martell mixes martial arts horror with a fair degree of success it moves along at a nice pace is at least never boring thankfully doesn't seem to take itself too seriously the character names that reference other horror film director's actors are a little tacky though some may be surprised at how closely night hunter resembles blade 1998 yet was made a couple of years prior the lone moody long coat wearing vampire hunter who happens to be an expert in martial arts the scene set in a nightclub the innocent woman drawn into the world of vampire's night hunter doesn't really stick to traditional vampire film law for instance sunlight only irritates their eye's they can only breed on a solar eclipse why stakes through the heart garlic is no good as the way to kill a vampire in night hunter is to break it's neck i could have done with a bit more horror a bit more blood as it leans more towards the martial arts side of things the dialogue is suitably cheesy the character's are just about likable enough in a silly way br br director jacobson does his best to ruin the film the actions scenes are ok but lack a certain something for some bizarre reason whenever an action sequence takes place he shakes his camera constantly it's like the camera is placed upon a washing machine full cycle hey rick mate it's not clever or stylish it's irritating annoying the gore is disappointing with a few gory gunshot wounds a few splashes of blood breaking vampire's necks don't involve much blood unfortunately br br with a budget that probably didn't amount to much night hunter is competently made throughout the acting was bad most of the time what's with 'the dragon' thing in don 'the dragon' wilson's name has he legally changed his name does he sign cheques don 'the dragon' wilson does he get mail addressed to him in that name i think i might do something like this from now on i want to be known as paul 'the killer andrews br br night hunter is one of those crap films that transcends it's limitations awfulness to become pure golden entertainment if you like your films fun then night hunter might be for you if your looking for big budget thrills in a similar vein vampire's veins blood get it then blade it's sequels would probably be a better choice what the hell i liked it so sue me
1	check out the first 20 minutes even though the suspense hasn't yet kicked in we get a pretty good look at super secret los just a few years after the big bomb test that helped end wwii except for the tight security it looks unthreatening enough note how it's a tv repairman an obvious regular guy who takes us through security once through it's like any town usa nice homes quiet streets kids going to school and a family tv on the blink later on we see little tommy and little peggy frolicking along streets lined with impressive looking facilities separated by locked gates the movie appears to be saying okay we're tough only because we have to be but basically we're still just folks br br now i expect that was a comforting message to cold war audiences still not used to government's dooms day research it's a clear effort at popular reassurance the one darker note is when tommy's mother clarke worries about her son's mental state he doesn't say when i grow up instead it's if i grow up that note of doubt not only reflects a los reality but also a national one that in 1952 had just seen footage of the apocalyptic h bomb note too how professionally fbi agents are portrayed a standard feature of mccarthy era fare when brute force is needed it's not they but private citizen gene barry who thrashes out the early version i suppose of modern era rendition br br once the kidnapping occurs the suspense doesn't let up the intrigue is nicely handled with colorful la locations that keep us guessing the climactic scenes around the cliff dwellings may not be plausible as a hiding place but the view of northern new mexico is great then too the ancient stone apartments amount to one of the more exotic backdrops of the decade note also the extensive use of the police helicopter just coming into use as a law enforcement tool among an otherwise subdued cast nancy gates remains a sparkling presence as teacher ellen haskell never hollywood glamorous she was still a fine unsung actress and winning personality i also expect this was one of director hopper's more successful movie efforts and though people have since gotten used to the nuclear threat the movie remains a revealing and riveting document of its time
1	here is a much lesser known 50's sci fi with a little different twist an atomic researchers son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of the the father's atomic secrets br br this is a tightly knit atomic sci fi thriller with great production values and above average acting even from the kid the atomic city actually has a movie feel to it unlike a lot of other 50's sci fi of this time which which came off more like an episode of a tv show br br the atomic city was also actually nominated for an academy award for best screenplay how many other 50's sci fi can tout an academy award nomination br br great pacing tight direction and some superb location filming in the 'real' atomic city of los new mexico make this one worth hunting down the collectors print in circulation is an above average transfer and makes for a great double feature with the atomic man br br recommended
1	just watched this movie and it's not bad there are a few tense moments and not a lot of long dialog strings comes off as fairly intelligent almost like style' this movie will evoke some nostalgia and a bit of cold war paranoia with cars street scenes and life in the 50's the acting is fairly solid and at 85 minutes run time it goes by at a good pace an atomic era film buff shouldn't miss this one
1	don't get me wrong this was fun to watch it has some nice animation with exception of an odd looking bugs and some nice music and the standout scene was definitely elmer bugs and dance on the floor that was such a nice and fun touch as a matter of fact the whole cartoon is nice to watch but all in all it is not what i call exceptional like there are some very nice gags but they have been used before i feel and there wasn't much that i would deem hilarious and daffy joining forces with elmer somehow seeing as he was a target of the hunter didn't it seem odd that he would be friends with him though i will admit it was nice having daffy there the voice acting was above average too but somehow i missed mel blanc br br all in all unexceptional but very nice cartoon 7 10 bethany cox
1	though this is a good enjoyable cartoon they did much better ones later on like this is almost like the first star trek feature which would have been welcomed with open arms and glee no matter what just for existing this is really a patchwork of old bits with some nice touches but nothing special reminds me a bit of the hunting trilogy in spots and the ending is priceless available and certainly well worth watching just for the novelty and the good bits recommended
1	black scorpion is roger batman which is cool and there is a lot of cool stuff in this movie like the being a cross between doctor doom and darth vader that's kind of cool the mind control gas in the was worthy of the mad hatter the b movie style is all over this puppy which is not always a good thing there are plenty of stunts and hot babes to make any action fan happy this movie the good out weighs the bad but if you aren't one for comic book movies then i would advise not watching black scorpion however if you like comic book like movies and don't care if it was ever a comic before then check out black scorpion as for me i give it 8 stars
1	i'm a sucker for a decent superhero movie i'm not counting super bug budget no storyline batman's either br br a couple of my favorites are the phantom and a budget movie called the the black scorpion can be added to that collection br br if you've seen the then get this movie it's basically a copy of that heroine it even stars the same guy in both movies br br if you haven't then let me explain a cop's father is murdered and she seeks vengeance she laces up the black outfit a sexy skimpy outfit that looks absolutely great on joan and goes out to kick some booty br br it's a fun action packed movie mind you you may not wish the kids to see it without screening it first to see if you approve of the pretty graphic sex scene has in it which in my opinion was a bonus alright give it an extra star grin
1	black scorpion is a fun flick about a groovy female super heroine who wears leather tights and drives a car that can morph into her snazzy armored scorpion mobile she battles the evil and all of this is an excellent recipe for a good time imho i loved the bit about her having to say yo to get the car's computer to take orders is so evil he wants to give the entire city asthma it's all so over the top and that's the beauty of it the scene where black scorpion attacks her partner steals the show you'll know it when you see it this dvd also has a fun interview with joan she's a doll black scorpion is a fun dvd loved it
1	this movie will not be considered for an academy award but if you enjoy a movie that doesn't take itself seriously and just wants the viewer to enjoy for ninety mins it is not a disappointment you'll enjoy a send up of darth vader for the villain the breather a female batman for the heroine but much cuter with much less costume and a running joke that involves cigarettes and the police captain that's very funny not by any means a great cinematic achievement but if you enjoy campy fun it was worth a viewing god help me i liked it
1	the inspiration for the naked gun movies casts leslie nielsen who had only recently started doing comedy as the incompetent but heroic frank always having to solve an absurd case like airplane and the movies based on the series the humor relies on mel brooks style spot gags and silly comments namely the yes it is remarks along with the fact that nielsen remains very serious despite the nonsense around him and of course the final frame in which something keeps moving br br it's too bad that the show only had six episodes at least it spawned the movies you can't go wrong with leslie nielsen in these sorts of roles i suspect that they all had fun filming it really funny br br before airplane leslie nielsen had starred in movies like forbidden planet harlow and the poseidon adventure as late as 1987 he co starred in nuts alongside barbra streisand and richard dreyfuss but since the first naked gun movie it's been all comedy all the time
1	this movie was better than i expected i don't think it deserved an r rating though i've seen pg 13 films with worse language and violence i found this movie entertaining and i enjoyed it if you're a person who dissects everything you might find a lot wrong with it but if you take it for its face value i think you'll find it entertaining
1	most of other reactions by subscribers to this service were very apt although that some found it slow or ambiguous puzzled me rather than ambiguous it was complex and multi layered in its meanings one can see it as anti war because of the opening and closing scenes and the folly of pretended grandeur as how wonderful the cavalry men looked as they prepared for the great charge at contrasted with its so horrible and disturbing conclusion when we see the bloody uniforms the boyish dead etc but chiefly i see the film as about a moral man in an immoral society at the end chabert chooses retreat from the corrupt post napoleonic french world and opts for the simple pleasures provided by who himself is saved by his recognition of chabert's basic decency and the morality of his choice of white bread cheese some wine and tobacco over the riches he leaves to his wife and her and society's dishonor in her case we can see the film as also feminist in the position of women at that time in which the only weapons mme chabert has are her charm beauty wiles and ultimately money
1	this is an unfortunately unrecognized classic br br the look is superb the design costumes etc are flawless the post battle scenes and the cavalry charge are both chilling and exciting br br the characters are vivid and really human ardent is right and luchini as the lawyer steals the movie with his clever pedantic rodent like performance delighting in the ups and downs of others' misfortunes depardieu is good but perhaps too large a presence for this role br br where the film really excels is the story and also its changes from balzac's novella those changes are editorial in that balzac has lots of discussion on society and this film breaths with characters nevertheless yves angelo has retained the key ingredient not just the missing man trying to regain his place in society but every character has to find their place in society the comte is trying to buy a his wife ardent comes from a lowly birth and when she was married to colonel chabert they achieved their position in the turbulence of post revolutionary france everyone has something to lose in terms of status and that makes for a good drama as their objectives are in conflict with each other br br it also feels very modern money is critical to buy status to reach power but someone can go down as quickly as they go up enjoys the strategy he has seen the worst of people he says to chabert when he takes the case this original place is at the end of the novella as balzac sums up the human comedy with huge irony
1	colonel chabert is one of the best adaptations from novel to screen i have seen in the movies it combines the realism of french cinema with excellent characterisation from depardieu's lost chabert to proud lawyer to fanny complex widow the movie has wonderful dimension as you might expect from a top cinematographer such as yves angelo the characters keep this movie in gear and although a bit slow in the beginning picks up pace and is a fine movie by the time it reaches the finish
1	first let me confess that i have not read this particular balzac novel so maybe i am directing my cavils unfairly at director and editor still my experience with balzac in other stories is that he writes as a realist not an this is most certainly a film worth one's while but one is left sorely puzzled at the end was the colonel a fraud used by the lawyer for his own ends or for whose beyond himself or was the colonel not a fraud but used as aforesaid by the lawyer or did the lawyer truly try to serve the honest colonel the director and or the editor appear to me to have deliberately obscured these questions which doesn't seem like balzac the realist at the same time the film does an excellent job of delineating the characters if not their motives and the cast and production is superb that opening battlefield scene is bound to haunt one's dreams still one wonders at the all too common penchant among contemporary film makers to favor ambiguity above all else weren't the problems and motives of all these characters complicated enough for yves angelo
1	i recently read the story to see how these two match up and if you can believe it this film improves upon balzac the story is moved around i think to drive home the idea that colonel chabert is a man who has suffered much and yet he comes home not a hero but as an outcast br br as someone mentioned i was initially confused if chabert was akin to the return of martin guerre no it is firmly established by balzac that chabert is the real deal what's interesting though is not is he isn't he but how his wife and society treats him br br i think this is a timeless story of men who go off to fight for their country and when they come home time has left them behind chabert is a tragic figure made all the more poignant by the amazing gerard depardieu i don't care that he's been in 1 million films he's captivating br br fanny ardant has a horrible character to play once a prostitute rose has used her feminine wiles to climb the social ladder are her emotions true for i think they are and perhaps couple that with her social standing at the time and you start to feel some empathy for her br br is slowly his way into my heart he's exceptional here as br br i think if you can get your hands on this gem of a film you won't be sorry french cinema at its finest
1	i guess this is the first time i have seen a roscoe 'fatty' arbuckle movie i really liked him in his title role as a butcher boy the way he moves is very funny in my opinion for example how he handles his knife and the way he rolls a cigarette i think he is a good actor his facial expressions really suit the role he plays for example how he winks at the audience in the end but one might add that that was probably not too difficult anyway i think he would have deserved a longer career as you probably know it was ruined by greedy journalists who made money by printing false accusations that said he was involved in a scandal br br the plot is not very important in the first half fatty and alum are employees at a store and rivals for affection after a heavy food fight is sent to a girls' school by her father the store owner this is the beginning of the second half both fatty and alum enter the school in drag and the fight for continues some of the characters' names are different in the version that i have seen it seems that for some reason they replaced the original title cards with new ones br br there are a lot of corny gags like food fights and pratfalls but they are done well in my opinion and there are some gags i really liked for example how they make the dog run the pepper mill or is it a coffee mill or the scene when fatty dons a coat although it is obviously not necessary or when miss the head of the girls' school fatty and he her back br br buster keaton is also funny in this his first movie a good addition to the cast in the first half he is a customer at the store in the second half he supports alum in his fight for i liked his acrobatics for example when fatty pushes him from one room of the school to another he doesn't show a simple pratfall but lands on his hands and his head and does a little pirouette watch out for one scene in the food fight alum throws a flour bag at him but it misses and hits the store owner instead that makes buster laugh which must be a rarity since he normally always shows a neutral expression which as you probably also know already got him the nickname 'the great stone face' one more note al st john who plays alum was 'fatty' arbuckle's nephew and later became famous for the role of that he played in lots of westerns br br i don't like this one as much as i like for example 'one week' and 'the films that buster made later without 'fatty' and it didn't make me laugh out loud often but it made me smile a lot so i have given it eight points
1	this roscoe fatty arbuckle comedy is best remembered for featuring a young buster keaton fresh from splitting with his family's vaudeville act in his film debut buster gets quite a substantial part in this film and it's quite a funny one overall the butcher boy has lots of laughs and is an example of pure old fashioned slapstick done well though it would seem to come from the brief era of two reel comedies when filmmakers still imagined in one reel segments as a matter of course br br the first half of the film takes place in a general store with arbuckle as the the butcher boy of the title it's an excuse to mine the many possibilities for fast physical humor that a general store provides and arbuckle really shows himself to be a 300 pound acrobat demonstrating subtlety skill and grace in his performance of what might have been unremarkable slapstick routines that raise them to a different level a running gag has him flipping a large butcher knife casually so that it spins accurately into it's proper position stuck into the cutting board and i'm still stunned that arbuckle really seems to do it each time there's also a really nice gag that sees him leaning on his scale and confused as to why his cuts of meat weigh so much br br buster keaton is a boy who comes into to buy some molasses and performs deftly in a foot stuck to floor routine that follows apart from the odd and almost unsettling half smile his idiosyncratic attitude and body language make him recognizable immediately as the buster we know he even has his eventually trademarked flattened hat here destroyed for the first time when filled of course with molasses br br the second half of the film moves into more situation based comedy and arbuckle and his rival al st john dress in drag to infiltrate fatty's girlfriend's boarding school a lot of the humor also comes from the generally surreal and mysteriously laugh inducing sight of these two odd fellows wearing drag and trying to be girls buster is in this segment too but mostly stands there in the occasional cutaway helping st john br br the ending of the butcher boy becomes a little emptily frenetic but on the whole and beyond its historical curiosity interest it's a well done comedy that gets just the knockabout laughs it is going for
1	this film certainly wasn't very sophisticated no the humor was in fact pretty dumb now that i think about it but also while i think of it i did laugh proving decent comedy doesn't need to be very deep br br fatty arbuckle is the definite star of this short despite buster keaton's appearing in the film as well he is the butcher in an old time grocery store a lot of silly stuff occurred in the store and i think i laughed the most at the coffee grinder sequence you'll just have to see it yourself br br anyway later fatty's girlfriend is forced to go to a girls' school and because he can't stand to part he dresses in drag and infiltrates the school arbuckle is one ugly woman so for silly and unsophisticated fun see this film it won't change your life and is a very slight picture but it's also fun
1	well i've just seen buster keaton's film debut in fatty arbuckle's the butcher boy and despite the crude way everything just seems to happen for almost no logical reason i found plenty to laugh at like when buster orders molasses from butcher boy fatty fatty makes buster come back to pay buster says he put it in the bucket that has the molasses fatty dumps molasses in buster's hat and takes money buster takes hat back on head as it gets stuck fatty attempts to remove it while molasses fall to floor buster's feet are now stuck on floor and so on that probably didn't read funny but on screen it was hilarious as were some more slapstick involving flour being thrown and a later sequence that takes place in fatty's girlfriend's boarding school with fatty dressed in drag and buster helping fatty's rival also in drag like i said many scenes don't make a lick of sense but the visuals especially those involving arbuckle and keaton are laugh inducing even today recommended viewing for keaton completists
1	when i was young i was a big fan of the naked gun movies but just recently i watched the show police and i think its great leslie awesome alan north is cool and who the heck is rex hamilton but anyways it's one goofy show br br one of my favorite parts of this show when they do the freeze frame scene during the end credits i think my favorite one is when not o j walks in during the scene and he tries to fit in with the freeze frame classic br br the only problem to me is the cigarette gag gets very old when shows a cigarette to someone and asks cigarette and the person replies yes i know i think they used it too many times by whatever br br good acting good gags great show br br 7 10
1	five star final was one of the best films of the early 1930s it starred edward g robinson and was a very gritty story about a sleazy newspaper and their willingness to do anything anything to sell newspapers in particular an old story of an innocent woman is plastered across the pages and helps to destroy her now happy life many years after she was inadvertently involved in a scandal the reason i loved the film so much was that it was unflinching and pulled no punches showing just how low the publishers can be to sell papers br br here in two against the world it is a remake of five star final with a few changes instead of robinson this film stars humphrey bogart and he is the head of programming at a radio station not a newspaper otherwise the story is essentially the same except that it's a bit less edgy and lacks some of the grit and sensationalism of the original this isn't to say the film is bad it just doesn't pack quite as good a punch as the first film in other words if you must see one of these films see the first though this film is quite powerful and enjoyable as well as for me i loved the story so much i saw both films and enjoyed them both br br two against the world begins with the ubc radio owner complaining to his programming head bogart that all the high brow shows he's put on are getting low ratings the owner demands muck lots of muck in order to get more listeners one way they discuss is to do a multi part dramatization of a famous killing that occurred two decades ago even though the killer was acquitted and she killed only in self defense however they decide to play up the story as if she was guilty and they even go so far as to both send a writer to the lady's home pretending to be a minister as well as broadcasting her current name and whereabouts needless to say this ruins the woman and leads to a horrible tragedy then and only then does bogart feel any real remorse for producing such garbage leading to a dandy finale about journalistic integrity and decency br br well acted a great story idea and a message that is just as important today as it was back in the 1930s this is one story you have to see in particular notice the wonderful and very emotional confrontation scene where the daughter attacks the owner and bogart it is one heck of a great example of acting and writing
1	this cheapo remake of the terrific five star final suffers from terrible acting humphrey bogart stars as the manager of a radio station that is desperate to boost sagging ratings the owner decides to have a series of morality plays written about a famous murder case from 20 years ago so they hire the fake preacher harry hayden to track down the murderess who was acquitted and has been living quietly under a fake name the preacher arrive on the daughter's wedding day but the ruthless radio station refuses to back off exposing the mother and ruining their lives br br bogart is always good hayden is good the the slimy preacher and henry o'neill is good as the father everyone else is just awful helen wins no sympathy crucial for the role linda perry is a lousy actress beverly roberts is ok but always looks old claire dodd and hobart cavanagh have no parts carlyle moore is a dud as the boy friend virginia is miscast as the society mother robert overacts as the station owner br br this one comes in under an hour but is a pale copy of the original which boasted dynamic performances by edward g robinson aline macmahon frances starr and boris karloff but it's always worth watching
1	i saw this last night on turner classic movies tcm i had never heard of it before and was quite surprised to find it so engrossing br br bogart does a star turn as a city wise cynical editor who reluctantly goes along with his greedy radio network boss in this incisive b programmer about 12 years before he played similar city wise cynics to perfection in movies like deadline usa knock on any door the barefoot contessa and the harder they fall bogie already had the star qualities down pat br br in order to boost ratings and bring their somewhat high brow programming to a more popular level the voice of america pushes a tell all radio mini series about a woman who was acquitted 20 years ago by a plea of self defense of killing her husband not willing to be discreet in order to save the woman's and her husband's reputations the station uses underhanded methods to reveal all to all listeners and as luridly as possible br br as a time capsule i also found it very illuminating of male female mores in the workplace in the mid 1930's although beyond henry o'neill i'm unfamiliar with the supporting cast the players were uniformly excellent and the direction was taut br br if you like this kind of movie at all e g a face in the crowd an inspector calls etc don't miss the opportunity to see this one br br
1	after a couple years of searching for the humphrey bogart film two against the world it unexpectedly showed up as a tcm offering under the title one fatal hour a first national film from 1936 bogey's character is sherry scott the man who runs a radio station whose program lineup is losing listeners the owner bertram reynolds robert is a pathetic executive who calls the shots at the station but hides behind his decisions by pawning them off on scott br br in an effort to boost the audience base and revenues reynolds has the idea of reviving a twenty year old murder case and offering it as a fifteen chapter radio play scott enlists the aid of dr martin leavenworth harry hayden to write the play and present it on the air br br the murder case involved a woman who was acquitted of murdering her husband the circumstances of which are not made clear however gloria has married and is now living as martha helen married to a successful banker henry o'neill and their daughter edith linda perry is about to be married on the same day no less as the radio play is to reveal the identity of gloria about to be faced with the devastating effects of this revelation martha and jim embark on a crusade to have the program stopped simultaneously edith's future in laws respond by demanding that the marriage not take place br br without revealing the final outcome the film takes a devastating turn to jolt the viewer edith confronts the principals of the radio station vigorously admonishing scott and the sniveling reynolds while accepting his share of the blame for the outcome scott partially redeems himself by quitting his job firing his secretary and hauling her out of the office recognizing her for the conscience he once had with an entirely abrupt finish the film leaves one as disoriented and unsettled as any movie that doesn't have a happy ending br br with about a dozen films under his belt humphrey bogart gets a chance to take center stage here with intriguing results with no name supporting players bogey rises to the occasion by taking charge in the confines of the radio offices and runs the show as if it was his own in an interesting bit of characterization he expresses his exasperation by crossing his hands over his bowed head predating by a half dozen years a similar effect we'll see him do in casablanca for bogart fans it's a genuine treat to catch an unexpected nuance like this
1	this telecast of the classic musical sweeney todd does not do the production justice but is still quite enthralling br br firstly the most enjoyable aspect of this version is the production design from the wheeling multi set to the startling then the staging is excellent right down to the slashing br br the main failing here is in the performances people give oh they're believable all right but it is quite frustrating when nobody seems to be hitting their cues on time in a song as fast paced as say kiss me in fact the actress playing johanna is not only off tempo to a dismal degree but also slightly off key and angela lansbury's slightly overdone cockney accent is a bit irritating one more thing too what exactly is so bad about judge turpin's performance of johanna that it is banned from the american theatre but not the cannibal anthem a little priest br br otherwise this is an excellent production it's a thrill to watch people do what they love and i'm not even talking about meat pies with a twist
1	george really went all out and over the top which in this case was great i've heard the len version but it was too tame george was great in that character very expressive br br angela lansbury was perfect for the part she gave a great performance she gave the mrs lovett a great devious and comical personality which balanced out the dark story br br i love the dark humor when angela lansbury sings her songs as well as her physical expressions and the angry emotions of george in his songs of rage vengeance and distress br br i've watched this play 20 times since 1985 when i saw it on pbs i bought it on video after copying it in 1985 on my own when it came out in 1990 and i definitely bought a copy of the dvd when it came out in 2004
1	i saw this play on showtime some years back in the comfort of my home and when the final note was struck i wanted to jump off the sofa and give the production a standing ovation as it was i shed a tear that it was such a bunch of fantastic performances and songs for my birthday my kids bought me the vhs version as well as the cd of the play with len in the sweeny todd role br br i've shared the play with many some finding the subject a bit sick but none having anything but praise for the songs br br i've always loved the interplay in songs with angela lansbury and george as well as and edmund as judge turpin br br i must own the dvd
1	stephen sondheim's sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street opened on broadway on 1 march 1979 with len and angela lansbury in the leading roles although it swept virtually every award imaginable the box office fell short of expectations and the original production ended its run at performances fortunately however the play then went on tour and along the way was captured on film the result is a remarkable capture of the play featuring george who replaced and lansbury in a close approximation of the original broadway staging br br there is however a flaw simply stated stage plays do not film very well for a performance that works well on the stage must fill the theatre and is therefore very very large and when placed on film such performances often seem slightly static oppressively aggressive or both sweeney todd is no exception seen on film it has a stand and sing quality and while both and lansbury seem to have modulated their performances for the sake of the camera such is not the case with betsy joslyn as joanna her larger than life performance reads on film as unpleasantly frantic and her extremely operatic voice feels out of place when contrasted with the voices of the overall cast br br taking this stage play on film effect into consideration however this really is an exceptional performance of a unique and macabrely comic musical in the operetta style lansbury is astonishing a mixture of silliness stupidity and cunning malice while truly owns the role of the psychotic barber whose clients go to their graves impeccably shaved the overall cast is quite fine and although the film does not let us see quite enough of the set there is enough on display for it to be impressive and the music who can argue with what most consider sondheim's finest work the story itself is extremely well known particularly in england in 1846 thomas cobbled together several urban myths for a short story he titled a string of pearls within a year or so it was adapted to the stage as sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street and in an era that knew little of copyright law variations of the play were soon playing all over england each one however was more or less the same sweeney todd a barber kills the men who come to him for a shave mrs lovett his associate bakes them up into pies and feeds them to an unsuspecting public the sondheim version is specifically based on a 1973 version by christopher bond br br the story is very grand guignol with a lot of blood bodies dropping down and grotesque humor at the same time however the music lyrics and subplot of an innocent in the clutches of evil open out the subject to numerous lyric charms one would not expect sondheim's lyrics are often ironic but never more so than here he intertwines a great deal of wicked satire re industry and capitalism along the way and certainly one cannot fault the strange yet victorian elegant of his complex music br br like the concert version starring and patti this particular film also provides us with several selections that were cut from the 2007 tim burton film version most particularly the opening attend the tale of sweeney todd which runs like a thread throughout the play it is also in my opinion considerably more comic than the film which tends to comedy in favor of a still greater show of blood whatever the case if you are a fan of the story this is the legendary broadway show on tour and it is a knock out recommended br br gft amazon reviewer
1	televised in 1982 from a los angeles production this is probably the finest example of a filmed stage musical you are likely to encounter issued on dvd in 2004 in a remastered digital transfer it is quite stunning and lansbury give the performances of their lives and the rest of the cast are quite obviously caught up in the electricity generated of course it is sondheim's music and lyrics that make this possible if anyone doubts that he is one of the greats of the american musical form listen to this the sets are stark as befits the plot and clever in allowing the swift scene changes required and the cameras catch the action without obliterating the fact that this is a stage production a central move able and revolving platform is mrs pie shop with the shop upstairs around it are various and moving stairs to allow the rest of the action to take place the brutal tale of injustice leading to revenge murder and mayhem is liberally spiced with dark humour and comic moments sondheim does for barber shops what hitchcock did for showers an important work in american musical theatre is here given an electrifying performance
1	well i'm not the world's biggest sondheim fan so although i have the cast album and i've listened to it a few times i've never actually seen this show performed and i haven't seen the tim burton movie version either i felt like i wanted to see something more faithful before i see the burton one and give it a chance just as a movie this version isn't a movie at all it's a filmed play with some of the original members of the cast including most importantly angela lansbury's performance as nellie lovett this is one of those performances that's just like a conduit into the heart of the magic of broadway and theater itself she must have had so much fun with this role sweeney todd himself isn't played by len who did it originally but by george does a fantastic job his voice isn't quite as good as but he seems to play it a bit broader br br the only problem i had really was with the johanna character as played by betsy joslyn and to some extent her lover anthony as played by cris voice can't sustain high notes but i wasn't entirely sure if that was maybe supposed to be the point since i'm not hugely familiar with this play more importantly i'm not sure if the story of sweeney todd really holds up enough weight to sustain some of the music but thankfully the whole thing doesn't seem to have been taken too seriously by its creators as a lark and a bit of comedy in the vein of grand guignol it's quite enjoyable i don't feel like it's as significant a piece of work as company and into the woods or some of his other shows some of the music is quite spectacular but at other points it seems to exist in a world outside of the show br br i won't say a whole lot about it here because this is a film website and this is really not a film but just a play that has been shot on film there were maybe 3 or 4 scenes where they moved the camera around but that was it people will want to see this because it preserves lansbury's legendary performance which deserves its legendary status because it's a hilarious and insightful performance george can be proud of his version of sweeney as well this would be a good film to show children over the age of 5 or so to get them interested in musicals because the blood and cannibalism will really surprise them seeing a performance filmed so expertly and so faithfully makes me wish that more efforts like this had been made over the years with musical theater because i prefer shows from the 20s through the 50s to these later era affairs sweeney todd is an exceptional show from its era however miles and miles above the al webber madness
1	i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the 90's their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst3k complete with bearded host br br capt frank played by the stone faced dead pan leslie nielson is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meets starsky hutch the show boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is distilled 3 times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police investigative methodology a k a ask johnny the old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt notice he's a captain here has perfected it along with his partner and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of 6 golden episodes br br the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as 90 minute compilations of the best gags from this series think of monty python's and now for something completely different br br if you liked airplane 1 2 naked gun 1 2 3 or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this br br i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why 2 words no o j
1	attend the tale of sweeney todd the strangest most off putting but most wonderful broadway musical it is chilling funny and moving all at once through sondheim's most memorable and incredible score and sharp performances george is incomparable in the title role bringing a strong voice and dead on no pun intended impersonation of the legendary demon barber while angela lansbury provides the comic relief as she cheerfully grinds up his victims into meat pies if you just allow yourself to enjoy it sweeney todd is a real treat
1	i saw this version about a decade ago and have been looking for it ever since i just recently found an original vhs version and purchased it for 125 00 sounds crazy but if you like me consider it as one of the best the broadway musical stage has ever produced you wouldn't even think twice br br why it's just a little over paying for a broadway ticket today i really hope they re release this in dvd form soon it's a piece of musical theater that screams to be seen by all
1	not having seen the 1936 version of this story i cannot offer any comparison there i can however state that stephen sondheim's musical treatment of this story is absolutely genius only sondheim could come up with music and lyrics that are stellar in their own right yet perfectly suited to the very bizarre subject matter if anyone needs an explanation of what a dark comedy is they should see this and dr strangelove as well when mrs lovett goes from having the worst pies in london to a booming business with high acclaim we aren't talking soylent green but the ingredients are similar particularly brilliant is the song where mrs lovett pitches her idea to mr todd even in the introductory number the line they went to their maker impeccably shaved gives a great indication of the premise the drama and the comedy to come outstanding
1	i viewed my videotape last night for the first time in at least ten years i found the work itself and the performances just as gripping as they were in my memory george of course was the master of the role of sweeney there is never a touch of softness in his determination to wreak vengeance on those he believes caused his wife's death and his daughter's disappearance at least not until the end when he discovers that his thirst for revenge has led him to murder his wife angela lansbury on the other hand creates a more complex portrayal as mrs lovett she understood that sondheim wanted that role to be something of a comic counterpart to sweeney and even brings some tenderness into her courtship of sweeney and her nurture of the boy tobias for those with long memories this performance takes one back to her debut performances in the picture of dorian grey and gaslight long before murder she wrote only a year ago i saw the musical at lyric opera of chicago with current opera superstar as sweeney others have commented on the operatic quality of the score my conclusion is that sweeney works better with actors who can at least handle the vocal lines than with opera performers who have limited acting skills as a final note i commend the performer who portrayed tobias with his mixed loyalties and confusion about what is going on around him it seemed appropriate that he had virtually the last word
1	i can't get over the quality of the score the book and the performances this is the first production i've ever seen of sweeney todd so i have no others to compare it to but the impact is so strong i just can't imagine anything better br br first there's the music take johanna act ii during which sweeney anthony and johanna sing an interwoven vocal line incorporating the melodies from three songs it's like a bach in that sense just a masterpiece of composition and the underlying chord structure and are so perfect a little bit of melancholy a little bit of contentment a little bit of yearning all expressing these three points of view br br then the lyrics the rhymes are so clever the rhyme schemes sometimes seem random but they always add up at the end the dvd which i watched has closed captions and these are indispensable for appreciating the dialog and the lyrics sondheim deserves a literary award for his poetry alone br br finally the performances i can't imagine anyone better than george why haven't i heard of him before his singing alone is masterful but the range of his acting is simply amazing angela lansbury totally surprised me the song about you and me down by the seaside who could do it any better her timing is flawless pitch is perfect every beat of the score is accounted for and this achievement in musicianship is her utterly delightful comic delivery br br it's a dark tale but i found it to be sweet at times and the tune to johanna continues to play in my head
1	the genius that is stephen sondheim was never more prominently displayed as it was in his 1979 musical thriller sweeney todd a gothic gory grisly yet delicious musical concoction about a demented barber who returns to london to exact revenge on the evil judge who not only had him permanently exiled from london but who is also raising his daughter as his own and plans to marry her to shield her from all the evils of the world the barber finds love sympathy and assistance from a lonely pie shop owner who has her own agenda where todd is concerned this musical rocked broadway and won nine tony awards including best musical and best actress in a musical angela lansbury the production was filmed in its entirety in 1982 with angela lansbury recreating her broadway role as mrs lovett the daffy pie shop owner who finds a practical use for the heads that todd makes mincemeat out of george who replaced len on broadway is electrifying in the title role so much so that you have to wonder why he wasn't originally cast in the role lansbury and are riveting from start to finish and commit 100 to their ghoulish characters aided by a first rate score probably the closest thing sondheim has written to an opera lansbury shines on the worst pies in london and by the sea george stops the show with epiphany and is also compelling during pretty women a duet he sings with judge turpin the man he has sworn revenge on cris is vocally impressive as antony the young who rescues todd and falls for his daughter johanna betsy is a little over the top as johanna and really pushes vocally to the point that during green and bird she actually drives her voice off pitch during a couple of moments the rest of the cast is first rate especially edmund as judge turpin who gets to perform johanna in this production which was cut from the original production and ken jennings as toby whose gorgeous tenor fills the auditorium on not while i'm around but it is breathtaking musical score by stephen sondheim and the mesmerizing performance by lansbury an especially george that makes this night of gothic musical theater an experience that stays with you long after curtain call not for all tastes but if you're game and have strong heart sweeney todd is a joy for all music theater lovers and a must for fans of stephen sondheim and angela lansbury
1	last year i fell in love with the tim burton's version of sweeney todd so i wanted to check out the other versions of this musical and i found this one at the library though i think burton's is best probably because i like film a lot better than theater this is still a great production of the story i haven't seen any of the other versions but i am trying to get my hands on them br br after seeing johnny depp as todd it's hard for me to imagine anyone else in the role but george does a fantastic job angela lansbury is great as always and all of the singing is fantastic i found myself singing along this is a play you won't want to miss but try and see it before you see the film version so you won't have a biased view like me
1	i own this video as well as the concert version of the musical with patti and george with the san francisco symphony orchestra george is fantastic in my book as are angela lansbury and the composer stephen sondheim this musical is operatic in scope and shows much ingenuity in composition i certainly hope that this vhs becomes available on dvd performance is spookily sympathetic the one annoying performance is the young woman who sings the role of joanna i believe this performance was at the dorothy chandler in los angeles rather than on a broadway stage and am not sure that the minimalist set was utilized in new york as it was in this production but i found the scaffolding being dragged across the stage to be quite effective to portray the streets of london i highly recommend this movie
1	sweeney todd is in my opinion one of a few perfect musicals like my fair lady and west side story it has a wonderful intelligent score it offers the two leads and several supporting characters interesting roles it has a timeless theme revenge it has a good deal of humor and is just as powerful when presented simply or on a grand scale br br sweeney todd tells the story of a simply wronged man during the industrial period in england it shows mans' inhumanity to man how in sweeney's own words there are two kinds of men there's the one staying put in his proper place and the one with his foot in the other one's face in an effort to correct the wrong that was done to him mr todd devices a plan to seek revenge with the help of mrs lovett who owns a meat pie shop under mr todd's barbershop they set out to have those above serve those down below br br i was fortunate enough to have seen the original broadway version eight times six with and lansbury the other two with and i saw the revival with bob and beth fowler and several other concert versions br br while the technical aspects in this production are lacking to say the least i believe that this filmed production version is the best lansbury and were the two best in these roles and they have a wonderful time playing off of each other br br very good supporting work by ken jennings and edmund although betsy joslyn and cris as the young lovers have absolutely no chemistry and are basically unwatchable br br 9 out of 10
1	the story of sweeney todd evokes memories of the work of classic writers like charles dickens and more contemporary writers like edward gory as a musical it naturally becomes more like the musical les miserables both deal with the grim effects of poverty in the industrial revolution and the breakdown of organized society but this musical is different from les mis in one very important aspect stephen sondheim the songwriter who can adapt to any style to be sure he's had his successes and failures but one thing about his shows you can always count on they will be something unique who would have thought someone would write a musical about a barber who slits people's throats and makes them into meat pies sondheim did and he did it marvelously the entire show is set in a factory to suggest the ever present catastrophic effects of the misery of those at the bottom of society and this serves the needs of the show perfectly the catwalks and are moved throughout to suggest streets and walkways and bridges techniques are borrowed from kabuki and with the visual stagehands and set changes then to top it all off cast the great angela lansbury as the gruesomely practical and humorous mrs lovett and george with his operatic baritone voice as the murderous todd and you've got yourself a stellar musical vehicle the rest of the cast moves smoothly through the clichés of the love story perfectly except for johanna and who sound a bit too forced if the johanna and from the broadway show could be here it would be perfect acts while he sings more than len on the album and the accents don't sound as forced here through it all sondheim's score never fails to underline the dark seriousness of the story as i said he can adapt to any style in follies he imitates the '30s '40s style of showtunes in pacific overtures he captures the subtle art of asian music into the woods knocks off the 32 bar disney style songs and assassins covers a history of american music here however he does wonders in making his score distinctly english from parlour songs to operatic duets and soliloquies to society waltzes to gilbert sullivan style patter and yet still the show remains deadly serious even though it provokes more laughs than any musical comedy in it still is a grim warning on the evils of taking revenge here is where this movie makes a mistake in cutting the judge's solo in which he himself out of guilt for his crimes without it the judge is just a conventional villain and this movie's point is that there are no straight villains both todd and the judge learn too late the horrors of having to accept responsibility for their actions and todd loses everything in his obsession this is well brought out by the chilling reprise of the grim yet rollicking ballad of sweeney todd ending the show with todd and lovett rising from the grave to tell us that the end is the same in a world full of vengeance begets only vengeance attend the tale of sweeney todd he served a dark and a vengeful god to seek revenge may lead to hell but everyone does it and seldom as well as sweeney as sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street
1	the creative team of jim abrahams david zucker and jerry zucker had their roots in improvisational theatre in madison wisconsin i believe it was they had a group called fried or something similar they put a bunch of their set pieces onto celluloid fried movie' 1977 which was long irreverent sophomoric and really funny br br they followed up with the very popular airplane 1980 which really put them on the map in it they took some rather well known veteran actors in robert stack and especially leslie nielsen and putting them in prominent roles proceeded to parody every cliché of every aviation film since the days of john wayne's production of the high and the mighty 1954 pockets stuffed with cash and now having been noticed the trio worked out a deal with television and the american broadcasting company tv network to do a half hour comedy spoof of the nearly countless police crime drama show that have come and gone on our television screens over the years remembering the fine job that mr leslie nielsen had turned in on airplane he was cast in the lead br br as sgt lt captain frank the rank designation switch being one of their comic bits he presided over a great series of successive puns sight gags non and overblown police crime clichés all of these strung together by some seemingly standard scripts added to this is overly dramatic opening narration voiced over information contradicting the visual printed info they always used this in giving the title of the episode titles where voice and printed titles never matched br br they had a great musical score which even though being somewhat exaggerated would have passed as theme and incidental music in a straight drama the musical score the opening titles and format of having the episodes divided into act i act ii epilogue etc were all part of obvious but affectionate ribbing of q m quinn martin productions they even had the same announcer as did the real q m 's br br one thing that this all too short of a series did not have was a technically augmented audience laughter and boy they sure didn't need any phony tract the nature of the spoof was such that it demanded the viewer's close almost undivided attention and that proved to be the ultimate reason behind police downfall br br in regards to the series cancellation an abc executive explained that the episodes called for too much attention on the part of the viewer so isn't that what one would want br br so after only 6 wonderfully wacky hilarious episodes off to the afterlife of series cancellation went police squad only to be reborn in the naked gun trilogy made for the big screen in movie houses once again they did quite well at the box office oh well tv's loss is cinema's gain thanks to you mr idiot tv exec br br the high and mighty was produced by the duke's own productions and released by warner brothers it was unavailable for quite a number of years and finally mr wayne's family made arrangements to release it to television and to video
1	the dresser is a small but absolutely wonderful film brilliantly acted by albert finney and tom how in the world this tiny film attracted enough attention to garner five major academy award nominations back in 1983 is a mystery to me but it's nice to know the academy can be guilty of a display of good taste every once in a while of course they gave the award that year to terms of endearment after all they don't want to be accused of showing too much taste br br albert finney is a drunken shakespearean actor in a production of king lear tom is the man who works double time behind the scenes to keep this actor in front of the it's both hilarious and piteous to see character showering finney's with attention and affection only to see his efforts utterly unappreciated and dismissed even up to the very bitter end finney and work wonders together and though finney gets the showiest moments he does get to recite shakespeare after all is the heart and soul of the film br br grade a
1	i saw sweeney todd on broadway in 1980 it starred george and featured most of the other cast principals who appeared in the national touring company production which was videotaped for tv in los angeles in 1982 last night i watched the new dvd release of the los angeles production although i have owned the videotape for many years the production and the performances could have hardly been better but the original age showed because both the audio and video quality are below modern standards even on a newly pressed dvd nevertheless i still give it 10 out of 10 because of the greatness of the work and george and lansbury's startlingly wonderful performances even today my most memorable recollection from a live musical theater performance has to be rendition of these are my friends you'll drip brrr
1	i own a copy of this film and have always loved it i comment here however because i saw the pbs presentation of a concert version of sweeney todd earlier this week that production was put on by the san francisco opera and starred george and patti in the early '80s replaced len as sweeney had won the tony for his performance i saw and angela lansbury who also won the tony for her performance as mrs lovett perform sweeney on broadway they must have made the film at about the time i saw the show to this day the most moving moment i can ever remember in the theatre occurred when sang these are my friends these are my friends see how they glisten my arm is complete again br br performance in the san francisco opera production convinced me that he has lost nothing in the nearly twenty years since i first saw him perform the piece on broadway and later in the film what a talent he is sympathetic funny and scary all at once and he can sing boy can he sing all of this reminded me of how terrific the film is highly recommended ten out of ten
1	there are no flaws in this production perfectly entertaining fun and worthy of respect br br this is what theatre is all about definitely not for the very young but slightly older kids will get a great kick out of seeing it and can be introduced to theatre this way br br astounding and amazing
1	though the video technology may be dated this classic musical play now on dvd is the best version of sondheim's most important and polished work on broadway if you've never seen sweeney todd then you must buy this dvd i saw this production in november 1980 at kennedy center in washington and fell in love with a pre murder she wrote angela lansbury subsequently i tried to find any and all of her work among them movies the harvey girls the picture of dorian gray manchurian candidate cds mame dear world and gypsy and many more the rest of the cast is flawless too all in all this wonderful dvd gives us the definitive version of sondheim's opera
1	even if you're not a theatre person i highly recommend that you see this based off of a play of the same name by christopher bond which in turn had been based off of an old london legend sondheim did a wonderful job bringing it to the musical theatre stage the score is just amazing by far sondheim's best and probably one of the best scores written for a musical ever the show was cast extremely well my only complaint being of betsy portrayal of johanna it s good mind you and she's a very versatile actress but she just doesn't sing and bird too well but other than that it's all phenomenal angela lansbury made the role of mrs and she just does it so well george was a good replacement for len in the title role and ken jennings gives a great performance as tobias the ending will give you chills top marks for a wonderful show
1	i have only praise for this film from start to finish it captured the brilliance of stephen sondheim's musical i am not a big fan of musicals most of them are very overdone this one however changed my mind i am an actor myself and have played sweeney and i know how hard this role is george gave a stunning masterful and rounded performance worthy of the highest awards that we can give him he won an emmy and that's something everything he does he turns to gold he is so good it will blow your mind why he's not in films winning oscars lansbury is also very good and very funny sara woods is creepy and wonderful as the beggar woman all in all a great video pick it up if you can
1	first of all i have watched this show since i was a little toddler and i have always loved it sure maybe i didn't understand it when i was that young but i still enjoyed it and now that i have been able to understand it for several years i love it even more the score of this musical is the most wonderfully detailed score i have ever heard every note is perfect i don't even need to hear the singing to enjoy it br br moving on to this particular production this is magnificent of course no one could play mrs lovett besides angela lansbury and she does it perfectly and she should she has been playing this part for several years george is absolutely brilliant the best sweeney todd i have ever heard he has a wonderful voice yet he can throw his voice so well his epiphany is incredible as you can tell by the audience's reaction to it the judge toby antony and are also so wonderful in their roles everyone is perfect well i still have to fast forward through johanna's green finch and bird she just doesn't sing that song well at all br br this show can be appreciated at all ages but it is not always accepted i am not your typical middle aged theater lover i am only 15 years old yet sweeney todd has given me a greater appreciation for music than i have gotten from any other musical
1	dark and bleak sets thrilling music that cuts through your spin like or razor a perfect cast lead by broadway greats and lansbury this is exciting theatre flawlessly transferred to the small screen sondheim is the most talented songwriter of our age and todd is his masterpiece from the brechtian opening ballad to the darkly humorous act i finale a little priest where lovett and todd fantasize about the victims that will wind up in their meat pies this play never ceases to thrill excite and satisfy betsy joslyn also excels as johanna even she as the plays ingenue seems slightly mad edmund turns in a bravado performance as the corrupt judge who lusts after joslyn and is the subject of todd's vendetta lansbury and command the show as only two great actor stars can do other musical highlights include todd's johanna worst pies in london and the act ii opening thats good and that is a title to describe this production
1	there is a solid group of people that have lives like this girl going through the process at school the parental absence at all important junctures in lauren school search provide interviews only and draws the interviews with them at below transcript quality review that in 30 minutes sabotages four years of high school grading the incident of anger in her mother obviously block a mothers display of possible physical abuse of her or her disabled sister at one time or another thus masking her mother's truer involvement in family losses the daughter lauren really has done something big trying to make her mother fulfilled and then that plan itself somewhat heroic in light of the age she is still giving when everyone around her taking somersaults on her a heart not yet connected to her head something that age has never had a genuine answer to even to this day her replacement of a significant other not necessarily requiring a father image however a trusted authority nonetheless being imagined if not real a pure cup without a handler see the movie everyone needs a friend to see through understanding of a proportional world she made hers up on what she knew of life at the time she has all the mental capacity for higher learning though having no friends present for her time makes the ending a developmental tragedy in progress given a bird in a cage not a puppy that would a least get her walking two times a day ideas out of the roof she is under would be the developing on her sidewalk life sad is the looming psychiatric ending how could she be committed at a time when she has proved an important responsibility believe it or not taking of a dog is a better witness than taking care of a bird at this time of her life the symbolic cage of her in a cage is too much mental and self fulfilling of some of her writings within the story the neighbor college freshman is developed just fine he is as developed as the training education will allow for the mental maturity that dwarfs her eternal purpose compared to his fateful conditioning i myself eventually just went to the mensa magazine and got a 20 00 degree saying i was an it offered all the education that buying the truth would and independence to skip fecal content run the world or do not get your own home was the college offer who was freeing anyone for superior time for the learning the only sin is not having your pleasure right what fight on that she has been denied an act for life commensurate to her love for life what is college a reward for failing high school do you graduate with your class or without it what is the exchange a lifetime of youth with only questions could lead occur w o a question the loss followed as much for good as bad when was she given a mind for sexual intimacy or growth for her good self to be fulfilled why didn't good people treat her with good things if good people do not do good things for good people what is good for she is young pretty and walked on long before personal development is given a winning game her act taken in life with a closed door perhaps the title would be better as christmas doors not
1	at first i didn't think that the performance by lauren ambrose was anything but flaky but as her character developed the portrayal made more sense amy madigan seemed too terse for her role and didn't really tie her daughter's characters together even though it was apparent that her character was disengaged with the character played by lauren ambrose br br christopher lloyd is a hit as usual and carried off his role to encourage the story line his character development left the audience wondering why he was chastised by the younger characters and could have been accomplished more directly with br br the overwhelming glue to this somewhat vague story line was play by taylor roberts her comprehensive delivery of a simplistic character held the movie together in this pivotal role taylor was able to encourage a realistic family relationship between the characters while acting as the antagonist for all of the other relationships in the film
1	after reading over all these reviews i'm very surprised to see that no one has even once noted that this show was based on the 1957 to 1960 nbc cop show m squad starring lee marvin i read reviews comparing it to dragnet and some of the quinn martin police shows but if you watch m squad you'll see it was based on it in the late 1958 episodes of m squad onwards you'll see lee marvin who plays lieutenant detective frank get out of his car and then hes shot at and he shoots back the beginning of police squad is basically the same including the jazz music and then lee marvin narrates what goes on im lieutenant detective frank m squad a special department of the chicago police and in police squad leslie neilsen does the same im detective lieutenant frank police squad a special division of the police department and so on in one of the m squad episodes there's even the johnny the guy character and in a m squad episode entitled more deadly there's a police squad episode entitled a substantial gift the broken promise which is the same story
1	i was surprised to like this movie since i'm from the check your brain at the door and have fun school of film viewing however this film touched my heart i have friends like mentally retarded emily i have friends like and i've been in shoes chasing away opportunity out of fear and out of devotion to others br br amy disappointment in her daughters was almost palpable on screen and the awkward moments where she tried to bridge the gap with were raw and painful to watch and perhaps i am denser than most but i never saw the twist with father coming usually i cotton on to those things rather quickly br br my reservations are similar to others posted here i thought christopher lloyd's wonderful sympathetic character a very different role for him i thought was underused what happened to him once he realized what was going on with the poetry would he like james try again second the ending such as it was didn't seem to resolve or accomplish anything i didn't expect the pieces to be picked up and all the ends tied neatly but i felt that i was left at odds with the characters that there was no real healing taking place here or any real efforts at healing being made br br otherwise exquisite and lyrical and disturbing and for some very very true
1	we have a character named just wants to be a good person she's nice friendly smiles often but is strangely brutally honest also has a secret her idiot savant sister has been reciting original poetry which is getting the community excited about the sister writing unfortunately it's poetry while their mother starts being happy again and the boy next door shows his interest in just tries to figure out what she really wants to do br br what to keep in mind while watching this movie is who really is for such a brutally honest person who doesn't mind telling ivy league types that she doesn't respect them it would seem odd that she would be able to pull off a lie for someone so happy and cheerful she's quite emotionless when it comes to certain issues those aren't character flaws they're plot development and they mean a lot more than they at first seem br br mostly this is something of a melodrama a character lies the other characters' personalities propel them through drama as relationships are held at risk but in terms of the writing it's very fresh and bold the acting helps the writing along very well maybe the idiot savant sister could have been played better and it is a real joy to watch br br the directing and the cinematography aren't quite as good they're acceptable and world is wreathed in color and light which makes for some very beautiful images but it's not very consistent it's not really so much of a flaw as a result of a low production value but within that same value is some genuine storytelling and a real care for the characters so while it isn't a perfect movie it's certainly an enjoyable one br br polarisdib
1	i have had the opportunity to catch this independent film and was impressed with it despite the lack of excitement in the plot the acting was very good by everyone involved amy madigan played the part of a guilt ridden mother who is tired yet well intentioned and determined to make up for her younger daughter's condition yet in the process she has neglected her older sister who is more interested in playing with her savant syndrome sibling and living in a world of escapism br br the men in the movie are very powerful in their secondary roles christopher lloyd in a very understated role shows us why he has such versatility he plays a teacher who is dedicated to his profession and literature research yet starved for a meaningful relationship he and madigan connect very well in their scenes together yet both know nothing more can come from their friendship their wordless goodbye is nothing short of brilliant an acting lesson for aspiring performers br br and in a small role fred savage is fun to watch br br you can tell why this movie was based on a play it's probably very good on stage on screen it's not particularly exciting but it's nonetheless very thoughtful and powerful in its subtleties
1	i very much enjoyed this movie and i think most fans of lauren ambrose will too her character is much softer than her role in six feet under and all of the performances are strong i especially enjoyed the way the role of emily a mentally challenged savant was handled despite some other user reviews the role was performed accurately and without cliché by the actress taylor roberts also a standout was fran whose natural ease well complemented the more season veteran actors although the direction hit a snag here or there it seemed the only problems were with an underdeveloped script what maybe worked well as a stage play didn't hold out quite so well on screen however the lovely cinematography by paul ryan definitely makes up for that as well as the pace of the film which is surprisingly not slow i recommend this movie to fans of six feet under and also fans of plain good acting and cinematography
1	the brighton has a traumatic drama in the breast of their family the twenty years old emily brighton taylor roberts is retarded due to a fall when she was one and her overprotective mother martha brighton amy madigan blames her negligence for the accident the seventeen years old brighton lauren ambrose loves her sister and reads poems and stories for emily their father harry brighton john savage a bank investor lives in the basement with his models of trains and railroads mysteriously sabotages her interviews for different universities being rejected and teaches the of her own to emily when martha hears emily repeating the poems she takes notes and shows them to the english teacher stewart worthy christopher lloyd who believes that emily has had a moment of geniuses when only friend james fran reads the notes he immediately discloses the truth about the authority of the but when martha becomes aware she finds the reality of triggering a series of revelations br br is a very powerful drama about needy of love and guilty complex the performances are stunning and this is the first work of lauren ambrose from six feet under that i see and she is amazing this independent movie is an excellent choice for the viewers that are looking for a refreshing story based on the acting of the cast my vote is eight br br title brazil complicity
1	is a fine drama even though they're are some problems with the ending lauren ambrose plays who is trying to avoid college to make her overworked mother not notice she makes up poems that everybody thinks her mentally challenged sister wrote all the acting is first rate especially lauren ambrose and amy madigan they both put in great performances the climax is also very powerful there are only two bad parts first is the character of stewart worthy played by christopher lloyd his part is underdeveloped the other weakness is the ending it goes around in circles which i didn't expect with the 84 min run time besides that the movie is definitely worth watching
1	this film was a huge surprise to me while i watched it at cinequest in the big california theatre in san jose it's a musical which normally i don't like but i have to say this one was different robert peters who directed the film and stared in it did such a wonderful job during his q a he told the audience that he only had two other people for his crew most of the dialouge was made up on the fly and he actually made the film while attending another film festival in germany i can't say enough great things about this movie the only bad thing is that you really tend to notice the camera work and it shakes a bit if you happen to come across this film check it out
1	half empty is a hilarious musical about the eternal optimist this case a self help book writer who goes to germany mistakenly thinking he's popular there instead of an adoring audience he finds himself adrift in a world of jaded misanthropes including the woman who is supposed to be his publicist his attempts to make scenes that are largely to one great encounter after another when he is verbally abused by nihilistic musicians gruff gangsters etc in time he manages to win over his her heart and her mind but his own world view is shaken when his hero a much more popular self help writer turns out to be not quite what he seems the action is punctuated by several musical numbers br br we saw this at the film festival in oklahoma city and were blown away this is a really funny inspired small scale indie production you could quibble about a few technical things like the lighting which is a bit dark but the piece is funny and inspired enough that you can't care too much if voltaire were writing candide today the character would be a self help writer
1	had the fun pleasure of viewing a new independent film called half empty i usually go out to the local cinema with my husband and feel as if we are held captive to the latest sequel or prequel that hollywood throws at us this was different and surprisingly – so much more entertaining than anything hollywood spends millions advertising when my husband and i go the movies we go to be entertained – and half empty did just that and the film did so in a smart manner that made me feel as if my trip to the movie theater was worth it it is a funny human and surprising sometimes musical story that cleverly entertains in its simplicity i especially enjoyed the scene with the 4 men singing in harmony in the bathroom it is almost like an operetta that particular scene reminded me of a scene in phantom of the opera when 4 of the performers did not just i e they sang against one another in a friendly retort i am not a film maven but this film was more enjoyable than any other major studio film i have seen lately it is silly funny entertaining and amusing completely enjoyable – which is what i expect from movies but rarely do they deliver like half empty
1	this film explores if not creates a whole new genre with perfect imperfection hilarity truth fun talent and circumstance that make for magic br br from creative musical numbers to off the cuff comedy that incorporates actors at their very best if i hadn't have known better i would have thought there was an elaborate script here br br what you get a mighty wind meets conversations with god meets something so fresh and new and delightful that it becomes it's own entity br br peters and fell both give stellar performances and reel you in immediately the rest of the cast is also phenomenal there are no small parts only small actors and everyone involved here should be patted on the back taken out to dinner and be considered for an oscar br br well done
1	police squad 1982 was a funny show that ended too soon but i guess it had it's run before it got too repetitive and unfunny like so many american television shows the geniuses behind this funny show were the team of zucker abrahams and zucker every since his straight act in the comedy hit airplane leslie nielsen has found a new career as a comedian in this short lived t v series he had the chance to play the straight man in a wacky comedy once more the bizarre titles to each episode gave away the ending but lt leslie nielsen got into so many weird cases that they have to be seen to be believed br br tooo bad they never released this on d v d if a show needed to be re released it would have to be this one a whole new generation is waiting to see this show br br highly recommended
1	for anyone who has ever sought happiness half empty is a must see this original cross cultural musical comedy has hilarious numbers which make the producers seem boringly staid writer bob patterson puts his soul into sharing his thoughts on life wisdom and happiness even scribbling inspirational comments on index cards as his girlfriend spills her heart out ending their relationship when his book on happiness north star finds zero success in the states his publishers send him to germany for a book signing tour while explaining their decision to bob the boardroom erupts into a rousing song which would make monty python proud from his arrival in hamburg bob's complete ignorance of the german language leaves him at a distinct disadvantage however he soldiers on impervious of his hosts true feelings towards him until a wildly devoted fan arrives and changes everyone's reaction toward him br br the original songs propel the film often describing the subtext of the story in side splitting precision the cast led by robert peters exhibit an immaculately dry sense of humor and inhabit their characters as if they were not acting see it for a case study of how good intentions are totally irrelevant how merciless americans abroad are viewed how little reason it takes to burst into song and above all for a silly entertaining unconventional laugh
1	this is a great movie too bad it is not available on home video
1	one of the funniest films i ever saw in the theater back in the early '70s and sadly it's only been on tv a few times since this movie should be released on video it's sellers at his sleaziest slimiest best as a crooked hospital administrator great cast great movie if anyone has a good vhs copy i'd love to buy it
1	hilarious sellers at his funniest a shame you can't get this on video or even see it on tv anymore i'd love to get a good copy somewhere maybe it's tied up in court on some legal issue but a truly riotous hospital farce with sellers as crooked administrator
1	this is one of peter sellers' best movies why is it never shown on tv or movie theaters will it ever be released as a home movie is it too derogatory for the medical field i would love to see this movie again i would like my son who is a doctor to see it laughter is the best medicine and peter sellers is the best doctor for this
1	i'm having as much fun reading the user comments as i did watching the movie it seems that this is the classic either love it or hate it movie and i have to say that i not only am on the love it side i'm going on a limb to say it this my favorite movie ever thank heavens i found it in the first place almost impossible to find i was lucky about ten years ago to record it off a late night uhf channel of course my liking of sellers may make me a bit biased but i can't see how anyone with a cornball dry sense of humor like me can not be in love with this flick the plot is great but perhaps as a previous poster said maybe the reason why it's not a widely known movie upset the medical field the acting is great i can see why some may say the acting was horrible but that's what made this movie so great it's total tacky ness and the humor is gut busting i'm proud to say i have watched this film no less than about 20 times and have pretty much every line memorized this film is genius
1	i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co i had just quit my engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals br br the idiots that put it down on production value don't get the point and probably have never been hospitalized and never worked in one for sure billy jack same era was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message br br i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned
1	it has been since 1972 that i saw this movie and i still remember it as one of my favorite all time movies i would buy a copy if it were on dvd and it is too bad it isn't you would think that anything starring peter sellers would be brought back much better than being there and as good as the pink panther series uschi digard had a small part for such a well endowed performer she is bonus in this movie i think the medical field may not appreciate this film as it really makes fun of the profession and it also makes one appreciate that sellers was never available to treat them as his bed side manner sucked as well did his analysis of urine samples
1	i remember seeing this film in my late teens or early twenties on tv probably hbo i watched it with my parents a brother and a few friends since that was about 30 years ago i don't remember a lot of the story i do remember that the entire group of us watching agreed that this was the funniest movie we had ever seen when it was over our hurt from so much laughing my dad worked at a hospital so that made it all the better br br every time i see the party in the tv listings i look to see if this one is there too to my dismay it never is although i loved the party i feel this one is funnier peter sellers was great as a crooked hospital administrator why it's never been released on video is a mystery to me it's a classic but it appears that nobody under 35 or 40 has been allowed to see it i'd buy it in a second if they ever release it to dvd
1	though often considered peter sellers' worst film it is in fact an excellent send up of medical corporate corruption and abuses of power often misunderstood the film is actually a departure from the type of film sellers was best known for satirical farce this film had excellent performances by jo ann pflug and pat morita of happy days and the karate kid movies but was marked by its irreverence and total madcap demolition of the medical industry of the day it was ahead of its time 1972 in taking the outrageous path that the monty python crew would take into the cinema some time later as such it was unacceptable to the traditional peter sellers fan who found the more pointed barbs in this humor to be something to which they were unaccustomed presently peter sellers movies are in demand by fans but this effort where does it hurt has by its nature become almost impossible to find
1	the funniest show ever on tv albeit the humor is not for everyone i realize it would have been hard to keep the show fresh if it had ran longer but it's a shame only six episodes were filmed the gags fly rapidly from the opening credits until the very end when you would see and his boss ed pretending to be in freeze frame as the closing credits rolled during which the criminal still moving would see everyone else motionless and try to escape in another episode the building started collapsing around them as and remained in freeze mode br br leslie nielsen was comedic brilliance as frank and the perfect fit for this show … how he managed to keep a straight face through some of this is beyond me because the jokes and sight gags came so often and quick you can watch the episodes a 2nd and 3rd time and catch things you missed the first time if you're like me you can watch them over and over and still find yourself laughing even the jokes that made no sense nor seemingly had any reason to them such as the rex hamilton as abraham lincoln tag line in the opening announcement somehow worked … perhaps they were thrown in there precisely for that reason br br cleverly spoofing the old quinn martin detective cop shows of the 1970s police squad would return from commercial break with the words act two appearing on the screen which was immediately followed by yankees one or some other quip on the opening credits the episode's title would appear on the screen but the announcer would utter a completely different title my favorite jokes and lines from this series are way too numerous to list but one of my favorites is when asks a down on his luck boxer who has previously tanked fights do you think you can beat the champ the boxer responds i can take him blindfolded to which responds back but what if he's not blindfolded a minute later in reference to the boxer's small dingy apartment tells him i'm going to help you get out of this sewer the next thing you see is popping up through a manhole cover on the street in another episode and are questioning a bombing flimsy alibi not believing him says alright let's say you did go the movies after a slight pause and the suspect all look at the camera and in unison say you did go the movies a few moments later when is forced to let the suspected bomber walk free due to lack of evidence he storms away and angrily yells tell that bomber to take off what's seen next is a cop giving the thumbs up signal to a wwii style plane on a runway right outside the building while there were many classic quotes one particularly memorable one was sorry to bother you mrs twice we would have come earlier but your husband wasn't dead then another classic was i'm a … and i'm a when a visibly shaken kidnap victim's father asks what i do i do … in classic deadpan fashion responds back well as i understand it you're in the textile business as i said the humor is not for everyone … many people simply will not get it during the show's brief run i remember the reaction being very mixed some people thought it was absolutely hysterical and one of the funniest things around while others thought it was the stupid and unfunny for me police squad even 20 years later is the funniest thing i've ever seen on tv for younger viewers who enjoy this type of humor but who have never seen police squad because they were too young when the series initially aired i highly recommend i found the six episodes to be even funnier than the subsequent naked gun movies
1	i cannot understand why this 1971 hollywood production is currently only available through an australian video company but such is the unfortunate obscurity of this peter sellers classic leonard maltin's movie guide continues to grant it the same bomb review they gave it in the 1970's with so many scene stealers on display sellers comes through with what may perhaps be his most hilarious role it all begins with his discovery of a patient who expired at 11 but sellers argues that the corpse is still living due to the fact that the new day doesn't start until noon the final straw for the beleaguered hospital commissioner comes in that very room the do not disturb sign still on the door once he exits the room handkerchief holding his nose there is a brief conversation with the doctor with him doctor we can't save them all that man was at least 85 commissioner how old was he when he died 63 harold gould plays an inept surgeon who shuts his eyes when the knife digs in richard lenz whose pompous ass reporter in the shootist was booted in the rear by john wayne plays the patient who exposes the fraud he only came in for a chest x ray until they discovered he owns a house also in the cast on screen and supplying some excellent country flavored music is keith allison former guitarist for paul revere and the raiders who also worked with michael on a few monkees recordings and co wrote municipal court with on the birds the bees and the monkees alas there is some missing footage from this print including a topless sequence with uschi digard near the end also a scene with actress kathleen freeman who wants to use green stamps to finance her operation who gets locked by sellers in his office never to be seen again in the uncut version he returns to his office to find that she has written in large letters on the wall unfair prick his response you misspelled price
1	there's a good running bit about the price tag of a silk negligee the bimbo in the office shows off the bargain she got for 22 closeup of tag later mary astor finds the tag in the boss's bedroom proof that bimbo slept with him still later mary astor is about to have an affair with ricardo cortez looks at the price tag of her silk negligee 14 and is reminded of how disgusted she was about the bimbo as well as the fact that she's spent 8 less than the most obvious woman she's ever met it sounds an obvious morality turn but it was well done the film would be stronger if robert character had been played by a more powerful actor he's too low key for a self made salesman and he spends most of the film with his face turned away from the camera and if ricardo cortez had been given more to do than smile ironically both male leads are bland and forgettable and are hindered by the pancake male makeup so popular in this film's era however the mary astor character is interesting appealing and believable behind closed doors is well worth seeing
1	i this on turner classic just because it was pre code and sounded interesting when i got around to watching i noticed that the critique gave it one and a half stars on a four star scale i started watching with trepidation even old movies can be bad movies but i quickly got engaged in the story and mary performance as the business brains behind a simple salesman's rise to success not a truly great movie too predictable but certainly better than advertised and i would have liked to have seen more of ricardo cortez as the man who appreciates mary but won't give up his wealthy wife i'd recommend giving it a look just to appreciate astor and what a long way we've come baby
1	terrific little film that stars mary astor as a go getter who works her way up as a struggling paper company but when the owner has to sell for health reasons she comes up with a scheme for the employees to buy the company with a jerk salesman robert ames as the front even though she is the brains br br of course he becomes a big success and she becomes his executive secretary basically still running everything and teaching him class she loves the dope but he never catches on as he fools around with a string of bimbos she is chased by a married but separated man ricardo cortez who isn't free but when a society gal catches ames everything goes to hell br br astor is just wonderful as the too smart woman who almost makes a huge mistake after she loses her man ames is good as the jerk but what does she see in him and cortez is good but doesn't have much to do kitty kelly is good as the sidekick dolores charles sellon is the original owner dale owen is the society babe and edna murphy is funny as daisy br br worth a look
1	this is a pretty clever well acted version of the modern 30s woman's fairytale romance in this case she helps the man she loves become head of the company while serving as his secretary and eventually wins his love from a scheming social butterfly interestingly her business sense is shown as subtly parallel to her prowess and the ladies of the office are depicted as the powers behind the throne lifted way above the average by mrs intelligent performance
1	is this a good movie no certainly not but for jolie lovers it's must have her non polished acting and semi nudity scene will please her fans for ages to come the current rating however 3 2 is too low the movie might lack a good storyline and isn't a great sf movie altogether but the acting is good enough and like mentioned before jolie's acting is nice and raw the movie is shot very direct with a lot of close ups the scenery is bizarre and last but not least leaving van damme out was a very good choice presumably non of the jolie lovers would like to see her having sex with him this movie has all the potential of becoming a cult movie
1	this was a pretty good movie that was overall done quite well the idea about mercy won't spoil was original also i think angelina did a good job as one of her first movies the only things i frowned upon were some of the corny fight scenes won't spoil either i liked the first movie and i liked this one as well 7 10
1	i caught this movie late night on tv and was expecting a low budget campy masterpiece i was surprised with a pretty decent movie angelina jolie's unique acting capabilities or should i say lack thereof make her perfect as an android and the other actors while terribly average are at least not terrible br br there is a plot a fairly intricate plot at that involving conspiracies and the lengths a couple one human one android will go to pursue their illegal romance with a big brother type figure and android assassin thrown in the mix the production and sets also were much better than i expected i haven't seen the original cyborg so i can't really compare it to much else granted this film is no blade runner but as a late night futuristic guilty pleasure its worth a watch
1	this sci fi great fortunately has little to do with the first one elias koteas jack palance play good roles angelina is hot and gets naked billy drago appears in this and is cool as usual a cameo by sven ole thorsen helps make this a very enjoyable movie with good acting and a decent budget
1	i was just looking at the 100 bottom movies according to imdb users seeing if there was anything to review that i haven't yet and i found this little screen gem one of those occasions when you see a movie ranked as one of the worst and you just have to be one of the few that actually likes it darn well i guess i will get ridiculed and spat upon here but for me this was a pretty good flick when i saw it it has been awhile however i remember it used to come on hbo late at night and i watched it two or three times and i haven't seen it really since and i would love to watch it again now knowing jolie was in it the story follows a cyborg and a guy trying to escape the clutches of this corporation and some bounty hunters after them i think that is basically all there is to it throw in a few scenes with jack palance and we have our movie some good action here and there and some blood and violence as well there is also a love story at play as well as the female cyborg and the guy who trained her to fight kind of fall in love with each other the dialog sometimes becomes rather bad at times and it is by far not a top notch film but for a b movie it is really good i don't know if it was a theatrical release though because it does not seem high quality enough for that but it does make for one of the better direct to videos if it was one of those
1	two years after ' took off jim abrahams jerry and david zucker cast one of its stars leslie nielsen in this hilarious television series a glorious take off of old u s detective shows such as nielsen played frank america's answer to it had the same style of humour as ' clever visual gags in the background unnoticed absurdities and recurring characters such as johnny the shoe shine boy who seems to know everything about everything guest stars including william shatner were killed off in the opening credits 'police was the first u s sitcom since 'batman' to lack a laugh track many have lamented the fact that only six episodes were made but i think it was about right the concept could never have sustained a full 24 episode run five years later 'police made a successful transfer to the big screen when the first of the 'naked gun' trilogy was released jim jerry david and leslie had the last laugh
1	i'd like to point out these excellent points in favor of this movie br br 1 angelina jolie sex scene br br 2 foley artist outdid themselves br br 3 plot was quite thick br br 4 dvd does includes trailers and chapter stops br br 5 no animals were harmed in the making of the movie br br 6 homages to blade runner through out the film br br 7 burning trash cans br br 8 funny guy with no legs br br 9 voice overs by jack palance added a real dynamic element to the film br br 10 sage advise for example when you dine with the devil bring a long spoon br br 11 angelina jolie was only 18 br br to sum it up an evening of entertainment was provided
1	this is one of the best episodes of doctor who ever we have the the cyber conversion units may scare young children and of coarse the doctor doing one of his best acts bravo david tennant good scenes as if it was a movie with thrilling scenes in some streets an invasion on the base and leaving the world different to ours basically a 45 minute movie br br being part 2 of rise of the this would never disappoint with it having a great build up to the final br br the doctor plus an evil enemy daleks master autons or even is a battle to the death just be careful with young children watching this
1	okay so there were the odd hole in the plot you could drive a zeppelin through but how well was the emotional stuff handled it would have been so easy to descend into cheesiness but the writer pulled it off the image of the ex female making crying noises as she it saw her reflection after regaining her emotions is one that will stay with me forever that's twice now the monsters have shown a soft side and been presented fleetingly sympathetically the previous being the last dalek from series one but by jove it's worked add to that the other ex female who had been upgraded on the eve of her wedding and jackie tyler recognising her husband after she had become cyber and you have a permanent throat lump keep it up
1	beginning where it left off doctor who rose her alternative dad mickey his alternative counterpart ricky and small gang of rebels find themselves at the mercy of this realities version of the this second part of the 2 episode arc feels more like a doctor who episode as opposed to the previous part which honestly felt like more of an episode of the defunct show sliders which granted was a great show in it's own right the arc as a whole was enjoyable enough as i'm one to subscribe to the maxim that any who is good who but at the same time it's inevitable that this will be compared to the dalek episode of the previous series and said comparisons would only make this seem like a lesser work as it is i just feel that this story could've been done in one episode remember in the first part of the review i said that these type of stories dealing with alternative realities usually have no lasting repercussions well that's not the case here but what changes overall feels tagged on and not really in keeping with the character br br my grade c
1	age of steel follows up the previous episode rise of the which was excellent in some respects lacking in others rotc had some positive elements the most important being excellent portrayal of the doctor indeed his sort of daft giddiness bears to this writer the shadow of tom baker's doctor with his sort of subconscious asides as when ticking off time periods when mickey is holding down the button in the tardis yet brings his own aloof superiority a la mccoy's doctor as he lets events coalesce around him some reviewers and fans whose pieces i've read seem a bit dismayed at having such a young actor portray someone who must by now be over a 1000 old but i disagree doctor does indeed bear the weight of the world on his shoulders as he points out in this episode and one can see this in his almost smug characterization as when he finally confronts the in the climax his world weary eyes rolling sort of attitude is refreshing especially after eccleston's excellent pseudo working class interpretation of the character more the man of action than fresh faced pseudo doofus best moment is perhaps after the end when he is restoring the tardis with his big goofy baker esquire grin as the tardis re starts here we begin to get a feeling for this new doctor a character who is little more than the average person's different personality facets split up into 13 different people some contradictory some more likable than others yet all forming part of a whole this aside these two episodes were passable but weak the concept of reviving the is much welcomed and they look fantastic but the plot involving a parallel earth where this action takes place doesn't seem to work right true the allegory here of humans' reliance on technology and their need to serve it as the doctor points out is outstanding but this could easily have been placed on contemporary earth or thereabouts some other weak spots are as others have pointed out the ease with which the doctor and co get out of the tight spots viz the death ray from the tardis component the seemingly endless array of uses of the sonic screwdriver my wife laughed when they were using it to burn through the rope ladder at the end she has barely watched who so i had to explain that it was used traditionally as a plot device to extricate the characters from situations from which there is no other escape used here sadly some of the acting was wanting especially mickey who really needs his due and some of the supporting cast was creepy as he needed to be his voice even sounded esquire the score was horrific though with the music's volume often out the scene overall i found rise of the more entertaining though the second half was passable the build up to what we knew was inevitable plays out well however the resolution was disappointing too many unlikely escapes no development of the supporting cast and not enough tennant in my opinion this new show is outstanding and davies is taking it in a good direction but the dialogue beyond the doctor's needs to be tightened up as illustrate which were pure ham
1	once again doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load it has humour you're just making it up as you go along yup but i do it brilliantly action monsters in this case still more kick ass tragedy and scare tactics in short just what the doctor ordered pun intended the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of get on with it so chalk up 3 out of the last 4 episodes that have made you laugh then made you cry and made you go eek br br in terms of character development this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke's mickey and ricky being one of the doctor's companions you know that he will do the right thing and may even suspect the manner that he does it however it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path br br while the rise of the had more of the sinister build up to terror the age of steel is an all out blast like alien compared to aliens both true classics but in different ways can the series keep it up at this level let's hope so
1	the slightly overlong set up episode of the previous week paid off in no uncertain terms with an episode that hit the heights there was a certain deus ex machina flavour to the resolution of the cliffhanger but it was a good start for all that as is now common with this doctor the moral ethical and emotional considerations of his actions were centre stage they were always there in the classic series but they were a side issue to be glossed over when the doctor was in the heat of battle this regeneration even says sorry to a during the battle this episode finally shows mickey embracing the heroic side that had been hinted at in previous episodes his journey from zero to hero is complete and it has been an utterly convincing one with scares humour and scenes that brought a lump to your throat this episode had everything after much consideration i can finally say that the new series betters the classic series in every single respect coming from a die hard you can get no better recommendation than that
1	when i first saw this movie i had thought that it was going to be a terrible upset being directed by first time director liev schrieber what i saw in the next 130 minutes completely and utterly changed my mind based on the novel by jonathan safran foer everything is illuminated tells the story of a young jewish american collector masterfully played by elijah wood who is trying to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the nazis in wwii he travels to germany and enlists in the help of a 20 something club hitting translator and his grandfather this results in a rigid search across the country and they are determined to find what they are looking for shot in some of the most beautiful countryside in the world everything is illuminated delivers tension between the translator and his grandfather and of the help that jonathan needs to find his quarry there is much religious matter as well as the grandfather refers to jonathan as the jew all in all this is a movie that deals with finding yourself and loving family i give this wonderful if not illuminated movie a 10 out of 10 arjun
1	before you watch this movie clean your ears take away the make up from your eyes and tell your girlfriend to stop kissing you she doesn't have to this picture will give you both warmth enough to keep your relationship life long enough if you're jew russian ukrainian immigrant yes what popular movie minority so ever laugh within your memories if you're something else or whatever your are anyway laugh for the bittersweet memory of importance of friendship and family it this movie nothing will seem strange how ever strange it may seem still i'm afraid that few will see this movie because it's not the type of picture people watch when they go to movies but please do it for the humanity and don't forget to get the soundtrack for pleasure
1	being an israeli jew of naturally sarcastic nature as well as a lover of different and independent cinema it always gives me pleasure to see a film that takes a view on the holocaust that's sensitive and respectful while also being original and unusual while i haven't read the book – or for that matter heard of its existence prior to watching the film – and therefore cannot like some other reviewers comment on how they stack up in comparison everything is illuminated gave me great pleasure and i can certainly comment on that br br to label everything is illuminated a holocaust film would be to do it great injustice even though it is undeniably about the holocaust so would labeling it as a comedy or a travel film although it's about a journey and is as exceptionally funny as it is moving everything is illuminated is about jonathan safran foer – played to minimalist perfection by elijah wood in the most impressive dramatic performance i've seen him in yet with a poker face that shows nothing and reveals all – a young american jew and an obsessive collector of family and historical artifacts who travels to the ukraine on a journey to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the nazis it's also about alex his tour guide through the ukraine and alex's grandfather what's fascinating about these characters is that in the beginning of the film they look like comic relief to balance out the melancholy nature of wood's character but both alex and his grandfather go through fascinating changes throughout the film and turn out to be at least as important as jonathan in fact boris as the grumpy self declared blind grandfather turns out to be the finest dramatic performance in the film br br aside from the surreal nature of the film and the characters the beautiful mix of original acoustic music and russian folk music the sensitive cinematography and the chilling contrast between the beauty of the landscapes and the horrors of history what made everything is illuminated a powerful and moving experience for me was the fact that from alex and his grandfather we get a very different and original viewpoint on this painful subject several excellent films such as the grey zone and downfall have already given us the point of view of the lower rank nazis who are presented as human beings who aren't necessarily fully aware of the moral implications of their actions but are caught up in the reality of the war everything is illuminated presents a point of view rarely treated before alex's point of view is that of a young man who was born many years after the war who sees it as hardly more than cold historical fact who finds himself having to face up to the horrors his own people – and maybe his own family as well – were capable of the change in alex's attitude – and his grandfather's – towards jonathan towards the holocaust and towards the jewish people in general makes the film a fascinating and original study in character development br br everything is illuminated is a terrific directorial debut for actor liev schreiber and one of the most original and unique films of 2005 it's a highly recommended viewing experience especially or anyone interested in the holocaust and world war ii
1	i still count police squad as the absolute funniest tv show of the 1980s somewhere on betamax no less i have all six episodes i knew that a show this good wouldn't last and that i had to preserve it for myself how stupid was abc they were quoted as saying that viewers didn't know that police squad was a comedy because it had no laugh track right when has a line like you take chances just getting up in the morning driving to work or sticking your face in a fan how can that be comedy i've seen every episode at least ten times and still see something new i missed before even the deep backgrounds always have gags ongoing don't miss it if you have chance to see an episode but if you're reading this then you probably already have copies away someplace as i do
1	let me start by saying that liev has gained a ton of respect from me after seeing his directorial debut everything is illuminated anyone who has read the book knows how saturated the story is with nonsensical and hilarious vocabulary by alex along with countless flashback scenes and crazy dreamlike sequences liev took all of this and made it work the movie itself is great the soundtrack the performances the cinematography it all works there is a lot of story missing about the town and its inhabitants but there's only so much you can do with an indie so this part of it didn't bother me too much it's just disappointing that not a lot of people will see this movie or even know that it exists because of the lack of promotion that came with it i didn't even know it was in theatres i didn't know when the dvd came out you'd think that since frodo baggins was one of the main characters somebody wouldve at least released a commercial for it i had to see the trailer on my paradise now dvd released on dvd in the spring of '06 to even know that it had a fall of 2005 theatrical release date haha sad really br br anyhow if you stumble across this review somehow because one of your friends read the book and loved it or saw the movie and are recommending that you see it take my advice and watch it it's a very good experience br br 8 out of 10
1	excellence seems to come rare in hollwood today many consider just two out of the year's best picture nominees to display sense to the movie industry and in 'everything is illuminated ' the mark is hit directly br br the film initiates its brilliance with the beautiful setting the scene entry from the beginning you receive a sense of warmth and true family connections and relations between one and another and also the cast is introduced perfectly for elijah wood's character jonathon his sensibility is expressed through holding his dying grandmother's hand and for the character entitled alex it is easy to see his life in his perspective the true ukrainian rock star with the cast illuminated at first the story slowly eases into our minds as jonathon decides to venture to ukraine to meet the woman believed to save his grandfather thus the entire family and from there the story movies slowly yet kept at a fast pace from the contrast of tear dripping drama and laugh out loud humor included in scene by scene every scene br br although the movie itself is rather awarding there are several complaints from other sources commenting about liev schrieber's inaccurate adaptation of the jonathon foer novel personally i have never read the novel but any movie especially this movie in particular should not be graded on whether the storyboard of the film matches the storyline of the book but rather how the major concepts from the novel were expressed and exploited through the film just because it may be far fetched from the novel does not mean that this film is no longer a must see it still is br br throughout the film new information the audience's mind very slowly some of these thoughts are never answered and in fact the second half of the movie its entire topic and reason of travel through ukraine onto something different yet rather similar to the original intentions of this film the film does however leave you on a satisfied note yet to the weak hearted souls a tear may be dropped and throughout the film to the people with common sense of humor may just have to laugh from alex and john's fun and ongoing conversations br br i would recommend this film to several different types of people to those whom enjoy movies that share the genre drama comedy for those who have an interest in family connections and to those whom have an interest in subjects and to those insane people who find slapstick as hilarious comedy this movie is not for you and for you whom think that this is a seriously funny and absolutely ingeniously funny film you are wrong this film shares comedic moments and dramatic sequences and to those whom judge a movie based on their likeliness with its corresponding novel you may or may not enjoy this film but this film should be taken for much more than whether or not it was close to the book br br all in all 'everything is is an ingenious piece of work that will enlighten anyones' hearts
1	i went to see this because i have some friends in the ukraine but the film moved me beyond what i expected by turning out to be a perfect blend of belly holding laughs alex's strange use of english situational comedy and heaviness bordering on depressing i loved the range it made me want to jump in to an old car and hit the road for the ukraine alex plays his guide part perfectly and provides a great counterpoint to elijah woods' poker faced earnestness the film shows the positive side of humanity when ppl of differing cultures can bond and do the right thing when they feel the sincerity of the situation even when they went into it with preconceived notions and prejudices and how this can open up doorways into deeply buried memories there is a lot in this film
1	everything is illuminated is like viewing a fine piece of museum quality artwork it absolutely the emotions through a very broad spectrum jonathan safran foer is played with candor by elijah wood he is in search of his paternal heritage in the ukraine his travels bring him in contact with alex played very well and with extreme humor by eugene his grandfather is the most emotional tie to this film and he is aptly portrayed by boris if one finds little humor in the human characters in this cinema then one has only to turn to a real dog who is called sammy davis jr jr by alex and his grandfather they also call him the seeing eye bitch the cinematography is spectacular the colors are a very important part of the patchwork of the film it is a film worth the time and emotional investment
1	the movie everything is illuminated comes from first time writer director liev schreiber adapting jonathan safran first novel the book was ambitious and sprawling its magical realist elements and vivid use of language seemingly impossible to represent on screen the movie wisely attempts less while the end result is not as wildly original as the novel it's still an accomplished movie about a strange eastern european road trip or as one of the characters would have it a very rigid search br br that character is alex eugene a young ukrainian man who loves american pop culture but can't seem to get the english language straight nevertheless his grandfather russian actor boris who runs a tour company catering to american jews convinces him to serve as a translator for jonathan elijah wood jonathan is investigating his family history and specifically trying to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the nazis more than one family secret gets revealed during their quest br br the movie's jonathan not to be confused with the author of the novel is a semi weirdo who steals his own grandmother's dentures to add to his collection of family things wood's quiet wide eyed earnest manner works very well in this role makes an impressive debut as the loose limbed easygoing alex his malapropisms are hilarious but he is also able to pull off the character's growing self awareness the dog is very funny as the demented sammy davis jr jr and one of the few movie dogs i've ever seen that isn't cloyingly cute and precocious br br everything is illuminated eventually puts the holocaust on a human scale asking us to remember it not as a general event but as millions of specific small tragedies reminiscent of a european movie it also ponders the effect of past events on present day young people like jonathan and alex with its original perspective strong performances and some very striking visuals everything is illuminated is great work for a first timer and hopefully schreiber will continue to direct movies
1	this movie reminds me of 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' and state' not because of content but because it is one of those movies that you don't hear about except through word of mouth or you read the back of the dvd at the video store and think why not needless to say i was pleasantly surprised like the aforementioned films at how good it was and how much i enjoyed it br br best seen with little knowledge of the movie and with only intrigue guiding you to actually watch it also best seen with someone else or if you know someone else that has seen it you will want to talk about it it's a beautiful film that stays with you well after you watch it it's also an intelligent watch that requires little effort into figuring out parts for yourself br br just enjoy
1	this is a beautiful yet simple movie about one man driven to find an answer an answer he doesn't necessarily need but has structured his whole life around it is heartrending it is hilarious it is glorious it is tormenting it is delicate and dynamic i say it's genius br br i have read jonathan safran book everything is illuminated mainly because i heard elijah wood was starring in the movie adaptation and i was just enraptured by the characters i laughed out loud more than once and every time someone talks about what it's about i hear the same hackneyed response almost like it's one big long word yet this story is so philosophical it goes deeper than that that conversation about the ring and in case it really gets one thinking suddenly this story merges from a simple quest to an inner metamorphosis and i find myself looking at things a bit differently now br br i recommend renting this before if ever reading it because the book had many obscene downright perverted stories that were not included in the movie mainly the history of jonathan's family that was not necessary for the film br br a bit of trivia i heard is that wood's current girlfriend has a cameo in this flick as the drummer in the band that alex arranges to perform as jonathan steps off the train into ukraine br br you spend half of the movie trying to figure out what it's about exactly and what jonathan is about because his character is so withdrawn like a turtle in a shell br br it is magnificent and in my opinion one of elijah wood's best movies
1	i thought this movie was amazing i was a bit skeptical since i really had no idea what it was about but it was beautiful story i cried a lot and i also laughed out loud br br i think it is very important that there are movies being created that are about the holocaust and how it affects people it only happened 60 years ago i have been to germany and eastern europe and i have studied the holocaust so this film meant a lot to me i think this film did an amazing job capturing this story i wont go into detail i do not want to spoil it but i definitely recommend it for anyone looking for a movie that i know this may sound cliché' but will change your mindset on things
1	this movie was one if not the best movie i've seen in the past year i highly recommend it it starts off as a very funny movie but as the film turns into so much more do yourself a favor and see this film i saw a screener of this movie but i am going to buy it not only for myself but for several true film fans i have the unfortunate feeling this great film will be widely unrecognized as is the case with so many other non commercial films this is a comedic yet heart wrenching movie it will make you laugh it will make you cry it will make you think and yes you will think about it when its over and isn't that what a good movie is
1	i saw this last night and voted it an 8 since then it's grown on me and i'd give it a 9 br br the film has at first a seemingly slightly disconnected facade between the first and second halves the first half is a comedy and there's little hint of the ragged truths of eras life wars religious intolerance that will become revealed in the second half while at first it may be a little disconcerting because it's a slightly unfamiliar narrative sequence on reflection it works br br the acting was good in the role of alex the interpreter was especially great br br i've scanned most other user comments and see that some who've read the book are pleased with the movie while there are a few who are not both feelings of course are valid br br for me a retired family therapist and one world believer the film was relevant on two different levels br br the first as history gave a powerful reminder of how commonly happen with demonizing and trying to exterminate any of those with a different moral value system than our own br br the second was that in demonstrating the first it also revealed something in common to each of us all our families that each of us must go back to our roots to more fully understand ourselves br br t s eliot expressed this exquisitely in the 4th of his four when he said we shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time br br jonathan goes on a fulfilling journey that any of us would find fantastically illuminating to explore and discover our roots what were those people going through then who were they really before when and during the early years before and after we were born etc br br so the film at first gives us the impression of a comedy then shifts to give us a lesson in history and human deficiencies but through all that it also gives us subliminally a message about each of ourselves all of us would be abundantly rewarded to go back and understand the place from which we first started
1	i watched this series after i had seen the naked gun films i found it much better than the films and i thought the films were great this series literally glues you to the television set in anticipation of the next pun sight gag or funny situation the all night wicker place club flamingo i don't think i've ever laughed as hard at a tv series in my life even after seeing the movies first and thus knowing some of the jokes i think its a shame that only six episodes were produced but i agree that the writers would be very hard pressed to maintain this level of comedy for any more episodes overall the series is a must see for those who like puns bad jokes and slapstick sight gags
1	having not read the book i was more open to the fresh interpretation that each director gives to their medium which is film not to the letter of literature on this particular film i was happy that the holocaust that occurred in russia and it's neighboring countries finally received some attention the nazis were particularly cruel to russians and russian jews if you read the histories and see the monuments built in and nearby regions you will understand this movie and why many kept silent when they should've spoken up br br it was certainly time for this to be chronicled and i hope that more stories will come out of this it's high time
1	if you've ever been to ukraine this movie is absolutely hilarious from teenagers wearing gold chains listening to hip hop and break dancing on the side to jokes about air bags in cars and waitresses in total shock over meeting a vegetarian this movie really captures bits and pieces of ukraine that you would never know unless you went there i spent most of the movie nodding my head and thinking yep that's exactly right it's a lot of fun if you understand russian too because the subtitles just don't always do it justice the actors are so believable and elijah wood does a great job playing a socially inept jewish kid my favorite character is definitely sammy davis jr jr the grandfather's seeing eye dog who is really a psychopathic border collie the characters are so eclectic and likable that you believe that they are real people
1	everything is illuminated a young jewish american searches for the woman that helped his grandfather escape nazi persecution while embarking on a cross european tour with some unlikely associates br br liev schreiber makes his directorial debut with a playful angst usually associated with his acting ethos when successful actors decide to sit in the director's chair we usually get a biographical glimpse at the souls beneath the acting mask check we usually get a mishmash of genres check but what we normally do not get is an insightful original film which is credible intelligent and moving br br elijah wood plays jonathan an inquisitive young boy who collects pieces of life as he goes he is on a mission to find a woman in a photograph the sepia picture bears his grandfather an uncanny resemblance to him and the woman to aid his journey he enlists the help of travel guides that comprise of a hip hop loving break dancer alex eugene his apathetic and perma vexed grandfather boris and his dog sammy davis junior jr what ensues is essentially a comedy there is an un patronisingly simple introduction with voice overs alex's is especially funny as he educates his younger brother on the year 1969 proving how popular he is with the chicks and break dancing thus setting him up as jonathan's antithesis br br schreiber begins to break down the characters as they progress and the comedy acts as an intentional veil to what is a story about three people linked to the holocaust who do not really know themselves all three hold the film with tenderness and authenticity something schreiber was unlikely to get wrong and as enchanting and fantastical as the film is the horrors that are allowed to crack through i e the past are presented in an almost palatable tone incidental music cinematography which make them all the more unsettling br br as the unlikely group finally find the town they seek they learn of the true atrocities that occurred and find out a lot about who they really are br br elijah wood is as authentic as usual bringing his usual innocence and strength to the screen formally a resident good in lord of the rings and a resident evil in sin city he plays jonathan with aplomb as he is bombarded with culture shocks and a quest for truth boris as the grandfather also delivers his angst and frustration at the youths with great humour and conviction as his own past is unravelled however it is eugene as alex that makes the show the director using that old trade of translation misunderstandings to create and maintain a humour that is actually funny and not gimmicky br br schreiber has delivered an enchanting debut that has both heart and soul the continuous score and beautiful photography creates a fairy tale haze around a story about identity truth and family if there was a complaint it would be the speed at which the film changes direction though this could have been intentional it may not sit well with all nevertheless this is a sterling effort that delivers great comedy and bonding between an unlikely group while dissecting another aspect of the horrors of world war 2 in a completely fresh fashion br br chi
1	i first saw this movie on an alaska airlines flight and have since seen it twice more it simply is and is simply one of the best films in years i found myself having enjoyed it after my first viewing but a little cloudy on what had happened after seeing it again a few weeks later things began to fall into place it wasn't confusing just deep in fact the depth of the movie may not be appreciated for a long time for example it occurred to me only after my third viewing that sammy davis jr jr grandfather's dog is more than just a pet perhaps she's the stand in for his dead wife witness how fiercely he protects her there is symbolism galore and none of it sappy or indulgent just real the adventure of their trip keeps the story line in perpetual motion and even when they arrive you're not sure if it really was the destination as the movie continues so does the adventure and i got the sense the destination was merely a way point the sound track is fun the scenery compelling and both decidedly eastern block i could go on and on about the deeper meanings within the film but i'm not entirely sure i've discovered all the nuances yet besides it's more fun to tease these out yourself as much as any film can be everything is illuminated has proved to be like a fine wine that with time i highly recommend seeing it twice
1	in america the jewish jonathan safran foer elijah wood collects personal belongings of his family for recollection a few moments before dying his grandmother gives an old photograph of his grandfather with a woman called augustine in ukraine jonathan contacts the odessa heritage tours a family agency in ukraine to guide him to the location where the picture had been taken to find augustine and together with the interpreter alex eugene his grandfather and a weird dog they travel in an old car searching the missing past of jonathan's family br br everything is illuminated is a strange movie about a weird young man with the compulsive behavior of collecting souvenirs from his family to not forget them that seeks the past of his grandfather to understand how could be his life if his grandfather had not moved to usa this bizarre vegetarian character meets a dysfunctional ukrainian family that owns an amateurish travel agency specialized in helping jews to find missing relatives and together they have an almost surrealistic road trip through the country of ukraine the movie begins like a comedy with a sarcastic black humor and ends in a touching and tragic drama recommended for specific audiences my vote is seven br br title brazil uma vida an illuminated life
1	spoilers a jewish frodo yep that'll be elijah wood again br br ever since the concluding part of lord of the rings elijah wood as frodo has found it increasingly difficult to get away from that major role playing a football hooligan a psychopath and now a young jewish american wood has tried any route he can to escape this typecasting now with everything is illuminated he might finally have achieved this playing a role which isn't as radical as other efforts he truly gets to the soul of his character still it isn't like wood does this alone aided by a magnificent adaptation by first time directer liev schreiber and a wonderful performance by newcomer eugene wood has found a magnificent production to spread his wings everything is illuminated is a magnificent moving piece of cinema br br jonathan safran foer wood a young american jew sets out to the ukraine to find the mysterious girl who rescued his grandfather and helped him get to america arriving in the country jonathan meets the all talking all dancing alex and his racist grandfather boris travelling across the country the three slowly learn more and more about the history and relations that alex and jonathan never knew existed br br it's a strange feeling when the film progresses into it's second chapter it is actually divided into four overall the first part whilst occasionally a bit funny is mostly serious and intense so when we are given a brief history of alex and his family in the second part to switch from serious to hilarious is a weird step it doesn't quite work but as the film progresses it definitely learns it's lesson as this mix of humour and sadness merges finer as time passes br br to the ultimate credit of everyone involved as the story does continue so do we begin to fall for the characters more and more elijah wood is magnificent boris is so intense and strong that it raises questions why hollywood has never properly noticed him most notable of all however is newcomer eugene playing an intensely troubled character is absolutely brilliant he shows the split between his relatives and the real world with almost perfect skill and when his character is communicating with wood you genuinely connect with him on a deeper level without the story is so strong that the film would still be magnificent but with him it hits the next level br br as a debut work for actor turned director liev schreiber the story is also a brilliant piece to start a work of passion grandfather himself an immigrant to america he manages to truly embrace the emotion of the content and by presenting us with some truly beautiful scenery and some magnificent shots he manages to really hit home the final half hour in particular is so beautifully created that it's a challenge for a tear not to form in any viewers eye it is a moving story and with help it becomes even more powerful br br constructed with love from a passionate director everything is illuminated is a beautiful piece a road story with a difference it is magnificently acted and wonderfully written it's a film that everyone should see and it is the perfect way for elijah wood to finally lay frodo to rest
1	i really liked this movie but the ads i saw implied and one published review actually said that this movie benefits from a light touch that to me is very misleading br br there is indeed plenty of humor eccentric un subtle sometimes somewhat twisted humor the kind of humor i generally find very appealing indeed but most of the humor is the kind that appears conscious at all times of things deeply serious deeply sensitive even deeply painful the movie weaves together themes of past and present perception and truth memory and activity life and death the entire movie is suffused by the history of european anti in general and of the holocaust in particular br br how can humor and horror be combined in the same movie the review i saw suggested that the humor is absurdist i don't think this is the case at all at least not in the common sense instead i think this movie stands in the tradition of much jewish yiddish literature and theatre i don't claim to be any kind of expert in this area but from what i've seen humor is used in this cultural context both as a coping tool for the horribly tragic experiences of this people and also humor is used as a means of recovering the divine for men and women who choose a path of faith rather than a path of either despair or absurdism see fiddler on the roof for humor used in both ways in this rich tradition br br elijah wood jonathon wood wears horn rimmed glasses that really make him look well strange compare sin city when he wore the same kinds of glasses with chilling effect in this movie it's easy to see how the glasses become a metaphor for both his search and for his struggle between perception and truth eugene young alex and boris old alex are both really just wonderful jonathon and young alex are from the same generation yet seem so very very different and then find that they are not so different after all and the way in which the apparent narrative voice changes gradually from that of jonathon to that of young alex as a journey of intended discovery for jonathon becomes one of discovery for both young alex and old alex is to me so very moving br br there are some wonderful scenes and panoramas from i'm told prague and environs standing in for the ukraine of the story line all feels very authentic and seems to give a wonderful sense of place although i've never been myself to the ukraine and can hardly testify to this from first hand experience br br all in all if you're looking for light comedy i would not recommend this movie at all on the other hand if you are interested in a wonderful delightful and deeply moving film please check out this wonderful movie
1	2005 was one of the best year for movies we had so many wonderful movies like batman begins sin city corpse bride a history of violence coming up we also got brokeback mountain king kong but if this year the only great movie that came out was everything is illuminated then we wouldn't miss all this year has brought the first movie as a director of the talented liev schreiber is a delightful heart warming touching drama that also brings one of elijah wood's best roles he is perfect as jonathan a curious man that heads for ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather in world war ii liev schreiber who also writes the movie conducts a masterpiece with memorable scenes and a lot of funny quotes this here is a genuine mixture of comedy with drama bringing a movie that will be commented years from now a serious oscar contender everything is illuminated is a powerful original and why not say illuminated movie but there's one thing you should remember while entering the movie leave normal behind this is special 9 10
1	what an original piece of work i've always enjoyed liev schreiber the actor but now one must appreciate the man on a multi dimensional level how did he get that field of was it it sure looked real and how do you audition a dog knowing you are going to get that kind of performance does the academy have a category for animals i guess what i'm saying is that i really really enjoyed this quirky offbeat little indie film from the excellent cast one would never know eugene was not a pro actor to the cinematographer some beautiful shots the music bought the cd when exiting the theater and of course the two d's direction and the dog all in all a 10 br br
1	everything is illuminated is a simplified interpretation of something more than half of the jonathan safran foer novel this version is more about changes in eastern europe from world war ii through post cold war and how the younger generation relates to that history as a family memory br br debut director adapter liev schreiber retains some of the humor and language clashes of the novel mostly through the marvelous eugene as the u s beguiled ukrainian tour guide he is so eye catching that the film becomes more his odyssey into his country and his family as he goes from his comfortable milieu in sophisticated odessa to the heart of a cynical isolated land that has been ravaged by through the communists and now capitalists with both jews and non jews as detritus as funny as his opening scenes are when he establishes his cheeky bravura we later feel his fish out of in his own country when he tries to ask directions of local yokels br br uses elijah wood as the american tourist as an up tight cog in a visual panoply as his character is less verbal than as one of the narrators in the book he and play off each other well until the conclusion that becomes more sentimental in this streamlined plot once the grandfather's story takes over in the last quarter of the film marvelously and unpredictably enacted by boris the younger generation does not seem to undergo any catharsis as they just tidy up the closure br br schreiber does a wonderful job visualizing the human urge to document history one of his consultants in the credits is professor and her style of remembering pre holocaust life through artifacts clearly inspired the look and it is very powerful and effective br br the czech republic stands in for the ukraine and the production design staff were able to find memorable symbols of change in the cities towns and countryside as this is now primarily a road movie and the long driving scenes do drag a bit schreiber retains some of the symbolism from the book particularly of the moon and river but having cut out the portions of the book that explain those they just look pretty or ominous for atmosphere and no longer represent time and fate br br as w c fields would have predicted the dog steals most of his scenes for easy laughs in general schreiber does go for more poignancy than the book it is irresistibly touching especially for those who haven't read the book but less morally and emotionally messy br br the film is enormously uplifted by its marvelous soundtrack which ranges from songs and from gypsy band to traditional tunes to contemporary tracks to paul fusion score br br this is not a holocaust film per se being a kind of mirror image of the train of life train de vie as about memory of a time that is freighted with meaning now but will resonate more with those who have an emotional connection to that history
1	the creative team that brought us police squad and the naked gun derived from it said in interview that they were told by their network contact that the show would be canceled after their delivery of the first episode basically the show was never given any chance typical hollywood the contact apparently told the team that the problem with the show was that for the show to be funny the viewer would actually need to watch it most shows are presented on tv with the understanding that the viewer needed to get up and miss a few minutes while getting food or going to the toilet etc br br the humor of the show is extremely dry it uses no laugh track and the universe the characters inhabit is one in which anything can happen regardless of logic as long as it was totally unbelievable so for instance in one episode a surgeon has to bribe an informant on the street in order to get a tip on heart surgery br br those familiar with the naked gun films should be warned that there are a number of interesting between the show and the films in the films nielsen developed a particular take approach that is eyes widened when confronted with the unexpected this doesn't happen in the show where nielsen's is the center around which the rest of the universe revolves nothing is unexpected to him also there are no romances in the show and no parodies of mtv finally the show takes certain risks that the films avoid in the first episode to re enact the crime has a squad of homicide detectives shoot each other from a number of different angles the hard way this is actually a risky bit of humor since we need to accept that it's perfectly normal for policemen to kill each other while investigating a crime for no other reason than experimentation this sort of thing rarely happens in the films br br taken individually each of the episodes is actually funnier than any one of the naked gun films since they are both more compact more happens in a shorter time frame yet more leisurely paced there's not the rush for a punch line as sometimes happens in the films there are some inconsistencies that happen in the films primarily 2 and 3 that never occur in the show's shorter time frame br br of course there's no doubt that naked gun the first film is one of the great comedies of theatrical cinema and if you watch the tv show episode after episode in one sitting the dry quality of the humor might wear away one's tolerance br br none the less it would be useful to have a dvd of this and watch an episode a day for a few weeks if laughter has as some claim medicinal value watching this show is good for one's health
1	actor turned director liev schreiber the sum of all fears does an above average screen version of the novel everything is illuminated by author jonathan safran foer this tale of journey and self discovery is highlighted by strong ensemble performances and sharp direction with a storyline that enriches and enlightens the soul br br jonathan foer elijah wood is a young man who has seen his grandfather safran pass away jonathan has a peculiar habit of taking small objects and life's little memorabilia and sealing them in plastic bags to display them on his wall safran gives jonathan an old picture showing a young safran standing next to a beautiful girl who saved his life many years ago thus jonathan commences on a long journey to locate this mystery woman in the ukraine not knowing if she is still alive he enlists the help of a brash young tour guide named alex eugene and his grandfather boris to drive him to his goal at first the trip hits dead ends and false leads but as the group nears its target the men find themselves amid the ruins of a dark chapter in history with the memories of war and the past ghosts of a nonexistent town there they find their own respective destinies and will be forever changed by what they learn br br this film feels like it was directed by someone who knew how to get the most from his actors at times the film is spoken in russian and seems like a foreign film the title itself is a play on self discovery this is a thoughtful trek of one man into his past and his past ironically involves his companions jonathan's obsessive journey becomes an emotional journey for alex and his grandfather as well it's a tale of bonding over the long haul and the guilt one must carry for a lifetime by the end of the film these characters have all experienced life altering events that will permanently intertwine their lives it proves that memories can be powerful in traumatizing and also cleansing the soul it's also about one's legacy and how others view an event or a person in the past alex eventually sees his grandfather in a completely different light even our perception of these individuals will have changed by film's end which is a tribute to a story that is well told br br the story is deceptively simple it functions as a road trip movie like the straight story combined with an interesting mystery story it really involves a great many layers of emotions and subplots that range from the past to the present the ending is a bit surreal with its déjà vu feeling br br elijah wood sin city the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind has chosen a wide range of roles ever since his splash in the lord of the rings trilogy here he does a fine job with what is essentially a minimalist role with not much to show eugene and boris fare better as alex and his grandfather respectively even the grandfather's dog named sammy davis jr jr that's right is funny as a fiercely loyal companion br br the spare music score by paul is a moody compliment to the thoughtful nature of the film the editing is effective as imagery from past and present are linked and transitioned effortlessly the cinematography by matthew gothika requiem for a dream is appropriately stark and lifeless with some impressive images of war and its aftermath br br the coincidences that emerge during the last half of the film make for good drama but are a little too coincidental we never fully understand the whole background story of alex's grandfather and what his motivations are likewise jonathan's blank stares and lack of apparent substance and depth do not give us much more than a sketch of a quirky man at times the film feels a little downbeat and depressing as more horrific revelations are exposed but these are minor criticisms of what is a good introspective story with good performances and interesting themes of remembrance and closure that schreiber not only directed but adapted the screenplay to this worthwhile slice of history is a tribute to his talents and promising potential in the future
1	if anyone has any doubts about the talent of liev schrieber just a look at his new film everything is illuminated which clearly shows a man that is not only one of america's finest actors but a new director whose first effort is indeed an inspiration and a harbinger of what is to follow mr schreiber has adapted the novel by jonathan safran foer into a film that will live forever because of the way the director has adapted the material the film clearly surpassed our expectations since we had no preconceived ideas br br for those who haven't watched the film perhaps you should stop reading here br br jonathan is a collector his love for his grandparents is boundless he watches as his grandfather dies and as his grandmother is on what appears to be her death bed on a clear moment this dying woman gives jonathan a picture and an amber ornament for his collection watching the photograph taken a long time ago a young couple are seen together watching makes jonathan think it shows the grandfather and his girlfriend taken on happier times watching the snapshot seems to be the motivation for this intense young man to go looking for his ancestors' past in the ukraine br br jonathan has made arrangements with a travel agency heritage tours of odessa for his trip to the mythical place where his grandfather came from the agency is handled by an older man who claims to be blind and his grandson alex a man who loves the pop american culture that has captured his imagination as well as his contemporaries in the country alex speaks a kind of english no one speaks and his conversation and translation for jonathan's benefit are hilarious to our ear for the use of sometimes unheard english terms the old man insists in taking his dog sammy davis jr against the wishes of jonathan who doesn't want to sit next to the snarling and barking animal during the trip br br as they embark in search of it's clearly that his companions especially the old man has no clue where he is going at this point the film becomes a road movie as the three characters riding the back roads of the country become more acquainted with one another as the trio arrive at the sunflower field with the house at the end it indicates they have indeed come to the right place some places are a clear reminder of the conflicts of the past br br the older woman living in the isolated place is the missing link of the story she is able to put things into the right perspective but here is where the story changes its emphasis from jonathan who clearly has come to the land of his ancestors to the old man we watch as this older man starts remembering things about himself this in turn changes the dynamic of the film as we discover how connected jonathan and his guides have been all the time br br some criticism in these pages have expressed opinions about the accuracy of the story which after all it's a work of fiction and liberties have been taken it would have been impossible to make another film including so much that is contained in the book the great way the film is divided into different chapters is a clever way to let the viewer know what's about to be seen br br elijah wood a magnificent film actor does an excellent work by underplaying jonathan mr wood makes one of his best appearances in any film with his interpretation of the main character the casting of eugene as alex the ukranian tour assistant and translator seems to be an idea made in heaven mr is about the best thing in the film his arcane usage of english gives the film a funny angle that delights the viewer boris as alex's grandfather and driver of the tour car makes a valuable contribution to the film as well as who is seen in the last part of the movie br br the excellent cinematography of matthew brings the splendor of the czech republic's countryside in all its magnificence the musical score by paul is heard in the background adorning the film in ways that it adds a richness to the movie br br above all this is a triumph for liev schreiber the first time director that will surely go far in whatever he decides to do next
1	this is precious everything is illuminated is sweetly and sublimely funny from the first delicious line of dialogue oh how i've been waiting for this to arrive in austin while elijah wood is charming as ever as jonathan safran foer the real life author of the novel everything is illuminated it's eugene playing jonathan's ukrainian tour guide and translator alex who truly steals this film alex is a hip hop lovin' ukrainian break dancer who along with his grandfather helps jonathan find the woman who saved jonathan's grandfather's life during world war ii the ukrainian countryside has never looked so breath taking i'm thinking of packing it all up and moving to the former soviet state br br the tone of the film however shifts when jonathan and alex do finally meet the woman they're looking for and suddenly this adorable comedy turns into a heart breaking historical drama about a jewish village that was annihilated during the nazi occupation everything is illuminated is about history heritage and the wisdom that can be gained from uncovering the past it's perfect
1	i just saw everything is illuminated at the film festival this is a truly remarkable film very emotional funny at times and heart warming bring your handkerchiefs for those of you who enjoy a movie that brings tears to your eyes i'm reminded of the endings of babette's feast and the notebook the stories were completely different but had that same emotional power to bring tears to my eyes just as this film did br br no spoilers here the summary is as imdb describes a young man's journey to the ukraine to follow his roots and find the village where his father grew up br br the dialog is in english and ukrainian and russian too i believe this allows for some wonderfully linguistically based moments as one character interprets more or less faithfully for the english speaker in the group depending on the circumstances br br the scenery is wonderful and the musical score is a treat with wonderful eastern european influences be sure you stay through the credits for the final tune br br this is directorial debut and is well done i give this film a 9 one of the best films i've seen in a long time i recommend it highly
1	in everything is illuminated elijah wood plays jonathan foer a jewish american who is looking for the woman who saved his grandfather during wwii in a sense the woman that saved his entire family br br this is a heart felt tale about someone who is on a seemingly hopeless journey a stranger in a strange land so to speak jonathan is not entirely prepared for this adventure he sticks out like a sore thumb in the ukraine he would probably stick out like a sore thumb anywhere but what he discovers is more much more than he anticipated this movie will make you laugh and will make you cry elijah wood is really good in this film based on the novel by jonathan safran foer br br from someone i talked to this movie is somewhat different from the book a book i gather is really good nevertheless this is a good movie it has something for everyone and i really enjoyed it can someone say oscar
1	i walked into the movie theater with no expectations for the film i was about to witness everything is illuminated i walked out with a joy i have barely come to feel with american films the directorial debut of actor schreiber the film follows a man on his journey through the past accompanied by an eccentric group including a brake dancing barely english speaking punk from the his grandfather who believes he is blind and their crazy dog the first half of the film is funny and smart with an extremely european flavor in the usage of small but wonderful characters while the second half of the film descends into a somber story of discovery and the holocaust this little movie brings out so many emotions and so many colors with such a wonderful conclusion and is more than just a story of illumination but also of relationships and connections the acting is incredibly powerful the story mysterious and interesting and the artistic appeal of the cinematography to die for with some brilliant and absolutely touching scenes everything is illuminated managed to capture my heart
1	i saw this movie at the 2005 toronto international film festival br br based on the novel by jonathan safran foer everything is illuminated is the directorial debut of actor liev schreiber schreiber also wrote the screenplay in the movie jonathan elijah wood obsessively collects items from his family from toothbrushes to to scraps of paper which he then seals in ziploc bags and pins to a wall in his house to record his family history but the space for his grandfather is conspicuously bare all jonathan really has of him is a piece of jewelry and an old photo of him with a woman who hid him from the nazis during the second world war jonathan decides to undertake a quest to ukraine to find the woman thank her and learn more about his grandfather br br his quest is aided there by a couple of characters who run a tourist company for jewish people including a young man obsessed with western culture eugene his grandfather boris who thinks he is blind and who may have memories and demons of his own from the war and his grandfather's temperamental seeing eye dog br br the screenplay effectively combines both humour and drama as the three characters travel through the countryside looking for jonathan's grandfather's town driving deeper and deeper into the memories of the past the best performance probably comes from eugene playing alex jr who starts the movie as a wearing break dancing slacker just out to have fun but evolves into something more as not only jonathan but all the characters gain their own illumination br br liev schreiber elijah wood and eugene attended the screening and did a very humorous q a after the film br br schreiber was very close to his grandfather who was a ukranian immigrant and who died in 1993 this caused him to start to write to get his memories down on paper meanwhile he was asked to do a reading of short story the very rigid search which was an excerpt from the still unpublished novel schreiber was blown away by the quality of the writing saying that foer had done in 15 pages what schreiber tried to do in 107 schreiber approached foer and they talked about their grandfathers culture movies and the nature of short term memory in america in the end foer agreed to let schreiber adapt the book br br own project was intended to be a road movie but the book has parallel narrative that is an imagined chronological history of the town of that spans 500 years given his budget and limitations as a filmmaker he said he'd leave that to milos forman and take the road trip instead this imagined chronology was what moved him to make the movie in the first place the idea that a past lovingly imagined was as valuable as a past accurately recalled br br schreiber said the movie was a series of happy accidents after searching unsuccessfully in ukraine for an actor he was walking through the lower east side in new york when he saw a poster of a woman centaur topless from the waist up with an insane sitting astride her under the poster said the name gogol bordello ukranian punk gypsy band br br eugene then took over the story he had never pursued acting as music was his first passion one day a friend gave him the book and he thought it was written in a manner similar to how he writes music screw sentences syntax language is my own br br later they got a call from a production company looking for eastern european music that was medieval but modern met with schreiber and he soon found the movie was based on the book he just happened to be reading not long after that came up schreiber asked what he thought about alex and whether he could do the character by any chance br br foer and schreiber talked about the film in the fall of 2001 shortly after the events of september 11 both were in europe at the time and they talked about the derogatory comments they were hearing about americans which led schreiber to want to try to find an articulate american who would defy the stereotype that europeans have of americans someone who was awkward vulnerable flawed innocent and looking for history beyond the borders of his own country schreiber started thinking about who that was and elijah came up br br one of inspirations as a filmmaker is emir kusturica i think that's who he said who also directed a segment in another festival movie all the invisible children who said you don't look for the actors you look for the people schreiber said there is something about who elijah is that he has a generosity of spirit and a sincere goodness as a human being that came across on film schreiber said that the eyes are important when trying to articulate a character who is an observer and that if eyes are the doors to the soul are garage doors br br elijah wood had fun with a question about the similarities between his character kevin in sin city and jonathan in this movie as both are sort of a blank slate on which emotions are projected wood replied that jonathan may seem still and seemingly emotionless but it is all about his observations about his experiences with other characters and the environment he was in br br on the differences between directing and writing schreiber said he likes writing a lot more and jokingly described directing as hell after his grandfather died schreiber started to think about how to preserve some sense of history and himself is he content driven or not or just good at interpreting other people's work he said he loved the exercise of figuring out what is emotional to you important to you
1	japan takes the best from around the world and makes it their own while that may be true it applies to all except for one thing that being major league baseball but not to worry mr baseball is there to try and change all that but just who will change whom is the part of the movie that really makes it rock tom selleck is one of my favorite actors and really shines on in his comedic roles the storyline may be true to life however the subplot is dead on the japanese people are a gentle respectful people with ways and traditions very different than those of western society all of these elements and obstacles combine to make for one truly enjoyable funny film it's definitely worth the watch
1	you have to like baseball and you have to at least sort of like tom selleck but if you meet those criteria you should thoroughly enjoy this movie selleck plays former major league star who finds himself traded to japan as his career winds down really well thought out and fascinating look at japanese customs and behavior great supporting performances by manager japan's clint eastwood his girl friend and his interpreter the chemistry between selleck and works very very well this is really a very nice romantic movie apart from the baseball look for haysbert as fellow player well before he became a persistent shill for movie wraps up very nicely easily in my top fifty all time movies and maybe my favorite one on baseball
1	this film got less attention than league of their own possibly because it has only one name star but whereas women's professional baseball had only an eight year midwestern town existence japanese baseball is a vastly bigger entity both in financial and popular support that alone would make it the better movie br br mr baseball shows the facts of life of japan ball the regimented cheering the deference to the pressure of corporate owners on managers the extreme conservatism of play and no hot dog players welcome br br it also touches upon the isolation that any jin but especially an american jock not the people most versed in foreign cultures feels living in dai nippon and the japanese for their part are not comfortable around foreigners and let it show in various ways the jin strike zone one american player complains bigger than a buick br br the script may not have won any awards playing once again on the redemption by improved play theme but i found it considerably more enjoyable to watch than the pokey league definitely recommended for those who want to see another angle on this great sport
1	extremely funny more gags in each one of these episodes than in ten years of friends and with a good ie funny not the fab only casted oj simpson in the movies when will these episodes emerge on dvd
1	mr baseball was a fun video rental with my fiancé susan susan said that she had been looking forward to seeing the movie ken oda as a tough yet honorable manager makes sense ken has made so many wonderful asian movies i correct the one reviewer and say is still a cinematic presence with films like of course everyone likes tom selleck yet ken is the better dramatic actor of the two today someone accused me of being yakuza well i say that my great uncle shadow president jack f kennedy myself and others are part of the legitimate human leadership in our universe and thanks to our humans are free people fighting all the parts of adversity that president kennedy talked about in his inaugural address to be honest someone has kept food prices very low in canada on things like bread in honor of our please stop eating amphibians reptiles and eggs i hope that there will one day be a sequel to mr baseball with father ken oda still as manager thank you to imdb for supporting freedom of speech like the kind president george w bush and i support support imdb
1	i am very impressed by the reviews i've read of this film generally well read thoughtful and informed obviously by people who like and think hard about films i couldn't add a thing to the excellent reviewing job that imdb members have already done if i may i'd like to correct a small but widespread misunderstanding that appears in many of the reviews mr baseball was american and behaved in an ugly fashion but he was not an ugly american the original ugly american was homer atkins one of the heroes of the eponymous 1958 novel by and lederer and the exact opposite of mr baseball homer was an archetypal american and an archetypal engineer he went to vietnam to work with people he respected and liked the people he met he used appropriate sustainable technology in cooperation with his hosts and he was liked and respected by them precisely because he exemplified democratic values and american virtues his ugliness was purely facial merely skin deep his personality and his humanity were deep and genuine br br mr baseball exemplifies all the crass ignorant insecure that we europeans and americans so often inflict on other cultures homer atkins the ugly american was the other side of our coin representing our humanity and decency i believe that the ugly americans still far outnumber the mr baseballs they are still our last best hope
1	an egotistic major league baseball player is forced to continue his career in japan he contends with a culture that is alien to him an apparently humorless manager an attractive japanese woman and his own professional and social insecurities there is a certain subtle charm that flows through tom performances there is humor sometimes softly understated as in this film sometimes slapstick as in folks but always there seems to be some higher purpose involved throw in an individual full of self doubts who struggles to solve his personal difficulties while holding fast to doing the right thing and you end up with a film both funny as well as thought provoking the cast fits together like a championship team and even if neither cast nor film win awards for their efforts they will leave the viewers feeling good and maybe that's the best results after all you'll want to watch this film more than once and each time mr baseball hits a home run
1	i really enjoyed this movie in my dvd collection of baseball movies reminded me how great the sport truly is whether it's here in america or japan
1	i am an australian currently living in japan i saw this movie on tv here and was very impressed by the accuracy and honesty in the portrayal of western and japanese ideologies colliding whoever wrote the screenplay and directed this film must have a good knowledge of what it's like to be a foreigner living in japan the only part i thought was too hollywood y was when tom character kisses the woman in the middle of her office and she lets him public displays of affection are not really acceptable here finally a movie that highlights the true experience 9 10
1	not too many people seem to know about this movie which is too bad because i think it's pretty good sure it is a bit cheesy at times and may have a predictable storyline but the presentation of the movie is pretty well done i think the casting is good with likeable actors characters tom selleck does a good job at playing a baseball player go figure not too much of a stretch i suppose and ken from black rain plays the chief the coach of the japanese baseball team there isn't too much to complain about it's just a light easy going happy comedy and i recommend it
1	minor spoilers i just wanted to say that for anyone who likes entertaining baseball films this is definitely in my top three only little big league and major league can compete with this one in my mind i would also like to commend the writers of this film for creating such enjoyable dialogue without being too specific i would say that the lines are very fitting for each character tom selleck seemed to have no problem creating a realistic character as a ballplayer his animosity towards playing overseas in japan sets the tone for comical yet meaningful interactions with his new team the dragons he must adjust to life in japan first you wash then you bathe he eventually sees eye to eye with his coach and sets his goals to have that one final season of greatness though in a much different environment than he ever imagined so for any baseball fan or anybody that wants to watch a good baseball movie mr baseball will not let you down
1	this is an excellent little known movie tom selleck does an outstanding job of acting in this movie with the japanese i'd love to see if this movie has come out on dvd yet there are some spots that clearly have been cut tom's love interest has clearly had some parts chopped it would be interesting to see more of japan in the film the baseball sequences are far and away the most realistic of any baseball movie i'm quite sure most of the actors were current or former baseball players i love loading the tape of this movie at least once a year best scenes involve the lack of hat tipping after tom gets in the big game and an intensely sensual scene of tom having a hot bath with dennis haysbert also does a great job it's good to see he's finally getting some recognition not just in baseball movies he was also in major league
1	this has always been a favorite movie of mine i've owned a vhs copy and a couple of months ago i found a dvd release which is also part of my video collection i also happen to be a huge baseball fan and as part of my off season reading i picked up a copy of robert excellent book you gotta have wa that profiles the ins and outs of japanese baseball and the challenges that foreign players have encountered playing in japan as i began to read yesterday it made me think of this movie because it appears the screenplay was based almost verbatim on this book the parallels are uncanny the jack elliot character closely resembles bob horner an aging slugger whose best days were behind him horner's teammate leon lee is also depicted in the character max hammer dubois a veteran in the japanese league who has made his peace with the frustrations of the japanese game and helps keeps his teammate sane the elliot character goes through the same sequence of encounters as horner from big fanfare signing early success that fuels an already ravenous sports media and the ensuing slump that spurs frustration alienation from teammates fans and media and the resulting disillusionment that prompts a desire to go back home to the us the only difference is that the movie adds such hollywood touches as a love interest and a happy ending br br speaking of love interests i'm sure many viewers have come to this site as i did to look up the actress who played the beautiful aya and what other work she has done it only lists this movie it turns out based on an article i read that the brief love scene she has with tom selleck a foreigner in this movie mild by our standards basically they kiss while he's in the bath and she's wearing a towel caused such an outrage on the part of the japanese public males in particular that she has never been offered another role of any kind in movies or television essentially blackballed by the japanese movie industry it's a real shame as she is was quite a talented actress in this movie br br if you like this movie as much for the baseball elements and cultural differences as i did go find a copy of you gotta have wa by robert whiting a good read and a great companion book to this movie
1	many believe this movie is a baseball movie such people are disappointed because it's about a baseball player but the movie isn't about baseball br br some think this movie is a romantic comedy and are disappointed because the relationship isn't really developed this movie is not a romantic comedy br br this movie is about culture an arrogant american major and a stern traditional japanese baseball manager cannot succeed because they can't indeed won't understand one another it's after they manage to break through the cultural barrier that they have success the ballplayer becomes more japanese in his team mentality and the manager more american in allowing individual achievement and they meet in the middle br br baseball and the romance is subordinate to this critique of the two cultures many who have no understanding of the japanese mindset miss this and think it's a movie on baseball or romance and see the culture clash as mild comedy relief it's not the culture clash is the of the movie based on my own experience and understanding of the japanese culture i think this movie did quite well in that it didn't overly romanticize the japanese culture nor overdo it in its portrayal br br overall i believe this is an enjoyable and relaxing movie if one understands what it is really about
1	to say that this is a good show is not to say anything at all after all this show is made by the same crew responsible for airplane and other hilarious and brilliant movies writing is superb even though the show is built on one liners they don't become overbearing or annoying leslie nielsen is flexing his comedy muscle to the full extent as if saying you ain't seen nothing yet the format was definitely polished to introduce naked gun when watching these movies notice how many are taken from the tv show the brilliant part is that they don't have to be changed too much the show was truly a testing ground for bigger and better versions to come later
1	redo the oscars from 1992 and this film might get nominated or even win it was so good at capturing its era and dual cultures that it belongs in american and japanese time capsules if you wanted to know what living here or there was like back then this film will show you as an american you'll feel like you tagged along for an extended japanese vacation and by the end of the film you'll be a die hard dragons fan as you accept the injection of japanese tradition and culture into their baseball much as we have done with our culture in our own game br br jack elliot tom selleck is a slumping aging detroit slugger who is traded to the dragons perennial runners up to the dynastic giants japan's answer to the yankees the giants are admired for their success yet that success also has everyone wanting to surpass them something which is rarely done the manager recruits jack as the final piece of the pennant winning puzzle and we're left with what could have been gung ho on a baseball field but instead was much more br br the casting was outstanding selleck proved that with a good script and a character that suits him he can carry a film as well as he did his television show and the japanese cast was equally good down to mr from die hard back as the image conscious owner the other actors including the one who plays the love interest also the manager's daughter strong and independent yet simultaneously a believer in japanese traditions beyond what was forced on her she is a proper and supportive girlfriend for jack even her father never tells her not to see him almost sympathizing with jack for what he endures from her and a bit relieved he at least knows the man she has chosen to love br br the baseball scenes are great bolstered immensely by a pre fame dennis haysbert as another american ex and jack's western mentor the usual fish out of water elements are there and you can almost feel yourself stumbling right along with jack to fit into a country that doesn't speak our language and doesn't practice our ways yet copies everything we do including our national pastime one of the funnier scenes occurs when jack clutching a magazine informs his manager that he has learned of the tradition in japan where you can get drunk and tell off your boss and it can't be used against you and exercises that right very humorously the plots and subplots are tied up neatly at the end but not too neatly and nothing concludes unrealistically br br to call this a comedy is misguided it's a pure comedy drama or even a drama with good humor the plot is too deep to dismiss it the way it was by critics as an actor out of his league trying to carry a lightweight film the situations were amusing but in their place against a far more serious profound and precisely detailed backdrop that results in one of the best films i've ever seen the baseball cinematography rivals that of for love of the game for realism br br some say the film is about baseball or about japan but more than anything it seems to be about the workplace and how people arrive at work from totally different origins with different agendas and somehow have to put their differences aside for the good of the company or the team br br a truly great film that never should have had to apologize for itself the way it did when it was in theaters
1	i liked this movie not because tom selleck was in it but because it was a good story about baseball and it also had a semi over dramatized view of some of the issues that a baseball player coming to the end of their time in major league sports must face i also greatly enjoyed the cultural differences in american and japanese baseball and the small facts on how the games are played differently br br overall it is a good movie to watch on cable tv or rent on a cold winter's night and watch about the dog day's of summer and know that spring training is only a few months away a good movie for a baseball fan as well as a good date movie … trust me on that one wink
1	i agree with the guy above it is so funny i understand it all but my friends just don't get it go to japan and you will see a different movie after being there when i met my girlfriends dad at his home in i swear i felt the same as jack scared but by the end of the day it was all good so i give this movie a 10 out 10 br br i have watched it at least 30 times taking it with me to watch on the plane flying to japan next month one thing that is real good is the ball game scenes makes me feel like i am there again this is a must see if you have any interest in japan and baseball too bad they don't make a sequel does anyone know where the temple scenes were filmed and the argument with in the with a roof on it need to know so i can win an with me japanese ex wife thanks
1	you have to have lived in japan for awhile to enjoy the beauty of this movie i lived on okinawa for over 2 years and northern for 4 believe it or not what you see paints a very good and accurate picture of contrasting east west mentalities both from a sports as well as personal relationships perspective a funny funny and heartwarming movie that deserves better than americans viewing it can ever judge 8 out of 10
1	i agree with this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in 1993 tom selleck does a fantastic job here as always and the movie is greatly humorous and educational i'm a big fan of tom and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part bringing the film to life in a way i can't imagine any other actor being able to pull off br br this film featured some first rate japanese actors and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie japan's an awesome place to go whether you want to party sight see or just try to take everything in
1	mr baseball is a film of paradoxes written and filmed as a light sports comedy it truly has a heartwarming core as human and universal as some of capra's finest at the plot level you have the paradox of baseball a fine old american game as it is played in japan turned around with american values cast off and japanese values imprinted upon the game some of the superficial sports comedy results from jack's uncomprehending disbelief at how is played in japan you also have a lead character who's presented as an over the hill aging baseball star but who is actually quite immature pro ball allowed him to postpone growing up and you have a lead character who is rudely resistant to the changes in his life that are being forced upon him refusing to accept the that life has given him in the midst of a new country a new manager a new team and a new girlfriend who have all welcomed him and try to accept him sound like heavy stuff not really it's a charming clash of cultures comedy that takes place on the national sports romantic and professional levels but if you watch it sensitively enough you will also find a great story about a man who has to abandon his immaturity and grow up way too late in life causing some amount of personal pain and finds success in places he never expected it i love the story but i also have great respect for performance he bares his tush literally to portray an ugly american insulting people and throwing tantrums in public then lets us inside this character to understand his dismay it also doesn't hurt if you're a big fan of ken like i am mr baseball is a surprising loss of innocence tale
1	a lot of the comments seem to treat this film as a baseball movie but i feel this is only secondary it's really about living in japan and it really succeeds br br i spent a few years living in japan and i suppose the reason that this movie didn't do too well is that you sort of have to have experienced japan to get it i was watching this with a well travelled friend who's never been to japan and he noted that many of the events in the movie were so ludicrous that they destroyed the suspension of disbelief my reply was that those events were the absolute unvarnished truth about life in japan br br i think that this movie is definitely worth watching especially if you've lived in japan or are interested in it
1	i really liked this one spoilers it had a really good plot the main female in this movie is really kewl br br despite the fact that she's the only one left alive and her lover dead it seemed to be much like ninja scroll another kick ass movie br br watch it in japanese with subtitles i don't know where the idiots who learned to speak english are but for some reason all dubs get an f in translation techniques the subtitles are more correct br br 9 10 br br quality 7 10 entertainment 10 10 replayable 9 10
1	after reading more than my fair share of reviews for a vast number of different movies i have noticed a certain trend people judge to harshly on what the expected to see i figure if you go into a movie open minded not expecting anything certain than you will have better feelings towards it then if you try and watch but have pre created standards you want it to reach br br since i try not to be hypocritical i watched this movie with a very clean slate and open mind and was very much pleased since it is not a mainstream title or award winning for that matter i did not know quite what to expect but in all truth i enjoyed it a good deal more than ninja scroll lovely animation deep story and the always joyful ninja hack n slashing combined extremely well to one of my personal favorite animes ever made br br i am not promising that you will enjoy it but just give it a chance and you may come out with a pleasant surprise br br before speaking be sure of what you will say will be more beautiful than the silence chinese proverb
1	after having spent a lot of my youth watching such movies i found this one very easy to follow in both the unedited and cut versions although the story has much more to hold it together in the unedited version unlike ninja scroll this movie hit a much more serious note and i think that's where it hit me the animation while grainy is very original and i just love the way artists in that year stressed shadows to show different emotions i think the story is perfect the beginning of the movie really hits hard and as the movie progresses you get the feeling that you're going along in this adventure with the characters as they meet become allies and find out the their greatest strengths a lot of heart was put into this
1	one night i was listening to talk radio and they had leslie nielsen on the program he went on to explain why there were only 6 shows ' br br with tv shows like mash you could go to the fridge to get a beer and as long as you heard what was going on you didn't miss anything but with police squad you had to watch the show with the sight gags you missed a whole lot if you didn't see them who could forget the part of town known as little italy with the coliseum in the background br br even the movies relied heavily on the sight gags but then again being in the theater you were a captive audience br br leslie also said the one reason the show movies and other movies like airplane were funny is because they didn't attempt to tell what was funny it was up to the viewer to get the jokes br br well that's just my 2 cents
1	what is worth mentioning that is omitted in the other reviews i have read here is the subtext of how the law shaped the lives and behaviour of gays in the era portrayed in the film while character is evidently gay he is not the only one the often talked about mr davenport scott is the other and the reason that he is never seen the reason alluded to that he has disappeared seems to be that he has been detained by the police for homosexual activity a criminal offense in england at the time br br we can read under the surface that this recent event has unsettled norman character and we can also see in a passing remark by the edward fox character the quick of any connection to such a person when the law is involved the fear of association affects many of the characters and is part of the portrait the film paints of a time and the people who inhabit it the abandonment of at the end by sir has been anticipated all the way through if this subtext is included it also makes sense of both the otherwise inexplicable omission of his dresser from the list of those he gives thanks to the flamboyance combined with the fear of exposure produces the combination of yearning and fear that has to 'step into the as he does when he makes the announcement about the imminent air raids a scene that would otherwise be gratuitous but that is both a symbolic and literal depiction of the man's inner torment br br so while the drama is of the decline of finney's sir a great deal of the tragedy of the film and play comes from the 'fatal of gayness and makes this a film about him as the title suggests br br the art direction pacing and cinematic style of this film seem to come from another time more distant than the eighties and in some ways even than the second world war the implicit portrait of a society still clinging to an older moral order and the sympathy of the character racked and ruined by the cruelties of that order of necessity trapped in the enclosed world of the theatre and the knowledge we have of how much of it all would be swept away after the war makes this film all the more poignant for all its flaws
1	this particular title is very interesting the whole movie was like watching a ninja rpg which is really cool three magical swords three clans a horrible demon a political power has it all the animation is decent but a little grainy the story is top notch and the fight scenes are real cool one thing that really looks good in this movie are the monsters they are pretty freaky if you liked blood reign and ninja scroll is the one to see
1	in the realm of the senses is a beautifully filmed well written and splendidly acted film it tells the haunting story of a woman who kills her husband after falling in love with another man the ghost of her husband continues to haunt her after his murder this film is really good anyone interested should definitely check it out
1	this is a film by the director of the notorious in the realm of the senses a film so sexually and unabashedly controversial it was banned for a while this film takes place initially in 1895 in japan and stars the very pretty yoshiyuki as the wife of a rickshaw driver who falls for a much younger man who woos her in kind that man comes to her as she was sleeping and seduces her though she soon is rather willing to be seduced soon they are having an affair and plot to kill husband to be together forever they do and throw him down a well however they didn't count on the ghost of the dead husband haunting and others in the village this film is visually very stunning the use of shadows highlighting this tale of murder for passion ms yoshiyuki who is still active as an actress is especially very good in her role its sexual at times but not like in the realm of the senses some of what ensues is up to our imagination i found this film to have a consistency of mood that makes it very watchable a little creepy but that goes with the territory i'd recommend this
1	empire of passion starts out deceptively that is if you're immediately expecting it to be a horror movie it's like a riff on james m cain's the postman always rings twice at first yoshiyuki is a mother of two and a dutiful hard working wife to rickshaw driver tamura but when he's not around and she's at home with the baby the feisty and aimless young man tatsuya fuji comes around to bring some goodies for and a little extra they're soon sleeping together but after he does something to her let's just say a shave he knows that he'll find out and immediately proposes that they kill they drink him up strangle him and then toss him down a well naturally this will come back to haunt them but that it's literally at least to them at first super terrified and then only later on skeptical changes gears into the a japanese ghost story br br this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of oh ghost ah but out of the total dread that builds for the characters in a way there's the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout if only loosely translated by way of a 19th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town i e the snooping cop the evidence found possibly by another word getting around suspicions aroused etc it's compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared and her reactions to re appearances are staggering to her take the one that comes closest to poetry ghost pale blue face and mostly silent chilling stare motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw she does reluctantly and he pushes her around on a road she doesn't know in the wee hours before dawn surrounded by smoke most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric br br while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end there's so much here that director gets right in making this a distinctive work after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses which ironically got banned in his own country he made something that he claimed was even more daring that maybe he was right empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor also starring tatsuya fuji a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread you can believe in ghosts in this story but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries the fate of their very souls is at stake br br and takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp sadly it wouldn't surprise me if an american remake was already in the works and crafts shot after gorgeous shot with repetition working its way into the mis en scene i e the shots of seiko and walking on that road the camera at a dutch angle the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this i e throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion or how nude body is revealed after she becomes blind it's daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit not to be confused with the spiritual though there may be something with that as well about life and death's connections to one another inextricably it's a classic waiting to be discovered
1	a genuinely creepy ghost story full of chills and sensuality this movie just falls short of what it promises it is apparently based on an old ghost story and perhaps relies a little too much on a simple premise for most of the way its imaginative and genuinely gripping but at the end its almost like just lost interest in it and brought it to a rapid ending br br the story is simple a woman and her younger lover kill her husband so that they can be together but their failure of nerve and his returning ghost condemn them to madness its beautifully handled with imaginative set scenes and the lovers passion is portrayed beautifully but too often the movie fails to really deliver on its promise almost as if loses his nerve in the same way the lovers do br br its a worthwhile movie to watch just to see how combines his great skill as a film maker with some exploitation movie tricks to pull the audience along but sadly its not a true classic in the mold of movies like onibaba or woman of the dunes
1	in 1895 in a small village in japan the wife of the litter carrier tamura yoshiyuki has an affair with a man twenty six years younger tatsuya fuji becomes jealous of and plots with to kill him they strangle and dump his body inside a well in the woods and tells the locals that moved to tokyo to work three years later the locals gossip about the fate of and is haunted by his ghost the situation becomes unbearable to and when a police authority comes to the village to investigate the disappearance of br br ai no is a surreal and supernatural love story the remorse and the guilty complex of make her see the ghost of her murdered husband spoiling the perfect plot of her lover the cinematography is jeopardized by the quality of the vhs released in brazil but there are very beautiful scenes inclusive ringu and the american remake the ring use the view of the well from inside in the same angle the performances and direction are excellent making ai no a great movie my vote is eight br br title brazil o da the empire of passion
1	eros and thanatos love and death command the dialectics of life by the end of 19th century in a remote japanese village a young man and a married woman older than he fall in love with each other and decide to kill her husband to be free to enjoy their love but they never enjoy that freedom since remorse begins to haunt them beginning as usual at the time by the weakest member of the couple the woman of course henceforth in an atmosphere where dream nightmare mixes up with reality the ghost of the murdered husband appears first to the woman but then also to the man it also haunts the dreams of the other villagers creating a climate of suspicion and gossip around the couple which is aggravated by the arrival of a police officer that comes to investigate the disappearance of the murdered husband but which makes this movie more interesting besides this almost common story of adultery is the evolution of the couple's feelings in a shakespearean deep psychological and dramatic development of remorse anguish and fear which turns their love relationship into a nightmare until their final doom the expressionism so dear to japanese theatre or movie acting is also present in the players' performances but not in an exaggerated form just only in the necessary measure to show more effectively the most deep feelings of the depicted characters this is indeed a solid good movie
1	if you like the excitement of a good submarine drama and the fun of a good comedy then this film comes highly recommended kelsey gives an excellent performance here br br the film also gives you something to think about the next time a serious sub movie asks for 'silent br br
1	my wife and i find this movie to be a wonderful pick me up when we need to have a good laugh the conflict between some characters and the between others make this a sure fire comedy relief i am so looking forward to this movie coming on dvd so i can replace my well watched vhs
1	especially when looking at the amount of crap that has made it to dvd i found this movie very funny rip torn is classic with his barbs rob schneider if hilariously annoying as the over compensating ensign bruce dern makes a great villain the entire cast seems to be having a blast and it's not at the expense of the audience if you like just plain fun comedy and aren't looking too deeply into meaning you just might fall in love with this one
1	to be brief the story is paper thin and you can see the ending coming from a mile away but gene kelly rita hayworth and an impossibly young phil silvers keep the movie afloat throughout and at times lift it right up into the air a few of the songs are terrible clunkers poor john is a train wreck but most of them are great fun and the scene of hayworth performing on the absurdly huge set for kelly's rival has to be seen to be believed another treat is the perfect faux nyc sets in the best hollywood tradition br br another attraction if you consider such things attractions is the howlingly awful male chivalry toward women the oily leering and transparent that passed for male charm back then in the movies at least is presented in its most lurid form here some of the men are about like a cartoon wolf br br one minor disappointment is eve arden trapped in a role so minor that she barely has a chance to do anything i can imagine a lot of potential comic interplay between her and silvers a missed opportunity
1	i found this movie to be a simple yet wonderful comedy this movie is purely entertaining i can watch it time and time again and still enjoy the dialog and chemistry between the characters i truly hope for a dvd release
1	this is one of my 3 favorite movies i've been out on the water since i was 13 so i got a lot of the humor as well as recognizing a lot of the near land scenery the movie although taking place in and around virginia was filmed around the san francisco bay most notably the fleet just east of the bridge where kelsey grammar's character was first introduced to the uss stingray and the piers of san francisco at the very end of the movie including a boat that i've worked on as other people have said the actors appeared to have fun making this movie as well as making it entertaining the line we're approaching the bottom sir i can hear a couple of lobsters duking it out is at least to me priceless br br i am one of numerous people who is anxiously awaiting a letterboxed dvd of down periscope to be introduced
1	i've lost count of the times i have seen this movie but i love it and find it very funny each time i see it the facial expressions slapstick humor and the timing on the jokes makes it great the characters especially nitro sonar and are hilarious i thought kelsey grammar rip torn and bruce dern did a great job in fact i think this movie was perfectly cast i think it does need to be released in dvd before i wear my vhs version out
1	i can't explain it but i find this movie not only funny but so enjoyable i feel compelled to watch it over and over or at least i did when i had cable tv i always felt it was a really poorly made movie but perhaps that is because i watched it on cable i plan to get a dvd of this movie to really take an honest look at at but more importantly to just have a good time watching it i liked the plot and the idea of the movie and i especially liked the cast i always wonder if the cast enjoyed making the movies they are in and this is no exception this film deserved a better fate than it received and kelsey grammar deserved at least one love scene with ms holly who wouldn't the characters in this movie were the kind of guys i could identify with when i was in the military and the zaniness was exact nice going troops
1	as an ex nuclear submarine officer i must admit this is my favorite submarine movie even exceeding hunt for red october someone knew something about submarines when they wrote the movie ok not realistic but it is a comedy and has all of the inside jokes from the submarine force a great cast with the stereotypical uptight submarine guys on the orlando and our heroes on the diesel boat definitely by the way that means diesel boats forever but they want ten lines in order to post this is the admiral in charge here br br line 10
1	i've seen this movie at least 8 times and i still laugh every time the movie is about how an intelligent and motivated man against all odds can cheat the entire over self confident system br br this movie is for all people who like a funny movie br br the action and comedy is well mixed into a brilliant film that i hope to see on dvd soon br br
1	you know sometimes you just gotta have it that's how this movie is with me i am almost embarrassed to admit that i like it it is so goofy in some parts but i find myself reaching for it when i'm down and just need a good laugh and trust me i am just not a goofy movie kinda guy br br you can read the synopsis so i don't have to bore you with that just rest assured if you like kelsey you will probably like this movie br br one more thing be sure to watch the end credits you don't need to read them just watch them and catch the performance of in the navy by the village people and friends
1	this film is about a bunch of misfits who are supposed to be assigned to a task that is expected to fail miserably the misfits pull together to successfully complete their mission br br hilarity ensues br br like the police academy films the humor comes from the kooky characters on the boat i thought it was an engaging film and i will stop to watch it anytime it is on tv no it won't cause you to ponder your relative role in the cosmos or inspire you to do great things for the service of mankind but it is fun enough entertainment for 90 some odd minutes plus lauren holly looks hot in a naval uniform
1	i really enjoyed this movie i have probably watched it 2 dozen times or more and still enjoy it being an old navy guy im still stirred by the rousing rendition of anchors away i also love the navy pirate atmosphere i could have done without the female dive officer but im just old fashioned i guess she was still good to look at lol after the crew got done with her laundry the cook and electrician made the movie loved the salty old engineer and his first class po too and actually did a very commendable job of being a misfit officer i loved the driving scene as they passed the golf course on the way into port lol pure navy and i swear i had an xo that was just like that little weasel im am so glad this is out on dvd about bloody time 0
1	the first few minutes of this movie don't do it justice for me its not funny until they board the sub and those hilarious characters begin to gel i was born and raised in norfolk virginia and met my share of different sailors i even married one most of my favorite movies are just funny not topical not dependent on sex or violence and funny every time i see them groundhog day bruce almighty and down periscope are still funny even after i know the dialog by heart kelsey grammar with his god i love this job was sincere genuine and lovable rob schneider is hysterical as the crew gets back at him for being annoying i am still amazed at the size of that fishing boat next to a sub i can see why folks who live this life would notice the uh but its not a documentary after all its a comedy and i just love it
1	the most notable feature of this film is the chemistry between the actors the sense of camaraderie in their dialogue and dances this typical rising star musical has an overworked plot even for 1944 but because of the actors it's still fun to watch hayworth isn't even that much of a dancer but she has a lot of charm that fits her character kelly plays his usual caring authoritarian role while silvers provides plenty of self deprecation and laughs the movie can also be very serious at times not a must see but recommended if you like the actors
1	look we rated this a 10 on entertainment value it's a comedy sure not an epic like lord of the rings or gone with the wind still for comedy particularly these days it's a 10 br br not a long movie moves quickly and easily kelsey grammar right at home is this role as a loose but brilliant captain of a diesel sub pitted against the us nuclear navy in a war game designed to see if terrorists could get a nuclear bomb through our defenses kinda ironic this plot pre 911 don't take this topic seriously cause it's mostly laughs from start to finish br br rob schneider is 2nd in command like frank burns and pulls many laughs all the others are perfect for their parts as well rip torn and bruce dern br br look plain and simple you got 90 minutes and need a laugh or pick me up and you're not a prude their is some language and innuendo then rent it or buy it we did and enjoy i wish they would make a part 2
1	down periscope is not a great movie but then again very few flicks are so if your looking for entertainment instead of great wisdom this is a great movie without the capitals no sharp sexism or graphic violence spoil this light comedy about a bunch of misfits who are assigned to a antique submarine they are set to fail their tasks so that a general can get his extra star they must take on the entire us navy with it's nuclear submarines but they are underdogs and this is a comedy so you can guess the outcome but you root for those underdogs and this makes it a very entertaining movie watch and enjoy eight stars that is
1	it starts a little slow but give it a chance in the spirit of the ship in the arm and the pink sub this movie is about a not so orthodox group engaged in not so orthodox methods to outwit everyone rob schneider is priceless as a lt that takes himself way too seriously which results in a failed mutiny attempt and pirate crew makes him walk the plank in contrast kelsey grammar similar to cary grant does not take anything to serious except the job this movie is more about lines than plot from the up fisherman in charleston harbor to the whale decoy their antics took me by surprise and i laughed out loud
1	i saw the movie in the theater at its release then watched the vhs tape over the years and while strolling through target saw this dvd bundled with pushing tin for the exorbitant sum of 5 50 br br there is something about this comedy that has really clicked with me how kelsey grammar with a tattoo on his thing is an unorthodox commander who inherits a rusty diesel sub and a crew of screwballs and misfits he's up against the navy's best a los angeles class nuclear attack sub and his old captain wm macy br br bruce dern plays the bad guy rip torn the admiral running the exercise if you don't laugh hysterically during the run silent segment with the cook well you have a different kind of humor from me br br towards the end the machinist says d b f with no explanation it is apparently some inside knowledge gotten from an old submariner consultant thanks to google i learned that with the advent of the nuclear subs the old salts would wear pins diesel boats forever br br a navy friend said that many of the technical aspects aren't correct but who cares it is one of the funniest movies i've seen br br i don't think it takes a clairvoyant to know who will win in this exercise
1	i just discovered this film and love it just the right mix of fast moving story entertaining characters hilarious moments but not overloaded with stupid jokes and fun performances by kelsey grammar harry dean stanton ron schneider rip torn and more is especially good and i really enjoyed watching the guy who played br br i also find it interesting that they used a real submarine the for the running on top scenes and emulated it almost exactly for their sets the set decoration is really impressive if you do a digital tour of the online and then compare it to scenes in the movie they did an excellent job on this film br br what a light entertaining and truly enjoyable movie
1	this is a very underrated movie to say the least as has been pointed out in previous posts this movie has a somewhat loose and highly implausible script but you find yourself saying who cares while shooting milk or insert beverage of your choice here through your nose it was indeed due to a rare mix of actors in sync while kelsey grammar is obviously a gifted actor reference this movie the supporting actors actress play their roles quite well i found in interesting how they threw in the part about duane martin blowing the shot in the 'big game' for navy's basketball team if any of you is a basketball fan you'll remember martin from 'white men can't and 'above the and you'll know that martin had a short stint in the nba with the nice how they threw in believable character attributes such as this rob schneider's anal retentive character was the perfect offset to grammar's calm demeanor lauren holly played the gutsy sexpot with a brain well enough to make you want her to succeed this is a movie that will make you laugh even if you've seen it many times before the comic bits in this movie definitely last i still find myself laughing 12 years later br br is that one of my chickens uhhh no this a parrot from the caribbean well don't let it fly away that's supper
1	down periscope has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs since then we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now br br it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered br br the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession even among the very young i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile alabama in 2002 a group of cub scouts my grandson among them had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board br br it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood which is rare company br br thanks to kelsey grammar lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie such great entertainment
1	the scripting of the subtle comedy is unmatched by any movie in recent years the characters are interesting even if a bit predictable the comedic timing written into the script is more than enough to make up for a well worn underdog plot when you're sure you know the ending surprise highly recommended for all ages although the younger set will probably not appreciate some of the more subtle references they will certainly appreciate one galley scene in particular great movie
1	not the best plot in the world but the comedy in this movie rules kelsey grammar is wonderful in this movie another funny guy is rob schneider who will make you crack up with his segments with ken hudson campbell who plays lauren holly plays probably the more serious character in the cast as lt lake bruce dern is a great actor in this movie playing probably the most serious character in the movie the actor i liked the most was toby as nitro all the electric shots his character takes in the movie is hilarious br br plot is a little uneven about lt commander tom dodge who for years has wanted to command his own sub when he finally gets the chance instead of a brand new sub he gets a rusty wwii diesel sub the stingray his crew isn't any better misfits of the u s navy he is then put in a series of war games that shows how an old diesel engine can handle itself against the current nuclear navy things still don't get any better when he finds out his dive officer is actually a female officer to see how women do on actual subs to get the commander position he wants he has to win the war games and blow up a dummy ship br br the movie fairs quite well in fact i laughed non stop when i saw this movie in theaters i loved when they were in silence and farts and everyones reaction to the smell is hilarious br br overall 9 out of 10 this movie is just plain fun to watch it nice to have a movie like this i hate movies that try to be 100 serious
1	i love military comedies sgt bilko stripes in the army now major payne and down periscope is hilarious but it has a heart as well br br the stingray ss 161 the uss was gorgeous absolutely beautiful a piece of art come alive so it was a diesel engine sub so what i learned that the aircraft carrier uss ranger which stood in for the enterprise in star trek iv a huge ship was which might mean that ranger was a diesel too br br my favorite scene pascal jesus this been on the stingray since korea this can expired in 1966 takes finger full and tastes it what's the matter sir it still tastes like creamed corn br br pascal yelling except it's ham that would be a problem br br it's story perhaps a wee strained seemed plausible winslow respected dodge and seemed to care about him so he wanted to give dodge a chance he gave him a battered but still class sub and assigns him the task of using the diesel sub to evade the nuclear navy and 'attack' harbor and norfolk 2 star admiral graham with his eye on his third star and a grudge against dodge assigned him the ragtag crew hoping that they would screw up so dodge would lose can tom dodge get the crew up to speed and working as a team and can he take an old out of date sub and beat the navy's best
1	although the plot of cover girl is very flimsy and tired it does serve well enough as an anchor for the kern and gershwin musical numbers following her signature role in gilda hayworth opted to star in this musical that seems tailor made for her besides looking as gorgeous as ever she impresses with her dancing as well gene kelly who was on loan to columbia from mgm matches her in dancing and the sequence where he with his own shadow was nicely done the supporting characters were also competently acted personally i didn't enjoy cover girl as much as the musicals hayworth made with fred astaire however cover girl is still very entertaining and easy to recommend my score 7 10
1	tom dodge despite having a reputation among submariners as a renegade and maverick note to reader maverick does not mean tom cruise maverick means non conformist is actually an intelligence operative for the vice admiral of his submarine fleet the vice admiral is concerned about our old friends the russians hosting yard sales with their old diesel countries like lybia north korea or iraq would love to get their hands on this baby and slip a nuclear warhead into norfolk harbour or florida and this was 6 7 years before 9 11 br br the admiral assigns dodge to assume command of a moth balled wwii diesel sub and mount an exercise against the surface fleet and the uss orlando a top of the line fast attack sub dodge takes command and in no time whips up the bad news bears err i mean his lovable group of oddball submariners into warriors despite having welcome aboard tattooed on his penis he is a competent and fair commander he does not choose favorites and he delegates authority in a responsible manner the us navy could not have come up with a finer piece of recruitment propaganda than this handsomely made under appreciated gem from the creator of police academy
1	surprisingly good and quick witted adventure that features kelsey supposedly in his first lead role in a feature as an unconventional navy sub commander who wants to run a nuclear sub of his own however he has earn it by competing against the u s navy in a series of war games with a crew of untested questionable and lovable men and a woman too br br director david s ward major league and his writers have put together a hysterically clever and upbeat comedy that tries to make the film easy to understand which they do quite well second besides the character most of the crew provide some or plenty of the movie's humor which is treated like a double edged sword three members of the supporting cast harland williams toby and rob schneider provide the funniest scenes which includes weird gestures impersonations and well their personalities br br down periscope is more than a navy version of police academy or the dirty dozen what the film does is get the job done the right way and i liked it
1	starring kelsey grammar rob schneider lauren holly rip torn this movie is a classic family favorite at least for most members of my family that is one of us rolls our eyes at the mention of this movie and thinks what a stupid movie i'm not that person though i still find this movie highly amusing i just watched it again last night with someone who had never seen it and i laughed just as hard as the first time i watched it it's still very funny to me br br naval captain tom dodge grammar is a bit of a black sheep in the navy he's the kind of guy who will play golf while on a sub cracking a ball onto a golf course while they sail past it he's the kind of guy who will get drunk pass out and wake up with a hangover and a tattoo on his he's not the kind of guy that everybody wants to be commanding a sub br br but dodge is at the end of the line he's put in applications to get command of his own sub several times and if he doesn't get a sub this time he's headed for a desk job meaning that's it for naval life the admiralty decide to give him his own boat but they don't give him a new nuclear sub they give him a diesel sub an ancient relic from world war ii his mission is to clean her up and take her out on the atlantic for a war game br br dodge is obviously a little bit frustrated to have such a crappy boat given to him when he's worked so hard to get to the point that he's at so he goes and talks to admiral winslow torn about it winslow explains the purpose of the war game diesel subs are still being sold out there in the real world to countries like iran iraq and libya to name a few winslow wants to know what would happen if some renegade captain in a diesel sub came to the states and tried to smuggle a nuclear warhead into one of the bases would they make it dodge and most of the admiralty don't think so but winslow wants to know for sure hence why he has devised this war game mission is to take the stingray out to sea then try to evade the u s nuclear navy and blow up the american naval bases in simulated battle of course br br so that's about as deep as the plot gets this is not a plot driven movie it's a stupid movie that is just a big gag it makes fun of itself and you are not expected to take it seriously if you're looking for good dumb laughs on a friday night i'd urge you to check it out br br bottom line 3 out of 4 worth a look
1	there was a recent documentary on making movies that featured a long list of actors and directors talking about what its like to make movies one common theme was you can have a great script great cast the best director and lots of money and still create a bad movie br br down periscope is proof of the corollary to that theory not an original or terribly well written screenplay a few solid actors but mostly unknowns and this movie just makes you laugh out loud it would be easy to just say that kelsey grammar carried this movie but that isn't truly the case other character actors like rob schneider and the hilarious harland williams added significantly to the enjoyability of the film br br cast dynamics or that mysterious movie magic are really what happened here creating a film that flows smoothly has incredibly well executed transitions and line after line of well written and well performed dialog br br a preposterous premise lots and lots of technical inaccuracies and just plan silly things that could not happen in the real world or the real navy but you just don't care as a merchant marine myself i found that the overall feel of the movie while not plausible was also not too far off the mark as far as life at sea goes br br this is a very funny movie a good family film and particularly if your a fan lots of kelsey grammar wit sarcasm and just damn
1	i'm glad they finally released it on dvd i bought the video tape years ago and watch it at least once or twice a year br br has a wry wit about him that really makes this movie a success its formula is certainly not original but it's very funny nonetheless i am very surprised that it didn't receive higher in the ratings br br it ranks as one of my all time favorite comedies it's just a fun little flick that makes you feel good and sometimes that's all a movie is meant to be
1	this is one of those movies the critics really missed the mark on this movie is practically navy for the 90s or police academy at sea proves he can play roles other than frasier as he outwits and the navy in order to get his own sub rob schneider is as wormy as usual the same in every role he plays and lauren holly is the local sexpot albeit with a brain ken hudson campbell is as funny as usual with almost every line a catch phrase the movie has a wonderful intelligent plot and a non predictable script that still surprises me every time i watch it many of the navy phrases and terms go over my head though but it's a small obstacle for the sheer accuracy and realism of the movie and its characters
1	i've enjoyed this movie ever since i first saw it in the theatre some movies have a cast of characters and a script that come together in perfect synergy and this is one of them the characters illustrate some truths about getting the best out of people working together harmoniously building a team and achieving goals without ever preaching morality the situations are crafted well and are consistent with the movie's opening premise the tension builds nicely and the humor is clean and consistent throughout the movie manages to pull me right in to root for the characters and to laugh pretty well all the way through this is a feel good movie as good as they come br br what amazes me is that a movie which appears so simple can be so long term entertaining the music is a perfect copy of music in the typical serious post war navy movies which helps to create the humor and point out that greatness is in the eye of the beholder the scenes in the credits are a great music video of in the navy which deserve their own full screen special feature the scenes and cuts are crafted well and the casting and acting is right on br br this movie is a classic as great as any ever made without any pretensions in fact the lack of pretension is what makes it so much fun to watch i love these guys and gal br br the other day i thought of the film and wondered whether it was available on dvd good fortune has come to us and the dvd came out in may 2004 i headed to the store and snapped up a copy then my wife and i enjoyed another hilarious night in front of the big screen i've rated this movie as a 10 because it comes together on all levels far better than many high budget films and oscar winners this is entertainment br br listen up fox home video you have a great movie in your vaults and it's a shame to find a cheap shot dvd with badly degraded off tint colors only 8 years since release so why not restore the colors and present the film as it was meant to be seen i'd gladly pay a few bucks more to get the picture right i'm grateful to have my own copy now give us the eye candy that the film deserves and how about recreating the credit sequence as a full screen music video special feature
1	i would like to thank you for giving me a chance to be one of the first to actually view the film it really does grip you john paul does eventually get to see the light and make a life for himself away from being tied to his mothers apron strings br br i imagine there must be so many families these days in the same position especially with children leaving home older but i wouldn't say wiser with very sad parents who haven't really got lives of their own and who make their lives a misery br br i think this film should definitely have a wider audience i would also say that the other actors played brilliant parts as well it is such a deep film and very moving
1	i just watched the dvd of this award winning film one life stand is a stark drama that through it's pace black and white shots and atmospheric music paints a very compelling and honest picture it's a story about life's dilemma's around power sex and control highlighted by a few sad lonely lives the mother very well acted by maureen carr is uptight and drawn in on herself the father only appears on the side lines and yet is a powerful and pivotal part of the drama money is hidden in boxes and shoes br br the writing was superb and i liked the sensual close up shots of details such as nails red lips a candle mirrors etc the way the camera was used made it very intimate it's a harrowing tale with sexual undertones while the glasgow on the dark streets adds to the despair of the sad characters br br there are some highly memorable shots conveyed simply by a walk or a dropped shoulder such as walking away under the bridge and the stunned and hurt look on face in the call centre which hopes to helps people through using tarot cards as she listens to a caller talk of her own abuse br br at the start we see john paul wide eyed and innocent having photos shot as he wants to try modelling his mother is deluded and making poor choices for him in a way pushing him away while she tries to keep him john paul's modelling turns into escort work and boss offers her money and eventually they go on a date there are also moments of humour and subtle irony one excellent scene is when they are having a fairly normal meal and starting to open up a bit when the father appears with his dark presence and clouds everything over but this and other things offer moments of hope br br i felt at times the pacing of the film was a shade too intense but this is a small detail in another wise challenging and memorable film and something a bit different it stands in start contrast to most american films which are either total fantasy or the real' world' as seen through tainted glasses this film depicts life with all its rough edges and displays unforgettable images br br this isn't entertainment' but a thought provoking and real life drama br br one life stand is a truly involving and emotionally honest film
1	all budding filmmakers should watch this movie it is like a masterclass in digital film making in itself some of the scenes look like they have been shot on much higher production values than what they really have been it is very encouraging that such a well crafted piece of work can be made on a low budget the acting is very good and the characters are very interesting particularly that of the lead boy john who manages to play a teenager experiencing difficulties whilst remaining really likable his beautiful but fading mother was also very well portrayed and the relationship between her and her boss was very intriguing this is a very quirky interesting piece and i will be looking for anything else made by the same team the director is certainly one to watch
1	i'm not a big fan of musicals but i was always enamored of ms hayworth's looks so i thought i'd give it a try br br this may be the best showcase for the multi talented ms hayworth she's never looked lovelier in a film with the possible exception of 'gilda' where she is sex symbol par excellence br br rita is more than ably assisted by gene kelly and phil silvers the comedy may be dated but it is still quite amusing kelly does one of his tour de force dances dancing with the image of himself from a window br br but rita drives this whole movie an excellent cast featuring otto kruger and the always wonderful wise cracking eve arden doesn't hurt br br rita sings rita dances all the while looking impossibly beautiful the music may be short of classic but the lyrics to most of the tunes are quite clever br br i find this movie works better than 'gilda' which i regard as a flawed film to ms hayworth's credit she also drives 'gilda' and gilda drives any red blooded male insane br br the film holds up well after all these years much leg candy for the male audience is a nice bonus
1	seriously engaging intelligent and thought provoking drama at its very best mean gripping moody and captivating every home should have a copy don't take my word for it see it yourself one life stand makes you consider your own lifestyle and how you treat your family and friends beautiful photography and impressive acting makes for one of the best cinema graphic experiences of the year john debut is a delight and adds a real touch of truth and realism to this deep and gritty film this is a film that cares and has an honesty that is in recent years no car chases but a film packed with hum our and emotion i first saw this film screened at the edinburgh film festival in 2000 and am now delighted to be able to own a copy on dvd
1	a truly accurate and unglamourous look into modern day life it could be set in any town in the uk br br i live in a housing estate in glasgow and can relate to this film very well br br sadly the situations and characters are all too realistic but not predictable br br the actors are scarily believable i felt as if i was spying on my neighbours it was an intimate dip into the lives of fragile and hopeless people i was very moved by a few scenes br br i loved the way this film was shot br br overall this film is a must see
1	i saw one life stand when it premiered at the 2000 edinburgh international film festival and was blown away by it made on a micro budget this black and white digital movie is very much a european film and succeeds brilliantly in spite of the limitations of dv the film works because it's in the indie tradition dealing with complex issues yet moving and relieved by touches of understated humour one life stand avoids falling into the trap of other uk realist films with ordinary working people portrayed as either hopeless victims or comedic stereotypes the performances are strong particularly maureen carr as the mother i understand the film has recently been released on dvd and i would definitely recommend it the rating on this site is misleading which is why i gave it a high score because the filmmaker may miles thomas obviously put her heart and soul into it and deserves better than 2 8 for her amazing achievement
1	have to agree that this movie and it's talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve here's hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors
1	i was lucky enough to see this film at a festival last year and had half expected it to get a release the fact that it was shot on a digital camcorder has surely inhibited its success but as i understand it was never the intention of the film maker to make it look like film in the first place it was more about the story the characters and their relationships is that not what films are supposed to be about but it did have a quality in the texture of its visual appearance that suggests may thomas is onto something we should pay attention to for independent film makers and producers alike who have a the talent and lacking the money and drive a lot can be learned from watching this film technically it has everything going for it the use of light music etc by far outweigh that of any other digital feature film i have ever seen and therefore it is worthy of much praise the actors performances are believable to a point if not slightly under played i felt there was much more in there more depth in particular from the male lead john paul clarke but one thing that really does bother me as a film maker myself is the film being in black and white a need to cover up a multitude of sins than if it was colour do we have more to learn in the progression of digital technology or is this the future of wonderful affordable film making
1	one life stand is an accomplished piece of film making which hasn't been given the credit it deserves its imdb rating of 1 7 doesn't do it justice and is perhaps due to the very few screenings it has had rather than the quality of the film itself shot on digital in black and white the film is well directed with production values that belie its shoestring budget the performances are excellent particularly that of gary lewis who gets better with every role my only criticisms are that it is a bit on the long side and could have done with a touch more humour to offset the darker moments overall though it is a fine piece of work
1	i have to say this is one of the best movie i have seen so far for naruto the action was a lot better then the first movie because it had a lot more fight scene and it came to u at a faster pace it was amazing the choreograph was excellent as well as most of the visual effects br br the story line is something new to naruto but it is basically the same as the first movie in the series u see them fight against other ninjas but in the movies 1 2 u see them fighting against machine of mass destruction it is nice to see them fighting something other then ninja and that it was great to see some other power other then chakra and how other people from other land across the ocean fight also sakura finally killed someone that is more stronger then her she have truly become strong it was a lot better then the fillers on the series that i'm watching now when u watch this movie the fast action scene will surely make your heart pound with new and in the movie u know it is good and the music was good as well but i find it to be lacking something but the ending theme song was a plus dong dang i think was a really good song i totally recommend it br br all in all i give this movie a 10 because i just love it if u do decide to watch it enjoy it lol
1	i'm a big fan of naruto even though i haven't watched every episode or read every manga br br i really liked the first naruto movie and to tell you the truth i was a little nervous that this one wouldn't be as good or action packed as the first mainly because this one in australia only had a pg instead of an m which is a pg 13 us or 12 uk but i was wrong thankfully the animation was more improved although some drawings of the characters at points looked rushed and was very good especially in the fight scenes br br speaking of that let's talk about the fight scenes the animation and action in the fight scenes was spectacular and very entertaining i especially enjoyed the battle with and the fight with fighting the shape shifting female warriors all the characters you want are here naruto sakura and if only was in the movie could save her from the female warriors in dramatic fashion and maybe they could have a passionate kiss in my summary at the top i say that this more as a piece of cinema than just an extended episode and it does the action is very cinematic and the animation quality looks very fancy especially during the fighting overall this is a excellent anime film that is a must see for any naruto fan 5 5 10 10 50 50 100 100 alright i'll stop
1	i liked this movie the second naruto feature film i enjoyed the one in the snow a tad better though as i found the story here a bit disjointed as i was not sure where certain things were supposed to be happening or when still like the first film this one too has a nice run time to it of a hour and a half plenty of time for a nice well developed movie with some really cool fights the story starts off with ninja from the village hidden in the sand in combat with unknown assailants it then shits to naruto sakura and hunting down a ferret for what they think is going to be an easy assignment they soon find out otherwise as they are also attacked and naruto is separated from his friends after he has a fight with a strange young warrior clad in armor they both are injured and taken in by a caravan and soon after naruto is invited to join this strange organization that wishes to create a utopia of course all is not as it seems and there are plenty of fights to go around my favorite was the one involving fighting this strange woman who takes him very lightly which is a very big mistake the concluding fight is rather good too involving naruto and this strange man who is a better villain than any of those in the previous movie
1	naruto the anime tv series has so far spawned 2 feature length theatre movies and a third one is coming our way this summer br br the first one which was released in the summer '04 was a fun adventure featuring the main characters of naruto in an exciting adventure however one must be a blind deaf and one legged chicken to deny that film's faults whilst the first was most definitely enjoyable there were a lot of things that could be improved on naruto movie 2 however takes all of these aspects and excels upon them br br the action first of all was incredibly cinematic the lighting setting and style was three fold as effective as in the first movie in the first we were given basic action well animated and choreographed animation but nothing eye popping however this movie's cinematography was exceptional the use of shadows and lighting combining together to make the action all that more intense was very effective and added to the force of the fighting br br the animation was very good it rivalled disney however since this is a movie about tv characters there was nothing about the character design or detail to the actual characters however the animation was incredibly fluid and realistic i think they even used twice the amount of cels for each second because there was absolutely nothing jittery about the animation at all it was incredibly fluid br br the music i think that's where this movie fails the original composer conductor for the tv show was used for the film and i don't really feel that he did that good of a job the music mostly reminded me of a lot of pieces used in old games the composer is very good but the used for the film couldn't convey the tune very well however they didn't fail the film at all adding as a good accompaniment to the action but except for a few violin string pieces towards the end and some choral work the music didn't excel any boundaries or act as anything special br br the story was fun it was a reasonably typical storyline for naruto and was very similar to the first movies except again it took everything that had been wrong with the first film's story and improved upon them the characters were a lot more interesting and the way the story progressed was what kept me watching throughout the entire film it kept making you think the film would be ending any second now but then it would move on but instead of feeling dragged out the action and characters made everything still feel fresh and exciting br br overall this film is a but however good it might be it is most definitely one for the fans i enjoyed the film but thats because i'm a fan but i can see just like with final fantasy's advent children it doesn't excel as a movie but merely acts as a fantastic serve of fan service for a good hour and a half though i think this film does act as a good introduction to the series for current non watchers it won't give a full effect for anyone other than those glued to naruto screens however despite all this it was a fun movie to enjoy during this depressing period of upsetting fillers
1	although i'm not crazy about musicals cover girl is a delight for classic movie buffs and especially for fans of rita hayworth and gene kelly the film may be dated by today's standards and the story and songs may be nothing special but the musical numbers are magnificently staged and there's a terrific cast to go with the film plus the film is a worthy introduction for fans of rita hayworth she's simply breathtaking in glorious technicolor br br despite jerome collaboration with the film his music here is nowhere near as special or memorable as his songs in swing time 1936 yet the songs serve the film well the dancing is nothing short of excellent especially coming from gene kelly's solo number and my favorite musical number alter ego dance the amusing phil silvers nearly steals the film as kelly's partner otto kruger eve arden and edward brophy give good performances in their dramatic supporting roles and rita plays a sweet charming girl here a role that's a far cry from her femme fatale babes in films like blood and sand 1941 br br all in all this is a delightful film that's worth watching even if you're not big on musicals yet the film's music could have been more memorable if only my favorite period songwriters irving berlin or cole porter wrote the songs for this film however it's the glorious technicolor cinematography and the imaginative dancing that are the real treats of the film's production br br while i was watching rita hayworth do her stuff i don't think i've ever seen a more beautiful or graceful redhead dance on the screen since i saw moira shearer in michael powell's masterpiece the red shoes 1948 just watch rita in cover girl and fall in love with her
1	the plot michael connors has done everything in films but direct and is looking for his 1st big chance he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy and oh yes there's romance and a little sadness too the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in 2008 it must be emphasized that this movie is a story 1st not just a tribute to silent films later years would bring similar films such as singin' in the rain 1952 dick van dyke carl reiner's the comic 1969 what is special about this film though is recreating silent movies in 1939 we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w while the rest of the movie is in pristine color one of the greatest in the silent era buster keaton who at this point was on an uphill climb is used superbly in 2 silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well but the real reason to watch the movie if your a motion picture history fan is that beyond everything else hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett's film legacy it doesn't take a genius to realize this movie is a positive reworking of mack sennett's and mabel life the character michael connors is mack sennett whose real name was michael and molly of course is mabel sennett had the pie the bathing beauties and keystone cops he worked with buster keaton ben turpin cameo roscoe fatty arbuckle body double and fell in love with his leading lady not only all that but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well as most film viewers today prefer sound features those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture as mack sennett fell into that category it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies his career started in 1908 as an actor then writer director producer he semi retired in 1935 with about 500 films to his credit he had worked with the best such as charlie chaplin gloria swanson bing crosby w c fields keaton harry langdon arbuckle and even roy rogers in way up thar as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career mack played it wise did only selective work for the next 25 years in 1931 he had receive an academy award in the short subject category and another in 1937 for a lifetime of work in the 1940's his presence was still felt e g here come the co eds 1945 where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack's wandering willies 1926 is done in 1947 the road to hollywood used some of sennett's crosby films 2 years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated with his knack of always associating with the right people a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk his radio show came about later in the year 1950 brought a re release of his greatest triumph tillie's punctured romance 1914 with sound in 1952 he was honored on tv's this is your life then his autobiography the king of comedy 1954 which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade was published 1955 brought a more concrete association with abbott costello as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops finally in 1957 another tribute with the compilation film the golden age of comedy so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table as we get to the silver haired mack he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say here i am when he rises to give a speech a short while later he is at his most subdued underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey i know my influence on comedy will never end but will people forget mack sennett the individual maybe this movie will help
1	hollywood cavalcade is a mildly entertaining 1939 film starring two staples of the 20th century fox roster don ameche and alice faye and containing a couple of in jokes br br the film concerns a max sennett type michael connors ameche who brings an actress to hollywood molly adair faye and makes her a big silent comedienne eventually moving her into more dramatic roles he becomes extremely successful with her as his star obsessed with his work he's absolutely shocked when she and her leading man alan curtis run off and get married he's so shocked he dumps her she and her husband go off and continue to be more and more popular while connors' studio starts losing money at an alarming rate before you know it he's through molly wants to help and asks that connors direct her next film br br there's lots of keystone kop type footage which is quite funny and some fantastic slapstick by buster keaton who is wonderful the film also has a scene from the jazz singer when the talkies take over the in joke of course has to do with rin tin tin for whom zanuck used to write in one scene trainer brings him in as a potential contract player for connors' studio connors throws both of them out of his office a few scenes later rin tin tin is shown to be 1 box office the role of the famous german shepherd in this film is played by rin tin tin jr daddy having passed away in jean harlow's arms in 1932 one month shy of his 14th birthday fortune smiled on him even at the end br br alice faye is very pretty and does a fine job as does ameche who turns in an energetic performance j edward and stuart erwin provide very good support br br unfortunately this film isn't quite sure what it is history comedy romance or drama however hollywood cavalcade is still quite watchable
1	it's 1913 a studio prop boy spies the actress who is going to become hollywood's next great movie star and he's the director that's going to make it happen after inventing pie throwing and the keystone cops his dream comes true being completely absorbed in his film making however he fails to notice that he is losing his leading lady to another man several over budget flops later he is known as nothing more than the director who turned down rin tin tin fortunately for him the loyal and compassionate residents of hollywood are untainted by ambition and ego he'll be okay as long as he still has his friends br br this movie starts out as a mad cap comedy typical of the time period and in the opening scenes it holds its own with the best of them it has a playful lack of self consciousness which is sorely missing in most of today's comedies shortly into the film however it moves away from this mode of comedy and instead attempts to entertain us using the films within the film these are silent slapstick comedies well done but nothing out of the ordinary and they go on for much longer than is necessary for any audience which has seen the originals upon returning the film takes a dramatic turn it's well written and the cast does an excellent job of making the transition but the movie really should have decided from the beginning what it was going to be br br by the end of the film it has transformed once again this time into a paean to the glitter of hollywood the small town of los angeles has grown up into the city which makes the movies that entertain the whole world br br in spite of its promising beginnings this film has not aged particularly well nevertheless it does have some strong scenes a certain nostalgic appeal and an entertaining sub text about the people who made it and the audiences it was made for
1	what makes this one better than most movie movies is that it doesn't feel phony the film the story of the hot headed director and his rise and fall and rise by using real recognizable names and events during the silent and early sound eras instead of the generic sound will put us out of business business they actually show jolson and the jazz singer the acting is really quite good with believeable performances from don ameche alice faye and j edward in particular
1	i can remember seeing this movie when i was very young and several times on tv since then i have always liked it i have noticed on the print shown on local tv that one scene has reversed film it is the one where they are hiding behind the rock outcrop it looks like vasquez rocks near los angeles watching the indians ride by if you look carefully you will notice that suddenly all the soldiers are left handed it is only a short segment and i have to admit that it took me years to notice it br br as far as history goes there were often to rescue white captives from the indians the direct connection for the final battle scene is the battle of island in that action a group of volunteer scouts equipped with repeating carbines spencer carbines not were surprised by the indians and retreated to an island and held off several charges in the last charge they killed roman nose one of the more famous indian chiefs i have no idea if the writer of the script had this in mind but it does fit fairly well br br there are several guy madison movies that i hope come out on dvd someday and this is one of them
1	saw this film the first time in 1953 with my older brother it was one of the great 3 films released in that era we saw it at least thirteen times and were proud of it scott does a typical western shoot em up job while surrounded by the indian arrows rather than surround sound oh for those polaroid lenses again
1	warner brothers produced this 3d extravaganza that was the biggest commercial success for westerns in 1953 guy madison leads a band of soldiers and misfits to rescue two white women being held by indians which essentially all there is to this film the 3d format was in its early stages as a hollywood gimmick to compete with the growing popularity of home television and the effects work very well here the rescuers make off with the ladies and are pursued by the indians until the white men make their stand at an island in a creek bed the indian weaponry comes at the audience non stop throughout and a spray of tobacco juice aimed at a rattler is thrown in for good measure madison was quite popular as television's wild bill hickock and is good as a displaced cattle rancher who is given his thankless task by the army for all the film's polish and presentation the movie was made in just three days
1	the charge at feather river is a routine western about the u s cavalry against the cheyenne indians the film carried a constantly mounting tension with some pleasant diversion br br guy madison and frank lovejoy play the officers who rescue helen and vera miles from the indians br br the outdoor scenes are well photographed specially the exciting indian charge at feather river at the climax of the movie with the rain of spears the fight to the death between madison and the sketches of the brigade even a mouthful of tobacco juice used against a rattlesnake and the romantic interludes between our hero and helen all are here pictorially entertaining in 3 d and technicolor
1	this neo film noir is one of a genre of late twentieth century american films that all seem to involve corrupt characters fast cars a ribbon of highway and of course plenty of guns wielded by people who appear never to have taken a gun safety course the actors are the best reason to see black day blue night there is the late great j t walsh swing blade pleasantville red rock west the last seduction and many more who did many neo films noirs see also breakdown then there is michele forbes of the tv series star trek the next generation and homicide in a supporting role there is even the late who also appeared on a star trek episode titled the naked now a spoiler of sorts a clue really only the most innocent survive but innocence is a very relative term in a movie like this and you probably won't guess who is innocent before the final reel
1	it looks b grade and you will probably think there is no reason to rent this film but do i expected nothing from this movie just something to pass the time but i was hooked from the start two interesting premises a bank robbery gone wrong a million dollars missing and two girls on the road to start a new life how will these two stories collide just when you think you know what direction the movie is headed it does a 180 and you are left blown away by the great twists in the plot it has a great but unexpected ending and you are left wanting more always a good sign rent it or even buy it you will not be disappointed
1	though i strongly feel that is the best gene kelly movie but this a pretty good one i liked the music and the dancing and the ending on how gene got the girl my favorite part though without a doubt is gene's dance with his alter ego i love watching two gene kelly's for the price of one it shows what talent mr kelly really was it is a movie that i think that everyone should watch at least once in their life time so you have not seen it go out and find to watch it today i'm sure that everyone out there has a gene kelly friend that has this movie in their collection so go over to their house and pop some popcorn and enjoy
1	black day blue night was actually good modern noir three young nomads on the run from their own lives team up on something of a road trip through a desert in the middle of nowhere as most modern noir does one woman finds that her husband is cheating on her and after finding him in a hotel room decides to head off and start anew strangely enough she travels with her husband's mistress who is forgiveable given that the sleazebag never told her he was married and together while driving in the pouring rain they meet a third very mysterious young man with a suitcase full of secrets while they're giddy and free and all suspicious of one another the cops back at town have them marked as suspects in the death of a policeman br br black day blue night starts out with immediate confrontation and throws in a pretty good story with all it's twists meant to mislead your suspicions of one character after another leading to a very unusual ending that is the movie starts with immediate action confrontation and once you think the story is solved you are immediately thrust into yet another turn in the plot revealing just a little more than you expected before the movie is over br br but as some viewers have written the ending is slightly confusing and a bit of a let down the killer is not who you would immediately expect and once revealed becomes somewhat confusing due to a rather thinly explained flashback which reveals all of the necessary motive to solve the mystery but actually there is a finale beyond that which i would think is the most interesting of the film because modern noir always involves a circle of criminal suspects almost always all of them guilty of something it is also a genre that always involves money and thus the question in these movies always becomes how far are the characters willing to go for money br br if you like this rendition of modern film noir i would suggest watching red rock west it's also got j t walsh and some going ons in the blasted desert
1	blondell farrell are excellent blondell was edible this was very funny and i laughed often throughout it great dialogue and its loaded with wisecracks i could've watched it for hours tremendous fun to watch
1	two hard luck but crafty ladies decide to act like havana widows by sailing to cuba to meet blackmail rich gentlemen br br this was the sort of ephemeral comic frippery which the studios produced quite effortlessly during the 1930's well made highly enjoyable depression audiences couldn't seem to get enough of these popular funny photo dramas br br joan blondell glenda farrell are perfectly cast as the frantic fast talking females who will go to great lengths to make a little dishonest dough although joan gets both top billing and the romantic scenes both gals are as talented watchable as they are gorgeous br br handsome lyle talbot plays joan's persistent suitor but he's given relatively little to do chubby cherubic guy kibbee appears as the girls' intended target whether awakening to find himself in the wrong bed or being chased across the roof of a cuban hacienda in his long johns he is equally hilarious behind him comes a rank of character actors allen jenkins frank mchugh ruth donnelly hobart cavanaugh maude eburne dewey robinson all equally adept at pleasing the toughest crowd br br movie mavens will recognize an uncredited james murray as the suspicious bank teller with the forged check this very talented actor was pulled out of complete obscurity to star in king vidor's the crowd 1928 one of the silent era's most prestigious films hopes were high for a great career but his celebrity faded quickly with sound pictures after a long string of tiny roles bit parts broke destitute his life ended in the waters of a new york river in 1936 he was only 35 years old br br while never stars of the first rank joan blondell 1906 1979 glenda farrell 1904 1971 enlivened scores of films at warner bros throughout the 1930's especially the eight in which they appeared together whether playing gold diggers or working girls reporters or secretaries these blonde brassy ladies were very nearly always a match for whatever leading man was lucky enough to share equal billing alongside them with a wisecrack or a glance their characters showed they were ready to take on the world and any man in it never as wickedly brazen as paramount's mae west you always had the feeling that tough as they were blondell farrell used their toughness to defend vulnerable hearts ready to break over the right guy while many performances from seven decades ago can look campy or contrived today these two lovely ladies are still spirited sassy
1	i just finished watching this last weekend and found it absolutely hillarious some of the scenes i just couldn't stop laughing at dennis is soooo amazingly thick sometimes and just says the things but at the same time he's just being cool to impress his girlfriend who gets arrested anyway the beach scenery is very tranquil until along comes robbie coltrane not the greatest movie ever made but certainly something to think about renting on a saturday night when you haven't got much else to do like i did you might need to hunt around for it though i was lucky as my local video store stocks it
1	the funniest movie from britain i have ever seen the is a tale of sex drugs cream and murder by the seaside dennis carter adrian average moron is out to impress his so called girlfriend andrea dawn french because she thinks he is too law abiding so to get her to come along with him on a romantic getaway he comes up with a scheme that perhaps will impress her and entice her to spend some time with him trouble is dennis' lie is that he's somehow gotten involved in an international drugs ring and while telling her a couple of policemen overhear his boasting and nick him and so begins this witty movie full of slick comedy and crude jokes dennis is banged up in the local nick and much to the arresting officers' delight there seems to be no way out andrea's earlier attempts to explain it was all a lie were dismissed by a hilarious melody of stand by your man by the two officers' then comes along commander robertson ronald allen chief intelligence scotland yard he makes a deal with dennis that if he helps him catch the drug smugglers then he will be set free and allowed whatever he pleases dennis agrees and is teamed up with harvey duncan peter richardson and lesley reynolds jennifer saunders the rest is an unforgettable rib tickling experience with robbie coltrane as sergeant troy adding humourous colour to the film his walk along the dry dock against frankie goes to hollywood's two tribes is superb and probably the best scene in motion picture history the two officers' who nick dennis are wonderfully played by michael and patrick and alexei as the motorcycle cop is a laugh if you want something good to watch on a saturday night then i suggest you rent this you won't forget it
1	great 1980s comic strip comedy set in the south west of england it is a tale of sex drugs cream and murder by the seaside adrian french and saunders nigel hilarious in drag and robbie coltrane play a part dennis tries to impress girlfriend by boasting he is involved in a multi million pounds drug deal this leads to complications with hilarious results i am trying to find out the original picture ratio for this film but it does not appear under 'technical of the imdb site i spotted the dvd in the shop and it appears to be in 1 33 1 full screen format was the film shot in this ratio or was it originally a widescreen film with a pan and scan dvd it would be useful to know as i hate pan and scan films so come on imdb could you find out for us
1	this film is great being a fan of the comic strip presents i just knew i would love this film and love it i do i finally got round to buying a copy of this film early this year however i was annoyed to find that it had been cut so i'll keep looking at car boot sales for the original version br br anyway the film is about dennis carter adrian who tries to impress his girlfriend dawn french by claiming to be a drug dealer however dennis is overheard bragging one night in the pub and nicked so dennis turns but the trouble is he doesn't know anything and starts to make up lies and dig himself into an even deeper hole the irony of all this is that there is drug smuggling going on down in devon br br this film is not as funny as i expected but it is still a really good film with some good laughs and a great soundtrack it also has the best scene ever in a british film robbie coltrane's walk across the pier set to two tribes by frankie goes to hollywood br br so if you are a fan of the comic strip presents of any of the cast members or a fan of british comedy see it a s a p
1	a lot of comedy in britain in the 1980s was insular misguided overly political and unfunny and the worst of the comic strip presents stuff fell into this category br br but this is at the other end a remarkable film that works on different intellectual levels br br is dennis a criminal mastermind or is he lying br br is he telling the truth bluffing double bluffing counter doubly bubbly br br i've probably watched 20 or 30 times and i still can't decide 100 that's the wonderful thing br br as well as there are big roles for other early comic strip mainstays french saunders pete richardson alexei keith allen nigel and robbie coltrane though curiously enough not br br all of the comic strip cast however much i disliked the hidden agenda of some of their members are convincing actors and turn in superb performances in this big screen outing while the richardson writing team's work is so often pure genius with nice little touches of detail throughout br br ultimately this is a study of crime criminology and human nature in all it's wondrous complexity and very funny with it you will not be disappointed
1	this film makes several nods to various science fiction films the prologue reminds me of the one for the original theatrical version of thx 1138 the trailer for buck rogers here it was clips from some early japanese sf tv show then the opening shot of the city in has the dragon blip flying overhead with a billboard reminding one immediately of bladerunner the bladerunner aspect comes even br br more pronounced when we meet the hero who is called a replicant he is blond haired and is called ryo a homage to roy batty rutger character in bladerunner a battle scene soon ensues which reminds one immediately of the matrix the government forcing the population to take drugs is like thx 1138 and the chief enforcer while looks like a cross between elvis and dan ackroyd turns out to be a robot very much like the terminator the end battle reminds one of terminator 2 and the end result is hilarious probably not one of the best sf films out there but is enjoyable certainly a lot more enjoyable than tripe like battlefield earth
1	i taped this on sundance and had no idea that it was a miike film i thought it was just another kung fu movie br br then i saw things like the dancing sax player br br who sounded like an oriental gato and i knew this had to be miike br br i missed the beginning opening credits and had to wait till the very end of the closing credits to see miike's credits br br so far he hasn't disappointed me yet audition city of lost souls ichi the killer and the happiness of the were all good flicks and now i've found out that this was the third in a trilogy br br other than miike and todd there's nobody making interesting films nowadays
1	this was gene kelly's breakthrough and that alone makes it memorable throw in rita hayworth as his love interest and comedian phil silvers of all people as his sidekick and you have the ingredients for a real crowd pleaser which is exactly how it turned out br br kelly plays danny mcguire a nightclub owner in brooklyn brooklyn is always the wrong side of the tracks in '40s films whose star attraction and love interest is rusty parker rita hayworth rita is lovely and even plays a dual role as rusty and grandmother rusty has a chance at the big time through the machinations of john otto kruger who romanced and lost grandmother br br the plot revolves around danny cutting rusty loose to the detriment of his club because she has a chance at success that he can't give her but naturally that's not what rusty ultimately wants because as usual in films of that time the right guy is the only thing on the girl's mind there are no surprises but everybody does their thing well br br kelly does the first of his amazing trick dances this time with himself as a reflection from a glass window he was the master at that sort of dance and one still has to wonder how they timed everything so precisely so that he really does seem to be in two places at once the melodrama gets a bit thick and there are some gratuitous war references thrown in that do little but provide the opportunity for a song or two but kelly takes this film to the next level this was before he became a mega star and too smooth perhaps for his own good an underlying edge of rawness to his character lends it a believable and almost wistful air br br kelly's character in the 1980 xanadu also was named danny mcguire this film was the beginning that film the end of a terrific run for a dancing genius clearly this film meant a lot to him highly recommended
1	this is a film that has to be taken in context it shouldn't be seen unless you've seen the first two films but the sort of people seeing this film will probably own the box set or at least know someone who does and you shouldn't go in expecting blade runner the films budget doesn't stretch quite that far and it's a far more zany ride br br essentially the film is a science fiction set in future shot in hong kong as is obvious about a society where it's illegal to procreate sho reprises a similar role from dead or alive 2 and riki is a detective for the birth control cops takashi miike isn't one to give all of his reasons to you on a platter but one can assume that the law on procreation enforced by giving people the pill is there because of over population increased life spans and so forth interestingly the dialogue in the film is mainly cantonese whilst sho and riki who play their parts as always brilliantly speak japanese and a few speak english people have criticised the english as being wooden but i found no problems with it also another person found the homosexuality themes throughout the film to be offensive said that takashi miike was anti homosexual he may very well be and not all artists have to be left wing but i can't see this film as an insult to homosexuals he merely calls back philosophies of ancient greece when homo or bisexuality was more common the film contains similar proportions of action packed and poignant moments to doa 2 although in this film the action is more martial arts based and are done in a very good hong kong style the cinematography in the film is very nice on the eyes with symmetrical shots a good control on colours to give the air a polluted look and it's nice to see uncut lengthy shots that are so rare in hollywood these days basically there's a lot to like in this film a good sense of humour exciting action and some very beautiful moments it's a great finish to the series you could criticise it for being a bit cheesy but isn't that part of the charm
1	if you loved the 1993 erotic sci fiction cyborg film nemesis then you'll love this one i loved it the minute the elvis hero pulls out a samurai sword during a shoot out like nemesis its takes place in a post apocalyptic slum of the future both are police thrillers where the well armed hero must take on well armed rebels to solve a conspiracy by the powers that be against the unwashed masses but thats where the similarities ends the ambiguous mayor in dead or alive tries to keep the masses sedate on the drugs he sells them the rebels aided by mercenaries and a cyborg try to brake his suffocating hold on his subjects after several failed attempts to brake the rebels back he sends his top cop to assassinate the rebels this movie follows the track of most action adventure but isn't afraid to color outside the line
1	dead or alive final the movie that supposedly brings together the three films in the very loose dead or alive trilogy and connected mostly by its stars riki and sho and that each film has its share of bizarro world fixtures and neuroses and heaps of violence is admittedly the weakest of the lot that none of the three films ends up being a disappointment is less a testament to the creativity of the material but to the pound for pound guts that director takashi miike takes with the surroundings and the material here he presents an overtly dystopian future however low key where a homosexual mayor dictator richard chen has the entire village drugged except for a group of rebels there's also robots in this year of one of them is ryo a robot of complete lethal skill but also with the capacity to love and learn and so forth then a cop takeshi happens to be the mayor's top guard but things start to unravel on both sides ryo teaming up with the rebels and takeshi with his employer though blood soaked mishaps like a hostage trade off gone bad and with takeshi finding out his wife and son are robots not done in an alien mood mind you just suddenly as if in a the power went out and that he himself is one as well and it all leads up to one last inexplicable showdown between the two men br br strange that there's yet another film where miike has peaks and valleys here sometimes finding that middle ground of success where science fiction can have some meaning to it but there really isn't anything to take from this story except that the mayor dictator is a dingbat with no back story who gets his rocks off making sure his drug stops couples from getting pregnant and that everything remains under control he also has along with him his love slave i'd guess in the hilarious non speaking part of a saxophone player who also doubles sometimes as a human fixture when not plugging away the moody blues meanwhile we get the conventional sides to ryo and stories and they're never uninteresting just not totally convincing enough to hold interest of course miike isn't above having some fun like when takeshi michelle maria chen in to the water to get her to swim after a near assassination attempt on the mayor or in having the original rebel leader speaking english for no good reason at all there's even a playful homage to old sci fi cartoons at the start of the film but there's nothing very compelling substance wise with the exception of minor turns at becoming good midway through the film helping one couple get by with clearance to have a kid and mostly miike's strengths this time are purely stylistically and in the choice of locations and sets br br it's like a grungy japanese alphaville where everything still has a contemporary feel through all of the special effects and i really liked the yellow green tint miike used through the movie as it impacted very well in outdoor scenes and added just enough grittiness in the indoor scenes but as for peaks and valleys one sees this ever more clearly and the sci fi movie channel level of visual effects with maybe a few more dollars put into it during the climax this contains some of the funniest material in the most delirious freudian sensibility from the director even if it has to get started by unbearable contrivance the way that ryo and takeshi finally meet up is sort of random and just a means for the producers to try and cheaply tie together the past two films when it wasn't needed on the other hand in terms of the sheer guilty entertainment value of a flick like miike's where one sees something totally unexpected and very crudely sexual it ranks right up there with the best scenes in happiness of the katakuris and visitor q overall dead or alive final is a cheesy 90 minute effort that doesn't take itself too seriously and is better off all the more for its wicked contrivances militaristic decay and cultural hang ups put on pulp level display
1	i love those kind of movies blood revenge a lot of action very dark cheesy and more but this one doesn't deliver the genre that you might expect when i saw kite birds and ichi the killer before i had fun watching those but why this one not dead or alive final is a decent anime and its not hardcore and don't even expect nudity in this movie at least add some more action to entertain the audience even the drama wasn't that good well i don't want to spoil the movie nor the plot but i felt that dead or alive final is a bit nerdy so without further to do i don't recommend this movie to everyone but i recommend for the people who love decent and well directed anime br br dr jacques coulardeau university of paris dauphine university of paris 1 pantheon sorbonne
1	the final installment sees sho and riki looking cooler than ever in his overcoat pitched against each other for one last battle this time in the future the plot owes a lot to blade runner but done in takashi miike's low budget frenetic comic style i did feel that it was the weakest of the three doa films and although the ending was still outrageous it lacked the shock value of the previous two compared to the likes of ichi the killer and visitor q doa final is nowhere near as extreme but is faithful to the other two films in the trilogy that said fans of the first two and fans of miike will get a lot from this as it ties all three films together and gives a final explanation of the relationship between the two protagonists
1	two actors play rival gangsters in three films the final of which is a sci fi film that nods strangely to william s burroughs philip k dick and anime all at once the robots are actually called a reference to dicks blade runner several visual allusions to the film can be found as well and the bad guy is a psychotic gay mayor obsessed with limiting procreation through use of a compulsory drug for heterosexual love is fleeting and homosexual love is eternal martial arts fights ensue a first for the dead or alive films the hilarious climax involves the two leads morphing into a winged robot with a gigantic phallus for a head who personifies destruction which has been the path of both characters thus far their individual minds and later literal heads functioning as something like testicles the film ends with the mayor f ing his free jazz playing boy lackey as the robot apparently tears down a wall around them the last words of the mayor oh f followed by a quick fade to black part of me felt cheated part of me confused but mostly i was just laughing a lot of the film is quite boring though the best scenes bookend the film while the rest is far too slow takashi miike has always mined the sexual motifs beneath male violence in action films and this film with the exception of gozu reinforces this theme more than any other sex and violence are two pretty basic themes but like who the jazz interludes may be a homage to ala naked lunch miike is able to show where the two connect to hilarious an oddly cohesive effect
1	the third part of miike's dead or alive trilogy is as unrelated to the first two parts as they were to each other more or less show and riki are back again for the lead roles but this time the movie thrusts us forward 300 years or so into the future post apocalypse br br riki plays a tough cop an enforcer for the corrupt city's extreme police policies and show plays a drifter who hooks up with a bunch of the city's oppressed rebels the film must have been shot in hong kong as most of the rest of the cast are cantonese speakers with terence yin and josie ho being the most recognisable faces there's also a hk stunt crew on hand for the films action sequences which are very cool in a hk via miike style br br this could be fodder for a dreadful low budget b movie but in miike's hands it of course becomes something more interesting it's quite a slow thoughtful film that meanders along and doesn't try to force anything down the viewer's throat characters are rounded and interesting and the plot an interesting but fairly loose framework for the story to be hung on br br all in all a fairly low key effort until the action scenes which show miike's increasing prowess at directing and choreographing very nice action watching the short making of with show riki in wire rigs is really fun you can tell they were having a great time br br the finale of the film tries to tie together the 3 dead or alive movies which is quite unnecessary because each one is really self contained miike's explanation of the connection is very funny though and caps the series off quite nicely br br not as deep or well developed as not as outrageous and intense as still another good miike movie though
1	ok this doesn't compare to the explosive tempo of the first part's opening sequence nor to its visual shock value nor for that matter to the melancholic suspense of the second installment no it's surprisingly and refreshingly different apart of course from the two main actors the tongue in cheek futuristic scenario drives the characters towards each other across genres and languages with an almost gravitational force the moment of impact conclusion is your choice of a shakespearean metaphor of life and humanity in a cartoon costume b sublimation of violence into homo c humorous detonation of an impossible buildup everything up to then is even less unequivocal br br highly recommended to indiscriminate movie buffs who don't mind following gras with a hot dog caution to those with more refined palates
1	four unhappy women leave dreary london to spend an enchanted april in a castle on the coast of italy br br elizabeth von arnim's novel comes alive in this charming little film which beautifully demonstrates the virtues of a literate script and ensemble acting all the elements come together to produce a movie that although nearly forgotten now still produces a feeling of appreciation at the story's appropriate resolution br br the actresses each acquit themselves splendidly ann harding is the free spirited wife longing for far from foggy london katharine alexander plays the quiet housewife wishing for the elegant responsibility of acting as hostess in the castle jane baxter is the beautiful young temporarily escaped from her throng of male admirers jessie ralph steals every scene she's in as an old lady wanting only to be alone with her memories of the past br br the men in the story are also well cast as miss husband frank morgan has a rather complex role as a mousy researcher who has a disturbing personality change when he becomes a successful writer reginald owen as miss alexander's spouse is marvelously pompous as a man well equipped to bore for england his hilarious attempt to take an english bath in an italian bathtub is made even funnier with the assistance of charles judels rafaela ottiano as the castle's harried servants finally ralph forbes one of the decade's finest forgotten actors is joyously eccentric as the ladies' lighthearted landlord br br movie mavens will recognize an uncredited ethel playing the proprietress of the housewives club
1	my son adam 5 years old is a big scooby doo fan he like this film a lot he particularly liked when the loch ness monster tried to attack shaggy and scooby the vote score is his choice and reflects his love of the characters br br having seen the vampire rock film first this not surprisingly was very similar as they repeat a well worn basic plot in a different setting br br few adults will come across this without having their own memories of the tv cartoon series and even fewer will watch it without children you either like this or love it i loved scooby doo for half an hour as a kid i am happy my son loves it i can just about put up with it now
1	another great musical from hollywoods golden age i liked this movies story about a trio of friends who are performers at a small nightclub that is far from broadway and all its glitter although not the big time they are very content with their lives and the small club where they perform gene kelly plays the owner of the small club and is also the boyfriend of one of its dancers rita hayworth who happens to garner some attention when she's given an opportunity to be on a cover of a magazine trouble begins for gene kelly as his girlfriend is now the talk of the town phil silvers plays one of the three friends and does a good job of course there is the music and the dancing one dance performance by gene kelly stands out he is walking along the street at night alone and he see his reflection in a shop window his reflection soon starts dancing along with him in the streets great cinematography don't miss this one great entertainment
1	monster of mexico i do agree is the weakest of the modern scooby doo movies mainly because of the weak plot and how predictable it all was loch ness monster however is a considerable improvement with gorgeous animation honestly scotland looked beautiful the music is good and the plot is well thought out plus there is some great dialogue and the voice acting was fabulous with casey kasem a consistent delight as shaggy and the beautiful scottish singer sheena a pleasant surprise in a guest starring role in fact my only complaints were some strange accents in one or two members of the voice cast with the exception of whose accent did sound genuine and somehow the loch ness monster wasn't as well designed as it had potential to be overall a solid and enjoyable scooby doo film 8 10 bethany cox
1	one of quite a few cartoon scooby doo films scooby doo and the loch ness monster turns out to be entertaining exciting interesting funny and also does a surprisingly good interpretation of the highlands of scotland one annoying aspect of the film is the voices of many of the characters american people trying to sound scottish in this film are unfortunately not succeeding all that well although some people do better scottish accents than others br br daphne has come to the highlands to see her cousin shannon and the highland games at blake castle gravely shannon tells the gang that she believes to have seen the loch ness monster when yet more chaos arises the mystery inc gang have another mystery on their hands br br good for scooby doo fans and for people who want to find out more about scotland enjoy scooby doo and the loch ness monster
1	good job that's how i would describe this animated scooby doo adventure this is so far the best of the animated scooby movies i have seen i liked the story i thought it had some depth to to it the movie is also well paced it doesn't get boring for a minute it also has an interesting group of characters besides scooby and shaggy and the gang of course plus the movie was a real blast i has a lot of fun watching it i also liked the great scottish music it was very catchy and infectious naturally we know that scooby and the will solve the mystery but it's still fun getting to that point the animation is also pretty good for this movie i would love it if they did a 3d animation scooby adventure but we'll just have to wait and see for me scooby doo and the loch ness monster is a 7 10
1	scooby doo and the monster of mexico was no doubt the weakest of the modern scooby doo animated features loch ness monster is a considerable improvement br br this time the gang head off to scotland to see the highland games and visit blake castle daphne's ancestral home and wouldn't you know the castle happens to be in the 'quaint' fishing village of on the shores of loch ness br br during their stay they meet a few interesting folks first there is fiona a scientist who has drowned all of her money into finding the loch ness monster br br sir ian the boss of the national heritage museum of scotland he is staunch non believer of br br the the own a cozy inn on the shores of the loch the sons are a couple of local jokers always into mischief br br del a wild paranoid hippie dude who is convinced the monster is out there and will stop at nothing on find her br br and finally duncan the dock master who has seen too many times to count br br most of these characters are stereotypes which gets a bit annoying as this is teaching younger audiences a load of crap and giving the wrong impression however if you can immune yourself to it you'll be alright being from scotland i can't help but wince at the awfully mimicked scottish accents fact we don't sound like that br br soon enough looking rather more demonic than shows up and causes havoc looks like the gang have another mystery on their hands the usual chase scenes clues and shaggy's wacky disguises follow there are plenty of laughs the animation is splendid with some atmospheric scenes and locations and the plot a lot better than monster of mexico br br the only bad thing this time around is the music i miss louis scoring and the songs here are pretty rotten too where are the hex girls when you need 'em br br the region 2 dvd is in crystal clear 1 78 1 anamorphic widescreen the region 1 ain't with dolby 5 0 sound some okay extras are included definitely worth getting
1	cool flick enjoyable to watch hope to see more from fred carpenter soon i really like the location setting with all the new york references it was interesting the way it all unfolds in the end the suspense factor was effective and the acting though kept simple was also effective in portraying the characters there are a bunch of neat little tricks incorporated into this film that make all the better i think the supporting actress did a great job in her role the casting and directing in this film seem to be sewn together seamlessly and the quality of the shooting is quite impressive the movie is not without its soft moments either which gives it a nice sense of balance
1	i am a talent manager i have been for 15 years now i have discovered some wonderful talent they have been in movies commericals and television in my opinion eddie monroe was cast wonderful i love seeing the ability of real people not just a name the actors in this movie were very natural and believable i was very entertained by this film i love a movie with a few twists i also enjoy when at the end of the movie the puzzle is solved i still would like to know what happened to the large sum of the money when you see the flick you will understand what i am saying the mobsters all look real i would like to see this film on the big screen the footage was shot really well the scenery of new york was the new york that i know have a happy 2006 and may this movie make it to the awards
1	i have seen a few of fred carpenter's movies on showtime pay per view and video dvd and i enjoyed most of these films especially with a few beers carpenter knows how to entertain eddie monroe and murdered innocence are my favorites i recently viewed a promo dvd of eddie monroe and everything from the cast to the storyline and directing all worked smoothly doug brown's music score was sensational i enjoyed seeing frank goodfellas new york new york and the wedding singer he is an amazing and very underrated actor but i especially liked the performance of paul who played uncle benny i looked up his acting credits on the imdb and i found out this was his first starring role where has this guy been give fred carpenter credit for discovering great new talent it's only a matter of time you'll be seeing this guy costarring with pacino and deniro as i mentioned carpenter knows how to entertain and when your working with a limited budget it is amazing what carpenter can produce i read the vent magazine interview and carpenter has never made a movie for more than 400 000 00 dollars before i watched eddie monroe i saw rocky balboa and the good shepherd both great films eddie monroe took me on a ride to a surprised ending because of a very good script good performances from the entire cast craig morris is a movie star waiting to happen and the lead actress jessica was hot great cinematography direction and doug brown's music score as i stated i recently seen rocky balboa and the good shepherd if i were to write a comment about those two movies i would be saying some of the same things i have stated about eddie monroe the only thing those two very good films don't have in common with eddie monroe they didn't cost a few hundred grand great movie and i didn't even drink a beer
1	i loved the film eddie monroe the film had all the components that kept me interested while watching it i especially loved the plot twists along the way and the surprising ending craig morris has brad pitt potential both in looks and talent his blue eyes reminded me of paul newman's fred carpenter took this movie to a new level i loved the cast the music score cinematography talent locations and script were awesome i loved seeing some of my favorite actors in eddie monroe fred carpenter is an incredibly talented and gifted director he gives his work 200 the film has great texture i hope that there will be an eddie monroe 2 i would love to see how nicolette turns out after getting her of money fred carpenter's eddie monroe is hollywood level
1	i viewed the movie for a second time on september 30 2006 and thought that it was even better than the first time i saw it i thoroughly enjoyed the acting especially uncle benny i thought that fred carpenter did an excellent job of writing and directing this film the story line definitely kept your interest and i hope this movie makes it all the way to the top i felt it moved very smoothly between scenes and the surprise twist at the end well lets just say i didn't see it coming i also thought that craig the actor who played eddie monroe did an excellent job and i hope that this movie will help him to go further in his acting career from start to finish i thoroughly enjoyed it
1	i was at a friends house for thanksgiving and watched a dvd of the movie eddie monroe i've been a fan of indie films for almost 20 years i loved the brothers and was impressed how good this movie is my friend who works at sound told us that this movie was shot on super 16 the photography was so good it looked as though it was a 35mm shoot furthermore the music combined with fred carpenter's direction was art the storyline was original and led up to an ending that surprised all of us watching very cool the acting by the entire cast was good especially the actor who played uncle benny he was amazing this film was a nice holiday treat and i was delighted to be one of the first to view a movie that many will be seeing in the future
1	long ago and far away they knew how to make a musical and cover girl is no exception to the rule br br a story of a dancer in a nightclub who becomes a cover girl and famous the old adage applies here that happiness and fame always don't mix br br the dance routines are marvelously choreographed what dancing and chemistry between rita hayworth and gene kelly br br otto kruger is the older gentleman who discovers hayworth when he sees her picture that shows a strong resemblance to the woman who left him at the aisle hayworth's grandmother br br a jealous reaction by kelly drives rusty hayworth into the arms of broadway producer lee bowman br br the picture is basically history repeating itself at the end br br to add to the glory of this fine film there is the always wise cracking eve arden and the hilarious phil silvers appropriately named genius in the film
1	as a long island independent film maker myself and having have had two theatrical releases under my producing directing belt i had always been told of how much i could learn by viewing a fred carpenter production so i was lucky enough to have his eddie monroe as my initiation to his superb budgeting production casting settings and masterful directing talents my heart went out to it's characters it's story and was totally won over by the trick switch ending that brought the film's plot to fruition were marvelously chosen and human emotions in it's characters brought a realistic link to my bonding with all the elements that mr carpenter utilized throughout to his and his film's benefit
1	i found the movie very interesting i really enjoyed the film the actors were great it was entertainment benny the uncle was wonderful he was real at his character the ending took a wonderful twist i would recommend you seeing it eddie mores girlfriend reminded me a little of sandra bullock she was sharp as a nail i also like the little girls acting in the movie she was very convincing benny reminded me of a friend of mine who really lives his life growing up in brooklyn i loved the scene where he tasted the sauce in the pot because thats how most people cook lol i actually watched the movie 2 times and learned more the second time
1	i've been writing hardboiled crime fiction for a number of years now when a writer develops a story he always has a character actor in mind to bring the story to life last weekend i found a new one in paul playing uncle benny in eddie monroe this was a slick film highlighted by presence both on and off the screen as his voice over narration is also heard i also especially liked the actress playing benny's niece and eddie's ex wife although everyone did a fine job in this exciting movie about playing with bad guys and the double crossing that goes with it a nice job all around and mr shined brightest he's gotta be my tony someday
1	i was a guest at the sept 30th screening of eddie monroe and was pleasantly surprised with the story the great acting and the talented directing i found it hard to believe that all this talent can be found in an independent film powerful performances by uncle benny sara jessica and morris eddie monroe the supporting cast was chock full of colorful and amusing characters this film reminds me of one of those movies that you will look back on in 20 years and discover that it launched many actors into stardom much like the outsiders where tom cruise emilio patrick ralph macchio and others can be found look out hollywood there are new stars out on the horizon and they can be discovered in a little long island independent film called eddie monroe great job
1	i loved this film independent film making at its best the cinematography pacing rhythm and acting were perfectly in sync fred carpenters best work to date the movie is well written with lots of plot twists that take you to a great ending it moves well and keeps you involved being a photographer i was most impressed with the cinematography the lighting creates mood and a beauty that is usually found in a much bigger budget film this gave the actors a great canvas to start from to work their magic and that is just what they did great performances from all the actors and each one was well cast in their roles as i said in the beginning the is a wonderful film and one of fred carpenters best movies you will love it
1	eddie monroe is he is a great actor and i could be his girl anytime he's so fine i was so sad at the end i'm not going to ruin the end but wow girls are so vicious his girl was wrong if eddie was my man i would never disrespect those mobsters were spooky the moral of the story is trust no one your friends will hurt u if they can oh and eddie tell your girlfriend that yo mine she should move ova i would suggest seeing the movie why i said so it kept my eyes on the screen my sister loved it also so i am going to see it again because now my friends want to see it and its worth seeing two times peace happy new year
1	no doubt that the indie flick eddie monroe is one of the better independent films i've seen in a long time the highlight for me was the performance of paul i first saw paul or big paulie as he was called in danny hit indie this thing of ours thankfully the eddie monroe filmmaker s did the same and utilized paul's undeniable skills in a principle principal role out came a performance on camera and voice over as well that shows worthy of big budget studio roles in the very near future it's refreshing to see a trained actor who is committed to the trade prove the same to the audience keep up the good work big paulie and we'll be seeing you in hollywood real soon not bad for a kid from huh
1	i was very impressed with what eddie monroe was able to accomplish in regards to its overall affect on me i say this because i know this independent film had a limited budget resources but despite this it comes across as a convincing and well crafted piece of work br br enjoyable from start to finish with several relatively unknown actors which i can't help but believe will make a big noise in the industry in years to come eddie monroe didn't fail to keep my interest engaged and my emotional meter dancing it's a well scripted story with a startling ending despite my effort to not be taken off guard br br many of the cast names listed for this film are names to look out for in the future someone told me that paul regina recently passed and if this is true it's a real tragedy since his stoic performance in eddie monroe is remarkable br br kudos to fred carpenter who has truly pulled out a winner with this one
1	i just viewed eddie monroe and i was very impressed the story was easily paced as the plot unraveled to a surprise ending heartwarming performances action humor and drama filled the screen topnotch acting by some talented long islanders great script this is the best film that fred carpenter has made to date he should be very proud of this work doug brown's score is on the mark craig morris is the next tom cruise or brad pitt hard to believe this is a low budget independent film just imagine what carpenter can do with a hollywood level budget paul last film and he is greatly missed and loved by all he was a wonderful successful talented actor and a great human being he will watch over us all and we will never forget his dynamic smile and spirit great job to all who participated in this film a few cherished scene stealing and humorous cameos to break up the serious content you will enjoy this film go see it
1	fred carpenter screened eddie monroe at boston college and judging from the enthusiastic response he has much to be pleased about a taught well done indy impressive for it's big budget look and feel this movie has it all a tight script that grabs you and doesn't let go right up to it's surprise ending this viewer didn't see it coming excellent performances all around craig morris and jessica were were especially well cast in the leads delivering strong performances and kudos to frank and alex corrado for creating two detectives as engaging and interesting to watch as any in film i thoroughly enjoyed this movie it confirmed my belief that some of the best work in film will be coming from the independents and fred carpenter looks to be one of the best
1	one of my favorites non mgm musicals it's a classic rita hayworth is in top form her beauty leaps out of the screen gene kelly shows off his dancing skills and introduces to musicals his edgy and innovative choreography that eventually would change the way musicals are choreograph phil silvers is the perfect second bananas and eve arden injects this movie with a lot of class br br the structure is so theatrical that one has to wonder why in this era where major broadway shows come from the movies cover girl hasn't been adapted to theatre
1	anyone who appreciates fine acting and ringing dialogue will love br br this film taken from ronald 'taking harwood it's a funny br br and ultimately excoriating analysis of a relationship between two br br very types albert finney is sublime as the despotic br br shakespearean actor who barely notices the world war raging br br around him so intent is he on the crumbling fortunes of his theatre br br company and his own psychological and emotional breakdown br br tom is matchless as norman the of the title br br whose apparent devotion turns out to be anything but selfless br br really a must see
1	this movie is engaging from start to finish with excellent performances a great soundtrack with original music by douglas brown and a well paced script that's full of surprises br br full of new and not so new faces this movie showcases promising talent especially in the case of craig morris who plays the main character eddie monroe morris who also co wrote the script displays a quiet strength combined with a strong emotional performance as he creates a believable character on screen also a poignant delivery by paul who plays uncle benny with a genuine warmth was so convincing that he made me hungry as he lovingly prepared his italian sauce br br great new faces great new music and a great new story what more could you ask for this film is highly recommended
1	i watched the movie with tears and smiles alternatively anger in me to see the ruin of hanoi after the 12 day bombard and by living in the country right now with my parents who's been living in saigon for 50 years i understand that we're much better off now and would have been better if the american didn't bring war here watching the movie i learned more of the different kinds of wars that the america planned in vietnam and what disasters they caused br br the series seems to do well with the interviews with the real people but i don't like it that some people only give generic opinions like the analyst near the end of the series i forgot his name br br there should also be more documentary images like the life in the army camp of the south vietnam and those of the north if possible there's also a sudden change from the year of 1972 to 1975 i'm not sure if the in between was censored because i watched this series on tv
1	the internet is a wondrous thing is it not i am watching a taped episode of one of my all time favorite documentaries vietnam the ten thousand day war from my dvr in florida usa to my laptop in kuwait i'm writing a review about this series and have just read another review from someone who actually lives in vietnam amazing i would like to just say that for nguyen to make the statement that america brought the war to vietnam is one sided i know america was the main player in the west but it takes two sides to wage war the soviets and the chinese were major arms providers to the north so why mr nguyen doesn't mention them as partially to blame is showing an ignorance well i think we all know why he doesn't mention them either ignorance from being raised in a communist system and its political dogma or because he to scared to say the truth for fear of being arrested also mr nguyen i guess the parts about the north being the main aggressor it whole war were not shown in your country so to blame america again shows ignorance regardless its interesting to read a review from vietnam of course that could be made up as well but i'll take that as real at least the communist east is somewhat open as far as the mini series why do i love it it doesn't focus on the american involvement solely this was a war that started 15 years before america got involved and the series covers every facet of the history so thats a real plus the footage used is first rate all the vietnam war programs you see made now will use the same footage so you are not missing anything by watching this older series the date this series was made is another plus it has all the major players being interviewed which you can't do now because they are dead from old age it's a major historical reference third richard adds a very distinctive narrative voice his voice sounds as distinguished as james earl jones voice would and i think thats very steep praise i don't think you could find a better war documentary ever made it's like taking the relatively modern technology of 1980 and transplanting it to the year 1950 and interviewing all the generals and politicians on both sides of world war two it does that for the vietnam war br br ok i do see some bias its subtle a 1970's 80's style subtle bias kind of like npr all things considered bias where it all seems so straight forward but when you blink you end up shaking your head in this shows case the later episodes don't throw a whole lot of light on the role of the media and propaganda in general all useful tools to influence the outcome of a war don't you think br br from an war veteran going through the same thing 30 years later
1	the next karate kid is an outstanding movie full of adventure and new surprises it has a wonderful plot and moral that tells a wonderful story hilary swank does an incredible job of achieving the role of julie i have seen the actor who plays mr and this is one of his best performances in my opinion the movie is funny and charming and i cannot stress enough about how interesting the movie is i gove this movie a 10 out of 10 i suggest the movie to anyone who likes a good movie
1	i like this movie cause it has a good approach of buddhism for example the way buddhist use to care all kind of living things combining some fancy and real situations in some parts the photography is very good and a lot of messages about freedom as the hawk episode staying always focused in every moment even in tough situations it has also funny situations as swank's birthday and talking this two times academy awards her acting show us how the people who use to live in this kind of culture is trying to have a resistance behavior when miyagi is taking her to a buddhist temple and how she slowly is changing her mind and of course pat morita has been always great
1	well it took them 4 tries but they finally got it right in this 4th sequel to the karate kid franchise the producers really hit a home run well first of all i applaud them for finally getting rid of ralph macchio i felt he never did service to the role of the karate kid i would have rather have seen danny mouth' most in that role macchio turned out what proved to be the best movie in the series and look where his career is now instead they put in a girl they got hillary swank best known for playing a variety of parts in every movie she is in i personally don't care for her buck teeth but thats a personal preference but still look how karate kid 4 launched her career into orbit she won a freakin oscar christmas meanwhile where is ralphy he should put out some amateur porn tape like screech or something br br anyways my only disagreement with the movie is that they have a girl doing karate as a self proclaimed master of karate i have been the proud owner of a white belt for the last 8 5 8 years the first thing they taught me is that there is no place in any of the martial arts for girls well except for judo but thats kinda gay so for the purposes of accuracy i think they should have stuck with another male for this role i was thinking perhaps dennis franz he would give the role the depth it requires br br perhaps they will listen to my suggestions and make the proper adjustments in karate kid 5 its too pat marita is no longer i was thinking maybe justin is the perfect replacement for the lovable asian fellow mr miyagi he will give wax on wax off a whole new meaning funny huh anyways if you are looking for an exciting movie filled with karate and triumph of the human spirit karate kid 4 is for you don't waste your time with 1 3 this is the karate kid for you this is the karate kid for r the ages
1	i wish the series had not ended so soon although the acting may not be the greatest in the world it does end on a positive note and does teach morals and values to the viewers hilary swank did a good job of portraying a high school student who had lost her parents etc miyagi was great as in the previous 3 if you are not into the happy ending this movie like the previous 3 in the series is not for you this day in which we live you can not see enough about the bad guys getting what they deserve and the good guys coming out on top the bible teaches that good will always triumph over evil that is exactly what happens in this one it is a great family movie please see it if you have not already
1	this movie is specially for children and i think they will enjoy the movie for older than 10 the movie is not great but hilary swank played very well and without her the movie is very bad but now it gets a 7
1	i've seen this movie more than once and it's worth it for those of you who like martial arts and overcoming internal conflict this is a worthy choice after seeing this movie i wanted to be a more productive member of society because i could relate to the inner turmoil of a girl looking for acceptance and needing a path to follow of course mr miyagi always provides his sage advice 2 thumbs up
1	i'm not sure how i can make ten lines out of this question but i'll try br br when julie went to the dance and they were dancing to slow music what was the name of the song that was playing and who played it br br i love that song and i watch the movie over and over just to hear that one song br br i did several searches online and even looked up the soundtrack but i sill can't find the song br br it might be because the song they were dancing to wasn't a complete song and just partial br br i would appreciate if anyone out there who knows what the name of the song and the group who sung it br br thank you br br frank
1	in brooklyn the nightclub dancer rusty parker rita hayworth has a simple but happy life dancing in the mcguire's owned by her boyfriend danny gene kelly rusty danny and genius phil silvers have a ritual on friday nights they order oysters in a bar trying to find a pearl the life of rusty changes when she participates and wins a contest to be the cover page of the vanity magazine she is invited to work in a huge theater in broadway whose owner proposes her she loses her happiness and starts drinking in her new life style missing the love of danny and her old friends girl' is a delightful romantic comedy very naive and having magnificent parts such as the beauty and talented rita hayworth dancing singing and acting gene kelly specially in two scenes dancing with himself and with rusty and genius on the street the songs and the choreography of the dances are also spectaculars danny the character of gene kelly is almost nasty with his chauvinist behavior rita hayworth surprised me with her talent i found her amazing in 'gilda' but she is stunning in girl' in accordance with the information on the cover of the vhs girl' was the first musical where the songs were part of the plot giving continuity to the story instead of just being in the movie my sixteen years old son saw this movie with a friend of the same age in a recent gene kelly festival and they loved girl' therefore i dare to say that this classic is recommended to any movie lover and not only to the old generations my vote is nine br br title brazil
1	after a very disappointing part 3 i kinda wondered if i should even bother with the next karate kid while i could see why this saga wouldn't continue i still enjoyed the next karate kid most out of the second and the third karate kid movies while there are some very unrealistic moments and situations it was very enjoyable and the story is a catchy and warm one br br hilary swank has this girl come far or what she plays a rebel girl who has lost her parents to a car accident and when sort of babysits her per say he notices that she has karate skills he offers her more lessons if she becomes more serious in life now of course there is the boy that likes her and the mean bullies that are pretty similar to the first karate kid but i would recommend this one i think you'll be pleasantly surprised br br 7 10
1	ok so this is a complete rip off of the first karate kid however i think there can never be too many movies like the first karate kid there's something about this type of story that particularly seems to apply to people like me you get a overall sense of being able to overcome adversity by finding out new things about yourself in this movie hillary swank is a particular gem as the next karate kid you can really tell that she has a bright future ahead of her br br not to say this movie is not without it's problems unlike the first one mr miyagi appears to be a little to eager to get julie to learn martial arts and get her involved in fighting it almost seems like he forgot what his values were from the first movie also one must have a suspended disbelief when examining the monks the movie makes the monks appear to have a way too simplistic view of life and doesn't really explain why they do what they do in the plot line the villains are also a bit questionable even though truly hateable bad guys i also have a suspicion about martial arts movies that end on prom night br br so maybe this isn't a perfect movie so maybe this wouldn't be the greatest movie to rent on a friday night however in more ways than one it's a guilty pleasure hillary swank is just so loveable and the story even though unoriginal works in a genre of movies that seems to be based around nothing other than action and violence this is a breath of fresh air unlike all those steven seagal and jean claude van damme this is a movie about the spirit and the heart there are some people that need movies like this and we'll take whatever we can get my rating 8 10
1	the next karate kid in my opinion is an excellent martial arts flick i thought that eric chris conrad and julie hilary swank looked good in their prom attire to me ned michael was a real bully this was because he got julie in trouble with principal wilkes eugene boles if you ask me colonel dugan michael ironside was a pure a this was because he was a very harsh man who wouldn't tolerate mistakes my favorite parts were the prom and the showdown between julie and the alpha elite in conclusion i highly recommend this smash hit to all of you who like martial arts flicks or are fans of hilary swank
1	for once a sequel to the karate kid without ralph macchio hilary swank did an excellent job playing the orphan julie pierce pat morita the one who plays mr miyagi worked his way with julie quite different from daniel both daniel and julie favored karate unlike daniel julie was the most surly person miyagi ever challenged and there was no tournament to compete in and there's gonna be some humor in this movie as well i liked the part where when julie came home from school miyagi went to check on her and saw her change clothes in the process that was very funny and the classic wax on wax off scene was different as well it was funny when miyagi tells julie uh oh missed spot the set in boston was a far cry from california the militant group in that group was like the cobra kai in boston and michael ironside's col dugan was no john his group practically deserted him when julie kicked some serious butt they all paid the price when they blew up that classic what a cowardly act at least they'll find redemption from poison this karate kid sets some morals unlike the last three which talked about honor and respect hilary swank is outstandingly hot in any movie and everything else she does movie 9 hilary swank 10
1	br br i first viewed this film shortly after it was put out on video in 1995 i dismissed it offhand saying that julie was no daniel never really giving it a chance and saying it was horrid br br but here it is 5 years later its on disney and im watching it again and i'm finding that it isnt as bad as i made it out to be miyagi is still miyagi just as kool as ever the musical score is still there pleasant as ever and swank's character isnt that bad her acting is pretty good considering the script it beats the third installment by a wide margin so my original rating of 4 has been raised to 7
1	another 'good overcoming evil' story but with a difference this includes learning self discipline when julie goes with her teacher to a zen monastery she learns about herself she also her karate skills br br when the zen monks visit the city some awkward and comical moments ensue not uproarious but entertaining nonetheless br br next karate kid has much to say about looking within and improving what is there as well as using what you have
1	this film was very different form the previous films and i had to wonder where is ralph macchio he could have been involved in the plot somewhere as old friend who teaches julie what he already knows then can come along and add some more macchio could've been the love interest for julie in this film never mind br br on a serious level i enjoyed this film because it involved teaching a teenage girl how to do karate and her feelings are very different to what daniel's were julie is much more wild than daniel was and needs taming something which finds very challenging she's quite a troubled girl and a rude obnoxious brat br br it was very satisfying to watch the transformation in julie as she warms to and gets to understand more about karate and her life in general we can all learn a thing or two from witticisms
1	this is the 4th movie in the karate kid series however it has nothing to do with the previous 3 the only character remaining is mr this time around mr meets troubled teen julie pierce swank before she was famous julie having all kinds of problem including being bullied at school by a guy belonging to a pseudo military club on campus naturally she is trained how to fight anyway through julie learns karate and becomes a better person spiritually and learns how to respect herself and in the end regains her respect i like the unique idea of the antagonist being a female and having a male as her enemy i there are also some fight scenes which are done quite well very low key and minimal violence none of the fighting is graphic the ending is also good and a bit surprising it is predictable but not a typical ending for this kind of film the film has echoes of the original obviously especially the spiritual aspect and the lessons learned it is not as good as the 1st movie and certainly not as good as the 2nd it is however a giant leap forward compared to the underwhelming 3rd entry this is a very entertaining under dog movie that is suitable for the whole family 8 10
1	i thought this movie was great if you didn't take it too seriously just sit back and enjoy hilary swank in all her greatness and laugh when the monks go to boston ma i also think this movie has a great message about self control and inner strength plus mr was so sweet i wish he'd teach me karate
1	hilary was great as julie and pat was once again magnificent as mr miyagi but there should have been more references towards the other three movies i mean come on first off where's daniel miyagi makes a very brief mention of him and that's it daniel was his best friend and should've at least made an appearance in the movie he could've helped miyagi train julie san on the flip side the music stayed true to the movie though with a little more instrumentation bass to accompany the wonderfully played pan flute it doesn't feel like a karate kid movie unless you hear that pan flute thank you overall a decent movie though we miss you
1	rita hayworth lights up the screen in this fun fancy and delightful musical starring gene kelly rita plays nightclub dancer rusty parker who has dreams to be a successful broadway star unfortunately her career is getting no where in danny mcguire's night club when one of her fellow dancers says she's going to enter a cover girl contest she decides to follow her dreams and enters she reminds the publisher of her grandma who he was deeply in love with many years ago but when she finds this success her boyfriend is not happy about it br br i had never seen rita before this and i am so glad i did she has such a scene presence and is a very good actress there are some good numbers in here not the best of any musical but they are melodic and good to listen to one thing i didn't like was gene kelly's character he should have supported his girlfriend but anyway that's perhaps the only criticism i have about this movie cover girl is a glorious fluffy film perfect escapism not everyone's ideal movie but a wonderful movie nonetheless due to rita hayworth's star power great movie truly impressed
1	i read a few reviews of the movie and got the impression that it was not as good as the previous karate kid installments although my favorite is still karate kid ii i felt this fourth installment of the movie series was consistent with the others and had some important lessons to share unlike the previous versions the karate student is a female teenager who takes a somewhat different learning path rather than a male teenager maggi finds this a little more challenging but rises to the occasion the plot twists are believable and predictable i found that the bad guys are a little one dimensional but this weakness is present in all the installments in varying degrees the camera work is impressive and pans across some beautiful scenery from time to time the zen monastery is both austere and charming the zen monks add some humor and lightness to the narrative flow i liked the zen bowling scenes which are a humorous counterpoint to the more serious zen archery scene earlier on the quality level of the movie is like a good tv series the music chosen for the background is very good especially with the little river band playing listen to your heart the lessons in the movie are valuable and worthwhile to learn they feel faithful to the spirit of karate and take care not to over glorify the fighting part all in all i enjoyed it
1	growing up as of child of the movies one of the trilogies i shall not soon forget is that of the karate kid you can put down ralph daniel all you want but its the message behind the movies that are important that its important to be respectful to all creatures great and small but stand up for yourself when the time calls for it getting back to the movie at hand its rather funny because i saw boys don't cry and was really impressed with the performance of hillary swank and in flipping through the sea of channels the other night i came across the showing of this film and i hadn't realized at the time of my first viewing of this movie that she was in it the story centers around julie just like daniel not knowing where to fit in or if she even wants to fit in and the master teacher is brought in to help straighten her out and guide her i really liked this addition to the series as it gave a good feminine side to the story and yes even some outfits that hillary were in kept me shall we say stimulated br br overall 3 5 out of 5
1	i was 19 years old when i saw first saw this film in the theater i have a vivid memory of a different ending not completely different but significantly i just watched the movie last night and i was wrong so i guess the following can't be called a spoiler since it never happened the ending i remember was that the boy was hiding in the house completely naked frances austen found him quite easily and after she confronted him she slowly sank to her knees and went down on him off camera only his face was in the frame and it was pretty obvious he was letting it happen albeit against his will but nothing like this showed up in the movie sandy dennis was 32 years old when she made this movie michael burns was 22 in the movie he complains to his sister that frances makes too big a deal about sex yeah well then so go to bed with her dude and get it over with wtf
1	spoilers feeling alone and needing companionship as well as love frances austen sandy dennis keeps all these emotions inside as she goes through life as a popular young single lady who has many high class friends but for reasons of her own deep insecurity she keeps them at arms length as for frances male friends non are anywhere near her age so that she won't have any reason to have any romantic involvement with them br br one early evening as frances was entertaining some of her friends she spots outside her apartment window a young man michael burns sitting alone in the cold pouring rain feeling that he's homeless and alone after her friends leave frances goes outside to the park and offers the young man shelter at her place until the rain subsides and even to stay over for the night at a guest bedroom that she has you can see right away that frances is more interested in just having the young mans safely out of the cold and rain then she wants to have him as a friend lover or even play toy all for herself and as the movie progresses you see that you were right br br a really amazing performance by sandy dennis that in a way is very much like that of kathy bates' academy award performance in the movie misery that was made in 1990 some twenty one years later frances thinking that the young man was alone and homeless and later when she meets him mute sees the perfect person for her to have as a true friend he's in no way her equal or better then her like the friends that she has doctors lawyers indian chiefs and thus is totally dependent on her it later turns out that the young man is not the lonely and homeless person that frances thought that he is it's when she slowly finds out that he really doesn't need her as well as him manipulating her instead the other way around it sets off something in mind that turns out to be a compulsion of murderous proportions br br a really weird film by director robert altman that goes deep into the depths of loneliness and depression of the human mind actress sandy dennis is perfect as the dr jekyll and miss hyde personality in her acting as the lonely but at the same time dangerous frances austen and it's a pity that not only didn't she get an academy award for her role in the film but wasn't even nominated for it br br like most robert altman movies there seems to be a lot of improvisation among the actors in the movie and ad lib dialog especially between the young man's sister nina susanne benton and her boyfriend nick david garfield the only thing in the movie that i found confusing is when we see frances go to a city clinic to have a full exam and tells the doctor that she expects to get married very soon was her husband to be the young man staying at her apartment but besides that the movie sticks to the story pretty well and the ending is a real shock to the audience as well as the young man when he finally in the end realizes that frances is not only a bit off the wall but murderously insane as well
1	this is another of robert altman's underrated films let's be honest the only movie he's made that really didn't work was ready to wear and sandy dennis gives a spellbinding performance in it she is far better here than she was in the out of towners the material i will admit is beneath the great director altman and the extraordinary actress dennis but that hardly matters anyway as long as there allowed to do their thing and do it well just about any story will do
1	this film requires a lot of patience because it focuses on mood and character development the plot is very simple and many of the scenes take place on the same set in frances austen's the sandy dennis character apartment but the film builds to a disturbing climax br br the characters create an atmosphere rife with sexual tension and psychological trickery it's very interesting that robert altman directed this considering the style and structure of his other films still the trademark altman audio style is evident here and there i think what really makes this film work is the brilliant performance by sandy dennis it's definitely one of her darker characters but she plays it so perfectly and convincingly that it's scary michael burns does a good job as the mute young man regular altman player michael murphy has a small part the solemn moody set fits the content of the story very well in short this movie is a powerful study of loneliness sexual repression and desperation be patient soak up the atmosphere and pay attention to the wonderfully written script br br i praise robert altman this is one of his many films that deals with unconventional fascinating subject matter this film is disturbing but it's sincere and it's sure to elicit a strong emotional response from the viewer if you want to see an unusual film some might even say bizarre this is worth the time br br unfortunately it's very difficult to find in video stores you may have to buy it off the internet
1	first of all let me say this film isn't for everyone it has a very strange subject matter a spinster living alone and living a boring life discovers a young man in a park just across the street from her townhouse she notices him sitting out in the rain and invites him in to dry off warm up the man does not speak and the woman assumes he is deaf mute still she is fascinated with him and sexually interested in him he finds her odd and continues his silence although we find out later that he isn't mute at all and that he reports to his sister everything that is going on between him the woman i won't give away the rest of the plot if you can find this film watch it you cannot take your eyes off of it what makes it so interesting well it is totally unique i've never seen anything like it and watching these two together is very uncomfortable especially when you find out what this bland boring obsessive spinster is capable of you won't forget it soon
1	what i find remarkable about this terrific film is that altman the crazy and wild guy that he is took the novel that cold day in the park and the sandy dennis character was originally a male in the book he was a mentally whacked out isolated gay who looked out of his apartment window when he spotted the hustler it is strange that altman fans aren't aware of how clever he was to change the sex of the main character thereby avoiding the homo erotic taboos of gay life in the 60's and actually making dennis' reclusive kind of madness work even better in the transposition if you see the film again it will be evident how wily the altman mind works
1	i wouldn't be so sure to accept the dna tests as irrefutable evidence against anna anderson first read peter book on which this film is based anna anderson knew things that only the real grand duchess anastasia could possibly have known forensic evidence in anna's favor aside second compare the pictures of anastasia and anna anderson anyone can see that they are one and the same person third visit peter website url below where you can read detailed information about the dna tests as well as why franziska and anna anderson are not the same person scroll down to the link anna anastasia notes on franziska even relatives believed that their sister and anna anderson were not the same person br br i for one will always believe that anastasia and anna anderson were indeed the same person i will never be swayed to the contrary br br www com
1	it was probably watching this tv movie that got me interested in the debate as to whether anna was really daughter anastasia since seeing it i have made a point of watching various documentaries and also bought a book despite the evidence that has been discovered since the film was released i sometimes still think she was such is the power of amy irving's acting in this 2 parter which is somewhat liberal with the historical facts but packed to the brim with tear jerking drama and irving's totally convincing performance br br i was not consciously aware of irving before this though i must have seen her without realizing it in carrie another favourite film in i never felt for one moment that it's only a film for me this woman was anastasia and when part one ended with her in the railway carriage meeting members of the royal family i knew that come hell or high water i had to see the second part i just wanted to see how she would prove that she was who she claimed to be and as the story progressed i felt an intense hatred of rex harrison's character though i greatly admire him as an actor br br when i saw the movie listed again in the tv guide i convinced my mother that we should watch it and afterward she thanked me for doing so being almost as keen as i had been to watch part 2 then i bought the video and can totally recommend it anastasia is one of those rare tv movies that you simply must watch for the sheer enjoyment of watching the finest acting i have ever seen on tv and it doesn't really matter whether you believe the legend or not
1	i really like this film because of all the stars and the dancing and the story that goes along with it rita hayworth was at her most glamorous in this musical and the costumes were gorgeous although a musical i thought rita hayworth did a fine performance of dramatic acting in this film as well as far as her dancing i think she was excellent even betty grable pretty much endorsed rita's dancing in this film as she commented that rita danced rings around her own dancing and let's face it betty grable was an excellent dancer the cinematography and vivid colors are also noted rita wants to be a cover girl for a magazine but she's also in love with her mentor played by gene kelly does she leave kelly to fulfill her dream and bypass love and broadway stardom or does she stick around to find that unique pearl that will change her life forever you'll have to watch the film to find out
1	it's out of question that the real anna anderson was not princess anastasia apart from very distinctive differences in physical appearance anderson's eyes are larger lips thicker nose larger and turned up at the end etc anderson's unable to speak russian was a ridiculous tell that's why i detest anna anderson and her confederates so much not a lot of swindlers have the audacity and endurance to scam for 60 years with such a blatantly untenable scheme br br yet to some extent i have sympathy for anna anderson life must have been hard for a young polish peasant worker in those days and to impersonate another woman for 60 years is an arduous task for anybody she had to hold back her fleshy lips all the time to mimic the thin lips of and had to occasionally go lunatic to make people believe all her chaotic memory was just a result of mental problem br br anna anderson was an awesome woman on a wrong track had she put her good looks learned elegance endurance acting skills into proper use she could of made a first class actress br br on a side note some main characters of this two parter seem to be loosely based on real figures prince erich could be a mixture of botkin believed by many the most possible brain behind the whole scheme duke george and of and several other figures and seem to be based on the gorgeous princess but unlike the real confederates prince erich was motiveless in this show and supported anna out of love for and sincere belief in her which is touching br br on the whole this is a great show fictionalised a bit but still remains faithful to the reality the power of amy irving's acting lies in that she successfully represented anderson's self assuredness the mixture of impersonating others and being herself is intriguing just as princess said about anderson she was herself at all times and never gave the slightest impression of acting a part highly recommended
1	anastasia the mystery of anna was a two part star studded historical t v movie based on the peter book anastasia the riddle of anna anderson it keeps up historically pretty much names are changed etc but sticks to the real story quite well omar sharif and claire bloom do quite well as the russian royals czar nicholas and alexandra what stuck out in my mind was the all too short portrayals by rex harrison and olivia de havilland all in all it was a pretty classy production with some fine acting i was quite awestruck by the production values when it first aired on nbc in late 1986 also starring was the fine german actor jan niklas who had previously starred in nbc's other russian epic peter the great br br i felt that part 2 skipped over some important details of anna anderson's trip to america it's important to know too that in 1986 less was known about the anna anderson story back then it was still not known whether her claim to be the grand duchess anastasia was genuine by the late 1990's more was known and anna anderson is now reputed to have been a fraud br br too bad the networks aren't making fine made for television movies like this anymore
1	this movie is a very enjoyable homage to the bogart and other detective films of old robert sacchi nails it as bogie and michelle phillips is a truly timeless beauty as gena br br however the most noteworthy portion of this film involves the longest belly dancing scene ever produced in a hollywood film one well known professional instructor commented that nothing else in cinema comes close for dance excitement br br the scene which ends up being an important part of the plot occurs in a lushly beautiful middle eastern nightclub and is by all accounts mesmerizing the pulsating music the swirling veils and ringing finger free flowing undulations and beautiful costumes and a surprise twist involving the seductive sybil danning build tension and excitement until the very end br br the three talented and beautiful professional nightclub dancers are led by exotic brunette beauty kamala one of the us' leading belly dancers since the mid 1970s she was hand picked by famed musician guy to travel with his orchestra on the road guy's ensemble is the live band that the dancers perform to in the scene if you watch the trailer on this site you will see a glimpse of kamala playing the finger behind sybil danning br br if you're not yet a fan of belly dancing you will be after watching this movie and if you're an aficionado it holds up very well after repeated viewing
1	making this short and to the point this movie was great i loved it i actually picked this up at a hollywood video for 3 bucks on vhs and watched it about 5 times in the last couple weeks i'm a big bogart fan and i just latched onto this movie i thought the song was funny and now have it as a ring tone on my phone robert sacchi is great and pulls off a good bogart his nose is a little big his voice is a bogart columbo mix and he does a few things that are awkward but otherwise he was fantastic and this film was wonderful no one can be a perfect bogart but he was great remember sam marlow is a fan of bogart and isn't going to do everything he did he mentions a lot of other movies and does some things that were never part of the real bogart's character's but it's so funny and hilarious and has a great cast including some beautiful women watch it and have fun
1	sacchi is the best bogart impersonator ever dry and droll as sam marlowe the music from award winning composer george duning from here to eternity picnic the world of suzie wong the cinematography of perfect locations including the famous ambassador hotel are all right on target as famous tv director robert day kojak streets of san francisco the avengers guides the most endearing group of well known character actors through a spoof of every dark detective film every made see this if you loved all the old serious flicks and have a sense of humor this one is a hoot
1	this amusing sometimes poignant look at the hollywood detective genre of the 1940's and 1950's stars robert as an unnamed former cop who retires uses his life savings to pay for plastic surgery to transform his image into that of his idol humphrey bogart then sets up shop as a private eye under the name sam marlowe robert sacchi incidentally is one of the rare few bogart impersonators who got the lisp exactly right more to the point the body and facial language are there for awhile sam 's only client is his landlady who wants him to find her undersized boyfriend and his only conversational foil is his secretary simply called dutchess misty rowe who in his own words looked like marilyn monroe and made about as much sense as gracie allen and has a passion for banana splits then he encounters elsa olivia hussey the plain sweet virginal daughter of a retired props master who has been murdered for no discernible reason in the process of investigating the murder sam shortly runs across the gene tierney lookalike daughter michelle phillips of an avaricious obscenely wealthy greek shipping tycoon victor buono turning in a creditable sidney greenstreet his hapless long suffering second wife yvonne decarlo who manages to play a variety of put upon emotions without saying a word his two smarmy henchmen herbert lom channelling peter lorre and jay robinson doing a reasonably accurate lionel atwill and vicious amoral middle eastern potentate franco nero who comes complete with a and bafflingly loyal mistress sybil danning all of whom would give anything to acquire the eyes of alexander two huge perfectly matched star when elsa is murdered interest in solving the case becomes personal and he sets out through a labyrinth of los angeles landmarks including the hollywood bowl the scatological and esoteric attractions of hollywood boulevard and santa catalina island in pursuit of the rocks determined to get at them before either of the two wealthy competitors throw in cameos by mike mazurki and assorted others the traditional dumb but sympathetic ally on the police force and a plethora of nicely drawn character turns that provide dimension to practically all players and despite an unfortunate title song you have to my mind a thoroughly enjoyable movie experience
1	almost missed it while visiting friends in philadelphia sometime in the early 1980 s i was channel surfing after everyone else went to bed it wasn t just bogart he was obsessed with but rather the entire era of those old flicks those of my age know so well add to that a plot liken to the maltese falcon where so many different characters were interacting with sacchi and you have a piece of art as far as i m concerned about ten years later it appeared on tv and i taped it
1	it was a sweet intro for the most sailor soldier sailor mercury it consisted with a new in he at the wrote a love letter to ami which would be of course and now ami he is a einstien and he is attractive he ended up looking like melvin this was a it's no skin off my neck scene hot well i really like the senshi sailor moon series i personally think its the best anime ever but this movie was nice funny but not as as sailor moon r it was more like the s movie i saw this sailor moon with real player and it was pretty good over all
1	well i don't know much about anything but i sure liked this film in short it was creative humorous simple and heartwarming in other words it was everything it set out to be br br the story is set around a girl's first love as the title suggests and i certainly should warn you expect nothing challenging or provocative in terms of the subject matter here i mean it is a children's cartoon it's really just a simple story but it's told well and it holds your attention well br br in the end it's short it's funny it's cute it's simple it's good
1	this is one of my favorite movies ever along with casablanca and cannibal holocaust this is near perfect cinema rex allen narrates this wonderful tale of a cougar who just needs a little loving contains action adventure suspense comedy and chaos see this movie if you have to kill to do it you will not find a better cat picture anywhere with cat from outer space coming in as a not so close second charlie's performance is magnificent even includes animal cruelty and intense logging gotta love disney for all moral failures
1	a fantastic musical starring gene kelly and rita hayworth he owns a nightclub where she dances she's no star yet but she gets a big break when she's chosen as a cover girl for vanity whose owner was actually in love with her grandmother when he sees the resemblance he picks her right away for a contest his is running hayworth's newfound fame at first works wonders for kelly's club but her star rises so quickly and so high up that his grasp on her begins to falter this isn't the most original of plots but the two leads really make it work it also helps that the screenplay is great kelly's not yet at his peak especially his peak as an actor his dancing however wow hayworth is the star but kelly claims the film's most memorable moment as he dances passionately with his own reflection it's obviously a take off of fred astaire's shadow dancing in swing time but i think kelly one ups it which is hardly believable in fact this has got to be the most amazing dance sequence in film history save perhaps the finale of an american in paris several years later the rest of the songs are also excellent and the musical numbers are even better too bad rita didn't sing her own songs well she may have a couple of them as her singing voice seemed to be different sometimes her dancing is wonderful as is the rest of her acting it's hard not to love her in anything she's really one of the few truly beautiful women from the classic era not plastic like many of them no you can really see the warmth in that woman her smile is so disarming phil silvers has the role as kelly's best friend and he is also very funny the trio of kelly hayworth silvers is obviously the kernel which became the kelly reynolds o'connor trio in singin' in the rain eight years afterwards one of the biggest musical numbers in the film seems almost completely pilfered with the good morning number in singin' i do think singin' in the rain is the better film as cover girl is a little rough around the edges this roughness though just adds to the charm there are aspects of this film that beat singin' in the rain and even an american in paris for instance the central relationship is more emotionally involving instead of the dominant older man chasing the little girl leslie caron and debbie reynolds were just teenagers after all we have a very nice relationship with two people who seem more like equals there is no chasing around an aspect that does unfortunately turn a lot of the best musicals a little sour you have to admit kelly and hayworth are a couple from the start and when that begins to fray i really felt it 9 10
1	a finds a young cougar in need of help to young to be on his own the cat soon takes up with the rugged camp workers nicknamed good time charlie' his antics amuse everyone at first his wild nature eventually begins to cause trouble and reintroducing him into his natural habitat becomes an issue this film is among those wonderful disney nature films that were common in the 50's and 60's lots of action beautiful scenery and some endearing animal to charm you these films were not long but included fascinating glimpses into wildlife and the effects of human contact unlike disney's animated talking animals the animals in these films remained true to their own nature they also make great travel films for seeing the western states
1	this film has not been seen by me in quite a few years it came on the disney channel in the wee hours of the morning i stayed up to watch it and found it even more entertaining than the first time the story the scenery and the characters are as good as they come i know that if anyone takes the time to view this film they will find it definitely worth seeing a second time it's very memorable in more ways than one i would recommend this film to anyone because it is both entertaining and educational for all concerned br br s
1	this is the australian tv series it is a classic the stories and actors are excellent who can forget picker and his gramophone or chet being ambushed this is cult tv the australian actors in the series were the best of their day and have immortality in the outsiders what can i say timeless adventure the music and song just fantastic the closing credits starting with the close up of the wheel then keir sleeping n being jostled around and then the long shot just cannot get much better than that all 13 episodes are equally solid in the portrayal of the australian myth and i think this is what this series has it does not matter that the two main characters were from overseas i think that is the key to the series and why it is so good
1	yeah great cult tv series great atmosphere top script and good performances make this a class a candidate for dvd release br br this is a seminal tour de force of australian tv history and has that unforgettable groovy period piece soundtrack with doug gravel and phlegm voice spewing 70's all over your cathode ray box as a amazingly long camera zoom out reveals the religion of the open road in all its glory this is a memento from another and not too distant era and has the proud stamp of the land mighty down under from start to finish in all its raw freedom and gritty grandeur br br come on abc get with the program and release this cool 70's cult baby for all to enjoy or re enjoy if you're lucky enough to have lived the dream at the time
1	watched this when it was first screened and then missed it when it disappeared of british screens it showed a different side of old australia that we need to see more of good juxtaposition of old hand and young then the realism of the hard out back was fantastic it was sadly missed this show was a cold look at the old way of looking at australia hard living and hard working the young idealist clashing with the old practical head real fighting with the young upstarts of new labour to add modern political vernacular br br this show was the first of its type that i came across that did not try to do a tourist job on australia it was a great showing of the realistic br br come documentary realistic type of show some good films were out at the time doing a similar job it would be great to see more of this type of tv come from australia for it has been sadly missing this last twenty years for all we have been fed is the soap pulp of varying quality
1	the outsiders is undoubtedly a classic australian tv series well defined characters tight scripts varied and interesting locales great guest stars and a filmic ambiance all combined to make this series a special one br br sadly andrew keir has passed on sascha from germany does not appear unfortunately to have enjoyed small screen success in his native country the abc has repeated the series many times yet a dvd release is yet to happen br br the series is one which is timeless it is as likely to strike a resonant chord with viewers today as it did in its own day come on abc release the outsiders on dvd
1	i would like to know if the outsiders australian tv series will ever be released on dvd sometime in the future and is the music title theme available on cd br br there was only one series of 13 episodes of this drama and should have gone on to at least three or even four series in total br br the young german actor in the series was also in a german tv series called black forest clinic which aired here in the uk with english dialogue superimposed with the lip sync br br i look forward to hearing any comments from tv industry personnel on the above questions thank you in advance
1	this movie was well done it covers the difficulties a returning vietnam veteran has in dealing with the horrors of war unfortunately the writers chose to focus on a vet who had been involved in an act of atrocity i was in vietnam and only once heard of such an act by one who witnessed it the offender was prosecuted and sentenced to many years in leavenworth br br the notion that only vets involved in atrocities had emotional problems is a disservice to all who served all of the soldiers i knew personally or knew of by word of mouth were honorable soldiers who respected even the enemy and believed they were there to halt the spread of communism the biggest problem was coming home to learn that many americans were opposed to the war that is what caused many veterans to feel they had taken part in something less than honorable not the manner in which they served br br the ending depicted the father acting more as a belligerent bully than a loving caring father for that i gave it a 7 out of 10 had the ending allowed for a degree of acceptance i could have rated it a 9 br br most decent men will come home from war with guilt and emotional scars they need acceptance and understanding to overcome that i pray that the public is more understanding of our present day veterans than it was in the the vietnam era
1	there have been many movies about people returning home from wars and having to cope but the war at home is worth seeing portraying vietnam vet jeremy collier emilio estevez having trouble connecting with his texas family much of the movie is very likely to tense you up but nothing can prepare you for what ends up getting revealed br br part of what makes this movie so good is how it gives the viewer the feeling of both texas and of the generation gap jeremy's parents bob martin sheen and kathy bates clearly have a problem with their son's attitude both about the war and his rejection of americanism his sister karen kimberly williams is uncertain with whom to side but after the dinner there can be no neutrality br br so we as americans may never be able to fully get over the vietnam war but this movie can probably help us look seriously at how it affected so many people emilio estevez certainly did a good job directing also starring corin nemec and carla
1	i feel privileged to have accidentally seen this movie i actually ran across this movie by accident i was taping another movie on showtime one night overnight and this movie came on afterward so i sat and watched it and boy was i blown away the acting is absolutely superb kathy bates who has been my favorite actress since misery and fried green tomatoes gave an amazing performance as a domineering mother who tries desperately to hold on to her old school values religion family at the risk of alienating her family martin sheen is superb as the tough patriarch who is really not in control of anything in his life or family the one thing i really loved about this movie is how it tells what happens when the heroes come home it shows the true damage that is done to our soldiers after they fight pointless wars for political and financial gain this movie just blew me away and i feel blessed to have accidentally taped this movie and seen it this is a must see for anyone who wants a true drama this is not too melodramatic and preachy but pulls at your heartstrings like none other
1	this has got to be one of the better post astaire musicals made by columbia produced by arthur schwartz and directed by vet charles vidor this picture really put gene kelly on the map and cemented rita hayworth's reputation as cinema's premier female dance partner she plays a bit of a dual role here since she performs contemporary 1940s numbers with gene and co star phil silvers but also puts her in the role of her grandmother a nightclub performer in the late 19th br br the music should also be singled out because this was i believe the last project that the legendary jerome kern most famous today for old man river and smoke gets in your eyes worked on and his lyricist was the equally legendary ira gershwin they supplied a score that is full of charm and characterization the music for the historical sequences is especially noteworthy because it's so perfectly styled in the early 20th century idiom that was original period it's a bit like picking up a record from one of your favorite bands from the 1970s and hearing them do a song in the original style of that time br br the story is pretty inconsequential which is fine with me because this film is as close an approximation as you will ever be likely to see of the 1930s 40s golden age of broadway musical comedy style on film even the 1940s war propaganda aspects of the film's music give it extra charm as the talented trio sing make way for tomorrow and even humorously poke fun at america's enemies and use period slang such as referring to gremlins br br probably the most memorable performance in the film is kelly's dance to the alter ego dance which found him arguing with and then dancing with himself as a metaphorical image of the battle of the conscience this prefigures much of his later work and also stands an effective and memorable scene in and of itself br br fans will want to seek this out for various reasons kelly fans will see this as a rare chance to see him outside of the confines of mgm with a different set of co stars and music superior to his usual mgm material hayworth fans will want to see rita in glorious color at the peak of her fame and ability and fans of classic broadway musicals will definitely want to hear final score and marvel at the quality of gershwin's lyrics and the compatibility of their styles this is a definite gem in the crown of columbia's musical program
1	the movie shows many feelings and emotions that are very strong and personal the atmosphere in the movie is very tense and sad you can really get a clear picture of what the main character is going through and how he is responding to the world around him i think it is a great movie and that everybody should see it br br
1	i have to agree with the previous author's comments about the excellent performances and plot started watching this movie by accident lazy sunday afternoon clicking channels to see if anything good was on and was mesmerized by martin sheen and emilio estevez wow gut wrenching kudos to everyone have always admired martin sheen but was particularly impressed with emilio excellent job of acting and directing simply superb so why have i never heard of this movie before i'll have to spread the news
1	not for those adrenaline maniacs etc it's a good movie looking at after war psychical problem from the other point of view br br emilio estevez is great as a young man haunted by the demons of vietnam war causing problem in family br br marin sheen is also good as a conservative father br br it all comes down to the problem how to deal with the past with whom br br character can't seem to deal and martin sheen's character don't want do deal with br br protective mother looks at this problem with warm and open heart but with her mind closed for the obvious reasons
1	this is a little seen anti war film that has been ignored for too long the time is thanksgiving of 1972 the place is a typical suburban home somewhere in texas the oldest son has just comeback from vietnam and he is having a hell of time readjusting to the life he had left behind and the family does not know how to handle the problem i honestly don't think i'm exaggerating when i say this is one the most heart wrenching war films i've seen the funny thing is that there are only a handful of combat sequences in the entire movie most of the story takes place inside a house over a period of a couple of days but the kind of war that takes place in this home is as intense as any real battlefield action the film does something that is difficult to accomplish somehow estevez and his team have created a film that embodies the entire vietnam experience and considering the similarities between vietnam and the current invasion of iraq the film is surprisingly relevant estevez does a magnificent job with material he gets a lot of help from a hand picked cast martin sheen and kathy bates in particular are superb as the parents a truly moving film highly recommended
1	i had never heard of this film and only got it because i am a martin sheen fan now i am stunned as to why it did not receive the praise and recognition that it truly deserves the four characters all make you feel for them the father trying to assert his authority the mother still clinging to traditional family values and both trying to keep up appearances despite the total fragmentation of their family the daughter wanting her own life and the son haunted by his experiences in vietnam one felt that this was a scenario that must have been played out in thousands of 'ordinary' families after vietnam emilio estevez as jeremy was superb totally unhinged by his war experience which none of his family could relate to the screen chemistry between him and his real life father martin sheen was amazing and there were times when anguished face was so like martin's in apocalypse now i feel sure that just as martin has counted as one of his best films emilio will count this one as one of his best too the scene with the gun was totally mind blowing as all the emotions were there on the family's faces brilliant acting by estevez sheen and kathy bates i watched the film for the first time last night and today the lead story in the news was about a gulf war veteran who had shot several members of his family how many more young men are going to have their lives destroyed by war
1	this movie has a very deep look at the relationships between a mother who was raised in a christian environment and learned that appearance is everything she and her son who just recently returned from vietnam collide in some very tense issues the relationship has no connections intimately and is a great accurate portrayal of what it is like to live with someone who is false and only looks at the surface of issues kathy bates does an excellent job of portraying a woman of false faith who is either oblivious to her cruelty forgetful or just doesn't want to be confronted jeremy's wrath is never feared and it leads to a very disturbing conflict between him and his feelings about his fathers love for him this is a very honest look at some family dynamics after a traumatic event leads one to despair
1	estevez martin sheen and kathy bates are superb in this portrayal of a vietnam vet home from the war but still haunted by it bates plays a clueless mother who just wants the family to be a family sheen is terrific as the father who tries to understand what his son is going through but is too wrapped up in his principles to really empathize the setting is thanksgiving day and the relatives are coming for dinner estevez who plays the returning vet wants no part of family tradition and insists on wearing his combat fatigues to dinner explaining this is what i wore last thanksgiving the bickering and family arguments are priceless particularly the peanut brittle crisis but the ending is both gripping and terrifying it has to be seen to be appreciated br br overall one of the best movies i've ever seen
1	this movie is powerful i watched this movie at 3 00 am and i was suppose to be at work at 6 00 am needless to say i was late to work i could not bring myself to get up off my bed to go to work this is the most powerful movie that i have seen in a long time and that made me cry and feel the pain of the family i think did a wonderful job of directing this film i agree with the previous comments from other views that this is the only movie that i have seen that has brought the war home and showed what a family had to go through what a veteran went through it is almost heart breaking to think that back then people just thought you could come home from a life changing experience and be the same person you were before you left kathy bates reminded me of my mother in a way i believe she really showed how women felt and acted back then i am surprised that this film wasn't up for more awards
1	an under appreciated unseen gem estevez does a remarkable job of illustrating in poignant heartbreaking fashion the tension that arises between a son who's been to hell and back and his parents who can't begin to understand the emotional scarring left behind it's not unlike born on the fourth of july in that it deals with a soldiers' emotional and mental breakdown after serving in vietnam but while that one focused more on the politics of post vietnam anti war speeches etc this one deals with a much more personal topic family one man's struggle to return to normalcy after a life altering experience and his parents' failure to see the change that has occurred br br estevez delivers a smoldering performance as jeremy collier you can sense the pain and frustration bubbling beneath surface there to match him inch for inch is his real life father martin sheen it's a trip watching these two act off of each other as you get the sense that they're constantly trying to one up one another it's like the presence of each other inspired the pair to do their best and their performances triumph because of it br br recommended to anyone who appreciates solid acting writing and directing and to any vietnam war buff br br 8 10
1	br br emilio estevez takes the wonderful play homefront and makes it into an engaging movie br br the war at home has an exceptionally strong cast all seemingly digging deep into their characters the acting here is top notch br br credit must also go to director emilio estevez the visual transitions between past and present were ultra smooth the sound effects during the battle scenes were chilling and effectively added to the tension br br remove all of the viet nam elements from the story and still left would be interesting characters wrestling with the good and bad of the full range of family dynamics a viewer might see this point more clearly by keeping in mind the discovering the old photo scene from the beginning as the rest of the movie is watched br br as a movie i found the war at home to be more direct and to the point than born on the 4th of july a fine effort almost a 10 br br
1	rita hayworth is right there where she should be as a cover girl in this 1944 technicolor film also starring gene kelly phil silvers eve arden lee bowman and otto kruger rita plays a beautiful showgirl rusty working at a small club owned by the man she loves danny kelly each friday they go out for oysters with genius silvers the club comedian they all hate oysters but they're looking for a pearl when they find one all three of them will have good luck they believe br br rusty auditions and wins the role of cover girl for a magazine she starts off ahead of the other contestants because the magazine owner kruger sees a resemblance between rusty and the girl he once loved who turns out to be grandmother once she becomes the cover girl the world opens up for her and her dreams of appearing on broadway come true danny wants her to have her success but at the same time realizes he's lost her br br cover girl has exuberant dance numbers and songs by jerome kern with rita dubbed by martha mears rita is at her best playing both rusty in the present and her grandmother in the past for such a sexy desirable gorgeous woman she was apparently very insecure and always under the thumb of domineering men none of this ever showed on screen nor did the fact that she didn't want to be a movie star she is one of the true goddesses and brought everything she did to life gene kelly is in a serious role here but gets plenty of chances to dance and sing phil silvers is very amiable and funny as the in house comic and best friend br br this is a very good movie with no dull spots the only problem i had is the idea that rusty has to choose between a successful career and the man she loves when supermodel jinx who plays herself in the film speaks of getting married she's warned by her boss not to that she's too necessary to the modeling business we're not told if rusty continues with her career or goes back to work at danny's but all signs seemed to point toward the brooklyn club why couldn't she have had both nevertheless you can't beat cover girl for top entertainment beautiful color lovely music great energy fine performances and its most fabulous asset the glorious rita hayworth
1	this film easily rivals the emotional strength the dramatic impact and the top notch performances of 12 angry men i rented it on a whim and was amazed that i had not heard of it before br br i do not know if this was emilio directorial debut but the pacing the interplay and development of the characters as well as some clever camera work surrounding the character estevez plays all suggest a natural eye br br the interplay between martin and emilio contains the same wonderful chemistry we saw in wall street with martin and charlie kathy bates is wonderful in her characters subtle desperation and escapism a variation on her character in at play in the fields of the lord she is irritating and yet one can empathize with her at the same time br br there are some moments where i feel the plot slows a touch and the moments between estevez and his ex girlfriend almost seem written for another film estevez comes off as another character all together but those are minor complaints br br this film must be based on a true story or must have been written by someone who lived these experiences i rate it 8 out of a difficult 10 br br
1	this film easily rivals the emotional strength the dramatic impact and the top notch performances of 12 angry men i rented it on a whim and was amazed that i had not heard of it before br br i do not know if this was emilio directorial debut but the pacing the interplay and development of the characters as well as the some clever camera work surrounding the character estevez plays all suggest a natural eye br br the interplay between martin and emilio contains the same wonderful chemistry we saw in wall street with martin and charlie kathy bates is wonderful in her characters subtle desperation and escapism a variation on her characters in at play in the fields of the lord she is irritating and yet one can empathize with her at the same time br br there are some moments where i feel the plot slows a touch and the moments between estevez and his ex girlfriend almost seem written for another film estevez comes off as another character all together but those are minor complaints br br this film must be based on a true story or must have been written by someone who lived these experiences i rate it 8 out of a difficult 10 br br
1	the vietnam war era is certainly far before my time but it has always interested me and i have seen many films about it all of the others i'd seen had dealt strictly with the front line of battle when i read a description of the war at home i found the concept intriguing no vietnam war movie i'd ever heard of talked about what happens to a soldier once the fighting is over with br br one night while flipping through channels the movie aired on the sundance channel i set down the remote and settled back to watch it i did not move from my seat during the entire two hours it's one of those movies that keeps you very interested because there is no way to predict what is going to happen next br br this movie made me a huge fan of emilio estevez i had enjoyed him very much as billy the kid in the young guns movies but i never saw anything he did afterward emilio proved to be very talented at writing and directing as well as acting br br the pacing of the movie is done extremely well i am hard pressed to think of a point where it drags br br what amazes me is that it didn't get an oscar or any real recognition when it came out it is a dramatic story about parents trying to cope with the fact that their son is not who he used to be and probably will never be as they remembered him again definitely worth seeing
1	one of my desires is to be a film maker and i just have to say there's no way i will be able to compete with the powerful drama the war at home the reason is because the acting is perfect and when you see the movie you'll know what i'm talking about all i can suggest is watching it i got so involved in it and was extremely impressed br br and sheen's relationship on the screen was absolutely amazing br br and so was his relationship with his mother kathy bates some of the best scenes include these 2 br br as well as the relationship between sheen and his daughter sister in the film br br 10 10 and definitely in my top 10 i want the dvd
1	this movie is on cable sporadically and i never really watched it thinking it would be similar to the bruce willis film america with the usual trite story about american freedom etc but it was not it was so much more br br of course martin sheen is excellent i have never seen him in a movie i haven't loved even if the script is bad because he is so talented kathy bates is the overbearing mom and does a great job the real surprise is emilio estevez who has not always been in the greatest films but also directed this movie please don't stereotype him from the breakfast club movie he is so much better in this and i wish he would do more non commercial atypical hollywood movies br br the film is realistic as we see emilio home from vietnam during thanksgiving kimberly williams is passable as the sister who feels she is disgraced and embarrassed by the returning soldier her brother he is quite alienated from the family and especially at this time in us history this story is very relevant br br i learned a great deal about post traumatic stress and you will genuinely empathize with this character this is not a violent journalistic portrayal like platoon for example it is more of a character study which leaves us even more intrigued and concerned about the effects of war especially when one considers the young age of the soldiers who are victims with today's violence it is rare that a movie causes one to genuinely feel sad and shed a tear this does it and deserves recognition
1	emilio estevez actually directed a good movie who woulda thought i sat through two previous films estevez directed wisdom with then girlfriend demi moore and men at work with brother charlie sheen they are lousy films badly acted directed stupid and offensive estevez is a good actor but lousy as a director i turned this on in pure curiousity it has a great cast and i had nothing else to do damned if it didn't pull me in br br it concerns estevez coming home from vietnam permanently scarred by what happened over there his parents kathy bates martin sheen and sister kimberly williams try to reach him but can't something in vietnam has affected him deeply and he's about to explode br br a bit overlong but still very good a lot of the material is familar but the cast is so good that they make it seem new estevez is good sheen is terrific and real life father williams is touching and bates is just extraordinary trying to hold the family together it all leads up to a powerful ending which really surprised me br br well worth catching br br
1	the connection with james dean in a short plan we see emilio estevez toying with a teddy bear remember the first scene of ray's rebel without a cause moreover the main conflict is estevez versus sheen father against son as in east of eden the soldier has come home and nobody has been able to communicate with him even his sister a psychology student what a derision the mother a crude matron a superb kathy bates gets bogged down in she 's not able to understand that her values religion family have become a thing of the past specially for someone like his son whose innocence was betrayed the father an irresolute man under his wife's thumb although he tries hard to play the macho wanted to make up for the mediocrity of his life so he saved his honor by forcing his son to do his duty the scene in which hatred for his father explodes is very intense the actor director gives a restrained performance as lee students used to do and his final burst of anger is increased tenfold so
1	not being a movie aficionado i am not familiar with the names of leading directors scriptwriters producers and the like but i can tell an outstanding movie when i see one br br the makers of this fine movie could well be now at the top of their fields or may well get there pretty soon i know that the actors are already there br br it takes talent closer to genius to show with such realism how a national tragedy like vietnam has impacted the everyday life of a typically average american family and make us see at close range why there are so many homeless vietnam veterans br br without getting into gratuitous scenes of gore and bloodshed it makes us understand why so many men had flashbacks of what they had been thru br br the dialog is particularly gripping and gives us an idea of what went on in so many families in the aftermath of vietnam br br i wish there were more good movies like this one not just about vietnam but about other social conditions as well
1	i was just lucky i found this movie i've been taking advantage of walmart's 5 50 dvds because i watch a lot of movies and very seldom watch television i graduated from high school in 1968 so i have family and many friends who served in vietnam this movie really illustrates the pain i've seen in my friends in dealing with what happened to them over there i wish more people would see this movie i think maybe more people could understand what happened to our vietnam vets by watching these excellent actors in the portrayal of one family damaged by that war the story felt realistic it isn't mushy but made me feel what they were going through i think it helped that martin sheen and emilio estevez were playing father and son it made their relationship more believable
1	the most intense and powerful film i have seen in years there have been other films before that delved into the vietnam vet but nothing compared to this emotionally heartwrenching film as a typical american suburban family circa 1972 comes apart at the seams revealing the scars that vietnam has left on our all of our collective souls the cast is a fantastic with all four actors with kathy bates a stand out giving riveting performances what is wonderful about this film is that you take no sides but understand all four characters and empathize with them even though all four have divergent viewpoints and needs there are scenes in here that are so powerful as family secrets and feelings are revealed such as the confrontation between son and mother that will have you emotionally drained and in tears of anguish i actually cried in this film something i rarely do the shocking end is a stunner a much overlooked film that should be seen i rate this 1996 film a 10 10 a superlative piece highly recommended especially in this day and age with again our country embroiled in a hideous war our headlines shouting of atrocities and again our young men and women returning with deep psychological scars with their deep pain of deeds done in the line of honor a must see film
1	this is one of the best musicals of the 1940s the glorious technicolor shows off rita hayworth's beauty and spectacular hair she should have made more movies in color but then columbia was hardly in a position to splash out money for technicolor spectaculars br br rita is a wow as rusty parker she more than keeps up with gene in some of the most sparkling numbers ever she also looked beautiful in turn of the century gowns so she was given a chance to play her own grandmother br br the film opens with the show must go on it looks great to me but danny mcguire gene kelly is not impressed his motto is work work work one of the dancers lesley is determined to better herself and is going to audition for golden wedding cover girl competition rusty just happens to find herself at the auditions as well in a very funny scene has just had a so so audition and seeing rusty gives her a few tips on how to impress the judges don't be shy and demure chatter and sparkle rusty does so with gusto br br they decide on and go to the show to see her but john otto kruger sees rusty she reminds him of someone from his past cornelia eve arden is still having nightmares over audition whose complaining features genius phil silvers and the dancers dressed up as working girls rusty is a cabbie br br john is remembering a long lost love grandmother hicks the first time he saw her singing a sure thing set at the races meanwhile danny rusty and genius are looking for pearls at their local diner they then launch into the happiest song of the 1940s in my opinion make way for tomorrow br br put me to the test is a spirited song and dance number featuring danny and rusty in the meantime rusty has been chosen cover girl and danny is the place to be seen lee bowman appears as danny's romantic rival and puts a damper on things lee bowman is probably the most boring leading man ever so danny never needs to worry br br rusty dubbed by martha mears sings long ago and far away and it is danced beautifully by danny and rusty the gowns that rita wears are stunning travis banton and gwen designed them danny wants the best for rusty but is afraid he will lose her gene kelly is also fantastic in the alter ego number where he dances with himself br br poor john is another look back to the turn of the century it was written in 1906 and is an extremely funny song poking fun at rich relations hayworth looks gorgeous in an amazingly quaint outfit look for al norman in both poor john and a sure thing he was an amazing eccentric dancer who appeared in several early musicals including king of jazz and paramount on parade he was easy to spot br br the cover girl dance is just wonderful rita was so talented beautiful and a great dancer after a bevy of beautiful models parade through covers of america's top magazines rusty bursts through in a beautiful gold gown dancing down a ramp to the very catchy cover girl song gosh i just love this movie br br highly recommended
1	i caught this movie on tv yesterday i had a certain curiosity about it being that it was directed by emilio estevez and starring him and his real life dad martin sheen i love to see a movie about a father son relationship that involves a real life father and son naturally there's an instant chemistry between sheen and estevez and their scenes of conflict are even more intense knowing that they're actually related of course it helps that the two of them are both terrific actors i've seen martin sheen in intense roles before but i think this is most intense role being that i mostly recall him from the mighty ducks series and i was very impressed talent really does run in that family and kathy bates steals the movie in an oscar worthy performance she tugged at my heartstrings with every word of dialogue kimberly williams the beautiful actress from the father of the bride movies is also very good holding her own among a group of talented veteran actors br br the movie is a bit stagey with dialogue that's obviously geared for the stage but that didn't bother me this is not meant to be an action movie this is a character study and for a film that's based on a play it never gets too claustrophobic when character jeremy reminisces to his days in vietnam we actually see his harrowing memories brought to life br br the film is extremely powerful and realistic without being sentimental at the end i expected all the conflicts to be resolved and the family would become hunky dory but that's not how it turned out the ending made me cry without resorting to standard hollywood melodrama that proves reality is much more gripping than anything hollywood can conjure up br br if you're in the mood for a beautiful powerful drama with extremely wonderful performances that will knock your socks off please check out this underrated gem hopefully one day martin and emilio will unite with charlie and they will all make a great film together br br my score 9 out of 10
1	the strong points in the film were clear for the beginning and middle part of the film it showed how a very violent reactive authority might react to resistance filmed in the fashion of a documentary the director captures what would have happened if the united states enacted martial law volunteering for punishment park a training ground for cops where you're bullied and harassed would offer you an out to this dire scenario it switches between the court trials for those facing accusations those who are in the park escaping police attention the training of officers preparing to handle these prisoners the judges in their leisure time among many other things it was a very strong deeply moving film br br the only fault i had with this was its realism officers are often seen holding their pistols like they were seven years old with a plastic toy i e a 90 degree bent elbow when pointing a gun in someone's face or the way one cop just makes it look like it's hard to kick someone when they're down etc etc it starts out as an honest and interesting attempt to capture a very critical state of political affairs by the end of the film the viewer is slowly reminded again and again of the prejudices of the director and the producers the antagonist characters in the story start out as genuine real human beings and then slowly progress into stereotypical forces of evil by the very end the mistakes they make are stupid the force they demonstrate is unreal and unlike the way real police act the judges during this court hearing are shown making stupid and unreal mistakes among many other things br br the realness of the movie started to fall apart when it became evident that this was just another blank check attempt to make government look bad and that's coming from an anarchist the scenes at the end started to get hokey unreal and a thousand times over dramatic still for the earlier part of it it promises some very moving storyline
1	a powerful real tv movie very subversive and therefore remaining almost un broadcasted almost thanx 2 arte in france after you've watched this manhunt all movies filmed with the same concept a documentary team following the events as they arrived seem so weak br br david
1	i can't believe i missed this one made in 1970 with a budget that would probably allow you to make one indifferent episode of a tv soap this is 90 minutes of sustained sharp as a knife film making you will find the outline plot etc elsewhere on this site consider though that the whole thing was shot using a single hand held 16mm camera all the dialogue is improvised none of the 'actors' had appeared in front of a camera before it sounds like a recipe for disaster instead what we get is hippies v cops running around in the california desert in what evolves into a 'that's not fair i'm on that person's the only problem is the director keeps making you shift your allegiance and at the end of 90 minutes we're still not sure who has one brilliant quite brilliant
1	the most amazing film i have ever seen i didn't read the programming and i just stumbled onto the movie by accident i thought it was a real documentary and i felt sick at what i saw i only found out it was a movie after it was finished and i looked on the web for more info about punishment park in the u s it felt incredibly real and it is easy to believe that this really has happened in the us if you are from europe i must admit that i felt really anti american after watching the movie and before finding out that it didn't really happen that way
1	death camp opera right here right now br br ten years ago i read that a very special movie had been directed about the polarization of our society a certain peter was the author his picture was acted by some non professional actors citizens like you and me… and others the violence of the atmosphere was described as extremely realistic was it a movie a documentary both actually br br over the years i realized how hard it was to find it maybe i would by coincidence anyway it's yet an old story i saw it a short while ago totally impressing my very favourite peace of art punishment park is its name i love this docu fiction this this what ever after all the shock movies i saw i reach the best with this strong and intense i found a masterpiece there is enough on the net to know many things about the movie it is even to buy on dvd with additional stuff the only words i want to add is about my own experience with this film i can only trust such a sincere and engaged peace of art about people and for people those who direct act or watch a cinema which is simply a real human experience within an art or the opposite br br so i'm not talking about all the we can see on tv especially the show' whom the concepts of people playing them selves are interesting but used in a stupid and perverse way in punishment park we can see some real individuals living as they are we only put them in a very specific context with a few lines to follow and we let them be what they want to be it's a kind of therapy a way of for those inside the movie and also for the active spectators in front of screens then to end the director's touch edits a short and sweet apocalypse movie a desperate scream a 'death camp opera' where some folks are on the run after virulent trials punishment park is for those who want to grow see this film and have the opportunity to choose your own morality grow up and yourself with it if you can feel it if you can see it in my case punishment park is stuck in me for ever with all my love consciousness and will
1	i watched pp the other night i have to say i was very impressed with how real the film seemed it felt very much like a documentary i also think that the film presented realistic possibilities in the film the war in vietnam escalates to the point where china has become involved what if that had happened i think the scenarios would be similar to the one portrayed in the movie we have had camps before in this country and still do br br highly recommended for everyone especially radicals br br i kept saying that if i were in the position that those kids were in that i would just lie my ass off i love america and its grand wars wink wink
1	well i've enjoy this movie even though sometimes it turns too much to a stereotypical situation i didnt understood at this time if the punishment park has exist in the past but i think the matter isnt really here br br you have to look at this movie in a different manner it shows how much violence you can find in our world it reminds us that we live in a world who is lead by violence and that nobody can escape from it if anyone refuse to take his then you will be thrown out of our society all our history is made by wars we should never forget this in fact its only when we will finally accept the truth that maybe we will change and understand that our intellectual skills have improve so we could use them to find others ways to resolve our problems br br in 2 words this movie is a must see maybe it will help us to accept the truth
1	peter watkins' rarely seen punishment park is a brutality laced uncompromised political weapon set across a never ending an unapologetically left leaning anti authoritarian abuse fest the escapades at first appear to be so over the top militaristic and sickening that it could come off as some distant fantastical dystopian alternate history one harry would even enjoy but once we delve deeper in and really pay attention to the abhorrent diatribe spouting out of those presiding over the tent topped tribunal as well as the shotgun toting guards overseeing the bloody affair our eyes are truly opened suddenly we realize just how prescient watkins' film making is as much of this is the kind of neo con talking points about youth culture and the legality of divergent thought tossed around by politicians today granted much of it was drivel pouring out then as well but it really shows us how little has changed and informs of how in some ways we are closer to such a world where punishment parks would be a real and frightening operation br br the main players in nearly every scene are seasoned non actors mostly chosen for their rash political views and desire to get them on camera this lends an unprecedented heap of authenticity to the entire experience as we never even for a second question the reality of all the chaos shot documentary style with 16mm film this appears like a gritty documentation of some despicable government test project that was classified until found years later at least it appears to have that history to it now maybe not as much when it was barely released but this gives an added weight to all the proceedings and helps draw you into this incredible not so alternate universe of torture for convicted
1	as far as fake documentaries go anyone this one is up there with the best it looks very real and that is what it aims for in recent light of events guantanamo this movie is even scarier so you could say it was ahead of it's time when it was released in the 70s br br one can only hope that a government like that doesn't exist looking for terrorists and interviewing people just like that of course the people interviewed all seemed to have the same 70s mentality screw the politicians and politics in general maybe that wasn't so clever one might think but hey don't forget it's only a movie o
1	this is a very enjoyable fluffy glamorous musical from the 40's girl' made rita hayworth formerly the dark haired latin senorita margarita into a bona fide all american star it confirmed gene kelly's amazing talent as a dancer singer actor and choreographer it epitomises the exuberance and colour of the musical genre br br rita hayworth is great as rusty parker it is her picture and her presence is always at the forefront her singing is dubbed but her dancing is absolutely brilliant and she combines very well with kelly i think that rita was highly underrated as an actress she plays every scene superbly here gene choreographed the dance sequences he was basically given almost complete creative freedom here and his ego' dance number is amazing such artistry the stand out tunes are 'make way for tomorrow' 'put me to the and of course 'long ago and far away' the plot is rather thin yet it does have a moral it's about the perils of quick fame and fast money and how any happiness with only these factors will ultimately be doomed this will cheer you up lift you up to your feet and make you laugh br br that said girl' is not the greatest musical ever produced it has a number of flaws that must be addressed one can say that a little bit of phil silvers goes a long way his character gets tedious rather quickly however i was impressed with his dancing ability and how he was able to keep up with gene and rita another major problem is that too many songs are just not that great the girl' number looks fantastic but i'm not a fan of the lyrics or the singing tom' is a huge downer i think it's one of the worst numbers i've heard in a 40's 50's musical yet it stinks the grandmother sub plot borders on being ridiculous but that's only my opinion others may like these elements br br still apart from it's faults it's a very very good film much better than most of the product churned out today the dancing and singing is sublime the production values are excellent and it's mood is infectious br br 8 10
1	first of all the entire script is mostly improv adding to the fantastic illusion that what we are watching is an actual documentary secondly the actors hired by were purposefully chosen to represent their true political alliances and backgrounds the hippies portrayed are actual hippies the government officials though not necessarily in the government themselves are at least actually hearty conservatives within the system and several of the cops are actual policemen the interactions of these actors given the textual freedoms alloted by eventually come to a violent head where even himself is convinced that a cast member had actually been shot we hear him screaming cut cut in the background br br an amazing film though american critics were quite harsh in their reviews one actually reporting that it was the most offensive film she had ever seen this not entirely unexpected as the unveiling of this oppressive communist like mentality of america during this era would certainly rattle some cages this pseudo documentary definitely requires an open mind though if you are seriously looking for an intensely accurate portrayal of 60s culture this would be the film to watch
1	set in a california detention camp in an future an english film crew capture proceedings as young students and political are put on trial under a fictional act' that allows the united states government to suspend civil liberties for its own citizens in cases of emergency without the right to bail or the necessity of evidence in such cases the government is authorised to apprehend and detain anyone they believe may engage in future activities of sabotage the group on trial includes a feminist a black panther and a folk singer br br those convicted by the a conservative tribunal have the choice of a lengthy prison sentence or three days in punishment park in which they can attain their freedom by reaching an american flag in the desert they must accomplish this without food or water they are also to be pursued by armed national guards and police who can return them to the camp if captured to face the penal sentence attributed to each person convicted the reality is different those that choose punishment park are hunted and killed or brutalised with no hope of gaining their freedom after a policeman is found dead in the park the park seems to be a training ground for the police and guards who need to master these acts of suppression so they can be put to use in open american society br br shot on 16mm and in the documentary style developed by in his celebrated culloden and the controversial the war game for the bbc he interacts with the prisoners and guards and observes the unconstitutional trial inter cutting between them to create a totally convincing political movie that still remains vital and relevant using his knowledge of the medium has produced a driving relentless and ultimately frightening film portrayal of an entirely fictional american political detention camp that would not convince if it wasn't for his flawless construction many of the actors are amateurs improvising with broad characters the sparks fly in the trial scenes in which each case is heard in part to the fact that kept those on trial away from the jury until the filming of those scenes also claims that the actors are often expressing their own opinions which certainly explain the ferocity as well as the believability of their performances br br the film has been heavily criticised for the opinions of those that see it it has been claimed that the film is reactionary and unequivocally represents that conservatism and war are the root of america's social problems while these criticisms may be valid it is important to consider that the film is working on a fictional metaphorical level and it is perhaps the realism that the film so cleverly constructs that encourages such a heated opinion on its content in fact the films most important theme is the problem of itself the judges and brutal law officers are on one side and the convicts are clearly on the other with no concessions made on either side this seems to be what the movie is really about the new law and the park itself is the outgrowth of a situation where mediation between the two political positions has been lost br br made during and in protest to the vietnam war and the treatment of those who opposed the war in america the films main themes of governmental persecution of its own citizens and conservatism on civil liberties still strike the same chord in the era of the patriot act and the identity card it also strikes a disturbing chord with news footage of guantanamo bay and the treatment of iraqi prisoners at the hands of allied forces br br the threat of internal is such a volatile issue that the film cannot fail to connect with current attitudes to the subject not surprisingly the film has had a checkered distribution history being marginalised to an extreme due to its content but the disturbing fact that this movie is that can still remain so relevant today suggests that the wait has not been for nothing punishment park is a film that has had to fight to be seen anywhere and it demands your attention
1	it kicks you in the stomach there are other films with more convincing characters a more realistic story and maybe even more depth concerning political invocations but then again most of these are not directed by peter maybe the one true genius artist of british film to emerge out of the 1960s has made quite a bunch of rarely seen films that perfectly capture the spirit of the outer aesthetic world the world of political ongoings social problems and governmental solutions thus his work is probably less filmic than say political which some may call a weakening of their inherent artistic quality then again why shouldn't art allow itself to become engaged dares and succeeds you won't feel well with this one you won't feel happy actually you won't really like the film it is uncompromising honest direct unashamed a smash in your face in short you can't help getting angry you can't resist to let the things you see touch you that is what makes watkins' films so rewarding
1	this extraordinary pseudo documentary made in 1971 perfectly captures the zeitgeist of america today which makes it all the more scary and relevant subversives college students hippies black activists academics are being rounded up by the government and given lengthy prison terms for what amount to thought crimes and social protest as an alternative to life in prison these convicted criminals are offered three days in punishment park their objective inside the park is to make their way to the american flag where freedom awaits them not surprisingly the punishment park option is a dirty lie this brilliant film from peter even pre dates battle royale and series 7 though its angle of attack is more blatantly political shot in '71 it looks and feels as fresh as anything made today the performances are exemplary and the direction is razer sharp the narrative cuts back and forth between various groups trying to survive the harsh conditions of the park and the mccarthy like trials that convicted them today this film still retains its power in '71 there was nothing but nothing quite like it this is a masterpiece that succeeds on a dozen levels it has the balls that most people today have lost
1	i saw peter culloden and the war game a few months before this and was very impressed the technique is essentially the same or at least very similar in this film detailing on the one hand a trial of in california in the apparently near future and on the other the attempts of a group of convicted criminals to slog through 50 miles of desert to win their freedom in a government run punishment park as an alternative to prison films everything in a documentary style which causes for more than a little awkwardness or required strong suspension of disbelief how is it that the camera crew is with the group of starving and parched prisoners over 2 days without either offering help or sharing in their misery and that's merely the most obvious example but questionable storytelling aside this packs a punch no question you have to be interested in political film making to really get involved but the film really isn't like anything else of its era it pulls no punches offers no simple solutions the leftist political figures are certainly painted broadly at times but they aren't all alike the right wing government seem a little more cartoonish but even they are allowed to show at least a little humanity overall the film gives much to think about and leaves an indelible taste 8 10 dvd rental
1	realistic master piece thirty years later the pictures can look a bit old but actually it only accurate the in the face' effect of the movie i never saw in my whole life a film like this one first time i saw it i didn't know if it was a fiction and it didn't looked like that movie is a masterpiece that every single person in the world have to see it's the best ever society critical movie the ultimate movie that demonstrate that the system is down and the system has not change a lot in thirty years i think this movie would have to be watched as an education piece
1	certain aspects of punishment park are less than perfect specifically some of the acting however i feel that this is probably the most important movie of the war on terror era i grew up hating hippies and in some respects i still do it wasn't until the united states was started down the path of an unnecessary and deceitful war in iraq that i began to see the world through their eyes i can feel what they must have felt although the film is somewhat dated watching it brings those uncomfortable emotions about our present situation right to the surface it's clear enough early in the film that punishment park is designed to be a concentration and death camp for all the unpatriotic elements of american society this is certainly an exaggerated and extreme view of our polarized society but it is credible at times i find myself believing that the usa could easily slip into fascism as i watched this film i could only think about how i hear similar sentiments from people on both sides of the political spectrum almost daily this movie is a raw concentrated of america's present political scene i am both impressed and saddened that something this relevant and yes accurate was filmed more than 30 years ago if you take a more moderate view of the movie and choose to believe that this couldn't happen here look more closely at guantanamo bay some of our enemy combatants the rumored cia secret prisons and the many incidents similar to the one in nc in 1979 8 full years after the making of this movie
1	punishment park is a pseudo documentary made by peter the premise is that the nation's hippies musicians protesters pacifists etc are being rounded up and tried by a tribunal and then given the choice of prison or running the course of punishment park it's a 52 mile grueling trek through the desert to an american flag with police national guard and various other authority figures in pursuit the idea is that if you make it to the flag you're set free the tribunal consists of a bunch of conservative types all condemning any behavior that is not like their own and there is no result except a prison sentence or the option of punishment park for any of those on trial there are a lot of things in this that still ring true today which is quite disturbing in itself the people running the course are promised water at the half way point which isn't true and the pursuing officials are mostly a sadistic bunch that are just out for a bit of target practice this is not a very graphic film but it's more shocking in its ideas and themes than anything else the scary thing is it could happen not a very upbeat film but definitely worth seeing warning it might make you angry 9 out of 10
1	contains spoilers br br this is a peter film if one has seen his bbc masterpieces and the war game one will recognize the style and his voice within seconds after the start made in 1971 it is set in a very near future when the vietnam war has escalated even more and now seems to involve china nixon is still president and civil disobedience and protest is dealt with violently using outwardly civilian with citizens' as judges because prison building can't keep up an alternative is introduced the punishment park delinquents can choose between severe prison sentences and a man hunt in a hostile environment in this case a 85 km trip through the californian desert at if they reach an american flag at the end without being caught by national guard or riot police they will be set free or else they have to serve their sentence or be dead as we will see the film is made in a completely documentary style with three european teams covering a tribunal and the course of two groups already sentenced scenes jump between the tribunal tent the hunting troops and the hunted condemned scarce off commentary gives us raw background information time temperature etc the tribunal scenes show a kangaroo court on the one side and a wide range of personalities on the other ranging from real terrorists over to clearly innocents e g a total pacifist who can't even hurt flies the defense lawyer who does take his job seriously has to take abuse from both sides what makes these scenes especially eerie is their resemblance to the rhetoric of todays administration to the detail meanwhile some unfortunate events in the desert make clear that the of the game' don't really apply the question remains open whether it is rigged from the start or arbitrariness by the troops due to those events that leads to the outcome i suspect it is both at the end we are back at square one with the next group going to punishment park this description may indicate a heavily biased or even demagogic propaganda movie but that would be misleading the behavior all participants were as usual with looks and sounds real the tribunal scenes may even contain text material from real contemporary trials i'd say that this could be sold as the 'real thing' without problem with the forgotten faces the reaction was we can't send that or nobody will believe our real newsreels anymore because this is indistinguishable from the real thing with punishment park it ought to be the same effectively banned in the us as far as i know this is a must see that hasn't lost its power or its relevance especially today
1	punishment park is a brilliant piece of cinema shot in the southern br br california desert using his patent faux documentary style br br creates a film like no other he follows two groups of prisoners one br br pre sentenced the other post sentenced throughout the picture after br br they're tried by a military tribunal they have the choice of either br br serving out a prison sentence or they can participate in punishment br br park a grueling three day hike through the desert with nothing but the br br clothes on their backs whilst being hunted down by local law br br enforcement officers who use the park as a live action training br br ground i can't say enough about this movie sometimes it feels as if br br you're watching a real documentary this is one of peter most br br accessible films i advise you to look out for it you wont regret it br br highly recommended br br a br br
1	this is definitely an outstanding 1944 musical with great young stars and famous veteran actors under the direction of charles vidor rita hayworth rusty parker charlie chan in egypt sang and danced with gene kelly danny mcguire anchors away danny mcguire owned a night club in brooklyn n y and was in love with rusty parker who was a dancer in his club along with phil silvers genius coney island who was the comedian in this picture and also worked and dance together with danny rusty otto kruger john duel in the sun played the role as a promoter of a cover girl magazine and decided rusty parker was going to be his top model jerome music is heard through out the entire picture and the song long ago far away is the theme music for this musical this film was nominated for many awards and was a big hit at the box office during ww ii which kept peoples minds off of the war that was going on at the time rita hayworth and gene kelly were instant hits and their career's exploded on the silver screen for many many years great musical and a film you will not want to miss this is truly a great classic film enjoy
1	it's said that this film is or was banned in the us since it was released since there is no information on imdb i must rely on my other sources and believe it if this is really true the movie is even more hurtful and frightening and is it is anyway br br the movie is a so called mockumentary although i think the topic is too serious call it like that it creates a scenario where america is like a military state and all revolutionary objects are arrested immediately without proof after an obligatory tribunal they have to decide if they go to prison for some years or choose the punishment park in that they have to walk through the desert for three days to reach an american flag posted 50 miles ahead while they're are followed by police and army troops br br the movie itself pretends to be a documentary about these incidents and follows both the and the hunting through the desert filmed by european film crews all the facts are explained the ask questions and film everything people stare directly into the camera shouting at it it seems very very real talking about realism here is nonsense this movie is not about how to make a realistic film it is about how such a film would look like if it was real and it certainly would look like this if it would be filmed anyway in an state like this there surely wouldn't be a european film crew allowed to film those things br br there are many things that frighten us the defendants are people from all social classes political leaders musicians authors unemployed etc they seem to be hopeless rebellious or scared they are no heroes they talk a lot in the tribunal knowing it doesn't lead to anything saying nevertheless all they said in speeches and books and songs before one says he's not afraid to die is this true well he doesn't have to run through the desert hunted by cops the defendants have no chance or at least their only chance the decision between prison and punishment park is no chance really the way they decide in the end and the way film ends makes it clear that this kind of heroism is suicide br br these remind us a lot of in the third reich the officials use the same kind of idealistic ignoring all the arguments from the defendants starting to scream at them and then telling them they should be quiet they warn the defendants of watching their language and insult them much more they ask them questions the defendants can not answer but it's never they should these scenes are a statement about what we call justice br br the scenes in the desert are on a different level when we see the prisoners for the first time we realize that they realize they haven't got a chance seeing the desert and the mountains feeling the sun and the thirst they don't have a clue how they should stand this free days the film crew follows them and talks to them while they try to escape this madness they argue should they play the game or escape or revolt it all leads to the same and no one is surprised some will question if such parks would exist in reality in such a state why not it empties the prisons and allows the government to punish the revolutionaries as they want to it is not a gas chamber but the nazis killed jews before concentration camps were built the comparison is fair since they is no real difference br br the movie is scary and depressing the problems that are talked about sound to familiar to ignore these is not science fiction talking about poverty unemployment and crime is not utopic the film shows us that government and democracy as it is presented to us is not only useless but dangerous it also shows us that revolution is not definitely the solution the defendants seem to be confused because they don't really know how to fight this they do things but for nothing even is this delivers no solution to us it still is a statement br br to me the most frightening thing is the fact of the banning of this movie here we have a film that accuses the loss of freedom moral and peace it accuses the government a fictional nevertheless to be dangerous and inhuman and such a film is banned think about it when you see the american flag the next time
1	to think this film was made the year i was born to think people are still having their constitutional rights taken away now in the name of homeland security to think this movie was intentionally banned from the american public punishment park addresses the political divide in the united states better than any movie i've ever seen had it been more widely seen would it have changed anything a movie like this is so polarizing it has the potential to cause riots it shakes you up and forces you to take sides it makes you face the issue are you for the people's right of dissent in a time of war or for the constitution being compromised in the name of national security the protagonists are forced by the government to race to the american flag in a game that undermines the very ideals the flag stands for the acting is totally convincing so much so i can't see any acting going on here at all if this is a scripted documentary it's more convincing than any reality show on television today punishment park is possibly the most important film ever made it really makes you think
1	my curiosity and patience to finally see this controversial film which now has been released on dvd for the first time in the uk has been more than rewarded peter has excelled himself in his audacity and technical skills this pseudo documentary is certainly ahead of its time and still frighteningly relevant and up to date br br the film is inspired by the upheaval of the late sixties in the us when the government has increased its use of violence and oppression while the anti war movement reacts increasingly violent and radical in order to deal with both this the overpopulation of prisons and to provide special training to riot police units the government has introduced the so called punishment parks convicted 'criminals' mostly activists are given the to either be locked up in prison for years and years or spend three days in one of these parks where they either gain their freedom their death or an even longer prison sentence the situation in the parks is beyond their worst expectations however it reminded me of a sort of realistic version of battle royale 2000 br br the film's structure is extremely effective and recalls parallels with cannibal holocaust which is made almost 10 years later both movies are constructed and filmed in such a way that the viewer is challenged in thinking and feeling he is actually watching a real documentary and therefore shocked even though aware of the fact that this is a film both confront us with the inherently violent nature of mankind but where cannibal holocaust is devoid of any deeper meaning above all it is an exploitation movie in every sense of the word and does not raise any critical questions about the state of the world punishment park does just that br br i have been profoundly impressed with punishment park and find it hard to believe how such a powerful and important film could have been rejected and marginalized for so long maybe that says enough about the truth of its content about the way power structures in this world function i do not agree with the critique that polarizes and stereotypes because the movie depicts activists and the keepers of the power structures who are in reality as polarized as they are here if they weren't there would not be any conflict and therefore no change in our societies in reality confrontations between these two groups often take stereotypical forms whether you place them between activists and establishment in latin america russia or new york city if these groups would not be polarized to these extremes the activists would be part of the silent that tacitly complain but at the same time reside in the injustices of the world br br as peter tells us in the introduction on the dvd the actors in punishment park are for the most part amateurs most kids were real activists from la most policemen had been part of the national forces and even some of the members of the are part of the social and political establishment of the time not introducing both groups previous to the shooting of the scenes taking place in the improvised court room adds to spontaneous and improvised feel parallels are drawn with issues of the time such as the repression of black panther members one of the black prisoners is said to resemble the convicted charismatic bobby and the trial of the chicago seven br br i admire watkins' obvious and sincere engagement with injustice and his concern with human rights and the increasingly repressive measures taken by governments nowadays in the name of the war in terror to silence those that do not agree and refuse to be brainwashed punishment park remains to be an extremely important movie that should be shown in schools and seen by everybody who shares these concerns maybe its marginalization can finally be made up for
1	you can't watch a film like peter watkins' privilege a story of the exploitation of a pop music performer by big business the state and even organized religion without thinking of creatively degenerate like michael jackson or britney spears who hawk corporate giants like pepsi or some other poison for money or any number of entertainers in music or movies who become tools of political parties or commercial religious interests like scientology and kabbalah a film like privilege must have seemed almost like science fiction when released in 1967 so fantastic was its premise today we tend to take celebrity endorsements for granted giving little thought to its more alarming implications watkins' vision has not only become reality we tacitly accept this reality as normal br br now consider punishment park as privilege challenges the viewer to examine what is being sold to us and why punishment park demands that we reckon with what is being taken from us and why br br heaven help america and for that matter the world if contemporary politicians get their hands on this film it is already so close to reality that in viewing it recently i experienced a genuine nauseating feeling of anxiety br br again skillfully employs a documentary style narrative whereas in privilege some rough edges to this technique were apparent in punishment park it has been honed to sharp seamless perfection the sense of realism is enhanced by disarmingly unpretentious economical believable portrayals by the entire cast this is the kind of acting hollywood has completely turned its back on to its detriment in favor of cosmetically perfect image projections the cast has first rate material to work with in watkins' screenplay br br many cinematic visionaries have tried to shake the viewer out of their complacent false sense of security no one has ever achieved this result with such stark and chilling accuracy as peter does here br br what seems quite clear now is that instead of trying to bring the estranged and excluded americans such as these people back into the national community the administration has chosen to accept and exploit the present division within the country and to side with what it considers is the majority instead of the politics of reconciliation it has chosen the politics of polarization br br to paraphrase one of the characters we don't have to call them pigs because they know what they are better than we do
1	a while back i bought the chinese box set of fist of the north star which came with all of fist of the north star fist of the north star 2 new fist of the north star and the fist of the north star movie while there is an american version and a few european versions they end half way through fist of the north star which is about as far as the movie goes br br the series is about the successor of an ancient martial art called shin ken fist of the north star named or ken for short there is only one successor each generation it takes place in a post apocalyptic future where martial arts is the most powerful weapon the two most powerful arts are shin ken and divine ken as my version calls it is really multiple styles but they are all the same since they allow a person to chop someone to pieces there are six masters and each has their own star is an art that allows someone to damage kill or heal someone by hitting a point on their body each art has their own constellation big dipper goes around saving the world from evil consisting of going after his two brothers and three of the masters and their armies each army captain has their own way of fighting which makes each episode different and the number of soldiers bloody also is looking for his girlfriend who was stolen by the master shin along the journey is joined by his brother after rescuing him from his brother rao who calls himself or boxing king he is also joined by two masters rei who is looking for his sister who was taken by ken's brother and shu both of them and die along the way other characters that join ken are two kids rin and who don't do much that's about as much as i can say for story since its so long and full of details the series is also divided into four parts br br what makes this show great is the fighting ken normally goes up against a group of people that think they are tough and then get killed in one hit which is funny and badass but makes for quick fights another great part is comedy ken hits someone and they think its nothing ken says they are already dead then they die other parts are when he'll hit them and tell them they have a few seconds to live then a counter will pop up or when he tells them they are not worthy of knowing his name then there is when he does a rapid fire kick or punch and goes wa da da da da da da etc eventually you might find yourself doing it with him one great part was when a bad guy thought he knew he went up to ken and hit him ken stood there said he was dead in a few seconds the bad guy counted off then died it isn't limited to ken everyone else kills just as quick there has never been a character as awesome as ken and their probably never will br br there are a few problems though one is the repetitive nature some flashbacks mainly the one with being taken are played too much and there are also too many recap episodes especially in part four of the series in fact the last episode is a recap of the whole thing another problem is the ending the final battle with rao wasn't that impressive ken and rao fought then talked etc until rao came to some realization and kills himself instead of ken killing him but it is better than the american and european versions that just cut off halfway br br who would i recommend this for this is for older teenagers and adults who like action since the styles cause people to explode or get cut into pieces the violence is very graphic and there is a lot of it but they don't show much blood because they usually make the death just a silhouette that still looks like the person but less colorful this was probably done to avoid censorship if you don't like action rent the american version if you like action though then i say go for the import since you can see all of the series but they do not have the best english translation since it is subtitled by the chinese note my import came with everything i said at the beginning some imported versions do not but you still have to get an import to see all of the series and fist of the north star 2 if you don't think you can handle the subtitles for any reason then go get the american version another note in the version i got no subtitles were on the last disc for new fist of the north star although new fist of the north star isn't very good to begin with br br i give the show an 8 10 for its high amount of action good story and the awesomeness of br br update br br animation released an english subtitled version you can download the episodes as well as no ken 2 from or watch it free on site
1	it's along the line of comedy of errors mistaken affection transferring from one to another blossoms and passes cat and mouse flares of passion sparks of fire fanned and put maybe she loves he loves or they circle of emotions evolving yet not to let him know wanting to let her know let them know… good ensemble cast in spite of the seemingly confusing mix of emotions from different parties involved br br it's a refreshing charmer casual free and easy and rather down to earth not hollywood glamorous like notting hill but lots of human feelings frailty vulnerability a flowing yes all revolving around an accidentally lost found love letter kate capshaw as the owner of the town's bookstore with a variety of characters portrayed by ellen degeneres tom selleck blythe danner tom everett scott gloria stuart alice drummond and geraldine mcewan as the seemingly unaffected mrs romance is in the air love lurking everywhere you get to appreciate the talented kate capshaw the alarmist is another quirky little movie which is fun to watch capshaw has a wonderful chemistry with david arquette and arquette with stanley tucci br br notting hill is satisfying in its story revolving around the glittering pairing of julia roberts and hugh grant and the wonderful support of his circle of london friends love letters is delightful in its quirky small town ness and its story involving kate capshaw's ripple effects on her friends and neighbors both maybe fantasies somehow the latter felt more attainable if it should happen to you and if you appreciate words or poetic lines it could be the movie for you
1	this movie was sweet the main character lady was sensitive to 2 different men who wanted her she seemed not a character at all but a real person who had made some mistakes but was trying to set things right i liked the movie a lot even the older ladies who were lesbian didn't irritate me too much
1	the love letter is a somewhat pleasant very very low key romantic comedy in which the use of just the right few words in a mysterious love letter unlocks the secret passions and longings of a sleepy sea side town's inhabitants br br it's not for all audiences the love letter i feel benefits from it's simple and quiet tone never intentionally wacky and phony like most romantic comedies it's quaint picturesque and comfy however for these exact same reasons many viewers will be bored and disinterested br br the cast is nice it's great to see tom selleck again and is such an underplayed role and it's hard to believe this is the same kate capshaw we met 15 years ago in indiana jones and the temple of doom she's quite naturally good here improving in every role i've seen her in since grating on nerves and is it possible capshaw is just getting lovelier and lovelier with age what is it about that spielberg br br it doesn't amount to much but after another noisy summer movie season i'll probably look back with brief fondness for this light as a feather romance
1	the love letter is one of my all time favorite books so naturally i was skeptical when i heard it was to become a movie but i liked it i found myself grinning through the entire movie i admit that it isn't a great movie but definitely a pleasant hour and a half i thought that capshaw and scott were perfect as helen and johnny just as i pictured them and the town and scenery were just right as well i recommend this film but don't expect too much just enjoy it
1	i thought the movie was pretty good i really enjoyed myself as i viewed it however the last scene at johnny's birthday party was cut way too short i myself was an extra in that scene and was upset with the results but other than that and the weird casting the movie was superb
1	rita hayworth as rusty parker is the cover girl du jour she's one of the dancing girls in danny mcguire's club the most special one according to danny gene kelly and pretty much anyone who comes across her take for example vanity magazine magnate john otto kruger enchanted by resemblance to her grandmother also played by hayworth in flashbacks whom he wooed devotedly when he fell in love with her he tries to relive his youth by fixing what he thinks went wrong between himself and he doesn't believe that danny could give rusty happiness or everything she should be entitled to he even gets danny believing this himself when rusty shoots to fame as girl' danny drives her away into the ready and waiting arms of noel wheaton lee bowman so what happens when danny returns to town with his sidekick genius phil silvers in tow only to discover that rusty is marrying wheaton br br as a musical cover girl benefits from the beautiful score and songs written by jerome kern and ira gershwin including the oscar nominated 'long ago and far away' possibly one of the most gorgeous ballads ever written and beautifully sweetly sung as a duet by hayworth and kelly number thing' the more lacklustre john' isn't a kern gershwin collaboration and 'put me to the the dancing of course is top notch since gene kelly had more than just a hand in the choreography it shows in the simplest of dances for example his dance with hayworth to 'put me to the or the joyfully exuberant 'make way for tomorrow' number performed by the trio of danny rusty and genius which foreshadows the reaction gene's character has to the police cop in the title number in singin' in the rain kelly especially scored a technological and artistic coup with the ego' dance like its successors in anchors aweigh and an american in paris jerry the mouse and the 16 minute ballet respectively this dance is an example of the incredible innovation and creativity kelly brought to the modern film musical wanting to use the film medium to present dances that couldn't be showcased on a stage and years before cgi kelly insisted on dancing with the one person who could possibly match him in talent and style himself the number is hardly five minutes long but it and kelly's genius still takes one's breath away even sixty years down the line this is the reason i watched cover girl and if nothing else this dance is truly worth it br br you can tell that a great deal of money was lavished onto cover girl and rita hayworth not that she doesn't deserve it witness the scene when rusty hits broadway the large screen showcasing all the different cover girls gives way to a staggeringly large stage rigged for entrance hayworth is indeed one of the most effortlessly beautiful girls on show in the film and she dances with a style and grace that is almost worthy of kelly very few of kelly's co stars have that honour she is hilarious in some scenes for example her drunk scene when john and wheaton come to get her from joe's br br for some reason however her performance still lacks the spark of greatness which would help cover girl overcome its general curse of mediocrity that curse is only lifted whenever gene kelly is on the screen dancing or no or when eve arden as john's long suffering secretary by with another cutting comment or clever observation since the film in the end belongs to hayworth neither kelly nor arden can save it as a whole this isn't to say that the film is bad it isn't it's enjoyable with great songs and cute numbers and lots of pretty girls to look at but it's just not quite a classic the dancing is classic though so watch cover girl for that and you won't regret it
1	sir has played lear over 200 times but tonight he can't remember his opening lines sitting at the mirror his eyes reflect the king's madness his dresser prompts him gently mouthing the words there is an air of desperation about both these men the great actor knowing his powers are slipping away his valet cum major cum conscience cum surrogate wife aware of his boss's decline into madness and knowing he is powerless to do more than ease his passing the dresser is really a love story between the two over the years they have become mutually dependent on one another to the extent that neither can conceive a future without the other set during the second world war it concerns the fortunes of a frankly second rate touring shakespearean company comprising an equal number of has beens and wannabes led by sir a theatrical knight of what might kindly be called the old school whatever part he is playing he grabs centre stage and bellows out over the bullying his audience into applause but somewhere inside him buried most of the time deep beneath the ham he regularly dishes out there still remains an occasional glitter of his earlier greatness it is to catch a glimpse of this that his audiences fervently hope for mr a finney very cleverly concentrates on the ham often to the point of caricature and just when you are ready to dismiss his performance as mere hyperbole and bluster he will produce a moment of exquisite subtlety and vulnerability that makes you realise that a great actor is playing a great actor the same goes for mr t it's easy to write off his portrayal br br of norman as an exercise in stereotyping here we have a middle aged effeminate rather than camp theatrical dresser his way through life enjoying the company of the girls and loving the wicked insider gossip rife in the theatre there were and i strongly suspect still are many men just like norman in the profession infinitely kind and patient knowing more about the plays than many of the actors they run backstage with wisdom and affection i believe the vast majority of them would hoot with approving laughter at mr portrait i saw the dresser on the london stage where against the perceived wisdom mr norman was rather more subdued than in the movie sir was played by the great mr freddie jones to huge acclaim from the audience it was a memorable performance that overshadowed mr reducing him rather to an also ran as opposed to an actor on level billing the idea that sir and norman might be almost incomplete without each other went right out of the window norman was reduced to being his puppet which i'm not sure was what ronald harwood intended but made for breathtaking theatre messrs finney and redress the balance in the movie restoring equality to the relationship both men have come a long way since their early appearances in the british new wave pictures when they became the darlings of the vaguely middle class and ashamed of it movement when the british cinema virtually committed hari kiri in the 1970s they quietly concentrated on the theatre apart from a few roles to keep the wolf from the door with the renaissance of more substantial movies they re appeared blinking in the unaccustomed bright light br br the dresser marked their return still fizzing with energy and talent shouting to the world at large we're still here it's not a big movie but is assuredly a great one
1	this movie was a sweet cutesy romantic comedy just the kind of movie i usually dislike but this one was just cute enough to keep me interested it was really funny in one moment probably why i liked it and then just as serious in the next plus it had ellen in it and i've always had a soft spot for her br br basically the owner of a book store helen kate capshaw finds a love letter in one of the old couches in her store she thinks it is for her and goes crazy trying to figure out who sent it she has kind of shut herself off from the world so it really throws her for a loop eventually almost everyone connected with her finds this letter and they are all getting mixed signals which creates some really funny moments br br like i said i am usually not one for this type of movie but i really wound up enjoying it and recommend it highly
1	this film ain't half bad it may be a little long at times but carried along by beautiful scenery an immensely beautiful love letter and great actors you forget time and enjoy the grand prize however goes to blythe danner and geraldine mcewan as well that would be telling but they are just great
1	i thought that the love letter was a pretty good movie there were certain things that could have made it better but kate capshaw is absolutely beautiful and she showed it in this movie i wish that there could have been a few more revealing scenes of her but it was still a very good movie it was very fun to watch
1	so well done the photography sound music and the performances were the best it's also an amusing story line that brings a smile to your face with each scene i loved it and i'm a 60 year old heterosexual guy each character seemed to fit their part to a tee it's the best performance that i've seen from ms capshaw she's been in more movies than i thought but this was a wonderful achievement i suppose it's a plus to have spielberg money behind you allowing for a fat budget and all the best that money can buy technically two of the cast have successful t v shows of their own now it's easy to see why tom selleck does his usual good job
1	aside from the fact that this movie was filmed mostly in ma which is a beautiful town where my mother once rented a small storefront and i spent many a pleasant summer as a child it is fun and cute little film br br i must admit that i had no desire to actually see this movie even though i have a for romantic comedies i don't know why the trailers i saw were not appealing the cast did not look that interesting and i had no idea what the plot would be about in the end i found it to be an interesting meditation on relationships and family i thoroughly enjoyed myself and must admit that i thought that this film was one of the most overlooked gems of last year i am disappointed that so few people seemed to have enjoyed the very human ness that this movie presented the viewer with br br i have read many bad reviews of this film and must admit a certain level of shock at the cynicism that is prevalent in them as a grad student i consider myself to be quite cynical but this was a beautiful little film that deserves much better than it got
1	this is one of the better feel good films of 1999 with kate capshaw leading an all star cast about a small town and a love letter first off the scenery is beautiful and anyone who sees this film and doesn't want to move to this location is crazy for the cast capshaw is stunning as the lead actress who captivates the emotional roller coaster role tom everett scott is charming as the author of the note throughout the film and the always delightful ellen degeneres is hilarious blythe danner and the actress who plays the bookstore saleswoman are both terrific too although it was unsuccessful the film is great as it is both short and sweet and well as very romantic 10 10
1	this is definitely a girl movie my husband found it utterly boring but i think this is a really sweet movie it's amazing to think that just a note can bring so many people together this is a great get away for anyone who loves a cute funny romance
1	i'm a large scarred heterosexual male ex bouncer ex rugby player and ex boxer and i love this movie br br it's no mystic river it's a piece of fluff but there is room in life for fluff and when that fluff is engagingly shot well acted by attractive likable people cleverly plotted and full of good dialogue there's even more room for it br br i'm not the biggest tom selleck fan but he's good in this so are julianne nicholson love her bald head and freckles ellen degeneres kate capshaw and even tom everett scott that thing you do br br the scenery is nice the mood is upbeat there's heartache and wistfulness and farce and even a little redemption br br any male reviewer who disses this movie is shall we say not perfectly confident in his masculinity in the meantime i'll continue to catch bits and pieces of it without apology whenever it shows up on cable
1	the love letter 1999 starring kate capshaw tom everett scott tom selleck ellen de gloria stuart blythe danner jessica capshaw alice drummond bill erik jensen margaret ann brady walter covell patrick donnelly lucas hall christian harmony christopher nee smith marilyn sasha spielberg jack black director peter chan screenplay maria br br based on the novel the love letter by schine director peter chan's film version released in 1999 was not a big box office draw not even for a romantic movie with some comedy elements while it was not as popular in theaters it soon became a beloved film on cable television and on vhs dvd set in a town in the good old usa i forget the exact location this is the story of a mysterious passionately written love letter who sparks emotions and confusion among the principal characters each who think the letter is personally addressed to them by the end of the film we don't know who the lover or the beloved is but the power of the letter has altered the lives of nearly everyone in the small town the cast is made up of wonderful actors who have fared well on tv and film among them kate capshaw in the lead role of middle aged beauty helen a bookstore owner comedienne ellen degeneres as her friend employee janet hall young hottie tom everett scott as johnny the young 20 something guy who falls for the older and an older tom selleck as the firefighter george matthias who must compete with johnny for helen's affections there are cameo roles by veteran old hollywood actress gloria stuart who is best known to modern audiences as the elderly rose in titanic 1997 and a cameo by kate capshaw's own daughter with husband steven spielberg jessica capshaw the love triangle is between a middle aged woman an older man and a young man each of whom feel as passionately for helen as the writer of the mysterious letter the conflict lies in helen's indecision will she choose the right person which man has the most to offer her johnny is in a relationship with a girl his age who loves him with a passion all her own and is in fact a kind of reminder of what helen was like at her age george is in the process of divorcing his wife and has lived a worldly and eventful life a cultured intellectual he takes helen on an opera date where the tragic death of puccini's ultra italian heroine tosca moves helen to explosive tears there are lots of beautiful vistas of the charming coastal town rendered beautifully by cinematographer tami the score is a paradise of romantic and lovely songs i've never been in love before i'm in the mood for love and only the lonely ellen degeneres as janet hall who is consistently late to her job at helen's bookshop who endlessly dates men without being able to find the right guy is simply wonderful she has not lost her comedic flair even though at this point in her career she was not appearing much on tv or film because only about two years before her hit mid 90's tv show ellen was cancelled because of her coming out as a lesbian and the new lesbian subject matter of the show here you even find comedian jack black long before he made it big in the bit part of a fisherman this is a moving film about human emotions and making decisions that are significant about the human need for a passionate consuming love and the general love of escapism brought not only through books letters and music but through a genuinely loving and secure relationship this is a great film with wonderful moments and an infectious romantic spirit
1	helen kate capshaw owns a bookstore in the sleepy coastal town of by the sea divorced helen has a young daughter who is going to camp for the summer giving mother a bit more freedom working at helen's store are the manager janet ellen degeneres a man crazy village gossip girl who has eyes for the handsome fireman george tom selleck and two young college students jennifer julianne nicholson and johnny tom everett scott one day helen stumbles across a romantic tender love letter and she suspects that johnny has written it for her throwing caution to the wind helen and johnny begin a small time thing but the letter subsequently lands in others' hands including who thinks george has sent it to her and johnny's who imagines helen has penned it for him and on and on the letter goes but in truth george possibly has eyes for helen and jennifer has fallen hard for johnny the town's museum curator too may have a secret love will tangled affairs like these ever straighten themselves out this is a cute movie with a gorgeous setting and capable stars each of the main actors gives a pleasing performance including the addition of blythe danner and gloria stuart to those mentioned previously then too the coastal scenery is most lovely the costumes quite well chosen and the photography very nice indeed there are a few surprises including a subtle gay plot development which may not please all viewers but for those who love romantic comedies this one should be included on any list of good choices for the genre
1	cover girl is the best musical rita hayworth ever made ms hayworth will always be remembered for gilda however the next movie would be cover girl the story is great it is about a dancer who wants to be a cover girl and makes it big in show business she does it without the help of her talented dancer director boyfriend gene kelly mr kelly is given the chance to choreograph the musical numbers the dances are spectacular it is fun to see phil silvers a comic do the musical numbers with ms hayworth and mr kelly br br the supporting cast is perfect lee bowman is given a chance to be an interesting third wheel the other boyfriend
1	although it's definitely an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours and it's always worth a watch this film never quite meets the targets that it should for two reasons firstly after the first forty five minutes or so it focuses heavily on helen and johnny who are far less interesting characters than most of the others janet jennifer george and miss are all much more enticing although at first this works since in life we don't always know everything about everyone else and because the point is being made that perhaps helen is slightly self involved it quickly wears thin and we want to see more of the other characters br br secondly the film seems to lose its way in terms of plot in the second half the letter itself holds far less significance than it does in the first half and again although this works well in some ways it seems odd to leave so much of the potential displayed in the first half behind br br overall this film is sweet and good natured with some genuinely hilarious moments for example janet explaining to an avid audience the lazy but quietly desperate atmosphere that helen feels is heavy and the sense of living in a small seaside town is accurately portrayed but the film isn't quite as intelligent as it's trying to be it just misses being both a light romantic comedy and being a clever portrait of life however it's still good and if you get the chance it's definitely worth seeing
1	i normally don't like romantic films but i love this film very much the story is really touching and the ending is very appropriate i feel i really care for many characters in this film i feel i can feel their feelings while most romantic films always make me feel detached and bored this one completely makes me feel involved starting from the scene of capshaw running along the beach with scott until the ending scene i want to rate this film 11 out of 10 because i want to give an extra one point for the ending the acting part is very strong kate capshaw has a good opportunity to show her talent though i'm not impressed with scott in dead man on campus ' this film completely changes my viewpoint towards him he's so irresistibly charming here geraldine mcewan is as terrific as ever br br this film might not be as good complex deep or believable as other films which deal a little bit with the same kind of relationship such as de la chair' or 'post animal triste ' but the love can still be proud of itself as it casts a rare different light on that kind of relationship and that difference makes this film eminently enjoyable by being and relying on great charms of small stars dreamworks this time you really make my dream come true
1	this film shows up on the premium cable channels quite often and i find that i keep watching it over and over again the performances are wonderful and the material has so much happening that there is always something new to take away from the film br br maybe i am too often distracted when watching films at home you know the drill the dogs bark the phone rings the popcorn finishes during the credits but this film is about people and what motivates us what enlivens us what causes rifts between us and what inspires us br br for me it is films like the love letter that keep me taking a chance on new films frankly i am surprised that the film is not better known i would love to see blythe danner and geraldine mcewan in many more roles they are a delight to watch kate capshaw is wonderful and i had no previous idea that she would be ellen degeneres plays a role that is much more complex than simply being the comic relief br br this film provides interesting visuals as a proper background to the characters and their interactions i find it refreshing every time i take the time to watch it
1	this is an unusual film because although it was made by twentieth century fox because it's one of the few pairings of barbara stanwyck and her future husband robert taylor barbara stanwyck had been making films for many different studios rko paramount and selznick at about the time she made this is my affair but taylor was an mgm contract player so he only appeared in this film because he was loaned to fox something studios occasionally did during this era br br the film is interesting because many real life people have roles in the film though the piece is otherwise pure fiction you'll see actors playing william mckinley teddy roosevelt and admiral dewey i can't recall any film with mckinley or dewey in it as a character though i do remember roosevelt from the wind and the lion and a couple other films three cheers for seeing a lesser president in a film as a major character br br the film begins with mckinley taking a young lieutenant robert taylor aside and asking him to be a special agent for him and telling no one not even the secret service that's because the president fears that someone within the agency is tipping off a gang that has been making a long string of robberies all based on inside information so it's up to taylor who is not known for his manly roles especially at this stage of his career to pose as a thug and find the gang responsible and the inside man br br however there are two serious complications first while he is able to find the gang members one of the gang member's step sister is stanwyck taylor finds that he's fallen in love with her but he must also do his duty and turn them in to the authorities second because mckinley is the only other person who knows the truth serious problems develop when mckinley is assassinated and taylor is on death row for the crimes br br the film did a nice job of creating a story and placing it within a historical context while today most people don't remember mckinley nor remember that he was assassinated the film is set in this interesting time period the acting is pretty decent as the stars are supported by victor mclaglen and brian donlevy though i must admit that role was pretty tame and ordinary compared to many of his other film roles overall it's very interesting well written and not too sappy in the romance department a good outing for all
1	a bland title disguises this solidly example of old fashioned hollywood entertainment this film proves a largely successful hodgepodge of several disparate elements a period piece a romantic drama a crime movie and a political thriller interestingly though made by fox its protagonists – robert taylor and barbara stanwyck – were both usually associated with other studios their on screen chemistry here is palpable and eventually led to marriage in a couple of years' time while a bit too young taylor is a dashing hero a marine personally appointed by president mckinley to uncover the culprits behind an organized clean up of numerous banks unsurprisingly no sooner has he tracked them down led by smooth brian donlevy and thuggish victor mclaglen that he falls for a chanteuse naturally stanwyck who has thrown her lot with the gang – although truth be told singing is far from being the actress' forte similarly apart from having to prove his worth to make it into their fold he has to vie with mclaglen for stanwyck's attentions by the way the practical joker persona of the former reminded me a lot of charley chase in sons of the desert 1933 which incidentally was likewise directed by william a later on taylor is in two minds about involving stanwyck in the impending bait and tries to offer his resignation to the president while eloping with the girl – but the jealous rival disrupts his plans the robbery gone awry we find donlevy dead and the other two in jail taylor's hopes for intervention – having meanwhile learned the identity of the elusive and obviously prominent 'inside man' – are seemingly dashed when the president winds up assassinated himself a great plot twist though the resulting eleventh hour suspense feels contrived to get back to the film's jumble of styles even if the vaudeville sequences are a matter of taste the romantic triangle slows things up and it somewhat on the thriller aspect this emerges a handsome production indeed – with the actors already mentioned ably supported by the likes of john carradine who unaccountably disappears after just one scene douglas sig and as two american presidents sidney the bubbly theodore roosevelt and frank conroy mckinley
1	in 1937 darryl zanuck who had recently moved from head of production at warner brothers was trying to get his newly created company 20th century fox off the ground and on a level playing field with his old bosses at warners and the glitter palace at mgm this is my affair was an attempt to cash in on the current success of historical films set around the turn of the century san francisco in old chicago and in retrospect he succeeded quite mightily the plot is fascinating a trouble maker but heroic naval officer robert taylor is given a secret assignment by president mckinley to uncover a ring of bank robbers that are paralyzing american finance he finds the gang but falls in love with their female mascot barbara stanwyck and must decide between love and duty br br not everything about this vintage film works well but overall it is a good slice of studio film making the plot gimmick would be borrowed by kurt vonnegut for mother night the lead role of that film of the book was played brilliantly by nick nolte and seems quite believable at least within the confides of studio make believe as a fan of old movies i am always thrilled when i stumble upon one that i have never seen and this is my affair was no exception
1	cool action yeah the premise has been done but not this way that's the trick hey folks shock it's an x file br br to me it's cool that scully mulder have almost no scenes together they have to adapt rely on each other's intrinsic sense about what's really going on and each other's adaptation skills they read into each other's moves and get the job done sort of br br oh yeah really good acting do these people get paid to do this or a slow day when the convenience store doesn't call them into work hey duchovny where's the day old donuts malcolm get to school
1	another decent offering from the pen of vince gilligan br br a pre malcolm in the middle bryan cranston plays patrick crump a deranged guy who eventually hijacks mulder via gunpoint and has him driving west at high speeds it has something to do with his severe head ringing possible deadly combustion his wife just experienced it and the pressure only seems to be relieved by heading towards the left coast only mulder could relate to this guy's plight and actually bond with his captor before the all night ride is completed br br meanwhile scully seems to have solved the case with a possible remedy for mr crump and will meet them at the ocean check it out to see if our dynamic duo can hook up at the pacific and somehow rectify mr big problem
1	drive was an enjoyable episode with a dark ending basically a man and his wife are infected in their inner ear by a high pitched sound wave being emitted by some military equipment some favorite parts of mine from this episode are mulder's dialogue in the car and the scene where scully goes in with the hazmat team and find the little old deaf lady completely unaffected by what they thought was a virus the ending of course is tragic in its realism because it leads the viewer to believe that they are going to actually be able to pull off this elaborate plan to save the victim but when mulder arrives the man is already dead 8 10
1	as much as 'the beginning' showed that we're still going to get classic x files drive showed that the x files was going to explore new territory they start by giving us a unique teaser to drive with the news camera footage it was an interesting transition from the the tv to the real events i would've liked it even better if they had kept that news footage camera for the entire teaser and not cut to the inside of the car upon viewing this episode live back in 1998 i was thinking am i on the right channel that first autopsy by scully flooded me with big words that i don't understand i think she learned her lesson to always wear a mask before performing an autopsy silly scully what is the deal with the lighting in the autopsy lab it's as dark as a tomb in there how are they supposed to see what they're doing in there assistant director gets his first lines in this episode i have no love lost for that man he is the third recurring character in a row that is introduced that you love to hate the first two being diana and jeffrey spender i guess the producers felt that there was too much love going on for mulder scully and skinner so they needed to add some characters to give our favorite agents some grief and incite our ire as fans i love the quarantine suits worn by scully and her team with the cool helmet light bulbs boy it's really smoky or foggy in dry northern nevada at night can we say the word effect drive is a cool episode but looking at route 36 on my u s atlas there's no way mulder could've maintained a speed of 70 100 mph on that road if he had been on i 80 the freeway maybe but no way on a state road with that many curves all of the filming inside the car looked very authentic excellent job by rob bowman it looks nothing like the old days of the obvious blue screen or clip of passing scenery outside a car window on a stage this was a fun episode but some of the inaccuracies keep it from being a great episode it keeps you on the edge of your seat so hold on for a fast ride
1	a good story about rusty parker rita hayworth who dreams of being on broadway which means she would have to leave the small dinner theater where she works with danny gene kelly and genius phil silvers rusty is in love with danny all three are good friends and every friday night they go to a local bar where they get oysters so they can look for a pearl they never eat them the story line provides numerous opportunities for songs and dancing the movie has two questions that rusty must answer is fame all that it is cracked up to be and is less really more if you are happy answering those questions makes the movie the movie also does a good job of showcasing the talents that all three principals had never a dull moment
1	a straight forward x file that shows that action is always the equal of intelligence rob bowman's direction is crisp and sharp the episode looks just as fresh now as it did almost a decade ago david and gillian both give fine performances and both seem to relish the lack of baggage it's a standalone x file that even non fans could happen upon and enjoy junior brown gives both the leads a run for their money during his scene with them he's so convincing that you could believe the crew drove to the middle of nowhere and knocked on the first door they came to bryan cranston is intense and energetic as patrick crump he has since admitted in interviews that he knew next to nothing about the x files prior to this role a fact that makes his hit the floor running performance all the more incredible a brilliantly dumb episode
1	i first saw this masterpiece on vhs 10 years ago and the powerful interpretation on angry kid painfully against established society it carried stayed in my heart since then director hector is such a good humanity who finds a delicate angle to tell the story of how kills the childhood of the kids from poverty class even the outcast kids have their innocent beautiful dreams but the corrupt reality never gives a chance br br thanks to the publishers for the recent dvd release i now can keep this great movie to my favorite collection
1	this movie has an outstanding acting by and a stunning by the argentine hector this is in my opinion the best brazilian movie ever made the movie was filmed with child from the the brazilian the children weren't actors and were casted by in the city of rio de janeiro the story is about the criminal children that are arrested in the correctional prison that looks much worse than alcatraz the children are constantly raped and beaten by the policeman unfortunately this is not purely fiction in brazil it does happen till today a must see for those who like violent movies but take your mother off the room because it is a hard movie
1	trust the excellent and accurate review this film is compelling and moving in that roughest most brutally beautiful film masterpiece way file under unforgettable strong meat or films that howl at the moon pixote gets into your nervous system and elevates you despite the pain on the screen here's an unrelated list of films that did the same thing for me i e engaged destroyed transformed inspired resonated this category transcends nerdy film top ten lists that seek film perfection a woman under the influence wages of fear saint jack funny bones out of the blue
1	the story takes place on the streets of sao in brazil where a young boy named pixote grows up alone without his parents left troubled and with no direction pixote gets taken into a child asylum with other adolescents from the street behind closed doors terrible things occurs within the staff and within the child groups and there is one last trigger that gets the place blown up the last incident that makes pixote and his friends decide to break out and escape from there on begins a journey overwhelmed with strong bonded friendships friendships torn apart love and hate criminal activities and simply chilling on the beach talking about things something someone like you and i also does sometimes br br i think this film is perfect in so many ways because it touches you on so many levels it did that with me anyway the document like style used to portray pixote and his surroundings does it seem more realistic and the actors who really are street children and have lived similar lives helps the humanity in the conditions seem more natural it has a social comment about child abuse too but i think what makes the film so great is that the pressure is on the story and not on the political views the last scene which i find the best piece from the film strikes me as something beyond nothing i've seen before so full of emotions and yet so unsentimental makes this film a truthful believable unbearable unforgettable story tale a true heartbreaking masterpiece which is so underrated br br my vote 10 10
1	to speak relatively if one were only to see now hector pixote 1981 brazil pronounced as pi shot after having seen quite a number of films that deal with street children juvenile delinquents kids in trouble truffaut's the 400 blows bunuel's los olvidados de sica's nair's salaam bombay bresson's leaf on a pillow etc one might be afraid that the plight of the kid portrayed in the film might not affect one anymore having been de synthesized already after going through the emotional roller coaster ride put in motion by the previously quoted films br br thankfully that won't be the case for narrates his film in such a matter of fact manner artlessly as one film reviewer put it in a positive light and that his central child performer fernando ramos da silva 13 years old at that time and a street kid himself gives such a no frills wounded performance raw in its simplicity that hardened face those lonely and longing eyes that one is hard put not to be pierced in any way such a feeling may achieve such a heightened realism when one learns that the child had only lived but a short life having been involved in street crimes after the film and subsequently murdered br br in about first half of the film pixote and his fellow street kids and delinquents spend their time in a repressive state run reformatory school where and humiliation rape and murder are the norm and culture where they are forced to confess to their crimes on the flimsy notion that under the brazilian law underage felons are not punishable for their offenses for these kids the dubious freedom offered by the streets is more preferable than the harsh rehabilitation provided by these supposed well meaning authorities within the walls of this supposed protective establishment these young souls are soon to discover that love and care from parental figures are likewise nowhere to be found if not to a degree worser br br for pixote the only form of escape comes from puffing grass and sniffing glue secretly smuggled inside the reformatory br br when the kids burst themselves into a small scale revolt to finally express and then fulfill their collective desire to get back to the outside world their home the intensity and form are of such a kind that one can't avoid thinking of the revolt in jean vigo's influential zero for conduct it's only that in pixote the uprising is made to appear on a gutter level br br once pixote and his small group are back on the streets the film's second half they engage in robbery pimping and drug dealing to fend for themselves along which they get to meet a battered but kindly prostitute willingly the four lost souls in such a way that she allows her customers to be robbed by them and that she provides more than motherly care at least to one of the children br br one would have thought that the street kids have at long last found the one person who can provide them the love and warmth that have been sorely lacking in their lives but as dubious as the freedom that these kids believe the streets are providing this new found maternal figure cannot but stay forever br br jealousy squabbles differences and murder have only set the kids apart and for good and during that defining scene where pixote prompted by the circumstance gets to shoot not just arrogant american customer but also his fellow street urchin ditto more than a son to he thereafter literally goes back to infancy as he sucks from the right breast of the disoriented woman right there and then materializing his lingering desire for parental affection the image itself both sad and unsettling br br it is so that in a probable coming back to her senses lamentably pushes back pixote from his nourishing position and rejects him for good thus in a quietly wrenching moment pixote with that young old face and those sullen eyes not entirely dissimilar though in a different context to the young boy's in elem klimov's harrowing come and see gets himself up puts on his coat and takes his gun yes a gun and sets off to nowhere walking along the train tracks and with the morning light just beginning to show up with that scene may just be doing an homage amongst many other homages found in different films to the iconoclastic final scene in truffaut's the 400 blows br br but whereas we got to know what has become of antoine doinel three years later in the short film antoine et colette as well as in three other feature films in the years thereafter we are left grappling in the dark as to what lies ahead for pixote after he finally disappears from the last frame that being the last time that we'll get to see this real life street child notwithstanding the fate that eventually befell him in actuality br br pixote may not be as nearly as whimsical as the 400 blows or as hallucinatory as los olvidados but it still stands out among films of similar theme and texture because of its simple raw power
1	pixote is directed with barely a shred of sentimentality and yet i more than imagine hector owes some of his film making chops with this film to vittorio de sica's neo realist style in particular that film as with pixote takes place mostly inside a children's prison and yet while i might still prefer de sica's film if it came down to deciding between the two it's so close because it is no pun intended like choosing between two children they're both marvelous works of raw drama and with pixote has an extra edge and harrowing quality to deal with in that this isn't filmed in conditions brought on after a world war this is how it was in brazil one would see it with slightly more flair and awe in city of god perhaps in some of the same locations and these children were on the streets before and after the film was made some aren't alive some 20 years later for all anyone knows br br the star pre teen street kid fernando ramos da silva plays the title character a youth without a father or really any family who will look out for him and placed among dozens of other street kids and delinquents in a reformatory for boys the conditions couldn't be much worse and are made even more unbearable as two children are killed one after the other by some cause of the guard duty there's a riot and an escape and halfway through the film we find pixote with a few other youths including a practical transvestite not even 18 and they become pickpockets drug dealers whatever to get by none of this i should repeat is shown with a kind of ham fisted earnestness certainly you would never in a million years see ron howard or paul haggis direct this kind of picture and yet there's an emotional honesty to everything exactly because nothing is trivialized br br nearly every scene is significant to showing how fragile life is for pixote and how he could be killed or die some way at any turn and so without even reaching puberty yet he has to be on the level of those around him who are a little older though not by much at all and become things that will haunt this person forever despite usage of a tender and mournful musical score and one or two scenes with people crying a lot nothing feels forced as with de sica maybe more so given the consistent conditions of san paolo and rio street kids he's a natural director of children and out of ramos da silva and jorge and others some really fine work that provides just the right touches of cinematic drama that is not so real that it becomes documentary which isn't a bad thing per say and even subtlety in some scenes br br pixote may not be as well known as it's later 21st century brazilian films that look back on the horrors of rio or even neo realist films but it should be anyone wanting to get a good hard glimpse at what it was like should seek it out at a library or other and soak in what is the best foreign film of 1981
1	this is probably the best movie from director hector it shows a brazilian reality unknown by foreigners which is the same reality that haunts all of the latin american countries poverty and a survival instinct the most affected in this reality is the children usually left orphans or abandoned by their poor parents have to make it in a dog eat dog society many times falling into the gap of delinquency prostitution and crime very well acted and with a no frills approach this movie will get to you great story plot a must have movie on anybody's collection the starring role went to fernando ramos da silva a young boy who fell into the crime wave killed some years later during a robbery i would suggest people to watch the movie who killed pixote so you can have a more in depth idea of the lives of these characters some other characters from the movie had a similar fate some died and others are in jail none the less this movie will last for a long time in your memory
1	i'm originally from brazil the sad thing about this movie was the exploitation that was done to that boy they told his life story and he never got one brazilian cent of that movie fernando is not the first and will not be the last to go through that life style in brazil sad but that is the world we live in it's about making money not saving lives question is where is fernando today most probably dead we tend to want to live in this disney filled fantasy life when someone comes up to the plate to help along comes the higher power and says what do i get from this where's my cut i wish people's conscience would speak up
1	film about the failure of government and the selfishness of adults overwhelming impossibility of dealing with life and the means the children go to to try to achieve living only living staying alive in a cruel world a nightmare world we are afraid to watch it because we are seeing truth and are afraid to see it to see a world of despair when we are all so comfortable in our own lives and even complaining about what we have not got when it is so trivial compared to someone else they the children of the movie are desensitized they are more than desensitized by what is around them they see sex as an act like they are watching a tv program when the one boy is with the hooker pixote is sitting on the bed watching with a blank stare no feeling he wants to be a little boy and have a family but the hooker has no compassion either and pushes him away a human film with human relations and moral judgement in a ugly scared cruel world reminds us that life is not fair but you can still have a human connection
1	it took a loan out film to columbia for gene kelly's home studio mgm to realize his creative talent and give him some control over what he did in his own films cover girl also became rita hayworth's signature film for the gis and their pinup fantasies during world war ii br br kelly plays the owner of a small nightclub in brooklyn where rita is a featured dancer and phil silvers the comic of course kelly does a bit of hoofing himself there br br hayworth comes to the attention of millionaire otto kruger when it turns out that kruger had loved and lost hayworth's grandmother in some flashback sequences from the gaslight era hayworth also plays her own grandmother with jess barker playing the young kruger you might remember jess barker was the husband of that other legendary screen redhead susan hayward br br broadway producer lee bowman also is attracted to hayward but he's not interested in nostalgia he wants her for his ziegfeld follies revue and in fact the biggest number of cover girl is the title song of the film it's nicely done in follies style br br hayworth also gets to sing a sure thing in a gaslight era number and in the only song in the show not written by jerome kern and ira gershwin hayworth also does an old english music hall number poor john when i say sing as everyone knows rita mouths words singing here is done by nan wynn br br the biggest hit of the show is long ago and far away which is introduced by gene kelly it was one of the biggest hits of the world war ii era and one of the biggest sellers jerome kern ever wrote it happens in fact to be a favorite of an aunt of mine who with my uncle will be celebrating 60 years of marriage this september long ago and far away was nominated for best song but lost to swinging on a star br br what really sets cover girl apart and what makes it a milestone film for gene kelly is the two numbers put me to the test and the alter ego number harry cohn decided to do what louis b mayer had refused at mgm to give kelly creative control of his own material kelly later said the alter ego number was one of the hardest things he ever attempted in his career in it he dances with a pale reflection of himself and the choreography is dazzling and intricate br br in fact after one more loan out film christmas holiday at universal louis b mayer never loaned out gene kelly for the rest of the time he was at mgm and he did get creative control from then on br br with that dazzling technicolor cinematography and rita's red hair and gene kelly's boundless creativity cover girl was and is a classic and will forever be so
1	for me this is another one of those films that i got to see off of the los angeles based z channel when it was in service and it was another one of those movies that i saw when i was young and learned that there was a world out there one i did not want to accept br br moving to los angeles and getting to watch international cinema became quite the guilty pleasure hobby of mine and to date no premiere channel programming has matched the z channel in its showing of international films the three international films that stuck in my young head were spetters beau pere and of course this one pixote br br this was the most shocking and saddest movie i ever witnessed in my life this was also one of the first movies that made me understand that there is a difference in cinema to entertain and to inform let me be honest growing up in a small town on the east coast i had no idea anything like this to this extent existed all i knew from south america was brochures of fabulous vacations and that columbia had a lot of drug trafficking br br then comes a film like pixote sad disturbing unflinching scary you're watching children those that need shelter love understanding and all these get are a way to survive day after day through drugs sex robbing stealing sleeping on the streets and in sadistic group homes etc their survival is hard to watch with other street children prostitutes etc and you begin to wonder how can things like this be allowed to happen in this world br br pixote is not a film for entertainment it is a film of information it shows shocking and disturbing images but it shows life for these daily street children
1	this was really a nightmare of a film i saw it about nine years ago on cable tv and haven't forgotten it since pixote is a 10 year old boy who lives in the streets of sao paulo brazil and leads a criminal life in the company of his teenage friends and chico they steal pimp sell drugs and murder in order to survive each day in the first half of the film pixote is caught by the police and sent to a sadistic foster home where he witnesses every kind of abuse from the older inmates and guards to the rest of the kids one night boyfriend is killed after a beating so pixote and his friends decide to escape during a riot the rest of the film shows descent into a criminal life he doesn't show any feelings or remorse after killing someone maybe because he knows that good feelings are of no use in the world in which he lives but there is however a gentle scene in the middle of the film pixote and his friends are at the beach missing and wishing one of his friends from the reformatory was there i thought it was a poetic and melancholy scene in the middle of all these horrible events the boys are obviously longing not only for their friend but for a better life director hector pixote is a brave and depressing film that doesn't shy away from showing the harshest reality many people including myself tend to ignore or misunderstand this film will probably open your eyes and make you a better and compassionate person
1	i've been studying brazilian cinema since 2004 when i stumbled onto de deus city of god let me tell you something this movie is probably as good or better than city of god br br the acting cinematography and music supervision make this movie a unique experience i have not been to brazil yet but this movie presents the harsh reality that is beset before the citizens of são paulo br br i recommend this movie if you enjoy good cinema this movie is disturbing and you may feel a bit despondent after watching it br br something you want to watch but nothing you want to go to sleep on
1	when it was released in the beginning of the 80's pixote brings to brazilian society the problems of young delinquents and the impact of this in brazilian society i can't watch the movie at that time cause i was too young but now i got a chance and watched it a few days ago it's a very brutal movie but everything is absolutely true and sad pixote is the name of a 12 year old boy who lives in the streets and survive with he stays for a while in a house of detention and when he left it he continues to plan robs with other buns and a prostitute played by the boy is still a marijuana addicted and smell glue with another teenagers to forget his sad reality the quality of the images it's not the best but the movie is totally realistic about brazilian problems and must be viewed and admired
1	pixote is the one of most powerful shocking and moving motion picture to come from brazil it's about the lives of street kids on the streets of sao paulo and rio de janeiro and it centers around a ten year old boy the camera follows them around in an almost documentary style from the juvenile detention center where most of the staff is as corrupt as the police and back to the streets and it never turns away from the horrors of the city prostitution drug use dealing corruption and murder are all witnessed by these youths yet it's something they're painfully used to director hector used real street kids as the actors adding to the films brutal reality although not for everyone a film i highly recommend an emotionally devastating movie br br
1	the film opens with the director talking to the camera and saying he is going to show a story about street kids whose families live in poverty and must steal and kill to survive in fact the main character pixote was played by an actual street kid only 11 years old what follows was one of the most brutal depressing and horrifying film i've even seen i saw it about 17 years ago on a double bill with black orpheus and have never forgotten it i don't think i ever want to see it again it was just too much br br spoiler ahead the scene which will not leave me is when pixote meets a prostitute who has to abort her own fetus you don't see her do it but you get a quick glance at what she got out it's almost 20 years later and just recalling that scene upsets me spoiler end br br the movie gets more brutal as it goes along and ends the only way it can what's all the more harrowing is stories like this really did happen in brazil in 1981 and are still happening today br br a harrowing brutal film but it should be seen if you can handle it i'm surprised this got an r rating i've seen x rated film that are less graphic a 10
1	this is a difficult movie to watch and would have been even more difficult had i known then that the actor playing the protagonist was in fact killed in his home by police at age 19 pixote is a street kid in sao paulo who is caught in a roundup triggered by a murder in which he had no involvement he is committed to a juvenile prison where he witnesses brutality and exploitation that ordinary citizens try very hard to believe doesn't exist when finally he escapes he and three comrades survive by the only means they know which is crime what makes the film so heart rending is that both pixote and the actor portraying him clearly do not wish to be the characters life circumstances have made them pixote tries to trust and to love and to bond but there simply is no room in his world for the gentle side of human nature one is left at the end wanting desperately to do something for the of the world but what building more prisons with higher walls surely is not the answer
1	this is no walk in the park i saw this when it came out and haven't had the guts to watch it again you will never see a more horrifyingly devastating or depressing movie i felt like i'd been severely beaten what kind of world are we living in when we have children who are treated worse than garbage this is our world what we have created what we have allowed to happen and i would hesitate to say that i me we are not responsible for this made this film to wake us up to shake us to our very core and he succeeded how can we be cruel or self indulgent or neglectful of our children when we see the graphic results of such behavior he is pointing a finger of accusation at us all for doing this to the lowliest and least powerful of our society and if you aren't doing something each day to prevent it then you are part of the problem i am not a religious fanatic but this movie made me think about the state of my soul
1	pixote a lei do mais deals with what is perhaps the greatest of all brazilian themes poverty and along with poverty the other unnatural feelings and actions it brings prostitution violence crime rape and murder br br brazil is the country of paradoxes and its social problems are present everywhere the difference between the rich and the poor the beautiful and the ugly happiness and the most profound human decay br br pixote is one of the films that dare to touch and open these so painful wounds and does it without the slightest glimmer of hope in an honest portrayal of a country that like pixote himself is already lost
1	the violent death of fernando ramos da silva only eight years after the completion of this film only adds to the poignancy of powerful message the film is split into two halves the first in a reformatory where a group of youngsters are abused and violated by the violent law enforcers and guardians the second backdrop is the city where they are confined instead by their own actions and morality which includes mugging pimping and killing different characters who enter their lives br br the differing gender and sexual roles in the film allow for constant changes in the characters as they interact with other people particularly interesting is character of a transvestite who is mother and lover to some of the children her reaction to the arrival of a prostitute is both poignant and tragic br br there is no happy ending to this story and i reccomend to watch it with caution as there are some very uncomfortable scenes to watch especially in opening twenty minutes but whilst watching it it is important to remember that this is not just a fictional tale the actors are not trained professionals but instead boys selected from the sao paulo they actually lived this life that is portrayed so vividly on screen and in da case died at the hands of the police who are depicted so brutally a documentary a piece of fiction it borders on both but it certainly makes for heart wrenching material and is a film that actually leaves you breathless and thinking long after having watched it br br 10 10
1	when i saw this film it reminded me of all the greatest dreams i had mostly filled with robots br br i can relate to problems and i have a similarity to shiro and this is a great film to watch if you're a goth who is bitter and eccentric like me all in all watch it before it's out of print
1	in his descriptions of platinum card lunches in hollywood psychoanalysis a vacation in provincetown he never took and free trips to nicaragua financed by columbia pictures br br it sounds narcissistic but spalding gray possibly because of his unusual personality ropes the audience in laughs at himself perhaps because he did not take the hollywood thing oh so seriously and gets us to care br br this monologue is not just about the killing fields or swimming to cambodia it is more a pastiche of events as he sees them some of the lines are classic as when gray meets with the esteemed talent agents at the conference table is full of them tanned healthy fresh from drinking blue green algae from an oregon lake there are no drugs now in hollywood br br this was before the tragedy occurred many of us will miss his off balance humor 9 10
1	three of the things you can say about spalding gray are he certainly marched to the beat of his own drummer he was never at a loss for words and he obviously felt that those watching and listening to him would be interested in every aspect of his life experiences and thoughts no matter how trivial at times br br most of us are not quite as far off the wall as he was most of us aren't as interested in sharing the most minute parts of ourselves with others even one on one or in small groups let alone on stage br br but that doesn't make it any less interesting to watch and listen to this erudite unusual man and after seeing one of his performances on reflection we can find many of his articulate musings were perhaps more relevant to our own lives and thoughts than we may have first thought br br granted he was a new york avant garde type of personality and undeniably a bit strange there are those who would maintain describing someone as new york and strange was being unnecessarily redundant br br i give him a 10 for the talent he presents in this genre which is his specialty
1	gray can make the english language jump through hoops like none other he recounts a number of events tied together by his writing of a manuscript the monster of the title some sad some uproariously funny all in his characteristic sarcastic manner if you liked swimming to cambodia you will love this one i actually thought this was a bit more interesting and better told than swimming to cambodia a real masterpiece
1	this is marvelous movie about a soul of ale this is a journey to heart i found it fascinating the director did a great job he makes the scenes talk especially on the silent scenes the window of ale is a great one an the scenes when he lies in bed are one of the best directed scenes i have seen br br apart from directing it has been a quite time i did not watch a movie about a soul as a philosopher i can say that this film proves that the age does not matter about your soul so as soul br br as living in turkey i do not care about the other side of ny this is a universal scene you can see everywhere in the world as to my opinion more universal than every other thing br br do not miss this film otherwise you will miss a great thing about a soul if you have one br br
1	i was very impressed with this production on likely all levels from production to plot and character development br br this definitely fall under the realism genre since there is nothing going on here that makes use of creative imagination twists or manipulating audience in how a viewer shall feel think and asses br br the actors are great especially the little ones the chemistry between the brother and the sister is mind blowing maybe not even as common as should be in real life it is a movie excellent to literally watch while visualizing it one knows when a movie is good when one just does not want it to end but eventually everything does
1	the majesty of ramin second feature is that like the work of a poet he portrays the very soul of humanity and lets it flourish on the screen beyond the scope of most other indie films out there chop shop is wise exuding the very best of the great cinema of the ages we can look back at the works of bresson and pasolini and compare work to theirs and yet chop shop is fresh and urgent to modern society we can see the workings of a master here – a certain sense of beauty style and content all merge together in a film that reminds us what it means to be alive instead of focusing on the side of nyc we so often see we live and breathe with our young hero alejandro in the destitute point – a fascinating quasi sub world of our culture – and yet it's a very very real place trying to stay afloat alejandro has to support himself and his older sister watch this film and feel the sense of raw spiritual understanding that leads us toward – all with profound and concise realism
1	this is one of those movies when you are watching it you wonder whether it is documentary or fiction after the movie ramin answered many questions and we learned that the movie has a script br br camera is silent he is not judgmental he almost erases director from the movie by purpose background is not organized to make the picture pretty however don't get me wrong there is a lot of preparation for this movie starting on personal level being the part of environment being to be ignored when you film br br main character is a 'real' actor in every sense br br i would like to thank all crew for this movie showing us another country within nyc i strongly suggest it if you like stories of others br br
1	some critics have compared chop shop with the theatrical releases of city of god and pixote i've seen both of those as well as chop shop and like in many instances i don't feel the comparison is warranted city of god and pixote surely had a much higher budget chop shop is a low budget independent film about survival and hope disappointment and continuing with life one of the scenes is allegedly filmed during the us open and either the filmmakers had incredible connections or the scene was filmed at another time and the us open footage was added i say that because i live in the area where this movie was filmed and security is insane while the tennis matches are in progress it's also noteworthy that the actors actual names were their character's names in the movie back to the movie it's an enjoyable story about survival however it ended up getting a 7 because at times the actors acted extremely well at other times they appeared to be just reciting their lines if the actors were less competent as they were in the low budget the big dis for example i would have been more forgiving but in several scenes each and every one of these actors gave exemplary performances at other times they appeared bored the director might be at fault here i also had problems with the ending this is one of those movies that just ends maybe there will be a part 2 definitely worth getting on dvd i wont bother summing up the story because that info is already available on imdb
1	can't say this wasn't made well at a recent film festival the director admitted some scenes took 30 takes and there isn't the slightest indication he didn't get exactly what he wanted but this is an oddly non hispanic film in the same way west side story was many years ago both the leads a brother sister team are excellent and memorable in their parts the setting a sort of underground car repair district in queens is completely foreign to most people and is worth the price of admission by itself but there's something unsatisfying about the key issue in the film namely what the sister feels she has to do to get by i can understand the brother's reaction but it just seems a little too easily come by to me the movie seems to suggest that people like these don't need our help that they'll find a way to survive without the usual support systems i wouldn't encourage anyone to believe that there would be far more resistance to the choices made here than depicted other than that as an entertainment it works well as an accurate depiction of a culture not so well i think
1	i enjoyed ramin man push cart and this film is equally good this slice of life is almost a documentary about how life on the edges is lived br br alejandro and gonzales do an excellent job as a 12 year old brother and a 16 year old sister who live in a small room over an auto shop there are no parents they are on their own surviving ali supplements his income by stealing auto parts selling bootleg dvds and selling candy on the subway supplements her income working a food truck by selling herself they are trying to make money to but their own truck br br one is tempted to express outrage at the fact that these two children are left to fend on their own and certainly one can be very upset that sells her body to willing truckers but the fact is that this exists today in the world's richest country not some underdeveloped land save the outrage and do something
1	i just re watched 08th ms gundam for the 2nd time it is so much better than gundam wing i can't wait to get the dvd and see what was edited out of the series this is great to see the gundams actually move about clumsily through the land somebody really thought over writing this move script br br see this today
1	for the very reason that i love movies such as central do brasil central station 1998 i really love chop shop there is no sugar coating there is no attempt to make these people's lives over to something more palatable or pretty what you see is what you get and that is often gritty and at times heartbreaking but that is exactly what makes a movie such as chop shop so wonderful alongside the fact that the storyline unfolds so elegantly and subtly for a young brother and sister who are about as close to homelessness as one would ever want to get working and living at an auto body repair shop in queens new york is as good as it gets is this a good or bad thing that is the question this movie essentially poses to the viewer this movie is really a fantastic slice of life piece that at times feels like a documentary instead of a drama and that is a great thing because it looks and feels so real in the midst of so so many current movies based on essentially surreal and often implausible plots stumbling upon chop shop is like finding a little gem
1	chop shop the second feature from ramin is a rare breed it is an american film that tells a story not usually found in american cinema the story of the of a minority living in poverty it is a work of simple beauty shot on location in queens new york in the shadows of shea stadium chop shop is neo realism to the core featuring a cast of non actors it has more in common with vittorio de sica's classic bicycle thieves than anything made in the united states there is no score or soundtrack all the music and sounds are diagetic watching it feels like watching a great foreign film it takes us to another world because it is so uncommon to see however this other world is not post world war ii rome or istanbul or new delhi it is contemporary new york city br br tells the story of alejandro alejandro better known as ale he is a 12 year old latin american kid with no parents or family unit to watch after him he lives in a tiny room upstairs in the auto shop that he also works at he shares the same bed with his teenage sister gonzales neither of them have made it passed second grade ale though young is tough and mature he acts as the head of the small family he hooks his sister up with a job and he himself does anything he can to make a buck when not working at the chop shop he sells bootleg dvds on the streets and candy in subways he searches for scrap auto parts and sells them to the many auto shops lining the street where he lives br br alejandro is heartbroken when he learns his sister is working nights as a prostitute he himself becomes progressively disinterested in abiding by the law he begins to steal first car parts and later wallets like antonio the desperate protagonist in bicycle thieves we cannot blame ale for becoming a thief it is merely survival ale and save up in hopes of buying a food vending van for 4 500 they see the van as their way out and there is much optimism however as is usually the case in neo realism we know this will only lead to disappointment br br riveting performance is what gives legitimacy to chop shop's realism here is a 12 year old character that needs to be believably independent and vulnerably naive whether he is directing cars to the shop selling movies and snickers bars or playing with his sister in their scanty room it is authentic br br chop shop is a sobering reminder that not all american children grow up in a land of opportunity lifestyle is what many in middle class white america consider world' they act cognizant the poverty and deprivation in foreign lands while sipping their coffee and reading the new york times on sunday morning but make themselves blind to it on their own streets once you watch chop shop you will think differently of the kids candy on the subway br br more reviews at www com
1	ramin sets up a scene early on in chop shop that immediately had me identifying with where the character of ale alejandro and his friend were coming from the two of them get on a subway and as soon as the doors close they ask if they could have everyone's attention for a moment and that they are selling candy bars or m m's or something and then they proceed to sell some bars if you as i have ever been on a subway in new york city at any time this is the kind of situation that happens so often you almost don't notice it often the people on a subway will see kids like these or minorities selling something or announcing and talking about something on a subway and not pay them any mind focus isn't necessarily just on kids who hock things for sale on subway rides but on survival and the state of being one is in when in the lower class in america it is subsequently in his hands thoughtful and heartbreaking usually at once br br to compare it to pixote or the bicycle thief isn't too far of a leap actually in the latter at least the father and son have each other though is specific in his intentions in his documentary style we care about this character ali no older than eleven and working in a car shop cleaning some cars and helping take apart others and his sister who comes from out of town to stay with him but it's not simply because we're force fed any clichés aside from you know a brother and sister more so the brother trying to take care of one another makes the story accessible through the simple aspiration ali has the kind of goal that is possible attainable in his situation saving up enough to buy a used food truck that ali and can operate themselves br br it's all ali is working for but what shows us in brutal detail is this work what ali has to do to make it happen even if its distasteful things like ripping off of tires from cars in shea stadium or at one point stealing a purse in a desperate moment this makes it all the more serious an issue when ale sees what his sister does for money on the side at night doing sexual favors for men in an abandoned truck on the side of the road he doesn't mention it and pushes it aside but its always something that adds to the tension something ale wants to protect his sister from it adds to the tragedy when ale finds out the real cost of what it will take to make the food truck into a profit maker a cost that just further adds to the anguish that he just internalizes br br one could look immediately at the fact that ale is an orphan in such a neighborhood as the one in the area of queens the film was shot in naturally as with a work of neo neo realism lets just call it realism featuring practically all non professional actors in the parts of the mechanics and workers and people on the streets but is focused more so on the here and the now and that is what makes chop shop so immediate and heartfelt not a trace of melodrama is in the film barely even music accompaniment aside from the live latino music coming from the cars and radios sometimes will focus on a very subtle moment that makes it pronounced in further scenes like the way ale is awake but acts like he's asleep the first night after he witnesses late night tryst and we see as she into bed she probably knows he's awake but neither can say a word or in a lot of other scenes poetic touches that seem seamless like when the man shows ale how feeding the pigeons work br br it's rough and gritty as you can expect and it doesn't give much hope for its main characters despite the few moments of happiness sprinkled about it's also a superbly shot hand held film where the technique as with a lot of movies made in its urban set tone and approach informs and compliment the subjects on screen and what they're doing but it also is never recklessly shot or too flashy the filmmaker has a superb 'real life' cast ale was plucked from a nyc public school without any experience and knows how to not waste a shot while at the same time achieve a brutal artistry with just showing what he shows it's not city of god or pixote it's its own little masterpiece on a character or characters we usually would just not give a second look to or a first one barely on our way in a city such as new york if you're not moved by ale and his daily struggles i don't know what to do for you
1	this almost documentary look at an enterprising boy who lives in the body shop area outside of new york is real all the way real lighting real sound less editing in the whole movie than in 1 minute of most movies and while there is very little script there is a story shot in primary colors almost all red white blue and yellow we get a real sense of the life of a boy who is making something from nothing he has a place to live that he makes his own has a good job and is trying to bring his sister into his little universe the people in the chop shop area also give us a look at this culture which i didn't know about they mostly seem decent and pay ale what seems like daily seeming truly concerned about his well being the actor i think playing ale says more with one facial expression than one can imagine this reminded me what a true small movie can accomplish it shows what kids are capable of even without much support and love definitely recommend
1	chop shop is a hidden treasure out in theaters i cannot begin to describe how wonderful the performances are in this movie this film is for anyone who wants to watch a powerful story and see an example of what contemporary movies should look and be like br br this film is about a young boy alejandro ale who works and lives with his teenage sister in a one room tiny loft in an auto shop the story takes place in a part of new york city that i did not even know existed points where there are endless and body shops here tells the story of two forgotten children hoping to support themselves by buying and fixing up a food van br br ale makes money helping at the auto shop and helps at a food van both however earn extra money on the side ale sells bootleg movies and stolen car parts results to selling herself their lives are surrounded by grit and grim but even though both witness live and barely survive within their harsh world their love for each other is never tainted by the filth that surround them and occasionally they are able to laugh and enjoy moments of their childhood that is being stolen by the reality of struggling to survive and stay together br br the best comparison i have for chop shop is that juxtaposition of an innocent love between family members against such a bleak atmosphere is as powerful as pasolini's mama roma combined with the struggles of growing up too fast in an adverse environment just as in bresson's br br having co written directed and edited both this film and his first man push cart which won awards all over the world is a total package filmmaker br br i can only hope that his films will not be hidden treasures for long
1	chop shop written and directed by ramin man push cart specializes in character driven studies in naturalist style films about the sort of little people that get passed by every day without anyone ever really noticing they are there in new york br br these are people who have been pushed to the very fringe of society they exist in a sort of grey world many of them migrants whose legal status in america is appears somewhat doubtful where do they come from how did they get there how do they cope where will they end up these are not feel good stories as such but stories about survival at its most basic day to day level br br ale is one such street kid he has no education and hustles anyway he can to save money he is also not beyond turning to petty theft mostly he is anxious to be reunited with his older sister we see him in the early scenes ringing a safe house looking for her but not having any real success a young friend carlos gets him a job in a chop shop in the shadows of shea baseball stadium eventually his older sister comes to live on site with him but he is jealous of the motives of her friends and suspicious of how she makes extra money he dreams of buying a food van and setting up a vending business with his older sister br br shoots all his films on location there is nothing glossy or glossed over about them this is life as these people have to live it in the raw lt is not pretty although it is never ominous and the slightly despairing air that hangs over much of the film is the same one that hangs over these peoples' everyday lives br br the script is also very natural and the characters are given plenty of scope and room to work in is outstanding in the lead role and gonzalez gives solid support as the older sister
1	a friend brought me this movie and at first i was hesitating the pace in the movie was so slow that it was admittedly boring at the beginning but the life scenes were attractive it's like observing than watching br br it turned out to be simply stunning throughout the film the way how the director handled the life scenes to reflect the reality was confounding but somehow also overwhelming it's like understanding the real life of a lively person than watching a movie br br mr alejandro and miss gonzales did their roles so well that it's more like telling us their own stories indeed they used their real names in the movie
1	alejandro alejandro called ale for short works at an auto body repair shop in what has come to be known as the iron triangle a deteriorating twenty block stretch of auto junk yards and sleazy car repair dealers close to shea stadium in queens new york here customers do not question whether or not parts come from stolen cars or why they are able to receive such large they simply put down their cash and hope that everything is on the up and up sleazy outskirts like these are not highlighted in the tour guides but iranian american director ramin puts them on vivid display in chop shop a powerful indie film that received much affection last year at cannes berlin and toronto a follow up to his acclaimed man push cart spent one and a half years in the location that f scott fitzgerald described as in the great gatsby as the valley of the ashes br br for all its depiction of bleakness chop shop is not a work of social criticism but like hector pixote a poignant character study in which a young boy's survival is bought at the price of his innocence shot on location at point in queens makes you feel as if you are there sweating in a hot and humid new york summer with all of its noise and chaos the film's focus is on the charming street smart 12 year old ale who lives on the edge without any adult support or supervision other than his boss rob the real life proprietor of the iron triangle garage performance is raw and slightly ragged yet he fully earned the standing ovation he received at the film's premiere at cannes along with a hug from great iranian director abbas kiarostami br br cramped into a tiny room above the garage together with his 16 year old sister gonzales who works dispensing food from a lunch wagon ale is like one of the interchangeable spare parts he deals with while he has dreams of owning his own food service van in the city that never sleeps he knows that the only thing that may make the top of the heap is another fender in this environment ale and use any means necessary to keep their heads above water while their love for each other remains constant and they still laugh and act out the childhood that was never theirs as barack obama says in his book dreams from my father the change may come later when their eyes stop laughing and they have shut off something inside in the meantime ale supplements his earnings by selling candy bars in the crowded new york subways with his friend carlos carlos zapata and pushing bootleg dvds on the street corners while does tricks for the truck drivers to save enough money to buy the rusted 4500 van in which they hope to start their own business br br though ale is a good boy he is not above stealing purses and in the shea stadium parking lot events that camera observes without judgment in chop shop has provided a compelling antidote to the underdog success stories churned out by the hollywood dream factory and has given us a film of stunning naturalism and respect for its characters similar in many ways to the great italian neo realist films and the recent iranian works of kiarostami panahi and others while the outcome of the characters is far from certain makes sure that we notice a giant billboard at shea stadium that reads make dreams happen leaving us with the hint that in phrase the drum of the realization of that promise is beating
1	my girlfriend as we walk in the cold london evening in leicester square after the movie says if they didn't speak english and they didn't show the stadium you could have thought this was the slums of a south american city or some other slum anywhere in the world not queens in nyc br br ramin is right now my official hero because he seems to have devoted his work to show not the other face of american but the real face of america br br ramin movies are like di or anno zero or roma aperta chop shop is reality turned into a movie is more realistic than a documentary in fact i think ramin movies are more realistic than documentaries this is a great movies but don't expect any car chase or shooting this movie is about tragic lives on the margin of the wealthiest richest country in the world
1	where do i begin let me say that after having watched the entire film and the special features on the dvd my wife and i watched the whole film again with the director's commentary running i can't remember having ever before endured more than 7 minutes of such commentary for a film it's worth hearing br br i'm not a southern boy but i spent some time around memphis a long time ago and have a feel for the area this film almost smells of the south it's so real samuel jackson one of my all time favorite actors is magnificent as the emotionally bent lazarus and christina ricci gives the performance of a lifetime as rae a woman who's been wounded severely during her brief life i've always liked ms ricci's work but in this performance she's giving 137 of herself every second she's on the screen awards and little statues are not enough to reward her for what she lays before the audience in this film br br there are other places where you can read the essence of the story so i'm just commenting on the work i'd heard the name justin timberlake before seeing bsm but had no idea what he looked like or even why he's famous bumping my head on 60 years old i'm outside his target demographic to say the least after seeing this film i will recognize him he can act he gives a substantial believable performance as the loving soulmate of the county slut br br the director is from memphis and shows reverence for his home region he is also a fine story teller br br and i must mention the music i love blues and the soundtrack for black snake moan is a veritable feast for a blues fan br br i'm writing less coherently than usual because my enthusiasm for this movie is overcoming my sentence structure see this film and i mean now
1	the 08th ms team features two hopeful romantics from different sides of the conflict the zeon officer and shiro the federal new pilot meet in a battle in space throughout the 12 episode series and one movie the two debate their love for each other while trying to come to grips with the war that surrounds them it features a romeo and juliet romance and unbeatable animation by far one of the best to hit american shores suit up
1	better than i expected from a film selling itself on the premise of nymphomania and inter racial bondage the music is great and cinematography focuses greatly on turning ricci into a trailer trash betty paige and it works samuel l get's to shout a lot which he's good at as well as play lots of blues guitar which he looks cool doing even justin timberlake was decent as the mentally disturbed boyfriend i get the feeling that this material under anyone else would have been complete s but instead managed to just barley carve out it's own odd little transgressive pulp niche while still being an effective drama
1	i opted to watch this film for one reason and one reason alone samuel l jackson i happen to like him a lot i had seen no previews or trailers for this overlooked film so went into it with no real expectations br br jackson didn't disappoint as lazarus a down on his luck blues man in the deep south and delivered perhaps his most powerful performance ever including playing and singing a number of excellent blues tunes but the real surprise here was christina ricci at best a vapid airhead in real life who took the role of the sexually abused town tramp rae and made her a believable almost even likable character watching the decidedly non sexual relationship evolve between lazarus and rae was simply amazing br br justin timberlake pop star turned wanna be actor should go back to causing wardrobe malfunctions and prancing around a pop stage his mostly forced performance was distracting at best from the real story here br br this movie is raw gritty and at times quite in your face not everyone will like it those that do however will be quickly moving it to the top of their favorites list
1	initially i was put off renting this movie due to the jacket art for the dvd in fact this held true with friends of mine who didn't rent it due to the art and the mental image s it conjured of being a movie that held little or no interest to me or to my friends but i rented and watched it and was truly amazed br br i agree with another user's comments that this movie is not for everyone due to the blatant sexual so it is definitely not something i'd want young children to watch and doubt seriously if they would understand it anyway br br i enjoy movies like this whereby the character's personalities and who they are are genuinely defined in a no nonsense direct way with no teasers to indicate they will turn out bad the acting done was it acting ricci and jackson performed so well i was drawn into this movie not even realizing they were acting same thing with the story may seem far fetched somewhat but it was done so very very well it reminded me of another movie with mel gibson tim where each character had limitations whether mental or circumstantial so were well defined br br i found much depth in this movie with the character's involved so feel that everyone involved from the cameramen to the actors should be commended on a perfect fit result after viewing this movie i had talked to a couple of friends who had a negative approach to watching it like i did so after hearing my comments they rented and watched it they too were quite surprised at how good it was it is too bad that the art on the jacket was done the way it was since it is a turn off i can see now how the art applies but i'd not heard of this movie before and the art was my first impression art sells or destroys dvd sales rentals br br these characters had more depth to them and good timing was allotted to give an audience like me time to absorb the feel for each i felt i could trust the movie to flow well and it did so with the jacket art aside i would recommend watching this movie
1	the trailer to this film focused so much on the chain of course because it's so sensational that it missed most of the movie which is about a developing although rather simply drawn relationship between lazarus and rae as they attempt to recover from their past pains with each other br br of course with the premise of a nymphomaniac in chains it's no surprise that there's plenty of implied sex involved however at it's core black snake moan is a basic tale of redemption and the healing power of helping another person along maybe it's just me though but i think poor lazarus should've had his story focused on more he's a hurting man after his wife leaves him but we never fully see how helping rae resolve her past pains heals him too it's just implied that it does in essence he plays the wizard that helps the young rae overcome her curse through a big ol' chain and some blues br br i like the story but i wish it were a bit more even and didn't have to rely on the sensational the side characters were fairly decent if simple and i liked the music the acting was good enough although i can't be certain if the rae character is fully believable but that might just be my naivety br br all in all i liked the film but i wasn't compelled by it maybe it's that i'm too critical but the story seems a little too convenient to be fully believable and so while it all seemed very cool i could never truly buy it the chain thing was a little too far fetched for me still this can provide some entertainment for those looking for dramatic redemption stories with a shot of the blues 7 10
1	black snake moan is uproarious it is over rich fantastically orchestrated strange and cumbersome unique and visionary in continuation of hustle flow brewer paints his portrait of the american south almost as a mythological land one would expect to see in a fantasy or ancient greece epic and yet as far high above us his movies hover they are still rooted rooted in the deepest darkest soil there is br br as in traditional fairy tales brewer paints his portrait in black snake moan using extremes and exaggerations sharp and stark character traits when coupled with such extreme acts as chaining a half naked white girl to a radiator in an attempt to redeem her of her sins exaggerate and emphasize the metaphor the same way such extreme visual techniques such as some characters having colour in pleasantville strengthened the metaphor in that fairy tale film but brewer doesn't begin his film with once upon a time in this film and also in hustle flow brewer presents us with a different fairy tale a dark gothic fable of sex prostitution and ultimately redemption these themes run through the film's veins like blood and resonate and bloom in its dark brooding setting br br but despite these harsh extremes brewer treats his characters like humans and creates extremely well executed three dimensional characterizations in lazarus and rae particularly emphasized with their relationships with friend at the pharmacy angela and mother br br the acting is all around quite perfect one gets the feeling that both christina ricci and samuel l jackson were born to play these roles their characterizations are so intense and so severe it's even more of a challenge for the actors to keep their heads on and craft realistic characters and they succeed admirably samuel l jackson in particular utterly disappears into his character which serves as a polar opposite to most of the character's he's played before with films like pulp fiction jackie brown shaft and others he has crafted for himself a typecast of the ultimate bad ass in black snake moan jackson plays an old broken defeated and earthy character quite unlike anything he's done before and frankly it's just fantastic what comes as quite a surprise though is the casting of justin timberlake and more specifically the fact that he comes across as quite tolerable sure he doesn't have much screen time but like what brewer did with ludicrous in hustle flow he actually gets timberlake to act and do what he is meant to do and not come across as totally unconvincing and irritating br br but what is really so incredibly great about the movie is the atmosphere brewer creates the rural southern locations work to his advantage in creating a dark dirty grimy crusty rugged kind of texture to the entire film which more than fits in with the film's thematic and metaphorical aspects and by utilizing all sorts of elements such as the rising sound of when rae gets her itch or a raging thunderstorm that increases and intensifies as lazarus plays his black snake moan blues number for rae brewer truly manages to create almost a fantasy world an undermined mythology to the rural southern setting and it works so utterly fantastically to craft unique vision br br and one can't talk about a craig brewer film without mentioning the music in hustle flow he utilized a soundtrack of down and dirty street wise hip hop music to emphasize the atmosphere and the vision in this film the music works even better at polishing off and fully representing the unique atmosphere it is a rural blues soundtrack but it's the dirtiest rawest grittiest blues you've ever heard and it sounds just absolutely fantastic br br in all it can be said that had this movie been a simple tale of an old broken lonely god fearing black blues singer redeeming a young white woman who was sexually abused as a child and now suffers from nymphomania there may have not been very much to write home about but this film is not about the plot and not even about the characters as well as they are crafted in the film regardless no this film is about the vision – and what a unique vision it is it is about the atmosphere the mythology the setting it is about anger fear redemption and most importantly the blues and it's all wrapped up in a unique entertaining stylized and impeccable ribbon brewer has guaranteed himself a spot on the most promising up and coming directors list and with such a solid follow up to a great debut film hustle flow he will definitely be on my radar for future projects br br it also must be mentioned that the film has one of the most fantastic and unique titles i've heard yet
1	as i was reading through the comments i was surprised to come across one that said this movie was not very profound i have to has to be one of the deepest and most thought provoking films i've ever seen yes the acting and the music were excellent they have been praised over and over in the reviews however i also praise the heart of the movie it resonates with deep meaning and is a story of redemption it is about two very different and very flawed characters beaten down by life but too strong to lie down and die it is about a man seeing more value in a girl than she saw in herself it reminded me strongly of the book redeeming love by francine rivers which has a similar story of redemption yes the images and themes are messy and sometimes shocking but if you look close enough you may just see yourself in these characters sometimes the truest things in life are not pretty but they are real
1	then you will be a big fan of this movie its almost the same basic concept a nice mixture of music soul and drama i'll admit i was a little about seeing this movie i had only seen previews of a white trash girl chained to a radiator but i am a big fan of samuel l jackson and i enjoyed hustle flow so i thought i would give it a chance br br i'm very glad that i did it turned out to be more than just the surface story of a nymphomaniac southern girl being imprisoned by a 60 year old black man the story had heart and was very influential br br the music in this movie also added a nice touch craig brewer mixed his style from hustle flow into this movie except took a new spin and used the blues his musical scenes are still at the top of the charts as far as performance scenes go by he also has very interesting flashback scenes and just gives you an overall crazy feel during some of the more controversial scenes br br no doubt if you liked hustle flow you will love this movie and if you are a fan of the blues you should definitely go an see this i give it a 9 out of 10 very interesting film and it is extremely under rated shame br br go out and rent this movie
1	i must admit i didn't expect this to be as good as it was i also didn't expect samuel l jackson to play slide and sing blue either br br of beaver county pa does this frequently they advertise movies in the lobby get you all excited about seeing it and then disappoint you by not showing it br br i expected that with such a great cast of jackson and ricci and even a former n'syncer timberlake that this movie would at least have shown for a week but nay at that time if i remember correctly was showing on 3 screens that or some other type of supposed blockbuster br br like blues brothers and crossroads this movie incorporates the mystic and legend of what blues music is all about passion and hard times religion and sex hell hounds of the past redemption i mean so many elements go into the blues to make it work br br this was just a good all around story of course not many people will see it cause it doesn't have pirates or swinging spiders but it does have samuel l jackson br br think of what happens to jacksons character from pulp fiction after he walks the earth and settles down and that essentially describes him to a t br br great and underrated but aren't all the good ones like that anyway
1	i'm astounded and dismayed by the number of reviewers on this site who did not get the point of black snake moan it's not about black white relationships or old young relationships though i think director craig brewer deliberately threw in both elements to tweak imagined taboos it's not about sexual abuse or sex addiction though christina ricci's character rae typifies those it's not about folk religion in the black community though religion plays a large role it's not a love story though there are not one but two happy couples at the end and it's certainly not about the south where everything is hotter though it's set in the south and it's undeniably hot holy smokes even the tag line writers didn't get the point br br black snake moan is a parable about mississippi delta blues who feels them who writes them who plays them what they're playing about how it heals them br br it's as though the film producers sat down with a blank slate and asked ok if we were going to help people understand what the blues are really about what would it look like so they set it in the rural south then they dream up two characters one whose wife left him to live with his best friend the other who goes off to war and his badly abused girl sleeps with everybody in town then we throw in grizzled worldliness touched just a little by folk religion they know jesus wants their lives and though they respect him they know they can't give him that some violence between men and women and lots and lots of steamy sexual images including ready to go over the top a black man in a sleeveless holding a half naked white girl captive on the end of a 40 lb chain fill it with authentic delta blues sounds make it about a genuine blues picker use music as the main healing element in the plot slap clips of blues man son house on both ends and voila you have a modern parable about what the blues are all about even the film's climax is not character conflict but the whole town dancing steamy dances to hot raunchy blues br br of course there's a bit of a dilemma here rae ricci is being destroyed by uncontrollable lust and is being healed by jackson's homey religion and and don't forget the chain but then we're shown the restored rae dancing raunchily to blues at the end is this an expression of a restored healthy life force or just more of the same trashy behavior that ruined her in the first place brewer wants it both ways but blues really is about sex and violence not to mention depression i suppose he would say blues gives healthy expression to both sex and violence without unleashing either i have my doubts br br not for the first time samuel l jackson plays so well that we forget we're watching samuel l jackson the man is unbelievably good he even picks some of his own tunes in the film and his playing is authentic dirty and hot christina ricci isn't usually this good either granted half her job is done by the costume that wasn't there and her slinky figure but she's a marvelous combination of cynical lust rebellion and vulnerability bravo to her she's arrived i was impressed by the country preacher john jr i had to check the database to assure myself that he's a professional actor and not a genuine country minister br br parents need to be aware of what they're getting if their kids bring this one home the language is pretty far off the charts the first half hour is full of graphic sex and women are violated in a dozen ways during the course of the film lazarus means well and is decent but honestly chaining a woman to the radiator plus ricci spends half the movie dressed for sex if you've got teenage boys they'll be licking the screen halfway into the film i don't recommend this for kids of any age adults only please br br that being said black snake moan is informative and accurate about blues folk religion and sexual abuse and tells a tale that's redemptive in lots of ways it's unorthodox but well worth the time and my goodness is the sound track hot
1	this movie is complex and interesting in so many ways it is a non stop plethora of emotion and taboo subjects sex and love women's emotional abuse of men men's physical abuse of women sexual child abuse fresh approach to religion in real life and all tied together with very raw and powerful blues music br br i promise you that if you sit through the first 20 minutes you will find the tie in and bettering of all the characters and the ending will be more pleasant than you can expect music is outstanding the writing is powerful and acting from everyone was brilliant br br and the dvd has some great features including samuel jackson's background of learning to play guitar and feel the blues br br this movie is not for children and i even caution parents of teenagers
1	this gundam series only follows gundam 0083 stardust memory the story takes place during the same time line as the original gundam in the year u c 0079 the time of the one year war but the mobile suits are designed as new models are and are as a result look more articulate the hero of the story is a young lt shiro who may lack any real combat experience but makes up for it with creativity and effort br br his life get complicated when he meets a jion ace pilot the enemy the to end up falling in love and begin to change their attitudes about the war around them the other cast of characters in the story are not there for background either every one in this story has a history to them br br there is also another ace mobile suit pilot in this series that can be added into the pantheon of ace mobile suit pilots right up there with char aznable and gato is norris packard not the top villain in this series but his presence give the 8th mobile suit team a hard fight 3 of them against norris and his single ms custom mobile suit br br in conclusion this gundam along with stardust memory is a must see br br
1	i actually though that black snake moan was great movie which takes place in the south the story follows a man named lazarus whose wife dumps him for his brother and finds rae abandoned and beaten up on the side of the road lazarus finds out that rae is a sex addict and was abused as a child so he decides to take matters into his own hands by tying up rae with a chain to cure her of her wickedness samuel l jackson and christina ricci have great chemistry together and their performances make you believe that through their struggles and search for redemption that lazarus and rae become best friends i was also amazed by sam's ability to play an electric guitar and being able to sing s is great as love interest angela justin timberlake plays boyfriend ronnie who is underused in the film but does the best that he can to deliver a fine performance
1	in black snake moan writer director craig brewer is so obsessed with heavy symbolism that part of me felt like dismissing the entire film as pretentious a sweltering southern parable with some oh so risky subject matter the movie also contains a heavy spiritual subtext where religion is being hauled into the picture again this is integrated without subtlety after the darker opening scenes the film increasingly its edge until the entire production comes off with the artificial quality of a stage play and i'll admit the last 15 minutes go way too far into happy ending territory for my liking and that's not to mention the archival footage of musician son house ruminating on love and death and heavily foreshadowing things to come of course yet in a strange way these are also qualities of black snake moan the tale of aging lazarus samuel l jackson recently dumped by his wife for his brother no less who comes across near death nympho rae christina ricci easily giving the hottest portrayal of trailer trash on celluloid ever nursing the girl back to health he chains her to his radiator to overcome her demons and hopefully redeem his own fallen self while there is a definite prurient appeal in watching ricci fall out of her skimpy outfits her performance is risky and mature not a trace of wednesday addams to be found and she easily holds her own with jackson who personifies the blues in his portrait of a flawed god fearing man while heavy handed the scene where lazarus sings rae a song in the midst of a lightning storm blackout is compelling as is a scene inside a jumping blues club that makes you wish you were there the setting is strong and a case can be made for the literal symbolism the chain the radiator the strange blurry man who haunts libido being a deliberate outgrowth of superstition and spirituality and it is the conviction with which this spirituality is played that lends black snake moan much of its strength the committed performances of jackson and ricci make this a film that goes from wrenching to uplifting with well seamless grace while justin timberlake's jealous lover is a plot contrivance i could have done without neither he nor the sledgehammer subtlety can keep this from being a fascinatingly meditative film
1	i suppose this is what is called southern gothic br br it stars samuel l jackson christina ricci and also justin timberlake is featured in a role timberlake does good work much to my surprise i didn't expect it of him br br when you're lost and you can't find your way home that's the black snake moan br br the people in this movie are definitely lost in many ways psychologically and emotionally damaged betrayed by those they trusted and loved and filled with a lot of pain br br samuel l jackson plays a blues singer musician whose wife has messed around with his brother and now left him for his brother along with aborting a child he had hoped to have with her br br christina ricci's character is a woman who was sexually abused when young this has turned her into a self destructive nymphomaniac allowing men to treat her badly br br the story lies in the intersection of these two characters lives it is a love story but not a sexual love story between them the older black man and the young white woman br br it is different from most films hollywood grinds out br br i highly recommend it br br 10 stars
1	this if the first movie i've given a 10 to in years if there was ever a movie that needed word of mouth to promote this is it a 4 mil box is a disgrace people don't know what it's about if you have any appreciation for the blues or just a good use of excellent music that alone is reason to go see it how many people knew jackson could sing and damn fine too you hear books and movies taunting that they're about salvation after seeing this you'll never be able to forgive such trivial use of the word yes it's gritty sexy down home truth bizarre and in your face real isn't that the best reason to see a movie those that get my meaning won't stay away from seeing this another week
1	if you want to see a movie with nudity sex drugs alcohol brutal beating of a woman and child rape this movie will satisfy you if you want to see a man creatively exact revenge on the treasure of a wife who left him this movie has it you've already heard the wonderful music that keeps the raw emotion going the surprise is that in a story of violence action and music a climax can come in a moment of silence without a pedantic speech which transforms the movie look for a final scene that is an unexpected evidence of a wounded person healing perhaps we who wonder why we wallow in the abundant profane will learn that love can be located above the loins in the heart from the pumping pounding follow the rhythm to where where love is sacred
1	i really think this movie deserves some oscars i really don't care what people can say badly about this movie because it's a really well played parts from samuel l jackson and mainly by christina ricci i'm a big fan of hers right since i saw her in addams family been trying to watch all things she makes and this is absolutely one of the best parts she played i love her looks even though people say she's not pretty i think she is and i love her eyes the movie is about many things people say that is religious people say that it's about racism people say that is about drugs people say that is about nymphomania well maybe is a little bit of all that but what i truly feel is that this movie has a high level of eye opening for what blues is what it stands for and mainly were it comes from life heart pain sorrow and above all spontaneous feelings i hope you get to see it if you are that kind of person that likes a movie not only from the pictures or the story it tells this is a good movie to see if your not well see it anyway cant hurt that much and you get to see christina ricci acting so horny she's a fox
1	i was surprised by how great black snake moan turned out to be being a fan of christina ricci and samuel l jackson id figure id give this a try well when this was over i was just left stunned by how great this film truly was i mean everything was dead on great and very accurate for that matter this film shows how the great director and writer craig brewer who made hustle flow another great film can just take anything even something that seems and make it into this well i like how it is just a good time like its a film that just makes it there own in a good way also i love that it doesn't show big of the south and how its been portrayed in things as the most repulsive place to be but not this film it makes very accurate and because of that very the in this was just phenomenal especially from christina ricci who deserves an oscar for this role the always great samuel l jackson and even justin timberlake did a great job as well overall almost everything is great about this and while its not everyones type of film its definitely worth a viewing from anyone who can enjoy a good time three cheers for black snake moan br br 9 3 out of 10 stars
1	my synopsis rae christina ricci was a high school slut and nymphomaniac who connects with ronnie justin timberlake to fulfill her needs ronnie must report to his national guard unit and leaves rae all alone rae is not alone for long because she is the town tramp with a powerful need to hook up with a man after a party rae is taken home by a friend who ends up beating her half to death and throws her on the side of the road the next day lazarus samuel l jackson finds rae and carries her home lazarus gives medical care to rae and believes that he can also save her from herself rae is like a dog in heat so lazarus puts a 40 pound chain around her and his radiator to keep her from going out looking for men lazarus has problems of his own because his wife has just left him for another man lazarus turns to his blues music to relieve his pain br br my comment the movie has a deep meaning to it once you get past the sex and violence the film has a different feel to it the story is raw and almost puts you in the movie as if you were there the 40 pound chain is a good metaphor and symbolic of a chastity belt you don't give love away to anyone but you keep it for your true love the chain could also be a parallel to a wife who is chained to the kitchen yet rae didn't cook rae only wanted to have sex all the time whereas a wife may not i think craig brewer writer director has made an extraordinary movie and samuel l jackson sings a mean blues song the story is emotionally charged tackling the subjects of race religion music and sex all into one paramount classics run time 1 56 rated r 8 10
1	in mississippi the former blues man lazarus samuel l jackson is in crisis missing his wife that has just left him he finds the town slut and nymphomaniac rae ricci dumped on the road nearby his little farm drugged beaten and almost dead lazarus brings her home giving medicine and nursing and nourishing her like a father keeping her chained to control her heat when her boyfriend ronnie justin timberlake is discharged from the army due to his anxiety issue he misunderstands the relationship of lazarus and rae and tries to kill him br br black snake moan is a weird tale of faith hope love and blues the gifted christina ricci has an impressive performance in the role of a young tramp abused since her childhood by her father and having had sex with the whole town where she lives it is amazing the versatility of this actress and probably this is the most mature work that i have seen christina ricci perform samuel l jackson has also a fantastic performance in the role of lazarus the soundtrack is one of the most beautiful i have ever heard in a movie with wonderful blues my vote is eight br br title brazil entre o e o inferno between the heaven and the hell
1	craig brewer grew up in tennessee it is evident in his movie forget the black guy on white girl action it happens but it isn't samuel l jackson on christina ricci more importantly this movie is about the values and culture of the people in this tennessee town how they deal with divorce abandonment sexual abuse and psychological disorders while shrinks make millions in the cities of the north midwest and west coast the town minister who also grapples with his own problems becomes the counselor and mediator it is a interesting concept and one that may not settle well with everyone br br brewer shows us the region he grew up in yes it is still tainted with racial problems though worse problems exist in many metropolitan cities this is in the subtext and not the main plot of the story people live a more simple lifestyle yet life is still complex and excruciating br br jackson and ricci do a fantastic job in this film jackson the aging former blues guitarist who eeks out a living on his small farm his wife of 12 years leaves him for his brother so he spirals into depression meanwhile ricci and justin timberlake have a last wild sexually charged night before he ships off to the army ricci suffers from a childhood of sexual abuse though that isn't revealed until later her torment can only be quenched by sexual forays with various boys black and white in the town br br when ricci is beat up and left for dead on the road near jacksons farm he finds her and nurses her back to health he believes it is divine intervention that this half naked white girl is left in his care he clutches his bible and prays for guidance he refuses her sexual advances and instead treats her with dignity respect and care something few men in her life have ever done br br she in time sees jackson as a man of honor and morals yet he also carries his own pain he plays his guitar and sings to her yes it's the blues and damn good too with the minister counseling her she slowly understands how to deal with her childhood sexual abuse jackson through ricci's transformation realizes he must let his own pain heal br br justin timberlake comes back discharged due to anxiety problems as he searches for ricci who has been living with jackson during her recovery he finds out she has been promiscuous and unfaithful to him br br he finds her and jackson at a bar where jackson has decided as part of his healing process to come out retirement and play the blues again timberlake follows them home and confronts jackson and ricci br br you will have to see the movie to get the rest of the story should you decide to see this film remember to look at it from the aspect of a foreign or independent movie it is a slice of life from a particular region of america that few of us get to see it is interesting and revealing it also shows us that regardless of the color of our skin we all have similar problems that can be fixed with similar solutions
1	watched this film at a local festival the silver sprocket international film festival florida what a lovely film a simple uncomplicated morality tale about a young care free young man having to take responsibility for his actions it neither pretentious or flashy my two teenage daughters loved it and for a change i wasn't embarrassed by any of the film content or language a real family film and the best british comedy film i've seen since billy elliot the film went on to win not surprisingly the top festival awards of best film and best director ten out of ten
1	if ever a potential movie must've sounded like it wouldn't work based on reading the script on paper it would be this one here we have what seemingly looks like a lurid and seedy soft porn s m flick complete with the huge in theatre poster depicting a near naked christina ricci chained to none other than mr bad ass himself samuel jackson but let me tell you if ever a film springs to life on celluloid major big time with soulful power to spare it's craig redemptive follow up to hustle flow black snake moan br br unashamedly over the top from the get go this film sucks you in with the opening scenes and proceeds to dig deeper and deeper in with every subsequent frame it's yer basic story of two deeply damaged characters who find in each other the strength and courage to move on in more positive ways with their lives been done before of course this tale but as i've always said it's the manner in which a story is told that gives it heart depth meaning and power br br ricci's damaged by childhood abuse wild child character rae and jackson's equally musician character lazarus find each other under desperate circumstances and laz takes it upon himself to try to help rae this in itself is relatively unique the idea of a man trying to genuinely help a woman who is in serious pain rather than trying to take further advantage of her and we know from the onset that heart and the film's heart is in the right place the movie at its core is about the redemptive healing power of love with music as a very close second and the film resonates profoundly with this truth soulfully artfully and brilliantly br br a major reason the film succeeds so profoundly is because of the fierce committed performances from ricci and jackson scenes that would have come off as laughable and pathetic in lesser artists' hands are instead powerful as all get out in particular the film's arc scene in which jackson sings and plays the song of the title alone in his house with ricci amidst a serious thunderstorm and the abusive demons from past running amok inside her head leading her to crawl to lazarus and cling to his leg comes off not ridiculous as technically it should but rather as gut wrenchingly cathartic br br all the supporting performances are fantastic here too justin timberlake is completely believable as anxiety ridden boyfriend ronnie and the always wonderful s is also perfectly cast as a character who obviously has feelings for lazarus john jr is outstanding as well as reverend friend r l a nod to blues musician r l burnside no doubt everything works about this movie let's face it including the music soundtrack which features burnside scott bobby rush son house and most importantly jackson himself whose fantastic version of i am listening to as i compose this review there's also a really beautiful and moving version of this little light of mine featured in the film sung heart breakingly tentative and soft by ricci br br samuel jackson has said in recent interviews that he believes his performance in this movie is the best of his career thus far i could not agree with him more this is work that he can be monumentally proud of along with everyone else involved in this audacious supremely wise and deeply heartfelt mother of a project
1	craig brewer is now officially a writer director for whom i will see any film by no matter how bad it may look his debut hustle and flow was one of my favorites from that year with its emotionally charged storyline and realistic fallible characters i wasn't quite sure what i would end up thinking after seeing this sophomore effort the cast seemed great the trailer used music effectively however it seemed like there was a good chance it would cross into absurdity and fast fortunately black snake moan hits all its marks dead on the acting is astonishing the writing superb and the editing style as well as juxtaposed music riveting the whole way brewer seems to be a master at getting his characters to have the right mix of both compassion and malice as they set forward on their paths toward redemption br br the first moment i knew i was in for a treat was during the abbreviated credit sequence at the beginning like he did with hustle and flow brewer lays the music over the widescreen shots perfectly with simply titled fonts coming up the 70's aesthetic was welcome and helped show that this would be another great character piece in the vain of those from that decade of some of cinema's best from here we continued on with the short snippets into the lives of both lazarus and rae each vignette mirroring the other while they journey to the fateful moment their paths finally cross the editing between them was fluid and relevant rather than abruptly cutting before the scene felt finished with its purpose boyfriend leaves for duty in the service and wife leaves him for his brother each feels the loneliness and reverts to what they know in that to sex and laz to the bottle only when rae is left for dead at the side of the road and her savior comes from his farm to take her in does the reasoning for their actions finally start to become clear br br samuel l jackson is fantastic as the older farmer trying to reconcile his life with god and that of the flesh and the pain it has brought him there are the moments of stoic sternness as well as those of with his captive patient you never really look at the setup as comical or unrealistic because he sells what he is doing so well also the character of rae is not chained up for very long despite what the trailers would have you believe the situation starts a bit awkward until we see that the chaining was for her own good and is actually used for only a day or two as for that chained girl christina ricci really shines i never really saw her as anything special but this role is a true breakthrough for her this girl is so troubled that her past sexual abuse has scarred her very deep down any time she is away from her love she starts seeing flashes of the man who took her childhood innocence away and itches to be touched by any man available to let the image go away her nymphomania is not for pleasure but rather for survival from the haunting nightmares always hiding behind her eyelids ricci fully inhabits the role and shows all the emotional trauma to great effect and realism mention must also be made of justin timberlake again showing some real acting talent where this guy came from i have no clue but hopefully he will continue taking more films and steer away from the mostly crap music he churns out br br while not as solid and consistent as hustle and flow moan still ranks equally to it in my mind because when it is on it is spectacular towards the end we have a truly enthralling sequence with this little light of mine singing out and earlier the interaction between captive and captor when the chain is first introduced shows some top notch work the truly magical moment though is when jackson sings yes that is him throughout like it was terrence howard in hustle the titular song while a thunderstorm roars and the lights flicker if i don't see a more beautifully shot sequence all year i won't be surprised what these two people do for each other is wonderful and shows what humanity is capable of one thing i think i really enjoy with work is the fact that he doesn't show sinners becoming redeemed heroes instead he shows us that no matter how bad you have been or how bad life has been everyone can strive for redemption and to be better people we don't have saints here but fallible people looking to right their ship if the course stays true or if it falls back into darkness no one really knows but at least they can say that they tried as hard as they could
1	i knew as soon as i saw the first trailer for black snake moan that i would have to see it i was not disappointed in the slightest in the film which was written and directed by hustle and creator craig brewer it tells the story of a broken blues man and the nymphomaniac he aims to cure not just for her sake but also his own yet it's so much more than that it's complex and rich and it manages to steep you in a gritty sticky sultry blue memphis without making you feel like you need a bath afterward br br the characters are for the most part multifaceted and very well written and performed the accents and the dialogue were carried off flawlessly however there was one weak link in the chain justin timberlake the best i can say for him is that he can pull off crying it's a rare male actor who can cry convincingly however justin's ronnie was flat but as an actor he was trying very hard i would definitely give him another chance br br lazarus and rae samuel l jackson and christina ricci respectively have a great chemistry and a great respect for each other this is one of those films where it doesn't matter how good one actor is if the other one isn't up to the task and luckily both of the actors were up to the task br br the music was very bit as good as you would expect especially when mr samuel l jackson sings the blues phenomenal br br on the technical side all was brilliance as far as i could see it was well edited well shot and well mixed everything was great the character and set designs were just right the casting of the supporting characters even justin timberlake and especially kim richards was spot on loved it
1	if you've been looking for a film where a out of control nympho gets chained to a radiator by an extremely religious southern man then look no further than paramount latest release 'black snake not exactly looking for what i just described you say well then you best get ya wits 'bout and on down to your local theater and still see it as samuel l jackson's character lazarus would say as long as you're open minded and don't take everything seriously there's no reason you won't leave the theater glad you saw it br br in the third offering from director craig brewer we are taken into the deep south where as the tagline to the film claims everything is hotter while there we're introduced to the lazarus as previously said played by jackson and the almost always half naked rae a role bravely taken on by christina ricci in the film this unlikely pair cross paths long enough for their characters to each learn a lesson from one another both lessons ultimately convey the message to us the audience that no matter what we are all human no one is perfect and if everyone would realize that then we'd be a lot better off the question of if this will be understood or be accepted by all who see the film is another story br br one thing not up for debate is how great jackson and ricci both are here you'd think with the role of a sex crazed woman overacting would be a given but no not here ricci breaks through and demonstrates true talent with a raw performance that also doubles as her best to date then we have jackson who completely disappears and for the first time in a long time makes us forget who he even is sadly the third star of the film justin timberlake who plays military bound boyfriend isn't all that great at the start he fails miserably as he appears to be trying too hard later on he steps it up some still he's far from the level he reached in 'alpha dog' br br the other thing 'black snake boasts is a splendid soundtrack containing tracks from the black keys john doe pieces from the score done by scott of course four count 'em four tracks from jackson himself it's actually one of his songs the main performance of the film that is the fuel to the fire of this great collection it alone is worth the ticket price other notable musical delights from the soundtrack are 'the 'when the lights go out' from the black keys the title track which is also among the most memorable scenes in the film where lazarus sings to rae on a stormy night br br the efforts of craig brewer can't go without mention though his last film which ended up surpassing low expectations and gaining critical acclaim put him on the map what he has done with 'black snake will be what sets him apart from other newbies to the industry he not only directed but also wrote its screenplay the end result is a story that is surprising and clever as you watch you feel like you know exactly where it's headed despite its valiant composure just as you think you've predicted the next move brewer shifts gears and takes an entirely different route there are however some within the screenplay the background characters are drab and flat while the ending is somewhat disappointing it left me craving for something more exciting after so many highs i guess the final scenes were a tad weak compared to the rest of the film br br i imagine the majority of people who see 'black snake won't enjoy it due to the fact they won't be able to stop themselves from thinking how unlikely the situations are the depressing part about that is there are many other films with just as unlikely even more outrageous scenarios that are widely well received it's the issues of race religious motives sexuality the film exhibits that will have more effect on opinion than anything the idea of a black man chaining a white woman up in his house is enough to make most people not even consider seeing it simply put it's not for everyone like i said to fully enjoy it you have to go in with an open mind or else you're just wasting your money for those of you who can do that i highly recommend it
1	i watched this movie at the first showing available in my area and it was quite clear that most people didn't get the movie even if you don't it's a good movie with some interesting character development it is a thoroughly human story about some very imperfect people in a backwoods southern town and really speaks to the root of the blues if you don't know what the black snake moan is by the time you leave the theater you didn't get it and no it's not just a song christina ricci does a great job and is thoroughly convincing in her role as is samuel l jackson i think this is his best performance since his role in pulp fiction and probably his best including that because of the range of his character in bsm the rest of the cast is solid with a few shining performances here and there particularly john jr as reverend r l i'm a very selective movie watcher and this film honestly rates among my favorites because of its candid look at race sex religion and neurosis in a rural southern town along with its cinematic genius in my opinion
1	me and my roommate got free tickets for a pre screening i guess you would call it in atlanta ga at atlantic station walking in i was expecting something controversial provocative unnecessarily overdone etc but the film is much more than that it's a story of two people helping each other it's not overdone and the film is done in a careful balance as to not make you cringe or say its unnecessary br br it's put together really well and doesn't take itself too seriously thats the beauty of it if it tried to take itself seriously it would have failed miserably but instead it carries itself through humor some unintentional and some surprisingly good acting by ricci although timberlake fails miserably in his role the movie is good enough for you to put that on the side br br i would definitely recommend this movie if not for any other reason than the fact it is something different to experience
1	just got back from seeing black snake moan i had spent time reading reviews most seemed to focus on the obvious skinny white girl chained to a black man's radiator i hate when critics miss the point of a film now i suppose it helps that i live in memphis and have lived in mississippi a couple of times too it may also help that i am the former director of the delta blues museum in but i get this movie simple redemption tale is easy to follow and could have had various themes to tell the story but i believe it is highly effect as a blues it would be my hope that people don't read all the hype and or various reviews and miss a really good movie get past the various things like skinny girls in white panties get past justin timberlake accept his character which he plays very well get past snakes on a plane and see how samuel l jackson is as he has transformed himself into a very believable mid south blues man if you know little about mid south culture a lot of what goes on may strike some as cartoonish but accept the fact that craig brewer knows how to paint the canvas and let the actors tell the story and you will enjoy this film not one to tell endings so go see this movie and yes i will agree with one thing the critics got right the music is wonderful
1	working at a movie theater as a projectionist i have the opportunity to watch basically every movie that comes out when i first saw the trailer for 'black snake i laughed and thought great another 'snakes on a plane' samuel l jackson movie but of course i wanted to see it for the laugh factor many people have judged this movie too quickly based on the innuendo in the title the images on promotional ads and on the fact that justin timberlake is in the film personally i loved every second of this movie it tells the story of an older man and young woman who are both going through rough times and are able to reach out to one another the story is truly touching and sends out a great message about life and how we live of course i do not recommend it for young audiences due to some graphic material but if you are looking for a great story and genuine acting from sam jackson christina ricci and yes even justin timberlake i encourage you to see 'black snake
1	we just saw this film previewed before release at the norfolk va film forum and there was general agreement on two matters there were excellent performances in a first rate drama by the two leads and by others and secondly the marketing for this movie will only bring disaster we saw a lurid poster with chains and suggestive commentary implying some sort of wacko sexual relationship between samuel jackson and cristina ricci whereas the movie has some real depth and some thoughtful ideas what's sad is that people looking for near porn will be drawn in to see the film and will be disappointed because it will be too heavy for them while the people who would really enjoy it wouldn't be caught dead walking into the theater showing it too bad a good film wasted
1	having just got the loony tunes golden collection which i highly recommend by the way i'm going to try to comment on most if not all of the cartoons individually as such the starting statement might seem redundant for those whom read multiple reviews of them for this i apologize br br rabbit seasoning is the middle short in a trilogy of like minded shorts the other two being rabbit fire and duck rabbit duck bags and daffy argue about who elmer fudd should short it makes me laugh every single time on the dvd it has a commentary featurette option to play it music only br br my grade a br br dvd extras disk 1 an introduction by chuck jones the boy of termite part 1 clips from the films two guys from texas and my dream is yours both with bugs cameos bridging sequences for an episode of the bugs bunny show the astro nuts audio recording session 2 vintage trailers blooper bunny bugs bunny 51st and a half anniversary with optional commentary with writer greg ford stills gallery
1	logged on to the imdb to say what a charming film love love is and am totally confused seems to me that someone has been getting their titles mixed up plastic demon baby what this wasn't love life a little bit dovey for my tastes but a great funny and original film especially liked the ending that didn't fall into the normal pit of cliche that all hollywood romantic films crash and burn it nine out of ten
1	strange enough shorts like this get a 10 why they are hilarious this is hilarious notice a lot of the quirky humor dated and childish to toon naysayers but they don't know what they're talking about they got to know that cartoons aren't just for kids the art in this is the best non road runner art of the 1950's looney tunes shorts it's hard to come across something better than the art in the great piggy bank robbery although nothing ever will this runs a close 3rd or 2nd shorts like this one might have spawned witless lt rip offs like tiny toons adventures to try to squeeze out all the old comedy out over and over again like how great movies like scream spawned crap like i know which was released just to squeeze out all the old horror from scream but like scream this is great alone chuck jones has had his faults with shorts once in a while but he does make up for them take hopper for example few people like hopper but it never ruined the lt reputation but i'm sure this was his make up on things as such bottom line this is not as good as duck rabbit duck but close catch it on cartoon network frequently
1	this is the middle cartoon of the three between rabbit fire and duck rabbit duck and is the weakest of the three while still being quite funny it simply depends on one gag for too much of the action still a good cartoon i feel a definite sympathy for daffy in this one which is rare for me daffy is so clearly that it almost becomes painful to watch at times good cartoon in an excellent series recommended
1	this is the second and best in the hunting trilogy what makes it the best is the clever dialogue br br bugs do you want to shoot me now or wait till you get home br br it was kind of funny how they kept that going through out the short
1	in one of the many bugs bunny daffy duck cartoons elmer fudd is out hunting and daffy tries to get him to shoot bugs needless to say bugs has his own agenda moreover rabbit seasoning makes interesting use of word order and warning it just might hilariously and royally mess up your speech br br i think that probably my favorite aspect of this cartoon is the costumes worn by bugs and daffy one of them seems like it would have been risqué for 1952 especially in a cartoon but they pull it off perfectly as they always did all in all this just goes to show what geniuses the people behind these cartoons were
1	rabbit seasoning is one of three cartoons that feature bugs bunny daffy duck elmer fudd in a war of words and wits about whether it's rabbit season or duck season love bugs and daffy stirring up pronoun trouble with daffy always the victim of elmer's shotgun resulting with his beak always getting dismembered then there's the cross dressing that always gets elmer in his love struck mode chuck jones and michael maltese are always favorites of mine in the writer director team category because of these hilarious hunting trilogy cartoons i've laughed at since i was a kid and at least two of them end with exclamation to bugs you're despicable can't get better that that
1	and there were quite a few of these br br i do not like this cartoon as much as many others partly because it was made in its period i much prefer cartoons with daffy and bugs which are fifteen or so years before hand many people will like this particularly people who always find violence funny cartoon or not br br the basic plot is a pretty well known one for looney tunes elmer goes out hunting daffy leads him to bugs and daffy ends up being shot instead also inserted are quite clever and highly entertaining jokes some do not enhance the episode ugly shooting and animation which is slightly mediocre the plot is mainly geared by jokes each joke keeps the episode going this way of plot going is not all that unusual in looney tunes of course if you are pretty much a looney tunes boffin or an eager one like me then you'll know this already br br for people who love everything about looney tunes and daffy duck and like the sound of what i have said about it enjoy rabbit seasoning br br 7 and a half out of ten
1	chuck jones's the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy is often considered to be the best of the three while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons i would have to concede that is the most finely honed script here the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and 'who's on routine as a long term daffy fan i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines the famous pronoun trouble being one of the all time classics and does most of the work bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer as always is the befuddled dupe part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst being shot in the face again and again his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration you're despicable as intricate an example of chuck jones's impeccable timing as you'll come across is a true classic
1	there is only one film i can think of that might be as good or better than this one when it comes to bugs bunny and daffy duck ali baba bunny however determining which is the best is irrelevant just watch them both and enjoy br br i compared this to ali baba bunny because both feature daffy at his absolute worst greedy nasty and very funny in the process however i think i prefer rabbit seasoning simply because bugs is also pretty awful in this one doing horrible things right back to daffy every time daffy tries a dirty trick br br the film begins with daffy leaving rabbit tracks right up to hole in the hope that a hunter naturally it's elmer will blast the rabbit and leave daffy alone not to be outdone bugs time and again takes all of tricks and turns them around and in most cases it involves daffy getting shot in the face it's all very very clever and funny and i don't care how old you are this cartoon will make you laugh unless you are a grouch i especially love the great and unexpected ending but i won't say more as i don't want to spoil the surprise
1	if you overlook the fact that the plot has been done many times this is a hilarious and gleefully enjoyable looney tunes cartoon the animation is wonderful the backgrounds so detailed and a lot of audacious colouring too the writing is razor sharp and the sight gags especially daffy constantly getting his head blown off are brilliantly timed i really did love the arguments between daffy and bugs and that bugs wins every time i also love it that daffy is really greedy and nasty while being uproariously funny i do prefer him when he's manic but he is great fun here too bugs is still his charming and rascally self and elmer is funny if rather dumb too in short this is absolutely brilliant and actually my personal favourite of the hunting trilogy for sheer entertainment value 10 10 bethany cox
1	daffy duck has signs hanging from every inch of every available tree announcing that it's rabbit season but you guessed it it's really duck season elmer fudd appears he's the only hunter dumb enough to fall for the gag br br he's even dumber than that when bugs bunny strides up to him and asks how the rabbit hunting is going elmer admits that he hasn't seen a rabbit yet this is more than daffy can stand he emerges from his hiding place and immediately points to a rabbit bugs bunny shoot him now daffy screams you be quiet says bugs he doesn't have to shoot you now daffy insists that he does br br after daffy returns his blasted off beak to his head he is doomed to more arguments infected with pronoun trouble which all have the same result later bugs dresses as a sexy woman and asks elmer for a duck dinner will daffy get the last laugh ha ha very funny ha ha ha br br what's funny about this classic cartoon bug in fright as daffy screams in his face bugs bunny says yes while dripping with self satisfaction daffy duck stands on demanding to be shot elmer fudd whines that he can't wait any daffy sees bugs in women's clothes and makes that little noise with his tongue carl stalling plays you must have been a beautiful baby during drag act daffy demands sheer honesty out of bugs stalling plays home sweet home at an inappropriately appropriate moment daffy tells bugs he's br br in five words every detail of this film br br note this short is available on looney tunes golden collection volume one disc 1
1	i watched love life on holiday when it was filmed at a film festival in florida it was a lovely surprise to find a british film that wasn't derivative or exploitive a beautiful romantic comedy for a change that will charm the pants of audiences prepared to sit back and enjoy the gentle pace of the film the transitions between scenes i found a bit distracting but as whole i think love life is a winner a ruby in the dust one for all the family a pleasant change to see a british film for teen audiences that isn't littered with four letter words try and see it
1	this is a movie that deserves another look if you haven't seen it for a while or a first look if you were too young when it came out 1983 based on a play by the same name it is the story of an older actor who heads a touring shakespearean repertory company in england during world war ii it deals with his stress of trying to perform a shakespeare each night while facing problems such as bombed theaters and a company made up of older or physically handicapped actors the young able bodied ones being taken for military service it also deals with his relationship with various members of his company especially with his dresser so far it all sounds rather dull but nothing could be further from the truth while tragic overall the story is told with a lot of humor and emotions run high throughout the two male leads both received oscar nominations for best actor and deservedly so i strongly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys human drama theater especially shakespeare or who has ever worked backstage in any capacity the backstage goings on make up another facet of the movie that will be fascinating to most viewers
1	the hunting trilogy of rabbit fire 1951 rabbit seasoning 1952 and duck rabbit duck 1953 should be considered the comedic high water mark of the chuck jones michael maltese collaboration while they are seldom mentioned in lists of the greatest or most important cartoons in the history of animation they are certainly the funniest cartoons i've ever seen michael maltese never got the credit that directors like jones freleng or avery got but it's his dialogue and situations that make warner bros cartoons and these three in particular some of the funniest ever made
1	once again elmer is faced with the dilemma of who to shoot bugs of daffy he's unsure of what season it is and bunny and duck arguing help matters not though bugs proves he's the smartest once more by repeatedly using reverse psychology on daffy in increasingly subtle ways and when that runs out he does his trademark cross dressing thingy daffy freaks out and demands the bunny be shot though elmer is too stupid he is hopelessly in love with the girl bunny thing elmer really is to blame for all this if he weren't so dumb he'd know it really is duck season and just blast daffy but poor old can't believe the utter of the situation his cruel plans of misdirection have been foiled by elmer's dumbness daffy is so shocked that he even goes home with elmer to be blasted in his living room br br poor he rules
1	this is my all time favorite looney tunes cartoon it's a common plot daffy duck tries to convince elmer fudd that it is really rabbit season and shoot bugs but your can never outsmart that rabbit in addition to usual cartoon comedy this cartoon is supported by great word play that will keep you rolling on the floor
1	the four signs on the road say if you're looking for fun you don't need a reason all you need is a gun it's rabbit season br br in the woods we see hundreds of rabbit season signs posted on every tree we see more and more signs pointing exactly to bugs bunny's hole who's putting up all these signs daffy duck br br daffy puts the last sign up away and says to us the audience awfully of me i know but what the hey i gotta have some fun besides it's really duck season br br from that point we now see elmer fudd shotgun in hand and a war of semantics between bugs and daffy with bugs winning every time only in cartoons thankfully can we see someone getting shotgun blasted in the head five times and keep going
1	after attack of the fifty foot woman with alison hayes opened the doors for women to be just as dangerous as men there was obviously an open market for other movies to pick up and carry the torch and what more a lovely actress than dorothy from it's a mad mad mad mad world to play the role the is that cute and blonde may just be too sweet and innocent looking to step into allison size 50 shoes this role really needed someone with an amount of smoldering sex appeal is more the girl next door type she may have taken and done this role to prove she could be sexy but the material lets her down lou costello however proves he can do a movie without bud abbott feeding him lines and he even a dramatic role in some of his scenes when he not turning to gale gordon as his front man for gags gordon however establishes that all he can be is blustery perturbed and pushy much the same character he creates later on the lucy show charles lane also plays the same role in everything he does a straight man and his screen time is limited the special effects are convincing for the time but i would have liked dorothy to have been a little more than cheesecake and dressing and at least have been allowed to become dangerous as the movie's lead character she takes second billing to costello who is in all of the movie with dorothy several times vanishing like a sub plot the whole movie put together just can't decide if it's supposed to be science fiction a comedy or just a parody of the allison hayes classic there's a lot of good scenes some very funny humor and some very ridiculous camp that affects the rest of the film still i do like this movie for it's empowerment of women there's not enough movies out there like this one if this movie had a chance to be remade today i'd highly recommend courtney cox and jason alexander in the lead roles and allow me to completely re write the original script courtney tops my lists of actresses who i believe could and should adequately play gorgeous although i have to admit that if either of the titanic beauties allison or dorothy came after me i'd go quietly
1	i must admit that this is one of the few lou costello films that i actually saw in the theater most have now been seen on t v and i must admit that lou is really enjoyable and he gets the girl too this was my first time seeing dorothy perform and of course i fell in love with her like so many others that day i have seen most of the work she has done and enjoyed each one her performance in the great race is one of the reasons i bought the disc in the first place br br every comment on this movie tells that this is the one movie that lou costello did with out bud abbott which is true but if lou had lived he would have made many more he really does a good job and doesn't have to rely on his old routines to get laughs i for one am sorry that the little man from patterson n j didn't get the chance to do that br br i hope this comes out on dvd some time so i can add it to my comedy sci fi collection
1	the film starts with promise because there is more interaction between spanky and buckwheat but as the film progresses the two boys have fewer scenes together this slows the pace considerably billie buckwheat thomas gives a very strong performance in his early scenes when he is left behind on the riverboat his fear and abandonment are palpable and his tears are truly heartbreaking when he goes from man to man asking for help and is repeatedly rejected the viewer really begins to wonder if this is a comedy or not watching a children's birthday party through a picket fence is another moving moment as another reviewer mentioned i was also worried about the big dog choking on chicken bones once spanky and buckwheat are in marshall home spanky tends to interact mainly with the adults and the chemistry of the children is essentially lost br br the old south huck finn type setting really doesn't do much for the plot except allow the children to be out of doors a great deal ralph morgan is the most engaging adult but then the other roles really don't have much substance to them louise beavers manages some funny moments with a yankee soldier towards the end br br the villains aren't really villainous enough and the lovers not intense enough yet i do think it's worth viewing if you're an our gang enthusiast if for no other reason that the odd curiosity of the whole piece i give it seven stars because while not a great movie it kept me engaged the whole time and curious as to what would happen next
1	during the war for southern independence general spanky his forces to defend the local women children against a yankee invasion br br in 1936 hal roach decided it was time for his popular our gang kids to branch out into occasional feature length films with the big success of shirley temple in two civil war period movies in 1935 the little colonel the littlest rebel it was only natural that roach would look in that same direction for his gang although given a rather lavish production and distributed by mgm general spanky was not a critical or box office success the little gangsters would henceforth stick to short subjects br br although he's given top billing the title role george mcfarland is rivaled throughout the film's first half by little billie thomas here were two of the finest young actors to ever appear in american movies with all the experience of old seasoned pros these two gamin could steal scenes hearts with equal bravado a constant joy without a false note between them they provide the essential reason for watching the film today br br phillips holmes gives a quiet gentlemanly performance as spanky's adult protector nearly forgotten now holmes was a fine actor who died much too soon during world war two genial ralph morgan is especially good as a sympathetic union general his scenes with spanky are quite amusing br br other our appear midpoint into the movie most notably carl switzer he gets to warble before the battle mother ' even pretty rosina lawrence the gang's shows up to play holmes' beloved br br irving is particularly slimy as a cowardly turned vindictive yankee captain bumbling willie best feisty louise beavers play miss lawrence's slaves br br it should be noted that there is racism in the film not unusual for hollywood of that era but almost completely missing in the original series of our gang shorts br br fans of 19th century music will enjoy paying attention to the soundtrack which is a long succession of ancient tunes
1	this is a cute film starring spanky and buckwheat from the our gang comedies set in the south during the civil war it may seem a little odd to see buckwheat as spanky's slave but this film is as charming as the best of the shorts with the same cast this was the only our gang feature film and i highly recommend it over the little rascals remake from 1994
1	i couldn't believe that the adult swim guys came up with this character i laughed for days just thinking about this show having finally seen the pilot i guess i will stick around for a few more episodes is pretty funny and the whole crew of police show characters are around but is hard to understand and that was a little frustrating most of the humor revolves around the fact that the title character is literally a walking ass with nothing else but legs that sport socks with and feet with traditional wing tips drinks too much and plays by his own rules as you might have guessed the only other funny moments are shooting many many people and spending time at home in the bathroom it is not funny but it is worth a look
1	wow why aren't more british movies like this great rights of passage money with a big heart and some stand out performances the comedy is quirky and original and the kid is really great one to hunt down and watch look out for it ten out of ten
1	please don't kill me i'm just an actor can you play dead it's difficult to describe this show it's like a crime dramedy where the bad cop is an ass literally what's great about the show is some of perfectly awful one liners cracking out such gems as adios blimp mcgee provides some great laughs at points sadly at other times the show seems to drag along at a slow pace making it almost hard to watch this is definitely the kind of show you'll love or hate there's essentially no it's not the best show on adult swim but it has some strong points it's worth looking into just to see if you enjoy it i know i did
1	mcgee is an out of control hard nosed detective based on the countless examples from late 20th century police dramas the twist here is that is literally a walking buttocks br br the cheap low brow facade of the show belies its cleverness and hidden satire that is not to say that is devoid of fart jokes just that the toilet humor is used sparingly enough to elicit consistent laughs not groans and eye rolls the title sequence of the program demonstrates the clever subtle humor used throughout the sequence consists of panning photos of the city set to a jazzy 70s cop theme in one photo a police cruiser is shown and the camera zooms in on the front license plate holder which is vacant the meaningless zoom in satirizes the production of the typical 70s 80s cop drama and incidentally makes me laugh every time br br all the typical characters are included the frustrated police chief who can't control the loyal minority partner who acts as a foil to recklessness the regular cops who detest means all are accounted for and all are hilarious satires of the typical police drama br br the voice acting primarily performed by larry murphy is nothing less than spectacular voice breathy and gruff with a bit of a drunken slur is so clever and unique that it ranks alongside all time greats like griffin family guy and homer simpson simpsons though the voice is slurred the diction is somehow clear and easy to understand this is a nice change from other adult swim program voices that often require closed captioning to understand br br besides the fantastic production and voice acting the script is also hilarious no nonsense directness fuels most of the humor particularly in his interactions with citizens outside the police force br br if you have access to the adult swim comedies mcgee is certainly worth the watching each episode clocks in at a mere 8 9 minutes so you really have little to lose
1	mcgee is a show that you really have to be a certain age to appreciate otherwise it's likely you'll miss the references to 80's cop films and simply think it's a running gag about a walking rectum think it's brainless infantile poop humor go watch the stallone film and you'll see what i mean this show actually has very subtle humor which says a lot both for a show that aired on adult swim and for a show about a walking ass br br all the standard genre clichés are in place that made movies like dirt harry and cobra so great and ripe for parody sanchez is partner who is as per the genre level headed and constantly apologizing for his partner's homicidal behavior the police chief is of course a fire breathing hard case who lives to scream i want your badge on my desk first thing tomorrow morning the over the top and sometimes completely nonsensical manner in which the 1980's cop' film is parodied suits the subject matter well for instance while breaking up a bus robbery one of the criminals stops to ask hey where are you going asshole to which the title character snaps off the one liner i'm going to shoot you br br highly recommended for anybody who loves 80's action movies and has actually viewed enough of them to understand the humor
1	it's a talking trigger happy alcoholic ass cop i have seen the first and second episodes the artwork and animation fits very well note the facial expressions lol the main character being a gun toting badge wearing pair of butt cheeks shooting at whoever he thinks to be offensive or guilty so far the episodes have had simple and followable plots that work very well with investigations don sanchez partner play's the sobering retort to a a antics and random i've got a hunch leads lines are very funny and clever here's one for example i've got one bullet and its got your email address on it don't make me hit send bang looks like your in box just got some new mail the think box at mcgee's headquarters are so far consistent and on cue as for the sound it's perfect the sound effects and voice work are 9 10 sounds like sylvester stallone all boozed up don sanchez the mayor the chief of police all have voices that fit there persona's very well i recommend this to anyone who wants to catch a few laughs before they go to bed as it does air on adult swim on sunday nights very funny imaginative visually different comedy 10 10
1	this was it i would have never expected the ending if i didn't already know the behind the scenes stuff br br the one thing that i hated was that why was shannon kicked off and not alyssa i hate her i would rather her character die that what was funny is that in the scene where piper is dieing on the hospital bed and was crying by her side i started crying too lol at the time that this aired i was about and my favorite character was piper from the beginning so i was saying to myself if she dies then i will not see the show anymore lol br br then the whole go back in time thing was a shocker and really good i also blame pheobe for death because instead of being with her sisters she had to be a slutty bi and be with her good for nothing demon boyfriend br br but i think this episode will be now and forever one of my favorites and a classic br br forever charmed blessed be
1	charmed was awesome i don't get how pheobe goes to the underworld and makes a deal with the source but then in season 4 is back how does she get back is there a deleted episode that was never showed i am confused i brought 1 2 3 4 5 and season 8 but am still confused will someone help me help help help h e l p br br h e l p br br h e l p br br h e l p me me me me lull lull loll br br loll loll lull loll loll lull br br br br loll lull loll lull ll lull
1	this episode is not incoherent like another person said the source agreed to help because he was not going to keep his word if you pay attention he says after she phoebe agrees to stay down there in hell get rid of her and so i don't have to worry about them in the future and also he didn't let cole warn the sisters like phoebe asked in exchange of accepting the deal that's why died because she got hit harder than piper and on the head and there was no phoebe to call for leo this time and in the past leo said that she almost got herself killed pay more attention next time and there is not a to be continued after this episode it is the ending of season 3 and on season 4 they can't show anything from because she owns the rights of it so the producers would have to pay her for whatever they show this is the last episode she is in
1	piper and phoebe bring dr griffiths to the manor in order to try and save him from the personal assassin whilst phoebe looks in the book of shadows for a spell to vanquish and piper are attacked by and chase him into the street unbeknownst to and piper they were filmed by a news reporter and her cameraman using their powers and broadcasted live on national television with phoebe in the underworld piper and leo must find a way to reverse the damage done leo goes down to phoebe and tells her that the charmed ones have been exposed as witches on the surface piper is shot by a manic witch wannabe and has to take her to the hospital the problem here is that the crowds are blocking the driveway so has to use her magic on the crowd and they go to the hospital piper is pronounced dead and a swat team moves in leo learns of piper's death and goes down to tell phoebe cole is asked to ask the source to reset time and the source agrees only if phoebe turns to the dark side phoebe agrees but the deal will shatter them up on the surface and piper are battling shouts out for phoebe who unbeknownst to them is in the underworld throws piper and through a wall and dr griffiths out of a window is not pronounced dead until the season 4 premiere episode charmed again part one br br all hell breaks loose is a gripping episode and it made me sit on the edge of my seat sad that dead but happy that there will be five more seasons of charmed my vote 10 out of 10 excellent
1	right the hospital scene with holly and shannon was done brilliantly it starts off with piper on a gurney looking very badly injured the docs race her into a resuscitation room they move her from the gurney onto a bed and holds her hand from that point on it is obvious that piper is having a lot of trouble breathing and her lungs are failing as she turns to beg of to not leave her side she gaps don't go i love you and then her pulse drops and she goes into cardiac arrest the monitor shows a clear flat line the nurses go into full out trauma mode bring in a steps back from the bed in horror as the doctors desperately try to shock her dying sisters heart but there is no response and she is tragically pronounced dead well great scene well done girls
1	i'm not going to ramble on about it but i'm just going to make it brief basically for those who don't know how actually died the first time round the demonic assassin comes hit piper and with an energy ball they fly through the wall blood everywhere phoebe the third sister comes down the stairs says the spell which send him away but not vanquished needs the power of three leo comes heals them both and so on they get exposed along the line and the only way the can be saved is for a demon named to turn back time the only way he can do that is is phoebe stays in the underworld she agrees turns back time it now around 7 00 in the morning again demon comes piper and with energy ball they fly through wall again but this time phoebe isn't there to say the spell to fend demon off demon kills doctor doctor flies through window he is dead demon goes in a whirl wing type thing and glass on the doors shatter which is a great effect bye the way and there is and airy sound thats where it ends now what the whole world doesn't know if they didn't pay attention to the next episode although what i'm about to say wasn't shown its what happens trust me because this time there was no phoebe to call for leo this time he arrives later piper survives because her injuries wern't as fatal as and leo heals her first before so by that time is already dead there mystery solved ps calling for with a spell should have worked and she should have made a surprise appearance in the last ever episode ok i did ramble on
1	a very charming film with wonderful sentiment and heart it is rare when a film maker takes the time to tell a worthy moral tale with care and love that doesn't fall into the trap of being overly syrupy or over indulgent nine out of ten for a truly lovely film
1	this episode of charmed changed everything the show is about to end it's third season and all hell is breaking loose in this episode the charmed ones bring an innocent named dr griffiths to the manor the protect him from the sources assassin when attacks he blasts in as a tornado and then into his demon skin he blasts threw a wall which totally knocks her out and practically kills her then blasts piper threw what is left of the wall phoebe comes from the attic and says the vanquishing spell before came kill the doctor but being the power of one it just wounds him leo comes to heal the other sisters and wants to find and destroy him for real phoebe meanwhile is in the underworld trying to find cole when and piper go out into the street to find the demon the demon finds them after their battle the witches realize that a camera caught everything when they get back to manor trying to battle the media and after they vanquished a a witch gone kookoo shoots piper uses her telekinesis to move people out of the way so she can get to the hospital but they get their to late and piper dies and just when is about to get shot time is rewound to where they bring dr griffiths to the manor blows in and blasts and piper but phoebe is still in the underworld so kills the doctor and blasts out of the manor when leo finally comes he can't heal is dead and so is the power of three for now personally this episode was sad was the of all of them i would love to have her power of telekinesis i really don't think phoebe should of went to the underworld because if she didn't wouldn't have killed but paige brings the power of three together again and i'm happy with the show's progress
1	and piper bring dr griffiths to their home to save him from the assassin while phoebe looks in the book of shadow how to vanquish the demon and piper fight and chase on the streets to destroy him however they are filmed and exposed live in the television news as witches they become national sensation with a crowd in front of their house phoebe trusts on cole and goes to the underworld with leo to ask him to summon and revert time while a fanatic woman shots piper who dies the source proposes phoebe to stay with him and in return he would save her sister phoebe accepts the deal and the time is reverted to the moment is attacking piper and dr br br all hell breaks loose is a good but incoherent episode with piper dead and the power of three destroyed why should the source revert time to save her but this dramatic show is certainly one of the best of the third season and let the viewers anxiously waiting for the next episode my vote is nine br br title brazil no tempo back in time
1	i watched this episode a lot of times because i didn't get how died this is what happened piper and phoebe try and save their innocent a doctor because wants to kill him phoebe goes upstairs to look in the book of shadows while and piper are protecting their innocent appears while phoebe is still upstairs so throw an energy ball at the doctor but pushes him out of the way and get hit in the chest with it and smashes against the wall same with piper so phoebe comes downstairs and says the spell since it was only phoebe who said it and not the power of three only got wounded calls leo to heal piper and so leo heals them phoebe went into the underworld to find cole meanwhile and piper are looking for in the streets piper and see and piper uses her power to blow up meanwhile a new reporter got it all on tape so its all over the new about the three powerful halliwell sisters meanwhile phoebe doesn't know anything because she is still in the underworld there's and people all over the halliwell house then a maniac comes in the house and says can i be part of your coven and says no this is our house get out of here and uses her powers to throw her out as the maniac come out of the house crying saying there mean witches the maniac gets so mad that she shoots piper right through the stomach get in her car and trays to go to the hospital but people won't let her through so uses her powers to move people out of the way making people wanna kill her more they got to the hospital but piper didn't make it meanwhile phoebe is in the underworld phoebe finds out that they have been exposed so phoebe asks cole to ask the source if he can reverse time the source says he will only reverse time if phoebe promises to stay here in the underworld so cole told phoebe what the source told him phoebe says what would make him think i would make a deal like that and then cole says so you can save one of your sisters lives leo goes to the hospital to find out the piper really is dead so he tells phoebe that its true then phoebe agrees to stay only if cole will go back to warn piper and about the exposer and death of piper back at the hospital swat is about the shoot but the second before they do time is rewound back when they were at the manor with the doctor but this time phoebe wasn't there to call leo to heal and piper so the doctor get throw in the wall too the doctor died and so did but this is what i didn't get if piper was throw against the wall too how come only died why did they not show leo come and heal piper and leo trying to heal if you know the answer please e mail me at yahoo com ps i miss but i like paige too and i'm glad the show continued
1	having seen only once and in the dawn hours i can't seem to forget this haunting film a mix of mystery suspense and heartbreaking romance it reminds me of vertigo the actors though not that well known are good especially joan hackett in one of her best performances you believe in her in her love in her newfound quest for freedom brought by her love and in the end in her overwhelming pain the plot is ingenious and compelling and does not stretch credibility the direction and technical stuff certainly could be better but they do not compromise the overall effect and it has one message don't let revenge blind you you can became its last victim a real pity it has not been remade but perhaps it is a period piece better left alone
1	this movie has remained in my mind for years as one of the best made for tv movie mysteries i've ever seen the acting is superb i've seen it twice and still am puzzled at some parts i'd love to have a copy so i can play certain parts over and over again i am interested in buying a copy of this movie but cannot find it anywhere i am wondering if if anyone has any suggestions how to find it i've tried e bay amazon com internet searches and am completely frustrated i've not seen it on turner classic movies nor on american movie classics and i have even put out fliers in our community asking if anyone has a copy
1	i was a 20 year old college student living with the folks when i first saw this and i've never forgotten it i'm a huge joan hackett fan and this film was perfect for her remarkable talent i'm so glad to see that so many other people have such a fond memory of seeing this naturally it's not available on any media it would be perfect to show on lifetime but because of its age they won't you never see anything there before the mid eighties i can still remember what made me watch it when it was first run rex reed reviewed it in the new york daily news and he said that it was like a throwback to the great hollywood films of the forties and had it been made then the hackett and parts would have been played by stanwyck and crawford think about that p s so sad that joan hackett left us so tragically young
1	i remember seeing this movie 34 years ago and it was full of suspense and twists it grabs you at the beginning and keeps you guessing throughout the whole movie i have thought about this movie for the past several years and have checked in video stores to see if it's available but was never able to find it or anyone who had even heard of it i think this type of movie is timeless and i know it would be enjoyed by a whole new generation of movie watchers i hope this gets on video soon as it would be fun to see if it has the same impact on me as it did back in the early 70's br br it's very rare that a tv movie can make that much of an impression but this was did and still does after so many years
1	i have never forgot this movie all these years and it has remained in my life i have looked for this movie on so many sites and stores if anyone ever reads this and has a copy i will pay you for a copy of it or please let me know where i could find one this is a movie that should be a classic romance known as well as my other favorite somewhere in time it was truly brilliant if the right actors would remake this film and give it the patience it needs to be the right acting it could be a block buster a love story as powerful as this should be around for all lovers to see i remember how sad i was at the ending and it really came as a shock i believe with all my heart that johnny really loved the woman and she him this was one terrific movie and it is a shame that it is not available for us to purchase please contact me at aol com i want to give my thanks to a wonderful lady that responded to my message almost a year later she had a copy of the movie and was so kind to send it to me she is a great fan of this movie as i am with her help there have been 3 happy ladies to receive these she is waiting for the book that it is based on i am checking with my local library for it titled affair by lynn i am sure it is great also many thanks to julie for her graciousness and friendship i am your friend always sharon
1	roy thinnes and joan hackett are superb in this 1970 melodrama the lush settings the haunting music and plot twists make it a truly interesting film i had seen it when it first came out on tv once more it aired when i had a vcr but i did not have a chance to tape it would love it on vhs if someone has a copy apart from the suspense which is worked in beautifully i feel the story is unique and is pretty much true to the book mrs affair by margaret lynn i would say that it was one of the greatly overlooked best films of the 1970's out of movies made for tv i have given the film a number 10 rating because it is done with so much originality there is a true pathos and air of romance which has the viewer sympathizing with the culprit
1	i first saw this movie at least thirty years ago and it remains one of my all time faves it's a classic the intriguing plot great characters suspense and shocking twist ending all set against the backdrop of the gorgeous big sur coast never get old roy thinnes portrays johnny a captivating character that grows more mysterious as his true identity unfolds the acting is great and believable viewers get caught up in the web that develops between the workaholic husband disenchanted wife and the alluring stranger thinnes as i have searched for a copy to buy for years i guess tv movies don't get released to video unfortunately great movie see it if you can find it
1	it's just one of those films you're either love it or hate it my girlfriend and me loved it told my brother to rent it and he hated it said it was too flashy and colloquial then again he only usually goes to see big action movies so probably not enough explosions left him disappointed there were some great new talent i'd never heard of the leads before anyway des brady the directors brother was especially good playing a right dick at the start i thought he never would redeem himself but he managed to crawl out of the dark hole he had created and by the end i was really routing for him a very surprising film with a whole lot of heart if you can live without a body count and explosions then this one is very original in the uk
1	this movie has a twist that caught me off guard it made me go over the scenes in my mind to see if there were any clues along the way loved the gorgeous roy thinnes and joan skillful acting the beautiful haunting music stays with me as well as the intriguing story
1	some tv programs continue into embarrassment my beloved 'x files' comes to mind i've been a fan of dennis farina since 'crime story ' another late lamented show 'buddy never had a chance the series had a good premise and great actors it's really really a shame
1	i agree with all aforementioned comments this show was a delight to watch funny witty terrific acting and zany sets it's always a thrill to find a show that is smartly written assumes the audience has brains and displays subtle humor i would spend good hard earned cash money to see it again on dvd and as long as we're requesting smart series that never got a chance how about dvd releases of maximum bob another well written odd duck show with a delightful cast of characters and add to the list middle ages or frank's place there has to a way to release these shows out of the vaults and into the hands of devoted fans and new audiences
1	for some reason some shows just fail some deservedly some not buddy was a clever show with interesting characters and dark humor that was enjoyable to watch maybe it was never intended to be a big hit but it had a quirkiness about it that made it enjoyable that being said it appears i may have been the only one watching dennis farina and frank whaley were casted perfectly in their respective roles production quality and writing were great and vegas was the perfect backdrop hopefully the first and only season will be released on dvd as i believe it deserves some notoriety maybe at least make it on tv land cheers
1	chris penn is hilarious as the all time stoner brother of jeff this movie is great because it was a lot more real and funnier than fast times at ridgemont high casting was perfect and one of my favorite soundtracks of almost all eddie van halen which went on to become songs on and unlawful carnal knowledge this movie is one of the great stoner film heroes with cheech and chong fast times was more depressing than funny abortions friends cheating on friends jerking off in bathrooms bad jobs and failing school someone must hate the eighties to like ridgemont more than the wild life the film even had great cameos like the maker of city limits michelle in the liquor store or ben stein in his first role in the sunny's surplus store
1	this movie is such a fine example of the greatness that is 80's entertainment oh don't get me wrong most of the music back then sucked i only ever liked the metal bands from the 80s bands that had some balls forget that whiny keyboard crap and all that 'life is horrible and i want to die' garbage but the movies from the 80's are the best they were all about nonsense and just having a good time this movie exemplifies that party get naked get laid
1	at the time of this writing january 25 2006 i am saddened to hear of the passing within the past few hours of chris penn other than footloose the wild life is the film that i remember chris most from br br i still remember in the film with slight fondness of chris' wrestling character and teammates sitting in their favourite restaurant with a huge plate of french fries in front of them drowned in an entire bottle of ketchup br br anyhow my comment is in regards to the title track sung by after these many years i still remember the rumour canadian spelling lol that was called in at the very very last moment to compose the track for the film and that they wrote the song on the plane bound to the recording studio to record the song and just after they recorded the song they went to shoot the low cost video for their title track i heard that this entire process from start to finish took 4 hours to do if this is true then they truly are worthy of being the most successful female band of all time br br anyhow this is just a rumour i had heard back in the day and still remember a generation later perhaps anyone who reads this can comment and clarify thanks
1	this movie was really funny the people that were expecting to see an oscar worthy comedy should get over themselves this was a fun movie to see with interesting and funny characters plot lines dialog quotes and catch phrases i rate a movie a 10 if i have bought the dvd or in this case the videotape and have watched it many times and in this case still laugh out loud i have about 12 movies in my collection with a rating of 10 and about half don't have anything do do with the oscars again this was just a fun light hearted movie i hope this comes out on dvd i highly suggest checking this movie out if you are in the mood for a wacky comedy
1	the wild life has an obvious resemblance to fast times at ridgemont high and the wild life comes up short br br br br some other stan wrote the above comment of course the wild life is no ridgemont ridgemont is the quintessential 80s however the wild life is enjoyable if you're not whiny about mindless movies being mindless movies especially when you know it's supposed to be a mindless movie in the first place the little latino from scarface is in this movie and he's straight disrespectful i got visa the colonel also makes an appearance lawsuit rip the colonel 1931 1997 br br this movie is no worse than a 6 in comparison to other genres btw it is no worse than a 7 in terms of other 80s teen comedies at that it does very much have the feel of a cameron crowe movie only gave it a 5
1	fast times it ain't but check this movie out it has a heart pour yourself a drink and enjoy it's loaded with a slew of just beginning stars fenn has her first on screen credited cameo chris penn lea thompson eric stotz jenny wright rick moranis etc they all look so young oh and if you look closely the cop's wife is nancy wilson from the rock band heart
1	we really liked this movie it wasn't trying to be outrageous controversial clever or profound it was just entertaining and was what it said on the box a charming romantic comedy every other brit film maker seems to want to change the world nice to see one that just concentrates on telling a good yarn with elegant style
1	great party movie following the adventures of bill tom two high school buddies at opposite ends of the spectrum bill eric stolz prefers to live life straight laced while his friend tom chris penn takes nothing seriously except partying all the time when bill moves out of his mother's house to live on his own he faces many issues from his girlfriend to his brother to his landlord meanwhile his friend tom moves in to keep the rent down but proceeds to turn bill's life upside down this movie is non stop comedy from start to finish and is a personal favorite of mine soundtrack features guitar edward van halen throughout the movie also features cameos by rockers lee ving and ron wood 70s legend kitten navidad also makes an appearance classic 80s movie is worth multiple looks now all that needs to be done is a much anticipated dvd release if you enjoyed this movie take a look at the last american virgin which is similar to wild life i rate both highly
1	while i hold its predecessor fast times at ridgemont high as a standard to which other teen comedies should be compared the wild life is one of the better lesser known films from that time and a worthy sequel if you can call it that i believe its tagline reads from the makers of something even faster this definitely holds true though it may lack the depth of the former which tackles issues like first dates teen sex and abortions the wild life is nonetheless a great flick it's pure chaotic fun especially due to chris penn's over the top character thomas drake if was high on coke instead of weed he would be drake eric stoltz in his first major role is great as the straight laced bill conrad the two characters work well off one another think a younger hipper odd couple complete with 80's gloss outside of them there are so many other great things about this film worth mentioning lea has never looked cuter especially during the scenes of her working at the donut shop jenny wright is just delectable and fun to watch rick moranis plays a great nerd perv who is dying to get in her pants thomas drake's wrestler buddies are hysterical especially benny the little puerto rican guy who says some pretty memorable lines one in particular that he yells out during a night out at a strip club had me on the floor the first time i saw it that's saying something finally the movie ends with one of the best 80's party scenes on film ever look out for special appearances by ron wood of the rolling stones leo penn sean and chris penn's dad and a random michael jackson look alike at the party throw in a score by none other than the man himself eddie van halen and you can't go wrong for van hagar fans keep your ears open for riffs that would be found on such albums as and for unlawful carnal knowledge br br if anything disrupts the flow of the movie it is a small subplot involving randy quaid as a burned out vietnam vet it just seems out of place and unnecessary other than that it's near perfect if your a fan of mindless but fun 80's movies and have not yet seen this one you're in for something special rent it now br br p s the credits say cameron crowe has a cameo as one of the cops in the film does he have his back turned during his scene because i have yet to find him someone please help me
1	there are a lot of people that put down on these type 80's movies but those people may not have been coming of age during this time i was just starting college when this movie was released so i could really appreciate it at the time and my friends and i still to this day will occasionally joke about certain lines in the movie as much as i liked sean penn's character jeff in fast times i actually enjoy chris penn's character tommy more because he is the lead character with more of a actual speaking roll opposed to just a series of one liners such as with chris penn should probably pop this film in his vcr and use it for motivation to lose some weight yes the subplot with the randy quaid vietnam vet character does seem a little out of place but he does a convincing job in the role if there is anyone out there that hasn't seen this movie but liked the other similar type movies such as fast times etc i highly recommend it
1	straight up i love this film i love everything about it it has a great soundtrack it has a lot of recognizable faces and it is funny as hell there are so many plots in this film and every one of them is funny in one way or another br br where as lit up the screen two years back drake is almost as memorable of a character all he wants to do is have fun he moves out of the house without his parent's consent he skips work whenever he feels like it he is obsessed with sex he loves his drugs and booze and he tries to be a good friend it is his attitude that makes him such a joy to watch and he comes out with some great lines and there are so many tiny observations that you don't see coming but they make you laugh at the sheer velocity when it hits you one particular moment is when tommy and bill are talking about bill's ex girlfriend dating someone else now at the end of the conversation tommy takes his huge beer bottle and just throws it over his shoulder casually he then says good night and the scene ends it is a perfect scene tommy's world is his own he really lives to party and have fun when the conversation is over his time is over and he doesn't care who he offends in the process he has an innocence about him it's casual is his favourite saying br br another such classic scene is reggie handing bill a donut he says something to him that me and my friends will never forget because we rewound the film ten times and watched that part over and over again and hurt ourselves laughing it has to be seen to be appreciated br br wild life is a throw back to when teen comedies were funny raunchy had a good ear entertained us and just wanted us to get lost in their world for 90 minutes wild life does all those things perfectly if this is a film that you haven't seen give it a chance it is a classic br br also check out the army store guy that jim has problems with he is a very familiar face now and it is his first role on the big screen
1	no one can argue with it this is and will be the best movie ever as it is the perfect definition of what any movie should be a collective hypnosis beyond times no movie can give you more perfectly this impression that you carried it inside you even before you saw it for the first time br br there are images that stay forever
1	this was such a great film it was done with such beautiful design such symmetry i love the way the classical music tied in with the classical art of earth space and beyond it was such a fluent and thought provoking masterpiece i loved the way the monoliths never changed although primate earth and space did i loved how it was a question of do you need me us now the movie expressed desire peace love curiosity finesse gentleness courage and innocence what more could you ask for from a mere movie perhaps a complement movie any appreciator of 2001 a space odyssey will find the movie 2010 is 2001's complement movie 2010 is more story orientated than 2001
1	in 1968 stanley kubrick made this historic film masterpiece base on a book written by arthur c clark it was such an early effort to make a science fiction movie combined with scientific facts his style of movie making is still fresh and intact br br i have seen this movie more that half a dozen times and i even have a vhs copy of the movie in my library class made me to see the movie again with another perspective who is hal and what is he thinking br br i enjoyed watching the movie again and tried to focus of hal's dialogues throughout the second episode of the movie in the second scene dr dave bowman and dr frank poole are eating their food in front of two tv monitor on their sides and hal's round reddish glass dome is in the middle of them in the tv report hal was introduced as the new generation of super computer put in work in january 12 1992 called hal 9000 series during the interview hal reacts as a humble working machine trying to accomplish the mission of the spaceship fully br br in another scene dave is sketching dr hunter dr and dr kaminsky who they are all in hibernation sleep hal is curious to see those sketches and brings up his doubtful question about the purpose of the jupiter mission his calm and monotone voice makes the audience listen to him more carefully br br in the next few scenes we will see how hal tries to kill astronauts one by one and takes the power his conscious makes him capable to try to save his life from termination when dave wants to return to the spaceship and hal does not listen to him there is the most memorable line of the move ' i'm sorry dave i am afraid i can't do that ' in the middle of the most important interact between human and machine hal's voice can conjure both solid calm and malevolence in the same monotone br br dave has gone back to the ship lost all his fellow astronauts and determined to disconnect the hal's main brain cells hal uses his final apologetic techniques to convince dave of not him hal begs him to stop and let him correct himself these are his famous lines while dave is his one by one br br what do you think you are doing br br dave i am entitled to the answer of the question br br i know everything is not quiet right with me br br but i feel much better know… br br i can see are really upset about this very poor decision of mine br br dave stop will you br br dave stop br br i am afraid dave ' br br hal's voice is slowing down during this process and becomes thicker and less audible br br 'my mind is i can feel it' br br 'can i sing a song for you ' br br dave is putting final out and let hal to sing his song called 'daisy' br br give me… br br your answer to me… br br i am br br although i am not br br hal dies as the jupiter mission br br artificial god bless you hal store in peace
1	it starts off with a view of earth and jupiter aligned br br where do we come from and where we are headed br br the story starts with the dawn of man a documentary like view of the pre historic grass eater ape that was facing its extinction due to no physical ability that would let him hunt to eat and the lack of grass and water in the africa the monkeys hadn't survived if it wasn't for the god like intervention of an alien artifact that somehow transformed the apes that touched it and gave them the ability to use tools that were first used as weapons that allowed them to kill pigs to eat for super and to kill other monkeys in fights for water that ape was man an enigmatic start for an enigmatic film br br after the fast forward that leaves the movie at the present days we see a magnificent dance of spaceships at the sound of strauss the rest of the movie is about how tools got control of man the strange artifact appears once again to evolve man to his final stage the br br at 1968 the year this movie was released only astronauts had idea of what was out there in space after this movie that changed it's futurism took 7 years to be explored the special effects are incredible they are completely realistic even today br br the directing along with excellent taste in music good acting and the fantastic filmography makes it an epic br br the plot with its vision of the year 2001 and the evolution of man tools with an ai with the hypnotising end makes it the trip our lives br br if you have never seen this movie see it don't be scared with the lack of dialog sit back and enjoy it's a symphony of evolution it's terrific
1	this move is absolutely most certainly one of the greatest films of its or any other genre kubrick is not only one of the greatest directors of all time but his entire filmography should be put into a time capsule and can never be forgotten 2001 a space odyssey is a journey unlike anything i have ever seen on the screen kubrick is one of the few directors that can draw you in and keep you captivated from beginning to end even with the absence of extended dialogue or plot development just with visuals along 2001 is able to present a picture of the future that is both sublime and horrifying 10 out of 10 no doubt for my money it doesn't get much better than 2001 a space oddysey now the sequel 2010 that's a different story
1	dear readers 2001 a space odyssey is kubrick at his best although i really can't say that as space odyssey is his only film i've ever watched but still it's a good film strange but good br br the movie is in three acts much like the novel which is unsurprising since the author wrote the screenplay anyhow we first start out with the simple yet spectacular opening with also blaring on the speakers then comes the boring beyond belief 'dawn of man' sequence then there's the odd 'finding of the sequence on the moon played to blue danube finally things get good with the spaceship scenes and hal going berserk and killing people after that things die down and we have the the sequence which was way too long and the ultra strange ending even though 2001 a space odyssey is a good film it's not star wars stargate terminator or the abyss but it rocks my compliments to the chef mr kubrick br br signed the constant dvd collector
1	rented this out from my local because it was the only new british film available this week never heard of the film maker before or his other films thank you imdb about time some one made a good young british comedy that didn't star hugh grant or forty something's the story is a morality tale but never preachy throughly enjoyable from a young and fresh faced cast luke cameo was surprisingly very good but then he did surprise me with his excellent performance in loved the colour grading especially in the night club sequences great music and a truly original voice at work here nine out of ten and well worth the rental charge
1	being a big fan of stanley kubrick's clockwork orange there was of course no question about it that i had to see this one however i put it off far too long because some of my friends discarded it with comments like extremely boring or nothing happened a complete waste of time but when i saw images on the internet of the mysterious black monolith i was allowed to see a glimpse of the exquisite experience that is 2001 a space odyssey there was no doubt in my mind that i was going to rent that movie the same evening br br it turned out to be the greatest visual experience of my life of course watching a very good painting or picture can be wonderful but watching a movie constructed with the same kind of virtuosity in every frame adds a whole new dimension to it my god i like my friends a lot but it's a pity that i can't share with them the very thing that makes my heart jump up with excitement and makes my spirit fly like a bird in the sky that thing my friends is beauty as this film goes to show beauty is terribly underrated in our technologically advanced intellectually shallow consumer driven fast food western societies that doesn't mean however that i reject these fast paced societies or that i look down on them and neither does kubrick but only that they can be so much more if only people would stop for a moment and take a little time to absorb the sheer beauty of the world we live in and what better opportunity is there to do this then by slowing down to the elegant pace of this film and to let yourself be taken to that place between waking and dreaming br br when we go to this place it is possible to get a so called natural high it is something that our spirit can do whenever we meet pure and boundless beauty and never in my life has this natural high or spiritual orgasm as it is called by some or by others been more intense yes it's more intense than a regular orgasm several times more intense actually many religions have claimed that this particular feeling proves that they are right are they right for me a straight answer to such a question would only detract from the impenetrable mesmerizing mystery of the universe in my opinion the film tries to convey the same mystery through the depiction of the black monolith and by stating the following about it except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at jupiter the four million year old black monolith has remained completely inert its origin and purpose are still a total mystery the trance that bowman experiences is the same thing i experience when watching those gorgeous visuals br br i can imagine that mystery can be frustrating for those who need straight fast food answers to big questions but instead of giving us comfort we are constantly irritated by the awareness of the simplifications that are contained in these answers the doubt and discomfort that is subsequently caused will make us point to our deeper intellectual activity as the source of all this trouble while in fact we only have our easy answers to blame but this film shows us that when fast statements give rise to nothing but doubt we can always rely on phenomena to make some sense out of the world from the moment you realize that beauty is something that can only really be presented to us as a phenomenon and never as a thing in itself the mysterious black monolith is no longer disturbing frightening or irritating but instead becomes fascinating enchanting and maybe even comforting we don't need an answer to what's really out there to be in touch with one of the greatest forces in our lives when we are able to let mystery be what it is to embrace it even we can finally bring our souls to rest i am pretty sure though that a film that contains so much beauty and so much philosophical and artistic depth can never really be surpassed especially now that the greatest director who ever lived is no longer with us
1	not only unique for its time but one of the greatest science fiction films of all time made without cgi on a very lean budget in today's adjusted figures stanley kubrick made this film without the high shooting ratio he normally has stanley kubrick is without doubt the greatest director in history thus far br br this film was cut from five hours to two hours and twenty minutes and the art direction was superb br br stanley kubrick and the great c clarke collaborated to write this time less classic br br aliens a special message on earth at the dawn of human kind and one on the moon which modern man finds br br finally humans accompanied by the most advanced computer ever made set of to jupiter the find the next monumental message which turns out to be a gateway br br any one who studied film and or wishes to be a part of the film industry or just enjoy great films must experience this film br br if you don't like it then you belong to bollywood or your a true aussie
1	a film first and foremost should be good storytelling it should be entertaining and entertaining doesn't necessarily mean laughs and it doesn't necessarily mean light it basically means you're not bored while watching it br br as brilliant as 2001 may be it is a difficult film to watch especially for the current video game playing ipod fumbling generation its slow pace and the sometimes intolerable amount of time it takes for an actor to perform a single action e g the attempt to rescue the crew member floating in space will stretch your patience on the other hand the cinematography is brilliant the film cleverly directed the ending thought provoking and the score the score is chilling especially as the crew in the transporter approaches the artifact on the moon boy i had goose bumps big time this doesn't happen often when i watch films and is a testament to kubrick's directing skills br br it is considered a classic and many people consider it the best science fiction film of all time that alone is a good reason to watch it if you haven't done so yet however just because everybody else thinks it's a brilliant film doesn't mean you have to force yourself to like it you either will like it or you won't perhaps the slow pace isn't such a bad thing after all directing your attention to something rather static and slow paced for 2 1 2 hours might teach you a lesson it will certainly be a different experience to all these fast moving fast paced images we are subjected to these days whether commercials music videos or video games br br i myself think it's a memorable film but not one i'm eager to watch again anytime soon unless i'm in a particular mood for slow paced films br br hence 7 stars out of 10 from me
1	there is really no way to compare this motion picture to any other movie because no one has ever made anything like it and no one ever will and it really should be seen in a theater to be fully appreciated at the very least it deserves to be seen with a great sound system br br i saw this movie on the day it opened in 1968 my senior year in high school i went because i like science fiction and wanted to see a space movie remember this film was made before the first moon landing br br there we sat waiting for it to begin but surprise there was no cartoon no coming attractions the theater owner at the cooper theatre for some reason chose to play the star spangled banner with the lights still up so we all stood never did that at a movie before or since and then sat down again as it ended then the theatre went completely dark and the strange overture began with the blank screen barely visible br br the overture ended and my seat began to vibrate as the blue screen with the mgm lion appeared along with the first deep bass notes and then my senses were overwhelmed hearing also for the first time in my life the ride had just begun br br i highly recommend you watch this opening this film in a dark room with your subwoofer turned up as high as possible to get the effect i felt in that theatre of course it took quite awhile before we got to outer space and the movie that followed was anything but a science fiction movie intermission came a good thing highly under rated and unused these days and we all looked at each other in wonder caught our breath and then the ride resumed wilder than before br br i saw it 7 more times within the next year always in a real full size theater like all theaters were before multiplexes i might have been high once but i didn't go to see it again and again because i was tripping i went because i knew i was seeing a work of art it was so damn beautiful the sound that you could feel in your bones followed by terrifying silence the sights unimagined and unimaginable the affection for hal turning to terror and of course wtf was kubrick really trying to get across to me years and years and many more viewings later i understand it as well i think as i ever will read someone else's comments if you're looking for someone to explain it to you or search around the web you'll find explanations that's not my purpose in writing these comments br br what i hope to do is encourage you to watch it patiently enjoy it's beauty the way you would enjoy watching a sunset while listening to the most beautiful music you know of e g ballet suite or the blue danube savor it like you would a wonderful meal sip it like a fine wine look and listen for the clues and the hidden symbols that are there and then draw your own conclusions stanley kubrick wanted to share some things with you that he found beautiful and he wanted you to think about where you a human came from and where you're headed br br if that's too much work for your brain and you can't see and hear and ponder the beauty and mystery of kubrick's film then pardon my bluntness but your life is about as meaningful as that of a or a pre monolith ape if you want mindless escape this isn't for you br br but if you like sunsets thunderstorms harmonies in music mysteries and sensuality and can have an open mind this film will add something to your life
1	2001 a space odyssey is set in 2001 and the main character is hal a computer that's right a computer who talks and thinks entirely on its own this was made in 1968 and to think by 2001 it would be conceivable that computers would talk is a joke if this was in a talking computer that had emotions and made its own decisions would be considered just as moronic as this there is nothing in this film that provokes any kind of emotion it provokes two reactions and one is called sleep it starts with nothing but a pitch black shot for well over two minutes then the first shot we see that has some kind of lighting is the dawn of man sequence so if it's in chronological order the blackness prior to this is the birth of the world br br during the dawn of man sequence out of no where a huge monolith comes out of the ground from the sky we'll never know where it comes from but for one reason or another it's there the monkeys go t once they find this monolith that only man could have made but that's the man hasn't evolved yet so who made it and where did it come from what is its purpose the monkeys find a tool the monkeys use bones to fight an opposing group of monkeys the monkeys with the weapons are now the dominating group because they have used their mind to gain an advantage the more advanced monkeys and more importantly smarter and more innovative monkeys are the dominate group as they have taken over the watering hole br br we quickly jump into space millions of years later where we see a bunch of spaceships floating around to classical music we can see the earth the moon the sun the universe and for a film made in 1968 the visual effects are stunning but outdated the score is legendary the cinematography is spectacular the editing is atrocious there are countless shots of boxy looking space ships floating in outer space for what feels like an infinite amount of time once we board the ship there isn't much to talk about for the next hour kubrick shows various shots of life in outer space kubrick shows us the life of an astronaut which is very boring and we completely get the message the spaceships interior and exterior are bulky and outdated looking remember what the first cell phone looked like me neither but that's what the future looks like in 2001 all the characters have clothes and hairdos that resemble 1968 the chairs are decorated in bright red colors and oddly shaped because we all know in the future we're going to be sitting in weird looking chairs the computer screens are hideous looking and this is obviously prior to hdtv because the clarity is atrocious all the tv sets look like they're from 1968 so it's not all that futuristic like all films set more than 20 years in advance they look terrible and unconvincing just because this is kubrick we shouldn't say well that's how you would think it looks no i wouldn't just like i wouldn't think a computer would be talking to me in the year 2047 it's not going to happen and if someone made a film right now set 30 years in time and had a talking self thinking computer i would laugh at the stupidity of it just like i did with 2001 br br hal is the liveliest person i just called him a person hal is a computer but he has more life than any of the muted characters in the film and he actually thinks he's alive hal is the only thing that's lively and he sees the humans as his maintenance men taking care of him while he does all the work hal reads the lips of one of the very few conversations between dave and frank and he sees that they are planning to turn him off this is where the only dramatic part of the film enters an ensuing battle between a red light and a guy in a spaceship trying to get into the bigger spaceship oh the drama once hal thinks he has the upper hand dave makes his way back into the spaceship proving mans ingenuity dave proceeds to terminate hal hal pleads for his life as he slowly fades away which like everything else seems to take forever br br the final act is just as tedious as the first two once again the monolith that the apes found appears at the end it comes out of nowhere again then an infant is born in a placenta like shield overlooking the earth from space what is kubrick saying is it about transformation dave to an infant is man evolving again is kubrick saying this is the end of man and the start of… whatever that alien looking thing is maybe i'm going crazy trying figure out what this crazy director is trying to say but the more i think about the more the beginning and the ending make sense there are so many questions left unanswered especially for the purpose of the monolith if you can make it through the film it should spark some thought br br in the end the film struggles with getting to where it wants go the first act and the third acts are strong but the second act meanders around hovering in one place for what seems like eternity there is some intriguing stuff in the film that will provoke some thought if you give it a chance once the start of the film makes sense the ending works much better even if you still don't what kubrick is trying to say which i don't
1	2001 a space odyssey br br is it a sermon an account of the history of mankind an exploration of man's futile attempts to advance technology only to have technology destroy him is it about the fragile balance of time and space a lesson in evolution or is it just a spectacular effects show a film kubrick made only to show us the limitless possibilities of the motion picture and present to us the truth that images are exceedingly more powerful than words br br 2001 a space odyssey is all of these things one of the most films ever created it's almost more fun to dissect and discuss the ambiguous plot design and events of the film than it is to actually watch but it's left open to discussion intentionally if kubrick had explained the meaning to his wondrous 1968 classic ranked 22 on afi's list of the greatest 100 films ever made my personal 21st favorite and nominated for 4 academy awards director original screenplay art direction and visual effects which it won for it would have lost half its fascination all of its complexity and a good portion of its cinematic worth we would only be left with the technical ingenuity which in itself is worth praising br br because every shot is worth taking the time to look and there is plenty of time 2001 is very elegiac and also coolly distant detached the emotional remoteness and slow pace pay perfect tribute however to the unique visual experience 2001 begins with mankind's ape ancestors who upgrade from scavengers of the planet to hunters and after discovering a giant monolith in the midst of their desert home then in one of motion picture history's most inspired jump cut edits as a bone is tossed into the air and becomes a satellite jumping forward a couple thousand years into space where astronauts have discovered a similar object on the moon and next the film following a crew of space mission as they follow the signal through space accompanied by their untrustworthy computer hal who attempts to sabotage the shuttle and kill the crew before finally the lone survivor is launched through space and time in a flurry of drug induced colors that probably gave hippies an epileptic shock back in the day to grow old die and be reborn a star child whew br br this pacing and emotional is also in sharp contrast with the film's most ironic scene the destruction of hal as the crew's final explorer shuts the machine down bathed in the holy aura of red light kubrick has always used as a repeat motif hal singing a lovely tune it is a strangely emotional experience and it's all genius br br other notable aspects of kubrick's masterpiece is the memorable voice of hal a calm somehow sinister douglas rain the minimal use of dialogue kubrick was wisely trusting of his images to propel the film giving only banal unhelpful lines to his actors the most famous being open the pod bay doors hal satellites dancing around in orbit to unorthodox music and that first awe inspiring shot of earth slowly revealing the glare of the sun in front of it played to the sound of blasting triumphant horns br br 2001 shall always remain a mystery and will forever be a testament to the cinema's strongest point visuals are more powerful than writing it's all from one of film history's most legendary and best directors whose unique vision was always his own 10 10 br br open the pod bay doors hal 2001 a space odyssey
1	spoilers ahead br br 2001 a space odyssey is without a doubt the most challenging and successful film by the late stanley kubrick this is not a film that you watch in order to be entertained or amused instead it provides you with a banquet of food for thought images that linger in the mind's eye long after the movie itself is over it is a film that you could meditate on br br the film intentionally offers us more questions then it can answer it is made to puzzle and but leaves the viewer nevertheless with a sense of awe and reverence that is allowing that he has engaged himself in the process of viewing it enjoyment of this film requires some effort on the viewers part the questions that it does pose are large and ominous concerning the genesis and destiny of the human race it's ultimate place in the cosmic design and the existence or lack of some creative intelligence behind the structure of the universe itself br br the first of the films four gives us a distinct view of the species past we see our distant ancestors half ape half human in a state of near starvation the climate has destroyed most of the plant life and the vegetarian beasts are near starvation an extra object a perfectly smooth and angular black monolith appears and the animals are simultaneously inspired by it's presence to tool making and violence they are transformed overnight into and when two tribes encounter each other near a water source the tribe that has developed tool making capacity as well as soundly destroys the neighboring tribe the new chief of the winning tribe empowered by the first vestiges of technology triumphantly throws the bone that he used as a weapon in the air we see the bone transformed into a floating satellite which contains nuclear weapons we soon learn that the world is torn apart by nuclear paranoia the characteristics inspired by the appearance that once helped us to survive now threaten our very existence br br once again humanity is in crisis once again the unearthly presence represented by the black monolith will step in to aid humanity in the next step in it's development on an exploration of the moon a monolith identical to the earlier one we have seen is discovered the governments of the world normally mortal enemies have come together in secret to discuss the implications a mission is arranged the monument has been engaged in some kind of radio communication with jupiter a few men will travel to the destination of the transmission most of them will for most of the time be kept in a state of suspended animation the pilot of the spacecraft will be hal a super computer who has been programmed to imitate all of the traits of human beings br br the film has many outstanding sequences as usual for kubrick the use of classical music is outstanding most memorable are blue danube and also spake particularly appropriate given the film's theme of transcending ordinary consciousness the cinematography is particularly excellent as well after a single viewing the film's final 30 minutes will haunt you for the rest of your life br br the character of hal is the most important from the view of the film's central thesis in imitating all the characteristics of human beings he comes to have their negative traits as well the paranoia he develops which almost leads to the s ruin is an exact mirror of the paranoia that has allowed the political situation back on earth to reach a point of desperate crisis the film suggests that these are the traits that we must leave behind if we are to proceed to the next phase in our evolution br br the architecture of the film is also meaningful the designs of many of the spacecraft are intended to suggest reproductive organs and the process of birth and rebirth the central motif of the movie the ending of 2001 is the most spectacular and triumphant ever filmed br br this movie takes a view of life similar to that presented in the poetry of william butler yeats and james joyce's novel wake it posits a pattern to history and human evolution that is yet progressive repeating the same events at large intervals yet with the human race as developing according to the will of a being with a larger purpose in mind though we never learn what this purpose is the film assures us that the human race is not meant for failure it's destiny is grand beyond it's capacity to imagine it continues to amaze me that in spite of this film many people continue to regard kubrick as a misanthrope br br this is a religious film not in the conventional sense of adhering to any specific creed but because of it's of wonder at the vast panorama of existence and it's involvement with the deepest and most vital questions of purpose and truth br br in the hands of any other director this would all be perhaps a little too much hollywood's view of life is too puny usually to encompass the grandeur and intensity of a vision such as this one but kubrick was a visionary he directs with utter confidence not only that he can handle material of this kind but that he is the only one to do it the process of making this film used all of his creative resources the writing partnership with arthur c clarke is the most fruitful in cinematic history kubrick had to invent some of the special effects that were used in the movie's astounding climax the resources to bring his vision to life did not exist at the time so he brought them into existence br br 2001 is a absolutely unique movie experience those who miss out on it do so at the detriment of their own intellectual and imaginative capacities
1	this movie is not just good its amazing besides providing us with good performances original plot fantastic special effects thoughtful messages and a lot more it was an until then completely unseen world to the public this is the first sci fi movie that takes us out into the unknown space of our galaxy with such splendid effects and mind bursting reality that the audience is left without words i am only 16 years old and therefore i was raised into a world of modern effects and 3d animations in the movies but nonetheless i was really and i mean completely blown away by the quality of these effects even after almost 40 years the visual effects was just one of the merits of this movie the camera was in true kubrick style amazing and enchanting it feels like you are consumed by the screen and sucked into this surreal world especially in the round control room or whatever you call it the effects the camera and the sheer size of this movie caught me of my guards even though i had seen the rating before i bought it but this movie has more to it than this the meaning of this movie can also be interpreted as you wish yourself even though i think there are some clear points concerning humanity also true kubrick style how humanity on top of its evolution is just maintenance on board and therefore not needed by the computer one of humanities tools how we in space appear like babies learning to walk once more losing control of our tools in zero gravity breathing through equipment as fish out of water on the peak of evolution we set out into the never ending adventure as simple primates many might think that the length and slow pace of this movie is boring ridicules or just a waste of time but before you can jump to those conclusions think about why kubrick spends time with calm music and a spaceship in the middle of space for several minutes this is to illustrate the beauty of it beauty beauty is in many cases not granted the rightful respect by viewers kubrick wants to show us beauty and if we do not succumb to it and relax we can not enjoy this film as it was intended this is not an ordinary movie we can not just sit and watch as we can with some other movies this requires time thoughts and above all commitment and feelings to watch all of this together makes this one of the greatest achievements in the world of moving pictures 10 10 let me know if you agree with me
1	i'm always surprised given that the famous title track of 2001 is called also that nobody nobody i've read anyway has noted the parallels between the movie and nietzsche's famous work also the idea of man's rebirth into a star child an infant form of an indescribably more advanced being is an explicit part of n 's there is a prominent passage called on how a camel becomes a lion and a lion becomes a child in which n describes the first incarnation of the overman as a child transcending both the altruistic side of man the camel always asking to bear more weight and the rapacious brutish will to power side of man the lion the fact that the song plays during the star child sequence can hardly be coincidence and also said that man is a rope tied between beasts and the overman the structure of the movie fits that description a brief history of man as beast until we become truly man by mastering weapons and acquiring reason then a long sequence about man the rope as it were and then a brief glimpse of the overman the of how these transformations occurred and the suggestion that an external force caused them is also nietzschean in he makes it pretty clear that he doesn't have a clue how people are going to be able to enact these changes themselves and suggests that we will have to depend on an outsider to show us how to go under bowman's psychedelic sequence at the near end could be seen as kubrick's best 1960's style attempt at depicting the mystical going under br br i know these parallels are pretty broad and almost certainly have been noted elsewhere despite the fact that i have not personally seen it but i just wanted to mention them if for no other reason than to try to dispel the myth that nietzsche was ultimately a gloomy philosopher few people find the ending of 2001 to be gloomy and it is in my opinion explicitly and unmistakeably nietzschean the case could certainly be made that 2001 is above all a dramatization of updated for the modern age feel free to disregard the outright snobbishness of my tying everything to nietzsche
1	like a circle around the human condition 2001 starts at the beginning skips the middle and proceeds to the ending right back where we started noting the weakness of words compared to image s kubrick wisely dispenses with dialogue preferring the power and essence of the scenery and allowing the intelligence of the audience to do the deciphering or not depending on the audience br br a monolith in cinematic history 2001 is a high water mark of direction execution and achievement if one considers the ambition of the film a film about everything and the measure of success the film achieved to that end a very sound argument for this being the greatest of all films can be made br br
1	a vg brit rom com one to watch if you can get your hands on a copy quirky and often surprising this is not the best of brady's films kiss kiss bang bang is by far the funniest though it does have a unique charm well written the story veers off into a few dead ends but mostly surfaces with a new plot high you know from the start how it's going to end but when it comes it is honest and very open ended a realistic and credible ending the end seemed like a beginning enjoyable and left me wanting more
1	a space odyssey is a supremely intriguing space travel journey with a profound look at mankind's future it is one of the very few great films of our times it gives us something to think talk and argue it wonders about our importance in the universe and ignites our imagination and curiosity it inspires us to dig for insights br br as a science fiction fantasy it is one of the most original films ever made kubrick's camera dances to the blue danube with planets floating through the light years it's an experience in the poetry of motion a rich statement to the power of cinema br br but 2001 reveals that it's not really a science fiction film after all it's instead a philosophical enigma a magnificent meditation on man's place in the grand scheme of things and a quest to understand ourselves by knowing all else br br 2001 is a unique film about man's evolution told in almost subliminal terms the people in this classic science fiction epic hardly matter kubrick relates a chronology in images of mountains the desert the technology the space capsule the computer named hal who is more interesting than the humans and the time warp the final landing scene is the very hallmark of cinematic genius br br as a terror story too it is a towering achievement not on the same scream inducing level as hitchcock's psycho but in an innocent and far more haunting way the film uses invisible but powerful forces to manipulate the plot but perhaps the most overwhelming one is the picture's vision of man in kubrick's fantasy the golden age of man was a neglected instant between a man exaltation at discovering the first weapon and a nuclear powered spaceship floating in a graceful orbit around the earth man has indeed evolved br br as a spectacle 2001 assaults the mind eye and ear with stimulating images and suggestions we are surrounded by a totally believable futuristic environment the film is filled with brilliant sequences and extraordinary moments the first interesting minutes in which the story of the apes is told visually without a single line of dialog the zero gravity toilet with its great list of instructions the stewardess defying gravity by walking the walls calmly upside down the frightening moment when we realize that hal is reading the astronauts lips the magical of sun moon and earth the returning home to charm the orb br br 2001 is filled with poetic imagery the view of the sun rising over the earth the tossing of the bone into the air in slow motion the slow images of the giant spaceship revolving in a cosmic ballet br br 2001 is also a work of great visual acuity it allows us to view more than the mystery of existence and destiny implicit in every man its end troubles many viewers as they demand clarity where there can only be mystery they insist upon an answer where there can only be a question every viewer had a different explanation of the mysterious end of kubrick's film… but for those who can accept mysticism the climax is deeply moving
1	mankind's self awakening is the theme of 2001 a space odyssey a process that unfolds along a space time continuum we see our primordial past and we infer a cosmic future the powers of intuition thus become the doors of perception in our ongoing collective journey br br from this transcendental perspective a conventional egocentric plot seems superfluous our frenzied conflicts and self important dialogue are consumed in evolutionary change and are irrelevant in a cosmos that is vast beyond comprehension it's a tough lesson for a vain and aggressive species not surprising then that some of us huff and puff about the film's slowness and minimal story for perceptive viewers the remuneration is an inspirational sense of wonder and awe br br in this film which is mostly visual geometric symbols guide our intuition circles and arcs represent nature right angles represent conscious intelligence some people think the sleek black monolith is a von neumann probe maybe without doubt the monolith is a visual metaphor for an extraterrestrial intelligence whose physical form is never shown mystery is more profound than explanation br br 2001 is unique among films in content and scope the cinematography is out of this world the special and visual effects are breathtaking and the classical music is sublime i rarely use the word masterpiece to describe a movie but stanley kubrick's 2001 a space odyssey is art in the highest sense like leonardo da mona lisa or vincent van gogh's the starry night
1	this movie is certainly one of the greatest films ever made it is a story told in a steady pace told mostly not by words but by cinematic means of expression perfect blend of spectacular special effects and classical music bring to life creations of human imagination in both realistic and poetical way the story itself is quite simple at a first glance as the title implies there is an archetypal journey a motive repeated for thousands of years this motive was always used not only to depict a trip in space and time and beyond but also had rich philosophic meaning the film is a poetical contemplation of most exciting eternal questions it is not just an odyssey of a person it is an odyssey of our species the film is great by itself yet in my case the impression from it will always be mingled with that from the book i've read it at the age of 10 really not thinking about problems like 'what is the relationship between evolution of humankind and development of human but the impression was great enough to make me fall for entire genre of science fiction br br the day i learned got only special effects oscar and was not even nominated for the best picture was the day when award' completely became two words meaning nothing to me
1	i write this review just after hearing of stanley kubrick's death it's a great loss and i write about 2001 a space odyssey because i feel it is the consummate kubrick film the one he will be most remembered for it is a picture like no other not only science fiction but changing the way films are conceptualized it was probably america's first 'art' film and has inspired the likes of george lucas and countless other writers and directors br br aside from its visual greatness the reason the film spawns so much discussion and analysis is because so many people have so many different interpretations of it kubrick and arthur c clarke his co writer had a vision but we have never really found out what was going through their minds of course the skinny on its 'message' is how technology of the future will take over humanity and decide the course of our lives unless we are careful 2001's ending is one of hope a version of our rebirth through the star child's flight back to earth it is meaningless to many but discerning filmgoers will understand br br although 2001 does not have the wicked dark humor of dr strangelove or clockwork orange or contain strong eccentric characters that filled his earlier works like paths of glory or spartacus i still feel he would've liked to be remembered most for this if anything hal will be his most memorable character dangerous murderous and artificial it was a half decade in the making at a time when hollywood was still churning out dull musicals and just waking up to the new wave of french and italian cinema kubrick was a maverick director who made great films on his own terms his own time and for everyone else to marvel at he will be missed
1	i spent many a sleepless night after watching 2001 not only because of the psychological horror of which 2001 is a masterpiece but also because of the way it brought me a restless soul some clarity to the way i observe the universe it changed my way of thinking in a very profound way and after reading the novel by arthur c clarke i found myself once again inspired a writer as i am by the level of imagination br br the space odyssey is not something one can just go and see one has to be ready for it or it cannot be understood in fact i don't think it can be understood at all at least not all of it at once it is a philosophical journey to the infinite and beyond a masterpiece of it's genre and still after 32 years technically quite impressive all the way to the powerful musical soundtrack featuring by richard strauss and 'blue danube' by strauss br br take all the time you want but eventually you are going to have to see this film if it can bring some order and understanding to the universe of a struggling artist like me it can certainly do it for you as well br br or maybe i'm just plain crazy
1	a review i have put off for far too long br br bluntly 2001 is one of the best science fiction films made to date if not the very best stanley kubrick was a genius of a film maker and this is one of his very best works and although it is misunderstood by many and respectively underrated it is considered one of the best films of all time and i'll have to agree back in 1968 no one had done anything like this before and no one has since it was a marvel of a special effects breakthrough back then and seeing how the effects hold up today it is no wonder as to why the film still looks marvelous after almost forty years take note cgi people through the use of large miniatures and realistic lighting kubrick created some of the best special effects ever put on celluloid this aspect alone almost single handedly created the chilling void of the space atmosphere which is also attributed to the music and realistic sound effects i can't think of another film where you can't here anything in space like it is in reality not only is the absence of sound effects in space realistic it is used cleverly as a tool to establish mood and it works flawlessly br br aside from the magnificent display of ingenious special effects there are other factors that play a part in establishing the feel of the film the music played all classical compliment what the eyes are seeing and make you feel the significance of man's journey through his evolution from ape to space traveler br br the story while seemingly simple is profound sequentially several mysterious black monoliths are discovered and basically trigger certain events integral to the film what are they where did they come from what do they do these are all questions one asks oneself while watching the story develop and is asked to find his own way while most come away with a general idea of what took place in the story each individual will have to decide what it means to them any way one decides to answer these question results in profound solutions it's not left entirely up to interpretation but in some aspects it is experience it for more clarification the end result is quite chilling no matter your personal solution br br while it is a long film and sometimes slows down it has to be in order to accurately portray the journey of man it's not a subject that would have faired well in a shorter film faster paced feature those with short attention spans need not apply br br last but not least is the epitome of a remorseless antagonist hal 9000 the computer never has a machine held such a chilling screen presence which reminds me for a film with such profound ambition and execution there is surprisingly little dialogue another sign of kubrick's genius br br all in all one of the best films made to date and one of the very best science fiction films made a personal favorite everyone must see this film at least once br br very highly recommended
1	instead of writing a paragraph i'll give four good reasons why 2001 is the greatest cinema experience of all time 1 it is a visual odyssey that could only be told on the big screen the special effects that won kubrick his only oscar are the most stunning effects before that age of jurassic park and t2 they allow kubrick to give an accurate or at least are the most accurate depiction of space travel to date the silence that fills the space scenes not only serves its purpose as accurate science but also adds to the mood of the film to be discussed in a later point with hal the fact that kubrick shot the moon scenes before the apollo landing is a gutsy yet fulfilling move many have said that upon its original release it was a favorite trip movie i can think of no other movie that has such amazing visuals for its time and even of all time sorry phantom menace fans 2 kubrick's directing style is terrific as in all his films kubrick likes to use his camera as means to delve into the psychology of his characters and plots his camera is not as mobile as other greats such as scorsese but instead sits and watches the narrative unfold faces are the key element of a kubrick film like classic movies such as m and touch of evil kubrick focuses on the characters' faces to give the audience a psychological view point even he uses extreme close ups of hal's glowing red eye to show the coldness and determination of the villain i could go on but in summation kubrick is at the of his style 3 hal 9000 is one of the most villainous characters in film history i whole heartedly agree with the late gene opinion of hal 9000 most of this film takes place in space through the use of silence and the darkness of space itself a mood of isolation is created dave and his crewmen are isolated between earth and jupiter with nowhere to escape combine this mood with the cold calculated actions of hal 9000 and you have the most fearful villain imaginable i still although having see this film several times feel my chest tighten in a particular scene 4 the controversial ending of 2001 always turns people away from this film instead of trying to give my opinion of the what it means and what my idea of 2001's meaning in general is i'd like to discuss the fact that the ending serves to leave the movie open ended kubrick has stated that he to make 2001 open for discussion he left its meaning in the hands of the viewer by respecting the audience's intelligence kubrick allowed his movie to be the beginning not the end of a meaningful discussion on man's past present and future the beauty of 2001 is that the ending need not mean anything deep it can just be a purely plot driven explanation and the entire movie can be viewed as an entertaining journey through space no other movie save the great citizen kane leaves itself open to discussion like 2001 it is truly meant to be a surreal journey that involves not only the eye but the mind instead of waiting in long lines for the phantom menace rent a widescreen edition of 2001 and enjoy the greatest cinematic experience
1	for all those bewildered by the length and pace of this film like why does he show spaceships docking for like 15 minutes here's a word you might want to think about br br beauty br br beauty is an under rated concept sure you'll often see nice photography and so on in films but when did you last see a film that contains beauty purely for the sake of it there is a weird belief among that anything which is not plot or character related must be removed this is depressing hogwash there is nothing wrong with creating a beautiful sequence that has nothing to do with the film's plot a director can show 15 minutes of spaceships for no reason than that they are beautiful and it is neither illegal nor evil to do so br br requires you to watch in a different way than you normally watch films it requires you to relax it requires you to experience strange and beautiful images without feeling guilty that there is no complex plot or detailed characterization don't get me wrong plots and characters are good but they're not the be all and end all of everything there are different kinds of film and to enjoy you must tune your brain to a different wavelength and succumb to the pleasure of beauty pure beauty unfettered by the banal conventions of everyday films br br all art is quite useless oscar wilde
1	sometimes reading the user comments on imdb fills me with despair for the species for anybody to dismiss 2001 a space odyssey as boring they must have no interest in science technology philosophy history or the art of film making finally i understand why most hollywood productions are so shallow and vacuous they understand their audience br br thankfully those that cannot appreciate kubrick's accomplishment are still a minority most viewers are able to see the intelligence and sheer virtuosity that went into the making of this epic this is the film that put the science in science fiction and its depiction of space travel and mankind's future remains unsurpassed to this day it was so far ahead of its time that humanity still hasn't caught up br br 2001 is primarily a technical film the reason it is slow and filled with is because the aim was to realistically envision the future of technology and the past in the awe inspiring opening scenes the film's greatest strength is in the details remember that when this film was made man still hadn't made it out to the moon but there it is in 2001 and that's just the start of the journey to create such an incredibly detailed vision of the future that 35 years later it is still the best we have is beyond belief i still can't work out how some of the shots were done the film's only notable mistake was the optimism with which it predicted mankind's technological and social development it is our shame that the year 2001 did not look like the film 2001 not kubrick's br br besides the incredible special effects camera work and set design kubrick also presents the viewer with a lot of food for thought about what it means to be human and where the human race is going yes the ending is weird and hard to comprehend but that's the nature of the future kubrick and clarke have started the task of envisioning it now it's up to the audience to continue there's no neat resolution no definitive full stop because then the audience could stop thinking after the final reel i know that's what most audiences seem to want these days but kubrick isn't going to let us off so lightly br br i'm glad to see that this film is in the imdb top 100 films and only wish that it were even higher stanley kubrick is one of the very finest film makers the world has known and 2001 his finest accomplishment 10 10
1	frank sinatra starred in this odd little short from rko that is now in the public domain the film came out at about the same time the war ended and is a nice plea for religious tolerance br br the film begins with sinatra on stage singing after leaving the stage he walks out into the alley and finds a group of kids picking on another because of his religion instead of yelling at the boys or helping them for that matter sinatra delivers a nice civics lesson on religious and equates prejudice with fascism the kids seem to get the lesson but then out of the blue sinatra begins singing a song that frankly get it kids would have hated he had a lovely voice but unfortunately i think this detracted from the excellent message he gave to the kids about tolerance it's a case of a good message with too much singing even if the guy singing is frank sinatra it's also an interesting curio a nice historical piece that is often overlooked plus it's quite touching even if it seems a bit schmaltzy
1	inherited this from my x's dvd collection when he left with my best friend enough said watched it one night when there was nothing on the telly nothing new there then and got a very pleasant surprise very british you no hardly any budget no faces you know or have even seen before the accents were a bit thick for my liking but after a worrying start a bit too close to home in my case it began to grow on me apart from the some unnecessary jokey cutting that really didn't add anything i found the film throughly uplifting very real natural performances throughout left me wanting more from an ending that came suddenly too soon highly recommended
1	this short subject gathered kudos from all kinds of places for its plea for religious br br after a session at a recording studio frank sinatra leaves and comes upon a group of kids beating up on another because he was jewish he lectured them as only an american icon could about the meaning of prejudice and what we had just fought for against the nazis the meaning could not be clearer br br both songs from this short subject were recorded and sold big for columbia records if you are but a dream and the song written for the film the house i live in the latter is one of the best songs about an idealized version of america we'd all like to strive for br br sinatra in fact recorded the house i live in again during the sixties for a joint album he did for his reprise record label the album is now a rarity and it shouldn't be his collaborators were bing crosby and fred waring and his with the orchestra conducted by nelson riddle br br axel was sinatra's primary music conductor and arranger during the forties when he died that position eventually fell to nelson riddle does the orchestration for the short and the columbia record riddle for the reprise record br br sinatra aficionados and others should listen to both back to back and compare and catch this worthwhile film whenever it is shown
1	it's sometimes difficult to watch such self avowed message films from an earlier seemingly simpler era without a certain degree of cynicism the issue of racism and religious tolerance is one that has been drummed into us from an early age and as we've grown teachers and authority figures have sought out less blatant yet equally effective means of getting the message across 'the house i live in 1945 ' is about as unsubtle as message films come and frank sinatra seems to be treating his audience like a child – indeed perhaps this was the point as the short was no doubt intended primarily to influence younger film goers even so i found myself curiously affected when sinatra launched into that sincere patriotic speech about what it really means to be an and i'm not even an american released just two months after the end of wwii director mervyn leroy greeted war weary audiences with a message of tolerance togetherness and above all else hope the music ain't bad either br br fresh faced frank sinatra – already a star but not yet the superstar he'd become – opens the film in a recording studio booming out if you are but a dream with a full orchestral accompaniment when between songs frank goes outside for a he observes a large group of kids bullying a young jewish boy their taunts provoked purely by his differing religion ol' blue eyes quickly puts a stop to this childish behaviour delicately branding the bullies nazi werewolves and scolding their irrational prejudice he then earnestly and good lectures the group on the plain silliness of racial and religious discrimination assuring them that every american culture however it differs from our own is still american at unless of course you're one of those bloody japs there's a hint of hypocrisy in pleading for racial tolerance while presenting one nation as the collective enemy though you could hardly blame hollywood for being less than enthusiastic about the plight of the japanese in 1945 br br sinatra drives his point home with a wonderfully heartwarming rendition of the house i live in which was written in 1943 by abel when the songwriter first heard the song on film he was furious that the filmmakers had completely excluded three of his verses which he considered crucial to the message these omissions were most likely due to time restraints but understandably didn't take too kindly to them and reportedly had to be ejected from the cinema when it was first released 'the house i live in' was deemed such an important short film that it won a golden globe for best film for promoting international good will and a honorary oscar for all involved in 2007 it was judged to be culturally historically or aesthetically significant and added to the library of national film registry which is how i came to hear of it while its approach may seem a little hokey sixty years later this film remains quite watchable thanks to a young fella named frank sinatra
1	an rko short subject br br a group of rowdy little bullies are given a lesson in tolerance by crooner frank sinatra who compares america to the house i live in br br this little film delivers a pertinent message about the evils of prejudice bias sinatra is an absolute natural in front of the camera intense sincere he is the perfect spokesperson for the values espoused here br br sinatra sings ‘the house i live in ' by lewis allan earl robinson this fine tune with a solid pro american message is being given something of a comeback since the horrendous events of september 11 2001 br br after pearl harbor hollywood went to war totally against the axis not only did many of the stars join up or do home front service but the output of the studios was largely turned to the war effort the newsreels of course brought the latest war news into the neighborhood theater every week the features showcased battle stories or war related themes even the short subjects cartoons were used as a quick means of spreading allied propaganda the boosting of morale or information dissemination together uncle sam the american people hollywood proved to be an unbeatable combination
1	when the movie first started i thought cheesy the first ten minutes were really boring after the slow beginning and some of the soap opera antics i started liking it the plot was different than anything i had ever seen now was it a horror not really it shouldn't have been as a horror or the producers should have put more money into the movie to make it scary as it was the creatures where only there for a short time i can only assume this was for money reason br br the good side was that the movie was very entertaining it held my interest after the start and did make me wonder about creatures from another dimension br br it was obvious that this was a first time movie for the director but there were a couple of highlights by the end i was hooked too bad hollywood didn't put more money behind this
1	as far as christian film goes it's typical lacking of a mega budget they try their best some times falling short sometimes hitting the mark this one almost hit great acting can only carry a movie so far a combining of h p lovecraft and frank peretti was a good idea all's it needed was better back story and better character development to make it great movie the visuals are not that bad also smart holding off the demons till the last few minutes helped keep the suspense at a good pace could of used a better ending though not a bad premise having terrorists experiments go wrong much better than typical hollywood treatment about the demonic realm maybe someone will finally do this present darkness as a movie
1	just want to inform you guys that this movie was actually pretty good br br thought it was a lame ass movie but not at all many moments in this movie wore pretty horrifying br br this movie has enough blood gore and some sexy make out scenes of course to keep any horror buff like me 100 satisfied the cast was also pretty good imo br br even though its not a high budget movie the effects wore definitely kinda creepy sometimes br br worth watching if u like a kick ass horror movie thats for sure br br tom
1	this show is the best it is full of laughs and kevin james is the best so if you want a good show i recommend the king of queens and its a letdown that they canceled it so in the end this show will make you forget your worries and troubles cause if you have a cast with kevin james and jerry stiller you cant go wrong so i don't know why the canceled the show if any one knows please tell me now a days you cant find a lot of shows that fulfill your needs as an audience after seinfeld and king of queens the only show worth watching is prison break and if that stops i don't know what to do in the end if i had to recommend a show it will be king of queens
1	this show is amazing i love each and every episode carrie is a spitfire and doug is a lovable and at times a moron arthur spence danny deacon and carrie's boss add just a nice end touch to the show tying up all of the funny pee in your pants moments in one of the seasons doug tries to get carrie drunk because she is nicer when she is drunk nice husband right carrie isn't much better when her boss needs a ips driver to testify in a small case at her job carrie hesitates because she views doug as a slob and doesn't want him to embarrass her so she hires friend instead wife of the year but who i believe to be funniest is yell at random arthur he is drop dead hilarious and angry hey you would be too if you had to live in a basement where the mold has a funny smell and makes you dizzy this show is hilarious and if you haven't seen it yet then you haven't lived
1	wow this is in my opinion the best sitcom since friends if you have had a crap day just sit yourself down with a beer if you are old enough that is if not a root beer will have to do and watch a couple of episodes it's the perfect recipe for happiness br br the thing i like most is that everybody in the show is very funny and they all have fantastic comedy timing after a while you become attached to the characters and really care about them i think the secret to the shows success is that they have an enviable life doug is fat but still happy with it he loves his wife his job and his friends the father in law is the fly in the ointment but hey nothings perfect
1	i have just started watching this show its airing in ireland at the moment on the irish television station at 12 30pm in the afternoon as of 26th july 2006 br br this program literally makes me laugh out aloud and i cannot boast that on most apart from uk's 'the office' with ricky gervais in it br br todays episode of 26 july 2006 was the one where carrie starts a new job and invites her friends home and goes off to make some coffee and doug wants carrie to have no friends so he lifts up his top and shows off his hair ' and licks plates when he goes out to dinner but another funny episode was the other week when the old fella carries dad won on the bingo and that episode me up with laughter especially when they went out and got a replacement fridge and carries father stood there looking at it and thought it was new br br so i don't know how much longer this has got to run on irish tv or at which stage year recorded we are at but i hope it don't end soon because i am really enjoying it br br to sum up there is some great writing some great characters and comedy acting namely by carrie doug and carries father some great punchlines and delivered well a bit saucy and near the mark sometimes send the kids out the room but i think this us sitcom is a winner and very funny
1	after having seen the lost child for quite a number of times since its release in 1995 and having read the reader's comments mostly about jane background and helen mirren's superb role in it it strikes me more than ever that no comments are made upon the brilliant role robert is playing as chris hughes even after 10 years it is still one of the most credible ways of portraying the complex personality of a child abuser carrying the weight of his own past watching the episode for the full one and a half hour makes you constantly switch between feelings of love and hate for this guy in which the hate prevails because of the gravity of his actions i have seen more brilliant roles of my favorite actor but this one never fails to make the largest impression possible to me helen mirren would never shine without these wonderful actors next to her praise for robert
1	the king of queens in my opinion is a pure cbs hit despite the fact that i've never seen every episode i still enjoy it very much for that reason it's hard for me to say which episode is my favorite even so i must say that cbs really knows how to make a good sitcom before i wrap this up i'd like to say that everyone always gives a good performance the production design is spectacular the costumes are well designed and the writing is always very strong in conclusion if this show lives on in syndication after it goes off cbs i strongly recommend you catch it just in case it goes off the air for good
1	if you put seinfeld aside this is the best comedy ever no doubt just great br br the king of queens just finished its eighth season of domestic bliss set in the working class suburb of queens new york the show follows doug kevin james an amiable delivery man and his wife spitfire legal secretary carrie leah as they explore the everyday challenges of love life family and marriage br br doug and carrie deal with day to day domestic realities that reflect our times and enable us to laugh at ourselves their love for each other ultimately carries them through each dilemma they face whether it's fixation with food or carrie's obsession with expensive clothing br br doug and carrie also have to deal with the third high maintenance member of the household carrie's twice widowed father arthur spooner jerry stiller who lives in their basement his constant presence and often bizarre behavior add to their daily adventures doug and carrie have stumbled upon an unorthodox solution to reduce their burden and keep arthur happy his regular excursions with gullible dog walker holly nicole sullivan friends deacon palmer victor williams spence patton and cousin danny gary valentine round out the cast with their guy humor and diverse perspectives br br in a manner that evokes the honeymooners the king of queens finds inspiration in life's everyday situations last season alone saw doug carrie to a deacon for help with thanksgiving dinner the suffering through the annoyance and financial strain of mold damage to their house and doug and carrie striving to copy a couple whose photos of a more adventurous life than doug and carrie's they accidentally took home we also watched arthur grow jealous of a new dog that holly added to her route and doug finding out that his overprotective parents replaced his childhood dog rocky three times behind his back throughout the series showcases james' incredible physical comedy hard edged wit and stiller's unique comic presence br br you can't you miss it
1	i cant believe how many excellent actors can be on one show it's the realism and fine acting that makes it look real this has got to be the best comedy ever created to this day and i love seinfeld and everyone loves it is just fabulous and it seems everyone in my family agrees thats no isolated opinion of mine the whole world seems to talk about different incidents and they try to reenact them my hat off to the crew some shows have an actor that makes the whole show this plot comedy has a slew 8 of them that's what makes it so amazing some people pray for health wealth or fame i pray that the show never ends john net
1	this is in short the tv comedy series with the best cast ever and the most likable also each one of them is a comedy actor i know only one tv series which was better i e moonlighting one had willis as a it had willis only while the king of queens has a pocketful of actors that are as fine as one can enjoy kevin james leah jerry stiller patton nicole sullivan victor williams gary valentine and even all the rest of them … i spontaneously and continually and promptly liked it advancing age didn't spoil the fun anyway br br in a few words the series is intelligent and original miraculously spared of the current tv stupidity and garbage it is politically incorrect and doesn't court the minorities in the usual disgusting way br br the comic is very palatable and savory br br i read mostly a few imdb writers and sometimes they write about their favorite though these writers are several i did not encountered at any of them the slightest mention of my favorite tv shows but it's true that the critics one likes are not those with whom he finds himself in complete those who at least offer a common basis for disapproval are mainly wild wild west moonlighting queens the '80s twilight zone bradbury's tv show and most of them i have seen when i was yrs about a few of them i have written and execrably
1	this is the best comedy period it is so underrated clever witty humor great casting jerry stiller is the jewel in the show he is so incredibly funny and quirky simply a comical genius doug and carrie have great chemistry i so do not see what the hype is about when it comes to everybody loves raymond it is so overrated with lame jokes mostly forced humor and just not the witty show i can't remember laughing in more than 1 episode king of queens is a rare comedy that has all the right ingredients to give you serious belly laughs which is normally caused by arthur spooner i think its about time this comedy gets the hype it deserves and not the lame raymond co
1	this is by far the funniest sitcom that has ever aired on tv i own all 9 seasons on dvd and literally could watch them over and over anyone who does not find this show hilarious heartwarming entertaining and laugh out loud hysterical is crazy kevin james is absolutely one of the most talented comedians out there my boyfriend and i love going to stand up comedy shows in boston where we live and have seen kevin james twice and his brother gary valentine danny once they are both so unbelievably talented and just plan smart with their work there are so many comedians out there that are just awful and kevin and gary really show the true side of real comedy leah although a snob and bitch in real life so i have read is an amazing actress and deserves more credit than any other woman in sitcoms she truly makes the show along with jerry stiller this show is a must see and you will get addicted within one to two episodes
1	this show is brilliantly hilarious i started watching in 2007 and had never heard of it before then after one episode i was hooked i'm never home to watch it so my wife bought me the entire series on dvd non stop laughs need i say more i wish it was still on tv because it is definitely worthy and a whole lot better of crap on currently on tv br br i wish they would make a movie seriously who wouldn't go see it kevin james's name alone will bring a huge fanbase to any movie the guy is make your stomach hurt funny br br just a really good down to earth believable show if you have the chance to buy it on dvd do it its worth it
1	as over the past ten years or even longer the whole world is flooded with so called sitcoms actually only very few deserve this title 'cause they're so predictable king of queens is a very original unique and astoundingly funny alternation it's about the daily life of a and his wife who works as an attorney's assistant in manhattan in queens ny with them lives carrie's father arthur a picture book extrovert who is played by the fantastic jerry stiller and who steals the show from all the others every time he appears other important people are their best friends deacon and kelly a married couple and their other friend spence who's almost 30 and still lives with his mother what makes this show so unique and funny is above all that every single character seems so real and carrie's cynical sarcastic attitude is the total opposite of good natured slightly dumb optimism and arthur's the one who makes it absolutely unpredictable with his strange ideas and habits he often gets himself into trouble and doug and carrie have to drag him out of the mud even if in my opinion the quality of the show decreased a little within the last years it's still one of the best daily sitcoms ever made it takes a little time to get into the characters and relate to them but after that's done you get some unstoppable laughs from it although i think i couldn't survive one day with arthur in a closed room without beating the guts out of him i really adore him in this show watch and have fun i give it a 9 out of 10
1	i think the problem with this show not getting the respect it truly deserves is that it comes after seinfeld after and after friends those three sitcoms were the star shows of their time br br came at the end of this special time in tv br br but don't let that dissuade you br br king of queens is as good if not better than two of the three mentioned br br seinfeld started it all and was and is a timeless classic i never laughed so hard than i did at seinfeld but comes real close br br when it comes to laughing i have to rate second only to seinfeld has to be second though as the character creation and interaction is more endearing br br either way is top ten of the last 20 years br br the only other sitcom worth mentioning now is two and a half men which really doesn't hold a candle to the other four but is all we have left
1	i'm not really a t v watcher except between the ages of 6 and 8 and general hospital still had luke and laura but there are a few exceptions and i definitely think that king of queens is one of them every decade has it's classics and i think that this show will or damn well should be amongst this decade's best its comedic timing is awesome and can at times be down right odd on a more note the actors more than succeed in conveying subtle and not so subtle complexities in their characters without getting too hokey one commenter wrote that it may take a couple of episodes to get into it and i agree it's definitely one that kind of grows on you but once you're in you're pretty much hooked and with good reason
1	i'm surprised that mine so far is the only comment on this t v movie as far as i'm aware the series itself has had a huge following reviewer pundits and real people alike have praised it to a person anyway let me tell you right away that if like me you're a sucker for gritty police dramas you'll like the lost child the heroine throughout the prime suspect series has been battling the male police establishment throughout the series getting to her present comparatively powerful rank in the police hierarchy through hard work obstinacy and sheer talent for police work she is essentially an ambitious career woman but she has a romantic side and is certainly no man hater unfortunately her relationships are affected by the wicked hours which her career demands and she has never married so when she finds herself pregnant from her latest affair she is faced with the choice of becoming a mother and her entire police job let alone future advancement or having an abortion which she opts for this abortion never looms large in the ensuing drama it's very skilfully dealt with in less than a couple of minutes screentime a marvel of economy in scripting and editing but it's always there as a counterpoint to desperate efforts to find another lost child a kidnap victim before it's too late the story takes many twists and turns before the surprise ending and one is fascinated alike by the plot and characters although i found the many villains a little overdrawn the police and especially herself are not always competent nor that likeable which figures given the unpleasant job that they have to do in the sleazy underworld which this series habitually inhabits br br mirren herself has said that she'll make no more movies in the series but excellent as she's always been in the role of the series itself is as actor proof as is another addiction of mine dick wolf's american law order whoever appears therein each could go on forever as is my fervent hope
1	i guess my husband and i are a little slow we don't usually warm up to a series until they are almost at the end of their production life in this case we didn't start watching until almost the 6th season i'm not sure how it escaped our radar for so long other than the fact that we are not big fans of appointment tv viewing our schedules our such that we don't like to commit to watching series every time they come on and we didn't have a dvr yet so i guess it wasn't until tbs starting running reruns on their daily lineup in the evenings that we started watching consistently br br by the time we got hooked there were only a couple more season's left before the series was canceled but we still watch it almost daily on tbs i almost prefer to see series this way because you can watch multiple episodes day after day and it helps to build continuity and what's going on with the characters without having to wait a whole week br br but the episodes stand alone in the since that the stories don't carry over from week to week but that is fine with me because you can watch an episode then miss weeks and still pick back up br br my only criticism is the writing wasn't always consistent some episodes would be outrageously hilarious and then some would only be mildly funny so i'm not sure it had the quality of writers that seinfeld or raymond had but i loved the casting and the characters are all quite believable and realistic kevin james is just plain funny to look at so even if the plot isn't that great james body language and expressions make the show worth watching leah is great as the play it straight wife i think its harder to play the straight character for laughs than the comedic character and she does a great job she has a knack at sarcasm and insults like no one else she is one tough cookie and who can forget arthur as carrie's dad who lives with them in their basement br br this a great series and i was sorry when it cancelled but a big thanks to tbs for keeping the king alive in reruns
1	i recently started to watch this show in syndication and find it a bit hit and miss some episodes are silly doug is upset about some trivial juvenile thing and acts stupid etc br br still others are quite amusing and sometimes touching these include those episodes that face up to the complexities of the characters for instance the juvenile overweight amiable guy marries sexy wife theme is found in several sitcoms carrie also has something about her looks wise not just a run of the mill sexy girl but carrie has an edge she might be nice on the eyes but has a few too many personality traits not too far different than her father br br and she readily admits to it for instance one episode revolves at her lack of desire to be nice to co workers i personally find her b ness sexy but you have to be the right sort of person to be able to live with that amiable doug is a good match and deep down see likes the simple things too maybe not as much as doug whose nirvana is watching tv and eating a big snack next to his big screen t v but no culture gal she this lack of an sensitive side is one reason the two don't have children br br of course the simple pleasures of a guy is nothing to sneer at either and adds to the charm of the show they live an ordinary working class sort of life in queens it is realistic in that sense and overall amusing and pleasant sitcom fare esp if you just want to relax it gets a little tired at the end so it's probably good it is ending it had a good run see also becker
1	i need help identifying an episode of king of queens it begins with a scene where doug is talking to carrie on the phone and he suggests that they agree to stop ending every conversation with i love you however it's hard to do and he ends up calling her back only to close with i love you it's a very clever moment and one i think says a lot about relationships that have lasted a long time br br i think but i'm sure that's it's the same episode where doug gets some local construction guys to whistle and throw lurid comments at carrie to perk her spirits up br br i saw this episode recently but it was probably a repeat don't know what network i saw it on can anyone tell me the title and season of this episode
1	this is one of the funniest shows on tv today it hits the mark 99 of the time usually after watching a sitcom after a few years the actors become to cartoonish as if they are trying to become the beloved characters they play these actors have in my opinion stayed true to their roles the chemistry is still there the writing has not gone down and i still look forward to watching it the family dynamic still seems real and the situations after all this time are not so far fetched to make it seem the writers are reaching into an empty bag trying to keep the show on for one more season it is one of the few shows i watch without the remote in my hand for quick switching
1	king of queens is comic genius kevin james whom plays ips doug is extremely funny leah who plays wife carrie is incredibly hot 19 on stuff magazine's hottest 102 woman list and very funny the true magic of the show however is the scenes with jerry stiller they are the funniest in the show jerry a comic genius plays carrie's father arthur spooner whom lives in doug and carrie's always cold basement i must admit that i never watched this show until this year 2006 whenever i had flipped by it previously it never seemed funny but with the cancellation of friends still standing and yes dear i needed some new comedy actually giving the king of queens a chance i discovered that it was absolutely fantastic so funny in fact that i downloaded the first 7 seasons and watched each season in 8 hour blocks i strongly urge anyone whom has not seen this treasure to check it out you will not be disappointed
1	the king of queens could be divided into two eras br br the first era constituted of the first few seasons portrayed the issues of everyday life of a man and his wife making it through life in the city paycheck by paycheck br br the second era increased the scope of the show addressing current popular culture and marital issues with a humorous spin br br but besides all of that br br this show was freaking hilarious br br kevin james when not doing crap comedy films with adam sandler is a genius of laughter and his chemistry with leah was unparalleled on tv br br jerry stiller as the psychotic live in father in law added his own unique style of quirky humor and patton as the man child spence was amazing he's a great comedian too the king of queens was the final sitcom of the 1990s to go off the air and it's a damn shame now all we have to watch are the idiotic sitcoms full of untalented actors and actresses whose only appeal is their physical appearance i like many fans of actually funny tv shows am now in a state of mourning
1	in a time of bad if not plain awful comedies king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air it's a complete oxygen tank it is in my opinion one of the 5 best comedy shows of all times nothing has been this good since married with children kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses and believe me it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius these guys truly understand what is funny i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn't get half the laughs from seeing just once other funny people in this show are carrie janet spence and doug carrie's boss i'm so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers check it out if you haven't
1	i have not seen a better comedy than the king of queens for many years i rate it one of the best ever i've just returned to ireland from arizona on american airlines from a biz trip and by chance they showed several episodes i laughed my head off and later i asked the stewards to play again and they did thank you aa the acting from all the team is first rate and especially from kevin james leah and gerry stiller but from all of the cast in fact the acting is superb i love all the cast they are so funny there is a hard edge in the king of queens that i love and is seldom seen in today's tv comedy both leah and kevin play off each other so well that every situation is believable and hilariously funny i have just purchased the 2nd season while i was in az this week and i intend buying the full set the next time i am in the us my son who is 20yrs old also loves this show and its brilliance is that it has the magic to reach out to different generations i would like to thank all those involved with this amazing show it's so appreciated to see this kind of tv show in what is in my opinion an era of poor tv fair in general these days with the exception of re runs of seinfeld and such like thanks for a great show
1	here in germany king of queens has a big big cult status nearly every teenager and adults watch this sitcom it's really awesome better than the other horrible american sitcoms like full house or set by step the only series who is still ok is al bundy there haven't been an amercian sitcom in europe who was as effective as this really funny show kevin james and leah as doug carrie are the craziest couple i know jerry stiller as arthur is the funniest grandpa i know and victor williams and especially patton as deacon spence are the most different but funny guys i know i watch it as often as i could and i still haven't enough good humor
1	when this show first came on the air i saw it once or twice and thought it was another fat guy skinny wife show that seemed to populate the networks at the time it was just okay upon initial viewings and i didn't watch it again however once it went into syndication i caught several episodes simply because it was on twice a night and i'm telling you the more you watch this show the funnier it is once you see how all of the great supporting characters are connected this show makes you laugh out loud every new episode i watch is more creative than the one before people who only watch this a couple of times will not notice this the writing and story lines are much more sophisticated than they appear at first this is far from according to jim first of all kevin james is hysterical incredibly charming and a talented comedic actor as is the supporting cast leah has excellent timing and patton spence is one of the funnier characters on the show and of course jerry stiller is brilliant as arthur i was shocked to read comments that he was the worst part of the show he's a gigantic part of why this show is so great his delivery of these ridiculous schemes rounding out the crazy dad character are beyond hilarious and the yelling the best episode is when they show him as a kid yelling lemon that episode during which carrie takes him to a therapist in hopes to get him medicated to make doug less stressed out guest star william hurt decides that arthur yells because he's never been validated the latter part of the episode where doug beats up his childhood self in a therapy session is beyond funny it's one of the most creative scenes i've seen on a sitcom i feel the strange need to defend this show because it is severely underrated while friends was sometimes amusing and raymond has some great episodes and characters they both lacked the creative touch that king of queens has in an era where most sitcoms have canned jokes and are on the whole mediocre king of queens continues to push the sitcom envelope and show real comic genius critics of this show obviously don't get it or haven't watched the show enough to give it a chance because anyone with real comic and creative sensibility has to laugh out loud while watching it's certainly on par with my other two favorites seinfeld and the office in its ridiculous tone it's the arthurs and michael scotts of tv that keep us watching and laughing out loud
1	prime suspect 4 continues the exploits of the inscrutable and dogged seeker of truth and justice detective superintendent jane the first of three miniseries with the notable absence of founding writer lynda la plante from the credits imbued with the same gritty reality of the first three series the second three series pit against the forces of evil while coping with middle age loneliness indiscretions a host of personal and professional problems and resolutions which are sometimes less than ideal conjures two stories while are single episodes each which find seeking justice on behalf of the brutally wronged while waging war against institutions which are willing to sacrifice the interests of her victims for those of a greater good in other words to prevail must overcome both evil and good forces something which makes the always gray scenarios of the ps series yet and the wars as much a matter of principle as of finding murderers very good stuff which only gets better from series to series b
1	this film has its detractors and fey dresser may offend some folks who frankly need a good smack upside the head but the film is top notch in every way engaging poignant relevant finney naturally is larger than life courtney makes an ideal foil i thought the performances to be terribly strong in both leads and character provides plenty of dark humor the period is well captured the supporting cast well chosen this is to be seen and savored like a fine cordial i only wish it were out on dvd already sigh
1	i have been watching king of queens from the beginning and have felt it is overlooked at the award shows this show has the best humor you can identify with the characters we talk about it at work a lot because i work at a company a lot like ips dhl and we just love the plugs carrie is my hero she is the best she just puts it out there no matter what the subject is arthur well what can you say he just cracks you up and really puts a spin on things doug well he is just so lovable and funny the three characters plus all the friends just make the show complete this is the best comedy on tv i would say up there with seinfeld and hey there's nothing wrong with that excellente as doug would say
1	a must for any die hard carpenters fans br br cynthia does the role of kc a amount of justice and although the 'story' isn't 100 factual is still a good insight into the lives of both richard and karen and worth a watch just for the soundtrack br br makes me cry everytime br br
1	every time i hear karen carpenter's voice there is that old familiar feeling of 70's blues what an overwhelmingly beautiful and mature voice she had cynthia cast in the title role does a good job however i thought karen allen would have been a better choice this is a tearjerker movie that does a fine job of presenting the professional careers of karen and richard but also the personal struggles that karen dealt with and her disease the recording sessions in albert's studio are very nicely done however karen carpenter turned out there was a time when she was very special and brought a great deal joy to her fans and music lovers even if you weren't a carpenter's fan this is a nice story that depicts how a great talent can fall victim to the pressures of society
1	yes this is one of the better done television movies and i wouldn't expect less from joe sargent one thing for this reviewer is that i was also a great fan of the carpenters i got to sing all of their material in elementary school and middle school choir and i got to do much of the solo material of which karen sang lead i thought she was one of the most wonderful pop singers of the 70's and being a child teen singing these songs and learning music the one thing i was looking forward to was meeting this woman i never got to she died three weeks before that was to happen and yes that did effect me for i knew nothing of anorexia and could not understand completely what happened br br when this tv movie got produced i got quite an understanding maybe not everything in karen and richard's life is open to the television audience but in opening the parts that were shown i got to understand much from the music industry of that time what upsets me is that i am writing of that time and seeing now no one has learned a darned thing even though this was a very informative and heartfelt look into a family's problems in the music industry br br these films aren't done for fun they're done to open a door and show us something here was a wonderful woman who got caught up in the whole idea that her talent was based on weight she was fine didn't know it she got mixed messages about her weight from the brother she loved the parents she loved and the music industry that cared more about her looks weight than the talent within with the onset of mtv it got worse with 'american it's like a puss festering in an english accent br br a wonderful tv film i am sure later someone may give it an hbo treatment but either way many lessons to be learned and the absence of another wonderful talent
1	on watching this film i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity karen carpenter was a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs as with all celebrities of today they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks styles etc this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight which eventually caused her death this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching but on starting to view it then i was hooked in the same way that the tina turner story does then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life the acting was superb and even after nearly 20 years after it was made then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining br br i would recommend this to anyone who hasn't yet watched it it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged
1	this film was made soon enough after karen's passing that perhaps richard carpenter and the people closest to karen were feeling a little guilty as to how they may have contributed to her health problems as the years have passed almost 25 to be exact it must have gotten easier to deny any complicity richard has spent the years after karen's death endlessly and the recordings he made with her he married his cousin mary and from what i have read it looks like he may be planning a next generation carpenters with his children he seems to have regretted making this film and that may very well be why it is unavailable in any form it seemed to me to be a fairly honest assessment of the tragically short life and incredible talent that was karen carpenter
1	being an avid carpenter fan i really loved this film although the wigs do leave a lot to be desired and agree with many of the comments that certain areas of her life were absent or not touched on whatever it leaves your curiosity well and truly unsatisfied so off i went to discover more i must recommend a book by ray coleman carpenters the untold story the book is an intelligent read and unlike the film is 'real' and down to earth i hope you enjoy it i remember cynthia from her days in fame and gypsy she is a singer aswell as dancer in her own right and i think this was the edge needed to create the character some other actresses may have struggled with this it is ashame the film did not delve deeper into her story after all this is the film title but i felt we learnt more about richard but i suppose like any performer worth their salt you should always leave them wanting more
1	the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter's complex life though it fails in giving accurate facts and details br br cynthia portrays karen was not a fine election she is a good actress but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter i think that the role needed a stronger character someone with a stronger personality br br louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific she does a great job as karen's mother br br it has great songs which could have been included in a soundtrack album unfortunately they weren't though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries
1	unlike some of the former commentators i was and am an avid fan of the carpenters face it christmas would never be christmas without the carpenters that said i believe the movie did a good not excellent job at depicting karen's life the movie was enjoyable to see on primetime tv but the content fell a little short i suggest that you all look into getting some of the carpenters specials that were shown in the 70's you cannot believe how awesome a drummer karen was cynthia did not capture the extent of karen's talent also karen was beautiful but had a bad hairdresser my choice for playing karen is hilary swank i would love to see a more substantive story because there was more to karen than meets the eyes when listening to we've only just begun i have tons of unreleased music and it is absolutely excellent her singing of california dreamin is to die for
1	i first saw this movie back in 1994 or '95 during my freshman year in high school when it was on lifetime after i first saw it i thought it was wonderful sure it may not have run longer but it is as accurate as can be in my own opinion regardless of what anyone else may think cynthia was great at portraying karen and mitchell anderson was okay as richard louise fletcher yes who played nurse in 1975's one flew over the cuckoo's nest was fine as well but i found her version of agnes karen and richard's mother to be a little bit of a control freak i am an extremely huge fan of the carpenters and i believe that karen's voice was and still is so wonderful it really saddens me about the fact that she is gone and had left this earth too soon but thanks to the never ending popularity of her music and her angelic voice the music will live on anyway back on track to this movie it really is a mystery to me and possibly other people fans and non fans of the carpenters as to what caused karen to end up getting this problem with her health was it the media that was responsible or was it just karen's decision i would not believe that it was her decision it could have been the media from one article that was printed out about her somewhere in '70 when their hit close to you came out from what was shown in the film there are some other moments in the movie as well richard's struggle with drugs and karen's brief marriage i did not hear about her loss in february of 1983 as i was not yet into watching the news i had found out years later i don't know if there will be another movie about the carpenters or karen made in the future but until then this movie will do fine i will say this though if karen had disregarded the false details of that article or any future articles that might have been published with similar content calling her chubby which must have been quite an insult she would still be here on this earth today i know that she is in heaven and probably entertaining everyone with her beautiful voice god bless you karen
1	as the superb prime suspect' series reaches part four there is no loss of momentum at all this in itself a considerable achievement ' prime suspect iv the lost child' has the solid supporting cast that we take for granted in these british dramas but of course the beautiful helen mirren easily dominates our eyes never leave her while she's on screen br br the search for the lost child of the title leads superintendent jane cid team to a prime suspect who turns out to be a convicted pedophile now living with a single mother and her two young daughters the insight we are given into the workings of his mind is one of the emotional highlights of this mini series but it may be too strong for many stomachs br br the action sequences are brilliantly handled with the hand held camera thrusting us right into the middle of the excitement and there's gripping tension during the climactic siege br br altogether this is another magnificent police procedural drama
1	one of the better made for tv biopics i just wish it had told us more i have read many biographies and seen other things about the carpenters and this movie did what it could based on the constraints placed on it by the family did a wonderful job trying to bring karen to life one of my disappointments is that there was not more insight into karen's anorexia in the reading i have done about the disease especially cherry boone o'neill's wonderful book starving for attention anorexia appears to be a disease of control karen saw her weight as one thing in her life that she could control she felt that she was being controlled in every other aspect of her life don't get me wrong i believed she truly loved the music but she felt she had little control over her career she truly loved her family but they did not express it well and she didn't know how to make her family understand her the film could have touched so much more on that i treasure the music i have of the carpenters and wish she was still alive to contribute more to music today
1	there is a clever little scene in the karen carpenter story where both carpenters are in a recording studio and richard makes an impromptu decision to have karen sing for the owner of the studio br br richard picks the wrong key for karen to sing in so karen is singing above her natural range you can see a look of bemusement on the owner's face he figures she really can't sing richard quickly realizes his mistake and tries again in a different key the next thing you hear is karen's amazing beautiful voice and the owner does a priceless double take nicely done for some reason i have never forgotten that scene br br the karen carpenter story chronicles the meteoric rise of the carpenters and karen's struggle to overcome anorexia a lot of things are glossed over this isn't a documentary and the movie left me with a lot of questions very little is mentioned of karen's solo venture the cd was released only a few years ago if you buy it you will wonder why they waited it's some of karen's best work the songs aren't as timeless as her work with brother richard but it was a great recording in my opinion br br i have heard it said that you can be listening to a cheap time worn little radio in the middle of the third world that would seem to produce more static than anything else but when a carpenter song comes on the radio you would think you were listening to a 1000 hi fidelity unit br br watch this movie
1	i didn't personally know karen carpenter nor richard for that matter so i must go by how the movie portrayed her i think a better person to ask about it's accuracy would be her brother richard however from what i did see and learn of karen i felt her pain share her sadness and she was a very special person to me growing up i know that i wasn't born until 1965 so i didn't get to know her as much as some of you older fans but i definitely grew up listening to her music and i have fond memories of her music i remember the song about the radio every sha la la la every whoa so fine etc and i remember we've only just begun as a matter of fact i memorized many many of her songs and some people quite a few tell me that my voice sounds almost identical to her i am not joking on this i also used to be anorexic during high school and part of college 1978 1987 to be exact and weighed anywhere from 82 pounds to eventually 120 pounds in 1987 i developed some pretty serious health problems from that which helped me to identify with the actress portraying karen in the movie the mother agnes was very much like my mother in many ways and i could also feel the pain that karen must have experienced for my mother was often unfeeling critical and disapproving as agnes was if this was true to accuracy the movie was helpful in identifying and getting to know karen on a more personal note by not just hearing her music but by seeing what she was going through it is quite difficult to portray a person's entire life in 2 3 hours and recount every single detail perfectly so i would have to say that there is probably no biography that is that accurate i will give this story an 8 though i wish i did know karen personally i would have died to meet her i would have loved to have shook her hand given her a hug or talked to her i feel her warmth and love every time i hear one of her songs and she is greatly missed
1	the tunes are the best aspect of this television film which has admittedly better than average production values but very surface and slightly altered biography dramatizes richard's discovery of we've only just begun and karen's marriage troubles admirably the superstar montage was a nice touch yet notably leaves out the disagreement with neil the contribution of tony guitar solos etc is sweet in her karen persona but it doesn't include the tomboyish and sides of the real carpenter's personality anderson is in fine form as the creative and take charge richard and fletcher makes her mark as the loving but overbearing agnes the most haunting moment of the original broadcast is the use of goodbye to love in the background of a commercial displaying an anorexia hotline
1	i watched this film in a singapore theatre yesterday 4 february 2006 and came away with a better understanding of what schizophrenia patients and their loved ones go through br br ms sen must be congratulated for not only taking on a difficult subject but also treating the mentally challenged with a deep understanding of their predicament that is necessary to help them cope with the trauma of disorientation hallucinations and the storm of turmoil raging in their minds br br we have had hollywood movies on this subject such as one flew over the cuckoo's nest where jack nicholson carried away the honours since then research has helped provide more insights into the problem and clearing some misconceptions about treatment in cuckoo's nest for example shock therapy has been portrayed as barbaric but in 15 the point has been made that it is not as bad as it has been made out to be br br the other misconception is that abuse in childhood is a cause for schizophrenia but scholars such as dr e fuller have emphasised that studies have shown that childhood schizophrenia is a brain disease and is thought to have some genetic roots br br it is now established that schizophrenia can be treated like any clinical ailment and its advance can be checked if detected early even in fairly advanced stages regular medication and counselling can be effective br br the same understanding shown by ms sen is evident in the way the actors play out their parts in keeping with the gravity of the theme the acting is controlled throughout with ms konkana sen sharma's evocative silences and eyes mirroring the helpless confusion of a disturbed mind speaking louder than some of the rantings we are used to in most of the movies that have included mentally challenged characters br br like me most of the audience in the theatre appeared confused at the abrupt ending it leaves lot of questions hanging in terms of the plot br br has search ended why is she not found in no 15 were children actually playing when strode past the gates with her eyes sparkling with recognition can anyone sort out this jigsaw puzzle
1	i love you i could not have come to a better conclusion than you did about this movie and it's ending my family has not seen this movie yet but i know them too well they will hate it but this time i watched it alone and i found that it affected me greatly although the movie is long in length i was tied to the story and amazed by the ending i initially thought it was weird as to how she just vanished but on some level it makes perfect sense br br but like said this movie does not make sense of reality instead it challenges it and the viewer to think strongly about what the word normal means it also gives you the insight to personally think about what the ending means i can say that i loved how it turned out and i'm happy for
1	i resisted watching 15 park avenue despite of recommendations the movie as a clichéd topic of extreme emotional dramas and over the top acting br br once in a while movies like 15 park avenue come by and sweep you off your feet br br the movie grasps your attention pretty early on and there is no moment to rest after that sen has done a wonderful job of gluing the audience to every line of the movie the impeccable character development just right amount of emotions and an enigmatic end to match it all br br i have a renewed respect for konkana sen sharma who convincingly plays the schizophrenic she beats expectation yet again after page 3 and mr mrs iyer prof role is very well developed and shabana does full justice to the character rahul shefali chaya waheeda rehman add incredible flavor to the movie br br i define shower moments as thoughts of scenes from a movie that you ponder over in your shower endlessly till your wife girlfriend mom bangs at the door delivers many shower moments especially the conversation between anjali and her mother where the mother is cautious when talking to anjali about her thoughts it immediately brings out personality to the audience br br the end is a very bold statement by the director probably too westernized for the indian audience yet delivers the elements to promote the movie from a good to a great status
1	our family and friends enjoyed this movie very much the theme was well handled by the director with great performances from shabana azmi konkana sen and well supported by good performances from the other cast the climax was built well but for the ending which was a far from being called good we are still trying to understand what was the director trying to convey were they short of ideas or was the ending beyond the understanding of common movie lovers a better ending would have created a lasting impression on the audience and increased the viewer ship this however should not take away credit that is due to konkana and shabana azmi for relating so well with the characters
1	this is how i interpreted the movie first things first there was not a single scene in the movie where u see the bad guy taylor torturing or nailing ben's hands to the wall however the same cannot be told of the gals in the end too u see taylor disappear as he walks looks like the message there was there was no taylor and the whole movie was a figment of imagination of ben also there was no scene during the torturing moments wherein any of the gals confront or are in the same frame as ben it was taylor all the time but in real taylor was ben if they were two different people then why was there no scene showing both of them in one frame during the horrific times but of course before that u do see both of them together and that just be ben's imagination at work also when ben was out of jail the text on screen clearly says that ben's story was unrealistic and there was no such place as he had explained read mine cars etc even after liz hunter leaves kristy and comes back to find ben she doesn't find him why because ben taylor was out looking for the gals instead kristy has all the time in the world to check out taylor's ben web cam photos etc br br somehow everything sums up to just one fact that kristy and liz both of them knew that taylor was ben so my conclusion is that ben was schizophrenic and the movie where you see him and taylor in one frame was nothing but figments of his imagination otherwise if there really was a taylor then they should have found him out given all the detailed explanation coming from ben
1	i thought i was wasting my precious 50 bucks going to watch this movie but at the earnest request of my friend who is an ardent fan of sen i decided to turn up for the movie going at this cheap theater really bothered me cos i had seen king kong for 50 bucks at one of the best theatres in town the movie starts of and surprisingly i wasn't complaining br br a great story and some really wonderful wonderful acting on shabana azmi and konkona sen sharma's part shabana azmi a divorcée who has dedicated her life to the well being of her mother and step sister konkona sen sharma a schizophrenic spare me the spelling who imagines thing all the time rahul also gives a stellar performance br br the story is that sen sharma is a schizophrenic and after getting brutally raped on her field job as a reporter her levels really increase her fiancée leaves her for the person she became in all her world comes down upon her shabana azmi her elder step sister takes care of her and in her imagination believes that she has been married to her fiancée has 5 children and they stay in 15th park avenue which really is a place in new york the plot goes on as becomes suicidal as she believe no one believes her and she is being held captive in her home from her husband as fate would have and her fiancée meet up when they both are out on a trip 11 years after the brutal rape her fiancée has no existence in her real world she cant recognize him her fiancée now married and a father of two children feels it is his duty to correct the wrong he did 11 years earlier and he promises to take her to park avenue and he does he takes her to a place in which supposedly looks like her husband's home as jojo rahul her fiancée is talking on his cell phone he loses track of everyone comes looking for her but she is nowhere to be found she finally gets what was denied to her her family her own imaginative family in her own world at 15th park avenue br br i must say that it touched my heart i myself am now a fan of sen's direction the camera work is superb and the quality of performance is spell bounding konkona sen sharma gives a solid performance as the schizophrenic child shabana azmi gives another mind blowing role as the divorcée elder sister who has the load of keeping the family rahul another neat and quiet role i don't know why this guy doesn't get big breaks he has so much potential lastly sen she still captivates the audience even if she is not in front of the camera and behind it br br a very well deserved 8 10
1	the third entry in the stepford franchise but apparently the three made for tv obscure sequels are incredibly obscure and hard to trace down whereas the 70's original as well as the blockbuster remake with nicole kidman are commonly known and very popular i haven't seen either the early 80's revenge of the stepford wives or the mid 90's the stepford husbands but this the stepford children is a quite charming and highly entertaining little film it's basically the exact same film as the original obviously less mysterious yet much cheesier and incredibly 80's to the nth degree the main difference here like the title implies is that not just the liberated wives but also the rebellious and punk teenage offspring in town undergoes the typical and highly effective stepford treatment licensed by the local men's association for some reason the scenario attempts to uphold the stepford mystery until late in the film even though nobody is likely to watch this sequel before having checked out the original and presumably everybody also knows about the denouement the harding family is all packed and ready to move from the grisly city of new york to the small and peaceful community of stepford particularly father steven is excited about their new life because he already lived in stepford and always wanted to go back ever since his first wife whom his new wife laura and adolescent children mary and david know very little about died under mysterious circumstances the town is almost too perfect with picturesque neighbors and model students and especially the modern teenagers face huge difficulties to adjust their efforts to modernize the place and take the local youth of stanford in tow cause confrontations with the eminent townsfolk particularly the members of the men's association and put the familial relationships under a lot of stress david meets and falls in love with the last normal girl in school lois but when even she transforms into a domestic dummy overnight david can convince his skeptical mother to investigate the sinister stanford secret the first hour of the stanford children is slow paced and rather tame but the finale is trashy and cheesy like the vhs cover promises and like a late 80's thriller ought to be in fact the modus operandi behind the stanford secrets is illustrated in greater detail and i think horror fans and lovers of the original film will appreciate that at least i did the overall plot still doesn't make a lot of sense and the script is chock full of irrational aspects but it's nonetheless an engaging formula and undoubtedly one that evokes an atmosphere of suspense and fear the acting performances are far above average especially the arrogant and obnoxious members of the men's association depict plausible characters and even teenage players tammy lauren and randall give away impressive performances recommended without hesitation
1	exquisite in simple words both sen and konkona sen seem to understand each other quite well or maybe they both are just too good this might just be her best performance as an actor and best as a director yeah maybe better than mr and mrs iyer konkona plays the role of a schizophrenic shabana azmi plays the role of anjali konkona sen's elder sister shabana azmi made the best out of character for she had to play a strong responsible arrogant role of an elder sister who had the full responsibility of her family sen has beautifully crafted character a strong woman who had to sacrifice her personal life her love for her family br br behavior juvenile at all for you can expect this from most of indian directors for this role looks like a lot of research has been done to understand the role of a schizophrenic when at times is a normal sweet college going girl she also scares you when she is shown ill both the sides have been beautifully judged and played believe me it at times reminds you of the girl in exorcist not that scary though overall marvellous piece of work by sen konkona sen and shabana azmi
1	after mrs and mr iyer this is yet another very good film by sen mostly in english in the earlier film she treated a contemporary political environment and its effect on individuals in this film it is the impact of mentally disabled member of the family and its impact on the family as a parallel sub theme she treats a philosophical concept on reality it is a film which leads to thinking after seeing the film br br the younger sister konkana sen sharma the daughter of sen is suffering from schizophrenia being taken care of by the dominant elder sister anjali shabana azmi after her marriage with jojo and separation from him believes that she is still with jojo and her five children in 15 park avenue in there is no such address in it seems there is one in new york and she is intense in her belief it is almost like an intense religious belief ultimately what is reality in one scene she tells anjali if i tell you that you are not a professor but only imagine that you are a professor the open ending reflects this reality in a supposedly search for her home in park avenue is lost the penultimate scene is looking at a group of five children playing and her looking at them with joy of returning to her family and then she is lost about this concept of reality i am reminded of another film of fifties called harry with james stewart the protagonist believes that a big sized rabbit called harry is always with him and he is always conversing with him at the end even the doctor believes perhaps there is harry what is reality is it what the protagonist believes or what other believe azmi dominates the film with her sterling performance as the strong elder sister with undercurrent of frustration konkana sen sharma gives equally befitting performance as the schizophrenic br br yet the film is not as tight as mrs and mr iyer there appear to be some loose ends and perhaps there are too many characters those who want a closed ending may not appreciate the open ending here but the ending befits the theme of the film br br yet another good film by sen
1	from 36 lane to 15 park avenue sen has indeed traveled a long way if the first one goes down in history as a clean sweep the latter will definitely carve a special place as a mature film until you see 15 park avenue you cannot imagine feeling thrilled and moved at the same time thrilled to see the director's ingenuity and agility in portraying seriously challenging situations and moved by the sensitivity echoing throughout the film it is not a movie that merely makes you feel how difficult life must be for but makes you ask a much deeper question about the reality that you see and believe sen has done a brilliant job in highlighting this supreme fact of our existence that we all are in some way or other trying to live in a make believe world of our own trying to run after mirages called happiness peace contentment along with the depiction of a delusional mind sen's magic has brought forth many little nuances of human relationships as they sustain stress and strain the fact that at times we all lose calm break down make wrong choices be haunted by guilt behave selfishly and so on is captured with extreme by sen she showed the cruel dilemma which shabana had to deal with all her life of having to choose between a schizophrenic sister and a normal life with a husband and kids for herself and in the act of always being beside her sister always being a strong persona providing support making judgments and so on she unknowingly cut off some of the oxygen that her sister needed to bloom isn't this a very harsh truth that at times in an attempt to do the best for someone we strangle their assertiveness and end up hurting their self esteem of course and acting deserves laurels as always because had the ingredients not been so good the dish could not have turned out to be so extraordinary sen once again made a masterpiece of a movie for those who crave for some food for thought bravo
1	well its a great work by and some where people like this makes us believe that there is a lot more concepts till now which has to be expressed and the film is a great media to do that well all great actors together hence nothing to say about acting or directing but the film gave us a great message through out it has nicely predicted the conditioning of human minds with that of the patient we all believe that what we believe is true with our own point of view and we want to solve all the problem accordingly hence from the professor to the maid servant all tried their own ways so when was discussing with her wife he says that 'she is looking for a thing which she will never and the wife replies 'are not we all ' so that was a great comment which after the film left me with a great question 'are we all sick '
1	sen's 15 park avenue is a film about nature of reality br br a young delusional girl prone to imagining things and hearing voices possibly out of sheer boredom is taken to be schizophrenic by her educated father and control freak educated elder step sister controlled pitied and treated like an invalid even if out of love and affection she has ghost of a chance to develop as a normal person when a boy offers to marry her her father and step sister passionately try to convince him against taking such a step a traumatic experience caused primarily due to her sheltered existence finally takes her across the line of no return and she lives full time in a delusional world of her own br br the family and society around her are intolerant of her delusions and want to suppress them with electric shock therapy anything even though they all have delusions of one kind or other of their own br br her mother doesn't see the irony in allowing a ghost buster to treat her of the delusions her step sister is a professor of physics teaching among other things quantum mechanics a subject in which a stream of experts accept parallel multi universes and many more dimensions in space than the 3 we see a friend recounts with admiration an experience with a holy person claiming to hear hallucinatory voices far away george w bush has real or fake delusions of weapons of mass destruction and is allowed to invade iraq br br as some viewers have already pointed out sen shied away from attacking the mother of all delusions mainstream religions which is a pity br br in other words accepted reality is what a majority or an influential minority believe in that's been the case since the beginning and lot more powerful people than in the film among them bruno and galileo have suffered as a consequence br br the film's controversial and difficult ending was necessary to show it's a film about nature of reality and not the case study of a schizophrenic girl br br all the cast have given great performances but shabana azmi and konkona sen sharma have excelled sen has produced an outstanding philosophical film
1	the most beautiful film if one is looking for serious depth meaning and excellent performance then you have to get to watch this movie excellent performances by the whole cast even more beautiful than a beautiful mind itself simply awesome i wish this movie entered the oscars i cried through the whole movie for the schizophrenic character the most beautiful film if one is looking for serious depth meaning and excellent performance then you have to get to watch this movie excellent performances by the whole cast even more beautiful than a beautiful mind itself simply awesome i wish this movie entered the oscars i cried through the whole movie for the schizophrenic character
1	once in a while one come across a movie that forces one to rethink about society's reaction to people who differ from its definition of normal br br having suffered at the hands of elements left all alone to cope with her tragedy retreats into her idyllic world one which according to her is the real world br br surreal world superimposes itself on the real her family br br suffering from schizophrenia forces us to reconsider our priorities about trying to rehabilitate like them are we right to drag them back to our reality when all we have to offer them in ours is pain and suffering what right have we to deprive them of their source of happiness what right do we have to take away their joy when we are unable to help them in their sorrow 15 park avenue is one of the best movies on social issues showing us the need that any patient needs empathy and not plain sympathy
1	ms sen the maker of mr mrs iyer directs this movie about a young girl's struggle to cope with her debilitating condition br br konkona sen has been an aloof kid ever since childhood and has shown signs of delusion no one knows why the dormant tendency however slips out of control when the job assignment takes her to neighboring bihar where she's raped by some political goons the resulting trauma also leads to episodes of manic depressive psychosis in addition to her schizophrenia she careens out of control over the years progressively getting worse and sinking deeper into her private 'world' br br the juxtaposition of an divorced elder sister and how her domineering ways make an already bad situation worse is indicative of what a fine line there is between abnormal and seemingly normal ms sen also makes an excellent commentary on the social alienation of such individuals social rehab is standard therapy along with all the deadly mind altering drugs but what about the poor and the destitute who're always left to fend for themselves and usually fall by the wayside br br the romantic connection between dr kunal and anu was unnecessary also the cafeteria scene where dr kunal explains to anu how real their world really is to them was redundant anu should already know all that the english dialog is a bit awkward at times though the acting compensates for that konkona and shabana prove that their reputation is every bit worth it waheeda rahul and shefali play their limited roles very well br br extensive research seems to have been done about this illness its very evident but its not clear if can coexist with schizophrenia in the same patient side by side also in the early part dr kunal recommends e c t shock therapy while the fact that it doesn't work for schizophrenics only for extreme with suicidal tendencies and other forms of bipolar disorder br br the ending of the remarkable story is suggestive of an unknown solution maybe no solution the movie could have ended on a nicer note since worldwide the mentally ill can and do lead balanced and fruitful if not very fulfilling lives under good medical care br br nonetheless its an excellent film made with extreme sensitivity to the subject hats off to ms sen no one in india could've done it better
1	as everyone knows by now 15 park avenue is the story of a schizophrenic girl and her half sister br br the manifestation of schizophrenia is still viewed as being an illness which people often feel might disappear if ignored there are also those who however far fetched it may seem when it's shown in the film think that the illness manifests itself as a result of some sort of supernatural influence i think ms sen deserves a lot of praise for 15 park avenue she has done a good turn not only to the general public but also to those who deal with schizophrenics relatives social workers psycho analysts the film actually helps in a lot of myths and misconceptions about the exact nature of this psychological disorder i'm told that the film is largely based on her own personal experiences with a person very close to her who suffers from this mental affliction to that effect i'm sure that none of what has been shown is blown out of proportion on the contrary it is a true representation of facts br br the performances are good on the whole as can be expected konkona sen sharma shabana azmi and of course rahul are very good indeed they emerge as very real characters credible enough for one to be able to identify with them at times people may think me terribly queer but i think there are moments when one can identify with as well i suppose all of us have a streak of insanity inside us perhaps some more than others these are the people who are singled out after all don't we all have our secret fantasies and dreams impossible ones at times would we be dubbed as being off our rockers if people could glimpse into these areas of our minds would a person with low self esteem be considered a schizophrenic because he she shuns company preferring instead to live in a world of his her own because that's the only space where there is a sense of security br br konkona as is outstanding her performance is so effortless she lives her part she has shown the ability to lull the audience into forgetting the divide between reality and acting a case in point is the part where she's distressed at the scene shown on tv of saddam hussein's arrest her reaction seems so uninhibited and intense as if she's really heart broken at this tragedy her brand of indian english too is so spontaneous and natural br br however the same cannot be said for at least a couple of the other actors and waheeda rehman splendid actors both seem ill at ease when delivering their dialogue in english their diction is less than perfect stilted and affected the fact that they are making a supreme effort becomes more than apparent their dialogue delivery is jarring and tends to break the smooth flow of the unfolding of the tale br br the brutal rape of konkona seems somewhat unnecessary any other incident would have sufficed just as well i feel the point here is that something triggers off the extreme manifestation of the illness as the psychiatrist explains one cannot with any modicum of conviction or certainty say that the incident of the rape was instrumental in bringing the hitherto latent propensity towards schizophrenia to the fore then why are we subjected to the scene where lies bleeding and unconscious was ms sen trying to make a social statement about the state of politics in our country where the voice of the masses is silenced by a handful of people who resort to violence in order to stay in power if so then the scene of the rape is warranted but not strictly in the context of the main body of the film br br the ending seems somewhat abrupt is the audience expected to find a solution where does disappear to does ms sen want us to feel that perhaps what the psychiatrist says about whose reality is more real and hence credible holds true in other words is she trying to say that we are not without bias when judging who is on this side of the fine line between sanity and insanity i'm not very sure br br a thought provoking film on the whole and well worth watching however if you are the sort of person who likes things to be neat and tidy everything cut and dried with a water tight solution to each issue that comes up this film is clearly not meant for you
1	15 park avenue is the address konkona is in search for from the movies beginning prof anu azmi is extremely caring and loving half sister from mom's earlier marriage the movie revolves around these characters and looks into the life of a schizophrenic patient the director tries to explain to the viewer the imaginary world of through her continuous blabbering to anu and others br br konkona deserves not one but thousands of awards which i am sure she will be getting for this rendition of in this movie you can see the look of a patient written on her face by the drooping lips and sleepy eyes from the first scene itself rahul has done a good job but has been reduced to one half of the movie in spite of his importance in their life br br watch out for the intense relationships shown between the characters of the movie anu anu mom and between anu singh azmi as usual has done a riveting performance to be remembered as the sister who sacrificed her life for br br the movie might not be your usual hindi potboiler but can certainly make people look at the schizophrenic patients in a different light altogether br br as usual sen brings the movie to a different ending rather than any clichéd ones we might think off hats off to her for this great movie
1	the stepford children besides being a very good made for tv movie shows the very disturbing result of indoctrination it is quite a statement about how being made to act within the confines of what is considered good behavior can destroy whatever it is that makes a person unique and an individual i think that this is a movie that parents who want to maintain some semblance of the thought that within the hearts and minds of youngsters should watch with their children and discuss what the movie is saying i don't know if that was in any way the intent of this movie but i have always been of the opinion that it is one of the best movie devices against the wish to have children conform to an unrealistic and domineering pretense of what is in the best interest of anyone other than that of the children themselves i hope to one day see this movie on dvd i am at the starting gate waiting
1	i must say it was a let down overall its great to see the way sen has handled the issue of schizophrenia i am not much knowledgeable on this and got whatever it was depicted in a beautiful mind and here too its interesting portrayal br br but the thing that caused the let down for me was the artificial dialogues and over use of english its true that a new class is being formed has been formed in india which talks in english even at home but i am sure its not as formal as in the movie moreover waheeda did not seem very comfortable talking everything in english dialogue in bihari tone was seemingly much more realistic and digestible br br the second thing its about the abstract flavor she has tried to give to the movie i generally like movies with open ending but here there were many loose ends its like cut pieces are joined together to make the movie also there seemed no central theme to the movie for sure was the main line but intermingling sister sister mother daughter adding doctor azmi relation no real use of brother wife relations all were not required and made the audience loose track of what actually did she try to depict br br on the whole a watch for people who like off beat movies a must avoid for the ones who just see movies as an entertainment tool
1	i have just seen the movie 15 park avenue which was the first night presentation movie in the asia society human rights film festival in new york i was really moved by the subject matter of this movie and also the excellent portrayal of by the lead actor konkona sen sharma i have just one word for everyone who is reading this comment run to get a copy of this gem and watch it my sincere thanks to director sen who has done a excellent job again movie like this comes on once in a blue moon and i was lucky enough to see this movie on screen and also took part in a after movie discussion question and answer session with konkona sen sharma in a simple word a wonderful experience
1	spoilers ahead br br 15 park avenue my humble take on this film br br now for a viewer of cinema having tastes as severely limited as mine niche films like 15 park avenue ought to be palatable to my sensibilities with this thought and a mild sense of embarrassment that i hadn't watched the complete film earlier i watched this film last saturday there are some starting similarities with other works like the legendary mulholland drive david lynch from which this film borrows at least 3 concepts br br a that at least some truths are relative b the first scene of shabana and going around in a car as the opening credits roll is uncannily similar to the car ride that betty and rita undertook in mulholland drive in both cases the object of inquiry happens to be a place which is probably mythical in both cases and perhaps more openly symbolic in film c the incident revolving around the mad beggar woman is again extremely reminiscent of the whole behind involving a bum but while that scary creature is an embodiment of something and that that 'something' as well as the character per se is seamlessly linked to other works of lynch notice carefully the disheveled long hair the effect of the beggar woman in 15 pa appears to be a tribute and therefore insignificant in the context of the film and its message br br the other films from which 15 pa also borrows is blow up especially the last scene is a throw back to the truth vs perceived truth poser presented towards the end of antonioni's masterpiece of course the professor and schizophrenia angle also bring to the mind a beautiful mind although admittedly the subject here is high brow physics and shabana who professes it inadvertently ends up being the brilliant antithesis to the delusional hallucinations of character through those very prophecies in an outstanding scene in the movie some of these elements are juxtaposed with each other and that scene cuts back and forth from the 'real' world of shabana where quantum physics and the theory of relativity justify the finiteness and composition of the universe to the artificial of the 'make believe' world of but for all their differences the sisters are alike too both are incapable of forming long lasting relationships one out of choice and the other out of nature so pain at being rejected in love by is in harmony with the inability of to form a special bond with either kunal or sanjeev but i'm getting ahead of myself viewers generally tend to view this film in one of the following two ways br br hypothesis 1 it was shabana all along there is a certain section of the audience who think so but that explanation is not only too far fetched but also contrived as that would mean she was dreaming up so many other characters too i e all those characters whom she visualized as visualizing along with her br br hypothesis 2 there was a real and the ending is a metaphor this pov says that the film's essence is summarized in one dialog in the film when in response to a statement by joy rahul that is looking for something that she will never find his wife shefali shah philosophizes that we all are looking indeed for that illusive utopia the end of the rainbow wherein appears to lie the mirage of happiness and contentment br br there are other more minor possibilities which have not been embraced that much by our knowledgeable audience like br br hypothesis 3 shabana and konkona are alter egos of the same person hypothesis 4 shabana too is a figment of imagination hypothesis 5 the old haggard perhaps mad beggar woman is the real protagonist of the story br br are these hypotheses worthy of even being tested well your guess is as good as mine br br why 15 park avenue contrary to the popular perception that she was thinking of the park avenue in ny i believe that she got the name from the brand name of a semi popular bathing soap remember her stating jo jo's profession as prime minister of which as you may be knowing is a popular ingredient used in manufacturing the prefix is used as it was on 15th december that got engaged to and after his she remains forever in a time warp the film has its fair share of flaws lack of use of a strong background score which in films like these can really augment the narrative some sloppy dialogs by some forced dialog delivery inconsistent performances shabana and are excellent though imo by a few of the cast members albeit many members of this ensemble cast have been wasted shefali sudden insecurity about her husband seems to be an unimaginatively introduced dimension in the plot i give it 7 10 as it made me think but not any higher than that because i can easily fathom its sources of inspiration and having experienced and for the most part thoroughly enjoyed those previously i have already thought on similar lines earlier so the experience post 15 pa is bound to be sans a certain degree of novelty where am i coming from i gave 9 5 10 to though rumors still persist that one ray ghost directed it 7 5 to ek 7 to 'mr and mrs and 5 to on an existential level it failed to invoke my interest not even as much as say a show'
1	i went to watch this film with my family who were expecting a neatly conclusive story like mrs and they returned home thoroughly disappointed so this is a warning to all story to stay away 15 park avenue does not seek to answer questions or provide moral solutions on how to treat the mentally challenged rather its intention is loud and clear it questions every human being's sane or not sense of reality in fact for me it even arouses doubts about my taken for granted sense of sanity the security bondage satisfaction that i find in my present is it really what i am or does it really create an illusion that all of us desperately and sometimes ignorantly cling on to just to falsely console the neglected which exists in all of us in some way or the other so why does anjali so maniacally makes it a point to show off her strength of mind when she is really harrowed by the realization that she is becoming a monster aren't we all who think we are really monstrous and helplessly vulnerable about it deep down inside is it not better to be happy even insanely than to create the impression of while suppressing one's fragility bravely madly sincerely does that and society labels her as the ending did confound me at first but then you realise that bravery and sincere belief took her where she wanted to go she found what she was searching for not caring what society had to comment upon her search and it is the seemingly 'real' people anjali the psychiatrist and jojo who never reach anywhere my family thinks that i am schizophrenic too in trying to make sense of a film that is largely to the rest of the world anyone else willing to believe in my sense of reality
1	15 park avenue well the name mystifies initially being an address from new york and film being set in however as the story unfolds one realize the thin line that director tries to walk between relationships social cause and of course the world of schizophrenia i would say sen is one director who has so much more to say and has so less time at disposal well no doubt she has managed to make a good movie in a way she makes us realize that probably each one of us is looking for our own park its an unending search within each of one of us br br the powerhouse performance from shabana azmi is a treat to watch her screen presence brings whole lot of life into the scene indeed it was surprising to see her in such a powerful act after long because i expected it to be all the way konkona sen's terrain shabana makes you feel skin deep of an elder sister who is running the whole show for a rather unfortunate family and during this time she almost forgets to live her own life she burdens all her ambitions and desires with ailing 18 year younger sister who is more like a daughter to her and an aging mother played by veteran waheeda rehman as for the leading actress from guide that's how i can recall her instantly there is hardly anything to say except few lines and tear drops here and there ever dependable rahul plays another pivotal role in the film he shows the emotions of a middle age man with repent on his face to near perfection this man really amazes me with the variety of work he has done from a musician in beats to a liberal muslim in mr mrs iyer and so many others… he is one versatile i really wish if he had some more shots in the first part of the movie as well the cameo in the movie is by shefali shah remember satya and monsoon wedding she looks really beautiful and depicts the role of a mother of 2 kids with real ease she gives you a glimpse of today's indian woman who is modern in approach but still conventional when it comes to her husband's prior relationships br br the focus of camera has been portrayed by konkona she and her schizophrenic world constitute the of 15 park avenue she has really worked hard for the character but there are times when she is not able to relate with the audience the fateful accident of her life tries to rope in sympathy and it has been only partially successful br br the movie tries to address quite a few things in one go starting from the unique world of a disabled person to the status of a female even in today's modern india and also the twisted relationships in a tattered family and i believe has succeeded to certain extent the helplessness of while she works as a journalist in a rural eastern state really gives us all a naked picture of the country we are so proud of br br well after i finished 15 park avenue there was a sense of thirst within me i wanted more out of this movie to me emotionally it has been a commendable effort on the part of director except few hiccups must watch for all those who like to see a different cinema something with a strong purpose
1	this is a multi faceted insightful and bold story about the people in the life of a schizophrenic patient their and our perception and realities although the main theme revolves around a delusional young woman the story delightfully flirts with physics medicine religion and even politics as it questions our perceptions about what is true and what is real konkona sensharma beautifully conveys that the world is living in is as real to her as ours is to us within that world she is logical and her thoughts are internally consistent not the gibberish that they seem to us in our world br br here are a few outstanding scenes to look out for while watching the movie don't worry these are not spoilers i absolutely loved the way sen wove these commentaries into the story br br the references to quantum mechanics and relativity intermingled with the witch doctor in hindi performing his religious rituals that he believes will drive away the ghosts sitting in brain br br the doctor shock treatment as a solution that is believed to work br br windows of perception the scene about the review of book br br the allusion to illusion in a conversation about a director looking for maya br br news footage of george bush telling the whole world that there is no doubt in his mind that there are wmd in iraq now that is not as much about bush's perception who i suspect knew the truth as the gullible public's perception about wmd in iraq br br one of the best scenes in the movie is where tells anu charu sent this man to beat me and anu dismisses it as a matter of course konkona did a fantastic job bringing out the strange mix of muddled thoughts in a schizophrenic's brain when her world and the real world clash br br sen was bold but not bold enough to pose one big question is nearly all of mankind delusional to believe in god she could have inserted some scenes about normal healthy people praying to and sacrificing for a being that no one has ever seen or heard from in all of human history the ritual exorcism scene doesn't go far enough that would be the ultimate question what is normal who's reality is right the or the br br imho this movie is a far more intricate exploration of the schizophrenic mind than a beautiful mind it looks at the minds of not just the sick person but also the healthy and does so from many different angles and illuminates our understanding of our own minds and our world if the former got 4 oscars this deserves more at least one each for story screenplay direction konkona and shabana azmi it was truly a treat to watch this movie and i'm glad i bought the dvd for my collection br br this was a story very well told indeed
1	if you repeat a lie enough number of times will it become the truth 15 park avenue is the story of an alternative reality of a schizophrenic the movie is about her search for her home at a fictitious address where her imaginary husband and 5 children live sen delivers yet another masterpiece each and every actor of the movie was better than the other konkona sen looks unbelievably convincing as a schizophrenic she pulls off the role with such ease and maturity beyond her age shabana azmi is incredible as usual she plays the dominating and fiercely independent elder sister of who takes care of her ailing sister and aging mother she refuses to accept that in spite of all her strength and courage she still feels lonely at times this should have been a very easy movie for rahul the role was least bit demanding and anyone could have done the role br br the ending of the movie was the most surreal part of the whole park avenue experience it took me a while to digest that the movie had ended it left me confused and maybe even a bit disturbed but later on it started sinking in my eyes are black but if everyone says they are blue will i still believe that its black
1	i have remembered this cartoon for over 50 years what staying power it has it was funny and creative i wish my children and grandchildren could have seen it it ranks right up there with dink another favorite i was pleased to find out that one of the creators later worked on rocky and bullwinkle these early shows had a lot going for them that todays cartoons for kids don't have today's cartoons seem to push the idea that one needs something special some magic formula or talent to be able to succeed against evil or dangerous circumstances while the early cartoons didn't address evil very much it was a much gentler and safer time they allowed us to develop our own talents and character
1	during the brief golden age of the super 8 magnetic sound home movies we purchased a projector for 00 on close out at a downtown chicago camera store it seemed that was getting out of the camera projector business although they would continue with their other enterprises such as the former vue master 3 dimensional color slide viewers br br little did we know nor anticipate the rapid approach of the video camera the betamax the vhs and the eventual dvd revolutions with the super 8 magnetic sound camera that we also purchased we took some sound film records as our daughter first holy communion and her younger sister michelle's graduation from pre school this was all circa 1979 82 br br during this time we also purchased a few daddy toys to go with it like some super 8 magnetic sound laurel hardy films and w c fields' shorts from blackhawk films davenport iowa we also picked up a columbia pictures home movies sound film of a then sort of forgotten classic cartoon gerald united productions of america columbia 1951 it was the hit of our home movies time br br being members of that baby boomer generation the wife deanna and meself had recollection of the character of gerald for gerald had a network tv show on cbs early sunday evenings ca 1955 bill goodwin was the announcer host but we had never seen this original upa theatrical cartoon nor was it known to us that the young master was a creation of dr seuss of grinch horton and street fame br br the staff assembled was very talent rich and deep the outstanding production values are apparent director robert cannon and director john hubley were veterans at the top of their craft writers were theodore geisel dr seuss himself phil eastman and bill scott br br mr scott is remembered not so much for his writing contributions to upa but for being partners with jay ward in such television properties as rocky bullwinkle mr peabody fractured flickers george of the jungle hooper and fractured flickers with the jay ward productions he was a writer voice man and kibitzer general of the whole company br br the cartoon receives its only voice from the narrator radio movie tv actor marvin miller remember him he was michael anthony on the tv the millionaire don productions cbs television network 1955 60 br br bold color schematic and imaginative design went into giving the upa animations a special feelings of loneliness fear apprehension and eventual triumph and we might add the animation is definitely of the limited variety br br as with so many great stories ours starts out with a simple premise one's being born different in this case it is young boy gerald who has been born to make sound effects in communicating rather than talking kids can be cruel and soon he is dubbed with his not so flattering nick name by a group of youthful chanting your name's not it's gerald the noise making boy at this point the animation team does an outstanding job in shifting the emotional gears in the young outcast from happy carefree to isolated lonely and finally to depression despair in not being able to turn to anyone for help and understanding not even to his mother and father br br a frighteningly fashioned dark scene involving a highly upa stylized run away scene involving a train and an equally stylized brings gerald right to the brink of absolute despair but then he is interrupted by a gentleman announcing that young gerald is wanted by the producer of some radio program to provide the sounds for the show down at the studio br br once the premiere show is done with gerald starring in the sound department he rides off in a huge limousine which seems to have anticipated those s t r e t c h limos of our day to the cheers and admiration of his classmates and the world br br it has been said that there are only so many plots and in that case this story is most likely a variation on the ugly duckling for after all a sad and lonely boy finds his place in the world and true happiness br br note united productions of america or upa for short was an outstanding center of creativity in the field of the animated cartoon they were responsible not only for gerald and several sequels and a tv series but also the highly popular mr magoo theatrical cartoons and subsequent tv show with voice talent of jim backus the classic original tv cartoon of frosty the snowman and the rather bizarre dick tracy cartoon show with tracy's voice rendered by mr everett sloane
1	is one of the cartoons that have stuck in my head over the years and finally decided to look into it as was pleasantly surprised and was also surprised on the people involved with the production if i remember correctly we had to watch it on a uhf station and this meant using a in those days uhf not part of regular tv to tune in the local station to watch the cartoon a big deal in those days which made the show even more mysterious i remember all the sound effects that gerald used to talk a great memory from 50 years ago i'll have to see what other memories might be hiding on the web by the way i try to do computer animation thats where the comes into the picture
1	you may have serious doubts about watching the third sequel to the stepford but this is an absolute classic much scarier in premise than the first and very entertaining it only got a video release here in the uk but should be released worldwide for everyone to enjoy
1	my dad had this movie as an 8mm reel i loved it when he would pull out the projector tape a sheet to the wall and play gerald the thought of a child who communicated through sounds fascinated me br br nine years ago my son was as autistic the doctors would ask me questions about my son such as how does he communicate with you i would respond have you ever seen the cartoon gerald i would love to have a copy of this cartoon to show my son and his educators this is how my son see he's world br br recently i spoke with a digital transfer specialist who indicated most personal 8mm films did not contain sound until the mid 1970's i guess i was pretty lucky to have experienced the sights and sounds of gerald in 1972
1	if there's one cartoon that helped to put upa on the map more than any other it's gerald this tale of a little boy who only speaks in sound effects has kept its charm for the last 57 years besides the effects loved the music the abstract animation and backgrounds the narration by marvin miller pretty much everything and it won the oscar for best animated short of 1950 glad to have seen it on youtube after reading about this dr seuss story for so many years and rocky and bullwinkle creator bill scott also contributed how awesome hope to see the subsequent shorts made in the series if not on youtube then maybe in a dvd collection now i guess i'll watch another upa short there
1	this short which won an oscar spawned two sequels and a tv cartoon show has minimal animation but script by theodore geisel aka dr seuss and more memorable and enchanting main character upa pioneered a style of animation that even influenced disney during the mid 1950s and produced some of the best animated shorts done in the late 1940s and the 1950s this is on of their finest god to have it in print highly recommended
1	this is a witty and delightful adaptation of the dr seuss book brilliantly animated by finest and thoroughly deserving of its academy award special mention should be made of the superb music score and sound effects which are an integral element in helping to make this such a memorable and enjoyable cartoon later episodes in the series of which there were four in total were not actually based on original dr seuss material although all but the last continued to use his familiar rhyming style the three sequels were gerald symphony 1953 how now 1954 gerald on planet moo 1956 although he also appeared in a later episode of mr magoo
1	before the wwf became cartoon with hulk leading the way the events of wwf tv broadcasts of the very early 1980s resembled the wild wild west with all kinds of grudges and vicious acts of violence performed by some of the wrestlers that are known today to be the most beloved stars some of these seemingly very real moments stand out a maniacal sgt slaughter whipped then champion bob with a riding crop after showed him up in a fitness test were all over sarge made the iron shiek look like a daycare provider slaughter also issued a challenge to anyone who could break his dreaded cobra clutch hold this led a legendary and bloody alley match with commentator pat patterson hall of fame member blackjack mulligan with freddie came into the wwf with a claw hold that was censored on television he claimed he was the true giant at and challenged andre long before big john in 1984 adrian adonis used his ominously named good night irene sleeper to take out the competition a new yorker clad in black leather he was an ominous figure george the animal steele was far from a crowd pleaser as well even jimmy snuka was a fearsome sight as he set out opponents until ray the stevens delivered a piledriver onto the cement floor leaving snuka a bloody mess all these encounters took place a decade before hardcore wrestling was ever spoken of
1	every saturday morning at 11 a m i watched superstars all the biggest events happened on this show at the time challenge which aired sunday mornings was decent too but all the big stuff happened on this show wrestlers would do all their interviews with mean gene on a platform next to the live crowd or talk on their own to the screen in front of a background that promoted them the matches were usually but sometimes you would see 2 mid square off in the main event there were also interview shows that usually resulted in violence thus setting up a feud these segments ranged from pipers pit the body shop the flower shop the snake pit the brother love show the funeral parlor and the barber shop i don't recall any titles changing hands on this show that usually happened at pay per views and saturday nights main event
1	loved the shots of airports dallas phoenix etc just single buildings with the name in block letters on the roof and the tri motors and the well dressed passengers fast forward 75 years br br but what really got to me was the hammer and sickle emblem and what appeared to be a chinese adjacent the logo aft of the pilot's seat on the starboard side of the fuselage remember when the mutual acquaintance neil and jill encounter says that become a general in a chinese rebel army that based on the hammer and sickle could only have been the people's revolutionary army of mao tse dung never mind the undies and the unwed twosome in bed would that logo and that reference have survived during the cold war br br additional observation 12 27 this film of the 30's with the soviet emblem may must also reflect the influence on and charm of communism in hollywood and much of america during the depression adds to the historical value of this terrific film br br also i liked the american dream aspects of two guys from taking at least part of the world by storm red blooded literally and copiously in jim's case american boys br br others have commented more ably than i on the etc i loved it all br br this gem deserved more than the mere 1 5 stars osborne and co rated it on tcm if only for recording parts of american history of the early 30s
1	many of the earlier comments are right on the money but some well not so much br br this is hardly a 'b' movie it's well produced the live flying sequences are really superb and the model sequences are first rate it's no cheapie br br is quite good in this and it makes a a nice companion piece for only angels have wings br br if you want to spot john wayne spot j carrol naish first they end up together br br tom browne is juvenile enough and somewhat dull but when they saddle him with the most pathetic pencil mustache in hollywood history it makes his character even less believable sally is much more so br br as for later influences this is wellman in the early airliner in distress zone the opening sequence of this film with the airline operations guy arriving at the grand central airport would have fit very nicely into the high and the mighty just imagine regis toomey and a 1955 buick
1	william who directed one of the most exciting silent films ever made 1927 here returns to the skies with another rip roaring story of dare devil fliers had been an air ace in world war one and no one knew like he did here they are stunt flying crashing exploding in the air and everything you can think of plus a fascinating glimpse of commercial air operations in 1932 as well and there is a good strong story excellently played by the sombre richard the silent star who made several films with d w griffith sally and tom brown is a real such a relief to see a real woman with real fire and character instead of one of those botoxed dummies who play in movies in today's hollywood and all look identical the story is a sad one played with genuine pathos and well directed towards the end of the film there are some extraordinarily thrilling scenes of danger and rescue and what must be the most ingenious blind landing in thick fog ever thought of i dare not give away the ingenious aspects of that particular episode the character played by is very like himself a truly wild hell raiser in the air anyone who likes early aviation would love this film and it's very rewarding for anyone who likes good solid entertainment love tears and non stop action all combined in a kind of delectable omelette
1	central airport is the story of a pilot named jim richard who has one bad flight in over 4000 hours and is forced to give up commercial flying he meets a beautiful girl named jill sally and the two start up an act involving flying and stunts the two start a relationship but when jim is hurt his brother tom brown takes over the act for a while and falls for his brother's girlfriend from there things get exciting and terribly terribly sad br br this film is a pre code because of several reasons first jim and jill have consummated their relationship without being married and with no intention of having a wedding second is shown in her underwear and absolutely restricted scene when the production code came into effect br br this film does not skimp on the dramatic love triangle and in consequence ends bittersweetly
1	the stepford children is the second best stepford movie in the stepford series i saw the original the stepford wives in the theater when it came out in 1975 i was absolutely blown away it was terrific i have seen all of the stepford movies and i like all of them i think that the stepford children is such a campy and fun movie i just watched it again recently on tape and i enjoyed it immensely the cast in this movie was real good to watch barbara eden did a bang up job as usual every role that she has ever played has been very good barbara eden is very good at playing roles where she is a kind and nurturing type of person don murray as the husband and father was just perfect in this movie he was particularly effective at being the irritated father to his two teenage children i made sure that i have all of the stepford movie on tape to enjoy if you get a chance to see this movie you should
1	very good starring dick which in a way kind of reminded me of hawks' only angels have wings 1939 in which also acted this film was directed by masterful william wellman who was responsible for the landmark aviation silent picture wings br br plays a devil may care airplane pilot who is a blamed for an aviation accident afterwards he meets and falls for pretty sally who participates as part of an act in an itinerant air circus but when brother appears in scene a triangular relationship ensues br br central airport has many thrilling moments and some moving and touching scenes too thanks to the great chemistry that develops between and who in my opinion in this film resembles very much actress dorothy tom brown is good as brother fresh from his success in wyler's tom brown of culver br br great special effects good flying stunts swiftly paced film in all highly entertaining don't miss it when tcm airs it again
1	i've seen riverdance in person and nothing compares to the video but the show is awesome the dancers are amazing the music is impacting and the overall performance is outstanding i've never seen anything like it i suggest that you see this show if you can
1	i saw riverdance the new show and loved it from the very first moment it is an energetic tribute to irish dance filled with brilliant dancing music and choreography the leads jean butler and colin dunne had me captivated with their exquisite dancing may they always keep shining and keep dancing their on stage chemistry was amazing and the unity between them on stage was obvious they look like they were made to dance with each other this show is my absolute favourite and probably always will be long live riverdance
1	the show is great no words to describe it wonderful music incredible dance the editors couldn't spoil it not because they were not that bad but because the show is really that good br br the editors are compulsive cutters you can't see a scene without a cut for more than 15 secs it's ok to show various angles but those guys were working with multiple cameras for the first time in their lives and they will remind you of how many cameras they have every five seconds on average they manage to film the start of a jump with one camera then cut it in the middle and show the rest of it in another angle br br no matter how much they tried they couldn't spoil that wonderful show it's a must for dance and music lovers
1	others have commented on the somewhat strange video arrangements i think they were trying to capture what you'd be looking at when attending a live performance the feet the faces the overall view unfortunately it falls a bit short but having said that watching colin dunne is nevertheless gratifying it's an interesting contrast to michael flatley in the original video the progression of the show is evident changes from the original dublin production are evident br br trading taps is the highlight of the video in my opinion winston is unbelievable as is his partner in the piece br br i think the audio was better in this version than the original video production 1995 in dolby 5 1 on dvd it's excellent br br despite the flawed it's a must own for riverdance fans
1	in my opinion flatley ruined the first show with his ridiculous ego he was disrespectful to his dancing partner tried to upstage everyone and had no awareness of the spirit of riverdance it's well he left the show colin dunne the new male lead is superb and when he and jean butler dance together magic happens eileen fiddling is astonishing as is noel percussion and maria fire dance is worth the price of admission when pages and get together near the end of the show for a musical duet well it's a genuine treasure i agree the editing isn't complimentary but no technical shortcoming can quell this extraordinary tour de force this is the one to get there's never been anything like riverdance this is the real one
1	this is a revised riverdance presentation staged at radio city music hall in new york city of the three irish dance musicals that i watched during the mid to late '90s which includes the first riverdance and lord of the dance i liked this one the best br br i thought it was better than the original held in dublin ireland because it adds segments that are mostly good it has a more varied and colorful stage setting and it eliminated apiece for two from that original that wasn't good to begin with this is just a very solid show with few weak spots to be certain there are some songs dances that are just fair but none that are poor which is amazing considering there are 20 numbers in all br br the cast is similar to the first riverdance with the main exception of colin dunne replacing michael flatley as the featured dancer both are extremely talented the major difference might be in their looks with dunne a little black haired guy while flatley is the clean shaven blond i prefer dunne because ego is so big he gets annoying at times the female lead jean butler thankfully is still there and is great to watch what graceful beauty and talent butler and the rest of these women have the greatest legs i've seen on dancers i also enjoyed the dancing of maria pages a spanish flamenco performer and two guys daniel b and ivan thomas one number with those two pairing off against dunne and two other dancers 0 is called trading taps and is terrific fun to watch maybe the highlight of the whole show i have no complaints about violinist eileen either br br the fast irish songs here appealed to me the most i appreciated the audience not getting in the way of the performance either with shrieks and screams like the women do in the lord of the dance video
1	i don't skateboard because i think it's gay but this game is really great it's smooth fast easy to play and just fun even if you don't do so well it can be just really fun to make the skaters just crash and burn easily one of the best video games ever
1	tony hawk's pro skater isn't much different at all from the previous games excluding tony hawk 3 the only thing new that is featured in tony hawk's pro skater is the new selection of levels and tweaked out graphics tony hawk's pro skater offers a new career mode and that is the career the career is basically tony hawk 1 career because there is only about five challenges per level if you missed tony hawk 1 and 2 i suggest that you buy tony hawk's pro skater but if you have played the first two games you should still try this one overall there really isn't anything new but it is still very fun to go through the game hopefully this review benefits your needs br br graphics 7 out of 10 overall the clean visuals isn't really one of tony hawk's pro skater main characteristics the atmosphere has been changed around a lot from tony hawk 1 and 2 and the character models look a little bit improved when you look back to tony hawk's pro skater 1 and 2 on the old ps1 the thought that those old graphics are ugly run through your head in tony hawk's pro skater the graphics are rendered a lot better the character models are no longer filled with the textures are more smooth but not to the farthest extent tony hawk's pro skater visuals do not compare to tony hawk 3's graphics but activision probably didn't want to make tony hawk's pro skater have extraordinary graphics overall the graphics deserve an average score of 7 because they did not put the full power of the xbox to use in here graphics are nice and clean that's all i have to say br br sound 8 out of 10 the sound effects don't deliver much to the imagination but the skateboards popping off of the ground sound great the main reason why i gave the sound factor a rating was because you are not obligated to listen to the below average tony hawk soundtrack because there is a custom soundtrack feature the sound effects sound a lot better than the sounds in tony hawk 1 and 2 mainly because it is more clearer and just the fact that everything sounds great one of the main reasons why i bought this game is because of the custom soundtrack the grind sound effects still sound the same as the first two games did just a little tweaked out one of the major problems of the sound factor is the fact that if the song is over it will not proceed to the next track the song that you have just listened to will just play over again i don't like the in game soundtrack but like i said you are not obligated to listen to it br br controls 10 out of 10 the controls are the best part of tony hawk's pro skater the control set up is marvelously comfortable and easy to get used to back in the playstation days people thought that the controls were the best ever but it looks like has done a better job with the xbox control surprisingly it is very easy to use the control stick to execute tricks activision has done great work with tony hawk's pro skater controls they have made the xbox controller the best for tony hawk games you will not be disappointed with the control style and that is a guarantee br br game play 10 out of 10 excluding the fact that tony hawk's pro skater is basically tony hawk 1 and 2 put together the game play is still unbelievably fun the game play factor has been changed around a bit this time you get a lot more air than in the first two games and it is a lot easier to perform tricks in tony hawk's pro skater each character has three career modes consisting of tony hawk 1 career tony hawk 2 career and the career tony hawk 1 career is rather easy because in the first game you get nothing for air the tony hawk 2 career delivers the same amount of difficulty as the playstation version did the only amount of difficulty that applies to the career is finding out where all items are but after you've done that career is no hard at all in the career there is a total of 3 levels and the first two levels consist of finding the secret tapes collecting s k a t e and doing whatever else is required for that particular level the third level out of the three is the competition level where you have to get a certain amount of points to get the gold in the first two levels the secret tapes and collecting the letters s k a t e are featured in both of them overall tony hawk's pro skater still maintains the old tony hawk's pro skater vibe br br story br br fun factor 10 out of 10 tony hawk's pro skater is by far the most funnest game on xbox today i have played tony hawk's pro skater 1 and 2 and back then i didn't like them but for some reason tony hawk's pro skater is really fun there really isn't much to say except that tony hawk's pro skater is by far the best game on xbox today one problem is that if you've already gone through the game once you will play it a couple more times but it will be repetitive br br replay value 10 out of 10 tony hawk's pro skater delivers a high amount of replay value there is a lot of cheats to unlock and a lot of character videos overall tony hawk's pro skater has lots of replay value mainly because it is so fun br br best feature you are not obligated to listen to the crappy in game soundtrack worst feature the custom soundtrack is a bit messed up br br final statement lots of people have complained in the past that they didn't like tony hawk's pro skater because there is nothing new but they should stop complaining because your getting a lot of game for 50 00 br br graphics 7 out of 10 sound 8 out of 10 control 10 out of 10 game play 10 out of 10 story n a fun factor 10 out of 10 br br overall score 9 out of 10
1	this game is very good for the n64 you can skate as tony hawk bob steve kareem campell eric andrew reynolds steamer jamie thomas rodney mullen chad muska and maybe some more skaters the game doesn't have mike v or bam dang well anyway the gameplay is awesome the level school ii is a great level with so much to skate in career mode you collect skate get money get high scores and other various things in 2 minutes there's create a skater which is pretty cool i created a skater named butt mulligan a black guy with an afro and a girl board there's park editor some cool premade parks free skate and there's single session where you skate for 2 minutes and get a score you can watch replays which is always cool each skater has 2 styles a and b the graphics aren't that good well they're good for an n64 game i wish i had a controller pack so i could save my data overall this game is awesome i give it an 8 10 for n64 but with the version it's just as fun as the n64 version but kinda hard to control i give it a 7 10 for so go out to a place that still sells n64 games and pick up a copy there's also versions for ps1
1	i like many others saw this as a child and i loved it and it horrified me up until adulthood i have been trying to find this movie and even been searching for it to play again on tv someday since it originally played on usa networks does anyone know where to buy this movie or does anyone have it and would be willing to make a copy for me also does anyone know if there is a chance for it to be played on tv again maybe all of us fans should write a station in hopes of them airing it again i don't think they did a good job of promoting this movie in the past because no one really knows about people only know of the stepford wives and stepford husband movies no one is familiar with the fact that there was a children version maybe they should also do a re make of it since they seem to be doing that a lot lately with a lot of my favorite old thriller horror flicks well if anyone has any input please i beg of you write me with information thanks taira aol com
1	graphically it is the same game as the first one just different levels and some new features added for fun br br the ps1 version still has an issue with giving skaters enough air for some ground tricks the dreamcast version which is rarely seen anymore was the best version of the 4 versions xbox eventually came out with a 5th with it had the clearer resolution and the skaters looked better and more detailed the ps1 and n64 could handle br br the levels are really amazingly done from start to finish like the first one the school was my favorite i enjoyed that level so much not only for the golf cart that would sometimes run you over but for the length that's what i liked about the first two games they don't make these games graphically enhanced they just focused on length of levels which is cool br br overall just as good as the first one and well worth playing
1	graphics is far from the best part of the game this is the number one best th game in the series next to underground it deserves strong love it is an insane game there are massive levels massive characters it's just a massive game waste your money on this game this is the kind of money that is wasted properly and even though graphics suck thats doesn't make a game good actually the graphics were good at the time today the graphics are crap who cares as they say in canada this is the fun game aye you get to go to canada in well i don't know if they say that but they might who knows well canadian people do wait a minute i'm getting off topic this game rocks buy it play it enjoy it love it it's pure brilliance
1	i have seen so many bad reviews on de los that i felt compelled to stand for it or at least i'll try first of all of course that it looks dated it was made in the seventies with very low budget but that's part of it's charm i like contemporary films but also dig the old ones for what they worth i'm not the one to feel the urge to only see or like movies with modern treatments and effects besides almost every movie buff likes old fashioned motion pictures who doesn't like films from el santo or plan 9 from outer space no matter it's overall quality in the aspect of pace is just a tool for covering again it's low cost and i think the constant dialogs are in order of a better character and situations development sure alive has better fx but i won't despise the old one just because of that and i don't feel quite attracted to english speakers in an event involving people from uruguay and for me that gives a plus to de los it's like even if from the seventies and based on a true event too would have a better remake now due to the advance of technology but i think i would stick to that one based on the emotions that offers regardless it's production date br br all of this is based in the impact that had on me because the first time i saw it was on tv and nowadays i don't think it has lost some of it's primal force of course it's been a long time and i've seen tons of better movies in every aspect of cinema but that doesn't diminish it's true value it's not a bad film and i place it above alive without hesitation just give it a break
1	almost 20 years before frank marshall brought tears to your eyes with his mesmerizing epic alive there already was the legendary mexican exploitation director rené cardona who used the same drama as an outline for his ambitious film de los the unforgettable fatal flight of fairchild 571 that crashed in the argentinian on october 13 1972 this terrible accident cost the lives of many passengers most of them members of a professional rugby team but 16 people of them were eventually rescued thanks to their strong will to survive and because they fed on the mortal remains of their unfortunate fellow passengers of course you can't claim that this cheaply made and roughly edited film is better than the famous 90's version but i definitely appreciate and respect this film more after all an exploitation film demands a lot more input from both cast and crew while the big budgeted marshall film although intense feels more like routine money making the sets and special effects naturally can't compete with alive but delivers an equally impressive sentiment of hopelessness and creates an even more nightmarish hell of snow film is ambitious surprisingly compelling and easily one of the most remarkable mexican productions ever i am really astonished that take on this story isn't more exploitative and explicit the scenes where the deceased passengers are cut open and consumed are nevertheless hard to digest but they only serve to increase the credibility of the catastrophe and to stress the inhuman conditions of the survivors rather praiseworthy for a vicious director who gained fame with his notoriously bad films like night of the bloody apes and the santo series the unknown young mexican actors do a great job and the musical score is endearing the story is well known of course so the screenplay doesn't offer any unexpected shocks either by history or previously having seen alive you know which kind of dramas these people still have to endure before being rescued and you can only await them still this is a good film that shouldn't be bashed like too often is the case
1	i saw this flick on the big screen as a kid and loved it and all recently i found a copy on video and checked it out again badly made sure schlocky fun most definitely it still packs an entertaining punch it's much more fun than the dull disney version alive the only thing alive did better were the special effects if you're a lover of b movies i highly recommend survive not to mention all the other rene cardona jnr movies and the mexican wrestling flicks made by his father rene cardona snr survive is long overdue for dvd special edition treatment are you listening all you kind folk at anchor bay
1	i'll be brief i normally hate films like this but there is just something about this one that just draws me in and won't let me go granted there are some major flaws in it some of the acting is below par at best and the dialogue is sometimes so poor it's funny but there are enough redeeming features to make it watchable to the end br br but what are they well it's got a cool little plot by no means is it original but it is better presented than other films of its kind the three main stars whalin johnson long put in fairly decent performances that more than make up for the distinct lack of quality from the supporting cast the fat cop and coach quinn really bugged me and the scripting is slick and witty even if it is poor in places br br the bottom line is though this film is so cute i grinned all the way through it and it has a place in my video collection purely because it could cheer up anybody you really have to be some kind of humourless bore not to like this i dare somebody to sit through this without grinning br br i do recommend this one if you want a simple fun and above all enjoyable watch you won't regret it br br top
1	susie q is a great romantic prom movie amy jo johnson susie q is a great actress i think she did a great performance i hope that sometime that the disney company could put this movie on dvd i think it's kind of cool and a little bit hilarious it's kind of sad when susie q dies in a car accident in the beginning at first it makes you want to cry or sob but in the middle when no one suspects susie q it gets kind of funny and surprising there is a little bit of mystery in this movie but not much but still i would recommend this movie to the whole family if they enjoy comedy mystery or romance type of movies it's great i think that amy jo johnson as susie q is cute
1	this movie used to be played constantly on the disney channel when i was a bit younger and i really remember liking it however i didn't have great taste back then not to say that i do now so i can't vouch for my nine year old self too well the movie was probably a 7 10 but it had some good music so i gave it an extra point yeah worth watching i know that some fans of this movie are wondering what a certain song is the one that appears when she is in the car crash the song is play a love song by the and it is very hard to find and obtain in fact this movie is too i can't find it anywhere online or on dvd or on vhs i'd like to see it again so i can gauge if it was actually a good movie oh well
1	this movie is very good and the whole family would enjoy watching it when susie q is of to her big night at prom she dies in a fatal car crash on her way to prom by kids who are drunk and high as the years go by house gets sold and a family moves into the house that she loves as the boy who now lives in the house sees susie and is the only one who can the two team together with his little little sister and try to save parents from being broke staring amy jo johnson as susie q this movie will fell your heart with comedy sadness and laughter i hope that you see this movie because it is very good but no one seems to have it on dvd or and it no longer comes on tv
1	i love this movie and disney channel is ridiculous for not playing it anymore i think they should definitely put susie q back on the air at least one night so we can record it but if not does anyone know where i can find it my email is aim com please email me if you know where i can find this movie online or anywhere i told my kids about this movie and i think that they deserve to see it also all these disney movies that are coming out now are fake and boring i need susie q back it was a great movie and had great actors and i don't see why it was taken off the air if everyone loves this movie so much why was it taken off the air please take my comment into consideration and along with all of the other comments made to this movie thank you have a nice day
1	i was half dozing as i watched a late night selection of short films but sat bolt upright from the first frames of i shout love and could not take my eyes away for its full brief perfect length with incredibly assured pacing and performances this film maintains its funny sad insightful tone throughout the credits at the end went by so quickly and in such small type i had to go online to find out the person responsible for this master work what a pleasing surprise to see the name of sarah a major actress who is too seldom seen br br kristen thomsen tessa and matthew ferguson bobby turn in rich touching performances as a couple in the throes of breaking up as they work through a reprise of favorite moments from their time together both actors reveal dimensions of their characters and their relationship in ways that bring nothing but honor to their talents and to the director writer's skills the film creates a moving narrative with laugh out loud moments and caught breath sorrow br br i shout love is unquestionably one of the greatest and most memorable short films i ever expect to see it has wit heart and stunning originality it matters
1	i'm absolutely disgusted this movie isn't being sold all who love this movie should email disney and increase the demand for it they'd eventually have to sell it then i'd buy copies for everybody i know everything and everybody in this movie did a good job and i haven't figured out why disney hasn't put this movie on dvd or on vhs in rental stores at least i haven't seen any copies this is a wicked good movie and should be seen by all the kids in the new generation don't get to see it and i think they should it should at least be put back on the channel this movie doesn't deserve a cheap download it deserves the real thing i'm them now this movie will be on dvd
1	does anyone know where i could get my hands on this video or the film for this i have been searching for it for a long time to show my daughter to show her and i can not find it anywhere probably because it was only on video and they never made the dvd or vhs or idk br br i saw this right off disney back in 1996 and i think it would be the best video to show her such a good movie that has every type of emotion displayed throughout the whole movie also has a lot of actors that started their careers with this movie if anyone knows how to get a copy of this movie or has a copy and willing to sell it to me for like 50 bucks or something please call 201 thank you
1	i love this movie is it on air anymore what can i do to get it on air again because i miss this movie when does this movie air again i love this movie so much does anyone know how long it has been since it was last on disney it has been a very very long time and i am so sick of waiting i want to see susie q again i swear they take all the good movies off air and play new stupid gay ones that are fake and retarded i miss this movie wish upon a star kazaam with shaquille o'neil and a bunch more where did all the good movies go i want them back i miss all the good movies and they don't have them anymore if anybody finds out if susie q or any good old disney movie comes out will you please let me know my email is aol com no blank space thank you and i hope you want this movie back too have a great day
1	my kids loved this movie we watched it every chance we got it was fun a fun movie we watched it as a family and everyone of us enjoyed it it was a movie you could watch without any uncomfortable spots that you would have to explain to the younger ones my boys loved this movie and they would love to be able to see it again even after all these years they remember it that amy jo johnson was a very cute girl all my boys had crushes on her they loved her as the pink power ranger which is why we watched this movie to begin with as you can tell i am rambling a bit to fill lines lol but seriously it is a fun movie and worth watching disney please give us a dvd or replay
1	don't you ever miss the good old days when disney actually made great movies that really moved you growing up with disney i always found myself being captivated by the characters every single one seemed truly talented and knew how to act their way through a movie i remember friday nights and running to turn on the tv just to watch their newest movies susie q was one of my all time favorites i never forgot this movie even till this day when one mentions the song susie q i always remember the movie if anyone is thinking of watching this movie i promise you you will fall in love with it i don't think i will ever be able to forget it you will not regret watching it br br unfortunately it's sad to see disney movies such as the hannah montana movie come out what ever happened to disney
1	susie q is an original and isn't like those other bad disney film spoiler a boy named zach moves to a new town and has trouble at school he is good basketball a girl in the 1950's died with her boyfriend when their car was crashed off a bridge susie amy jo johnson from the power rangers pink ranger is helping zach as a ghost to get a necklace along the way he must explain to his sister about her ghost and finally getting this necklace susie returns to the bridge she died on and then she gets in the ghostly car of her boyfriend and they float up later as he misses her he finds a girl who looks just like her do you believe in reincarnation susie q is a good movie to see now and then but they barely give because disney needs to fill everything up with stupid movies and shows i give it a br br 7 10
1	susie q is one of those rare and sweet movies that give you a warm feeling it's bittersweet but wholesome and it's characters are fun and captivating at first i thought the movie would be the cliché cuddly movie that would bore me after five minutes but was i wrong it made me tear up at times and it's plot was enticing making me root for the good guys i loved the movie and still remember it today 9 years later i recommend it highly to anyone and the movie is family oriented so you won't have to worry about unsuitable content truly if disney would show more movies that are up to par as susie q it would be the most popular family oriented channel in the world now if only disney would show it just one more time go susie q
1	although not the most technically advanced film i have seen this was a fun and enjoyable couple of hours the main characters are sweet and you really get to like them and feel something when susie q has to go but feel good again when she returns as maggie br br lots of stock dialogue and a contrived plot line but most of all lots of fun
1	this is the best movie i have ever seen and i love it very much is is so sad and loving i could watch this movie over and over again when i first seen it on disney channel i was like i would love to see this movie again i would love to watch this movie everyday and i recommend it to anyone this is really a good movie to anyone who has not seen this movie and is thinking about it they better go and see it because it is really good i love the part when the boy found out about the girl and from then on i was just all into this movie if i could watch two movies everyday it would be this one and beloved those are my two favorite movies i really love them
1	i love this disney movie its a real cute movie and when it comes on again i will have to make a mental note to tape it i really like how they break into the bank trying to find parents information you should really see this movie its great for the whole family
1	so real and surreal all in one i remember feeling like tessa heck i remember being tessa this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending i especially liked the protesters tangent it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it if you get the chance to see this take it it is well worth the 30 minutes
1	i forsee many students now signing up for student exchange to barcelona and being disappointed when they don't have quite such an exciting time br br the movie was enjoyable it's of course always a pleasure to see audrey tatou br br however i have a very strong issue with part of the movie the lesbian roommate tells xavier that women like to be physically dominated which i take issue with and shows him some sort of butt grabbing move that's guaranteed to get a woman xavier then tries out the butt grab on a shy married friend who starts out saying no no i'm married i'm married but then somehow succumbs to the butt grab all of a sudden she's moaning yes yes and they're going at it on the benches in parc i found this really really offensive furthermore it is very stereotyped how often have we seen scenes where the woman says no but obviously doesn't mean it no means no grabbing butts physical domination isn't going to make it right it just totally supported the stereotypical rape myths br br i wasn't even sure how to read the next scene where he gloats to the lesbian about how it worked and how next time he was just going to demand suck it slut or something like that did he really think forcing himself onto a woman with no respect for her feelings was the way to go br br this section really ruined the movie for me
1	so we saw this on dvd at our apartment here in paris we're all here on an exchange program we all laughed so hard cuz so much of what was going on in the movie happened to us i mean yeah sure some of it was pretty clichéd but still true know what i'm saying br br i think i related more to the quiet guy the italian than xavier because i'm more of the observer in our group anyway i wish i had a hot roommate like cecile de france she seems like a cool chick in the movie and for real after i saw her hosting the cannes festival last month br br now i'm thinking i wanna go to barcelona next summer after seeing this movie i gotta check out the sequel too which just came out here in france
1	a rather charming depiction of european union beginning to operate among the young generation as representatives of that group learn to live together in an apartment in barcelona where they are all studying on international central to the story is xavier who may have lived a rather conventional life with his mother in france but who quickly becomes a leader in the group helping them deal with landlords and other problems he learns about life and love rapidly has a wholesome appearance and gives a fine performance the rest of the cast also play well occasionally they all lapse into english when they want to make sure they are communicating uncertain about all their apartment mates' ability to understand french or danish or whatever the languages may be cinematography noteworthy including fine views of barcelona and its famed towers
1	this movies is really special it's about a young french who go in barcelona spain in order to study and in he meets other youngs like him this film he's the european movies of the year so go watch it
1	a young frenchman himself as he becomes an erasmus exchange student in barcelona and comes back a better man sounds boring no way the movie is filled with colourful people all of them stereotypes the british and her racist brother the sexually liberated dane the ultra organised german in this case though the stereotypes are brilliantly done you feel like you know people like that i for one know an arrogant doctor and his trophy wife and they're just like the characters in the film they feel like real people br br go see this movie and enjoy the subtitles
1	i liked this film very much as i liked before the other movies by cedric all the actors coming from all over europe are very good and funny one can really feel the influence of amelie like in many other recent movies but it's ok
1	surprising witty funny and totally engaging the film grabs a little known reality that of the student that goes studying in an erasmus program the beginning is great as the story kicks off of course it has a few lulls on the midsection and the story drifts sometimes away from the main character but the viewer won't bother the movie is young fresh and light hearted even though i don't agree with the notion that when you do erasmus and you come back you no longer make part of that universe but that's just me the movie is deep and at the same time very light cool and recommendable
1	this movie deals with the european erasmus exchange program but more generally about the european youth it is so true that i don't know did to reach such a masterpiece definitely one of my top 5 movies it reminds me of the famous song this is my life my life life is life 10 10
1	as a former erasmus student i enjoyed this film very much it was so realistic and funny it really picked up the spirit that exists among erasmus students i hope many other students will follow this experience too however i wonder if this movie is all that interesting to watch for people with no international experience but at least one of my friends who has never gone on erasmus also enjoyed it very much i give it 9 out of 10
1	is full of energy and it's honest realistic and refreshing not a comedy or drama but more a slice of life movie about this particular group of very interesting but still normal young people who share an apartment in barcelona for one year beautifully photographed with a nice soundtrack if you're older this movie should bring back a flood of good memories if you're young learn by this example
1	this is a very moving film that takes a new twist on somewhere we've all been a relationship as it's about to end kristen thomson's performance as tessa desperately trying to hold onto her connection with bobby for just one more day is extremely convincing and moving and takes you right into the story who hasn't been faced with the end of a relationship and at least wanted to shout out tearfully just one more night when he does give her one more night the journey that these two people share makes you pause and think about how precious every truly close relationship can be and how each one whether permanent or not should be treated with respect rather than simply thrown away
1	my favorite film this year great characters and plot and the direction and editing was smooth visually beautiful and interesting br br set in barcelona the film follows a year in the lives of six foreign graduate students and assorted others cultures and languages clash but hearts and lives intertwine the leading role would never have been cast in hollywood but he carried the part perfectly the characters were nicely developed and their interplay was honest and accurate there were two especially noteworthy scenes the climax was truly inspired the film is sentimental and the last ten minutes could have been cut but it was wonderfully entertaining br br i nearly didn't watch it but did just to see audrey tautou her role although billed second or third was minor and was outshined by several other characters i wish more films like this were made it brought to mind the big chill or the breakfast club don't start this movie late if you plan to go to bed 1 2 way through
1	i got to watch this movie in my french class as part of lets say french culture i thought the way it was filmed and the editing was real good but mostly it was entertaining especially the guy that played wendy's brother also the story line was really good as well as it was believable and yet adventurous as well br br favorite part when william is making fun of the german guy studying and when he acts out how flies reproduce br br my french isn't that good but with the subtitles i could pretty much get what was going on br br watch it
1	my wife and i watched this marvelous movie this evening because we will watch russian dolls tomorrow and the first is important to see before the second br br we both loved the apartment and will enjoy following some of the characters through the early years of their lives now in st russia we both identified slightly with the rough framework of the story because we were students florence italy for us so the script was not completely foreign to our early lives our living was considerably different but as with this movie anytime you throw together young people passing through the same life hoops as any developed world people they will experience much the same life situations br br the collection of people and the personal difficulties that they faced were and therein lies the beauty of this film and probably its sequence that i will see tomorrow as i wrote the characters as well as these situations are familiar to all of us and therefore we can enjoy living their lives for awhile this must be one of the film's great strengths allowing the viewer to vicariously experience the emotional upheavals of the people involved and yet remain aloof the viewer can through that distance chuckle to themselves thinking i wouldn't have done something that dumb or i would have avoided that trap maybe that's why we go to movies
1	i love this film dont know why it is called pot luck in england what a rubbish and entirely irrelevant name i spent 8 months in barcelona not as an erasmus student but living with other foreigners so it felt just the same it brings back so many great memories of the fun i had with all the friends i made from different countries and of the city itself i really want to see the followup 'les ' the russian dolls i'm guessing it wont be released here my brother saw it in france and said it def wasn't as good but had a lot of the same cast the brother of wendy gets married apparently anyone know anything about this film and whether it may be released
1	xavier a french student moves into an apartment in barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over europe an italian a danish a german a british a spanish and a belgium br br he wants to get a job in eu with the help of his father's friend he says there are jobs here a lot but if you know spanish and spanish market so he advice him to go spain xavier gets an eramus grand and fly to barcelona by living his girlfriend and mother br br he first learns that the house he will stay is no longer available and the small rooms in barcelona are even more expensive than he thinks he stays in a french couples house while he was looking for a house he has been interviewed with the 5 people from the house and has been accepted he had an affair with this french guys lovely wife and totally messed up everything with his problematic girlfriend br br do you want to hear more did you travel abroad for education watch this movie i promise that you will have a very nice time
1	spoilers ahead br br it is really unfortunate that a movie so well produced turns out to be br br such a disappointment i thought this was full of silly clichés and br br that it basically tried to hard br br to the american guys out there how many of you spend your br br time jumping on your girlfriend's bed and making monkey br br sounds to the married girls how many of you have suddenly br br gone from to overnight but not with your br br husband to the french would you really ask about someone br br being à la when you know they don't speak french wouldn't br br you use a more common word like br br i lived in france for a while and i sort of do know and understand br br europe and i love it but my german roommate and i found this br br pretty insulting overall it looked like a movie funded by the br br european parliament and it tried too hard basically it had all br br sorts of differences that it tried to tie together not a bad thing in br br itself but the result is at best awkward but in fact ridiculous too br br many clashes that wouldn't really happen then the end of the br br movie the last 10 minutes ruined all the rest why doesn't xavier br br talk to the erasmus students he meets back in paris why does br br he just walk off why does he just run away from his job is that br br freedom and in the end is the new europe supposed to rest on br br a bunch of people who smoke up and shag all day is this what br br it's made up of br br besides the acting was pretty horrible i can't believe judith br br role and acting why was she made to look like br br emanuelle béart so much at first i thought xavier was ok but br br with retrospect i think he was pretty bad br br and that's all really too bad because technically opening credits br br scenes when he's asking what papers he needs it was really br br good except for sound editing around the british siblings and the br br soundtrack was great too so the form was good but the content br br pretty horrible
1	cedric movie is easy breezy charm wrapped in nostalgia for our younger years and attractive youths at its core it's the feature length presentation of the long running mtv reality soap opera known as the real world in which as its motto goes this is the 'true story' of seven strangers picked to live in a house and have their lives taped so watch what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real this is exactly what happens minus the cameras planted at every minuscule corner of the house in barcelona spain where xavier comes to stay having to learn spanish to fill into his job's requirements an outsider in many ways he slowly forms a camaraderie with his house mates who come from all corners of europe except america this is a movie in which the only american shown is an unlikable character with whom wendy the adorable kelly reilly is having an affair with only for sex she confesses since she has her own boyfriend who makes a late but dazed appearance throughout his stay there he tries to maintain a long distance relationship with his girlfriend played by audrey tautou while he begins a tentative flirtation with the wife of the owner of the spanish house where he is staying at and gets some advice from a lesbian house mate cecile de france as to how to seduce a woman a sweet little feature that presents a moment in time that twenty somethings will never see again is forgettable fun containing within itself the threshold into the real world experienced through eyes
1	as a european the movie is a nice throwback to my time as a student in the 1980's and the experiences i had living abroad and interacting with other nationalities although the circumstances were slightly different the director went to the new york film school from 1982 85 so one would think that he is drawing on this experience br br it is interesting how the film balances the message that one should not generalize with the notion that for every stereotype there is some underlying truth for example the italian character is based more on the pothead aspect than on any well known italian stereotype the german character features a few more tried and tested stereotypes but the most stereotypical aspect about the movie is not a character but the central theme of infidelity as a critic observed infidelity is as crucial to french film as class is to british film br br both the main character and his girlfriend are played as not entirely likable which i think is deliberate and great br br it may be unintentional but some of the nationals have elements that could be taken as a metaphor for their countries' perceived role in the eu the british woman has a fling with an american who is an entertainer like a 1980's us president while the frenchman shows himself as the natural leader when the landlord shows up br br although europe is not as diverse as new york it is striking that we see only two non white characters one is a chilean woman with indigenous features who despite appearing the age of our main character is not portrayed as a potential object of interest another is a spanish or rather catalan male who appears a bit invented br br one might ask why chose protagonists who were all from long established eu member countries in western europe while these nationalities reflect what he and i would meet as students in the 1980's i believe exchange programs in contemporary europe are much more diverse the erasmus program encompasses some 30 countries from iceland to eastern europe many of which are not eu members i do understand however that the choice of nationalities that are more familiar to the majority of the viewership may have been deemed necessary not to distract from the contrast wants to create between the peoples' europe and the bureaucratic europe br br despite minor gripes a great movie that made me consider going back to europe to live a french friend of mine also an expatriate in the us captured our shared feelings in this piece of contradiction if europe was more like the us i would leave in a heartbeat
1	cliché avoidance is one of this film's main achievements when you hear a vague outline of the story – erasmus students of mixed nationalities sharing a flat in barcelona – you predict a collection of euro stereotypes in a farcical tangle pas du tout in fact it's a finely judged comedy about a young frenchman xavier trying to make sense of human relationships there are some excellently observed minor roles the arrogant french neurologist the insufferably irrepressible brother of the english girl forlorn mother and some fine visual humour especially in the opening scenes mocking the complexity of the application procedure so what does xavier learn about relationships nothing positive in place of a conventionally happy ending there is a regrettably portentous finale about – xavier has all the friends he made nevertheless this highly enjoyable film deserves its great success i saw it in luxembourg with a mixed euro audience who enjoyed themselves hugely and even applauded at the end
1	the first thing i wanted to do after watching this film was watch it again because i'd missed lots with all the laughing i did i'm european and i've studied abroad and i've as good as lived with spanish french italian and german people the film was full of stereotypes which more often than not p people off and reading some of the other reviews i see that it did p people off but this film gets the stereotypes so right i cannot fault it except for maybe the way the french guy became a drunken party animal the english guy was the perfect geezer stereotype drunk annoying insulting but shines through in the end as well as the stereotypes the film also got the emotional aspect of studying abroad correct at first he's shy doesn't know anybody misses home doesn't know his way around as time progresses it becomes his home and when the time comes to leave it is extremely difficult a feeling people can only understand if they've experienced it i highly recommend this film
1	in moments of desperation were willing to do whatever it takes to win i loved how the maple leaves futility was used as a metaphorical basis for bobby and tessa the acting was accurate by far superior from the hogwash intake given by the film industry br br great editing at the end of the short i felt it was a bit incomplete but so is life and this is were life and art waltz into cinematic masterpiece br br excuse me while i rinse off the cheese whiz but i guess it's acceptable at certain times br br two scenes which i must point out are the bath tub and the couch scene br br the couch scene for tessa was a defining moment and 360 of the human condition throughout the short i viewed her as a brute but now we see her true reality her mind spoke before her heart need i say more about the bath tub scene
1	albert finney and tom are brilliant as sir and his dresser of course the play is brilliant to begin with and nothing can compare with the immediacy and of theatre and i think you listen better in theatre but on the screen we become more intimate we're close' more than we are in the theatre we witness subtle changes in expression we see better as well as listen both the play and the movie are wondrous moving intelligent illuminating of the backstage story of the company of historical context of the two main characters and of the parallel characters in lear itself if you cannot get to see it in a theatre i don't imagine it's produced much these days then please do yourself a favor and get the video
1	collected the audience wherever it was shown it gathered audience awards on many film festivals all over the world and it is not strange we have the ability to watch a cheerful and an astonishing piece of art and it is wise by the way is a very funny comedy about youth and growing up but most of all it is about the lights and shadows of living in the european union br br the main character of the film is a french student of economy xavier for his future carrier his is sent for one year of studying to barcelona in spain it turns out that the lectures are being given in catalonian language that probably doesn't help the of knowledge but it helps in tightening the relationships inside the group of foreign exchange students especially if they rent a big flat together there are 3 girls english belgian and spanish as well as three boys german danish and italian our french guy will also get there a year is a very long time long enough to get close and make friends and get to know some european stereotypes while trying to break them apart br br treats this special case of a process of uniting europe with humor and without he comes out of the idea that young people are everywhere just the same they like jokes they like to make irresponsible relationships but they don't neglect their aspirations the most interesting is the sum of experience of this little community they live together in the fire of everyday tasks fighting with the surrounding reality they are full of unusual ideas for life young europeans come back to their countries to take up a life of an adult on their own they are europe's hope to fight the many problems of the union for example the terrifying administration system in the end they proof that not only can they communicate and make friends despite the many differences but they also now how to live the full of life and they won't allow taking that full of life away from them
1	this film is about xavier an erasmus exchange student from paris who spends one year in barcelona during that time under the influence of all the new impressions he changes and grows upon return he has a much clearer view on his life and finally takes it into his own hands br br this is one of the most moving films i've ever seen and the reason is probably that i've been in a very similar situation i'm from germany not from france and for me it was madrid not barcelona but i can assure you that this film is a completely accurate depiction of what an erasmus semester in spain will do to you from what i hear the story is autobiographic and that's probably why it is so realistic br br let me give some examples mild spoiler alert xavier shares a flat with other students from italy denmark germany belgium spain and england the flat looks exactly like all the erasmus shared flats i've seen in madrid the main characters are nicely developed and some funny scenes arise from the usual stereotypes the spanish landlord is also 100 accurate the story of xavier and his girlfriend martine who remained in paris is also very typical about 90 of all relationships break up during an erasmus semester or shortly thereafter there's a wonderful scene in which xavier tries to convince wendy his flatmate from england who is kind of uncool to go out with all the others he finally succeeds and wendy probably has the night of her life br br another great thing in this film is that it's truly the students in the flat speak spanish or english and xavier speaks french with his mother and girlfriend there are subtitles so that everyone can understand what's being said i surely hope that this film never gets dubbed anywhere br br i can imagine that for non erasmus people this is simply an entertaining comedy but for all my fellow erasmus i can only say this is your film if you haven't seen it do so but be prepared for some feelings of nostalgia br br 10 10
1	one of the biggest french success of the year 2002 was also very well greeted abroad which is quite extraordinary for a french film it is not difficult to define the reasons of this success this movie made by one of the most interesting french film makers of these last years cédric presents students coming from all over europe and gathered all together under the same roof in barcelona these students are described like the ones you imagine or you see in everyday life either untidy either serious or with a sense of humor i guess that if the movie worked so well it is because a lot of students must have recognized themselves in the main characters' portraits and especially br br we follow the movie and so his experience abroad as an erasmus student through his eyes xavier is really an ordinary student with his qualities his faults an intelligent making with quite a lot of ingenious ideas perfectly expresses his lost mind and his anxiety about the world and being an erasmus student on that subject the best examples can be found in two sequences the first one is when xavier asks a woman at university for the papers he has to send to prepare his dea when the same woman informs him about the different necessary procedures all the papers appear on the screen when she is naming them in the next sequence voice over confides to the spectator his vision of the modern world now where to find the second example well the scene where xavier has a thorough medical examination during which films his visions is widely sufficient to speak of itself br br moreover the director wasn't really interested by his main character's studies he left this point low key he rather put a lot of effort into private life of course in his love affair with anne sophie but also and especially in his relations with his fellow tenants it is a real friendship story that shows us with its moments of happiness but also its arguments and its tensions through adventure and at the end of his stay he will have been initiated into life which will make him more mature the message that the author wanted to transmit isn't difficult to guess you naively believe that you live in an untidy and complicated world you mustn't give up but search to get what you want even if it is difficult br br apart from this we could also fear that with the topic cédric wouldn't avoid a trap the clichés let's be frank about it they are included in the screenplay but the director does his best not to spread them too much in his movie then the screenplay contains convenient and predictable moments at the airport and before boarding we see xavier shedding a tear after he left his family but fortunately the shortcomings of the script stop here quite funny dialogs and cool young actors perfectly at ease in their roles make up the whole br br in spite of its weaknesses is to be taken for a success in the movie of young people besides the whole atmosphere it brings out lets us think that this movie is directed primarily to a young audience ultimately the end of the movie and its big success let us suggest that succumbed to a fashion that goes right for american cinema the elaboration of sequels and indeed the film maker currently works on a sequel entitled les let's hope that it will be as good as
1	in france xavier is a young economist of twenty and something years trying to get a job in a governmental department through a friend of his father he is advised to have a specialization in spanish economy and language to get a good position he decides to apply in an european exchange program called erasmus and move to barcelona to improve his knowledges in spanish culture and language she leaves his girlfriend martine audry tautou promising to keep a close contact with her and once in barcelona he is temporarily lodged by a french doctor jean michel xavier de and his young and lonely wife anne sophie judith he had met in the airport later he moves to an apartment with international students the english wendy kelly reilly the spanish cristina the italian alessandro the danish lars christian and the german tobias barnaby metschurat then the belgium isabelle cécile de france and wendy's brother william kevin bishop join the group and xavier learns spanish language and finds friendship and love in his experience living abroad l' is one of those movies the viewer becomes sad when it ends the story is a delightful and funny tale of friendship and love in a globalized world and an unified europe this very charming movie made me feel good and happy although i have never experienced to live in a republic of students the newcomer william provokes the funniest situations along the story with his big mouth and short brain further it great to see a fresh approach of students living together different from those dumb american fraternities and their stereotypes common in american movies my vote is eight br br title brazil spanish
1	there are a few things in life that we can't experience more than once and the college experience is one of them especially if we're living in a foreign country and in a apartment with 6 wackos from 6 different countries xavier the main character leaves his tidy life in paris his ex hippy mother and his beautiful girlfriend and goes to barcelona to study spanish in order to get a job at the embassy he falls in love with the wife of a french doctor and he makes friends that make him look at things differently when wendy's brother wendy is one of the room mates comes from england the film starts to become a lot funnier well anyway xavier starts to see things differently with all his new friends and he probably lives something he will never forget and will change his life forever overall a very nice nostalgic film which becomes even more interesting because of the multinational cast i thought it was very interesting that you could see all these kids from different countries all of them speaking different languages and having different cultures get along with each other and fun i gave it a 9 out of 10 because i left the theatre with a smile on my face and thinking about things i haven't done yet while i'm still in college and would want to do before it's too late
1	this is a very well done film showing the life of international students during their erasmus year in barcelona which by the way is one of the most beautiful towns in europe and is an ideal location br br the idea itself with all the different languages is great and gives the film an original atmosphere there are some clichés about the countries but most of them are true the characters could not better represent their different countries br br having experienced erasmus on myself during my semester in italy i can say that is movie is incredibly authentic i had many experiences which were similar to the characters except i didn't get laid as often the movie is also quite funny yet not like all those stupid american college movies br br finally the movie touches also some important issues like the change from student to work life br br 9 10 i may not be very objective though
1	i have to say that this film was excellently produced and tops the ratings as a typical sci fi film i enjoyed it its a sci fi film if you want a thriller watch another channel this is what the scifi lovers want excellently produced by one of sci fi's best producers scot ok the special effects weren't excellent but what a great cast some more money could have been used for effects but then again what sci fi has high budgeted effects stop complaining and change the channel if you don't like these type of films films like mission impossible and braveheart are great but these aren't sci fi films sci fi produces excellent films like sabretooth alien hunters etc well done keep them churning out
1	i played sam the porter lou's sidekick in the film dead rail which later aired as alien express and i have to say that for my part i thoroughly enjoyed watching this film as a struggling actor this was a chance for me to work with fantastic people it gave me great scenes to include on my reel and it allowed me to work on a dream job for a month and a half no waiting tables the director and steve and scott the producers were very kind by giving me this opportunity to participate in the production i made many friends lou todd steven and i consider myself very fortunate to have been able to work with these incredibly talented people there was not a day that went by that i did not laugh my butt off the real tragedy isn't so much the special effects it's that every single person who watched this film didn't get to see what happened behind the scenes and all the talent that truly went into it craftsmen building the set prop masters gaffers wardrobe makeup artists script the cinematographer production assistants extras craft services producers director and actors it's a given that sci fi didn't spend a terrible amount of money on the film 2 million but there was a lot of time energy and man power that was instilled into it i look on the film now as a production that brought a lot of talented people together for a fun project that was shot without complications in less than two months it was a magnificent cast and crew and i'm just so glad to be apart of it on a further note to those of you who don't know lou diamond phillips todd bridges and steven brand they are fantastic people who are incredibly funny lou i still am working on my deniro impression and can't thank you enough for introducing me to midnight run todd every time i hear an elvis song i can't forget the story you told me about hanging out with him at his house for dinner can you please pass me the pa im a huge elvis fan steven mr brand you are a true gent and all the advice and encouragement i received from you will always be appreciated i miss you guys and hope you are well thanks for the good memories stories jokes and friendship oh and miss utah says hello wink wink br br joe
1	really don't care that no one on here likes this movie i do and that's what this review is about lou diamond phillips is great in this comedic role that line about train a b and c is now to me an instant classic the cg is great yeah train looks a little fake but the aliens wow do they ever rock todd bridges where's arnold and mr drummond wow he's been out of the loop guess that's what jail does to you a bullet train is on it's way to las vegas with the senator for him to deliver a big speech a meteor has just hit and now all of a sudden we got aliens running loose aboard the train and our hero cop has to save the day to make matters worse his ex wife is on board arguing with him i just thought this movie was so wonderful a must see if you like action
1	the movie is good and i think tiffany amber is very beautiful i liked the movie can anyone tell me how i can get hold of the songs from this movie even the soundtrack will do if that's not possible can i at least get the names of the songs with their respective singers i tried to look up amazon com but its not there i tried cd baby not there either i browsed through google to get some details but there weren't any i would appreciate it if someone could give me the answer to my question i know that the songs belong to country music and is sung by a country artist i just need the title names along with the singer i would recommend this movie or rather the songs to any country loving person
1	at the beginning of this film which i found myself watching on ifc in the wee hours of the morning i was filled with a sense of claustrophobia and general discomfort the feeling of being trapped with no way to escape was so powerful that i didn't know if i wanted to continue watching although it didn't really seem to me that i had much of a choice so compelling was the situation br br gradually though that feeling of discomfort waned although it never really disappeared entirely and i felt drawn into tessa bobby's predicaments and really just hoping against hope that they might get back together br br really just a moving powerful story fit snugly into a tiny package i had no idea that sarah had anything to do with it until perusing her trivia so now i love it even more br br i definitely recommend it if your lucky enough to catch it on the independent film channel sometime or wily enough to figure out some other way to view it
1	surprisingly good made for t v thriller i wasn't expecting too much from this one but i'm glad to say that this is one of the best of it's kind it's fast paced and features solid acting and interesting events br br the story gets you hooked on since the beginning and with many hits you can't help but find the movie very interesting br br the background story of character is hard but it turns into a nightmare when her husband is something much worse than her childhood friend's step father br br the stranger concept and his actions are disturbing if you consider that it is a common disease in society a serial rapist does not respect society or even his own family and this movie displays the sickness and crime in a perfect way br br my beef with the movie was the non sense situation when character returns home with her deranged husband after he's released on bail by that moment she knew what he did to his young relative played by the cute allyson hannigan but that's just the typical hollywood scene that provokes more trouble br br the climax scene shows thiessen following her husband when he's about to commit another rape then she calls the cops who come in time just to capture him the ending tells us that the husband was sentenced for 99 years in prison in real life br br the acting is also pretty good and tiffany is great and gorgeous as always the direction is also very good
1	hmm is it right to compare tiffani thiessen and mark paul post saved by the bell acting of course it's not right it's ridiculous and is right to give this movie a 10' rating that's funny this movie wasn't so horrible though better than i expected it to be made for tv movies are often so so so similar so many of them have the same feel to them this one had that same feel but it worked even though it was yet another tortured wife who's gotta get the b in the end story before it started i had envisioned ms thiessen as a vixen type 90210 seductress but here she was as innocent as kelly which was refreshing eric close surprised me by playing his part really well with some decent writing the director got a pretty good convincing performance out of him without being at all cheesy all in all it was somewhat interesting definitely better than most tv movies my grade b
1	gerald mcraney dave morgan war crimes '01 tv series was like a father to tiffani thiessen jennifer gallagher a kiss before lying '03 who experience a very bad situation in her life and it caused jennifer to be withdrawn with people and young men dave morgan tries desperately to get her out of the house and manages to introduce jennifer to chris gallagher who falls madly in love with her at their very first meeting in almost one or two dates later chris asks jennifer if she will marry him and she agrees it is not very long after the wedding that things start to happen chris is in the navy and does not like working in submarines and things start happening to young gals in the neighborhood this is a very excellent tv film and it sometimes makes you wonder if the guy or gal i want as a soul mate is the perfect person
1	when i saw the preview for this movie i figured to myself here's another dumb tv movie that's written with the thought and complexity of a soap opera but when i saw it i was surprised tiffany amber thiessen stars and proves that she can indeed act if given the chance as a woman who falls in love with and marries a man now and eric close but begins to lose trust in him when a series of rapes begin to take place in her community at first she is blinded by his assurances that he is innocent and her love for him but as time passes she continues to be suspicious of him br br while this sounds like the set up for another boring melodramatic tv movie it is really much better than that because the characters are well acted by thiessen and close and the movie's script allows them to be much more complicated and intelligent than you'd expect these aren't just caricatures or cardboard characters that exist only to move the plot along but real three dimensional people and we find ourselves really caring about them and the movie is smart enough that it is able to provide an exciting involving climax to the story without resorting to dumb action scenes mindless cliches or cheap melodrama instead we share in the main character's inner conflicts and fears and are given a realistic portrayal of how she might be able to resolve them and do the right thing br br if you get a chance to give this one a look please do so it's production values are not exactly top notch it is a tv movie after all but if you can look past that there is an excellent story to enjoy
1	at initial thought the concept of this show seemed to be a joke and a gag just for stan lee's amusement i expected nothing more than a sleazy animated version of barb wire with low production values much like those short pieces of crap you see on adult swim for short term amusement but can never taken too seriously boy was i wrong br br has even better production values than similar marvel toons the animation is very good and it seems that they've taken this series very seriously and given it a full effort to make it a professional production as possible br br the humor is good too on the sexy suggestive and sleazy side it is very similar if not exactly like the simpsons style you may encounter clichés and a lot of predictable humor but its still fun nevertheless if this were running today i'd surely see it regularly its surprisingly one of the better toons ever made
1	i lack cable vision and no longer have directv so being a rural resident i have to wait for dvd releases being a lover of blondes but not blonds i of course not only have barb wire but i have the complete first season i've not yet found vip or a second season for i have the baywatch hawaiian wedding dvd i have the issues of playboy that pamela denise anderson posed in i could go on i love pamela there is no one or anything that could make me feel guilty about enjoying but there are certain elements that i dislike but live with for other series depict smoking and alcohol consumption too some times but those are my personal peeves and i try not to let them ruin the fun of a series like this for me i too was taken aback by the change in animation style but i adapted however the amount of female nudity decreased and that is a big disappointment as one expects a lot of it in a series with a premise like this but then again i adapted one of my favorite episodes of mork mindy was when they got to meet robin williams so of course one of my favorite episodes of is when pamela tommy visit the club and the comparisons begin if there really is a season 2 i hope that i can find it for as a completest i need to complete my collection i recommend this for other admirers of the female form and lovers of blondes hey psst blonde blondes are the feminine form for spelling blond your software should already know that
1	is an animated series about a girl named erotica jones voiced by pamela anderson who lives a double life as a stripper at a gentleman's club known as the tender loins and as a sexy crime fighter known as a k a agent 69 who works for a government organization as erotica fights crime and the forces of evil such as a plastic surgeon who gives women breast implants that either explode or make them fat and cheapo a criminal who steals from 99 cent stores and makes his two henchmen share a gun the creator of the character and the series is stan lee of marvel fame and creator of spider man br br back in late june of 2003 spike tv then known as the new tnn premiered a thursday night block of three animated shows those shows were ren stimpy adult party cartoon new adventures of classic kids show characters ren and stimpy for adults done by original creator john gary the rat about a lawyer who is turned into a human sized rat starring grammar of cheers and fraiser fame and the adventures of a stripper who doubles as a superhero voiced by pamela anderson and created by stan lee i remember seeing all three of the premiers i was anxious to see ren and stimpy as i love the original show i was a little let down it was alright but it seemed to take things a little too far seeing the two have gay sex together was a bit much though gary the rat wasn't bad the best of the three was easily the animation was really good it had an awesome intro song it had some good talent behind it and it was funny as hell the show was just so silly i don't even know how to begin explaining it after four of five weeks if not a little less the animation block disappeared which was weird because i know it got good ratings and it was advertised everywhere i was disappointed to see go but several months later i found out about new episodes that aired at like 1 00 am i only got to see one and though it was funny as hell and i was glad to see the show back after all that time something seemed a bit off br br in the beginning of it's short run had great animation it was dark moody realistic and somewhat sexy too the costumed looked good too the character was drawn well after the long hiatus and during the rest of the episodes the animation was very different instead of dark and realistic look it originally had everything was now really colorful and cartoonish received the biggest changes though before she had normal long hair now she had hair bigger than peggy married with children if even possible also the eye mask actually shows her eyes now before it was just white you saw which was cool since it was more also the upper part of her costume was kind of a vest type thing with a collar and her costume was dark blue that changed to her costume being a bluish violet color and her upper costume being really crappy looking in comparison in short the show was a cartoon and very over the top silly beforehand but the second half it became more cartoonish looking and though still laugh out loud hilarious it became more zany as well for example there was a later episode about a were beaver yes a were beaver br br anyway instead of complaining about the mid series changes only ran one season but it was a very good show like the tales from the crypt film bordello of blood it may be really campy but it's really fun as long as your not a prude you'll find yourself laughing repeatedly at this show i haven't seen every episode because i haven't got the dvd yet for two reasons 1 paramount released and they have this screwed up policy about not including any extras on nearly all released tv shows even though this was the entire show i would have liked to see some maby explaining the animation change and interviews with pamela anderson and stan lee and 2 the awesome kid rock song during the opening was replaced now i'm not a fan of his but that intro sang was the theme for the show if your not going to pay to have any extras at least pay to have the original intro song you jack asses the show also had a few interesting guest stars such as john lovitz as cheapo and mark hamil as the plastic who hates models also tom kenny spongebob was on the show as the owner of the strip club in most every episode stan lee has a cameo in one episode too br br the breakdown br br pros had a great look to it at first funny as hell a very fun show great voice talent for the most part chief watch the show and see some of the stuff he does and was easily the best of the three animated shows mentioned earlier br br cons the mid series animation change and the crappy dvd described earlier aside from the fact that some of the humor could be kind of dumb at times i have nothing really negative to say about this br br overall is a huge guilty pleasure of mine and it's a shame it only ran one season it was a very funny sexy actioned packed cult series that i hope to see air on adult swim someday with the original intro intact and possibly give it another season like family guy check it out even if it is on the lousy dvd you will laugh yourself silly br br rated tv ma crude and sexual humor and nudity runtime about 25 minutes per episode score 9 10
1	the best bit in the film was when alan pulled down her knickers and ran the cut throat razor over her bum cheeks and around her bum hole it was also brilliant to see alan's bum going up and down like a elbow later on in the film br br alan was tough as hell in it like when he got annoyed and pushed the four eyed wimp onto the sofa br br i've been laughing for days about the cut throat razor bit a brilliant idea by the script writers alan must be brought back into eastenders so he can do the same to peggy br br alan is back and this time he's armed with a razor watch out if you're a girl and he finds you and pulls your knickers down
1	i love to see a female protagonist in this movie her name was rose rose brought out a lot of interesting questions in her journey of fulfillment is is possible to attain peace and internal fulfillment through external means does our society teach this can one be a victim of memory which may lead to victimizing others is one responsible for being a product of one's environment to what extent can one control or take control of one's environment how is a typical human alike or different than rose lastly would the outcome or story change if it were from another country like france or italy i loved that this movie provoked all of these questions in me while it entertained stimulated and kept me guessing to the end every time i've watched it i have learned more about the film and myself
1	spoilers spoilers spoilers just a few small ones br br saw this on channel missed the first 30 min of movie will keep this comment short and informative br br the movie is basically about 5 characters the acting is very bad for afew characters 1 girl with the help of another girl kidnaps 3 different people but it backfires and the 3 kidnap the 2 this is one of those types of movies where the script writers try to be thought provoking or philosophical mysterious and you get the point but do to their own personal lack in thinking they fall terribly short like one of the captives who is supposed to be some type of psychology nerd looks the part but his tongue can't speak it the writers think that if the nerd uses a lot of 8 letter words amateurishly unknowingly i believe that the viewers will be ignorant enough to believe it i wish i could give an example but i cant recall any exactly as it was said the ending was bad as well but the one female captive acted her role as an old and relatively wise lady although she as well as the rest had a lot of cliché s br br so why would i give this movie a 7 stars if i thought all the above simple i give the entire seven stars to lisa keller one sexy a momma she is fine lol i am an appreciator of beauty and she is exactly that but don't get me confused because i'm not a pervert and this movie is not a porno in any way their is somethin about her i cant explain but i like it i remember the scene where a captive has broke free and as he looks for a way out bumps into keller she tries to get way but she doesn't have a chance he throws her down kneeling on the stairs and he pulls her pants down no panties now although she has an amazing ass and the this shot leaves little to the imagination for a long 30 seconds i think it was her facial expression that got me she wanted it and that look had me thinking i was behind that i would have torn that booty up after that expression i jus couldn't look at her objectively anymore i was in love lol i am glad to have seen this movie but if lisa keller wasn't playing the lead role i would have changed the channel well after i had seen the scene i mentioned above i am a lisa keller fan know but is seems that she isn't a consistent actor seeing this 2003 movie is her latest but i am lookin forward to another movie with her in it
1	excellent and moving story of the end of a uniquely intimate affair then again the point of the film to paraphrase another comment is that every relationship can be unique and intimate a truly quality short film which caught me at my busiest yet had the power to pull me down onto the sofa and watch fixed and quiet for the duration bobby and tessa are powerfully moving characters and anyone who has suffered the end of a love affair will find this film to be a cathartic exercise beyond that the 'film within a film' idea plays out very well with this cast and is quite riveting though in a somewhat melancholic way
1	i'm not usually into dark psychological thriller type things however seizing me is really an amazing piece of work the story acting filming psychological themes erotic quality and spiritual understanding are all really quite complex and compelling rose plays the complexities and shifts of a psychologically disturbed woman really quite accurately my partner was particularly impressed with the sophisticated way the power exchange issues were handled it was so intense for us to watch that we found ourselves leaving it three quarters through to get tea and i felt compelled to have a shower the story was gripping but we were clearly unable to handle all the energy in one straight shot it delves into the gritty and grimy side of people but doesn't leave you there i thought about the characters and deeper meanings for a long time i would highly recommend this one still be prepared for an experience you might not be expecting
1	i shot this movie i am very proud of the film it was a great experience which shows up on the screen hussey is an excellent collaborator who had a vision and was able to capture the movie in the exact way we envisioned while prepping the film the sets are amazing and well crafted for each character john york and his team built sets that not only fit the characters they worked well in shooting the film allowing us to move seamlessly through walls and from one set to another each character has an amazing arc which makes for a great story i feel like all of the actors gave excellent performances i disagree with some of the other comments that say the acting was not good watch it and decide for yourself
1	i'm surprised by some of the comments on this site because i really liked this film if you're looking for something different then this movie is a good choice definitely not your typical mindless story that seems to be everywhere starring ben idiot affleck or some other hollywood loser it's an intellectual film you actually need to pay attention so some people might be turned off by that however if you are looking for something that keeps you on your toes then this is a good choice warning to parents it has some fairly graphic sex scenes so watch it once the kiddies are in bed people who like euro flicks will like this one adam sandler fans should skip it because it will be over their heads and definitely not their style
1	this movie makes you think it shows how a woman's weaknesses can result in nightmares for others her physically aggressive behavior is more often seen in men than women so it made me feel even more uncomfortable to see the way the lead actress behaved i think that women might think about this behavior but i don't think they act on it the dark scenes added to the sense of evil that needed to be hidden i was relieved when the prisoners escaped i was hopeful that the end would bring a satisfying solution but it did not maybe that is more realistic life seems to run in the same direction instead of creating a new river bed running up hill
1	ok first to all the haters get a life i don't see why you even bother to post on these boards when obviously you know nothing about cinema robots or people br br this movie has an important lessons for all of us to learn about gender stereotypes relationships and destiny really we are all robots programmed to respond certain ways to certain stimuli without thinking how many times have we seen a sunset and made some trite comment without even thinking about it i say thank you aqua brilliantly played by bernadette peters for making me stop and think about the awesome power of mother nature br br it's only when val and aqua begin to reject their programming that they begin to understand their true desire to find love and to flee the factory in search of a creative life this movie should be mandatory viewing in prisons just think of the dreams and hopes it could inspire in the inmates maybe even they could overcome their bad programming and join the rest of us in a crime free world br br we can all learn a lot from these robots i am a better person for
1	a beautiful reflection of life's desperation and misdirection of finding love tragic while at the same time absurdly entertaining most people do not give this film a chance ignorance just a mere reflection in itself until next time
1	okay where to begin did you know that the part of the lead robots were offered to famous mime team shields and bet ya didn't but they turned it down complaining about robot make up then they faded off into obscurity now this movie has everything a crazed killer robot who thinks he's dirty harry lots of cool robots it's funny it's touching it's the perfect date movie for people who love sci fi and romantic comedies it's the first robot romantic comedy now of course very few movies are perfect and there are some character issues but there are very minor and can be overlooked i think couples will enjoy this movie and will want to watch it over and over again 9 stars
1	best robot romantic comedy ever using the robots as the romantic characters which leaves short circuit out of this category this was andy kaufman's best effort bernadette peters shows her versatility here with an amazing performance while not a great movie in many areas i'll award it a 9 on guts and quirkiness
1	the film had no help at all promotion wise if there was an advertising promo on tv or radio i didn't see hear it the only newspaper ad i saw was on it's opening weekend a dingy b w head shot photo of andy as val com behind jail bars with headline wanted runaway robot which was also the poster in front of the 3 movie theaters i saw it at not the nice little color poster on this site with of all the cast and cartoon of which really wasn't that good they ought to have used an action scene from the film itself didn't they have an onset photographer a poster is supposed to help a prospective audience decide if they want to see the movie there were so many people who couldn't get into their sold out choice and wanted to know what was about and that poster didn't help that dingy pic and the only other photos supplied to papers were so indistinguishable in b w that they were worthless there was no trailer for the film only a slide at one theater consisting of the word inside a heart shape with a cupid's arrow through it and one that was a totally black picture just andy and voices saying val com my pleasure center is so is mine do you think we ought to tell our owners that is no help to people who hadn't been aware of the movie br br during the filming andy told reporters that he couldn't eat once his plastic lips were applied so he would load up on breakfast and fast during the day's shoot i don't know what bernadette did but at the time i'd wondered why they didn't just sip protein drinks through long straws or eat astronaut style food via tubes br br phil co the baby robot seemed to have been the pre curser to short johnny five with the same eyes similar face i've been trying to find if they had the same designer but no help i have vintage magazine articles about the film and the design team was immensely proud of their work and were going for a special award for their innovative device to create smoke for cigars just shortly thereafter did not use that device though they ought to have for return of the jedi's scenes with jabba the hut a man created steam around jabba by blowing cigar smoke into a tube joking that all he needed was a glass of brandy and he'd be a happy man i thought that using of real tobacco products was insensitive to people who were upset by smoke br br john williams who had then recently succeeded the late great arthur fielder as the maestro of the boston pops which was then a ratings hit but it never recovered from death and is now a shadow of it's former glory was using the show to promote films with which he supplied the music he'd premiered the empire strikes back score there and you would think he'd have helped along by playing a few numbers there the one thing that critics had liked of this film was williams' score yet it was not available for purchase i saw one vinyl album in 1982 with half half another film but it disappeared i only just tonight saw the cd listed on this site and have ordered it if i can ever get a scanner and time to type out the articles i'd like to create a tribute site i liked the movie and don't care what dissenters say br br the only trouble with the film was that near the end it was messed up logic wise the robots ran away from the factory to have the freedom to decide their own fate make their own choices yet when the junkyard owners tell them that phil needs to go to the factory to have a purpose programmed into him they don't even question it they just glance meaningfully at each other and they go along the way each of the adults lose battery power and die they aren't really dead as they are robots and only need new batteries yet it is treated as death with little phil crying over them and rolling away so what was the point of this phil never gets back to the factory and gets a purpose and of course the junkyard owners could've driven them or given them all battery with back up batteries but the real point was to have this poignant scene where the robots all wore down and phil is left to cry br br at the end val com is a golf instructor and aqua com is i'm not sure what is an entertainer what else is he supposed to be i'm not sure that they made it clear the junkyard owners seem to be taking it easy lying on chaise lounges drinking lemonade from phil their bartender val's and new daughter i think the name is maybe it's doesn't seem to be much more than a table lamp br br there is missing footage which is sad from photos i surmise that the stuff missing includes a sweet scene where phil is having a christmas with val gifting him with a car's steering wheel aqua is supplying a horn has taken the firefighter helmet to give to phil as we saw and they have christmas trees i don't know if any missing footage supplies better logic or if the writers just couldn't think of a better crisis resolution the film was trimmed to 72 75 minutes to pair it with other failing films no other reason than that for a dvd i would love to be in on creating as i want to see interviews with the cast crew and john williams and the griffin interview the making of footage and and restoring the missing footage to make it better
1	and that's saying a lot rent this if you want to be staggered by oddness blown away by one of the most bizarre scripts direction and casting in the history of films i'm staggered i can't believe i watched it i'm a big bernadette peters fan normally but this tested my resolve don't read any more reviews here it's best if you know nothing about the plot just rent it you won't believe what you're seeing
1	comic secret agents have made a comeback in recent years with mike myers' 'austin powers' and rowan atkinson's 'johnny and more recently steve carell in the big screen version of the hit '60's show 'get smart ' br br back in 1974 it was david jason who was wearing a shoulder holster and carrying an case full of documents marked 'classified' br br 'the top secret life of edgar briggs' was his first starring role in a sitcom after years of being a supporting actor in such shows as 'six dates with the 'doctor' series and at br br humphrey barclay had found him working in a pier theatre in and was sufficiently impressed to include him alongside michael palin terry jones and eric idle in the children's comedy show 'do not adjust your set ' br br 't t s l o e b' cast jason as briggs' a well meaning but incompetent agent for the secret intelligence service whereas john steed wore a bowler hat briggs had a whereas napoleon solo carried a radio pen briggs owned a pipe objects fell to bits in his hands he read confidential documents in bed while his wife barbara angell perused woman's own on one occasion it would be the other way round when he tracked a pair of russian agents to a he accidentally switched on the system and broadcast his plans to capture them when he hid on a train so as to photograph a meeting between an s i s man and his enemy contact it moved off with him aboard and took him straight to brighton when he tried to organise the defection of a female russian scientist he took a 'short cut' to elude his pursuers only to wind up hopelessly lost in a car park yet like he always seemed to come out on top at the end much to the dismay of his colleagues br br as previously mentioned he was married his wife jennifer was understanding about the sort of work he did though they had a row once which resulted in her yelling at him from the window of their high rise flat secret service this secret service that you never stop thinking about the secret service he shouted back think of the neighbours they're not supposed to know i'm in the secret service br br briggs was part of a team of agents whose number included street' villain mark eden he was the psychotic alan bradley as michael stainton as and 'doctor at elisabeth as the lovely strong' they answered to 'the played by the late noel coleman the commander was kidnapped in one episode leaving briggs temporarily in charge of the s i s which naturally horrified everyone br br this hilarious show was by richard and bernard mckenna who had written for the 'doctor' series rather than spoof bond it was more of a send up of the serious spy shows such as though it had a bond style theme tune furtive meetings in underground car parks code breaking stolen missile plans that kind of thing jason brought a lot of energy to the role doing a lot of his own stunts such as briggs falling off a ladder whilst decorating his flat and tumbling down a hill in a wastepaper bin and were reminiscent of those to be found in the 'pink films br br had all the ingredients to be a smash hit unfortunately it was not networked in the london area it was put out on sundays at 7 25 p m where it was trounced in the ratings by the b b c 's soapy drama 'the brothers' it was then moved to fridays at 7 p m because i t v wanted to showcase its latest american import the t v version of 'planet of the apes' briggs never found an audience a similar fate befell jason's next major show 1976's 'lucky it was not until 1977 and 'a sharp intake of that he found his first successful solo vehicle br br you can see the title sequence along with two brief excerpts in german for this series on youtube unfortunately that is all you can see jason will not permit his early starring shows either to be repeated or released on d v d a great shame for the moment however edgar briggs' life will have to remain top secret br br coda i have seen a number of episodes recently and i'm pleased to say it stands up incredibly well
1	i would suggest that only the valiant is one of the most original and intriguing and in some ways weird movies that peck ever did daring surprising and one of his few best westerns no no of course not a western really but a military chronicle which sometimes is better it's quite but oh very original and striking it's one of those treats a true buff sometimes gets movies that no one yet told you they exist you sounds intriguing or it surpasses your expectations br br all in all the script shows a level of maturity unusual for the it somehow reminded me obliquely of it's also straight suspense br br peck looked dashing as a young and tough somewhat gloomy and stoic officer and there are many unexpected the blonde babe kissing and flirting with the one she's decided not to marry perhaps a feeling of hers for justice and retribution … br br even only … is so much more than a military is as well an action drama a suspense movie a commando action weirdest combo imaginable a bunch of soldiers in a special mission to counteract and stop a possible attack … the insane decision not to take all the available troops to the place where those natives could be only a handful of people … and this plot never takes a crap most would and did … the interest for humans for people and their reasons and actions never falters br br a due word about peck himself he performs with brio and though i usually find his famous movies to be rather insipid and boring in such small outings i find intact all peck's somber and even chilling glamor he was an unusual star br br i gladly recommend this extraordinary movie
1	only the valiant qualifies as a gritty good western this gregory peck cavalry versus the indians oater is a solemn suicide mission without a trace of humor veteran director gordon douglas has helmed a grim harrowing outdoors epic with an ideal cast of tough guys under considerable pressure even lon chaney jr registers superbly as a powerful arab trooper ostensibly colorado territory scenarist edmund h north a place in the sun scribe harry brown drew their screenplay from western film maker charles marquis warren's taut novel about a group of die hard cut off from any escape route who must prevent murderous from launching a devastating raid against helpless white settlers north and brown stick to warren's novel for the most part and the last minute revelation when it seems that there is no way that our heroes can survive another onslaught of native a corker this turn of the century tale develops an effective claustrophobic feeling in the second half of the action douglas and company take studio bound sets and make them look convincing during the nocturnal hours the crisp black white photography of going my way cinematographer lionel linden imbues this western a grim look that accentuates its tension and atmosphere actor michael who later played the chief villain in guns of the magnificent seven is extremely effective in a small role as the hated indian leader br br only the valiant opens with over voice narration by army scout joe harmony this is my stamping ground i'm a scout for the army had my work cut out for me for a long time behind that pass there is the whole nation there is a graphic of the territory with the mountains stretching across the screen with a pass they used to come swarming out of the pass killing everything in sights then we built a invincible it plugged up the pass just like a cork in a bottle things was fine for a while but them is pretty smart one day the bottle blew the cork plum apart we are shown the burning remains of fort invincible with a dead man pinned to a stockade wall and a lance sticking out of his belly captain richard lance gregory peck of 12 o'clock high and his men boil in on horseback and capture michael and joe harmony jeff corey of true grit wants to shoot him on the spot harmony points out is the fella that started this whole business captain lance intervenes the army doesn't shoot prisoners joe predictably harmony is aghast at this prospect he's no common injun he's just as near to a god as a fella can get if you shoot him now things will quiet down without stirring them up the rest of those indians will get reasonable just as fast as they can you take him in alive you'll have every in the territory coming after him we have had three years of this you can stop it now just as predictably captain lance refuses to kill and lance's decision to take the indian back sets things into action br br colonel drum herbert of union station surprises lance when he tells him he should have shot as it is they need to get to another post everybody from the troopers to joe harmony knows that taking to fort grant is asking to die the apaches are poised in the mountains and the fort is under strength meantime we are introduced to the daughter of captain cathy barbara payton of kiss tomorrow goodbye and young lieutenant william holloway gig young of they shoot horses don't they and they play a part in a major narrative complication you see lance and holloway both want to marry cathy clearly cathy wants lance colonel drum refuses to let lance take to fort grant because drum cannot spare lance drum changes the orders and holloway is given the mission at the last minute and everybody is shocked lance has never changed an order furthermore lance saw cathy and holloway kissing in public and everybody thinks lance has reassigned holloway out of jealousy indeed one officer observes that rewriting orders is about a possible as rewriting the bible predictably escapes and the surviving troopers and harmony bring back a dead holloway br br although drum expects a relief column of 400 troopers to arrive any day harmony points out to lance that will attack has seen the fort and knows their lack of strength lance requests to take 6 or 7 men of his choosing to man fort invincible and prevent from assembling a war party the in the mountains keeps the indians from riding through in strength instead they must come through one at a time lance believes his men can thwart them until the relief column arrives drum gives him permission and lance picks the worst men all of them hate him and would willingly kill him br br only the valiant exemplifies the new breed of military western after world war ii this is not a gung ho john ford cavalry western indeed lance's own men want to kill him and this foreshadows the attitude of troops during the vietnam war when they their own officers lance bears the onus of the few who know about the circumstances that brought about the change of orders putting holloway in charge of the detail the black white photography enhances the dire nature of this western only the valiant amounts to a last stand western until the last minute reprieve reportedly peck hated this movie but then this is not a spit and polish western in technicolor if anything only the valiant lives up to its warner brothers origins it is small but significant and it is grubby with loads of drama and unsavory characters virtually a dirty dozen western
1	on the whole one wishes this was a better film but it has enough flashes of intense power to make it worth while peck made this film during the same period that he made the gunfighter before he apparently decided he was a monument rather than an actor a pity he was a fine actor perfectly willing to tackle characters that were not very likable and to do them extremely well the character he plays here is driven and when necessary ruthless given the mission the character has been assigned and the men with which to do it those characteristics are essential br br without being a spoiler think of this film as an early grittier example of the dirty dozen genre br br the dialog in this film is a bit ham handed but it is atmospheric and intense and definitely tells a story worth telling it contains good work by all the character actors and even barbara payton turns in a credible performance br br this one isn't often shown on television so your local video store may be the only place to find a copy go ahead devote an evening to it it is worth your time
1	i saw this movie when it first came out in france in my hometown 54 years ago i was nine and today i still remember each black and white frame especially the black ones because it was so tense scary those sneaking attacks through that dark pass in the mountain the two soldiers prisoners forced to fight each other by their captors the last battle with the uncovering of the wagon with the gatling in it firing away the last fight between peck and the chief and the happy end which let me take back my breath i haven't seen it since then and i don't know if it would be a good idea to see it again today it was such a fabulous moment for the kid i was
1	gregory peck and gig young are competing for the same girl and after peck sends young on a very dangerous mission they blame him for his reasons feeling guilty peck goes on an almost impossible task of defending a fort where they are outnumbered by the indians peck chooses for this mission soldiers which he considers to be the scum of the earth and the actors that play these soldiers ward bond lon chaney jr neville brand among others are excellent the script is derived from a novel by charles marquis warren who was a specialist in westerns as a writer director and producer the idea of using this type of men as heroes inspired many films that came out later including the dirty dozen made in 1967
1	this is a luminously photographed and unusually well written western by veteran creator of rawhide charles marquis warren gordon douglas is its chief help in this regard its strong plot line can be told in a few sentences a hard nosed by the book cavalry officer captain richard lance captures a leader of the indian enemy after a massacre at a fort he insists on bringing the man back for trial to be sent his commander sends another man to try to take the prisoner for trial and the patrol is wiped out this means the leader has escaped and lance must now lead a second patrol and he picks the men the fort can most spare a company of problems to defend the advance fort that had been wiped out and save the command from another attack by stopping up the pass in that sector as lance young gregory peck is quite strong other in the large cast of this film which really shows life at a cavalry outpost looking like an army establishment of heterogeneous and quarreling types includes war bond powerful as a hard drinking sergeant neville brand and steve brodie as troublemakers warner anderson and lon chaney jr as psychological troublemakers and gig young art baker herbert as fellow officers with nana bryant as the colonel's wife even barbara payton as the love interest gets by in a difficult role michael is the captured war chief and jeff corey plays the scout there are really two great scenes in this very well made western the long section at the fort before the last patrol is sent out and that long patrol to the doomed ft defiant itself once at that fort peck gets to deliver a grand speech in which at the demand of the men he has lined up for orders he tells them each why he took them along reading them their shortcomings one by one they then tell them why they think he sent his best friend to die in his place take the indian in instead of going himself and he proves them wrong for the remainder of the film by winning his lonely battle through intelligence and courage the music by franz waxman is good the production qualities admirable the argument about what would happen if lance takes the war chief in happens to be true other than this mistake by the central character this is is great western it has been a favorite of mine for fifty years
1	this film released in 1951 has the usual elements typical of the westerns released during the 50's the cavalry needing to protect the territory from a murderous band of indians an officer determined to see that task through and the men with him with various character flaws that he has to merge together into a cohesive unit this small band must hold on to a fort located close to the indian village until reinforcements arrive the indians know all to well that the small band is and could be wiped out before the help comes one major difference for this film only the valiant is that it attempts to play out the usual storyline but at the same time deliver the message that duty is a paramount concern to be shared by all even if they don't accept that charge br br gregory peck embodies the tight lipped captain of the troop that has to prevent the indians from breaking out into the territory the troopers that he takes with him to the small outpost are the dregs of the troop at the fort they in turn have gripes or weaknesses that cause them to wonder if the captain hasn't taken them out because of their general lack of devotion to a cause eventually the captain and the small band confront the hostiles and at the same time each confronts his own flaw the cast includes western stalwarts such as ward bond gig young neville brand lon chaney jr and warner anderson br br a sleeper of a film and a good solid western for fans of this genre
1	nurse betty is the kind of movie you can't describe on a poster or in a trailer or commericial it's the kind of movie that you walk in to expecting a more mature dumb and dumber what with temporarily insane waitress goes on a cross country adventure while avoiding crooks trying to kill her br br the fact is this film is a wonderful heartwarming tale about two people chasing their dreams the best part about nurse betty is it's unpredictability director neil labute uses brutal violence to seperate dreams from reality and along with the touching drama and hilarious comedy you can never tell what is going to happen next
1	after a summer full of retreads and disappointments nurse betty is a breath of fresh air the film is like no other i have ever seen director neil labute proves that he can direct more then disturbing pictures of men and women and how they approach sex his previous two films were the brillant in the company of men and the almost brillant your friends and neighbors renee zellweger gives the best performance of her career as betty a waitress who when she witnessing the brutal death of her asshole husband labute mainstay aaron and gets lost in a fantasy world morgan freeman and chris rock play the who killed her husband and are now on her trial the trick to the film is that freeman and zellweger are really parallel characters while zellweger falls in love with the image of the handsome and polite dr dave on a soap opera freeman betty nurse betty is a brillant film full of life humor love and graphic violence my grade 10 10
1	nurse betty was definitely one of the most creative movies that's been released lately it was funny but it also had many touching moments freeman rock kinnear the rest of the cast made their incredibly weird characters seem real the story took such twist turns that made it incredibly enjoyable to watch if you're sick of the recent formula movies see nurse betty for something completely different go see this movie in the theater or at least rent it when it comes out
1	in the '60's '70's david jason was renowned for his many supporting roles in television comedies such as 'do not adjust your set ' at and the 'doctor' series it was in 1974 that he landed his first leading role in london weekend television's 'the top secret life of edgar briggs' written by richard bernard mckenna br br edgar briggs is a secret agent of the 's i 'secret intelligence service' he genuinely tries to do his job well but always seems to mess things up astonishingly enough though he always succeeds in getting to the bottom of cases much to the amazement of his colleagues michael stainton mark eden and the lovely elisabeth all of which answer to 'the noel coleman br br briggs is married to barbara angell a woman who much like michele from 'some mother's do 'em ' has the patience of a saint and stands by her hare brained but well meaning husband no matter what br br like 'some mother's do and 'the baldy man' 't t s l o e b' was laced completely with slapstick each episode saw jason perform stunts such as plummeting from a high window sill or falling from the top of a ladder while decorating his flat it was pie in the face' stuff really br br briggs' was not a big hit due to poor scheduling from i t v a shame as it was an amusing and enjoyable show well served by its star and the fine support cast the leading man though did not seem to enjoy the experience of the show david jason repeat screenings of the show because he felt his acting in it was non refined granted the david jason who played boy' and is way different to the one that played briggs but by no means was his acting unrefined most actors would have turned briggs into a ridiculous caricature but jason's performance made briggs a credible realistic figure odd perhaps but not unimaginable br br jason's next vehicle was 'lucky in which he played mummy's boy it too failed to make the ratings his lucky break came in the shape of a t 'a sharp intake of in which he played walking disaster area for four series between 1977 1981 so while not outstanding as such is an easy and worthwhile watch nice 'james style theme tune too
1	this movie just might make you the film was well worth the dark trip to town betty renee zellweger is the lone acceptable soap groupie out there her character is so charming and so convincing that you find yourself in forgiveness over her being such a goof i might even allow myself to get lost in adorable fantasy if it weren't for the fact that dr real name is george and speak of the devil looker greg kinnear fills his role very well while charlie morgan freeman makes you wish for his wish to come true wesley chris rock makes you want to tie him to a chair and rosa tia takes you back to those luminous grade school friendships the sheriff encourages you to feed him donuts and loose his name the remainder of the cast fits well never one to do the same movie twice nurse betty is the exception one of these long cold needing to smile about something winter days
1	flawless writing and brilliant acting make this unusually delightful and witty plot twister one of the best american films i have seen this year neil labute's terrific casting and cynical direction keeps this film from becoming too sentimental while renée zellweger and morgan freeman's authentic performances give it a soul violent provocative and humorous at the same time with a truly wonderful ending chris rock greg kinnear aaron crispin glover and allison all give uproarious tongue in cheek performances the greatest spoof of soap operas since the movie soap but better and smarter 9 out of 10
1	a question immediately arises in this extremely idiosyncratic film who are the crazy people br br the answer become less clear as the film goes on br br renee zellweger loses the whiney note in her voice and while her voice is still high she is incredibly effective as the shell shocked betty in fact she is so effective i almost wanted her to be just a little more crazy because her created reality was so believable br br this is the first time ms zellweger has been called upon to carry a film and she is more than equal to the task br br chris rock – though as foul mouthed as usual – is fairly subdued as wesley he is able to sublimate his manic energy and it only occasionally surfaces and always when it is needed most br br there are some interesting allusions the first time you see betty she is dressed almost exactly like dorothy gale from the wizard of oz' – then later in the film she is compared to dorothy when she says she has never been out of kansas before at one point the song that doris day was best known for sera is on the soundtrack and then later charlie morgan freeman describes her as having ‘a whole doris day thing going on ' br br this is an extremely quirky film with good performances by everyone including the supporting cast br br it has a surprising ending that as contrary as it sounds is actually fairly predictable br br if for no other reason see this film just to listen to the master of the human voice morgan freeman
1	goof factual error br br when charlie walks out of the room to commit suicide he takes his gun with a silencer after a few seconds we hear a loud bang from the same gun being fired
1	i've seen 'nurse betty' twice in september 2000 on the international film festival 'films by the sea' in vlissingen the netherlands it impressed me so much that i kept on smiling the whole day after i watched it for the first time and almost all evening again when i took the movie as the final taste of the festival what i knew about 'nurse betty' was in short that renée zellweger would play a girl in love with a soap opera star but what i saw was much more than that splendid roles for morgan freeman chris rock renée zellweger a strange mix of romance violence and roadmovie and for all a story that takes other directions every moment you think you're on the track many soap opera lovers will love 'nurse betty' the movie as well as the character but they can bring all there non soap friends 'cause they will enjoy the story even more for the hard and humorous lines freeman and rock for the cruel scenes the thriller aspects and for the beautiful pictures and i'm quite sure that at the end everyone will love 'nurse betty' for her captivating and innocent charm
1	nurse betty has that odd but winning combination of a repellent unease inducing plot with extraordinary characters in the same way i loathed fargo on first viewing then realized i was still thinking about it days later and enjoying it somehow i liked nurse betty a lot more the day after i saw it hard to understand harder to explain as others have said it's quite forced in many ways but that seems to be part of what makes it so striking br br fair job by greg kinnear great work from morgan freeman although i worry that he's being stereotyped as the principled villain chris rock was good but not a standout rene z is so natural it's unnerving i e unnerving to be natural playing someone not well in the head also liked the sort of abrasive sparkle performance from allison in a small part br br don't go expecting as much of a road movie as you might assume from some synopses there is road but it's only barely relevant rated 8 10
1	i have just seen a very original film that i would recommend to everyone including the young the restless ' however i guess some of the profanity violence and sexual innuendo in the movie are not suitable for all your children ' anyways before the sand fills up the hourglass let me tell you the name of the film nurse betty ' renee zellweger stars as betty she is a kansas waitress who falls under a trance and thinks she is a real life character of her favorite soap opera because of this she goes on a journey to los angeles to reunite with her supposed soap opera character lover dr rubell to add fuel to the fire she is also being chased by some ruthless one life not to live' who think she has stolen their drugs you could say that is how nurse betty spends the days of her life' throughout the movie this very situation eventually leads her to the set of her beloved soap opera however the only problem is that betty thinks this is all real it is like her mind is in another world ' ok enough i will wipe off my mouth with soap and not mention any more soap names i have already registered my vote for renee as a best actress oscar nominee also greg kinnear's performance as dr rubell was as good as it gets in his acting biography to sum it up my final diagnosis is that everyone should call in for nurse betty ' excellent
1	well okay maybe not perfect but it was pretty close this movie jumped from crime drama to romantic goofball comedy and back again so quickly all the way throughout that it seemed like two different movies that played simultaneously and then joined up again at the end but they did it smoothly and some in the theater found the bloody parts like the scene to be funny as well i just about threw up but i guess that's just me greg kinear is perfect as a soap opera actor he has the ability to perform those over dramatic soap scenes with just the right facial expressions and voice intonations his scenes with betty seem like something out of sleepless in seattle or some other romantic comedy like that you almost forget that morgan freeman and chris rock are searching betty down morgan freeman's fascination with betty was rather creepy considering that he could practically be her grandfather but the scenes where he is conversing with her photograph are definitely worth a few laughs chris rock's performance seems rather wooden but he has his moments renee zellweger is so sweet as betty the lovable waitress with the crude unfaithful husband who treats her like dirt it's very unlikely that she would have actually gotten a job at a hospital without any real credentials but hey it's a movie just go along with it her roommate rosa shines as well as a woman who cares about betty but doesn't quite know how to deal with betty's sickness and lastly there is crispin glover as a fan of his i naturally thought that the movie could have been funnier had he been in it more no one else has the same style of acting that crispin has and the argument between chris rock crispin and the sheriff about the soap opera is hilarious i guess i'm saying that i liked this movie quite a bit if you can stomach blood violence and a lot of foul language it's worth the watch and will give you plenty of laughs
1	spoiler spoilers spoilers i found the film amusing it was weird and i enjoy it i laughed a lot so the bottom line is that i recommend the film however i have problems with what labute wanted to say the plot is very simple betty renee zellweger a hard life house wife watch her husband being murdered and while having forgotten everything she had seen she follow her true love for a soap series character dr david greg kinnear simple enough but not enough to hold a 95 minutes film and here comes the big question what is the film all about the reference to the wizard of oz is obvious betty and dorothy are both from kansas however while dorothy come at the end of that film to the conclusion that there is no place like home betty doesn't come to any conclusion and by the end of the film we are left wonder what has she learned from her experience and the answer is simply nothing it seems not to affect her at all br br than is the film about the different between reality and fantasy could be but the scenes that are dealing with this subject are short and serve no more than a joke and not as a serious plot line that can take the film to other places and by the way the truman show dealt with this subject in a much better way br br the film could be about obsession betty is obsessed with the soap series and charlie morgan freeman is obsessed with betty labute show two sides of obsession and he seems to forget that obsession in any form is dangerous and should be condemned he seems to have sympathy to betty's obsession because he sees it as a harmless one br br all a long the film we have scenes that in itself could have been a subject for a whole film but are left for us to think about without that they will have impact on the characters br br the ending is simply a make up that has nothing to do with what we saw before it's a shame because the film could have been sharper if he would have concentrate in one or two subjects as it is it's about a lot but actually say nothing br br what we are left with is the feeling that we have seen a little film amusing and weird that could have been much much more
1	renee zellweger absolutely shines as nurse betty easily one of the most charming off beat and lighthearted comedies of the year br br when soap opera obsessed waitress betty sizemore witnesses her insensitive husband's murder by two morgan freeman and chris rock she snaps and thinks the cast members on a reason to love are real she decides to travel to los angeles to find famed heart specialist dr david a character on the show br br as the two oddly paired the caustic rock and the pontificating freeman generate some very fun chemistry and greg kinnear also has fun with his smarmy offscreen actor persona renee zellweger turns in an innocent candy coated and sometimes terribly sweet performance as nurse betty she exudes goodness warmth and is irresistible while the script sometimes feels like a sit com is filled with sometimes unbelievable characters and contrived situations zellweger is so likeable and so utterly disarming that it all comes together br br with just a few splashes of black comedy to keep things interesting a winning performance from zellweger a great supporting cast and a competent script nurse betty is utterly delightful br br 7 out of 10
1	with the obvious exception of fools horses this was in my opinion david jason's finest series br br coming straight after his tv debut on 'do not adjust your set ' these 13 episodes revealed a mastery of comic timing not seen since the old silent movie days by comparison porridge open all hours and that awful series 'lucky man' did not come close br br i believe jason banned the series being repeated because it showed him at his rawest shame on him a new generation deserves to enjoy this the series actually flopped in the ratings but that is most likely because it was shown against 'the brothers' which aired on bbc at the same time before vcrs were commonplace br br btw i have only just noticed that his long suffering assistant spencer was played by mark eden alan bradley off coronation street i am amazed he didn't try to murder edgar briggs
1	i was mighty impressed with nurse betty all the way through it has a great ensemble of characters an origional plot and an ending i shoulda seen coming but didn't and pulls at your heart strings br br if theres any one thing about this movie that got me the most it was morgan freeman and chris rock's interaction these two are great and it warms my heart to see rock isn't going to do crappy big hollywood fare like lethal weapon 4 for the rest of his life freeman is as always the man really there shouldnt be any need to critique his work anymore hell kiss the girls was watchable with him in it br br renee does the best she can with her role and kinnear is good as her br br sweet movie with a nice touch of gratuitous violence in it to satisfy the bloodlust of the male 9 outa 10 br br
1	if i'd only seen the poster for nurse betty i probably wouldn't have touched it with a ten foot pole but after i heard some positive buzz and knowing it made some noise at cannes i decided to give it a try what i got is a truly enjoyable movie based on a very entertaining plot rene is impressive in her role as betty a woman who is sent into a delusional psychotic episode following a traumatic experience i also liked morgan freeman no surprise and was pleasantly surprised by foul mouthed comedian chris rock br br the film bounces continuously between comedy drama romance and thriller yet despite this apparent identity crisis it holds up quite well i found my eyes glued to the screen from beginning to end always waiting for the next twist in the story the entire cast is strong if not spectacular br br my only real complaint is that director neil labute who made a splash a few years ago with the very impressive and dark the company of men' relied much too heavily on many cliched hollywood conventions the mood creating musical effects he crammed down our throats during each sentimental scene were unbearable and he did the standard old let's take some of the minor characters and pair them up at the end in an illogical and unnecessary romance trick just to make absolutely certain everyone goes home with a smile on their face why must directors and writers treat their audiences like idiots br br but the movie is still much too enjoyable to be dragged down very far by these annoying irritations in a very subpar year for movies 'nurse betty' ranks as one of the more pleasant surprises of 2000 8 out of 10
1	this is the story of a guy who went up to see a comedy and it turned out to be a horror movie the true story of a guy who's infatuated with pictures and got scared when he identified himself unexpectedly with one of them the unbelievable story of a guy who got scarier when the female hero was deluding herself as well as the male villain gosh is this what life made us be people deluding themselves about the perfect face imagining how that face should be perfect inside toto i think we're not in kansas anymore
1	renee zellweger is a kansas housewife whose domineering husband is mixed up in drug trafficking two professional hit men morgan freeman and his son chris rock murder the husband in his dining room zellweger unobserved by the killers witnesses this and undergoes a dissociative reaction assuming the personality of a nurse the eponymous betty who is a character in her favorite soap opera believing herself to be the tv character zellweger takes off in her husband's car which has a load of dope in the trunk and travels to la where she hopes to link up with another character in this mindless afternoon drama dr david greg kinnear not realizing she is being pursued by the two hit men she drives to la where she manages to link up with kinnear and is actually written into the show as a nurse named betty a handful of men in the know including the local sheriff catch on to what's happening and also seek zellweger in la the ending is believable and poignant br br if that sounds crazy it's because it is and it's the writer's responsibility john c richards the curious thing is that richards and the director neil labute with considerable help from the performers just about pull it all off this isn't a plot that has been cast in a familiar mold nope i give it bonus points for sheer originality somebody went out on a limb somebody took a chance on a movie that was not a copy or remake of something that had made money ten years or fifty years ago i imagine the people involved down on their knees every night praying fervently i don't know if the film was but it's mostly successful on its own aesthetic terms br br it's what might be called an initial premise movie you start off with a single transformative event in this case the murder of husband and her adoption of a genuinely new personality and follow the resultant logical paths realistically groundhog day is another better and more intricately plotted example nurse betty has its logical cracks where the incidents give up their plausibility eg at a party in la zellweger finally runs into kinnear the guy who plays her ex fiancé on tv she's stunned because after all she thinks she's betty who lost her fiancé long ago she approaches kinnear and a couple of his colleagues and introduces herself as nurse betty the character she addresses kinnear by the name of his tv character david the group are puzzled at first then convince themselves that she's an aspiring actress who insists on staying in character during the conversation and afterward too after kinnear has become fascinated by her and the others bored kinnear drives her home and even when she kisses him goodnight she's still in character leaving kinnear wide eyed with astonishment at the relentless way she captures the character of betty on the next date kinnear returns her love that development the relationship between zellweger and kinnear at this point is a crack in the logic the kind that's absent from groundhog day by the end of night one kinnear like any other person would realize that zellweger is a few clowns short of a circus br br the rest of the film which includes many digressions succeeds beyond expectations the relationship between morgan freeman and his insolent nihilistic son is marvelously spelled out morgan is flawless in his exasperation he manages to fall in love with the image of zellweger as he unearths clues to her whereabouts and activities and at the end he can't bring himself to shoot her she's too sweet to shoot after her transformation into betty she left a note behind in kansas i want to help all life whether it be animal plant or mineral who could harm the author of such a preposterous statement his admiration of her comes as an epiphany as he stands near one of the floodlights at the rim of the grand canyon zellweger dressed as dorothy or maybe the good witch of the east well characters that like zellweger are from kansas anyway appears to freeman and he embraces her and kisses her tenderly it's a scene that's at once eerie romantic and a little spooky i once stood at one of those lights and threw some shredded paper into the from the dark canyon and found myself surrounded by a thousand swirling bats who had misperceived the fluttering shreds as moths br br right where was i okay i was trying not to run out of space performance deserves plaudits everything she does every movement every utterance is naive and tentative she really is a likable character and that despite the fact that she's no glamor girl by hollywood standards but what an actress compare her performance as the bumptious 19th century hick in cold mountain just the opposite but then everyone is up to snuff in this enjoyable film allyson jannings does a fine job in a minor role watch her when she tells greg kinnear that she's considering killing off his character in the soap opera in a drowning accident kinnear is one of those who wears the kind of ten thousand dollar thin black leather jackets that were popular at the time he chuckles and says oh one of those castaway deals right okay how do i get back jannings doesn't answer she just smiles at him with those enormous blue eyes and tilts her head mockingly br br not a masterpiece of film making but a good original professional job by everyone concerned
1	minor spoilers follow but nothing you won't have learned from reading the back of the dvd br br held together by a wonderful central performance from renée zellweger nurse betty is a dark yet deceptively good natured comedy br br suffering from an emotional and mental breakdown after witnessing her sleazy husband's murder already troubled and desperately unhappy waitress betty becomes convinced a character on her favourite daytime soap is her long lost fiancé and sets off from kansas to hollywood to find him br br instead of making jokes at the expense of betty's mental state writer john c richards is very sympathetic with zellweger portraying her as a lost innocent not entirely helpless but tragically vulnerable nonetheless crucially she's never really a victim despite this and while she undoubtedly suffers horribly the motives of the characters who treat her poorly are all understandable even greg kinnear as the object of her deluded affections may be an egotistical blinkered arrogant pig but he genuinely believes that she's merely a quirky wannabe actress with bags of talent rather than an insane stalker br br the farcical ending where all the main protagonists descend on the same place in this instance betty's house at the same time to have it out is as old as cinema itself but it works quite well here even if the shift in tone is unfortunate br br zellweger is ably supported by kinnear and morgan freeman both doing solid work and it's especially pleasing to see chris rock show restraint in his earlier scenes br br not nearly as cruel as you might expect and not at all mean spirited nurse betty while far from being a laugh riot is a solid entertainment elevated to something considerably more by the lead actress
1	renee zellweger is betty a kansas waitress who wants to be a nurse who is infatuated with a soap opera actor greg kinnear and who is married to del a cheating stupid male chauvinist who's trying to sell some stolen drugs unfortunately for him he gets brutally murdered instead while betty secretly watches it leaves her unhinged believing that kinnear is really the character he plays dr david and that she is his rn ex fiancée she heads for la to find her lost love not knowing the stolen drugs are in her trunk pursuing her are charlie and wesley morgan freeman and chris rock respectively the hit men who inadvertently killed del before they found out where the drugs were hidden they pursue her across the country while charlie gradually falls in love with his image of her br br and in la things get totally bizarre as no one realizes that betty is delusional alternately funny and touching this movie is almost perfect stop reading commentaries and go see it
1	betty sizemore renee zellweger lives her life through soap opera a reason to love as a way to escape her slob husband and dull life after a shocking incident involving two hit men morgan freeman and chris rock betty goes into shock and travels to la believing that she is destined to marry the show's main character greg kinnear br br nurse betty is that rare thing a lesser known film with an all star cast and a fluffy rom com plot that surprises with it's terrific script and spot on acting indeed such a plot makes one question the r rating but it's warranted all right the shocking incident that sends betty over the edge is a tad too graphic compared to the light amusing comedy that is to come and feels like something out of a different movie but at the same time it is necessary to believably show betty's transformation into the doe eyed lovable nut job she becomes br br as we go along with betty on her journey director neil labute works some extraordinary magic which makes the movie unique and high above your bog standard comedy of error an example of this would be betty's first meeting with her crush she pours her heart out to him and he plays along thinking she's auditioning for a part on the show even as we are aware of the ludicrous nature of betty's ramblings the music swells as she speaks giving us the audience betty's emotional perspective we almost believe what she is saying yet we understand that her mind is fractured whereas other filmmakers would try to accent the ridiculousness of the situation to wring every ounce of possible comedy out of the scene labute is sensitive to his main character and treats her with the utmost sympathy and understanding br br the banter between the hit men played by freeman and rock is priceless the excellent script doling out clever line after clever line for them to riff off of freeman in particular is excellent as always pacing himself as his character slowly and blindly falls in love with his own ideal of betty not even truly knowing who she is or what has happened to her aaron once again shows versatility in the thankless role of betty's no good husband and he is almost unrecognisable the other revelation here is kinnear whose portrayal of the star is not too overcooked there's a tendency to lay on the celebrity bastard cliché as thickly as possible and kinnear resists instead imbuing him with a pompous yet restrained self importance despite simply being a soap star br br the soap opera is realised so well it could almost exist labute and co hit the nail on the head with this one and a good thing too if the soap opera had been too satirical a large part of the film would not have worked to do a days of our lives spoof as seen in friends would have been the wrong move for this movie the dedication to detail pays off as the style and feel of the soap opera begins to bleed into betty's reality more and more while keeping with the overall unintentionally comedic aspect of the genre the scenes on the set feel real as opposed to some films in which the atmosphere feels so manufactured you wondered why people who do it for a living can't get it right br br the neat resolution of the final act while being a tad predictable is wholly satisfying overall it's a shame that after labute directed this wonderful film the mainstream came calling for him to direct the abysmal remake of the wicker man a fine example of a man so totally above the material given to him unfortunately one cannot absolve him of all responsibility br br if you haven't seen nurse betty it's something to discover if you have it's worth a re visit there is a charm to nurse betty that is infectious even if it may not leave you thinking that much afterwards a hidden gem nonetheless
1	as betty sizemore renee zellweger secretly watches her tyrannical husband del aaron being murdered by the vengeful charlie and wesley morgan freeman and chris rock her bruised sense of reality becomes totally immersed in the fantasy world of her favorite soap opera in a state of complete denial and delusion betty escapes both physically and mentally from her unsatisfied small town life to search for dr david greg kinnear the handsome and loving hero of a reason to love a soap opera set in a hospital and produced in los angeles immune to reality betty arrives in l a and becomes nurse betty as she tries to belong in the hospital world of her dream lover meanwhile the angered charlie and wesley track betty down convinced she is a dangerous witness who also knows about their compromising dealings with del br br nurse betty creates comedy and suspense by contrasting its main character's extreme innocence and optimism with the evident hypocrisy and violence that surround her by clearly defining the protagonist's difficult life nurse betty justifies its character's tendency to turn away from reality thus while offering a comment about the popularity of the soap opera within the film nurse betty also makes a comment regarding the widespread addiction to television and its celebrities in addition nurse betty benefits from the effective manipulation of its protagonist's mental state particularly in those scenes where she cannot distinguish between dr david the character and george mccord greg kinnear the actor who plays him betty's incapacity to recognize george as an actor leads to funny misunderstandings which stress the magnitude of her delusional state however in spite of these successes nurse betty suffers from the troubling characterizations through which the narration evolves for example while charlie and wesley are consistently portrayed as a comical pair the brutality of their actions undermines any sense of appreciation or acceptance the viewer might have initially experienced similarly although the initial scenes establish del as a detestable man the humiliation and violence he experiences with his murderers surpass all the humiliation and violence he caused his wife betty br br finally toward the end of the film charlie undergoes awkward transformations as he develops an obsession for betty an obsession which results in noble feelings of love and which ultimately destroys him consequently since the characters' roles as victims lack consistency the story's victimization processes seem random and unsubstantial all in all nurse betty's rather than creating suspense weakens its characters and pollutes its plot br br
1	i'm not sure why i picked for a borrow from mom for nurse betty i think just because i had heard a little bit of this movie but i'm glad i did nurse betty is an original and clever movie that has humor and a darker side br br this was one of renee's first big one's before hitting it major in hollywood i can see why she is an incredible actress the scene where she finally realizes what had happened and she's on the set of her favorite soap opera you can see pain confusion fear and embarrassment on her face just to let you in on the movie she plays betty a shy and insecure woman who stands by her abusive husband she's a waitress and is in love with soap operas especially one where a certain cute doctor dr dave when she happens to see her husband's murder accidentally in separate room the murders she notices are two customers she just had morgan freeman and chris rock she then just looses her mind and leaves town after talking to he police and says she needs to find her former fiancée dr dave so she travels along the country to california to find dr and wants a job as a nurse to work with dave she's seen the show so many times somehow she's just awesome at being a nurse when she saves a woman's brother despite everyone telling her that she is delusional she just looks at them like as if they were the crazy one's when she meets the actor who plays dave george his real name thinks she's just a crazy fan trying to get on the show she just looks at him with confusion and believes that he and her belong together br br renee was terrific she was so believable on loosing her mind in the movie she has come such a long way and wither you want to admit it or not she's adorable and a great actress br br morgan freeman plays one of the assassin's charlie who is the father of the two he is so charmed and smittened by betty and while chasing her around the country he becomes almost just infatuated with betty to the point where he almost falls in love with her he and his son wesley must find betty when they find out she was there at the murder scene and could give away their identities when charlie sees betty and catches her finally she's scarred at first but calms down and they know they have a real connection it was a beautifully played scene my opinion is that morgan gave a stronger performance he's just great br br a surprisingly decent performance by chris rock the son wesley he is so gun ho about just getting the job done in a rush and taking care of business i loved his comedic performance at the end where he and the gang he's holding hostage by gun point are just watching the soap together classic nurse betty is a great movie that i'd recommend for a good laugh and just in all a nice honest little movie i think anyone could enjoy br br 9 10
1	neil labute takes a dramatic turn from his first two films in the company of men your friends and neighbors with this funny and original thriller comedy road movie when betty renee witnesses the brutal murder of her no good husband aaron she develops a bizarre sort of amnesia and flees in his car not knowing that there is large stash of drugs in the trunk morgan freeman and chris rock are the hit men who follow her br br what betty is chasing besides a new beginning although she can't remember the old life is her beloved dr david greg kinnear only problem dr david isn't real he's a soap opera character on the show a reason to love' and he's really an egotistical actor named george mccord br br to say any more regarding what develops would be too much but nurse betty is certainly original its hit men are like the hired killers of pulp fiction are violent yet philosophical its take on soap operas terrific spoof material and its acting is the best feature of all this has to be one of the best cast films in recent years renee is perfect for nurse betty with the constant gleam in her eye that pushes her in her quest morgan freeman brings his constant state of grace to the role of a killer at the end of his career and chris rock is his partner a man of rage and great impatience greg kinnear is at his comic best as the vain actor soap opera doctor there are also great supporting performances from actors such as emmy winner allison the west wing harriet harris frasier's agent bebe and kathleen chloe on er actually the supporting cast is a who's who of television best character actors br br a unique film that is funny one moment and chilling the next nurse betty is a mix of great acting casting and a terrific screenplay
1	me and my mates used to gather together in one house to watch this on a friday night before going to the pub it was the only programme that ever made us miss opening time it is one of the best comedies i have ever watched if not the best david jason was brilliant and was compared many times to buster keaton with his clever stunts that were pulled off so believably i wish i could get hold of the series on dvd to watch again he had an amazing ability to make stupid things look believable and this series shows how much talent he has in so many different directions he is an accomplished trip and fall guy and i remember watching a trailer once where he showed people how to do this professionally certainly he is the one to teach people this art he only showed glimpses of it in other programs he did pshaw this program shows how multi talented he is i am lost as to why david jason another series being made as for my mind it was one of the best things he has ever done and i've been a fan of his since he did this series it is said he did not like it because it showed the rawness of his early career well to my mind that might possibly have been the right decision when he took it but now his career has progressed so far i believe this would be a good time for him to do another series showing him looking back on his secret life full of blunders that he does not see rod
1	nurse betty is really an interesting movie i guess we all know someone who is so convinced that the characters in a soap opera are real that you can't explain them with any means that these are just actors and not real persons br br 'nurse betty' isn't a nurse at all in real life she is an ordinary housewife who works at a diner to escape from her awful husband and the problems in her miserable life she has become a very dedicated fan of a soap opera after she witnessed her husband being murdered she goes into some kind of a shock and she loses all grip on reality she thinks she's in love with one of the characters from the soap opera a doctor and decides that she'll visit him and start a family with him the hit men however think that she knows too much and go after her to kill her br br as i already said the subject is quite recognizable if you leave the professional hit men and the murder out of it and the movie was funny the story was well directed and the actors did a fine job it had everything i always want to see when watching a comedy i give it a 7 5 10
1	with nurse betty 2000 acclaimed indie film maker neil labute in the company of men your friends neighbors makes his breakthrough into the big budgeted betty's 24 million as opposed to company's measly 25 000 mainstream realm and yet remains true to his roots while his cast is now composed of a list hollywood names renee zellweger morgan freeman and stand up comedian chris rock his material remains just as bizarre and quirky as his first two features proving that he just may be the next big thing nurse betty is one of the darkest comedies to be advertised towards a mainstream audience in years and considering its moderate box office and critical success perhaps moviegoers weren't as dumb and brainwashed as we though they were the story follows both figuratively and literally a naive waitress zellweger who has fallen in love from afar with a handsome soap star as good as it greg kinnear but is trapped in a loveless marriage to a slimy car dealer aaron who made his big screen debut in company when her husband is gruesomely murdered by two freeman and rock she's sent into shock and obliviously sets out for hollywood to meet her object of affection unaware that he's only an actor when freeman and rock discover that the car she took contains 10 of cocaine they hit the road as well and outrageousness ensues fans of labute's previous work might have a hard time figuring out how this could possibly be the same guy who directed in the company of men a tragicomedy about two cruel sexist pigs who play a practical joke on a deaf co worker but when you think about it the connection is rather clear in company a vulnerable woman is unaware that she is being ruthlessly taken advantage of in betty a vulnerable housewife is unaware that the man she's chasing thinks her genuine adoration is nothing more than a joke some might begin to wonder if labute is really some sort of misogynist himself considering that his recurring theme involves the downfall of innocent women but personally i think he's coming to the defense of the fair sex and dealing far more harshly with the abusers in his pictures than the abused one of the many charms of this film is that it's absurdity is full fledged most directors when handling a script such as this one would leave the story at two chasing a woman chasing a dream but labute knows better and has one of the freeman fall obsessively for betty as well this was an interesting role for freeman to take because it allowed him to play off of his trademark this is the last time' character see unforgiven se7en and 1998's stinker hard rain the supporting cast also includes the likes of famed weirdo crispin glover back to the future allison and mad about you's kathleen the script written by first timers john c richards and james is deliriously over the top honestly have you ever seen a comedy or any movie for that matter in which a man is scalped in his own dining room you could argue that the ending is a little too perfect but it's really not worth denying everything that's great about the film for one trivial complaint if nurse betty is any sign of what labute has in store for us next you can bet that i'll be lining up for whatever he decides to follow it up with br br grade a
1	honestly when i went to see this movie at the rave theater in indiana i did not expect much i went to this movie only because i figured hey it's a wwe movie it'll be good for a laugh then i sat down and watched it and saw why they chose glen jacobs kane to play jacob goodnight he is probably one of the freakiest guys on the big screen much worse in my opinion than freddy or jason and has one big advantage to other movies that attracts me to a horror movie it shows jacob goodnight as someone who is human he has a heart no matter how twisted and creepy it is he feels pain something that jason never does or appears to show he feels sorrow and pleasure though again both of them insane which you will notice if you see the movie all in all a different experience in my opinion than many slashers and it surprised me in a few ways as in who lived in the end
1	my taste in films continues to astound me and probably infuriate readers of my reviews but to each their own and i have a weak spot for crazy horror slasher flicks and see no evil happens to be exactly that and more i think that the biggest mistake made by producers and film makers of this film is that they hype it as a wwe film and starring kane wwe might have a big following but it's a very very specific group that follow the incredibly cheesy and sorry folks kind of trailer park sport and those who don't love it it it would make them steer clear of an otherwise typical gory slasher flick that people would come out in droves to see see no evil doesn't break any new horror ground it's exactly play by play typical horror with some over the top horrific bloody scenes that honestly make your screen crawl they really drive it home and go for gratuitous violence just cause there is no psychological aspect exactly although being chased by this monster has some fear elements to it br br kane the wrestler also known as glen jacobs plays religiously and physically tortured man jacob goodnight he's the ultimate cross between leatherface and jason voorhees he's not an original killer and even his kills don't really go for the unique or original with the major exception of choking a girl to death by forcing her to her cell phone he does a good job and the man is legitimately enormous he stands at 7 feet tall and without any special effects is monstrous tiffany lamb penny samantha noble michael j pagan luke christina vidal rachael taylor all play the typical group of think they are invincible partying teens who will unwillingly become victim to the serial killer the story is that in exchange for a month off their detention sentence for petty crimes ranging from theft to drug possession they are sent to an old hotel to do community service by fixing it up turns out a serial killer lives upstairs and he's removing his victims eyes to cleanse them of their sins luke stands out as a scum bag who in the end becomes a hero of sorts even saving his ex girlfriend who he used to beat up on the rest of them all play their perspective roles quite well but it isn't a great stretch of acting ability br br sadly porn director yes porn gregory dark does a good job putting together the modern day slasher flick he even goes into a bit of history with the killer and although his back story is not unique either in fact it's a little stale it's still interesting enough and in the few shots where the film goer is actually seeing through the killer's eyes it's interesting to hear the voices and see things distorted like he does he throws in the obligatory soft core nude shot and the grotesque blood soaked scenes and turns everything up a notch it fits nicely and for a horror fan like myself it's entertaining kane's serial killer is horrifying and he stalks them all down with brutal intelligence and a silent horror the film is being panned and crapped on and i don't blame anyone because it's pretty crappy but isn't that the point it's a horror film and i thought it was exactly what it should be it made me jump it made me cringe it even made me turn away at several parts impressive by any standards it's entertaining with a decent story and plenty of set up to see no evil until the 15th installment if they wanted to and i say bring it on it's true the film is full of plot holes laughable details but the deadly gore and horror over rides it all it all comes down to do you love horror films really love them if yes then you'll think this is a terrific slasher if not you'll hate it plain and simple 8 5 10
1	okay i marked this spoiler so don't be upset when i wrap this up now i went into the movie expecting to see a very predictable movie and i was right as almost every horror flick i have ever seen it was predictable but not as bad as most what helped was the story i did not expect there to be a why to kane's madness but there was and while somewhat foggy you still got the idea and understand the madness now of course if you like something that will scare you for nights to come this is not the movie your looking for but if your a fan of saw or some other movies that claim their fame thanks to sadistic content this is a movie to watch now where i really throw in a spoiler for a second warning i give this movie a 9 perhaps because i'm a fan of the wwe and a fan of kane but who doesn't like a movie a little bit better when it stars somebody we love however this movie could have scored a 10 for me if spoiler at the end of the movie when it showed kane dead on the pavement while a dog pissing in his eye was cute it could have been classic with the kane undertaker quick sit up and turn of the head a perfect 10 would have been awarded if that would have happened it was a perfect opportunity but either the wwe didn't think of that or a future sequel will begin with that very sequence i mentioned that's all 9
1	i didn't know a lot about this film going into it but i did find out that kane was a wrestler which didn't exactly thrill me but hey i liked santa's slay and that had a wrestler in it so what the hell the story begins very strangely and promisingly but after a while becomes not much more than your typical teen terror slasher flick although the settings helped some a bunch of criminal young folks get rounded up and taken to an old hotel that used to be a luxury palace but is now a dump to clean it up to prepare it as a homeless shelter the driver is a man with a prosthetic arm being a veteran of the opening scene of this movie wherein he encounters this big galoot that had just killed his partner and blinded another woman the teens all being punk smart asses all of course object to having to do any real work but they're part of some unique co ed work program yep what a great idea that is of course little does anyone suspect that there is someone lurking there in the hotel that in his own little way will save the tax payers of that state some money of course it's the guy that likes to collect eyeballs and he's got quite a collection going there won't be a lot here that horror fans haven't seen before but there's a few brutal scenes and sufficient gore to satisfy the hard core fan the setting of the old hotel makes a perfect spot for a slasher flick too and there's little sub stories like the search for an alleged safe full of money and the search for babes since this co ed work crew is evenly matched most of the teens are deservingly too so that works well not great but far better than silent hill or when a stranger calls and perhaps better than some of the other crap that i wouldn't bother to see 7 out of 10
1	this movie was so cool i saw it on a friday night with a couple of my friends while the first credits were rolling we saw that lionsgate films had made this movie they are the ones that made that stupid movie wolf creek which was totally gay when we saw this we groaned we thought it was going to be like wolf creek but we were so wrong the movie was not only better than wolf creek which really isn't that hard it is one of the best horror movies i have seen in a long time they really redeemed themselves with this movie it was gory smart and scary which are the combinations to an awesome horror movie kane is awesome as jacob goodnight and christina vidal samantha noble and luke did pretty good jobs as part of a group of delinquents cleaning an old motel it had some gross scenes and you actually kinda feel sad for some of the people who die all in all a great horror movie to watch on a friday or saturday night with the lights off and with friends just don't watch it in a hotel
1	i liked this a lot br br the camera angles are cool it's not all jumpy like a blair witch and i thought they did a great job with the sound when we see things from kane's point of view lots of fun plenty of people were shouting at the screen br br kane did a great job with his various psycho emotions he's a lot less one dimensional than most horror heroes br br kane is a lot less scary and more believable than most movie psychos it was not clear to me how he would react to various situations there are not many twists here but it is clever and original in it's own way good creepy b movie slasher fare
1	this is one of the best horror movies i've seen in a while an eerie abandon house interesting characters gore and a twisted plot who could ask for anything more in a horror movie it is pretty predictable for the most part but then again most horrors you can figure out within the first 10 minutes so i won't hold that against it the music camera angles and so forth are excellent the sets are well make and very convincing there was pretty much no subplots however it being a horror movie too many alternate plots only take away from what were wanting from a horror anyhow to be scared this one keeps it pretty simple and does just that if i were to compare it to any other movie i would say it reminded me of the remake of texas chainsaw massacre definitely a horror movie lover must see
1	see no evil with kane the movie has a great storyline but it just wasn't a hide my eye's scream out loud horror flick i thought it was going to be from watching the wwe superstars on monday night raw when the movie first came to theaters i did enjoy the movie though i loved the story it played out br br great movie excellent would like to see a part 2 br br it doesn't matter if kane gets killed at the end br br or not they have killed off other horror stars in every movie br br they have out and they still comeback for more so a part 2 would br br be very interesting
1	jacqueline hyde is a good quality film and does manage to be likable because of what it is everyone out there will like it sandwiched between the amount of breast shots the times jacqueline rubs herself the various times jackie spends chatting to herself and the times spent heaving in the mountains this could create one hell of a dishwasher if your career were to end br br unlike most horror movies that take place in space or in some restless tranquility with ripe green apples this one takes awhile to the performing is good other than great acting by dan the pizza delivery guy must see there are no standouts but no notably bad outcroppings from my recent dinner either and i do mean recent excellent acting overall because there are no typically dreadful actors which you'd find in movies of the four skin related data fields or in the biological found in any ibm shop in addition if you see a female in this movie the likelihood is that she will be butt naked by the next scene now that i think about it there is quite a bit of action in this movie between the first and the second electro yank obtained from a hot chick and the time you observe her buckets naked keeps em' speculating i loved it
1	kane is a killer named jacob goodnight he lives in this burned down old hotel where eight teen convicts go to do some cleaning most of them die except for 3 of them in my case it wasn't the best writing or the best ever i still thought that the killing scenes were really well done like when the one girl go eaten by the hungry dogs the best had to be when he shoved the cell phone down the blonde girl's mouth kane was a seriously great horror movie actor he had this serious look the entire movie and it would never change that was his only look the entire movie great action and killing scenes i don't think i could give it a full 10 out of 10 but 6 seems good
1	there's a brand new killer on the loose and he's doing god's work yeah right this killer makes jason look like a chump and freddy krueger look like a rag doll against this dude he is jacob goodnight wwe's glen kane jacobs a monster who wields a axe and a hook and chain those weapons are nothing to him his real finisher is ripping out eyeballs from the victims sockets that is totally methodical when the encounter happened 4 years earlier jacob killed a rookie cop and maimed the veteran after putting a bullet in his head how on earth did goodnight survive after 4 years now he's in the condemned hotel called blackwell and this hotel got a lot of stories to tell i thought this movie was haunting as well as interesting i liked the part where goodnight checked out one of the girl's tattoo on her back and goodnight himself is really deranged thanks to his maniacal mother if you think friday the 13th was something you better think again this movie will leave you on the edge of you seat and i think the eyeball rip was bone chilling this movie proves it point and it wasn't a waste of my time i enjoyed it the title don't lie rating 2 5 out of 5 stars
1	finally a true horror movie this is the first time in years that i had to cover my eyes i am a horror buff and i recommend this movie but it is quite gory i am not a big wrestling fan but kane really pulled the whole monster thing off i have to admit that i didn't want to see this movie my 17 year old dragged me to it but am very glad i did during and after the movie i was looking over my shoulder i have to agree with others about the whole remake horror movies enough is enough i think that is why this movie is getting some good reviews it is a refreshing change and takes you back to the texas chainsaw first one michael myers and jason and no cgi crap
1	this horror movie is definitely one of the best ones i have seen in my life and there are many reasons why the storyline is really good it has lots of action and great horror sequences in it the actors are not very good but there are not that bad but kane is definitely the best actor in this but he was always a good actor also the cast is very good such as kane as jacob goodnight christina vidal as christine michael j pagan as samantha noble as kira etc also i just have to warn you that the killing scenes are very disturbing but they are very creative but that just makes it better and you can't have a horror movie without blood and gore also they look very realistic so i am sure that you will not be disappointed with see no evil because it is a really good movie so make sure that you rent or buy see no evil because it is just so great br br overall score out of br br out of
1	see no evil is the first film from wwe films yes wwe word wrestling entertainment pro wrestling of course being that it's a wwe film a wrestler has to star in it the wrestler being glenn jacobs aka kane which is not really important as if you didn't know kane or what wwe stood for you would never know it had anything to do with the wild word of wrestling as the movie has nothing to do with wrestling see no evil is gross out horror film it has some moments were the some people may jump but for the most part it's just saying hey look how gross we can get not that there is anything wrong with that jacob goodnight played by kane is sort of a jason type character his mother tortured him as a kid with strict understatement christian beliefs and has warped his mind now he's a big scary chopping killing machine 90 of the movie takes place in an abandon hotel where jacob stalks six teenagers surprised and a handful of adults i could explain why they are in a creepy old hotel but eh who cares despite it's lack of originality see no evil is well made for what it's supposed to be kane plays an awesome killer and needs little make up to be scary one flaw in the movie is the most annoying possibility people survive i really looking forward to having them being horribly killed but alas does not happen i wish the film didn't have the stigma of wrestling attached to it although like i said the film has nothing to with wrestling people are still closed minded enough not to want to see it because given of course if they are a wrestling hater then again the movie may also make money because wrestling fans will want to see it either way see no evil has top notch effects and little cgi and like i said it's quite brutal so like i say it's good stuff if you like that sort of thing
1	well i'm a few days late but what the hell anyways the word that best describes my reaction to see no evil was surprise the film is actually pretty good there is definitely an ample amount of blood gore action in the film with a modest amount of suspense it hearkens back to the good ole' slasher days of the late 70's early 80s think madman meets leatherface with a dash of norman bates and you'll get a good feel for this flick while is thin on plot most horror films are it kind of makes up for it in the violence methods of killing the gore suspense the fact that kane does a great job of playing the highly disturbed jacob goodnight the title of the film comes from the fact that jacob plucks out the eyes of his victims using just his fingers stores them in big jars why you'll just have to watch it see pun intended there are certain cinematic elements lifted from other horror films most notably psycho tcm madman but they're not blatant finally really doesn't go into territory we long timers haven't seen before granted is no or tcm 74 but it certainly merits a look imo br br recommendation take in a matinée showing of see no evil rating 7 5 10
1	a dangerous psychopathic killer jacob goodnight is holed up in the abandoned and rotting blackwell hotel alone with his nightmares until eight teenage delinquents show up for community service duty along with the cop who wounded jacob four years ago when one of their own is kidnapped by the killer and her fate uncertain the remaining petty criminals must fight for their lives see no evil was directed by the porno filmmaker gregory dark and it stars wwe superstar kane as remorseless psychopath the supporting cast is terrible and there are no surprises to be found here but there is enough extreme violence and gore for slasher fans to enjoy overall i liked this film and you should too if you are into mindless slasher flicks sure it's cliché but who cares 7 out of 10
1	so the wwe has done it they have poured over into film their first one being see no evil starring their very own kane i caught this movie and went in not expecting it to be a great film it just seemed to cliché and looked like nothing new to my surprise it actually wasn't half bad a viewer stated above that it is good b horror movie fun and honestly thats the best way to describe it now the question i was asking myself was how was kane going to hold up well let's just say he made an absolute bad ass out of the character he sold the role really well and really did look menacing but what can you expect from someone who is almost 7 feet tall and weighs around in solid muscle the acting was decent and the story was nothing new of course but we all know that the directing as well as the cinematography was done very well and the hotel backdrop really looked dilapidated and well done considering this was directed by a porn movie director i was quite surprised i'd recommend this movie if you're looking for mindless gore and killing and just some overall fun think of this movie as a modern day latter friday the 13th film and save room for the ending too cuz it's a good one and stick around after the credits too
1	i was expecting this movie to suck but what i got was a pretty good slasher gore film most of the death scenes are adequately brutal the teens are decent with penny definitely the best of the bunch rachael taylor looks like a young christie but doesn't bring much to the movie other than that kane was good as the killer and is totally believable as a fearsome juggernaut i saw the twist coming from miles away but i still enjoyed the movie br br but what really stood out to me was the direction gregory dark might actually have a career in legit film ahead of him aside from the horror film speed cam you know where like the guy's face shakes all fast there's some good shots here the camera angles and environments really emphasize kane's size making him look even bigger than he actually is br br if you're looking for deep story or characters this ain't it but that's not what slasher films are about if you're looking for some good violence or if you're into gory films go check this out
1	this ladies and gentlemen is truly a modern b movie the dialog is stilted and delivered with wooden rigidity the premise is predictable there are a few decent twists and characters remain 2d for most of it and yet there is a certain charm wwe wrestler kane brings to life the sick twisted monster of a man with a lot of pathos though it is somewhat like his character that he's been playing around ten years and so i'll find it quite amusing when people say it's not much of a reach for him but glen jacobs is apparently quite the nice guy so actually it is in any event he's cast perfectly as the hulking brute and the deaths are suitably over the top jason would be proud but i heard at least four applause breaks for four different kills scenes frankly go into this movie thinking that you'll have some fun and a gorefest oh it is quite the gorefest the r rating is richly deserved and i actually got a little nauseous during some of the more graphic times in any event a very very fun but fairly bad movie
1	anyone who critiques as anything more than the playful and undeniably erotic romp that it's intended to be is just not playing with a full deck just from the title it's obvious that this low budget horror comedy isn't meant to be taken seriously it's as tongue in cheek as a french kiss and just as titillating the female cast members are all great and fun to watch check this out rolfe kanefsky is the clown prince of soft core horror unlike most soft core horror flicks this one is entertaining all the way through with charismatic and exceptionally attractive actresses the movie doesn't even attempt to follow the storyline of the robert louis stevenson classic but instead seeks out every way possible to create risqué sight gags and erotic situations blythe the brunette femme fatale who portrays the sexier homicidal side of jacqueline is a real knockout watch and enjoy
1	the problem with other actors cast in the of dorian gray is that they either looked too old for the part hurd hatfield helmut berger josh david gallagher ben barnes or that they were unable to pull off the english aristocratic manner without being stilted dorian is the perpetual 19 year old or so all milky skin and locks as described by wilde so the challenge is finding an actor that has the maturity and range for the part i e who can portray the callousness and but at the same time looks like someone in his late teens and peter firth pulls it all off in this excellent british tv adaptation br br gielgud as henry while considerably older than what wilde had in mind does wonders with his scenes wilde's have never sounded so natural and unforced especially george sanders in the 1945 version was pretty feeble by comparison and his costume didn't fit br br finally jeremy bratt plays basil as the most masculine and at the same time the most gay of the trio again a fitting interpretation in general the film includes enough gay subtext without turning dorian himself gay he's all things to all people and supposedly there's no drug or sexual perversion he hasn't tried in the 18 years covered by the story but that makes him more than homosexual he seems to equally wreak havoc on both sexes here as he should according to the novel br br of course the budget of this production was not very large so everything feels a little stagey particularly encounter with sybil's brother suffers from the obvious studio look also the final shot of dorian a puppet i suppose in his white toad like make up is more hilarious than convincing and death scene is inadvertently funny also as far as i recall basil should have been killed seated at the table br br but all in all this is a very worthy adaptation i'm sure wilde would have liked it the only thing missing is the sensual side not so much sex scenes but wilde's decadent world of fragrant flowers luxurious cloths and precious gems isn't really explored here i e the aestheticism is completely missing but like i claudius the excellent acting makes one easily forget these shortcomings of production values
1	playwright john look back in anger the entertainer dramatisation of oscar wilde's only novel positively revels in the homosexual subtext of the original perhaps too much so nonetheless the dialogue the acting with a cast headed by sir john gielgud jeremy brett and the brilliantly cerebral production marred only by a too quick ending make this worth the while of any lover of theater with a capital t
1	i will always think of mr firth as dorian gray if i live to be 100 br br perfectly acted and directed bringing oscar wilde's insight wit and humor alive with an absolute and utter perfection unusual in television br br more proof that the bbc more than makes up in talent what it doesn't always have in money br br a must have for all wilde fans and indeed for everyone else inspired and perfected every one of the actors looked exactly right for the role and every shot was well done br br by the end i found that i loved every single character in a way that no other movie of the type had ever inspired watch it then try to watch another version it's just not the same is it
1	i enjoyed this film and after it finished it still makes you think about it i believe jeremy brett is brilliant in this role although his death acting was a little over the top but as its jeremy brett i didn't mind br br this is a good piece of drama and does follow oscar novel very closely if you enjoy this film then i recommend you also watch an ideal husband with jeremy brett as lord goring br br this film gives a great insight into oscar way of thinking and while watching it the viewer is reminded of how in a way dorian grey is lord alfred douglas and basil is oscar wilde
1	in dramatising wilde's novel john osborne has condensed events eliminated a number of characters and generally implied rather than shown essential wickedness if you want a more explicit rendering see the 1945 film wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame but were certainly vastly different men and writers this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson's dr jekyll and mr hyde but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy whereas took the scientific route both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil with evil winning in the end br br the actors in this bbc movie take a different route too from those in the 1945 film john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders in his role really projecting wilde himself but with a subtle difference you'll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes peter firth too shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion but then we don't get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display br br it's a very good production with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel if not all of its ramifications
1	onstage john adaptation of picture of dorian gray is a fine tribute to oscar wilde's talents as both novelist and playwright on screen with some editing it becomes a bit sloppy due to the cutting of 3 crucial scenes from the play one being an important scene between basil and henry showing that time has passed the acting however is brilliant sir john gielgud to his wilde roots as lord henry and although about a decade too old for the role he totally becomes the enigmatic life loving cad and cynic that wilde brought to life so meticulously in his novella jeremy brett is also strong offering a touching portrait of the anguished artist basil peter firth while not originally my vision of dorian handles the role with style and grace and later with a convincing strain of cruelty the supporting cast is equally fine gielgud's former of being earnest co star gwen davies plays his philanthropic aunt agatha with dignity and judi makes a touching sybil vane the wit pathos and tension of wilde's work have been remarkably transferred to the screen my only other qualm is with the hair styles many of them seemed out of place looking more like 1970's versions of victorian hairdos rather than the actual style overall however the acting and writing elevates this production to a high level of small screen excellence
1	this is a great concert which featured the best songs of the band's 30 year career lee and were animated and fun on stage and delivered a great show that being said i think the audio recording was botched at the mixing console and or through the process this is not the fault of the boys however they even mentioned that the show was setup last minute so the band and their crew obviously did their best they just shouldn't have put the show out for public consumption neil's snare sounds distant and bass has good harmonic content but no bottom end at all they should have held out on this concert and waited for a better occasion only buy this dvd if you are a hardcore the quality is lacking in the audio department
1	admittedly alex has become a little but they are still for me the greatest rock trio ever i wholeheartedly recommend this dvd to any fan br br i was very disappointed that they canceled their planned recent munich gig logistics and regret not making an effort to see them elsewhere the dvd is a small consolation the greatest incentive to acquire a proper dvd playback setup br br naive perhaps but i still don't understand the significance of the tumble on stage i would be grateful for any clarification br br cheers
1	after searching for 6 months i finally found this dvd all i can say is it was damn well worth the wait rush in rio may very well be the greatest rock dvd in existence i'm not joking it's incredible all the fuss about the sound being crappy is true however it doesn't make the concert unwatchable i find it makes you feel like you're actually in rio watching the concert from the audience that's one of the reasons i love this dvd it makes you feel like you're actually there also geddy alex and neil have never been in better form vocals are flawless alex's guitar playing is still incredible and neil absolutely no words to say the camera work on this concert was very good i must say they gave us a good look at everything that was going on on stage and in the audience kudos to the cameramen anyways enough of my raving go watch rush in rio for yourself you will be amazed i guarantee it br br 10 10
1	these guys are excellent and anything they put out to the public is first class the musicianship of this band is amazing and we should all be very thankful we live in a world where rush exists future generations will never be able to see such mastery live and in person get this dvd and you will enjoy it throughly i was recently able to see these incredible musicians play in houston tx and was blown away i have not missed a show since power windows and i have to say that they are better than ever everyone should embrace these guys and teach others what real musicianship is there will never be such a tight and well put together trio again in our lifetime lets just hope and pray that they do not retire anytime soon
1	one thing that came across to me in watching this film is that it was fun exciting for the cast and crew i could sense that they were going up against the budget constraint with enthusiasm dedication because they apparently liked the people involved br br i tend to like b movies that are original and have heart and i think this is one such work the actors seem to me to be putting there hearts in it more than usual maybe because of some good direction from the lead actress director and they evidently were clear enough in their parts of the story to make a coherent watchable piece of art br br the critiques of this film that more or less say why not just rent a hardcore porn movie make the point as to why they didn't like the film going to this film hoping for a lot of t a without patience for the material of the plot is why it is so unenjoyable for them one could say the movie is more of a romantic work than a softcore porn movie even though i take it the star has done her share of soft porn i think she graduated br br in terms of the writing the dialog is not a huge part of the movie like in a tarentino film but the plot is decent and the twists are original and sometimes fun particularly the ending is not a disappointment but a pleasure with the villianess heroine and the leading man learning from their complex web of feelings br br i understand that the producer got a 3 film deal out of this hats off for proving a few tens of thousands of dollars can go pretty far if you have some artistic sensibility and pride br br gabriella and the other girls with scenes of nudity were likable along with being hot not just airhead bimbos so as an erotic science fantasy piece with some gorgeous nude art even with the limits of b movie land not disappointing
1	rush in rio is simply an amazing dvd this concert is one of the peak moments of the history of rush and they deliver their music brilliantly and with more power than ever br br i was lucky enough to actually be in this concert and not only that i was in the very first row grabbing the gate that separated the audience from the stage it's the first and only time i've seen a rush concert live and it was a dream come true for me i have no words to accurately describe this experience but i can tell you it is one of the highlights of my life br br some people complain about the sound of this dvd saying it is not very clear and polished but the sound you listen is real true to how it was in the concert it is raw and powerful and so authentic that every time i watch it i go back and re live that beautiful moment many artists record live shows and then they make a lot of tweaking so the final product is far from what the actual concert really was sure you can achieve a very sophisticated and polished sound this way but you don't get the real thing this is not the case with rush in rio this is the real deal i admit that i enjoy those fancy sounding concert dvd's i love music and the sound is a very important aspect but it's refreshing to listen to a concert that is so honest you listen to rush just the way they sound in a live performance no tricks no tweaks this is a real live concert dvd br br i highly recommend rush in rio the set list is fantastic and the performances by geddy alex and neil are mind blowing not to mention the crowd you can see how much they love rush and sing along to every tune even which is an instrumental i actually appear singing twice in tom sawyer i sing always hopeful yet discontent and in i sing only reflect it's just a few seconds but i simply couldn't believe my eyes when i saw myself in a rush dvd awesome i hope you enjoy this magnificent concert from the greatest band on earth
1	i purchased this dvd recently and i was totally awed that rush's songs sound the same as they did when i first listened to them in 1980 the lineup of geddy lee alex and neil is so talented that i want to listed to them play again and again br br songs i remember like tom sawyer the big money the trees closer to the heart limelight and the spirit of radio were played and the plus fans there singing along and having a great time and i swear over half the audience was under 25 br br writers who put down rush as far as rush fans like myself are concerned are a bunch of jealous dunderheads who like to taste rancid sour cream mixed with lemonade in a taco br br rush doesn't put on makeup wear spikes lip sync wear lipstick get in trouble with the law and have a band member brag about how long they have been unmarried all they do is entertain br br i give this dvd a 100 out of 100
1	having seen rush live i'm able to appreciate the awesomeness of this others may complain of sound problems but it's sometimes over dubbed by the overwhelming screams of 60 000 brazilians and it goes to show the band's territorial gain of attention
1	rush in rio is no doubt one of the most exciting dvds i have purchased although i am a biased rush fan of almost 20 years i found this performance to be flawless the music is heavy and sharp which sounds great on any surround sound system the band is energetic the crowd has a constant smile it's like they were able to capture every concert i've been to for any rush fan this dvd is a must if anything just to see the boys in brazil documentary which reveals the travels of this rather isolated personal band for any non rush fan this dvd is an enjoyable concert rush fans know the talent of these three canadians we have rather firmly stood by them for years i've shown this dvd or portions of it anyway to those who have never heard of rush or those who think rush is less than good because they do not appeal to the pessimistic masses of rock i e sex drugs and a drunken frenzy the bottom line is this dvd is worth every penny and more than worth the time to view it
1	i have been a huge rush fan ever since moving pictures and this concert is simply and example to everyone who is a fan why rush is so popular they completely admitted to playing their biggest concert yet and despite the rain in a soccer arena they still manage to give an outstanding performance from start to finish a real example of this is during the entire crowd start to sing along to it in a real classic manner in perfect they really play all of everyone's favorite songs with a real powerful lust that rarely happens anymore you get the best seat in the house for one of their best concerts given the second dvd is a fascinating documentary of the band while they are in brazil and shows you a lot of the backstage things going on and it allows you to see them not just a musicians but as actual people in their everyday life this dvd gift set is a must for any rush fan young and old and is definitely a keeper for your dvd collection their is even a cd of the concert for those who just want to listen to the music this dvd is worth it
1	a long overdue concert release rush in rio dvd is both compelling and disappointing this slick two disc set shows rush at their finest after 30 years of honing their unique sound it's great to have this record of one of the most talented rock bands ever br br the concert features over two dozen songs a documentary and three songs that feature multi angle viewing packaged in a bi fold holder with sleeve and a small insert it's priced very well for the amount of material it contains br br i'm a rush fan of the late seventies to early eighties period and this dvd comes through big with half of the show highlighting songs from that era i won't list the songs in case you want to be surprised if you attended the vapor trails tour then you'll know what they'll be playing br br playing in rio to their biggest crowd ever rush is a huge crowd pleaser here in fact that was one of the first things i noticed that was peculiar about this show throughout most of this two hour concert you hear and see the crowd actively chanting and dancing wildly to the music at first it's heartening to see the fans give rush a well deserved response but after several songs i was ready to hear and see more of the band and less of the crowd this is in no way a slam of the crowd of rio more power to them it's a critique of the final editing of the dvd br br which brings me to my second and main reason i hate it the video editing is terrible in my opinion save for the multi angle view bonus cuts the entire show is a frenzy of visual chaos it's like the director wanted to see how spastic he could make it i count changing camera angles on average between every one and four seconds constantly after about three or four songs my head and eyes were ready for a break which is too bad because i would have liked to have sat through the whole show like i was able to at the concert last year maybe this fast cut editing is the latest craze for concert dvd's but i really think it's an annoyance and detraction from the overall experience as stated before i wouldn't mind it for a song or two but the whole visual aspect of this disc is hurried or rushed it's really ironic because all the previous concert clips i've seen of rush mainly from moving pictures are strictly straight filmed with little switching back and forth it's almost boring visually speaking this dvd has taken it to the other extreme i know a lot of dyed in the wool rush fans will vehemently disagree with my statements but that's just my impression of it br br the bottom line if you're a rush fan you'll buy this dvd regardless of my review or any other i still would have bought it after i had read my review just don't get expect a normal concert who knows the things mentioned above might not bother you
1	this much anticipated dvd memento of rush's visit to south america in 2002 is possibly the finest rock video ever set down on disc the picture and sound production values are amazing even more so as they constantly battled the elements to bring this production off all the tracks you would expect from the rush catalogue are here from tom sawyer to the pass gloriously reproduced for the frankly brazilian crowd they actually to which is an instrumental and gives you an indication of their fervour the first disc is the concert and the second disc contains 3 multi angle set pieces la villa and the awesome drum solo plus a 30 minute documentary about the bands visit to brazil all in all this is a triumph and all serious classic rock fans should own a copy
1	this dvd will be treated with indifference by of classic rock music devotees across the world because rush just aren't cool it is a shame that rush have had to overcome sneering disdain from the majority of north american and british music journalists over their thirty odd year history as this has deprived many people the chance to get into a real band each of the last four decades are well represented here and what a catalogue of songs it is we have the seminal the magical the trees and the lyrical tom sawyer interspersed with the high energy genre challenging pieces from their latest album vapor trails the musicianship is almost flawless the stage show is spectacular and the brazilian fans are just plain crazy at one point they sing along to an instrumental each band member plays at a level that defies belief real craftsmen performing art if you doubt this try out the la villa or the rhythm method for size and yes the latter is a drum solo which has to be seen to be believed br br sound and vision production values are very high as befits the rush experience and you also get a documentary and multi angled set pieces to boot br br this is an astonishing performance and tribute to the canadian rockers and all serious classic rock fans should own a copy
1	how do these guys keep going they're about 50 years old each and act as if they're only 30 they play 3 hours of music at every concert and barely break a sweat this dvd is their first concert in rio brazil although the people don't speak english they try to memorize the words to the most famous rush songs and try to sing a foreign language at the concert with their best friends br br from tom sawyer to the spirit of radio this concert dvd will keep you in the chair not wanting to pause or move away from the classics that you've listened to when you were young this is their 30th reunion tour started in 1974 i went to their scranton pa concert and this was just as good although in pa they didn't play so i was upset br br they have they have the trees they have the pass driven red sector a limelight roll the bones and much more 10 out of 10 because nothing else compares if you never go to a rush concert then at least buy this dvd
1	personally i regard the egyptian in an extremely favourable light br br it was introduced to me by a well known australian movie commenter critic named bill who was renowned for his insight broad vision of people places particularly of films this movie fitted the bill perfectly i came to appreciate his commentary enthusiasm for this movie that emerged all the more as i watched it as i was literally drawn into it minute by minute beyond his introductory comments on my initial viewing many years ago br br to me it was propelled layer upon layer within half an hour into an intriguing fascinating production yes i am aware of its flaws but it was so enticing … the young man of idealism learning from inspired by his father … the peasant treated like rubbish in his suffering … the opportunistic friend however flawed but nonetheless loved by his friend the central character … and to be sure a flawed hero too like so many across humanity of all societies across all lovable worthy of love too yes i believe in a christian god but too i acknowledge the rights respect that should be due any human being of good heart who would not or will not disrespect the rights of his without just cause as such i endorse this film its presentation of a man of good heart conviction in his belief in the sun god he was devoted to such people will always be welcome in my world vision and hopefully in many more beyond br br so too the drama in the ensuing movie i have watched often as surely as it has touched my heart soul as surely as it seems to have infuriated critics in its era it is captivating watching the struggles grief loves of the physician when i watch it again i am always reminded of my friend in heart bill the film critic who dared to oppose all the critics long ago who it he added criticism of too many critics … that they make statues to honour stars on the screen or in history but they do not make statues to honour critics and beyond all this i am reminded with each viewing of a superb touching spectacle of a beautiful well presented drama that was not just relevant to the 1950s or some bygone era it was meant for you me across time place to every man woman child to their personal aspirations for love freedom overcoming obstacles to misunderstanding gross injustice tragedy appealing to those of simple faith of many religions that it seems too many regard as cause for war take a night off from invitations or unjust violence from bigotry judgemental attacks on others executed consider the merits of this offering not to the sun god or to power that proves time again to be so let this outstanding movie wash over you like waves onto a beach like the passing hands of time … like life was meant to be and maybe you will find yourself carried into its world of possibilities lost offerings no more 9 9 out of 10
1	i have to admit that i had low expectations for this movie but i was surprised to find it entertaining interesting and funny it's an entertaining thriller and not so much a horror film there were moments that made my hairs stand up even better though were the highly amusing occasionally hysterical comedic moments in the film you'll know which ones i'm talking about there also are a few great special effects and the humor and the special effects aren't necessarily separate br br the acting on the whole is very good way better than a typical low budget horror film the lead jackie in particular and many of the smaller supporting roles like the lawyer the couple living next door the pizza man are well acted if they hadn't been the film wouldn't have kept my interest and i would have lost my belief in the story this is a good interesting low budget thriller and definitely worth a rental
1	a fantastic cinema experience i really enjoyed seeing this truly magnificent film in the theater when it came out there is nothing to add except that is a terrible shame that sir albert finney still isn't accepted by the ampas american academy after roles in such films as tom jones murder on the orient express under the volcano to name only few for these he was nominated for the oscar the dresser is arguably his highlight yet br br i know oscars are just popularity contest but if americans like british actors and actresses and the oscar goes to jeremy irons daniel day lewis anthony hopkins emma thompson glenda jackson etc and they all deserved the award why they always left sir finney with empty hands br br on the other hand they gave it to john wayne and marisa tomei in cousin vinny i don't know should i laugh or cry br br if you have seen the two leads in the dresser you won't forget what is the art of acting watch this film and enjoy i recommend it to everyone who loves art br br i give 9 10 for this excellent film 1 point missing for non cinematic material after all it is just a theater br br note my criteria is much stronger than this on imdb 10 only for the cinematic masterpiece that should could last forever
1	i'll bet i watch this film 4 or 5 times a year and will do so more often now that the hollyweird moguls have seen fit to put it on dvd because it's a classic with a capital c this film is timeless how can people pay 10 00 nowadays to see the junk that comes out of hollyweird with movies like the egyptian the ten commandments ben hur captain newman md on tape dvd and cable movie channels i could go on forever but this film is so great and for a relative unknown edmund purdom carries the movie like atlas carried the world the story is wonderful the acting is first rate and the graphics at the end are so powerful you sit in your seat for a few minutes just trying to let the words sink in really a knockout of a film i'd give this one 15 stars if they'd let me they don't make them like this anymore but they should
1	this was the second cinemascope spectacle that fox produced after the robe notice how some of the roman sets are redressed to pass for egyptian sets the film is produced with all first class elements beautiful photography stirring soundtrack alfred newman and bernard herrmann see if you can tell which composer scored specific scenes however the principal acting is a bit weak edmund purdom seems to have a limited range of emotions and is uninteresting to watch the best performances come from peter ustinov as the one eyed slave and polish actress bella as the babylonian temptress i find this movie in general to be strong on plot which is rare for these large spectacles produced at the time all in all the film does an interesting and entertaining job of social commentary on what egyptian society might have looked like
1	i saw this movie back in 1954 on a double bill with valley of the kings these movies helped inspire a lifelong interest in egyptology in 1975 i visited egypt seen today the egyptian suffers from flat dialog and a few gauche touches but it's a glorious movie to look at the sort of thing hollywood alas just doesn't do anymore and it has a great story not just the usual boy meets girl or vengeance is mine affair too bad 20th won't re issue restored prints of this to be seen on the big screen
1	i would give this movie high marks for the cinema photography and performances i just read a user comment concerning the performance of the actress who plays a conniving courtesan who the lead character i remember a mini biography of this actress following the movie the last time i saw it apparently she was a holocaust refugee discovered by a french husband and wife in the movie industry who were taken with her extraordinary beauty she died very young and under tragic circumstances gene tierney is also outstanding in this film like other neo biblical films of the 1940's and 50s the egyptian reflects the morals and values of that time but is still great entertainment because the performances are terrific and the story so well told
1	there are many film now on dvd but producers had forgotten some of importance to many moviegoers the egyptian along with el cid and other favorites of the era of the wide screen big budget epics had merit many people from my generation learn a lot about history of egypt medieval spain and even the incas the first time i heard from them was a very cheap adventure movie with charlton heston called the treasure of the incas same happened to me with egypt or rome seen many bad epics of the era many production values excellent use of color the de color was more and sharp that the ordinary technicolor maybe the cast was wrong but in any case the film did to give us idea of the life in ancient egyptin and was in a way the motor to go out and buy the novel my one of the best if not the best historical novel ever published also oust anding was the superb score by alfred newman and bernard herrmann i saw this film many times when i was a boy it was not the big box office hit that fox studios wanted to the robe enormous hit in cinemascope and stereo was a wonderful eye popping i have the lasser disc version m the only way to see ito its format soon i hope will appeared
1	the egyptian is set during the reign of one of the most fascinating figures of the ancient world the pharaoh who thirteen centuries before christ attempted to introduce a monotheistic religion to ancient egypt the main character however is not but rather the fictitious as a baby is found mysteriously floating in a basket on the river nile and adopted by the physician and his wife when he grows to manhood he follows his adopted father into the medical profession initially working as his father did among the poor of the city but he comes to prominence after he and his friend the ambitious young soldier save the pharaoh's life while on a hunting expedition in the desert is appointed court physician but becomes obsessed with the babylonian courtesan not only ruins himself in a vain attempt to win her love but is also disgraced when his neglect of his duties means that he is unable to save the life of daughter br br flees into exile where he achieves success as a healer in neighbouring countries but returns to egypt when he learns of a hittite plot to invade although readily forgives him for his previous finds the country in turmoil the pharaoh's attempts to introduce a new religion have led to civil strife between his followers and those of the priests of the old faith and he is too pacific by nature to take any steps to confront the hittite threat becomes embroiled in a plot by now the general of the egyptian army and sister princess to overthrow the pharaoh and replace him with a more effective monarch br br the film's weaknesses arise mostly from its two romantic subplots in the course of the film is revealed as the long lost son of the previous pharaoh and half brother to and it might therefore surprise a modern audience that she should fall in love with him marriage between brothers and sisters were not necessarily considered as incestuous by the standards of egyptian royalty but the standards of 1950s cinema audiences were generally less liberal on this point in any case the love triangle is an unnecessary complication and detracts from role in the film that of the voice of cold eyed cynical br br the subplot which takes up most of the first hour of the film is overwritten and excessively melodramatic is morally worthless but fascinating and the role needed an actress of great beauty and also great dramatic skill to make her credible especially as achieves the difficult task of winning away from a woman as lovely as jean simmons who plays merit rival for her affections it is therefore unfortunate that the role went to an actress as comically inept as bella whose only qualification was that she was the mistress of the producer darryl f zanuck was not only a wooden actress but also spoke with a thick foreign accent made even more incomprehensible by a lisp she was not even particularly attractive by comparison with the two legendary hollywood beauties in the film simmons and gene tierney who plays br br the film is better when it concentrates on its main political and religious themes the other actors are better than although peter ustinov as servant makes the same mistake as in spartacus that of trying to bring comic relief into a film that does not need it his voice anyway was far too patrician for a comic servant role br br edmund purdom a little known british actor was thrust into the main role when marlon brando pulled out at the last minute but more than adequately fills the great man's shoes even though his style of acting was quite different he copes well with the challenge of showing the changes in character from unworldly idealist to lovesick fool to embittered cynic to the enlightened visionary of the final scenes victor mature was never the most expressive of actors but he is well suited to the role of a practical down to earth man of action he is better here than he was in his other epic from 1954 and the gladiators simmons is luminously beautiful as merit br br michael wilding hitherto best known to me as the second mr elizabeth taylor plays as a would be philosopher king who ends as a sort of holy fool his inability to make difficult decisions makes him an unsuitable ruler but he has a prophetic vision of peace and justice which lend him an air of moral greatness far beyond those who hope to replace him on the throne although had more in common with the supreme being of the than with the old testament jehovah or the christian god there is a quite deliberate attempt to draw parallels between and christianity in the film the symbol is the doubtless chosen because of its resemblance to a cross but in reality it was a common egyptian for life not unique to language often has a biblical ring to it his comparison of himself to wind whistling in the desert recalls john the voice crying in the wilderness hence the title of this review finding in the river parallels the old testament story of moses br br at the end of the film who has become the inheritor of the spirit of the dead achieves a moral greatness of his own the message of the film is that while we may need practical men of action like we also need visionaries and thinkers who are prepared to ask the question why for all its faults the egyptian is a film which is idealistic and humane in its approach to both religion and politics 7 10
1	i was on my way out one morning when i was checking something on the t v and came across this film i don't ever remember seeing this or hearing of it what a fun and interesting one to watch well my meeting was pushed back because i couldn't get out of this film it had some real interesting things in it that marked it's time in history and some fun things that they don't have people do in today's film because it's not pretty well there was a lot of realism in it the acting was good for a 1954 film subtle and genuine actions on the part of the characters that had me watching what they were going to do next that is why i ended up watching it i don't know why they don't show it more often i would rather watch this than some films they play more than necessary for history buffs people who like period films and those that are in the film appreciation groups will like this one the egyptian has a variety of flavors dealing with a lot of things to look at in human nature that has not changed since it's time what does that say about us those that don't like movies that take their time to unfold and tell a good story are not into film br br i haven't had the time to rent it if it is available but if i get a chance to see it again i would probably vote it a 10
1	it came before the ten commandments land of the pharaohs ben hur and it's overlooked today how unfair based on mammoth novel it doesn't cheapen it novel was so huge only a miniseries could have done it justice i hope it will be done some day whose message is essentially christian remains intact another of his books the secret of the kingdom first part takes place after christ's death in the holy land br br the egyptian is the rising of a monotheism close to long before christ the pharaoh wilding is some kind of messiah who sacrifices his life because he knows that the true kingdom is not in the material world he asks to return good for evil and he has disciples who will eventually turn into martyrs the scene when simmons and the other worshippers of the sun god are slain is visually stunning looking like some pagan ballet for the priests on the other hand this new religion would mean the end of their influence on the populace and that's why they look for a strong man mature who can lead the army against the as well as against their dangerous compatriots another religion or non religion should we say is purdom who during two hours believes in nothing the sequence of the grain of sands is absolutely sensational and rises the whole movie well above the average peplum br br there's another fascinating side the movie looks like a flamboyant melodrama not only for the screenplay notably sister's tierney final revelation which predates the ten commandments by two years but also the splendor of the cinematography in his book about curtiz talks about a atmosphere blue and gold notably in the scenes which involve the prostitute who contemplates her reflection in the water of her bath supreme narcissism around the hero all the characters appear disappear appear again but when they reappear they have followed their way and all the subplots come together with consummate skill besides as such is often the case in modern melodramas the story is a long flashback framed by two short sequences showing an old man who's remembering br br this is a wonderful sword and sandals that had a strong influence not only in america but also in europa notably in poland where jerzy directed a spellbinding 1966 which owed a lot to curtiz
1	this fox spectacle was a big hit when released in 1954 produced with great music and sets intriguing cast it moves slowly but interestingly edmund purdom is strikingly handsome as an egyptian who becomes a renowned doctor juggling three stunning women a jean simmons who passively adores him temptress bella who eludes him and a sister gene who wants him as her pharoah the movie's popularity has not waned since being re shown on amc preferably in widescreen purdom is particulary great his character apparently striking out with the women and ending up never married and a thinker is amazing and tantalizing in her femme fatale role victor mature michael wilding peter ustinov co star check it out
1	one cannot help but be impressed with the intelligence and scale of this film and simultaneously disappointed by the lost opportunities br br i found the script to be excellent and the vocal talent of edmund purdom quite impressive however as an artifact of its time the film suffers from too many hollywood isms especially poor casting too much lushness of the sets and too much pretentiousness edmund purdom who plays the title character is so obviously awkward with physical acting i suspect he had primarily been in shakespearean theater before this br br so if movie people are reading this i propose this as an excellent candidate for a remake especially if you cast real egyptians as egyptians
1	breathtaking at it's best intriguing at it's worst francis ford groundbreaking epic 'apocalypse now' is one of the most iconic and celebrated motion pictures of the 20th century and in my opinion the greatest ever film depiction centered around america's involvement in vietnam br br what i like most about 'apocalypse now' is that it is uniquely different from any other films of the same genre growing up as movie buff and with a particular interest in war films i've seen many films which have attempted to portray the and 'feelings' of vietnam but have been unsuccessful in doing so films such as hill' and 'we were soldiers' fall into the category of trying to capture the atmosphere of vietnam by depicting which are more often than not tainted by the zeal of hollywood film production br br in 'apocalypse now' there are no battles no heroes or villains there is nothing in the film that suggests that it is intended to reflect the imagery of vietnam through the physical aspects of war rather it is a film which powerfully investigates and explores the human psyche when it has been tormented by the absolute 'horror' of what was the darkest military conflict of the previous century br br the sheer brilliance of the acting in particular the interpretation of taciturn captain willard by martin sheen along with the spectacular cinematography filmed in the phillipines which provides crucial realism to the backdrop of the film makes 'apocalypse now' an unforgettable epic br br evoking a myriad of emotions and leaving us with a maelstrom of mediation 'apocalypse now' is not for the light hearted moviegoer it is masterpiece that demands multiple viewings to be fully appreciated
1	i had the pleasure to view this film when i was 10 years old having an existing interest in egyptology i know that there are subtle mistakes to the art direction and costuming but over all this is the best film to date with the look of the 18th dynasty br br the film only approximates the egyptian in plot a good portion of the text never made it to film as we have to consider the running length br br the music score by b hermann and alfred newman is beautiful performances as follows the late edmond purdom gave an excellent performance as an orphaned child adopted by parents past their child bearing years he states that he keeps to himself has the best education available and face it is a rather emotionally distant person given his upbringing and high intellect br br jean simmons is fine as a humble tavern maid honest loving and sincere bella people complained about her accent well she is a babylonian it is not that apparent in the film as to why is so insanely obsessed with her correct name in the book is enjoying her carnal fruits and gets his revenge early in the plot by leaving drugged body with the house of the dead's workers br br gene tierney as is brilliant when she tells that he is pharoah she looks like she could devour him in his weakness she is intense brilliant and coldly beautiful br br michael wilding is heartbreakingly tragic in his mission to bring all people to know his one god i believe that we are viewing thru the lens of egyptologist a a view at the time that had a pre messiah feeling about vocation did his monotheism influence the jewish people note psalm 104 and other egyption imagery in the psalms br br mr peter ustinov provided the alter ego to he is street wise and cunning a survivor excellent acting as always br br mature never thought much of his acting personally his is fine as an ambitious super patriot who ultimately has murder more than one person in his quest for power book br br i felt that the ending to the egyptian was confusing as personality changes too easily he has a living son toth dies in the novel power is handed to him through is half sister he world savvy now and has a grip on international affairs so he became enlightened he could have modified the priesthood as he was capable br br but no gives everything up everything including his son's future to become a ragged beggar preaching monotheistic love br br this change was too immediate and the major flaw in the script br br again the look of the film colour most of the costumes gold dress was too over the top as she is more richly dressed than the royal family music is beautiful br br i will watch this film again easily br br p s i know that you know that did not directly but i could not resist stating this fact
1	the philosophical meditative tone of this movie renders it one of a kind i'd give it 10 stars for that alone that being said though what hit me with particular force was what i take possibly incorrectly to be its art direction many of the interior shots feature a rich concoction of color blends seemingly based on very understated color model and complementary juxtapositions this makes the movie probably unrealistic to contemporary eyes but to me very beautiful as an aesthetic work in itself i think this movie is genuinely unique for this quality and if for no other reason earns it a full careful digital restoration fox are you listening
1	when this film gets it right it really gets it right and when it goes wrong i'd say that a full 3 of the film is great i can even isolate the bad bit it's everything that has to do with the romance everything that you need to know about it is said in the first five minutes but it drags on for about 30 i'd recommend skipping that section if you can it does nothing except explain his exile it should have been a minor plot point quickly thrust aside fortunately the period from about 0 30 and 1 00 2 19 the end is excellent br br there are a number of excellent performances in this film and an equal number of terrible ones just like everything else in this movie the acting is either perfect or terrible peter ustinov as the slimy one eyed slave is perfect it is one of his best performances up there with his role in spartacus victor mature as the ambitious is also perfect again one of his best roles jean simmons is wasted as merit the perfect girl in love with our hero john carradine gives a nice supporting role as a philosophical grave robber and michael wilding is excellent as the idealistic pharaoh who tries to bring peace and monotheism to egypt only to see it fall apart due to his unwillingness to fight now for the bad edmund purdom as is sadly miscast this is doubly unfortunate as he is the main character the entire film revolves around him he actually does rather good as the disillusioned exile and the wise old man this is because of his sorely limited range he doesn't seem able to put any passion into his words this is especially apparent during the love scenes which are beyond awkward he spends the last half of the film as an old man a performance at which he is decent enough at he does have the perfect voice for the character the less said about bella as the treacherous babylonian woman the better br br the costuming and sets are magnificent this is the only film that i know of that attempts to depict life in egypt that isn't overshadowed by jews or romans the film takes place in the 14th century b c which is before even exodus the only are the pharaoh and his followers there is the same strong element of religious zeal that can be found in most epics but it is done differently and it only shows up at the very end an interesting note by having followed by as pharaoh the film completely skips over the most famous pharaoh of all seems kind of a strange thing to do when using that name could increase awareness of the film br br be warned this is a 1950s epic film if you don't like that type of thing then don't expect this one to be different it is different but it is still an epic i appreciate this film and i appreciate what it did and what it tried to do this is a film that should be better remembered than it is
1	as valuable as king tut's tomb ok maybe not that valuable but worth hunting down if you can i notice no one has commented on this movie for some years and i hope a fresh post will spark some new comments this is a film that i remembered only snippets of from childhood and only saw recently when i tired of waiting for fox to honour its own past and hunted down the korean dvd in english but with korean subtitles i won't go through another long plot description suffice to say that seeing it for the first time in its proper widescreen format left me agape at the vistas and the scope of the film the matte paintings still hold up and the palace sets are truly breathtaking but it is the smaller scale details that lend this film its depth and richness offering a glimpse into the lifestyles of poor as well as its elite the docks embalming houses and taverns are as fascinating as pharaoh's throne room while errors abound on the large scale most notably the dynastic succession the details are more meticulously researched than the vast majority of hollywood's films visually it's not without its flaws the interiors are often too overly lit and colourful to blend seamlessly with the exteriors nevertheless this is a movie that should be credited for being as audacious in the small as it is in the large tedious in parts absolutely overacted underacted yes both though might be a more apt description too long absolutely not i wished they had spent more time with experiences in the house of death and among the and less with his 'romance' with though historically inaccurate yes that too but so was shakespeare nobody chastises him for it i appreciate historical accuracy as much as the next guy but ultimately it has to be remembered that cinema is theater not a history lesson
1	based on book this second cinemascope movie ever made is full of rich color beautiful music and panoramic spectacle the plot sometimes gets muddled in contrite wording but all in all it has a strong social content man is ruled by his emotions and that every action has an equal consequence but to truly enjoy this film first see the movie then read the book although different it sheds light on a whole lot of things that were not seen on the screen and gives breath to some more of the depth of
1	this is not what one would term a happy tale the titled leading character edmund purdom as the egyptian does not get the gal although he does evidently get the 'last' word the otherwise principal tragic figure michael wilding as the politically myopic pharaoh ends up tragically and the wrong guy – even if it is victor mature winds up winning all the marbles peter ustinov possibly had gotten the best part kafka and arguably may have stolen some if not most of the movie except for top billed jean simmons as the somewhat brighter barmaid merit whom just possibly has more on the ball – intellectually and spiritually than all of the rest of them put together br br the brooding and pessimistic the physician purdom is portrayed as a dark cynical tortured soul whom spends the entire plot – his lifetime seeking the meaning of 'life ' btw and to paraphrase john lennon 'life' is what happens while you're making other plans pardon the lack of philosophical depth in the prior comment but eventually the plot unfolds to reveal just that br br and speaking philosophically as if things aren't morose and negative enough john carradine the un named grave robber pops up in a cameo role in the middle of the flick espousing that 'life' basically is meaningless and is only worth living as a poor alternative to the eventual ultimate disappointment br br so here we are over 200 words in and i haven't really had a kind word so why the heck did i rate it so high well there is a lot of tragedy and bunch of moral worth in it there's ethical contrasts true friendships true unrequited almost love and despite limitations of 50s production capabilities it is very well sound staged pleasing both the eye and ear and very well evenly paced the acting is for the most part uniformly very good – given it's a 50s costume drama and the interactions are believable right down to the characters' fatal flaws which abound and in that doing justice to the best of greek tragedy br br there is some redemption does discover and embrace his son – played by tommy whom despite ustinov's best efforts really needed lassie to pull it off a couple of other souls get their just desserts … the 'foreign' bella – apparently in egypt on a carnal exploitation work study visa whom earlier cruelly even mercilessly spurned and the princess gene tierney as pharoah sister whom knew a deep dark secret about ancestry and then tried to use it to set him against his friend her brother the pharaoh – nice people huh br br performance is actually something to behold he carries off the dirge well enough that somewhere before the end of the pix you want to smack him across the puss grab him by the lapels and say look dummy pull yourself together the glass ain't half empty it's half full …and then finding that you're personally disappointed in truly best friend victor mature as top soldier for himself having that flaw in his character that prevents him succeeding at doing something positive br br i wonder if the secret to the whole movie is that it very quickly achieves and then sustains the necessary suspension of disbelief and early on gets you understanding and worrying about the characters caring to the point that you really feel sorry for them and their missed chances at happiness a happiness that otherwise wasn't all that far from their grasp br br understand why this one isn't already out on dvd and hope that gets corrected soon
1	i'll start off right at the beginning by saying i like this movie it's sweeping it's grand it's gripping and it's fun the physician sits in front of his small stone hut writing his memoirs and what a story it is taken from a river and reared by an elderly couple who doted on him he becomes a physician to the poor he befriends who sees glory while sees healing and both run into the future pharaoh forgive my who endures an epileptic fit br br and this pharaoh has another flaw he believes in one god instead of a pantheon of gods back then this was totally revolutionary and grow up one night sees a woman who makes him lose his senses he gives up his practice sells his parents' home and even their tombs just to spend a night with her does he i won't tell meanwhile merit a tavern maid played with sweet simplicity belying strength by jean simmons falls in love with she falls under his spell and under the spell of the belief in one god br br victor mature overacts perfectly as edmond purdom is sincere as the lost physician does he find redemption stay tuned even bela the woman who steals heart isn't as bad as everyone has said the fact that she was daryl f zanuck's mistress had nothing to do with the casting right yeah right still she wasn't that bad i've seen worse i think she did better in the egyptian than many of today's young actresses have done in anything i said it before and i'll say it again i like this movie i recommend it it makes you think despite some hammy acting have fun with this movie it's worth it
1	having read all of the comments on this film i am still amazed at fox's reluctance to release a full screen restored version in dvd yes the history may be a bit inaccurate and it is certainly not as powerful as the book but it was the 2nd film by fox made in real cinemascope and the production values alone merit a restoration and distribution i saw this film in second grade and it triggered my lifelong interest in all things egyptian culminating in my visiting egypt 4 years ago amazing the power of film on a child's imagination eh in high school i read the book and made a promise to myself to one day take that dream trip now true this film was made in the old school style meaning that egyptians were portrayed by pink skinned and blue eyed brits however has anyone seen the current hbo series rome everything old is olde again one can't imagine why in this day and age we are still casting actors mincing around as mayfair aristocrats in roman drag not one actor on rome could pass for an ancient italian that being said the period in egypt is still one of the most fascinating events in human history this film is immensely appealing to borrow a word from for its historical information beer brain surgery iron and its gorgeous cinematography and score i have a dreadful taiwan dvd version which i watch over and over again praying that one day a true restored widescreen version will be available for anyone else interested in this subject i highly recommend the historical novel a god against the gods by the author of advise and consent if anyone of you film buffs out there knows how to contact fox to urge them on please let me know
1	having been interested in for many years i was surprised to learn about this film via e bay and bought a copy on dvd for 99p i enjoyed the film the twists and turns in the plot and that the file was mainly about the main character makes it more of a family saga rather than an action film the costumes and attention to detail was remarkable for its time 1955 the back projection during the chariot ride now looks clumsy my main interest was in the character of and his monotheistic religion in this film he was portrayed as being jesus like in his refusal to go to war with the even through they were invading egypt and in his closing speech about the futility of and political power initially one makes a connection between who was cast adrift in the river nile in a reed basket and the old testament moses but this connection is not carried no doubt this will be fully explored in a new film wherein a moses like character carries monotheistic religion out to the wider world if such a film will ever be politically possible to make it is universally accepted that were women are concerned we man are stupid creatures but the relationship or lack of one between and merit the character played by jean simmons is hard to accept and that an educated physician would be so smitten by the babylonian femme fatal to the extent of giving her his adopted parents house and tomb is not really believable neither that his parents would even have a tomb in real life was the wife of and although did become pharaoh it was after a few others including who was the son of br br but of course this is just nit picking and the film is enjoyable to watch and that it is about and his monotheistic religion is a big bonus maybe following the de vinci code book and film this film be re made with the central secret being the foundation of our current monotheism i wait in great anticipation of such a film there are already numerous books on the subject
1	as a dedicated lover of all things egyptian this is a classic piece from the 50's along with my other favourite land of the pharaohs the sets and colours are just wonderful and everything seems so neat in the production quality i thought victor mature was well cast and peter ustinov a real gem the whole look of the movie along with others made in this era has an appeal that you just don't get with modern movies with all their digitized effects i have yet to see the 1999 movie the mummy but am sure i will love it br br top stuff
1	this is a classic war movie one of the best a stark image fest of flashing lights harrowing dark backgrounds and helicopter blades morphing into ceiling fans a star studded spectacle of immense power br br martin sheen is a mercenary sent up river to assassinate the general gone astray a sadistic dictator played beyond belief by the great marlon brando also along for the ride are robert duvall as an over the top di with a penchant for napalm in the morning or at least the smell of it dennis hopper is an edgy photojournalist with a view slanted views about the war and about his leader also in this amazing film you'll see up and coming stars such as laurence fishburne r lee ermey sam bottoms albert hall and keep an eye out for harrison ford too br br behind the lens is francis ford delivering a film with maybe more intensity and drama than the acclaimed godfather films he highlights war in it's most basic form which for the most part is something you can't see you can only feel it as the boat carries on up river the feeling of the war tightening in is quite unbearable the feeling of this is a rather claustrophobic feeling and really makes for unusual moods from the viewers honestly no films has ever made me feel like that br br criticism is hard to find the biggest qualm from some is that brando earned tons of money for a ten minute role but in all fairness this is unjustified it was money well earned a role that physically restricted him being at the time an unwell man and a role that he really made his own i can't picture anyone better for the role and if you get the apocalypse now redux version there's some extra bits of the great man and i think the redux does make the film miles better br br final impressions are that if you are lucky to get the redux version then you will be blessed with a completely satisfying film with a cool 49 minutes extra footage if not then still you won't be disappointed this film is up there with the best and deserves some great recognition and a firm place as one of the top 50 films ever made
1	i first saw this movie around 1968 and if i don't see it once or twice a year i'm surprised i've always found it engrossing well acted and for hollywood surprisingly accurate historically i heartily give it 10 stars and recommend it highly
1	maybe it's just a personal affection for this screen version of the novel or a fondness for things egyptian i grew up loving to visit the mummies in boston's museum of fine arts but i think maltin is a tad tough on this rather good film the production values are great regarding color and cinematography and it appears some effort went into historical authenticity much of it from the novel i'm sure purdom is admittedly a bit stiff in the lead role but one can accept this as part of character victor mature is well victor mature peter ustinov is a delight to watch in this type of role which he always did so well and so wittily bella performance as is classically camp and i find even michael rather dry portrayal of to have its own appeal br br the historical oddity of monotheism a brief detour in ancient theological history is interesting as is himself and well worth reading about the religious wars portrayed here have a basis in fact br br an interesting footnote regarding whose birth name was she was a polish who producer darryl zanuck and his wife violet took under their wing i believe they may even have adopted her her screen name is formed from and his wife's first names she continued her acting career in france but never achieved great success and after a rather unhappy life died at her own hand in 1971 br br altogether this is an interesting film and enjoyable to watch for the visual values alone american movie classics shows this occasionally in letterbox which is essential to capturing the scope and sweep of the story
1	it happens often while growing up a hollywood movie impresses a youth it not only lasts a lifetime but inspire him to study ancient cultures as a career such was the case with the 1954 film entitled the egyptian audience were awed with the sets costumes and great acting of this film so much so other films soon followed in like vain this is the story of a young egyptian boy who was left parent less soon after he was born with such a dubious beginning it is not hard to wonder why he will spend his life asking questions the boy sin oh way which means 'he that is alone' edmund purdom grows to manhood and continues asking why even as he graduates from the school of life to become a physician during his formative years he acquires a lifelong friend named brilliantly played by peter ustinov and victor mature who raises from a simple officer of the guard to commander of the armies his life offers everything from a quick rise in social status to condemned criminal to outcast a wondering healer and eventually to a station in life he never expected fine acting goes to jean simmons as merit michael wilding as bella as the temptress and john carradine as a memorable grave robber tommy rettig plays the son of the egyptian in his final years 'he that is alone ' finally discovers the answer he had been seeking all his life which he to his son now in the care of his lifelong friend excellent film
1	film historians have said much about ancient epics that have been the interest of many directors from the beginning of cinema the pioneers of such epics particularly biblical ones were d w griffith with his mother of all epics intolerance 1916 and cecil b demille with his flair for magnificent spectacles costumes and lavish scenes who can forget his ten commandments 1923 1956 or the sign of the cross 1932 nevertheless here comes another epic made in the 1950s directed by michael curtiz and based on the novel by the egyptian michael curtiz already famous for his great classic casablanca 1941 wonderfully manages to adjust his film to the audiences of that time to entail the most important ideas and facts from the thick novel and to recreate the lifestyle of the egyptians who lived in one of the most amazing periods in the reign of br br the first and most important fact for me in this movie is the psychological development of the main character that edmund purdom plays having been brought up in a simple family by his step parents becomes a physician all his life he never stops asking a question why and searching for the answer alluring love that he finds in a courtesan bella leads him to financial and spiritual disaster he has to repair the mistakes by hard work in the house of death and starting to build up his reputation from nothing first he thinks that the only cure is revenge however in the long run he realizes that eye for eye is no solution finally what stands before him in very strange circumstances is the temptation to be a pharaoh nevertheless there is one moment he finds the answer for his questions that touched him throughout his life the story of the main character though based on the book is so interesting psychologically that every open minded person should consider this aspect in the film the main character's psychological struggle is intensified by the times he lived in the times when probably for the first time to that extend the power of sword with the power of thought br br curtiz's movie also retains one rule that all films of his era kept to great cast and lavish sets there are mostly british actors and actresses who give very nice performances how is it possible not to mention the mainstay of ancient epic victor mature this time he is not hannibal or samson but a fighter a lover at last a pharaoh jean simmons appears in a very delicate role of merit a woman who loved all her life but it was too late when he realized that peter ustinov probably most famous for his gorgeous performance as nero in quo vadis three years earlier does a great job as friend the royalty of the film is also played by two great cast gene tierney and michael wilding tierney is excellent as cold desirous of power the sister of pharaoh wilding gives a marvelous performance as insane when i was in louvre in paris and saw original face carved in stone he looked very much the same as the actor in the film bella an actress born in poland is quite memorable as a wicked courtesan and there is one more actress who appears only in one scene but whom it is hard to forget judith evelyn as pharaoh's mother this voice these eyes br br the sets are magnificent the director recreated the most probable image of the outdoor temple of the god that the egyptians worshiped to in the reign of iv i also loved the scene of pharaoh's first entrance what a glorious picture that forever lasts in one's memory however there is also one aspect that i would like to draw the attention of all people interested to see the film the egyptian is similar to other epics in many respects but it also stands out as a unique film there are very few films which make such a wonderful use of different as for ancient times there is a mention of iron used first by the it's also the only film about ancient egypt which talks openly of magnificent curing abilities it memorably shows the contrasts of lifestyles particularly the moment of a slave's death for whom no one cares followed by the announcement and consequently the widespread mourning after the death of pharaoh finally the egyptian shows one historical fact there were other nations except for jews before christ where the spirit of god shone in some human hearts yet the only difference was that it did not survive that long as at jews' because it did not have a strong the scene of death supplies you with so many biblical and christian values that you may think you watch a religious movie br br all things considered i highly recommend michael curtiz' film it is a great production at multiple levels an entertainment for epic fans an admiration of marvelous performances for cinema fans a soul feast for spiritual people finally it is a beautiful story of extraordinary things which happened thirteen centuries before the birth of jesus christ
1	few people realize it but there was world literature in the ancient world before the greeks came on the scene besides the literary remains that are in the old testament of the jews there were considerable works from mesopotamia and egypt the summit of the former were the religious poetry and the epic of gilgamesh the egyptians produced many poems but there main addition was a tale of adventure of a traveler and physician called the story of it is from this work actually a fragment that we don't know the ending of that the novel the egyptian came from br br the story is unique as is the movie the egyptian was a best seller in the early 1950s and darryl zanuck decided to take a chance making it yes he wanted a showcase for his girlfriend bella as as well as the rest of the cast victor mature edmund purdom peter ustinov michael wilding and gene tierney but he was aware that these films rarely made large box office one can chalk up this as an example of zanuck trying something different br br the number of movies that deal with ancient egypt are very small land of the the egyptian the ten commandments both de mille versions moses holy moses cleopatra the mummy all versions the scorpion king if there are 20 films about ancient egypt it's is tremendous but the egyptian is unique while the second ten commandments discusses the great pharoah ii yul brynner and his father seti i cedric hardwicke and the films on cleopatra deal with her few other names of ancient egypt crop up in film greatest pharoah was iii who conquered most of the known middle east of the era of b c e or so no film about him has appeared nor of his usurping predecessor history's first great female ruler but the only known pharoah who attempted a religious revolution that approached what the jews and later the christians attempted a type of monotheism is the subject of the egyptian this is pharoah br br in reality was practicing a personal form of monotheism that was not meant for public consumption but it angered the priestly class who worshiped rather than due to our uncertain historic records although official records the tel el letters are quite complete as far as they survive we do not know if the pharoah was killed in a palace coup or not however he died he was succeeded by a young brother or son of his whose name is better recalled than any other pharoah except br br this film is actually quite good as far as it goes wilding makes a good natured who is too weak to be as effective as a religious reformer is supposed to be mature is good as the ambitious and outside the film ultimately successful future pharoah tierney and purdom do well in their lead parts and ustinov is good as friend also good is ms in a large supporting part in a wonderful cameo is john carridine as a philosophical grave robber the film is certainly worthy of viewing as one of the few attempts to show part of the history and culture of ancient egypt
1	one of the most pleasurable aspects of movie viewing is to get lost in a film to have it totally wash over you so that you absorb it as it is and thus experience it to the fullest every time i see it 'the is such a film over the years it is a picture critics have loved to hate many have thrown darts at its vulnerabilities but perhaps it is because of the very tone the film brings with it rather than its most obvious characteristics it is at once forbidding remote possibly dangerous beware of what lies within the haunting chords of the music seen over the 20th fox logo usher us into titles of other worldly turquoise lettering br br strange archaeological decadent it is as if we are descending into some vault of antiquity wherein might be great treasures mixed with uncertain hazards one might imagine darryl zanuck commanding 'make it ancient ' then what a darkly dramatic story unfolds all within the same tone set at the start br br of hollywood's mid 50s 'the ten portrayed the civilization's sternness the phenomenal 'land of the its nuts and bolts while 'the shows it all from glamour to tragedy for us to wonder at br br no need to say much about the players here but i think that with the passage of time bella is being redeemed what a perfect face for the role right out of a symbolist painting if her acting does not please some it might be argued that in her role as a she is obviously better in bed than yakking to some poor helpless admirer i think that curtiz captured the kinkiness of her sado masochistic relationship with edmund character with aplomb censorship being what it was at the time sir peter ustinov in his memoirs was pretty kind to 'the writing that it was 'like being lost in a huge set for his pronunciation of the word i have adopted myself ever after one of the film's historically accurate references the invented beer henry daniell what a perfect performance gene tierney what a screen treasure bless for giving her this role c'mon folks don't be so hard on victor mature he's a son who rose to be pharaoh sounds like a peculiarly american opportunity one of the best moments john carradine's existential observations on the sands of time and utterance about dwelling beyond the sunset of the world if that isn't grade 'a' what is br br of course along with everything else the music is sublime it is frequently noted that alfred newman and bernard herrmann created one of the screen's most compelling scores perfectly harmonious yet each theme is well developed with a life of its own newman pressed for time by called in herrmann someone he could trust implicitly to take up half the burden br br benny not the easiest guy to work with obviously respected newman enough to really deliver inspiring music they alternated cues an ingenious approach no spoilers as to who did what here but benny brings an edge with him mysterious awesome sounds alfred brings longing poignancy both are consummately epic even when seen on a squeezed tv print the effect of seeing the two composers' names side by side in the main credits which the ultra wide anamorphic screen could comfortably accommodate is spine tingling br br leon shamroy the dean of cinemascope does not let us down here the lurid greens and moody shadows probably distortions in all the terrible tv prints i've seen through the years perfectly accompany the multi dimensional script by the great philip dunne and wb vet casey robinson whom curtiz must've brought with him to 20th how remarkable it is that shamroy who was as much of an institution of cinematography at fox as newman was with music would lens a few years later but in the brighter sharper images of '60s todd a o these old studio guys are really heroes of mine br br to me who wants to fret about all the imperfections and criticism opportunities in a picture like this i'd rather yield entirely to its spell and dive off into its sea of lavishness to emerge after the inspiring climax of 'the end' refreshed moved and hungry for more br br and yes we should cry out to 20th fox for a dvd release worthy of legacy
1	although this episode was offensive to the syndrome association others thought it was funny while others thought it was a bad way to start the new season br br this episode was funny and just shocking south park has made history as being their first episode with the most cuss words unless you count the movie as an episode br br i enjoyed how they made fun of chris hansen and his television show to catch a predator i didn't like the idea on how they thought chris hansen would do a show on and let a boy speak out and bash the jews br br one thing i did not like is how south park thought that people with syndrome would just blurt out bad language like that i've seen people on television with syndrome and they do not just blurt out bad words unless i am incorrect
1	i tell you although it is funny how how this many swear words are in this one i'm sure the number of profanities and swear words in it would probably count up to about 200 because from what i last heard the greatest number of swear words on a south park episode is 165 counts of the word s t but aside from that its so funny because in it there is swear words and also shooting themselves in the head watch this for your own survival also look out for a mention of cartmans father and also the annoying voice of chris and also kyle has to save cartman from the catch a predator show is also on dateline and they track a down and when they got there the shot himself
1	la petit is a pretty funny south park episode cartman is at the toy store one day and here's a kid swearing out loud but not getting in trouble for it his mother then tells everyone that the kid has syndrome cartman loves the fact that he can swear without getting into trouble so he tells everybody that he has syndrome kyle however finds out that cartman is lying and tries to tell people but they think he is insensitive and is put in a sensitivity training type place tourette's eventually land him a spot on a talk show however he finds that he cannot control his and starts saying embarrassing things that happen to him meanwhile kyle tries to sabotage the show in an interesting way
1	this was another great episode from season 11 of south park br br cartman fakes having syndrome in order to be able to say whatever he wants without getting in trouble he is able to swear at the other kids at school kyle tells the principal that cartman is faking it but she doesn't believe it chris hansen is planning on having cartman to be on dateline to talk about syndrome live and uncensored but later on cartman starts to get so addicted to be able to say whatever he wants that he later on starts to accidentally say embarrassing stuff this was a funny episode about cartman faking syndrome i recommend it to any south park fan
1	this is an apocalyptic vision of the hell of our contemporary world the social criticism of our shallow commercially oriented values is what makes this film an exceptional vision of the war is hell cliché underscored by a mythical journey upriver to cambodia by a special forces captain whose mission is to eliminate with extreme prejudice a rogue colonel who's left behind the army's concepts of justice to create his own world when i saw apocalypse now in 1980 i thought it was a deeply flawed masterpiece in particular i found the final segment of the journey with brando which encapsulates conrad's heart of darkness to be rather boring i finally got around to seeing apocalypse now redux and the flaws have been taken care of redux makes the movie an outright masterpiece certainly among the top 100 films ever made brando's performance now seems full and complete perhaps rather less mysterious but much more profound martin sheen is brilliant at the heart of one of the best acting ensembles ever assembled it's great to spot a young harrison ford scott glenn etc in early screen performances that suggest what fine actors they will eventually be recognized as the work of robert duvall fred forrest lawrence fishburne and sam bottoms is greatly enhanced by the additional footage if you've never seen this film skip the original and head straight for redux i wish we could get a gangs of new york redux from scorcese to fill in all the gaps in that deeply flawed potential masterpiece
1	this is a simple episode ad so far after watching all of the season 11 episodes with the exception of the trilogy this is the one that made laugh the most definitely is my favourite so far of season 11 so basically cartman sees at a toy store a kid who has the tourette's syndrome and a new idea comes to cartman you can imagine now cartman has tourette's syndrome and is great since kyle once he knows about this is like he's faking cartman is certainly on fire saying whatever he wants to the teachers to the principal to anybody on the other hand we have kyle who now is the intolerant one basically for saying that cartman was faking he was taken to meet children with tourette's syndrome just to let him see that tourette's syndrome is for real and is great since kyle is like well maybe someone is faking to have tourette's for fun in short kyle could not explain that cartman was faking probably my favourite scene of this episode is when cartman is with kyle's family but right after this scene another kid fins that cartman is simply faking the kid with tourette's who was at the toy store cartman basically said to that kid this isn't having tourette's awesome but to be saying whatever he wants and be for everybody a brave boy is sort of just the beginning for cartman his master plan going on national tv to say anything he wants people will call it brilliant tv they'll probably give me an emmy fantastic in this episode the word s is used 26 times and certainly that's not all south park won an emmy like a month or so before this episode aired but here there's a twist cartman basically removed all the bricks of the wall he says now everything without thinking so we hear from cartman that he wet his bed last night now is not fun for cartman and he is like i can't control what i say and certainly the person who was with him is like well of course you can't control what you say you have tourette's so cartman is like my tourette's has gotten worse before i just blurted out cool stuff about jews being lame and stuff but now it's gotten really bad there is also stuff about chris hansen and to catch a predator actually what happened with a pervert here happens with a lot more perverts kyle and thomas were behind that to stop cartman kyle ends being saviour fantastic br br voices concern over south park october 3rd episode br br on wednesday october 3 the cable network comedy central will air an episode of the animated series south park in which one of the young characters cartman gets syndrome given the nature of this program we fully expect it to be offensive and insensitive to people with ts and garner numerous calls and emails from our members and the ts community br br we have already taken some pre strikes such as requesting that comedy central air our public service announcement featuring comedian richard lewis during or after the show in addition once the episode airs and we are able to see exactly how ts is portrayed we will be able to respond with specific issues and problems we have with the show to the writers br br we are actually surprised it took the creators so long to use ts as comedy fodder in this program since no disability illness or controversial topic is off limits to them said ungar president br br we always see portrayals of ts good and bad as an opportunity for awareness and education and a show of this magnitude and popularity is certainly no exception and provides a way for to spread factual information about the disorder said tracy flynn manager of public relations and communications br br we will be posting an official statement on this site with reaction to the program after the show airs br br responds to south park episode br br unfortunately as has been the case with far too many media portrayals of people with syndrome ts the season opener of south park le petit 10 3 07 served to perpetuate even further the outright myth that most of those affected by ts have involuntary outbursts of foul language in point of fact fully 85 90 of people with ts never experience this tragically socially symptom medically termed for viewers less familiar with the symptoms of this neurological disorder the misleading take away message couldn't have been clearer – unless you curse you don't have ts br br despite our pre airing trepidations we do concede that the episode was surprisingly well researched the highly exaggerated emphasis on notwithstanding for the attentive viewer there was a surprising amount of accurate information conveyed the scripted input from parents a neurologist peers and the therapy session with the ts children's support group all served as a clever device for providing these facts to the public no doubt this south park episode did generate increased national awareness about ts nevertheless we are very concerned that school children with ts will be mocked and even bullied by insensitive peers who may have seen the program said ungar president we realize that for over a decade the writers' satirical parodies have spared no group be they celebrities the disabled or political figures the fact that ts was the subject of a popular tv show attests to the fact that the public is so much more aware of the disorder obviously this increased awareness we've worked too hard to accomplish can at times prove to be a double edged sword br br contacted the program's executives prior to the airing and we will be in touch with them again perhaps we'll succeed in turning this into an opportunity for positive ts awareness
1	america's next top model is a good show it helps people with their careers but lately i have become bored with it br br cycle 1 yeah i'm happy adrienne won i wanted her to win from the beginning br br cycle 2 its too bad i think mercedes deserved it br br cycle 3 i did not like eva but i did not like most of the girls in this cycle br br cycle 4 should have won i don't know what they saw in but i definitely know what they saw in br br cycle 5 like cycle 3 this was not a great cycle either but out of all the girls nicole as a winner eww br br cycle 6 i liked sara and joanie but danielle is okay too br br cycle 7 definitely deserved it br br cycle 8 no i didn't want to win i didn't like her i saw other girls in that cycle with definitely more potential than her although i did not see much of this cycle br br good show i've just seen it too many times to like it much anymore d
1	i mean let's face it all you have to do in modelling is pose for photos the judging is so over the top with it's criticism the show however is entertaining especially with tyra banks nigel barker j alexander and the supermodel herself twiggy i've watched season 5 6 7 and in the middle of season 8 it looks like american idol gone sexy but i'm a guy and i only watch it because of the hot girls posing in their bikinis the show can be quite boring when it comes to judging tyra tends to go on and on and it's really off putting anyway would i recommend it yes would i recommend it to women wanting to go into the modelling business no
1	this is the best show ever no matter what you say i have been watching this show since cycle 1 this show is never boring its wonderful how you see peoples dream come true of being a model tyra is trying her best to help young women not be ashamed of their bodies and make them believe that they are beautiful in their own way and that you don't have to feel beautiful by being anorexic and just as tyra says on the tyra show so what if your curvy so what if you have a big round booty so what if you have a big nose so what if your not as beautiful as the people in magazines you are beautiful to her so what
1	americans next top model is the best reality show i was entertained 99 9 percent of the time watching it i kept my eyes open the entire time well i did blink it can be sad funny or addicting mostly addicting america's next top model kept me wanting more and that's pretty much the point it is also on more that one channel sometimes it's on mtv other times it's not i hope it gets more fans and grows to be a hit series it's great for pretty much all ages so every can enjoy it br br also if you watched the show before haven't you noticed that tyra has a different hair style each time in the judging room she'll have it short and curly one week and then long and straight the next
1	having dabbled in the modeling industry as a model i watch this show with a slightly different view than most might while i admit can be a fun and entertaining show as the seasons go on it seems to continue to drift from any reality br br the show seems to be almost pure publicity for its contestants seeing that none of the show's winners or fellow contestants have made much of a name for themselves out from under of the show's umbrella maybe that's because the truth is any girl with real potential to be a high fashion model shouldn't have too much difficulty submitting to agencies you can do so via email or snail mail if distance prevents you from attending an agency open call signing to an agency and starting a modeling career yes the process does not guarantee success but apparently neither does and participating in a reality show seems to offer less of a boost in the modeling business than signing to a top or decent agency which only one contestant each cycle has a guarantee of anyway br br nonetheless the show can't hurt certainly can be amusing and has a sort of magic that particularly works for teenage girls i have found though i must add may become a tad tiring and dull after watching several cycles as it has become for me and besides some unrealistic situations each more outrageous than the last the only other annoyance is the overuse of tyra tyra tyra tyra seems to genuinely want to guide these girls to success but is it necessary for each of temporary digs to be covered in tyra pictures for virtually every panel and challenge to include a story or scenario that tyra experienced and overcame i think not br br in my opinion take out a little tyra put back in a little more reality and could be a 10 star show instead of a 7
1	this is ten times better than who wants to be a super model on bravo i think it is more true to the business tyra is strong and sensitive at the same time and is able to get the most out of each aspiring model the photos look for depth in each of the models in personality and beauty strength and demure attributes and the ability to endure and work for what they want i enjoy seeing personal experience brought into the photo shoots and on the runway i don't always agree with the judges or comments and at least one of the winners i feel did not deserve to win but this is just a show and every girl on there is very lucky to have this chance
1	yes i watch this show because my girlfriend watches it of course well at least that's what i tell my friends but as nobody here ever known me i can say this i love it that's excellent trash tv br br first there's the panel tyra herself who doesn't miss a single opportunity to talk about herself yet she is to be taken seriously as she is quite the businesswoman then there's jay manuel a sober gay guy very serious and amazingly professional and miss jay an extroverted one queen of the catwalk and a damn funny guy and nigel self styled as the only man on the panel br br second the show is an in depth look at a shallow industry and we've got to give it to the producers for showing us the inside view which can be informative as well as entertaining br br finally the edition is great there is just the right mix of everything the girls living together in the ego house their impressions on sets the competitions themselves and the judging all of this slides smoothly with just the right beat there are no lenghts br br of course there must be other factors that led to eliminations that we don't see in the shows the panel is made up of capricious divas extroverted and quick on the bitching woe to those who offends them but that being said as long as one contestant does not step on their toes their judgment is usually fair i think br br so give your brain a break if you can't beat them join them and have a good time watching this bit of reality tv with your loved ones it will make crave for more somehow
1	as if reality shows like american idol weren't enough in which judges like simon shoot razor sharp barbs to contestants trying to make their mark on the music world barbs that many a time has reduced even outstanding singers to tears after what was deemed a bad performance now america's next top model has for the past three years invaded the boob tube with its own version of looking for the next big thing in a business that values superficiality concepts of beauty and body br br a concept created by tyra banks who is also a judge in the show it gathers some fifteen contestants from all walks of life and has them submit themselves to innumerable tasks in which they must prove their talent in front of the camera and subject themselves not only to the now departed janice dickinson self dubbed american's first supermodel but the equally catty jay manuel and nore marin who may at one point focus on one girl not performing well and blithely rip her to shreds like it was bad morning coffee like in many other reality based shows each week one contestant is voted off and must pack her bags and immediately leave a thing that they are reminded by tyra at every turn of course there is the bitchy tension between several of the more type a females female bonding tears dramatic swells of music in key moments and some truly breathtaking pictures that transform erstwhile ordinary pretty girls into unattainable goddesses br br i'll have to admit the show is a guilty pleasure maybe it's the state of mind i'm in but i kept wondering where the was in cases when the already thin girls would need to hurl to make the cut and look the way the judges and photographers and many fickle designers would feel was correct for the moment even so it's drawn me in despite my previous paragraph possibly because i've always had an interest in the fashion world and have always loved watching stunning women being made even more unworldly with make up and perfect lighting but i wonder where are they going with these increasingly difficult photo shoots it's as if they were competing with fear factor shoots that look like re enactments of fight scenes in crouching tiger hidden dragon shoots where the models have to pose underwater or in almost impossible situations what's next posing while tied to train tracks as an oncoming roars upon them at 70 miles an hour or a shoot where they are underwater chained trying to set themselves free in record time while at the same time looking smashing in chiffon and never ever forgetting to smile their pearly whites at that camera how about a pit and the pendulum version of a photo shoot br br in one thing the show has to be given some kudos and it's in a way akin to american idol with this i'm probably going to justify the harshness of both shows and its abrasive judges and essentially go against my initial paragraph america's next top model is a show that is an extended audition like american idol and in it the girls will get the sort of test treatment they will receive in the real world where prospective designers and photographers as monstrously fickle as they can be will crush them to bits at the drop of a hat if they can't sell themselves the way they're expected to and where one is asked to leave another will supplant her with the necessary requirements which makes it a wonder that any girl would want to get into such a difficult media but that's what dreams are made of br br going into its fifth season it's been a major disappointment with the departure of janice dickinson during her run she was a pretty tough barometer as to how the girls should walk talk emote express themselves and ultimately present themselves as a walking living product that sells with the cold addition of twiggy i wonder where it will go from here twiggy just can't replace the over the top temperament of dickinson so with janice's absence the show has lost some of its edge and may even have signaled its slow demise but in the meantime it's still a catchy pleasure to watch mindless entertainment on if at all for the gorgeous visuals if at all it's the show that launched adrienne curry into the spotlight curry has made a name for herself due to facts that have less to do with modeling as much as her love affair with one time child actor christopher knight in their very own reality soap opera
1	america's next top model is a great reality show in every sense it has a great hostess has great guests a great production and some of the best professionals of the modeling world contributing for something they hadn't achieved yet present a true america's next top model of course this is not something easy to do therefore usa and the world already would have 10 top models and fighting between themselves in this cruel world br br but it's obvious that its intention is not to present the america's next top model but yes the america's next pop model the show gets together a bunch of models without any experience with different personalities and big personal professional and financial problems giving them a chance for bringing to life a dream or to make their lives something worthy it's obvious that tyra banks uses all that for her advantage she gives the dream but in exchange for that she gains audience and more popularity anyway she deserves it because she is intelligent and if i might say that a pioneer to this kind of show tyra also is a great observer and knows how to give based opinions differing herself of other models and hostess of foreign versions of the next top model franchise in brazil as an example fernanda motta is its hostess and once upon a time top model she doesn't have even 1 10 of professional skills which keeps tyra banks on the top tyra have professional and personal knowledge about what she says and she's a great mentor because she not only criticizes but she points the mistake and teaches the right way with wisdom br br the show doesn't suffer from big problems it does and fulfills what it promises during the cycles the models chosen to work on the show in fact are not the best unknown models of entire country because tyra banks bets with the difference and she is right because she and also good part of her audience believes that it's time for the modeling world to change some straight parameters during the cycles she and her team really makes fair where the weakest go away and the promising ones have new chances to prove their capacities but must be fast to do that otherwise they lose it br br other very interesting thing is that tyra also knows to decide who should or shouldn't win even when she's against people's opinion she knows that whoever wins will be famous but has a very few possibilities to truly be a worldwide recognized top model at the same way she knows that some times the second place is more valuable than the first because 1st place wins the title but second doesn't gets the title stigma hardly she makes mistakes when she decides the future of any model during the show br br after 9 cycles the show is getting a little tired with some old ideas it's time for tyra to change some things and lines because it's getting boring and comparing to the firsts cycles we can see that she's getting bored too so she needs to do that if she wants the show to live a little longer br br anyway the show explores the fashion and modeling world but it's also entertaining for those ones that live outside all of that it gives the opportunity for some girls and also the market and also gives great tips for those ones from the audience who shares the same dream
1	i would like to submit the following goof br br during the bridge scene soldiers are seen wading out in the river asking to be taken away and seeking to escape some of the soldiers approach captain willard's boat and attempt to board carrying with them suitcases soldiers are not issued nor do they ever carry suitcases into a combat zone they have duffel bags packs and but not suitcases the use of a suitcase in this scene is absurd and out of keeping additionally if you look closely you will see that the suitcase is floating on top of the water this is probably a very good indication that it is empty otherwise it would sink
1	this show is my guilty pleasure all the way when i first tuned in to america's next top model i expected to be bored and to find it very very stupid i didn't this show is actually serious fun i read on one of the other reviews that it makes you wonder if you have what it takes to be america's next top model and it so does who doesn't love the glamour and excitement that come with being a model on you get to see what it's really like and who doesn't love hearing the girls bitch about each other and get into fights or enjoy wanting to throw something at that janice lady br br give this a chance don't expect something intelligent or a show you can look to for a life lesson just enjoy it for what it is serious fun
1	yes i am ashamed to admit it but this show is positively devine it's so entertaining and i have the absolute greatest time watching it ever since cycle 1 it's been great and i haven't noticed a downfall in it's glory at all tyra banks as you know is the host and as fabulous as she is there's also the other judges and co hosts such as j alexander jay manuel nigel barker and twiggy the main point of the show is for every girl invited to become america's next top model has to work their way up to the top by completing and winning photo shoot competitions it sounds great already doesn't it and let me tell you it is great it's awesome watching all the different kinds of photo shoots the girls take and each one is different cool and daring anybody who hates this show doesn't have a clue and i will tell you that this show will be on for a long time so deal with it
1	i saw this movie with my girlfriends and we all loved it it is so sweet and heartwarming a real tear jerker i was still thinking about the story days after i'd seen the movie it's such a beautiful story about the difficult things all families go through it's something anybody can relate to i really recommend this movie to anybody looking for a saturday night rental with your girlfriends your family your boyfriend everyone will really enjoy it d it's a real story about a real family that would pull at anyones heartstrings not to mention beautiful landscape shots and fantastic acting see it i'm sure you'll love it as much as i did
1	i don't usually like to see movies while they're still in theaters because of high ticket prices but i saw a poster for some things that stay and i thought that young actress looks intelligent and mysterious not like the usual blonde teenybopper bs so i decided to take the plunge and see this movie on it's opening night br br i must tell you i was happily surprised i went to this film with no expectations i didn't really know what it would be about but the raw emotion and honest teenage experiences expressed by katie boland left me feeling rather satisfied with my decision alberta watson also did a fantastic job as the role of disease stricken mother and i must also add that i was quite impressed with the comedic stylings of megan park as friend brenda br br the film was wonderfully directed by gail harvey and pulled together in the kind of kitschy 50's way that leaves you feeling warm and happy even if the storyline tended not to be so uplifting i also thought that the film was well shot many beautiful images of a 1950's countryside will remain in my mind for weeks to come br br this film as a whole was quirky and great i found it to be unpredictable and although the story ends in a somewhat open ended way i was still left satisfied whether you are looking for a fun yet powerful coming of age story or simply want to reminisce about life in the 1950's i guarantee this film is for you even if you have no expectations it is still quite likely that you will be most impressed give this one a shot
1	this film was both entertaining and thought provoking i'd recommend it to everyone who wants to be moved and challenged great acting directing and it is canadian to boot it is a film that families can enjoy and serious movie lovers the locations in ontario evoked such a sense of nostalgia for the era with so much garbage and superficial hype selling these days it is great to see that someone could back an independent flick for any family that has risen to overcome a challenge or an obstacle be it financial or illness this film strikes a resounding chord it approaches the idea of the afterlife in a contemporary way without cheaply capitalizing on all the and supernatural themes that have become staples in hollywood and the tv networks
1	i saw this movie at the philadelphia film festival today and enjoyed it overall it is an interesting and adept analysis of the all too common revelation that our parent's marriage was more flawed and difficult than we originally imagined in addition this movie is an excellent example of process of discovering truths about our parent's lives after their death and the issues associated with that however i found the sound quality recording and editing to be relatively poor and annoying it may very well have been related to the specific theater and projection conditions i am not a film maker student or anything and claim no real understanding of the sound production process but as a consumer i found the audio portion of the movie distracting specifically i heard very unpleasant lip smacking noises through out especially one long interview with the younger sister the film and often the background noise level was higher in volume than people's voices for example the scene when a small group was sorting through the mothers papers has anyone else seen this movie noticed anything about the sound thanks
1	a fascinating slice of life documentary about a husband and wife and their marriage told through the eyes of their son we all like to think that our parents lived happy lives that their marriages were full of fulfilment love and happy memories sadly many of us know this not to be the case of their own families and that of their parents this wonderful little documentary is told through the camera lens and emotional perspective of the son of a family that has just experienced the death of their mother the son being a documentary film maker has filmed his elder family for many years for as he states posterity three months after the death of his mother his father remarries his long time secretary the suddenness of this occurrence stuns the family and pushes the son to dig into the past lives of his mother and father what he reveals is a fascinating look into the lives of two rather ordinary people who like so many of their generation married early for the wrong reasons and found themselves stuck in a family life where they found they just had to make do a wife who found herself at times bitterly lonely and unloved and a husband who buries himself in his work she and intellectual at heart he a much simpler individual who seems to find most of his pleasures in the quiet solitude of work they are obviously wrong for each other this much is clear yet they stick it out for what well that's part of the mystery they clearly show affection for each other at times if not ever much love you won't find any truly shocking disclosures here aside from infidelity on both sides which in good part is what makes this such a gem you really feel that these could be your own parents if circumstances were different and indeed makes one question the lives of ones own parents
1	fantastic documentary a movie within a movie i'm so glad block forged on after his mother's death makes one wonder about the time and money spent in therapy what might have happened if she didn't have that outlet did the therapist help her or just foster a dependency that kept his bank account flush the audience needs to understand that divorce was less of an option in those days she was a housewife went to therapy instead of going to college or job training she seemed to feel trapped by the situation i wonder if the therapist ever tried to get her to think about what she could have done to change her situation and free herself meanwhile wife 2 was just the opposite she was out there working with his dad ended her bad marriage supported herself and appears to be a very confident giving person whatever the state of the marriage the blocks did something right in raising 3 kids who could look at their parents' story be ok with it and share it with us and maybe lead us to start conversations with our parents and spouses
1	this film is remarkable in how unremarkable it is this is the true story of one woman and one man and their quest for happiness amid the dull rote life of a housewife and man of the house it could be any couple any family in any town but that's what makes the story so moving it touches each of us in some way and reminds us of someone we know and love or of ourselves i laughed i cried i couldn't stop thinking about it and what more could you ask for from a film really especially a documentary this is an excellent film and one that i highly recommended to anyone who enjoys documentaries stories about families like yours stories about love life parenting loss expectations soul searching yearning wandering through life and finding your way or not
1	watching this film caused quite an emotional reaction this is what today's documentaries are all about it's refreshing to watch something so personal honest and real mr thoughts opinions and disclosure are rarely seen these days and are incredibly well displayed here it's a fine line to walk between personal truth and exploitation this film treads very carefully and quite successfully br br one would think that learning about how a seemingly normal couple falls short of society's expectations would give birth to pessimism but it doesn't quite the opposite it made me feel good i feel that i now know more about marriage about women br br definitely check this out it'll make you think exactly what a good documentary should be designed to do
1	it carries the tone of voice that narrates the book into the jungle of vietnam and into the wild eyed look of martin sheen and dennis hopper and the mystical morbidity surrounding colonel kurtz i don't say marlon brando because after watching the documentary hearts of darkness i am skeptical as to how much credit brando is due for that quality the tone of voice i'm talking about is brooding and dramatic without being overbearing everybody gets what he wants i wanted a mission and for my sins they gave me one they sent it up with room service it is indulgent without being narrow and alienating a good example of is hopper's indulgence into aphoristic madness generously installing lines written by t s eliot and rudyard kipling into his stony monologues i mean the man's a he'll walk right by you without even saying a word and sometimes he'll grab you by the collar and say did you know that is the middle word in you can hold your head while all around you they are losing theirs and then i mean he's a wise man he's a great man i should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas the first one's kipling the second one's eliot
1	this film took me by surprise i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a 7 8 rotten tomatoes users ranked it at 7 9 and the critics averaged an amazing 8 2 if anything they underrated this little gem br br filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents for posterity and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents outspoken mother mina and less than forthcoming dad mike i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker mike son doug was going to take us as a matter of fact i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this br br life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren't a fan of the documentary genre this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten 51 birch street is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience eventually millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work bravo
1	this is a really great film it gets you thinking about your parents how we all have fragile relationships we all have with them unless we really make an effort to know who they are as people and just as important we should remember to open up and show them our real selves not just who we think they want us to be definitely see this documentary imdb is making me write more text before they will post my comment how odd usually online comments need to be short short and here i am being asked to write more well i went to see the film with my parents i thought afterward they would want to talk about their parents but my dad kept wanting to talk about himself and things in his life he feels he screwed up which was unusual my dad is not a reticent man but i was surprised that he wanted to talk about mistakes he thinks he made mike and kitty came to the film to do a q a and there was a hilarious moment afterward when my dad was talking with mike while my mom spoke with kitty really just disregard my last few sentences to pad this comment and just remember '51 birch street ' go see it
1	for those who still prefer films focusing on human relationships 51 birch street is a must see br br by training the spotlight on his own family block covers terrain that is off limits for most filmmakers he explores a common but often unspoken family dynamic and does so without resorting to hyperbole or sensationalism in fact the film is deceptively low key at the outset br br in addition to providing a probing look at one family and by extension every family block has also chronicled a very specific period in recent history i don't know if this was intentional but unavoidable due to archival content br br highly recommended
1	in the midst of a documentary about his parents the filmmaker's mother dies but he continues making the documentary discovering a story he did not anticipate the result is an absorbing drama that has the quality of fiction in the best sense of that word where a likable but unknowing narrator unwittingly privileges the audience the narrative thus has a double weave the story of the documentary and the story of the documentary maker br br our admiration is with the filmmaker not only for doggedly pursuing his story though it risks his entire notion of his parents' relationship but also for never giving in to sensationalism or melodrama although the stuff of hollywood lurks in the details doug block treats the story as he would everyday life for those of us who have always speculated about our parents' life before we came on the scene or after we arrived but while we were too self absorbed to notice they had a life independent of ourselves 51 birch street gives fair warning there are wondrous things back there in fatherland but beware if you choose to enter there br br but that caution is for the audience to go slow wandering about in the details of their parents' past it is not a warning for those offered a glimpse into the life of parents the film is a marvel at making the mother come alive as a vibrant and passionate yet introspective person who makes her own conscious decisions during the 50's the filmmaker's particular success is to make the viewers actually see the young woman behind the elderly parent and grandparent we all know our parents were once young and vigorous but in 51 birch street the mother is the father who has been distant while the filmmaker and his sister were growing up ultimately remains distant in the film but that is due more to his own elusive nature than to his portrayal this biography turned autobiography is dramatic intense and unforgettable sure to send viewers scurrying for a closer look at their own family albums but more hesitant about looking at the backs of those photographs
1	i always thought my father had a second life and was eagerly awaiting the development of 51 birch street when i sat down and viewed it for the first time amazingly this movie's journey took me to places i had not expected and made me rethink assumptions and judgments truly a remarkable personal story told in clever but straightforward manner i especially enjoyed the film maker's use of pulling out the type of his mother's daily diary very effective i read the previous comment and wish to note that the sound was fine when i watched this and suspect either the film was changed somewhat or the theater could have contributed to the poorer quality of sound for the other writer
1	this is definitely one of the better documentaries i have seen looking at family relationships and marriage i saw capturing the friedmans a short while ago and have to admit i thought this was better br br the story is not an incredibly shocking one but it is a great examination of trapped personalities and cold war block deftly guides the viewer through diaries family footage and after the fact interviews his interview style is sensitive and probing and his insights are clear and measured br br 51 birch street is a great examination of personalities and relationships over 40 50 years of social change the social fallout and potential for redemption
1	the lone ranger was one of my childhood heroes and i never missed a chance to catch his adventures on saturday morning re runs during the mid 1950's somehow however this film got by me until i had a chance to catch it today courtesy of my local library i was struck by a number of elements during the story as right from the start you have a new lone ranger theme song before you hear the traditional opening used on the tv show the adventure uses tonto jay in a nicely expanded role even though he takes his share of lumps throughout getting beat up and shot more than once perhaps most interesting of all the ranger actually shoots to kill in a couple of situations putting his character at odds with the vision created for the tv series that he would never use his weapon to kill only to wound or to protect himself and others br br aside from that you have a fairly traditional western adventure the ranger and tonto come to the aid of an indian tribe whose members are being murdered by hooded raiders attempting to track down five that together form the key to a fabulous treasure interestingly the leader of the bad guys is an already wealthy woman disarmingly portrayed by nash her top henchman is played by douglas kennedy and it was no surprise to see lane bradford as one of the baddies character was one of the men shot by the lone ranger which got me to thinking how many times that might have happened in the tv series a quick check revealed that he appeared in 'the lone ranger' show fifteen times while kennedy appeared a total of six times br br what might be most interesting of all about the picture is it's attempt to portray indians in a revisionist light at a time when tv and movie westerns were still largely portraying the red man as an illiterate savage the character of dr james rolfe norman is the most revealing in that regard he's an indian who attained an education and went on to become a doctor returning to the land of his tribe to tend to the needs of all it's citizens for purposes of the story he had to impersonate a white man to be accepted by the local ranchers this was the hardest thing for me to accept about the story line actually as dr rolfe was the grandson of the elderly chief john miljan that no one in the story except lisa knew that he was really an indian was something of a stretch for me i suppose it was possible that he left the tribe at an early age but without that back story fleshed out it didn't make sense to me that no one else from the tribe would know who he was br br i don't know why i'm intrigued by this so much but after watching and reviewing over two hundred westerns on this site i've suddenly come across three films in the past month that utilize a blanket pull gimmick like the one performed by horse scout in this picture roy rogers' trigger did a similar stunt in son of paleface and i caught it again in the big country by a horse named old thunder in that flick it's done as a bit of comic relief in a situation that wouldn't normally come up for a horse and it now makes me curious when the bit might have been first done i'll have to keep watching more old time westerns not to be outdone silver had a chance to shine in the picture as well making the save of an indian baby that was about to be used as a hostage by bad guy brady br br speaking of gimmicks clayton moore borrowed a tactic from the tv series when he donned a disguise as a southern gentleman to smoke out the villains posing as the hooded raiders whenever he would do so in the half hour format it was always clever enough to hide his real features usually with a beard as done here one of the more interesting episodes i recall had to do with the ranger impersonating an actor in the guise of abraham lincoln br br keep an eye out for a couple of goofs i spotted along the way in an early scene at the opening an indian is shot by one of the hooded raiders and in a close up there's blood on his shirt but no bullet hole later on in the story ross brady and wilson ride up on the indians after they've kidnapped one of the villains out of jail brady shoots him from a standing position to prevent him from identifying the raiders but is immediately shown about to make his getaway on horseback with wilson
1	clayton moore made his last official appearance on screen as the masked man in director lesley epic adventure the lone ranger and the lost city of gold co starring jay as his faithful indian scout tonto was an old hand at helming westerns during his 40 years in films and television with over a 100 westerns to his directorial credit this fast paced horse opera embraced a revisionist perspective in its depiction of native americans that had been gradually gaining acceptance since 1950 in hollywood oaters after director delmar daves blazed the trail with the james stewart western broken arrow racial intolerance figures as the primary theme in the robert schaefer and eric screenplay having written 13 episodes of the lone ranger television series schaefer and each were thoroughly familiar with the formula but they raised the stakes for this theatrical outing our vigilante heroes ride to the rescue of indians who are being murdered by hooded white hombres for no apparent reason the mystery about the identities of these assassins and the reason behind their homicidal behavior is revealed fairly early so that you don't have to guess what is happening br br although the violence in this saga appears tame by contemporary standards the fact that the lone ranger shoots a bad guy to kill in one scene rather than wound and that a dastardly dame slays a double crossing accomplice by hurling a that sinks into his back between his shoulder blades was pretty audacious the television series never went to this length and when the lone ranger wielded his six gun he shot the gun out of the villain's fist rather than blow him away the other discrepancy here is the indians lynch one of the raiders and torture him for information but they are never brought up on charges from abducting this henchman douglas kennedy didn't have the villainous statue of lyle bettger who menaced the masked man in director stuart the lone ranger but he acquits himself well enough as a cowardly outlaw who kills one of his own henchmen without a qualm when the miscreant threatens to divulge his name and the identities of his cronies to a band of vengeful indians br br the lone ranger and the lost city of gold opens with a recap of the masked protagonist's origins as an ambushed texas ranger and his transformation into the lone ranger with tonto serving as his sidekick this opening two minute refresher is an excellent way to get a series oriented character off to a start so that everybody including non lone ranger fans is on equal footing the primary plot about a gang of ruthless white wearing hoods and hooded raiders begins with them killing indians and stealing worn around their necks the lone ranger and tonto arrive too late to intervene but they find a baby hidden nearby taking the baby and the dead indian they ride to a nearby spanish mission supervised by padre vincente esteban ralph moody of the outsider and turn the infant and body over to him initially the padre has to assure an indian maiden lisa of gaby that the masked man means them no harm and is their friend padre sends tonto off to town to fetch the doctor dr james rolfe dean of gun fever and tonto promptly runs into trouble in the form of the paunchy town lawman sheriff oscar charles watts of giant who abhors indians tonto tries to see the doctor who is treating prisoners in the sheriff's jail and men start to rough him up when rolfe intervenes and rides back to the mission br br eventually the lone ranger and tonto are able to capture one of the hooded raiders but an indian maurice of drum beat and his fellow braves abduct the henchmen and take him back to their village they stake him out and shoot arrows at him to loosen his tongue chief villain ross brady douglas kennedy of hell's crossroads and his cohort william lane bradford of devil's canyon ride out to the village and brady uses his winchester to kill his captured henchman little does brady know that his henchman talked the lone ranger and tonto arrive not long afterward and for his perfidy tells them what the man said before he died and the lone ranger decides to adopt a disguise so that he can learn more he masquerades as a gentleman bounty hunter with a mustache and faux southern accent br br despite its concise 83 minute running time the lone ranger and the lost city of gold lacks neither excitement nor surprises keeps the action moving ahead at a full gallop the dialogue is largely expository rather than memorable as schaefer and push the plot ahead more often than spring surprises but there is one major surprise that ties in with the good indian theme there is also a scene where the lone ranger pushes his own credo about justice available for everybody under the law at a time when supreme court chief justice earl warren had embarked on the high court's landmark decisions that recognized and mitigated against the conditions surrounding racial segregation civil rights separation of church and state and police arrest procedure in the united states one thing that differentiates the lone ranger and the lost city of gold from its predecessor is its epic scale with flashbacks to the age of the spanish conquistadors with a slight bit of science fiction involved in the form of a destructive meteor generally lone ranger stories confined themselves to the 19th century without dragging in european history no the lone ranger wasn't the first movie to deal with spanish conquistadors robert d webb's the seven cities of gold 1955 concerned the spanish searching the southwest for the eponymous places but western beat gordon douglas' gold of the seven saints 1961 to the screen
1	this second full length lone ranger feature doesn't measure up to the 1956 classic but is a fine film with enough rough and tumble action and moves along at a good clip the ranger looks into a series of mysterious murders which have a sinister pattern to them with peaceful indians being the victims of a gang of hooded killers there are more killings and violence usually associated with lone ranger adventures and the film has an undercurrent of racial insensitivity the comments of which are sprinkled throughout the screenplay the ranger uses disguises as only he can to piece together clues and expose the outlaw band and bring them to justice clayton moore and jay star in a colorful presentation that shows the desert and cactus country of old tucson to good advantage the music score is good but the familiar william tell overture theme is nudged aside by vocals that are interesting but lack the flourish and beauty of the traditional theme
1	the lone ranger tonto set out to bring to justice a band of hooded raiders who have killed three indians for what appears at first to be no apparent reason that is until the lone ranger discovers from a conversation with the indian chief that each man possessed a medallion the five given by to his friends as gifts we later learn when combined will provide the mastermind behind the hooded raiders with a map to a legendary lost city of gold can the lone ranger protect the remaining two individuals in possession of the before the hooded raiders get their hands on it is there really a lost city of gold somewhere upon native land br br watching this i kept knowing what was going to happen beforehand and everything seemed really familiar until eventually i realized i had seen this exact same movie when i was but a little kid suddenly the memories flooded back and i remembered having quite a fun time as a child enjoying this one with a bunch of my friends as an adult though the plot is somewhat predictable but you know this while not quite in the same league as the 1956 film remains a lot of fun to watch clayton moore is perfect as the lone ranger and jay as tonto steals a lot of this movie as he's probably in more action scenes than even the lone ranger there's some very familiar faces on hand here including douglas kennedy as ross brady of the hooded raiders gang charles watts as a bigoted sheriff and ralph moody as a kindly padre
1	you can find an anti war statement here without looking too hard that layer is hackneyed or you can find a value neutral comment on the madness of war stripped of judgement that layer is completely uninteresting br br or you can watch this for the darn good entertainment value of duvall's one liners but that's just a coating for commercial br br you can try to view this as a 'realistic' vietnam war film but ask any veteran and he'll swat down that notion most vets will say it stinks br br or view it as a 'will he or won't morality play nothing rich there either br br where i found the value was in the superb self reference coppola needed a container with great enough dimensions the war to fit the greatness of the skilled multi dimensional actor playing 'a great man' br br brando the man was as much of a maverick as the kurtz character the studios were uncomfortable with his acting 'method' yet he always excelled and won accolades the are uncomfortable with in spite of his strategic genius br br so coppola makes a movie all about brando's greatness to hammer on the point he places himself in the movie as hopper a manic photojournalist laden with multiple cameras to spout his praises brando himself is only seen in half light and silhouettes brilliant cinematography by storaro that only increases the actor's power and he goes out like the sacrificial bull to complete the narrative equation oh yes the horror br br other pieces of interest the great use of point of view camera perspectives including 'being in the long before private ryan the ground breaking use of sound notably the ominous sweeps and the sonic depiction of an acid trip br br don't get caught in the outer layers the rich part you should from this is the brilliant core of sound vision and self reference
1	a wounded tonto standing alone to protect three innocent lives a devious woman a deadly plot racial tension smart indians br br these are things we rarely if ever saw in the tv series but this movie adds them all into the mix while this is most certainly a lone ranger movie it mixes up the formula just enough that those who grew tired of the series would probably still enjoy it definitely recommended for any fan
1	back when in the states i was like about 7 or 8 i always woke early just to watch this together with a whole bunch of other cartoons like the road runner show the pink panther but this was perhaps one of the most memorable and funny animated works out there and i still find it very funny today i'll never forget the episodes like the one where two aardvarks were fighting over the can of chocolate ant pudding or the one where the is trying to reach the island where all the ants are at and my personal favorite the one where the ant the and a dog end up in an animal hospital which would later be the basis of a similar looney toon cartoon with sylvester tweety and the bulldog this is one of the most unforgettable cartoons out there in which anyone would love to revisit i would an excellent series
1	after seeing meredith in beyond the prairie i had to buy another film with her staring i cannot believe how she let herself into this teenage flick it's best to watch this one with the sound off but just concentrate on meredith as she moves across the screen save your money until the tv network comes out with a dvd on beyond the prairie it's worth it at any price this one needs to pay you to see br br this pretty lady needs someone to put her into a script that can use both her talent as an actress and her beauty as a woman perhaps some of her latest might fit but i haven't seen them she has the smile of a cathrine bell and eyes of dana delany with a much younger body br br
1	a talented high school graduating senior with a bad attitude is forced to play in the state all star high school football game when he meets and falls for an attractive local girl she helps him realize he has a shot at a 'full scholarship if he plays well br br all too often these dramas fall into formulaic traps and tell the same old story of a troubled and confused teen full matt certainly fits this profile but below the surface is a much more unique individual than we usually see in this genre matt is the center of the action and he is a realistic teenager both over confident and vulnerable optimistic and cynical by turns influenced by amy matt grows into a man of character and heart he in turn forms friendships with his teammates which influences his growth as an athlete and as a team player br br full ride has all the elements we love to see in a movie great acting admirable characters exciting sports scenes poignant drama and a love story still while one may have seen these elements in other films full ride is assisted by performances that are sincere and occasionally even moving perhaps what's most impressive about full ride is its sense of reality although the author of the previous comment would seem to disagree clearly a disgruntled student who for quite obvious reasons received a poor grade in his film class director mark grounds the film in a believable situation and location and does a great job of getting down to the grit of what life is like in a small town these characters are real people rooted in realistic situations which often create the most compelling entertainment on one level it is a love story on another it is a character study and yet another it is a simple football film all of these ideas come together to form a cohesive vehicle
1	the make or break of a love story for me is whether or not i like the characters and also if they click with each other matt is pretty unlikeable aloof braggart seemingly lazy and a misogynist he's been hurt badly by his dysfunctional mom and this makes him a little easier to take i guess i liked the details of his dysfunction he was believable he by bragging that nail amy he acts so cool around amy that he strikes out twice when they do talk he can't show her who he really is she and then him at just the right moments she seems so mature and strong that the traits of hers that come out later didn't seem to fit for me i found her to be incredibly sexy and pretty girl next door pretty i call it so i was going to like this movie unless it really screwed up br br funny things happen with the coach but matt's relationship with the other coach was inspiring the football scenes at the end were perplexing matt doesn't carry the ball but seems to be a blocking back folks he isn't the right size he's fifty pounds too light for that position but i thought his acting was skilled i measure that by the way i wanted to wring his neck a couple of times during his scenes with meredith monroe the film was all right meredith m was better than all right
1	to sum this story up in a few sentences a teenage girl amy uses her hot body and supposed virginity to entice a young troubled guy matt with a potential football scholarship to provide her a full ride out of town come to find out she has quite the reputation has slept with many football players in the past hoping they would offer her the same deal both of these kids have come from troubled dysfunctional homes matt's mothers a alcoholic who repeatedly embarrasses him in front of his friends amy's mother had a bad reputation herself got pregnant with amy at a a young age matt falls in love with amy tries to straighten out his life for her very predictable ending the actress that plays amy is actually 33 years old trying to play a teenager
1	i liked this movie i wasn't really sure what it was about before i started watching it but enjoyed it nonetheless it was about a girl meredith monroe whose mom didn't want her to turn out like she did she meets and falls in love with a boy riley smith who is town for a charity football game it's a good movie i just hope it will be on again or comes out on video
1	i saw this movie when it aired on the wb and fell in love with riley smith immediately i would recommend the movie to people of all ages who just feel like being entertained and not much more i wish they'd air it again or cast riley smith in another movie
1	after seeing meredith in beyond the prairie i had to buy another film with her staring i cannot believe how she let herself into this teenage flick it's best to watch this one with the sound off but just concentrate on meredith as she moves across the screen save your money until the tv network comes out with a dvd on beyond the prairie it's worth it at any price this one needs to pay you to see br br this pretty lady needs someone to put her into a script that can use both her talent as an actress and her beauty as a woman perhaps some of her latest might fit but i haven't seen them she has the smile of a cathrine bell and eyes of dana delany with a much younger body br br
1	a talented high school graduating senior with a bad attitude is forced to play in the state all star high school football game when he meets and falls for an attractive local girl she helps him realize he has a shot at a 'full scholarship if he plays well br br all too often these dramas fall into formulaic traps and tell the same old story of a troubled and confused teen full matt certainly fits this profile but below the surface is a much more unique individual than we usually see in this genre matt is the center of the action and he is a realistic teenager both over confident and vulnerable optimistic and cynical by turns influenced by amy matt grows into a man of character and heart he in turn forms friendships with his teammates which influences his growth as an athlete and as a team player br br full ride has all the elements we love to see in a movie great acting admirable characters exciting sports scenes poignant drama and a love story still while one may have seen these elements in other films full ride is assisted by performances that are sincere and occasionally even moving perhaps what's most impressive about full ride is its sense of reality although the author of the previous comment would seem to disagree clearly a disgruntled student who for quite obvious reasons received a poor grade in his film class director mark grounds the film in a believable situation and location and does a great job of getting down to the grit of what life is like in a small town these characters are real people rooted in realistic situations which often create the most compelling entertainment on one level it is a love story on another it is a character study and yet another it is a simple football film all of these ideas come together to form a cohesive vehicle
1	i have seen this movie 4 times in 5 months and i never get tired of it just because it is perfect and it has also got the best film music ever and the best supporting roles ever written for a movie i mean you just have to love robert duval marlon brando martin sheen and fishburne in this movie but specially duval i can not believe that kramer vs kramer did win an oscar in stead of this amazing war movie so this is my conclusion if you take the director of the worlds greatest movie the godfather and the best of hollywood actors you can only succeed now i just have to writhe something to get this preview so do not read this except the last line this movie rules
1	beautiful coming of age romance about an english boy and french girl who run off and grow up br br i saw this movie as a teenager and loved it i saw it again this year and loved again br br
1	when i first heard about this movie i noticed it was one of the most controversial films of the 1970s i noticed the music was by elton john so i figured i had nothing to loose so i got it what a surprise the movie was awesome it was true love is all about the characters paul and michelle had no luxuries no money and sometimes no food yet they were still happy i recommended this film to all my friends but they all my tastes and even called me names becuase the movie featured two minors naked i think that only made the movie more realistic the cinematography was great and it only come to show the great abilities of director lewis gilbert
1	i saw this movie when it was first released and thoroughly enjoyed it the music and scenery are beautiful i purchased the vhs tape a few years ago and watch it frequently i would recommend it to anyone who loves a romance movie or older elton john music
1	i too saw this movie when it first came out i was a teenager at the time and i saw it with my girl friend who later became my wife i remember the movie made me feel it was possible to beat the odds the cinematography was very well done if memory serves me correctly the boy was a little much but the girl character was very interesting i thought it was very romantic and that might have been the intro to the first time with my then girlfriend i have not seen the movie since and i wander why it has gone to the wayside i would love to watch it again to see if it was as good as i remember the elton john sound track was excellent
1	my wife and i saw this when we were 17 the only good thing my father ever did get us in this is our movie and the music is our songs michelle's song is our song yeah nowadays it's a crime to show naked children on the screen but we were screwing at 16 why not these kids the movie is rich boy impregnates poor girl then rich dad steals him away from her at the end after she gives birth under impoverished conditions she is left alone with child it is a love story and a growing up story the music is fantastic and the story is one any person could relate to may be someday this will be released on dvd
1	when i first heard about this movie i noticed it was one of the most controversial films of the 1970s i noticed the music was by elton john so i figured i had nothing to loose so i got it what a surprise the movie was awesome it was true love is all about the characters paul and michelle had no luxuries no money and sometimes no food yet they were still happy i recommended this film to all my friends but they all my tastes and even called me names becuase the movie featured two minors naked i think that only made the movie more realistic the cinematography was great and it only come to show the great abilities of director lewis gilbert
1	i saw this movie when it was first released and thoroughly enjoyed it what a movie i am in my 40s now and have 2 teenage kids and i would like them to see this movie i would recommend it to anyone who loves a romance movie or older elton john music br br i have searched most of the stores that sell both new and old movies but have not come across any br br i bought some old movies like melody in hong kong who had quite a collection of old movie but they did not have this br br i am also looking at the sequel paul michelle br br can anyone please tell me how to get a copy of the vhs or dvd or vcd br br really appreciate it br br many thanks
1	i was drawn to friends by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called seasons then i found the elton john song friends thinking it was the same song it's been 35 years of so anyway the flood of the emotions of friends came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production plot etc so forgive me for a rather poor review i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was i'm both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now so many movies which seemed so important to me back then i e the graduate easy rider now just seem silly and i don't want this to fall into the same category but i will find it and if it turns out silly then at least i'll be able to turn my wife onto a great no outstanding soundtrack when we met we went through this with last tango in paris the youngsters i work with i'm 56 respect my opinions but it's hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little aged now i just can't figure out if the the aging process is the movies or me friends is a very special sensitive and wonderful movie it will bring back a lot of special feelings i'm sure by all means rent or buy a copy indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today
1	this film grabbed me right from its start where a sweet looking teen aged girl is shown visiting a grave alone then elton john's powerful song friends starts playing while she's shown walking alone through the streets of paris carrying a suitcase naively unaware of the car theft and prostitution going on around her the entire film is a beautiful dreamy romantic collection of scenes of young love holding hands living in the country wild horses running around freely fields of sunsets toasts of wine evenings by the fireside having fun and general innocence all set to romantic music by elton john it's magical br br somehow i missed seeing this film when i was growing up i'm sure it would have left a strong impression on me if i had seen it then i remember the radio advertisement for the movie in 1971 talking about how it was a special movie with music by elton john and with the chorus of the theme song friends playing in the ad friends for the world to see but i never heard anything else about it in those days and never got to see it until i rented it 35 years later from a video store by then it had been edited censored and all kinds of unhappy people with angry political agendas were using all kinds of ugly words to describe the film what can i say the world has gone insane since then br br the story is that a 14 year old girl is forced to move in with her cousin in paris after both her parents die it was their grave she was visiting in the opening scene one day while visiting the zoo alone she meets a 15 year old boy they hit it off and agree to meet the next day the next day while riding together the boy accidentally drives his car into a lake in a freakish solo car accident it was his father's car he can't bear to go back home to face his father's wrath so the two teenagers begin living in the french countryside together with the mutual background that they both hated their lives at home they settle into an unoccupied cottage the boy takes odd jobs to support themselves their supposed friendship turns into romance the girl becomes pregnant and they successfully have a baby at home all the while the boy's father has the police attempting to locate his missing son on the 1 year anniversary of the couple's flight together the police finally locate the boy's employer by an in person inquiry and are told they can see the boy the next morning when he comes to work the next morning the boy is shown leaving his cottage to go to work saying a sweet farewell to his girlfriend wife and happily doing cartwheels as the scene freezes on his girlfriend waving goodbye at least that's how the video version i saw ends it's an unexpected though well timed ending presumably depicting the last moments of bliss before the boy is taken back to his parents' home and his happy life with his wife and baby is shattered br br as beautiful as the story and images are the plot is awfully unrealistic and highly contrived i think it's better just to enjoy the movie as a young person's dream come true fantasy and to go no further in analysis because all logic and believability quickly fall apart when the story is examined in more depth why would a fully furnished and stocked cottage be left unattended with the door unlocked and for a full year what did they plan to do when the owners returned why would a girl trust a car thief enough to get pregnant from him didn't they think it was unethical to use other people's homes and food how could they ever hope to get needed dental care or other emergency medical attention while living outside of society how could the boy have a car accident on a country road with no collision and no other cars around where are there places anywhere near civilization where wild horses run free how is it that a teenage male would not have sex as the primary thing on his mind when he picks up a girl at a zoo the elton john song lyrics just don't fit why would they take off clothes when sleeping outside at night when it's about to get cold and so on the scenes of wild horses are contrived to appeal to girls as is the unrealistic theme of friendship before romance and all the back washing and tickling scenes with their predictable outcomes the running through flower fields towards each other the haze filters the scenes shot through in the foreground the baby ducks and so on it works but it's definitely contrived br br still this is a movie about youth and freedom and that ideal hasn't changed since the 1970s young people today are still treated as belongings or as lost pets to be recovered by the police instead of treated as mature human beings who have the same needs of romantic love and freedom as does the adult world and the ability to be responsible when given that freedom therefore the message is universal it's clear why a sequel wouldn't work this story is about a magical year long reprieve from the real world such a situation could never have been extended indefinitely assuming that it could even happen in the first place and a story about real life afterward would lack the magical appeal of such an unreal state of existence i really hope that no teenagers took the film seriously enough to try such a foolish stunt but i hope equally well that teenagers who were impressed by this film in the '70s learned something from it and have since then made attempts to make such a magical world a more attainable reality for others instead of perpetuating society's various hatreds and repressions especially on their own children
1	great movie the sound track is awesome very relaxing sound elton was ahead of his own time even back in 1971 lewis gilbert did a magnificent job producing and directing this film the movie was romantic and a breath of fresh air the sound tracks written by sir elton complimented the movie to a t rex morris does a great job with the tenor sax on the song honey roll and poem i meant to do my work today by richard le was incredible kudos to everyone involved with this fantastic film it was no surprise that a lot of the people involved with this movie went on to become the best in their field
1	brilliant actors and brilliant picture i love the chopper scene with the music in the beginning it is just so touching and at the same time real but at the same time surrealistic the vietnam war was far from human and i believe this movie kind of shows have terrible human beings can act under certain circumstances modern war movies are spending so much money on effects this is just a straight forward smart movie that takes you beyond your imagination a movie that really pictures evil and hate mixed in and fate how insane the world is and the power of will and friendship love and passion a must seen movie and without any doubts the best war movie ever many tried to copy but still there are no movie even close as good as this
1	i haven't seen this movie since it came out at a drive in theater and i have been searching for it since at the time i was 12 and the story excited me and now the ending eludes me it was young love that engrossed me the most not to mention john's vocals and lyrics the story at the time hit home to my psyche i am a lover of sentimental movies and this still hangs in my head after 35 years it is that good place yourself at adolescent age and let your fantasies run if this movie didn't excite your curiosity then you were just too old i look forward to seeing it again even at my age if nostalgia is in your venue i'm sure this is an interesting movie to see it's innocence is simply astounding and it's simplicity is so easy and enjoyable
1	my girlfriend and i saw this movie when it was originally released the controversy that surrounded the original release teen nudity physical intimacy and unwed pregnancy were subjects that never touched our view of the film we were close to the same age as paul and michelle and were experiencing many of the same intense and confusing emotions we were too young to get caught up in the simplistic at times acting and the corny at times emotional twists this movie spoke to us in a way that an adult love story never could have i still remember sitting in the movie theater with my girlfriend and holding her hand while she cried during the tragic albiet syrupy final scenes
1	michelle was so nice and i really fall in love with her she died a few months ago friends really the best movie of my youth the seasons reprise of elton and his arranger paul buckmaster sings in my head forever please if you know where i could find a vhs of the film mail me my husband of 26 years i saw this as juniors in hs yes he was my boyfriend then and still continues to be i think we both cried our eyes out i think possibly we were drawn to the movie by the elton john music in it but were then swept away by the teenage angst of it all paul and michelle were just about our ages when we saw the movie so very easy to identify with it is wonderful to hear that sean is doing well i am also in the helping professions an rn i thought his performance was good and very believable michelle came across as very sweet fragile and vulnerable i think the main theme is that if they didn't have to deal with the real world then they could be happy and continue to be in love how many times have all of us wanted to just have a moment if we all had no outside worries and could just deal with our basic needs it could be somewhat easier i have a 15 yr old daughter and wouldn't have a problem with her seeing this movie kids see so much worse these days that this is very tame for those of you who are trying to locate the cd my husband a huge elton john fan was able to get a 2 cd set which came out in 1992 it is called elton john rare masters polygram studios this has all the friends songs as well as many others as far as we know this is the only cd with the friends music we also had the lp years ago and were thrilled to find the cd good luck i recommend this movie for anyone who loves the young love theme i only wish it was on dvd now
1	i was in my mid teens when i saw this movie and i was struck by the beauty of the young stars as well as the loving cinematography and the simple sweetness of the story it amazes me to learn that has recently died that bury apparently has not worked in the film business for almost 30 years and that both would be in their 50s br br the elton john soundtrack is amazingly beautiful and supports the air of protected innocence the characters experience in seclusion i have seen the movie poster billing it as deux enfants which apparently means something like two children who like each other the english language distributors were wise to the title br br paul the ignored 15 year old son of an english businessman living in paris meets michelle an orphan at the zoo the two take what they intend as a day long holiday to michelle's late father's rural cottage but end up staying there for a year isolated from the outside world they fall in love michelle gets pregnant and they have the baby alone at home after the baby's birth the police come to paul's work place and take him away br br blue lagoon comes to mind as another film that almost captures the theme of innocence protected in an isolated paradise so sad that friends has never been released on dvd
1	well i wouldn't want to lecture anybody but i do feel the urge to say some things i consider important about this beautiful film i saw it for the first time in 1976 i was 14 and then one more time a year later that was it the rest of it was the pink lp of elton john's soundtrack getting the music and the story deeper and deeper inside my heart how deep a week ago my cousin gave me a vhs copy as a present no dvd's yet boy was i surprised poets have always sustained that deep childhood and adolescent experiences of beauty love god idealist pursuits stay with you forever since they occur mostly at the heart's level no intellect yet they define your contours like a sculptor would do with a stone if sometimes we didn't tend to forget how right they are perhaps we would do better in understanding the meaning of every minute of every decision of every turning point of our lives br br so i confess i feel nostalgia but the fascinating part of this is watching the film again and through this trip back in time enriching that understanding of why we people from the 60's grew up as we did the spirit of those times is all here a genesis created far from the official world of consuming and economic success make love not war the beautiful pop ballads the poetry of the lyrics a totally romantic view of adolescent rebellion with the awakening of sexuality carefully wrapped in tender and chaste love these two lonely spirits still full of childhood innocence growing together as they learn mutual commitment and turning into adults br br i showed the film to a group of school youngsters and they abounded with such simplistic and cynical comments regarding it as naïve and foolish guys be serious cinema is an art and as art it reflects not only human emotions but historical moments and this is exactly what friends does in a masterly way it reflects an idyllic idea of rebellion and new beginning we all dreamt about when we were 15 i'm now a musician and i feel some of us artists for that matter still dream about it how else could we live that's friends that's brother sun sister moon that's hair those were the times still alien to aids alien to explicit and vulgar texts in pop songs with no melody to pornography presented as sexuality to this barbaric new world order growing after september 11th br br what a heart warming experience to see paul and michelle again timidly and tenderly exploring the new fantasies of their romantic world what a trip back to the very core of our hearts to paris to elton john at his best to that urban scenario surrounded by 2 cv and the vw beetles what a fresh air from the peaceful cottage in surrounded by fishing ponds and wild horses they made us who we are as did serrat in spain in france peter paul and mary joan baez luther king the beatles the early bee gees belafonte's gandhi the gospel of elvis br br people still hoping get this picture start with innocence and grow from there you'll find out what it's all about and from there you'll have a solid and more truthful foundation some ideals to look for in life a way to handle personal and world affairs we need so much of this today give yourselves the chance and maybe someday the time of cynics will end i have an extra vhs copy br br santiago colombia
1	i'm certain that people from usa don't know anything about the rest of the world but i think they mustn't talk about what they don't know and they must remember that the rest of the world is not as hypocrite as the usa the only places where consented sex between teenagers are illegal are the usa and islamic nations in france for instance the age of consent is 15 in brazil it's 14 in spain it's 12 so the teenagers actors 16 and 17 years old by the time of production aren't doing anything illegal nudity isn't considered big deal in almost all civilized countries and only a freak could consider a teenagers' love as child molestation
1	a remarkable film bringing to the surface all sorts of feelings i had when i was much much younger i loved it and the elton john music i remember seeing in in the movies when i was a kid and for some reason limited release i've never known anyone else who saw this film when it was released br br the dreams it inspired in me from decades ago have never left me and seeing the film again recently brought it all rushing back i confess however that my kids in their 20's have not experienced a similar emotional rush a generational thing br br why is it not on dvd
1	most of these reviews are dead on so i'll cut to a different chase and answer a couple of questions i've seen on here br br while the characters seem and look young hence the controversy the actor actress themselves were 17 and 18 at the time and so obviously over the 16 barrier here in the usa that's still somewhat controversial but the simplicity and innocence of the film does much to offset it br br i'm sorry not to have seen more by sean in this movie at least his expressions are demonstrative and obvious you know exactly what the character is feeling whether he's angry afraid or confused had a healthy career who's life was cut unfortunately short by cancer in late 2006 she was a beautiful and talented actress br br vhs tapes of friends can be found at amazon com occasionally but usually for a significant price i've seen it as low as 60 or so and as high as 152 as of this comment there were two for that price the sequel video paul michelle is not quite as pricey and can be obtained when available on amazon for between 16 and 70 on average
1	i really love this movie i saw it for the first time when i was working a video store when i went to buy it they told me it was out of print and i couldn't order it so i just today thought i would look and then i found it they put it out in spain on dvd under the name mas que amigos and you can buy there it is in english and spanish on the dvd hope this helps i know how hard it is to find movies that we love that they haven't released to the u s market best of luck oh for more info here is one place to look http www com i think it going for 10 dollars usd on ebay as well
1	i can barely even remember what decade i saw this film it was when i was a teenager i think i'm 37 now i started watching it as a late night movie sometime in the mid to early 80s and so much of it has stayed with me ever since seeing other comments i had no idea it was shown at theatres or that anyone else even new it existed i don't think i've even mentioned the movie to anyone else br br but half a lifetime later i still remember much of the movie that i watched late at night so long ago i think the innocence of the their situation their mutual affection over a long period of time left a long term imprint for reasons i don't quite understand maybe it is because i was a teenager at the time i saw it and it touched me somehow i really don't know i also really wanted to know what was going to happen when the after the end of the film happened oh the agony br br i've not seen it before or since but i would love to i keep a casual look out for it but i now doubt it will been shown and it seems to have faded into oblivion but i'd miss it in the tv guide even if it did show up br br reading the reviews here has renewed my interest if anyone knows of its availability in australia by all means email me and let me know br br oh and sean bury nice to see you make an appearance on the comments here i've had a look at your movie history and noticed your last appearance in a james bond film what are you up to these day oh and do you have a copy of the film cheers
1	this movie is a must see for any war movie buff one of the greatest movies of all time and loaded with great quotes such as br br if i say its safe to surf this beach captain then its safe to surf this beach br br smell that you smell that lance what napalm son nothing in the world smells like that i love the smell of napalm in the morning you know one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours when it was all over i walked up we didn't find one of 'em not one stinkin' dink body the smell you know that gasoline smell the whole hill smelled like victory someday this war's gonna end
1	i saw the movie in 1972 and like other people who have commented on it here i went back many more times to see it over and over i think 9 times in all just great is how i would describe it i was taken by the sound track the beautiful panoramas of the south of france the life style the kids began on their own an ideal way to live is what they had set up of course the powers that be have to intercede but when i forget that part i find myself wanting to be in the movie and live like that so good that it is available on dvd now it was not around for years br br
1	with all the dreck out there this is a gentle movie about young love yes it's true that young love often makes more out of something than it deserves but why aren't people down on romeo and juliet paul and michelle are models of good behave compared to them br br yes they run away and set up an ideal life but this is a movie not real life paul is more sexually interested than michelle who has been come onto in a bad way eventually they have sex but no one is forced into it the movie does let kids know that sex can cause babies br br one thing there is nudity in the movies the camera does not focus on it but it is there br br the ending of the movie has paul in good chance of being found out in paul and michelle they separate for a time if you don't like the ending of a movie think one up yourself alternative endings are not just for dvds
1	i loved this movie oh my gosh this movie rocked so hard i found it amongst some old tapes and didn't know what it was and after having read the back of the cover to see what the summer had to say about it which btw mentioned the fact that elton john covered the soundtrack for the film more times than it mentioned what the film was actually about i thought it sounded interesting and i was even more interested in seeing it because it was an older film br br what controversy i thought to myself as i put the tape in the player i was curious i get and my expectations were certainly met i loved it i guess it is a really girly kind of movie but it was so sweet and adorable it was a beautiful romance although at times the directing reminded me of the camera work in 'the graduate' which i thought at the time of seeing it the director must have been on acid with some of the close ups they did br br ok so it wasn't entirely conceivable for these two kids to run off and live on their own but it could happen in a fantasy br br but the ending just sincerely ticked me off i was so mad with how they ended it it sort of leaves you hanging and i suppose they may address what actually happens to them in the sequel but at the same time i'm almost hesitant to see that since sequels are almost never as good as the first br br i totally recommend this movie to anyone sixteen and over it's an awesome movie awesome
1	well what do you know i was painting my house today and an elton john song came on the radio which immediately took me back to this movie which i saw in 1971 so long ago and so far away ten years later i hitched through the country side of france and i sure would have been keen to see michelle the film is probably not very sophisticated by todays standards more's the pity but it seemed rather racy back then a few years later a sequel was made with michelle living in a high rise in paris and paul coming back to meet her just like life they had moved on the film was very downbeat still the original was fab and if you can get a copy go rent it just remember to give it its' due and treat it gently i note americans can be rather prudish so take note contains scenes and themes possibly upsetting to middle america
1	first love teenage love we all have experienced it even if it was not as sweet as the one the protagonists share friends could be considered an adaptation of the classic the blue lagoon originally from 1949 and its remakes from 1980 the most popular one with brooke shields and 1999 with a young milla jovovich while the blue lagoon puts the two young lovers in a desert island with no contact with civilization friends goes the opposite route and it is sure to ring much more true and be a more difficult movie with contemporary audiences paul and michelle who for different reasons turn their backs on family and the adult world to end up living together in a small cottage in southern france having only each other and their childhood innocence their friendship slowly develops into much more as they struggle to sustain themselves in this sweet coming of age story this film even to this day is controversial since the actors are teenagers and they certainly look the ages that are stated in the movie 15 and 14 1 2 the movie does contains a hint of child molesting nudity depictions of teenage sex and teenage pregnancy but the real controversy is not the subject matter but the fact that paul and michelle's love is presented as a natural and healthy relationship while this worked fine for stranded lovers in another time and in a desert island having them in a modern setting presents some very difficult moral issues laws consenting sex between minors are in effect in almost all countries and lack of sexual education in teenagers is seen as one of the causes for the rise in unwanted teenage pregnancies and abortions is a movie like this one just child pornography or a slap in the face to make us face our own hypocrisy regarding a modern society that does not cater to teenage parents and laws that clearly go against human nature and hormonal development but that are needed to prevent child abuse is hormonal development parallel to emotional growth these are not easy questions and most of us will feel uncomfortable with them as an artistic piece this movie is really a forgotten and rough gem the script progresses with extreme simplicity albeit some sappiness but never pulling any punches to state its message although by today standards it is somewhat slow the photography is beautiful and it has scenes of great beauty the acting of the two protagonists varies from really awful in some scenes to marvelously innocent and credible in others pop music unlike most productions nowadays is used tastefully and sometimes the lyrics speak the thoughts of the protagonists overall this is a delightful piece even if the moral values are not in with your own
1	first of all i'm not one to go all sappy over movies i saw friends in the 70's when it was first released i was about 17 years old at the time even now at age 50 i still can remember some of the scenes the movie is sweet and sad and may actually be too tame for teenagers today but i loved it the story is about innocence the purity of young love and the determination of 2 young people to make a better life for themselves then they had at home at the time it was pretty risky to have a movie about a couple of young runaways who successfully setup house and have a baby on their own i'm not surprised the movie and elton john's soundtrack are almost unknown today the music is beautiful it was unforgettable
1	when i first saw this film on video in a department store it intrigued me considering the fact that i thought i was in love and i was the same age as the youths in this film at the time although i realize they are now old enough to be my parents plus the soundtrack being written by elton john bernie taupin just before they made it big here in north america i figured i had nothing to lose in buying it i was not disappointed br br so far i have shown it to many guys i have dated since and to my current boyfriend obviously they didn't find it as lovely as i do preferring to call it a chick movie but i still laugh and cry this film was vastly overlooked it's good to see it's available to rent at one of the local video stores around here so that other people can share the magic br br so maybe it's a bit far fetched but it gives you a lighthearted sense of innocence and a renewed faith in love
1	i caught this flick on the trail end of a tape i had used to capture a movie i truly wanted to wanted to see again when i saw raquel welch's name in the opening credits i decided to watch it it was actually mildly entertaining and took me back in the wayback machine to the farcical movies that hollywood churned out during the sixties much in the same genre as the current austin powers stuff oh the acting was not superb nor was the plot but it was worth watching there was some delightful scenery although ms welch provided the most pleasant of such tape it if you get the chance and watch it when you have absolutely nothing else to do it is not a snoozer but it won't have you rolling in the aisles wanting more either
1	i don't go for that many heist comedies and i might not care for this one if it weren't for the actors when it was made and when i first saw it just a few years later it's almost too similar to the happening even though it's obviously a much less serious comedy than that one mafia figure takes over his own kidnapping or rather turns it in a different direction altogether of course raquel welch didn't play the kind of sharp character faye dunaway did in the happening but that doesn't make it a sexist film either she was practically playing a stock character almost her version of a moll but i'm completely biased it's among the first films i ever saw with her and at the time i saw it you couldn't turn around without seeing a poster of her luckily i think robert wagner was really just right as the neither thoroughly likable nor dis likable leader of the group as were edward g robinson naturally and de sica and godfrey cambridge an actor who always managed to be funny
1	i bought this movie because of raquel welch she was gorgeous in this film as she played the role of harry mike wagner girl friend harry a robber down on his luck trying to make one more heist harry goes to a funeral where he meets vittorio de sica and takes him for a ride when things don't work out on the ride they put there mines together to figure out the fastest way to get money harry and his gang decide with the help of vittorio de sica to from there on mob rest a sure that no matter what the gang goes after that the outcome is never the same and will keep you on the edge of your sit the rest of the out come you need to watch for yourself as far as raquel goes if you're a fan of here then you need to watch this movie because she never looked better standing on the beach with a on i give this movie 10 weasel stars on raquel welch body alone it's no wonder why she was the hottest actress back in the sixties she was the sex symbol everyone one wanted and no one could get not only does she look good she can act even better if you like raquel welch then you'll like this movie
1	it's that film that loads of people hail as a classic apocalypse now now a re cut re up redux 22 years after it's original release br br the film is loosely based on conrad's heart of darkness it's main plot if it has one being capt willard's journey on a naval boat through the vietnam conflict on his way to terminate a rogue colonel colonel kurtz we see the characters and situations he meets and he tells the colonel's story along the way br br my initial feelings towards the film is that it's not particularly gripping at times especially early on but at least a good dose of comedy is put in in the form of surfing fanatic col as the film progresses however a good deal of tension is built up with willard's reading through various reports on col kurtz until the end is in sight when everything comes together and the atmosphere of the film reaches an incredible level and holds it there until the end br br the usual aspects everyone looks for in a decent film are all of a good standard cinematography in particular stands out as exceptional and i found the performances of martin sheen marlon brando robert duvall and frederic forrest to all be worthy of a special mention the score i found initially sounded out of place but as the film progressed i'm not entirely sure if it did actually get better or it fitted better or if it had just grown on me but by the end of the film i was thoroughly enjoying it br br this is the second time i have seen the redux version i have seen the original around four times i'll say now that the first time i saw it i was disappointed i was expecting a classic film with lots of war the fact that willard got the mission at the beginning of the film and didn't carry it out until the end had me bored because all of the character interaction on the way that is the film seemed unnecessary this is due to the fact that the plot is not entirely defined as the focus is more on the character and the journey more than the plot in most cases a second viewing is needed to appreciate the film fully as with all films that are more character than plot based as the second time around you know where the plot is going i had a similar experience with it's a wonderful life which is now one of my favourite films br br with the big four vietnam films apocalypse now wins over the rest on atmosphere but lacks the action and involvement of platoon the emotional intensity of the deer hunter and cannot really be compared to full metal jacket probably my favourite of the four apocalypse now is a great piece of work especially towards the end where it becomes staggering and is to be recommended for anyone who enjoys a good character based film and doesn't mind some casual violence
1	br br what more can you ask for a great screenplay based on one of the finest plays of the latter half of the 20th century two fine emotional performances by courtney and finney a realistic vision of war time london a great supporting cast this film takes you on an emotional rollercoaster through humour sadness loss and fulfillment if you are in the theatre it is even more effective this is a true 10 on the rating scale
1	my yardstick for measuring a movie's watch ability is if i get squirmy if i start shifting positions and noticing my butt is sore the film is too long this movie did not even come close to being boring predictable in some parts sure but never boring br br all of the other military branches have had love notes written about them and seen their recruitment levels go up why not the coast guard too they are definitely under appreciated until the day your boat sinks that is br br the movie was very enjoyable and fun kevin costner is perfect as the aging macho man who doesn't know when to quit however i was most impressed by ashton performance i have never liked him never watched any of his tv shows and always considered him an immature well punk in this film he does a great job he is well on his way to having leading man status i think the film we were shown must have been an advance rough cut or something because about 2 3 of the way in the film stock turned very grainy the sound level dropped and microphones were seen dropping down all over the place also at the viewing were representatives from the movie looking for audience feedback particularly on the parts of the film we didn't like br br possible spoiler the feedback i gave concerned a a couple of lines in the beginning kevin costner comes home to see his wife ward packing her stuff up and moving out he says maybe i should be the one to move out and she replies no you don't know where anything is in this house i should be the one to go this doesn't make sense if she knows the layout so well costner is right he should be the one to leave
1	the hurried approach that lewis takes with king of the underworld establishes a deeper plot while still maintaining an efficient run time one of the clearest examples of this is the transition between poverty and wealth for the married medical couple the audience is instantly transported from a shanty medical office to a luxurious suite at the city's most prestigious inn this development is critical to understanding the position the doctors have been thrown into the story suggests from the intro that these two people are generally happy with providing medical practice to those who are less fortunate by abruptly cutting from this scenario to the morally conflicting occupation the personal physician the viewer is called upon to experience this sudden turn of events the nelsons kay francis and john are forcibly employed by gurney bogart without objections this stylized notion of organized crime being too influential and powerful to overcome has become a standard component in every gangster picture the one aspect of this film that raised some questions for me ironically dealt with the pacing of the story and that rate at which it was told i think that character development and social identity can suffer when certain aspects of a story are not fully examined this paradox happens to be a result of personal taste in that i think that the movie going experience can be enhanced through rigorous character development however for the purposes of this film i must admit that the rapid action contributes more dynamic flare to the impact of the film br br 1 2 of
1	king of the underworld features an early role for bogart in one of his many gangster roles br br he plays joe gurney who uses a female doctor to treat his men and pays her for it he follows her when she goes to live with her auntie after one of men kills her doctor husband who also worked for him gurney kidnaps an author on his way to find the female doctor and gets him to write his life story and he then plans to kill him he finally meets up with the doctor and after she gives gurney and his men a substance that makes them temporarily blind she and the author who have now fallen in love manage to escape just as police arrive br br the excellent bogie in the cast are kay francis james stephenson and john br br watching king of the underworld is a good way to spend just over an hour one evening br br rating 3 stars out of 5
1	husband and wife doctor team carole and niles nelson are doing modestly well in their careers but niles has a gambling problem his luck changes when he unknowingly saves the life of a gangster from joe mob and gets a big bonus from the himself loving his change of fortune and snazzy new apartment niles continues to receive payoffs for patching up other injured members of the gang unfortunately his shady deals come to light in a police raid which hangs a shadow over his wife's career as well br br at this point the plot comes into focus as carole nelson has to rescue her career before her license is suspended this involves bringing the gang to justice more or less single handedly br br this is not a hard edged gangster picture but a plot that might have been comfortable on a show like matlock or murder she wrote there is some tension but the mood is kept light by bogart's tongue in cheek performance of a stupid gangster who imagines himself as the napoleon of crime his other gang members also function more as stooges than hoodlums and there's some snappy dialog between bogart and francis especially when she's treating his injuries at his hideout of course as in all gangster flicks there's a big shootout ending but with a humorous twist this is a good short film showing bogart on his rise to stardom
1	wow this wrestlemania took place from 3 different cities this was the very first wrestling pay per view i ever saw and it's a good one indeed there is a great steel cage match for the main event as hulk hogan takes on king kong bundy
1	i would give this television series a 10 plus if i could the writers were smack on and i think the best actors and actresses were a bonus to the show these characters were so real one could tell that from the two main actresses ms toussaint ms potts that their relationship on off camera was genuine it didn't just end when you hear those familiar words cut at the end of a take the show has thought me a lot about life for e g historical struggles tragedies and triumphs relationships every day situations every household have same situations no matter who the members are it really came down to just being a wonderful family show that at the end of every episode you can just sit on your living room couch and say to yourself now what did i learn from this particular episode br br i must say i have taped most of the episodes and i find myself watching them over and over again br br now you know why i gave it a 10
1	this show was not only great human drama but portrayed racism in this country in a raw all too true to life manner when one show can be so witty and entertaining and yet so poignant and educational all at once this is television in its highest form the acting was phenomenal the writing was exceptional not only did the show portray race relations in a straightforward manner that seems unmatched by any other television series but its ability to depict this subject matter as it existed in the 1960's alongside how it exists in the beginning of the twenty first century powerfully demonstrates the ways we have changed and sadly the many more ways we have not
1	i loved this show i was waiting for it to come out on dvd it never has does anyone know how to get the show available on dvd i have contacted lifetime tv and a few others and nothing please let me know if there is a way we can have this series on dvd be first in line to purchase it i really got hooked on this show i do not understand how a bunch of other tv shows are available on dvd but not any day now i am sure there are many of us out there who would love to have this series on dvd or even vhs i thought of contacting the production company has anyone else out there tried to contact anyone for this information
1	i just started watching the show around july i found it by mistake i was channel surfing during a vacation it is a great show i just wish it wasn't on so late at night it's on at 12 30 am as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time br br i read some comments i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the 60's and not believing that this stuff can happen br br i grew up in the 60's i'm hispanic and i had a white boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color br br i can't wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it this way i can see it from the beginning
1	i give this film 8 10 overall visually a great deal of it is nothing short of stunning an art director's dream mix of bosch salvador dali frieda and georgia o'keeffe and a valid testament to the power of film as a serious art form beautiful use of color form imagery environment and fabulous set decoration combine with state of the art computer graphics so 10 10 for that wow br br the plot line is well more predictable you know they'll save the girl and get the killer in the end but the story is still interesting and pacy enough to pull you in and keep you there 6 10 for that br br squirm factor i won't give this a rating but the film certainly made me squirm and i was watching it on video on a tv screen it would of course have a great deal more impact on a big screen graphic violence of a twisted erotic nature in a surreal landscape even if beautiful is highly unpredictable the world inside the killer's head is not thank goodness my world because i watched this film on video i was able to replay a couple of sequences and found much to admire the second time around when i wasn't so nervous about where the scene might be going and i suspect the whole film would be worth seeing a second time just for the visual art br br general suggestion don't take the kids or conservative grandparents to this one but if you're keen on the visual look of films like surrealist art don't mind a bit of kinky gore and just want to take a bit of a mind trip this one's a winner oh and if you're keen on babes jennifer lopez is pretty hot br br
1	i couldn't believe the eye candy from start to finish being a fan of movies directed by music video masterminds i am happy to report that the photography in this motion picture is a splendor for the eye to behold there are so many rich full images that are put before me that each and every time that i see this movie i find something new that i had not seen before as with previous movies that i have seen such as blade and mystery men also by former music video directors the use of color to capture one's attention is utilized extremely well though the characters could have been developed better the action and costuming was well worth the price of admission i recommend you buy this one for your dvd collection even if you haven't seen this on the big screen you won't be disappointed i know i wasn't
1	first of all i believe that this movie is much more appreciated by viewers who have actually read joseph conrad's heart of darkness the book that was the literary basis for the movie with that said i believe that this movie is astounding it is an excellent war film that doesn't so much concentrate on the gore and brutality of the vietnam conflict but more the psychological toll that it took on the young inexperienced kids who were sent to fight it coppola showed real genius in the art of film making using many visuals to help tell the story the acting i felt was definitely all around up to par marlon brando's part in the movie is what really got me as far as acting his elucidation to willard at the end of the film reels you in and reveals the hollowness of a man that you've heard about and wanted to see throughout the movie those who would consider this just another war movie need to give a detailed look to all the literary elements that are entwined with this film because there is a great amount of meaning behind it all in my opinion this is one of the most sculptured and best made films of all time
1	this one started excellently the photography and audio are the best i've experienced in years okay months especially the use of and colours in single sequences is astonishing also making jennifer lopez whisper most of her lines is an idea in itself but i'm not sure what singh wants to accomplish with that br br now for the minuses the screenplay was awful lopez's part turned out to be irrelevant or totally worthless to the plot she seemed to star the movie only to sell herself and the pic the three beds seemed just too obvious the of the child carl was a psychologically too underlined way to embark the motive which carl under and so on br br anyway the movie had great way of showing where singh comes from why is it that the most talented directors seem to emerge from india nowadays
1	i had no expectations when i started to watch this movie how surprised i was this is a great beautiful twisted movie which will give your mind a good work out it's not simple if you only enjoy police academy style no brains movies this is not for you the cell is a deep complex film with influences from movies like cube silence of the lambs and the lawnmower man along with lots of completely new ideas wonderful twisted environments good acting and a compelling story makes this one of the best films i have seen in a long time be open minded and you will love it
1	despite all it's trappings of style and cinematic invention this is basically another serial killer thriller following the same sort of plotline favoured by such old favourites as silence of the lambs team of cops follows the trail of particularly nasty murders someone else gets taken and they somehow have to find out where they are before it's too late only in this case the only person who knows the killer himself powerfully played by vincent d'onofrio is in a coma and we need psychologist jennifer sci fi mind meld machine to get into his head and force him to tell all this is where the film gets all new and different as we enter via a 21st century cgi update of dr who's kaleidoscopic favourite the trendy time tunnel a kind of hellraiser y weird world of scary crazy stuff going on all over the place ruled over by d'onofrio now a kind of overlord of his twisted mental world inside his comatose body the inside the mind sequences are well realised and often pretty stunning all the leads perform adequately the gruesomeness is to the max if you like that kind of thing but the hype around the whole thing led to a disappointment for me as i had expected something completely new and unlike anything ever done before not this fairly successful blending of serial killer and special effect horror genre staples sometimes horrifying often pretty a fairly gripping story told with care and attention by talented film people but by no means the great leap into the unknown it has been marketed as
1	it must be said that the director of the cell singh has quite handily established himself with his first feature which happens to rank as one of the most visually astounding films in contemporary cinema br br the cell is more of a visceral experience than a film as a thriller it rises above most of its peers with competent editing and a chilling score effectively providing an exceptionally suspenseful atmosphere however it is ultimately skill for elaborate and disturbing set design and imagery that carries the film's jolting sense of terror br br as with several recent films i have been shocked by the alarming hypocrisy among those who have commented negatively about the cell in defence of the film i will address a few of these issues the plot appears to be the main concern and while it is not revolutionary and borrows heavily from the silence of the lambs it was never intended to be the most important aspect of the film the plot itself is a vehicle through which vision simultaneously horrifying and wondrous is presented to the audience much in the same way that the plot of the silence of the lambs is secondary to the fascinating study of its two lead characters lecter and starling while the silence of the lambs is clearly the superior film it is irrational for one to condemn the plot of the cell and in the same breath praise that of the silence of the lambs br br my final concern is the mention of mtv style directing it pains me to see the condemnation of directors who use innovative camera and cinematography techniques a camera has the potential to be much more than simply a tool with which to record events angles pans colour adjustment and so forth are all used to their full extent in the cell with the purpose of creating the sense of a dream like state that could not have been otherwise achieved this is essential to the film as the entire premise behind it is the visualization of a serial killer's subconscious if you simply want a series of static shots stick to stage plays and give up cinema altogether br br that being said the cell is thoroughly entertaining terrifying and breathtaking in both its pacing and design anyone who is able to look past the perhaps uninspired yet never dull screenplay will find one of the best films of the year 2000
1	the cell fascinated me at first glance i was a bit surprised about that fact because the story of that movie is absolutely boring if it had no story the film would be better bunuels un chien andalou comes to my mind a film without story but also with fascinating and sometimes disturbing images but the cell is at first a hollywood movie and only second a piece of art i'm very interested in next project hamlet on indian could be very interesting especially when it has the same looks as the cell br br for film music enthusiasts howard shore's score for the cell is absolutely marvelous but a hard listening experience because of its very modernistic style
1	i went straight to the big screen to view this kicker this is the only flick that i know of that singh has directed but boy was it intense this movie was a total mind and one of the best special effects flick of this kind br br the characters were vibrant and and nothing short of beings created in your own mind or nightmare this movie is scary and interesting and totally bombs the senses with fear and exhilaration this movie compares to no other i have seen except for the level of being beautifully odd in that respect it is a fairly large step above a clockwork orange ' definitely see this movie on the big screen and don't wait for it to come out on tape it won't be half as good on tape br br this movie is not for the easily freaked out it will mess with your mind and leave you with images that take a while to forget but for those who like to be freaked out enjoy
1	i do not want to go into a criticism of the movie which i think is for a big budget movie quite exceptional and daring br br i just wanted to remark that i am really fed up with the studios policies and the laws of different states which treat their viewers like children in the database we find at least 4 different versions of the movie according to running time but of course it is likely that there are much more different cuts br br the result is complete confusion and you can never be sure to talk about the same movie unless you live in argentina where the movie runs 115 minutes which sounds quite complete br br later on dvd and video the studios try to rob us further by selling us a presumable director's cut in germany there is already such a version around running approx 110 minutes br br it would be nice if the studios would not only think of the cash they make with their movies but also think of their products as a work of art even at the risk of an unfavourable rating so that i as a viewer don't have to feel cheated and am taken seriously not only as a resource of money
1	the cell 2000 rating 8 10 br br the cell like antz must be watched twice to be appreciated the first time i saw this film i thought it was mediocre but the film had such a lasting impression on me after viewing i decided i had to rent it again i did and i found the film to be much more likeable the cell is not for everyone but it divides its stories up with quality and is a visually intelligent film that dreams up images and plot ideas that could not be matched the film's script can be clunky at times as can the acting but the visuals are ingenious and bring the engaging story to an exotic and intriguing life the oscar nominated makeup is also daring and careful while the beautiful costumes and utterly brilliant set decoration went unnoticed singh who has also directed music videos goes totally crazy with his direction and it results well he has major talent and this film has a lot of potential if you give it a chance overall the cell is a powerful disturbing and avoids being too tacky which makes it a great pleasurable watch
1	when i saw this movie for the first time i was both surprised and a little shocked by the blatant of the story it is a very artistic drama with incredible special effects spectacular acting not to mention a very excellent job in the makeup department jennifer lopez has pulled herself out of past roles that dug into her career with this movie portraying a very sensitive child psychologist who works with a team of engineers to enter the minds of comatose patients to treat them vincent d'onofrio played amazingly well his portrayal of a sadist serial killer was perfect to a t the sheer emotion conveyed by his performance is astounding vince vaughn isn't my favorite but still performed exceptionally well the symbolism and artistry was intriguing and titillating sometimes surprising and other times shocking overall i say this is a wonderful movie with excellent acting and beautiful artwork
1	spoilers spoilers the cell 2000 out of four br br do you believe there is a part of yourself deep inside in your mind with things you don't want other people to see during a session when i'm inside i get to see those things br br catherine deane br br and so do we one of the most visually stimulating films of the year the cell is a love hate movie either you love it or you hate it i can understand the reasons some people dislike this production with a story that combines disturbing serial killers with mind probing the cell is too much for some viewers others will not understand the complex actions and emotions of the film i think it's one of the year's most engrossing films br br making his feature film screenwriting debut mark creates an imaginative world of rich colorful images and provocative characters the filmmakers take advantage of every shot conceived ideas for the cell in 1993 when he decided to combine two of his major interests mind probing and serial killers he was reportedly influenced by such directors as wes craven george romero and david cronenberg they would probably be proud of such an imagination br br the film combines two major narratives one about scientific exploration of the human mind and the other about a psychopath who murders young women for his own sexual pleasure catherine deane jennifer lopez a child therapist is part of a neurological study at the campbell center a research clinic because of her empathetic personality scientists chose deane to enter the mind of a catatonic preteen in hopes to revive his brain into waking br br a sick demented serial killer roams the streets within an abandoned rural farmhouse vincent d'onofrio locks innocent female victims in a large glass cell where he then drowns them and performs sadistic sexual rituals with their bodies the killer escapes from the fbi every time they draw near until now a violent seizure renders him comatose the fbi captures his forever unconscious body unfortunately he already prepared the cell with his latest victim in forty hours the cell will fill with water and is the only man who knows the location of his victim br br the fbi takes this situation to campbell center where catherine enters the mind of hoping to discover the location of his latest victim before the cell fills with water sending the woman to a watery grave br br the science fiction portions of the story relied on both real science and theoretical fiction in the creation of the neurological and transfer system the premise takes a long time to develop but it is worth the wait it is far fetched but that doesn't matter the film makes us believe even if you don't suspend disbelief however the visual enticement provides an engaging setting to enjoy br br according to the film's production notes mark was thrilled to work with the director named because they both think visually singh is known for his attention to detail stunning art direction and highly developed abilities to tell a story when i wrote 'the explains i surrounded myself with postcards or color copies of painter's paintings or photographs while i was working so i'm thinking visually and is a highly visual director has a similar frame of visual references which made for a very smooth collaboration br br vincent d'onofrio provides the film with a backbone and no actor could have accomplished his character any better he delivers a mysterious disturbing and engaging performance i think that my character is in a way trapped in himself d'onofrio ponders he also researched the psychology of serial killers to help get him beneath the surface of the character his in depth performance preparation pays off beautifully br br while the actors writer and director do wonders with their material the real honor goes to the film's behind the scenes talent the director of photography paul production designer tom costume designer april napier special effects coordinator clay and visual effects supervisor kevin tod they bring the world of the cell to life it's is an extraordinary world worthy of several viewings some movies you watch others you experience the cell falls into the later category br br
1	francis ford coppola's masterpiece was a great ending for a golden decade of american cinema in the 1970s there was an atmosphere of tolerance open and among the studios that allowed the making of major films by a few of the best directors that the united states has ever had i am not a historian but all the events that preceded the decade a few being the violent deaths of major figures of the american political and cultural scenes the racial struggles the emergence of the 1960s counter culture the increase of violence and death in the streets seemed to influence the vision of filmmakers who were willing to dare be different and create entertaining and intelligent motion pictures coppola's film is a strange blend of humanistic thinking and skillful film making following the parameters of war and adventure films and at the same time subverting them with its flowing reflections on the value of life the reason of death or the ethics of war it is also a passionate work made against all odds chronicled in the 1991 documentary hearts of darkness a filmmaker's apocalypse a motion picture that went beyond any previous reflection on the vietnam war ever to reach the screen this may not be the definite vietnam motion picture but dealing with it coppola defied the formula of classic melodrama found in two vietnam movies made simultaneously the deer hunter and coming home or in latter ones as platoon and casualties of war before vietnam became the starting point to make products of any genre as horror in jacob's ladder or comedies as good morning vietnam among the more respectable coppola had the courage to take that economic and political conflict as the background of a search for answers to questions faced by any man every day of his life without betraying the dramatic consequences of that war
1	the cell is weak on plot filled with holes and has pretty lousy acting as well but none of this matters for director singh has given us one of the most visually stunning movies ever the whole plot is just an excuse to let fool around and take you into the minds of a serial killer bringing the audience some shocking pleasing breath taking and mind blowing images br br the images from this beautiful movie will stick with you for a long time to come this movie is a perfect case for the suspension of disbelief theory forget the silly plot just let your senses be overwhelmed with the images and j lo looks stunning enough to add to the rest of work the cinematography is harrowing the music haunting the costumes just stunning br br the movie is less of a movie and more of a work of art its just that the medium is not canvas anymore it is the big screen and celluloid one of the most refreshing movies of this decade the cell is a must watch a bold new step in movie making br br an enthralling 8
1	a crackling and magnificent thriller about a child psychiatrist catherine deane jennifer lopez who is desperately urged by two fbi agents peter novak vince vaughn and gordon ramsey jake weber to use her therapy on carl vincent a serial killer who uses strange and horrifying torture tactics is found in a coma by the feds what novak wants in return from deane is whereabouts of latest victim is and if she's alive once deane gets into mind which has the appearence and atmosphere that resembles a colorful combination of david lynch's dune or blue velvet and wes craven's a nightmare on elm street the adventure begins deane sees a variety of odd people ranging from carl as a youngster an adorable jake thomas to a freddy krueger like man minus the razor claws i don't want to give away the ending but the movie is great altogether besides the dynamite performances howard shore's creepy musical score and directing by who shows here that he can direct
1	after you have seen enough movies there is very little that doesn't remind you of other movies nevertheless this was a watchable if somewhat disturbing film i had to shut it off from time to time and come back to it later like silence of the lambs it features the search for a serial killer who has abducted someone and has confined her to his chamber of horrors like the main character explores a dream world through an experimental procedure the surrealism of the dream sequences is what makes this film as one finds the characters in a situation and landscape in which literally anything can happen and beyond this continuity and making sense are not necessary which makes it a film maker's dream too br br the only thing that seems a bit off is the fact that in the end one hopes for the redemption of the serial killer or the exorcism of his demons you actually feel sympathy for the little boy inside the man but clearly the innocence of the boy cannot be separated from horrible deeds of the man the focus swings as it must from saving the man to saving his victim
1	a serial killer carl has been kidnapping and murdering young women by letting them drown in a water filled cell he is apprehended by the fbi but is in a coma and his latest kidnap victim awaits in a cell timed to fill with water br br take a look at the above premise and you'll see that there's a very much seen it all before look to it the magic of mark script is that he changes a hoary old chestnut plot in to something quite different from what you're expecting if i mentioned the plot involves a machine that allows a psychiatrist to enter the mind of then sets up a different film entirely br br this wouldn 't be enough to make the cell a different class of thriller but director singh creates a visually striking surreal thriller the cinematography by paul where opaque primary colours are to the fore is stunning but singh doesn't let it end there things like costume design where wanders around his idiosyncratic universe wearing opulent costumes does have a visual impact making this so much more than a run of a mill thriller br br what stops the cell becoming a classic movie however is that you start becoming more and more aware that the whole movie revolves around the visuals rather than having a natural narrative we see a third character a fbi man enter domain but this seems more like a contrived plot turn just to introduce the audience to more stunning but very disturbing moments br br it should also be pointed out that this is a rather disturbing thriller with a atmosphere that is very depressing and that stops the film from being if not enjoyable then involving one scene where a fbi agent recounts a case where a paedophile beats a rap only to later cut out the heart of his victim will fill your heart with so much despair you might reach for the off button you'll probably have to watch a massive amount of thrillers till you see another one as disconcerting as this one
1	i remember seeing the trailer for this movie when it was first released and it looked pretty cool i never got the chance to see it though when i went to blockbuster to rent some videos i figured i should watch it after all i did love silence of the lambs and se7en and if you enjoyed those movies you might get a kick out of the cell the whole story concept is very interesting going physically into the mind of a killer i can't imagine the world they live in the acting is actually pretty decent jennifer lopez is the only one i have to say that wasn't that great but she does a believable job i would recommend for a scary thriller br br 7 10
1	the cell is a rather difficult film to classify if you read the plot outline a psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim you might think it's a thriller with a touch of science fiction but that doesn't really do this movie justice there is a fantasy aspect within the sub conscious minds that is stunning with lavish visuals and incredible mind tripping scenarios there is drama as the aforementioned psychotherapist played by lopez prior to her becoming a solely romantic comedy component makes contact with the child within and witnesses his terrifying upbringing and there is most definitely a horror facet due to the sickening actions of the serial killer's evil persona the movie attempts to function on many different levels and crosses genre boundaries at will while i feel it ends up being a reasonably bizarre experience i find it to be completely fascinating br br right from the opening credits with lopez riding a horse through the desert stunningly clothed in a white dress you will know that you are in for a visual treat every time the audience leaves reality and follows her into the sub conscious depths of her patients they are guaranteed a feast of visual and aural delight the costumes are wonderful creations of angles and colour the camera leaves at the door and traverses a world where up and down are the same the characters become rulers of their own domains and transform into creatures worthy of such stature if you don't enjoy anything else about the cell you will surely be impressed with the work put into these scenes br br the casting is top notch also jennifer lopez is in her element here utilizing her natural compassionate and almost maternal sensibilities while combining her own striking looks with the lush surroundings makeup and costumes she is incredibly sexy and i personally wish someone would find another role for her outside of the rom com world she has been typecast into that would allow her to experiment further vince vaughn is fairly convincing as an fbi agent that will do anything to save the life of a young woman but it is without a doubt vincent d'onofrio that has the biggest impression here it's an extremely difficult role as he is required to bring out multiple emotions within the viewer we are disgusted at his actions yet sympathetic towards him due to the trauma he has experienced during his life he looks magnificently powerful within his realm yet insecure and vulnerable within the real world it's a great performance from an underrated actor br br while the cell doesn't work as well on every level it ambitiously attempts some of the actions of the characters are not believable and while it is all based on some fairly flimsy scientific logic it is an occasionally shocking visually astounding head trip that rewards multiple viewings
1	the cell is an exotic masterpiece a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer but also into one of a very talented director this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations this is boldness at work pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent this is the best movie of the year to date br br i've read numerous complaints about this film anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point this movie may be a landmark a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow the cell has just opened the door to another world of imagination so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director singh that we don't want any more personally i would more than welcome another movie by and would love to see someone try to challenge him br br we've all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer and yes i do agree that the genre is a bit overworked the 90s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick some of them worked but most failed but the cell does not blaze down the same trail we are given a new twist we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied br br i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another instead she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and into another entity the cell wants to let you see what it's all about and not how it's all about and i guess that's what some people don't like true i do like explanations with my movies but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in br br i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another nonetheless the set design was simply astonishing i wouldn't be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography best costumes best director and the like if it were up to me it'd at least get nominated for best picture br br i've noticed that i've kind of been repeating myself not because there's nothing else to say but because i can't stress enough how fantastic i thought the cell was if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time i guess this film was just a little too much for some people writing it off as weird or crazy i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind so it was right down my alley leaving the theater i heard one audience member say whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs if so i want what he was smoking br br out of 4
1	what makes watching and reviewing films a pleasure is when every once in a while when you least expect it a film like the cell comes along and knocks your socks off this movie is a superb horror that has everything a you could want when you want to be scared out of your without going into the story all i will say is that it has a great beginning middle and end that keeps you on the edge of your seat while being transfixed with the amazing special affects the acting is good without being outstanding but that does not matter because the subject matter and the way it is put on the big screen makes this one of the best horror movies i have seen for a long while it is one of those films that you imagine started as a novel but saying the credits it does not look like an adaptation so a lot of credit must go to mark the writer 9 out of 10
1	style over substance but what a style it is the cell is the internal version of most serial killer movies unfortunately the story hardly supports the visuals br br psychotherapist catherine deane j lo goes into her patients' dreams via artificial means to discover and help them over come their phobias and obsessions a new patient whose fallen into a coma is brought to her attention by the fbi he's a serial killer who drowns his female victims then poses their bodies in grotesque scenarios like mannequins deane must enter the killer's mind and navigate through his sick fantasies in order to find and save his latest victim br br director singh has incredible visions and set pieces for this production each dream sequence is like a nightmare ish painting in motion from the landscapes to the costumes br br but the plot suffers from lack of history of its characters is the only person with a thorough background and he's the last person you want to care about without him you basically have a movie that moves in the present tense only which is a shame since the movie is so visually stunning and genuinely scary lopez is wasted but she's not that amazing an actress anyway though she's as gorgeous as ever and vince vaughn i don't even know why he was chosen this is not his forte and he overacts to boot he tried too hard to become his character and it showed stick to comedy vince even so this movie is so visually frightening i still watch this movie with the lights on and can never fall asleep right away afterward
1	this movie is definitely a case of style over substance but the style is good and certainly more than unique on its own to make the cell a memorable and above average movie br br the cell is beautifully looking with impressive sets costumes and make up yes it's real eye candy to watch all the movie has some perfectly sequences that are certainly odd but also very beautiful and imaginative to look at this movie is a perfect mix of an art house type of movie and a typical hollywood thriller that is accessible to both fans of the genre br br the story itself is pretty far fetched and doesn't always make sense because of that the movie isn't always pleasant and likable to watch but like i mentioned before the style compensates for this the style makes you keep watching till the end and provides the best moments of the movie br br vincent d'onofrio is unforgettable as the serial killer with a twisted mind vincent d'onofrio is really underused as an actor and this movie shows his talent once more i'm not particularly happy about the casting of jennifer lopez i know that she can act in some of her movies but she really wasn't suitable to play the main character in this movie her character wasn't strong enough and she was overshadowed by vincent d'onofrio and vince vaughn still i felt that vince vaughn was also miscast in this movie he didn't fit the role well enough and no i'm not saying that because i'm used of seeing him only in comedies now days the rest of the supporting cast is good and still give the movie a certain degree of credibility br br the musical score by howard shore was also surprising good and was sort of se7en like at times it suited the movie well and gave some of the scene's some extra mood and atmosphere br br it's a far from perfect movie and the concept is far fetched and not always handled in the right way still the cell is a perfectly watchable movie and perhaps even a bit of a must see due to its style originality and creativity br br 7 10
1	i decided i need to lengthen up my review for my all time favorite film unlike other war films that focus on the event apocalypse now takes the viewer into a psychological head trip the sheer surrealism makes the body uncomfortable yet you can't lay your eyes off of it based off of joseph conrad's heart of darkness apocalypse now slowly descends its protagonist willard martin sheen into madness most likely the same way kurtz plunged into insanity the production of this film is notorious for its delays provided by the monsoon season and for brando's unprepared performance he read his lines from cue cards there is a documentary titled apocalypse now a filmmakers apocalypse which shows the hell everyone went through in making this br br the opening sequence is one of the most famous and popular in any film as the blade of the helicopters are heard in slow motion and napalm is dropped in the trees the song the end by the doors can be heard the next shot is of willard in his bed with the fan on so the noise of the helicopter coincides with the fan we are informed that he does special missions for the military mostly assassinations when his next mission is given to him he is baffled charging a man with murder here is like giving a speeding ticket in the indy 500 the man he has to kill was a respected colonel that has gone insane and isolated himself along with tribes people kurtz is ordering atrocious acts that are carried out by these people and he must me stopped willard does not go alone however he is carried on a boat with several soldiers and they come across several battles along the way they meet lieutenant colonel bill hoorah about the war willard ponders that if is that crazy what could kurtz be like there are many scenes that portray plunge into insanity the tiger attack the slaughter of innocent vietnamese the nonstop rain the piled dead bodies scattered about and the deaths of his crew members when he reaches the kurtz compound he is greeted by the village people and a hippie photojournalist dennis hopper instead of assassinating kurtz right away willard begins talking with him and his conscience begins to doubt what he should do kurtz on the other hand wants to die he is tired of the war and wants to go down as a soldier willard kills him with a machete while in unison a buffalo is sacrificed with several machetes by the people once they realize their leader has been slain instead of killing willard they hail him as their new king willard rejects the offer and leaves them br br the cinematography here is absolutely breathtaking the colors are grain free something that is rare in older movies i can watch it muted and admire the beauty of the scenery br br the acting ensemble is terrific with everyone playing their parts well many criticize brando for some reason but i think he nails his role as a depressed lunatic who is beaten up by the war br br the soundtrack and the score are haunting and provide the mood for the film i am wondering what instrument they used in that guitar like sound when the credits roll there have been many parodies of this film but my favorite quote comes from marge simpson when she explains to homer why a character with the same name on a police show is behaving like an idiot your character provides comic relief for the show like um marlon brando in apocalypse now those who have seen the movie know why this is hilarious
1	the last film that provided a vivid and disturbing look at what insanity is probably like was in dreams in that movie you didn't see insanity you were there now the cell comes along with an updated and much more disturbing portrayal of the inside of the mind of a psychotic killer the opening scene takes you into the seemingly innocent mind of a comatose little boy and the things that catherine deane jennifer lopez sees are first fascinating and then terrifying the things that she later sees in the mind of vincent vincent d'onofrio are amazingly imaginative and fascinating most of this stuff has never been seen in film before br br the story of the cell is not exactly something that is really groundbreaking in fact it is basically the same as the story in the silence of the lambs you have a killer in custody and these people have to enter his mind to find a female victim who is currently in danger of losing her life the only real difference between the foundation of the plots is that in the silence of the lambs you have to enter the mind of a killer to find a different killer as well as his current victim while in the cell you have to enter the mind of a killer to find his own victim however despite the unfortunately weak story the cell completely the genre of the psychological thriller none that have ever been made even come close to it br br also the film had good direction and was extremely well acted vince vaughn delivers another of his characteristically excellent performances he was even good as norman bates in the pathetic 1998 re make of psycho and even jennifer lopez puts forth the second good effort of her career the other being the great out of sight nothing can be said of the cinematography in the cell to give it sufficient credit it was imaginative and fascinatingly done and is unparalleled by anything ever seen in cinematic history the cell is an incredibly well made film and it deserves to be recognized
1	'the is a journey into the mind of a serial killer and i mean this literally the film is about the journey about the world it shows during this journey the destination does not really matter in my opinion this journey through the mind gives such beautiful images other things do not really matter as long as they are not distracting in fact the story is pretty good br br we start with catherine deane jennifer lopez in the mind of a catatonic boy how this works exactly does not really matter but it looks a lot like virtual reality she and other scientist including henry west dylan baker and miriam kent marianne jean baptiste believe that this method might work catherine enters the mind of the boy and speaks with him there in a world that is completely created by the boy she hopes she can let him do things that in the end will give results br br the real story then a serial killer named carl vincent d'onofrio just dumped the body of one of his victims fbi agents ramsey jake weber and novak vince vaughn are on this case another girl tara disappears and at that time after forensic research on the dumped body carl can be traced and captured two problems occur 1 carl just went into a coma he has been sick for a long time 2 his house and the house with his last kidnapped victim are not at the same place in a way this part of the story is pretty standard br br things are about to get interesting again to find out where the girl is catherine has to go into carl's mind this is dangerous for a lot of reasons in short carl is unknown territory schizophrenic and a serial killer if catherine starts believing carl's mind is the real world then her mind can convince her body she could die in the mind of carl a tape of how the last victim was killed a fate this girl will have in about twenty hours makes sure catherine will try to get the location out of carl's mind br br it is the journey through this sick mind that makes this film more than worth watching director singh who did music videos before this in a way goes back to these music videos every room in the imaginative world is another short clip that exists out of beautiful and sometimes haunting images for me the visual style felt completely new the way 'three kings' had a new visual style one year earlier if something like that can make you like a film 'the will not disappoint but fans of the thriller and horror genre can like this film anyway the story itself without the great fantasy world is good enough for that i think you have to be a little open minded of course events are not yet possible in our real world still a very entertaining film with nice ideas that looks terrific
1	forget about the plot of this movie forget about the fact that it is wonderfully acted by vince vaughn and d'onofrio forget about the fact that it is one of the few movies starring jennifer lopez that i can stomach although the story made be impossible to believe and much of the dialogue seems contrived the one and only important thing to remember when contemplating watching this movie is that it contains some of the most amazing and disturbing imagery ever put on film it is as if salvador dali decided to make a crime drama a must see for anyone seriously interested in cinematography and the use of the film cell as a canvas on which to display true works of visual art i would have to give this movie a 9 10 for it's amazing visual display
1	superb story of a dedicated young teacher who sets out teaching minority children in an area off south carolina br br jon voight is just tremendous as the headstrong dedicated idealistic teacher who faces this challenge despite a principal who believes in stern discipline and has little regard for modern educational techniques as well as a crusty old school superintendent played with relish by the late hume cronyn madge sinclair is the principal who loves her babies br br as i'm a retired teacher i could in some ways relate to this excellent film the ignorance shown here as well as the lack of cooperation with officials is also quite apparent in urban areas br br voight realizes that these children need far more than the traditional teachings of a classroom he has them go out and experience life by themselves by learning outdoors br br the end is a definite downer but so true to life br br amazing that such backward students had a zest for learning and were well disciplined i guess that answers my question the behavior was there and they were motivated to succeed despite their environment br br the ending will just tug at your heart it was memorable and so well poignant
1	coming on the heels of that 1970's blackploitation era 20th century fox 1974 offered audiences a low key sincere and everyday people sort of a drama offering a far different fair to its audience which was far more general than those flicks being a down to earth dose of realism that offered a lonely counterbalance to those shoot 'em ups' br br replacing lead characters that were bad ass detectives super flies and megs pimps take your pick in terminology was a lone humble and meek teacher the we speak of is the main character pat conroy who is the one and only lone teacher hired to take on the responsibility of a sort of old time one room school house on an island off the coast of south carolina br br jon voight the name that the youngsters dub him finds conditions in the school terribly backward in addition to the physical properties of this little red schoolhouse any systematic and progressively graduated educational system was totally absent br br oh yeah by the way did we mention that further complications to any successful educational venture were manifested in two incontrovertible facts those were that pat conroy was both an outsider and he was white with almost the entire population of this off shore cay was black and very poor br br perpetuating these unacceptable and deplorable conditions were the agents of the local board of education being the school's principal mrs scott madge sinclair and the superintendent mr mr hume cronyn between the two we are made to understand that the teacher being the low man on the totem pole is powerless in most respects to affect any sort of meaningful long lasting improvements br br but don't you tell a 'young such as pat conroy that he can't can't anything that is spends a year of unorthodox classroom performances and is making real progress but alas the strong headed teacher won't give in and recognize the authority of his superiors while he is by law and unbeknownst to him serving at thee pleasure he disobeys mr specific order and prohibition to take his class kids to the mainland of south carolina on halloween for some trick or treating even going to the brazen act of stopping with them at the residence br br next we see a western union telegram messenger happily singing as he crosses from the carolina mainland to the island where he delivers the telegram to conroy that bore the news of his dismissal from his position with that school and district br br not being one to take his being fired lying down pat files suit against mr principal mrs scott and the board of education protesting his dismissal as being unlawful impartially reviewing both the offense and the law the judge asks if there are any lesser punishments that could be substituted for conroy's being separated from the school system to which he receives a negative response fittingly the judge dismisses the suit with his pounding down while saying it's very simple br br the story is brought to a bittersweet conclusion as the see him off to the mainland bound launch while a phonograph record provides us with beethoven's 5th symphony which had played an important part in the conroy educational agenda as well as our story br br in the humble opinion of this writer the story which we believe was at least semi autobiographical even giving the main character the name of its author was much more than a tale of a localized happening to both me pal schultz and meself this is a sort of depiction of a microcosm that represents the overall deplorable conditions that permeate the government schools throughout the entire nation just an opinion br br as for this film it was just one of many movies portraying the stores of common folk leading their lives of quiet desperation in the great hinterlands of the country which lie outside the d c beltway and the urban centers of enterprise and communications situated on either the atlantic or pacific coasts br br in its own small way this is a fine film which would soon be joined in the film vaults of 20th century fox by such great works as norma rae and breaking away both being from in 1979 br br see it if you ain't yet recommended by both and his buddy br br note why that's me of course br br poodle schnitz
1	i saw on a night i couldn't sleep and i was never so glad to have insomnia this story of a young white teacher who takes a position teaching poor black kids on an island in the is a great advertisement for teaching and for simply helping each other set in the early 60s with the civil rights issues viet nam and all that came with the 60s it is forgotten that the peace corps and many young people struck out to make a difference helping the with his open style of teaching is interested in these kids as people and encourages an honest interaction in his class that scares the power's that be the greatest part was that jon voight said they had a 20 year reunion and 18 of those kids became teachers its enough to make you think we as humans may have a chance to survive ourselves maybe hopefully see this film
1	i'm going to make this short and sweet it's not surprising that you had no use for this film this is a story about the power beauty and possibilities inherent in a meaningful education based on your pathetically composed comments i can see that your own education has been woefully neglected or worse completely wasted your comments are those of a truly ignorant person i would advise you to do something about this condition but in your case i feel it's probably too late my hope is that you yourself don't intend to go into the teaching profession especially in film studies because you could only do damage oh one last bit of advice in the future if you intend to write more opinion pieces you should really proofread your work it will make people take you more seriously
1	our america is multi cultural with so many sub cultures this movie simply tells a story of a snapshot in time within one of these sub cultures it is basically an objective look at a group of forgotten people living their lives oblivious to the rest of the world generally a good movie it entertained provoked thought and showed lives that would not be seen otherwise right in our own back yard should be seen by all having lived in the u s all my life i had no idea that there were citizens here that didn't know they were citizens this movie helps illustrate the diversity of our country by showing this small part of a southern state the obvious conclusion if this is really for real then what else is out there that we know nothing of
1	this movie is a piece of the time in which it was made realistic movies were not candy coated during the late 60s and early 70s the producers did not try to create some happy ending that didn't exist the lack of a happy ending would create agitation in the audience that hopefully would spur them on to action at least that's how it seemed at the time in today's movie world this movie would probably not be done there would definitely not be this ending however realistic the sad fact is that the movie depicted a situation which could not be improved upon without action from the improvement of the relationship between the white southern traditional thinking and the progressive movements of that time
1	i not only consider this to be the best film that jon voight midnight cowboy coming home has ever done but a real tribute to teachers br br despite incredible odds pat conroy voight managed to reach a group of students and bring them from nowhere to a basic literacy and awareness of the world his methods made be criticized by bureaucratic dinosaurs like mr hume cronyn but teachers like conroy will always be winners br br voight really showed that he had a love for teaching and that it was a natural high for him he didn't overplay the role and i found him to be totally believable voight is br br besides a love of teaching we also see another important point in this film no matter how good you are at your job if you rock the boat the bureaucrats will get you
1	i have always loved the ironic symbolism and brilliant cinematography of coppola's masterpiece i was lucky enough to meet martin sheen outside the santa monica civic auditorium one night in 1981 as he waited for charlie and emilio to leave a concert he was very humble about the praise i shared with him for this work of art especially his portrayal of the young captain this is without a doubt a must see a complete 10 and an important part of american film history charlie don't surf robert duvall's famous line the other one does not need repeating as it has become an oft repeated anthem and his character will long be remembered as a classic american war hawk in the john wayne tradition it is a surprise to see how young laurence fishburne looks
1	just watched for the first time although the last third of the movie leaves something to be desired it is a very touching and heartwarming study of a man's evolution to overcome his youth and upbringing in a prejudiced south and a teacher's creativity in connecting with students despite different backgrounds and difficult circumstances as an educator seeing a teacher adapt to his students and prepare them for all of the challenges life has to offer not just the lessons found in textbooks is a valuable concept of which we all need to be reminded the thread concerning the vietnam war rings true even today well worth a look
1	john voight plays the title character in this movie based on author pat conroy's prince of tides autobiography a fine teacher film it tells the story of a naive pat conroy a young english teacher whose first assignment is in an elementary school on a rural island the only white man on the island he must battle internal and external pressures as he attempts to instill education and values in children who for generations have been systematically denied such things a solid performance that really makes you think
1	i saw this film on tv in the uk some 25 years ago and it has resonated with me ever since my interest has recently been by visiting hilton head the next island over from actually and reading pat conroy's excellent the water is wide with the benefit of knowledge i have reappraised and consider it a masterpiece jon voight captures the spirit of conroy and the atmosphere of the film brings the book to life with some accuracy a hollywood rarity br br three things still strike me about this tale 1 the issues of educating the poor and disenfranchised and being inclusive remain the same 2 education is about more than reading and writing 3 these kids were my peers i was 6 in 1969 when pat conroy spent his year on br br why this has not made it on to dvd yet
1	i saw this movie for the first time a little over a year ago i've seen it 4 more times since i had never heard of it before and i consider myself knowledgeable of classic cinema a true polished diamond in the rough br br this gem of a movie revolves around jon voight lead character as a young schoolteacher assigned to island to teach the children all in one school at first the students reveal they know very little of the world beyond their island home the heart of the movie is finding inspiration to awaken their young minds to the world around them the students quickly reward their teacher with an eagerness to learn and a remarkable ability to grasp concepts that only a short time before had been foreign to them uses unconventional and clever teaching techniques that happen to be oh a little fun god forbid learning and fun together can't be or so says the ones in charge to avoid a spoiler i shall just say that finds resistance with the boss man and the ending is truly bittersweet br br i am a 35 year old white male with some teaching experience so i should identify with the lead character pat conroy aka mr but i don't i identify with the black kids as a kid i was to the school on the other side of town from the 4th to the 6th grade circa 1979 these kids in the movie remind me of my classmates then luckily in 4th grade as a 8 or 9 year old one doesn't understand racism i just remember we were all being kids playing 4 square hide and seek and running relays br br this movie is very moving there are delightful and poignant moments from beginning to end non stop i found myself many times with tears in my eyes then suddenly laughing out loud it's a funny movie br br git away from that sir if you're prepared to accept crap i should tell you that rabbit just did it in your lap so you the white schoolteacher mr my love mr you a good looking teacher you a good looking white man wind 15 mph from the east small boat warning small boats beware big boats ok don't gotta worry 'bout nothing not a fry cook but eleanor roosevelt not a share cropper but something latin that's latin hey wait sing like a frog i sing good talkin' 'bout br br it still mystifies me that i still hear nothing about this movie or that it has very little reputation or following i intend to seek out more reviews comments background and making of tidbits if they are out there what amazes me is the acting given from the untrained kids one of the kids mary i understand was an actress and you can tell however the other kids have plenty of lines and genuine reactions i wonder how they did it i'm guessing that and mary had precise dialogue to work with while some of the scenes unfold naturally or ad libbed br br is a special movie in my opinion it is one of the very few movies that are so good and so unknown others in that category are king rat '65 dark passage '47 with bogie and bacall gods must be crazy '80 and bad day at black rock '55 i recommend them all but first take a seat in the class of mr
1	pat conroy's autobiographical book the water is wide proves to be something of a southern up the down staircase yet despite the teacher going against the odds formula really does move the audience with each little breakthrough and creative flash these students uneducated black kids on an island off south carolina are actually shown learning and their collective wide eyed innocence is remarkably sweet the one actual actress in the bunch tina andrews an amazing performer plays the tough nut has to crack and once she falls under his charms it all seems a breeze but the story is not ready made for a happy ending and i wasn't prepared for the quiet simplicity of the finale it's beautifully done the script veers off course every now and then but director martin ritt is very smart to always fall back on jon voight's solid presence scenes such as the one where he drives around in his van venting his frustrations over a loudspeaker don't add up to much but the whole film is filled with episodes which spark emotion and the actual ending is their payoff 1 2 out of
1	i first saw this film when i was in the 8th grade and i remember that it had a profound affect on me then i saw in again about a year ago i am now 29 and it still moved me in similar ways this is a great movie that personifies the struggle of principle vs voight's character is the idealist teacher that won't give in to any racist leanings of the superintendent mr that story also personifies the struggle of how older people often resist change and more specifically cultural change often at the expense of children when these battles finally come to a boil pat conroy loses and pragmatism reigns triumphant or does it the children that he has to leave are better off for knowing him more exposed to the real world and to classical music the other teacher at the school gained respect for him and he learned much about himself a great film with a heart breaking ending i recomend that anyone who enjoyed the film to read the book the water is wide by pat conroy it will stay with you
1	martin ritt seems to be a director who was always interested in social issues as the son of immigrants he had every incentive to be so especially since he was blacklisted in the '50s is based on pat conroy's novel the water is wide about his own experience in 1969 teaching a school of impoverished black children about the outside world much to the chagrin of the right wing superintendent hume cronyn what added to the movie's strength was the cultural and historical context conroy jon voight tells another teacher how many of the children don't know about paul newman sidney poitier the vietnam war or even where vietnam is he proceeds to enlighten them about all these factors br br somewhere i read a complaint that when conroy played music for the children he only played white music the truth is you can't blame the movie for that it was based on conroy's real experience either way the movie's a real gem
1	this film launched my theory about films based on books instead of following the cliche you've read the book now see the film if you are looking for a good book to read try one upon which a movie you like was based because it'll be 10 times better br br i saw this film on its initial release at the national theater in downtown eugene and liked it so much that i stayed to see it again it's a perfect of the inspiring talents of one of my favorite actors jon voight with what became my favorite book the water is wide by pat conroy br br i can think of no better movie about the nobility of teaching and the ironic challenges of life two tiny caveats br br 1 the video suffers severely from pan and scan and deserves a letterbox version 2 the title should be restored to the name of the book a reference to one of the most touching enigmatic songs ever written
1	all i can say is that each time i see dir martin ritt dp john alonzo i feel an utmost sense of inspiration and in what the power of cinema is possible in such a simple film br br the motion picture is set in 1969 it is based on a true story it is a story about a white man jon voight who teaches a group of young black children how incredible the world is outside of their little south carolina island br br the story places the job of a teacher as noble cause in changing children's lives br br i highly recommend it
1	this film had me spellbound this evening thanks to fox movie classics for showing it uninterrupted john voight this cast of little known black actresses and most of all the children made this a worthy way to spend a sunday evening how wonderful to see the early work of this seasoned actor as well as paul excellent portrayal of mad billy i can't see why anyone would say that hume cronyn is miscast in the role as superintendent who would they have chosen the shrill character actor charles lane although his career is laudable an actor such as lane would have cheapened the role cronyn was an excellent choice for the part i will count this film as a true treasure to hold in memory
1	even with all the cinema dealing with the trauma of the vietnam war jacob's ladder the deer hunter apocalypse now and taxi driver to an extent one feels that we don't even know the half of what happened even contemplating the horror feels inhuman and a progression or retreat to the inhumanity that it necessitates is a key part of apocalypse now coppola's greatest and one of the most important films ever made loosely based on joseph conrad's 1902 classic heart of darkness which chronicles the loss of sanity and corruption of morality that comes with distance from civilization a surfacing of a bestial nature as it were a la lord of the flies it brings the story of a physical and psychological journey to vietnam the story is of willard a general commissioned on a special mission to cambodia after his first tour of duty in vietnam is served willard at the beginning of the film is stuck in saigon psychologically unable to go back home eerily echoing nicky in the deer hunter so he is contacted his mission is to assassinate a renegade green beret who has isolated himself in a remote outpost on the river and who has purportedly gone completely insane worshiped like a god by the natives and killing indiscriminately this man's name is colonel kurtz played by marlon brando in the second best role of his career the best being stanley kowalski in a streetcar named desire as willard journeys upriver in an army boat with some soldiers accompanying his witnessing the horrors and the insanity and the overwhelming pointlessness of it all leads to an eerie sympathy and identification with kurtz before they even meet by the time they do methods don't really seem as wrong or as they should and they certainly don't seem too unusual or out of place apocalypse a place beyond morality the outpost on the end of the world the loss of civilization the loss of judgement of self monologue about an atrocity he witnessed as a green beret and his later revelation is one of the most chilling and well delivered speeches in cinema history the film is about trauma about the human spirit and its breaking point here it's a lot like the deer hunter and just as good apocalypse however takes the boundaries of what we can endure to a global level coppola's sweeping footage of the humid murky jungles of cambodia and an opening sequence of helicopters amid exploding forests and an orange sky set to an oddly fitting doors soundtrack as well as chilling scenes on the river and of an air raid on a village with wagner blasting from speakers a scene which has gone down as one of the most chilling darkly humorous and strikingly pointless war scenes ever this all contributes to the sense of apocalypse the end of the world and not at some distant point in the future but apocalypse now and forever the deer hunter is much more up close and personal you can even tell by the title and shows the effect trauma has on the individual psyche the breaking down of the human soul and its ability to either surrender completely to forces of darkness or to limp on this is why both films are equal they are two parts of the same thing in heart of darkness kurtz is shown as conflicted between morality civilization and his inner savage in apocalypse now kurtz has left all conflict behind he is beyond good and evil he has let go of morality like a drowning man lets go of a saving hand in the moments before his death kurtz indeed is only waiting for death quoting t s eliot in his temple to himself lost in the jungle his last words and the words echoed at the end of the movie are the horror the horror he is referring to the infinite void of existence of the human psyche and to the pitch black emptiness within his own mind where atrocities are born again it is impossible to express in words the experience one goes through watching this film the experience in short that willard experiences on his journey the end part at the outpost almost in fact comparable to its brother scene in the deer hunter is one of the most deeply calmly and seductively disturbing things i've ever seen
1	an evil land baron is holding up water to a group of ranchers in order to try and take their properties for pennies on the dollar along comes singin' sandy saunders john wayne who saves the day for gabby hayes and his daughter by going undercover as the villain's newest gunman br br the first of sixteen films wayne made for lone star monogram pictures this tries to cast him as a singing cowboy only with an obviously lip voice the title card prominently features his character as singin' sandy leading one to believe that this was meant to be the first in a proposed series br br yes it's ridiculous but also a lot of fun to see wayne singing songs and shooting guns especially when he does a little ditty before shooting it out with gunman earl br br riders of destiny features a rare villainous role for for al fuzzy st john who clowns around as much with the bad guys as he did playing a heroic sidekick riding alongside buster crabbe and lash larue
1	if you are a fan of early duke movies this lone star oldie is a good one what more could you ask for than duke yak and gabby lots of good and shootin' i found it amazing that duke's singing voice was bill bradbury who is none other than bob steele's twin brother it has been reported that bob steele was a high school classmate and friend of duke so twin brother bill may have been too anyway if you like good clean early western movies don't miss this one we don't have to wonder about hidden meanings or try to figure out underlying themes just sit back relax and enjoy a western movie from a simpler day and time it's called entertainment folks
1	along with virtually every republic picture ever made murder in the music hall seems to have faded into oblivion a shame because this lusciously produced expertly directed and written and crafty mystery suspense item spins an enticing whodunnit thriller against the setting of radio city music hall a murder in one of the building's posh penthouse apartments casts suspicion on the luscious among them vera ralston who besides giving an appealing performance of subtlety and provides a few dazzling ice skating production numbers helen walker ann rutherford julie bishop and several other delectable b movie starlets of the '40s tall blond and handsome william marshall usually cast in musicals hunts down the killer as the complex and increasingly creepy plot unfolds against the swankiest settings you'll ever see in a film noir the ending is as much of a surprise as is this sadly forgotten classy murder mystery well worth restoring and reviving on cable tv vhs or dvd republic sank a hefty budget in this grade a production and murder in the music hall is as slick unnerving and immensely enjoyable as any of the major studios' films of its era possible spoiler pay attention to the song composed by the victim just before his death then amidst the incessant chattering in their dressing rooms try to pinpoint the one humming that fatal melody you'll discover who the killer is just as william marshall does grand fun the kind of movie they truly don't make anymore and what a loss both to movie goers and actors alike
1	please be aware that this film has nothing to do with the radio city music hall as an archivist re the music hall i know what is and what is not associated with the new york venue the film's theodore is just the music hall no are in the film only wonderful ice skaters plus superb actors and fun just thought you would like to know truly a wonderful film you will never guess who the is while watching this film till the very end what a superb plot and beautiful ice skating one never sees that kind of performances any more the roxy theater and the center theatres in new york city had ice skating performances on stage
1	not since bette davis's 1933 vehicle ex lady have i seen a film that was so much better than its star said it was most of the bum rap atoll k a k a utopia a k a robinson a k a escapade has got over the years has come from the horror stories stan laurel told of its production given that he suffered a stroke during filming looked like death warmed over through much of it from the opening two shot of them together you'd never guess that laurel survived hardy by eight years and was subsequently diagnosed with diabetes once he adjusted his diet accordingly he restored himself to health one can understand why laurel didn't think this film was the most pleasant experience of his life yes it's flawed the cheapness of the production shows through the dubbing is awful and laurel and hardy were too old to do the energetic slapstick of their greatest films but it's still genuinely funny and léo story introduces elements of political satire sometimes libertarian sometimes one would expect to see from more socially conscious comedians like chaplin or the marx brothers but never from laurel and hardy the film deserves credit for being different though its debt to the ealing studios' classic passport to pimlico made just a year earlier is pretty obvious and for integrating the laurel and hardy comedy into a rather edgy context completely different from anything they'd used before this isn't a great movie but it's certainly better than the eight dreary ones for fox and mgm they'd made in the early 1940's i suspect only the film's technical crudity kept it from earning the cult following among anti establishment baby boomer youth the marx brothers' duck soup acquired in the late 1960's early 1970's
1	the movie is not halve as bad as people want to make you believe it is br br what is the reason why so many people hate this movie is it because it's laurel hardy's last one together and it's not their best or is it because of the lack of laurel hardy regulars or because it's not made by the hal roach studios or 20th century fox br br definitely true that this movie is not a successful attempt to revive laurel hardy and bring them to the '50's it's also definitely true that the movie is far from their best but honestly the movie still entertains well making this movie also far from their worst not the most worthy 'goodbye' movie imaginable but an entertaining and suiting goodbye nevertheless both of them retired from movies after completing this one br br the movie still features some great slapstick moments and the chemistry between laurel hardy is obviously still very much present it also makes this movie better than most of their movies together from the '40's quite a surprise that the slapstick humor still works out as great as it does considering that the days of slapstick comedy had been over ever since the '30's br br the story is perhaps not as entertaining as it could had been and it features too many sidekicks and characters with as a result that the movie looses its focus on the boys at times a shame because they are still the ones that really carry and make the movie br br sad to see in what poor form stan laurel was at the time of making this movie he really looked ill and old which he also of course was he was well over 60 years old already but after a surgery he fully recovered and still lived for another 15 years before dying in 1965 8 years after his good friend oliver hardy br br an entertaining though not perfect goodbye to the boys laurel hardy and the end of 3 decades of fun humorous quality slapstick entertainment of movies that are still being watched and loved by people all over the world br br 7 10
1	utopia made in 1950 in france was the last film laurel and hardy produced with the bad reputation the duo have for their post 1930's productions i was expecting this film to be awful although admittedly it isn't up to the standard of their vintage comedies i was pleasantly surprised it's watchable and in parts genuinely funny and certainly the plot is of the same standard as you'd expect some gags are derivative from their earlier work but when you consider this film was their first for five years after their last hollywood produced film the bullfighters the routines are executed confidently as you'd expect from these professionals some scenes are not up to much but the value of this film is that some scenes are funny and as such absolutely priceless i particularly enjoyed the bedtime scene br br i felt sad at the end of the film our heros are left on their own desert island it's such a metaphor for the real life truth hollywood and audiences of the time had consigned the stars to a desert island of memories and that was to become last image they portrayed in film ollie died seven years later and stan died fifteen years later stan turned down an offer to appear in it's a mad mad mad mad world in 1963 what a shame that was a colour film only two years before he passed however his health probably wasn't up to much br br these boys are probably the greatest comedy performers of all time and although the movie is far from their true potential it's still an honour to watch them appear in film for the last time and touching on the echos of their towering talent
1	unfortunately i've never seen the full version of this movie i did see the 87 minute version twice back in the 1950s even more directed than is the norm with julien duvivier this is a wonderfully out of the ordinary piece replete with sweeping tracking shots through over and into magnificently atmospheric sets beautifully lit too by photographer andré thomas black jack is nothing if not a delight reinforcing this imaginative visual style is a script that allows a roster of our favorite actors including agnes moorehead and marcel some brilliantly bizarre full blooded characterizations george sanders gives a polished performance whilst an eccentric who turns out to be a rival racketeer is admirably played by agnes moorehead also realizing the most from her role patricia roc the film was made on locations in spain in 1949
1	i saw this film when it was released to the minor cinemas in the uk some 50 years ago and the memory remains of a great musical score and the tragedy of the storyline i saw it again on video recently the sound track was poor and the picture grainy but it is one of two films that i saw again the next day the other being gladiator the music theme is intensely tragic and from the outset one knows that it heralds failure or death certainly one of george sanders best performances as a man working the black market to get pay back for what he lost in the war but nemesis waits patricia roc plays a refugee from eastern europe eaten with despair he is attracted to her selflessly wants to help her and then falls in love with her but she is too proud and hurt to accept help their love destroys him and the girl and the doctor herbert marshall who brought the nemesis the storyline is of complex intertwining destinies where subsidiary characters are not who they appear to be this is as a film which the critics and struggled at the box office but for the adolescent who saw it and the retired gentleman who saw it again it is one of the greatest films taking into account its age whose story is more akin to an opera
1	i was really surprised that my mom watched whole movie without leaving to iron clean or some other things like these and i was almost shocked when she said it was very funny and very interesting and i think so
1	movies seem to fall into two categories films that reinforce existing societal values and beliefs and those that challenge them this film is a 180 degree shift from the idealistic rhetoric portrayed in offerings like the longest day and the green berets which seem more like disney fantasies by comparison the apocalypse now project the production and resulting film is heart of darkness updated into a psychological horror story of the late 20th century post modernist variety the cast and crew who worked on it probably could relate to the terrifying places the human mind can achieve this is the plight of joseph conrad's original character kurtz who came into literary being in 1901 and subsequently referenced in ts eliot's the hollow men kurtz he dead of 1925 although neither a straight telling of conrad's heart of darkness 1901 nor a first hand account of the vietnam experience apocalypse now stands as a masterpiece which pushed on the envelope of cinematic potential apocalypse is not just about the horrors of war per se like platoon and the deer hunter but the darker sensibilities of human nature as revealed through the raw and demeaning confrontations of violent conflict on a mass scale apocalypse now is not so much seen as experienced br br the bulk of the movie is the journey of a trained secret assassin captain benjamin willard martin sheen in a tour de force performance aboard a us military boat traversing an unnamed river into the heart of vietnam and cambodia where few westerners would ever tread his mission is to terminate colonel kurtz marlon brando a career army special forces division officer who was the darling of the us military until he went awol and renegade in the deep uncharted jungles between vietnam and cambodia the official classified report is that the colonel has gone insane but as events play out something else has happened to him that is far more terrifying than simply insanity sheen's mission is to terminate the colonel with the american public none the wiser br br the movie is rather episodic the journey along the river is made up of several vignettes as sheen and his crew meet different self contained aspects of the war at the ground level american audiences of the 1970's had probably never seen this kind of film making before with the possible exception of the deer hunter which was released in the previous year the first and one of the most notable is an helicopter battalion led by col robert duvall in an oscar nominated performance who is a cross between general robert e lee and richard wagner he loves to play ride of the valkyries from wagner's the ring when he bombards helpless villages his line i love the smell of napalm in the morning is one of those oft quoted lines from the annals of cinema other encounters include an where enlisted privates will be entertained by the likes of hugh and playboy bunnies br br despite all the production catastrophes that impeded getting this footage into the can the remarkable aspect of this film is its pacing the original release not the later redux version does a fine of job of building until the viewer is emotionally prepared to deal with the climactic confrontation between willard and kurtz the strange discourse between willard and kurtz is worth the price of admission alone and some of the shots of both sheen and brando in certain places are some of the starkest and terrifying images ever produced on film not even the likes of clive barker wes craven or david cronenberg have anything on coppola in terms of horrific imagery brando's kurtz in one scene in particular is so utterly terrifying it makes most other horror movies seem tame by comparison which comes from the recognition that the horror is not from without but from within br br without giving too much away coppola's solution to the climactic moment stands as one of the most innovative of cinematic revelations according to the documentary hearts of darkness coppola feared that the inevitable final scene would lapse into melodrama and the atmosphere of the movie's darker hues would be compromised he wasn't sure how he could make it work until his wife encouraged the director to witness the ceremonial sacrifice of an ox as practiced by the native people with whom coppola was using as extras in the scenes with kurtz at his village after the viewing coppola had his ending and it is one of the most simultaneously disturbing and beautiful sequences in the history of american film making love it or hate it no western viewer will be the same after seeing this scene br br this film is not for all tastes just as conrad's original novel is not the kind of book that will be read on airplanes it's not just the violence and the pointlessness of violence that are difficult for most american viewers to absorb it's the naked unveiling of aspects of the human condition that seem so removed from suburban american life that make this film difficult for the average movie goer to handle which is as it should be coppola did not make a family picture however if the viewer can understand its larger point there is a lot to be gotten out of apocalypse now if you're looking for a film experience to reaffirm pre existing attitudes about american sensibility and heroism better stick with john wayne but if you're willing to be taken into places you've never been even beyond the evils of war rhetoric apocalypse now will take you into a world you thought you'd never visited before and the disturbing part of it is that you may recognize it
1	how can anyone dare say anything bad about this film pardon mel brooks for being a brilliant comedian and making a movie that gets funnier each time you watch it br br the first time i saw this i cried from laughing so hard everything about it is funny br br while robin hood men in tights is not my favorite comedy that spot is taken by real genius it ranks way up there in my book so go see it if you don't spend the whole time laughing then at least you'll spend the whole time drooling over cary elwes
1	this movie needs to come out on dvd cause that's the only way i will buy it i thought it was soo funny because there was no real plot to it it was not suppose to be an oscar winning film i appreciate those films cary elwes was a very cute robin hood i can't even think of my favorite part of the movie because they are all pretty good anyways peace out
1	i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them when it is played on a family channel this is one of my favorite movies so i dont know why any one would disagree thanks kristina
1	this movie is one of my all time favorites i have watched it probably 100 times literally and it is still funny to me it seems that every time i watch it i see something different mel brooks is definitely the all time king of side splitting comedy
1	mel brooks really outdid himself with this hilarious stand up of the robin hood story the cast is perfect and cary elwes does a fine job at his role in my personal opinion besides the fact that i'm a cary elwes fan this movie is the best and funniest i've ever seen it will have you laughing every time you see it
1	just like all of mel brooks' other comedies men in tights is hilarious but in seeing this as an outrageous comedy i think many fail to realize that the reason the movie is so funny is that the characters themselves are acted so well elwes is the well spoken former british noble lewis is an eternally annoyed king i hope it's worth all the deluise is a fantastic godfather roger rees is a worried and cynical sheriff the actors and actresses are so loyal to their parts that the jokes flow forth with ease yes we've seen this kind of comedy before but the only comedy to achieve better character development in my opinion is the big lebowski very very funny
1	mel brooks has really outdone himself on this movie no one can deny that blazing saddles was a classic and a breakthrough in this style of comedy film but men in tights has become the apex of his creative genius this movie is a definite must see if you enjoy this movie i would also recommend space balls and history of the world the same goes in reverse if you have seen any of these movies then men in tights should be next on your list
1	mel brooks is a great writer director and actor but once in a while even he can have a the beginning of this starts out almost basically just meeting one character after another you have cary elwes who's charming and talented but he can't do comedy his expressions into the camera show that even he can't believe the inanities in the script richard lewis looks bored and distracted throughout without much to do and amy yasbeck is stuck in high school acting mode dave chapelle shows great comedy range mugging and hamming for the camera and mark blankfield is mostly stifled in the role of the blind man but then he does still manage to show great comedy range eric allen kramer doesn't have much to do but the few scenes he does have are binding the best roles are those of roger rees tracy ullman megan cavanaugh and brooks for when he does appear dom deluise has a funny turn as a mafia don employing a clint eastwood lookalike but on the minus side some of the jokes aren't very funny while some of the really funny ones seem stolen from mel's other movies
1	this is my favorite mel brooks movie because it was the first one i ever saw i was in the fourth grade when it came out and i watched it all the time i saw the producers second and then blazing saddles this is a sentimental favorite because it was my first mel brooks movie
1	this probably ranks in my top 5 list of the funniest movies i've ever seen i was not a big fan of robin hood or robin hood prince of thieves but this movie was a lot different it made fun of robin hood and was hilarious i was extremely pleased with how well it was put together and how well acted it was besides home alone mrs doubtfire and houseguest this was the funniest move i've ever seen i especially love the song we're men in tights if you have a good sense of humor you'll love this movie
1	captain willard martin sheen has been sent on a classified mission into cambodia during the vietnam war to assassinate colonel kurtz marlon brando as he has gone completely insane and is no longer taking orders and since kurtz is one of the most decorated men in the armed forces it is hard for capt willard to understand how col kurtz could go off the deep end as he has killing without clearance and taking the war into his own hands what possibly could have pushed this great man over the top through willard's long journey through the jungle to find his target he tries with some success to understand why but what will he decide to do once he finds him br br any movie that can start out with the doors' the end is a great movie in my book especially if it can flow with the mood and imagery shown with the song apocalypse now does this perfectly i can't think of anything better for it to be set to the vietnam war and the insanity in the minds that it created an is a dark and brutal story about a long journey through some of the jungle in vietnam the ultimate destination of which is murder through it's use of music and score alone we are thrown into a dark world of mystery violence and insanity a perfect example of how to set mood through music alone is this film right here br br an overall great cast with the exception of laurence fishburne of which sheen and brando give us more than enough acting skills to spread around on our movie desire bread i just don't like fishburne ever since i found out he was cowboy curtis in peewee's playhouse my contempt and hatred for this man has increased ten fold i realize the pettiness of this but i simply do not care we need to sick gary oldman on him brando is excellent as col kurtz and i can't think of any other actor that could have played the good man gone insane and hold such screen presence sheen is also fun to watch as willard and we can identify with his questioning of his mission and the war in general my favorite character in the movie has to be robert duvall's lt colonel before this film i never pictured duvall as a wartime cowboy but honestly it's my favorite of his parts to date he simply nailed his character which is one of the best in the entire film as the gung ho air cavalry commander who loves to surf maybe a little over the top but still brilliant i also love the smell of napalm in the morning br br the plot is a fairly simple one and it doesn't take too much brainpower to figure out what's going on willard's mission is to kill kurtz plain and simple but it's the journey of the film that is really it's heart and also the dire situations of war itself in the redux version we are forced to sit through the extended french plantation scene and the playboy bunny scene which really adds nothing to the film's entirety other than it makes it a longer journey i don't feel they take away anything though it's just a matter of if you want to watch a three and a half hour movie or the original through this journey the film points out the utter futility and irrelevance of the war to the americans and the massive effect it had on the soldiers who fought in it in fact that's the entire point on top of that the troops were not supported by the public and that could very well have helped cause a character like to go completely mad br br a big war movie lover this one is up there with platoon and the deer hunter all of them classics i sometimes try to compare films of the same genre to one another but it has gotten me in trouble in the past in my reviews as i have had to go back on what i've said all three have their own strengths and add their own twist to the vietnam war so to really say one is better than the other is fairly pointless even if after having most recently view an i think it's a tad better in the end apocalypse now is a true classic in either version and worthy of the status it's been given as a fellow reviewer has previously stated an is one of the most ambitious films ever made
1	spoilers ahead mel has got it going on from the opening credits to the ending credits this movie has straight laughs dave shows why he is a comedic force cary carries the movie most of the time but the supporting cast fills in strong when the plot is drawn away from robin hood right from the beginning this movie proclaims it's self not to be taken seriously if you took a time machine and gave the characters thoughts of modern day antics you would get this movie what makes this movie special you say throughout the movie you see and walk beside each other becoming great friends as robin hood's sidekicks but it is never told or fails to grasp that he is black until the crowd says a black sheriff replays he's black that is a timeless scene simple one of the most movies of our time
1	i first saw robin hood men in tights back in 1994 in the cinema i went to see it because i always liked robin hood and i saw the trailer of this movie and thought it was hilarious after i saw the movie i must say it was even better than i thought not only is it very funny it's also a very well made movie with beautiful sets and costumes and a very beautiful score by mann the acting in the movie is also good cary elwes is funny as robin hood and also tracey ullman richard lewis mark blankfield david chapelle amy yasbeck megan cavanagh eric allan kramer matthew porretta and mel brooks himself are funny but the best part in the movie is played by roger rees as the evil sheriff of he has the best scenes in the movie and also the best dialogue king illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is which stands for it is illegal to kill a wild pig in the king's forest he somehow mixes up all the words and speaks out a sentence that nobody understands robin hood men in tights is in my book one of the best mel brooks films to date and i can't say that i have laughed as much about a film as this one it's just non stop laughing
1	there won't be one moment in this film where you aren't laughing this is mel brooks at one of his high points and cary elwes carries off the part of robin with convincing humour every time you watch this film you will discover a new joke but the ones you have noticed before will never grow old highly
1	if you don't like mel brooks you won't like this film that's a given why anyone wouldn't like his films is unknown to me but for those who can't see the light just avoid it br br everyone else this is a classic the entire cast is perfect carey elwes is a dashing clever british robin hood amy yasbeck overacts appropriately as marion richard lewis is his usual distracted annoyed self roger rees is a brilliant combination of and violence as mervyn the sheriff of and dave chapelle eric allan kramer mark blankfield and the sadly underused matthew are the perfect merry men br br there are similarities to spaceballs blazing saddles and every other mel brooks movie but why would you want him to change his style when it works so damn well the pop culture references in this movie are old enough to be funny again from the view of a 16 year old at least it's complete and utter parody every second a play for a laugh some of them don't work but most do and well i discovered new jokes the fifth and sixth time i watched the film br br of course if being barraged by constant visual and verbal gags isn't your style you wouldn't like this this isn't an academy award winner it's mel brooks you know what it is when you're getting into it if you want nonstop laughter surprisingly well developed characters and catchphrases to last a lifetime watch this
1	i don't think i have ever seen a better movie parody mel brooks is insane every time i watch it i find something new and it makes it even more funny than the time before cary elwes is perfect for the role of robin hood it has a great and unexpected ending that leaves you cracking up every character is great from little john and will to maid marian and i laughed the whole way through and will never get tired of it watch it br br if you liked cary elwes in this movie you must definitely see the princess bride
1	might contain spoilers br br this is just a good movie lots of good silly stuff to laugh at however do not watch the tv version they cut to much out dom deluise is rather awesome as the mafia don who is hired to kill robin all i can say about his ten minutes it's a long drive from jersey also you gotta love them checking the script to make sure robin gets another shot also 12th century fox br br any bad stuff the rappers at the beginning and the end seem rather out dated the songs were rather lame one time while watching this movie i could think out a few more times when they could have thrown in another joke or 2 br br on the whole however an enjoyable movie experience a must watch for comedy fans
1	robin hood men in tights has received no respect whatsoever it was hilarious cary elwes was excellent as the prince of thieves and david amy yasbeck patrick stewart richard lewis and mark blankfield as all did fine jobs i will never understand the hostility toward robin hood men in tights but i do know a great comedy when i see one br br robin hood men in tights receives out of
1	this movie was awesome if you want a movie with non stop puns and laughter then this is right for you this movie was great because it took the serious robin hood and made it something the whole family can enjoy and get a good laugh at i first viewed this movie when i was around 10 and got most of it this movie is also great because it makes fun of everything involved by order of the kings financial secretary h and r blockhead br br everyone needs a little cary elwes robin hood in life whether or not its liar liar with the claw or saw br br this movie is worth watching
1	i love this movie i know some people might say that it was not a great movie but i really disagree the comedy is classic mel brooks style and the actors were superbly chosen this was my first exposure to cary elwes and dave and what a first impression they made cary elwes shines as robin hood the only british robin hood mind you he has great comedic timing and the right attitude for this type of film dave is obviously much bigger now but at the time this was his first movie and he did an outstanding job as the characters were all very well planned out and all added their own little quirks to the movie i highly recommend that you rent this movie and enjoy it with a nice bowl of popcorn and some close friends
1	this movie is wonderful i can watch it again and again robin hood is perfectly cast and marian is beautiful i personally think german man is the funniest character along with latrine and the sheriff while space balls got boring and stupid after a while this one always keeps your interest w o n d e r f u l this was a great film and never gets boring a great cast is in the roles and it is spoofed perfectly and makes so much sense and can be watched again and again you will love this film if you'll only watch it except if you hate comedy or does not think robin hood should be tampered with but this old story gets boring and this movie gives it a great new flavor
1	spoilers this review has been edited due to word limit br br the horror the horror ' marlon brando apocalypse now 1979 and apocalypse now redux 2001 br br the sentence which is as famous as here's looking at you kid ' or are you talkin' to me ' or may the force be with you ' or i'll be back ' means a little more than some one liners when it is spoken it lingers in the air with an importance and meaning that does not go unnoticed what might drive some viewers nuts is that they may never find an answer to the horror unless they re watch the film and try to pay close observation to every single frame br br what exactly does this line of dialogue mean the horror spoken of is the reality of war the reality of moral men being so easily corrupted that they turn on their inborn instincts and kill fellow beings without any sign of guilt when capt willard martin sheen stands before the dying col kurtz marlon brando at the end of the film the horror the horror ' is the realization of willard's he has mercilessly killed a man in cold blood as part of his assignment this isn't a typical hollywood ending in most cases a character gains something whether it be emotionally physically mentally or all three but willard both gains and loses he gains the knowledge that he has lost his morals and that is a shocking ending br br apocalypse now' is francis ford coppola's tribute to the artistic side of filmmaking this film is wholly different from the godfather ' it is hallucinogenic visually dazzling and an ode to the guilty side of human nature at first it seems realistic and then it becomes strange and then symbolic and by the end original in its own unique perspective of the spiritual side of warfare this is not as much a film about the vietnam war as it is a film about the war within us br br at first it does appear to be another war film captain willard sheen is assigned by an army lieutenant a young harrison ford to assassinate a renegade american colonel named kurtz brando who is hiding out somewhere in vietnam with a hoard of troops who more or less act as his slaves br br willard carries out his mission with extreme prejudice ' heading out on a boat along with four soldiers including the boat captain chief albert hall chef frederic forest and a very young larry' fishburne who later went on to appear as morpheus in the matrix' br br apocalypse now is in a many ways a modern update of homer's odyssey as our main character willard carries on his journey he meets an array of original and strange characters including lt col robert duvall who has a strange fetish for surfing and a stoned photographer dennis hopper whose lively gestures and mannerisms can be compared to those of the very much lesser jeremy davies in the million dollar hotel one of the worst films i have ever seen davies failed to make any connection with an audience hopper does he is like the poetic vibe between willard and kurtz he is like an interpreter going back and forth and speaking in foreign languages in this case he is translating kurtz to willard although i'm not so sure kurtz needs a translation of willard br br many films are lucky enough to have one or two memorable scenes or lines apocalypse now has many descending upon a vietnam village playing wagner's ride of the valkyries remains one of the most remembered scenes in all of film history there is sharpness to it a brutality to it an ironic tone to it and also a sense of playfulness when kneels down on that beach and says i love the smell of napalm in the morning it smells like victory ' we all crack a smile br br i won't lie to you apocalypse now' is a strange film it isn't exactly the easiest thing to analyze the end may frustrate some viewers if they don't understand marlon brando's significant speeches but what it all comes down to what really matters is that this film is about the dark nature of the human psyche the horror is the realization of war and its effects not the war itself kurtz says you have a right to kill me but you have no right to judge me ' brando's character kurtz is left to the audience to judge to many naïve viewers he may appear as a crazy loon whose power got to his head but that isn't what francis ford coppola is trying to get across by fighting in vietnam kurtz has realized just how great he had it and how bad some others had it by walking through devastated villages he eventually comes to realize that we are the naïve ones living our lives in a fool's paradise we are totally naïve to our surroundings and possible misfortunes until they hit by seeing how unlucky some vietnamese are kurtz realizes just how easily he could be struck by something just how easily he could end up like the people around him and he also realizes that the people who did this are people who have abandoned their morals and left them at the door many people think the horror is one thing it is two for kurtz the horror is the reality of how naïve he was and the reality of the war's impact upon men and after willard murders kurtz and hears dying words he realizes it too he realizes the effects of war to see so many soldiers with no sense of right or wrong makes him realize the horror of what war can do to a man and what it has done to him the horror br br 5 5 stars br br
1	i thought this film was amazing and i laughed so much that i had to see it twice to catch the bits i missed whilst bending over holding my stomach the critic who reviewed this film for this site challenged anyone with an iq over their shoe size to find this film funny well my iq is approx 135 i challenge this person to question me and then eat his own words this film is brilliant and if the critic above wasn't such a boring idiot he might smile for once in his life and take things as lightly as they're meant br br the musical numbers were so imaginative everyone when watching any film about that period of time will notice men in tights and realise how different it is to today's attire and how funny we would find today's male population if they wore tights day in day out the idea of dedicating a song to butch men dancing in tights was so fresh how can anyone not laugh plus also seeing hip hop rappers doing ballet is always hysterical as a dancer also i've done ballet and hip hop and danced with men who've had to do both it still cracks me up each time br br i love this film if anyone hasn't seen it yet don't listen to the critic above watch it and then decide for yourself
1	robin hood men in tights is worth watching i recently watched it because i've just become a cary elwes fan and this is one of of his lead roles some moments really made me crack up so hard i didn't expect them you know it was so funny even the 2nd time around you'd still fall off your chair the cast is great of course especially robin of himself cary but and the sheriff and little john don't let the name fool you it's big lol and everyone else br br there were some moments of course the film tried to make a comedic scene out of but you don't necessarily laugh at it but ok br br this is the second time cary elwes and patrick stewart appeared in a film together by the way they both worked on lady jane in 1986 and it was fun to see them 7 years later older awwww br br it's definitely worth watching quite hilarious indeed
1	like many a child born in the 1980's i grew up on the mel brooks films that weren't necessarily the ones like blazing saddles and history of the world part 1 i saw those of course though not as frequently as now but the ones meant for the whole family spaceballs and this film i knew at the time i wasn't seeing great art but just a campy goofy though always laugh worthy take on robin hood and or adventure movies but calling it a family movie in quotes means that a adults really can enjoy it as much as kids if not more because of the little in jokes and silly vulgarities and b once a kid sees it when he revisits it as i have a few times it's still as fresh but with some things not quite understood the first time around it's a comedy that is not only filled with jokes at robin hood movies and other movies godfather of course as well as little mentions for other movies of modern times but one that references brooks's own movies as well this is a filmmaker who isn't above poking fun at even his own style br br basic story robin hood cary elwes in one of his best turns returns home from the crusades to see things are in peril with king richard gone and so goes forth to reclaim his land and to naturally rob the rich to feed the poor along the way he meets dave butts heads with prince john richard lewis and the sheriff and of course still pines for the love of maid marian this of course is the usual clothesline for brooks to let the comedy run off into the scenes and while sometimes a joke may not work or might become stale on a repeat viewing so much of it sticks that it's hard not to chuckle it also helps that a couple of bits are some of the best in any such as the godfather bit dom delouise at his very best brooks's own cameo as the lewis and chappelle's acting turns and an endless slew of quotable lines and a couple of tongue in cheek songs some of it is obvious yes some of it just takes right from the pages of blazing saddles sure but is it a good time for the right crowd definitely and for parents who grew up on the 70's brooks work it is a fantastic way to introduce the young ones to his work through this even the suggestive sex jokes and such are not r rated all in good fun
1	robin hood men in tights 1993 was a much needed parody from mel brooks he has the assignment of spoofing the robin hood legacy and the couple of movie dealing with the mythical honorable thief of english folklore cary elwes stars as robin hood he's looking for a few good men who'll join him in his quest to topple the evil sheriff of nottingham roger rees and win the fair hand of maid marian robin also has to deal with prince john richard lewis as well tracey ullman co stars as prince john's personal witch latrine who has her eyes on the sheriff br br will robin find his merry men how far will the prince go to throw his weight around in the absence of his father why does the sheriff hate robin so much to find out you'll have to watch robin hood men in tights check out the hilarious cameo by dom de luise who plays the duke of jersey br br highly recommended
1	cary elwes have to say puts on a better performance then costner did in but anyhow br br have to say this film it just makes me laugh so much mainly because the actors seem really into what their doing and you just sit there and thinking 'what the hell are they on' but in a very very very very good way the random outbursts of songs were brilliant and well and the musical score used i really really liked great casting and as said before everyone seemed so into their roles br br 10 10 from me defiantly br br unlike some other robin hoods i can speak with an english
1	this is definitely one of the better mel brooks movies along with spaceballs although i will openly admit to not having watched many others at least yet it's very silly and thoroughly funny there are hardly more than a few minutes throughout the entire two hour run time where you aren't entertained almost all of the gags have a great comical effect few of them fall flat i saw this movie right after seeing and reviewing spy hard and comparing these two spoof movies i realize exactly of how high quality this movie really is it's funny from start to finish none of the comedy is overdone or boring the music is marvelous as is the choreography of both dancing and fighting the acting is pretty much what you would normally expect from this type of movie elwes is a great comedian and makes a good robin the plot is typical robin hood more or less everything from the legend is fit into this movie and spoofed majorly if you like mel brooks or you're just a fan of silly humor or you're just dying to watch a good parody of the legend of robin hood this is definitely the film for you the hbo first look special on the film is also worth watching and in that you may want to keep watching throughout the credits too i'd recommend it to any fan of mel brooks movies and to people who enjoy silly humor 7 10
1	this is a funny film and i like it a lot cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee this is of course the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part but still works well a comedy for a night when you don't want to have to think much it's well worth a rent
1	i remember when i first saw this movie i was babysitting for a friend of my mums and one of the kids suggested we watch it thinking it was the frankly laughable of thieves' they were slipping into the video recorder i was prepared for a few hours of boredom what i got came as a shock a pleasant one i'll admit but still a shock br br now you all know the robin hood legend don't you i shall explain a little robin hood was a saxon criminal money here and there and giving it to people who needed it all the while seducing the beautiful maid marion and vexing the sheriff of nottingham and prince john that's the basics now on with the review br br this movie was released in 1993 and is a take off of the whole robin hood legend and a p take of prince of thieves in particular br br loosely following the legend robin of is first encountered in an arabic prison during the third century crusades and together with a as they were called in those days he executes a cunning escape with a cellmate br br after escaping robin to find his son a foreign exchange student in england and look out for him this robin vows to do robin swims back to england br br he returns to his home castle to find it being wheeled away on the back of the cart by and goes through he sorrowful revelation that his father dog cat and even the goldfish are all dead desperate for a familiar face he finds the family's loyal blind servant sitting on the toilet with a jazz mag in braille the hilarity continues throughout the movie br br as with all robin hood stories robin must thwart the evil plans of prince john and the sheriff of who are wreaking havoc and charging exorbitant taxes on king richards's kingdom while he's away br br those familiar with the movies mel brooks has previously directed will have some small idea of what to expect after all this is the man responsible for dracula dead and loving it and young frankenstein all the jokes which range from visual gags to wonderful witty comments are in exactly the right places throughout the movie with never more than a minute between laughs br br cary elwes incidentally the only english man to play robin hood in a movie who many of you will know from princess bride brings his cheeky grinning twinkle eyed presence to this movie and does a wonderful job from outlandish heroic posturing to a wickedly sexy glance he really is amazingly funny and the man looks better in tights than i do br br richard lewis is hilarious as the whiny arrogant prince john with the ever changing mole he gets the sissy boy behaviour down to a tee and his whinging american are great all the way through the movie a mole on his face constantly changes position it starts on his left cheek then over to his right cheek then his chin then his forehead before going back to it's original place this is a subtle joke based on the mole on alan rickman when he played the sheriff in prince of thieves br br roger rees as the sleazy sheriff of is marvellously slimy and nasty and has some great lines throughout the film br br there are some faces here you'll be familiar with from other brooks films for instance robert ridgely playing the hangman in this film also played the hangman in blazing saddles another film directed by brooks he likes to add subtle references to his earlier films too with several in this film that die hard brooks fans will easily spot those who watched history of the world part 1 will recognise the music to the song 'men in also when patrick stewart arrives and marion mel himself playing rabbi utters the line 'it's good to be a king' one of his lines in history of the world br br the whole cast is wonderfully comedic even those with only a few lines bring a great depth of warmth and humour to them br br what makes this film so wonderfully warm and funny in my own opinion are all the improvised scenes although there was a script of sorts some scenes were completely improvised by the actors themselves such as the scene where latrine tracey ullman prays for in her bed and he falls through the ceiling landing right where she wanted him which was totally devised and thought out by the two actors br br there are few special effects and those that are there are small but fun moments of computerised camera trickery br br the soundtrack is memorable with some very funny songs and a couple of cheesy love songs you'll be singing 'men in or at least humming it to yourself for weeks br br the rating is pg to which i say bah humbug there is no bad language in the film except in the use of double entendre and one utterance of sh t and violence is minimal in fact i'd go as far as to say non existent apart from a few comedy fight scenes br br a great fun film that adults and children alike will enjoy
1	after i've seen this movie i find it hard to understand why so many people seem to hate this movie i'm not saying it belongs in the top 250 of all times but in it's genre it is a great movie i know not many people find it amusing to see how a legendary story like 'robin is turned into a comedy many people still seem to believe that some things shouldn't be laughed with they are wrong br br mel brooks has done an excellent job with robin hood men in tights i have seen the original robin hood movies as well but i never had such a good time when watching them as i had with this one it's just one continuation of hilarious moments and parodies on famous people and movies winston the godfather br br i recommend everyone who wants to have a good laugh to watch this movie to those who think robin hood shouldn't be messed with you're wrong but you better don't watch it because you'll probably be offended by it i give this movie an 8 10
1	fata morgana the 1971 documentary like film by german filmmaker extraordinaire werner herzog filmed over several years in the late 1960s is one of those rare dvds that should be listened to with the commentary turned on it is a visual feast of north african mostly saharan imagery that is timeless you simply could not tell that it was made over thirty five years ago the soundtrack to the film including german classical music mozart and and rock music by blind faith and leonard cohen also lends its timeless quality the narration by three different german narrators german film historian lotte eisner des and wolfgang von sternberg is solid and herzog goes on and on of eisner's import to this project himself and film history but the english speaker of the translation james william has a voice that seems downright which lends itself far more perfectly to this project even though much of the text in either language is rather superfluous yes the faux biblical sounds of the mayan creation myth in the film's first part creation is interesting but the text herzog wrote for the remaining two parts paradise and the golden age along with quotes from a german poet herzog names as manfred almost seems a satire of the first part's somber the film it seems was pieced together during the shooting of several other herzog projects concurrently the fictive even dwarfs started small and the documentaries the land of silence and darkness and the flying doctors of east africa but these rejected material only add to the beauty of this film such as aerial scenes of a flamingo mating lake from afar that give one an eerie unearthly sense one which herzog crows about in his commentary this unearthly feel is present right from the film's start of several airplanes landing on a desert runway with their images getting as the heat from the ground rises and increases the distorting waves that mar the images that this film was influential in the films of godfrey is an understatement but whereas is content to just toss images at you herzog has an ability that only american filmmaker terrence malick also has to make a wholly self contained vocabulary out of the juxtaposition of images and words and one dependent upon an emotion first thrust analysis can fail when brought to such endeavors herzog often does not understand even why his art is great the best he does often is wholly unconscious and mesmeric this is why his contempt for the lowest common denominator pap of hollywood is openly stated on the commentary br br perhaps the best illustration of this comes in a scene that on the commentary herzog tells us followed a severe drought in cameroon it shows the carcasses of cattle and herzog describes the unbearable stench yet the viewer can sense this all from the images the blackness of the sun dried portions of animals and the bones yet even in that commentary herzog focuses on the stench not any deeper meaning he is content to let you imbue and interpret what you will into and of his work such as the almost erotically feminized shapes of sand dunes which recalls a scene from ingmar bergman's hour of the wolf where max von sydow runs his hand over ingrid beautiful nude body's curves but the archetypal image in this film which symbolizes much of herzog's career is of a mirage of a faraway car driving back and forth on the surface of what appears to be a lake it is deep hypnotic illusive elusive supernatural yet real just as herzog the believer who came from a family of militant atheists is but then like everything else it ends
1	well i've watched this movie for over 25 years now and it's still almost as interesting as when i first saw it it is definitely one of the most unique films ever made br br i still think martin sheen got dissed big time in the billing too he dominates the film yet gets lesser billing than marlon brando who only appears in the last 30 minutes of this 2 hours 17 minutes film theatrical version how unfair is that br br sheen is fantastic in here especially his narration which runs throughout it's one of the best narrations if not the best i have ever heard in a movie his voice is just haunting as he relates his thoughts on this incredible nightmare like adventure i never fail to appreciate his work in this movie br br the other thing that strikes me about the film over the years are the number of memorable scenes ones i have never forgotten such as br br sheen losing it in his hotel room in the movie's first scene robert duvall and the totally out of place surfing scenes and then the ensuing attack with wagner's dramatic classical music blaring out of the helicopters the playboy bunny entertaining the troops frederic forrest being freaked out seeing a tiger close up in the jungle the weird scenes on the long riverboat ride the appearance of hippie journalist dennis hopper greeting the crew in cambodia and then brando's bizarre character it goes on and on with strange scenes br br that's not to say i enjoyed everything no there are a few very unpleasant scenes such as the one in which an ox is sliced in half can't watch that anymore an innocent family is slaughtered on a small boat by sheen's young stoned out crew and the crew is a little too goofy at times then there is the huge amount of profanity led by way too many f words br br so there is a lot of good and a lot of bad things in this movie for almost anyone who watches this one thing for sure it is a film you will remember
1	as one other imdb reviewer puts it imagine 2001 a space odyssey in the desert and you wouldn't be far off from a brief of what to expect from this piece of cinema i deeply hesitate to use the word film a lecture on philosophical views on creationism the mythos surrounding humanities existence the before and after that was has been the what is and the what will be this for some maybe a 2001 on sand but they tackle different philosophical viewpoints one about evolution and the future the hope and potential for mankind while fata morgana itself is a somewhat more metaphysical trek i only hope i can convey it effectively enough br br style will not to be everyones liking and those who are not of a perceived hardcore branch of cinematic viewing may and most likely will find this extremely hard going and may not even see it through to its finale after 72 minutes fusing together a montage of footage from the sahara including villages villagers and various other places for a somewhat surrealist ending music of various genres and an almost mythical narration fata morgana is severely slow paced but ultimately hugely rewarding br br opening with a montage of various filmed shots of planes landing for nigh on five minutes you already arrival at the introduction of the film immensely confused and the sense that this will not be like anything you have seen before echoes clear in your mind divided into three sections creation paradise and the golden age fata morgana attempts and succeeds in being able to juxtapose images of the natural beauty of the desert with the man made instruments that taint it its three segments are narrated by different persons each pertaining specifically to the particular section they are voicing and provide extra emphasis on the long and desert montages br br fata morgana is a film dealing with the existence of man on our earth it looks at the natural beauty the earth was designed for and concurrently looking at the potential beauty we have within us more notably shows us our negative contributions to the world in which we live each shot has been purposefully constructed using what can only be described within the context of this film as 'the holy trinity of in pictures words and music each part of these three pieces provides something notably to each shot but when brought together they create something greater than the whole of their parts they create unbridled beauty and deep thought within our minds i will not be able to do this film the justice it deserves with mere words alone perhaps if i had pictures and a score and i do know this will not be appreciated by the masses but this a profound and i will not use the term art film because this is simply just art this is moving art which moves the mind and stirs the soul whether or not creationism is your want is irrelevant because this film is about intelligent design
1	it would be something to try and tell someone what fata morgana is very simply about or maybe it isn't herzog goes to the sahara desert and nearby villages to film assorted landscapes and the locals but this is just the broadest stroke it's a feat that you either surrender yourself to or you don't he gets into the form of the world around him entirely without a story bound only to certain aspects of written poetry as his camera shooting on supposedly discarded film stock wanders like in a pure travelogue one might even jump to that easy conclusion as he puts up these immense landscapes then moving to more rough civilized culture though not the actual 'normal' culture itself and to a point levels too abstract to be able to convey properly here sometimes it takes a while to get along close to a purity through the creation section but a purity in how parts are manipulated either by nature or by broken down machines soon the narration readings from the who by the way does the music for most of his films with the gradual procession of actually highly stylized shots adds a whole different level to it it's a hybrid film and it's not easy but the rewards are what best comes closest to herzog's idea of ecstatic truth images he's been out for his whole career br br one wonders if the images end up by the time the second section paradise leading along the words spoken or if it's the other way around you're eyes are moving along with the stills and pans and the wording is close to being religious writing but there's also the music choices how the bizarrely spare singing and low key classical music goes together with leonard cohen and blind faith i think each side ends up complimenting the other and it's something that still seems like it shouldn't work perhaps that's the draw to it the chances taken in going through desolate wastelands and the smallest run sections of any kind of civilized life in this case the shacks of the desert that make it so fascinating if only for the cinematographic sense it's a marvel too indescribable for the casual photography fan because of molds of technique and some of the strangest images of any herzog film there's pans there's long shots there's hand held while driving by the towns there's a bus dozens of miles away that via mirage seems only a couple there's full on close ups of fire and a man holding a reptile and talking about its radar truly classic gonzo comedy there's people holding still in fake poses and a man and woman playing inane music but most importantly it ends up feeling at least for me natural for the personal nature of the approach br br i'm sure only herzog would know for certain why he made this film as opposed to the simple 'how' he was already filming even dwarfs started small and he ended up going through many perils to finish it yet this is what makes fata morgana such an amazing feat it will appeal to one depending on what someone brings to it in actually watching it it's definitely unsettling but there's the temptation to want to see it again very soon after just to experience all of the ideas and realities turned abstracted strange vibes yes the word applies here it's one of the truly spectacular art films ever made
1	fata morgana is by far one of the weirdest and most perplexing art films i have ever seen i hesitate to call it a documentary because while is does have elements of documentation of it's images the images themselves are so unusual so hallucinogenic so unclear that i wonder whether it was really worth telling this story just so that these images can exist the film basically is the tale of the earth and the creation of the earth shot from the perspective of an outsider be it alien or something otherwise indescribable all taking place in the sahara desert the title of the picture relates to the illusion or reflection of images both real and that people in the desert often witness these are also known as mirages br br the film opens with a plane landing followed by the plane landing again and then again and again and again and again and again and again with each plane landing shot the actual architecture of both the location it is landing at and the plane itself begin to slowly dissolve into one another and grow less and less real and more and more reflective imagery the imagery in this film only grows more intense and more unusual as the picture continues the narration of the film tells of the creation of the universe as alarming sexual images of sand and landscape move past the camera the shots go further and further into the desert and herzog films whatever he sees and finds the strangest reflections of the world are on display in the distance while herzog meets some of the most pure and photogenic collections of outsiders that you are ever likely to see when the leonard cohen soundtrack kicks in you can be sure that you are in the world of a mad man who is in love with the universe br br i cannot say too much more about this film without ruining anything but i will say that it is a sobering experience and there's really nothing like it i love seeing films that are just in classes of their own this film certainly is a good example of how herzog loves to intermingle narrative storytelling and documentary film making into an interchangeable form fata morgana unfortunately does overstay it's welcome just a bit but by the time it nears it's end the images will most likely be burned into your mind forever definitely a must see for those who are obsessed with the nature and the origin of the universe
1	inarguably one of the most interesting filmmakers of the last 50 years werner herzog has been pushing the boundaries of cinema perhaps more so than any other commercial filmmaker i've been acquainted with herzog for a few decades now and i've never not been impressed by both the man and his work last year i went to see rescue dawn and was somewhat surprised at how relatively mainstream the film was yet couldn't help but imagine herzog taking his actors and crew into the actual jungle to not only make the film but to live it no other filmmaker is as crazed about the purity of the film making process and the subsequent lore from such productions as has been forged into cinematic legend br br today i sat down to fata morgana a 1969 herzog film that could be described as an allegorical filmic postcard without researching the actual locations i'm assuming it was shot somewhere in africa both coastal and desert a region that could have once been the cradle of infant man infant civilization infant life on earth it is these origins the biblical notion of the garden of eden and the apocalypse that herzog is concerned with as is voiced by the narration dispensed throughout the 79 minute run time br br watching fm i couldn't help but feel i was a passenger on a profound journey in the opening sequence the title is translated as mirage and herzog juxtaposes this translation with multiple repetitions of commercial jets landing on an airstrip these images are perverted their 3 dimensionality crushed flat by a long lens piling layers of exhaust heat waves and light aberrations all on top of one another the effect left me to conclude things are not as they seem br br fm is divided into 3 very distinct chapters 1 creation 2 paradise and 3 the golden age chapter one opens with countless languid images where bleak barren landscapes scroll by dead animals rot broken shells of crashed airplanes and abandoned cars slowly disintegrate in the desert sun the people this inhospitable landscape are ragged unsmiling and apparent prisoners of the desert the narration talks of a time before life a time where the canvas of earth was blank and all that existed were the heavens while the narration hearkens to a simpler purer era a portrait of a young boy holding a fox like animal by its throat evokes a chilling depiction of man's cruel ruthless attempt to enforce a dominion over nature br br in the next chapter we are introduced to more of the same yet the images and people are more animated and seem infused with a modicum of life and vitality we listen to a biologist talk about the difficultly a monitor lizard has hunting for prey in such a lifeless environment as he holds the squirming monitor its tongue flicking at flies he also describes how difficult it to capture these creatures in the searing 140 degree heat the parallel is duly noted and herzog continues to explore this concept through repeated candid portraits of individuals battered by the sun the desert and the laborious efforts required to exist in this harsh realm he also pushes forward the theme that if not in control man asserts his control over his environment and not always in the most pleasant of ways br br the last chapter takes us out of the blast furnace and into the more familiar herzog territory populated by eccentrics and absurd behavior no one seems to have a more effective symbiotic relationship with the oddballs of the world than herzog possibly this is where he feels most at home much like errol morris herzog chooses to place his camera in as seemingly objective a position as he can before he lets the film roll the subsequent flirtation herzog has with his subject is the result of him being able to continue shooting well beyond the point when most directors would have yelled cut as morris does this extended roll pushes past the on moment the subjects feel obliged to offer and through their discomfort of being pushed into overtime their facade gives way to something real the most humorous portrait in this chapter is of the 2 person band playing an odd polka like song that herzog recycles throughout this chapter the drummer of the band wears the same goggles as the biologist as does another guy doing a magic trick begging the question what's with the goggles they definitely add some levity to the film but one has to wonder if they hold any deeper meaning or significance or is this just another example of herzog's br br the narration aside herzog utilizes folk and blues music as the experimental documentary's soundtrack leonard cohen grabs the most screen time two of his beautifully melancholic songs so long marianne and suzanne perfectly accompany the scrolling landscapes adding to the convincing feel that we are truly along for the ride by the end of the journey herzog comes back to one of the many shots that recur throughout the film the distant framing of a lone vehicle traversing the endless desert engulfed by a water mirage that fills the horizon despite the overall bleakness of fm the crescendo of the film and the mirage motif leave you with a hopeful spirit belief that against all odds life will persevere and possibly even flourish br br having finished writing this post i referenced fm to discover that herzog shot it in saharan cameroon only weeks after a bloody coup true to his legend herzog and his crew were arrested beaten and imprisoned while imprisoned herzog fell ill with a blood parasite it's truly hard not to love such a hypnotic and austere film as fata morgana knowing the filmmaker was willing to die to get it made only makes you respect it all the more br br http eattheblinds blogspot com
1	fata morgana is an absolute masterpiece it's werner herzog's most unconventional film it doesn't have a plot or story instead of a story we're given a collection of images words and music that work so wonderfully together it's not a documentary either some of the people in this film are directed and given lines to read it has some of the most beautiful and haunting images herzog shoots real mirages and we see cars and people floating around in the middle of the desert who aren't actually there but hundreds of miles away reflected like in a mirror the use of music in this movie is so brilliant from leonard cohen mozart and the third ear band imagine stanley kubrick's 2001 a space odyssey in the desert that's what this movie is like this film is so hypnotic that it has the ability to make you feel as though your spirit has left your body a must see it will change the way you view films rating 10 out of 10
1	you will be able to tell within the first 30 seconds of this film whether you want to finish watching it the film opens with images of planes landing at an airport one plane after another diving into a mirage filled runway you will be able to accurately guess that this movie is not about a story at first viewing it's even easy to think the opening images are repetitive shots of the same plane the initial drama is in the of your perception which is built on your willingness to experience the film simply as a series of images if after this opening you want to see the movie you will not be bored you may even be mesmerized the movie may be an emotional experience it may be an intellectual experience it may be both judging from the dvd commentary which is essential it was primarily an emotional experience for herzog and at one point he talks explicitly about how the film is a collaboration between filmmaker and viewer there's plenty of room for the viewer to make of this film exactly what he or she wants to make of it take a gamble
1	successful films on metaphysical subjects are rare but fata morgana is a good case you can chalk up the large subject to the ambitions of youth but herzog does an amazingly good job the movie's point is to show human beings and even the world from a non human point of view br br the movie is in three parts creation paradise and the golden age the imagery of each is in counterpoint to the voice over although the text of the from the a mayan myth refers to the primordial wasteland the scene goes no further in illustrating the myth it dwells on the waste and on various specimens of destruction fire smoke wrecked vehicles the images from paradise' are anything but that and the golden age' is darkly comic – the highest culture is the strange roadside musical act br br the suggests that mankind is the central object of creation but the movie does everything it can to undo this notion its mythological framework has no referent in human historical time there are no human characters to speak of when a boy stands with a dog in an extended shot the initial suggestion is of the boy's point of view by the end it is much more the dog's likewise the lizard is a stronger character than the human who introduces it and the turtle's partner barely looks human with his big flippers br br animal stories and nature documentaries always but fata morgana has none of that certainly the dunes look like a female body but the cuts both ways presumably only humans can distinguish easily between their creation and nature and here airplanes and factories are presented alongside mountains lakes and waterfalls people and civilization are all part of a broader natural landscape br br in 1979 herzog put a new twist on the idea when he remade nosferatu from the vampire's point of view
1	famed filmmaker werner herzog's fata morgana is breathtakingly unorthodox although characters appear in the film from time to time there is no actual story the film is also not an educational or historical documentary it's a film without an accompanying screenplay br br the film consists of curious background music and a somewhat illogical narrative vo the combination of which overlays a long string of images from mostly though not exclusively the sahara desert some of the images are wonderfully odd and out of the ordinary the camera captures ghostly images or mirages optical illusions that and mesmerize br br this general cinematic trend is punctuated by occasional observational asides on serendipitous topics for example in one sequence a man wearing goggles gives us a mini tutorial on lizards and in what for me was the most captivating and bizarre sequence a small room contains a man with dark goggles who sings in a voice that is totally distorted by the microphone he's using accompanied by an old lady who plays a punchy tune on an old piano neither the man nor the old lady seems to enjoy what they're doing how baroque br br fata morgana does have an underlying concept one that unites the wide assortment of strange images and eclectic sounds but that concept is so subtle so opaque that you'll never figure it out without help from this subtle theme the film does indeed make sense without that point of reference however the film can seem tedious and unending a pointless parade of random earthy images and esoteric narrative gibberish br br unapologetically redundant thematically baffling and cinematically heretical fata morgana will likely either make you swoon with delight or cause you to throw up you'll either latch on to the film's zen like qualities or be tempted to smash the dvd into a thousand pieces one thing that most viewers will agree on fata morgana is different
1	one of the most entertaining of all silent comedies is short a mad tale of how a rigorously intellectual board game could disrupt even the most carefully planned central economies such an unpromising comedic subject as chess found an earlier outlet in this delightful short two young men play the game earnestly against an artificial background a painted set this is in contrast to earlier lumiere shorts such as or du wherein the human activity was deliberately framed by a natural setting the difference in activities natural feeding baby watering garden artificial chess is possibly significant br br the main contrast in this film is between this background and the placid serene game of chess and the fierce passions this latter causes as accusations of cheating lead to a most melee the intellectual game becomes a gross physical scrap just as the pretensions of arty filmmakers are forever deflated by the demands of audiences br br what is most amusing about the film is not neccessarily this descent into slapstick but the way it is filmed its prolonging long after the initial joke has been made the way the camera refuses to dignify the fight with anything like attention focusing instead on the set while we catch glimpses of hurling feet and dislodged clothing the film's refusal to edit is audacious so that the humour seems to arise from something else other than the fight reflecting our need for physical contact over intellectual stimulation our to let go br br what is especially brilliant is the denouement as these upper class fops are caught by the valet who picks them up like two errant schoolboys as if he is about to box their ears if masters can't be expected to keep their place with decorum than somebody's going to have to do it for them
1	this as the first of the ma and pa kettle flicks marjorie main ma steals the show in anything she does funny to see ida moore as emily the daffy old lady on the train god she was always old she was in desk set and alfred hitchcock presents their new house is also a co star here its the house of the future with some really cool inventions that pa doesn't care for love the painting gag keep an eye out for tom he starred in nanny the professor unfortunately he died real young oddly enough his last role was on the series death cruise weird directed by charles lamont who not only directed several of the kettle films he also did a bunch of the abbott and costello flicks so he must have known a thing or two about comedy fun story plain simple humor even the release date was april fool's day 1949 the story starts out by showing us what backward and country folk they are the neighbors are even native americans but as the story progresses we have sympathy and respect for them
1	from all of the vietnam war movies this is probably the most frightening and disturbing and that is really saying a lot with so many spectacular ones that have come out it has this freakish feel to it everything is so chaotic in the movie it scares you it is not like it shows a lot of different things compared to the other vietnam war movies what does push to such a high level is the br br the directing was spectacular here francis ford coppola shows of his talent in his last epic movie unlike other directors he makes you feel as if you are in the war most others just display and show you the horrors of war coppola though makes you feel confused shocked and scared these feelings of war are usually told to us from a movie or story this is something that i have only experienced very few times while watching a film the writing was of course amazing too it brought you write into the middle of the movie it never made me bored and this movie is three hours the cinematography goes hand in hand with the directing which very much added to the freakish experience of watching this film showing all the chaos around you even when everything seems calm br br the acting was bone chilling just look at marlon brando also giving his last great performance playing a deluded out of whack colonel when ever i think of a crazy gone made soldier i think marlon brando in now with brando n this film you don't want to look into his eyes like the movie he was freakish to me this performance is as memorable as the one he gave in the godfather martin sheen gave a very deep performance and probably the best one of his career making you see everything through his eyes all the craziness he is experiencing and yet wanting him to get to his goal it is just a wonder why these two did not get oscar nominations robert duvall was able to show part of that craziness with his ludicrous battle strategies among those playing music to tell the enemy he is coming also duvall's character asking one of the soldiers to surf in the middle of a battle was just shocking but believable other great supporting performances were given by a young laurence fishburne sam bottoms and frederic forest who all summed up the attitudes of many of the soldiers at that time without becoming a cliché also for once cameos were put into good use having dennis hopper and harrison ford who i both love br br i would definitely recommend people to watch this movie it has a message and everyone involved in the making of it is at their best there is nothing more i could ask of this movie with its great acting directing writing cinematography and great ending watch and you will see why it lives up to its title now
1	'the is one of those films which are so perfect you really struggle to find something not to like about them written by ronald harwood himself a former dresser to the legendary donald it sparkles with energy and true love of life behind the br br as 'sir' the overbearing actor and main focus of the play albert finney is a joy to watch whether complaining about the lack of a storm during the winds ' bit of 'king or chatting to his faithful stage manager madge eileen atkins good as ever about the old times as norman his camp dresser tom gives a fabulous performance wiggling around at the beck and call of collecting a bottle to go at the pub or disparaging the former fool mr davenport scott often mentioned but never seen br br in an engaging support cast there's edward fox as a typical arrogant second lead zena walker as her ladyship lockwood west as the replacement fool and many others br br this film has great energy bringing with it some of the of its stage origins it is true but being so well acted you don't notice very well done indeed
1	the ma pa kettle characters were highly popular and controversial the films that featured their brood paved the way for television sitcoms that came after it and sought to emulate its winning formula one obvious reference is 'the beverly hillbillies ' where the new home was bought with oil money not having been won in a contest you could even say the 1980s sitcom borrows its idea of backwards rural characters from this series still i wonder if betty macdonald the washington based author who created these characters didn't do more harm than good her portrayal of hillbilly characters makes them the butt of many jokes in terms of their alleged sloppiness and laziness the real life family that macdonald based the upon successfully sued claiming they had been ridiculed and humiliated with these less than flattering references sure it's comedy and the situations bring us a great many laughs and fun moments and political correctness as we know it today did not exist in the 1940s and 1950s but i think macdonald could've still written these characters more sensibly and universal international could've had its scriptwriters show them on screen with more dignity there's such a thing as good taste the more realistic moments are when the oldest son tom is ashamed of his rural heritage but learns to accept his parents and siblings for who they are for their part the have to realize that they don't exactly fit into a modern world that's not a joke that's a sober truth
1	the further adventures of ma and pa kettle almost seamlessly picks up where the egg and i left off for the first solo adventure of the a new writing team and director is introduced leonard goldstein associate producer of the egg and i was producer of the further adventures of ma and pa kettle with many of the characters played by the same actors and actresses the focus from the to the works very well there is a reference to ma beating birdie hicks for first prize at the fair for her quilt an import scene in the egg and i the prize money from the quilt contest was to be used to send tom kettle to college in this movie tom is returning home as a college graduate br br there are two plots intertwined in this movie one is the comedy of the simple mountain family moving into a state of the art modern house the other is a light morality play on how environment affects children as they grow up br br pa kettle percy wanted a free tobacco pouch for entering a contest and ended up winning a house his disappointment at not getting the free tobacco pouch is played for laughs quite a bit when pa plays with dynamite he is totally oblivious to the explosion never in the scene as the debris from the explosion fell around him he played the part to perfection in his autobiography jack benny mentioned how impressed he was with percy deadpan delivery took that comedic device to a high level of perfection br br ma marjorie main and pa move into the new house with modern conveniences that confuse ma and pa almost as much as they help them ma adapts far more quickly than pa included with the modern conveniences is a television a very new household item in 1949 moving walls hidden beds and plumbing fixtures are used as comic props but the attention is on ma and pa never the props themselves br br tom kettle richard long meets kim parker meg randall a magazine writer who feels that hygiene and environment are essential for children to realize success as adults tom is a bright self made man who contradicts the theory that success can only come from a pristine environment this subject is briefly discussed in a couple of scenes but left to subside it was also the only serious discussion in this otherwise whimsical movie br br seeing the moving out of their run down old house to move to a new house would almost be a disaster if it were not for the characters staying true to themselves ma was the practical one just as she had been in the the egg and i pa was the fish out of water that provided the best comedy he never felt at home in the new house but the actual location of a comfortable bed would never be of concern to him
1	there is a need for this kind of entertainment in our modern world you can watch ma and pa with adults with your family kids any age or just by yourself like me they are gentle but gentle is so refreshing in a society of kids killing kids a horrible war inappropriate prime time television and poverty we don't even get a hint of where all of those children came from give me modern plumbing and i'll gladly become a kettle humor does not require offensive language it is hard to follow conversations in shows where every other word is relax take your shoes off and climb in your with a good old fashioned glass of lemonade and just breathe easy watching ma sweeping the chickens off the table at lunch time pj
1	the film begins with a cranky old broadway producer exceptionally well played by veteran character actor richard carle being driven by a man hoping to sell him a story for an upcoming play however there is a bad storm and their car becomes stuck in the mud and so they are forced to look for some place to spend the night fortunately there's a mansion nearby though it seems pretty odd that the people inside know the writer and he says he didn't realize this was the home of a man he knew and despised however while this seems like bad and contrived writing it is not as this is all part of an elaborate ruse by the writer to have a group of actors in the home act out his plot however part way through the ruse the producer and his assistant figure out that the murder mystery taking place in the home is fake and think the whole affair is pretty funny what no one realizes though is that an escaped maniac is loose and he is about to enter this contrived little plot making for some wonderful twists and turns so when it seems that there is a real murder the actors are truly terrified while carle and his sidekick are convinced it's all a hoax while i have explained some of the plot there are many more aspects of the film you'll just have to figure out yourself and it's surely to keep you entertained and guessing br br considering that this is a b movie in the public domain i certainly did not have very high hopes for this little film however i was thrilled when the film turned out to be a much better than average flick with a very interesting and novel twist on the old clichéd plot about a dark and stormy night spent in a mansion plus while the plotting of the film was very good the dialog was even better with lots of sparkling wit and a nice light hearted pace full of pleasant surprises and well worth your time
1	i have this movie on a collection of inexpensive b movies it's not restored in fact the audio was difficult to discern for the first few minutes br br at first it seemed like a typical haunted house film and feels very much like the forerunner of clue murder by death house on haunted hill etc br br about a half hour into the film the storyline takes a really interesting twist and it goes from being a cliché melodrama to something entirely different and far more entertaining than i had initially thought br br check it out it's a great deal of fun even if the long clips and wider shots and near lack of music score make it feel a bit creaky by today's standards
1	one of the genres that flourished during the decade of the 30s was the variation of crime fiction known as the murder mystery as the addition of sound to films helped to make a more faithful translation to film of what the audiences experienced in the original plays and since horror films were very popular in those years by enhancing the horror elements of the plots the murder mystery films experienced a popularity almost equal to what it enjoyed in the previous decade in which the first movies of the genre were produced aspiring playwright charles saw in this renewed interest in murder mysteries a chance to make a name for himself after warner bros picked his three act play the wax works to create the 1933 horror film mystery of the wax museum joined independent filmmaker frank r strayer to keep making films and the ghost walks was one of his best br br in the ghost walks john miljan plays prescott ames a young playwright who wants to impress a famous broadway producer named herman wood richard carle with his new play ames takes wood and his assistant homer johnny arthur to his country house for a reading of his play but his car ends up stuck in the mud during a terrible storm the three men ask for refugee in an old mansion which happens to be property of one of old acquaintances inside the house wood and homer witnesses the strange relationship between ames and the house owners however this is all a plan conceived to impress wood everyone in the house is an actor playing a role in his murder mystery unfortunately the murder committed is done for real and while wood and homer think it's all fake after discovering original plan the cast knows that someone inside the house is a real murderer br br as expected charles screenplay for the ghost walks features the classic elements of the murder mystery stories of its time as we have the stormy night at an old dark house as setting the obligatory group of suspects and the touch of comedy however what's interesting here is how makes the film a real spoof on the genre with the many twists he puts in his story to play with the clichés of murder mystery plays the dialogs are excellent full of wit and lighthearted charm and while the plot certainly loses a lot of steam by the end it follows the murder mystery routine anyways it never fails to be interesting and entertaining thanks to its smart twists and specially its quirky characters interestingly there's an obvious gay subtext that while stereotypical it's never denigrating and it's genuinely funny at times br br by 1934 director frank r strayer was already an experienced craftsman in the poverty row side of the film industry but his partnership with writer charles would give him a couple of his most interesting movies and the ghost walks was one of them while obviously done on a shoestring budget and the typical production values of independent films of its time strayer manages to take advantage of his set and makes an atmospheric movie that fits nicely the mood and tone of the story the pacing is a little too slow at times but strayer knew that the power of his film was on script and makes the most of it letting his cast to make the most of their characters with excellent results certainly the execution is a bit typical and unoriginal but strayer makes an effective albeit restrained work in this film br br as written above the screenplay is filled with great lines that make the quirky characters shine and fortunately most of the cast play with this to their advantage veteran character actor richard carle is remarkably funny as cranky producer herman wood adding a lot of charm to his character specially in his scenes with johnny arthur who plays the flamboyant secretary homer arthur is the one who gets the most best scenes and he gives and hilarious performance as the cowardly yet witty assistant john miljan is just effective as ames nothing amazing but nothing really bad and the same could be said about june collyer as gloria shaw the obligatory love interest whom is just fine however donald is really enjoyable as the malicious terry shaw and it's a shame he didn't get more screen time br br as usual with frank r strayer films the low budget hurts the film badly as while strayer makes the best he can the film still feels kind of plain at times however the main problem is problem the very slow pace it has as even when the film is filled with sparkly moments of witty dialogs it moves at a pace so slow that can become boring and tedious for moments it also must be said that while effective in their roles miljan and collyer are pretty dull and average when compared to arthur and carle and one wishes the movie had been more focused on the comedic pair they make than on the main couple finally as written above the ending is kind of weak and not up to the high standard of the first and middle parts although credit must go to for keeping creative plot twists appearing until the very end br br one could say that charles is an unsung hero of the murder mystery genre as among the many horror and mystery films that came out the b movie studios nicknamed as the poverty row the ghost walks is easily among the best previous film the bat despite its shortcomings and even when it's definitely not a masterpiece of the genre it's a nice way to spend a night enjoying the way it pokes fun at its own origin as a murder mystery play a very recommended film if you like the genre 7 10
1	on their way to a country house to hear a new play being read a theatrical producer his secretary and the playwright end up stuck in the mud they make their way to a nearby house only to end up at the home of the playwright's fiance if you can't guess that murder and mayhem are about to take place then you haven't been paying attention br br this is a a good entry in the old dark house genre not only does it have a good mystery you also have some very funny one liners wandering through it the cast is across the board excellent and they're more than willing to have a good time with what is good material br br i would love to say that this is one of the best of the genre it should have been but for me something happened on the way that made me down grade the rating to only seven out of ten i can't tell you what it is not for certain anyway perhaps its the sense that i knew where it was going almost from the outset or perhaps its something else i'm not sure what but there was something that i couldn't shake that made me like this film despite wanting to love it it just missed being great and somehow fell short br br that said i do suggest you see it it is after all a very witty film that entertains fully despite just missing being great
1	the ghost walks is a nifty little mystery with a great twist snappy dialog and best of all a pansy played to the hilt by character actor johnny arthur which never demeans or denigrates his character mr arthur is great in his role of homer bringing great comic relief as the secretary of the broadway producer herman wood played by another great character actor richard carle br br they play off of each other superbly br br although the acceptable words of the time sissy and cream puff are used to describe the character of homer it is never mean spirited or meant as denigration and are not spoken by the manly males of the film but by his employer who fires and him every other scene and who displays an almost exasperated affection for his devoted employee br br there is a great scene where homer tells his boss that he has devoted the best years of his life to him and has been everything but a mother to him br br the mystery angle of the film is very entertaining and the twist at the end might just leave you in stitches br br for a low budget poverty row picture this film has superb set decoration and great costuming br br director frank strayer ably handles his cast and this film holds together much better than some of his other low budget mystery attempts but he had a great script to work with and some wonderful actors to carry it through br br this film is a must see for devotees of poverty row films old dark house mysteries they actually managed to work in the lines it was a dark and stormy night and it has the added bonus of being an early representation of a gay character in film where nothing bad happens to them in the end br br this movie is available for download in the public domain film section of the internet archive at archive org
1	both jackie and candice are terrific in this movie they are well suited to their roles and have several chances to shine in particular the way candice pronounces the words puerto rican is very funny as she is being kind as she can be but condescending at the same time i had seen the original of this movie called old acquaintance starring bette davis and miriam hopkins they allegedly did not get along so because the movie is about female friendship that might have been a problem here the actresses clearly admire and respect each other hart bochner and meg ryan have supporting parts and are both excellent in particular bochner who never got many decent parts in movies as far as i am concerned george cukor did not make another movie after this so this was a good one to go out on
1	gosh i am learning pretty fast that sometimes when you see a film as a youngster and then again 20 years later you gain a different view primarily because in 20 years you learn more for example i had no idea who george cukor was how great of a director he was and how much of that made this film fly all i can say is i really liked this film for it touched on an area that paralleled my life lifelong friendship between two women can that ever exist well in certain doses yes and this film let out in a bit on how br br being a youngster with not a lot of life experience at the first time i saw this so i focused more on the rich and famous part between the two at the time i had no idea there was a difference and what would happen to two women who discovered there was and how that would effect their friendship through their men their career the decades that defined them and coming to realize one thing remained stronger than anything else their friendship and knowing each other more than anyone else could have br br then i got older studied film a bit and watched this film again with my best friend from high school we do understand the and angle and we are still the best of friends but this film is not a cinematic masterpiece it can be seen as a bit campy at times a little over the top at points kinda on a and level to me and honestly i can identify with the teddy bear scene for we do share a bear that means a lot more than a stuffed fun toy through our trials and tribulations with men careers et al so its not as over the top as it seems as many already said seeing meg ryan and matt and rambo and david selby are great in this 1981 piece this is a nice chick flick
1	after the success of the first two 'godfather' films in 1972 and 1974 respectively francis ford coppola embarked on an ambitious attempt to bring home the reality of the war in vietnam which had concluded with the fall of saigon to the vietcong in the plot was loosely based on the book 'heart of darkness ' a story by joseph conrad about kurtz a trading company agent in the african jungle who has acquired mysterious powers over the retains much of this including such details as the severed heads outside headquarters and his final words the the br br in the film sheen plays an army captain given the mission to penetrate into cambodia and eliminate with extreme prejudice a decorated officer who has become an embarrassment to the on his journey up the river to the camp he experiences the of the us forces high on dope or drunk with br br although as a result of cuts forced on coppola the film was accused of incoherence when first released it was by the most serious attempt to get to grips with the experience of vietnam and a victorious reinvention of the war film in 1980 the film won an oscar for best cinematography and best br br apocalypse now was re released in 2001 with fifty minutes as a result the motion picture can now be seen as the epic masterpiece it
1	recently i saw this movie again after 25 years in the original there is a scene in the bathroom of an airplane during the landing between jacqueline character and michael character the rented version did not have this scene in it did i imagine this br br or is this part of the clean up of movies where some are altered to exclude portions some people think are not appropriate br br i love this movie it is exactly like the friendship between a friend and i and we've been friends for 25 years and saw it together her husband thought it was us as well br br thank you joan
1	i loved this film because of the dialog and superb acting by candace and jacqueline however i never knew until now watching a bette david marathon on tnt that this film is a remake of a 1943 bette davis classic called old acquaintance bette co stars with miriam hopkins who she was in a terrible feud with during the making of the movie because bette had had an affair with husband who directed her in a film before they made old acquaintance br br anyway both are worth every minute spent watching i highly recommend this film if you like a lot of dialog and drama it's a study in the psychology of women and their relationships with each other in my opinion
1	i finally received my dvd today viewed it and i'm pleased to announce this is the original theatrical version of the film as you may have read in previous reviews of rich and famous that the edited for tv version of the film that somehow made it onto vhs sometime in the late 90's but now wb has corrected the error and released it on dvd complete with the airplane restroom scene matt bare butt and the scene in the hotel room where liz jacqueline bisset calls merry candice bergen a c t it's all there and looks better than ever a crisp clear digital transfer widescreen and special features that include original theatrical trailer and a vintage 1981 featurette called on location with rich and famous with cast and director interviews if you love this film as i do you won't be disappointed with purchasing this dvd glad to finally have this on dvd… well worth the wait thank you warner bros
1	george known as a director of women couldn't have hoped for two more talented and beautiful women for his last film itself a remake of bette davis' campy old acquaintance written by john van druten this film is definitely dated but still delightful br br bergen and bisset sparkle as best friends who compete at everything but manage to remain friends liz hamilton bisset is a serious writer intellectual and elegant she meets her lifelong best friend merry noel at an exclusive girls school and they begin a lifetime of not always friendly competition later in their lives when liz is a promising but blocked writer of serious fiction merry decides to try her hand at writing which infuriates her pal because of merry's casual approach to the craft she herself takes perhaps a little too seriously br br much to liz's chagrin merry's trashy novels hit pay dirt and ultimately her old friend liz is judging her novel for the national book award bergen steals the show as the haughty writer of steamy bestsellers who schemes to bring together the broken pieces of her life in conjunction with her final literary triumph but alas things are never that simple br br the supporting cast includes david selby whom you might remember as the tragic quentin collins from dark shadows hart bochner and of course a deliciously young and mercurial meg ryan in her first film role since leaving the soaps br br rich and famous is catty campy witty and wise it culminates in a new years fiasco that stresses the enduring nature of true friendship and i never let a year go by without watching it on new years eve watch it and you'll see why
1	george cukor is and always will be one of my favorites the unsung hero of his generation nobody mentions cukor in the same breath as john ford howard hawks william wyler or billy wilder and yet look at his filmography from sparkling comedies the philadelphia story adam's rib holiday psycho melodramas gaslight a double life a great semi western heller in pink tights not to mention my fair lady or travels with my aunt he was at the service of his actors he never put himself in front of the camera i feel a certain tenderness watching rich and famous flashes of the old master still very much in evidence candice bergen gives us for the first time in her career glimpses of the wonderful comedian she was about to become jacqueline bisset is a throwback to the days of greer garson and loretta young and hart bochner steps in teasing us promising something spectacular that will eventually materialize in 1989 with apartment zero meg ryan as bergen's daughter is already meg ryan as tired as the formula is it remains a cukor film and for what i gather one of almodovar's favorite movies
1	the year 1950 saw two very different and interesting westerns 'the by henry king and by john ford 'the was historically notable as it clearly influenced 'high 1951 and later revisionist westerns br br however i personally find superior to it's contemporary counterpart ford's minor masterpiece isn't much about storytelling it should be conceived more as a poem describing conceptions of old west although optimistic and warm at heart we are deserved from naivety because it's completely free from pretentious underscoring frontier scenery is well used as it supports the poetic narrative perfectly add naturalistic camera work and we are transported among the mormon travellers to witness western folklore told in cinematic means
1	the performances by the male leads make this long hard journey west interesting throughout the soundtrack by the sons of the pioneers is one of the most beautiful i have every heard the journey itself is somewhat episodic and joanne dru is badly miscast overall this is a very heartwarming and heartfelt western
1	what can you say about a short little film filled with secondary actors and no stars with absolutely no bad performances not one poorly delivered line of dialog and with the cold violence on one hand being balanced by the warm heart of the protagonists in the story br br it's a jewel a diamond a little valuable gem of a western that evokes the spirit and legend of the american west a west not settled by grand heroes like hickock or cody or masterson or earp but by the spread of the everyday man and woman farmers and ranch hands merchants and miners and whores and and entertainers of the day some looking for riches some for peace and quiet some for religious freedom br br it is perhaps a very spiritual story though not promoting any particular religion for even the non mormon cowboys portrayed by ben johnson and harry carey jr act in kind and noble ways toward everybody in the story regardless of religious affiliation and beliefs and go out of their way to promote tolerance and charity when the wagon train comes upon the stranded medicine show people and in true biblical fashion like david and goliath or samson and the philistines they are the guardian angels sent to the wagon train who eventually have to go head to head with the evil incarnate clegg clan likening them to the serpent in the garden of eden and regretting what it is they have to do afterward it's a sweet folkloric tale of the west that hits every target john ford takes aim at br br nowadays i have a western santa claus whose red outfit is covered with a denim coat whose red stocking cap is replaced by a brown who carries a burlap bag of presents and a coil of rope to my santa i added a winchester rifle with a sling to put on one of his shoulders and a colt revolver to tuck into his waistband when people at the office ask why my santa has to carry guns i simply reply snakes after all isn't the spirit of the christmas season one where everybody should get what they deserve br br fifty five years later especially post 911 the philosophies and attributes demonstrated by the characters and story of this movie are still as relevant today as they were back then
1	i first saw this movie on tv back in 1959 when i was eight years old i knew nothing of westerns then but recognized ben johnson from the movie mighty joe young what attracted me to wagon master were the great songs sung by the sons of the pioneers merian c cooper who produced the movie was the first to commission original music to fit the mood of a specific scene and so created the modern movie soundtrack cooper hired max steiner to create the mood for his classic creation king kong steiner would later win an oscar for the theme for gone with the wind ' cooper was also the producer of mighty joe young if you remember music was important to the big ape which would only respond to the sound of stephan foster's beautiful dreamer in 1947 cooper would partner with john ford who directed wagon master of all of ford's famous westerns this one is my favorite which features his brother francis and a sullen janes arness
1	most of us kids growing up in the 40's or 50's were western buffs but this was one that had escaped me until seeing on the movies for men channel today i loved the film's story cinematography as well as the superb casting of ben johnson and harry carey jr in the lead roles along with the ever dependable ward bond apparently this movie was the inspiration for the later television series train' which featured bond once again as the boss of the wagon trains heading west johnson steals the film with his horse riding skills and it's nice to see an actor doing his own stunts like ben does in this movie other notables include the lovely joanne dru as denver and an early non speaking role for james arness who later became famous for his marshal matt dillon role in ' if you like films of this genre you can't fail to like this one
1	this movie changed the art of film making telling a complex story in a powerful new way the film mixes brutal realism with fantasy intercutting a modern war with strange scenes full of technicolour smoke the film uses music not as a score laid in later but as a practical part of the scene playing from speakers radios etc coppola uses a classic piece of literature as inspiration taking scenes and characters and putting them into entirely different surroundings that is a tricky and brave thing to do then he takes a superstar brando pays him a fortune and films him so that you can barely see his face the pure guts that such a move requires is astounding and it works beautifully this movie belongs in the top ten
1	for my money probably the best film or at least the most purely cinematic film director ford ever made the dialog is swift clipped to the point l the story starts at the very beginning and only ends with the final credits ford uses a relatively small cast but directs them and photographs them with a verve and a sweep of epic proportions grimly realistic warmly amusing brilliantly acted hard to believe couldn't become a leading man after this with the best photography and editing in any american black and white film owes an awful lot to sergei eisenstein's editing technique but never as coolly detached or as eisenstein could frequently get and a great musical score a magnificent panorama of an important and poorly understood episode in american history br br one little quibble it's not clear why the film involves the mormons who as far as i know were never the pacifists the quakers and amish were this confusion leaves a slightly bitter after taste br br however the rest of the film is such a feast this is easy to ignore in all other ways a true masterpiece of american cinema that needs to be revived and looked at again and again and again
1	this small john ford western with no 'stars' but a cast of character actors is one of his masterpieces it has a documentary like feel to it as it traces the journey west of a party of mormons and it may be the most authentic looking of all ford's films it's on par with the sun shines bright which he made a couple of years later br br there is a plot of sorts a group of bank robbers join the wagon train at one point but the film's dramatic highlights are almost incidental the splendid performances of ford's stock company ben johnson harry carey jr ward bond jane darwell etc adds considerably to the film's authenticity while the nearest the film gets to a full bodied star performance is joanne dru's denver dru was a much finer actress than she was ever given credit for as were bond and johnson who at least was finally awarded with the recognition of an oscar for his work in the last picture show as he said himself 'it couldn't have happened to a nicer add bert superb location photography and you have a genuine piece of americana that couldn't have some from anyone other than ford this is a film that truly honors america's pioneers and is full of sentiment and feeling
1	by 1950 john ford had already fully developed the ideas and motifs that would form the core of his most successful westerns always present for example is a strong sense of community most poignantly captured in the family of steinbeck's 'the grapes of wrath 1940 ' within these communities even amid ford's loftier themes of racism and the pioneer spirit there's always room for the smaller human interactions the minor friendships and romances that make life worth living master 1950 ' came after ford had released the first two films in his cavalry trilogy – apache 1948 ' and 'she wore a yellow ribbon 1949 ' – and it covers similar territory only without the military perspective and more damningly the strong lead of john wayne ben johnson and harry cary jr are fine actors but they feel as though they should be playing second fiddle to somebody and ward bond's cursing mormon elder while potentially a candidate for such a role isn't given quite enough focus to satisfactorily fit the bill br br in master ' ford seems so comfortable with his tried and tested western formula that any character development is largely glossed over ben johnson's romance with joanne dru is treated as an obligation more than anything else and harry cary jr's charming of a mormon girl is so perfunctory as to be almost nonexistent in the final film leaving one to ponder the survival of deleted scenes only in charles charismatic and shamelessly villainous uncle shiloh does ford try some different and it works even with his being surrounded by a troop of insufferably hammy slack jawed yokels where ford does succeed is in orchestrating the conglomeration of three distinct races of americans – the values orientated the easygoing horse traders the eccentric travelling – into a cohesive community of pioneers looking towards a bright future this apparent harmony is thrown into disarray by the arrival of uncle gun toting outlaws who exploit the lawlessness of the western frontier but ultimately lose out to the noble cowboys who only ever drew on snakes br br ford reportedly considered wagon master among the favourite of his films and perhaps this has something to do with the absence of big names like john wayne or henry fonda armed only with his stock selection of usual players ford is able to generate a sense of community by avoiding placing focus on any one character though most of the travellers still remain completely anonymous despite being undoubtedly well made i can't help feeling that this film only does well what other ford pictures did even better the terrific majesty of the the western frontier was presented more beautifully in 'she wore a yellow the romances and friendly squabbles among community members took greater prominence in the early relations with native americans only hinted at here were more thoroughly examined in 'the searchers 1956 ' the bold pioneering spirit of the early settlers was explored more movingly albeit by henry hathaway and george marshall in 'how the west was won 1962 ' is pure john ford but it isn't a landmark
1	i don't think i really have any spoilers in here but since i do describe a couple of funny scenes i'll check the box saying contain just to be on the safe side now br br i hardly know where to start by now you know the basic outline of the story horse traders travis ben johnson and sandy harry carey jr take the job of guiding a mormon wagon train west to their land' and along the way encounter a variety of trials and interesting characters most notably the outlaw clegg family br br anyone can enjoy this movie you don't have to be a fan of westerns to like this one for one thing johnson and carey are two of the most quickly likable characters you'll see in any movie carey in particular is animated and outgoing almost like a big kid while johnson is a little calmer and wiser kind of like an older brother figure i get a kick out of the scene where they sell the sheriff one of their horses' for ten dollars then inform him that the horse has some peculiarities you might say failings travis elbows sandy who lets loose with a shrill whistle sending the sheriff's new horse off on a wild bucking fit with him in the saddle the look on his face as the horse finally dumps him and gallops away is priceless br br pay attention to the music even if you never thought you'd be a fan of the sons of the pioneers listen to shadows in the dust as the wagon train is shown in motion with some of the people walking along between the wagons it's a truly beautiful song too bad only half a minute or so of it is in the movie i want to hear the whole thing sometime br br one thing that impressed me greatly about this movie is that much of it must have been almost as hard to make as the real situation it portrays teams of six horses pulling wagons up steep mountain trails straining to make the top this was no simple and easy film it must have been risky for the actors the stunt people and the animals as well rivers too this movie has plenty of authentic looking action involving the movement of the wagon train it should be mentioned that both harry carey jr and ben johnson were extremely competent riders both with many years' experience riding and doing all manner of cowboy type things carey grew up on a ranch where his family employed many indians and in fact he learned to speak before he learned to speak english no cowboys in this movie travis and sandy were the real thing through and through br br watch for the scene when miss denver throws out the pan of water from her wagon hitting travis's horse in the face the horse starts bucking eventually throwing him off it watch the look on sandy's face when denver tells travis 'i'm sorry you fell off your horse ' another favorite scene of mine is when harry carey jr sandy gets into a bit of a tiff with one of the mormons they're working back to back getting their gear ready and after sandy gets disgusted with the other fellow the two of them get into a rear end bumping match that quickly turns into a rolling around on the ground fist fight even after the elder ward bond stands them up and separates them the two combatants continue trying to get at each other the mormon named 'jackson' in the film gets one final kick in at sandy so high it hits his shoulder it's a really funny scene from start to finish br br i don't know what else i can say about this movie other than that it has a good story very engaging characters beautiful scenery and plenty of action balanced with humor and a bit of drama oh it has been colorized at least in the version i saw not the most beautiful color film you'll ever see but i think i prefer it to black and white i give this one a ten and i don't give out many 10's one of my favorite movies without a doubt and judging by the other comments i have plenty of company in that assessment
1	this film has to be as near to perfect a film as john ford made the film is magic a masterpiece the reason ford was well ford if you want to know why ford was great this one explains it br br the photography of course is superb black and white as black and white should be wonderful shots not an over the shoulder conversation in it pure ford great moments big and little the famous ripped pants of ward bond apparently two dogs kept invading the set and fighting so ford wanted to use them in the fighting scene but instead of fighting one dog ran away and the other attacked ward bond and ripped his pants which caused ford no end of mirth a whole scene around a rope the way ben johnson burn then snuffs his rope wonderful foreshadowing and anticipation of the final harry carey's naive courting of prudence the usual ford line about being scared and not showing it bond's horse accidentally falling in him and its left in the film johnson and bond are fantastic in that scene lord help any ford actor who does not stay in character while the camera is rolling even when a horse falls on top of you br br a couple of very sweet romances not intruding on the whole focus two very likable leads not to mention for the girls the number of times the cameras focus on ben johnson's rather delightful backside br br lots of old time stuntmen getting lines and roles cliff lyons frank mcgrath some wonderful character studies mostly of faces staring all the villains and main stars a set of villains to rival any group in any western br br many many fordian shots of faces groups children women small things happening in the background ford seems to love images of women in allowing the moment as wagons cross rivers and the camera lingers br br this is probably not a western as much as an artist's picture that happens to be set in the west br br lucky the film was made in 1950 because it is impossible to imagine such a film could be ever made again but then it is such a work of art that it would be a sacrilege to attempt it
1	this film is about two horse traders who agree to escort a small group of mormons across the desert along the way they encounter a murderous family of thugs who menace the peaceful folks and put their pilgrimage in jeopardy br br wagon master is what i would term a little john ford film as it obviously did not have the budget or scope of some of his other westerns in particular this film lacks the big name stars like john wayne but allows some of the usual supporting characters to take center stage long time ford stock character actors ben johnson harry carey jr and ward bond have been elevated to starring roles and perhaps the one who came of as the lead was probably johnson though the other two got nearly as much screen time and focus this is not a bad thing as the film worked just fine without the big star and is well worth seeing br br now this isn't to say i loved the movie it was very good but certainly not perfect in particular as far as the music goes you'll probably either love it or hate it i found the sons of the music a bit schmaltzy at times it did evoke a nice mood but seemed to occasionally dominate the scenes i think a little would have worked much better plus with their incessant singing in the background i kept expecting roy rogers to pop out at any moment another minor problem is that the plot was amazingly simple and the ending was pretty much a foregone conclusion br br however and i am glad to say there is a despite this being rather formulaic and sentimental the film still worked well this was primarily due to john ford's nice as usual direction as well as ben johnson's exceptional performance he was able to provide an excellent anchor for the film another plus for me is that i saw this in the same week as brigham young another film about the mormon migration while brigham young was a bit silly and overly saintly in its portrayals here the mormons were less perfect and more like real people with foibles and personalities oh and speaking of brigham young it seems as if jane darwell was the 'go to' girl for mormon themed films during this era as she was a major supporting character in both films considering that she died in brigham young and it was set about 20 years before wagon master this is some stunt br br also if you'd like to catch a glimpse of the famous jim he's in a tiny role where he plays the impassive indian dancing next to jane darwell around the camp fire
1	wagon master 1950 dir john ford br br production pictures rko radio pictures br br john ford brings the stock company out into the utah desert to film a western and comes out with this minor classic no john wayne no conflicted anti heroes no psychological exploration no fireworks just a gem of a picture br br this ensemble piece nominally stars ben johnson as travis and harry carey jr sandy they're horse traders who come into town to do some business just as a group of mormons led by ward bond are being shown the exit the group is about to embark on a trek to their own settlement but they know the odds and the harsh terrain are against them so they hire travis and sandy as wagon masters for their trip along the way they run into and take along a traveling medicine salesman and his two female cohorts alan mowbray as the doctor recalling his appearance in my darling clementine and joanne dru as his daughter tension is added when the murderous clegg gang comes upon the wagon train and there is also an atypical for hollywood meeting with the navajo br br most of the story and humor is driven by the clash of ideals cultures first between travis and sandy and the mormons between ward bond himself he's constantly trying to suppress his urge to curse and be a reformed man between the doctor and his ladies and the mormons between the wagon train and the outlaws and finally everyone and the navajo there is also a classic ford scene of a rowdy dance which expresses one of his signature themes of civilization coming to the frontier br br again no duke here but i've found ben johnson especially the young cocksure ben johnson to have an engaging screen presence of his own he comes with his own backstory with that drawl and also when you see him doing all the stunt riding himself he's great here in one of his early credited appearances harry carey jr although having been around for a few years by this time is still pretty raw at times but he's likable ward bond is his usual marvelous blustery self i've found joanne dru to be a drag in whatever i see her in but here she's mercifully unobtrusive other familiar faces include jane darwell francis ford and hank worden playing like he will in the searchers a few years later it's not any more amusing here br br there is some absolutely spectacular b w photography by frequent ford collaborator bert not only is there the typical masterclass on the landscapes and horizons there is also some flourish in a handful of scenes with shadow and sun light the soundtrack features the legendary country music group the sons of the pioneers can't get more cowboy than that br br ½ out of 4
1	a couple of help a group of mormons cross some rough country on their way to a new settlement this low key western is unusual for ford in that it lacks any big stars johnson gets top billing but his is basically a supporting role although he and carey work well together dru is given little to do other than provide the love interest the best performance is given by ford favorite bond playing the leader of the mormons in fact this role helped him land a starring role in the long running tv western wagon train before his untimely death at age 57 featuring beautiful cinematography ford regarded this as one of his favorite films
1	the western can be divided into many sub genres one of the broadest divisions is that between town westerns and plains westerns most westerns are a mix of both but at one end of the spectrum you have pictures like high noon and rio bravo that take place almost entirely in a settlement seldom venturing out into the real outdoors at the other end you have ones like wagon master where there is barely a homestead on view amid the wilderness br br director john ford normally thrived on the bit of both westerns shooting the interiors with an emphasis on their being small and confined and then contrasting this with the wide open exteriors which appeared both exciting and dangerous wagon master has a typical frank nugent script with some interplay between seasoned oldsters and green youngsters but still it presents ford with some fresh challenges in this picture the dangers do not come from the harshness of the landscape they come from within the group in the form of the what's more the absence of real interior scenes means the outdoors could lose its impact over time br br however ford was a real maestro when it came to manipulating space he shoots scenes of the camp or the wagons so the frame is surrounded and we get that same sense of enclosure as we would in a genuine interior also compared to his other westerns he does not in fact open out the space too much having the wagon trail its way through canyons and passes rather than cross the stark and empty plains one of the few moments where he does throw the landscape wide open is when the indians are spotted and there is the possibility of a threat from outside br br wagon master features some surprisingly effective moments of comic relief and some great contributions from the quirky cast harry carey jr was shaping up into a fine actor like his pa and this is one of his better early roles joanne dru was disappointing in she wore a yellow ribbon but she appears more at ease as a character with a bit of sass and is actually fairly good here jane darwell who won an oscar in the john ford directed grapes of wrath a decade earlier appears here with sole function of performing a running gag in which she sounds a feeble old horn still with her great timing and movement she makes the piece work francis ford in one of the many mute drunkard roles he played in his little brother's pictures is at his cheeky best br br and now we come to lead man ben johnson although he was by no means a bad actor he was never going to become a big star like john wayne and yet with his effortless horsemanship and easygoing drawl he was one of the most authentically west players around and this brings me onto my final point this was apparently one of ford's personal favourites despite it seeming fairly unassuming wagon master has no grand theme or dramatic intensity it is simply the genre playing itself out i think this is what ford loved about it it's a picture for the ben johnsons and the harry carey not the john waynes or the henry small in scope but worthy in its class
1	although i liked this western i do have to say it's not one of my favourite john ford westerns for me it just lacks a certain something that most of his other films the ones i have seen anyway possess i'm nit sure what that something is it's not something tangible anyway the gist of the story is about a mormon wagon train which is being used by a band of outlaws as a hideout from a pursuing posse ford employs a lot of his regulars here there are some interesting characters some nice scenery a bit of action and excitement it all adds up to a watchable experience it's certainly not boring just not quite up to the usual john ford standard for me wagon master is a 7 10
1	somewhere on imdb there is a discussion about the greatest director of all times spielberg copolla and others are named there the greatest argument was around spielberg and whether he is or isn't a great director the problem with spielberg is that while he is a master technician most of his films lack depth saving ryan is really outstanding from a technical point of view but its message is dull and while its very entertaining it doesn't make you think about anything an is the best movie i ever saw because it combines great shooting with a deep philosophical perspective on so many things starting from war in general the clash of civilizations the condition of soldier in is a soldier a hero or an assassin brando says he is neither the french lady says he is both and many others the problem with some people is that they try to argue about whether these points are true or false but a great movie and a great piece of art in general is supposed to spark arguments not to solve them maybe coppola is right or maybe he isn't nobody holds the truth anyway you can watch this movie for its outer beauty amazing scenes great acting and memorable quotes and you will be entirely satisfied but what really make this movie a masterpiece is its inner quality you can't help but make a comparison with the recent fahrenheit documentary both copolla and moore tackle similar issues but while copolla presents matters from an outside objective point of view moore takes a very partisan position that really compromises the whole point of a documentary it is really a shame that a film like fahrenheit 9 11 won a prestigious award like cannes but anyway if you want to start to understand a little of the vietnam war the iraq war the second world war and any war in general you should definitely see this movie and not the other one
1	watching the is not likely to result in deep thoughts unlike many other great ford films like the searchers my darling clementine the man who shot liberty valance and the grapes of wrath among others but it is likely to produce a feeling of awe and deep satisfaction the story is very simple two cowboys decide to help a wagon train of mormons get to california along the way they run into a medicine man whose mules ran away a group of bank robbers and some navajos there's a lot of adventure and excitement on the trail and the film is imbued with fun and beauty the music is absolutely beautiful the scenery again from monument valley is as beautiful as it ever was plus how can you go wrong with james arness the might not be one of john ford's better known films but it is nonetheless a must see if you get the chance 9 10
1	it has been recorded that john ford made the big blockbuster movies so that he could afford to make the small movies that he loved so well wagon master with a young ben johnson is clearly one of his best if not the best of his small movies the location shooting the wagons the intricate work with horses and the inclusion of the plains indian are all trade marks of ford as in many of his other films eisenstein the great russian director's influence is seen in this film the supporting cast including ward bond russell simpson and jane darwell are excellent as well as the many minor character actors ford used including his brother the one who plays the drums while ben johnson went on to win a well deserved supporting oscar for the last picture show his co star harry carey jr did not reach those heights although his father carey sr became a western leading man in ford's early films carey jr spent most of his career in supporting roles for fans of john ford and for fans of western films this one is a must
1	travis and sandy ben johnson and harry carey jr are horse traders coerced into selling their animals to a mormon group and guiding them across the frontier to a settlement what they do not expect is to encounter the notorious clegg murderers with their wounded leader uncle shiloh charles kemper ward bond portrays elder the main voice for the mormon group moving the wagon train to the lord's destination along the way they also encounter doctor a hall and his wagon and lend them help br br lovingly directed by ford who pays close attention to detail with realistic problems any group would encounter during a rugged wagon trail the film has a wonderful cast made up of character actors with nary a true star in the film which is actually a blessing to see if just not for a change of pace young johnson and carey jr come off real well but this is bond's film to shine as he has the best lines johnson is the one who seems to understand ruffians and brutes like shiloh and will certainly come in handy when certain conflict might develop as the clegg boys ride along side them a piece br br i'd have to say this is one of his best and most least appreciated westerns and seems to flow very well
1	two horse traders arrive in a town and meet up with the leader of a group of mormons who are bound for a valley where they can settle and live in peace the scenes of the corral in the town where ward bond and ben johnson negotiate prices and bond introduces the idea of them johnson and his partner played by harry carey jr leading the train to this valley are some of the best in the film as johnson a real cowboy a piece of wood while he banters with bond once on the trail they come upon joanne dru who maybe john ford saw in red river and offered her a much better part in this film in the morman train are a number of notable characters the are a group who are challenged along the way by a truly lowlife group of outlaws in their case the outlaws in the case of the people on the train and later a band of navajos whom they encounter and in the well written characters played by ben johnson and ward bond the film completely evades stereotypes while the camera seems to spend as much time giving the viewer the big picture of monument valley framing the train as it moves along with a few water crossings along the way in stunning black and white and then coming back to what's happening in this rolling community all to the accompaniment of the beautiful of the sons of the pioneers
1	together with the even more underrated the sun shines bright wagon master was one of ford's favorite films it is a western of exceptional beauty and narrative purity well acted by members of ford's company' including jane darwell alan mowbray ward bond and harry carey jr like almost all of ford's films it is a meditation on freedom and community it is also noteworthy for a much more positive portrayal of indians than in most of ford's movies ford for all his faults remains the supreme poet of american democracy
1	one of my favorite westerns and one of john ford's best in my opinion no major stars but ben johnson shines in most everything he appears and here he gets a rare lead as the title character matching him is ward bond as the crusty mormon elder leading his people west john ford's stock of character actors including harry carey jr jane darwell russell simpson and hank worden provide ample support as does eerily silent james arness a member of the outlaw clegg clan that joins up with the wagon train the mormon trail into utah was one of the most arduous and demanding enterprises ever undertaken we can't really get the feel of that but we do see ordeals that had to be overcome by pioneers on the way west river crossings long stretches of dry desert encounters with indians and the like all set to glorious song by the sons of the pioneers the mormons actually did dig sections of the trail with picks and shovels as depicted in the movie my main regret is that it wasn't made in color but i believe there is a colorized version by the way those craggy rocks featured in various scenes are called the fisher towers located near highly recommended viewing
1	this little picture succeeds where many a big picture fails because it was a little picture john ford was not harassed by the studio big wigs he was happier with this film than any other because he was able to do it his way he was also able to use his repertoire of gifted character actors that had played such an important role in his past successes some of them such as ben johnson had been discovered by ford and given opportunity to show their talents johnson was recruited by ford because he was an authentic cowboy from oklahoma who usually did his own stunt work years later he would win the coveted academy award for his brilliant performance in the last picture show ward bond even outshines ben johnson in this movie he is not the wagon master that role is played by johnson but because of this movie he was later given the role of wagon master in the classic television series wagon train ironically one of the bad guys in wagon master james arness would star in the hit television series gunsmoke on a rival network to wagon train ward bond plays the leader of the mormons heading west who often to his days by cussing only to be called down by fellow mormon adam perkins russell simpson when any bothersome situation arises elder ward bond yells blow your horn sister the mormon sister played to perfection by jane darwell then blows so hard and loud that even the devil must have been shaken by the sound darwell and simpson were famous for playing ma and pa in ford's classic version of the john novel the grapes of wrath br br another of the great character actors in ford's company was hank worden who plays one of uncle shiloh notoriously mean but not too bright outlaw sons worden would become famous a few years later for playing in ford's the searchers worden lived to be 91 he was still making movies when he died br br the wagon master travis blue ben johnson and his partner sandy harry carey jr are horse traders who never take their job seriously having a lot of fun along the way especially with the local sheriff they get mixed up with a mormon wagon train heading west ford's beloved monument valley is the setting for most of the film the main reason for the teaming is a redheaded mormon beauty prudence perkins kathleen who catches sandy's eye along the way the train picks up a hoochie show which includes a charlatan doctor alan mowbray and two soiled angels joanne dru and ruth clifford also joining up along the way is the clegg family wanted for murder and armed robbery ford shows how arduous a journey west by wagon was in those days br br the songs in the film were written by stan jones of the legendary sons of the pioneers jones' writing was almost as good as that of bob nolan who had previously done much of the writing for the group jones' most famous song not in this film is the much recorded ghost riders in the sky the sons of the pioneers do the background singing in wagon master this adds to the overall impact of wagons rolling west br br it should also be noted that the acclaimed native american athlete jim from oklahoma plays the role of a navajo leader this was his last film appearance he died not long after wagon master was released
1	in crystal city a group of mormons hire the horse traders travis ben johnson and sandy harry carey jr as wagon masters to lead their caravan to san juan river along the journey they meet first the broken wagon without water of the quack dr a hall alan mowbray and the prostitutes denver joanne dru and ruth clifford then the sadistic outlaws clegg boys decide to join the mormon caravan to disguise the patrol leaded by the sheriff of crystal city that is chasing them when the navajos cross their path they are invited to visit their hamlet for a dancing party when the wagon train is near to their destination the clegg boys threaten the settlers forcing sandy and travis to take an attitude br br wagon master is another great western of john ford the sequences with the wagon train crossing the desert and the hills are impressive the adventure of the group of mormons is funny and very entertaining and the songs fit well to the plot despite being dated my vote is eight br br title brazil dos caravan of the braves
1	it takes a while to get adjusted to the sound of sons of the pioneers but then you thoroughly enjoy it if the soundtrack would be played by an orchestra like max steiner or tiomkin it would lose its folkloric character the music conducts the film everything seems to follow its rhythm the whole cast is excellent ben johnson and harry carey jr are the young men guiding the caravan ward bond is the mormon leader and joanne dru is a flirting actress ford was able to make of what would be an ordinary western something totally different and original showing us the music the dances and most of all the people
1	wagon master is a very unique film amongst john ford's work mainly because it's the only one that is based on a story written by john ford himself the story that was elaborated by frank nugent and director's son – patrick ford and turned into a screenplay and because of director's personal opinion regarding it wagon master is the film john ford called the one which came closest to being what i had wanted to to say so is not to say a little but as ford confessed once to lindsay anderson his favourite was nonetheless my darling clementine and not any other br br wagon master has all ingredients one might expect to find in a john ford's film wonderful cast delivering his best thou not featuring any major stars except the most of all actors – ben johnson very peculiar small characters who provide an obligatory comic relief and wagon master has quite a few of them such as horn blowing sister jane darwell in her shot but very inspired gigs and last but not least legendary monument valley with john ford's fifth passage through it after stagecoach my darling clementine fort apache and she wore a yellow ribbon br br the film starts with two friends cowboys travis blue ben johnson and sandy owens harry carey jr being hired to be wagon masters or guides for a caravan of mormon settlers who are headed to silver valley a place that's for them like a promised land on their way they are joined by a very peculiar dr hall alan mowbray with two beautiful women who are supposedly his wife and daughter and who call themselves actors they are headed in the same direction simply because they were recently driven out of the nearest town and have no other place to go nothing particularly unpleasant happens till they bump into a dangerous family gang consisting of father and his three sons who are on the run from the marshal of the town where they recently committed murder and bank robbery br br overall wagon master is no more nor less than one more precious pearl in a necklace of john ford's wonderful westerns a must see 9 10 br br
1	francis ford coppola's apocalypse now is not a vietnam war film do not confuse it with one it is set to the back drop of the war but it is a metaphorical exposition on the deteriorating effects that war has on the human psyche it is also one of the most audacious films ever made produced or even conceived second to the lord of the rings trilogy to call it a masterpiece would be an understatement of proportions as ambitious as the film's production levels br br opening with no credits and following a memorable first scene playing to the tune of the doors the end as martin sheen's captain benjamin l willard hallucinates to images of helicopters and napalm the plot is essentially laid out in the first 15 minutes willard's mission is to terminate with extreme prejudice colonel kurtz marlon brando who has invariably gone awol in the far reaches of the cambodian jungle and as told by his general is out there operating without any decent restraint totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct and he is still in the field commanding troops kurtz is a delusional colonel now being worshipped by a large group of followers who have dubbed him a god for willard this covert operation seems somewhat more manageable than actual combat yet the journey he is about to take will be a personal quest that will challenge the limits of his human behavior br br teaming up with a small crew they embark down the vast reaches of the river in a rickety boat along the way willard educates himself on all things kurtz during sheen's raspy voice over he details his thoughts on the abundance of material he reads kurtz was a highly decorated and respected green beret he was a normal man with a family until a part of him succumbed to the horrors of human brutality and he led himself down the path that willard is being led the descent into the jungle is marked by a mesmerizing aura that echoes the battles being fought not to far away eventually the power of the experience weights on the group as drugs and a sort of solitary confinement attacks their senses but willard seems unfazed and desensitized in his quest to find kurtz as he reads about this mythic figure he is drawn to the man's power and why he has become what he has become we know that willard's slow decay will parallel that of br br marlon brando has been revered for decades his presence unmatchable his genius undeniable but for those unacquainted with his acting prowess and unaccustomed to his physical nuance brando can be perceived in the eyes of an uncompromising film goer as a hack he is most certainly not brando was difficult to work with hard to interpret and impossible to understand but his talent for unintelligible rants and unparalleled monologues is irrefutable the man obviously knew what he was doing even if we didn't his colonel kurtz is a being of limitless delusions and continual profundity br br if the film is any indication of the journeys into hell than francis ford coppola's actual experience with making this masterpiece is a true life account of one man's fanatical struggle to produce a movie it is reported that during the film's 200 plus day principle photography schedule coppola contemplated suicide the film was not only an undeniable struggle to make it is a grueling film to watch coppola's sweat and blood seep through the pores of the steamy locals and his dedication filters through the orifices of martin sheen's haunted soldier willard br br i can not help but feel a warm sense of nostalgia for this type of film at the dawn of all that was original and unprecedented films that challenged as well as stimulated were commonplace audacity aside apocalypse now is pure film making my respect and admiration for mr coppola is of the highest order but i shudder at the return to what has become the norm for today's standards for film a lack of innovation it is not simply the unoriginality of the world of cinema today it is the fact that nobody seems to care to tell a story anymore or to tell one with heart but we still have the great ones like coppola's masterpiece a film which bathed in its ability to give us something deeper than that which we could comprehend br br that depth in apocalypse now is the step into madness the killing can disturb the loss of innocence can but it is the damage from within the countless barrages of images that distress unnerve and detach us from our everyday world and the memories that plague our deepest thoughts that eventually us from humanity and propels us into the realm of the instinctual the savage and the animalistic if the thought of killing does not provide the act of killing provides man with its fundamental catharsis
1	there's a unique place in the pantheon of john ford films for sergeant rutledge and the sun shines bright it was these three films with no box office names in them that ford didn't have to tailor the film around the persona of a star being it john wayne henry fonda or any of the others he worked with not surprising that ford considered all these as favorites of one kind or another br br ben johnson and harry carey jr a couple of likable sign on to guide a mormon wagon train to a valley in arizona territory along the way they are joined first by a group stranded players from a medicine show and then by a family of outlaws on the run named clegg their stories merge and what happens is the basis of the film's plot br br had been done even 10 years earlier on the strength of the two performances turned in by johnson and carey both probably would have had substantial careers as b picture cowboys in the case of johnson it would have been art imitating life johnson was a real rodeo cowboy and came to hollywood with a string of horses for john ford to use in fort apache ford was struck by his presence and the rest is history br br but the day of the b western was drawing to a close and johnson and carey had great careers as two fine character actors br br ward bond plays elder leader of the mormons bond is a recent convert though and has trouble remembering to not use some four letter words but he's the leader because of his strength of character not his impeccable lds theology he turns out to be a wise and compassionate leader br br in portraying the ford only had to reach back four years to his my darling clementine they are the reincarnation of the gang and pure evil in fact if walter brennan who after my darling clementine refused to ever work for ford again was willing i could easily see him being cast as shiloh clegg the head of the family as it was charles kemper did a fine job this is probably the role he's most noted for shortly after this film was done kemper was killed in automobile crash he might very well have worked for ford in the future br br ford makes the mormons pacifists here and i don't recall that pacifism was part of lds doctrine nevertheless it works here the whole idea being that these people who carry no weapons are innocents when dealing with evil people like the it takes some gun toting cowboys to properly dispose of them i think that this post world war ii film is trying to say that pacifism isn't always the best policy br br another from my darling clementine is alan mowbray playing the same kind of role he did there as head of the medicine show troupe part of that troupe is joanne dru who's doing another turn as a woman of elastic virtue the same as she did in red river dru used to do so many westerns that she longed to be out of and into some modern fashions br br is great entertainment and i'm willing to wager in the state of utah it's a pretty popular film
1	one of the most poetic narrative films ever made is nonetheless a difficult film to immediately like i love this movie but i recommend seeing some of john ford's other westerns before taking a look at this one the first time i saw it i was 18 years old and i hadn't seen too many other westerns and i hated it i thought it was incredibly boring i kept waiting for something to happen it took several years for me to love this picture first i fell in love with westerns in general the traditions characters landscapes ways of talking etc and that made me realize when i saw again that a lot is happening in it after all br br i also was simply a more experienced moviegoer at that point and had learned to appreciate visual storytelling and to listen to what each image was telling me is a very visual movie by one of the most visual of directors working near the peak of his career br br the movie is a celebration of a way of life and its subject matter is more emotional and interior than other ford westerns actually that's not really as accurate as saying that rather it has a lot less exterior action than the other westerns the other westerns have exterior action and interior emotion it quite beautifully places its mormon pioneers in the context of nature there are many shots of animals and children not for any surface narrative purpose but for illustrating this idea that is why the movie can be called a poem it isn't about the surface story which barely exists nearly as much as it is about an emotional idea and it gets this idea across through composition editing sound and music in fact one could argue that this is a purer form of filmmaking because the images directly express the emotional idea of the film rather than having to first service a story br br give this movie a chance and allow it to exist on its own terms not the terms of other westerns or other movies
1	john ford paid the wagons his tribute of a special picture made after two big indian cavalry epics it is a lovely poetic movie full of romanticized reincarnation of the pioneer spirit it didn't have to top the big ones that had preceded it br br it is extremely simple the camera moves only once or twice in the entire film and never when a director would have made it move to underline a shot ford even resists the temptation to track his camera in the breathtaking twilight shots of the women wearily marching along in the dust behind their wagons they come and go while the camera remains immobile and the audience stays a spectator to the march of history not a participant in it of course when ford wants to involve his audience emotionally or dramatically as in ' he knows just how to do it but wagon master is a tender nostalgic look backward br br filled with traditional western songs rendered by the sons of the pioneers it tells of the trek west to utah in of a mormon wagon train led by ward bond in the role of elder and two young horse traders ben johnson and harry carey jr and in a series of beautiful images as the wagon train fights outlaws indians and nature in its struggle to reach the land ' the modest manages to capture the history and legend of the west br br ford himself has said that of which he wrote the original story was among the three films of his which 'came closest to being what i had wanted to achieve ' br br ford's career as a western director was astonishing more than anyone else he was able to use the genre to protect his feelings about the family society and the american way of life ford saw the frontier as a land to be subdued by a special class of settlers and lawmen whose great sacrifices make the land safe from those who come after these early westerners were giants who deserved the legendary status they earned and the civilized townsfolk who followed must always hold them in fear and respect ford's westerns often employ flashbacks that emphasize the historical authenticity of his approach br br in master ' for example folk songs on the sound track tell us of the hardships of the pioneers of a century ago and ford shows them to us in almost documentary fashion in one sequence the train is camped in a circle and the settlers decide to hold a square dance to fashion a dance floor they have to lay boards over the desert sand and with this ritual celebration ford shows the defeat of the wilderness through the metaphor of boarding over the land br br it's a lovely to look at film full of a marvelous lighthearted optimism and it is easy to understand why ford found it so it never breaks faith with the mood and style set in the first few but one is left wondering whether the ultra romantic best suits the chosen theme… br br the wagon train experience must have been one of the most physically demanding and nerve wracking ordeals that man with his ever set it must have been riddled with i wrong to sell up everything and come how can we hope to survive how will we contend the other end every other aching step of the way… br br yet none of this feeling really comes through in wagon master the is the general not strike one as particularly it could be of course that the mormons were so 'high' on religious spirit that this tended to act as an in other words their reactions weren't those of normal human weakness if so ford was right and the doubters were wrong… br br what is beyond doubt is the right and proper especially at first meeting of ben johnson and harry carey jr this is the essence of light hearted adventurous youth particularly one feels of western youth of those extraordinary it's a remarkable relationship and it remains lodged in the
1	perry mason the case of the fatal fashion finds perry and della street in new york getting an award from the american bar association an undefeated trial record ought to get some recognition i would think anyway a friend of della's fashion editor diana muldaur gets herself arrested for the murder of a rival valerie harper and in fact raymond burr and barbara hale witness a confrontation between the two at a posh eatery br br these two rivals have a thing going that makes and louella look like school girls of course harper has a number of other people who loved her equally as much br br the same perpetrator also ran down a fashion designer who could have exposed the individual this throws perry with his trusty investigative lawyer william moses in an alliance with some mobsters seems that the designer was a cousin of a mob boss who wants also to out some justice in their usual manner br br one thing i could not get is when moses and mobster robert track down the perpetrator i cannot believe that the police were also not vigorously pursuing the case of course has some access to sources that the cops just don't have br br but the best part of this particular mason entry is scott baio as the young rather full of himself assistant district attorney introducing himself to raymond burr saying how he studied all of his cases and looked forward to beating him foolish boy br br in fact my favorite scene is burr and baio at a sidebar with the judge baio was wanting to reopen his case and add a witness and came ready and prepared with precedents burr catches him off guard and says he has no objection to the new witness and then proceeds to demolish the witness on cross examination absolutely priceless br br scott baio is the best thing in this particular perry mason movie and it should be seen for him alone if nothing else
1	i saw this film on the same night i saw 6 other shorts this one was leaps and bounds ahead of the others in terms of quality of acting directing filming and originality of story it comes together with a professionalism often lacking in short films br br this is a great short film for the following reasons br br 1 amazing performances the 2 actresses are both compelling and believable instantly their chemistry is palpable the depth of their relationship is conveyed even though the film is 10 mins long the acting and directing are very powerful br br 2 beautifully shot the lighting framing and general filming are striking the 35mm film sets this movie apart from other shorts and what a difference it makes the filming is worthy of this film stock br br 3 strong story often short films try to do too little or too much with the time or they are trying to tell a predictable story this is a good balance of telling you an interesting story without drawing it out too long or leaving you unsatisfied you wonder what will happen next while at the same time feeling you saw something happen br br nice score too compliments without overpowering br br if you can find this at a festival make an effort to see it
1	saw this last night at the 7th annual nyc home film festival a rather tumultuous venue that quieted down for this sweet and touching two woman film br br the relationship between the two one older and blind the other a twenty something who helps her with her mail is established deftly and its depth is readily apparent br br there are no car chases explosions or mind boggling special effects just the sometimes difficult but rewarding task of humans reaching out toward each other to help and be helped br br see if it you can
1	in the world of shorts most of which aren't this film is a gem br br a quiet concise peek into the world of a young woman who's a reader for a blind woman here the stellar elizabeth franz this film bears the textures layers and visual storytelling of a sumptuously painted still life br br the dialogue is minimal the cinematography is stunning and the direction sure clear and compelling i saw this film in a film festival held in a loud and crowded tribeca bar and within the first two minutes and for the first time that night the crowd fell quiet br br that says it all
1	i viewed the reader at sugar which is not an optimal venue for viewing anything and the movie was by far the highlight of the evening the technical elements were well meshed and it was obvious that duncan rogers had chosen his designers and crew well but it was the story and it's delivery that truly made this short shine duncan rogers' tight script was just what this evening of shorts needed it neither meandered as several offerings did or preached to us the reader was simple story telling in it's best form well cast by rogers and beautifully acted duncan rogers is obviously a director with the ability to put all the pieces together i'm looking forward to his next finished project k
1	i saw the reader at a film festival in manhattan this week it touched my heart in a way that few short films have done in ten or so minutes it tells a poignant two character story that resonated deeply with me duncan rogers has done a superb job capturing very real tender moments on film what i really admire about this film is that the director has chosen a story appropriate to the short format these are genuinely interesting characters and their story is told in the perfect length of time this is no small feat haven't we all seen shorts that are simply longer stories squeezed to fit the format or stage stories that weren't properly adapted to screen i applaud the reader for really doing it right and i encourage anyone who is interested in film and in storytelling to look at it seriously worth every moment
1	the reader is an exceptionally well done and very sweet short every element of the piece assists in eliciting a pure emotional response to the script well acted directed shot and written i was surprised to hear that there was no rehearsal before shooting not even a read through the performances stand as testament to some fine instinctual acting in response to a well written script the actresses work was excellent and there was never an indication that their work would slip into the purely sentimental less is much better in this case this film is a prime example of how these low budget contracts benefit actors as well as film makers
1	i have lost count as to how many times i have watched this movie i've never grown tired of it since this is a movie that can be enjoyed and interpreted on so many levels they just don't make movies like this anymore br br after recently finally watching the riveting documentary on the making of this film hearts of darkness a filmmakers journey into madness i'm even more amazed that this film even got finished yet alone turn out so great br br the fact that they actually filmed this movie in the jungles of the phillipines is the film's greatest asset you actually feel like your in vietnam br br all of the actors are fantastic with my favorites still being robert duvall i love the smell of napalm in the morning martin sheen and the great marlon brando br br a lot of people complain that the film gets too murky weird and cerebral near the end well what said about this movie this film is not about vietnam it is vietnam what he means is that this film is about madness and not the war br br this movie is based on the short story heart of darkness by joseph conrad and is set against the vietnam war instead of the civil war as in the book i think that was a brilliant combination in my opinion br br this is perfect challenging film that is dark violent humorous at times and well done in every single possible way br br a true classic br br rating 10
1	i saw the short titled the reader recently and found that the movie was well planned and executed i really felt for both characters that morgan and elizabeth franz portray in this film elizabeth was able to show great range with her blind character and left me feeling emotionally connected morgan was able to sell to me that she was totally committed in keeping sissy or franz protected from the grief of losing her sister who had been living in copenhagen the great thing about the film was in the short running time and budget of only ten thousand dollars duncan rodgers was able to make a very well made film that kept the interest of the viewer rodgers has a great insight into the actor's ability and transition great camera angles to showcase their talent i always feel if a director can make a great film with a small budget then what can he or she do with a much larger one great job duncan
1	the reader is a perfect example of what a short film should be a poignant story told simply through well written dialog beautifully painted images a score that seamlessly weaves it's way through the narrative and characters portrayed with thoughtfulness and grace br br i saw this film at a festival where other interesting films and ideas were screened but none of the other shorts had all the elements of great film making coming together in one film as the reader did the reader commanded the attention of every festival goer in the room and for 10 minutes took us into the emotional lives of the characters br br duncan rogers has created a beautiful film and i hope to see more from this director be it more shorts or perhaps a feature length film
1	i have a little hobby of finding really cool pics out there that are pretty much unknown and then letting people know about them this one is on top of my list for getting the word out this summer this indie film and i really mean indie not miramax fox searchlight indie might be easy to overlook in the big maze of celluloid but if you want something completely different you have to check this one out br br basically i thought it was totally great i should have known from the dvd cover front and back that this was going to be something totally different but they all say that their stuff is different to hook you well this one really is totally different it's in your face beautiful and scary and unashamed to tell you to wake up war peace 9 11 poetry even a eerie sort of music video set to an old time patriotic song and a weird guy in an rv need i say more just see it
1	i have wracked my brain for another film that reminds me of this one i really can't come up with one i think it's because most of the films that take on this topic war peace violence are in a fixed documentary style there are some terrific ones out there all of them better known than usa t m i'm sure but they are intended to be informational and to bring your emotional response to the surface through intellectual means this dvd in some ways may seem more intellectual but it really isn't it is philosophical maybe but it bypasses the information mode and goes directly to the same place that a piece of music does it makes you feel but sometimes you don't even know why you are just taken somewhere on a wave of feeling when you watch it notice how well it is put together it may not be for everyone but it is for everyone who look for a rare cinematic creation that respects you
1	in tolstoy wrote this in his diary the political is not compatible with the artistic because the former in order to prove has to be one sided this thought from a great mind is applicable to usa the movie the film might be read by those with a narrow focus as a 90 minute slam of bush cheney et al as well as a ripping of america as an out of control force that will ultimately be destroyed by its own folly and thirst for power the more open minded viewer will take note of the recurring images and themes that make this dvd a testament to thought as the main character breaks up into bits and pieces surrounded by recurring visuals of the natural world contrasted with the man made constructions towers roads video monitors radio vehicles above all the ominous threat of wars that have been and are to come smolder throughout war and rumors of war are what is created destroyed and recreated on the screen in our conscious world and in our unconscious minds
1	just see it it's a smart movie but too hard to understand the first time see it more than once everything that is seen or heard on the screen is intentionally crafted to evoke a feeling sensation or tone the clarity of certain visuals and the of certain sounds are deliberately contrasted with blurred images or pops crackles hisses and barely audible sounds the structure is non linear and cyclical motifs recur as time runs both and expectations regarding plot and character are broken signaling a non traditional use of film to tell a story that is both contemporary and as old as humanity this is a part of a review usa the movie is emotionally intense intellectually intriguing and profoundly disturbing in surprising and unconventional ways dion dennis phd
1	usa the movie is like this you take a nap on a long hot sunday afternoon it feels great to close your eyes and let your worries drift away soon you're lost in one of those intense lucid dreams where you know you're dreaming but you still can't wake up not that you want to you go with the flow and soon you're in a kind of weird alice in wonderland story complete with characters you didn't think you could dream up they're telling you all kinds of crazy stuff about war and peace while taking you through a trip into the past and even the future br br the dream starts to get heavier and you feel like it's going down a path you can't control maybe you want to wake up so you try to open your eyes but you now there's destruction and sadness and confusion and scary voices telling you what could be truth or could be lies you're seeing images that flicker and change and then get clear but do you even want to see what you're brain is creating for you br br finally you're lost in a myth world and you realize the end has come the end of the world and the end of the dream it's over what do you wake up to what do you do next br br maybe you'll write down that dream because you know dreams like don't happen too often and when they do you better pay attention br br or maybe you'll crack a beer and forget the whole thing bad idea don't forget
1	it's funny because i read all the reviews on this page after getting this movie and it's either a love it or hate it reaction you'll probably either love it or hate it too i think the best films are the ones that divide people because obviously they have some kind of impact i'm in the five star camp because this film did a real number on me and made me want to go back and find out more about afghanistan and iraq i have to admit that i was pretty tuned out when all that was taking place especially afghanistan and i feel guilty about that the music through the movie was beautiful i kept getting lost in it especially during some of the historical flashbacks personally i thought the audio was great it seemed to me that the soundtrack with speeches music and the radio was put together so that you feel like you're in the rv with jim the main character or in his head everything not on the radio was very clear and everything on the radio sounded like it was really on the radio anyway this is a very amazing dvd which made me cry
1	i like movies that show real people americans and tell truth the movie is simple and that seems to be the great thing about it it played here in norway fine amazon says above that it's usa but the box states all regions i have to say it is not for the american viewers it played in here in world raw views a theater i saw it and later i ordered it the cut was different and much better see it and you will like it or maybe hate it sorry bush lovers but this movie is driving you crazy because it makes sense get angry and hate it disagree with everything in it but i for one stand by it it's not for the empty minds it is long and too hard to keep up with but by the second viewing it makes more sense i loved owen's words and the poem made me cry
1	thank god that there are films out there that don't follow the same old hollywood crap formula i think the digital revolution and the dvd revolution is actually making it possible for more interesting work to get out there even if you have to dig harder to find it i love it when a film takes its time to draw you in deeper and deeper into its inner emotional reaches it really was like taking a trip through the soul of america and that soul is disturbed and confused what really blew my mind was the way they used martin luther king's speeches about vietnam and references to his assassination in a way that hit me hard i found myself choked up every time i heard his voice i've heard him speak before of course but the way they used the speeches here made me feel like i understood his message in a way i'd never thought about br br what can you say about a movie that has heavy statistics about war oppression and a plea for compassion at the end of it where a credits crawl would usually be in fact there's no credits at all in the film you have to access them by selecting them in the features somehow that made me think a lot all in all i can't say enough about this dvd brilliant
1	'apocalypse now francis ford coppola's war opus is probably the most beautiful war film i have ever seen capt benjamin willard martin sheen is a vietnam soldier who is tapped to head a very dangerous and highly classified mission into cambodia to the of col kurtz marlon brando a highly ranked and highly regarded army man who seemingly has gone completely insane and defected from the army setting up his own little society and helped by a cultish following of soldiers escorting him up the river to cambodia is a handful of navy men and along the way they encounter several interesting people most notably is robert duvall's a badass lieutenant colonel with a few screws loose and some horrifying situations br br is less historical war film than a philosophical and psychological study it is more 'full metal jacket' than the running time of is over three hours but the film is so wonderfully paced and compelling that when the end of the film arrived i was actually surprised at the amount of time that had passed the beautiful cinematography is surely what stood out the most for me however after seeing this film i am convinced that coppola is one of the masters of light and photography in film history the 'godfather' films were all tinged with an almost sepia tone and shadows created the feeling of a baroque composition with there is an incredible usage of natural light and the shadows particularly in the scenes involving brando and sheen almost become a living character they are so pervasive and effective another gorgeous scene was when cpt willard and jay hicks frederic forrest were in the jungle looking for mangoes and come across a tiger the sheer enormity of the surrounding foliage leaves as big as a house made the characters almost but the colorization of the scene was incredible while everything else was almost a muted grey the leaves were an incredibly vibrant green an effect that was particularly striking another really minor positive moment in the film was the great scene when the helicopters carrying duvall and company attack the small village while playing wagner this could have just been an ultra dramatic underlying soundtrack to the scene but instead coppola turns the song into an actual part of the scene with duvall mentioning that he likes to play it while they are approaching to the hell out of them' br br the performances in are first class much has been made of the amount of money brando earned for the film and the amount of trouble he caused regardless of this he turned out a powerful performance for a relatively short amount of screen time sheen is completely outstanding this is the first time i have seen him really unleash in a film – and duvall is a lot of fun to watch as the loony 'apocalypse now' is a film that is so pervasive in pop culture by now most know several choice lines from the film 'i love the smell of napalm in the morning' et al but i knew little enough about it that there were plenty of surprises left to experience i have not seen the original cut of 'apocalypse now' so i cannot compare it to this newer cut but this is a film that should most certainly be experienced 8 10 br br shelly
1	the whole shorthand for supposedly being more aware in this weird time is that you are blue the blue state mentality this is supposed to get us off the hook for what is was happening during the last few years in our country the usa it doesn't get anyone off the hook but it makes us feel better as though we aren't benefiting in any way from living here and getting all the good stuff that a us citizen gets just by being a us citizen br br but i'm so sick of bitching about this it doesn't do any good i haven't taken much action lately and i wonder how many people have maybe i'm just down because my job was outsourced last month and now i'm looking for work in the shrinking tech support field where most of the jobs are quickly going to india and other places overseas i'm thinking that soon it's not going to pay off to be a citizen here with the screwed up infrastructure and the shrinking job market and the obsession with war these days it seems like anyone who speaks out gets jumped and questioned about there patriotism anyway back to this review usa the movie is an obscure dvd that makes me realize that some people have taken action whether it's through politics protesting or arts or media the filmmaker is obviously passionate knowledgeable willing to go outside the norm frustrated unique astute etc br br i looked through the whole site that's linked to the dvd and got lost in all the articles essays etc that are there the dvd does that too has references to different times views and historical points sometimes someone does something out there
1	a lot about usa the movie can be summed up in its title it draws parallels between the attitudes of this country in the face of war and a kind of hollywood like falseness that glorifies things that shouldn't be glorified i'm not sure i agree with the filmmaker's take on recent events although truthfully i can't always tell exactly where he stands but i admire the unusual and artistic way of getting the point across audio tracks of speeches radio interviews poetry etc play as large a role here as visuals most of the time the visuals of the story are accompanied by these audio elements to good effect i'm kind of a radio buff so it was satisfying to hear the way that radio was integrated into the pace of the movie in fact most of the dialog takes place over the story rather than having characters talk to one another that's not to say that there aren't characters real people but except for jim the protagonist a kind of '60's drop out with an erratic state of mind the others come and go pretty quickly a few make a very powerful impression especially a guru like taxi driver who seems to be the voice of wisdom itself when he breaks out into a spontaneous song of prayer while driving jim to the subway it is a very powerful moment on the cover of the dvd is the quote the danger is clear which is taken from president bush's speech that paved the way to our incursion into iraq in retrospect hearing that speech at a climactic moment in the film brought home how we are living in a historically charged moment which will always be remembered
1	a lot about usa the movie can be summed up in its title it draws parallels between the attitudes of this country in the face of war and a kind of hollywood like falseness that glorifies things that shouldn't be glorified i'm not sure i agree with the filmmaker's take on recent events although truthfully i can't always tell exactly where he stands but i admire the unusual and artistic way of getting the point across audio tracks of speeches radio interviews poetry etc play as large a role here as visuals most of the time the visuals of the story are accompanied by these audio elements to good effect i'm kind of a radio buff so it was satisfying to hear the way that radio was integrated into the pace of the movie in fact most of the dialog takes place over the story rather than having characters talk to one another that's not to say that there aren't characters real people but except for jim the protagonist a kind of '60's drop out with an erratic state of mind the others come and go pretty quickly a few make a very powerful impression especially a guru like taxi driver who seems to be the voice of wisdom itself when he breaks out into a spontaneous song of prayer while driving jim to the subway it is a very powerful moment on the cover of the dvd is the quote the danger is clear which is taken from president bush's speech that paved the way to our incursion into iraq in retrospect hearing that speech at a climactic moment in the film brought home how we are living in a historically charged moment which will always be remembered
1	the whole shorthand for supposedly being more aware in this weird time is that you are blue the blue state mentality this is supposed to get us off the hook for what is was happening during the last few years in our country the usa it doesn't get anyone off the hook but it makes us feel better as though we aren't benefiting in any way from living here and getting all the good stuff that a us citizen gets just by being a us citizen br br but i'm so sick of bitching about this it doesn't do any good i haven't taken much action lately and i wonder how many people have maybe i'm just down because my job was outsourced last month and now i'm looking for work in the shrinking tech support field where most of the jobs are quickly going to india and other places overseas i'm thinking that soon it's not going to pay off to be a citizen here with the screwed up infrastructure and the shrinking job market and the obsession with war these days it seems like anyone who speaks out gets jumped and questioned about there patriotism anyway back to this review usa the movie is an obscure dvd that makes me realize that some people have taken action whether it's through politics protesting or arts or media the filmmaker is obviously passionate knowledgeable willing to go outside the norm frustrated unique astute etc br br i looked through the whole site that's linked to the dvd and got lost in all the articles essays etc that are there the dvd does that too has references to different times views and historical points sometimes someone does something out there
1	completely worth checking out saw it on birthday 2006 and it hit me big time sometimes it feels like we're all in a trap and are doomed to repeat the past no matter how much we try to change all we can do is to keep on going and speaking out just keep on going don't mean to be a downer because that's not the point but maybe we need to get down before we see how much we need to work on ourselves what happens when we keep being told by the best people like mlk what needs to happen to pull us out of our dead end road but we don't listen i know that some of us do listen but how do we get the rest of the world to see things as they really are just keep going i guess this movie got me thinking even more about all of this so i guess it has done what it set out to do that's what i consider to be a good movie or play or book or poem or speech or anything something that gets you thinking and keyed up to move in an active direction instead of sitting stuck and bored and hopeless
1	i saw it in europe plex great movie br br this film is an exploration of the spirit and the flesh in modern times protagonist jim kirk drives an unwieldy rv across america stopping often to fill his gas guzzling tank he is middle aged and confused he fuels his thick diabetic body with cups of coffee and radio chatter he is the flesh agitated and sometimes spaced out fairly oblivious to the growing tension around him but feeling it as of discomfort br br the spirit the film through speeches and other sounds as well as what appears and goes by in the visual field the spirit eventually collides with the flesh and kirk goes down unable to comprehend what has happened to him he's been in denial about just how bad things have become due to he of all of us because we are all focused on the needs and desires of our flesh we're all in the same denial and so we like kirk are in danger of going down and being blown away by desert sands just like him
1	almost four years after the iraq war started and we're in a bigger hole than ever that's right so all those flag wavers who were so sure of the right and might of the american way are now chasing their tails isn't that true you bet it is this movie said so from the beginning it is kind of freaky how much the film or should i say filmmaker knew what was coming it is almost like going to a fortune teller and hearing what was going to happen in the future there was a point when i felt the hairs standing up on the back of my neck as gw announced that 'major combat operations are over on top of a visual of a broken down rv being away with the american flag waving in the rear view mirror you have to see it to understand what i mean but even if you are apolitical or even if you are pro war this movie will have some kind of impact on you because it is so embedded in history
1	at first i couldn't tell if it was an art film or a documentary the day after i had a unique movie after taste experience or perhaps a revelation the film is a human quest to destroy everything that exists including life on earth the lead is clueless and cold he is like all of us he wants to get rich to laugh to travel to eat and be entertained he moves from one place to another in a giant rv without direction or motive only to pass time and entertain himself by the end it's too late since my first viewing of usa it had grown on me like a custom fit dream where life on earth is nothing but a weird experience i am an artist and a buddhist and this film communicated to my senses it was an ideal embodiment of impermanence this may sound strange but somehow this film was able to touch me in a profound way like no other i recommend it
1	i thought this was very different compared to most modern interpretations of shakespeare and enjoyed it thoroughly it would not be useful for those studying it at school etc as it does not show the traditional shakespeare character interpretations i e miranda is portrayed quite punky compared to your traditional shakespeare lady but for understanding of the play and for the basis of the story it is a very strong piece and fantastic to watch it does not include also the correct format as in the layout of acts and scenes as i am currently playing miranda in a production and most of her lines had been cut and some scenes split and mixed around but it is very useful and i would definitely recommend it as a must see even if just to say you've seen it shakespeare fans would love this
1	for me the tempest and its characters by which i mean the admirable ones are like old friends ever since i first began to experience the play through acting classes i played ferdinand i found myself immediately caught up in the fantastic world that shakespeare created i can distinctly remember one student deciding not to play ferdinand after all and so i took the stage and had the honor of playing opposite an excellent miranda br br one of the virtues that a great friend has is that you can never fully know them there is always something you can discover about their character a film production of the tempest of quality is thus like a visit to an old friend dear to one's heart each visit presents one with new perspective on the memory we had of the work with prospero's books the ritual and the elegance of the play was emphasized the exuberant celebration of art within the art here we see a vision as esoteric mysticism with lovingly crafted interiors full of candles and chalk on floors more aleister crowley than naples nobleman it also made me reconsider why was it that prospero was cast out of naples his magical power is so palpable in this production that it makes one wonder whether it was just politics that doomed prospero to exile but rather the fact of his difference from his peers so in the real world he suffered was cast out powerless to change the wrong to the right all of the villains in this play whether they realize it or not act in accordance to creating a more pain filled hell of a world it is always in the interest of the to make life on earth closer to hell but prospero manages to bring these terrestrial villains into his island the realm where he has absolute dominion br br shakespeare brings his audience to the theater the realm where shakespeare dictates the events the words the outcomes shakespeare is of course prospero but what this film adaptation does that really honors the text is to make prospero so sympathetic such a figure of reason despite the fact that he is surrounded by what society calls irrational astrological texts alchemical symbols magical etc is it more rational to be a man of the cloth and murder or to be a heretic and work towards the righting of wrongs prospero is a heretic for the reason he abandons his magic is not because the books will lose their value in naples but because they are not necessary anymore the world itself has become the magic of the books br br in hamlet hamlet presents a play to his peers the play accuses his fellows of conspiring against others for their own advancement the reaction of the audience varies while ophelia is puzzled claudius reacts with stunned shock this happens within the play and then shakespeare has this play performed for the men of his time did shakespeare watch for their reactions in the tempest prospero lives the play he is constructing and we live it with him how do we react do you react with simple delight at the happy ending are you upset and shocked by the strangeness of this production which is entirely fitting given the source material do you feel sad at the fact that this little life the play is rounded with a sleep as transient as it is eternal the tragedy is that shakespeare creates a paradise of reason and hope for mankind's life on earth but man is weak and unwilling to realize it in favor of petty power struggles we have br br like a good friend this film is not without its flaws i disagree with the choice to paint some scenes entirely in blue the dance of the is rather tangential but at the heart this is truly the tempest and one of its many faces
1	during the final throes of the war our central character capt willard martin sheen is dispatched by the cia on an illegal one man mission to assassinate a renegade us marine commander colonel kurtz marlon brando who has allegedly gone but who is successfully waging a private cross border war from his base in cambodia a neutral and therefore off limits country br br the entire narrated story of what willard sees and does as he is ferried up the da nang river by an undisciplined and terrorised navy patrol boat crew to murder kurtz is a grand metaphor for the excesses decadence and ultimately the weakness of the anglo saxon psyche if we don't understand something and we are unable to control it exterminate it kurtz had eventually come to know this br br unless you pay complete attention to every emotional gesture to every word of the dialogue between the protagonists especially in the scene where the two of them are alone in darkened lair you will miss one of the central themes of this incredible movie subtle deal with his executioner his in return for willard agreeing did he nod to tell 'son' another metaphor for us the next generation the ones watching the movie the truth about all the horrors that they had both seen in vietnam is mind expanding stuff the bonding between the two men whilst kurtz cross examines willard interlaced with some of his own horror stories is incredible nay genius film the closing intercut scene of the ritual slaughter of a sacrificial bull is the single most powerful of symbols has made intentionally or not the ultimate anti war statement one that should resonate through the ages
1	an amazing film i've only just seen it and i already want to see it again i'd never heard of derek jarman before i saw this film but now i am i can't wait to see his others the film takes a whole new perspective of shakespeare's the tempest i'm sure he'd have appreciated it for use of the the play's themes of love magic darkness and atmospheric tension ok ok there may have been a bit of nudity in the film which i hadn't really anticipated but it didn't offend me it just surprised me and made the film more unpredictable one spoiler for those of a nervous disposition fast forward the flashback scene with and ariel as their slave its pretty graphic overall if you are starting to find kenneth branagh's shakespeare performances flaccid and monotonous then you need to see this film fantastic and surreal it'll blow you away but only if you let it have an open mind and then let this film work it's magic on you
1	the tempest has been interpreted in many different ways ranging from more or less traditional views as dealing with art to more post modern approaches that like to dissect the play along post colonial feminist gender or lines the reason why version left me fairly cold is that i didn't have a clue what he was on about what is the underlying vision idea concept behind this rendering of shakespeare the previous reviewers do not get much further than revenge tragedy punk show but surely there is more to it isn't there this is not to say that there is no vision here just that i was hard put to discover it be that as it may there are still things to enjoy the punk flavour is refreshing and funny wilcox as miranda and jack as are wonderful i did not much care about williams as prospero not enough magic i suppose the switches between the old monastery castle and the very english world outside can be a little unsettling at times but i guess that is intentional all in all interesting but not quite the success i had hoped it might be particularly after seeing caravaggio
1	the stuff dreams are made of a complete retelling of the play as a dream of vengeance will baffle purists but will delight the open minded a superb effort great cinematography acting and script 11 stars
1	i'm amazed that of all the reviews i've looked at nobody seems to have noticed one of the main points of this film or at least how i saw it it seems like one big homosexual fantasy camp clothing a glorified nude ferdinand a definite sexual tension between ariel and prospero and as a final climax a group of men in tight sailor suits dancing the this whole approach once you get used to it provides you with all sorts of fantastic scenes and images the sight of an innocent ariel being pulled towards a disgusting nude in order to perform her earthy and commands is one of the darkest i've ever scene in a shakespeare film however by the end of the film i'd grown tired of the style and the final dance was just too much to take still overall its an interesting interpretation of the play
1	an extremely down to earth well made and acted rodeo western no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the 60's and 70's west but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ups and downs of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style he and mr coburn teamed up extremely well as partners not only on the circuit itself but also in the real world outside the corral also check out anne archer as coburn's native american love interest in the latter part of the movie must have been one of her first roles br br not as flashy perhaps as junior bonner but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time
1	the hookers was to me a great everyday people story like someone you might have known just trying to make it my big shot is right around the corner then life's little temptations creep in the spoiler stumbled again how much can your love take and give to the guy who's really not so bad after all just human i liked it i was also a paid extra in the movie played the drums in the bar shots with the band did several walking shots my green corvette was in the motel party shots wonderful cast and crew first rate people down to earth movie i had lunch with james coburn on mother's day what a wonderful man just like i've known him for years i'll never forget him my father spent the day with slim pickens and swapped horse stories slim also was really down to earth love those guys we really miss them real people making movies about real people thanks levy gardner and
1	this is one of those movies that was never publicized and therefore was missed when it originally played in the theaters br br i came across it while switching tv channels and was immediately engrossed in this story of an aging rodeo bum whose recklessness and lack of responsibility hurt everyone around him i've often wanted to see the movie again but couldn't even remember its name and have never seen it in the rental stores br br james coburn and slim pickens were excellent in their roles and the rodeo footage was first rate while being an action movie and having a western setting and theme it could be enjoyed by anyone regardless of their taste in films
1	the is probably slim pickens best performance of all time when we were shooting everyone connected with the production figured that slim was academy award material unfortunately united artists had a james bond picture in release at the same time and did not devote much attention to the i personally feel this film was under rated by most critics sam junior bonner was out at the same time and seemed to impress the critics more than our film also cliff robertson had a rodeo film out a few months before our release and that might have hurt us too the picture is worth watching if just for the rodeo footage some of the best ever filmed shot by james crabbe the director and my co writer steve died a few weeks after the picture's release cutting short a promising career and leaving behind his lovely wife sally his daughter gaby and newborn son stefan please give this movie a shot i'm betting that you'll say it was well worth while i thank anyone who has taken the time to read this stephen lodge
1	up and coming was a very positive sitcom which brought a tool and or channel that opened the young minds of the black culture the focus and outlook was a message of positivity for our people and hope for change i advise this selection for every american household to experience the struggle and the reward the show was never given the chance to blossom into the idea of middle class blacks becoming business owners of their own the were so compatible with real life that impacted the lives of so many i sincerely hope that the entire volume can be restored and put on dvd for americans to enjoy with their families br br thanks
1	this was a great show i don't remember much about about it but remember watching it and loving it i remember the mother and the father i really like the grandmother she was like a grandmother you really couldn't appreciate until you became an adult she was very knowledgeable and no nonsense my favorite song on the show was in the morning that might not be the title i remember after seeing that show and hearing that song that i went to cleveland ohio to visit my cousins and me and my sister sang that song so much that by the time we left all of my little cousins were singing it too i too would love to find this on dvd
1	as i peruse through the hundreds of comments that loyal readers of the imdb have posted on this film i find it very interesting how few middle of the road comments there are everyone either loves it or they hate it having seen apocalypse now approximately 30 times and having recently dissected it on dvd how did we ever live without those magical digital machines i can say without hesitation that i am one of those who have a very special place in my heart for this film why would you like a film that's so confusing ask many of my associates the answer is this forget the war forget the brutality this is a classic story of society protecting itself from those that refuse to fall in line with the status quo brando represents the individual that has his own way of getting the job done they big brother sent him out to do the job he does it too well without adhering to the accepted standards of death and destruction am i the only one who's troubled by the fact that we have for death and destruction so they send the conformity police out to eliminate the individual hmmmmmm draw any parallels between this and things you see every day with the deepest respect to mr coppola whom i believe is one of the best directors of all time i think he transcended his original intent of the movie and probably didn't even realize it until after the movie was released the subtle sub text that permeates the entire movie has way too much to it to have been planned and portrayed instead it seems to have itself like some wild flower in the middle of a vegetable garden again i must reiterate i think ff coppola did a bang up job on this entire production as did the cast and crew but the sum of the movie exceeds the individual efforts ten fold so if you haven't seen the movie rent it watch it then watch it again and maybe a few more times and look for all the generic parallels to everyday life only then make a judgment on the quality of the film those of you that have seen it watch it again with the mindset previously described i think you may just have a whole new appreciation for the film or maybe not no matter whether you love it or hate it be sure and give credit to coppola for his masterful story telling style
1	i remember coming home from school to watch up and coming this was the story of a black family that moves out of the into a up class community the family was name wilson frank wilson man with his own construction business his wife joyce was a bank manager they had 3 teenage kids kevin valerie and marcus this was a very good show it was educational with out being the show was well written this show gave us a look at a successful african american before the cosby show a lot a black actor appeared on this show from ester role to david to 227 jackson to name a few if you are able to find this show on dvd you should get it for your whole family
1	this was an excellent show it came on pbs back home in chicago and i remember cindy from played the teen aged daughter the show dealt with subjects such as sex peer pressure and puberty it was about a middle class black family who had a teen aged daughter and son who moved to a middle class neighborhood from oakland or somewhere i can't remember i remember several episodes but the one i remember most was when their cousin got her period for the first time i was probably 7 8 when i first watched it and i was able to keep up with the program this was a great show i can't remember the name of the guy who played the son on the show but i always got him confused with kevin hooks
1	this was such a great series for black folks at the time we loved it so much it was the only show about black middle class families on t v at the time please release this on dvd i know many many people who still talk about the show if it its released i am certain that many black youth will find this enlightening as well as interesting the show addressed many topics from racism race discrimination teen pregnancy sibling rivalry single parenting peer pressure and much more the show ended in such an abrupt way and left it's fans speechless and wondering why it was taken off the air since then we have only seen a few of the actors and actresses please release it on dvd asap
1	having seen the uncut version i thought this film was beautifully made it captured my attention from beginning to end the tension was wonderfully conveyed ka man portrays the typical filipino family with accuracy in its presentation of secrets and lies even the religious culture the human tendency to keep up appearances and maintain a pure reputation is shown with stark vividness in gloria diaz's character there is not a little scene in this film that does not have a purpose the cinematography is excellent and the writing brilliant br br although the plot is great i personally found that the twist at the end the revelation to do with character was not as much of a shock as it should be but then maybe that's just me because otherwise ka man is a very cleverly made film br br the casting was good to begin with but and acting were the icing on the cake not one to miss if you're looking for a filipino film that will surprise and surpass expectations thumbs up to the director
1	there's only so much that i can take of filipino films especially nowadays where the trend is sex action and slapstick comedy which i hate the fact that ka man made me think and made me gape during the movie was a big plus it's got good cinematic scenes and editing was great especially the cinematography i think that claudine deserves the best actress here rather than getting one in the movie milan the fact that there's only so few filipino movies that i really like i think laurel did such a great job in this movie i truly truly loved this movie technically and character development wise the plot was complex and that's what made it terrific
1	my family and i normally do not watch local movies for the simple reason that they are poorly made they lack the depth and just not worth our time br br the trailer of ka man caught my attention my daughter in law's and daughter's so we took time out to watch it this afternoon the movie exceeded our expectations the cinematography was very good the story beautiful and the acting awesome jericho rosales was really very good so's claudine the fact that i despised proves he was effective at his role i have never been this touched moved and affected by a local movie before imagine a cynic like me dabbing my eyes at the end of the movie congratulations to star cinema way to go jericho and claudine
1	this is a great tv movie with a good story and many comic moments thanks to the excellent cast br br the only problem this movie has is that it hasn't stood the test of time as well as it might have br br despite this it's definitely worth viewing particularly if you are an alan alda or ruth gordon fan
1	i am trying to find somewhere to purchase a dvd vhs copy of the movie isn't it shocking i was 7 years old when i saw this movie and i lived in the town where it was filmed a couple of items from my family were used in the movie as props and a couple of my friend's homes were used in a couple of the scenes the filming pretty well took place in the town and surrounding community i have only seen the film once originally and i would like to get a copy so now i can show my family the film i have done extensive searches online with not luck and i was wondering if anyone would have any ideas on trying to get a copy of this movie
1	this is a very sweet coming of age movie very funny and russell crowe is amazing those who know him only from gladiator will be surprised to see the range of his acting abilities arthur his character is one of the best onscreen nerdy virgins i have ever watch this movie how can we get it re released in ntsc format br br
1	love in limbo is my all time movie set in w a it is and has an excellent cast including a group of three gorgeous actors russell crowe as arthur back in the day when he actually looked hot with short hair and no facial hair aden young barry and craig adams as ken riddle br br ken is a senior high school student obsessed with sex and becomes expelled for selling pornographic drawings to his classmates he starts a new job at his uncles clothing factory and becomes close with another new guy barry who buys a car so that they can go out and pick up chicks they become mates with the goody geek arthur crowe and the three guys drive up to to a brothel and lose their virginity br br watch it its a classic for so long i have been trying to get a hold of a dvd or soundtrack anyone let me know if you've got em
1	i first saw apocalypse now in 1985 when it was broadcast on british television for the first time i was shell shocked after seeing this masterpiece and despite some close competition from the likes of fellowship of the ring this movie still remains my all time favourite nearly 20 years after i first saw it br br this leads to the problem of how i can even begin to comment on the movie i could praise the technical aspects especially the sound editing and cinematography but everyone else seems to have praised rightly too these achievements to high heaven while the performances in general and robert duvall in particular have also been noted and everyone else has mentioned the stark imagery of the dou long bridge and the montage of the boat traveling upriver after passing through the border br br how about the script francis ford coppola is best known as a director but he's everyway a genius as a screenwriter as he was as a director i said was in the past tense because making this movie seems to have burned out every creative brain cell in his head but his sacrifice was worth it in john milius original solo draft we have a script that's just as insane and disturbing as the one on screen but coppola's involvement in the screenplay has injected a narrative that exactly mirrors that of war check how the screenplay starts off all jingoistic and macho with a star turn by bill who wouldn't have looked out of place in the green berets but the more the story progresses the more shocking and insane everything becomes so much so that by the time reaches kurtz outpost the audience are watching another film in much the same way as the characters have sailed into another dimension when coppola states this movie isn't about vietnam it is vietnam he's right what started off as a patriotic war to defeat communist aggression in the mid 1960s had by the film's setting the manson trial suggests it's 1970 had changed america's view of both the world and itself and of the world's view of america br br it's the insane beauty of apocalypse now that makes it a masterwork of cinema and says more in its running time about the brutality of conflict and the hypocrisy of politicians what did you do in the vietnam war mr president than michael moore could hope to say in a lifetime i've not seen the redux version but watching the original print i didn't feel there was anything missing from the story which like all truly great films is very basic in fact the premise can lend itself to many other genres like a western where an army officer has to track down and kill a renegade colonel who's leading an injun war party or a sci fi movie where a un assassin is to eliminate a fellow un soldier who's leading a resistance movement on mars though this is probably down to joseph conrad's original source novel br br my all time favourite movie and it's very fitting that i chose this movie to be my one review at the imdb
1	i came across this movie in an australian hotel room at 3 am my brother and i were channel surfing and who do we see but a young russel crowe but not the telephone throwing russel crowe we had come to know and quasi love back in the states this movie much to my surprise was amazingly creative and hilarious it stars a cast of awkward teens with hilarious stories of odd sexual experiences including a slick salesman prostitutes and an unusual sexy mother if you are lucky enough to come across this film i would strongly suggest picking it up i have to say this movie was amazingly entertaining and i thank the fine people of australia making it
1	cant believe it after all these years finally tracked this down it was meant to be named 'the great at production stage i was living in oz at time and through a friend was looking after one of the house locations through filming it was me that showed these guys how to speak scottish and after all this time i only realise now one was russell crowe it has taken me all these years to track this down was even unsure if it ever went to screen as i left oz the following month after wrap up party at that time russell crowe was not the demanded actor he is now and i had no idea it was him until i saw the previous comment then thought back to the days during filming amazing truly delighted with myself now
1	i first saw love in limbo playing late on free to air tv about five years ago and since then it's a movie i'll always remember warmly as one of those films you see and are forever influenced by br br for the uninitiated australian film has a long history of making off beat comedies about lovable losers and love in limbo is a sterling example of this whilst russel crowe is the only name actor in it although these days he's all a movie needs the rest of the aussie cast is good he still steals the show as a nervous nerdy virgin loser though br br the general premise is a lot like american pie a group of friends wanting to get laid and become men as you'd expect the entire movie on this with a sub plot about the lead's mother and various other incidents and is full of humorous situations that push it towards the inevitably sweet ending br br if you enjoyed american pie don't expect this to be the same but expect the same conventions to make appearances love in limbo isn't a gross out romantic comedy but it definitely has its share of laughs fist pumping moments when the good guy wins and the situations every guy australian or otherwise can relate to br br see it if you liked american pie almost famous strengths good aussie cast easy to relate to good value weaknesses predictable at points my rating 8 out of 10
1	this was a television show that i watched during the 1960s as a child and was captivated by it in the many years that have passed i have often thought about this show and how good it would be to watch it again but being mindful that things of the past are not always as good as you remember them this was a great show in the 1960s and has lost nothing even now in 2007 sure there are a few odd production mistakes that you see when watching old shows and it takes a couple of episodes to get used to the dubbed voices but having done that i was as captivated now as i was back in the 1960s the samurai is played by koichi who plays the role in a very humble manner i remember during the 60s due to the popularity of the show here in australia he toured performing sword play etc and was overwhelmed by the interest in the show and in him it was great that one of my all time favourite shows still held the magic that it did during my childhood a must see series
1	i am a new convert you might as well say i borrowed the dvds from my local library i have been interested in samurai since watching 'the last samurai ' my dad told me he used to watch shintaro when he was a kid he said that it was pretty good we are up to series 3 i absolutely love it it takes a little to get used to the dubbed english voices over the characters speaking japanese but i really enjoy it all the same it is a little strange to watch the slight pauses when the ninja stars are thrown at characters and they stick into a tree or wall i was not used to this but i am now but i suppose that's the technology they had in the 60s i've noticed that shintaro is kind friendly willing to help those in need he's very humble most of the time he doesn't big note himself he only says he is better than the enemy ninja i admire shintaro for these qualities it's really interesting to watch the swordsmanship that koichi has it is amazing this series is for anyone who are interested in samurai
1	i recalled watching this program as a young boy in australia in the 60s and enjoyed it on dvd again as a 50 year old father of young kids although the bad guys are mostly shallow characters and there is a component of violence i am very happy to have my 6 and 8 year old kids watch this because the central characters are deep kind and honourable the japanese culture shines through the violence is not gory nobody glories in it and the program is beautiful to watch it does not promote nightmares but instead it shows much of the culture that must have primarily influenced the design of jedi knights in star wars br br the quality of the dvds does leave something to be desired video will not like this one it is strongly reminiscent of something held on 16mm film and projected onto the wall in some basement which it may well be the soundtrack is also lacking in the quality we have come to expect from home theatre however my kids noticed only that it was not in colour and i suspect they only noticed that because we had been talking recently about how old things are often like that the beauty of mt fuji is evident even in b w something about the 17th century setting makes the quality part of the atmosphere as if you peer into the past through some time window br br overall this program is better than most things on the air and a far better advertisement for japanese tv than pokemon but you may consider it of marginal value if you did not have the experience of seeing it back in the 60s my score of 8 10 takes its age into account
1	this short was in part four of the short cinema journal a film i rented from netflix but which appears to have originally been a monthly film series for people who like mediocre modern short films and love to have the dvd chock full of commercials i have so far tried two of the dvds and felt enraged at the horrible way that a viewer needs to navigate the disk in order to see the films talk about an over produced and overly complicated way of doing this while i have and will continue to see as many shorts as i can i really doubt if i'll bother with the journals because of these factors br br now it could be that because i disliked the disk so much that i was not favorably disposed towards this portuguese animated short this is definitely possible however even if this is the case i feel that the other reviews were way too positive about this simple little film some of the artwork was indeed nice i liked how the simple black and white drawings suddenly became 3 d environments as the camera went from a dull distant shot and dove into the city below this was lovely and took some work but as for the story about a cat who wants to go to the moon it just did nothing for me br br important update i saw this film again on a dvd entitled cartoon noir on 5 09 it was a pretty unappealing collection of art films however this time i saw the story of the cat and the moon with an entirely different audio track and boy did it make a difference instead of portuguese with subtitles it had a french accented narrator who spoke english in a film noir style while i usually hate dubbing this time it really made the film the narration of the portuguese version leaves a lot to be desired if you don't know the language or understand the subtleties unless you speak the language try looking for the other version provided you understand english
1	awww i love this the tale of the cat and the moon doesn't really need an synopsis as that's what it is the cat chasing the moon to a spanish poem it's the artistry that's interesting in fact there was this animated short called the fan and the flower that was an academy award winner last year 2005 yeah almost same thing which leads me to believe it might just be a rip off br br but this is a really good short with stark black white shapes shifting and transitioning into beautiful motion and poetic seduction if you believe cats are poetry in motion see this and you'll believe it more br br also it has such a touching end br br polarisdib
1	i caught this as part of the cartoon noir package at the clinton street theater in portland and it was simply brilliant the saving grace of what was an other wise forgettable to just plain bad grouping of films br br a perfect use of deep black and pure white with excellent yet simple animation this is simply a story of a cat chasing the moon funny charming and touching a small piece of heaven for cat lovers romantics and any one else who appreciates how beautiful simplicity can be if it's in your town see it this one short is worth the price of admission
1	i first saw this short when i bought a random dvd of short films a while ago this is the only short on the dvd i liked but i don't just like it i love it if you spend any amount of time with me you will see it it is beautiful simple and passionate no bells no whistles it could have been done with a but don't get me wrong the animation is elegant and insightful this person clearly spent plenty of time with cats but it is simply black and white and then there is writing and the music it is simply beautiful br br i eat chocolate drink wine and watch it over and over again br br nothing else matters i wait for pedro to come up with something else
1	my favourite movie of all time this was a flawed piece of work by coppola and seeing the documentary 'heart of made it even more compelling coppola at this point was king of hollywood after making 'the godfather' and and had developed the ego necessary to even dare try to make a movie like 'apocalypse now' through sheer arrogance he went to the phillipines with a partial script and thought he would know what he would do when he got there just as captain willard thought he would know what to do once he got to col compound and just like willard he didn't know what he was going to do once he got there this is such a masterpiece of american cinema beautifully photographed and the river is such a perfect metaphor and backdrop for the story what i like most about 'apocalypse now' is that it offers no answers or conclusions consequently because of this open it infuriates some viewers who like their movies to be much more obvious br br this movie defies some call it a war movie which it isn't at all really it is more of a personal study of man the best pic about vietnam is in my opinion and if a viewer is seeking a retelling of the vietnam war go there first for answers br br coppola should be commended for his take on the bureaucracy of war which he conveys quite effectively with the meeting with gen corman and lucas harrison ford and the playmate review the sheer audacity of makes him an unforgettable character and the dawn attack will always be a hollywood classic br br it is an almost psychedelic cruise to a very surreal ending which makes it a movie not accessible to everyone very challenging to watch but rewarding as well i could offer my explanations on each scene but that would be totally pointless this movie is intended for interpretation and contemplation as opposed to immediate gratification br br a little footnote definitely if your a first time viewer of apocalypse now watch the original version first the version is i think more intended for the hardcore fan and is more of a curiosity than a 'new and version of the movie
1	i just watched the dresser this evening having only seen it once before about a dozen years ago br br it's not a big movie and doesn't try to make a big splash but my god the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless albert finney and tom are nothing less than amazing in this movie br br the dresser is the story of sir an aging shakespearean actor finney and his dresser norman sort of a valet putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii these are two men each dependent upon the other sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole wheedle and bully him into getting onstage for his performance of lear and norman lives his life vicariously through sir without sir to need him he is nothing or thinks he is anyway br br this is a character driven film the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters and as such it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life finney only 47 years old is completely believable as a very old very sick petulant bullying but brilliant stage actor he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they're taking their bows and is no less convincing as the mincing dresser who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer employer is really the wrong term to use though for although technically their relationship is that of employer and employee most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple br br yes there are others in the cast of this movie but there is no question that the true stars are finney and the marvelous script by ronald harwood that is not to say that there aren't other fine performances most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires old regrets and what might have been br br although it doesn't get talked about these days it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards best actor nominations for both finney and best picture best director peter yates and best adapted screenplay br br i had remembered this as being a good movie but i wasn't prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about and be hugely entertained all the while then i encourage you to see the dresser
1	this short film and the poem which is behind it is one of the greatest metaphors i've ever seen br br the poem is beautiful it describes exactly the feeling of a person that chases a dream and can't realize it… but it also tells how to fulfil it i see the story of the cat and the moon as one beautiful metaphor to the human relationships passion and love br br technically it's done a good work too in spite of being very simple the animation in black and white gives a tone of allegory to the movie and to its message but also of tenderness and nostalgia br br in addiction the music also contributes to this poetic feeling br br nothing else matters i will wait she will come when she can or when she wants to
1	i guess i wasn't sure to what to expect from this film it had a good cast an interesting story line and a bunch of other things going for it but i still couldn't shake a feeling of dread that i had in my stomach about what it would be like i am glad to say that i was very pleased with the result and regret worrying about it all along the films opening scenes were extremely intriguing and were enough to sustain early interest in the film as the film progressed we were introduced to the characters of the film as well as what happened in the prison riots like most reviews for this film i have to admit that there is some cliches but it can't erase the overall power of this film that reads like a good novel the cast are all great particularly chestnut and and the film ranks as one of the better made for tv films of this year certainly worth watching if you are looking for a good courtroom drama
1	this film blew me away i thought i knew a little about the prison riot after watching this i see i knew nothing the story is told through the relationship between the attorney and the black inmate both the personal story of these two men and the unfolding courtroom drama were riveting the flashback sequences in the prison were awesome it's hard to believe it wasn't documentary footage it was so real it was not only a great piece of drama it was an incredible lesson in an important chapter in american history i'm with ebert and roeper i give it two thumbs up
1	the killing yard is a great film although uneven at times morris chestnut puts forth a phenomenal effort as a mentally wounded and jilted prison inmate and the presence of alan alda as his defense attorney is none other than genius the emotion and raw reality portrayed in this film's flashback scenes have the ability of putting viewers directly into the midst of the events being pictured i was not even born when the riot took place however through extensive research i find that the killing yard does the story all of it's fair i would definitely recommend this film for viewing by any educational or activist group as a much needed learning tool
1	usually alan alda plays characters that are too soft and overly verbal it's probably how he really lives this time he fits the character though he overacts when the verdict is being delivered br br the 1971 prison riot and the state of new york's response is remembered by many of us as a terrifying event only a few journalists have told the true story this film provides a quick look at the horrors and excesses associated with the riot revolt had a major impact on this country maybe the movie will stimulate someone to research the history br br i can't remember a feature movie made from the perspective of the prisoners though there is a great pbs piece with the actual survivors participants the perspective of the guards held hostage is explored in against the wall with kyle maclachlan samuel l jackson clarence williams iii and frederic forrest br br back in the day we shouted it was nice to hear it in the movie brought back memories br br the worst part of the movie are the natural wigs morris chestnut and the other african americans must wear it would have been easy for these people to grow a 'fro
1	i really like this show it has drama romance and comedy all rolled into one i am 28 and i am a married mother so i can identify both with and experiences in the show i have been watching mostly the repeats on the family channel lately so i am not up to date on what is going on now i think females would like this show more than males but i know some men out there would enjoy it i really like that is an hour long and not a half hour as th hour seems to fly by when i am watching it give it a chance if you have never seen the show i think and luke are my favorite characters on the show though mainly because of the way they are with one another how could you not see something was there or take that long to see it i guess i should say br br happy viewing
1	gilmore girls is a hilarious show with never ending sarcasm wit and charm at age 16 gilmore gave birth to rory gilmore she left her parents house and got a job now and rory have a relationship that many mothers and daughters envy they are best friends the girls have an extensive knowledge of movies and tv shows and are constantly quoting them in the first season needs money to send rory to chilton a very highly rated high school so she reluctantly has to turn to her parents they are happy to give them the money but in exchange rory has to come have dinner with them every friday night i highly recommend this show i love it
1	i'm not the type of person to watch t v shows because the acting normally sucks or it's unrealistic or too dramatic but this show is perfect everyone can act and you can relate to the characters and their situations everyone has their own personality and gilmore is the best for her sarcastic comments that can make any bad situation seem a little funny rory gilmore is a good role model for all girls she takes pride in wanting to attend harvard and boys boyfriends always come second in her book she's a loyal friend and always the peace maker there's subtle romance which is what i like personally not the mushy gushy romance that not many people get to have in their lives but a realistic type of romance every character eventually gets it and they don't find their prince charming at first glance and they don't just fall in love with every guy that comes their way it's a realistic show but when you watch it you better brush up on your movies pop culture and random facts because gilmore is always making references i fell in love with this show and if you give it a chance so will you
1	gilmore girls is one of the funniest most clever sharp witted sarcastic and heart warming television shows i've ever watched second only to my most favorite television show of all time f r i e n d s the quick pace and many pop culture references can leave some viewers confused but once you catch on to the ways of the you'll be hooked for life just some random comments i recently finally began watching season 6 and wow it's one of my favorite seasons so far i love the luke thing and all the drama in the various episodes is as always exhilarating the only thing i'm not so fond of is the surprising bad attitude and reckless actions rory has suddenly unfortunately i don't find this very realistic and hope it's not just a way to stir up some more drama to keep the season going strong all in all great season though and i can't wait for the next br br a k a
1	hands down the best drama comedy show on television a cleverly written show about a young mother and her 16 year old daughter exploring life and finding things out not only about the world but themselves too gilmore lauren graham struggles to find a way to remain in close bond with her daughter but steer her in the right path which through out the show is becoming harder and harder rory gilmore alexis caught in a world of books and learning is just beginning to discover boys and her own sense of rebelliousness which surprises them both with the help of luke danes scott patterson and sookie st james melissa mccarthy and an enormous variety of other hilarious characters this show easily remains one of my favorites what really puts the show over the top is the complex yet incredible and witty writing often using references from pop culture to the mink dynasty
1	touching bollywood epic melodrama about a 10 year old girl who finds out that she's adopted and is determined to find her birth mother the film's major success is the performance of p s who plays the girl the first half of the film is very good there are a few really good songs too especially the number that introduces the protagonist unfortunately the film's second half which takes place in war torn sri lanka feels like an entirely different and disappointing movie it's big on explosions and special effects with sri lankan soldiers and rebels dodging grenades running from fireballs and being yanked by stunt wires all the film can offer as insight are cheap platitudes like some day there must come peace and perhaps the children will find a way the final sequence where the daughter and mother are reunited is good but so over the top with the music and a well timed downpour that it feels like a cheat i know i know it's all in the style of bollywood but this is a story where big moments simply detract from the simple powerful central story bollywood could certainly use a little restraint at times too
1	this show is really great it's smart it's funny it's great acting and writing this show is really the fastest show i've ever seen the dialogues are really funny and well acted lauren graham and alexis have a great chemistry you really do believe they are mother and daughter this show really showed that mother daughter relationships really don't have to be just mother and daughter they can be best friends but on the same time it shows that it's really hard sometimes being more than just mother and daughter especially with and emily just watch this show i highly recommend it it's great and definitely the best show on the air season 7 stars tuesday september 26th 2006 8 on the new the cw
1	people need to give this show a chance the people who write bad reviews there are very few of them are clearly people who haven't seen many episodes one needs to really sit down and pay attention to this show to appreciate it all of the characters are realistic because they have so many flaws they make mistakes but they are realistic mistakes which is an uncommon thing to see on television today also for the most part the acting is superb lauren graham has been snubbed of an emmy for six years now someone needs to give this woman the credit she deserves same goes for kelly bishop who plays emily gilmore so perfectly also it's nice to see a show that can have a young girl at the center of it and not be filled with teen angst rory is a smart girl which is also not seen a lot on television today if only other shows could capture the wholeness of this show
1	i have watched this show from the beginning and i am a 45 year old man to me this is so much more that a show that appeals to women this is the story of a family possibly an unusual one but a family none the less it centers around a mother and daughter and rory gilmore two bright attractive and in their own ways successful women makes her home in fictional stars hollow ct a small new england town with a sense of history and a population of people that may be unusual but acts as a dysfunctional family the show also throws in the relationship between and her parents richard and emily gilmore old money dar wasp people who do not approve of choices in life though doesn't care the relationships story and through line are what makes this show in my opinion the finest on the wb network soon to be the cw watch this show
1	when the gilmore girls started in germany i did not want to watch them because for me it was just something which was not unique it was a series and i even did not know someone in it later on i realized that edward hermann is part of the cast of overboard a movie i absolutely adore i had to watch it once with a friend and never stopped since it's just fun you have the feeling that it is okay to have sex before being married and it's okay to be a coffee junkie and to eat unhealthy stuff all the time i do not do these things all the time but when i do these things i feel a little bit like a gilmore girl even my boyfriend started to watch them and that tells something from season to season it got better with the scripts and the stories they have a open mind and by being different from every other show you want to be like them
1	this is a really great series i love the show and i am so glad it isn't canceled yet it has really good humor and shows the realistic bond between a young mother and her daughter o yes for gilmore girls it is very awesome they are such a sarcastic humorous bunch they do everything together just like my mom and me ya for gilmore girls um i'm running out of lines but i love how luke and relationship is finally shaping up they so needed to be together and i absolutely just love sookie st james she is so awesome and the show wouldn't be anywhere without michel the whole show is dry humor sarcasm and life in a very small town where everyone knows each other especially the gilmore girls
1	wow i just have to say this show is super cool i fell in love with the show from the beginning the idea of the show is very original and very soothing it's also a pleasure to watch the performance the two lovely leading ladies give lauren graham and alexis they're simply wonderful i'm especially a big admirer of lauren graham she's not just a pretty face she's a monster of an actress as well i'm not saying that alexis isn't a wonderful actress as well i just happen to like lauren better anyway it's a real delight seeing them on screen sparing with words in the words of the immortal jim carrey b e a
1	honestly this show warms my heart i watch it everyday on fox family and now that the new season has started i'm even more hooked than before the characters are so well developed and their relationships are so real i would recommend this show for any woman or mother and daughter the are super fast talking witty girls that will truly inspire you and the show is hysterical at times and never too too serious but serious enough for it to be completely addicting it's an hour long which is a major plus because you can't ever get enough gilmore even in one hour emily and richard gilmore are kicks parents grandparents they're you're average rich parents emily president of the dar and richard a well known lawyer and yale alumni st rory is following in the footsteps of her grandparents and this could not make them any happier of course mother is so very proud of her but her whole life has worked on ultimately defying her parents and rory going to yale did not help her on that journey but believe me every episode she does get closer
1	the idea of young girl who gets pregnant at the age of 16 is nothing new to the drama genre but it is pretty new if you take a look at the comedy genre there is this basic plot of and rory mother and daughter comes from a wealthy background got pregnant with 16 and ran away from her parents' house at 17 but this series does not start there it starts when rory is 16 and everything is just about the problems of a single mother who has terrible problems with her parents and about all those problems you have when you are 16 br br okay now again this sounds pretty normal but there is this little thing called joke the gilmore girls talk incredibly fast and they make like 60 jokes a minute even if you don't understand all of the jokes since they contain hundreds of references to films music gossip history literature and politics sometimes you even get confused but that really is the fun and not only it is fast it's smart and wonderfully sarcastic in addition to that it is not only funny it has great drama parts in it and you can take some lessons from it even home which is a thing that does not go for every single tv series br br so watch it it'll lighten your mood and help you through hard decisions
1	this is definitely an excellent show i don't have cable so i started renting them because my friend recommended it i thought it would be a teen soap you know who's dating who that kind of thing but it was not it is surprisingly deep it is also very witty it moves at a very fast pace and there are more and more jokes you catch every time you watch it it is a comedy drama which is rare when well done it is about rory and relationship instead of the classic mother daughter relationship it is a story of the best friend relationship about a mother and daughter the characters are perfectly cast and all do a superb job it is definitely the best tv show i have very come across
1	i love this show it is amazing i can never miss an episode even if i've already seen it the actors are perfect for the parts i love gilmore girls i've gotten all my friends to watch it even their parents watch it now i watch it daily and i usually watch it more than once a day i wish my mom was like my friends say that i talk and act like and rory have a wonderful mother daughter relationship it is a great teen show because they actually kind of learn from watching it my vocabulary has widened from watching gilmore girls lauren graham and alexis bled el are perfect for the parts of and rory i think luke and should get married because chris has left and rory way too many times and has broken heart too many times too
1	recently had the pleasure of seeing this emotionally charged film by director mani at the 2002 toronto international film festival i have bestowed my highest honour of the film festival on this feature make sure that you do not let an opportunity to experience this cinematic gem pass you by but be this film will make you shed a tear if you belong to the species known as homo a 10
1	it's the best movie i have ever seen i just love them i watch it every day i have the episodes from the internet here in romania is being broadcast the 6 season i'm happy that i have seen the show from the beginning and i'm glad that through the internet i can see the 7 season until now season 5 is my favorite one d i love it because logan appears and the scene where they jump is my favorite i have liked dean too but logan is best i would like to remain with christopher because he is beautiful this show is good for all ages and is worth to be seen i really want the dvd's but i think that here in romania will never appear because i think that they don't even know that they have fans here but no matter what i'll be watching it bye
1	i didn't catch gilmore girls when it first came out so still doing some catch up on the first season i read through most of the users comments and for the negative ones i have to ask what show are you watching br br this show is a classic great lines characters and good acting and best of all not your standard formula show always with an occasional twist to the story there are probably more women who see themselves reflected in the emily relationship then in the rory relationship the people and storylines are not pc but they are real br br if you find the dialogue annoying i suggest you tape the show so you can rewatch the parts don't understand
1	obsessed i have every season of gilmore girls and i think the reason i love it so much is because of how smart the script is its not your average comedy show there isn't any pause after a joke it just keeps on if you missed you missed it and its not like a soap opera drama either because it doesn't use dramatic music and the actors never have those stupid cheesy surprise looks i think gilmore girls is one of the bests shows on t v shows of its time its fun because they talk so fast you can't get everything the first time its nice to go back and laugh at the other jokes also they have so many references its amazing how smart it is br br and you can relate to the characters also their so real and there actors are superb from the witty to the hermit luke to the immature kirk the show is just amazing i definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to have a good time and spend sometime with there family this is definitely the show for them there is only one word that can describe gilmore girls classic
1	every time i watch this show i just want to turn it off and curse the makers for wasting my time week after week the dialogs or monologues rather as everybody just rants on endlessly about nothing are just becoming so tedious for example the episode i watched yesterday began with a seemingly unending rambling about how a particular dish i forgot what it was pasta with meatballs perhaps always manages to turn the gilmore family dinner into all out war and these were just the few seconds or so br br so it seems every time lots of lines with absolutely zero content the scripts they use must be enormous br br but then every once in a while something happens the babbling stops and suddenly there are these wonderful silent emotional moments for example this week it was breakdown at the estate agent's i just thought it was the best piece of tv i have seen for a long while br br almost makes everything worthwhile
1	i have been hooked on gg since midway through 2001 2002 2nd season when i tuned in to see smallville 10 minutes early thanks to beginnings i now have all but 2 episodes on tape right up through last night ep 4 9 i am a middle aged straight male and this is the only weekly tv show i watch br br i love this series because a lauren graham is a damn fine looking woman and funny and smart to boot b the dialogue is extremely well written c it is flat out hilarious putting overrated garbage like everybody loves raymond to shame many current tv comedies have been heavily influenced by the highly successful and much despised slime pit known as married with children where the viewer is encouraged to deride and feel superior to the characters in gg the characters have faults but we can see our own foibles in them and laugh with them not at them this is stimulating tv where the writers challenge us to keep up with rapid fire exchanges and out of left field pop culture literature current events references i get immense pleasure out of watching these episodes over and over again catching all the one liners and references to previous episodes stars hollow is its own little world one that i will happily continue to visit as long as the series runs
1	i absolutely fell in love with this girls let me tell you something i am from romania and here is only the sixth series running every other day that is on usa tv i check the internet and download it from there so i am in line with the rest of the world i can not believe how deep i am in this show i become to know absolutely everything about them i looked on the internet what's car what are their middle names and stuff like that rory is also leigh and is victoria i can not understand why but my boyfriend does not like them and i try and try to make him see how wonderful they are but without success but he does understand me and lets me be with my with the gilmore girls i adore them i really hope that if someone see's this will give them a try you won't regret it
1	this show is my absolute favorite this show is intelligent entertaining and always full of surprises lauren graham is perfect as gilmore a single mother who is best friend alexis shines as the beautiful and intelligent rory gilmore and keiko is one of a kind as best friend lane kim i love the witty dialog it's what makes it unique about the show kelly bishop is wicked great as emily gilmore and edward is terrific as richard gilmore scott patterson is a joy as luke danes and the band members are one of a kind to watch the community miss patty babette mrs kim taylor kirk and other's are always laugh out loud funny quirky and interesting that always makes the snappy one liners stand out this show has changed so much over the years that it won't ever get old gilmore girls is an original and clever show that keeps you watching that is how good it is i give this show a 10 10 rating
1	gilmore girls is my favorite tv show of all times they only aired the first 2 seasons in india but i've watched the rest on dvd or read it online it's very refreshing to find a show where the protagonist isn't sneaking around her mother's back but has an open relationship with her the chemistry between lauren graham and alexis who play and her daughter rory is really great all the acting is excellent and the characters though extremely quirky are still believable the residents of stars hollow show all the amusing bizarreness of small town life which is contrasted by the endless snobbishness and social norms that make up the high society life of parents on one hand there are dance and firelight festival's while on the hand you have dar meetings and cocktail parties all the character's develop a lot and there's a happy ending for more or less everybody there are dramatic elements but also a lot of very witty humor boyfriends are all incredibly hot as are her friend lane's basically it's a cool funny very satisfying show which encompasses all the aspects of life and gives you a feeling of if you work hard enough and wait patiently you'll get what you want even if it wasn't what you intended
1	the gilmore girls is about a mother who had a daughter when she was 16 now the daughter is 16 in season 1 and they live like sisters sharing everything trusting each other completely br br i like the gilmore girls but i am not sure why the mother named lauren graham and the daughter named rory short for played by alexis are both very beautiful women they are both funny and they are charming in their own ways there are some funny supporting characters such as luke scott patterson he and like each may be even love each other but neither of them really acts on it they have their little moments there are some other supporting characters most of them very funny and with their won touching moments br br what i like the most i think is to see the relationship between the young mother and the daughter who is becoming an adult the dialogue between them is quick sharp funny and sometimes touching as well the band they have is beautiful the gilmore girls makes you feel good so try it
1	is an interesting film i personally love the dogma movement i wish it had lasted longer it seems to have already died many critics tried their to shut it down i don't know why it's the most interesting movement to happen in the cinematic world since the french new wave besides i've seen the first three in the series idioterne and mifune they were all great being a masterpiece in my opinion isn't up to those others i was just fascinated with the filmmaking it's played as if it were a real documentary with a real person who was so obsessed with his camera that he refused to put it down at a few points in the film it becomes clear that it is a work of complete fiction but that illusion was protracted for an amazing amount of time i wish that the filmmakers would have come up with something a bit more interesting to put onscreen it is basically about this guy fabian who is an argentinian visiting the islands were only in the last couple of months allowed onto the islands and fabian plans to impregnate the women with argentinian children he sets his eyes on one and most of the movie is spent on her seduction the two actors are very natural camilla only kind of hints that she is an actress fabian seems completely real the politics of the film are somewhat confusing to me since i have only an inkling of the situation surrounding the island and its recent history i was 3 i think when the were invaded the final bit of the film doesn't work at all i don't get what the filmmakers were going for there still is an interesting dogma experiment it does break some dogma rules though notably the no extra diagetic music rule there is a lot of that 7 10
1	last night i saw a peck on the cheek with english subtitles oddly it was 137 minutes long slightly longer than the time listed on imdb br br at first i found myself losing interest in this film because the rather confusing style of filming really lost me the context for what was occurring was missing and i am glad i stuck with it at the beginning a young couple is married and shortly after the wedding war breaks out in their native sri lanka and the lovers are separated months later the wife is very pregnant and on board a refugee vessel heading to india at a refugee center you see the lady about to give birth after which the titles to the film finally are revealed br br the entire focus of the film then changes completely to a young girl who is about to turn 9 in madras india you see her in her home and she talks to the camera about her life and family none of this seems that interesting or important and you wonder what is missing what about the lady who was about to give birth my wife and i debated this and we finally guessed that this little girl was actually the child of the lady in the first part of the film somehow or another she had been adopted and was talking about her life with mom and dad 2 though she did not realize these people were not her biological parents br br soon after this the parents revealed themselves to be total idiots one of the complaints i had about the film as they decided to tell this very young girl the truth about her parentage and tell it in a way that left the girl emotionally screwed up and confused despite a stupid decision and telling her in the worst way the parents made up for this by agreeing to help her find her biological mother seeing the impact all this had on the girl and parents particularly the adoptive mother was impressive to watch and sure sparked my interest br br unfortunately sri lanka has been involved in a very very long and brutal civil war with militants off and on for three decades the family's decision to look for the mom back in sri lanka was indeed noble but also a bit stupid at times as they took so many risks and nearly got killed again and again by just blindly jumping into the middle of a war this was all exciting and captivating but also left me wondering about the sanity of the adoptive parents first you tell her she isn't your biological child and now you take her in the middle of a war zone sure the kid really wanted to meet her biological mother but this really was stupid in hind sight if it were me i might have been tempted to pay an unemployed actress to play the part and fool the kid thus avoiding being in the middle of a war br br despite my complaints the film was lovely to watch and was very rewarding far from perfect it sure hits an emotional home run also while i expected this because i have seen several indian films many westerners will be a bit surprised by the vivid songs that seem to come out of no where this is standard in most films from india including those made in bollywood bombay and madras
1	text taken from 2001 melbourne international film fest guide br br the title is a pun based on the film's lead actor fabian deliberate mispronunciation of falkland a reference to the film's setting and a rather less than subtle allusion to the secret agenda of its protagonist br br fabian is an argentine national an amateur magician passing himself off as a tourist visiting the falklands soon after it is reopened to its people his master plan is to win the ultimate struggle by seducing and impregnating the local females commencing with the delicious camilla thus an entire generation of half creates the illusion of a documentary and maintains a fish eyed perspective that gives the film a voyeuristic flair and intimacy argentina
1	this is a truly great film with excellent direction the core plot element the painting of ass is captivating i really can't express in words just how much i enjoyed watching mila getting her ass painted repeatedly br br connor
1	a film is beyond all expectations an excellent insight into the human condition what exactly drives mila to have her ass painted what could push a human so far that there only way to escape is to have there rear passage repeatedly painted by strangers br br this film is not afraid to stair in the face of the ass painting issue simply breathtaking roll on the sequel or whatever comes next from the geniuses who made this
1	i have read all of jane austen's novels right the way through once a year every year since i was 9 years old and received the modern library edition of her collected works as a birthday present br br i loved this movie for its romance and for the music which stayed hauntingly in my head it was an interpretation of course not an emma or a sense and sensibility but something quite different and something catherine herself would have loved and oh to be loved by this passionate henry this was the henry of catherine's imagination and she is the romantic heroine she read about in her novels and which was promised to us by the practical jane austen who tells us right at the beginning that the unlikely catherine will indeed be one i wonder if jane was being entirely satirical in her novel perhaps she too could imagine such a henry br br i haven't seen the film in many years at least a decade but i have been yearning for it ever since
1	i think this film version of northanger abbey is actually quite good it certainly is amusing well it's not a masterpiece as pride and prejudice '95 but there's very good stuff in it especially the city of bath setting the royal crescent the roman baths the fascinating georgian atmosphere that is excellent if you are a bath fan like myself you'll love watching this film the performances may sound a bit too melodramatic but i've got the impression that this film like the novel itself is deliberately making fun of the popular tales of romance and terror and of the society of the period the only drawback is probably the female lead as i personally have another idea of catherine physical appearance the music is also a bit unusual but i strangely find it acceptable despite it's got nothing to do with the historical period portrayed i'm wondering what would dear old jane think
1	don't watch this movie expecting the jane austen wit crisp dialog or clever social commentary this time around the premise of northanger abbey has been updated in a very sensual way br br in this version catherine's erotic daydreams are not just silly fantasies but a connection to the world of adult sexuality she is just peeking into with her daylight adventures by day she is very prim and demure and her swain henry treats her with the utmost courtesy but as her own sexual nature awakens her daydreams shift every so subtly from mild to steamy to lurid br br at the beginning of the story catherine's visions of sex are based entirely on the gothic novels she devours in bed it is both heartwarming sexy and provocative to observe the way her dreamy picture of handsome henry dissolves into a lurid dream of being carried off and ravished by romantic villains at the same time it is wry and touching to cut back to her bed in the morning catherine sleeping peacefully looks so innocent one would never guess what really goes on in that pretty little head br br later after being invited to henry's castle catherine overhears a family argument and totally misunderstands its meaning jumping into bed she covers herself up with the bedsheets and lies awake listening fearfully her striking blue eyes the only visible sign that she is alert little by little however those pretty blue eyes and close as she drifts into another heated dream of innocent desire this time catherine dreams she is in elizabethan times waiting fearfully outside the castle for the approach of the it's pretty clear she is more excited than terrified by the idea of being carried off by bandits she all but shudders with excitement and anticipation but then after a shot of her running frantically to escape we are back to the daylight world where the maid is scolding her for having made a mess of her room before falling into a sound sleep it's worth noting that catherine's heavy eyed yawning in the morning light is itself a rather sensual symbol of how passionate her dreams have been br br ultimately of course catherine's stern and unimaginative lover henry the nature of her fantasies and gives her a stern lecture it's interesting that catherine's immediate collapse into tears symbolizes not a retreat but an advance into adult relationships in the next scene she tearfully burns her gothic romance and throws herself and sobbing onto the bed significantly this turning point is also marked by catherine falling into a deep sleep except that this time there are no dreams of make believe passion presumably catherine has matured enough to be ready for the real thing br br though katherine schlesinger has lovely blue eyes and a lively expression and all her performance is charming it must be said that outside of the heated dream sequences this movie adaptation is excruciatingly dull i'm giving it 9 stars only because the truly romantic may enjoy it purely on a daydream level br br if you'd like to read a book about a genuinely strong willed young heroine who overcomes real darkness and danger in a real gothic setting i highly recommend the perilous gard by elizabeth marie pope
1	vhs i have watched this over and over and loved every minute of it so much so i have now ordered the dvd i only wished the film could have lasted longer i never worry about what other people think i prefer to make my own mind up and entirely disagree with the negative comments and will not let others spoil my enjoyment of the film whatsoever make up your own mind and don't let others put you off i have all jane austen's bbc series but this is my favourite i see there is to be a new northanger abbey released in 2007 which i will buy when it comes out but it will not stop me watching northanger abbey released in the 80's
1	i've just watched this again on the bbc channel 4 it's not jane austen's best novel by any means but the film is a reasonable interpretation i suspect the assembly rooms at bath would have been rather more crowded than shown perhaps they couldn't afford the extras also why does everyone shut up so that the dancing couple can have an audible conversation i've never heard anything anyone has ever said to me when i've been dancing and i suspect it would have been the same in the 18 19th century in bath br br i cannot believe the us canada reviews they completely miss the ironic element that is in the film throughout the gothic scenes are quite cleverly presented but you need to read them properly i'm sure jane a would be mildly amused by those reviews a of nothing does anyone else think that peter firth gets to look more like colin baker a former doctor who or vice versa the older they both get
1	i just checked out northanger abbey from the local library and wasn't expecting much imagine my suprise at this gothic treat northanger abbey is one of the most eerie places that you have ever seen with empty passageways and ornate rooms full of hidden secrets the glory of the movie is that it never reveals all your imagination runs free running with the imagination of the main character one m she is a girl of wild imaginations a reader of gothic fantasy that she brings into her and our real world br br if i were to use one word to describe this excellent movie it would be surrealistic dreams are woven throughout the movie enhancing the mood sometimes it is hard to tell what is real and what is not this is intentional i believe br br atmosphere reigns supreme the music is not what you'd expect of a movie by jane austen it is eerie flute and drum based high and haunting with an undercurrent of fear if a soft pleasant tune were playing in northanger abbey it would be positively inviting now it is foreboding a grim and stark walled palace of madmen but the characters you shall have to see them for yourself br br if you are looking for a most enjoyable evening look no further than northanger abbey
1	i can't comment on the accuracy of this production historical or literary but i can say that i enjoyed it if there is a god the sound track will be released ilona work is truly enduring twenty years on i am still moved by the haunting themes of this production and return to it frequently br br the story surrounds the entry into society of catherine moreland somewhat awkward and possessed of an unhealthy interest in gothic stories early pulp fiction catherine descends on bath in the company of mrs allen where she meets henry she is invited to visit the at northanger abbey the seat of the formidable and somewhat financially challenged general who has the unfortunate misconception that there is wealth afoot br br where mutual attraction mixes with family finance dispute is inevitable this coupled with catherines vivid imagination leads her to fear for her safety her eventual departure is marred by accusations and counter accusations of deception and connivance br br but the attraction between catherine and henry stands these trials he returns to provide a happy ending this final scene is especially compelling given the incidental music of ilona br br it may well be a bad production from the purists viewpoint gaudy costumes and shaky performances not withstanding but for me it's 88 minutes of bliss
1	it pays to watch reader's digest or time if it was the original source of the article that served as a supposed inspiration to mani to make this masterpiece based on a true story of an adopted girl who goes in search of her biological parents mr paints a classic that rivets as much as it rebukes cherishes as much as it and preaches as much as it practises br br where does one start the foreboding gloom that precedes fresh strife in northern sri lanka the chaotic household of a family headed by a firebrand engineer author and 3 adorably naughty children or that murky region where reality crosses the point of providing a comfortable existence and becomes a monster of incredulous and sinister events and ideologies whichever way one looks at it this film is worth being in your collection if you happen to like mani compelling dramas br br mr is a past master in blending fictional tales within real life incidents and in this film he oozes class in adapting two real life stories into one i will not go into the story as it is better seen than read but what i will dwell upon is the impact it had upon me and why for all the war mongering that happens in this world it cannot destroy that simple yet inexhaustible force called hope br br innocence in its purity cannot fathom the complex desires of adult decadence and greed nor does it recognize perils when it is accompanied by the fierce determination to seek what it wants it is an innocence of such nature that drives to seek her biological parents despite warnings that they could be lost in the cauldron of civil war having survived a terrorizing experience of conversing with a physically challenged man only to realize that he is a more lethal entity in disguise sticks to her cause in a manner that tears down her well resistance and finally when the twain do meet mother and daughter the reunion is so taut with emotion that even the temperamental adoptive father is reduced to tears aided by a background score from a r rahman the scene that follows is poignant to melt even the of hearts a list of questions that has to ask her biological mother in a culmination as dramatic as the sequence of incidents leading to it a child discovers its mother alive in body but lost in spirit with the crushing realization that she has no hope of staying with the one who bore her does to her adoptive mother what this film's title means a peck on the cheek br br as for the cast the trail is clearly blazed by the brilliant ps mr has a gift of extracting spectacular performances from little known child artistes but this should take nothing away from for an award winning performance with an able supporting cast of indira and the stupendous nandita das she embellishes the scenes in almost every frame she is in the music may be not as memorable as other rahman offerings but that still didn't stop him from garnering another national award for the best music direction is as much an ode for the need to cherish human life as it is for nature the dialogues are top class sample the touching exchange and indira have on the swing shortly after the revelation that she is not biological daughter and the cinematography superb br br this film is a clear statement to drop arms as much as it is to respect human life and expressions do not judge it as a lesson in film making you will only lose out on experiencing one of the very best from the mani a r rahman stable
1	i got this movie with my bbc jane austen collection 5 dvds of old bbc adaptations and didn't like it at first it's completely different from the others and it lacks or so i thought one of the qualities that i enjoy in all other austen movies cheerful common sense the nightmare scene in which mrs richards apparently sews her fingers together was especially upsetting br br i still don't like to watch the finger sewing scene but i do love hearing mrs r saying dreamily while she sews my only acquaintance tore my gown this movie is now my current austen favorite i've watched it 7 or 8 times so far the acting to my mind is incredible the way i notice good acting is when i find myself looking up from whatever i'm doing sewing though not my fingers together hopefully or or whatever in order to watch the character deliver his lines it's the turn of expression the cast of posture that make the words come alive that's what makes good acting as far as i'm concerned br br well i watch almost every part of northanger abbey because almost all the actors play their roles with such charisma peter firth is amazing as mr the perfect blend of fop and real masculine hero you're not sure until the end whether he's after catherine's money or not i love his touch of welsh accent mr and mrs richards are charming the combination of their behaviors especially mr richards' high voice lending counterpoint to his wit and wisdom makes them so real general as the hard hearted father who may possibly be a murderer is fascinating too and captain the grinning rake who is so clearly enjoying himself and the sister and brother whose names i can't currently remember the two of them are so perfectly at once smart and smarmy br br the other reason i love this adaptation is that it is the most romantic of all the jane austen adaptations i know this was one of austen's weak points well it is as far as i am concerned even though all her novels are love stories it's hard to feel that her heroes and heroines are really in love at the end and if they're aren't really in love then what's the point all the other adaptations i've seen other than the early olivier garson one have pretty cold fish kisses at the end if they kiss at all i don't at all like sex in movies but it really is necessary to have a heartfelt kiss in the end and the ending kiss in northanger is a doozy br br the over the top approach to costumes music and lighting work very well as far as i'm concerned and the script is extremely clever the way we are educated about gothic romance in bath cathy's normal country upbringing etc is very well done as they usually are in bbc productions also i like the part when the little black page does the cartwheels and the i think was an entirely appropriate and very clever expository device br br some people have objected that this version is the opposite of what jane austen intended to do in northanger abbey she meant to make fun of gothic romance not promote it but i don't think she meant to put mysteries of etc down she was just making the point that you need to distinguish between reality and fiction and this point is made when mr chides catherine in his mother's room besides general was a villain albeit a prosaic one that point was meant to be made surely
1	although it strays away from the book a little you can't help but love the atmospheric music and settings br br the scenes in bath are just how they should be although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene but that aside i like the scene where they are in the hot baths but did the men and women really bathe together like that you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on but perhaps this was the style at the time the ballroom scenes were very nice the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful i especially liked catherine's dress in the first ballroom scene br br northanger abbey looked suitably imposing but i enjoyed the bath scenes better br br schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel br br ugh peter firth as mr he just talks a load of rubbish and is not a clergyman as he should be it's hard to think of him being in love with catherine but then the book never really gave that impression either br br general is played reasonably well by hardy and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor as for john well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man perhaps not the character portrayed in the book but i quite like it br br i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me the i hate her she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her page boy br br some of the script is peculiar when catherine is asking elinor about her mothers death she asks i suppose you saw the body how did it appear what a silly thing to say calm response is stupid too br br anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me
1	i'm a fan of independent film dialogue driven character study pieces are where it's at for me some of the other posts are right wannabes isn't going to rival the godfather for best mob film ever on the other hand wannabes is a well written and well directed picture that has surprisingly good performances from every actor actress my problem with one of the other reviews br br conor stands out as the only irishman in a cast of italians br br is a jewish last name and as such has a dark not a traditional one of an irishman he doesn't stand out at all rather delivers a great performance br br this didn't win many awards but it is deserving of a saturday night with a bowl of popcorn i found it for 7 bucks at blockbuster and was pleasantly surprised to say the least highly recommended
1	heath ledgers acting in this film really bugs me but overall its a great watch bryan brown is excellent when i dont normally like him but then his whole gang are a great piece of work jimmy is a hapless wannabe gangster who cant seem to do a thing right spoilers loses money car and nearly bumbles a bank robbery but still comes out on top br br didnt know what the two kids were in it for at the start but they ties some storylines together nicely br br all in all a damn fine piece of australian cinema 9 10
1	the movie is made in a style that resembles lock stock and two smoking barrels with lot's of subplots fancy camerawork cool music and that great tongue in cheek aussie type of humor you'll find nowhere else how this movie has escaped the european and american audience is a mystery
1	a gritty australian film with all the elements for success two hands represents the ability of australian film makers and actors to produce top quality popular material the film has a fresh angle and uniquely incorporates drama suspense and comedy br br i found this film thoroughly enjoyable on so many different levels but can also appreciate that it might not be everyone's of the film carries a distinct aussie humour as it portrays the seedy underworld of sydney and explores the lives of a young man ledger and young woman byrne swept up in the local crime scene br br two hands deals with the theme of good and evil both on an interpersonal and personal level and looks at the issue of consequences for actions br br the camera work is snazzy and the dialogue humorous with bryan brown who plays and heath ledger as jimmy battling it out on screen in the most bizarre situations this aussie film is certainly not short of acting talent br br this subtle action comedy has become somewhat of a cult favourite and one of mine also
1	this movie gives you more of an how australians act even though the castle is a great australian movie it's a bit out there this movie is by far the best aussie flick i have seen haven't seen dirty deeds yet and probably would be my favourite movie the point is if you haven't seen it go see it if a crime action comedy is your thing
1	before i start my review here is a quick lesson in australian slang which may help you with viewing the movie and understanding some of the other reviews from australia and overseas br br in australian slang thongs are a pair of rubber sandals not to be confused with the same american word that pertains to butt revealing underwear are a brand of australian short a stubby is a small can sized bottle of beer and a stubby holder is a foam for a small bottle of beer br br if you love black comedies about smalltime criminals then you will love this movie a lot of people on imdb with weak stomachs and no appreciation of dark humour have reviewed this movie which unfortunately makes this movie appear to be more mediocre than what it is a lot of reviewers have also compared it to lock stock and pulp fiction while it is the same genre it is a completely different and original style br br a lot of reviewers have also panned this movie for using heath ledger's characters dead brother to open and guide the narrative for this movie without watching the movie closely enough to realise that his brother was killed by the same villain that wishes to kill character this is explained midway through the movie but not clearly enough for most to understand br br this movie is also reminiscent of lock stock and reservoir dogs in that it is the director writers debut feature and for a debut feature it rates as well as these two movies as a matter of fact like lock stock and reservoir dogs i rate this movie as a 10 10 for a director writers debut unfortunately unlike tarantino and ritchie jordan fails to live up to expectations in his subsequent movies like ned kelly br br this movie is one that you should definitely add to your dvd collection and is one that holds up to several viewings quite easily
1	a good story well acted with unexpected character twists eg vicious murderous gangster bryan brown teaching his son although it succeeds as an action drama where you hope the good guy ledger and his succeed it also has some hilarious ironic black humour eg the bank robbers who become radio competition winners and their reaction the revenge etc well worth watching
1	two hands restored my faith in aussie films it took an old premise and made it fresh i enjoyed this movie to no end i recommend it to those people who like guy ritchie films bryan brown was fantastic and just about perfect in a role tailor made for him ledger was dumb and his performance anchored a very satisfying movie for me
1	mani sir as usual brings out another amazing story with such an amazing relationship between parents and child is brought out in a beautiful fashion mani sir as usual without much special effects and not much outdoor shoots in fact this was the only movie where he went outside india ever that too just to sri lanka mani's class is written all over the movie and to add to it music which is just amazing is one of my most fav songs ever maddy who is what he is in the film industry has impressed a lot too starting from to to to guru mani has showed to the world what a versatile actor maddy is has been really good too she has showed that she can act too in non glamorous and character roles in all an amazing movie sad that the tamil public could not appreciate this gr8 movie and it bombed at the box office
1	i saw two hands back in sydney a few years ago and it instantly became one of my all time favourite films it's got action adventure comedy and romance all rolled up into one and a bit of zen thrown in for good measure like much australian film the plot is easy to follow yet wonderfully engaging and jordan should justly feel proud of his work br br anyway it was on tv just now on channel 4 in london and my two favourite comedy scenes of not just this movie but indeed any movie had been cut out so if you watch this movie make sure it's the original version
1	i'm afraid i must disagree with mr radcliffe as although he is correct in saying this isn't a comedy it has many other merits the plot is a little mad at parts but i believe it it all fits together nicely creating a satisfying enjoyable film the last scene was rather abysmal compared to the rest of the film but the actual ending of the plot a few scenes previously is very interesting showing just what someone will do under stressful circumstances br br i would recommend this film to fans of thrillers and action movies but if you're a fan of gangster movies then as long as you don't expect expect something as deep as goodfellas then you should still find it enjoyable
1	brilliant film i am sorry to say that it resembles to me a bit like pulp f but thats how it is with post pulp era many pictures get automatically likened to it for only being a gangster flick but this one is well written funny coincidences ordinary gangsters who are family men resemble something from tarantino which is a good similarity br br anyway the film's about a guy bloke in australia which is getting mixed up with a hard core crime gang and ends up in a debt and deep s it to his assistance is his deceased brother anyone remember val kilmer in true r to pay of his debt and escape from the gangsters who are on his trail the gangsters are cold blooded but take the time to play chess and focus on the upbringing of their children they also get served tea from their granny while planning a bank robbery and have trouble what to do with their kids during the robbery so a humorous gangster flick with heath ledger in good form though i'm not a fan and bryan brown in great action as a gang leader
1	two hands is a highly enjoyable aussie crime caper which ultimately succeeds by the way the film easily combines tense dramatic moments with very funny characters and situations to give the film the right balance and feel the comedy of the film occurs naturally and the laughs haven't been set up too elaborately haven't been too worked at it really is very funny thanks to the fact that each character in the movie is excellently cast and that each actor actress recognises and can relate to the aussie humor they portray it very well and very realistically of course they're helped out immensely by a fantastic script by writer director gregor jordan i was reading another review of this film by an american who had seen it and he heavily criticised it basically passing it off as a pulp fiction clone i think that that's just rubbish this film isn't trying to be pulp fiction the feel and style of each of this excellent films are totally opposite without wanting to sound superior or arrogant i think to fully understand this film the humor the sincerity the characters etc you have to be australian or at least understand the culture which the other guy obviously didn't have the faintest clue about some americans whose reviews of certain non american films seem ignorant to and have trouble comprehending anything that isn't an american product it's a real shame because this is a really great film the love story featured between the main character and the girl is also portrayed in a very real sincere and sweet way i'm very proud to have this film in my collection 4 5 out of 5
1	having seen and loved this film in australia i was very keen to get me paws on a copy i got one on dvd back in the uk only to find that it's a very different edit br br the domestic edit i saw is the uk and i presume european edits spends a lot longer on the narrator played by jimmy's dead brother and in truth that and few other points to no real benefit br br it is not a serious criticism but the oz edit is just and i think more assured br br i can't say why they felt it needed expansion for the overseas market br br so careful about which one you go for br br i went for both
1	mild spoilers br br and that's 'top ten of all time ' i stumbled across 'two by accident maybe that made it all the more special no inflated expectations on ifc one night and couldn't believe that i hadn't heard anything about it now that heath ledger is getting more famous in the usa i'm sure it's more available at the time i was telling friends about the film and no one could find it anywhere except the occasional ifc showing br br anyway in the black comedy gangster genre it fits in well with my other favorites and everybody in the film really seems to end up with what they deserve bryan brown is hilarious as the main gangster who makes origami with his small son and plays scrabble with his henchmen also hilarious is the quick edit fate of a random car thief even heath was pretty good in it at the time i vaguely remembered him from a short lived series on fox called ' hopefully gregor jordan will make another hit but as far as i'm concerned this is his best yet
1	so i turned on the tv today at 1 00 pm on a sunday expecting to see crap and infomercials and this great movie was just starting didn't know what it was but drew me in almost immediately the movie was excellent br br there were a couple of things that didn't make sense for one i don't get why the dead guy was talking about doing stuff to get yourself out of your bad situation but then jimmy doesn't really do anything except the basic stuff to survive that anyone would do in his situation in other words it wasn't his initiative that got him out of his bad situation it was just luck second i don't get the thing about the girl killing the the gangsters at the end because the whole thing was partly by the thief people stealing money and then the other thief kills panda at the end so they steal his money twice and kill him how is that good
1	this deceptively laid back low key casually paced aussie crime thriller unravels with a casual ease and relaxed self confidence that's a delight to behold eager beaver working class kid jimmy an appealingly feckless heath ledger yearns to make something out of his unrewarding ordinary life jimmy gets his big break when local crime kingpin an outstanding bryan brown assigns him an easy courier gig which entails delivering 10 grand to an old lady jimmy finds himself knee deep in serious trouble when he loses money writer director gregor jordan's engagingly simple tale of how things aren't always what they're cracked up to be young love all actions having consequences and that hoary old chestnut about how crime doesn't pay works like a charm thanks to a wonderful wealth of well observed minor quirky details a strong subtext concerning man's duel capacity for both good and evil a nice sense of unforced irony the chillingly matter of fact way the violence is presented and the marvelous grounding of the assorted drawn low life characters in an instantly recognizable and totally believable banal day to day reality e g panda is shown playing scrabble with a flunky and at one point interrupts a business conversation with a fellow hood to talk with his son over the phone judging from his finely shaded and two fisted portrayal of the cunning not to be trifled with bryan brown undoubtedly qualifies as one of the finest actors to ever grace celluloid a sturdy and satisfying little sleeper
1	two hands is a hilarious australian gangster movie set in really sultry sydney i bet tourists never sydney and bondi to look like it did in this film all sweaty bodies oppressive nighttime and gangsters in shorts and heath ledger plays an amateur boxer with an eye on becoming part of the local king's cross boss's gang he looked rather magnificent in his green wife beater and blue patterned smuggler a sweaty tattooed bod does become him i always had him down as a home away boy and he has been in that soap which is a little sweatier than the insipid neighbours the film is really worth watching for its combination of sardonic humour and nasty violence the drowning scene is expected to give me nightmares soon totty awards country girl love interest city brother and tattooed
1	i had never heard of this movie but i like heath ledger and bryan brown and the story sounded interesting so i figured i'd give it a shot i found it to be very enjoyable heath ledger plays a 19 year old who works a kind of crappy job and wants to start making some serious dough so he goes and asks for work from mobster bryan brown i won't go into details but things go very bad for ledger and gets into big trouble with bryan brown from their on the movie just gets better and better with one scene involving ledger hooking up with a pair of bank robbers and lets not forget the beautiful rose byrne who plays ledger's love interest i would definitely recommend this movie
1	this film is absolute gold if you haven't seen it do mani outdoes himself once again this film introduced me to nandita das as well though everyone shines in this movie my only regret is i've never found a copy with subtitles to the lyrics of the songs we are led from the jungle of northern sri lanka to the serene beaches of southern india as well as from the terror of war to the ultimate conquest by love of the human heart beautiful subtle witty with a few hidden surprises waiting for the viewer this movie stands up to being seen again and again and the story within the story the umbrella is done so well as we watch the scene unfold from drawings in a book lovely watch it
1	many years ago i saw this movie on television maybe and loved it so i decided to rent it on dvd the other day to see whether it still held up in my estimation it did br br set in notorious king's cross district where prostitution drug abuse and sex stores thrive it tells the story of jimmy played by heath ledger jimmy is a young man maybe late teens or thereabouts who hasn't had a stable family background he is on the fringes of society and works as a for a sex club encouraging people to enter the store he is aware of an underworld figure called who is a local bigwig in the cross it's jimmy's hope that he will find himself on radar and get 'in' with him a short cut to upward social mobility he hopes br br one night jimmy meets the beautiful young woman alex played by the charming rose byrne you just know that a love story will play out between them on that night as well jimmy is first contacted by played by bryan brown has a for jimmy it's the in the door' that jimmy has been waiting for br br to reveal too much more would spoil the many surprises that this movie has in store for the viewer stylistically if you like quentin tarantino or guy ritchie movies you should be in tune with what to expect twists and turns and black comedy br br what's so great about this movie is its very it's no mere knock off of tarantino or ritchie but a genuine australian contribution to the genre br br a fascinating aspect to this movie is how it all hangs together sometimes you are introduced to characters who you wonder what the hell they're doing there in the end all these ends' tie together beautifully it's sort of like a celluloid strip br br a highlight of the movie is bryan brown's character of likes puzzles and it's fun to see him play games with his cronies it's the little details revealed about him which are so enjoyable his taste in music for starters br br of the heath ledger movies i have seen the dark knight 10 things i hate about you this is perhaps his best role wasn't taken with 10 things if you are a heath ledger fan ledger recently died a tragic accidental death this is a chance to see him in his greatest australian role i think there is great chemistry between ledger and byrne in this movie so on one level it functions as nice love story br br this movie doesn't have some of the horror of tarantino and ritchie underworld movies but it does have some adult themes scenes that surprise you with their coldness and beauty in that sense it's not an ideal movie for very young viewers but it's not a movie that gore hounds will get excited about either br br lastly i have to say that it is great that australia can make great movies like this usually the kind of movies my home country makes can be this movie has strengths where many australian movies have weaknesses i e it has a great story great acting and a great script we need more popular quality movies like this to be made here in australia br br highly recommended other australian movies i have loved include br br breaker morant 10 10 mad max 2 10 10 my brilliant career not reviewed here by me yet proof nr the devil's playground nr the year my voice broke nr bad boy bubby nr a great dark comedy the dish nr a great charming comedy
1	two hands is an entertaining funny story about australian lowlifes the screenplay contrasts the world of fast money and deadly acts with the of fate and circumstance in a subtle way we are asked to ponder the concept that major events in our lives are sometimes generated without our being fully aware of the root causes the forces of fate and circumstance take jimmy the main character into situations that bring about the realization of his shallow dreams and ultimately an understanding of a more personally promising world br br the clueless jimmy portrayed with acumen by heath ledger is a kid who grew up without opportunity the high paying world of crime offers the greatest appeal to his blunted senses the love and help of friends guides him to a higher plateau br br the film is well directed and well acted the band of criminals teeter between likable and despicable keeping us interested in their crazy antics all through the film
1	this aussie flick filmed in 1999 does an ok job of portraying a bunch of small time crooks in kings cross sydney the plot focuses on the plight of a young would be who's life is in danger after botching a job for his future boss very well acted by heath ledger and bryan brown the plot is fairly believable with some very humorous moments in one scene which revolves around a bank heist the setting up of various themes central to the story is quite well done eg when one is searching for bullets for his gun i personally have a dislike for gratuitous violence in movies and in this regard the movie did not offend it attempted and succeeded in showing us the human side of the baddies such as bryan brown the rest of the cast did an ok job without any real stand outs that i remember the direction was very good in succeeding in making a believable movie that provided good entertainment the main overriding feature that makes this a good movie is the acting and direction of heath ledger and his successful portrayal of a naive young man who makes stupid mistakes for short term gratification thinking he is indestructible and not realizing that there are sinister people waiting to pounce on any mistake the director gregor jordan deserves special mention rating in my book 7 of 10
1	if you enjoyed films like pulp fiction reservoir dogs and lock stock and two smoking barrels you are going to love two hands it has the same type of black humor beat to it and will keep you entertained through the whole film like pulp fiction it has the wacky scenarios that the characters get into and how they deal with them along with gallipoli and picnic at hanging rock this has to be one of the best australian films i've seen it also stars a young heath ledger before he got real big in the states br br this is a terribly underrated movie that i believe is just as good as pulp fiction and those greats you have to see it
1	based on its current imdb rating as well as several plot summaries i didn't expect much from 'two but how wrong i was br br from start to finish you're kept deeply engrossed in a genre which has been continuously unoriginal for quite a while even in terms of mise en scene and cinematography the director excels and creates a film consisting of great imagination if you're looking for a film which is not only entertaining but also provocative compelling and genuinely extraordinary then make this the next film you watch br br i'm hoping heath ledger's tragic death will have lead to more people picking up this film he was an incredible talent and his performance in this is one not to be missed don't make the mistake of judging and this amazing film before you've seen it
1	it's hard to know what to make of this weird little aussie crime flick on the one hand it's an enjoyable little film with a great sense of humour but on the other it just lacks a certain something that ensures the film never reaches above it's boundary that keeps it trapped within the merely 'interesting' territory that being said two hands is a well plotted film that excellently juggles several stories at the same time which allows several small climaxes throughout the movie and that in turn helps to stop the film becoming boring the absurdity of the goings on the thick australian accents and the bizarre set of characters all help to ensure that the film entertains also the plot follows the story of a young doorman who thinks he'll go on to bigger things after accepting a job from the local kingpin he doesn't the job only lands him in trouble when he fancies a swim and stupidly leaves ten grand on the beach which is promptly stolen by a couple of kids who have the time of their lives on a shopping spree however all is not rosy for our hero who must find the money or face the consequences br br the film is made up of a cast of unknowns at least it was back in 1999 as nowadays heath ledger is something of a name he doesn't impress too much here however as his performance is mostly of the one note variety and he doesn't make for a very compelling lead he fits the movie in that he's australian and looks naive but beyond that he's not the best lead i've ever seen in a movie if you ask me bryan brown gave the best performance here he might not have a great deal of screen time but he steals every scene he's in and it's him that provides the movie with a lot of its humour he's got nothing to do with the best sequence however which takes place in the form of probably the most hilarious bank robbery ever caught on film on the whole i can recommend this film to people that enjoy quirky crime films as the weirdness is plentiful and the way that events take a turn for the bizarre is enjoyable but if you're not a fan of this sort of film i can't really say that two hands will float your boat it's not a must see but if it's your thing and you get a chance to see it you probably wont completely regret it
1	a refreshing black comedy starring some of australia's finest in the same way that lock stock and 2 smoking barrels captured the funny side of london gangsters two hands rips through the sydney underworld it wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't so close to the bone br br an australian classic if australia could pull more rabbits like this out its hat it might actually have a film industry worth keeping an eye on
1	jordan takes us into the seedy crime side of sydney australia following the desperate attempt of nineteen year old jimmy heath ledger who bundles a job for a local gangster and needs to make amend before they get to him the gangsters led by bryan brown are a menacing bunch with a humorous streak in them that's what makes the film work because we always view gangsters as a rough bunch out to screw you badly but this mob tickle your funny bone as well a clever structured script by jordan has characters crossing paths and getting caught in the web plot
1	br br br br 5 years ago if you were to watch an australian film you would expect to see crocodile hunters stories of war drag queens and and australians in general being represented as nitwits living off the land saying words like and generally being the classic underdog br br luckily australian film has evolved over the last couple years and is churning out modern day such as moulin rouge chopper boy and sample people br br in this evolution of film we also find two hands br br set in kings cross two hands is a black comedy about crime and survival in the rough end of town played by bryan brown is a sydney mob boss he's the king of organised crime wearing thongs carrying a stubby and helping his son with his origami he's vicious but real as are his holding gun's to someone's head in one scene and then playing in the next they are well respected and if they ask you for a favour you don't say no br br enter jimmy played by heath ledger jimmy is your average aussie guy in his early twenties he's a good guy who wants to make a name for himself without getting on anyone's bad side so when asks jimmy to deliver 10 000 jimmy accepts br br things start to get exciting when 2 teenagers manage to steal the money while jimmy is at the beach so now jimmy is 10 000 in dept to a major mob boss from here we start to see all the interconnecting stories with jimmy and his attempt at a bank robbery to recover the money jimmy and alex the love interest played by rose byrne trying to find jimmy and of course the two teenagers and their new found prosperity the concept is deepened by the narrator jimmy's dead brother michael who was killed by and his gang years earlier br br in the end all the storylines connected really well with a surprise twist to shock and stun the audience i thoroughly enjoyed it br br
1	the inspiration for this film was the fact that american gangsters are well dresses but the aussies well when you might kill a guy as soon as look at the blighter then you can dress as badly as you want and people won't criticize you br br jimmy is fighter an illegal boxer sometimes bouncer and is offered work by the local gangster boss in the cross that is australia's notorious kings cross district not the cross of london fame as many a british finds out the hard way br br due to feelings of love he stuffs up a job loses a lot of money and has to get it to before and his heavies can kill him br br lots of dark humour interesting action revelations about the australia's underside and human nature it is very centred in the australian nature and explores the nature of australian criminals versus the american and british ones br br one problem is that each of the elements of the story don't have enough substance and depth but it is a painting with broad strokes that covers a lot of area not covered previously so as an overall package it is worthwhile br br team it up with chopper and dirty deeds for your aussie crime fest or lock stock and two smoking barrels and miller's crossing for an international falling short of the criminal gangs fest br br by the way bryan brown is a great actor who has just done a huge number of really bad movies here is one of his great movies
1	i have seen this movie when it was released and no doubt it is heart touching i liked the point of view of a kid who came to know that what she was thinking about her were actually not true it's a shatter to that small kid and her search to find out who she is and before and after she knows about her the relationship between her and her foster mom that's a nice view a r rahman adds his stress by a good re recording and songs in this movie mani does not exaggerate or give advices like in but simply narrates the characters as they are and because of that the film exactly strikes the audience the pool bath scene of and did not convey perfectly what it meant for mani has amazingly improved
1	jimmy heath ledger is given a simple job by bryan brown a underworld kingpin to deliver money to a particular address but when no one answers the door jimmy decides to take a dip at the beach to pass some time but he notices that his clothes on the sand have been messed up and the 10 grand is gone jimmy rings to tell him the problem but he doesn't want to hear it and his boys try their best to locate jimmy meaning no more jimmy if they get their hands on him so now jimmy goes into hiding to organise a bank robbery to get money back also throughout this mess he meets the innocently sweet alex rose byrne and together they're in for one hell of a ride through king cross br br two hands is simply an engrossing pick me up film that's brisk exhilarating and incredibly fresh what you got here is pretty much an urban gangster film with a seedy backdrop and in your face what how's that fresh you ask well because it takes us into the underworld where the australian culture shines with criminals wearing thongs flip flops and shorts done up cars and a can of beer in the and don't forgot the australian sense of humour dry and sarcastic you can say it owes a lot to the likes of pulp fiction goodfellas a fave of mine and lock stock and two smoking barrels for its inspiration but for me it still stands on its own the film has real mixture of light hearted moments but also a mean streak to it with some unexpected shocks and black humour that can actually be disturbing you just don't know what's coming and it has a nice touch of snappy irony especially the ending and great timing with its humour one scene involving a bank robbery will have you in stitches i guarantee you the plot's outline is really a coming to age story or about the road not taken with a punching love tale added and then the gangster element to finish it off most of the sub plots were cleverly constructed and well maybe it could've gone without the supernatural element involving jimmy's dead brother but in the overall context the diverse plot seems to all click together intense natural and crisp dialogue filled the outrageously colourful script with quick jabs of aussie slang twang i'm fair br br what truly made the film was that of bryan brown's performance of he just gave his character such a deviously charismatic nasty persona that when he wasn't on screen his presence was still felt he gave his character two sides one being a prick but the other side is such a good bloke a young rose byrne glows with her nervously sweet quirky character alex she looked gorgeous and added a bubbly personality then you got heath ledger who the buck as the naive jimmy great supporting cast involved with the likes of susie porter tom long david field steve and steve le marquand such raw performances are achieved and from that you get riveting fun and believable characters pumping rock soundtrack bursting at the seams with the likes of and alex lloyd provide a cool vibe also being shot on location in king cross really helped it stick out by holding a life of its own and showing the australian way of life gliding camera tricks captured the city's backdrop superbly especially the piercing nightlife this was a film that when it ended i was totally satisfied with what i got overall a slickly paced crime thriller that achieves what it intended to do a fun clever and crazy roller coaster ride of thrills and excitement br br i say it's a successful aussie take on lock stock and two smoking barrels by director writer gregor jordan in his debut film if you come across it don't hesitate to it give it a go
1	two hands is a good addition to the australian film catalogue br br it is that curious mix of real life surreal life comedy tragedy and love the australians have developed on their own br br heath ledger is basically a good if naive guy wanting to get on he falls in with a local big man bryan brown but at the very moment he sets a first toe on the dark path to crime he meets alex rose byrne here is the cause of the error to change his life in ways unexpected after getting on the wrong side of accidentally things get very bad very quickly and if not for a little otherworldly help this would have been a short sad film yes jimmy learns a few lessons in life and no one escapes uninjured in one way or another but at the end of it has a feel good feel to it although there is a lawless theme through the story it is not glorified and helps to show how destructive crime can be on normal lives br br heath ledger is excellent as jimmy innocent and savvy at the same time rose is hypnotic as alex and bryan is marvellous as usual this is a small ensemble of characters are believable and i found myself caring about the good guys and disliking the baddies br br this dvd is usually in the cheap aisle so i would recommend adding it too your dvd collection it would be money well spent br br 8 out of 10
1	i remember catching this film on a c4 screening a year ago and i was completely blown away by the whole thing i thought the film managed to represent such a diversity of genres the supernatural a love story the intrigue of crime and so many more br br i was hooked on the whole thing after a minute or so and was really concerned about the characters it made me feel terrified at one second for jimmy and then had me laughing away at the gangsters in the next and all the time i had my fingers crossed that things would work out for jimbo br br heath ledger and rose are superb bryan brown is absolute quality and had me up along with david field who was funny as well as being an evil git br br since i saw this film i managed to order it on dvd and as a result every person i show it to has been hooked in much the same way br br this film is perfect for a sunday afternoon or a lazy evening and it's one that you can really appreciate with your mates around
1	spoiler br br in 1993 african american director actor mario van peebles followed up the tremendously popular urban action film new jack city with posse the film was co written and directed by van peebles who also stars as the main character jessie lee br br plot the film begins at the turn of the 20th century when the united states was embroiled in the spanish american war apparently a time when the u s justice system could send convicts into military service jessie lee finds himself an unwilling enlisted man serving with an all black cavalry troop in cuba some of his compatriots include little j stephen baldwin fast talking charles lane and the towering but simple tiny lister they find a hidden chest of gold on a reconnaissance run and decide to keep it however the ambitious bigoted colonel graham zane finds out about the gold and is apparently willing to kill jessie lee and company for it a shootout between the graham's forces and jessie lee's leaves the colonel blind in one eye and his forces retreat jessie lee's ragtag crew manage to smuggle themselves and the gold back to new orleans but it turns out that graham isn't far behind jessie lee and his allies are forced to go on the run heading west to a town called apparently was founded by blacks in the years following the civil war jessie lee's father king david was the charismatic preacher who co founded the town however as is revealed in intermittent flashbacks king david was soon brutally murdered by a white mob in a parallel of the ku klux klan terror campaigns that began around the same time jessie lee and company eventually find their way to only to find that the townsfolk aren't exactly glad to see when sheriff bates richard jordan of a nearby white township makes it clear that he wants jessie lee and his or alive carver blair underwood is the sheriff and de facto mayor of his own agenda may not square with having jessie lee around br br analysis the action sequences are all very credible and mario van peebles turns in a good performance as the brooding hero in the aftermath of the success of new jack city it was almost expected van peebles would helm a sequel or at least a similar urban action follow up instead van peebles looked 100 years into the past creating a mostly black western effectively the black themed westerns of the 1970's and continuing the legacy of largely forgotten black themed cowboy films from the early 20th century unlike new jack city the film was independently financed and originally released through polygram entertainment allegedly execs at the major studios balked when van peebles pitched to them some of the more curious casting at the time involved rappers big daddy kane and tone loc as father time and angel respectively in certain interviews mario van peebles has said that he often likes to cast against type in the years since the trend of casting rap singers in non musical films would become almost commonplace keen viewers will notice several cameos by various entertainment personalities black action film veterans like isaac hayes truck turner pam grier foxy brown and larry cook the spook who sat by the door show up as does stand up legend russell not to mention tv producer stephen j cannell who hired the junior van peebles to star in sonny spoon years earlier the film is bookended with woody strode spartacus in a key role
1	i enjoyed this movie extremely it was the last great mario van peebles movie i know of it had a hip hop old west flavor to it big daddy kane and tone loc had major parts it shouldn't have won any oscars but it was enjoyable all the same
1	ok maybe posse can't compare to other popular cowboy western movies but that's because it didn't have the funding those movies had obviously whenever you want to produce a story such as this one focusing on african american historical involvement and no servants and are not historical involvement hollywood isn't going to be too supportive and believe me they weren't the producers and actors sacrificed a lot of 'out of pocket' expenses to make posse just so that the story could be told i think that alone is commendable posse may not be oscar material and they don't like black media too much either but it is a start it is entertaining and it introduces us to the black cowboy a character most of us are unfamiliar with
1	i'm not the biggest fan of westerns my two personal favorites though are unforgiven and tombstone this movie though i loved it was great the plot was well done and it was a fun movie everybody who had a part in this movie did excellent i even think it beat out both movies in someway well not really unforgiven because that was a superb movie that these two can't compare with in the long run i do think it beat out tombstone though both had its strong points for instance they both had excellent well known casts very good plots and very good filming but posse beat out tombstone in four ways in my opinion first the characters were more unique in posse the music was better in posse the idea was original in posse unlike wyatt earp and the biggest difference the action sequences oh my gosh posse was a western with really good action sequences i mean really good the action was fast paced like modern day based shoot'em up movies the action had big budget explosions too the fistfights were pretty good also mario van pebbles was great in this movie i suggest buying this excellent movie
1	a good old fashioned flight and revenge western given a twist and a touch of gravitas by injecting a little black social history into its plot lead by mario van peebles who does ok the gang of misfits on the run from billy zane's seemingly unstoppable army bigwig all acquit themselves well their adventures plausible yet fun and exciting there're some nice moody flashback scenes setting up the hero's character and backstory a good shoot out ending as our heroes defend the town from greedy white and even stephen baldwin isn't bad in this enjoyable quite powerful western
1	i'm not the biggest fan of westerns my two personal favorites though are unforgiven and tombstone this movie though i loved it was great the plot was well done and it was a fun movie everybody who had a part in this movie did excellent i even think it beat out both movies in someway well not really unforgiven because that was a superb movie that these two can't compare with in the long run i do think it beat out tombstone though both had there strong points for instance they both had excellent well known casts very good plots and very good filming but posse beat out tombstone in four ways in my opinion first the characters were more unique in posse the music was better in posse the idea was original in posse unlike wyatt earp and the biggest difference the action sequences oh my gosh posse was a western with really good action sequences i mean really good the action was fast paced like modern day based shoot'em up movies the action had big budget explosions too the fistfights were pretty good also mario van pebbles was great in this movie i suggest buying this excellent movie
1	thank you mario van peebles for informing us of not only the existence of black cowboys but providing a compelling story that was easy to follow br br the plot backdrop music and talent were all top notch it was great that you used so many african american artists to tell the tale of the black cowboy it was also good to see billy zane in this movie does he ever play a good guy br br i would highly recommend this film to anyone who wants to broaden their way of thinking this is an excellent movie and i feel privileged to have seen it hopefully you'll feel the same
1	when you want to celebrate life and love especially for precious little daughters you have to shout it from the countryside and what gorgeous there are so many tears of joy even god joins in see this movie br br
1	i think that mario van peebles movie posse is a very important film it is an excellent entry point film to a side of history many are not aware of this is a story of early black settlers cow boys and infantrymen returning from the spanish american war with a cache of gold the main character peebles is haunted by memories of his murdered father the racism applied to the new black settlers and infantryman is explored in this film with excellent casting including melvin van peebles father billy zane stephen baldwin and a wonderful performance by big daddy kane br br one senses that peeples strived to use as many notable black and some not so notable smile actors as possible perhaps too many some notable persons issac hayes pamela grier are only scene in cameo others briefly such as tone loc the sentiment and efforts of peebles efforts to expose these actors will be understood by some the large cast a feat for any director work well and do a good job of telling the story in the classic revenge and fight vs justice western br br most noteworthy was the wonderful narrative role of veteran actor woody strode from once upon a time in the west who's own life was a barrier breaker within the context of a previous era not yet completed faded from memory no other actor could have done this role better read the mini bio on woody strode here as a primer http imdb com name bio br br the film does a good job of balancing action with a bit of sardonic humour the dialog was excellent if a bit contemporary and as others have mentioned the profanity was not accurate to that period the sex scene was a bit much not really needed there are some historical inaccuracies such as the seeming electronic branding of the cattle etc but posse is a good effort to hopefully open the door for more historical and creative works reflective of other untold stories and events the actual photos of real cowboys at the end credits was very nice touch
1	favourite from the first run of season 10 and also one of my personal favourites features the adventure of al gore before going on global warming and before the movie it was similar a adventure certainly al gore was also trying to aware the world about something that can change the earth something really dangerous this time about something that is half man half bear and half pig al gore had only one thing in mind to aware everyone of and to kill it al gore here is more than hilarious everyone who sees him feel sorry for him and yes he can childish doing tantrums since nobody believes him but he is just a f demented bastard basically four kids are trapped in a cave because of al gore but certainly he don't have that in his mind there's not space for any other subject is just what concerns al gore those four kids are cartman kenny kyle and stan basically stan felt sorry for al gore and the four boys were just playing in al gore's game never imaging that gore could almost kill them while he was trying to kill hilarious scene they are just children damned so at this part we have on one hand all the stuff with the rescue team who also feel sorry for al gore and on the other hand we have a little yet extremely hilarious cartman episode and there are not surprises of the attitude of cartman after he finds a treasure inside the cave certainly the whole stuff with this treasure is fantastic and is great because you will see a sick cartman in both senses he is really sick for the boys and really sick for us and in the end al gore does killed this character is a fantastic one and i'm cereal terrific fun in this episode a highly re watchable one 10 out of 10
1	is a pretty funny episode of south park it spoofs al gore and his speeches on global warming only replacing global warming with a fictional monster who has parts of a man a bear and a pig he tells the boys about it in a school assembly and stan feels sorry for him so he and the boys decide to hang out with him gore eventually gets them trapped in a rock cave where he believes to be and they are stuck for days meanwhile cartman finds treasure but wants to keep it all to himself is a good spoof on global warming and overall a funny south park episode br br 8 10
1	alright so this episode makes fun of al gore i'm sure it pisses a few liberals off the thing is south park makes fun of everybody much like the simpsons did if you get offended that a politician you like is made fun of then maybe you need a better sense of humor and are taking the show too seriously with that being said this episode is hilarious and one of the best al gores portrayal is hilarious scheme goes terribly wrong and the results will have you rolling on the floor laughing it is basically everything you would ever want out of a south park episode and it is easily one of my favorites i'll won't comment too much further on the plot because i don't want to give anything away
1	first of all ignore the comment about how south park should make fun of republicans everyone is doing that now why should south park blindly follow what the rest of the media is doing and what the republicans are doing is more serious and less funny than al gore and his global warming hysteria br br but all that aside this episode is just plain funny al gore's portrayal has to be one of the best caricatures of a politician i've ever seen it was original and it was based on peoples opinions of the man i don't want to give anything away but it had me rolling on the floor br br there are also has some of the best cartman kyle moments ever br br all in all i'd say that this is one of the best episodes the show has ever had and i would highly recommend it to anybody
1	this was a pretty good episode though no trapped in the closet or cartoon wars it had a lot of things going for it the character of al gore and that bizarre as hell super cereal thing was pretty darn funny but the scene that made me adore this episode was one i'm sure everyone will agree was one of the greatest cartman kyle moments ever when cartman is superstitious of kyle that he'll be stealing his gold which of course is fake and he comes within inches of his face suddenly kyle wakes up and they have that crazy conversation where cartman tries to act like everything is completely fine cartman crapping out the treasure at the end though predictable was pretty funny
1	wesley is young inventor brian foster who's invented a new crime busting security device in the form of a robot dog the titular c h o m p s it stands for canine home protection system c h o m p s who's been modeled after brian's real dog rascal can do just about anything he's got enhanced speed strength x ray vision and the like it's just the thing to save his boss ralph norton's conrad bain security company naturally a slimy competitor gibbs jim backus wants the edge so he tries to get his hands on the secret br br this is the kind of thing that's just too hard to resist it's got plenty of slapstick chuck mccann and red buttons play a great pair of bumbling idiots an upbeat attitude an engaging cast and enough good laughs to keep one entertained the energetic disco style music gets repetitive but is undeniably catchy the story is straightforward and the dogs themselves are absolutely adorable in one thoroughly odd but side splitting touch there's another dog in the film named monster whose thoughts we actually get to hear both his dialog and the performer doing the voice are priceless in fact he even utilizes some mild profanity and his last words end the film on a positively gut busting final note br br and the cute valerie bertinelli are very likable young leads and their veteran supporting cast plays the material with all the gusto they can muster larry bishop hermione baddeley robert q lewis and regis toomey also co star br br a rare theatrical live action venture for the cartoon creating team of hanna barbera 'the 'scooby doo' 'the and so on c h o m p s is agreeably silly stuff i know it left me with a smile on my face br br 7 10
1	this movie is a nice cute family oriented film if you don't like violence this is the movie to watch only thing annoying about this movie is the tune but it's a catchy tune repeats whenever c h o m p s leaps in to action
1	eager electronics whiz brian foster a likable performance by wesley of tv's land of the lost creates a computerized called c h o m p s an acronym for canine home protection system for his boss mr ralph norton nicely played by conrad whose home security business is floundering a rival company hires a pair of inept criminals to get their grubby hands on c h o m p s said task proves to be easier said than done director don relates the endearingly dopey story at a constant brisk pace maintains an amiably silly and lighthearted tone throughout and stages the goofy slapstick gags with considerable flair moreover the game cast mug it up with infectious aplomb the adorable valerie bertinelli as brian's sweet fiancé casey norton chuck mccann as klutzy crook brooks red buttons as equally bumbling partner bracken jim backus as evil ceo mr gibbs hermoine baddeley as nice old biddy ms foster and 60's aip exploitation feature regular larry bishop as smarmy duplicitous suit ken sharp best of all the titular pooch is a cuddly delight c h o m p s jumps through fences walls and windows with amazing agility performs acts of exceptional strength runs faster than a deer and even does a few nifty martial arts moves a subplot about a hulking neighborhood hound named monster supplies a few extra belly laughs monster is voiced by some uncredited guy with an appropriately deep voice the groovy animated opening credits sequence charles f glossy cinematography and hoyt funky pulsating disco score are all solid as well a cute little kiddie flick
1	i saw chomps during the approximately 2 days of its theatrical release it is a delightfully cute and funny movie in the spirit of though much improved and focused more on the actors than the dogs the simple portrayal of life difficulties in a humorous way followed by the bullies and villains getting their just deserts is both sympathetic and heartwarming it is also thought provoking with deft subtleness this movie affects ones awareness of cruelty personal behavior and bullying movies have different and different purposes this movie which is delightful to all ages offers an interesting humorous look into our own experiences everyone will recognize personality and behaviors types of themselves and others everyone will see the humor the humor makes the move enjoyable and brings understanding of life situations to a new level br br for lighthearted laughter and a 'feel good' movie chomps is an excellent choice memorable
1	is for sure a great movie i have to give it to mani for a great directing job and a r rahman for great songs the camera work is just excellent and is similar to black hawk down and saving private ryan i will be shocked if this movie does not win an oscar for best foreign film or even best camera work
1	brian wesley works for a security firm owned by mr norton conrad bain the norton firm is in financial trouble for unknown to the owner he has an employee who is selling secrets to a rival firm's owner jim bacchus it's not brian as he is a loyal and faithful employee and a good inventor but mr norton has no patience with brian in part because norton's beautiful daughter casey valerie bertinelli has a thing for brian and norton questions brian's motives for wooing her however brian does come up with a great security device it's called chomps which stands for canine home security system the device which looks like a dog is actually a computer controlled animal with the ability to knock down walls and emit siren sounds to capture burglars the rival owner sends two bungling spies one is red buttons to learn the details of the new invention will chomps save norton security this is a fun family flick from the old school of good clean entertainment chomps is of course a real dog played by the adorable and talented benji in fact benji has a duel role as brian has a real dog named rascal too just watching this little dog in action is pure joy as he is able to scale walls pull trucks and operate machine buttons to capture the bad guys the human cast is also quite nice with everyone giving upbeat performances that are infectious costumes scenery and production values are good too although you may have trouble locating the film it would be well worth the effort to secure a view for your closest loved ones chomps is a wonderful wholesome diversion from the world's woes
1	the most enjoyable pet movie since scooby doo and garfield the story revolves around a 23 year old inventor named brian foster whose systems at his boss's company seems to keep failing brian is also dating the boss's daughter named casey but brian secretly invented a robotic dog named chomps modeled after his own dog rascal but chomps is no ordinarily dog he is as fast as a cheetah he has x ray vision can leap about 6 feet and has a strength of 20 men the new invention impresses his boss and makes his business a success but when the company rivals hear about chomps they try to find a way to capture him can chomps outwit them before its too late this movie is a classic for all ages
1	this was on odd film i liked the adventure of it though it seems to be aimed at children spoiler ahead ironically the main character murders a federal official then he's a fugitive on the run they later blow up his house and then he finally commits suicide seems like they should have just made it a film for a more mature audience or made it more family friendly br br this was on odd film i liked the adventure of it though it seems to be aimed at children spoiler ahead ironically the main character murders a federal official then he's a fugitive on the run they later blow up his house and then he finally commits suicide seems like they should have just made it a film for a more mature audience or made it more family friendly
1	this story has held a special place in my heart for the last thirty one years as a boy i enjoyed stories of mountain men and the wilderness books like call of the wild white fang the frontiersman and my side of the mountain influenced me tremendously i wanted so much to live like a mountain man but nothing inspired me more to do so than when i saw this movie on television in 1975 i wanted to be just like trapper however as i got older i found i was just too domesticated to live like that nonetheless i still romanticize about living that kind of life i agree with some other reviews of this movie that the storyline has the simplicity that is quite prevalent in type movies but if you can look past the mechanics in which it was made and see the heart of the story the true themes then i think you find yourself pleasantly touched i make it a point to watch this movie once a year after thirty one years i still get a chill running through me when i see torrent of snow rushing down the mountainside and hear the echoing haunting laugh of the trapper br br good luck old timer and stay free br br ps if you want to read more about the true story i found this link on the mad trapper of rat river br br http www com htm
1	director tay garnett ford cast mike mazurki vic christy fritz ford tay garnett br br based on the number of comments i see on imdb this seems to be a forgotten movie this seems rather ironic to me because it is actually one of the first movies that i remember my mom took me and my little brother to see this film at the garland theater in spokane when it first came out in the mid 1970's and i still remember it br br i am going by memory here but i believe this move is about a trapper who was accused of a crime which he did not commit and the law goes after him i believe it to be set in 1800's alaska a narrator tells the story of the trapper played by mike mazurki really this is a very good film with a great setting it could be compared to the 1981 film death hunt with charles bronson the two films have a very similar story line the main difference between the two is death hunt is an adult orientated film whereas challenge is a family friendly film br br mike mazurki and tay garnett were both rather old when this movie was made which i find rather impressive when one considers that this movie was filmed on location in the wilds of alaska this was the last film made by tay garnett before he died which was just a few years later they both had been around since the silent era
1	challenge to be free was one of the first films i saw as a child it was also one of the first vhs tapes that i owned i hadn't seen the movie in years so yesterday i decided to stick the tape in and watch it wow the story is as powerful now as it was the first time i saw it i think now that i am older i can better the values that are implanted in the movie self reliance the value of freedom and the love of nature it is a b movie to be sure but it's one that you'll remember for years especially if you see it as a child
1	this twisted comedy is well acted and directed very funny and the production quality is outstanding it is easy to see why this short film has been accepted into so many festivals and won awards br br everyone can identify with calvin having a bad day bad week bad life travis davis plays the role superbly richard moll as tim brings darkness and foreboding that gives this film just the right the old man adds to the humor of the story and who wouldn't love the suicidal goldfish br br this short will bring lots of laughs and don't miss the credits as they are playing at the end
1	when i watch a short like boy next door i find myself with a kind of bittersweet feeling on the one hand i'm happy i'm watching something that has been well thought out seamlessly executed and just daring enough to be interesting on the other hand i find myself lamenting the level of comedy generally produced tv and films are so consistently packed with easy condescending crap that we find ourselves judging excellence within a scale of mediocrity then you see someone like davis who without the benefit of studio notes or substantial budget can create a really cool little comic gem producers and network suits need to turn to the travis davis' out there for material and stop awarding deals to people simply because their resume or agent may demand they should boy next door has hopefully gained the attention of the right people to facilitate more work from davis it's really fun and very well done
1	had the pleasure to see this film at the big bear film festival where it won the audience award and i have to say it was well deserved because boy next door is a very funny short film the script is well written and keeps things escalating it also has a great current of suspense coursing through it you don't know what's going to happen next as the main character tries to deal with the realization that his new neighbor might not be the most ideal person to be living across from him the jokes are quick and unexpected the plot keeps us guessing the dialog feels very real i thought the direction was first rate and the director travis davis shows a lot of potential for making it big in the world of studio comedies not small praise considering he also is the lead actor of the film so he had to do triple duty on this writing directing and starring if you get a chance to see this film on itunes it's worth the download it'll make you laugh out loud a few times and that's more than most shorts offer these days
1	boy next door is a hilarious romp through male neurosis in just over fifteen minutes the film takes us on a journey that most full length features can't even match great performances excellent camera work and editing this short is a classic from start to finish kudos to travis davis for pulling double duty as both director and star he's the funniest nebbish since woody allen and what a treat to see richard moll back again if you thought all he could do was play bull the bailiff on night court think again this gem of a film showcases the brilliantly funny writing of stephen remember that name forget charlie kaufman steve is the true current king of quirky comedy
1	hello all i went to this movie without any expectation though i knew would've given an excellent film i was stunned the backdrop is the struggle between the settled in sri lanka and the government the story is about how an young girl who lives with her foster parents at chennai india leaves to sri lanka in search of her real mother the high points of the film are the performances of every actor and actress and ofcourse the cinematography editing and all other technical details full marks to the cast and crew i have to mention about the cinematography as it brings out the war in such a way that you feel yourself being there excellent work though the war sequences reminded me of saving private ryan such a work was never attempted on indian screen overall the movie is great and hats off to mr br br mani has once again proved that he is a director who can take indian cinema to great heights i would love to watch this film again and again an excellent film and a must see
1	lackawanna blues is a fine stage play by ruben santiago hudson and an even finer film as the author adapted his own life story for the screen this brilliant film ignites the screen with rich colors fine music brilliant editing superb direction by george c wolfe and a cast so stunning that they make an encore viewing compulsory yes it is just that good br br the story is based on the author's life as the child marcus carl franklin raised in the inimitable home of soulfully empathetic rachel nanny crosby s a lady who devoted her life to aiding the disenfranchised by transporting them from the south from mental hospitals and from the streets to lackawanna new york the boy recalls all the lessons he learned about life from the inhabitants of the house odd characters with painful pasts and from the disintegration of his racially mixed biological family rescued by nanny the myriad characters of the home are too numerous to outline but they are portrayed by some of the finest actors in the business terrence howard rosie perez mos def the beautiful carmen louis gossett jr jeffrey wright ernie hudson woodward jimmy patricia macy gray liev schreiber kathleen lou myers hill harper the list goes on and on br br in the course of the film we are introduced to the cruelties of racism the history of desegregation the dynamics of drug abuse and violence the infectious joy of african american music contributions to our musical culture and the courage of one fine woman who battled all the hardships the world can dish out to maintain the dignity of those with whom she came into contact s is wholly submerged in this role a role she makes shine like a beacon of reason in a world of chaos she offers one of the most stunning performances of the past years and had this film been released in the theaters instead of as an hbo movie she without a doubt would add the oscar to place along side her golden globe award br br the entire cast is exceptional and wolfe handles the acting and the story like a master like riffs in a jazz piece he tiny moments of conversation with each character and junior along with flashes of scenes from the story with the matrix of dance fests at the local clubs brimming over the top with incredible blues jazz dancing and joy the production crew has mounted this little miracle of a picture with extreme care and never for a moment does attention lag from the momentum of the story highly recommended almost compulsory viewing grady harp
1	i just saw this wonderfully filmed movie that captures the essence of br br high brow nyc or any big city of mid century america the colors the br br cars the clothes and the coming of the womens movement it reflects the br br cozy attitudes of relationships between men and women in the br br corporate world in some ways things gave changed and in others they br br haven't changed at all women still want what men have today but they br br now have all sorts of laws and equality mandates to get it for them in br br my opinion beautiful women will still throw themselves at men in br br pursuit of thier goals the laws we have now against and br br all were passed by unattractive women who wanted an equal chance to br br compete with prettier women who might be getting the positions br br based on thier looks and out the real competition isn't between br br men and women but women and women i liked the look and feel of the movie but the world hasn't changed as br br far as what real
1	watching this hilariously retro but very entertaining career girl tale i was floored by joan crawford's first appearance all i could think initially was my god it's the same face as michael jackson in his notorious booking photo br br about 34 minutes into the movie diane baker and hope lange get out of a cab in greenwich village as they walk down the street you can see part of a sign in back of them for the stonewall bar scene of the epochal riots that are considered the trigger for the modern gay rights movement br br speaking of baker and taxis i had to laugh when she gets into one and tells the cabbie and sutton place please and be careful of the bumps can you imagine the reaction to that from a driver in today's manhattan she says that of course because she's pregnant and doesn't want to hurt the fetus but that doesn't stop her from jumping out of a moving car when she finds out bob evans wants her to have an abortion well they had to find a way for her to lose the baby 1959 and all br br sue carson is delightful as mary agnes why was this her only movie there is no biographical information on her in imdb
1	a sincere tribute to suzy parker who's just passed away not only is one of the cheesiest movies ever made but miss parker's performance is in this cheesy movie lover's opinion among the worst performances of all time her last scene is especially overplayed i loved it
1	the best of everything just what is the best of everything it is different for everyone but for most of us it is love but alas not everyone knows where or who to look to for real love this story goes the whole gambit of looking for love sometimes in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons but as the saying goes we are the captains of our own ships and so it goes for our lives we are responsible for the choices that we make in our lives once we make those choices then we must live with them as we watch this story and as we see these women making choices that most likely change their lives forever we wonder would we make the same choices as these women or would we be wiser who knows
1	fun bad movie which should amuse one of joan crawford's last performances as the driven successful editor vs all those young beautiful eager beavers fresh out of the elite seven sister colleges great '50's ambiance of new york wonderful period costumes and hairdos terrific art direction trite story but tearjerker interesting cameo by robert evans as a rich cad
1	this is an engrossing woman's drama that men can enjoy the plot follows a young woman hope lange who goes to work for a publisher after college we can forgive her jump in position from secretary to editor hey it's hollywood and a few other flaws here is one of the few films in which once big time producer robert evans here beautifully depicting a rat with women appears it also features a mature joan crawford and terrific supporting cast check it out
1	great period piece that shows how attitudes have changed in 40 years great production design appealing stars great lines miss bender i don't care if you beat it out on a native drum says joan crawford's amanda farrow to hope lange when lange incredulously asks how she is expected to read a summarize a large amount of manuscripts in a very short time if you've seen this movie panned and scanned on tv and not in the letterboxed version on pay tv or amc american movie classics you haven't really seen it hopefully this guilty pleasure of a film will be made available soon on dvd in a letterboxed version and with it's original 4 track stereophonic soundtrack great opening title sequence that really catches the mood of 1959 new york while johnny mathis sings the best of everything theme song in an echo chamber surrounded by a chorus of violins and another chorus of background miscarriages insanity office romance bitchy cold hearted bosses thwarted love it's all here to enjoy
1	you can't take this movie seriously the plot is predictable and trite the acting often over the top the dialog laughable but it all adds up to great fun three career girls in the late 1950's find their way to the big city and all the evils and temptations their mothers probably warned them about married men alcohol premarital sex abortion etc br br then there's amanda farrell joan crawford who did succeed professionally but whose personal life has been sacrificed for an office with her name on the door br br this movie may have been believable 50 years ago but now it's just great campy fun rent buy it and enjoy
1	a hugely enjoyable screen version of rona jaffe's best selling pot boiler about the trials and tribulations and naturally the loves of a group of women involved in one way or another in the new york publishing business directed by jean negulesco fairly fresh from the success of three coins in a fountain and the prototype for the likes of sex and the city except that here the sex all takes place off screen br br the bright young female talents of the day hope lange diane baker suzy parker martha hyer are all nicely cast while joan crawford pops up as a queen bitch of an editor who could probably eat meryl streep's miranda priestly and spit her out with absolutely no effort at all she steals the movie the men include stephen boyd louis if it wasn't rossano brazzi it had to be louis robert evans before he decided wisely to go behind the camera and brian there are more suds on display than you will find in your average but if like me you enjoy desperate housewives not to mention carrie bradshaw and company then you will probably love this a very guilty pleasure
1	enjoyable film that gives you romance women on the verge psychodrama work place sexual harassment adultery and fashion it's all there typical characters found in corporate america joan crawford is the usual long time employee bitch executive who feels the need to be such because she's with the big boys hope lange is the entry level ambitious employee whose determined to get to the top by using her mind and not her body their personal lives is the subplot br br wardrobe for the film is great but someone forgot to tell stephen boyd's hairstylist that a little dab will do ya the amount of in stephen boyd's hair is distracting at times his character's relationship with lange's character was never fully developed which i found disappointing overall the movie is enjoyable br br rating 8 10
1	to tell you the truth i do not speak tamil and i did not understand the film my good tamil friend wow what a long name explained every thing to me what a great movie after watching this movie i felt i should have watched many more movies from tollywood tamil film industry the war scenes were amazing camera work excellent and plot beautiful the actress what a beauty give her an award for best looking someone ding ding ding come on i smell a oscar winner i didnt understand the songs but they were excellent mani is a great director and i hope his next film was a success
1	it's interesting to watch how late 1950's society is depicted in this film men are lecherous chain smoking with one thing on their minds time hasn't changed men all that much but sexual harassment has women are in the workplace only passing time until they find a husband settle down some of the dialog is cringe worthy but yet it's charming in an innocent passé way i love the opening credits that show a romantic exciting view of manhattan with johnny mathis singing the best of everything on the soundtrack i want to jump right into some scenes filmed on n y streets circa 1959 experience a time i've only seen on film in photographs some scenes in this movie reminded me of melanie griffith's working girl especially when hope lange who's a cross between grace kelly dolores hart gets bombed in handsome stephen boyd's apartment he her in just watches her sleep like melanie she wants to know if anything happened between them the following day joan crawford is definitely comparable to sigourney weaver's horrible female boss except she was outwardly nasty with a soft core but character was sweet on the outside horrible on the inside i found it distressing how the suzy parker character gregg started out as an independent woman with career goals to be an actress who supposedly didn't need a man to complete her ended up she becomes a stalker lunatic nut job when she lets the man she falls in love with drive her bananas after he's done with her i loved the character mary agnes the office gossip with her thick new yawk accent if you enjoy films like valley of the dolls you'll like this one too
1	that's a bad raunchy predictable tacky salacious soap opera the best of everything is just such a guilty pleasure for me something along the lines of valley of the dolls i mean best has everything somebody gets pregnant out of wedlock when's the last time you heard that phrase there are affairs everywhere drinking backstabbing jealousy and even a tragic but not altogether unexpected death br br caroline bender hope lange and mike rice the delicious stephen boyd are the of the goings on their chemistry is immediate and is the glue that keeps this film from becoming too fragmented br br suzy parker the off the chart gorgeous ex fashion model appears as gregg adams an aspiring stage actress a role that according to any biography i've ever read about her was apparently not much of a stretch but parker does a surprisingly credible job here more than holding her own in a couple of scenes opposite louis who plays david savage probably took this role for the money and the special screen credit because he was clearly headed down the aging star has been road br br diane baker is fine as naive gullible april morrison martha hyer as barbara has a particularly juicy storyline and film legend joan crawford chews her usual serving of scenery as amanda farrow another role like savage that crawford likely took for the paycheck br br there is some obviously dated dialog and plot devices this is 1959 and the predictability of the soap opera genre but if you like a good soap as i do the best of everything will more than satisfy you
1	although dated this film is definitely worth a watch i saw it about eight times as a teenager when it opened and it changed my life i just had to live in new york it has great opening shots of the manhattan skyline with johnny mathis crooning romance is still the best of everything that rival those of west side story there is a rather stilted performance by the world's real first supermodel suzy parker sorry about that janice d but it's great eye candy it also offers a bit of insight into late 1950's american mores our obsession with and repression of sex in the workplace no less romance and marriage before women's lib it represents an era in which new york was at it's finest and a super bitchy performance by joan crawford is just the icing on the cake
1	this 1959 soap opera film takes us into the lives and loves of three young women in the publishing world as secretaries this follows the same idea as three coins in a fountain a few years before this takes place in new york while coins takes place in rome italy our three beauties are hope lange in her first starring role suzy parker and diane baker lange does well and holds her own opposite some strong veterans in the business namely joan crawford suzy plays an obsessive woman who has a hard time losing her beau hard to believe that anyone could reject this beauty for any reason but louis her heart throb does just this sort of takes you back to paul neuman rejecting the gorgeous taylor in cat on a hot tin roof doesn't it diane baker the third damsel in distress meets and dates robert evans before he became the producer and husband to ali macgraw he is known for hope's boyfriend from home played by newcomer brett halsey is promising to marry her she also meets stephen boyd a fellow worker who has interests in our hope all three ladies have their drama ahead of them crawford almost steals the film her presence and her usual strong bitchy self is fun to watch veteran actor brian plays one of the bosses with a yen for pinching our leading ladies' back side he's delightfully charming also in the cast is martha hyer wasted in a thankless role never really explored too bad as i like this actress who never seems to get that one role to distinguish her abilities she has a crush on a married man in the office played by donald harron whom i had the pleasure to work with in a couple of shakespeare plays in nyc he is a distinguished actor that is wasted in this film also br br all in all it's great fun in technicolor and cinemascope directed by jean negulesco
1	having grown up in the typing pool era and dealing with office politics and men who were apt to make a banquet of beauties into a delightful meal day to day this movie hits the mark good afternoon fare i understand that louis jordan wanted to work in this movie to play opposite the quintessential gorgeous suzy parker everyone wanted to be in and i believe it has done well and held up over time best on screen kiss between hope lange and the late stephen boyd br br it may not appear that anything of this is plausible but actually it was and probably still is even given the scare of sexual harassment i thought the movie was well cast except the awful acting of evans what a grease ball but he found his niche someplace else other than that all stepped up to the plate
1	i watched the first few moments on tcm a few years ago but stopped after about 15 minutes i saw it listed on the schedule at the stanford theatre in palo alto and i vowed i would make the 40 minute drive the stanford is an old fashioned movie house that starts each movie with the curtains still shut yes they have curtains they opened as the fox logo fanfare began to play when the best of everything appeared in huge pink letters spread against the new york city skyline i knew i was right for waiting br br i lapped this movie up there were so many little moments that added to the look and feel of the movie when hope lange walks into the publishing office for the first time the titles of the magazines published there are etched on the glass the teenager and elegance joan crawford's swanky apron that she wore so she could serve her guests at her party without her outfit the way the camera tilted to indicate how crazy suzy parker was becoming it was almost sideways at one point how hope lange kept living at that dumpy flat she shared with the others even though she obviously was making a lot more money than at the beginning of the film guess it was too scandalous for a single gal to live alone br br hope lange was so beautiful so was suzy parker and how about mark goddard in a non speaking role i fell in love with him when i was a kid watching lost in space br br seeing this gem on the big screen prompted me to plan another trek down to the stanford to see the old dark house incidentally i bought a small soda and popcorn at the concession stand and i was taken aback when the worker asked me for two bucks
1	this is a film that is far more enjoyable than its rating of 7 would suggest in many ways it's like a 50s version of valley of the dolls with much of the excesses and sleaziness of valley polished up a bit for the audiences of 1959 like this later film both are about three young ladies who are on the fast track to success though this time it's in the publishing world instead of the entertainment industry though one of the ladies in the best of everything does have aspirations of broadway br br the film begins with hope lange coming into the company for her first day of work she's assigned to tough as nails boss joan crawford who is appearing in her first supporting role in decades despite how nasty crawford seems lange is determined not to give in to make it in this job and over time she quickly moves up the ranks from secretary to editor at the same time her two new roommates also try to move up the ranks one through the stage and one through a relationship with a rich playboy like valley of the dolls all of them have their ups and downs mostly downs but by the end of the film there is some hope that at least some of them will make it battered and bruised nevertheless br br in this film men are mostly pigs the only guy who seems decent is played by stephen boyd so naturally hope lange neglects him for a ne'er do well ex boyfriend as for the guys played by veteran character actor brian and the rest they are sexist scum and eventually you understand how crawford became so bitter and nasty br br this film has it all adultery premarital sex abortion etc and is certainly not an artistic triumph however thanks to excellent production values and a juicy script this one is a joy to watch just don't expect shakespeare
1	caroline bender hope lange is just killing time getting a job her real ambition is to marry eddie and have a baby br br april diane baker is too innocent to stay that way for long and falls in love too easily a dangerous combo br br greg suzy parker is a go getter and wants to be an actress br br all three are doomed for dramatics in 'the best of a 1959 soap opera morality play sometimes solid movie that is aging by the second br br set in the cut throat world of paperback publishing its not as trashy as valley of the dolls but not as vanilla as three coins in the fountain br br the men in the mix brian stephen boyd louis and robert evans are slick well dressed and no good for the most part is the resident sexual offender will pinch anything walking by and makes unwanted advances right and left his character is offensive as hell but its not played seriously at all harassment hadn't been discovered yet i guess boyd works there too although you never see him actually doing anything he's too busy being older wiser and evans is abroad just so diane baker can suffer in style he's a rich kid who's gotten her in so instead of marrying her as promised he's taking her to get an ' br br is a director who mistakenly has an affair with parker they share a fight scene which is fairly no holds barred in a movie like this anyway but the scene is ultimately ruined by parker's she ends up nearly stalking him and she really didn't deserve such a lousy fate her bad acting notwithstanding br br joan crawford breathes fire as amanda farrow the resident 'witch' who is automatically rude and dismissive of any of her legion of secretaries well they are younger aren't they isn't that sufficient reason to hate a person caroline doesn't think so as she admirably stands up to miss farrow every chance she gets crawford only gets to let loose once when she tells her married boyfriend 'you can your rabbit faced wife can both go to hell' and slams down the phone you never get to see the poor soul who dare crosses her br br martha as it were is extremely weak and she is painfully over the top as an unmarried mother short of wearing a huge w for on her cardigan she walks around like a pathetic mess for most of her screen time even worse she is not given the courtesy of having it all up' one way or the other at the end it won't matter that much but still br br its painfully obvious this all took place in a totally different world people were nicer to one another for the most part and work was not a drag but something exciting for a girl from outside nyc anyway br br one unconvincing drunk scene aside hope lange helps it seem reasonably real as caroline who at least has more than one side to her character br br i admire that women are seen having an opinion a chance and a choice not that its not wrapped in a nice bow but it makes some points for equality in 1959 that was probably noteworthy and possibly controversial 7 10
1	the best of everything is a high gloss large screen soap opera which follows the careers of four career women hope lange suzy parker diane baker and martha hyer at a new york publishing firm what's the best for some women is not necessarily the best for all br br presiding over this group of young is wise old mare joan crawford who's been around the track a few times on screen and in real life she looks right at home as the boss lady as well she should have at this point br br around the time she was making the best of everything joan crawford became a widow when her fourth husband alfred steele died it was a particularly traumatic event for her she woke up one morning and found him dead in bed next to her she inherited all of his stock in pepsi cola where he was the board chairman and during the same period as the best of everything was being made she wound up the queen bee at pepsi cola life does sometimes imitate art so that authority as she barks out and coffee orders to hope lange rings real true br br in fact all the women here with the exception of lange are in for some rough sledding it's rough for lange too but she literally makes the best of everything br br what a collection of stinkers the men are in this film the best of them stephen boyd is a heavy drinker the others louis robert evans and brett halsey are as slimy a collection of rodents as ever gathered for one film br br i can't forget brian either who's the fanny pinching head of this publishing firm half that office would have sexual harassment suits going today br br some nice location shots of new york in the fifties make the film a real treat catch it by all means
1	if this is not my favorite movie of all time it definitely is in the top five i love this everything about this is perfect the clothes the set the lines yes they're not how normal people talk but right down to the small scenes especially at the beginning of the office girls changing their shoes picking a wedgie watering the office ivy plant putting lunch in the fridge identical to what us office girls do today in the year 2005 i think all the minor characters are wonderful if someone like joan crawford is over the top it's all part of the package if you pick out many things in the movie it is very evident that this was the beginning of the sixties as women were starting to not take it lying down at least not if they didn't want to as far as characters being contradictory for instance suzy parker's character acting like she's all for flings but then getting too attached to louis character isn't that what many people are like contradictory they mix in real stuff with scenes like diane baker's character finding the love of her life after her illegitimate baby in an accident lying in the hospital with a big old bandage around her head this is part of the package too it's charm glossy escapism i like the mix of real stories pertinent today the stereotypical career woman who only has affairs with married men therefore doesn't have a family when she is older with ones that make you wish ah if only i could fall in love with a doctor and he'll love me even though he knows my sordid past and saw me all messed up after the scandalous accident also i just got the dvd widescreen it's yet even more beautiful than full screen yay
1	you don't have to be a to appreciate this gem of a movie i don't know a word of tamil and saw this movie only because a friend had recommended it to me understanding a movie without knowing the language is quite tough but i could make out the story because the lead actors and actresses emoted really well and the little girl was really cute she wasn't irritating like child actors in most hindi movies the story is really touching and hats off to mr for trying something different the relationship between the parents and their children are shown quite realistically i could identify with the characters in the movie it was a movie that will remain in my heart forever and i wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to my friends also the songs are just out of this world they were beautifully and meaningfully picturised if only i could understand the right meaning of the lyrics
1	claire booth the women shows relationships with men through a woman's point of view in a play and 1939 film that also has joan crawford playing a bitch a character who might have been amanda farrow 20 years before that has no male characters here we see the male characters and what a bunch they are they use women like toys and throw them away leaving the women to suffer ironically the women in the women perhaps because they are all we see are shown in a less than favorable light alternately silly and scheming with the only nice one norma shearer growing claws by the end in the best of everything we see the men for the cads they are while the women are largely innocent and vulnerable br br this is a film about women leaping from things diane baker leaps from a car in perhaps the most absurd scene in cinema history which is not in the book suzy parker falls from a fire escape the women in the film are leaping into the workplace looking for success and love at the same time women would leap into the future and leave this type of soap opera behind in the next decade but they would come back to it in the 80's and 90's through the novels of people like sidney sheldon and judith krantz although their works aren't as good as this br br the best thing about this film is the way it looks i love the glossy cinemascope films of the 50's and 60's they look so much better than the challenged home movies we've been making since especially in the letterboxed version we see on tv and the dvd with the picture so clear you could walk into it the look of the bevy of young beauties in it is also memorable this film probably has more beautiful women in it than any other it has a supermodel suzy parker a beauty queen myrna hansen who was not miss america 1954 as rona jaffe says in the dvd commentary but rather miss usa 1953 per the imdb but so what and a playboy playmate june blair from january 1957 my vote goes to suzy one of the astonishing beauties of all time her acting here isn't as awful as people pretend they are just reacting as people did then to the sight of a supermodel the first really trying to act nobody seemed to care how well she did her role that of an apparently worldly woman who turns out to be the most vulnerable is the most complex in the bunch and she does just fine br br the most touching thing about the film now is the age of the female leads at the time hope lange was 27 when they filmed this in the spring of 1959 diane baker was 20 suzy parker was 26 hope who looked to be grace kelly's heir never made it really big and wound up being mrs muir on television and per the imdb wound up living in a home with crates for coffee tables because she spent her money on causes she believed in before dying at age 72 in 2003 this film must have seemed a very distant and irrelevant memory to her by then baker always a welcome face in 60's tv especially to richard kimble and still active as an actress and acting coach just turned 67 parker found the best of everything with bradford dillman for 40 years before dying at age 70 the same year lange did but here they are young beautiful and ambitious for success and love just like their characters
1	a classic late 50's film the superannuated headliners joan crawford and louis jordan are not at their best but the direction cinematography and acting of the younger cast are compelling in a 50's sense which i love br br the look and feel of the artsy over artsy contemporary film far from heaven reflects exactly this sort of film and i suspect this film may be one of the models a silly plot of course hey it's 1959 but as a film glorious as a reflection of the society extremely interesting and as witness to how hollywood breaks away from the idealistic portrayal of american sexual mores fascinating
1	this working girls go to hell soap is a time capsule candidate courtesy of its immaculate physical production 50s costuming look at all those bows and pearls creamy johnny mathis theme song and oh so daring for its time sexual attitudes rona jaffe's novel on which the film was based keeps on being and just a few years ago vanity fair actually devoted an article to this delectable bon bon of a movie take a look at the new dvd transfer and you'll know why br br the three leads hope lange diane baker and suzy parker echo the girls from how to marry a or carrie bradshaw and her friends from sex and the city off on a spree their romantic adventures and sexual entanglements are the stuff of paperback passion empty caramel corn devoid of nutrition impossible to resist snacking on lange is genuinely touching in her neo grace kelly way baker is properly dim and idealistic as a timid virgin who gets gasp knocked up by a hiss cad it helps that the cad is played by robert evans the throaty voiced coke snorting film mogul who surely has lead many an innocent young lamb to the slaughter in his beverly hills bedroom br br suzy parker is fascinating in the first half of the film all blithe self assurance and knowing remarks she struts her stuff with the panache of the fashion icon she was in the 50s alas she's not up to where the film sends her into madness and obsession but she exudes glamour and savior faire and her acting is at least adequate one wonders why the critics loathed her virtually driving her out of movies a few years later perhaps an aloof attitude on the part of a good looking woman is just too much to bear it sank ali mcgraw's career a generation later and when you think of it ali mcgraw and suzy parker were basically the same actress br br the film's only major flaw is a weak ending it pretty much collapses into a romantic swoon at the end rather than rising to a wham bang melodramatic finish like the other famous soap opera from producer jerry wald peyton place which had lana turner weeping and gnashing her teeth during a rape trial here hope lange wanders out onto the new york sidewalk spots burly eternally hung over but now of course sober stephen boyd and they simply walk off together into the sunset one presumes otherwise this is pretty much the definition of a guilty pleasure br br oh yes there's also joan crawford breathing fire at all the young girls and smoking cigarettes while she hisses to her married lover over the phone and the titles are done in hot pink with ribbon lettering that recalls the department store ads of the late 50s don't miss
1	i first saw this film in 1959 at the hoyts double bay cinema in sydney when fifteen years old i loved it then and still do the ensemble cast is great in those days the actors acted naturally and you felt for them in the respective roles a glossy film of the period the relationships therein still relevant to today's world but now the sexes are on the same level women would not or should not allow the type of treatment displayed in the past the soundtrack music is wonderful and it is a delight that film score monthly released the cd in january 2005 pity scenes were cut prior to release even at two hours you want more i have registered with amazon for the dvd they do now have a special page to view this film in cinemascope after forty six years of pan and scan will be great twentieth century fox please look further into your of fifties cinemascope productions for dvd there is a large market out there i await arrival from us of march 2004 vanity fair special article on the film which is said to be fifteen pages with many photos on set cheers
1	i feel very strongly that this film was just like waiting to exhale with white females in the 1950's as in waiting to exhale all of the female characters got mixed up with men who were either married or no good the only difference besides the obvious was that there wasn't much humor in this film i would even say that it was tragic only one of the male characters seemed to be kind and sincere hope lange's guy but even then there was conflict in this relationship br br the story was about three young women who shared an apartment together and who had hopes and dreams of success unfortunately for them romance didn't seem to come easy although they were young intelligent and attractive this movie could be called a tearjerker with the saddest part involving suzy parker's character whose obsession of an ex boyfriend leads to tragedy br br this is a must see
1	this is a great horror movie great plot and a person with a fear of midgets will definately love the evil midget this is a must see for any horror fan finally a lower budget movie with decent effects and a great cast highly recommended
1	i can't help but notice the negative reviews this movie has gotten to be honest i saw the preview for this movie and the premise looked intrigued me yes i rented it after reading others' comments they are correct in that some of the acting leaves a lot to be desired they are also correct that one of the best performances of this movie was that of dr graves br br also interesting is scott clark who plays grant the kid in the wheelchair i identify with the character he played perhaps because i am in a wheelchair br br this movie is certainly worth your looking at
1	side show is one of the weirdest horror movies ever made from full moon pictures very gory in some places but not as shocking as the trailer makes it out to be the trailer for this movies shows all the gory parts also the acting and visual effects are well done i would recommend this movie to horror fans everywhere br br 8 out of 10 br br fans of horror movies like this should check out puppet master skinned alive slumber party massacre sleep away camp and other full moon pictures flicks for other recommendations check out the other comments i have sent in by clicking on my name above this comment section
1	what a strange atmosphere is being created in the streets and on the golden gate bridge of san francisco in this exciting action picture although the characters and the story are in fact bad it still has a certain cult flair
1	tex tenure as director of cartoons for mgm was in the 1940s and 50s was one of the brightest moments in cartoon history his cartoons were exceptionally inventive and surreal with many weird touches that were later celebrated in the movie the mask eyes popping out when a guy sees a girl impossible stunts and non stop action were the trademarks of these films br br this is one of several droopy cartoons that avery was responsible for and it's among his best droopy is a mountie and he is determined to get his man though in this case it's a wolf who has escaped from prison throughout the film despite many insane stunts droopy keeps up with this crook until eventually the wolf gives up because droopy is seemingly everywhere full of funny gags and loaded with laughs this is a great cartoon
1	i think this is one of the best tamil movies i've seen in a while i love the fact that it doesn't revolve around a guy and girl falling in love and they made the movie brilliantly the cast did a great job and i especially congratulate the girl she was brilliant and really brought out the feeling of an adopted child searching for her real mother best of all are the songs beautiful music and moving lyrics there are some great songs in this move ya'll especially and great songs both of them i highly recommend this movie to anyone who wants to enjoy a good cry and some great acting and superb songs cheers
1	this animated short is a remake of one of tex earlier shorts for fred quimby at m g m dog gone tired an escaped convict here just known as joe who just broke out of fizz prison' tries to keep one step ahead of droopy known here as sgt of the mounties but always manages to run into him one way or another this is easily one of the most side splitting funny shorts that rolled out of the m g m animation studio it manages to get most of it's laughs from the shocked reactions joe has whenever he encounters including some equally deranged sound effects i e car horns screaming elephants etc as with any avery m g m short frantic kinetic pacing is to be expected along with some nice surreal sight gags i e joe trying to run away from actually running off the side of the film pop this one into your dvd player laugh yourself silly
1	come on anyone who doesn't understand the greatness of this here cartoon should be kicked off any critic's panel they should not be allowed to be heard because they obviously have no sense of humor whatsoever br br anyone who does not love this here animated cartoon directed by tex avery should be chained to a chair and forced to watch huckleberry hound episodes for 20 years straight br br the takes and double takes by the wolf in this cartoon are the finest examples of this important past of comedy that have ever been captured on film br br tex avery should receive a posthumous academy award for this cartoon it's the best
1	these cartoon writers are unrelenting with their corny and fun puns the first shot we see in here is an island prison with the following written above its big gates alka fizz prison no noose is good noose inside the prison the first sign we see is welcome have a seat they then show an electric chair br br corny gives way to clever however as our favorite wolf is seen behind bars with pen in hand he literally draws a door next to him and then escapes through it in no time he has criss crossed the united states zipped up through canada and is in the northern part of that country it's there we see the canadian royal mounted police and of course our hero droopy known here as sgt he has the assignment of catching the at large criminal from alka fizz so with his trusty little blue horse he goes out in the heavy snow to track down the wanted wolf br br from that point we get the normal story droopy always being a step ahead of the wolf no matter what the latter does and both characters are involved in some wild and very funny sight gags droopy even pops out of an eagle's egg on top of a mountain there is nowhere the wolf can go or do plastic surgery to escape the intrepid sgt nobody by the way in the history of cartoons perhaps has more exaggerated reactions either than this wolf each time he sees his nemesis his screams facial and body stretched out in horror each time is a big part of the sight gags br br you'd think this one joke cartoon would get monotonous but it doesn't it's more good stuff from tex avery and the gang just one of 24 cartoons in the complete theatrical collection dvd with wonderful looking restored visuals
1	the saint takes over stars george sanders as simon templar aka the saint in this 1940 entry into the series it also stars wendy barrie jonathan hale and paul on board ship en route to the u s the saint meets and tries to make time with a woman wendy barrie who gives him the simon is coming to new york to help inspector fernack now thoroughly discredited due to a gangster frame up 50 000 was found in his home the gangster rocky roland drew of course was found not guilty at trial and he and his fellow mobsters pay the bill for the frame and attorney representation 90 000 in total today you need that to defend yourself against a parking ticket this was a murder rap br br rocky sends his bodyguard pearly gates to the lawyer's house to steal the 90 000 from the safe the attorney catches him red handed and sends him back to his boss with a message seconds later he's dead rocky meets a similar fate and on and on who's killing this group of gangsters the saint has to get one of them to talk so that fernack can be cleared can he get to anyone before they're murdered the woman he met on board ship reappears and figures prominently in the case br br few actors have a way with a line like george sanders and his dry wit good looks smooth voice and depth as an actor suit simon templar perfectly paul provides some humor as the nervous milk drinking pearly gates and jonathan hale is great as the sometimes exasperated but worried sick inspector fernack wendy barrie who appeared in many saint episodes is very good as the woman who captures simon's heart br br very enjoyable
1	the above summary really isn't meant as a slam against this film as the series followed a very similar format as usual simon templar the saint meets a lady in distress and comes to her aid he also comes to the aid of a police detective who was framed of accepting a bribe along the way he meets some interesting supporting characters this time paul as pearly gates and during his unraveling of this not especially compelling mystery none of them really are templar is extremely erudite and just plain cool george sanders is once again the consummate sophisticated british do gooder and he succeeds once again in making an excellent b detective series film nothing particularly special but a familiar and breezy product sure to please fans of the genre
1	this nifty little movie demonstrates the rock solid virtues of a time place and kind of masculine strength that we no longer have or even aspire to have the saint is a with only the best motives to say nothing of a polished vocabulary and diction no need to turn up the volume or read the dialog george sanders is so charming and yes low key that all that talent smarts physical presence and above all masculinity seem well almost normal some normal george clooney can not begin to master the scene as mr sanders does and does without mr clooney's mugging he could play a witness the ghost and mrs muir and rebecca but when he was good he was very very good truly a man for all reasons and seasons
1	this is a better than average entry in the saint series it holds your interest and as mysteries should keeps you guessing until the end and has several suspects to choose from br br many films from the golden age are not for all tastes especially younger viewers they date themselves by clothing cars settings etc who nowadays asks for a or wears a suit and tie everywhere and the legal process was so much simpler must have been a dearth of lawyers back then frankly much of value is missing from those days br br in any case go with it and enjoy it's good in an old fashioned sense
1	excellent entry in the rko saint series with well written original script good camera work and transitions good directing to handle some twists in the plot good editing to keep the flow constant and good acting george sanders is suave and witty jonathan hale simply is inspector fernack paul plays a mobster who goes straight and drinks milk because he cannot take the pressure he will return in a later entry in the series story begins on an ocean liner headed to the u s where the saint meets but cannot connect with barrie she eventually succumbs to the charms but she breaks his heart in the end the saint assists inspector fernack clear his name from a frame a few bodies fall along the way good entertainment and above average for this type of film watch it
1	george sanders playing the saint for the penultimate time does a good job out of a good script with the usual good rko cast around it's a non story too bristling with murders and good clean fun br br thread 1 in new york police inspector fernack friend is framed in a corruption scandal and disgraced st comes over from london to try to put things right nice and simple so far but is there really more than 90 000 in the world thread 2 another tale of a woman taking revenge on the people who murdered her brother wendy barrie does well in bumping off some nasty men and having the saint fall in love with her to boot including a baddie who was under their direct protection and in cellar there's a creepy shot of him dead and staring and them in a car when they're taking him back to where they'd got him paul as pearly gates must have supposed to have been homosexual in this witness the dressing gown at the beginning and the later beguiling comment by st that he was thinking of keeping him as a pet and did too for palm springs fernack was played by jonathan hale as usual but this time with such a beaten deflated attitude that what he really needed was a good slapping from templar to liven him up br br the hays office also made sure you got the picture right all threads are tied up with no bits well worth watching for all of us who like this kind of thing but if val kilmer's version is your yardstick then don't bother
1	i want to start my review by thanking the makers of this documentary it is obviously a labor of love and i think they did a pretty good job of putting together an enjoyable documentary about a person who has had so such little info available about him it definitely has a fan worship feel about it which is a good thing br br i had heard of bruce haack but didn't know much about him and i found the start of this documentary frustrating because i could hear other musicians talk about him but bruce haack himself was kept way too far off in the distance i wanted to see this bruce haack guy i felt as though the makers assumed i already knew him as well as these musicians on the screen which i didn't so i felt a bit left in the dark br br when bruce was finally shown in action it was great and gave me a taste of who bruce haack was but it was only a taste we got treated to more musicians and i felt as though i was being told look all these cool musicians are into him so he must be cool i didn't really care much for the musician's commentary on bruce br br i wanted to see bruce as a person you know the important stuff more interviews with people who worked with him or knew him more about his life and yes his use of drugs and other issues i would of liked to know so much more about his project i wanted to get inside his mind even if they did this via some voice of god commentary and photos it would of been ok br br the animations were good but again i felt these were used as filler they didn't really do anything other than allow me to hear his music and see some imagery based on the dimension 5 records i did think it was clever and creative but again i wanted to learn more about bruce br br maybe bruce haack was this elusive in real life br br anyway in the end i enjoyed this documentary and felt a sort of sadness that such amazing pioneers and geniuses such as mr haack get forgotten as the march of time stamps ever onwards i am glad that this film is around to educate people about bruce haack even with its flaws
1	when i stepped into the theater i thought this was going to be a great movie and i was not disappointed one bit wow this movie is brilliant the emotions felt through out the whole movie are extraordinary great acting by and beautiful music by a r rahman this might most probably be the best tamil movie i've seen in ages mani has yet again proved that he is the best in making meaningful and heartfelt movies br br this movie is basically about a young girl p s who is in search of her biological mother nandita das who abandoned her in a refugee camp to fight for her country just like her husband j d a young novelist finds out about this young girl's story and decides to write a story about her he and his wife decide to adopt this young child but one day she finds out that they are not her real parents and decides to search for her biological mother br br this movie really screams excellent the way mani presented the movie is magnificent br br my rating 10 10
1	i had no idea who bruce haack was before seeing this film i had just seen the moog doc which was alright the only problem was moog led a very content life and the doc was well content haack's story is filled with all the marketable tragedy people buy into these days but it carries a great deal of heart with it though the film doesn't go into the tragic stuff so much one can sense that bruce accepted the price of making music his way there are so many elements that make up his legacy ie invention of the where bruce could actually play music by touching people it must have been challenging to document haack's output which pretty much fell into every musical category imaginable even rap music but the director cut the piece together very coherently and managed to capture the spirit and the cast what a group of characters bruce surrounded himself with but what do you expect from a telepathic guru tripping with kids fighting against the music industry i recommend this film to anyone interested in music history it's that mainstream but that important
1	this movie was released originally as a soft x apparently with the explicit sex deleted later the producers relented smelled money and re released it with the excised scenes restored apparently only about 3 minutes i guess since kristine was of age it was held against her and her promising career came grinding to a halt i guess its all in the timing witness pam anderson's career but ronald reagan was in charge during debacle we had not heard about nancy reagan's affairs bill clinton and monica lewinski were in full swing during pam's coming out br br the sex is just icing on the cake both version satisfy this naughty musical is way above similar of others that were released at the same time
1	i thought the movie was great i thought kristine debell was great and was glad to see her move on into some more interesting roles i even overlook the fact that the print i have wasn't quite put back together correctly but who cares
1	i first saw this on the big screen with my girlfriend it was a fun romp with some cool music kristine was on the playboy cover and the centerfold as i recall she's really cute and perky and has lots of charm the movie made me want to see more of her and so i kept a look out for her in other stuff she's in steven spielberg's i wanna hold your hand and barbara streisand's the main event and bill murray's meatballs plus lots of tv shows like night court and tv movies me and my friends really enjoy her but her starring role in alice in wonderland puts the focus right where it ought to be right on kristine as the center of attention probably the prettiest hottest girl i've ever seen in movies
1	i would probably not have bothered to comment on this film if i had not been disturbed by the constant references made to it here in north america as a porn film our obsession with what is or should be regarded as pornographic remains a relic of the provided to film makers by the hayes committee many many years ago and it is now really time that we relegate it to the past so far we have not progressed far beyond establishing a somewhat arbitrary division between what we now term 'soft' and porn with both carrying the same pornography label it is time for us all recognise that neither the r rated soft porn release version of this film nor the unrated version hard porn available on dvd were in any way pornographic br br in legal terms pornography is defined by its capacity to deprave or corrupt many classic books such as lady lover fanny hill women in love the story of 'o' or moll flanders have been prosecuted for pornographic content tried by jury and cleared on the basis of this definition but in practice most ordinary citizens are not interested in what they regard as legal and apply a simpler test that is rather too stringent when applied to books or films which are very close to the line but serves to quickly clear most others from any taint of pornography although the hayes code would have rated as unacceptable both for nudity and for its depictions of sexual activities in practice most people today accept that where the basic message of a book or film is clearly designed to encourage the development of long term stable family relationships in which the participants find real fulfillment it cannot be regarded as pornographic this does not mean that works depicting unsatisfactory or unstable relationships should be recognised as pornographic only that these may need a more sophisticated assessment in we have a film about a young female librarian who has had a rather sheltered upbringing and keeps her suitor at arms length because of a feeling that this is what morality requires her to do after he gets too frustrated by this and threatens to leave her she falls asleep and dreams she is transported to a wonderland closely based on that of lewis carrol where everyone she meets is totally uninhibited about their sexual needs she is shocked but is a kind person who takes things as she finds them so before long she finds her own prejudices gradually melting away she wakes up when her boyfriend returns to break off their affair but her attitude to him has changed so completely that their relationship is fully restored and the film ends with them living ever with their children in a home with a white picket fence and a family dog an ending clearly directed to those romantics who remain very young at heart br br pornographic hardly br br suitable viewing for children well probably not quite unless they have very progressive parents br br r rating pg would be more appropriate today br br entertaining for viewers in most age groups yes but the film has its faults these are discussed in many of the comments here on imdb however most commentators clearly appreciated and enjoyed it br br i believe the only pornography associated with this film was the reported claim by an anti pornography activist of scientific proof that a magazine picture of kristin debell was a photographic montage of images of the face of a ten year old with various body parts of adult models these and other comments seriously damaged the career of a very promising young actress but today the film appears to be on its way to becoming a cult classic several home video productions have been released in both vhs and dvd format the last was a dvd containing both the r rated and unrated versions of the film released by subversive cinema in 2007 copies of this were readily available until a few months ago now they are almost exhausted and the mail order vendors who still have copies in stock are selling them at many times their original price a situation which usually quickly results in a new dvd release appearing this continuing interest nearly 35 years after the original film was released points to near classic status br br commentators on this database are expected to provide fellow viewers with useful guidance on whether a film is worth watching or even collecting my comments here were intended to stress the ongoing damage to the industry that still results from pressure on major studios to respect self censorship recommendations originating with the hayes committee on this database such general comments are very quickly marked by readers as 'not and i seldom make them but fortunately i still have space to add that in my opinion this film is quite unusual and is well worth watching or even buying it is flawed but kristine debell gives a great performance and the film provides a fairly unique and rewarding viewing experience overall i would rate it at 7 stars and will be buying a copy of the next dvd edition if and when it appears if ms debell is still alive today i would love to hear her comments both on the attempts to suppress this film and on the late recognition that it has gradually achieved
1	wonderful movie adult content lots of erotic scenes plus excellent music and dance scenes my wife and i absolutely loved this movie and wish they'd make more like it
1	this version of alice in wonderland is truly original equal parts porn fairy tale and musical comedy this film is definitely a strange bit of adult film history br br alice is a sexually naive librarian who ends up following the rabbit into wonderland where she meets all kinds of experienced weirdos like the mad hatter who likes to pull his dong out whenever possible humpty dumpty who broke his along with his shell and a brother sisters sex crazed duo and the bi sexual queen among others br br this version of alice in wonderland is actually quite tame by the standards of the time a time when a lot of porn was mean spirited and nasty as noted by the roughie sub genre this one is actually quite funny and strangely endearing it's the kind of thing you'd show your kids if it weren't for the graphic sex a little slow getting to the good stuff but genuinely entertaining oh and some of the musical numbers are downright hilarious if you're a drinker have a few if you're a smoker roll a couple and give this one a shot 8 10
1	i remember seeing this movie for the first time with a friend while on vacation in anaheim california in october 1976 while driving the tourist laden city streets we saw a movie marquee advertising alice in wonderland xxx so before even checking out version of the lewis carroll classic a half mile away our curiosity won out and we ventured into this cinematic threshold i remember even before the movie began how surprised i was to see this kind of film appearing in staid ultra conservative orange county br br thirty two years later i came across alice in wonderland at a local video store i wondered to myself if this was the same film until i looked at the back of the jacket and saw a picture of lovely kristine debell in the starring role and decided to rekindle some fond memories subversive video to their credit has released two versions x and xxx in the same package as it turns out the version my friend and i saw in anaheim was rated x in spite of the original xxx advertising at the there seeing it the second time around makes me realize what a delightful romp director bud townsend brought to the screen as an example of this man's scope behind the camera in his salad days he directed two episodes of tv's death valley days br br miss debell appearing in the april 1976 cover of playboy is ideal as alice she brings a fresh all american innocence to the role as a librarian in her early twenties yearning for a better life when her boyfriend is rebuffed from taking their relationship to the next level alice reaches her turning point this is a comedy' yet the melodies are quite catchy with appropriate strings and brass to offset the generally suggestive lyrics miss debell has a pleasant singing voice as she about wanting to be free that's when the magic begins the pacing of this movie is surprisingly fluid given the genre and the supporting cast of wonderland are there to enable alice as she blossoms into womanhood special mention goes to tv veteran larry as the white rabbit who seems to be the only character not obsessed with sex as he is always running late for an or something br br special features include comments from noted feminist advocate lena ramone who imparts how viewing this movie while attending college influenced her in choosing a career as an adult film actress after graduation br br what makes alice in wonderland such a delightful is its garden like setting partly filmed in the lush natural splendor of vancouver b c 's stanley park the movie belies its pornographic roots you don't come away feeling you've watched a sleazy skin flick at this writing i haven't viewed the triple xxx version the extra sex footage tacked on afterward would in all probability disrupt the overall flow and remove the light breezy atmosphere evident throughout br br naturally the lewis carroll version is the best way to curl up and explore alice's adventures in wonderland however for a time capsule representing 1970s' adult film archives alice in wonderland is worth following that white rabbit for a ribald ride full of mayhem
1	i only gave this nine stars instead of ten because i really don't approve of pornography all that much pornography has a useful purpose in society can't say i can always think of one but it probably does br br personal viewpoints set aside i really thought this film was pretty funny i didn't buy this movie because it was pornography i bought it because i am one of those 'alice' obsessives who will watch anything about in wonderland' i own just about every version there is on dvd so it was an obvious choice to complete my dvd collection with this i must admit i was beyond my expectations and the whole thing would have been thoroughly offensive if it hadn't been so damned funny besides the music is really good and i like musicals br br not everyone can make a good nudie musical anyone that has seen 'the first nudie musical' knows what a stink bomb that was considering what a low budget bill worked with 'alice' is pretty remarkable as a musical it's better than some musicals made on costly budgets br br the film can't totally escape the dirtiness of porn i usually watch the xxx version for full shock effect and some of those scenes are because we are talking about lewis carroll i found myself feeling very uncomfortable and embarrassed during the scene where 'alice' kristine debell starts masturbating it made me feel like a voyeur and the gratuitous lesbian scenes with 'alice' and the kitty cats were a bit too br br the film has a great sense of humor about everything however there is one especially funny moment during the queen's orgy when one of the actresses gets up and says who do i have to f k to get out of this movie hilarious br br i'm not sure i buy the whole sex is good for you ball your brains out philosophy here but sex is human and nothing human disgust me i don't know if i really feel that way but i couldn't resist saying it some people think everything should be about sex i dunno jeez just show some responsibility and decorum this movie definitely scores points for the sex minded but i wouldn't push your luck next time you might really freak someone out i mean we are dealing with children's literature here
1	i so much enjoyed this little musical fantasy i bought a copy to share with my friends it is a pleasant and diverting change from our mundane lives i believe that we can all benefit from an active fantasy life one of joy and indulgence i heartily recommend it br br the performance is excellent and the music uplifting
1	this is an incredible movie that begins slowly it leads you along in thinking of it as a typical maudlin family drama then in the second half there is a plot twist that utterly transforms this into a profound tale of global scope br br if you are unaccustomed to films from india with song and dance routines seemingly grafted on for no reason stick with this movie especially beginning with the second half you will find this movie an amazing experience br br minor spoiler here i have but one complaint with the movie the dialog at the end between and mds seemed very weak and missed the opportunity to bring in the war as a force that transforms people's lives it was implied all along but there should have been something about the importance of the struggle for mds
1	what can you possibly say this is the uncut hardcore musical alice it works too with a large energetic cast seemingly enjoying themselves to the hilt and whilst one could wish for a re mastered version i guess we are lucky to even have this video transfer pretty much a delight throughout there are a couple of slightly off moments but this could have been embarrassing all through and it certainly is not it also could have been and today would have been too camp no a very fine effort that is amusing tuneful and just sexy enough fine performances particularly the kristine debell in the lead and was that an richard prior as the prone knight being vigorously if discreetly ridden
1	adult version of the classic lewis carroll tale is much better than you might expect here alice is a virginal librarian who falls down the rabbit hole and learns to love sex and her own self image made at the time when adult films were creative endeavors with plots instead of just a series of sex scenes this is a good looking little movie more akin to the low budget films of its day despite what you may think this film actually has a good script with funny jokes and good songs its an naughty little tale for adults if you're wondering whether or not my recommendation is a good one or not consider that the film was pretty much only available in its non hardcore version for the better part of the last three decades simply because the film stands up with out the sex which is how i first saw the film years ago on cable tv the relatively recent home video release on dvd put back the sex in horribly grainy inserted clips which makes it clear the removal of the shots was the best choice all around if you're an open minded adult with a taste for something spicy i can heartily recommend this little film as a nice diversion
1	alice enters in a world of wonder but not the kind of wonder that you remember as a kid the mad hatter the white rabbit the queen and others even and show alice some things about her body and other people's bodies that might be quite wonderful a tale of love and lust the likes you've never seen br br kristine debell appears as alice i must say by 1970s standards this may be the most attractive adult actress of her day i believe this is her only film before moving on to mainstream work but it was pretty much the best possible one she could have chosen my love for all things alice is no secret even better than fairy tales which isn't really pornography so much br br the songs are cheesy but fit the theme of the movie one song what's a girl like you doing on a knight like this was pretty funny and the others had similar themes going the trial towards the end was well scripted and fit very nicely into the world of alice the logic and humor were definitely accounted for br br what more can you say about a film like this all i know is for people who are used to adult films where it's just a 30 second lead in to the sex this one is going to overload you with plot and music but personally i think there's something very special about this film and i hope it gets a nice dvd release with things touched up and special features if that's even possible i can see this being a cult film
1	this is what porn used to be this is a true classic i mean it is an x rated musical based on an actual book there is a real plot to it and how many x rated movies can boast that these days this belongs in an exclusive short list of true pornographic movie classics including does dallas deep throat and behind the green door i think the problem with pornographic movies these days is that it's all about the pornographic and not about the movie alice in wonderland has graphic depictions of sex sure but it is actually telling a story at the same time not one of the typical oh mr police man don't write me a ticket plots this takes it another step further and makes it a musical fabulous if you want to see an example of good porn this is one of the best
1	the first time i saw alice in wonderland – an x rated musical comedy was in the early '80 in a movie theater in n y city with some friends i remember we actually enjoyed it very much although we were left wondering why all the goodies were covered by in various forms shaped colored patches and why the movie was suddenly jumping from one scene to the next one leaving us guessing what we just missed obviously it was the soft core edited chopped version which left me with the desire to watch it again soon but in its original integral version well more then 20 years went by during which i forgot all about this movie and only a few days ago by sheer chance i stumbled upon a heavily used vhs copy which had seen better times a bit washed out colors scratchy sound and a few flaws but guess what it's the original uncut version and this time i really had a ball humor musical and porn may sound an awkward combination but in this case it really works and unlikely the big majority of boring porn flicks nowadays invading our screens this is a really amusing and entertaining sex fantasy which will not disappoint you the direction is clever the swift editing makes the movie fly like a bird all the familiar characters are lovable or just plain funny all the actors seem having a good time the songs are catchy worth mentioning the one about growing up sung by alice at the beginning of the movie and the hilarious what's a nice girl like you doing on a knight like this the dance numbers are well choreographed and staged amazingly energetic terry hall proves that she can also dance and dances enthusiastically her guts away don't worry she also does what she was best known for the acting the singing the set the costumes are of quality level and then there is kristine blue eyes debell in the first starring role of her career and oh boy she indeed has a few h c sequences personally i think they are absolutely not distasteful on the contrary they are spontaneous and quite arousing she is young and ohhh so very pretty with the help of her new friends in wonderland she discovers her body and her sexuality so she sings she dances and what do you expect she is also experimenting sex the closing sequence when she finally makes love to her boy friend is exceptionally well photographed and directed and is the highlight of the movie i think her physique du role the innocent blue eyes and captivating smile and her acting ability make those explicit sequences more then acceptable and actually highly enjoyable there is plenty of sex going on in this wonderland and everybody seems eager to get busy with the first available boy s or girl s which means lot of hard core action to be seen on the other hand some close up shots clearly spliced in just to make the porn hounds really happy are a bit redundant for my personal taste in general however the sex action is not offensive since handled with a great deal of humor and it blends almost seamlessly with the music the dances and the comedy if you think you and your partner can handle graphic sex watch it together take my word you will have an hour and a half of very good time perhaps also an after show extra action this is adult entertainment so be careful don't leave this video around or among other kid's videos if your 10 years old can put his hands on it he might amuse himself but you will be forced to provide embarrassing explanations about the reasons why this alice behaves quite differently from the one he red about in lewis carroll novel or he watched on the disney's video i bet you will not forget this one of a kind very soon it's a real shame that they don't like that anymore i give it a 9 out of 10
1	i saw this fine flick shortly leaving college as i sat there happily watching alice go from repressed virgin to sexual adventurer i got to wondering why her sexual encounters seemed familiar then i remembered intro psych 101 lecture one of the lectures dealt with the psycho sexual stages of basically the shift over time on what part of the body and its attendant stimulations gets our main attention as well as the changing emphasis on what gives us pleasure alice's first encounter is being bathed with emphasis on the genitals and bottom her next encounter is an oral one with the mad hatter's dingaling i forget the rest of the lecture and the order of alice's encounters but i do remember how well they matched it's interesting to see a skin flick with some brains behind it rather than the cliche i'm here to deliver your pizza let's screw br br i don't see how kristin career could be wrecked by this film as it was her first film and reagan's tiresome hypocrisies had yet to mar this land when it was released but in a way he and his stooge did affect ms debell when was staging his anti pornography commission to distract people from his own criminal activities hired the services of an anti porn activist named judith reisner reisner was obsessed with images she perceived as child pornography she saw the alice cover ms debell did for playboy and promptly announced she had scientifically proven that ms debell was in fact a photo collage of parts from several grown women and the face of a ten year old yeah right
1	when i was engaged my fiance and i would frequent the adult bookstores he would look for his favorite mags and on occasion a video that caught the eye as much as i enjoyed the one on one with him that the media caused there was never a video that i really enjoyed i had seen only one other movie way back when there was a satellite channel called xxx it dealt with a private eye unraveling a case that actually had a proper plot and was enjoyable all the others were grunting and puffing and blowing and whatnot there's only so many times you can watch a blonde bimbo faking 'it' br br this movie caught my eye and i migrated to it allowing him to wander the shop he noticed how hard was it not too grins i was actually interested in something lol in the video section and came over buying the slightly used copy for me we took it home and i loved it here was a porno with a plot i wasn't sure it even classified as porno but i use the word loosely br br the librarian was a character i could identify with alice rejected her boyfriend's advances she was not comfortable with her own sexuality and prudish in her comments bill went away and she continued to check in books the white rabbit ran through the library one book if you notice closely i believe it's been ten years since i saw the movie was by lewis c and alice for that same reason that propels teenagers to run into the woods when a chainsaw wielding maniac is behind them rather than towards populated areas follows it's the best way to get the plot forward alice finds herself in wonderland br br i barely recall all the details but i do remember clearly the swim in the lake and how she was dried off i liked how they got humpty dumpty up again the mad hatter's size of member being on his hat to wear it proudly and the brother sister team of dum and dee which did disturb me slightly then again they could have been husband wife but i never could tell no matter how many times i watched it the woman on the knight who told alice go away and find your own knight what's a a nice girl like you doing on a knight like this br br the part that really caught my attention when i watched it about a year or so later was one of the cards 3 of hearts i think who resembled my ex's current wife exactly we couldn't help but tease her about being in the movie the king of hearts was interesting and the queen was even more so due to the openness of the forum i can't go into details just say it was orgy based and we'll leave it at that br br when we split up i was allowed to take the video he knew i liked it but in the time since it's been lost in borrowing someday i'll find another copy br br btw if anyone could tell me what scene was cut from the amazon version i'd really appreciate it br br i heartily recommend this movie for the over 18 crowd it was soft sweet and really 70's but i liked it immensely br br out of 5 d
1	a lovely librarian played by playboy model kristine debell falls asleep and dreams herself into a strange world filled with extremely uninhibited these people love to sing and dance and fool around… alice has a series of sensual adventures among these br br the film was originally shot as a poem to eroticism with few explicit sex scenes which were eventually cut from its theatrical videocassette versions however have had some of the original erotic encounters joined at the end with them… br br for an extremely low budget picture the producers of this film did an extremely good the cinematography is full of life and energy the dances and numbers quite professional and the acting without a doubt it is one of the best adult fairy tales around…
1	im a die hard dads army fan and nothing will ever change that i got all the tapes dvd's and and every time i watch listen to them its brand new br br the film the film is a re run of certain episodes man and the hour enemy within the gates battle school and numerous others with a different edge introduction of a new general instead of captain square was a brilliant move especially when he wouldn't cash the cheque something that is rarely done now br br it follows through the early years of getting equipment and uniforms starting up and training all in all its a great film for a boring sunday afternoon br br two draw backs one is the germans bogus dodgy accents come one germans cant pronounced the letter w like us and two the casting of liz frazer instead of the familiar janet davis i like liz in other films like the carry ons but she doesn't carry it correctly in this and janet davis would have been the better choice
1	25 sitcoms had big screen spin offs most of these came in the 1970's here is a list of all are you being served blackadder bless this house bottom dads army father dear father for the love of ada george and mildred the league of gentlemen love thy neighbour the lovers man about the house nearest and dearest never mind the quality feel the width on the buses 3 please sir porridge rising damp steptoe and son 2 that's your funeral till death us do part 2 up 3 whack o whatever happened to the likely lads and whoops apocalypse br br so there was a big screen spin off of my all time favourite sitcom dads army what the film focused on was when the men were enrolled it showed the difficulties of getting a uniform and getting weapons it was a big summary of the first series of dads army at the end of the film they catch some german spies in the church the home guard come dressed as alter servers and had bayonets with them and defeated the germans the best bit in the film was when they were showing a hg lecture and a german lecture at the same time german head office on the phone would you get 10 000 bombs cut to home guard godfrey mrs on the phone would you get 1 of brussel sprouts br br this was probably the second best sitcom spin off movie beaten only by till death us do part 1969 it would have been better if at the start of the movie it had already been formed it was half way through the war though still an excellent movie a good one for the family
1	one more classic performance by and his team they can be proud to show this movie at all film festivals for it has got everything that needs to name it as an all time classic the war and its impacts in sri lanka through the eyes of a ten year old girl is the movie all about but the scenes and circumstances will surely be not the one that you will expect no wonder he is one of the best actors in the country who can always add beauty and unique identity for the role he plays and it needs real to act as a father for three kids when he is considered as a dream boy with a glamorous personality in the industry music by ar rahman makes the movie a special one for those who love melodies above all the story and the way it is told makes it as the best movie in the recent times
1	often when tv series are transferred to the big screen they lose their appeal not in this case the historical accuracy in costumes equipment and general art direction like the tv series is outstanding a good example of comedy and farce with excellent script and comedy actors in the right parts based on a classic tv series that stands alone in british tv comedy history
1	this is surely british humour at its best it tends to grow on you the first time i watched it i couldn't quite figure out what it was all about but now i can watch the episodes over and over again and enjoy them every time
1	in my opinion dads army is thee best british sitcom of all time i believe that if you just watch one episode of the show you cannot judge in completely on that one episode this include the movie you must at least watch a series of this show get inside the characters become familiar with there surroundings and the situations which they are in when you become familiar with the show then it will start appealing to you now the movie has a few changes to the series which is slightly disappointing but it still works watch a series or two of the show first before you watch this you'll not be disappointed good episode to watch is no spring for frazer
1	overall the dad's army movie is very funny although the humour isn't quite as catchy and sparkly as in the tv and radio series so where does this leave us the viewers if you've never seen dad's army then the movie is a good way of bringing yourself up to speed and getting hooked on the mad world of walmington o s the downside is that you might not get it because as i said the humour in the movie is a bit on the stolid side br br for dad's army buffs the movie holds nothing new as the story is more or less a of the tv series but it's a unique chance of seeing your favourites in high def as compared to the shitty quality of the bbc video recordings br br the movie also features what must be the lamest holdup sequence in the history of the universe i can't make up my mind if that's a positive or a negative though
1	the 1970s are often regarded as a golden age of british television comedy a period which saw numerous classic sitcoms as well as sketch shows such as monty python's flying circus the period was however emphatically not a golden age of british film comedy and what worked well on television rarely transferred successfully to the big screen the most triumphant exceptions to this rule were provided by the pythons but their best films monty python and the holy grail and life of brian were very different in conception to their tv show br br the main problem with adapting sitcoms for the cinema is that concepts devised to fit the bbc's 30 minute slots 25 minutes on itv which has to find room for commercials do not always work as well when expanded into a feature film three or four times as long few people will remember the film versions of say up or steptoe and son with the same affection as the television versions in the case of many classic tv comedy shows some mothers do 'em yes minister fawlty towers the goodies no attempt was made to film them at all for which we can be grateful characters such as michael crawford's frank spencer or john cleese's basil fawlty can be hilarious in half hour doses but i doubt if they would remain as funny over two hours one comedy programme albeit a dramatisation of a comic novel rather than a sitcom in the normal sense which might have worked in the cinema was the fall and rise of reginald but any hopes of a film were dashed by the tragically early death of its star leonard br br dad's army was one of the few television sitcoms of the period which was turned into a decent film about the only other one i can think of was porridge this was possibly because it had an unusually large number of well developed characters and derived most of its humour from the interactions between them the original sitcom ran between 1968 and 1977 and told of the misadventures of a home guard platoon in the small seaside town of walmington on sea the home guard initially known as the local defence volunteers was an auxiliary militia during world war ii made up for the most part of men too old to serve in the regular forces the film version is a three act drama act i deals with the formation of the platoon and the recruitment of its members in act ii they cause havoc during an army training exercise in act iii they succeed in capturing a group of nazi airmen whose plane has been shot down br br the three key players in this drama are the commander captain george arthur lowe and his two subordinates sergeant arthur wilson john le mesurier and corporal jack jones clive dunn who in civilian life is the local bank manager is a fussy little man peering at the world through a pair of thick spectacles it is he who takes the initiative in forming the home guard unit and who appoints himself its commander he is pompous officious with an exaggerated sense of his own importance and of his own powers of leadership the sort of man who does not suffer fools gladly and in george world view the term fool covers most of the rest of the human race he does however have his good qualities he is motivated by a genuine patriotic idealism and is capable of great physical courage shown in his encounter with the germans br br wilson is deputy at the bank the two men are very different in character something emphasised by a difference in appearance wilson being tall and thin whereas is short and stout he comes across as being both more intelligent and better educated than his boss his accent suggests he may be a former public schoolboy nevertheless he has ended up playing second fiddle both in civilian and military life probably because he has the sort of passive personality which leads to pessimism and defeatism and an inability to take anything altogether seriously jones is an old soldier who now runs the local butcher's shop his promotion to corporal is due mainly to his ability to bribe with black market sausages his enthusiasm for his new role is matched only by his incompetence and ability to cause chaos although his catchphrase is don't panic he is prone to panicking at any given opportunity br br several other members of the platoon are featured private fraser the dour scottish undertaker is even more of a pessimist than wilson catchphrase we're doomed man doomed private godfrey is a gentle old man whose main concern is the whereabouts of the nearest lavatory private walker is a sharp cockney spiv and private pike another bank employee a spoilt mummy's boy pike's mother is wilson's mistress although wilson tries to keep this liaison secret from the disapproving two significant outsiders are the mild mannered vicar and the arp warden detested enemy and quite his equal in and br br there are occasional bawdy doubles entendres keep your hands off my privates is ostensibly referring to those soldiers who hold that rank more so than in the television show which was surprisingly free of innuendo its creators david croft and jimmy perry would later go on to create comedy shows such as are you being served and hi de hi which were notorious for suggestive humour the film does however preserve much of the mixture of gentle wit nostalgia and sharp characterisation which made the tv series so successful 7 10
1	the second in director cohen's trilogy of second world war comedies the others being death do us and adolf hitler my part in his is a film version of the bbc's long running and much loved situation comedy like most transfers of television shows this movie suffers from an absence of plot and is more a collection of sketches some of which work better than others for example the scene where a high ranking army officer floats down a river is a memorable surreal moment br br the joy of this movie is it's representation of a past that probably never existed and an england which is defined by picturesque countryside and the chance it offers to see veteran scene stealers such as john le mesurier given their biggest film roles arthur lowe is superb as captain a who when the chips are down displays great courage and saves the day the climax is probably the character's greatest moment br br episodes of the television series are of course funnier but as an introduction to a british legend you cannot find anything better
1	there's nothing left undone about this perry and croft masterpiece as good as any of the best episodes thankfully it was still filmed in time before the late james beck sadly passed away to be included in it to show his talent br br it shows right from the start how the platoon is formed from the state of national emergency showing the boys as inept under captain arthur lowe and sergeant wilson john le mesurier as they usually are through the series br br along the way does his usual longing to show authority but the chaps can't help but let him down at every turn during wargames and suspecting an invasion they have a chance in the film though to redeem themselves when they actually capture the nazi airmen who take the church congregation hostage br br that was a nice finale especially as had been able to prove himself to the general being given one last chance to shape up a great film plenty of good lines and laughs it's another one for the dvd cupboard i'm glad the bbc is repeating it and on this day 2 8 08 they deservedly had 'dad's army night' not to be missed
1	i have to say that some of the other reviews of this film i have read show very little understanding of it or the original tv series it stemmed from dad's army was a sitcom and therefore had humour and so is bound to have put a smile on the face of the dire situation however the series carried very many serious messages such as the episode about the bigotry and ignorance that was attached to conscientious objectors the film was faithful to the series and was simply like an extended episode so i'm afraid the reviewer who claimed that columbia improved the humour was quite wrong and let's face it the bbc sitcoms of this period beat anything that came out of america hands down also comments referring to propaganda were also way off the mark the were people considered unfit for frontline service who still wished to serve they were very brave men who knew they were sentenced to death as soon as they signed up as hitler announced that anyone who did so would be executed if and when britain was invaded thank you for allowing me the opportunity to set the record straight as it is always good to actually speak and comment on what has been seen rather making it up as you go along i find
1	i wasn't sure on what to expect from the box i am a huge fan of darko but also saw the mess that became of tales whether or not that was a studio botch up who knows with the box i was pleasantly surprised it was a throwback to classic sci fi paranoia films that hint at much larger devious happenings but center on an intimate character base br br the slow build and creepy tension was very effective to the tone and theme of the entire film any change in such pacing would have lead to the typical hollywood or style that just wouldn't have served this story's purpose correctly everything from the strange looking acting extras littered throughout to the low end score to the minimal explanation of what exactly was going on added an entire focused thread of underlying dread and the shrinking sense of hope for our greedy though well meaning lead characters this was something well thought out and put into motion by richard kelly from the first act through to the end richard matheson's short story which this was based on not the twilight zone ep which was another take on the story was one of morality and greed which were still the central elements of the box being only some 8 long expanding it into a feature with substance would have been no easy task but was done so with style originality and leaves the viewer with lingering thoughts about the film many have and will compare this to darko for whether or not it is as profound but i found it to be an entirely different film thematically and emotionally it's tone is completely different as are the messages and intents of this film where darko left us with questions internally the box leaves the viewer with more external questions involving the world around us such as knowing human nature would the test of the box ever come to an end decent acting great creepy visuals and looming atmosphere add to the slow chilling ride its not for everyone but for those who get where its coming from its a treat
1	even for sci fi this movie is movie is a little out there alright more than a little my first thought after watching it was that i had just lost my mind br br don't watch this movie expecting another darko darko fans are never going to like another richard kelly movie because of their freaky cult standards donnie darko is a thing of the past get over it br br richard kelly loves making movies that make you feel stupid for not understanding the meaning' the first time you watch them to be honest i had to watch the box twice before i liked it br br the deeper meaning to spare you a bunch of sociological psycho babble humans are self serving we make decisions that can destroy our lives and don't open mail without a return address br br summary creepy old man tells diaz if you push the button i will kill someone you don't know and give you a million bucks of course she pushes it and as promised by the creepy old gets a case of money then the movie takes a dive into the unusual to spare my fingers the typing for pushing the button diaz and her husband are cursed by supernatural alien beings in an elaborate experiment to gage the morality of the human race br br i liked the willingness of the movie to ignore the generic movie guidelines its different its intense it has a deeper meaning although its philosophy 101 material it leaves you guessing not a hollywood ending br br i disliked why would any being with the technology to inhibit another life form devise such a ridiculous scheme what god like alien has the patience for that diaz was good but was there a need for the country accent they live in virginia br br i give it a 7 because kelly didn't put as much attention to detail as with his other movies overall good flick
1	mani is back wit a gem he manages to capture the mental trauma of a small girl searching 4 her mother they way he goes about showing the problems in ceylon is a treat tis movie is a must watch the musical score does enhance the viewing pleasure rahman a find of has given some great tunes the lyrics r apt 4 the movie the locations used for the movie are very good and makes viewing pleasant the movie starts of in a light manner moves over to capture the feelings of the girl finally goes on o shed light into the life of people in war torn places across the world this is yet another classic from
1	the trailer goes nowhere near and only scratches the surface of the film and rightly so too not because it has that obligation to keep its real narrative under wraps but because what actually transpires will provoke entirely different lines of questioning some of which are frustratingly not answered in the film leaving you to your own devices to interpret the series of events which of course means plenty of material for an after show discussion br br metaphorically the box refers to how us humans tend to subconsciously hole ourselves into situations or things in everyday life and how our enclosed thoughts tend to see things from a certain perspective seldom out of the box there's a speech made near the end by one of the characters that will leave you pondering over this fact which governs the basis of the entire film and even threading on existentialism where our bodies are mere vessels for the soul and from cradle to the grave we put ourselves in more boxes in a way of life fashion br br what i disliked about the film is how it tried to sound intelligent through the frequent name dropping of covert government agencies like the cia and nsa as though there's something overtly clandestine about these agencies that we should be aware of they serve little purpose other than to put every action and every person under scrutiny that nobody can be trusted wrecking havoc in a sense to both the characters and the audience as we try to keep up with trust issues to aid in the interpretation of the narrative having it set in 1976 against a nasa backdrop of manned space missions and in langley virginia also provided that heightened sense of wary that will sap your energies as you sit through it patiently br br based upon the short story button button written by richard matheson and made into an episode of the twilight zone the story follows the lewis family where husband arthur james marsden works at nasa and develops a prosthetic foot for his teacher wife norma cameron diaz and you'd think it's all happy family with their son walter sam oz stone until one day a mysterious man called arlington steward frank langella in a two face inspired facial effect whom we are preempted of in the opening comes knocking and giving them a deal or no deal button in a box plunge the button and they'll get a million bucks we're talking in dollar terms of the 70s here although a stranger out there will die if they don't well the got an date br br the story would dictate a deal be made which of course sparks off a mysterious sequence of events that unfold with even more shady characters who nosebleed appearing some whom are inexplicably zombie like apparently all under the influence or employment or arlington steward whether or not steward is death a clandestine government employee a messenger from god or a representative of aliens after an anal probe remains unanswered so whichever way you look at it it's as if he's delivering something expected just begging that mankind will shake off its innate greed so that his work can be cut short and to return to wherever he came from br br if you need a little distraction from the disparate scenes which make up the narrative the production sets and art direction are gorgeous in recreating the 70s look as you try to figure out the mystery of the consequences that stem from a result of not fully understanding the fine print it's full circle this examination of human nature of our greed for immediate gratification manifesting its result in longer term pain confusion and further choices that we'll make based on real sacrifices nifty special effects come into play as well though it just leaves more room open as to the genre of the film br br so is it horror science fiction or a mystery thriller it's everything rolled into one actually together with a sprinkling of the philosophical just don't go expecting a straight narrative film with clean and easy answers at the end – this is like an x files episode on steroids
1	the box is one of the strangest movies i have ever seen to explain my experience let me use this word picture imagine that you have been on pixie sticks and paint fumes for the last month while watching nothing but twilight zone reruns the resulting coma lands you in a hospital where the nurse seems to get a kick out of shooting adrenalin into your iv the dream that you have while in the coma will be something like this movie br br summary a man shows up at the door of a couple he gives them a box with a button on it press the button they will get a million dollars in cash and a person they don't know will die i'll try not to spoil anything but from there things devolve into a plot so intertwined and complex and purely original that it will make you question your sanity but hey most of us have been sane for a while now and change is good br br pros amazing storyline overall good acting not a slow moment once it gets going it asks questions of human morality that are rarely if ever asked in popular culture this movie is deep it has meaning its not summer blockbuster special effects fluff not that there's anything wrong with that this movie had a relatively low budget and it showed in some places but i think it is perhaps that very thing that makes me like it so much br br cons the first twenty minutes before it gets going are really quite slow at the end of the movie you will be so confused that you just have to sit down and think for a good half hour i can guarantee that this movie will not get rave reviews from your peers or most critics it is far too strange and there aren't explosions every three seconds in fact there are no explosions of any kind in this movie besides your brain popping from trying to understand exactly what the heck just happened personally i don't think this is a bad thing but many will br br rating easily a 9 10 i have never had an experience like watching this movie the only reason i can't give it a 10 10 is that it is just too wrapped up in itself there are several large things left unexplained at the end that are still bugging me as i sit here writing this but overall this is the best experience i have had in a movie theater in quite a long time but be warned you will not like this movie if you can't sit back turn on your suspension of disbelief to about 150 and prepare your brain to do some impressive acrobatics br br visit www com for more reviews
1	the creator of donnie darko brings you a twilight zone themed tale of the oddest fashion the film centers on a middle aged young couple living paycheck to paycheck in 1976 one day a mysterious box appears with a red button later on that day a spooky gentleman shows up and tells them that they have the choice to press the button and receive a million dollars but someone they don't know will die it's a disturbing and provocative question suspensefully outlined in the trailer and tv spots but let it be known that you just don't know what your in for until you see it at times pretentious and a bit melodramatic the film is ultimately effective because of it's good performances and intriguing subject matter it would be unfair to ruin any of the plot twists for you but lets just say the film will deliver on the aspects you expect it to and not completely fulfill others it begins to outline there's a lot of apparent symbolism and subtext in the film which is both interesting and annoying as it wasn't so evident in his other superior film donnie darko there isn't too much more to say without ruining the film for you it's meant to inspire lots of cafe chatter afterwards however i'd also like to say it's shot well and has an appropriately aged look to it and it's worth a watch check it out
1	forget about donnie darko i open with this because it seems that a good portion of the reviews i have read on the box amount to the simple but weak argument that it doesn't hold a candle to darko it isn't that i disagree with that necessarily i just feel that this movie is a different animal altogether and deserves its own analysis there are points of comparison to be sure but they are peripheral concerns when you consider that the key to the heart of each movie is different in darko the driving force of the narrative is existential in the box the driving force of the narrative stems from a moral dilemma believe me when i say that i understand the inclination to compare an innovative by looking for trends and patterns but for me it is more important to approach each new film as a self contained entity first and then broaden my gaze afterwards br br the box is one of those films you get mixed feelings about because it seems to be in some sort of identity crisis it isn't always sure what it wants to be the twists are numerous but easy to follow if not to predict james marsden and cameron diaz play a relatively believable pair of newlyweds who are in financial straits a box containing a button unit arrives on their doorstep and they are informed by a horribly burned man that if pushed the button will cause the death of one person whom they don't know and they will receive one million dollars one of the things the box achieves is to conjure up this invisible fear that somewhere out there our actions have moral consequences before the button is pushed it has an eerie and seductive quality alluring yet sinister once it has been pushed events are set in motion that make the two leads question their own morality and deeply regret their fateful decision br br the notion that the box is an experiment is interesting because for me it provides the movie with a paradox if there are external beings developing an altruism based on data gathered by couples pushing and not pushing the button then as the conspiracy unravels we notice that ultimately it is a forced altruism be selfless or the species will be wiped out i suppose the couples don't know the consequences of their actions when they are faced with making the decision but they have no reason to suspect that the box can do anything so why would they choose altruistically is altruism devalued by the fact that we only care about it when presented with a problem in our own lives br br the psychological hurdles in this movie are everywhere push the button or don't it's likely someone is messing with you take the money or don't no one gives anything away for free search for the truth the answers you find slowly reveal your demise br br i propose that the box is an ironic work because it offers the false choice of free will while revealing that we are trapped in many metaphorical boxes you can only choose to be free at the expense of another's life is that freedom no it is only another box because then you become trapped in the consequences of your own morality there is no escape for us because we live on earth and that is another box this is precisely why the external beings in the film are ultimately antagonists they demand we conform to moral standards which rob us of our freedom we made it to mars and we were burned for it and turned into slaves in a sick game br br the references to jean paul sartre illustrate this point rather well you can only enter the final chamber free or not free sure but no matter the form in which we enter the chamber it is a chamber nonetheless br br trevor
1	i'd honestly give this movie a solid 7 5 but i clicked 10 to try to offset the 5 pages of imbecilic unjustified 1 star reviews this is an interesting story all of the acting is good to very good even ms diaz who is totally out of her usual grinning bimbo role here yet plays it well the sets are perfect and the cinematography is consistently appropriately creepy it's a fine morality play and there is no reason to explain the origin of the god supernatural being alien whatever that's running the show so i'm glad the movie doesn't try it's really irrelevant to the story which is relatively long but quite compelling and summed up quite satisfyingly in the ending br br before you decide this movie is terrible or really anything under a 7 5 read some of the dozens of 1 star hated it reviews that are rife with misspellings lack of punctuation and and juvenile criticisms maybe the trailer was misleading or something i didn't see it but some of these reviewers were apparently expecting terminator 4 or saw 5 one reviewer actually compared this movie to saw how utterly inappropriate and unrelated br br seriously most of these reviews read like you tube comments according to these critics this movie is too confusing yet too predictable not enough action yet there's too much going on too smart yet too dumb explains too much yet leaves too much unexplained oh and it's apparently a waist sic of time do consider the quality and source of the reviews before taking them to heart i'm afraid these 1 star kids failed to understand the phrase altruism and were therefore utterly incapable of understanding the movie's premise despite adamantly claiming that they get it right before explaining how confusing it was if you know what those two words mean you will have no trouble understanding and enjoying this movie br br i really wish there were a reviewer reputation system here so i could be sure to ignore the rating of everyone who gave this movie 1 star forever br br see it for yourself and enjoy the fine presentation of an interesting couple taking an interesting moral test and facing the consequences it's a good time in my opinion
1	i'm not gonna lie to say that this movie is confusing is like saying the sun is hot but not really and if you've seen cult director richard kelly's previous films donnie darko and tales you know that's gotta mean something when i went to see this movie there were about 50 people in the theater before an hour into the film about half of the audience had already walked out by the end there were only 15 people left wondering what in the hell did they just see i for one could only comprehend roughly 40 of what i saw on screen and even then it can only be called interpretation so why did i give this movie a generous seven stars because for one we get some spectacular performances marsden's great and langella returns as a familiar creepy character and most importantly two because it's entirely original and richard kelly undoubtedly one of the bravest directors alive uses his creative vision to tell a story that dares to be different quite frankly it's the only way only through kelly's unique style could this story be told the way it's intended br br in the end if you're not willing to spend some serious thought into an intelligent movie and even then it may all amount to nothing stay far away from this one but if you want to watch a deep rich complex and thought provoking piece on spirituality existentialism and the predictability of human nature go see this be prepared for lengthy discussions with your partner however br br note if by chance you've read this review taken my recommendation have actually seen the movie and still believe you've wasted 2 hours of your life i'd be happy to share my views on the whole meaning and plot of the film see that's why i liked it so much it promotes discussion as hard as it is though i'll try summing it up by paraphrasing a rather depressing quote by langella's character who explains the significance of the simple box to an employee your house is a box which you live in the car that you drove to work is a box on wheels when you return home from work you sit in front of a box with moving images you watch until the mind and soul rots and the box that is your body deteriorates when finally you are placed into the ultimate box to rest under the soil and earth
1	the premise is rather original and well thought of but unfortunately siding a good story is very low budget that doesn't even allow for decent special effects jeff fahey does his best amongst a poor cast as does the always beautiful linda hoffman they should make more movies together the movie while not worth much praise warrants at least one viewing
1	i wanted to watch this to get a inside look at the show it told the story more of robin williams then mork mindy still thought it was great we got to see robin always being 'on' no matter what the performance of was awesome br br the introductions of the main players seem so real to me roebuck as garry marshall was wonderful he was so charming in this which helped me get through all the williams energy the little behind the scenes pieces of his other shows happy days and laverne shirley was enlightening i also thought richmond peck's harvey was also a nice rock in the pond this is a good thing br br this movie told the age old story of hollywood folks going through the ups and downs of stardom it kept me glued to my tv and i learned to love robin well hell mostly everybody seem to be the super people i sometimes think hollywood is go figure br br i sometimes wonder why the network people are always played to be idiots we never saw the head of abc just heard him like charlie from charlie angels i wonder if this way planed it seems so sad that a show at number 1 could be so destroy by their own network br br i think this story could be told about anyone's life as they climb the ladder of any job movie and tv stars are always loved or hated by so many people that you grew up with you just want to reach back in their past to remember your own past i remember watching the show and always wondering what does happen in their personal lives br br mork and mindy will always be part of me and i got to see part of them it may not all be the truth it's also all not a lie but in the end it told me a wonderful sad happy story
1	i just want to say that chris role as williams for that entire show was emmy worthy it was uncanny how well he did and to be as rapid fire and as random and as creative as robin williams really is wow there were scenes where had to say probably 20 rapid fire lines and do 15 different characters while delivering those lines all while sounds as much like robin williams doing those characters well that my friends is impressive acting its one thing to do a robin williams impersonation for a couple of minutes its another to do it for a whole tv movie br br i don't know how i felt about the whole show and i don't know how much they played with the facts but i do know that it was chris that kept me watching so for that i give him a 10
1	great chris has got to be the best williams that i have every seen he acts it up perfectly this was like watching williams as he really was and is it almost made me cry watching him br br i had no idea that robin was as close a friend to john belushi as he was the portrayal of this relationship was very good and could almost stand on it's own merits very sad what both of them went through br br i really felt for both val and robin during his rough times i am glad that they ended it in a high note br br i hope robin puts a 100 bill in this guy's hat br br and it was great that it was filmed in vancouver
1	i finally snagged a copy of through netflix and spent new eve watching an amazing drama unfold it began with a winsome nandita das getting married to in the of sri lanka and then a war takes over their romance has to flee to india and is in a refugee camp as she gives birth to a child several years later we see a playful well loved child p s who is the darling or burden of teachers parents and fellow schoolmates alike in a very how to solve a problem like maria sequence on her birthday she is told by her parents and indra that she is not their biological child she was adopted this tilts her confident love filled world and she constantly dwells on why her birth mother left her several attempts at later the adoptive parents take her to sri lanka to try to find her birth mother the country is torn asunder by a raging civil war and the trio are inevitably caught up in the mess but this also leads to their meeting the new one who finally is confronted by and asked why she abandoned her daughter br br the story of a child who has to grapple with the fact that she was abandoned at birth her obsessive drive to reconnect with her birth mother the unconditional love of the adoptive parents the demons that drive the birth mother the normalcy of chennai and the horrors of terrorism ravaged sri lanka mani made a masterful film that blended many ingredients into a saga that is soul stirring ar music beautifully complements the magical and the poignant moments in the film the film has excellent performances from nandita das and an absolute stunner role as the abandoned one done by the child artiste p s this performance won her a national award br br the cinematography is visual poetry each frame is beautifully crafted and breathtakingly shot i am intrigued by the connection mani has with terrorism love and obsessions i think his exploration of these subjects is absolutely outstanding character was quite unique his passion and idealism did not make him selfish rather was well matched with how much he cared for the little girl his one liners were hilarious the mother played by was also quite multi dimensional she was idealistic loved the adopted daughter but also worried about her biological kids the shock angst and obsession of the child was outstandingly portrayed by p s her wide accusing eyes did most of the talking in fact the enigmatic characters were those of nandita das and her husband perhaps mani deliberately made them mysterious so as to not give us overt ideas of why they were the way they were the enigma of why a terrorist becomes what he or she becomes it also kept him from being judgmental this was another conflict in which he took no sides but merely reported while showing the human tragedy br br is visual poetry and a soul stirring drama i rarely weep in the movies but this one left me moist eyed and a little this is a beautiful film a treasure and a keeper if you can find a copy beg borrow or steal one today and watch the film
1	i just watched this movie on it's premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia i liked not loved mork mindy as a kid mostly for robin william's zany energetic performance this movie made me remember why was the original show great not really but robin certainly was which brings me to this movie br br i was pleasantly surprised expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show which in a way it was but of course the real focus was on robin it was interesting to see robin's journey from struggling street jester to national t v star and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife and my hat is off to star chris as he portrayed mr williams with integrity sensitivity and heart not just a cute impression although it was even dead on on an unrelated note i noticed that robin's struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman who was under appreciated by network t v and held back creatively but that's the taxi behind the scenes biopic br br all in all this was a very enjoyable flick in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the the acting was solid by all never melodramatic like i suspected and the story moved along well performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi the scene in which belushi robin was a hoot not a great masterpiece by any means i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam but definitely watchable especially for those robin williams and mork mindy fans out there
1	after getting hooked on the mini series north south i could hardly wait for the continuation north south ii then years later along came book iii heaven hell north south book iii finally the last installment came for the on going saga of the maine and hazard families i was so enraptured by this series that i taped each part off of tv and then managed to get family and friends hooked and i watched it again each time someone new wanted to see them my tapes are old and i crave this trilogy on dvd if you missed book iii you didn't get full satisfaction and you don't know how it all turned out do yourself a favor and demand this set on dvd
1	this is the best movie i have ever seen it has it all tragedy and happiness love and hate and a deep friendship that not even war can destroy br br the most splendid casting i have ever seen patrick swayze and james read were top grade in this movie br br if you see part 1 you will want to see it all some of my friends watched part of the movie at my home then went out and bought the movie br br i am a civil war buff but this movie got my grandchildren interested in history any movie that can get children to learn history is great i have books i ii iii and when the girls come up from florida each year they want to see north south
1	north and south is a miniseries from the golden age of television miniseries in the 1980s which was a time for long sweeping epics with high production values and lots of star cameos it is for the most part excellent for what it is although i personally prefer the less soap opera like elements of the story and the overall sense of history br br james read and patrick swayze deliver excellent performances especially read whose george hazard serves as kind of an emotional anchor in the midst of the often melodramatic story the series also contains top notch work from kirstie alley wendy hal holbrook lewis smith genie francis georg stanford brown and others the costumes filming sets and music are all first rate as well br br don't take it as a history lesson but take it for what it is a well made sweeping epic from a bygone era book 2 which followed a year later is also excellent but i would advise viewers to skip book 3 which came out 8 years after book 2 and was not nearly as good as the first two parts books 1 and 2 are classics though even with their elements and they are well worth watching
1	i really enjoyed north and south very much i think it is one of the best and most lavish television series i have ever seen the calibre of the cast is amazing you have actors from the golden age of cinema people like james stewart gene kelly elizabeth taylor robert mitchum and jean simmons with other actors who were the new faces of the 80's like patrick swayze james read jonathan frakes genie francis philip casnoff and lesley anne down br br at the heart of the story is the friendship of two completely different men there is orry main patrick swayze who is from the south and george hazard james read who is from the north throughout the series their friendship is continually threatened with the differences in their backgrounds particularly about the treatment of slaves in the south especially at plantation but when each needs the other they will forget the arguments and go and help their friend i really liked the chemistry between the two men and was really interested to see if their friendship could survive the war br br i liked how the series showed what life was like before the war so the audience could see what were the factors that lead up to the war what was going on at the time then the devastation of a nation that was being torn apart and then the nation having to rebuild the country again the war scenes were very well choreographed and very realistic to me br br i think what is great about it is it has so many elements running through it romance history battles that would interest most of the audience there is something for everyone i particularly enjoyed the romance between brett genie francis and billy parker stevenson john stockwell especially when she stood up to her sister ashton for the first time the other romances were interesting as there were not all the same each had something different to the others which kept me watching particularly the madeline and orry story strand to see if they would be together in the end br br it is one of the best american mini series that i have watched the story had the right balance of romance and the more serious history side that was happening in the country at the time but it is paced just right the characters are very watchable and the locations are beautiful and the music particularly at the start and end of the episode is so toe tapping good and works with the mood of the story
1	this is one of the century's best tv series ever with all the great suspense story and a cast of absolutely fantastic actors and love and grief that really gets you involved and captivated in front of your tv if you have seen it once you will go back to see it again i have several times and still do it the 20 th century's best drama
1	i first saw this mini series as a child and though i am a child no longer i still love it professional copies are hard to find however when it's on dvd it's mine br br great casting marvellous plots and plenty of action romance and even quite a bit of well placed comedy i'm not a historian by nature but i love this masterpiece of historical fiction
1	i have 2 complete sets from time life this is my favorite movies of all time love all the actors and actresses awsome picture love patrick this is the film that showed his true talent but yet he does not get credit for the display he preformed much credit has been missed in these films love the way they portrayed the dry and dusty of the civil war making it into one of the greatest love stories of all time and showing through all of life what true freindship means how 2 divided countries split but yet all and all the freindship remained solid even though the war divided and up but through it all till the very end they remained and taught us the viewer how true ships can still remain till present day simply the best gone with the wind doesn't compare to this film patrick at his best after seeing this movie for the one hundred thousand time i became a big fan of and have followed his career ever since have all his movies after he made north and south
1	this is a great movie all 3 were the last one was not as good as the first 2 but it was made along time after and it was pulling at straws but you want to watch it cause it tells the end of the story just not how we might think it should end br br these movies made me want to be there to be in all the hardship love tears and laughter that the people in this movie go threw it is one of the few movies that is good every time you see it no matter how many times that is br br there are some parts in the movie that the little kids wont understand and the older ones be old enough to watch but it is a great movie spanning over 20 years
1	i agree with with of the messages on here that the book is not like the movie i read the book as a sophomore in high school in sc i instantly fell in love with the book and eagerly awaited the release of the mini series as much as i liked the movie and thought it was very well done i was disappointed that the movie did not follow the book i was glad the orry was not killed off like he was in love and war or n s ii br br having grown up in sc and graduating from university of sc i fell in love with southern history because of this mini series and book i had the honor of meeting john jakes at a symposium in 1988 at usc i stayed around afterwards and meet mr jakes unfortunately i did not get to ask him a question but meeting him was honor enough i majored in accounting but got my minor in southern studies in addition i patterned a lot of my mannerisms after orry main orry and myself are very much alike i feel i was born 150 years too late i am a southern gentleman and very proud of this br br well i fell in love with 2 women in the movie genie francis and wendy man did i have the hots for wendy i never quite could find a real life version of her i hope one day too
1	the director of directed the first indian film i had seen dil se which led me down the path of buying well over hindi dvds in the br br course of four months i can say i understood the total attraction i was br br somehow confused as to why the film would stop for music videos it was an excellent movie i didn't know what to make of the dancing and the female br br vocals were a bit shrill for my western ears but somehow i found ar score hypnotic i bought the soundtrack the following day and then hota hai and k3g the following week and with the exception of ichi the br br killer a few other korean films i can't be bothered to watch much else kind of strange for someone who has only watched a strict diet of hong kong horror br br and action science fiction films for the past 30 years br br but i should get back to it is one of the mani latest efforts and i laughed cried got totally mad terrified and most of all i didn't feel manipulated the acting was superb the photography was beautiful i think you could stop the movie at any given time and would notice that any give frame would be worthy of painting the music fit the movie perfectly and after the br br credits rolled i wanted to watch again so i did br br it would be foolish to discuss the plot for fear that you may miss the pleasure of watching the events unfold and the characters develop this is what great film is all about i stood and applauded in my home theater when it was over br br my wife is watching now and i can't wait for her reaction i can't expect it will be anything less than mine
1	north and south 1985 patrick swayze james read lesley anne down wendy terri garber kirstie alley genie francis phillip casnoff jean simmons john stockwell lewis smith david carradine jonathan frakes wendy fulton erica tony frank jim metzler olivia cole andy stahl william george stanford brown robert mitchum fairchild johnny cash hal holbrook gene kelly david ogden stiers john anderson lee olivia de havilland elizabeth taylor forest whitaker robert jones director richard t heffron teleplay paul f edwards patricia green douglas kathleen a shelley br br based on john jake's successful paperback novels north and south love and war and heaven and hell this was a mini series on television from 1985 to 1987 its success owed more to the success of roots a similar civil war era slavery soap opera televised about a decade earlier in the 70's patrick swayze at the beginning of his career and at the time he was doing many films like dirty dancing which would make him famous stars as orry main a plantation born young man from south carolina who sets off to west point here he meets george hazard james read who is supposed to be the hated enemy the yankee north but with whom he bonds closely soon the mains from the south and the hazards from the north become friends despite the turbulent era leading to civil war the theme of family friendship and doing the right thing even when the nation was falling apart is at the heart of this otherwise soap opera full of action and romance and ashton jean simmons and teri garber portray sisters who become enemies when one of them marries yankee billy hazard john stockwell bitchy seductive manipulative ambitious and evil ashton is fun to watch on screen though the series didn't cover everything in novels what we see is a condensed version of it and they changed a few things to make it a sort of historical romance with history lessons attached the characters find themselves in all the major civil war scenes harper's ferry where and feminist hazard kirstie alley loses the love of her life the ex slave grady fort gettysburg and we are privy to the white house where we see abraham lincoln hal battle out the war in his conscience we meet all the prominent players including lee grant sherman jackson and davis several veteran hollywood actors from the golden era robert mitchum elizabeth taylor and olivia de havilland have cameos and it's interesting to see them this is not historical fact it's historical fiction and purely dramatized entertainment but it's got cliffhanger endings and beautiful cinematography costumes and locations it is like watching an epic movie that runs longer than gone with the wind with with war scenes in it the script may be bad at times and the acting may not be the best despite the good casting swayze hams it up as does terri garber but some performances like that of kirstie alley james read as george hazard and leslie anne downes as the beautiful and strong madeline are really good performances they shot in sets and in southern locations the music is enchanting and this is a feel good film in which we root for the good guys and watch the villains scheme and ultimately get their comeuppance all fans of civil war movies and the jakes novels should watch this it's available on dvd and vhs
1	this is one of t v 's greatest mini series it comes to life almost as well as the book did also the cast was outstanding to play the roles i'd recommend this movie series for anyone who likes the civil war or the history leading up to it
1	even for a 17 year old student who loves history and caught glimpses of emotion and excitement in his childhood years of this series its coming to dvd was a blessing for all time north and south truly is a series about friendship love honor you name your own list of feelings you get from watching this series i can still remember the first time i caught a glimpse of this series on tv when i was about 8 years old i though wow this looks exciting to bad i never had the chance to see book one and two on tv in the netherlands when book three was broad casted as a late evening series in the netherlands in the summer of 2004 i just knew i had to see the other two series to most people book three was a big disappointment as far as i know well since i have seen book one on dvd i must say that until now it is the best of the entire 3 books to all youngsters who just watch the fancy movies like the patriot oh america for freedom there is a more realistic view to see for them here
1	this movie is very long but totally worth splitting up over several nights it has an all star cast and if you are a patrick swayze fan this will get your heart to throbbing my mother is a civil war buff and a history teacher and every summer we would watch this movie we had recorded it off tv over several several nights until we got through the whole thing we had every line in the movie memorized lol pop some popcorn sit back and enjoy the action and romance it's a great movie for those that like action war blood guts but also for those with a soft romantic side the clothes the women wore were gorgeous sometimes i think i was born in the wrong era lol
1	whoever cast this movie was a genius every character in it is perfect for their part and they all do an absolutely excellent job in their parts this is a good glimpse of what life was before during the civil war the difference between the wealthy the average whites and the black people the story gives you some insights as to the real issues of the era and the difficulties that were inherent in everyday living back in those days the storyline is compelling and the drama keeps your attention through the entire movie there are characters you will fall in love with there are characters you will hate and you will find yourself emotionally involved br br both my wife and i loved it and we will watch it again in a few years i'm sure
1	having just watched this with my mother who got it for christmas i was thrilled to find something different to the usual stuff i usually watch all of the stories were detailed and you are able to feel strong emotion towards each character from the very beginning every storyline is followed through brilliantly making you feel completely different things for every single character the cast is amazing my personal favourites being james read and lesley anne down as george hazard and madeline main the whole thing is in depth and wonderful making very compulsive viewing i recommend it to almost everyone
1	perhaps one of the best movies ever made orry and friendship runs deep and the war puts a strain on their strong friendship as a southerner i can honestly say this epic is as accurate as it gets brothers fighting brothers can you imagine what life must have been living during those times the best part of the movie for me was when the south surrenders general grant is urging president lincoln to really stick it to the south he says mr president a lot of folks want the south to bleed over what they've done president lincoln turns to him and in a very tired voice says the south has bled enough and so have we i burst into tears and take a deep breath what a president it's like a father saying his son has been punished enough and despite his anger he realizes his point has been made this war was a very dark time for our young country and it had to be fought president lincoln knew this i'm urging everyone who reads this to watch this movie and add it to your dvd collection then thank god that our country was preserved as jesus said a house divided against itself cannot stand
1	for me north and south books i ii is the ultimate tv series of the 80's just spotting all those cameo appearances was highly entertaining gene kelly james stewart elisabeth taylor olivia de havilland robert mitchum even johny no series has come close to this achievement have you ever seen anyone looking like lincoln dick smith's prosthetics made hal powerful performance even more so the crafted costumes the jaw dropping locations everything it's clear that nowadays there are excellent and bright tv series desperate housewives lost 24 but north south was and still is one of its kind don't miss it only david carradine's portrayal of the ultimate villain you may call him just violent husband worths the viewing maybe some characters and situations are too stereotyped i admit it but the positive sides clearly cast a shadow over them i'm so glad that finally is available on dvd in spain
1	this comment discusses north and south book i dealing with 1861 period br br the 19th century history of the usa is mostly identified by people with the civil war 1861 1865 this is a reasonable opinion because that was civil war which put the union under the severe test that was the civil war which made americans realize how precious it is to live in peace finally that was this period which at last brought the end to the shameful system of slavery br br from the birth of motion pictures there were people who adapted that time onto screen d w griffith in the early 1900s made his unforgettable birth of a nation yet the most famous film about the north south clash is still i suppose gone with the wind 1938 unfortunately fewer people know the magnificent tv series based on john novel north and south it is the very best tv series ever made and the time spent on watching it is really precious i taped it on my video from polish tv many years ago and have come back to it with great pleasure many times since then why br br firstly the entire story is deeply rooted in historical reality the two families the from south carolina and the hazards from pennsylvania represent two entirely different ways of life in spite of that friendship unites them yet what they experience is the struggle all people do friendship attacked by truth of political correctness love attacked by hatred of legal spouses gentleness by strength of social heroes orry maine patrick swayze is my beloved character someone who finds love and who is quickly deprived of her someone who cares for friends but political fanatics step in the way and ruin much finally he is someone who can see the tragic future for his land but there is nothing he can do about the inescapable fate his friend george hazard is similar in most aspects but sometimes he appears to have a stronger character it is him who shows orry that although there are tragedies he must get up from despair and live since life is the most precious thing we have although they represent two different lifestyles their friendship occurs to be stronger than any prejudice politics or conflicts br br other characters are also particularly well developed there are villains like justin or salem jones who are really wicked but most of the people are ambiguous as the nature of humanity has always been charles maine is at first full of rebellion prone to fighting later however he learns to be a true southern gentleman for whom southern pride is not courageous words but foremost courageous deeds hazard represents the most fanatical side of movement striving to condemn slavery and punish the owners of black breeding farms her marriage with grady appears to be a symbol of equality but also a symbol of saying no to the politics of the south two interesting characters are sisters brett and ashton sisters in whose veins runs entirely opposite blood brett in her gentleness but also naiveness believes in absolute fidelity she marries billy even though he is a because she truly loves him brett is the representation of all that is precious in any young woman ashton however is a vamp a tigress a woman who does not hesitate to do the most wicked things the clear picture of their world views clash is their chat about men and family unforgettable moment and how universal most characters head for their values yet war breaks out and they'll have to put aside a lot br br secondly the performances someone said that not all people act naturally i wouldn't say that i'd rather say that all cast do very good jobs in their parts from the main characters who are portrayed by younger staff to the guests that consist of famous stars including liz taylor robert mitchum and others patrick swayze as orry does a great job i consider this role one of his best ones lesley anne down as madeleine is also very memorable her part perhaps entails too much suffering but she manages to express all sorts of feelings really well kirstie alley is very appealing and truly memorable as the hazard phillip casnoff is worth consideration as horribly ambitious bent as well as david carradine as a monster husband disgusting justin and in contrast to him a mention must be made of jean simmons who is truly excellent as mother whose heart beats for the glory of family life and of union br br thirdly memorable moments of north and south leave an trace in one's mind who can forget the first meeting of orry and madeleine what charm what gentleness there is in this scene or is it possible to skip the moment when madeleine's father dies i found it really powerful there is a real drama in this moment a drama of a woman being left by someone who really loved her i also liked sequence and george hazard so worried about the life of his dearest friend orry then his meetings with constance are terrific speech in philadelphia is a masterpiece of performance and the final moment of the first part although north and south may separate their friendship will never die orry and george symbolically join hands as the train moves on simply there are so many beautiful and powerful scenes that it's impossible to mention even half of them here and these gorgeous tunes by bill conti and shot in brilliant landscapes the music in north and south is very touching and memorable br br what to say in the end north and south is a real must have on dvd simply an amazing tv series about the victory of all that is precious in us love friendship loyalty honor truthfulness absolute fidelity 9 10
1	sweeping drama with great sets costumes and performances – though some folks are channeling rhett scarlett melanie and even lady macbeth patrick swayze and james read are excellent as two men trying to maintain a friendship despite the ties of family and location splendid villains – you'll want them all to come to a very bad end lots of strong female characters in this one – both good and bad secondary story lines also are well developed several cameos by major stars of past eras good representation of history and conflicts for those caught between friendship and politics br br curl up on a rainy day with your dvd or vhs player and drink of choice with this one a lap rug and a cat would be optional
1	this movie was astonishing how good it was the plot is extraordinary and the acting spectacular at first i thought this wasn't going to be that great because of a summary but after about the first five or ten minutes of the movie it struck me that i was dead wrong i literally cried about four or five times in this movie and despite this i must've watched the same scenes over and over again about thirty times in one week no the song scenes were not as awesome as they could've been but the plot is what really gets you american or i would recommend this to anyone and i have now i guarantee that after seeing this one you'll get the best out of it and its plot i hope you feel the same and write a rave review too
1	lackawanna blues is a drama through and through it details the life of a strong woman by the name of rachel crosby s rachel is referred to as nanny by all who know her but she could have just as easily been called wonder woman she epitomized strength will power confidence and resolve she owned a home that she used to house just about every type of person that society would reject her tenants consisted of a lesbian a psychotic war veteran an amputee and a host of other vagrants that made the home miles away from ordinary each successive event rachel took in stride and handled flawlessly she wasn't a dictator devoid of compassion but in fact she was quite the opposite she displayed compassion almost to a fault by giving shelter and refuge to so many that she seemed to over extend herself br br did a good job but i believe this role was right up her alley anyway the movie had an even keel never straying from rachel there were of course dramatic moments but they were to be expected nothing was ever to shocking or profound other than rachel herself
1	i had always heard about this great mini series but viewed it for the first time this week july of 2007 i can see why it started the careers of so many young actors the story is intriguing and gives wonderful insights into the period before and during the civil war i cared about the characters and how their lives evolved during this period some of them were stereotypes but they still helped me see how people thought during the 1800's many historical facts were thrown into the story and it was interesting to see history books come to life the costumes and sets were gorgeous i thoroughly enjoyed watching both parts i and ii part iii is a disappointment
1	i own the miniseries on dvd because i love this story so much this is one of the best period pieces on the civil war that i have seen that tells a story of friendship divided by the war the costumes are great the story lines are great i love how the story jumps around from character to character to keep you guessing as to what's going to happen next in their lives there is a great balance of good and evil some of the characters that are evil in my opinion are too good not to watch every time something more despicable than the last happens i curse the tv as if they can hear me i love how this miniseries makes me feel engaged in it's drama i would advise however not to watch the third movie in the dvd series it's a let down compared to the first two movies and most of the original characters do not return i don't wish to remember how the third movie ended i prefer to live with the thoughts of the ending in the second movie it makes me happy
1	i watched this series on tv in 1990 and absolutely loved it i was nine years old i bought the first dvd box about six month ago and got the second a couple of days ago thanks to my dear husband gosh it was hard to get any sleep with all the thoughts in my head what was gonna happen to madeline and george etc slave issues and civil war has always fascinated me a 25 year old finn i advise to read slaves in the family by edward ball for those who want to take a peek in the past and try to understand what really happened br br i'm not sure if i want to see heaven and hell after so many people have told here that it wasn't really that good
1	i absolutely adored this movie as a child and still do as an adult to say that is even an understatement my sister brother and i watched it one year at our grandparents' house during christmas vacation they had taped it from tv our parents were glad it kept us occupied for the one night but they thought we would tire of it and be ready for outdoor activities the next day not so we became mesmerized they could not have unglued us if they tried it became a cherished yearly tradition we loved everything about it the time the romance the battle scenes the villains etc br br come on who can resist hating that psycho bent with his constant sir classic moreover who can resist cheering wildly when justin falls off the balcony what a triumphant moment i always had a special place in my heart for orry and they were so romantic the theme song alone can get me to tear up a little this movie is incredibly moving and i challenge anyone to stick with it until the very end it's worth it
1	i saw this movie when i was a lot younger but it captured me i loved orry and george's relationship so much i was so enraptured in orry and love story i am a hopeless romantic so it really got to me i especially liked it when he first met her i just wish he had more time with her and their baby so you know in book three i was so hurt that he died i didn't really understand that because they had little time together i just loved patrick in this movie i just bought all three books together and i can't stop watching them my 12 year old son is stuck on it he likes the fighting in the war i cry every time i wish i could meet patrick and madeline in person it was a wonderful movie and cast
1	i was 13 when this mini series and its sequel north and south book ii first aired i had already been captivated by the personal interest stories in around our american civil war which is what interested me in watching this made for tv program br br i loved it and now i'm 29 years old and i only love it more it is full of history beautiful costuming real life characters woven in and out of the lives of fictional characters all of whom you come to care deeply about there is intrigue love loyalty betrayal family extended family lust battles victory defeat and reconstruction br br even though i had the full set of episodes on tapes i recorded back when it originally aired i purchased the full set of both n s and n s ii from columbia house some years ago when they became available once every few years i'll take a whole weekend and watch all the installments back to back and am sad when the last episode rolls to an end because i find myself wanting to continue watching the story of the lives of these characters br br i cannot recommend this mini series more highly
1	this was the one movie to see about the war my aunt actually played in this movie as an extra in the justin and madeline wedding scene and my uncle was an extra on a horse the script was genuine and accurate the costumes were tastefully done the was in order and even the accents were good i dearly love patrick swayze and james they were the best 2 choices and it even had a great supporting cast the civil war is my favorite thing in american history and i love movies about it i have seen quite a few and this movie and it's sequal north and south book 2 took the cake if you haven't seen it rent it as soon as possible it's quite an
1	a story about love and hate tragedy and happiness and most of all friendship set in the very interesting time of the american civil war br br gets you interested in history gets you emotionally involved and makes you feverishly wait for the next episode br br moreover the casting was splendid many superstars appear in short cameos the leading roles are played by a big array of talented mimes kirstie alley and terri garber should be mentioned here this is simply a superb example for a tv production as it should be br br not to forget the sheer loveliness of wendy portraying constance
1	i am a history teacher and overall i was pleased with the movie my teen agers enjoyed it over the holidays is it 100 accurate and is it a little sappy in places yes but it took my kids away from the computer and play station to spend four nights watching it all br br the battle scenes were impressive and we met plenty of historical characters throughout lloyd bridges as jefferson davis and hal holbrook as abraham lincoln stand out we all thought phillip casnoff as bent was evilly and charmingly brilliant we all thought charles stole the show from orry and george br br we will enjoy the movie again
1	north south the television mini series is to the 80's what rich man poor man the first ever tv mini series was to the 70's br br it's a fabulous adaptation of the first classic novel in the trilogy from author john jakes the story itself covers the two decades leading up to the years of the election of president abraham lincoln and the imminent proclamation of the civil war north versus south the intertwining stories evolve around the families of the hazards the in the title and the mains and their two central figures of george and orry who form a friendship whilst embarking on their west point training in br br north south is a wonderful historic timeline and as i have grown older and wiser it very much interests me to learn about the contrasting attitudes to such controversial aspects as and and how these attitudes originated br br the series also portrays some great characterisation development as we get to know about the friends and enemies in george and lives and also the women that stole their hearts as young men this aspect of the story also uncovers a romantic tale that is set to the turbulent backdrop of the american civil war br br north south along with rich man poor man is overshadowed by 1977's roots as the greatest mini series of all time however it does come a close second third and also shares the same kind of timeline and themes as roots but don't let this one get away even if it's just to see the great scenery costumes and brilliant all star cast including gene kelly johnny cash elizabeth taylor james stewart olivia de havilland lesley anne down et al br br the series is beautifully crafted and is firmly tied to actual historic events and it's a pity the emmys and golden globes didn't honour a lot more of the actors and actresses for their portrayals patrick swayze and james read the two virtual unknown lead actors at the time turn in compelling performances as orry main and george hazard respectively however it's kirstie alley's riveting performance as george's sister that steals the show many times plus terri garber david carradine and philip casnoff as bent are the delicious villains of the piece you just love to hate br br north south books 1 2 are now available on two dvd sets
1	was simply one of the most touching and sincere movies ive seen in a long time the story of an adopted girl who on her 9th birthday learns the truth about her parentage she sets out in an endeavour to find out more about her real mother and learns that her mother is now a terrorist br br the greatness of the movie lies in its simplicity mani generally has a tendency to create unreal and pompous overblown characters in this movie every person seems real and their interactions are touching and sincere this is the reason why this ranks as one of his best movies br br the movie is emotionally draining and tugs at the heart of the viewer as the 9 year old and as her adopted mother are simply brilliant their relationship is the cornerstone of this movie there are some notable flaws here particularly the scene where learns that she is an adopted child is jarring and seems totally unreal it is hard to believe that such sensitive parents would break such a news in the manner that they did another flaw is surprisingly enough the brilliant songs they again seem forced and stand out not gelling with the rest of the script br br having said these this still is one of the most poignant and beautiful movies to come out of india in a long long time this beauty is not just in the script or characters but in technical brilliance as well ravi camera work is sheer poetry all characters perform and the realistic humour especially in flashback scenes are entertaining br br a sincere 9
1	one of the best as being a fan of the civil war i was very pleased with the first installment of the north and south trilogy patrick swayze gives and extraordinary performance as well as james reed and leslie ann down in watching this fabulous story unfold into a time never forgotten the subjects of love passion grief shame harmony and cruelty come to life i was first introduced to this series when i was in the eighth grade being a young boy you would think that i wouldn't have been interested in this civil war soap to be honest this story stole the hearts of every one in my class and this is just the first book i bought the novel and studied the likes and differences and it was awesome i am 17 now and still enjoy the story characters subject and remember the times of the civil war as a movie director of the future i will always enjoy north and south book one
1	several weeks back i lost my beloved companion and friend of fourteen years a golden retriever named sasha when i came home from the animal hospital alone after having made one of the most painful decisions of my life my teenage daughter sat by my side and we talked about this episode of the twilight zone i could be wrong but i recall a line that arthur hunnicutt said when satan was trying to trick him into hell but his dog could not go with him and his dog in turn was growling in defiance at the gatekeeper who was trying to trick the old hunter to step inside that it would be one helluva of heaven if dogs were not allowed and the spirit of the old mountain man and his dog decided to turn away from the gate of what they had thought was heaven to wander eternity alone what a tearful moment when they meet a good ole' country boy on that eternal road only to discover he is an angel sent out to find 'em and sure neighbor of course dogs are allowed into heaven br br i'll confess i cried as i talked about this with my daughter while we mourned the passing of our beloved golden rod serling was truly a genius a voice that in the early sixties spoke out against racism hatred know and was a profound inspiration to me to become a writer this episode across forty five years carried a message of comfort to all of us who have lost a beloved friend i urge you to get a copy the next time there is a one of the twilight zone marathons or purchase it there will be some tears but comfort as well as always thanks rod for all that you taught us even now
1	in this episode a man and his dog go after eating dinner with his wife of 50 years he's devoted to his wife and his dog br br while hunting his dog jumps in the river after the dog and he follows the man dies and doesn't know it he tries to talk to his wife and his grave diggers to no avail br br what follows is a tug of war between heaven and hell for the man's soul and his dog helps make the decision he's being tricked by the devil and won't go in to heaven unless his dog comes with him br br it makes you wonder if all the animal lovers have the right idea and want to go to heaven with them
1	of all the seasons and episodes of the twilight zone after seeing all the great mind boggling thought provoking stories this one stands on top that's right this story this one entitled the hunt tops the large number of the finest scripts in television history br br true there are no interplanetary space flights no inexplicable cracks in time there is no living nightmare no sudden changes of setting there is seemingly nothing out of the ordinary for our protagonist to deal with br br the main character played by veteran character actor arthur sets out from his cabin in the hills accompanied by his faithful hound to hunt raccoon because the raccoon is a predominantly nocturnal animal hunt is by moonlight br br the man and dog soon encounter a large raccoon who hops on the dog's back and attempts to drown the hound in a pond the man jumps in to help his dog there is a sort of almost black out after which the pair are seen on the shore in a lying almost sleep like position br br calling his dog by name rip i think the old man sets off to return home when he arrives he finds the wife weeping and unresponsive to his conversation he also observes visitors coming and going to his house paying respects and giving words to console his wife br br still seeming puzzled at the strange reception and goings on around the home cabin the man and rip take off on a long walk down the road where he remarks out loud that he did not remember such a long fence in these parts he eventually comes upon a rather large fellow dressed in garb similar to his overalls hat work shirt they are at a gate which leads to an area where a lot of smoke is freely rising up the gate keeper is overly eager in his persuasive pitch in trying to get the man to enter rip sounds displeasure the gate man tells the old man that he may enter but the dog would have to remain outside offering to watch the animal for him the man will have none of it and the two continue on their way down the path br br after a little more hiking they come upon a second gated entrance where the gate keeper recognizes the man and welcomes him when the old man reports what has happened down the road telling him of how the guy at the other gate tried to separate the man and dog and added with no dogs allowed that must be a hell of a place the 2nd gate keeper stated that he was right that's exactly what it is br br our family had lost our 1st dog lady a mixed lab in october of 1981 about 6 months later as good fortune would have it the wife deanna and myself along with our 2 daughters jennifer 9 and michelle 6 viewed this episode on tv tv channel 9 chicago well it all made perfect sense to us at that time br br we're certain that anyone who has had that relationship with a family dog would agree the episode still brings a condition of watery eyes to this now 60 year old writer
1	a warmly sentimental tale from the author of the waltons were someone to pitch the material to me i would probably reject it as too maudlin but the dramatization here manages a tear without the expected embarrassment no one in the 1950's was better at lovable hayseeds than arthur hunnicutt his appeal here is put to consummate use as a mountain man doggedly faithful to a loyal hunting hound their fates are tied together as as any human bond good i see a subtle environmental message here all critters go to heaven because how can we condemn any poor devil that merely follows instinct in order to stay alive there is no deceit in the kingdom of animals and yet how cruelly we often treat them an oddly satisfying episode that confirms this important message
1	red dust is both well acted and well made but what the movie is about i think will bore many viewers as it did to me there was a film that was out earlier called in my country with sam jackson and it was not that well received and both films were about nearly the same exact thing i do think red dust was better because of the more interesting performances especially by future oscar winner but the plot is just to lacking it starts off pretty strong but then the film hits the viewers with countless un interesting court room sessions this could have been a great film if the writing was not so lacking but see if for the performances
1	we saw this film in toronto at the film festival last year it was a truly moving experience i had heard of the truth and process but as others have written did not know much about the details of the process this film demonstrated the process and the growth that can occur when people are able to face up to their pasts understand the events from the points of view of others involved and grieve together archbishop tutu and the others involved in developing the t r process deserve recognition for their understanding of human emotions seeing this film gave me hope for the human race if we can do t r we just might not destroy ourselves people will look back at t and r as the first step out of human adolescence and toward maturity br br as a film of course there were flaws i did not notice any major problems in acting directing or writing but for the first time in years i was totally lost in a film so perhaps i did not notice br br see this film the audience in toronto would not give up the stage for the next film we had so many questions and comments for the stars and director tom hooper jamie bartlett and went outside to the sidewalk to continue the conversation people came by just to shake their hands and thank them for the film it moved us all
1	police officer dirk jamie bartlett files an amnesty application alex br br a member of the south african parliament who cant remember the torture he once endured as a captive political activist br br south african born attorney sarah hilary swank meanwhile returns to her homeland to represent br br as well as steve friend who was arrested along with him and never heard from again br br this film is one of the best films to come out about the south african regime of aparthied in the past br br everybody should watch it
1	and normally i don't like surprises watch this movie by chance in a motel in south africa second week of a three month holiday in za apart from being well shot and acted it helped me in understanding the countries problems tremendously just watched the million dollar baby and had to look up hillary swank since the name sounded somewhat familiar and her acting was superb didn't realise she was the solicitor in the red dust well now i'm not to worried that she will disappear as so many other sidekicks of clint before now i am being asked to write ten whole lines of comment which is rather ridiculous for i have written what i wanted to write ok here it goes i think if you are from a western country especially europe watching will help you to understand a little better why what is happening is happening down there so this hopefully will fill ten lines
1	where this movies differs from traditional hollywood movie is that it shows a true depth of feelings in europe for example we've had years of war and though one nation could never eradicate the other the old enemies always ended living next to each other or with each other at the end of the conflict in the us the immigrants white population exterminated the aboriginal population to near extinction the us citizen never had to live with its enemy this explains in my view the often simplistic nature of hollywood movie when they try and explain a foreign country's strife but in this movie the director and screenplay did not fall into this cliché it turns out everyone in the story has some right and some wrong it's a great story of morality hidden truth and compromise
1	in sri lanka a country divided by religion and language the civil war between the pro government and the liberation tigers of tamil a organization has claimed an estimated 68 000 lives since 1983 human rights groups have said that as a result of the war more than one million people have been displaced homeless or living in camps the impact on children and families caught in the conflict is sensitively dramatized by acclaimed tamil director mani in his 2002 film a peck on the cheek winner of several awards at the national film awards in india while the civil war is merely a backdrop for the story of a young girl's voyage of discovery the human cost of war is made quite clear and gives the fighting a universal context pointing the finger at global arms traffickers as the source of wrongdoing br br beautifully photographed in southern india by cinematographer ravi k in a setting mirroring the terrain of sri lanka the film tells a moving story about an adopted 9 year old girl who sets out to find her real mother in the middle of the fighting in sri lanka played with deep feeling and expressiveness by p s in a memorable performance is brought up by a loving middle class family with two younger brothers after her natural parents nandita das and j d were forced to flee when the fighting broke out leaving her in a red cross camp in a loving flashback we see adoptive parents father a prominent tamil writer and mother indra a tv personality marry to facilitate their adoption of the darker skinned little girl br br young has no idea that she is adopted until it is sprung upon her abruptly on her ninth birthday according to the parents' prior agreement while she is playing tells her almost in a matter of fact tone that you are not our daughter and the response is predictable distraught she questions who her father was what her mother's name was why she gave her up and so forth but few answers are forthcoming runs away several times until her parents agree to go to sri lanka to help her find her true mother now a fighter for the tamil the family's immersion in the reality of the civil war leads to some traumatic moments and difficult decisions handled mostly with skill by though a sequence where the family was caught in a crossfire felt amateurish br br a peck on the cheek is of course a bollywood style film and that means tons of music and melodrama the melodrama did not get in the way because of the strong performances by the lead actors however i found the musical dramatizations of songs by a r rahman counter to the mood of the film with their slick high production techniques and fast paced music video style editing yet the compelling nature of the story and the honesty in which it is told transcend the film's limitations tamil cinema has been criticized by many even within the country as being too clichéd and commercial yet a peck on the cheek is both a film of entertainment and one that tackles serious issues that it successfully the line between art and commerce is not a rejection but a tribute
1	what was the quote by archbishop tutu at the end of the film about a person's past this film was very disturbing to watch in the sense that it was a true story and to think that humanity is still so cruel after all these years makes me ashamed br br everyone is human and everyone has the right to live their life in peace and harmony br br live and let live br br if anyone knows the quote please let me know thank you br br this film should be shown a lot more publicly as true events as horrific as these shown in the film should be known to all in the hope that things will change sooner rather than later
1	possible spoilers br br no one is likely to pick up a dvd of red dust without knowing that it is about south africa's truth and reconciliation commission hilary swank stars as a south african exile who returns to her home town as a lawyer representing alex a member of the south african parliament who was tortured by a prison guard pete muller ian roberts who is seeking to escape prison by testifying before the truth and reconciliation commission they could certainly have found an actress who has or could imitate a south african accent ms swank makes no attempt whatsoever to cover her unmistakably american accent nevertheless she is the only well known actor in the movie and it would probably not have been made without her or someone equally well known she does a passable job however and muller pronounced in the german way with an over the u are outstanding as is jamie as the chief of police responsible for murdering comrade and fellow prisoner the torture scenes are shown in brief flashes but they are vivid and believable what is not believable is the truth and reconciliation process except that it actually happened red dust should be seen for that reason alone because it was and is unbelievable that the anc prisoners could actually forgive the torturers and this is as close as we are likely to get to seeing the process in action
1	i haven't seen a film in a long time that moved me and gripped me in such a way that i couldn't take my eyes off the screen i was busting for the loo and i didn't even want to pause it because i was drawn right in emotive powerful very moving horrific and heart breaking it gives you an amazing insight to south africa their struggles and their lives the acting by the leads were mind blowing and the script was incredible despite the terrible events that unfold in this film and how horrific the story is i was captivated i don't want to even try and explain the story it's way too complex and i wouldn't do it justice please see this you'll understand why when you do cheers
1	i was unsure of this movie before renting and did so on the assurance that hilary swank has always given excellent performances in her movies she seems to rely on restraint to gain the emotional impact that she does and she didn't prove me wrong in this movie br br however the movie also had fantastic performances from all other members of the cast both speaking and non speaking i have to single out jamie bartlett and the two main protagonists for their outstanding acting abilities and portrayal of true human feelings and failings the whole movie ran almost like a documentary br br i must applaud tom hooper as the director and avril as the editor for keeping a multiple layered story being revealed smoothly whilst keeping dialogue and action moving along in an understandable fashion the opening sequence of the south african landscape was striking and i had to push the pause button to savour the photography br br why can't a movie like this ever get nominated for an international award it seems to me to hit the high rating button on all counts it was not just a film it was a true experience of life in a country coming out of apartheid a life of poverty was all around but it celebrated the dignity of the human spirit
1	not knowing a great deal about the truth and reconciliation commission i can only look at this as a piece of entertainment i started watching it too late in the evening recorded from bbc2 earlier this year but once i'd started i had to watch to the end br br the down side is that it's effectively a courtroom drama never my favourite genre but it's stunningly photographed largely in super saturated and well acted like a good novel i couldn't put it down all the way through i wished i was watching it in a cinema to do the music and photography justice what happened to its release in theatres i'm an admirer of since i saw him in dirty pretty things and hilary swank looks terrific in this very female and sexy for a change possibly out of place but she adds to the visual attractiveness of the film br br this picture deserves a wider audience than it seems to be getting
1	i saw this film at the 2005 palm springs international film festival i went in with the assumption that if it stars and hilary swank it had to be at least decent well after a kind of a slow start i was far from disappointed in fact i was quite pleased with the final product br br i must admit the and accented english of some of the actors were kind of hard to understand but like seeing waking ned devine trainspotting or any other film with heavy accented actors i adjusted after about 15 minutes and i was trying to figure out why hilary swank was supposed to be south african and sounded like she was trying to put on an accent but sounded very american as if she was making a weak attempt at putting on the accent but later in the film as more is revealed about her character and how she moved to the us as a teen you begin to understand how she might have lost some or most of her accent so it began to make sense that only certain words might have a lilt to them br br i know it's a little weak for one to use film as education but one of the great things about this film is that it was interesting to see a dramatization of a truth and reconciliation trial i'd heard about the t and r process in south africa after the fall of apartheid but i didn't really know how it worked br br the final verdict is that although some of the scenes felt a little contrived this was overall a very strong film the closing sequence where the truth comes out was the strong finish every film hopes for a definite must see for anyone who cares about what happens outside their borders
1	the truth and reconciliation process in south africa is a vital and probably unique human experiment this movie does an excellent job of revealing the complexity of the task and the incredible challenges facing south africa i believe every one should see this movie as i think few people outside of south africa understand its past and what is being attempted in the truth and reconciliation process almost every country has some part of its own history which is still a source of continuing hatred and bitterness we all need to understand ways of dealing with the past what's happening in south africa should guide us all i found it credible moving and at times upsetting there were no outstanding acting performances but this added to the strength of the narrative once again the bbc has been instrumental in taking a complex topic and turning out a top class movie
1	archbishop desmond tutu who is seldom a favorite of mine said that everyone should see this film as it is something that can help heal the world br br it is one of the most poignant movies i have seen and delivers on comments i have read many comments and while they range from good to average to comments on the choice of actors the fact is that it deals with one of the most extra ordinary events in our world the truth and reconciliation commission for the first time a country has opted to air it's horrific history to find a way forward and to create a way for people to heal br br while the movie starts out with the white policeman being offered a chance to absolve himself for brutal crimes and the black guy is trying to ensure that he does not get away with it it delves into the humanity of the people and the enormous need for healing that we all need br br definitely a thumbs up to everyone involved once again i am proud to be a south african br br an interesting comment can be found here http www biz community com article 97 html
1	an interesting comedy taking place on a train from stockholm to berlin december 1945 one can't help to feel sorry for the poor writer critic who quits his job and jumps on the train to berlin his ambition is to make a difference and to participate in building the new unified europe after the war has ended br br i like the black and white format of the movie as well as the closed scenery of a train in motion br br robert makes a classic role in this movie if you're a fan of him this movie is for you br br the philosopher wittgenstein through his saying one can never assume that anything is what it seems to be is referenced several times in the movie
1	and this movie easily exceeded my expectations the fact that it is written and directed by peter dalle led me to believe it was in style with other films i'm used to and bored with seeing him in anyway i grudgingly went along to see this flick and that i'm glad for this stuff has humour and depth 9 out of 10 see it
1	i am a big follower of indian movies especially malayalam and tamil br br shame on india for not sending this movie as their official oscar entry i have seen this movie and it has clearly revealed to me the maturity tamil cinema has in its screenplay and narrative which bollywood better catch up with by the way to all we westerners tamil cinema is more qualitative and very different from bollywood which is all about good looks glamour and promotion br br coming to the point what was india thinking when they sent a movie like to the oscars that was a really a masochist move i think they are trying to punish oscar judges with boredom by sending devdas since the judges toppled lagaan last year br br is just a colored but stale and predictable melodrama of love fate and destiny i would keep away from it anyway not sending a movie like shows how much of a revamp indian administration needs to save them from poor administrators who lack intelligence now i know why this country has so many issues they are heavily talented but not showcased properly
1	this solid black and white slapstick comedy with a dark but hopelessly contrived plot is a true crowd pleaser that will have you howling with laughter as well as rolling your eyes with disbelief br br it's the old psychopath on a train story but that is of no big importance as the thriller portion of the film almost seems to be merely a counterweight to the antics of the great comedian robert his hapless nearly incurably optimistic soldier invokes both compassion and in a fashion that almost rivals chevy chase br br the thing about the film that appealed to me the most however is that wedged between the improbable and the hilarious are the accurately portrayed everyday joys and of train travel they add a most welcome sense of realism and recognition br br this thriller comedy has admittedly borrowed most of its suspense from hitchcock and should in my opinion only be watched for its comedy value which is high indeed besides lars solid performance as a delightfully cynical misogynist is worth the price of admission alone br br heartily recommend
1	this thing works on all levels it's intense as a thriller full of lars von trier homages but also very much its own film and it does have a message happiness comes from within best personified in the wounded soldier who practically and believe it or not humorously disintegrates limb by limb throughout the film all the while apologizing to others for imposing on them you laugh at him but you envy him as well the central character is a well meaning but clumsy writer who spends the whole film trying to help those he befriends on a train from stockholm to berlin just after world war ii he ties the parallel stories together and really screws people up in the process to say things go wrong is an understatement and structurally the characters are all in perfect opposition to each other it's like every one of them has an opposite just so tight like watching anti matter collide you will not believe the sick stuff you end up laughing at to say more would qualify as a spoiler all i can say is it is a shame this film has not been released in the us not even on dvd some moron probably told them americans wouldn't get it which is crap because we not only get but produce things like south park if this film gets marketed in the us it should be sold as a mainstream black comedy because that's what it is over the top sick and twisted but
1	very funny film with some of the best swedish actors it's all filmed in black and white with the true 40 ish feeling most of the film you are aboard a train headed for berlin in 1945 among a mixture of characters from refugees to 2 gay guys and 2 nuns i truly recommend this film if you like to laugh
1	first of all i hardly ever watch swedish movies and this is actually the second time in my life i watch a swedish movie on cinema therefor i believe it's one of the best swedish movies ever the combination of thrill and humour is outstanding and sometimes you don't even know if you should be terrified or just laugh the plot is about this man a writer who wants to go to germany after world war ii and help the germans to start over on the way to germany he is trying to help his friends on the train which is however a bad idea what a clumsy jerk and poor robert the wounded soldier always get in the way ouch but he still got his great mood a positive guy robert have done some less great movies the last years or so and this is really a relief he is great in this movie after all this is one of the best swedish movies ever and peter dalle has made an excellent job congratulations
1	takes place in the 1940s right after the second world war main character gunnar gustav quits his job to get a chance to make a difference in the bombed out postwar europe he packs a book by his favourite ludwig and embarks on a trip which will eventually prove famous statement true nothing is what it seems br br there are two main plots and several subplots to this film which takes place on a train bound for berlin writer director peter dalle also playing the role as the conductor of the train has assembled an impressive cast including swedish legends lena nyman and robert overall the acting is excellent br br offers some rather twisted slapstick comedy combined with more subtle black humor like the nun who loses her faith and starts cursing violently it's like meets peter jackson braindead bad taste in schindler's list i laughed during most of the film and when i woke up the next morning i laughed even more an intelligent film for fans of swedish comedy
1	is one of the funniest movies to not only to come from peter dalle but from the swedish cinema industry itself it is a movie made in black and white to get something of the atmosphere from the days before christmas in december 1945 which it does very well almost the whole plot takes place on a train non stop to berlin on the train is a mix of homosexuals nuns deported refugees murderers alcoholics and the failure literature critic played by the in sweden famous actor gustav the leading role is the type of person that although his intentions are for the best seems to drag everyone near him in a extremely funny way into disaster and to a living hell especially for a from the finnish war homecoming wounded soldier played by the extremely funny comedian robert on the train is also a doctor who cheats on his wife with his mistress they have together planned to murder the doctors wife that is also travelling with the same train without any knowledge about her husbands intentions will the wife of the doctor elude the plans to murder her and will everyone else survive the unlucky fellow
1	in december 1945 a train leaves the central station of stockholm for berlin there aren't much left when it arrives not of the train and not of some passengers br br this is a black comedy directed by peter dalle and acted like they used to act in the 40s and also photographed in b w like they used to during that period the actors must have had lots of fun making it they aren't much of characters like they weren't in the 40s but the story is well narrated and everybody has timing br br a deadly black and deadly funny film see it if you didn't think the swedes were capable of humour
1	jaded should not be considered as en erotic thriller because the sex scenes are not for viewing pleasure unlike movies like indecent behavior or friend of the family br br jaded is not an easy watch as it's story is difficult to conceive and it's not that common in society from the beginning of the movie with the first scene you expect more strong scenes br br the raping scene wasn't in my opinion a well created scene i think that the director didn't use proper camera techniques overall in the movie that's why it looks sometimes dull and becomes boring almost near the end br br the performances are extremely good from all the five female characters these women gave strong intense but believable performances that demonstrate the actresses' dramatic abilities br br the legal concepts helped a lot to understand the plot's difficulty because the legal term of sodomy is different from a simple raping from the point of view of meg's defense sodomy needs to be penalized as a raping a huge crime grade b although it's a different crime pat and alex's defense claims that meg enjoyed and asked for it this is where the movie turns interesting to see who is trying to tell the truth the only thing for sure is that the sex scene fits into a legal definition of a crime br br watch jaded if you like legal issues that aren't very common in your society if not give it a try because it's a very good and strong drama
1	it has carla yay and a crappy ending boo br br jaded is a highly erotic story about a beautiful woman who arrives in a town trying to escape her past whiles there she meets up with two lesbians and after a couple of drinks the two decide to have some fun but one of the girls takes things a bit too far and rapes her whiles the second girl holds her down she is discovered on the beach where the incident happens the next day and is taken to a hospital after that we spend the rest of the movie watching her attempting to bring down the two girls and at the same time learn some new info about who she is and where she comes from and a bit about her past br br director and co writer does an excellent job with this movie considering its uber low budget it hand held and sometimes looks like 16mm but it fits the movie since the story demands a harsh look to it the actors all do okay jobs with what is given to them and there's not really anything to complain about it the standout feature in the movie is of course carla who bares it all in this movie she is actually more nude in this movie than she is in sin city christopher mcdonald is also in the movie but his character is really kinda pointless but he is fun to watch i didn't really pay much attention to the music since it doesn't really draw attention to itself but it gets the job done with what it's got the movie is r rated and it's that for a very good reason it's very sexual and very graphic at times it's essentially borders on soft core at times but the sex scenes are necessary for the movie so it doesn't feel like it's just there for the sake of being there although there is one pointless scene where we see chris mcdonald getting it on that scene was a tad pointless but it's not really much of a problem i guess the only fault with the movie is that we don't get to see the court trial after all that we go through in the movie it's like having sex and not having an orgasm or something br br it's a shame that the talented has never made a feature film since this this is a highly gifted woman can do great things with a very little budget i really hope that she gets back in the game soon because she is an amazing director jaded is not a masterpiece of erotic cinema instead what we have is an enjoyable movie that shows a great director in the making br br hide the kids and close the curtains you don't want people to think you're watching porn whiles watching this movie
1	jaded takes on the complex question of abuse the perpetrators and the victims in lesser hands it would have degenerated into an erotic thriller made for direct to video this director however has managed to pull off a textured multi layered study with a decidedly different point of view br br given the fact that the director writer is a woman and the main detective and d a are also women this could have turned into a very anti male film it is not to be a sexual predator is gender neutral the nudity of this film is not erotic the rape is brutal not sexual we are looking at victims and not titillation br br the gifted cast rings true for a film that is so little known i was surprised at the quality of the performances they are good carla and are incredible br br somehow this film got lost perhaps it is too smart for its own good it is a should see highly recommend a thinking person's sexual thriller
1	sri lanka not a country i've ever given much thought to i have to admit i didn't even know it was near india let alone that there has been a bloody civil war going on there since 1983 it seems that the rebels of the tamil minority have been in an ongoing conflict with the military regime that runs the country for many years causing many deaths and widespread suffering on the island br br mani latest film a peck on the cheek tells the story of a young girl named who is separated from her sri lankan parents by the war and raised by a young indian couple is a bright and mischievous girl whose life is turned upside down when her parents tell her that she was adopted as a child although her adopted parents love her as much as could be and have raised her without prejudice along with their biological children cannot help but want to learn more about her biological family br br mani ratman is probably best known for his 1998 film dil se which hides a story about terrorism and politics inside a love story or is it the other way around a peck on the cheek inhabits similar territory but is perhaps more ambitious in the ground it covers the central theme that binds the movie is of love between all the various members of a family and especially that between a child and her adopted parents it's a pretty honest and open look at feelings that can be extremely touching and heartwarming at some times and quite painful at others it's an emotionally complex film with characters that are somewhat idealised but still behave in a very human way br br the film revolves around 9 year old played with charm and vivaciousness by young actress p s in her first and only acting role she's a princess and a monster always getting into trouble but so disarmingly charming nobody can stay mad at her for long the young actress is perfectly cast for the role and does a tremendous job in the various and often difficult emotional scenes required of her br br a peck on the cheek has such an innocent name i was quite unprepared for the intensity of the experience never has such a small act come with such an enormous emotional impact i dare say the film is a bold and artistic effort to explore issues that are not frequently covered on the silver screen br br mani direction is superb very confident and mature the most sophisticated work i've seen from this director yet the film is visually very stylish with some excellent camerawork and imagery a r rahman provides the film's soundtrack which is not as good as his classic dil se or bombay music based on first impressions at least but still shows his great musical talent br br i'm not aware of a dvd release for the film yet i saw it in tamil with english subtitles thanks to the san francisco international film festival of which the film was undoubtedly the highlight the production is a truly world class effort and i am sure it will be popular with western audiences as it begins to receive wider exposure br br recommended
1	i first saw 2 on bbc2 in the 90's when i was at art college living and moving among artists and musicians hoping for future success so 'the second home' of friendships made after leaving the familial home of striving for a professional excellence strongly resonated with my living reality i was captivated by the characters the storytelling the lyrical camera work and above all by the music in it i could divine the beginnings of german electronic music of 50's can faust of the 70's the sound experiments of john cage walter carlos and the british electronic psychedelia of the white noise the soundtrack composer nikos studied with carl of fame so i found its tastes contemporary to the electronic pop sound effects world br br i hadnt seen or 3 so i watched it as a whole in itself without a before or after as someone else has commented it is both epic and lyrical historical and artistic many favourite moments including the wonderful voice of gisela muller evelyn the bach of daniel smith juan the piano playing of henry arnold hermann and the cello playing of salome clarissa br br i could write more but it's already been said here why can't british or us tv produce such masterpieces the wire had the realism and politics and epic sweep of a city david lynch and dennis potter had imaginative tropes to their tv work too but this is art house and soap at its most cinematic and narrative sublime it's never included in critics' choices of best films but it should be still as poetic and powerful as when i first saw it over 17 years ago i watch the 3 boxed sets every autumn for their inspired and inspiring
1	i've just finished seeing the film for the first time in it's entirety although i watched some parts when it was first shown in britain in the mid 90's i truly believe it to be a masterpiece of late twentieth century cinema a film of this scope raises lots of questions like why are there some narrative differences between the 60's hermann in and hermann in this film for example in the first film hermann has a fairly significant relationship with his stepfather he funds hermann's electronic music whereas in die there is little mention of his dad until the final episode br br one other point does interest me reading up on edgar i'm struck by historical similarities between him and the stefan character spoiler coming in the last episode it is revealed that stefan has won a prize at the venice film festival won an award for best debut work there for his film film company is called and stefan's is also eponymously named i'm interested in stefan being an autobiographical character because aside from helga he is probably the least likable of the friends br br maybe stefan's a red herring i don't know what i do know is that i loved this film and wish that more were made like it with the exception of michael haneke's cache and werner herzog's grizzly man there's not enough ambition audacity and passion of this sort in modern cinema i can't wait to see number 3 now
1	in 1984 edgar surprised film lovers all over the world with his epic opus a chronicle of germany eight years later he came up with a sequel the second chronicle of a youth which is even more astounding than its predecessor br br actually it's not really a sequel it's more of a as it covers events that took place between the ninth and eleventh episode of the first cycle br br the second begins in 1960 four years after hermann simon henry arnold was separated from his first love courtesy of his intolerant mother and elder brother the controversy had to do with him being a minor while she was about 25 still angered by those events the young man vows never to fall in love again a grandiose if creepy scene and decides to move to munich like the director himself did in approximately the same period hoping to become a professional composer after a few years spent at the music academy he stays in munich for ten years and the thirteen two hour episodes of 2 cover that time frame each of them focusing on a different person among hermann's fellow students people who like him are searching for a second home country be it music film or something else in which they can finally live peacefully br br like the first this second cycle is a perfect union of film and television the episodic structure and the various romantic subplots make it look like a soap opera in fact the second needs to be seen in its entirety to be successfully embraced whereas some chapters of 1 could be viewed as separate stories in particular the one concerning hermann's teenage years the style and content however is pure auteur cinema with the familiar black and white color transitions actually a tad more predictable this time around and ambiguous characters the latter element being underlined by the relationship between hermann and cello player clarissa salome they clearly love each other yet they keep embarking on affairs with other people delaying the inevitable until it's too late this time seems to be more pessimistic regarding his characters at one point hermann is so disillusioned he says the beatles are much better than us building entire episodes around dark controversial themes such as abortion and suicide the decade he's exploring is not suitable for everyone as some are scarred in dramatic ways by the pivotal events of the '60s the '68 revolution especially br br also seems to have made this mini series specifically for movie buffs given the numerous film references including a brilliant casablanca quote and clever in jokes one episode is set in venice whose film festival had an important part in the success and since 1992 film lovers have never ceased to thank him for delivering 26 of the most compelling hours ever committed to celluloid
1	absolutely i agree with my previous commentator in describing this as a riveting fascinating and certainly beautiful film it's not necessary to see all the episodes since the first ones are the best while the last ones are a bit tiresome but for any person who likes and their good natured ways all episodes are worth seeing in typical german fashion values are constantly questioned even it's murderous nazi past is confronted in the last episodes the rich dialogues are particularly interesting these episodes are recommended for anyone who is about to live or travel in germany preferably in original language br br
1	seeing this film or rather set of films in my early teens irrevocably changed my idea of the possibilities of human interaction and the range of potential experience this monumental exploration of individuals and their historical setting reveals how full bodied and intense every human existence is the people are portrayed as they are to themselves their experiences of the smallest to the largest internal and external phenomena are detailed with the greatest of artistry and perception edgar displays a fabulous appreciation of human motivations and longings br br when these phenomena are set against the immense time allowed by the length of the work one cannot help but apprehend the force and of happiness defeat lust love sadness melancholy that each person feels when i saw these films i perceived my future experiences how my life would inevitably twist and oscillate due to both intended and accidental events i acquired a feeling of the longevity of being and what it meant to reflect upon past lives memories and contexts a masterpiece and a revelation i only wish the bbc would screen it again br br if anyone knows where i can get a copy could they contact me
1	this epic brings together a superbly gifted cast and crew a narrative depth superior to most novels wonderful music philosophy and a connection to life that i find difficult to explain to immerse oneself in die is for me akin to a spiritual experience similar to the awe one gets when looking at the stars in a clear night sky the language and use of both colour and monochrome segments adds to the dramatic impact the film inspired me to go to munich and visit some of the locations including the edgar office from then on i vowed to improve my german skills after die i feel almost german as if i am in the head of the characters i also try to match the piano playing of henry arnold hermann but this is the one thing that will always elude me this drama is unparalleled and i have been fortunate to see it on bbc2 in the uk and sbs in australia the sequel 3 is currently being filmed in germany
1	this movie includes one of the best characters and dialog that crispin glover has ever played uma thurman and suzy amis are also great in this movie but crispin makes it a great depiction of young people trying to make it in new york
1	i've seen a few of mr boorman's movies and didn't like much of them not that they are bad movies quite the contrary are good movies but not content i personally found entertaining however i think where the heart is although made to cater to the less than art savvy american audience is masterful as satire and as social commentary of the times it was made in i've had to replace this movie in my collection at least a half a dozen times since every time i loan it out to someone i know could appreciate it's artistry on all its levels my copy fails to come back home to me lol the last time took 7 years to replace it since it was out of print for vhs sales has never been made as a dvd that i know of and had to wait till one of the premium cable channels ran it before i could tape it again br br my favorite aspect after the nail on the head social commentary is the paintings by i've searched for 15 years to find anyone or anywhere that could lead me to where her work is available for sale or better yet a copy of the paintings in the movie without the ending credits rolling over them i have a room in my house that i dedicated to putting copies of her paintings in and no one seems to know if it ever was released as a coffee table book or video aquarium or as a documentary of her work if anyone does know of where i can acquire any sort of copy of work or where her studio is in england please do not hesitate to contact me via email
1	this movie is great especially if you enjoy visual arts the scenery that the two daughters paint and photograph are beautiful the story is also both funny and poignant at times br br people who like european films and art movies will like this movie this is truly an art movie it actually has a lot of art in it go rent it br br
1	this movie has a lot to recommend it the paintings the music and david naked butt are all gorgeous the plot a story of redemption forgiveness and courage in the face of adversity is also very interesting and touching and it's not predictable which is saying quite a lot about a movie in this day and age but the acting is mediocre the direction is confusing and the script is just odd it often felt like it was trying to be a parody but i never figured out what it was trying to be parody of and if it's not a parody well it remains a movie with great potential that it didn't live up to
1	i saw this film at the 2002 toronto international film festival br br this is the first indian film i've seen in the tamil language and while it does share some similarities with other indian films wonderful music and choreography sweeping storyline the director attempts more than just to entertain the film tells the story of a precocious nine year old whose parents reveal to her that she was adopted thus beginning an odyssey that takes them all from india to war torn sri lanka gorgeous visuals mix with horrifying scenes of violence expressly to make a point though it is a simplistic one is played by p s and she is one of the few child actors i've seen who can be precocious and yet not annoying her charm and beauty held the film together
1	pity the poor reviewer who disliked didn't understand this wonderful film what a sad life he must lead br br this movie has more to say about life and relationships than most i've ever seen yet it's not dark or preachy like the ordinary people type of film it is mostly humorous though not technically a comedy br br the whole thing feels a little like a fantasy perhaps midsummer nights' dream beautiful intelligent women abound with wonderful cinematography and a non insulting screenplay that doesn't miss a beat br br i look forward to seeing it every time this film is re run on cable it's like re reading a favorite treasured book
1	great fun for an evening on the sofa don't expect academy award stuff with this but it will leave you with a smile the performance by bruce spence is truly good the soundtrack shows off some great old australian talent check out this and other true aussie films
1	this film predates the australian films road warrior and priscilla of the desert and its influence on them is obvious in the dialogue locations photography direction and political philosophy the photography is notably confident the direction is stylish and for the most part well done if you liked the early australian films by bruce beresford peter weir and george miller then you'll love oz the direction also reminds this reviewer of edgar wright's contemporary work that similarity suggests that oz was far ahead of its time the critics of 1967 hated it and the public stayed away 1960s australia like 1940s usa was in some ways the sort of place where conformity was important whereas this film is very different to what those viewers would have expected especially after reading the promotional posters this film will most likely have more appeal to contemporary audiences it's still quirkily awkward and self conscious but in a contemporary european way rather than a 1960s australian way joy dunstan who later appeared in the australian tv series plays her role with less raw passion than her contemporary weaver might have done instead character in this film conveys some of the rather whimsical strength of australian women most famously represented by kylie minogue playing charlene mitchell in the australian tv series neighbours and further developed in later roles in her career men will also enjoy this film which presents various masculine issues in a different way than most other mid sixties films from the usa or even australia in particular bruce spence who later went on to play in 'star wars iii' the in the 'matrix' films and the chopper pilot in the 'road and films plays a central and sustained role which solidly supports the rest of the cast this film is worth seeing for bruce performance alone 7 10 for some minor continuity problems
1	wow an amazing lost piece of and a lost 70s glam rock film rolled into one this film warrants viewing simply to see what can be done with next to no budget but a lot of enthusiasm as a retelling of the oz story the film borders on becoming too obvious but it is saved by it's eccentricities the chance for a glimpse at how glam rock manifested in australia will delight fans of the genre this film used to be double featured with the rocky horror picture show an indicator of the type of film that oz is while not as frivolous or well constructed as it's hard not to have fun with oz br br surprisingly oz has aged well perhaps a by product of how determinedly set in the real australia of 1976 it is the passage of history shows that many of the ideas being explored would eventually enter the mainstream the willingness of the film to give prominence to gay characters is notable especially as it dates to the period for the australian gay rights push br br the performances range from amateur to finely nuanced brilliance the direction is lacking in subtlety and much of the dialogue may have benefited from an extra draft or two somehow these flaws add to the appeal of the film which is mercifully unpretentious much like australia in the 1970s this film has a certain naive charm br br there are several connections to the original australian of the rocky horror show which will keep obsessives on their toes br br oz is most certainly a minor classic and a potential cult favourite worthy of review laugh at the atrocious 70s fashion swing along with the soundtrack leave any expectations at the door and oz is likely to delight
1	i rented this obscure aussie relic a few years ago to show at a friend s place and it was an instant success the classic tale of the wizard of oz with a decidedly cornball 70 s australian twist the acting isn t exactly shakespeare society stuff here but later mad max star bruce spence is a beautifully understated scarecrow and there are some wonderfull comic turns by gary and robin ramsay as a deliciously 70 s camp fairy godmother father character also note the musical contribution from ex daddy cool frontman ross wilson on the title song in a similar vein to later day aussie comedies such as priscilla queen of the desert good fun
1	i watched this film during a special advanced preview in reading br br the two main characters michael and rory strike up a friendship when rory is introduced to the care home that michael already resides michael is amazed to find someone who can finally understand him as until now his palsey made people think that he couldn't communicate br br rory introduces michael to the life that he's missing rory is a feisty character who doesn't let his condition muscular dystrophy get to him br br they bond and apply for independent living and find a lovely flat and assistant and have all the fun that they could ever dream of br br don't go to see this film if you are after some entertainment do go see this film if you're willing to see something a little different br br the storyline is strong the actors are fantastic and despite the sadness that comes with the film the mood is uplifting br br i thoroughly recommend it though if you are anything like me and prone to crying take tissues as you'll need them
1	this is an incredible piece of drama and powerful which hits you i found the film was great and getting to grips with the two main characters disability this was represented in a great performance by both two michael and rory whether the story is based around a true story i feel the story was trying to giving the audience a message that as a whole the general public should respect and feel for the needs of disabled people and that they should be given the same chance as any other human on the whole this film reach into my soul and i too felt touched by the actors and the director sending out there creativity the whole picture is that some actors take it beyond their character the play and only show part of the character that is believable to the audience but i feel that theses two certainly made great use as their gifted talent to portray a masterpiece piece of drama certainly one not to be missed
1	bring a box of kleenex to this funny engaging and moving weeper the two leading actors give tour de force performances there was considerable debate afterward about whether they are really disabled they are not i appreciated that for once the filmmakers dared to be politically incorrect by depicting people with severe physical disabilities as fully developed people character flaws and all as a result their believability engages us and makes us grow to like them and care about their conflicts the story structure is formulaic and many of the secondary characters are merely types but the two central characters are so riveting that it doesn't matter br br interesting the original title inside i'm dancing reflects the viewpoint of the character michael while the new title for usa release suggests that rory is the central figure
1	a stunning film which brought into the open so much about disability that generally makes people afraid it showed how minds can be captured by less than willing bodies and how difficult it must be to witness things happening to others that are wanted for the disabled individual br br love friendship fear frustration joy humour and so many others things were so well captured the 2 lead characters were very well played by the 2 able bodied actors and invited your laughter tears concern joy and dismay br br i approached this film with a mixture of interest and trepidation worrying that it might be too much a play for sympathy or dwell only on negatives it was however a beautifully crafted story of 2 friends br br i loved it
1	this is by far one of the best movies i have seen in a very long time top 20 of my lifetime i laughed more than i have since hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and cried more than i have since i saw the notebook if you are looking for a touching movie without the sappy edge this is the one it is real and powerful see it and you won't regret it i was reluctant at first and i only watched it because i had to do a school project about speech disabilities but this movie is so much more than that it is about life free and independent from the way the world would have you held down its about the disabilities that each of us have that keep us from see ourselves and what we miss but letting everything else get in the way
1	bill roy is the leader of a desert dwelling cult who tries to resurrect one of his people only to have a heart attack himself he ends up dying on an operating table and for the sake of revenge his spirit takes over the body of the title character jill jacobson who then proceeds to go about hacking and slashing until her fellow nurses learn what needs to be done to exorcise the demon br br while i know enough about the directors' filmography to know that it primarily consists of outright schlock nurse sherri is really not all that bad sure it's clear that this was very low budget stuff yet all that i found cheesy about it were the visual effects the acting is not as bad as one might expect either br br there are two different versions available of this on dvd a much more sex oriented version featuring bountiful amounts of t a is the original cut with such hilariously silly vignettes as the victim and and her love interest sharing their strangest sex moments including one involving fellatio during a college lecture br br the movie would then be re cut for theatrical version with the horror elements emphasized more strongly some scenes are dropped with new ones added with stevens the role played by j c wells expanded the movies' most memorable sequence in this cut is a scene in a and it works quite well this cut of the movie is more interesting overall i would recommend that a viewer see them both and compare them br br both versions hit their stride in the final third and benefit from a marvelously scene stealing performance from bill roy as the crazed and a moody climax set in a graveyard although actually filmed in backyard marilyn is also worth mentioning as the cute nurse who is attracted to football player turned patient marcus washington prentiss who's lost his eyes in a car accident and who incidentally is key to resolving the story with his knowledge of voodoo rituals the movie also makes amusing use of music from composer harry personal collection including compositions for such tv series as 'one step beyond' and 'the outer br br nurse sherri known by more alternate titles including beyond the living and hospital of terror than any other adamson movie is actually fairly entertaining low budget fare i ended up having a good time watching it br br 7 10
1	this is definitely a movie that will make you think about the everyday struggles a person can go through every day great acting by the two leading roles exemplifies this further and you will not regret seeing this movie in any way br br it's a heartwarming tale of two new friends exploring the ups and downs of everyday life seen from the seat of a wheelchair their friendship is tested as well as their spirits when they get their own flat outside the nursing home br br i recommend this film to everyone who likes buddy pictures or just wants to see a wonderful and heartwarming film that steers clear of all the clichés and pitfalls and not once gets soggy
1	i was surprised and touched by this emotional movie which moved me very strange i was confused sad and happy in the same moment i guess that too less people will pay attention to this movie but i hope that at least a few will see it and get something out of it the story of two friends linked by their suffers of bodily disability whom as a team beat the medical well fare system and fight for their rights this movie shows a side which some of us would never understand not too exaggerated but emotional presented hopefully this movie will help us to understand some of their desires better and realize how important it is to have a friend in the world especially when you almost unable to express that fact
1	as a person god how i hate that phrase i just happened to catch this on cable where there was absolutely nothing else to watch overall it was a fantastic movie yes i was a little disappointed upon finding out that neither actor is disabled and yes i was a little disappointed that more of the movie wasn't filmed from the 'true' point of view of the disabled can you imagine what it's like always being the tallest person in the room and then having to live the rest of your life with a view of nothing but other people's asses and crotches having to always wait for the idiot to stop reading the newspaper in the only handicapped stall enduring everyone else's rude bodily while you wait and the scene with him driving the car was absolutely me been there done that literally but the movie was true enough to matter while i've never lived in a home or assisted residence there were plenty of times throughout the movie where i found myself nodding and saying to myself yeah that's true that's happened to me what impressed me is that some of the commentors on this board expressed the fact that the movie made them view life a little differently and with a little more insight as the lives of a silent can't ask more than that out of a movie that it makes you think and view life differently so by virtue of that alone the movies was tremendously successful should be required viewing of every kid in junior high school br br pretty much for every person that's severely physically disabled independence is one of if not the most important focus of our daily lives from working to socializing to recreating for those of you who felt the movie was ' try living our life for a single day you'll see that the movie was because it's true the challenges the actors faced only skimmed the surface of what happens to us every day if we're lucky we experience the same emotional and personal growth that the three characters including the girl did every day presents obstacles for us to overcome it's just that there's no swelling dramatic music to accompany our lives unless it's in our lol
1	it's rare that i get the opportunity to review a film for imdb that relates to my own life in such a close way however as someone living with cerebral palsy albeit less severe than michael one of the main characters in the film i don't wish to give this film a 'free just because it tackles a subject that's rarely approached and when it is is normally treated with po faced seriousness there were minor problems i had with the film and i'd like to address those first so that people are clear that it isn't my situation which has clouded my judgement of this overall excellent film br br parts of it i felt were unashamedly crowd pleasing at the expense of realism if i had a pound for every time a well meaning member of the public has mentioned electric wheelchair racing to me i'd be much the richer man but speaking personally that fits more into the public perception of how we deal with our disadvantages rather than the reality of what actually goes on same thing with spending time watching disabled people go to the pub it's not a big deal to those of us who actually do it as much as it might be admirable for outsiders looking in i appreciate that this is from the previously sheltered perspective of michael but i still think he'd be concentrating more on enjoying the experience rather than reflecting on what a big deal it was that he was actually there in the first place as such the amount of time we spend seeing them have fun felt like a bit too much br br i felt that the terminal nature of illness was brought to our attention far too late meaning that it was just used as a cheap sentimental device to come between the pair rather than something everybody knew all along was going to have to be dealt with br br to balance those criticisms i have to dish out a heap of praise as well although i thought some scenes showing them getting to grips with normal life were a touch overdone the script also ventured into some tricky places i wouldn't have expected and comes out with a lot of credit for doing so for instance raising the issue of love and relationships and showing the daily apparatus often used to aid and assist the lives of non able bodied people also despite the blunt emotional shock tactic of death being sprung upon us the movie as a whole is far less sappy than anyone has a right to expect these type of films to be br br brenda fricker can and has been performing variations of her role capably on autopilot for what seems like years but robertson and mcavoy share a special interaction that must be noted inside i'm doing cartwheels that a group of people somewhere have finally made a film doing justice to the lust for life of many disabled persons
1	if you want a film with the full range of emotion look no further dramatic and funny and scenes of wrenching emotion i can safely guarantee very few will be able to view this warm and very human film without shedding a tear now and then the acting by the two leads is hard to believe you would swear the two young men really do suffer from muscular dystrophy rory and cerebral palsy michael quite simply two of the finest performances i have ever seen these are two very believable characters as well and you never have the feeling things have just been tossed in for dramatic purposes or to evoke sympathy in the dvd release as extras they have deleted scenes including an alternate ending and an extended party sequence why these clips were not included in the final film is hard to understand as they tie in with the rest of the film perfectly and are in no way superfluous but without reservation i can heartily recommend this film to anyone one of the very best i have ever seen
1	this is an incredible piece of drama and powerful which hits you i found the film was great and getting to grips with the two main characters disability this was represented in a great performance by both two michael and rory whether the story is based around a true story i feel the story was trying to giving the audience a message that as a whole the general public should respect and feel for the needs of disabled people and that they should be given the same chance as any other human on the whole this film reach into my soul and i too felt touched by the actors and the director sending out there creativity the whole picture is that some actors take it beyond their character the play and only show part of the character that is believable to the audience but i feel that theses two certainly made great use as their gifted talent to portray a masterpiece piece of drama certainly one not to be missed
1	i got some free tickets via the times to see this little know irish movie called 'inside i'm dancing' i didn't know a thing about it so had no preconceptions before i went in br br the film is about two guys who are confined to their wheel chairs and live in a home michael steven robertson suffers from palsy and rory james mcavoy suffers from muscular dystrophy please excuse any spelling mistakes they form a bond as rory seems to be the only person who can understand what michael is saying they eventually leave the home to live in a flat in by themselves they immediately employ the help of an attractive girl romola garai to look after them the two friends eventually both fall in love with the same woman thats the story in a nutshell but there are lots of laughs and tears along the way in fact being unprepared as i was i found the tears were flowing way too often in fact i don't think i've cried so much watching a movie since the elephant man this film is a huge drain on the emotions both in the fun stuff and the sad stuff the acting is absolutely spot on james mcavoy is my tip for greatness he's a great irish actor and i think he has a great future ahead of him steven robertson who plays michael was superb too and it wasn't until today that i found out that he doesn't suffer from palsy and it was just some superb acting brenda fricker is also in this film and plays the part of the manager very well the other great part has to be romola garai she was wonderful as the love interest and i reckon we'll be seeing more of her on the big screen in the near future br br the thing that makes this film work is not only the between the two leads but the script which is just so witty it literally is on fire i still can't help repeating some of the lines in my head even now br br the photography is good although very bleak but then it is capturing a certain type of area of ireland the music is great in this film too as well as the choice in songs the use of the johnny cash cover of the nine inch nails track is inspired br br if i had to sum this film up in one word it would be this film is very very funny and then on the turn of a coin its very very sad i still can't believe that still two days after seeing the film looking back on it i both laugh and almost cry this film is amazing and i hope it goes far although i can't see that as its advertising budget is probably very small br br so go see it i urge you you wont regret it
1	i went to the pre screening of rory o'shea was here i like this movie better than i expected because the excellent casts and the powerful performance it's a film about the friendship of two handicapped young man rory is free spirit young man who wants to be independent regardless his duchenne muscular dystrophy he can only move his two fingers but he can talk eloquently and help his new pal michael who has cerebral palsy and is significantly speech impaired i guess that's enough to start with a weeping drama well it is but with inspiring messages and deeply moving performances it made me looking at my life for things i take for granted what would i do if all i can do is to move my two fingers i should feel grateful for what i have and what i am capable of doing this is a good flick although it could have been better
1	i've been looking forward to seeing this film ever since i first caught the trailer and i'm so glad now that i have it's truly a wonderful film the actors are superb the writing is fresh and real the whole thing was just spot on i love james mcavoy in this and i can't wait to see him in the lion the witch and the wardrobe movie this december romola garai is wonderful too be sure to check her out in i capture the castle or nicholas nickleby two of my favorite films overall i think i liked this movie because it didn't chicken out it's a difficult subject matter to tell a story about in that you're very likely to offend a lot of people or mess up and make it into some overly sentimental sugary sweet love fest but they avoided doing that completely and instead made a film that's real honest and touching yes but never over the top very well done amazingly well done go out and see it and you'll know exactly what i mean
1	until i saw this film life is beautiful was my favourite film of all time this film is everything a great film should be great script unsurpassed acting and direction that neither approaches the sentimentalism the subject tempts nor leaves it without the emotional impact it demands this film contains the taste that could not come from hollywood and lacks the that would come from france a wonderful movie even above the calibre i have come to expect when i see the handmade films logo come up i need not go into detail as the previous posts encompass everything why this movie has to be seen by everyone on this planet
1	sherri for an evening of pleasure and terror '' cheap special effects cheesy lines yep its the original 1978 movie starting geoffrey land as peter desmond and jill jacobson as sherri martin and directed by al adamson br br the movie is about an evil ancient spirit that possesses a nurse at a hospital then she starts killing doctors one by one the acting was okay but some of the acting was robotic the storyline was good but the sex scenes were just thrown in there probably to get more views the directing was bad and the special effects looked like a drawing the effects didn't fool anybody the death scenes were pretty good but the director mixed too many things in there that didn't make any sense like the sex scenes the nudity the football player and many more br br overall its a good movie but not the best br br 7 out of 10
1	surprisingly effective british drama about two very different people who find common ground and in particular the of one of them an embittered spike type youth mcavoy with md is placed in a home for the disabled and quickly makes friends with a youth robertson with cerebral palsy robertson has never known anything outside of the home but mcavoy has and he is bound and determined to get back into the real world together they manage to do just that in this funny and heartwarming and often heartbreaking tale of inner strength overcoming physical shortcomings the two leads are terrific especially robertson who must surely have spent some time studying the disabled to pull off this tricky role he appears in almost every scene and acts up an absolute storm to anyone who doesn't know they might think he really has cb highly recommended
1	i think i was recommended this film by the lady in the shop i was hiring it from for once she was bang on what a superb film first of all i was convinced james mcavoy romola garai were irish so convincing were their accents and by half way through the film i was utterly convinced steven robertson was a disabled actor and pretty sure james mcavoy was also when i watched the special features on the dvd and saw both actors in their 'normal' guise to say i was blown away would be an understatement i can remember all the acclaim dustin hoffmann got back in the 80's for his portrayal of autism in the film man' quite frankly in my opinion of course steven robertson's performance portrayal blows dustin right out of the water and he deserves recognition as such all in all one of the greatest portrayals of human friendship love relationships ever and it was made in britain ireland with home grown actors stick that in yer pipe and smoke it hollywood
1	let's get it clear from the start i am an asshole with the emotional sensitivity of cubic stone therefore i consider dramas of people with disabilities social stigma or whatever ailments they have and cry on and on about it as stupid movies with poor taste i mean if you have a message you can tell it without the help of sick or pitiful people br br however i liked this movie it is about people with incredible bad luck as personal health goes but they don't cry about it quite the opposite they try to live and people try to protect or take care of them by actively removing them from real life the message is live life to the fullest even if the ending is as sad as possible br br my conclusion as sick people dramas go this one is a keeper it is sad yet hopeful i like james mcavoy even if he does seem to always play the arrogant rebel i also say that steven robertson played very well either that or he really has partial paralysis
1	i knew nothing about this film until i watched it my brother in fact suggested i take a look normally his suggestions aren't much cop however but i was stuck for something to watch so i watched it br br well to cut a long story short i give it 10 10 br br the film centers around two people that meet whilst lodging at the same place one is initially very dependant upon the institution around him the other is a rebel one does what he likes the other as he's told br br from the first moments of the film we quickly see the friendship between the two building and see how they rub off a little on each other it's a remarkable piece of work that manages to tell a good story without twist upon twist people leaping out of bath tubs or superheros coming to save the day br br there's a fair amount of grit and reality in there not everything can ever go just right not all can ever be spanned and this film delightfully shows the lot br br if you watch this film and are not impressed i'd suggest that you don't watch anything again
1	damien o'donnell has a good track record and in this film he handles a very delicate topic with sensitivity but manages not to let the film turn into br br this is a fantastic film its funny with sad bits and it makes you look at things differently tell everyone you know to go see it now fantastic br br the acting is excellent and dublin plays a starring role this film will change the way you view people with disabilities and also give you a very entertaining night out in the cinema i can't wait til it comes out on dvd
1	inside i'm dancing rory o'shea was here is the story of two handicapped young men rory o'shea who is almost completely and confined to wheelchair and michael connelly who is by ms and also confined to a wheelchair br br set in ireland the film opens with rory arriving at a assisted living center he eventually befriends michael but only after a few tense scenes where rory rebels against the staff and other patients in the usual movie way playing loud metal music using profanity and general obnoxiousness his budding friendship with michael is cemented by the fact that rory seems to be the only one who understands michael or is at least willing to try br br eventually through some trial and tribulation the pair petition and are granted the right to live own their own in specially adapted apartment the apartment is paid for by michael's father who had essentially abandoned him do to his disability the two also hire an attractive assistant named siobhan played by romola garai to help them with their day to day living this is essentially where the crux of the film develops as both develop feelings for her michael is struck particularly hard unfortunately for both but michael especially siobhan does not feel the same and it results in her having to leave as michael temporarily regresses and wants to return to the asst living center rory convinces him to continue to live on his own the film ends on a sad note that many viewers may have seen coming but ultimately we are left feeling that michael has truly become independent and the future is his as rory pointed out to him towards the end of movie br br you know i can't say that i've seen a lot of handicapped films and i don't know if they could be considered a specific genre but there is a type of formula to them one person is unwilling to live beyond his illness until some liberating force compels him her to do so and inside i'm dancing is really know different what works however is it probably is more subtle about the peaks and valleys the two men go through then what you might expect there are no intentionally gratuitous moments and no stand up and cheer manipulations the sad parts are sad and the funny parts are funny some viewers might recoil a bit that rory is the spiky haired punk type with the earing in his nose as the too perfect rebel cliché but the actor james mcavoy somehow makes it real the same can be said for steven robertson who plays michael when michael's heart is broken it doesn't seem to be invoked by a poor script trying to get the audience worked up but rather a young man genuinely in pain over unrequited love the kind of pain many can relate to whatever their physical condition again these are the types of things that make the film work and make it poignant without being overbearing and enjoyable on many levels br br recommended
1	okay you saw the film and i saw the film true if not there are plenty of plot summaries out there and there is absolutely no reason for us to waste time on any feeble attempts of mine to create another br br the most stunning aspect of the film is unquestionably the performances by the two young men and the young lady in the leads their emotional honesty was as compelling if not more so than any performances i've seen in recent months i found i laughed cried and cringed right along with them and that's saying a great deal because i'm often called a jaded and cynical jerk br br as one would expect the story is rife with clichés and i suppose that's the achilles heel of the picture it's a story we've all seen many times before we all know how it will end from the moment they introduce rory though you may not know exact mechanics you know there will be a transformative friendship a bittersweet romance and a gut wrenching conclusion if it weren't for the strong cast and directing this film would be nothing more than the soporific swill that comprises eighty percent of the hallmark channel's program schedule
1	in dublin the crippled rebel rory o'shea james mcavoy moves to the residential home for the disabled affecting the lives of the residents roy is able to understand the unintelligible speech of michael connolly steven robertson who was left in the shelter by his prominent father many years ago due to his cerebral palsy and they become close friends rory convinces michael to move from to an apartment in dublin and they hire the gorgeous siobhan romola garai to assist them living together with rory michael faces a new world finding friendship love and freedom and learning to survive by his own br br inside i'm dancing is a wonderful tale of friendship and freedom in a very beautiful story the acting of steven robertson and james mcavoy are awesome and i do not understand how they have not been nominated to the oscar with such magnificent performances romola garai has also a top notch performance and is extremely beautiful and sexy the screenplay is touching never corny and without redemption and the precise direction of damien o'donnell is very sensitive unfortunately the brazilian title of the dvd is shamefully ridiculous giving a wrong idea of this excellent movie my vote is eight br br title brazil os dias de the best years of our lives
1	when i was 10 currently 14 i vowed to never see a movie that i knew would not have a happy ending and until a few weeks ago i had done pretty well except for shakespere for english class etc i was still only watching things that ended happy but then i saw garai in nights which was cute not good but entertaining enough to watch after seeing this a few times over the two or so years since i first saw it i grew to like it especially the music so i did a search on her and found imdb i saw inside i'm dancing and assumed she had done another dancing movie and over looked it it was later on an image search of rory looking for gilmore girls poster for locker i picked up an image from this movie i then searched for a trailer i found the trailer and when i saw the hospital and heard rory say you've got the future i remembered my vow and realized this would not be a good movie for me but it just stayed in the back of my mind until we were at the video store and there it was for 5 used so i went ahead and bought it after seeing it i just wanted it out of my head because it was so sad i still wouldn't go near it until i had cerebral palsy as a word then i just had to see it again and this time all i did was laugh even at the saddest parts i no longer felt depressed because i realized that over all this movie was happy and uplifting i love it and it is now one of my favorites i m sure this is the worst comment you have ever read but watch the movie it's worth it
1	this film was amazing it was extremely funny and moving damien o'donnell and jeffrey caine have put together a great movie which will appeal to all ages james mcavoy and steven robertson made this film brilliant their acting was excellent there was this real lifelike feeling between them that made you really believe they were the characters they were acting out romola garai is amazingly gorgeous and brilliant in her role the story of these two physically challenged people and their carer is well put over and you really start to grow to know and feel for the characters as the movie goes on it was especially upsetting at the end i would recommend this movie to anyone that loves a truly heart felt movie warning to the more sensitive viewer make sure you have tissues you will need them br br again amazing film
1	i love just about everything the late al adamson directed in his long and varied career but the possession of nurse sherri stands head and shoulders above fun yet admittedly grade z like horror of the blood monsters and dracula vs frankenstein this film is actually scary am i saying that you're going to jump out of your seat when you watch nurse sherri no of course not but this pastiche of elements from the exorcist ruby and carrie is one of those nice eerie little horror movies common to the seventies you can't put your finger on what's so spooky about it but the film drips with atmosphere and what an ending don't worry i won't spoil it for you adamson and producer sam sherman really nailed it with this one and it doesn't matter whether nurse sherri was a calculated success or a happy accident jill jacobson is likable but not outstanding as the hapless nurse who becomes possessed by the spirit of a recently deceased cult leader bill roy who shines in his brief role geoffrey land is okay as her surly doctor boyfriend there are some elements here profit was the bottom line with these cheap drive in flicks after all but they actually contribute to the plot rather than just being window dressing nurse sherri was a poverty row production and it shows at times sets special effects etc still the film has heart mostly decent acting and direction and some genuine chills sam sherman also saw fit to use harry theme music for the late '50s early '60s television series one step beyond in this film which certainly adds to the creepy atmosphere the dvd contains two significantly different cuts of the movie the early version features a lot of t a that wound up on the cutting room floor to make way for more horrific stuff as well as the theatrical trailer the tv spot and a great commentary by sherman does anybody know whatever happened to bill roy by the way next to john carradine he's the best actor i've ever seen in an al adamson film and he plays the cult leader like he means it
1	who could have thought a non disabled actor could act so realistically and immensely powerfully as a disabled person in a film probably someone but no one truly no one could ever compare their expectations with the amazingly emotive and powerful performance given by the two actors in this film br br michael steven robertson lives in a home for disabled people he has cerebral and as shown to us right at the beginning he has huge trouble communicating so it truly is a lifeline when fellow disabled member rory james mcavoy who can speak normally understands him thus starts off a friendship that relies mainly on ironically enough communication br br in a hilarious scene they manage to move out of the home into their own after rory had been rejected good hearted michael put forward an application to move into his own house rory who already had a bad name with the judges was to be his interpreter br br but troubles soon come about they begin good heartedly stalking a girl who they met in a pub a while back wanting her to be their assistant to do the little things that matter she at first is reluctant she does not know these men but seems they could be harmless so strikes up another friendship but not necessarily a good one br br as well as being poignant however this film really does rely on the actors but that isn't a bad thing for a non disabled actor you see rory though he can communicate properly frustrated at the way he's completely dependant on other people and has no real life of his own but the real star for me is steven robertson he acts with such emotion yearning to fit in and sadness happiness that really sees him win over the whole entire film br br excellent br br overall 5 out of 5
1	i just witnessed a movie that by all rights should have been fodder for a second rate mow on lifetime but trust the irish to keep it from being anything but saccharine the set up all but screams here's a message concerning what's truly important in life but the execution was way into the let's see just what we can get away with here br br it helps to have two fantastic actors in the leads james mcavoy as rory and stephen robertson as michael while rory is offered up as the near saintly one never mind the language and attitude he's the life force in this piece and could easily have been insufferable in his ultimately caring attitude mcavoy keeps him sharp enough to keep him from being too sweet but the revelation is stephen robertson as michael not since leonardo di caprio in gilbert grape has anyone so perfectly captured a person with an affliction that i began to believe he really was an actor with cerebral palsy and his eyes my god he can rip you apart with them br br this movie is to paraphrase rory f n' amazing go see it take a box of kleenex and enjoy every well earned tear and laugh
1	i don't usually comment on films since i am in the movie distribution business but i have to say that this is one of my favorite films of all time the acting is fantastic and the script is even better there were no cheesy speeches or exploitation of handicapped people to try and make this movie more hollywood james mcavoy is such an outstanding actor i could not look away from him if i tried i was impressed with steven robertson as well i cannot believe this is his first real film brenda fricker plays a small role but as usual she is outstanding this is a movie for everyone to see just how lucky we all are if you like awakenings and mask you will enjoy this story you owe it to yourself to check this film out
1	michael played by steven robertson has palsy and lives a quiet and dull life in residential home when a newcomer to the home rory mcavoy befriends him he proceeds to show michael how to live past the disability despite or maybe because of crippling disability unable to move all but his head and a few digits on his hand rory is fiercely independent and extremely rebellious his affect upon the quiet and reserve michael is spectacular and the two soon leave the care home to set up lives in the outside world where they recruit the help of siobhan romola garai as a care assistant br br this film is one of the gems of the year much like last year's in america the film goes from being extremely funny to distressing touching upsetting and truly moving without once seeming saccharine sweet knowing exactly where to tug at the heartstrings and where to simply let the story and characters do their thing o'donnell has crafted a wonderful film which tells us all to look past the surface and see what lies within br br the true strengths of the film come in the lead actors so convincing are their characters that you truly do believe that they are disabled to further manage to convey humor and sorrow on top of the already great performances is amazing the pair really seem close friends and as their tale unfolds you care completely for them br br this is definitely one of the finest examples of film this year telling a very relevant story in a simple way if this film fails to touch your heart then you must contain pure ice inside
1	this movie felt so real i actually felt all of the emotions portrayed here during my life at various times that of both rory and michael i have muscular dystrophy like rory so what you see here is exactly what i've actually felt myself some won't believe there are disabled people like rory full of anger and rebellion i know they exist because i'm one of them br br the story is great for a drama character driven movie the story moves fast i was never bored maybe partly because i was seeing stuff that is close to my heart but i think most people with intelligence will be glued to the screen and care about the characters the acting is phenomenal james mcavoy is perfect as rory o'shea who has muscular dystrophy he steven robertson deserves an award for his portrayal as michael connolly who has cerebral palsy br br michael's love isn't returned by a girl and rory helps him come to terms with it i've felt this many times and the question is doesn't she love me because i'm just not the one or because my disability turned her off no matter what the girl says we will always be skeptical as to the truth it's just natural and it hurts either way br br a few parts made me cry a little because it is sad and i have to face the issues myself people without a terminal disability just cannot begin to fathom how it can feel this is a must see film for everyone disabled people are everywhere and greatly misunderstood this film brings a little light on some of the facts of life which are so taken for granted by the able bodied we want to be just like you to live on our own terms to go out to get drunk to be loved on the outside we can't do much but on the inside we're dancing
1	due to its predictable second rate title the one it was distributed under in italy at least i didn't expect much from this movie thought it'd be another cheap flick about a haunted house la casa means the cursed house well i had to change my mind just after the very first brilliant scene the constant presence of priests and the creepy atmospheres reminded me a bit of the exorcist and some of its decent italian rip offs but this was going to be something completely different this is more like hitchcock meets italian thriller very well written and directed good actors interesting plot ok i've tried not to spoil the viewing of 7 park for you which i'd highly recommend to everyone br br p s am i wrong or when joanna crawls or tries hard to stand she's paralyzed from the waist down her feet and legs move a little too much and i'm not talking of the bad dream sequence
1	the last film by underrated director alberto de martino the antichrist the killer is on the phone is a truly suspenseful but incomprehensibly neglected giallo containing pretty much all the trademarks that makes this italian horror sub genre so magnificent and addictive to the fans there are some very disturbing themes child abuse phony loads of creepy moments plot twists left right outstanding music and – last but not least – a handful of really sadistic murder scenes especially the opening sequence which is some kind of prologue is a powerful piece of horror what is it about ordinary child dolls that make them so creepy when the anonymous man dressed up like a priest assaulted a little girl and the broken head of her doll bounced down a flight of stairs it really sent cold shivers through my spine years later the young girl from the prologue is an adult woman bound to a wheelchair she inherited a lot of money but uses her fortune to stimulate fellow handicapped people to practice sports and to remain positive minded she – joanna – falls in love with her personal coach and they get married right away naturally he's only after her money and starts terrorizing joanna by making her relive the childhood trauma that crippled her the repeated images of a sinister looking priest guided by eerie tunes and a nursery rhyme provide formula for a murder with a ton of genuine scares and alberto de martino's directing is very resolute the acting is quite competent with david warbeck the beyond the black cat in a glorious greedy villain role due some plot holes and a lack of originality this movie might not be able to compete with italy's best horror efforts but it definitely deserves more attention many formerly obscure and unknown italian gialli received marvelous dvd releases and hopefully formula for a murder will be given the same treatment really soon in the meantime good luck tracking this baby down
1	a very suspenseful giallo from the director of 1974 this one begins with a brilliantly handled sequence involving a priest a little girl and a broken doll however the main story is about maniac david warbeck marrying a traumatized cripple to kill her for her money the plot whilst not original is really suspenseful the acting is good and there are several skillful and gory murders the score by francesco de is quite effective some of which can also be heard in lucio fulci's the new york ripper 1982 highly recommended for fans of italian cinema
1	a formula for murder isn't a well known giallo but that isn't to say it's not a very good one the film is directed by alberto de martino the man behind cult classics such as the antichrist and blazing the film was released late on in the giallo cycle but more than stands up to many of the films released around the period in the early seventies despite a lack of logic in some areas the film works mainly due to the competent way it mixes argento style death scenes with some genuinely surprising plot twists and a host of well defined characters the film is perhaps not as exciting overall as many other films in the genre but this is more than compensated for by the assured way that the central situation is fed to the audience and the tension resulting from that the plot begins by showing a fake priest raping a young girl named joanna before pushing her down a flight of steps we then fast forward several years and the girl is now a woman who is unfortunately in a wheelchair she is being trained for a sports event by craig a man who also has romantic designs on her however his proposal isn't met with glee by personal assistant who also has romantic designs on her br br the film features a plot twist half way through that makes up the backbone of the movie and while it's not exactly logical it's good to watch and hints that you're in for an interesting movie director alberto de martino is clearly not afraid to show a few outrageous gore scenes and the best of which in this film features a priest being battered to death by a spade and i personally wouldn't hesitate to name that sequence as one of my favourite giallo murder scenes the plot can be a little uneven at times but generally the action is very good the director spends what seems like an eternity on the conclusion to the film but it's absolutely packed with tension and the way that it plays out is good in that it takes advantage of all the plot points that have gone before it the musical score taken from fulci's the new york ripper works well in this film also and breaking a giallo tradition de martino's film also features some rather good acting performances from cult veteran david warbeck and christina in her only feature film role overall this film isn't one of the easiest giallo's to come across but its well worth tracking down and comes recommended to fans of this sort of film
1	alter egos do not come funnier than the creation of sacha baron cohen's ali g completely misled by his delusional and non existent sense of the middle england suburban surroundings that his social background consists of he persists on living the style of a los angeles while still living with his gran in the london suburb of he keeps tight control of his posse the west br br spending his spare time between me julie his girl the posse and teaching local eight year old scouts at keep it real advanced lessons at the government funded john nike leisure centre br br this is where the story takes off being told that the government funding has stopped ali g then proceeds on a one man quest in the struggle for justice i willing to lay down me life just like martin luther van dross did being his reply to the local media crew when interviewing him on hunger strike while chained to a fence br br charles dance here plays david carlton the sinister and devious deputy prime who is even more than skeletor using ali g unknowingly to lose the prime 18 000 votes three weeks before the general election seeing ali g as a bumbling idiot his plan backfires ali g suddenly becomes an over night sensation and a saviour of the people working directly with the prime the story becomes more sinister and with hilarious consequences br br ali g is a great british movie that brings the hugely talented attributes of writing along with dan executive production and acting of sacha baron cohen charles dance and michael as the p m play their parts with great seriousness among the gags and hilarity that is ali g br br ironically seeing the parodies playing their parts in a world that really is real and who are continually preaching keep it real from their own little world that is the west is true comic paradox br br directed by mark his first full length feature film since directing television work such as shameless shooting stars the fast show and the smell of reeves and mortimer to name a few br br very real and very funny
1	what exactly do people expect when they watch an al adamson film are they expecting classic cinema that is wonderful beyond belief and will leave them with lasting memories you'd think so by some of the reviews al adamson's films are trashy and sleazy and cheesy not much more so if you go into them knowing that already it helps and they aren't necessarily to be taken at face value especially when they have so much unintentional entertainment value first off this starts by ripping off the end theme music from outer limits so you know things are looking promising this is the story of some wacko cult that lives in the hills and while trying to raise a dead body the leader suffers a heart attack and ends up in the hospital of course nurse sherri tends to his needs and all and when an operation is needed she just happens to be hanging out in the operating room when the guy passes on so his spirit invades her and nurse sherri begins to change no longer the nice nurse she develops a taste for blood and sharp objects there's a couple little side stories going on like folks trying to burn the body of the dead cult leader and a blinded football star that has become the love object of one of co workers who also just happens to dabble in voodoo this is not bad if you're a cult film fan but it may be bad if you're a spiderman fan because you won't like it at times this actually lurches towards respectability for adamson anyway but then it itself with some ridiculous event if you enjoy adamson's films and similar trash you may well like this for anyone else who may be looking for a lost treasure keep digging 7 out of 10
1	if you like his show you might be a little disappointed this movie has some very funny moments and the laughs are pretty constant but none are very memorable or as funny as the things on the show the beginning sequence is really really silly and funny and a great start yes borat does make a cameo appearance br br if you are a fan then watch it if you don't know him or don't like him then don't bother 6 5 10
1	no real plot no character development no scorcese level direction but seriously were you really expecting any of this the only thing that matters is that this flick is absolutely hilarious nearly on the same level as borat sure the ending drags a bit but if cameo didn't crack you up you must be the worst batty boy in the history of batty boys sacha baron cohen is possibly the greatest comedian alive and here he gets more laughs than jude law on a nude beach i dare you not to laugh br br if you can pull the ten foot pole out of your behind for an hour and a half and just enjoy some well timed and extremely stupid jokes in a stupid story about a stupid character see this stupid movie you'll be glad you did keep it real
1	the way i found out about this movie was when i watched american pie 2 at the start it had a trailer for ali g i watched the trailer and it just forced me to buy the dvd it looked incredibly funny so the next day i went to my local store and picked it up for £3 99 bargain the film is about ali g who is a gangster of the west massive crew who's rivals are the east massive crew ali has a cub scout pack of children where he teaches them how to survive in the ghetto by teaching them how to swear and steal cars after ali finds out the government are stopping the money coming to the leisure centre where ali teaches the kids he runs for mp for and overthrows another mp in his attempts to get rid of the leisure centre to make room for an airport in throughout the film there are laughs aplenty as ali gets up to some crazy stuff borat makes an appearance for a few seconds in the film too this is a definite must watch film for all you sacha baron cohen fans out there
1	the ali g show was really something amazing he was so stupid wannabe rapper but no one he interviewed noticed that he was just pretending sasha cohen is actually very intelligent guy who pretends to be stupid so he could get really honest answers from people and it is very funny so i didn't expect movie to be good cause it was all acted no real people or interviews so the basic point of all show was lost but i was wrong i laughed all the time it was one of the funniest films i ever saw sure it was stupid but who cares if you can't actually brake in to safe with a car battery like someone said it wasn't supposed to be a realistic documentary and it isn't like the show it goes in totally different way but that doesn't mean it is bad when i finished watching i was totally impressed but now when some time passed i realized that it was not that special anyway but it still deserves a nine well at least for what it is supposed to be
1	i love this film maybe it is my generation but i can really connect with what he is talking about and means to do it kept me laughing for the duration duration of the film the next day and beyond i think this film is not one to watch if you mainly care about the plot and character development this film is pretty much only for the generation that will understand it there are lots of things you just know being brought up in that generation that you wouldn't if you were say 40 i think sacha barren cohen was very and i do mean very good he is a genius and the reason h is such an idiot is because he can make people believe he is a complete idiot and make it funny at the same time br br very good film strongly recommend not so strongly if you are over 30
1	anyone who has seen ali g before should be well prepared for the full motion picture that is g br br although i prefer ali g when he is interviewing the rich and famous his brand of completely off the wall comedy definitely entertains from start to finish on the big screen too br br ridiculous plot ridiculous characters and a ridiculous script that all make this film a riot for fans of ali g br br if you've seen him and didn't like him then avoid this film like the plague because it's definitely just more of the same for everybody else watch it 7 10
1	the ali g character works brilliantly within the confines of a comedy show but as a movie it doesn't work in the same way br br don't get me wrong this is a very funny movie full of biting witty dialogue that caricatures the modern british wonderfully well whilst providing the viewer with a hilarious if unrealistic story br br one problem with this film is that the script and content is either fantastically brilliant or it's embarrassing to watch when i say embarrassing i don't mean funny embarrassing a la office or extras but rather you'll wish they hadn't included it in the final cut one example of this is the inclusion of a music video after the film has ended to the tune of this is how we do it whenever i watch the film i stop the dvd when it says the end and leave it at that br br overall ali g is a good film worth watching a couple of times the script is enjoyable to an extent and there are no issues as far as acting goes however refinement is the key word here br br ali g is a better television programme borat is a better film
1	very intelligent language usage of ali which you musn't miss in one word sentence wicked so keep it real and pass it on
1	i don't see what the problem is with some people and their need for intellectual humor you need to get your head out of your up tight ass if you don't find this movie hilarious if this isn't your cup of tea so to speak then look at it for what it truly is a damn funny movie maybe they did set out to make yet another drugs t a movie but in this case they've truly hit the spot it's especially funny for the ali g fans because he delivers everything we've come to love and expect from him so i say big ups to ali g and if it's not your thing don't whine batty boy
1	being american i have not been exposed to this character before which is good because some of you have been disappointed i have nothing to compare it to i have found no enjoyment in the mindless idiot humor in the american teen movies and although this is a slightly similar type of humor i couldn't stop laughing i hardly ever laugh out loud at a movie and usually a movie has a few funny parts for me but this movie was funny from start to finish my only disappointment was when it was over i'm actually going to buy this on dvd when i find it
1	this is one of those games where you love it to bits or hate it to shreds even being a hardcore mario fan can make you dislike this game you can hate it because it is 2 short and somewhat boring and easy or you can love it because it is a mixture of amazing graphics not a nintendo fan huge excitement music or game play i know a lot of people that say it is amazing and others who think its the worst mario ever it really depends on the type of nintendo fan you are i personally love this game and i think it is the best wii game but you should determine that for yourself so i think you should absolutely get it if you are the right nintendo fan but if you love the classics too much you may not like it so try it out yourself
1	lackawanna blues is a touching story about nanny a woman who gives all of herself to help those in need it's told from the viewpoint of a boy taken in by nanny when his own mother isn't quite up to the task br br i have respect for this movie for three main reasons 1 it is touching but not sappy it's told in a very real fashion without a lot of the aggravating hollywood storytelling baggage and the ending is quite good teary but not over the top br br 2 although it's clearly an african american film being set in the post segregation black community of lackawanna new york it doesn't wear its ethnicity on its sleeve the story stands on the strength of the characters and the dramas and comedies surrounding their lives it's not preachy it's simply good br br 3 it has a great soundtrack can't beat old school r b and chicago blues br br generally the acting is strong but not universally so some of the performances simply don't hold up to the characters the actors are supposed to portray but considering it was a made for tv movie that's to be expected br br 8 out of 10 imperfect but likable good film for a rainy day
1	by convincing the prime minister to back the totally unsuitable ali g as a candidate for in the local elections nasty chancellor david carlton charles dance hopes to discredit his party's current leader thus enabling him to seize power to his surprise however the plan backfires ali is embraced by the nation and carlton is forced to find other ways to try and guarantee his political future br br puerile crude misogynistic and always outrageous ali g the big screen debut outing for sascha baron cohen's middle class gangsta is all of these things and much it's my kind of film br br obviously there are those who are simply not going to get the joke and there will definitely be people who find risqué jokes about oral sex homosexuality recreational drug use hardcore pornography and the queen's nether regions offensive in the extreme needless to say they should stay well away but if you find such juvenile humour side splittingly hilarious are a fan of baron cohen in general or just want to see hottie in her underwear and you shud cuz she well fit then i fully recommend spending an hour and a half in the company of ali g and the west massive br br they wicked
1	the thing with ali g is that he takes the mick out of himself and his character br br the humour is very much a 'like it or love it' brand of totally politically incorrect irreverent and self effacing type br br personally i totally love this film and so has everyone i have met who has seen it you can watch it several times and pick new gags up each time the humour is both aural and visual and the timing is impeccable the humour is probably very english and specifically london so its possible that non english viewers may not get some of the humour think of yourself as a teenager and you will love it especially if the likes of kevin perry go large tickled you
1	ali g earned his fame on the small screen though the big screen has not lost him any kudos either ali g is a hilarious laugh a second fun fest just like on the small screen he has lost none of his character or stupidity at all and behind all that none of the film is brainless fluff either a human side to ali is revealed during the film the idea of ali g running for pm is a brilliant fresh and funny one and the incessant stupidity of gangster man is mixed well with the stern harsh world that is politics the film is also full of brilliant new characters and instead of just interview after interview we get a proper comedy film that never gets repetitive or boring so why didn't i give it ten stars well the ending was funny but also botched and failed none of it made sense and in parts the film became offensive in trying to be funny but that's ali g for you if it isn't offensive it isn't itself and it is totally and utterly ruined ali g's big screen debut was a success in my belief and should have got into the 6 7 average rating range on imdb but it could have got worse as well and people are bound to have mixed opinions especially on a film such as this br br on the whole ali g is hilarious british comedy at its best and funniest and most clever a great job 9 10
1	sacha baron cohen is a genius and this movie is good although the film doesn't nearly reach the quality of the tv show it's still very funny and has some seriously wicked moments i've liked ali g since the first time i saw the material from the show i think he's one of the best comedy characters of all time up there with say peter dragon action and the blues brothers biggest surprise with this film was that they've actually got some serious actors to do it dance and after this i will absolutely respect them even more for having the good sense to take this chance i have nothing really bad to say about this film it's very funny very juvenile but hey so what br br one more thing to mr g sequel please br br
1	as someone who usually despises ali g ali g was absolutely brilliant when i was watching it i was in a hysterical fit yes it is sexist rude and extremely crude and i loved it as some comedies are only have one or two comical scenes this movie was laugh a thon i have never seen a comedy as original as ali g for a comedy starring ali g this would be worthy of an 8 out 10 absolutely brilliant
1	ali g has got to be one of the funniest films i've seen in a long time and cohen's portrayal of a british gangsta is hilarious this film has cult classic written all over it and it features some really great lines ali g is a good time party movie that will leave the viewer laughing literally from beginning to end definitely vote ali g and keep it real
1	just before dawn is an underrated horror film from the early eighties i haven't seen it in years but it had a great impact when i watched it quite original for its day the only problem is that it has not been released on video or dvd for years if you like horror i urge you to check this little gem out
1	just before dawn is one of the best slasher films it very realistic and atmospheric it reminds me tobe hooper s the texas chainsaw massacre and deliverance deborah benson very good plays the heroine and director jeff created very creepy and dark movie just before dawn is beautiful photographed and soundtrack is very disturbing i never br br liked slasher films or gore except with this one very impressive and convincing movie at least for me
1	i remember years ago bbc1 used to show this movie in a very cut form i tracked it down on video a couple of years ago and viewed it again the film although slow and slightly odd the mountain men look very strange the atmosphere was eerily effective it's one of my favorite slasher films and i have no idea where an uncut version can be found currently deleted everywhere except the usa where it was accidentally put on a horror compilation it's a shame you cannot get this movie as it was meant to be seen wrong turn the recent stan winston produced movie owes a great deal to just before dawn one of the better 80's slasher films and deserves to be seen by a wider audience
1	the cover of the vhs says it all without doubt the most powerful movie of its kind since the texas chainsaw massacre i'm a huge fan of 70's and 80's slashers and i have to say i agree 100 the characters are believable the actors have an excellent charm especially george kennedy as the forest ranger there's the twisted atmosphere that only tcm has an astounding soundtrack to reflect the emotions and the filming locations that are the most beautiful in the history of horror this has to be one of the most beautifully shot horror films of all time jeff as a director of this 1981 low budget film does and excellent job and with his other works blue sunshine wrong turn added he must be one of the most underrated directors in the today
1	ever since 1981 nintendo has been making great video games such as super mario and zelda most ideas would get a bit boring after 20 years games made by nintendo never seem to get boring because they're always adding something new it went from arcade games to the wii and i hear that there's a new version of the wii scheduled for release in the thing that makes wii games so different is the fact that your actually doing something instead of just sitting on the couch pushing buttons br br and i have more good news super mario galaxy 2 is to be released in 2010
1	i watched this movie for the first time around 1990 as a young kid and it scared the jesus out of me i loved it so much and i was dying to get my hands on it br br in 2002 i remembered that this movie existed but i had no idea what it was called so i went to the i need to know section on imdb and explained what the movie was about and tried to get the name of it anyway eventually someone on imdb told me so i researched and tried to buy the movie so eventually i got a hold of it on dvd and i now keep this movie as one of my most valuable horror movies i really love it and i think anyone who watches it will be very scared in the woods the next time they go 9 10
1	i first saw this one afternoon in the 80's on network t v i think i was like 9 picture seeing a violent horror flick nowadays on regular television anyway i've seen it again years later and it's like i remembered it's really good scary flick i think the reason why it might of gone unnoticed is cause it wasn't followed by a load of sequels i e friday the 13th but it's one of those movies that takes the original idea and does it better even though this is a killer in the woods flick like friday it has more in common with the original texas chainsaw massacre that's because the movie lays down a certain atmosphere and feeling of dread even in broad daylight and the killers feel more threatening than in friday there's also a good amount of suspense i recommend seeing it now that it's being released on dvd in late july
1	i was lucky enough to see the horror classics dvd version of this film before it was mysteriously removed from the 4 film dvd and replaced with something else the picture and sound quality of the film on that edition was a nightmare in itself yet that version is still superior to the one with the deluxe dvd treatment the reason was stated in brad interview segments on the special edition dvd he had noted what i first found so striking about this film this being the use of music at moments of inactivity in the film but leaving the moments of activity in silence thus giving the horror scenes a stronger feel the problem with this reissue is it carries the extra film score used to fill in these intentional gaps in score complained of this and made it clear that the filler music was not his the music actually sounded a lot like howard shore's work for videodrome sad for me that i am also a major fan of that film and have to associate the two br br the film itself managed to add some interesting realistic elements to the genre horror film a group of friends go up on a mountain one of them inherited on the mountain they are confronted with a family with a nightmarish secret the movie moves along at a great pace in fact every time i have seen it i still find myself shocked to see 45 minutes had passed before things started really going wrong for the campers br br while the horror classics version is filled with many gaps the fact that there is no score accompanying the horror scenes is what makes this film intelligent and even superior to most slasher films i have ever seen the director jeff had made some unique horror films previous to this one making this one the most mainstream and yet very different to the mainstream at the same time it is a good fun film with surprising acting performances to boot the new up dvd version is worth a rent the now collectors item horror classics version now oop is worth the hunt
1	i've been waiting almost 25 years to see this hard to find horror thriller and i finally did since it's proper rebirth on dvd of course it didn't have the same impact on me as it would have if i had seen in it the 80s but director his film squirm is excellent makes good use of the lovely oregon location and takes the time to develop the characters not just to have them dispatched in creative ways a high note brad whistling music is really creepy and adds to the desolate proceedings making this great fun for genre fans a must see if you like underrated horror films to describe it would be an intelligent friday the 13th sprinkled with some tasty bits of deliverance with that aside there are some really cool original moments like my favorite when a couple are swimming in a lake and the guy disappears underwater to play a trick on his gal just when you think it's the usual scare she suddenly looks to shore and i honestly can't spoil it you just have to watch it for yourself also the ending is just one of those that you just have to see to believe – it came out of nowhere and it's weird wild the dvd includes commentary by
1	just before dawn is an excellent horror movie it is atmospheric filled with tension made of wonderful shots of wild nature in which few young people meet their doom in the shape of two crazed fat bastards who slaughter them jeff is very talented and intelligent director who is unfortunately underrated he achieved to built tension not with gore but with showing menacing nature environment succeeds to built a tension in a very linear simplistic way which is also the best way not to show to the viewer the gore but to let him to imagine the worst thing that happen to characters br br just before dawn was always compared to texas chainsaw massacre deliverance and hills have eyes it is as good looking as deliverance better than hills i mean scarier and better crafted and it is creepy as the texas chainsaw massacre br br is one of the best horrors of past few decades who finally lives on dvd
1	i didn't have very high expectations about just before dawn i don't know why i keep buying these slasher movies when i know it's all the same every time maybe i'm a bit masochistic anyway i'm glad i bought this one yes it's all the same no it has nothing original yes it's about a little group of teenagers going in the woods to camp drink and have sex yes they get killed one by one by a maniac and you know what it's just magic it's one of the best experiences i had watching a slasher movie the places where it's shot are so wonderful you see mountains waterfalls rockies it's just amazing it takes a very long time except for the opening scene before the killer starts killing but i didn't care it was enjoyable to watch enough not to care what i mean is you won't be sitting there waiting for the murders to start because every thing that happens is enjoyable because of the beauty of the film itself the ending is a bit weird but i won't tell you anything more about it you'll know what i mean another thing i enjoyed you care about the characters they're not just a bunch of jerks who spend their time bitching each other sure they are pure stereotypes of usual slasher characters but there's something special about them anyway it's a great horror movie and i hope you have a pretty good time watching it because i really did
1	a quick glance at the premise of this film would seem to indicate just another dumb '80's inbred backwood slash fest the type where sex equals death and the actors are all annoying stereotypes you actually want to die however delivers considerably more br br rather than focus on bare flesh and gore though there is a little of each no sex however the flick focuses on delivering impending dread mounting tension amidst a lovely scenic backdrop these feelings are further heightened by a cast of realistically likable characters and antagonists that are more amoral than cardboard definitions of evil oh yeah george kennedy is here too and when is that not a good thing br br if you liked wrong turn then watch this to see where much of its' methodology came from
1	just before dawn really surprised me when i saw it by being far less of a gruesome horror adventure than i expected instead the director jeff conjures up a wonderfully evocative and disquieting atmosphere for great stretches of the movie building the suspense constantly until i was really unsure about what was going to happen but wound up tight as a spring waiting for it the lack of action in many parts gave it a very deliverance mixed with the texas chainsaw massacre kinda ambiance and when the action really kicks in its truly shocking and dramatic without ever even really needing to be gory the characters are about par for this kind of movie though more sympathetic than some and the bad guy memorably freaky the photography and suspense are the real winners in this movie and they keep it from ever being dull as has been suggested i firmly recommend this one to serious horror fans don't expect gore do expect a creepy backwoods tale with several awesome moments and a great dreamlike ambiance
1	for a movie like this little hidden gem to come out in the 80s its shocking how not a lot of people know about it br br this movie is definitely worth a look it has all the things you need for a horror movie especially the good old chills br br i remember watching this movie for the first time about 15 years ago but i couldn't remember the name of it so i came to imdb a few years ago to ask for help on finding the title i eventually got the name of the title and bought the movie i still love it as much as i did all those years ago br br buy this movie
1	just before dawn is one of those really good slashers that send chills down your spine every time you watch it this movie has great suspense great acting very well done camera work nice job mr which makes a extremely well made slasher though low on gore for the 80s it still has the effect on you after it is over the opening kill machete through the crotch looked so real and the fist to the mouth death left me stunned overall i give this lost classic 10 stars out of 10 stars if you are looking for a gore fest don't look here but if you want chills sent down your back see this one there are 6 deaths and one of them you don't see but it leaves you mind to think how was she killed the stranded theme reminded me of 1977's the hills have eyes which followed kind of the same concept but in the desert with but still slasher fans give this forgotten gem i promise you you will be
1	warning may contain spoilers let rosalina help mario lead the way and smile because this game will brighten your day br br 120 stars will require luck and skill but 60 will bring you as much of a thrill br br blasting through stars show mario and luigi and what travelers they now are br br walking upside down has never been more fun especially a final battle with near the sun br br this is truly a super awesome game and it absolutely deserves a place in nintendo's hall of fame
1	just before dawn came out during the golden days of the slasher film the backwoods slasher pretty much started with films like friday the 13th the burning and madman just before dawn is a step ahead of the typical backwoods slasher flick the cinematography is gorgeous the acting is top notch the heroine of the film is not your typical 'final girl' br br constance is a girl but when it comes down to the primal instinct of survival she's a step behind not until it comes to saving the life of her and her boyfriend does the primal notion of survival kick in there's a subtle transition that gradually focuses on the final girls hidden sexuality coinciding that alongside her will to survive br br just before dawn isn't for everyone but for the slasher fan it's as close to perfect as you can get the killer s are very menacing almost like it's a game to and murder anyone who crosses their territory the end scene is a bit off kilter for the first time viewer it may be a little shocking i'd recommend this to anyone who's a fan of the backwoods slasher even non slasher fans will find something to like about it the setting is eerie and makes one feel uneasy the death sequences aren't particularly gory but i'm not sure the film needed gore see it
1	ignore the bad reviews on here this film is awesome just before dawn is a great example of what can be done in a film with a minimal budget if you have a dedicated crew decent script and a cool idea for a film it's a hell of a lot of fun br br i enjoyed it a lot more than most other 80's slashers because the killer is so unique wrong turn ripped this movie off something fierce there's plenty of blood and scares my girlfriend was freaked out and she watches almost everything with me and doesn't flinch it's got that creepiness to it br br i'd say that just before dawn is the best early 80's slasher out there i really enjoyed it br br 8 out of 10 kids
1	warning spoilers br br five young people ignore the warnings of forest ranger george kennedy and hike up to the misty oregon mountains where they are stalked and butchered by a pair of huge deformed in bred hillbilly twins when only two are left warren and his girl connie they resort back to their animal instincts to stay alive the film ends with connie shoving half of her arm down one of the killers' throats choking him to death a very powerful if somewhat overrated backwoods slasher flick thats effective use of lighting sound and photography make it a cut above the usual friday the 13th cash in lead by an attractive likeable cast especially deborah benson where is she now and gregg henry this nifty companion piece to director jeff squirm 1976 and blue sunshine 1977 shouldn't be missed
1	the mountainous woods young happy campers a warning by a park ranger and a lurking figure the ingredients are there for a horror delight and director co writer jeff does an adequate job at achieving it it's formulaic woodland horror but for most part the execution is at the top the game and the story which is quite basic in a trimmed sense is effectively told in certain realism maybe a little more exposition wouldn't have gone astray but craftsmanship makes up for the material's flaws and typical details with rising tension moody visuals and a smothering atmosphere created by brad very ominously lingering score whenever that very creepy whistling was cued in it painted a truly unnerving sense that settled in with the beautiful backdrop cinematographers dean m and joel king do a striking job too there's plenty of style abound even with its minimal scope and the build up is slow grinding at times the pacing can become a stop and go affair it's not particularly violent but there's still a mean streak evident even if some of it happens of screen the latter chase scenes and escalating fear is well done as it has the darkness coming alive with its burly killer s and you get actor george kennedy riding his white horse in a slight but wonderful turn there's a likable bunch of performances deborah benson makes for a strong dashing heroine gregg henry chris lemmon ralph seymour jamie rose mike and katie powell round off a modest cast of believable deliveries the final climax is rather twisted but the ending is one of those types that leave you thinking… is that it br br a well etched backwoods slasher item which probably plays it a little too safe to truly set it apart from the norm
1	five teens set out to do some camping in the oregon wilderness and despite being warned by the park ranger they soon realize that something is lurking around in the backwoods waiting to strike br br when it comes to old horror movies the only one that keeps popping up in every conversation is friday the 13th so i took it upon myself to find those good old horror movies that fell short for simply being compared to friday the 13th just before dawn just so happened to be among the ones i found and was really very impressive it wasn't as bland as some of the stuff you find today it was very sharp in terms of character development as it had quite a few likable ones and it has this very casual pace its not in a hurry to get to the hack and slash bits it takes its time to set the proper mood and tone and is very atmospheric and builds some killer suspense by letting you always have that sense of dread like somethings out there but you don't know where it is or when it will strike br br where i live its definitely an overlooked gem simply because people never heard of it or won't give it a chance but i'll state that it is not a friday the 13th rip off the two concepts don't even go near each other but in my mind it is overall one of the more impressive slashers i've seen in a while
1	taking its cues from backwoods classics deliverance and the texas chain saw massacre jeff just before dawn might not offer much very new in terms of maniac stalks and kills a group of still manages to be an effective shocker thanks to the director's deft handling of the material great use of the stunning scenery even greater use of women in hot pants a brooding synth score from brad and a nifty twist towards the end although one that should be apparent to those who have been paying attention br br thanks to solid performances from its capable oscar winner george kennedy as forest ranger roy is a sense of realism to just before dawn that is all too often missing from this kind of fare the film also offers a pretty creepy maniac who like dick dog and uses a nasty machete to kill and delivers a couple of very imaginative sequences which help lift it above many of its contemporaries a topless woman gratuitous nudity box well and truly ticked in a lake discovers that the hand that has been groping her underwater doesn't belong to her boyfriend and a shortsighted character makes out with his pal's girlfriend as a joke unaware that the person who is slowly approaching is not his friend but the killer
1	well sadly i can't help but feeling a little bit disappointed after my much much much anticipated viewing of just before dawn jeff is a terrific filmmaker and he can undoubtedly do great things with a tiny budget but i nevertheless expected to see a far more sadistic and gruesome early 80's slasher but actually i'm beginning to think that isn't the one to blame for this but we gorehounds are it's more than obvious that intended to make his take on the backwoods slasher look like deliverance and absolutely not like friday the 13th which immensely popularized the sub genre one year earlier the horror and constant sensation of menace doesn't mainly come from the demented maniacs with their machetes but from the genuinely ominous and isolated oregon forests where this movie was shot in case the film seems slow and uneventful this is only because takes his time to introduce the dark woods and eerie mountains as extra characters in his film we hardly ever see the killers in person but there always appears to be someone luring from behind the trees or from underneath the mountain lakes bearing this in mind just before dawn becomes a highly admirable horror effort and actually a lot better than its contemporary blood soaked colleagues amidst a nearly endless selection of gory and sickening slashers successfully puts the emphasis back on tension and character development the plot revolves on five twenty something friends heading for a camping vacation in the oregon woods where one of them owns a small piece of land the woods are deserted and naturally the campers ignore forest ranger roy's george kennedy advise to return back to civilization shortly after they brutally encounter an inbred family of which the twin sons have murderous tendencies all five main characters are surprisingly likable and convincing no irritating stereotypes for which you don't feel sympathy anyway like slutty girls or football jocks as a result of this natural character you automatically cheer for them even when they eventually almost turn into savages themselves the sublime camera work supplies the film with an at times unbearable tension level and brad chilling electronic score only adds to this effect just before dawn is a fine slice of early 80's horror as long as you don't desire blood to drip from your tv set
1	this completely forgotten slasher flick is one of the best horror movies ever made very dark at times it reminds me a little famous thriller deliverance director jeff creates terrific atmosphere of dread and despair all actors are decent and the climax is really exciting and memorable so if you are searching for something creepy try to find this little treasure my personal rating 10 out of 10 p s this one is even more chilling than halloween
1	this was a great 1981 film which had a great story about three men and two girls who go on a camping trip together and go through thick woods and high mountains with a great water fall this group of people run into property owned by george kennedy roy mclean who plays the role as a forest ranger and rides a white horse roy mclean warns these young people that where they are going is no area for camping and they should turn back of course these young people pay no attention and proceed to have a ball swimming in the nude near the water fall and playing great music and dancing by the fire and having plenty of beer and wine there is an old wooden one room school house that draws the gals and guys inside and it is from that point on the film starts to get very scary there is one occasion when a young girl has to climb a tree in order to get away from a human beast who desires her body and starts chopping the tree down in order to capture her don't miss this film there is plenty of everything
1	one of the many backwoods horror's that came out in the early and fortunately this is one of the better ones yes it has a cheesy plot but i was pleasantly surprised at this film because i thought it was really good and really entertaining although the killer could have been made a bit more scarier he just looked like a fat slob br br first of all we have the local sheriff or whatever the hell he is who warns them not to go to those mountains as they are very dangerous but when the teens arrive it doesn't seem very dangerous at all well according to me anyway it's a shame that we don't get movies like this any longer and if we do it's usually some boring terrible film br br this movie more relies on tension and being scary than gore because the gore factor is really low in this movie which i wasn't pleased with but other than that it's still a great movie br br all in all you'll have to search long and hard to find this movie and if you do find it you will like it and also watch out for ending with the final girl and the killer it's totally not what you'd expect
1	like some other people wrote i'm a die hard mario fan and i loved this game br br this game starts slightly boring but trust me it's worth it as soon as you start your hooked the levels are fun and exiting they will hook you 'till your mind turns to mush i'm not kidding this game is also orchestrated and is beautifully done br br to keep this spoiler free i have to keep my mouth shut about details but please try this game it'll be worth it br br story 9 9 action 10 1 it's that good hardness 10 attention grabber 10 average 10
1	29 sept 1990 marked a small but important milestone in my appreciation of horror flicks this was the date that bbc1 broadcast for the only time i'm aware of jeff super creepy 1981 shocker just before dawn and it made a huge impression on me nearly twenty years later i'm delighted to report that i've finally got my hands on the two disc shriek show media blasters special edition and it's just as eerie and unsettling as i remember it if not more so br br the plot as is usual for genre flicks and this was first film as a for though he did at least remove all the religious cult snake handling mumbo jumbo from the screenplay is a bit thin five likable twenty somethings including chris lemmon son of jack in a pair of uncomfortably tight white strides venture into the dense oregon woodlands to do a spot of camping and to check out a patch of land that's been bequeathed to one of their number but just before dawn stands out from a crowd of imitators because wastes no time in showing us just how deranged things are on this particular patch of mountain with a complete innocent skewered and a drunk preacher's truck shoved down a hill and engulfed in flames within minutes of the film beginning the youngsters come rolling into the picture in a snappy blondie's 'heart of glass' pounding on the soundtrack and before you can say texas chainsaw massacre they've clobbered an innocent deer with the front bumper and had their first taste of from the heavy set maniac responsible for the opening catastrophes forest ranger roy george kennedy warns them that things are likely to go awry if they go any further but they go ahead with the trip anyway refusing to give the sozzled preacher a ride even though he's understandably scared witless and finally pitching camp miles from anywhere needless to say things go downhill from here br br although this film's not short on bloody horror and well handled action scenes the standout moments for me are those where lets his camera zoom out long and slow from apparently innocuous shots of the fun loving kids larking around in the wilderness or just lets it settle for a while on the dense imposing people dwarfing woodlands he makes the oregon exteriors as threatening and as ominous as kubrick made the overlook hotel's spacious interiors in the shining and brad score discounting the horribly distorted racket that runs over the titles stays the right side of intrusive underscoring the slowly escalating menace with subtlety and flair there are plenty of surprises along the way nods to deliverance with the discovery of a backwoods babe and her freaky disturbing family and a truly bizarre kill technique deployed shortly before the film's end i won't spoil it for you i've said enough br br quite why this undervalued horror gem fell through the cracks and became a cult item instead of a breakout hit is hard to ascertain but hopefully it will be rediscovered and appreciated for years to come it deserves to be
1	it may have been inevitable that with the onslaught of slasher movies in the early 1980's that a few good ones might slip through the cracks this is a great rare film from jeff who insured his cult status with his memorable 1970's films squirm and blue sunshine br br five young people head into the oregon mountains this movie was actually shot on location to do some camping and check out the deed to some land that one of them has acquired before long they will predictably be terrorized by a bulky killer with an incredibly creepy wheezing laugh br br just before dawn is noticeably more ambitious arty and intelligent than some slasher films actually fleshes out the characters well two of them anyway as much as a 90 minute long film will allow him the film has genuine moments of suspense and tension and actually refrains from graphic gore save for one killing right at the beginning br br there is an above average cast here including oscar winner george kennedy as a forest ranger who's understandably gone a little flaky from having been alone in the wilderness for too long jack lemmon's son chris future brian de palma regular gregg henry blonde lead deborah benson it's too bad she hasn't become a more well known performer judging by her work here ralph seymour ghoulies mike sleepaway camp and jamie rose chopper chicks in round out the cast br br some of the shots are interesting and the early music score by brad now best known for his terminator theme is haunting and atmospheric br br this is worth catching for the important plot twist at about the one hour mark although a moment at about 75 minutes in involving the heroine and a tree and the killer is almost comical it may actually remind a viewer of a cartoon one of the most clever touches is the final dispatching of the killer which i'd never seen before in a horror film and probably won't see again br br i didn't give it 10 out of 10 because i can't honestly that i was that frightened still it's an interesting slasher that is worthy of re discovery br br that deed don't mean nothing son those mountains can't read br br 9 10
1	i'd been purchasing this one ever since its dvd release – for one thing because i'd been somewhat underwhelmed by this director's two other horror titles squirm 1976 and blue sunshine 1977 but also the fact that the film itself is said to have been slightly trimmed for gore on the media blasters shriek show 2 disc set i now chanced upon it as a rental and am glad i did – because not only is it superior to the earlier efforts at least on this preliminary assessment but i also found the film to be one of the better imitations of the texas chain saw massacre 1974 this factor however only helped remind me that i've yet to check out another such example – wes craven's classic the hills have eyes 1977 whose 2 disc r1 edition from anchor bay i purchased some time ago but after all halloween time is fast approaching br br anyway the film manages an effortlessly unsettling backwoods atmosphere it was shot in the forest and mountain regions of oregon – with plenty of effective throughout but thankfully not too much violence even if the last of the villains is dispatched in quite an outrageous fashion the principal young cast here one of them played by jack lemmon's son chris isn't quite as obnoxious as those we usually encounter in this type of genre offering – despite freely indulging in the shenanigans one associates with teen oriented flicks and which by and large persist to this day george kennedy appears as a sympathetic ranger though he doesn't have a lot to do his characterization is decidedly enhanced by making him a lover of plant and animal life also notable among the locals is familiar character actor mike in a nice role as the drunkard who first comes into contact with the murderous duo of the narrative – his warning to the teenagers naturally goes unheeded but he's later able to lead kennedy to them br br the hermetic family the teens come across in the woods then is eventually revealed to be hiding a skeleton in their closet while one of the girls displays genuine curiosity at the presence the rest are openly hostile to them – and in the case of the burly and uncouth twins appropriately creepy one of them is even prone to maniacal laughter during his rampages at a certain point in the narrative the ranger even offers an interesting explanation as to the nature of their aggressive and generally uncivilized behavior
1	jeff just before dawn is definitely one of the most underrated horror movies ever made the film whilst a little bit influenced by deliverance and the texas chain saw massacre is extremely creepy and memorable the suspense almost never lets up and the atmosphere is genuinely eerie the cast is excellent deborah benson and jamie rose are great female leads the inbred twins are truly frightening and remorseless killers the film is beautifully shot it was actually filmed on location at silver falls state park in oregon there is very little gore but one killing when is stabbed in the groin is pretty nasty and unpleasant a must see for slasher fans 10 out of 10 what else
1	1981's just before dawn is one of the best tales of wilderness horror out there it's one of the finest made slashers of the 80's and it easily blows movies like the final terror don't go in the woods or the prey out of the water br br a group of young adults come to check out the mountain property that one of the group has just bought however they are not alone in the wild a hulking in bred murderer who seems to be in two places at once is lurking and apparently hates trespassers br br director who gave us such great b films as squirm 1976 and blue sunshine 1977 does an excellent job with this smart thriller as well the movie is nicely atmospheric with a creeping sense of tension and some strong suspense this film makes even the open wilderness seem frighteningly claustrophobic the oregon locations are beautiful and well captured by the crafty cinematography the music score is a true original and awesome in contrast with the scenic visuals br br deborah benson makes for a great lead her presence was captivating gregg henry delivers a good performance as benson's lover and chris lemon provides some occasional charisma the supporting cast especially veteran actor kennedy also does quite well br br a true gem of the slasher genre that needs no gore to thrill definitely well worth seeking out for slasher fans and horror buffs alike see it br br 1 2 out of
1	i saw the messiah the first killings and i thought it was absolutely one of the best programmes i have seen ever it was one of those programmes that you think that oh no i cannot watch the rest of this but you feel compelled to watch it just to see who done it jamie was an absolutely amazing actor in it to be able to switch between two totally totally different characters one of which is the evil nasty person that did it and the other person who is jez clifton the cop to be able to do that well i certainly wouldn't be able to do it well not without cracking anyway i really do love and care for jamie with all of my heart and i always will until the end of time i think that jamie is the sweetest cutest sexiest guy in the world i absolutely love jamie in ultimate force also because he looks god damn sexy in the blacks that he wore i love jamie love paula br br x
1	messiah was compulsive viewing from start to finish the story centred on apparently random murders of men in london in various gruesome ways red metcalfe ken has to find the truth which to his surprise is a little closer to home than he might think br br gripping drama and ken was brilliant hopefully we have not seen the last of red metcalfe
1	obviously inspired by se7en and sometimes even more gruesome more bloodshed and very graphic details a bit too much for my taste great script and acting i was especially impressed by ken and there were no weak points in te cast good cinematography and very realistic stereo sound one of the best thrillers i've seen since years although it was scheduled on bbc in three parts i watched messiah on video in one take one point of critic the motivation of the villain was not very convincing
1	i saw messiah 2 a few months ago and didn t get to see the original teleplay untill a few days ago and this is far superior to the sequel okay it s not a million miles away from the plot of seven but it s still compelling much of my praise has to do with ken s performance as red metcalfe a policeman who seems to have led a very unlucky life and someone who has a terrible secret it d be easy for to go over the top but he plays the role in a fairly subtle way likewise the murders are very shocking but unlike the sequel where the murders are carried out onscreen in a rather ott manner there s actually little violence shown br br my only criticisms are that the red herring was too obviously a red herring which meant i wasn t taken in by the shock twist and you would probably see the shock twist coming so i won t bother with a spoiler alert and that when the real murderer was revealed it seemed both slightly far fetched and caused a few plot holes to appear in the story if i remember correctly the sequel had similar problems once the murderer was revealed so maybe it d be a good idea not to make messiah 3
1	having read the other comment about this superb piece of tv drama i felt compelled to balance things a little if you like you murders to be signature and serial and your cops to be british and shout a lot and the gore to be bloody and have a religious slant then this hits every button not quite enough to put the shouting into the sweeney's rarefied heights but otherwise highly rated ken is excellent as the 'cop on the edge' and the guest stars are also well cast including edward woodward and art malik recommended in response to the earlier comments although i accept that 'red' would not drive away from a hit and run he had just witnessed his brother arrested for murder and i am fairly sure he does not see the boy move
1	the mario series is back and in my opinion better than ever galaxy is the most creative mario yet even more so than super mario 64 the controls are great some of the best for the wii beautiful graphical design as well the levels are very big and the good old bosses are back there is tons to explore in this game definitely a high level of replay value i only have 2 complaints 1 the story is a little to similar to mario 64 and 2 the difficulty isn't very high though it does require some patience mario fans the game you've been waiting for casual gamers this game is more than worth the buy 9 8 out of 10
1	i have to say when it comes to book to movie adaptations the bbc rarely lets me down now regarding this mini series i love the starling novel it's by far the best murder mystery i've ever read the mini series it defiantly made my day when i saw it the primary story was kept near perfectly intact the characters match the ones to the novel very well the personalities and mannerisms were spot on for red and jez i thought duncan was done very well as was kate eric came off as too much of a simplistic character he had a little more depth in the book but they also altered his sub story so that may have had to deal with it of course there are changes but most are cosmetic but some i found disappointment in the sub story with eric murder charge was changed and that changed the whole dynamic between red and eric for the movie and they cut out the training jez was doing some of the other events in the book are changed to be viewer friendly over all if you liked the book you will like this if you like the mini series then you'll love the book i must say this is the most accurate book to movie adaptation i've seen
1	the dvd release of this superior made for tv bbc drama is a more than welcome addition to my collection great acting gripping story and wonderful direction all add up to one of the best bbc dramas in years
1	what can i say you expect only the best in drama from the bbc and messiah is not an exception to the rule br br messiah is a great thriller a truly shocking and creepy tale about a serial killer who cuts out victims' tongues and replaces them with silver spoons police officer red metcalfe ken and his team have the task of trying to solve the mystery of the seemingly random events before more lives are lost br br but be warned despite it's rating in the uk messiah is a bit of a gruesome film some of the murder scenes are similar to those in se7en and one or two can be really stomach churning but if you can withstand that sit back in your chair and enjoy although you'll most likely be on the edge of it or hiding behind it br br rated by the bbfc for moderate violence and strong horror
1	when i read the synopsis for messiah in the television guide i was not prepared for what was in store the story follows metcalfe trying to solve a case of grisly murders being taken out across london he soon realises a pattern there is a serial killer on the loose killing people with similar names and jobs to those of the 12 apostles and their killings are identical to their matching apostle the two part series kept me right on the edge of my seat with metcalfe closely pursuing the killer but always missing him within a couple of seconds and discovering the gruesome mess he has left behind of his ill fated victim messiah is sure to cause a great deal of controversy but nonetheless it is the greatest piece of drama the bbc has shown in a long time
1	guess a few upscale film directors were sitting around sipping their or jungle juice some night in the 80's during the cannes or other film festival and one said hey guys let's do a movie where each of us creates a segment around a world class aria it kind of sort of worked clearly someone was smart enough to select some of the best recordings of the arias chosen for example nessun dorma so if you were blind and lying on the floor just listening to the dvd you got more than your money's worth not every director succeeded but more did than not and the flick seems to improve with each viewing over the years my favorite is the eerily beautiful love duet from die okay a young naked elizabeth hurley is eye candy but her husband singing to her his wife's ghost is incredibly beautiful with the love music second only to and desdemona's gia nella notte in all the operatic repertoire could the flick been better sure what couldn't not have been but it's well worth a view especially of you're in a hyper romantic mood
1	i saw this movie in the early 1990's when it had been out on vhs for a little while at the time i found it to be interesting and was especially struck by the ken russell segment with the visions of the accident victim in triage and surgery br br last night at a 2nd run showing of the latest indiana jones movie the vision of john hurt prompted an unexpected flashback to aria which i had not thought of in years and the sudden memory of the russell piece itself was enough to cause an outbreak of tears for a little bit br br if i can make this observation i note with interest the love hate reaction that people have expressed to the russell segment and i have found this interesting difference in other movies that delve into deep trauma and its aftereffects some get it others do not interesting br br i see by the comments and the rating that the overall work hit people in various ways this is how it affected and affects me
1	definitely worth watching br br ten different directors each present a segment based on their favorite opera aria you don't need to be an opera lover to watch this film although of course if you hate opera you're really going to have a bad time with this br br not surprisingly the segments range from brilliant to only fair most of the fuss seems to be over godard's contribution whether you think he's brilliant or pretentious his segment won't change your mind br br some of the pieces have a clear narrative others are more a montage of connected images br br none of the pieces is more than 10 minutes or so if you're not happy with what's on the screen wait for the next segment and think about how much culture you're soaking up br br keep your eyes open for performances by buck henry beverly d'angelo elizabeth hurley briget fonda tilda swinton and john hurt the buck henry segment alone is worth the price of admission br br
1	robert altman nicolas roeg john luc goddard you were expecting a fun film the entire family could enjoy these and other directors were obviously chosen because they have not followed the mainstream but created it for those that complain that they did not adhere to the original story of the opera how often does the music in a film directly relate to what is going on in the film it is the mood that counts this is what i believe the directors of these movies were doing creating a contemporary mood for old operas for the most part they succeed wonderfully with all these operas who is going to like them all we could have used more beverly br br finally what is art even opera without a few naked women
1	10 respected directors each shot a short film with operatic arias as the inspiration and music i'll do each one separately br br nicolas roeg dir giuseppe verdi music a story about an assassination attempt in 1931 vienna theresa russell roegs wife plays a man not bad very beautiful and exotic russell is great br br charles verdi no story but there is some haunting black and white imagery that fits perfectly with the music br br jean luc godard jean baptiste horrendous pointless boring no plot no nothing filled with gratuitous female nudity the worst br br julien temple verdi buck henry beverly d'angelo and anita morris star in this funny if obvious story about a cheating couple pretty good br br bruce beresford erich short lush and romantic very good br br robert altman jean philippe dull a yawner br br fran richard wagner this has bridget fonda in her film debut beautifully done love story with a fairly explicit sex scene br br ken russell giacomo really strange but ok br br derek jarman gustave lyrical look at youth and old age very sweet br br the last is by bill bryden doing i he has john hurt dressed as a clown lip syncing to caruso br br when this came out it almost got an x rating for the abundant nudity and the sex scene it was given an r with a strict warning attached saying the r rating would be heavily enforced after the film bombed that warning disappeared br br the idea isn't bad and 6 out of the 10 segments were worthwhile worth seeing even if you don't like opera just avoid the godard segment i'm giving it an 8
1	i'm an opera buff and operas are full of sex blood and death it may help to know the of the operas the arias are from to really appreciate this film my mileage is very different than tug 3 i am a classical music lover and i liked this film br br i loved ken russell's nessun dorma segment and would actually like to see him produce turandot because opera is supposed to be overwhelming truly multi media experience but then i loved i love turandot and knowing the libretto so well may be why i don't find this segment the travesty that tug 3 did br br the buck henry rigoletto segment is probably the most approachable for the average viewer they are likely to recognize the tunes and its a classic bedroom farce i like bedroom farces so the silliness didn't upset me br br the segment is so outstanding that i recommend people watch this for that piece alone la jour was for me beautifully spiritual and the caruso recording of la aka i with john hurt as the clown was wonderful but people just wanting naked women may feel there is too much music and not enough bare flesh and sex
1	this comment will probably have spoilers i checked the spoilers box just in case but it might not have spoilers but be aware anyways if i say something that you might consider a spoiler and i don't wow best game since super mario 64 i got this game the first day it came out and before i got it i went on some gaming websites to look at its ratings yes they already reviewed it before it came out and i was shocked i was expecting something like sunshine because lately all the mario games have kind of been getting worse and worse but this one totally beat the other games the scores on this game even beat halo 3 it's simply amazing br br story not the best mario games are never known for their plots and this one isn't really much of a difference bowser once again kidnaps peach but this time invades the mushroom kingdom on a festival celebrated once every century and gets a flying saucer and it shoots lasers on the ground and then they put anchors inside the ground and rip off the castle and its foundation into outer space br br graphics absolutely gorgeous the best graphics on wii so far the water effects are really nice too if you ever see the water it looks so real because the effects they put in it br br music simply amazing the music in this game is orchestrated not all of it but even the ones that aren't orchestrated still sound very nice br br gameplay very entertaining keeps you wanting to play more and more and for me since usually i tend to be very frustrated with games if i die a lot i mean i'm definitely not the only one but this game for me didn't have that a lot now it still kind of did but not to the point like mario 64 where i totally go crazy and end up turning off the game because it made me mad this one never did that br br difficulty there are two types of difficulty because you can just technically beat the game with just 60 stars which i think is kind of easy but to beat the game 100 you have to get 120 like always and that quest is way harder but at the same time still very fun br br length good length definitely not too short it took me around 15 16 hours to beat it with just 60 stars but 120 took me more like 45 50 hours now i didn't play it constantly that much i played first a lot one day then the next couple of days just a couple hours each day then the next two days i played it all day to me though i think the quest for 60 stars was a tiny bit short so if you want a long game i suggest getting all of them br br presentation now the cinematic scenes in this movie are superb the way they are it just looks so much like something i would see in the theaters they are hands down the best cinematic scenes on any mario game so far br br overall this game is definitely a great game and i advise you to not wait until christmas get it as soon as possible this game also is a good mixture of old and new you'll have some levels where you move just side to side or up and down because they'll change on gravity but even the music has some old classics in it so this game seems to be like a masterpiece to me it's my favorite mario game of all time but others may disagree but it's still a great game i recommend every gamer who wants to have fun in a game to get this
1	sure it has its pretentious moments it plays like art house live action fantasia but it also has moments of deep beauty and humor omnibus films are always a problem but i have always had a keen interest in them i will now rate the segments individually br br nicolas roeg un in maschera this segment may very well spoil the film for some people because it is absolutely the worst of the whole bunch it is difficult to follow mostly because it tries to adhere to a clear plot a hackneyed one at that the photography is unaccomplished the best thing about it is the bit of lesbian homoerotica that it never does enough with this segment made me very nervous about continuing 2 10 br br charles la virgine degli angeli an unclear segment but it hardly matters the film has the best cinematography of the bunch mainly because it is in a stunning black and white the segment is dreamlike and beautiful 7 10 br br jean luc godard i chose to brave this much maligned film for the godard and altman segments with godard i was much more impressed than i thought i would be i can't claim to have seen all that many of his films since he made so many that almost no one has seen but judging from what i have seen this may be his best work since the 60s it is the funniest segment in this film and the most artistically accomplished bravo jean luc 9 10 br br julien temple rigoletto a very funny segment it is also quite predictable still this story about a husband and wife who are cheating on each other at the same resort is wonderfully filmed with long complex tracking shots that depend on precisely timed choreography from the actors it also has a great self referencing joke about omnibus films themselves the final scene is very weak 7 10 br br bruce beresford die tote this short segment involves too lovers in i think venice it is pretty with some nice shots of doves flying about the city it is slight but nice 7 10 br br robert altman les not one of the better segments unfortunately this is more of a music video than a concept short film it involves the occupants of an insane asylum attending a theatrical performance the music and images work well together so at least i can give it credit for being a good music video 7 10 br br franc somewhat unfortunate for beresford's segment this segment is very similar to it as you might assume from my phrasing this one struck me much more it is about a young man and his girl going to las vegas on a fatalistic voyage 8 10 br br ken russell nessun dorma maybe the most visually striking segment it plays in a fantasy world more than in reality it is a beautiful tale of a fallen angel 8 10 br br derek jarman le jour i have heard a lot about jarman and this is the first piece of filmmaking i have seen from him hopefully i'll see more in the future this one is also music but it is better than altman's it mainly concerns an old woman remembering her younger days the editing and the use of different film stocks to represent both time and emotion are very beautiful 8 10 br br bill bryden i the sad clown possibly one of the most famous arias particularly memorable from an episode of seinfeld this serves as the material separating each and the finale it is simple and effective 7 10 br br overall i give it a solid 7 10 it isn't anywhere near as bad as you've heard
1	john barrymore plays a gentleman who is also the thief lupin while no one knows for sure this is the case the inspector lionel barrymore is sure of it but cannot prove it so lionel spends much of the movie following john hoping to catch this brilliant and slippery thief br br although i liked the film i really think i had higher expectations for it and thought it might be better than just a very good time passer that's because it paired john and lionel barrymore in the film and since these brothers were such dynamic actors i think i expected sparks and magic but instead only caught glimpses of it here and there now this is not to say this is a bad film it certainly isn't it just didn't rise to the level of being unforgettable or a film i strongly recommend you see thanks an adequate script the film is pretty good but i was surprised to hear no french accents at all in the film even though it was supposedly about french people also there just wasn't much life in the film until it was nearly complete the ending was indeed excellent and entertaining so good that it elevated the film from a 6 to a 7 it's nice to see it ended on a high note
1	a remake of the 1916 silent film based on the 1909 novel by maurice the detective series would be made into numerous plays films and tv series in the uk the us and france over the years this 1932 version starred the smashing barrymore brothers john as the duke and lionel as detective they would also star together in grand hotel dinner at eight and several others over the next couple years sonia karen morley shows up in the duke's bed during a party in this pre hayes code film first the lights go out in the bedroom then they go out in the main ballroom then the search is on for the crook and the missing jewelry as well as other missing valuables you can tell talkies hadn't been around too long as they still use caption cards several times also watch for a new kind of safe that doesn't need a combination well thought out plot no big holes but no big surprises here either not bad for an early talkie film clever ending
1	believe it or not the mona lisa actually got stolen once and was missing for nearly two years in 1911 leonardo da 'la better known as the mona lisa was taken from the louvre by a petty thief and former louvre employee who allegedly sought to return the world's most famous piece of art to its native italy his actions after the theft make it seem more likely that he intended to sell the painting for his personal profit of course he had no hope of finding a buyer the mona lisa was quietly returned to the louvre on the very last day of 1913 remaining there ever since except for occasional loan outs when lupin was released in 1932 twenty years after the theft most moviegoers would have recalled that 1911 crime and their knowledge would have lent some plausibility to this movie lupin is quite enjoyable with mgm's usual high production standards and jack usual briskly efficient direction this movie does not lack for pleasure what it lacks is plausibility br br john barrymore is the master criminal of the title he specialises in perpetrating 'impossible' crimes which he makes even more difficult by announcing them in advance but of course he always commits the crime and fools the tully marshall has a good scene as one of barrymore's victims lupin has a penchant for elaborate disguises which enables barrymore a u s a' ham to indulge his own penchant for tomfoolery john's older brother lionel barrymore is the javert like detective sworn to catch lupin br br karen morley was an extremely beautiful actress whose private life was filled with populist political activities on screen she was most impressive in working class roles that fitted her own political beliefs such as her fine performance in 'our daily in lupin naturally dark hair is bleached a horrid blonde tone and she's all tarted up in posh outfits that make her look uncomfortable rather than sexy br br spoilers coming eventually lupin decides to steal the mona lisa from the louvre he slits the painting from its frame rolls up the canvas and then smuggles it out in a flower basket we see john barrymore casually brandishing a tightly rolled piece of cloth which is allegedly the greatest work of art in all human history i had to laugh at the filmmakers' error in real life but not in this movie da vinci painted the mona lisa on a plank of wood so a thief would have difficulty rolling it up br br eventually captures lupin and him off to le the scene between john and lionel barrymore in the police car is sheer delight as their genuine affection for each other spills out into their characters' dialogue i would have found this scene implausible with any two other actors as it is i can't imagine anyone but the barrymore brothers playing these roles well maybe dennis and randy quaid but just barely br br don't look for a good plot line here but lupin is a delightful example of old style movie making i'll rate this movie 8 points out of 10
1	a cranky police detective suspects a french duke of being the infamous thief lupin br br john lionel barrymore costarred together for the first time in a motion picture in this intriguing crime drama alike and yet so different they are the perfect counterpoint to each other john plays his role with suave sophistication when not in disguise and lionel is earthy common in his portrayal each obviously having a wonderful time trying to out act the other helped by a generous script the outcome is pretty much a draw with the viewer the clear winner br br although upstaged by the two male stars karen morley is intriguing as the mystery woman john finds naked in his bed tully marshall gives a colorful performance as a silly nobleman with much to lose to the master criminal henry armetta george davis are very enjoyable as two seriously inept security guards john miljan provides a sturdy presence in his small role as the police prefect br br movie mavens will recognize an uncredited mischa auer as a guide in the louvre during the climactic scene dealing with an attempted heist of the mona lisa
1	having reviewed 3 of the 4 perry and croft sitcoms i thought i would get them all done now dads army is my all time favourite sitcom it ain't half hot mum is also a classic as is you rang i don't regard hi de hi as a classic but it is still funny br br it's about a holiday camp similar to butlins but instead of red coats it's yellow coats it is ran by jeffery a well meaning man but has the personality of a sock the staff include fun entertainment manager ted his sidekick spike he ended up being thrown in the swimming pool nearly every episode yellow coat gladys careless maid peggy who longed to be a yellow coat and the punch and judy man mr partridge who hates kids situations occurred mostly round the swimming pool where someone would be thrown in every episode with there clothes on of course br br not a classic but still funny jeffery left half way through so this a bit like only fools and horses its welcome jimmy perry was actually a red coat at butlins br br best episode peggy's big chance series 2 episode 2
1	i very nearly did not see 'hi de hi ' i think it must have been the title that put me off in those days the welsh language editions of 'the radio times' only used to print titles of certain shows without imparting a scrap of information as to what they were actually about 'hi de hi ' suggested to me a bad quiz show hosted by leslie or worse an inane u s import but i managed to catch a later episode and was surprised to find it written by jimmy perry and david croft br br as was the case with 'dad's army' and 'it ain't half hot mum' perry based it on personal experiences in this case his time at a holiday camp before cheap air travel came along in the '60's these camps sprang up along british providing entertainment for working class families and earning millions for their owners br br as a matter of interest i worked in one such camp in the '80's as a chef barry island south wales known to all and sundry as land' for reasons i won't go into br br set in the late '50's it began with university academic jeffrey simon taking over as the entertainments manager of a job he was ill equipped to handle his staff included resident comic ted paul shane his sidekick spike jeffrey holland miserable punch and judy man mr partridge leslie snobby ballroom dancers barry barry howard and yvonne stuart diane holland and the unforgettable gladys pugh ruth who lusted after at every opportunity bubbly su pollard stole the show though as cleaner peggy whose driving ambition was to be a all the important staff members wore them a number of sexy girls occupied these coats too most notably nikki kelly's and statuesque rikki howard's we never saw joe the owner he communicated to his staff in the form of ungrammatical which poor jeffrey was forced to read aloud hi de hi was the greeting usually met with the equally inane de ho br br one fan was the late sir fred who told perry and croft that he recognised most of the characters from real life br br i always found the most convincing of these as well as the most tragic like archie rice he was the comedian whose big break never came reduced to cracking corny gags for the amusement of drunken late night audiences he took advantage of his position to indulge in a few perks and in one memorable episode patience snapped and he sounded him out lies ted all lies br br as with every other perry croft series the cast were excellent particularly and shane ruth prissy got on my nerves no wonder anne robinson hates the welsh but leslie misanthropic 'mr and felix jockey 'fred more than compensated br br the visual gag everyone remembers is drunken mr partridge spotting a pantomime horse riding a real one along the beach looking at the bottle of whiskey in his hand he decides to stick with it and instead throws away the banana he had been eating br br with its frothy blend of '50's nostalgia and saucy gags 'hi was a big hit for b b c 1 in the '80's resulting in a massive increase in bookings for butlins and it went downhill when left to return to the theatre though i never took to his replacement squadron leader clive dempster david griffin worse leslie death robbed the show of one of its best characters kenneth connor was brought in to replace him as 'uncle br br the period setting occasionally caused problems in one episode sylvia and betty had to dive into the pool to rescue peggy who for some reason was dressed as a shark the revealing costumes they wore were wrong for that era still they looked great in them so who's complaining in another ted sang the tom jones hit to campers it was not composed by les reed and barry mason incidentally until 1968 br br closed its doors in 1988 and the last shot was that of peggy now a all alone in the camp jumping into the air and shouting what else 'hi de hi ' br br i don't rate it as highly as perry and croft's other shows but its popularity is undeniable it was probably one of the last british sitcoms to generate tremendous public affection mainly because it featured likable characters in a recognisable setting goodnight campers
1	i get really fed up with sitcoms you feel you always know what is coming so it ceases to be funny on the other hand hi de hi you rarely know what is coming and it's laugh out loud funny i have just purchased the second set of the series series 3 4 and i am surprised at just how much i am enjoying it all again i have nothing but praise for the writers or the actors or the many unseen crew members because the entertainment they provide is well worth the wait the gems that have come from this series and the respect that the actors achieved through it speak for themselves croft and perry created some pure gold some of which shines through hi de hi
1	based to some extent on writers david croft and jimmy perry's own experiences as butlins holiday camp entertainers in the uk during the same the programme follows hi de hi epitomises the postcard humour of post war britain set in the fictitious seaside town of on sea hi de hi chronicles the comedic goings on within the holiday camp one of many dotted along the british coast owned by the mega rich but never seen on screen joe br br although the actual show began in 1980 with the pilot episode and ran until 1988 when the bbc deemed it too tame for it's cutting edge comedy department seasons 1 5 focused on 1959 while seasons 6 9 spotlighted 1960 a time when the old style british holiday camp began to fall into decline during the first 5 seasons jeffrey played brilliantly by the late great simon was the camp's entertainment manager a well meaning yet slightly pensive ex university professor breaking free of his upper class background and venturing into the real world to head his team of entertainment staff who were in stark contrast to his own laid back personality from season 6 onwards was replaced by clive dempster played by david griffin when quit the show at the height of it's popularity an ex raf war hero who in many ways was similar to character in background but more a scoundrel than a gentleman br br however the real stars of hi de hi throughout the nine seasons were ted played superbly by paul shane a stereotypical working class ale drinking bawdy comic someone who could never resist an opportunity to fiddle the campers gladys pugh played by ruth who's currently experiencing a career comeback with appearances in the hit bbc comedy little britain chief what the entertainment staff were called because of their bright yellow jackets and sports organiser but more importantly the one person who saved jeffrey and clive dempster from embarrassment by covering up their inexperience in running a holiday camp peggy su pollard the slightly dopey yet lovable lowly maid with a burning ambition to become a and spike dixon jeffrey holland ted's innocent protégé learning more about business' than he hoped for br br as usual with a croft perry production the assembled cast of characters were a bunch of misfits played superbly by the actors involved mr partridge played by the late leslie who was in his 70's by the time he left the show the alcoholic child hating children's entertainer fred felix a former champion jockey with a dubious past yvonne barry stuart dianne holland barry howard the snobbish former ballroom dancing champions who were in the twilight of their careers and sylvia and betty nikki kelly and rikki howard the two main girl who were always looking for the type of fun joe would never allow in one of his camps br br hi de hi typified the slapstick era of the late 50s with it's saucy and to a certain degree vulgar tongue in cheek humour jokes about people sitting on toilets and anecdotes about 'women with big were the order of the day but despite it's whiff of carry on it was always so innocent and became something of recommended family viewing back in the 80's of course the critics of the show remarked that the show had it's welcome by a good couple of years but i disagree while the early seasons focused mainly on and slapstick humour the latter series of hi de hi saw more thought put into the scripts and the main characters especially spike dixon gladys pugh were able to grow with more sensitive story lines that said there were a few criticisms of the show clive dempster was no jeffrey and the former didn't quite have the on screen chemistry with gladys as jeffrey did i personally think it would've been more believable if gladys had married jeff five seasons dedicated to 1959 and four to 1960 caused more than just a few continuity errors the disappearance of old faces and introductions of new characters weren't explained properly especially with the who came and went with much regularity and the character of gladys pugh who in the pilot episode was made out to be a free loving man eater that was suddenly transformed into a naive virgin like character also to mention quite most of the 1959 holiday season was covered in season one so to stretch the rest of the year out in five further series was something bordering unbelievable still the show wasn't meant to be meticulously looked upon and the comedy more than outweighed it's flaws br br all in all hi de hi was probably one of the last comedies from the bbc's golden period and even if it never managed to rival such british comedic mainstays as only fools horses porridge or even last of the summer wine hi de hi will be best remembered as a comedy the whole family could enjoy if you haven't already checked it out for yourself i implore you to do so
1	bounty killer george hilton smooth mexican bandit gilbert roland who's great and bank representative edd byrnes each try to outwit one another while searching for a large amount of gold from one of train robberies that was hidden by a treacherous member of his gang br br though not the greatest that the genre has to offer it's still breezy enough with a lot of light hearted action filled fun and a satisfying finale br br any gun can play is mainly remembered for it's opening gag where george hilton easily guns down three outlaws resembling clint eastwood lee van cleef and django br br the next year hilton and roland were reunited alongside van heflin and klaus kinski in the highly recommended the ruthless four
1	i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space br br the story begins much like any other mario game mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom upon arriving at peach's castle mario finds bowser and his son bowser jr attacking the castle with their airships bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet mario is found by a talking star named and is taken back to the home a floating space station here mario meets many other and also meets their leader a woman named rosalina rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station's power stars and scattered them across the universe it is up to mario to help the find them and save peach thus the adventure begins br br the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity some planets are small and others are big many planets are similar to classic mario environments the best thing about the game are the controls all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same but the is used in many unique ways in this game you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game and it will as well activate the shooting stars you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment then there is the graphics these are by far the best graphics on the wii it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks you could probably almost say it looks as good as some 360 games br br my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to and also the story is pretty weak the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at 4 lives still these minor problems aside it's a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging this is the type of game that we've been waiting for on the wii br br a perfect 10 out of 10
1	any gun can play 1967 directed by enzo g castellari is a very good pastiche of spaghetti westerns especially leone's the first half is great which apart from the opening which is a direct nod to for a few dollars more with colonel douglas mortimer and el walking into a ghost town and then promptly killed by a bounty hunter called the stranger is entirely serious with great gunfights especially the train robbing scene fast and furious action and nice performances from gilbert roland george hilton and who manages well considering that he is badly miscast edd byrnes but then when the film reaches the half way mark there is a jokey fist fight between hilton and byrnes it isn't very funny and is the weakest part of the film but it throws everything you have seen previously in a new light you realise that in fact the whole thing is a spoof of spaghetti western conventions and in retrospect the first half is so well done that you completely miss this spoof undercurrent what now follows is a more obvious parody with even some acrobatic jumping around from that predates all those seventies circus westerns the ending a complete send up of the good the bad and the ugly climax is very well done as in other hands it could have been very silly so a pretty fun spaghetti western that doesn't take itself too seriously i would recommend it to anyone who likes spaghetti westerns
1	a train holding union soldiers is transporting 300 000 of gold along with a banker clayton who's there to see it reaches its destination but it's suddenly robbed by the bandit however nicks off with the gold and hides it but when tries to get it out of him he's killed by soldiers the only clue is that of a medallion but is captured and soon would be executed a stranger dressed up as a priest comes by who after the bounty of and offers to save his life for half of the gold in exchange gives him half of the medallion but clayton notices it and discovers something is up soon all three are crossing each other for the gold but also the bank's insurance company and gang are watching on waiting for their chance to pounce br br just watching the opening sequence you'll know you're in for a spaghetti western with a tongue in cheek style and a reliance of sprinkling many references some nicely realised from other films largely the dollar trilogy of its sub genre director enzo sprightly direction is sprawling and mostly lightweight but there's potential in many of his grand showy set pieces and smooth rhythmic pace largely there's a lot of tussles fist fights and plenty of acrobatic stunts taking place compared with all out vicious shootouts however most of these stunts are very well done and very enjoyable and when the guns are blazing there's energy to burn the traditional story sticks close to conventional details but since there's a lot of conniving and going on the spontaneous nature makes sure you're never quite certain how it's eventually going to play out between the three this leads up to many effective suspenseful moments clever twists and plenty of wink wink the humour within the script is pretty sly worked in favourably amongst the light and zesty style is giovanni dynamically taut framing and francesco de impulsively rousing music score the performances are extremely well tailored and form a striking rapport george hilton's wry and scuffed turn is solid as the ambiguous stranger gilbert roland brings class and intelligence to his formidable mexican bandit edd byrnes gives a poised performance as clayton that holds up well kareen o'hara doesn't get much to do but is a worthy looker gerard pedro sanchez and provide able support br br a fun and worthy spaghetti parody homage that throws one curve ball after another and many fruitful down 'n' dirty antics
1	this enjoyable euro western opens with a scene that predates a similar scene that sergio leone wanted to shoot for once upon a time in the west but couldn't persuade clint eastwood to appear in three tough looking gunfighters ride into a town one is dressed like the man with no name in a poncho another is dressed like colonel mortimer from for a few dollars more and the third is garbed like django except he rides a horse instead of pulls a coffin behind him with a machine gun in it our hero meets them in main street behind a wagon loaded with three coffins any gun can play is a spaghetti western with an in joke on spaghetti westerns since the hero here wipes out the three killers aside from a little too much comedy especially in the acrobatic fight sequences this is an above average oater br br the notorious mexican outlaw gilbert roland of and his gang of trigger happy rob an army train transporting 300 thousand dollars in gold coins across the frontier director enzo g castellari of inglorious bastards stages the hold up from a variety of camera angles that thrust you into the forefront of the action the bandits seize the locomotive along with the coach carrying the gold and separate it from the rest of the train that houses the u s cavalry while and his gunmen keep the cavalry pinned down pedro sanchez of the locomotive kills the engineer and his crew and trundles it away leaving the other behind to fend for themselves essentially double crosses and steals the gold for himself later catches up with at the rio grande before the bandit can reveal the whereabouts of the loot to however a cavalry sergeant shoots dead before he dies tells about a medallion that serves as a clue about where he stashed the treasure the irate cavalry captain of commandos imprisons but he cannot loosen the tongue even after he uses his whip on him infuriated by reticence the captain threatens to have the mexican shot if he doesn't talk meanwhile the let a priest speak to but he really isn't a priest the six gun toting stranger george hilton of the ruthless four masquerades as a man of the cloth and rescues from a firing squad unfortunately before is rescued clayton edd byrnes of tv's 77 sunset strip takes the medallion away from him and keeps it for himself clayton is the bank representative that was sent to safeguard the gold he is horrified that the captain wants to shoot clayton's career at the bank hinges on his ability to recover the gold the stranger stages a fire at the fort to distract the firing squad and takes the captain as hostage and tries to escape but the stranger shoots him off the horse before the authorities can verify that is dead the stranger claims the body for the handsome reward he will receive and he rides out with the captain's gracious thanks no sooner have they left the fort than men show up to rescue him from the stranger from this point on the stranger and clayton forge short lived alliances among each other as they search for the gold castellari and scenarist tito who has penned a number of spaghetti westerns such as a few dollars for django and another castellari oater seven for a massacre rely on clever humor and surprise reversals to keep the action fresh and fast paced one cool scene has clayton seated at a table about to eat his meal when he hears some suspicious sounds from behind him clayton pours his drink on the table and sees the gunmen behind him with six guns br br any gun can play lives up to its title in fact many guns do play and at least twenty or more corpses pile up before fade out this western isn't so much a parody as it is a knock off of sergio leone's the good the bad and the ugly mind you bad guys and good guys fall as frequently as ten pins in a bowling alley but their deaths aren't depicted in the brutal fashion of a leone western any gun can play doesn't take itself as seriously as the aforementioned leone masterpiece the three leads jockey back and forth for supremacy each has a piece of the puzzle that will lead them to the treasure but they refuse to share their information until the shoot'em up finale lenser giovanni colorful widescreen photography is spectacular especially the opening shots of the train along railway tracks with distant mountain peaks up dramatically in the background another great shot occurs when tests the stranger's imperturbable calm this scene happens after the stranger has rescued and the minions arrive to save their bacon confiscating the stranger's six gun takes aim at the poncho clad tough guy and empties the revolver placing his well aimed bullets harmlessly in and around the unflinching gunslinger who photographed world war ii thriller inglorious bastards frames the scene with the stranger in the background and his pistol in hand in the foreground for a pleasing three dimensional style shot meanwhile francesco de lively orchestral soundtrack is as memorable for its own idiosyncratic melodies as ennio morricone's soundtracks were for the leone westerns the opening song is reminiscent of a 1950's hollywood western with its catchy lyrics and guitar riffs although it isn't a major spaghetti western any gun can play is always entertaining nonsense with interesting plot twists and good performances especially the indefatigable gilbert roland who was 62 years old at the time
1	a gang of bandits lead by the shrewd rugged ruthless a perfectly imposing performance by gilbert roland steals 300 000 worth of gold coins during a daring train robbery but untrustworthy member an amusing turn by jose torres makes off with the coins and hides them unfortunately gets killed before he can tell where he stashed the booty so has to join forces with cunning cocky enigmatic bounty hunter the stranger smoothly played by the handsome george hilton and cagey corrupt banker clayton a delightfully weaselly portrayal by 50's teen idol eddie burns to find the coins skillfully directed by enzo g castellari with a clever complex and twist laden script by castellari tito and giovanni a playfully amoral and nihilistic tone everyone keeps double and triple crossing each other with happily greedy abandon a twangy flavorsome spirited score by alessandro and francesco de masi plenty of stirring shoot outs and rousing rough'n'tumble fisticuffs a wickedly sly sense of self mocking humor a steady pace and a real doozy of a surprise ending this giddy and often hilarious feature makes for an inspired send up of sergio leone's the good the bad and the ugly popping up in nifty secondary parts are the luscious stefanie as fiery gal pal marisol as a hard nosed army captain and gerard as flinty lawman lawrence blackman an immensely amusing and enjoyable romp
1	when i die someone will bury me and if they don't what's the difference who gives a damn huh thus the philosophy of life or lack there of is summed up once and for all in this less than classic but nevertheless fun spin off of sergio leone's dollars trilogy in the opening scene three obviously evil gunmen ride into a western town and with menacing glares they intimidate all the pathetic normal people hiding in their homes the observant watcher will notice that each of these three bears a striking resemblance to characters from leone's for a few dollars more there is one guy in eastwood's poncho one in lee van cleef's black suit and one seeming to act like gian marie but this movie is not about these guys no sooner do they ride into town when they are gunned down by someone even cooler than they a mysterious bounty hunter known simply as the stranger br br no this is an altogether different story br br in an obvious copying of leone's the good the bad and the ugly three gunmen are again vying for a hidden treasure once again there is the bounty hunter and the mexican bandit the stranger george hilton is a bounty hunter with a penchant for shooting people while dressed up like a priest he is after the reward for the bandit gilbert roland but when gang steals three hundred thousand in gold coins the stranger gets sidetracked from his normal line of work br br to round off the trio there is edd byrne's corrupt bank executive clayton he too wants the money for himself but after the money is hidden away the only man who knows where it is gets shot now the only clue to the hiding place is a medallion that shows a family crest the game is too find the treasure before anyone else does and any gun can play br br with plenty of gunfights fist fights and double crosses the action takes these three to the ultimate showdown ripoff a three way draw for the hidden treasure ala the good the bad and the ugly but with a twist br br this movie is not as good as leone's films of course but in the end who gives a damn huh this movie is fun 60s nihilism spaghetti western style there are no rules no enduring loyalties and no right or wrong just the treasure and whatever it takes to get it and though the movie is not classic the ending surely is hey maybe we all can get along after all for a hundred thousand a piece br br if you like spaghetti westerns check this one out it is fast furious and worth the look my name is evren buyruk from california
1	george hilton never really grabs me like franco nero or clint eastwood but this is a great outing for him basically off the django man with no name and doing a damn good job the opening sequence of this gem is a classic and the cat n mouse games that follow are a delight to watch fans of the genre will be in heaven
1	leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his 1995 movie and video guide what film was he looking at kid vengeance or god's gun are bombs this film is a delight it is fantastic it is literate it is well mounted it is beautiful photographed making a brilliant use of colors right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks 77 sunset strip and the famous showdown in the good the bad and the ugly edd byrnes george hilton and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work it is too bad mr maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved one can only guess as to his reason i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be kudos belong to everyone involved in this project this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire
1	a group of bandits rob a train of the gold shipment it is carrying in their escape the bandits split up the one thief who knows where the gold is hidden is killed before he is able to talk three men have a different part of the clue that will lead to the gold can the banker the bandit and the bounty hunter work together to locate the missing loot or will they kill each other first the plot is an obvious take off of leone's the good the bad and the ugly various scenes in the movie are also lifted from other films by leone corbucci and more but to me it's done in a way that doesn't show disrespect to the original work instead any gun can play lovingly parodies some of the biggest films in spaghetti western history the opening scene of three men riding into town and the final face off between the three main stars are a wonderful homage to the sws that came before br br castellari adds a lot of nice touches of his own the reflection in the spilled wine the stranger's entrance with the vivid red background and the playful way the gold is discovered in the end although highly unbelievable many of the fight scenes are well staged and directed two fight scenes in particular the market fight and the bath house fight are very nicely done he is also unafraid to try different things with his camera tight close ups overhead shots and shots around corners are all common in any gun can play br br another plus is the cast that castellari had to work with george hilton is always good in these movies gilbert roland is literally playing gilbert roland and sw newcomer edd byrnes holds his own with the two sw veterans the supporting cast features among others sw regular gerard br br any gun can play should not be taken too seriously nice touches of humor can be found throughout the movie if this is possible with an sw it's more of a feel good movie very reminiscent of some of the terence hill bud spencer films
1	when i die someone will bury me and if they don't what's the difference who gives a damn huh thus the philosophy of life or lack there of is summed up once and for all in this less than classic but nevertheless fun spinoff of sergio leone's dollars trilogy br br in the opening scene three obviously evil gunmen ride into a western town and with menacing glares they intimidate all the pathetic normal people hiding in their homes the observant watcher will notice that each of these three bears a striking resemblance to characters from leone's for a few dollars more there is one guy in eastwood's poncho one in lee van cleef's black suit and one seeming to act like gian marie but this movie is not about these guys no sooner do they ride into town when they are gunned down by someone even cooler than they a mysterious bounty hunter known simply as the stranger br br no this is an altogether different story br br in an obvious copying of leone's the good the bad and the ugly three gunmen are again vying for a hidden treasure once again there is the bounty hunter and the mexican bandit the stranger george hilton is a bounty hunter with a penchant for shooting people while dressed up like a priest he is after the reward for the bandit gilbert roland but when gang steals three hundred thousand in gold coins the stranger gets sidetracked from his normal line of work br br to round off the trio there is edd byrne's corrupt bank executive clayton he too wants the money for himself but after the money is hidden away the only man who knows where it is gets shot now the only clue to the hiding place is a medallion that shows a family crest the game is too find the treasure before anyone else does and any gun can play br br with plenty of gunfights fist fights and double crosses the action takes these three to the ultimate showdown ripoff a three way draw for the hidden treasure ala the good the bad and the ugly but with a twist br br this movie is not as good as leone's films of course but in the end who gives a damn huh this movie is fun 60s nihilism spaghetti western style there are no rules no enduring loyalties and no right or wrong just the treasure and whatever it takes to get it and though the movie is not classic the ending surely is hey maybe we all can get along after all for a hundred thousand a piece br br if you like spaghetti westerns check this one out it is fast furious and worth the look
1	hallelujah a true colombian film crosses the border s to shows how and colombia really are i am an american of colombian and french heritage sick and tired of seeing colombia so perversely and ignorantly portrayed by hollywood and others br br how many of you are aware that colombia is the second oldest uninterrupted democracy in the world after the usa or that it has a vibrant film and television industry to say nothing of ugly betty that it's capital bogota pop 9 million is the world capital of the book or that this beautiful city is host to the world's largest international theatre festival i hope that doug liman simon mr mrs smith robert zemeckis diane thomas romancing the stone one day visit to see how wonderful it really is and focus on cultural vitality and diversity instead of producing films such as maria full of grace from which joshua profited greatly for this terrific film without ever thinking through about the damage his film would help to perpetuate upon the unfairly tarnished image of colombia br br anyway you will at least enjoy bluff very much oh and thanks imdb for your invaluable great work
1	i saw what i believe to be the best australian film of the year so far jon acolytes br br acolytes is a stylish thriller with a killer premise get bullied and molested teens discover a local serial killer in their suburb and then set about blackmailing him to kill the bully who molested them hewitt has picked a top notch cast including excellent new comers sebastian gregory payne and hanna lawrence to play the teens add to that three yes thats right three great psycho's lead by joel edgerton in an outstanding performance of serial killer du jour belinda his deranged spouse and michael as the teen raping bully with swastika tattoos once you add these teens and these menacing adults all hell breaks hewitt has crafted a balls to the wall serial thriller thats damn original and accomplished you can see the influence of larry clark and david lynch's twin peaks but hewitt makes it all his own in a qld suburban back water always ringing with the drones of emptiness the script by shayne shane and hewitt is tight br br if marketed correctly this film could be a break out hit with teens the next wolf creek it could well be it makes all the right moves the teens are real ala larry clark they don't suck and have an attached pc agenda they are non communicative good looking and hip the killers are dark with real menace joel edgerton steals his scenes as the mild mannered local ted bundy who sports a butterfly on his spare ala john the collector petrol head rapist pours on the menace that tops suburban mayhem and provides a creepy thug who you can't wait to see buy the farm br br the film is fast paced tough and brutal not only that it displays a confidence and directorial mastery from hewitt that is surely to win him an if or afi nomination if not award its nuanced and poetic mise en scene brilliant sound design excellent cinematography and tight structure mark it as clearly one of the best directed oz features i have seen so far this year br br the film leaves you shaken thinking and unsettled its a truly great edition to the return to genre going on in australian cinema at present it will surely garner the interest of hollywood oh and did i mention it got into toronto what other oz feature films can say that much the world should get ready for a new auteur jon hewitt
1	this film is one to spend the short while entertainment but who then could be made in nobody country it does not have anything identifies the colombian who looks for the topics of the supposed colombian or socially and politically correct cinema and what it is it jeopardize it is better than it is not going to see this film some to the drug traffic or the fight is no reference either farmer and worker or wing guerrilla and to the kidnapping political br br the corrupt police is a personage who it could be mexican russian italian or chinese and also the personage protagonist an argentine photographer it could be venezuelan peruvian or philippine and the frequent in its it could be replaced by another word of slang of any other country without the personage or history changes the important thing is that it is a very decently counted history with images and right performances its quality almost is of tv movie but of the good ones that if one film like this if it deserves or does not deserve the support with publics bottoms a little is a classic discussion
1	has been showing for a good few months at movie theatres in bogota and today i finally got round to seeing it i didn't really know what to expect at all but was very happily surprised it is a crime comedy of the same ilk as snatch etc and it manages to nicely balance elements of suspense with comedy the style of the film is established early on with cheerful music and the argentinean narrator who makes asides direct to camera odd the first time but subsequently fitting naturally br br with my less than perfect spanish i still found the plot and dialogue easy enough to follow and plenty of the comedy is situational my colombian girlfriend was laughing a lot at the various portrayals of people from different regions and social classes which did pass me by somewhat but for instance a well acted portrayal of a pompous idiot in a position of power is funny in any language br br i think it is to this film's credit that it has something of a global flavour i wasn't often reminded that this was colombia that i was watching yet it is important to note that many wealthy do live like some of the characters in this film and it is not a mis portrayal of bogota or colombian society in any way just a selective portrayal as is any film supposedly portraying a 'real' situation culture br br i don't know how much of the comedy would be lost in subtitles but if it comes to your country definitely go check it out it is a very slick and enjoyable movie with great elements of black humour and all in a tightly packaged 90 minutes
1	bluff i really think this movie is very good br br is basic a different kind of colombian movie is hilarious and the actors uses local expressions that are so much fund to listen br br it shows a different face o and i think that's very important because colombia is a diverse country and we need to show that to the world this is the first movie of the director martinez and i really except this movie will be the beginning of a great career as a film director br br we need to continue support colombian filming industry because this movie and others good films are the beginning of something big
1	i actually went to see this movie with low expectations since it was the only one that fit my schedule and amazingly i found it really original i have commented on other colombian films before and i agree that colombian movies tend to have a similar scheme and always try to make reference to the average vulgar people especially trying to make jokes out of the continuous cursing but let's face it the language used in this film is not especially exaggerated unfortunately this is how real people speak the storyline and the pacing are brilliant and it could be to any country in the world the acting was great and the script is to me one of the best ones ever produced in colombian soil i think that anyone around the globe can get a good one hour and a half of entertainment with a beautifully well directed bluffing black humor comedy it kind of reminded me of films like snatch and others of the sort i highly recommend it and hope it can be viewed by more people since colombian movies seem to have started to be more internationally focused since last year
1	an intelligent and well obtained film worth to export br br in this exiting and really intelligent movie filmed entirely in you can feel the total meaning of the word bluff although is a colombian film the title is in presented in english br br the story is about nicolas federico a photographer who find his girlfriend margarita catalina having an affair with his boss pablo victor owner of a magazine after this nicolas is left without girlfriend and without any job nicolas revenge to consists in following him and obtaining photographs of him with his new affair alexandra carolina gomez to blackmail in order to obtain money in change for not showing the photographs to margarita br br the story is really intelligent and well related to the point that you'll understand fully the meaning of the title the movie shows a thriller with a lot of a comic scenes and characters resulting in a real pleasure to someone that enjoy the movies focused on a good script br br i stand out here that this film is different from the typical colombian movies that show's some dark and violent image of our beautiful country which is something really refreshing some critics say that this story don't show colombian typical way of living so it could be held in any part of the world i disagree with this 1 the movie is totally filmed in so you can see streets and images of the real colombian capital i hope that some american people and movie producers watch this so they stop showing jungle or mexican little towns in bogota as on some hollywood movies 2 the characters dialogs accent with exception from nicolas that is from argentina are totally from here rosemary veronica has an accent typical from cali 3 you can also see social and cultural differences from the common people in i hope that all this plus an english title move people from other countries to watch this masterpiece of martinez br br excellent acting of veronica luis eduardo detective wilson montes outstanding as detective ricardo perez and good acting of catalina and federico br br a movie worth to export that people from around the globe will surely understand and enjoy don't miss this movie 9 10
1	jim performances as the harem girl and a u are amazingly funny on a level surpassing chaplin and keaton linda is great in her once in a lifetime role as the hometown waffle waitress longing for adventure unfortunately the remaining 90 of the movie was unwatchably bad due to the atrocious plot the makers of ernest goes to africa did not rise to the creative challenges inherent in low budget film production only worth seeing on cable
1	fate puts a pair of priceless items in ernest's hands and he gets kidnapped and taken to africa because of it this was my first ernest film so i can't compare it to his others but i thought it was fairly amusing good stuff if you like slapstick humor and plain old clowning around
1	the bad dreams always come back again like unwanted friends says marion who with her half sister laura lives in a vast mid victorian country estate and last night i found myself in normally people who are dead stay dead just as normally it is the criminals who are locked up rather than the victims but then there was nothing normal about what happened to us and we're off on a first class gothic story of madness deception and villainy based on wilkie collins' great novel of victorian mystery it's a good idea to pay close attention because there are plots within plots yet they all center on a cunning and ruthless scheme which involves what else money lots of money br br marion tara fitzgerald and her sister laura justine are devoted to each other marion is fierce and protective laura is softer and much more romantic marion has no money of her own laura will inherit riches when she comes of age marion has no marriage prospects that we know of laura has been pledged sometime ago to sir percival james an altogether too charming aristocrat they are the wards of their uncle a fussy condescending immensely self centered hypochondriac ian richardson all seems to be quite routine but then a young artist walter andrew lincoln is engaged to teach them drawing and artistic appreciation and when he arrives at night to the local train station there is no carriage so off he sets out on foot to the estate in the dark woods he encounters a strange woman dressed all in white wandering about and speaking of things he does not understand who then disappears are we uneasy yes and so is he and the sisters when they come to realize the strange woman looks much like laura later does love emerge between walter and laura does a bud bloom is there a misunderstanding that sends walter away and results in laura marrying sir percival does a gnaw and do secrets slowly come to light about the relationships among laura marian and the woman in white do we learn to be deeply suspicious of sir intentions do we come to enjoy the style and manners of sir close friend count simon callow and do we eventually realize the foul depths of depravity as well as the power of honor and true love that humanity is capable of do we visit victorian insane asylums see falls from high towers dig open graves in the middle of the night and watch retribution arrive amidst the roaring flames of a locked church br br well of course and it's a grand journey for us br br this bbc masterpiece theater program features fine acting and outstanding production values to fit collins' 500 plus page novel into a television show of less than 120 minutes means a good deal had to be cut or abridged and some changes were made most likely to achieve greater impact in the little time available still taken on its own terms the production of the woman in white in my opinion works very well as a moody romantic dark television tale tara fitzgerald as marion gives a commanding performance as a woman determined to protect and then save her sister james as sir percival manages the clever feat of slowly letting us see the depraved slime beneath the skin who still has charm amidst the villainy ian richardson as the young women's uncle almost steals the show he gives such a bossy and pungent performance it almost unbalances the story every time he appears perhaps the weakest of the main parts is simon callow as count the count is simply a monster yet a supremely civilized and charming one collins described him as being of immense girth callow does a fine mannered job of it but to me he lacks a little of the monstrosity of evil br br at one point marian tells us my sister and i are so fond of gothic novels we sometimes act as if we were in them little did she know what was in store for herself and laura
1	i didnt know what to expect i only watched it on a rainy sunday afternoon on pay tv right from the start it drew me in the music and settings and characters were excellent i hadnt heard of any of the actors but they all were outstanding a wonderful thriller br br now that ive read other comments on this movie referring to past versions and the book i will be endeavouring to find out more on this great movie
1	blue planet wow where do i begin the years of hard work paid off in what is without question one of the best documentaries ever created br br the sights and sounds presented in blue planet like most documentaries with the attenborough stamp are rare and haven't even experienced by most people that alone should be enough reason to buy this series especially if you're the curious type who 'wants to know' br br blue planet is not a perfect documentary however it does get a bit repetitive after the 3rd episode how many ways can different sea creatures swim kill poo mate and lay eggs and do all of these ways really need to be explored but if you have a deep interest in sea life this repetition shouldn't become a problem for you at all
1	i would have to disagree strongly with the previous lame comment i watched this not expecting too much from it the fact is that the cast were superb especially the lead teen female the dark sides of them all came through all were messed up in an not obvious way there was an underlying current which ran through the movie of teenage angst and sexuality the serial killer role was played well also as you could feel he had gone through what they had as children what this movie is is a strong drama thriller yes i would agree they don't do the obvious but you could relate with the messed up teenage heads they did what they did and it is believable also a decent dark ending instead of which could have so easily been an opt out happy one the attention to detail in the movie was fantastic also i very good solid 7 out of 10 a little slow at times but lets a thinking person see where the characters are coming from
1	an stunning look at the ocean and the life in it br br the good br br the camera work was absolutely phenomenal every shot is done beautifully br br it was interesting seeing all the different animals that i could have never even imagined br br david attenborough has the perfect narrator's voice no one could have done any better br br the bad br br there were one or two different times where there was a reference to the earth being 1 million years old i hold a different belief br br overall a tv series anyone can enjoy i highly recommend buying it 10 10 stars
1	everything i can say is that it's one of the best documentary movies of the ocean ever seen it impresses immensely by professional filming scenery and idea what i've seen during those 50 minutes cannot be compared to any other visions of the blue planet
1	the entire series not just the blue planet is nothing short of amazing the best nature series we have ever seen the episode on the deep is like traveling to outer space we have watched this with our 10 and 7 year old boys and all four of us have not been able to pull away we read a negative comment on this and could not believe it there is so much new information that we never learned in school its also the best view we have seen from any television or movie into the delicate balance of our earth's eco system the amount of time and effort put into capturing these shots is very much apparent when you sit down and watch this series br br a must see for everyone
1	i'm seen this documentary in its feature form in a movie theatre and the pictures are astonishing one really wonder how by jove did they manage to film those waves those animals those is that a plant a predator a creature from the movie anyway it's remarkable sure we've seen a lot of such documentary on tv with weird animals and so on but none with such a beauty a precision a deep emotion the only downside is the commentary in french it's narrated by françois usually good and familiar with beautiful documentaries but the text is not good at all not enough informative of too much
1	words can hardly describe what blue planet brought to life in all of its hours of runtime matching up with walking with dinosaurs this documentary stands as one of the best we can only pray that the bbc and discovery channel come up with even more outstanding ideas that could possibly even level with this one
1	i think that this short tv series was absolutely wonderful and gave both a in depth and clear explanation of everything that was on the screen at the given time this was by far david attenborough at his best i personally thought this was one of the best documentaries in the past decade this is definitely worth peoples money br br i also found the bit about the abyss and deep water the most fascinating and interesting part it was incredible to find out that the 'blue planet' team discovered more than 10 new species of underwater life br br in this documentary almost certainly lived up to his high reputation br br this was a masterpiece and will always be considered to be one of the best modern documentaries br br many to the 'blue planet' team
1	full of surprises beautiful cruel at times just like life itself leaves one asking for more the best parts are of course the action scenes and chases have to really wonder how much work these guys put into making some scenes whale chases polar bear hunts etc it is a wonderful experience and not to be missed by anyone who dives surfs or goes to the beach once in a while the music is enticing and the narration is superb and extremely well paced definitively one of the best documentaries ever made and worth not less than a very respectable 10 for its kind some of the footage is very cruel and might not be recommended for people with weak stomachs every killer whale footage is cruel
1	the blue planet series is without a doubt one of the greatest documentaries ever made on the ocean for five years filmmakers worked tirelessly on the series getting footage that has never been seen by anyone i e in the title the deep br br i highly recommend you watch this series to see the fish outside of the small pictures shown in textbooks is truly a treat but only a needle in the vast haystack of the sea that blue planet covers from the open ocean to tidal pools coral seas to the deepest darkest part of the ocean itself the bbc takes the viewer on an almost magical journey through the ocean br br i have to admit one of my earliest dreams in life was to be a marine biologist and after seeing this series the dream was revived i have studied the oceans of this world for years and have seen countless documentaries on coral and dolphins whales and but in all no one has managed to capture the life beneath the waves quite as well as this group of people br br watch the 'blue planet' series in it's entirety i promise you won't regret it
1	this series has a lot going for it with beautiful footage of the some of the most impressive underwater environments on this planet being a staggering five years in the making one would be hard pressed to expect any less i did get the impression that some scenes from the first episode where repeated in the latter ones which is naturally only a minor gripe br br david attenborough is great as a narrator and comments are informative leaving enough room for one's imagination and well spaced out so that viewers get plenty of time to reflect upon the breathtaking imagery if you get the opportunity try not to watch a translated version of this series br br a definite must see for anyone interested in the intricacies of our blue continents and easily the best documentary on this subject i've ever seen
1	this is without a doubt the most stunning and amazing documentary i have ever seen the images that are shown are absolutely breathtaking and stunning on top of that it is a wonderful learning experience i'm not one for educational documentaries but this one grabs hold of you and doesn't let go until the end you'll be so hooked and entranced by what you are watching that you'll forget your at home watching tv this series is available to buy on dvd and i highly recommend picking this one up with all the evil and death in this world this documentary series gives us proof that life is beautiful and worth saving and preserving
1	one of chaplin's longest films up to that point burlesque on carmen is a clever and surprisingly complex parody of what was then prosper well known story about carmen i was a little confused about the difference between the imdb's listing of the 1915 burlesque on carmen and the 1916 version based on the running time i assume that it was the 1915 version that i saw since the 1916 one is a good 20 minutes longer and from what i've read those are 20 unnecessary and unimpressive minutes br br from the very beginning it's clear that burlesque on carmen is one of chaplin's most complex and ambitious efforts to date starting off with a long back story told through inter titles about the tragic love story of carmen br br carmen is sent by a band of gypsies a band who put the gyp in gypsy to seduce a spanish officer so they can pull off their smuggling operation it's a clever chaplinesque band of criminals the leader of whom has spent 50 years learning to steal thinking he might be offered a job in politics br br on a side note i've seen some almost misogynistic messages and jokes in some of chaplin's earlier work but probably none quite as overt as in this one near the beginning of the movie as the band of gypsies are traveling there is a scene where the mules and women are loading and an inter title explains that the mules are the ones with long ears in case you couldn't tell i guess br br chaplin plays the part of don jose the hapless officer who is to be seduced by carmen he is described as a brave soldier and lover of women not exactly a stretch for chaplin who removed any doubt about his ability to play a convincing comic soldier a few years later in the brilliant shoulder arms and of course he didn't have to act about being a lover of women br br what is different here of course is his polished military uniform and straight backed manner interspersed of course with some of his traditional slap stick moves he strikes me as a little guy in a position of authority struggling to maintain the respect of his subordinates by exerting a gruff stolid exterior br br soon carmen enters loved by all men under the age of and she immediately begins flirting with charlie i should mention that for a good majority of the movie it is surprisingly faithful to the original story which was full of jealousy and tragedy chaplin is strangely convincing as a jealous lover able to evoke a jealous passion that i've never seen from him there's at least one scene where he is genuinely a little scary br br chaplin has some great sight gags in the movie like a hilarious table dance and some classic sword fighting near the end and his boyish charm and the role of a soldier is also definitely a winning combination although there is another peculiar stunt involving a group of men pushing a huge door back and forth that wasn't very effective to begin with but just kept going on and on and on probably about five times longer than it was worth although it was interesting that when it finally fell over it clearly was revealed as a movie prop i always appreciate such glimpses at the old movie sets br br the end of the film is it's strongest part it bears striking resemblance to romeo and juliet but just when you think that chaplin is going to conduct a major thematic experiment by from his traditional style there is a hilarious twist that is as vintage chaplin as anything i've ever seen nice work
1	i admit to being in awe of the sea and have spent a number of years in the navy so i am somewhat biased on this one i missed this documentary when it first came out but various people to buy me it on dvd this christmas 2002 and i got it some of the film is amazing and i have a lot of respect for those who make these kinds of documentaries to see 200 ton blue whales through the sea is an incredible sight they looked like submarines i like the level of information and facts conveyed through the narration it is just right i don't want to know a load of science just some of the basics to see these things is enough for most people the bbc has a knack of putting things at the right level for the intended audience br br a really great documentary up there with 'the world at war for' me the dvd is of excellent quality if i had a minor criticism it would be some of the obviously added sound effects here and there i think they detract from some of the scenes but well done to the bbc and discovery
1	as a scuba diver i can appreciate the incredible physical strain the cameramen must have endured to get the shots underwater this series is much more than that though the narration is perfect the scenes bordering on implausible and the subject matter enthralling the day to day struggle for life taking place out of the view of we terrestrial dwellers is mind boggling this dvd set has open my eyes to another planet right here on earth i urge everyone to watch this series
1	the bbc's blue planet is simply jaw dropping i don't think i'm exaggerating when i say it contains some of the most beautiful sequences ever captured on film from familiar creatures on and near the surface of the ocean to some more unrecognisable and just plain bizarre ones in the murky depths next to nothing is left out weighing in at a hefty 8 hours some people may want to check out the edited highlights brought to you in the form of the film deep blue but i would heartily recommend you give the series a go i don't think it will disappoint and if your kids enjoyed the aquatic world brought to them by pixar's finding nemo i'm sure they will love this too i just wish all television was this entertaining
1	david attenborough brings his fascination of wild life this time the creatures under the sea in this extraordinary 8 episode trip to all the animals under the sea br br the cinematography is astounding bringing to the screen truly breathtaking footage of those whales but the best thing about it as well as seeing each episode is how they made it whether it is making models of creatures or those impressive shots of the whales they explain to you in about 10 minutes how they did it br br 2001 had some great tv shows to our screen but in contrast to this documentary gem they make them pretty lame but to even boast this documentary series as the best tv series of 2001 just does not sum up the sheer brilliance that this series provides in quality entertainment br br overall this is the best tv series of 2001 with no competition and maybe the best tv series of 2000s
1	what i enjoyed most in this film was the scenery of being greek i adore my country and i liked the flattering director's point of view based on a true story during the years when greece was struggling to stand on her own two feet through war nazis and hardship an italian soldier and a greek girl fall in love but the times are hard and they have a lot of sacrifices to make nicholas cage looking great in a uniform gives a passionate account of this unfulfilled in the beginning love i adored christian bale playing the heroine's husband to be he looks very very good as a greek his personality matched the one of the greek patriot a true fighter in there or what one of the movies i would like to buy and keep it in my collection for ever
1	this movie is a love story set in the backdrop of war everything about the movie was perfect i just saw the movie yesterday and i want to get my own dvd asap and watch it many times over the story ends as it started i was very happy that he came back and i was proud of her for becoming a doctor and fulfilling her father's dream she honored her father boyfriend husband and her lover the character had many shades christian bale is also an phenomenal actor some stories do have happy endings aside from the love story angle i thought about how a beautiful serene and peaceful island had been affected by war and it made me realize the true devastation war can have on its people government makes the decision whereas the people suffer her father was a very educated man and wanted more for his daughter while she had regular dreams i loved the scene where she is complaining about not getting a dowry and i also loved the scene where both lived through the earthquake they were survivors
1	i did not read the book nor do i care to the movie was a beautiful romance and i think women will enjoy it no it was not a 10 film but it was enjoyable women if your man is bored as mine was then watch it yourself hurt is wonderful as the philosophic doctor who delivers a thoughtful monologue on in love and loving br br also if you like nick cage he was terrific and funny i enjoyed watching the developing romance br br also if you like christian bale do see him in equilibrium this is a 10 sci fi movie br br do see this film ignore the previous user's comments br br one especially the ladies also do visit my website at my name as one word and a dot com
1	captain mandolin is a beautiful film with a lovely cast including the wonderful nicolas cage who as always is brilliant in the movie the music in the film is really nice too i'd advise anyone to go and see it brilliant 10 10
1	forget all those people who tell you it's not as good as the book so what this is a film after all it is a sheer joy to watch made entirely on location in gorgeous photography but with dark disturbing moments as well the only problem i have is with the obvious miscasting of nicolas cage as captain apart from that the film was a very pleasant surprise
1	once you can get over nic cage playing an italian soldier who loves opera and believes in making love not war you can get down to enjoying this beautiful looking film this could be used as an advert for tourism in the mediterranean john hurt is great and penelope cruz isn't bad as you might expect christian character is somewhat one dimensional which is a shame br br the main drawback of this film is the adaptation from the book having been told subsequently the differences between the book and film plots i feel cheated out of a much better and more convincing storyline
1	being the second last of chaplin's essanay films carmen is a parody of cecil b demille's drama with the same title it stands as quite obvious that demille's acknowledged film didn't impress the comedy king that much which he later admitted in his autobiography br br parodies were not a new experiment for chaplin he had done several of them already namely his prehistoric past and his new job and would continue to do so until the very end of his career in films for instance in a king in new york br br chaplin does a very good portrayal of don josé and edna is very as good as carmen neither act as we are used to charlie is not the lovable tramp and edna is far from an innocent little woman but that was not chaplin's intentions either a burlesque on carmen is a somewhat odd chaplin film very different but includes good material nonetheless br br the main story is although very differently structured as in the original drama don josé is very much in love with carmen but is not alone in that field carmen carmen the beautiful carmen is loved by all men under 96 but he has the big advantage that he is an officer and there we are this is the famous story about rivalry love greed and honor seen from a humorous perspective thanks to chaplin's and performances and to the wonderful wonderful music by george bizet which i highly admire this could actually have been a near comedy masterpiece it's time taken into consideration it could have been but unfortunately although it is a good pretty good comedy i don't feel it's fair to blame people who claim that a burlesque of carmen is far from being a masterpiece but it's important to keep in mind that this has nothing to do with any lack of talent but rather a result of conflicts concerning business when chaplin refused to re sign essanay contract after completing his last film for the company police they took revenge by editing back all the scenes chaplin originally had edited out from carmen thanks to this the film is somewhat confusing and has several pointless scenes which are more annoying than funny and the film turned out to be rather a ben turpin feature turpin played than a chaplin short naturally chaplin was in despair when he discovered what essanay had done and had to stay in bed for several days br br despite its obvious flaws a burlesque of carmen is highly recommended to chaplin fans and to admirers of beautiful music
1	every once in a while a film comes along with characters we all know and love a film where you see people you know portrayed on screen it's cinema very at its best br br lackawanna blues is that film set in 1960s upstate new york the story surrounds a rock solid woman who is the foundation for her community this based on a true story film is told from a child she accepted as her own this child ruben santiago hudson wrote the screenplay br br emmy winner s stars as nanny a woman who has wit drive and determination for helping others in her boarding home she does this as she wrestles with infidelity from her young lover bill crosby played by the oscar nominated terrence howard br br but make no mistake see this film for the amazing performance of who is brilliant in this role she encompasses a person we have all known and perhaps love br br lackawanna blues is already on dvd be sure to pick it up at your local video story today br br has already won an emmy golden globe and screen actors guild for this role br br howard has an oscar nomination for his role in hustle flow
1	capt mandolin is an old fashioned hollywood war romance but with sex and nudity and supposedly no americans the story takes place on a greek island during ww2 the italians arrive to take over the island but with german supervision there is a romantic triangle made up of a greek couple and the italian captain nice performances by all the actors penelope cruz's best work yet
1	this movie gives us some wwii history along with some touching romance a little fantasy and meaningful emotion and beautiful scenery nicholas cage never fails us and here again does a great job and so do the other principle characters one key charater the physician father played by john hurd delivers to his daughter one of the best definitions of love i've ever heard some of the events are a bit too coincidental to be real but i excused that knowing that this is partly fairy tale and my wife and i really liked the film and it is nice to watch people taking the risks to love the enemy one man who left the theatre near us said to his wife now that's the way to wage war i think you'll see what he means when you watch the italian occupiers of this lovely greek island
1	these critics need to find a new job this movie is based on a true story which has made history it illustrates beautifully how even in the mist of war and tragedy love can conquer all the breathtaking of greece has captured my heart and soul as if i too were there the blue eyed cage the delightful cruz were amazing together they perfectly portrayed how a mediterranean couple can only become closer in the time of war this movie will touch your heart like it did mine you must go see it
1	just exactly how director john madden come to settle with nicolas cage and penelope cruz playing the roles of an italian officer and a greek villager in an honourable story captain mandolin just escapes me witness a wobbly inconsistent accent by cage amid horrendous over acting with cruz more adequately cast as a spoiled latino opposite johnny depp in blow in basically a repeat performance under the guise of a greek nurse it was painful but there were saving graces br br the story itself is thrilling to tragic and cage does have some redeeming this is musical ability next a superb performance by john hurt father the village doctor of oscar as well as by irene papas each as village elders as well as by christian bale son among the village freedom fighters go far towards counter balancing awkward performances especially at the beginning by cruz and cage nicely the last two seem to grow into their respective roles as the film progresses but it´s teeth gnashing early on finally the scenery itself and the photography could garner a technical award and such provides pleasant distractions when most needed br br john hurt already has two oscar nominations and this would be a third i hope he gets it as his performance as the doctor makes this film worth seeing the true test of a supporting actor actress is whether or not the film would be the same without the personage in question and in this case it would most certainly not be not even close br br entertainment value but for the aformentioned plus factors which do help raise the bar see it if you haven´t rating 3 5 stars of five
1	a nice and pleasant movie full of meditteranean sceneries is a very beautiful greek island that keeps many of the novel's characteristics i think that greek sceneries add something special and magical to a movie one thing i didn't like at all though is that the main characters like and father weren't greek actors but foreigners i mean the actors tried to express the greek way of living but to me they didn't succeed and it was quite clear even their pronunciation when they were trying to use greek words was terrible and that was bad for the film's plot irene papas was really great in her role a typical example of a mother living in a island during the 40's who has lost her husband and tries to live a child alone john hurt father also acted great he reminded me a greek in many of his reactions
1	captain mandolin is no oscar contender but it was pretty good i have to admit ms cruz can really act she puts on a very good performance in fact she our does her boyfriend tom in drama john hurt was great as usual nicholas cage seemed to be enjoying himself i bet he felt he was going back to his roots as an italian however i did learn something one more chapter in horrors of nazi germany the many italian killed during the period of there surrender to the allies and germany's eventual surrender
1	i really enjoyed this movie during the movie i felt that i wanted and captain to get together i heard myself screaming come on kiss her the movie has a happy ending good movie to watch in the evening when you want to chill
1	captain mandolin is one of nicolas cage's better films he turns a fine performance as the title character this is a romance set against the backdrop of a worn torn island john hurt's character gives his daughter played beautifully by penelope cruz some honest advice about love this movie doesn't have the fault of being completely predictable this movie also allows cruz to turn in a performance as a strong woman who knows her own mind and heart once the film warms up beyond the opening sequence this film keep you focused on it again nicolas cage did not disappoint
1	to say the truth i went to see this movie only because nicolas cage is my favorite actor folks may not agree but he makes equally good performances in bad and good movies i haven't seen a movie with penelope before so i was anxious to see whether she is a good actress so here's what i think br br the movie is good i haven't read the novel however some moments were really thrilling and unexpected altogether you'll find the plot pretty simple so the only thing that could save the movie which an experienced viewer will know that from the beginning would either end tragically or happily was the performance of both cage and and it was great great great in the latter part of the movie i even liked a rather broad accent of the actress spanish but for those who don't speak greek that's ok and she even looks like a greek girl overall the movie is highly enjoyable and has a good deal of irony fans of classical music will surely have fun at some moments br br i give it 9 10 you should see it
1	warning if the coen brothers or david lynch define your taste in film disregard this review and move on br br yes i borrowed the one line summary from the book about president ronald reagan but among other virtues this movie emphasizes the role that character plays in the lives of honorable human beings this film is full of honest decent people and they have integrity to spare in a word they have character br br a small nitpick unless you know the history of ww ii you probably don't know that from captain correlli's arrival on the island to the fall of mussolini 3 and one half years have passed the average viewer might think the romance was of the whirlwind variety that is not so the romance develops slowly which gives it both dignity and meaning the film's deliberate pace may be the director's way of marking time br br some reviews have criticized cage's italian accent the italian speaking members of my family assure me that his accent is quite good br br the history was right on the mark yes the germans turned against their italian allies who for the most part were reluctant allies from the start if you find that shocking keep in mind that the french mediterranean fleet was blown up by the british in 1940 just after france's capitulation lest it fall in the hands of the vichy government or worse the nazis br br the depiction of the italians as educated and cultured was a compliment to an educated and cultured civilization br br this film was beautifully photographed and its story was lyrical the script was not thought provoking nor was it clever but here was a situation where confusion and cleverness were not needed nor would they have been appropriate br br the story is tender and the message is uplifting the characters are honest brave earnest sympathetic and likeable it's a nice little film 8 10 br br br br
1	i just re watched this thriller one i had previously believed to be one of hitch's lesser efforts how wrong can you be maybe because i'm older or maybe because the film gets better with every viewing but now i think it's amazing every bit of suspense is wrung out of the tiniest detail and that final scene on the merry go round is just breath taking perfect in every way highly recommended
1	in my opinion this film has wonderful lighting and even better photography too bad the story is not all that good and mr cage sometimes loses his accent but two thumbs up for lighting and the dp
1	'captain is a fantastic film in itself it is nothing like the book which may its ardent followers yet viewed on it's own the film is a masterpiece the views are spectacular and the acting isn't too bad either nicolas cage was brilliant so different from his usual action hero type characters penelope cruz is superb and really holds the film together i think that this film has to be judged as an project not related to the book louis de gave up rights to the film script so the film is an interpretation of the director john go and see this film with an open mind you'll love it because underneath is the touching story of love and war
1	here's a well made war story nicely shot and well acted the portraying of the italian and german occupancy of greek island is well done john hurt as father and the island doctor is superb nicolas cage does a good job as the captain from the title penelope cruz does a good job of being beautiful and batting her eyelashes at cage there's heroics and humor there's drama and romance and it is all set on an idyllic island br br oddly enough a very similar or should i say almost identical storyline with the same characters going through the same series of events is told in a novel by the same title written by louis de this wonderful historical novel tells the story of beautiful daughter of doctor and their life on during wwii fiancee local fisherman enlists when the italian army invades northern greece from albania under false pretenses when the axis finally prevails with a lot of help from the germans a garrison of italian soldiers is stationed on the island and captain plays a big part in keeping the occupation a peaceful time as joins the partisans charming and his mandolin are quartered with the doctor and his beautiful daughter of course this makes it a novel about love but it is also a war novel a summary of greek history a tale of communist uprising in post war greece a portrait of the madness of mussolini and most importantly an ode to island life on br br some of these elements return in the movie but in general it is an impossible book to film i am glad nobody ever tried br br the movie 'captain however is worth seeing just make sure you read the book after you see the movie
1	once again john madden has given us a magnificent film a simple but beautiful story located in a real paradise and the music can't be better stephen warbeck delights us once more and good actings but why on earth is penelope cruz in this film i asked myself that same question while watching this movie of course her greek accent is not believable she's of acting decently not even in one scene not even at the end she did a good job after so many events after years she finally gets to see again and she couldn't change the same face of we had to bear during the whole film anyway cage was very good in one of his best characters hurt also is great in his and the rest of the cast all did a great job so the final result is a movie that really is worth of watching this is a beautiful film that not even mrs cruz was able to spoil so far i think it's madden best work so no fan will be disappointed
1	a beautiful sensitive film that brings home the futility and cruelty of wars no matter what the so called reasons the performance of cage and cruz were quite impressive but it is to the older greek characters that go the highest praises irene papas is as gorgeous as ever though some scenes seems a little long at times this film will be a heavy oscar contender
1	at first i didn't think i would like this movie but as it progressed it became better and better i love music and i was impressed with how well cage could fake the movements of playing a mandolin my son was with me and he also like the movie a lot for its music and the story and the way the story unfolded slowly showing how won the girls heart the acting and the story were both well done and well directed at first bravado was irritating but soon he grew on you the twists in the plot were intriguing especially the relations with the germans i would like to see this again to follow all the side plots i also want to buy the sound track to hear the music again
1	after a somewhat slow start i thought this movie about the italian occupation of a greek island during world war ii picked up and became a quite enjoyable watch for a couple of hours from primarily two points of view br br the love triangle is an interesting one and strikes me as believable because i know it happened in various places under occupation penelope cruz played a young greek girl engaged to be married to christian bale i had questions about the depth of their love from the start but their future was torn apart when italy invaded greece and went off to fight after german intervention greece is conquered and the island lives on comes under italian occupation during which meets and begins to fall in love with captain nicholas cage this of course was a dilemma that came to many young women in occupied lands as they got to know their occupiers they started to see them not as the enemy but as real people and sometimes fell in love often to the disapproval of their neighbours i just finished reading an interesting book about the german occupation of britain's channel islands in which this was a major issue once returns to the island is torn between them br br the second background issue is the italian occupation itself which i thought was quite realistically portrayed first was the contempt with which the island treated their italian occupiers greece defeated italy quite true from a historical perspective and was really conquered by the germans the refusal of the town to surrender to the italians and instead to insist on surrendering to a german officer struck me as something that could well have happened and was quite funny in fact i loved the line we would rather surrender to this dog than to you italians the portrayal of the italian troops also struck me as believable the italian army was never enamoured of their german ally and never enthusiastic about fighting with them although hitler and mussolini were close friends their soldiers tended to treat each other with contempt here the italians are more interested in singing than fighting which the german troops on the island simply can't understand and are ecstatic when italy makes peace and withdraws from the war until they discover that this may well make them prisoners of the germans it was all quite well done i thought br br it falters a bit at the end with an all too predictable finish but still deserves praise br br 7 10
1	i have to admit that i approached this movie with a sense of expectation and dread louis de bestselling novel is one of my favourites and anyone who has read it will realise that there is no way in hell that any screen adaptation can be 100 faithful br br all the way through i found myself convincing myself that the movie was unsuccessful and had stripped the book's plot back so far as to render it redundant the ending however is much better than that in the novel and i could not stop thinking about the movie afterwards still the john magnificent cinematography stephen warbeck's great score etc i felt did not outweigh my initial negatives cage's miscasting a heavily diluted script br br but two days later i was queuing again to see and although not perfect i have to admit now that the movie is the best anyone could have expected cage is actually brilliant in a role that even de was concerned was not a fully rounded character his carefree spirit which gives way to shattered remorse is spot on and complements the superb double act of penelope cruz and john hurt perfectly david morrissey is quietly effective as weber the nazi officer trying to reconcile his feelings for his newfound italian friends and his inbred superiority complex to those around him and the fine greco italian supporting cast bring de world of dazzlingly alive br br on leaving the cinema second time around i finally let go my passion for the novel which prevented me from fully appreciating the story of ww2 in cinematic terms my hat goes off to john madden who despite the almost expected critical he is receiving from the british critics any director who has had a major success like shakespeare in love behind them is always a target for these moaning ninnies has managed to transfer a terrifically difficult book to the big screen with such heart verve and humanity the core virtues of the novel in fact that he has created another classic love story that will probably only be fully appreciated when the dust has settled a few years from now br br if you are a fan of the book like me it's hard but try not to make the same mistake on your initial viewing try to erase the book from your mind for two hours bathe yourself in the glorious mediterranean atmosphere and discover dr as if for the first time pretend you're watching something made from an original screenplay and i guarantee you won't be disappointed br br in fact you'll be eagerly waiting to own your own copy of this delightful movie on video or dvd br br 8 10
1	being of descent i was happily surprised when watching the movie i have heard the true history from my relatives that still live in but when watching the movie and reading the book the sketchy bits of history were filled it is all true the italians would sing the oppression and the earthquakes that rock the island so often the earthquake in 1953 killed my great grandfather and the book and movie both portray the feeling of the era with great compassion if you haven't seen the movie go and watch it and read the book it is not only a love story and yes there were plenty of italians in love with women in fact boat loads of women were taken to italy after the war it is a true depiction of history
1	as is often the case when you attempt to take a 400 plus page book and cram it into a two hour film a lot is lost here director john madden shakespeare in love takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete br br there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic the cinematography by john toll cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall winning oscars for both is splendid working with madden the choices for locations on the greek island of are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople giving the town an authentic feel the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous br br madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance which take up the greater part of the film there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment however by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold there isn't much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated while the battle scenes are well done subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long by the time we reach the post war scenes the treatment is merely skeletal another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features br br nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight when fight he must cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas br br penelope cruz whom the camera loves gives an uninspired performance as in part this is because cage so dominates the screen but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic she allows the character to be objectified as love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right br br john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor who knows as much about human nature as medicine however christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as fiancé br br i rated this film an 8 10 despite some drawbacks this is a touching film that is well worth seeing the photography alone is worth the price of admission
1	the first murder scene is one of the best murders in film history almost as good as the shower scene in psycho and the acting by robert walker is fantastic a psychopath involved with tennis star in exchange murders that´s the story and overall this film is very good but theres one problem why guy haines go to br br the cop in the first place 4 5
1	obviously made on the cheap to capitalize on the notorious mandingo this crassly pandering hunk of blithely rancid italian sexploitation junk really pours on the sordid stuff with a commendable lack of taste and restraint the evil arrogant white family who own and operate a lavish slave plantation spend a majority of the screen time engaging in hanky panky both each other and their various slaves director mario and screenwriter cram this fetid filth with a teeming surplus of sizzling sleaze we've got nasty rape interracial copulation one white lady makes wild love to a muscular black stud while he's tied to a cross copious female nudity brutal vile degradation lots of lurid soft core sex and a severely twisted tragic surprise ending that mixes elements of incest murder and miscegenation in a questionable attempt at making a statement about the horrid inhumanity of slavery special kudos are in order for foxy brunette actress paola whose lusty and uninhibited portrayal of depraved and lascivious wicked bitch rhonda positively burns up the screen moreover marcello giombini's funky throbbing tribal score hits the groovy spot fairly polished cinematography likewise does the trick a satisfyingly seamy chunk of slimy swill
1	incredibly hilarious mid 70's italian with lots of non consensual s m lesbian sex gratuitous racial cruelty etc few redeeming cinematic qualities except for the fairly cool theme music with african drums and flute brilliant sample dialog br br white slave owner to white plantation manager you're so dumb i'll bet you forgot to interrogate that n r midwife br br white plantation manager not only did i interrogate her i did it so well she died before i could get any answers from her br br all the black actors have 70's afros and say yes in a high pitched voice the female lead has sex with everybody on the plantation 10 stars for fans of tasteless sleaze
1	spike milligan's books and plays have defeated film makers over the years and 2002's is sadly no exception the novel set in 1924 concerns the of ireland in particular its effects on a solitary community the of the title due to a colossal blunder half the village is now in northern ireland the other half is in the republic locals go to the toilets at the bottom of their gardens to find a barbed wire fence blocking their path drinkers crowd like into a corner of the pub to enjoy a cheaper pint a dead man has to have a passport made out in his name before villagers can reach the to bury him br br is a sort of irish 'under milk wood' with comic characters and surreal happenings galore the lead character dan milligan renamed in the film is played by sean hughes and has conversations with the narrator richard attenborough also in the film is milo o'shea rhys jones david kelly from 'robin's nest' freddie jones joe mcgann and elliott gould br br interviewed for the 'making of documentary writer director terence ryan expressed undying admiration for the book it shows on screen but alas like the ill fated film of 'the hitch guide to the galaxy' a good book does not necessarily make a good film the trouble with is that like milligan's other books they simply do not work on the big screen is essentially a collection of jokes in search of a plot br br no way can the film be compared to train wrecks like 'sex lives of the potato men' 'fat and 'lesbian vampire killers' but then neither is it as good as it should have been the last half hour involves a lot of running around by the police the british army some locals who have stashed explosives in a coffin and is really tedious to sit through ryan's decision to stick closely to the book is the main reason for its failure to work as a film br br the other problem is the total absence of charm had this in spades while the 'father ted' television series was funnier by far spike lived long enough to see the film and apparently enjoyed it his daughter jane has a cameo as bride br br the highlight for me though was the quotation at the beginning i don't mind dying said spike i just don't want to be there when it happens
1	saw the film at the closing gala of the ealing film festival in west london england enjoyed it immensely although the crow the chinese policeman don't appear and dan milligan becomes dan madigan played by sean hughes i the interaction between dan and the author writer director voiced played by lord richard attenborough works very well br br the rumour is that lord attenborough and elliott gould as dr goldstein appeared in the film for just a pint of beer br br spike was shown the film on video before he died and by all accounts enjoyed it immensely
1	i hope from his seat on heaven's comedic throne spike milligan can see and can enjoy this film as terence ryan and ken have taken a book that the author himself said writing it nearly turned me mad into a joy to watch br br the film tells the story of the irish town of and the problems befallen upon it when the partition between northern ireland and the republic is drawn up cutting its way through the centre of the village and more worringly through the middle of the this causes some deceased buried in the catholic to now be in the protestant north and so the local priest assisted by a wide variety of eccentric locals aims to move the bodies back undercover of darkness and so avoiding the bureaucratic british border guards br br it was inspired work to cast the irish comedian and poet sean hughes to play the part of madigan he brings an innocence to the part especially in his to camera pieces which is normally where he interacts with the voiceover of richard attenborough playing supposedly the writer director of the film playing father is also worthy of considerable praise and the rest of the cast from the household names like elliott gould and rhys jones to people with what would normally be called such as spike's daughter jane who plays wife give 100 the credit for this goes in no small part to the wonderful characterisations given by spike in the original book br br i could argue that the film is slightly too long or that elliott gould's irish accent left a little to be desired but those would be only minor points and take nothing away from the excellence of this film
1	if you've never experienced the thing that is zasu pitts here is a zasu zinger in 1933 mae caricatured pitt's voice for the character olive oyl for the fleischer studios animated cartoon version of the comic strip popeye zasu pronounced zay sue does her best olive oyl impersonation walking around whining and ringing her hands or attaching herself to the policeman's i kept waiting for her to say ohhh but instead it's something always happens to somebody the first time i saw this film i loved zasu and found her character really funny i've since seen her in other films where she does this same whining uptight fragile flower routine so upon watching this film again i started getting a little annoyed with the constant whining and near hysteria over a piece of dust but there are some funny comedy bits here and it's also a mystery movie as well it's an interesting mix of mystery and comedy that actually works the mystery plot holds together well through the camp of zasu pitts and james gleason who plays arthur the policeman the haunted house is fun with many a secret passage and even a skeleton in the attic well worth the watch read more public domain movie reviews at http blogspot com
1	1930's comedy mystery about the crooked circle a band of hooded crooks who set about plotting the murder of some one who swore to oppose them enjoyable but really unremarkable little film the movie works simply because the cast headed by zazu pitts and james gleason both of whom would later appear together in a couple of withers films after edna mae oliver dropped out of that series and supported by a great cast of actors and actresses you know but may not know the name of i don't hence the lack naming a breezy hour long romp the movie doesn't make a great deal of sense with mistaken identity secret passages ghostly music and people not being who they seem its the perfect thing for a dark and stormy night or a late night viewing when one is nostalgic for the late late show
1	the old dark house sub genre that dominated the early talkies rarely fails to disappoint when we re view the oldies to day here is one that provides so very many suspicious characters you have to wonder how they will be able to tie up all the loose ends in the 6 reel running time br br the crooked circle is a gang of and thieves who have decided to take revenge on col walters berton churchill who has sent one of their ranks to prison they decide he must die that very night meanwhile the colonel's own group the sphinx club is determined to protect him at all costs this does not sit well with thelma irene purcell fiancée of club member brand osborne ben lyon late of the mega budgeted hell's angels 1930 who wants him to quit the club and stop endangering his own life brand promises to resign after saving the colonel's life everyone heads off to walters newly purchased mansion on long island to await the assassin br br the colonel might be the new owner of melody manor but it's an old dark house complete with eccentric neighbours like raymond hatton as a local hermit and maybe even a ghost top billed zasu pitts is nora the housekeeper who expects to see a spirit around every corner throw in a cop james gleason who is certain brand is a criminal and we have a picture which is packed with action and surprises br br you will notice right away that the script writer was at a loss to come up with too much dialog because a lot of characters repeat the same lines over and over c henry gordon a hindu mystic which movies of that time were loaded with says evil is on the way many times and i lost count of how often ms pitts says something always happens to somebody there are many suspects and two characters mr gleason as the stereotype dumb cop and roscoe karns as mr pal who serve as comedy relief the house itself is appropriately spooky looking in fact i think the same set was used in the phantom 1931 with lots of secret passages and violin music coming out of empty rooms but somehow you never really get a feeling of danger maybe it's because no one in the movie and i do mean no one is entirely what they seem to be it all comes out right in the end though but to go into any more detail would spoil it for you br br watch carefully for robert frazer from white zombie and frank reicher best remembered as capt from king kong to pop up among the suspects br br the crooked circle is a fun film some aspects of the plot are predictable and then again several others are not i suspect you will enjoy it
1	i really enjoyed this movie about a dog who becomes a duke it would have been very easy to mess this one up but along with the humor the script was filled with warmth and even some profundity about nobility and class it's a feel good movie that the whole family can watch even the adults
1	it's a great movie for the whole family i don't think many people have seen it cause i ask people and they say that they've never heard of it before sophie heyman is my aunt's sister in law my favorite scene is the whole movie i can't even pick a favorite scene my favorite character is hubert because he is a funny yet smart dog if someone hasn't seen it they are missing out on a great adventure i've only seen it cause my aunt is related to sophie and she got a copy from her if someone is reading this i suggest buy the movie and i guaranteed it won't be a bad decision i've seen this movie about five times and every time it gives me the same message dogs are as smart as people just give them a chance
1	the first murder scene is one of the best murders in film history almost as good as the shower scene in psycho and the acting by robert walker is fantastic a psychopath involved with tennis star in exchange murders that´s the story and overall this film is very good but theres one problem why guy haines go to the cop in the first place 4 5 br br
1	the duke is a very silly film a dog becoming a duke but it's a very fun movie it has some of those corny pranks that many kids movies have but thankfully no bodily function jokes as so many animal movies feel compelled to have mostly it's just dogs being dogs and people being well people the 'good guys' are likeable and appealing the 'bad guys' are ridiculous and of course the pun of many jokes but there is something dignified about this movie for even though it is silly it's not out for every cheap laugh like home alone and others br br crocket simon and copper do an excellent job playing black and tan hubert who becomes the duke after his beloved owner a real duke dies for the most part they just act like dogs no ' or human like emotions and attitudes however they do stereotype poodles and hubert does fall for her just because she's a poodle come on these are dogs they have a different view of beauty br br overall charming fun and enjoyable
1	let's be fair there are no rules for scriptwriting so i won't say the movie should be something other than it is i'll just state my opinion ok i really liked the script the way things are told and characters are introduced however i think when a play is adapted to the silver screen it could maybe try and fit this other media since this movie was directed by joão the same man who directed the play it's not too much of a surprise that the film turned out a bit too theatrical it's the man's first movie for out loud what i'm saying is there are parts in the film like the city of which slightly resembles the set of dia de maria that feel like we're not at a movie theater we're at the theater lines are spoken too formally characters are moving and the lightening is clearly meant for a stage sure maybe that was the intention but that's been done on stage wonderful things have been made when adapting a play into a movie the beautiful closer for instance when i went to see this one though i didn't feel like i was watching a movie but overall it was a good one worth watching it's a nice love story funny at times and sad at others my vote is a 7
1	very touching film a great surprise to come up from brazil a country that usually exports features about social themes violence sex magical realism is a very hard task and i believe joão has made it wonderfully it seems that he really didn't intend to make a realistic film far from that although many people think the film was adapted from the play he said in his interviews that he actually based the film on the book another mistake is to think that has been influenced by the series dia de maria the tv series produced by was made after the film but aired before unfortunately br br the negative point is the photography by walter carvalho it seems that he didn't capture or understand the concept has created the story is captivating and universal in spite of taking place in a tiny little city in brazil that could take place anywhere in the world a great movie i strongly recommend
1	years ago i read the book 'a the machine as i re read this little book again and again i could never stop getting more and more fascinated by the imagination of the writer and the richness of the brazilian culture br br when i knew about the movie i was really scared that someone would spoil one of my favorites books well happily my fears were unjustified and the movie is such a wonderful and delicate piece of art br br i can't recall of any other movie that could bring tears to my eyes due to the very beauty of the text also i can't recall such a powerful performance like br br you can see and feel how colossal his love for is you can realize that he'll move mountains and do anything for this love br br do see this movie watch it thru the eyes of the kid that lives inside you enchant yourself
1	i rented this movie but i wasn't too sure what to expect of it i was very glad to find that it's about the best brazilian movie i've ever seen the story is rather odd and simple and above all extremely original we have antonio who is a young man living in a town in the middle of nowhere in the north east of brazil and who is deeply in love with the main conflict between the two is that while antonio loves his little town and has no wish to leave it wants to see the world and resents the place as a prove of his love for her he decides to go out himself and bring the world to her he'll put in the map as he says and the way he does it is unbelievable this is a good movie might be a bit stagy for some people due to its different editing job but i think that it's also that that improves the story it's just fun and it makes you feel good
1	in a village in the middle of nowhere in is the youngest son of his mother who had cried for five years when he is a young man he falls in love for mariana ximenes a seventeen years old teenager that dreams to see the world and becomes an actress promises to bring the world to and once in rio de janeiro he participates of a sensationalist television show and promises to travel to the fifty years ahead in the future or die for love with a deadly machine he had invented fifty years later paulo tries to fix what was wrong in his travel br br a is one of the best brazilian movies i have recently seen the refreshing and original story is a poetic and magic fable of love that will certainly thrill the most skeptical and tough viewer in a unique romance the direction is excellent the screenplay is awesome the cinematography and colors are magnificent the cast leaded by the icon paulo and mariana ximenes is fantastic with marvelous lines the soundtrack has some beautiful brazilian songs highlighting geraldo and dia if this movie is distributed overseas please thrust me and rent it or buy the dvd because i bet you will love the story that will bring you into tears my vote is nine br br title brazil a – o o amor the machine – the fuel is love
1	well this was the last pay per view event of the millennium and it ended the year and millennium right the huge story line of stephanie and hhh started right here at this event when steph turned on her dad vince mcmahon had a great match with hhh and this event is very good i give it a 9
1	the subject of this movie is disturbing how could some otherwise intelligent religious hard working and sincere white treat the native blacks so cruelly for so long br br the movie answers this question and also explains how some are changing in a positive way
1	final solution is a powerful christian film that shows the hate between the black and whites that was present in the days of apartheid it shows how this hate was contrived and was groomed from generation to generation jan ellis was taught that a black man was a plague he was raised to be that way br br then he meets a man who is on the opposite side of his beliefs pastor will he change his ways the film is a powerful movie that shows the perceptions the different races had for one another it shows these perceptions with quite a lot of accuracy the movie shows the world of how apartheid affected the psyche of blacks and whites br br this is a great film that everyone should watch
1	i know gerrit he presently lives in the u s this film is based on events in the lives of both gerrit and celeste it's a remarkable story it inspired me to read cry beloved country the film is well produced the music is beautiful br br the story is told in flashbacks you learn the stories of a white racist south african gerrit and a black south african moses their lives intersect violently the ending is not typical hollywood it's unusually realistic and ends on a note that encourages you to think about the characters and the themes br br be sure to watch through the credits you'll get to see footage of gerrit in real life
1	this movie was fabulous it is definitely a top 5 hitchcock film the directing and camera shots are nearly flawless aside from the dog scene when he licks the guys hand clearly in slow motion the plot is well written and realistic it was very believable that an innocent man could fall into a trap like that br br i would rate bruno as hitchcocks second most interesting character of course bates is first robert walker plays a very believable maniac he didnt overact the part which made it believable much the same how perkins didnt overact his part overall this is an excellent movie an absolute must see for any hitchcock fans br br br br
1	this movie based on a true story of gerrit is one of the best films i've seen on race relations in south africa a very good history lesson of the turmoil of 80's south africa i put it in on the scale of american history x as far as it's depiction of how a young man can get seduced by the aryan doctrine and how the certain segments of the christian church taught a false doctrine regarding race to justify an injustice br br it's strong message of forgiveness and redemption is one of rarity in films today the violence is well done as to show the severity of crimes and greatness of his transformation br br one word about jan ellis who played gerrit he carries you through the darkness of beginnings to his enlightened transformation he went to some dark places as an actor and is to be commended on his performance br br another standout performance was that of mpho who plays moses one victim of crimes he was able to pull from some places of pain that really touched you as you watched his performance br br very good movie to show the teens
1	if you are looking for a phony hollywood action movie this won't be one for you if the truth is what you seek rent or buy this from a true story the movie attempts to capture the heart of what was is happening in south africa and many other places br br for historical knowledge this rates up there with stories such as the pianist schindler's list or nuremberg millions of people today have no clue what apartheid is or that it even exists this movie may help them learn and may even help them dig deeper
1	the animation quality here is decidedly below par imo regardless of the age of the oav the plot itself makes sense but the characters don't br br this might sound picky but considering that the city of olympus is almost exclusively populated by living machines would you feel comfortable there as a human would any machine ever emulate human arrogance short sightedness and greed quite so effectively i doubt it there are some pointers towards this in the movie but only when the team can be bothered to put them in by and large the or whatever they are are interchangeable with human characters seems sloppy to me br br the main characters seem to have some kind of emotional entanglement though no light is shed on this little light is shed on the backstory at all a great pity the short length of the film coupled with the focus on mecha and the crime means that we don't see any character depth the all down yet we're left with no finished product a cropped version of this oav would have made a great tv episode once some character sub plots had been established br br the highlights of this short film are the mecha designs and the action espionage br br the flaws really start to show through once you've had a chance to digest all the goings on so i couldn't recommend this for owning but it's certainly worth a watch or two whilst this review is mostly negative i really do think it's worth your time to watch this but it's not something to rush out and buy br br in a nutshell a watchable wasted opportunity
1	based on the manga comic of well known artist masamune shirow this animated feature was a slight disappointment to me br br the story is good but the animation is merely ok while it could should have been mindblowing the movie is imo adequate but seems somehow flat uninspired if you know what i mean a wasted opportunity if you consider that another work by shirow ghost in the shell is considered a classic in many respects it set new standards for japanese animation and spawned among other things a brilliant series called stand alone complex br br i consider this worth a rental unless you're a fan of shirow and want it all do check out the original manga which comes highly recommended
1	pretty decent for his early work and no without it and gets an 2 points extra for the easter eggs for shirow definitely a rung in the ladder i am biased as a shirow fan but this was a big step from dirty pair which was what i knew of him violent fun with a porno soundtrack you cannot help but notice that i know people appreciate him for ghost in the shell but all of the deep spiritual overtones were dealt with in killing terrorists the struggle for humans to stay viable as phase them out and staying thin despite her intake of junk food definitely like the characters even the traitor and i do not know why
1	as i have said before i am not a fan of tweety he's just so aggravating i wish sylvester would just eat him and get it over with br br in this cartoon sly is homeless once again and is back to feeding out of garbage cans he spots a cruise ship leaving port nearby and decides to hop aboard when he tweety is one of the passengers br br the ship provides an adequate stage for the following hijinks and sly desperately tries to catch the annoying bird and avoid seasickness if only for once he's succeed by chewing and swallowing thus finishing of the irritating canary forever but as cartoons starring tweety go this one is quite good but it's all thanks to that brilliant cat
1	funny yes a freleng classic to watch sylvester turn green is always a treat and it brings us back to the days when cartoon slapstick was brave and geared for the adult mind br br loved it
1	in s o s sylvester goes from picking garbage cans to being a stowaway on a cruise ship that happens to carry a certain canary bird and granny his owner uh oh once again tweety and granny provide many obstacles to the cat's attempts to get the bird sylvester also gets seasick quite a few times too and the second time the red nosed feline goes to the place on the ship that has something that cures his ailments tweety replaces it with so now sylvester can blow fire i'll stop here and say this is another excellent cartoon directed by friz starring the popular cat and bird duo s o s is most highly recommended
1	people who say that some of what the looney tunes cartoons show is inappropriate for children have apparently forgotten something they weren't originally intended for children they were produced for the cinema to be shown before feature films and so they could show anything that they wanted s o s has that bad puddy tat sylvester finding tweety aboard an ocean liner and boarding the ship to try and get him but two things work against sylvester granny is vehemently protecting the canary and sylvester easily gets seasick we don't see him throwing up but with his green face they make it perfectly clear that he was doing just that and then of course the seemingly cute tweety has a bad ass streak br br it's just great to see how these cartoons weren't afraid to go all out whatever they thought about showing they showed we need to understand that cartoons weren't always supposed to be cute entertainment for children really funny
1	this is one of those tweety and sylvester cartoons that made this legendary pair second only to bugs bunny in terms of looney tunes popularity br br besides having all of the stock situations for this duo sylvester feeding out of garbage cans the i i a putty tat line etc s o s also stars granny who is one of those types of supporting characters that these warner bros classics had in abundance to enrich the color and flavor of them this time out the cat and bird are aboard an ocean liner and the gags that are extracted from this situation are creative and lively br br what a day that was in cartoon history when friz freleng decided to pair his sylvester with the departed robert clampett's little yellow bird
1	this is another one of hitchcock's highest rated movies and rightfully so this is a tale of two men who meet on a train and playfully exchange murder fantasies one of them robert walker takes it seriously and this leads guy haines farley granger to trouble with the law another fast moving hitchcock movie with lots of great scenes the carousel scene and the tennis match are worthy of mentioning not a movie to be missed it is a shame that no one will re release this on dvd with loads of extras just a cheap warner brothers dvd is all thats out there now
1	before i forget let me say the artwork in here is outstanding from garbage cans to the huge cruise ship the drawings are beautifully done if this wasn't animated critics would be the direction in here because it's really good br br to the story sylvester is picking through the garbage at the shipyards but the are slim while brooding at the dock next to a big ship in a he spots tweety in his cage tweety spots him too and you know his first comment the same one he always makes when he spots the cat anyway sylvester runs over opens the and says hello breakfast tweety slams the window on his face and says you bad old peeping tomcat the cat falls into the water br br the sylvester quickly sneaks back aboard ship into cabin grabs him and is ready to leave when wham there's granny at the door with her umbrella sylvester takes a beating as the old lady protects her pet bird once again but gibbet says granny i've dropped my glasses i can't see a thing without 'em heavens to where are those cheaters br br now sylvester has the upper hand and the normal cat trying to catch bird shenanigans are on again like granny's glasses sylvester's most clever act was to take her glasses and paint a picture of tweety on them so when she woke up and put them on she'd see the bird and think it was okay br br overall a very entertaining animated short that was a lot of fun to watch as you can tell by the quotes i love the dialog in some of these old cartoons
1	sit back and let director lead us into a visual and sensual voyage of the mind and spirit of india when was the last time you could say you really enjoyed a movie this movie has pace and keeps us moving in directions that may only exist in india if you didn't want to visit india before this movie will surely make you want to visit it now this movie has dancing girls a chase scene and the mafioso involved but it has a lot more thanks for taking us on such a spirited and wonderful tale i loved the ending we women don't want illusions in life we want reality p s i was friend at the film festival and met you briefly good luck with your distribution efforts and i'm talking up the movie a storm
1	i just saw this at the philadelphia film festival it was the most wonderful movie the best i've seen in quite a while the enticing character of is an open exploring and as remarked in the film love filled person portrayed by the beautiful camille the accompanying music is soothing and transporting a balm to the soul br br each character seems to be conflicted in some way and their interactions w conflicts make for a great story the tale told by a k hangal as the old man was most magically done i wanted it to go on and on br br that hari seemed to remember his place throughout added get power to the story a refreshing change to the bubble headed plots of many modern writers br br all and all an excellent film go see
1	a labor of love each frame is picture perfect and grabs you then the sheer emotion and story telling take you through a dream that stays with you long after the movie the director gets your heart and leads it through 100 minutes of visual poetry you are a part of the emotional ride of the characters i have seen this movie at 2 festivals and it got with standing at every showing the remarkable story telling transcends nationality and language and i felt i was a part of the drama unfolding before me the casting is as perfect as one can get vijay camille and benoit each hold their own br br i strongly recommend this film to everyone who appreciates good cinema i can't wait for the commercial release of this movie
1	i saw this film at the seattle international film festival in a full house of avid movie buffs and indian ex pats the film is amazingly beautiful and smooth flowing for a first film the direction is self assured especially with locals who were recruited on the fly for extras and bit parts while the plot and story line is elementary to nonexistent the pleasures of watching the performances and scenery offset the lack the soundtrack to this film is a big attraction to world music lovers if you want to see what can be done in 45 days with a different location every day check out hari om for inspiration it was not disclosed in the q a but i imagine hollywood could take a lesson in budget film making by learning from this director
1	on one level hari om is a film using a familiar genre the road movie to tell a familiar story curious westerner explores the mysterious east but at its heart the film is about two people a young french beauty bent on experiencing life to the fullest and a motorized rickshaw driver hari om with bollywood aspirations from vastly different cultures their slowly growing attraction for each other and the beautiful mad chaos that is india today the gap between them can never be bridged but the director succeeds in bringing the two as close to the brink of an affair as possible without damaging the story's plausibility india and its people are essential ingredients of the narrative and except for the main characters the roles are played beautifully and persuasively by locals recruited during the film's production while on the road between the indian towns and villages that form the film's setting one major negative for this viewer a keystone kops chase near the film's conclusion as hari flees mobsters bent on collecting a gambling debt but the closing scenes where and hari bid farewell are poignant and unforgettable
1	between sweeping extraordinary scenes within a plethora of indian locations and a plot which is bollywood inspired yet grounded in reality this highly moving film is a must see for those who love a good romance adventure and by this i mean good not a hollywood or bollywood easy and contrived happy ending east meets west in a different take on the buddy film the performances are inspired and brilliant the cinematography epic and the plot entertaining engaging and poignant without a trace of schmaltz or cheap tugging at heartstrings hari om is a sweet film that won't rot your teeth see it
1	hari om is about an impossible love between a french tourist and the auto rickshaw driver who agrees to take her to a rendezvous with her indifferent boyfriend a sort of third world road movie that careens from lush reverie to madcap comedy it is distinguished by the stellar performance of vijay who has become one of india's actors after his appearance as the event planner in mira nair's monsoon wedding br br in an interview proves to be quite untouched by his success responding rather carefully and pensively to questions he discovered a love of acting and joined a major theatre troupe while in university but for one with so much formal training is surprisingly inarticulate about his craft he speaks of honesty and purity as the of his approach and the earnestness of his desire to communicate something authentic to the audience is clear on screen conveys an emotional integrity and dramatic assurance that lifts his characterization to an extraordinary level and director has cast and directed him perfectly he has a wonderfully expressive face which the camera revels in close ups of that face are as compelling as shots of camille who is gorgeous as the frenchwoman
1	in a word magical and so incredibly real vijay is so incredibly raw so incredibly vulnerable that you just want his characters to succeed in whatever he does and he plays hari om impeccably from his absolutely perfect bollywood e to his awkward shy manner with a first kiss he is a truly gifted actor and i wouldn't hesitate to see him in anything because he brings it all to life and gives it a soul camille is absolutely gorgeous it took some time for me to warm up to her possibly because she plays the role of an ignorant but fascinated tourist so well her transition really became her and she molded into her role very well even the man you love to hate her boyfriend benoit was wonderful though you never really like him for the scum that he plays jean marie lamour enacts a perfect cad the script so real i found myself turning to my friend repeatedly throughout the film to say that's exactly what happens in india they nailed it very real very raw very bittersweet but you certainly leave the theater feeling fulfilled music by is wonderful and goes perfectly with the constantly changing moods but vijay i find myself constantly coming back to him because he is what makes this movie he is the hero the most charming disarming rickshaw driver you will ever encounter he's magical a lovely real sweet incredibly talented actor who i cannot wait to see shine and succeed in bollywood hollywood or anywhere
1	the opening night for the 'south asian international film in new york was an event a lot of us were waiting for br br i would finally get to watch – i was tired of watching the promo on a loop and the lingering taste of the song angel by in the promo left me begging to hear the rest of it i was impressed by the and tremendously curious about how the rugged looking auto rickshaw driver would win the hearts of the stunning sophisticated looking french tourist i remember being rather intrigued by the theme when i'd read a line or two about it in the papers ages ago especially so since i'd personally been very fascinated a few years ago by how flamboyant the rickshaws in were the snow and the crowds outside the theater only set my anxiety rising br br once inside the theater i found that the organizers only presented disaster i was uncomfortable and embarrassed by how poorly the event was organized and found myself in a difficult spot trying to explain and offer excuses to my friends of mixed nationalities whom i'd invited on the vip guest list i was hoping to prove to them that indian cinema was not always about eventually and finally the movie began sending some fresh air our way or so i hari om … started with chaos and noise honking traffic and a whole lot of chaos i found myself smiling as i felt a sense of home filling up inside me br br thus began the journey of hari an auto rickshaw driver in jaipur – the director couldn't have made a better casting call with this character from monsoon wedding to hari om – vijay despite his non hero looks carries this movie solely on his acting skills and his take on the character replete with all the nuances of a rickshaw driver in rajasthan he's a winner all the way but how and where he learnt to speak english even that fluently is the question however his character portrays beautiful shades of humor and sensitivity i love his innocent portrayal of a simple guy from a who has big aspirations of being famous some and yet knows when to cut away to reality br br camille on the other hand enters the movie wearing clothes that anyone wouldn't dare to wear in a place like that it's funny however that no one seems to really care too much about her dressed like that she looks very very dazzling though especially in the latter half of the movie when she changes to indian attire her relationship with her boyfriend however seems very vague it probably adds to the touch of reality of certain kinds of relationships br br the movie takes us through the most beautiful parts of rajasthan … the surprising part is that none of the places have been portrayed anything other than what they really are you see the dirt you see the primitive you see rajasthan exactly the way it is yet – there's only one adjective that it leaves you with – 'beautiful' br br this is the first director who probably knows how to portray india exactly the way it is with the dirt and the noise and all the negatives that india is attached to – yet making it look like one of the most beautiful places to be in br br kudos to him for that br br the only downside of the movie that i could possibly see is the i found it rather slow at certain parts – but rest assured that you will never be bored br br background scores add a classy international yet very indian flavor to the movie the song angel which plays at a very crucial time in the movie blends beautifully with the visuals br br i've also heard that besides the main characters all the other actors are actually just normal people who'd never ever faced a camera before that's commendable considering most of our so called established actors – still can't portray realistic characters on screen br br all in all watching this movie was a beautiful experience – it is a pot of emotions it's got romance beautiful visuals and locations great music a great cast – a package deal when i walked out of the theater i felt proud to be a few days later i asked one of my bulgarian friends who had watched the movie with me if he'd want to watch another indian movie – and his response was – is it better than hari om if it is then i'll if not i think i'll pass from now on hari om will be the benchmark for every indian movie that i see mr bala are you reading
1	it's been said before strangers on a train is hitchcock's best movie and he's made so many good ones like other hitchcock strangers on a train requires your full attention to really appreciate it but once you can you will
1	i was so happy to learn that hari om will finally be theatrically released in 2007 i saw this film three years ago at the vancouver international film festival and have been waiting for it's release ever since so i could send everyone i know to see it it's like taking a trip to india colorful magical thought provoking aside from one rather strange hollywood style auto rickshaw chase scene this movie is very realistic this is not a bollywood style song and dance movie but it does have drama and romance and humor the interactions between the indian taxi driver and the french tourist are a good reflection on the fundamental differences between eastern and western life styles and philosophy the characters are a little broadly drawn but the acting was very good visually this movie is a treat as you really do get a sense of what driving through rajasthan is like dreamlike sometimes it's hard to believe everything you are seeing and experiencing is real the movie has that same quality great soundtrack too
1	was very fortunate to see the movie hari om at the bermuda international film festival it was the opening night and was such a delightful movie it was shot beautifully around india and i want to go there now the main actor vijay was absolutely incredible he was the highlight of the movie apparently he was also in the movie monsoon wedding he was the total star of the show character cracked me up was very funny and the girl forget the name was great too they were all great there were many tremendous scenes like the one with the monkeys and basically i just loved the movie everyone walking out was raving about it and it was certainly a high point of the film festival was my favorite from the festival it really beautifully captured the liveliness of india and can't believe how beautiful india is the feeling upon walking out of the cinema was a real high it is a delightful happy film i loved it
1	hari om is an indian greeting and the compelling title character of the film bearing this same name played by the wedding planner from monsoon wedding greets you and takes you on a journey through the heart of southern india there's no bend it like beckham backdrops and stereotypes and only slight salutes to the music and dancing of bollywood however the soundtrack is well worth procuring but rather the feel that you are seeing the real india permeates the film through the use of dozens of local residents in each scene to augment the performance of the five professional actors fortunately for us hari companion is a young and beautiful french woman in search of a journey with overtures of an y tu mama tambien trip toward self discovery without the sex and fatal disease this beautiful film calms and brings the philosophic mind against the initial juxtaposition of the protagonists all identify with traits of both and the cultural divide disappears as humanity steps in most succinctly put the movie's central theme everyone has a love story don't let yours pass by teaches us a great deal about love on a number of levels don't let this film pass you by
1	i loved this film which i have just seen at the philadelphia film festival in march 2005 i went to india with 2 friends and this movie was very real i related to everything and savored every moment the characters are believable the story poignant and the ending realistic but not sentimental i also enjoyed the discussion with the director after the showing this movie shows very well the blending but not complete mixing of 2 worlds east and west the supporting cast was wonderful depicting the life a tourist encounters in india quite realistically the humor is subtle and at times dry and this makes it all the more realistic as it is woven into the daily escapades of the characters it is so easy to identify with each of the situations portrayed
1	have you ever wondered what its like to feel free i am sure that each one of us know the meaning of freedom and never seriously think of using it to our advantage hari om shows the audience what freedom actually means in this film freedom is described in the form of style represented by discovery of india discovers her inner true love when she is in a rickshaw journey with mr hari om she looks at life differently and portrays freedom that every woman restricts in herself when she is in a relationship br br this film is definitely worth a watch and i saw this the first time in dubai international film festival and i left the cinema hall with complete satisfaction br br watch it
1	i have watched my fair bit of bollywood films when growing up you know the typical plot boy meets girl girl rejects boys bad guys take away girl boy rescues girl by killing hundreds of and they happily get married of course i've omitted an hour of musical style numbers well going into watch hari om i was expecting another typical bollywood style movie however to my delight it turned out to be atypical and indeed quite comical hari om is what could be labeled as one of those 'off indian films such as the ever popular south asian hits as monsoon wedding east is east or bend it like beckham br br being of south asian decent and having watched various classic bollywood films there was much humour and sub dialogs which could be picked up that reminded me of the fun and charming side of indian culture e g the various indo pop numbers which were actually remade by soni or the witty indian that were used hari om can be enjoyed by all south asians and is also entertaining for those not to the indian humor as the characters and plot caters to all audiences br br in a the movie is of auto rickshaw driver aka 'four for those of you who have traveled to india know played by from monsoon wedding who gets himself involved with a crook and ends up owing him quite a bit of money to avoid selling his four wheeler he escapes serendipitously with and a very charismatic and lovely woman from france camille who herself is escaping the boredom of her boyfriend benoit jean marie lamour who was in swimming pool the movie is of their journey traveling across the beautiful landscape of rajasthan – the land of love stories through the humour you see the two main actors trying to find out who they are really are br br what made the night most memorable was having the director executive producer main editor and even the mother of ms present at the screening after speaking with who actually has a zoology background many interesting tidbits of the film were uncovered including having the film finished only 10 days prior to the toronto international film festival and taking only 45 days to shoot and having only five actors in the play the rest were all first time real actors arriving home i realized two things from the movie that there is always a human connection between any one of us despite our differences and secondly as the director had put it has a love story' br br its a must see for everyone
1	the film isn't perfect by any means but despite this it is very fun and amusing to watch i am the first one to agree that victor fox isn't really that attractive and his music and style are pretty cheesy i also agree that the film has some odd distractions and some scenes don't work well so what if it makes you smile and you enjoy it who cares does every film have to make sense does every film have to be perfect no a person could get razed admitting that they love this film again so what it's got lovable characters it's well shot the acting is mostly good it never becomes too maudlin or dramatic it's quirky look at how many people love i dream of jeannie is it perfect heck no and while this is very different i say check it out and you'll be in a good mood after you see it
1	too bad somebody did not have the smarts to release this movie to theaters i had never heard of it when it appeared on cable after the first shock of realizing this is not like any other movie you have seen since bringing up baby you have to let it sweep you along and run with it not until it's over do you realize it covers issues that are not only subtle but significant alienation denial wish fulfillment for a start cathy bates owns this movie she's never been better the whole cast has the feel of the plot and knows what they're doing without laying on gratuitous hamming except where it's called for as with julie andrews' bits or jonathan pryce's camp videos if you're not open minded you won't get it see mark bizarre review which he devotes to adulation of stephanie beacham her career and her brother's for introducing vegetable oil or something to island natives taking that as a cue i might as well spend time stellar cameo as a tv station intern or jack shower scene so cast aside all previous concepts of film comedy and have a good time i loved it
1	unconditional love is surprisingly entertaining while the plot goes off in perhaps too many directions making for an overlong movie it never fails to charm and ingratiate itself the several plotlines one warmly reminiscent of shirley valentine provide ample smiles laughs wisdom and tenderness it all shouldn't work and at times it certainly bumps along but forgive its inconsistencies sit back and have a good time it's a charmer
1	ignore everyone else's comments for this movie and watch it on pay cable like i did or rent it you owe it to yourself this film is what movies are supposed to be all about hard to categorize and god knows how this was pitched as a high concept but this is one for the angels check it out what have you got to lose
1	this is a well crafted piece from everyone's favorite master of suspense as usual the technical elements such as camera work and lighting are outstanding especially for the film's time i did not find the first part of the film very exciting but the latter one certainly made up for it with one thrilling scene after another br br the only thing i did not like about this movie was the choice of farley granger for the part of guy haines somehow i didn't find him very believable on the other hand robert walker shines as sinister 'bad guy' bruno anthony br br overall i would highly recommend this
1	yes at times unconditional love overwhelms as it bounces no as it from one story element to another in the most unconventional use of thematic elements and characters in fact it wasn't until i watched the film for the second time that i began to understand what i think p j hogan might have been attempting to do with this quirky unconventional flick perhaps the entire film itself is a metaphor for the unconditional love for which grace kathy bates yearns and describes in the later part of the film grace insists that unconditional love is just that without condition and without qualification so i watched unconditional love again with that in mind i laughed much more than i did the first time i became more involved with the characters i began to understand the at times absurd turns the story takes the performances are often over the top but no more than they need to be to fit hogan's weird and whacky vision a vision which moved me to tears yearning and outbursts of side splitting laughter yes hogan is asking a great deal of his audience but i for one have come to truly love his film unconditionally
1	this little film is hysterical full of stereotypes about gays straights dwarfs british tea and pubs american gun culture divorce and marriage yet it manages to be sensitive to the issues surrounding each kathy bates is amazing grace beasley and as a character actor of staggering range she brings her considerable comedic talent to ground this somewhat unusual film as she did in fried green with the help of other comedic talents like dan as max her ex lawyer husband and the backdrop of downtown chicago and rural england the story is just intriguing enough to entertain jonathan price plays victor fox a closet gay singer murdered by a cross bow killer in chicago his valet lover dirk simpson played by the stunning rupert everett must overcome victor's siblings including lynn redgrave who want to turn their home into a tribute museum and teams with bates and her dwarf daughter in law beasley to find the killer among the homeless of chicago br br the entire cast sing at various points in the pursuit and are excellent esp the talented price and bates this implausible storyline both funny and bizarre is one of the most off center films cameos by julie andrews barry and sally jesse raphael should tell you just how bizarre this film truly is strange funny and off center but with a good perspective about people with every kind of difference
1	my partner and i had never heard of this movie and decided to give it a shot picking the title from a list of movies on cable without knowing a single thing about it as it opened and revealed the cast we thought well how bad can it be kathy bates jonathan pryce rupert everett lynn redgrave dan akroyd and more as the story unfolded we became more and more tickled with our selection and the film soon had us laughing out loud throughout this is not a great film but it is one of those rare films that has such a great combination of memorable characters taken through truth is stranger than fiction type surreal events that i couldn't help but love it i had no problem suspending my disbelief at some of the wackier story elements because the intentions of the filmmakers are so warm hearted while they still manage to poke fun at everyone involved as others on imdb said this is a comfort movie and i too wouldn't be surprised if it became a cult classic
1	i absolutely adore this movie i had never heard of it when i saw it at the video store i saw kathy bates was in it so i figured it had to have some worth you know i watched it the first time just shaking my head huh then it was the last scene and i found myself aching from smiling so hard i clicked play movie and watched the whole thing again it is without doubt the quirkiest movie i've ever seen but the more i watch it the more i love it it's absurd and crazy and sweet and dear kathy bates is impeccable but the rest of the cast is fabulous too what odd characters they all are the midget is just too funny for words and julie andrews and barry manilow are hysterical it's just an all around funny fabulous movie i get cravings to see it again whoever is watching it for the first time please stick it out to the end it's well worth it
1	wish it would be released as i would love to see the finished product we saw the unfinished version before it came out loved all the characters and actors anyone know if it is out on video yet would love to see it again definitely worth renting if it's not going to be shown in the theatre i had a hard time finding it because they renamed it
1	this is one of the oddest movies i have watched in a long while usually if they are this strange i bail out early and rarely regret it luckily i held on for this one while i can't say that this is a great movie it isn't i can say that watching it is rather like a good acid trip only a few really awful moments and the rest filled with did i really just see that wonderment lots of laugh out loud moments a great cast of characters with meredith eaton outstanding as the dwarf daughter in law with an attitude keep an open mind
1	i also joined imdb for the sole purpose of commenting on this film but so that i can sing its praises i had never heard of this movie it's packaged so horribly that it's easy to see why it may get passed over but a good friend suggested it to me and i'm so glad she did it's a gem of a film the actors are great kathy bates and meredith eaton in particular and look like they are truly having a fun time sure at times it was a bit over the top but i cannot remember the last time i laughed so hard or so many times over the course of two hours if you love to laugh then you owe it to yourself to see this film br br highly recommended
1	i quote below words from my favor writer paulo as the comment for this movie br br when you really want something all the universe in helping you to achieve it br br it is too easy to forget who we really are and what we desire to do in life because there are always too many comments and advice surrounding us to tell safety i had almost forgot what the passion feel like despite of the adventure will take me out of safety zone i truely believe the fear is just the price that i need to pay for the coming brand new journey in life br br thanks for inspiring me with this lovely story it is the blessing for me to realize what unconditional love is that is the most love from the light of soul
1	when i first bought this movie i had my doubts about it even though the cast was pretty impressive but after seeing it i really do not regret spending the money in fact i'd love to spend it again and again and again on movies like this an absurd combination of humor drama thrill and the big questions this is exactly what makes it a great movie okay some might not enjoy what they see and some might even turn it off after a little while your loss it's got a wonderful way of dealing with the issues we've all been through in one way or the other and the characters you think you won't enjoy the company of throughout the movie turns out to be the ones you really come to love after a short while for anyone with an open mind and a sense of humor and living watch this movie i promise you you won't be disappointed
1	what an excellent movie made even more so by the fact that my wife and i stumbled onto it so serendipitously channel surfing on a nice frozen day in north texas kathy bates is at her usual best leading a cast of very normal and human costar characters thru one of the most wonderful feel good movies we've ever seen why this movie wasn't given the attention it deserved on it's release in 2002 is difficult to understand why it was head and shoulders above so many of the boring pieces of trash released with greater fanfare and attention is evident in the viewing it is obvious that we as a general public are being force fed that which has been deemed great and wonderful by the powerful and influential while true gems such as unconditional love manage to shine thru all those pretenders to really enjoyable cinema rent or buy this movie you won't regret it
1	rating 8 out of 10 directed by alfred hitchcock br br tennis star guy haines farley granger meets the mysterious bruno anthony robert walker on a train soon afterwards guy finds himself drawn into the psychotic realm of bruno's world br br guy is separated from his wife and is now involved with a senator's daughter guy is interested in entering into politics after he retires from tennis bruno wants to kill his own father but doesn't want to do it himself br br bruno proposes that he disposes with guy's wife while guy's part of the deal is to eliminate bruno's father guy dismisses this idea since he isn't interested in having his troublesome wife killed br br bruno goes ahead with his half of the proposal while guy becomes the prime suspect of his wife's murder as law enforcement continues to investigate guy bruno continues to torment guy wanting him to complete the other half of the proposal br br on a train' has one of the most exciting endings of all hitchcock movies
1	this movie is the most moving and funny movie i've seen in a very long time as a housewife homemaker and a fan rupert i found it to be sympathetic anyone who misinterprets angry outburst has it wrong kathy bates is not really an actress i know but she is perfect the whole cast is perfect for their roles julie andrews had me in stitches i am watching it after reading auto biography so the inclusion of her was even more fun it is at times terribly moving i am not really a fan of the type of music in the film but you get drawn in to the romance and find you are singing the songs for days this movie deserves to be more widely available our favourite scene involves dirk and a gun and his trousers watch it and see
1	i first saw this movie in a queer film festival 10 minutes after the movie ended a gay couple walked up to me and asked me whether i needed help i was still sitting crying like a maniac the movie is cheesy it's bizarre it's over the top it's gay but it is amazing i do think that every character is plausible character is mean to a woman who only tries to help he brutally throws his terrible friends out he does have a temper he can harm a fly the fly that killed the love of his life doubly so bates is a miracle she is perfect just like a role a woman whose love and admiration is so strong that she even loves the homosexual lover of her idol is to me the essence of true love i even understand max the husband he is bored with his life he's got a midlife crisis he moves out tries to lead an exciting life only to realise a that he's the really boring part in the relationship and b that he loves his wife i love the fact that she comes back to him in the end because i think that it gives the film the right balance between dream and reality for in the end he's her husband and he might not be as exciting as victor but he's real he is the man she loves in a very down to earth way i've watched it about 50 times and i do love this film everything about it unconditionally btw just read rupert autobiography and ul is the only film that he talks of as one of the best films he ever made to me it's the best film he ever made
1	man i had my doubts i love kathy bates but i thought how good can this be i had never even heard of this thing you know it was one of those things we gave it 20 minutes and we'll turn it off if it sucks and we were locked in from the get go this is a very winsome fun movie it's quirky you know i mean you've got a lounge singer a murderer and a believable one you have farce then kathy bates in all her acting splendor rupert everett finally acting to his real potential dan ackroyd and a dwarf that will make you laugh out loud i tell ya you'll laugh you'll cry br br maybe i had a weird week but i think this film is on the level of fried green tomatoes if you don't like that movie maybe you won't like this but i think it was a great movie i went out and bought the dvd
1	unconditional love is one of the best movies i've seen in a while it's an emotional roller coaster one of my favorite scenes is the pub scene when dirk tells grace that he didn't want to go to the pub because the villagers don't like him you expect the worst when the old woman holds her glass up and says 'to the memory of victor fox and the whole pub follows suit i wanted to cry the funeral scene is hysterical julie does it in her typical julie andrews style johnathan pryce is excellent as victor grace is one of kathy bates' best roles meredith eaton steals just about every scene that she is in rupert everett does some of his finest work in unconditional as dirk the kiss between rupert and meredith took me to another bout of hysterics in this day and age of gay rights being questioned i think this movie should be seen by all as a gay man in my late 40's i have seen people lose everything when a loved one dies so to all involved in the making of this film
1	this is a truly heartwarming film not just about love but about learning about yourself and your values in life though the story is a novel starting point for a film it is easily recognized by most people it combines a wicked sense of humor with a subtle assault on homophobia not to be missed
1	we loved this movie because it was so entertaining and off beat not your usual hollywood drivel br br my husband had a blockbuster coupon and passed on a string of new releases of violent hollywood stuff he was about to walk out when he saw this and decided to take a chance there was only one copy and with some glitches in the dvd that we finally had to flip to wide screen version and then back to the full screen version to make it stop stalling but it was worth it cathy bates is so good and she was so perfect for the role and she can sing too br br if only hollywood would learn from independent film makers maybe we would go back to the real movies but for now we're sticking with off beat and really entertaining films like this one other examples we've enjoyed include a box full of moonlight pieces of april delivering milo the celestine prophesy most of the ones by christopher guest such as best in show for your consideration a mighty wind and waiting for guffman
1	i wonder why i haven't heard of this movie before it's truly a magnificent comedy i'd say farce but it's too well acted and i'd hate to denigrate it's quality a comedic character study about the travails of mid life crises the inequity for gays who can't have their long time unions recognized and the general differences of people who can't fit nicely into society that pairs kathy bates and rupert everett to a wonderful effect forget julia roberts and rupert kathy bates and rupert should do another movie together the anxiety ridden acerbic and outrageous daughter in law meredith eaton is a truly wonderful character if you liked the tales of the city films you'd like this quirky charmer
1	minor spoilers br br in chicago grace beasley kathy bates is a housewife having a twenty five years marriage with the lawyer max beasley dan aykroyd and a hysterical and psychotic dwarf daughter in law meredith eaton grace worships the singer victor fox jonathan price who will present a tv show in chicago and will give five spots on the first row in a tv promotion kate calls the show and wins a ticket when max simultaneously asks for the divorce claiming that their lives are too monotonous grace becomes depressed and when she goes to the show the audience is informed that a chicago serial killer who uses a crossbow killed victor fox with a broken heart she decides to fly to england to victor fox's funeral there she realizes that he was gay and becomes friend of his former mate dirk simpson rupert everett they fly back to chicago trying to find the killer this movie is a delightful original and weird dramatic comedy having bizarre characters it has a huge potential to be a cult movie with the presences of julie andrews and barry manilow themselves and a joke with nicolas roeg's masterpiece 'don't look now' when wears a red raincoat in chicago's underground part of the city the beginning of the movie with jonathan price singing is wonderful i have repeated it four consecutive times the cast has a magnificent performance highlighting kathy bates jonathan price rupert everett and the unknown meredith eaton indeed this movie is an excellent entertainment my vote is eight br br title brazil a 'love to the proof'
1	i am a huge rupert everett fan i adore kathy bates so when i saw it available i decided to check it out the synopsis didn't really tell you much in parts it was silly touching and in others some parts were down right hysterical br br any person that is a huge fan of a personality of any type will find some small identifying traits with the main character of course there are many they won't but that is the point br br if you like any of the actors give it a watch but don't look for any thing too dramatic it's good fun br br i might also mention you can see how darn tall rupert is i mean i knew he was but he seems even more in this film he even seemed to stoop a bit due to the other characters height in this he is tall i mean tall and for you rupert fans there is a bare chest scene wonderful
1	unconditional love starts with great promise as directed by p j hogan the film works great up until the last third of the movie when it falls flat on its face the screen play mr hogan and jocelyn wrote showed a myriad of possibilities that fizzle at the end it appears the artistic team behind the movie had great hopes for it to play differently the reality is this is a film that is looking in different directions in how to bring it to a resolution that ultimately fails don't get me wrong the movie is tremendously appealing and will resonate with a lot of its viewing public br br based on the strong cast we decided to take a look the tremendously talented kathy bates is the perfect choice to play grace beasley the woman who finds at the beginning of the film that all is not well in her marriage ms bates is an excellent actress who deserved much better even when her character is not helped by what the authors have her do in the film br br rupert everett is always dependable into delivering his role as the late victor fox's lover is well written that is until dirk is lured into coming to chicago to find victor's murderer it's bizarre and it defies all rules of logic dirk doesn't look capable of hurting a fly let alone hunt down a killer with the help of grace and her daughter in law the incredible funny br br as played by meredith eaton this little woman is one of the best things in the film she's is brash and tells it as she sees it peter sarsgaard one of the best actors working in films these days has nothing to do in the picture he is totally wasted dan aykroyd also has nothing to do we see him at the beginning and at the end of the film and his max doesn't make sense he appears to want changes in his life and his marriage only to come back to grace without any explanation all things forgiven br br the english actors are good lynn redgrave has a better opportunity as the hysterical jonathan pryce is seen throughout the film as a ghost singing bland songs julie andrews makes a funny contribution in a couple of priceless scenes br br ultimately the television show hosted by sally jesse raphael is a turn off and doesn't add anything to the movie the best part is hearing kathy bates singing what a beautiful voice she has in fact ms bates is the best excuse for staying until the end
1	has aged really well still thrilling and suspenseful today certainly one of hitch's best movies beautifully shot with a great premise for suspense sex appeal provided by beautiful ruth roman because of the great premise you feel like you have to watch it to the end if you find yourself losing faith in hitch and doubting his title as the master of suspense i recommend this nice little movie as an antidote 5 out of 5
1	but a great cast jonathan pryce kathy bates rupert everett lynne redgrave julie andrews and dan aykroyd and that's just the beginning br br i'm not totally sure that any description of the movie and plot are going to entice you to watch this one suffice it to say that it has something for practically everyone death singing a sparkly suit cell phones a little person nice looking woman actually a modern not medieval a boombox and a crossbow oh and a psychotic and barry manilow br br you will have to trust me when i say that 50 of you out there will hate this movie because of the lack of the absurd gene in your dna makeup it's not your fault it's hereditary the other 50 of you will probably want to change the channel after 20 minutes but you have to keep watching br br even at that at the end you may wonder why you watched but keep in mind that absurdity thing it should grow on you it is a test
1	what a shame this movie was never released it is now playing on cable i tuned in based on my high regard for the stars and was rewarded by seeing a movie far better than the ones i've been paying to see in theatres recently i like to be surprised so often movies are marketed as offbeat but are in fact more of the same old recycled drivel this movie is genuinely different with the bonus of a heartwarming message jonathan pryce sings like an angel even though he is required by the plot to sing some of the most sentimental songs ever written he does them so well one doesn't mind cathy bates and rupert everett are well cast and superb but a newcomer in the role of cathy bates' daughter in law steals every scene she is in give this film a chance
1	my husband and i both loved this film at first my husband was skeptical and asked how many points he got for sitting through this one but after a few key scenes he was totally sucked in and by the end he was convinced it was one of the best movies going kathleen bates has never been so wonderfully loveable and the rest of the cast is just simply fantastic thank you for this beautiful film
1	i found this movie to be extremely delightful i am biased i suppose i happen to adore kathy bates i found her singing an added pleasure she has a very nice voice br br ms bates plays grace beasley the film takes you from her married life in chicago to england the home of her recently murdered singing idol victor fox there she meets his three surviving uppity sisters she also discovers that victor leaves behind a male lover dirk simpson br br the story leads you on to some surprisingly comedic and heartwarming situations as grace and dirk develop a true fondness for each other after an initial rather rude rejection on his part they return to chicago where they team up with grace's pint sized hilarious daughter in law to find the serial killer who murdered victor br br everyone in the picture did a fine job particularly enjoyed julie andrews lynn redgrave and barry manilow this movie was fun it makes you cry the music is absolutely charming br br other posters here who found problems with any parts of this movie just don't have a clue br br
1	you know people who make comedies so often forget it's really ok to be outrageous well not this time unconditional love has it all barry manilow and a dwarf in a movie with cathy bates as the romantic lead and it works not only does it work it works very very well in fact i think it's perfect i laughed so hard i think i hurt myself yet the main characters were all so human so honest and so very real but isn't that where great comedies come from don't characters need real feelings real emotions and the ability to feel real pain well they do in this movie unconditional love is a movie you shouldn't miss especially if you need a seriously good laugh or you're at all curious about seeing the psychotic dwarf in the red raincoat
1	without going into any details of a good if a somewhat provocative tv movie there seems to be a consensus among the users that there is no one to blame here br br i disagree yes the young male lover of beverly d'angelo played by rob estes may be young and horny and good looking because he's not getting as much as he wants from mom that doesn't mean he can climb in bed and have sex with daughter ok he can use the excuse he just wanted to watch tv with her but i don't buy it people have to take responsibility for their actions not only did he cross the line by having sex with a very vulnerable teen when he was supposedly the responsible adult he said your mom must never know about this how responsible was he then yes it's a good flick but he got what was coming to him don't kid yourselves folks that what happened was no one's fault
1	jenny lewis plays an awkward girl called jade she smokes and drinks she doesn't have a lot of friends and she has a nagging mother beverly d'angelo jade finds herself growing closer to her mom's boyfriend billy rob estes maybe she is attracted to him of course i don't need to tell you what happens after that br br this is probably my favorite tv movie this movie shows that sometimes everyone is to blame this movie also has the best acting that i have seen in tv movies beverly d'angelo does a really nice job as a sweet and loving but neglectful and blind mother she couldn't see what was going on under her own roof rob estes is at his best here as the sleazeball jenny lewis is the standout she seems to be exactly like her character br br everyone seems to love this movie
1	this movie is excellent the passion between jade billy is memorable and the acting was great this is why you don't leave a 16 year old and a young man like that alone together it shows why a single mother shouldn't date a younger man with a teen aged daughter in the house cause he looked young enough to be son br br i give it ten out of ten the acting was wonderful and the movements between the actors was correct br br the age difference between jenny and rob was good too because they were similar in age br br overall its a fun movie but i think nobody under 13 should watch this movie because of the sexual scenes
1	so often these lifetime flicks are one dimension with over the top characterizations and performances and with contrived plot lines and climaxes which are intended to trade any semblance of reality for drama br br but most of all many of these flicks provide characters where it's difficult to feel a trace of sympathy or empathy for even the good guy good gal characters much less the bad ones br br however here the performance were all good the characters realistic and the relationships among the three leads as well as the ex husband father and the two females rang true throughout br br the mother's boyfriend was portrayed as being about halfway in age between mother and daughter and the actors were age appropriate to this in term of their actual ages none of the characters was portrayed at an extreme either all good or all bad and all rang true br br without in any way condoning his allowing the relationship with his prospective stepdaughter to advance to the level which it did you can still feel some sympathy for him without blame br br neither mother nor daughter were perfect neither good nor bad but simply two individuals whose relationship seemed realistic and not contrived by the script writer br br lifetime flicks even those which begin with some semblance of normality often end with a deranged character brandishing a carving knife or such other stories seem to need to provide the everyone lived happily ever after close br br this film presented a realistic premise story and resolution from start to finish a welcomed variation to the norm of this genre
1	billy and jade had a very close relationship that went to far one evening even though billy was sleeping with mother jade has to deal with the fact that her mother may never know and that it will never happen again billy is played by rob estes who couldn't have looked better lifetime tv has made another movie that everyone is bound to like
1	i was lucky enough for this film to come on tcm so i had the opportunity to see it it's rather hard to find despite it being a hitchcock classic unfortunately it also has its shortcomings some of which hitchcock has repeated later first off the ending is a little too neat and perfect in the last few scenes until the last five minutes there is an astounding amount of tension then the five minutes just clears everything perfectly up very unsatisfying the ending is also overly dramatic for a hitchcock film he is was and always will be the master of suspense why would he stoop to something as low as a cheap action sequence for the ending apart from the few shortcomings the film is great the plot is excellent one of the best and most universal ever the theme simple you meet a stranger a perfect stranger he offers to kill someone for you you know you have someone you want if nothing else subconsciously dead the catch he asks you to do the same for him will you accept this bizarre yet ingenious arrangement you're clear of suspicion and so is he after all neither of you knew the victim and you don't know each other either you're just on a train' brilliant concept and one that just about every single person can relate to the pacing is good you never lose interest or patience the cinematography is good but not nearly as good as it is in other better hitchcock films the acting is flawless the characters are well written credible and realistic hitchcock uses some of the same elements that he often uses the dominating mother the mothers boy etc the film is very good but it just feels a little watered down it didn't go that famous extra mile that would have made it great it stopped before crossing the line between what's common and what's daring that is the primary reason for the film failing to be great but mainly remains good with potential to be more than that the end leaves you unsatisfied and disappointed however everything leading up to the end is very good so the film still gets a deserving 8 10 good but not great any fan of hitchcock should see it as it is among his best somewhat far down on the list but still there i recommend it to any fan of hitchcock 8 10
1	lackawanna blues is an entertaining engrossing emotionally charged hbo tv movie based on the childhood memories of actor ruben santiago hudson who also appears in a small role this joyous motion picture experience is centered around santiago hudson's childhood guardian rachel nanny crosby a strong big hearted black woman who ran a boarding house in upstate new york during the 1950's nanny was a one woman social service organization whose boarding house was filled with drunks derelicts cripples drug addicts misfits and everyone else in town who needed a hand up instead of a hand out the crux of the story revolves around nanny's relationship with young ruben beautifully played by marcus franklin a boy whose divorced parents were unable to raise the boy properly so nanny took him in s who has been wasted for years in the thankless role of lieutenant van on nbc's law order turns in a powerhouse performance as nanny the neighborhood mother figure whose boarding house became a symbol for the downtrodden black folks in her town is nothing short of magnificent in a performance that earned her a golden globe and an emmy award is backed by an impressive all star cast that includes terrance howard brilliant and heartbreaking as nanny's husband louis gossett jr rosie perez jimmy delroy lindo macy gray michael k williams jeffrey wright henry simmons patricia ernie hudson mos def and hill harper as the adult ruben colorful and exciting beautifully photographed and exquisitely scored this is one of a kind motion picture experience that works on all levels but if for no other reason is worth seeing for the electrifying starring performance by s who is given the role of a lifetime and makes the most of it
1	this is one of the finest tv movies you could ever see the acting writing and production values are top notch the performances are passionate with beverly d'angelo superb as the older woman with a teenage daughter and rob estes simply perfect as the young stud boyfriend however the best part of this film was how it showed the consequences of sexual abuse instead of going for the usual happy ending it showed that abuse can happen in good families involve good people and wreck lives it is thought provoking and entertaining congratulations to all concerned with this exceptional movie br br
1	it's 3 30am br br i just saw this movie about six minutes ago and it is fantastic br br a teenage girl has a night of passion with her mom's lover and it ruins everybody's lives the really interesting thing about this movie is that you can't really place the blame on any one person br br everyone performed perfectly and the story was thought provoking br br you should definitely see this movie if you can get your hands on it br br i give it a 10
1	i didn't have much faith at the beginning but as a costa citizen i can confirm that the movie shows the reality that we live day by day and shows a lot of things of our culture such as our way to speak our music our way of standing up for our rights without any fear without any weapons br br i'm really proud of the job they did and of how they didn't forget along the movie the message they wanted us to receive not caring for the money but actually working with a short budget letting us appreciate the beautiful scenarios and the great photography br br i strongly recommend seeing this movie you will not regret it
1	is not a masterpiece in any of its storytelling aspects however it delivers a perfectly enjoyable story along with a magnificent cinematography the narrative structure is set around two narrative axes one of them the other each one having elements that relate and co exist in excellent harmony the story never loses the right pacing and it shows a very good blending of the human figure with its natural environment which is a character in itself the acting is great and for that we owe credit to the emerging director esteban ramírez furthermore the characters are very well written and masterfully complex so once you become familiarized with them you can perceive their feelings without them even saying anything i can't say i liked this picture because of all the hype it generated in costa but rather because of the way it really achieves in showing an interesting portrait of what happens when you interfere with the equilibrium of people's lives hopefully will establish a reference for future projects in costa as it is a very good example of nice movie making
1	mom has to be one of the all time uncomfortable movies to watch it features an elderly lady you would love to have as your nanny who becomes the nastiest mother f ing monster you would ever want to meet on a dark night br br this supper nanny eats the inners of a young lady at the opening of the movie and it just gets sicker as it goes on a cross between the howling and brain dead seem to come to mind when describing mom br br a must for horror fans who have the stomach for it if you have watched re animator or brain dead this will float your boat and are willing to switch the brain off for an hour or so let the gore pour 8 10
1	when his elderly mother emily jeanne bates is attacked by her lodger nestor brion james and turns into a cannibalistic monster tv news reporter clay mark thomas miller struggles to keep dear old mom from satisfying her hunger br br although the above plot summary conjures up images of trashy over the top 80s horror titles such as flesheating mothers and rabid grannies mom actually turns out to be a refreshingly original take on the werewolf vampire zombie mythos exactly what emily becomes is never really clear but it ain't nice as well as a touching study of the close bond between mother and son clay's devotion to his mother leads him to abandon all of his other responsibilities including his job and his relationship with pregnant girlfriend alice mary beth mcdonough whilst emily's love for clay ultimately drives her to self destruction br br technically the film could be sharper with more stylish direction and better effects the shots of the creature are kept very brief so as not to disappoint and certain more experienced members of the cast frustrate with terribly cheesy performances yes brion james and stella stevens i am referring to you fortunately however the strong emotional undercurrent in the well constructed story is enough on its own to ensure that mom is an effective compelling and occasionally shocking which i have no hesitation in recommending to those looking for something a little different
1	mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title br br this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there br br it is so different and refreshing it almost defies br br the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger who just happens to be a flesh eater who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie or ghoul quite which exactly is not defined br br there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified attempts to help her by supplying 'food' i shall say no more about that for fear of inserting a spoiler it is one of those movies as opposed to guns blasting explosions raging car chases etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans whilst also inserting sadness into the story along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called 'horror' movies br br there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so but what she becomes oh my br br a gem of a movie and even if not your thing should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan
1	this film was made right in the area where i grew up and now live i know personally most of the property owners of the various locations used in the film as a teenager i worked in the fields surrounding the isolated road shown late in the film with ron perlman jonathon and the car i am told that jonathon and ben allison are are natives of nc i was fortunate to see it at a local showing at that showing was one of the people who helped select locations and secure props such as the bus 1938 greyhound used in the movie the bus had no reverse gear and during filming the driver missed his stopping point a few times and had to drive several miles to return to the proper point those details of the technical issues added to the enjoyment for me the film accurately depicts life in this area during wwii a well done film and i anxiously await the dvd availability
1	much about this movie was beautiful the acting the scenery and without a doubt aaron's cinematography background showed through on the beautiful shots definitely worth watching as your attention will be captivated the entire time and it ends on just the right note br br the acting by newcomer jonathan was superb as one would think he was a pro acting since he was born he has gone on to act in other feature films but this starring role will always be remembered br br the film does have that academy award feel to it at times where it's slow and scenic and quiet so it's not a movie that a d d kids can sit through however the rustic feel of east bend and played out well as a 1940's era film
1	william faulkner was one of the american writers to win the nobel prize in literature faulkner mostly wrote about life in the south particularly during the depression years many of his stories have been adapted to screen short stories like two soldiers is an endearing tale of two brothers in december 1941 after the attack on pearl harbor the older brother pete greer goes to memphis tennessee to enlist like hundreds of thousands of young men some who would never come home his younger brother doesn't take his departure well he manages to get a bus ticket to memphis without any money to find his brother he surprisingly becomes a soldier of another kind since he wants to enlist also at 10 years old ron perlman does a surprising performance as the military leader who manages to take care and bond with the boy this short film won an oscar for best short live action film which is well deserved if it was longer it could compete with the longer films everything else like costumes art direction and recreating the era of america in 1941 is perfect the film also shows the heartbreaking war at home as most americans were surviving the great depression the actors and actresses are not known but they do a first rate performances if hollywood would make more quality films i would probably go to the cinema more if broadway had more quality shows i would go to the theater more
1	in my never ending quest to see as many quality movies as possible in my lifetime i stumbled upon this film on cable i tried hitchcock three times before this and never have i felt that the man's work lived up to the praise he had received i always felt he was good not great from what i've seen this was the best of his films i've seen robert walker is absolutely chilling his performance takes the film where hitchcock wanted it to go even an average performance here damages the overall product my favorite scene was his obsession about getting the lighter from the drain how exactly does he get his arm down there though bruno is quite a compelling character but i also loved the performance by patricia hitchcock as barbara the rest of the morton family as well as guy were a bit dry and boring but she added some flare to the movie as well as having some of the better lines in the script br br lastly in any suspense movie you're going to live and die by your ending this one holds water unlike a couple other hitchcock films i've seen i truly was unsure of how it would end which kept me on the edge while i watched and waited
1	although this was a film of only less than forty minutes it is one of best directed and acted stories i have ever seen it accomplishes in less than 45 minutes what most films cannot in more than 90 br br it is the story of two brothers one 18 and the other 10 they come from a poor farm family in mississippi both are caught up in war and the conflict of duty verses love of family br br it brought tears to my eyes especially because the entire film is so well acted and directed plus it tells the story of so many wars where one serves and the other left behind br br i can fully recommend this film as beyond superb
1	this oscar winning short film 40 minutes based on a short story by william faulkner takes us back to small town tennessee in december 1941 two brothers one about 18 and one about 8 are looking for birds eggs obviously a huge collectors item for boys in the south around this time well the japanese bomb pearl harbor and the older brother pete decides to enlist he gives his prize egg to his little brother willie and heads off wishing to show more emotion and tenderness to his little acolyte well willie isn't having any of it if pete can be a soldier so can he he heads to memphis showing his stubbornness and determination as he gets the better of several adults along the way after finding the enlistment center in memphis he demands to see his brother pulling a knife on a lieutenant and wounding him in the process we are shown the devotion and love of a little brother jonathan he delivers a impeccable performance as a stubborn strong willed boy in the gentler times of yesteryear the movie tries and mostly succeeds in showing how brothers can show devotion and the importance of family ties in one's youth as the two brothers reunite shortly the movie delivers a cathartic cry as the brotherly love envelops us all br br this movie is like a cold bottle of water maybe or good clear water with a flavorful mineral packet but not pure natural spring water like still it your thirst and you don't doubt its purity and effects it is more run of the mill and less expensive than some but gets the job done leaving one refreshed and afterwards 7 10
1	a beautifully photographed and paced short film it evocatively captures the feeling of this family and much of the country during the period just prior to and after pearl harbor br br i appreciated the visual look of the film naturalistic and simultaneously poetic great work by a great d p david boyd br br though a family film the story never becomes maudlin or saccharin we understand and believe the motivation that propels the young boy on his odyssey i understand the love of the younger brother for his older brother and do not question why he sets out to do what he does i understand that he is driven by a deep desire to be with his brother in this time of crisis the kid is tough and the performance by jonathan is superb as is the veteran performance by ron perlman
1	two soldiers is an excellent example of fine film making the director and producer took a heart warming story and brought it to life with a very skilled and dedicated cast excellent cinematography and very creative artistry br br the relaxed back woods lifestyle of the brothers was depicted with great details and contrasted sharply with the militaristic lifestyle that they were thrust into the interaction between the brothers brought laughter and tears as they struggled with a hard but peaceful life in the back woods of north carolina and an even harder life of war br br the acting was great particularly from the younger brother who is new to the big screen played by jonathan to the older brother played by ben allison and the powerful performance by the colonel played by ron perlman the performance was extremely well cast br br it was a pleasure to enjoy the magic of two soldiers and i heartily recommend it to audiences of all ages
1	based on a william faulkner short story two soldiers is a top notch short film a movie that has enough story emotion and great cinematography for a feature film and definitely leaves you wanting more in the end the story involves two dirt poor mississippi brothers one only a kid the other old enough to volunteer for the war effort shortly after the japanese attack on pearl harbor the younger brother played brilliantly by newcomer jonathan doesn't want to let his older brother go and he sets out on a quest to enlist in the army himself ron perlman gives a gruff but touching as the army colonel who decides to help the kid br br because it is only 39 minutes long this gem will be hard to find it will most likely be confined to the festival circuit for now but remember the name aaron schneider this picture marks him as a director to watch
1	two soldiers is an excellent example of fine film making the director and producer took a heart warming story and brought it to life with a very skilled and dedicated cast excellent cinematography and very creative artistry br br the relaxed back woods lifestyle of the brothers was depicted with great details and contrasted sharply with the militaristic lifestyle that they were thrust into the interaction between the brothers brought laughter and tears as they struggled with a hard but peaceful life in the back woods of north carolina and an even harder life of war br br the acting was great particularly from the younger brother who is new to the big screen played by jonathan to the older brother played by ben allison and the powerful by the colonel played by ron perlman the performance was extremely well cast br br it was a pleasure to enjoy the magic of two soldiers and i heartily recommend it to audiences of all ages
1	pierre plays a don quixote character unable to speak living in a world incompatible with modern life he trusts to his homemade weaponry helmet sleeves and spear made out of seat cushions and discarded office furniture just as don quixote rode the man rides his contraption literally transcending the lost lives caught up the harsh and demeaning modern world soaring above the earth away from the plight of modern man both characters ride in search of adventure in an effort to right the wrongs of the world both characters are guardian knights of values unfamiliar to most of the other characters in the story br br unlike tale in this movie we identify more directly with the anachronistic ideals of the main character we can only compare this alien and forbidding landscape to the lush and beautiful world we live in our frame of reference is the fantasy realm which the lone knight perhaps remembers our vision would be one which expects the main character to triumph to vanquish to change his world for the better back into a world of plenty that no longer exists br br we look at this movie and see a true knight among a world of humans as animals don quixote considered himself a true knight among animals br br with tale we can only see the dreamer without really understanding the scope of his anachronistic displacement in besson's and tale we see the new world from the eyes of don quixote because we value the same visions and ideals as the crusading main character
1	remember that this came out before gulf war i which gave us werner herzog's lessons of darkness br br le dernier combat is not sci fi it's more like judgment i've watched it at least a dozen times it really is a fitting companion to herzog's lessons of darkness and in that time men will seek death but they will not find it for death will flee from them br br that someday alas may be today in iraq br br but back to le dernier combat make sure to watch thru the very last second of the film i wouldn't call it a surprise ending but it is something you'll miss if you just assume the end won't be anything more than what you will already have seen
1	this is an example of what film school would call a good debut movie it follows all the rules short scenes to the point cheap to shoot guerilla film making no sets just disused buildings and possibly an empty hospital wing also even the black white film stock was a stroke of genius probably selected more for its low expense rather than film effect but it worked br br reno was amazing as the brute everyone's acting was brilliant the plot was simple and effective and no flabby bits left to distract you a tight well crafted cost effective budget movie br br released in 1983 this would've been made just before the art of big budget action spectaculars became refined by the hollywood movie making engine and movie making was more exclusive and therefore more difficult and more in need of the right people in the right places than today's internet enabled world so luc would've had to do quite a bit of negotiating and promise keeping to achieve this result which makes the end product all the more remarkable br br but then again the french movie industry has always maintained an excellent reputation yes i know luc is belgian but the movie is a french production and has been the source of many hollywood remakes br br if i have one criticism it's that the cover picture on the dvd and possibly the original sales poster bears no resemblance to the movie whatsoever and appears to be a rather bizarre image rather than representative of any of the movie's themes at first glance it appears to be a man in post apocalyptic armour on a swing but on second inspection reveals a man in armour with a lance on an office chair with his legs on a desk in a self confident posture this never happens in the movie once br br it's black and white film stock zero dialogue physical acting tight scenes and brilliant actors makes this movie one worth adding to your private movie collection a superb movie
1	although compared with mad max this film is in a league of its own set in post apocalyptic paris this film is about man's struggle for survival he has lost his ability to speak and there is a remarkable shortage of women congratulations luc
1	i knew the premise of this film and obviously i can't miss a good sounding film especially from master of suspense director sir alfred hitchcock basically tennis champ guy haines farley granger meets eccentric stranger bruno anthony robert walker on a train travelling from washington to new york bruno talks about a perfect murder guy hates his wife and bruno hates his father so bruno suggests swapping murders guy obviously didn't take him seriously until of course when guy's wife miriam joyce haines kasey rogers or laura elliott is found murdered in an amusement park guy of course is the chief suspect and bruno keeps bumping into him reminding him of their plan and giving him more things to help him kill the father he wants dead this murder enquiry and bruno's stalking are threatening his tennis career and his relationship with the daughter of sen morton north by leo g carroll anne ruth roman bruno realises that guy won't do his murder so he decides to plant the evidence at the crime scene to make him guilty guy's cigarette lighter at the amusement park after his tennis game guy and anne who obviously found out the murder plan race to the amusement park to stop bruno and they have a fight on the speeding out of control carousel also starring patricia hitchcock the director's daughter as barbara morton marion lorne as mrs anthony jonathan hale as mr anthony howard st john as police capt turley and john brown as prof collins and hitchcock's cameo is the man boarding train carrying a double bass some interesting dialogue and character interactions some good suspense moments and of course the unforgettable carousel finale a good classic film it was nominated the oscar for best cinematography sir alfred hitchcock was number 75 on the 100 greatest pop culture icons the film was number 32 on 100 years 100 thrills very good
1	belonging to the subgenre of post apocalyptic future films it is a stylistic and very very intimate installment the most noticed element of the film is its silence no one speaks i don't think despite what is evident in most of his later work meant it as any kind of cool gimmick i think what makes it so clever and so effective is the fact that with no other way of communicating everyone has to read each other based on intuition and conveying of emotion no matter how slight though i wasn't glued to the screen upon reflection i see that it's a very touching and sensitive perspective on human nature its vehicle is the stylized sci fi movie part of its reflection on the nature of the human world is that each of its humans is not necessarily played as a perfect human being the hero a lone drifter in the desolate new world is taken in by an older recluse who refuses to keep his part of an exchange of food between him and a husky brutish character played by jean reno and so reno tries everything he can predominantly using brute force to get what he wants so the antagonist is right though not a good person and the protagonist and his sympathetic foil are both wrong though they are both good people br br it's shot in a clear and crisp black and white edited and captured in a low key yet spry and small scale approach and its actors are very real how can they not be they like their characters are left with the bare necessities of communication this is one of the few truly good films that luc has written his earlier work is almost always better than the fluff he churns out now
1	if you expect that this movie is full of action and grabbing you from the start then don't watch it but if you like those kind of meditative movies which stick in your mind for a while until you get the details then you will love it now don't get me wrong there is action and there are things going on just not in the usual way br br basically the plot is in a post apocalyptic world where anyone fights in his or their way for survival in this fight they lost the ability to speak i don't want to write more to not spoil the movie for you but trust me if you like sf authors like or or even some from orson scott card you will love this movie
1	i am a long time fan of luc besson's work and for about as long as i've known his name i've also looked for this movie i tried looking for this movie all over california for over four years this past summer i took a trip to europe one of my missions on this trip was to at least see this movie long story short i bought it and watched it in france i was blown away it completely made my trip and i finally feel content that i have seen luc besson's first work absolutely amazing character development very thought provoking great acting and the ultimate concept movie if you are a concept movie fan this is one of the most original and classic i feel as though it is a rare treat to see a movie like this one its risky its unorthodox and ultimately its just downright unique if you are a luc fan its indeed a must see however whether your a fan or not its definitely an important work overall a great contribution to the immortal art of cinema
1	a poetic examination of the human condition performed without dialogue the anti hero the man builds a contraption to escape a band of marauders out of the of what was once a civilization to the ruins of the city to for his survival there he crosses with the brute brilliantly played by jean reno of the professional and mission impossible fame the man is rescued by a crazy old genius who lives in a fortress of his own design by using their wits the man and the old genius are able to keep the brute and his ilk at bay but they realise it is only a matter of time before their defenses are compromised so they make a break for it this is a strongly understated tale of the desparate struggle for life with excellent action scenes and clever humor of all of the movies of its kind like road warrior omega man and even ultimate warrior featuring yul as a buff knife fighter le dernier combat is the most artfully crafted copies of the video are hard to find i would give my left eye ball for one if your local art house ever has a revival of this film i heartily recommend that you break any engagement to able to be able to see it big
1	i don't believe it luc is not only a genius now he has always been one this film is for everyone who likes real good deep films just perfect
1	luc besson's first work is also his first foray in science fiction a genre to which he will return fourteen years later with the fifth element 1997 even if this film was strongly influenced by hollywood cinema it is still highly enjoyable back in 1983 le dernier combat reveals besson's own approach of science fiction he takes back a threadbare topic and his efforts are discernible to make a stylish work shot in widescreen and black and white a disaster has destroyed virtually all the population from earth and we will never know what was this disaster and why men can't talk any more some barbarian hordes were formed in parallel a man pierre lives on his own and arrives in an unrecognizable paris where he is received by a doctor jean br br there are no words in besson's work the characters' actions and the progression of the events go through looks and gestures although the starting point and the backdrop are unnerving the film has never the look of a despondent one it seems that the man and the doctor try to reproduce gestures and actions linked to mankind before the disaster the film opens with the man having sex with an doll later the doctor tries to make him speak through a machine and he is a painter in his spare time it's all the more intriguing as these paintings seem to come from the prehistoric times following this reasoning one could argue that the bearded giant jean reno embodies evil and a threat to the efforts deployed by the man and the doctor to regain what finally made a human being ditto for the gang of baddies at the beginning of the film br br the pessimistic whiff that such a film could convey isn't really at the fore and gives way to a glimmer of hope personally the film could have gained with no music at all except the one the man can hear with his cassette recorder luc was to make better and still entrancing films like this one he also boosted pierre career as a director who will leave a patchy work behind him in the future force 1989 simple 1991 ma petite entreprise 1999 or 2003
1	well i guess i was in the mood for a movie that really grabbed me from the beginning this movie wasn't it it plodded along at a pretty slow deliberate pace for the first 40 minutes but there wasn't really anything in it that i was terribly interested in there's an intriguing and mysterious feud between jean reno's character and an old man but more of the first 40 minutes is dominated by the wanderings of the main character whom i didn't know much about and couldn't really relate to at the time he wanders around alone for the most part he doesn't meet anyone i imagine the director was trying to depict the loneliness of the human condition in this post apocalyptic world or something which is all good but i still wish he'd trimmed it down from 40 minutes to 15 because it can get incredibly boring br br but after those 40 minutes things start to get very interesting i guess i won't really say more than that because i don't want to spoil anything so if you've seen the first 15 30 minutes of this movie and are thinking about turning it off like i was just stick with it it gets a lot better br br one of the most interesting things i found about this movie was the fact that it had no dialogue whatsoever which really made me have to think about what was happening how characters were feeling and what their motivations were why things were how they were in this post apocalyptic world all of which gives the story a lot of room for audience interpretation and it's amazing how much more satisfying a movie is when the actors aren't telling you exactly what's going on
1	it's hard to use words for this movie since it contains none itself br br but the images it conveys both powerful and sweeping are ones which remind us why we watch movies and you might be saying well leonard maltin doesn't like it it can't be that good but you're wrong see this movie french cinematic brilliance en ensemble
1	i still can't describe what to feel when i received this by the site such a rare movie so little spoken and known is difficult to find even to fans but the contrast past and present is devastating now i hold a dvd of the movie with the finest quality possible as i did in atlantis the other rare movie i bought by the internet i saw this one at home with all the lights of my dvd and tv turned off and marveled at the experience i didn't know what to expect wickedly i always searched some kind of disappointment when i saw a film by luc i never had seen before but it never came this movie was no exception from the start i understood that the person who makes a film like this as a first feature is destined to be big in the future and so it happened this won several prizes including the highest prize in a film festival of my country which makes me proud and it shows that this movie is many bigger things this may be the most original after the war movie i have ever seen beating mad max in originality and artistic feel there is not a problem with this movie its cinematography is genius as well the perfomances of the actors i am also proud to say that finally i saw all the movies of my favorite director and have a copy of almost all of them joan of arc is still waiting for me to buy the dvd this movie is most of all a work of style and dedication which makes clear why luc is a director of my choice good taste beautiful framing excellent use of music i also marveled at eric first feature length score and the promise of great achievements did well to bet in its boy genius the man who would later change the face of france's and europe's relation between movies and their public let's hope starts working in a new directorial project i will be the first to cheer it until then i recommend this movie to anyone who need to learn a lesson of how good movies are made with little money i loved the atmosphere of the movie which by its black and white cinematography suggests us an even more depressed view of the world after the holocaust this movie works by the sheer magic of movies showing in pictures what we can't explain by words and i'm with all the people who wrote comments to this movie and liked it good choice a great hug to everyone who sees this and feels that a little of their lives were changed
1	i thought besson's film managed to do without words what few films have been able to do with them capture true human emotions the main character's struggles triumphs set backs hopes and desires are all so honestly shown that you wonder if he is acting at all the film has a low budget and is obviously made without the glitz and glamour afforded to most hollywood productions but that minimalism is what allows this film to transcend the stereotypical sci fi labeling and become a true drama however calling this film solely a drama would take away from the fantastic post apocalyptic plot true this type of movie has been done been before but i think this one captures the joys and sorrows of that type of world possibly better than any other one does
1	as i looked at this movie once again i think it belongs among hitchcock's greatest films the first time i saw it i was just blown away by the suspense action and imagery it has the gripping ending the deranged murderer the innocent man framed or victimized by circumstances some great on location shots e g the jefferson memorial in washington and penn central in new york it also has great supporting actors with hitch's daughter patricia in the role of the younger sister to ruth roman and the stalwart leo g carroll in another of his hitchcock movies the merry go round episode near the end is one of the most nerve wracking in hitchcock's body of work br br robert walker as bruno anthony his last full film gives a great performance as the deranged stranger on the train who worms himself into the life of the unsuspecting tennis star guy haines farley granger granger plays the nice guy who is caught up in a messy divorce the movie opens with the camera showing the shoes of two separate men as they leave their taxis to board the train eventually they meet and the story takes over the stranger takes an unusual interest in the tennis star and as the movie continues the stranger becomes a stalker the action shifts from place to place including washington the fictional small town of metcalf the forest hills tennis championship and a passenger train taking the two leading men back and forth on separate missions towards the end the pace of a tennis game is woven into the plot as they race against time the camera cuts away to the faces of the athletes as they volley and serve in a remarkable series of shots when the closely fought contest is over the climactic chase takes place hitchcock has a love for trains and it is great to see penn station long since gone trains are featured in the 39 steps the lady vanishes shadow of a doubt spellbound north by northwest and this movie br br this classic hitchcock thriller took place at the start of a period of great creativity for the master of suspense the 1950's and i am convinced that one day it will be given its due in the hitchcock hall of fame
1	great movie post apocalyptic films kick ass this one is no exception kept up the pace and interest without a speck of dialogue mainly through some good character development the fight between reno and the hero was tight i also liked the use of cave paintings and medieval like weapons to show how primitive and savage mankind had become without their technology and the connection between the beginning and end was a little spacey that is i had a hard time understanding the distances between the hotel and the opening sequence in sum kick ass character progression design story without the cushion of dialogue and most importantly the always appreciated desolate scenery of a post apocalyptic wasteland
1	i saw this today with little background on what to expect of the storyline i go to the movies as an escape to leave everything behind and enjoy a story i found this to be a good movie not great but good it was worth my money and my tears br br diane lane was wonderful as always richard gere isn't an over actor he held his own and has a certain presence that we always come to expect he brings his own style to the movie br br i think it was the kind of love story that doesn't always get told it was messy and they had other priorities but they wanted to be together and wanted to wait for each other br br i'd definitely recommend it
1	wtf do any of his books movies end in a happy ending the notebook was good but sheesh enough with the depressing endings already i'm told that he writes about realistic situations that people deal with in real life understandable but sometimes it's nice to see people who have sacrificed their whole lives to only get to a mediocre unhappy time in their lives to finally find the true meaning of happiness and are able to live it out for the rest of their days don't we already know what really happens in real life can't we for one moment an hour and a half live vicariously through a movie that ends on a happy note that gives us hope for our own futures br br yeah wah i know but for real i think we need to preface movies that end like this one with a warning beware no happy ending
1	i am a guy so i was very hesitant to watch the movie because i know that richard gear likes to be in tear jerker movies i would rather watch action adventure sci fi i was right the movie is definitely a tear jerker diane tended to over act a few times as did richard but they brought it around and made it work the daughter was a suppressed teen with huge attitude so you started out hating her the movie is way too predictable but for entertainment purposes it was a masterpiece go rent it see if you don't shed a tear lol if you like the notebook you will love this one the beach scenes were immaculately shot even though the hurricane scenes were a little off sequence it was still a bit to watch them react to it
1	hey look you don't watch this movie to change your life but if you are female especially and have always had a little thing for richard gere this movie is right up your street diane lane and richard gere have on screen chemistry going way back in is not a oscar winner movie and it will probably be forgotten sooner rather than later but if you want an atmospheric beautifully shot love story between middle aged good looking people they don't make your stomach turn and even when gere is 'on top' he does not look too then this is the movie for you i loved the theme of the story and it was quite relevant in many ways of course the whole thing was presented in a superficial way glossed over and not really dealt with i mean i would have liked to know more about the father son relationship between gere and james franco but the story was really about the idea that a great love can change you for the better whether it is a lover a child a friend etc the theme of the film is about love and its mysterious ways i was kind of surprised that james franco took such a small part in this film but he is always good even for a few minutes screen time i really liked this film because it was moving and sweet
1	being a middle aged mom myself i very much appreciated seeing a romance between grown up people that weaves in the many issues that effect us br br diane lane beautifully portrays adrienne and the sacrifice and conflict that a mother goes through wanting to do what is right for her children but still have a happy life herself br br i am not a big richard gere fan but he always does a good job with the guy who is sort of jerk but learns something about himself br br criticism of their romance as unrealistic is hardly justified when compared to most other romantic movies when nicole kidman and hugh jackman fall in love riding across australia with barely a conversation between them its considered high romance we get so much more here with she redeems him he sets her free its beautiful br br the intimacy they create by sharing their deepest insecurity fans into a flame of passion how long it takes is irrelevant perhaps the movie was a bit too subtle in the point that it was the letters they shared over the following year that deepened their relationship again another real life time honored way to get to know a person br br as much as i enjoyed the plot and themes the dialogue was not consistent in quality some lines rang so true and other lines were embarrassingly trite and flat br br i also enjoyed the relationships with adrienne's teenage daughter and her best friend reminding us that there are many types of love not just romantic love br br this is not a lighthearted romantic comedy more a romantic drama it does have a very relaxed pace that some might consider too slow br br the beach house is a work of art fabulous look for the driftwood bench on the porch in the first pan over the house very beautiful i also enjoyed the music and scenery which combined to create the effect of the location as being the third main character it was this place away from their regular lives that allowed them to see themselves and each other in a different light br br if you are old enough to appreciate these themes and are in the mood for a good cry get out the kleenex and enjoy this movie
1	despite the fact that there were aspects of this film that i felt were not developed enough i enjoyed it and would recommend it to others richard gere and diane lane are great in their lead roles the basic premise of the film is that both were in the wake of broken marriages when they meet both also are searching for healing unexpectedly they find that they can help heal each other there were aspects of the film that i wished i'd seen play out more where simple flashes merely suggested themes that my mind had to fill in the blanks on such as the apology to the bereaved widower and how adrienne goes from feeling guilty about having slept with paul to feeling okay with it soon after an opportunity for a tremendous love scene was lost when it was merely suggested they were going to make love with the hurricane coming but in the end the film left me feeling deeply appreciative of the relationship that my wife and i share and there were moments that moved me to the verge of tears so i have to say it is well worth viewing
1	i think this show was right on the money for me i watched it over the plane but there were parts in the movie that made me control myself from tearing all over the place br br the chemistry between richard gere and diane lane was very believable fantastic acting on both parts i loved how diane lane's daughter acted in the show too she displayed maturity and how she transformed throughout the show was easy to believe as what a teenager could possibly be like in real life br br i loved this show from start to end definitely recommended for the romantic people out there
1	gere diane lane back again in another romantic love story they are an excellent team but somehow this film will not be among there best br br the director george wolfe using a screenplay by ann peacock john for nicholas sparks novel does a capable job this is yet another tale of 2 strangers meeting falling in love then they go on there way then when they are about to meet again start a life together br br spoiler but not really tragedy happens one of them dies br br how many times have we seen this already br br those who never saw tearjerkers like this will hopefully like it more than i did this story has about every cliché there is br br the only reason this has the ratings i will give it is because of the fine acting excellent production the cast besides our 2 stars includes christopher meloni viola davis scott glenn they all give real good performances do the very best with the material they were given br br there is a good but not over done storm sequence the sex scenes are well done no nudity next to no foul language br br ratings out of 4 82 points out of 100 imdb 7 out of 10
1	that's right we've got a 2008 film using themes of brief encounter and the bridges of madison county it's basically the story of lost loves redemption and a triumph of the human spirit br br the performances by richard gere and especially diane lane are very good gere gives the kind of restrained performance here as a doctor who is searching for meaning after a patient dies on the operating table lane is the mother of a rebellious daughter and a nice young son who has split from her wandering husband and has also sustained the loss of her father in the same year br br scott glenn steals the show in a one scene meeting with gere he is the heartbroken husband and he recounts his love to his departed wife it will bring tears to your eyes br br fresh from her triumph as an mother in doubt viola davis appears as an understanding friend in the film and literally hangs her hair down in a rather benign performance
1	one of alfred hitchcock's three greatest films along with psycho and the 39 steps strangers on a train is as brilliantly out of control as a merry go round in metcalf and almost as deadly it's the kind of film you have so much fun watching you can't even feel properly guilty about it until you have time to catch your breath br br top amateur tennis contender guy haines farley granger meets a singularly weird louche stranger named bruno anthony robert walker on a train thanks to the gossip pages bruno knows all about guy's problems with his no good wife miriam and rather gaily suggests they do each other a favor bruno will kill miriam and guy will kill bruno's father who wants to put bruno in an institution guy laughs it off but bruno ain't kidding as guy finds out to his peril br br it's a great premise for a murder story and hitchcock gives strangers on a train a run for all its worth with the help of walker in perhaps the greatest performance in any hitchcock film including anthony perkins in psycho while perkins makes his mark playing against the grain walker as anthony is one perfectly at home either up old ladies at a swank dinner party or strangling a young woman at an amusement park br br what drives bruno many commentators suggest his apparent homosexuality finds a match in pretty guy yes bruno lights up the old gay dar but guy seems happy enough on love's rebound with socialite anne morton ruth roman bruno's interest for guy could just as easily be envy for someone making a mark in the world while he lives at home letting mommy file his nails br br oh i certainly admire people who do things bruno purrs looking like a cat eyeing a mouse you know it must be pretty exciting to be so important br br later on bruno calls himself a bum accurate enough except for our rooting interest in him even as he wrecks guy's life with his homicidal meddling it's the ultimate perverse tale there's a sense of integrity about bruno in his dogged dedication which commands our respect and which hitchcock plays to so brilliantly when bruno floats away from the scene of his big crime am i the only sick person in this world who's actually happy for him i think not yet hitchcock keeps the story on a right enough path for us to realize how low we have fallen we don't want bruno to win exactly but we enjoy his élan as he tries br br everything else is so perfect or at least close enough to make every shot memorable hitchcock always managed at least 2 3 good setpiece sequences per movie here you get a score of them at the amusement park alone 20 big shows the neon side at the entrance says and they aren't kidding script camera work a gripping tennis match ruth roman's jaw dropping figure it's all too much greatness for one film to contain even granger does his callow youth thing here with more risible plausibility than gregory peck ever managed br br you can call this a clinic in movie making but clinic sounds too dull strangers on a train is good nasty fun all the way through leaving you with a nifty stinger at the tail as you realize you were rooting for the wrong stranger all along heck i'll take that ride over again in a second
1	discovering something the journey is so much more fun so much more surreal and so much more emotionally galvanizing than when you finally arrive at the destination falling in love is perhaps one of the most opulent feelings in the world you feel energized invigorated and alive you simply want to be around that person every second of the day and the very sound of their voice gets you excited and sometimes aroused love and all the physical and emotional side effects that comes with it is pure bliss where it goes from here is anyone's guess but when you first begin your journey together nothing can compare to it br br diane lane and richard gere play adrienne willis and dr paul two emotionally scarred middle aged individuals in this film they are about to embark on that mystical journey together where love and the discovery of the emotions along the way will help save them br br lane is dealing with the typical jerk of an ex husband who still loves her but in her eyes only because the woman he cheated with no longer wants him as hurt as she was by him as much as she really dislikes him there is a part of her that is actually considering taking him back why you might ask because in life and love sometimes comfort supersedes intelligence yes this man cheated on her but she has kids with him she built a life with him and there is obviously still a connection with him br br richard gere plays a recently divorced husband and estranged father he also just lost a patient as she reacted negatively to the anesthetic he is now being sued by her family and he is guilt ridden but hardened about the issue this is what brings him to in the first place although his lawyer told him not to he felt compelled to visit the woman's husband in he stays at the inn that adrienne is taking care of soon they find comfort in each other's arms and discover that they too can have a second chance in life br br by now this sounds like a simple idea for a film and although it might be something you've seen or read about before gere and lane simply own the film diane lane lights the screen up with her smile her eyes twinkle in the dark and the life she brings to the character is one worth watching gere's character is a little different he is more hardened and bitter it takes adrienne's pain and her passion to bring him out of his shell he blames quietly himself for his strained relationship with his son and her secretly blames himself for the death of the patient on the outside he tells anyone who will listen that it is not his fault and that she was a 1 in 50 000 casualty but deep down it eats away at him they find each other at a time when both need someone to listen br br gere and lane have been in film together before but this is the first time they play lovers they were married in unfaithful but here they play lovers finding each other when the people in their lives have abandoned them they have a spark and a real chemistry i would love to see more films with them together in fact i'd love to see more films with diane lane but that's a story for another time br br nights in is a very passionate and romantic film about two lost souls who save each other they both become better people they both become stronger people i enjoyed it immensely and would recommend it to anyone not just couples this is a film about redemption absolution and second chances br br it will also ask you to bring some hankies br br 8 10
1	nights in brings back to the screen two talented actors in diane lane and richard gere in a simply beautiful story of a man and a woman hungry for something more in their lives than they have at present the chemistry between lane and gere is magical from the first scene in the film to their last embrace the locations beauty of their attraction for one another when it unfolds when they first meet and the story that follows and as they begin to know each other with the attraction they feel towards each other is real is romance that is projected to an audience with tender care james franco in another micro role is just the right casting and the elegance of lane in combination with the beach house is a true fall 2008 film to remember forever as was the notebook
1	ever since they first came to the outer banks and filmed the movie i have lived here my whole life i have waited for this movie to come out and i mean waited and waited and waited over a year and a half for this movie and to me it was worth it br br the movie is different from the book but in my eyes it's still a beautiful piece of work as is the book in both i cried there were moments that tore me up i laughed and i smiled just as much it's a great movie with a great story line br br it's about never giving up on finding that one the one that will change you forever the one that will shape your soul and awaken you to a whole new view of life br br i have to say that it is possible to meet someone and have them change your life forever which is what gere's character did to lane's i met the love of my life and at once was completely captivated that i never forgot him or how smitten i was with him until i him again a year later for me i could relate to this movie with my whole heart i think that if you listen and watch the movie with your heart and your hopes you'll see what i'm talking about it's never too late to find your true love great work ms lane and mr gere
1	oh yes hollywood does remember how to use the good old formula and when lightning hits it's a rather wonderful feeling rarely hollywood creates a masterpiece because lately there seems to be more concern with hurrying up and getting the most rewards in a hurried manner or there is the matter of too many cooks in the mix usually good screenplays are the result of a talented writer who is in full control of his her property understand his material and is a good writer then there is a little important part often neglected by the marketing geniuses that so often lack creativity and vision a good actor br br a good actor can make the difference between a mediocre half cooked try and a fully realized film that might not be an important and relevant movie but one that contributes to its genre and might eventually become a classic of its type we get very few romantic comedies and we are people who are starved for them buried in the sexy humor of sex in the city is the romantic yet stormy relationship of big and carrie and people flocked to mia because it had some romance skillfully played by streep and it could have a silly musical but it did touch us because it was played with intensity and conviction nights offers us more of it with the amazing talents of a woman who does magnificent work in romantic films ms diane lane ever since her days as a child actor we could appreciate how her talent combined with her appreciative soul allowed us to see into the hearts of the story's protagonists a few years back she teamed up with mr gere giving us a tormented romantic and sexy performance as the wife who is not too sure of her consequences in unfaithful work that should have garnered her at least an academy award she is back doing more formidable work in this romantic gem as a woman who has given up on her romantic prospects and suddenly she realizes there might be another chance around the corner br br ms lane makes this film pulsate with intelligence and passion her facial expressions communicate volumes about the different emotions her character undergoes we can read frustrations yearnings desperation anger hope loss and a range that is way out reach for a lot of the marketable types that hollywood constantly push down our throats here is a mature performer who has the gift to project real emotions and allows us to connect with the material in such a way that we are moved as we become part of the experience br br ms lane is such a triumphant joy to watch as she goes through transformations from the first scenes of the film until the very end her discoveries become ours as we celebrate with her the power of hope and love she is able to bring back the unsurpassed joy of a person in love much like a teenager does and yet she never lets you think of her character as silly or irresponsible her eyes are expressive gems that can move even the cynical in the audience she is one of the stars that can do wonders with just one look in her the classic feel of those grand movies of yesterday are back her work recalls the passionate and intelligent work of hepburn davis garson women who played everyday types and made them memorable because they created complete characters br br we admire those superb actresses who recreate real life legends and are rewarded for it half their work is done by the mystique of the figures they impersonate however as much as anyone might make you think it is the roles such as lane's in this movie that are a more impressive achievement because they are created from scratch given a personal imprint and are able achieve heights without any previous theatrical material support such as plays and the background of a famous legend whose life is paid tribute on the silver screen lane's character is one woman whose experiences could be any of us she represents our dreams and emotions with much quality class and just the right amount of sentiment it is quite a remarkable achievement and we should be grateful that we are still able to find such a remarkable performance nowadays br br there are a few adjectives i could use to pay tribute to her work but i can only say that in my humble opinion every single frame of her work in this film is testament to one of the greatest performances ever put on celluloid by a living performer thank you ms lane
1	dr paul richard gere a successful surgeon has his wife leave him his son an uncredited james franco not respect him and looses a patient he's operating on adrienne willis diane lane has two children and discovers her husband has cheated on her they both need to get away she watches over a beautiful inn in at the same time he books a room they're all alone together you can pretty much figure out the rest br br this is what's known as a weepie or a woman's film it's beautifully shot with a romantic setting and lots of quiet scenes there's tragedy romance more tragedy and an uplifting ending sort of the great acting by gere and lane helps disguise the fact that this film isn't really about much every single bit of the plot is predictable i rolled my eyes a lot at some of the events also it's far too short i didn't believe the romance between gere and lane for a second if comes out of nowhere and moves very quickly still the movie does work the inn itself is absolutely gorgeous and i was in tears by the end along with most of the audience so it's a predictable but gorgeous movie with some wonderful acting it doesn't deserve all the criticism it's getting i give it a 7
1	before i talk about the ending of this film i will talk about the plot some dude named gerald breaks his engagement to kitty and runs off to craven castle in scotland after several months kitty and her aunt venture off to scottland arriving at craven castle kitty finds that gerald has aged and he has grown meaner gerald has certain rules for the castle the rules have been the same for 200 years gerald does not want them to stay but kitty insist on staying by making excuses one night her aunt catches a glimpse of the monster running across the hall it scares her so much that she faints and another excuse they must stay longer kitty becomes more worried about gerald after she tries to go in the maze but gerald catches her and is even meaner to her kitty then sends for reinforcements she calls their doctor who is actually their friend and his wide then to make things not look suspicious they invite a couple other friends who don't really do anything blah blah blah kitty and her aunt end up in the maze where the most suspense of the story is they somehow get separated and they try to find each other but the aunt stumbles upon the creature here it is the moment we've all been waiting for what is the creature lurking in the shadows it is a giant frog omg what is better than that after seeing the aunt the frog literally goes crazy and runs oops i mean hops up the stairs to the top of the castle the frog then leaps out an open window we then go on a shot from the ground and see the frog gall towards us oh yeah this movie was in 3 d but you want to know what is funny is the frog that falls out the window is actually a toy because it is 1 10 the size of the frog before it takes the leap it is then revealed that this was all evolutions fault blah blah and kitty and gerald get married then the last shot of this masterpiece is of the grave of the frog in the maze the only place where he was ever really happy
1	gerald richard carlson and kitty veronica hurst have just finished celebrating their engagement announcement in france with family and friends when he receives a letter asking him to visit an ancestral castle located in scotland uncle reportedly has fallen ill and has requested gerald the sole heir be present gerald goes off to scotland leaving his future bride behind a few weeks pass and he doesn't come back concerned kitty sends out telegrams but doesn't hear back from her fiancé four more weeks pass and kitty finally receives a weird response from gerald calling off the engagement and telling her to move on with her life not ready to give up on her relationship and looking for answers kitty hops on a plane and decides to pay gerald a visit accompanying her on the trip is her level headed aunt edith katherine emery best known for her starring role in the classic chiller isle of the dead when kitty and edith arrive at the estate they immediately suspect something strange is afoot for starters gerald seems to have aged twenty years in a matter of weeks secondly this once nice and charming guy has turned into a complete jerk who repeatedly demands they leave the castle and never come back when edith comes down with a mild cold kitty uses it as an excuse to stay there to try to get to the bottom of things br br why is gerald being so cold and cruel to the woman he was just about to marry why is gerald so opposed to having company why do the house rules state that guests must be locked inside their bedrooms at night why are guests forbidden to enter certain areas of the estate such as bedroom and a large hedge maze out back and what's making those strange dragging noises every night these are just some of the questions the maze poses the movie actually does a fine job building up mystery and intrigue you genuinely become interested in what's going on and patiently await the resolution to explain the weird events that are taking place and then it happens i definitely don't want to ruin the finale of this film because you're better off not knowing but it takes one of the most unbelievable and jaw droppingly strange turns i've seen in any movie it's wonderfully ludicrous in a way but it also takes a pretty solid little b w mystery and sends it straight into z grade schlock territory and yet this ending seems so out of place you're not likely to forget it once you see it br br despite the ending or maybe even partially because of the ending i really enjoyed this odd bird it's extremely talky and slow moving for the duration of the run time but it managed to keep my interest throughout director william cameron menzies who made the much more famous invaders from mars the same year is best known as a two time oscar winning art director and his set designs here are also really interesting there's almost a silent movie feel at times with model work for some of the exteriors some painted backdrops and sparsely decorated interiors with very high ceilings as with any good castle set there are also secret passageways and long staircases this one also throws in a few rubber bats on strings for good measure br br a few of the actors are a little stiff and awkward but i liked most of the cast hurst is one of those obscure and mostly unknown actresses who unfortunately never seemed to catch on despite being both beautiful and talented emery who also gets to play narrator in framing shots at the beginning and end of the film is decent enough as the overly mannered and cautious aunt my favorite however was michael pate as the silver haired sinister servant who does this hilariously upright zombie walk every time he ascends the stairs also on board in smaller roles are hillary brooke who played the title role in the sherlock holmes mystery the woman in green and lilian bond whale's the old dark house of course carlson also starred in it came from outer space creature from the black lagoon and some other horror flicks so you've got yourself a pretty decent cast for genre fans right there i say check it out
1	i recently saw this film at a 3 d film festival in hollywood it was in polarized 3 d gray glasses not red blue it was so much fun to watch this film with an audience the print was excellent and the 3 d perfect the performances were over the top and that added to the fun the surprise ending that we aren't supposed to share with fellow movie at least according to the movie trailer and poster had people howling with laughter by today's standards this is probably more comedy than horror but with the added dimension of 3 d complete with cobwebs and bats coming out of the screen this film was an entertaining romp into 50's horror
1	is this a good movie it's hard to say but in 1953 for many people it was a remarkably effective movie suspenseful scary and then amazingly actually touching when the old gentleman meets his unhappy death at the end of the movie br br yes what lurks in the maze turns out to be something of a surprise and for a lot of people a hilarious one but the basic idea recapitulates was a very real one at the time the book was written and does have some basis in fact not that it would ever result in what we see in the movie of course br br but working on what must have been a very low budget one of the greatest production designers and the person for whom the term production designer was invented creates a very eerie mood that was strangely compelling at times of course the movie is very silly but it has its moments
1	a woman and her aunt go to scotland to locate her evasive fiancé this is a much maligned film because of its denouement but up to that point it's interesting well acted eerie and with fine set design by william cameron menzies developed for 3 d projection veronica hurst is captivating and genteel sort of a chic british marilyn monroe still in love with richard carlson who is hiding a family secret in his forbidding castle there are even bats in the it moves leisurely until the final extraordinary set piece when hurst and her aunt katherine emery also the narrator sneak out of the castle in the night to venture into the maze and find what they're looking for in its center as a kid i always remembered this sequence there's nothing scarier or claustrophobic than not finding your way out of a 10 foot high maze of hedges naturally the two women get separated setting the stage for engrossing suspense with horrific music the final result is mildly disappointing really since carlson's epilogue at the end makes some sense to all the goings on even provoking sympathy worth seeing
1	safer indeed hitchcock is cinema's all time pervert however we all know his perversions are ours as well so we forgive him and we not only forgive him but we applaud his clever way to invite us for an unforgettable train ride br br i saw hitch's 1953 i confess a week before this one and i put both in the same category as part of his trademarks these trademarks resided in his genius questioning and pulsing his artistic veins that spills psychological drops of blood on the viewer without leaving stains of guilt instead very subtle awareness of feeling ashame br br the pen is always than the sword and hitch firmly wrote the most arguable questions with his wrist and then holding firmly with his hands he held cameras that always reflected peoples thirst for blood most humans have otherwise comedy wouldn't be mostly a tragic thing and making people laugh wouldn't be so complex br br mixing all dark elements of high society with a wealthy psychopath bruno and an ambitious tennis player wanna be politician guy the story is one of the most well constructed and guided by hitch inspiring many filmmakers not only with its plot but with tricky images provoking dark smiles and happy nightmares br br barely perfect
1	i remember this film of old it's a great chilling atmospheric horror picture about a man who moves into a scottish castle only to discover that there are strange goings on in the corridors at night and there are even stranger events taking place out back in hollywood's most familiar hedge maze yes this is the maze you've seen in every feature length film that ever involved a topiary puzzle up to and including the shining but the punchline to this story is about the last thing you would guess i certainly didn't see it coming this is a fine example of how good and convincing a movie can be even when the premise is utterly loopy bordering on laughable i'd recommend it to anyone
1	i liked it better than house party 2 3 the cast was hilarious and cool at the same time chris who directed the film has a very humorous cameo in it as a car repairman look for his mom who plays the lead character john john's grandmother and you can hear her rap the title song down to the last minute at the end of the film as the credits roll she's very funny and a really good actress as well the young actors who star in it the main trio and who in reality are part of the music group did a superb job before this film i had not paid much attention to this r b group now i'm a fan the music number in the house party scene alone is worth checking out the movie i was pleasantly surprised i loved it
1	the main reason i loved this movie is because formerly immature were in it they were in house party 3 when they were 11 but they are all grown up now i was a little shocked at some of the things they were doing in the movie almost ready to tear my hair out but i had to realize that they were not my little boys anymore i think chris did a pretty good job considering that is was his first movie
1	here in germany it was only shown on tv one time today as everything becomes mainstream it's absolute impossible to watch a film like this again on the screen maybe it's the same in usa or especially gb the message is a brutal truth find friends to make your ideas come a bit closer to reality or you become a loser if not an asshole instead br br the whole film is not particularly as simple as it may seem here every little scene every sentence every behavior of the characters show a sharp look at what could happen when one person is not accepted in a sadistic crowd which calls itself normal br br very well played by all this is a must seen who is the main character john not cox folks remember ore niles who still is bimbo decide and you will get the plot as it is intended br br a bitter look at what society becomes in a repressive system kind of catcher in the rye and lord of the flies thought to the very end br br the final maybe change your own mind word
1	i remember seeing this film when i was fairly young being quite disturbed by it i found the storyline very distressing and can still remember the various bullying techniques used one in particular was when the other school children spat in his soup before he could even taste a spoonful they also bound him and shaved his private parts this was all because he was unpopular why was he unpopular because he was bad at games i have a feeling though that even if he was good at games he would have been bullied because it's hard to decide what makes someone popular to me he is the type of person who would always be picked on because that's how children operate popular children are popular because they are in some way 'cool' popularity is a hard thing to define so even at the end when he is successful in his career it makes no difference he is still left feeling tormented i found the ending quite distressing as there was no resolution
1	thanks to the of a fellow imdb member i've just managed to watch this film for the second time in nearly twenty years and i can honestly say it hasn't lost any of its kick i can't believe that channel 4 have let this one vanish without a trace as it is an extremely powerful moving and moralistic take on the consequences of misplaced loyalty br br it focuses on a clique of friends over the course of ten years and their relationship with two 'outsiders' from school specifically how they use one and mercilessly torment the other as events from both the past and present unfold the tension gradually thickens not dissimilar to shane meadows' excellent revenge chiller dead man's shoes the acting writing and direction are very bold for 1983 and still pack a wallop today in spite of the upper crust accents of the central characters yes it might be set in public school but it's worlds apart from anything put out by merchant ivory i got a state education and can still draw countless parables from the story br br this is a film that you'll remember for a long time if you see it except you probably won't because channel 4 or filmfour have chosen to bury it on their own official website they describe it as an inexplicably overlooked gem from the early days of channel 4 overlooked by who this was one of the very first channel 4 films which would later go on to become filmfour thanks to the success of films like trainspotting so somewhere someone must still have the master print in these days where you can get extended collector's issue dvds of more or less anything it's a bit moody that they can't give a film this good the promotion it deserves br br so if one of the channel 4 production is reading this stop making programmes that showcase people humiliating themselves in the hope of securing a tabloid deal chase up this film and sort out a nice special anniversary edition disc or something please
1	i've only seen this film once when it was shown on tv but i can still remember it 15 years later so that must say something about it i thought it was an intelligent look into schooling friendship bullying and the influence it can have leading into adult life br br the title really refers to how being good or bad at sports can either make you the lowest of the low or you will be tolerated by the cliques within school and even later on into adulthood if you're good at it this is set in a private school in england but it could be anywhere br br the main character is bad at games seeks revenge in later life which all culminates in a climactic confrontation on a cricket pitch i must admit i was gutted by the ending it was powerful and saddening
1	i absolutely love this film and have seen it many times i taped it in about 1987 when it was shown on channel four but my tape is severely worn now and i would love a new copy of it i have e mailed film four to ask them to show it again as it has never been available on video and as far as i know hasn't been repeated since the 80's i have had no reply and it still hasn't been repeated the performances are superb the film has everything its funny sad disturbing exciting and totally takes you back to school days it is extremely well paced and grips you from start to end the scene in the shower room is particularly horrific i also cannot hear the song badge by cream and not think of this film this film deserves to be seen by a much larger audience as it is superb channel four please show again or release on video or dvd
1	what a surprise a basic copycat of the comedy classic 'the nutty professor' only naughtier funny guy tim thomerson who steals the show as in robin hood men in tights is downright hilarious as the anal retentive dr jekyll and the sex crazed hyde br br the one scene that is really funny is when dr mark blankfield catches jekyll in bed with his daughter and says br br how dare you take advantage of my innocent daughter br br jekyll replies but sir i'm going ahead with the operation br br replies back oh well in that case fu your brains out
1	the all i have is 5 dollars and my wedding ring scene was a riot i also guffawed at the scene in the bar where hyde the horse radish and flipped the bird to the japanese guy and said pearl harbor buddy i think my iq is higher than 115 but i'm not sure because i can't count that high br br funny thing this 10 line requirement seems as though they would bash you for making your comments too long not too short i hope i don't make it to 1 000 words before i get to line 10 br br i'm still two lines short pardon me while i think and drink or drink and think it depends on whether my hands are faster than my mind good i think i've made it to the 10 line limit thanks for reading
1	when alfred hitchcock made strangers on a train it was a harbinger for the bulk of the film going public that he was back at the top of his form from 1946 to 1950 his films were not box office successes and his contractual arrangement with david o selznick ended because of this actually he made some really good films in the period such as notorious spellbound under capricorn rope and my opinion stagestruck but while notorious and spellbound were liked the audiences were turned off by hitch's attempts at experimentation his use of a dream sequence by dali in spellbound was acceptable as was the setting among psychiatrists but the experiment with long takes in rope confused the public making ignore the merits of that film and the willingness of hitch to have the audience fooled by a lie told by a leading character in a flashback was disliked far more disliked then it deserved to be in stagestruck a matter of bad timing for under capricorn it was released just as the scandal of it's star ingrid bergman and roberto broke out made it seem to be a failure which it wasn't the case was another failure and one that really had little in it's favor br br with strangers on a train hitchcock shied away from the special tricks that interested him in the recent films instead he concentrated on his favorite themes of shared guilt and mistaken identity based on a novel by patricia highsmith the story was of how guy haines a professional tennis player meets a fan of his bruno anthony a playboy who is traveling on a cross country train at the same time as the athlete bruno is talkative and fawning and guy views him as one of the typical fans he has met if a little eccentric with his talk of wanting to be on the first rocket to outer space but bruno knows all about guy's personal problems he is married to a promiscuous young woman named miriam and is in love with anne morton daughter of a senator bruno knows that miriam won't divorce her successful celebrity husband bruno mentions how he can sympathize he hates his stepfather who is constantly criticizing him then bruno mentions sort of off the cuff an idea he has about two men technically strangers exchanging murders for each other and then committing two perfect crimes instead of fumbling them guy listens to the idea and agrees it is an interesting idea the train reaches guy's destination and his last comment is like a validation of the idea he just does not realize that the eccentric bruno is a sociopath and believes guy has just agreed to the two killing each other's foe br br it's a wonderfully simple plot actually bruno of course does kill miriam but he fully expects guy to live up to the murder agreement and kill his stepfather guy is horrified and worse he finds that he is the police department's number one suspect when bruno to encourage guy mentions he has the latter's lighter he pocketed it on the train and can plant it at the murder site guy finds himself in deeper problems how to avoid the police and how to control if possible the insane bruno br br hitch always planned the shots of his film carefully so that from the start we see both our heroes from their feet heading towards their fateful meeting in the train with each other there are constant cross contacts used in the film to show how the two men are drawn into each other's orbits it is like fate drawing them together yet both have their own personality and hitch with a typical twist makes the mad bruno actually more of an attractive figure his scheme may be vicious it will kill two people if successful and he will have guy live up to the agreement no matter what but he has a zest for life one suspects that once guy too had one but his marriage's failure coupled with his now dating a socially prominent woman has made him more circumspect and dull than he was br br the cast is good too robert walker probably had his finest role in this film only a year before his death it was a far cry from the homespun boy next door of since you went away or the clock his lithe figure also looked quite elegant in tales in several scenes as guy farley granger acts like a cousin of his co murderer in rope especially as the circumstances make him increasingly suspicious to the authorities as his earlier role made his jittery behavior increasingly suspicion to jimmy stewart as for the ladies rogers is properly sluttish as miriam enabling the audience to be prepared for her demise in a famous sequence shot in the reflection of her eyeglasses so that they actually are cheering bruno in his act of evil patricia hitchcock appears as the younger sister of anne ruth roman who bears a close resemblance to miriam and accidentally sets off bruno at a social occasion she plays this rare role well ruth roman is properly supportive of granger but her role is limiting because she is establishment in her background and somewhat low keyed other supporting performers leo g caroll as the senator marion lorne usually a comedian as bruno's dotty mother and norma as an unexpected recipient of violence from walker are all shown to best advantage all at the hand of a master
1	mark blankfield from the old late night tv show fridays plays dr daniel jekyll a mild mannered surgeon who invents a powder that turns him into a drug crazed party animal this was not of course his intent he had higher aspirations but he goes with the flow this is actually a fairly stupid movie but it's also pretty fun of course once the good doctor realizes what he's done he's ashamed but he's also not above doing it all again running through hollywood as a crazed sex machine with out hair gold chains there's a few subplots like fiancée who is the daughter of the head doctor at our lady of suffering and pain employer and there's tim thomerson as a plastic surgeon with seemingly few real parts and a taste for men and a rich old man whose situation is a parody of howard hughes and who is going to make several people rich with a complete set of organ transplants including testicles yeah the humor is raunchy and silly and overall the whole thing is fairly tasteless but if you're not above a quick wallow in the gutter you'll probably like it just fine now available on dvd too for the first time woohoo 7 out of 10
1	pearl harbor buddy this movie is brilliant sure it doesn't exactly flow like an multi million dollar comedy does but the jokes that are constantly thrown in are unbelievable i'm one that goes for silliness much like dumb and dumber airplane and wet hot american summer and i have to say this easily ranks up there movies just aren't written with this kind of sporadic comedy anymore too many jokes in this are such a surprise to the viewer that it's honestly amazing that more don't know about and praise this slapstick masterpiece when watching this you will easily find over 20 quotes from it that you will find yourself quoting after wards and after to watch it again you'll find even more
1	in the first transformation scene what is the music i've heard it was the greeks don't get no is that right i really liked that sound i also liked the hyde's got nothing to hide in the final scenes truly a movie but with many laughs and puns sight gags and slapstick madam woo woo's place was reminiscent of some places i have visited myself ivy venus has appeared in some other stuff that is truly amazing she looks much different in the movie we're talking about but her maturity didn't hurt her a bit mark blankfield reminds one of gene wilder in some ways bess armstrong was beautiful and maintained her beauty for a long time
1	i love this movie a lot i must get this on dvd i have 2 vhs copies but the quality is so poor that you can't read one written joke over the door of the ward i'm forever amazed that blankfield did almost nothing afterward he made both dr and mr hyde totally believable br br the movie is plagued by it's low budget one atrocious edit jumps into mid word and was described on siskel ebert but there are a thousand jokes sight gags to subtle references that more than compensate i often find myself quoting lines or singing i've got nothing to hide and from time to time completely describe a scene which matches some conversation there are at least six scenes which are among my all time favorite comedy bits br br viewers with no history of cocaine use may miss a lot of gags br br here take it visual of driving while waving butt out the window i said 'is this seat taken ' nice burn visual of chaps headdress swim fins yeah i'm right handed me me says the woman trying to sell bernie's going to love these that's my feet jack says the black feet why should we tell you she's at the supermarket ivy on supermarket pa loading whole shopping cart into ambulance etc
1	some said that this was a nose candy glorification flick but short of the original dr hyde's concoction no drug has yet been developed that can provide this effect if viagra was the slime mold stage that white sparkling powder is the stephen hawking evolutionary rung or at least the pharmacist idiot savant branch this reality show is really about the sacred cows of medicine seen as was the emperor without clothes few of us want to question the health field both because most of us would not have lived to our current age had we been born before modern medicine and because our subconscious hopes that we will continue to live on if we have faith in the helping professions so the geniuses who produced this movie made jokes out of those calcutta giving us the sugar that allows us to swallow the modern institution of medicine the timing was right and many were able to see the business side of the healing companies behind the curtain of oz a decade before when george c scott ranted through the movie the hospital my wife and i were sitting in the packed premiere in oklahoma city just as in jekyll hyde's remake we were almost unable to keep from falling out of our seat and laughed and howled uncontrollably for the duration the hundreds of other audience members were deadly silent they were shocked that doctors nurses the hospital institution were being mocked it was as if the pope billy graham and gandhi were were sitting in the animal house beer stained tee shirts and all competing to see who could tell the funniest god knock knock jokes between had the hospital been a slapstick comedy rather than a satire they might have been able to see what was being shown to them unfortunately they were like republicans at a screening of michael moore's 9 11 perhaps smaller golden would have been given to the corrupt medical corporation leaders health insurance companies would have had a tougher time denying medical care and health providers would have been earlier if george c scott had tap danced in a tutu while delivering his terrible truths but forget everything i just said watch the movie be consciously made as happy and joyful and full of laughter as the best ever saturday night live skit and let the subconscious soak in the documentary of the underlying reality just don't blame me when got to got to got to got to becomes one of your sayings or when hyde's got nothing to hide occupies that portion of your brain now paralyzed by its a small world after all or when you start calling your local hospital our lady of pain and suffering instead of our lady of eternal construction even were changing their favorite terrible boss wishbone winner from piss on him and leave him for dead to body in a pit you in it the smell of death it's gone chicken sushi mary mary
1	it took me a while to find this movie since they don't have it yet on dvd and my vcr is not worth hooking up again i guess all the referencing to drug use is too much for some folks but i found a decent bootleg on ebay and i must say that anyone who takes this movie too seriously is just retarded it is a slap stick spoof in the vein of airplane i must say that when i watched it on showtime or spotlight growing up in the 80s i enjoyed the humor a whole lot more then than i do now but it's definitely worth watching just to see what they i e movie makers were able to get away with before the just say no hypocrites unleashed their propaganda sing we are all on drugs hahaha it's a silly film and worth the 10 i paid off of ebay to get it on dvd just don't even think about comparing it to the original that's just plain stupid what are you high
1	coming from the druggie generation i thought this movie was hilarious it definitely brought jekyll hyde up to date so to speak my husband and i laughed all the way through it would love to have the movie in my collection i told my two teenagers about the movie and they would love to see it they aren't into drugs but they know enough about them to understand the comedy in the movie it's been so long since i've seen it i can't remember but a few things i would have to say the funniest part was when dr jekyll dozed off on his lab table and inhaled the straw while snoring then up the powdered drug he had invented funniest thing i'd ever seen in a movie
1	who are the people that star in this thing never heard of them but this is one of the funniest comedies i have run across it should win the putz prize for parody the absurd starts with dr snorting his powder and turning into a sex fiend he is pursued by libido driven nurse early in the movie in one of the funniest scenes of the movie pay attention to the hospital pa system in the background rather like the system in mash the final scene with hyde accepting the award has had me laughing for years oh and the busty nurse is cassandra peterson who went on to become elvira mistress of the dark br br if you liked the mel brooks classic movies blazing saddles etc i suspect you'd like this one br br damn shame you can't get it on dvd anywhere br br it's available on dvd now good thing dvds don't wear out from use
1	better than it has any right to be this movie died a quick and painful death at the american box office at times sophomoric at others bitingly satirical and witty jekyll and hyde is mostly just a near perfect reflection of the times laden with drug and sexual humor reminding one at one time or another of everything from the woody allen of everything you always wanted to know about sex to the mel brooks of the producers saturday night live to monty python carlin to cheech and chong watch it listen carefully because some of the jokes go by really quickly and remember a time when comedy was allowed to be offensively hilarious
1	uproarious no brainer comedy in which comedian mark blankfield portrays jekyll as an uptight doctor deeply committed to his research once he's his experimental formula he's turned into the scenery devouring hyde causing no end of problems for everybody around him br br i was pleasantly surprised by this one it has a truly insane madcap approach it's full steam ahead with one outrageously stupid yet undeniably hilarious joke after another funny lines and sight gags are in abundance blankfield plays each role for all it's worth one highlight has hyde bursting into song hyde's got nothing to hyde is quite catchy and even now i can still hear it in my head the climax even goes so far as to spoof old b w horror films br br the supporting cast is quite spirited as well with bess armstrong as the ditzy fiancée mary krista as the spunky ivy and tim thomerson as flamboyant fellow doctor i do wish more could have been done with character as i'm a fan of the man but it's always nice to see him in something br br a large array of familiar faces parade before the camera cassandra elvira peterson peter liz sheridan george wendt michael ensign john dennis johnston art la lin shaye and george chakiris in a cameo as himself br br it goes without saying that if you prefer highbrow intelligent comedy you'd better avoid this one at all costs but for those who enjoy a zany politically incorrect gleefully raunchy good time this just might do the trick br br one of the best bits is saved for last br br 8 10
1	i have never seen this in the theater my second viewing was tonight on big screen dvd as opposed to old vhs tape from rental store br br for it's time and i'm sure the hayes code was pushed to it's limits br br hitch's pallet here is the game play between two combatants and yes if guy calls the cops on bruno right away the movie is 63 min shorter hello people do you always make the best or most logical choice how many times have you been in either person's shoes and made the right choice for the love of god it's called poetic license however as guy sees the situation he has found himself in he takes it upon himself to rectify it he does not help nor does he lie to his would be new wife her defense of him sets off the final show down with bruno feeling he has one more card to play br br for the cop shot ting an innocent person in pre cam corder days and before rules of engagement this type of thing did happen in the post rodney king world a presidential candidate backed the police in sending 43 bullets at an unarmed man if you haven't seen or witnessed outrageous police behavior your blind or have an application pending for the br br back to the movie br br go watch it with try and wear a post wwii filter and pretend your seeing a great suspense movie like many did for the first time back then and sure it's been copied since but your looking at one of the source of inspiration for many that followed
1	a mix of 70's drug humor along with parody of medicine and classic story line as i've often said about this flick if you don't get it you're way lame classic lines such as i've got this erection and it won't go away no matter how many times i do it you're a nurse what can you give me for it nurse replies all i have is 5 dollars and my wedding ring great sound track the classic hyde's got nothing to hide stays surprisingly close to the original plot not that the original stays in the way of a joke haven't met anyone with an iq over 115 that doesn't find it hysterical br br
1	this is one of those rare comedies where try as you might you can't help but giggle chortle guffaw and yes even laugh out loud the lead actor's performance as hyde is pure manic genius see if you can keep a straight face when he does his transformation good luck on the downside there are times when the movie does bog down it seemed longer than its 90 minutes
1	so it's not an award winner so what have you ever wanted to see a film that was just silly the villain and this one could top the list my husband says that jekyll and hyde together again is one of those movies that if you've been there and done that you'll think this spoof on the 80's cocaine culture is a riot i think the whole film is just fun nothing is sacred hospitals plastic surgery howard hughes there are ongoing gags that you have to watch for to appreciate to say that the film doesn't follow the book would be true but then a lot of really good films take liberties with the published word also i recommend this movie to all the old stoners among us we may be smarter now but we will still recognize and laugh at many folks we knew ourselves back in the old days
1	so it's a little dated now it's almost 30 yrs old amazingly enough i have this on beta tape and it still plays just fine if it came to dvd i'd snap it up in a heartbeat br br the drug humor is not appreciated nowadays as it was back then then it wasn't as much like driving without seat belts and child seats i can remember my father crying he was laughing so hard watching this i had coworkers in the 90's who'd seen it and i could bust them up by getting on the and saying br br great lines great spoof of the original and funny to me anyway even three decades later
1	i loved this movie mark blankfield was perfect for this role more classic sci fie horror films should be remade to this comedy level which is at the very top of the line in my opinion a no drink movie you laugh so hard you will spill it all over yourself can we expect more let's hope so i would like to suggest many movies for this type of remake mel made some remakes of classic films he made some very strong contributions a picture of dorian gray would be a good suggestion i hope some producer or director can get into the idea and bring us new comedy to our screens we are needing a good of comedy to keep our level of laughter higher than ever before a good comedy fix
1	i first seen this movie in the early 80s and we used to have it on betamax as we all know betamax went the way of the 8 tape sigh it really had nice picture quality too anyways i'm glad i found this movie again i've been searching for it for more than 10 years this movie falls into the category of movies like airplane continuous jokes oneliners funny actions mark blankfield is absolutely hilarious his transformation from the shy dr daniel jekyll into the sex crazed mr hyde is unforgettable complete with and the part i loved best was when he hijacked the car from this poor guy and then drove to madam woo woo's totally psychedelic experience without the drugs if you need laugh therapy this is the movie to do it when i first seen it i had tears in my eyes and my belly was hurting from constantly laughing this is a movie i could watch over and over again i highly recommend it
1	this is sweet the actress who played the nurse with the is the same actress who plays elvira mistress of the dark another little tidbit is the actress who played the nurse who would give her wedding ring was the landlord lady of roy in king pin this is most glorious story ever to be told it should sell more copies than the bible my parents played a part in suggesting the release of this movie to a local movie theater the movie ran for a week and we were one of 4 families to see it the lady who gave the go ahead friend of the family was let go by the theater i was 3 years old i have burned through 4 copies on vhs and finally had it converted to dvd it's beautiful
1	mark blankfield played jekyll and hyde br br michael mcguire was the dad br br tim thomerson was the plastic surgeon br br did you even see this movie i doubt it br br blankfield was fairly popular at this time for playing the pill popping doctor on fridays thomerson has been funny in anything he does from movies to series to stand up comedy if i ever find this movie on dvd i will definitely buy it i recorded this movie off of hbo back in '82 and have pretty much worn out the tape one of the funniest takes on the jekyll hyde theme ever br br of course with all the cocaine references in this movie it'd be panned as being way too politically incorrect today as would cheech and chong too bad because it is funny funny funny
1	this film was one of three that were later combined by chapin into a compilation that was released to theaters in the late 1950s under the title the chaplin review br br this was an odd film in some ways because later in life chaplin was anti war and his movies stressed peace and brotherhood this film in contrast is a propaganda comedy meant to bolster the us efforts in wwi it's truly odd to see charlie as the super soldier who single handedly captures 13 germans casually and coolly shoots several germans in mere seconds as a marksman and then goes behind enemy lines to try to capture the kaiser himself truly this was a major departure for the little tramp though it was at the same time very very entertaining and funny the film is exceptionally well paced well made and i'm sure did a lot to bolster support at home for our troops too bad it was such a pointless and costly war
1	chaplin is a in his final film of 1918 a who can not seem to get the marching down straight he spends time over there in world war one trenches several gags stand out limburger cheese as a makeshift grenade for one the cramped quarters of the barracks in the trenches and when chaplin and his mates are washed out of their bunks by flooding are highlights chaplin ends up capturing several german soldiers single handed and he the german commander for refusing a cigarette when asked how he did it chaplin replies that he surrounded them chaplin hides behind enemy lines as a tree of all things and those scenes are very very funny he escapes to a bombed house where he meets up with a french girl played by edna he's tracked down by german soldiers escapes from them again and is arrested for assisting him chaplin is able to pull a fast one by bopping a soldier and using the soldier's uniform he ends up saving of course and capturing the kaiser in the process along the way chaplin employs some sight gags and slapstick in turning back the german soldiers with this film chaplin explored the location possibilities in filming while maintaining the audience's attention for closer to feature length time something his contract with the mutual film corporation him the film also allowed him to poke fun at the enemy something he would again do to greater effect in the great dictator of 4 stars
1	in alfred hitchcock's adaptation of patricia strangers on a train guy haines farley granger and bruno anthony robert walker meet for the first time on a train journey and discuss the idea of carrying out two murders the rather pushy anthony suggests that he could murder haines' unfaithful wife and haines could murder anthony's domineering father the lack of any connection between the murderer and the victim in each case should ensure that both crimes would remain unsolved the tenor of the conversation leaves the more easy going haines with the impression that the proposal is not entirely serious complications arise later when anthony murders haines' wife in an amusement park and then pursues haines to keep his side of the bargain br br the differences between the two men are clear from the start haines is a professional tennis player respectable and rather modest about his achievements whereas anthony's life is going nowhere and he admits to having been thrown out of three colleges for drinking and gambling haines is in a relationship with a senator's daughter who he wants to marry anthony characteristically interprets this as a cynical manoeuvre on haines' part to provide himself with a shortcut to a career the character differences are also reinforced visually anthony often inhabits shadowed areas and travels in a boat called pluto whereas haines is frequently seen from the more heroic perspective provided by low camera angles br br there are some striking visual sequences such as br br 1 the murder of haines' wife which is shown through the reflection of her glasses which fall to the ground as she struggles to free herself from anthony br br 2 the depiction of anthony alone dressed in black and looking very small against the enormous white jefferson memorial building br br 3 the occasion where all the spectators at a tennis match are moving their heads in unison following the action whilst one head anthony's chillingly remains fixed in a position looking at haines br br 4 the scene where the roundabout goes wildly out of control and eventually crashes spectacularly br br frequent use is made of doubles throughout the story for example haines and anthony are originally introduced as 2 pairs of feet getting out of their taxis and going to the train as the train pulls out of the station there are 2 sets of tracks each providing a choice of 2 ways forward the 2 men discuss the murders of 2 potential victims and order 2 double the hitchcock cameo sees him struggling on board the train carrying a double bass haines feels double crossed when his wife on an agreement they had for her to see a lawyer to arrange a divorce haines' wife goes to the amusement park with 2 boyfriends when anthony confronts her before the murder he lights his cigarette lighter and produces 2 reflections in her glasses anthony later becomes very disconcerted when he meets the senator's younger daughter who he sees as a double for haines' wife anthony also feels double crossed when haines refuses to go ahead with the second murder when haines is travelling alone in a train going to metcalf he sees 2 men in the same carriage accidentally kicking their feet together in the same way that he and anthony had br br the action throughout the movie proceeds at a great pace and the performances of robert walker and patricia hitchcock as the senator's younger daughter are particularly powerful
1	pretty funny stuff charlie was still working towards his peak when he made this rather daring short about soldiers in the trenches of world war one daring because after all the war was still going on and this was a comedy about a serious business br br the gags are amusing without being either hilarious or tear jerking one successful scene follows another as chaplin and his comrades try to sleep in a bunker that is knee deep in water that's where we got the term trench foot from probably the most ludicrous episode has chaplin disguised as a tree and foiling any number of german soldiers as they try to execute an allied soldier caught behind the lines edna chaplin's main squeeze at the time is a woman who with the americans and is saved from execution too br br chaplin would go on to do funnier and more ambitious things but this is better than most of his shorts during this early period
1	chaplin enters the trenches of wwi in this spirited comedy that never belittles the horrors of war the rain the mud the explosions all these things are present but chaplin seems strangely oblivious to them all he's in france for one thing to fight the germans something he does with unbelievable success br br it almost seems like an extended ego trip for chaplin a very funny one at that until the final minute when it rises to a new level of poignancy and everything makes sense br br perhaps it's what all soldiers dream of before the go to war
1	fantastic chaplin movie with many memorable moments as charlie joins the army to fight in ww 1 br br at first he goes to boot camp where he has to learn how to handle his rifle and how to walk in line that's a really funny scene as the tramp is not used to keeping his feet straight br br next thing you know he's in france in a trench hilarious scenes here include a starving charlie eating the cheese of a mousetrap and reading a letter from home over someone's shoulder br br when charlie goes to sleep he finds his bunker all flooded and his roommate snoring this is such a funny part i can't really describe it just watch the movie when charlie wakes up his legs feel numb so he tries to 'wake them up' it had me rolling on the floor when it turns out his second leg still feels numb while charlie actually rubs his foot br br the movie then turns a bit grim as charlie shoots a couple of germans from his trench although it's done in a very funny way and him as a tree to get close to the enemy saving a friend of his from a death squad br br last part is him getting a french girl in trouble by hiding in her house he then has to save her and while doing so he captures the german kaiser as well to do so he impersonates a german or something i love it when charlie is asked something in german and he's like the soldier looks at him in a funny way so charlie changes his mind ja ja ja the kaiser gets captured and charlie is the hero but then he wakes up again in it was just a sweet dream br br charlie did one of those 'dream before the bank comes to mind but who cares this movie was so funny it had me laughing all the way chaplin also has something to say with this movie as his later work became more of a social comment to several mishaps in the world and is explained best in the last sentence of the movie 'peace on earth good will to all mankind ' br br in short a charlie classic very funny timeless 9 10
1	i described woody allen's manhattan as perfect to someone the other day and she thought that it was an odd way to describe a movie br br i have seen only a handful of movies that i would call perfect manhattan is one mccabe ms miller by robert altman is another and once upon a time in the west by sergio leone is also another film that i think achieves perfection there are a few others but aside from the fact that i find no faults in the three i mentioned i must also admit that all three directors are acquired tastes br br if there is one film that i could stand behind and bet the house that anyone i would show it to would find it flawless it's shoulder arms br br city lights the great dictator the gold rush and even the pawnshop are 10's but not only did chaplin do everything right in this film everything he did is hilarious and touching to a level beyond explanation
1	charles chaplin's of 1918 was his longest film to date though at just over 45 minutes in length it was not quite a feature film with world war one just drawing to a close many popular entertainers of the time were doing their part to inspire their native troops and chaplin was no exception and so the lovable tramp went to war the film begins with the tramp in training and the character is hilariously inept at even the simplest military drills including marching and gun slinging much to the disgust of his drill sergeant the tramp then finds himself in the trenches faced with a more formidable foe though the germans eventually turn out of be infinitely more incompetent than even he the uproarious moment when the tramp declares that he single handedly captured thirteen german soldiers by surrounding them had me in stitches br br there are plenty of other great moments in this film chaplin awaking to find his sleeping barracks underwater and being unable to literally find his own feet is hilarious as is his ingenious use of a tube from a record player to sleep beneath the surface br br however the most memorable scenes in the film undoubtedly involve chaplin skulking behind enemy lines disguised as a tree the reactions of the bumbling german soldiers unknowingly just metres from a sworn enemy as they are single handedly disabled one by one are highly amusing especially when one soldier grapples an axe with the intention of cutting down a tree for firewood br br this is a very enjoyable film and one of the best of chaplin's pre 1920 efforts highly recommended
1	this film as it is now is far shorter than it was when released in 1918 in fact it is now more available with two other medium sized silent chaplin features a dog's life and the pilgrim that chaplin re released in the 1950s in it's day shoulder arms was a big hit because of it's humor in uniform approach it still is very funny chaplin in disguise as a tree spying on the germans is so ridiculous it's hysterical but it suffers from being set in it's own age charlie's dealing with world war i a hideous conflict that killed 20 million people but not the worst war horrible to say of the 20th century chaplin would live to see that war too and would spoof it's main architects in the great dictator but the latter is more accessible to modern audiences because that movie is a talking picture also hitler as a target seems more important to audiences in 2008 than kaiser wilhelm ii and his general staff br br shoulder arms was to take us through the drafting of the tramp his training his getting use to trench warfare and his actual fighting against the huns on the western front much of this is now gone one segment when albert austin is a doctor examining chaplin in his office at the draft center is still in existence and was shown completely in the documentary unknown chaplin this is unfortunate because the film is now roughly forty five minutes long and there seems to be gaps that these scenes filled out what remains is first rate but one leaves wanting more and feeling a trifle cheated br br sydney chaplin and henry bergman do well in supporting parts especially sydney as wilhelm he had done it before in a short with charlie for the sale of bonds giving a militaristic speech before being clobbered by the tramp with a huge hammer labeled war bonds here we see the tramp succeed in capturing wilhelm and the general staff at the conclusion it was only topped by stan and ollie capturing the german army with a tank and barbed wire in pack up your troubles br br the funny thing is that chaplin actually had a major crisis as a result of his wartime activities he was not a naturalized american not in 1917 or in 1952 when attorney general publicly announced that chaplin could not return to the u s because he was an enemy alien chaplin and his family were in europe on a trip in anger charlie settled in switzerland for the rest of his life except when he made a countess from hong kong and when he went to hollywood for his special career oscar in the 1970s because he was not an american he could not be drafted by the u s so he sold with douglas fairbanks sr and mary pickford u s war bonds but in great britain tens of thousands had perished in world war one battlefields and the public there was upset at chaplin who they considered a slacker and a coward chaplin eventually did overcome this but remnants of the resentment followed him until he died this does not detract from the success of shoulder arms as a film but it does suggest why chaplin did not do another modern war film until 1940 and a target
1	this is one of chaplin's first national films from the period between his glorious mutual shorts and the more mature united artists features more opulent than the mutual films it continues chaplin's quest for perfecting his comic expression most people forget that the film is actually a dream that charlie has while awaiting being sent off to the front br br there is plenty of slapstick via the limburger cheese being used to gas the enemy and chaplin's foray into enemy territory dressed as a tree br br by this stage in this career the great man had become so immersed in filmic expression that his films give the impression of making themselves doubtless this was not the case but still it gives as convincingly realistic view of life at the front as i can remember albeit from an ironically humorous perspective br br as far as i am concerned familiarity with the entirety of chaplin's work should be a prerequisite for all cinephiles do not delay
1	spoilers below br br a dog's life' was most noteworthy for its excellent comic timing in charlie chaplin's other movie from 1918 shoulder the silent film genius focuses on an entirely different brand of humor his war comedy specializes in surreal exaggerated set pieces in which chaplin demonstrates unprecedented creativity and mastery of composition when the soldier's bunker gets flooded the water level reaches just the right height so that chaplin can execute his gags most successfully in a later scene the soldier dresses up as a tree a disguise that belies chaplin's much increased ingenuity and goofiness naturally when the enemy discovers his ruse the soldier darts straight for the forest the ensuing chase is a visual marvel chaplin not only hides the soldier from the germans but he uses the forest to mask the soldier from the audience as well such that the camouflaged soldier stands in the middle of the frame yet somehow remains invisible all the while we thought our little hero was pulling a fast one on the german army to our delight the joke is on us too br br rating 8
1	in one of the best of charlie chaplin's short films he places the little fellow in the trenches of wwi where he brings his intolerable politeness and endless patience to the drudgery of trench life where troops lived for months at a time before finally going over the top to overtake the enemy and usually to their deaths it takes someone of chaplin's skill as a comedian to make something as dreary as trench warfare into such a brilliant comedy but the irony that he uses in the film makes even the most uncomfortable conditions highly amusing br br like all of the best of chaplin's films short films and otherwise this one is packed with brilliant and memorable scenes such as the scene where he marks off kills with a piece of chalk on a board in the trench erasing one when he gets his helmet shot off the scene where he and his fellow soldiers are sleeping underwater the opening of the beer bottle and lighting of the cigarette and of course the overtaking of the enemy all of these scenes are show stoppers reminiscent of the most wonderful chaplin scenes this one should not be missed
1	considering all of the comedies with a military situation that have been done in history someone had to be the first one could make a case that in shoulder arms charlie chaplin invented the genre br br hard to believe that back then this was a daring move when you consider that some of the best films involving such people as bob hope abbott costello laurel hardy involved military service and made during war time it's just something you accept and laugh at br br in the first world war chaplin along with fellow stars douglas fairbanks and mary pickford went out on bond tours he was a great supporter of the allied cause unusual for someone of his left wing views it would seem only natural that the tramp would be drafted and unfortunately would around and wreak havoc on all br br a lot of things you'd see in the service comedies of world war ii got their start in shoulder arms chaplin had no more imitators because within a few weeks of the film's release the war was over br br but a comedy art form had been established by one of comedy's greatest geniuses
1	in truffaut book length interview with hitchcock it's apparent that big al's fear from the police dates back to his childhood his father sent him to the police station carrying a note the note said he's been naughty imprison him for an hour the policemen obliged and ever since hitchcock has had a deep fear of being wrongly accused and taken by the police br br strangers on a train is probably one of the best in his wrongly accused series the movie is based on a patricia highsmith novel that's the same author who wrote the ripley series she was always fascinated by smart criminals br br hitchcock's opening is very strong and takes you immediately to the protagonists guy haines a famous tennis player and bruno anthony the aspiring criminal the two guys share a chemistry which in that day and age was probably a lot more than what the audience could chew bruno tries to persuade guy that they could commit the perfect murder leaving no clues if they switch victims bruno will kill guy's wife who wouldn't give him a divorce and guy would kill bruno's father the motives are respectively love and money br br bruno's performance is meant to be seductive and homoerotic this is not something that was done by accident in fact hitchcock edited two versions of the movie one us one uk in the us version the volume of bruno's seductiveness was turned down quite a bit br br strangers on a train is a very deep movie but more importantly this is another excellent hitchcock thriller an excellent example of a thrilling scene is when guy is climbing the steps up to bruno's father room hitchcock reasoned that the audience's attention needed to be distracted at this point so that they don't figure out what guy will find in the room hitch treats us to a huge menacing dog at the top of the stairs which provided the needed distraction br br the most famous shot in the movie occurs during a tennis match bruno has been continuously stalking guy so that guy will fulfil his end of the bargain kill his father when guy looks at the audience all the heads are back and forth all except one bruno's he's looking straight at guy with an i'll get you smile br br the ending is another example of suspense both men fight for one key piece of evidence on a merry go round that's rotating at mad speed a worker is crawling under it so he could get to the controls when we finally get off this ride and the movie ends with guy proving his innocence we are left exhausted and nail less for those of us still biting our nails br br strangers on a train is easily one of hitchcock's best wrongly accused movies some credit him with one of the best villains bruno as well all in all the movie might appear somewhat dated but that's a lesson in thriller making from the master himself i won't turn down leonardo if he came to teach me renaissance painting so neither should you br br review posted at com
1	the big names in film tried to do their part for the war effort and charlie chaplin was no exception this patriotic and propagandist picture is part of his contribution although the war was nearly over by the time of its release the tramp goes to war humorously accomplishes acts of heroism and kicks the kaiser in the bum it's a very funny film although i don't think it nearly one of his best it's with 'a dog's life' as his better output for first national before he made his early masterpiece 'the kid ' they are his first three reelers which contain sustained more elaborate gags than he could usually orchestrate in his two reel shorts at mutual br br it can be difficult to balance a pro war message with slapstick antics and scenes of burlesque on the front but one wouldn't think so watching arms ' it's also preferable in many respects to a more serious dramatic work with a similar message such as griffith's of the world ' chaplin had become a true virtuoso of screen comedy by this time he makes it look effortless he knew very well by now that a film with fewer gags with more elaboration refinement and careful timing could be better than any knockabout keystone type farce with a dozen pratfalls a minute the sequence where chaplin is disguised as a tree is a pertinent example even with wars raging chaplin can lift the spirits of millions
1	charlie chaplin's little tramp or little man character wins world war i called the great war at the time single handedly even capturing the kaiser something the entire allied armed forces were unable to do too bad it all turns out to be a dream which is somewhat of a cop out and the weakest part of this mesmerizing silent short almost a feature film at 46 minutes br br there are inventive gags galore including charlie having to put on a gas mask to eat limburger cheese sent from home then using the cheese as a weapon against the germans charlie sleeping underwater in a flooded trench next to a soldier he continues to annoy charlie disguising himself as a tree one of his best sketches ever and charlie pretending to beat up his friend who has become a pow then hugging him when the enemy is out of sight br br one amazing feature is how much charlie when he is behind enemy lines dressed as a german resembles hitler over ten years before hitler and his nazi thugs rose to dominate german politics obviously hitler patterned his appearance after charlie's from this film
1	in these modern times as subject known quite well to the director of the short film that this german count is going to talk politically correct films are the leitmotiv of the modern young filmmakers' projects shoulder arms directed by herr charlie chaplin during wwi the film was released only a few weeks before the armistice is an obvious example of why the early cinema pioneers were a very bold people certainly to direct a humorous film inspired in the terrible bloody first world war was a complicated matter that only few directors with those dangerous and daring ideas could be allowed to do… to venture upon such delicate enterprise and with success was reserved only to geniuses br br as this german count said shoulder arms was made during wwi that time in where definitely the whole world lost its innocence fortunately not the german fat heiresses of this and it is a hilarious inventive social satire about that and any war the film it is full of great gags and entertaining film continuity for a story in where that tramp will live though risky and courageous adventures in the front a hero for the or not br br to mock the war trenches the the frontal attacks and the germans how you dare by the way there are a lot of inaccuracies in the film … the german soldiers by that time had moustaches and longer beards not to mention that the kaiser lacks many medals in his in an elegant funny and delicate way it is even today a film miracle impossible of being surpassed keeping in mind those terrible wartime circumstances the difficult task is only possible thanks to a lot of creativity and talent obviously herr charlie chaplin had very much of it br br and now if you'll allow me i must temporarily take my leave because this german count must go back to the schloss trenches br br herr graf ferdinand von galitzien http ferdinandvongalitzien blogspot com
1	in reaction to the dullness of the films of actual combat in that time the wartime public increasingly turned to humor as escape from monotony and br br charlie chaplin feared that his great shoulder arms would offend people but it became his greatest in it charlie by luck courage and devilish ingenuity wins the war and brings a captive kaiser in triumph to br br the chief difference between this hilarious burlesque and some of the serious war dramas was that in charlie's case it all turned out to be a dream…
1	the very few reviews i could find online of really do not do it justice i read them all before ordering the dvd but for some reason i ordered it anyway i regretted it almost immediately but the order had already gone through so i couldn't cancel it i'm very glad now that i couldn't it's an extraordinary movie br br i won't give a synopsis of the plot because other reviewers have already done that but i will say that i don't understand comments that it's bleak shocking weird clinical depressing or pornographic it is certainly very unusual which i suppose could make it seem weird to some people but the other criticisms must reflect the reviewers' own issues because i didn't see any of that in the movie i just watched i'm not attracted to boys so the nudity didn't seem pornographic at all to me it's just a kid trying to figure out who he is with no help at all from the irresponsible adults in his life and it's sweden not utah so topless women are no big deal br br but what surprised me most is how positive the movie is in its depiction of this gutsy lost kid who goes on a sort of odyssey through all sorts of strange experiences looking for and ultimately finding himself it's fascinating thoroughly original and deeply satisfying br br i'm not at all surprised that won three major awards for best film direction and actor but i'm absolutely astounded that the actor who won was not tomas the kid whose fearless performance as reine must be one of the most remarkable ever filmed but in the relatively insignificant role of stig mother's sleazy boyfriend i don't understand that at all but it doesn't alter the fact that this is a great movie
1	telling the story wouldn't be the point at all would it spelled almost like aww is the title for that brilliant novel of the late seventies that shocked a lot of people including myself br br children's island is the title and what an island in the book raine the main character has the guiness world record book as his own bible and he's keen on breaking new records himself in particular the youngest person under water for three minutes br br the story is as most swedish films and books of the time deep consciously provocative and awe inspiring bergman was beginning his final film and cries and whispers was barely out expectations for any swedish film were pretty high they taught us then that great theatre great actors superb writers and gifted directors made a veritable team of perfection in cinema br br all this said is a story of discovery it is too a story of alienation cities are alienating and living in one of them make us aliens to most of its residents it is a story of revelations and sudden encounters with our own destiny it is a film of overwhelming hope and desperation of feelings buried under layers and layers of isolation and insulation from a world that couldn't care less br br this approach in itself is a pretty difficult way to weave a convincing narrative here the masterful guidance of kay pollak on ola script of p c novel turns it not only in a possibility but in one of those master pieces of cinema br br i may disagree a bit with someone who said that this work was all but forgotten it is not even as i write this in 2009 discussions on p c story are conducted all over the world and the film shown at many film schools and small theatres br br why waxing philosophical on all of it would be difficult and many have already done it scholarly through writing and lectures the reason why was and is a special story is the cosy feeling you get from the start when you discover that everything is told through the eyes of a small child and that's where it ends too maybe it's a clinical view as someone else pointed out but deeply disturbing moving and satisfying the concept is deep as long as we have no pubic hair we still can live one more day as an angel afterwards we'll become what raine reflects as the of his experiences men are pigs he finds his fears when he's fearless he finds love when the world is crumbling around him he discovers a reason not to behave like the grown ups because he refrains from committing crimes he let go his inner purity and confidence in others without reservation just to learn how rotten the soul of a man can be br br where love is expected he finds hatred where compassion is needed he finds suspicion and cold hearts it's a film of metaphors a film to think and to raise questions that are hard to ask but harder to answer br br in the end the satisfaction of witnessing such a superb work that really upped the ante for any other swedish film after is a ride of joy and hope be aware that it is a film full with the dark side of our nature but alas a film of hope and deep joy reine will still be an island in stockholm but there is the big hope of living today in full even when we found our first signs of sexual maturity show
1	i rarely write reviews but this film simply demands more attention than it gets as it contains the most hysterical kidnapping gone comically wrong sequence ever filmed br br i have only seen this once and found it to be the funniest film i had ever had the privilege to watch i laughed from beginning to end it is such a shame it is not out on dvd or video br br you can only compare its cinematography with that of it's a mad mad mad mad world or promise her anything only this storyline isn't nearly as complex as mad world br br i hope in the near future this film is released as it would be a shame to lose such a comedy gem amongst the dregs we have nowadays
1	in this era when almost everything makes it on to dvd i'm expecting to see the my mother the car collection any day now this film has been unfairly neglected there are innumerable stupid comedies from the 60's as well as many other eras that have received at least a cursory dvd treatment this one wasn't even released on vhs to my knowledge despite the talents involved in the making arthur hiller eli wallach anne jackson murray notable later for co writing tootsie even dustin hoffman in his debut it's obviously a product of the sixties but so is just about everything else from that era all films reflect the tastes and customs of the times in which they are made this was released the same year as the president's analyst another absurd masterpiece that film was finally released on dvd and has developed a cult following this film has many memorable bizarre goofy wacky moments sure it's painted in broad strokes and has silly go go music throughout but that's part of its charm it creates its own absurd universe if whoever is in charge of dvd production for columbia pictures releases i believe columbia released it takes polls for new releases this gets my vote
1	it's up there with where's poppa the groove tube it the ny city mind set of the period a wonderfully strange man with a bizarre plan hoist by by own petard and at last retreating into the bed of his adoptive parents totally absurd its the life one sees through the magic glasses seeing things as they really are i don't think it is ever shown anymore if so surely someone would tivo the thing and put it out there a kidnap goes awry mixed up in a rain storm dashing in and out or our hero tosses a raincoat over his prey and tossing her into his bicycle powered ice cream wagon spirits her off to his basement apartment in the village he is amazed surprised and incredibly disappointed when the wraps come off instead of a luscious lady he has captures a middle ages suburban housewife who talks and talks and talks the film is full of vignettes of the life the suburban life the city officials and all the attitudes so dearly held it pushes the limits of comedy such as magical reality might push a drama much as daffy duck is able to draw on imaginative scenes to demonstrate his plight or desires all at the very edge of plausibility all of it is humorous nobody is mean
1	i saw this movie on late night tv out of buffalo about 30 years ago and i'm dying to see it again one more time before i well you know the interaction between the main characters after the tiger eli wallach captures his prey anne jackson in a botched kidnapping attempt is absolutely hilarious charles nelson reilly's portrayal of a neurotic university dean or department head is priceless how many films can you name which are able to illuminate humanity's struggle for meaning and fulfillment by making you laugh from beginning to end this film reminds us that we are all in that same struggle regardless of class race sex or religion and who can forget the scene of the suburban homeowner on his hands and knees attacking those few tiny weeds that have dared to appear overnight on his perfectly manicure lawn
1	this is one of alfred hitchcock's best films and one of his most underrated i believe it certainly exceeds a 'psycho' or 'the for technical artistry and brilliance it is a macabre tense darkly humorous product that will leave you in awe for quite some time br br robert walker creates one of hitchcock's most memorable villains as the father hating mother fixated but aren't most of hitchcock's villains mummy's boys bruno it is a disturbing stunning performance that illuminates the whole film his character is obsessive apparently homosexual look at those deliberately effeminate ties and hear how he is described as strangely charming and dangerous to cross farley granger certainly knows this as he becomes entangled in bruno's sordid web after the pair meet on a train bruno knowing some inside information on guy's affairs proposes the two murders for each other's benefit walker will kill granger's slutty conniving wife who is his marriage to beautiful anne whilst granger will murder bruno's father who he so intensely hates everyone's happy right a win win as bruno asserts wrong granger forgets about the indecent proposal but an obsessed walker doesn't he commits his murder and is determined to hound granger until he completes his side of the bargain too becomes a riveting suspenseful game of cat and mouse in hitch's capable hands br br hitchcock was absolutely amazing at creating intriguing minor characters and building scenes we have the whore miriam granger's estranged wife pregnant to another man she lasciviously a phallic ice cream cone whilst openly eating up bruno with her eyes barbara morton anne's sister is a deceptively sweet yet smart and cunning young girl who comes out with the most crude remarks you'll hear from a bespectacled girl in the pictures in the 50's senator morton is authoritative and self absorbed this is one of the most daring films hitchcock ever made and it is typical to a hitch film subtly sexual in detail br br this fits into the film noir category with it's focus on murder lies and deceit and shadowy cinematography walker's nut is one for the ages and granger makes a convincing troubled protagonist roman is perhaps weaker than the other two and i never believed her relationship with granger still the overwhelming positives cancel out the slight negatives and it can be safely said that this is one of the best american films ever made br br just look at what hitch does here the originality the technical skill we see the murder of miriam reflected in her shattered glasses a game of tennis turns into one of the most thrilling intense scenes you'll ever see a innocent fairground turns into a place of murder and foul occurrences a young boy's balloon is popped callously by walker hitch obviously liked what he saw in 'the third man ' children's delight at riding the carousel turns into screaming fast paced terror hitch subverts normal everyday events like no other br br the camera work here is among the best ever seen in a hitchcock film and the premise is to die for it's slick oozes sophistication and devilish charm the cross cutting between walker and granger's characters is magnificent granger's do or die tennis match is just as vital as villain walker's rescue of an incriminating piece of evidence lost down a drain hitch again build his villain into a nasty repulsive yet sympathetic and oddly charming did anyone else find him strangely attractive more so than granger piece of work we are just as tense as walker in our hope that he can get the lighter out of the drain we need him to anyway he holds the key to the story br br you'll never view an approach from a stranger in the same way again after seeing this film br br amazing br br 10 10
1	this is by far one of the best biographical films of recent times i'll go so far as to put it up there with ray and the aviator it is the story of a young bi racial boy who lives in a boarding house run by the amazing miss rachael aka nanny you will fall in love with nanny a woman who gives all of herself to those around her s brings the character to life beautifully and the other cast members are do the same if i were to praise each actor for the way they played their roles i'd have to mention everyone in the entire cast br br the music in this film perfectly blends with the story almost dictates the way it goes and what's more this film is actually entertaining it won't bore you at all not even for a minute br br i highly recommend this film to anyone wanting to spend an evening at home watching a very smart very entertaining quality film
1	while i rather enjoyed this movie i'll tell you right now that my mother wouldn't it's out there really warped little dark comedy that reads like a fairy tale gone awry br br neat treat with all the cameos too if you want something different look no further
1	some spoilers included br br although many commentators have called this film surreal the term fits poorly here to quote from encyclopedia surreal means br br fantastic or incongruous imagery one needn't explain to the unimaginative how many ways a plucky ten year old boy at large and seeking his fortune in the driver's seat of a red mustang could be fantastic those curious might read james kincaid but if you asked said lad how he were incongruous behind the wheel of a sports car he'd surely protest no way what fantasies and incongruities the film offers mostly appear within the first fifteen minutes thereafter we get more iterations of the same in an ever cruder and more squalid progression that far from incongruous soon proves predictable not that it were on the other hand literally believable but it were unfair to tax in particular with this flaw any plausible suspension of disbelief having fallen precipitously on the typical film maker's and viewer's scale of values ever since raiders of the lost ark became a blockbuster br br hallucinatory how do we know what a hallucination is if part of having one is not knowing that we are having one at any rate some people know that they enjoy hallucinogenic drugs but if typifies the result of doing so then i'm at a loss as to why anyone would take them more than once there is of course the occasional bad trip the movie must be one of those pun and all br br juxtaposition of words that was startling how many times can a ten year old startle you by uttering oh my god when he likes something or damn when he doesn't these two are about par for the course with this script sadly any sense of the surreal in what passes for dialogue could only reveal in direct proportion one's naivete regarding the speech patterns of the rising american generation br br a world completely defined and minutely depicted but that makes no rational sense world indeed makes no sense but it is about as completely defined as a cartoon in an elementary school newspaper the numerous guest stars in the cast all have cameo roles even less intelligent than our little hero who exclaims damn in the blink of an but needs several seconds to concoct the lamest lie and even his character despite appearing in nearly every scene gets no significant development here's scant reward for any viewer who sympathizes as i must enough to wish to know him better and understand 'where he's coming from ' one vaguely senses a far better story and protagonist struggling to get out br br fully recognizable realistically painted images are removed from their normal contexts and reassembled within an ambiguous paradoxical or shocking framework no we see a succession of stereotypical and ever more dilapidated billboards filling stations greasy spoon cheap hotels and their lowlife along country highways exactly where they stereotypically belong br br largely responsible for perpetuating the traditional emphasis on content there is little content moment to moment in br br to sum up picture british millionaires dressed as clowns or pirates on the way to a posh costume party sitting serene and mute as cautious chauffeurs inch their rolls like fragile through a roiling sea of desperate humanity chinese who implore them through the windows and smear the glass with blood or imagine a stadium full of abandoned antiques limousines like those above now rusting and white pianos by ghosts into this detritus wander an exhausted boy and an ailing woman to whom he clings as mother figure becoming girl friend who fall asleep side by side on the grass he is awakened on the feast of the white and day 1945 by a brilliant flash on the horizon that is not the rising sun finding that his consort has become a corpse he first believes that he has witnessed her soul going up to heaven later he explains only a little less innocently 'i learned a new word today atom bomb it's like god taking a photograph ' now there are just two samples of cinematic surrealism surrealism whose ironies ripple out far enough to invade its film's very title empire of the sun if you seek surreal please don't miss it alas however hard he treads on the accelerator to race his chariot through and beyond the desert no scenes so exquisitely strange rich subtle or gorgeous await poor little gus in his quest br br none of the above necessarily constitutes a thumbs down on this film though somewhat disappointed i can't dismiss it in view of the respectability of another genre that it does exemplify one influenced to be sure by surrealism but also by expressionism existentialism and franz kafka's pessimism amidst omnipotent power structures let's try on for size theater of the absurd br br turning to e b 's article on this style i am amazed by how to the extent that theater of the absurd is a valid artistic style the above objections to vanish like a puff of smoke i'm tempted to quote the entire text as support of the identification br br theater of the absurd attempts to show that the human situation is essentially absurd devoid of purpose humankind is left feeling hopeless bewildered and anxious having instantaneously achieved his purpose of getting away from a depressing home life among bickering parents gus finds himself purposeless until he drives past a glittering billboard reading and decides to win the lottery that it promises as others have already revealed this ambition proves illusory although the game never expires the sponsoring corporation has no intention that anyone should ever win and has ways to trick confuse and leave crestfallen any aspirant to the reward he like others is ultimately disappointed in his dream br br absurdist playwrights therefore did away with most of the logical structure of traditional theatre there is little dramatic action as conventionally understood however frantically the characters perform their serves to underscore the fact that nothing happens to change their existence a timeless circular quality emerges language in an absurdist play is full of repetitions repeating the obvious until it sounds like nonsense underneath a sometimes dazzling comic surface we find an underlying message of metaphysical distress obsession with a silly game his inane language the plot device wherein he a bleak future and or returns to an earlier moment and takes a different but still bleak turn so much fits now while an admirer of the surreal would do better with some films anyway of spielberg admirers of as it really is should find fellow travelers not instead but addition in the works of beckett ionesco and br br but one can't quite stop here after his disillusionment with the game gus returns to phil i e love the first attendant he had met and the one person who had treated him decently although he had also scolded him at a service station advertising be full filled under phil's tutelage he learns a life of waiting for cars we might note here that the absurdist playwright beckett had entitled his most famous play waiting for godot and that for godot we should read god god is one of phil's preoccupations too furthermore as the indirect result of his previous encounter with gus phil is badly maimed and goes about in a cast with his arms straight out in the last scene gus now phil's protege says that he wants to hear music we hear none but we see phil wiggling his fingers at the end of his outstretched arm beckoning gus closer and gus responds the end br br finally on to an author whom i happen to be reading currently the anglican theologian william stringfellow if this rebel lawyer is not acknowledged as an architect or of liberation theology which is more a roman catholic than an anglican movement perhaps he should be police brutality and corporate greed are a cliche in cinema and literature including but stringfellow supports and illuminates such sentiments with impressive warrants from scripture tradition and reason br br his most significant work is an expose of the earthly activities of those fallen angels whom the bible refers to as and powers wrote stringfellow are behind all of our popular three i's images institutions and ideologies all of these commend themselves to our worship by making false promises the more deeply involved with an image an institution or an ideology any person becomes the more his own becomes depleted and be becomes a slave to them promising power control and immortality they inexorably deliver helplessness chaos and death as essentially fallen defeated powers they can do no more than that yet they humans with that dominion over the earth promised by god in the book of genesis while in fact no one of us controls an image an institution or an ideology bent inevitably on its own hegemony and self preservation they take on lives of their own dominion happens to be a mistranslation a more accurate rendering of the hebrew would be stewardship but this is a quibble beside a more fundamental problem most of us neglect to notice that god had this power to adam before the fall we have no reason to assume that we his descendents still exercise it now on the contrary it should be obvious that demonic forces have stolen it from us br br one might add two observations of c s lewis first that man's conquest of nature is a mere illusion and a ruse to cover the fact that one is really talking about the conquest of some men by other men with nature as the instrument and secondly contrary to popular belief satan is no kind of good time charlie he may dangle out pleasures at first but he is very with them and will withdraw them from any human firmly in his thrall perhaps leaving his prey sitting in front of the fire feeling miserably sorry for himself and seething with resentment br br now applying these insights to we seem them mirrored remarkably in experience he is if not nice at least a pretty little boy prior to falling victim to the game the first signs advertising it glisten glamorously the longer he continues however and the deeper he journeys towards the sponsoring corporation's headquarters the more shabby they become he's lonely meeting no one else who plays the game the stations giving out the cards have either fallen into ruins or are staffed by zombies the people he does meet along the way are more and more ugly deceitful and hostile the fact that the answer to a common dictator does not mean that they can abide one another humanity is out of him as he becomes not only totally self centered and oblivious to the needs of others but partially blinded disfigured prematurely aged while infantile in the literal sense of linguistically challenged eventually even his precious mustang is taken from him in a crash and he must continue in a dead man's wreck yet at long last having done everything he thought was expected he presents himself to the principality in its proud tower to receive his prize using the biblical power to confuse wielded by those who have built such monuments to their own vanity its agents evade him disappoint insult and finally throw him from the top floor he falls long and hard landing finally in a body of water in other words in classic symbolism he dies he has met the inevitable bad end of anyone who has put his faith in such a deceiver br br but this fate proves to be only a warning look into a mutable future he repents and returns to phil and upon seeing him performs the very first generous selfless act we have seen from him for almost an hour and a half noting that phil is now handicapped and hardly able to insert a hose into a gas tank he asks can i help you with that then seeing the help wanted sign he decides to apply for the job explaining to the motorist with whom he was hitch hiking that he reckons he'll get out here because it doesn't look like too bad a place to work br br this interpretation is conjectural of course and it may surprise or even outrage the film's cult classic aficionados who see quite different points in it br br if isn't quite my cup of tea i'm at least convinced now that it's hardly the worst film ever made
1	this has got to be one of the most magnificent things i've ever seen on film i don't know if it's as serious as it seems to try to be but that hardly matters this film is extreme absolutely wild and surreal the packaging and the marketing only make it more so because you know that ever so often some mother has to reprogram her kid to accept our reality after he checks this out from the video store expecting something completely different look at the for one thing and where else in america can you see a ten year old kid swear as much as this one does and then get his eye ripped out by pervert the rival of pulp fiction's zed and that food inspector scene is the best the amount of well known to vaguely recognized actors in this film is one of the best things about it soon much sooner than you realize you too will find yourself saying is that meat loaf is that drew barrymore is that the doctor from star trek voyager is that flea is that the owner from twin peaks gassing squirrels with car exhaust and isn't this guy from the new rob zombie movie he looks an awful lot like shrek i think my favorite scene is at the very end with phil in a full body cast i mean please why aren't more movies like this shown in airplanes this director hardly has anything else to his name higher than return to salem's lot but he displays true stumbling man child genius in this creation if you're an intellectual looking for something to p s away your evening on i highly suggest this film for satisfaction this movie's plot is all too ridiculous but imagine it taken out of context boy arm wrestling an over aggressive meat loaf who seems hell bent on taking out his anger at not being accepted into guns n roses looks over his shoulder and sees the doctor from voyager enter the bar can you imagine what any half brained channel surfer active through the last six years would think of seeing that now imagine if you actually cared about meat loaf or voyager to begin with or imagine if you're a flea fan rocky horror picture show fans this film contains notable music mind you but its soundtrack is more plasticine than mad max 3 what does that entail for you this is the retarded inverted mongoloid cousin sister mother puppy of the rocky horror picture show how about when sleeve flies back onto his arm in an act of cable access special effects quality when i saw this film it was on the suggestion of my cousin who had watched half of it in a fit of half aware childhood in the early half of the nineties and who has since been haunted by vague memories of it i myself had not slept in three days it made me laugh of course it's also an anxiety movie the music doesn't encourage the suspense but it eventually gets to the point where it's been fully established that the american censorship committee has obviously missed this film entirely and absolutely anything can happen in it and probably will any time gus turns a corner or the view so much as changes camera angles i found myself obsessing over the possibility of those cards flying out his window at any second watch this movie awesome
1	although this film never attained commercial notoriety my experience has led me to conclude that many well done pieces of artistic expression often do not gain mass appeal the story line depicts a young boy stealing a car and embarking on a surreal dream like adventure with very little basis in our of time and space therefore anyone who attempts to view this film from the perspective of its conformity to reality will likely be disappointed it is not intended to be realistic it is however intended to be metaphoric with extensive symbolism apparent to those with superb attention to detail in addition the symbolic representations are left open for interpretation which can be said of much great artwork don't be fooled by the cover if you happen to rent or buy this film the movie is not what it might seem to be on the surface
1	the first time i saw this movie i just thought what the hell a 10 year old kid driving around bizarre places meeting bizarre people going after a game called hell yeah i enjoyed this movie a lot br br jordan christopher michael is a brilliant young actor it's a shame he stopped act he interprets very well his character gus on the movie br br gus loses an eye got tattoos and go at the most weird cities acting with flea drew barrymore and meat loaf want more br br ok don't even try to understand the story but why this movie needs one just open your mind and let gus drive you into this journey br br gus you won
1	viewers should already by keen on other offbeat b grade desert based films such as bagdad cafe or repo man which more or less takes place in the desert it also models some of the bizarre humor and especially eccentric trail of characters of writer joseph comedy 'after hours ' in a sort of desert roadtrip fantasy a metaphor of temptation and redemption gus played well by jordan christopher michael a clever 10 year old boy cashes in his piggy bank steals a mustang and runs away from his grossly neglecting parents it begins as a trip through salvation which is apparent in the scenes with john diehl but once he becomes hooked on a scratch off game called he becomes easily tainted by temptation and looses his childish innocence he travels from one crazy fictional state to another concocting ways of getting cards from participating gas stations just enough so that he might spell out the prize winning word m o t o r a m a and be eligible for the 500 million cash prize br br along the way he is embattled with dozens of strange characters such as flea who plays a high strung busboy meatloaf who plays a crazy biker and mary woronov and sandy baron a seinfeld regular as two violent kidnappers br br the dvd can be very deceptive as have previous attempts to sell this film to the non cult market first with taglines comparing it to home alone and thelma louise the newest calling it a love story with the tagline implying that the film is about jordan michael christopher on an adventure to meet the girl of his dreams which despite the size of her picture on the dvd cover is actually only about a 1 second cameo by drew barrymore as the fantasy girl that gus dreams about why didn't they just market it for what it was thought it may seem totally bizarre on first viewing it is actually a well designed narrative br br is great material for fans of strange b grade comedies this was quite an interesting story and particularly because of the strength of its lead actor jordan michael christopher who unfortunately has few other screen credits of note and the clever metaphor inherent in the plot hopefully its re release on dvd will make it an easier find for cult fans
1	this movie may be the best ever if you like watching movies and laughing and then subjecting your friends to watch those movies too if you're anything like me and you probably are you'll be laughing for years to come at the jokes in this movie one of the funniest parts is when gus sharks some money off a guy with kids and then the guy takes those kids into the forest like hansel and gretel then he and his wife go home with them the soup scene kitchen is rife with comic genius of buffoonery inspection officer here and the lines to follow will stay in my mind forever probably when i have shown this movie to my friends they usually say what was that so if you're in the mood for one of those types of movies yippee this movie is so oop it's not funny anymore so probably the easiest way to get it would be online the first time i saw it was from a rental
1	i loved this movie i saw it when i was about 8 years old and almost seven years later this evening i got to see it again i really thought it had an interesting idea they only thing that upset me was the ending which i felt was a cop out 'round here it's hard to find this movie and i was lucky enough to have seen it on bravo i also expected to see more drew barrymore in here too
1	this is an entertaining surreal road movie it was written by joseph minion who also wrote after hours martin scorsese's excellent surreal film the film follows the adventures of a ten year old kid named gus who drives a red ford mustang across some fictional states with names like a tribute to luis film perhaps essex south lyndon in search of eight elusive game cards from various chimera company gas stations the film has a surreal feel to it because a lot of the things are unusual like the money for instance which is like blank paper with numbers on br br most of the characters are nasty to gus on his trip they tattoo him punch him but this doesn't stop the kid on his relentless quest some oddball actors like david lynch incumbent jack nance meat loaf flea also make appearances jack nance plays a motel owner who when he first meets gus tells him if you see any squirrels give them to me this is a movie where a man and his wife abandon their young children because the man owes gus 100 and a mother encourages her son to raise his voice louder while speaking rudely if you're a fan of twin peaks and surreal movies you'll like this an odd little gem of a movie
1	this is a great dark offbeat little film a modern day adaptation of the quest for the holy grail myth it's a sleeper if there ever was one i saw it on cable some years ago and taped it i've loaned it to many of my friends and everyone loved it
1	well this is about as good as they come there are arguments about whether hitchcock was only a master of commercial suspense or maybe a compulsive technician or was he really deep nobody knows precisely what terms like that mean but it's legitimate to ask if at his best he could not have been all three things at once br br in this one he seems to be about at his peak hardly anything in it is accidental it abounds with doubt ambiguity and wit and the story is engrossing patricia highsmith apparently having complexes similar to hitchcock's own br br i'm sure the plot has been thoroughly outlined elsewhere so i won't bother going into it i'll just point out five on screen incidents that hitchcock is undoubtedly responsible for br br bruno antony walker has followed miriam laura miller and her two boyfriends to a carnival at night with the intent of murdering her she's noticed his attention and is innocently flattered by it br br 1 laura and her two friends rent an electric boat to go through the tunnel of love and then to an island in the center of the lake walker is right behind them smiling in his boat pluto pluto it's not an allusion to the walt disney cartoon character it's a reference to pluto also called hades a god of the underworld in greek and roman mythology this tiny touch can't be an accident and the underworld that walker represents is not just a literal hell but the underworld of the human mind i hate to say he's a jungian shadow but that's what he is did carl jung see this movie he was alive at the time of its release but probably not 2 now this is a deadly serious sequence right walker is a lunatic who is about to murder a woman he doesn't even know imagine the way this would have been laid out by most directors a night time stalking through a crowded carnival stealing from shadow to shadow the killer peering from behind the canvas walls and so forth what does hitchcock show us when walker first comes through the gates concentrating on his victim a little boy in a cowboy suit holding a balloon runs up and shouts bang bang you're dead walker jerks his head back in surprise and glares down indignantly at the kid and when the kid starts to walk away walker darts his cigarette at the balloon and pops it then continues his pursuit without another glance that's one way hitchcock treats impending doom br br 3 the famous strangling reflected in the fallen eyeglasses which has been aped innumerable times br br 4 miriam and her friends stop at one of those devices that you pound with a big mallet sending a kind of hockey puck up the shaft to measure the strength of your blow one of her boyfriend it and the puck doesn't reach the bell at the top under delighted and admiring gaze walker smiles and rubs his hands together then picks up the mallet slams it down and the puck bangs against the bell she's thrilled he puts the mallet down looks at her grins and his eyebrows at her like a ten year old 5 after the discovery of body while whistles blow and people shout walker leaves the carnival and encounters a blind man waiting at the curb walker takes the old fellow by the arm and leads him across the intersection gravely holding up his hand to stop the traffic a macabre joke br br these incidents and others all take place during the ten or fifteen minutes of the carnival visit robert walker's performance is exceptional throughout it's essentially a kind of invitation to be noirish cf ride the pink horse but the menace of the scene is undercut by hitchcock's insistence on irony and distance none of the familiar noir techniques are employed there's nothing really creepy about it and the murder itself is hardly a savage one i don't think that any director other than hitchcock would have handled it the way he did it would have been all menace and shadows hiding places abortive attempts scowls instead of grins br br not that it's an entirely flawless movie a flawless movie is not yet with us some of the middle section is a bit slow going and farley granger although a nice guy is stolid dull and rather stupid his new girl friend is just dull br br hitchcock was to treat the of guilt with deadly seriousness in the wrong man i'm not sure hitchcock ever thought about the difference between legal guilt and moral guilt the latter was imposed on him at an early age by his catholic education original sin you're born with it and all that in filmed interviews he always explained away his fear of the police and of authorities generally by telling a story about his father taking him to the police station to put a scare into him after some peccadillo we're justified in asking if that was only what psychoanalysis calls a screen memory i hope you get the pun i know i know it's strained and inept but i spent a good deal of valuable time thinking it up
1	don't even try to figure out the logic of this story but do ride along with 10 year old gus on the most bizarre road trip ever witnessed more weird characters and implausible situations than a twin peaks reunion nothing makes sense yet it's impossible to stop watching now where can i find that 'r'
1	little gus is a ten year old delinquent he runs away from his parents and decides to go on a road trip reaching the petal is somewhat tough for him so he creates a device to help him his goal is to win a gimmicky lottery type card game called he has to find all eight letters in order to spell m o t o r a m a dark laughter follows as it turns into the road trip from hell he runs into some deranged lynch like characters most memorable is the gas station attendant who puts his picture on a kite in hopes that god will see it later gus gets a tattoo and an eye patch for his injured eye he becomes one of the most rebellious bad ass 10 year olds you may ever witness on screen this is no kid's flick look for cameos by jack nance flea and drew berrymore be warned although drew is on the front cover she only appears in the film in a dream sequence for a couple seconds also the film gets confusing towards the end reaching david lynch territory you may want to watch it a couple times was written by joseph minion most well known for his screenplays for after hours and vampire's kiss so enjoy this depraved surreal road trip of fun
1	let's start from this point this is not a movie intended for the common audience utterly bizarre somehow incomprehensible totally unpredictable it just keep you stoned watching at the screen trying to figure out what will happen next if that by itself doesn't make you agree it is an excellent movie then go back to your family movies and forget about it has material to be considered a cult movie it can be placed in the same category with movies that win awards in cannes or other intellectual film festivals but sadly hollywood already let if fall in oblivion simply because it is not commercial the performance of young jordan christopher michael may not be oscar material but he gives the right touch to the story even the genre is difficult to describe it is not a comedy in the proper sense you don't know if you are supposed to laugh at the strange situations in which gus gets involved it is more like an impossible adventure that some kids may wish to have but don't let them watch it either it is not a movie for kids so if you like disney movies or are looking for a home alone style this one is definitively not for you but if you enjoy reading edgar alan poe or the works of tim burton then you will like so jump in your red mustang get a tattoo spelling tora and cruise with gus i'd like that
1	obviously the previous reviewers here are not fans of this genre but i think this one is done quite well br br it's cute clever dark this story brought back memories of the types of girls i was in love with as a child br br also it makes me want to check out some of other movies many youtube comments about how hot she is in this video br br sure there is some burton influence here but i wouldn't say this brad is trying to rip him off br br he is just jumping in adding his talents to a genre that i can appreciate i like what he does he does it well nuff said
1	i saw this before ho at the fantasia film festival in montreal everything about it is either tipping the hat to or completely ripping off tim burton i enjoyed it nonetheless even if it is extremely derivative what most impressed me was the quality of the visuals given the obvious shoe string budget the set design and the props were inventive and original although the script definitely was not
1	it's amazing what you can do with little money dead silent being a low budget movie delivers its promises br br too bad we don't see rob lowe more often on the silver screen lowe is at its best in this riveting thriller no wonder he went from dead silent straight to the tv mega hit the west wing br br dead silent 8 out of 10 br br toronto
1	this film held my interest enough to watch it several times the plot has holes but the lead performers make it work br br catherine mary stewart julia does a great job as a woman of 37 who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream br br meanwhile julia's sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda arlen stewart to avoid having her become a ward of the state amanda is about 7 years old from her appearance amanda is so traumatized from her parent's murder that she has become mute needless to say julia's 16 hour days get longer caring for amanda br br rob lowe plays kevin finney a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses perhaps more than to her aunt julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia br br the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses br br we discover that julia's sister and brother in law the meyers were involved in industrial espionage they stole an extremely valuable prototype from their employer they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed br br in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by 2 of their former associates the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the from the meyers before killing them the killers search the home and fail to find their prize they leave a living witness to their crime amanda the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located eventually the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the location br br eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together br br what struck me about the plot were major holes kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers how does he know that the is not already in the hands of the killers the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene with no concern for concealing their identity the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention br br the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort
1	the outer limits is a brilliant show that for the most part leaves me with very strong emotions there are undoubtedly some stinker episodes but it's essentially an old pulp comic turned into a tv show so that can be expected for the most part it's excellently done well produced and directed and often featuring some big name talent who seem to enjoy working in a solid translation of short fiction to hour long television format br br the outer limits tends to focus on rather large ethical philosophical moral questions and rarely ends without the voice over serious thought br br from time to time the themes are hammered in a little bit too heavily for all but the most thick headed viewers additionally while a certain level of distrust of the government is conducive to an effective democracy you can unluckily catch several episodes back to back that border on the absurd with regards to distrust of the army cia etc one further note is that any large group with power the roman catholic church the people's republic of china and so on are cast in a bad light in frequency ranging from once to often br br while the show can beat a dead horse if it's watched enough the overall quality is astounding and i'm grateful that sci fi has decided to continue airing it until they produce a season by season dvd set and i can afford it
1	there's no point in comparing this with the original series though different in look and content both are true to the original idea that is an sf horror anthology series due to indifferent scheduling in australia i've only managed to catch a small number of episodes spread over the first few seasons the very first episode really did give me the creeps nightmares at my age but a number of others did fall flat generally when the stories moved into horror realms and away from sf i only hope the dvds reach us eventually
1	i first started watching the outer limits back in 95 when i was 10 and it just blew my mind every week with each episode every episode had a twist and each week i couldn't wait for the next how the writers managed to do every episode so well and make it different from each over a course of 7 seasons is beyond me this show manages to teach us about life robotics alien and human encounters and an insight into more of the paranormal and how it affects the people what really makes this a good show are the characters in each episode they really show emotion and are really good actors what you'll also notice each week is an actor actress you'll know from a past show which is pretty neat in its own way br br if you wanna chill out and sit back with a good sci fi show then the outer limits is for you
1	looking back at the career of alfred hitchcock it never fails to be surprising how such a brilliant and visionary man could be denied sufficient recognition for how revolutionary he was for the film industry it is likely a sign of how ahead of his time hitchcock was always attempting to push the envelope and never coasting along with a film made simply for the purpose of being entertaining but always with a deeper more poignant motive on his mind strangers on a train one of hitchcock's first and more underrated hits is a perfect example of these traits an entertaining and suspenseful story even when viewed over 50 years later yes but so carefully and intelligently constructed it stands today as a masterpiece in film technique br br arguably one of the pioneering suspense thrillers strangers on a train may come across as slightly dated in certain aspects but it retains every bit of superbly crafted tension as it did back in 1951 if perhaps slightly less shocking the brilliant use of cinematography and lighting as well as quick careful editing are what really make the film stand out drawing out every possible iota of tension and retaining the audience's focus even in slower scenes if there was ever any doubt of what a simply masterful filmmaker hitchcock was simply watching five minutes of strangers on a train should be enough to disavow such sentiments every shot is so carefully chosen and constructed all serving to drive the storyline ahead in a particularly innovative fashion sadly enough there are certain moments in the story which are out of place enough to jar our focus away from the superb cinematography and editing bruno being able to reach down to the bottom of a sewer grate is simply unbelievable and the figure of a stereotypical old man crawling under a wildly out of control carousel provides unintentional comedic relief in what is meant to be the film's most tense and engaging scene these are only brief moments but they are enough to stand out as painfully weak in an otherwise stellar film br br but what really makes strangers on a train stand out is the story premise as hollywood films of late run the risk of descending inescapably further and further into the vat of turgid clichée after clichée it's wonderfully refreshing to see a 50 year old film with a premise which actually comes across as smart and original sure it's fairly straightforward but the concept of swapping murders is simply one that would not fly in films of today's day and age which makes it all the more entertaining to watch the film's brilliant screenplay keeps the action flowing at a swift pace while providing us with some wonderfully memorable lines all the while one can't help but notice the deeper themes hitchcock is alluding to throughout as well especially the concept of darkness in humanity's heart demonstrated by elderly ladies being fascinated and exhilarated by the prospect of murder as well as bruno's own cavalier attitude towards death hitch also works in many moments of dark humour bruno popping a child's balloon with his cigarette is priceless and irony shooting suspenseful scenes in happy easy going environments such as the iconic carnival scenes to create an even more eerie atmosphere this may be a suspense thriller yes but to overlook the brain concealed beneath it would be simply inexcusable br br the antagonistic figure of bruno essayed to perverse perfection by robert walker sadly in his last film role but easily stealing the film from his very talented fellow cast members is without a doubt what makes strangers on a train so memorable as the character is a marvel to behold here we have a simply superbly crafted villainous figure all the more intriguing by how ordinary and unassuming he seems rather than cackling madly and thwarting the hero at every possible moment bruno is a calm controlled psychotic mess he speaks of murder in such an offhand tone yet retains a passionate glint in his eye when discussing different fashions of killing people bruno could seem to represent the id as freud would put it the inner darker and uninhibited aspects of mankind it makes an interesting contrast to the hero figure guy haines and how bland and uninteresting he seems almost as if to drive home the prospect of evil being much more interesting and appealing than constantly striving to do the right thing br br yet despite this implied message hitch still twists our emotions enough that we root for guy at every turn and cheer at each new obstacle he is forced to overcome it's a testament to actor farley granger's talent that despite robert walker's villain easily stealing the show granger's hero still comes across as sympathetic still commanding our support even when falling prey to being a far less compelling character superb support is given by ruth roman who manages to overcome the clichée and be a more innovative and complex romantic interest figure kasey rogers giving a stunning performance as guy's horrifyingly manipulative and hedonistic first wife and patricia hitchcock proving that she is far more talented than being simply the director's daughter would imply the superb cast headed by a simply wonderful walker really bring the film to life adding so much more merit to the film than simply hitchcock's breathtaking stylistics br br all in all strangers on a train may still come across as slightly too dated for certain viewers but it's still a shock how modern and appealing to contemporary audiences seems considering it was released half a century ago once again hitchcock proves his unparalleled mastery of tension and film technique and the film's surprisingly original and enjoyable premise is alone worth a viewing highly recommended to anyone wishing to undertake a brilliantly made but superbly entertaining film experience br br 9 10
1	i caught this show a few times when i was young and it was playing tilt my parents loved it and now in syndication i feel what they feel this show did what the original limits and twilight zone new and old couldn't do this show used some old ideas and some truly original ideas br br i still cannot believe jonathan and brad wright did this those guys were producers on stargate sg 1 the show kept the audience entrenched in the story and set a truly scary atmosphere this is what was not there in the new twilight zone rod serling coming in added to the scariness forest coming in lightened the mood br br the ending whether good or bad made for a scary time you could never predict what was going to happen i am still trying to find the seasons on dvd
1	think like a dinosaur was an well produced executed show of the series the actor enrico as michael burr plays an impressively well and convincing protagonist role you can actually identify yourself with him and his feelings on what to do to the girl whom he has fallen for because he's been alone and disappointed for 2 years and feels hopeless until kamala comes to his life with a timid fear of performing the task of being transported he then consoles her and let's her know it's all going to be alright which ends up being an deception to both of them more so something bad occurs and she prototype comes back and her clone is sent to the other inhabitant planet although the dino and micheal have yet to find this out when they do it's up to michael to decide to either kill her or to let her live yet what happen to him prior upon meeting her kamala was very much related to what happen to his wife his wife died similarly this show professes and sorrow thru out most of it after the show you're left pondering about what should have been done and you're stuck with the 50 50 of what's right from wrong hence the balance equation being solely there is no one br br 10 10 highly recommend watching this show
1	ah the outer limits i love that show it was creepy or down right mysterious i loved all the genres of the show from horror to thriller to mystery whatever the genre it was good i guess i must have started watching way after it got canceled when sci fi showed it as re runs or played marathons of it it was a really good show i don't know all about the seasons and everything but i do remember that every time i saw the screen freak out and the voice on the tv say there is nothing wrong with your television do not attempt to adjust the picture i would squeal with delight it was a good show and i enjoy watching it if it would come on i give it a healthy 8 out of 10
1	when the new outer limits first started the episodes were quite optimistic and challenging as the series began to wind down most of the episodes became just plain ugly and devoid of any entertainment value the six episodes here reflect the very best and worst of the series br br since the outer limits always preaches a moral i would like to offer my own starting with the most entertaining to the flops br br 1 afterlife as an institution the u s a military industrial complex is both evil and paranoid not to mention plain stupid however individuals with great integrity do serve our country and they will obey their conscience even at a mind boggling cost in the end the aliens don't need to say a word those without a conscience are fools who are to be held in utter contempt br br a truly subversive episode one that should be shown on prime time television for all to see this might be a revelation for some but folks without a conscience should not be allowed to serve in our military nor do the ends justify the means br br 2 relativity theory a good person may be forced to make a split second decision between good or evil in order to save the lives of defenseless intelligent beings and at great cost to one's self what makes this decision all the more difficult is the stark choice being marooned with exotic alien strangers who you can't even communicate with except through gestures or going along with a group of people you think will keep you safe from unknown dangers even if they are ruthless and devoid of compassion br br this episode is brilliant what fuels this depravity is good old fashioned greed this episode is one of the most scathing of capitalism corporations and raping the environment i have ever seen in my lifetime unlike real life justice here is served and swiftly br br one of the most memorable lines is when the ruthless corporate thug said something to the effect we did the same thing in the amazon rainforest war alluding to the killing of amazonian indians who were attempting to protect their rain forests from being strip mined as justification for killing again literally in the name of the survival of the fittest something darwin never meant to be taken literally br br 3 alien shop tremendous power can be used for good even from an exotic alien this power can be used to heal instead of destroy mere mortals can learn from their mistakes even a criminal can see the light if given enough opportunity to do so br br sometimes it takes strong medicine but we all can wake up and change our self destructive ways br br 4 the an alien can be a christ like figure in the distant future slavery can be justified once again in the name of expediency basically good people can be corrupted sometimes a person needs to be experience great shame in order to see the evil he she is committing children are closer to the truth than adults those with political power have tremendous responsibility another work of genius as a species do human beings learn from history br br flop number 1 quality of mercy loose lips sinks ships when in war kindly keep your mouth shut about important military plans gee did i really need to watch an hour long soap opera in order to figure this out i wonder did the makers of the outer limits run out of ideas or did corporate pull the plug dark and ugly serving no purpose but despair br br flop number 2 beyond the veil so bad there is no moral but this when locked up in a mental hospital use some common sense please this episode is so bad it disgusts what an x files rip off don't waste your time on this one you'll thank me later br br it's a sad commentary that the outer limits went down the tubes toward the end of its run subversive episodes like the first four could not last forever it was a miracle they were made at all hopefully someday other brave souls will follow the subversive outer limits tradition into new territory br br if you happen to be such a daring person a good place to start is with one unique book anatomy of wonder a critical guide to science fiction edited by neil barron as far as i'm concerned the most comprehensive book ever written on the subject
1	no i have not seen the original series and i won't compare the two if i had this series is filmed in canada in vancouver and victoria british columbia the series is well written in a different story each week some are little out there but most of the time it is the quality of the story telling i loved the afterlife episode with clancy brown and barbara and the episode with the irresistible brent spiner as a in a world where humans have become slaves to a lizard reptilian species it's funny how the lizards and reptiles are our favorite evil aliens like v but anyway he has three days to program a man who is totally brainwashed in serving the alien species on earth the stories are usually a little out there but very entertaining to watch
1	what can i say about the series dubbed the new outer limits hmm only that this was one of the best tv series ever assembled you have actors of all ages the actors that are somewhat known and that time forgot everyone playing their part to exact perfection these shows always have some type of moral story to them which most of the time if not all the time is very true you can feel that the man whose voice is dubbed over the credits and in the beginning and ending believes what he is saying wholeheartedly not only do these shows have great story lines they also throw you into them get your mind racing and your blood pumping the original outer limits was a black and white in the 60's right these shows made a triumphant comeback the likes of which i have never seen the new twilight zone with forest whitaker was fun to watch but the new outer limits is where it's at if you have not seen i implore you to please check these episodes out and you will see exactly what i mean long live the new outer limits
1	i viewed the original outer limits in real time when first broadcast and have since viewed the entire original series again and again in re runs and complete on dvd i find the new outer limits well more than just a remake of old retread episodes as some of the more adolescent commentators have suggested br br with seven 7 years of programs versus just the two 2 years of the original series the producers and writers have certainly added considerable new original stories and philosophical lines to a much longer running and very well produced cable tv series plots are intelligent scientifically accurate projections of the unknown possibilities of the sometimes frightening and imminent future br br while most producers and directors in hollywood ignorantly view sci fi as indistinguishable from horror and fantasy this series returns to the origins of science fiction in the logical moral and philosophical projections of current new technologies into their possibly fearful near term realizations this series does this very well and remains unique in its avoidance of the shoot em up video game monster mentally of much of the current generation it has brains history a message and good entertainment it is an adult series without unbearable teenage know it all fantasies hurray br br now if we can only get mgm to release the entire new outer limits series on dvd instead of just the six poor teaser discs and the 1st season now only available
1	to start off this happens to be my favorite of the st os br br in addition to critical comments i'll throw in some more getting technical when the enterprise fires it's photon at a blind target they'd have to be mighty close to direct hits i believe in order to cause any disturbance much less damage to the vessel with the vacuum of space to contend with br br i had somewhat of a problem with the commander questioning his faith in the protocol or their leadership unless it has to do with attacking vulnerable targets outposts in the neutral zone that are not at war also i don't think commander would fall for the basic or simple tactics that kirk played such as playing dead or falling for the ploy that the subordinate puts on him about whether or not to attack the enterprise when it is playing dead br br on the enterprise i'm surprised that after seeing the method of attack earlier that sulu would say are they surrendering when it attacks the enterprise the first time br br funny how spock can only get the repair done on the weapons control right when the emergency is over br br also in the final attack i thought the vessel was too long so long that spock could run down a couple aisles and back to the weapons room and activate and fire the photon torpedoes i would have used at this point but i'm sure it had to do with the technicians and budget br br on the positive side it's a good drama played on the vessel in which to introduce us to the romulans great scenes with stiles telling a good deal of the human knowledge of the romulans also his conflict with spock is right up there i wished stiles' character would have stayed on the show for a while if for nothing else than the energy he added br br it's only in fun that i point out the negatives and goofs i'm sure there are more but for me this is as good as it gets balance of terror is always the one i place at the top in my st rankings
1	i just thought i would add another observation here while there are a couple of visual sub references in this episode to the possibility of unexpressed feelings between jim kirk and yeoman janice rand there is a special physically tender moment toward the end when the enterprise is reversing at emergency warp speed in an attempt to outrun a possibly fatal plasma ball janice perhaps fearing that their life is about to come to a dramatic end seeks comfort by placing her head on jim's sympathetic shoulder as they observe the instrument of their impending doom on the main viewer i thought it was sweet and janice of course is gorgeous br br p s goof several times while supposedly firing the film shows photon torpedoes being launched
1	undoubtedly one of the best episodes ever balance of terror is 45 minutes of well executed suspense with intelligent real world parallels the title refers to a situation very similar to what was going on between the us and the soviet union during the cold war spot on characterizations and the introduction of star trek's second most important hostile alien race after the klingons the romulans br br after receiving a distress call from a federation outpost the enterprise is dangerously close to the neutral zone which if crossed would lead to open conflict with the romulans although no one has ever actually seen them in the flesh soon enough a vessel appears carrying a new weapon and a device which makes it nearly impossible to defeat facing the threat of imminent annihilation kirk must engage in a battle of wits with the commander mark to ensure the survival of his crew unfortunately the task is made more difficult when one of the men accuses spock of being in league with the enemy due to the physical resemblance between romulans and vulcans two races that are in fact related a fact that is quite ironic with hindsight given went on to play spock's father starting with season 2 br br always very critical when it came to the subject of war star trek enjoys one of its finest hours with its most gripping and tense take on the topic although the romulans aren't actually based on the soviets the name is actually taken from romulus the founder of rome the scenario is quite obviously inspired by the very vivid fear american and russian citizens had at the time that either nation might be able to destroy the other with nuclear weapons that fear gave birth to the titular concept of balance of terror but even without the subtext this remains an essential episode due for the most part to the intellectual battle between the two adversaries which translates into a duel between shatner and no need to say who wins
1	i have used this movie in my college ethics courses for over 10 years also woody allen's crimes and another terrific multi leveled ethical study br br it's fiction i don't focus too much on the unrealistic features of strangers because all fictional films are obviously false on many levels i love the film as gallows comedy tautly told with many ironic twists and visual pleasures even if it's unbelievable the story is told so well that i don't even think of criticizing its plausibility although i must confess that the tennis match seems the weakest part to me too much hollywood fluff and not enough real tennis competition br br some problems presented in the film that hold promise for realistic moral education and ethical discussion br br 1 ethical passivity some weaknesses of the guy character are intended by hitchcock a primary ethical insight of the film is the danger of inability to articulate one's moral positions guy is unable to effectively block bruno's crazy proposals at the start an interesting question is why and how does guy behave so passively ineffectively a possible answer is his depression because of his intense and complicated divorce process br br 2 miscommunication guy commits another failure at the start on the train to get away quickly he agrees that bruno's ideas are all good but guy's literal meaning is opposite to his inflected sarcastic meaning bruno takes the literal meaning as an agreement for the criss cross murders guy takes the sarcastic meaning as an escape from any murder agreement to some extent near the beginning bruno may be partially pretending that an agreement has been struck to draw guy further into a web of complicity bruno is manipulating guy guy's linguistic ambiguity on the train gives bruno a chance to put an ethical on guy bruno manipulating guy may also take on other meanings br br 3 secrecy some have speculated about a sexual relationship between guy and bruno it seems at first ridiculous especially since guy appears obviously heterosexual in his relationships with miriam and anne however remember that guy is also ineffective with both women guy appears stereotypically it's 1951 remember effeminate especially in relationship to bruno guy the strong athlete is weak on the inside bruno is also conflicted playing against himself appearing facially and physically strong at first but then displaying some effeminate traits bruno's fashion and footwork his gushing emotionally to guy in different situations his receiving a manicure from his doting mother bruno kissing and desperately fondling his mother's hand other more subtle gay stereotypes that hold cryptic meaning from hitchcock's point of view i wish i could hear hitchcock clarify his intended meanings here br br 4 dishonesty and distrust guy makes some colossal blunders in hiding truths about bruno from family and from police guy fails to fully comprehend that admitting fault quickly may be better than a cover up or a delay in confession again guy is driven by passivity insecurity fear and perhaps a self hate that is closer to bruno's own self loathing than we care to see or to admit both guy and bruno act out their own parables of impotence br br 5 lack of evidence guy feels a problem the evidence to acquit himself while quickly going to the police would solve a huge problem guy traps himself with his own doubts and insecurities the absence of desired alibis the inability of the alcoholic professor to testify on guy's behalf the obsessive need to appear politically pristine and other personality factors that cause guy to feel defenseless he is as dysfunctional as bruno just not as dangerous yet one could partially blame guy for murder br br 6 disease and mental disorder an interesting question is how legally responsible is bruno for the murders the more ethically incompetent bruno is as a sick sociopath the more guilty guy may be as someone healthy who failed to stand up and morally act to prevent the crimes guy's failure is like a man who fails to call the police when a sick friend threatens suicide and death ensues one could argue that more than one crime is committed and that guy is an emotionally hobbled accomplice br br these and many other features of the film make strangers on a train a gem of a morality play a diamond for philosophical and cinematic reflections
1	i didn't realize just how much of this episode was taken from the enemy below until i finally saw the movie it has since become my fave war flick there were a couple of elements lifted from run silent run deep as well nothing wrong with stealing ideas as long as you do something cool with them and boy did roddenberry and company do something cool with this one br br the story begins when the romulans violate a 100 year old treaty and by crossing the neutral zone and destroying a series of federation outposts along the zone ostensibly to test their superior weaponry and invisibility screen and subsequent shift in the balance of power between the romulans and the federation in their view as a prelude to an all out invasion kirk has to decide whether it's worth risking war to try and stop the ship or if in fact the greater risk lies in letting the invaders go after they destroyed 4 military outposts kirk wisely chooses the latter br br this is our first look at an enemy of the federation the romulans a warlike yet in their own way honorable race who are distant relatives to the vulcans however unlike their peaceful cousins the romulans did not renounce their emotions and violent and ways even as they advanced technologically br br none of this matters to mr stiles the ship's navigator and this episode's chief antagonist on board the enterprise the commander has his own problems with a gung ho junior officer all that matters to him is he hates romulans and spock looks like one until the end when spock saves his life naturally this contrasts sharply with captain kirk and the commander neither of whom has any personal ill will towards the other at all both men are simply doing their duty in fact there's a mutual respect this is the first trek episode to deal directly with prejudice and it does so deftly as opposed to season 3's not so subtle let that be your last battlefield br br like the enemy below we have a classic chess match between two ship commanders who are actually very much alike you see right away that both of these captains are good very good if you were going into battle you'd want either of these man as your leader both are honorable and decent men who are duty bound yet even though the commander is bound by duty to his home world he still finds himself wishing for destruction before he can make it home rather than start another interstellar war yet he still does everything he can to make it home just as kirk does everything he can to stop him br br this is in my opinion one of trek's 5 best it has everything plenty of action suspense great dialogue fine acting i still maintain the commander was mark best trek role and it manages to make its social commentary without being overly preachy a pity roddenberry forgot about the last part when he did tng br br watch this episode then watch the enemy below
1	i agree that this is one of the very best episodes of the entire series my only detraction would be the somewhat jarring appearance of mark as the commander my reasoning is this if you were not around for the first run of this episode then you know mr as spock's father and for the 2nd generation trekkie or trekker your preference it takes you out of the scene at first yet he's an excellent commander as well as opposite for our captain and this episode is strongly written and well acted by all there are excellent points made by both sides about the cost of war vs the price of peace and certainly does remind one of some of the best of the wwii and later era movies those are not my favorite genre but i certainly would recommend a fan of such to view this episode through that filter you'll see it holds up i'll never understand why sci fi gets so little respect the best drama comes out of placing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances
1	this is one of the best of the early star trek episodes with kirk and his crew venturing into the unknown to do battle with an enemy known only by name imagine their surprise when they find out that the dreaded romulans are racial offshoots of the vulcans young mr stiles well played by paul is one of the few truly unlikable characters in the star trek universe his barely disguised hatred of mr spock is eerily similar to the post 9 11 hatred and suspicion many americans have of people of arab or middle eastern origin the atmosphere of war time paranoia is all too real then there's the romulans they're the ultimate federation nemesis the klingons are nasty but basically harmless more of a nuisance than a serious threat the romulans however mean business they're the ancient romans reborn in the space age in spite of their features they're clearly meant to remind us of imperial rome with names like and titles like and the chain mail armor is really cool familiar guest star mark who went on to play spock's dad as well as the klingon commander in star trek the motion picture is an appropriately grizzled war weary commander a character who bears a striking resemblance to laurence olivier's in spartacus also his questioning of the empire's unquenchable thirst for conquest reminds me of the similar misgivings marcus aurelius richard harris expressed at the beginning of gladiator a must both for trekkies and sword and sandal epic fans
1	despite all the hoopla about the trouble with tribbles episode the balance of terror might just be the best episode of the series and while i have always loved a piece of the action because it is so much fun i really do have to cast my vote as this episode as being the very best br br the movie interestingly enough is really like a wwii submarine movie in that it bounces back and forth between the cloaked ship and the enterprise as it seeks to destroy the romulans before they sneak back across the neutral zone after a raid on federation outposts in so many ways the show is much like the film the enemy below where the american captain robert mitchum and the german captain curt jurgens are shown in counter point as they both try to outwit the other and in the process develop a grudging respect for their foe br br interestingly enough only a short bit of the beginning of the episode takes place on a planet and this is amazing because an episode on board ship could easily have been static and dull but because the writing was so fantastic and the main characters written and acted so well shatner and mark leonard as the leader oddly for the die hard trekkers out there they'll recognize leonard as the same actor who later played spock's father br br the bottom line is this is simply a great and extremely engaging episode that will keep you on the edge of your seat
1	this has to be one of my 3 favorite episodes from the original tv series br br what makes it great is the battle of wits between the commander and kirk as well as the top notch acting from mark who later went on to play spock's father in other tv episodes and movies this is a case where those around rose to the level of the talent around them and shatner nimoy and the whole cast deliver an outstanding performance in this episode br br the writing and plot are also excellent and i love the direct approach used to show us the characters and the feelings and thoughts of those characters and how freely they are expressed by the actors br br this very entertaining episode ranks 10 out of 10 awesome desert buddha
1	when the romulans come they will not be bearing gifts no they bring with them war war and conquest as any familiar with this episode know it is a redux of the war film the enemy below from the fifties the obvious difference is that instead of a battleship and a submarine or an american destroyer german u boat engaged in lethal war games it is two starships in outer space in trek history about 100 years before the events here according to this episode earth fought the wars after about 5 years of conflict a stalemate brought about a treaty and the institution of the neutral zone a boundary between us and the empire now on this the treaty appears to be broken as our outposts are being attacked and destroyed by some weapon of immense power yes the romulans are back testing their new war toy and kirk must now earn his pay he must make decisions that would affect this sector of the galaxy such as figuring out how to avoid a oh i dunno an interstellar war maybe br br i think what makes this episode so effective is that it doesn't shy away from the grim aspects of war as one would expect of a mere tv episode from the sixties especially an episode from a science fiction show it's all very tense and gripping like the best war films such as when kirk sits down with his key officers for what amounts to a war council the writers and the actors aren't kidding around here this is all preparation for a ghastly conflict potentially the beginning of another years long battleground in the final analysis kirk's aim is to keep this battleground to just the two ships but even then it's an endeavor fraught with peril and probable casualties in fact i believe this episode holds the record for ship casualties by the end of it right at the start of the episode we see the devastation such battle can produce in that supposedly well protected outpost then begin the cat and mouse war games between the enterprise and the ship it's as exciting as any conflict we've seen on the big screen of course if you're not into war films you'd have to look for other things to admire in this episode br br what elevates this episode even further is the revelation of just what and who the romulans are it's an electric shock of a sort now we have even further inter crew conflict on the bridge of the enterprise war does tend to bring out the worst in some people due to still nasty attitudes about race in this future the tension is up even further kirk has his hands full in this one i suppose the one weakness in the story is the convenient of the bigotry issue by the conclusion on the side actor makes his first appearance in the trek universe as the commander he's terrific in the role the flip side of capt kirk or capt pike take your pick done up to resemble spock more than a little surprisingly his character is not war hungry as we would expect another eye opener for this episode the actor would next return to this universe as spock's father so he's nothing if not versatile it's also telling how the first appearance of such characters as the romulans is usually their best shot as it is here they showed up in the enterprise incident next
1	balance of terror is still one of the best star trek episodes ever made it was inspired by the film enemy below starring robert mitchum a movie that deals with a cat and mouse game between two captains during world war ii in this episode captain kirk and his crew play similar game with a vessel this is the program that famously introduces the war hungry romulans who are distant relatives of the vulcans it is an incredibly suspenseful episode tightly constructed for maximum effect it is also interesting to see how the episode contains a series of subplots that add extra layers of meaning to the story mark makes his star trek debut as the captain he will later play spock's father ambassador a must see episode
1	i really enjoyed this movie and i usually don't like animated pictures but i thought the cats were appealing and the story line was charming there is a good song called everybody wants to be a cat that is a lot of fun it has some comic moments and is an interesting adventure i think it helps to be an avid cat lover to enjoy this film
1	engaging characters nice animation dynamite songs all this and cute kitties too there's a lot of excellent humor but no real menace so don't worry about your little ones the two farm dogs steal the show even though they only appear in two scenes the artwork has a linear quality that may put off some people but i find it charming
1	may contain spoilers br br the first time i saw this movie was when it was re released on video when i was around 8 years old now i am 17 and still watch it whenever i get a chance to the aristocats was a cute heart warming film that i immediately fell in love with i loved the songs on it especially the one the kittens sing by the piano in fact i even sang it in a talent show with my sister and friend since i loved it that much all three kittens are so cute and their mother is one of the prettiest cartoon cats i ever saw the ally cat had a great voice br br my favorite part of the movie is when the kittens are playing the piano that part is adorable i also enjoy their journey home it's incredible this is one of the best disney films i ever saw and one of my favorites everyone should see it i give this film 10 10 stars
1	this is such a revered and studied film a classic among hitchcock's many it takes no cajoling to want to watch it again yet you think can it hold up even when the huge and clever and amazing trick of the plot is no surprise br br yes br br and for starters there is the start a profoundly beautiful and slick telling of the really the whole story the gist of it two taxis two men shown with their shoes each walking onto the train sitting then across from each other and oops a mistake a little nudge and the conversation begins and we see the men themselves they are interchangeable br br the tone here is characteristic of hitchcock as it is in many horror and suspense films cheery and light we know entering the film however that this won't be the case so already we are worried what after all is about to go wrong br br a lot in truly hitchcock fashion it is a purely innocent man nearly always a man who faces injustice who is trapped by circumstance threatening what is most valuable to him the innocent in this case tennis player guy haynes is played with an innocence that is believable his collegiate politeness in that first scene for example as he realizes the other man is a little cuckoo is just what you or i might do the not so innocent man is the self absorbed and scarily intelligent spoiled child bruno anthony played with utter brilliance by robert walker this uncanny performance is equivalent to that of another hitchcock wacko played by anthony perkins in psycho so from scene one on the train and the train really gorgeous we have the two leads and we have the mind blowing and utterly simple and ultimately devastating plot from the first novel by patricia highsmith who also wrote the books behind the two mr ripley movies and it doesn't hurt that the screenplay was co written by raymond chandler himself who knows something about economy and clever dialog and crime br br and of course there is more than just the first scene what to note well that smarty of a senator's daughter i thought she was terrific is hitchcock's daughter patricia who is still with us as of 2009 she also had a role in psycho and there is a characteristic landmark location for a key scene in the film the tennis courts in the hamptons known to us as the site of the u s open the fantastic last full scene with the carousel is the only place where hitchcock moves into a kind of slow and steady montage building up the suspense by making it surreal the fear gets positively with the laughing children and the old man crawling underneath it all and when it collapses in a crash that's all on a set one of the more naturalistic uses by a director known for not worrying about the realism of his back projections br br the photography is that perfect hollywood stunning without becoming so stylized as in some noir films that it is an object in its own right look again at the first scene or the shooting and editing of haynes entering the house for what the audience thinks is a murder this is sophisticated construction when we are not completely surprised that it's bruno in the bed that only proves that the director has us on our toes something unexpected is always expected br br are there glitches who knows it depends on what kind of falseness you can accept or embrace as beautiful style the scene where bruno is choking the old woman at a party is both brilliant the woman played by norma is a caricature so believable it takes your breath away and marred by his looking at the senator's daughter and being triggered into a deadly trance by her glasses and her resemblance to his earlier victim this is a mid 20th century idea of psychology that intrudes on many of hitchcock's efforts the end of psycho for starters br br the wikipedia article on the film smartly emphasizes the consistent doubling of things in the movie from the main characters to the murder victim and the senator's daughter this echoes in lots of little ways two men trail him to the tennis court two men accompany the victim to the amusement park and so on there can be too much made of this but it does supply an aesthetic consistency above and below our consciousness don't forget there are meant to be two murders it is the lack of the second murder the inability to create a doubling in that case that causes bruno to unravel br br walker the actor had emotional problems and was institutionalized in the year before this movie was shot and just afterwards he died from a reaction to a drug used to calm one of his outbursts though he appeared in other films strangers on a train is easily his tour de force farley granger had a long career that never quite saw him break into true stardom though his style can have a peculiar nervous sweetness that really works especially in they live by night br br and if you watch this one for the first or third time do look for the chilling and hilarious scene at the tennis match where the crowd's heads all move back and forth in unison except for bruno's he is staring out without moving his head straight at us as the trailer for the movie says after this movie you won't be talking to strangers on a train
1	this is one of my favorite films ever the story is just so fantastic and the characters are so good unlike the other disney films of the age this film never bores the audience 101 dalmations peter pan robin hood they were all good but lack what we have here this is funny creative and always on target this movie just has an extra something that you can't learn in books however this is not the best animated film ever made that title belongs to the brilliant toy story but this is a respectable second immediately followed by the lady and the tramp just see it and enjoy what one of the cinema's greatest achievements and by the by i'm not a little kid this is for the older audiences wanting to recapture their childhood an absolute must
1	i have seen this movie only once several years ago but i remember liking it a lot br br spoilers ahead an old famous opera singer is retired and she decides to give all the money she has to her cats her butler hears this and plots to get rid of the cats so he can have the fortune he puts knockout drops in their milk when they wake up they find themselves miles away they must journey back to their house before it is too late with the help of an independent minded tomcat and other animal accomplices while evading the butler and foiling his plan br br could have been better but it also could have been a lot worse br br my score 7 10
1	following the release of white and the seven dwarfs 1937 ' walt disney productions has continued to produce quality animated feature length children's film many of which i still haven't had the pleasure of seeing 'the aristocats 1970 ' directed by wolfgang was the twentieth film in disney's official canon and is a romantic musical comedy revolving around a family of aristocratic cats living in paris france in 1910 in the mansion of the elderly madame adelaide voiced by hermione baddeley her loving feline pets – including duchess eva gabor and her three young kittens – are the most important residents when the bumbling butler edgar roddy maude learns that the cats stand to inherit the old lady's entire fortune he sets about disposing of the pets dumping them in the countryside far from the big city lost and confused duchess and her children strike up an acquaintance with a sweet talking alley cat thomas phil harris who agrees to show them the way home br br animation wise 'the isn't anything particularly notable with much earlier disney films such as and 1940 ' demonstrating a similar or even superior visual style however the story is interesting and exciting – particularly for younger audiences i'll wager – and the musical numbers which i wish were more numerous are terrific for the sake of trivia i'll name my two favourite songs as thomas cat and wants to be a cat the latter of which is a psychedelic throwback to the late 60s with a swinging jazz band and delirious flashing colours led by a trendy feline called the scat cat scatman crothers the family's journey back to paris is eventful and adventurous and we meet such friendly characters as amelia and abigail gabble two talkative geese uncle waldo the pair's drunken relative georges madam ancient but sprightly lawyer and napoleon and lafayette two dim witted hound dogs with a hunger for the butler's rump
1	after seeing the aristocats special edition in a two pack with the fox in the hound i decided to buy it since both of these films were childhood favourites br br the aristocats is a classic definitely it might not be a five star classic but it is a fun film and makes a good evening's entertainment it is somewhat a light refreshment from the darker more serious disney classics the aristocats tries to be a light hearted musical comedy and i think it just about succeeds br br the storyline doesn't really make much sense and i don't think the plot is particularly strong but it is certainly not weak the animation and backgrounds are a bit scratchy in places typical of disney's 70s films but it does have a rustic old fashioned charm about it br br the aristocats strongest points are the characters the music and the humour the music is very memorable try getting wants to be a cat' out your head in a hurry the songs are written by the sherman brothers who also did the music for the jungle book there was one song called 'she never felt alone' that was going to be in the film but sadly didn't make it into the final feature it is a shame because i think it would have fit in very well br br the characters are unforgettable thomas is voiced by phil harris and is basically baloo in a feline form eva gabor gives duchess this warm and maternal feel and the voices actually sound like children and not an actor imitating the voice of a child the secondary characters are here by the dozen and yet you still end up understanding their personalities edgar the butler plays a similar role to cruella de vil but he's more comical than scary often ending up in funny situations even though he's the bad guy he's still lovable all the same br br the two british geese abigail and amelia really had me cracking up along with their crazy and drunk uncle i also like the dogs who tend to argue over who is 'the leader ' i could go on but i won't spoil it but i can tell you the aristocats is funny and will entertain everyone without having to resort to rudimentary toilet humour br br the bottom line the aristocats might not be disney's crowning achievement or even their strongest film from the 70s that award is a tie between the rescuers and the many adventures of the pooh but it is an enjoyable romp and is sure to entertain if you are looking for a dazzling work of art you might be better off watching bambi but if you want a fun night in the aristocats is the way to go it is a charming and lovable film and it's impossible to dislike enjoy and besides it's good to have a film where cats aren't seen as the villains
1	duchess and her three kittens are enjoying the high life with their devoted human mistress until the wicked butler edgar with his eyes on a big inheritance decides to dope them and get them out of the picture how can these fragile creatures cope in the unfamiliar countryside and the meaner streets of paris only by meeting the irrepressible alley cat a rough diamond with romance in his heart after they get a taste of the wide dangerous world he guides them home and edgar gets his just desserts at the wrong end of a horse as always it's really the voices rather than the animation that are the heart of the disney magic phil harris is brilliant as eva gabor as duchess is well eva gabor but perhaps the most memorable turns are by pat and george lindsay who turn the old hounds napoleon and lafayette into a couple of bumbling southern fried rednecks their scenes with edgar and the musical numbers with scat cat and his cool dude band are classic most striking about seeing the aristocats now is how deeply disney's style of animation has changed since this was at the cutting edge in 1970 perhaps the nostalgic dated feel are just a result of being plonked down in belle epoque paris but the illustrations are a pity and the animation and overall pace much less frenetic sometimes a relief than in more recent efforts such as aladdin
1	when madame decides to let her cats inherit her it spells trouble the snobbish butler edgar who is next in line to inherit decides to get rid of the cats thereby the story can begin and the cats can go on an adventure that would otherwise have been impossible an adventure that lets them meet the charming but not altogether trustworthy cat he helps them through many dangerous and funny situations until the inevitable happy end br br the force of this movie is in its humor and music edgar is simply hilarious as the insulted butler who is out to settle the score and of course he himself takes some serious beatings one of the best scene contains him being chased by the two dogs lafayette and napoleon the score is great and like in the jungle book you have scenes that is almost musical in the sense that the story doesn't progress and the focus is to let the protagonists express themselves via dance and of course we like that the score is quite jazzy br br and of course it's not only me but also my children who love this one br br regards simon
1	a group of cats look to find their way home after being kidnapped by a greedy butler br br the aristocats is regarded as one of walt disney's finest 2d animations with its charming script and cool characters but it doesn't quite have the magic that created snow white or the jungle book br br the slow opening will have younger viewers raising their eyebrows but once the cats become established into the story does the fun and entertainment begin br br the young cats create the most enjoyment with a charming young hearted rivalry the special kind of bonding any brother or sister of any age can associate with br br not the funniest disney picture out there but there are some great comic moments especially involving the cats and the dogs the representation of the gangster cats is very impressive and equally amusing br br the story after the boring beginning is consistently entertaining and exactly what a family film should be there are hardly any lapses and no dull moments the journey to find home is interesting and you get a sense of exploring not to mention two very strange british swans br br with disney you always get a strong meaningful message with the jungle book it is where you belong with beauty and the beast you explore the importance of inner beauty however with this 1970 picture there seems to be something missing the film has the importance and relevance of home but is not cemented enough it seems very far fetched and irrelevant br br my sister and i found it very strange watching this as some of the central characters were voiced by the jungle book cast br br despite the bad beginning and the confusion of its preaching message this is a consistently fun family film with a good music score and some cool crazy characters that viewers of any age can relate to
1	walt disney's 20th animated feature was the last one to be greenlighted by the great man himself he died in late 1966 and is not generally considered to be among their very best output the main problem is that on the surface the film seems merely to be the feline version of either lady and the tramp 1955 or 101 dalmations 1961 both of which are certainly more beloved by fans even so being both an animation and cat lover i dug this reasonably bouncy concoction in which a pampered female cat voiced by eva gabor and her three little kittens are thrown out onto the streets of paris by a wealthy lady hermione baddeley 's greedy butler luckily they meet a streetwise alley cat phil harris who guides them on the journey back and are further aided along the way by a feline jazz band led by scatman crothers and two helpful and amiably dopey dogs meanwhile at home edgar the butler celebrates his supposed inheritance and the mouse and the horse do their bit to help their fellow feline pets legendary entertainer maurice chevalier was whisked back from retirement to sing the title song which includes a verse in french and band indulge in a breezy number wants to be a cat
1	the aristocats is really quite charming and is rated far too low on imdb the songs aren't as memorable as the ones in the jungle book but they weren't bad at all the animation is really lovely the best sequence being the landscape of paris in general it looked beautiful this is probably disney's most relaxing animation i think and as another reviewer quite rightly said who doesn't love cats another great piece of animation was o' looking into duchess's eyes as their romance was so believable while not obvious a good thing the plot about a greedy butler and a fortune reminds me of bailey's billions was a little unoriginal but worked very well and the script was really funny especially the fights between the kittens they remind me of me and my brother and 3 sisters always fighting my favourite scene was the chase of edgar with the two dogs who were always fighting about who was the leader the voice talents were a delight most notably phil harris whom i recognised from the jungle book and eva gabor from the rescuers the supporting characters namely scat cat were also well done in conclusion a really pleasant film that is definitely underrated 8 5 10 bethany cox
1	the aristocats is classic disney at it's best it's not considered as the ultimate disney classic along side the more well known disney films but it's a well made and fun film that certainly deserves to be a disney classic aristocats is certainly a sure kids pleaser cause it has all the components for a fun kids film i'll liked it very much as a kid i'm not sure if this film is a sure pleaser to the adults who could watch disney classics for the nostalgia sake but i still enjoy this film as an young adult br br storywise aristocats may not be so complex or innovative but it doesn't matter this film was made on that period where the filmmakers followed the motto that the characters were the story and wise versa which aristocats certainly shows the characters make the film they're all likable fun have great lines and have a great interaction with each other the voice actors are also a part for making the characters so compelling eva gabor as duchess phil harris as thomas and etc a misconception could have been the dogs napoleon and lafayette since they're showstoppers and haven't so much to do with the actual story but fortunately they're fun and amusing characters and the scenes with them are pure gold br br aristocats is both entertaining and cute but it's also a very funny cartoon the animation style and look fits perfectly for the film's french surroundings especially the city of paris looks greats the character animation and design is great and the songs are really catchy too my favorite is scale and but the title song is a cute song along with thomas cat and the memorable show stopper everybody want's to be a cat and the score by george burns is a perfect fit for the film funny and emotional situations br br overall aristocats is in my opinion the best disney cartoon from the 70's and it's a film that deserves to both be seen and remembered so what you're waiting for do your self a favor and share this disney classic with your kids it deserves to be in their memories
1	br br lets swap murders your wife my father seemingly innocent conversation between two strangers bruno anthony and guy haines when they meet over lunch on a train journey guy a solid respectable tennis player whose problem is that his wife the flirtatious miriam won't divorce him so he can marry senators daughter anne laughs the whole conversation off as a joke the following week he isn't laughing any more in a scene of classic hitchcock suspense bruno stalks miriam through a carnival and strangles her as he does her glasses fall off and we see the murder eerily reflected twice through her lenses cold hearted and amoral bruno his part of the deal completed approaches an appalled guy expecting even pressuring him into 'doing his bit ' matters are not helped when anne's precocious and outspoken younger sister turns up suspecting guy of murder so accused of a murder he didn't commit and expected to commit another what is guy going to do the power of this film is in the presentation of human beings as having a murderous side to their nature and this hitchcock does to perfection
1	i'm not a massive disney fan but my 7 year old son is starting to get into them so we've built up quite a collection and this is one of my favourites we first saw this a couple of weeks ago and we must have see it half a dozen times since ok as others have pointed out not the most complex or inventive of plots but there's more to a film than that br br great characters phil harris stealing the show as thomas but edgar the butler not far behind the music is superb my disabled son always insists that i lift him up and dance with him to everybody wants to be cat this says it all and thomas is just as enjoyable br br i'm not sure why some people have such a downer on this film other than a dislike of cats and yes it does take a few of its cues from 101 dalmations and maybe the lady and the tramp it's been a long time since i've seen that so i'm not going to compare them and while 101 dalmations is better in some ways for me the aristocats is far more enjoyable isn't that what these films are about br br apart from peter pan now that is a 10 10 film this is my favourite disney film my 7 year old son loves it his grumpy 41 year old dad loves it so you can't ask much more of a family film br br superb
1	oh my gosh i love this movie much it is so incredible i loved it as a wee babe and still love it as an adult it is my favorite disney movie of time you should watch it watch it and love it my friends and i watch it a ton it is good i recommend it to anyone who is a child or a child at heart my favorite part is the song and dance number with all of the strays and thomas the writers producers director completely nailed this one yeah nailed it to the wall br br
1	plot in a nutshell duchess voice of eva gabor is the well polished single mother cat of three little kittens when their owner the wealthy elderly woman known as madame adelaide realizes that her time is running out she decides to write up her will leaving everything she has to her cats which will then go to her butler edgar when the cats pass on edgar overhears this and is deeply offended by the idea that the cats would get everything before him and plots to destroy duchess and her kittens he drops sleeping pills in their supper one night and then leaves them stranded in the french countryside out of their element duchess and her kittens befriend a street smart stray cat known as thomas voice of phil harris who did the voice of the big bear in the jungle book after making a pass at duchess unaware that she is a single mother decides to escort them back home with duchess genuinely falling for as the usual codependent surrogate family bond develops chaos and mayhem ensues culminating in a violent clash between his brother cats from the streets and edgar also features appearances by british geese american southern hound dogs what they were doing in france is anyone's guess a mouse who sounds a lot like the rabbit from alice in wonderland he was in fact voiced by the same guy who voiced winnie the pooh and a horse br br sometimes slow paced but still enjoyable disney venture features the memorable everybody wants to be a cat musical piece sung by the late scatman crothers better known to 1980s fans as the voice of jazz on transformers of course if this was being made now it would probably be a dark social commentary on class division represented by the divide between well bred well fed duchess and the street born
1	duchess is a pretty white cat who lives with her three kittens in her wealthy owner's mansion in paris when the evil butler hears that the rich old lady is leaving everything in her will to the cats first the butler is angered because he wants to get everything first so he puts them to sleep and abandons them off the side of the road when the cats wake up they start on a long trek home a street wise cat named thomas meets up with them and offers to help them when edgar sees them arriving home he is furious and starts to mail them to but thomas' friends arrive to help save the day the wealthy lady decides to leave her home for every alley cat in paris br br this is a charming film the songs including everybody wants to be a cat are lively and upbeat the voice cast is excellent with eva gabor who would later play miss bianca in disney's the rescuers films as duchess phil harris baloo in the jungle book little john in robin hood as thomas giving interesting personalities to their characters supposedly walt disney before he died in 1966 gave the go ahead to this film recommended for disney fans or cat lovers everywhere 10 10
1	this movie is great i really enjoyed it br br this movie is about a cat mom named dutchess and her 3 kittens t dutchess and the kittens love music they have to practice the piano everyday but the butler named edgar tries to kidnap dutchess and her kittens he tries to make them sleep but he fails them dutchess meets a cat named thomas o thomas falls in love with dutchess the cats break into song with the song everybody wants to be a cat thomas gets to love music like the other cats thomas and dutchess really like each other br br i loved this movie and i like the cats to
1	this is one of my favourite disney films it has everything you could hope for in a disney animation cute animals great songs a nasty villain and lots of adventure the story begins in paris where duchess and her three kittens live with their mistress in a mansion life is perfect for them until the fiendish butler edgar discovers that she plans to leave her entire fortune to the cats he realises that if he even stands a chance of claiming the fortune the cats will be out of the way an excellent often forgotten masterpiece from the 1970's a time when the disney studio made few animations which features songs such as the title number the aristocats as well as wants to be a cat this will enchant viewers young and old with its enduring
1	there are a select few cartoon films where animals or something not human is portraying human beings and i think that this film is one of them apart from a few points of the plot and the characters this film could be changed with all people rather than mainly animals although it's good someone did not i feel the cats are jolly good in this film portraying humans br br this film also focuses on quite a lot of adult issues which is rather odd for a disney film it mentions alcohol shows a dog teaching another dog how to attack humans and it shows a male cat called abraham thomas o' fancying a female cat in a surprisingly human and adult way br br as a cartoon film or just a film in general i feel this is pretty good quality the storyline and characters are especially good the film in general is set in france and you meet a family of cats the mother duchess and her kittens marie toulouse and you also meet the kind rich old woman who adores the cats the butler edgar and an old man who has clearly lost his marbles called george the kind old woman discusses her will with george and edgar overhears that what he receives from the will he will have after the cats have it he is incredibly cross with this and has an evil scheme in mind br br a very cute film for every age enjoy aristocats br br not including basil the great mouse detective and a few others maybe which i cannot think of at the moment
1	i must say one big reason why i thought the aristocats was so great is because i love cats i love cats which probably gave this film a big score from me but not only that it was definitely a good movie as well and i love where they make the setting of the film take place this is one of my favorite animal films although it's animated and i really love how the actors actresses didn't sound so unprofessional behind the animals' voice's to me this film seems like a classic but i guess to imdb it's not because it has yes i think too low of a rating you take a peek at all the other original disney films and they have a much higher rating than this but nonetheless aristocats is one of the best animation movies there is and i could enjoy it over and over again
1	the is a hilarious film that not many people have seen clearly not that many because it only got a 6 8 there is nothing wrong with it at all it's my favorite of the disney classics which have tons of fantastic films already made like beauty and the beast snow white and peter pan the reason why the is so high on my list is because of how funny the film is i hate to say this but i don't blame edgar for what he does i probably would've had them taken care of too i'd be devastated of some old bag who i'd been working with for so many years just decides to give her will to the cats i'd of killed them also i don't even like cats so i wouldn't give a damn i think that the is so funny and cute there are many characters that are hilarious like edgar the is my favorite of the disney classics and that's final the cat's out of the bag br br the
1	as the mom of a 3 year old and a 2 year old i adore aristocats it is a movie that contains no double entendres no almost swear words like heck or darn no parents who are functional idiots and no crotch smashing or flatulence jokes that are so prevalent in even the best kids movies these days the story line is sweet and interesting the music is great the love story is quite romantic the kittens are adorable and the various other characters are unique and attention capturing the action is simple and not overwhelming or confusing the characters are quite well cast as well i love listening to eva velvety voice and there are so many others that are familiar from childhood and also fit the characters so well it's really a movie about love tolerance good manners and faithfulness who doesn't want their kids exposed to these values it is a movie that i don't mind watching over and over unlike happy feet where i couldn't watch the whole thing even once because it was so irritating i wish production companies would move toward making movies more like this one
1	in strangers on a train it's obvious from the start that playboy wastrel robert walker has singled out farley granger as an unwilling accomplice to a pair of murders granger's a semi public figure he's a tennis pro but not an especially high one high enough however for him to know that granger is trapped in a loveless marriage and would like to be free to marry ruth roman br br so when they meet as complete strangers on a train one afternoon walker knows enough that granger will at least be intrigued enough with the possibility that if the two of them complete strangers did commit homicide on parties that the other would be by their demise though granger is repulsed by the idea one of the beautiful things about this film is that you can see in the performance he gives that granger just might submit to temptation br br in fact when walker kills laura elliot granger's wife whose been two timing him and even gotten pregnant by another man he expects that granger will in turn murder walker's father so that walker can inherit his estate today walker would be called a trust fund baby and a pretty malevolent one at that br br alfred hitchcock directed walker to his career role ironically in his last complete film walker died the following year with most of my son john finished hitchcock does not do too bad by farley granger either br br of course when granger does balk at committing homicide on people who never did anything to him the tension strangers on a train is also characterized by great editing first in the tennis match in which granger has to finish the match and waylay walker before he plants evidence convicting granger at the crime scene and also in that final climax with a fight on a runaway carousel between walker and granger br br strangers on a train is hitchcock at his best it should not be missed and ought to be required viewing when film classes study editing
1	the first disney animated film without the strong involvement of disney himself this film suffers from the fact that the story is not particularly original or interesting this is i believe the only animated disney film since the 1940's which is not based on an earlier book or other work but is rather an original story as others have noted the plot is essentially a cross between the romance in lady and the tramp and the kidnapping journey home story in 101 dalmatians br br but to overcome this flaw the filmmakers have successfully used many of the better features of most of the disney animated films of the previous 10 15 years phil harris from the jungle book voicing one of the main characters follows his duet with louis prima in the previous film with another here with scatman crothers the quality visual look of this film is virtually carried over from dalmatians with some nice nods to french impressionism it appears and the villain here the butler is strongly reminiscent of the henchmen in that film as well this is probably one of disney's least memorable villains the main story goes back and forth between the cats and the butler's ongoing difficulties with two rural hound dogs with great voice work by pat and george lindsey the various animal characters are similarly familiar to those who have seen tramp and dalmatians the owner while bearing a striking visual resemblance to the wicked stepmother in sleeping beauty bears none of that character's nasty traits and comes across as very warm and generous br br the real strength of the film is the voice work after first going toward the use of mostly familiar actors in the jungle book the tactic is continued strongly here with disney veterans harris and sterling holloway from the jungle book and eva gabor who would do a very similar character in the later film the rescuers as well as crothers and nancy all are excellent here particularly harris and gabor in the leads the character animation is as excellent as one would expect showing a variety of emotions well br br smaller children may be upset by a few brief episodes an escape from the path of a speeding train a near drowning by one of the children but these are not presented in a particularly frightening or dark manner and are over very quickly overall there's very little of the type of more frightening scenes found in many other disney classics br br one minor oddity is the way some visual aspects of 60's culture are depicted among the jazz performing cats in supposedly 1910 paris one can't help but wonder why the story wasn't set solidly in the present other than the great deal paris had changed much of its appearance in the intervening time it really would have made more sense that way br br the songs while being pleasant and sometimes very enjoyably performed are not particularly memorable nonetheless the general energy applied here the excellent voice work and fine animation all contribute to overcome the relatively few and minor weaknesses far from the greatness of classic 10 s such as pinocchio or aladdin and not quite up to the 9 s one might give to sleeping beauty or 101 dalmatians this is probably a rather marginal 8 of 10 perhaps a 7
1	br br since cats have nine lives i'll give you nine reasons to see this movie br br the kittens and toulouse playing the piano together so unbelievably cute the car chasing dogs napoleon and lafayette toulouse jumping like electrified every time he wants to be like a tough alley cat marie sighing romantically while alley cat seduces her mom scat cat and his jazz band singing wants to be a cat stupid but proper and nice english geese amelia and abigail who make the cats walk like geese obtaining the magic carpet which puts the cheshire cat to shame the brave journey to ask help from alley cats edgar the butler chase scenes and transition from a nice guy to an insane cat hater due to cat riddance plan gone bad
1	this is not the masterpiece that is snow white cinderella or bambi but it is a very sweet enjoyable romantic well done disney animated feature br br there are of course lessons included herein for the kiddies and some very appropriate kiddie cheek but there is plenty herein for the adults as well br br while this is somewhat of a regurgitation of the classic disney romcom adventure it still holds some elements which solely belong to the aristocats is the tramp and dutchess is the lady but dutchess has several kittens and they are all trying to get home br br phil harris is our tomcat you may recognize his voice as he also furnished the voice of baloo the bear in the jungle book and little john in disney's robin hood eva gabor lends her silky sweet voice to dutchess br br directed by wolfgang who directed or worked on every disney animated film worth mentioning until his death in 1985 br br this is among my very favorite of the disney animated feature films and belongs in any disney collection the 2 disk special edition is due out this summer 2007 br br this rates an 8 4 10 from br br the fiend
1	the 20th animated disney classic is often criticized by many people as mediocre or poor in quality but it is a great movie br br too bad that the aristocats doesn't get the deserved credit i personally see it as one of my favorite disney classics br br despite being extremely underrated it is one of the funniest disney classics it is full of hilarious some of them hysterical moments br br edgar the greedy butler is the villain of the movie but he is a perfect comic relief he's one of my favorite disney villains because he is so funny br br every scene with edgar and the hound dogs napoleon and lafayette chasing him are among the most hilarious you'll ever see especially the one when edgar drives his motorcycle into the river and around the bridge with the dogs chasing him that is hysterical br br but the classic humor doesn't just come from edgar or the hound dogs other characters have their moments as well br br about the quality subject it isn't perfect but remains on a high level even after walt disney's death those artists knew how to keep faithful to walt's spirit and the aristocats is one of those examples they don't make them like this nowadays br br as usual legendary disney actors voice the characters in this case we have phil harris sterling holloway paul eva gabor and pat br br the characters are cool in general thomas duchess and her 3 kittens the mouse the alley cats the english geese the hound dogs and the horse the human characters are included as well the eccentric and kind retired opera singer madame adelaide the comic old lawyer georges and edgar himself br br about the soundtrack it has some nice and catchy songs such as thomas theme but i can't remember its name everybody wants to be a cat and the aristocats sung by maurice chevalier for example br br this movie takes place in paris france in the year of 1910 above all this is a joyful nice and very pleasant movie a timeless classic which is often underestimated and forgotten but very worthy br br this should definitely be on top 250
1	set in paris in the year 1910 a retired old rich opera singer decides to give her fortune away to her beautiful cat duchess voiced by eva gabor and her kittens but the jealous butler edgar comes up with a plan as he kidnaps the cats and leaves them in the countryside luckily for them with the help of a streetwise and independent tomcat named thomas voiced by phil harris helps them get home especially meeting some of his good friends like the scat cat voiced by scatman crothers and try to foil edgar's plans br br very entertaining and edgy post walt disney's death animated movie with a couple of nice jazzy tunes like the memorable everybody wants to be a cat good voice acting and some terrific animation for it's time even in these times of computer animation not one of the greatest disney animated movies but a cult disney animated fave and one of the few gems of it's day that works well highly recommended
1	no i'm not kidding with this one he was a guest reviewer for entertainment weekly and gave this movie positive marks and who can blame him this is a charming upbeat and rather funny disney movie who doesn't love kittens the music in wants to be a cat is jamming it makes me want to snap my fingers or something only years later when cats don't dance came out have i seen a movie that was that musically fun what aristocats lacks in animation and story it makes up for in charm plus everything moves at a relaxed pace and even the villain isn't all that scary it's perfect for the younger set while not being so sappy that adults can't like it if snoop was here i'm sure he would say the same thing yeah dig those crazy cats man
1	aristocats is such a terrific disney classic that i just loved so much as a kid still to this day i can't resist watching it it's just such a wonderful and charming film with great animation and lovely songs i really miss the animation films like aristocats they had perfect voices not to mention the hand drawn animation that makes it perfect for the family aristocats is also very witty and clever the story was just so wonderful this film is just beyond irresistible i think the most memorable moment for me was the cats playing the piano learning the lol it was just so cute with the piano playing and painting br br and her kittens are very pampered in their huge mansion mainly because their lady is very rich and treats them like they were her children but when the lady feels it's time to make her will she leaves everything to the cats and not to her butler the butler gets angry and takes the kittens on the road and them in the middle of no where and the kittens wake up and with the help of a smooth street cat by the name of thomas they head back home to their lady but learn the coolness of being a cat br br the aristocats is just a perfect disney movie that i feel is a bit over looked i would always highly recommend this movie for kids or families it could be enjoyed by anyone the songs and story is just memorable i will always join in for the movies best song everybody wants to be a cat such a great tune i also love those dogs that guarded the farm where the cats were abandoned they were just so cute this is a terrific film please watch it you won't be disappointed br br 9 10
1	spoilers br br i love the simpsons and i have seen every single episode that had ever come out i must admit season one is by far the most underrated season and this is the most underrated episode in season one the episode begins with the family playing a game of scrabble to get bart ready for an intelligence test he needs to take at school he says the game is stupid and he doesn't want to play it but he needs to he spells out a word that angers homer and he chases bart around the house the next day mrs reassures the class that the test isn't part of their grade just a test that would tell them what their future would be like bart can't answer one question he thinks fast he quickly switches test with martin prince the smartest one in class later that day marge and homer are called to go to the principal's office to discuss bart's behavior suddenly out of nowhere the school psychologist comes and tells skinner and homer and marge that bart is a genius and should go to a special school for the gifted bart agrees to go since he wouldn't need to do any homework the next day homer drives bart to the new school he is introduced to everyone and everything unluckily his day isn't very good the smart students take his lunch smartly he can't read any comic books but he does anyway and he is criticized by his fellow students luckily for bart he and homer start to have a great time together but marge bought tickets to an opera they go to the opera and make fun of it the next day he goes to his old school but is made fun of by his friends they call him a point dexter while at his new school bart is told to do a chemistry experiment he does it wrong and blows up the school leaving himself green bart is told by the psychologist to tell him why he did it instead bart tells him he wants to go undercover and go back to his old school to observe other kids the psychologist is intrigued and he asks bart to explain it on a piece of paper he finds it too hard and instead writes a confession that he really isn't a genius he gives it to the psychologist all he cares about is that he spelled the word confession wrong that night homer bathes bart and bart tells him that he really isn't a genius and that he cheated on the test homer gets angry and chases bart around the house as lisa and marge look at them casually br br overall this is a very underrated season one episode br br 8 10
1	the simpsons of course started off with christmas special simpson's roasting on an open fire which had basic drawings and not laugh out loud jokes but this episode has probably the first laugh out loud joke in it and from here the show just gets better and better this episode centers around bart who in this episode swaps on a test from martin and gets into a school for the highly gifted this leading to bart his friendship with his dad and losing all of his mates the episode is very humorous and shows what was to become the greatest show ever to come out overall fans of the show will love this episode as it features the character's exactly as they became 20 years later so watch this episode in a pack of season 1 and enjoy early simpson's doing what it was meant to making people laugh i rate this episode 73
1	bart the genius whilst not the first simpsons episode bart he genius more or less is the first typical episode there's no gimmickry or theme it's just your typical simpsons episode in set up it always seems to me that it's an episode that grows on you there are certain elements i don't care for largely the animation which can be forgiven but over time i take a liking to this story of it's uniqueness br br for example it'd be very hard for a live action sit com on a standard budget to do this episode due to the various different sets that show in this episode the computer bays in ms class the opera and so on my point is with that the simpsons realises one of the biggest strengths in animation the sheer lack of visual limitations when compared to live action br br on a writing stand point it's also highly intelligent and fresh the concept is pretty unique and particularly the problems faced instead of the ol' fail safe that work was too hard it was simply bart's social isolation from his classmates that failed him although the exploding science experiment may prove otherwise which i also think is one of the best visual gags of the series the ending seems a little unoriginal largely because the bart running naked into his room to avoid homer was already done in the shorts but still funny for marge and lisa's short back and forth if for nothing else br br ultimately it's a very good episode with lots of interesting new point in the series though not exactly perfect br br oh and the now iconic name was of course unleashed onto the world
1	strangers on a train was one of those film classics i had always heard about but somehow never gotten around to actually seeing i finally watched it a few weeks ago and as always with any hitchcock movie it not only stood up to the test of time it far surpassed most thrillers being made today you can see the inspiration for future action movies here the climactic ending with the out of control merry go round and the two villains dueling each other reminded me of the big action sequence at the end of jan de bont's speed of course strangers is over forty years older than speed and contains no modern special effects but the visceral thrill is there hitchcock was a true genius br br the not so subtle gay side of bruno robert walker in an amazing performance has taken form in many other psycho stalker figures in future movies consider him a male version of jennifer jason leigh in single white female he knows about guy before he even meets him on the train we almost get the feeling their contact isn't incidental and is soon entirely obsessed with him br br hitchcock loved the elements in his movies also see psycho for more blatant undertones and there's a lot of that here bruno hates his father and wants him to die so he can be with his mother his effeminate ways and obvious homosexuality must have just slipped by the censors in 1951 when gays were not allowed to be portrayed on the screen yet hitchcock gets the message through effectively when we see bruno in the lounge on the telephone wearing a very non masculine robe flirting with guy and responding to his mother br br the deep layers of this movie make it a fast paced thriller than you can return to again and again unfortunately it's being remade as a big budget hollywood production but after seeing the original i honestly can't imagine anything surpassing the sheer white knuckle thrills of this movie
1	the animation is still the slightly rougher style of the first episode simpsons roasting on an open fire but already with this first regular episode bart the genius the humor is beginning to be more layered quicker and greater depth of characterization is already appearing br br this episode firmly establishes bart's slacker personality and more subtly lisa's intellectual superiority to the whole family although that's the main theme of the whole episode there's also a nice secondary theme of bart and homer's father son relationship it's given to us first in a nutshell as the episode opens with the simpsons playing scrabble lisa comes up with id for her word short but something you have to be well educated to know she has to read the definition to the rest of the family from the dictionary which has been serving as a way to prop up the couch marge can only come up with he homer has already sitting on his tray in order but doesn't recognize that it's a word so he presents do instead bart comes up with which he insists is a word similarly in the main plot line of the episode bart cheats on his iq test which leads to his being put into a special school full of gifted kids we know that's not likely to last long br br the simpsons has always had a lot of fun playing with varying degrees of intellectual abilities among people through its characters and more importantly they way that people with vary degrees of intellectual abilities fit into or not are accepted or not and are perceived in society aside from beginning to present bart lisa homer and marge's place in this context this episode already starts respectfully poking fun at nerds and geeks outside of the simpsons family via some of the dialogue from the students at the special school as well as some of the other references including purely visual ones this episode also shows that the simpsons isn't going to pull any punches by means of writing or talking down to its audience it may be just a cartoon but it's a cartoon that intellectuals geeks and nerds are going to understand more than anyone else and that fact aside from it just being a very funny show is the key to the show's longevity
1	frank langella steals my heart in everything he has ever been in i love watching him i was 10 yrs old 1979 when i seen him for the first time i eagerly await each and everything he'll be acting in hopefully one day i can see him in person he's very hypnotic and mysterious and that voice is commanding and strong he is very attractive even now at 65 he is absolutely stunning in my opinion he is the greatest actor iv'e ever seen i adored him in dracula along with a lot of other girls out there and in god created woman house of d jason and the argonauts and many more i thought he was genius can't wait to see him in good night and good luck
1	by in this drama ja rule who stars as reggie struggles with the loss of his father his old friend j bone who is a cold blooded thug recently released from prison helps reggie find who murdered his father a week after his dad died a preacher reverend came up dead reggie was suppose to be the one to kill him but did he did reggie kill reverend or was it some type of a setup back in the day also has a couple of romantic scenes see reggie falls in love with the preacher's daughter and j bone doesn't approve of his love fiend as j bone tries to destroy what they have reggie learns that love is about forgiveness but what j bone is doing does it work do reggie and his girlfriend break up or does it bring them closer together i like this movie because it leaves you wondering what's going to happen next and did this or that happen i like movies with suspense it kind of makes you want to be in the movie so that you could detect things i also like this movie because everything falls in place if you really pay attention to it
1	i watched this movie out of a lack of anything else on at the time quickly the movie grabbed me with the depth of the characters and subtle plot i was quite surprised to see that the rating given by my satellite provider did not show any stars br br i will not give any spoilers to the plot line or outcome but most of the characters had at least some redeeming value until the very last minute i did not know how it would turn out frequently you can pick up the formula and predict a story direction i could not do that with this film br br i would recommend this as one of the finer films of this genre
1	back in the day is an interesting but flawed effort ja rule stars as reggie cooper a honest but sad man trying to cope with the death of his father he meets his old friend j bone ving rhames who tries to force reggie into a life of crime reggie also falls in love with ali who is the preacher's daughter now he has to choose love or crime br br ja rule does a competent job as reggie at least he's trying to act ving rhames is perfect as j bone he brings a lot of energy and menace into the role joe morton as the preacher is his usual excellent self but he doesn't do much the same problem for giancarlo esposito as reggie's dad he needed more screen time i don't want to say this but pam grier is pretty awful as mrs cooper she overacts every scene and brings the movie down tia carrere and frank langella are in it but don't do anything substantial for the plot br br in the end you should see it for the skilled performances of ving rhames and joe morton and the grittiness of the writing and directing
1	i saw borderline several years ago on amc i've been looking for it ever since it was haunting visual textural sensual this movie took me somewhere like a dream and i didn't care where i will never forget the curtain blowing in the breeze i still remember the way it made me tilt my head i remember my facial expression when i saw it i didn't know what had happened when the movie was over but i find life is that way it didn't bother me the unfairness of the ultimate rejection of an innocent character strikes me as sadly real i loved the faces the way the camera dwelt upon them the camera gazed at the set with the unfocused eyes of a borderline was real to me in a way movies aren't it was exactly the lack of explanation color sharpness that made it enter my consciousness like a thief in the night i love this movie someday i will own it
1	the a team is still repeating every day on dutch television around and i still watch it i don't like the a team i absolutely adore them it is just great to see justin chasing the former members of a team brings back memories from the old days when i was young an sweet i would have given you a 10 for excellent but justin looks like he is chasing the former a team members all by himself of course that is the only bad thing on this documentary too bad justin does not look for melinda amy a allen but it is great to see mr t back into action too bad for him he does not show up at the party at the end but that party is too short to laugh again and to see everybody in action again
1	bring back the a team was a hour long special screened on channel 4 in the uk of last year and hosted by presenter and comedian justin lee collins the show attempted to track down and reunite the fellow cast members of the a team together for the first time ever on tv this has been something which has never been attempted before by anyone well not by anyone that i know of that is br br justin makes a great presenter and his eccentric personality and humorous banter shone throughout this programme the attempts he makes in getting hold of the cast members is ever so funny but also he was very persistent and eager to fulfil this task too which is a credit to him i'd say mind you he is great on tv anyway be it by presenting a show such as this or the friday night project with his co host alan carr br br there were appearances and interviews with dirk benedict the himself dwight schultz aka howling mad murdock marla who played baker jack ging aka general full bright the creator of the a team stephen j cannell and the big man himself mr t aka ba they were just fascinating to watch and hear what they had to say about the programme that became a global hit during the 80s as they reminisce and relive the good and bad moments of the show both during and behind the scenes unfortunately no george peppard but of course he is already in heaven understandably and strangely enough no melinda who played amy br br i just didn't understand why she wasn't featured in the show okay she was axed after 3 seasons or whatever but she was the first and original female member of the a team only to be replaced and so it would've been great to see and hear her side to the a team story in addition to the other cast members br br all in all bring back the a team was a great documentary style of show perhaps this could've been spread out more by means of which this could've been a six part documentary but nonetheless this was a great effort on the part of recommended
1	due to this show getting cut early i never realized why until i recently read the story behind the series i felt this show never got its dues as one of the greatest shows this show is iconic in nature and deserves the movie it was always intended to have if not with the original a team cast at least with the cast incorporated into the story line or a lengthy cameo perhaps at the end commemorate it to the late col smith this cast gave so much to bring happiness to us growing up they deserve one last heave ho the fact that the series ended openly because they slashed the series is reason enough this crew and cast made us realize as children the essence of being one of the good guys especially seeing how screwed up the world is today i think a milder version like the original should be put into motion i have already read the previews and i know these are not the plans but if anything a straight to dvd movie i sure would buy it i really do not get how crappy shows get series finales but this great show which still runs regularly today and probably gets watched more than some of the current garbage shows of today don't we will always remember the incredible hulk series knight rider airwolf and the a team because those kind of shows carry through time i am almost positive these knew ones you see about detectives will not even be remembered in 10 years so why not bring back something and show the people what staying power is all about and how these old shows really are all about
1	he did one at christmas to try and bring back a number one song and now the terrific justin lee collins wanted to reunite the cast members and maybe some crew of one of his favourite tv shows as a kid the a team the only member he wouldn't be able to get was the late great george peppard who played main character col john hannibal smith but he did get some kind of psychic to try and help he did manage to reunite all members including dirk benedict lt templeton peck 2 who went to celebrity big brother in 2007 dwight schultz capt h m howling mad murdock melinda amy amanda allen william lucking col lynch and lance col roderick decker the only member of the team to die he did talk to mr t sgt b a in an anticipated interview but he was unavailable to turn up at the reunion it was really fun watching him trying to find them and talking to them even though they probably didn't want to and the reunion of course is the great climax very good
1	even though some unrealistic things happen at the end i e a cop shooting a gun into a crowded merry go round where any number of innocent could be killed this still was an intense enjoyable thriller one of alfred hitchcock's better films robert walker is excellent as the chilling nutcase really convincing giving a fascinating performance that is almost too creepy at times his co star in here farley granger is okay but is no match for walker either in acting or in the characters they play it's the typical hitchcock film with some strange camera angles immoral themes innocent man gets in trouble etc unlike a lot of his other films i thought this one was a fast moving story with a very few dull spots being an ex tennis player i enjoyed his footage of some excellent old net matches that featured some good rallies hitchcock's real life daughter patricia has an interesting and unique minor character role in here she didn't just get the job because of her dad she can act also of note the dvd has both the british and american versions and there were some differences in the story this is a classic film that is still referred to in modern day films even comedies such as throw momma off the train
1	i thought it was brilliant it was great watching the presenter tracking each one of them down dwight schultz still looked the same he had hardly changed in looks neither had dirk benedict he still looked just as dishy i thought that mr t looked thinner though but it was still great to see how he looked after all this time i thought that it took some doing tracking down the other members of the cast such as the one who played decker and the lady who played amy it was just a shame that mr t could'nt make the actual reunion also it was a great shame that george peppard had died thereby leaving a gap so to speak i only wish now that i had taped it to keep let's hope that they repeat it again
1	for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings who love film have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you br br for those with a poor attention span high expectations and no brains well um you may get bored and find things dragging at times br br this is a charming modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through br br this film is a little gem
1	in an early scene luca david and james jeff are walking down a neighborhood street in chicago admiring the bucolic architecture when a woman angrily arguing in french on a cell phone passes by them prompting james to remark there's nothing hotter than an angry french woman a few blocks later they pass an old filipino woman also angry also arguing on a cell phone and luca remarks for referential effect there's nothing hotter than an angry elderly filipino woman br br the humor in jeff i want someone to eat cheese with is best characterized by the word quotidian the film is a conversation we might as well be eavesdropping rather than go for antics the film relies on character flaws and human curiosity to deliver laughs while it's not innovative it is far from banal and even if james views himself as being rather jejune we know that he is fairly average and this him br br self betterment is the primary theme of the movie sarah silverman who plays beth is excellent as the catalyst of change she revitalizes james and so reminds him to live a better life even so achieving some idyllic dream is not the end of these characters but rather something simpler that they might pick up what pieces there are of the life they love just to keep for themselves at least enough to carry on br br a movie about life lessons can be overwrought as it can forget to connect with its audience i want someone to eat cheese with is subtle and winsome and while its moral may not be inspiring it is still resonant this is low key comedy but it will stick with you
1	james aaron a chubby actor living in chicago is a man that loves to eat things that are no good for him that is made clear early on as dick a friendly store clerk advises him to stay away from junk food aaron an actor working at chicago's second city is a loving man with not much luck in the love department he still lives with his mother a spunky lady who encourages him to go out and enjoy himself james has another job in a sort of gross candid camera where people are set up for unusual situations such as surprising a mechanic and telling him he is the father of a daughter he never knew about br br on the day he meets his friend larry he gets to know about the casting call for the remake of marty his favorite film being a large man he clearly identifies with the character in the movie in many ways james' own life parallels that of the paddy creation in the picture he wants to try for the part because he knows he can do justice to the role br br one day he meets beth at a soda fountain james takes a liking to the woman who one day invites him to go shopping with her for intimate apparel he ends up having sex with her thinking they have a nice thing going but beth has a another surprise coming when she tells him the reason they went to bed was because she had never done it with a fat man after being disappointed james stumbles into an attractive elementary school teacher who seems to share his love for jazz at the end we watch james fulfilling his long dream of starring in a theatrical production of marty in a nursing home br br jeff who is an affable character man shows a talent for the type of comedy associated with his friend larry david although both men differ in acting styles his take on james aaron is right on the money as a director he has done it before although this is an original concept that he should pursue br br one of the assets of the film are the people involved in the project sarah silverman makes an impression for her take of beth bonnie hunt underplays her role of the school teacher to good results mina kolb is seen as his mother a role she has played in curb your enthusiasm with excellent results director paul mazursky is at hand also in a minor role joey slotnick tim richard kind david larry neumann jr gina gershon and the rest of the cast make valuable contributions br br jeff is a talented man whose next effort will be welcomed by his fans
1	jeff film is filled with heart and laughter as in curb your enthusiasm his screen persona is hilarious but in addition we get to see both warmth and a sense of emotional vulnerability that makes the story universal while the film chronicles his character's dreams of love performing success and weight loss it will appeal to anyone who dreams of a better life the supporting cast brings the frustrations and joys of his life to the screen in funny and heartbreaking ways the simple joys of food friendship and trying once again once life has disappointed us are all themes the use of music is creative and adds to the many pleasures of this film any fan of jeff tv appearances must see it
1	has the proliferation of relatively high quality shows on the proliferating tv networks made it possible for people to produce direct finance and or star in their own films who might otherwise not have been able to is that a good thing br br this film does not answer the latter question either way but it does appear that without curb jeff would not have been able to make i want someone to eat cheese with br br like most new producers directors jeff independent piece heaves a heavily more sensitive sigh than the vehicle he is primarily known for curb and yet is it a sensitive guy film he isn't really a sensitive guy likable sure relatable indeed br br what this film really is about is a bit hard to say i can only relate what i took away from it br br i rented the film because of the trailers particularly the scene of a counselor portrayed by amy sedaris informing james aaron that a particular woman is interested in him mainly because she is a chubby chaser i just about fell out of my seat based on that scene alone i ran to my computer to write a note to myself to rent this movie the reason i thought the school counselor sedaris was talking about beth portrayed by sarah silverman i imagined a romantic comedy between the foxy silverman and the fat i didn't think the story would be anything original but that the dialogue would be snappy and the scenes would move along at a satisfying pace in short i thought it would be a comedy br br it was intriguing that the film started out that way but then took a much much more realistic turn when beth gives james the heave ho because i've never really been with a fat guy before that is how brutally we live life and it was completely realistic i applaud the decision it just meant that beth has now left the building and with her the one snappy person in the film br br james's relationship with his mother was also interesting that part made me wonder if the whole concept did not start out as a play it had that intricate feel to it the whole marty movie within a movie thing was utterly lost on me as i have never seen that film br br there were serious doubts i had about the character of james aaron though is it really possible that at 39 he had not had a serious relationship and he is an actor that did not really square with me to me his persona was less actor y and more corporate i could not really buy his ordinariness either no doubt he was extremely disappointed that things with beth did not work out we felt that but then did he really care br br another thing how in the world can both he and his mother afford to move out at the same time hasn't he just lost his job the last one he had that was one reason he did not seem ordinary to me where's the funding for his life coming from br br and yet i have read reviews that talk about the realistic portrayal of urban loneliness so there is that yes it is very realistic the way we must be satisfied with what we have because it is all that we have the way we sort of disappear from ourselves and each other in interactions james and stella some kind of self that takes place just to move on to the next moment that contrasted with the possibility of defining ourselves through our moments our thoughts the way james had with beth it's really crushing br br very well done
1	outdoes himself as writer director actor in his indie production about a big guy wandering around chicago with an eye for every woman he sees the laughs keep coming almost every minute it's a somewhat dramatic and serious story about a man looking for love but done with great comedic writing and acting the supporting roles are also very well done and very funny and really make the movie rich br br rose is hysterical in her receptionist role taking you right into the mood of the rest of the film sara silverman is awesome with some of the great bits she does with jeff bonnie hunt is classically great in her role i only wish there was more of her in the film as i think most will agree it's certainly refreshing to see her in a tight leather outfit br br david was the aloof detached sidekick and voice of reason mina kolb plays jeff's mother who he lives with there were numerous other cameos all of them done very well br br at the premier jeff mentioned his inability to do more with bonnie due to production issues still it's good to leave you wanting more i think it's that indie thing of keeping some things ambiguous to let the audience do some thinking for themselves to fill in the blanks the wordy title should clue you in to this br br jeff said some of the basic characters were based on his past relationships this explains why they work so well real life people are always unusually colorful and makes great characters he departs quite a bit from what you might expect having seen curb your enthusiasm and some of his other work it's one of those break out things where an actor takes some risks to do something they maybe always wanted to do but couldn't br br i think it's noteworthy that improv second city background and hunt's for that matter set the style here of acting being the focus of the story and the directing it's perhaps a new innovative hybrid of improv meets indie film making
1	is unquestionably a comedian's comedian and a comedian to anyone looking for a good time his first film which is entirely his own creation and production tells the story of a struggling chicago actor james aaron with whom jeff obviously identifies he wonderfully juxtaposes james to paddy marty and to jackie gleason's poor soul as he exposes james' dilemmas with an array of actors that in real life are jeff's friends many who are fellow second city alumni br br he delightfully uses sarah silverman's cuteness and scathingly absurd humor to exemplify how despite common sense and talent life's contentment can too often belie unyielding frustration bonnie hunt gives an endearing performance as a romantic interest br br don't let a simple story mislead you the characters and conflicts are well thought out and ring true those that follow career and understand that his humor is based on telling reality humorously not necessarily creating fiction which too easily can be contrived will appreciate his dialogue driven story br br we surely will see working much more as director and writer with other talented intelligent comedic actors who undertake the great challenge of making life funny
1	my original title for this review was going to be ending disappoints film triumphs but i actually thought about this one on the way home it is not the fairy tale most of these films are it takes turns that are different and while its ending is at first disappointing it slowly sinks in and hits the core on a satisfying tone br br the plot follows a man named james aaron curb your jeff who also wrote and directed a struggling actor who lives in chicago with his mother and deals with both his obesity and his inability to find someone to love br br yes it sounds corny but it experiments with elements that make it somewhat unpredictable and actually makes you wish it were longer the ending came kind of abruptly and had me saying that's it but once it starts to take it's toll it really makes you smile br br it does have many tones of seriousness throughout but fear not for it is also very funny some scenes offer huge laughs and those who have seen jeff stand up will recognize a couple primarily when he gives a speech at career day for his niece's kindergarten class and bombs it begins on somewhat of a serious note that you do not expect but what follows is very funny entertaining and quite poignant as well it is the kind of movie that you keep watching and always enjoy and as i said before while the ending may seem absurd at first once you take time to think about it is a true joy
1	any movie that offers bonnie hunt sarah silverman and amy sedaris in the supporting cast has to be well worth watching and comic actor jeff takes advantage of the terrific talent he recruited for his 2007 directorial debut a sad sack comedy about an overweight man who feels out of step with the world around him familiar as larry david's manager jeff on curb your enthusiasm plays james a still struggling 39 year old chicago actor who still lives with his widowed mother his self esteem is so low that he can't meet women but it's the comical way he views his single status that makes his dilemma involving if the storyline sounds a bit familiar that's because the film is partially a tribute to the 1955 ernest borgnine classic marty about a lonely bronx butcher living with his meddlesome mother in fact uses marty as the play which james is desperate to do since he is so empathetic to the character's situation br br naturally there is a love story of sorts in this new millennium version and silverman plays beth an off kilter sexually voracious ice cream parlor server who takes him on an underwear shopping spree their best scene together is in his favorite convenience store where they improvise different characters in different aisles hunt plays a lonely elementary school teacher who shares a passion with james for jazz musician ben webster they meet accidentally in a record store and then again at a career day at her school where he hilariously exposes his sexual neuroses in front of a classroom of first graders including his best friend pert daughter penelope played by dakota fanning's look alike baby sister elle in a wedged in cameo and looking quite a bit like jerri blank sedaris plays the school's counselor who speaks to james after his inappropriate monologue david plays luca a retirement home manager and his scenes with have an easy rapport that makes their friendship easy to believe almost stealing the movie is character actress mina kolb who plays james' pixilated mother with pluck and heart br br there are also unexpected cameos from teen idol aaron carter and gina gershon don't the set up is funny as well as sharply played bits by director paul mazursky as the snaky director of a candid camera type show smear job tim as the unsuspecting victim of that show and dan as the tough love convenience store owner with his rueful bouts of insecurity and self loathing comic sensibilities resemble those of albert brooks and the casual dialogue at its best reminds me of modern romance and defending your life the one persistent problem i had with the film is pacing as some scenes dragged out longer than necessary the problem is more evident in the first half when is trying to establish the right tempo and the lack of real conflict adds to the regardless what he does well is capture that gnawing sense of desperation one feels upon the revelation that life is not what it is supposed to be that a significant other may be out of reach and that a steady diet of junk food eaten on a car hood is the only sure thing when it comes to gratification
1	alfred hitchcock has made many brilliant thrillers and many of them have gone on to be hailed as some of the greatest films of all time one film that tends to get somewhat lost under the vertigo's and the psycho's is this film strangers on a train the most compelling film that hitchcock ever made the story follows guy haines a tennis player and a man soon to be wed to the senator's daughter if he can get a divorce from his current wife one day on the way to see his wife he meets the mentally unstable bruno anthony aboard a train and soon gets drawn into a murder plot that he can neither stop nor stall and one that could ultimately cost him his life br br the conversation aboard the train between bruno and guy is one of the cinema's most intriguing and thought provoking of all time what if two people swapped murders thus resolving themselves of all suspicion of the crime and rendering their motive irrelevant could this truly be the perfect murder what makes this film all the more frightening is that the events that guy is lead into could happen to any normal everyday person everyone has someone they'd like to get rid of so what if you met an insane man aboard a train that does your murder for you and then forces you to do his the chances of it happening are unlikely but it's the idea that anyone could be a murderer that is central to the message of strangers on a train and in this situation anyone could br br is there any actor on earth that could have portrayed the character of bruno anthony any better than robert walker the man was simply born for the part he manages to capture just the right mood for his character and absolutely commands every scene he is in the character of bruno is a madman but he's not a lunatic he's a calculating conniving human being and robert walker makes the character believable his performance is extremely malevolent and yet understated enough to keep the character firmly within the realms of reality unfortunately robert walker died just one year after the release of strangers on a train and i believe that is a great loss to cinema nobody in the cast shines as much as walker does but worth mentioning is his co star farley granger granger never really impresses that much but his performance is good enough and he holds his own against walker also notable about his performance is that he portrays his character as a very normal person and that is how it should be ruth roman is guy's wife to be she isn't really in the film enough to make a lasting impression but she makes the best of what she has alfred hitchcock's daughter patricia takes the final role of the four central roles as barbara the sister of guy's fiancé she is suitably lovely in this role and she tends to steal a lot of the scenes that she is in br br alfred hitchcock's direction is always sublime and it is very much so in this film there is one shot in particular that sees the murder of the film being committed in the reflection of a pair of sunglasses this is an absolutely brilliant shot and one that creates a great atmosphere for the scene hitchcock's direction is moody throughout and very much with the film noir style the climax to the film is both spectacular and exciting and i don't think that anyone but hitchcock could have pulled it off to the great effect that it was shown in this film it's truly overblown and out of turn from the rest of the movie but it works there is a reason that hitchcock is often cited as the greatest director of all time and the reason for that is that he doesn't only use the script to tell the film's story but he also uses to camera to do so as well strangers on a train is one of the greatest thrillers ever made its story is both intriguing and thought provoking and is sure to delight any fan of cinema a masterpiece
1	did a great job nice concept well executed and tightly produced came across as a very sincere story as a fan of curb your enthusiasm where jeff was pretty much the straight guy role i was delighted with how much depth he brought to this role in a simple yet effective portrayal br br much of the humor was understated and subtle and drew on poignancy which i really liked rather than being slapstick or over explained and there were some nice little surprises and twists the convenience store vignettes were a delight br br when i say it is a wonderful small film i don't mean budget or quality it is simple intimate and hand crafted it tells a highly believable everyday story relax and go see it let it wash over you and you will feel good for having done so
1	turner and friends are closing in on hbo for the top spot among made for tv movie producers this is a nicely paced contemplative thriller of sorts william macy is stellar as always and adam arkin offers one of his better performances a bit more lively than classic hitchcock but not as in your face as typical movies of its type a slight case of murder eases you in and never lets go note i saw a preview copy which means i didn't have to wait through commercials those interruptions may hurt the pacing but you know this will be available on video sometime
1	i saw this last night at a screening for a marketing company it is and was a lot of fun to watch it held my attention all the way through and did not seem to lag at all i'd recommend watching it when it airs
1	not a stunner but a good movie to see once or twice bill macy shows he can do more than just act his writing was pretty darn good great supporting cast especially jamie cromwell as the extortionist private eye br br the movie's greatest strength is the work of macy who reminds us of his jerry role from fargo he has numerous scenes where he is extremely funny as a slimy manipulating and deceitful character it's enjoyable to watch him be a weasel and for a while i was happy that things were turning out well for him out of four
1	this one was a surprise and better than most films i've seen recently highly enjoyable from start to finish this is a film that will surely satisfy 99 9 of movie fans worldwide great acting from everyone great script great story and fantastic plot and twists try not to miss it
1	i can not say this movie was a hilarious but i must have had a grin on my face the entire time i like this darker kind of comedy very bad things 8 heads in a duffel bag or coldblooded br br the way the main character tries to get away with murder is a lot of fun to watch to me it was not much of a surprise what the ending would be but the way that ending came about was another thing that sticks out is the way they have managed to involve the audience the way terry looks at us is hilarious you can almost pretend you're his accomplice
1	william h macy always gives a good performance he never looks lazy and never seems like he'd rather be somewhere else in short he's what more actors should be like a slight case of murder is directed by steven who went on to do two more great films with macy door to door the wool cap br br television movies have long been a dump of overdone acting poor cinematography and sub par scripting that's why it's so refreshing to see a tv movie that does exactly what it's sort of film was created for to tell a small story not a simplistic story that does not require viewing on the big screen br br a slight case of murder is light entertaining fare and an great watch br br 7 6 out of 10
1	just as in columbo we see the fatality occur right at the beginning what follows is an escalating web of lies sex blackmail and murder the investigating officer adam arkin is even somewhat of a fumbler not unlike columbo it is william h macy as the movie critic suspect who carries the film constantly twisting and turning the plot sends macy deeper and deeper into the quicksand of his perfect crime william h macy fans will enjoy a slight case of murder as will those who like crime capers with all kinds of delicious possibilities add some well timed comedy and this is very similar to a fine episode of columbo highly recommended merk
1	a slight case of murder is an excellent tv movie which is defiantly worth the price of a rental william h macy is great as a movie critic who accidentally kills his mistress and then has to try to conceal the crime although that may sound dark the film is actually quite light hearted and funny with many memorable lines acting is harder than i thought you ever see body heat i think i owe bill hurt an apology and my personal favourite for next week answer these two questions about film noir what do these people do during the day and why is it always raining the film has a great supporting cast including macy's real life wife huffman james cromwell and adam arkin a must see for macy fans
1	william h macy is terrific in this alfred hitchcock esque film macy stars as a film critic who accidentally kills one of his girlfriends the characters that ensue are hilarious james cromwell gives a terrific performance as a blackmailing private detective as always macy is incredibly funny and gives a phenomenal performance see this movie whenever it is on t v and check your video stores because this is one you don't want to miss
1	one would have expected hitchcock's return to major studio filmmaking to err on the side of chastened caution surely few expected his most riotous unrestrained film a gleeful melange of vicious black comedy exciting suspense mocking manipulation and astonishing flights of fancy but that is precisely what they got strangers on a train br br what is remarkable is how much bruno's transgression disrupts the world of the film much has been made of the masterly crosscutting motif but its immediate effect is to completely obstruct the straight line of progress guy is making of his life and hence the society he represents or is eager to join guy is the archetypal american the working class boy made good moving in influential circles athletic successful handsome bruno is his destructive opposite gay decadent he lives off his father in a big house and just lounges about dreaming of murder bruno's life is one of repetition circularity whereas guy moves straight ahead it is bruno's achievement to move guy into his realm represented by the merry go round and force him to break the law hope for murder bruno's br br bruno is quite literally fighting patriarchy all the authority figures in the film are criticised bruno's father a man whose brutality we get a glimpse of but the true horror of which is constantly alluded to in the film especially in aunt clara's paintings that incredibly intense negative energy must come from somewhere anna's incredibly machiavellian self serving father the insensitive judge who thinks nothing of after an execution the tennis commentator whose smugly comments are always mistaken far from being the mother hater of legend hitch as robin wood perceived is deeply hostile to fathers and patriarchy br br bruno's transgression turns the world topsy turvy this is hitch's most surreal film whenever guy is in his plot he is filmed straight with conventionally romantic music but whenever bruno intrudes the atmosphere becomes bizarre much more fun this is hitch's first truly american film revelling in the primitive detritus of americana grown men puncture little boys' balloons or try to throw them off merry go rounds distinguished professors of mathematics sing about goats on trains elderly society are strangled at elegant washington is filmed like a series of spare lines in a vast desert under a huge sky like a haunting dali painting there is one of the greatest and funniest scenes in all cinema when we see a motionless smiling bruno in a sea of turning heads at a tennis match an image worthy of magritte just look at any scene with bruno in it and watch it derail into the bizarre br br abound in the most ridiculous permutations check all those balloons hitch had obviously just seen the third man as well as in more staid environs washington will never look the same again strangers is also vertigo notwithstanding hitch's most overtly sexual film as well as the there is the sustained homoeroticism the remarkable play with horses the fellatio joke when hitch's daughter spills powder over the policeman br br and yet hitch doesn't stint on good old suspense in the very proper endeavour to show what a great artist he was critics tend to overlook what made him famous in the first place much has been made of bruno as a prototype of norman bates and hitch plays merry havoc on audience identification willing bruno into murder there is a hilariously painful sequence where bruno loses the lighter with which he intends to frame guy down a drain the gasps of tension and sighs of relief on the part of the audience i was a part of in support of an insane murderer is inherently funny slightly disturbing and highly revealing about our true reactions to conformity and success and hitch milks it with callous glee listen to the mocking music and compositions and kick yourself for taking it all so seriously br br strangers is one of hitch's five best films and therefore one of the greatest things in cinema the dialogue is so strange and brilliant i can't believe it wasn't written by chandler patricia hitchcock is a wonderful imp standing in for her cheeky father as she taunts guy the fairground finale is a remarkable dizzying fusion of exciting tense set piece black comedy and symbolic site if bruno's final words condemn him to hell according to the catholic hitch is supposed to embody compare with a similar ending in the killers we applaud his integrity infinitely preferable to guy's debased serving of self
1	s shines as nanny in this touching and vibrant look at the life of ruben santiago jr marcus franklin while growing up under the of nanny the film gives a good character study of both nanny and ruben and manages to capture life's ups and downs in a realistic fashion unlike so many memoirs that are made into film the supporting cast adds much spark and many recognizable faces appear in smaller roles including mos def macy gray terrence howard rosie perez louis gossett jr liev schreiber jimmy ernie hudson delroy lindo and patricia loses some steam and vibrancy towards the end and the ending sequence leaves a bittersweet feeling but overall a great film with a truly outstanding performance by
1	william h macy is brilliant as everyman caught in a desperate situation starts off with a bang and never lets up twists and surprises are fresh unpredictable use of film noir clips and frequent quotes and references to 30's and 40's flicks makes this a delightful must for movie buffs
1	this was a riveting film one that really drew me in i'm a big fan of william h macy and he puts in a wonderful performance his great likeability coupled with the way his character breaks the fourth wall really gave me a sense of complicity in his actions i found myself waiting tensely for the whole house of cards to come collapsing down around him and by extension myself as his confidante and silent witness it took several minutes for me to relax once the film had ended i was so wrapped up in it br br good performances all around too not just with macy arkin was quite good as was cromwell he was surprisingly fierce in short i highly recommend this film to any fans of macy and or the murder mystery but you may want to prepare to feel a little guilty
1	co scripted by william h macy from arguably donald e westlake's best and hardest to find novel a travesty very faithful to the story the movie stars macy as a hapless man who gets in way too far over his head after attempting to cover up an accidental death costars adam arkin and james cromwell in good supporting roles the strength of the movie is in the intricate twist after twist storyline and in the acting particularly by macy who routinely and delightfully breaks through the 4th wall here and gets away with it every time a good storyline with much dark humor this one engaged me enough that i've watched it three times in the week since it came out prepare to your critical faculties and emit a loud
1	after learning that her sister susan is contemplating divorce kate decides to travel to the distraught woman's remote country home and spend some time with her when kate arrives however susan is nowhere in sight that's because someone has murdered her and stuffed the body in a trunk in the basement as a storm rages outside kate tries to figure out where her sister could have gone and places her own life in great danger the killer is still on the premises in her first post bewitched vehicle elizabeth montgomery gives a solid dramatic performance gerard's teleplay is based on a short story by tale was first brought to television in 1962 as an episode of boris karloff's thriller anthology series thriller stuck very closely to the story which is kind of a pity for it could have used a little punching up granted wrote a moderately creepy number but gerard creator of the one step beyond show adds several clever ingredients that heighten the tension and suspense
1	i first saw the victim aka out of contention well over 25 years ago when i was very young being a passionate fan of bewitched since i was a child i loved to watch anything that starred elizabeth montgomery this movie was and still is a real treat whether you are a fan of miss montgomery's work or not elizabeth always shines in her roles such as her portrayal as the rape victim in a case of rape and as the suspected murderess in the legend of lizzie borden her performance in the victim as kate a terrified woman trapped in an isolated house during a storm with a killer after her is brilliant if you like exciting suspenseful thrillers than this is one movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat till the end another great performance well worth mentioning is that of eileen who plays the eerie and suspicious housekeeper unfortunately like most of miss montgomery's movies the victim is not available on dvd and i believe that although it was released on vhs some years ago it is a rarity these days i was lucky to have taped it when it was aired on television some ten years ago and so have a nice copy of this very good movie a must see
1	i remember watching an elizabeth montgomery movie when i was maybe 5 years old if that and to this day i can remember this movie in just bits and pieces it was the movie i remembered all throughout my life because i was sooo scared i think i remember the story part of it and the house constantly being dark the main part that was the most freaky to me was elizabeth walking around the house all dark and then there was someone in the field outside at the time i thought i was an old witch but the memory of it is now way hazy so i can't really remember who it was but it was someone definitely in a field outside lurking and that part is what freaked me out the most i really wish i could see this movie again if anyone knows how to get a copy please email me at yahoo com
1	i remember watching this movie when it came out as a t v movie of the week in the early 1970's br br although i haven't seen this movie in over 30 years i remember how creepy it was the sister's dead body in the basement the storm raging outside the creepy house with no electricity and a killer still on the premises br br they just don't make t v movies like this one anymore elizabeth montgomery was a very underrated actress and i liked her in not only but several of her post bewitched roles such as this one and 1975's the legend of lizzie borden br br i really wish that someone would come out with a dvd that has several of the 1970's t v movie of the week on one dvd wouldn't it be awesome to watch when michael calls bad ronald don't be afraid of the dark crowhaven farm etc all on one dvd i know there is a market for a dvd like this for all of us baby boomers who grew up in the 1960's and 1970's maybe if we are lucky someday someone will offer us a dvd with a great selection of t v movies like this
1	i believe that this is one of elizabeth montgomery's best performances in a movie and i have seen most of her movies i saw this for the first time on television when i was around fourteen and i was so scared i watch this movie every now and then and i still enjoy it very much i know that these days that this movie would probably not scare people too much that just goes to show that the public movie and television audience has seen too much graphic violence in the last thirty years or so i love movies that do not show the graphic details you let your imagination do the work for you the cast in this movie was top notch jess walton who played the sister in the story was very good even though her part was rather small she also played in a terrific made for television thriller around the same time called you'll never see me again with david hartman i got the biggest kick out of eileen performance as the housekeeper eileen was so good as a lady with a very bad disposition george who played the husband was quite effective this story obviously had a lot of so called mistakes in the plot but i love the movie anyway i highly recommend this movie to people who love a good thriller without graphic violence i gave this movie a vote of seven
1	this excellent movie starring elizabeth montgomery is long overdue for release in dvd form the same can be said for her earlier also excellent movie a case of rape i can only hope that my comments spur some enterprising soul into placing both elizabeth montgomery movies on one dvd to be made available to her many fans i for one believe this excellent actress's role was unfortunately stereotyped by her role on bewitched and as a result more serious acting roles were not made available to her i am confident that if these two movies perhaps even a trilogy with the legend of lizzie borden were released in dvd form her fans would set the record straight on how highly they regard her serious acting abilities
1	i thought this movie was pretty good ok so maybe it had a few scenes that could make people think of other horror movies but i have seen a lot more pathetic movies that got much higher ratings than this many movies nowadays are remade to a more modern version and there's nothing wrong with that it keeps the story alive i don't think this movie was pathetic at all and i'm not just saying that because i'm a major chad michael murray fan but because i enjoyed it i was on the edge of my seat for most of the movie and my friends and i really enjoyed it and we were talking about it the whole way home i would tell my other friends to watch this movie i'm not saying it's the best movie that's ever hit the box office but it's a lot better than some people are describing it to be everyone has their own opinions so if you really want to know whether it's good or bad watch it and then decide
1	cam archer's lyrical boldly captures the disorienting kaleidoscope that is adolescent desire with a lush rendering beautifully photographed by aaron platt that is more vibe than narrative caught somewhere between documentary and dream recalls the inventiveness of early todd haynes and the vivid of gus van sant with grit glamour and heartbreak it's kinda like the movie equivalent of sonic youth playing bubblegum pop
1	i've heard a lot of different opinions about this film and then to find out that paris hilton was in it as well didn't give me the best impression of the film then to be dragged to the cinema by a group of my friends and sit there expecting a pile of pants i was shocked to find that i was scared stiff all the way through the film it was predictable yes but the build up of the deaths and the whole atmosphere of the film made it really scary for me i was watching through my fingers the whole way through so i say go watch it and decide for yourself and if the fact that its a scary film doesn't convince you to go watch it then it also has chad michael murray in it which can't be bad to watch for a couple of hours eh
1	i loved this film i have been waiting for this film to come out so i could see it i saw it opening night and loved it some people told me that this film wasn't any good and to stay away but i thought it was great the actors did great and it was scary and made me jump paris hilton did a great job for her first film everybody is giving her a hard time when she did great and she didn't even have that big of a role the set was great has it was made of all wax and how it was made the two brothers did a great job and the death sense were great the killers were really scary and made me want to close my eyes and not look at them i can't wait until this film comes out to video so i can get it and see it over and over again the over view of my review is go see this film if you like films and you will not be sorry i loved this film i give this film a 10 out of 10 it rocks
1	this is the ultimate of horror movies this year house of wax is one of the scariest movies i've ever seen this version really puts the vincent price version of the movie to shame i only know a few of the young cast in the movie the ever troublesome paris hilton the pain in the you know what seems to be more seductive than ever at least she didn't try to copy her infamy well if she likes to do horror she's better than wheel of white she beats hands down and the scene of where house of wax was made was no joke the house was made of wax and the victims were able to get out of there before the get waxed like their friends those two twins bo and vincent the deformed twins were maniacs from the get go the parents raised them well except for vincent and i think they became equally warped how come the the one in the other pick up happen to be creepy but not as bad as the other two that's another story in the book i guess he had to follow his heart and not the other twins who turned ambrose into a tourist trap for unsuspecting victims this movie is like the phantom of the opera meets the rocky horror picture show and this movie is one of the scariest one in 2005 rating 4 out of 5 stars
1	i think that anybody whose dumb enough to risk being a wax dummy just so they can go to a football game or they don't want to leave their car to get stripped deserves whatever happens to them br br the guy wade who went to a barbershop and asked for the he man haircut wasn't my type but there's this really cute scene of him having his eyebrows and facial hair waxed that's a little too high maintenance for me br br also fun but not my type is the fat guy in the big sunglasses who looks like elton john only gayer but that whole plot goes nowhere br br blake was hot i could see myself with him if he wasn't so into his girlfriend who is a phony paris hilton in a bad wig no in her handbag though but that would have been really precious i don't think girls who look like that go to football games anyways nick the car thief is the sexiest one of the best parts is where a football lands by him and instead of throwing it back he chucks his cigarette down and it burns the football see that's just the kind of guy he is he has a sister who looks dumb borrowing his white wife beater her bra straps are showing for like 1 2 the movie br br mostly you will just want to wax your legs and not ever go to football games after seeing this
1	people are stupid you shouldn't cheer when paris gets killed in the head with a pipe it is plain rude what did paris do to you what if that was you you wouldn't want people cheering for your death anyway it was really gory which i liked and it was cool when finger gets cut off it was weird with that twist that they didn't have 2 sons they had tree and all it makes way for a house of wax 2 or something paris was great acting in the chase scene elisha and chad chemistry is great they deserve an oscar my friends and i were cracking up when that guy said that's hot when paris and the guy from cousin making out lol k bye
1	i saw this movie on it's opening night and enjoyed it i probably would have enjoyed it more if i hadn't been sitting by my father my father saw the original unfortunately i have not seen it yet and kept talking through the whole thing he kept saying that the movie sucked and that it was stupid the thing is he didn't understand that the creators were slightly making fun of the horror genre with the film in every horror movie there is always a certain character depicted if they weren't in the movie well you might not really like it too much the trademark characters are br br the lead character carly elisha cuthbert the lead character's boyfriend wade jared the lead character's sibling soon to be reformed jerk nick chad michael murray the annoying sluttish character paige paris hilton characters who are just around to look pretty dalton jon abrahams blake robert ri'chard br br with those characters it makes it slightly predictable who will die and who will live obviously you know who will with what i just typed the movie may be predictable in fact i had a pretty good idea who would die just by watching the trailer but it was still enjoyable it may seem stupid why is there a sugar mill in the middle of a deserted camp site that wasn't there in the beginning at times but it is very easy to watch the comedy and gore were the perfect amount for weak stomached movie goers it does get gory don't get me wrong less than final destination 2 but it works very well so in conclusion this movie wasn't as hot as the fire the set went up in but the temperature could still burn the wax
1	ok so paris hilton sucks in it typical malibu barbie but the rest of the actors are just great i watched the film last night and it totally kept me going thru out the whole film chad michael murray is and he's just a ace actor total hero man the main girl who is the sister to nick chad is such a brilliant actress thumbs up i think it's so different to films out their these days most of them to go with possessions ghosts but here you have a theme about wax i totally got creepers out by the wax models in the house although they looked so real i still haven't got the story with the twins at the moment i am just waiting to get the dvd then watch it all over again thumbs up to such a great film 11 10 all those people who don't like it please don't bother 2 criticise my opinion as mostly everyone thinks its cool to do so also i think the paris scene when she strips to her underwear is totally inconvenient why not just get a dog shagging some cat be more entertaining then that when paris death scene came up i thought it was poor as she still kept running although a knife just went up her foot hmm interesting br br chad all the way
1	this was the greatest movie i have ever seen in my life the action was great and i was so scared there was a lot of gore which made it great i would see it 1 000 more times and paris hilton d mn she fine in that movie but anyway i would recommend it to anybody even kids like me adults like it to you would probably have nightmares at night though but beside that it is awesome i cant stop bragging about it ever sine when i heard about it i and and in school i gave out saying may 6 house of wax see it i got my whole school into it but anyway i would definitely it may 6 house of wax be there it be slayed
1	this is one of the best horror suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill thrills and yes a lot of gore house of wax sure delivers in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax i myself enjoy these museums but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way
1	i usually give horror films around 6 10 but this one caught my eye house of wax was by far the best horror film i have seen even better than the amityville horror br br paris hilton was quite good in this and i must say has a good future ahead her death scene was probably the coolest i'll just say how she dies br br she gets a giant pole right between her eyes and they close ups on and everything gory eh brian van holt was very good as both the killers bo and vincent vincent had the long hair usually he plays a mean cop or soldier but he did very well in this br br eliza cuthbert and chad michael murray also acted very well as carly and nick jones nick took the spotlight in the first half of the movie then eliza stole it back by enduring a lot of pain in the second half like getting the finger clipped off ripping her lips apart after they got glued together and getting a straight forward punch in the face by bo br br overall i give this movie an 8 10 fans of horror films must see this
1	beautiful that one word pretty much sums up this whole film everything from the cinematography the directing the acting brilliant at any point of the film you can pause it and you will no doubt be looking at something mosaic or artsy fartsy as some people would say i assure you that after one viewing will be stuck in your head i know this from first hand experience even the soundtrack is great it goes together very well with the tone and pace of the film be thankful that cam archer exists in this world we need more people like him to make films that show love and shame in totally real and surreal imagery
1	probably the best horror movie in 5 years there's been lame remakes attempts to make you scared when all they make you do is walk out of the theater and movies that just shouldn't have been made but this one is worth it the only reason i didn't give it a 10 is because paris hilton is in it but her death scene makes up for it believe me br br so here they are the spoilers of all the death scenes in the movie br br 1 my favorite death scene ever paris hilton's after finding her boyfriend blake laying on the ground with a knife sticking out of his neck paige starts to run well speed walk is more respectable she finds this like garage with all these cars in it then one of the killers cuts her ankle from below this whole time shes holding a huge metal spike so she drops it and runs and hides behind this car the killer picks it up and as she looks through the window he throws it through the window and it shoots through her forehead i've never been so excited or laughed so hard in my life br br 2 paige's boyfriend blake gets a knife stabbed into his neck and then the killer walks up to him while hes on the ground and steps on it pushing it farther into his throat then he dies br br 3 elisha cuthbert carly one of the hottest chicks ever doesn't die phew but she does get her lips super glued together punched in the face and gets part of her index finger chopped off yeah i felt like heaving 4 twin brother nick also survives but not without getting his ass kicked and a stab wound to the leg br br 5 nicks best friend dalton gets thrown down a flight of stairs and then is decapitated his body is dragged away and we see his eyes blink then he gets covered in wax br br 6 wade boyfriend gets his achilles snipped by a massive pair of scissors and then is attacked by the same scissors he doesn't die but hes covered in wax and on 2 occasions his skin is accidentally removed revealing his nasty bloody flesh yummy br br so there it is definitely worth your money
1	admittedly before seeing house of wax i assumed it would simply be a second tier low quality teen slasher film following in the footsteps of such movies as the darkness or amityville horror after catching an advanced showing at my college campus i can honestly say that the people at dark castle have done an excellent job with the task of making a slasher br br starting with the usual staples of a teenage horror film such as the small group of friends departing on a road trip coming across an odd detour taking them through country back roads meeting creepy locals after the slow but mandatory back story this movie really reaches a fast clip paris hilton appears in this film as many already know but i really have to give it to her for her ballsy performance clearly her acting wasn't worth an oscar but the filmmakers use her appearance to its fullest by squeezing two blatant satires of her let's just say less noble media appearance into this film ms hilton also claims the title for the greatest death scene in the movie and not simply because it was her death scene br br this movie is full to the brim with jumpy moments and cheap scares but serra has definitely created quality suspense and tension between the characters the causes for the horror are in part based on making the audience care for the characters which we do by making the usual buildup followed with a loud noise and jerked camera some other scary moments these standard movie techniques adopted from many movies past are almost perfected with this film and provide many good scares in fact there isn't a slow moment after they get to the small town where the dreaded house of wax museum is br br this film owes a lot to many previous movies of this and other genres though i'm not too sure how much came from the original 1953 movie of the same title references to such movies as both texas chainsaw saw and even titanic see paris hilton's big death scene and you'll know what i mean are common but in the end the payoff will leave you scared and fulfilled if you are looking for a good scare with a few laughs not bad
1	carly jones elisha her bad boy brother nick chad michael murray her boyfriend wade jared and her friends paige paris hilton and her boyfriend blake robert richard and dalton jon abrahams travel to another city to watch an important game they decide to camp in a field halfway and proceed their journey on the next day however the fan belt of car breaks and he stays with carly to buy a new one in a close town where there is a house of wax when they arrive in the place they realize that the place is a ghost town and two deranged former siamese brothers have transformed people in wax statues br br i liked this house of wax indeed a worthwhile teen horror movie the story follows the standards of the texas chainsaw massacre and other slash movies and it is well made has a good team of actors and actresses and special effects and the death scenes are amazing even if the movie were not good watching the sexy and delicious paris hilton is worth my vote is seven br br title brazil a casa de the house of wax
1	i recently saw house of wax and must say i really enjoyed it br br it's been one of the better horror thriller films in the past few years if not one of the best and most entertaining br br i've heard a lot of people bashing the so called slow start and character development which takes up the films opening 45 minutes br br yet if the film dived straight into the deaths audiences and critics would have criticised the film for not having decent characters who they couldn't care less about br br well as for the character development i think it worked amazingly well br br taking into my own response and others from reading posts off the message board a lot of people ended up wanting the characters to live one of which i've noticed many people mentioning being paige edwards paris hilton taking into consideration warner bros have been marketing her death its a surprise turn around that many audiences ended up cheering her on for survival br br speaking of the chase death scenes they were some of the most inventive and suspenseful i've witnessed in a while and enjoyed each one very much br br the acting in the film was absolutely fine i couldn't fault any of them especially paris hilton i thought she was very decent and i was hoping for her the get more than a mere 25 minutes screen time in a 120 minute film yet her chase scene made up for that and believe me when i say paris can act scared watch the scene where she's hiding in a car from vincent and he walks past her the look of terror on her face comes across as very real br br overall i give house of wax maximum stars for entertainment value and suspense and even gore only criticism is i wish that during the marketing for the film they hadn't revealed the death list and who dies and who survives as it would have been ten times better not knowing if the character being chased was going to live or die and horrible death br br can't wait for the dvd but go see it at the cinema while you can it won't be the same in your own front room yet if you do wait for the dvd watch the film in the dark with no interruptions trust me you wont be disappointed
1	ok maybe it doesn't deserve an oscar or a golden globe or any award for that matter the acting isn't outstanding there's no reason to give credits to the directing and its really just another semi gory 21st century slasher flick that most people will consider just decent or maybe even dreadful but in my opinion all of this doesn't matter a bit and thats because i had a great time watching this movie br br sure the first 40 minutes are pretty slow but as the movie progresses something in it you will like if you are like i was and anybody else should be when watching this movie and that is looking for 2 hours of fun mindless violence and a kick ass ending which i won't spoil yes there are many flaws in this movie but don't let the cast list on the front cover fool you hilton delivers a decent performance that nobody saw coming even her greatest haters like me and my friends had to agree that she surprised us greatly with her barely believable acting skills and a strip tease that wasn't as nasty as anything an online pop up would promise of her but still not so unbearable as to fast forward or turn off the dvd br br the violence in this surprised me nobody at school or on the horror board was talking about it like they were about these new movies called and 'hostel' but i could safely say that wax was more graphic than saw and some death scenes were actually quite disturbing br br in conclusion i'm not surprised house of wax didn't make a place on the imdb top 250 but it is definitely worth a look
1	my college theater just had a special screening last night of this film i have got to say that i think everyone was impressed with how good this movie was though my roommate didn't care for it but he's not into horror movies anyway and just went to see if paris hilton can act by the way if you're worried about that don't be i'm not exactly one of her fans but i must be honest and say she was pretty good and she has the best death scene overall all the actor's were very good i'm not gonna go into detail for the plot since i'm sure you know about it the characters are pretty engaging and you actually care for them especially elisha cuthbert and chad michael murray's characters we meet them as rival siblings and end with them having to work together another plus is that it does not have the sleek look of amityville horror or texas chainsaw massacre and feels almost documentary like rather than a music video don't get me wrong i loved texas chainsaw and enjoyed amityville br br now for the death scenes in most slasher movies whenever a character is stabbed or killed the scene immediately cuts away to another scene but not in this one when a character is about to die they die pretty gruesomely but the filmmakers don't stop there and add a little something extra each time for each victim i won't say anything about the death scenes and will let you see them for yourself br br while this is a great slasher movies it does have the flaws of almost all slasher films exploring a creepy house when you shouldn't be getting a ride with a suspicious character splitting up and screaming so the killer can hear you also there is a kinda stupid plot twist that was unnecessary and didn't add to the film at all you could tell it was just added in at the last moment and if you took it out it would not have affected the movie at all br br basically if you are a horror film fan see this movie you will not be disappointed it's got all that's needed to make it a great slasher film possibly the best of the year even though it's kinda early the suspense is felt and it is at times a funny movie if you hate horror films chances are you may like this one and if you are divided i encourage you to give it a shot
1	1 2 elisha cuthbert chad michael murray brian van holt paris hilton and jon abrahams directed by serra br br yet another classic horror film remade with headed teenage acting despite grizzly and creative deaths based on the 1953 vincent price film house of wax where a maniac kills unsuspecting teenage hooligans and turns them into priceless wax figures still with the fantastic set design to make the whole house into wax the movie is a typical classic horror remake like tobe hooper's 1974 classic texas chainsaw massacre later remade despite creativity and so so acting the movie was still just a gore picture director serra showed mild enthusiasm with his directing but still worth watching my final rating 7 10
1	i've never seen the original house of wax so i really didn't know what to expect when i went to a sneak preview of the new film after a somewhat wobbly start introducing our young characters house of wax shifts gears and becomes an extremely effective horror outing br br the plot really doesn't matter too much here i think most people know upon seeing this that these stranded kids are going to meet up with a nasty killer and find some awful things in the titular house of wax it's all about the special effects here and they are top notch viewers who like their horror movies with lots of blood will be satisfied here but there are other ghoulish effects as well the production design and sets are excellent and the cast makes the most of their under written roles br br of course many people are probably wondering just how paris hilton's performance is to be honest hilton acquits herself quite well and she doesn't portray herself as so many people are predicting her character is sexy and sweet and i think her good work will hopefully change a lot of people's opinions about her elisha cuthbert is also good moving up from her previous movie the atrocious the girl next door her character is put through a lot and cuthbert proves to be a feisty heroine chad michael murray like hilton and cuthbert is pretty to look at but unfortunately is not very convincing as the bad boy of the group br br i predict good things for house of wax as the audience at the screening i attended hollered screamed and clapped through out many parts of the movie congrats to the cast and crew for a job well done br br and a congrats to paris hilton for proving a lot of people wrong like she always says that's hot
1	i do not think that this movie deserves the low rating that most will give it it's one of the best teenager horror films i've ever seen and that's saying a lot nothing is left without an explanation to back it up the characters and plot break countless horror movie stereotypes and it has got nothing to do with some other horrible pieces we've been submitted to lately a clear example is the mindless saint ange the first 30 40 minutes might be downright boring with the exception of the beginning although some minor light mistakes can be easily spotted after the arrival to the village though the horror a different twisted kind of horror begins br br with the plot and the details goofs are minor the characters are this movie's strongest point given that so many clichés are broken in it for example the two main male characters nick and wade are not by any means the idiotic types we're used to although dalton might fit better in this stereotype not is he the only one to pay for this lack of consciousness some scenes are truly satisfyingly horrible making up for tense moments scattered around all the film and in the end and although everything is explained it's easy to see that things won't go so easy to the surviving characters br br the only errors i can see and which do not imply continuity ie carly not finding her own cut finger in the unconscious bo's pockets is the illumination which is somehow annoying during the first boring 30 minutes although plot and effects wise everything is drastically and cruelly twisted with the arrival of the main characters to that little village in the midst of nothing so i'll give it that it's been pretty much argued that about 70 of the movie is illogical how can two people build an entire house of wax where do they get all the wax from these wouldn't be uprising questions if people would have paid more attention to the movie the sinclair brothers did not build the house of wax their mother worked making actual wax figures and they were exhibited at the museum and the scenario where paris hilton's unfortunate character meets her untimely death is the answer to the second question what is with all the personal objects mobile phones cars clothes of the dead people using their third brother as a connection with the exterior it's pretty much arguable that the sinclair twins should obtain the money necessary to buy the wax in a wwii type fashion br br so that aside i think the movie deserves a lot more than it gets and nobody should lose the chance to watch it so go see the house of wax right now
1	while house of wax will never be mistaken for texas chainsaw massacre or halloween it does try and ultimately succeed in being a worthy addition to quality horror film making there is enough tension and enough implied gore in here to please the young audience of today and there is also enough explicit gore to please some of the purists of yesterday overall it is quite a well done film that should do okay on dvd br br six kids on the way to a football game get stranded in a deliverance like setting and what ensues actually looks like it may have been taken out a discarded sequel and the backwoods hicks seem to taunt the group eventually the group has to break up and half of them head into the desolate town to get some car parts the other half of the group stays behind at camp and this sets up the second half of the film br br house of wax has many strengths the first is that it is blessed with a very likable cast paris hilton is fine in her role but she is far from the focal point chad michael murray elisabeth cuthbert and brian van holt are three very charismatic actors and their presence in the film adds some panache some credibility and some flair i had never really heard of chad michael murray only that he was a pin up type teen heartthrob but he has a presence to him he imbues an intangible to him that seems to translate into his performance he is instantly likable and he possesses a strong character trait i enjoyed his performance much more than i figured i would and when he was on screen the film flowed br br the question now becomes is this film a worthy horror film and the answer to that is a resounding yes as i mentioned off the top it is not in the same class a nightmare on elm street or last house on the left or even the ring but it is relatively tense quite graphic and there are some very inventive death scenes this is not the house of wax that your parents told you about vincent price is nowhere to be seen and when you start seeing fingers being cut off and hot wax covering comatose bodies you realize this film is a little on the edge br br i'd like to see an uncut director's x rated version i bet there is one out there somewhere that would be much more violent than this one be that as it may this is a very good entry into the horror genre and it is heads and shoulders above weak films like i know what you did last summer and dark water and a few others it is definitely worth a look br br 8 10
1	dylan and bobby are boyhood friends and they are in love the way that young boys sometimes are but dylan has met a girl and is starting to put those boyhood things aside bobby knows that he's not interested in girls and misses what he had with dylan br br told as part cheesy 80's pop video part home movie part video recollection this film tells a confusing and sad but all too often true story that will hit home with many that see it br br this film brings back a lot of memories and struck a very true chord with me but i wish the film maker had gone a bit further and left it on a happier note yes we all love and lose even when we are young but there's always tomorrow especially when we are young
1	i wasn't expecting to much of this movie when i went into the theater but i had been waiting for it for many years to sum it up it was pretty damn good chad michael murray was pretty good i thought he was going to be another chris flynn from wrong turn but i was wrong elisha cuthbert was also good but the best performance has to go to brian van holt he played the bad guy too well i mean he was sick sadistic and very cruel the back story between the brothers was good plus i liked how no killings took place until about 40 minutes into the film it gave you time to pick the character you wanted to see live and the one you wanted to see die jon abrahams was pretty good as the goofy best bud of cmm i liked how chad kind of cried when he found him dead it was better then just him being like whatever my buddy is dead who cares it showed how he really cared so overall this was a darn god slasher with some great effects bravo
1	i do not think i am alone when i say that 2005 has not been particularly kind to the horror genre while cursed hide and seek the ring two and the amityville horror all showed glimpses of interest and potential there have been more misses than hits for proof see white noise boogeyman the jacket mindhunters and alone in the dark imagine my surprise when house of wax tightly written by siblings chad and carey hayes turned out to be well a surprise br br carly jones elisha cuthbert is a young woman traveling with her trouble making brother nick chad michael murray and boyfriend wade jared they are along with paige paris hilton blake robert ri'chard and dalton jon abrahams hoping to score tickets to the final football game of the season along the way they run into some car trouble and are forced to enter a desolate town where nothing is what it appears to be br br upon hearing of this a remake of the classic vincent price b movie i rolled my eyes i did not even want to think about what disaster freshman director serra had cooked up for his audience in a time when most high profile horror films are disappointments latent with bad writing static direction and amateur acting i consider myself lucky that serra and the hayes brothers took it upon themselves to make a good old fashioned spook fest unlike the disappointments that i named before this flick pulls no punches and uses every cinematic trick in the book to give everyone exactly what they came for br br i am happy that the actually took the time and effort to create likable and believable characters thus making the events that much more urgent it also gives the young actors portraying them something grip on as she did in the girl next door elisha cuthbert proves to audiences what a skilled actress she really is in the 2003 remake of the texas chainsaw massacre jessica biel silenced naysayers by delivering a raw and emotional performance one that put the viewer right there with her here cuthbert does the same chad michael murray a cinderella story in one of his first more mature roles is no slacker as nick murray exudes charisma and a hard edge as well as some impressive athleticism on top of it murray and cuthbert gel perfectly and have tangible familial chemistry br br more so than anything else the press and the american public have made a field day about paris hilton's major acting debut as i expected hilton does not embarrass herself in fact she is just as good as anyone else in the movie do with that what you will like cuthbert and murray hilton has screen presence she is sexy and playful i cannot think one of reason why she's gotten the worst of the film's harsh reception other than they are simply picking on her jared tv's girls' memorably manages to overcome his underwritten role robert ri'chard tv's 'cousin and jon abrahams meet the parents do not have much to work with but get the job done with only one scene damon herriman soar makes an unforgettable impression and his presence hangs over the rest of the film finally brian van holt basic is superb and threatening in a dual role br br once more kudos must go to the screenwriters for avoiding clichés whenever possible despite popular opinion house of wax is quite unpredictable for a majority of its running time take this for example it seems as if the killer is down for the count and carly bends down to retrieve something from his pockets what do you expect to happen see the movie and you will understand what i mean it is also refreshing to see a horror film in which the characters show even a modicum of good sense br br unlike most horror scores john exhilarating work never distracts however as with dark castle's other releases the visual aspects of wax are award worthy and lift the film above its genre trappings the talents of cinematographer stephen f production designer graham walker art director nicholas mccallum and editor joel negron highlight the ghoulish imagery speaking of imagery i believe that the gore hounds will be thrilled with the many makeup effects and tricks in store here each death scene is more stomach churning than the last considering his past in music videos and commercials it is obvious that serra has a great eye for style his in your face approach is a great asset to this film's success just when you think the camera will turn away it does not he is also particularly good a building thick layers of dread and atmosphere one standout shot is our introduction to the killer as he slowly emerges from a trap door br br in a case like this i would usually admit when i am in the minority shut up okay i liked house of 1000 corpses in this case i firmly that the detractors have gotten it wrong i am not sure why people are so hard on this film considering it's much better than recent genre entries maybe they're afraid to admit that a horror flick starring paris hilton could possibly be worth watching who knows this is a horror film and a commendably stylish and effective one at that as a lifelong horror fan all i can say is that i thoroughly enjoyed house of wax in all of its lurid and sadistic glory i safely consider it a great accomplishment in modern horror as well as along with sin city the first completely satisfying release of 2005
1	i saw a sneak preview of this tuesday night with a group of friends and we had a blast after seeing sneak peaks for boogeyman horrible 3 10 and amityville remake so so 6 10 i enjoyed this a lot more as seen in the trailer one knock i had was believing that a whole town could be forgotten but this is a cheesy popcorn horror movie so i accept it for what it is br br my only major complaint is i assumed paris hilton would touch wax or get dipped etc and moan that's hot but they didn't do that how could they resist br br there is no nudity from the 2 girls although paris looks great in her lingerie i'm surprised they didn't put a 3rd hot token victim in the movie for some needless nudity which is the norm for this type of flick i won't list any death or plot spoilers but i will say that paris eliza both get roughed up good br br the characters are developed decently and are somewhat likable not like cabin fever where you wanted them to die and the movie has a decent pace although nothing happens in the 1st 30 minutes like most horror films br br i give it a 8 10 as it delivered good scares and gore and i had low expectations going into it if you go with some friends that like cheesy horror movies you'll have a good time br br noah
1	a lot of people are flaming this film for the presence of paris hilton but this is not a fair reason to object to the movie the reality is that paris has a fairly minimal part she spends the vast majority of the movie off screen the film also makes fun of her on several occasions usually involving a camera and at least once in night vision for those who enjoy paris stage presence this may be a movie to see at home when its released on video because at the screening i was at we all laughed at her misfortunes through the movie and she is portrayed as a woman of questionable values br br the movie itself was pretty good unlike the recent flood of weak horror flicks it has everything a good horror should a creepy villain excessive violence acts which make that average person cringe this movie hit all the bases it is definitely worth a watch
1	i'm not sure why this film is averaging so low on imdb when it's absolutely everything you could ever want in a horror film this is the definition of being a horror film i consider myself to be a big horror fan and i must say that this house delivers the goods house of wax is the story of a group of college kids on their way to a football game whom decide to camp out for the night and have a run in with a local weirdo upon waking the next morning they make a gruesome discovery and decide to go into town for a broken car part the town is creepy and i'm just gonna stop there because thats when the truly gruesome mayhem begins trust me when i say if your looking for a horror film go see this you will love it it's wonderfully diabolical and inventive with it's killing scenes the story is interesting and the characters are decently drawn with the actors giving them gobs of personality paris hilton included whom does quite well with her part the film lies a little on the shallow side but it's so much fun and who cares this movie should eat up the box office and all horror fans should have part in it go see house of wax the film that features skin being peeled super glued lips dead animal carcasses hot wax sprayed on a still living person a finger being cut off a decapitation a pole through the head and much more i was lucky enough to witness this film at the tribeca premiere and all the actors were on hand to promote the film and boy do they have something to be proud of house of wax is the scariest roller ride of the year 9 10
1	lana turner proved that she could really dance up a storm in this 1940 charmer about the ultimate sacrifice that her sister joan blondell makes for her br br when both sisters come to new york they follow blondell's beau a wonderful george murphy in this film br br as fate would have it the director of the show is impressed with turner but sees nothing ahead for blondell except a job as the cigarette girl not only does blondell miss stardom boyfriend murphy eddie falls for turner as well so as not to hurt her sister turner is ready to marry the producer of the show a wealthy womanizer who has wed 4 times br br the story concludes as best as possible with blondell taking a fast exit back to nebraska look for paul ford as a gossip columnist in the film he is hard to recognize due to the date of the film and the fact that he is much thinner the film leaves you with the question of whether ford and blondell could ever get together br br blondell as the devoted sister sacrifices both career and love for her sister this film is sentimental and might have worked better if it had been shot in technicolor br br few realize that george murphy the future republican senator from california was quite a song and dance man in his day
1	the revelation here is lana turner's dancing ability though she was known privately to be an excellent nightclub and ballroom dancer miss turner rarely got the opportunity to demonstrate this ability on film br br so viewers take notice here mgm were clearly still trying to determine in what direction they would develop the still young starlet and were therefore her to everything from andy hardy to doctor br br in two girls on broadway however she is given an excellent opportunity to display her native rhythm and ability to shift tempo in the lavish production number my wonderful one let's dance this number is conceived and filmed as a sort of hybrid between a busby berkely style extravaganza and the sort of routines hermes pan was designing for astaire and rogers at rko br br thus the number opens with george murphy and miss turner depicted as bar patrons with full chorus before a curtain of black lame wherein mr murphy croons the number to miss turner then the camera on a boom pulls backward in a remarkable crane shot to reveal an enormous stage and a rotating set equipped with steps columns and sliding walls br br from this point on murphy and turner execute a fast stepping variety of moods and attitudes including lifts spins soft shoe and ending with an electrifying series of conjoined pirouettes that concludes with murphy both lifting and rotating turner with thrilling speed to a racing orchestra br br all told a dizzying feat that proves miss turner was fully capable of more than holding her own as a dancer though i daresay most of her admirers would balk at relinquishing her from her throne as the queen of melodrama
1	i never realized what a fabulous dancer lana turner was until i saw this movie she was only 19 years old and gorgeous what a pleasure to watch her dance with george murphy the story line was typical for its day but the dancing was really special i never tire of watching fred and ginger but lana turner in this movie was just as terrific i always thought of lana as a so so actress who tended to over act she should have done more dancing and less of the x and peyton place roles i had a new appreciation for her after seeing this movie and her wonderful dancing too bad the academy doesn't give an oscar for dancing
1	i was really surprised to see that unlike most documentaries this was written directed and produced by a film critic richard most of the times i know of where film critics had major involvement in films the films turns out to be bombs rex reed starring in myra breckenridge and roger ebert writing beyond the valley of the dolls are prime examples however in this case the critic's powers are used for good and not evil and the results are better though this isn't saying much as the films i just mentioned are among the worst films ever made br br as for the documentary it's narrated by clint eastwood a pretty good choice and manages to discuss his long career from his silent days until his death in the early 1960s the only negatives and they are slight are that the film is awfully short as are most film documentaries and there is very little about gary cooper as a human being you really don't learn all that much about his life however as a nice overview of his films it works very well
1	richard 1991 documentary about gary cooper gary cooper american life american legend gives us a look at the tremendous all american star through his films and his life narrated by clint eastwood the theme is definitely gary american as we are taken through fast clips of his many appearances in westerns and scenes from meet john doe mr deeds goes to town and sgt york the best part of the documentary is the home movies of cooper and his family as well as his childhood photos showing him as a beautiful blonde kid with the sunny smile he would have his entire life there is also a hilarious clip of cooper on the jack benny show doing the comeback on the number bird dog and benny loses it the documentary also takes us briefly through his tumultuous affair with patricia neal which nearly ruined both their lives br br there's a certain cohesiveness missing from this bio retrospective it jumps around a lot and has no footage of cooper being interviewed which would have added a lot also clint eastwood's narration was described as unobtrusive what it was was boring and monotone given that cooper himself tended to be the strong silent type on screen we could have used a little animation br br on a personal note gary cooper was one of the handsomest men who ever lived there were some looks at him in his early films but not nearly enough for this fan that smile those lips that bone structure he was handsome throughout his life but in films like morocco and desire he is devastating instead of sitting through a scene from one of his worst performances as howard in the fountainhead giving a speech that he admitted to the author he did not understand a young suave cooper in a tux would have been a nice touch this documentary alas was definitely produced by a man
1	very enjoyable 50's western i have it in my collection and recommend it to western fans br br mostly victor mature's movie and quite well done in my estimation br br he's a trapper who joins a frontier post as a scout red cloud caught three of them on their land and took their possessions they all joined as scouts after their loss br br victor has set his eye's on the colonel's wife and lives life on the post without much regards to regulations br br action done quite convincingly but no great depth or much feeling to other characters br br 50's westerns are my favorites and this slides easily to a satisfaction a western of this kind is in the pages of the past and perhaps never to be made much again one to enjoy gave it a 7 rating likely 6 8 worthy but films like these become more precious over time br br for film noir fans the big steal they live by night side street are most wonderful movies to be enjoyed bought and viewed noir seems to resemble westerns in a way some long ago and never forever
1	exclusively for coop's lovers though clint eastwood very strong though unobtrusive presence is a great asset of this very good documentary film it is a biography of gary cooper based mainly on his filmography but also on more private archives which show him as a child as a young man as a family man with some of his friends picasso hemingway etc as an older man finally as a sick and close to death man after the end i did not have the feeling that i knew the man any much better but i have spent a very good moment re viewing many of the best moments of his movies and my respect for the very talented actor and great professional was increased tenfold the film shows most interestingly how the career of cooper can be paralleled with the evolution of usa society before and after ww2 two of the great moments are the time when cooper has to answer justice about communism in the movie world and when james stewart a very great one too received an award for cooper one month before his death i'm not a weeping pot but that was a close one watch it if you can it is so much worth while if you love cooper that is or an older america
1	are you crazy or what this movie has talent who are you to criticize a movie that was made by famous directors and producers i mean you must be watching some crappy version because if you had a proper version you wouldn't think its some low resolution game graphics br br this movie is for people who enjoy hongkong cinema the other side to what asian people enjoy watching you are such a sellout hongkong cinema is totally different to that of hollywood hk cinema is in a class of its own br br so if you don't enjoy watching movies from hongkong producers don't go and ramble on about how its a waste of time to watch just let other people enjoy the movie br br and personally i've seen this movie and i love its story and the way it was made
1	this film was adapted from the well known sutra on journey to the west where a monk with his three students seek out to find a long lost book with regards to the teaching of buddha br br though this movie is not as solemn as the previous films made according to the legend it did however managed to bring in romance and fun filled humorous scene br br this real objective of this movie revolves around more on the monk who were primarily saved from being eaten by demonic flying creatures one of his student the monkey god managed to get him out from the battle in the nick of time but were in turn captured by the demons and cast into the deep throat of a dragon locked up in that particular dungeon br br the monk awoke in a small village where he found mei yan the so called ugly serpent daughter who fell in love over him at first sight though ugly she did not let her appearance be casted aside from getting to him however a quest for rescuing his three students soon turn out to be filled with obstacles and each of which turned out to get worse with mei yan following the monk problems crept deeper and this is where conflicts between the relationship gets worse br br the rest of the tale would be left at your own disposal but suffice to say this film does not depict the typical storyline of the book it is more for those who wants to seek out for a funny and light picture of what journey to the west and the love obstacles really mean br br towards the very end the whole summary could be described with only one word and that is love the monk went to show the heavenly gates the celestial palace and buddha himself how love can overcome even the worst fear of all and deemed fit as the most powerful weapon that can be used against any enemy of superior powers br br a wonderfully created and funny acts awaits those who buys this ticket there would be of course no regrets at least from my side and those who were with me at the cinema that day watching the same film
1	right this may be the wine talking but this could be the best movie i've seen in a very long time granted i spent much of the first half an hour wondering what the hell was going on but once i had accepted that i would never understand everything from the subtitles i was able to enjoy the film br br can you really hate a film where a staff turns into a flock of birds that defecate over the enemy what does character development matter when faced with a lesbian alien princess whose people built the pyramids why does buddha wear seriously diamond earrings does any of this matter when faced with the sheer sumptuousness of the visuals and the sly humour of the characters any battle for my heart was won once i saw the main protagonist dressed as spider man awesome many people will complain about a lack of story cohesion but for a fun movie to laugh about with a bunch of mates you can't do better especially if you do an alcoholic shot every time someone says i will love you 10 000 years
1	story chinese tall story tells the story of righteous monk who along with his guardians monkey sandy and make their journey west on a quest to recover ancient finally they reach the final leg of their journey in city but all is not as it seems when the city is attacked by evil tree demons monkey tries his best to battle them but is overwhelmed knowing his master is in grave danger he uses his trusty golden staff to thrust to safety br br the monk ends up being knocked out when he land and when he wakes up he finds himself in the presence of a young lizard imp named who takes quite a shine to our young hero after many verbal misunderstandings becomes convinced loves her so when the monk decides he must rescue monkey and the others she insists on accompanying him so the mismatched pair begins their adventure together br br review okay so it's another journey to the west movie which isn't a bad thing to me since i love the story and the characters associated with it so i was a little excited to get my hands on the dvd so i think i'll start off my review with the story which is all over the place at first it was your standard fantasy film then it became a ridiculous comedy then suddenly became full blown sci fi if the director jeff lau was experimenting with mixing genres then he did a pretty scatological job with this movie i think it's a pretty unique approach by having the story centre on a character other then the infamous monkey king especially taking a character as pacifistic as and then putting him into what is at it's core a love story so overall i liked it br br the acting is for the most part solid with leads nicholas tse and charlene choi putting in some really good performances though ah char does spend most of her screen time behind some rather ugly make up the supporting cast is nicely put together it includes all the usual main stays so and isabella leong make appearances one actor i'd like to mention is wilson chen who plays the monkey king he did a good job with the limited material he seemed to have been given he played a version of the monkey king who was subdued yet arrogant i had a feeling he'd be twins effect ii territory but fortunately that's not the case here i hope he gets to do a follow up to this with himself in the central role since the film does leave itself open for a sequel br br okay so let's get down to the directing which again is kinda all over the place lau gives too much time to the stephen chow esquire nonsense comedy which includes a scene where in order to toughen himself up dresses up as spider man which i assume lead to many a head scratching moment since the film is meant to be set in ancient china he does create some really nice and tender moments between the two leads and does delve into sappy territory but this reviewer does enjoy a bit of sap on occasion so it didn't bother me in the slightest br br right now onto the cgi which for the most part is quite bearable there are a lot of moments which probably belong on a ps2 like many other reviews have stated but there are some cool moments particularly the scene in which monkey battles a flying minion a lot of the cg gags are provided in the form of the golden staff which turns into a range of different things ranging from a giant fly to a mech suit straight out of the matrix revolutions so yeah it sounds crazy but i guess you'd have to see it to believe it br br right so in closing a chinese tall story isn't a movie without it's flaws but it keeps itself together long enough to be able to entertain and generally be a overall enjoyable movie if all of the above doesn't swing you to see it how about i put it this way it's much better then twins effect ii
1	another go round with the monkey king going west sort of br br beginning in the middle of some action the movie just goes from the first frame onward br br a monk and his three disciples go to a town to get the sacred that will bring peace to the world once they are translated and spoken to the world but an evil force has intervened and kidnapped all of the children of the town the evil force wants the monk because if you eat him you will live forever the battle the forces of darkness before forcibly sending the monk off for safety the monk thinks he can win simply by reasoning with the bad guys the monk ends up with a bunch of lizard imps who plan at some point eating him however the bad guys arrive and he's off an odyssey with the ugliest of the lot br br can a movie that starts off the rails go off the rails don't get me wrong i really liked this movie but its so scatter shot and all over the place that plot and logic simply fall away as some scenes simply pick up mid action with no way of knowing how we got there the final battle to rescue the disciples is completely out of left field this is one of the messiest movies i've seen in a while but it made me laugh and smile like no get out the movie starts and you have no idea where things are and then whats on screen is either interesting or funny and you just go with it how do we get from thing to thing is often beyond me its full of odd asides and strange references as we go from heaven to the ocean to space to the rib cage of some mythic beast to god knows where this movie floats all over the place which helps keep it fun since you don't know where it will end up and is the reason m keeping details to a minimum and its funny very very funny at times br br and the action is very good even if a good chunk of it is unabashed cgi animation which provides for some cool images the golden staff the spider attack formation the angel in flight and its very touching action and comedy aside this is actually a wonderful love story its the story of an ugly imp and a monk who end up falling in love and having other complications its a interesting look at the nature of love and what is true love you will be moved br br however much i enjoyed it i was still annoyed by its scatter shot construction the films inability to hold its ideas together and to tell a complete story really hurts the film and takes away from the enjoyment every time we get to a bump in the road the bumps take you out of the movie itself and make you realize how much is being cribbed from other sources br br absolutely worth seeing since it does have many choice moments just be prepared for some bumps and you'll have a good time
1	the weakness of this comes from the confusing storytelling plots often coming out of nowhere but it really didn't matter because i still enjoyed it to it's full length once you actually accept that this movies not to be taken too seriously then you'll enjoy it even more it's basically a love story a confusing one at first but as it evolves it really is something worthwhile sure it's been done so many times before but the complicated version of this is quite inspiring and touching br br the over the top fantasy and cgi was overwhelming at first but i still enjoyed its purpose and people quit whining about how it borrowed from other movies guess what we know and it doesn't really matter because its purpose was to humour and entertain sometimes people has to stop being so critical and think for a moment before they start yapping about comparing this to hollywood standards is utterly stupid and ignorant it's a totally different style and target audience as far as i'm concerned some the best films i've feasted my eyes upon are from eastern producers and directors there's your police story 4 shaolin soccer kung fu hustle dragon tiger gate fist of legend hero crouching tiger etc i for one like this movie and from the philippines us england libya and now australia i'll always be interested in these types of films now try and judge my perception but i warn you i do see things from from the point of view of those 5 countries i've lived in so you better be as experienced and open minded
1	the scarlet coat is about arnold betraying his country but he really isn't in the movie too much the main focus is on major cornell wilde and major andre micheal wilding wilding steals the movie as a officer and a gentlemen also as a to as tries to uncover who is the man leaking to the british wilde has to deal with the british the dr o dell george sanders who watches his every move and love anne francis this is a very enjoyable movie
1	one of the intriguing aspects of this historical drama is the way the tories or british american loyalists are portrayed and the sort of gloss given to their ardent support for king george iii in many ways the american revolution was definitely a family affair in that some of the wealthier colonial families were split asunder by it if there is a strong criticism to be made of this film it is that perhaps the people in this story are made out to be a little bit nicer than they were in real life br br in some regards the actions of the character of major played by cornel wilde make him the least likable member of the cast and the flaw in the storyline he seems to vary from being a prickly kind of patriot to being a kind of for the cause ' fellow this film does concentrate heavily on the notions of personal honor and personal prestige which were a major social in that day and age br br in its subtext the fact that about twenty five percent of the colonial population was decidedly pro british is glossed over too but the strength of the tory element is not obviously maligned although the good doctor character is about eighty five percent upper class twit to steal a fine phrase from monty python's flying circus anne francis does a whole lot with a rather thin section of the script and it stands out she was a good choice for the woman of divided loyalties a who was rather more modern than the social conventions of that day might have allowed if there had not been a life and death struggle going on br br one good aspect of the film is the way the rivalries of the american revolutionary leaders degenerated into outright jealousies and how these personal conflicts very nearly sabotaged the entire revolutionary effort all in all the leading characters are very well drawn the minor characters are not just human props and the fight scenes are believable enough to carry the dramatic action br br this is a great spy movie it's not quite a great historical drama but it does satisfy well enough it rates a seven largely because cornel wilde is so deeply immersed in his role and does it so well and because anne francis makes the most of her supporting effort br br the color print used on turner classic movies was very clear as well and so it was an enjoyable presentation in that important regard br br hope it runs again soon
1	scarlet coat like most revolution flicks wasnt well received but is nears perfection in the art of movie making a great character study of john andre the heroic redcoat who is revered by both friend and foe for courage scarlett coat also probes the duality of the undercover agent as a counterfeit traitor bolton befriends andre and undertakes a high level penetration of british intelligence yet he defends andre in andre's the film captures the moral ambiguity of the spy br br how much of the spy's world is real which reality does he belong to the reality of his or the reality which the cover story creates br br andre's capture and is a success for bolton in his mission beyond that wahington would have ever demanded the mission was merely to identify the traitor in us ranks bolton has knocked out enemy intelligence as well yet bolton mourns the death of the man he was sent to destroy br br ann francis plays a stock american character compliant with the british but willing to engage them in a war of wits br br a movie well worth revisiting
1	i enjoyed this film which offers a variety of interesting subplots and complex love hate relations along with interspersed action scenes and some lighthearted moments in which the mountain men counter harsh army discipline all the main characters are well cast true john wayne or robert mitchum could probably have done the starring role just as well but victor mature certainly comes across as a headstrong brawling tarzan of sorts reminds me of his film role as samson another difficult but not impossible man to tame br br the mountain men in the opening scene are certainly an anachronism as the era of pure trapper mountain men pretty much ended 20 years before with the collapse of western beaver populations as well as the fashion market for beaver pelts this story supposedly takes place in oregon just before the end of the civil war judging by the volcano in the background of the opening scene probably mt the fictional fort was located somewhere in a remote section of the as we never see any other civilians however there is plenty of conflicting evidence that it actually takes place in the mountains of wyoming or montana red cloud the war chief who threatens the and soldiers in the fort is the namesake of a very famous sioux war chief who led a very successful campaign in 1865 66 to exterminate the newly built army forts in wyoming and montana fort laramie eastern wyoming is mentioned as being not too far removed from the fictional fort the plains tribe of is mentioning as joining red cloud this aspect of the story then bears a general resemblance to historical fact br br it may be of interest to note certain resemblances between the plot of this story and that of john ford's fort apache in both cases we have a fort commander who was recently assigned to his first frontier post with native american problems he underestimates the military prowess of his adversaries regarding them as little more than cannon fodder to promote his career in both films he pays dearly for his inexperience in dealing with the enemy also in common the greenhorn commander resents a subordinate who has long experience with the local native americans and wants to tell him what is wise to do and not to do in both films we have a budding romantic between a woman very close to the heart and a subordinate which the commander does everything to clearly the commander must be eliminated to allow these romances to proceed to completion br br i also see certain resemblances with the misfits the soldiers as a whole including the commander are misfits of a sort as one of them admits mostly they have problems or are raw recruits with no experience fighting native americans the wife apparently is the only woman in or anywhere near this fort thus is inherently a misfit with a husband who is very uncertain of his future in the army the in turn are also misfits not really wanting to accept army or civilian discipline yet cut off from their previous free spirit lives by the recent army generated antagonism by red cloud br br finally we can also compare this story with anthony mann's later film the far country starring jimmy stewart in stewart's case he can choose to return to being a loner cowboy at the end but mature's character doesn't come up with an appetizing new way of being his own boss red cloud has made life outside of the army in this region too dangerous to contemplate besides he has an obsession with the wife
1	i can't get this flick off my brain it's definitely totally different than anything that's out there i've seen a ton of movies over the holidays and while some are okay nothing really rocked my world the way did there is just something way cool about the actors and the way that they put the film together it's like there is really scary stuff mixed with with some pretty f ing hilarious black humour franco is great but the older rough dude steals the show in a few scenes like when he punches the kid out in the dirt grave i guess some politically won't appreciate the vibe don't bring your grandma but it is totally awesome the thing that's best is the style there is some really serious stuff mixed with super interesting footage of the road the movie really makes you sad and scared in parts but it also spins your head with what is happening and the way it is filmed wtf is up with the world sooo many critics are raving about all these supposedly revolutionary ground breaking films and when you see them they're boring and predictable and not all that i don't get it because there are a lot of other better choices blind spot is really kinda great because it gives you thrills and chills and major upcoming star power but does it in a way that is completely fresh and definitely totally rad
1	it reaches the minds and feelings of everyone driving them deep in the black desert a brutal but beautiful world that is explored through memories and edgy layers of sound and score the landscape develops its own persona paralleling the inner geography of all three characters as their stories unfold the stark void of lost love the fear of the unknown and then transcendence of emptiness through the very openness of this desolation three misguided souls fighting to find something absolute and positive in all that negative space the drama is compelling james franco and his co stars deliver deft performances naive schoolboy suicidal blonde embittered car thief all converge with unexpected twists together they create an explosive portrait of fractured love one that unwittingly to mend amidst the hardest forms of adversity and illusion the blindness of human emotion
1	blind images are great the action draws you in completely even though the movie is a bit long by the end credits all that you can think about are the film's positive high points the lead actors have the most incredible screen presence the story is heart wrenching the film score is nicely understated completely moving in its own powerful way not your standard melodramatic cuing trance like moments add poetic resonance to the engrossing narration and terrific visual compositions hope you get a chance to see this film it delves into some dark territory but you come out of the tunnel seeing nothing but white light
1	james franco is totally cool in this movie not just handsome and charismatic but genuinely open and vulnerable in a sincere kind of way at the tristan screening some folks were on his back for being pouty and sullen and doing the whole james dean thing but i don't think this true blind spot is proof positive of his tremendous talent in this film he carries himself with a different sort of weight entirely it's a unique performance bittersweet and really moving the lines from his journal cut you like a knife you sense a sharp intelligence of observation behind his words the tone is everything he carries it through the action and suspense as well as the grim bits of gallows humor i like the other two actors a great deal too the blonde girl is totally gorgeous and the man is hysterical in his twisted tough guy stoicism some of the thugs seemed a little sketchy but this is a mini point really the film is totally solid and franco is way cool all around
1	when i saw this film at a festival years ago i was very impressed and i started to looking for it nothing to do not in the cinemas nor on dvd neither on blue ray absolutely nothing how it's possible this could really happen the direction is impeccable the story is intriguing and has been filmed in a very original way the music it's perfect and james franco is hot as hell br br please release this master piece and allow it to have it's proper life this is really a very great movie that people should see and it deserve another chance br br
1	i recently saw blind spot in where it drew a huge crowd and some pretty intense discussion i really admired the story and visual approach the action is frightening and the mood of loneliness that the film projects is amazing there is much beauty in the melancholy that surrounds these three misfit heroes not just in the desert but in the city too my best scene was after the boy discovers his friends in the apartment and then rides his skateboard through all the remarkable lights of the city you really feel for this guy i never heard of the actors before but i liked all three very much i think they did a terrific job on their journey to self discovery all in all this is an amazingly cool and suspenseful suspenseful film i still carry many of the images in my mind
1	i had the chance to watch blind spot in barcelona and i enjoyed it tremendously i thought it to be one of the most captivating movies that i'd seen for a long time one of the best points of the film was to meet new fresh faces and great actors behind them in unexpectedly and brilliantly filmed great locations the three heroes share a chemistry on screen that runs all across the film making it so thrilling they are set on outstanding landscapes spotted by such an original eye the work is just great that makes you feel like you are discovering them for the first time the mood of the desert floods everywhere and even the scenes filmed in the streets of los angeles or san seem to be a natural extension of it the story rides you smoothly through all these beautiful settings to lead you to a bitter sweet ending being the perfect climax for this perfect journey the construction of the film itself is a master craft the skilled use of innovative resources like stills stitching danny's memories into the film will compare to those hand made pieces of work so rare and so enjoyable blind spot achieves to capture the essence of the desert taking you to an universal common ground where anyone of us can feel being both discoverer and native
1	blind spot one of my festival favorites i was totally intrigued by the idea of three strangers searching for a mysterious man who has loved and betrayed each of them in different ways the cast is great james franco is particularly amazing as the broken hearted boy from los angeles his journal entries which we hear in voice over narration work well with the visuals and are quite intense the film has a powerful style it pushes elements like the road movie and revenge drama in new directions it also plays with time and perspective in ways that capture the frightening ambiance of lost love there is a dreamlike quality to several sequences and the images are saturated with an eerie sense of tension strange suspenseful beautiful to look at definitely worth seeing i really would like to see it again periodically i check to see if blind spot has been distributed i can't wait to see the film again in the cinema or on dvd br br pepe 13 08 2005 bologna italy
1	films belonging to the film noir genre usually contain similar elements a deus ex machina plot twist that drives the main character headlong into bedlam a pretty but psychotic girl a handsome but psychotic thug lots of money lots of brutality and usually a denouement in the desert think high sierra or white heat br br there is plenty of hard boiled bad film noir out there but when film noir is good you can't take your eyes off the train wreck of human lives br br it is this latter tradition that blind spot belongs to the film follows danny alton a troubled teenager superbly played with depth grace emotional integrity and downright by james franco who throws himself completely into this role who has fallen in love with the rough edged darcy br br from the beginning you know this is going to be bad br br darcy invites danny to his house but the house is empty and for sale and a bloody check for thousands of dollars is on the floor danny is robbed of his clothing and possessions but uses the check to track down the suicidal april other lover when they reach real home they find wayne a thug hunting darcy down for the money he's stolen together the three manage to locate darcy in a dusty run down motel in the desert but that's only the beginning of the tale as plastic explosives drugs gun running a creepy funeral home bisexual assassins and a lonely half finished house in the desert bring events to an explosive head in an alley outside a tattoo parlor in los angeles br br this film contains some of the best noir cinematography i have seen in years in one scene danny races on foot through the desert to the half finished house in the desert where he believes darcy may have been taken that evening by mobsters a very long shot with sharp lighting effects shows danny arms and legs flailing palpable fear etched on his face visible even at this distance dust cloud trailing behind him as the wind whips in his direction racing across the desert flats toward the house the loneliness the desperation the despair danny feels is shocking depicted there are many such scenes in this film wonderfully crafted by the experienced this is oscar winning material br br the editing too is just astounding the film contains little moments where the characters gain insight into themselves or their situation bits of time where memory and feeling come flooding back at these times quick montages of images flash across the screen this is superb editing by director writer editor stephan in one early montage danny describes the wondrous feelings he has now that darcy has entered his life quick images of danny's diary flash across the screen the words 4 life lucky and safe stop momentarily while page upon page of words the contents of a human heart race across the screen out of focus too quick to read it's like the flood of emotion danny himself feels br br the flood of images reveals something else about this film just how beautiful nathaniel waters' production design is hut home is the perfect match of high tech and slob a tribute to the of set decorator kimberly foster the stunning desert house scene is just outright creepy the ruined motel where darcy hides out can be found in any abandoned small town in america the creepy and astoundingly lit funeral home where the plot takes a horrific turn mixes starkness with the pall of death hanging over the entire film it's too bad the film's lighting director is not credited this film has a superb production design one that enhances every single frame and every actor's performance br br that's the fourth element of this film which makes it grab you and hold on to you the acting james franco is a superb actor even in spider man where he was given practically nothing to do franco showed that he understands human emotion like no other actor of his generation he's no pretty boy coasting on his good looks like brad pitt franco portrays deep emotion with full force his performances contain pure human heart consider the scene in the phone booth outside the funeral home where danny collapses after telling april and wayne that darcy is dead lesser actors couldn't carry off the complete emotional breakdown of a human being franco does br br shawn montgomery in her first film simply blows you away with her performance as the suicidal april deeply in love with darcy suffering from massive depression after having to bury alone her unborn child after the fetus spontaneously aborts in a perfume box in the woods her life of luxury and perfection now a shambles april is one of the best drawn characters on film that i have ever seen while danny's relationship to darcy is slowly teased out during the film april's nervous breakdown is revealed only to the audience neither danny nor wayne seem particularly interested in her as a human being april's despair when she realizes danny has also been lover is poignant and potent even if it is truncated by the character's complete inability to feel any emotion for very long now montgomery brings to april a pathos that puts your heart through the wringer br br mark patrick gleason is given the hardest job in the film having to make something human and real out of the thug wayne at first wayne is simply one of any number of violent foul mouthed obsessed drug pushers gun runners that appears in any number of films from kindergarten cop to beverly hills cop 2 gleason does very well with what he's given but he doesn't quite get to where you feel much for wayne it's difficult to say whether this is gleason's problem or the material's there is one moment where wayne who is brother although neither danny nor april know this reads danny's diary and realizes the sexual and emotional link between the two men where you just know that wayne is going to go homophobic on danny's ass but the explosion never comes thank god trite plots are death to film noir once the revelation about the siblings comes at the film's end the audience is fairly astounded to realize the depth of love and compassion wayne truly felt for darcy so deep that wayne accepted danny's homosexual love for his bisexual brother but this all happens off screen gleason is never given a chance to act out wayne's feelings it must have been very frustrating for the performer br br the story is rather inventive although the smuggling device seen at the end of the film is likely to remind viewers of diamonds are forever yes james bond a traditional narrative voice over which proves franco is as great a voice talent as he is a physical actor provides terrific atmosphere although it does tend to flow over into schmaltz a few times toward the end of the film providing some unintentional laughter terrific locales play key visual roles in the film kudos to the location scout for finding such astounding buildings the end of the film struck me as a bit rushed not pat but a little too firm for my film noir tastes br br now i've seen audiences either hate or love blind spot modern film audiences exposed to the most extreme brutality and violence often have little appreciation for the subtleties of film noir my suggestion is to take a small group of friends who don't see despair emotional collapse desperation or depression as laughable take them to a small theater where they can glory in the spectacle of the film's vision but where their viewing won't be ruined by a crowd of people who won't recognize good film noir get them some popcorn trust me they'll be so engrossed they won't finish it get them a soda and let them be overwhelmed go some place bright and cheery afterward to wash the grime and out of your soul because this film is so good at making you feel you'll need that
1	auteur stephan explores the depths of love passion and brotherhood and the devastating results of loss in his latest film br br diegetic world is exploding with suspense and takes the audience on a twisting to the core of the human soul a director he manages to draw the human spirit from the performances of his actors superb editing especially in the flashback scenes and beautiful cinematography is a thought provoking suspense from beginning to end thriller which leaves much to the eye br br what an accomplishment for stephan br br   cheers stephan angela sander
1	victor mature as a barely civilized and mostly out of control mountain man and trapper may be on the poster but robert preston as a failed union colonel who led his men to get cut to ribbons by confederate artillery at shiloh and is sent to a fort in oregon for his incompetence has the most interesting part married to a young and hard to recognize at first anne bancroft the uncivilized mature lusts for the colonel's wife giving the film an interesting and even dark subplot which goes so far as to reference another man's wife at one point by james whitmore who plays mature's older and wiser mountain man father figure directed by anthony mann this film is lost among his more famous westerns with james stewart but even so you really don't need the indian menace to make this a film worth seeing although preston gets to prove his bad judgement as a commanding officer again in a failed expedition to finally bring the indians under submission in a well staged attack among the forest that quickly turns into a rout
1	let me clarify that this is not a good movie but i am so glad it is out there i am so glad i saw it and for the role that it plays in my dvd collection it is sublime it is the ultimate pg 13 romp it is college as we imagine it will be when we're freshmen in high school it requires so much suspension of disbelief that it may as well be taking place on mars it is so wholesome that even when it tries to be dirty it wouldn't make your grandmother uncomfortable watching it requires so little sophistication in fact thinking too hard about what's happening will get in the way of your appreciation of this work it makes me feel like i'm 12 again and that kind of experience is worth more than 9 99
1	this is a teen movie and while u watch it expect some nonsensical stuff added here and there but overall the movie is effective very effective it makes you question and leaves you thinking the story is kinda far fetched but is believable and makes you feel good in sequences its not like its the usual done and tried path the characters are pretty well defined and are convincing justin long stands out among all the others and watch out for his speech in the end he will convince anyone with that speech he is simply brilliant in that speech he needs to take on some more serious roles he is worth more than just teen movies etch this movie and get liberated
1	this is a funny clever film and well worth your time in my opinion it is much better than american pie and other films of the same genre that seem to get knocked out all the time i hadn't heard of this film so i guess it didn't get much press which is kind of a shame it doesn't take itself too seriously but at the same time delivers a serious message to people about life and life experiences and what is important as opposed to a film about a bunch of desperate guys trying to get laid for the first time and one dude sticking his d k in a pie but in the end everyone gets laid and whoop de do one thing that impressed me was that the soundtrack was pretty awesome and not the usual cheesy american pop punk they actually had real punk from back in the day like the ramones that in itself made the film better to be honest i wasn't expecting much from this film and i was pleasantly surprised at how good a comedy it is
1	this movie possesses something most other movies of its genre do not intelligence and good messages accepted is the story of a kid named bartleby justin long who gets rejected by every college he applies to his parents are incredibly strict frustrated and disappointed so bartleby and a few other students who face similar problems start a fake college to pawn themselves off to their parents as college kids not everything goes to plan and the movie is about them winging it but behind this plot which sounds ridiculous there are good messages morals and a new outlook on the american educational system the college they create south harmon institute of technology accepts those who did not get accepted anywhere else the message is that you do not need money tradition or fancy books you just need a desire to better yourself they are a completely unorthodox school but what the movie teaches is that thats still ok and different whether its a person or a school is not necessarily bad and that every one no matter should be given the chance to better themselves despite whether they are ' its a message of non and has traces of anti authority sprinkled in as well but not only are messages great its hilarious haha i laughed very hard the humor can be subtle but can also be blatant as well and is a great mix fraternities beware
1	when the trailer for accepted first came up many people began to get excited about seeing it really excited who could blame them it looked like fun but that's exactly the thing people went into accepted looking for a good movie but if you think about it accepted isn't the type of film destined to be a good movie it's meant to be a film that pleases its crowd without too much effort being given that being said for those of you who expected a great film you need to think about what could be made of a comedy like this one think that and you will truly enjoy the film because you'll rid yourself of your idea that the movie will be fantastic bottom line watch the movie and have fun but don't look for anything groundbreaking
1	if i had watched this movie when i hit rock bottom i probably would have sunk into the deepest depression of my life and may have been nearly desperate enough to try it the only thing is in the real world when you rob millions of dollars from unsuspecting individuals everything doesn't come up roses unless you are an investment banker or government affiliated so how does that matter i had been rejected from school after school and it stings so it is a brilliant topic for a movie and when you give yourself over to the imaginary to let yourself watch this movie without applying real world ramifications it can truly touch someone in that situation and let them know they are not alone overdone soliloquy completely tears apart the established educational system as we know it really all i can say is that as i am in college now looking back on where i was and watching this movie i can truly appreciate it in a way i never would have been able to otherwise it is juvenile and contrite yes but it is an emotional and uplifting fantasy about freedom and i cant think of a better way to end my night
1	accepted let's see the only reason why i had chosen to see that movie was the hot dog shown in commercials when sp said ask me about my weiner after that i had to see that movie and i watched it with a couple of my friends and wow amazing one of the best films of the year the entire movie i was laughing like crazy the plot in this story is that bartleby justin long doesn't get accepted into any of the schools he applied so he makes another fake college for him and his friends so that he can fool his parents that he did make it into college so he makes the finishing touches and he fools his parents until more students look at the website and see the acceptance is one click away and all these rejects come to this school they face many problems and they just cant seem to get anything right 10 10 loved it now watch it
1	is absolutely hot as hell in this movie but really all the characters are amazingly fun to watch br br minor spoilers as per usual the main character b is the sane one of the bunch b has this crazy idea to make up his own college when he's rejected from all colleges he applies to he's known for making fake ids so an acceptance letter is no problem br br because b's dad is a hard and suspicious of this university he's never heard of b gets his friend sherman to design a website for the university sherman has been accepted to a great college and is in fear of being arrested for fraud he's very quick with witty lines but his flaw is he wants to be accepted socially too much br br glen hands and rory are the three stooges that follow b along glen got a zero on his and has no thought process he's constantly proposing battle royals but he's very good at making which gets him a lot of hot girls somehow hands was a great football player who didn't receive the scholarship he was counting on and turns to crafts to cover his lack of athletics rory was preparing to go to yale since the 1st grade and was not accepted she spends her time meditating br br uncle ben was my favorite character picture lewis black playing himself if you have no reason to see this movie then see it for lewis black and jonah hill they're amazing br br monica is a b's love interest as most of these stories go she's more popular than him and doesn't even notice him until half way through the movie unlike many other stories though b actually gets her and keeps her until the end monica is actually a good character on her own but of course she's primarily there for b to adore br br there are more supporting students at the made up college who are fun to watch a d d 's name is self explanatory and funny enough he ends up in the meditation class kiki is a hot ex stripper who falls head over heels for a chance to go to school and eventually gets a crush on glen maurice is an ex military idiot who got his g i bill and wants to study rock n' roll in college the final guy is only known as freaky student who thinks he can blow things up with his mind ye who have little faith in him wait until the end of the movie br br of course the villains are the dean of an opposing university his student body president the president's girlfriend and their circle of friends br br every character is lovable i believe this movie has a good plot and is well done despite what a lot of people say even thought the overall story is predictable the characters keep you guessing and make the movie great go see this film i give it 9 out of 10
1	when i saw this movie i expected it to be a cheesy american movie done on the cheap with appalling actors i was really surprised to find that i was totally wrong the movie centres around or b who has been rejected from all of his colleges the actor who play b is very natural and makes his character seem real and decides to create a pretend school so his parents stop harassing him however loads of people see his fake website and join feeling their sorrows b can't turn them away much to the chagrin of his best mate the college is the ideal place with you learning what you want or doing nothing the school faces opposition from the proper college which ends up closing it down the film ends on a high and i recommend you watching it its does have it flaws but it is a feel good cheerful film with a few unpredictable twists
1	accepted is a 2006 teen flick that stars the guy from the mac and pc ads the movie is about b gaines a guy who has rejected from all the colleges he has applied for so decides to make his own college and invites all the other people who did not make it problem is hundreds of people sign up to his school the movie is hilarious and i was lucky enough to buy it for 5 00 at a sale and i have always watched it since overall this movie is a must watch for fans of all comedy as it is funny witty and just a good movie all up i rate this movie a very fair 78 go accepted make a sequel guys but make sure it is not crap
1	this is another good western which i enjoyed it's not an epic or anything but it is good for what it is it' about 3 fur led by a men named jed who is crude and uncivilized jed and his two friends find themselves as scouts for a fort that is the only thing standing between them and and indian band who resent the americans on their land and want to take it back that's the gist of the story what follows is action excitement even a bit of humour and forbidden romance one of jed's friends gus reminded me a lot of the character quint played by robert shaw in the movie jaws they both have that crusty gruff demeanor anyway if you're a western fan you should find lots to like about this particular entry i think it deserves a 7 10
1	accepted is one of the best teenage comedies i have seen in a long time it has an original script talented cast and it delivers an hour and a half of pure unadulterated fun br br it tells the story of a high school graduate bartleby b gains justin long who is not accepted in any of the he applied to so to avoid his parents' disappointment he creates a fictional collage in the attempt to fool his parents completely he creates a fake website and turns an old psychiatric hospital into a school everything goes smoothly until a lot of other accepted students turn up on his doorstep now he and his friend have to figure that collage thing out not only for themselves but for the others too br br justin long as a lead man is absolutely brilliant his character is as natural as he can be and the supporting acts are outstanding jonah hill as sherman schrader columbus short as hands maria thayer as rory adam as glen and lewis black as uncle ben br br the humour is fresh and simple and most importantly funny right from the start to after the credits the plot develops so easy that by the time you stop laughing at the last joke you start giggling at next other along with all the fun the movie brings a very common subject to our attention i e the collage education if usually the students in the movie are united against the school government in this case they are united by the mutual desire to go to school and learn br br yet the movie doesn't brand all other schools as wrong it just shows that there is another way you what they say if there is a will there is a way and may be sometimes the children know better what they need than their parents br br this movie is an unmissable little story about the great opportunities in life wrapped up in the best format possible
1	on the face of it any teen comedy runs the risk of being sophomoric and obvious and fair enough most of them are there are a few that have risen above the usual banality of the source material bring it on and they give me hope that others can join that depressingly rare crowd of teen comedies that are actually funny and not just an excuse to flash some boobs or be a vehicle for some never was like tom green br br enter accepted directed by john cusack pal steve pink and led by the likable justin long the smart nerdy kid in galaxy quest and more recently featured in apple computer ads about a bunch of kids who don't get accepted to college and decide as disclosed in the trailer to fake a bogus one to get their parents off their backs when they go a little too far with the website and other kids end up the kids have a few problems to solve br br okay the set up is obviously preposterous but most comedy lives or dies in the execution and here accepted does pretty well long's bartleby gaines mostly shortened to 'b' is accompanied by enough well meaning comically acceptable friends to help him share the load but probably the best supporting character is lewis no doubt named as an homage to rodney dangerfield's dean martin aka uncle ben lewis black who is wisely restricted to short spurts where he can rapid fire his unique brand of cranky observational humor black is terrific here frankly telling the kids what life is really like his expletive laden final line is hysterical and providing the adult face to the bogus university for the parents br br but long has to carry most of the film and he does so in spades bartleby is easily identified with and we take to him almost immediately a nice twist was provided by columbus short's character hands an athlete who loses his scholarship due to an injury and ends up becoming the de facto art faculty at the fake college also noteworthy as hyper intelligent and sarcastic little sister is hannah marks br br yes the film does feel familiar in some spots there's a debt here owed of all places to revenge of the nerds those who are rejected by everyone else find a home with bartleby and his cohorts and of course the villains are steroid enhanced conformist master race types who run a fraternity well okay frats are evil and seek to humiliate and bury the oddballs for the – gasp – crime of being different but that aside accepted has fun with the material and even asks a few decent questions about the expectations on college kids and the course of higher education not that it's a brain teaser by any means but accepted isn't just another mindless teen comedy or owen wilson vehicle it's a funny clever 90 minutes that while not a great departure from its genre is intelligent and creative enough to be very enjoyable br br there is at least one moment of unadulterated brilliance in the film when bartleby checks out a nearby college in an attempt to harvest ideas for his own school's curriculum when he sees that the kids are all stressed out at the other school several refuse to even talk to him during class for fear of missing something he shakes his head thinking that there must be a better way as he moves to leave he is met by a stream of kids going the other way one person moving against a human tide while in the background the opening lines of eleanor rigby play perhaps an unplanned moment of brilliance but brilliance none the less
1	from the creators of bruce almighty and liar liar the film took a while to pick up from the start at least for me seeing as i expected this was a run along america pie flick but it was slightly different a fun loving slacker who finishes high school and makes his own college running it accordingly as you can expect there's a lot of parties and hot girls in bikinis but this film tried harder than your average teen flick bartleby gaines justin long encourages his students peers to learn through freedom of expression and ultimately it to the system ' the humour was varied which i loved all the cast delivered fantastic performances hire this one out with a friend it's a bloody crack up
1	i went in to this thinking another gross movie with gross humor telling from my first sentence i don't like that humor and this movie had it's moments but i loved it justin long has really never done comedy like this where he's sarcastic and clever and i loved it lewis black enough said the ending i really did love because it had to take itself seriously i mean how else would you end it yes it's another underdog story but not in your typical format and the movie wasn't their ups and downs it was people coming together for one common goal to go to college where they were accepted the cast was amazing and yes i did laugh at loud when i didn't think i would and the laughter lasted longer then i thought to the parents and sister played their roles well but their characters are put in when necessary the movie was not focused around them but at the same time they showed up when you expect and not expect them to they played in to the story very well and i loved the familiar faces anthony boston public jeremy howard i galaxy quest with justin long ross patterson the new guy and sam brink blake lively added her certain something to the movie which made it even more enjoyable as well as b's friends i recommend this movie to whoever hated those gross comedies of the last 4 years and really want something with humor and an actually story line
1	synopsis graduating high school senior bartleby b gaines justin long finds himself without a college to attend he has been able to talk and con his way out of every problem he encounters but he hasn't been able to charm his way pass the college board of eight colleges his mom and dad are very disappointed that bartleby hasn't been accepted into college his parents think that if bartleby doesn't go to college he will have no future several of friends are in the same situation of being rejected by all the colleges they applied to to satisfy their parents bartleby comes up with an idea to start his own college with an internet site they convert an abandoned psychiatric facility into the south harmon institute of technology they will be the only students however the web site states that we accept anyone on the first day of school they unexpectedly have a large number of accepted students that were also rejected by all colleges with a million dollars in tuition money bartleby must make his fake college into a functioning one he hires uncle ben lewis black as the college dean the fun begins when they design their own curriculum make their own rules and party all night br br my comment the premise of starting a college without a teaching staff is a little off the wall since it was a fake college bartleby really didn't need a staff the movie reminded me of the classic movie animal house the college setting the fraternity lots of gags and pretty young women these new college freshmen had a different notion of what the college experience was all about the movie not only has lots of humor it also has a good message for life people should reach for their dream and create a passion for what they want to do in life and not settle for what other people want them to do the ending was a little unrealistic but it is only a movie the movie was made for the young crowd to have a little fun universal pictures run time 1 32 rated pg 13 7 10
1	the best thing from the american pie bakery i found the humor and the plot to be far more engaging audience than any of the american pie movies to date also concerning the of the content i found this to be acceptable to a much larger audience than any of the previous american pie movies i thoroughly enjoyed this movie experience when the movie first came out i read a number of negative reviews and ended up not going to see it while it was still in the theater i now regret that decision the movie far exceeded my expectations in terms of plot dialog scripting and overall quality i give it two thumbs way up
1	i saw the trailer and read some reviews and i had low expectations for this movie i was pleasantly surprised while the plot is a little off beat everybody in the making of this movie pulled off a pleasant flick good for many a laugh the writing and jokes are far more literate than i have come to expect better yet they are delivered with aplomb by unknown actors doing a good job all of them br br the main reasons i wanted to see this movie were justin long and lewis black long is from ed and the new apple computer ads he was just coming into his own as an actor in ed and he was excellent here he's a natural in front of the camera lewis black is a social commentator who pulls no punches he's on the daily show on comedy central about once every two weeks but he really shines in hbo's red white and screwed i regularly catch him on radio's uncensored comedy channel give black an idea and let him improvise whether his rants and lines here are scripted or improvised are no matter he's priceless delivering his thoughts on middle class angst one thing about black's delivery his hand gestures are not those of a comedian it just seems like he's having a conversation with you and i think that makes him unconsciously more effective
1	contrary to what many may believe as this movie being an against the system type of movie and attitude it is an excellent portrayal of the system in question and how ridiculous it truly is the funny parts in the movie are in fact funny because they speak the truth about the world around us anyone who finds this movie to be unrealistic is simply denying the self evident truths about life and that is to learn what you enjoy that is what college should be about br br i come to find that a comment must have at least 10 lines i think i have given my opinion on the matter so i now write a couple more lines just as filler i hope you have been entertained during this time i encourage you to go see the movie it is well worth your while so long as you follow it and immerse yourself in the movie
1	a great movie the movie was even better then the commercials put on and believe it or not it was very very inspirational i really think anyone who walks out of the movie at the end will be inspired one way or another br br it was kinda corny at the very beginning but quickly picks up i laughed i laughed very hard on some parts the acting is basically above average nothing special but better then average i can safely say it was the second funniest movie to come out this summer 1st funniest being clerks ii so after all of that i give it a 7 10 a high seven but not quite an eight
1	i for one was very anxious to watch this movie br br though i knew it was going to be another type of movie in the style of revenge of the nerds i was still impressed br br there is plenty of truth to the fact of this type of learning and believe very strongly that it should be allowed in a new style of schooling br br conventional teaching methods do not always teach students what they need to know or should know or want to know br br this approach to teaching should be further sought out in true academic courses br br while there still was too much of the partying scenes it obviously had to be thrown in there for hollywood's sake of making a comedy about college even though we all know that life isn't really like that by any means br br a touch unbelievable still funny and with a killer ending br br awesome ending crucial to the entire story and very surprising br br without the final scene the movie would have been half as good br br i liked this movie and it didn't have to have overly amounts of swearing or nudity or gross out jokes for it to be good br br great crew and cast story and even the generic typecasting of the obligatory hampton frat members was well done br br american pie 1 2 3 and american wedding or whatever clones it makes doers not measure up to this by 1 3 br br far better than most comedies about first year college with no demeaning stupid jokes to make somebody throw up with br br i liked it even though it was simple it was interesting and even had heart my only regret for watching this movie is that it wasn't longer
1	one of the more obscure of anthony mann's westerns the last frontier was also his only cavalry western aside from one brief episode in winchester '73 though naturally he focuses on the outsiders and internal conflicts rather than offering a fordian celebration of comradeship and shared ideals set not in his beloved high country but in the foothills and forests it's a much more cynical view of life of the frontier in many ways his fort apache without the need to preserve the legend this outpost is made up of misfits failures cowards and the odd competent officer ignored by his superiors badly led while the civil war takes priority and all the best the army has to offer br br victor mature and james whitmore are the free who find civilisation creeping up on them when they are relieved of their pelts and by a local tribe aggrieved by the incursion of the cavalry into their territory rather than blame the indians for their losses they decide it's the army's fault for building the fort and decide to demand compensation from them ending up joining their ranks as scouts instead but despite the best efforts of guy madison's amiable and competent acting commander to bring mature into the 19th century and make him fit to wear the uniform the arrival of robert preston's humiliated colonel eager to revenge himself on the tribe that drove him out of his own outpost – and mature's clumsy infatuation with the colonel's wife anne bancroft too much of a blank slate here to do much with the role of a woman who's tired of being saved by men who think they know what's best for her – soon drive matters into much darker territory it's not long before some of the soldiers are planning on killing each other both sides trying to goad their subordinates into doing the deed for them little wonder that at one point mature throws away the he has long coveted in disgust screaming i would have died for this but it's nothing but a dirty filthy blue rag the stallone of his day mature was one of those actors who could surprise you with the odd excellent performance here and there when matched with the right part and the right director this is not one of his better days despite having his most complex part perversely enough as a simple man – well meaning but drunk violent uneducated and with a unsubtle almost childlike lust for life the part seems designed with burt lancaster in mind with some striking similarities to his character in the but robert preston's ahab like colonel is clearly the best role determined to resurrect the career he destroyed in a single disastrously suicidal civil war engagement by launching another pointless suicidal campaign against the tribe that added another humiliation to the list that keeps him out of sight and out of mind of the promotion board in his obsession to redeem his career he moves further away from any hope of moral redemption driven as much by his sense of shame at his wife's sympathy as by the promotion of former comrades he regards as his inferiors he's beyond salvation but there's still a recognisable human being in there and one not entirely without a sense of integrity – he genuinely admires madison's courage in making a futile attempt to get preston's orders by their superiors – fatally skewed though it is br br like its hero the film is a little rough around the edges and boasts one of the most surreal and jaunty title songs of any western but that only tends to make it more interesting and there are plenty of mann's typically elegant camera moves and plays on perspective while the frontier setting is convincingly harsh and primitive unfortunately the deficiencies of the early cinemascope lenses are very apparent in columbia's dvd with the image often dark 2 55 1 cinemascope required a huge amount of additional lighting and early scope films show a lot of trial and error and grainy
1	this is what movies should aspire to funny without being totally stupid a little sexy without having every female in the cast show her boobs biting without resorting to 'f every line i've been seeing justin long pop up in a lot of films over the past few years i figured with the right role he could break out mac commercials not withstanding this film just might put him on a fast track to the a list the rest of the cast also did their jobs perfectly this is an excellent little film with a nice message but you don't need to buy the message to have a good time lewis black is as usual hilarious and blake lively is a fresh faced beauty br br take a couple hours and see this film they will not have been wasted
1	i don't think i've yet seen a movie in my whole lifetime about a high school kid creating his own college just to impress his parents nowadays movies are either remakes or sequels or plots that have been used in many different films this one has an original story line and to follow it up by making it a comedy films only lightens the deal with this well thought out story and with laughs mixed in this is a good movie now i've seen better but upon going into the theater i was thinking another drug beer frat party with some sexual innuendo tossed in aka an american pie flick but i was surprised to sum it up i enjoyed the film and the next time your shuffling through the paper for movies look for show times to accepted if you want to laugh out loud that is
1	this movie turned out to be better than i had expected it to be some parts were pretty funny it was nice to have a movie with a new plot
1	i just wanted to say that i love so i automatically loved this movie everything else about it was so so billy crystal is a good actor even if he is annoying but the thing that made this movie was at least for a basketball fan seeing act
1	this is the greatest movie ever if you have written it off with out ever seeing it you must give it a second try
1	this is a little film with a big heart excellent acting throughout and directed with love if you missed it in theatres and who didn't catch it with someone you love frankly i cried and i'm a guy for out loud
1	this is a brilliant film the story starts off in romania where billy crystal stars as an agent who can talk anybody into doing anything there is a really funny scene here where crystal is a child and talks his father who is a rabbi into eating pork you may know that this is a parody of crystal's religion he is mainly a talent scout and he's trying to find a suitable villain for his latest movie after finding out that the whole film has a terrible crew he accidently falls into a small river believing he is dead some huge hands come out to reach him he later thinks he is in heaven he finds out that he isn't but that he is in a monastery believing god saved him he becomes a monk searching for who saved him he later finds a 7 ft 7 in man who he casts as the perfect villain he also recites shakespeare see the film and find out the rest
1	containing billy's famous humor this more modest comedy with heavy bittersweet overtones is a big departure pleasantly unexpectedly so for billy crystal this movie has different tear jerker dramatic serious underlying themes particularly with a scene with steven seagal this movie was both entertaining and serious a movie about lost love about relationships with father son husband wife about friendship and values with a good dose of humor thrown in especially at the beginning the balance between drama and comedy isn't always maintained as with the new classical genre of this type but the real message and motivation for this movie remains solid the discovery of billy crystal's talent scout agent character in romania of a giant human is revealing and the behind the scene's view of movie agent is fascinating yet the focus remains on sensitive ties of both love and learning about one's self eight out of ten stars
1	i totally disagree with the person who first commented about this movie to me this storyline is about a man with growth hormonal disorder trying his best to look for the love he is yearning for trying his very best to fit into the society who doesn't seemed to accept him br br he then met someone who treats him with best friend's love and was shown the way to receiving the love he always wanted to have the man who created all that happiness in returned received something important from the giant which is family and spouse love br br and the comedy it's just part of making the audience feel some laughter bugs at certain part of the shows br br and i must admit it made me tear a little
1	i always liked this movie i have seen it so many times but i always enjoyed it the story is interesting and special but the only thing i have to disagree with is that i don't think max lived in a romanian monastery or what was that p they don't look that way in romania anyway back to the story played pretty well but as someone said before me his english needs to improve br br and there were some funny moments and some tragical sad parts too it worths being seen i thought it was sweet that the giant wanted to find his love i recommended to you all it's not the best movie ever but it was nice
1	br br the last is a superior western that overcomes numerous deficiencies in weaving its tale of jed victor mature gus james whitmore and pat hogan and their relationships with the army particularly captain guy madison colonel robert preston and corrina colonel's wife anne bancroft hired as scouts after losing their supplies to the indians jed gus and mungo adjust to living the life within a fort on the edge of the last frontier ' jed who has been raised by gus both inspires and looks up to the gus and mungo and has an especially difficult time dealing with civilization ' his real problems start after he becomes strongly attracted to the colonel's wife corrina colonel a reckless man who every one around him with his dreams of ruthless victory over any opponent corrina a woman repressed by her station and sense of responsibility loves her husband for what he could be and jed for what he is caught in the middle is captain a brave and likeable man torn among his duty to the army his strong friendship with jed and his fear of the likely disastrous consequences of the colonel's recklessness br br what makes this movie so interesting as well as entertaining is that in most cases the weaknesses and the strengths of the last are exactly the same elements forget the insipid title and dated music br br first the screenplay almost all of the subplots particularly the reckless colonel have been done better elsewhere but have rarely been assembled with such eccentricity just when you think you know what is going to happen next this one takes off in a different direction possible spoiler the last being a production code' movie back in the day the word virgin' was taboo it's very surprising that the adultery factor was handled in such a mature tolerant manner i expected either jed or the colonel's wife to reap some retribution for their sin i was surprised and a little disappointed the movie didn't exploit that expectation to create a less predictable ending br br second the casting mature is at least ten years too old to play the part of jed the wild eyed innocent raised in the woods' james whitmore who plays gus the man who raised is actually five years younger than mature nevertheless mature is very endearing playing a character who is innocent of civilization but is in no way stupid although there were several actors who could have played the role at the time most notably burt lancaster and kirk douglas none could have played jed better preston also mature's junior plays colonel missing the tics and affectations one would expect from such a driven man however preston perfectly captures the sense of honor someone must have seen in to promote such a reckless fool to colonel's rank bancroft is an especially shrewd choice as corrina bancroft's dark hair has been died blonde and this achieves the same effect as it did for winona ryder edward scissorhands' and christina ricci sleepy hollow' that is i felt conflicted about the character without knowing exactly why i believe the answer is that blondes and brunettes have considerably different skin tones and eye shades further bancroft has always projected a toughness that borders on hardness here the blonde hair softens her up a bit though this enables the 24 year old bancroft to stand toe to toe with both the 40 year old mature and the 37 year old preston yep she could be a colonel's wife madison walks a careful balancing act as riordan handling a complex role and sometimes dialogue playing a role similar to that of john wayne in fort madison does a more skillful job at it br br this movie has a type camaraderie that alone makes it worth seeing it also has memorable performances beautiful and great action and direction i just hope a letterbox version is available many have been lost because this movie takes full advantage of that format
1	first off i absolutely loved this movie as a billy crystal fan i must say that i was expecting more comedic situations than i actually got however it was nice to see him in a role with more depth and emotion his portrayal of talent agent sammy was brilliantly performed and uniquely him in addition as maximus was superb in his first film role when sammy goes to romania to visit his client on location he has his world turned upside down he never expected that he would accidentally find the one person who could change his life sammy and max's journey is unique and moving and even humorous at times plus the location in czech republic where parts of the film were shot was absolutely beautiful i have to say this dramatic comedy had me feeling a variety of emotions i thought it was excellent and i would recommend it to anyone and everyone
1	warning this film has some amazingly graphic images and should never be seen by kids br br the artist who this story is all about was indeed a fine korean painter who rose up from the lowest depths to become their greatest painter unfortunately in so many ways this guy was also a jerk in so many ways some of this was the artistic temperament and what may have seemed annoying was just his demanding nature when it came to art but other times he was simply a drunk jerk especially when he was on his way to becoming a great artist late in the film his being annoying abrasive and needlessly cruel seemed to have diminished while all this didn't make him a particularly nice man it is important to capture on film so we understand a lot about the nature of the artist br br i really found the movie fascinating and loved how the artists actual works were shown throughout the movie like in lust for life i really wish i could show this to my students i teach at a school for the arts but can't because there is just too much adult material yes there is nudity but even more problematic for any audience particularly younger ones is when he hmmm i don't think imdb will even let me describe what occurred but it was very graphic and involves bodily fluids not only a nasty and disgusting scene that did not need to be seen but a reason to keep junior from watching this otherwise wonderful film it's a real shame
1	that's right the painter and the main character is an exceptional person what strikes me most is the message this film might address to all of you people there and the message is sad it says that it's very difficult to do anything that's amazing or maybe even genius without having to obey the governments establishment and other of this world and even if you try you might not be able to bear it it is about the battle of a single person with a system with many systems br br a great film of this wonderful korean director please see it if you do have an opportunity
1	it is not surprising that this film was made by i'm at the time it was i'm examined the early beauty and tragedy of dynasty life in and delightfully explored a well known korean folk tale in and these comprised his last two films what is most surprising is that chi seon his 2002 offering is not presented in the style of those previous two films br br nonetheless the experienced hand of i'm comes through we explore together the life of a real person a late nineteenth century dynasty painter who rides on the edge of modernity but who is not a noble and who because of that causes a stir in contemporary korean society with his fame and his public and artistic expressions of disdain for the old korean noble class and his contempt for would be japanese ruling colonials alike the painter chang seung up known popularly as oh won performed magnificently by choi min the famous star of park chan already legendary oldboy becomes more and more influential and therefore more dangerous throughout the film contemporary korean audiences will back a hero like this despite the fact or maybe because of the fact that he was so ostracized in his time sense of simultaneous beauty and tragedy in history remains intact i'm is a master at capturing his country's past idiosyncrasies and in this film he almost outdoes himself as expected in an i'm film the cinematography is breathtaking the editing is precise and the story is central br br plots are set against seung up family ties are tested and broken scandalous behavior is alleged and is sometimes real all to bring down the man who painted fire but against all the intricacies of detailed but sometimes convoluted account of seung up's life seung up himself somehow manages to survive he becomes legendary because of his ability to perfectly copy famous chinese paintings after only one look art dealers and agents then besiege him and try to make money off oh won in other words lines of people who wish to take advantage of the real seung up an artistic star begin to form but he refuses to be manipulated his cleverness in off both the massive hordes and the imperial lackeys impresses the audience if not the cast br br what does seung up think he possesses powerful emotions and opinions about painting such as the aesthetic belief that paintings are living things and are never truly finished he despises those who would try to turn art into profit and he cares not for politicians who use their might to bring artistic beauty around them and then cast off the artist as traitorous but he also thinks that painting plays a role in the coming upheavals horrid scenes involving foreign invaders from france and japan are presented signature historical epic motif and his influence in the realm remains on prominent display in this multi million dollar epic br br the protagonist causes greater grief for himself and those who care for him when he refuses to paint this is when the story takes on a whole new meaning one that is not just political but social in nature i'm takes on the issues in laudable realist fashion br br he oh won becomes a jesus figure the people believe him capable of artistic miracles and the government feels it needs his artistic support but the protagonist remains fiercely independent and contemptuous of what others want him to do or be eventually both government and people come down upon seung up in a manner taken straight out of the bible his holiness becomes human his humanity is not accepted he dies for or escapes from the sins of the commoners the art critics the politicians who hound him br br but does he die as with most of films a question remains in this case does seung up really become an immortal hermit the film does not tackle that question it merely presents a possible end for the real man of chang seung up or oh won no death is depicted because no death is known br br it is difficult to find fault with this film but i'm has become so good at presenting various historical absurdities in his culture that when he does it hardly surprises anymore as usual for films the cinematography the editing and the writing are all first rate it's a well crafted film imbued with uncanny story telling ability granted he may be best at doing this through the ancient korean musical art of still the film contains stretches of this admirable art form and by the end viewers feel as if they have become privy to a great untold story and they have because that precisely is gift
1	this film winning im kwon the best director at cannes in 2002 tied with p t anderson for punch drunk love is about a 19th century korean painter with a roots and significant impact on korean painting one of the strengths of the film is that im tries to help us see with the eye of a painter so we see multiple scenes and objects which help our drunken painter friend jang seung up choi min receive inspiration br br the costumes and the art direction are all impressive and the acting is even along being good it's not a movie that moved me but it was one that made me think about art and what it means to find your own voice in it that's pretty cool it's also interesting to see a version of korea during those times right before the turn of the century where chinese and japanese powers are both in korea and the kingdom is coming to an end more than one revolution and political ideology are gathered in the film but are never the center it's firmly on the painter br br in the end it's a well made film about the life of a painter but it doesn't exactly have the regular three act structure plot so you have to be able to take a non standard hollywood story to watch it yay for art 8 10
1	it is not surprising that this film was made by i'm kwon at the time it was he examined the early beauty and tragedy of dynasty life in and delightfully explored a well known korean folk tale in and these comprised his last two films what is most surprising is that chi seon his 2002 offering is not presented in the style of those previous two films br br nonetheless the experienced hand of i'm comes through we explore together the life of a real person a late nineteenth century dynasty painter who rides on the edge of modernity but who is not a noble and who because of that causes a stir in contemporary korean society with his fame and his public and artistic expressions of disdain for the old korean noble class and his contempt for would be japanese ruling colonials alike the painter chang seung up known popularly as oh won performed magnificently by choi min the famous star of park chan already legendary oldboy becomes more and more influential and therefore more dangerous throughout the film contemporary korean audiences will back a hero like this despite the fact or maybe because of the fact that he was so ostracized in his time sense of simultaneous beauty and tragedy in history remains intact i'm is a master at capturing his country's past idiosyncrasies and in this film he almost outdoes himself as expected in an i'm film the cinematography is breathtaking the editing is precise and the story is central br br plots are set against seung up family ties are tested and broken scandalous behavior is alleged and is sometimes real all to bring down the man who painted fire but against all the intricacies of detailed but sometimes convoluted account of seung up's life seung up himself somehow manages to survive he becomes legendary because of his ability to perfectly copy famous chinese paintings after only one look art dealers and agents then besiege him and try to make money off oh won in other words lines of people who wish to take advantage of the real seung up an artistic star begin to form but he refuses to be manipulated his cleverness in off both the massive hordes and the imperial lackeys impresses the audience if not the cast br br what does seung up think he possesses powerful emotions and opinions about painting such as the aesthetic belief that paintings are living things and are never truly finished he despises those who would try to turn art into profit and he cares not for politicians who use their might to bring artistic beauty around them and then cast off the artist as traitorous but he also thinks that painting plays a role in the coming upheavals horrid scenes involving foreign invaders from france and japan are presented signature historical epic motif and his influence in the realm remains on prominent display in this multi million dollar epic br br the protagonist causes greater grief for himself and those who care for him when he refuses to paint this is when the story takes on a whole new meaning one that is not just political but social in nature i'm takes on the issues in laudable realist fashion br br he oh won becomes a jesus figure the people believe him capable of artistic miracles and the government feels it needs his artistic support but the protagonist remains fiercely independent and contemptuous of what others want him to do or be eventually both government and people come down upon seung up in a manner taken straight out of the bible his holiness becomes human his humanity is not accepted he dies for or escapes from the sins of the commoners the art critics the politicians who hound him br br but does he die as with most of films a question remains in this case does seung up really become an immortal hermit the film does not tackle that question it merely presents a possible end for the real man of chang seung up or oh won no death is depicted because no death is known br br it is difficult to find fault with this film but i'm has become so good at presenting various historical absurdities in his culture that when he does it hardly surprises anymore as usual for films the cinematography the editing and the writing are all first rate it's a well crafted film imbued with uncanny story telling ability granted he may be best at doing this through the ancient korean musical art of still the film contains stretches of this admirable art form and by the end viewers feel as if they have become privy to a great untold story and they have because that precisely is gift
1	inspite of many movies dealing with great artists or a genius pointed out the real dilemma in which an artist is br br the decision whether to ease the demands of the popularity or to create something new and to define ones' own style br br desperate seek for inspiration and his conscious led him to live the way he did restless outrageous and yes very drunk br br but still he defended and retained the most important ethical rules for an artist respect to his master respect to the nature and the gradual seek for improvement and to perfection
1	not sure why the other comment on this film was so negative but i loved this movie i am a student of asian art with a particular love of korean art culture and history i thought this movie borough a very controversial and interesting character to life jang seung up is one of the maybe the most famous korean artist and continues to be revered as a master given the tumult of the time in which he painted and his own conflicted nature it is amazing that he produced so much work in so many styles and with such skill this movie honors his talent while taking a direct look at his erratic and somewhat self destructive personality the cinematography in my opinion was beautiful many of the outdoor panoramic shots looked like korean landscape paintings which i found a lovely conceit rather than overly arty and i think that choi min portrayed jang up with a necessary intensity and unpredictability i would highly recommend this film to art lovers and movie lovers alike
1	this movie could be a bit boring for some people but i find this film br br very interesting in terms of an attempt to reveal a tradition br br the director lim has made two films about traditional music in korea before this film the film before this one was showing the music throughout the film and this film is trying to achieve similar things by having backgrounds in the movie just like a painting br br another thing is that the story is written by both director and a philosopher kim who is well known scholar in korea holding a lot of degrees including doctor at i'm not saying that educated people make better films but that philosopher is an expert in traditional culture in korea so it gives more credit on this film
1	what a movie i have always liked the asian style of shooting and this movie does not disappoint at all photography is breath taking ranging from amazing landscapes to whirls of colours the main actor is really realistic in representing the painter whose paintings are astonishing the ending is also very well chosen very poetic the only remark is that they should have maybe shown a bit more deeply the connection between his inspiration and his abuse of alcohol and women but altogether this is an excellent film
1	ordinarily anthony mann made westerns with 'the big guys' james stewart gary cooper henry fonda the a list cowboy stars but in this b film he tackled something notably different and had quite a bit of success with what turned out to be a truly one of a kind western the main character played by victor mature is a trapper mountain man and ordinarily they are romanticized in films robert redford in johnson that sort of thing where the hero is not in fact a typical mountain man but a clean cut heroic figure who hangs out with real mountain men not here for once a true mountain man vulgar crude animalistic is the central figure and it's something to see giving mature one of his better later roles the real acting chops are provided by robert preston excellent as a self absorbed custer type cavalry commander and james whitmore the poor man's spencer tracy as another of those old timers who feel themselves trapped between ever more hostile indians on the one side and the oncoming force of civilization on the other even more impressive is a very young anne bancroft as the officer's wife who is initially repulsed by the very sight of mature's grisly character then finds her own veneer of civilization slipping away as she begins to realize to her own shock that she's attracted to him rarely if ever has a remote frontier fort been so accurately realized on screen without the romantic allure that john ford gave such a place in his masterful fort apache the battle sequences are big scale and notably violent and particularly impressive if you seen them in widescreen format good show and underrated movie all around
1	ever since i first encountered the divine ms as a sex therapist in spike lee's she's gotta have it i have been sold on the range of this exceedingly gifted yet terribly underrated actress she received an emmy for her portrayal here and to say it is well deserved is a masterpiece of understatement br br here she simply shines as the guiding force and hand in her community this was especially poignant for me for i grew up in this very same time period the production detail was phenomenal and evoked memories of life and times during the 50s 60s and of women like ms portrayed she was thoroughly and ably accompanied by a hot hot cast with performances one would enjoy over and over again i first saw macy gray's name in the credits and went ho hum her performance was so good i didn't even recognize her until about a 3rd of the way through i am especially proud of the obvious care and attention to detail to produce a feel and look of another beautiful era in african american culture that is very tastefully done br br another very interesting aspect is that the project was less concerned with the racial fabric of the times but infinitely more attuned to the richness of the characters and the emotional diversity they provide to exemplify that in the final analysis it is about the choices we make and to what extent we accept responsibility for those choices br br this is a worthy elegant presentation of african american life and is most assuredly destined to become a classic you owe it to yourself to have this as part of your collection br br i highly recommend
1	how many movies are there that you can think of when you see a movie like this i can't count them but it sure seemed like the movie makers were trying to give me a hint i was reminded so often of other movies it became a big distraction one of the borrowed memorable lines came from a movie from 2003 day after tomorrow one line by itself is not so bad but this movie borrows so much from so many movies it becomes a bad risk br br but br br see the movie despite its downfalls there is enough to make it interesting and maybe make it appear clever while borrowing so much from other movies it never goes overboard in fact you'll probably find yourself down the hatches and riding the storm out why costner and kutcher played their characters very well i have never been a fan of and i nearly gave up on him in the guardian but he surfaced in good fashion costner carries the movie swimmingly with the best of costner's ability i don't think mrs robinson had anything to do with his success br br the supporting cast all around played their parts well i had no problem with any of them in the end but some of these characters were used too much br br from here on out i can only nit pick so i will save you the wear and tear enjoy the movie the parts that work work well enough to keep your head above water just don't expect a smooth ride br br 7 of 10 but almost a 6
1	the fire gives all br br this is one of film's most masterful meditations on artistry set in 19th century korea it tells the story of the famous painter but rather than stick to saucy anecdote melodrama or psychological egg hunting it portrays a series of episodes throughout his life all of which are beautiful works of art in themselves it gives no interpretation of these episodes but leaves them for the viewer to ponder along with the paintings of himself in this way the viewer enters into the same sort of contemplation as and minus his talent can feel their way into the inspiration of his paintings br br part of why this is so effective is the utterly masterful evocation of 19th century korea and the musical artistic world that moved in there are so many gorgeous shots of the world outside the paintings that we get a mirror effect where we see the beautiful world inspiring living and looking in that world and the works of art he creates all mirroring off one another br br the story is told with extreme economy a feeling evoked is hardly ever lingered with or explained it just appears quickly then is gone for the next one to appear as an analogy it is a sort of work of art endless and quick succession of great ideas rather than obsessive lingering on one great idea it has a classical restraint much like paintings there is really no music hinting how to feel except a few classical korean pieces used with great effectiveness in several scenes and mostly played by characters in the movie one haunting image if i remember correctly is of a flock of birds soaring away over the blue mountains while a female singer croons br br this life is like a dream and only death will awaken us br br one telling line of advice in the film from one of teachers is that the painting lies between the strokes the film follows that attitude as there is so much matter between what is spoken and described in the film i have seen it twice and it was very rewarding on the second viewing a very terse film with little in the way of explanation one could see how it is film it is an artistic masterwork like great friend and mentor tells him in describing one of his paintings not a single stroke is wasted br br i compare it to andrei in quality though in style it is very different it is much easier and more directly entertaining to watch but classical in form where andrei is gothic br br all in all highly recommended to almost anyone except appetite junkies both times i left the film i felt a wonderful spiritual renewal br br one point of life that me was that his mad drinking and raving began suddenly after visiting the noble who told him that good art can come only from great knowledge and learning the next brief scene was very angry and the next blasted drunk as he often remained for the remainder of the film i am curious why the nobles words effected him so much and drove him to the drinking that dominated the rest of his life or was it just a coincidence
1	chi painted fire recounts the life of korean painter jang ub amidst the changing political landscape of late 19th century korea br br however the themes of this film center around the process of artistic creation through the fire of desire of the artist and the expectations and demands of their audience and society br br jang ub is played masterfully as a complex character who changes from the innocent excitement of youth to a hardened alcoholic tortured soul this characterization mirrors the young eager artist that finds it more and more difficult to invoke the spirit of artistic creation within himself without letting the creative fire out via drink erections and desire br br although this character development proceeds overall gradually through the film the emotional complexity of jang is still played in a constantly oscillating manner building to the films' finale interestingly the montage of the film parallels this constantly changing and seemingly wild emotion or fire of the artist as scenes seamlessly transition from one time and location to another without any conventional to the audience that such a scene change will occur for example many scenes would change seemingly in mid conversation picking up at another point and location br br the visual scenery of the film is presented beautifully and also from stark and perhaps bleak black and white scenery to more colorful and alive environments that again parallel the paintings of jang either in simple black ink on white paper or with color added rainbows of color enter the film at points as the artist observes nature and especially women that then become reflected in his paintings br br the theme of an artist's individual desire to create versus the expectations and demands of society arises in the film through various points including class distinction the domination of government over the artist the accepted norms of the artistic elite and the base desires of the common masses instead of creating his own completely original works jang finds himself mostly recreating masterpieces of other artists throughout east asia the question thus arises if recreation itself deserves artistic merit br br i wish that i was more familiar with the political events of the period to firmly grasp how they tied into the story but beyond any comparison to the current role of korean government in artistic expression and or censorship i cannot comment br br overall an extremely well acted film and the cinematography is often breathtaking a great film to see and then ponder over
1	wow what a wonderful film making mr im has done it again br br his last work 2000 was a great film but this one is even greater selected as an official feature film in the festival for the second time in a two year row this 66 years old director is getting better and better at what he is making of with a korean culture br br simply is about a great korean painter ' jang seung up' who was considered as a prodigy in the late nineteenth century the basic story of this film tells the life of jang seung up and the historical background of his time he was an orphan but in his teens he was picked up by a noble man called kim moon this mr kim becomes a mentor of jang as well as life long friendship and continues to support his great talent that he knew in the first place with jang's great effort and natural talent his fame grows faster and faster as the strength of his country korea falls down br br jang's personality portrayed in the film is very complicated and one of the best actors in korea choi min goes deep inside of jang's soul suffering eyes reveal the struggle of a great artist's life he is very serious sometimes but all of sudden he changes to a wild maniac he drinks like an alcoholic and sleeps with anytime even he said in the movie without an alcohol and a woman i can't draw an alcohol and women are my only inspirations in the peak of the fame to his own style he travels all around the country and never gives up his pride as an artist for the authority or money i don't want to give out every details but i think you surely did get some ideas about the film br br the most amazing thing about this film is a cinematography it is just so breath taking how they captured every beauty of landscapes yes each scene is like a work of jang's painting and the script is perfect too it mainly deals a deeper meaning of what makes a true artist for example kim advices to jang in the movie that 'before one holds a paintbrush one has to set an aim in life' this is very moving and inspiring line and there are many more br br go see this film if you are going to be in the festival br br will be the greatest film ever made that deals with the life of a painter in film history
1	i know a lot of people have said don't bother with this movie because its not a good fighting flick and hard with the subtitles that is a really lazy way to think of a movie if you want to focus on that part of the movie you should go find something else and also learn to to respect cinema as a form of art this being a masterful piece of work if you want to watch this its not about the fighting really there are good fight scenes sometimes that are filmed rather well with good camera work but the story itself is what holds the story together and is the important part this is not the basic kung fu movie the story is really the central focus and not the fights and the combination of the two make an excellent movie thats well worth watching and is even better in the original language with subtitles
1	first of all around the time i wrote this comment i had already read what 1 had written about this game and was confused this is a video game and not an actual movie i mean i myself would choose a good deniro movie or playing a video game any day but dude what are you talking about now that i have that out of the way let's move on shall we the video game adaption of crouching tiger hidden dragon is as you may have guessed based on the movie of the same name what's stranger is that this was released three years after the film was released whether that's due to a slow development time or just plain laziness no one really knows at least i don't br br the game allows the player to play as the four main characters of the movie jen shu li mu bi and dark cloud whose story is a secret bonus that is unlocked for separate gameplay all four of these characters have fighting styles based on how they fought in the movie however the real eye candy is the evasion moves that allow each character to avoid the blows of an enemy's attack in the most impossible and gravity defying ways that were first showcased in the movie br br the story is obviously based on the story told in the movie the story in the game is told using cg movies and spoken in a subtitled mandarin language a nice little touch considering i preferred the foreign language track of the film over the dubbed one the story goes to expand on what might've happened to the other characters during the film and even no real surprise since pretty much all video game movie adaptions have done this alters what officially happened in the movie to make the game have more action i never thought jade fox would go so far as to actually go and get hired goons br br the real bonus for the story is the ability to decide how the game ends what if jen had all the ingredients to cure li mu bi in her possession what if jen had not gotten back her comb what if li mu bi had not gotten the green destiny back for the second time your actions will decide the outcome of these scenarios and the destiny of the characters in this game this is truly the best feature of the game br br yet for all it's strengths it also showcases some flaws the enemies often tend to become a nuisance after a while and the camera angle tends to be fixed on the most unhelpful of spots not even the special features which are unlocked after beating the game are good enough to even forgive such hardships that are forced upon the player br br if you loved the movie you may enjoy the game however this game is the only way you're going to be able to immerse yourself into a version of such a beautiful and amazing movie br br of course you could have just picked a deniro movie instead
1	first of all i want to say ang lee did a very good job on this one i watched it yesterday and i was presently surprised the story is very good but all the ignorant people would say this sucks people cant fly to them i say it's fiction and that it is this is not to be taken as a film about reality you could say this is a fairytale and a very pleasant to watch asian fairytale the can actually blow your mind because there so artistically filmed ang lee has a very u might say big talent the fight scene's are very cool and beautifully brought to the viewer but it's sad but this film didn't get the appreciation it should have gotten but ang lee did fortunately get the attention he deserved with his blockbuster broke back mountain so even for viewers who are not interested in the story the images are entertaining enough
1	i cannot hate on the show when the old and better tech tv had to hit the bricks the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in attack of the show is the replacement for the screen with 3 co hosts in the beginning they were kevin rose kevin pereira and sarah lane brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well but he mostly did pieces for the show kevin rose decided to leave the show and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host but that didn't pan out for some reason br br eventually i just learned this from this very imdb sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because hey this is what i read the two got married that was a big secret to me now there is a new female co host the not as hot my opinion olivia munn she's hiding something in those tops she wears while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn't afraid to show it br br ahem sorry br br attack of the show deals with everything young people want to know about it's music movies comic books the internet and television this is what's great about the show if you don't want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv you can get all you want on some segments and bits they do are funny they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names br br even though the hosts aren't as geek as i'd like them to be i still have found attack of the show to be entertaining even with its latest lineup
1	i've been watching attack of the show religiously for about 6 months maybe longer but not much i was very infatuated with olivia and i found kevin to be very witty and the repertoire between them very good lately though it's starting to wear thin due to many factors for me first my favorite segment is the first 15 minutes called around the net that shows 5 video clips that you would find on a site like youtube that are generally funny or of people getting hurt inadvertently some intentionally umm this when watched 4 to 5 times a week shows again and again the same stuff i really haven't seen anything that good and i can only laugh at people actually probably breaking their necks and being paralyzed so many times the show is like a late show wanna be colbert report wanna be with it's politics also if you do not live in a blue state and are not an automatic liberal this humor gets old also mccain is old yeah yeah whatever libs have no guts to make fun of themselves because they are not smart enough to realize that would endear themselves as having a sense of humor that they can laugh at themselves so it's almost every show bash mccain or palin sheesh so we get the same old of people getting hurt that we are supposed to keep laughing at and then some leftist political humor that never at itself out of it's own weakness i'll keep watching since i watch at work and it's all that's on hoping that i'll be entertained but it is getting somewhat old i did like the fill in host's of chris and alison though they were actually a good change of pace maybe this show could do a rotating host thing olivia who i thought at times in the beginning was really funny has resorted to this constant pouting response and it's getting old lol 7 of 10 it will keep you in a young mindset which is good if you're a younger baby boomer like me mid 40's maybe a cartoon of the day would be another segment they should do there is a ton of stuff available they could use
1	i watch the show every day and it is very entertaining it provides updates of tech news video games pretty much everything geek they are also the official broadcasters of and comiccon if you are a geek gamers or anything really you will enjoy this show they have definitely upped their game since the guy below me's review 2006 it's the only place that i get my tech info kevin pereira and olivia munn work beautifully with each other and the show always has segments referring to things in the game movie comic universe if you know those universes you will understand the jokes long story short is a hilarious show that gives me and anyone all the news about anything and everything that you care about i'm watching it right now as i type this they are 'in' san diego covering the red bull air races sweet
1	most of the criticism of attack of show is from people who are unfairly comparing it to an old computer tv program called the screen people are upset because g4 decided to cancel the screen and replace it with the pop culture based attack of the show to compare the two shows is like comparing apples to oranges br br attack of the show is a unique hour long program that covers current generation x y culture it features segments on movies television panel discussions video games new dvd releases sex advice new gadgets mp3 players cell phones etc comic books graphic novels magazines and internet fads br br it's a fun show definitely worth checking out you are in your 20s or 30s i give it an 8 out of 10
1	a very delightful bit of filmwork that should have had wider distribution ian mcshane is right at home playing the soul loving dj who gets canned because he won't go along with the program and sets out to let the world know what they're missing the supporting cast is great as well and the music is the soul of the film i just wish that the film would be released so that i could get a copy of this for my film library
1	my favorite show of all time yeah i thought this was so cool and was the first crush i ever had it was well written funny except when it it wanted to be serious and just a great show overall but since we couldn't afford to keep nick i couldn't see any episodes after feb 1996 and maybe that makes me think more of the show than i should to me it's more the epidemy now that doesn't look spelled right of having to say goodbye to someone that you love and know you'll never see them again and i still think that because as far as i know there are no plans to release this on dvd any time soon yeah life is mean i've found that out for sure though you can find an odd episode every here or there but i never liked the bootleg copies of things much either br br so enough of my sad life most kids in 7th grade don't need powers like alex gets to get them through life unrealistic for sure but then again how many towns have a super evil chemical plants that is willing to do anything for progress at any cost gee this show was fun to watch though i'd agree the is a bit over developed and even a little politically correct sometimes my favorite parts were when the kids would have some reason to break into the plant a video tape or something like that like a kid's version of tom rainbow six which years later i got hooked on that game series for probably the same reason almost then you've got the plant's security team who are trying desperately to find the kid from the accident very mean dudes at least when i first watched the show they seem more sympathetic to me now i feel rather sad for not sure if she minds this role type casting her but it's what i'll always remember her by br br oh and btw the actor that plays aaron from 24 is on here too as a school coach or something too cool maybe he can get the producers of that show to get in next season of 24 i only bring it up jack bauer is my other tv hero and i'd just love to see cross over things lol both are set in california so i'll just keep on i can see it now let me alone with that suspect for a few minutes no i don't need a car battery
1	i used to watch this show when i was growing up when i think about it i remember it pretty well if you ask me it was a pretty good show anytime i think about it i don't remember the opening sequence and theme song very well in addition to that everyone was ideally cast also the writing was very strong the performances were top grade too i hope some network brings it back so i can see every episode before i wrap this up i'd like to say that i'll always remember this show in my memory forever even though i'm not sure if i've seen every episode now in conclusion if some network ever brings it back i hope that you catch it one day before it goes off the air for good
1	this is probably my favourite tv show ever i love all the characters especially alex who is the perfect woman always makes me laugh and feel good when i watch this show there is just something about it that is amazing hard to describe br br it seems some or all of the episodes with music albums as well here are a few examples the episodes start again when they end but don't play end credits until the very end but always play the opening credits with most the episodes the album plays once and the episodes play twice but some go on further br br radiohead pink floyd bob dylan br br 2 02 kid a ok computer episode plays at least 4 times br br 2 14 kid a meddle shot of love br br 2 19 'world without alex' kid a wish you were here pablo honey episode plays at least 4 times br br there are clues in the episodes which tell you which albums kid a may with every episode
1	oh i remember watching this show at 4 00 p m during my junior high days it was not a pleasant experience because i remember watching it when i made my homework br br still the show caught my attention when alex displayed her special powers and dealt with the typical junior high problems br br but the show wasn't all about adventures and special powers it was more of an educational effort for a younger audience in order to get more interested in school and biology overall br br the lead actress can't remember her name and i'm too lazy to copy and paste from the main details delivered a fantastic performance she made the show watchable br br they just don't make shows like this one anymore
1	these days you rarely come by a kid's show that does not involve 1 a preteen teen pop star who is as amusing as watching paint dry 2 involve a plot about finding the perfect date with a different guy girl every time 3 revolves around erratic yelling and unintelligible humor about 95 of shows on disney nickelodeon and cartoon network fit the listed criteria to put in simpler terms they all lack good acting originality and good story telling it as if producers and writers think kids aren't smart enough to understand character development and plot detail they couldn't be more unaware sure kids enjoy a good laugh and erratic behavior if it's done to a conservative level and done right but as they also want to enjoy a story see drama and see people being challenged they don't want to see people living in a flawless world where they get everything they want they know this world isn't all fun and games they know it's not perfect everyone has problems and we all must learn to work around them this show revolves around that kind of stuff alex mack is an average teenage girl who seems to have everything going for her genius sister annie her mom works at some office but is sometimes a stay at home parent her dad george is a top scientist at the plant a chemical corporation that employs most of the town they live in paradise valley alex is unpopular and picked on by most of her peers her only friend is ray but she gets more friends as the series goes on her first day of jr high alex walks home not too happy about school but a truck delivering chemicals from the plant crashes into a fire trying to avoid running her over dumping a strange chemical known as gc 161 where the chemical mixes with the water covering alex in it soon after she starts to develop strange powers such as morphing into a puddle shooting lasers out of her hand and moving things with her mind she also glows constantly when nervous though we never see much of that later on aside from her sister annie and friend ray alex decides to keep these powers a secret from everyone even her parents for fear of being kidnapped by the plant whose corrupt owner danielle has her head of security vince search for the mysterious kid every episode then deals with alex trying to live a normal life as kid at the same time learning to live with her strange powers the series may seem like a girls show but it's not as a boy i liked watching this show because of its awesome effects and drama the producers successfully add some elements of science fiction with the elements of teen drama in fact some episodes were quiet violent and a little eerie the unfounded plant manager and vince make good antagonists for the series for the writers really do establish them as a threat and give you that dreadful feeling every time they come on screen also smart move adding david driver of the truck that spilled the gc 161 as vince's bumbling assistant in the hunt for comedic effect but also you get to love him towards the end it was interesting to watch little alex try to live as a normal kid but struggles to perfect her powers at times you forget that these are kids who are battling a giant adult run institution because you are drawn in to the story the show does a good job of relating to kids by showing alex that she may have super powers but she still is a kid and must be careful even some episode you'll find yourself distraught at alex's calamities my favorite episode where alex wishes she was never born truly demonstrates most of these elements as i said the producers never hesitated to add in some laughs whether they come from ray's one liner or george's strange habits or david trying to be a nice guy of course you come across corny moments and an entire episode that really has nothing to do with the series plot but what good series doesn't all in all great show 9 10
1	spoilers ahead my late childhood had two cinematographic icons star wars and this film by czech genius karel zeman a jules verne encyclopedia where century illustrations come to life in exquisite black and white photography combined with stop motion and conventional animation verne's spirit of adventure is fully present throughout the film as well as a very modern questioning on the moral limits of power and advanced technology in fact it brings atomic energy into verne's universe in a very and elegant way also and elegant is the demise of the villain with a probably nuclear explosion sending his hat flying over the sea the resolution of the film is symbolic and very satisfactory something very rare today when a lot of films don't seem to know how to end themselves br br i was fortunate to catch this gem in reruns on local tv in the late 70s it enhanced my enjoyment of verne's fiction and of cinema br br 10 out of 10 for karel zeman under appreciated master of imagination
1	truly unique and stunning film of jules verne's for the flag by the czech master director karel zeman although the story is enacted in a rather understated late victorian style the visuals are a knockout zeman uses animation graphics painted sets model animation combined with live action to create the atmosphere of verne that the reader associates in his mind the style resembles the steel of dore and bennet and that illustrated these stories with a healthy dose of georges melies added photographed in beautiful black and white the animation is of the highest order and not of a saturday morning variety there are underwater sequences where the fishes swimming about are so accurately drawn they can be used in a field guide there are images of ships submarines flying craft castles and machinery that are drawn in such accurate detail that one must have a freeze frame on his vcr or dvd to pause the scene and study the remarkable detail that went into this production the late victorian atmosphere is designed to look like this world that never was and delight us in the magic of science that made verne the great father of the genre if this is not enough there also is the film score that probably is one of the best ever created for a fantasy or sci fi film truly a forgotten classic this one is worth hunting down and buying always one of my favorite films of all times it is sure to be one of yours too and remember this was done decades before cgi or computer animation kudos to the great artists who obviously put their heart into it it shows jules verne himself would be proud of this movie a film that deserves to be better known but those who have seen it love it and treasure it an outstanding achievement this remarkable film just gets better every time you watch it a true cinematic work of art from a visionary director
1	the movie is based on a jules verne book i actually have read once about ten years ago i remember i liked the book a lot and this movie does a good job in telling the story the most important thing in this movie isn't the story however but the highly original visual look it has br br the visuals are absolutely beautiful and they are apparently achieved by a clever combination of animated drawings combined with live actors stop motion animation and sets that are painted so that they look much like from an animated movie combined by jules verne's own unique versions of airplanes and submarines and karel zeman's good directing results in a very well done and convincing visual style that manages to effectively hold one's attention until the end of the movie br br there are some problems as well one of the underwater scenes at the end takes maybe needlessly lot of time for example as the story in the first part of the movie is rushed through quite quickly none of this matters much though since the movie is always highly enjoyable a gem that deserves to be more well known for today's audiences as well a recommended movie for the whole family
1	an interesting movie based on three of jules verne's novels considering the special effects and computer enhanced animation of today this movie stands as an historic marker of cinematic resourcefulness and imagination karel zeman has brought to life the images of the original jules verne texts this is a must see for classic science fiction and history buffs br br i give this movie 9 out of 10 enjoy
1	like the first film in this series slaughter 1972 i think it would be a mistake to just label this a film sure slaughter is a tough gun toting black man but it's more of an action picture regardless of the color of the leading man or the bad guys and a very good action picture at that br br for the second and final time jim brown plays the title character the film begins with one of the goofiest scenes i can remember in a film as slaughter and his friends are enjoying an outdoor party along comes a biplane and begins spraying the group with machine gun fire no slaughter isn't so tough that he then shoots down the plane with his 357 but slaughter is ticked and no one is sure why this hit was happened however slaughter is going to get to the bottom of it well it turns out that the hit was attempted in retribution for the last movie in it slaughter takes on the mafia and kicks lots of butt down in mexico now in a horribly bungled and clumsy attempt the guys in the plane kill and injure quite a few people but miss slaughter and because the job was bungled so badly the mob boss ed macmahon orders the pilot and gunman killed by his brutal assassin don stroud in a very typical sort of role for him stroud is great scary and nasty to the core but ed macmahon as the boss wow that's an interesting twist br br slaughter is now stumped he figured out who the two guys were in the plane but by the time he got to them they were dead so to help him along in his own private vendetta brock peters who plays a cop tells him who the mobsters are who ordered the hit and got slaughter to agree to help by doing some illegal undercover work so slaughter and his pimp friend break into the mobster's mansion and steal a list of payoffs to key government and police officials and naturally there is a lot of shooting and bloodshed in the process br br stroud isn't about to let slaughter get away with this and kidnaps girlfriend now it's a standoff slaughter has the list but if he doesn't give it back the lady is dead being a tough but gallant man you might just be able to guess much of what happens next br br the action is very good in the film and jim brown is menacing and tough the only negative i noticed was that while having macmahon play this nasty boss at the end he simply folded and way too quickly when slaughter catches up to him macmahon becomes a wimp and all the previous nastiness disappears and this is too much of a cliché and inconsistent still despite this minor quibble it's an engaging film that is not for the kids due to all the violence and boobs
1	the sort of little film which studios used to excel at but seldom make anymore sort of a soul version of the more well known the last of the blonde bombshells ian mcshane is excellent as a dj and aficionado of soul music who becomes obsessed with the idea of re uniting the members of a classic soul group and the film follows his exploits as well as those of the group members a cast which includes such genuine musical talent as isaac hayes as well as acting stalwarts derrick o'connor and antonio fargas not meant to be an epic by any means this is nonetheless a chunk of solid gold
1	hey all you jive hustlers you stone foxes you mean dudes watch out cause slaughter is back in town if you are looking for a bad ass funky film to watch some night this is just right is back and trying to take it easy n' relax after his adventures down in mexico but if you are a narrow minded gangster like you are bound to seek revenge why i don't know was in the first one his brother or what any who the movie starts off with the old assassination from a plane routine we all know that that is the most effective way for taking out one guy in a picnic full of people needless to say slaughter survives the ordeal but eric sorry george i mean isn't that lucky smack also slaughters best friend pratt is killed this is the start of a grand adventure filled with the hippest music james brown himself has to offer that's right 'the godfather of soul' has put his trademark up on this bad boy in addition to jim brown in the lead part this movie is filled with some of the biggest names the blaxploitation scene has to offer how about scatman crothers dick anthony williams gloria hendry and brock peters in other parts we see none other than judith m brown and last but definitely least the fantastic don stroud as the evil henchman
1	of the two slaughter movies this is the better and even though its hardly a schindlers list in complexity it is bloody funny all the men are the goodies or the baddies and the women are all just and emotionally needy eg slaughters girl it is also bloody funny and the pro has got to be the funniest movie pimp of all time you just can't get enough of those hats purple suits gold chains and jive patois forever the best bit is where he has the harem around him going do you bitches everything about him is larger than life and it is of morris day in purple rain jim brown also proves hes a private dick for all the chicks and again he kicks whitey ass in every direction the car scene is very unrealistic that they survive it unscathed but hey this is the movies definitely the finest flick and it surpasses shaft 1971 even the first movie is pretty good
1	brown returned to his role from the year before in slaughter for this rough follow up film in the original he had avenged his parents' slaying by wiping out a huge mob organization in mexico here he is the one being pursued retaliated against by a money portrayed by mcmahon when the first assassination attempt fails brown is back in action once more kicking gangster butt all over the place while trying to protect his new girlfriend hendry while the original film was overall a better and more coherent movie this one delivers all the exploitation aspects in far heavier doses making it more pleasing to fans of the genre aside from a fairly dreary opening on horseback and a downright deadly car ride down a city street at night this movie clips along at a very brisk pace every few minutes there appears one or more of the following drug use sex nudity gunplay murder or some other action brown is his usual reliable amiable self helped by his amazing physical presence which goes a long way in glossing over any stiffness in his acting mcmahon is a riot with tinted glasses and his hair parted down the middle he is shown meting out orders to his gang of thugs and is overheard making passionate love to his fur clad bimbo seeing johnny carson's sidekick in a role like this is a perverse thrill stroud makes an impression as an intense racially bigoted hit man while peters adds just a tinge of class as an upright police detective who enlists brown's aid sadly no mention at all is made of brown's original sidekicks don gordon and stella stevens suddenly brown now has a girlfriend hendry who is likable enough but lacking in the voluptuousness and personality that stevens had before williams does an outrageous turn as a pimp who can seemingly pick any girl out of a bar and make her an instant member of his harem the cinematography and overall direction is less polished than the first film but this one does have a drive and a sense of danger that exceeds the original's feel the film spends a lot of time in the sewage of organized crime drugs prostitution and other vices but it retains interest through the creativity of its action scenes and the now startling lack of political correctness one odd note a key supporting player in the first film was shown getting shot to death but pops up here in a different role
1	somehow this film burrowed it's way into the soft spot of my heart don't ask me how it happened but i suppose having the film feature ed i'll sponsor anything mcmahon as a tail chasing crack hustler had a bit to do with it br br frankly i was disappointed with first outing in 1972 nothing more than a quick throw together to follow shaft mania how does the sequel get away from this big jim brown seems stronger as slaughter here than in the first perhaps this is due to the fact that one year later he had something to work from instead of his simple be like shaft motivation before br br the most outstanding part about the film is the soundtrack provided by pimp daddy number one james brown almost every scene is graced with a touch of funk by the godfather an excellent period film for the music wardrobe vehicles lingo and hair i should also point out this film is also an excellent period film to represent a time in motion picture history when jim brown and ed mcmahon could actually grow hair br br double the chicks double the blow triple the body count and factor in ed mcmahon and james brown you'll be in for one hell of a 70s action flick and one that outshines it's predecessor no less for my money big rip off can play ball with any blaxploitation film ever made even shaft chances are you'll disagree but big rip off has it's own distinct feel something the original was lacking
1	portrayal of valeria in this story was entirely captivating and heart wrenching at the same time it has been a long time since i have seen so much hidden passion and mystique presented by any actor simply by utilizing her facial features and the use of her eyes and mouth the way does with this character she was entirely believable as valeria and i was swept away with her characterisation of this role all at once the film was real life and fantasy the clever use of what was limited dialogue left me spellbound i was compelled to read between the lines and each of the key players utilized the art of body language and emotional intent to convey a strong story line in particular was visually stimulating in an almost asexual way and at the same time in a sexy way this comment can relate easily to each of the many emotions brought forward by her performance understated in terms of dialogue but powerful in terms of presence i have been captured by this actresses delivery and shall eagerly seek out much more of her work
1	we saw la at the international film video festival liked it br br this film delved into the fear we all have fear of rejection fear of intimacy and most importantly fear of our own inadequacies br br the three lead actors as valeria brigitte as flavia andrea as massimo are match well to their roles and are excellent it was a joy to witness the dynamic between the three of them as it seemed real br br i believe is a stand out i hope we see much more of her in the coming years br br this film doesn't take the easy way out thumbs up to the italian team who put this film together highly recommended
1	valeria an elegant and pretty young lady lives in a world surrounded by the walls of her shyness and depression although she may have a one night lover or if someone lives with her it makes no difference of being completely alone valeria is also a passionate woman who can take actions to approach that special man massimo and at the same time the fear that allows her to answer his questions only with a yes no or i don't know the way to accent the loneliness of the character is magnificent an example would be the distance of both massimo and valeria taking a coffee in the same room separated by subtle divisions and not seeing each other i could mention several sequences however it is better to see the movie it is impressive to watch that not a single detail is out of control by the director although all actions are performed in slow movements no shouts are necessary not special effects but only great acting and a touching well written story i loved it
1	we saw la last night the chicago international film festival we were both immensely moved by it this is a haunting tale of loneliness missed connection in which the longing for intimacy conflicts with our fear of revealing too much about ourselves to another the three leads as valeria brigitte as flavia andrea as massimo are all excellent and the dynamic between them is very surprising br br after all the movies which older women it's wonderful to see flavia who is a law professor at a university in rome presented as beautiful sensual as well as seductive powerful we're conditioned to believe that when a younger woman enters 'the mix ' the older woman will become jealous of the younger woman the man will leave the older woman for the younger woman etc etc in this film however emotional truth is considerably more complex highly recommended
1	this movie is an awesome remake of the original by the same title the movie was cool despite the fact i hate new ones all of the cast was awesome it has great cast and an awesome plot the main plot is a man is poisoned and he has to solve his own murder neat eh dennis quaid is the man who is d o a in other words dead on arrival he finds help with his friends but everyone is now a suspect character has several hours to find out who poisoned him the movie is quite fast and full of action you can see two other big stars in meg ryan city of angels courage under fire and daniel stern home alone very bad things in supporting roles in this awesome cool remake of a classic movie
1	always enjoyed doa 1950 which starred edmond o'brien and was very curious about this film dennis quaid dexter cornell was a professor who loved his wife and finally found out she was having an affair with one of his students dexter gets involved with meg ryan sydney fuller who was a student in his college class and at the same time had a big crush on him and wound up having a one night stand and in some ways loved him deeply dexter learns that he received a drink which had bad contents and would cause him a great deal of health problems if you like dennis quaid and love meg ryan you will enjoy viewing this film meg gave an outstanding performance and kept this picture worth watching
1	better than average world war ii era who dun it featuring warner baxter as a former gangster who suffered amnesia and has been reborn as a psychiatrist now known as robert who helps both the police and criminals who want to go straight crime doctor's courage is the fourth in the series of ten and also involves a victim who might have some mental problems the link to courage is not particularly clear br br this entry revolves around the death of fortune hunter gordon carson whose two previous wives have under mysterious circumstances and who in turn dies in a locked room under conditions that resemble suicide but dr labels murder hillary brooke plays the part of widow kathleen carson who is involved with anthony caruso a mysterious spanish dancer whose act includes his sister that disappears on stage as a mystery novelist jerome cowan is a good supporting actor as is lloyd corrigan as an aficionado in crime br br spooky houses with creaking doors caskets in the cellar and suspects that are never seen in daylight add to the air of suspense the set for the dance sequence is quite elaborate and the ballet music very good direction production design and photography stand out the exterior shots and costumes suggest more affluence rather than normally found in the average b detective thriller br br strongly recommended
1	this is a whodunnit in the hitchcock tradition you are kept in the dark as suspects come and go dennis quaid is supurb as dexter a man doomed to die and meg ryan excellent as his babe there is not much not to like in this little suspense and all the pieces fit neatly together the way they should you won't be sorry you watched this one if you like suspense
1	this film is not really a remake of the 1949 o'brien film which is excellent it borrows the main premise a man has been poisoned and spends the rest of the film trying to find his killer but i like that the writers chose an english professor instead of a private dick as the protagonist the plot is also quite original in general the film moves along fast enough to keep you awake but what mars this film is a strange dated quality about it probably due to the horrendous 80's original music score combined with an affected noir feel dennis quaid grins inexplicably throughout the whole film at odd moments but he's still compelling in a general way meg ryan is fine as the student helper love interest when the film gets sort of bad is when dex the prof meets the british bodyguard chauffeur and their duels are pretty laughable the bodyguard works for the rich widow played by lovely charlotte rampling but those scenes are too self consciously noir to help the film along even though the family plot line is rather interesting dex also keeps showing up at the same place and finding this bodyguard which is rather coincidental in the latter part of the film a man is shot by a window and from the outside you see him jump out of it that was pretty bad direction but aside from some of these obvious flaws i think it still holds ok i certainly didn't predict the ending so that was good there is a twist and although some posters here think they were misled i thought it was a fine and believable ending dennis quaid with his weird smirks and black eyes is more likable in the right stuff great balls of fire inner space and cold creek manor but here as dex he's supposed to be somewhat of a jerk so he did fine fairly decent movie
1	for all those people who believe the dialog is worth something and who appreciate a farce that is clever enough for you to take it seriously this movie will surprise you it is not a for people who can't aren't able to follow the verbal exchange of our hero professor dexter cornell dennis quaid br br cornell teaches in southern california near the tar pits he has not published a novel in four years his wife is divorcing him he drinks a bit much and is blessed or cursed with caustic wit which he freely dispenses to his students he has recommended a friend for advancement and one bright young student has submitted a manuscript to him as an independent project cornell doesn't even want to read it so gives it an a and pushes it to the side leaning back with a drink in his office he stares out the window when the bright young student falls past his window on the way to meeting the sidewalk in a splat encounter br br hal comes to talk and they chat drinking some more the cornell realizes that he has to read the manuscript now when he goes home his wife is waiting with divorce papers he drinks some more she leaves and he goes to a faculty affair only to find her there he drinks even more and when his wife learns that the student is dead she swoons and he learns that she had been having an affair with the student this of course prompts him to do some more serious drinking the next morning he wakes up to find himself in the dorm room of one of his students a freshman named syd meg ryan br br he feels worse than a hangover goes to the doctor and learns that he has been poisoned it is irreversible and he has 24 48 hours to live he doesn't have much time to find out who killed him and there are sub plots motives relationships and surprises at every turn although everything makes sense at the end all his discoveries and exchanges are adorned with sarcasm dry wit and keen observations let's just say that this movie will give new meaning to the adage publish or perish br br there are no bad performances in this movie there are recurrent images and symbolism used at careful intervals watch for the cracked glass and images distorted through glass some of the camera shots are revolutionary for 1988 and some of the violent action is carefully and skillfully choreographed the music is unobtrusive and appropriate although occasionally it makes it's own statement in song lyrics the visuals in this flick are impressive br br if there are any failures it is that the opening 20 minutes move a little slow and nearly puts you to sleep but the pacing picks up quickly with just the right amount of exposition in between action segments br br there are no explicit sexual encounters although there is violence and some bad language br br this is a writer's movie and is best appreciated by those who have a sense of humor about their own success or failure i do think if you take it seriously you're already in big trouble
1	ok so this film may not have won any oscars but it is not a bad film the original d o a is undoubtedly a better film but that does not mean this film is bad br br the film stars dennis quaid in one of his early roles when he was first becoming really famous after the right stuff made him a star and a very lovely looking meg ryan when she was still now quite famous br br this is more of an update of the 1950 film rather than a remake since the setting is different and the characters too are different the plot is pretty much the same a man this time an english professor at the university of texas at austin is poisoned and he has only 24 hours to find out who poisoned him and why meg ryan plays a young college student who tries to help him jane kaczmarek plays quaid's estranged wife in a low key but intense performance she steals every scene she is in daniel stern also in an early role before home alone made him famous plays quaid's colleague charlotte rampling is fine too in a supporting role br br the entire cast is top notch the film is stylish with a quick pace that keeps you guessing until the end br br i think this is a film that is certainly worth watching as a thriller and as a modern version of a classic film
1	those wishing to see film noir remakes should not see this as as a remake you will always be disappointed instead enjoy a gripping performance from dennis quaid and visual imagery to commend the colour drains from the film literally not metaphorically as the plot gathers pace and the dialogue is crisp and gritty the opening dialogue is clever and the viewer is carried along by a sharp screenplay and a real original film noir feel
1	d o a is an involving and entertaining little picture from start to finish dennis quaid is at his caustic best and quaid is sadly one of the most underused talents in hollywood his then beau meg ryan also appears with him but as is usually the case doesn't really make much of an impact br br the film is stylishly directed throughout drawing on a number of influences to capture its feel would you credit that it's actually directed by two people the answer is no the whole thing is superbly slick from its innovative camerawork to its unabashed use of black and white photography all these elements help to keep proceedings fresh br br really the greatest thrill here is to be had with the dialogue it's snappy yet intricate doesn't waste a word and yet still manages to be entertaining the screenplay for this is like a pocket work of art br br this went unnoticed by me for ages before i finally caught it late at night if this is the first you've heard about it don't leave it like i did catch it soon it really is top notch br br if you're in the mood for a solid genre flick that manages to surprise at every turn this really fits the bill br br
1	i thought that the storyline came into place very well i liked this movie a lot if you're going to rag on a bridget fonda movie you can just rot i thought that ragging on movie stars was a bad idea apparently somebody doesn't think so i rather enjoyed the movie i'm even thinking of buying it i want it to be my very first dvd for my room that's how much i like it i rather would not start an online argument with someone i don't know have it be over a movie if someone could kindly retract what they said about the storyline i would be more than happy to retract my insult however if they feel that i am not worthy of a i might just feel that they are not worthy of one either but i can't control their actions i can only encourage them in the right direction hey they don't have to make a but i would greatly appreciate it
1	the is one of the best love stories i have ever seen much better and deeper than romeo juliet or spielberg's titanic love impresses me every time her search her battle is exceptional gerda becomes a strong loving woman throughout the movie kay is the poisoner of dark forces the temptation this story encourages me to fight like gerda for the only one for the love of my life for mister right patience is one of the keywords of this movie i cry every time when i realize all the suffering of gerda and kay and i wish that it ends soon tells although my life i deeply identify with the story and the characters thanks at least for hans christian anderson and the director
1	snow queen is based of course on the fairy tale of the same name collected in at least andersen's fairy tales and unlike many other recent productions based on other fairy tales this one retains the spirit of faerie an accomplishment not easy and not well understood by many especially among americans talking animals arbitrary prohibitions appearances of goblins dragons and demons are not to be questioned in a fairy tale they are as natural an element of faerie as say gravity is in the scientific world and the reason or explanation for them is completely beside the point of the story nor is the story bound by modern hollywood rules of composition direct often to the point of being grotesquely linear in lesser works and obvious in retrospect at least br br with this defence against the common criticisms of those who do not understand fairy tales snow queen is a delightful movie with wonderful visual effects skillful acting and great sentiment the only flaw in the movie was i think not that it was too fantastical but that certain parts of the dialogue were too glaringly modern in slang and expression a mar on its otherwise timeless nature
1	i really enjoyed this film i'm not usually one for fairy tales or make believe but this film captured my attention br br i first saw this film on the uk channel hallmark which usually shows afew tacky films but then snow queen came along and i was loving it i really really admire bridget fonda in this movie she plays the snow queen brilliantly and glamorously br br i won't explain what the story is about as other people have already done so so there is no point repeating br br i would just suggest that if you want to watch a fun fairy tale journey get this film but if you want to purchase it and you live in the uk you might have a hard time i've bought it from south korea brand new english edition of course
1	another nice entry in the crime doctor series 4 10 with atmospheric almost noirish black and white photography and some splendid spanish american backdrops and sets and a more off the wall storyline too br br a man who looks like the insane murderer of his first two wives is found dead in a locked room after a dramatic dinner party the crime doctor is on the scene ostensibly as a guest to immediately and resignedly proclaim it murder and so we are presented with a quite weird set of people to mull over for one of them did the deed was it the frothing brother of the dead 1st wife the 3rd wife and rich widow hilary brooke the dancing brother and sister vampires the intense young man the eccentric cabinet maker lloyd corrigan on loan from boston blackie the irreplaceable butler or odds on jerome cowan police inspector emory parnell had his work cut out but warner baxter as was as unflappable as ever in working it all out one of the goofs listed on the imdb is wrong on breaking into the murder room says right through the centre of the forehead and cowan replies he didn't miss this time favorite bits baxter and cowan travelling through club sandwiches and beer at the nightclub to make amends for their interrupted dinner party the scene where the place of repose is seemingly rumbled the plot does seem to meander a bit at times and the way it was all explained off was perhaps more worthy of monogram but leaving it in the air as supernatural wouldn't do either br br well worth a watch if you already like the genre you won't be disappointed unless you really don't like the genre
1	this is a wonderful movie and i still love it it just so magical and it is fun for the whole family i recommend it to people of all ages i promise you will not be disappointed the characters are always so engaging so real you will just love them the story of gerda and kai falling in love will really amaze you and put that little spark of magic into your life br br i don't see how anyone would care if the movie matched the book i mean the movie was amazing i haven't even read the book and guess what i don't care in fact if the movie and book are so different then you can just call them two separate stories and be happy with it br br i thought the acting was bloody brilliant bridget fonda plays the snow queen so evil and so cold you just have to hate her chelsea hobbs plays gerda a love struck girl who is determined to find her love no matter what it takes and goes on a wonderful adventure and i just love all of the snow queen's sisters the spring witch the summer princess and autumn robber they are so fun and different in many ways br br i haven't seen this movie in awhile so forgive me if i make a minor mistake but there's no doubt that i will always love this movie
1	i know the girl who did the figure skating for the lead girl she once dated my brother and she was always really nice i also live in b c about 15 or so minutes from fort steele haha i used to go there for field trips when i was in elementary school it was kinda weird seeing it in the movie i also had the chance when the movie was filming to be an extra because there was a casting call for them at the mall but i didn't feel like going to it at the time because i wasn't interested in acting now i totally wish i did this was such an awesome movie that i bought it off of ebay it never came out here which is kind of weird seeing it was partially filmed here so i was excited when it came i really loved the story line and the bear was kinda cute but if anyone has a question about fort steele just ask away
1	first off i can remember vaguely being told this story in primary school about 6 or 7 years ago so i am sort of familiar with the story br br a lot of that has changed however and there are many differences and mistakes sometimes unnecessary in the film that die hard fans will not appreciate br br however as a whole i really love this film i first saw it near christmas about 2 years ago well the 1st part then caught the whole thing again last christmas probably on the same channel br br i was very impressed at times it may be a bit overdrawn and long but with an engaging story decent acting especially from frosty fonda and hobbs and beautiful scenery costume and little touches of magic make this a really special film which for me really reminds me of christmas br br despite differences from the book i think the film does well to incorporate new themes and ideas the seasons with autumn winter etc with i think a new thief character to represent autumn throughout the imagery once you notice is quite startling and brilliantly executed br br i live in the uk so have waited a long time for the dvd and luckily enough i saw an advert showing a series of free dvd's being offered in the daily mail newspaper which i don't normally get so i got yesterdays issue and finally have my dvd if you missed it and want this rare dvd for region 2 i suggest you collect the tokens from the daily mail and send them off as your dvd will then be delivered by christmas br br so for a bit of escape into the christmas season this year put on your fire get cosy and watch this as you and kids probably will really enjoy this great film if you don't have it it will probably be repeated on channel 4 this christmas so record it
1	enchanting the best time to see this movie is sometime when unhappy or sad it's all just so cute all even the way that white bear loves the queen in secret and gets her in the end also the achievement the two young actors of gerda and kai gave it's music is also very nice the two of us will always be one combined with sad piano tones in some places gives a very touching result and if one watches both parts at once he'll see the snow queen is not so bad she only tries to surround herself with love in the wrong way the evening this movie was on here first part i only watched it because i was bored but i loved it a lot more after and was very angry when they didn't show the next part because of the funeral yeah that was terribly sad for me but when they said it will be on next week i was so happy that i recorded it and now i'm glad to have done so
1	i thought the movie started out a bit slow and disjointed for the first hour however it became more absorbing fascinating and surprising in its last two hours so while it starts out like a cheap horror film it evolves into a beautiful and wonderful fantasy film br br bridget fonda stands out as the snow queen this was her best performance and it is sad that this apparently was her last performance as she has not acted in the last 7 years she absolutely personifies both the beauty and coldness of winter br br my daughter age 14 found the film a bit frightening so if you are showing it as family entertainment please stay with your child and reassure her or him that it is just a fairy tale fantasy and not to take it too seriously br br it is really one of the best fantasy films that i have seen in a long time slightly better than eragon or any of the lord of the rings it is about as good as the golden compass
1	people comparing this movie to big blockbusters like lord of the rings or the matrix will inevitably be disappointed with the way this movie turned out although it lacks in the big special effects department and there are no battles with hundreds of extras there is still a masterful amalgamation of two old folk tales here the acting talent although not a list is still great and the interaction between the characters is perhaps more sincere than in a larger movie with an a list cast my particular favourite from this movie is bridget fonda whose performance as the snow queen herself was quite moving assisted enormously by a stupendous wardrobe and makeup she injected humanity and a sense of pathos into the character of the fallen season corrupted by the devil's evil magic fonda aside the acting was not what we have come to expect from hollywood which i think is a good thing since hollywood seems to have run out of ideas on how to train its acting talent to portray roles and so they have become stale and reliant on cgi and other special effects to take us away from the actors who all use the same tricks on us instead it shows new ideas some real thinking on the part of the actors about how they can find new variations on the the old themes of love and danger
1	complete entertainment although there are many strange things in the movie that the fairy tale itself doesn't have them including the autumn characters mother and daughter the general concept rocks
1	this is possibly one of my favorite films it tells the tale of a girl named gerda chelsea hobbs who lost her mother at a very young age so has been bought up by her father she falls in love with the bell boy named kai however on her birthday the snow queen bridget fonda comes the the hotel which her father owns and kidnaps kai then goes after kai and follows him through the four seasons in an attempt to rescue him br br i thought that this was an excellent adaption of the story with great performances from all the cast it has wonderful special effects and the story fits together very well and is easy to follow i think that it is a great film for all the family to enjoy i have watched it every time t has been on since it came out and have never tired of it which is why i have given it a 10
1	i have probably watched the movie 4 or 5 times every time i get more and more impressed by how far the wish of a young heart can go and the strenght of both kai and to struggle for what they believe in br br and the whole story is presented in such a way you just get transfered into the plot and before you know it you are there you can see yeah there's kai working hard on the mirror a little jump there's fighting for her love and there's the snow queen br br it's just a wonderful mix of love adventure tension br br it's brilliant 10 out of 10
1	this is a remake of the anime classic from the 80's and this one is even better nene and are all back as the knight sabers in their hard suits battling the robotic boomers the animation is crisp the characters are well developed and the action rocks is a singer in her regular job so the series features some wonderful songs as well there is a fair amount of violence but most of it is against robots and there is some fan service but nothing too racy the dvds also have many extras including commentaries which really enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the show a must have for any anime fan br br also recommended burst angel armitage iii
1	i saw this on tcm recently and through the imdb i found that there were seven crime doctor movies with warner baxter as the psychiatrist detective baxter is a bit long in the tooth compared to his stolid performance in 42nd street a decade earlier not noir and a bit campy today the movie also has a touch of the possible supernatural the plot black and white cinematography and characters are far more complex than those of the mr moto and charlie chan series there are subplots unexpected twists and appearances by a number of b movie we all should recognize immediately none ever made it to the a status it is a wonderfully unpredictable 70 minutes br br i would love to see a boxed dvd series of these films
1	when i started watching 3 of the episodes of this series on the action channel i have to say out of all the shows that i've seen that adv released this one is one of the best shows of all time i had to see it again and that's when i got my chance i bought the entire box set of this series at best buy for my 20th birthday and i got to enjoy it and see more of the episodes that i missed on action channel and the same 3 episodes that i've seen my favorite characters in this show are sylvia leon and nigel the animation in this series was the best and the hard suits were cool as well but the show also has a great voice cast like chris patton jason douglas christine and hillary and more so if you like this show on action channel then you have to own it on dvd it's the best and you will see what i mean
1	back in the mid late 80s an oav anime by title of bubblegum crisis which i think is a military slang term for when technical equipment goes haywire made its debut on video taking inspiration from blade runner the terminator and maybe even robocop with a little dash of batman bruce wayne iron man tony stark and charlie's angel's girl power thrown in for good measure 8 episodes long the overall story was that in 21st century tokyo japan year 2033 living machines called boomers were doing manual labor and sometimes cause problems a special swat like branch of law enforcers the advanced police ad police for short were formed to handle the boomers but were mostly ineffective prompting millionaire scientist stingray the daughter of the scientist who made the boomers to create four powered combat armor hard suits to be worn by women to fight the boomers and fight the evil corporation that produced the boomers that group becomes known as the knight sabers and in addition to ring leader her rag tag band of rebel women included a struggling rock and roll gal with a passion for motorcycles and a disdain for cops an aerobics instructor with an eye for money and a tendency to blow through boyfriends and nene a young officer of the and expert computer hacker the first in a long line meanwhile is represented by quincy a tall gaunt old guy who happens to own the company his younger assistant brian j mason killed in episode 3 and an annoying boomer man named largo other characters included leon and daley wong two ad police detectives leon appeared in a spin off prequel anime ad police files which i heard was very dark their balding overweight boss chief todo younger brother mackey and a funny little mechanic known as dr raven who apparently helps with maintaining the suits aside from the overall knight sabers ad police vs storyline there was also another storyline involving a friend of who was apparently a daughter in a big crime family the annoying largo trying to usurp and various wants revenge for a minor character story oh and did i mention that there were hints that herself might have been a boomer br br well it was a great watch full of chaos and mayhem and even some very nice pop songs but it was not without its flaws some of which unfortunately were due to the fact that the series was discontinued after episode 8 when it was originally planned for 13 episodes in all so some of the storylines like largo's scheme or schemes the family of ill fated friend and origins were never resolved another problem with the series was that at the time was the most popular character so a good portion of the series focused on her and unfortunately most of the oriented episodes basically focused on self righteously seeking justice revenge for some secondary character who had never appeared before but happened to be a friend of hers yet she rarely went out of her way for her the knight sabers who were always her out of trouble and for some reason cared a great deal about her well being just to be fair though she did go to rescue in episode 7 and her boyfriend got killed by a boomer and the acted wrongly in the investigation this meant we didn't really get to focus on the more interesting back story of or even the day to day antics of nene and had two episodes oriented around her which pertained to her friend with the mafia family while nene managed to snag the last episode for herself which showed her eternal good cheer was genuinely good spirits and not nene also got to put her computer skills to good use quite a bit or she sometimes just acted like a lovable goof which put her screen time and character development a few notches above poor who was often thrust into the background with only her greed and her tendency to eat up boyfriends to get her any attention don't get me wrong i like it and i love the overall concept of it all but it did irk me a little bit also this is one of those runner ups for worst english voice dubbing of all time features meaning you'd better stick to the japanese some of the voices were okay some really did match their characters personas but others were just flat and passionless or in the case of really overacted br br well tokyo 2040 comes along and pretty much tosses all that out the window set a few years ahead the story here is that after earthquakes shattered tokyo boomers rebuilt the city into a big old paradise except the boomers still have a tendency to fly off the handle which prompts the ad police to be formed followed by the knight sabers being formed so the overall story is the same but the backstories of the characters and the look and attitudes of the characters have changed a lot br br 1 originally had short purplish black hair and brown eyes was usually dressed like a stern proper business woman and was distant from others 2040 has more of a super model look to her dressing more provocatively and possessing white hair and blue eyes that seem to change color depending on the light runs the gamut from blue to purple to silver and eyes occasionally looking purple or gray and also 2040 is more of an emotionally unstable woman who flies off the handle when she's not in public and possibly keeps even more secrets than before also doesn't take as much risk on the battlefield as she is more of a stay in the mobile pit type here but she does do battle when she has to br br 2 originally was a short woman with an afro and a really bad temper always picking fights with people who offended her always biting off more than she could chew etc 2040 however has gone the way of the clint eastwood loner very cold very stoic and emotionally distant more like the original you might say so she's not really attached to anyone also her hair is more and cat like a big improvement and she is clad in leather like trinity from the matrix although much less annoying than before unfortunately the writers screw her in the end when revealing her reasons for hating the br br 3 originally had this big black hair going for her but now her hair is shorter and well more 90s like 2040 is also an office lady who has bad luck with being sexually harrassed as if to apologize for the way she was treated by the oav writers the 2040 writers actually dedicated the first 6 episodes to writing her as a country girl new to the city but determined to meet the knight sabers and win a spot with them which she eventually does br br 4 originally a short red haired girl who was often the victim of ridicule and ate a lot of candy nene is now a short blonde haired girl who likes to tease and take pot shots at detective leon revenge for him toying with her in the oav and other characters even her surrogate big sister and mackey brother whom she becomes infatuated with and arrogant she still eats a lot of candy and is a master hacker but she is eventually deflated and grows beyond her comic relief status br br 5 nigel kirkland is a new character a tall stoic ruggedly handsome man with long black hair he looks like adrian paul from tv's highlander he replaces dr raven from the old series and now serves as the man who gives to hard suits nigel is also lover but you wouldn't know it by his demeanor he's kind of the father big brother mentor figure to mackey br br 6 leon and daley are back but of course differently the original leon was a tall pretty boy built like a baseball player with slicked back brown hair blue eyes a black leather jacket tight blue jeans and always carrying a revolver that could magically pack more than a if necessary while he wasn't really a bad guy deep down he was kind of a jerk but he served mostly as comic relief as he tried to pursue romantically exactly what he saw in her is a mystery but occasionally he and daley served as information guides to important plot points also the original daley was a fairly muscular red head who dressed in pink purple suits as he was a flamboyantly homosexual character who was always hitting on leon when not providing important information in 2040 leon is no longer a pretty boy but more your typical rugged tough guy type with spiked black hair brown eyes tall and sporting big muscles a brown leather jacket and blue he actually looks like arnold schwarzenegger a little bit or maybe a pumped up colin farrell or hugh jackman and he still carries a revolver a big one but it's not as powerful as before although 2040 leon still has a bit of an attitude especially in approaching he's not nearly as much of a jerk as he was in the old series but he does have a bad temper and he is easily annoyed by nene and daley also he drinks way too much coffee oh and leon is still after but he has a lot more luck this time around daley meanwhile is now a taller but not as tall as leon more pretty boyish looking guy with red rimmed glasses a white suit green eyes and light brown hair and he carries a big machine gun he actually looks like james marsden from the x men films daley is a lot smarter and more assertive in 2040 than the oav and although it's not completely clear his homosexual tendencies have been almost totally disappeared save a moment of what appears to be jealousy when he hears about leon inquiring about e mail br br 7 brian j mason what does that j stand for is back and so is quincy but mason is much more the main villain here with quincy as co villain as he is no longer a towering figure of terror but a vegetable with a bunch of batteries and wires plugged into him mason now sports slicked back brown hair instead of black hair as he did in the oav he actually looks like oav leon in a suit and he is very much from the alan rickman school of villains br br 8 though a pervert in the first series mackey is no longer a pervert in 2040 of course there are lots of things different about mackey in 2040 but they won't be revealed here br br 9 now has a companion an alfred the butler type named henderson who worries about her and the gang br br 10 in the original series boomers were like the in blade runner armed with their own thoughts and feelings and ambitions but in 2040 they're more of the dumb monsters on the rampage type most of the time they're just big robots who do whatever they're programmed to do heavy labor combat clean up etc and they have this tendency to go rogue which means try to evolve and become a monster in the process br br what does stay the same is the theme of humanity vs technology do machines have souls sadly this series though well animated and well written only runs 26 episodes so it moves by faster than one might like especially those of us who are used to more than one season of our most beloved characters and unfortunately it still ends on a cliff hanger with unresolved storyline bits which i will not discuss here what saves this show and makes it what it is however is the characters a colorful cast of screwballs they are ranging from stoic loners psycho women genocidal mad men rough neck cops sardonic intellectuals wise old sages and loveable innocents much more diverse than before and with a lot more to play off of they're enough to make you wish this show had gone longer br br it's not great but it's a good watch also the english dub by adv is quite good though not without a few flat spots but certainly better than the dub on the original
1	a boat builder in a sleepy town in maine is going out of business and the lives of all of the soon to be ex workers and families are disrupted the biggest disappointment is that the two stars bates and bridges have only bit parts br br interesting but not something you would see twice br br
1	as with so many modern us films there has to be a supernatural element to the plot but if you just let that go this is a tale with heaps of charm and a kindly heart cased in a crab shell br br we are presented with a scene of a town in an economically depressed area struggling to find anything to be happy about beau bridges' character is really up against it with a family on the increase a nil bank balance and a brother in law who's sold out to a big business chain which he secretly hates but in which he is willing to rub nose d'onofrio finds his rather surface bubba lifestyle cramped by having to look after his baby brother joey and is itching to escape the shackles of this dead hick town their boss's business is closing down much against his will because of a lack of new customers and he is haunted by memories of his father as he builds up the tension towards his own attempt at self destruction br br joey who had seemed to personify the curse on their lives is lost at sea believed drowned in a freak accident his miraculous restoration to them by the portuguese whose boat they had just built and launched perhaps symbolic of an angelic crew is the sign they've been waiting for and they all decide to give life one last throw of the dice br br there is a beautiful brooding mood throughout this work which excelled in holding our attention as brilliantly as 'the shipping news' there are other parallels with the later work too which lead one to suspect a touch of a remake i like of life' for its simpler less contrived story and star performances from actors working at their craft rather than to be noticed as stars
1	i saw this movie on pbs the first time then i bought the video and watched it countless times every time i watch it i can get something else out of it it's a real testament to wanting to hold onto a life that was good but now the world is changing but you don't have to be older to hold onto the past even the young characters like charlotte don't want things to change the overall tone and mood is excellent the cast is outstanding with all stars like kathy bates beau bridges and arthur kennedy and its fun to see the upcoming stars before they hit more recognizable feature films like kevin j o'connor the mummy and vincent d'onofrio men in black and law order criminal intent one of my favorite shows its just one of those movies that stays with you
1	it's not real flashy but this movie does a great job of developing a large cast of characters and letting you know their hopes and desires while still managing to be both funny and bittersweet a very sweet movie fun also to see vincent d'onofrio and mary louise parker so early in their careers
1	i first saw signs of life on pbs as an american playhouse presentation it's a wonderfully written ensemble production with terrific performances by michael lewis as joey and vincent d'onofrio as his brother daryl arthur kennedy in one of his last roles is also excellent as an aging shipbuilder whose family business is about to close the rest of the cast which includes beau bridges kathy bates and mary louise parker give remarkable clarity and substance to their characters br br the direction is subtle and effective i've watched this movie several times over the years and would very much recommend it a beautiful piece of filmmaking
1	it's showtime showtime is simply a bump in eddie murphy and robert deniro's careers it's an entertaining movie and a guilty pleasure but not quite up to the actors' standards especially not robert's showtime is directed by tom dey and features some small roles from guys like william shatner and mos def br br showtime is about two very different cops mitch preston deniro and trey sellars murphy one takes work seriously in a low profile quiet manner while the other is more easy going and wants to have more fun than felons in his back seat they are both after the same felons behind a huge caper of televisions vcrs etc they then cross paths and a tv station wants a new reality tv show so they fight crime while they are on tv mitch hates the publicity while trey loves it with his line it's showtime their tv antics and methods are shown on tv and they are the new cops show the fun begins br br overall showtime is a fun action comedy a good film but not quite up to the actors' expectations and standards however it's rolls along as it treads and parodies reality tv shows a good break from shows like cops truly at the end just a guilty pleasure br br my rating 7 10 br br eliason a
1	this is actually great fun i really enjoyed it even though it wasn't that original at all robert de niro and eddie murphy were great together all the characters are cool and the story is pretty good plus robert de niro and eddie murphy are simply amazing in this rene russo is excellent in her role and there are plenty of laughs to be had throughout especially when deniro spoofs clint eastwood and danny glover's lines plus the finale is just great yes it's just another run of the mil buddy buddy cop film but it works due to the fantastic chemistry between de niro and murphy plus it had some great car chase scenes as well it's nothing that great really however i found it to be great fun and a perfect way to pass the time however the main villain was very weak and wasn't very good at all this is far from being the best buddy buddy cop film however it's still a very entertaining one and i thought it was pretty well made and written as well plus the ending was quite funny this is actually great fun i really enjoyed it even though it wasn't that original at all de niro and eddie murphy were great together i highly recommend this one the direction is very good tom dey does a very good job here with great camera work cool angles and keeping the film at a fast pace the acting is a lot of fun robert deniro is amazing as always and is amazing here he is hilarious very likable had fantastic chemistry with eddie did his usual awesome stuff pulled some really funny faces seemed to be enjoying himself had some funny lines and had a really cool character de niro rules eddie murphy is also amazing here he is hilarious like de niro did his usual funny stuff obviously loved being in front of the camera and while he can do this stuff in his sleep he was still a lot of fun to watch murphy rules rene russo is fantastic here she had a cool character and while she didn't have much to do she added a lot of screen presence and made her character interesting always she was just great russo rules william shatner is funny here surprisingly and didn't overdo it and brought some good laughs into the film the main villain is ok but kind of weak and rather bland still he did what he had to do adequately rest of the cast do fine overall i highly recommend this one 1 2 out of 5
1	robert deniro and eddie murphy what a team while rene russo william and that guy from the everyday video are alongside for the ride this is a funny and a great movie not only is it that but it's a good buddy flick br br tom dey shanghai noon directs this hell of a movie from start to finish it was a masterpiece no slapstick humor here but good old time laughs making fun of all other cop flicks to name a few lethal weapon beverly hills cop fifteen minutes and etc br br if you want to see a movie see this one you'll love it it has a wonderful cast and crew so get off your a from watching cops and watch showtime for a cop film and remember they'll be your neighbor at um um oh at friday nights at 8 00 man everyone says i'm a bad writer
1	note after writing this review i see that this listing is indeed about the tv series and not the original film my mistake i thought imdb for a database for movies not tv shows but since most people will look up this film under bagdad cafe and not out of which strangely is the name this film is listed under on imdb i'll leave this comment here br br maybe i missed something but when i read that other review it seemed to be entirely a review of the cbs series which must have been loosely based on this film i did not see the tv series and i might like it or not but one thing i am sure is that it is very different than this film this film is not like a tv show at all and whoopie goldberg is not in it or any other famous hollywood stars other than jack palance who was very charming in his role br br this is a terribly sweet movie that totally thinks outside the box it is not at all like a hollywood formula movie which is probably why the what's a nice word for idiots who decide to market movies or not decided not to market this one br br first of all this movie captured my heart and imagination from the get go from the music which is just part of the time so you can't really call it a musical to the cinematography to the really cool story br br a german or bavarian woman very pretty and quite plump gets in an argument with the other german or bavarian man with whom she is traveling through the california desert with and parts ways with him he taking off in the car and she left to fend for herself on a deserted and desert like highway out in the middle of nowhere br br she finds the small and dilapidated but charming bagdad cafe in bagdad california and checks in the rest of the story is magic i don't want to try to describe this film because i want you to enjoy every surprise br br warning if you are a racist or have something against big women you will not like this movie as the main romantic lead is a big woman and characters of brown and red skin have large roles and are included as part of the mix without any racism involved br br i gave this film a 10 for orginality entertainment and sheer
1	showtime is a mess but it's an entertaining mess the plot is forgettable the satire is lightweight and the action sequences though well staged aren't that exciting but i laughed a lot credit goes to the inspired pairing of de niro and murphy they have great chemistry murphy delivers the one liners de niro cracks us up with a look or grimace this movie will get a rush hour like reception from the critics don't listen to them if you're a fan of de niro or murphy you're going to enjoy this movie
1	dad 78 and i 46 both had a good time watching the flick today for a guy primarily known for serious roles de niro is a heckuva comic actor of course it helps to have his past film images to play against consider that one of those roles 15 minutes was a cop having to deal with the interference of the mass media and you have an interesting set of compare contrast performances br br murphy plays another of his axel foley sort of characters shatner plays a burlesque of himself a parallel world self who was best known for tj hooker and not star trek br br it's interesting to watch how the film comments on the contrasts between the reality of police work and its fictional counterparts in tv and film shatner lectures on the proper means of sliding across a car hood de niro points out holsters scratch the hood finish ironically as the film progresses de niro's character begins to incorporate the illusions of tv cop reality into the real world case he's working br br the film draws its inspiration from a gamut of sources so one could make the comment it is derivative well so what satire needs to derive its humor in order to exist and besides the film does have quirky moments of originality for example i'm reasonably sure the method of the villain's death has never been done before br br one quibble about the reality of the weapons involved shouldn't those guns have had some kind of recoil in order to penetrate steel those bullets had to have enough inertia to penetrate and any highest level of inertia is at the moment of firing so firing a volley of these tank killer bullets should have driven the shooters back onto their butts oh what the heck it's a satire maybe the lack of recoil is itself a satire on the b f guns used so casually in thrillers br br
1	as many of today's movies are guilty of the plot isn't exactly stellar the movie doesn't move anyone and certainly this won't warrant any award outside of perhaps but then again who really cares br br eddie murphy and robert de niro team up to produce a very funny at times hilarious movie that i really enjoyed russo and shatner played their small parts well as well man i hope in the future my wife ages as well as miss renee has br br moving along this buddy cop flick produces high laughs in a reasonable amount of time the movie is enjoyable enough to avoid the wait for video dvd release and instead to go ahead and check it out br br eddie murphy is at his usual top form and is downright enjoyable to watch de niro has molded into this type of role perfectly br br i really enjoyed this movie and think that any true movie fan in need for a good movie or just a good laugh will really enjoy showtime br br top performance murphy hilarious enough said directing job nice nice action scenes used murphy and de niro together like a charm russo fed off in a nice supporting job br br my rating 7 out 10 it's not going to move you or anything but it's an extremely enjoyable movie br br it's showtime was a great success
1	showtime falls somewhere north of what some critics have been saying and a little south of what i expected months ago when i first heard about eddie murphy and robert di niro teaming up for a comedy overall it was pretty good as real life crime or cops go and plot for that matter it is pretty illogical but duh this is a comedy also while the special effects chases aerial shots and skyscrapers blowing up were present but lower key than a movie i found it a bit tiresome and overdone 9 11 sensibilities aside for myself all that pyro techno hyper effect stuff had been getting really old these past few years it seemed a lame substitute for characterization story and engaging emotions i hope the lesser quantity of it in showtime is an indicator of a trend in hollywood a trend downwards of less use of the silly less use of the exploding building br br di niro and murphy are two of my favorites their screen presence and charisma and even their character depth have been a joy to behold for many years that can't be dismissed here they are engaging actors and entertaining and appealing in this movie i can't put my finger on it but perhaps the explosions the excessive fx and all of that diminished the final product perhaps or perhaps it was something else or a combination of factors that gives one the sense that the movie didn't achieve its highest potential whatever it was showtime was entertaining i probably will buy the dvd when it comes out but i had the vibe that it nonetheless wasn't all it could have been at least not all i had hoped for br br very good movie but not a great movie i gave it an 8 out of 10
1	i'm not going to go into too much depth but showtime was a pretty funny movie there wasn't any slapping your knee funny scenes that i can remember but it had it's moments the cast is pretty good robert de niro is good as usual and eddie murphy pulls off a pretty funny performance rene russo was just fine in the film no complaints there there were two characters in the story that i liked that they didn't explain much at all the first one was trey sellars' eddie murphy's buddy at the gym played by ken campbell i supposed he was just a friend of but i wanted to know more about him the other character that i liked was mitch preston's robert de niro's fellow cop partner played by nestor serrano i guess he was just another cop working with mitch preston but i wanted to know if he was his partner or what not i think maybe i'm putting too much thought into a movie i mean after all it's a comedy who cares about the characters i guess i do though i was really pleased to see this was directed by tom dey who also directed shanghai noon ever since i saw that movie i was looking forward to his next work i think he did a pretty good job with this film and i again look forward to his next work br br all in all it was a good movie but i wouldn't recommend paying full price for a ticket unless you're a die hard robert de niro eddie murphy rene russo fan it was worth seeing in the theater but not for full price i'd recommend seeing it at matinee price br br also here's some movie trivia for ya the guy who played the camera man played by judah is the guy in the music video everyday by dave matthews band he was also the clerk in meet the parents also starring robert de niro and on top of that he also played derek brother in zoolander both zoolander and meet the parents star ben stiller just some useless trivia for ya br br i hope you enjoy the film thanks for reading br br chris
1	showtime is a funny film starring robert deniro meet the parents a bronx tale and eddie murphy shrek dr dolittle the story is this in the beginning of the movie detective mitch robert deniro and another detective go into a tv store trying to bust some criminals when the cops arrive tray eddie murphy a cop tries to arrest mitch not knowing he's a cop during this scene loads of funny things happen which catch the eye of tv producer chase ritz she is so excited about their adventures together she decides to make a tv show called showtime starring tray the cop and mitch the detective but that's just the funny part the rest is strictly suspense and action there is a foreign man who is selling and making extremely dangerous guns while playing lapd on the show and doing it in real life deniro and murphy have quite an adventure in this story on a scale of 1 10 i give it a seven or 8
1	at one time buddy cop' movies ruled the box office it seemed that every summer flocks of beverly hills cop wannabes descended on our nation's theaters not any more lately the gusher has dried to barely a trickle the drought has eased a bit recently with the release of showtime a movie that is a genuinely funny and consistently entertaining example of the genre br br mitch preston is a dedicated cop he's not a dirty harry type by any means he's just incredibly focused professional who's completely intolerant of anything that gets in the way of the performance of his say a t v cameraman mitch deals with the cameraman in a socially irresponsible way and so falls into the clutches of chase a producer looking for a killer hook for her reality t v ' cop show she thinks that mitch will give her the boost it needs to be a hit but feels he may be too unlikable to carry the whole show by himself enter trey sellars a patrolman cum actor who's watched way too many police story re runs of course mitch and trey mix like oil and water and much merry mayhem ensues br br we know that mitch and trey are bound to become best buddies by the end of the movie that's the way buddy cop movies are suppose to work in fact it has to be said that showtime rarely deviates from the time honored clichés as writ by lethal weapon and tango cash there's a high tech mcguffin to get the ball rolling in this case an automatic rifle that fires rounds big enough to stop tanks there's a slick foreign baddy with an accent of undetermined origin there are chases shootouts and explosions we all know this going in and we have a pretty fair idea how it's all going to turn out you know what there's nothing wrong with that yes we know the well worn bases are going to be touched but the fun here is the trip not the destination showtime doesn't strain to be original instead its energies are funneled into its characters and humorous situations as a result showtime does a competent job with the action sequences but really shines in its comedy br br robert de niro is dryly funny as mitch in the past i've thought de niro to be a cold and actor given horribly to mugging when called upon to do comedy lately though he's grown on me he seems to be injecting more humanity into his roles eddie murphy is hilarious as trey the best way to describe his performance is that trey is what murphy would be if murphy weren't so talented and hadn't hit the big time rene russo has a droll time playing motor mouthed show biz shark chase she stalks through the movie chasing high nielson ratings with awe inspiring determination in her zeal she re vamps mitch's life to make it more camera friendly she even calls upon t j hooker himself william shatner to show mitch how be a more cop shatner is funny playing himself precisely as we expect him to be loud oblivious and slightly obnoxious br br i have to admit i was really looking forward to showtime and i wasn't disappointed ten years ago this movie would have been a guaranteed hit today it's doing moderate business at best that's a pity because showtime is a whole lot of fun
1	contains spoiler the movie is a good action comedy but i don't know if the director cut too many parts but it seems that the bad guy die too fast the end of the movie come the bad guy dies and that's it br br the special effects are good and i don't regret paying to see it at the theatre
1	despite of all the negative criticism i really enjoyed this movie i am not saying this lightly i love movies and am fairly picky about them my home dvd collection is over 9 000 movies some are great others are ok a few i do not like at all and to all those with criticisms this is a comedy i simply love this movie it is light funny and very restful i am aware of all or most of the deficiencies but i love it the comedic talents of eddie murphy and robert deniro are tapped fully for this type of movie do not compare it to other movies with these star actors simply enjoy it the cast is great and i believe that the purpose of this movie was fully accomplished if you want a really easy going and very restful night watch this movie deniro and murphy simply had fun making this movie so should we watching it and please do not be so negative do not expect godfather performance or meet the parents from deniro do not expect comedy blockbusters performance from murphy it is a completely different genre and it made me relax after a hard day work your sides may not split from laughter but it is still very funny
1	i've read a lot of reviews about showtime on imdb and many seem to miss the mark i've noticed a lot of reviewers calling this the typical buddy film de niro is in no way murphy's buddy throughout most of this movie in fact part of the comedy of this film is de niro's reluctance to be friends with anybody br br murphy really shines in this one he is back at doing what he does best acting like a complete ham he is a cop who wants so much to be an actor and enjoys being in the reality show de niro is perfect as the straight man who thinks the entire thing is stupid i thought the two of them had great chemistry and were a perfect casting choice rene russo is also great as the tv producer of course she loves everything murphy does and tries so hard along with to get deniro going too br br a lot of reviewers have touched on the hilarious scene with william shatner reprising his role as tj hooker to train de niro how to act like cops but my favorite scene involves murphy in the confessional hoping he could get a snipes like cop to team up with instead of de niro man that was hilarious comedies often depend on your personal tastes sure you could poke holes in the plot most often you can with a comedy i was psyched to see the pairing of murphy and de niro i think it brought out the best in murphy which was nice to see him at the top of his game again i can only imagine it was a great honor for murphy to be paired with the great de niro rating 8 of 10 stars
1	you have to be awfully patient to sit through a film with one liners so flat and unfunny that you wonder what all the fuss was about when whistling in the dark opened to such an enthusiastic greeting from audiences in the 1940s br br on top of some weak one liners and ordinary sight gags the plot is as far fetched as the tales the fox red skelton tells his radio audience you have to wonder why anyone would think he could come up with a real life solution on how to commit the perfect crime and get away with it but then that's how unrealistic the comedy is br br but if you're a true red skelton fan and enjoy a look back at how comedies were made in the '40s you can at least enjoy the amiable cast supporting him ann rutherford and virginia grey do nicely as his love interest and conrad veidt as always makes an interesting villain one of his more amusing moments is his reaction to skelton explaining the mysteries of wearing turbans i never knew that he muses impressed by a minor point that is cleverly introduced br br all in all typical nonsense that requires you to accept the lack of credibility and just accept the gags as they are not always easy for a discriminating viewer as many of them simply fall flat the way many comedies of this era do because the novelty of the sight gags and one liners has simply worn off
1	it's exactly what i expected from it relaxing humorous and entertaining the acting couple was awesome as well as the scene selection i personally recommend this it's kind of the movie that can be seen by whole family at the same time without anyone feeling uncomfortable or getting bored this cute movie will make you smile and laugh too and the action scenes are tasty classics of modern american comedy and very well done
1	if you've seen the trailer for this movie you pretty much know what to expect because what you see here is what you get and even if you haven't seen the previews it won't take you long to pick up on what you're in for specifically a good time and plenty of laughs from this clever satire of reality tv' shows and buddy cop' movies showtime ' directed by tom dey starring robert de niro and eddie murphy br br mitch preston de niro is a detective with the l a p d and he's good at what he does but working a case one night things suddenly go south when another cop trey sellars murphy inadvertently intervenes a television news crew shows up and mitch loses his cool which results in a lawsuit by the television station that's going to cost the department some big bucks except that they may be able to get around it thanks to chase rene russo who works for the station and likes what she sees in mitch enough to pitch an idea to her boss for a reality' cop show that would feature none other than mitch preston whom chase sees as a real life dirty harry ' br br her boss likes the idea and gives chase the green light now all she has to do is convince mitch to participate which shouldn't be too hard since the station has agreed to drop the lawsuit if he will do the show but mitch is a cop not an actor and he wants nothing to do with any of it that is until he has a heart to heart with his boss captain frankie faison who puts mitch's future into succinct perspective for him and just like that the show is on oh yes there's one more thing for the show mitch is going to need a partner and who do you suppose they're going to come up with for that let's put it this way trey sellars is more than one of the usual suspects br br this is dey's second film as a director his first being shanghai noon ' also a comedy and he's definitely showing a penchant for the genre from the opening frames he establishes a pace that keeps the story moving right along and he allows his stars to make the most of their respective talents and personal strengths including their impeccable timing with stars like de niro and murphy dey of course had a leg up on this project to begin with but he's the one who keeps it on track demonstrating that he knows what works achieving just the right blend of physical comedy and action and employing the subtleties of the dialogue to great effect br br there isn't a more natural actor in the business than de niro and he steps into mitch's skin like he was born to it and after years of doing hard edge cutting drama in which he turned in one remarkable performance after another with such films as analyze this ' meet the parents' and now this one he has firmly established his proficiency for doing comedy as well mitch is not an especially complex character he is in fact something of an guy but therein lies the challenge for the actor to make him believable to make him seem like the guy who could be your neighbor and just another member of the community and on all counts de niro succeeds he's mitch the guy you run into at the grocery store or the bank or say good morning' to on your way to work who likes to watch the game on tv and has a life just like you and me who happens to make his living by being a cop it's the character mitch has to be to make this film work because it makes the ordinary guy in extraordinary angle credible it's one of those role and work that is often wrongly dismissed out of hand because it looks so easy and of course this is what makes de niro so exceptional he does make it look easy and he does it with facility br br as trey sellars eddie murphy turns in a winning performance as well and it's a role that fits him like the proverbial glove trey is a cop but also an aspiring actor and a bad one and it gives murphy the opportunity to play on the over exuberant side of his personality reigned in enough by dey however to keep him from soaring over the top into jim carrey territory which works perfectly for this character and this film from his melodramatic take on a part during an audition to his throwing out of one liners delivered by looking directly into the camera which as far as he's concerned isn't even there while filming the reality' show murphy's a riot and he has a chemistry with de niro that really clicks which is not unexpected as this is another of de niro's many talents his ability to connect with and bring out the best in his co stars all of whom evidence will support are better at their craft after having worked with him including the likes of meryl streep christopher walken and ed harris just to name a few most importantly this is a part that allows murphy to excel at what he does best and he certainly makes the most of it br br russo makes the most of her role as chase too a character who isn't much of a stretch artistically but whom she presents delightfully with a strong believable performance and william shatner playing himself absolutely steals a couple of scenes as the director of the show br br the supporting cast includes de niro annie pedro damian vargas and james camera man well crafted and delivered is a comedy that's exactly what it is meant to be pure entertainment that provides plenty of laughs and a pleasant couple of hours that will have you chuckling for some time after it's the magic of the movies 8 10 br br br br br br
1	this is a funny movie the bob eddie show feel of it could lead to a sequel but i doubt it will make enough money br br deniro proves he can be a great straight man again with some hilarious and spontaneous moments eddie was fun to watch working with people instead of cgi animals and rodents rene russo well she's just fun to watch anyway and she's played her part excellent br br some wild and unusual stunts especially the garbage truck scene this was worth seeing in the theater we needed a good laugh and got many from the movie and the great out takes at the end do not leave at the start of the credits br br at least a 7
1	i went to see this movie not expecting much but was pleasantly surprised by the teaming of robert de niro and eddie murphy it was a fast paced movie and the hour and a half went by fast this one certainly won't win any academy awards but it was a change of pace for mr de niro he is good in comedy overall i enjoyed it
1	i don't care what some of the reviews said this movie was funny the thing with this film is that you can't expect anything else except to be entertained this is not some intellectual comedy this is a clever popcorn movie the three main cast members are great and work very well with each other shatner is a standout in the supporting cast as himself a former tv cop brought in by russo's character to coach the cops on how to be tv cops those are by far the funniest scenes if you want to be entertained and just sit back for a laugh then watch this movie
1	i cannot understand why so many people did not like this film robert de niro was on top of his game delivering his lines with such aplomb one has to believe this is his everyday demeanor granted the film seemed to take on many buddy film conventions while trying to make fun of the concept it goes without saying this film was genuinely funny from the police dog to the fact eddie murphy didn't annoy the heck out of me this film is a real keeper rene russo also evened out the rest of the cast perfectly establishing her role so it does not interfere with the budding relationship between de niro and murphy
1	several get on a russian ship bound for france they were going to get off there and make new lives for themselves after being discovered by the first mate and his henchmen they were held captive then things got very bad for them good show based on a true story
1	i was watching an nfl game and started surfing during a break and found this on one of the hbo type channels i missed the beginning but when i started watching deadly voyage the was put down and not even thought of until the credits rolled you will find yourself rooting against the and on the edge of your la z boy throughout this one if you get the chance take the time to watch it every once in a while i think about having the cable company take off my movie channels but when you stumble across great ones like this you know why it is worth paying extra for them happy holidays to all from cape cod
1	i absolutely hate the idea of made for television films for me usually involve jane seymour or jaclyn smith as the mother of a sick child who is dying of a difficult to treat disease all done in such a sugary manner that the audience doesn t need tissues it needs so when deadly voyage a made for tv film by the bbc and hbo based on a true story i vaguely remembered from a couple of years previously turned up on the tv schedules i sat down waiting to be bored senseless i was surprised br br no strike that last sentence i wasn t surprised i was shocked here is a tvm that grips you tighter than a great white shark in fact deadly voyage doesn t deserve to be relegated to the tv schedules it should have been made and distributed by a top hollywood film company due its absolutely terrifying premise and what s more it s unlike papillon and sleepers completely true br br for those who don t know the story possible spoilers as to plot sometime in the early 90s a bunch of africans away on an ukrainian freight ship bound for france in order to work there of course it was an attempt at illegal immigration but the crew of the freighter had already been fined for allowing illegal immigrants onto their ship from a previous journey and not wanting to get into anymore trouble with maritime and immigration authorities the crew murder the africans after discovering them hiding in the hold all except one african kingsley who manages to escape from the firing squad but who must try and survive aboard the ship but the problem is the crew are hunting him and france is still several days voyage away br br just typing the above paragraph reminds of how good deadly voyage is what a remarkable story and once again it is unlike many stories that claim to be totally true it s very well written directed and acted especially by sean pertwee why isn t that guy a big name star and most of all it s a tense claustrophobic disturbing thriller that i can still remember vividly six years after seeing it for the one and only time i look forward to seeing again br br but you ve got to ask yourself how can a tvm be better than most of the hollywood action blockbusters that came out round about the same time oh hold on i ve just had a disturbing thought about jerry doing a remake with tony scott directing and with denzil washington playing kingsley brad pitt playing pertwee s role massive artistic licence taken with events etc let s keep deadly voyage a superlative tvm rather than a poor blockbuster
1	this searing drama based on a true incident concerns several ambitious african nationals who decide to temporarily leave their families by stowing away on an ship they think that if they successfully make the voyage they can better their lives by making enough money in new york to send for their families unfortunately for them the ship that they select is a rundown russian freighter which has already been heavily fined at a previous port for harboring the captain and the first mate are determined not to let this happen again as their jobs are on the line the group of blacks begin their harrowing voyage in the cargo hold and are eventually discovered forced out of hiding and murdered by the ruthless mate an outstanding performance by sean pertwee a few convincingly terrified leader omar epps among them manage to temporarily escape and are mercilessly pursued through the ship with their lives forfeit if they are caught altogether a riveting film which will have audiences biting their nails and gritting their teeth wondering how such dire events could take place in modern civilization
1	red skelton plays a radio detective known as the fox in whistling in the dark also starring ann rutherford conrad veidt eve arden virgina grey and rags ragland wally benton aka the fox finds his plans to marry his fiancé carol rutherford thwarted when he's kidnapped by a the leader of a sham cult veidt joseph jones veidt has just learned that his cult the silver haven is not getting a promised inheritance because of the existence of the old woman's nephew who is going to be living off of the interest he wants wally to devise a perfect murder plot so the man can be killed on the airplane en route to meet with his attorney for backup and because he's not sure which one is wally's fiancé jones kidnaps carol and also the radio daughter grey br br this to me anyway is a superior film to the second entry in this series whistling in dixie the plot is better the cast is better there is less slapstick and fewer corny jokes skelton when he's not making faces and rolling his eyes is quite amiable and rutherford is very good veidt always played these evil men to perfection eve arden is wally's agent who arranges a date for him and grey to make sure his contract is renewed i had only seen grey in films from the 1950s onward she was always a good looking woman but who knew she was such a knockout in the '30s and '40s this is a fun film with a neat cast
1	if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization there is an excellent book called outlaw seas or the outlaw sea and it describes in story after story how these things do happen the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons one many of the world's are of questionable registry nationality and it's difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don't have an office in a real country two many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries the crews are often like illegal immigrant workers threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices three there is often a language barrier not only between the officers and the crew but also between the crew members themselves the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence four once committing an illegal act the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint anyway it's fascinating reading br br horrifying story excellent movie does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year so that several of the top 5 contenders usually come from britain jerry bruckheimer the end of quality cinema br br i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee i also as usual loved omar epps
1	as an ex merchant seaman i was really interested in this movie i personally have been involved in a stowaway search on leaving where one person was found we managed to get him ashore though as we were in territorial limits on another ship i was on the stowaway was found and we could not land him anywhere due to passport nationality issues in fact he stayed on for a year as an almost honorary crew member and worked for his keep africa is notorious for stowaway pickups there is a great scene in the beginning of the film when the bulk carrier enters the african port her size dwarfing all the crew pop ashore for a little intercourse and inebriation so far normal the drama starts when the enter the vast cavernous holds of the ship joss ackland is brilliant as the captain with a drink problem being harassed by his nemesis suchet right on form as the companys representative on board the stowaway search is classic but we did not have guns i question the use of guns in this film this ship seemed to have a vast armoury in my experience guns at sea are severely restricted due to customs regulations also having a dog on board was odd anti rabies laws especially in europe restrict carrying of animal severely anyway pertwee is brilliant as the embittered mate the horror which follows the discovery of the victims is unbearable the grim metallic background of the ships holds and a feeling that there is no where to hide adds to the drama some of the crew are not into the murder and those who get involved are gradually sucked in to a world of violence from which there is no escape the chase through the ship especially the engine room scenes are edge on the seat the feeling of extreme claustrophobia abounds the feeling of metal pressing in and death being only a gun barrel away the film is brutal my girlfriend had to give up watching it during the shooting and beating scenes while this goes on suchet in the comfort of his well appointed cabin gets drunk unaware of the mayhem 3 decks below its a tense film flawed in parts but the real message is that we can all get sucked into violence like this slowly and surely think of the train drivers who took jews to auschwitz the clerks who worked out those train timetable i always remember someone who had visited dachau concentration camp at the end of the war and he said that one of the s s guards had put a bird table outside the camp crematorium this film is like that ordinary people suddenly finding themselves in a world of unstoppable violence
1	i taped the morrison murders on lifetime movie network and i watched the morrison murders on lifetime lifetime movie network and on courttv jonathan and john corbett did a great job of playing luke and walker morrison i am glad that walker got his brother luke to confess of murdering his parents and their brother bobby i enjoy watching true stories on lifetime lifetime movie network and on courttv the morrison murders is a good movie to watch next time the morrison murders is on lifetime lifetime or courttv i am going to watch the murders again because my favorite actor john is in the morrison murders i give the morrison murders a ten because it is a good movie about walker who tries to find out who killed his parents and his brother bobby and at the end walker discovers it was his brother luke who murdered his parents and his brother bobby
1	i caught this on local mexican television at 2 00 a m and i decided to give it a chance since it's based on a real life case that deals with the murder of the typical all american family a dad a mom and a young son br br on the beginning the hints point to walker to be the murderer as he had strong differences with his father shortly after when walker and luke are taken to the sheriff's dept to being examined by the lies detection machine things turn out to be very different br br also when walker and luke attend to an appointment with their father's lawyer they learn that luke would receive 200 000 and walker is out of the heresy luke immediately buys a convertible br br anyways this is an excellent mystery movie that deals with betrayal ambition feelings and cold very cold blood br br i know the real names were changed but still the experience is the same give this movie a try i know there are hundreds of based on real murders or events of the like but this one is truly worthy pure quality on acting direction and plot
1	i thought the movie was good but i like to read the real story behind the based on a true story movies does anyone know the names and locations of the real characters the movie is based on i have done a complete internet search and cannot find any information on this case all i get is the movie information and the fact that it is based on a true story i find it hard to believe that a judge would change his sentence rendered immediately in the courtroom even after such a heartfelt speech by the brother gorgeous john corbett but overall the story was very gripping anyway if anyone knows the real real story i would appreciate you sharing it
1	i don't usually like this sort of movie but was working at home and wanted something to halfway watch while i did i got so engrossed i gave up working to just sit and finish watching the last half hour uninterrupted and i sure don't usually shed tears over this sort of show but i was crying at the end a lot of emotional nuance great acting and good southern feel john corbett is one of the most talented actors out there and the guy who played luke was really good too highly recommend
1	tv churns out dozens of true crime movies every year you can see 3 or 4 every saturday on lifetime and court tv can be relied on for a few every weekend so i started watching the morrison murders thinking i knew very well what to expect a more or less competent retelling of a real life family murder what i got was a subtle beautifully acted drama that engrossed me from start to finish br br both the brothers were totally convincing and jonathan was perfect in the challenging role of luke the look and feel of georgia was in almost every frame if i had any complaint it was gordon as the sheriff he just doesn't look or act like a small town southern lawman named byron calhoun he looks and sounds like and is not right for this part br br but this is a minor quibble the morrison murders is well worth watching and not just on a rainy saturday afternoon if you're going out tape it you won't regret it
1	like some people here i love loved stingers in norway it got aired a lot later that also means that we are in the episode yea that's right i have to say that i really love stingers it can make me cry laugh smile and so on i think i'm going to die the day we reach episode number 192 stingers might be the on series except from grey's anatomy that i really watch the actors are amazing especially stapleton i think she is one of the best access we have i know he is not like super known but she is really a great actress stingers makes me want to be a cop i love it br br p s do you know if you can buy the episodes
1	like a few people i know i came in late on not until 2000 three years later there is no way i'd miss an episode the show really is that good and has for a better word maintained its integrity unlike 'blue for example the crime is the thing personal lives are there but only wheeled out when affecting an investigation when gary sweet was brought in some fans seemed worried but he's really fitted in well which didn't surprise me gary could measure up to any british or us actor in a similar series the cast changes occasionally but each change brings something new and fresh with arguably australia's finest crew behind the scenes will continue to remain a cutting edge drama series
1	why take a perfectly good original drama based on a perfectly good novel and remake it as a quasi musical and cast it with actors exclusively lacking in singing or dancing talent somewhat akin to showgirls or the two most recent star wars films lost horizon is full of unintentional laughs who can forget sir john gielgud smiling uneasily in his dali outfit overseeing an interpretive dance to the republican party family br br or sally kellerman warbling lovingly to george kennedy doing her best cher impression as she hops from one rock to another every little thing you do and my favourite bobby van embodying the strength of america's education system question me an answer i can't wait for the dvd release as hopefully it will contain comments by liv who will finally explain what she was thinking when she agreed to do this film
1	there are 3 of these movies all similarly crafted and each extremely amusing red plays radio sleuth wally benton aka the fox who gets wrangled into solving real life crimes along with his fiance played by your typical wartime girl next door looker ann rutherford many of the one liners and gags are dumb and probably were in the 1940s which i anticipated but just as many actually made me laugh out loud which was unexpected to say the least red skelton has a surprisingly strong screen presence surprising i say because i grew up with a much older version of the man who's charm really didnt play well in my formidable years i have to give these movies the go ahead though if your in the mood for this type of nostalgic fare i almost threw in light hearted but in truth people get wasted and beaten up and dare i say it the suspense at times is well above average as with most movies from this era it gets a pi politically incorrect rating for reasons you can well imagine wartime is funny that way i guess and so then again are these movies watch one watch them all
1	i've seen the 1973 movie lost horizons and read many of the reviews for this movie i agree the move had many opportunities for improvement but unlike all those who are looking for the perfect movie with the perfect songs and the best acting i was looking for something a bit different and this movie gave it to me i watched this movie not as a critic but as a person looking for a little hope a little cheer a bit of a release from my everyday life and this is what i got you can be critical of the acting the singing and dialog but not what i look for when i go to a movie i look for a little release from my daily life a little time where i can sit back and imagine a better life where people love another and help another it's a shame we can't we enjoy a movie for what it tells us and quit picking it apart like an english teacher reading a fifth grade essay this may be very simplistic but really wouldn't it be nice
1	the movie is excellent acting cinematography direction and music are spellbinding it seems to me that the reason so many give the movie a low score is because of the devotion they have to the original 1937 version starring ronald coleman that movie for good reason engendered an unbelievable level of commitment from talking with people who saw the original when it first came out i believe the impact was something akin to the first movie in modern times i have seen it it was and is wonderful but that does not mean that this version is not also worthy from the first scene the 1973 version grabs you the noise and tumult are fantastic especially in they way they prepare you for the peace of shangri la and burt music is beautiful so by all means enjoy the 1937 version but do not let it detract from your enjoyment of this 1973 version any more than you would let the 1935 king kong destroy peter jackson's of this year
1	i recently purchased lost horizon on ebay having vivid memories of the things i will not miss number from childhood i am an ancient 29 i also recently finished the novel upon which it is based i was so pleasantly surprised to find a genuine hidden treasure a wonderful cast brings such warmth and depth to a beautifully simple and elegantly told story subtly updated from the original film and by now quite a separate entity to the far more intellectual and thought provoking book by james hilton sally kellerman in particular has a radiant presence as the suicidal neurotic sally hughes who gradually warms to the charms of shangri la only liv flounders in her wooden portrayal of the schoolteacher a role far more suited to a julie andrews type the fact that finch and hussey are all dubbed isn't important as it is almost impossible to tell the songs do vary in quality the music being far superior to the lyrics but it is still a vibrant and engrossing film that really deserves a proper dvd release and a lot more recognition
1	i have to offset all the terrible comments i love this movie i own the movie and the soundtrack i watch it whenever i need a pick me up granted it's not like the sound of music but it's as much fun if picking at movies is not your thing i adored the late and great bobby and james has always and will always be a favorite i saw this when it first came out in the theaters i'm a big musical fan and this one is 100 times better than twiggy in the boyfriend it's a modern musical and shouldn't be judged by all that went before it's just the best for dreamers like me who wish they could find this place no illness no wars no drugs all the bad things in life are gone this is nothing more than a feel good movie that is what all movies should be about shaun phillips title song is superb and explains the entire feel of the movie if the acting isn't the greatest who cares i love the idea of the movie peter finch a very stiff actor liv gorgeous as ever sally kellerman surprisingly good voice michael york typical and olivia hussey stunning all convinced me they were normal run of the mill people not one of them acted like actors in a movie they acted like real people the same way i would act if i found this place torn between going home and staying there in awe of everything yes there are flaws in this movie but get over it it's not citizen kane it's a feel good musical
1	the 1973 musical version of lost horizon is the most wonderful endearing and campy musical films of all time the 1973 musical remake of the james hilton novel about mythical shangri la is a real special gem music by burt bacharach and lyrics by hal david a strange mixture of straight drama adventure and musical sequences it has the distinction of being the only anti war musical fantasy ever filmed br br this film was a critical and financial disappointment in the united states but made a lot of money overseas only in america did it fail highly different and unique in it's approach as a film musical it deserves far better credit than it's given as a story lost horizon is an incredible adventure and both the 1937 frank capra film and this 1973 musical are faithful adaptations of the james hilton novel what i like about the 1973 version is the freedom in which the musical numbers are presented the film has a prestigious cast and a gifted director and cinematographer this is a burt bacharach shangri la and it's a wonderful place songs like the world is a circle share the joy and living together growing together evoke a happiness that hilton wrote about in his novel why shouldn't shangri la be a slightly goofy place the two love songs i might frighten her away and the deleted i come to you are the sensitive spots in the picture there's a peacefulness and soft spoken quality in both these songs that is very much keeping with the philosophy of the story moreover the things i will not miss is a good duet with a strong melody it's a nice exchange of different types of perspective and who can fault with olivia hussey and sally kellerman stomping singing and dancing on tables they're a wonderful team and the number is well staged br br i always found it interesting in this story how the high lama kidnaps someone from the outside world to take his place in shangri la the character of the high lama is a gentle soul but somewhat radical in his view of mankind as a whole he has no hope for the world outside of shangri la if this film were to be remade today it would be interesting to see more emphasis put on the leading character richard conflict with what he left behind in the outside world as opposed to what he's found in shangri la br br of course for the film to be believable the character of richard conway must be presented as suffering amnesia at the end like he was in the book neither film versions of lost horizon were faithful to the novel in that regard did conway find shangri la or was it imagined did they all die in the plane crash every man has his own idea of what his shangri la would be the conflict with conway wanting to believe in shangri la and returning to his old life in the outside world is powerful i like the melancholy on the faces of kellerman kennedy and van as they watch their friends leave the mystical valley interesting how conway doesn't want to leave paradise but is being pressured out by his brother both versions of lost horizon work in different ways but both are successful in probing james ideas of a hidden valley where money has no value and moderation is the rule so in a sense it's anti capitalism in it's theme where as money and materialism is not the motivation human kindness decency compassion courtesy etiquette and living harmoniously with each other is the rule br br lost horizon has a much stronger story than most musicals it attempts to answer the basic fundamental questions of life and one can hardly fault it for not succeeding one has to remember that lost horizon in 1973 was post cabaret it was no longer fashionable for characters to break out in song in a musical much less to be dubbed by other singers lost horizon was an easy target for jaded critics the expectations for it were high almost unreasonable there were two targets to be hit the producer ross hunter and burt bacharach and the critics were out to get both of them ross hunter had enjoyed decades of financial success as a producer and lost horizon was his follow up film to his 1970 blockbuster airport that film was biggest moneymaker up to that time and the success of that picture triggered a decade of disaster films for years airport was the most watched film ever to be shown on television it was nominated for 11 academy awards including best picture at the time burt bacharach and hal david were the most successful songwriters in the country the unabashed sentimentality of lost horizon hardly had a chance in the wake of the breakdown of censorship in films like easy rider midnight cowboy and the godfather sex and violence was a new frontier in the late 60's and early 70's audiences were flocking to films with content that they were not use to seeing on the screen lavish musicals were no longer well received no matter how well they were made today lost horizon can be enjoyed and appreciated on several levels it's the ultimate escapist film with a strong story wonderful music an expensive budget and some quirky humor it's unconventional in the sense that the music is not introduced until 45 minutes into the film it changes course mid way when the mystical valley is introduced and why not lost horizon '73 is a heavenly film that deserves rediscovering a lost and legendary treasure deserving far better than it's reputation
1	i was about 14 years old as i saw the musical version of lost horizon i loved the film so much as well as the songs that i went several times to the cinema to see it again and again my mother bought the lp and i learnt the songs off by heart just as i did with the sound of music which people hardly know in austria i think the problem with some of these self appointed critics who's comments get published is that they don't have a romantic soul and didn't see the film through the eyes of a young teenager maybe he is an ingrid bergman fan but i was happy with liv ullman could ingrid bergman sing and dance what was so great about her perhaps the critic did n't appreciate it because he needed new glasses or contact lenses since he sees a close resemblance between liv ullman and bill clinton it was the idea and story behind the film the philosophy which was the most important and interesting factor and a musical in colour just made it more entertaining and enjoyable without damaging the intellectually appealing aspects it's a shame that many other films with so called great actors and actresses with unimportant themes stories are utterly boring in comparison
1	this version of the lost horizon is actually not a bad film at all i think the problem is people like to pick on musicals especially those made in the 70s i saw the film upon its original release in 1973 i was ten and really enjoyed it the music especially burt bacharach has always been a favorite the story is fun the acting is good and technically it's excellent sure there are one or two rather silly dance numbers but hey you can't win 'em all i have this film on video and watch it every so often and i enjoy it each and every time
1	i really loved this movie and have spent several years trying to get it it is just not available and it has not been on tv for many many years i enjoyed it and the songs because it had something different to say and made you think how every person looks at something from different also we often don't appreciate something we have till it is no longer there br br my 12 year old daughter just the music and is entranced with some of the songs someday i hope to get a copy of the film so she can have an opportunity to view it oh would i love to see it again too br br
1	i saw this movie when it first came out in 1973 and loved it since then i've searched for a video but never found it until now 33 years later when i ordered it from sorry to say it doesn't hold up this version just can't rise up to the 1937 production level i love burt musical score that is if to by itself and i even bought a cd of it but for my taste it doesn't lend itself well to this mysterious and compelling story just doesn't fit michael york is lost here sally kellerman tosses off a fine performance but olivia hussy is just ridiculous and not worth lugging through the himalayas the best performance is charles boyer as the head lama
1	really this movie should be released to dvd i just got a bootleg copy of what i think was a studio film and i was utterly pleased it was on my list of films to own simply because of the cast three of my people michael york olivia hussey both having been in romeo juliet and also john sorry about the bad spelling were in there so on that alone i thought that for the small amount i was spending it would be fine boy was i right i'm not going to give any of this one away you may already know the story anyway but i'll just say if you can get yourself a copy in any format do it you won't be sorry
1	red skelton in his first starring role plays wally benton who plays 'the fox' on a radio show he writes the murder mysteries and as 'the fox' solves them joseph jones conrad veidt is trying to figure out how to perform the perfect murder on someone he kidnaps benton his girlfriend ann rutherford and another girlfriend virginia grey he tells benton to write out the perfect murder or his girlfriends get it br br very funny and enjoyable movie fast moving it's only 77 minutes a good script and perfect casting really puts this across skelton is very good in his first starring role very funny fast handsome and intelligent veidt is excellent as the evil jones rutherford and grey are lots of fun as skelton's girlfriends all three of them play off each other perfectly their verbal sparring is the highlight of this pic also fun to see eve arden in a small role br br well worth your time
1	blues an impressive hbo movie about a beautiful woman that made her house a home for several characters touching alive entrancing a great mix of sound and story based on a true story featuring an all star cast a time capsule about br br you get the point and no i am not on the for the hbo crew i would throw around more superlatives but i am about to go out the extras on the dvd include a deleted scene a featurette and commentary the funniest part about the featurette was star lighting they used when interviewing exec producer halle berry br br ok seriously good times a
1	as a film buff i obviously had read all the excruciating reviews and funny sarcastic comments about this film my favourite being woody allen's quip if i had my life to live over again i wouldn't change anything except for seeing the musical remake of lost horizon therefore i've never been able to watch it without smirking at the choreography set songs etc just recently i came across a widescreen dvd and watched it for the first time in years along with a friend who had never heard of the film's reputation he really enjoyed it and after trying to block out all the negative prejudices i obviously had about the film so did i there is nothing especially bad about lost horizon and it is far more enjoyable and watchable than many other early 1970's movies it isn't even especially camp the lyrics to some of the songs are rather repetitive and simplistic but this isn't really apparent when hearing them for the first time or having the flaws pointed out in advance so you are ready to scoff at them as for all the reviewers who claimed the cast cannot sing in tune this criticism falls apart since liv olivia hussey and peter finch were dubbed brilliantly too as the vocals match their speaking voices perfectly and sally kellerman has a really lovely and totally unique singing style vocally duet with olivia hussey on the things i will not miss is excellent special mention should be made of the legendary hollywood star charles boyer's brilliant performance as the high lama and his comments about mankind destroying itself are chillingly apt to today's fractured world i wouldn't claim for a second that lost horizon is a masterpiece the things i wouldn't miss about it are the uninspired choreography and bobby van's question me an answer number which could easily have been cut but if you haven't even seen lost horizon or haven't seen it for some time try watching without that oh boy let's have a laugh at this pile of junk attitude and you will be surprised at how enjoyable it actually is
1	the retelling of a classic story is set to the music of burt bacharach and lyrics of hal david the actors seem like real people in this fairytale of the outside world meeting with mystical la it is a joy to watch bobby van whose acting puts me in mind of red buttons and as always george kennedy cool hand luke who always manages to carry gravitas in his roles br br the surprise here is charles boyer as the elder high lama who would have known br br all star cast including michael york and olivia hussey makes this work a keeper for those of us who cherish people
1	i saw this film some years ago and promptly bought the soundtrack because it was simply excellent music is endearing and should be given the recognition it richly deserves the cinematography is awesome critics hated it but they hated home alone too i haven't found it on video but welcome anyone who can find a copy
1	it amazes me that production companies will sue because of they will not supply i've been looking for this movie on dvd for a while and vhs for years one can get all sorts of movies on line old movies new movies but it all targets a particular group this movie is very nostalgic for many i'm not sure why i can't get a copy maybe if enough people will write in the copyright holder will get a clue it's about time for this to happen yes it's date but so is the wizard of oz it doesn't seem like this should be so difficult so for now i'll keep seeing those illegal copies on search engines like many others
1	it may be a remake of the 1937 film by capra but it is wrong to consider it only in that way it was supposed to expose hilton's novel in a completely different way as a musical is excellent the scenery is terrific the characters good and anyone like leonard maltin who considers the bacharach music awful must be completely deaf i strongly recommend it
1	the cast is admirably chosen and well balanced this cinematography is excellent the music is delightful as all of burt music is and is appropriate to the plot line making a musical version of hilton's tale is a welcome change from a plodding re make we see seasoned actors who add real depth to the emotional content and significance of each scene i cannot agree with the critics who overlooked this scintillating gem of a film it is a treasure of the silver screen find it if you can and let its magic carry you beyond the drudgery of daily worries inspiring you to find your own lost horizon
1	i went to the cinema in 1973 when the film was released i was 11 at the time i remember how much i enjoyed it and wanted to live in shangri la that's how naive and young i was i recently came across a video of the film i had recorded off television some years ago i watched it again and am not ashamed to admit i still enjoy it as much now as i did 29 years ago i also enjoy listening to the words of the songs because it makes me think that one day we could live in a place where the sound of guns don't pound in our ears and if we look at our reflection we should be happy with what we see this is what i call a feel good film because i feel happy after watching it maybe i am still naive but it makes me happy and i'm sure it will make you happy if you watch it with an open mind and enjoy it for what it is a good family film i must be one of the few people who has this film on vhs pal video and dvd self made i recorded it on dvd as the videotape recording from tv was starting to wear thin i still watch it from time to time
1	this was one of my favorites as a child my family had the 8 track tape soundtrack it took us years until i was in my 20s for us to get a video of the movie my dad taped it from hbo or something every summer when we go to the beach my mom brother sister and i we lay on the beach and sing all the songs from this movie loved it
1	i don't see that much wrong with this movie granted the principal singers might not be luciano pavarotti and maria but they can certainly carry a tune burt bacharach and hal david are talented songwriters and i happen to love their songs especially the world is a circle the things that i will not miss and question me an answer some people claim that hermes pan's choreography is ghastly and that the snowy mountain sets look as if they were made of plastic i disagree on both counts i've seen powdered snow before and the snow in those mountain scenes looked realistic to me and most of all in this film's defense it is appropriate for a family audience at least i remember it being that way when i saw it on christmas day a few years ago with all the outcry over sex and violence in the cinema these days i find it refreshing to note that this film deserves its g rating and they don't say that naughty f word every ten minutes like some films i've seen thank god so although this film may not be everyone's cup of tea it does have some redeeming value and i give it ten points out of a possible ten that's my story and i'm sticking to it
1	a huge cast gathered for this remake which sadly was a box office failure notwithstanding a great sound track i can't say it was riveting entertainment nor a cure for insomnia nevertheless i enjoyed the film it provided the escape i was after one afternoon a good look for those of us looking for the ideal life albeit a fantasy expect some corny moments few thrills and an occasional laugh
1	while many pass this off as a b movie it is indeed a first class comedy that is well written and acted red skelton is great as wally benton better known to radio fans as the fox ann rutherford is perfect as wally's fiance carol lambert conrad veidt leads a very well cast gang of criminals i read one account of this movie which states that vincente minelli directed this film not unless he changed his name to s sylvan simon who directed all three of the fox movies this is a very entertaining film made when imagination was encouraged so get over your black and white prejudice if you have one sit back and enjoy a truly great comedy this was also red's first starring role take note during the climax of the reference to orson welles' war of the worlds broadcast
1	ross hunter's musical remake of the 1937 fantasy based on james hilton's enduring bestseller was written off by critics and audiences almost immediately in 1973 sounding off a backlash against musicals in general that gave the genre a bad reputation in hollywood for years group of disparate british and american individuals end up on an emergency flight out of a war torn asian country but their plane is hijacked and crashes in a snowy mountain terrain a rescue party arrives and leads the group to an isolated community called shangri la where the sun is always shining and most of the residents are youthful and blissfully content some of the performances by the classy cast aren't so classy the effervescent mood of the piece the lilting burt bacharach hal david tunes as well as the lightweight direction all conspire to make the performers look just a bit silly peter finch is the international peace keeper who becomes involved in a somewhat constipated romance with resident liv sally kellerman is a malcontent who spits out lines like i got tired of taking pictures of people with their heads blown off so that people with their heads still on and usually under could get one last kick before turning to the latest recipe john as chang an asian who learned to speak english while attending oxford is humorously self amused but why no songs for chang hal david's dopey lyrics are sometimes jaw dropping on the good ship lollipop how did christopher columbus sail across the sea and the pacing gets bogged down with all that chatter about the outside world and how nothing is more pitiful today however the production is lush and the general handling strangely affecting the two dimensional characters are so overly serious they actually become endearing and the movie's silliness is infectious it ends up being a lot of fun from
1	this musical has a deep meaning which is appreciated by only a few the wise can see the wisdom contained in what most call folly br br this music may well regain popularity as world consciousness rises it is about a land far away from it all where living things have room to grow its people are living and growing together mentally and spiritually faster than in biological age br br the lyrics help us recognize the relativity of this world that is spinning around and to look inside yourself that is where the truth always lies the absolute level of consciousness is more real than the ever changing world of the senses br br i have been searching for the video for years when i find it or it comes out in dvd it will help share the joy of being in shangri la again burt music and hal david's lyrics made a masterpiece in turbulent times that is just now ready to be fully appreciated br br may this cd inspire you to find your own lost horizon or recognize it when peace of mind has found you org
1	i was 19 or 20 years old at the time and living in salt lake city utah and i still remember the new dome theater called the century 21 chairs that rocked and a new sound system large screen and huge open space between the screen and the packed theater we felt all the excitement of a new preview screening of a film ta da da da ta da dada dada i can still hear the opening music ringing trumpet and the crash of i loved the interplay of characters and the filmed vistas i know peter finch and luv and sally had some trouble with the lip sink but hey this was a feel good go feel better about things film what i regret is the way they cut the meaningful heart out of it showed the cut version and then called it a flop i saw the cut version and i can see it lost its view of the vision it had in the preview edition yes i wince a bit at peter's effort to make love through music but you know i didn't see it that way when i left the theater when they surveyed us as we left i regret any comment i made that may have altered the original i liked it then and still see it while i listen to the music on my lp most of my family has heard me sing much of the sound track and i can use the films monologues in our games of what movie is this i wish a director's cut on dvd was available it is available on vhs but its not quite the same i would particularly like a full serious lord of the rings style commentary about its origins struggles and triumphs picky people should leave things well enough alone bring it back
1	while the songs and dance numbers in general aren't as strong as many would have them be the film's storyline and message are still there and ring out loudly above the simple 70s style musical numbers br br keeping in mind that this film was made after the hollywood musical had nearly died out with few exceptions being rock musicals the audiences that went to see it new didn't appreciate the fact that it was a brave attempt at something that hadn't been done to date audiences that see it today will tend to judge it against the films and musicals of today and perhaps the huge all star casts of musicals gone past but to do that to this film or any for that matter is an injustice to the film itself br br there are some good musical moments in the film the first is that of bobby van mr van took his role of harry lovett just after closing a 2 year tony nominated for best actor run of the broadway revival no no nanette he is a song and dance man from way back and honestly the only one in the cast that was truly talented and experienced for musicals he never misses a step in his question me an answer and rightly so he was totally at home as harry other pleasant numbers are done by olivia hussey when she welcomes the new visitors and while the lyrics are weak james shows his strong voice in the family song as well as a nicely done staging of the full piece br br view the film for what it is a fantasy about a place where you never grow old hidden in the ice and snow covered mountains of tibet found by a group of unsuspecting modern day people wrapped up in the strife of any modern culture take this and compare it to reality and you get a film that falls short of a goal but take this film for the message of love and peace and tranquility and brotherly love and you get a warm and refreshing message and a positive one at that br br to some this film may seem corny to others a welcomed release from the hectic pace of reality to the first try to not judge and just enjoy the message to the second you have discovered the secret of shangri la
1	much better than it is generally given credit for this version of lost horizon not only had great music and beautiful scenery but also some stunning mountain photography a special edition laser disc was released some years ago which added more than 30 minutes of previously deleted material extra music and lots of bonus material so why isn't this on dvd hard to figure the studios out sometimes certainly the roles could have been given to people who could sing better than peter finch liv ullman george kennedy and sally kellerman but what do you want in a movie good acting or melodious pipes song and dance man bobby van is great fun michael york is a suitably tragic villain and seeing sir john gielgud decked out as chang may sound silly but actually works very well on screen trust me you need to check this movie out if you can find it
1	i really enjoyed this film it definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat it was very well directed i think it was important that they showed the other couple's life as well as terry and and show them as people with emotions as this film needed to show bobby as a cold and vindictive person br br i agree with another review it was sick love not true love he didn't need to go to great lengths as murder to give his wife a baby he should have been honest with her and told her that he was sterile and decide to adopt a baby together some reviews say that she was naive i think she was when it came to the adoption however best actors all round great movie to watch
1	i thought this was movie was great richard greico and yasmine bleeth have great chemistry in this movie yasmine character plays a women who has fallen head over heals in love with richard greico's character they end up getting married and everything seems perfect except yasmine bleeth wants a baby more than anything however she has a hard time trying to conceive richard greico will do anything to make her happy and will go to extreme measures to make her happy i thought the acting was great in this movie and it keeps you guessing it shows how naive one can be when they have fallen in love yasmine bleeth is a good actress in this and i wonder why she never made it further in her career richard greico is very impressive as the deceiving husband and plays the evil part very well i wonder why certain actors make it and certain ones don't all and all a great movie that i would recommend
1	it was a terrific movie i like to watch it again and again the actors were awesome the movie kept me on the edge of my seat i would recommend this movie to anyone i wish lifetime would put this movie on dvd i would most definitely purchase a copy this movie just proves that you should be very careful about who you get hooked up with you may think you know someone but you never know my daughter watched the movie with me she thought it was great all i know is i will watch this movie every time lifetime airs it it's the kind of movie that keeps you glued to the t v i wish lifetime would redo the movie but use the same actors and bring it to the big screen
1	this interesting film noir features three very good performances sanders patrick and the scenes between sanders and patrick are particularly outstanding as the detective is unfortunately not nearly as good he lacks the intelligence strength and cynical world view of a bogart had humphrey played this part we could have had a classic br br pace location a library and atmosphere are all good but there are a few plot holes sanders strongly fears and the ruthless organization nazis he represents yet after mistakenly killing sanders seems to experience no anxiety or remorse sanders then seizes the library and its occupants by using the ruse that he and his men are detectives investigating the murder however sanders' hit man later tries to kill by shooting him without a silencer even though the many other could have been expected to hear and become alarmed by the noise finally sanders' hit man tries to kill roberts who has discovered the truth but when she faints he inexplicably does not br br what bothered me the most however was that the chance for a great and unexpected conclusion was wasted throughout the film patrick is portrayed as a smart hard as nails sociopath fearing nothing yet at the end she flees panic stricken from the last surviving nazi a brutish thug by the time the cops find him he has killed her and she ends up being just another weak stereotypical victim what should have happened is this the cops find the nazi thug but he is dead she has cleverly killed him and then vanished to continue her evil ways
1	george saunders is a who steals a rare copy of hamlet killing a guard in the process months later an associate of his is selling forgeries of the book for great sums of money one of the forgeries is sold to a man working for the nazi's not happy at being taken the nazi front man insists on getting his money back at the same time an investigator working for one of the other swindled clients shows up the middle woman in an effort to keep herself safe begins to play all sides against each other and sets up a meeting at the new york public library between various parties however as people begin to die the library is locked down and more murders and perhaps some rare book larceny seem to be close to happening complex murder mystery is a good little thriller with a great cast saunders is joined by richard and a cast of solid supporting players if there is a flaw the film is almost too complicated with plots with in plots and everyone pretty much out for themselves the layers of theft forgery murder and war time intrigue this was 1942 are almost too many for the brief 70 minute running time still its an enjoyable little film with a darkness and sense of inescapable doom for some of the characters that clearly marks this as one of the first film noirs until shows up we're down among some charming thieves whom we like perhaps even more than the hero but its clear from word and deed this is not going to have a completely happy ending and they know it even if they fight it a good little film that's worth searching out
1	is there any question that jeffrey combs is one of the true horror greats this movie seriously doesn't suck and is sort of funny watching a young combs at work is great but i wish he had had more lines look out for beyond re animator it's going to kick some
1	just about every commentator has mentioned the way that some of the interview footage is over the concert footage in places this is true and is the biggest flaw of this film however it isn't so often or so bad that one shouldn't see this video if you are a black sabbath fan you have to see this aside from having seen black sabbath in the and early eighties i saw them in 2005 or 2006 when they also headlined just like in this video the concert was amazing and very much like this which was why i rented this in the first place it's just about the best geezer rock out there check it out
1	this is at least very close to a perfect video publication messianic metal group dinosaurs of rock n' roll biggest and most influential heavy band in the world plays their hit songs and reminisces band's past what more do we need br br video starts from war pigs and ends to paranoid and in the middle all the greatest and most significant classics of the original line up are included electric funeral sweet leaf after forever iron man children of the grave and of course my personal favourite into the void i'm glad they didn't leave it out well how could they br br still this video is more than just the music ozzy osbourne tony geezer butler and bill ward goes over the group's colorful history only thing that slightly bothers me is when a live song is being interrupted with bits of interview for example is it that necessary to inform how the song n i b got it's name right in the middle of it one on top of the other i doubt it's still a small flaw so it's not too big deal br br band members also around in chairs and chat together pleasant material for a sabbath fan i admit i have difficulties of following what ozzy osbourne is muttering but it's just amusing i had a privilege to participate when the last supper tour entered finland and for me personally this video is an ideal way to recall that magnificent show
1	even after nearly 20 years apart the original members of black sabbath have not lost a thing in this concert they perform their best songs from their heyday 1970 1978 including n i b war pigs and paranoid br br also included is priceless backstage footage with interviews and retrospectives into their days as the top hard rock band on the planet the comments of ozzy tony geezer butler and bill ward are just as interesting and intriguing to watch as the fabulous onstage performances br br a must see for all sabbath and ozzy fans
1	this film biography of early rock and roll star buddy holly 1936 1959 is a tour de force for gary busey the movie's highlights are busey's stage performances where he plays guitar and sings holly songs he brings such energy to the performances that holly's own filmed performances almost pale in comparison busey's infectious toothy grin lights up the screen he creates a totally believable and winning personality and his oscar nomination for best actor was well deserved br br the film follows holly's career from growing up in texas to stardom and new york and his untimely death in a plane crash one thing i found interesting if true was buddy's driving ambition he had great plans to go beyond recording and performance to producing as young as he was he was already establishing himself as a shrewd businessman and definitely wanted to take things to a higher level we will never know if he would have ultimately catapulted his early success into a business brand like the rolling stones br br the lyrics of many of holly's songs are pretty adolescent read the lyrics for peggy sue or oh boy and you will see what i mean maybe to a great extent this explains his popularity with adolescent audiences but his instrumentation and stage performances surely account for his influence on groups to follow both the rolling stones and the beatles have acknowledged his importance br br clearly some liberties were taken for dramatic effect for example i doubt that holly ever punched out a producer in nashville or that the audience at new york's apollo theater was so immediately responsive as to be wildly dancing in the aisles if you are interested in getting closer to the truth see the documentary the real buddy holly story 1985 that is produced and hosted by a very relaxed and engaging paul mccartney this contains interviews with holly's family friends and band mates holly's musical brothers are not even mentioned in the buddy holly story members of other bands like keith richards and don everly also offer opinions and stories and there is footage of old holly performances the mccartney production can stand on its own but it makes an excellent companion piece to the buddy holly story and perhaps should be required viewing for anyone who watches the fictionalized story
1	first i'm a huge buddy holly fan i grew up knowing who he was and i knew all about that fateful plane ride that extinguished three incredibly bright flames just like that but i had never truly listened to his music i had heard much of it yes but not until i sat down with the intention of getting something out of it did i truly come to see the real buddy holly and let me tell you that my world is a different one now because of him br br because of this adoration for such an incredible man i bought the buddy holly story without ever seeing it previously i'm torn on my views of this film perhaps it's because buddy feels so alive to me that i just couldn't bear seeing gary busey in this role i'll admit that he did a nice job acting but his singing sounded so forced it seemed to me as if he knew he didn't sound a bit like buddy himself and therefore was using far too much energy to make an attempt at a similar sound in some parts of the film he succeeded but others ouch br br the movie spanned a period of several years but i feel that portraying this time span could have been handled much better i had a difficult time distinguishing at what point in buddy's life certain events were happening i also had a serious problem with some of the historical inaccuracies i think the worst one was the portrayal of the crickets i understand how their real names couldn't be used and how for simplification there were only two of them in the movie and maybe this was a good thing because the film's background vocals were cringe worthy and i disliked the way they were portrayed as a hindrance to buddy's career something else that really made no difference to the film but irked me was gary busey's teeth they wore me out buddy holly had much better teeth i don't know why i noticed it but i did br br i'll end this review on what i felt was the best part of the movie buddy's last performance his final phone call to maria the big performance bringing him and richie to the stage followed by the still frame ending it startled even me and i feel that it effectively shows the audience how at one moment buddy holly was so alive and energetic and that his flame was snuffed out in the blink of an eye it was a beautiful way to portray this horrible tragedy i think br br good movie despite the obvious problems 7 10 br br some obvious flaws could use some work but not bad
1	i saw this video 2000 years ago and would love to see it on dvd a good film but i would have loved it even more if it had included the legacy of the beatles and the etc br br i also don't know exactly how true the story is were some changes made to dramatize the story br br i was only 3 when buddy crashed and didn't wake up to his music until the late 70's much later i found out our family moved into our new house on yes february 3rd 1959 br br well little things you say and do his songs will always be remembered always
1	it occurred to me while the final scene of the movie froze to reveal the scant detail of buddy holly's death that there are still people alive today who were at that venue in iowa who remember it vividly that has to be a haunting memory lent even more poignancy by the lyrics of american pie as it pays tribute to the day the music died the world lost some tremendous talent that day lives cut short way before their prime and one can only wonder what might have been if the trio of musicians who perished that day had survived to create an even greater musical legacy br br i watched the film today some thirty years after it's original theatrical release thirty years i have some trouble wrapping my mind around that i had forgotten a lot of it while remembering some of the little things like the cricket in the wall who became immortalized with the band's name but most of all i remember the music it's hard just to sit there and not begin tapping to the beat of oh boy or that'll be the day and one has to wonder just where the threat to our morals might have actually come from with those tunes i'm with buddy on that score at least how could they be jungle rhythms if he came up with them funny how each successive decade brought it's own threat to the fabric of society the beatles motown disco and a whole host of other musical forms we're still listening and dancing to the beat so i guess they couldn't have been all that bad br br there was another takeaway from the film i had forgotten about this is where i learned to bang a phone on the table when the person on the other end wasn't seeing things my way i've done that a number of times over the years but by now had forgotten the source well i should be good for another thirty years or so now br br you certainly have to give gary busey credit for his portrayal of buddy holly seeing him today one could never imagine him as the slimmed down rocker with the horn rimmed glasses but it was a tour de force characterization and performance that earned busey an oscar nod don stroud and charles martin smith are competent as buddy's band members though their characters take a back seat to much of the story i enjoyed the subtle ways that other musical legends were into the picture names like sam cooke and king curtis without ever dwelling on their presence br br i'll always be a fan and follower of music from the fifties and sixties they call them now i guess that makes me a bit of an oldie too but you can't replace the experience of growing up with the music history that now makes it to the big screen which only goes to reinforce the idea that i'll keep on enjoying the music until well the day i die
1	this is one of those movies where i just want to move my feet and dance around the house it's a very positive and happy type of music the movie has some sad parts but mostly the music is what makes me happy gary busey did a great job as buddy holly buddy holly kept on going even tho his pastor his parents and the nashville record producer told him no buddy holly didn't give up on what he liked i didn't know much about buddy holly until i watched this movie i've been to the surf ballroom where he last played but didn't give much attention to it until i watched this movie it's an incredible movie with lots of fun so get on your feet and see this movie
1	the buddy holly story shows the famous singer's beginnings in the dunk texas to his rise to stardom to his tragic death in a plane crash strengthened by the fact that gary busey as holly plays his own instruments this movie is the biopic in its purest form there are some things that seem a little hackneyed namely the people of considering rock 'n' roll to be the devil's music but the masterful performances outweigh any weaknesses if there's only one thing that's for certain in this great big world of ours it's that buddy holly's music will never get stale whether it's that'll be the day peggy sue or another one of his songs they still sound great after all these years he remains one of the greatest singers in history br br just to show what really thought of their most famous son they didn't name a street after him until 37 years after his death what a bunch of
1	the movie has taken a little flack for playing fast and loose with the facts but it will put you close to being in a time and place that no longer exist by getting to the feeling br br as keith richards remarks in paul mccartney's movie about holly there's some buddy holly in almost all rock made since his day the tragedy that took him is dealt with gently and the rest of the movie recreates the joy of a great music career and a joyful body of music br br gary busey does a remarkable energetic portrayal of holly and his performances hint that he really gets into the music as a long time holly fan and rocker so do i
1	look this movie is obscure brilliant and a classic that should sought out by any means necessary i suppose the powers that be have decided that it will forever be relegated towards the bargin bin nevertheless we could only pray for the chance to see this one on dvd i would say that it even beats the great if you like a dark movie with plenty of spooky imagery look for this one and see how an 80s horror movie is suppose to be
1	buddy holly was a pioneer and victim of the early days of rock 'n' roll the young singer songwriter from texas left his mark on the template of modern music inspired by elvis presley holly would spend a lot of time fighting the system in order to get his rock a billy sound recorded before his untimely death he was mixing lush strings with be bop rhythms holly would take his place with presley chuck berry jerry lee lewis and ricky nelson as the voices of teenage angst br br this easy to watch bio is not without flaws some situations events places and even names were not correct for various reasons what makes this movie so believable is that gary busey did his own singing in the part of holly a well produced soundtrack became a multi million seller br br busey was nominated for an oscar other stars of note are don stroud conrad janis charles martin smith and maria
1	gary busey is superb in this musical biography great singing and excellent soundtrack the buddy holly story is a much better movie than la bamba from reading other comments there may be some historical inaccuracies regardless it is a fun toe tapping film and a good introduction to buddy holly's music
1	considering it's basically low budget cast this is a surprisingly good flick about the life and death of rock pioneer buddy holly gary busey stars as holly who was one of the first to use an electric guitar for pretty much all his music backed up by his crickets holly had a string of hits and became a bona fide star before his death in a plane crash along with richie and the big bopper the film follows his rise to stardom marriage to his sweetheart and eventual death i like this film and believe that you will too charles martin smith also does a great job in this film
1	gary busey did a splendid job playing the rock n roll legend buddy holly 1936 59 he does have a spitting image to the man being a garage band in the 50's is sure different from today's having a group of three is usually simple back in those days i bet that buddy holly busey was a much better musician than most of what i heard since he lived in texas it was only a quiet country town back then his parents were christians though his mother was a strong supporter of her son's work that's one of the reasons he didn't act like elvis he stuck to his kinder ways that really makes him good when he went to tennessee he saw how bad the producers were they hated rock n roll that turned holly off big time getting used to the different atmosphere was a challenge to holly and his friends he got to tour with sam cooke went to the famous apollo which the all afro american audience quickly accepted them i liked that and sam cooke made sure holly and his band got some service that's what i call tolerance it's sad that he ritchie and j p the big bopper richardson had their music careers cut short by a plane crash in 1959 at least their memories will live on in our hearts i don't what inaccuracies were in the movie all i care is that buddy holly overcame the obstacles of music and politics in that time and the music is nearly perfect for gary busey he was perfect in the role and making the music as well god bless you gary busey 5 stars
1	i've got to say it gary busey saved this film if it were not for his fine acting talents this film would have been sub par i recommend the film but just barely br br the biggest difficulty with the film is its broad disregard for historical geographical and physical accuracy for example why is green and hilly how come buddy's producer petty ignored where are the daily trips to the clovis new mexico studio why is nashville treated as a racist hate camp out to destroy the holly sound why was buddy's two week courtship to maria treated as a complex taboo race mixing stereotype why are buddy's tile boxes as light as feathers finally why are the crickets portrayed as trouble making to holly's talent br br taken on their face these inaccuracies should spell doom for any film proclaiming itself the buddy holly story however busey does deliver a stirring portrayal as the man whose death eventually led to the day the music died
1	i first saw the buddy holly story when i was about seven years old i had no idea who buddy holly was nor can i remember what it was that made me sit down in front of the television tuned in to hbo and watch this engaging biopic what i remember was realizing that it was a somewhat true story about someone who actually lived i recall the music great songs that i still love today i can't believe gary busey sang his own songs and so well what a stud then came the end he died he freaking died i couldn't believe it i had no warning no prior knowledge like most coming into this film it taught me a harsh lesson about life and how it doesn't follow the rules that most movies teach us i just watched the film again tonight and was engaged all over again and a little saddened br br 8 out of 10 but i'll admit to a little bias
1	it would be unwise to judge that that either narrative or documentary to be more authentic than the other both formats have an underlying form of fiction and are never a true reflection of reality as producers seek to reconstruct and narrate stories in their perspectives as both formats usually leaves some issues due to of and screen time it denies viewers the opportunity to open up debates and to further investigate and construct the real truth adding to the viewer's inability to evaluate sources eg comparisons with written history and the logics behind arguments history may be open to distortion through narrative and documentary br br to most people documentary may be seen more truthful as it usually involves actual testimonies and real life footages however these visuals are selected and edited to be arranged in a way that allows producers to present their version of realism to the viewers in the real buddy holly story paul mccartney seeks to establish the buddy holly as remembered by family and friends and how buddy had influence the rest of the music world the testimonies may have been distorted as memories may not be accurate and emotions have evolved to make a legend out of buddy the documentary did make corrections to the film version and cover other events such as there were 3 members of crickets and that buddy's music was actually heard outside of usa at that time he had to embark on a world tour however it did not go into deep discussion about what happened to buddy's wife after his death criticism and or negative discussions may have been left out of the documentary as the producers seek to present a buddy that the world should have remembered eventually we don't manage to construct the whole truth as we only restrict ourselves to the past that the documentary tells us br br personally i prefer a narrative film because it provides rich visual which helps us to reconnect with the collective memory of that era it gives the audiences a more constructive structure of the story and this leads to better memory retention for the audiences when they retell the story there is also an element of flexibility which allows film makers to express their thoughts and views on certain issues in the buddy holly story racial issues were highlighted and viewers can certainly relate to these issues with respect to current situations br br movie goers consistently seek to revisit certain emotions when watching a film and using these emotions audiences can choose to make personal connections with the applied meanings that a film maker wants to deliver in most stories people are more likely to selectively remember the struggles the inspirations and the way the story ends through the buddy holly story we do remember the struggles buddy and the crickets had how maria had been a source of encouragement and that buddy holly was a great performer until the day he dies
1	the buddy holly story is a great biography with a super performance from gary busey busey did his own singing for this film and he does a great job
1	gary busey's best performance in a nicely flowing biography since had a musical background he was able to do his own songs and it really works it's always good to see that fine actor don stroud one of the crickets and charlie martin smith as well br br an 8 out of 10 best performance gary busey thankfully mr busey was oscar nominated for this losing to jon voight in coming home a fairly low budget flick that doesn't disappoint with great songs by mr holly i hope this made plenty of dough busey was never this popular again for varying reasons but thankfully he has this one great one on his resume
1	what a great film i never knew much about buddy holly but was familiar with his lively and fun music this is a wonderful biography of someone who helped change the music in the 1950's although i never cared for gary he was fabulous as buddy holly i don't know how accurate the movie is but assume at least for the most part it is accurate which makes the movie all the more interesting the music throughout the movie just adds the pizazz to this biography i don't think i would change a thing in this film it was all good what a difference in the stars from the 50's to todays music stars how can you compare someone like buddy holly to justin timberlake or any of the other popular singers of this generation
1	legendary hammy and arrogant horror movie star conrad splendidly played with wicked sardonic aplomb by ferdy mayne dies of a heart attack a bunch of drama school students steal corpse from its crypt and take it to a rundown mansion so they can party with it comes back to life and picks off the rude youths for his grave writer director norman thaddeus vane concocts a fresh original and even pretty stylish spin on the usual body count premise offers a neat evocation of the glitzy hollywood milieu and does a sturdy job of maintaining a pleasingly misty and spooky ooga atmosphere the kill set pieces deliver the grisly goods with a gal being set on fire a juicy decapitation the severed head rolls right down the stairs and onto the lawn so a raven can peck away at it and another poor lass being crushed with a levitating coffin rating as the definite gruesome highlights kudos are also in order for the stellar cast of familiar b flick faces mayne has a deliciously eye rolling ball with his flashy role leon contributes an amusing cameo as bitter washed up director wolfgang talbot adds some class as flaky psychic medium mrs rohmer plus there are nice turns by luca as jerky drama student ringleader saint jennifer starrett as the sweet meg jeffrey combs as the geeky stu and scott thomson as the nerdy bobo popping up in cool bits are chuck porky mitchell as a detective patrick wright in one of his customary policeman parts and cochrane as a corpse joel king's polished cinematography gives the film an attractive glossy look the moody score by jerry mosely likewise hits the shuddery spot a fun little fright flick
1	this film set the standard for all rock biopics to follow it accomplished this through the energetic performances of the leads the steadiness of the camera work avoiding 'rock video' clichés that were actually invented for the beatles in their first two films tight editing and a non judgmental presentation of the star as human being rather than symbol or god or demon yes there are minor holes in the plot and incidental details that are a little unnecessary and there will always be debate between families of those personally involved as to specifics but the issue here as in the much more recent i walk the line or carpenter's famed tv elvis biopic of the same era is whether the meaning of the performer's life in its time and place as a catalyst for fans' ideals and appreciation is made manifest in the performance and this is clearly the case here we come away from this movie understanding not only how buddy holly became a star but why i don't see what else one could want from the film
1	i turned 13 when elvis hit the big times in 1956 with his first rca hit a year later buddy holly stepped in to give the king some competition one of buddy's major talents besides his unique singing style and his songwriting ability is often downplayed buddy was also a skilled lead guitar player developing a unique rockabilly style all his own on his fender gary busey attempts to capture this aspect of buddy's persona there were other contemporary master guitar rockers of equal caliber such as chuck berry carl perkins and eddie cochran but buddy's talent is often overlooked br br as noted by others busey is the driving force behind the success of the buddy holly story not only does the script play with the facts of buddy's life but it even several anachronisms for the two years of buddy's popularity basically 1957 1959 one that comes to mind is the scene where buddy and maria are watching a 3 d movie buddy is disenchanted with it all and tells maria that it'll never last it's just a fad in reality there were no 3 d movies in circulation at the time the heyday for 3 d was in the early 1950's by 1955 the fad had already faded yet another example where just a little research would have sufficed to make the story more believable br br at times it is difficult to separate what really happened from urban legends surrounding buddy's career the story about how the crickets got their name may or may not be apocryphal but it certainly did not take place the way it is presented in the movie another problem with the film is how buddy's parents are depicted certainly buddy's parents were supportive of his musical career maybe baby is credited to buddy's mother and she did have input into the writing of the song br br it's good that buddy's biggest hits were used in the movie but i miss hearing one of my favorites i'm looking for someone to love i'm proud that as a result of this movie buddy's music was reissued for a new generation to hear his legacy is one of the very best from the early days of rock 'n' roll rave on buddy rave on
1	the buddy holly story opens on a shot of a yellow neon moon on the roof of a roller rink in 1956 texas as the credits start the camera moves down from the moon to the parking lot into the roller rink past the concessions and across the rink to a small bandstand where a small band is doing their sound check it's a tracking shot welles and scorcese would both appreciate it cuts to buddy holly's bespectacled face peering down in rapt concentration as he grips the headphones and talks to a man putting this band on the radio br br a young gary busey plays buddy holly and his performance is key he has to somehow show the passion that holly had for his music to make the film work this is a rock and roll story without lines of coke chased with shots of heroin and a fifth of whiskey this isn't about a man with several women to choose between in a sex brood abandoned lusty tragedy this is a film about a nice texas boy who respected his parents and went to church and had the same girlfriend for 5 years and fell in love with rock and roll busey finds that spark and ignites it his passion is clear and infectious he really plays the guitar in the film and sings its not overdubbed with holly's recordings busey was a young guy in hollywood in the seventies a struggling actor and as much or more so a struggling rock musician as well thus he gives a great performance because although he isn't buddy holly he's in a similar situation br br his first song is the old les paul classic mockingbird hill and he has the country twang to nail it next a kid calls out for some bop and against his two band mates in reality the crickets were 3 guys but the down sizing works fine for the film's limited narrative he leads them wailing into rocking with ollie vee the kids love it and the parents hate it the dj at the rolling rink tapes it and it is later released in new york without buddy holly even knowing it was ever recorded this leads to the funniest scene in a film filled with humorous moments an amped up disc jockey from buffalo calls up buddy at home the dj has been playing that'll be the day for 12 hours and is going for 24 the cops are banging on the station's barricaded door holly is confused but when the dust settles he is quite thrilled he tells the boys and their meteoric rise begins dan stroud as the drummer and charles martin smith as the bassist round out the band nicely and have good chemistry with each other there are problems but not overblown drama thats found in most rock all biopics the movie doesn't manipulate you either your emotions soar but they're not manipulated when the crickets step onto the apollo stage in harlem the first white group ever to play there then rip into an electrically charged performance of oh boy and win the audience over my rock and roll loving ass got choked up and cried next busey and the boys make it's so easy sound and more soulful than i would have believed possible br br anyone with even a cursory knowledge of buddy holly's story will know where this movie will end holly died in a plane crash with richie and the big bopper way too young we as the audience know that yet the movie is so well written directed and lovingly acted that we forget it almost immediately the movie isn't about his death it's about his life and his place in rock and roll history the film ends with his last performance and it's a good fifteen minutes of busey rocking out possessed by the ghost of buddy holly i was happy to hear him end it on not fade away my favorite of his songs the film freezes before the end credits with the information about the plane crash but i hardly noticed it i was still thinking about how good that last song was
1	i was fortunate enough to be an extra in this movie when i was about 13 during the roller rink scenes my junior high school drama class was invited to participate it was a fantastic experience br br gary busey charles martin smith and don stroud played the music live all day as a musician i can appreciate the tireless work and dedication these guys put in to their roles they must have played those songs 20 times it's very difficult to maintain consistency and energy under those conditions this is visible during a cut to a close up on that'll be the day but fortunately the unsuspecting public probably wouldn't have picked it up br br skating around all day getting the day off from school and being transported back in time was a incredible thrill i also had my first date on film i had to walk a girl up to the ticket booth woo hoo even with an out of date haircut and hot lights melting the vaseline in my hair it was still worth it fun stuff br br the movie is top notch and is highly satisfying as a whole busey delivers his best role ever and the supporting cast is superb i'm glad to have participated in a great film of the day to think i could have been in corvette summer or something not br br a funny ironic ending to this is that years later i was in a video store in malibu looking at the movie the week it was released on video gary busey walked in and stood right next to me i showed him the cover and on how great he was and how i was an extra and whatnot pretty weird but very cool for what it's worth
1	i always liked listening to buddy holly and felt a real loss when he was killed at a young age in an airplane crash he wasn't in the old rock 'n roll class of let's say chuck berry or jerry lee lewis but he wasn't far behind who knows how big his legacy would have been had he sang for decades almost every single he put out was a hit br br so i was very pleasantly surprised how good a job gary busey did at playing him and at imitating his singing voice he did buddy proud as were the actors don stroud and charles martin smith who played holly's backup group the crickets br br music wise there are some of holly's better known songs in the beginning of the film and its really good with a strong finish at the end as holly and the boys are shown in iowa in their last concert ever busey not only sings like holly he's a dead ringer for him in the looks department some thing was the best performance ever and you get no argument from me br br i'm also glad they ended the film on an upbeat note with that iowa concert instead of dwelling on his tragic accident the ending could have been a real downer but they didn't let it be
1	if filming is about vision and real life this movie is quite perfect talks about immigration in the usa from italy the beginning of but it speak also for now when emigration immigration is still a focus br br it doesn't to be rich to be a visionary film br br acting at extra level charlotte gainsbourg a star a good challenge for the academy award 2007 br br after first attempt an emotional but too intellectual movie this one has learned fellini's and lesson to name just two italian masters br br plot is arguing directing accurate maybe just a little less melodrama would be more effective br br if challenging for academy award next year by almodovar is a mature movie by an always brilliant director deserves it more because of his good effort to be a european movie for the american scene br br and this is it
1	where do i start do i say how great the cinematography is do i praise certain scenes which show the directors creativity do i tell how realistic the scenes on ellis island are should i mention that for a change we do not have the cliché scene of viewing statue of liberty by now immigrants viewing the statue from the ships railing is a cliché br br now whats not likable two major things one being a modern song score not even a good one to boot br br second nearly deadly the film is boring it moves so slow that watching paint dry would be an improvement br br the minute running time is to long yet the film seems unfinished we see no scenes of this family in the us our hero mentions he wants to find his twin brother i would have enjoyed scenes of his futile of maybe lucky search instead of other drawn out scenes br br the film is a near miss br br ratings out of 4 81 points out of 100 imdb 7 out of 10
1	this is a good film no doubt but with some odd aspects without spoiling anything it takes place in 3 places only a sicilian farm the boat and ellis island new york all shots are close up so we never see a broad sweep of anything i wonder if this was to save money no street scenes anywhere and we don't even see the boat except in close ups and the music what on earth was going on with playing nina simone songs decades before they were out i could have done without the milk river business too but hey before you think of me as a pure misanthrope let me repeat this is a very good film with moments wonderful photography great characters and more accuracy than the usual american efforts at the immigration experience
1	an interesting look at the immigrant experience told as a fable with some very weird imagery br br i got drawn to this movie because it tells of immigrants from sicily who traveled to america i imagine much the same as my grandfather did at that time travelling in steerage to provide ballast for the ships i cannot imagine it was very comfortable as shown in this film br br laws restricting immigrants existed i would guess that these laws were more strict on those who came from the mediterranean and africa immigrants had to be free from contagious diseases or hereditary in the film we see physical and mental exams the latter because of the view that low intelligence is single women could not enter the country on the presumption that they would become prostitutes so most married single men already in the country as arranged beforehand at ellis island before entry br br this is the story of a british immigrant charlotte gainsbourg who arranges to marry a poor sicilian vincenzo amato he is trying to get his family through with a son that is mute and a mother aurora that is considered feeble minded she was fantastic in the role by the way br br you will also see character actor vincent schiavelli in his next to the last appearance i don't know if his last film has been released he plays a matchmaker and is also very good br br it was a strange but enjoyable film it's not for everyone as i imagine those who don't have some interest in the immigrant experience would find it rather slow
1	this review is in response to the submission wondering how factually correct the movie was br br saw this movie last year and found it inspiring that hopeful immigrants like my italian grandparents who came through ellis island at the turn of the last century would subject themselves to all manner of invasive inspection just to enter america br br it was certainly eye opening since my grandparents never spoke of anything terrible while there my grandmother was 5 years old and my grandfather 18 when they arrived br br i just returned from a trip to new york where i had the pleasure of visiting ellis island and the museum actually walks you through the immigration evaluation process the filmmaker obviously did his research right down to the medical exams and equipment questions and puzzles they are all there at the museum even the wedding pictures and the review board room factually correct anyone who has immigrant grandparents should see this movie inspirational to say the least
1	ugh what an embarrassing episode last night it was either a failed script for abc afterschool special or the product of an earnest rookie writer just out of college making an homage to that classic pc anti gun from 1974 the gun in fact hubby were disappointed that the closing shot wasn't of the gun being melted down like in the movie br br no i'm not some nra shill it's just that when the producer of an intelligent nuanced series gets it in his head that i should be subjected to a didactic dramatization of his personal cause i'd appreciate it if the lecture at least wasn't delivered via 2 by 4 geez br br ok the sociology lesson is over the message has been delivered the important episode has been aired now let's get back to some entertaining episodes that try to respect our intelligence
1	this film promises much but delivers little the basic problem has to do with the inclusion of charlotte character in this film immigrants from sicily did not need a redheaded anglo in any way the movie may have needed her but new citizens certainly did not in my opinion the decision to include her destroys the continuity of the film this is particularly troubling since it seems to demean not only the characters in the movie but also the history of immigration itself immigrants themselves were heroic figures fully capable of getting along without having to satisfied what i believer to be a veiled image of the white man's burden i wonder if someone will make a movie of irish immigrants which will include a sicilian woman as a major character the left elbow index considers seven aspects of film acting production sets dialogue artistry film continuity plot and character development on a scale from high of 10 for excellent 5 for average and 1 for needs help both film continuity and plot rate a low of 1 the continuity as discussed above is further degraded by the surrealistic ending does not a film of such important historical significance deserve more than a conclusion which reminds one of marc the plot is simple enough until it seems to become entangled with too much time in the old country too little time on the ship and too much emphasis on the ending the acting and character development is average since all the characters are fixed throughout the film and the inclusion of the anglo saxon speaking perfect english almost turns the movie into a satire where's groucho when you need him the production sets the dialogue and the artistry are very good each rating a 10 the sets in sicily on the ship and on ellis island are as good as one can find the dialogue is marvelous and the ethic singing is superb i agree with scorsese that listening to the sicilian dialect is a pleasure note that the immigrants speak of america not the united states the ideal vs the political reality the are many good artistic scenes with dreams of america gold coins raining and giant among the best the average left elbow index is 5 25 raised to a 7 0 when equated with the imdb scale one other notion seems to run through ellis island experience the tribulations of pass immigrants was grueling later in 2006 one only had to pay a coyote or boat owner and sneak into the county under the darkness of night no questions asked the movie is worth seeing but it appears that what one sees is
1	this film played in lexington ky for 7 days i saw it on the last day of its run regretted that i could not recommend it to others because this is a film that cries out for the big screen experience the aerial shot where the crowded ship pulls away from the equally crowded dock is a masterpiece as is the scene where the two lead characters flirt on deck almost a ballet and sexier in its suggestiveness than so many more explicit films these days i just cringe to think that more people won't have the opportunity to see this fine film in a theater the dvd experience will not be the same here's an idea if you live in a college town see if you can lobby for it to show up in a campus film festival
1	this is a film notable for what is not shown as much as for what is what is shown is the incredible poverty in sicily as the 19th century gave way to the 20th a life style that made people dream of the 'new' world of america the mancuso family live in a place that is not even a hamlet just a stone cottage set amid the harsh unyielding stones of a country that cannot offer even a single blade of green grass an opening sequence sees the mancuso males scrambling barefoot up a craggy hillside stones in their mouth to offer at a shrine at the top in exchange for a that they should set out for the new world or remain where they are it further shows life aboard the liner huddled masses indeed yearning to breathe free and conditions in ellis island where their journey still not over they are interrogated and examined to prove their to enter america what is not shown is the ship in longshot or indeed any shot that would identify it as a large ocean going liner what is also not shown is anything that would identify america no cliché view of new york harbour and the statue of liberty so that ellis island could be anywhere in any country perhaps the most remarkable shot is the one from a camera crane looking down on hundreds of people jammed together slowly almost imperceptibly two thirds of the people at screen left begin to separate from the third at screen right and we realize that those on the left are actually aboard the ship and those on the right are on the dock a powerful statement of society being fragmented there's a strong documentary feel throughout as though we were following an actual ship full of immigrants even though it has been carefully scripted and is clearly an amalgam of typical families conditions at the time with almost nothing happening in dramatic terms it's not for the popcorn brigade at the multiplex but for the rest of us it's a very fine film indeed
1	was a great experience many filmmakers tell their stories to a big extent via dialogue emanuele directs his film very visually driven for everything he wants to tell he finds powerful images that are able to stand for themselves thus he understands film as a medium that primarily tells its stories over the pictures on screen particularly european cinema is often very dialogue driven and many of the young us american directors are strongly influenced by that opposite attitude was really the point that made this film special for me it has also a very interesting topic that is wrapped up in a quite unusual story and told with humour vincenzo amato is outstanding as family head salvatore as well as the amazing charlotte gainsbourg who i enjoy watching in every single one of her movies there are many great sequences in this movie just to pick one when the ship leaves italy and the people just quietly stare this scene is great particularly if you consider the pop cultural references that go with it titanic
1	the golden door is the story of a sicilian family's journey from the old world italy to the new world america salvatore a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily take the arduous journey across the raging seas and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk in short they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled the imagery of the new world is optimistic clever and highly imaginative silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he'll be in the new world carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield all of this imagery is interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they're aboard the ship to the new world br br the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness especially when the seas roar and nearly kill the people within the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left donkeys goats and rabbits in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another depicting the separation between the old and new worlds this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise br br as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island but is remained hidden i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for give me your poor your tired your hungry seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world once they arrived in the americas they had to go through rather humiliating tests i e mathematics puzzles etc in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people in particular mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world feeling more violated than treated with respect where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude salvatore doesn't change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who with him their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted br br the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society cleanliness marriage and intelligence are prerequisites adhering to these rules is to prevent disease immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct though the rules seemed rigid they were there to protect and help the people flourish
1	2006 shown in the u s as the golden door was written and directed by emanuele this film is different and i think better than most movies about impoverished people who leave europe and come to the united states br br the film begins with scenes in a poor rural region of sicily we always hear that sicily is a rocky island but you won't really understand the implications of that phrase until you see the first half hour of the golden door br br the middle section of the film is devoted to the long voyage to the u s most immigration films show us ten minutes of people in the third class section becoming seasick and then show us the statue of liberty not this movie we get a sense for life below decks and it isn't charming we never actually see the statue of liberty either br br finally the typical movie will give us another ten minutes of ellis island and then the immigrants are walking through new york's lower east side not here the ellis island experience occupies about one third of the footage br br vincenzo amato is outstanding as salvatore mancuso who is bringing his two sons and his mother to the new world charlotte gainsbourg is equally good as lucy reed a mysterious englishwoman who also speaks fluent italian br br there are some strange touches in the movie especially the sound track with songs by nina simone there must be some symbolism there but i couldn't make sense of it br br another reviewer has already pointed out that this film will do better viewed in a theater rather than on dvd still large screen or small screen it's worth seeking out
1	some days ago in rome a young romanian man with criminal precedents assaulted and tortured to death a middle age lady coming back home after an afternoon of shopping a romanian girl who had seen everything reported what happened br br therefore it started a debate about the too much intense flow of immigrants from romania generalizing them as criminals everyone indiscriminately br br i'm only 15 but i thought what idea of affluence does italy give to these poor people how ever do they regard us as the land of plenty yesterday evening i finally saw and my question had an answer when you have only a donkey and some goats those propaganda postcards showing united states as a land with milk rivers and huge vegetables makes such an impression br br is really a must see film it balances an ethereal symbolism milk rivers play hard and rocky mountains the name and character lucy and a cruel realism the mass of hopeful people on the ship the procedures at ellis island there's a mixed cast going from the angelic charlotte gainsbourg to the realistic vincenzo amato till a bitter and smashing aurora as the mother but was it really so hard to enter in the new world
1	this film is an impressionistic poetic take on the immigrant experience a reflective look at the turmoil and fear which might be associated with these are aspects not often considered in movies about emigration to america in particular and to to any country more generally and the film vividly and convincingly depicts the nervousness and enthusiasm if ignorance that poor illiterate sicilian immigrants have in anticipation of their emigration to the united states br br they have some fantastic unrealistic notions about the united states which are disseminated on the trip over one is that the rivers run with milk an image which is depicted in the movie to poetic impressionistic effect the film is devoid of sound and the silence seems to reflect the uneasiness of the ignorance the locals have about life in america or if not ignorance of it a vision significantly colored with superstition and fantasy br br that said the movie depicts with jolting realism the boat ride to the united states and the intake process which arrivals at ellis island had to undergo the boat ride is imagined as rather dull which surely it was much of the time the quarters in which the incoming residents sleep is depicted as extremely crowded with beds spaced four or five inches from one another and lacking much light which it was surely the case below deck br br again the film is not supplemented with undue music or excessively bright lighting and the effect is to create a fairly realistic imagining of what it was truly like for people to the united states the villagers may not be worldly but they are quite reasonable and the interaction with the eldest of the aurora with the immigration officer who insists on particular results are quite bittersweet inasmuch as they are not diluted or softened for the benefit of a syrupy conclusion and one sees the melding of the realism of sicily with the extensive regulations which guide life in the united states br br the immigrants and their story are very interesting and the combination of cold eyed realism and the magical fantasy of peoples' imaginations make for a persuasive vision of the beliefs held by or any people with little formal education moving to the united states the acting is similarly barebones it is not at all demonstrative or showy but seems the more realistic for it that said all the main performers in particular salvatore mancuso vincenzo amato the clear leader of the group is excellent while never smiling his character's actions speak much louder and it is clear that thankfully the other members of the group his two sons and the above mentioned elder the boys' grandmother have faith in his leadership abilities and respect his clear leadership amato imbues his character with great decency and and it is a testament to his abilities that his character appears so capable and confident while his character betrays very little emotion br br one oddness of the film is a chance encounter with a mysterious englishwoman the excellent and fittingly mysterious charlotte gainsbourg who speaks italian and during the entire film we wonder why she is going to the united states or what connection she has to the otherwise unanimously sicilian emigrant group at the end this is finally revealed and the revelation is done typically realistically and does not seem particularly melodramatic or showy br br the film is directed by emmanuel who has a firm grasp on the realistic if sometimes superstitious world view his characters inhabit and presents it competently and confidently it is in fact fantastically confident given how awkwardly the realism and superstition might have combined in the film it is a worthy examination of the immigrant experience
1	i just had the opportunity to see hitherto known in the u s as 'the golden door' and was very impressed by both it's dreamy occasionally surreal tale of a family that from to the u s in the early days of the 20th century it also worked as a proverbial middle finger jammed into the eyeball of homeland security preferably all the way up to the 3rd knuckle in it's depiction of the ill treatment of foreigners who just want a better life than they were getting from their original mother land the mostly italian cast with a few exceptions works well this is a quiet understated film that is lovely to look at the occasional but tasteful use of surrealism is always a pleasure while the screenplay is well written this is a film for those who are sick tired of mindless escapism from hollywood that serves little more than to sell popcorn not that i have any burning issues with popcorn mind you i actually love the stuff you would do wise to seek out the golden door or whatever it's being titled in your area
1	the golden door is for this viewer the finest film of the year to date it is a masterpiece of concept writing directing acting and cinematography more importantly this radiantly beautiful film is a much needed reflective mirror for us to view the history of immigration of into america at a time when the very mention of the word is a political fuse writer director emanuele has given us not only a deeply moving story he has also provided a touchstone for viewers to re visit the history of each of our origins with the exception of the native americans we all entered america as at some point in our histories and it is humbling to view this film with that fact in mind br br the film opens in turn of the century sicily as poverty stricken widower salvatore mancuso vincenzo amato and his brother angelo francesco climb a rocky hill to present their tokens to the cross to ask for a sign as to whether they should continue to struggle for existence on the island or go to america the land of dreams deaf mute son pietro runs to the top of the hill with postcards he has found with images of america money growing on trees fruits and vegetables larger than people etc and salvatore accepts this as the sign that he should move his family to america after convincing his reluctant mother aurora and his sisters rita de cola and rosa isabella to make the trip he sells his only possessions two donkeys goats and rabbits and the man with the boat arranges their trip giving the family shoes appropriate clothing and instructions to board an ocean liner as third class passengers as the mancuso family prepares to board they are asked for a photograph and as they pose behind a painted set an englishwoman lucy charlotte gainsbourg walks into the photo as though she were part of this peasant family lucy cannot board the boat for america without male escort br br the voyage begins and in her gentle way identifies with the mancuso family finally her safe passage by proposing to salvatore to marry her 'for convenience not for love' when they arrive in america through a violent storm and living conditions that are appalling poor the multitude of third class passengers survive bond and eventually arrive at ellis island believing their dream of america has been fulfilled but everyone must pass harsh physical tests de lousing and even intelligence testing to determine if they can enter america the officials let them know that america does not want genetically inferior people entering the new world each woman must be selected by a man to marry on ellis island before they are allowed admission the manner in which the mancuso family remains united until a somewhat surprising ending is the closing of the tale br br few of us understand the strict rules and harsh treatment immigrants face or at least faced at the turn of the century on ellis island and if we do we have elected to submerge that information the golden door presents the case for struggles in a manner that not only touches our hearts but also challenges our acceptance of current immigration legislation but all political issues aside the golden door is first and foremost a film of enormous beauty exquisite photography deeply felt performances by a huge cast and a very sensitively written and directed story the is a film that deserves wide distribution a movie that is a must see for everyone highly recommended grady harp
1	i have never missed an episode david morse is a wonderful actor and i am hoping that this show can survive it certainly beats out that csi crap i love the storyline and would actually like to see him as a cop again someday i give the show a 10
1	this is christmas time a nativity in terms of rebirth or at least this is what can be hoped regarding the italian cinema it was something like 30 40 years that the italian cinema didn't craft an art piece of this size this is an absolute contemporary film that can be also regarded at the same level of quality as the italian masterpieces of the past needless to quote any name and finally this is also a big production for italian standards of the time in this movie there is a rare balance of different elements all of them understandable and enjoyable at different levels of fruition real poetry real humor real tenderness real drama real beauty no rhetoric no easy surreal shortcuts no typical like picturing no over acting no director there is also a cool use of two heartbreaking nina simone's songs whose music i reckon has never been used in a proper way for a score so if this will not be a real for the italian cinema it is an extraordinary evolution for emanuele after his another definitive beautiful film is not to be missed it is that kind of film' helpful to enjoy movie making movie watching helpful to enjoy and understand life francesco
1	enhanced by the expressive cinematography of agnes godard beau travail golden door is a visually striking tone poem that follows the journey of a peasant family from their primitive home in sicily to ellis island in new york at the turn of the century it is a surreal enigmatic often strange but ultimately deeply rewarding experience interweaving dreamlike and symbolic imagery with gritty realism the latest film by emanuele is like an impressionistic painting a cinematic artist's rendering of what the immigration process may have been like for our parents and grandparents magical mystery tour came about as a result of his visit to the museum on ellis island the looks on the faces of the immigrants depicted in photographs he saw and his research into the harsh policies and procedures used during the admission of immigrants br br guided by letters he read of immigrants sent to relatives who remained at home identifies with those impoverished immigrants who were able to see the positive side of things beyond their ordeal to salvatore mancuso vincenzo amato and his older son angelo francesco america is a distant dream that they know nothing about after climbing a rocky mountain to pray to the saints for a sign they are rewarded when they are shown post cards by younger son pietro a deaf mute that depict the new world as a land where they can bathe in rivers of milk sit under a money tree or harvest giant onions and carrots br br after disposing of their animals in exchange for shoes and suits salvatore his two sons and his elderly mother aurora set out on their adventure with more hope than trepidation but the equation soon shifts the other way as they board the boat and settle into their crowded third class steerage compartments the most talked about scene in the film takes place using an overhead camera that shows masses of people standing as the ship pulls away the frame is divided into those aboard the ship and those waving goodbye from the dock and the way they are separated implies they are being torn asunder from everything familiar br br aboard the ship is a mysterious english woman named lucy charlotte gainsbourg does not reveal her past or the reason she is traveling to america but she seems to stand for the onset of the modern world they are entering though they eye each other cautiously lucy becomes interested in salvatore and asks him to marry her in order to allow her to enter the country the voyage is treacherous with a violent storm buffeting the ship shot in almost complete darkness passengers in steerage are tossed against the side of the boat and afterward bodies lie tangled and twisted on the floor as if in a macabre the rite of passage through immigration processing at ellis island does not become any easier and attacks the way illiterate peasants in the name of preserving civilized society are forced to put puzzles together perform mathematical tasks and undergo humiliating medical examinations to prove they are fit br br a marriage ceremony feels like an auction block and the young women look despondent when they are matched with overweight middle aged men this is the only way they can enter the golden door however since single women are rejected unless they have partners ostensibly to prevent the threat of prostitution through the fog the can barely see the land of milk and honey and there is no statue of liberty asking for the tired and the poor the humbled masses yearning to breathe free in their imagination however the river is still flowing waiting for them to jump in though the ending is ambiguous and one door opens on to a blank wall another door symbolizes a rebirth of the soul and the passage we must all take from the old world to the new
1	emanuele did a fantastic job with one of those films that linger in the back of your mind for years it was see comments and synopsis here in imdb br br now carrying the magnificent young talents he had for the first time on screen then he takes the audience into a dark void a literal plunge into dangerous waters the subject is migration in this case from italy to the new world the name of the film a big deal calling it for its american release the golden door br br the story of a family that leaves everything and risks the rest that is their lives for a dream br br i hate to spoil the show telling the story so i'll dwell a bit in the work and all his team did so brilliantly br br first of all choosing to stick to what he knows direct sound as much as possible this means the whole film the textures the pain the nuances of reality are always mingled with the smells the heat or the cold the sweat and the blood life and death as as it is in real life br br the squeaks of bent metal and grinding wood the infamous drone of the wind and the ominous sounds of big engines and ship horns are among the points that make this film so involving br br cinematography is in the hands of a french the symbolism of light is present from the very first shot again almost the very first shot from and pervades throughout the film with intimacy and a terrible sense of desperation the subdued tones and the very gray and grim depictions of people suffering the cramped and filthy boat they sail to hope is mesmerising br br light is used sparsely almost to discover every character in the dark the beauty of every shot and every scene is accentuated by the period costumes and the perfectly selected physical features of the actors br br again as he usually does vincenzo amato is definitely on his own he plays the father of two sons the same actors who were fifteen and twelve and now are nineteen and sixteen with all the power he always conveys to his very complex characters br br charlotte gainsbourg is so so i guess she's never achieved again the perfection she reached in the cement garden and in her very first film br br maybe it's just that she seems a bit awkward in her role br br the locations and sets are harsh and compelling almost playing a character on their own br br maybe the most remarkable character is the one played by the mute younger son the contrast here with his first role is complete then he played a supercharged kid that was as relentless as anything around him now his character is all expression and just that no words at all his eyes tell the whole story with sublime power br br maybe this is one of those films that will not be very well received in the states it's absolutely italian in everything it's so italian that most of the time the language is one of the many dialects that is much older than italian itself in the usa this film may be a bit too much for americans because of the subject but anyone who remembers the story of their families when they arrived in the states will see this films with awe br br and again the minimalism that goes hand in hand with ideas is back with a closing scene in the water only this time it goes from underwater photography to aerial br br all in all another great and very well told story from this filmmaker that only this year 2006 has collected 6 prizes and was nominated for the golden lion not a small deed
1	i never thought i'd say this about a biopic but there is a near over abundance of characterization especially concerning kenji emotions and too little on the literal occurrences in his life by the end i'm not sure if he dies he's supposed to or if his sister finally dies she's supposed to or if the director spent a little too much time on the galactic railroad that's an inside joke in case you missed it wrote a children's book called night on the galactic railroad however this glimpse inside the mind of a writer who sketched poetry and fairy tales from his imagination is very intelligent creative entertaining and emotionally powerful br br all this despite the fact that everyone is animated as animals like in many of stories br br some of the visuals are truly astounding especially considering that it was a made for tv movie seriously some of them like the sequence with birds trailing blue light rival parts of fantasia however i still can't stand computer animation when it is mixed with cel animation the cgi trains are horribly obvious even more so than the anastasia train br br 8 10
1	spirit and chaos is an artistic biopic of kenji a japanese poet and writer who was active in the early 20th century the film captures and interprets his artistic method poems his inspiration the spirit of nature and its fantastic beauty and his struggles to accept a harsh reality in the face of his idealist imagination br br the film integrated excerpts of poems into the plot beautifully his relationships with his students was powerful especially in one scene where he offers everything he has to a student who has just been caught stealing materials from the classroom selfless compassion for the farmers in his village his sister and other unfortunate people can serve as a lesson to us all furthermore devotion to science was also nicely portrayed in a time when western ideas were still met with skepticism especially in provincial towns like the one where grew up he understands its usefulness in helping his fellow villagers and is inspired by its elegance the way the film presented moments of artistic passion and disappointment in the writer were truly intense and well interpreted br br i felt that the cgi integrated into the film while groundbreaking an innovative with the more organic animation it could be argued that this was intentional to represent conflict within the main character but i found it rather i also wish that the film had discussed buddhist influence but it worked fine without it br br i though this film was very well done i give it a 9 10 with the one point being deducted for the cgi otherwise the animation plot and dialog were all wonderful and heartfelt i haven't seen any other films by but after seeing this one i will be sure to give them a chance
1	i'll make this brief this was a joy to watch it may or may not have been more effective if the characters had resembled their real life counterparts but aside from this minor observation i found the fantasy animal characters to be most enjoyable the visuals were most stunning except for the second rate cg scenes which could have been left out i dislike computer generated animation anyways it defeats the purpose of a biopic such as this one watch it you will appreciate it too
1	all the characters in this cartoon were hilarious norman the viking guardian had some memorable phrases and the skull master the bad guy would always be vowing to kill max with some insane cackling the writing is the best br br i was glued to the set when this would come on when i was younger if they came out with a dvd of all the episodes they made i would be forced to buy it this and a conan the barbarian cartoon are the ones i miss the most from childhood i think these cartoons are the most unappreciated out of all the great cartoons i used to watch these cartoons on channel 13 in the los angeles area br br i remember the owl was always afraid warning max that he was in trouble and that he was the chosen one max didn't believe that he was the chosen one and always gave the owl trouble norman was less talkative but his simplicity was funny he would say things like i eat monsters for breakfast when he was battling them and then when he was battling zombies he would say i eat zombies for nevermind classic cartoon comedy and action br br i vote that they re air mighty max
1	a surprisingly great cartoon in the same league as batman tas and its ilk i enjoyed it in my youth and recently had been able to watch them all again great voice acting from tim curry richard moll tony jay and maurice lamarche in various roles the only qualm i had was rob voice seemed a little too old for the title character but that wasn't a big deal as the stories were great and the fact that the whole thing has a great time loop twist ending some people say it was a cop out but i found it refreshing compared to many series that just leave things hanging hopefully one day they put this series out on dvd unfortunately it came out at a time when dvd's weren't yet prevalent and the cartoon probably only served to sell a particular type of toy which i never found appealing despite the entertaining cartoon
1	the title of my summary pretty much covers my review br br this is to me what teenage mutant ninja turtles was to someone 5 years older while i missed out on that little pop culture wave i embraced the toy line and t v series that was mighty max with both arms br br you wanna know how into this i was i went as mighty max for halloween br br thank god for the internet thanks to last week i was able to watch this great show from my childhood for the first time in over a decade br br i'm watching this right now having just been blown away by recognizing rob paulson of animaniacs and am also loving the celebrity humor in tar wars 4 minutes in and they have already mentioned by name clint eastwood governor arnold dustin hoffman john wayne and ace ventura hells yeah br br damn it is only upon writing this that i realize there is no way in hell i can give this series anything less than a perfect score any imperfections have been lost in the fog of time br br this is my childhood this is awesomeness this is the mighty one
1	wow this movie is the voice of a climbing generation director sam keith takes us to the darkest depths of man's soul where we find love life and top world weary telly leo fitzpatrick follows his heart and his anchors through a cerebral journey to find sanity in a post apocalyptic colorado instead telly meets confrontation in don jason the embodiment of machismo and a zeitgeist of humanities foibles the epic film comes to a at a gut wrenching top competition that will make even the strongest willed viewers squeamish at the dizzying heights br br this movie has it all top outside top in the gym cut off shorts and sleeveless flannel shirts awesome climbing footage some so good you see it 2 or 3 times bear and snake attacks br br i gave the movie 8 out of 10 because i wanted to see the romance develop a bit more it seemed as if the film was leading up to a spicy top roped sex scene between telly and his new lover but alas it wouldn't fit into the already jam packed hour and a half thrill ride br br fans of cliffhanger and mission impossible ii will find this flick to be a diamond in the rough overall if you are ready to challenge your world view on humanity and climbing this is the film for you 1
1	ahh i didn't order no amazing hit show we'll you got one hack is simply the greatest television show ever made a little bit of me died when i flicked on the t v one friday night to catch a little hack and it wasn't on the show dug deep into key social issues of our culture i found that at the end of any episode i watched i walked away having been both entertained and informed i am actually dumber now that hack is gone i no longer want to help the needy and less fortunate since hack has been gone i see them as and an unneeded strain on so for the love of god we need to bring back hack
1	my friends and went through a period of time when we would rent movies that none of us had ever heard of the only good that came from it was this movie take it to limit right as the movie started we could tell we were in for a true classic the music is probably done by rural white boys from colorado but it sounds just like early 90's rap the star of the show actor leo fitzpatrick plays the bad boy so well especially sporting a big zit the entire movie this movie is based on climbing and i'm not a climber yet even i think it's hilarious when they have the climber struggling to climb and there's a guy in the background who is basically walking up the you don't want to miss this movie you'll get to see the same clips over and over again you'll get surprises at every turn you'll find yourself quoting the unforgettable lines i highly recommend this movie to anyone take it snow disclaimer this movie is poorly done but that is what makes it great
1	wow we watched this film in the hopes that it would have at least some decent rock climbing scenes we were disappointed there but it was still a great movie it was soooo cheesy it was great i haven't laughed so hard at a movie in a long time if you are into rock climbing and you enjoy cheesy movies then this one is absolutely for you
1	symbolism galore great tunes this film crushed their soon to be no more target audience's expectations these monkees and the naturally selected members of the group were witnessing a subtle yet in your face kiss goodbye to each other the message rings true today the cage you escape from and the bridge you want to jump off of are the next generations own disappointments there will always be new kids on the block replacing those who break free from the chains the film can be frustrating at times because the themes the film attacks are so blatantly apart of the american way of life a thinking and reasoning person cannot help but stare at their own reflection in the scenes of head and question not only their personal motives for continuing the madness of everyday american life but the motives of those who want it to continue for the sake of madness the final scene similar to don daring of the caged tiger to exit for battle represents just how delusional and impossible most dreams are
1	there are two ways to regard either it is a dazzling mind blowing collage of music old film clips psychedelia and t v sitcom style comedy or a plot less pretentious rambling mess the truth probably lies somewhere in between it is also one of the best movies of all time br br 'the davy jones peter mickey dolenz and mike had just finished their hit series and wanted to do a movie in collaboration with writer jack nicholson and director bob they made br br it begins at a bridge opening ceremony in san francisco where the monkees gate crash the proceedings mickey jumps over the safety rail plunging hundreds of feet into the water mermaids rescue him to the accompaniment of a gorgeous jerry carole king composition called 'the song' and visuals that make the stargate finale of look drab by comparison by now you will either have switched off in puzzled disgust or be completely captivated br br more bizarre happenings unfold mickey uses a tank to destroy a coca cola machine in the middle of the desert the entire italian army surrenders to him the group are hired to play to play the in victor mature's hair for a television commercial an overweight waitress insults the group describing them as 'god's gift to the eight year a surprise birthday party for mike goes wrong the group are sucked into a vacuum cleaner and to cap it all are driven away inside a giant glass tank br br you will either hate this or love it i found it a refreshing change from mindless pop musicals of the 'let's do the show right here' variety the songs are good too song' is superbly choreographed by toni basil later to appear in and boasts wonderful editing with clothes changing colour at lightning speed 'as we go is a lovely king number whose accompanying images carry a strong environmentalist message br br frank zappa annette funicello are just two of the guest stars to crop up did victor mature read the script before agreeing to do this one wonders he's hilarious in it though br br so mad there just has to be real genius behind it is a little '60's gem and one worth revisiting time and time again shame it did not find an audience at the time if only had been like this
1	what can i say about this movie that has not been said by all the other comments here they pretty much sum up everything the people who love it cherish it the people who hate it well they loathe it this is the movie equivalent of marmite br br i personally have committed every second of it to memory it is cyclical claustrophobic introspective magical and stands as being one of the most unique films ever made despite what many have stated i believe this truly is a cult movie it is a diamond in the rough just waiting to be discovered once unearthed it's fantastical psychedelic visuals and incredible soundtrack will be unforgettable which is an achievement in itself one of my friends who watched it likened it more to a musical and in many respects to those who do not fully appreciate the context in which this film is made would probably get more out of it to view head as such br br i was always fond of the monkees especially the t v show back when it was repeated during the 80's my mum had recorded head for me when it was shown on t v late night as she knew i liked them i watched it a day later and it lodged in my memory until i was able to find a copy on dvd about 2 decades later what i would love now is a special edition it would be fascinating to get a greater insight into the making of this masterpiece we can only hope
1	the monkees surprisingly are a big favorite of mine yes they might have been the original manufactured rock band a gimmick that certainly has reached overkill in the 21st century however their music holds up as some of the best the 1960's had to offer last train to daydream believer i'm a believer i'm not your stepping stone and pleasant valley sunday are great songs written by good songwriters such as boyce hart neil diamond king and john stewart while they weren't great musicians or songwriters they had a likable screen presence and plenty of appeal and some of their own stuff was actually decent their t v show is dated stuff in 2007 but i still watch the show on occasion as a time capsule to life in 1966 1968 that magical and dangerous time in u s history br br however as we all know as a portent of things to come for the likes of kelly clarkson the monkees didn't want to be considered manufactured and just puppets for their recording company despite their average talents they wanted to write their own songs produce their own albums and call the shots when it came to tours sadly this turned out to be a disaster especially when peter choice of jimi hendrix as an opening act was nixed due to his stealing of the show and heavy sexual suggestions in his music compared to the monkees g rated content br br however the final nail in the coffin for the monkees until 1986 was the infamous motion picture head head was written by bob and jack nicholson while they were allegedly high on the mary jane the film received poor reviews and only made 16 000 in the box office today the film is a cult classic ahead of its time and delivers a message of what was on the minds of the youth in 1968 the summer of anger br br head really has no plot basically one to four of the monkees lurch from scene to scene without any rhyme or reason they go from eating in a diner to seeing davy jones getting bashed by sonny to a western to being sucked into a vacuum to performing at a concert and so forth the film basically offers up oblique opinions of what was wrong with american society the monkees bash commercialism the war in vietnam american policy censorship the establishment and greed you have to read between the lines to see what the targets of derision were br br the monkees spend a lot of time boxed up at certain junctions of the film symbolizing how they felt their record company saw them as nothing but toys for them to play with when it was time to record another hit album a scene where they are outnumbered 16 4 in the western scene could be a symbol of them against the session musicians songwriters record producers and whatnot who controlled their careers and the cannon they fire at them is their way of saying br br the film is truly a psychedelic trip to behold the flashy tie dye colors the hypnotic concert and belly dancing scenes and the druggy imagery is everywhere the acting is actually very good but that's being biased as i like the monkees t v show a small soundtrack features the song and three songs written by the monkees themselves br br the film actually has some hilarious scenes on occasion although maybe they weren't supposed to be mickey dolenz beating up a coke machine that didn't give him a soda or his violent punch ups in the boxing scene i mean he was a guy who probably weighed no more than 135 had me laughing it up br br all in all this movie is an absolute must see for any monkees fan i think a lot of people will feel this movie is indeed over their head but for those obsessed with the 60's and society at the time will find it a great time capsule
1	head is a film that has held up well since its original release date in 1968 the movie is a complete contradiction of the monkees image it presents the monkees in a way their fans never perceived them men with real thoughts totally controlled by their producers the monkees were given the opportunity to tell their side of the story the film pokes fun at their image the entertainment industry and corporate america the soundtrack contains some of their best music it's a movie well worth seeing over and over again
1	head should have been a proud moment not just for its stars the monkees and victor mature or its director co writer bob but also its other co writer and brief cameo jack nicholson as it stands most of them seem to shun it and to outsiders the movie is regarded at best as a curio br br while the t v series was famously based on the antics of the beatles' ' this film is also judged by the same accord yet far from the trite and painfully overrated beatles films and even the dated monkees t v series head has a layer of depth an undercurrent of man's darker nature is at work here and while that may sound like a bizarre thing to say about a manufactured pop band the use of certain themes and images hitting women laughing at cripples and real life footage of a vietcong pow shot dead at point blank range give the film an edge that many films would not dare to aspire to br br there are also the fun moments which range from james bond parodies to 'big and my personal favourite mickey dolenz under by arab soldiers on horseback one of them turns to mickey and hisses ' only for the ' to appear in subtitles the group are aware of their manufactured image in the film 'i'm the dummy i'm always the claims neatly summing up his one dimensional foil role of the series meaning that their characters – they play acting and not acting here – are opened out more and consequently are less generic and irritating than they were in the series this level of parody and self awareness even takes on their fab four origins with subtler takes on the maharishi and out and out acknowledgements with a waitress who asks 'well if it isn't god's gift to the eight year are you still paying tribute to ringo starr ' also listen out for whistling fields forever' while in the bathroom br br then there are the songs of course six of them here slightly more psychedelic than usual which may have alienated their fanbase and even a frank zappa cameo wouldn't have turned on an adult audience to their charms at this point probably the best is the charming 'as we go though the first a carol king penned song' interestingly talks of the desire to live while time is ticking away and death gets ever nearer on a lighter note its refrain of 'the is seems to be a direct mickey take of 'i am the br br constantly inventive with direct references to silent film and drug culture perhaps head's finest feature is its narrative structure not the only – but the most important – reason why it improves with multiple viewings the story goes left right forwards backwards circular and through several levels of reality in essence a series of sketches hung loosely together its cohesion is tightened by the space time defying plot which hangs its internal logic together by means of flashback dream sequence prison of the mind and remote control channel changer br br with a perfect beginning and end this intelligently written knowing film was not what the pre teen audience was expecting and subsequently suffered a negative critical reception now those expectations have gone this one is in dire need of serious
1	for a long time i a fan of the monkees tv series refused to watch head because it was not about the tv show characters who were warm and wonderful head instead was said to be a cynical dark movie finally curiosity caused me to cave in i didn't of course find a new episode to the tv show but a fascinating movie that appeals to my dark side br br i have always been fascinated by dreams and head was very much like watching someone else's dream with incomplete hints of stories and a small detail at the end of one scene causing the film to segue off in a new direction very much in a dreamlike stream of consciousness manner the unfinished stories really make my imagination run wild time and time again br br the film also features very striking beautiful cinematography the epitome being the black on white white on black look of daddy's song the music is haunting especially the lush arrangement of the song the song is the favorite song of my dark side while my bright side prefers zip a dee doo dah br br in the end i think the tv series could have used some of head 's drama intrigue and intensity but head could have used some of the tv show's warmth humor and friendship
1	that this film flopped at the box office and still struggles for the recognition it deserves today is a great pity yet somehow rather appropriate the commercial suicide the monkees committed by making this film is mirrored by the metaphorical suicide they commit on screen to destroy so brutally their carefully constructed image as a wholesome american alternative to the beatles is courageous to the point of rashness as is the admission of being no more than pawns in the entertainment industry trapped in the movie literally in their own artificiality the television series was not that conventional but head is utterly plotless although in the end there is actually some kind of circular logic to it all unrestrained by a genuine storyline the surreal sequence of events is by turns hilarious and rather disturbing the greatest irony is that the monkees effectively signed their death warrant as a commercial force at a time when they were reaching their artistic peak their exploration into psychedelia reached its zenith with the soundtrack to head all the songs are memorably woven into the film which is one of the landmarks albums of the the monkees began to disintegrate after the box office failure of this movie but head serves as a noble legacy
1	he's not your conventional cab driver br br this guys got issues with his wife with his son a priest all his fares his ex partner and most of all himself and the greatest thing is they just throw us all into it so we have to keep watching to find out more about his past br br the idea may not be original but david morse makes it so i think this is a great show and i hope people catch on before the season's over br br watch this show
1	try to look for another movie that is such a trip without having a story or plot and you'll be hard pressed head is a masterpiece of non linear non structure surrealism and in less than 90 minutes it manages to be not only a time capsule of an era but also a full length experimental feature that defies time space and convention in a way that only underground films of the sixties could head is a reflection of those films no matter how one feels about the monkees this is a film every filmmaker should see because it cracks wide open the endless possibilities of film as an art medium had it not been for the film's unorthodox ad campaign and the fact that by the time it came out the monkees so the media that the public had become weary of them and every critic was ready to pounce on them this could have had a much greater impact studying how the film was edited is much more important and exciting than what's actually in the film and yet there are some great things in it great songs great cinematography etc should be seen after midnight for maximum effect because of it's overall dreamlike feel 1968 was a time of social unrest and a call for change thus the film's working title changes and head perfectly mirrors that time
1	this film starts as it ends and ends as it starts what is in the middle is a collection of comedy philosophy music observations commentaries mini stories colour and lots more it looks at the world and our lives and tells the monkees story from the view of the group members themselves it also looks at television and film and makes a visual commentary it shocks also with scenes of war and shows how we are just pawns in a big game it says all this and much more but if you don't look at it objectively you won't see much more than scenes strung together to join up the music it's the sort of film that can never get boring because it's so cleverly done
1	when i first saw this movie i also expected our boys to be cute and more like an extended version of the tv show i didn't get it back then but years later at a party years later at a 70s' type par tay where certain substances had been smoked inhaled and with plenty of tequila head was on late at night we watched it and finally realized what head was all about it spoofed their own show as shown in one song that called themselves a manufactured image as davy jones wrote in his they made a monkey out of me he openly admits that everyone in the film had been up all night smoking weed they made fun of themselves society everything great film tho as a 52 yr old granny i no longer i still watch this film when i want a good lol
1	this film like much of their music is either underrated or unnoticed by the casual observer it is terrific and in many ways ahead of its time br br the images are funny disturbing and at the very least engaging br br the music is amazing br br this is not the candy pop sound they are unfortunately associated with this is the sound of a band in exploration and revolt br br head alone should put the monkees into the rock and roll hall of fame br br can anyone tell me why these guys are not in there
1	i just can't understand why people are surprised this movie makes no sense it was never supposed to make sense duh the writers were completely wasted on at the time it was just supposed to entertain and mock and it does both wonderfully br br the monkees are good actors they wouldn't have been hired if they weren't good actors mike has a thing for deadpan and darkness micky is the best at sheer psychotic comedy davy is a broadway veteran and peter actually had people believing he was that dumb in real life don't tell me they can't act because they most definitely can br br they can also write sure jack bob get the sole credits but in reality they got a big helping hand on that script from the monkees who were also in that smoke filled room br br it is absolutely impossible to spoil this film head is very highly symbolic among the more memorable elements is the black box which was actually based on 2 things the image that the boys were bound to and the real black box on the screen gems lot where the band was kept between takes there's so much more symbolism in the movie that i'll just let you watch it and figure it out br br the music is awesome circle sky is one of papa best tunes ever and song as we go along will have you enthralled if you'd rather be weirded out then ditty diego can you dig it and long title should be satisfactory great songs that they are and then there's daddy's song without a doubt a homage to broadway days and the editing color scheming for that sequence is superb at least for '68 br br oh for those of you who won't watch a 'pg' film you're missing out especially since head was originally rated r in 1968 the rating was lowered about twenty years later br br now where was i ah yes we were speaking of beliefs beliefs and conditioning
1	pity the monkees people always accused them of being manufactured which they were or being nothing more than a american knock off of the beatles again which they were but to the kids of the time they were real they were important they were legitimate discussions about who were better the monkees or the beatles were common on school yards but the critics well they never quite bought into it despite recording some very catchy classic pop tunes the did not receive much respect for their albums sadly a similar fate was met by their one movie vehicle despite the fact that it stands as the best band film ever beatle fans may argue that hard days night was better and i am sure that many of the kids think 8 mile was superior but none of these films were as daring and inventive as head and that is probably why it failed br br if head had told a direct a to b type story perhaps it would have appealed to the bands young fans but by pushing the envelope and using the movie opportunity to mock their own image they really sabotaged the film with their fans could you imagine eminem turning to the camera and actually talking about how sad it is that he is the best selling guy in a genre in which only 5 and i am being generous of the acts are white if you can picture that than you have an idea how daring it was for the to sing hey hey we are the monkees you know we like to please a manufactured image with no philosophy when you have a film in which frank zappa tells davy that he should focus less on the dancing and more on the music its clear that there is a lot more going on then you expected br br the story what there is concerns the boys trying to flee their manager who at one point forces them to play in a commercial but every time they run away they end up inside a box i don't think you need to be fellini to figure out the symbolism of that bit some neat little comedy bits follow with davy as a boxer who has to give up playing the violin to take a dive in the big match and peter refusing to throw away a ice cream cone he does not want because there are starving children so its wrong to waste food but the real selling point to this film is the music and its some of the best the band ever recorded even if you are put off by the story you can sit back and enjoy some terrific music br br any film that begins and ends with mickey attempting suicide by jumping off a bridge at the end the band follows him is never going to be a mainstream classic but if you are a fan of either the band or experimental cinema of the era than you will enjoy this film
1	a very weird psychedelic esoteric and did i say weird experience br br but on at least on one level it did exactly what it was supposed to do it bridged the gap between the silly manufactured hollywood look at teen pop idols that was the monkees tv program and the adult musically growing and evolving and yet still a little silly monkees of the '70s and beyond br br the most important line in the film is mike nesmith's if they think we are plastic now wait till they see how we do it that the monkees were tired of all of the negative comments about their image and their work is a matter of record they said it over and over in interviews they needed to re make themselves and what better way that to de bunk and hilariously lampoon the very machine that created them and at the same time they commented on our whole society news movies art everything and said hey why pick on us isn't all of this stuff manufactured on one point or another these are the orwellian the monkees represented the persecuted everyman even at their silliest in the tv series pulling down big brother's pants and kicking him in his very deserving butt br br loved the ideas loved the music loved the effects loved the movie but then as peter says in the movie but then why should i speak since i know nothing
1	sadly this movie is relegated to status it seems many people that i've asked did you know the monkees made a movie usually answer 'no ' that being said if you are one of that large number i recommend you see it but with the following caveat s if you expect monkey style humor it is in there it's just not all over the place like the tv shows br br yes they are trying to break their tv mold a bit by poking fun at it like a bunch of no longer teenagers who have been on the short end of a lot of sticks br br no you don't have to be inebriated to enjoy it br br no you don't have to be inebriated to understand it br br if you like classics you'll love the interspersed clips throughout br br if you like the psychedelic era you'll love some of the cameos br br if you are a monkees fan you might recognize some of the jabs they are taking at the heavy commercializing of the band br br in the nigh immortal words of one of my best friends after seeing 5 minutes of it this is a weird movie man in fact it might be better if you don't try to understand it just sit back and react to it it's weird it's funny it's a bit surreal it's experimental still it is many things overall it is an experience
1	to experience head you really need to understand where the monkees were when they filmed it br br this was as their series was coming to a close and the group was near break up their inventive and comedic series sort of an american idol of their day took four unknown actors and formed a manufactured around them br br this is their take on their manufactured image and status as the 2nd tier beatles they always felt they were in a box trapped and unable to find credibility despite their talents br br it is also a hell of a musical trippy inventive i have the soundtrack and full of surprises br br see it with an open mind
1	i can't believe this isn't a huge cult hit perhaps people in 1968 thinking of the monkees as a silly factory made pop band rip off of the beatles refused to see it that cynicism probably covered it from sight ever since don't make this mistake head is an amazing film that most open minded people will appreciate it is very funny and very intelligent and very trippy
1	this is not your run of the mill police story where the characters were only secondary to the gun battles and car chases the episodes so far are more realistic and intelligent br br if you are looking for something with a lot of butt kicking rambo style cop story you will not find it here br br i gave it a 9 i wish this series lives long morse is excellent
1	the cinema of the 60s was as much as time of revolution as the politics and the music filmmakers were daring to make avant garde films discussing taboo subjects only permitted before in exploitation films starting with both breathless and underground american cinema such as kenneth anger films became more and more experimental all of this accumulated when hollywood realized they had mass commercial appeal with easy rider one of the best and most surprising outputs of this era was also one of the least successful initially head was made when the monkees career was seriously waning which is what damned one of the best psychedelic films ever made br br the plot well there really isn't one as many have said it involves the monkees going from one surreal scenario to the next one however these sequences are all obviously lsd tinged and basically mock how the monkees were sick of being confined to their light pre fab reputation its a shame that the film found no audience the teeny boppers who loved them had moved onto a new fad as they always do the psychedelic haight crowd to whom the film was garnered would never be caught dead at a monkees movie its all their loss this film may be plot less but it is certainly not without meaning and is very intelligently put together the crew later made both easy rider and five easy pieces the film was later revived at a 1973 retrospective and it gained a very positive response which granted it the cult following it had deserved for a long time ironically the monkees would fall victim to the same commercialism they protested in this film with their later 80s reunion 10 10
1	this all but ignored masterpiece is about the monkees becoming aware that they are fictional characters in a movie head and that everything they do or say had already been written in an unseen script they seem to be following head was written by jack nicholson and peter during a three day lsd trip in a suite at an expensive hollywood hotel the other three monkees only acted in it br br they fight this every way they can by doing things not in the script they deliberately flub their lines walk off sets tear up scenery punch other actors for no reason and ultimately commit suicide by jumping off a bridge br br for instance in the rapid flashes of a psychedelic party scene if you watch frame by frame you can see sitting next to the camera and cameraman very deliberately shooting into a mirror he is revealing that the party is actually fake and is being shot in a studio with actors who suddenly drop out of character and walk away in the middle of a conversation when the director yells cut br br the monkees however never drop out of character because those characters are also who they really are that ends up being the core of the revelation soon to come br br at every turn they realize their increasingly bizarre actions were exactly what they were supposed to do in the scripted film they can't escape being in you say they went crazy and walked through the sky which turns out to be painted on paper and hung from the ceiling as the set's background no problem hey hey they're the monkees and those wacky guys just keep around br br in the end even their deaths did not set them free that was how the movie was supposed to end and their motionless waterlogged bodies are fished out of the river put in another box and stacked in a film studio warehouse until the characters are needed again for another studio production br br this is made all the more poignant by the fact that the monkees really are fictional characters who forced themselves into the real world they did it through the power of their music br br ironically near the end peter has what he rightly sees as a hugely profound revelation that solves their problem but unfortunately no one listens br br peter realizes it doesn't matter if we're in the box the film he means that it doesn't matter if will is free or illusory and that the only important thing is that you just let the present moment occur and occur you need to just let happen as it happens without analyzing or evaluating or judging whether the experience is valid by some abstract definition br br when you can't even tell the difference will being free or not doesn't matter tying to figure out if you are the real you is just a pointless waste of time br br i saw this film at a very important time in my life i was trying to figure out how to escape being just that geeky creepy nerd girl by thinking about it intensely instead of just having fun i e sex like everyone else did but the revelation in head broke my self imposed recursive trap and helped me more than or nicholson or will ever know br br for decades i've watched head and wished i could thank pete br br was this a good movie br br uhh how about like br br yes
1	forget easy rider head is the film about the 1960s br br almost laugh as the monkees reduce their entire career to a one minute tv commercial about see the 50 foot victor mature try to figure out what the heck he's doing in this film hear frank zappa with his pet cow on leash tell jones your music is awfully white experience the only live performance as a real rock band play the honest to gosh first ever real punk rock song circle sky listen as jones sings a harry nielsen song about having a transsexual father be confused be very confused as confused as terri garr is when mickey dolenz makes sexual innuendos about her in her film debut witness futile protests against the vietnam war leap out of nowhere and just as quickly disappear watch mike spit on christmas while wearing a velvet victorian smoking jacket in a gothic horror movie sound stage let yourself drift into the karmic bliss inspired by a comic book version of indian mysticism delivered by a hammy white character actor in black face while peter pretends that he knows how to play a guitar discover academy award winning director bob first feature length film as written by academy award winning actor jack nicholson pretend it's not happening when the monkees commit group suicide by jumping off the golden gate bridge take drugs take a lot of drugs take as many drugs as the cast and crew evidently did while making this film br br with head the monkees revealed themselves as the entertainers in hollywood history bar none it is bewildering to discover that they blamed the failure of this film on bad promo to be sure the promotion was virtually non existent but did they not recognize how angry how down right depressing how self destructive this film actually is i mean this film is a trip on bad acid to the suicide ward of a mental hospital the only film i know to be this depressing is terry gilliam's brazil and like brazil this film reveals why life in the later 20th century was almost unbearable if you were lucky it's not simply that western culture was suffering from serious information overload but the information itself was just bad bad more bad and dismal in fact it was the overload effect itself that kept people going since this allowed people to keep distracting themselves with one crisis or another if news from vietnam became too much to bear they could turn the channel and watch a documentary on the rising unemployment rate br br the positive response to the reality revealed in head was woodstock three days of peace and love and nudity and mud and bugs and bad food and dirty drink and poop and pee and bad acid and peter townsend almost killing abbie hoffman all taking place behind a steel fence under the lovingly watchful eyes of a veritable army of ny state troopers meaning that the freedom of woodstock nation was as illusory as the song john thought he was singing while so strung out he could barely speak 500 000 assholes too stupid to come in out of the rain was one critic's judgment on woodstock i think it was andy warhol br br the one good thing occurring there was jimi hendrix's star spangled banner two years previously the jimi hendrix experience had gone on their first national tour of america as the warm up band opening for the monkees br br see it's all connected somehow br br you owe it to yourself nay you owe it to your unborn children to see the real 1960s only to be found on film in this bizarre miraculous and utterly absurd tribute to one of the more interesting capitalist scams of the later 20th century
1	the beatles had just done mystery tour ' there was the general feel that performance peace and drugs went together naturally in la there was a film subculture that knew something was up nicholson was in several of these gangs br br before he decided to seriously become an actor before rider ' before 'pink flamingos ' before for night ' there were several experiments with what to do about this an important one is manuscript ' this is another br br jack writes he plays with circular narrative self reference film reference performance self loathing the pain of creation all on the outskirts of safe you must see this if only to know something about jack br br certain actors act by digging into themselves it is a common technique some dig deep but after a while they become boring because they are incredibly shallow people there isn't just enough stuff in there to sustain a career think of deniro and hackman br br others are pretty interesting people who seem to become more interesting over time when they dig into the barrel they put stuff back in because of the pain of the digging think sean penn and jack at the bottom of jack's barrel at the end of the thread he spins as the base of every character is this experimental risky writer filmmaker br br who cares if it is a bad movie it is bad because it took risks watch when a tear is wiped from annette's cheek by the director it is a loving goof on the whole brando thing something that i heard marlon laughed about that is one of the richest moments in hollywood film history br br there's another reason to watch this music in film is has a strong root in dance revolution in film often relies on music whole cultures are thus swept along br br an unsung in inventing how billions now dance is toni basil she was as influential in pop choreography as the beatles were in music she was already well into her career when called upon to work on this but this is one of her earliest screen appearances you can see her work throughout and she herself in the pretty cool girl' segment over one of better songs followed by the frank zappa cameo mccartney would reference this scene in his teevee special years later br br a third reason to watch is early about 6 1 2 minutes in the film a character named 'lady kisses each monkey in a long continuous shot and then dismissively departs she is credited as i j jefferson but is really mimi manchu nicholson's lover at the time and lsd partner red hair psychedelic demeanor lovely that scene says it all for me about how jack feels about the boys br br ted's evaluation 3 of 3 worth watching
1	i will admit i had the opportunity in the past to watch this film and after about 5 10 minutes into it i felt like many did i was expecting a monkey movie that was similar to the television show but instead i was given well i didn't know what i was given to be honest br br however after finally watching this film i realized that not only had i had a closed mind to the brilliance it depicts i also found myself watching it over and over again it's the one movie that never ceases to interest me simply because it keeps me alert as i try to attempt to decipher it's meanings and just when i think i've figured out something in the film it's answer is destroyed once i watch the film again brilliance indeed br br it seems that most people who disliked this film are wanting to watch a film with primarily a clear plot they want everything explained and all questions answered in the finale well sorry if that's what you're wanting this is not the movie for you but if you liked movies like the matrix and better yet their sequels i think you'll appreciate the thought provoking mindblowing experience this film will give you br br think of the film being like a dream in our dreams things make no sense things we expect to happen don't people places and things don't speak act or function in the same way they do in reality to complain about head is like complaining about a dream you've had that you felt you could not understand the mind is a complex system and being that a film titled head is just as complex is it that difficult to relate the two br br the music and musical numbers really stand out especially peter two compositions which remain the best tracks in the film can you dig it and long title do i have to do this all over again br br this film proves that the monkees were much more than just four guys in a 'pre group as their critics called them on a television show but that they are actually much more intelligent and talented than the world would give them credit for there's so many messages that can be derived from the film both in regards to the monkees and to the industry' in general that it stands as a masterpiece of film making that was far ahead of it's time br br i feel had this film been released as an independent piece at this point and time it would actually garner the respect and admiration it deserves br br and one finale note br br one could compare this to the beatles magical mystery tour film since the beatles film appeared to be just as strange and bizarre however in my opinion head stands far above anything the beatles put on celluloid
1	you would really need to remember the monkees and have a clear understanding as to where and how they fitted into the second half of the 1960s in order to fully appreciate this movie br br there is no plot as such basically it's a crazy mixed up pastiche of various unrelated sequences but it is interesting and entertaining in its own peculiar way once you get onto its wavelength in short it was a classic cleverly conceived and well crafted example of late '60s experimental cinema it contains some good songs some ultra groovy cinematography and plenty of other worthwhile ideas in terms of film technique br br i give it 7 out of 10 for several reasons first it took a lot of courage to make such an unorthodox movie in the commercial mainstream where both its stars and its producers were firmly ensconced at the time if a feature movie flops at the box office the consequences can be dire for all concerned secondly it was for the most part a creative success and finally as already mentioned it is unquestionably a classic of the genre and as such it is now historically important br br unfortunately head came too late in the monkees career but there again they would not have been allowed to make it earlier on because it was essentially a very pointed and cynical satire of their own image br br clearly the members of the group knew only too well that the whole monkees juggernaut had just about run its race when they started work on this project in a way it was to be their swan song and they were determined to let it all hang out they were tired of being treated like mere pawns in the high powered corporate game in which they had been manipulated and exploited over the preceding few years in short they wanted out and they were going to say a few things before they left br br history however has vindicated the band let the critics be damned the monkees left behind some of the best most polished and successful pop records of the decade yes they had plenty of help but at the end of the day they stood in front of the studio mikes they fronted the movie and tv cameras and they did the concerts they were fun and just a little bit crazy but unlike some of their contemporaries they were never threatening you could safely introduce a monkey to your elderly aunt br br head probably borrows a bit too heavily from the beatles hard day's night but it's still worth another look for those who were around at the time or for younger who have the ability to appreciate its significance br br enjoy
1	i am proud of mike has said he should be because this film which either has been derided by many of us or studied and scrutinized by film professors works on many levels br br yes it's unconventional to many frustrating it's almost as if the producers hand you the film and tempt you figure it out br br you probably already know that the monkees tv show was a runaway marketing success that depended upon business acumen and no small serving of public deception tv shows are about selling soap and toothpaste first than to entertain that the monkees broke out of the box for a short time to make head is a testament to the group's popularity and importance in pop culture despite where your head's at get one thing straight head is not the monkees tv show br br so what we have here is a psychedelic documentary about western pop culture from a source that has authority on the subject head is a movie that could only come from those inside the box by 1968 the cast and crew were seasoned and weary professionals who had seen their share of promise and disappointment the movie was a deliberate attempt at market so it did three things make a film the way the monkees envisioned most importantly reinvent the group to one not subservient to it's old bosses and yas hipper than before make a film that exposed american attitudes of information dissemination br br head therefore really is about media manipulation and its net result deception the mass media is supposed to inform educate us on the happenings in the world at large and ultimately asks us to form opinions of these events that can shape thought into positive action thus we assume the information we absorb to be complete and unbiased otherwise how can one establish a valued conclusion on any one idea presented by a book newspaper or tv show in one of the street interviews in head a guy admits i haven't looked at a newspaper or tv in years is he lesser or better the man even the drug parallels are a soft of things are not as they seem remember the old joke everything you know is wrong the screenplay starts with the public admission of it's own manufactured image and runs with the football literally is the football scene in the movie a visual manifestation of the whole idea behind head is the film a stream of consciousness exercise is the film the culmination of pot smoking marathons there are too many coincidences that occur in the film that suggest otherwise my guess is that head is the culmination of motivations somewhere between intended and unintended br br largely the insiders responsible for head seem to enjoy themselves in the that take place in the film but there is anger anger at the chaos that characterized the late '60s and anger at the way the media television especially had changed culture in negative ways drugs and violence were strong negative forces in the late '60s and still are but the producers of head want you to know that poor information is a far greater danger br br wars have been attributed to and lies what perfect way to spread disinformation than through tv repeatedly the mysterious black box is seen as an obstacle to the monkees and seemingly all of us as well in one scene peter is sullenly sitting in a saloon holding a melting ice cream cone and is asked by a fellow monkey what's wrong i bought this ice cream cone and i don't want it the movie suggests that the first purpose of the media is not to inform but to sell en mass blindly head goes further put any idea into someone's head and merrily goes he br br the filmmakers know this and the danger is real head is either a movie that creates itself as we go along or is a deliberate statement perhaps perhaps not maybe it is just pot meets advertising as critics scathed in 1968 the jokes are on the monkees and us be careful what you ask for you may get it br br cheers a true guilty pleasure very funny intelligent will please the fans find the substance it's there unabashedly weird bizarre collection of characters good length is appropriate lots of great one liners including my all time prophetic favorite the tragedy of your times my young friends is that you may get exactly what you want br br caveats dated drugs no plot no linear delivery of any thought in particular at least twenty five stories that interweave in stop and go fashion so may easily frustrate may seem pretentious to some people who can't stand the monkees need not watch though that in itself is no reason to avoid it the psychedelic special effects may kill your ailing picture tube or your acid burnt out eyeballs br br match cut
1	head is one of those films you'll have a lot of trouble convincing your friends to see but once they do they'll fall in love with it i don't know how many times this has happened to me this film is just so funny and bizarre really a deconstruction of everything the monkees had been up to this point in their career a lot the credit goes to bob who pretty much ended the career with this film my guess is he wanted to get out of directing the tv show and get into features which he did in a big way after this one micky dolenz is absolutely hilarious i can't believe he didn't have a second life as a comic actor after this film this film has a lot of great cameos and a lot of wonderful psychedelic nonsense i feel like the reputation of this film is continuing to build and it wouldn't surprise me if it eventually becomes a full on cult classic
1	this is one of those films where it is easy to see how some people wouldn't like it my wife has never seen it and when i just rewatched it last night i waited until after she went to bed she might have been amused by a couple small snippets but i know she would have had enough within ten minutes br br head has nothing like a conventional story the film is firmly mired in the psychedelic era it could be seen as filmic surrealism in a nutshell or as something of a postmodern acid trip through film genres if you're not a big fan of those things psychedelia surrealism postmodernism and the acid trip aesthetic assuming there's a difference between them you should probably stay away from this film on the other hand if you are a fan of that stuff you need to run out and buy head now if you haven't already br br oddly the film has never received much respect that probably has a lot to do with preconceptions after all it does star the monkees micky dolenz davy jones michael and peter and the monkees were a musical group of actors put together by producers bob and bert schneider to be a kid friendly bubble gummy beatles for a television series in their era they had as much respect as say new kids on the block the spice girls and so on as a fellow imdb reviewer rightly notes perhaps people in 1968 thinking of the monkees as a silly factory made pop band rip off of the beatles refused to see head br br the monkees and head have never been quite able to shed that negative public perception it's a shame because there was a lot of talent both musically and otherwise in the monkees it's probably odder that who directs here and co produces with schneider and jack nicholson yes that jack nicholson who wrote the script and also co produces decided to take the monkees in this unusual direction it's as if new kids on the block suddenly put out an album equivalent to pink floyd's 1969 or atom heart mother 1970 in fact the songs in head written by the monkees and frequent collaborators such as carole king and harry nilsson have a floyd like quality somewhere between the syd barrett era and the immediate post barrett era this is much more prominent than any beatles similarity some people have complained about the music in the film but to me all the songs are gems for that matter some people dislike barrett era or other floyd which is just as difficult for me to empathize with br br but what is head about the basic gist is just that the monkees are taking a trip through various film genres there are war scenes adventure scenes horror scenes comedy scenes drama scenes western scenes sci fi scenes romance scenes and on and on except in the film's reality this turns out to be happening primarily if not exclusively on a studio lot at root we're watching the monkees shoot a film of course all of the scenes in the various genres have something surreal and self referential about them and they and individual shots within a scene tend to lead to one another using dream logic not dissimilar to the monty python television show as a dream head tends to vacillate between a good dream and a nightmare while often being one that would cause you to laugh in your sleep something that i frequently do by the way br br technically uses a wide variety of techniques to realize the above there are scenes with extensive negative images there are a lot of very fast cuts including a great sequence that features davy jones and tony basil dancing alternately in a white and a black room wearing a combination of white and black reversed in each that occasionally back and forth as quickly as two frames at a time there are a lot of bizarre segues there is an animated cow mouth there are odd editing devices and so on for my money i wish this stuff wasn't just a relic of the psychedelic era this is the kind of artistic approach i relish it seemed like a good idea back then and i still think it's a good idea i'd like to see films like the life aquatic with steve using 2004 using these types of extended techniques now that would make that film surreal br br some folks who aren't so in tune with the acid trip aesthetic have complained that it's basically b s to offer meanings for something intended to not have any i disagree with such a pessimistic nihilistic view head was intended to have a lot of meaning s and it's not just films without conventional plots that have multiple interpretations nicholson and schneider have a lot of interesting things to say about the monkees the film comments on their manufactured status pop stardom way before pink floyd head pop stardom and violence from images of war to images of fans dismantling their idols and naïve u s oriented ideas of international perceptions and respect well armed foreigners in a desert surrender to micky dolenz just because he's an american then later they blow up a coke machine again in the desert for him because he's thirsty and can't gain access the film comments on many other topics from big industry to police surveys especially in relation to tragedies and on and on head is full of ideas appropriately enough with intelligent multifaceted things to say about them br br head deserves to be considered a classic it's basically shooting for the same vibe as the beatles' yellow submarine both premiered in november of 1968 interestingly enough and both were intended as something of a summation of the psychedelic aesthetic yellow submarine wasn't quite successful head is everything yellow submarine should have been
1	after winning a championship fight boxer john garfield as johnnie celebrates with a drinking binge which leads to the manslaughter of a pushy reporter although his manager killed the man mr garfield is blamed when the manager dies in a car crash wearing garfield's stolen watch authorities think the boxer is dead still a wanted man garfield changes his identity to jack and moves to an arizona ranch there garfield meets the dead end kids billy halop as tommy bobby jordan as angel leo gorcey as spit huntz hall as dippy gabriel dell as t b and bernard as milt br br garfield bonds with the young dead end lads who were sent to stay with sweet grandma may robson as an alternative to reform school courtesy of her brother deceased priest father garfield falls in love with sister pretty peggy gloria dickson who is there to keep any eye on the kids of course garfield's past comes back to haunt him… br br john garfield and the 'dead end' kids make beautiful max steiner music together thanks to effective direction and photography by busby berkeley and james wong howe the story is predictably comfortable with the warner brothers support team in fine form garfield and the dead end kids are a winning combination although garfield made no further movies with the east side gang the studio had him re team with both billy halop and bobby jordan almost immediately for dust be my destiny br br the boxing scenes are nicely staged but the most exciting sequence has garfield and four of the new york kids halop jordan hall and climbing into a giant water tank for a swim which unexpectedly puts their lives in danger other more brief highlights include floozy ann sheridan as goldie boozy barbara pepper as and young ronald sinclair as douglas losing at strip poker br br they made me a criminal 1 21 39 busby berkeley john garfield billy halop bobby jordan
1	everywhere i hear that people are calling this show bad because its premise is too far fetched well maybe a do good cab driver in philly is pushing it a little at least the cab drivers ive met but that's what makes the show great br br the fact that this show is a little off the reality track is an issue but its still enjoyable and fun its highly watchable and even though u know mike wins out in the end he never wins in life david morse is a great actor and does a great job in the title role his supporting cast is great and i must say the location of the show is especially great br br all in all i watch this show not because im looking for a good dose of reality or a show with lots of action i watch this show because its got great acting a good premise and a great story line every week it's also a plus when i can pick out the landmarks he drives by or know what intersection he's at i love this show and i love philly give this show a shot
1	what a wonderful film filled with eccentric unique characters who are wonderfully realized by a great ensemble cast the director also did a great job keeping the story held together getting those wonderful performances on not messing with them and using music and what wonderful music it is to great effect s in the lead role is great i had always heard what a brilliant stage actor she is and although i have enjoyed her on law and order this really shows what she can do with a filled out complex role macy gray is terrific mos def as usual wonderful lou gossett great jimmy terrific and doesn't try to pull focus because he's a star a true piece of ensemble acting br br rent it enjoy it groove to it and treasure it something special
1	i had heard of john garfield but didn't know him i loved this movie i had never heard of it i just picked it up randomly john garfield is a boxer in the movie he had been in real life also so he knew his part he was a fugitive throughout the movie someone else killed a man he character was blamed he is befriended by a family who has questions and is not quite sure what to make of him all sorts of minor plots ensue my favorite was the scary swimming scene in a water tower where the water was deep and one dead end kid couldn't swim and none of them could get out john's character saves the day the dead end kids were great as his friends and followers one of them right to the very end ann sheridan played the family's daughter and john's eventual love interest she was believable but not lovable in my opinion the only weak link in the movie
1	whoever plays the part of j douglas williamson in the strip poker scene does a wonderful job he apparently received no credits too bad br br all the dead end kids do their jobs beautifully in this 1939 entry it is odd to watch them in a western setting with their brooklyn accents i guess that should be bowery they even show some swimming abilities br br i think there are many special scenes that can stay with the viewer of this boxing love crime story my favorite right now is in the fight scene near the end of the film busby berkeley shows his dance movie expertise when john garfield shifts his feet and as we watch that move the camera moves up to his face i will not give away why or when but the look on his face at that point probably brought the 1939 audience to its feet in the theaters br br some will think john garfield looks a lot like frank sinatra in many scenes just his face actually frank was not yet making movies so maybe frank looked like john the boxer named smith in the movie looks like a clone of ed begley jr br br now i must tell you something that is not a spoiler but if you watch the movie watch grandma's hands may robson does her part well she seems to have hands that wander a bit in a scene where she and a crowd go into the boxer's john garfield dressing room watch where she touches the reclining john garfield while he is wearing only his trunks br br a great ending lots of wonderful characters br br best line might be at the gas station eight gallons that's a dollar twenty eight tom willett
1	very good 1939 film where john garfield plays another boxer who becomes a victim when everyone thinks he has committed a murder trouble is that the killer and garfield's girl ann sheridan in a brief but good performance get killed while trying to elude the police br br a crooked attorney persuades garfield to flee n y he lands in arizona and meets up with the dead end kids they've been sent there by a funding program to keep them out of further trouble br br of course garfield finds a new love interest but must conceal his identity as everyone thinks he was not only the killer but was the victim in the car crash br br may robson is fabulous as the grandma type running the place for the wayward youth claude rains is also effective in the role of the detective who suspects that garfield is still alive and pursues him when a picture is snapped of him in arizona br br the film really deals with garfield's relation to the boys while the ending is good you want to see garfield go back to n y to proclaim his innocence
1	as a fan of old warner brothers gangster movies i had to check this out its the 2nd best movie in the adventure classics dvd set that also had one of my favorite movies scott of the antarctic on it this was made in 1939 a good year for a lot of warner brothers movies it boasts a great cast john garfield claude rains ann sheridan and the dead end kids who would be later known as the bowery boys at monogram pictures well a boxer garfield gets framed for a murder he did'nt commit and is on the run and being tailed by a tough new york detective claude rains he ends up at a fruit picking place run by a pretty woman gloria dickson and the dead end kids huntz hall leo gorcey benard punsley billy halop bobby jordan dell he later returns to boxing but tries to keep a low profile this was directed by famed director busby berkley who directed timeless classics like 42nd street of 1933 and 35 footlight parade and many others i would like to give a shout out to platinum dvd video for putting out a lot of good budget priced dvd's like adventure classics see my scott of the antarctic review i give they made me a criminal 10 out of 10 great movie ill have to point out that i have only seen 2 john garfield movies this one and body and soul i thought he was a very good actor
1	i wasn't expecting a great deal from this film so i was pleasantly surprised when i watched it and found it to be most noteworthy it's is mainly due to the talent and appeal of it's star john garfield br br garfield plays jack a boxing star who is framed for murder he must go on the run and ends up out in the sticks with gloria dickson and the dead end kids here is offered a chance for redemption yet will the past catch up with him yet garfield was an actor ahead of his peers before the term 'method' was even coined and before brando ever screamed 'stella ' he brings to the screen his earthy quality and amazing acting talent dominate this production also interesting is that his role here as a boxer has shades of that 'golden boy' role he so desperately wanted to on screen garfield looks the type and goes the distance as a boxer proving his acting worth br br ann sheridan is here in a small role at the beginning as jack's trampy girl goldie i haven't ever thought much of sheridan but i liked her here she plays well off garfield performance is a little tired and she does not share good chemistry with garfield the dead end kids are here and garfield seems their natural idol even more so than cagney claude rains is miscast and he looks uncomfortable in the role in many a scene strange as he always was such a reliable actor br br also interesting to note is the director busby berkeley best known for his early musicals with dancing girls and kaleidoscope images directs a different genre here with remarkable ease he maintains a gritty atmosphere throughout admirably br br a very good film that deserves greater attention 8 10
1	the early films of the dead end kids before they were re christened the bowery boys were all very entertaining and well produced films from warner brothers despite their being rather formulaic they still had excellent writing acting and hold up well over time do not confuse these with the cheap bowery boys films from monogram pictures despite the presence of huntz hall and leo gorcey these films were several notches below the earlier films in regard to quality br br the film begins with tough guy john garfield winning the lightweight boxing championship unfortunately shortly after this he's on a drunken binge and is blamed for a murder he really didn't commit the problem is that he was so loaded that he wasn't sure he didn't kill the man so he runs away and lives the life of a hobo eventually he meets up with feisty may robson and the dead end kids as well as a lady you just know will become his girlfriend given time br br where the rest of the film goes was not all that surprising but because of the quality of the film it doesn't seem to matter garfield and the kids are at their best and this is a film sure to please all but the of viewers
1	another enjoyable warner flick i really liked john garfield in this though i'm wondering why cagney wasn't in the role perhaps it was too similar to angels with dirty faces i mean it's another dead end kids story of sorts too but i really appreciated them here and this film had a lot of nice comical touches along with some good serious drama the boys work great with garfield a nice sequence was the whole swimming scene which starts out with no cares but winds up coming too close to disaster br br one negative comment claude rains was grossly miscast as the detective the fine actor seemed as out of place here as a nun in a whorehouse
1	spoilers even though the movie they made me a criminal is nowhere as good as the later john garfield anti hero classics like body soul in 1947 force of evil in 1948 and his last and very underrated he ran all the way in 1951 it's the film that defined his career from that point onward until his untimely death on may 21 1952 at the young age of 39 br br garfiled plays the part of light weight champion johnnie and later the fugitive from the law jack who's innocent of the murder that he's charged with even though he's been declared officially dead manager doc ward robert doc who during a drunken victory party killed reporter charles mcgee john ridgely who was going to expose to the public his fighter johnnie lies about him being a one women guy as well as non drinking momma's boy doc smashed a bottle over mcgee's head killing him as was almost dead drunk with a number of women partying in his hotel suite br br doc was later killed in a car crash with girlfriend goldie ann sheridan but doc burned to a crisp and with watch on him was mistaken for johnnie told to stay dead and buried by his lawyer robert strange who took 9 750 00 of the 10 000 00 of money that he had for this great piece of advice told johnnie to take on a new identity and call himself from now on jack and get the hell out of the state of new york talking about sleazy shysters johnnie now jack travels the rails from new york down to arizona ending up at the date farm where most of the film takes place br br if it wasn't for john garfield in the lead role as both jack the movie would have long been lost and forgotten garfield who was only 26 at the time brought the best out of everyone in the movie even the transported dead end kids i guess we can call them the arizona kids here acting were notches above what you would have expected from them and they came across as real and sensitive persons not a bunch of slap stick clowns like in almost all of their movies all that due to being on the same stage or filming location with john garfield br br they made me a criminal is a good story that has the undercover champ acting like anything but not to draw any attention on himself and end up not only behind bars but in the electric chair in the end jack showed just what kind of man he is by not fighting the big fight and against all the odds dramatically winning at the last moment but by going four brutal rounds to get the money for his new found family at the date farm including his girl peggy gloria dickson to open up a gas station with it br br giving the european champ gaspar frank the fight of his life and getting 2 000 00 thats 500 00 a round for doing it jack showed everyone who looked up to him like the arizona kids that sometimes taking a punch is far and more courageous then throwing one the fact that jack could have easily clobbered but didn't in order not to expose himself to the police as on the loose killer johnnie but instead went as far as he could taking everything that could throw at him to help out his friends showed more then all the fights that he won in the boxing ring put together br br i for one didn't find the ending of the movie contrived at all but fitting right in with the story the cop morty claude rains who came to arizona from new york to arrest jack had to live with for years the fact that he once sent an innocent man to the electric chair we were told all this right at the start of the movie why knowing that jack johnnie was innocent of the murder that he's charged with and not knowing for sure if he'll be found innocent of it in a court of law would he want to make the same terrible mistake again i can easily see this happening in real life why not then in the movies
1	the young john garfield turned in a fine performance in the 1939 they made me a criminal celebrating a ring victory in a jammed locker room boxer johnnie emotes about his love of mom rejection of booze and clean living style to fans including cops who eat it up later in the evening he's plowed and with his bimbo gal while his manager in on the con shares the evening and the whiskey br br a problem develops when another couple arrives the guy is a newspaper reporter and he says he'll expose phony life on the front page the manager kills the reporter and he and the floozy depart the murder discovered cops later are on the lookout for the now somnolent boxer whose car is driven by the manager with his new girlfriend johnny's now instant ex a police chase ends with a fiery car crash manager and girl are dead and unrecognizable br br johnny discovers that he's supposed to be a killer but he's also presumed dead seeking advice from a lawyer he entrusts the counselor with the key to a bank deposit box holding his sole savings 10 000 the lawyer later gives johnny 250 and tells him that the balance is his fee for giving him professional advice get out of town fast and go far away i would never charge a client more than 5 000 for such pithy succinct and wise direction br br johnny now a freight train hopping hobo winds up conveniently passing out at an arizona date ranch where he's nursed back to health by beautiful goldie west ann sheridan a fine actress whose career was in the ascendancy taking jack as his moniker the pugilist loses some of his rough edges as he falls in love with goldie he becomes a mentor and pal to the dead end kids familiar screen characters to pre war moviegoers br br a chance to make money arises when an exhibition boxer shows up challenging any suckers to last several rounds in the ring with him it's a natural temptation for but there's a fly in the ointment who should show up but new york detective monty phelan the laughing stock of the department he's been on morgue duty for ages because of a slight mistake early in his career that sent an innocent man to old sparky we all make mistakes don't we phelan recognized from a news photo and he's there to watch the fight and make the pinch claude rains is the cop who's endured and barbs from his fellow officers for years br br what follows is predictable but it's well acted i hope this was a main feature when it was released it's too good to rank as a b second on a marquee br br busby berkeley best known as an outstanding choreographer directed they made me a criminal and max steiner one of hollywood's all time prolific score composers wrote nice but not extraordinary music for the film br br now available on dvd from alpha video the movie set me back a mere 4 99 and gave me real pleasure i'll view it again br br 8 10
1	a beautiful film john garfield's character is a distant relative of les miserables 's jean valjean while detective rains recalls victor hugo's javert the ruthless arm of law br br like in many films noirs the city epitomizes evil whereas the country and the nature represents sanctuary redemption and a second chance for those whose life seems forever doomed but even in the luminous daylight danger may appear suddenly as the excellent scene at the reservoir shows john garfield an actor who as leonard maltin points out should be rediscovered i've never been disappointed by any of his films except for his supporting part in gentleman's agreement but it was not his fault gives a heartfelt sensitive performance and the audience sides with him as soon as he is unjustly accused the first sequence shows a rather unkind hypocrite person but all his trials redeem him and how do we feel for him during the last scenes with detective rains colorful characters grandma and the kids add a lot of joie de vivre which is necessary humor is also present in the strip poker game as the dead end brats fleece a rich kid br br i recommend this movie
1	it is nice to see a show that has a little more content than just blood and guts for a change as an added bonus it is nice to see some local home boys from massachusetts making good in l a i hope this show will be a keeper
1	this is breezy highly entertaining drama with an excellent cast garfield is fine as a boxer hiding from the police with that motley crew the dead end kids most notable of these is the beautiful billy halop who has some very moving moments gloria dickson who in real life died very young in a house fire is strong and very attractive as sister and in the early scenes ann sheridan on the brink of stardom is a knock out may robson is very funny as a crusty old granny but claude rains proves here that even a great actor can flounder if mis cast whoever thought of casting him as a tough new york cop br br busby berkeley proves here that he was a fine director with or without musical numbers the film moves at a terrific pace and the water tower sequence is very suspenseful and well photographed the ending is contrived and the plot nothing startling or original but i still found this a highly enjoyable experience
1	they made me a criminal is a remake of an earlier warner brothers film the life of jimmy dolan which starred douglas fairbanks jr as the prizefighter on the lam br br even with the restrictions now upon production by the hays office this remake actually turns out to be better than the original douglas fairbanks jr is horribly miscast as a pugilist john garfield with his background and style steps into a part he was born to play br br they made me a criminal was directed by busby berkeley who jack warner believed in keeping busy in between musicals berkeley in fact would soon be leaving warner brothers for mgm br br berkeley does do a fine job here keeping the action flowing at a good pace i particularly like the scene where four of the dead end kids and garfield are swimming in a water tank and get stranded there when the water level goes down they get it out of it quite narrowly and with some good ingenuity br br other performances besides garfield and the kids to remember are may robson who runs the summer camp for the kids and claude rains as the obsessed detective on garfield's trail
1	it's always a good feeling when a movie delivers the goods when you weren't expecting it the dead end kids bowery boys found themselves in a lot of uneven films and usually did better when in a support role as in angels with dirty faces here their presence as a backdrop to the story of a boxer framed for murder gives them a lot of screen time without distracting from the main action br br john garfield is light heavyweight champion johnny a hitter who's a lot different from the image he portrays to the sports world and the press when a newspaper reporter inadvertently learns that johnny's a party loving womanizer his plans to spill that information in a column is interrupted by a whiskey bottle to the head from johnny's manager doc ward robert in turn doc talks johnny's girlfriend goldie ann sheridan into running off with him to avoid the legal hassle of dealing with the reporter's death as both flee a police chase winds up in a fiery car wreck and doc's body is as johnny from the gold watch he was wearing br br claude rains adopts an edward g robinson sneer that doesn't quite work as a detective who's been reassigned to morgue detail after a bad arrest years ago his character is monty phelan and he has a pretty good hunch that the body in the car crash wasn't johnny he his boss to hand over the closed case to him and is given the assignment to get him out of town and out of the way br br meanwhile johnny looks for advice from his lawyer and winds up being screwed even worse when he gets conned for most of his ten thousand dollar savings making his way cross country johnny winds up at the date farm in arizona run by a crusty granny may robson the farm is the legacy of granny's brother a deceased priest from brooklyn and is now the home of a band of rag tag street boys the dead end kids who work the farm billy halop is the nominal leader of the boys in this one and his sister peggy gloria dickson becomes the romantic interest for johnny now going by the name of jack br br i get a kick out of the historical perspective offered in these pre war era films when johnny and the boys take a joy ride in the truck they fill up at a gas station for a 1 28 tommy halop gets the idea that a gas station on the farm would be a good way to earn some extra money and with that thought jack decides to take on a barnstorming boxer offering 500 a round to anyone who can stay in the ring with him the clichéd premise is turned on it's ear somewhat when jack gets knocked out in the fifth round but by then he's earned enough to give the fruit farm a fighting chance of it's own maybe grandma should have been in the ring she just about took out everyone sitting around her at ringside as johnny jack comes around in the locker room detective phelan is on hand to take him into custody knowing that he can redeem his reputation with this collar it's a toss up as to whether phelan follows through on his arrest you'll have to watch the film to find out br br i like the dead end films where leo in charge but he doesn't have a lot to do in this one however he does a great film flam on the ticket taker at the gate of the boxing match another thought wouldn't it have been great if the ever present picture on the wall of the priest had been that of pat o'brien br br all in all this is a pretty good entry in both the john garfield and dead end kids filmography and an entertaining way to spend an hour and a half if there's one downside it's not enough screen time for pretty ann sheridan the film might have wound up even more satisfying if the roles of sheridan and gloria dickson were reversed as the on screen chemistry between peggy and jack seemed more forced than natural
1	i must have been around ten years old when my uncle took me and my brother to see this martial arts movie at the drive in at the circle drive in in long beach the title was hammer of god from which i can never forget for some reason but what i do remember are the different scenes that have left an imprint on my mind forever br br my brother always reminds me of the movie although it has been forever it seems since we seen the movie from time to time the years i would look for it at the rental stores and from time to time i would check on the web and for some reason it appears like it is never available or no one knows what movie i'm talking about br br if i only knew if and were it was available i would love to purchase that movie if anyone is aware of its availability please inform me
1	jimmy wang yu an authentic asian superstar directed and wrote this film which i have only seen in a dubbed videotape version the widescreen shaw scope shape was lost and the original actor's voices absent but this is still good to watch the story is the usual martial arts school fights villains from japan plot with our young hero winning out in the end by beating up loads of assorted thugs br br the combat gets better as the film unravels early in the film it looks stiff and dull but later there is a great scene where wang yu fights hordes in a gambling joint then walks out into a snowy scene and takes some more villains on with knives sword and fists that part is very exciting br br quite good then but it would be interesting to see a non dubbed widescreen version if there is one
1	i will be honest i rented this movie solely on the fact it was part of the child's play series i was expecting a boring dull 4th part too the series but i was surprised this movie was surprisingly good and i found it to be quite funny there was a lot of dark humor and the idea to have two dolls was a good way to spice things up the two dolls worked well together and added a bonnie and clyde type fell to the movie overall it was very good for a 4th movie in the series with some gruesome death scenes just watch the marilyn manson type get killed at the beginning not to mention john ritter getting a face full of nails applauds to the writers for spicing things up and the ending although i found it a bit strange leaves room for yet another sequel maybe son of chucky
1	it's just that chucky 1 was good chucky 2 was better chucky 3 sucked now the 4th in the series which is in my opinion the best out of the series jennifer tilly was just great in this movie for dolls they were better than a few actors that come to mind freddie prince jr for one and funnier than many comedies i've seen in the past br br the plot wasn't great but i really didn't care about it just to see chucky and tiffany bicker and fight each other and the ending leaves it wide open for a 5th sequel which i hear is in the works idle hands premiers next week and looks to be another horror comedy but i doubt it'll top this one
1	in this 4th child's play film chucky gets lucky it's very funny and there are some enjoyable parts very good direction not as bad as it could be the best one in the series since the first three stars out of four
1	the movie was surprisingly wonderful especially considering the last sequel the third was dark and semi interesting but it wasn't nearly as fun or enjoyable as this it is filled with comedic lines about martha stuart doll's anatomy masturbation and it was actually done effectively during gruesome and disturbing images the movie wasn't scary or suspenseful and i'm sure that it wasn't the director's intention it was fun because of the silliness jennifer tilly's over the top and sexy performance the puppetry of the dolls were so well handled the movement of mouth lips tears in eyes knife in chest and the costumes the dolls were just marvelous and it made the gruesome deaths more considering the fact that they were done by wonderful dolls the new chucky look was great and tiffany was very cute a few scenes with chucky hugging the human tiffany even made my father smile jesse and jade were surprisingly well very attractive and the special effects were cool the ending was so unsuspected and the fact that they could make another as good is quite unlikely it may not be as suspenseful as movies like halloween or urban legend but it is certainly more fun
1	i know this movie isn't for everyone and i won't push my opinions on you but what i have to say is the truth about how many people feel about this movie it was the best i have ever seen it was funny and even though it wasn't the scariest movie i had ever seen it kept me on the edge of my seat because i didn't know what was gonna happen next if you like funny scary movies you have got to see this one
1	an extremely dark and brooding show with an excellent cast one of the few shows that i try to watch on a regular basis glad to see bebe in a recurring role but feel andre braugher is underutilized he is one intense actor hope cbs gives it a better time slot next season
1	it's unbelievable but the fourth is better than the second and the third after the third that was awful it's incredible how they could have an unexpected sequel with new ideas chuck is the same nasty doll of the previous movies interesting the final that lets know that a fifth can be done
1	this is the funniest sequel i have seen in a long time it is much funnier than the other three and not a bit scary it has some very gory pieces in the film but not bad enough to make you sick in this one he has a female doll companion hence the name if you liked the first three then you'll love this go watch it
1	i'm warning you this movie is not scary if you're a horror movie fan especially a child's play fan you'll think it's incredibly funny but you won't be scared it's not a bad movie but it's not scary
1	the success of scream gave birth to a whole new horror flicks wave i'm happy with that as a big fan of horror and i liked most of those new horror films is a one big pack of horror colorful fast paced and original i see this movie more like the opening of a new trilogy much like episode 1 and aliens resurrection since it comes up with a new twist instead of focusing on the little boy killer doll relationship we have here a twisted movie about couples we have the sweet young lovers in contrast with the killer crazy doll sized lovers very inventive
1	great movie i thought it would never be as good as it was great special effects great story big laughs it didn't take itself seriously which is why i think it worked so well even the acting was surprisingly good overall a very funny and sometimes chilling story
1	this new installment to the child's play series has not one scary scene but tons of hilarious jokes such as a stoner witnessing chucky him the finger and saying rude f king doll and lots of references to the series you can kill me but i'll come back i always come back the movie's title was probably thought of before the script and was written around it this is totally different from all other films in the series it doesn't even have andy the central character for all the previous ones chucky seems to interfere with characters from another movie a soap opera about two teens running off together to get married there is one cool elaborate death scene involving broken glass and water spilling everywhere the movie is very gory very funny and has pop culture references from martha stewert to jerry springer do not see this one before you see the other three it will really ruin the effect since the first one is truly scary lots of guilty pleasure fun and silliness br br
1	this is a great installment in the child's play series it brought back some bang to the series great comedy boy this movie is funny also there are awesome homages to other horror celebs beautiful cinematography great ending bring on seed of chucky
1	this movie exemplifies a certain brand of comedy horror of a strictly adult kind but quite different to the troma movies with which it shares certain qualities the humour is rough and ready but fast and furious if the idea of hideous dolls with evil powers and twisted minds don't make you shrug with boredom reach for the six pack of beer and enjoy the best chucky film yet
1	the child's play series isn't a favourite of mine but bride of chucky is actually an okay movie this time we have two dolls chucky and his former girlfriend when he was human tiffany together they go on a journey to find an object there are a few interesting scenes through the movie like the guy getting hit by the truck and literally exploding the sex scene between chucky and tiffany and the ending which allows for another sequel to take place wasn't really a straight forward horror it mixed a lot of comedy and was a sort of spoof of the horror genre this made the movie better like comedy does do with many horror movies all up even if your not a child's play fan give this one a go
1	i was expecting this to be just like the others tries to be scary ends up looking silly somewhere along the line the writers must have realised this and so took the film in a totally different direction basically ignoring the other films this feels like a different film rather than the fourth entry in the child's play series the new idea works making this the best in the series by far
1	okay so this series kind of takes the route of 'here we go again ' week in week out david character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle but what's wrong with that david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there and certainly the coolest and to have him in a series created by david a great writer is heaven br br due to the lack of love for this show by many i can't see it going to a season series but you never know the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me let's hope something good can make it past a first series
1	seen all 4 installments this one is by far the best of all i did'nt have much expectation when i got the dvd 3rd was such a drag but to my delight this one was fast paced with some slick punch lines br br don't miss this one
1	the first child's play was an original and effective little horror movie as expected though the 2 horrible sequels seemed to spell the end for this franchise br br well when i heard they were making a 4th one called bride of chucky i just rolled my eyes and muttered a when will they ever learn br br but when i heard that they had gotten a great director ronny yu and a solid cast including the awe inspiring jennifer tilly my interest in it perked up br br this film is extremely well done it has a great sense of humor highly stylized graphic violence great cinematography and the stunningly sexy jennifer tilly strutting her most impressive stuff during the first half i should add that she is also a fantastic actress as well br br it keeps it's tongue firmly in cheek without veering into campy territory the doll effects are great and the verbal interplay between them is priceless it's more of a horror comedy than straight horror but the humor is welcome and well integrated br br i've already heard that they're planning a son of chucky if they can match the quality of this film than maybe this franchise will have made a legitimate comeback br br rating 8 5
1	i´m from germany so please excuse my style of writing as i´ve seen chucky 4 for the first time i was a bit surprised i knew chucky as a usual 80s but bride of chucky was very different from the old ones first there is the artwork of the very good director ronny yu who we still have in mind from a chinese ghost story his visual style is in a wired kinda way comparable to francis ford coppola also the voices of chucky an tiff are very impressive i´ve also liked the screenplay very much especially the scene in which tiff throws the in the br br i give it a 9 0 vote for funny gory and progressive entertainment if you have any comments on my opinion just send me an e mail
1	chucky is back but this time he is not scary a lot but he is funny br br when chucky is brought back to life in the doll of course by his old trailer trash girlfriend tiffany he promptly kills her and transforms her into a doll too tiffany and chucky are now on the case of 2 high school graduates br br don't miss this film it is a whole lot of fun it is scary funny weird wacky and stupid all in one br br my rating 9 10
1	i've commented once on this chucky great but i had to do it again to say some things about the film when i first saw it in a great balcony in a great theater the film was a lot of fun in the theater and my first chucky film ever in a theater and that was a special moment for me because i cherish chucky the other horror villains are referenced with great coolness and the gore was shockingly great the scene where the gay kid gets nailed by the truck was amazingly cheerful that was a great gore scene and the ending was so bizarre and shocking it made me s my pants the idea of having the seed of chucky was very very bizarre and shocking when i left the theater i just loved it and i could'nt believe it was real the bizarre and different qualities of this child's play installment for some reason made me mark it as the jason goes to hell of the child's play series it just had that intensely shocking bizarre and different quality that reminded me of jason goes to hell a sure out of here's how i rank the series 1 4 2 3 i loved it but not quite as much as tom holland's original child's play classic i can't wait for seed of chucky bring it on
1	the movie doesn't take itself seriously and if you follow its lead you're going to have a lot of fun as long as you don't mind your murders served up really bloody and your horror topped with extra cheese br br this film winks an eye at every horror fan and then gives them the finger it knows it sucks and because of that it's far and away the best of the child's play series br br it plays up the stoopid humor angle so well you find yourself doing more than just laughing at it but with it and trust me the whole time you're laughing it's laughing back br br
1	i would say 'bride of is a return to greatness but the series was never really great very good 1 was 2 3 were throwaways and i think this 4th installment is equal to or even better than the first movie and it contains the best subtitle tagline chucky gets lucky so he does in the role of jennifer tilly who thoroughly rejuvenated this series as jeri ryan did for 'star trek voyager ' tilly didn't just create a presence she added much needed humor back story drama tension and a great little sidekick play thing for chucky and as much as i liked her in the feature she can't get all the credit the props watch the first 1 2 minutes for horror homages the writing the inside jokes again the opening pinhead and chucky lines were great in fact if this were a movie it would take 3 4 sequels just to do it justice among others mercifully chucky and the series has given up on andy the hide the soul quest and just settled for a new way out of his body he teams up with his ex tilly whom he transfers into a bride doll and a couple of bonnie clyde teens really heigl to regain this pendant buried with chucky's human corpse this is for any chucky fan 1980s slasher horror fans or even to those who's never seen any of the previous films it's funny dark harmless gory – but not over the top and despite tilly's literal 20 minutes of screen time it's always great to see her after all you barely see her play poker anymore side note of course i picked up on the superman reference – hackensack nj
1	sexy murderess tiffany jennifer tilly still yearns for a life of wedded bliss with ex boyfriend crazed killer charles lee ray after getting her hands on the mutilated good guy doll that last played host to his spirit and doing a spot of repair work she conducts a satanic ritual that returns his life to the toy br br unfortunately for poor tiff the reanimated maniac shows no interest in marriage and so she traps him in a cage with a bride doll for company eventually a rather angry chucky voiced by brad dourif escapes his confines electrocutes tiffany in the bath and traps her soul in his as retribution br br realising that they are now both in the same predicament the plastic pair put their differences aside and decide to head for hackensack new jersey where they can lay their hands on the magical amulet that can relocate their spirits into human hosts tricking trailer park hunk jesse nick and his tasty girlfriend jade katherine heigl into taking them to their destination the psycho dolls embark on a murderous rampage with their unwitting companions copping the blame br br although the idea of a kid's doll being possessed by the spirit of a mass murderer has always been rather comical it wasn't until the fourth film in the child's play series that the makers fully embraced the sheer lunacy of the premise opting to plays things much more for laughs than for scares although there is still plenty of ott splatter for us gore hounds to enjoy br br talented hong kong director ronny yu oversees proceedings deftly translating the witty tongue in cheek script into a slick and thoroughly enjoyable cinematic ride similarly the excellent cast handle the camp material perfectly with and heigl making a likable couple but smoking hot tilly stealing the show as blonde buxom pouting pvc mini temptress tiffany kevin impressively expressive doll effects also go a long way to making the film such a success br br overall this film is unlikely to find many fans amongst horror aficionados but those who enjoy the odd spot of mindless popcorn entertainment full of twisted black humour crazy death scenes and magnificent should have a blast
1	this is a 100 improvement over the dross of a third movie and it's one hell of a good time this is a john hughes movie meets the devil's rejects i really enjoyed this movie and it really stands out as the savior of the series i thought jennifer tilly played tiffany really well and brad dourif in chucky's shoes once again really makes this movie shine actually they're the only good parts of the movie i got rather bored with katherine heigl and nick scenes it's as if they were thrown in there as a sidetrack and someone to save the day but chucky and tiffany were great to watch and i really liked the black humor to it i thought it made the movie stand out more if you want one hell of a good time then be sure to check this out br br 7 10
1	great movie chucky is by far the funniest character in a movie jennifer tilly tiffany makes this movie even better well before chucky died tiffany and him were together but like ten years later tiffany gets chucky back as a doll and brings him back to life it was a great movie scary and definetly funny only because chucky 10 10
1	i like hack think the lone ranger reincarnated as a 2000s cab driver a decent but flawed guy in philadelphia doing his best while seeking to work out issues from a troubled past and you've got the synopsis david morse is nearly perfect as he helps people but instead of riding silver in the old west he drives a cab through the mean streets of contemporary philly without handing out silver bullets the supporting cast is first class and well above average at times the witty dialog almost reaches the level of that 70s classic series the rockford files this show deserves a return hopefully in a better time slot than 9pm friday eastern
1	this is a good film for die hard chucky fans okay i'm sure it's not as good as what the child's play movie were like but this can get really funny and enjoyable chucky's laughs are hilarious br br spoilers br br now not one doll but two meaning double the impact jennifer tilly played the part really well and definitely pulled off the best kill of the movie br br if you have seen the child's play movies this would be a worthy film on your chucky collection but if you've never seen the child's play movies before this'll will be a new start of course you'll not have a clue on how chucky got into his current state cause i'm not telling you but you'll figure out why chucky is very popular br br overall a very enjoyable movie
1	chucky's back and it's about time this time with the help of jennifer tilly and a little spell from voodoo for dummies well at least with this installment the camp is back this was the more gruesome of this series so far it has some good twists and some good action scenes br br this one was by far the most fun of the series and successfully if unintentionally bridges the gap between pure horror to horror comedy br br i am looking forward to seed of chucky it'll be a hoot br br jesus the music scene's gone to h3ll since i've been dead chucky br br we needed the levity as the doll thing's getting old the added comedic element and the better action scenes brings this one back up to equal the quality of the first when the idea was fresh and new ish br br 6 8 10 from br br the fiend
1	chucky the murderous doll from child's play and 2 crappy sequels is dead but his ex girlfriend tiffany jennifer tilly gets his remains and using voodoo for dummies revives him then through circumstances too convoluted to get into she is killed and has her soul put into another doll together they fall in love and kidnap a nice couple nick katherine heigl to take them to chuck's coffin to get an amulet to make chucky and tiffany real people again br br a lot better than it sounds after the last two sequels to child's play both of which were horrible i was expecting the worst but this actually was lots of fun the movie doesn't take itself seriously for a second seriously how could it and the lines and situations are actually quite funny also there are a few very gory murders thrown in to satisfy us horror fans and the film never stops moving the movie also has a few things usually not found in a horror movie a gay best friend gordon michael who is intelligent and not played for laughs and a sequence in which has his shirt off just to show his muscular body john ritter has a nice cameo too as a sheriff br br the acting is good is young very handsome and likable heigl doesn't have much to do but pulls it off and brad dourif the voice of chucky and tilly are hilarious as the murderous dolls my favorite part is when the dolls have sex don't ask and she asks for a rubber and he responds but i'm made of rubber the special effects are good no lousy cgi here and this is one of the few horror films to mix humor and violence in an entertaining way well worth seeing i give it a 9
1	bride of chucky starts late one night as officer bob bailey vince sneaks into the evidence room at his police station amongst all the horror film in joke props he steals the remains of the chucky doll that serial killer charles lee ray possessed way back in the original child's play 1988 he drives the remains to an isolated area where ray's ex girlfriend tiffany jennifer tilly slashes bailey's throat takes the remains back to her trailer there tiffany stitches staples chucky voiced by brad dourif back together again using a 'voodoo for book brings him back to murderous life thing don't go as tiffany had hoped chucky turns out not to be the man of her dreams after all so she locks him in a play pen at which chucky is less than happy while tiffany takes a bath chucky escapes electrocutes her using that book brings her back to life in the shape of a female doll dressed as a bride neither want to be stuck in plastic bodies have to work together to get to a cemetery in new jersey where ray's natural body had been buried with the amulet needed to switch their spirits back into human bodies the bodies of tiffany's neighbour jesse nick his girlfriend jade katherine heigl who are both on the run from corrupt uncle chief of police warren kincaid john ritter will do nicely br br directed by ronny yu i love bride of chucky the script by don mancini is great fun very fast moving highly entertaining references plenty of other horror film with good affection from the opening sequence where we see jason voorhees hockey mask from the friday the 13th films freddy krueger's razor blade glove from the a nightmare on elm street series michael myers mask from the halloween franchise to the clips used from bride of frankenstein 1935 when it virtually recreates the same scene bride of chucky never takes itself seriously which is just as well there are lots of one liners self referential gags that scream 1996 made trendy a few years earlier it doesn't seem afraid to poke fun at itself the horror genre in general i love the scene when jesse jade are having a clichéd slushy romantic conversation that chucky hears he makes funny derogatory comments gestures throughout that's not to say that there isn't a damn good film in there as well because there most certainly is director yu manages to create good atmosphere a real sense of fun both human plastic sets of characters are likable shine as each pair suffer their own sets of domestic problems that the trail of corpses that they are leaving behind would obviously cause technically bride of chucky is great for the most part has that big budget polish about it at about 25 000 000 i should hope so the only thing that i will say is that some of the puppet effects by kevin are a little stiff unconvincing i can't remember any cgi scenes in bride of chucky either thankfully the film doesn't neglect the blood gore with a cool slit throat nails blasted into someone's face in presumably a hellraiser 1987 homage people impaled on shards of glass someone being obliterated by a huge truck a ripped off lip piercing various stabbings gunshots the acting is pretty good dourif as chucky is very funny as he spouts the one liners out i also like the scenes with tiffany at the beginning find her very sexy when she's wearing all that fetish gear i can't be the only one surely i personally think bride of chucky is a fantastic film total entertainment from start to finish great humour horror in equal measure at only 85 minutes long it never becomes boring or dull a personal favourite of mine watch it as soon as you can
1	bride of chucky is one of the better horror movies to come out in the past ten years and could be one of the best horror films of the 90's br br spoilers br br chucky's girlfriend tiffany jennifer tilly manages to find his battered remains after being sucked into the fan at the end of part 3 and brings him to life in her trailer park her neighbor jessie nick and his girlfriend jade katherine heigl are being tormented by her uncle john ritter tiffany upsets chucky when he refuses to marry her so she buys a doll for him to play with chucky kills tiffany and then transfers her soul into the doll she got him in order for them to be placed back into human bodies they have to travel to new jersey to retrieve an amulet to do so jessie sees this as an opportunity to escape from ritter and they set out on the journey but not before ritter is killed by chucky and tiffany along the way several bizarre incidents force them to stop at a bed and breakfast when several more people are killed they call up their best friend gordon to straighten out the situation they convince him neither one of them are the killers as the police have began to solve the crimes he finds ritter's body in a trunk in the back of the van thinking he has been set up he confronts them about it chucky and tiffany then turn real to prove they did it which gets killed the group steals a motor home and arrives at the cemetery jessie and jade get chucky and tiffany to turn on each other giving them enough to escape chucky recaptures jade and forces her to get his amulet chucky and tiffany restart their feud which gives jessie and jade enough time to kill the both of them as the police arrive and clears them of the crimes br br the good news i have to give the most amount of props to the fx department as chucky and tiffany as dolls look completely convincing the scenes with them together are the movies main highlights including a hilarious conversation where tiffany advises chucky on how serial killers in the 90's work that being said the amount of one liners in this movie that are actually funny is incredible chucky gets the most of them but tiffany cracks a few gems as well it is actually funnier than what hollywood calls comedies these days the gore is plentiful and shockingly realistic several deaths in this movie are actually original and creative turning ritter into a new form of pinhead was a totally brilliant scene the couple was a nice death scene as well for teenage love the pairing of and heigl works great they have a great chemistry together and actually behave like a normal couple i also have to admit that the first time i saw this movie i did jump during certain scenes and that shows what an incredible job director yu did he learned enough apparently to do the same thing with freddy vs jason he knows how to stage set ups and pay offs and here he shows some great skills that have a hong kong influenced look and style he could be the next great horror director if he keeps filling up his resume with films like those two nice soundtrack too like freddy vs jason br br the bad news for fans of cheesy movies this will be a great find however this film has a high cheese factor that may prevent the serious horror movie fan from having a good time enjoying this film the film knows it is a cheesy movie and revels in it making a serious fan turned off because of things like the one liners it isn't all that bad of a movie but it has to be watched in the mind frame that it is a cheesy movie and that the cheesiness of certain scenes add to the movie not to take it away remove yourself from that state of mind and you may find yourself enjoying this movie br br the final verdict fans of cheesy movies and the other child's play movies will find a lot to like about this movie for serious horror fans take a look at it but keep in mind that it isn't a serious movie and that the cheesiness is supposed to be there and you might find yourself liking it br br rated r graphic violence graphic language brief nudity on a doll a shadowy puppet sex scene some drug use and numerous drug references
1	remember back when this movie was made by robert downey senior a very good entertaining black awareness feature which was an underground hit in california los angeles and new york at the time a hippy loved classic where changes which occur in the business world are striking refreshing and interesting comedy non compliant not like basic society at the time of 1969 now watched is still very good but today's life in america totally diferent from 69 good for the baby boomers
1	the movie starts with a board meeting at a major advertising agency is on the board for no other reason than the fact that he is black and the agency needs a token on the board is ignoring the meeting reading jet magazine at the big table and everybody is ignoring suddenly the ceo on the spot no time is wasted a janitor is called to haul off the corpse and the board immediately and unceremoniously tackles the business of electing a new ceo and as the votes are one by one the tension is built up and then finally snapped in a hilariously ironic climax to the vote that gives the viewer a delicious dish of logical implications to savor for the rest of the movie if you've ever talked back to some stupid television commercial you'll like seeing this movie too bad there don't seem to be any real in the world
1	a twist of fate puts a black man at the head of an old school white bred advertising firm and he intends to make a few changes br br one very strange piece of cinema you'll either love it or hate it either way you've never seen anything like it
1	i have to admit i had never heard of this movie i caught it last night on tmc i thought it was hysterical i laughed so hard and loved the ending image what a marx brothers movie would like if they collaborated with dali and x and then all dropped lsd br br funny and edgy are two overused words these days this movie sure has that plus about 200 iq points of most comedies today and surrealistic to boot i had to be up at 6 00 am and watched it until 2 30 i over slept and missed my obligations still worth it i would not recommend renting it i would recommend owning it it was that good br br the only warning i have is that so of the references are dated and might not be gotten by younger people bare with it and use your head br br i would have to put it in my top comedies of all time
1	sure the film is full of black militant stereotypes and much of the jargon of the time in that sense the movie has indeed dated but as a satirical look at america's number one parasitical industry advertising it's still on target but just as important is the counter message namely the effect of big bucks on those who would make the industry more socially promoting war toys alcohol etc thus the movie's also about the allures of capitalism note for example how garb suddenly changes to resemble third world revolutionary fidel's just before he pulls out of the firm for a moment it looks like mini revolution has succeeded among his staff and he's moving on maybe to spread the movement but then the former militants succumb to the allure of big bucks and he departs shaking his head perhaps to hijack a plane to cuba downey's final word however is an ironical one as the arab i believe burns down the money tower leaving the metaphorical structure of advertising capitalism a smoking ruin to me this looks like change can only succeed as a cleansing act of destruction and not as a process of message consistent with the radical spirit of the time br br whatever the subtext there are some genuinely funny moments especially with the commercials that play as well now as they did then those who compare the anarchic style to that of the marx bros make a good point the throw away lines fly thick and fast along with the outrageous set ups forty years later it's still a hard movie to get a consistent handle on despite the however the film remains a work of daring originality with some genuinely telling moments
1	i love this show it's clever and very well acted david morse and andre braugher have great chemistry the writing is clever and subplots generally give great comic relief after every new episode i'm always amazed how thought provoking and at the same time entertaining this show is my only complaint would be donna murphy's absence at this point in the second season as david morse ex wife heather she added such character to the show br br i think this show is a credit to the crime drama genre with that said i can not for the life of me understand why this show has such a low rating would someone please who gave this show a 1 rating back it up with a critique
1	is a unique low low low budget gem from the late 1960's which probably would have been forgotten in time if it hadn't been for two things paul thomas anderson who named don cheadle's character in boogie nights buck after the eponymous hero of this film and the limited dvd release watching is like listening to hardcore punk rock it may not make a lot of sense at least to me it didn't upon watching it for the first time but you have to respect the film for its passion and unabashedly rebellious message i didn't understand a lot of things about but for the most part i liked it the more i think about the movie the more it grows on me br br the film is advertised as a parody of new york's madison avenue best known in the 1960's as the advertising capital of the world members of generation x and y may be lost on this concept but fortunately mad men is on tv to provide us with this otherwise lost piece of u s history what you need to know before watching this movie is that these ad agencies were largely male and even more largely white establishments br br with this premise in mind the movie opens up with an ad agency board meeting the members are predominantly white except for arnold johnson who bears an uncanny resemblance to dick gregory in this film the token african american on the board the board members are so self absorbed and soulless that when their chairman falls dead in front of them their only concern is who will become chairman next without even removing the body from the boardroom they begin a paper ballot to elect the next chairman br br is elected by a landslide but not because the other members think is qualified voting for was an ill fated attempt for these board members to sabotage any other member's chance of being elected chairman with their plans backfired takes charge and sink s the boat firing all but one of the original members and hiring all people of color in their place br br after this point the film became for me very weird and hard to follow plot wise there may not have even been a plot really the whole idea of the film seems to be a what if scenario with the result being that the new truth and soul inc firm would be unconventional but successful nonetheless the firm ends up making so much money that the members build a huge glass case to keep the cash in for unexplained purposes it could be because doesn't trust banks although that point is not touched upon or explained in the film it could also be metaphoric in some way but who knows br br most of the movie takes place inside the ad agency with occasional scenes in the white house with a president who for some unknown reason is a midget my assumption is here that some political joke was being made but i can't figure out what were the filmmakers saying that the president is a small insignificant part of american life were they saying that the latest elected officials nixon at the time were insignificant candidates i don't know i found it a bit eerie however that the man playing the president bore a striking resemblance to future president ronald reagan it is funny to make that connection 40 years after the movie was made br br what this film may have benefited from is showing how consumers outside the ad agency reacted to the new ads of course the ad footage possessed a strange funny appeal for its unconventional creativity but did these ads convince people to buy the product if so how the movie hinted on the idea that the new ad campaign was successful through client interaction and the calls from the white house however it would have been revealing to see average people since that demographic has always been most profitable for advertisers br br although the parodies and political messages this film may have made probably didn't stand the test of time this film still had a lot of unique qualities arnold johnson had a magnetic x factor to him that benefited him greatly in this film rough voice was actually director robert downey sr 's voice dubbed in sometimes poorly but fit the character so well in being an authoritative outsider he hires and fires workers at random but earns the respect of all but one of the employees for the ad agency and seeking out new ideas br br the premise of the film was and still is incredibly risky especially since the film was written and directed by a white man robert downey sr however this film declines to fall victim to negative black stereotypes which would lead to the rise and fall of the blaxploitation genre years later although some of the sex scenes may be a bit off putting for some viewers the main message is that a black owned and operated business can thrive through innovation and risk taking many people may not take a positive message away from this movie but i just did br br remains an overlooked movie from a strange era and downey sr even despite his son's recent comeback never quite got the recognition as a director he deserved however if you find a dvd of this movie buy it and watch it if it's on netflix ditto it's a movie that can be confusing at times but is worth watching for its gusto ambition and its non conformist stature even by today's movie standards
1	this movie got better with time i can't believe that it has been forty years since i saw this at the age of 15 yes that's right movie ratings were not yet a reality so any teenager could walk into any movie imagine what it was like for a kid my age to see both midnight cowboy and in the same year imagine the times bobby kennedy and martin luther king has just been killed but the following summer had a man walking on the moon and woodstock was the woodstock nation's chance to stick it to the man you'll see where robert downey jr got his sardonic brilliance his old man was an instant hero to kids like me no punches are pulled in this classic and aging hippies will rejoice when they relive this era hopefully new flower children will be emboldened by it and this current era of fascism will come under the same scrutiny my era was subjected to
1	1969 was the year new york city was the place was the second robert downey film to achieve some recognition the first was elbows 1966 achieved a much wider release pound 1970 and palace 1972 were even more profane and obnoxious those 2 films were mean spirited to the point that they actually stalled the prince's feature film career for several years br br the subject at hand is and it is a mad farce satire that has to be seen to be believed i'm not going to go through the plot here what plot people looking for a plot are going to be scratching their heads keep scratching this film is not about plot one could compare this to a mel brooks movie only without the hollywood parody party that mel always threw i also see a little bit of monty python in this by the way this film was shot before monty had debuted on the bbc br br i notice that the gags and lines that are drop dead hilarious do not transfer well by word of mouth you have to see them within the context of the film there are some flaws in the film but even the flaws are unique for instance actors often repeat the same line over and over again and somehow it works how many syllables mario says the six girl has got to have soul etc br br the b w photography is outstanding the sound score is even better the editing is only so so the acting is above average the script is priceless the jokes are as un pc as you can get mr bad news says sonny williams just got caught in a motel with a 13 year old girl says well at least he's not superstitious uptight conservatives beware the anti establishment mindset of this film will drive you straight out of the room nothing is sacred br br there are many things in this film that pertain to today no smoking reverse racism with african americans treating caucasions like trash the manipulation of mass media over the masses madison avenue hollywood intentionally pedaling something that any 8 year old can tell is pure garbage the internet i'm talking about the drum interracial dating i could go on and on br br i should also mention that there is about 8 min of this film that was shot in 16 mm color these are the commercials shot by agency the spots work fairly well the first time around they get tiresome though on repeated viewings the real magic here is within the b w sections of the film it's the non lines they stay with you rent yourself a schmuck i love you i love you i love you did you take your pill anything that i have to say would just be redundant and a host of others i also really like the bit with the mounted up on the wall the game warden wanted me to throw it back i put up such a fight i decided to have it mounted br br standouts in the cast include buddy as bodyguard 1 he should have been a much bigger star antonio fargas as the arab he did go on to stardom on tv and in films arnold johnson has the right look as robert downey used his own voice instead because arnold couldn't remember some of his lines also downey realized that he could fill in any additional dialog jokes later on if he dubbed his lead actor br br the film does have some shortcomings the short run time is one i wish the beginning with the white board members would have been extended stan and allen garfield are outstanding the ending seams to have been thrown together as if he just couldn't think of any more gags all in all this is one of the best low budget independent films of it's time a time when very few played outside of new york chicago san francisco and l a anyone who loves satire and comedy should see this at least twice downey's is ahead of and beyond it's time
1	when someone refers to the independent cinema realm in the united states it's often inferred that it means the filmmaker or people behind the project had much more creative freedom and did what they wanted this today is not really always the case unless someone is a solid auteur and creative freedom still comes with the caveat that one has to find distribution with one of the independent divisions of major studios or by getting picked up somehow for some kind of low level deal at a worthwhile film festival but robert downey film about a tough as nails african american accidentally promoted to head advertising guru at a production company is independent cinema the kind of work that went right along with the likes or romero's night of the living dead and cassavetes faces at the same time of getting no real typical studio distribution but causing waves kicking ass and taking names in the cinema world for all its moments that are rough and crude it's unforgettable br br it's also a film that is funny very and excruciatingly funny sometimes the sense of humor is just so ridiculous it's nearly impossible not to laugh from the mere appearance of the president with his wife to lines of dialog from the advertisements team puts together like i can't eat an air conditioner in a real soul voice it is as smart as the audience it is aiming at which is anyone with two brain cells to put together who can see that this work isn't offensive or too shocking because it's meant to rattle the cage and it does this pretty well in the first five minutes once that's past downey sr goes on his blitz of sorts as far as being a filmmaker with nothing to lose his protagonist is part fidel castro part isaac hayes circa 1972 and yes it's 1969 in the film and part hard assed ad exec with a firing streak to make mr on the jetsons look kind and don't forget those side characters dear god br br there's so many memorable lines and moments that it's hard to keep track from maybe the most hilarious botched assassination attempt in any movie to the one ad for face off skin cream that includes lines that would give south park a run for its dirty mouth money to just little asides with the one guy from jack hill's movies playing the muslim who keeps giving lip to and that one boy with the the nun who curses up a storm and impresses in a swift stroke it's a pretty direct message about media and advertising but there's also a lot of powerful moments where it just hits the nail on the head about racism in america sometimes without having to do more than a gesture and sometimes with doing something huge like having black panther types going this way and that around advertising regime and for a low budget production i mean super low hence the comparison to night of the living dead and faces downey got some really good actors all non union and it's hard to imagine that some of them might have had their first time on camera here br br it should be mentioned that downey's style doesn't make it perfect it is crude and sometimes too crazy and dated for its own good and i'm sure i didn't get some of the underlying humor of a couple of the ads since i'm from a full generation after these ads were aired albeit the miss redneck jersey was definitely not lost on me in general though this is one of the finest of its time period a satire that stings and a feature with a predominantly black cast that is all too knowing of what comes from an excess of power regardless of skin color it is as someone might say good s
1	i saw this movie in its brief run in art house cinema in '69 i found it so funny that i literally spent part of the movie on the floor having laughed so hard i fell out of my seat in retrospect years later i thought it had been done by melvin van peebles when i mentioned it to a friend he said that a friend of his downey sr filled virtually every non acting role in the flick director writer producer etc he was right of course and my memory was wrong except that this was one of the movies ever made the part of the arab was particularly priceless
1	i thought i might be disappointed viewing this film again after so many years on the contrary i was more impressed now than in my callow youth with its honesty and brave humour in 1969 the transition among african american groups from a predominant policy of and integration to one of confrontation and self determination was still quite new and more than a little controversial it took courage and finesse to portray both the establishment and the anti establishment as the caricatures they often closely in real life special mention should be made of arnold johnson's performance he successfully avoided having his character lapse into either sociopathy or buffoonery i'd rather watch this than to sir with love any old day
1	if you get a chance to get a hold of this lost for many years gem i doubt you will be disappointed ps has an odd blend of social satire and ultra cool blaxploitation even hints of slapstick but it's so odd that it was not only ahead of it's time nothing has been seen like it since br br i strongly disagree with people who say that the film is dated especially with spike lee's sp a few years back which was a misfire of trying to capture the same message good filmmaking disjointed script br br robert direction is brilliant allowing many of his actors to improvise the film gets better as it goes along and the jokes swagger from hit or miss one liners that are as forgiven as those found in a mel brooks comedy to sheer non pc 'i can't believe they just said that' fun br br favorite parts the commercials the film switches from gritty black and white depictions of the ad agency to beautiful perhaps 16mm color and gets away with it br br i refuse to hint at any spoilers but if you get the chance to see the dvd version be sure and watch the downey interview but leave it until after the movie br br my vote 10 10 most underrated film of the late 60's early 70's thank you prince
1	i can't say how many times that one line has made me laugh or how often i've described that scene to folks not familiar with this film i saw it the year it was released i was 19 i don't think there were a dozen people in that east village theater that night for years i thought we were the only ones who saw it nice to see here that others found it as hysterical as i had and see it's lasting value despite the time gone by rent it buy it or steal it a must see
1	made at the height of the black power movement this movie portrays african american arnold johnson getting made ceo of a corporation after the white ceo dies the white executives all hate each other and can't decide who should succeed the previous ceo once in power he decides to turn it into a militant organization br br i don't know how robert downey sr did it but he did it is the ultimate jab at america's power structure it's the sort of thing that seems like it would have come out of richard pryor's mind this is a comedy classic in every sense of the word a real masterpiece hilarious
1	this film had about everything one could wish when viewing it originally at the end of the 1960's decade it was immensely entertaining and provided a contemporary view of the many changes which had occurred during that period and were still ongoing in terms of the black power movement vietnam and the volatile movement which followed the quieter preceding postwar 1950's br br all of this and one of the funniest films then or now br br viewing it for the second time recently i was surprised to find it as engrossing as when seen originally its humor is as funny and its message as strong br br and in viewing it now you get all of this while at the same time gaining the added enjoyment of its being a period piece and a superb chronicling of its this historic turbulent time
1	i am sick of series with young and clueless people talking about their problems all the time self centered boring and absolutely annoying popular dawson's creek beverly hills etc hack is a breath of fresh air with a great actor david morse a completely different plot credible people with real problems thank god and very very good histories i just love it i hope hack will go on for a long time because it is a great television series for grown up people for a change
1	this movie shows that the free enterprise system and the quest for the almighty buck transcends all racial and ethnic barriers ultimately the market place determines the message that is sent to the public this movie dramatizes that point a conservative white collar advertising company is taken over by a group of street wise african americans by a no nonsense black man who wants to make a buck and believes he can sell products by telling the the truth but the movie shows that no matter how hard he tries to do something different the market place and the political system demands that he conform rendering him no different than his predecessors interesting off beat movie
1	is the story of a token black man on the board of directors of a large advertising firm who is accidentally voted chairman of the board when the owner of the firm keels over while trying to stutter out an idea that he was apparently quite excited about of course takes his new role to heart and fires most everyone in the agency hires a new crew all black except for a token white guy and proceeds to crank out the most offensive and non pc commercials one could ever ask for now it's a rather motley crew he has and despite that they somehow manage to be successful while raking in the cash i rather like the scene where potential advertisers are being relieved of bags of cash and then told to get out and their commercials will follow later like them or not the story is good but of course the highlight here is the nasty commercials themselves especially the one for face off acne cream this is rather dated but still a fun movie and full of hilarious moments robert downey sr was working for an ad agency doing experimental ads at the time and i guess this was his middle finger to madison avenue agencies very good and pretty damned funny 8 out of 10
1	certainly one of the most hilarious films of all time excellent original music clever heady it's hard to be articulate about something this good there isn't one character that you don't instantly love to watch there's trouble in the black room my name is rufus the lines thrown away left and right are classics themselves recalling caddyshack anchorman repoman dolemite any comedy whose dialog is not of the formulaic set up punchline variety called you tasteless my organization is pro integration where's lopez in my head' they don't sound brilliant until you hear them in the context of the scene this movie will eat your brain it's too good i've read reviews calling this film racist which couldn't be farther from the truth every scene is gold from the cereal commercial to the brothers in the black room meeting to that haunting trumpet in the closing scene one word genius
1	and are part of an dying breed of political film makers the swedish population should appreciate that they try to uncover the truth when the government and media actively distorts and cover up the events surrounding the eu meeting in gothenburg it is absolutely heartbreaking to see how these innocent kids have been abused and drugged by the swedish police and convicted to prison in political trials for sending text messages and as revenge for others actions the only unfortunate thing about this movie is that it will not reach the broad masses in sweden as it will only be shown it theaters and not be released on video or aired on television br br the political film is important as it can bring new perspectives and insight into complex issues and has a role to play as an educator of the masses
1	this documentary focuses on the happenings in gothenburg 2001 in swedish media the demonstrators where pictured as criminals that stood for anarchy and violence this movie shows that there not actually they are intelligent articulate people that has something to say and says it by the force of bricks they believe in a better world a world where people can think and say what they want without being aimed at but are their beliefs of having the possibility of changing the society realistic i think not br br this documentary gives us enlightenment in the issues of greed capitalism and the future it might bring it is a great documentary that is not propaganda because it is not shown as what they say is right everything it shows is what some individuals think and it is up to the viewer to decide if what they do and stand for is right or wrong br br i have heard many people that labels this a propaganda and therefor chooses not to view it i think they are making a bad decision because even if you sympathize with the police or the demonstrators belief all you get is more facts to rely on for example the kid that got shoot says that he thinks that it is good to throw a brick through a mcdonalds window because it is the step between thinking and acting as you think br br overall this movie freaked me out because you cannot really dismiss the facts that the few policemen that fought violence with violence did not get convicted or even detained in custody even however the proof of them throwing bricks at the demonstration march and in some cases beating people with even though they are lying on the street without making resistance where as good as it gets br br rating 8 10 very good but not best
1	at times the mainstream news media seems to be driven by a bunch of no brain reporters in that they just listen to each other and report what others report br br this documentary shows what can be found if some more effort is put into the task of reporting about something br br true journalism should be about providing the people with different perspectives on things that happen so that they have a fair chance of creating an own opinion br br this documentary together with mainstream media reports will help you with this at least for me it provided a lot of relevant information regarding the purpose motivation behind the nowadays frequent world wide protests at different political
1	this is a film that everyone who lives in sweden should watch the film shows the political riots who took place in gothenburg in 2001 from a new perspective it features interviews with those who were convicted where those people gets the first chance after the riots to tell their side of the story and why they think the world can be a so much better place to live in and be a part of i react emotionally when i see this since i just feel so mad about how those people were treated both during the riots but also after the riots br br i hope as many as possible gets to see this movie as it really gets your mind thinking is this possible in sweden a democracy in 2001
1	i watch tons of movies and had no idea this would be as good as it was i was looking forward to it after reading the plot even though i find nirvana overrated it sounded like it would be tons of fun but it was more than that jansen puts in little touches like the books kubrick book among others movie posters etc i like when i see a director takes his time and put his heart into a film and you can really feel that in this there are tons of scenes and moments that i love i am trying to think now of some other films that are like this and i would say the only thing i can think of are cameron crowe films takes little moments and makes them stand out and special the soundtrack is amazing and each song works perfectly with the scenes and feel of the film this film is amazingly shot and the editing is outstanding i could really go on and on about the film i cannot recommend this enough really if you want a fun story with great tunes from a director who clearly put his heart into his work then check this out
1	i especially liked the ending of this movie i really felt what the characters must have felt which i think is a mark of good directing i was tickled with how the new hire at the record store turned out great character development there even though his role would probably be considered minor br br i was also impressed that the entire film while dark in its subject matter was free from gratuitous nudity profanity and violence sadness sexuality and darkness can all be communicated often better by what is left unsaid but it seems that this is often unique to really classy films and actors kudos to the film maker for that
1	where do we go from here that is the overriding question of this film and make no mistake etc ' the 2003 effort from director john jansen asks far more questions than it answers but none so poignantly or so powerfully as this one br br much of the the film plays like a running conversation between you and your college drinking buddies and i'm sure many of the questions raised by the main characters you'll recognize from your own evenings of drunken debauchery however one of the many beauties of this film is that we are rarely given an answer questions are raised – everything from the mundane to the profound – but jansen skillfully forces his audience to examine and answer these questions ourselves with little to no help from the characters br br side 1 opens with an increasingly complex and beautifully orchestrated arrangement of non linear segments to introduce us to the main characters we meet them on the morning of april 8 1994 – the day kurt cobain committed suicide and it is the death of cobain and the journey to his wake two days later in seattle that serve as the backdrop for the film in exploring life music and death the characters attempt with varying degrees of success to understand and come to terms with their own lives br br there are some aspects of the film that are what you might expect from a low budget indie film the performances range from decidedly mediocre to outstanding with the strongest performances coming from jessica scott holly and noel wood daniel some of the dialogue is admittedly a bit stiff but never completely strays into the unreal and there are some minor sound problems particularly once we get on the road that make it difficult at times to follow the action on screen br br but despite its shortcomings etc ' is a solid deeply affecting piece of cinema amid moments of haunting poignancy laugh out loud humor and intimate turmoil jansen deftly weaves all of the character threads together and illuminates their own struggles while at the same time making them accessible and engaging for us and because we can see reflections of ourselves in one or more of these characters we can identify with the questions and issues they're struggling with and we're able to look back and remember where we were on that day in 1994 when for many people the world changed br br while jansen takes credit for the writing editing and direction of the film kudos must be given to his photography as well with an uncanny eye and amazing ability to capture and draw us into each of the characters' worlds jansen managed to produce shot after shot after shot that stuck with me long after the credits rolled br br and no review of this film would be complete without a nod to the amazing soundtrack the music in this film is used to amazing effect at times subtly underscoring the action at other times taking center stage but never getting in the way or deteriorating into kitschy music video the soundtrack plays like the ultimate greatest hits though i suspect that label would probably not sit very well with the director br br the new double dvd archive edition offers some deleted scenes trailers music videos and a cobain documentary the deleted scenes offer some insight into the making of the film through alternate opening and closing sequences and it's certainly a treat to have the rare and beautiful raining kind video the cobain documentary is fine if a bit worse for wear and certainly more extensive documentaries are available for the hardcore fans conspicuously absent is a director commentary and i can't help but wonder if jansen has plans to re release this at some point with that tasty tidbit attached br br suffice to say that the next time you're looking for a strong piece of work from a talented filmmaker i recommend you get on board
1	david morse and andre braugher are very talented actors which is why i'm trying so hard to support this program unfortunately an irrational plot and very poor writing is making it difficult for me i'm hoping that the show gets a serious overhaul or that the actors find new projects that are worthy of them
1	as an english teacher i appreciate films that do more than tell a story good films like good literature cause one to think reflect and predict this film made me do all three mr jansen takes risks and uses foreshadowing symbolism and interesting turning points for many of his characters i also likes the fact that despite the choices the characters make in the film their choices do not seem as adolescent or as other films i have seen the acting is pretty good and the actors seem to share a good chemistry with each other excellent soundtrack with songs you don't hear on the radio it is a reconciling with life spontaneous road trip film that deserves more than just a second glance
1	i saw this film at a small screening even though it had a low budget the creative direction and intelligence of the cast helped make this a small gem of a movie it's april 8 1994 each of the characters are in their mid 20's and pursuing some kind of artistic ambition acting music film writing when they learn of nirvana singer kurt suicide they quickly get inspiration to travel from san francisco to seattle and attend the cobain vigil it's here where the film really picks up and serves up a series of funny and emotional scenes highlights include a visit to jimi grave kurt original childhood home and a campfire sing along an honest an original piece of work
1	great show about time a reality tv show comes along that closes generation gaps contestants range in ages some seem old enough to have watched the movie when it first came out and others looked so young that perhaps parents or teachers handed down the movie hoping it would touch their lives the way it once touch them grease has truly become an american icon grease is a fun and entertaining movie in which the young and old can relate to you're the one that we want is sure to gain even more grease followers the only thing i wish there had been more of is character history then again it is kind of nice to leave some of it to the nostalgic imagination of the 50's cant wait to watch the next show and then on broadway
1	i love the tv contest hate to see it end there are so many talented contestants it's a shame that only 2 will be picked i love watching the judges also at times they are as entertaining as the contestants i have been watching the show faithfully every sunday night wouldn't miss it for the world it's the best reality show that's ever been on television good luck to all the contestants though i have already chosen the two who i would like to see play danny and sandy on broadway i am anxious to see if my decisions are correct i am not aware of how long the contest will go on until a danny and sandy are chosen but i will keep watching until the end
1	this show really is the broadway american idol it has singing the british guy a guy who's sometimes nice and a super nice woman br br of course it is different because there is a sing off and there's dancing and some acting we just don't see some of the acting br br i gave this show a 7 because there are a couple tweaks that i know a lot of people including me would make if they were working for the show the first thing that really needs to be changed is the judges deciding who goes home i know they want to find the right danny and sandy but america should have the power to decide who does home there's really no point to the sing off the person with the lowest number of votes usually goes home anyway another things i'd change is to see them actually act on the show what's broadway without the acting the last thing that need to be changed is the song the eliminated people sing at the end the eliminated danny always sings the same song and the eliminated sandy always sings the same song as they exit since they sing it every week those songs eventually get annoying br br i admit to not being a fan of the movie grease but for some reason i am hooked this show is very underrated it has so many memorable performances and moments
1	as a local performer i thought that grease showcased what broadway producers are looking for and it highlighted a small bit of the acting population although my favorites did not win but came in second i enjoyed comparing myself to them and seeing what i liked and where i could improve as a performer br br they brought in olivia newton john because she is the obvious link between the broadway production and television audiences br br they sang songs from the movie hopelessly devoted et al because these songs will be included in the new production br br i agree with the earlier comment made that the b'way cast looks so much older but you must bear in mind that these are people who have been on broadway and worked their tails off to be there if the entire cast was green and fresh then i believe that would have compromised the casting process by which producers choose their talent
1	i just saw this film and i recommend it it has a very good plot it holds your complete attention the acting is superb tom wilkinson was fantastic and emily watson was also very good a very good film indeed about great and unconditional love tom character is a man who is not prepared for the ordeal that is about to begin but he takes the matter in hand as the story progresses and this great actor gives a performance that makes you feel the character's anguish and suffering emily watson's character is very strong and she has only to give a quick glance and you understand everything i won't say more because it is better for you have to enter the story as it unfolds
1	my husband and i watched this last night it was wonderful for once he was wrong in guessing ahead of time the suspenseful ending it moved along very quickly and the acting was superb i adore tom wilkinson anyway he has never made a bad movie as far as i'm concerned the above description of his acting hits the nail on the head the facial expressions are incredible even the picturesque scenery is awesome we have just finished watched all of the prime suspect series and i am convinced that the british have a way of capturing the audience there is no doubt that i would recommend this movie to anyone who wants to get a few hours of thorough entertainment
1	i have to admit i have a particular penchant for the humor and story telling style of british movies though not all of course succeed br br this film made me think and left me in the end with a quiet smile on my face its about character development and relationships truth and lies and whether love is sometimes simply not enough some very nicely understated acting from all the participants especially the two leads tom wilkinson and emily watson br br there was a lot of fuss made about gosford park but with this piece i feel fellowes has actually produced a better movie though it has not been a mainstream release br br an intelligent mature story about real people who are undeniably flawed but also capable of acts of genuine graciousness
1	fellowe's drama about a couple's marriage which is threatened by a younger third party which interests the wife of the house watson wilkinson plays the role very well as the troubled husband who cant control his wife's cheating and deals with the issue i also like rupert everett a lot in his role as william the man that watson has the affair with although i think emily watson is a great actress i had a bit of a problem with the way her character was written did not make her too likable i know a cheater is not supposed to be likable but some of her actions and things she did had no reasoning behind them the screenplay was perhaps the weak part of this drama although fellowes' direction was good and the performances were also quite good this film is better than unfaithful but not a masterpiece by any means imdb rating 6 7 my rating 8 10
1	i have only see three episodes of hack starring david morse and it looks as though i've missed 37 episodes well thats if itv 3 are showing them in chronological order i've just watched episode 38 i have really enjoyed the 3 episodes but then i'm a david morse fan esp st elsewhere for any one reading this hack is excellent pity its being aired on itv 3 the cast is strong though i cant get used to the idea of david playing a bent cop still we all know he's the good guy wrongly accused i see gary cole has guest starred what ever happened to 'midnight just wonder if hack is available on dvd yet lovin it cheers
1	those who dislike this film seem to think that a loved one somehow to them and must be discarded if they go off with someone else fortunately human nature is much deeper than that loving someone deeply inevitably brings suffering though if we are fortunate only on their death br br this film is true in setting atmosphere and dialogue to nigel original novel 'a way through the wood' and by a seemingly irreconcilable dilemma captures the quiet desperation that lies behind many seemingly idyllic lives and the depiction of english upper class country life is very accurate br br i loved the film and hope it will appear soon as an uk compatible dvd
1	i really liked this movie br br everyone has something to be blamed for everyone is real no heroes or cold omnipotent know all characters br br i read many others viewers here complaining about anne morality and about james will to maintain his love for her despite her cheating on him but i don't agree br br i found anne emily watson absolutely wonderful and i felt love for her br br she was a heavily repressed woman her actions were not planned once she started to break free she was in confusion and did many errors but so it's in real life when you gain freedom you are likely to do errors at the start point br br was she a little too ungrateful maybe but we must remember that she is running with her feet for the first time she knows that james after all is a good man maybe a little too stiff serious and work centered but she also feels the urge to live the life as herself br br is she to blame more than him i think no br br but the turn happening into their lives generates some changes br br james instead of letting his wife go out of his life as other viewers suggested as the right choice bites the bullet and waits hoping for the better he starts to understand that what he superficially though was ok his marriage in reality was a control game played by him on his wife br br this is not a story with characters having over emotional and precarious nature i e the usual clichè latin american or italian jealous guys this is a story of men and women that use both heart and brain br br it can be very painful but if you really love a person women or man and if you are not a terribly unstable nature you are likely to forgive his her cheating and let him her go unless you are a jealous prehistoric crime of passion inclined possessive and mentally individual br br a really good movie the last scene when james despite all the things happened before goes with anne to the train station is really moving she is free and he understood what freedom means for a person br br guido
1	i gave it a seven only because the acting is good and of course by that i mean wilkinson the other two principals were decent but the characters themselves what on earth was so bad about the character wilkinson played james manning i didn't see him behaving like the martinet emily watson accused him of being bill on the other hand was an insufferable jerk who i was praying would meet an extremely brutal and prolonged demise who was i kidding tom wilkinson isn't paul bettany after all so what on earth did emily watson's anne character see in him she herself admitted he was pretty much a piece of offal in his treatment of her why would she even want to be in the same town as him to say nothing of the same room br br i noticed some other reviews one person said she cried at the end to witness james' tragedy what tragedy what you mean losing an imbecile who finds someone like bill amusing give us a break
1	how on earth can people give this movie a low rating unbelievable the performances of wilkinson and watson are so full of merit that i can only imagine that these detractors were weaned on blockbusters and porn if this sounds bad tempered it's because i just wiped my original 400 just now i was so impressed by tom wilkinson all hail the guy this is a performance of considerable subtlety and massive skill his development as an actor from the full monty to this masterpiece of a performance is amazing one of the best things to happen in film making in the last ten years br br emily watson is somewhat less commanding due to that glint in her eye that says 'see me this cheeky woman here you can't guess what i'm going to do next because i don't know either ' it seems to be something she can't help showing us in every role but still she's an actor of terrific ability and presence she is very sexy here as she needs to be and fair play to her for this this is a screen quality that normally for me she doesn't have in previous films br br as you might expect rupert everett required to play an upper class late 30 something who could give at phd level in how not to give a toss about heading to hell on account of total selfishness delivers he is so thin here throughout the movie however i'm worried for him linda housekeeper is also excellent a role but with a major plot twist to deliver she makes you ponder how much talent we have in britain in terms of character acting i want to see more of her br br the narrative arc is fine it's an interesting enough plot given that no one in film making seems to be trying to convince joe public that there's nothing new under the sun though it does stray towards 40s melodrama in the last ' but never mind that this is a terrific 80 minutes worth of anyone who has half a brain's money congrats to julian fellowes on his first directorial effort o how we need more films of substance like this he shows a lot of skill in terms of adapting the original novel telling a story with much effectiveness and subtlety and congrats too on conjuring an immense display of the film actor's art from mr tom wilkinson what a geezer br br t
1	there are so many more complexities to the plot of this wonderful thought provoking movie than just infidelity and cover up of responsibility for the accident i was struck by the initial seeming goodness of husband wilkinson who wanted the driver when he thought it was everett disclosed to the police and the change of heart and morals when he learned it was his wife as well was he indeed good and or was he attempting to redeem self by allowing her to go with rupert then things she decided the right ting to do was admit that she hit him most importantly the theme of redemption for the accident for the infidelity in her own odd flawed way is strongest in watson's care for everett i believe that is why she undertook that effort br br this seems to be a common theme in modern british novels brideshead revisited the end of the affair come to mind love it
1	another great tom wilkinson performance punctuates separate lies a 2005 film also starring emily watson linda bassett and rupert everett directed by julian fellowes it's the story of a married couple james and ann manning where the husband wilkinson believes he and his wife watson are happy together an accident near their house on the night they have a party brings the police around it is a hit and run that killed their maid maggie's bassett husband james becomes suspicious of a neighbor bill everett when he sees some damage on his car he confronts who admits he did it and promises to go to the police the next day when james arrives home ann is angry that he is making such a big deal out of it and states that she was driving the car of course james then isn't so eager to rush to the police she suggests that they call and tell him their decision oh f james says well that's just it ann says i am f ing james' devastation is just the beginning in this well crafted drama without giving the plot away this is a good example of how gender switching changes a story example of what i mean susan smith drives her car into a lake and her children drown she gets life in prison what if the father had done it the chair you'd be surprised how often the outcome would be different the same is true here if it had been james having the affair and doing the subsequent activities viewers might feel differently about the story if ann were in james' place it would be shattering as it is it's tremendously sad br br tom wilkinson is heartbreaking as a man blindsided by the woman he adores and emily watson does a beautiful job as ann who once she frees herself from her lies her involvement in the accident and the happy marriage knows what she has to do rupert everett as is very effective indolent uppity and ultimately in need everyone here is very civilized in their dealings with one another and no one is all good or all bad br br there are separate lies james that his marriage is happy ann's as listed above and there is one uniting lie the accident about which all parties keep quiet it's enough for ann that maggie knows in the end all must deal with the separate lies that the single lie uncovered br br brilliant film
1	years ago when i first read john irving's the world according to garp i was astounded that most of the younger adults with whom i had contact didn't like the book when i loved it i began to understand that it was an age and experience thing i experienced somewhat of a déjà vu when reading some of the comments on this site that were clearly written by younger viewers fully enjoying separate lies is surely an age and experience thing br br in this film the viewer sees a seemingly happy upper middle class couple he a successful lawyer she the perfect wife of a successful lawyer they have a townhouse in london and a home in the country all's well until there enters the villain in the guise of the son of the richest man in the village this guy appears to be a cad from the word go he is disdainful of everyone and everything including his own children in the traditional form of nice guys finishing last the lawyer's wife engages in an affair with the bounder you see the lawyer really is a nice guy but with the marriage killing trait of an organized perfectionist even though he truly loves her he is boring his wife to death the bad boy is far more exciting br br all of this is entangled with the hit and run death of a man in the village in which all the facts point to the cad being the driver of the vehicle br br it's easy to determine that this movie doesn't build to a happy ending however it does lead to a very satisfying ending in that the man and his wife learn and grow from their experiences and probably will be able to conduct their personal lives in a more successful manner br br three excellent actors play the main characters in this film and it is there performances that make the whole thing a pleasure to watch tom wilkinson is perfect as the husband his portrayal shows us a kind man who has so much control over his emotions that he has lost touch with the world emily watson shows us a woman who has become so trapped in the role of perfect wife that she has almost lost her knowledge of passion that passion is reborn by the character deftly played by rupert everett br br if you have reached that point in life in which you understand that everyone has feet of clay and that everyone even with the gifts of intelligence and opportunities makes many many wrong decisions then you will probably enjoy watching these excellent actors creating the lives of three such people this is a beautifully acted and directed adult film about realistic adults
1	now this is the sort of film we used to get weekly now a days it is rare to see a drama that depends on the cast talking to each other br br there are no explosions car chases or any chases there are implied sexual situations this is not film for the younger crowd it is for those that appreciate people talking to each other they do argue a lot as we have married couple having mid life problems br br emily watson tom wilkinson are seemingly a very happy middle aged loving man wife now living in this same small london suburb handsome rupert everett returns home to visit his wealthy father br br he of course meets emily watson it would be easy for anyone to be smitten by emily i say no more except that as the credits begin there is a fatal accident the rest of the film is about the repercussions of this accident all the lies the various characters tell br br the acting by this trio the others is excellent br br julien fellows wrote the screenplay based on a novel by nigel he also directed this was his first directorial attempt he did very well the entire production is first rate br br the film had a few month theatrical run in late 2005 is under 80 theatres this to me is a shame stupid comedies open on at least 2000 screens but real good as this many others open in only a few br br by the way there are some very funny lines regarding certain situations br br ratings 1 2 out of 4 95 points out of 100 imdb 9 out of 10
1	if we could have separate tables why not separate lies br br this becomes somewhat involved a housekeeper's husband is killed when he is hit by a car while on a bicycle the culprit turns out to be the woman she cleans for the latter was having an affair with a friend and was driving the car with the lover in it when the accident occurred to complicate matters further the housekeeper once worked for the guy's parents and he had her jailed for stealing therefore people will hesitate to believe that it was his car that caused the accident sounds like she wants revenge br br this all becomes convoluted when our housekeeper discovers that her boss was driving the car she recants her testimony much to the dismay of the officer who is working on the case br br as if this isn't enough several months later our lover rupert everett becomes terminally ill and our lady emily watson leaves her husband tom wilkinson to care for him br br the acting is quite good here despite the never ending peyton place like theme tom wilkinson is a solicitor who tries to protect his wife br br the film is a good one but we could have done without the terminal illness o well the marriage ended anyway
1	can the intensity of a husband's love for his wife lead him to cover up a crime despite betrayal on many levels tom wilkinson is no brutal othello in the setting of modern day england so gradually a web of deceit begins to be woven and we witness cycles of jealousy and drunkenness and guilt and fornication and so the web of separate lies begins to fail and then hold together again and life and death goes on despite the bright flame of the husband's love and the deep despair and guilt woven into so many lives how many webs of deceit are to be displayed in this growing tapestry the impulse is to prop up sterling reputations and careers and relationships in this most civilized corner of the world wilkinson gives an emotional performance full of grace and discretion and decorum and yet humanity of those who have much to hide those who desire clarity and openness on the way to justice will be disappointed with the wickedness of so much deception and yet who among us has not something similar to hide about his loved ones nevertheless the viewer may wonder if this web is fated to crumble some day
1	hey i didn't order no cab yeah well you got one what can i say about hack what a man among men he was a heartened ex cop turned cab driver with a heart of gold if you were able to and fortunately for america's tv viewers one person per week was penetrate the cold hard surface of exterior you got to see a caring man devoted to vigilante justice the show was superb i laughed i cried i smiled all in the same episode my arms would break out in goosebumps when our dear friend hack would exit his cab in another dark alley with nothing more than his fists ready to avenge a wronged civilian a smile would break out on my face when the screen showed me a criminal in a dark alley's facial expressions when the taxi of headlights illuminated upon his face week after week i canceled my duties as president of the klingon association to in the warmth glow of brilliance i have never seen a better show and i mourned the loss of one of america's greatest treasures when the show was canceled in other hack related news i would like to announce to the world that my wife and i are expecting hack koen to come into the world in about three weeks
1	separate lies changed my life actually the q a did br br spoilers below read only if you watch trailers or if you've already seen it br br the emily watson character cheats on the tom character my first reaction to the puppy dog eyed emily was it's over dump her bad riddance for some reason he stuck around not in a pathetic way he just listened and tried to accept her needs at times he needed to leave but he stuck by her and let her live her life but i still wanted to see her br br afterwards julian the screenwriter and director talked about the film i'm glad he did because frankly i am too you and was too immature to get the point before he broke it down for me br br tom's character loved her and no matter how much her pursuit of her needs might disagree with what he wants he would always love her the relationship and love they shared wasn't a lie all of a sudden just because she wanted to be with someone else the fact that she wanted to be with someone else didn't make her who she was when you get past fifty there's a strong chance that finding the love of your life won't come around again so you can't be as dismissive as you were when you were younger you have to try and make things work because the alternative may be much worse br br she needed what she needed and she couldn't help that he had to learn to let go of her if he wanted to be the full man he could be he helped her in pursuit of her lover even when it hurt him br br another thing julian said that the strongest tool of a controller is guilt br br again the strongest tool of a controller is guilt br br at the end of the film tom released her from her burden he felt a need to let her know that he loved her but not to in order to get her back he wanted to let her know she didn't need to feel guilty or think poorly about the relationship just because it ended in such a terrible way br br it is not my way to review a film based on the message rather than the execution especially when i understand that message better when it is explained to me by the director but i make an exception here as i feel one more mature than i would benefit from seeing the film br br the execution of the film making was a nice british pace rupert was slimy and revolting tom and emily were their usually solid real characters
1	emily watson and tom wilkinson together what a treat with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue yet at the heart of it all each character maintains a streak of decency moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life how true these words are watson's anne manning is at the core of this intrigue she's the central conscience that the other three latched on she is the decency undeterred br br the circumstances of lies are to each its own one to defend one's professional name one to hold back due to family partner pressure one simply don't want to face the consequence one ironically can't believe the truth and lies to save friendship these are all precarious situations there lies the intrigue fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies contradictions indeed in spite of the seeming dishonor decency and heart remain strong br br the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity it's not sensational or complex as another film where the truth lies 2005 credits due to fellowes' writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly or frustratingly hidden lies beneath it all human frailty not excluded they meant well and following along with the story the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two seem to have grown and matured in their relationship br br you might say there's no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in separate lies yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts a veteran to the merchant ivory films and music by with mood and tone reminiscent of composer of filmmaker kieslowski's trois especially bleu 1993 this is a british film you just might not want to miss br br emily watson anne the wife breaking the waves 1996 debut hilary and jackie 1998 the luzhin defence 2000 gosford park 2001 punch drunk love red dragon equilibrium in 2002 br br tom wilkinson james the husband the full monty 1997 the governess rush hour as villain in 1998 in the bedroom 2001 normal hbo cable movie 2003 eternal sunshine of the spotless mind 2004 recently as father moore in the exorcism of emily rose 2005 opposite laura linney br br rupert everett bill he is simply delightful in my best friend's wedding 1997 opposite julia roberts and marvelous in an ideal husband 1999 d oliver parker an oscar wilde play recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr watson in pbs mystery sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings 2004 tv br br linda bassett maggie she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in east is east 1999
1	an old man is riding his bike down a village road when a car comes out of nowhere strikes him down dead and keeps driving the rest of the film is spent discovering who hit him why he was hit and what consequences this murder will have on the rest of the village separate lies is a very british movie indeed i'm not saying that hit and run car accidents are a particularly british phenomenon but the way everyone reacts to this tragedy is very british tom wilkinson plays james manning a hard working respectable citizen with a stiff upper lip attitude towards tragedy his wife anne emily watson who is twenty years younger than her husband is more emotional more impulsive and more prone to drama br br the man who really spices up life in this sleepy village is playboy millionaire william played by a deliciously devilish rupert everett most american audiences will eternally remember him as julia roberts' gay friend who completely stole every scene in my best friend's wedding in separate lies everett is cruel cold and selfish but he's an absolute blast on screen no it's not that exciting of a movie title separate lies – how did they end up with that lame and forgettable title did they just not have a marketing team did they just now care about getting people to see this film but beyond the title is a heartbreaking drama about the power of forgiveness
1	another popular screening for a british picture at century theatre a well crafted solid drama with an ever developing plot and ongoing in the tale' as the lies piled up a masterclass of acting by a flawless cast well by first time director julian fellowes outstanding performance as usual by tom wilkinson but good turns by all concerned including supporting actors linda bassett and john neville our audience was engrossed by this film which includes a couple of shock incidents which really make you 'jump' a good tight production at around only 80 minutes probably produced on a very limited budget but a success which should see fellowes directing again for the big screen some publicity for the film seemed to suggest it was set in the 50s as per nigel novel but obviously this is not the case recommended viewing
1	although this film is set amongst the sophisticated english upper classes it is a simple story of a couple torn asunder it has a slightly dated air being an adaptation of a way through the wood a 1950 novel by nigel once hugely popular and now forgotten julian fellowes who despite an academy award for the script of gosford park has a somewhat anachronistic persona himself wrote the script and directed the latter for the first time with the dvd version i saw there is a most illuminating audio commentary by julian his primary focus was on getting his characters right and by and large he has succeeded in this he was helped by two outstanding performances from tom wilkinson as james the stitched up city lawyer and emily watson as his attractive wife anne he also kept it short the running time is only 80 minutes br br james and anne have a town house in chelsea and a comfortable former in anne is some years younger but they are childless outwardly they seem happy but james one of nature's unusual for a city lawyer is a control freak just down the road is the aristocratic the william who is not one for middle class morality and he is more than happy to take advantage but there's a complication a road accident in which an elderly cyclist is knocked over in a country lane by a ruthlessly driven range rover just like the bill's soon james anne bill and the victim's widow who happens to be james' and anne's cleaner are drawn in to a conspiracy to conceal what really happened the primary focus is on the corrosive effect of all this on james and anne's relationship br br the third person in this ménage a trios bill is played by rupert everett from the point of view of casting his languid superior manner is right for the part yet somehow he doesn't quite get there partly this is because he is supposed to be sick for some of the time and he looks well when he is supposed to be sick and vice versa the part seems underdeveloped it is interesting that john neville as bill's father who has only one significant scene manages to establish his character beautifully in the time he has br br the world of five star hotels and superior restaurants is nicely evoked as julian fellowes says in the audio commentary these people are able to convince themselves that the edwardian age still exists at bottom though the film is about what draws a couple together and what tears them apart nigel was going through a marriage break up when he wrote the book and fellowes has made a good fist of conveying the atmosphere as he says his is a fairly free adaptation but the central theme is the same
1	a well written screenplay a moving story showing the middle class english at it's best some great acting by tom wilkinson and emily watson tom wilkinson is one of britain's best actors he knows how to be subtle and honest emily watson is an actress i was not familiar with but to her credit she does a great job of playing the wife the director julian fellowes did not succumb to the typical hollywood gimmicks to give the film some meaty storyline it has not over dramatized it's portrayal of the english middle class the films pace does not falter although it is not a faced paced film a good twist in the plot that is not predictable a lovely english country village setting i enjoyed this film very much the locations were also very well selected if you enjoy films about relationships this is one to watch better to have some tissues ready
1	well what's wrong with the title separate lies accused elsewhere of not being exciting it's cunning subtle and a bit poetic of course there's a phil collins song and a james belushi film called separate lives which are alluded to here br br but the real point is the ethical dilemmas of telling lies at different levels that the film probes ok it's not an in your face hilarious title but then it's not an in your face hilarious film please give british films like this a chance they do try to make people think about important things as here how far do you go to protect your life even if it is a bit rotten against unexpected disaster maybe you tell lies maybe you ignore your loved ones' lies that can wear a lot of people out br br american movies on this theme are abundant but they usually go much further by involving the use of firearms which are not a part of everyday life here in europe br br maybe we're not so exciting over here but we don't expect slogan like film titles for films that are not aimed at a massive public
1	i wish there were more films about middle aged people the intellectual journey and the twists and turns of life's moral highway make interesting viewing there seems to be a different standard of judgement on women who have extra marital affairs than on men amy watson's hurtful and humiliating behaviour towards her husband seems to pass without comment reverse the roles and one could expect a torrent of condemnation towards the man if she found her husband boring and judgmental she could could have told him so left and waited for a no doubt large financial settlement upon divorce the country and london scenes are wonderfully authentic and rich while the autumnal weather adds to the melancholy background superbly the ending is perfect so in tune with real adult life
1	separate lies is such an elegant intelligent and thought provoking film and i could have watched tom wilkinson forever on the screen the locations in the english countryside the marvelous london locations the interiors smart wardrobes and of course the writing and dialog made separate lies a thrilling adventure br br with that said and perhaps this is just an american viewpoint as the british are so much more sophisticated in handling sexual escapades i found it hard to watch tom wilkinson just stand by as his wife goes merrily on her way in a sexual journey that really brings her very little joy creates much despair for her husband with the cad that is rupert everett yes i saw the failings of character his aim for perfection the desire for everything in its place but in emily watson she should have looked deeper into his true character and solid goodness to realize what she has thrown away br br tom wilkinson makes separate lies into a powerful film by watching him experience all the pain embarrassment and despair on the screen as his wife goes off with another man and he himself makes the journey in separate lies by understanding his faults embracing his wife despite all that has gone on and leading her back to london bravo tom
1	nigel maze like novel 'a way through the wood' has been adapted by julian fellowes who also directs this drawing room suspense piece it is a film whose effect relies on the cast portraying the benign malignant characters and it is here that fellowes' directorial choices are superb the story has a linear line that is easy to follow but the beauty of the film is the metamorphosis of each player as a single incident ignites a minefield of disasters br br james manning tom wilkinson is a successful business obsessed solicitor in london married to anne emily watson who needs more in her life the couple being childless live in the country in a beautiful estate assisted by their long term maggie linda bassett they attend social outings and meet among others william rupert everett the passively lazy wealthy neighbor anne decides they should entertain their neighbors and against gruff james' anne proceeds with planning james arranges to 'not attend due to business' on the night of the party there is a hit and run accident in which maggie's husband is accidentally killed by someone in a range rover she observed when james returns home he sees a scratch on william's range rover and suspects william to be the perpetrator anne discourages james from going to the police with the information 'what possible good can it do but ruin bill's life as a socialite and father and son of an important scion ' from this first the virus spreads james confronts bill who talks james out of going to the police anne confesses it was she who was driving bill's rover and is the one responsible james convinces anne to keep it quiet because it would ruin his reputation anne confesses she is having an affair with bill and the three of them concur that they will stick together on their big lie for the sake of the greater good anne eventually succumbs to the guilt of not telling her beloved maggie that she is the one responsible and maggie herself guilty of a previous theft whose life was saved by anne's mercy to hire her anyway is the agent who draws the story to its surprising conclusion lies begat lies that begat lies et cetera br br the major impact of this intrigue is the manner in which the isolated tragedy impacts each of the characters involved each changes in a dramatic way tome wilkinson gives the finest performance of a career filled with brilliant performances he is able to say more with his posture and facial expressions than about any actor before the audience today likewise the gifted emily watson adds yet another fine role to her repertoire as does the surprisingly smarmy rupert everett who despite being yet another wealthy british gives us a man both arid of spirit and yet ultimately needy and the always fine linda bassett takes a small role and it making her character quietly central to the chaotic web of lies br br the cinematography by tony pierce roberts and the musical score by add immeasurably to the multiple atmospheres the story encounters this is ensemble playing at its finest which always means that the director julian fellowes has a fine grasp on the piece the interplay of these fine people makes the dodgy story work very well indeed grady harp
1	it seems that hack has been described as un realistic but that's what tv is tv is meant to provide an escape from everyday life and i feel hack does a great job in that regard add to this the slow process of revealing his past and engaging interesting plots you just can't seem to get enough plus with such great actors as david morse andre braugher and even little mathew what more can you ask for so if you are looking for an involving experience and have a liking for underdog characters i suggest giving hack a chance especially now that it's finally getting off its feet
1	this is one of those movies that you just don't want to end the characters are rich like a well woven tapestry colorful costumes music and characters draw you in and tell a tale of the people that lived in a boarding house over the decades around the time of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war a young man is taken in by a dynamic big hearted woman that runs the house and these are stories based on his experiences br br i couldn't believe this was a made for television film it was so well executed s is wonderful as nanny and she brings so much life to this role you want to be right there amongst her boarders br br i enjoyed this film so much i bought the dvd
1	this is a stunning movie raw and sublimely moving it felt like a very gripping intelligent stage play but without the overly theatrical feeling one actually gets from watching people on a stage which plays on everyone's terror of a white lie escalating to monstrous consequences all of the main players are mesmerising tom wilkinson broke my heart at the end and everyone else's judging by the amount of fumbling for hankies and hands going up to faces among males and females alike julian fellowes has triumphed again he's a national treasure gosford park vanity fair mary poppins and now this can he do no wrong go and see it this is a film for real grown ups
1	this was one of the worst columbo episodes that i have seen however i am only in the second season br br the typical columbo activities are both amusing and irritating his cigar ashes causing him trouble have been seen before and the bit where he always identifies in some way with the murderer in this case cooking tho the scene on the tv cooking show distracted from the main theme br br also not explained was why the brother at the beginning of the show was cutting part of the wires of the mixer the reason was never explained nor did it serve any purpose but the part i disliked the most was the death of the bride to be this was never explained and it is the main reason why i give this episode such a low grade
1	this is a well directed columbo episode with also some good character but the story just doesn't really know to interest enough and doesn't appear as well layered and constructed as was often the case with a columbo movie this also goes for the killer's plot to kill his uncle it's quite simple and doesn't seem as well thought out perhaps this movie didn't really took itself serious enough since the atmosphere of the movie is mostly light at least when compared to different columbo movies br br for instance the movie features quite a large amount of comical relief mostly coming from the columbo character himself it makes the movie an enjoyable one to watch but it also gives you the feeling they sort of overdid it times also mostly since it doesn't correspond with most other columbo movies br br the characters are good and it helps that it features martin landau in a double role it's always funny to see how much different he still looked as a young man while for instance a person such as peter falk hardly changed any over the years he only got the movie also features julie newmar among others who is best know for playing catwoman in the '60's batman life action series it's funny how she still moves like catwoman in this movie intentional or is this just her way of acting br br it's an enjoyable and good to watch columbo movie but it also gives you the feeling that it all could had been a lot better with a better thought out script br br 7 10
1	what a cast of actors and actresses in this columbo episode beside peter falk you have julie newmar jeannette nolan martin landau as twins anyway the old uncle dies mysteriously and it looks like a heart attack on the bicycle discovered by his fiancé julie newmar who plays the role so deliciously jeannette nolan plays the other woman of the house the housekeeper who prides herself on her talents and chides columbo's sloppy and often typical behavior with his cigar martin landau plays identical twins in this one each who accuse the other of murdering their uncle for money well you'll just have to watch and see the outcome but i can assure you that it's always worth watching this one for the cast and the crew
1	this is my favourite columbo martin landau excellent plays twins one of whom may have committed a murder this columbo is unusual because the usual murder scene at the beginning doesn't give you any clue to which one did it peter falk is on form as usual in this episode written by steven bochco who also wrote 'murder by the book' my second favourite episode the supporting cast are great especially julie newmar very under rated and jeanette nolan as the house keeper that columbo just keeps on upsetting the surname of martin characters in this is 'paris' that was the surname of leonard nimoy's character in mission impossible coincidence or a steven bochco joke
1	double shock is one of the many good columbo episodes which reaches the level of a good movie br br it has all the elements we like in the columbo episodes we get the laugh when columbo makes something clumsy and it happens more than once in double shock i can almost guarantee that you will laugh several times if you decide to watch this episode br br we also get the riddle as usual with an almost perfect murder but something about the murder troubles columbo the end is the usual we get the story about how columbo solved the mystery br br this is another good columbo episode and i will rate it 7 10 it is close to 8 10 br br just one more question the acting peter falk is very good as usual
1	this columbo is unique in that we don't really know the exact outcome until the very end our favorite dark horse detective suspects a pair of identical twin brothers of killing their rich uncle each points the finger at his brother in a mystery series in which the crime is shown at the beginning of the drama this twist could reasonably be used only once or twice and this was columbo's time other than that wrinkle this episode fits in well with others of the series it has a lighter tone than some with a very funny performance by jeanette nolan as the fastidious and loyal housekeeper who takes an instant dislike to columbo
1	do you liked dead man don't wear plaid what about top secret and a chorus line well is a fantastic melange of all three of them as unlikely it may seem very funny tongue in cheek movie noir hommage with stunning songs and great dancing you have to have a little odd humor for this movie but it is very well worth seeing it i've voted it a nine if the end would be a bit more logic it would have gotten a ten thats how good that movie is
1	is a movie which many will watch and enjoy until the end while others will stop watching it within five minutes it is a parody of detective movies with all the twists and turns the action takes place only at night in the dark corners of a city which resembles batman's gotham city look carefully at the streets buildings the police car chasing the criminals etc it is also a parody of musicals with its really funny characters such as secretary and the actor playing assistant lover who do their best to sing albeit not very successfully br br the spaces occupied by the characters have their own presence in the film such as the decadent blue box there is a real club with this name in vienna where one can see a sailor hitting on a girl in the background apartment with the black paint smeared on the walls and the dirty kitchen bureau with the sweet picture of his assistant etc br br the humorous moments in the movie are many and include flat in the face type of humor such as farting in his assistant's face the prostitute charging extra for orgasm the ridiculous outfits of the female thugs of montana etc br br a legendary film from the 80's especially for those interested in austrian or german speaking cinema
1	if you haven't seen this film do it its a as i've never seen another some very surreal scenes some hilarious funny stuff a film noir felling musical numbers with a swing sex scenes the 2nd best played orgasm on film bested only by sally a pitch of orson welles blended together into a work of art as an work of art it hasn't to be logical at the end at least not logical for everybody i owned an tv copy on vhs but loaned it to an ex girlfriend and now i can't get it back but the film should be out on dvd in austria on 10 06 03 and be sure i will buy it
1	to keep it as simple as possible this is a very good show that is well written and has a fantastic cast it's not loaded with blood and guts and centers around a disgraced cop and his relationship with his ex wife his son his former partner andre braugher his childhood friend now a priest george and lastly the person who happens to get into his hack in that episode are you likely to find something like this going on in your city no is this still a good story yes and it's nice to see a man portrayed as good father in spite of his flaws watch more then one 2 3 and you'll see why a lot of us are hooked on this show and thank you david morse for making this character so interesting another good job
1	a unique blend of musical film noir and comedy with a few sex scenes thrown in for good measure the only other film i can think of with a fairly similarly wild and madcap mixture of themes and clichés is the french movie billy ze kick but that has a more surreal and quirky approach br br not that this film would not be surreal or quirky the humour is at times quite subtle at other times blatantly in your face and often crossing the border to offensiveness to give an example in the post coital chit chat with a prostitute our hero max encourages her to reveal who was responsible for a recent murder using the words los literally this phrase means shoot in german and that is exactly what a hidden assassin does in response in other words this beautiful lady was sacrificed for a pun br br is also one of the very rare examples of films with funny sex scenes larry's romance is accompanied by the song ich will i want more while the song perfectly underpins the action the meaning of its words changes a couple of times hinting at the end at larry's inability of providing any further service the film's main love scene between max and bettina kant lacks such subtlety this is jaw dropping stuff especially when singing slowly into moaning of course all in the rhythm of the music br br unmissable unless you are one of the easily offended
1	nicely filmed a little uneven nobody is a good evening's entertainment the plot is simple enough three yuppies get into a scrap with a group of strangers in a bar and it turns out to be much more than they bargained for the acting is decent and there are a few unexpected twists watch for the completely unbelievable like the 10 shot revolver and 25 shot semi automatic handgun
1	it's a good watch if u have time deals with three friends who get into a needless bar fight and get into serious trouble they find themselves fighting some shadowy people and can't deal with very very disturbing portrayal of japan the arbitrariness of modern life some intense scenes but a bit of a potboiler br br the spoiler was that the plot is not too clear based on english sub titles obviously i don't know japanese br br the only other japanese movies i've seen were kurosawa who is a different and far loftier than this modern genre so can't really compare otherwise it compares better with most hollywood blockbusters for story plot and buildup br br
1	nobody 1999 is a fantastic piece of japanese noir it's about three who get in way over their heads when their innocent drunken p off three other guys one night in a bar when these three mysterious strangers who are up to much more deviant no goodness than even the film allows us to know beat the living daylights out of one of our heroes the trio decides to return the favour in kind only they accidentally kill one of the other guys the remaining two baddies then begin the systematic destruction of everything these poor schmoes hold dear including their fast dwindling sanity video's dvd sleeve features a critic quote calling the film a paranoid street crime freakout or some such and the term more than applies here brooding tense very violent and low key but still pretty slick shot largely at night with many deliberately vague moments and character motivations that keep the audience guessing right along with the besieged protagonists who to some degree deserve everything they get i give it a 10
1	for me this is a good series i am kind of disappointed that ana lucia and libby died but more upset that micheal lied to everyone about who killed them and if any one can answer this what was that guys name who was supposedly henry gale he was like the leader of the others or was that ms clue anyway if you know his name cool well trying to think of what can possibly happen next after they finally didn't press the button does that mess up the whole darma project thing and i personally thought it was cool how they had that key thing underground that desmond used to shut off the magnet thing yeah and what was the whole point of that i am just glad they didn't press the button finally but what happens to the people in the hatch like mr echo john charlie and well desmond probably died but what about the others i think they survived i forget well this is just my little thing on what i thought about this season finale
1	the show start out with the boat desmond was i it then they went to try to save walt and lock things that the button pushing is a big joke at the same time desmond found out that hes the one that crashed the plane eko tries to open the door that locked on him and charlie helped him find the bomb while sayid and jack plan is that is to find the others first and see who and what the other are and find if there armed and have any weapons br br micheal takes jack kate and hugo in a trap and they get caught br br after the show there were more questions then answers but that what makes the show great and can't wait until season 3
1	indeed cynthia is in this movie as elizabeth talking to desmond though i'm just wondering how she ended up as a patient' where hurley is also in there trying to reduce his weight as seen from the previous episodes br br anyway this last episode is really suspended the ending is not so understandable i think the writer did expect the audience that there is a season 3 coming br br i just hope the next season will give light to more unclear hanging events that were happened br br just can't wait further for season 3
1	watching the last 2 episodes i remembered a tv add from my childhood it showed the wild west very dusty and dry and there is a small saloon a man enters the bar saloon he is thirsty as hell lips cracked etc he has just walked through the nevada desert and hasn't drunk water for days he to the bartender gimme a packet of potato chips while he is eating it we can feel how he is getting we hear a voice in the background saying keep building that thirst build it till you cant hold it any more then blow it away with team the man drinks team a soft drink it feels like a few dozen bags of potato chips the thirst is so intense that i cannot hold it any more season 2 has even more twists and turns then season 1 the ending answers a lot of questions but asks many many more questions hopefully we will know the answer in season 3 but i doubt it because i feel lost has the momentum go a lot further then 3 seasons if the people behind the camera keep up their good work br br i for one will keep watching br br from pakistan with love
1	a very good episode although not as devastating a finale as the end of season 1 the idea to make it a desmond flashback worked very well and henry ian was fantastic perhaps putting in the best performance of this entire series but my only complaint would be the michael plot line felt very much like a subplot and after three minutes the previous episode i thought it would feature more but the strength of character and performance pulled it through the plot developments as always left more questions then answers like who are the others something we still don't know and where are they taking jack sawyer and kate what was the white light what impact has it had are locke eko and desmond dead as the hatch destructed around them if they are it would be a major mistake because these three are the most interesting characters and the series would suffer without them and terry o'quinn has been fantastic throughout both series as locke a fitting finale to a better series then the first
1	live together die alone is divided into three main story lines and each one of them alone would have been enough for a great episode so when you put all of them together you have a great 3 episode it was a daring move to give the flashbacks of a season finale to a character desmond who had only appeared in 3 episodes up to that point but it worked his backstory is absolutely fascinating to watch both informative about the past of the island the swan station itself and honestly moving desmond and penny seem magically connected to each other even when they are on opposite ends of the world and both characters are beautifully acted it's hard not to cry when desmond reads penny's letter the action inside the hatch is edge of your seat tense as locke is determined not to allow the button to get pushed again convinced it was all just a psychological experiment desmond gradually realizes the consequences of this decision and eko is locked outside and tries desperately to get back in the melting of the clock and locke's i was wrong are unforgettable moments the outside action has jack kate sawyer and hurley captured by the others due to michael's betrayal after they make a puzzling discovery connected to the pearl and henry gale 's game changing return as the others' leader even the least important plot line sayid jin and sun sailing to the beach where the others are supposedly camping contains one of the greatest mythological mysteries of the show the giant statue that's almost entirely missing except for a foot with four toes in short emotion history mythology adventure suspense the threat of annihilation a ray of hope a classic lost episode 1 2 out of 4
1	i made a promise that if ever i posted a comment that was less than complimentary then later felt different about it i would return and make known my change of heart so far this is the first time it's happened br br i'm really starting to enjoy hack something has clearly changed the storylines seem to be much stronger the plot may still be a tad surreal but the characters have developed so much more depth that a surreal plot can be forgiven i attribute this to fine acting br br not every show can come charging out of the starting gate a winner some need time to pick up speed i'm glad i kept watching this program and i really hope it lasts
1	could contain spoilers read only after seeing last episode season 2 think about it the guys on the north pole center of the earth looking for abnormal magnetic behavior they also said something about did we miss it again so there was another abnormality of course that was when the plain crashed i think this whole island is a setup set up by her daddy she found out about it and is looking for her desmond how else can she know what to look for br br so basically it's an island in a magnetic shield all of it is fake all the signs are there fake beards fake doors fake medicine fake observations stations with fake air shafts that lead to nothing it's a project indeed and because of the final scene in the season 2 finale i know it has to do something with desmond his chick and her dad and probably libby she's weird maybe she actually has something to do with the plane crashing ok now i'm drifting off br br also in this episode henry gail tells michael to go to some coordinates and he'll find rescue their this is probably some sort of door in the magnetic shield once you're gone there is no way back br br i think it's pretty obvious despite of the numerous questions i still have and hope to get answers for in the next season if you think back on what we've learned in season 1 and 2 i'm sure we'll get loads of answers in season 3 br br can't wait br br can anyone agree on this theory hope to hear from you
1	the writers of lost have outdone themselves season two's finale is even more heartbreaking and intense than the finale for season one locke's lack of faith has not only resulted in spiritual consequences for himself but in tragic physical consequences for the lives of the other castaways michael's betrayal resulted in a success for him but can he possibly escape the island he will have to if he wants to stay alive i don't doubt that one or more of his former friends would be willing to kill him in revenge this finale has left more questions than the previous finale and i can't wait for fall br br a side note what is the point in posting a review just to write out all the spoilers where is the pleasure in ruining the surprise for everyone else the current review on this page is nothing but a big fat spoiler fest poorly constructed in barely readable english with the express purpose of making someone mad good job
1	this episode so far is the best of the series the story was told perfectly i especially liked how the writers made it a desmond episode it was his best performance to date and he definitely deserved the emmy for his performance br br we had some of our questions answered in this episode but since the show is called lost we know there will be more questions brought up too first the answered walt is reunited finally with his father michael second michael's betrayal is exposed to jack sawyer kate and and because of this betrayal kate jack and sawyer are all taken captive by the others this was a great way to end the show br br on the other side of the island we see locke going through a mental breakdown with the button this leads to another answered question about how the plane really went down however there are some unanswered questions first what happened to locke eko and desmond when desmond turned the key and what was the deal with the scientists in the arctic searching for electromagnetic guess we'll find out next season however great ending to the best show on tv
1	is it only now that you notice the links between all the characters of course it's libby and for the guy in the hatch with desmond any deja vu yeah he was the same guy that gave money to sayid after he's killed or tortured the other soldier in the episode 14th of the 2nd season one of them well actually it's not completely the same guy he's named joe in the 14th episode and kelvin in the last 2 episodes twins who knows jj abrams mmmm i'm not even sure of that there are hundreds of links like this one between all the characters br br but that was just in response to the libby comment br br i found those 2 episodes far more interesting than the whole season 2 during all that season i felt that there was lots of things i've missed and very few things i've learned especially at the very beginning the 1st episode of the 2nd season is excellent and then the 2nd one is a kind of flash back of the 1st one i found that disappointing even if i'm pretty sure that everything in lost tend to have a meaning that was just an example of how i was frustrated watching those episodes br br let's go back to the last 2 episodes i think we've learned more new things in those 2 episodes than in the entire season but all we learn are little pieces for the next puzzle like the involvement of relatives sorry if i spoil too much believe me or not i'm trying not to for example so lots of things evoked in the past 2 seasons are still unclear or have been developed once then nothing and still there's new material as if all the holes in the picture were not enough we all want to see the big picture of all of it of course but i think we'll have to be very very patient i hope there will be only 3 seasons i'm not sure i will watch more than 3 seasons anyway there was also lots of actions in the very last episode and a good cliffhanger at the very end br br so basically yes i loved that last episode and yes i want to see the third season
1	first of all i just have to say that i'm a huge lost fan everyone who makes the show i love 'em it's got everything in it really br br i'm glad that they have great people making it for instance jack bender is the greatest director well maybe after j j abrams and of course full credit to damon carlton they're geniuses br br anyway the season 2 finale is definitely one of the best episodes of lost ever live together die alone focuses on desmond david hume's story of getting to the island and henry ian is so great playing that character the makers of the show would have been very stupid if they would've let die on us br br so in lost the plane crash survivors have been there for 65 days 65 days man rousseau has been there for sixteen years and the others have been there for god knows how long referring to jeffrey lieber abrams anyway i hope we'll get the answers we need in season 3 can't wait my vote is nine
1	lost has been one of the most mesmerizing and thrilling experience i've ever seen not only it's the mother of coincidence but also every time that you think you can set up the whole puzzle in your head the story takes a completely new direction br br take this casualty for example the us marine whom gives sayid the way to become a torturer is clancy brown playing a character named joe in the last episode he is playing kelvin the desmond partner in the hatch destiny uh yeah right br br i guess that all of us will have to wait to see what's next in the life of the wonder people in that strange island in the middle of nowhere knowing that several of my favorites characters desmond sayid and mr eko have an unclear destiny br br i believe that along with 24 and the shield this is one of the best tv shows ever of course keeping twin peaks at a special place
1	it was libby talking to desmond in the flashback and if anyone is confused about her past like how did she end up in the same hospital hurley was in then you should know that libby dying in season 2 the character will be explored more in season 3 and we will get answers to questions surrounding her br br btw great episode it had a really great cliffhanger and some interesting questions like what happened to eko and lock and what about the four toe statue br br i cannot wait till season 3 lost just rules i hope all the unanswered questions will be answered i loved how they explained why the plane actually crashed desmond did it when he did not manage to type in the numbers in time 4 8 15 16 23 42
1	what's the point of this messages if not to discuss and share thoughts about the next season here is my forecast 1 the hatch was indeed blown but somehow everybody inside survived buts lets see about that 2 the episode at the end with the tent is an observation team monitoring the tracking device installed on boat by penny now that the magnetic shield around the island was lifted the signal was picked up by the observation station and they are going to send a rescue mission 3 after the destruction of the hatch the island is not isolated any more and other ships airplanes are going to arrive 4 the others are finally going to share their secret with us poor observers br br was it actually confirmed that there are going to be 4 seasons of lost br br cheers mike
1	jack sawyer and sayid swim to the boat and find a completely wasted desmond his traumatic past experience before sailing to the island is disclosed through flashbacks sayid plots a plan with jack to surprise the others in case michael is double crossing the group john locke convinces desmond to invade the hatch which is protected by mr eko and not press the button of the computer to see what will happen br br this episode is one of the best of the second season unfortunately we lovers of lost can see the lack of respect the producers of this stunning series have with the fans in the usa the air date of this episode was 24 may 2006 therefore along this period fans have to wait for the third season in a very suspenseful situation with jack and his group surrounded by the others and finding the truth about michael and the death of ana lucia and libby john locked inside the hatch without the intention of pushing the button and mr eko in despair outside the hatch i hope the fate of lost be better than angel and its very disappointing conclusion or lack of conclusion after five seasons my vote is ten br br title brazil not available
1	after spotting the boat at the end of the previous episode three minutes the survivors are shocked to find out who the occupant is with the use of the boat jack and sayid come up with a plan to confront the others however when jack sawyer kate and hurley follow michael to the others jack is forced to reveal michael's deadly secret whilst they are in the middle of nowhere br br meanwhile locke decides that the time has come to find out the time has come to find out what will happen if the button is not pressed however mr resolve to continue pressing the button is surprisingly strong so when locke concocts a plan to lock eko out of the hatch with the help of an ally eko goes to surprisingly desperate lengths to stop locke from making what he believes will be a big mistake br br this is a classic episode of lost full of secrets suspense and very few answers to the many questions it poses to its viewers however some of the secrets this action packed episode reveals will be truly shocking to the fans there is also a trademark end of season cliffhanger which achieves the feat of being both shocking and extremely confusing one thing is guaranteed it will keep you guessing right to the very end and you will still be frustrated with more mind boggling questions as you wait in agony for the third season to begin
1	i am not a fan of musicals but i am a huge fan of jean renoir and jean gabin i rented this movie on a whim and was pleasantly surprised even expecting greatness from the classic director this movie is beautiful the shots are like oil paintings with motion something a lot of directors strive for but renoir masters i cannot express how much this movie transcends itself it's not really a musical it just has a couple of well placed musical numbers and a grand dancing finale but there is something about this movie in particular which makes you feel absolute joy when watching it br br i am a fan of foreign art films but i'm also a meathead who loves things like die hard and schwarzenegger movies i get very easily turned off by things that are overly happy or in la la land but this movie has an overwhelming positive energy that is just irresistible not to mention every frame is gorgeous and the plot is good 10 out of 10
1	this is probably the second best of the death wish movies death wish 5 is the best one br br death wish 3 reminds me of west side story with a new twist not even the recent flick gangs of new york can measure up with one new york neighborhood in death wish 3 which is plagued not by two rival gangs but one big gang a gang that is willing to do things like cutting a person to death with an ax if he trespasses on its set br br deborah raffin who plays a public defender plays gently in this action packed movie that is filled with a lot of shoot em up violence so like nichols in death wish ii death wish iii scores with its gentle romantic moments as well as its violent moments only the james bond love interest scenes would do much better br br and in addition to his 38 plays with this new gun called the 475 magnum it reminded me of the dirty harry movies when callahan used his 44 magnum in magnum force sudden impact and dirty harry the gun packs a big punch and when kills with it he doesn't care if the gun has a big kick in it br br and that missile that killed off the main gang leader well that is something would not use an missile as his regular vigilante weapon that is way too military for him
1	death wish 3 brings back charles bronson as one time vigilante paul now retired yeah right before long is back to his old ways but this time its not just a few muggers at a time its a gang who have taken over a run down part of the city new york again by the way this time its war so out the big guns literally for this the body count int his one rivals anything stallone or schwarzenegger have come up with this movie is actually somewhat fun to watch particularly for a few one liners and of course bad guys die or get severely injured in creative ways which is always a good thing the violence is not as personal in this one its obviously on a much grander scale sort of like bombing your victims from afar rather than one on one combat this movie is lighter in tone than the 1st 2 making it easier to watch there's not much import to this film its more escapism than anything its also cheesy at times and pseudo inspirational but hose scenes fall flat they should have left the original death wish on its own without sequels but since they didn't they should have stopped here 8 10
1	this movie is true action at its finest it doesn't get any better then this this is one of those movies that you can just kick back and watch some real good non stop shooting and killing plus there are some excellent lines to go along with all of this my favorite is there is a one bad guy who is breaking into this old couples home and he is stealing a tv or something and he goes right up to them and yells i will come in here anytime i like and right before he jumps out the window he yells anytime i mean this is just classic stuff all the way around so you got a choice you can watch that crappy will smith try to go an action film or you can watch one of the masters charles bronson
1	i couldn't' agree more than with the comment left by and how this film is a masterpiece i have never seen a film that had my adrenalin flowing that this film did and that mostly happened when bronson comes running out a fire escape with like an m 60 and plows down like 20 dude from a gang it's genius quite possibly the best action movie ever made no exaggeration either it really could be the best action movie ever made from the start one should know that you re in for something sweet when the police let bronson go and tell him tell him to clean up the slums once again genius and once again bronson is a bad ass paul is just as cool maybe even cooler than john mcclain or the terminator he's just simply a bad ass and what else is great is the fact that he's a nice guy and buys a kid some ice cream and helps out an old couple all before he kills some scum bag genius highly recommended if you hate this movie you're crazy
1	the movie is incredible it has a sound track which sets the tone for the movie the lines in the movie are great such as nothings to good for out friends and its collection time charlie collection time i can watch this movie over and over again and still laugh because the lines and action are one of a kind i feel that when i watch this movie i want to go out and shoot down bad guys if there is a movie that you don't want to miss its this one they killed the man they killed the they had no right in doing that hes on our turf ill take care of it the lines just keep on coming in the movie go out and not rent but buy this movie its worth the money trust me
1	this is an incredibly fun action exploitation 80s rocker charles bronson rules as paul the villains are hilariously bad the soundtrack by jimmy page is laughably bad alex winter bill of bill ted is great as one of the street punks who gets wasted by bronson and crew crew oh those are the downtrodden townsfolk who team up with bronson to win back the streets the whole movie is enjoyable with the last half hour or so exploding into non stop action and mayhem 9 10
1	while i agree that this movie lacks any real substance and should not be taken seriously its primarily directed to fans of the series who are looking for a quick fix bronson paul once again takes to the streets given a license to kill by the chief police no less and moves into his friends apartment who you guessed it was killed by a street gang that has taken control of the neighborhood which looks like it's funny that people who associate with bronson have a habit of getting killed bronson systematically kills them off one by one as the people in the neighborhood are used against him there are some dynamics between bronson and who leads the street gang you can tell they both enjoy their work at one point in the movie after they scuffle in the city jail say's i'm going to kill a little old lady just for you catch it on the 6 00 news the a purse thief who laughs as he's committing his crimes is also enjoyable to watch the movie was made in 1985 and most people probably could identify with the stereotypical urban gangs that are cast in the movie it's enjoyable watching bronson paul rid the streets of these thugs watch for the appearance of the magnum a serious piece of hardware that bronson wields i also really liked the soundtrack to this movie
1	death wish 3 is exactly what a bad movie should be terrible acting implausible ridiculous death scenes creepy evil for no reason villains the last 30 minutes of this movie just might be the best 30 minutes ever put on film especially in the scene where the decent hardworking citizens string chains across the street knocking down the evil bikers and then shoot them only to be joined by the neighborhood children in celebration and how can i forget the elderly woman with the broom she's sweeping out the scum and if that's not enough let's not forget how quickly the punks give up after is killed i'm laughing just thinking about it br br i also love the death scene of girlfriend he just walks away after seeing her get blown up it's little things like this that make death wish 3 such a bad movie and i'm not even mentioning the bizarre soundtrack br br i watched this movie because of martin balsam who i seriously think is one of the finest character actors ever and who's own getting beaten up by the scum scene is hilarious and i walked away with a new favorite movie thank you death wish 3 for making me laugh so hard br br some other things i forgot to mention 1 the weird sound effect after says cash when buying his used car ha it's so evil sounding 2 mandy mandy did the writers run out of tough guy names 3 the fact that the gangs apparently have a lend and lease thug exchange program i need some more guys and that mandy has a working phone line in an abandoned building 4 at the end of the movie after blows up is it just me or does it look like the street gang is about to break into choreography as they're giving up just watch how in sync they are after the female punk gives the stop signal br br i love this movie nothing cheers me up like death wish 3
1	this is one of the best sequels around and a very good movie too even there were some mistakes but still i enjoyed it this time charles is not just fighting one or two muggers but a whole army of them death wish 3 has a lot great action scenes and i enjoyed it every single second of it director michael winner knows how to direct a good action movie like this and jimmy page providing the music with producers golan and globus still doing there thing and charles bronson is still acting good for paul this movie also made it look like that michael try to end the death wish series and i can't blame him and i love the gun that charles uses death wish 3 is one of the great movies of 1985 and can't get any better than this br br i gives this 9 10
1	i had never seen the original death wish in the book either death wish i film however death wish 3 was the very interested film the well known vigilante paul tried to visit his friend charlie but he only visited him for a couple of minutes before he died because of charlie didn't pay the protection to the huge and infamous underground gang leaded by manny franker after some altercation during his time in jail learned that franker who he fought with in jail had his own agenda to make the new york city in the hellfire and also his influence by sending his henchmen to set the crime every time everywhere and everyday due to the chance given by insp richard who know his profile well and like him very much decided to set the war with franker and his gang br br i accepted that death wish iii was one of the most and extreme violence action film which i had seen from the past this movie used the very way to tell the story no ponderous story telling and less unnecessary scenes which was the one merit of the movie on the next issue violence was used pervasively in the film i believed that many of viewers could like the action scene of death wish iii because it showed the crude extreme and blast of action for every minutes of the movie especially the climax scene of the movie and the death of manny franker which i thought that it was the maximum action scene br br for about the cast i think everyone was good and get through their role charles bronson made everybody believe that he still be great as paul he didn't look like the big old cat but the great vigilante o'herlihy also did his job very good his main villain role in the movie made him look nasty and look like the big bad guy however the role of kathryn davis in this movie was pathetic she didn't look like the main character i thought that she was appeared only two or three scene before she was killed by franker and his follower to make a heat on paul she could have more role to appear br br for my comment the style and extreme violence made this movie great for extreme action film fans fast paced with back and forth style made this movie very interested to watch nevertheless this movie had some silly scene and some plot hole first the scene when insp faced paul for the first time it was very corny because you attacked your favor guy before you want him to help it similar to how you punch some guy before you try to borrow him some money haha that's like a joke although i liked the plot twist when insp was shown later that he helped because at first looked like the villain very much due to his act to but when the movie went to the climax everything was cleared that he had no hidden agenda with br br in another case the ending scene of the movie set back me it stumble on everyone's feeling because it ended too easy gang members looked unbelievable after they found that franker was dead before his girlfriend and other followers decided to escape finally insp allowed paul to fly out from his town before the police caught him i thought that this style of ending scene could be found in many cannon film's movie but i dislike it br br for the summary i am ok with death wish 3 due to my explanation i typed first the cast and the action was very good and so extreme even it had some scene i don't like and extreme of violence could be the best short description of this movie
1	as a longtime admirer of the 2001 film moulin rouge and a more recent admirer of jean renoir's film making i knew that i'd inevitably watch his french cancan sooner or later the movie tells a fictionalized story of the opening of the moulin rouge nightclub the impresario jean gabin tries to turn montmartre laundress françoise into a cancan star without arousing the wrath of his tempestuous mistress the belly dancing lola maria felix this is just one of several love triangles in french cancan true to stereotype these french showbiz folk are always falling in love br br renoir directs with his typical gentle humor and attention to supporting characters and also wrote the lyrics to a beautiful waltz song prominently featured in the movie gabin perfectly the aging french playboy hero is a cute redhead who holds her own in the dance numbers except for a few trick shots where a double is obviously used br br french cancan is billed as a musical comedy and while there are lots of musical numbers that take place on the nightclub stage etc only one character ever breaks into song in the middle of conversation the actor who plays him philippe clay is fun to watch a really tall skinny young man who sings dances and does contortions br br the movie ends with a long cancan sequence as all the characters learn to triumph over their problems and make art together the dancing is much more brightly lit and coherently edited than in moulin rouge in fact if i have one complaint about french cancan it's that the whole thing is a little too technicolor even when experiences heartbreak or someone sings a melancholy song the lighting is bright and flat no shadows intruding yes the result is a cheerful and warmhearted musical comedy it's just that i can't help thinking that things weren't ever this colorful and innocent in real life
1	this movie was great it had everything a true action fan could want plenty of people getting shot and or maimed minimal romance involving sex a hero that can be identified with violence at many intervals instead of pointless plot storing up just one scene at the end and villains that are just asking for it bronson appears to be at his lowest level of in this film and it shows ed lauter makes a great cop and was seamlessly worked into bronson's plot without stealing his spotlight the movie doesn't involve a plot so boring or over consuming that you watch this film once and never again rather you want to see in action and the storyline just juices it up this is great stuff
1	lol br br the mere fact that i start off my review with says it all i used to watch this movie all the time as a kid and even then i sensed the silliness of it all the low budget horrible acting and lame script was ever apparent back then i watched it again yesterday and just couldn't stop laughing it's so bad it's actually good lol like another reviewer said it doesn't take itself seriously there's no way one could look at this movie and say that the makers did so the soundtrack is so funny i laugh every time i hear it the is just a laugh riot it's an all out war zone in new york full of explosions and total chaos so ridiculous you can't help but chuckle at the sight of it br br other hilarious moments br br the scene with and the cop running side by side like 2 cowboys against the whole wild west was so cheesy it was funny br br it killed me how the bad guys could be shooting at and he could even drop down on one knee taking ever so careful and slow aim and not get hit lmao of course with him it was one shot one kill with his elephant handgun lol br br another hilarious scene was the end when he finally killed the leader of the gang with a rocket launcher lol destroying the whole side of the apartment building with it br br it's apparent that is all but used to losing loved ones when his new girlfriend is quickly disposed of after only a few dates the acting is so bad that you can't blame anyone that could only think that is mad at the destruction of the car lol he runs down looks at the carnage and just walks away br br again so bad it's good br br out of stars
1	the paul of death wish 3 is very far removed from the paul of the original film if you remember the 1974 film then you will remember was a during the korean war and that he was physically sick after he committed his first execution ten years later seems to have learned unarmed combat and how to handle anti tank weapons in his spare time but i ll overlook that gaffe because is the best of the sequels lowlife scum bags get shot dead burned alive their teeth smashed and thrown to their deaths by middle aged housewives armed with sweeping brushes yeah i know the gang members are multi ethnic and for that they deserve some credit but even if they re not racist they re still murdering scum who deserve all they get from and the innocent citizens who needs mayor rudy when you ve got paul an anti tank rocket and a bunch of old age to reclaim the streets from the criminal creeps paul i salute you sir
1	this classic has so many great one liners and unintentionally hilarious scenes that i don't even know where to start if you want advice on dating its here just totally ignore the person you want and then spout out classic lines like chicken's good i like chicken and before you know it you will be having a one nighter in a basement it's a nice basement with a woman who is 35 years younger than you bronson does it all in this film he buys a car for no good reason just so he can murder two gang members paying with cash he buys an ice cream simply because this is america isn't it and ends up wasting someone named the he laughs when he runs just because he stole his camera by the way this is so fast that bronson's regular pistol can't even catch up to him he needs to order a special one just to get this elusive creep he gets cleaned up just so he can eat a really smelly meal stuffed cabbage in a rat trap with a couple of old people who like to wear heavy clothing in 90 degree weather he goes into the dentistry business he always seems to find a crow bar when he needs one and its the same one and last but not least he always seems to have a rocket launcher at his disposal just in case he needs to blow away richie cunningham's older brother chuck who is now strung out and in dire need of a makeover anyway this will all make sense once you have seen this classic all i can say is enjoy i owed you that one dude
1	one of the most magnificent movies ever made the acting of charles later known as bronson is simply outstanding this is the crown on the career of director winner who himself was often quoted saying this was his masterpiece the plot has been copied many times but it's never been topped j moore the gun manufacturer many times claimed his brand's growth since the mid 80s can be fully credited to and rightly so this is not just a movie this is art that many generations will admire and appreciate although this movie has never been fully appreciated in the usa it has found a huge following in europe and asia where the movie is regularly shown at film schools and it is still a popular hit in student cinemas all across europe all in all a true classic
1	this movie is truly a classic 80s movie a must have in any movie collection guns bad guys creeps gangs charles bronson and more creeps br br in my opinion this is the best death wish movie tons of non stop action br br and keeping with the classic 80's bad guy vs good guy movie this movie is about anything but the norm and all about guns and creeps we see bronson mowing down thugs and creeps with a 30 caliber korean war heavy machine gun a heavy machine gun for crying out loud when charlie runs out of ammo for the heavy machine gun he runs back to his crib and takes up arms with his long range high caliber pistol this pistol can stop a freakin elephant and charlie is putting holes the size of hub caps into bad guys with it and if that is not enough charlie is also packing an anti tank grenade launcher which by the way is only good if he can get the creeps clumped together br br the acting in this movie is ha ha great and a lot of off the wall actors mainly playing creeps appear throughout the movie the film is loaded with memorable one liners and scenes heck my favorite scene line is where the creep leader confronts broson in jail and calmly explains to him tell you what i am going to do i'm gonna kill a little old lady just for you catch it on the six o'clock news br br is this film violent heck yes but you'll laugh and cringe all the way through
1	most critics seem to have dismissed this film like so many other charles bronson vehicles as just another patchwork of mindless violence and while there is a fair amount of mayhem death wish 3 is not that awful of an effort particularly for fans of the series and its star br br this time out aging charlie's paul is let loose by a police chief desperate to clean up a rough part of new york city the trigger happy vigilante moves into the heart of gang territory where he once again becomes a one man army in an urban war of good versus evil bronson at least the older version is truly at his best br br i'm not saying death wish 3 is a classic indeed to the discriminating eye it has a plethora of imperfections the characters are generally made of cardboard the violence is over the top a man well into his 60s outruns and dozens of young punks but in the tradition of the original death wish and later films such as falling down with michael douglas it has a definite crowd pleasing charm who doesn't want to see gangbangers get their due there are also some great cheesy moments and one liners so common in 1980s films when a tenant of his apartment building sees setting up a booby trap for instance the vigilante lightheartedly says he's thinning the herd a line only bronson can truly make work br br so you see the key to enjoying death wish 3 is to accept it for what it is it ain't spielberg and it ain't art so throw the popcorn in the microwave and have fun with it
1	charles bronson is back in his most famous role in my opinion this is by far the best film of the series and my favorite movie ever this movie doesn't take itself seriously because the filmmakers knew that all the social commentary that was necessary was put across in the first film golan and globus made this film for bronson fans not for the critics and it works has been unfairly criticized as trash and a weary entry in a worn out series these statements would be true if the film was made to be taken seriously or to spread a statement but it wasn't if you take it as what it is is just a fun action packed romp with charlie doing to street punks what we all wish we could do the action is non stop the atmosphere is great and the movie is just out and out the best bronson flick ever made you can tell that the penny pinching cannon group spent a lot of money on this one it is believed that bronson thought this film was too violent and that was the reason why winner didn't direct any of the following entries i can understand his concern but as is always the case of sequels you have to push the envelope even further to pass a previous entry in any case this movie was no more violent than any other movie made during this time what makes the best of the series and my favorite film ever not the best just my favorite is the action charlie's presence memorable villains and it's ability to get the viewers to jump on the bandwagon the first film may be the most technically well made but this one is the most fun for once charlie actually has some clever lines although he doesn't say much and a halfway interesting story photography action and direction to back him up charlie has never been more intense or super cool than in this one yes it's exploitive maybe it does promote stereotypes and maybe it is the same story as before but bronson's films always have and always will stand for defending the common man and giving his audience what they want to see many argue that the dw series manipulates its' audience my reply is that the movies don't manipulate us the fans are the ones in charge we demand that bronson blow away deserving scum and in turn winner and co deliver the goods and for those of you who still want to put it down remember a few things was the 1 movie in america when it came out and was among the viewing favorites of millions of people on video and television because they realize that not all films have to be epics they just have to be fun 10 you can't get any better john batchelor
1	br br oh my word i have never seen a film so lacking in any kind of moral judgement or consideration for anything other than the death of the scum michael winner here makes a valid observation of human desires in displaying a gung ho world of deep and damaged execution not only does he spoon feed us with utter hell on earth seen through the face of the bronson but he also shows us the spoon he's feeding us with and says look at what your watching now look at your self and ask the question are you enjoying this and even though you'll tell yourself no it can't be you'll know that deep down inside you'll know it's a masterpiece
1	i think it definitely is the writing is of such a quality that beginner students of the english language should model their conversations after its dialogue for example the exchange between paul bronson and ms kathryn davis deborah raffin more about this character later is extremely clear and to the point ms davis says i hope you like chicken it's the only thing i know how to make to which deftly responds chicken's good i like chicken if that's not english grammar 101 i don't know what is br br another thing about this ms davis character sleeps with her on the second date after she practically throws herself at him and tells him she wants to see him one last time this being only the fourth time they've ever met before she moves to her sister's house in ny to get away from the creeps then he really doesn't even bat an eye while her corpse is burning in the street only minutes later never even says her first name through the entirety of the film not once never a get over here katy or a that's a nice dress you wearing kathryn or a be careful katie or the get ya br br and while this 'love' is developing between the two o'herlihy keeps his ever watchful eyes on them it's almost as if is using her as bait to get to much as he uses the camera or the car sure enough when bites bites back hard in the most incredible sequence of events ever caught on film the final fifteen or so minutes are possibly rivaled only by the final thirty minutes of delta force in their brilliance and that's giving delta force a lot of credit in what other film can you see ed lauter take out alex winter in order to get charles bronson's back a troubled gang leader seemingly calling a hotline to summon neo nazi bikers to come to his aid and nimble broadway dancers wearing mesh halter tops posing as street punks all laid down to a soundtrack written by none other than jimmy page if that's not the highest of high comedy then nothing is funny br br truthfully speaking there are a thousand ways to state the unintentional comedy of death wish 3 but the only way to truly understand it is to watch it and judge for yourself
1	like classic hollywood musicals the plot is just an excuse a must see for those interested in french music hall including a song by piaf and for the wonderful 10 plus minute cancan finale the dancing in the film is not at all like what usually passes for cancan br br some might object to the technicolor costumes and the bright lighting but it gives you a clear view of some grand costumes and sets br br consider it jean renoir's love letter to the paris he grew up in certainly the jean renoir film for people who don't like his serious films or who only like his hollywood productions br br
1	little dieter needs to fly is another in the remarkable body of werner herzog's filmic work that is without peer having recently rewatched it on dvd nearly a decade after its initial us release in 1997 it has lost none of its power and one can see its influence on documentaries as diverse as herzog's own recent grizzly man and errol morris's academy award winning the fog of war like the former it details in its far too brief 74 minutes the life of an interesting american like the latter it gives a peek at a side of war that few see yes we see the violence and the heroism but as the fog of war brought us into the mind of one of last century's foremost this film allows us a peek at the life of a grunt who is captured by the enemy tortured and ultimately triumphs except in no way shape nor form is the film as simplistic nor upbeat as my brief description of it nor is little dieter needs to fly's titular subject dieter and immigrant german who survived the of the nazis we find out as example that in his hometown in the black forest his grandfather was the only man not to vote for hitler and suffered brutally for that stand post world war two germany and his own imprisonment at the hands of the vietcong when his air force jet was shot down over on february 1st while the title of the film and the idea of passion for becoming a pilot stirred by the impression allied fighter planes made on him when they razed his town as a child make one believe that is the central subject of the film this is not true the subject is survival or more precisely his human will all human will the details of romantic life are too hollywood and staid an aspect to interest herzog nor is the fact that he won a purple heart medal of honor the d f c and the navy cross that thing which pushed to survive so much and remain such a relatively upbeat man although there are glimpses of darker sides is what is at the center of this film and all of herzog's canon dieter 'distant barbaric dream' of his past is fully ripened herzog country and the use of a chant e during many jungle scenes among other excellent touches in the score show herzog is perhaps along with only martin scorsese the best manipulator of image and music in film long may he merge
1	i did not know what to expect when i decided to watch this documentary i knew it was about an ex viet nam pow in who escaped but i didn't know much else in reality i wasn't expecting too much oh what a surprise the story of this man's life is very interesting in itself but what sets this film apart from other biography type docs is that dieter himself tells most of the story himself dieter is very comfortable in front of the camera his personality really shines he tells his story about his life growing up in germany during wwii and the hardships we are there with him in that same small town as he describes his family inspirations and struggles we follow him to america and his path to fulfilling his dream to be a pilot then later dieter describes his story of capture escape and survival in the jungle we are again with him in that very jungle as he describes and re enacts his imprisonment and path to freedom with great detail we see the same primitive huts villagers and forms of he dealt with that really hasn't changed for 30 years we see the thick jungle mountain terrain and rivers dieter faced during his escape it helps us to understand his emotions pain and plight i enjoyed the man the story and the style job well done
1	warning herzog is a filmaker and as such tends to be a bit overly dramatic so obsessions about closing doors may or may not be a real part of the character's life but a dramatic embellishment or so both agreed at the premiere in san francisco but herzog's usual fascination with character dreams and perseverance are well suited by this story first published in soldier of fortune and now a full length autobiographical book the soldier of fortune comment brought loud boos from the politically correct sf audience and both filmaker and main character had to ensure the audience who had just seen the film that interest was misplaced so warning this is not rambo just survival
1	the questions and answers of the human spirit are all here in this masterfully crafted historical documentary the shear beauty and horror of one mans walk through life are revealed in totality dieter and herzog are combined and connected through a mental maze that has been transformed into a single straight hallway which the walls have been plastered with images created by one mans characterization of himself by the vibrations of his own vocal chords this film for about 80 minutes have discovered a new dimension of storytelling what do i call this apparently new sense only god knows after all isn't a miracle something that god does for us but chooses to remain anonymous br br this is a requirement to see if you like to experience the lovely horror of war this documentary will cleanse your soul to the marrow
1	although perhaps not as entertaining as some of herzog's work little dieter is another fine film by one of the world's greatest film artists departing from herzog's usual themes little dieter is a fascinating and uplifting character study about a brave man and his efforts to go on living after a life traumatic experience br br dieter wanted to fly from a very young age and the viet nam war gave him that opportunity but instead of spending the war soaring in a cockpit he spent most of it grounded as a pow dieter tells most of his story eloquently and passionately with occasional help from herzog herzog does very little voice over this time but contributes a lot of subtly powerful and visuals which should be no surprise to those familiar with him br br is a fascinating and extremely likable person as human and as alive as they come i found the story of his life and his upbeat personality to be inspiring thanks to herzog for re introducing him to us br br the scale of the film is not as sprawling and the drama is not as fierce as many of the early films that made herzog a force to be reckoned with nevertheless i strongly recommend this to his fans and to those who enjoy documentaries it's a very interesting and well executed film
1	werner herzog again explores the psyche of a man in little dieter we meet an effervescent brilliant man who survived the war in seeing starvation and strange sights moved to the u s and fulfilled his dream of being a flier war food death survival hoarding planes heads coming off how one american is born herzog again sees madness as plane of existence and the surreal blends with the poignant as herzog himself narratives this psychic travelogue of a german becoming an american who flies prop planes in a late 20th century war where the culmination of technology pilgrimage and eating out of garbage cans with spoons is melded with constant optimism into a man redefined into american as always with herzog we are faced with florid madness brilliance and what is man in the face of his own excesses societal and personal we laugh and cringe and are amazed at this man where else for this man but america
1	what attracts a man to military service what prepares a man to survive brutal torture as a prisoner of war what desperation leads to the planning and execution of an escape into the jungles of southeast asia how does he cope with the ghosts and memories he returns home with herzog tries to answer these questions in his documentary of dieter german and u s navy pilot shot down over in 1966 who was taken prisoner tortured and starved but ultimately escaped to be haunted by the experience for the rest of his life a powerful and personal first hand account of the man his life and experience recounted through the integration of interviews archival footage and new footage you will never forget this story or this man
1	with documentary films the question of realism always crops up how much of the film is real and how much is manipulated by the film maker in little dieter needs to fly herzog is far too absorbed in telling the story of a man telling his own story to even address the question of realism versus formalism from the beginning herzog's role as storyteller is obvious luckily he is a master storyteller little dieter is the finest most engaging documentary i have ever seen story is enthralling and herzog's efforts at reenactment putting dieter through the paces of reliving his story on location while it is being filmed are very effective the story that dieter tells is real but herzog is ever present wrenching absurdist commentary from the realism this film is a must see for any students of documentary film and or of werner herzog
1	this film stands as one of the most amazing examples of compelling and artful film making i've every seen herzog seems to capture the almost transcendent tragedy and beauty of story as well as his endearing personal character by the end of the film i was left wishing that i'd had the opportunity to meet dieter before his passing br br on a technical note the cinematography is intimate and astoundingly beautiful the narrative is intricately woven with great awareness of the subject and his capacity for reliving and reenacting traumatic events few documentary directors have so strong an ability to so thoroughly invest the audience in the character this film is a must see
1	we see at the beginning of little dieter needs to fly dieter the subject of the film an obsessive compulsive or at least that's what he seems to be by way of constantly opening closing doors and with his large stock pile of food in the cellar in a way director werner herzog sets up a central question in a manner of speaking to why dieter is like this well in fact he's not necessarily obsessive compulsive as he is just well prepared and why shouldn't he be after the life he's lived aside from the most dark and exhilarating and frightening and just downright haunting story of survival that's the core of the picture the back story to dieter is fascinating too own childhood for example was already a slog from the start being in post war poor in a family without much food or prospects eating wallpaper for the blue in the walls but enter in a passion an un yielding desire which of course is part of herzog's bread butter and love of man in his films which is flying and for dieter there was nothing else but to fulfill this what it ends up leading to after becoming an american citizen is more than he could've bargained for br br dieter is one of herzog's most compelling quirky and compassionately observed figures in his whole career a man who's memory is scarred by brutal memories of his time being a vietnam pow though at the least it provides for some of the most compelling storytelling in any documentary of the last 20 years ironically the storytelling comes through unlike in the wild blue yonder mostly in lots and lots of exposition from dieter on some of the most minute details of his time in the different prison camps the torture tactics the bugs the brutal wretched violence and threats like with the wedding ring tale and leading into the most interesting and sad portions with his best friend duane they escaped the prisons together but found that their journey to reach cambodia would not be so easy now through most of this the talking does something that is enthralling which is that as dieter goes through his stories and occasionally does re enactments in fashion herzog could only do with dieter already middle aged being led in handcuffs et all through the jungle one can picture all of this in the mind it all becomes even more vivid to try and get these little details and the intensity of it all together into a form of reality that herzog keeps these portions simple and knows when to hold dieter back in his answers makes him all the more a key figure of interest he's not ever totally 'normal' but unlike a timothy you wont think ever really about laughing at him either br br so along with his hero whether of war or not is hard to say as dieter disputes that claim as saying the ones who died were the real heroes typical but perhaps quite true herzog his film with a mix of old stock footage when detailing early life the period footage of ww2 scenes and post german rubble is always a captivating sight and with herzog gets up a notch in his timing and assemblage with music and in capturing the footage of vietnam in aerial viewings of jungles and fields herzog is also very wise at not injecting politics much at all into the proceedings there's no 'i was used by the americans' or whatever thrown into the mix there's even a sense that dieter doesn't hold too much of a grudge with everything that happened to him that it's just what happens in time of war and of course he was dropping bombs on people from his plane now through much of these harrowing and even in the smaller bits involving what went on in prisons bathrooms and the scraps of food it's always harrowing luckily herzog keeps a level of humor in check as well one of my very favorite scenes in the film where herzog breaks away for a moment from dieter is when he shows a film used for american soldiers meant to show what should happen in case they get abandoned in the jungle alone with all of the gear that they could possibly have including a knife a flare gun and a very fast helicopter to come around and this is put to hilariously dead pan voice over work br br yet even the moments where one laughs only brings to mind the moments of absurdity in a time of absolute crisis and how one can't ever really imagine what it's like to be alone in a foreign territory surrounded by people who will do anything to keep said person as a form of collateral in war time dieter aside from knowing that flying and airplanes are the only way of life he would ever want to have and herzog ends the film on a wonderfully somber elegiac note where he flies over a large field of airplanes knows what it is to have to survive at all costs but yet as well as in many of herzog's protagonist driven films there's the near spirit that will keep on enduring if one's strong enough even through horrid moments the fate of and problems all the way up to the rescue by the helicopter is he american or a spy they ask on the chopper dieter is such a man with a spirit and he's given via herzog a fantastic tragic creative well shot albeit maybe too short tribute to his life and of course it pumps me up even more for the upcoming dramatization rescue dawn
1	this was a pleasant musical about the creation of the moulin rouge dance hall in many ways this reminds me of the hollywood musicals of the 40s and 50s in that it has many clichés leading up to the inevitable conclusion will the show still go on while of course none of this is new it was enjoyable and well made the musical numbers at the end are frenetic and beautiful to watch in many ways it reminds me of a sexier version of the great ziegfeld in real life ziegfeld was quite the player but this was sanitized in the american film but in french cancan the characters have fully functioning libidos but nothing is really shown so the movie is okay for kids br br nothing new but well done nevertheless
1	wow this is a touching story first i saw dawn' i didn't 'like' it and now i have seen the person dieter about whom this story is being told by herzog very impressing dieter is a driven human being who encountered the most opposite emotions in his live on this earth what an extraordinary life this person has led his tale about the capture by the lao vietcong and thus his suffering is horrifying but what's most impressive is his incredible will to survive how could he find the strenght in a haunting way dieter is telling us in full flowing sentences about his terrible ordeal during his captivity he is a great storyteller and herzog does him the justice this brave man deserves br br in my opinion 'little dieter needs to fly ' tells it all leaving nothing to the imagination thus making ' rescue dawn ' a superfluous film the horror doesn't get more real than in the words of dieter himself he totally succeeds in painting the picture
1	i had the opportunity to see this last evening at a local film festival herzog introduced the film and did an hour long q a afterward br br this is a brilliantly done documentary herzog explained afterward that he does not consider his films to be true documentary since facts sometimes camouflage the truth instead he scripts some scenes and ad libs some to introduce a new element that may have been missed if he followed the original story outline br br little dieter unlike timothy is a real person that you fall in love with you cheer for him you feel the anguish that he feels you admire the sense of humor and joy for life that he exhibited here 30 years after he was taken into captivity by the viet cong you are disappointed to hear afterward that dieter passed on not too long ago br br as in most herzog films the imagery is breathtakingly beautiful with a wonderful choice of background music especially a scene of battle taken from archives of the viet nam war but fitting the story line of dieter br br the core of the film has dieter return to the hellish jungle where he was a pow and he re enacts his journey with some locals harrowing for us to watch i can't imagine what he felt as he was bound again br br one of the better films to depict and discuss the nightmare of the viet nam war it should serve as a lesson to us all
1	little dieter needs to fly was my first film during the 1999 edition of the göteborg filmfestival as i was extremely tired that evening i was hesitant to see it but the raving overall score of 9 here at imdb made me go there br br it was 80 minutes of pure life force experiencing dieter life through his own telling was enchanting br br see it and if possible see it at a cinema
1	this film is excellent fear of watching documentary movies cancel your shrink and watch little story you won't believe how captivating this fine piece of film making is until you have experienced it i'm eager to say that it even out goes almost any vietnam war movie including apocalypse now it's a real story it's a personal story a story about the love for flying the dream of being a pilot and the nightmare of being shot down above enemy's territory all is shot in a return to style at location herzog asking the questions dieter answering them in a memorable german english accent and with fine remembrance pointing out what happened where about 25 years before there is this part that i told friends over and over again bailed out from his us navy plane dieter becomes a pow of the vietcong blindfolded for the greater part of the days he is being dragged through the southeast asian jungle for miles and miles on bare feet tortured insulted disorientated and covered with wounds they arrive in a small friendly village to spend the night the next morning after walking for several hours dieter discovers someone stole his wedding ring from his finger that is it he can take no more he starts to cry as a result of complete exhaustion the vietcong men react surprised dieter manages to explain what happened immediately the group returns to the village and starts searching for the person that stole the ring they find the man immediately chop of his finger and return the ring to dieter the movie is full of these mind boggling and surprising situations the immense cultural differences the clash of east and west the fear of the unknown i e all that stands for america on the one hand the asian jungle and his secrets on the other can be sensed the entire movie back problems that's because you sat at the edge of your seat for two hours and didn't notice
1	i consider this a breathtaking but deceptive film because it seems so simple and straightforward a vietnam survivor tells his harrowing tale and some of the story is on location reviewers sometimes even claim that herzog's presence in the film is minimal but how wrong they are we know that all documentaries are to some extent and this one has herzog's subtle hand all over it most notably in the stunning music the unbelievably expert selection of archival footage and the management of cascading images the evocative power of this film is astounding starting with its title the opening title card from the book of revelation and the initial voice over this is a movie that one can watch repeatedly with increasing wonder not a simple commodity that is gulped down with one's favorite beverage on the way to the evening news this is one of those movies that can resonate with you for a lifetime
1	some spoilers early 1930's educational movie about the horrors of contracting a social disease and the consequences that come along with it blindness madness loss of ones abilities to function as well as infecting other people with it even one's unborn children and finally death damaged lives is far ahead of it's times in educating it's viewers about the dangers venereal viewed now over 70 years after it's release back in 1933 is as good if not better then the many films about that subject made back in the 1940's 1950's and even 1960's br br donald bradley lyman williams is a top executive of a major shipping company who's been going study with his girlfriend joan diane sinclair for some time both are finally planing to get married and raise a family out at a party one evening donald meets elsie cooper charlotte and together they have one drink too many and before you know it end up spending the night together in home br br thinking nothing of his one night stand with elsie donald later marries his long time love joan and they both plan to have a child or so they thought at the office donald get a panicked call from elsie telling him to come over to her place right away about something very important rushing over donald finds out to his horror that elsie has a sexual infection that she got from her boyfriend nat harry myers and that she may have given it to donald and he in turn may have infected his wife joan telling elsie that she's wrong about him being infected and that she should seek medical attention elsie shoots herself as donald is just about to leave br br getting over tragic death donald gets another surprise later when his doctor dr bill hill jason robards sr comes over to his office telling him to immediately come with him to the hospital to talk to infectious disease specialist dr vincent leonard murray about his wife joan who's just been admitted there the terrible truth about donald and his wife joan hits him like a bolt out of the blue and leaves him speechless just like it did joan earlier both have been infected and the infection is the dreaded and unspeakable back in the 1930's infection called venereal disease br br told by dr leonard that it would take some two years of treatment for both donald and joan to be completely cured it leaves joan in a state of dangerous suicidal thoughts later in the film joan feeling that she has nothing to live for closes all the windows in her and donald's apartment and turns on the gas stove full blast in order to kill herself and donald who was asleep at the time br br honest film about the ravages of venereal disease and the damage that it does to those who are infected by it both psychically as well as mentally and how it could be cured if given immediate medical care instead of hiding it from one's doctor and keeping it hidden for fear of shame and embarrassment until it's too late
1	yes this movie was just hilarious and the acting was top notch from the whole cast except shelley winters german accent wasn't that great but then that doesn't matter as she is hardly in the film so if you're a fan of hers beware the two main stars of this film are laurence harvey and julie harris now before this film i'd only see miss harris in east of eden with james dean and i own an audio tape of the glass menagerie that she did on stage with monty clift and jessica tandy so i wasn't sure how she'd be in this role and boy did she impress me how hammy was she i love ham mr harvey he tickled my fancy i am now a full time laurence harvey fan that hair cackles omg it's almost like burt that crazy messy look it doesn't get better than that he is young and so innocent in this film see it now it's definitely in my top ten i am so glad i found a copy that is all mine unfortunately this movie is out of print and very hard to find on video br br btw watch out for the hospital hotel room scene it's one of the best parts or when mr harvey has convinced himself he's ill and he's trying to get his knee to kick you know how doctors do with that little rubber hammer well he does it himself and his leg kicks and it kicks the table squeals check out the look on his face so innocent i can't describe it but to all those people who say he couldn't act very well and other cockamamie comments see this film and you will see what a great actor he really was you'll be bowled over if you aren't then i'm afraid there is nothing i can do for you you're hopeless
1	turning somewhat dark and utterly brilliant novel into light comedic romp could easily have been a recipe for disaster but it wasn't the story moves at a rapid pace and the black and white imagery is gorgeous as are harvey and harris as they ham their way through a wacky weimar berlin fun
1	this british film version of the stage play i am a camera is based on christopher berlin stories this is the source material for the famous musical cabaret br br julie harris a major stage actress of her day reprises her 1951 tony award winning role as sally bowles she's a far cry from the liza minnelli character but the basic sally is all here despite the various film codes that would have blocked this story from being filmed in hollywood harris is perhaps stagy but she's also quite good as the madcap and maddening sally her singing number is obviously dubbed by marlene dietrich no less although harris apparently sings for herself in other moments br br laurence harvey with the very ugly hair plays with zero charm and can't even make the character interesting shelley winters does little with the role of natalia marian winters won a supporting tony for the play and anton diffring is ok as fritz ron randell plays the clive but seems a tad loud lee seidl is funny as the landlady br br yet despite the overall staginess and cheap look harris takes center stage and she is amazing this film was released the same year as east of eden in which harris gives a glowing performance as comparing the two performances gives a good look at the talent miss harris possesses these two characters couldn't be more unalike harris' sally preens and prances about and growls out a very lascivious laugh she also acts circles around the boring harvey br br without the music and with a familiar storyline many viewers may find little here to recommend this film but it's a great chance to see the great julie harris repeating what was probably a very shocking role in 1951
1	i have just seen this delightful classic again after many years the next to last film directed by henry cornelius who died three years later at the age of only 45 the same age at which the film's male star larry harvey was also to die in 1973 three future directors were in the crew jack clayton associate producer guy green cinematographer and clive donner editor this film is based upon the autobiographical story 'goodbye to by the well known british author christopher which was first turned into a play by john van druten then made into this film then turned into a musical and finally filmed as which brought the amazing liza minelli to world attention with her voice which can shatter a glass at the distance of a mile appears as a character in the film under his own name he was gay but in those days that was illegal and could land him in prison so he disguises his proclivities under the description of being what he calls 'a confirmed this is the key to his platonic relationship with the wildly eccentric wacky promiscuous ever cheerful and thoroughly unique character whom he calls sally bowles the portrait of sally bowles in this film is a tour de force by the young julie harris who sweeps every scene into a magical and captivating web of sparkling personal charm what a vehicle for an actress with plenty of charm of her own it is one of the great cinematic performances of the 1950s is played to perfection by the young lawrence harvey in a finely judged performance which never allows the comedy to go over the edge and even the moments of farce bordering on slapstick remain somehow 'almost larry is so funny at portraying a wimpish hypochondriac what an irony considering the total lack of shown by his bravery and stoicism in the last year of his life as he died from terminal stomach cancer and behaved with such dignity and lack of complaint i knew him well in the last three years or so and he was a generous warm and modest person he adored his little girl domino now alas also tragically dead this film was his finest early performance to be followed by his spectacular work in 'room at the top' 1959 'summer and 1961 and 'the manchurian candidate' 1962 larry was often undervalued in his lifetime because he was too handsome was often cast as a cad and glamour boys are not always accepted as good actors but many of the finest actresses played opposite him and they were in no doubt of his abilities and he was a strong lead in many of the most important films of his time if he had lived beyond middle age he would have gone from strength to strength and become a 'grand old man' of the screen sitting in his house in one day he gave me a glass of his usual white wine from a huge barrel which he had brought from some foreign cellar i said he always gave me such delicious wine what was it he proudly answered that it was a which he had chosen himself at the vineyard in france and had shipped over specially he then added with extreme wistfulness 'you know i've been waiting for four years for someone to comment on it and ask me what it is and you are the first person who has ever done so ' what mattered to him was to be recognised for having taste in wine and his more glamorous friends had denied him that satisfaction in this film anton diffring gives a touching early performance as an earnest young man later he was to have to play nazi officers far too much poor fellow and the young shelley winters plays a rich german jewish girl in her usual noisy but effective manner but it was not too difficult as she was a noisy jewish girl herself anyway this film has such an air of joie de vivre about it that it is pure delight
1	i just viewed jean renoir's wonderful film french can can it is a visual delight and a great entertainment the recently produced moulin rouge pales by comparison i didn't quite get all of the praise that the recent movie received now i'm convinced more than ever that my appraisal was correct after seeing a master film maker like jean renoir's version of the same story he succeeded in getting great performances out of his entire cast and the great french actor jean gabin was in rare form the dance sequence near the end was one of the most exciting one i'd ever seen it was long but i didn't want it to end this film deserves to receive more recognition than it's got
1	hindsight is a wonderful thing much reviled when it first appeared inspiring the famous review 'me no this precursor of cabaret can now be looked at in comparison and it's not half bad it's certainly no classic but it has its own wayward charm the film version of cabaret follows this plot whereas the stage version changed the plot somewhat one should of course resist the temptation to snicker when laurence harvey's christopher it keeps the original author's real name god knows what thought of it describes himself as 'a confirmed and while harvey is an utterly inadequate 'hero' he's virtually asexual and shelly winters woefully miscast as landauer the part marisa played in cabaret julie harris is a perfectly marvellous sally it's a lovely piece of comic acting and anton diffring is first rate as fritz the german jew in love with shelly's character of course if cabaret had never come along you might ask yourself would this ever have seen the light of day again that it has been revived may not quite be cause for celebration but it's perfectly acceptable all the same
1	george carlin is probably my favorite comedian i have seen so many of his specials and even had the opportunity to see him perform live he had a certain cynicism that always appealed to me his last 2 specials life is worth losing especially and complaints and grievances have lacked a certain spirit and content george appeared overweight old and tired not to mention coming out of rehab i said not to mention it anyway life is worth losing was especially tragic as he was overweight disgruntled coming off of rehab there we go again and extremely unfunny if there was a way to feel sorry for a comedian without heckling him off stage george achieved it with life is worth losing it is as if the new millennium and post 9 11 america was trampling george's spirit the bs had become too large to manage br br the comeback is partially successful with it's bad for ya this special is the transmutation completed george is no longer trying to rekindle his glory days he is in full acceptance of his age being old and dealing with the looming prospects of death he has accepted being a crusty old sob and is relishing in it this is better than his previous specials yet far from jammin' in new york it is a little tragic his observations are not cutting edge anymore and seem more andy rooney than lenny bruce george isn't george anymore he is no longer criticizing us but is the man in the high castle pointing out how things were and how dissimilar modern life is br br this is an improvement over the previous two specials but george does not as of yet recoup his old glory if ever he has been reduced from critical social and political stinging commentary to mostly personal peeves when he goes political he still has something to say it is heavily derived especially if you have seen any of his previous work but it still works somehow as opposed to his random rantings which lack a certain relevance outside of the baby boom generation the last 25 minutes is the best this special has to offer br br for now i will worship the sun and pray to joe pesci that george can recreate himself as a cutting edge septuagenarian it's a 50 50 chance life seems to have become more tedious for george and his art is now his life this is a step in the right direction from his previous 2 specials but is far from his old self where does he go from here he may never recoup but maybe he can further metamorphosing refine this new ornery old man routine heres to hoping for 7 more words you can't say on tv or at least a windmill he can handle
1	for those of you who like stand up comedians you must have heard about george carlin he is really one of the best comedians alive so you must know him br br but he died already god rest him in peace or hell he didn't believe too much in religion so he might as well chose hell to live eternity haha just joking don't take it serious br br it's bad for ya it's one of the latest works of george carlin before his death br br believe me one of his best works a must for any fan and an almost best of of all george carlin's jokes it's not a best of but it's really amusing br br it has less political and religious jokes it's only to have a great time br br editing is very good it's not a concert so it shouldn't have quick changing of shots the slow fading to other shot was well done fading is the best option in terms of editing
1	my brother got me hooked on carlin back in the 70s i always loved his observational humor that is looking at every day things and finding the humor in it like asking the question have you ever tried to throw away an old waste basket you can't do it they keep bringing back to you and asking questions like why is the word kill more acceptable then the f word while making prefect sense with the discussion br br however during the 90s his stuff was less funny and more angry what he seemed to be doing was holding a mirror to society's face and say 'take a look ' at this point his shows were less of a comedy show and more of a gripe session but in all fairness he always made a tremendous amount of sense he really made you think br br here was carlin old and new he starts out about the fun one could have by getting old and later slamming the the state of the world again making perfect sense br br this was his best since jammin' in new york and as it turns out his last br br i think what 'the was to john wayne or 'a prairie home to robert altman 'it's bad for ya' is to george carlin a fond farewell to a true great icon love him or hate him i think he will be remembered
1	this is unfortunately carlin's last recorded hbo concert from a series that lasted over 30 years though this may not be his best work it is excellent funny and thought provoking this recording is also a bit different from most of his other concerts that it is a bit than most of his other concerts br br throughout his long prolific and influential career carlin has moved from the more observational humor and fart jokes towards a more viewpoint of society and culture his focus on the english language and euphemisms increased throughout the years and culminates in this performance though i would argue that his audio book when will jesus bring the pork chops best displays his vast wit with regards to language euphemisms and the breakdown of our values it's bad for ya is quite indicative of his long transformation from a comedian to a writer br br if you are offended by foul language or the disparagement of the church you will probably not like any of carlin's stand up material however if you enjoy being mentally stimulated and can tolerate the language and blasphemy you would probably greatly enjoy this concert
1	mr carlin left our common forum in june of 2008 shortly after going to the hospital for pains in the chest he had a history of heart trouble the media and comics everywhere covered the loss more than i or he would have ever expected but he was the grandfather of observational comedy br br this recording was his last production and contains a large section dedicated to the topic of death and the prospects of life thereafter filming of the project occurred shortly after his birthday which he was happy to have attained observed i have followed carlin's career from the days of fuzzy black and white television and enjoyed his topical record albums br br it is a privilege for any carlin fan to at least see if not own a copy of this particular show he was still fast moving and with great timing even at 70 as he would say he is not smiling down from heaven on you if he's doing anything at all it's not taking harp lessons perhaps he's looking up
1	it's bad for ya really showcases more of george carlin's talents he really is still as sharp as a tack it is a shame that we lost him this past year but his comedy will forever live on this stand up special is literally one of the funniest i have ever heard a comedian perform even though he is making fun of small children it just makes you laugh the way he says some of the stuff it is true that carlin can literally make something that seems unfunny and turn it into one of the funniest things you have ever and will ever hear i really enjoyed this stand up particularly from carlin and recommend that those that liked this check out more of george carlin's stand up
1	it might be a stretch saying this as a die hard carlin fan but the material both written and as performed in it's bad for ya is some of the best late era material yet at 70 carlin bounces back from the level of despair and some of the stumbles in the act itself from life is worth losing to a special that is firmly structured but loose and playful or as much as the old f can get and is continuously ceaselessly funny and funny as in reminiscent of what some of us had going on when watching back in town or the first time the material even if sounding at times a tinge of the previously done i e the whole bit on children in school and camp like the children segment in diseased is always fresh and with such a sting of truth to everything that it the mind while here goes tickling the funny bone br br going from the topic of death how long to wait to scratch off a name from the book six weeks unless if on the computer the facets of communication looking down from heaven spots of god naturally kids and just troublesome gestures involving hats in religion and if people really have rights make up the bulk of the special centered around the premise that what's bad for you plain and simple is bs total complete bs which as we also learn or if you've really learned it you're like the kid waiting at the street corner for a week following dropped off not quite randomly by the parent holds the country together carlin isn't necessarily angry though even if disdain seems to spout out at most turns even just to observe how horrifying children's teeth coming in look it's skepticism tinged with the feeling that everything is not going to be fine br br what it comes down to is this carlin is to dirty witty cautionary stand up comedy what yoda is to jedis everywhere which is a small spark of hope via crystal clear wisdom in a world where it's pretty damn hard to get any at the least we get classic gc outrageous lines and bits from the man's 13th or is it 14th comedy special including as far as an eyebrow raising observation on people who play mozart music during a birth
1	i can't say i enjoyed this as much as the big lebowski or raising arizona and felt a little slighted but o brother is an enjoyable film worthy of some good laughs and a taste of the brisk twisted sense of creativity the dvd edition contains the featurette and i was interested to find out that the are pretty simple in their directorial techniques that surprised me of course this movie is not the best example and i'm only saying this in comparison and it wasn't worthy of any oscars many feel it was robbed but maybe it depends on the appeal br br though i enjoyed the previous work i've never been a fan of old westerns or the dukes of hazzard or any of that stuff they show daily on tnn i guess that's why i didn't feel as enthusiastic about checking out this movie seeing that it revolves around southern folk for all those from the south who are reading this i don't mean to offend any of your people i'm sure you guys feel the same way when you watch movies about urban areas like a bronx tale when you live in the city all your life it's hard to get accustomed to films of this nature but all apologies aside i found the characters fun and quirky i think john turturro nailed the accent perfectly and seeing the way he talks in real life i find that amazing tim blake nelson was also good of course george clooney who i assume is not the best at feigning accents judging by his decision to chuck the idea of working with a dialogue coach and developing a new england accent for the perfect storm naturally seems a little miscast and continually struggles with the accent his performance was good though you can also spot coen regulars like holly hunter in a short but sweet role and john goodman also on screen for a short time but steals every minute of it br br though i don't normally dig country music i liked the title song a man of constant sorrow the dvd also contains the music video for that song br br overall i found the film entertaining and original but it doesn't have that in your face quality that the have shown to us in the past it's a slighter effort but a good one i still suggest you check it out br br my score 7 out of 10
1	this movie was sooooooo good it was hilarious there are so many jokes that you can just watch the movie over and over and not get tired of it john turturro and tim blake nelson were awesome as pete and delmar i love those guys i love the adventures they went on too i definitely recommend this movie br br also the music in this movie is terrific i love singing along with all of the songs
1	jean renoir's homage to the paris of the late 19th century is beautiful in many ways not only does it appear to have been photographed by toulouse lautrec and it portrays the geographic paris the streets accessible only by staircases the unpleasant end of fleeting popularity and the sexual opportunism of men with a product to sell in an uncompromising picture of show business that is in stark contrast with the picture painted by hollywood there is an obvious comparison to be made with lloyd bacon's 42nd street which had been made about 20 years before featuring ruby keeler as a dancing sensation a fresh faced kid from the sticks who had come to new york to get into show business who saves the show when the star fails you're going out there a kid from the chorus but you've got to come back a star warner baxter's julian marsh is a director who suffers for his art and is unappreciated jean keeps running afoul of genital politics but when he talks about the show he is more like than like julian marsh he's all about the game except for his pointy thing he has a profitable new venture up until his mistress become jealous of the woman whom she recognizes as his next mistress his prospects rise and fall with every coital journey he takes br br takes mistress 1 lola de castro played by maria felix slumming to a dive where he sees françoise with her boyfriend and first lover paulo the baker and discovers that she is a spirited dancer he uses his charm and the prospect of money to lure to studying dancing so that she may go on the stage the prospect of money and fame charms and she become next mistress as well as an apt student of the cancan which has dubbed french cancan to cater to the current anglophile tendency in the dance br br both 42nd st and french cancan are tributes to show business to modern entertainment that has is own iconography and its own conceit 42nd st is centered around julian marsh a great director of broadway shows which he organizes with great personal energy and dubious sexual involvement the male juvenile is a middle aged twit with replaced by dick powell the pretty tenor with secret wealth to hide on the other hand goes from woman to woman seducing them with the promise of fame hooking them with what must have been a very persuasive endowment one has no doubt that he is heterosexual and quite active scenes abound br br days after seducing away from paulo he has discovered esther a piaf type and begun to prepare her for her job of singing the film's theme song while he plays it on her fiddle that of course arouses jealousy just as she has aroused the jealousy of lola and of course had already the privilege of being a the whole movie is about how has cost him money but how even his troublesome horniness is subordinate to his love for the show how the audience demands devotion and it is this potent combination of phallic persuasion and tempting fame that makes the hero while asserting that a true lover of the show will never profit as much as the money men at the movie's conclusion having the creditors and the jealous babes approaches a new attraction watching the incredible and believe me it is incredible performance of the cancan have you ever thought about being on the stage he asks and the curtain descends meanwhile poor julian is sitting of the fire escape of the theatre listening to peggy new fans disparage his contribution to the show's success i won't even go into 42nd street 's central line oh guy it was grand of you to come br br furthermore i won't go into the glimpse one gets of legendary parisian entertainers including a brief vision of piaf nor of the vision of a paris both urban and rural certainly there is a sample of the styles that engendered and but it is the memoir of an assertive and welcome masculinity something unseen in any hollywood musical with which it might be compared is a pleasant relief from the of 30's hollywood musicals including my beloved fred astaire not to mention dick powell let alone the barf promulgated by mgm in movies like the repulsive american in paris all those fountains we'll save our comparison of that turkey to breakfast at tiffany's and its deconstruction of the american male for another day br br that may have been a hopeful vision in postwar france of a kind of hyper masculine that may or may not have ever existed is practically beside the point that he is a man's man neither john wayne nor edward everett horton is perhaps more on target that he is a man who likes the ladies is never in question i for one wouldn't mind living his life at all i wonder if gabin was that lucky br br at the beginning of this comment i wanted to talk about baz and what sinclair lewis called i never got that far moulin rouge well paris doesn't put that kind of stuff in the seine anymore
1	it takes a rare movie to get better each time you see it o brother does that and then some the first time i saw it i have to admit i had never seen anything like it then i wanted to see it again and now i'm up to double digits with this great movie the coen brothers' finest movie they've ever done with fargo and hudsucker proxy coming in a tight second and third for me br br george clooney gives the performance of his career playing ulysses everett mcgee a fast talking know it all escaped convict who really doesn't know that much at all tim blake nelson and john turturro are the perfect sidekicks for clooney particularly nelson and his portrayal of delmar a loyal albeit uneducated fellow escapee john goodman is my favorite bit character as big dan perfect it reminds me of his part in raising arizona he's just a perfect actor for this role coen brothers' favorites holly hunter and charles durning also provide memorable performances br br joel and ethan coen are masters of their trade it's not like they try to win academy awards every time they make a film they just try and tell a story that they want to tell and it's entertaining it's a loose adaptation of the odyssey and i mean loose for all of you homer fanatics it's just great br br the most amazing part of this movie though is the coloring i've watched how they got the dusty feel to the movie and i am still in awe just thinking about it the coloring does become an important part of the movie great great movie
1	it started off weird the middle was weird and the ending was weird but i really really liked it a modern day version of homer's odyessy but that is really irrelevant interesting story and casting clooney was great and i applaud him for taking on such an role so unlike anything he has done or ever will do again lots of surprise stars why isn't holly hunter in more do something different tonight and watch this really different and unexpected flick
1	after seeing the 'oh so fargo and thinking it was nothing more than average i was wandering if it would be a good idea to rent another coen 'masterpiece' this time i was much less disappointed than i was with fargo and i must say that most of the credit for that goes to the good jokes and the good acting of george clooney well done mr clooney make more of these and less 'perfect movies you can act and you showed it here br br 7 out of 10
1	this has got to be the best movie i've seen you definately have to watch it more than once to find all of the humor and twists i'm no fan of george clooney but he shines here the real performance comes from tim blake nelson and john turturro as pete and delmar one of the few movies that i own
1	'o brother where art is a gleeful retelling of homer's 'odyssey' set in 1930s mississippi and rampant with splendid quirkiness that is the trademark of the brothers coen three hapless convicts make their escape to find treasure and more than their share of adventure in this delightful film george clooney is in fine ingenuous form as the chatty amiable leader of the trio but the real acting kudos go to john turturro and tim blake nelson as his goofy but lovable cohorts dubbed the bottom boys' by clooney's character after they receive baptism by full immersion in a river the three cut a record under that homespun nom de plume for the cash and unwittingly become overnight sensations with veritable 'rock star' status the film is accompanied by enough music and songs to almost qualify it as a musical and there are some incredible feats of film making here the scene at the kkk rally is a real doozy and is so similar to the scene when dorothy's friends rescue her from the witch's castle in 'the wizard of oz' that it almost amounts to cinematic plagiarism and what an amazing work of plagiarism it is without giving away the ending i must say the climax of the movie is one of the most breathtaking sequences put to film in recent memory on a par with the spectacular finale of 'magnolia' another one of my favorites 'o brother' is a must see a perfect 10
1	the coen's strike again i had no going in and i was amazed at the bizarre telling of a good bad guy story although clooney is easily in this his cornball style is welcome turturro and nelson are dead and i loved i am a man of constant sorrow as performed by the soggy bottom boys catchy tune br br 8 of 10
1	i've seen just about all of the coen brothers' films now and i have to say this is one of their better films i wouldn't dare say it's better than the big lebowski but it was very good in it's own right br br i thought the story was very interesting and hilarious at times i loved all the characters especially tim blake nelson delmar and john turturro's pete br br there really isn't anything bad i can say about this movie but this movie isn't for everyone it might be safe to say that if you liked the other coen brothers' films then you'll hopefully like this one too and if you liked what you saw in the trailer i think you'll like the film but don't hold me to it br br anyhow i hope that you like d the film as much as i do thanks for reading br br chris
1	great movie great actors great soundtrack i loved it settings are perfect dialogues situations storyline all together mixed to give this masterpiece clooney and turturro are magnificent and the soggy bottom boys are simply charming and contagious with their music
1	this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous one of the actors is george clooney and i'm not a fan but this roll is not bad another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack the man of constant sorrow i recommand this movie to everybody greetings bart
1	they loved him up and turned him into a horny toad god that gets to me every time br br this is a great movie memorable lines from thank god your momma died given birth seen ya died of shame to i don't understand big dan great scenes from the opening train scene laughed so hard i cried to the bluegrass br br watch it it's good it's great it's funny and it's based on a famous story worth your while believe me don't watch this if you have a weak bladder for you will definitely wet your pants laughing
1	there are frames in this film that could be renoir paintings with vivid colors against muted backgrounds the humorous combination of sexual honesty and innocence is refreshing in this fifties film and makes palatable the old story line of the ingenue that becomes a star the can can number at the end seems realistic and exciting but not over the top as in an american dance sequence
1	i was truly and wonderfully surprised at o' brother where art thou the video store was out of all the movies i was planning on renting so then i came across this i came home and as i watched i became engrossed and found myself laughing out loud the coen's have made a film again but i think the first time you watch this movie you get to know the characters the second time now that you know them you laugh sooo hard it could hurt you i strongly would reccomend anyone seeing this because if you are not you are truly missing a film gem for the ages 10 10
1	i originally saw this several years ago while i was sitting on the couch and got stuck watching it on hbo with the remote out of my reach i decided to go with it and was awaiting a miserable movie that i had been avoiding for a year so it started off and i wasn't very optimistic about it but after about ten minutes i found myself laughing the complete opposite as i was expecting the comedy was smart the acting pretty good considering the cast worked very well together and the story though slightly awkward and fake was actually quite entertaining br br three convict brothers manage to escape their sentence and eventually go in search of their fortune the movie is set in the 1930's so along the way they encounter a number of funny and interesting all have a different story or achievement they are striving for really the majority of the movie may seem random some may say it was pointless and boring but if you look for the smart comedy and occasionally stupid that is integrated into the movie i'm sure you'll enjoy this one br br i liked the performances given by george clooney john turturro and tim blake nelson all of them did very well in their roles an they worked great together but to finish this off o brother where art thou is a smart funny and a movie adventure that i wouldn't let pass up
1	i thought this movie was great i saw this when it came out in the theaters so i do not remember all the details i remember it being based on homer's tale on odysseus names places and events are changed but you can still see the resemblance to the tale br br i found it funny how they would get themselves into trouble and how they would get themselves out of it i really enjoyed this version of modernized old tales much better than the romeo and juliet with clair danes br br i will agree that in some parts of the tale it does get a little to silly at times but all in all it is a great adventure with some big name actors
1	about the discussion on the south the rednecks and the hillbillies well i am from the south argentina near the south pole to be exact is this southern enough seriously some stories are universal we have never been to greece nor lived the classic period of homer but he speaks to us today so does shakespeare and dante and stories from far unknown places also reach us when told with sensibility intelligence humor just like o brother besides we all the rest of the world have our own hillbillies too and our own depression era ever heard of argentina during year 2001 our politicians and racism our gentle souls just like delmar and tommy i simply loved this movie folks despite the subtitles despite being on the other side of the world and please forgive my errors in english i tried my best br br ps i believe nobody quoted this favorite phrase when delmar asks george nelson what does he do for a living while handling him the machine gun
1	the first time i saw this movie it didn't seem to go anywhere when i watched it a second time though it made a lot more sense give it a chance watch it more than once there are a lot of key elements that shape the story that could be missed the first and even second time watching it the cohen brothers brilliantly weave actual happenings of the early 20th century into this story to make a believable setting and storyline the combination of clooney's leading role blends well with turturro and nelson's supporting acts john goodman's appearance in the movie is hilarious the soundtrack is great as well this movie has become a household favorite for my family 10 10 for sure
1	this film makes clooney all his films combined before this have all been based on the same character this film he transcends his previous body of work and proves his capability as a top notch actor the soundtrack defeats most one handedly the brothers have truly made a classic one to own and watch repeatedly
1	my husband received dvd of for christmas and it was the best gift we received we watch it every time we need to laugh and so far we have viewed it 12 times the scenery in this movie is beautiful and the music is outstanding we also purchased the soundtrack and we play it in our vehicles and at home when ever we need a pick me up and that too is daily if anyone needs a suggestion for a good gift for movie lovers this movie is it the characters are hilarious charming and their facial expressions are too funny to describe i have always been a fan of george clooney but now i am also a fan of tim blake nelson delmar and john turturro pete and am now looking for them in other movies you gotta see this movie
1	the coen brothers have done it again three depression era convicts george clooney john turturro and tim blake nelson escape a mississippi chain gang and head off in search of buried treasure that will fund their new lives along the way they sing on the radio and become much sought after stars as well as escapees great laughs and a soundtrack that is a lesson introduction to bluegrass music br br clooney is outstanding as the fast talking quick witted ulysses everett mcgill holly hunter plays his estranged wife turturro and nelson are flawless also in the cast are john goodman and charles durning br br dan provides the singing voice for george clooney on i am a man of constant sorrow the soggy bottom boys song that serves as a template for the bluegrass laden soundtrack that also features alison krauss ralph stanley the whites john hartford the cox family and gillian welch toe tapping knee slapping fun for the whole family you'll be surprised with how relaxed and funny this movie is
1	i was into the movie right away i've seen the other coen movies with the exception of raising arizona and i've noticed that each of their movies has a color fargo is gray white lebowski is bright orange and this movie is a pleasant yellow br br the bright pleasant qualities of this movie start right away soon the look is accompanied by the great great music it's the old folk sound the kind of music that was written during a time when music was enjoyed as a part of day to day life enjoyed by everyone chain gangs church choirs and even prison escapees br br now about the prison escapees i don't know what crime their characters could have possibly committed as they are a very very friendly group of guys clooney is fantastic completely nailing his role br br go see this as soon as possible i believe that it can be enjoyed by anyone at some level for some reason the theater i was in was full of old ladies and old men and they loved it br br you'll love it too i promise i was compelled to get my hands on the soundtrack right away
1	this was the best film i saw in the year 2000 the cohen brothers have never let me down before and they certainly didn't this time either br br it's one of those rare movies these days it's witty intelligent and vastly entertaining i left the cinema with a warmth in my heart of course there's lot of cohen stuff in there odd characters and peculiar gadgets well developed plot and magic camerawork but no cohen film is resembling any other cohen film if you overlook the general quality of them of course br br the big surprise for me was that clooney is so good but the true master performance in this movie comes from tim blake nelson but the rest of the cast is superb too br br a film that is lightweight comedy with a musical touch that evolve it's story round rednecks and old time country music dripping with wit and intelligence thats a very unlikely combination but it's exactly what this picture is
1	renoir's tale of paris the cancan a washer girl and the moulin rouge a more subdued but highly entertaining version of the opening of the moulin rouge jean gabin gives his usual excellent performance the technicolor photography on the print i saw was exquisite an easy evening's viewing chris w
1	one of the best lackawanna blues br br great movie great cast great music this is one of those movies that is so good that when it is over you wish it would go on for another 90 minutes i will this one many times br br this is one of those movies that grabs you from the beginning and twist and slams you emotionally throughout the feature the cast is extraordinary without the faintest hint of anyone being in their role you get the sense that you're really there taking all this in a great deal of care was given in the sets costumes and music of the period the relationship between the characters we meet is both simple and complicated as the movie goes on but the steady performance of ms is so powerful that the movie ends before we've had our fill of the wonderful misfits to single out anyone other than nanny is an injustice because we have very good performances by great veteran actors including br br jeffery wright jimmy terrence howard and delroy lindo but it is marcus franklin macy gray and ms that makes this a wonderful experience br br the movie moves rapidly and is short by todays standards but it is without question one of the best movies you're going to see this year if you like good period pieces that will challenge you emotionally tug at your heart lift you joyfully and have you tapping your feet at the same time then this is the movie for you i've shown it to several friends and they all want my copy that says it all the movie is that good check it out for yourself br br 1 amsterdam holland
1	having seen most of the coen brothers previous films i expected something different and off centre is certainly those things but it also has a heart as big as well as big as mississippi it is one of the most plainly enjoyable movies to have come out in recent times intelligent well crafted clever and superbly acted br br characters are delivered in their myriad shades by a group of marvellous actors george clooney winning me over completely with his clark gable ish looks and character having only ever seen him in three kings and his thin red line cameo i am now a fan more comedy please george br br john and tim blake nelson ably assist especially nelson if ever the simpsons is made into a movie then he must be a natural to play cletus the slack jawed yokel i don't think there is a performance that falls short of excellent from the entire cast my special favorite is stephen root as the blind radio station man br br great old timey music a jiggy type dance by clooney that i am trying to learn and a feel of depression era southern us enhanced by sepia like photography make this the best movie i've see so far this century the only drawback to the film is that it has almost sent me broke buying the soundtrack the dvd and a dvd player to play it on it's that good br br
1	i have walked out of a coen movie before and not quite known how to feel the two best examples of that are the big lebowski and fargo lebowski was so ridiculously original and so filled with strange humour that i had to like it on the other hand there were some unnecessary reveries with flying people and killer bowling balls that just didn't seem to fit the mold of the film still i liked the film and now own a copy of it fargo made me howl with hysterics sometimes i wasn't sure why i was laughing so hard that it made me cry but nonetheless i was there were many seemingly strange characters in fargo but upon further investigation they were really just real people talking about real situations that is why the man with the shovel or was it a broom was so side splittingly funny when he was telling the police officer about some funny looking man down at the bar the other night and that is also why the theater erupted in laughter when he then says that there are some funny looking clouds coming in i own a copy of this film too the coen's have a way of masking their film and their characters as being somewhat eccentric and perhaps a little off the wall but if you look closer at some of those same characters that seem zany you will always find that in some strange way they all ring true that is what is quite exceptional about o brother where art thou this is a film that is out there i mean it is not even in the same ballpark as a traditional film i reviewed the film shaft this past summer and in it i said that shaft was an okay film that i have seen a thousand times before but you can not say that about a coen brother's film and you most certainly can not say that about this one br br this film has everything in it from a jail break crooked southern politicians muses references to what i can only assume are historical figures riverside bank robberies violence towards animals singing flocks of religious fanatics kkk lynch mobs and so on there are obviously many references to homer's odyssey in here as well but i wouldn't know that because i have never read homer's odyssey or even knew one thing about it every other newspaper reviewer seems to know all about it and they think that this cynicism and almost spoof like quality towards it makes the film that much better well coming from a guy who doesn't know anything about it i can tell you that it is still an entertaining film there were times when again as is usual for a coen film i wasn't sure why i was entertained or laughing but i was br br this is a road picture where three men travel along the way to find a hidden treasure that clooney says he has hidden to his two other cell mates he has to take them along because they were also chained to him when they had their chance to escape br br i like all the principal actors in the film and many of them are coen cronies it was nice to see goodman again it was nice to see hunter and especially turturro who seems to have a place in every coen film it's too bad they didn't find a place for steve buscemi but that is a different story all together but back to clooney the man just has charisma he is a one hell of an actor as well and here he is not quite as zany as the others but even he has his own idiosyncrasies his work here is quite awesome and i really hope this shows that he is capable of playing any range of character br br now after heaping all this praise on the film let me just say this as well i didn't really enjoy the film at first i found it to be quite tedious and a little boring there were too many ideas in here and not enough care went into harnessing them for all what they were worth but then the film began to grow on me it took a while but it did grow on me i don't think this is their best film but it is still a good one and i am giving it a 8 5 but the reason that i do recommend this film is for one reason only br br every day you can go look into the paper and look at the films that are playing and say to yourself seen it seen it oh seen it last year that is the same as this film and that is the same as that film most films have been recycled in some form or another not the coen's films they have not been recycled and if they have i don't know about it that is reason enough to see something that they put out originality counts for a lot in my books the are original and they are good and that is not common in todays cinema enjoy them while they are allowed to make films because you don't get vision like this in many films so when you do enjoy it
1	not being a fan of the coen brothers or george clooney anyone can see the skepticism i took into the theater once again someone in hollywood dares to create something different this time it was those for a temporary lack of a better word doing their thing to one of the great works in literary history who would've ever thought homer had this in mind i don't know where this film is going to fit in the history books of hollywood but it will be in both mine and many others dvd or vhs library it is one of those films that you can watch over and over the story is brilliantly written clean and entertaining with a couple of brushes with fame great performances by clooney turturro nelson and a brief but hilarious holly hunter being born in mississippi and raised in other parts of the south i wish more people would poke a little fun at us like this they even invoke a soundtrack fitting for the rural south you are not doing anything better this weekend go see this movie br br
1	the coen brothers have truly outdone themselves in this wonderful saga of three escaped convicts though it is based on the odyssey the ancient work of homer you do not have to have read the odyssey to be able to follow the story the brothers coen have woven a tapestry of celluloid and aural delights the soundtrack is intrinsic to the film indeed it is as though the soundtrack is the product and the film is wrapping paper each character is wonderfully exploited and harkens back to the days of old when films were rich with character actors whose very appearance in the film adds richness texture and authenticity george clooney is magnificent as the grease haired everett ulysses mcgill a honest con on the run whose pompous linguistics and vocabulary are comical and endearing o brother where art thou is easily the best coen film to date as well as clooney's best effort clooney is good enough to warrant a best actor nomination as is tim blake nelson's portrayal of the dimwitted friend delmar while the film itself is deserving of a best film nod
1	thank goodness for the coen brothers their success has brought them bigger budgets but hasn't rid them of their creativity i had planned on seeing another movie but it was sold out so i went to this one instead by the time it began i had forgotten what movie i was there to see i was surprised in more ways than one this movie is hilarious but they don't make any cheap jokes just to get the laughs the writing is brilliant and delivered with great skill by george clooney after this nobody can say he's just a pretty face and the rest of the cast it can be appreciated on many levels whether you remember the odyssey or not i can't remember the last time i saw a movie that was this clever i've seen others i would describe as beautiful intriguing funny and charming all of which also describe oh brother but this movie reminded me of older seinfeld episodes where all the subplots came together in the end you can feel that their journey is building up to something but you can't tell what and the coen brothers do not fail us the end is certainly not disappointing it's surprising and ties up all the loose ends neatly without wearing the story out
1	the knowledge is a typical british comedy for the period to someone who is not familiar of the process of becoming a london cabby the film is bound to seem very average with a few laughs from a few old faces br br the knowledge however comes into its own for knowledge boys like myself or their wife's who know what these poor individuals are going through and find yourself comparing incidents of your own to that of the characters
1	as someone who used to spend hours driving around the backstreets of north london in an attempt to avoid the horrific congestion this film immediately appealed throw in my interest in what london was like back in the late 70s and you have the basic premise for my version of tv heaven on paper the film ticked all the right boxes and having just watched the knowledge the actual movie itself certainly lived up to if not exceeded my high expectations br br visually i was surprised how different london looked back then i lived in in the 90s long after gentrification had transformed the area it truly came across as grimy tatty and down at heel london may still have bad housing estates but the general feel of the place is much cleaner brighter and pleasant nowadays based on what this movie shows rather than my own memories br br as for the story and the acting well top marks obviously go to nigel hawthorne as the vampire absolutely brilliant he acts deliberately unpredictably alternating between total straight faced severity and surreal mindgames in order to unnerve the knowledge boys as he puts them through test after test br br all in all this was an excellent thoroughly enjoyable trip back into a very specific time and place that i find endlessly fascinating but even if you're not especially interested in london circa 1979 you'll still enjoy following the witty dialogue and likable characters of the knowledge
1	i first saw the knowledge during a thames television marathon on one of the local independent stations in los angeles back when it was new i enjoyed it very much along with danger uxb br br that a movie i saw once over twenty year ago should stick so well in my memory is a testament to it's originality and the quality of the performances by the cast br br i looked for a dvd copy here in the u s a and found none i finally gambled and bought a uk dvd off ebay and was delighted to find that it has no region code so those of us that would like to see this little gem can get a copy
1	i must have seen this on the television when it was first broadcast some decades ago i thought it was brilliant then and as i remember so much of it now i may have been right while i have lived in and around london i cannot call myself a londoner and do not know it at all well who does other than taxi drivers once the viewer understands the premise that here is a group of men trying to learn the seemingly unlearn able and rise to the status of demigods then the rest is sheer joy the characters are well contrasted their family relationships are equally diverse and so differently affected by the events of the film don't think this is a documentary it is pure drama and the knowledge is one of the characters i have never seen anything like this film before or since watch it
1	just to correct something in a previous review here i don't believe this film is only for people who know london it's a case of a very specific situation being used to make universal comments jack says in an introduction to the published script that it was meant to be about characters who by going though this gruelling knowledge test gain some measure of self knowledge br br i think it's one of the most perfectly written dramas i've seen technically it's supremely adept at conveying quite complex details but it's also joyous in how it involves you at the start you know no more about this london knowledge test than the main characters but you get scooped up right along with them until it's important to you you become tremendously proud of those characters who succeed and you are crushed for those who don't especially one whose downfall without giving anything anyway will make your hands fly to your face br br also just as a point of fact nigel hawthorne's character mr burgess is called the vampire not dracula you don't need to know this i'm not saying it's crucial but it's a measure of the drama once you've seen this you will want everyone to and you will about its every detail br br i hope you get to see it br br william
1	although it doesn't seem very promising for a long stretch renoir's french cancan ends up being an effortlessly charming film the story is cliché a laundry girl françoise is discovered by a night club owner jean gabin steals her from her baker boyfriend and drops his current girlfriend both of whom come back for their former lovers has to choose whether to go back to her humble life with the baker go on with the show with her employer oh or become a princess as a prince falls in love with her at one point too i'm glad the film didn't go for the most obvious choice as a lesser film certainly would have the film ends with the opening of new night club the moulin rouge and a couple of gorgeous song and dance numbers the first of them de la butte which also provides the base of most of the film's musical score is simply one of the most gorgeous songs ever written and renoir himself wrote it if you're a fan of baz luhrmann's 2001 film moulin rouge you'll recognize the tune as it comes up near the beginning of that film sung by rufus wainwright although it isn't very prominent in that film everyone i know who owns the soundtrack loves it in addition to having one of the most lovely songs ever written french cancan also boasts one of the cutest leading ladies ever to grace the screen it's hard not to fall head over heels in love with that girl 8 10
1	i was delighted to see this gem of a film available on dvd despite being a 'tv movie' and shot on 16mm it provided a wonderful insight into the different types of people who wanted to become a 'london along with their foibles and family commitments even the most hapless of candidates 'titanic' with his uncommunicative wife it was possible to see how jack was able to craft an often funny and sometimes tragic snippet of london life into an entertaining 90 minutes br br originally premiered as a vehicle for mick ford pun intended the quality of the acting from an ensemble cast including michael nigel hawthorne jonathan lynn lesley joseph and maureen lipman mrs meant mick may have had top billing but he had to work hard in the face of such competing talents br br even 15 years after its 1991 release it is still as fresh as ever
1	flesh is hard to describe with a solid summary because well there basically isn't a plot the film pretty much just shows the day in the life of a hustler named joe joe who is in the underrated louis malle picture black moon as he makes his rounds sleeping and modeling around to cash in the bucks to pay for his wife's lover's abortion br br not much and since the film is quite a lengthy eighty nine minutes you would think that flesh would be a slow moving and boring hour and a half you think wrong the film is made up of improv no screenplay and the angles of the film are pretty on the spot as well yet there is some kind of truth beneath every frame that gives the film its dementedly entertaining vibrancy everything makes sense and serves purpose in what happens to joe in this one day he meets a regular john that is obviously lying when saying he wants to see joe again a photographer who talks so much that it bores joe to tears two drag queens who read out of tabloid magazines as joe receives head from a mousy voiced addict who mumbles on later about how she wants to get a breast lift an old friend of joe who reads male on male rape stories to him and then a final scene with his wife and her lover that eerily echoes the scene at the start of the film one of the best openings to a film i have seen in quite some time – and tells completely what the film is overall philosophically about br br it's astounding how the film's messages and styles feel almost timeless even though it's set in 1960s new york city in real time in real place and is filmed like an obvious independent flick from that era it's certainly not a film that could be made today which adds on to its delicious mystique br br fueled by unexpected jump cuts and absent of a score to advance its images – flesh is about as raw gritty as a film about male prostitution in the 60s can get
1	a heap of human flesh lies asleep on a red pillow this is the hunk of naked meat that is little joe a new york hustler who lives with his bisexual wife and baby child the film follows a day in his life after he's woken from sleep by his wife demanding that he go out and do the traditional male thing be a breadwinner but the use she wants to put the bread to is to pay for her new girlfriend's abortion we certainly aren't in the traditional family unit here br br after playing with his child joe hits the streets to cruise for johns the clients come thick and fast the ordinary gay man who wants to meet him again because they work well together the old english classical scholar who pays 100 to see joe pose like an ancient greek athlete the female topless dancer who blows joe then boasts about being raped the ageing gym bunny who doesn't think that what he and joe do together is queer after a hard day's work joe returns home exhausted only to be put down by his wife and the girlfriend he goes back to sleep as they harp and undermine him br br flesh is fascinating as it takes what is a traditional classical mainstream structure it has an inciting incident the money for the abortion and set up a confrontation and a resolution albeit a very downbeat one even a protagonist with a strongly motivated goal and then proceeds to concentrate on the details of the day to day routine of these people who are perfectly ordinary to themselves but extraordinary to most mainstream people it all seems very authentic and natural it's hard to see the acting the actors are so fully being their roles but yet the whole thing is a piece of cunning artifice a beautifully drawn portrait or an intricately carved statue director morrissey carefully plants every incident every encounter around his theme of human flesh become packaged commodity but with such cunning slight of hand that you almost don't notice him doing it the wife packages joe's sexual organ the old englishmen laments a long gone order of classical beauty which created art and poetry from human beauty the transvestite friends of the stripper package themselves as women whilst reading a hollywood magazine in which real women are packaged as products the gym bunny buys joe's friendship and affection thinks artificial porn is real and can't tell as we can't that joe is performing his friendship and intimacy for the cash the film itself presents itself as the ne plus ultra of cinematic realism but what we might as well be dealing with here is fine art or an early example of concept art br br the genius a word not lightly used of morrissey was to find a way of taking warhol's arty pretensions to film making which were interesting sure but boring as hell and making them into saleable products which remain amongst the most intriguing works of cinema art ever made commercial cans labelled flesh and trash and heat with a product label andy warhol which sells an idea about the product as much as the product itself yet just as you reel from morrissey's cynicism you are spellbound by his ability to still maintain the highest of standards and depth of meaning the constant what seem like camera flashes continually draw attention to the filmic nature of what one is witnessing yet you get drawn into the illusion all the same flesh is surely one of the most extraordinary pieces of cinema magic to ever spellbind an audience
1	snap crackle pop the jarring sound of every change in camera angle and that's not to mention the white flashes and the clipped endings to almost every spoken sentence what on earth were they up to in the editing room or could it be that this approach was intentional surely not what purpose could it serve despite all its technical short comings this is an interesting film depicting a day in the life of joe a hustler determined to earn 200 for his wife's pregnant girl friend joe is outstanding as the easy going passive laid back young man who is willing to let the other person do most of the talking while he listens with a faraway look in his eyes br br the story is meagre and sketchy documenting the uncertain life led by a man who relies on casual street sex to support his young wife and baby one thing is certain joe is uninhibited when it comes to disrobing for sex or posing for an artist understandably so for he has a handsome face and and equally handsome body br br there is a scene in the film that is remarkably effective there is no sound no dialogue joe stark naked is crouching on the floor feeding crumbs of cake to his little baby there is a beautiful serenity and tenderness captured in these quiet moments br br another scene of amusing interest is the one in which joe desperately seeks a loan of 100 from a gym friend coming to the point of asking in a very circuitous approach br br joe tries to look interested but is hesitant in his conversation when an artist gives him a non stop resume of greek and roman art it's a preliminary to another occasion when joe himself of his clothes and poses as the discus thrower in true classical style br br at the end of the film we gain the impression that we have got to know joe pretty well after all he has uncovered more than his soul
1	in a lot of ways this film defines the essence of everything i love about cinema in terms of capturing those strange elusive moments of unguarded truth in other ways it is undeniably an amateurish unfocused result of junkies self indulgently fooling around with a camera ultimately it comes out somewhere between pure brilliance and unwatchability thankfully much more so the former than the latter part of me wants to reward it solely for it's absolute and moments of pure sublimity but at the same time i can't completely ignore the occasionally downright awful acting and overtly bad production values at first the editing seems overwhelmingly sloppy and needlessly distracting or maybe just innovative but after a while i got used to it which is in the end the true sign of whether a film succeeds on it's own terms or not i guess that answer basically sums up my all around feelings for the film that is despite it's in flaws on a whole it does work very well and if nothing else a film like this really shows how false and contrived the faux documentary shaky cam style can sometimes be when it so obviously applied purely for effect such as in films like the otherwise admirable roger dodger here the aesthetics are plainly derived from the necessities of the filming situation and are not just used arbitrarily to make it look cool
1	i was a junior in high school when flesh hit the big screens but had the good fortune to see it at midnight movie houses in nyc just two years later br br flesh is the first part of a so called trilogy of films featuring joe as an object of desire it bears the warhol name but is more the work of paul morissey essentially the story concerns itself with the exploits surrounding one day in the life of a street wise male hustler played by joe joe is young beautiful and a bit naive but he manages to bring home the bacon to his wife for reasons which should not be explained to appreciate the film fully br br of special note to film buffs is that this film along with the remaining two of the trilogy had no script per se warhol's superstars were given simply a premise and the words and actions which the viewer sees are quite natural even at times ridiculous or non sensical but all in all it works rolling stone noted in its review that the film was better than midnight cowboy a film of the same year more polished by hollywood an academy award winner for best film with big name talent i equally admire the film but flesh being improvised was somehow more gut wrenching and realistic without the need for complex sub plots and any cause de celebre or for that matter any cause at all br br the film grossed more than 3 million dollars and was an absolute sensation particularly in the german market which ironically thought they were given a censored version of the film because of the post editing see note below br br curiously the film is very much cut and paste with pops clicks flashes and dialogue literally cut off mid sentence it is almost as if warhol morissey are stating a simple truth that it is a day in the life of a superstar snippets for your voyeuristic tendencies far better than earlier warhol works of 8 hours of sleeping and the statue of liberty as a 20 hour movie br br flesh in my opinion is the first of the warhol films that actually is digestible given a wide pallette and warhol's the factory's first legitimate response to the hollywood phenomenon of stardom br br as the first of a trilogy it portrays a young desirable male icon naive sought after responding to invitations to please his family subsequent films would show the same character with a differing set of values see trash and heat
1	one of the most sublime of american masterpieces morrissey opens the film by with his open mouth snoring on a pillow we wonder is he coming off a heroin high we just see his face then flash his body flash his naked rear i can't think of another film that used this flash blip form of editing so well to create a hypnotic druggy mood an editing method that works wonderfully as both pacing and style after that introduction when opens his mouth his accent is jarring we expect him to be some kind of soft spoken instead he's got the voice of a street thug morrissey isn't comfortable letting our assumptions go unchecked the lengthy opening is very sexy and playful it's a combination of martial troubles fascinating lip rubbing kisses and early morning sexual escapades it all kind of flows together if not always smoothly then emotionally realistically br br what i got from this was the same as what i got from the 400 blows when i first saw it this is like a 20 something continuation of that story there's a sense of camaraderie between the flesh sellers and the buyers when walks the street looking for men to fund his wife's abortion there's the feeling of a secret handshake as boys make deals with each other i never found it boring though nothing happens nothing happens brilliantly the boys hanging around as they do waiting for tricks the main trick that finds is fascinating to watch using greek descriptions and only touching his back a form of aesthetic body worship on the man's part it's also dreadfully funny i'm not talking to an empty bed am i it's one of the most revealing scenes in the movie in any movie i think certainly any movie dealing with sex and sex for sale when eyes seem red and swollen we can't tell if it's because he's drunk ashamed embarrassed or all br br the conversations in the film are cut up they don't matter the film is silent in a few scenes some of the most poignant and beautiful you may ever experience yet when morrissey chooses to include one the way he includes it we sort of piece it together it's startling such as one conversation between and a newbie hustler and neither of them ever mentioning the word gay or hustler what follows is a scene where we listen to a pair of transvestites as gets serviced this just after explaining to the newbie getting used to the job br br is a subject worthy of the attention paid to him both by his clients and morrissey he's less than effective as an actor in the sense of acting as performing but as far as revealing something he's incredible he's someone we immediately want to feel above yet we go through his experiences with all their complexities and we're forced to try and know him he's the kind of blank slate that we're drawn to but can't get a hold on and of course he's incredibly striking forgetting everything else this is partially a testament to the beauty of the male body gorgeous torso and permanently erect nipples br br the movie has one devastating scene but like everything else you can't really master it a girl says that she's been raped and her only self defense is in saying that had the rapist only asked for sex wooed her he would have gotten a better lay it's shattering the movie has feeling for everyone but even better than that it's not merely sympathetic it actually attempts to help us understand human beings and without ever dictating what it is we're meant to be understanding it neither looks down on nor glamorizes the people within the film it feels inclusive when we see joe's arm around a transvestite when he reads a letter he talks about not getting past grade eight at one point he's utterly charming as he pauses on a word then says and continues br br you can learn something more profound from the interaction between and one of his clients in terms of gay straight relationships than you can from any case study here we have the young boy who smiles his top lip disappears as he does so when a 30 something gym bunny korean war veteran runs his fingers through his hair it's a scene that feels very profound this adult man sharing something with a younger version of himself it's not two gay men together or a gay man paying a straight man it's something else you can't put your finger on questions of sexuality are beside the point never before has popping a pimple seemed as affectionate after sharing something with each other emotionally though with since he's there for money it's never apparent why he's there though he's never less than sincere which may be his most disarming quality so can you help me out the man says sure i don't mean my pants 10 10
1	loved today's show it was a variety and not solely cooking which would have been great too very stimulating and captivating always keeping the viewer peeking around the corner to see what was coming up next she is as down to earth and as personable as you get like one of us which made the show all the more enjoyable special guests who are friends as well made for a nice surprise too loved the theme and that the audience was invited to play along too i must admit i was shocked to see her come in under her time limits on a few things but she did it and by golly i'll be writing those recipes down saving time in the kitchen means more time with family those who haven't tuned in yet find out what channel and the time i assure you that you won't be disappointed
1	loved today's show it was a variety and not solely cooking which would have been great too very stimulating and captivating always keeping the viewer peeking around the corner to see what was coming up next she is as down to earth and as personable as you get like one of us which made the show all the more enjoyable special guests who are friends as well made for a nice surprise too loved the theme and that the audience was invited to play along too i must admit i was shocked to see her come in under her time limits on a few things but she did it and by golly i'll be writing those recipes down saving time in the kitchen means more time with family those who haven't tuned in yet find out what channel and the time i assure you that you won't be disappointed
1	loved today's show it was a variety and not solely cooking which would have been great too very stimulating and captivating always keeping the viewer peeking around the corner to see what was coming up next she is as down to earth and as personable as you get like one of us which made the show all the more enjoyable special guests who are friends as well made for a nice surprise too loved the theme and that the audience was invited to play along too i must admit i was shocked to see her come in under her time limits on a few things but she did it and by golly i'll be writing those recipes down saving time in the kitchen means more time with family those who haven't tuned in yet find out what channel and the time i assure you that you won't be disappointed
1	french cancan is one of my favorite all time movies it's an excellent film there's color there's humor there's music it's a very good portrait of the so called belle though jean renoir's priorities were always to show a creation a so the film isn't a historical movie the final sequences in which the girls dance cancan are unforgettable images it's a film you shouldn't miss
1	loved today's show it was a variety and not solely cooking which would have been great too very stimulating and captivating always keeping the viewer peeking around the corner to see what was coming up next she is as down to earth and as personable as you get like one of us which made the show all the more enjoyable special guests who are friends as well made for a nice surprise too loved the theme and that the audience was invited to play along too i must admit i was shocked to see her come in under her time limits on a few things but she did it and by golly i'll be writing those recipes down saving time in the kitchen means more time with family those who haven't tuned in yet find out what channel and the time i assure you that you won't be disappointed
1	ok so i loved rachael ray before but now i adore her how innovative i love that she has a cooking section i admit that occasionally i skip that part only because it makes me waaay too hungry but i also love that you can get the next day's grocery list on her website i love that she has regular helpers and that she's made some of her viewers become her regulars i love how personable she is and how creative she is i also like how she does her mystery guests she just seems so much more genuine than so many other talk show hosts she still gets a little starstruck occasionally and i love that i love that she talks about her personal life on there and reminds people how happy she is she's even mentioned tabloids before and it's so funny she also has the funniest stories anyway i'm a fan for life even my 2 year old knows who rachael ray is and he loves her too
1	loved today's show it was a variety and not solely cooking which would have been great too very stimulating and captivating always keeping the viewer peeking around the corner to see what was coming up next she is as down to earth and as personable as you get like one of us which made the show all the more enjoyable special guests who are friends as well made for a nice surprise too loved the theme and that the audience was invited to play along too i must admit i was shocked to see her come in under her time limits on a few things but she did it and by golly i'll be writing those recipes down saving time in the kitchen means more time with family those who haven't tuned in yet find out what channel and the time i assure you that you won't be disappointed
1	rachael ray appeals to viewers of all ages and backgrounds beginner cooks or seasoned veterans you'll be dazzled with a variegated presentation of delectable yet time efficient dishes jazzed up with her unique brand of spunk and candor most importantly this hip chic keeps her audience drawn in by stimulating all five senses let me explain her program provides enlightenment to your visual sense auditory sense and sense of feeling through a rich luminous ambient backdrop light hearted casual yet engaging topics eye pleasing appetite wrenching meals and her hearty smile and laugh which will simmer down anyone's nerves sense of smell and taste are rewarded when you test out the recipes in your own kitchen and among your own family and friends check out her show guys
1	i've been a fan of since the beginning of on the food network so i have seen her grow over the years the minute i saw her interact with oprah i predicted that this show would happen because i saw how taken oprah is with her and with good reason she comes across as very natural and willing to laugh at herself which is very engaging the set is appealing and there are some fresh ideas i love the lazy susan that the audience sits on there's just enough of a celebrity segment and she stays away from controversy and debate there's enough of that on daytime tv the show is a lighthearted escape and she hasn't moved away from her strength cooking which is very good planning i know there are people who hate her and hate her show that's ok you can't please everybody and somehow i think rachael knows and accepts that so just turn the channel i don't think she'd mind
1	then again i like rachael ray she is fun sweet fresh and such a joy to watch i have to alter just about everything she makes as i am a vegetarian but it's great to see her with a program that shows more of her personality after all she is a television personality i think it's cool that she is so inviting with her fans and still appears to be down to earth the studio audience appears to be rather small but that just makes for a environment some people have posted that the show sucks i guess it depends on your own interpretation of it and of her if you notice the early episodes of 30 minute meals you will see a completely different personality than in those of the past few years i'm sure she will find her comfort zone with this show as well good luck rachael
1	i just returned from viewing this academy award nominated doc and i was thoroughly touched and interested in exploring the works of this fellow i'd never heard of before of course i'm someone who's captivated with beautiful architecture so i realize others won't care br br we can only imagine if there had been a couple more visionaries in philadelphia back in the late 60's when kahn's plans were a possibility what a wonderful city center there would be if you wonder whether you'll see more about the bangladesh building at the beginning of the movie be patient for there it will provide the climax of the film at the end br br his son's personal discoveries in the process of making this film are quite interesting sometimes touching and even funny at times there is one of the most comical anti visionary rants ever captured on camera br br rounding out the good points of this doc is a touching musical score with some excellent expressive string music and expressiveness is a major point to be found in kahn's architecture the points made by other architects about the spiritual nature of matter and how kahn's buildings brought that out tie together the overall experience of this movie
1	video vault by shawn k br br my architect a son's journey 2003 nathaniel kahn not rated vault rating 7 br br what a thing to be fatherless my architect a son's journey follows philadelphia filmmaker nathaniel kahn as he desperately seeks answers from his father the renowned architect louis i kahn dead these 30 years br br louis kahn died in a train station in 1974 and left behind more than one family the funeral service when the filmmaker was just a boy was shall we say an unpleasant surprise br br we find that nathaniel only knew his father en from his sporadic visits with his mother whom we are told he loved deeply this movie is about a boy seeking his father and perhaps himself by visiting his work as if the magnificent structures hold some secret br br to be sure louis kahn was a gifted architect but architect is a cold word the man was a sculptor on a grand scale who spoke of his craft in airy terms of silence and art br br among his notable works explored lovingly in the film are the salk institute 1965 the kimball art museum 1972 and the monumental capitol complex in bangladesh 1983 the portion of the film where nathaniel first visits bangladesh finds the work but not the man br br the film benefits greatly from having much footage of the very public man as he worked in new york city and as a professor at yale and the university of pennsylvania many of khan's contemporaries and collaborators also help flesh out the filmmaker's ghost father br br even so the viewer seems not to come to a particularly satisfying place the answers nathaniel khan is looking for seem hollow not good enough br br in scenes where the director meets with his half sisters both from different mothers one can feel the tensions of the years the and hurts one might expect them to burst into anger but only the camera saves them from hostilities each of these children has visibly lost something br br it might be pointed out that khan who seemed a driven perfectionist never became rich instead he became noteworthy it was as if he sacrificed his family for his art this is a crushingly sad and great thing br br april 28 2005
1	an wonderful film that works on several levels it's a story about a great architect a son seeking his father about very loving relationships and about loss it's also a great about architecture br br very intelligent and very moving a real treat
1	i think the title of the movie describes it well if you are looking for a documentary on louis kahn and his work you'll have to look somewhere else although some of that is covered in this film br br of course i eat up pretty much anything i'm fed and i don't know much of the family history revolving around this case so i believed what i was told about nathaniel and his father etc br br for what this movie was i thought it was pretty good a little slow and grabbing for attention at time i wish that nathaniel would have focused a little more on his father's work than his family drama although much of the history was interesting louis was a bit of a player br br this really is a journey through someone's life and i was happy to tag along for the experience a learning experience for me and so it seems for the filmmaker as well br br oh and the footage of some of kahn's work is stunning
1	this is my favorite renoir from the fifties it's the story of how henri built and launched the moulin rouge nightclub we see the workmen blasting at the site to get construction underway and the training of the dancers finally the giddiness of opening night and the long sequence of cancan dancing financial problems and the ego displays of the performers are described br br gabin is in great form as the easy going see him deal humorously with violent boyfriend gianni esposito is moving as the wistful prince who is courting maria felix with that amazon's body is imposing as the egotistical lola first lover finally françoise as the washing girl who ends up dancing for and becoming his girl is just stunning her loveliness and pert charm will win you over br br a bonus we get edith piaf andré and other stars in cameos playing the stars of a century ago who ruled over the moulin rouge
1	i rented this film because it was a documentary and highly rated it's more a study of a bastard son trying to find out who his biological father was than anything about architecture br br more than anything else the underlying theme of the movie is that we have an eccentric highly praised possibly genius architect who had little regard for anything or anyone outside is profession br br the tragedy of the film is the broken families he left his baby mothers came across more as scorned fans than irresponsible women which can only have negative results on the children br br that said nathaniel the producer of the film and son of louis khan came across as fairly stable and curious if not bitter the people he interviewed were of course more interested in talking about louis khan's buildings than his personal problems but i find the mix of themes made the film interesting br br as for his buildings i found them like abstract art strange non practical and usually only appreciated by so called critics
1	louis khan was one of the most influential architects of our time and this film speaks volumes about how little everyone really knew his son's desire to find out who and more importantly what he was is moving and emotional br br this film captures the spirit of what architecture is really about what good design is and the emotional price that is paid for it equally haunting is the sound track if you see the film and then listen to the sound track you can revisit the film simply by listening as a practicing architect of over 30 years my heart ached and rejoiced over the film and its very straight forward albeit emotional honesty and sincerity br br i had the honor of seeing this film previewed in chicago at the national convention of the american institute of architects the film was introduced by daniel and he was kind enough to do a question and answer session afterward during the entire presentation of the film not a sound not a cough not one distraction took place the entire audience sat mesmerized and the real treat was daniel's mother was present during the showing of the film br br i will always remember the film and play it over constantly in my mind every time i listen to the soundtrack
1	i never heard of architect louis kahn until this documentary in this almost two hour documentary which goes very quickly his son nathaniel kahn explores his father's life from estonia to the slums of north philadelphia to the university of pennsylvania in west philadelphia where he studied and taught he travels to bangladesh israel connecticut trenton and la california as well as new york city to explore his father's creative genius personally louis kahn had three families including his wife esther who refused to give him a divorce and their daughter sue ann nathaniel includes his family members louis also has another half sister alexandra from his father's previous relationship with anne tyne a fellow architect louis' passion was his art
1	after visiting the museum in forth worth texas usa enjoying the art and the architecture also of the adjacent modern art museum and having a delightful conversation with the knowledgeable bookstore lady i purchased this a dvd with rather high and was not disappointed in the least br br the thematic approach dramatic tension revealing interviews archival footage and stunning architecture are also mixed in a coherent whole to explore the life of the late iconic louis i khan br br the documentary begins contemplative classical music plays archives are scanned with a reflective shadowy face superimposed blurring letters symbolically referencing a train window passing a backdrop landscape — a journey — focus and out of focus the search eventually culminates to an article in a newspaper khan reads from the front page of the new york times where his father is simultaneously praised as the best american architect alive and his death announced br br when i first read that obituary i have to admit i was looking for my own name i was his child too his only son i didn't know my father very well he never married my mother and he never lived with us … he died when i was eleven br br so years later this illegitimate son is still haunted by unclear fragmented thoughts and feelings about his father who seems to be a great professional and public figure but who's secretive personal life escapes him and affects him to the point where he intends to do something about it br br for years i struggled to be satisfied with the little pieces of my father's life i've been allowed to see but it wasn't enough i needed to know him i needed to find out who he really was so i set out on a journey to see his buildings and to find whatever there was left of him out there it would take me to the other side of the world looking for the man who left me with so many questions br br so the documentary is two fold by a slow systematic discovery of the world renown architect we get to know 1 his ideas buildings and the architectural perspective and 2 his families coworkers people's life he affected and the human perspective br br the dvd also offers added insight with a q a with the writer director and additional footage that includes such great louis i khan quotes as everything that everybody says is the truth it's their truth it might not be factual and a good idea that doesn't happen is no idea at all br br this movie is a journey of discovery self discovery and discovery of a man a great man yet a human imperfect like all of us we get to know him through the eyes of an admiring and slightly bitter son but with the openness and objectivity to really explore without making easy conclusions and without judging br br by key interviews with people who interacted with him in various capacity we slowly put some pieces together until that final interview with this man from bangladesh who really seems to bring it back home with visceral and sensible comments br br brilliant architect brilliant documentary
1	on march 17 1974 a man is found dead in the toilets at manhattan's penn station although well known he cannot be identified because he scratched out the personal information in his passport and his body lays unclaimed at the city's morgue for three days it turned out to be the body of what many consider one of the greatest american architects of the twentieth century louis i kahn he died at the age of 73 on his way from india where one of his greatest projects the institute for management in was nearing completion br br one of the most influential post war american architects louis kahn's architectural legacy includes the house of parliament in bangladesh the art museum in forth worth the yale art gallery the salk institute in california and a kind of mobile music boat designed to give concerts in harbours in various cities around the world br br while celebrated as an architect very little was known about his private life in addition to his wife esther and their daughter sue ann kahn was survived by two mistresses harriet and anne and their two children all three families lived within miles of each other in suburban philadelphia but their paths never crossed until the funeral his son nathaniel the director of this film was only 11 years old at the time and had only a few memories of his father's weekly visits at harriet patterson mother in philadelphia twenty five years later he sets out on a journey to confront his father by visiting kahn's buildings talking to relatives and colleagues and visiting the places that played a role in louis kahn's life br br one of the most moving confrontations is when nathaniel asks his mother a landscape architect and mistress of louis kahn why she kept up with playing second fiddle to his wife and never confronted him with this tears shed her eyes but she has no regrets it was worth it it's such an intensely sad moment she's obviously shattered treated as an outcast at his funeral which she was forbidden to attend it's almost as if she led a substitute life it all feels strangely unreal another interview with edward bacon kahn's architectural nemesis who was in charge of the rebuilding of his native philadelpia in the fifties and sixties almost suffers a stroke on the spot when he is reminded of kahn's unsavoury ideas about architecture his son nathaniel listens uncomfortably when a very senior bacon literally screams with anger whenever kahn's name comes up the final scene is reserved for kahn's grandest creation the capitol in bangladesh it took 23 years to complete a vast and extraordinary building of which the are extremely proud it's one of the very few national symbols with stature in this impoverished nation some of the interviews with the locals brought tears in my eyes especially when they find out they are talking to god forbid the own son br br the film is as much a personal journey as it is an account of kahn's grand architectural legacy and is above all about the fruition of the film itself and film making in general perhaps louis i kahn faltered as a father but these shortcomings in his personal life make for an all the more interesting portrait in this extraordinary film br br camera obscura 9 10
1	this is a profound and moving work about the creation of art that which is uniquely human and cannot be produced by nature the cost of genius and the search for transcendence and what in the end constitutes family i e all of us i was very much moved by the family discussion that nathaniel had with his sisters about the shortcomings of their father as it was set in a beautiful home that seemed to radiate warmth that lou had created and although esther seems so cold in her discussion about lou's inability to make money you can appreciate how she at many points in his life must have been a counter weight to his impulses nathaniel did a great job of showing how all of the people in lou's life fit in and completed it and became as much a part of his work as his own genius yes even or maybe especially our failures make us who we are and of course there are the buildings i had only known lou kahn by name and did not really connect his name to his work they are evidence of grace perhaps someday there will be a building where we will all fit and it will certainly resemble a lou kahn building perhaps the temple in jerusalem perhaps there is salvation
1	when nathaniel kahn embarked into this voyage he hardly knew who his father really was by the end of the film he found him and comes to terms with the strange life he lived as a child br br louis kahn was the father he was an architect his designs were perhaps too complex as he tried to create buildings that didn't conform with trends popular at that time it is ironic that he never achieved the fame that came so easy to some of his contemporaries he had a vision and he never strayed from it we can see characteristics of his unique style in the buildings he left behind as a legacy to humanity every one of his creations are unique in that they don't imitate works from other architects br br louis kahn's life was rather complicated he was married yet he had affairs with two of his assistants that produced a girl and a boy besides the legitimate daughter he had with his wife br br as a boy nathaniel kahn's life was lived in a secluded area away from his father who only visited late at night louis kahn never recognized these children although it is very clear they all knew about the others existence br br it is tragic that louis kahn died alone in grand central station when he was returning from a trip without making peace with the women and children he never acknowledged as his own by his side he probably cared a great deal about all his children but he remains an aloof figure throughout the film we never get to know the man although at the end nathaniel in his quest to discover his father's life finds most of the missing pieces of the puzzle br br this is a personal account on the life of an artist thanks to that son who has the courage to tell the story we are almost prying into the lives of louis kahn and his extended family
1	nominated for best documentary feature at 2004's academy awards my architect follows filmmaker nathaniel kahn in his quest to find out about his father the legendary architect louis i kahn lou kahn died in 1974 when nate was 11 years old leaving behind an incredible but limited body of work unpaid debts and three separate families all living within a few of each other br br my architect follows kahn's life through chronologically examining his buildings and interspersing their beauty with the story of a charismatic but selfish and emotionally immature genius as the son which lou never publicly acknowledged during his lifetime nate has delicately placed himself in the story without overpowering the main focus br br when examining the magnificent salk institute in california nate evokes his father's mythic use of space and light in his buildings making it a peaceful and fascinating experience for viewers the shot of nate in smoky white central meeting place emphasises the building's harmony with nature it's breathtaking my architect also covers the difficulty louis kahn had with getting his designs accepted several fantastical buildings exist only on paper dismissed by more practical architects and property developers it wasn't until louis kahn went to the east that his visions were enthusiastically embraced in india where he built the indian br br institute of management a former co worker describes him as a guru in where he built the magnificent national assembly building citizens consider him a father of democracy br br watching my architect is a wonderful way to begin or continue learning about architecture and the importance of space but it's the irony of lou kahn's egotism combined with the transcendence of his work that will inspire you 4 stars
1	what a tribute to his father he set out on a quest to learn more about a man whom he knew little of and by the end of the journey i believe nathaniel kahn is content with what he learned and personally felt the film is 5 years in the making and a quarter of a century after his death louis i kahn's total commitment in his work consistent strong desire to build buildings that are meaningful to humanity and timeless to the whole world with insight into his life is proudly depicted by his son nathaniel in the documentary my architect a son's journey br br the film is by no means an anthology of louis' work there are plenty of books and archived materials that have records of louis kahn's projects and buildings this documentary works like a mystery writer director and co producer nathaniel kahn was searching for the man whom he briefly knew as his father br br the film is in chapters in heading west we're at the salk institute for biological studies at la california it's a sight worth beholding kahn's integral concept of building and environment light for the scientists at work is amazing from a former colleague who worked with 35 years ago we hear about his meticulous attention to detail also how he could be certainly didn't mince words in his criticism a memorable scene is when the camera pulled back wide and we see nathaniel skating around at the plaza area of the salk institute a tiny figure like a child happily playing in the bowl of his father's hands br br the immigrant segment brought us to meet anne the architect who worked with and also bore him a daughter alex now at 80 return with film crew to the bath house project at trenton new jersey was nostalgic in go to sea we get to see the barge for american wind symphony orchestra all made of steel and meeting robert who was surprised by nathaniel when he finally told him he's son was touched he said he had seen nathaniel when he was six with his mom harriet and he was not to tell anyone that lou had a son it was a emotional moment of reunion br br like his father the nomad nathaniel traveled to jerusalem and learned about the synagogue project that his father began but not realized he visited the wailing wall and seeing his kept falling off being off' his head gave me a sense that he need not be jewish to be his father's son we continue with sitting down with his two half sisters at the family matters segment we also hear him conversing with his mom at maine and from talking to previous office personnel at his father's office we come to know how his father intensely worked and practically lived there sleeping on a carpet on the office floor weekends and all br br the end of the journey brought us to india to the indian institute of management building talking with architect b v was a revelation in the end nathaniel found a very much alive louis kahn his father his spirits live within him this documentary is very much a tear jerker for me i was teary eyed most of the time it was very touching and am in awe of the man the architect and his son and the women in his life besides his famous works and buildings louis i kahn wanted to give his love to the world ' juggling work and three families you might say he has three women in his life to keep his inspiration going as wares the architect at the capital of bangladesh complex completed 9 years after death so poignantly noted louis kahn has given the people of bangladesh a lot spending time at bangladesh understanding the culture of the place and people as well as giving them democracy through what he has achieved and for such a dedicated man usually the people close to him he'd often miss seeing it seems the price of being great comes with inevitable personal sacrifices br br this film reminds me of king vidor's the fountainhead 1949 good dramatic story in b w with music by max steiner based on ayn novel with gary cooper as the uncompromising architect who stands by his own ideals and patricia neal as the parallel supportive woman in his life br br
1	my architect is a great film about nathaniel kahn's search for himself via the legacy of his famous architect father louis kahn dead since 1974 the film builds slowly but perfectly and what starts out as a seemingly lost identity crisis unfolds into a beautiful tale with much deeper meaning with regard to the importance of love loss family and perhaps more importantly our life's work br br i had never heard of louis kahn prior to this film although i was vaguely familiar with some of his work through the words both good and bad of louis kahn's colleagues you get a very good sense of what nathaniel must have felt as memories are recalled and stories retold sometimes it seemed as though these people were telling nathaniel how to feel about his father as i listened to each recollection my own opinion of this man would range from beautiful to horrible sometimes in the span of a moment so you get a good feel for the rollercoaster that emotions must have been riding br br the final sequence in bangladesh totally made the film for me the reverence of which the people of bangladesh spoke of louis kahn's work tied all the loose ends together nicely for me and hopefully for nathaniel br br i think nathaniel kahn finally found what he was looking for
1	i watched this movie three times at different ages of my life and always did enjoy it very much indeed this can can is an authentic explosion of joie de vivre like stanley donen and gene kelly musical but in french way and a jean renoir nice tribute to his time his friends lovers music and dances it is at same time a show business chronicle of that age full of affection and french mood it is too a clear tribute to the impressionism people who likes impressionistic painters will like this picture it is particularly a tribute to toulouse lautrec and of course to jean renoir father pierre auguste you will find hear a trustworthy and splendid colored recreation of some renoir master work excellent casting scenery sound effects and music even it tell us about the creation of parisian moulin rouge obviously it is a fiction story and not very original by the way as it fall down in the very well know moral that the show must go on but the jean renoir production is great br br
1	my impression having seen this documentary is that nathaniel kahn ended up with more questions than he had before he made the film br br he took five years to make it a labour of love and longing i can only imagine the turmoil of the editing process what to leave in what to take out br br his father the renowned architect louis kahn comes across as a man too selfish and self absorbed to be emotionally available to even one wife not alone three but like many men of his character he attracted women who were spellbound by the remoteness and entranced by the creativity br br one of his mistresses said he was accessible but that is never explored other comments by people who knew him well suffer the same fate a pity br br the tension between the three half siblings in the room of a home louis designed is also palpable the unsaid hovers over the conversation the only tracks that his father left were in the buildings he left behind some great some not so great br br i was captivated by the music ship and the salk institute saddened by the baby mothers who got caught forever by his callous never more exemplified than what he said to the director's mother upon being told of her pregnancy not again br br 8 out of 10 beautifully filmed genuine br br it appears in this case at least the son is not the father of the man
1	documentaries in which sons and daughters seek to understand a parent and by the process their own lives are not that uncommon also not uncommon are results that reflect lack of talent a failure of introspection an abundance of narcissism and perhaps an unsubtle quest for publicly splashed revenge for countless past hurts real and fantasized what is unusual is a brilliant fair and engrossing portrait of a fascinating parent and my architect a son's journey is that rare achievement br br louis kahn emigrated to this country as a child his face irreparably and brutally scarred by an accident he and his parents settled in philadelphia where the talented youngster loved art and music soon he became enamored of buildings and decided only an career would answer his creative abilities br br kahn became an architect but as this film shows it took a long time before he attracted the attention of the leaders in his field one architect suggests that he was a victim of the yellow armband that anti semitism that along with bias against women was long a disreputable aspect of the american profession of architecture br br when he did achieve notice he was seen clearly accurately as a self assured workaholic prophet exclaiming unyielding demands that his vision and only his vision be realized that was the reason that while he drew wonderful plans for many buildings he built but a few the interview with an aged gentleman who fired kahn in philadelphia because of his unacceptable dream of a transformed urban center where people left their cars on the perimeter and walked into the city is hilarious br br kahn was a born teacher and some of the extensive archival footage here shows him with students his voice steady but passionate their gazes respectful and intense br br many architects were interviewed by director writer and project honcho nathaniel kahn the only son some are world famous i m pei robert a m stone frank and the still active philip johnson their comments paint a vivid picture of this idealistic but in the end financially unsuccessful designer of buildings that blended the castles and grand buildings of past centuries into designs for the present kahn's buildings are shown among the most impressive being the salk research laboratories in la ca to me his style has a neo romantic air deadened by too much blank space that repels rather than attracts human interaction br br but kahn's son was after more than the story of his father the architect for many years louis kahn had three families a wife with whom he had a daughter and two long term relationships one of which produced a daughter the other the son kahn visited his son at the mother's home often but at the end of an evening mother and son would drive kahn back to the marital home nathaniel clearly wanted to know about this unusual set of relationships but he doesn't appear to be scarred by what was certainly a strange affair for a little boy br br when nathaniel was a young boy louis kahn died of a massive heart attack in the men's room of new york's pennsylvania station after returning from india where he had pitched one of his massive projects another one that was never built at that point his philadelphia firm was at least 500 000 in debt and had he lived a trip to the federal bankruptcy court was probably in the offing br br kahn left several monumental structures of which the government building in bangladesh is clearly the biggest a teary local architect hails kahn for having created a building where democracy may and hopefully will flourish br br fellow architect opines that there might have been something fitting in kahn's suffering a mortal heart attack in a train station given his incessant globetrotting i disagree it's sadly ironic that kahn should die in the faceless replacement for one of america's true architectural gems the old pennsylvania station wrecked to make way for a sterile replacement with no character and no continuation of civic memory br br there are a number of emotional moments filmed during the younger kahn's journey including with his half sisters and his mother but they're genuine and moving not maudlin and staged historians of architecture will always study kahn his son found reasons to remember him as a flawed but very iconoclastic and ultimately private man br br 9 10
1	lucio fulci made a lot of great films throughout his career and the way that many of them featured a bucket load of gore lead to him earning the title 'the godfather of gore' while don't torture a duckling was made before fulci became well known amongst gorehounds and isn't all that gory it's certainly a gritty and nasty little thriller and for my money the best film that fulci ever made don't torture a duckling really is head and shoulders above a lot of the giallo genre in terms of production values and unlike many of fulci's later films everything about this giallo is great the plot focuses on a small rustic community where dead bodies have began turning up the murders are even more shocking because the victims are just young boys shortly after the police convict an innocent man of the crimes a reporter named andrea arrives in the village and decides to start investigating the murders on his own soon encounters various suspects including a sexy young lady named patricia a sinister priest and a local witch who enjoys making wax effigies and sticking pins into them br br while this film may not feature loads of gore it does have two of fulci's nastiest sequences to make up for it the nastiest involves a woman being brutally slaughtered by a group of men in a cemetery while the image of a man falling from a cliff and hitting any number of rocks on the way down is liable to turn some stomachs don't torture a duckling features an absolutely great italian cast barbara bouchet a personal favourite of mine is incredibly sexy in her role as patricia and gets to flex her acting muscles more than she did in many later films tomas is excellent as usual while the rest of the cast is well fleshed out by likes of irene pappas florinda bolkan and marc porel the cinematography on display is stunning and fulci really gives the viewer the impression that he puts a lot of care and effort into every scene the story plays out slowly and it's always interesting as fulci never allows the film to stray too much from the central plot line there isn't a great deal of mystery towards the identity of the murderer but fulci almost manages to keep us guessing right up until the end and don't torture a duckling does climax on a high overall it's a shame that fulci didn't make more films like this don't torture a duckling is his out and out best work and i insist that every giallo fans sees it
1	this early film from future goremeister lucio fulci is a very good addition to the giallo sub genre set in rural italy there is a serial killer of children at large add to the mix an array of characters familiar to fans of giallo cinema – a madwoman a newspaper reporter ineffectual police a sexy siren a priest a mute girl a mentally retarded loner etc this is one of the best italian thrillers of the early 70's br br unusually for a giallo the victims in this case are young boys which makes a change from the more typical women in peril angle the fact that it is kids who are the target of the maniac only serves to make things a little more uncomfortable fulci is pushing the envelope a bit here and he goes even further in a gloriously outrageous scene where a young boy is subjected to the somewhat inappropriate attention of a sexy naked young woman barbara bouchet who he is tasked with delivering a drink to she displays herself openly and actively invites the youngster to ogle her ultimately asking him if he wants to go to bed with her although she is clearly playing around with him it's still quite an unusual scene admittedly there are one or two unintentionally funny bits of dialogue here but it's very nicely photographed and barbara bouchet exudes high levels of confident sex appeal a standout scene even if you might feel slightly wrong watching it br br along with barbara bouchet the other standout performance is from florinda bolkan who plays a madwoman who is accused of murdering the children she is not directly responsible but it is left to the viewer to decide whether her black magic may or may not have kicked off the subsequent killing spree irrespective she is hunted down by a lynch mob and chain whipped while a car radio blasts out rock music this scene is very strong and unpleasant its viciousness indicates the path fulci's career would subsequently go br br despite the visceral impact of the above murder it's maybe a little surprising that the other killings are either bloodless or committed off screen the only other death scene comparable with the lynch mob is the demise of the killer at the end of the movie although this sequence is kind of silly the plot is convoluted and awash with red herrings although personally i found the identity of the killer a little predictable this weakness is less problematic on subsequent viewings though – like most gialli don't torture a duckling is eminently re watchable br br technically the film is well made with impressive camera work solid acting and effective music from riz ortolani – particularly good is a recurring unaccompanied female vocal that sounds like it's coming from a distant hill fulci obviously went on to make more graphically violent horror movies but here he shows a talent for slightly more restrained material it's still wild stuff though and is highly recommended to fans of giallo cinema
1	i'm not a huge fan of lucio fulci's films most of his 80s gore films had their moments but often came across as second rate dario argento imitations with the exception of the entertaining zombi which was a george romero imitation i didn't really enjoy them i know italian horror often disregards the plot but the storyline and characters in his films were just far too thread bare even by the standards this is why don't torture a duckling surprised me its actually a very well made film with an engrossing murder mystery its possibly the best giallo ever made only seriously rivaled by dario argento's entries into the genre and unlike fulci's previous giallo a lizard in a woman's skin this never drags br br fulci's direction here is quite good he keeps the story moving at a good pace and maintains the viewer's interest throughout also the conclusion to the mystery comes as a complete surprise to the audience plus he adds some clever touches such as the upbeat soul music during a particularly disturbing graveyard beating sequence overall the violence here is restrained and only used when necessary for the story the acting is good for the most part also full of familiar faces from 70s italian exploitation cinema both thomas and barbara bouchet are super cool throughout the only weak link is florinda bolkan whose performance is just far too over the top its the only laughable aspect of the film don't torture a duckling definitely comes with my recommendation and may be a good introduction to the giallo subgenre as a whole 8 10
1	don't torture a duckling is one of the coolest italian horror films i've ever seen and i've seen my share to call it a giallo is a little misleading because it's not really a typical murder mystery it's more of a straight horror movie br br complete with one of the most brutal and gory scenes ever in a movie this old fulci's twisting and turning film oozes with a creepy ambiance and an old school italian feel the setting is perfect an old italian village the music is ridiculously perfect the finale is genuine and original br br after seeing don't torture a duckling you really have to wonder how fulci's later stuff got so off beat i like all his stuff but he strayed maybe he figured he already did it because with this film he hits the bullseye br br i'd recommend this film to anyone who thinks that dario argento owns the giallo genre fulci beats him with this one br br 10 out of 10 kids
1	don't torture a duckling is an absolutely stunning giallo diversion for lucio fulci unlike other subgenre heavyweights like mario bava and dario argento fulci takes a decidedly gritty grounded and socially perceptive approach to the giallo narrative in this film there is nothing glamorous about the child murders and borderline pedophilia a gutsy subplot for 1972 going on here and fulci wisely shoots with a staid and lugubrious eye avoiding flash melodrama and directorial histrionics the proceedings are punctuated by gory and instantly mind searing set pieces that are bolstered even further by fulci's jarring sense of the deeply disturbing witch killing scene in particular with its bald faced brutality feels like a snuff film composer riz ortolani bookends these carnage filled scenes with ferocious reverberating string blasts br br the film is capped by a simultaneously lyrical and violent conclusion wherein theology morality fanaticism and superstition collide it is a deeply effective ending that has the capacity to leave the viewer in a befuddled and disarmed torpor br br fulci couldn't have picked a better location for this film don't torture a duckling was photographed in and around the ancient city of italy as continues to modernize to this day highlighted by its shift from an agricultural economy to an industrial one it is grappling with its sponsored reputation as a receptacle for mysterious paleolithic ghosts the anxieties of the real life are reflected by the characters in the film who wearing their christianity on their sleeves confront any exotic fringe tradition namely witchcraft that strays outside of the norm br br interestingly enough was also used as a stand in for jerusalem in mel gibson's the passion of the christ if anything this adds even more potency to fulci's message catholic guilt and grisly slayings are such a resonant combination
1	what a surprise this film was i've seen a good few of fulci's horror and zombie flicks and was amazed that this was by the same director he also wrote the screen play which shows that the chap was quite capable of crafting a detailed complex story line the dubbing on this is not good but far from the appalling slop that only further hinders later howlers like baby' br br the photography in this film is fantastic a strange almost futuristic highway appears throughout the film which focuses on a small town where young boys are being murdered a scene involving the beating of a woman is uncomfortable to watch yet refreshing in comparison to usual cinema violence br br what went wrong lucio perhaps there is a strong case to suggest he had reached his peak with this film and it slowly went downhill after that
1	easily lucio fulci's most respected film don't torture a duckling is highly renowned for it's edgy subject matter gruesome imagery and strong storyline terror befalls a small italian village as young boys begin turning up murdered the confused and determined authorities plus a dedicated detective in mystery was it the creepy hermit the spastic voodoo witch one of the hookers the rich girl someone else contrary to most fan's frequent representation on the film's violent content i consider it much more plot driven featuring only one real moment of memorable bloodshed involving chains and boards in no aspect does this detract from the positive attributes this movie delivers fulci proves himself fully capable of dishing out one hell of a dark and disturbing giallo with killing black magic and of course a nice full set o' knockers though i'm particularly more fond of fulci's lizard in a woman's skin and new york ripper don't torture a duckling dominates the giallo genre as a moody and compelling murder mystery
1	first of all i have to say that i'm a huge lucio fulci and dario argento fan although i have not seen absolutely all of their movies i really enjoyed almost every one i did see i really like giallos and i thought argento was the master of this genre after seeing films like tenebre and phenomena but after i saw new york ripper by fulci i found out that he could do pretty good giallos besides his graphic zombie movies and even outdo argento on a certain level br br i love fulci's style and yes i love gore but this film i think although it has a more developed plot and characters than his other films is not his best one what i don't like is that it can be confusing at times especially at the end and the fact that we go from one suspect to another and then another until we even suspect the retarded little girl for a moment i think it goes too far i know giallos are supposed to keep you guessing until the end and the killer should be very hard to find but this film plays a little too much with our minds however i did like the scene when the witch is killed i think it is very well done and gave me the chills the acting is also pretty good and the photography is great br br although this is not a bad film i think lucio fulci has made better films than this and i think his best one is the beyond a very different movie but a more atmospheric and visual experience br br i give don't torture a duckling a 7 out of 10 br br
1	uncle frank is everyone's uncle this documentary covered all aspects of aging in america the lonliness the humor the irony uncle frank and aunt were supremely generous in sharing their life experiences with the audience the director did an unbelieveable job of capturing the small and large pieces that made up their lives thanks to everyone who helped in making this film
1	i saw this movie five times and never get tired of it this features traces of the giallo genre but also with a vivid italian countryside setting where ignorance and superstition are deadlier than any serial killer featuring excellent location reminiscent sometimes of fellini sometimes of the taviani brothers good characterisation and some of the finest genre actors including the great tomas and ida lupino in an unforgettable role this is not euro trash just a masterpiece that should be discovered generation after generation it recently recieved great acclaim at the paris cinematheque at a double feature tribute to lucio fulci
1	this film shows a serious side to the often thought of as gore fest works of fulci not a lot of blood and guts here but a fine tale about murder and the lives affected by it br br a real find considering it was made in 1972 and will soon celebrate its 30th anniversary br br check this one out but be warned it is hard to find br br ron
1	i was pleasantly surprised by the depth of story and character development fulci was a master at creating horrific atmosphere using inventive camera work vivid cinematography and yes wonderfully explicit gore br br this film is no exception however compared to his later films the beyond zombie 2 city of the living dead house by the cemetery etc the characters here are extremely well developed and the emphasis shies away from the supernatural and is more on the suspense created by a classic who dunnit amongst the lush hills of italy the scenery is at moments reminiscent of cherished folklore and then immediately contrasted by mud and blood soaked terror shrouded by crumbling ruins the gore in this film is not quite as prevalent and seems restrained compared to fulci's later films however splatter and giallo fans will most likely be satiated by a few close ups of oozing wounds and the last 5 minutes of the film br br overall a fantastic and mature film from one of our great italian horror directors
1	cult director lucio fulci is probably most famous for his gory zombie flicks from the 1980s that earned him his rightful reputation as the godfather of gore fulci's absolute greatest film however dates back to 1972 and while it is definitely gritty and violent it is not nearly as gory as many of his other films non si sevizia un paperino aka don't torture a duckling of 1972 is not only by far fulci's greatest film this tantalizing and utterly brilliant giallo is one of the absolute highlights of the genre the stunning atmosphere and tantalizing suspense the great setting the intriguing story the brilliant performances or the intense moments of sheer shock i don't know what to praise most about this ingenious giallo don't torture a duckling truly delivers cinematic perfection in every aspect which makes it an absolute masterpiece of italian horror cinema br br contrary to other gialli it is not seductive beauty queens who are slain one by one but little boys who fall victims to a killer on the loose bodies of little boys are found in rural sicily while the police are desperately searching for the killer the little town is basically full of strange people and the townsfolk are screaming for a culprit br br the film is stunningly suspenseful and uncompromising from the very beginning with a gritty dark and constantly tense atmosphere that has yet to find an equal the acting performances are among the best in italian horror cinema tomas one of my personal all time favorite actors is excellent in the lead as journalist andrea who is investigating the crimes sexy barbara bouchet delivers both eye candy and a brilliant performance equally outstanding performances come from irene papas and florinda bolkan who is utterly brilliant in her role the great score by riz ortolani brilliantly intensifies the suspense and atmosphere and the film is ingeniously shot in fascinating sicilian landscapes although not as gory as many other fulci films this film is definitely gritty and uncompromising in its violence with a few shockingly brutal scenes br br don't torture a duckling has everything brilliant horror requires this is not quite as easy to get hold of as most other fulci flicks but i assure that searching it will pay off any horror fan must see this personal favorite of mine and i highly recommend any true lover of film in general not to miss this a masterpiece
1	in this early fulci work the director shows his most mainstream side as well as a talent for compelling storytelling and more than reasonable elucidation for the genre personally i think he has been unfairly maligned throughout his career as an aesthete of gore it's a pretty capable procedural and surprised me with its rich narrative that shows his distrust for small minded small town mentality and the of the police as well as the twisted ideals of the catholic church the last of which seemed to have cut this film at its knees when it was first released and could have possibly given the director another direction so early on the comparative lack of gore in the film shows a more urgent and psychological imperative to this film in its prevailing mystery but the gore and puppetry he does utilise is put to good use here most notably in the scene where a falsely accused murderer is senselessly lynched by a mob of men in a graveyard and left for dead in a show of vile and antiquated vigilantism expertly choreographed to the modern tunes off a diegetic radio br br another example was the final scene which was indeed awesome in which a strikingly handsome priest falls from a cliff and the puppet used is markedly showed in a medium closeup which accentuated its demonic appearance and evident ugliness curiously considering his later works fulci also invokes the idea of modernity seized upon the hamlet holding on to its anachronistic superstitions and ignorance when the idea of black magic is just that a quaint idea of supernatural evil that never really ends up manifesting from the voodoo dolls while making its witch nothing more than a disturbed woman another thing i liked was that he adds to these character layers by making a bourgeois city girl into an ambiguous figure is she the corrupter the priest fears for his wards and perhaps more tellingly for himself this giallo does lend itself to becoming one of fulci's more personal and substantive films in that we actually get a fair influx of ideas from him
1	set in and near a poor working class town in the mountains of rural italy it's a story of madness the landscape may be quite picturesque but there's madness herein concealed behind the mask of a person who seems outwardly normal this person kills little children br br in style and tone this film resembles dario argento's famous italian giallos those fascinating whodunit horror films except that argento's films are much better looking still the visuals in fulci's don't torture a duckling are competent with some interesting compositions and lighting lightning and thunder on a rainy night enhances suspense in one sequence wherein one of the is vulnerably alone br br in one sequence the gore is a bit overdone but this is no slasher film a legitimate theme the story and that theme is that madness can take many unexpected forms not just the obvious delusions of people who practice voodoo or black magic br br plenty of red herrings render the puzzle solution difficult if the viewer doesn't assume an agenda on the part of the director don't dismiss someone who might not seem to be a suspect the twist near the end provides good misdirection however in one scene midway through a line of dialogue could have been added to clarify the relationship between two characters one of whom is the murderer the film's finale takes place on a beautiful with the wind whistling in the background we see flashbacks to clues and get insights into the killer's mindset br br i don't care for the film's widescreen projection but background music is effective and ranges from jarringly creepy at the beginning to low key jazz to indigenous italian songs acting is generally average though in a couple of cases it's a bit overdone br br though not as visually brilliant as argento's giallos don't torture a duckling nevertheless is a fine film one that contains a thematic storyline and enough of a whodunit puzzle to interest most viewers who like thrillers and murder mysteries
1	if you are one of those people that think lucio fulci is all about gore guts and zombies you have to watch this and the psychic too for that matter even though the film does include some quite brutal scenes of violence and a unsettling subject matter it's not the main thing here this is a truly impressive story and character driven murder mystery that might well be the director's masterpiece here he proves that he's a real craftsman creating a memorable disturbing yet strikingly beautiful masterpiece filled with creepy catholic imagery and interesting social commentary it also has a great cast including the gorgeous barbara bouchet as well as tomas millan from beatrice and irene pappas in a small but important role still it is brazilian actress florinda bolkan who also stared in fulci's bizarre lizard in a woman's skin who steals the scene in the role of giving an excellent performance of a woman driven insane by her superstitions and her vicious murder scene is particularly heartbreaking the second star of the movie is sergio cinematography who along with the melancholic morricone esquire score by riz ortolani help bringing the secluded italian village with a dark secret setting to life i have to admit thought that the dummy head hitting the rocks kind of pulled me off but nonetheless this is a definite italian horror classic a moving sad and ultimately thought provoking work of genius 10 10 for me if you liked this one i recommend watching alfred alice sweet alice as they are somewhat similar and are both underrated gems
1	the name lucio fulci up images of graphic death and mutilation in the minds of may fans thanks to movies like zombi 2 city of the living dead the beyond and the new york ripper fulci has a reputation for being one of the goriest directors in history and although many of his later movies certainly justify his reputation until the release of zombi 2 in 1979 fulci's films did not contain anywhere near the amount of blood and guts he's know for in fact they were for the most part gore free instead relying on more traditional shocks and disturbing imagery to work don't torture a duckling hardly contains any gore yet ranks as his best br br don't torture a duckling is set in a small sicilian town where superstition rules instead of logic the townsfolk are very distrustful of outsiders as well as anyone different often shunning them after a series of child murders though many people descend upon the town including andrea thomas milan who tries to uncover the truth about the murders while they continue to happen br br this is a remarkable film it's very well made with an excellent cast filled with many favorites of italian exploitation cinema it also contains a solid score as well as many creative camera movement courtesy or lucio fulci but the real draw of don't torture a duckling is the disturbing nature of the movie little kids around twelve years old are shown mocking retarded people visiting prostitutes and being propositioned sex by an older woman it also contains some very biting commentary on the middle class and the catholic church it is for reasons like this that don't torture a duckling was blacklisted throughout europe when it was first released and never was shown in the united states still don't torture a duckling stands as a monumental achievement in giallo cinema as well as lucio fulci's best work i really can't recommend this one enough check it out
1	if you like who dun its you will like this film considered the best italian detective story giallo fulci has done br br it's not mickey spillane for sure there are scenes designed to disturb anyone br br many would be offended by a local beauty trying to seduce a 12 year old boy she was joking but she was naked nonetheless and he would have jumped at the chance to jump her bones she also tries to tempt the local priest br br young boys are turning up missing and there are several interesting suspects you have to watch carefully to discover the killer can you don't jump on the first guy it's way too early and he is too obvious br br anyone familiar with fulci will be able to guess the killer who died a violent death at the end what crazy reasoning he had
1	being a seasoned fan of italian thrillers and directors dario argento mario bava sergio martino and aldo i thought of lucio fulci as an overrated hack i had seen the beyond which i think is totally overrated i found the new york ripper to be simply appalling and i didn't particularly like the house by the cemetery these three movies left me to conclude that fulci is the least interesting of these italian filmmakers but my stubbornness prevailed and i had to check out more of his films city of the living dead was a film i found very interesting but don't torture a duckling is very nearly a masterpiece br br set in a small town in the italian countryside in a repressive religious community where young boys are being murdered the authorities are clueless as to who's behind these crimes especially after their prime suspect has been cleared an eager young reporter along with a rather slutty girl who seduces young boys investigate and eventually get to the bottom of it br br brilliant atmosphere combined with a good story and a good cast not always the case with 70's italian thrillers make don't torture a duckling a crackling good thriller the plot is well constructed not easily figured out and the end conclusion is very satisfying fulci creates a dynamic atmosphere of repression and guilt in a very unforgiving and ignorant community and creates some very strong visuals particularly in a scene where a woman gets beaten to death by some local townsfolk fulci's social commentary concerning religion and innocence are quite edgy and every aspect is well handled when thinking of his zombie flicks and his ultra violent giallo new york ripper it's amazing how well he balances his critique with explicit violence and makes an even stronger point so far i haven't seen any fulci film made as professionally as this one br br while not a traditional giallo film duckling has many of the genre's trademarks fulci displays complete control over the format only once going overboard with an unconvincing gore moment but overall he seems to be even better at making mysteries than full blown gore epics the extreme scenes here are much more powerful and really pack a punch br br so far don't torture a duckling is fulci's best film by far in my opinion edgy social commentary combined with explicit scenes of violence and a crackling good mystery to boot
1	this film works on a lot of different levels it's a profile of one very cool couple a social commentary on aging and nursing homes a love story a musical i've seen uncle frank a few times and every time i watch it i'm not sure who to go call first my parents my wife a friend i've lost touch with but it has a way of making you remember the most important relationships in your life and want to reaffirm the ones that continue expect a lot of laughs and probably some tears if any of the vibrant characters here strike a chord i'm pretty sure they will
1	don't torture a duckling lucio fulci italy 1972 br br definitely a prime candidate for the most insane movie title ever conceived and that's quite an achievement in giallo land originally the film was titled even more absurdly don't torture donald duck literally translated from its italian title a small donald duck figure features briefly as a toy but hardly enough to render a title like this but apparently it was changed in fear of legal ramifications by disney i quite a bit against fulci's earlier lizard in a woman's skin 1971 but here all the right ingredients are present a surprisingly effective mystery a good cast and imaginatively shot against an unusual rural setting everything just clicks i think it's justly hailed as one of the director's most accomplished achievements br br the story is set against the backdrop of a small mountain side town in sicily where someone is killing young teenage boys among the suspects the most obvious one is a young woman florinda balkan a self proclaimed witch who is seen suspiciously unearthing the skeleton of a baby and sticking pins into way effigies guiseppe the village idiot is under suspicion as well since he made a feeble attempt to profit from the disappearance of one of the boys and walked right into their trap by the time a quick witted tomas arrives from milan to cover the murders he immediately begins to question the authorities' assumptions when he meets two other potential suspects don alberto the local priest marc porel with a high minded attitude and patrizia barbara bouchet a bored young woman from the city with a troubled past of drug offense who also fancies having sexual relations with the young boys in town talk about your prime red herring br br fulci nicely contrasts modernity and tradition with the newly constructed elevated highway meandering through the sicilian hills past old towns where life is still firmly rooted in tradition and superstition one could debate about the film's political stance as the north versus the south or as commentary on small town virtues society's conventions in general that are all too often dangerously close to tipping over into moral disintegration chaos and ultimately self justice by the populace the film has often been lambasted because of its anti catholic tone but it's hardly an important element here except for obvious plot related reasons which would be giving away too much it's actually rather tame compared to a film like don't deliver us from evil 1971 probably the film's rather unflattering portrayal of small town sicilian values when another boy is killed the local populace are depicted as a retarded lynch mob might be cause for some offense in sicily but considering problematic relation with the rest of italy hardly problematic for other italians i would think the film vanquished into obscurity far too quickly to have much impact anyway br br when talking fulci the amount of gore is usually a prime subject for discussion although eyes gouging scenes are lacking the film does contain two very graphic scenes in the gross out finale the killer falls of a cliff smashing his face along the rocks on the way down with gruesome results albeit not very realistic and the chain whipping sequence with florinda balkan in the graveyard shows fulci's penchant for sadistic violence and typically he's not holding back at graphically showing what most film makers would merely hint at surely one of the most horrifying scenes in fulci's repertoire br br above all this is a taut well written effective little mystery nicely lensed by fulci with an impressive cast of genre regulars like barbara bouchet marc porel not very convincing as a priest tomas and florinda balkan mouth crazy as the town's witch br br camera obscura 8 10
1	lucio fulci's don't torture a duckling paints an exceptionally unflattering portrait of small town sicily plagued by series of brutal murders of young boys this surprisingly well directed film especially in comparison to later fulci's gorefests is distinguished by overall atmosphere of perversity nastiness and two truly grotesque scenes of brutal violence the soon to be dead children are depicted as casually cruel and budding peeping bruno's near seduction by the naked patrizia barbara bouchet really has to be seen to be believed highly recommended especially in pair with my another cult favourite house with the windows that laugh 1976
1	in a small picturesque sicilian village someone is brutally killing young sexually curious boys the local police force keep busy trying to track the killer and whittle the list down to five or so main suspects including voyeuristic village retard giuseppe vito and an elusive grungy voodoo doll poking backwoods witch named florinda bolkan there's also don alberto marc a handsome young priest who runs the local boy's school andrea tomas a journalist helping to aid the police and the beautiful patrizia barbara bouchet a gorgeous but seriously screwed up drug addict who seems to have a thing for very i mean very young boys as typical with the giallo subgenre the plot won't be fully revealed until the last few frames but if you can hang in there long enough this film pays off the script written by fulci gianfranco and roberto keeps red herrings to a minimum and will keep you interested and the story is ably supported by excellent location work cinematography by sergio and musical score by riz ortolani the acting particularly bolkan is also very good fulci fans who were weaned on his 80s like the beyond and zombie will find more artistry and less gore on display here than they might anticipate but they'll still enjoy a particularly nasty chain whipping scene in a cemetery bizarrely yet effectively set to singer ornella ballad a te and a long tumble down a rocky embankment that fulci liked so much that he reused it in his film the psychic 1977 scenes of the children being killed is mainly kept off screen except for a brief strangulation but the camera doesn't hesitate to linger on their corpses the film was not released theatrically in america and presumably because of some anti catholic elements in the storyline received only a limited theatrical release in europe
1	i didn't know what to expect when i rented this widescreen dvd i knew it had a cult following but i had also seen a lot of the director's later works which although delightfully gory were also pretty much incoherent don't torture a duckling actually had a linear storyline and a mystery that kept me guessing almost until the end and after all was said and done it was a genuinely unsettling and creepy experience one major caveat i would much rather have heard the original soundtrack and read english subtitles than the uneven dubbing found here
1	don't torture a duckling is one of fulci's earlier and honestly in terms of story line better films and although not the typical bloodbath that fulci is known for this is still a very unique and enjoyable film br br the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations either as suspects or those helping the investigation or in some cases both include the towns police force a small time reporter a beautiful and rich ex drug addict a young priest and his mother an old man who practices witchcraft and his female protégé a mentally handicapped and a deaf mute little girl all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns until the actual killer is revealed br br don't torture a duckling is neither a classical giallo or a typical fulci gore film although it does contain elements of both it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci's later works this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end recommended for giallo murder mystery fans or anyone looking to check out some of fulci's non splatter films but don't despair don't torture still has more than it's fair share of violence and sleaze some may be put off by the subject of the child killings and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys which is also kind of disconcerting but if that type of material doesn't bother you then definitely give this one a look 8 5 10
1	sporting a title seemingly more suitable for a looney tunes featurette than a grisly giallo don't torture a duckling 1972 is nonetheless a grade a thriller from horror maestro lucio fulci in this one someone has been strangling the preteen boys in a rural southern italian village and typical for these gialli there are many suspects there's barbara bouchet patrizia looking more than you've ever seen her a rich girl hiding out after a drug scandal florinda bolkan the local epileptic voodoo woman her witchcraft practicing beau giuseppe the local idiot the sweet faced priest his dour mother and on and on the film features some unusually violent set pieces including a chain whipping of one of the main characters in a graveyard one of the most realistically bloody sequences that i've ever seen and a nifty when the killer is ultimately revealed the film's bursts of violence compensate for the fact that there are no real scares or suspense to speak of still this giallo fascinates with its unusual rural backdrop unsettling child murders oddball characters and freaky score by riz ortolani the film has been beautifully photographed in what i presume to be monte near the adriatic in southern italy at least that town's police force is thanked in the closing credits and while subtitling would've made this fine looking dvd work even better the american slang doesn't convince in this rural italian setting anchor bay is to be thanked for another job well done oh that title does eventually make perfect sense too
1	i tend to get furious when hearing about lucio fulci's reputation as a director too often he's categorized as a no talented filmmaker only out to shock and disgust entire audiences with images of pure gore true his films contain more explicit filth and sickness as your average mainstream american production but his films always are of wide range and the plots are gruesomely morbid don't torture a duckling is yet another story this film is a pure gem of the italian shock cinema i easily dare to call this film a an old fashioned giallo that includes all brilliant aspects of genuine horror the film shows the search for a inhuman serial murderer in a small italian mountain town the bodies of 3 young boys are found horribly mutilated there are quite a lot of pseudo madmen in the town but every trail leads to nowhere among the suspects are a greedy bum and a scary woman obsessed by witchery and voodoo like a true mastermind fulci knows to find the right creepy tone for his film he portrays the small town as a claustrophobic and inescapable setting of macabre happenings supported by a giddy soundtrack fulci also develops himself as a genius storyteller here the script always is one step ahead of you and the complex plot will mislead you more than once in other words this is a unique giallo horror slash murder mystery the gore isn't presented as grotesque and explicit as in later milestones among them are the legendary zombie 2 the beyond and the new york ripper although there still are a few nauseating and hard to watch shock sequences shown br br don't torture a duckling is the most compelling and effective achievement lucio fulci ever brought forward and it easily ranks among the greatest italian horror movies ever made right next to the masterpieces made by mario bava and dario argento the film is fascinating from start to finish some plot aspects are alarmingly realistic and the tension is adrenalin rushing at all times a must see for horror fans and an absolute priority for italian shock lovers
1	this is lucio fulci at his best if only all the films he made after were like this br br this extraordinary film is as intriguing as dario the bird with crystal plumage br br if you´re an argento fan but you don´t like lucio fulci films like br br the beyond manhattan baby the house by the cemetery etc this one has nothing to do with the others this is what the italians call giallo that would be something like a who done it movie in a nutshell br br you won´t know who the killer is until the last moments of the film br br but apart from that there´s the plot some maniac living in a small village starts killing little boys a journalist tomas a sexy young woman barbara bouchet a priest marc porel his mother irene papas and a witch florinda bolkan are the main characters in this tangled bloody story br br talking about the actors i want to say that tomas is superb like always and florinda bolkan is terrific as the village witch br br do you want to know who is the killer br br i cannot tell you but i can tell you that you must see this film br br 10 out of 10 of course
1	as far as i know i've seen most of lucio fulci's films with the exception of some later ones that are popping up on dvd now and i would have to say this was his best pre zombie offering in fact it beats out his later movies hands down this is a tale of superstition and suspicion in a small italian town out in the middle of nowhere where young boys are dying mysteriously it's no mystery how they died i guess it's more who's doing it is it a woman that the townspeople have always considered a witch is it a young woman that lives in a fancy modern house on the outskirts of town who used to do a lot of drugs is it the village idiot who gets nabbed early on because of being in the wrong place at the wrong time you'll only know if you watch and watch you should for this is a top notch mystery thriller or should i say a giallo i've seen this before but it's been a long time and upon a second viewing it was still as powerful as the first time for those of you that only know lucio fulci for his zombie flicks well open your minds to this because it's well worth seeing and while the monsters in this are human they're as nasty as anything dredged up in his later films 9 out of 10 stars see it please
1	lucio fulci later known for his graphic horror films like the beyond and zombie was years earlier a master of the italian giallo in the company of argento and bava with films like a lizard in a woman's skin and his masterpiece don't torture a duckling this film has all the elements of the italian mystery thriller genre known as the giallo but really pulls the viewers in by having each key character with a skeleton in his her own closet this keeps you doing as much detective work as the detectives in the film itself who is killing the young boys in town the young rich woman who is so bored that she sexually taunts the eventual victims the reporter who likes to tamper with a crime scene to get a better photo shot the with a mentally retarded daughter the local witch the town idiot the list goes on and you have to keep mental notes like a true game to play and solve the themes in this film are very daring and done with that perfect italian style in the early 1970s it is certain that no american studio would have even considered making a film of such strong content and that is precisely why this is such a satisfying film despite some unusual accent choices for the dubbing and will definitely have people discussing its meanings long after viewing it as the saying goes they don't make them like this anymore so get a copy and cherish an important film like this one
1	it doesn't matter whether you've experienced the plight of the elderly in america or if you're just plain clueless uncle frank and matthew give you that clue in a straight forward funny wake up and smell the roses sort of way by the end of the film it is obvious that while being totally entertained somehow you've also been educated a terrific film by a terrific up and coming talent in the movie field matthew is a name to pay attention to
1	this is another film where the cinematography is the best thing to recommend it that would be fine if the film were a travelogue but as a dramatic exercise in cinematic artistry that is not good enough the theme of inter species respect and co operation ventures timidly into the forbidden world of inter species love but its approach is stereotypical indicating a lack of understanding of the behavior motives of either species as with many films one always wonders what could have been achieved by a more innovative director and a more creative screenwriter alas we probably will never know
1	a mesmerizing film that certainly keeps your attention ben daniels is fascinating and courageous to watch
1	i love this movie though i don't like how they picture egyptians being an egyptian citizen myself that's why it earns an eight out of 10 br br the relationship between augustin and the leopard is awkward and of course because of loneliness and living in that cave for quite so long he develops a kind of insanity and passion to that leopard br br a very touching scene when the leopard dies watch reaction br br all in all i find it enjoyable and i'm looking forward to reading the short story by balzac
1	a film about the relationship between a man and leopard that's very reminiscent of the english patient even down to a scene similar to when ralph fiennes' character carries the body of his lover across a desert rock cliff in a passion in the desert the main character carries the body of the leopard across a desert rock cliff but in the opposite direction calculated decision or unconscious contrast historically expanded from a very short balzac story the film is not perfect but a treat no less final shot will haunt me for weeks 8 of 10
1	the story starts out with a soldier being transported to a desert town then goes back in time to tell the tale of how he came to this place he started out as an officer in napoleon's army fighting in egypt but became separated from his unit after nearly starving and or dying of thirst he came upon a leopard which somehow became his bosom buddy it brought him food and before long the soldier became almost totally wild so acute was his bonding with the animal all things do end however and the man decided it was necessary for him to leave the critter a very strange film well written and portrayed beautiful scenery from jordan and utah which didn't always blend perfectly but who cares
1	what an incredible story and what a beautiful film hat's off to ben daniels and the great honore de balzac this captivating film conveys the passion experienced by the characters so effortlessly and yet so powerfully i watched it mesmerized almost holding my breath as the story developed towards its inexorable end this film's execution was almost flawless simple and pure it plays with our hearts guiding us in understanding the strange platonic absolute thus possessive bond between two creatures not meant to be part of each other's world both are capable of affection yet ironically it's the more evolved one who becomes dependent and possessive unable to accept the other's freedom it's one of the most fascinating and intriguing look at the many forms of love and an incredible study on how oppressive and destructive human love can be sometimes br br only a rudimentary mind would associate this story with any kind of bestiality
1	an excellent story well told by the film maker the interactions between the man and the leopard brought many questions to the viewers mind about just who was being humane the humans killed for no reason the animals only to survive at the end of the movie you were left wondering just who the real hero of the movie was a well told story the human actor did an excellent job but the leopard stole every scene it was in
1	this movie is beautiful in all ways it is visually stunning and this is a good thing since the dialogue would only take up a page or two of paper the acting is superb it is subtle passionate and intense ben daniels does a fabulous job of turning himself into an animal and mixing that wild nature with a man's overbearing passion and honor there is not one flaw not one mistake or wrong moment to be found anywhere it is completely perfect but only if you understand what you're going to experience it isn't a movie for anyone who wants normality
1	my opinions do not flow with the majority in most cases i tend to lean toward the artsy imaginative and different this movie was reminiscent of frances ford's the black stallion wherein a fantasy situation is created to showcase the beauty of a magnificent creature who's not readily available to view performing at its peak except on these multitudes of documentaries ala natural unlike those nature films this offering utilizes the finest movie making techniques the industry has to offer fit for a diva creating one of the most sensual super stars the cat on the screen br br this fantasy depicting the love relationship that develops between a french soldier he is very nice too lost on the egyptian desert and a female leopard he encounters when he chances upon an abandoned egyptian temple is mesmerizing i bought into it wholeheartedly if you are the least bit open to fantasy and appreciate the grace beauty power and sensuality of the feline you should enjoy it br br the only flaw in my book was the ending it was a perfect set up for a romeo and juliet finale that would have taken me over the top br br
1	i remember reading the original balzac story in college french br br i remember ken of tv in chicago reading it as one of his late night shows br br always loved the story but never believe they could or would make a movie of it to my surprise they did and did it very well br br few of any balzac stories lend themselves to dramatization which is unfortunate and cat lover that i am i was always hoping it would be filmed without a lot of hollywood up this is as close to perfect conversion as could be done br br the theater of the mind is always better than what the eye can see but this is as close as i think it can come to letting the imagination of reading meet the reality of seeing
1	the silver screen gets freshly polished with this beautiful film about aging happily and enjoying life's rainbows there's plenty of silver hair on this silver screen but the film's namesake is more like 85 going on 25 with his energy humor and lust for life the story of entertainer extraordinaire uncle frank his devoted wife aunt and the zippy residents of the local area nursing homes inspires us to live each day as if it's your last and brings a glimmer of hope to those often dreaded golden years a great movie for young and old audiences
1	honore de balzac's genuinely bizarre short story on which this was loosely based gets an unsettling albeit breathtakingly filmed treatment here as a sort of forbidden love blossoms over a period of time between man and beast in the early part of the nineteenth century thin and very blonde english actor ben daniels plays the role of a young soldier during the napoleonic wars who gets lost whilst escorting an exiled french painter across the rugged dangerous landscapes of the gobi desert after literally going around in circles the two men give up ever trying to reach civilization again thus each decides against better judgment mind you to go their separate ways with the promise of both returning to the same exact spot when and if a water source is actually found this is of course how daniels' character comes to encounter the creature a wild and untamed female leopard and eventually form a seemingly unbreakable bond or rather love with it that both saves his life and nearly destroys it by film's end the exquisite cinematography minimalist dialog somewhat demented story which arguably hints at possible bestiality in about three scenes are what ultimately lead professional critics to pan the film as pretentious and overlong rubbish while it is a film that isn't exactly for all tastes mind you i find it to be a subtle though decidedly left of center mixture of fantasy with a surreal and sumptuous atmosphere highlighted by the fact that for more than half of the flick actor ben daniels is forced to perform opposite a wild animal four leopards were actually used as opposed to just the one which plain common sense and a slight knowledge of theatrics dictates that it must have been a maddening and very difficult job that he managed to pull off quite brilliantly if you ask me overall i think that passion in the desert takes a while to warm up to but if you're a patient person who is willing to give it some time it does in fact cast it's uniquely original spell over you in spite of everything and unlike most platonic human and animal relationship stories it need not require a talking pig monkey or shaggy dog to keep your interest throughout out of
1	i recently stumbled across a tv showing of passion having missed the opening scenes ms in to be praised for having the vision and courage to bring such a strange de balzac tale to the screen i am grateful to the entire cast and crew for their parts in producing such a thoroughly fine motion picture it must have been arduous shooting so many scenes in the desert and i cannot comprehend how her trainer coaxed such a fine performance from the leopard this calls to mind another suspenseful adventure naked prey why isn't this film more well known hope i can find it on video
1	passion in the desert exemplifies spatial grander it is a visual narrative illuminated by the magnificent cinematography passion was filmed on location in the deserts of jordan egypt morocco and tunisia br br we are in egypt 1798 augustin a soldier is escorting writer and artist jean michel venture de paradis on an official mission to document measure draw and paint the cultural landmarks of the egypt its dunes stupendous ruins and mysterious people br br but can you truly document majestic fractured and wild can you truly capture the essence of egypt nature man and time br br jean and augustin become lost in the mesmerizing glittering gold desert whose vastness overwhelms their senses br br you can't get lost in egypt there's the nile and there's the sea says the augustin and soon he discovers an ancient winding cave that leads to a palatial ruin br br delirious and near delusional he attempts to rest a perplexing sound rouses him his eyes body and emotions become hypnotically locked in time as he stumbles into a sensual sensory experience br br a wild sleek female leopard stares back at him and their love affair begins br br a daring love affair a daring film
1	this movie was thought to be low budget but it turned out to be awesome i just rented it from blockbuster and i loved it the acting was very good hot women and some scary parts it is plain and simply worth the money to pay for
1	it's one of the best movies that i have seen this year i don't agree with the person who said it's boring of course some people may find this movie not frightening at all but personally i spent a very good moment this movie very well sex scenes with frightening scenes there is also a nice touch of humor for example when the wife tells her husband that in her childhood she was abused by her father and then her husband says how can someone abuse someone like you and then he attempts to attach her on the bed for sexual games d very funny i recommend this movie to everyone and by the way sorry for my poor english i'm from france
1	odd but wonderfully original movie genuinely frightening creepy and ridiculous in equal measures the setting of a high rise red brick apartment is a perfect backdrop for the haunting action the thought of a secret sealed room in a place like this is good enough but when the lead naive couple start cleaning up the old bed they find in this room the scene is set for some classic chills the cast is fantastic tanya dempsey really gets to chew some scenery after being undervalued in other full moon films joe estevez proves why brother martin sheen is so much bigger in hollywood his rolling eyes during the making the bed scene are really hilarious charles band co produced with stuart gordon and this really is an exceptional full moon release danny also directed hell asylum with dempsey
1	i guess by the time i saw this episode i had seen enough twilight zones to have it figured out ahead of time there is this odd assemblage of characters who find themselves at the bottom of a cylinder they are fine until an overzealous soldier shows up in their midst it is his prime directive to escape and so he garners the forces and puts them to work to reach the top of the cylinder there is much discussion about purpose and reason and speculation on their pasts but no one can remember anything they represent different jobs a piper a ballerina a clown a man in a tattered hat why are they there it leads to an adventure and is resolved at the end but i guess i had a pretty good idea before it all happened
1	during the sci fi tz marathon of january 31 1999 this episode was the last one aired in the 20th century in my time zone eastern it was new year's eve and when the clown starts singing we're here because we're here because we're here because we're here i realized that this was clever nod to it being new year's eve because that tune is also the tune to old lang coincidence we will never know br br i love this story for the little touches the tear on the ballerina the antics of the clown and the hit yourself in the head ending this and the art carney santa tz are the only ones that are about christmas br br my personal top five episodes after five characters 1 the hunt 2 the after hours 3 the hitchhiker 4 the lonely 5 little girl lost
1	it seems there are two kinds of people in the world those who think that five characters is one of the best episodes in the series and those who are so cool that they know it sucked because they were so clever and already predicted the lame twist at the end which apparently in their small minds is the only reason the twilight zone exists to come up with twists br br there are plenty of lame episodes in the series and i'm not one to rate all tz episodes ten but this one is certainly one of those that merit such a rating it is claustrophobic and colorful the suspense is built up and we cannot wait for the reveal of the secret at the end but whatever that secret is what these people are it doesn't really matter most of the beauty of the episode is to lead up to that it would be just as powerful if we never find out what these strangers in a strange place really are
1	this is one of the classic twilight zone episodes where with the simplest of situations the viewer was drawn into a seemingly symbolic conflict only to find the solution surprising and strangely acceptable five figures are inside a container prison a major a ballerina a a clown and a tramp they are certainly an odd choice of types to be in this isolation chamber but they are all in it nevertheless and they are trying to figure out why they are there what have they in common none can figure it out but gradually the major organizes them into working to bet out by standing on each other's shoulders and the major going to the top of the line of figures does reach the entrance and i'll leave it like that although one of the other critiques on this thread actually gives the story away br br the title seems to be suggested by six characters in search of an author famous play whether the actual purpose to the show was to spoof that play is questionable characters analyze their roles and relations with each other but the five characters here while they try to understand their situation are totally in the dark they are not in the situation of the six characters in who know their current situations this uncertainty of what is going on allows the viewers to think it is an abstract drama br br the actors william as the major and murray as the clown in particular give good accounts of themselves and the conclusion whether planned as a spoof or not is quite effective
1	anatole litvak directed the 1959 film the journey starring yul brynner deborah kerr robert morley e g marshall anne jackson and jason robards br br the film takes place during the 1956 hungarian uprising and concerns a group of travelers having problems getting out of budapest because of political problems in that part of the world they are put on a bus to vienna but the russians led by major brynner their passports and hold them for questioning one of the passengers is paul fleming robards posing as an american but in reality a hungarian freedom fighter whom the major believes is being smuggled out of hungary in fact lady kerr is hiding him she becomes the focus of the romantic attentions br br very good film that conveys the tension and hassle of the cold war and all of the performances are wonderful brynner is particularly excellent as the passionate major who isn't all bad and anne jackson gives a realistic powerful performance as a pregnant woman who doesn't want her child born in a communist country br br good script good director good cast there should be more films like this highly recommended
1	five characters in search of an exit clearly has to be one of the more clever and better twilight zone episodes ever made because of it's abstract ideas and thoughtful plan where the characters have to search to discover identity and it ends as a surprise you have a military major a female dancer bag pipe player a clown and hobo who all awake together in the bottom of a wall and none know how they got there and they don't know who they are so the episode starts out with very interesting drama and suspense from the very beginning making it so soul searching for the viewers interest to want to know the characters true identity and backgrounds plus the episode even adds more intrigue for the fact it places different types of characters with different views and lifestyles all with one goal in common to escape and find identity and peace that's very compelling for the viewer only in the end i don't want to spoil for those who haven't seen a surprise fall happens proving that many times you might want to stay where you are away in your little sheltered world and be away from the masses of other people's world as you will see the characters are loved in a different way by people in a much different form really great and cleverly done a real shock twist surprise that makes the viewer see the unexpected and cruel fate that happens sometimes when you search and seek
1	i will never forget the utterly absorbing effect this show had on me when i saw it for the first time from the moment that the major is startled by the clown to his anguished attempts to make sense of the situation we're alive we're people we must have memories quote but close to his clever attempt to improvise a means of escape this is riveting drama br br little touches stay with the viewer for a long time after watching it the moment when the lovely ballerina dances for everyone to the off key screeching bagpipes of the scottish musician the wistful remark a miss is as good as a mile the shaken conclusion that they must be in hell br br this is a brilliant episode beautifully written and acted the breathtaking beauty of susan harrison adds to the of the strange touching story
1	while researching susan harrison the ballerina in reference to a bonanza episode i was reminded of this gem br br this episode is the inspiration for dylan's all along the watch tower hendrix's cover is probably as well know and is one of his best which is one of his best br br thus this episode is responsible for several not bad for approximately 22 minutes of television br br but this is the twilight zone further comment of the series is unnecessary br br characters' is typical serling intense dramatic barreling toward an end that is as inevitable in hindsight as it is surprising the first time you see it br br this episode is spoiled in one sentence and is too good to spoil for any who have not seen it br br but you will feel ambushed and you will never listen to hendrix with the same ears again
1	for those curious this episode is based in theme upon play six characters in search of an author and jean paul sartre's play no exit as indicated most obviously by its title but of course with a sterling twist br br five very different individuals find themselves in a round room with no idea who they are other than the indication of their attire a bell intermittently rings perhaps also a hemmingway allusion increasing the agony of their incarceration the newcomer to the group a major is determined to escape while the others are resigned to their fate br br unlike these characters don't even have a story they have nothing other than the experience of the room in their consciousness and no one to author their nonexistent story so their position is even more hopeless than the characters in piece unlike both and sartre there is no relationship involved between the characters and therefore no real conflict between them though the theme of personal responsibility versus apathy is prominent in this story br br though this diverges significantly from the storyline of the authors alluded to in the title themes of sartre and and many other authors of the twentieth century come through with absolute clarity this is very obviously a piece which addresses post modernist perspective in the context of the cold war era there is also an emphasis upon issues of personal insignificance br br this is easily one of the best episodes i've seen and still exceptionally relevant to current experience as are sartre and exactly what makes a good piece of writing into a classic
1	kite runner is undoubtedly one of the most amazing books i have read in the recent past i perhaps had very high expectations from the film but none the less the movie was good the entire setting seemed realistic nothing was made to fancy the dialogs were not very attractive or powerful they were just right the movie was not a bad experience at all especially at the last 15mins where it got real emotional and even the hardest man would probably cry but my imagination was far better than the movie i cried more upon reading the novel than seeing the movie but overall a good movie to see for those of u who are not readers but the readers the novel would be a better experience so if at all u want to see the movie read the novel first and then compare it to the movie
1	two young friends grow up together in afghanistan the events of their lives drive them apart and one of them has now been living in the usa for a good number of years as he receives a phone call it is clear that he has to return for there is trouble in the air br br this is a film about life lasting friendships mistakes and making up again but also a film about darkness pain and endurance from the pleasurable young days of growing up and playing games to the falling apart back to the playing of games this is a slow film but not too slow br br it plays on emotions and that is quite right for a drama but it does so a bit too much for my liking this makes it too much of a tearjerker loosing it a bit of the quality it carries it is still good but not fantastic br br 7 out of 10 kites ran
1	ok i haven't read the and maybe the book was who knows but i loved the movie it was entertaining not a bit boring enjoyable and most of all heart wrenching the friendship between the two kids was so pure and innocent these kids acted so well especially the son of the servant oh my god that's like the form of god on the face of earth he steals our heart so easily spoilers the other friend the rich guy is a kid and his confusion and frustration can be understood but i did get angry when he abandoned and ignored his friend in the time when he needed consoling anyways he was just a kid and a bit stubborn to i wish the movie would also have shown the older version of the poor kid it pains to just think of the ending this movie is sad i felt terribly sad during the ending tears dropped down my eyes yes the background scores are fantastic the scenes are wow the kite scenes are fascinating and well it gets a bit of an adventure in the middle wonderfully acted and superbly cast the kids acted so well great direction don't know why this movie failed to the critics but it sure did woo me 10 10 must
1	i have not read the novel from which the film is based on so i cannot comment on what is missing or if there were changes made br br as i stated above i had a wonderful experience watching the kite runner i find that when i see films about other cultures than ours here in the usa i learn how other peoples live exist br br the actors in this movie are from afghanistan other countries in that area there are 3 young children in this near epic movie in there first roles they were marvelous br br the scenes that was supposedly in kabul were shot in various parts of china i assume that the area is similar to the actual places in the book br br mark foster directed he did finding he has created the same magic here br br all aspects of production are first rate br br i found this a better movie than those nominated won oscars br br the film is sub titled it is very clear to read it has a proper pg 13 rating spoiler alert the child rape scene is very well handled br br i cannot however give this a 4 star rating as the general plot story line we have seen many many times non the less this is a very worthwhile movie to watch br br ratings 1 2 out of 4 95 points out of 100 imdb 9 out of 10
1	one of the best and most inspirational movies about a different culture i've seen in years tragic and touching worth the watch maybe a few times we all know how brutal children can be i know from my own and my brothers experiences as children and this movie hit the nail on the head perfectly the kite running is amazing and i need to do research on the validity of that event even though it is done in cgi it is still amazing and very interesting to maneuver a kite like that with a single string seems impossible but they make it believable anyway this movie has many twists and turns that are i'm sure to many probably easy to figure out but they hit me before i could which makes a great movie for me when you figure out the whole movie in the first 10 minutes it kind of ruins it but this one does it so smoothly that it's hard to guess it even when it happens i'm a guy and i don't mind saying that the tears were flowing at more than one point in this movie
1	based on the best selling novel by the kite runner is a story of friendship betrayal and the struggle for redemption set in afghanistan prior to the soviet invasion of 1979 and later in the days of taliban rule all of the elements are present for great drama but under the direction of marc forster finding neverland the film lacks the kind of searing emotional impact that makes for a memorable experience though it is entertaining well acted and occasionally moving br br set in 1978 in kabul but filmed in china because of the dangers in afghanistan the friendship that opens the film between two young boys is very real though they are miles apart in social and economic circumstances 12 year old amir lives in posh surroundings with his wealthy and educated father baba played by the great although his wealth seems a bit incongruous in one of the poorest countries in the world though baba is a loving father he confesses to khan shaun his friend and business associate that amir is too soft and that there is something missing with that boy the family has a servant ali who dotes on his every need and whose son hassan ahmed khan is best friend br br the two are separated not only by class but also by ethnicity amir a burgeoning writer is a member of the majority while hassan is a a minority sect 10 of the population though we learn little about their traditions or social situation they are bound together by their love of kite flying a popular sport in kabul and by reading afghan folk stories to hassan who is illiterate the annual kite flying competition to the boys is a big event in their lives and the cgi effects are breathtaking the kite strings are covered with glass particles and the winner is the one whose kite string can cut down the other kites in the sky hassan is the kite runner who has an uncanny ability to locate the fallen kites and bring them to amir as a trophy after amir wins the important contest however a sad event occurs that will shape the rest of his life br br bullies led by the older who later appears as a ruthless taliban leader attack hassan because he is a and brutally rape him off camera while amir is too frightened to try and prevent it unable to confront his perceived lack of courage though one must wonder what if anything he could have done to help hassan guilt becomes the driving force in his relationship with hassan and their friendship becomes strained in one incident amir throws at hassan as if begging him to fight back and punish him for his passivity but hassan doesn't take the bait continuing to be loyal in spite of his friend's cowardice when amir urges his father to dismiss the servants and accuses hassan of stealing his watch hassan admits to the theft even though he is innocent eventually circumstances force ali and hassan to leave out of shame when the russians invade afghanistan baba and amir also leave fleeing to pakistan and then to california where the story picks up years later br br baba is forced to work at a gas station and to sell trinkets at an open air market while amir abdul seemingly going through the motions of living studies to become a writer at the local community college after he falls in love and marries leoni the daughter of a kabul general amir finally his first novel a season of ashes and things look very positive when amir receives a call from khan asking him to visit him in pakistan telling him there is a way to be good again the specter of guilt that has haunted him all of his life beckons amir to go home he returns to pakistan and with great risk goes back to an afghanistan now controlled by the taliban to confront the demons of his past and to discover a startling secret in the process br br the kite runner is a sensitive film that deals with the internal pain that comes from knowing that you were not true to your best instincts and allows for the possibility of moving beyond shame to a new level of responsibility it also does not hide the pain caused to afghanistan by wars and revolution a pain that is perhaps represented by the suffering hassan unfortunately it reduces complex situations to the level of good guys and villains and distorts what actually happened the u s who engaged in anti government covert operations within the country from any responsibility for the disastrous war that left over one million dead and millions more disabled though we are inspired by the outstanding child actors and moved by the freedom that kite flying represents the kite runner relinquishes its power when it attempts to substitute melodrama for history
1	there have been many excellent comments about this movie and i want to add my voice to the praise yul brynner has never been more powerfully attractive his major was riveting your eyes just cannot leave the screen when he's on it this is his movie this is not to slight the rest of the cast which was also exemplary especially deborah kerr and anne jackson as they were mostly stage actors they brought many nuances to their performances for example i have seen this movie at least 4 times but this is the first time i noticed the reaction of the german girl when she came face to face with a russian soldier even though he was not threatening her absolutely hysterical reaction made me realize that she must have been in germany after wwii and was most likely gang raped by the red army the possibility of discovering deeper layers of story that may lie just beneath the surface makes me want to see this fascinating film again and again please put it on dvd
1	lackawanna blues is a moving story about a boy who is raised in a house by some pretty unusual people br br it's editing and soundtrack really pulls you in to the story and lets you experience the film the way the writer really meant for it to be seen br br the music really tied into the story which made the characters come to life the editing made the story more progressive and captivating br br i was also surprised by some of the performances of the cast most notably s br br i can't wait to see the one man show featuring this films writer ruben santiago hudson
1	this is a film that left me breathless wanting to learn more of the afghan history and traditions with todays evil doer mantra reality it was inspirational to experience the beauty of the people and their beliefs br br casting was impeccable the scenery simply marvelous the acting was first rate and the fact that the academy overlooked this except it's music is unforgivable br br the script is wonderful and such and emotional journey provoking an ugly cry from this watcher br br a film worth watching a second and third time
1	i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan a culture i know very little about i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint i watched this with someone who didn't read the book and he also enjoyed it they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over you feel for the characters and their plights i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime
1	i have no read the novel on which the kite runner is based my wife and daughter who did thought the movie fell a long way short of the book and i'm prepared to take their word for it but on its own the movie is good not great but good how accurately does it portray the havoc created by the soviet invasion of afghanistan how convincingly does it show the intolerant taliban regime that followed i'd rate it c on the first and b on the second the human story the afghan american who returned to the country to rescue the son of his childhood playmate is well done but it is on this count particularly that i'm told the book was far more convincing than the movie the most exciting part of the film however the kite contests in kabul and later a mini contest in california cannot have been equaled by the book i'd wager money on that
1	this is absolutely one of our favourites of 2007 br br the tale of two boys who come from different worlds but are as close as brothers is brilliantly told br br beautifully shot and scripted from childhood to the adulthood it never falters br br a brilliant insight into a lost culture and a very good way to understand farsi cultures and traditions this is also an exceptional tale in its own right it is both compassionate and thrilling uplifting and filled with immense sorrow joyful and depressing br br with excellent performances from the cast and great technical skills behind the camera this really is film at its best br br highest recommendation a real slice of life that and informs
1	can a film be too faithful to the book upon which it is based judging from the time spanning 2007 adaptation of huge 2003 seller the answer is rather ironically yes like many i was enthralled by the book an impressive first effort by the afghan american writer physician so obviously were director marc forster stranger than fiction and screenwriter david troy who pay meticulous attention to the most significant details of the story within the film's 127 minute running time yet the seamless tapestry of heartfelt events in novel often comes across as episodic and truncated because forster and are sincerely trying hard to remain true to the full scope of the story within the time constraints part of the challenge is how carefully used symbolic acts to provide literary then and now symmetry to what is essentially a three act story a technique that can come across as somewhat contrived on screen br br however the filmmakers do the most important things right specifically giving the viewer an intimate look into a hidden culture heretofore conveyed through cnn news reports ensuring authenticity by having characters speak in the dari persian dialect of the afghan language and capturing the emotional entanglements of the complex narrative the first part of the movie is set in 1978 afghanistan before the soviet invasion and the eventual takeover of the taliban the focus is on the relationship between amir the son of an affluent businessman named baba and the devoted hassan the son of his father's servant connected by their mutual love of kite running the two are thick as thieves until a tragic event separates them irreparably unable to find the courage that comes so naturally to his father amir is crippled by guilt for not having rescued hassan from an unspeakable act performed by a trio of local bullies forster makes especially palpable the ethnic tensions between the and the in afghanistan br br upon the 1979 invasion by soviet troops amir and baba flee to the u s where the story picks up their story nine years later in california a suburban enclave of afghan émigrés baba is reduced to working in a gas station and operating a flea market kiosk amir meets a local afghan girl and marries this is the film's least interesting passage since treatment gives short shrift to ancillary characters like wife and most critically amir is portrayed by necessity as a reticent young man with a downward cast toward his self esteem the final section flashes forward twelve years where amir upon publication of his first book is summoned back to taliban dictated afghanistan to rescue hassan's son from the taliban as a means to atone for his cowardice years earlier there is true suspense and fear generated in this portion of the story as shocking revelations and old acquaintances come back to haunt amir during his journey br br a british actor of egyptian heritage the lead hijacker in united 93 has the central role of amir as an adult a challenging role since he has to convey a constant sense of shame and diminished self worth until the end the other professional actors fare better shaun tony savior in the current iron man as business partner khan who holds the key to the truth leoni quietly affecting as and best of all iranian actor who brings pride and dignity to baba three young non professionals were recruited from school system to play the key child roles and all are quite good is up to the challenge of the toughest part as young amir and ali danish bakhtyari is poignant as hassan's nearly catatonic son but it's the sad eyed moon faced ahmad khan who will break your heart as the young hassan especially in the devastating pomegranate throwing scene it's fair to say his performance is on par with the young enzo in vittorio de sica's classic bicycle thieves br br the technical aspects are well done in particular roberto clean cinematography western china convincingly substitutes for afghanistan alberto evocative score and even the cgi effects showcasing the kites in turbulent flight the 2008 dvd has a solid set of extras beginning with an insightful commentary from forster and although some of their dialogue seems rather forced there are two featurettes included the first is the 14 minute words from the kite runner which focuses on connection to the story and the development of the novel and the second is the 25 minute images from the kite runner a more standard behind the scenes look at the production rounding out the extras are the original theatrical trailer a few previews and a psa from on how to help the afghans during their current time of need
1	the kite runner is one of those modern epics that one is occasionally graced with spanning two continents multiple family generations and many decades this film touches on a myriad of items including friendship love loss and ultimately redemption br br it's prime mover is young amir a native afghan boy who often plays with the hired help mainly young hassan ahmad khan a boy who's family is supposedly inferior to the ruling afghans but the two form a bond of friendship based on education amir teaches hassan to read closeness in house and of course kite flying br br but bad times are on the way for the city of kabul the communists are invading and amir and hassan have separated due to an impossibly brutal act of prejudice by an afghan boy against hassan the two may never see each other again br br father races to get himself and his son out of afghanistan eventually finding their way to america here the two set up a gas station and live hand to mouth by selling at niche markets and as father gradually becomes ill a new revelation will strike to the heart of amir one that he cannot ignore and requires his return to his beloved kabul br br a study of friendship war and reconciliation the kite runner is truly a fantastic piece of cinema the story is never inappropriately spoken in english whenever we're in a foreign country and only broken english whenever we're in america this was refreshing and lent itself to a sense of realism br br the acting was on par with the best you'll see too particular note must be made of who plays baba ailing father and strong patriarch also lead as the older amir is played well especially when returning to kabul to find it in ruin quite the contrast from when he'd left br br the cinematography of afghanistan during escape and ultimate return are nothing short of breathtaking with snow capped peaks that will cause your mouth to slacken i'm not sure exactly which mountain range they used in the film but wherever it was i want to go there and film it myself but it isn't the cinematography nor the acting of one or two people that makes this film a success it is a simple story told very well that makes it worth any movie watchers' while highly recommended
1	guilt and redemption are two of the staple emotions and plot elements of the heavy powerful dramas that the oscars love so much which is kind of funny since the kite runner was only nominated for best original score the lack of nominations was perhaps unjust while most film adaptations of books or any other means are usually inferior to their literary counterparts and the kite runner is not an exception marc forster's film adaptation is a good one br br most people are familiar with the story the book having been read by millions so i won't go into the plot except to say that the book stays pretty faithful to its source that being said if you don't know the plot see the movie or better yet read the book br br the best thing the kite runner has going for it other than its story is director marc forster forster is a director with epic scope and unique vision that is perfectly utilized in bringing book to the screen a small part of me worried that he would use the same dreamy images that were included in one of forster's earlier features finding neverland don't get me wrong finding neverland is a wonderful film one of my favorites actually but the visual trickery he used in there doesn't have a place here fortunately forster understands that and the brilliance of his direction shows his versatility though the lack of a best director nomination for his work here is not exactly a travesty i see a number of statuettes in store for him down the road br br also of note is the screenplay adaptation it remains faithful to the source but it leaves room for forster's vision to interpret the material the dialogue is not dumbed down and it along with forster's direction moves at a solid pace like forster the lack of recognition at awards time for the screenplay was not an outrage but i wouldn't have complained if it was at least nominated br br the dividing line here between this film being great and outstanding lies with the acting most of the performances are solid but there are some that don't quite make the cut and it hurts the film the most notable weak performance comes from who plays the young amir it's not that it's bad it's just that it's not as effective as it could be he just can't translate the guilt that consumes amir to the audience in fact i think i might have been a little lost at this point in the movie at this point had i not read the book because of this he looks somber and at times resentful but we can't feel his emotions this is a difficult part to portray and for the most part young holds his own which is especially surprising since this is his first film role br br the best performances come from who plays the adult amir and shaun who plays the wise kahn may not be a known name though he was in paul greengrass's united 93 but his work here is amazing he's a quiet modest man and he emotes perfectly when needed to a lesser capable actor could have made the character of khan into a cliché but shaun uses enough subtlety and care in his performance that he creates what the clichés are trying to portray br br forgive me if i go on a rant here but this is something that i must address and that is the film's pg 13 rating the fact that this film received such a low rating is outrageous there is no justification for it some could argue that the rating was bent because of the need for everyone to see it like the gore in saving private ryan which some say should have earned the film an nc 17 rating but that exception cannot be applied here the only purpose the scene serves is to tell the story forster probably at the behest of the producers tried as hard as he could to tame the film's most painful and disturbing scene to allow the film to sneak by with a pg 13 rating but the subject material is too disturbing to be depicted in any way and get less than an r rating regardless of if how tasteful is may be portrayed worse this editing robs the scene of much of its power and by trying it make it less disturbing to get the lower rating is insulting furthermore some scenes of violence are incredibly disturbing as well in terms of how much time these scenes take of the movie it doesn't add to much but what is there is well deserving of an r rating at the very least the mpaa whose system of rating movies has always been corrupt has sunk to a new low by giving this film such a low rating br br but one shouldn't fault the film for this the film is a solid film that is well worth seeing especially if they are fans of the book
1	watching stranger than fiction director marc forster's the kite runner is the cinematic equivalent of eating your vegetables because this art house epic rated pg 13 is good for your movie going diet no this isn't the kind of movie that i like to slouch on the couch and eyeball at the end of a tough day the kite runner isn't your typical mainstream movie designed to entertain you and make you forget about your troubles first no celebrity stars appear in it second nothing is cut and dried black or white or so outlandish that you don't believe an image that you see third the kite runner lapses into subtitles when the characters occasionally speak in their native tongue fourth forster's film isn't a romantic trifle about boy wants girl boy loses girl and then boy wins girl back fifth this foreign language film may make you feel uncomfortable and challenge your assumptions about life friendship and survival the chief themes here are cowardice and redemption the protagonist commits a cowardly offense in the first half of the action that he must atone for at the cost of his own personal safety and integrity right the kite runner is about redeeming oneself for the sins of the past we're talking about personal accountability so don't rent or buy this wonderful movie for a boy's night out celebration or something to take the bad taste of the day out of your system based on bestselling novel this culturally enlightened melodrama about right and down initially looks like one of those light hearted friendship movies about adolescents in the vein of the adventures of tom sawyer and the about a half hour into its 127 minutes this escapade about two youngsters who fly kites in afghanistan turns dark and unsavory nevertheless if you can handle the remaining hour of the plot you'll emerge gratified relieved and perhaps even entertained br br the kite runner opens in san francisco in the year 2000 as our protagonist afghan émigré amir jan of united 93 and his wife leoni of the florist receive two boxes of published copies of first novel no sooner has amir had a chance to in his triumph of a life time as a storyteller than the phone jars him from his reverie and he is drawn reluctantly back into a past that is best left forgotten for him khan shaun of the nativity story calls amir from pakistan to make a request was a servant in household back in the 1970s when amir lived with his wealthy merchant father baba of a taste of cherry in afghanistan before the soviet invasion you have one more chance to be good informs amir without sugar coating his request basically wants amir to fly to pakistan and then enter war torn afghanistan and rescue young grandson ali danish ari who is being held a prisoner against his will as a sex slave for newcomer abdul a cruel taliban chieftain and once dreaded adversary br br the kite runner shifts from san francisco in 2000 to an extended flashback set in kabul in 1978 when life was idyllic twelve year old amir and the son of his father's servant hassan ahmad khan love to watch movies such as john sturges' western the magnificent seven when they aren't flying kites incidentally this is kite flying like you've never seen kite flying not only do the kids fly them but they also compete with other kids to see who can cut the strings of another kid's kite the kite fighting flight scenes generate the same kind of excitement that the dog fighting scenes had in tony scott's top gun hassan is best friend but unlike amir hassan belongs to the reviled minority earlier young amir and hassan had a confrontation with young and his two was about to beat them up but hassan pulls out his slingshot and threatened to use it on had no choice but to back down meanwhile amir was prepared to suffer the hand fate had dealt him father baba laments his son's lack of spine and fears that he will grow up half of a man because he is a coward unlike the plucky little hassan who bails amir out of predicaments anyway amir and hassan emerge from the showdown with without a scratch later after amir sets a new record with his kite flying and fight skills hassan runs after a kite to claim it hassan is the eponymous character referred to in the title hassan claims the fallen kite but he finds himself at the mercy of and his two minions lets hassan kept the kite but his minions pin hassan spread eagle belly down in an alley while sodomizes the youth worst a traumatized amir watches the assault from nearby but lacks the courage to intervene on behalf of his friend who would have intervened for him br br aside from the extraordinary aerial scenes with the kites the kite runner is down to earth straight forward stuff when amir returns to afghanistan to rescue he masquerades as a taliban fighter but he doesn't carry a firearm the rescue scene in the kite runner is rather like the escape scene from the midnight express while forster doesn't explore the local politics or plunge us into the ethnic and cultural issues at stake here indeed troy scenarist david had to eliminate some parts of the book and the racial and ethnic prejudices aren't clearly delineated so you have to accept some things on faith forster lensed the film in nearly china to give it an authentic look forster deserves credit for making this two hour plus epic fascinating the performances especially by the children stand out for their believability the kite runner is a film that you won't easily forget
1	i have read both the book and saw the movie today the storyline is so powerful that almost any script or screenplay would have done justice to it so nothing much there however this is still a beautiful movie because it makes one think and feel just like the book watching it is not like watching a documentary on a failed state and feeling sympathetic towards people suffering under an oppressive regime but is like watching any other common man's story unfold across generations across continents cowardice his guilt his dilemmas and finally his choosing a way of redemption could have been a story of any of us there isn't a single infallible character to look up to and idolize but all of them are gray just like all of us br br another important observation is that the movie does a great job of chronicling the lives of afghans through the twenty some years of turbulent political scenarios the vibrant care free childhood represents kabul before the russian invasion and the desolate shattered remains of the city echo what the taliban has done to it br br the child actors deserve up' all the way they can put any matured actor to shame br br if you have not yet seen the movie or read the book just walk into the theater keeping in mind that you are going to witness a multi layered story woven on a multi colored fabric of human emotions and sentiments this movie is not meant to stir anti soviet and anti taliban feelings but to feel the trials of human existence br br i read some of the external reviews linked to the site and i must confess i do not see the point in writing reviews that summarize the storyline like a distant spectator and point out technical details about amazing cinematography or something similar at least for this movie one should try to connect to it rather than judging it objectively
1	i have never read the book but had always heard good things about it so when the movie came out i considered going to see it but never did now it has come out on dvd and i have thought of renting for a few weeks now last night i finally picked it up i am very glad that i did br br cinematography was incredible in this movie the scenery etc all made you feel like you were in kabul the acting was all very good although i am sure some of the emotions were lost in the translation and the story itself was good and pure and uplifting yes the story was very sad but at the same time uplifting br br and i will be honest as a white american made me see aside of kabul and afghanistan that i never picture in my mind when i think about it showed me a afghanistan before the taliban showed me a place that was beautiful showed me a place with good hearted people i community that was like a family aside from a few bullies br br anyways i recommend this movie to everyone it is one of the best i have ever seen
1	most people will consider that yul greatest performance was as the ruler of siam in the king and i certainly it gave him a wide variety of moods to test his abilities in from comic to tragic from eager to learn to dominating to hateful it also showed him to advantage as a talk singer and a dancer finally as it was also his tony award winning performance from broadway the film allowed us to capture something of the great broadway performance as well br br but he did other movies that showed his talents as well as the king and i his comic turn in once more with feeling was quite nice so was his performance as general in anastasia or his in the ten commandments yet he came terribly close to being a 1950s successor to eric von stroheim as the man you love to hate a certain vulnerability in his acting and roles endeared him to the movie public even after his best years as a star were behind him and he retreated more and more to repeating the king of siam on television and the stage br br to me his finest performance is in this 1959 drama with deborah kerr jason robards jr robert morley e g marshall anne jackson and ronnie howard the film is set in pretty modern times the powder keg that was hungary in 1956 when briefly it looked like the iron curtain was about to collapse there under the reforms of hungarian patriot and his supporters but the hungarian revolution collapsed due to bad timing the russians and their polish and east german allies sent tanks in to crush the revolt and arrested and executed and other reformers the west stood by and let this happen england and france had gotten caught in the crisis and the u s had berated them and israel for attacking egypt due to the actions of three close allies of the u s the west found it hard to condemn the overkill of the soviet union it was an unfortunate situation and the hungarians have never forgotten how they were abandoned in it br br in the film brynner is major a russian intelligence officer who is watching for some of the leaders of the hungarian revolt one of whom is paul jason robards may be getting assistance from some westerners on a bus tour through hungary led by robert morley including marshall jackson and howard and kerr the latter are being kept in a hotel while their bus is being repaired and brynner mingles with them hoping for a lead to the whereabouts of robards but brynner is human he tries to be ingratiating with these people all of whom see him as a monster and in sequence when he has drunk a little too much he confronts them with the questions that has bothered historians since 1945 how is it even if one notes that russia had stalin in charge that relations between russia and the west collapsed so quickly the allies on the whole had worked well together from 1941 to 1945 but after and all types of mutual suspicions just erupted did they have to is a good officer but he is torn in half by loyalty to the communist regimes in the soviet union and in hungary that he supports and his growing fondness towards kerr who is hiding robards but is also willing to note the more human side of the russian major and as the film reaches it's tragic climax we watch as has to decide if he will follow his sense of duty or take pity on kerr robards and the other westerners who want to leave it becomes a true struggle for him and one that he may win far too late it was a great film about a tragedy of post war europe and possibly the most thoughtful role yul brynner ever portrayed
1	in the 70's in afghanistan the boy amir and the boy hassan ahmad khan who is his loyal friend and son of their servant ali are raised together in father house playing and on the streets of a peaceful kabul amir feels that his wise and good father baba blames him for the death of his mother in the delivery and also that his father loves and prefers to him in return amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend khan shaun who supports his intention to become a writer after amir winning a competition of runs to bring a kite to amir but he is beaten and raped by the brutal in an empty street to protect kite the coward amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal on the day after his birthday party amir hides his new watch in bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire ali releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal in 1979 the russians invade afghanistan and baba and amir escape to pakistan in 1988 they have a simple life in california when amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of baba later amir meets his countrywoman leoni and they get married in 2000 after the death of baba amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal khan who discloses secrets about his family forcing amir to return to in pakistan in a journey of redemption br br i am not familiar with the afghan culture and i did not read this novel in spite of the recommendation of my daughter and yesterday i decided to watch this movie on dvd i found a good story of loyalty cowardice betrayal and redemption with a brief insight in the recent history of afghanistan from a peaceful period in the 70's to the present days with the taliban the actors and actresses have great performances giving credibility to the realistic story the arid locations in china recall the images we see in television from afghanistan in the end i found the kite runner a good movie my vote is seven br br title brazil o de the kite chaser
1	greetings again from the darkness based on the mega best seller from author the film provides us a peak at the ugliness of post russia invaded afghanistan and the terror of the taliban director marc foster adds a gem to his resume which already includes monster's ball finding neverland and stranger than fiction br br the story of young friends amir and hassan and the unknown bond they share into the next generation this is a story of honor and courage and loyalty and is an unusual coming of age tale some great scenes of the boys when they are kids and then a couple of truly amazing scenes as amir returns as an adult to find hassan's imprisoned son br br this is tight compelling story telling with a message the acting is solid throughout with no one actor stealing the screen although not a pleasant story to watch unfold it is certainly meaningful and heart felt plus a quick shot of midnight oil playing in the pool hall is a welcome gift
1	it was amazing as a librarian and an at the new york library vitality fund event on thursday night october 18 i was privileged to see a pre release screening of the new movie the kite runner the release of the movie has been delayed because of concerns about the welfare of the child actors involved i am grateful that the event was allowed to go on as planned br br regarding the movie i feel it was masterfully done it had as much impact on me i think as stanley a clockwork orange even though it is much less graphic much less there is no comparison between the horrendous shocking violence and rape shown in a clockwork orange and the small amount of violence actually shown in kite runner only the subject matter and the implications for the human psyche are comparable i have written more details about the violence and child rape and how it was handled on my myspace blog my overall impression was that this film was fantastic one of the best made films i have seen the depiction of the afghani boys flying their kites captured some of the beauty and grace of an art form unknown to most of the world the subject matter is intensely serious and the movie carries the emotions of the audience into that subject matter without many jarring hollywood touches which have ruined other movies although the overturned cart of was an obvious bit of symbolism to me br br finally i must mention the excellence of the sound track the recitation by the boy of poetry by as two main characters are fleeing the country during the russian invasion under terrifying circumstances truly showed the power of those poems i urge anyone watching to disregard the subtitles in that scene to the extent that you can and just listen to the beauty of the language i don't even know what language amir is quoting whether his normal dari persian dialect is the same as original persian dialect also please note the sound heard every time a kite line is cut i found it a profound distinctive sound though the librarians who were with me did not notice it at all i can't help but wonder if kites actually make a sound like that when they are cut or if it gives a sense of the vibration sound experienced by the kite flyer during competition
1	the kite runner is one of the most controversial films of the year and it's not just one of those controversies invented by pr people to sell tickets no this is a film that was actually pulled from release because the producers began to fear for their safety of their actors that may give you an idea of just how sensitive and topical some of the material is the kite runner is an important film for our modern world because now more than ever we need stories that show the reality of war not just action movies that glamorize the violence it was adapted from the best selling book and some critics have charged that something was lost in translation but if you don't bring the baggage of the novel into the screening you will be very moved
1	i just saw it at an advance screening i haven't read the book but heard many good things about it br br the movie was absolutely fantastic very moving with a roller coaster of emotions you totally connect with the characters shaun was great it was a complete departure from his usual roles and his acting for those who understand persian dari was incredible br br one thing to notes it that actually loved the film which is unusual for book adaptation movies even after seeing the movie several times he was sobbing br br also the animation from the intro was exquisite with names displayed as if it were persian calligraphy very unique at times the translation was not clearly conveying the message efficiently but all in all this was a great movie
1	the kite runner was beautiful poignant and very moving i particularly loved the two child actors in the film as well as the actor portraying the father it really made me want to go back and read the book again br br the music was a wonderful part of the fabric of the movie if there is a soundtrack coming out for the film i will buy it to accompany my second reading of the book it is also a visually stunning film the cinematography was gorgeous and really added to experience br br the brazilian word is very descriptive of how i felt at the end of the film it is a deep feeling of longing for someone or someplace which is very sweet but also tinged with an inescapable sadness definition provided years ago by antonio carlos br br saw it at a small cinema here for an advance screening i would love to see it again on a really large screen with a tricked out sound system br br can't wait for the formal release i will definitely recommend the film to friends
1	i know that to include everything in the book the film would have to have been several hours long so i think they did their best to include things that were crucial and pivotal to the story i thought the casting was great the children who played amir and hassan were very good actors and the guy who played amir as an adult was great the scenes between him and baba were especially touching i thought the locations they used were interesting scenes set in afghanistan were shot in china and one scene that took place in ca the graduation scene was actually shot on treasure island in san francisco i worked one day as an extra on kite runner and it was that day the day they shot the graduation scene we reported to treasure island in the morning they checked everyone's wardrobe to make sure it looked like the late 80s an then we took our places in the audience they shot the scene over and over again until they were happy with it it was cool to see the actors up close and also to see the book's author who was on hand as a story consultant i thought this book was excellent and i recommend both the book and the movie to anyone this is a moving story about friendship love guilt and eventual redemption there is a way to be good again
1	amazing astounding brilliant superb those are the four adjectives that prop up in my head when i start describing the kite runner book adaptation had already captured many minds in fact it is rumored that he himself broke down in to tears after watching the premier i must say before i even start that i had read the book before i saw the advanced screening of the kite runner so my judgment and views may be slightly biased br br firstly let me say it that even though in my opinion the book was better than the final product of the movie it is by no means a bad adaptation i mean for a two hour movie it's got the deserved response things do appear a tad fast in the final twenty odd minutes but apart from that it has succeeded what the book did it has captured the minds and imagination of millions all across the globe the magic woven by to give us a sense of remorse of joy of sadness of pain of loyalty is astute in this adaptation especially in the very first scene when young hassan says if you tell me to eat dirt i will but i know you won't ask me to such a touching line is bound to capture the hearts of many the two young actors were brilliant absolutely superb especially the boy who played the innocent but loyal hassan a boy who refuses to give up a kite he caught because he promised his best friend that he would bring it to him only to be abused by large bullies who beat him up and use him sexually and then to be rebuked by his best friend as a coward the entire act is so touching that it cannot but wet your eyes br br the entire movie is well placed save the last bit the point when amir learns of his true relationship with hassan and reads hassan's first and last not to him when he breaks down in tears feeling helpless lonely and remorseful that appeared a bit rushed and felt that amir was behind a facade in the book had dedicated some 10 12 pages to describe state of mind in that position but that his made up for in the penultimate segment of the movie when amir stands up for hassan's boy his nephew in front of his commanding father in law the ending was well deserved and i am sure will be well appreciated it felt witnessing the torch pass down from one generation to another br br coming over to the technical aspects first of all the acting just one word superb from start to finish young hassan and amir their father his friend khan everyone has been superb especially young hassan second the direction was amazing coupled with some brilliant camera work the background score was also impressive right from the start credit track to the end credit and i especially loved the one when amir is in the mosque in pakistan the western and islamic fusion made that extra special br br all in all this is definitely one of the better movies and it's a welcome break from all those iran inspired movies that we have floating all over this year 9 10
1	the kite runner should win an oscar it's perfect in every sense the story the script the acting the cinematography one would never guess it was filmed in china the story of two childhood friends and what follows in their adult lives will leave a lasting impression the depiction of life in afghanistan under the taliban is all too real and horrifying i have not read the book but i have seen comments that put down the movie because the book is always better it doesn't really matter no one put down gone with the wind because it wasn't true to the book as a matter of fact it won the academy award for best picture and several other oscars i think this movie is brilliant bravo to the writer and director and the actors
1	i just watched this film at an advanced screening i had not read the book and knew nothing of the story but went because the book was voted book of the year by two local colleges so i cannot compare the book with the movie as others have done br br in short i thought this was an incredibly moving story the acting was believable and the insight into afghan culture and political history was both interesting and shocking my oldest friend is iranian american and so i felt an affinity for certain middle eastern values and traditions that were portrayed in the movie as they reminded me of the times i spent with his family br br the themes of friendship family human values and courage under fire are universal and are well developed in the film i won't list the plot details as these can be obtained elsewhere but based on the film's technical aspects the acting and above all its heart wrenching story i would definitely recommend this movie
1	yul brynner was a symbol of in the of 50 s he play a role of russian leader in hungary at the time of revolution in this country in 1956 that made it against the marxism br br the script of this film made it by good taste from the writer that mixing love and adventure with showing different characters in the journey from hungary to england br br the best point in this film was the symbol of challenge from the hungarian resistance to kill the russian major yul brynner in the hall time of the film that made a meaning about the disadvantages of this major from his bad works but at the end he made a good work to help deborah kerr for escaping her and her darling to london to write in his book a good working to gain at the end people s agreement and after his assassination by the hungarian resistance
1	i recently was lucky enough to see the kite runner in a small theater surrounded by seasoned movie goers who knew how to enjoy a masterpiece of such sophistication with all the controversy surrounding this film's central scene these days i was expecting a piece both crude and violent but the way mr forster handled the delicate subject was touching and really deeply moving even though the film's credits indicated china as the main location for the shoot i could have sworn i was seeing kabul throughout the scenes which are meant to be taking place in afghanistan the acting by non professionals as well as professional actors is excellent and the casting is magnificent so this is a movie i would see again and again because though it is undeniably sad in its subject the masterful way it has been made awakens a whole new hope in modern cinema
1	this film is about a deadly poison that is contained in small glass globes that is used to kill this is apparently done to hide an espionage ring intent on stealing plans for a new american bomber now much of this plot was repeated in other chan films the jade mask and the docks of new orleans additionally it was first used in mr wong detective all had the exploding glass globes a plot element that obviously has been overused it was interesting in murder over new york but by these later films it was rather passé br br fortunately the rest of the film was fresh and the plot worked out very well with a nifty conclusion where of course the culprit reveals himself however no plane could fly the way this one did especially in 1940 such extreme dives and rapid ascents were pretty silly out of this already obsolete plane br br by the way in a small role as a porter you'll see frank coghlan jr the same actor who played billy in the captain marvel serial according to imdb mr is 93 years old and retired from the film industry
1	chan is in new york and he gets involved with an attempt to sabotage a new aircraft design br br the war was over a year away from reaching america but the second world war was already raging everywhere else in the world and so it colored everything since most people probably realized that war was coming here the war isn't mentioned but the fact that the film deals with the production of planes at the very least alludes to it the mystery itself is pretty good it the notion of plane sabotage lends itself nicely to a couple of rather tense moments to be certain we are talking about charlie chan so we can be certain that he would live to fight another day but there was no guarantee what condition he would be in not whether anyone around him would survive br br i really like this film a great deal its not one of the nest and far from the worst it is one of the truly rare things a truly enjoyable one definitely worth a look or six
1	this is my fourth review of a charlie chan movie in series chronological order on these consecutive days this is also my first comment of one i've seen previously though it's been about 24 years since then so i didn't remember much of it in this one the honolulu detective is investigating an espionage ring that was initially tracked by a former scotland yard acquaintance who has turned up missing in the big apple this is the best of the chan entries i've seen so far in current memory with every clue being connected though of course if i look at them at closer examination there could still be some holes though i can't think of any right now and no 2 son jimmy victor sen yung is somewhat of a help when he first identifies the poison that results in some murders early on though of course he blunders a little later among the returning supporting cast from the last chan film charlie chan at the wax museum are blonde joan valerie as june preston and stanley blystone who's brother john g helmed a lost chan one called charlie chan's chance as a fingerprint expert nice intrigue especially with an exciting climax aboard a bomber plane oh and watch for a certain stooge at a police line up
1	taking into consideration the chan films that would follow this isn't bad plenty of stereotypes beginning with the black man in the beginning and when the police captain orders that every hindu in town by rounded up a parade of stereotypical characters enter the scene including shemp of the three stooges charlie seems to move quickly around the city going from sutton pl to the w village in a flash the ending is silly an obvious toy airplane is used as it climbs through the sky and then nose dives ed wood couldn't have done it better the final scene is absurd as the murderer will obviously incriminate himself in his attempt to quiet the one person who knows his identity overall it is worth watching
1	murder over new york is fun but not as good as most of the other fox chans this film would have been better named charlie chan in new york the film's working title this is chance to play chan in the big apple there is a lot to like here though including guest star shemp howard of the three stooges br br this has one of my favorite chan sayings coincidence like ancient egg leave unpleasant toler and yung are good in this one and so is the supporting cast but there is little or no mysterious atmosphere which i look for in these films still it is good to see
1	murder over new york is an entertaining entry in the charlie chan series of films but if you're paying attention a lot of plot holes reveal themselves to the observant eye while traveling to new york city for an annual police convention chan sidney toler meets former scotland yard investigator hugh drake frederick on the same flight now employed by military intelligence drake is tracking paul and his hindu servant suspected for acts of sabotage around the world drake believes that by contacting elusive wife he'll be able to pin down the whereabouts of the master criminal br br when drake winds up dead in the library of george kirby president of the metropolitan aircraft corporation charlie that he was killed by a recently discovered poisonous gas called administered via a glass pellet that releases the poison when broken summoning kirby to bring all of his dinner party guests together chan and police inspector vance donald macbride question those in attendance as one of them may be the killer among them are herbert fenton melville cooper a fellow oxford student of drake's actress june preston joan valerie unknown to drake but requested by him to attend ralph percy kane richmond the chief designer at aircraft company and keith jeffrey john sutton stock broker kirby butler is also a suspect especially after number 2 son jimmy victor sen yung catches him steaming open a the contents of which concern himself br br there are some other cleverly planted characters in the proceedings as well mrs turns up as patricia west marjorie weaver and contrary to drake's suspicion that she might lead him to is actually on the run away from her former husband and a disastrous marriage she's involved with david elliott robert lowery principal of a chemical research firm and thereby a suspect in the angle br br as with many chan films racial comments must be taken in stride with the proceedings this one offers two glaring ones when black servant is brought in for questioning he states that he doesn't know anything about drake's murder that he's completely in the dark chan's response condition appear contagious br br later following inspector vance's order to round up all the in new york jimmy chan comments on their arrival with they're all beginning to look alike to me actually the scene provides one of the elements of comic relief in the movie as shemp howard impersonates hindu mystic the great rashid but is actually uncovered by the police to be con artist shorty mccoy br br before the movie's over two more victims fall to the clever his confederate and aircraft magnate kirby himself to uncover the killer chan in concert with elliott arranges for a test flight aboard a newly developed bomber after discovering a poisoned capsule planted by mechanics on the plane the day before before it can release it's deadly poison the brit fenton catches the falling capsule in mid air revealing that he knew about the plant arrested and brought in for questioning chan asserts that fenton is not the real reveals himself when he offers a poisoned cup of water to the nervous fenton anxious to maintain secret but chan was clever enough to be wary of such an attempt and reveals the real murderer now in the guise of stock broker jeffrey having undergone surgery following a car accident br br now for the plot holes when first investigating hugh drake's murder it was maintained by the police that fingerprints found in the library did not match those of any of the dinner guests however jeffrey was present at the dinner party it had already been established that drake had one non party visitor in the library chemist elliott if the fingerprints really did not belong to then making them an issue was pointless br br also at the end of the film when offers fenton the poisoned water how did he think he would get away with it with everyone there as a witness but going even one better than that how would a world traveling saboteur like have the time and wherewithal to establish himself as a new york city stockbroker it just doesn't make sense br br for trivia fans a few more points bear mentioning in the film number 2 son jimmy is a college student studying chemistry as he comes to pop's aid to solve the case in the prior chan film charlie chan at the wax museum jimmy was a law student br br the poison gas formula would get reworked in a later chan film this time by monogram with roland winters in the chan role in docks of new orleans in that story poison gas is released from shattered radio tubes in similar fashion to claim its' victims
1	murder over new york is one of the better chan mysteries and i've just seen this for the first time br br in this one charlie chan is visiting new york to attend a police convention at the same time people who are involved with aircraft plants are being murdered and he decides to help with the investigation along with his number 2 son these murders turn out to be the results of sabotage at the aircraft plants and chan helps to identify the murderer br br charlie chan is played well by sidney toler and the rest of the cast includes sen yung as his number 2 son and marjorie weaver br br i rather liked this mystery and is worth having if you like this sort of thing br br rating 3 and a half stars out of 5
1	how many reviews of this film will i have to write before i get it right tom conway fully inherits the mantle of the falcon from his real life brother george sanders with this entry decked out in beautiful double breasted single drape style suits and cruising in gorgeous 110 steel cars with huge fender skirts and suicide doors that come up to your armpit conway travels from new york to miami to keep a formula for industrial diamonds from falling into the wrong hands his client is lovely virginal louisa who has got gorgeous hair but will let you only kiss her for the first two months along the way he runs into the type of colourful array of characters only a b movie could provide his sidekick in this outing is perhaps best among falcon sidekicks edward brophy as goldie locke who is given some really funny lines he runs into sinister dish doris blanding the type of '40's chick that you know puts out her cohort is benny played by steve brodie who twenty years later was a presley punching bag in two paramount king movies they both work for cold fish and yachting cap wearing kenneth sutton ready to do what it takes to get the formula as he cruises his yacht to brazil saddled with the falcon pursuing cops ever this entry still reigns supreme forget those 120 minute melodramas give me a 1 hour falcon movie any day i got a wife and two kids who's got time for a two hour movie shake up some dry martinis and forget your troubles with this great falcon movie but if you didn't tape it off local tv in toronto like i did 17 years ago you're out of luck
1	this is the thirteenth falcon film tom conway has lost none of his humour and style and is not showing signs of getting tired the film has a very satisfying story with lots of red herrings suspects and dames madge meredith is the good girl of the story she plays it adequately but by no means sets the screen on fire myrna dell is a bad girl and she puts on an excellent face of stone with eyes of and you are just waiting for her to kill as many people as possible to cheer herself up edward brophy is back as goldie the sidekick but surprise surprise his manic over acting has stopped and he is actually under control this is a fine tribute to the directorial skills of william a who had done so many westerns he probably was not prepared to take any nonsense from a brooklyn dummy the result is that for the first time possibly in his career brophy was toned down enough actually to add something to a film rather than try the viewer's patience with the irritating behaviour of a retarded but unruly six year old it all goes along very well and is thoroughly entertaining
1	the journey is a very good film produced in the spring of 1958 in vienna and released in 1959 this movie was quite popular in his early years despite the political problems which influenced the movie's success because the story happens during the hungarian revolution the cold war the journey is a very good film but not well known i think it should be released immediately on dvd because most of the people who have seen it so far want to have it at home one of the most important qualities of the film is the extraordinary chemistry between deborah kerr and yul brynner their intense relationship all their scenes together are very important but they also reveal the strong feelings the great passion and love between the characters major and diana another quality is the script which is very well written it was even published as a novel by the screen player george tabori the film keeps its tension from the beginning to the end at first we didn't know if diana and the other travelers could leave hungary because the communist major discovers that diana's friend paul is hungarian and he isn't allowed to leave the country the major falls deeply in love with diana and this is in fact the true reason why he doesn't want to let her go but after he embraces her and gives her one of the most memorable kisses ever seen on screen and she kisses him too he lets her go and the end of the film is one of the most dramatic endings ever filmed the major and diana say goodbye she arrives at the frontier with all the travelers including paul while is shot several times by some hungarians so he dies yul brynner is very very handsome and deborah kerr is very beautiful charming refined just like an english lady yul and deborah are perfect together they are one of the greatest couples of the golden hollywood a true moviegoer should watch this film the journey has everything that a good film should have a great captivating story interesting characters a wonderful direction anatole litvak is in my opinion at his best finally i want to give a message to warner bros studios or those who restore and release classic films please release the journey on dvd as soon as possible
1	this film is a fun little private eye detective story like they aren't made any more it's all there tom conway is the suave detective called the falcon goldie locke what's in a name is his wisecracking bumbling sidekick louisa is the damsel in distress and of course there are the damsels maid the professor with the secret formula the bad guy that wants the formula and the police inspector who's after the falcon there is a murder and the falcon gets implicated the scenery is night clubs expensive hotel rooms a luxury train the suburbs and beautiful cars go watch this little gem when you see it pass by on afternoon tv
1	the 13th and last rko falcon film starts with the mutual injunction by tom conway as tom lawrence alias the falcon and ed brophy as goldie of no dames whilst they prepare to go on vacation while you're still wondering what they're going on vacation from as they hadn't had a job since the beginning of the 1st film in 1941 with sanders as gay though and jenkins as goldie they bump into a woman and get dragged into a seedy industrial espionage caper br br they promise to help her when her uncle is murdered by taking an envelope containing the details of a formula to make substitute industrial diamonds to his business colleague in miami suspect everyone here except the cops here who are after lawrence – and goldie for the murder to console himself goldie keeps paraphrasing travel brochures on the coldest day you can always enjoy the warmth of a nice cosy electric chair for one some nice languid atmospheric nightclub scenes rub shoulders with some especially bad behaviour from the baddies favourite bit the dignified game of hide and seek hunt the the imperturbable and suave lawrence has with the baddies on the sleeper train least favourite bit the most embarrassing scene in the entire series in the alligator wrestling hut – definitely thrown in for the kids br br all in all not the best in the series but yet another entertaining outing with an overall satisfying plot and many episodes even in this that make me wish they could have gone on for just a few more years as columbia did with boston blackie although rko were churning these out faster absolutely no sex not much violence in fact none at all by today's high standards and positively no message all make this type of film anathema to serious people who can only regard movies as an art form that must depend on these three pillars br br three diet were made later with john calvert in the title role i don't mind them but could never bring myself to count them into the main series which tom conway had made his own by this time sad also that it was all downhill after this for conway who moved into tv voice overs and even played norman conquest in park plaza rather well in 1953 he also developed serious eye and alcohol problems – i don't know if they were linked – wound up poverty stricken and after a spell in hospital in 1967 was found dead in his girlfriend's bed for us folk that want to at least we still have his 10 entertaining plus a number of other worthy even classic rko movies from 1942 to 1946 with which to remember him by
1	this movie may not have seemed like much to some people but it had everything i look for in a comedy fall down funny moments accompanied by a moment or two of seriously moving scenes great actors and pretty much everything a good movie is supposed to be like despite david spade playing his usual snobby character he made this role into an unusual performance which i don't think he had ever exceeded until he hit the screen with joe dirt regardless of whether or not some people were not chris farley fans i saw this film when it came out and my friends and i still talk about it 11 years later this movie was what finally told me that chris farley was the real deal he is the best comedian i have seen in my life in the words of some he could be clumsy clever funny serious crazy sober and moving or depressing at the same time not the same words but the message is all that counts one of the true great actors of our time and one of the true great comedy's of all time along with good acting good story hilarious moments serious scenes that at times brought me to tears this movie stands atop the hordes as a movie that marked the beginning of a brief reign at the top of the comedy world by the late great chris farley no actor before or since has captured my interests in a movie since because no actor before or since has put so much into his movies this movie is worth the time if you haven't taken the time to see it do so the next time you rent a movie
1	i think every critic who panned tommy boy when it was released in 1995 ought to go back and watch it and learn it is not a bad film at all every critic panned chris farley and david spade's movies yes coneheads was funny but kind of had a one joke premise and black sheep i agreed with the critics is one of the worst movies ever made but tommy boy does not fall in the category of coneheads which could have been a little funnier and black sheep which is a piece of tripe it is very funny and entertaining i do agree with the critics that chris farley was no john belushi or john candy as he claimed to have idolized those guys and those guys had a genius for comedy but chris farley was very funny and i wish he were around longer to prove to critics that yes he was no john belushi or john candy but he was very funny the scenes between farley and spade as nemesis are side splitting hilarious and the premise is also laugh out loud hilarious it is very sad that chris farley is no longer here to make us laugh but we have movies like tommy boy to remember how truly funny he was tommy boy is one of the 1990's best comedies
1	i guess i do not have too much to add i found the comedy to still be funny after more than ten years since it came out br br the one thing that i did notice was the music during the dialogue to be distracting and often made the movie very hook than it should have been the use of songs is fine during the movie but the orchestral background is too busy too contrived and if the movie was ever to be edited for dvd i would seriously recommend that the background music be toned down to an almost inaudible level it has cheapened the overall feel for the whole film and i can see subconsciously why a lot of people have passed it up br br the film had a lot of levels working for it on the script plot and comedy level it is too bad that the producer and director felt they needed the musical schlock to enhance the mood now knowing this i find it hard to watch and i quietly curse whoever was involved with the musical editing in the film it had all the subtlety of a jackhammer
1	holy this movie rocks the duo of chris farley and david spade are great together my favorite parts are fat guy in a little coat oh my gosh room service and more scenes that will be remembered for years to come this movie has a huge cult following i wonder why which proves that even eleven years after chris tragic death and he still is popular he plays tommy which will make you laugh every time you still watch it he is a great comedian and is missed mr spade reminds me of dan while chris farley reminds me of john belushi they done more than 2 movies together this movie is a must buy and should be in every snl fan's collection
1	this is one of my favourite comedy films chris farley is hilarious as the accident prone moron and david spade is perfect playing the straight man to farley br br the dialogue between the two of them is brilliant the scene where the two of them are in the car singing along to superstar by the carpenters is a classic br br chris farley was a great comic actor who had amazing potential he will be sadly missed br br
1	for only doing a few movies with his life the late great chris farley farley died at the end of 1997 and will be missed mostly by his co actor in tommy boy david spade from the lame police academy 4 spade really has done good with his career in films tommy boy is a classic and we will always remember chris farley when we watch it from appearing on saturday night live to doing tommy boy black sheep beverley hills ninja almost heroes billy madison and dirty work i think chris farley had a short and successful career tommy boy was his best in my case and i would watch over and over again and laugh at the same part each time thank you chris farley
1	i don't know why all of the critics say this was a bad movie this is one of my all time favorite movies tommy chris farley and richard david spade are a great match tommy is the stupid one who spent seven years in college finally passing with a d richard is the smart kid who was hated by everyone in school how can you not laugh when the two of them are singing superstar by the carpenters and all of a sudden the hood pops up in all this is a great movie i recommend it
1	this is one of my most favorite movies of all time pretty pathetic you say well yeah it is but chris is incredibly incredibly funny his innocent brilliance comes out in this film more than in any of his other films look at both motel scenes when spade gets caught with his zipper down and the other just go away for the love of god
1	as a big dostoyevsky fan i had always been disappointed with hollywood's halfhearted attempts to get into the russian romantic aesthetic case in point yul brynner as karamazov i had thought the whole problem was a poor casting decisions but then i saw yul as major and changed my mind when given an intelligent script to work with he suddenly came alive and was as noble sexy and conflicted as you could ever want a neurotic russian officer to be so he was a better as major than he was as but that's because writer tabori actually gave yul as the conflicted russian officer the kind of conflicted russian officer lines that are worthy of real literature and that have real meaning and pathos in them for example a of folk music he says you hear a man crying in the dark and if you listen carefully enough you know what he cries for you look surprised lady despite what you may have heard tractors and marxism aren't the only things the russian cares for there is always time for music br br brilliant
1	one of the funniest movies made in recent years good characterization plot and exceptional chemistry make this one a classic
1	the one liners fly so fast in this movie that you can watch it over and over and still catch new ones by far one of the best of this genre
1	farley and spade's best work ever it's one of the all around funniest movies i've ever seen watch it once and you'll be hooked and soon have all the lines memorized no sleepy for tommy boy
1	for fans of chris farley this is probably his best film david spade plays the perfect cynical sarcastic yin to baby huey yang farley achieves strokes of comic genius in his monologues like the let's say you're driving along the road with your family bit the jo jo the idiot circus boy with a pretty new pet his possible sale speech or the glue sniffing guarantee fairy brake pad sale the sappy moments in the film contrast sharply with farley and spade's shenanigans even after many viewings it's still fun to see farley pour everything he had into the role richard what's happening to me
1	this movie probably isn't the funniest i've ever seen and it certainly doesn't have much redeeming value in fact it is really nothing more than a collection of vignettes tied together by a loose plot however this make it up as i go along attitude actually works to the film's advantage tommy boy succeeds as a comedy for the same reasons that the snl skits farley and spade starred in succeeded their well timed extemporaneous silliness and mayhem makes them humorous despite their immaturity
1	well of course the critics hated it this isn't a movie that's going for the big time critical acclaim but the fact is that it's really very good br br sure if you don't like that chris farley brand of physical comedy or the exceedingly dry wit of david spade you're not going to like it but for the rest of us the movie has many hilarious and for that matter quotable sequences and the plot isn't half as dumb as that of black sheep the parts that aren't meant to be humorous are actually done well not what you'd expect from a movie of this ilk and the acting is really pretty good br br tommy boy is without question chris best movie i give it an a and suggest you give it a view
1	out of the many films i've seen tommy boy is a rare film where i can watch it over and over and it's still funny david spade and the late chris farley do their best in this film and is a must see by anyone who's a fan of the spade farley duo
1	the primary plus for this movie is the combination of chris farley and david spade this was the first film in which this comedy duo displayed their laurel and hardy esque brand of humor obvious physical comedy skill is perfectly augmented by spade's sarcastic take on every situation they find themselves in br br this movie stands apart from other comedy movies tommy boy ranks in with blues brothers as a comedic work whose individual scenes and bits stem from the plot rather than serve to break up the storyline and give the film a disjointed feel as so many other comedic films do thanks to excellent direction by sagal every scene is tight and immediately foreshadows or acts out the story being told he is as much to credit for the film's hilariousness as farley and spade are the acting of dennehy lowe ackroyd and many others see the gas station attendant 22 miles from davenport strengthen the film br br the film warrants multiple viewings because there are many fine to the film that may be overshadowed by farley spade br br i believe this film is very well made and is the funniest movie i have ever seen
1	this movie literally had me rolling on the floor well at least on the couch laughing i didn't think i would like it but it came on cable tv one afternoon and i watched the whole thing and thoroughly enjoyed myself since then i've also seen black sheep which was pretty good but not as non stop funny as tommy boy
1	this movie is hilarious the laughs never stop every scene is packed to the limit with hilarious comedy chris farley is a comic genius and spade plays his character to a tee farley was one of the best slap stick comics ever and in this movie as with all his movies we see how much time and energy he devoted to portraying his character the way he saw fit tommy boy is an excellent example of a comedy it always makes me laugh no matter how many times i have seen it before
1	a great movie with a rather unclear political message it´s shot in a theatrical style i c most of the action takes place inside mayor and diana ashcroft seem equally suspicious of each other emotions run high since the western tourists and business people seem unwilling and unable to yield to the eastern russian charm of the mayor although he makes every effort to understand their point of view the two opposite world views are made pointedly clear but the movie also shows that human emotions cannot be controlled by politics its powerfully acted and has a high emotional impact for a 50s movie
1	i've watched this movie on a fairly regular basis for most of my life and it never gets old for all the snide remarks and insults mostly from david spade tommy boy has a giant heart and that's what keeps this movie funny after all these years br br tommy callahan chris farley is the son of big tom callahan brian dennehy master car parts salesman and has ridden on that all his life but after his died dies on his wedding day tommy learns that the company is in debt and about to be bought by ray dan akroyd the owner of a huge car parts company so in order to save the company tommy has to go on the road to sell the company's new brake pads along for the ride though not by choice is richard hayden david spade a former classmate of tommy's who was big tom's right hand man br br the movie rides on the chemistry between the two snl stars and real life best friends chris farley and david spade the duo has enough comic energy going between them to power the world it's the big dumb guy versus the smart little guy it works and some of their scenes are unforgettably funny farley and spade are actually decent dramatic actors as well although the film is primarily a comedy it has its fair share of drama but spade and especially farley are just as good there as when they're making the audience laugh br br forgive me but i have to talk about chris farley a little more i read his biography the chris farley show a biography in three acts for anyone who cares and understanding who chris was in real life made this movie more special to me chris farley was a genuinely good person who struggled and ultimately failed to conquer his addictions although this was the first movie he had a major role in it is his best film it really showed who he was and just how much talent he had knowing chris's story adds another layer to this movie although it doesn't make it any less funny br br farley and spade are matched with a good on screen cast rob lowe is suitably slimy as tommy's new brother and bo derek is solid as his step mother brian dennehy is great as big tom dennehy makes it easy to believe that they're father in son big tom is just as crazy as his son although he's smarter and more mature dan akroyd gives one of his best performances as giving tommy the hard truth behind advertising julie warner is also good as tommy's love interest michelle br br for me peter segal is one of the great comedy directors he keeps the pace quick and energetic but most importantly he knows how to make comedy funny he doesn't belabor the jokes and he understands that funny actors know what they're doing and he allows them to do it but segal goes a step further he gives tommy boy a friendly almost nostalgic tone that both tugs the heartstrings genuinely and tickles the br br critics didn't like tommy boy shame on them a movie doesn't have to be super sophisticated or intellectual to be funny god forbid farley and spade were forced to do muted comedy a la the office this is a great movie and one of my all time favorites
1	peter segal's 1995 commercial hit now cult classic boy' is a hilarious film an evergreen entertainer chris farley is a talent which we'll never ever forget br br boy' is a simple story told in the funniest zany way possible farley spade take a journey which is filled with unstoppable laughter even the rob lowe portion is damn funny as a kid i remember watching boy' again and again and again it's been of my childhood favorites and it will always remain to be even today when it comes on t v i stick to it as a die hard fan i am quite possessive about this film br br segal's direction is super chris farley might have died in 1997 but remains alive for me at least what an actor watch his work in boy' he's so much at ease he delivered fantastic performances later on in films like hills 'almost heroes' but his work in here remains as his best to date love you farley spade on the other hand is as good as ever he's an excellent actor in all respects br br boy' rules 100 thumbs up from this writer
1	well on the day that rob schneider plunges himself further into the black hole of notoriously bad movies by starring in the absolutely not at all wanted deuce bigalow european gigolo hmmmm wasn't there a film called roadtrip which was followed by a sequel called and now there's deuce bigalow male gigolo followed by sequel deuce bigalow european gigolo i smell a pattern perhaps soon there will be spiderman european webs are hotter or not i am writing about this much maligned at time of release film i was one of those i must admit i turned my nose up at it even while chris farley shoved cocaine up his nose and the snl cast struggled through one of the worst seasons in their history in '94 '95 the norm mcdonald notwithstanding films like happy gilmore tommy boy and black sheep came out in the couple years after this period and we realized there was a dark future for the caliber of spade farley schneider sandler films however i watched this film the other day ten years after and 8 years after chris died and could not stop laughing yes it's not particularly sophisticated farley does what farley does not unlike manny being manny but his van down by the river motivational speaker shtick in which he laments that while he may not wash enough or wear well fitting clothes or use deodorant more than twice a week translates well here as the ever self effacing character who realizes he's not the brightest not the best looking and could stand to lose a few pounds all the same he's trying his best to do what he's supposed to and david spade just tosses off his snide one liners as he did for spade's hollywood minute and basically stings self esteem there's really not a whole lot more to say than that i love the one scene when farley catches spade spanking his monkey and then makes a couple quips about it can't remember what the first one is but the second one they're lying in their hotel beds and farley says to spade do you like baseball spade mutters something inaudible in response and says the new york yank ees anyway farley does his awkward painfully sensitive frat boy shtick if you like you like it i couldn't stop laughing
1	br br excellent i have to think back a very long time to find a film that's made me laugh quite so much the writing is top notch the story is satisfying and the entire cast is excellent chris farley has never been better one of the very best comedies of the 90s
1	this film is hilarious brilliant comedy but only because of one actor chris farley the best 'comedy actor' i have ever seen it's something special about him he is just so funny br br what a shame he is not with us anymore he will sorely be missed
1	during my trip in a youth leadership forum i was channel surfing until i found tommy boy on tbs since i have never seen this film before i wanted to check it out my roommate who have already seen this told me this movie is a classic after seeing the whole movie i came to the conclusion that he was right br br tommy boy is constantly funny from beginning to end thanks to the comedic duo of chris farley and david spade farley is a riot as the title character a spastic doofus who just sails through life as if it wasn't important his slacker esqe ways soon come to a halt when his father brian dennehy a wealthy break pads king dies of a heart attack on his wedding day this leads tommy with the help of his sarcastic childhood friend richard david spade to hit the road to sell enough break pads to save the company br br the main reason tommy boy works are the funny performances from the lead cast farley is the funniest person in this movie the second funniest person being spade and the third being rob lowe as the film's villain who has bad luck another funny guy is dan aykroyd as ray a well known auto parts br br another reason the movie works is the large amount of jokes chris farley has hilarious slapstick moments and david spade has funny snide comments and one liners the gags in the movie some which involves a deer and a airplane bathroom are laugh out loud funny thanks to director peter segal naked gun 33 1 3 writers bonnie terry turner br br 3rd rock from the sun that 70s show and the cast br br tommy boy is a really funny movie although for some unknown reason most film critics including roger ebert find it horrible and unfunny i wonder when their sense of humor died i recommend tommy boy for those who are great fans of comedy thank you very much roommate
1	a kinda remake of planes trains and automobiles in a lot of ways i think i think it's such a bad and sad coincidence that both john candy and chris farley left us when they still had a lot of stuff to do god bless them both i think the plots of 2 movies are really similar road trips of two different poles of characters and a lot of unlucky consequences because of the this movie can not be planes trains and automobiles but its a really entertaining movie especially with the great performance of chris farley the missing part in this movie is the touchy stuff if we compare it with candy martin classic but i think its better this way
1	this movie has everything it has a good storyline good acting great scenery adventure and some brilliant gags chris farley plays tommy mega successful company auto has to go on the road to stop the company going under after big tom dies the trouble is that tommy knows nothing about break pads and needs the help of callaghan auto parts worker richard david spade from the moment the two dorks hit the road the movie is just so much fun if you love slapstick with a great storyline you'll love this because the gags keep coming thick and fast and the movie will just make you laugh out loud it was so sad about untimely death in 1997 but a credit to his genius is boy' get it chill out and enjoy this brilliant slapstick
1	i saw this film knowing absolutely nothing about both it and its stars chris farley and david spade and i have to say that this film is a comic classic it is so stupid at times that it can only be hilarious farley is brilliant as the bumbling idiot who takes to the road with his dad's right hand man the equally excellent spade to find the funding to save the families business relax put your brain on auto pilot and soak up the fun a great supporting cast features film favourites such as brian dennehy cocoon rob lowe wayne's world and bo derek 10 highly recommended for a good laugh
1	as it turns out chris farley and david spade only made three movies together coneheads tommy boy and black sheep but this was truly the citizen kane of their pairings farley plays thomas callahan iii the dimwitted heir to an auto parts company his father big tom brian dennehy hires mild mannered richard hayden david spade to look after him big tom is getting married to a ten bo derek so everything has to be in order after big tom suddenly dies tommy and richard have to try to sell half a million auto parts to save the company from bankruptcy from then on the movie is pretty much an excuse for chris farley to do what he does best make a mess of everything br br when this movie first came out in the theaters i saw it with my grandfather he figured out early on that the bo derek and rob lowe characters were hiding something but you can completely ignore that and simply in chris antics nothing is safe around his stomach and hell hath no fury like his happy go lucky attitude the scene where he sets the cars on fire and later the deer scene make for a pure laugh riot chris farley and david spade were truly the john belushi and dan aykroyd of their era it's a pleasure to always be able to think about fat guy in a little coat time and again
1	i really enjoy this movie the first time it was on turner classic movies all the actors did very well but brynner steals the show again like always he is so sexy this is one of the movie that you do see emotions actually this movie this is the first i ever seen him laugh because he plays very strong larger than life and serious roles in other movies in this movie you see both a masculine tough and sensitive side of brynner brynner seems to be a in this movie that is amazing how brynner eats the glass cup and speaks in his russian tongue it drives me crazy in love i don't understand when both brynner and kerr they both have very good chemistry stars in a movie together and then brynner always die at the end it kind of reminds you the king and i in a way
1	sean bean returns as napoleonic hero richard sharpe in sharpe's honour the fifth movie in the series and as always patrick harper and the rest of chosen men are all along for the ride but this time major sharpe is in serious trouble br br under the influence of sharpe's sworn enemy major a mysterious lady by the name of la has accused sharpe of rape her husband arrives at sharpe's camp to challenge his wife's attacker to a dual br br the dual is discovered and stopped by the authorities and as a result sharpe becomes the prime suspect when his opponent is murdered in the middle of the night br br as no one in the british army other than wellington and major consider sharpe anything but a rough commoner with little or no honour he his given a shambolic trial and is sentenced to death by hanging and harper and the chosen men have no choice but to look on as their beloved commander walks slowly to the gallows br br however convinced of his innocence wellington and hang another convicted prisoner in sharpe's stead and release him and his chosen men to find the real killer and la herself to not only prove his innocence but to find out her reasons for framing him in the first place br br micheal byrne and hugh fraser co star with brilliant performances by alice krige as la and atkine as the villainous major in what is another exciting swashbuckling instalment through sharpe's eventful journey through the napoleonic wars
1	the banter and humorous rescue scene help to make this one of my favorites of the 14 movie series wonderful acting great cast and this movie contains one of the few oft noted facts about sean bean's career the part where he and alice krige fall off the horse into the water was not scripted but was left in since they both went right on acting after it happened br br this is a good follow up to the intense ending of sharpe's enemy
1	this is one of the most satisfying of the book to tv adaptations the actress who make us believe that a borg could be sexy makes us believe that a spy and traitor can have some redeeming qualities br br the tv plot line does not follow cornwell's story exactly but is both exciting and rewarding as a retelling of a darn good yarn if you have a yen for romance in uniform there is a lot of sexual energy sparking between our man sharpe and the lying hussy made me wish her role was closer to that in the books but no matter there is enough hero wronged hero redeemed hero in rage hero in flight and hero in battle to keep you clued to your dvd play
1	sharpe's honour for the uninitiated is the fifth entry in a series of tv movies focusing on an english army rifleman during the napoleonic wars and based on the books by bernard cornwell which i strongly recommend reading if you were to start by watching this particular one though you'd get the impression that sharpe is not so much a soldier as the very centrifugal force which the rest of the army revolves around should that be the case i'd recommend starting with earlier chapters like sharpe's eagle or sharpe's company but this is a worthy choice for a second viewing br br the story this time is all about the espionage side of things with the french army retreating in disarray from spain major the slimy spy master spots an opportunity to turn the situation round by pinning the murder of a spanish on richard sharpe hero of the british army the fragile british spanish alliance will start to crumble and things will turn around again when the spanish nobles come to wellington crying for sharpe's blood though the english general is less than willing to hang his best soldier so fakes his death and soon he's off on a secret mission behind enemy lines to find out who masterminded the plot surprisingly enough for a sharpe film as well there's a gorgeous woman to be rescued along the way fancy that br br what this results in of course is a more adventure style approach the concentration is less on the workings of the english military with sharpe as the figurehead and concentrates more on his escapades in the countryside dodging french patrols hob with the spanish guerrillas and getting involved in daring escapes from fortified military positions sergeant harper his loyal right hand man accompanies him naturally but the rest of the remain in the camp unaware their leader is still alive strangely enough though they actually receive more attention than usual as they wind up in their own subplot involving the delivery of harper's baby br br this slightly different approach makes for an intriguing episode but is only a good thing in the long run and should anyone be worried that there won't be the standard battle at the climax fret not because once again the poor old french get a right kicking furthermore makes a fantastic successor to as the bad guy you love to hate he is a duplicitous malicious and absolutely evil son of a female canine and is also strangely reminiscent of that guy in black from out of raiders of the lost ark elsewhere stands out quite prominently as he gets the chance for more screen time and comes across as the sort of man you'd want to deliver your first born even if he does look like a member of iron maiden who got catapulted backwards in time by accident br br in short then another strong chapter in the sharpe series sharpe remains as heroic as always but considerably more bitter and angry this time given the events in the previous film it's not the best introduction if you've not seen any of the other chapters but it does show a side to sharpe that we don't normally get to witness the action hero rather than the professional soldier and if that's not enough to get you tempted it's also worth watching just for the rather surreal sight of an enraged sean bean swinging a live chicken at a group of nuns
1	face it folks is more challenging innovative and clever than its predecessor challenging its levels are ridiculously difficult for a considerable amount of time one especially difficult level is called lightning lookout in which you may be struck by lightning at any given time innovative it opened a lot of doors too bad the died out not long after this title and clever the level names range from trademark plays on words lake to witty references that the game's targeted audience won't get for many years to come bleak's house br br what irks me about most people's criticism of this game mainly comes down to two words kiddy kong he is a worthy little buddy successor to diddy kong and certainly does not deserve to be referred to as that retarded monkey will remain a classic until the end of time
1	the 1970's saw a rise and fall of what we have come to know as blacksploitation films the term is a reference to kind of broad catch all rather than a true genre of film in short any comedy drama adventure western or urban cops robbers shoot em up that are so constructed and so cast as to appeal to the large urban black population of the mid 20th century that indeed could embrace the widest type of films as long as the had a slant toward the inner city black population br br it appears that the idea of producing these films of particularly keen interest to black americans had its genesis with the release of 100 rifles marvin schwartz prod 20th century fox 1969 in it former university all american footballer and several times all pro for the cleveland browns jim brown had a co starring billing having appeared in a number of films already as for example rio 1964 the dirty dozen 1967 ice zebra 1968 and others it was beginning to make more sense to the studios' suits that jim was a hot property br br now this 100 rifles brings record numbers of black patrons to the big cities' central business districts on easter sunday to view mr brown why not start to film more of these adventure epics and other types of film with more black players and stars why not indeed so we saw a succession of cops robbers bad ass private detective films comedies all going the route along the way we eventually got to some more family oriented wider appealing films the movie goers were treated to 1972 the take 1974 1974 and ultimately claudine 1974 br br in claudine we find no stigma nor easy classification as being blackploitation as the story is universal and could easily have been done as a story about people of any descent any where and not just in the 1970's usa br br that the story was done of a single mother claudine dianne carroll struggling to keep a family together after two marriages and two almost marriages is a far cry from a shoot em up harlem style the problems that plague the everyday citizens of our nation are confronted and examined under the ol' sociological microscope br br but we also consider psychological and physical needs as a female for woman needs man and man must have his mate and we do concede this point that's s e x that we're talking about schultz claudine meets up with a very masculine broad shouldered athletic type in private garbage man ruppert b marshall james earl jones and they go on a date br br the great welfare state intervenes with the couple as welfare case worker miss tayback elisa comes snooping around to see just who is this unattached male who is suddenly paying so much attention to family br br after a humiliating experience with the welfare bureau's and binge which would be the norm for the family the two decide to get married with or without the blessing of big brother br br meanwhile elder son has gotten involved with some big talking but little doing black activist group but with help he and they all come through it a o k br br it ends on a happy upbeat and hopeful note we know that it may not be exactly happily ever after but rather make it all together if there is a single criticism that we must state it is that sometimes in a movie like this a misconception is spread to a large portion of urban blacks and that is the apparent implied myth that all whites are wealthy having none of their kind ever in need of a helping hand out of work or suffering any disabilities br br well folks it just ain't true note at one point jim brown's career was a real hit as a rugged actioner he was even being tauted as the black john wayne note the idea of producing films with all black casts filmed for all black consumption was not a new idea in the 1920's '30's and '40's we saw productions from people like noble johnson spencer williams jr and rex ingram br br note that's as time goes by you know schultz it's from casablanca warner brothers 1942
1	i went to the movies to see claudine and loved every minute of it the cast and the soundtrack as well diahann carroll was never better than in this role we saw ms carroll downplayed her looks barely saw her naked smoked a cigarette drank beer and oh she cursed whenever this movie was shown on tv and finally cable i would call my friends to watch it just the soundtrack from the very beginning of the movie is awesome all thanks to gladys knight and the we saw a black woman struggling to raise her children dealing with teen pregnancy and everyday life meets a man whom she learns later on has issues himself finally this movie made it to dvd and well deserving
1	claudine is a movie that is representation of the american system at it's worst the welfare system was initially set up as a stepping stone for those families who needed that extra hand to get back on their feet the movie showed an accurate portrayal of how the welfare system breaks down the family unit in other words if the father or any male figure is in the lives of the women and children their financial support from the system would be jeopardized if not terminated the struggles of the poor can be seen throughout the world i would like to see a reproduction of this movie back in the stores for all to rent or buy for their library collection
1	i love this movie one of my all time favorites this was the first big screen movie my mom took me to see when i was 9 i highly recommend it to every african american this story is about love trust challenges and everyday life of a black family all the actors worked well together i wish it was on video but as of yet it is not available that i know of i caught it on television a few years ago and recorded it so whenever i get the urge to watch it i have it the soundtrack is awesome too a must see
1	claudine was one of the very first movies that gave positive role models for both black men and women i appreciated this movie even more as i got older this movie shows that men didn't always turn away from responsibility an excellent movie i'd always recommend for anyone who appreciates a good inner city love story
1	yul brynner is major a singing dancing vodka drinking russian officer stationed near the austrian hungarian border during the hungarian uprising of 1956 in anatole the journey though the film has yet to be released on video or dvd it remains one of most compelling performances because of the political unrest a group of travelers cannot fly out of budapest but are put on a bus to vienna before they can reach the border however their passports are taken and they are detained for questioning by the russians led by major br br the major has reason to suspect that there is a hungarian freedom fighter among the group being smuggled out of the country indeed lady is hiding a mysterious passenger paul fleming jason robards jr who pretends to be an american but fools no one she is helping fleming mainly to repay a debt she owed because of the trouble her past association caused him among the other passengers are a british journalist played by robert morley an american family played by e g marshall his wife anne jackson and their two children one of which is the screen debut of little ron howard br br major takes a romantic interest in lady diana deborah kerr and a romance of sorts develops between them she offers him nothing but disdain and a stiff upper lip however though we suspect that underneath her heart still beats the cold war intrigue and the powerful acting carry the story but the romance is never quite convincing it remains however one of my favorite yul brynner films and deserves to be seen if only for his passionate performance
1	caught this recently after noticing james earl jones name on the title it was better than i expected of course it's pretty old made during the early mid 70's but it actually is a decent drama it runs a quick 90min or so and showcases good performances from james earl jones and diahann caroll the plot is conventional in general but told through the perspective of a single black woman on welfare who has 6 children and trying to deal with all the problems that persist this makes for an interesting view also in the fact that the script wasn't too sentimental or overdramatized it's almost like looking at a slice of the past all the 70's styles are out in abundance the ending is kind of kooky though probably would've done better without the theatrics
1	if this film is examined closely it's a bit sad it is detailed enough to touch upon very real problems children who grow up in poor dysfunctional environments yet it retains it's comedic value with spirited performances by diahann carroll and james earl jones the sadness lies in the struggles and dysfunction of the mother carroll who cannot truly help her children not because she doesn't want to or try but because it's obvious she doesn't know how remember this is a comedy but if you've never seen this or if you have watch this film and see the humanity in the characters good film
1	i have seen this movie since i was a little girl and being from new york and remembering how people lived back then brought back a lot of good memories this movie is not just about wanting a fairy tale ending but understanding the struggles of becoming a better person woman and provider claudine attempted to be it was about the welfare system putting women in a binding situation it was about the injustice of a system that invaded and put demands on a family to stay afloat diane carroll was nominated for an oscar for this role and it was well deserved if you want to experience a strong family with conflicting but wonderful bonding moments enjoy claudine your goal as a viewer is to keep an open mind and understand the overall frustration
1	idiocracy felt like mike judge took my thoughts on society and put them into film in fact the movie is a social commentary almost feels like a documentary at times luke wilson did a good job playing a boring average joe like in most of his movies br br of course idiocracy was an extreme of the current state of society but that's what makes most comedies funny a extreme of any situation fiction isn't that much different then reality br br with kids praising hip hop culture and taking pride in being ignorant when people feel useless in life they breed giving them a purpose in the world and it seems only the worse people breed the most i can understand how others don't like it it doesn't help most of the jokes were 2nd grade bathroom humor not much different than a kevin smith film br br idiocracy throws away logic reason any intelligence for good reason br br mike judges comeback was a knockout
1	i would have to say this is a great movie br br mike judge has an eye things that nobody would ever notice hence office space a statement about the dumbing down of society and that survival of the fittest is mere pipe dream in 500 years that pop culture and mass marketing by wealthy companies tend to rule the day yes there is a lot of potty humor in it and it is to get the story moving and his point across but the genuine frustration on private joe bowers face is priceless and some cases we can all relate to it at some point in our lives br br if you do not enjoy the humor then look at it from a different point of view and watch it again it took me watching it twice to really appreciate this film for what it with said after watching it am going to read a book now
1	i was one of the few who went out of my way to see this in the theater i've thought about it frequently ever since after two dvd viewings i'm glad to say it held up perfectly like any great comedy i laughed more on each viewing both in anticipation of gags but also after catching things missed before br br mike judge does very well with creating insanely comedic characters and fitting them into their world so they make sense in office space the environment make the characters believable future gives him liberty to write unbelievably dumb characters and make them work i'll be waiting to see if they release a better dvd with some actual features before buying it but this movie deserves the support on dvd not offered to it at the theater
1	i recommend idiocracy to everyone luke wilson is very funny the movie is insightful and made me laugh so hard i had tears running down my face several times until the end when i took a breath and realized just how close we are to mr judge's vision of tomorrow br br keep an eye out for a cameo by the guy from the mac commercials justin long as dr lexus i found his performance oscar worthy especially considering what oscars have been handed out for in the recent past besides he's cute br br in short idiocracy is a fatally funny glimpse into a possible future where people are named after product brand names the president's middle name is mountain dew hospital visits cost 5 billion dollars there are mountains of garbage because no one is smart enough to figure out what to do with it all and nobody cares about anything but money all because only stupid people are breeding sounds familiar to me somehow oh yeah it's what i think of when i see professional wrestling br br seriously watch this movie it's a good laugh and it will make you think
1	this movie deserved better mike judge's satirical wit brought to light something too many in this country are trying to deny we're getting dumber as a society br br could the 24 hour a day anna nicole coverage be any more proof mike judge paints a frightening future where the dumb survive and thrive makes you stop and think and laugh can you look at the world and not ask are we getting dumber are we being overtaking by the human trash as well as our own trash beware of br br the movie is really funny i'd tell you more of the plot but i don't want to spoil it br br so why release this film with zero promotion could it be that the stupid are already taking over
1	i like money i stumbled on this brilliant film in a local video store last week wasn't sure what to expect brought it home set up the player and then my journey in to stupidity began the first viewing i did a lot of chuckling no laughing out loud really it wasn't until the second viewing the movie really started to take a hold on me and the humor was that much funnier it reminded me of austin powers first viewing it was all right then the real fun began telling people about it just talking about each scene and the set up i'm making all my friends watch this movie everyone i know this movie may very well be one of the most accurate future movies ever made this movie is more then just 84 minutes of entertainment it's a warning to the future of our civilization mike judge the fantastic mind who brought us office space has brought us a vision of life in the automated future luke wilson's dead pan humor as average joe enhanced the movie that much more watch this movie then once you're done read more write more think more for the futures sake if not for your own
1	this movie is funny and sad enough i think that it is kinda true if you love office space then you will love this movie because it is another mike judge hit but it is nothing like office space i told every one to see this movie i only wish that it would have been in more theaters so it would have gotten the recognition it deserved i love this movie and would love to see more from mike judge luke wilson is also what makes this movie what it is i am so glad that i will not be alive in the year because if this movie turns out to be true we are all in for a lot of trouble i just hope more people see this movie because i know that they will fall in love with it too
1	i have seen several yul brynner films yet this is his best performance as the camera captures his emotions in close up as he snarls smiles and laughs brynner might have been equally arresting in ten commandments the magnificent seven the brother karamazov and the mad woman of but none of these films have captured his range of talent in close ups as in this one he is arresting and tantalizing to watch in every shot br br equally fascinating and sexy without removing her clothes is deborah kerr the script allows her to exude a sensuality that is not visual but suggestive she reprised this sort of role years later in the night of iguana the film does not suggest that she slept with anyone to help with the release of the group from the clutches of the russians in fact she is shown as running away from the russian major in contrast to the maupassant story or the story yet the film bursts with suggested but real physical allure of the kerr character br br kerr can never be classified as a beautiful actress in my view but she is a superb actress she puts her soul into the characters that she portrays which often clashes with the spirit of the character it is this contradiction that makes her roles in the journey quo vadis and the night of iguana memorable br br why is this an unusual film it is not easy in hollywood to see russian characters portrayed as good people dr zhivago was an exception romance of a horse thief was again great cinema by abraham but never acknowledged as such because of the intolerance towards leftists in the post mccarthy era br br the film is also unusual in its casting great french actors gerard and anouk aimee rub shoulders with jason robards jr and british actor robert morley in many ways the film is international than american all four are great actors and add to the entertainment br br those who have read maupassant and works will find the film is not true to either work yet the film can stand on its own as its sanitized censored version has a dignified charm of its own provided by the reality of the night that led to the release of the group i think litvak deserves to have the last laugh in providing an interesting and plausible twist to the tales that led to the making of the film while entwining bits of both written tales e g the last bus ride and the final kiss br br but i do have one why do hollywood never acknowledge the sources that inspire the stories only recently e g insomnia have the original works begun to be mentioned prominently in the credits
1	i stumbled upon this movie by accident i mean how else could i find out it wasn't hyped at all by the studios nor did i even hear about it's release from my normally plugged in friends after throwing my money away on so many bad movies this year i wish i could've seen this one in theaters as opposed to dvd mike judge is the master of disguising deliciously intelligent humor in a low brow package just watch king of the hill for a while it's ostensibly redneck humor but it's a very subtle jab at rednecks while being very sympathetic at the same time i read the tagline for this film and immediately i ordered it off the internet i really don't understand where these negative reviews are coming from except maybe from carl's jr this movie is not only hilarious but it's balanced as well moments of levity are interspersed between hilarious sight gags and jabs at our current superstar corporate culture sure there is some fart humor but it's only there to laugh at derisively the premise is only semi plausible but since when did that even matter i don't see people heaping scorn upon futurama because the premise is very similar just watch this movie if you don't laugh then something is really wrong with you maybe your dad works for or something and he was really offended by the movie maybe you're an idiot probably the latter
1	one cannot help but admire mike judge for his hands on i've experienced that approach with office space almost anyone working a job could associate with the characters idiocracy has exactly the same feel to it one can easily appreciate the years later experience of our heroes because again the director has tried to put things on a very human level somewhat similar to woody allen's sleeper this movie is very funny do not miss the deleted scenes as the museum of fart is a classic imaginative comedy is a rarity and idiocracy is wildly imaginative extremely funny and a solid 8 0 movie experience merk
1	yes i know that this movie is meant as a comedy and the humor is over the top but the theme about people getting less intelligent in future time might not be so far fetched i cannot say that it will happen but if we don't take proper care of our educational system than this could be a possibility i have noticed that some schools aren't teaching facts anymore like history geography basic stuff the focus is more on learning practical abilities the theory behind most subjects may be boring but is essential in understanding how things work in the movie there is this ridiculous example of people growing crops with in stead of water well we can laugh about it but if you never been taught that water contains minerals necessary for plants to grow so how would you know to me this is a scary notion so now you understand why this subject isn't funny anymore it could be that mike judge is making fun but at the same time is warning people for a real disaster if education doesn't improve fast am i taking this movie too seriously yes of course to each his own fun i loved mike judge's work beavis and butthead and office space in these he was able to be critical and funny at the same time in idiocracy i missed this most of the events are too absurd and as i said earlier very scary i do think if you are in the mood you will like this movie
1	this must be the dumbest movie i've ever seen and therefor it deserves a special award ok so it begins pretty good logical humor and then rapidly changes to complete and utter uh f rt ss stupidity that makes total sense the strange thing is that i hardly laughed at it though i guess it is supposed to be funny with a very serious message after a moment of thought why i didn't laugh the answer was pretty clear this movie is a lot more realistic then i would like it to be so it is extremely dumb yet very wise if the object was to reach people which aren't with a whole lot of neurons and synapses and electrolytes huh electrolytes this movie might actually be understood at some level by a big audience br br although they probably just laugh br br ah well nice try br br i am now editing well adding to my comment cause i read some of the other comments first i noticed some people see racism in this movie well that did not at all cross my mind when watching it however i can imagine if you are looking from that perspective you will see some we could of course debate the link between intelligence and race but i think this is not the place to do so i wonder if we were to rate the family here would you complain about them all being black i don't think so but i guess you could aside from that from the 2 wisest people in the world half the woman doesn't seem totally caucasian to me so 'what the problem is ' br br secondly the movie gets very mixed ratings from 1's to 10's and everything in between but a lot of there which means the movie does its job very well it people up makes them want to speak about it and judge it that means it is a good movie whether you like it or hate it after 5 minutes it becomes very predictive and boring even yet you keep watching this utter crap i guess you keep hoping that it isn't so or maybe it's our sick way to look at terrible accidents well this is one for sure
1	i had never heard of this film when a good friend recommended it i trust this friend's taste so i purchased the dvd my wife and i sat down to watch it with no knowledge of what it was about i thought it was the funniest film i have seen in a long time mainly because i saw the truth in the satire i strongly recommend this film to all my friends br br this is not a film for everyone some people will see the crass humor and aura of stupidity and find idiocracy to be one of the stupidest movies they have seen what these people don't seem to understand is that the crass humor is there not to amuse the audience but to show what appeals to the morons in the future br br luke wilson is well cast as an average joe he is mainly there to be a foible for the biting commentary about society that is spread throughout this film many of the funnier bits are in the background so it is easily worth seeing several times what makes the movie even funnier and more scary is that i see elements of it in every day life in people i meet or on the media then i go back and re watch idiocracy and realize how good it is br br the few people who have seen and enjoyed this film are able to be part of an elite club i'll see an advertisement for some product with some breakthrough new ingredient and turn to my wife and say it's got electrolytes she knows exactly what i am saying
1	i am rating this an 8 because of the premise of the film the acting was fine there wasn't anyone that stood out as amazing or appalling it is disturbingly true that intelligent people are having less and less children or choose to have none at all whereas dumb ass w in '04 supporters are procreating like rabbits and though i don't believe the earth will actually exist in 500 years i can see mike judge's parodied prophet coming to be as life imitating art the world is being run by idiots and it will get worse as the intelligent free thinking people become the minority and the git 'er done fans outnumber them the proof is our farce of an election br br but i digress if you are fortunate enough to have this playing in your city go see it i have paid my 7 50 plus popcorn to see far worse rubbish than this date movie or napoleon dynamite anyone there are laughs there are cringes but overall this is entertaining if you have half a brain you will think to yourself how this movie though funny is spot on accurate and a tiny bit uncanny i'm not surprised at all that this movie is almost completely unknown as fox was the one distributing this and they wouldn't want any of their sheep to see this and think maybe i will read a book and not watch or or my balls' if our society doesn't stop the dumbing down of everything and the of the english language ahem mr bush then this really is where we are going
1	this movie is brilliant br br i don't remember this movie even being in theaters so thinking it was a straight to dvd i have fairly low expectations even though i am a big fan of mike judge it has some of the same kind of comic future satire as brazil and demolition man but taken to the next level br br then i saw the cast luke wilson maya rudolph and dax shepard who were all brilliant in their roles br br needless to say this movie won me over in the first 5 minutes where it shows above average people having fewer children and the poorest stupidest trashiest people having lots of ignorant children and how this is leading to a kind of reverse evolution it takes that concept and then shows where we are headed with this pollution of the gene pool br br sadly i don't think it will take the 500 years as depicted but probably only about 50 i already see the shocking rise of mild retardation in the general populace media and culture people who like classical music and art are ridiculed instead of respected the lowest common denominator seems to rule especially in hollywood and on tv eg jackass the movie and any reality show where they make you eat something disgusting or humiliate yourself for money br br all of the political social satire aside this movie is also just laugh out loud funny and i don't say that lightly few movies make me actually lol but this one did br br a lot of the best jokes are word sight gags in the background so you really have to pay attention to get some of them i even had to pause and zoom in for a few of them like when joe got his government id and for hair it said yes and for eyes it also said yes also the prison has engraved on the front house for particular individuals since the cops in the movie much like real life cops call everyone individuals instead of people etc again this was on the screen for just a moment this is one of those movies you can watch again and again and dissect it to get through the layers of funny br br also i normally watch movies with the subtitles on and that clued me in to some jokes that might pass by your ears in the dialog mix for instance the police constantly talk about people instead of escaping and there are many other mis pronunciations that just cracked me up but again i might not have picked up on them just by the dialog mixed with music sound effects it is very subtle but still hilarious br br additionally the special effects were really good for a sci fi social satire br br i could go on and on but overall i think this is one of those movies that if you don't think it's funny it's probably making fun of you i plan on recommending this to many many people
1	you can read all kinds of references into the world of idiocracy a futuristic world populated by pampered self indulgent morons spoon fed by the technology of a bygone era this idea has its precedent in h g wells' the time machine and huxley's brave new world amongst other satires br br early in the film a narrator explains the quick degradation of humanity over five hundred years but does not fill in the gaps of where all the futuristic technology came from in the meanwhile most of the criticism of this very fun and funny film seems to surround this omission and the resulting complaint that the world isn't realistic as if realism has ever been a necessary quality of satire is brazil realistic how about futurama or hell how about gulliver's travels i thought not idiocracy while maybe not as pointed as the best of the genre hits the same notes and generally does so successfully br br besides i didn't find the futuristic technology to be a problem it is pretty easy to figure out that mike judge is satirizing the current trend toward automation and simple product so that even total idiots can use them as in brave new world the society in the film seems to have reached a point of automated self sufficiency at some point in the past apparently created by the now extinct 'smart people' in order to placate an increasingly stupid populace leaving the remainder of humanity free to indulge all the worst most selfish impulses they can come up with and grow even stupider the film just happens to take place during the last gasp of humanity as everything begins to fall apart for good it may still be unrealistic but if so it's a remarkably well presented brand of unrealism br br the stupid people take up most of the screen time of course but they're just the victims they don't know any better mike judge saves his real hate for the intelligent people in power who are dead by the time the film begins but who are very much alive right now in the 21st century people like scientists who chase hair growth and prolonged erections for no other reason than the possibility that they'll turn a profit on their snake oil treatments people like politicians who let corporations simply purchase the fda and fcc people like media executives and their yuppie stooges who promote stupidity who enable the destruction of all culture morality and health to make a quick buck br br after all who is really to blame the or the the paris of the world or the brilliant executives and advertisers that put her on tv and lowered our cultural standards enough to leave her there this is all implicit in idiocracy though a line here a hint there witness the hilarious auto doctor which literally does all the work in the health care system it's one of the few aspects of the movie that's not pounded into the ground by the unnecessary narrator it's just there for the viewer to pick up or not but it is one of the most interesting themes in a movie that's much smarter than any other comedy of the year br br pity that so many people will leave the film thinking it's just an excuse to show rear ends farting and people being hit in the groin not that that stuff isn't funny too and maybe it is a little pandering but in idiocracy it's just not as simple as it seems
1	mike judge's idiocracy is an interesting film and one that his fans will undoubtedly track down and see br br before i start the review i would preface it by saying that if you get a chance to see it definitely do as it is worth watching and isn't the easiest film in the world to track down br br let's start with the premise luke wilson is private joe an army librarian who is deemed to have absolutely no outstanding attributes or glaring flaws making him totally average in every way this along with the fact that he has no living relatives makes him a standout candidate for an experimental procedure also frozen with joe is a prostitute named rita who was pimped to the project by her abusive pimp unfortunately a few days after they are frozen the top secret project is abandoned and they are forgotten about br br they wake up in and find that with the dumbing down of society following the trends of recent times everyone on earth is only slightly more intelligent than a chimp the way that everyman joe talks is seen as being much as someone speaking like shakespeare would ridiculed now and a former professional wrestler is the president of the united states actually this one probably isn't that outrageous really the best show on tv is called ow my balls which admittedly sounds pretty good and not only is everything spelled wrong but signs seem to have run out of space for the wording leaving them to be bunched up at the end br br it's a funny premise for film but this is the problem aside from the initial premise not that much in the movie is truly funny what i mean by that is that the ideas that come to mind from having read the premise of the film are probably about as funny as the film itself obviously it's not terrible but it probably could have been funnier br br there are some winners in the script such as starbucks now offering happy endings and people placing their blind faith in the universally misunderstood electrolytes but they are just too few and far between so unless you are going to laugh hysterically every time one of the idiots of the future slurs out a slack jawed profanity laden sentence with little to no logic and or intelligence then the laughs might be pretty well spaced br br it's unfair for everyone to be comparing it to office space because it's a very different film but as a film regardless of what came before it idiocracy is a funny concept that will probably have you laughing a lot more in the opening 15 20 minutes than in the rest of the film br br i give it 5 out of 10 because it is enjoyable but doesn't do enough to raise it above middle of the road
1	most people are totally unaware that this movie exists fox which paid judge to make it has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer well i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe basically judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are the smart by a wide margin then these stupid are getting more stupid by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex which produces more stupid people by 2500 a person of average intelligence today will appear to be a genius that talks all seriously is this really that hard to believe oh sure this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid but still plausible luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners like can we family style her and hey man i'm here this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be with self pleasure comfort and stupidity and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over
1	set during the hungarian revolution of 1956 this story has all the suspense of a good cold war book or movie as a multinational group of foreigners attempt to smuggle jason robards out of hungary into austria however three things complement the story making this an extremely good movie br br first the actors use the actual languages of their roles the russian soldiers speak only russian the hungarians only hungarian the germans only german except to the minimal extent to tell the story since debra kerr is english she speaks only english and of course yul brynner and a few others essential to the story also speak heavily accented english as a result the empathy of the audience to the travelers becomes paramount the viewer shares all the confusion and suspense of being involved in an illicit border crossing when he she cannot understand any of the languages spoken around them very powerful feelings are aroused in the audience and notwithstanding the heavy use of foreign languages the audience is never at a loss for following the film no subtitles are necessary br br second i was in hungary in 1995 and i'm telling you this movie has it right on from the gypsy music overpowering the dinner meal to the underground caverns in the buildings where much of the action takes place to the village scenes the realism is incredible if i didn't eat in the actual restaurant in the movie i ate at its double i thought that i actually walked down the main street in that village actually the film was shot in austria br br third and most important this movie reunites kerr and yul brynner after the king and i and the magnetism between them as the story unfolds is nothing short of oscar qualified of course yul already received an oscar for playing that relationship so the acadamy wasn't going to give him another one but that is the quality of the film don't miss this one
1	we just saw this movie in austin texas at the alamo south lamar yesterday afternoon it had me laughing out loud many times the scene about albert einstein's thoughts on humanity hit me over and over and i couldn't stop laughing it's too bad it's not in more theaters i know a lot of friends that are dieing to see this movie welcome to costco i love you great work to all involved also if you see it make sure to stay until the end of the credits as well i'm going to take my family to see it again this weekend for sure if you're a fan of office space and beavis and butthead then you have to go see this movie it's a classic and no one knows that it's out so if you're in the mood to see something funny this weekend definitely check it out
1	there is a lot wrong with this film i will not lie i will say that most of the problems feel like they stem from a budget that was chopped out from underneath the flick and some bad hack job editing br br this is not office space do not go in expecting office space levels of comedy it is very funny though it is a mess but very funny at the same time a funny mess of a film in the way that caddyshack is funny a mess of unrelated funny scenes filled with some very annoying unfunny scenes br br it works as a whole though and it certainly deserves a wide release this is the best commentary on the wal mart starbucks mtv nation you could hope for the very fact that a film is exploring the idea that dumb people are breeding at an alarming rate while the intelligent people are not is great in my book not very politically correct but worth at least some debate
1	this movie is the stupid comedy of the year and quite possibly the best thing from mike judge since office space if you are a mike judge fan or enjoy shows like futurama then you are doing yourself a grave disservice by skipping over this little known limited release although the dvd touts very few bonus features this film is certainly funny enough to make up for it's perceived lack of value br br this movie is about an army grunt by the name of joe bowers played by luke wilson who is part of a top secret army experiment designed to preserve army personnel in peace time so that they can be in war time to fight for our country however things take an interesting turn as the general in charge of the operation is busted in a prostitution ring and the experiment is all but forgotten bowers and his sidekick rita played by maya rudolph both find themselves awake in the year where through the course of natural selection the population of america has grown increasingly stupid now joe and rita have to find their way to a time machine to get back to the year 2005 with the help of played by dax shepard br br what i really enjoyed about this movie was mike judge's comedic satire on the course of us history over the last 50 years and how mankind progresses over the subsequent 500 years this is most evidenced by the advertising in the movie which has become a staple of the american culture with shows like south park in the mainstream media it's easy to see how conclusions could be drawn that in the future profanity has become a marketing tool this is portrayed in the film humorously with subtle things such as fudd changing their name to butt f ers and a billboard which displays the advertisement if you don't smoke f you i also cannot stop laughing at jr 's role in this future with their slogan f you i'm eating and their automated kiosks self advertising their extra big a with more molecules this film contained everything i go to the movies for excellent sharp witty comedy as well as an engrossing plot make this dvd one for the ages be warned however if you are not a fan of mike judge did not care for beavis and butthead or do not have a sense of humor then this movie probably isn't a good match for you otherwise i would say this is probably the funniest movie to come out of i mean 2006
1	first let me say that although i generally appreciate mike judge's work i've been merely tepid in my response to office space king of the hill and beavis and butthead i generally prefer more intelligent comedy and therein lies the irony with respect to idiocracy br br in a future world where the embodiment of beavis and views basest instincts and intellectual capacities are the framework of a chaotic messy semi mad max semi blade runner society where every trailer trash guy's fantasy becomes reality a man with even average intelligence is threatening and accused of talking gay and the mob mentality takes over and this world is also incredibly funny br br yes it's obvious that carl's jr starbucks costco and executives will be horrified at the twisted values given their products in the year br br there were some missed opportunities with the film and the relationship between the time travelers the other being an average intelligence woman who's worried about her boyfriend's pimp's retribution could have been stronger the chemistry is there and there don't seem to be too many women in the future br br i did leave with a grin on my face but the experience is a bit better than the memories thus it's my kind of popcorn film and it will be fun to revisit on video recommended fyi stay through the credits for an extra scene
1	idiocracy is the latest film to come from mike office space judge and it certainly follows a similar theme of that film in the fact that it is an observation of stupidity and how mediocrity can overcome adversity relatively speaking it is a story about joe bauer luke wilson who is quite literally the most average guy in existence joe and a prostitute named rita maya rudolph become the test subjects for a military project of a hibernation chamber they were to remain suspended for only one year but due to lack of oversight joe and rita are forgotten about and accidentally wake up 500 years in the future br br here's the scary part this film explains in a very realistic and plausible way how the entire population of became absolutely retarded with no natural predators the evolution of the human species does not necessarily favor the quickest smartest and strongest people for progression of genes just the people who breed the most unfortunately those people happen to be welfare sucking trailer trash idiots who breed like rabbits this abundant reproduction of the stupid people has caused an adverse effect on societal growth and now joe and rita are the two smartest human beings on the face of the planet if it helps imagine the entire population as just a hybrid of rednecks jocks and seeing this nightmarish dystopia joe learns of and attempts to track down a time machine to see if he and rita can get back to when they came from and that's basically the whole plot br br but despite how one dimensional i may make it sound this movie is higher brow than you can fathom nuances are everywhere and anyone can see glimpses warning signs if you will of modern day dumb permeating facets of everyday life and turning it into the train wreck on display in idiocracy the film has some truly awesome showcases of realistic retardedness put on a pedestal i don't want to give anything away and ruin jokes for you but let's just say that it is pretty thorough i can see how some would say that it is just a lot of toilet humor but it odd as it may seem has a purpose to show how dumb and crass these people are br br this film unfortunately is destined to see the same fate as its predecessor office space no one will see it in theaters but everyone will brag about discovering this awesome funny movie when it comes out on video my only complaint for the film would be that the flow of the narrative sometimes gets broken so they can do a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy type exposition on how things got to be where they are but it is a necessary evil and is implemented better here other than that good characters funny jokes and better than average social commentary wrapped up in a funny bow br br final note if seeing our youth becoming gang wanna be's acting like redneck ghetto trash and being proud of it if you are educated and cultured in anyway and can see how our country is spiraling out of control into an abyss of stupidity for god sakes watch this movie
1	i've never seen a movie get a worse release then this and that's a shame as this is the funniest film of the year you would think an ad with the line from the director of office space would be enough to warrant a big release but there are no ads no posters no website i doubt the stars even knew it came out this weekend what is 20th century fox thinking mike judge's sci fi comedy is set in but it could come true in about 10 years if things continue as they are luke wilson and maya rudolph get frozen in a top secret army experiment and wake up in a future full of consumer zombie inbred retards the film reminds me of woody allen's sleeper robocop planet of the apes blade runner and network and the late great futurama try to see it before fox burns all the prints
1	a lot of things in this futuristic satire are more theoretically funny than actually funny though it does have some laugh out loud moments but a lot of that is because it seems to have been cut by the studio to better appeal to exactly the idiots it's mocking many situations aren't allowed to develop there's obvious overdubbing of expository material and worst of all a narrator explains everything most of which needs no explanation probably because some preview audience didn't understand what was going on in other words a movie about dumbing down has been you guessed it br br one hopes that a longer better version of this comedy will eventually surface on dvd and it will become the cult fave it deserves to be but even in this mutilated and somewhat comic spirit diminished form it's one of the more memorable films of the year a screech of disgust against our culture and all the ways it's become and in the name of appealing to the yahoos i watched it right after land of the dead george romero's latest milking of the single idea that consumers zombies which is basically the same point judge is making yet where romero's counterculture viewpoint now zombies underclass that needs to revolt against the rich seems hopelessly out of date judge's take is fresh dead on and far more disturbing just listen to the yahoos in your movie audience whooping it up for president state of the union just like their counterparts on screen and you'll know that we're all doomed
1	as social satire idiocracy is just as good as office space but with a wider scope to criticize this film as too puerile due to potty humor is to kind of miss the point i think there are certainly fart jokes etc but they're not really intended to be funny to the audience they exist to define the state of culture in the world of 2500 ad visited by joe as a background to the bizarre state of affairs in which he awakes the real humor of the film lies in the many sight gags and attitudes present in this future society that are just a shade off of what we encounter in our daily lives and which should serve as a warning my personal favorite is the depiction of fox news the subtle brilliance in the film lies in the fact that it also digs at smart people and average joes like the protagonists note the times in the film when joe and rita almost subconsciously conform to the idiots around them and you realize that idiocracy is not created to pick on any group of people in particular but on the culture of idiocy in general i don't know what to say about the made for conspiracy theory behavior of fox in releasing this film but if it's not playing in your local theater demand it we all need to see this film if not for the social commentary at least for the fart jokes
1	i'm not sure why there are no articles or posters or anything about this film because i just saw it and thought it was awesome i guess it's not for everyone because it's basically kafka's the trial meets and butt head which is a pretty tough combination to swallow still i thought it was great if you're going to see it because you want a sequel to office space you're probably going to be disappointed but if you want to see one of the most brutal acid tongued and hilariously honest looks at where our society is headed you're in for a treat i just saw the 8pm show opening night in los angeles and there were only 12 people in the theater which means the film will probably be gone in a week that's really a shame because in its own way idiocracy is one of the best satires to come along in quite a while but then again it's basically making fun of the people who make up about 99 of the movie going audience so i guess it's no wonder the studio panicked and tried to dump it
1	shame on fox for dumping this movie it was a total riot and i only hope that it will find a second life on dvd and cable br br this is a hilarious satire it takes the what if situation to an extreme and it doesn't pull any punches or kicks to the groin it makes you think what is to become of this empire once we've gotten totally to lazy and stupid everyone gets hit in this one esp a number of major corporations and even fox news takes a punch which is probably why the movie never had a proper release other than the marketing department over thinking the campaign and not knowing how to market it so we'll just give up some may find the movie sophomoric due to the groin kicking and farting but the movie is much more than that you either get what mike judge is saying or you don't most of the negative reviews i've read seem to come from people who just don't get it or are film snobs br br it'll probably play for one week in the selected markets so if you miss it keep an eye out for the dvd it'll be worth the rental and i will eventually have it in my collection br br good job mike judge it's a shame that you got screwed but you made me laugh out loud and i look forward to the next movie you do
1	the journey is a romantic version of the cold war it's about an english woman deborah kerr trying to smuggle her former love a hungarian scientist jason robards jr out of hungary during the hungary revolt in 1956 she's on board a bus with thirteen other international people who are trying to get out of hungary through the austrian border br br of course the bus gets stopped by the russians for a security check the russian officer in charge yul brynner becomes attracted to the english woman deborah kerr and delays the trip of course the russian officer knows the truth about the hungarian scientist posing as a british citizen but he decides not to arrest the scientist because he is waiting for the english woman to come to him of course this all sounds absurd but it is a fun movie to watch despite the romantic flow of dialogue between mr brynner and ms kerr which seems inappropriate in the situation that they are in the movie becomes suspenseful and interesting the good acting overrides some of the silly dialogue perhaps some people involved in the hungarian revolt would not appreciate this movie they would consider it a piece of fluff br br this is my favorite yul brynner role he speaks with his own masculine voice and is very attractive especially when he becomes vulnerable this is deborah second time working with yul brynner since they made the king and i in 1956 they make a very attractive couple too bad they never worked again this was the second sexy role ms kerr took since from here to eternity despite the fact that ms kerr was wearing heavy winter clothes throughout the movie she was very beautiful and sensual br br the fine supporting cast was headed by jason robards jr in his first film role some of the international cast were recognizable like for instance robert morley from england however the rest of the actors i have never seen before or since were just great in the movie in the background it was fun to see berger as one of the maids speak a few lines of hungarian a few years later in 1966 she was in a movie cast a giant shadow with yul brynner as his leading lady she is still working today
1	just a great soundtrack really enjoyable music outstanding cast great lead performance worth watching br br doesn't really explain what happened to the neighborhood you are left feeling that integration is to blame or that with the departure of the lead character the neighborhood disintegrated br br this movie seems well researched and extremely well crafted i especially enjoyed some of the minor characters like jeffrey wright br br the cutting during the opening sequence helps express what a lively engaging and desirable experience that nightclub would have been with the jump music food drink dancing gambling and sex
1	let me start by saying that if you're expecting subtle humour you're in the wrong theatre it's low brow and heavy hitting but he's not out to tickle your funny bone he's got the sledgehammer out and he's drawn a bead on the side of your head but fear not as movies go this is a fairly gentle education oh also heavy on the swearing but once again mike judge not fred rogers br br was this movie called f no the gem the essence that is mike judge is that he has the ability to make people laugh at themselves beavis and butthead was most popular with teen aged boys the very people at which it incessantly poked fun br br with that in mind i don't think the humour in this movie is aimed at the super intelligent maybe you are all too smart to get it but he's not aiming at you he's aiming at your average joe and he's got a message get your act together and for god's sake study it is a little disjointed and the narrator gets to be a little irritating after a while but once again this movie is meant for people who need a lot of narration it's funny it has a message that it wants to make sure that we all understand br br i question the casting of luke wilson in the role of a man with a 100 iq sometimes he's not able to play down what's he got like a 104 to the level of his character slightly forced at times br br kudos on dax shepard in this one i remember seeing him in and thinking this guys looks like an idiot in this movie he makes a great idiot maybe i'm psychic br br it took a while to warm up to maya rudolph but i gave her a little leeway after all she did have to play straight man to an entire planet but once she got a little screen time she made a solid contribution br br terry crews played the same psychotic aggressive character he's played many times before but he makes a first rate president none the less br br another bonus is that the place was practically empty counting my girlfriend and i there were literally six people in the theatre we could've had a barbecue pit and a mariachi band so no annoying people talking as appears to be the norm in the to the tv' age br br all in all a good premise and a competent delivery given the intended goal lots of laughs sprinkled throughout br br what made this movie scary was the fact that when we walked out of the theatre it was sort of like the movie was still playing we saw a lot of idiocy in the people immediately around us maybe made more apparent by the dose we got in the theatre br br they're all pods all of them
1	this movie was quite a pleasant surprise i had anticipated it for a long time and was afraid going in that it couldn't possibly live up to my expectations br br it exceeded them br br i adored this movie br br hilarious from start to finish stay until after the end credits it is absolutely remarkable how a movie about dumb and annoying characters can be so intelligent witty and engaging br br with it's obvious matte paintings the movie's future earth recalls the planet of the apes series and other sci fi movies of that era br br in fact this movie is essentially planet of the apes but with people who are the mental equivalent of apes br br it moves at a fairly brisk pace and luke wilson carries the movie quite well with a character that recalls the one he played in bottle rocket there's even a not so subtle nod to bottle rocket in an early scene br br maya is also surprisingly good as a former painter who was frozen as well br br despite all its strengths idiocracy has the distinct feel of a movie that was taken away from the director editor before it could be fine tuned br br i cannot for the life of me understand why a movie this funny would just be dumped into a few theaters with no advanced screenings no trailers no marketing whatsoever br br it's as if the studio decided they were not going to spend any more on it and just walked away br br or maybe they thought the movie had the makings of a cult classic and the only way for it to become a true cult classic was to set it up to fail br br whatever the case it is a shame because mike judge and this film in particular deserve better br br i predict this movie will have real legs on dvd and word of mouth will propel it to the success it deserves br br perhaps the fox executives saw themselves in the characters were confused and thought it was a documentary
1	there's no other word for it fox dumped this out with no marketing of any kind nobody in the country other than those who have been looking forward to this film know anything about it all the red flags have flown it has to be a mess it can't be anywhere near as good as office space right wrong though office space it ain't this film definitely has satirical bite and wit it's a misfire on certain levels but who's to blame is left to mystery br br based on what is currently showing in theatres i can say idiocracy is a good movie it's funny sometimes laugh out loud funny it's effective sometimes ingenious what it isn't as far as i can tell is finished we will see something come of this film again whether it's an extended cut or reshoots alone it can be hilarious it's ballsy at times br br leaving the theatre looking around at the mall i was surrounded by advertisements and billboards commercialism and stupidity it's not quite as damning a dystopia as 1984 but this movie paints an ugly future for our culture and there doesn't seem to be much anybody can do about it anyway go see this if you can and try to find out what happened that it was so specifically buried
1	a good x evil film with tastes of james bond romeo and juliet and maybe even star wars br br the evil count von bruno receives an english gentleman as a guest for a very dangerous hunt elga the beautiful simple and well intentioned lady that was forced to marry the count provides the love triangle the count missing eye points to a terrible past the englishman is not what the count thinks and is a terrible treat to him there is also the terrible hunchback crocodiles and even the side appearance of some torture instruments br br boris here in a support role makes an strong but somewhat stiff presence the other actors and direction are the symbol of an era the strong representations of black and white movies since the beginning there is no doubt of who is the evil guy who is the good one even traitors and stiffs can be identified somewhat easily
1	the black castle is one of those film's that has found its way into a boris karloff collection and is mistakenly expected to be an outright horror movie whilst some horror elements exist within nathan movie this really is a multi genre piece that's tightly produced and effectively portrayed joining karloff in what is a small but critical role are richard greene stephen mcnally lon chaney jr rita john hoyt michael pate it's produced unsurprisingly out of universal international pictures the plot sees greene's english gentleman travel to the castle home of the sinister count von bruno mcnally he's following an investigation into the disappearance of two friends an investigation that is fraught with danger and surprise at every turn br br this has everything that fans of the old dark house castle sub genre could wish for genuine good and bad guys a fair maiden dark corners for doing dark deeds devilish traps ticking clock finale and we even get a good old fashioned bit of swashbuckling into the bargain the cast are all turning in effective performances particularly greene and the wonderfully sneering mcnally whilst jerry writing is lean and devoid of the pointless filler that has so often bogged down similar film's of this ilk a very recommended film on that karloff fans understand it's not really a karloff movie and perhaps more importantly that horror fans don't expect blood letting to be the order of the day a fine atmospheric story with a sense of dread throughout the black castle is a fine viewing experience 7 10
1	when i saw lon chaney jr and boris karloff in the cast i was expecting to find a typically schlocky 1950's style horror movie the opening scene a graveyard with a wolf howling in the background seemed to confirm this once i began watching it though what i discovered was a nifty little mystery about an englishman richard green seeking to discover what had happened to two of his friends who had disappeared in the black forest and if necessary to take revenge against the evil count stephen mcnally who ruled the territory chaney as the voiceless had a rather limited role one which reminded me of the hunchback of notre dame actually while karloff had a somewhat more substantial role as dr in fact was one of the more interesting characters in the movie and it was difficult to know until the very end whether he would be established to be a good guy or a bad guy the castle set was magnificent and even the limited depiction of the black forest was real enough it certainly didn't come across as low budget compared to other movies i've seen anyway the only disappointment i thought was rita performance as the countess she seemed somewhat dry and didn't seem to put much passion into the role br br that aside i found that this movie held my attention throughout and there was enough suspense about how this was all going to turn out to make it well worth the watching definitely recommended with a 7 10 rating
1	this is the ultimate and i mean the ultimate adventure classic the plot is good versus evil there have always been an abundance of films that depict gray areas and not enough on the basic good against evil to account for the real cases of good against evil in the real world only recently have film makers tried to even the odds in real life well over half of situations are black and white but only a fraction of movies make it seem that way this movie is the best example of a back and white look it is best seen in black and white the hero is in the worst situation he is in the territory of a man who wants to murder him and among various enemies the movie gives the feel that he is hopelessly outnumbered and can't count on help his enemy the count has numerous resources the count's wife was forced into marriage with him and she knows from his past history that sooner or later he will kill her as he does all his wives she and the hero become allies and fall in love in away that could win over anyone watching unless that person just wants to be a contrary brat anyone who helps them is killed they have no escape the situation is hopeless so will they survive in the end you won't guess unless you've read spoilers the movie also has a lot of great atmosphere adventure and intrigue along with lon chaney as a bad guy and boris karloff in his best role ever as a decent guy usually cast as a bad guy karloff was at his best when presented with more complex roles such as this one chaney was rarely given a complex role although he his stuff in a few movies such as of mice and men this is little more than a cameo for him still the tension never stops there is suspense and danger throughout perfectly written perfectly cast and perfectly directed this is what a movie should be pure escape pure adventure
1	the best thing and that's pretty good about the black castle is that it's a black and white gothic grabber featuring a murderous mad count which was somehow made in 1952 the star ostensibly is the british actor richard greene a capable leading man who reminds me of an earlier version of roger moore the villain is a mad count played by stephen mcnally who does a credible job except when he's called on to laugh maniacally skulking around in the shadows is a long boris karloff in a decidedly secondary role of an aged doctor who may or may not be the salvation of our hero br br it's the middle of the 18th century in austria and sir ronald burton greene is determined to find out what happened to two close friends they disappeared in the vicinity of the castle belonging to count karl von bruno mcnally deep in the black forest it seems that sir ronald and his friends had been instrumental in defeating a brutal plan of von bruno's in africa three years previously involving slavery and ivory the count was left not only with failure but with a scar on his face and a black patch he now wears to cover a ruined eye von bruno vowed revenge and it seems he might have been partially successful so under a false name sir ronald arranges for a hunting invitation from the count and off we go by carriage through a dark journey of storm and howling wolves to the count's castle it's a hulking mass of stone turrets and corridors shadowy huge fireplaces and creepy passages that lead to dank dungeon cells a torture chamber and a great pit filled with snapping thrashing crocodiles it also is filled by the count's lovely blond sensitive wife elga paula who sometimes is billed as rita and by the count's two close friends played by those two actors we know from the fifties who specialized in being slime in costume john hoyt and michael there is a dangerous leopard hunt forbidden kisses knuckling servants wooden signs creaking and swaying in the cold wind and poison in a cup not the least doctor karloff has a special vial filled with a drug which will so slow the bodily functions that death will seem to have occurred the risk is that well when the person awakes ten hours later he'd better hope he's not already nailed shut in his coffin br br surprisingly for all the clichés the black castle keeps moving merrily along the movie takes itself seriously but it's competently enough made to keep our interest even if we wind up sitting back with a smile while we watch it's even reassuring in a way to realize there are strong echoes of the most dangerous game when burton realizes just how crazy von bruno is he becomes even more determined to bring von bruno to accounts and naturally he has fallen for elga von bruno crazed by vengeance yet crafty and capable is a man who loves the hunt and is by the kill hollywood's second creative rule has always been if you're going to steal steal from the best it's first creative rule of course is if you're going to steal steal from the best and then turn it into the black castle is a nice bite of austrian
1	universal studios the name conjures up so many memories to horror fans of beautiful matte paintings er landscapes fog enshrouded full moons howling wolves taverns and torch wielding mobs yet it is quite strange looking back on those films how little the era which produced the true classics lasted the '30's had it's masterpieces but those were mostly from the same directors and many of their films are mostly of historical interest today the '40's produced more mindlessly fun matinée films than it did high art and most fans agree that the classic era of the gothic horror films ended in 1945 with 'house of bumped around with the abbott costello comedies and was officially dead by the 50's and the coming of the atomic age br br so it's strange that perhaps one of universal's finest was made in the '50s that alone makes the film an oddity since costume dramas were on their way out everywhere it may not be comparable to the all time classics like the james whale films and 'the but damn does it condense all the fun elements of those films into one delicious treat get ready for nothing but pure entertainment since various social mores had changed the film also indulges in violence that would not have been allowed in earlier eras there's no blood but we see characters shot and stabbed directly and there's even a burning torch to the face br br the film may not really be a horror film but it sure has the atmosphere look and feel of one it begins in the dead of night with howling winds and wolves as two men seal the tombs of two apparently dead young lovers but wait one of them is not dead but he can't move he's trapped but talking silently in his own mind unable to communicate what is his story now that is how you start a horror film br br english businessman sir ronald burton richard greene giving one of his best performances sets out under the alias of richard beckett to investigate the disappearance of two friends of his who disappeared at the castle of one eyed austrian count von bruno did sacha baron cohen see this it seems many years ago von bruno posed as a god to the natives in africa to steal ivory he was exposed by burton's men and the natives disfigured him now he is lusting for revenge br br the film has all the clichés a jonathan harker style ride to the castle an inn full of wary villagers death traps and a hulking manservant lon chaney jr the torture chamber scenes are genuinely suspenseful including a panel in the floor that activates a dungeon door which makes for an ingenious getaway scene later on a hunting expedition involving an imported panther and even an alligator pit and then there's the romeo juliet style fake death that leads to the film's prologue br br the plot is cliché and the world view is black and white but it's still incredibly entertaining with director nathan making every scene pile on the atmosphere and seem fresh and new there are several plot holes too why does ronald attempt to leave the castle so early and he never does solve the mystery of what happened to his friends even though it's obvious but he doesn't know that when he gives up and he seemed so sure earlier weird br br all of the actors are great despite being a rude richard greene makes burton one of the most likable protagonists i've ever seen in a horror film rita is excellent as the count's wife' who becomes burton's love interest she may have the stereotypical in love with just a problem of all film heroines of this era but her portrayal of a long suffering woman in a loveless marriage to a sadistic monster is very convincing she also shows a suspicion and wit few film heroines of this era do even seeing a forced attempt by burton to quiet her and to paw at her necklace although it is simply to analyze it as it has an important clue as a rape attempt yet she never seems nasty in her paranoia the audience sympathizes with her even though he fails to make von bruno seem truly foreign and otherworldly he is a villain in a horror film after all stephen mcnally gives a truly chilling performance as the sadistic nobleman when he reveals his burnt eye and laughs maniacally it is truly scary lon chaney jr is also great as his mute henchman br br but the best performance is undeniably by boris karloff as the mysterious physician dr he has little screen time at first but steals every scene he is in it is a performance that is both creepy sad mysterious and ultimately heroic as he leers evilly as he applies leeches to one of bruno's henchman spies on our hero and speaks in that famous 'you know i'm up to no good' voice only karloff could make you wonder whether if he is a hero or villain always skulking about and although he does function as the main agent of our hero's escape he still shows human frailties such as greed and for his own life even cold bloodedly poisoning a man for burton's benefit before he even gets burton to agree his plan to help our hero heroine escape also puts them directly in the clutches of von bruno as he arranges an amazingly sadistic if unbelievably flawed death for them that had to have inspired similar scenes in corman's poe series he may not have much screen time but this is easily one of best performances br br while the ending may seem abrupt and anti climatic for some half the fun is getting there and there's much excitement to be had kick back and relive the days when heroes were heroes and villains were villains it's no masterpiece but it's escapist fun at it's best
1	all boris karloff fans will love this classic film where karloff is the castle physician and gives his patients excellent attention sir ronald burton richard greene an eighteenth century english adventurer believes his two friends have been murdered by count von bruno stephen mcnally on his black forest estate arriving at von bruno's castle to accumulate evidence burton learns von bruno's unhappy wife elga paula and dr boris karloff the castle physician are virtual prisoners suspecting burton's motives von bruno and lon chaney jr a giant mute scarred henchman discover the englishman was responsible for their being captured and tortured you will definitely have to view this great classic karloff film to enjoy the ending
1	set in hungary in november 1956 this is the story of a group of foreign nationals who were trying to leave the country at the time of the uprising br br once the airport is closed the titular journey begins on a bus taking them to austria as would be obvious they are stopped on their way which is where they come up against the almost faultless yul brynner whose military power as a red army major was marked with loneliness his internal struggle between right and wrong his search for the truth and his need to feel emotions for other human beings he was saddened by the fact that his job had alienated him from his friends and enemies alike and he yearned for social contact br br robert morley plays the quintessential stiff upper lipped englishman who no matter how serious the role manages to maintain an almost light hearted logical outlook on life while jason robards has a stunning movie debut which enforces the reason why he had so many roles throughout his career deborah kerr as the leading lady exhibits the grace and femininity we have come to associate with her yet manages to bring over the strength and resolve required for her character br br the film deals with a very tempestuous time in european history but it never ceases to remind us that there is good in all of us and you can never completely judge a book by the cover fabulous scriptwriting ensures that for all the seriousness of the subject there can still be great one liners and comedic instances that add to rather than detract from the movie the chemistry in the cat and mouse game between kerr and brynner makes you understand why they appeared in more than the one film together br br all in all a thoroughly engrossing movie which i would definitely watch again 8 10
1	the british noble sir ronald burton richard greene decides to search his two best friends that have disappeared after visiting count karl von bruno stephen an evil and powerful man who lives in the black castle sir burton travels undercover with another identity since he fought against count von bruno in afrika with his two missing friends and the count lost one eye in a battle when he arrives in the castle he is invited to hunt in the black forest around the castle with the count while he looks for evidences that the count has killed his friends later he and the count's wife countess elga von bruno rita fall in love for each other and with the support of dr boris karloff sir burton and the countess try to escape from the claws of count von bruno the black castle is an excellent movie from a romantic time with action romance mystery and even horror the story is gripping and is a great entertainment for any audience my vote is nine br br title brazil o castelo do the castle of the fear
1	this is a prime example of uninhibited filmmaking at its best richard greene who does good in the role search for his two missing friends takes him to the black forest domain and castle of one eyed count bruno stephen mcnally a past enemy of his whom he has never seen face to face incredible film has so many awesome elements combined for once into a single film a crocodile pit a hulking mute played by lon chaney jr a crafty doctor played by boris karloff a leopard hunt very well done and very atmospheric a love story a castle a swordfight a sadistic one eyed count and his two evil accomplices played by john hoyt and michael pate an intriguing background story which makes the film even more interesting and more jerry script doesn't allow itself to be bound in making a film that comes extremely recommendable to anyone who is into unlimited filmmaking with a touch of horror and atmosphere to it
1	a powerful debut film from k that explores events in the life of a group of high school students each of them in crisis in one way or another the film starts with the discovery of the body of one of the students then traces the lives of the group over the previous hours leaving the audience in suspense until the last minutes as to the identity of the deceased each of the main characters is facing major which we could see as potentially precipitating a suicide the cast of unknowns provide performances full of power and emotion fantastically well done especially considering the youth of the writer director who was 19 years old when he wrote the script
1	good grief 1 you completely missed the point the girl was only seen briefly specifically because she was the one who was going to kill herself everyone else was so wrapped up in their own stories they didn't notice her nor did we as one of the other students says at the end we're all so wrapped up in our own problems we don't notice what's going on for someone else br br the director himself said if he had killed off one of the others it would've suggested their problems were worse than someone else's the whole point of killing kelly was that she was unnoticed by all of us get it now
1	in this flame of emotion we are introduced to several different high school youngsters during one eventful day at school all of them struggle with belonging finding them selves and keeping their painful secrets from being revealed has the feel of a coming of age documentary focusing on students inner landscape and their way of dealing with everyday challenges gets of with a powerful opening and develops like a requiem moves the camera with great skill and invites us slowly into the youngsters minds and hearts a fictional reconstruction that enlightens us all and reminds us of the frailty of youth one of the most important films of today every teenager should be given the opportunity to see this moving piece of film
1	i saw 2 37 at the toronto international film festival in september and was blown away by it a scene of panic opens this film at 2 37 pm set in an adelaide high school this scene is left unresolved as we revert to the beginning of the day and are introduced to the teenagers getting ready to go to school the audience becomes intimate with each of the main characters and explores the day to day issues facing teenagers including drugs promiscuity being gay bullying and violence each scene is played again and again from different teens' perspectives and is reminiscent of gus van sant's elephant this is a remarkable film by first time director k it was made with non professional student actors and work shopped through an unprecedented 76 drafts of a script it features stunning performances by a number of the student actors particularly teresa palmer in the role of melody this coming of age film is both intimate and thought provoking with a surprising and disturbing ending
1	at 2 37 a high school student commits suicide not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known time skips back to the start of the day from here we follow six separate students marcus melody luke steven sarah and sean each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas all reaching boiling point hitting to an end for one br br after losing a friend to suicide and surviving his own suicide attempt writer director k has created a drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows 2 37 is attempt to bring it to light if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has 2 37 becomes all the harder to view br br with heavy and hard subject matter also tackles everyday teenage life sex pregnancy sexual identity bullying friendship manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner the factor on talent is his subtlety he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime it verges near documentary at times it has such a painful realism the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this br br 2 37 has a distinctive similarity to gus van film elephant while the core of each film is different both tackle teen life like sant utilizes long tracking shots with time skipping back and forth to show each characters interaction from different perspectives a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance with spare conversation little development of characters and the long tracking shots sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread while there resides this dread in 2 37 the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn't reach as time goes by each characters fragility creeps out dragging you along their emotional roller coaster br br the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide foretold at the very beginning the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion though many films that have shown suicide gloss over the act or the act shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles teresa frank sweet joel mackenzie marni spillane charles and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers br br compelling and 2 37 is an absolutely unmissable film
1	i have to confess i fell into the cynical trap of believing that australians couldn't make drama unless it meant a lot of crying and i am an australian sad isn't it while this movie does involve crying its not dramatic crying its honest emotion shining through br br also this film is a whodunnit i knew what the final outcome was going to be when i started watching this so i tried to guess who it was that was going to do it i missed by a mile br br i was stunned when i found out the director was only around 21 when he made this film i would love to shake his hand he knows how to make a movie i hope he has more coming br br all of the characters we meet before the main title credit about 12 minutes in is an anti hero all of them troubled in their own way and all of them as selfish as the next one even when they are sympathetic br br the saddest scene in the movie and there are some that are difficult to watch is the final scene where we're formally introduced to the real main character and we're told of their nephew that scene made me cry br br my faith in australian drama has been restored we're masters at comedy but i was getting bored with comedy br br if you happen to check this out you touched my soul and for that i can only thank you
1	being featured at the 2006 cannes film festival and gaining quite some fame this movie appears to be another modern and profound school drama br br it's about a bunch of adolescents who get through a revealing and desperate day at school everything's circling around a suicide shown at the very beginning to some extent that happens at 2 the characters are somehow all connected with each other what moves them is described via short interview sequences strictly shot in b w the characters are well written the acting is intriguing especially teresa palmer as melody and frank sweet as marcus are discoveries br br let's stick to the movies' technique that's what really impressed me there rarely are cuts most of the time the camera follows one of the protagonists like in gus van elephant some scenes are presented more often than once but each time from a different point of view here character this surely evokes a slowly developing but grabbing atmosphere that drags you inside literally the colours are vibrant somehow unfitting considering the tough plot but that's nothing less than a clever contrast a disturbing fine thing' the use of lighting is adequate all the time underlining the characters' actual mood and finally there are decent placements of music br br 2 37 somehow itches you from the very beginning it does not compromise nor does it serve laughter it rather strings together what psychologists would define as terror moments this movie substantially focuses on emotional there ain't nobody who's not to handle some kind of neurosis even the depicted minor parts e g the teachers seem to be in some state of disorder and that is what keeps this movie from being really good its summing up of piercing tragedies is unrealistic to its very bones there is no friendship love smiling truth passion there is faking humiliation despair sickness and beating up it's like being hit in the face real hard all the time but you are numb after the first hour this flick keeps on hitting you until it reveals something quite instructive in the end br br for being sensitively and superbly acted 9 for being technically innovative and original 9 for being unidimensional 3 br br makes a solid 7 out of 10
1	i saw this movie tonight in a preview showing and it was fantastic it does well in portraying issues that the average high school student is subjected to br br i left the movie feeling stunned and saddened and yet grateful that this movie will have a chance to raise awareness through its audiences regarding these issues bullying rape suicide and depression br br its a fantastic aussie film br br go see it br br support it br br learn from it
1	very literate intelligent drama about a group of international travelers held virtual prisoners in the hungary of 1956 by invading russian communist regime kerr and robards play lovers she a british baroness he a hungarian freedom fighter trying to do his bit for his country other new york theater stars of the period anne jackson e g marshall play an american couple traveling with their two young sons including ronny howard in his screen debut jackson's character is hugely pregnant and not anxious to give birth in a soon to be communist country she gives an impassioned plea in the third act of this film which presages the naturalistic acting styles we've come to know today from redgrave fonda streep leading the pack of soviet wolves is yul brynner magnificent as a commandant and at his sexiest since he played opposite kerr in the king and i he is mean and nasty and terribly conflicted by his attraction to the lovely patrician heroic kerr this is one of the great transition films of the latter part of the golden era of american film do not miss it
1	all those that identify this as a simple rip off of 'elephant' are there no other comments that you can make towards the movie on its own merits as an individual film regardless of its apparent similarities to other movies br br all those that question the validity of the movie in terms of its stereotypical characters the obligatory gay the jock the disabled kid etc i'm not sure how long it has been since you were at school but regardless of how amateurish the acting may be the happenings that go one are surprisingly close to what may actually happen br br and all those that disregard the film as being so simple just six teenagers with the regular teenage angst that pushes one over the edge did anyone stop to think and take notice that the girl who took her life wasn't actually one of those six as one comment points out she had screen time of maybe max excluding the final scenes i think the point of the film is not only to make an issue of teenage angst and how far it can take someone but also that it is no apparently obvious who is always in danger of committing such an act suicide
1	yes 2 37 is in some ways a rip off from gus van elephant it's about some students who are dealing with their problems leading to the suicide of one of them yes it's full of clichés but that's life you just can't deny that creepy nerds disabled persons or popular students who despite their popularity do have problems are existing in the real world br br but that's not what this film is all about it's not about life in highschool it's not about the misery of life itself br br if you look beneath the surface beneath the soap like social relationships that are shown you will find some gripping thought provoking criticism of our society br br why are people committing suicide do we really understand their motives or are we just trying to understand after its already too late and why is it always someone you would never have expected it to be br br this movie doesn't answer this question but it raises it and it does so in a very intense way all the way it keeps you guessing whose blood it might be that you see at the very beginning you are following the paths of some students all of them having a more or less good reason to end their lives just to be forced to watch the gruesome act in the finale br br did you know who it would be or were you caught by surprise like in real life br br the message is by one of the surviving kids in the end we are always so fixed on our own problems we forget to see those of others there might be someone a colleague a friend who does not want to live anymore but if you don't open your eyes you'll never know until its too late br br this movie delivers well it might have some flaws but they don't matter anymore when its over either you see a reflection of society or you are blind for reality
1	many other viewers are saying that this is not a good movie to watch since they feel that it isn't realistic how can it not be considered realistic they feel that say the incest part isn't easy to relate to that it isn't common i can guarantee you that you have met more people than you think that have had an incest act occur many of them aren't going to come out and say it and mostly these are victims also many people are gay and are still in the closest because no matter how much they would like it to be they know they will be ridiculed and possibly even abandoned and tell me how many kids have you went to high school with that has ended up being pregnant or had an eating disorder i bet a lot and although pregnancy isn't from incest most of the time its still easy to relate to who can't relate to being an outcast or being bullied that happens all the time and many viewers are probably concerned with there education such as marcus being a stoner seems to be quite common these days to so there are a lot of things to relate to more than the rest though no matter how popular you may get sometimes you feel invisible or alone not noticed or overlooked such as the suicide victim how can you not feel like you can relate to the movie i find that the movie may have seemed pointless to others but i would like to think of it as important it an interesting way of showing that suicide happens and to be aware it comes from the people that don't show their unhappy thoughts its very surprising the people who show there problems do commit suicide sometimes to but when you hear of suicide who would have guessed is usually running through most peoples minds br br the ending surprised me i wasn't expecting it to be the girl that until the end was mostly an extra in the scenes not even introduced the story even in its description says its about 6 teenage lives when in fact it was 7 my only real disappointment was that it wasn't one of the characters that we got to learn about it merely at first seems like the movie was pointless to watch if the real victim is just some random chick until i thought more it made perfect sense for being a huge surprise since thats what suicides are like plus who was to choose who any of the other students had more of a reason than the other br br though this movie has some bad points most movies have a few but i would recommend this movie as long as you can deal with watching the tragic moments of watching the suicide and violence and profanity shown in this film
1	first of all i must say i really enjoy watching this movie the way we follow the different people at the same time works perfectly and its one of those movies that really makes you think br br spoiler br br the fact that the the girls who kills herself is the one you don't notice that fact made me wonder since thats why she commits suicide in the movie the director impressed me with that making a movie that shows the plot to the audience and also deliver the message that not a lot of people would have seen it coming some people might start talking about why no one did anything to stop it before she did it but no one noticed her just like no one who watched the movie did either don't know about you but i did not guess that it would be her who committed suicide did you br br regards jan
1	2 37 is an intense and fascinating drama which has some similarities in tone and subject with films like bully elephant and kids although by my point of view 2 37 is a superior film to those three ones before watching this movie my expectations were neutral but i ended up taking a very good impression thanks to the intelligent screenplay k perfect direction and the excellent performances from a group of young actors br br the sporadic instances of school violence around the world have inspired many movies tv programmes and books which pretend to find and predict the external or internal reasons of those unbridled expressions of rebelliousness discontent and specially madness some people may say that 2 37 arrives too late to that artistic movement however i do not think like that because that delay permitted the movie to make a more artistic analysis focusing on the situation with more subtleness and intelligence instead of the obvious reaction of cruelty and anguish which impregnated other movies with similar stories br br on the characters from 2 37 we can find clichés from the juvenile cinema from director and screenwriter john hughes rip 's movies to the teen horror films the beautiful princess the clumsy nerd the athletes etc it would have been very easy to make them become in hollow caricatures defined by their function in the screenplay but it is something admirable that the screenplay transcends the stereotypes to make them real people with credible problems which in more or less degree any person can find on his her road to maturity br br 2 37 is an excellent movie whose only fail is that the ending feels a bit affected but which compensates that with a lot of positive elements it will be very interesting to see next projects since he has had a great debut with this movie
1	i had the pleasure of witnessing this brilliant film at a preview screening in sydney although it was a pleasure to see it pleasure is not the emotion you are left with as the credits roll br br 2 37 is a film that tackles not just one stigma felt by young individuals but all of them chief of which is isolation it is not just to place the films final scene on a pedestal above the others but rather it is important to see it as the culmination and from that it is important to realise what it represents to both you as the viewer and to the people directly effected by it br br 2 37 is not a soft picture but the manner in which mr handles it's subject matter with a profound dignity and it's no holds barred approach acts as credit to it's message br br i do not believe films such as 2 37 should be scaled by votes of favour rather it should be recommended to those looking for purpose in their viewing br br a brilliantly crafted portrait of innocence lost and a master stroke for a as of yet talent br br not to be missed
1	2 37 succeeds admirably at showing us what australian teenagers feel and don't say these are the stories of real kids and i think we would be naive to think otherwise the only new thing 2 37 really brings us is an australian point of view we often watch troubled american children but often fail to link the same problems to our own teens executed with clever and artful cinematography i did however upon immediate recognition of the disappointing final song find the musical direction lacking in sophistication i applaud the fabulous casting of this film these are regular looking aussie kids who invite plenty of sympathy because of this great performances all round and you can't top gary sweet this film made me remember why sometimes high school sucked and unless you're squeamish or you like to leave with warm and fuzzies go and see 2 37
1	at 2 in a bathroom at an adelaide highschool a student takes their own life and the different worlds of six teenagers are changed forever br br 2 37 is a brutal honest and breathtaking film centered on the pain of being a teenager the film follows one day in the lives of six teenagers all intertwined all dealing with their own personal dramas while there are a couple of stereotypes in the mix – the beautiful would be popular girl dealing with body issues the over obsessed with his grades there are several horrors that are as far from main stream as you can get including a social outcast dealing with a brutal illness and a young girl trying to make sense of a devastating event in her past br br the movie is mixed with documentary style interviews from the characters which some viewers may find a little out of place in the otherwise seamless narrative the pace is also a little slow but it fits with the feel of the movie the young australian actors are all stars in their own right in particular theresa palmer who's heartbreaking performance earned her an afi nomination br br the film is very well shot with terrific direction some scenes are a little hard to watch – in particular the five minute long suicide scene but overall it is a film that leaves a big impact on its' viewers it draws you in right from it's shocking opening scene and keeps you guessing as to which of the six main characters is going to be the one to end up in the bathroom ultimately it's a beautiful made but slightly disturbing look at teenage life
1	it was riveting i just could not look away as the movie rolled on i started to feel that it was powerful and confronting but i had no idea how much more intense it would get br br the movie gives an insight into what unfortunately is everyday life for a lot of school kids some of us live outside that environment and would walk by and not know what is happening br br parents need to see this film in particular just to see a glimpse of what their kids go through often parent dismiss their kids problems as trivial but unfortunately to a high schooler they are massive and unfortunately the problems can escalate into a tragedy br br definitively a must see for all
1	well what to say br br i think i shall start with a confession i have cried 4 times in my life once when my dad died twice due to a girlfriend in high school and at the end of this film this film deals with the real confronting issues of 6 school kids forcing them quite uncomfortably into the open for all the world to see i have never seen a film that deals with the human emotional condition as well as this everything from incest to is covered here and i doubt there are many people who are safe from the sting of familiarity with at least a couple of scenes br br it starts off with a suicide at 2 then without letting you know who it was that died the story begins to be told from the start of the day it follows the lives of 6 school kids up until 2 it interchangeably and edited with personal interviews of the 6 teenagers lets you know everything about their lives their loves hates dreams desires secrets shame false confidence self loathing corruption and arrogance the overall outcome of which is a sort of whodunnit trying to discover the identity of the suicidal before it is revealed at the end of the film without spoiling anything i must let you know do not feel cheated by the ending it contains a very important lesson br br and now a warning this film is definitely not for the faint hearted many people actually walked out of the cinema half way through when i saw it disgusted by some of it's content or perhaps it's that it's sometimes hard to face the cold hard truth of reality this is what high school is like for many people i'm sure most would agree
1	good show really good acting and the director takes us swimming through his storyline in an interesting unpredictable way especially since essentially it's two people in a room it doesn't race through like many modern films but doesn't drag either is flippant enough to believe her in the now of her character which is still involved and not going back on her choices so it is believable without the need for her to show us a deep self examination of her soul brundage has the delicate balance of weight innocence and class to pull off very well a bit grainy on the film quality but it fits the tone of the story could use a little polishing on the hair and makeup end of things but definitely worth watching
1	i think this film has to be one of the most moving and heartbreaking films of recent times br br the film basically starts off with a suicide in a school toilet u don't see who it is then from there it goes to the beginning of the day and we get to know 6 characters and they are going through some pretty heavy things anyway eventually one of them will commit suicide br br i've been teaching physical education in schools for 8 years now and never in a film have i seen such an accurate portrayal of what 'really' goes on in school life br br the film is shot beautifully and sounds incredible br br the ending is so shocking and so what one would not expect it is something that will haunt me for days to come br br this is definitely one to watch br br i think the fact that the director writer was in school only a few years ago is a major contributing factor to the raw honesty expressed in the film br br the film is shot in two separate if you will firstly there is the smooth observation style where we get to know the characters in their school environment as they go through their drama but the stunning part of the film is in the interview sections where we get to know the characters back stories and their deepest darkest thoughts br br you keep wondering who is it going to be who commits suicide and as the drama unfolds you keep changing your mind until bam it hits you in the face in the final five minutes i am all over the place in my writing but i've just seen it at a media screening in australia and i am still in a bit of shock br br it's one of the best australian films i have seen in recent years
1	i think that this film is one of the funniest films i have ever seen i think debbie reynolds is hilarious and the chemistry between her and glenn ford is perfect there is not a dull moment in the film and debbie looks beautiful as always br br the story is about a showgirl maggie debbie reynolds who meets a penniless soldier joe glenn ford she takes an instant dislike to him but after he accidentally tears her dress he returns it to her on the condition that she goes on one date with him they end up getting married the night they have their date after just one kiss joe and maggie move to spain and find they have nothing in common but physical attraction so maggie proposes that for one month they live but not as man and wife which means that joe is not allowed to kiss or sleep with maggie much to joe's frustration a hilarious plot and a wonderful film not to be missed
1	this is a charming little film which like many of it's kind derives it's charm from the circumstances involved rather than the actual dialogue br br glenn ford as always shines through in a great comedic performance as the penniless air force officer married after just one day to gold digging showgirl debbie reynolds br br after the one initial wedding night of passion and a life changing move to spain the two quickly realise that apart from the strong sexual attraction they feel for each other they have nothing at all in common br br however when she decides to give their marriage a go it is on the understanding that it for one month trial period only and sex is most definitely not on the cards br br ford is also falling foul to his new 40 000 lincoln concept car the future batmobile which he wins in a the same night he meets his new wife br br the car is bringing him unwanted attention from the air force who see it as a vulgar display of american wealth and is bringing suspicions of corruption and embezzlement etc it is also putting him in the 80 90 tax bracket and as penniless as he is he now faces a tax bill of over 17 000 not the kind of money you should be owing when your wife is the kind of person who spends over a 1 000 on one shopping trip br br even when he tries to sell it it brings him misfortune as selling so much as a cigarette or a pair of stockings to the natives is punishable by court martial so you can imagine that a 17 500 transaction practically has the firing squad polishing their rifles br br his potential is also causing him problems as he is a disgustingly handsome bull fighting spanish nobleman who's interest in the car has lead to a stronger interest in ford's wife made worse by the fact that a rich jet set lifestyle is being offered and is what she has sought for so long br br with ford's sexual frustration rising and jealousy in his love rival mounting coupled with reynolds' materialistic attitude and flirtatious behaviour around the enamoured spaniard serving to drive the wedge deeper between the two it seems that their whirlwind relationship is destined to end br br but can whatever love and attraction that threw these two love birds together in the first place shine through and keep them together br br not the best example of this genre of film but due to the watchable performances by it's principles and the enjoyable plot line it is certainly a fine one
1	hilarious clean light hearted and quote worthy what else can you ask for in a film this is my all time number one favorite movie ever since i was a little girl i've dreamed of owning a blue van with flames and an observation bubble br br the cliché characters in ridiculous situations are what make this film such great fun the wonderful comedic chemistry between stephen furst harold and andy tennant make up most of my favorite parts of the movie and who didn't love the hopeless awkwardness of don't forget the airport antics of leon's cronies dressed up as hari dancing chanting and playing the tambourine unbeatable the clues are genius the locations are classic and the plot is timeless br br a word to the wise if you didn't watch this film when you were little it probably won't win a place in your heart today but nevertheless give it a chance you may find that it doesn't matter what you say it doesn't matter what you do you've gotta play
1	if you're a child of the eighties like me you probably remember this 1981 disney movie one of disney's first pg rated films and michael j fox's screen debut i can remember watching this film over and over on hbo when i was on middle school and i only recently found a very old copy of it since disney stopped producing the movie several years ago needless to say this is a real fun movie to watch five college teams decipher clues in an evening race around los angeles trying to reach the finish line first watch for the cameo from paul reubens from the cheesy music to the disco scene with the fat twins this is a quintessential 1980s fun film that you'll love
1	there is no denying that this is a bad movie the acting isn't great likewise the script acting and direction still i cannot wait until its 2 23 99 video release from anchor bay everyone knows there are several bad movies out there that have a tremendous appeal to them this one tops my list
1	a classic 80's movie that disney for some reason stopped making i watched this movie everyday when i was in like 6th grade i found a copy myself after scouring video stores well worth it though one of my all time
1	i would watch this movie every time it was on cable and it never got old who can forget some of the best lines in film history johnny's fat boy burgers johnny's fat boy burgers and look between the giant melons i used to wish i could run all over the city in a treasure hunt as fun as this it's an all time fave and i'm happy to hear that it's out on video i'm positive that this is where mtv got its original premise for the road rules series
1	midnight madness is the ultimate scavenger hunt movie for all time michael j fox and paul reubens make respective pre fame appearances laughs abound everywhere and the intrigue of who will emerge victorious at the end of the great all nighter will keep you on the proverbial edge of your seat a true must see
1	as many of the other comments i have read have noted i fell in love with this movie when i was a kid my sister and i had a copy of the movie on beta before vhs that we wore out of course it didn't help when our parents sold the betamax at a garage sale since then we have been trying to find a copy i like another commentator did eventually locate a rental copy at a local video store the owner would not part with the copy after any number of attempts to beg bribe and cry my way to owning the tape good news i bought a brand new newly released vhs copy of midnight madness for 9 99 on amazon com two days ago finally disney has wizened up now if they'll only song of the south if you love the movie grab it if you haven't seen the movie it's worth a check totally stupid humor but a lot of fun stephen furst is hilarious
1	i just saw this film at the sidewalk film festival in birmingham al which was actually a really fun festival and was blown away by it it was the best movie i saw all day by a long shot a school aged prostitute meets with a middle age man and attempt to end there deep depression together it's an inner look into the darkest parts of human sexuality story stems from real life occurrences ripped straight from the headlines raw blunt dialog and a killer twist at the end the film does contain graphic sexual dialog and nudity definitely not suitable for kids too depressing for some people's tastes definitely worth checking out in my opinion though
1	still funny after all these years midnight madness is good entertainment for all ages it introduces michael j fox as a typical 15 year old trouble maker and are by far the funniest characters in it and leon is perfectly cast as a wierdo game master the budding romance between adam and the girl couldn't have been any cheesier
1	midnight madness is a movie that is unfortunately highly underrated and unappreciated with a flood of classic edgy teen college movies this one was forgotten as a child i would watch this movie over and over again luckily i had it on video this movie shows a more tame but most exciting side of the eighties in the cynical society we live in this day and age with drug abuse being the coolest thing it's good to see once in awhile a fun innocent movie that is midnight madness that is if you can find it
1	for a movie that was pg this is one fun film i grew up on watching this film over and over its really fun i don't know how today audience would react but if you grew up on it or loved the 80s then this is a great film stephen furst is great as harold who i think is one of the best characters in the film paul also pops in for about 10 minutes i love nostalgia
1	i taped this as a teenager in the mid 80s based upon the synopsis in the cable guide the scavenger hunt aspect appealed to me having no knowledge or expectations of the film what a pleasant surprise when i viewed it this was such a fun film and i remember watching it repeatedly i thought that the concept was well executed i enjoyed the harmless competition between the different groups and i thought that the scavenger hunt itself was quite clever sometimes it seems that people have far too great expectations for movies not all movies are going to have a weighty message or stellar acting production values or special effects sometimes movies are just meant to entertain and be fun and this one succeeds on both levels it was so nice to read the comments from the actors who played the twins i haven't seen this movie in years but if i did i think i'd have just as warm and enthusiastic a reaction to it as i did as a teenager even as i type this snippets of the cheesey yet appropriate theme song are running through my head when midnight madness starts to get to you it doesn't matter what you say it doesn't matter what you do
1	this is basically a goofball comedy with somewhat odd pacing due to some dramatic elements for michael j fox and paul reubens it was their first film fox had previously been in a short lived tv series and a tv movie br br since the movie is basically a race scavenger hunt type movie like cannonball run it's a mad mad mad mad world or more recently rat race there are no main characters instead there are groups of characters splitting the screen time and allowing for tons of mini plots usually these kind of movies are a way to cram the maximum amount of stars or semi stars onto a film br br this one has teams with one being the primary team which fox belongs to who are the only characters to be developed their plot is more of a stereotypical disney about a college boy not paying attention to his younger brother who he thinks of as a lazy punk since they are forced on a team together along with the older brother's girlfriend they are forced to work together since this is the main plot it gets the most screen time br br some of the other silly plots stand out the blue team is about an overweight rich kid whose dad just wants him and his misfit friends out of the house they end up with a cool custom van which had an on board computer in 1980 to instantly solve the riddles plus play video games with the time saved one member stephen furst went on to play dr on st elsewhere and later was on babylon 5 i'll also admit that i still laugh when barf while trying to a word a'la scrabble comes up with this is much funnier than bart simpson's in my opinion br br the other three teams have plots that are somewhat linked together the green team is a bunch of frat boys with mostly beer jokes which climaxes into a breakdown for one when the hunt leads to the pabst blue ribbon brewery they get a chance to harass the red team with two feminists and two fun loving twins the white team of nerds are lead by eddie who was previously in grease but went on to play a critical computer geek role in wargames and later tim sidekick in some of the dorf series br br if you grew up in the 80's then there are some classic moments in the movie that bring back memories the early video arcade from back when they were cool is always a plus in my mind look for paul reubens and his quarter shooting guns there is also a miniature golf course and a roller disco br br the movie is actually an okay family movie simply because profanity is almost non existant and the small amount of sexual humor is completely innocent the odd pacing thanks to the yellow team's cheesy dramatic moments will put parents to sleep while their kids can giggle at giant melons at fat burger oh they actually have a special melon platter that must be it right
1	twenty years later this movie still remains as entertaining as when you first watched it in a movie market overrun by toilet humor graphic violence and foul language it's refreshing to be fully entertained for two hours by such a clean movie
1	this movie typifies the early eighties as well as fun i remember watching this movie on hbo when i was little and it was my favorite movie since it was a while ago no one i had ever met knew what it was then about the time my roommate had said she had seen it too and that it was her favorite they started to print it again luckily i have a copy now if anyone ever wants to see the greatest cheesy scavenger hunt that was probably the beginning ideas of hazing for frats this movie is it watcher has to have a serious love for cheesy 80's type movies
1	this is my favorite movie of all time i just love all the trouble all the teams get into its great michael j fox looked so young but then again i guess he was br br the teams are so stereotypical you just have to laugh
1	i would hope so and how can i get involved br br this movie is a classic and ripe with laughs adventure and an all star 80's cast br br what happens when you get together a group of jocks and a group of debating nerds a band of misfits and couple of br br a load of laughs that will have you begging for more br br david naughton stars as adam the leader of the yellow team a kind and hip college counselor who helps students with everything from getting the classes they want to first dates br br his nemesis is harold the leader of the blue team played hilariously by stephen furst of babylon 5 fame the no good son of a wealthy former college jock with enough trophies to make any hall of jealous br br pit these two against each other and throw in a red team a white team and a green team an unbelievable view at an observatory consequences of cheating at golf a super tour at the pabst blue ribbon beer factory and a hateful old landlady among other adventures and you have all the makings of a night to remember br br look for appearances by michael j fox eddie and director andy tennant in one of the last movies he acted in before becoming a director and you have an all star hilarious cast br br the only down side to this movie was debra performance as laura she terribly overacted but the rest of the movie is so good she can simply be ignored br br i own this movie and can never watch it enough br br
1	this is my all time favourite movie ever br br i remember seeing this when i was younger and since then i have been in love with it i used to rent it so often from this one video store that used to carry it and when we moved i couldn't find it any where so i kep going back tot he far away store just so i could watch the movie again br br finally i found it for sale and i bought it and watched it over and over again great movie br br since then though it was my very first dvd that i got after i got my dvd player ok well i got them at the same time the quality on the dvd is way better i couldn't believe it you gotta see this one
1	although it was dark depressing and at times hard to watch you are alone held my attention and was refreshingly honest in its dialog it truly captured the angst of teenage romantic relationships in addition the soundtrack was amazing the lyrics and the tone of the songs complemented the sadness of the film so well that it made you wonder if the tracks were created specifically for the movie br br jessica is the best actress i have ever watched her compelling and believable performance made the movie it made me wonder if she really is a prostitute who knows anyway the movie was very worth seeing love your sister yeah that's right
1	hilarious clean light hearted and quote worthy what else can you ask for in a film this is my all time number one favorite movie ever since i was a little girl i've dreamed of owning a blue van with flames and an observation bubble br br the cliché characters in ridiculous situations are what make this film such great fun the wonderful comedic chemistry between stephen furst harold and andy tennant make up most of my favorite parts of the movie and who didn't love the hopeless awkwardness of don't forget the airport antics of leon's cronies dressed up as hari dancing chanting and playing the tambourine unbeatable the clues are genius the locations are classic and the plot is timeless br br a word to the wise if you didn't watch this film when you were little it probably won't win a place in your heart today but nevertheless give it a chance you may find that it doesn't matter what you say it doesn't matter what you do you've gotta play
1	hilarious clean light hearted and quote worthy what else can you ask for in a film this is my all time number one favorite movie ever since i was a little girl i've dreamed of owning a blue van with flames and an observation bubble br br the cliché characters in ridiculous situations are what make this film such great fun the wonderful comedic chemistry between stephen furst harold and andy tennant make up most of my favorite parts of the movie and who didn't love the hopeless awkwardness of don't forget the airport antics of leon's cronies dressed up as hari dancing chanting and playing the tambourine unbeatable the clues are genius the locations are classic and the plot is timeless br br a word to the wise if you didn't watch this film when you were little it probably won't win a place in your heart today but nevertheless give it a chance you may find that it doesn't matter what you say it doesn't matter what you do you've gotta play
1	hilarious clean light hearted and quote worthy what else can you ask for in a film this is my all time number one favorite movie ever since i was a little girl i've dreamed of owning a blue van with flames and an observation bubble br br the cliché characters in ridiculous situations are what make this film such great fun the wonderful comedic chemistry between stephen furst harold and andy tennant make up most of my favorite parts of the movie and who didn't love the hopeless awkwardness of don't forget the airport antics of leon's cronies dressed up as hari dancing chanting and playing the tambourine unbeatable the clues are genius the locations are classic and the plot is timeless br br a word to the wise if you didn't watch this film when you were little it probably won't win a place in your heart today but nevertheless give it a chance you may find that it doesn't matter what you say it doesn't matter what you do you've gotta play
1	i would love for members of the cast and crew to sit down and do an audio commentary on this movie all of the different places that they went to film this movie should provide for some very good anecdotes fans of this movie would love to know br br what kind of permission did they have to get to film at certain locations br br were there any memorable outtakes br br were there any scenes that were deleted br br what challenges did the cast and the crew face br br did any actors have stunt doubles br br what was it like to work with other members of the cast br br were any of the scenes ad libbed br br what are members of the cast and crew up to now br br what locations are still there and what locations are no longer there or are now a different business br br it is one thing to read trivia about this movie on this site and other web sites but there is just no comparison to getting it straight from the horse's mouth br br come on guys get together and do a commentary never walk away from a challenge go for the gusto
1	twenty years after watching this i still find myself quoting things from this movie like look between the two giant melons or i'll start to sing the pabst blue ribbon theme on the other hand 20 years later i can now make sense of the meat machine as there's still a lot of the stereotypes like this out there that they used for this movie those are signs of a good movie to me i could say this movie stands the test of time which i can't really say for a lot of 80's movies i continue that this movie is still on a list of a lot of people's favorite movie as a kid growing up in the 80's if you like games and have dreams of becoming a game master or find yourself out over these 80's movies to relive your childhood you need to watch this also it's sometimes sarcastic and funny but one thing's for certain about this movie if someone ever invites you to a great all nighter they don't mean an x or acid trip party they mean get ready for some midnight madness oh you'll see everyone will be dying to play
1	a rather silly little film you just may love br br although rather corny and cliché at times it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest just for the sheer joy knowing yours is the best team br br notable for several screen debuts including david naughton's first film role after his dr pepper be a pepper commercials and before his major 1981 hit american werewolf in london also features paul in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it and last but not least mr spin city and alex keaton himself michael j fox gets his first film role here fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house outside of that no names but all funny characters br br doubt it has ever made it to dvd but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late late show sometime if you do is worth your watch you may hate it but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love
1	what can i say about this movie that hasn't been said hundreds of times before it's an american classic it has spawned dozens of imitators or none midnight madness is one of kind from the ridiculous opening montage music to the hotel i was hooked leon made us all feel so young and carefree one question though how did he have those two hot hookers with him all the time and how did have the time money to arrange such an event the cast is top notch david naughton is at his best here his tight yellow sweatshirt is disturbing his little brother michael j fox in his first starring role is a real brat there is also naughton's love interest and a dork and the obligatory black dude in a fisherman's hat on the yellow team michael j fox does bad things like try and steal cups of beer at the pabst blue ribbon brewery and runs away to van team gives us the most comedy what exactly is the deal with the blond on that team is she dating flounder or or blade yes the mexican gentleman's name is blade the other guy on the flounder team has the best lines of the movie i won't pomp them here the meat machine team is a bunch of drunks my personal favorite is armpit but the silent black man is great too the other two teams are 4 nerds and 4 lesbians two of which are 450 lb twins br br you know the ending from the start but that doesn't matter this is the 80's me genre at its finest don't rent this one buy it and buy it now
1	i had completely forgotten about midnight madness until just now when i found it while surfing the imdb now it's all coming back to me br br it was one of naughton's first movies as well as fox's and sharp eyed connoisseurs will also pick out kaplan henry from tv's alice fiedler he does the voice of piglet in the winnie the pooh cartoons and blocker son of dan hoss blocker from tv's bonanza br br but the two that stand out in my mind are furst from animal house and the himself eddie furst plays a baddie this time out and has one of the best scenes when he asks his dad why can't you just accept me for who i am his dad looks over his obese slovenly frame and gives a simple one word response yuck br br and well he's a show in himself as a latter day jerry lewis he stumbles around wades through mini golf ponds puts melon halves on his ears and ends up having maggie roswell fall for him my hero br br as for the film it's typical early '80s stupidity with college kids staying up after curfew and going on a city wide scavenger hunt to prove which division of students is the best on campus the jocks the nerds the rich kids the feminists or the group made up of a little of each br br who wins who cares you'll have a lot of fun watching disney pictures' first foray into pg territory before creating touchstone pictures br br seven stars catch midnight madness any way you can br br long live leon
1	somewhere in the dark recesses of my brain cells a song plays in my head i can't forget it no matter how hard i try it's midnight madness and it's gonna get to you wish i could find a copy of this on a record five disparate teams head out one night in l a for a scavenger hunt for clues instead of physical objects an unkempt game master with two gorgeous assistants is the mastermind of all this insanity that's about to be unleashed on l a all the teams are stereotypes this movie being from 1980 before political correctness screwed everything up the good guys the nerds led by eddie the dumb beer loving jocks the we don't need a man type ladies especially the redhead the giggling twins are a scream too and finally the bad guys with stephen furst as the leader furst is hilarious as the overweight slob harold whose attempt to use a computer to decipher the various clues leads to a gooey mess movies like this aren't made anymore these days movies have to have an edginess to them with some dark characters and other nonsense go back to the days when the good guys led by david naughton were still good and not hopelessly conflicted so dump all serious pretensions and go back to 1980 it's midnight madness
1	i have no idea what the budget on this movie was but whatever it was they made it work i have seen movies that spend 100x the amount pearl harbor anyone and sucked worse this movie has everything david it naughton in the lead role as adam an average college student who gets wrapped up in a game called the great run by leon this guy rocks a genius with nothing better to do than come up with an elaborate game for a bunch of people to play but he doesn't just pick his friends he has a team of jocks nerds average kids and of course team who are the bad guys but this movie has no black and white there are many shades of gray adam is not the altruistic hero with no faults he treats alex p like crap and flounder is the way he is because of pressures from his dad and a cranky stomach the jocks play dirty but so does everyone else this movie rocks the scene at the factory classic johnny's obese male child can you write a better clue this stuff is gold jerry gold maybe i am from a different generation but i love movies that seem far fetched but still have roots in reality this never happened but it could eeeee eeee easter bunny easter parade oh and watch for a young paul rubens still working on that pee wee character ps that was is hot she must have been one bad actress not to work in hollywood anymore see this movie
1	one of the best movies i have seen in a very long time has a way of looking at things that is completely unique and this movie does not disappoint br br this movie has you guessing throughout and with the seemingly taboo topics addressed it keeps you glued to the screen there are no bad guys or good guys makes sure of that the characters are so perfectly complex you feel for each of them you care about what they have been through br br use an attention to details is unmatched in this world of fast food movies and while some of the topics may make some uncomfortable you love the feeling it gives you br br i have heard it said too often that there are no new stories to tell thank you for proving that false br br run don't walk to see this movie
1	this is still jolly good fun as with most of my friends we had seen this movie on hbo when we were young and then had been searching ever since for a copy of it when they finally rereleased it a few years ago we had a midnight madness party and the movie held up well sure it's pure cheese but it's still a lot of fun if you didn't see mm when you were young you might not appreciate its value today
1	they don't make movies like this anymore – though some may say that's a good thing although this was amongst the first of disney's pg rated films it has more of the feel of the g films their studio turned out in i e freaky friday the world's greatest athlete than the pg films that came out in the early i e watcher in the woods tron something wicked this way comes because of disney's backing midnight madness obviously had a large budget a huge cast and a ton of diverse locations go to show that but zaniness a madcap scavenger hunt and spectacular visual style weren't enough to save the film from being an enormous flop a failure at the box office most of us were introduced to the film on hbo in the early back in the days when the same films would be shown 29 times a week oh wait – they still do that essentially hbo did for this film what cbs did for the wizard of oz – they created an enormous cult audience for a sugary sweet mega flop br br the biggest problem that makes this a bad film is that there's too many characters and very few of them are fleshed out – eddie squad don't even have names the blue team although they're the villains are the most endearing and have the most work put into their characters with the exception of the girl who can't act doesn't have enough to do harold perfectly played to the hilt by stephen furst is really the only one whose character is fully realized in the film the other standout character is goof off played with tons of charm by now director andy tennant although then dr pepper spokesman david naughton was supposed to be the star his character often comes off obnoxious particularly when pitted against his brother adam michael j fox while everyone has favorite characters i don't think anyone who loves the movie could disagree that furst and fox are the only two characters that you really learn anything about br br despite the film's many flaws and bad actors most of whom fell off the face of the earth after this movie it still works because the actors appeared to be having fun and fun on the set equals fun on the screen come on what college jock doesn't dream of floating around in a beer vat and what girl doesn't dream of stealing the show at the local er i guess it would be at a rave nowadays campy squeaky clean fun for anyone who was young in the it's only fitting that this has finally gotten the massive video release that it deserves but where the hell's the widescreen dvd release with the commentary trailer and the full version of the song that plays in the disco
1	well i just discovered imdb from my twin sister carol carol and i played the fat identical twin in midnight madness we didn't have to prepare much for the fat part that came with us and well and the rest was natural it was our first major film role and we had a blast making it we were 21 at the time and lived about an hour and half from the disney studio in burbank and the hollywood california area we grew up in front of the tv and probably some of the first generation of latch key kids twenty years later we still have lots of fun and are still 'heavy' or what ever is politically correct these days we don't pursue acting any more but have been know to 'come back' when the right opportunity arrives carol is a chiropractor in our home town of southern california and i am in the information technology field in georgia br br i maybe bias but i thought the film was cute clean and fun we knew it wasn't a master piece or an oscar nominee however it was and still is a movie the whole family can watch and have fun together it's nice not to have to worry if your young children can watch a video without having to fast forward certain parts and no one was more exited when it was released on video as carol and i were carol found it at kmart for 6 99 now that's an inexpensive way to capture one's memories and share it with others br br sincerely betsy lynn and carol the thompson twins
1	warning slight plot spoilers ahead br br the italian job is not the best movie you'll see all year or probably even this summer but it is a worthwhile two hours because it colors within the lines knowing its limits and not attempting to exceed them br br what carries the movie is the work of the cast in a movie about a crew of thieves the individuals must have a good rapport with each other without that cohesive feel the audience doesn't believe in the characters collectively or individually and the movie never has a chance but from the first scenes in which the men joke around and rag on each other while infiltrating a venetian palace the proper chemistry is in place br br the characters themselves aren't anything novel they're your basic gang of criminals containing about half a dozen players each with a specific and defining skill but each actor brings the proper goods to the table for his or her part mark wahlberg's understated acting and humor fits well with his part as the mastermind planner edward norton provides attitude and twirls his mustache well in his dark role donald sutherland is the father figure of the crew and he looks the part of the suave and old fashioned thief who is still mentally spry jason statham seth green and mos def don't do much beyond their character's abilities but they each nail those parts statham as the smooth operating driver green as the tech whiz geek with a chip on his shoulder and def as the demolitions man charlize theron slides in well in a part that doesn't ask too much of her she is primarily asked to to drive fast and look good that she does none of the characters are that deep or three dimensional but in this familiar sort of movie two dimensions are all that is required br br as the title implies the movie has a european feel to it a la the bourne identity in part because it was shot on location in venice along with philadelphia and los angeles also contributing to the euro flair is the rhythmic bouncy music which adds to the upbeat nature of the flick and complements the rapport of the cast the look of the movie is also a perfect match the bright colors of all locales enhance the mood and add to the attitude the minis not only provide a fun variation on the car chase but also work as a necessary plot device br br the plot is more or less straight forward there are a few surprises but they are more of the swift and smooth turn variety as opposed to the drop your jaw hairpin curve even with those the movie speeds along once the foundation is laid by the first act everything continuously progresses thankfully there are no breaks in the action for a romance something the movie wisely avoided there aren't even any breaks for 'real life ' the story has its purpose and runs that course without distractions the lack of character depth prevents the italian job from being more than a good popcorn movie but with all the complex details of the heist planning such would have dragged down the pace and quality of the flick br br there are a number of implausibilities that i thought of both during and after viewing but the movie is so enjoyable that i didn't and don't care in the real world most of the movie probably couldn't have gone off that cleanly but the italian job doesn't take place in the real world it occurs in a stylish and light hearted criminal world that appeals to the rebel in all of us br br the italian job is a movie in the true sense of the word it has no pretenses of oscar and contains no deep moral message it provides pure escapism entertainment and does so quite well br br bottom line maybe the best popcorn movie of the year so far 7 of 10
1	under the assured direction of f gary gray italian job never loses its grip on being cool and fun although the material is rehashed and average the film itself is masterfully executed and is satisfyingly good the tone could easily have been much heavier considering the murder revenge plotline but f gary gray keeps the tone light by good humor snappy dialogs and pulsating music it is a pleasure to see these would be bad guys form a great bond and stick to eachother through deceit and murder while never forgetting to have fun this one is 7 10
1	as a movie the italian job is ok at best good not great acting br br nice visuals and pacing a mediocre plot but nothing bad enough br br to walk out on but as a car commercial for the new breed of mini br br coopers this film is spectacular br br spoilers br br ok it's a typical heist film with the odd twist the underwater safe cracking was nice if not improbable and the cast was fairly solid br br with the exception of a putrid wahlberg but when it all came br br down to it the real stars of this picture were the three mini br br coopers in all their high flying speed racing ramp jumping br br bullet taking gold lugging shiny new glory the audience i was br br sitting amongst actually and when theron's little br br red number first hit the screen strangely enough neither she nor br br wahlberg garnered the same reaction br br the film starts out promising mos def seth green donald br br sutherland edward norton and jason statham all begin as an br br interesting and humourous band of characters with the only real br br uninspired performance being that of the usually good mark br br wahlberg why he claims this is his best film i can't imagine his br br character is completely one note and he plays him so blandly it br br was as if mr rogers came back from the dead and was inhabiting br br his body charlize is fine as sutherland's daughter though br br nothing magical seth green's character is perfect and the br br running jokes including a cameo by founder br br shawn fanning are hilarious he and some of mos def's early br br lines add some much needed sparks of humour unfortunately br br edward norton and donald sutherland don't get near enough br br screen time br br you can see most of the plot coming from a mile away and the br br dialogue is rife with bad one liners and give aways but i doubt the br br filmmakers were out to re invent the wheel here so taken as a br br typical action suspense flick it comes out alright worth seeing on br br cheap night i'd recommend br br 7 10 not worth it's weight in gold but makes for nice fillings
1	spoiler alert please don't read if you don't want the movie spoiled br br i was originally planning on seeing this movie this past weekend but my plans ended up making me unable to have time to see it so me my friend made plans to see it after school today boy are we glad we did the movie starts off in italy with a planned heist with a group of guys charlie mark whalberg steve edward norton lyle also known as seth green you'll get the nickname later handsome rob jason statham left ear mos deaf john donald sutherland plan a heist to steal 32 gold bricks this leads to the whole opening which is a good 10 to 15 minutes and involves a boat chase which opens the movie up right while driving away in their get away van steve turns on the group steals the gold and kills john who is pretty much the retiring leader of the group fast to a year later where where stella charlize theron john's daughter is one of the top safe crackers that anyone can ask for charlie who was actually indirectly responsible for her father's death as he called him out of retirement for the heist says that they've found steve who has gone into hiding and want to get back at him for what he did she at first declines but later agrees and the back together along with getting the help of wrench franky g a mechanic to carry out the perfect heist while creating one of the largest traffic jams in los angeles history this movie is a perfect mix of action with funny bits thrown in throughout there's an on running joke about seth green's character lyle creating and how shawn fanning who makes a cameo stole it while he fell asleep and eventually lyle will only answer if refered to as there's even a funny line in the movie by seth who goes he said in an interview he called it because it described his hair like it was nappy he it that because i was napping when he stole it the begining and ending sequences are pure genius and everything in between fits perfectly the only negative thing i can think of with the movie is that edward norton's acting was a bit weak he wasn't a big tough bad guy he acted like he was being paid and just doing the bare minimum which is a fact as he was forced to do this movie due to contractual obligation but even with that problem being the only real gripe with the film the movie is still very enjoyable and i definetly recommend seeing it and even if you're not interested in the actual movie go to see seth green shine in the comedic role he's perfect rating out of
1	the italian job requires daylight hours and no experience is required this is a great matinee and a good afternoon at the movies the plot is good but the actual playing out of the plot is very simple and requires no thought process it's car chases explosions and all for the simple purpose of defeating the bad guy played by edward norton for norton it seems he is content to portray the exact same characters as in his previous films such as the score mark wahlberg and charlize theron deserve better scripts warning if you've seen the trailer then you have seen the movie if you're looking for entertainment at inexpensive prices then you need the italian job
1	especially after watching the matrix reloaded spoilers br br after seeing the matrix with all it's ridiculous fantasy make believe robotic characters with their super powers it was refreshing to see an action movie with real people in situations that involved actual risk i cared about these people and even though some of the stunts seemed a bit much it still left me feeling like it's possible verses what a stupid video game like the matrix br br this movie isn't brain surgery it's very straight forward some things are predictable like knowing that someone is going to be a back and that someone early on is going to die pretty obvious but so what the first 15 minutes sets up our reason our motive our main objective br br i like that theron and didn't have any make out scenes i am glad that they didn't go there they kept it about funny dialogue especially seth greene that guy is funny br br this is a movie that i would buy when it comes out on dvd it's fun fast and entertaining the only thing and i guess it's a big thing is that we are really rooting for the bad guys this group of are already on the wrong side of the law not a good message for the kiddies parents please explain this to them br br
1	here's another pleasant surprise whenever i hear a movie is being remade i cringe movies such as gone in sixty seconds and the day of the get remade and the results are less than stellar so when i heard that the italian job was getting remade i expected it to be bad br br well i had the opportunity to calm down read some reviews and finally see the movie and was proven wrong granted it's not original and predictable but it's sure fun from beginning to end you are taken on one very fun ride the scenes with the minis are great and the characters actually enjoy themselves br br so even if there are some flaws who cares as long as it's fun br br overall 8 out of 10 the only points lost are maybe the a few details and a slight lack of realism but you'll be having so much fun you won't even be given a chance to stop and notice
1	this really is a movie that you need to see twice when i first saw this film i was really drawn into the story while the majority of the story takes place inside of a hotel room the stories that buddy nick drake wonderful allusion and daphne share take you outside of their room and into their world through their conversations you get a feel for the loneliness and pain that each feels the soundtrack accompanies the movie perfectly dark lo fi and intriguing when you see the film the second time around you can pick up all of the clues that you missed the first time around leading up to one of the best ending i have seen in a long time i hope to see this movie find a distributor for the dvd so that it will be more accessible great movie you won't be disappointed
1	not the film to see if you want to be intellectually stimulated if you want to have a lot of fun a the theater however this is the one lots of snappy banter and some really cheesy banter too mos def and seth green are very funny as the comic relief exciting and creative heists and chase scenes mark wahlberg and charlize theron sexy are appealing leads and donald sutherland
1	the intricate plot great visuals the world's greatest car chase ever make this movie a lot of fun to watch the beautiful charlize theron adds to the enjoyment the sound score is outstanding add to all this an energetic cast that also seems to be having a lot of fun making the movie
1	the film is really good it doesn't use violence or sex etc to sell itself like other films but instead just uses a really decent plot based on the original by michael caine and some great actors to make a fun action packed film which i thoroughly enjoyed one thing which made me enjoy this film even more was that it had some actors which i really like such as edward norton who i last saw in 26th hour which i enjoyed also jason statham transporter enjoyed that also and seth green who i think is great his role as shawn fanning's roommate dubbed the is hilarious and his hacking skills play a great part in the main heist which centres around a large traffic jam in la the car chases are really decent and the high tech equipment used by the thieves is interesting and very impressive i haven't seen the original so i can't really compare the too but i liked this a lot and would highly recommend this film to everyone it isn't a film where you need to like that specific genre it will suit everyone i felt good after this movie it had a really good ending and was overall really fun to watch i give it 8 10 go watch it
1	i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance i really hope norton did not do this he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie br br i found it entertaining it wasn't mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects but it was not a bad it was fun to watch but yea definitely not a bad horrible movie br br 7 10
1	i went to see this movie with a lady of mine who doesn't like heist movies but she enjoyed it i missed bits and pieces of the movie all the way through it is a story about edward norton and a crew stealing some gold and norton deciding he wants it all to himself then the people he betrayed want to get back at him it is a well put together funny and action packed film that i need to see again the whole way through one of my top movies of the summer so far br br a big help to the entertainment factor is seth green i dont know anyone who doesnt like seth green and he adds to the flavor he plays a guy who says he created and his stole it from him he is a computer genious who is a wonder to watch br br it was said that norton didn't want to do this film but if i were him i would have wanted to sign on br br the only problem is that it is very predictable any movie go er should be able to say in their own mind what is happening before it happens br br my biggest complaint with the film is eddie nortons choice of facial hair the thick yet thin mustache and a small pike on his chin he looks like an 80's porn star for gods sake
1	i enjoyed this movie more than i expected it has enough action intrigue and locations to make it worth your while while i can't quite yet see mark wahlberg as a leader he's gotten good enough to be a credible manager and that's ok br br the superhero of the movie is the mini cooper it's shown to have the speed dexterity and muscle to pull off any job and to handle a maniac driver like charlize theron's character
1	one of the perks of my job is that when things are slow i can watch the movie in our downstairs theater i work in a little 2 screen theater in the cry room and still keep an eye on the concession stand i have seen italian job probably 20 times and i'm still not tired of it the atmosphere reminds me of ocean's eleven although the acting isn't as good mark wahlberg is ok charlize theron appeals to the guys but seth green is awesome in this movie i thought edward norton did a very good job playing a dirtbag although a lot of people disagree i also enjoyed mos def as the explosives expert that's afraid of dogs i highly recommend this movie and will continue to watch it whenever i can
1	i went to see the italian job with mixed reviews in my head i was pleasantly surprised with an entertaining close to 2 hours i thought the cast was just great and so were the special effects with the safe and truck just dropping out of sight if you like fast paced action movies this is the one to see
1	i wonder how many mini cooper automobiles were sold thanks to this movie it couldn't help but add to the sales of this little car which is featured in this film along with an attractive cast br br this is a very very entertaining heist and chase film it features a cool cast with mark wahlberg charlize theron edward norton seth green and jason statham br br the best chase scene is right at the beginning with a boat pursuit in venice italy the film doesn't overdo the violence has a pretty intelligent script with a few short exceptions features interesting characters and is nicely the cat and mouse game between norton and theron's characters is suspenseful and fun to watch br br once again however we are manipulated into rooting for criminals portrayed as the good guys how many times has this happened since the days of butch cassidy and the sundance kid in the 1960s it's twisted hollywood for you in here one of the criminals norton stole and killed the leader and father figure donald sutherland of the gang so he's the worst of the bunch and the film's villain also theron's character is in the typically overblown feminist mode of hollywood in which women can do all things including driving a car better than a man a third minor irritation is seth green's smug smart ass attitude which we also are supposed to go along with because it's hip and cool br br despite these hindrances it is an extremely entertaining movie and it also doesn't overboard on the profanity or sex and yes those little cars are cool everyone i've talked to who has seen this film enjoyed it
1	surprisingly enjoyable movie br br a group of thieves lead by mark wahlberg rob a gold safe in italy and thankfully for them the heist is successful and they get away with it without any big problems before the group can celebrate however steve played by ed norton decides he want the gold all for himself and pulls a ta on the group and shoots one of the members he and his accomplices leave thinking that the group is dead but luckily the group is not dead a year later we get back into the story where the group has tracked down norton and decide to steal the gold back and spend the rest of the movie coming up with plans to steal back their gold and settle a score br br this was a surprise for me it had all the makings to be a typical forgettable summer movie but it was actually memorable and really fun to watch what i like is how smart and well thought out the plans in the movie are and how the movie feels realistic watching the trailer would make you think it was some mindless action movie but in fact there are only two action scenes in the movie and they are all really well done the latter action scene is a very long 20 min scene that has one of the best car chases ever done i like how real the chase is and how everything is done old school style without the aid of cgi me personally i enjoyed this car chase more than the cgi filled chase in matrix 2 i remember watching music videos by director f gary gray and always noticed how well made they were and thought he'd make a great filmmaker turns out i was right as always and he proves it here can't wait to see what he does with the sequel br br the actors do a decent job too with seth green being my favorite of the group the other thing i loved was the excellent score by john powell ever since i heard his score for robots this year i've been a fan of him and paying close attention to his music and the man is really good he does a great job of avoiding all the typical summer action movie musical cliché's and provides a very well done score i haven't seen the original that this is based on so i can't really say how well it stacks up to that one br br so yeah this is a great popcorn movie that actually has a brain unlike most of the summer movie crap that comes out has great characters is funny as hell and has a amazing score by john powell if you love heist movies then you'll love this one br br you know if i was in the group they'd call me handsome mike
1	i had actually considered investing in this movie when was out drumming up funding i loved most of the script but did not like the ending insisted the ending was as it had to be br br seeing the completed movie i have to say i am amazed reading the script i had not imagined the acting and directing would be as powerful and moving as it is here the two leads did an amazing job they were very believable and this movie is well worth watching just for the performances of these two amazing stars br br now for the spoiler and if you have not seen the movie please don't read further as you need to see the movie first i actually wish i had never read the script just so i could have experienced the movie ending first hand br br spoiler br br i have two main problems with the movie first off and i'm sure i mentioned this when i read the script the wife should have died if she were dead the ending would be much more believable as it is we have this guy who has been agonizing over a woman who left him ago ' if she left him and he is still in love after so long he'd have to be seriously delusional but he doesn't come across that way in the script there is also the problem of why he did not expend all this energy going after the wife he still loves br br plus if the wife were dead we would actually be able to believe that they had a fulfilling reciprocating love and therefore believe that the guy is devastated enough for the ending to be reasonable br br however i don't buy daphne doing what she does in the ending i'd need a heck of a lot of convincing to believe that this naive girl very naive for a whore but believable due to performance did what she did the character is simply not cold enough and if she did this out of some kind of love or something else then there is a whole piece of the movie story missing br br much of this movie is reminiscent of sex lies and video tape i think it could have been as popular if had chosen to give the movie a more believable ending br br so watch the movie enjoy the performance and make up your own mind
1	if you are looking for a film that is quick witted and won't bore you then this is the place it is fast paced and funny with some decent acting from the characters it is always hard for me to see mark as anything except marky mark that image is burned in my mind forever as an actor though he is pretty good this movie is a must see for action fans who like to see a few little twists and turns i will have to pick this movie up one day and buy it
1	the italian job is a real blast to watch it's a genuinely entertaining film something you watch just for the sheer enjoyment of it it's not heavy with drama or emotional hand wringing it has no cosmic statements about life and it's not violent or profane it's just a fun movie between watching the little mini coopers fly around the crowded streets of l a and the great bits by stereotypical computer geek turned crook played gleefully by seth greene i had a lot of fun watching this film br br special kudos to the background music they truly set a masterful tone for such a movie so subtle yet keeps you on the edge when needed apparently a lot of artists contributed to the music i found it to be the classiest part of the film br br 8 out of 10 not awe inspiring but a great film to watch at the end of a lousy day at the office br br barky
1	my reaction to this remake of the italian job is probably hopelessly mixed up with the events occurring in my life when i saw it this is the first movie i saw after i had just landed a job after 8 months of unemployment and going back to school for money was still tight but i no longer had to choose between seeing a movie in the theaters and paying bills or eating lunch and the sense of relief and gratitude i was feeling at the time was enormous in consequence my enjoyment of italian job was probably far out of proportion to its actual worth br br still i picked it up used on dvd a few weeks ago and watched it again and i still enjoyed it immensely i have never seen the original though i have heard it is an absolute classic but its modern day counterpart is eminently watchable if you have a taste for modern day production values applied to older films plots and themes br br what initially won me over to this movie was the soundtrack imo don davis writes some of the most supple textured and aurally pleasing soundtracks around ij opens with a sly witty pulsing arrangement that combines strings guitar brush work and quiet moments it won me over completely from the opening seconds and the whole movie is like this i haven't heard this kind of ringing pulsing soundtrack music since stewart copeland left the police and started doing soundtracks for movies like rumble fish there are at least a dozen irresistibly scored motifs in here along with some pop song remakes that range from all right to inspired for people to whom the soundtrack is important this movie is a delight br br on to the movie i can take or leave mark wahlberg but he's okay here as the leading man and the movie doesn't ask him to do anything he can't do well he's the weakest major actor in the film but that's because the rest of supporting cast is so strong especially donald sutherland in a bit part mos def jason ed norton seth green and charlize theron all turn in solid fat free performances norton seems to mostly be phoning it in rumor has it that he didn't really want to be in the film but he's still a natural even at 1 2 power my one quibble with the casting and acting is with the character wrench who seems to be a male model pretending to be an actor his part seems to be shoehorned into the movie and he has little chemistry with the rest of the cast although you can blame some of that on the size of the part and the late walk on nature of the character if i were a cynical sort i would wonder who the actor slept with to get put into this movie in such a role nah never happen br br production values camera work stunts plot everything cooks along quite nicely and gray and his production crew pull things together pretty seamlessly with the exception of the wrench character see above br br the dialog has a nice light touch that rewards your indulgence and there are several satisfying major and minor plot payoffs along the way my favorite moment when norton's character tells wahlberg's character that he's just lost the element of surprise wahlberg proceeds to cold cock norton with a right cross and then asks him were you surprised hmmm maybe you had to be there br br of course the movie requires a certain level of suspension of disbelief to work but if you just relax and go along with it and don't think too hard about the mechanics of cracking a safe underwater or the likelihood of anyone being able to successfully hack and manipulate la traffic via a laptop etc you'll have a fun ride br br the italian job it's lightweight summer fluff but it's very good for what it is and it doesn't try to be anything else it isn't good enough for an 8 but i'd give it a 7 5
1	i enjoyed the movie very much everything in the italian job is simple an explosive guy a safe cracker a computer genius a wheel man and a man with a spectacular plan of stealing 35 million without using a gun this film is entertaining although it has no central idea it is a non stop movie with lots of actions all the stunt work is gorgeous from the speedboat chase in venice at the beginning to the chase on the busy roads in los angeles involving three mini coopers and even a helicopter the best boast chase i have ever seen i like the mini coopers the expert thieves used mini coopers for the getaway cars the chase between the mini coopers and the motor bikes is amazing they chased underground i can say there was not a moment i was bored mark wahlberg charlie charlize theron stella donald sutherland john jason statham handsome rob seth green lyle mos def left ear and edwin norton steve really did a good job i like the actors in this film i have seen a lot of heist movie but the italian job is one of my favourites a great hollywood action movie without a drop of blood after all i do love this kind of movie
1	over the last few months i have seen a lot of reviews for the italian job many of them negative the gist of almost all of these pessimistic criticisms is that for all its modernistic bravado and high budget technology the film doesn't have much substance where it counts look people it's just a fun movie this is the type of picture where you're supposed to sit back relax and just enjoy the steady moving pace of the film like ocean's eleven 2001 you can concentrate on the characters and the plot at the same time without having to do much thinking lucky for some of us granted ocean is a better movie but who cares the plot may have some holes there's a huge one about 3 4 of the way through the action may not be as gratuitous as the trailers made it out to be and some of the dialogue may seem pointless and cheesy but again who really cares cool characters mini coopers big explosions charlize theron what more do you want i think it's time to drop the fake roger ebert meets gene act and enjoy yourself for once oh and another thing whatever you do don't compare it to the original because to reiterate what f gary gray has told the press a million times this is not a remake my advice if you're interested in nit picking your way through a good humored fun flick don't even bother seeing the italian job but if you don't have a severe inferiority complex and or want to see ed norton get jacked by a bunch of go ahead the bottom line my fellow moviegoers is lighten up and have fun dammit
1	a few years ago i saw this remake of the sixties classic with the mini coopers for the first time and i remember liking it a lot now about two years later it was shown on television and i just wanted to know whether i would still like it as much as when i saw it in the cinema well the answer is yes br br the movie is about a team of robbers that will do one final job in venice italy the plan is flawless and the execution perfect they escape and won't have to work for the rest of their lives but there is one problem they didn't take into account someone within their own ranks doesn't like to split the loot but wants to keep it all for himself even when that means he will have to kill the rest of the crew but all but one survive and they are out for revenge one year later in los angeles this time the surviving team members create a smart and devious plan to steal back the gold and get their revenge on the traitor br br the story on itself is of course not very original since this is a remake of the original 1969 movie but it has plenty of goodies to offer to make you forget about that this is a typical heist action movie but it certainly is one of the better ones in its kind the action is very nice the landscapes and venice are real eye candy the story is ok and the special effects are stunning even the acting is very good something which you'll not often see in an action movie i must admit that i really liked what i saw and i give this movie a well deserved 7 5 10
1	the greatest compliments to the other commentator here at imdb who asked himself why this series didn't get stuck in its time to last a lot longer like many other series in the 80s did br br it is not true the series would have gotten worse if further continued br br i will at the end of this my comment post some thoughts about the other movie realizations rather attempts of the robin hood legend br br first of all robert you are among us all you live forever br br nothing is as fun as the entire two if one wants three seasons of this absolutely unique series and at the same time absolutely agreeing with the mostly new and revolutionary findings of terry jones' history about egypt greece rome the and barbarians and the middle ages and crusades yes the monthy python terry jones br br if you have seen those brilliant and funny jones docs you will better much better understand all the historical background stuff carpenter the writer of the robin of sherwood series which happens to be the brother of john carpenter who made the thing their third brother makes music intended to tell us br br the writer of dick turpin catweazle and the first two seasons of robin of sherwood called kip carpenter is my movie overlord he's better than all those others who criticize his sword and sorcery element or taken from the robin of sherwood of this series that i can not see or have other non criticism of which there existed a lot back then and still now br br that's why when you get to know this robin of sherwood better you'll be severe you will at first loathe the third season not only that i did myself go thru this and on top of it i have only taken up the first two seasons into my deepest heart despite the fact that the actor of robin left this series because after the series had enormous success he was offered a probably better paid role in an absolutely ridiculous canadian series called the new of jules verne already the title reveals the emptiness of the whole project went for money and not for fame he didn't stick with his gang and kin i mean as actors br br actors who personally represent the afterwards really in our present time famous and legendary faces and characters of the robin legend the potential of this series could and should have been let blossomed a lot more without any degrading niveau of content and historical message and rebellious accuracy regarding current political issues br br again obligatory to say a change of the main role was forced by stupid decision of leaving robin of sherwood for a silly remake series of the verne tales and brilliantly woven into the filming of the story still it is in some aspects a catastrophe br br anyway if one is informed about this and that connery was maybe really advertised by his father but that the young connery did not at all chase away how i thought in the first place then one can absolutely enjoy the 3rd season sad here is that the script was not anymore written by superman kip carpenter so we don't have anymore that critical and free thinking historical background like i e in the witch of or in the king's fool two episodes of the first series that is a funny b historically educating and c brilliantly acted br br don't trust the lion br br unlike many other characters that wished him dead for the sake of their own gain of power richard lionheart as shown in ros and as in real history was a greater authority than john or others but used it only for his wicked idea of the crusade and the war against in france he slaughtered and had slaughtered much more than tens of thousands of christians muslims and jews in the crusades and his soldiers even devoured the children they slayed out of hunger or poverty on top of that after his capture by the muslims in the crusades britain was squeezed out for his ransom 100 000 marks at that time 11th century comparable to approx 30 billion dollars of current value to get him safely back and then he just visited england for a month to return to in france where the norman invaders went first for the crusades one learns that in the episode the king's fool for this new crusade possibly kind of a revenge for his capture richard lionheart again drains the country of money cited out of clive mouth when he lectures robin in being critical with even the king robin criticizes this warfare ruling of richard's he addresses richard himself telling him the poor gave everything to set you free how can you ask more of them richard give me your courage and strength not your words later in private richard orders the assassination of robin br br so the crusaders were the real barbarians br br p s already when i watched kostner in 91 i got upset because after wards i found out in history course in school that richard was not that good just man as displayed by sean connery in his appearance at the end of prince of the thieves well as terry jones would put it it is a lie a treacherous lie sean plays humorist and charismatic and his son does a better job than expected in the third season of robin of sherwood br br again is according to my info up to now the one who left sherwood for a stupid verne series nobody with brains will ever remember or want to remember
1	i watched this series on pbs back in the eighties and still watch the old tapes every couple of years or so very atmospheric and creepy sometimes this is a very good show as the characters are all well defined and acted you are drawn into the plot and come to care for these people the villains are almost laughably evil especially the sheriff of nottingham man i would love to beat the s t out of that snotty little bastard nicholas grace does an excellent job and must have had a great time being the sheriff his whipping boy sir guy is equally but is also pathetic lots of murder and mayhem in this series along with tons of black magic and devil worship and things of that nature i noticed it got an award for children's television which is surprising if i had kids i would not let them watch this outstanding use of locations in this show also it is now on dvd so go out and buy it
1	hi i have to say you got some wrong information about the series here the main author was richard carpenter he created the series later on there were some other authors but they only did a few episodes br br the first director who did most of the series i think complete series 1 was ian sharp who created the distinct look of robin of sherwood br br did indeed see some of the material and they read the i know this for sure because richard carpenter told it on a con in england last year br br i think this is a masterpiece of television entertainment because it has great characters and cast good costumes and great story lines for me still one of the best tv series ever
1	i remember watching this series avidly every saturday evening it was the highlight of the week i loved everything about it the location the costumes the actors and the wonderful music by i still have their legend album i loved the way they solved the problem of michael leaving by creating another robin this time the earl of huntingdon i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors i'm sure robin and his men would have young after all people didn't live that long in those days other robins always look too old kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin's granddad the only sad thing was the ending it's a shame they couldn't at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending
1	i saw the film at the brooklyn international film festival world premiere br br a haunting intimate portrait of loneliness and the repercussions of letting it grow and turn into something darker br br the acting of the two leads jessica richard brundage is excellent and makes one wish you had met these characters before they became so damaged br br reminded me in theme of the works of atom egoyan exotica and raymond carver where i'm calling from br br the soundtrack jo crooked fingers is excellent and reinforces moments in the film without drawing attention to itself br br highly recommend the film and the soundtrack
1	used to watch this when i was very little then used to watch my videos now i watch the dvds i love this ray winston is 'the dude' the rest of the cast is all good and even with the changing of robin hood it all works great stories twists and the way it was shot to the untrained eye not that mine is trained can be miss interpreted as being ropey but it adds to the films absorption of the audience with the green hillsides and the contrast of the lush sunny lit forest to the dark corridors and dungeons of the castles its great personally the definitive interpretation of the robin hood legend i cannot stress how much i think you should watch this if you get a chance then you must watch it
1	i have some great memories watching robin of sherwood on tv as a kid but i think i only saw michael episodes by some reason and recently my brother bought the new released dvd boxes of the complete series it was great to see it again and it is the best of all the robin hood movies and tv series the cast is great and the locations mixed with music adds this very special feeling i personally think that is the best of the two robins but jason connery was a great choice to continue the series with ray winstone nicolas grace and robert is terrific in their roles as will scarlet the sheriff of nottingham and guy of it´s a pity that a fourth season never got made and i´ve also heard that the writer richard carpenter actually had plans to make a feature film following the events of the series robert of huntingdon connery could finally have married marion judi or maybe the hunter could resurrect robin of and he could take his revenge against the sheriff as have been mentioned before if the producers of robin hood the prince of thieves would have been smart they would have got the cast from robin of sherwood and made the movie to a sort of sequel to the series as ray winstone puts it in the dvd it would have been great to see them as old men just like in sean robin and marian who knows maybe we will se more of this perfect interpretation of the legend in the future in any case we can now watch our favorite series over and over again
1	some people don't appreciate the magical elements in ros but they are what sets this series apart that and the fact the producers actually decided to dress the actors in proper period clothes and armour not anachronistic feathered caps multi coloured tights and plate armour br br but i am really writing to comment on an earlier poster's article um michael did not leave ros to do jules verne there are 15 years between these two series yup i agree and michael might well agree too that leaving ros was not a good move but it was a coveted broadway role that tempted him in '84 and then dynasty with its megabucks paychecks
1	this htv series is beautiful i strongly recommend watching the movie it has got everything it should remarkable script strong characters beautiful scenery and exceptional atmosphere add some ambient score from and you receive unforgettable picture i love every adventure movie from htv i saw return to treasure island smuggler adventurer but robin of sherwood beats them all i would like to thank the whole htv production team and richard carpenter in particular for giving me plenty of adventures and excitement i have got the dvd release in my little movie collection i regret very much movies like these are not made anymore
1	by mistake i ordered a series from the bbc their new version of robin hood very disappointing in comparison with ros terrible costuming and backgrounds while i enjoyed the sheriff who took cues from the nick grace character the rest of the cast left much to be desired as a for instance marion's costuming looked suspiciously like it came from walmart and sir guy well he looked a bit like a character from an outer space movie ros has stolen the spotlight probably forever in the telling of this tale cast costuming story lines scenery filming and soundtrack by are all superb as is evidenced by all the continual feedback some 26 years on ros is a timeless classic my thanks to all who made the series
1	to quote jason connery and mark ryan on one of the many dvd commentaries that wobbly music over the htv logo was enough to get me jumping from whatever i was doing to glue my face against the screen for an hour the individual stories contained within the series were excellent and the character development was wonderful robin of goes through a very convincing journey over the two series he appears in even though his departure from the programme was unplanned marian also develops her relationship with both of sons very well br br after languishing for many years in tv wasteland i re encountered the series on sky 1 in the uk in the mid nineties and was even more impressed that the series seemed even better than i remembered this is no children's television programme it deals with witchcraft treason rebellion and injustice and it manages to do it without showing too much blood as far as i can recall you only see a bit of the red stuff in the pilot film episodes 1 and 2 on the dvd set the dvds are great containing a wealth of extras including cast commentaries on series 3 only the jason connery robin and crew commentaries for series 1 and 2 the picture quality is very good and the remixed and remastered surround sound is amazing br br the idea of freedom is important freedom prevails nothing's forgotten nothing's ever forgotten
1	this is one of my favorite series all categories all time br br i was fortunate enough to get a hold of the whole series on vhs a few years ago i loved it when i saw it back in 91 92 when i was about 12 i love it as much or more today which is remarkable considering my hopefully improved film appreciation and criticism skills most of the movies i liked back then i'm not that fond of today besides for the nostalgia factor that factor is present here as well but there's so much more to robin of sherwood than nostalgia br br there are only a few bad things about this series first the picture and sound quality is so so at least in the first couple of episodes fortunately it gets better secondly you could have wished for a bit more blood and realism in the fighting scenes although i know that was not an option in this case br br so on to the good things and there are a lot of them first of all michael is robin hood i don't think i have seen him in a single role since then which only strengthen this fact for me he delivers such a believable performance as robin jason connery had an impossible task replacing him the fact that michael hasn't become a bigger name as an actor is unbelievable or perhaps that was his fate to do this one role perfectly then disappear br br i love nickolas graces sheriff of nottingham he is really not a complex character but totally rotten the relation between him and is just hilarious actually just looking at de sitting in his throne bored glaring makes me laugh even before he has said anything another actor that deserves extra praise is ray winstone as will scarlet you can really feel the sadness inside of him as well as his hate for the soldiers who killed his wife winstone is an actor that finally has gotten his well deserved hollywood breakthrough in films as the departed and beowulf there are a lot of other great actors here too br br i love the portrayal of the robin gang they are having fun playing laughing you really get a feel of the camaraderie between them the closeness that comes from a tight bound group such as this those bonding scenes are so important br br i think that it being uk produced with british actors really made it better compared to for example the 92 feature film version with kevin costner that just feels fake fake fake christian slater as will scarlet come on the cast being able to speak english with british accent makes it more believable and i get the feeling that the actors as well as the director and writers behind the series can put themselves much more into the shoes of the robin hood gang than an american crew could have the music is wonderful is perfect for the feel of the series the music is another of those things they just nailed br br an exciting addition also is the fantasy and magic spice that is put in there it's not over the top but believable and just makes the whole thing better and more interesting i also love how nicely the mix of comedy adventure and drama is blended br br those are a few of the things that makes this series so alive and so genuine it's by far the best robin hood version i have ever seen i won't wrap up with the nothing's forgotten quote but one thing that never will be forgotten for me is this fantastic robin hood retelling see it
1	fantastic series one of my few favorites miami vice and tour of duty are the other two and this series is right up there with them br br these guys aren't into wearing frilly tights they dress more like woodsmen everything about this series breathes an aire of realism artistic license or not br br it paints a picture of a europe only slightly out of the grasp of paganism as most of the villagers still have their local deities and there are satan worshipping nuns and witches and sorcerers casting spells br br however what comes to the fore most is that it's a series of it's time rather than the version of the fifties which was a lament against centralized government and the mccarthy era persecutions this series is thoroughly grounded in the 1980s bleakness and has a strong environmentalist leaning robin's protector is a nature called the hunter who often appears wearing the head of a deer and is a personification as is this robin of the green man an alternative version of osiris the egyptian god of vegetation and resurrection it is interesting to note that in these series robin in the hood isn't a person but a concept when the old one is killed a new one is summoned telepathically by the person may die but robin in the hood will live forever hence the concept of resurrection br br the music and score are really outstanding and performed by the irish formation when watching it i couldn't help but think how boring authentic medieval folk music would have been br br all this is beautifully shot in the lush forrests of wales which pass for the new forrest br br the only down side is that in the initial episodes of both series the actors have to overcome their own and convince themselves that this really is a serious work after that they get into it and the acting is great michael as the first robin the second is played by sean connery's son jason judi makes a beautiful and fragile redheaded marion phil rose as the portly and really kind hearted friar tuck ray winstone as the volatile and lovelorn scarlet clive mantle as the giant shepard little john peter williams as little john's bumpkin friend and fellow shepard and mark ryan as the ex assassin all of them giving great performances also great are the steady bad guys nicholas grace as the bug eyed scheming sheriff of nottingham and his aristocratic bumbling sidekick and robin's half brother as it turns out robert as sir guy of really cool too is fashion designer richard o'brien as the evil lord owen of cotton magician he appears near the end of the first series and later in the second br br the tithe barn in bradford on avon stood in for the sheriff's castle check it out on co uk under places of interest br br so if you're at all into mythology the middle ages romanticism don't waste your time on xena or hercules this is the real thing so go out and watch it br br alex
1	as listed and stated in many previous comments this unique series has many excellent elements and ingredients to its credit indeed more than 20 years after it was originally transmitted it is still watched and watched again and has a huge global fan following something which must indicate that the makers of this series undeniably got something right br br the root of the series' brilliance and remarkable appeal has however got to be that it rests on wonderfully written dialogue and timeless characters – all of which are brought to life by marvellous actors the characters are wonderful in particular because of their complexity in contrast to many other robin hood adaptations and indeed many other film and tv productions in general the good guys in this series often make mistakes and can be seen to have apparent flaws while the baddies although put forward as evil and ruthless frequently can be understood and even on occasion seem quite sympathetic this very much makes robin of sherwood into a story about multifaceted real people – rather than of good and bad people – something which very much adds to its uniqueness and remarkable appeal also although very much being an action packed series featuring numerous amazing stunts which are remarkable in themselves seeing as this was made long before today's computer animation green screens and so forth thus behind every one of those endless guys falling off castle walls horses and catching fire there actually is a real person who at some point did fall off a castle wall or a horse or catch fire there is always amazing dialogue going on between the different characters in each episode in the final analysis however it is generally the series' baddies – nickolas grace as the sheriff of nottingham robert as sir guy of and philip jackson as the abbot hugo de – who get the very best lines and who more than often steal the show with their arguments full of wit and cant it's a wedding not a celebration is just one of their many timeless pearls of wisdom which seems to follow one through life br br 20 years after the fact it is indeed hard to believe that robin of sherwood was originally something made for television – and apparently not with a great deal of money – in order to provide fleeting saturday afternoon amusement for small children in great britain filmed in beautiful locations with clever amazing scripts and featuring remarkable stunts and fantastic actors – many of whom give the performance of their lives in this show – this in numerous ways seems to be more professionally made and have more production value than many a hollywood film
1	i have some great memories watching robin of sherwood on tv as a kid but i think i only saw michael episodes by some reason and recently my brother bought the new released dvd boxes of the complete series it was great to see it again and it is the best of all the robin hood movies and tv series the cast is great and the locations mixed with music adds this very special feeling i personally think that is the best of the two robins but jason connery was a great choice to continue the series with ray winstone nicolas grace and robert is terrific in their roles as will scarlet the sheriff of nottingham and guy of it´s a pity that a fourth season never got made and i´ve also heard that the writer richard carpenter actually had plans to make a feature film following the events of the series robert of huntingdon connery could finally have married marion judi or maybe the hunter could resurrect robin of and he could take his revenge against the sheriff as have been mentioned before if the producers of robin hood the prince of thieves would have been smart they would have got the cast from robin of sherwood and made the movie to a sort of sequel to the series as ray winstone puts it in the dvd it would have been great to see them as old men just like in sean robin and marian who knows maybe we will se more of this perfect interpretation of the legend in the future in any case we can now watch our favorite series over and over again
1	this movie is like happiness meets lost in translation with a sixth sense ending or maybe a crying game surprise and the best soundtrack i've probably ever heard if that all make sense br br the first 30 seconds pretty much tells you you're in for a twisted ride i was surprised no one walked out right away during the brooklyn premiere but from there the film settles down into a talk fest between two really damaged people daphne and buddy br br they're lonely mess up and boy do they talk about sex daphne brings to life her most interesting tales of escorting some are quite funny mr chang some disturbing the harlan scenes with music that tells us what we see might now be what's going on or what daphne is really feeling and because i have a friend who used to escort i might add most seem quite real br br you are alone is multi layered and mostly brilliant okay maybe a couple minutes less of the talking and i don't know that we'd have missed anything br br then again i need to see it again knowing the ending br br i like this movie br br the director asked people in the brooklyn audience to write a review on imdb because a lot of people read them request granted
1	i have watch this movie almost every night that is was on hbo it is of my opinion that it could have been successful in the theater providing the advertisement leading up to it was top scale i was thoroughly impressed with the actress who played nanny she is an outstanding actress of course my favorite actor is terrance howard he is a very understated actor and he deserves much more credit than he has received ebony magazine did do a nice article on him giving him some of his due blue gave me a understanding of the stories my parents use to tell us they were from a similar town philadelphia pa were they had to have their fun in the joints and such i also like to say that mos def is a incredible actor he has found his calling i've seen him in several movies where he has played a variety of roles from thug to doctor and he has the stuff overall please put blues on video for rental
1	sister helen is a superb documentary about a rigid intolerant foul mouthed bitter civilian nun who runs a shelter for drunks and in a very rundown neighborhood in the south bronx all but one of the 21 residents are gutter drunks addicts robert the only middle class representative – he had a real job house and even a bmw – regrets she died before he could tell her off why br br robert like six of the residents was on parole he complained that helen wielded a huge stick over him and constantly threatened to turn him in if he didn't cow tow to her in an extras interview he said helen ran the center to compensate for the deaths of the three men in her life – her husband and her two boys br br the husband was an alcoholic who died of a heart attack at 55 one boy died of a heroin overdose and the other was stabbed to death at 15 helen was left with one daughter who she abandoned to run the center the daughter was not pleased she wanted her mom br br what's fascinating is how little helen changed outwardly it seems she made a huge sea change but after seeing this riveting and disturbing video a few times once with the directors narrating it became clear that helen substituted 21 male addicts to boss around to replace her three dead males br br helen admits she ignored her kids and spent every day in bars but her intolerance and sharp tongue didn't emerge at age 56 living with her must have been extremely difficult even robert says he stayed clean in spite of helen br br the film opens with helen abusively demeaning a man who wants to live at the shelter supposedly she is showing off her street savvy another time she publicly demeans mel her assistant for not bathing for a year then she waves his filthy in the air the film is viscous with helen threatening and demeaning people her signature song is my way her favorite phrase is i'm going to be totally honest with you often people who use such phrases turn out o be the opposite br br the residents are really down and out only robert has any marketable skills beyond pushing a broom they all desperately need a roof over their heads and helen since she runs the place on her own has the power to admit or evict whoever she pleases she has no governing board to answer to and gets no public funding it is her show br br helen believes in the cookie approach to sobriety she stopped drinking cold turkey and that means everyone else can too she blames substance abuse on the drug or booze and not the underlying issues that drove the men to drink and drug she's no therapist just a landlady who dyes her hair wears a habit and wields complete power over her tenants and stopped drinking br br helen also lords it over her inmates by demanding urine she calls it tests on requests twice major a very solid and respected long term older resident who she trusted failed his tests helen was furious and evicted him major stood his ground and said the results were wrong because he never did heroin helen didn't yield and failed to consider a mistake could have been made this was especially troubling since she knew major for a long time yet she discounted her relationship with him assumed he was a liar and relied completely on the results major eventually discovered the codeine in his cough syrup showed up as an opiate helen never apologized publicly but supposedly made up with major privately br br helen also had a very tainted reputation in her old neighborhood she tacitly admitted to robert she once stayed up very late one night to slash someone's tires the person wronged her and certainly deserved to have his her tires slashed she was not a nice woman so eventually she decided the only way to keep the travis name her last name alive – since the three male died – was to start the travis center br br for some of the residents it was a great deal they complied with helen and in exchange received a cheap safe sober and structured place to live one however said he preferred jail addicts and drunks don't all need to be treated like children helen employed old school techniques which have been discredited however no one was forced to remain at the center and for some it was definitely a positive experience the travis center is not a treatment center it is a residence for alcoholics and who what to straighten out their lives br br to receive the full sister helen experience see all the extra interviews plus the audio version in which the two directors share their experiences living with sister helen and her guests
1	this tearful movie about a sister and her battle to save as many souls as she can is very moving the film does well in picking up the characters and showing how sister helen deals with each br br a wonderful journey from life to death br br
1	oh so beautiful oh so tearful and so gut wrenching br br makes everything seem so superficial so pale so meaningless in comparison br br sister helen is not a real saint br br she is a real human flawed raw and blunt but passionate and with a heart of gold br br what i found most interesting is that this handful of wretched miserable people found meaning and laughter br br what i loved most is how the documentary portrayed the of human nature
1	i went into a screening of sister helen at the sundance film festival and did not know what to expect br br i was riveted by the people in this documentary sister helen is an incredible character the filmmakers captured the essence of sister helen's amazing soul and took me into a world unknown i was thoroughly satisfied by the journey and was completely caught off guard by this film's ending br br this film speaks to those who desire a second chance at life
1	this is truly a documentary of love about a fascinating character her outlook on life and her extended family the filmmakers spent three years taping sister helen at her halfway house and managed to capture so much wonderful material that you can not help but feel you know sister helen and her boys the house holds 21 recovering addicts each with a story almost as involving as sister helen's the ending scenes are particularly involving and emotional br br sister helen's story of marriage addiction and loss reveals a very complex character who's tough love is at all times funny touching and endearing br br the film is a amazing in the way it tells its story in wonderful slice of life sequences which develop into a story that is almost as clear as if each scene were scripted and acted by the best the honesty and obvious dishonesty of the clients is very involving as you learn of their fears and watch their attempts to grow br br you will never forget sister helen robert moe or poor spelling
1	i got a chance to talk with the co creator rebecca at the 2002 high falls film festival in rochester ny she said that her style is to be completely open and uninhibited in filmmaking but was very happy to be so severely constrained in the tight quarters of the group home the narrow hallways and small rooms were expertly shot with a realism that would have been lost with more controlled and deliberate camera work br br sister helen herself is a remarkable character coming from tragedy in her own life to being an unusual combination of caring tough and street smart the way the film introduces us to her past is excellent spending only a few carefully selected minutes sprinkled throughout br br in all i can't begin to correctly heap on praise for this film it really is a treasure of cinema and the subject a treasure of humanity
1	i first was made aware of this film when i saw a preview before another movie i was intrigued but it didn't get to see it before it's short run in theaters was done br br it is not an easy movie to watch multiple times there is much violence inflicted upon unarmed civilians there are lessons to be learned here one of patricia arquette's lines sums up on to americans if it didn't happen on tv it just didn't happen there is a lot of truth to that br br another is that at one point she thinks that just because she announces she is an american citizen that soldiers will part and let her pass it doesn't work that way br br the scenery is beautiful the acting is all decent the professor is especially good mainly though i care about these characters francis and gray are fine but their appearance is short so they don't matter much patricia has guts in the hands of a lesser actor this could have turned out very badly as it is love or hate the movie you should still come away with the idea that there still exist military dictatorships in the world in this century and until one of our own is hurt we ignore their oppression br br san is the female political leader in the movie in real life she won the nobel peace prize she was only recently released from house arrest the w bush administration as of the date i write this is attempting to pressure the military government to engage in talks with her and re form the government the government was under such scrutiny that is changed the name of the country to the republic the u s government has yet to the new name br br if you don't wnat a message in your movie don't watch this one if you don't mind a little with your entertainment then it's a fine one
1	i would give this movie a good strong 7 while it isn't the greatest movie or even one the best movies of it's kind the killing fields is better it does at least attempt to tell a necessary story br br i think the method of introducing laura into burma was a bit contrived first of all burma isn't exactly the easiest country to visit especially in the late 80's secondly if you did make it burma your passport would not get lost a sane person would make darn sure they knew where their passport was at all times with that in mind i'm sure the screenwriter knew that was weak but needed something patricia arquette's performance was understated and i just didn't buy that she was a doctor however at least she didn't overact the role which often happens in movies like this u ko was good but also understated the end is hard to follow since most of the dialogue is in burmese with people translating for laura it would have been difficult for laura and is difficult for the viewer as well another plus is the strong se asian scenery in the film which was enjoyable to see
1	my ex wife and i saw and were intrigued by the trailer for this film we waited for it to come out but when it did it didn't stay in theaters very long several years later i bought it on vhs and i am transferring it to dvd so i can preserve it br br i found it to be very moving it is about real events in a real country burma got such a bad reputation for the political oppression it created that they changed their name br br i find women with little make up on to be very sexy patricia arquette is in this movie frances and spalding gray are in it only briefly br br after coming home to find her young son and husband brutally murdered laura arquette is afraid of blood a bad trait for a doctor her sister talks her into going on a vacation to burma while there she witnesses a peaceful demonstration and has her passport stolen in a bold or stupid move she asks a tourist guide to show her something off the tourist track her guide is injured by soldiers and she spends the rest of the movie trying to get him and herself to safety br br every time i watch this it reminds me that we in the united states forget that to a peasant living under military rule socialism where at least eating is virtually guaranteed looks pretty darn good
1	certainly this proves beyond a shadow of doubt that patricia arquette is what she is promoted to be an actress this is undoubtedly her finest moment of acting and she certainly deserves the credit for her work never in any of her other movies with the possible exception of holy matrimony has she been totally believable and authentic br br plot a young woman finds herself in southeast asia and is suddenly thrown into the political havoc of the countryside she witnesses mass murder and totalitarianism and escapes br br it is one movie that you must see or you have not seen all of hollywood's finest i rank it 58 in the top 100 films of all time br br thanks bob
1	this film is engaging and complex while maintaining simple beauty our two characters come together sharing the base of curiosity and loneliness but it is a springboard for learning these people they 're life styles and pasts which support this br br the two lead actors were in the moment as any two actors i have ever seen 100 believable they transport the audience seemingly effortlessly into their world the actors' seamless acting teamed with beautiful realistic dialog and his truthful direction drives the story forward into a striking and moving finale this film is visual treat soft increasing the intensity of the story the soundtrack the viewer soothing yet drawing out the emotional content of the film i find this project to be nothing short of a masterpiece intriguing intense
1	lush cinematography beautifully written and edited john boorman's beyond is a must see for anyone interested in world politics and the arc of personal transformation it interweaves a personal and political tale that continues to haunt me popping up in my mind's eye with frequency the story line is gripping and the inner and outer journeys are paralleled carefully and delicately both cinematically and in the story line i've watched this film at least six times and it really holds up to scrutiny it is particularly relevant today given world events check it out you won't regret it btw netflix does not yet carry it but you can request that they do
1	i am afraid i will have to add my name to the long list of people who remain flabbergasted that this film has still not sept 2007 been issued on dvd it's one of those mysteries that makes the mind boggle especially when you consider the amount of dvd's available today containing material that should have been years ago still i have an excellent digital vhs copy in english with subtitles and stereo so my qualm is more one of principle than a frustration at not being able to view the film as to the film itself this is an excellent all rounder with good picture quality more than satisfactory soundtrack lively plot involving suspense emotion sadness frustration feeling good and exotic surroundings for a european how true the film fits in with the reality in burma i have no idea indeed that is less important the essential thing is that entertainment wise it is a success one soon becomes attached to each of the main characters and i admit to having my heart in my mouth during the final crossing the river scene it's a shame we hear so little about countries such as burma and this film at least gives some insight into the country has the situation changed since 1995 the events which are to occur later this month seem to answer this question with a resounding no and the regime in place seems to be as brutal as ever not even sparing the lives of monks let alone women or children
1	i always wanted to see this film and when i finally got to i knew i was in for a nice surprise when john boorman's name appeared on the screen known mostly for his epic films he directed the first conan and wrote apocalypse now put together in the classic hollywood structure this one fits nicely with his catalog br br i also can't express how perfect the timing was considering that burma is once again experiencing an uprising by monks and students against the military junta run government which is the very same one there has been a change of leadership since but it's essentially the same depicted in the movie from 1988 now more than ever this film needs to be aired on television caught it on ifc because of recent events
1	a powerful movie that has recovered much of its meaning in this second half of 2007 after the new desperate movements of the burmese people against their tyrants i felt a complex mix of feelings about the people there something like compassion and admiration at the same time together with a bit of rage because i feel that no one neither the countries of the world nor themselves is doing anything effective to end this shame i think these feelings became directly from the movie and that they were intended when it was made so it is a successful movie the desire for peace the quest for enlightenment the respect for life sometimes leads to subjugation in fact it is the buddhist burmese culture who has left the doors wide opens to their dictators but how can you feel angry about these poor people
1	i came across this movie on tv i hadn't heard of it before and almost changed the channel but it quickly hooked me br br the story of the struggle of the burmese people against a military dictatorship was provoking the level of brutality that some are willing to use to hold onto power is hard to believe it makes me thankful to live in a country where the government isn't likely to shoot people in the streets br br the story of laura bowman was a good thread to hold the story of political struggle together
1	based on an actual story john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport was stolen in she could not leave the country with her sister and was forced to stay back until she could get i d papers from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i tried finding something in those stone statues but nothing stirred in me i was stone myself br br suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life was in danger br br here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous selfless charity risking her life to save another patricia arquette is beautiful and not just to look at she has a beautiful heart this is an unforgettable story br br we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps
1	i saw beyond about 20 times it was that good at first when i watched it i saw the story of laura bowman but later after multiple showings i realised that this also was a parallel documentary it came to be in my mind a story about san and the struggles of women to remain strong in the face of uncertainty danger and sadness i also would put history and politics on the list after further viewing since i did learn a lot about past and present and could only guess at it's future this movie is not only one you will want to see it's also one you will definitely want to own a copy of it's a movie that could easily been seen by the whole family although not for children under thirteen however the educational benefits of this movie can not and should not be understated
1	this is a great film in many different ways perhaps the most important is that it introduces western audiences to the remarkable tragic story of san and her fight for freedom and democracy wonderful acting gorgeous cinematography breathtaking action and suspense beyond has everything i've seen this movie several times over the last ten years and each time it means more to me not everyone will like it hence the relatively low rating on imdb but that's because it is not conventional hollywood rather it challenges the viewer on several levels i've never watched it without sobbing at the end and promising to live a more meaningful life
1	it was high time a movie about the situation in a largely ignored asian country like had to be made and beyond is hollywood's answer initially i thought hollywood would dramatize the events of the uprising and add in the traditionally hollywood spice of titanic type love between the lead heroine and the burmese male lead who happens to be an old man thankfully nothing of that sort was in place which may also explain why the film was not financially successful br br anyway the film was honest to god and i was glad at the accuracy of events portrayed apart from the fact that filming was done outside of in malaysia thailand and that i missed the exotic burmese locales i could not find much fault in the film br br you cannot blame the film for the desperation of the people and the resulting overwhelming actions it is after all real events of a civil war the music by hans zimmer is definitely the of an otherwise adventurous tragedy for people who have no connection to it br br i was only a year old in now during this tumultuous time when i heard a movie was made on my real life experience which i was too young to absorb i had to get the dvd and needless to say i could hardly have any complaints about it as it is an eye opening wonder for me
1	beyond is simply marvelous from the traumatic opening to the uplifting ending you will be amazed at how well put together this film is patricia arquette amazingly portrays laura bowman who we meet as a shut down and quit despondent young doctor unable to deal with her grief over the loss of her husband and son throughout the course of the film as she is trapped in burma witnesses the democratic and massacres in the capital city of flees for her life and saves her tour u life she is regaining her will to live this may seen contrived or heavy handed it is not john boorman a master at spiritual and emotional conflict paints the film with broad strokes and often uses symbolism to capture laura's emotional state and physical predicament patricia arquette as usual gives a wonderfully convincingly and believable performance as the emotionally wounded laura what arquette does amazingly in any role that she plays is give us a window into her character's heart without words every time she is given a close up in the film the audience is given insight into her character she does not need to speak to convey emotions or be over the top some critics were harsh on arquette's performance in the film when it opened on august 25 1995 that she was flat or dull in the role i found her characterization dead on staying well away from the melodramatics that typically are part of an actor's performance when having a personally tragedy take place she is on shock and is reserved about her feelings that is just as normal as screaming lashing out at those around you i am hoping that warner brothers releases this title on dvd very soon with arquette's hugely successful nbc drama medium bringing her to household name status not to mention an emmy win and now 2007 nomination it would be in the studio's best interest to do so hopefully there will be extras with the alternate ending do not by pass by this film it is one that you will certainly not forget after seeing
1	this was a fantastic movie about two people one a young teenage girl and the other a middle aged man who are each looking for someone to help them fulfill a certain emptiness left by former loved ones br br both actors give brilliant performances that various audiences can relate to the script although written by seems as though it was written from a woman's point of view and at the same time men can relate to the male characters because of how well they were developed and described in the movie br br the end of the movie has an unusual but powerful and unexpected twist that leaves you speechless i would recommend this film to anyone who has ever felt lonely or abandoned by a loved one it is clear in this film that you are not alone
1	beyond is one of the most emotional and intense films ever made superbly directed by john boorman and acted by patricia arquette this film can easily be called one of the best films of the 90's the story and vivid characters just grab the audience from the very opening and never lets go after seeing the film the viewer will never be able to forget beyond the film made little money at the box office and is little known but should be high profile watching it you can tell that it was meant to be seen by a large audience it is a very important and moving film and should be seen by everyone br br
1	this film should be seen by as many people as possible as it concentrates on the human rights problems in burma when i first watched this film in the mid 1990's it totally changed my life i knew very little about san or her democracy movement it effected me so i wanted to understand more about the situation any film that has the power to make you want to learn more has done its job properly patricia arquette is superb as the american lady who due to personal tragedy has become reckless with her own life decisions and gets caught up in the ensuing conflict it is a powerful film about a subject matter which deserves more publicity as the film itself says the 1988 massacre of pro democracy activists was not televised and therefore largely went unnoticed to the world i implore everyone reading these comments to take the time to find out more about the current plight of the burmese people br br it is about time this film was released on dvd can anything be done
1	while the movie has its flaws it brings to light some of the problems that come with living in a country that has no democracy it makes you empathize with the people under such a government and makes you want to learn more about their lives their struggles and a potential leader san it makes one wonder why our government will interfere places we are not wanted yet ignore those who ask our help
1	this movie was working toward two goals to make a political point and to tell a scary adventure story it's often difficult to do make a political point and still tell a good story consider the highly political but rarely entertaining final season of ellen beyond finds a good balance between politics and storytelling br br i already knew that san had won the 1991 nobel peace prize and knew something about the oppressive political situation in burma so the political message of the movie was mostly a dramatization of what i already knew but i thought the movie did a good job of telling about san and the mostly faceless dictators who have for years tried to silence her the device of presenting an unfamiliar setting through the eyes of a character that viewers can identify with is fairly common but it's quite well done in this movie br br of course the real measure of the movie was its entertainment value arquette was excellent as a young woman whose sister took her to a distant unfamiliar place to shake her out of her depression over the violent deaths of her husband and son she is convincingly detached and depressed her grieving condition gives her a clear reason for her distracted wanderings into the thick of a dangerous situation she does not understand something she'd otherwise be much too intelligent to stumble into br br once the dangers become so obvious that she can see through them even through the cloud of grief she's trapped with no easy escape that sets her on a path of adventure where she needs her intelligence to survive the writers deserve much credit for making her intelligent and resourceful enough to deal with numerous dangerous situations while still finding a plausible reason for her to be foolish enough to get into trouble in the first place the directing is strong also keeping up the tension throughout the race to escape the forces of the dictatorship br br this movie had additional impact on me and my wife because of other events of the same time period we were preparing for a trip to india and heard news reports of western tourists who had been taken hostage by a terrorist group in india avoiding isolated terrorists in a peaceful democratic country is quite a different matter from escaping an oppressive dictatorship but the movie and the news shared the element of avoiding danger in an unfamiliar country that common characteristic gave the movie meaning beyond the strength of its own skillful storytelling the movie illustrates the international tourist's worst nightmare
1	never had i seen such a powerful true story movie i discovered a city a country a lost revolution and even a nobel prize winner thanks to this masterpiece of cinema br br if you haven't seen this movie you can't say you've seen anything br br a great lesson of courage humility and life br br i haven't seen anything as good since br br t e saturday january 9th 1999
1	patricia arquette plays american doctor laura bowman who takes a holiday to burma in an attempt to heal her spirit after the murders of her husband and young son she is left behind in during a military crackdown and leaves the city with an aging man who works as a tour guide but he is no simple tour guide he is a professor who introduces her to the life outside of the tourist traps the two of them get caught up in the political upheaval and laura sees with her own eyes how the government betrays and oppresses its own people br br this movie is one of my favorites because of its themes first it's informational describing some of the injustices that are occurring in burma secondly it's about a woman's struggle to find meaning in life after an incredible loss thirdly it's about compassion and sacrifice and people coming together without even knowing each other to endure pain and fear br br just about every beautiful scene in this movie is important nothing is wasted here it's an earnest and moving film there is also a very emotional score composed by hans zimmer which complements scenes nicely br br a definite recommend especially to people concerned with human rights and people who want to know what purpose can i serve br br
1	this is one of the most underrated movies of the 1990s if you allow yourself to identify with the patricia arquette character you will find it to be a very moving story of a woman regaining a sense of purpose to her life and finding a new will to live br br arquette's performance is brave because it is purposefully wooden it's a way of defining her character's spiritual death her complete lack of a desire to be alive she moves through life like a zombie because her family has been murdered and she can't see the point of living what is moving is how in the course of the story she is reawakened by the burmese landscape by the beautiful quality of its people and landscapes and by the primal choices she is forced to confront br br boorman supports this visually and hans zimmer supports it with one of his most gorgeous haunting scores with an often static camera and with a propensity to shoot through glass windows windshields etc we are on the outside looking in just like arquette until she finds herself deep in the jungle and is forced to choose whether or not to fight for her life br br i recommend the 1954 movie the purple plain as well it's a similar story in a similar setting and makes for a fascinating comparison
1	chris noth plays a maniac who wrote a children's book as a young lad posing as a doctor who menaces a community in order to push his sister's son into the position as his school's genius the only man that can stop him is a cop who plays by his own rules and is forced to go undercover with the help of his mute father who communicates via board will rick springfield find out whats up or will somebody sabotage his recording studio does the mentally retarded boy who operates the book mobile have clues watch to find out i'm not making this up
1	an eye opening documentary about the 1993 siege of a religious sect compound near waco texas seventy six people including sect leader david perished in a flaming inferno that destroyed the compound there is still heated debate over how the fire started homicide or suicide can you still trust government ethics br br
1	strong evidences and it clearly shows government cover ups and lies very convincing documentary a little bias but it hit hard on the government i'm not very about the adults but the children it's very sad strong evidences and it clearly shows government cover ups and lies very convincing documentary a little bias but it hit hard on the government i'm not very about the adults but the children it's very sad strong evidences and it clearly shows government cover ups and lies very convincing documentary a little bias but it hit hard on the government i'm not very about the adults but the children it's very sad
1	i am a film directors nightmare especially of the mega buck multiplex variety while not a student of the art i still have a high threshold for disbelief suspension and buying into the film maker's vision if i can find it that's why a gem such as 'you are alone' is such an exhilarating find the intimacy and pacing drew me in and never let me go jessica and richard brundage give thoughtful nuanced performances and director displays a deft hand in presenting what is an understandably disturbing day in the lives of two terribly damaged people br br spoiler below br br i bought the dvd version and have shared it with several people the reactions have been varied from disbelief in the ability of daphne to complete the assignment for which buddy has paid her to an inability to watch the whole film because it was just too real and emotionally devastating as a compulsively skeptical moviegoer i have to be either grabbed by the collars and hauled for the ride or up to and seduced by the filmmaker this film took the later route for me and by the end i was so involved that i felt daphne's horror and pain at her role in buddy's demise my reaction to this film reminded me of watching 'the cook the thief his wife and her by peter greenaway many many years ago by the end i was fascinated and repelled and utterly unable to tear my eyes away from that film too i've watched this film several times now and truly appreciate the eye and ear the director has demonstrated i am familiar with other works he has been done including a couple of cheeky movies and 'attack of the killer bimbos' and a mixed bag 'the which i recently learned was killed in the cradle by the producer and doesn't really represent the directors vision too bad because i loved the prior two films and even found 'the interesting but wish 'the was available in a director's cut with all of the original vision and music in tact i look forward to future work by this interesting director and the leads jessica and richard brundage
1	after reading about this documentary i rented it and watched it with my teenage children it was amazingly well balanced showing each side's perspective and leaving many questions unanswered this is as it should be i don't watch a documentary to be told what to think i watch it to learn and to draw my own conclusions br br afterward we took a trip to waco and visited the branch davidians at the site of the conflagration this was a potent lesson in seeing for yourself and it drove home the basic underlying honesty behind waco the rules of engagement if you just open your eyes and look the facts can speak for themselves
1	many people remember the waco standoff that occurred a long time ago what most people probably have ingrained in their minds is the cult leader david and the images of the compound burning to the ground after a long standoff a lot of people have the belief that was some kind of madman who thought he was god he was accused of being a child molester and was credited for the breakdown and deaths of his followers furthermore many people feel the cult committed mass suicide when the fbi stormed mount center and when the building was burning most people feel the cult was at fault for not agreeing with the fbi on reasonable terms most people feel the cult was brainwashed by and followed along with everything that he said nothing could be farther from the truth because of strong evidence after the nightmare was over and this one of a kind documentary pretty much proves it br br this documentary is one of the most balanced examinations at the situation that occurred it is much more thorough and highly detailed than anything most people have received in the mainstream media to the shock of many people this documentary will reveal that is was the the fbi and the higher levels of the united states government who were the ones who were unjust cruel and deceptive and not david and his followers what and davidians were doing was just protecting their constitutional rights and the higher powers completely violated and raped those rights the aft had no grounds to storm the compound it was the aft that shot first and they shot from the helicopters from above at unarmed men women and children what is even more shocking is the actions of the fbi when they entered the mount watch it for yourselves and you will develop and new perspective on the u s government there is infrared footage that clearly shows the fbi was shooting with machine guns at the men women and children in the burning compound it will make your blood boil it will make you really angry it will make you wonder as to what kind of people run this country finally it will make you wonder as to what you are being told on the news every night is the whole truth and nothing but the truth this video is frightening and i highly recommend it if one can find it this documentary does not need to be purchased it can be watched for free on google video
1	if you value your freedom br br i first got seriously interested in the branch debacle after reading an article in uk journal the times wanting to learn more i rented this documentary and after watching it i was stunned at what i saw this film peaked my interest in the subject and i have read several books on the subject since then this film is a must see for people who only know the facts as reported in the so called mainstream media the lies double talk and contradictory statements made by officials and politicians shown in this film will make you think twice about calling people who question the governments actions in this fiasco nuts loonies and kooks br br whats scary is that i know some people who consider themselves open minded intellectuals and freedom loving liberals who are still convinced that the government did the right thing at waco and refuse to watch this film or read any of the books on the subject they continue to insist its not worth their time because its all propaganda from gun loving clinton hating religious fanatic right wing anarchist nuts one publication from an organization comprised of many so called great minds that claims to be dedicated to promoting reason common sense and rationalism condemned the film claiming it would poison peoples minds and strongly suggested this film should be suppressed they even hinted the davidians had it coming i won't mention its name since i'm a coward if you are one of those reading this of course you probably would not be reading this anyway i can only say its a shame you won't open your mind
1	excellent documentary that still manages to shock and enlighten unfortunately times haven't changed much since this was made and it is thus an important piece for all freedom conscious americans to see
1	i watched a made for television film about the destruction at waco texas it was obviously heavily slanted toward the claim that david was a murderous child raping cult leader hell bent on killing as many cops as he wanted and taking his people to the heavens on a blood stained stairway br br the film was little more than propaganda further detailing what we had already read in the newspapers i am more and more sure of that since i watched the great documentary waco the rules of not that every assertion made in this film should be taken as god's truth but it tells the whole story rather than regurgitating only what law enforcement decided to tell br br for those who have forgot was the spiritual leader of the religious movement named the branch davidians charges of drug use kidnapping illegal weapon ownership and statutory rape among others i'm sure raised the suspicions of the local police then later federal law enforcement while attempting to serve a search warrant the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms and the clan participated in a shoot out that left deceased and wounded on both sides br br it was then that the federal bureau of investigation fbi got involved communications between the two were spirited but eventually broke down the fbi prepared for an invasion by assaulting the building with flash bang grenades and gas when the building burnt to the ground killing many within including the fbi refused to admit responsibility saying the cult inside must have set it on fire themselves this images of jim jones and other violent religious organizations br br the picture puts on many masks to tell its story it begins with a sampling of the congressional hearings perhaps the truth as far as the record is concerned anyway what is eye opening is how partisan the politicians remained even in a difficult and serious situation as this the democrats were concerned in nothing more than defending every single action taken by law enforcement it was the republicans that seemed open to the other side br br it is impossible to relate all of the new information and analysis provided by this documentary additionally a list would take away from the film opening up as it goes along one example would be the heart breaking fact that children died within the compound the filmmakers probably side more with the davidians in general but stay relatively open to either side in this instance the feds seem at fault for mishandling a situation that involves innocent children but on the other hand the parents also need to shoulder some of the blame for leaving their kids in this harmful situation when they could have released them to any number of local authorities br br probably the most damning new information comes late in the film and involves the fbi's claim they did not fire upon the building this is left up to interpretation and i will not reveal any more than to say it is disturbing and shocking what can and cannot be told br br the federal officers are not held in a critical or corrupt light any more than the largest condemnation seems to be leveled on the media unwilling to tell both sides of a story this element seems prevalent in recent documentaries duly so i believe it is time for the media to return to telling news stories and leave this relentless pursuit of what will draw the biggest audience and ratings br br it is hard to mess up a documentary in most cases switching on a camera and editing together interesting pieces of life is common and tells a terrific story what few can do is shed such new light on a subject that the way you think about it is forever altered waco is that kind of film 5 out of
1	when i began watching i thought i was watching some pro amateur documentary however i had never seen 3 4 of the footage they used they interviewed people saying that the fbi instigated all these things which sounded so far fetched but then followed in up with fbi video and testimony i was amazed the documentary followed up with the senate investigation after the fire and after seeing the interview and video footage you will be shocked at how the senate and attorney general turn their backs on davidians basically to cover up the aggression by the fbi if you start watching this you must finish it otherwise you will think it is propaganda of something like that
1	the film someone had to make br br waco the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that led to the destruction of the branch homestead and the alleged government cover up br br the first thing you need to know about this film you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies this is not done for shock value but to illustrate points about the way they died as if you were present at the coroner's inquest br br the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hours it's pretty ponderous especially if you already followed the events closely at the time if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report this may be essential viewing if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one sided version of events you should see waco the big lie br br in summary this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and is very sobering but as a work of film making could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it's at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the 60 minutes reports br br perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect and their charismatic leaders all rock musicians themselves picking up their instruments and turning their massive outward to blast their own music right back at them
1	waco rules of engagement does a very good job of not drawing conclusions for its viewers it simply presents interviews footage from the standoff footage of the congressional hearings phone conversations expert testimony etc and allows you to draw your own conclusion br br i hardly intend to imply that the data presented here was done with 100 objectivity but it is very convincing you won't like any more after you see this than you did before but i tend to think that you will come to believe as i now do there is much that we were not told about what happened before and during the standoff
1	absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story told with unflinching eye and with gripping style if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people this could change your mind something for you feds too a good model for government coverups if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you
1	if you want to see real evidence of what a misguided and unchecked government can do to un popular people this movie provides it read what some people are saying about the patriot act passed after 9 11 and then watch this movie is it worth it do we really want to give away our freedoms to these people regardless of what you saw on tv you are not fully informed until you watch this movie i apologize for quoting another reviewer but it needs repeating roger ebert of siskel ebert said what's interesting is if you're looking for people who are unbalanced zealots you don't find them among the branch davidians you find them among the fbi and the alcohol tobacco and firearms those are the people in this movie who deserve to be feared i think i think every person responsible for 9 11 needs to be brought to justice but i think the government has not shown a history of honoring it's duty to protect people's rights and this movie proves it in dramatic fashion
1	you are alone is a beautiful almost delicate film smart directed crisply written with two complex and riveting performances and a twist of an ending that no one will see coming but will make you want to see the film a second time to go back and catch up on all the clues you br br the story about a highschool girl who drowns her depression and awkwardness by working a few hours a week as a 500 an hour schoolgirl escort and the depressed next door neighbor who discovers her secret and hires her for an afternoon call in a downtown new haven hotel features breathtaking performances from both jessica as the girl and richard brundage as her neighbor br br as daphne gives a breakthrough performance on par with maggie gyllenhaal in secretary she so captures a teenager's angst of growing into her own skin and when she talks about always being in control you start to realize she's not in control at all but in danger of going over the deep end which i guess in a way she does br br brundage as buddy is depressed angry heartbroken a shell of a man but it isn't until the film's startling conclusion that you grasp a full comprehension of his pain br br after a very brief opening segment which will hook most independent film lovers and have the religious right running towards the exits we are brought into the hotel room at first you're not sure about these people or the film making style shaky annoying like the characters until you realize their back story told in short flashbacks they're confrontational at first for a reason and so is the camera but as they open up as the story settles down likewise so does the camera and i don't know 20 minutes in give or take you find yourself unable to take your eyes away from the screen br br having just seen the world premiere screening at the brooklyn film fest where the director asked the audience if anyone expected the ending and not one person answered yes – i almost wish the film were already on video so i could watch it again because thinking back now on some of the conversations in the film particularly a very candid dialog regarding fantasy and climax i really thought things were going in a very different direction but i realize now so much of their conversation meant something completely different than what i imagined i need to see it again but as dark and sexual as much of the talk is blunt to say the least i found myself laughing more than i might have expected at some of its candor which definitely falls into the things we think but lack the nerve to say out loud category it's very blunt especially when you realize so much of it has a completely different meaning some of it will make you uncomfortable especially if you're watching you are alone with a partner you'll definitely have something to talk about – perhaps argue about – afterwards perhaps it should come with a warning you should be alone when watching the music is amazing i would have come home and purchased the soundtrack at my favorite online music store if i could have the film looks as good as anything shot on film after the screening director was asked what sort of process he used to get the digital footage to look so good his answer none they couldn't afford it br br i have to give credit i am a big fan of his two shorts the pretty girl and objects in the mirror but even they could not have prepared me for the complexities and surprises of this film br br to everyone involved bravo
1	there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi and at the very worst an act of murder like most people when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult after seeing this i think that was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s government through his eccentric actions sure there were lots of weapons at the branch compound but none of it was illegal it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site the clueless testimony of janet reno and the partisan defense of the attack on waco a defense led by a few of the committee democrats standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s senator from ny charles i voted for the man when i lived in ny state i'm a democrat pretty left leaning too after seeing his actions on this committee i wish i could go back in time and vote for d'amato instead for anyone remotely interested in the government this is a very crucial film a must see i even think this should be shown in classes it's that important
1	after watching waco the rules of engagement i was just sitting in disbelief of what i was witness to a big cover up by the fbi a massacre by gung ho trigger happy government agents i clearly remember the waco standoff i was 17 years old at the time and watched it all on cnn i remembered reflecting about all the children as i watched the mount camel compound burn in april 1993 i remember feeling sorry for the children but clearly felt that it was the fault of their evil leader david and the other davidians film shows clearly and beyond doubt even though it is biased that the fbi lied over and over again i think that this film was a big contributor to the reopening of a new investigation of the incident in 1999 the outcome of this new investigation was in some sense predictable the judgement relied on fact that was just as grey as the facts that the davidians presented i was very disappointed about the verdict because as far as i know it didn't take into account all the lying misinformation and evidence cover up by the fbi and other officials why have no one be prosecuted for hampering the work of the texas rangers investigators why were they allowed to contaminate the crime scene and the compound shortly after the incident these are questions that i haven't been given answers to by the government most importantly what about the children in this new investigation i haven't been informed about who was responsible for spraying the cs flammable tear gas into a compound with many hazards for igniting this gas and i haven't found any answer to whether the children's muscles contracted due to the effects of the gas while they were alive if they did i would surely think that the janet reno or who ever was in charge of the raid should be indicted for mass homicide or manslaughter the question that was raised by but not mentioned is was is a direct plan for the people in charge and their tanks to cut holes and burn the building down with intent a plan that would have been accomplished with 112 or were the officials in charge so incompetent that their were unaware of the consequence of their actions both are equally frightening even if the davidians set fire to the compound the officials in charge surely provided them with the opportunity to do the job if the officials in charge knew as they claimed that the davidians would set fire to the compound why the did the tanks cut all the holes in the building making it into a furnace and why didn't they have plans to deal with the fire that they knew would occur dark questions that still won't go away the final and most relevant issue of this film is the way that the davidians are demonized by the government through the media who just feeds it in to the public i clearly remember the resentment i felt for the evil davidians that i saw on cnn in 1993 now that i'm older i can see a clear line of communication coming out of the government every time they are gearing up for a massacre of civilians along with the intended targets demonizing people with words like they have different unlawful values then us they don't enjoy freedom and they are a threat to our freedoms and way of life makes them so much easier to
1	rules of engagement is one of the best documentaries i have ever seen it is well constructed superbly pieced together and provides excellent footage to back up the assertions that it takes on the movie's best quality is that it is not based on being sympathetic to the as much as it enlightens the audience to the blatant governmental mistakes and lies that surrounded the entire situation i'm left with feelings of disturbing anxiety and extreme anger over the way that the government handled and then covered up a tragedy of this magnitude the cover up is what left me really fuming it is one thing to make a mistake in an operation and admit guilt but another to look the american people squarely in the eye and lie to them i guess it shouldn't surprise me with the history of our beloved country that has seen the jfk assassination the vietnam war and other significant events that smell so bad of a cover up that you have to hold your nose every time you drive through washington d c the footage from an airplane with special heat sensing technology and the autopsies on some of the bodies clearly show that the fbi is lying to the public one of the things that i try to stay aware of when watching a documentary such as this is that i am usually only receiving testimony from one point of view but again that is without a doubt one of the brilliant successes of rules of engagement it presents its evidence in such a concluding fashion that even if you were presented with statements from the fbi how could you really believe them i remember clearly when the standoff was taking place the way the media presented the as this crazed group of cult rebels with david the self professed reborn jesus christ as their leader none of this was truly factual but rather story spun from bits and pieces of facts they were simply standing up for there rights to bear arms and practice their religion as american citizens if you were the and you wanted to search the compound is attacking the building with a unit of men who are armed with rifles and bullet proof suits the way to go about doing it if you are the fbi why engage in psychological warfare and offer little in actual negotiation to help solve the situation why pour gallons of harmful gas if you want to save children why open large holes within the compound structure when you know the possibility of starting a fire why lie about not firing weapons when it can be clearly shown on video unless unless you wanted to see the situation end up the way it did the scene at the end when the star of david flag blew off the flagpole into the fire and the was shortly thereafter raised up was an emotional climatic scene that made my head shake in disgust and my stomach turn uncontrollably the filmmaker william deserves one my highest congratulations it takes a lot of guts to make a movie like this and i am sure there have been many repercussions from the government for it as well because of people like him the public can be shown real truth rather than crap that gets filtered through a media that presents information that can hardly be considered genuine when i think back to how i felt at the time toward the because of the media's representation of david and how i felt after seeing this movie it is truly amazing it reminds me of the line from the bible of a man who was healed by jesus and asked by the elders how it happened before i was blind but now i can see he kept telling them do yourself a favor and watch this movie you may have to look for it but it is truly something special
1	things that are only just now news were taken as a given in this shocking documentary i fear that as the investigation proceeds the producers of this film will be vindicated in spades br br the producers show us the davidians the government agents the investigators with all their faults and all their humanity nothing any reviewer can say could approach the impact of watching and listening for yourself pieces of evidence congressional testimony 911 tapes news footage expert commentary interviews photos and home videos are seamlessly woven together and tell a disturbing tale br br do not wait see this film and tell your friends
1	seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel gets into his mustang which is parked under the freeway now torn down and notices the charger sitting you know you are about to see something spectacular from that moment on when mcqueen starts that car begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed adding to it is a terrific lalo if i remember correctly sound track this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing that shot of mcqueen's mustang suddenly appearing in bill rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect then of course san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends also bullitt being filmed in the 60s when cars were still hot mustang gt and dodge charger made for a better set of wheels then two boring smog device laden in the 1970s seven ups bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene seven ups had a few jumps over little hills yawn but of course they were not san francisco hills the seven ups chase where they are actually going fast is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy pontiac is the height of absurdity strictly hollywood i would say except that it was filmed in new york
1	a compact crime drama with a good amount of action the unique nyc location shots adds to this tough little film technically well done with good direction and acting needless to say the wild car chase that seems to begin in downtown extends through the upper west side washington heights across the george washington bridge and into nj has to be one of the best ever on film all around a fine flick that for me gets better with time 8 out of 10 easy
1	roy scheider is not steve mcqueen or clint eastwood but then who is the seven ups is one of the better cop movies even today and is second only to mcqueen's bullitt and the dirty harry series which isn't bad company there are three things that seem to make a good cop movie believable script with great acting great car chase scenes and some heavy action this movie has all three and the car chase scene is better than that in dirty harry scheider plays the head of a group of cops out to get bad guys sentenced to seven years or more hence the name seven ups overall not quite up to dirty harry or bullitt but far better than all of the cop movies made since the dirty harry series 9 10
1	this is a good enough movie and you probably won't be disappointed but it again has roy scheider right after he did french connection playing a cop with the name they also use the same too memorable from bullitt at first you'll think you've seen the car chase before if you have his face still in your memory the car chase is a great one but as in many car movie scenes it has some technical and editing errors check puppet on a chain and french connection ii for some other good long intense chases
1	i recently got the seven ups on video and i must say it was a very enjoyable movie roy scheider and tony lo bianco are great as the cop and crook respectively and a young richard lynch is great as psycho henchman moon the late bill hickman is pretty good as his associate bo and sets up a brilliant car chase sequence which will have you on the edge of your seats the other three members of the seven ups team are pretty bland but that's only to be expected br br i'm glad that a lot of people on this site have supported this movie i think it should be a film that should be released on dvd and not just forgotten i certainly enjoyed every minute of it the final scene between the two leads is excellent as the bad guy must face the consequences of his actions the seven ups does not disappoint
1	how did they get that cinematic shot of the car colliding with the back end of the semi and then roy sits up great looks like the dvd is scheduled for may of 2006 about time watch this on a large screen or film revival in a theater if possible in order to fully appreciate the full aspect ratio my other favorites in this category are original italian job with michael caine bullit with steve mcqueen to live and die in la with the csi guy when he was young french connection with gene hackman ronin with robert deniro vanishing point with barry newman enemy of the state with hackman again what are your favorites
1	some people are born with mourning souls with their song sung singularly until they encounter another soul as tortured and or as bitterly sweetly beautiful as their own and an unusual magic happens you are alone is a brutally honest look into two tortured souls that intertwine for a moment of understanding and oneness only to be torn apart by the differences in the oneness between they're pain death is explored figuratively and literally it is what happens when ones soul is dead or similarly too alive too awake to reality it is the life not which you imagined behind the eyes of passer this film explores the aching pain in us all the frown beneath the cheery facade the ache below the ugly instinctual animalistic thoughts and acts become honest and matter of fact and then sprinkles a dash of unexpected innocence and beauty into the mix knowing both linger in us all the writer is a expert observer of the human condition and because of his non judgmental attitude presents life in a light we often shield our eyes from but yearn to see and understand he as director focuses on the nuances of the actors spirit that shines through the character they're playing to the actors own personal familiarity with the emotions brought on by each situation this is the most accurately written and directed character portrayal of a man and woman's experience together i have encountered as of yet even though the two characters encounter is probably not the normal encounter br br the soundtrack encapsulates in each songs lyrics what the characters would let their hearts spill out if able and strong enough it is each characters real voice sung through the beauty pain talent and emotional intelligence of emerging indie artists ready to explode onto the alternative music market the perfect soundtrack for those of us with issues those of us who admit that we have issues and those of us that hide it br br i always enjoy exploring the darker sides of life with mr both fascinatingly creative and realistic view of life and the characters that revolve within it
1	this film is a classic seventies cop flick that for some reason has been sadly overlooked it is basically french connection meets bullit br br roy scheider plays the head of an elite group of detectives known as the seven ups br br one of their men is discovered during an undercover op and is killed br br scheider and his team must find his killers they become involved in a battle with the mob br br the highlight of the film has to be the car chase obviously included to cash in on the success of bullit however this car chase outshines bullitt due to its length speed and sheer excitement it's a breathtaking roller coaster ride that ends rather unexpectedly and spectacularly don't miss this little gem
1	the seven ups is a good and engrossing film it's packed with credible performances by scheider and an effective scary performance by richard lynch although most of the characters are card board cut out tough guys character development does not evolve at all on the screen the only thing we know is the good guys are the good guys and the bad guys are bad deviating from the crime story norm the seven ups manage to throw scheider and crew into the middle of a building plot in a unique writing twist locations of new york city and an excellent choreographed car chase highlight the film the only downside of the film is the slightly confusing plot line in the beginning they give the viewer little evidence that the men being kidnapped are mob related until later in the film had someone blindly started watching the film may be slightly confused on the story otherwise the seven ups is a gritty testosterone filled enjoyable time
1	this movie is not about the soda nor is it quite the french connection br br the seven ups are a group of elite policemen that use tactics not in accordance with protocol of the nypd scheider heads the group with his posse or regular looking joes they are running surveillance on a local cartel and things go awry when a cop's wire is found out br br meanwhile richard lynch the most evil looking man in film invasion america little nikita and his partner end up killing the cop by accident and escape from scheider in the coolest chase scene i've seen bullitt and french connection are not as good as they one up the west side to the george washington and onto the palisades in new jersey br br the stunt drivers are terrific and lynch makes it away free though he looks scared witless from the dangerous trip roy scheider is nearly killed when his car slams into the abutted rear of mack truck ripping the roof of his vehicle off br br things come to a head and one has to keep watching to follow up on such a sequence quick moving and intense fresh for a thirty years
1	while both this movie and the signature car chase have been shown a lack of respect by many critics both are way above average roy scheider does an excellent job playing his best type a tough courageous cop who works hard to get the job done in spite of the desk drivers and politicians who should be supporting him rather than hindering he played a version of this same role as the tourist town police chief in jaws not nearly as gritty but the same get the job done despite the politicians and gutsy approach if a man who can't swim and is terrified of everything in the water going out on an old boat with an ahab wannabee and a nerd to confront a huge killer shark isn't gutsy then tell me what is br br tony lo bianco is good as a surprisingly complex villain most of the villains in fact have some depth and complexity this is one of those movies that gets better with repeated viewings overall it captures the atmosphere of parts of ny city gritty unglamorous often dangerous but filled with energy the story is spare tight and subtle it gets the job done without extraneous elements it may not be one of the all time greats but it is an exceptionally good movie br br everyone has an opinion about car chases mine is that this one is right up there with the mustang vs dodge charger chase in bullitt the pontiac ventura chevy nova was similar to the mustang in being a compact car with beefed up suspension and a powerful small block stuffed into an engine bay meant for an insipid 6 the ventura got little respect off the drag strip but with the proper suspension mods they made affordable performance cars that could handle on both the road and the track the bawling of those gm as they wind up is music to the ear i've heard this chase criticized for imitating the bullitt chase the truth is that they are two works by the same master bill hickman who also choreographed and drove for the french connection chase besides driving most of the car chase scenes he created a brooding malevolent presence and a good match with richard lynch as a pair of coldly evil killers br br yes the chase has realism errors often noted like the use of 3 different ny roads to represent the palisades the ending of the chase in a crash with an 18 wheeler on a roadway for passenger vehicles only and the miraculous timing that allows all pedestrians to escape harm that's beside the point let's face it movie car chases are unreal by nature in bullitt the french connection and the seven ups however bill hickman and phillip crafted chases far more realistic and therefore more exciting than the flying rolling exploding vehicle fantasy chases so common in recent films
1	this movie has a great chase scene if you listen to the soundtrack when the cars are chasing each other it sounds very much like the soundtrack from the movie bullet you'll hear the shifting of a 4 speed and they'll show the brake pedal in roy schneider's car it's an automatic brake pedal i think one of the funniest moments in the movie is when the bad guy richard lynch is looking at the driver of the car they are in like the guy is nuts the crook who runs the garage is also the guy who in the the first rocky movie boss good movie also when the door gets ripped off you can see the guy sitting in the car just flinging the door open the guy who helps him out of the car kind of looks like mr brady from the brady bunch doesn't he
1	buddy manucci roy scheider solid in a chance leading role heads a secret undercover police squad called the seven ups whose tactics don't necessarily follow the exact ways of the law they get the job done in their own way without anything being leaked to the press and this gives them a freedom to expand their means of getting to the criminals most working detectives and policeman just can not nab buddy has a pal from childhood named vito tony lo bianco who swaps information with him regarding mob types and shysters working the streets in nyc what buddy doesn't know is that vito is hatching a scheme using names from buddy's check list he has this book open taking down notes provided by vito but doesn't know that his friend has copied those very names written within his mind to set up mob families in a series of mob kidnappings eliciting cash thanks to two cop posers moon the always villainous richard lynch and bo bill hickman working with him when this scheme goes awry with one of the seven ups being killed vito becomes fearful because he knows how buddy can be when he's doggedly after someone especially when one of his own is murdered br br extremely underrated cop flick has thrilling car chase through new york city as buddy follows the kidnapping cop imposter's trying to get them after killing his partner the film isn't overly complex after the plot is set up and we realize who is the ring leader in the scheming of mobsters scheider has never been given the credit he deserves as a fine lead actor he has emotional range and we see how losing his cop and friend takes it's toll on him the film is briskly paced with good action sequences and sets up an interesting plot of betrayal between friends as greed comes before that childhood friendship and how what seems like a smooth crime spree against evil mob families can get cops killed
1	a team of tough rogue new york cops led by the rugged hard nosed buddy manucci superbly played by the always excellent roy scheider go after a group of nasty mobsters involved in a kidnapping ring after one of their number gets killed by them director philip the producer of bullet and the french connection ably creates a potent gritty starkly amoral no nonsense tone maintains a steady pace throughout and stages the action scenes with considerable rip roaring vigor don ellis' rousing string score further pumps up the intensity while the scrappy big apple locations and rough grainy cinematography both greatly enhance the overall grungy realism moreover the fine line distinguishing cops from criminals gets chillingly blurred in this picture the titular squad use harsh brutish and morally dubious strong arm tactics as a means to an end for enforcing the law and there's certainly no code of honor amongst the thugs and thieves who populate the seedy urban underbelly that's vividly depicted in this movie nice supporting performances by tony lo bianco as wormy sniveling snitch vito lucia the undertaker richard lynch as vicious psychotic hoodlum moon bill hickman as moon's equally coldblooded partner bo jerry leon as funky and joe spinell as a parking garage attendant an extremely wild and exciting protracted heart in your throat mondo destructo car chase qualifies as a definite highlight the climactic shootout likewise delivers the stirring goods a real bang up little winner
1	the seven ups seems like a replay of the french connection which was released two years prior both the late roy scheider and tony lo bianco make appearances as well as stunt driver bill hickman br br but we aren't dealing with french drug baddies instead we are dealing with a war against assorted hoods and criminals after a cop is brutally killed by a hoodlum we get to see unpleasantness and a pre 1990s new york city br br i love watching this film because it is exciting to see the action and it is a reminder of a cooler time that said when one compares the car chases mr hickman had involvement in the three most compared this movie bullitt and the french connection each chase scene has its own qualities and this one is simply superb br br and i am glad this title has seen the light of day on dvd
1	having grown up in new jersey and having spent many a day and night on the gritty streets of new york in the 1970's watching a film like the seven ups or its kindred spirit the french connection always evokes fond memories of a time and place which for some might have been darkest hour but which for me in my early twenties was always one fun filled adventure after another i truly miss those times as one reviewer remarked this film very aptly captures the stark cold matter of fact feel of the nyc winter season while keenly exposing the underbelly of the region's infamous underworld of crime and policing a great snapshot of a place and a time and a culture a spot on characterization of both the film and the city the stellar attributes of this film the plot the cast the characters and of course the car chase are amply described in many of the reviews here so i won't go into that except to say that one of my favorite moments occurs during the car chase when the camera focuses on richard lynch riding shotgun to the maniacal bill hickman the look of horror on richard lynch's face along with the defensive gestures are so out of character for an actor much better known as a source of terror rather than an object of it that it is actually comical to watch i get a chuckle out of it every time
1	i was born in '68 with not much parental guidance as far as what i watched on tv as a kid in the 70's i always loved this movie and the french connection and would always try to catch it whenever it was on checking the sunday tv guide ahead of time i bought it on dvd a few years ago and have watched it twice since then and i must say i still love it roy s was a great actor from the 70's jaws is one of my all time marathon man etc and although the 7 ups is not an oscar worthy film it puts you precisely in a time a place ny early 70's as did french connection and gives you some tough characters and a glimpse of life as a cop at that time and yes the car chase is one of the all time best
1	i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you you are alone is that movie for me the film is constantly in my head and in my heart i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again as if i am seeing it for the first time br br there is nothing i did not like about the movie amazing soundtrack the ending was perfect very emotionally stirring it was compelling and riveting br br i adored jessica and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed i admired strength what a strong woman br br the tag line is when your darkest moments come to life we never know what we are capable of doing everyone says oh i would never do that when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part br br thank you for a perfect piece of art
1	he plays straight but with a quiet intensity that makes him one of the top cops in movie history roy scheider stars in a poor man's french connection that has a little of the same gritty appeal fc is a better movie but i prefer watching this one because 1 i think scheider is great and this is his best movie and 2 this has the best car chase ever one that makes bullitt look like a cable production thanks again to bill hickman who actually plays the driver it doesn't hurt that tony stops by again to play a baddie please enjoy
1	spoilers buried under a mountain of medical bills and his funeral business not being able to dig him out from under them undertaker vito lucia tony lo bianco came up with a plan to make a load of cash with the help of his two crooked pals moon bo richard lynch bill hickman br br vito getting close with his boyhood friend buddy manucci roy scheider as a mob informer to win over buddy's trust and have him tell vito what's coming down on the streets of new york in regard to mob activities buddy is a cop who works in a sub rosa unite of the nypd the seven ups that does things their way to clean up the streets of new york of criminals br br vito gets information from buddy and makes it look to buddy that he's really giving him tips about the mob and what it's up too and uses that information to tip off his hoodlum associates moon bo to rip the mobsters off of their weekly take as well as kidnap top mob loan sharks and hold them for ransom br br everything is going well for vito co until the mob decides to retaliate and mistakenly grabs beats and kidnaps a member of the seven ups ken kercheval who was working undercover thinking he was one of the hoods who was kidnapping and ripping them off later was accidentally killed by moon when he blasted out the trunk of the car that was locked in thinking that there was a suitcase full or cash ransom in it br br fast pace and exciting movie with that gritty and grimy photography of new york city that was so effective in the movie the french connection which also stars both roy scheider tony lo bianco who are in this movie too incredible car chase that started in downtown brooklyn and ended up in the wilds of new jersey some 15 to 20 miles away with buddy almost ending up decapitated for his heroic efforts br br roy scheider who is not a big man is as tough and effective as any big action actor i can think off like clint eastwood would have been in the same movie scheider reminds me a lot of he even looks a bit like him former and champion gene who beat the great sugar ray robinson for the championship back in 1957 and acts like him too in the movie tough durable and destructive br br tony lo bianco is very good as vito the undertaker the lowlife heel who plays off buddy and the mob to the point that leads to buddy's partner getting killed even though he's trash you can't in a way not help feeling sorry for vito since he only wants the money he gets from the ripped offed mobsters to pay his sick wife's rose's hospital and medical bills even the fact that was killed due to his actions vito never wanted anybody to get hurt but like they say when you play with fire you end up getting burned in the end vito have a lot of explaining to do to the not so sympathetic and caring mobsters br br the movie the seven ups has the late bill hickman doing the dangerous stunts with the car chases as well as act in the film hickman was also the stunt man in both great movies that had him doing the driving on the roads streets and highways of new york city and san francisco the french connection and bullitt
1	i love the other reviews of this movie they mirror my attitude i am a 70's sort of guy minus disco and star wars childishness there was nothing great about this movie except for a chase scene that is why it was good because it was tough basic and economical roy scheider carried the movie which was based on the crew the 7 ups that backed up gene hackman in the french connection the people in it were believable and average who burned themselves pouring coffee showed fear in chase scene and almost lost it after a close call crash br br maybe it would be easier to tell you what it lacked there was no fancy weapons just basic revolvers and crude sawed off shotguns there was no tough guy philosophizing ala tarantino there was no kung fu or samurai nonsense and no fancy trick shooting either there was no clever guy who carries out some complicated scheme based on hundreds of things going just the way he planned including everyone else's reactions the criminals were bad guys but they didn't shoot people for the hell of it as a matter of fact there was a body count of just three something that the average movie these days would pass in the opening credits it could be a g movie today no bus load of orphan school children were kidnapped nor were terrorists threatening to kill half of the city there were no high tech hijinks nor were the crimes themselves very moving or ingenious the highest tech thing i saw was a touch tone wall phone it had no subplots or amusing character developments also no sex or women except for one mobster's wife who did some screaming as the buddy our hero had her menaced br br it was some little undertaker who exploited his connections with the local mob and the police to kidnap local mobsters for some easy payoffs the undertakers vito was played by tony lo bianco who did a great job as good as roy schneider buddy the head of 7 ups cop whom he informed and exploited what ever happened to tony lo bianco he seemed like a pacino shoe in good looking and talented what it did have was a great nyc backdrop to a simple crime story locations that were bleak and dehumanizing without being a sociological study it had a simple plot that involved this kidnapping scheme where one of buddy's cop got accidentally involved literally accidentally dragged in then accidentally shot dead since buddy and his 7 ups are a hot dogs unit both the nypd brass and mobsters thought he was involved since the kidnappers masqueraded as plain clothes cops to lure the mobsters into compliance obviously the mobsters figured they had lawyers and rights to protect them from normal police even the mobsters were plain old and ugly no godfather royalty or soprano hipness here br br it is a good basic movie with a standout chase scene between two 70's d even the cars were plain and economical not even a gto or a trans am like the acting and the story in the days of batman uber hype or 24 levels of intensity doomsday scenarios this movie reminds us that less is better it should be shown to movie screen writers and directors as a caveat not to dazzle amuse then ultimately insult us with stunts gadgets and clown psychotic behavior galore
1	i think the lineage may run like this pay attention please because i had to look this up in 1967 peter yates an ex auto racer directs the english caper movie robbery the most thrilling part of which is a car chase through the streets of london down alleys where there are crowds of children playing and all that it's a success br br a year later yates directs bullet starring steve i mean mcqueen featuring another even more spectacular car chase up and down the san francisco hills with dumbfoundingly authentic engine sounds that seem to include double clutching full race cams no mufflers twelve cylinder engines under forty foot hoods supercharged and all five thousand horsepower running at full tilt lots of shots of mcqueen's gum chewing visage scowling with concentration as he tries to bump another car off the highway though a passenger in the other vehicle totes a shotgun the chase is staged by philip bill hopkins drives the criminal vehicle br br a year or two later sensing a good thing bill friedkin directs the french connection featuring a chase between a commandeered cop car gene hackman and an elevated train in new york city lots of shots of hackman's cursing face as he wrestles the battered car through the streets the chase is staged by philip academy awards follow br br sensing a good thing a year or two more brings us the seven ups featuring a chase between a car driven by roy scheider with lots of shots of scheider's cursing face as he tries to bump the other car which is driven by bill hopkins off the road although the criminal car to be sure carries a shotgun toting passenger no hills in new york city just bumps but they are still sharp enough to elevate the cars a few feet the pursued car screeches around a corner and dashes down a street on which a dozen children are playing shots of the screaming kids as they scatter off the pavement and allows the car to zoom through but once is not enough the children immediately run back into the street and must repeat the retreat for the pursuing cop car carrying scheider br br i once witnessed a pursuit at high speed on the streets of philadelphia both the criminal and the cops drove through the streets at about 25 miles an hour coming to rolling stops at each stop sign and red light very dull stuff compared to this movie br br speaking of this movie it's pretty good robbery and bullet were cool everyone dressed neatly but the new york movies are filthy there's garbage all over the place and the subway cars are covered with graffiti shoot outs and beat ups take place in vacant lots surrounded by crumbling brick buildings or in disposal dumps for industrial sized br br the acting is pretty good too roy scheider seems whippet sleek the other actors have faces made for the camera especially richard welsh and the story is engaging if not entirely unfamiliar what's best about the film is the way it captures new york city in its almost total indifference to human depravity and nobility at a funeral the limo drivers stand around with their collars up butts hanging out of their mouths kicking their cold feet together utterly bored at the ritual goings on the film wants us to believe that the seven ups are an elite group of untouchable cops who stop at nothing to get the job done and here it's a bit of a sell out they always seems to be threatening to do something unethical and illegal beat hell out of a suspect or physically damage a hospitalized and helpless hood but they always manage to avoid doing it if they actually did it their characters would become lifelike and ambiguous and we'd rather have our heroes and villains of a more biblical nature very enjoyable even if you've seen it before and you very well may have in one or another of its previous incarnations
1	i'm not much for cop movies but this one is supposedly a classic when i found it cheap i bought it and stuck it on a shelf only to finally get around to watching it yesterday and i liked it now you can have new york city but as a setting for a film like this in the winter months it's perfect roy scheider is a member of an elite police task group called the seven ups which are 5 guys that fight crime undercover in an opening scene they recover a shoebox full of money from an antique store by distracting the crooks with a bull in a china shop routine but that's only the beginning seems that there are two guys posing as cops that are kidnapping mob types and holding them for ransom richard lynch happens to be one of these sleaze bags and he's as creepy as ever when one of the seven ups who is posing as a limo driver at a funeral gets his cover blown he's beaten and stuffed into the trunk of a car which then leads to perhaps one of the most exciting car chases i've seen amazing though how light traffic in nyc is for chase scenes but still this is rather amazing as scheider follows the two kidnappers through what i'm guessing is the bronx and then onto a and then eventually scheider's car comes to a screeching halt in one of the most heart stopping finales to a chase scene that i've ever witnessed anyway since the cop ends up dying scheider and his men are under suspicion because the police commissioner knows so little about their activities he wonders if they're on the make by kidnapping mobsters so of course this kind of thinking needs to be nipped in the bud scheider is relentless getting to the bottom of things overall a decent cop action drama not really my thing but i liked this one look for joe spinell maniac in a small role 7 out of 10
1	what you saw in bullitt and the french connection is nothing compared to what you have here the chase goes on for nearly 15 minutes and is the best you'll ever see this movie has become a classic crime drama from the heyday of 70's film making it's a gritty and realistic portrayal of the mean streets of new york city featuring one of the slickest wise guys ever put on screen tony lo behavior in this movie is cool as ice he's ripping off his own associates and making it look like the police are responsible his childhood friend roy scheider is a street detective who becomes puzzled by the disappearances of the mobsters you can tell that lo enjoying the game throughout the movie at times though the film gets dull but then right when you feel like giving up on it something big happens and it pulls you back in the score by don ellis sets the tone of the cold gray in new york city and to top it all off my man joe spinell shows up in an early role as the garage man br br score 7 out of 10 stars
1	one of my favorites as a child growing up in the ny metro area in the late 60s and early 70s i was often afforded the opportunity to visit nyc with my grandfather or father as they conducted business there the gritty bustling human reality of that city particularly in winter have stayed with me br br this film very aptly captures the stark cold matter of fact feel of the nyc winter season while keenly exposing the underbelly of the region's infamous underworld of crime and policing a great snapshot of a place and a time and a culture br br and the car chase is simply amazing at least on par with the one in bullitt and surpassing the chase in the french connection i can watch time and again as the suspension comes unstuck on that plymouth fury police cruiser barreling toward the gw bridge in pursuit as it lurches into that sharp right curve bouncing and scraping into oncoming traffic the stunt driving coordinator for that scene did bullitt and the french connection as well as many other movie chases good acting too and a decent plot line the musical score is edgy and compelling and the cinematography and direction are top notch a great if underrated 1970s cop drama a keeper not out on dvd yet though br br comparable in style and content to the french connection and super fly early 1970's cop dramas set in the bleak nyc winter months
1	it is now clear that the true golden age of american film was from the mid 60s until just before the release of star wars before then there was too much hays code constricted pap with star wars the green light was lit for most films to be directed at children and morons a practice which continues to this day the seven ups truth be told contains a couple hackneyed lines of dialogue we can do this the easy way or we can do it the hard way is one but i'm damned if i can find anything else wrong with it in fact that line may not even have been stale when this film was made the seven ups demonstrates all that was right with the best films of the golden age sparse dialogue realistic acting real locations winter in a dirty new york has never looked better worse stories and yes the best car chase ever filmed bill hickman is the driver scheider is chasing you will recognize him from bullitt and the structure of the chase is fairly similar to the mcqueen one but i prefer scheider's facial intensity here the pacing the terrific close ups of the schoolchildren and the shattering conclusion that vw bug going about 2 mph always bothers me in the bullitt chase a stringy screechy score by don ellis sets the perfect mood the seven ups bleak grim action oriented grown up this is a film that couldn't be made today there's no gimmick for the kiddies or preposterous ending thank you philip roy scheider and tony lo bianco for as long as cop films are watched the seven ups and its 1970s brethren e g the french connection will set the standard
1	'steamboat willie' is the first cartoon with sound mickey mouse is working on a steamboat on board he is making music with all kind of tools most of those tools are farm animals this first one with sound is one of the better and funnier ones it has some very clever moments a short classic
1	just can't watch this bit too many times it's full of true enthusiasm and cleverness mickey mouse had in his first 30 years mickey is an smart ass little whiner when compared this steamboat willie always makes me smile at least the ending where mickey laughs after hitting a parrot with a potato animation is very nice and although steamboat willie has no dialog the music is enough for it br br imho if this bit doesn't deserve 10 10 then any cartoon doesn't not only because it's a true classic but also because it's so full of joy and it's always fun to watch
1	the 1980's 'my dinner with andre ' with wallace shawn and andre gregory is essentially a dialog about the world and how it affects and can lift the spirit 2005's 'you are alone' demonstrates how common worldly events can shatter the soul br br the story revolves around three principal characters there's daphne a pretty teenage student who frets about virtually every decision in her life then there's the prostitute or paid escort britney as self confident as daphne is self conscious what makes them interesting is that they share the same body if not the same personae part of the magic of this film occurs in one of the early scenes where daphne approaches a door of an aged hotel room she halts and is obviously torn by the decision of whether or not to knock on the door – but it is britney that effortlessly glides into the room when the door is opened br br on the other side of that door is buddy a middle aged nobody with few if any personal qualities that anyone would find attractive he goes so far as to be confrontational about britney's chosen profession as soon as she enters the room however we soon learn that buddy is daphne's next door neighbor and has watched through the years as she grew from little girl to womanhood this complicates things for the audience is buddy just being a concerned neighbor or does he want something else br br if it's sex that buddy wants here it is britney loves sex her definitions may be but that doesn't lesson her enthusiasm she prefers older men and wears a rainbow of plastic wristbands that her clients are invited to chose from each color band denotes a specific act that she'll perform – but exactly which act isn't revealed until after the band is broken off her wrist and the choice is irrevocably made br br britney is or believes that she is in control of every encounter even when blindfolded and bound as she is by one of her regular clients she imagines her arms and body being stroked by multiple men but her legs and pubic area being by a woman in blood red lingerie the film's imagery just keeps coming br br buddy's pathetic life is one of acceptance he's lost his wife his dog even his fantasies of the pretty teenager next door it's no coincidence that he's lured daphne or britney to this particular hotel room there's a painting on the wall of a dinner plate with only a fish head left this is a perfect metaphor for buddy's life all of the good parts are finished so it's here where he brought his wife when they were still college students that he makes his stand – to regain some control of his own life to make his statement br br the director of 'you are alone ' knows his craft the principal action in the hotel room serves as a solid anchor for the film assisted by a myriad of inter cut scenes that add dimension to the characters their circumstances and conflicts br br as the film progresses britney asks buddy if she should get undressed he says yes but she strips only to her underwear an actual prostitute would probably remove all of her clothes one of the five gets but it isn't buddy that's being teased we are as the film concludes we find that there are far deeper human emotions and motivations in play a tease doesn't work unless it actually delivers britney does so does 'you are alone'
1	the first ever fully synchronized sound cartoon walt disney's mickey mouse makes his screen debut in the exceptionally entertaining cartoon short subject steamboat willie mickey is a worker on a steamboat under the supervision of captain peg leg pete or pete as he would later be called mickey boards his long time companion minnie mouse aboard the train as they frolic about while mickey attempts to impress minnie this short was wildly fun and positively entertaining animators rudolph ising and hugh harman assisted walt on the creation of the short steamboat willie essentially marks the beginning of the success of the walt disney company
1	it's the 1920s and a man named walt disney was on a mission to satisfy the families and children all over the world with one thing entertainment what did he do he made cartoons whoo and he made a character that is as great as a mouse mickey mouse ha ha oh boy br br two films were drawn out by mr disney himself plane crazy and steamboat willie this review will focus on the 1928 feature steamboat willie br br ever since i learned about this movie as a little boy i've always wanted to see this movie well in 1997 i rented an ancient vhs that had lots of old disney cartoons on them starring the mouse mickey mouse and guess what that short was on there and i loved it shortly after i took the tape back this was playing on the old disney channel note the old disney channel early one saturday morning br br yes this is a great cartoon this paved the way for more great disney stuff from 1928 to 2002 br br 10 stars indeed
1	spoilers br br as you may know i have been commenting on a lot of silent short films in the past months now i have no idea why i am commenting on steamboat willie i guess i was just desperate to comment on anything so i watched this and now i am commenting on it this or course is one of the very first cartoons and i believe it is not the first cartoon with sound br br here is the plot mickey mouse is driving a steamboat when pete throws him off and he drives it when they stop for cargo minnie mouse tried to get on but failed miserably mickey gets her up by a crane then a goat eats her sheet of paper with turkey in the straw on it they use the goat to make the song when i say that i mean that they used the goat as a victrola mickey plays the animals on the steamboat for instruments to the song then an angry pete throws mickey in a potato room and mickey is forced to peel potatoes for the rest of the day br br overall this is yet another groundbreaking silent short film i mean this is the third mickey mouse cartoon yes the third also this is not the first cartoon with sound i believe there were two more before this one either way this film is really really groundbreaking was also more violent than he is mow i mean he throws a potato at a bird and may have brutally slaughtered it br br 9 10 br br recommended films plane crazy
1	but it is also and pete's too yes the grumpy captain may not look like pete but it is mickey and minnie are the best characters both of them are very sweet and likable interestingly minnie is more of a lady in this than what she usually is today and mickey is less than considerate in this than he is now pete is still the same old meanie but he looks a bit different br br in this famous episode on board a little steamboat mickey minnie and some side characters have a great deal of fun and a great deal of annoyances even in their first appearances the three main characters are very developed br br i quite like this episode although overall i prefer the mickey mouse in the future i like the animation the steamboat and music theme the clever gags and of course mickey and minnie br br like many early cartoons this is very random walt came up with a very basic plot and just added gags to gear it along there is also a parrot side character who is very annoying and rather unnecessary these are the things i do not like about it br br another interesting thing about this episode that a colour version has not been made for it or if it has i've never heard about it br br anyone who just enjoys mickey mouse and disney will enjoy this
1	no doubt about it this is the animated short that put uncle walt on the map of success when walt's older brother roy suggested that the next mickey mouse short should include sound walt jumped at the chance the result steamboat willie was a runaway hit for 1928 it was after all the first animated short subject with a synchronized sound track mostly music sound effects as dialog was minimal not to sound like a wet blanket but the short is far from perfect animation prior to 1935 was creaky rather herky jerky but once equipment made improvements and better artistic techniques came about the rest was smooth sailing and the sound was primitive disney wanted to use the then well known rca sound system or the western electric sound system but was refused by both firms prompting disney to use the system that p a powers was experimenting with at the time the plot there's an actual plot line here concerns mickey as the aforementioned willie is the pilot of a steamboat that is terrorized by black pete captain pete to you and decides to have a jam session on ship using the various animals on board as musical instruments take notice if you don't think too much about the technical shortcomings steamboat willie can be eight minutes of fun and a piece of history
1	'steamboat willie 1928 ' is often erroneously touted as the first mickey mouse film though that title actually goes to crazy 1928 ' the source fuelling this common misconception is probably an episode of the simpsons which places the origin of itchy the mouse in a 1928 short called 'steamboat itchy ' obviously a parody of this cartoon interestingly 'steamboat willie' was itself a parody spoofing the latest buster keaton release 'steamboat bill jr 1928 ' though the connection stretches little beyond the title and the general story setting in this walt disney short mickey mouse takes charge of a river steamboat much to the annoyance of captain pete the cat who casts him aside but mickey is not to be outdone in nastiness far removed from the pleasant wholesome mickey that more recent generations enjoyed this little mouse cares only for numero uno inflicting pain and displeasure on a series of farm animals in order to provide music for his own amusement br br first there's the laughing parrot which cops a bucket and a large potato to the head then a goat is cranked by the tail to provide music turkey in the straw from a guitar it has swallowed a cat is swung around by its tail a goose throttled about the throat and a piglet viciously booted for a children's cartoon 'steamboat willie ' directed by walt disney and ub certainly has some mean spirited humour though i also noticed similar elements though not quite to this extent in some later disney shorts like mickey 1934 ' let's not forget minnie mouse of course who suffers treatment for which she could today sue for sexual harassment the jokes may be crude and the animation perhaps even more so but this cartoon delivers a bucket full of laughs and it's easy to see why this little rodent became one of the most beloved characters in cinema history if you're a fan of mickey mouse or disney in general this is one steamboat you can't afford to miss
1	created in 1928 and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name because his wife convinced him mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey it is in fact his third but it doesn't matter for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge stopping to pick up cargo and minnie mouse missing the boat being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them mickey helps her crank it's tail and play the tune and getting some other animals to be percussion until pete comes along again to stop him making mickey peel potatoes mickey mouse was number 53 on the 100 greatest pop culture icons and he was number 31 on the 100 greatest cartoons very good
1	this 8 minute gem is not only timeless but it is a cartoon milestone it is third cartoon and one of his best ones too it is a cartoon milestone because it was the first one with sound and my goodness even after 70 years it is ever so good and gives real additional weight to the narrative the black and white animation is excellent and the character features are convincing enough the music is wonderful i love the soundtrack it does add to the fun the cartoon has no matter how thin the story sometimes is and the cartoon is funny so many memorable moments like the cow's teeth being used as an xylophone and its udder as a bagpipe the characters are also engaging mickey and minnie two landmark disney characters are well voiced by walt disney and pete serves well as the villain of the piece all in all steamboat willie is just a timeless gem that everybody should see at least once 10 10 bethany cox
1	steamboat willie is an amazingly important film to our cinema history this second appearance of mickey mouse following the silent plane crazy earlier that year is probably his most famous film mostly because it was so ground breaking this is because it was the first sound cartoon while you don't yet hear mickey speak there are tons of sound effects and music throughout the film something we take for granted now but which was a huge crowd pleaser in 1928 br br now if this were just an important historical film it would be worth seeing especially to lovers of animation however after seeing the short again after about 25 years i was amazed at how timeless the film actually is while mickey and minnie behave a bit odd compared to the characters we have grown to love thanks mostly to the kooky mind and talent of animator ub there is an infectious charm about the film it's just adorable seeing mickey playing turkey in the straw in a highly imaginative if occasionally cruel way clever and a real crowd pleaser this film still ranks among best films even after 80 wonderful years
1	mickey mouse is now 75 years old he was created by walt disney a famous producer director etc i love the disney movies because it is great fun watching the cartoon movies altogether walt disney i think is the king of the creations everyone has got to love this creations and the movies by walt disney thank you walt for all the classic characters you made
1	the actors in this dark film are truly believable and well cast the quality of the camera work makes you feel as if you are there the screenplay is intense and does not wander the plot is one that makes you want to watch it a second time from the new perspective gained by the ending we showed this film to a small group of patrons at center for cultural arts after the film ever patron was eager to discuss the film and one person called me the next day to say that they were still bothered while we put an 18 and up age restriction on the film i would watch the film with a youth group as it is a very real portrayal of an ugly situation and sets the stage for great conversation
1	this was the first mickey mouse cartoon released and the first cartoon with sound in the cartoon mickey does not yet wear gloves he does not yet speak either all he does is whistle and play music the song that he plays is turkey in the straw using several farm animals as musical instruments for example he plays the teeth of a cow like a xylophone and pulls nursing piglets like an accordion keyboard i taped this cartoon off of the disney channel and i think it is wonderful it was based on a silent film starring buster keaton entitled steamboat bill jr
1	this era was not just the dawn of sound in cartoons but of a cartoon character which would go down in history as the world's most famous mouse yes mickey makes his debut here in this cheery tale of life on board a steamboat the animation is good for it's time and the plot though a little simple is quite jolly a true classic and if you ever manage to get it on video you won't regret it
1	while in one country spain luis bunuel and salvador dali combined forces to create the benchmark of short subject cinematic surrealism un chien andalou walt disney and his collaborator ub in america worked on steamboat willie the most prominent of the early synchronized sound cartoons it was revealed that this was not the first contrary to other reports it's also one of the more successfully simplistic and funny of the mickey mouse shorts still in a silent film way the only sounds are little irks and bleeps from the mickey and the animals it also goes by fairly quickly for its less than ten minute run but in these minutes one gets the immediate sense of how much fun disney has with his characters and how the newfound use of sound changes how his creation uses the animals as musical tools there's no story to speak of just random things that happens and occurs because of mickey err steamboat willie on this boat on a river and like the better mickey mouse shorts his lack of speaking acts as an advantage it's a must see if you haven't seen it as a kid but if you have it might still be worth another look
1	this was the first mickey mouse cartoon released and the first cartoon with sound it was based on a silent movie called steamboat bill jr starring buster keaton back in this early mickey short mickey did not talk nor did he have gloves he could just whistle and play music the song that he played was turkey in the straw using several barnyard animals as musical instruments he plays a cow's teeth as a xylophone and he plays a nursing sow's like an accordion keyboard captain pete however is very mad and makes mickey peel potatoes in the galley pete's parrot flies up to the window and orders him to peel the potatoes mickey throws a half peeled potato at the parrot and laughs thus closing the cartoon i was able to get this cartoon on tape and i really like it i think the disney shorts are much better than the feature length movies
1	a walt disney mickey mouse cartoon br br steamboat willie a mischievous little rodent neglects his and frolics his way into cinematic history br br on 18 november 1928 a struggling young genius debuted the world's first successful cartoon with synchronous sound there would be no looking back for either walt disney or his alter ego mickey mouse financial struggles would remain but essentially the world was their oyster bed and mickey would eventually rival chaplin as the most recognizable cultural icon of the century br br as entertainment steamboat willie is still fun to watch featuring fine work by animator ub and showing a mickey with all the passions indifference of a small child he must deal with a tyrannical skipper pete without his peg leg he had been appearing in disney cartoons since february of 1925 a wisecracking parrot in a few years it would be a duck and a cute little mouse named minnie together the two rodents rather callously make music on the live bodies of a goat cat goose piglets cow a precursor of all of whom happened to be conveniently on board the steamship audiences howled for more and the pattern was set for the subsequent mouse cartoons of the next few years br br br br walt disney 1901 1966 was always intrigued by pictures drawings as a lad in missouri he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper later as an ambulance driver in france during the first world war he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle back in kansas city along with artist ub walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters always the innovator his alice in series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe business reversals sent disney to hollywood in 1923 where walt's older brother roy became his lifelong business manager counselor when a mildly successful series with oswald the lucky rabbit was snatched away by the distributor the character of mickey mouse sprung into walt's imagination ensuring disney's immortality the happy arrival of sound technology made screen debut steamboat willie 1928 a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music the silly symphonies soon appeared and walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development an arena in which walt's genius was unbeatable feisty naughty behavior had captured millions of fans but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions temperamental donald duck intellectually challenged goofy and energetic pluto all this was in preparation for walt's grandest dream feature length animated films against a blizzard of walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of snow white pinocchio dumbo bambi peter pan walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off
1	steamboat willy was not the first cartoon to feature mickey mouse the first film to star america's friend was plane crazy plane crazy was released may 15th 1928 in hollywood california in the silent movie format steamboat willy was released november 18th 1928 as a sound movie it was also released july 29th 1928 as a silent film thus making steamboat the first sound film of mickey but not the first film for the little american mouse while many game shows have used the question what was the first appearance of mickey mouse the true answer is plane crazy not steamboat willy these dates can be checkout on imdb under release dates
1	it's about time kate jackson got her credit for this film i can remember watching it trying to understand it on tv my grandmother lay in bed dying from cancer i was barely 15 i didn't find out till years later that richard long had died tho i miss him on the other shows movies he was in br br i have a copy of the vhs tape still but it's not or closed captioned for the hearing impaired thats the only flaw in the movie that i can remember or know of to date i haven't been able to find a dvd or vhs copy that has sub titles in english even if someone out there knows of either copy on vhs or dvd thats or has english sub titles please let me know br br thanks
1	i happened to catch this on community tv a few years back and was pleasantly surprised how enjoyable a film it was br br while a bit corny in certain ways as its prime function of being a mystery thriller it works superbly thanks to a script that concocts an ingenious plot it kept me guessing throughout and the resolution is inspired br br the cast is a star studded one containing a mixture of those at the end of their careers indeed richard long died the same year this was made or those who were on the verge of stardom in hit tv series kate jackson tom bosley they all do a good job with the exception of cesare who sleepwalks through his role br br strongly recommended
1	i saw this when i was twelve it was the movie that made me understand what a good mystery really was i had read the entire happy children's mystery series and they were about a family of child sleuths who always got their man but we the readers were not in a position to solve the mystery along with them this movie showed me that a good mystery is that which makes the viewer reader at the end say oh of course
1	every time this movie used to re air on late night tv in the late 70s and early 80s i would always make time to sit in front of the tv and watch it to see the lovely kate jackson handsome richard long the great polly bergen whom i've never seen anywhere else except for this tv movie the endearing tom bosley and another great whom i've never seen outside this movie celeste this is truly the love boat on a cruise to murder and mayhem and boy was it ever good and every time i would watch it i would always forget who the real murderer was br br as expected someone here is already criticizing the movie as if that really is a big help to anyone this is a great tv movie and worth watching each and every time i can't say that about half the movies i've seen this month br br if you ever get a chance to watch it on tv someday which isn't likely watch it in light of the girl most likely to finally coming out this year on dvd maybe there's hope for a dvd release of death cruise
1	i caught this at the chicago and have to say you are alone is a lot funnier than the other reviews and even the website would lead you to think not ha ha wedding crashers' funny but sick twisted i can't believe she just said that but it's so damn true funny br br jessica who deservedly won best actress is amazing to watch there's never a moment when you think oh i'm watching a movie and she's an actress she's too damn real for words br br in fact there's 2 scenes that i'm still giggling over and i won't give them away but in one she's in the bathroom talking about how much she gets paid for performing a certain service and how awesome it is i almost wonder how many people in the audience are secretly thinking the same thing br br in another she talks about a teenagers definition of sex versus an adults and if it isn't the truest dialog i've heard in a movie in a long time i don't know what is
1	by the acclaimed surrealist bunuel is an attack on the catholic church and its loss of values it is not a visual film and i think it would have played better on the stage bunuel takes us through this man the that lives like christ lived a true follower i e in poverty and without a care for property and what the next day some might call it a parallel to christ's story but any follower and practitioner of the word life should be like christ in a way but in essence bunuel also inquires into the ogle of man's selfishness and need to sin and how goodness may save us all it is a bold statement to make that may enliven or recite to memory the movie for some truth be told the is also selfish because he gives without wanting in return or asking for it his selfishness is his folly and the two women who follow him represent the sides of a coin with the same face on each side lots of people represent sides of a coin in this movie all with both faces the same but the movie isn't exactly memorable once it ends and one could attack many of its ethical and within the movie's own doctrine not top notch bunuel but a surreal dream sequence that bunuel stages where the message of the movie is framed and is worth noting for it shows you the capability of the director bunuel
1	luis bunuel's will always be remembered as a great film because it is absolutely honest in its presentation of comical assault on religion it is one of those outstanding films which must be shown to all people especially young children in order to them with the notions of good and bad sacred and evil the toughest question asked by is about the strengths and weaknesses of organized religion it has been tackled by involving numerous ordinary people who are not at all above petty affairs in their mundane lives especially sins bunuel scores tremendously by showing us that various questions related to class differences deserve frank honest and reliable answers appears credible as it has been made in a light comical vein this is the sole reason why it can be said that the story of an ordinary priest appears absolutely true to life to all audiences it is amazing how bunuel approaches quest for true love issue in his film this black white gem was shot marvelously by gabriel figueroa one of luis bunuel's favorite cameraman film critic rao saw at india during 13th international film festival of kerala 2009 was introduced by eminent indian cinema personality mr p k nair as part of a special package called 50 years ago this is a film which should be with any discerning dvd collector
1	a blackly comic tale of a down trodden priest showcases the economy that luis bunuel was able to achieve in being able to tell a deeply humanist fable with a minimum of fuss as an output from his mexican era of film making it was an invaluable talent to possess with little money and extremely tight schedules however surpasses many of bunuel's previous mexican films in terms of the acting francisco is excellent narrative and theme br br the theme interestingly is something that was explored again in made three years later in spain it concerns the individual's struggle for humanity and altruism amongst a society that rejects any notion of virtue father however is portrayed more sympathetically than sister whereas the latter seems to choose charity because she wishes to atone for her perceived sins whole existence and reason for being seems to be to help others whether they or we like it or not the film's last scenes in which he casts doubt on his behaviour and in a split second has to choose between the life he has been leading or the conventional life that is expected of a priest are so emotional because they concern his moral integrity and we are never quite sure whether it remains intact or not br br this is a remarkable film and i would urge anyone interested in classic cinema to seek it out it is one of bunuel's most moving films and encapsulates many of his obsessions frustrated desire mad love religious hypocrisy etc in my view is second only to 'the exterminating angel' in terms of his mexican movies and is certainly near the top of the list of bunuel's total filmic output
1	the topic of religion in buñuel films is a point that one as an eater of films as an eater of art or as a person need to analyze hardly one can see to a satirical buñuel in la un chien andalou or in l'age d'or is very hard and effective in its critic but when you have seen this and then you see a movie like after you see this work you begin to be questioned about its author and much have questioned about what seems to be a contradiction for buñuel thinks but is better not called in this way i think that there's not any contradiction in its work only that buñuel religion point of view is very diverse as unique in films br br this beautiful film is based on the novel of benito perez which told us the story of father who lived a humble simple life dedicated to god and to help everyone he lived in a simple and poor region there lived too beatriz who is an abused and abandoned wife she don't find any sense of her life without her violent macho man she have a kind of repulse to him in the other side is one of the towns prostitutes father has been stolen again he blames to cousin hear this and try to fight without success with the priest who don't believe in violence that night find that her cousin is actually a thief she have stole her fights with her cousin with terrible consequences with this search mercy from the priest decides to help her knowing well that this could be against his church obviously this thing going to have some consequences since here going to be a pilgrim without nothing even without shoes but with spirit and faith but and beatriz want to be with he and be like he to serve god br br if is the sweetest buñuel film that i have seen so far is too the most spiritual is clear here that the thing that most confuse people with the contradiction is that here we don't see a buñuel against the power of church we see a buñuel whose film is about church but not in the typical and great satirical way like it is i don't think that the right word is contradiction actually i find it pleasant and well done and in spite of contain such religious issues as his i found it more a spiritual film but that don't try to touch in diversity the catholic religion as maybe he touch and laugh of it in another films is of father and its perspective front god and the same religion but all of this is at the end analyzed in the spiritual life of this man br br the other two women are not a contrast but as very well another two perspectives of faith first we have beatriz the mistreated woman that lose all the faith in life first with her husband and then with a little girl who was in her family this little girl was very sick at side of her was too the prostitute who run of the justice in the family of the child just religious women there a big pain but faith becomes in father when he arrives with nothing to this town he bless the child a say later she is fine the priest want go on walking but beatriz and have recovered the faith in life and want to dedicate their lives to god with father after some complains father decide to be with them discovering with some things until the end how he feels about faith god religion and the person in necessity the people who must request to charity to survive this last issue then must be noted as one possible explanation for the pineapple ending this ending we listen the drums similar to that in l'age d'or and a father walking over asking about this things when he refuse the fruit at the first time and at the end decide to receive it as a symbol of necessity or maybe as an answer for its spiritual road that begin being priest meanwhile the two women must take away of the father for its crime beautiful scene where she thanks a man who helps father in jail and then she damn the man who hit the priest in jail and beatriz because she prefer be with her macho man in spite that he treat her bad just because she don't accept that she fall in loved with the priest father and here is maybe the unique place in film to critic church walk to contradict the church the religion that he serves br br father is that then is a soft for much but not for me critic for some thing in religion father helping a women who is guilty of a crime of a sin but most of all is one of buñuel analysis of faith and life and he really got it with a beautiful tender sweet and unforgettable film that is without a doubt one of his best br br sorry for the mistakes well if there any
1	luis bunuel has always been a filmmaker whose work was obscure to me my first experience with him was the discreet charm of the often considered his greatest work with which i became so frustrated and bored that i eventually shut the tape off likewise belle de jour which is almost certainly his best known film and also generally considered one of his many masterpieces didn't interest me very much at all i didn't hate it like i did discreet but i didn't like it third i saw l'age d'or finally i had gotten somewhere fourth los olvidados also good still neither l'age d'or nor los olvidados blew me away great films but not masterpieces br br is my fifth bunuel and i like it just a tad more than those other two it is about a priest from spain now in mexico who refuses to live in the kind of luxury most priests live in he wants to be more like jesus leading the life possible he's also willing to forgive everyone for anything and to suffer without protest i'm pretty sure bunuel does not sympathize with the character and sees him as rather self righteous however i only assume that because of my knowledge of the director whose most famous quotation is thank god i'm still an atheist which he apparently said in an interview over this very film i get this information from john baxter's book about bunuel if you're interested the interviewer who dragged those words from bunuel's mouth must have been himself confused about one who was more predisposed to believe in religious conviction who also knows nothing about bunuel might see the priest as a heroic figure this is especially true if that viewer has his her own criticisms of organized religion the priest may be somewhat self righteous but he seems to be basically a good man when he harbors a violent prostitute in his room in order to protect her and presumably to save her soul people begin to find out and assume that their relationship is sexual his superiors assume the same and punish him for it later on he suffers even worse punishments from clerics
1	spanish director luis buñuel career spanned almost 50 years from 1929 to 1977 arguably his best films were those he made during his exile in mexico from the late forties to the early 60s there he had to deal with very cheap budgets and work in an industry interested mainly in churning commercial movies to unsophisticated audiences yet he somehow managed to make interesting thought provoking movies that have stand the test of time this movie is based on a novel by spanish author benito perez and the adaptation is quite faithful even if the setting is now early 20th century mexico instead of early 20th century spain the protagonist is a priest who tries to live a life that is as faithful as it can be to the one prescribed by christ the question many would ask is whether such endeavor would be possible without incurring in the hostility and mockery of your fellow human beings as it happens he suffers a lot of indignities yet he remains stubborn until the controversial final shot to this objective i think buñuel wanted to show as a somewhat ridiculous figure but perhaps inadvertently his stubbornness at least to this viewer comes out as admirable in any case a great film
1	i love the absurdity and biting humor of surrealist films such as the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie and the exterminating angel to name two other earlier works like the forgotten ones about juvenile delinquents from a marginal neighborhood in mexico are more serious and provide a strong social message br br however i believe it is which most successfully shoots for the heart of the viewer while it's true that it's brimming with irony it nevertheless reveals an aspect of buñuel which would appear to be intrigued by the beauty and solemnity of the spiritual quest here while the director quite typically throws countless jabs at the catholic church he also appears to show surprisingly a sense of admiration for genuine christian thought and its practice of selfless love br br what luis buñuel unabashedly praising a jesus like figure i always thought of him as a completely cynical artist without a trace of faith in human virtue that is until i watched my appreciation is that he satirically exposes the difficulty of following christ's example in a society infested with meanness ignorance and sin but he also presents the hero father as quite the beacon of light amidst a sea of darkness without a doubt by the end of the film i was looking up to him and not down on him br br some would argue that father doubts regarding his faith point to the loss of his saintly values alas if he can't do good in this world who can but i would say that this flaw his frustration precisely makes his character all the more heroic because it shows how human he is and how challenging his struggle within must be and who says the priest couldn't eventually emerge from that dark night and regain his confidence perhaps we've only been presented with a difficult part of his spiritual journey the elegant open ending in which he desperately accepts the fruit offered by a female stranger allows us to imagine ourselves the final outcome of the story br br i recognize in buñuel the aggressive self professed atheist endowed with brilliant wit and social consciousness but after having watched i also sense from him a certain warmth a depth and maturity that's not so evident in his other work br br for the sake of contrast i strongly recommend watching afterward his short film simon of the desert also made in mexico several years later it deals with a similar subject matter the abandonment of the ego in the face of temptation only it does so in a hysterically funny and totally irreverent style
1	when you look at mexico's best movies you will more than likely find that the photography was performed by gabriel figueroa he is recognized in the world as one of the best that have ever existed his master control of the cameras gave an added asset to the movies he was part of if added to his participation we add the direction of luis bunuel you will never find such a pair of aces anywhere else in the world this story was written by spain's greatest writer besides miguel de don de la mancha the story in itself is superb a priest that lives by his beliefs tries to live a very christian life but as always there are people that do not accept this he wanders through many places preaching his christianity but finding most of the time people that do not accept him but besides the splendid story it is always interesting to try to interpret the enigmatic messages that bunuel sends us throughout the picture in scenes that make you shiver
1	this movie is a fascinating example of luis bunuel's storytelling abilities this is a comedy that is not a comedy and a social drama that is not a social drama even though i don't think it was particularly funny it made me laugh also despite the fact that you can never take bunuel too seriously the movie made think about religion and its importance in some people's lives bunuel tells the story of a catholic priest devoted to his faith like no one else and the viewer witness what happens when the priest's undying commitment to serve others is put to test as usual bunuel's target is catholicism but i don't think he tried to mock the church as he often does at least i didn't take the film as a mockery of the institution i think he is trying to make an interesting point about how religion could be a nuisance in today's modern society not because faith in itself is bad but because people always mange to the concept message aside i think this is one of bunuel's most clever works francisco is superb as the priest definitely one of the filmmaker's best movies
1	directed by luis bunuel presents an extraordinary view of religion in mexico as written by the director and julio alejandro his notable collaborator this was a film that put mexican cinema in the international map after receiving the grand prix in cannes that year it's a disturbing film because mr bunuel delves deep into what's wrong with the church br br by all reckoning is a saint this young priest is seen living a life of poverty in a seedy pension of a city he doesn't have enough for himself but he doesn't mind parting with a coin when a beggar appears by his window asking for help at the same time he takes into his small room a prostitute that has been hurt in a fight with another woman the woman repays his kindness by burning the room and the whole building is seen taking to the countryside begging for food and beatriz two prostitutes from his old town follow him life parallels that of jesus in fact this saintly figure makes a case for humility br br of course mr bunuel had no religion in mind when he and mr alejandro took it upon themselves to create this film it's ironic how spain welcomed him after this film was released because they saw it as showing christian qualities when in reality this is an acerbic satire on the catholic church and its ministers br br francisco the spanish actor makes a wonderful this was one of his best roles mr worked extensively in his native country but also in mexico and argentina rita as is also excellent lopez also makes a valuable contribution with her portrayal of beatriz br br a great film by one of the cinema's master film makers luis bunuel
1	jessica plays daphne the sexually precocious suburban teenager struggling with the hell of high school daphne's neighbor is buddy richard brundage a depressed middle aged man still angry over loosing his wife daphne is attracted to world of prostitution because it promises to cure her of barely legal boredom and loneliness once buddy strips daphne of her secret he hires her to help him accept the loss of his wife the entire film takes place at the hotel duncan yet details of each character's history are exposed through dialogue and flashbacks their appointment climaxes with the story's concluding twist br br both actors truly understand and become their particular character delivering a convincing sincere performance their on screen chemistry critical to the entire film is genuine br br the film's dialogue is natural real to life the writer undoubtedly did his homework because all references are industry and character age appropriate daphne is intelligent yet clearly still an eighteen year old buddy may be middle aged but still not the hackneyed naïve type normally depicted in film daphne and buddy's conversation primarily deals with their despair and frustration with life but is still comical at the right times although the general mood is very relaxed the dialogue has its own forcing the audience to become empathetic toward the character's conditions and uncomfortable at their straightforward vulgarities br br the incredible soundtrack truly captures the essence of the film each track commands sentiment actually contributing to the scenes and characters even existing independently from the film the compilation truly expresses you are central theme loneliness br br you are alone is a less conventional piece that deals with of notions typically not spoken definitely worth it's the sort of thought provoking film that forces you to question your own threshold of loneliness
1	lackawanna blues is and excellent movie the casting was perfect every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played their chemistry together was amazing the acting was superb i felt as if i knew the characters i could almost 'feel' them they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the 50's and 60's oh the memories my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see i have watched this movie so many times that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them i can't even list my favorite part because i have so many favorite parts thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age and that is black people loving each other looking out for each other respecting each other caring about each other and doing all we can to help each other gotta go now i have to go watch it again
1	is some kind of saint he wants to live in life exactly how christ taught man to do but it's too late now the catholic church is between the hands of a wealthy bourgeoisie the bishops live in luxury and don't give a damn about the poor and the sick that's why our hero can't follow the way his hierarchy asks him to follow so he himself of everything and on his way to purity he's joined by some kind of mary and a woman who's attracted by him sexually the scene between this girl and her fiancé is telling in spain it was the late fifties they thought was a christian movie knowing luis bunuel it was downright incongruous all his work is to a fault comparing and his holy women to jesus is a nonsense on way only and couch grass grow his attempt at helping working men on the road is a failure he's chased out as a strike breaker all his words amount to nothing at the end of the journey he's arrested and offered a pineapple by a woman sexual symbol thanks to bunuel was allowed to return to spain where the censors had not got a clue and to direct
1	paz mexican poet writer and diplomat who received the nobel prize for literature in 1990 said about follows the great tradition of mad spaniards originated by his madness consists in taking seriously great ideas and trying to live accordingly a humble and spiritual priest francisco in a wonderful performance attempts to live by the principles of christianity but is cast out of his church for helping a local prostitute by giving her a shelter after she had committed a murder wanders the country roads of the turn of the 20th century mexico offering help to poor and begging for food his two followers a murderous prostitute and her sister beatriz who is a failed suicide desperately searching for love consider him saint but it does not prevent him from hatred and humiliation from both the church and the people he meets on the road he ends up beaten in prison and begins to question his faith for not be able to forgive his attacker br br bunuel tells the story in a manner of a christian parable masterfully and uniquely combining admiration and irony for the main character and strong criticism of formal religion and hypocrisy the film is simple and profound as well as beautiful ironic and heartbreaking br br i consider bunuel one of the best filmmakers ever i've seen twenty of his films and they all belong to the different periods of his life but they have in common his magic touch the masterful combination of gritty realism and surrealism his curiosity his inquisitive mind his sense of humor and his dark and shining fantasies with great pleasure i am adding little seen and almost unknown but amazingly candid and touching surrealistic tragic comedy to the list of my favorite films
1	you know i've seen a lot of crappy hong kong movies in terms of production and were good but running out of time was great br br i guess what made it so good was the fact that andy lau and ching wang have such great chemistry the film at first is really fast paced but slows down not enough to even notice which is also good we don't want to have a heart attack lol in terms of plot their is enough of other things going on to keep you interested lau has some pretty good moments as he uses make up to impersonate people from the underworld also the movie has the best oriental supporting cast since house of flying daggers br br the movie is great because its so unpredictable and leaves you wondering at every corner definitely a good rental with tons of comedy action and thrills pact in to one 8 out of 10
1	running out of time is probably as close to a perfect film as you're ever likely to see out of hong kong all the elements click a terrific script by french writers julien carbon and laurent that even manages to subvert the odd cliché reliably imaginative direction by johnnie to and excellent central performances by andy lau and lau ching wan the latter displaying his great comic timing to wonderful effect without ever crossing the line into parody especially in his exasperated reactions to his superior's abysmal negotiating skills the supporting cast is fine too with yo yo mung making a strong impression in a tiny role and even the often histrionic lee looking remarkably and very aptly like a bald andy lau it in to good effect it's best not to know too much about the plot going in beyond the basic set up – with only a few weeks to live lau engages in a criminal game with wan's cop with no easily apparent motive – and just sit back and enjoy the ride it's certainly worth the fare it also has one of the most perfect love stories in recent movies and played in a mere three scenes the second bus ride is one of the most magical moments of film making i've seen in ages there's also a fine score by raymond wong as well the most fun playing cat and mouse at the movies in years
1	the one thing that can be said about running out of time is that it's an immensely clever film it's interesting to note that the film's writers are french which may explain the movie's out of the norm vibe as it doesn't really fit in with what is commonly called hong kong cinema br br the movie concerns a thief who plans revenge on some criminal types using the assistance of an equally clever cop but first he has to convince the cop to join his personal crusade and so begins a series of games where the thief the cop into his plan br br quite a clever movie br br 7 out of 10 br br go to www nixflix com for a more detailed review of this movie or full length reviews of other foreign films
1	terrific deeply moving crime thriller starring andy lau and lau ching wan br br from the dizzying opening sequence to the extremely satisfying conclusion this cat and hardly misses a beat br br johnny to again working with ace composer arthur wong constructs another operatic actioner that in the face of its contemporaries br br to's images are strong and moving his cutting combined with the extraordinary music cues is exemplary you are in the hands of a master br br the two sequences in which andy lau hides from the cops on a bus by pretending to accompany a lithe beauty ruby wong are testament to to's unique directorial skills br br lau ching wan is strong and commanding as the harassed cop while andy lau is dynamic as a dying man avenging his father's death br br this is superb movie making only mildly compromised by some bad english dubbing in one scene with criminal lee
1	andy lau and lau ching wan are both superb in johnny to's tautly directed crime thriller which puts most western efforts to shame think of it as the hong kong 'heat' only better everything about the film screams class from the performances to the soundtrack the cinematography to the script the tone remains serious throughout but the film has a nice line in black humour friendship and romance at it's heart sure it gets a little preposterous later on but it would be a hard hearted viewer who didn't find something to love about this movie thank god hollywood hasn't yet re made and ruined a classic do yourself a favour and see this film
1	having seen 'only' about 200 hong kong films in my time i have to say this film is among my very top favorites not only is the plot engaging and in some ways surprising which these days is rare for any movie but the chemistry between the two lead actors is superb top notch casting and while often even the most serious hk films tend to insert quite a bit of humor in between all the drama and action often spoiling the mood a bit here the jokes are kept subtle and woven into the plot even improving character relations the music is also very well done and the two main themes are very beautiful with the release of the hk special edition they've even cleaned the picture first release was grainy and the subtitles even if the quality of the translation is still lacking nothing new there all in all if you have to see a hk film that isn't directed by john woo or have chow yun fat in it this should be at least on your short list a truly fascinating and entertaining watch
1	running out of time rests somewhere in the middle of johnny to's cannon in the solid good category as a crime thriller it's not terribly original or overwhelming and the action scenes will not blow you away but it has something else going for it it's a johnny to film after all it has to br br andy lau has 72 hours to live he decides to play a strange cat and mouse game with a hostage negotiator of the hk police played by lau ching wan that's the plot in a nutshell on top of that to piles layers of twists and turns that keep proceedings interesting throughout it occasionally becomes too convoluted for its own sake but never lets it get the best of it however just as johnny to is about to hand over a slick and well made crime flick which let's face it are dime a dozen he slips in bits and pieces that bring running out of time alive as a full emotional experience providing the soul and heart to the well oiled skeleton br br the concepts of synchronism and minimalism staples in his work are explored in great effect here always subtle letting the images speak for themselves giving them time to develop with long takes and slow tracking shots exemplary cutting to the score it's all here a small love story in a bus between andy lau and a girl is among the highlights of the film and part of the heart i'm talking about so simple yet so powerful ditto for lau's and lau ching wan's car scenes and the bowling room showdown br br however something stops me from claiming running out of time is a masterpiece to has all the ability and down to a notch but he can also be too workmanlike or bland at times when he's good he's real good there are even isolated moment of pure brilliance that are just too good for their own sake leaving a bittersweet aftertaste for the rest of the movie i'm convinced that if he puts his heart to it he can make a really great film as it is this is another one of his films that is flawed but enjoyable underneath the slick hk style it's the black humour and heartfelt drama that makes this a compelling film worth watching definitely
1	i just purchased an running out of time on dvd and it was an excellent film i must say not really action packed in terms of gun play but definitely exciting and witty i do not think i have seen andy lau in better form and the editing on this film was very well executed go watch this now if you are a fan of lau or hk action film
1	if you're tired by the same repetitive unintelligent material that the mainstream movie industry releases you'll enjoy you are alone it is thought provoking well shot and riveting br br without revealing anything that you don't find out in the first few minutes of the movie this is the story of a young white high school girl from an upper middle class environment who is working as an escort and is discovered by her neighbor the vast majority of the movie occurs in a hotel room where he hired her to come br br through their discussion you explore two shifting views of prostitution depression loneliness yet the movie is not depressing it talks about dark things without being depressing br br as a viewer your emotions and preconceived notions are moved around but gently you come out of it with a lot to think about i like that in a movie
1	this film is a refreshing change of pace from the mindless hong kong triad movies i have grown so tired of there are no spectacular gun fights no car chases and practically minimal action to speak of the audience is kept in suspense for the most part though certain aspects of the so called ploy by andy lau are quite obvious br br the film has been hailed as a departure from the genre of violent triad films and as an intelligent crime film to an extent it is but to some extent it still fails the believability test one can hardly picture any triad member to be dumb enough to not see through the female disguise of andy lau in a second it also seemed to have fallen for the if someone was seriously ill the said someone will be coughing up copious amounts of blood regularly thing chinese films seem to go for all the time br br the subtle relationship between the two lead characters is a refreshing change br br all in all an enjoyable film even though the concept is not new and there are few surprises
1	i've recently seen an not because it was a hong kong film but because i was looking for a change from the films being produced here in the us in my humble opinion i believe the film could easily compete against the action thrillers being produced here except for the traditional of hong kong film the one that still bothers me was the chief inspector character i still don't understand why there has to be a complete idiot comic relief type character even in the serious films that come out of hong kong but i can live with it when the movie is this good the characters are believable even if the situations they are in are not the story is fast paced and really sucks you in to it the real scenes for me were the two bus rides that the thief character takes overall a really solid film
1	if you're familiar with the work of auteur johnny to and his band of filmmaking cronies over at milky way you know what to expect with this latest production all the familiar elements are in place the strong camaraderie between two characters usually a cop and a baddie the coincidences and chances that turn on a dime and pay off handsomely in the end and the humor that arises even in the most dire of situations br br andy lau plays a man who has 72 hours to live and decides to rob an insurance company lau ching wan also brilliant in other milky way films like longest nite a hero never dies and where a good man goes portrays a hostage negotiator cop who is on the robber's tail even as the robber sets up a series of tricks and clues that he must follow in order to get his man br br funny poignant and cool while being subtle running is actually one of the most entertaining milky way films to date don't miss the performances by the two leads esp andy lau usually considered an average actor who has rarely been this natural and fun to watch this film is one to go out of your way to see
1	not high art not even exceptionally innovative but a thoroughly enjoyable movie funny fresh intelligent there are still people out there who don't need millions of dollars to hide that they're out of ideas br br when you compare this to your average hollywood action flick you're comparing a homemade meal with a big mac
1	the late director john frankenheimer directed his first feature film the young stranger after starting out directing live television dramas in new york city this film came on the heels of the success of rebel without a cause in 1955 james macarthur made his feature film debut as a troubled teen with a movie producer father played by james daly who doesn't establish enough of a relationship with his son kim hunter plays the mother who tries to bridge the gap between her husband and her son the film uses the popular juvenile delinquent angle of the time to tell its story macarthur gets in trouble at a movie theater with an overzealous theater manager played by whit bissell macarthur in turn has to deal with a police sergeant james gregory bent on teaching him a lesson the material could easily have turned exploitative laughable and sensational like any number of others of the period did however under the sure handed direction of frankenheimer the film is a sensitive portrayal of teenage and parental dynamics the dialog is realistic and most of the scenes hold up surprisingly well some of the scenes with bissell as the theater manager and gregory as the police sergeant are a bit heavy handed and dated the performances are uniformly good though which is necessary for a film of this nature and about this topic to succeed this is an impressive feature film debut both for macarthur and frankenheimer of 4 stars
1	spoilers well made and interesting film about the alienated youth of america back in the 1950's back in those days many parents caught up with making big bucks and living high on the hog forget that their children especially teen agers needed a lot more then a car and and hefty allowance in order to feel part of the family they also needed love and attention to their growing up problems which is what 16 year old hal james macarthur never got from his successful movie producer dad mr tom james daly br br never really connecting with his dad hal grows more and more distant from both him and his caring mom helen kim hunter as well as from society after his dad put hal down about him wanting to borrow his car a late model luxury sedan he and his friend jerry jeffery silver drive in hal's beat up and barley operational 1930's jalopy to the local to catch the latest western flick br br feeling like striking out at the world hal acts like a real first class jerk sticking his smelly feet almost into the faces of a couple eddie ryder jean corbett sitting in front of him and jerry trying to watch the movie this leads hal as well as his friend jerry to not only be kicked out of the theater but with him belting the theater manager mr whit bissell it turned out that at least hal was willing to leave the theater without even getting his money back but when tries to grab him hal wheeled around and belted him right in the kisser br br hal now in real hot water he's charged with assault and battery put's on his james dean act at the local police station making like he's either too cool or just plain stupid to realize what he's done almost knocked mr teeth out it's when sgt shipley james tells hal that his dad is coming to pick him up when he finally sobers up to the fact of what he's done br br the rest of the film has hal try to straighten himself out but is unable to do that because the low esteem that his dad has of him begging his father to understand that what he did in belting mr was in self defense hal's father acts as if he's been there at the theater and saw the whole incident with his son hal acting like a street thug instead of of a young man being grabbed and pushed without provocation br br not excusing what hal did in laying out mr he in fact was willing to admit his hooligan behavior but he wanted both mr and his dad to at least treat him with an iota of consideration in the fact that he provoked hal and mr in not even bothering to hear him out feeling like a wanted criminal without anyone but his mom to really turn too hal slowly loses it only to later have both sgt shipley and mr agree to drop the assault charge you would think that by now hal's has finally learned his lesson but the real lesson more then a stretch behind bars that hal's so desperately needed was a lesson that his father totally ignored being there when his son needed him most and in that mr failed with flying colors br br things do in fact straighten out for everyone in the movie only after mr gets belted ending up with a butte of a shiner again by hal who going back to theater tries to get him to phone his dad and tell him that hal was only defending himself when he first not the second time around clobbered him in the end hal learned a real lesson in getting along with people an not letting his problems become other peoples problems but most of all hal's father mr learned the most valuable lesson of all in how to understand his frustrated and alienated son and act like a father toward him instead of a combination jail keeper and a sugar daddy like the song says all you need s love to get things on the right track and it was both love and understanding for his son hal that mr until the very end of the movie lacked the most off
1	this eloquent simple film makes a remarkably clear statement about a teenager and his father though a theatrical release it has a made for tv quality we can attribute this to the director john frankenheimer who learned his craft in the early days of live television in new york city indeed he directed the teleplay on which the film is based deal a blow on the cbs drama series climax young stranger represents his hollywood debut after a hiatus of four years during which he would do more television he returned to direct the young savages with burt lancaster and a year after that all fall down with warren beatty and angela lansbury br br the casting is competent with james daly and kim hunter particularly good playing the parents of the title character performed by james macarthur his first theatrical film who played the same role in the television version which was his first appearance on the small screen look for james gregory and whit bissell in supporting roles
1	the world is going to miss john frankenheimer this was his first feature film and it was four years before he directed his second but don't let that dissuade you from seeking it out frankenheimer's direction is assured and he gets some compelling performances out of his cast br br someone else has already pointed them out but i also want to talk up james gregory and whit bissell in two key supporting roles both would work for frankenheimer again gregory most notably as the bumbling senator in the manchurian candidate and they do good work for him here br br if the whole thing seems too simple in the end that's merely because frankenheimer and writer robert chose to tell a simple story and they do it well keep a lookout for it turner classic movies just might show it again
1	riding high on the success of rebel without a cause came a tidal wave of movies arguably this is one of the best a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency than any traumatic occurrence the supporting cast is memorable frankenheimer directs like an old pro just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously
1	what often threatens to turn into a soppy and soft headed drama about misunderstood middle class youth ends up a surprisingly shaded and subdued movie by john frankenheimer his first though he had started in television directing among other things an earlier version of this script br br we are still in those semi mythic when teenagers drove and jeans were still james macarthur adoptive son of playwright charles and actress helen hayes and later to enter pop culture as hawaii 5 0's gets involved in a minor incident in a movie theater which escalates to his throwing a punch at the manager whit bissell and being booked down at the police station his dad james daly a big shot movie producer gets the call doesn't listen to his son's version of the story and pulls strings to get him off br br but macarthur keeps carrying a chip on his shoulder which even his sympathetic mom kim hunter can't knock off things worsen in the canyon homestead until macarthur trying to vindicate himself stages a reprise of the original incident br br the movie doesn't quite avoid the attitudes – and cliches – of its time but presents them with considerable nuance every character gets an honorable hearing every point of view has its merits and reactions to the movie will depend on what viewers bring to it there are flaws the word crummy ' a standard rebellious euphemism of the era is used about 30 times too often but they're outweighed by strengths the movie benefits from a strong cast most notable among them the excellent character actor james gregory as a police detective and a resolutely non exploitative way of telling its story from a vantage point in the new millennium the hot water macarthur finds himself in may seem a little tepid but the young stranger remains honest and honorable br br
1	if you want to see a brilliant performance of played to perfection with expert timing and panache don't watch this version if you want to see a hammy version with eric idle strutting around in 1930's english gentlemen's private club society this is the one to watch it's a lot of fun and a good intro to gilbert and sullivan but after this rush out and rent the canadian version you'll see the difference between good and great nobody does g s better than brian mcdonald and the group
1	this film is really really full of sex hot sex i watched it of course on cinemax and i liked it of course those virtual fantasies are played out so much in great style and i kind of enjoyed the story line but one must know that when a soft porn film director sets out to make another soft porn film all he she wants to do is film good sex scenes and i got nice sex scenes full of skin yet another reason some people call soft porn cinemax films skinemax
1	seldom is seen a film sequel that surpasses or even the greatness of it's original predecessor such a film is virtual encounters 2 br br it's about a couple guys in college who sell virtual sex to the entire campus if you like seeing naked chicks this one delivers six foot tall chrissy styler is an amazing specimen and you will be dreaming about her for days if you ever have the good fortune to catch the unrated version she wears just the right amount of body glitter in her multiple nude scenes and her giant cans appear to be real br br w the exception of james cameron's aliens francis for coppola's the godfather part ii and of course the airplane 2 this is the only sequel in movie history that takes a classic film and improves upon it br br it's criminal the way this film was ignored by the academy nikki fritz and that broad who gets tied up in the beginning as well as the brunette who gets a towards the end all deserved best supporting actress nods br br shame on you hollywood
1	this has no relationship to virtual encounters 1 so it's not really a sequel the two videos just share the general concept of people having simulated sex through a virtual reality machine so if you were really blown away by the story and dialog in vc 1 yeah right and expecting a continuation in vc 2 just be warned all the actors and actresses are new but it has the same excellent director sybil richards br br but like vc 1 you get lots of beautiful women and a lot of great sex scenes that push the envelope of soft core just about as far as it can go br br if you have vc 1 and you liked it you'll like vc 2 if you don't have either but like really good softcore sex get both
1	i honestly found wicked little things to be a very cool and fun horror film my friend had given this to me and i really saw it as nothing but a crappy low class gory horror film then after i watched this i was wrong it was very cool and very good and while ill say it seemed a bit unnecessary at times and while it may not be the best horror film ever its still good i thought the acting was very good especially from the girl who plays the mother she seemed very believable and to me very likable and while it is a little and over the top its good overall i gotta say if the horror fest films are not your style then you should have no business watching this but if you like horror films or a wicked little time than check out wicked little things 8 0 out of 10 stars
1	i saw part of this film on the sci fi channel but missed the ending i bought the dvd to see the whole movie and i'm glad i did br br a young mother and her two daughters move into a house out in a backwoods area that they inherited from the husband who died from an illness it's very run down but the three women make the best of it the teen daughter scout taylor compton is warned by a local boy about the zombies that come out at night she ignores him but since he has a cute friend she joins his group meanwhile the younger daughter chloe grace makes a friend in a zombie girl her age named mary it turns out that mary and several other kids died in a mine in 1913 while working as child labor now that they are zombies they attack and kill anyone who's not a blood relative br br this movie was directed by j s cardone whose previous films include the slayer 1981 and 1990 two movies i didn't like in the slightest bit this is why i was surprised that i actually enjoyed this movie the film is deliberately paced which i liked this allows you to get to know the main characters most of whom are likable child zombies have been used at least since george romero's 1968 classic night of the living dead still i found the tool using child zombies in this movie interesting it would seem that cardone finally found the right script and cast only the stereotypical scenes of the teens smoking drinking and making out in a parked car were boring to me br br taylor compton also appears in the halloween remake appeared in the amityville horror 2005 and the horror film room 6 2006
1	from the acting to direction this new twist on the familiar ghost's been done wrong theme will keep you glued to your seat slow at times because it builds this 'what's gonna happen' tension medium well on gore but what there is nicely nasty spoiler the death of the and subsequent feast is a highlight for gore hounds br br the writers crafted an old story but added twists and re imagined you typical haunting cardone brings it to life er uh death br br lori scout taylor compton and the ever fabulous ben cross are real no signs of acting here everyone in the cast is committed and truly isn't that what any director strives for the actors believe so we believe br br along with the traditional ghost story surprises the film is loaded with tons of atmosphere from the mine hank's house and the home there's a creeping fear from the first frame to the last br br horror fans do yourself a favor and enjoy what amounts to be one of the true horror movies out there today br br i end with a big to boaz davidson story ben screenplay for without inventive writers hollywood would be nothing but an ugly reality tv party
1	i have to say i was pleasantly surprised by this movie other than the mother being a complete moron on a few occasions and the youngest daughter being idiotic enough to go out at night into woods that scared her in the daytime this movie was pretty good had the director had the sense to treat us as if we had brains maybe he'd have given us a movie where the people didn't have to behave idiotically but still manage to get into danger it worked for the plumber and the fellow in the trailer but apparently the teenagers and the mother needed to be idiots for the director to get closure in ending this film br br atmosphere was great scenery was awesome and the undead kids scared the crap out of me i live in a wooded area so taking out the trash will creep me out for quite a while the movie works for me accept for what i already mentioned raise the mom's iq a bit and i'd give it a ten
1	may contain spoilers in no way shape or form does this movie break the horror movie mold not by a long shot however it does deliver a creepy atmosphere believable enough characters and gore br br the story is simple and doesn't bother to itself anymore than it needs to a bunch of kids are killed in a mining accident back in the early 1900's since then they have stalked and killed the residence of their sleepy little pa town in the mountains br br simple they want revenge on the man that caused their death years and years ago naturally his great great great grandson is in town and he's a real prick br br along with that a mother and her two daughters inherit a run old house after the husband dies the eldest daughter is rebellious obnoxious a typical teen the younger is curious bright eyed and gets in with the ghost children br br the creepiest part of this flick is the sheer of the children and they hack their way through victim after victim excellent acting it was so spooky i mean the children of the corn flicks are one thing but this topped any of those as for the creepy kids br br a look i bought it before seeing it and i was not unhappy but i'm a horror fan through and through
1	this work is pretty atmospheric with a couple of surprises a few really creepy elements i found this work more rewarding than i first expected given the rotten reviews this receives here at imdb the dialog comes across as natural and honest given the circumstances although the overall run of the film goes from predictable to cliché with the heroines falling down when they should be running and investigating strange noises when they should be locking their doors typical horror movie fare br br the local characters are some of the worst clichés depicting appalachian natives as in bred challenged freaks the characters of the children and the principals are great the development given is adequate and scout taylor compton seems to be developing her talents quite well br br now i'm not going to say that this is entirely original or the best thing since sliced bread which isn't all that great by the way but this is interesting and i do not long for my 107 minutes back i would not say this is an awesome movie by any means but there are some really good horror elements herein but there are also some really slow spots where plot character development seem superfluous to the director's or the film editor's whim br br all in all this is good for a rainy night but not so good for a friday saturday night's viewing br br it rates a 7 6 10 from br br the fiend
1	'wicked little things' really separates itself from other zombie movies first off all of the zombies in the movie don't exactly starting biting at you and tearing your flesh apart with their bare hands they kill you with either a or shovel and eat you after wards second they can't die in most zombie movies you can shoot a zombie in the head and kill them but these simply won't die third which is the biggest reason why this movie separates itself all of the zombies are children how did they die exactly to become zombies they were working in a coal mine when suddenly they were all killed in a collapse now they wander the forest carrying their pickaxes and shovels waiting for someone to come by so they can kill them and eat them oh they also come out at night yep only at night that makes the movie even more fun then it would be if they came out in the morning despite all of the violent and gory mayhem in this movie 'wicked little things' is a great choice if you're looking for a movie about zombie children don't expect anything great like 'dawn of the dead' or 'land of the dead' but do expect lots of gore and violence that makes this movie a real zombie fan pleaser everyone give scout taylor compton from rob zombie's 'halloween' a big hand for delivering a great performance like the one she did in 'halloween' she really needs to start starring in more horror movies
1	there are times i am convinced that the is the best sullivan gilbert opera ever but that is only so long as i'm not listening to be that as it may the is probably the most frequently filmed of the operas yes i put the composer first nobody says hammerstein and rodgers or hart and rodgers or and verdi or what's his face and strauss you don't even hear the names of for or gilbert was just the bigger name and the bigger ego at the time so they put his name first it's time that silly practice was put to rest br br anyway the is a compleat s g operetta it has some of sullivan's numbers combined with some of gilbert's cleverest lyrics it has an interesting book and sprightly dialogue it's got a wonderful degree of craziness and it leaves the door wide open for elaborate and whimsical costuming br br this particular production filmed in a live performance in 1990 turns its imagination toward striking simplicity set in a british seaside resort toward the end of the art period it throws over the of the original entirely the result is costuming and setting in an eye caressing medley of whites grey and blacks accented by occasional bits of red and less frequent uses of yellow and green it takes some getting used to but it's really spiffy of course when the chorus tells you they are gentlemen of japan you would be right to exclaim oh pooh bah did i just say that it's most gratifying that this fine production is now on dvd however one caveat the print seems to be photographed through a glass of imperfect clarity so that the expected sharpness of the image is softened and ever so slightly fuzzy the tendency to superimpose images is alas annoying why do people who are doing a really spiffy production want to muck it up with artsy fartsy stuff of that sort but it's the performance that counts the most we may skip the overture since although one is performed sullivan never wrote one true it may be so he wrote none for any of the but the overture doesn't even date from sullivan's lifetime and was compiled by observing the techniques used in the others as for the rest of the operetta it's first rate and supremely funny br br the ko ko here is the estimable eric idle who does it credit there is a tradition of bringing a big name into the role the was a u s tv production years ago in which ko ko was played by groucho marx with mixed results idle's performance is delightfully quirky he does taken from a county jail assisted by a tennis his i've got a little list is done as a speech to a microphone of course it has the usual updated lyrics which are much funnier than the usual run of such things and his delivery is positively hysterical it goes on that way throughout br br in this operetta it's important to have a good it's just no fun if you're not being at in style this has a fabulous in felicity palmer in her way almost as big a name as idle she bellows with the best of them in a wonderful rich wonderful especially for a soprano and her costume not to mention her recital with franz liszt apparently accompanying poo is played by i have trouble getting around is somewhat un chubby shortness but is voice is undeniably a solid rich addition to the vocal palette there is a nice touch during a minstrel where the chorus reacts with distaste to the mention of his nancy on his knee bear in mind the decree about flirting be that as it may is a fine singing actor and if his appearance doesn't put the best face on poo his performance does br br yum yum lesley and her friends are appropriately pretty and silly she and do lovely duets pish tush mark richardson plays his persona as something a and does it very well poo bah richard van allan is wonderful as a stuffed shirt out of water a role later done to death in american sitcoms you know haughty butlers forced to cater to bratty children that sort of thing the richard is bloody marvelous with an imperious voice at absolute variance with his ridiculous lyrics br br i don't recommend you get this as your only get a good traditional production as well so you can see what gilbert intended more or less in terms of staging that being said i'll watch this one twice while viewing any traditional bit once on the whole this is a terrific offering a vocal and visual delight with delicious over acting it's a dvd to treasure with dervish like maids tap dancing bellhops and all watch for the bellhops with signs
1	this is definitely the biggest surprise of the festival so far and without a doubt the best the festival has had to offer i went into this film with little to no expectations after learning that the director was responsible for the awful vampire flick the forsaken and i left pleasantly surprised the film stars lori of in crowd fame as a young mother whose husband has just passed she moves into an old family home in the mountains with her two daughters next to a mine that is a gravesite to overworked children back in the day unlucky for them the children return with a vengeance killing and eating everyone in their path the film works on many levels it's well done suspenseful it has spots of good cinematography and capable performances by compton especially the atmosphere is spooky yet slightly underwhelming the score is decent and the makeup effects are gruesome and simplistic the film keeps up a creepy and unsettling tone and the kids themselves with pale skin torn up lips and hollow eyes are pretty scary and unrelenting the film is original and inventive without being to artsy or complicated i can't see this film making it into a wide release without some trimming and slight fine tuning but they definitely have a good product on there hands and should pursue some type of theatrical distribution however the theatre in which i saw it in was horrible the sound was dreadfully messed up which i felt took away from the film majorly and it stopped in the middle because they couldn't center it on the screen which killed the mood a bit all in all though it was the most satisfying of entries maybe because it had the least expectations but nonetheless was a welcome addition to genre films
1	wicked little things was a really good movie i will say at some parts it seemed really unbelievable and others it seemed as if there just wasn't enough thought put into the actions of the characters but overall it was exciting and entertaining i don't understand why this movie's rating is so low nor do i not understand why all the horrorfest film's ratings are so low these are b movies people and nothing more they provide great entertainment and most of them don't have many flaws at all this is definitely worth a look because you won't be disappointed with the outcome wicked little things is one of the best 1st annual horrorfest films and compared to a lot of other films in the series this is one of the best overall
1	having finally been able to get the dvd of this 1997 hbo film is at down to watch it by the time i finished it the old saying those who can not learn from the past are doomed to relive it was echoing in the mind first shown four years after the first bombing of the twin towers and four years before the events of 9 11 path to paradise reveals the series of close encounters blunders and official in decisions that led to the first bombing of the twin towers and the lessons we should have learned from them br br path to paradise features a nice cast of believable actors peter gallagher and marcia gay harden lead the cast as fbi agents john and nancy floyd who face not only the threats of terrorism but the lack of official interest from their superiors along with their nypd counterpart lou napoli paul art malik andreas shaun and tony gillan are among those who plan and carry out the attack all of whom play their roles not as potential clichés but as real living people and make the film all the better for it of special mention is ned eisenberg as salem the man whom if it had not been for skeptical fbi officials could have potentially informed on the plot br br the film is also well produced despite being made for cable this film doesn't feel like a low budget film at all with its production values particularly in its sets and new york city locations the film's fascinating cinematography gives the film an almost documentary style at times when all of these elements are combined with the script it all helps to give the film a sense of reality which makes the events taking place all the more disturbing br br the most disturbing thing about he film is its script the events of the film are true minus some dramatic license which is always necessary and in hindsight are made even more shocking then they must have been when the film was first shown twelve years ago the film reveals just how a group of men were able to smuggle a bomb into the world trade center they did so thanks to the lack of arabic translators government agencies failing to pass information to each other the fbi ignoring leads from a source and police departments being unable to pick up on clues worse then investigators to connect dots is the fact that many of these same things not only allowed the 9 11 attacks to take place but in some cases such as the lack of translators are issues that continue even today even more chilling is the ending which really did happen and looks all too prophetic today br br path to paradise is a film that should be essential viewing today the film is not only well acted and produced but teaches us a lesson we should have learned sooner the lesson of the film that those who can not learn from the past are doomed to relive it if you can find this film then watch it and learn from it
1	this film is bone chilling in a way that is hard to describe while it is fairly accurate in its description of the events leading up to and the subsequent investigation regarding the first attempt to destroy the world trade center in 1993 seen now post 9 11 it is almost unbearable br br it would be a mistake to call this film prophetic but it certainly makes the common playground wisdom of fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me come alive br br our government learned nothing from the 1993 attempt on the world trade center and subsequent readings of the 9 11 report show that many of the mistakes that led to the bombing in 1993 were repeated br br some people have criticized the first and fourth of the us constitution as being partly responsible for the islamic terrorists being able to carry out their evil plans but that is wrong headed in every possible way br br surely the people making this argument are not supporting a ban on free speech a free press or freedom of religion i certainly hope they are not supporting our government officials being able to break into any person's home or office to search without cause or without a warrant br br the fact is the fbi the ins and even the local police could have gotten warrants based on the information they had in their possession but they chose not to for a variety of reasons besides no matter how distasteful or ignorant it is it is not illegal to speak badly about america or its leaders likewise it is not illegal to either own guns or to pray toward mecca br br consider this until lee harvey oswald actually fired his rifle at president john kennedy he wasn't really breaking any laws living in a free society has its drawbacks br br still path to paradise is a must see film that i am afraid will never be seen by that many people as far as i know it is not on dvd and 2007 is its tenth anniversary and there are no known revivals of it br br i'm not really surprised people don't like to document their failures and this film certainly shows that the various agencies that were supposed to protect us did not do their jobs right and for the of reasons like squabbles and a refusal to share information br br this is a shame as path to paradise is well done and gripping and as many have stated before the final scene where yousef played by art malik the bomber who built the truck bomb that was used in the first attempt at destroying the two towers is flying past the world trade center after his capture and simply says next time we will bring them both down is a film moment that froze me in place for several minutes
1	based on the true story of the hunt for those who were responsible for the bombing of the world trade center building a very good film that delves into the use of informants and how possibly the tragedy could have been avoided 7 of 10
1	i watched the premiere of path to paradise way back and was stunned by it dramatic license and all i lived in nyc brooklyn a few years and kept in mind today given the links to groups such as al queda and the islamic jihad i see it as a warning not recognized by our government for that i place the blame on our bureaucracy and leaders 9 11 01 was a new tactic to behead two of our branches of gov't and there is no excuse for our gov't to prevent it period path to paradise was but a dramatic view of the '93 preview and no one cared now nearly 3 000 deaths later and years behind we struggle to find an answer that is decades to resolve
1	i first saw this movie about 3 years ago i was shocked at how stupid the fbi was not to prevent such a tragedy it could have been easily prevented this movie was just unbelievable br br now seeing it after september 11th i am appalled and can say that this could have been prevented more easily that most people would want to know br br this film is 100 true br br in the final scene of the film when the mastermind of the 1st attack is being taken to prison by helicopter and flies over the towers he makes a spine chilling remark that was laughed at when he said it next time we'll bring them both down this was actually said by yousef after his arrest br br this movie reveals the shocking truth about how the first attacks were carried out right under the noses of the fbi and nypd it shows how the 1st and 4th are partially to blame for the attacks br br i watch this movie now and know that both attacks could have been prevented
1	we'll never see this movie broadcast by hbo in the near future if at all if anyone somehow comes across it in a video store just grab it before someone else does because i doubt if it ever will be re released again br br an unbelievable and timely movie about the first attack on the world trade center on february 26 1993 and how the government agencies who's job it is to identify and stop terrorists from doing harm and damage to american citizens and american property completely fell down on the job and unwittingly allowed it to happen br br bone chilling since we all know now that the terrorists who were apprehended at the end of the movie weren't going to be the end of our nightmare that resurfaced on september 11 2001 br br the film brought out everything that went wrong back in 1992 93 that allowed that first tragedy at the wtc to happen still it took another eight years to realize that we should have learned from that first wtc attack to be more vigilant and ready to prevent the second and far more devastating assault on the world trade center to happen i found this movie harder to watch after the events of 9 11 then the video of the attacks of 9 11 themselves br br all i can say about this film is don't watch it alone the very ending itself is so powerful as well as prophetic that it would leave you in a state of shock in knowing what we know today and possibly in need to have someone who's with you but not watching the movie to call for medical attention
1	this was a very strong look at prejudice and group mentality the cast is composed of superb actors doing a remarkable job the sets are beautiful and just a bit stylized the art direction is top notch along with great cinematography the story is taut and shows how prejudice and bigotry can flourish easily it is disturbing for its realistic violence and of a fairly typical community i was very impressed
1	look i've come to expect this level of acting from william macy the guy just keeps putting in terrific performances but meat loaf just when did his decide to leave jim behind and throw his decidedly lower weight around in the wonderful world of stanislavsky well what can i say i'm duly impressed to paraphrase an old adage it ain't the meat it's the emotion and the loaf is quietly buffing up his acting chops of late br br laura dern carries off the 40's look perfectly here great job by the costume and hair departments david paymer is typecast but right on the money solid camera work throughout the flick the plot line is reminiscent of gentleman's agreement post wwii anti semitism well worth your time particularly for the growing legions of bill macy acolytes br br
1	i first saw this on thames television and loved it i subsequently saw a dreadful write up by someone who certainly hadn't watched or listened to it so i bought a copy and then i bought another copy the only sad thing is that it is not available on pal vhs or region 2 dvd the australian version is great but this one is better i might buy another
1	the most striking feature about this well acted film is the almost surreal br br images of the era and time it was shot it i could sense the time and moments were stark and very real even the language was so well chosen it's all too often when colloquialisms of today's world are carelessly used in movies about br br another time and place
1	br br headlines warn us of the current campaign to drug users note the nostalgia for mussolini in italy and remind us of our wont to profile likely terrorists focus reminds us of the evils of rampant fear and distrust and the anti semitism disguised as pro americanism of the wwii era what goes around br br lawrence newman william c macy becomes the unfortunate victim of hate crimes after he is mistaken for a jew and these attacks increase when his bride laura dern highlights the look newman rails against the false accusations when they cause him direct harm but he minds his own business we see the rise in anti semitic attacks through his myopia a condition not completely cured by eyeglasses br br macy's typical everyman role is featured again and the long road to realization that we are all connected nearly costs him his life br br what is it about the character macy portrays to us we can't choose to ignore the violence hate and bigotry because citizenship forces us to take sides newman's dilemma is that he has no alternative but to side with the mistreated and goes through hell to see it and our sadness is that most of us need to be beaten up to realize the dangers surrounding us br br let's focus
1	being relatively young i didn't know how bad anti semitism was in brooklyn where my family is originally from this movie absolutely horrified me i've seen many movies about prejudice racism and anti semitism but this seemed to hit me harder than most br br this was definitely one of the best indie films i've ever seen i had to travel 45 minutes to see it and it was well worth it nearly everything about the movie was great sometimes it was a little slow but that didn't really bother me because the movie was very atmospheric it took place in the 40s and it really did look like it was the 40s the acting was great william h macy as always was wonderful so was laura dern and i was pleasantly surprised by performance playing the vicious anti semite neighbor br br 9 10
1	did this gem go direct to video fabulous art direction mood that never misses a beat the truman show meets metropolis an excellent cast i've never seen laura dern better and bill macy is always fabulous same said for david paymer and meat loaf this is just an incredible film
1	a very good movie about anti semitism near the end of wwii the scene that really speaks loudly of the ignorance of these people is the meeting at the church when the priest is giving his speech against the international money and communists it sounds amazingly like the speeches that adolph hitler used to force down his peoples' throats yet none of the meeting attendees seem to make this comparison
1	without question film is a powerful medium more so now than ever before due to the accessibility of dvd video which gives the filmmaker the added assurance that his story or message is going to be seen by possibly millions of people use of this medium therefore attaches an innate responsibility to the artist inasmuch as film can be educational as well as entertaining which dictates that certain subjects should be approached accordingly and with a corresponding sensitivity and sensibility a film like spielberg's schindler's list ' for example is important in that it keeps alive the memory of that which must not be forgotten and as history tends to repeat itself spielberg's film can be viewed as a valuable tool in preventing a of that tragedy in that same vein this film focus ' directed by neal is important in it illuminates the problematic reality of anti semitism which for years beyond number has affected millions of people is still unimaginably prevalent today and like any manifestation of bigotry will perpetuate itself if left unchecked or ignored born of a xenophobic strain it's a disease infecting society which could be terminal and with it's penetrating insights into the condition this film is an effective vaccine that just may at the very least help stem the proliferation of it and hopefully may act as a step toward eradicating it altogether br br lawrence newman william h macy served his country in the great war and has since lived a quiet conventional life in new york he's had the same job as a personnel director for some twenty years and owns the house located in an average middle class neighborhood in which he lives with his mother kay hawtrey lawrence is the kind of guy who gets by just fine by minding his own business and refusing to involve himself with matters that are not he feels his concern br br all of that is about to change however as with the advent of world war 2 lawrence along with the owner of the corner market mr david paymer inexplicably finds himself a target of the neighborhood who have aligned themselves with the union crusaders ' a national organization currently taken to channeling their fears and hatred upon jews or anyone who even looks' like a jew and suddenly lawrence finds that he can no longer just stand on the sidelines and watch the game being played because now he is the game whether he wants to be or not br br working from an intelligent well written screenplay by which he adapted from arthur miller's novel presents a chilling scenario that incisively examines the effects of bigotry upon those against whom it is leveled and when one considers the fact that this is not merely a hypothetical situation but a depiction of reality it becomes all the more disquieting even unnerving and what makes the film so effective is obvious grasp of his subject and his studied presentation which is thought provoking in it's subtlety in the opening scene establishes lawrence's character ' and very soon afterward reaffirms it in another scene which affords the audience the opportunity to observe and assimilate how lawrence's mind actually works the thought processes that direct his life with that in place then is able to take his audience along with lawrence as his problems gradually begin to unfold by so doing he effectively illustrates how the problem evolves rather than merely stating the problem and addressing it head on which heightens the viewers emotional involvement and ultimately enhances the impact of the film br br makes an important statement with this film which is not only an indictment of bigotry but carries a cautionary message about apathy as well and to his credit he never hits you over the head with it or engages in subjective finger pointing to make his case instead he proceeds carefully taking great pains to be as objective as possible with all that he is submitting for your consideration his approach is that of a cinematic diplomat and it's an approach that serves and his film quite well br br as lawrence william h macy one of the best character actors in the business gives an amazing performance establishing the credibility and believability of his character with a sensitive honest and introspective portrayal he never attempts to circumvent the personal flaws of lawrence's nature but uses them instead to create a character that is decidedly three dimensional which not only makes him convincing but serves to reaffirm the integrity of the portrayal what makes it so compelling is macy's ability to convey the process by which he examines his own conscience which successfully enables the viewer to share in the experience of his personal epiphany in the final analysis it's the strength of macy's performance more than anything else that makes this film so significantly distinct br br another of the film's strengths is the performance turned in by laura dern as gertrude hart a portrayal that effectively complements macy's work as well as that of dern lends tremendous substance to her character capturing her physically as well as emotionally and her colorful zeal crates a striking contrast to lawrence's reserve that works extremely well for her character as well as the film itself br br and just as sean combs recently in monster's ball' made a good case against dismissing out of hand the acting endeavors of an established rock star ' meat loaf gives a powerful performance here as fred lawrence's next door neighbor it demonstrates too that a true artist will produce regardless of the kind of canvas he's given to work with br br the supporting cast includes michael carlson kenneth welsh father crighton joseph ziegler gargan and arlene meadows mrs dewitt the kind of film that makes a filmmaker proud of his craft focus ' offers a memorable experience that hopefully will prove to be enlightening as well to those unaware that such conditions have existed and still do even in this the land of the free 10 10 br br br br
1	focus is another great movie starring william h macy i first discovered macy in fargo and i've seen a few of his films and he hasn't yet deceived me macy is the archetypal nice guy with something to hide in focus he plays the role of lawrence newman a loyal and hard working stiff who harbours his handicapped mother at home the scene is set after world war ii at the height of mccarthyism newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically anti semite after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent he is asked to buy a pair of glasses to improve his failing eyesight br br unbelievably the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart his wife played by a great laura dern as the film unravels newman will begin to see a whole different world where being jewish is akin to being an animal br br the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal the chilling thought is that in some places it probably still is
1	arthur miller certainly knows his stories give a clearer picture of what it means to live in the united states in the 20th century than any other writer i can think of br br focus based on one of his novels is no exception br br william h macy and laura dern give fantastic performances here emotionally bruising but ultimately rewarding this movie is excellent
1	i had to call my mother a wasp to ask her about this was it really that bad in the 40s in new york surprise she couldn't remember so i told her to see the movie arthur miller in not a screen play but a novel for a change was 30 when he wrote this in 1945 it is a painful depiction of anti semitism yet oddly enough there is a tender story of human relationships the jew with newman the non jew primarily underlying the cruel story the acting is competent and the cinematography is very good br br the only reason i can think of for this not making it big in the theatre is that it's controversial br br i actually give it ten of ten maybe a bit high but it's so worth seeing
1	mpaa rating pg 13 br br my rating 10 and up br br my rating 9 5 10 br br william h macy delivers a stunning performance as the role of mr neuman he makes you feel sympathetic and scared for him the story starts out as a comedy and slowly but steadily becomes almost like a horror film with twists and turns that macy masters i couldn't take my eyes off this film even after it ended and i couldn't beleive it ended when it did a must to see br br this paragraph may be considered a spoiler by some br br after you watch the film look at the plot this way the are the united states as a whole and the charactor meat loaf plays is the people in the united states who are anti br br this was a very enjoyable film and would reccomend to anyone i saw in the street
1	i really enjoy this particular production of the the producers added a few touches throughout to make it more amusing for modern audiences for instance as some day it may happen the little list song is completely updated and a few lines are ad libbed throughout the play liberties were also taken with the setting the costumes are not japanese but rather 1920s english although some of the girls wear '20s inspired this production is well choreographed with some 1920s dance styles and there are some extra dancing maids and bellhops to keep your eyes as well as ears entertained during the songs if you're a gilbert sullivan purist these changes may bother you but i think they're fine and i love the costumes br br felicity palmer is absolutely hilarious all of her scenes make me laugh out loud one of my favorite add ons is when she first makes an entrance the dancing bellhops annoy her with their antics so she screeches at the top of her voice stop it all of the other main characters do a fine job as well i particularly like mark richardson as pish tush that toupee and lesley garrett as yum yum br br you must keep in mind that this is a stage production being filmed and set your expectations accordingly there is no change of setting although the filmmakers used some 1930s film techniques to add interest if there is one draw back to this production it is that the stage makeup wasn't modified for close up shots with a camera foundation lines are often visible and there seems to be a surplus of eyeliner lipstick and blush everywhere i've seen this sort of thing happen before with films of plays and it's a little jarring at first however i hope you'll get used to it and enjoy the for what it's worth a thoroughly enjoyable rendition of a classic
1	focus is an engaging story told in urban wwii era setting william macy portrays everyman who is taken out of his personal circumstances and challenged with decisions testing his values affecting the community laura dern macy and david paymer give good performances so also the good supporting ensemble
1	i'm a huge fan of legendary director elia kazan his movies often deal with people trying to overcome their weaknesses be it obsessive love in 'splendor in the grass poverty in a tree grows in brooklyn or racism in gentlemen's agreement while looking for other movies made by kazan i stumbled across a movie that was based on a novel by arthur miller the movie called focus stars william h macy who happens to be one of my favorite actors and laura dern it deals with anti semitism in a very realistic way br br macy's character seems to go along with the bigots in his neighborhood and on his job until it affects him personally that's the key here the reason he acted wasn't because he knew it was wrong and he wanted to take a stand he acted because he was now considered an outsider and he began to experience the same looks the same remarks and the same brutally that mr david experienced br br the movie is very well written and well acted meat loaf does a awesome job of playing a dirt bag both macy and dern's performances are outstanding it's easier in life to go along with instead of going against sometimes in order for people to take a stand things have to impact their lives or the lives of their loved ones only then will some find their moral compass
1	this is a movie about a man everybody thinks is jewish this is a movie about lawrence newman who lives in brooklyn in the 1940's at the time of wwii one day when he gets himself glasses people start thinking he's a jew and that only because he looks like one and he lives in a very antisemitic neighborhood so some people start treating him like dirt they make that judgment being a jew of larry's fresh wife gertrude hart too that makes their lives unbearable neal focus 2001 is a fairly good look at the that's a problem that won't go away the movie is based on miller's novel which i admit i haven't read but the movie is really good so i'm sure the book would also the actors do good job william h macy is always good and his work as larry newman is brilliant laura dern is gert hart and she's magnificent meat loaf is almost scary as the neighbor who wants to keep jews out by any means necessary david character as the jewish shop owner mr is the most sympathetic in the movie paymer is the perfect choice for the role one of the greatest scenes is in the end when mr and newman fight against those nazi like people with baseball bats they join together to fight the evil the christian and the jew
1	well acted drama based on a novel by arthur miller something as simple as a pair of glasses becomes life altering lawrence newman william h macy is a man that has chosen to be satisfied with his mundane life the same job for twenty years and still living with his mother he is told by his boss to correct his vision with a pair of glasses newman's life drastically changes and delves him into hell the glasses he chose makes him look jewish he looses his job and becomes the object of heavy scrutiny by his brooklyn neighborhood searching for a job he encounters the attractive and outspoken gertrude laura dern herself living with conflict because of her jewish appearance soon the couple's new life together becomes a nightmare filled with humiliation and bigotry driven attacks a very apt cast that features joseph ziegler peter kay hawtrey and of musical fame meat loaf
1	the first reviewer is right in this movie we see ourselves up to the majority being agreeable trying to stay out of trouble just trying to live our lives and we see how easily these very human traits so fundamental to the functioning of society can lead us to become complicit in a great evil br br the story is set during world war ii with the radio newspapers and movies reminding us of hitler's attacks on jews to underscore the irony of the same kind of violent anti semitism taking place in america at times that seemed a little heavy handed to me br br it feels more like a play than a movie but it's so thought provoking that such quibbles mean little perhaps less trivial is the fact that the entire plot hinges one one little fact that struck me as rather implausible larry has lived an uneventful life until middle age yet all it takes is his beginning to wear a pair of spectacles for everyone everyone to at the first glance take him for a jew i willingly suspended disbelief because the plot kept me moving forward but the implausibility did bother me throughout the film and quite frankly i didn't understand why his wife was also taken for a jew larry seemed to think so because her name was hart and later when he married her i don't know why his neighbours assumed she was jewish for the first part of the film i wondered if there were going to be elements of fantasy larry's seemed exaggerated almost to the point of the grotesque why not call the police on seeing the rape even if the attacker was a neighbour and i thought the lighting seemed to suggest something slightly unreal the red of the houses seemed too red entrance seemed deliberately overlit generally the colours were almost crayon like in their intensity br br in the credits i see that it was filmed on campbell avenue and wallace avenue in toronto so i plan to drive down there near today to check out the colours really it was good to be reminded that the clergy at that time were often leading the evil of racism remember how the pope refused to speak out against hitler seeking only to get protection for the church it was the same pope by the way who when rome was about to be liberated by american troops requested that the first soldiers to enter the city not be black check your history i don't recall ever hearing of this movie before that's a shame it certainly is of great interest to every thinking person to everyone interested in american history or racism it's one of the clearest illustrations i've ever seen of bertrand russell's dictum do not go with a crowd to do evil
1	i just saw it at the toronto international film festival director neal impressive starring cast includes william macy seen in the contender at last year's tiff meat loaf aka meat loaf aka michael lee david paymer and laura dern also starring in novocaine also at this year's festival br br based on the arthur miller novel by the same name focus follows christian but jewish looking lawrence newman macy as he struggles among the hatred and anti semitism in his neighbourhood pitted between the jewish store owner down the street paymer and his card carrying anti semite next door neighbour meat loaf newman faces difficulty in dealing with inner conflict and conflict around him guilt over knowing what's right but not doing anything battles with wanting to blend in and keep peace with the neighbours things gets more complex when he meets and marries gertrude dern who everyone thinks is jewish gertrude teaches her husband a few things about judging books by covers br br will newman stick up for the jewish man in the end or will he flee go see it to find out br br the acting was fabulous the writing was incredible the cinematography was excellent the sound was well done technically amazing the movie was disturbing chilling emotionally intense i found myself bringing my knees up into the fetal position a couple of times i have great admiration for everyone who worked on it i have not seen a film this good in a long time it touched me br br wow
1	others' main criticism of this film namely that macy suddenly looks jewish upon donning his glasses is misplaced the glasses are just the little bit of change needed to convince others he's a jew the scene in which he says to his boss paraphrasing but you know what my background is along with another discussion with his mother suggests that he's had to fight this same assumption in the past the glasses now make him look just jewish enough to confirm his and co workers' existing suspicions then there is his new wife's large nose and taste for loud clothes which of course means she's jewish the whole point of the film is how those little stereotypical nothings become the entire basis for judging others br br if he has a lisp he must be gay if he has long hair he smokes dope if he's hispanic he's got a knife and if he has round black glasses and he's slight of build he must be jewish those statements all sound equally im plausible to me if the conclusion people were jumping to in focus was reasonable the whole point of the story would be lost
1	i don't know if it was the directors intent to make sure the sky was almost always sunny and beautiful in this film perhaps that is the romantic image many americans have of the time this film is set as it is in the middle of the war macy has returned from the war his neighbor asks hey is it true you got a fritz over there and is trying to get on with his life but one day he gets a new pair of glasses hence the name and sees things clearly as the surrounding situation reveals itself to be one of rabid anti semitism and macy and dern could wrapped up in it funny how neither is jewish in this film but the accusation is made also it is historically accurate as the labor union democrats of this time wrapped themselves in the flags of america and god macy is continually pestered to come to the meeting his presence brings unexpected results br br applying this time frame to today is a study in contrast in 2005 has undergone a complete reversal with average citizens who have taken patriotism and religion as their supporting the republican party and viewing organized labor as part of left wing america br br a great picture to watch if you care to see the friendly timid and meek macy played beautifully by him get caught in the carnage of race and hate in the mid 40's in nyc br br a tough emotionally charged film
1	the essential message one which miller would have surely intended after seeing vichy war crimes trials is that hatred of somebody without rational basis is a waste of life meat loaf's character fred has known lawrence for many years and yet when the time comes at the bidding of his fanatical supporters he allows them to attack a man who is not part of their target group for me this is the crucial message it doesn't matter what lawrence and his wife do from this point onwards they are marked and have chance to save themselves by using reason animal aggression and anger have blinded fred's union thugs to reality br br a friend of mine suggested i should see the wave to study how irrational hatred and evil ideology can take over people without them realising it i once conducted an experiment in a role playing game and was shocked to see how normal and level headed people welcomed the creation of an oppressive police state which would ultimate threaten them all because it crept in in stages br br fred is the start his la friends and preacher idol are the catalyst which pushes his neighbours over the edge into violence without stopping to think that what they are doing in wrong br br the relationship between lawrence and the jewish shopkeeper is a fascinating one because lawrence misses the point almost until the end if the bigots force out where is he to go if his family have fled the nazis what an irony to be tormented again in the land of freedom br br that big poster it's a fairly famous propaganda piece about american families enjoying the highest standard of living in the world is a very important detail when you see this film watch for the grafitti on the subway train and all the little posters the message lurks there too br br this movie should be on the curriculum of every school especially in our time when baseless hatred is being promoted so widely by reasonable people who are just extremists in thin disguises
1	this movie packs a punch there are a few every now and then that make me think deeply and disturb me a lot i could see myself in this same predicament passively allowing things to happen around me not standing up for the right and decent thing just trying to avoid trouble how often do we avoid making waves or sticking our necks out how often does our inaction condone the evil actions of others we would never join them we tell ourselves we recognize that what they are doing is bad but do we do anything about it br br lawrence newman william h is a low key nerdy office worker who has paid off his home in brooklyn ny in the waning days of world war ii he rarely gets engaged in what is going on around him has never married rarely just goes to work and cares for his invalid mother then a series of events in his very white little neighborhood pull him out of his complacent shell into a maelstrom of events it starts as he witness from his bedroom window the rape of a puerto rican girl by the son of his neighbor soon after he gets glasses because of poor vision as he is now better able to see he becomes less able to deal with the circumstances of his life the one bright spot is a new love in his life and he marries hoping to continue on in his normalcy then the virulent anti semitism on that street catches him despite his credentials as a presbyterian wasp as things spiral further out of control he discovers he must make an important decision does he take a stand or does he simply go away br br i cannot how anybody can view this movie without being affected and having to think very much about themselves and what they really stand for post war anti semitism is the setting here but there is injustice at all times and in all places it is for the individual to decide where he or she stands
1	cowboys and indians is an excellent film the writing acting directing could not have been better this was a story that begged to be told and this group of talented individuals and teams did a superb job of doing so stories like this one are not pleasant ones but serve to remind people of the social injustices that exist all around the world it is my hope that when this film is seen that attitudes and prejudices will be changed a film that can do that is a rare a special thing andrew is an excellent writer and his talents and expertise in this field came shining through in this film br br thank you for telling this story br br ruby
1	most people attending this film will have no idea of the great novel by arthur miller that is the basis of it it's a novel that should be read by more people to see how prejudice affects and alters peoples lives br br at the beginning lawrence newman is an ordinary man the eyeglasses his boss makes him get change everything he has worked for and his whole world collapses around him little by little there couldn't have been an actor better suited to bring this intelligent performance to the screen than william h macy not only is he a talented stage and screen actor but he projects honesty behind every character he plays he is an everyday man caught in his own insecurities his anxiety intensifies when he takes a stand and walks out of his job suddenly he has to confront the issues he has tried to avoid all his middle class existence in the brooklyn of the 40s is he jewish is he not the cinematography in this brilliant and atmospheric film directed with sure hand by neil kept reminding me of some edward hopper's paintings especially a sequence at the beginning of the film when newman steps outside a building and the night shot when he and his wife are being followed with long black shadows behind the couple menacing and anticipating the confrontation with the bullies laura dern david paymer and especially meat loaf who infuses incredible depth to the bully next door are excellent but they all pale in comparison with the stellar turn of william h macy h must stand for honest if you haven't read the book i would sincerely recommend it because no one has written more truly and convincingly than arthur miller has
1	first they came for the communists and i didn't speak up because i wasn't a communist then they came for the jews and i didn't speak up because i wasn't a jew then they came for the catholics and i didn't speak up because i was a protestant then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me br br attributed to rev martin 1945 br br when faced with intolerance or injustice the easiest thing to do is nothing speak up and you risk becoming an object of scorn but when does enough become too much global anti semitic sentiments allowed hitler's genocidal policies to thrive and equal doses of fear mongering and ignorance made it possible for the anti communist of mccarthyism to destroy thousands of peoples' lives inaction makes one no less culpable br br lawrence newman is a chameleon of a man quiet and nondescript he blends seamlessly with his surroundings lawrence doesn't like to get involved when he witnesses an attack on a young woman he tells no one and goes about his business his world spirals into chaos when he buys a pair of glasses and is mistaken for one of them lawrence's view of the world and its view of him is forever altered br br while the subject matter of this film is not new its presentation is definitely unique it is much easier to understand the irrational nature of prejudice when placed within a certain context lawrence is more concerned with the assumptions that he is jewish than he is with the views of his attackers he believes that if he corrects this oversight that everything will be all right not realizing that logic and prejudice never go hand in hand br br whether playing a schemer the only thing i liked about fargo or a down home nice guy sheriff william h macy's roles are linked by a common thread his characters share a subtle deliberate countenance that gives them substance macy nails lawrence down to the smallest detail and says more with a furtive glance or tremble in his voice than a page of dialogue by showing rather than telling lawrence is able to share his fear and bewilderment with the viewer the supporting cast brings the story together br br laura dern is compelling as lawrence's bombshell wife with a past trailer park rough yet other worldly wise she has also felt the wrath of prejudice as the result of a mistake and unwittingly lawrence's situation michael lee aka meatloaf is frightening as fred the prototypical redneck next door equal parts ignorance and venom rallying neighbours to his virulent cause in the midst of the chaos is david paymer the focus of the aggression and the voice of reason that raises the important questions even handed portrayal keeps from becoming a stereotype or someone whose sole purpose is to engender sympathy making his one of the strongest performances in the film br br the tight editing and close cropped cinematography make for a clean picture with few distractions and mixes an air of claustrophobia in with the small town usa feel it is simultaneously comforting and disturbing the deliberate use of harsh two tone lighting to accentuate the malevolent aspects of the piece and the carefully scored soundtrack are powerful without being overwhelming finally the set and costume designs recreate the feel of the era an essential component in the film's message br br focus' unconventional approach in dealing with prejudice is reason enough to recommend this film just consider the excellent story solid acting and look of the film as added bonuses
1	cleopatra is a very funny entertaining show you shouldn't take all the show seriously but if you wanna have fun that's your tv show being made by the producers of xena is a quality guarantee and cleopatra isn't that different from xena the female warriors formula is brought to the future where they don't have to fight warriors or gods but dangerous robots which dwell in the surface and the humans are forced to live underground along the two seasons of cleopatra they develop an interesting and funny underground world and we get to know the three main characters cleopatra jennifer sky hel gina torres and sarge victoria pratt they all are different but as a team they work really well the three main actresses appeared previously in xena like most of the regular guest cast there are some known faces from hercules too or from both shows i specially liked the character played by danielle cormack in xena which is very different from any of her roles i previously knew so if you liked xena and hercules you'll love cleopatra if you don't know them try it i'm sure you'll enjoy it
1	there are moments when you don't want those deep drama series when you don't want series with heavy stories or a must to watch every single episode to be able to hang on there are moments when you just want to watch a simple series with lots of action and cool characters for those moments you have cleopatra br br i was one of those who actually enjoyed charlie's angels critics said it was to superficial and silly but the thing is that's the point people who can't relax and expected a serious movie hated it it's exactly the same with cleopatra it is superficial it has silly and unrealistic characters and that's why i like it it isn't like any other series br br the first season wasn't very good the character cleo was irritating and a little too much the story was a little lame and you didn't get to know the characters very much but hey they only had 20 minutes in every episode br br in the last 5 6 episodes of cleopatra they finally gave the series full 40 minutes length and it was here i started to love it the series finally started to grow into a very qualitative series too bad they had to cancel the series because the last episodes of cleopatra actually was very good i will never forget hel sarge and cleo unique characters that only the creators of xena could have created
1	i picked up a dvd at the discount having no idea what it's about but at that price i can't resist in brief i was positively surprised br br so much that i did quite some research on the german dvd part 2 of a series of 3 episodes were into two 85 minute parts and out of order here are my results based on episode list br br doomsday is in my boots the voice final episode br br war of the machines is hel high water 1 2 pod listener juggernaut down br br well what can i say girlies are of course interesting for older men i never watched charlie's angels so much so i can't compare but the more i watched the less i looked out for bikini tops and their fillings instead the characters both m and f became more interesting i can imagine feminists have their fun with this too all in all maybe a guilty pleasure but a pleasure it was
1	ya know the concept of guilty pleasures yeah you have 'em like admitting you watched and enjoyed goonies battlestar galactica after they reached earth v the series charlie's angels starsky hutch the 1950s version of superman or godzilla movies br br here's the ultimate in guilty pleasures coupled with jack of all trades in a sam raimi action packed hour this half hour slot is fast paced easy to follow and loaded with fun to watch clad babes br br the man that brought us evil dead xena hercules and the adventures of brisco county jr does it again with this 2000 update of charlies angels we got charlie voice an unknown being that has the and the time to find people who need help bosley the gadget man and three gorgeous babes that kick a for a living br br and oh what a living
1	as i have said before in previous comments some programmes are there to be entertainment' so i get somewhat frustrated when commentators seem to be expecting a program that will reveal the meaning of life you will not get that from cleopatra and it does not presume to offer it what you get is a girl who was frozen and is brought back to life some 500 years later and her adaptation to this new life is realistic she does not settle in within 10 minutes as what happens with other time travelling adventures and neither is she the female equivalent of james bond ready to take on all comers cleopatra is by her new surroundings and frightened by some of the weaponry on display as most of us would be however it is light entertainment the stories have a beginning a middle and an end in quick time and their are some surprisingly good moments of acting the episode when there is a double of cleopatra is particularly moving and jennifer sky i think gives one of the best performances of someone dying for a long long time and being a film and television buff i know what i am talking about finally to prove my sincerity i have purchased all but four of the episodes and i am entirely satisfied with my purchase the only reason i do not have the complete set is because i purchased the other episodes before realising that there was one complete box set victoria pratt and gina torres complete the trio and for light entertainment cleopatra certainly entertained me
1	this second pairing of wile e coyote and the road runner is a great as the first predictable maybe but i don't care and still laugh so much whenever i see it the wile e road runner shorts always had the most special place in my heart so knowing that the second disc of the golden collection would not only feature 11 of this but they would be in chronological order 2 through 12 the first episode was on volume 1 made me get misty eyed i love this stuff this animated short can be seen on disc 2 of the looney tunes golden collection volume 2 it also features an optional commentary by micheal barrier br br my grade a
1	chuck jones's so called despite the fact that the road runner clearly says is the second of the exceptionally popular road runner series and is a vast improvement on its predecessor the historically important but lacklustre 'fast and furry while it features several predictable gags also expands on that initial cartoon with more ambitious longer sequences chief among these is a fantastic extended chase through an old mine in which we see the coyote and the road runner represented by two small lights there's also a very funny longer gag involving some rocket powered roller skates also sees a great improvement in the representation of wile e coyote not only does he look more handsome than his scraggly prototype in 'fast and furry but he also draws the audience into the cartoon more with a greater amount of looks to the camera to indicate the brilliance of his idea or his fear of imminent pain although it's a little slow to get going too many lingering shots of blueprints hinder the pace in some of the early gags once arrives at the mine shaft sequence it's clear that jones was beginning to get a real handle on these characters and the greater possibilities of what he could do with them there are better road runner cartoons than but there's a real feeling of triumph about this cartoon as if it were the confirmation that there was a series to be milked out of this scenario
1	this cartoon documents the second encounter between wile e coyote and the roadrunner and is definitely better than their first meeting in fast and furry 1949 br br if measured by aesthetic value then this cartoon would not rank among the top 5 or 6 of the year 1952 regardless this is a very funny short coyote carnivorous chases the roadrunner along the road and gets completely tired out the ingenious scientific latin names of the characters are very original and has been mimicked before in other un related cartoons the coyote collapses and puts on a wonderful expression of i don't know boredom such expressions make this cartoon provide more than its fare share of laughs in seven minutes then he has an idea and another laughable expression is worn the slapstick jokes are all hilarious and mask the fact that it is truly evil to inflict such pain on a poor helpless genius coyote everyone knows but who cares br br the old rocket gag is present too coyote straps himself to a rocket which should produce enough oomph for him to catch up with roadrunner and grab him instead the rocket shoots up into the air and becomes a firework in the distance eat at joe's this classical gag originates from this cartoon though obvious it still makes people laugh br br the highlight truly is the chase through the mineshaft the two wear helmet lights and we see the tunnel through which the two are going with only the lights visible here the comedy reaches a peak a must see sequence maybe even the best sequence in the early days of roadrunner the final touch is provided by the writing of michael maltese as light goes out and he unknowingly lights a match in a room full of explosives the surface is shown where a bunch of cactus jump and spell out the letters yipe after the blast such small things make you laugh all through a mere seven minutes and as soon as it starts the all over the rocket skates are another good idea as is the free drink of water and the anvil on the tight rope a sequence that appears in space jam 1996 to give the results of those away would be useless the free drink proves to be a problem for wile e at the end of the second last sequence namely the rocket skates br br this classical cartoon is littered with fine animation except for the characters though they are animated very well the two characters are very primitive which might be an understatement though at first it may seem weird the humor of the ensuing sequences makes one forget br br if you like vintage jones watch this if you love roadrunner get this on video excellent entertainment rating 8 10
1	i just watched it for the second time today and i must say with all my heart it is about damn time they made a movie about us as people not as spiritual beings such a waste of human life as this story was maybe some good will come out of it and eric is hotter than ever to often in the movies first nations people are seen as other than everyday people we are always portrayed as chiefs or medicine people hey we are just like everyone else and this movie showed just that we hurt when an injustice is done and we can win in quest for justice it is really to bad that the big movie companies cant see that i cant wait till this comes out on dvd thanks to those who chose to show this story as it really was
1	ok so in any wile e coyote road runner cartoons we know that is going to set up all sorts of traps for rr but always himself in various ways that certainly happens in beep beep predictable i guess that it is but when you think about it these cartoons show how the more you try to harm someone else the more you get harmed sort of like how daffy duck always tries to undermine bugs bunny's integrity but bugs sees around it br br overall this is another classic from the termite terrace crowd sometimes i think that if we really had wanted to ease cold war tensions we could have just let the soviet union see looney tunes cartoons i'm sure that they would have loved them another great one br br ps i learned on jeopardy that wile e middle name is
1	i think i am some kind of road runner fan i don't care how predictable it is i laugh anyway is predictable most of the time although it is pretty ingenious at the same time as well of course the road runner is chased by the coyote and of course the coyote fails to catch the road runner with every new attempt the plans the coyote comes up with are very funny you see exactly where it will go wrong and you will not disappointed well one time you are sort of disappointed what you think will happen does not but it makes the joke even funnier br br if you like the road runner shorts you will love this one the predictable gags work and the animation is great and pretty original at times
1	this is more of the same thing that made this cartoon popular but who's complaining it's always fun to see the poor coyote try various contraptions to get the road runner and then get pulverized by every one of those inventions br br the underground cave chase was different from the normal fare and was clever it gave us an aerial view of the chase in a maze like structure i didn't say it was hilarious just different from the normal above ground antics br br this one along with some other road runner shorts are featured on the looney tunes golden collection volume 2 and the transfers of them are spectacular the colors are magnificent
1	remember that friend in college who always insisted you rent the weirdest movie possible this is the movie he would have made if he'd had the chance br br i wish i could tell you exactly what sea of dust was about it pretends to be the story of a doctor who gets sucked into weird goings on in the black forest he goes there to help but ends up being caught between two young women both of whom he seems to have a thing for but that's just scratching the surface this is the kind of movie where things just randomly happen and not nice thing people are constantly being whipped and stabbed there's a pair of creepy little girls who appear to have walked out of the shining tom savini is some kind of imaginary religious figure who decides he doesn't want to be imaginary anymore he's got a plan to take over the world by sharing jesus suffering br br on some level this is a movie about sex it's one without nudity which was a disappointment but there's no mistaking the intent on another whole level it's a paradise unexpected stuff happens so often that it stops being unexpected by the time the doctor travels through his girlfriend's birth canal to be reborn you'll just chalk it up to the crazy nature of the flick br br on the down side the film is pretty wordy some of the points are hammered home over and over if you're watching it with a bunch of stoned friends this might prove an asset
1	the first movie at the fangoria festival in vegas and the most challenging it's not a movie for everyone a number of the films that followed used predictable classic horror formulas to tell predictable stories this picture seemed determined to do its own thing br br tom savini showed some comic chops as the over the top villain he dominated every scene he was in flipping his cape about like leslie neilson playing dracula it was great to hear his explanation after the film he had such a good sense of humor about the role br br i was glad i didn't have too many preconceptions going in because the movie offered a lot of surprises the story was funny and profane and unusual there was a lot of love lavished on the look most important it had a weird edge to it unlike many of the movies that followed and tried to use a similar classic horror style this was a movie that used its look for a purpose br br there were a lot of movies at the fangoria festival with bigger budgets but none that dared to be this different
1	i watched sea of dust at the rhode island horror film festival in providence it was the festival's featured film and won best picture out of i think a couple hundred entries the director and a few of the stars answered questions after the showing one star suzy lorraine was even hotter in person than in the film and she was an eye catcher in the movie br br this film is independent yet it has a lot of cinematic touches that give it a quality feel it even has an original classical style musical score br br i am a savini fan and he's the star villain here in black cape he's more of an evil force than a real person i think he is sucking the souls out of people and using them as soldiers in a twisted attempt to establish his version of the kingdom of god on earth in his view christ was all about suffering and savini intends to make everyone suffer br br the main story line that holds your interest is about a young doctor stefan who is sent to investigate the strange events savini is causing in an isolated town he proposes to an aristocrat chick on the way but her sob father tells him to get lost then he meets up with a strangely possessed but alluring country girl i think she falls in love with him but she also tries to kill him as do a number of hot women in the film br br i found the scenes shot in the woods to be the creepiest and most eye catching with strange people along the road the evil little twin girls scared the hell out of me br br the film has a lot to it too much to list there is a lot of blood torture and gore hot chicks licking blood off of guys' fingers a terrified girl's head explodes that was unexpected throats get slit some brutal stabbings br br then they play it for laughs sometimes poking a bit of fun at the whole evil black forest genre br br if you're a fan of hammer films and ingrid pitt it is fascinating to see her in this movie she offs one of the leads by plunging a cross in his skull excellent the guy who played multiple in silence of the lambs is great in an axe fight br br the movie is surreal and with the ending i'm not sure the events happened or if they were in stefan's head because of his rejection by his would be fiancée he returns in vengeance and that scene is brutal br br the director also talked about the theme of religion being misused to back wars and killings i can see that for sure savini's view of religion was scary br br this was a strangely exceptional movie with some stars like savini and pitt a lot of good supporting cast including hot babes great gore scenes action and all the time you're wondering what the hell is going on and what is going to happen next br br this deserves ten stars because it's an excellent independent film effort i don't think it was low budget but it had to be way less than a big studio budget and yet they managed to make something really attractive unique and thought provoking
1	i also attended the ri international horror film festival and i can easily see why this film won best of show br br sea of dust is a wild romp of horror comedy and beautiful scenery a back in time tale of strange goings on an increasingly wide spread illness with an overwhelmingly irritating side effect of people's heads exploding brings a young professor's apprentice stefan to investigate along his travels he decides to briefly detour and once again ask for his long time love's hand in marriage only to once again be sent packing by her extremely stubborn father… along the way out of town he comes across an ill girl in the road and delivers her to dr maitland brilliantly played by up and coming vincent price like actor edward x young who fills stefan in on the evils a foot only the dr is insulted that he had called for the professor and only received a boy in the less stefan turns out to be much more than a common bystander horror icon tom savini portrays the ultimate religious torment monger john scream queen ingrid pitt comes out of retirement to give a stellar performance as anna many beautiful and talented supporting actors seamlessly held the story together and helped to effectively move it along to the climax br br dark religion and over the top but fun and sometimes very original gore scenes play heavily in this hammer tribute flick this stylish movie goes back and forth between flashbacks surreal worlds dreams and the character's reality br br horror and gore aside this is also a very funny movie slapstick tongue and cheek humor and dark comedy raise their heads among the dark story line like others have stated this really is like three great movies in one very entertaining and original
1	i saw sea of dust as part of a nyc screening audience several years ago i enjoyed the film at that time so i was a little confused by some of the that had been made since perhaps it's my memory but there seemed to be chunks of exposition missing from the version that was shown at the rhode island film festival i'm really not sure which version i prefer but i can honestly say that i found something to appreciate it both br br let me begin by warning everyone that this is not a popcorn movie although it's been promoted as a hammer films tribute people expecting a showdown between van helsing and dracula are going to be sorely disappointed there's some cleavage but no nudity a staple of the british production house's later movies and while sea of dust is filled with gorgeous eye candy it really is shot like a sixties film and features hammer starlet ingrid pitt it's not like any of the company's pictures in tone or execution this film is very dark very confusing and at times very funny i don't remember the earlier version being quite as nutty as this one but that's not a bad thing especially the showdown in the black forest that plays like a three stooges short and some of ms pitt's rantings are quite entertaining it's like somebody wound her up and turned her loose br br the uniqueness of this film doesn't lie with the borrowed details though it's in the ideas as an occasional sci fi channel viewer i've regularly taken the network to task for its one note variations on a theme cgi monster kills then gets destroyed sea of dust is so full of ideas that you start to trip over them after a while br br but don't get me wrong i'm not complaining if anything i applaud these guys for making such an enterprising low budget picture and for having the courage to pack it with so many concepts it's not going to be a picnic for people who hate to think at the movies you know who you are but for the rest of us those of us who are tired of the formula of modern horror films the predictability the lack of respect for the audience this may just be your ticket
1	there i was on vacation when my host suggested we take in this b movie festival in breda i was resistant as i hadn't gone on the trip to sit in a movie theater but i've got to admit that i don't regret a second of this one especially with stephen contribution it probably helped that i had no idea what to expect br br sea of dust starts out like a typical costume drama we've got a young medical student going to help a doctor whose town is being destroyed by a crazy plague which somehow involves exploding heads on the way he stops to visit his fiancé and gets thrown off the property by her father traveling on he finds a girl lying on the road another plague victim and takes her along to the doctor's yawn i thought it all seemed pretty predicable br br and then everything went crazy and it suddenly turned into a completely different film tom savini shows up looking like dracula characters begin traveling to the other side of reality and the dialog gets increasingly humorous br br and just when i thought it had settled into a groove the picture changes again becoming really dark and bizarre i won't spoil it for first time viewers but there's an amazing sequence about hollow people lots of chat about the abuse of religion by society and some over the top gore effects and did i mention stephen this isn't a perfect movie in case you haven't figured that out from its appearance at a b movie festival but it's well worth the time for adventurous viewers great visuals cool soundtrack lots of interesting ideas the acting is a little zany at times but i think that's the point br br funny i had to go to breda to see find an american picture that looked like a british horror movie you figure that one out
1	for anyone who has trouble with naughty mad or troublesome kids this is an essential programme to watch it is just the best behaviour documentary programme not just for tips but for the transformations the quite attractive jo frost is supernanny with fifteen years of experience she now has a programme where she shows a family where the kids are misbehaving very very badly frost is the nanny who does not let the kids win every episode they have young kids who are mad and very very naughty e g throwing things constantly swearing hitting relatives and parents and many other horrible experiences but every episode by the end of the show the kids are transformed by the parents with the help of frost from little monsters to lovable children it is just wonderful when the transformations are successful jo frost is an excellent supernanny it was nominated the national television award for most popular factual programme twice it was number 15 on the 100 greatest tv treats 2004 very good
1	i grew up in winnipeg and saw the treatment of the natives almost everyday there are good and bad in every race why make them all out to be bad that goes for all races today john harper was an educated man he graduated from high school he even had a year of university under his belt before going back to the reserve how do i know this john harper lived with my family for the 3 years he was in high school and he kept in contact with us the year after graduation he was a kind and gentle soul he could be fun loving and he could be serious when the times were right i wasn't very old when he left our house but i can still remember all the times he helped me with my homework when my own brother couldn't be bothered he even taught grade 3 the year before he came to winnipeg none of this is mentioned in the movie and the suicide of constable cross is an admission of guilt as far as i'm concerned what happened to john is unforgivable not only in the native community but also in the white community not everyone in winnipeg think like the police do i knew the person inside and what he was like as a person not an indian
1	supernanny jo frost in each episode gives a family the benefit of her hard earned experience but when she's gone will they succeed in sticking to her tough rules or do they face a life dominated by unruly children br br following in the vein of british documentaries wife swap and how clean is your house supernanny gives an in depth look into the private family lives of average people but with the added benefit of practical advice on ways to raise your children br br jo advocates a tough love style of child care and the now infamous 'naughty step' has come into the popular vernacular in many british homes br br in just three short weeks the families featured were turned from a disorganised house of sibling rivalry screaming kicking biting kids and fighting parents to a tranquil calm oasis of family love br br the series when aired gathered huge ratings and critical acclaim and is currently in talks to be for america
1	i'm not into reality shows that much but this one is exceptional because at the end the viewer gets something useful out of it besides entertainment i don't have children but lessons will be a great help when and if i ever do my only complaint is that the show has been watered down since it has been in the us i prefer the british version with the sterner nanny approach is it just me or does anyone else find the us version to be a bit soft now it's the kinder gentler nanny i guess we yanks need a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down after all still nothing wrong with a sappy happy ending is there
1	finally a good movie made on the most demented serial killer in history for those less familiar with ed gein he was basically the madman who was known for grave robbing and skinning his victims which most horror fans ripped off shot in a period style that reflects the bleak plains of wisconsin perfectly this is easily the most atmospheric horror film yet to depict gein and his gruesome killings kane hodder jason from friday the 13th series and michael berryman hills have eyes i ii deliver chilling performances in this serial killer opus that easily leaves behind the lackluster former gein attempts so far i'd say this is one of the better horror films released this year 0
1	ok why complain about this movie it's fiction deal with it if you want to see the biography go watch it this is an original fictionalized version of what happened in wisconsin people who are obsessed will complain about this as they do every other deviation of the facts sad but true i think making kane hodder the man in which the film is named after was a great idea i thought it wasn't so good at first i'll be honest but that just made it even scarier if you like kane hodder ed gein or movies based on real events i think this is a good movie but if you're obsessed like some other people stay away from this movie and all others
1	league of gentleman has been the most disturbing british sitcom to be on t v and how can a funny movie be so bad rated they just have no taste this film will make you want to watch over and over again and still find it funny br br it is surprising that it has done bad but it is british the cinema do crap most of the time but this time it in my words a boost with comedy with a giraffe over lady's this is a top british comedy and better than dodge ball so by this and it won't prove you wrong as i don't really laugh through films but this film was amazing through comedy with the best characters but i was a bit disappointed of how much edward and were in there for back to typing buy this film and it won't disappoint you
1	now i myself had previously seen a few episodes of the of gentleman which i found hilarious when i brought the film i was not sure if i knew enough about the series to get it boy was i wrong this is one of the best comedy films i have seen ever and the clever acting of the makes the film it has a very good and funny plot as well as using only a few characters at any one time helps because it doesn't make it too confusing which would have wrecked the film even if you have never seen the of gentleman get this film it will make you laugh and this is a film that can be watched more then once and is an excellent film to watch with your mates it truly deserves it review a definite 10 out of 10
1	having only seen five episodes of the show before this i've been watching the repeats on bbc two i haven't really had much experience of the league but as a fledgling fan as well as a massive fan of british comedy i can say this film is hilarious seeing herr who i had not seen on screen before the film briss and geoff on the big screen was a great comedy experience being on screen is something that the league take full advantage of with heads blowing up it'll come as a surprise who it is and gruesome murders with random middle ages style battles all the way br br geoff is easily the funniest character of the three protagonists in this film because he has the best one liners and overall behaviour just like in the series one of my only disappointments with the film was not hearing geoff shout well now i've got this gun even once even though there is a build up to it in one part of the film the film itself overall is to use the phrase everyone else does and it's very reminiscent of films like life of brian appearances from tubbs and edward were welcome but papa lazarou's line hello daves cracked me up more than anything said by them lazarou's probably my favourite vasey character after tubbs and edward it's got quite a poignant ending with one of the main character being killed off and i can only hope this is not the last on screen vasey venture with gatiss mentioning the possibility of another series or film i'm now very excited this is a film i will see again partly because the projector died towards the end leaving out 10 minutes or so of the film but mainly because it's inventive and hilarious i'm not really bothered if it's not as good as the tv series because i loved it br br one thing though if you've never seen the league you'll still love it but dave knows what you'll think about the people who make this stuff up as tubbs or edward might put it it's a local film for local people and a precious thing at that br br out of 4 5
1	okay i'm not sure if this counts as a spoiler so i just ticked the box anyway to save the hassle br br i've noticed that the opinions on this film seem to be a fair split personally i loved it although i must say that i think that some of the cameo's were there for the sake of having a cameo peter kay personally i am just thankful that it wasn't the edward tubbs and papa show and that they chose the 3 best characters in the series to headline the motion picture especially sir tipps arguably the funniest of the bunch br br actually this is less of a summary more of a fairly obtuse blog like thing but what the hell the film was awesome and i guess that's all that counts
1	whether you're a fan of the series which inspired it or not there's no denying this is a patchy piece of work but in the best possible sense keen to get away from the trappings of old sitcoms which made an uneasy transition to the big screen messrs pemberton dyson and gatiss have gone down a different road addressing the problems of dealing with their success along with adding other creations and inevitably rehashing some of their best loved characters it's a pity they didn't stick to just a more consistent league of gents movie because as inventive as including themselves in the screenplay is it weakens the finished movie well worth renting though
1	i am an addict of the tv show the live shows and everything they do and this was the last piece of work they have done on tv film as 'the league of gentlemen' br br if you love the series then you will absolutely love the film it is a nice ending to their tv series br br it is clever and funny br br although it does not focus on some of the most popular characters it is still great to see all the characters together and with the writers a must see for any league of gentlemen fan br br watch it
1	the real life case of an innocent first nations chief the indian by an winnipeg city officer the cowboy is the basis of this tv movie the actual case caused its fair share of racial tension in canada a small scale martin luther king thing the of first nations people is becoming a staple in the canadian cinema diet what makes this film worth viewing is the focus on the family's reactions the father played by gordon demands forgiveness and the brother played by eric demands justice the stars gordon and adam beach have minor almost cameo appearances soon to be star eric makes his mark in this film with a powerful performance an honourable mention goes to veteran actor gary chalk who has chalked up over 100 movies to his credit his portrayal of the troubled soul inspector was worthy of a award the canadian emmy along with eric the special effects jump cuts dream sequences are occasional and not overbearing couple this with some beautiful northern canadian scenery and recent ongoing events involving police officers and first nations people like the neil case and you have a very rewarding and relevant viewing experience
1	i originally watched this because i thought it was going to be the sequel to the league of extraordinary gentlemen and this movie is a whole different thing entirely going on here a comedy however i loved it anyways br br the league of gentlemen is apparently some british tv series with some rather odd characters and some sharp humour this is british comedy so it revolves around being very silly dressing up in costumes and making lots of fun of germans and french homosexual references in short it's very very funny br br the plot revolves around the writers of the tv show deciding to cancel some of the characters and the characters coming out of their dimension into the writer's dimension to stop that from happening it's a fun twist and there's plenty of great scenes in this idiotic adventure i laughed out loud numerous times and applauded the brazen style of humour this makes mr bean look like the watered down wimp he is rowan is much better in black adder series btw br br this is not monty python but you can never escape the comparison when you are talking british humour and there are a few similarities but not so many as to keep it from being it's own thing and being fresh it leans more towards the young ones and guest house paradiso in its' comedic style br br if you liked this check out the young ones series and guest house paradiso movie and of course i assume the tv series league of gentlemen must be rather funny as well
1	as an american fan of the league of gentlemen i had to wait months to finally see this film when it came out on dvd but it was well worth the excruciating wait apocalypse is fantastic funny freaky clever as hell full of in jokes and cryptic references to the television series basically everything you'd expect from the gentlemen br br the plot has already been discussed in other reviews so i won't bother re capping it although i will say when i first read it i was a bit hesitant obviously this device fictional characters entering the real world to confront their makers has been used before notably in wes craven's underrated new nightmare and stephen king's dark tower books where king himself was a character the gentlemen have fun breaking the fourth wall though and even add a new element a second fictional world them days soon all three realities have weaved together and the result is exhilarating geoff tipps being knighted in the middle ages and trying to court queen victoria wood the real league of gentlemen in royston vasey being confronted by characters like pauline and dr chinnery david warner summoning an outside of bernice's church i've heard that some people disliked the king's evil sub plot but i found it hilarious especially character who seemed to be channeling judith the witch from series three br br speaking of the characters i was relieved to find that although hilary briss geoff and herr were planted firmly in at the film's core other more familiar characters were given their due bernice's confessional in the beginning was hilarious hearkening back to the quicker more sketch oriented feel of the first series pauline and mickey have cameos no ross though strange although i would've loved seen more of ms campbell jones papa is accounted for as are tubbs and edward all three are used very sparingly giving their meager screen time an almost magical feel and just what the hell did papa hack up like an obscene hairball according to the dvd commentary a wad of greasy pubic hair br br the film looks incredible but then what's new the music as always is breathtaking i was thrilled to hear joby new interpretations of the theme music and his slight re working of the majestic lovely piece that closes out both apocalypse and the last episode of series three br br i have some minor complaints it would have been nice to see more of the old familiar royston vasey and i felt the stop motion creatures beautiful by the way were a bit underused both of these issues however can be justified by the film's budget so they're understandable still as much as i loved bernice's new church it would have been cool to see the final battle in the high street the gentlemen's original vision according to the commentary br br overall apocalypse is astounding especially if you're a fan of the series i can't recommend it highly enough 10 10
1	i never saw any of the work until early last year although when channel hopping one night i caught the end of one the series three episodes but last winter i fell in love with the show and its dark eccentric and sometimes downright sinister characters so when i learnt they had made a film in which the show's lovable creators met their own characters i couldn't order the dvd fast enough and near on tore it from my hands when he delivered it i was so excited to see what the gents had done and how they'd done it br br and it was excellent from the beginning where jeremy michael sheen is terrorised by edward tubbs and papa dyson why didn't you play yourself he's perfectly capable as viewers of the infamous house of horrors know to bernice berating yet another one of her flock to geoff herr and hilary discovering that they are characters which is a great scene the scenes set in are very enjoyable with the gents turning their hands to yet more characters and an all new plot david warner's turn as doctor pea is fantastic slightly camp and very funny br br the league have always been brilliant at blending humour with sadness and emotion and the climax of this film where herr is struggling with the idea that he and the other vasey residents are just fictional people who will never be able to change who they are or their purpose and to witness how it's breaking him down is really sad and beautiful to watch at the same time and that really shows the talent something for which they are terribly overlooked for to this day br br and then you have that rather clever ending where you sit in wonder with joby beautiful theme music playing and you know you've enjoyed a very clever and funny film
1	the best british comedy film ever for years english comedy television programs have turned into films and have flopped 'are you being served ' army' the list goes on however the popular dark humoured bbc television show 'the league of gentlemen' has managed to not only create a film which has managed to not be a flop but has also managed to be the best british comedy film ever with its dark and horrific twists and turns the league of gentlemen's apocalypse is british talent at its best its intriguing demonic storyline written by the league of gentlemen mark gatiss steve pemberton reece shearsmith and jeremy dyson matches with the gents and guest cameos superb acting this i hope is not the end of royston vasey not after this great success anyway don't think that if you have not seen the league of gentlemen on the telly that you will not understand whats going on its all well explained and by the end of the film you will be happy with the result but you are still left hungry for more mmmm special stuff
1	after three outstanding bbc television series' and a christmas special the bizarre and grotesque yet perversely lovable characters of bleak fictional town royston vasey make the jump to celluloid along with their creators the league of gentlemen br br mark gatiss steve pemberton and reece shearsmith are the more familiar three quarters of the foursome with the central roles shared between the trio in an added twist the final member of the team jeremy dyson is portrayed by actor michael sheen br br where to start dyson sheen is in conversation with his writing cohorts when horror of horrors he is paid a visit by two of his characters both tubbs pemberton and edward shearsmith are unhappy at the decision to kill off the vasey inhabitants you're not real screams dyson in vain as the local shopkeepers from hell exact their revenge mayhem ensues as reality and vasey converge with the vast array of characters entering our world to save theirs br br confused you will be as the camp innuendo ridden teutonic herr pemberton is forced to take on the daily guise of pemberton pemberton while pemberton pemberton is kidnapped by cannibalistic butcher hillary briss gatiss and geoff tipps shearsmith br br with shades of an even more demented misery briss attempts to force pemberton to rewrite the film thus continuing his life but leaving geoff in charge is never a good idea the erstwhile comedian becomes embroiled in the latest post vasey adventure the king's evil entering a typically twisted 17th century england complete with cameos from victoria wood peter kay and david warner known as george of asda due to his select line of clothing geoff saves the day and is treated as a hero but for the denouement of the film he joins characters old and new at the church of royston vasey to meet with their makers br br for fans of the series the film is a must see and yes it does feature papa albeit a little too fleetingly pen loving pauline mickey barbara and cursed vet matthew chinnery are some of the other favourites on show and the portrayal of themselves plus sheen's as dyson is also a fascinating insight br br the league of gentlemen are the radiohead of british comedy they are ambitious groundbreaking witness the excellent series three and not happy to rest on their laurels they also divide opinion accordingly br br certainly their macabre sense of humour is not for every palate and while not written exclusively for 'fans' a grasp of the storyline would benefit those who have previously viewed the series nevertheless apocalypse is a film in its own right and the league will no doubt manage to attract a new breed of fan as well as appeasing and pleasing existing ones
1	i have to admit that when i first heard about the apocalypse film it was a worry br br i mean they have a lot to live up to don't they when they first did a stage show they won the perrier award and when they did radio they won a sony award when they ventured onto our they won a bafta award a royal television society award and the golden rose of montreux br br when the first series aired in january 1999 it was mind blowing a real breath of fresh air in british comedy and when the second series aired a year later it built on that foundation and sealed the shows cult status around the world our web stats show that we have received visitors from every single country on the planet the show for local people' showcased the gents talent for live performance and opened doors for the gents to do more live performing such as 'art' in the west end br br the fans favourite has always been the christmas special less of a sketch show and more a tribute to classic horror films yet still wrapped up in the delicious league style br br and then of course there was the third series still a hit with the loyal hardcore fans of course but maybe a little bit ahead of its time for a mainstream tv audience br br as i say a lot to live up to br br so now we have the film and well a film is different isn't it it will be seen by much larger numbers than the radio or tv shows and with the third series in mind i was worried br br well as you know i was lucky enough to get to see the film yesterday at a press screening in london and all my doubts were blown away literally in the first few minutes i am not going to give plot lines away as some reviewers have done nor am i going to tell you the catch phrases although there is really only one but i will try to tell you what they have managed to achieve with this film leaving the cinema on monday night i could only imagine writing 'oh my god it's brilliant its amazing its the best thing they have ever done better than the first second and specials all rolled into one ' of course i owe my visitors a much better explanation than that so why is it brilliant this is a film for everyone the casual fan the obsessive fan the occasional fan and even for someone who is sat in the wrong cinema you don't have to have watched the series to enjoy this film it works on so many levels br br this film reminded me why i am a league of gentlemen fan you can tell that filming was a true labour of love too the attention to detail is incredible the sets for the tv show were always detailed but i am going to have to watch the film again just to look at the background the story moves at a swift pace the action carrying us from royston vasey to the real world where we meet the 'creators' who are of course the league themselves along the way we manage to bump into favourite characters from the show but always within the central story unlike the tv sketch show br br i was glad that the film was dark in places a little scary and a little strange only fitting for the league of gentlemen the gents also managed to get their revenge on the bbc censors not as much slipping in the word as screaming it from the roof tops some may think the gents portrayal of themselves a little indulgent but that's the joke and with that comes my only worry the in jokes i mention below may puzzle some viewers and they might come over a little too clever but i shouldn't worry there is always a poo joke waiting just around the corner and speaking of jokes they come thick and fast and in a mixture of clever references wig jokes bum jokes visual jokes and cock gags i haven't laughed out loud in a cinema since well i can't remember the fans that have been the league since the beginning are rewarded with loads of 'in' jokes some that work on two levels a mainstream audience may laugh at a reference to a compact disc for one reason whilst fans of the local show will laugh for another reason altogether the cameos are genius peter kay and simon pegg form the strangest double act you have ever seen simon getting one of the films biggest laughs just by making a noise i was a little worried about the aspect of the film when i first heard about it but as a story within a story i was just getting into it when but that would be telling all i need to say is that it fits wonderfully and adds to the overall feel of the film i am not a professional reviewer of films so i am finding it difficult to put into words how much i enjoyed this film but for now i will just say that if the supposed benchmark for british comedy films in recent years was the excellent 'shaun of the dead' then i am sorry but a new benchmark has just been set by the inventive hilarious and sometimes a little scary the league of gentlemen's apocalypse br br jason kenny 2005
1	for many the hit series was ten years of pitch black humour loaded with affectionate parodies of classic films and a hilarious assortment of over a hundred characters with instantly recognisable catchphrases few shows have survived transition from radio to tv to stage show to film but the league of gentlemen have achieved it with suitable aplomb br br the talented writer performers had initially envisioned a monty python style medieval adventure but as soon as writing began they soon realised that the characters they have lived with had become very real and deserved better with that the royston vasey folk realise their very existence is under threat as the writers decide to disregard the fictitious town and work on a 17th century romp instead br br with the exception of michael sheen playing much unseen league member jeremy dyson the league play pretty unlikeable caricatures of their real life personae as well as the familiar faces of tubbs i made a little brown fishy nightmare inducing sexual predator herr butcher hilary briss and an unlikely hero irate businessman geoff new faces appear when the third reality appears it's here we are treated to charming and funny cameos from veteran actors and popular tv stars for many this will be a really enjoyable 90 minutes br br is not going to please everyone though working on this level of post modernism has been done a few times before now and may seem all too familiar to audiences raised on irony drenched teen successes kick started by the likes of wes craven having a new nightmare it also takes a lot of confidence in an audience to keep up with a high concept story so there are moments of exposition and dialogue that serve only to confirm what most in the audience already know comedy as a genre is formulaic but it's now unheard of for a british film not to fall back on the huge back catalogue of tv stars to fill short amounts of screen time it's also hard to believe the creators ever wanted their offspring killed off which is perhaps why some of the role reversal doesn't always quite hit the mark would hilary briss have wanted to try save royston vasey in the series br br however while the show's deliciously dark vein has almost all but disappeared but is arguably more accessible for it much will be said about the character development and efforts to humanise the likes of previously one joke incarnations like herr it is here an impossible level of depth can be found along with a harsh streak of biting satire and throwaway put downs sentiment is there with a lump in the throat but not sugar coated thickly enough to intrude on the action the music is good performances exemplary and the animation is wonderfully seamless a nice throwback to terry gilliam and ray work in short there's a lot to like about the apocalypse like so many tv to film transfers it was never going to be easy finding the line between preaching to the converted and introducing the uninitiated to the slick and distinct voice but no matter what your preference is this last trip to the town which never leave' is oddly lined with hope and ultimately very very touching
1	just saw 'the league of gentlemen at a special screening in manchester with mark gatiss and reece shearsmith of the league in attendance br br at the back was peter kay who has a brief cameo in the film affectionately heckling at the back during the q a session after the film br br the film was complicated in a good way and very very funny it follows geoff tipps hilary briss and herr as they try and save fictional vasey from the disinterest of their creators br br the league play a wide range of their characters and themselves or character based on themselves and are ably supported by the cream of british character and comedy actors such as bernard hill victoria wood and david warner br br warner is a particular stand out reminding me of his smooth and cutting turn in 'time br br the film swims in and out of various realities and allows some of the denizen's of vasey some space to grow beyond their usual limits of their comedy shtick br br steve herr has a great moment near the end of the movie and has to make a decision about his purpose and meaning in life which brings a lump to the throat at an unexpected moment and surprises you with its tender affection for the characters br br this echoes something mark and reece said in the q a afterwards that the plot of the league being tired of their famous characters is spurious and that the whole film is really a love letter to them br br for a format that started as a radio character based sketch show these guys have really evolved the idea so far as to sustain a movie which takes you on a journey through fiction 'reality' comedy tragedy and a pleasing journey for two of the less obvious characters to carry a long form story from their 70 odd existing creations br br the fans of the show will love it it pays off dedication and attention to detail in spades the uninitiated may be a little lost but the joy of the log was always the ability to almost instantly tune into their acutely observed characters and take the stylistic leap into farce and expressionistic movie homage br br there are homages a plenty in this one including 'the shining' and 'la belle et la to name but two i spotted and they ably demonstrate their love for cinema and history with a segment in england that makes perfect sense when you're engaged with the movie br br what can i say i marvelled boggled emoted and snickered throughout and they have definitely pulled off what many have failed at a successful british tv comedy to cinema translation br br if you've watched and enjoyed 'the league of gentlemen' in the past go see it you will enjoy br br if you haven't rent buy a dvd and then go see it br br well done guys and thanks for the charming and humorous q a
1	there are two ways to turn a tv series into a film br br the first most common and least successful is to basically make a feature length tv episode see the disasters of the steptoe son movie the second is to do something else something quite different à la monty python br br thankfully the creators of the cult tv series have gone for the second option and they've come up with something unique clever and funny it couldn't feel less like a tv episode br br try to get your head around this the writers playing themselves are confronted by their royston vasey alter egos played of course by them and told to continue writing the series otherwise apocalypse will befall the village br br high concept contrived and easy to screw up yes but somehow they managed to pull it off not for every taste perhaps and the ending does drag but fans will be delighted and it might even win over the uninitiated
1	the film was apparently spawned from an idea one of the writers had when he one of his creations in a supermarket the inhabitants of royston vasey head into world to persuade the writers not to stop writing about them and thus destroy their world br br if that sounds a bit too serious don't be put off within the first few minutes we get bernice the vile female vicar letting rip at an unfortunate during confession chinnery the vet who inadvertently destroys every animal he touches attempting to collect semen from a giraffe mickey thick beyond belief being ah thick and tubbs inbred sister wife and local shopkeeper being sweet as ever but still disgusting br br some of the regular characters are missing but a new idea by the gents introduces some 16th century characters and we have the gents themselves in the action too if you're new to the league of gentlemen this is an easy introduction and a lot of fun if you're a long standing fan this has everything you've come to expect including the joys of jeremy dyson spotting br br all told it's got the same faintly surreal humour that's the hallmark of the series plus some moments of quite touching herr for example maintains a gentle dignity on learning that he's regarded by his creators as a 'one joke character' while most of the characters stay as they are some develop in unexpected ways that are perfectly natural when they happen br br this film is a song' for royston vasey but it's also a showcase for the gents who prove that gasp they can write other stuff and it can be very funny but you knew that anyway
1	blade was a thrilling horror masterpiece and it was a brilliant movie with real great action i cant wait for blade 2 this is one of wesley snipes greatest movies the acting is great the story line is great everything about this movie is great
1	i watch lackawanna blues every time it comes on it brings back happy times for me i grow up in a big city in the mid west it reminds me of when i was a child although my situation was a little different it feels the same it makes me wonder if all we will ever know about families are lost the big mama's of day are under the age of 55 will they see know what it takes to be a inspiration to other i hope that i was not the only one who loved this movie enough to relate it to their past the music was great in this movie i truly felt like this should have gone to the theaters i would have paid to see it as i viewed the movie for the second time i figured out who life this movie was about he did an superb job in writing and producing this film i guess who better to produce a film based on your life other than you as soon as i can i will be obtaining a copy for my home use i alway enjoy black producer or directors they make such film feel like you were actually living in the time right than thanks for such a great movie
1	a tight knit musical family cranky benevolent father and four vivacious adolescent daughters is up rooted by first the appearance of felix a dashing young composer and secondly and most profoundly mickey his attractive friend br br it takes a while for michael curtiz to get this piece of americana floating the first part looks almost like a paraphrasing of a cereal commercial not without a certain quaint highly bourgeois charm and then john garfield enters the scene as the doomed mickey making his first appearance in motion pictures with mussed up black curls sleepy hung over eyes rude and disheveled the absolute opposite to jeffrey lynn's smoothly persuasive madly charming felix garfield is in complete and direly needed counterpoint to the rest of the household nothing i would do would surprise me he muses and suddenly the movie becomes interesting although i agree with critics that find the plot turns insufficiently motivated br br the four sisters are rather blandly played and seriously underwritten but claude rains as the has his moments br br watch it for garfield though he is the only really lasting thing about it
1	this movie was made 20 years before my time its introduction of john garfield in the supporting role of mickey borden makes it a classic he slumps onto the screen and your eyes are glued garfield was an original and his portrayal of whipping boy is a must see
1	one of warner brothers best and highest grossing films during the thirties was this charming family drama about a widower who lives with his maiden sister raising four daughters but not four every day type daughters all of them have been trained by their musician father on instruments and one as a singer they do make some beautiful music together even if it is for the long haired set br br you can watch the infinite variety of roles that claude rains played over the years and still marvel as he shows you yet another aspect of his creative personality the opportunistic vichy captain in casablanca is as different as the scientist gone mad in the invisible man as the patient and wise job in mr all the same man and all so incredibly different br br here he raises the four girls with love seasoned with a little at their willingness to accept modern music the lane sisters and gale page may know beethoven but they're hep cats as well and can beat daddy eight to the bar every time and if rains gets a bit too testy than aunt may robson can put him in his place br br with four daughters unmarried at the time you know that's going to change all the sisters develop romantic interests in dick foran frank mchugh jeffrey lynn and john garfield of course the mating process does get a bit complicated and one of the sisters suffers a tragedy but it does promise to work out as the film ends br br four daughters is also known as the debut film of john garfield other than a tiny bit part in footlight parade years earlier garfield had no other film roles but he'd been acclaimed on the new york stage for his performance in golden boy and warner brothers signed him and found the perfect film debut role as the cynical musician who just can't quite get a decent break in life it earned him a best supporting actor nomination in 1938 but he lost to walter brennan for kentucky br br this film was so popular that it practically spawned a small cottage industry for jack warner sequels with cast members like daughters courageous four mothers four wives all cleaned up at the box office before world war ii and warner brothers remade it with frank sinatra and doris day playing the parts that john garfield and priscilla lane originated now those two made some beautiful music br br still a timeless mold was created in four daughters and the film holds up 70 years after it was first seen
1	although a woman's story i found this still fairly interesting it is unusual in that is has three real life sisters playing sisters in the movie i am referring to priscilla rosemary and lola lane br br why national critics loved this movie was the presence of bad boy rebel john garfield in their twisted liberal dominated minds all american characters are sickening but sour on life poor attitude types like garfield played here are people they can identify with despite that this movie still has an overall feeling of goodness which is why i liked it some of the characters may have done stupid things but they good hearts whose heart was bigger than ann's priscilla lane in here i agree with the imdb user comments critic in here who says this is film as much as the beloved not by me garfield's br br with a director the caliber of michael curtiz the film is better than it might have been under someone else curtiz made sure no scene soapy or otherwise went on too long br br in addition to the lane sisters and garfield we have claude rains who adds much needed humor to the story jeffrey lynn the main love interest of the girls gale page dick foran frank mchugh and mae robson br br apparently this movie must have been a hit because there were several spin offs from it neither of them approaching this one in content and box office success
1	lovingly crafted and terribly interesting to watch garfield's gritty breakthrough performance introducing a new kind of rebellious acting style that would carry over to the brandos and and so on after the war but all that sisterly affection is a bit suffocating priscilla lane is a bright engaging performer but the other sisters don't really register though they're all allowed to be tart and witty and i just had a hard time buying any of the other male characters besides garfield jeffrey lynn is a pleasant enough actor but he lacks the movie star weight to match up with garfield's hard luck mickey borden and that throws the film a bit out of whack imagine a jimmy stewart or someone in the part also i was not convinced that garfield would make the pivotal to say the least final decision that he made the film needed another half hour of running time to better explain that action it feels awfully rushed and under motivated br br still it's not hard to understand how anybody who grew up with this picture would remember it fondly it falls short of being a classic but it does contain a few classic moments the two gate swinging scenes are pure movie magic
1	four daughters begins as just another clone of little women type melodrama a single father with four musically talented eligible daughters has his hands full trying to keep them in line and guide them in their courting rituals what turns the film around is the sudden appearance of a new hollywood star some critics say the first anti hero long before james dean graced the big screen from the time the dark foreboding figure of mickey borden john garfield appears at ann priscilla lane gate splashing his self pity and doomed philosophy on the rest of the cast four daughters becomes much more than just a chick flick br br though garfield is the main reason to watch four daughters there are other flashes of brilliance to enjoy hungarian born director michael curtiz later responsible for such gems as casablanca and mildred pierce pinpoints certain images with his camera aided by cinematographer ernest of rebel without a cause fame that sticks in the viewers mind for example the screeching gate that ann's first suitor felix jeffrey lynn swings on so merrily becomes symbolic of the shifts in moods and affections by those who use it br br that garfield delivers the standout performance is obvious but the rest of the cast keeps up with him most of the way the underrated jeffrey lynn plays his role to perfection as the neglected suitor whose love for his cherished ann never falters even when she's with another man claude rains somewhat miscast as the father of the four coming of age young women gives a fine portrayal of a set upon doting family head who gets lost in the shuffle the three lane sisters already famous for their musical abilities turn into accomplished actresses playing their parts well a raft of supporting actors including dick foran frank mchugh may robson and eddie makes it all believable br br how opposites attract is part of the ploy for touching the quick of the viewer's imagination ann is the eternal optimist even when she and mickey are down and out she always looks on the bright side and like so many caught in the pliers of the great depression in those days she saw prosperity just around the corner mickey recites an entire list of bad things that have happened to him seeking company in his misery from ann which ann refuses to do mickey expects to go out with a bolt of lightning striking him dead as he rounds the corner of life mickey has meager talent as a composer ann has talent to spare as a singer and musician ann is big on beauty mickey is big on personality in a warped sense of a way and the differences go on and on how all this is reconciled in the end is an important part of the movie not to be missed br br see four daughters for john garfield's doozy of an acting debut on the big screen the only time he was better came seven years later when he again mesmerized the film goers with one of the greatest screen performances ever as frank chambers in the postman always rings twice opposite the equally charismatic lana turner but also watch four daughters to catch important elements that may be missed if too much concentration is placed on the star of the show
1	while john garfield seems to get the bulk of attention the true star of four daughters is priscilla lane her performance is the glue that holds the large cast together br br her ability to interact equally well with john garfield and the more carefree jeffrey lynn is at the core of the success of four daughters
1	four daughters introduced john garfield to audiences and that is what is remembered most about this film today unlike some actors who appear in several films before their screen image gels garfield established his immediately with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and talk of the fates being against him br br it's actually the story of four girls their widowed musician father claude rains and their various suitors one of whom felix is played by handsome jeffrey lynn he's the one they all have a crush on but he's in love with buff priscilla lane then she meets ne'er do well mickey borden who falls for her as well when buff realizes that one of her sisters is in love with felix she leaves him at the altar and marries mickey br br this is a fairly formulaic story given life and sequels by the acting garfield has already been mentioned but priscilla lane was by far the strongest of the daughters the most interesting and the best actress jeffrey lynn was a fresh and good looking leading man and this film got him off on the right foot with warners however true stardom was not to be like many others of the era he went into the service and when he came out he had a bronze star but not much of a career he later went into television and real estate claude rains is warm and wonderful as the patriarch br br so popular was four daughters that it inspired four wives and four mothers as well as reuniting much of the cast again in daughters courageous where the actors played different characters br br very enjoyable a nice remembrance of simpler and probably happier times and a chance to see john garfield in his first film
1	directed by michael curtiz four daughters is about four musically gifted sisters their suitors and their father a minor conductor playing sardonic quick talking mickey borden is john garfield in the role that made him an instant star the movie also stars claude rains as adam and the lane sisters lola rosemary and priscilla and gale page as his spirited daughters its definitive scene takes place in the living room cigarette hanging from his lips borden is playing one of his own compositions priscilla lane's ann tells him the piece is beautiful but he says it stinks he continues it hasn't got a beginning or an end only a middle ann urges him to create a beginning and an end borden replies what for the fates are against me they tossed a coin heads i'm poor tails i'm rich but they tossed a two headed coin audiences loved the way garfield in his tough city voice said it stinks that scene created garfield's screen persona as the eternal outsider four daughters is a slice of americana with garfield in a compelling performance supplying more than a hint of darkness br br
1	what starts as a homespun comedy drama and then halfway turns into a melodrama made a major star of john garfield and justly so but jeffrey lynn is not to be dismissed as the object of affection of the four daughters lynn is very handsome and is so charming it's easy to believe that all four daughters could fall for him although garfield received most of the kudos lynn became a major leading man at warner bros as a result of this film br br michael curtiz insisted on location shooting for the picnic scene making it the highlight of the film throughout the craftsmanship is enough to inspire awe a soap opera by fanny hurst has been turned into a cinema masterpiece
1	okay sure this movie is a bit on the hokey side it's difficult to take characters from comic books and put them into movies with any credibility dolph lundgren as the punisher anyone but this tries very hard i've never read the actual comic book but that doesn't really matter i suppose i judge a film mainly on its merits not on whether it is a faithful retelling of someone else's idea unless its a film based on a true story that demands at least some attempt at truth and accuracy so why will i give this movie a fairly high rating because it tries it tries very hard in my book that makes it a fair attempt at an entertaining film br br many films have been made with vampire subject matter being the main focus it seems everybody has their take on vampire lore be it the cross the silver the garlic the aversion to sunlight whatever some of those ideas are included here the storyline is familiar a group of vampires conspire to take over the world with one person mainly standing in their way blade wesley snipes lives for the sole purpose of the destruction of the vampiric masses who have slowly but surely moved into the world and share it with humankind for the most part the human race is blind to the fact that vampires exist all around them the vampires have even taken familiars people who aspire to be vampires and do the vampires' dirty work for them to show how worthy they are of eventually being turned br br now that i think of it there are many elements of this movie similar to the storyline of the roddy piper film they live a hidden enemy hidden group of people plotting against them the fight to save human kind all that is present in blade as well br br the acting isn't the best here snipes is at best only slightly better than some of his other roles wright a relative newcomer isn't too bad kris kristofferson is forgettable as blade's sidekick he's to blade what chip is to the punisher stephen dorff does the best job of the whole cast here as the head vampire you just love to hate br br i don't know but i just loved the special effects in this film from the blood soaked vampire style rave all the way to the inevitable fight at the finale of the film the special effects aren't half bad there's certainly enough blood and gore to go around but after all this is a vampire movie right the various shapes and sorts of weaponry blade uses are fairly unique and not generally used in contemporary action films snipes has more flair with a decked out sword than he does with say a machine gun plus there's so much more thought that goes into fighting with a blade than just blowing someone away unless of course you are indiana jones br br overall this isn't the best action film ever made but it's not half bad either as a bonus the musical score soundtrack are pretty cool too tell me in what other movies can you hear super like source direct or br br my rating 8 10
1	story about a widowed father claude rains bringing up his four daughters emma gale page is loved by big hunky ernest dick foran thea lola lane is romanced by an old but wealthy man kay rosemary lane wants to become a singer ann priscilla lane is a romantic drop dead handsome felix jeffrey lynn a business associate of their father comes to stay with them all the sisters fall in love with him then tough cynical mickey john garfield enters the picture br br very entertaining movie was a big hit and nominated for five academy awards it's beautifully directed by michael curitz has a pretty good if predictable script and a very attractive cast especially lynn also this was john garfield's first film and made him a star this was so popular there were three or four sequels which i never saw this is an engrossing entertaining big budget soap opera well worth seeing
1	four daughters a sentimental story of a solid middle class family with four sisters was notable in one respect into this romantic idealized milieu enters mickey carelessly dressed with an uncompromising attitude to all bourgeois values he really sets the hearts of the sisters his criticisms are not only directed towards those about him but also towards br br one day ann priscilla lane discovers him passionately playing the that's beautiful she says… it stinks he he falls in love with – and marries – ann but eventually realizing that their basic incompatibility is leading their marriage into disaster he takes the equally uncompromising step of causing his br br the role was superbly played by john garfield and it brought him not only stardom but also and perhaps more important won for him his place in cinema history as the screen's first rebel br br garfield was born in new york's east side of russian immigrant parents and spent his adolescence as a delinquent a real life role that he only when he began to portray the rebel on screen… he continued however throughout his life to question and reject certain traditional he was occasionally suspended by the studio and maintained a cynical view of br br finally he ended his career and his life as one of the victims of mccarthy's he was blacklisted by hollywood because of his suspected left wing sympathies and friends claimed that being banned from working contributed to the heart that killed him at the early age of
1	warning contains spoilers br br this is one of the best italian sleaze films i've seen br br the plot has a teenage girl who is interested of occultism and has supernatural powers her mother is a member of satanist group and is afraid what influences it'll have on the girl no need to worry the girl knows just what to do and there's no return she belongs to satan br br during the film odd things happen in typical italo way there's not too much logic but that's only good thing it's amazing how entertaining these films are on the final battle we see her and her mother fighting each other nude off course and doing some mysterious rituals you might guess who wins the films final pictures leaves your mouth open and wandering why can't there be more films like this br br there's superb music through the whole film and the actors are quite good better than usual in these type of films specially anne heywood looks and acts good it also has some unusual camera angles and stuff like that so it's not boring at all my rating is 10 br br hopefully someone releases this on dvd
1	you've got to think along the lines of last tango in paris for this one because the mood and emotion runs along the same lines and maintains the same heights the difference being that in this exceptional intense and torrid depiction of love among the ruins of a dispossessed the setting is a gay milieu perhaps even one that is set to vanish in time and not the equally arresting but heterosexual context of bertolucci's own film br br the last third of this film depicts a passionate love never seen in gay cinema to talk of pornography or gay self misses the point and intelligence of this work this film though on first impression appears to take us into the familiar often depicted underworld of gay street life then precedes to subvert the rules of this genre by exaggerating it to a super real degree the result is a hyper charged emotional heightening an exceptional strategy that elevates the drama to one of big universal themes and giant gestures br br this film snatches the high ground because of the brilliant performances by it's actors notably a young jean hugues anglade and the directing a tour de force of cinema outstanding in ambition and it's unceasing plummet into the depths of human emotion as a contribution to gay cinema this film conquers this difficult ground and makes it it's own triumph
1	a fine performance by vittorio and a masterful one by jean hugues anglade adorn this tale of lust desire and alienation in france the work of the two lead performers is striking subtle intense and passionate alas the script is deliberately turgid and sordid and the overall effect leaves one with a downcast spirit still those who can appreciate fine quality acting will be able to savor the courageous work of the leads in this often difficult film journey of gallic low life br br
1	when this showed at the seattle int'l film fest i was the only person standing and clapping and cheering the rest of the crowd booed or was silent it is a well played small film that reaches deep into the reality of a young gay man's humanity it is about a real man and does not play to the insipid hyper buffed muscular gay that passes for the genre of non porn gay cinema and that is why so much of contemporary gay genre movies are so dull this movie is intense and great tragedy the acting and directing and cinematography is fantastic it all keeps the film clastrophobic and tense and passionate don't miss this if you can find it
1	l'homme is not for an impatient adventure seeking audience there are no explosions nor is the drama straightforward like the films of lynne ramsey the director is working more deeply with mood than with storytelling in a manner that is effective and incredibly moving because it does not rely on gratuitous nudity or superficial pop cult story lines this is quite frankly one of the best gay foreign film i have seen also see francois ozon pedro almodovar nicolas roeg's don't look now gets a lot of bad press because it is sold as a horror film that film like l'homme is more than what the box might lead you to believe if you are in the mood to sit back and be absorbed by the subtle transformed powers of cinema you'll love this movie
1	though for most of us sexiness is a variable quality i cannot recall a movie that did for me what this one does it transported me into an awfully familiar realm of longing and desire all the compulsive attraction uncertainty over the outcome the palpable fear and excitement so attendant to that state of arousal were brought to fever pitch by this flick so french and what i consider daring no matter what your orientation i think that the danger of chasing your desire is brought full front and center here much more so say than with kubrick's eyes wide shut
1	i gave this show a chance because of white not for his character but mainly for the sonic the hedgehog voice xd so anyway like i said i gave it a chance and i was very fond of it i never cared for the character so i was pleased to see mr white in a role other than the ever so annoying nerd and his calvin j fraiser first called calvin but come the second episode everyone started calling him j was very entertaining and interesting br br i think my favorite episode was when j was dating the ex cowboys cheerleader with the snobby kid don't you talk that way 'bout my momma this is grown up talk you stay down there the only beef i have is that the show was suppose to have 3 main characters but mr white's character always seemed to have the most attention and the other two who are married always had the back stories it isn't exactly a good thing when a story about those two possibly being pregnant takes backseat to j having to babysit his girlfriend's dog br br other than that i really wish this show could have lasted a little longer it seems that people weren't interested in white as something other than the god awful annoying ass nerd known as br br hope they at least put it out as a dvd box set
1	to be honest fellow imdb reviewers i enjoyed this show a lot the reason well it didn't try to be more than it is i mean a sitcom with regular expectations with a well known and repeated plot funny and talented actors and clever jokes oriented for a post college audience br br this is what grown ups is all about trying to be mature but in a funny way br br white is funny as always and delivers some witty and hilarious sex oriented jokes the humor is very 90's without taking in account the tendencies of the new millennium and that's the main reason in my opinion why the show didn't have success it got stuck in the 90's br br oh and mrs ribisi was really funny and perky br br my favorite show has to be the one that deals with karma biting the ass not a cult classic but i'm sure it's part of regular early 2000's nostalgia
1	hi br br blade is an sensational action movie the hero wesley snipes and the villain have done justice to their roles br br the movie's action sequences are better then matrix br br wesley snipes is one the best action heroes ever br br if u like action vampire movies this is the one br br the theme is pretty good considering the fact that so many vampire movies have been made before but these is the best of them br br enjoy the ride
1	when i first viewed the trailer i have to decide if this series would be perfect for my collection but after hearing about it i decided to buy it when i bought the entire collection in a box set it was absolutely what i wanted to see it was very funny and the characters were pretty cool favorite characters in the show are marion carrot the haze knights big momma and i also liked the opening and ending theme songs the show also has some great voice talents from tiffany grant jason douglas and others but however this show is one of the greatest so if you want to see something cool then this show is the one
1	this is a classic animated film from the cartoon series most of the major characters get alot of screen time plus do extra characters aswell the film s focus is on the superstar characters vacation and each one has his her very unique summer fun its very funny from beginning to end it has excellent color great music and believe it or not i have seen this more than any movie its that great and in my opinion its perfect
1	as a big fan of tiny toon adventures i loved this movie it was so funny it really captured how cartoons spent their summers
1	i watch this movie at the start of every summer and it never ceases to amuse me here the jokes are packed in near every line of dialogue giving you more bang than the average simpsons episode some of the jokes fall flat or will only elicit a slight chuckle but others will leave you rolling and then there are those that stick in your brain the audience is now deaf br br the video knows it's a video and makes no pretensions about being anything else it's easy to sit back and let the bombardment of humor begin a good mix of slapstick pop culture and tongue in cheek comedy ensures there's something for everybody i was in sixth grade when i first saw this video and i have to admit i still find it as hilarious now that i've started college br br this is a good movie to watch over the summer much in the way you might watch it's a wonderful life at christmas or ten commandments at easter more than that it's just funny as hell
1	while not the first movie i've purchased for myself this is almost certainly the one i've watched the most the animation is well drawn by the experts at tokyo movie and the animators frequently made use of clever techniques such as having the sun cause lens flare having the camera get soaked and having the camera hand clean the lens etc while the film avoided becoming a an animator's gadget fest the judicious but generous application of such techniques gave the film a much more realistic feel than the typical cartoon br br the story has many plots which don't seem to have much to do with each other until everything comes together at the end in a manner even the writers self effacingly admit is contrived each of the major plot lines has its own musical theme ranging from pop goes the weasel plucky to the love theme from romeo and juliet fifi johnny the transitions between plotlines are slightly varied but consistent br br truly a wonderful film there isn't much original music though the new lyrics to spinning song are clever and enjoyable highly recommended
1	you don't have to be a fan of the cartoon show to enjoy this film i watched it for the first time when i was nine having been a fan of the t v show and my parents laughed just as hard as i did it is done in the classic style of bugs bunny cartoons from yesterday and considering todays vulgar cartoons i would think anybody would appreciate a cartoon movie that relies more on wackiness then on vulgarity to get a few laughs
1	i love this movie it can make me laugh which is kinda hard to do this movie is one of the best cartoon adaptations ever it doesn't warp the characters like other movies out there everyone is in character and has a role to play br br the movie focuses around buster and babs going down river after a flood courtesy of buster to plucky going on a trip with hilarious stuff running around torturing animals as usual fifi following her crush around for an autograph and shirley and going to the movies br br in my own personal opinion i didn't like the buster and babs segments that much although they had some notable dialogue and jokes i have got to say the plucky and hampton parts were the best family is hilarious i especially like uncle stinky fifi in the hotel was also hilarious i love the actor cameos during this scene d br br probably the most famous part in this movie again imho is when and shirley are in the movie theater lol you've got to see it to appreciate it and when and plucky go through the tunnel to make a wish br br although this movie moved slowly during the buster babs parts the rest is pure gold i rate this movie 8 10 show this to your kids one day or even adults yourselves watch this movie you won't regret it
1	caution potential spoilers ahead br br steven spielberg presents tiny toon adventures was always one of my favorite cartoons growing up heck it still is and this movie perfectly captures everything i love about the show and puts it in full length form br br beautifully animated by the tokyo movie studio wb outsourced every tiny toons project and this was the best studio to handle the show the movie starts at the end of the school year at acme the renowned cartoon college where buster and babs bunny no relation and their teenage toon peers learn from the masters of animated lunacy the looney tunes after the final bell the movie splits off into five different plots buster engages babs in a water gun fight that culminates with a bursting dam and a tidal wave sending buster babs and dog byron downriver on an overturned picnic table in search of adventure in the deep south plucky duck talks pig and his family into letting him come with them to the happiest place in the western hemisphere but he has to put up with an excruciating car ride and the threat of a chainsaw wielding hitchhiker cat furball finally runs away but she isn't not when there are plenty of to play with at the acme safari park fifi la fume devotes her summer to hunting down her heartthrob movie star johnny pew in the hopes of getting an autograph of course the hotel he's staying at is nearly impenetrable and shirley sets up a fortune telling booth on the acme acres boardwalk and lets her guard down on her day off when takes her to see the horror flick br br all these story lines are hilarious and some of them even overlap in the end the only complaint i have with this movie is that it doesn't make full use of the tiny toons roster dizzy devil and mary have only one scene gogo dodo only appears at the beginning and end of the film and montana max sweetie calamity coyote and little are nowhere to be found still they're excusable flaws in an otherwise perfect film this movie is pretty rare today since it's over 12 years old and has never been released on dvd to my knowledge but i highly suggest you track it down anyone who's a fan of warner bros animation either classic or contemporary needs to see this movie
1	tiny toons is the first cartoon i remember watching as a child and i loved every minute of it when i was four or five my parents purchased the video how i spent my vacation i watched it over and over again until i new every word well a few days ago my three year old cousin came over and i had to entertain him i decided to show him this old relic of my childhood br br i new he would laugh but i was surprised how much i laughed like every tiny toons film and episode the humor is based more on wackiness and slapstick humor and succeeds tremendously bugs babs plucky duck pig and fifi all endure amazing adventures from bugs and babs white water rafting with a little help from superman plucky duck and pig travel to the greatest amusement park only to ride the monorail and goes on an odd quest to find cute kittens in a safari land br br some of the classic humor stands in this tiny toon adventure and is some of the best wacky comedy i've ever seen my favorite gag had to be the monorail thing when and plucky arrive ride the monorail and leave much to dismay no matter what your age you'll laugh yourself to tears while not having to deal with language and nudity br br tiny toons adventures how i spent my vacation starring the voices of charles adler tress macneille joe alaskey and don messick br br 5 out of 5 stars
1	this was one of my favorite movies from childhood i watched it so many times eventually my tape wore out i was a huge fan of this show and still am the thing i love most about this movie is that it appeals to so many people both young and old i watch this movie now and laugh just as hard as i did the first time i saw it i am now able to appreciate all the adult jokes that i never got as a child my favorite characters are and almost fifteen years later my dad a huge fan of the movie as well and i are still quoting lines from this movie i love the part where and shirley go to the movies you save the seats shirl and i'll snag the snacks i also loved the storyline of plucky and hampton and his family going to happy world land wade pig reminded me a lot of my dad i love the part when they finally get to happy world land and all they do is ride on the monorail this movie is hilarious and appeals to children and kids the animation jokes and everything about it are top notch if you have not seen it rent it you won't be sorry
1	it's got action and fantasy mixed all together what more do you want in an action movie and it also has one of the best martial artists in the movie industry today wesley snipes so all in all this movie hasn't left anything out and that's my comment of what i think is a classic beat em up movie
1	tiny toons how i spent my vacation has always been my favourite animation movie and loved it since i first watched it when i was 7 or now i'm almost seventeen and i still love this wonderful work of art br br i really like the idea how we track what each of them did in their vacation and there were really some funny quotes said that really made me laugh a lot br br in this movie u'll never get bored and once u see it u'll want 2 c it again and again because believe me it's really wonderful and it's suitable for all ages
1	it is in the opinion of this reviewer that the best time to be a child was in the 1990's a period when cartoons were not heavily censored and talented and creative minds were responsible for some of the best family entertainment to hit the air waves the best producers of saturday morning animation were at warner brothers television who experienced a major golden age with the dream team of steven spielberg tom and paul dini along with serious and dark series like batman they also revived zany outlandish cartoons made famous by the looney tunes animaniacs was the biggest hitter with its dark adult humour and homages to the celluloid of yesteryear and today but tiny toon adventures was equally popular by re inventing the looney tunes for a new generation while still keeping that crazy cartoon violence and intelligent comedy that can hold onto any age group no matter how old even when the tiny toons were stretched to a feature length with how i spent my vacation it did not feel like a longer episode of the television series a curse that so often plagues other feature length adaptations of popular animated shows br br the tiny toon gang are young off springs of the classic cartoon characters who made audiences laugh back in the 1940's and 1950's and are currently learning cartoon comedy to earn their toon degree summer vacation has started and each character has their own idea of what to do buster bunny charles adler and babs bunny tress macneille start a water gun fight which ultimately leads to acme acres getting flooded and them both sailing down the mississippi plucky duck joe alaskey joins pig don messick on a cross country car trip to the happiest theme park in the world but family proves to be more difficult than he imagined meanwhile in other stories scattered throughout duff cree summer tries to find a cat to hug and squeeze fifi le fume attempts to go out on a date with her favourite skunk star and shirley the loon gail goes to the cinema with a loud mouth rob br br while the premise sounds thin for a feature length film the many directors and screenwriters make all the stories work well together the best of these is unfortunate road trip which utilises a golden comedic opportunity very well feeling pity for somebody while also laughing at their predicament annoyed reaction to all the bad things that happen to him are a perfect blend of script and animation all in the confines of a small car stuffed with pork story definitely ranks second just to see how a little almost innocent girl can cause fear into so many jungle animals the aforementioned cartoon violence definitely comes to the fore front with buster and babs' story which makes us smile not only due to the hilarity of the outcomes but also since and company would probably not be allowed to show half of what they do in that segment practically half of that segment plays as a parody and homage to deliverance including a clever twist on the dueling banjos scene featuring the unforgettable tiny toon adventures theme song br br part of the universal appeal of the tiny toons is that the humour proves to be very intelligent as it targets subjects with a ferocity that proves that it does not at all deserve the title of children's fare that people seem to slap it with an entire segment featuring poor etiquette at the cinema pokes fun at in a note perfect way along with an additional jab at thx logo that scene is done so perfectly that it should be featured before every cinema showing there are also a couple of moments that poke fun at disney world cinematic plot holes and even warner's legal department the fact that today's cartoons are bland and un creative makes those intelligent moments even more treasuring as there probably will not be another animated series that will come close br br after watching how i spent my vacation for the first time in many years i can say with all certainty that they do not make cartoons quite like they used to with the ongoing censorship that today's family entertainment receive one wonders whether anything like this will ever be made again this review is not only a recommendation of a truly smart film but also a plea for spielberg and dini to team up again and bring forth a magical creation to our minds once again lord knows that the children of the twenty first century is in need for something with the intelligence of tiny toon adventures this is not a simple cash grab it is a wonderful film with full of spirit madcap mayhem and hilarity
1	when i was a kid i loved tiny toons i especially loved tiny toons how i spent my summer vacation i thought it was laughs on the floor funny a few years later my friend had the video and i figured i'd watch it for the good old days i was still on the floors laughing my opinion the plucky and hampton skit is the best they decide to go to happy world land and they end up having a crazy adventure to get there all the skits are funny i'm still looking for the video so if anyone has any tips please write me br br this is one of the funniest cartoons i have ever seen br br 10 10
1	how i spend my vacation puts closure to the television series that aired from 1990 to 1992 i've always enjoyed the series for what it is i've never compared the series to the looney tunes of the old days the video release was split up in four or five episodes i can't remember as i'm writing this for television and it's included in the episode list of the series what's good about this series is that all the main characters of the show have a major role in the story we see what they all do during their summer vacation in different parts of the world is with his parents in a safari plucky and hampton crossing the country with hampton's parents fifi is in some beach etc the climax is very good and at the end all tiny toon characters reunite for the start of a new year in the thus practically ending the good run of this tv show
1	this is a great flick it is funny for everyone even adults we got jason voorhees leatherface like killer in this along with other wacky characters very funny flick for children of all ages must of rented this every time we went to the video store buster and babs make a good pair and gotta love the duck he is probably my favorite character i was never big on the tv show but this movie just brings back so many great memories must see for families fans of the show or anyone enjoyable no matter how small or old you are rent it now at your local video store br br p s needs a dvd release
1	before watching this movie my thoughts were like another israeli typical movie but i was suprised to watch i great israeli drama the plot is really good and the actors act great one of the best isreali movies i saw so at the bottomline i really recommend this movie
1	one of my favorite movies of all times have seen it three times already it does a great job of summing up the walks of life israeli humor and seriousness and much of the problems israelis go through universal theme of wanting to be accepted and be accepted for who you are good subtle humor and it's the charisma of the characters that makes this movie magic and says a lot about culture and the contradictions and humor with a great actor in it cohen i highly recommend it to anyone and it's a movie perfect for practically anyone family movie boyfriend girlfriend movie and also says apart from israeli culture wanting to be accepted most of all how important family is with all its diversity and imperfections br br great great movie
1	over the years some of them most enjoyable films have been about dysfunctional families br br bonjour monsieur is such a film br br this is an isreali film about a moroccan jewish family br br this could be about any family in any culture we all know or would want to know people like those in this comic gem br br this 2003 delight was written directed by let us hope he a long career br br the movie is seen through the eyes of the 16 year old son who seems to be concerned with everyone in the family brilliantly played by cohen he was 18 when he made the movie br br he has been in a few since i know i will hunt them up hopefully this young man will become an international star br br the entire cast is magnificent i do hope i see them again br br i loved every person in the cast to some degree i think all who see this will agree br br it has been nominated for many international awards has won 8 it deserved every one br br now being a film in a language besides english it had a very limited run in the usa which i feel is regrettable br br rent this film you will be glad you did br br ratings 1 2 out of 4 95 points out of 100 imdb 9 out of 10 br br note since the story is not new this is as high a rating it can get
1	this is a great movie to watch with a good friend boy girl friend or family basically one of those feel good movies you want to share with your loved ones without all the girlie crap you find in a lot of american feel good movies this movie is light hearted but makes you think and will make you laugh br br just a really simple but universal plot would think most people could relate in some way to this movie the characters in the movie are amazing and the actors do a great job in sucking you into the movie and the movie is topped off all along the way with hilarious true to life jewish humor i watched the movie for the first time last night and now i want to own it
1	bonjour monsieur is simply a wonderful film writer director has created a story unlike any other and cast it with such consistently fine actors that it remains a puzzle to me that this film has not become an audience favorite throughout the world it is intelligent emotional edifying and warm entertaining and in all categories it is a winner cohen in a brilliantly understated performance is a 16 year old lad who takes care of his highly dysfunctional family his mother is about as distasteful a shrew as ever concocted and in a constant state of ill temper because of her husband cheated on her and because she is stuck working double shifts to support her ailing father in law elias who as grandfather is a bright funny wise loving old man who deeply cares for a married sister ziva who periodically moves back in to the house because of constant spats with her husband who doesn't help her care for their infant twin sons his brother cohen whose life is loud electric guitars braggadocio about female conquests and the favorite son of his mother stir this mixture and the result is the penultimate dysfunctional family unit cooks gourmet meals for them shops cleans house runs errands bathes and cares for this grandfather and in general leads a life of submission to a family that views him as a longs for a girlfriend and practically fails his school because of his lack of time devoted to caring for his family and a lack of concentration serendipitously his math teacher begin notes his natural genius on a discarded test and with the aid of the headmaster nair the two encourage him to be tested and discover that he is a genius with dyslexia and arrange for him to try for a special school in haifa mother will hear none of it but between fights with absentee father albert and confrontations with the teacher and headmaster they finally consent to his testing for the school meanwhile discovers a girl his age rona aya who has moved in next door and gradually the two become intertwined in a physical and intellectual relationship always in the background is the support of grandfather and when the grandfather dies sets off on the journey to live his life for himself to realize his gifts to find his happiness the manner in which the family comes to grips with this is the peak of the movie and need not be revealed for the sake of loosing the power of the message the film is beautifully photographed the musical score is creatively lovely and the final result is one of exaltation of the human spirit highly recommended on every level in hebrew with english subtitles
1	not being the least bit familiar with the characters from the comic book series i expected this film to merely accomplish the basic introduce me to the characters and their inherent characteristics present a plot and end with the destruction of the main adversary and perhaps hint at the possibility of a sequel and that's exactly what this movie happens to deliver br br however unlike with most other comic book movies i felt that this one did it with a bit of class risking a more limited audience with strong language and graphic fight scenes blade presents a very modern believable and dismal world whose little nuances effectively managed to elicit a sense of dread as minor as it may have been from a viewer who rarely ever becomes involved in a story unless an emotional i e sappy aspect is concerned br br yes the movie has innumerable plotholes and preposterously unrealistic situations such as a standard female doctor being astute enough to contrive what no one else has been able to for several thousand years but when you have an enemy as cool as the one in this movie and fight scenes with involving and exciting camera cuts and special effects such as this what else matters it may run a little long but for what it sets out to do blade stands out in sharp relief among most other movies in this genre
1	this happened to be just starting on tv when i opened it and as i felt too lazy to change the channel i ended up watching it man was that fortunate br br this film is more of a fairy tale than a demanding drama and at times openly sentimental one it is definitely what one could call a feel good movie and i usually find such either boring or irritating yet this film is so very well done i could not help but love it the script will not twist your brain it is conventional but flawless the actors are brilliant every single one is a perfect fit for the role there is not much of a score but the bits of music enhance the movie beautifully br br if you can appreciate other things than expensive pyrotechnics vicious murders or saving the world in a movie do watch this if you ever have the chance 5 5
1	when i played the first soul calibur on dreamcast i thought it was great when i played the second i was hooked and finally when soul calibur iii was released i bought a playstation 2 and the game br br this can really keep you up for hours with a huge amount of characters loads of content and not to mention a great fighting system this really is the greatest fighting game to date br br the games strong points is foremost the vs gameplay were two human players battle each other either playing as one of the main characters or as a created and customized character the create character option is vast and allows the player to make thousands of different combinations br br the only thing that bothers me is that if you create a character that uses the fighting style grieve edge only kicks has to wear those ridiculous shoes br br this is absolutely the greatest fighting game one could wish for now i'm just hoping the planned movie won't be crap
1	this game was one of the main reasons i actually got a ps2 i remember playing soul edge sometimes called soul blade back in the day and i was hooked on it br br i did play the original soul calibur but i never got a chance to play it for a huge amount of time i did however buy the gamecube version of soul calibur ii and that was what truly got me hooked on the series and i was ecstatic when i heard of soul calibur iii this game still gives us the classic characters such as nightmare and however it also adds several new characters such as tira and the unplayable night terror the true boss of tales of souls the strategy based chronicles of sword mode is a new feature which i really like it can be quite challenging in the later chronicles but it's a good addition to the series br br the soul arena mode has several missions in which you must fight a certain enemy under certain circumstances the exception is final battle in which you simply must defeat night terror it's another fine touch that makes the game all the more fun br br in some scenes in tales of should you will be made to press certain buttons in order to get a different result this can be in order to dodge block an attack or to get a better ending every character has two endings all in all this is an excellent game and i'd recommend it if you're a fan of fighting games
1	the story line for this game is very jerky where it appears the game writers have tried to find ways to justify how a character appears in certain areas of the world map in tales of the soul that being said this is the only gripe i have about the game br br the beginning fmv is spectacular with breath taking sceneries and interesting new devices such as the ability to create and design your own character and their own martial arts discipline there's even a second story mode which makes up for the awkward story design of tale of the souls br br parts of the fmvs during tale of the souls is also interactive where you can decide the fate of your character to a certain degree which is an interesting feature br br with the many combinations of characters you can create the varied paths you can explore in tales of the souls and the chronicle of swords story mode this game will keep any up rpg fans amused for a while
1	soul calibur has always been my favorite fighting game series of all time and is my favorite one of the series br br the graphics are very well done much bigger improvement over the choppy in soul edge soul blade the characters have facial expressions hair blows in the breeze and they even blink br br soul calibur has always been known for it's interesting plots and characters and is no exception each character has his her background story that is detailed and well done my favorite character is chai she's cute she's funny and she's a strong female character yeah i know she wears pink and has a boyfriend who she ends up saving btw but there seems to be more to her than that like all the other characters have flaws and upsides to their personalities so no character is perfect not even the good guys br br the music is beautifully composed for a fighting game series it doesn't sound kitchy the vampire series nor does it sound like old school porn film soundtrack mortal kombat the characters have their own themes and a lot of the themes are done to match the culture of that certain part of the world i don't think there is a song on this soundtrack i don't like br br another cool thing about this game is to create your own anime like character create a soul you could make him her look as cute or as sexy or even ugly if you like however if you found a character that you like remember to take notes or else you won't remember how you created that character i found myself being very addicted to br br overall i think soul calibur is my number one fighting game series of all time it has everything i asked for what more could i want
1	soul calibur is more solid than it ever was with the new character creation and the bad ass chronicle of the sword mode on the home version br br the arcade version is more complete even though the character roster is smaller than the home version this version is definitely the more pretty of the two eliminating all of the goofy unrealistic fighting styles found in the home version if you were in any way disappointed with the home version or perhaps thought it was too much you might find a much more likable and straight forward game of soul calibur in the arcade think you have what it takes to become a legend
1	compared to the competition soul calibur 3 is a god amongst games a true piece of art however compared to its 128 bit predecessors the latest in superior slash em up series is over ambitious its attempts to improve on perfection isn't quite successful br br there are new modes and game play tweaks that i commend for trying to elevate the series to new heights but they just complicate things examples well the character creation mode is a great idea in theory but in actuality is full of restrictions and is no way as as that found in the wwe games for example the chronicles of the sword mode is fun and thought provoking for a little while but eventually drags on and a chore to earn money rather than a genuinely fun game also the tale of souls mode which is basically the arcade mode with little bits of inconsequential story and style bits thrown in really feels slow br br omg you don't know what your saying is probably what the more overzealous of you are thinking but don't get it twisted i don't hate this game this game is great its still got that classic game play although some characters moves have been needlessly changed absolutely stunning graphics and that epic soundtrack that the games are known for and also on the good side of things are the new characters particularly who are all cool in their own way except yes i know i'm nitpicking br br its just that compared to soul calibur 1 and 2 it feels like its trying to be much more than it actually is that doesn't mean that its not a classic it just means that compared to its own high standards it falls a bit short despite having more characters moves stages and better graphics than ever br br still soul calibur 3 wipes the floor with 95 of games out there though and that counts for something oh and all those who mark this review as unhelpful clearly feel hurt that i insulted their darling well listen up fanboy girl she ain't real and even if she was she wouldn't be caught dead with you
1	iron eagle has always been one of my films for a long time now it looks like but with a different plot and a lot of people will disagree with me here in my view it's better than br br this film has some amazing dogfight scenes when the fighter jets are zooming through the air it also has the queen song one vision thumping in the background which in my opinion is a fantastic song br br to be honest iron eagle was very good but it's sequels were rubbish br br
1	this was an awesome movie with flight scenes that were incredibly realistic i have seen it multiple times and it has kept my attention throughout every time i myself am a big fan of the air force and love to watch any movie where i can get a glimpse of an f 16 flying if you like top gun then i guarantee you will love this movie also except for a few mild curse words this is an excellent movie for the whole family it has a great plot and does not have a dull moment throughout the entire movie every second is action packed and keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting to see what happens next so once again i highly recommend this movie
1	iron eagle may not be the most believable film plot wise but the characters are well written and very well acted if you cannot believe the characters the film is a flop br br i believe the photography especially the aerial photography is superb i believe it is far superior to top gun to which it is endlessly compared it is one of the best pieces of aerial photography i have seen the soundtrack by basil forgive the spelling is great and juxtaposes well with the rock tunes i wish that portion of the soundtrack were available br br jason does well as the teenager who suddenly has to grow up in a rush and and the realities of life death and responsibilities lou gossett is fab as chappy both hard bitten and yet human as he recalls pilot deaths br br there are lots of movies out there that you watch once and don't care to watch again then there are those movies that get you for one aspect or another and you can watch it again and again iron eagle is that kind of movie
1	in this film i prefer deacon frost he's so sexy i love his glacial eyes i like stephen dorff and the vampires so i went to see it i hope to see a gothic film with him blade it was very about the future if vampires had been real i would be turned by frost
1	not too much the classic top gun or independence day when it comes to fighter jet excitement yes the movie top to bottom is based on a truly fictional example of how anyone can pull off a rescue but it is cool because it breaks all traditional rules the kid doing what he wants to do in a jet the way he wants to do it br br i can't really put my finger on just what i love about this movie but others i know that saw the movie feel the same way about it i do i think its just basically a lot of fun but maybe a little too unrealistic for some to buy into br br again regardless i loved it people who i know saw it loved it so its definitely worth seeing to make your own decisions about it put it this way i thought that top gun was one of the best fighter pilot movies ever and i like this movie just as much if not more than top gun don't miss out do see it a truly inspirational movie
1	i really like the movie's opening when col ted masters realizes on his fighter radar that four enemy aircraft were approaching from about 10 o'clock the good news is that the movie does not mention at the very beginning that the colonel along with a fighter who was a lieutenant was trying to do a freedom of navigation exercise along the eastern meditteranean sea but went a little too past the restricted air space zone reserved for a rogue middle eastern nation as they fly past it br br i also like all of the intercutting on the colonel's fighter radar and computer displays as the enemy aircraft aggressively picks the two american fighter pilots into an engagement for violating their airspace that first dogfight immediately reminds me of the famous fighter pilot movie top gun from the waxing of the enemy bandits to the enemy thirty rounds that struck the colonel's jet engines and forcing the plane down forcing him to eject all of this reminds us of one thing dogfight fighter techniques can keep you alive but one false move can cause you to be shot down br br the only problem in the movie was the snake sequence scene it was a little bit too long yes the movie's opening was great when you see the conflict which was the dogfight engagement only when one boy tells doug masters that his father was shot down after the cessna planes landed in the snake race forces us back to the time the conflict already started i guess the snake sequence in the middle should be interrupted a little bit by col masters being dragged in handcuffs in the middle of the desert on his way to the detention center while the music sequence for the snake continues the film does not do it if it were the details would have been smoother at that point still good otherwise br br when word found out that col ted masters trial for high treason violating territorial air sovereignty was over and he was condemned to be hung on the gallows in three days doug masters decides to go into action with the air force having futile attempts to save the man doug decides to pull his friends and col sinclair played by louis gossett jr for a plan to rescue masters risking a high chance of facing a court martial and spending more than a year in a military stockade he goes against air force policy and makes a plan to rescue masters without consent of the u s government br br doug and his friends sneak into several classified areas of the base to get plenty of stuff on the area where masters is held for the upcoming hanging and the surrounding area around which turns out to be a fake middle eastern country for the movie one plan included shooting off firecrackers outside the air force darkroom area as a diversion to get classified photos and maintenance stuff on the fighter aircraft fighter base intelligence and all of the other military stuff around br br when all was said and done and sinclair studied all of the intelligence he almost rebuffed at that plan because doug was way too cocky not until they get the two f 16 planes and tried a dry run across a firing range that i realized what they were going to do overseas i realized that fighter shooting and bomb dropping is not good until he hears rock music i can remember when he dropped one mach 82 bomb on a horizontal target and the bomb missed by 20 feet i realized that doug is unusual he likes music when he fires the fighter ammunition br br the last part of the conflict the final dogfight action in iron eagle was better than top gun's climax of the hostile dogfight sequences i liked the way the final conflict unfolded especially when doug masters faces off with an middle eastern ace fighter pilot who actually ran the trial against ted masters short but sweet when doug took the enemy fighter out after a second try by a side missile looks like this colonel was akin to darth vader in star wars in the air he can be very evil because if you have seen star wars darth vader was actually anakin skywalker who was an ace pilot in space unusual connotation for this but still works
1	lou gossett jr is great as a super u s air force pilot who comes to the rescue of a nice but undisciplined masters' jason the son of a captured pilot who is determined to borrow a couple of f 16 fighters to use in an attempt to save his dad from a dictator david suchet of an enemy overseas country br br better than 'top gun' this air force aviation film has excitement and lots of explosions you know all that cool stuff you'd want from a contemporary military adventure film br br cool music including twisted sister's dee snider belting out 'we're not gonna take it' and king excellent 'never say die' br br aim high air force
1	in the 1980's patriotism and in some cases flat out jingoism was pretty high do we get to win this time a line famous from rambo first blood part ii could almost sum up how many people felt at that time a longing for the style of films they grew up with flat out balls to the wall we're good your bad now let's blow something up and go home while rambo rocky and for the most part top gun seemed more geared towards attracting an older crowd iron eagle went straight for the kids canadian writer and director sidney j furie brings out everything that you love and hate about that time period the kick in the pants rock out 80's anthems never say die road of the gypsy etc to the over the top and sometimes almost unbelievable action adventure iron eagle succeeded for one reason it was f u n fun it's the type of movie you can turn on and sit back and enjoy every ridiculous totally 80's moment you don't have to think about if it could really happen or if the acting is truly believable it's just fun and that's all you can really ask for in this type of movie
1	maybe i'm biased because the f 16 is my favorite fighter aircraft although the f 14 is probably second or third but i liked this movie the sequels iron eagle ii and iii don't measure up acting and plot wise but the first one along with top gun have excellent flying and music along with reasonable plots and acting ii and iii clearly have much less of a flight budget but their main drawback is plot and acting i suspect the relative fame and popularity of iron eagle compared to top gun is almost entirely a reflection of the fame and popularity of jason compared to tom cruise another plus for me is an all too brief appearance by smith 7 10
1	this was a pretty good movie i love fighter jet movies and this was the best one i've seen lately it was made using real planes so that made it an even better movie if you like watching u s f 16s blow the living daylights out of their enemies this is a great movie for you
1	ok yes its bad yes its complete fluff yes it makes the mule look like an oscar winner but look at it like i did i was 13 special effects were pretty much non in 90 of films back in the good ole days when films needed a story line ok so even the storyline is a bit dodgy but wow did i get into this film as a kid in the 80s cheesy rock bad special effects but airplanes an aerial fights and it had queens one vision on the soundtrack see even the worst things have a silver lining all in all if you want a bad film to show a 12 year old who hates computer effects if there is such a film this is the ideal choice
1	i think that this movie is actually entertaining although it lacks some features essential for this kinda' films first of all when doug and chappy start their mission they take off with f and during the combat scenes they are piloting f the second thing i dislike of this film is the ever repeating f 16 rolling to its right to escape from missiles why and flares haven't been shown in any movie yet third of all once you see the f 16 almost empty of ammo it appears again plenty of missiles the models used to simulate the destroyed aircraft ain't good either however i think that using as opponent planes was really good far better than the f 5 shown in top gun but this movie isn't as good as that masterpiece br br a funny movie i love planes and i've seen it more than 3 times
1	i'm sorry but i just can't help it i love watching iron eagle now do not misunderstand me i am not saying that this is a great movie no rather i would put it that this is an endlessly entertaining movie for people who cut this movie to pieces for not being realistic are kinda missing the point of course iron eagle's plot was ridiculous but i believe its target audience was kids and i sure remember finding this cool when i was little now i just find it amusing as a guilty pleasure kinda like road house this movie is part of the great pantheon of 80's kids taking on the stodgy adult power structure movies you must remember d a r y l real genius e t etc if you ask me just watching doug and ride the snake in the beginning is worth the cost of the dvd that whole sequence was so stupid but at the same time it was hilarious funny totally 80's all that good stuff so bottom line iron eagle is a great 80's guilty pleasure the hairstyles the dancing the music the dialogue its all funny as hell i have iron eagle on dvd and to me it was totally worth 9 99 at best buy if you love laughing at dated unrealistic action movies this one is a must see oh yeah and i think its plot was only marginally stupider than 1986's other fighter pilot action pic top gun
1	okay here's the deal there's this american pilot who's flying along minding his own business when suddenly he's outnumbered by evil cowardly non american fighter planes they're middle eastern types but suffice to say they don't like apple pie or elvis presley who proceed to shoot him down now this american pilot was doing nothing wrong but those evil non americans didn't care and before you know it he's banged up in a foreign jail and sentenced to death br br now what would normally happen here is that the us military would carpet bomb a couple of nearby towns until the pilot was released but not this time those evil peace lovin' types probably got involved and managed to stop any kind of massacre as you can imagine this doesn't please the pilot's family and the evil foreign dictator has this smug contented look about him he'll make those americans pay oh yes indeed br br but he didn't reckon on doug masters the captured pilots 16 year old son you see doug has been able to fly a plane longer than he can drive a car which can't be that long and decides to fly into that evil foreign country and get his dad back so with the help of his friends doug and his retired pilot sinclair doug launches a two man air raid on the foreigners br br now you'd think that this plan would be bound to fail but you'd be wrong sure those middle eastern types might be all veteran pilots but got an ace up his sleeve he listens to rock music when he flies after shooting down a dozen or so enemy planes and blowing up an oil refinery doug lands at an airport and gets his now wounded dad onboard the plane understandably the evil not quite so smug anymore dictator gets quite annoyed at these antics and takes to the skies himself in bid to shoot down doug but the young lad listens to some more rock music and blows the villain out of the sky hurrah br br after doug and chappy have shot down 90 of their air force the foreigners send up their last few planes in a rather poor attempt to shoot doug down but in the nick of time a flight of us turn up and scare them away br br i cannot recommend this film enough it was the first ever videocassette movie that i brought and until i was twenty i kept hoping that my dad would get shot down over a foreign country so that i could rescue him but he's doesn't like flying so it didn't happen
1	blade is probably one of the best vampire action movies ever made it has it all action horror blood this movie is for action fans it's either you like it a lot either you hate it and if you hate it it means you don't like action or vampires movies wesley snipes takes his role seriously and he his the perfect guy for blade
1	i really wanted to write a title for this review that didn't come off as corny or gushing but still described my feelings for this show i can see now that it is not possible american family is one of the best shows i have ever had the pleasure of watching on television several reviewers here on imdb have mentioned the word beautiful when describing this show never has a word been more fitting the cinematography for this show is stunning every scene and shot looks like a masterpiece the lighting camera moves scene composition and colors i have to keep reminding myself that i'm watching a tv show and not a motion picture masterpiece the score by lee and nathan wang brings tears to my eyes and most importantly the acting by the all around amazing cast is honest and sincere i do not feel like i am watching performances i feel like i'm watching real life if only real life could be this beautiful br br american family has indeed raised the bar for quality entertainment on television i highly recommend this show to anyone who is willing to watch it i could easily chide cbs for passing on this show but i have to say that it doesn't matter to me who airs it i'm just glad it's out there for everyone to see so i do thank pbs for not allowing this show to disappear into nothingness br br i have to give special recognition to the way each season's finale ended the first one was pure creative brilliance and it moved me to tears i was waiting to see if season two would also end in a creative way and sure enough it did again tears br br my thanks to all of those involved you really have made a special piece of art with this show and i sincerely mean that it is a shame that we only got two seasons but a miracle we got anything at all
1	being a d b sweeney fan i've been on the lookout for this movie for quite some time i recently rented the video and found it very enjoyable it had some really hilarious scenes the dysfunctional lives of some of the characters was unsettling but i think the movie also showed that it's possible to keep your life on track or get it back on track if it's been derailed
1	this focuses around the lives of four women all good friends and their male companions each has a story the men as well everything links everybody to everybody and everything is being brought to a quick change after a trip the girls take to palm springs br br basically the film is no different from other of the genre but i liked the details brooke shields is a divorcée that fears loneliness therefore she bangs just about everybody to get to have a warm body next to her in the morning but then can't really commit as a man i find these women are a blessing but she is not a happy person everything else that happens revolves around this crazy woman but in the end we get more clarity over life and relationships which is good br br i can't tell if the acting was bad it didn't seem to me the script was a little inconsistent but not more than any romantic comedy it's a bit more depressing than most which is good because you don't get dreary romantic comedies every day br br it's worth a watch with the especially if you have cheated on her or plan to
1	this film is a tour de force from julie who directs and does the stage design and masks no one comes near to matching her imagination on the modern operatic stage since making this film in 1992 she has had much success in film making and in directing musicals one can only hope that she can be persuaded to return to opera one day i would love to see a ring cycle directed by her the current at covent garden has giants with over sized hands just like the characters in this film the current butterfly at uses japanese puppetry coincidence maybe or evidence that influence is pervasive br br uses fantastical costumes masks puppets and origami birds to recreate the story of oedipus on a stage set on stilts above a lake red ribbons are a recurring theme they are used as an umbilical chord when oedipus is born they hang down from eyes after he has blinded himself in a breathtaking effect they are used to make a crossroads when slaying of his father is by puppets br br this neo classical opera ballet by enjoyed justified obscurity until this film brought it to life the music is uninspired but inoffensive and philip jesse norman and a very young make the most of it the singers are fairly immobile in accordance with wishes min tanaka is the dancing oedipus to singing oedipus this creates some slight confusion towards the end when dancing oedipus pokes out the eyes of singing oedipus br br the libretto is in latin but do not worry if your high school latin is a bit rusty there is a helpful narrator who introduces and describes each scene in japanese
1	the music is by and not by stupid incompetent philip glass and was written ten years before glass' unfortunate birth the staging is simply extraordinary the narrative in japanese adds a threatening quality and intensity that the latin version does not have cf version the giant heads and hands are totally justified by the mythic aspect of the tale the props and make up used for the plague are simply spot on it's best work the singers are very good especially is quite moving and clean and norman finds the right expression and her beauty is magnified here and finds its right place larger than life simply a must
1	this is a video version of a stage production with extra shooting for the video edition the result gains both the drama of the stage with the impact of well produced film the set by george with sculptures and masks by julie are superb br br norman is terrific and one gets to hear and see the young this production is stunning emotional and majestic if you don't see this you have missed out
1	i wish i could have met ida lupino when people ask who you if you could have 6 extraordinary 20th century persons over for dinner well for me one person would be her i think she is now one of the great unsung and personalities in the film industry her life story would make a great tele movie hey mr bogdanovich ida lupino has been the driving force in many fascinating noir films of the 40s and 50s i can remember being saddened at seeing her reduced to a horrible part in a ghastly aip film is the late 70s she was bitten by a big worm at the kitchen sink ugh i should have contacted her then as she died not long after more from the part than the worm too from high sierra roadhouse and the extraordinary rko thriller on dangerous ground ida lupino was often the producer and the lead actress later with her husband howard duff they produced many now timeless noir dramas that are still very engrossing today one of them is jennifer which i think is the last film with a monogram pictures copyright monogram changed the company name formally to allied artists in 1953 and jennifer has both company names on the opening credits this is a superior haunted house thriller equally as scary as both the innocents and the haunting made 8 years later really chilling and very creepy this tiny film is exactly the sort of really good film ida lupino made and was responsible for try and find it you will always remember it and as i feel much admiration for this great and almost forgotten actress producer
1	i first caught up with jennifer years ago while out of town when it showed up on tv in the middle of the night i fell asleep before it ended but it stuck with me until i had to track it down its appeal is that though there's not a lot to it it weaves an intriguing atmosphere and because ida lupino and howard duff real life man and wife at the time display an alluring low key chemistry lupino plays a woman engaged to house sit a vast california estate whose previous caretaker jennifer up and disappeared shades of jack nicholson in the shining although in this instance it's not lupino who goes or went mad duff is the guy in town who manages the estate's finances and takes a shine to lupino who decides to play hard to get she becomes more and more involved not to say obsessed with what happened to her predecessor in the old dark house full of descending and locked the atmospherics and the romantic byplay are by far the best part of the movie as viewers are likely to find the resolution a bit of a letdown there's just not that much to it except a little frisson at the tail end that anticipates brian de palma's filmic but it's well done and again it sticks with you extra added attraction this is the film that introduced the song angel eyes which would become part of the standard repertoire of ol' blue eyes
1	the movie jennifer with ida lupino and howard duff is film noir magnificence this is a mostly unknown movie that all film noir fans should see jennifer was filmed with the most unusual camera angles for that time which made the movie have a surreal like quality at times i love the stark black and white film noir movies film noir in color is not as good the cast and script is excellent the rather creepy music is fun to listen to ida lupino is one of the best and talented actresses to ever grace the screen i have never seen a production that she was in that i did not like she was not only breathtakingly beautiful she was a fine actress the first movie that i remember seeing ida lupino in was roadhouse with richard widmark and cornel wilde i never forgot the movie or her i saw her last films like food of the gods and women in chains and even though the movies were not her usual fare she was still delightful in them as an actress howard duff is always terrific to watch i highly recommend this masterpiece to everyone i have this movie on vhs tape
1	it has been almost 50 years since i saw jennifer for the first and only time i did not know the name of this movie until i looked it up on this web site but i have told many people especially my grandchildren how movies do not have to include graphic details in order to frighten you and leave powerful impact the story skillfully introduces you to concepts which if true put ida lupino in a very dangerous situation each time miss lupino discovers a new fact she draws the viewer into her confusion and fear br br this movie has such impact on me that almost 50 years later i still list it as one of the most frightening movies that i have ever seen yet this movie does not contain the blood and gore which became popular shortly after this movie was made it's amazing what impact a good story and great actors can make
1	great underrated movie great action good actors and a wonderful story line wesley is verry good and the villain the bad guy is wonderful the girl plays a nice role and the comedy mixed with
1	deep blood its one of those movies you here about and you say not another italian jaws ripoff well deep blood is far from that it is a cheap as film making can get and on the other side it is creative as well in jaws and all the other shark films we all have seen or herd about they all use fake made sharks well in joe d'amato's film he takes a new approach by using all stock footage for his shark scenes this is one of the many reasons i like deep blood so much is because it didn't use stock footage br br in deep blood an ancient indian spirit terrorizes a beach town in the form of a bloodthirsty shark in joe d'amato's shark classic deep blood br br it seems that a native american elder once warned a group of youngsters about this great evil in the sea and years later the friends are forced to face their fears when one of them is killed by a shark in a series of attacks along their coastline now it's up to the remaining few to make sure that this monster is killed even if it means heading out to sea to do it br br joe d'amato directed and produced this film under his company the filmirage released in 1989 and was later used in bruno mattei's cruel jaws jaws 5 along with many other shark films joe d'amato's shark entry is a great film and any joe d'amato fan of shark movie watcher should give it a try
1	this is a great italian shark movie probably not a full action type of shark movie but it has a great story about a native american in the form of a killer shark that attacks a small beach community the movie has actual scenes of real sharks and some not but how they made it is pretty good the cast are not that brilliant of acting in this shark film but it it shows better acting in some other italian shark movies such as e g cruel jaws last shark they show some pretty bad acting but most italian shark movies are good which means this votes best as the best italian shark movie ever some scenes in this movie show violence gore which makes this film good that it shows it so i would say this is the best film for all shark movie fans
1	brian keith as cole and richard jaeckel as wade matlock make excellent villains they just love intimidating the locals in the most brutal way possible and sneer sexily at any suggestion that there might be a more humane way to achieve their ends it's a pity that goody goody glenn ford gets in their way
1	this is a great western story with outstanding veteran actors who made this film great entertainment to view and enjoy glenn ford john parrish midway '76 tries to play low key after having experienced battles in the war and plays the peace maker role for the time being john parrish decides the town is entirely too rough and tough and goes to visit barbara stanwyck martha crime of passion 57 who is the wife of edward g robinson lee the red house '47 lee offers john parrish fifteen thousand dollars for his ranch and john turns down the offer lee decides to have his son brian keith cole the wind the lion '75 change his mind in more ways than one there are romantic scenes between may wynn caroline vail the caine mutiny '54 and john parrish and some hot encounters with dianne foster judith three hours to kill '54 who hates her father lee if you like edward g robinson and glenn ford films this is a film you will want to view and enjoy from beginning to end
1	the violent men is a good western perhaps the story is not an original one big ranch owner dedicated to run out small competitors out of a valley he needs for his increasing cattle but the film has many ingredients that raises its level and makes it worth seeing br br the cast is a highlight there's the reliable glenn ford john parrish as a former army officer and now one of the small ranchers who tries to stay out of troubles until he is pushed to hard edward robinson lew wilkinson is as good as always as the crippled big man and barbara stanwyck martha plays his treacherous wife in one of her usual mean woman roles she deals with easily others were in double indemnity and blowing wild brian keith cole does it perfectly as robinson's gunman brother an ambitious man trying to take over his brother's big ranch no matter what regular 50's westerns villain richard jaeckel wade is there too and ends as usual no surprise there dianne foster judith wilkinson plays robinson's daughter who does not approve his father mother and uncle's way of handling things with their neighbors br br rudolph mate brings a standard but acceptable direction perhaps helped by beautiful and wide open scenery and a fine and appropriate music score helps too br br the inevitable final showdown between ford and keith is one of the best in western movies each man in his own dueling style notice ford's shooting with his straight arm and aiming at its target in the military way settle their differences then and once and for all br br this is for sure one of glenn ford's best western appearances second only to the classic 3 10 to yuma he made two years later it's probably the cast that puts the film as an a rate and as for me it enters the top 10 list of the genre
1	this is one of my favourite westerns what a cast glenn ford plays his role in his usual mild controlled but firm manner ford plays one of the smaller ranchers in the shadow of the mighty anchor ranch that wants to swallow up the whole territory edward g robinson plays the crippled patriarch of the anchor ranch and barbera stanwyck plays his sly scheming wife there is plenty of action in this western that is quite impressive the scenery is delicious and the letterbox scope photography is breath taking and the soundtrack is stereo i would say that this western had a size able budget it looks expensive one of a series of great glenn ford westerns
1	it's always interesting to catch a line in a film that winds up being somewhat prophetic for the future of an actor in this case i was intrigued by edward g robinson's statement to barbara stanwyck i promised you the valley as he discusses the lone hold outs to his attempt to control all the land in ten years later stanwyck would star as the matriarch of the barkley family on the big valley somehow i thought she might have looked older in the earlier picture i guess all those bright gowns and fancy riding outfits have a way of bringing out one's youthful side br br as for my summary line above that's lee appraisal of john parrish glenn ford one of those hold outs mentioned earlier shortly after parrish uses his knowledge of military tactics to take out a number of hands after they raid his ranch and torch his home i liked the way the film explored his character starting with the way he dealt with foreman wade matlock richard jaeckel in a calculated showdown the set up for the ambush was also a clever maneuver diametrically opposed to the strategy of rushing the bad guys head on with both sides fighting it out to the last man standing for that parrish also had something to say never meet the enemy on his terms br br the violent men is a good title for this film and was probably at the head of it's class in the mid 1950's though by today's standards doesn't come close to the blood letting one will find in a tombstone or open range where the bullets exact a nasty savagery but it's shaped by fine performances from the principals with a sub plot exploring infidelity that seemed almost ironic considering it was stanwyck's character who was cheating
1	this is the classic western the good glenn ford the dashing hero the ex soldier the man who would not hold a gun again he eventually has to stand up the the evil land baron edward g robinson who owns most of the valley and wants it all then there's barbara stanwyck the real ruler of the roost edward g robinson's wife who will allow no one to get in her way even making edward g robinson look weak she is so evil that everyone else pales next to her blind ambition and ruthlessness to rule the valley and everyone in it the gleam in her eye as she sees people face death for her is unnerving it is worth waiting for throw in a young brian keith and a few others and you have a drama that stands on its own with the requisite shoot outs ambushes and close ups of hard riding cowboys and you have a heck of a western without giving anything away there are enough twists and turns within to make this not just a standard cowboy shoot em up
1	i really enjoyed this movie i have a real sense of justice and 'an eye for an eye' and this movie delivers that in spades glenn ford is offered a very low price for his ranch by the big rancher in the valley then one of his ranch hands is beaten and shot 'to help him make up his mind about when the ranch hand dies and the sheriff refuses to do anything ford seems at first reluctant to do anything his men to not take things into their own hands but that's just what he is about to do i knew this movie was about to catch fire when he went into the saloon and faced the guy richard jaeckel one of my very favorite bad guy character actors who had killed his ranch hand after a gentle exchange of dialog with him glenn ford slaps his face and shoots him dead kind of a neat added bit of justice he kills this guy with the gun that had belonged to his murdered cowhand in short order we're treated to ford letting his ranch be burned so his men are justified in ambushing the crew from the other ranch then ford and his men stampede all the horses and cattle of the big bad guy's ranch then they show up and burn the and the big fancy house to the ground talk about getting even big time lots of action in this movie there's more to the story than this but i'll just recommend you watch the movie glenn ford was someone who showed time and again what can happen when you misjudge someone and i really enjoyed watching him get justice the old fashioned way
1	john parrish is an ex union officer who plans to sell his ranch and land to the over at anchor the trouble is that the price being offered is way to low and when they start to bully parrish and his workers he has a change of heart particularly when things take a brutal turn for the worse br br originally after watching this one i had a sense of frustration chiefly because of the cast that was involved when you got edward g robinson glenn ford and barbara stanwyck in the same movie you hope that they get a story and script from which to excel sadly they don't get chance to produce a western classic worthy of multiple revisits or is that my over expectation is doing it a disservice well i slept on it and decided to ponder further about the picture i think yes it's fair to say that the actors in question deserved a better story from which to work from it is when all is said and done a plot that has been milked for all it's worth and then some but the violent men is still a very rewarding film regardless of the missed opportunities evident with the production br br glenn ford as parrish is as cool as an nose throughout and it's always great to see babs stanwyck playing a bitch because she's good at it while eddie g when one gets used to him being in a western is fine in what is an under written part robinson who stepped in at the last minute when first choice as lee broderick crawford got injured is the one who is short changed the most by the makers even supporting characters such as the devilish wade matlock a grinning delight from the reliable richard jaeckel and judith a radiant dianne foster get something to leave an impression with but for what it is robinson's crutch toting bad guy is at the least memorable for all the right reasons br br not shy on action and gun play it's with the twists and almost shakespearean tragedies that rudolph film rises above the mundane with all of it gorgeously framed by burnett stunning cinematography lone pine in alabama has been used on many a western picture see seven men from now for another glorious use of it but here really excels and manages to dazzle the eyes at every turn the violent men isn't a great western picture and perhaps a better director than could have really given donald hamilton's the big country novel an adaptation to be proud of but for every and irk i personally had with it i found two more reasons to actually really like it so that it be it's recommended for sure 7 10
1	i loved it in fact i watched it over and over and over and i could watch it again this movie doesn't get boring br br the vampire concept is revolutionized in this movie it's a job well done great for today's generation br br wesley snipes was born for this role stephen dorff was an ideal vampire arly jover mmmm mmm she can bite me any time she wants and what a sexy accent she has donal provides great comical relief br br this vampire movie is like no other i can't wait for blade 2
1	stanwyck at her villainous best robinson her equal as ruthless land in this fairly ordinary western br br some good action scenes strong use of location colour and cinemascope but why the obvious use of stock footage in the stampede scene br br ford is dependable as always and foster is strong as robinson's daughter but it is the baddies' film and it's not just stanwyck and robinson brian keith makes a surprisingly dashing villain as stanwyck's lover and richard jaeckel is unforgettable as a cold hearted killer br br see it for the camp value
1	extremely entertaining mid 1950's western that packs a whole lot into just a 96 minute running time most viewers will quickly get drawn into this story and will find the experience quite enjoyable more than just a b western but not really an epic the budget was modest and the cast affordable despite several big names glenn ford was the only box office draw at the time edward g robinson and barbara stanwyck were past their primes and looking for work stanwyck was 10 years away from a new popularity in the big valley brian keith and dianne foster were just starting out br br ford plays john parrish a small rancher who decides to sell out when the sympathetic sheriff is murdered by the big robinson hired gunman parrish is a former confederate officer who only moved out west for health reasons br br robinson plays lee who already owns most of the valley and intends to acquire the rest making good on a promise to his wife martha stanwyck lee was crippled in a land war he fought 12 years earlier his brother cole keith has come up from texas to help him run the huge spread lee has been turning a blind eye to obvious between stanwyck and keith but sensitive daughter judith foster is understandably upset by what is going on in their home br br john parrish has promised his fiancée caroline may that he will move back east caroline who is modeled on grace kelly's high noon character breaks off the engagement at the first sign of trouble and simply disappears from the film this leaves the way open for a john and judith romance to develop br br the violence starts early and continues throughout the film with parrish able to apply military tactics against an enemy who underestimates his ability and determination he has a very original confrontation with the main gunfighter about midway into the film ford plays one of his standard characters the modest guy who disarms everyone with a self deprecating manner who is slow to take offense but brutal when finally provoked very much like his role in the br br robinson is likewise excellent as a man who maintains his personal integrity even though physically just a shadow of his former self and he gets enough lines and screen time to adequately develop his character br br stanwyck has the most difficult role and she is simply not convincing as the classic two faced woman a seemingly loyal wife who is scheming to replace her husband with his brother in part this is because she is not allocated enough time to do anything more than superficially convey either side of the character that said a talented actress could have done a much better job even with these limitations br br dianne foster is a pleasant surprise she should remind viewers a lot of carroll baker both physically and in acting style although required to play judith according to 1950's convention she is allowed to be tough but then required to break into hysterics after each major confrontation foster shows a nice range she conveys a growing attraction for parrish but does it so subtly that it is only in retrospect that the various clues click into place br br the real problem with the violent men is that it tries to be both an action western and a character study morality play because so much has to happen on the screen much of the action is rushed and many of the characters get only a cursory treatment this is neither fatal flaw nor a reason to avoid the film but it could have been significantly better with another 20 minutes of running time or the absence of unnecessary characters like caroline br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
1	the violent men is pretty good western that certainly benefits from its excellent cast br br edward g robinson is the big rancher trying to squeeze out the smaller ranchers one of whom is glenn ford ford is ready to sell to appease his fiance may wynn until robinson's ambitious brother brian keith murders one of ford's hands then you know what happens next br br barbara stanwyck is along as robinson's scheming wife the kind of role in which she specialized dianne foster plays their daughter who comes to admire ford br br the violent men is nothing more than a b plot with an a movie cast but it is very well done
1	a western through and through as the title character portrayed by glenn ford says no i don't want to fight but i will if it's forced on me this movie is about being intelligent strong and fighting for one's beliefs with courage never stop striving for what you feel is right great action and mostly quick paced good to see brian keith in this role and edward g robinson as an older western man glenn ford lives up to his western image thoroughly enjoyable film includes strategic non military warfare of course it's violent like the title states but not too graphic like in the computer generated era films it's mostly about strong personality clashes
1	this was a very good 1950s western one of the better ones i've seen in a decade which featured that genre on screen and on tv it certainly had three big actors on the marquee glenn ford barbara stanwyck and edward g robinson it turns out that ford was the star of this film while the other two stars were in supporting roles ford had the bulk of the dialog he also was the good guy while robinson was the bad guy and stanwyck was twice as bad as robinson she played the real heavy in this film and the character she played was a little too contradictory at times br br ford handled his starring status very ably as he usually did especially in westerns he played a nice guy who didn't want to fight was a peaceful man but if you pushed him look out br br the story had a nice mixture of action and lulls not overdoing either it had an expansive western setting which was put to good use with the widescreen it also featured realistic people in a realistic setting that credibility with the characters especially the supporting players was most impressive the men way out shined the women in this film acting and character wise dianne foster and may wynn were weak the only negatives of the production it's easy to see why these two actresses never became stars br br even though it is over 50 years old this western is one you'd still find fast enough moving to enjoy no matter how old you are or what you're used to seeing for classic film fans this is almost a must with this cast and good story highly recommended
1	this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers it's certainly all been done before and since but the violent men is something special br br what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films she's married to the crippled edward g robinson who's the cattle baron here but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent no matter to barbara whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith that doesn't sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck's daughter nor with lita milan who is keith's mexican girl friend br br the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here he's every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford's mouth i'm a man would have been very applicable in the men br br the fifties was the age of the adult western themes were entering into horse operas that hadn't been explored before the following year glenn ford would do another western one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component br br there's enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well
1	one type of western i greatly enjoy is when the apparently weak which is reluctant to fight and answer the challenge of the strong finally decides there is no other way there is a great moment in this film when john parrish glenn ford goes into the saloon and decides to stand up to the gunfighter wade matlock it is the type of scene that makes the audience applaud in my opinion the violent men is a great western i would rank it among the best it makes great use of the wide screen a spectacular scenery of the mountains the women have a crucial part caroline may is engaged to parrish but you feel that she is only using him as a means of getting out of there and moving east she wants him to sell the ranch no matter what price martha barbara stanwick is tired of helping her crippled husband lee edward g robinson but she will do anything to have an always bigger ranch and more power meanwhile she is betraying her husband with his brother brian keith her daughter judith diane foster is seeing all that happens but feeling impotent to react because she does not want to hurt her father parrish unites all the small farmers and uses the strategy he learned in the army to go against the anchor ranch like he had warned lee don't make me fight because you won't like my way of fighting
1	the violent men marked the finest collaboration of rudolph with glenn ford in an intensely satisfying drama of rugged primitive justice… br br ford is john parrish a former cavalry captain who is itching to get married and start a new his fiancée caroline vail may wynn is desperate to move east and to see him selling his spread to lee edward g robinson br br parrish is not even much of a but he do understand that there is something big building up in the in the army they used to call it pressure ' first cole brian keith comes back from texas to help his brother run then a tough kid with a fancy gun richard jaeckel shows up on the then all the small ranchers are forced out getting the same kind of parrish saw himself either running like they did or stand and br br but can he easily deals with a man who sends six killers to shoot an old man in the back can he easily argues with a man who started with a few acres of land and now owns practically the whole valley br br all that grass and sand ever meant to the ex confederate army officer the past three it was a place to regain his out of habit of taking advice parrish affirms what happen in this valley is no concern of mine and much to the disappointment of the remaining ranchers and farmers who pressure him to stay on he decides to accept offer to fulfill the promise he made to his br br when lee's younger brother cole made the wrong move trying to push parrish make up his mind by lynching one of his ranch hands parrish got mad and warns the two brothers that he is going to stay and will fight them for the privilege of being let br br brian keith plays the traitorous brother who's behind the killing he dreams to have position and respect in running one day br br lee's ambitious wife martha barbara stanwyck secretly hates herself and her husband… stanwyck plays the part of a loving wife who can't bear the touch of her husband's br br edward g robinson is good enough as the crippled owner who promised the whole valley to his wife unaware that she is having an affair with his younger br br dianne foster is too sensitive as the adult daughter well aware of her mother's br br the violent men uses the wide screen technology to emphasize the scope and power of this harrowing action drama making it a perfect example of the genre's most enduring
1	it's also the best book i've ever read karl urban and steve are great together it had drama adventure and sweetness and sadness i laughed i cried it's hard not to laugh when gus is talking i wish gus would have smacked clara like he did inez clara just lead gus on all those years with no intentions of ever marrying him she just liked playing with him it was sad that he spent his whole life pining for her it would have been nice if woodrow had married maggie but she would have just died on him anyway woodrow was a man that could not express his feelings and kept them bottled up it was obvious that he loved maggie after the raid on austin when the rangers got back and he ran to hold her val kilmer is excellent at playing odd characters i loved his portrayal of captian inish skull i loved the whole lonesome dove saga comanche moon is the best of the bunch
1	too much added with too much taken away from a great western that was written by about the texas rangers vs the indian this screenplay takes that away only to fill this mini series with a lot of warm fuzzy relationships that in truth were secondary to the main storyline it ends with a totally unbelievable and detached ending not written in the book that makes you question how we are to be transported to lonesome dove br br the series main characters were in truth cast very well the filming locations were excellent but this mini series should have stayed true to what is a great book
1	this film was brilliant i absolutely loved it wesley snipes was great for this role and i'm sure blade 2 would be just as good br br blade is by far one of my favorite action horror movies out there and if you havent seen it yet and like vampires and blood all that stuff you should really rent it because i assure you that you'll love it
1	comanche moon had everything going for it for starters simon back a man who's name is synonymous with high quality tv westerns unfortunately the problems with moon are something even the most talented director couldn't solve a poor script based on a lackluster novel br br forget historical accuracies as any reader of the novels can tell you the biggest travesty in moon is that it's not even consistent with information from the original lonesome dove masterpiece so many wonderful rich moments in the miniseries and to an even greater degree the book are completely missing in moon considering the fact that most viewers of moon are probably coming with at least some sort of dove background the lack of character driven and emotional backstory is downright painful br br that said moon is one instance where the adapted version could and should have been altered to make it more suitable for the screen for example the novel moon focuses largely on the themselves to its credit the miniseries tries to service the but in the end it gives them just enough that the viewer just gets a sense they're missing out on some important part of the story similarly val kilmer's scull loses out here too the role should have either been expanded so kilmer and rachel griffiths for that matter actually had something to do or the roles should have just been reduced to smaller supporting parts instead kilmer gets top billing for a character that just leaves you scratching your head after his appearance in the completely bizarre final act br br there's strange moments throughout the film that just make no sense to those who haven't read the book a killer parrot what further there isn't a single scene that shows us that call and are anything near the amazing texas rangers they claim to be not a single one of their in moon or dead man's walk for that matter ends successfully and call and just seem to blunder their way through one pointless mission after another br br frankly larry should never have been given the job of writing the script and only did so because of the praise surrounding that other cowboy movie brokeback mountain can write good novels although there's some dissension over the consistency of that statement but he's never exactly established himself as a scriptwriter this production would have benefited from not only bringing back director but original screenwriter bill to adapt the novel to screen doesn't exactly have a of material to his screen writing credit but no one can deny he did a fantastic job at down the original lonesome dove with all this said comanche moon is almost a brilliant production aided by a terrific cast that unfortunately just aren't given enough to do steve portrayal of gus or rather his portrayal of robert duvall as gus is dead on and while some have criticized karl urban as woodrow call saying his performance doesn't imitate the quiet stoic woodrow of the original movie all i can say is blame because is the one who both in the moon novel and now the miniseries turned woodrow from socially inept awkward but natural leader into some emotionless character whose lines are just dull and whose character motivations are only clear if you've seen them portrayed far more adequately in the sequel br br still it's the cast that sparkles in moon to the degree that i left the miniseries with that same feeling of melancholy i felt watching the original lonesome dove this time because i realized it's probably the last time we'll see these characters appear on screen for a long long time to come and quite honestly this cast could have done so well in a well nurtured full blown network tv series br br all in all aside from wasted opportunities with the cast the biggest travesty is that the original lonesome dove novel contained so much rich backstory for the characters that would have been fascinating utterly fascinating to see translated on screen unfortunately all that has been tossed aside in favor of tedious inconsistent and ultimately irrelevant prequel
1	i am very impressed with the acting in comanche moon before i started watching this i wasn't expecting it to be as good as lonesome dove i couldn't believe how well the actors were chosen to represent all the characters it blew my mind how well they played each role this was in my opinion almost as good as lonesome dove its hard to compare any film to lonesome dove if you don't make that comparison i would give this a thumbs up it was very entertaining i don't post many comments on this site but i just felt i had to get my opinion out there amazing i don't want to go off naming every actor who was brilliant because i would probably have to list every single one my favorite was steve he hit the nail on the head playing captain gus his mannerisms were perfect
1	things i like steve as gus nails the part copies robert mannerisms which makes him feel comfortable to gus fans some of the other actors copy their predecessors style in this series as well karl urban looks grim and tough but can crack a joke and smile too which t l jones did in original series the gear the guns the clothing all accurate or very close to period accurate i'll never forgive costner and duvall for having a in their in open range the they are actually riding rather than hiding a modern saddle under a navajo blanket and they aren't painted as politically correct peace loving but as a proud warrior people there are some dumb scenes but it beats the heck out of yet another variation on doing something stupid to not win a million dollars reality game shows
1	everyone wants duvall and jones back come on viewers are saying things like and urban aren't as deep were you as deep when you were young that's the whole point they have a lot to learn and urban pull off the shallow innocence they were directed to act and with superb commitment to preserving the nuances of duvall and jones' input into the characters is flagrantly perfect as the early gus and urban is subtly perfect as the early woodrow what a bold move it must have been for them to take on such a position in the entertainment industry they must have known they would have everyone coming down on them for not actually being the beloved originals yet they clearly put the best effort forward i gave it a 7 because the editing was choppy in places and time lines were sketchy but the acting was a joy to watch val kilmer was absolutely great one more thing i expect audiences would have been more accepting of the mysticism implied by the appearances of a jaguar and blue and gold macaw if more effort had been put into the way they appear and are so simply accepted by the characters
1	i am a big fan of lonesome dove and all the books in the series and i love the movie i was happy to see that they finished up with comanche moon i have been a long time fan of steve and was eager to see him in a serious role i personally think that steve has done an amazing job of re creating gus i can't think of another actor who would have been better he has the voice the mannerisms the pronunciation of word all down to a t granted no one could ever hold a candle to robert duvall as gus but i think that steve has done a pretty darn good job karl urban acts the same in all the movies he has been in so he has made a good match for woodrow call as for the movie itself yeah it's a little corny but can you really beat lonesome dove no i don't think so
1	i think the consensus is pretty unanimous about this recent tv miniseries it's okay but it's a far cry from lonesome dove it gets compared to the latter simply because this a prequel to that famous story br br moon is definitely worth a watch for any fan of westerns just don't expect it to be as intense as lonesome dove steve and karl urban are not robert duvall and tommy lee jones and the characters they play aren't as strong as how duvall and jones portrayed the same two guys some say it's unfair to criticize this movie because of the comparison but you have to compare it it's the story of the same two leading texas ranger characters woodrow call and gus br br the main difference i found was that this prequel is a lot of slower and more the two rangers and their women at times yet i didn't mind that because the two main women were pretty ladies and generally likable and agreeable people they were played nicely by linda clara forsythe and elizabeth banks maggie they helped make this long movie palatable if you've seen pictures of women in the old west none of them looked half as pretty as and banks though they were a joy for these male eyes to ogle maggie's son newt was a wonderful kid too the kind of boy every parent would want br br the most interesting character i thought turned out to be inish scull played by val kilmer as in the western film tombstone kilmer almost steals the show from the leads scull is really an original if i ever saw one a strange dude indeed br br actually all of the supporting actors in here did a fine job from keith robinson's to wes studi as buffalo hump i always find studi to be fascinating no matter what role he plays i wish he had had a bigger role in this miniseries br br one thing this film has in common with lonesome dove and other good westerns the scenery and photography it's just beautiful at times and is a joy to watch we also have an excellent director of this film simon who directed lonesome dove and an another outstanding tv western crossfire trail he also did two of my other favorite feature films both based in his home country of australia lap and quigley down under br br unfortunately although i enjoyed this moon is nothing as good as the above mentioned films yet i still watched all of it and was sorry it ended if that makes any sense it made me want to watch woodrow and gus again this time with tommy lee and robert br br note the title page says this is 360 minutes that must have included the tv commercials the two disc dvd version i saw was about 4 hours and 40 minutes
1	what has hurt this film is everyone and their aunt matilda is comparing it to its illustrious predecessor which is always going to hurt any show if you take it as a western it's a darned good show we discover how our characters in wind up in the situations they start up in such as why do two texas rangers who live on adventure wind up in a dead town and how did gus manage to lose the love of his life the performances are very good and we see the exact same mannerisms the characters will have down the road the actors did a very good job the cinematography was superb and while the music didn't live up to the legendary score of nearly two decades past that was an impossible task and it was still fine br br it also helped that we had three episodes which you just don't see in a miniseries anymore heck it's downright impossible to see a two part telefilm these days br br fans of the western rejoice
1	there have been some harsh criticisms of comanche moon on imdb i think this is for three reasons first purists are disappointed that the mini series is not exactly like the book second it's not as good as the original lonesome dove finally people like to complain on imdb and the greatest films in the world will have bad comments br br i would like to say that no movie is going to be as good as the book that's just the way it is lonesome dove wasn't as good as the novel it was based on additionally the movie of lonesome dove had some things left out ans switched around that's just they way its going to be with a film adaptation of anything so its a futile argument when looking at comanche moon br br i do agree it's not as good as the original dove but hey nothing is i know people that guide their lives by the lessons they learned from the dove if i was going to compare every book i read movie i watched and tv i viewed by lonesome dove i would be perpetually unhappy br br this is a made for tv miniseries based on a prequel to lonesome dave the novel and sequel to dead man's walk and that's what you get it's the best tv i've seen in years it's a fun set up for lonesome dove we get to learn about the history of the rangers we came to know and love in dove does an amazing job in recreating gus elizabeth banks and linda sp also do great jobs as creating characters that help fill in the past of the rangers and newt br br if when it comes on again i promise you'll enjoy it more than some crumby reality show
1	i must have seen a different version than the first person on the user comments section br br it's really really good steve and karl urban are great together val kilmer's character is much like he was in the novel although the emphasis is on gus and call and the we get to see what happened with call and mother as well i won't spoil it but it gives a lot of insight into call's character br br all the actors did a really convincing job steve had the biggest challenge i thought to follow robert duvall there's a lot of action humor tragedy it's got something for everyone i can't wait until it airs my family are all jealous i got to see it early
1	the warmest most engaging movie of its genre those lips those eyes made me smile and cry as it reminded me of the work it takes to pursue a dream and the pain of disappointment hulce and langella are superb and the story seems to write itself a brilliant screenplay by david one of my favorites see the warriors and for more and beautiful sets filmed on location i think at the actual summer theater in which the story takes place you can't see this movie and not want to drop everything and get into the theater please check this video out if you can find it
1	i remember seeing this one in the theatres when it came out having no idea what it was going to be about and being so pleasantly surprised that i vowed to buy the video when it came out br br while i won't go too far into dissecting this film i will say that i gave it an 8 10 for all the reasons you can read in the other user's reviews br br what i will say is this br br the first 10 minutes of this film are incredible it's as close to a textbook audience grabber as i've ever seen i once put this movie on at a party where everyone was winding down and getting ready to leave i just wanted to see what would happen if i showed them the first ten minutes br br everyone who watched the opening stayed to the end
1	lackawanna blues is a very moving film depicting an era filled with varying emotions and characters as seen through the eyes of a young boy the film clearly supports it takes a village to raise a child and reminds of an important time in black history and culture i gained an incredible amount of respect for macy gray as an actress her character was a little crazy yet lovable clearly we all have known someone like macy's character s is absolutely fantastic as nanny i never realized that was such a great actress law order never showcased the depth of acting abilities like lackawanna blues i was pleasantly surprised and amazed the music and the characters reminded me of my own childhood it was a sweet nostalgic walk down memory lane i truly enjoyed the film and eagerly await the dvd release to add to my collection
1	this movie was sadly under promoted but proved to be truly exceptional entering the theatre i knew nothing about the film except that a friend wanted to see it br br i was caught off guard with the high quality of the film i couldn't image ashton kutcher in a serious role but his performance truly exemplified his character this movie is exceptional and deserves our monetary support unlike so many other movies it does not come lightly for me to recommend any movie but in this case i highly recommend that everyone see it br br this films is truly exceptional
1	and what is its genre the backstage expose story what theatrical life is really like behind those broadway and other curtains it certainly has a lot of competition singin' in the rain both i and ii 1929 and 1952 42nd street golddiggers of you name the year dames of 1934 noises off 1992 from the farcical side and a star is born i and ii from the 1930s and the 1950s from the tragical side not to mention summer stock of 1950 the list keeps rollin' along so what makes this movie so special and why are there so few comments about this stunningly great movie have so few people actually seen it how amazing to see a younger frank langella pre dracula and pre frost nixon by 30 years how amazing to see the fresh and talented tom hulce so pre amadeus and yet another superb stiller what a wonderful line up of talented people at their very best from so long ago and such a script who was this david so full of realistic disillusion and pathos compared to the usual sentimentality and feel good comedy as especially exemplified by the star is born like episode where the heroine achieves broadway while the langella character has to content himself with still another provincial tour br br langella's subsequent hysterical and sadistic blowup against the star struck latin teacher and his granddaughter in which he vents his fury and frustration is just one of many fantastic and psychologically real moments in the film the latin teacher and his love affair with backstage life certainly echo marlene dietrich and her seduced professor in the blue angel of 1929 another in the series of mercenary and cold hearted agents like kevin mccarthy who was preceded by burt lancaster in the sweet smell of success 1957 and succeeded by alan alda in 2001 in movie history the sexual liberation of the hulce character recalls similar incidents in o'neill's great comedy ah wilderness br br and what a tribute to the vanished of long ago the red mill of victor herbert rose marie and the vagabond king of rudolf the desert song of sigmund etc what satirical of bits from the great plays like romeo and juliet tributes to the theater itself as by the star langella the richness and depth of this movie are simply endless and to be saddled by such a title who could have an inkling of what this great movie is about from such a ridiculous and title but on the other hand what title could one have applied to such a magnificent drama which might have lived up to its stirring emotional content br br ps i just saw 2009 frank langella in his latest acting spectacular as richard nixon in frost nixon how this great actor after 30 years simply goes from triumph to triumph
1	i originally saw this film while i was working as a musician doing musical theatre in summer stock if you've ever done any work in theatre especially at a summer stock theatre you'll really enjoy this film br br yes there are some moments of really bad writing in the film but overall it's a lovely tribute to the theatre and why people love it
1	who do you dream of hoot gibson howdy doody i'm talking about the theater harry crystal br br nothing beats a great stage show nothing and harry crystal lives that belief a stage actor still waiting for his big break harry brings the magic of live theater to a small town and to artie shoemaker tom hulce a young man who has big dreams but just didn't know it until he met harry br br with scenes and songs from many of america's classic musicals those lips those eyes conveys both the ups and downs of the people that for 2 hours take us to a fantasy land but who manage to keep that magic alive in their hearts all day long br br like artie once you've seen those lips those eyes you're hooked kid harry crystal
1	this is a great show with total freshness and innovation that usual chair couch for a woman host that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes the same old jokes the same pattern copied from the days of probably the pattern of johnny carson copied by one and all leno conan daly this show does not seem to have any of these br br i fell in love with this show within the first 10 minutes and i am going to stick to it though it's too early to say that this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest i hope that this show will last long br br returning back after months i still love this show and i love his self deprecating humor for example his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys which however does not involve the usual of conan o'brien for example i know it's a cardinal sin to be repelled by o'brien's antics but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness br br i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it spoof of trading spouses and nanny 911 in an earlier episode are hilarious idiot paparazzi are fun especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people's pictures and if i am not mistaken they start taking his pictures shouting gary coleman br br added on 16th april 2007 coming back once again i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog i cannot decide if it is a joke or a real thing either way it was funny as hell br br i do not expect spike to read these pages but maybe he does he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so i would better write down my suggestion here for him i would like him to do a full 30 minute show with crazy gideon the star of late night tv commercial i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike's talk show sing a song and play guitar do a skit in the line of snl and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential of los angeles i know crazy gideon may not be aware of this but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la br br god willing br br returning back on 14th july 2007 someone wrote here that the people who praised spike's talkshow must be bribed by spike i confess that spike really bribed me but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy
1	i saw it last week and the sketch about the korea towns was funny very tongue in cheek and suitable to the political climate full points to the writers and spike for that the part where he makes the translator pull a rickshaw and throws out korean words could have been pulled off only by spike this is a brave attempt by fox this is a brilliant show and i hope that it pulls off my wife and i have been it regularly and although it clashes it with a couple of other programs we watch it now on myspace i hope fox dedicates full resources to the show and makes it daily i can't wait to see bobby lee on his show with people like bernard behind the show this is on the right track also mary mae as his wife looks beautiful
1	talkshow with spike is one of those shows that will definitely audiences either you like it or you don't personally i find most of the bits hilarious but it does have some huh moments br br staples like idiot paparazzi are always good for a laugh but my all time favorite bit has to be the one off hollywood douchebag comedy for stoners is the only regular bit that generally leaves me confused which is part of the point spike and his team of writers manage to churn out loads of fresh comedy time after time so the show never feels stale brand of humor may not be for everyone but it's definitely worth trying br br the masses have spoken we like this show and want more please note i am not a friend of or affiliated in any way with spike talkshow with spike staff or fox network and it's just plain funny
1	i am appalled and dismayed that the network has canceled talk show with spike br br what is wrong with the fox television network canceling talk show with spike and replacing it with wanda sikes for those at the network with a short attention span wanda at large was canceled because the audience grew tired of her nasty insults that would make the audience cringe and wanda sykes spewing out her very own brand of vindictive mud slinging jokes is not humor it is nasty and repulsive br br apparently the fox television network has rewarded wanda sikes because she has garnered a self important appearance front of president obama there is no doubt that wanda's recent ill tempered in front of the president of the united states are not funny and the audience laughter was only to patronize and please obama br br talk show with spike has a genuine sense of humor and has never deliberately or vindictively insulted any guest or performer spike's well rounded personality always gleefully poked fun of life and himself and his filed pieces during the first two seasons with aftra actress mary mae atwill as the mae west of the 21st century were absolutely hysterical with spike skits judge joe brown trading spouses and last season's james lee episode where spike chats with erica via the internet on the show br br despite the network's budget constraints for elaborate field pieces and the second season's wga strike spike did not his sense of humor or show integrity talk show with spike always had up in coming new talent and his comedy for stoners spoofs of nanny 911 and idiot paparazzi were considered cutting edge and had excellent production value br br on a professional level spike was the best executive producers and set producer brett webster along with his fabulous production crew were one of the best production teams that i have worked for in my aftra career it would really be very foolish and sad shame to cancel talk show with spike br br unfortunately its success could conceivably be taken to comedy central or another network and financially speaking that would become a valuable revenue loss for fox television br br on behalf of the late night saturday fox television audience supporters of talk show with spike including all cast and crew we beseech the network to retain the talk show with spike franchise and give the crew a second opportunity to become a successful fox show
1	spike is a comic genius demonstrates a fresh take on the kind of odd ball irreverence that have made shows like letterman and the daily show successful his likability is palpable he seems to find the unique angle of the joke not the predictable sitcom path thank god his comedy is reminiscent of the award winning arrested development cross your fingers that has a longer life span the topics he highlights tend to be those things that pass by unnoticed by everyone else yet when he creates a joke around them out you wonder how you missed it the first time around i particularly enjoyed the sketches unfair target will be a cult classic in no time set your tivo's people this is a show not to be missed
1	this show was a pleasant surprise after watching mad tv on a saturday night spike is an excellent host that you can tell is still getting used to it but he is doing great adjusting to his new job i can imagine it being a difficult transition from writer seinfeld to host however unlike a lot of new talk show hosts he does not let airtime ride while trying to figure out what to do next he is quick minded and each segment and section rolls into one another smoothly it also doesn't hurt that he's kinda sexy in a nerdy type of way so he's not hard on the eyes like leno or letterman i can't remember the exact episode date that was my favorite but i especially loved the idiot paparazzi skit with a fake j lo and katie holmes great new show
1	i say remember where and when you saw this show because i believe if fox gives talk show a chance spike will be right up there with conan in a few years because like conan he is incredibly funny and seems to be just grateful at having his own show which adds to the humor br br the funniest bits spike has had so far are the idiot and comedy for stoners and if your not high and get what does that say about you br br in summary this show is funnier in 25 minutes than snl in an hour so lets hope talk show gets the attention it deserves such as an extra half hour more money and a band
1	this is one of those movies that i can watch again and again and not get tired of it it is by far one of the best comic book adaptations ever i liked this one even more than x men in fact this movie is sort of a cross between x men and the matrix and it came out before either wesley snipes does a great job with the character of blade he is just not an emotionless super hero also this movie isn't to get a pg 13 rating sure comic books are for kids mainly but i like a little more in my movies let's face it if we were in these situations we would cuss up a storm to so it is more realistic this comic book adaptation also has something that many don't a good fight in the end between the bad guy and good guy let's face it none of the batman movies had a very good ending fight
1	after watching the series premiere of talk show with spike i took a moment to really think wow there are actually good shows on after 12 besides snl and i was also sad to see that it was only 30 minutes long his great writing skills helped this show overcome a series lack of money and helping hands electronic lincoln was hilarious and i really think this will be a good dark horse talk show br br i was very happy with the way he handled it and gave andy some good lines to work with as you would have suspected it was a little shaky but for that kind of time slot it was very good br br overall if you are not someone on weed or even if you are and you don't have something more important to do than watch this great piece and have a fun time doing it
1	i saw the movie at the nashville film festival on may 1 2003 it was amazing all the things that i had read about were portrayed incredibly well by tony writer director producer editor michael imperioli incredible job as and all the others involved in this i'm glad he didn't go down the leaving las vegas routine with bad habits but instead put us inside his life family and his gift tying the whole story from the motel room where he died was a great vehicle and showed his screenwriting skill a big thumbs up on this one
1	the basis for this dynamic docudrama is the true story of one of the most extraordinary card players ever br br is a tight cohesive biopic of a true poker ace whose life is a one way trip down the highway to hell with few detours br br this dramatic feature stands wide apart from other films about poker it represents a rare and earnest attempt to bring to the silver screen a true story of ultimate gambling compulsion the complete obsession that annihilates any proximity of spirituality and nullifies any chance of redemption this is the least likely movie a vegas casino executive would recommend and it is the sole poker dvd you are likely to find on the shelves of gamblers annonymous br br there are scenes in this movie that poker buffs are sure to refer to as some of the best gambling scenes ever stu reading his hand and particularly a texas bluffing scene br br early on in the movie we see a young stu bullied out of his pocket change by a bunch of neighborhood hoodlums poker is for loners seeking revenge it is a game of patience which bullies lack 'you can't bully me ' may very well be an underlying sentiment of the punishing force that a champion poker player unleashes upon his adversaries br br conservatives will look upon this film as a cautionary tale of a soul lost in sin they may evoke mark twain 'the best throw at dice is to throw them away ' the young and liberal masses will inevitably have a more simplistic and sympathetic outlook they may not have heard of twain's quote but will sure remember a remark made by stunned pal who learns from up and coming that he'd won a car from a local character in an overnight game 'you to go to hell and they look forward to the trip' br br the mosaic of las vegas vignettes that we see in will long linger in memory frank sinatra the most generous tipper forget about it nobody tips as extravagantly as a hot shot gambler and for vegas visitors who may not know the impact of tipping on the quality of their stay check out the scene of stu checking in a vegas hotel br br 'this is what i was meant to do this is where i was to be movie stars in hollywood politicians in washington and gamblers in vegas '
1	by many accounts stu ungar was not a very nice guy he spat on dealers stiffed people he owed money to and was verbally abusive br br many filmmakers might choose to the man making him into some sports hero that would triumph despite adversity but high roller doesn't do that and that's a tough row to hoe br br instead we have to look very closely to see a man that never matured passed the frightened little boy from the streets of new york despite all his successes and the only real approval he ever gets is from death himself very brave because people won't get it and very touching when you do br br what is also brave is the use of a scorsese feel aha how derivative people will say really but there's virtually no violence and loved gangster movies maybe the feel reflects the man stu and not the director marty and if it really is a low budget film and looks that good bravo br br finally the linear flashback structure wow will that get hammered yet not only does it work it works exceptionally well even for those who don't see the connection to the seventh seal proof in ss knight plays game of chess with death in hr says we can play a hand of cards for ya know death says never much good at cards damn great last line br br no tricky effects or camera moves no shaky camera nothing trendy at all just solid tight storytelling br br maybe that makes the movie too basic and somehow flawed but then again so was the guy and that makes it just about right br br 9 10
1	this movie has a big production feel that i was not expecting from an independent film the characters are each developed and dealt with in a way that not only helps to tell the story but left me with a satisfied viewing experience
1	this movie was well acted and kept my interest in the main character for the entire movie stu unger lived an extraordinary life imagine if stu were alive today this movie paints a picture of what stu life might have felt like it was interesting to see how connected was growing up i would have liked to seen more detail on partying his and his relationship to bob but all in all this movie was well done well acted and the story touched on many facets of a life that was full of many events that were larger than life br br this movie is worth renting
1	unger was a card playing legend he was quoted in an interview as saying some day i suppose it's possible for someone to be a better no limit player than me i doubt it but it could happen but i swear to you i don't see how anyone could ever play gin better than me there's a gin rummy scene in this movie that is so amazing you could have plopped it in 'x men' as a showcase for a superhero's mutant power that's how incredible this man was br br i have a few minor problems with this movie as dark as this movie was real life was darker poker pro todd said during the last world series of poker bob mike sexton and i had a drink and talked about stu mike told us how he could barely talk hadn't showered in weeks and how his fingers were burned black by a crack pipe in the film michael imperioli looked far too healthy to be stu unger in the final years of his life when won his last he looked like a skeleton but let's face it this production lacked both the time and the deniro to make that kind of transformation my other problem was that i wish there was more poker playing with actual hands and situations sure it might have bored the average non poker enthusiast but it would have been nice for the too bad the movie wasn't 6 hours or so longer br br i watched the movie with 3 non poker players and they all thoroughly enjoyed it just like you don't have to be a former member of the colonial army to enjoy gibson's the patriot you don't have to be a poker player to see this gem can't wait for the dvd 8 out of 10
1	what is it about certain films that generates such polar opposite reactions br br some people here have called high roller disgusting some have called it extraordinary as would i actually br br why i think it's because films like this don't make heroes out of jerks or glamour out of degeneration and some people just can't deal with that emotionally they need a hero and i'd also add that if they're gamblers or poker players they might feel personally betrayed when their existence isn't justified br br high roller in not a poker movie it's a people movie it's not perfect but it looks good is well written and wonderfully acted and best of all it generates an emotional response and inspires reflection br br and maybe that's what makes some people so damn mad
1	it's a movie with a theatrical message blended with some clever moments films like these are the stretching grounds of great actors they enjoy tossing the ball in open pieces like these the angel that wasn't what we see in old books and churches is quite a nice change it is echoed in kevin smith's piece dogma almost in the same slapstick vein br br 0 watch this film for a good day after you suck it all in could it be that so many films are trying to be complicated that we forget the simple movements of films like this possibly one of the most fun pieces i have seen in a while i ran into this one on vhs in a trash can because someone's basement was flooded this summer and i grabbed a handful of tapes br br whether in a trash bin or on the silver screen mild comedies like this are fun you just don't have to tell everyone at a hip nightclub that you like it or a swank political party just keep it for yourself and i'll bet plenty of people will borrow it from time to time
1	why would this film be so good but only gross an estimated 95 000 000 and have no award nominations john travolta knows what he's doing he knows he's michael a cigar smoking womanizing magical arch angel that came down to live with a dying lady and is now in a car with the staff of the national mirror and their dog sparky on the way to chicago it then turns into a road trip that's both horrible and great i don't even think the death scenes 3 to be exact make this a tearjerker the soundtrack is the best with heaven is my home up around the bend and chains of fools i have very great expectations about this and i say that it should have had a little more respect in the 90's read my comment bye
1	this film is superb wesley snipes plays blade the vampire hunter with pure class he kicks butt in such a fluid and violent way that would make bruce lee proud the movie is a fast paced thrill ride of action and superb stunts the first action scene and last are outstanding and wesley looks like a terminator as he runs around wiping out all suck heads the script is pretty good and there is sharp dialogue too wesley should have done more action films than he has i know he is a very good actor and in this he is not as much as in his more comic or drama roles but as far as action stars go he is the best actor of them all only bruce willis stallone and perhaps tom cruise if he counts as an action star come close also aswell as wesley being quality steven dorff is also very good as the bad guy it was an unexpected surprise that someone of small stature compared to snipes should come across as menacing but he does overall the film is sharp stylish and i hope the sequal is done with the same sort of pace
1	this movie is an all time favorite of mine i'm sorry that imdb is not more positive about it i hope that doesn't keep those who have not experienced it from watching it br br i've always loved this movie i watch it about once a year and am always pleased anew with the film and especially the stellar performances by entire cast br br i've always wondered whether jean stapleton actually did the ending dance with travolta if anyone knows this piece of trivia please leave a comment br br thanks and enjoy
1	wow i think the overall average rating of this film on this site is incredibly low there's really no reason to dislike this film michael is a simple but fairly original and easily enjoyable romantic comedy the plot involves a group of reporters experts going to examine the mysterious appearance of an angel john travolta in the midwest the angel proves to be less saintly and more worldly than we would expect and that's what makes it entertaining his interest in women and the beatles takes a new spin on the angel thing the romantic side of this film involves michael the angel trying to get andie macdowell and william hurt together the two of them may not have the all time greatest on screen chemistry but they certainly have enough to make it work well everyone who has rated this film so low a 5 4 come on the film is not that bad in fact i found it quite funny and memorable sure it's not the best thing you'll ever see but it's still good this is a film i feel has been remarkably underrated it's fun romantic and recommended by me br br out of
1	i have done a lot of international travel both on business and as a tourist for both types i assure you the best advice is also the oldest always drink the wine of the country in this movie the archangel michael comes to earth on business wraps it up quickly and decides to hang around for a little touring boy does he drink the wine of the country br br could man be drunk forever with liquor love and fights br br he'd rise up of mornings and lie down of nights br br these are things you can't do in heaven so he enjoys them while he's here of course it turns out he had a couple of other jobs to tackle and if he is less direct about them than he was about the first one he is just as successful the final scene is a little schmaltzy but it is also wonderful jean stapleton gets to dance with john travolta
1	warm hearted flic depicting arch angel michael as a brawling overweight cigarette smoking slob who loves to dance and cavort with the opposite sex he does have a good side however as he strives to set things right in the lives of a couple of burnt out losers before being recalled to heaven funny well played out film very enjoyable although somewhat irreverent
1	an off beat but very delightful performance by john travolta sets off this very funny comedy his interpretation of the archangel is as a womanizing overweight ladies man and he certainly has a mesmerizing effect on the women he encounters on his trip to chicago john hurt is very low keyed in his role as chief reporter for chicago tabloid owner bob hoskins angie macdowell plays role much as she did her role in four weddings and a funeral maureen stapleton is neat in a cameo her comment michael doesn't suffer fools is just one of many memorable moments bob hoskins is the only one of the lead performers who fails to connect a little to off the wall mainly you're there to see michael take on a bull mesmerize the waitresses and lady dancers at a western style restaurant and fully demonstrate that he is complete free soul it is a memorable comedy that is worth more than one viewing
1	i found the movie to be very light and enjoyable one knows that the story is not real life like yet the depiction is superb br br lyrics are really good and john travolta in his usual style i like the scene wherein he as an angel gives up his own stuff to bring life back to the dog
1	honestly i loved michael although there were give me a pillow i need to take a nap parts it was cool i think everyone did a great job in this film and nora ephron is in my ok list of directors br br it's nice to see john travolta as a pot bellied angel it's not very often i see one in a movie some people might call this a boring movie but for me i loved it angels and all
1	i enjoyed this film which i thought was well written and acted br br there was plenty of humour and a thought provoking storyline a warm and enjoyable experience with an emotional ending good fun
1	that pretty much sums it up corny macdowell's inability to act is at times painful and hurt must need money to take such muted roles but i still enjoyed it br br why in a single word travolta he is great in this movie still i can't give the movie too high a score but it certainly deserves better than it seems to be getting
1	as an earlier reviewer said travolta stole every scene he was in recognize the character it was vinnie all grown up and still a bit sleazy but still likable oh yes br br disappointing were william hurt and bob hoskins perhaps because their characters were badly written or they just didn't care i kept seeing one of the baldwins never can remember which in the hurt role so hurt's incredible talents weren't wasted br br andie mcdowell is a sweetie but not very believable partly the writing character development just wasn't a big thing in this film just watch it for travolta sit back and enjoy
1	interesting twist on the vampire yarn fast loud and moody despite my initial fears kris k carries his part reasonably well and snipes aka blade provides a formidable physical presence lots of blood steel silver burning and exploding bodies provide an enjoyable 110 minute distraction if you like the black look of the matrix then blade will appeal to you blade even has a the sequence
1	chicago reporter frank quinlan decided to go to iowa to confirm the existence of a so called angel he was not alone his partner huey driscoll and new colleague dorothy winters also joined him when they arrived at the destination they found that the angel michael was quite different from what they expected however frank still persuaded michael to go to chicago with them so an interesting journey began br br although michael did not look like a saint he was a kind and funny angel in fact michael owned irresistible charming for women even due to jealousy of other men he was involved in a riot the climax appeared in the pizza restaurant dorothy sang lively country songs for frank that was just what michael wanted to see but the next day huey 's dog was crashed to death by a running car michael was asked to save it that would be used to verify whether he was a real angel br br andie macdowell shined in this comedy she also showed her singing ability john travolta proved his comedian talent again of cause pulp fiction still was his typical work br br a comedy that will warm your heart 8 10
1	though this film doesn't stand out particularly from the movie crowd its still a very nice film to sit down and watch with your feet up there maybe the odd one or two mistakes you catch and the cinematic are a little slipshod the film itself is very enjoyable and has a wonderful atmosphere to it the music contributes a lot to the mood of the movie br br the acting is none the less impressive especially the dog he he with john travolta taking the lead of the fun troublesome loving michael other characters feel very genuine and perform very well within the film br br so after a long day at work stick michael on in the evening with some ice cream and enjoy a very quality film in its own right
1	michael is probably too cutesy for most action movie fans and too hollywood for the intellectual crowd but i found it both extremely funny and very touching despite it being both cutesy and formulaic br br when three skeptics are sent to investigate a man claiming to be an angel they end up escorting him on a grand tour of the mid western country side only to find that it is each of their own hearts that need investigation br br when taking this film apart as with most films today there isn't a lot of new material but when taken as a whole it has a refreshingly original approach and is off beat enough to entertain one all the way through br br while not being a family film it is suitable for all ages and a good film to share with the whole family or that special someone br br michael isn't a great film but it certainly is a good film a touching film and well worth seeing br br
1	continuing his comeback john travolta played a mildly twisted angel in michael he may be a messenger of god but he's not the nicest guy as reporters andie macdowell and william hurt discover when i first saw this movie it was before i had started watching all in the family so i didn't recognize jean stapleton as edith bunker now that i recognize her like that i try to imagine archie snapping at her for harboring an angel whom he would probably rank alongside blacks jews etc br br i know that doesn't really relate to the movie but i just like to associate things that way anyway it's a pretty interesting movie also starring bob hoskins teri garr and richard schiff br br what john and paul said
1	this is another of john travolta's come back movies and if he continues on with characters and movies like this one his come back will take hold br br this is so sweet sickeningly so if you're not into the romance comedy scene if you are this is one innovative romcom every performance including that of skippy the dog was beautiful without much more than a trace of the irreverence found in dogma although as movies go i loved dogma br br travolta is not nearly as brash in his performance as the previews would lead you to believe he is an angel and if you consider yourself to be well read then you understand that angels were far from perfect you will not therefore be insulted by this film even those who are overly sensitive to such things shouldn't be insulted by this work as nora went to great lengths to see to it that it was the least abrasive as possible given the subject matter br br i love this and love it more each time i watch it it's beautiful and sweet engaging and endearing br br it rates a 7 3 10 from br br the fiend
1	caught this movie on tv and i watched it again i said to myself it's been a long time since i watched this movie so why not and once again this movie thrilled me it is so easy so watchable and so human that i don't know why some people dislike it br br john travolta shines as michael his dance and every move angel that can hardly be related to this word he smokes drinks and he eats like some savage but he's got big heart on his way michael helps all people he meets dorothy winters andie macdowell in her singing and finding a right man frank quinlan william hurt in developing himself as a good and decent man michael even helped dear old pansy jean stapleton that last scene is beautiful when they dance on the street br br travolta had great help in other actors andie macdowell is so beautiful and likable william hurt is great as usual late robert pastorelli shows his talent jean stapleton and teri garr are also good but my favorite supporting actor in this movie is bob hoskins as the tabloid owner br br so we've got here a solid movie about people with a warm story also and attractive cast just don't take this movie seriously and i can guarantee you'll have fun
1	this is one of my favorite capra esque comedies this movie is just meant to be enjoyed not deconstructed microscopically analyzed it's not religious commentary it's fun it's fantasy the surprisingly negative comments imho reflect a level of expectation that professional film critics have led us to think must be a part of every movie br br others have described travolta's role it's the reason you'll watch the movie over and over and the excellent supporting cast including sparky br br sometimes a cigar is just a cigar sometimes a movie is just fun br br enjoy
1	john travolta was excellent as michael in the movie by the same name i don't think a better portrayal could have been done the movie was funny yet touching michael is a very human angel if their is such andie macdowell is superb in her role as a reporter as she goes from disbelief to belief bill hurt and robert pastorelli are great as fellow reporters each bent on proving the hoax of the angel on earth each of the supporting cast is wonderful especially the older woman i do not know her screen name who plays michael's mother one of the cutest movies i have seen in years i could watch this movie dozens of times
1	i really enjoyed this movie for what it is a funny little film that doesn't take itself too seriously plot summaries are available everywhere so i won't go into details michael isn't about a complex plot anyway it just builds on a great premise and takes the viewer on a wonderful road trip br br john travolta's performance as a chain smoking lady loving bar brawling pie eating angel is just perfect and who doesn't love sparky br br watch this if you want to have a few laughs and a overall good time highly recommended
1	angels are a bit of an american obsession but are often rather boring they are the of god and also the arc angels are great warriors lucifer being the toughest and best looking until he was kicked out of heaven br br so what happens if you don't believe in anything let alone angels and you are sent to investigate an angel story only to meet one with wings and less than angelic attitude br br maybe that is what america needs being a puritan is different from being good michael is a rude obnoxious womanizing messenger of heaven who will fulfill your wishes and make you care enough about the world that you will be touched br br funny but not greatly so touching but not overly sentimental intelligent without being clever it is just a good simple small comedy watch on a lazy sunday afternoon
1	for a brief moment the opening scene with traci lords and the br br techno bar is incredible i'd probably follow her to my ultimate death too best vampire movie of all time but with a twist the fight scenes are awesome wesley snipes displays an athleticism you dont get to see every day and stephen dorff is impressive and very believable as an ambitious new recruit moving himself up the hierarchy by any means necessary great flick 9 10 where's blade ii
1	possibly the best john travolta role ever saturday night fever was a great movie role but a long time ago i can't think of many of his movies or roles i've even liked and it's easy to think of rotten ones he can do meanies like in pulp fiction but he makes the perfect funky angel and it's hard to imagine anyone doing a better equally slobby job with it plot summaries are available everywhere but the plot isn't the point just go for the ride and enjoy the cleverness of the little along the way there is nothing to dislike about this movie unless one is searching for something profound i wish there were more movies like this we need a break from deep or awesome or grisly or complex or hysterical
1	1996's michael is warm and winning comedy fantasy that features one of my favorite performances from the john travolta library travolta gives one of his and most likable performances as michael an archangel whose quiet existence at the home of a lonely innkeeper named pansy jean stapleton is disrupted when pansy reports michael's presence in her home to a national enquirer like newspaper and the editor bob hoskins sends reporters william hurt andie mcdowell robert pastorelli to the motel to check it out hurt mcdowell and pastorelli are quite good as the jaded news who have a hard time accepting they've met an angel but this is travolta's show and he rules as the pot bellied sugar eating cookie smelling pie loving aretha loving bull chasing michael an angel who just isn't what you think you of when you think of angels and you have to love the scene in the bar when he and the ladies dance to chain of fools i love this movie more and more every time i watch it and it's mainly because of the completely winning performance from john travolta
1	the title of the film seems quite appropriate given the persona of the lead character he's an older man living in the late autumn of his life yet frolics about as a jubilant school boy who's just entered a spring meadow the frailties of old age and the warning signs of death are all illusions to him his wife supports this idea when she observes laughs at funerals and death in other words death is not something takes too seriously he has more important things to do than worry about what already is inevitable life however and the pursuit of living life to its fullest is the philosophy that governs existence he is not one to merely exist but must live for each day and each passing moment for tomorrow is not guaranteed br br the film seems to make a strong commentary about living as though there is no tomorrow let alone death too many people take life much too seriously and consequently miss out on the actual living part of life wife for example she's so worried about preparing for death not in some religiously way but in a far too practical even lifeless way that she forgets how to smile laugh and just have a good time her humanity seems to have transformed into zombie auto pilot mode to the contrary is perhaps too blithe and absent minded for his own good he needs a person like his wife emilie to help balance him br br it's as though possesses the invincible spirit of a child like a kid trapped in an older man's body he is introduced as the adventurous type he pretends to be people he's not in order to get gain squanders money lies and is always up for a good laugh deep down though he is a kind hearted and gentle old man who wishes to be submissive to his overly pragmatic wife the two off set each other quite nicely though neither one of them truly appreciates the quality of their relationship until they metaphorically chance upon death meaning their divorce it is during this courtroom scene that realizes the reality of death and what it means if he is separated from his only love his wife emotionally recalls all of his flaws yet is tenderly drawn to continue to love him despite his crazy behavior in this moment of her forgiving him realizes his selfish behavior of driving his wife bonkers and makes an internal commitment to make her happy br br ironically though after making this commitment he becomes what his wife later calls a living corpse the life blood within him drains away as he becomes more like zombie going through day to day motions he doesn't seem to live anymore but exist for example he gives up his zany pranks doesn't squander money quits smoking on account of his wife not his health and overall just to whatever she wants of him succinctly put he changes on account of wanting to make her happy thus the quality of their relationship begins to slowly vanish realizing that her husband is not who he used to be there is a part of emilie that misses the old she misses her husband's aloofness and the fights they used to have because it was in those moments that they were truly living not just simply existing br br i believe the filmmakers were trying to get across a specific message here that true and loving relationships will not always be easy or convenient but often times will take sacrifice and endurance to wade through the seemingly bad times the possibility of death at any moment is what reminds people to live for every moment life is often taken for granted but when threatened with it literal or awake from their ungrateful and are aroused to start living life to its fullest it's as though they are scared that they'll never live again so they better make the most of it while they have it and emilie had been married 44 years with fights along the way but it wasn't till they were both threatened with the possibility of death like separation that they began to show their true colors as the old maxim goes love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation they both begin to see what matters most in life and that is the people they meet along the way more importantly the intimate relationships they make with their significant others
1	the main cast br br frantisek stella stanislav br br director vladimir gives this charming story of elderly folks enchanting twists that make the characters appealing really universal br br frantisek hana is retired and on a pension his previous occupation unknown he lives in a very nice apartment with his wife of forty four years emilie his son covets the spacious apartment as a problem solver as he needs to house one of his ex wives and several of their children the son isn't a vicious schemer just a guy with one past spouse too many and a blind eye to the attachment his dad has for the flat which he moved into after relinquishing a previous residence to the son br br hana and his also elderly close friend ed spend there more than ample free time doing small con jobs not for money but for the pleasure of putting one over on easily duped folks like estate agents a favorite ploy is for hana to act the part of a retired of new york's metropolitan opera returning home in need of a sprawling mansion ed is his companion as gullible fall all over themselves proffering chauffeured limousines and fine french restaurant meals in hope of a lucrative sale br br when not engaged in well planned scams the duo engage in quick ploys such as pretending to be railroad security agents so as to snatch kisses from breathless and teens trying to sneak onto trains chaste kisses that is there's no lechery here br br long suffering wife is obsessed with saving enough money to insure that the couple individually and jointly have a grand funeral an event the life loving frantisek is in no hurry to experience br br disagreements about money and promiscuous disposition of marital funds lead to a crisis whose resolution rings both real and endearing fishes for the viewer's emotions but he does it openly honestly and effectively br br autumn spring subtitled of course is a product of an increasingly vibrant czech cinema it wasn't shown widely in the u s but its availability on dvd will hopefully bring this affecting flick to a wide audience sadly recently succumbed to cancer so this movie is a to a fine actor who imbued his character with a passion for life's pleasures that must have reflected the actor's own values br br 9 10
1	i found this film to be one of those great heart warming gems the story line is tightly woven and the character development throughout fantastic i am a big fan of non us films anyway and this is right up there with happenstance the closet even king of hearts as is fantastic it is a love story in the true sense of loving life and the twists and turns it takes to get the viewer to understand enjoy view of life which nearly costs him br br more than he is prepared to give are wonderful his co star is unforgettable as his fed up wife i highly recommend this movie for the whole family my children loved it
1	autumn spring tells of the misadventures of a dapper walrus faced 78 approx year old czech man who haplessly and all who know him with his mischievous ways while his wife meticulously plans her funeral centerpiece hana shows us how to get babes to kiss you when your 78 and how to cop a feel in an elevator and get thanked for it as he pranks his way from day to day in this warm and glowing look at old age and one man's creative amusing but socially unacceptable ways of enjoying life while refusing to be relegated to the old home autumn spring is a plodding subtle comedy with messages for all ages which will have the greatest appeal with more mature foreign film buffs b
1	this film just won the best film award at the cleveland international film festival it's american title apparently is autumn spring the acting is superb the story takes you into the life of an elderly man who takes what life deals him and spikes it up a little bit abetted by his best friend and partner in not so serious crime he puts people on at every opportunity but still often reveals his heart of gold his wife has come to her wits end and makes a life changing decision which is heartbreaking to watch the resolution of the story is beautiful
1	not much to say other than it is simply a masterpiece this film contains a myriad of messages that all should take to heart especially women do not your man's dreams honor them that's why you loved him in the first place those who plan for death will live in the grave those who diem will awaken those who live in fear even our lord spoke of this when he chastised the the one who buried his talent in fear that he might make a mistake and displease the master take a risk get out of the boat and you will walk on water life is a journey that does not end in the grave but in our minds and souls
1	this is a fantastic film is a very old guy with a very young heart he knows how to live his live fully everyday by teaming up with his friend making pranks on just about everything even his own death while his wife can't deal with his irresponsible behavior she also knows that it's exactly why she loves her husband for almost half century i would love to hang out with this old guy because he knows how to enjoy live and never fear of death he is joyful witty mischievous and never boring brilliantly played at the age of 79 every look from his eyes and every move from his aging muscles deliver so much about the character to the audience this is a film that leaves a big smile on my face afterwards and it makes me look at my own live a little closer tomorrow i am gonna go and buy myself a mansion and have some fun if can so can i but i think i will skip the smoking part
1	to qualify my use of realistic in the summary not many old folks i know go around pretending to be famous blind people etc nor have i ever been elderly those minor issues out of the way the relationships between the characters in this film and the emotions expressed therein were completely realistic and genuine in fact though we're not yet 30 i could see many characteristics of my relationship with my wife in the interactions between the main character and his wife for those that don't die young there's a great line in the movie about this when the two best friends are talking about dying young and one of them says and i'm paraphrasing we missed our chance we'll just have to stick it out we'll all be where these characters are some day i know many movie goers would prefer to be swept away from reality as opposed to being faced with it but even they might enjoy the sweet reminder of our mortality and the importance of living life to the fullest that this film is
1	however closely the movie is to the comics it doesn't matter this movie radically moves away from the boredom of interview with the vampire although it's acting was good and slides in the wonderful action scenes very convincing tale and interesting with surprisingly good acting from all disadvantage poor graphics does it matter nope
1	this is a charming movie to say the least the main character is an old man who refuses to be among the living dead by which he is surrounded he and his accomplice go around pulling pranks and getting into trouble all over town meanwhile his family is up in arms about what to do with him from there you see relationships with his wife best friend and son develop it finally leads up to one of the best movie endings i have ever seen br br the characters in this movie are rich and deep they develop well through the course of the film the movie has quite a range of moods it goes from light and funny to grim and dark any slow parts for you in this film will be made up for in the end br br autumn spring carries a similar message like a lot of other european movies do don't lose sight of the small pleasures in life if you enjoyed amelie the eighth day or life is beautiful all great films btw you will probably like this movie br br 8 5 10
1	renowned czech actor mostly known in north america for his leading role as jacob in the original est german czech production of jacob the liar der 1974 gives us a last brilliant performance as a 80 year old prankster who refuses to admit that he is about to die br br jirí screenplay is exquisite funny moving and well developed it explores well both the subject of advanced old age and the motivations of characters that are precariously strong and fragile happy and unsettled br br frantisek and his best friend stanislav are up to all types of shenanigans and are making sure to make the best out of their dying days meanwhile wife is preparing for their death saving up for funeral money and chastising frantisek for his endless childishness and irresponsible attitude their son is about to take their apartment over and put them into a retirement home but frantisek doesn't want to hear any of that he wants to enjoy life and make people around him laugh he wants to help and love and give but at what cost br br sure to captivate adults of all ages this fine piece of film by talented director vladimír is both touching and funny it makes you think of how we live our lives and why we live our lives it brings the simple story of a charming stubborn old man to the forefront and allow us to reflect and feel what life is all about br br after an active career lasting more than 40 years it is somewhat sombre to know that died in april 2002 no longer in the grip of terminal cancer it is however uplifting to think that he had the chance to be a part of such a moving script and to be the catalyst of this ode to joyful old age that has not even started to make the waves it is about to create in north american repertoire cinema br br after the international success of jan divided we fall 2000 it is starting to be clear that czech cinema has indeed something to offer to the world this film at least is a must see
1	as a czech i am very pleased when i read these comments here i am absolutely sure that this film is great and what you maybe don't know is that story was specially written for mr the man you can see is him and his typical attitude to live and to resist death he was one of great actors and we are very lucky that we he has made so many beautiful films during his life you are lucky you could see at least one of them enjoy
1	up front if you're tired the first hour could be slow the set up of the story has a natural leisurely pace unhurried giving us time to appreciate the kind of everyday life and situations the main characters are in once you arrived at the climatic segment of the storyline the turn of events will keep you hooked how will things turn out what will happen to our precious portrayed to utter quiet perfection by the veteran czech actor how will his wife wonderfully played by stella treat him what happens to dear friend ed played by stanislav a matching sidekick to and the son with selfish hidden agenda blind to the kindness of his parents sigh br br vladimír sensibly directed the film with sprinkles of humor preserving the insightful script by jirí thanks to clear subtitling i was able to notice for every phrase wife utters there's a hint of showing buried in between the lines and so did the judicious lady judge observed is '76 going on 80' and the affection of their enduring endearing marriage manifests even in their bantering arguments his playfulness can be infectious br br this is 'growing old together 101' for at least the beyond fifties and lessons learned to sons and daughters not to take parents for granted one may need to rethink if assuming 'home for the is a means to an end so to speak the film is gently shouting to us to live life to the fullest while we can hint there's joy in staying on and watch the end credits roll br br we're fortunate to be able to see an occasional czech film the kolya father son's 2001 dark blue world was revealing with pathos it's good to take it slow now and then and appreciate a foreign gem its subtitles scenery melodic score and an engaging human story with elegant performances autumn spring aka is available on dvd enjoy
1	i was delighted when i saw that my husband rented labyrinth of passion i love almodovar's films we both loved the movie we both couldn't stop laughing we especially enjoyed the scene in which the transvestite is shooting a photo novel and while supposedly being menaced by a killer with an electric drill is told to answer the phone and say i can't talk to you right now i'm being attacked by a sadistic serial killer if i survive i will call you back that would make a great answering machine message come to think of it we also loved the lady telling her new found beloved i went to an orgy after the concert but i couldn't stop thinking of you i'm waiting to use that line on twitter labyrinth of passion is a rollicking farce with plenty of high jinks hilarious dialog and eye candy for everyone the film has aged well the 1980s costumes and hairdos add to the wackiness i would give it a 10 out of 10 rating but i am giving it a 8 for two reasons the first is the scene which involves laxatives which includes a shot of a lady soiling herself totally unnecessary and it brings down the tone of the film to hollywood gross out comedy for a moment the second is the suggestion that is sleeping with her father shocking yes but again it ruins the tone of the film still i would recommend the film to anyone who wants a sophisticated spicy and fun time
1	labyrinth of passion with the possible exception of matador is almodovar's best film it displays his unique personality at its best and least censored before he started going more mainstream almodovar is just about the only modern director that can approach preston sturges' wonderful brand of lunacy it's pointless to try and explain what the movie is about the real point being almodovar's willingness and skill in taking his situations to the outer limits of sanity and sometimes of plausibility and taste as well
1	very typical almodóvar of the time and in its own way no less funny than many of his later works and why is that there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional no the great humor stems from an underlying almost surreal absurdity that is woven into the scenery the characters' nearly complete lack of taboo it's the same kind of 'comic suspense' you find in his later works though you'll find it in a more rough version here he's building up for masterpieces to come but is not yet there br br the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did claimed that it had to be a very select group of people who'd find this movie hilarious i do
1	this movie was an amazing tribute to whoever has gone through this type of pain and suffering the acting wasn't the greatest i'll admit that but it was passionate about it's message sending people into prisons without so much as an attorney or some type of trial is cruel and unusual they even had a damn trial for saddam so why doesn't every suspected terrorist have some type of fair and justified trial or hearing as to why they were tagged in the first place i'm getting off the movie but i think it's worthy to note about this sick twisted idea the government has the movie's way of telling the story and the backstory was a great mystery the whole movie i was trying to connect the daughter with the plot and it's made very obvious in the end there's no doubt that the directing was incredible but the one thing i didn't care for was that there wasn't as much emphasis on reese witherspoon's character's interest and fight in the ideal she held a lot of skipping otherwise it was actually quite entertaining and most of all it kept my attention and interest for the two hours it played
1	when going to see rendition i was expecting an exciting film on a controversial topic with big name actors i was not expecting a film that was so engrossing exciting poetic and sad that picked me up from the very beginning and didn't let me go even after i left the theater a word of advice to anyone who hasn't seen it yet don't let your politics come in the way of enjoying or not enjoying this film take it for what it is i saw this with my conservative jewish family i'm the black sheep the pseudo liberal college student and i thought they would write it off as liberal propaganda instead they said it was a great film with excellent performances they like to fancy themselves film critics br br it's sad that a movie like this has to be marketed by its oscar affiliated actors while leaving out the constantly underrated sarsgaard as well as new talent like the truly excellent the entire cast gave good performances with some standing out much more than others my only problem with it was that there was a lot going on which didn't allow for much screen time for each of the characters in fact i felt like the sub plot with and was just as prominent on screen as part of the story br br the characters all have the potential to fall into stereotypes but the actors do a good enough job to give them depth with the little screen time they have streep is truly terrific as a heartless senator and as much as i don't want to see the actress in such a terrible role its impossible not to believe her gyllenhaal who will probably be one of the oscar nods for this movie seems a bit unsure in his role at times h's trying to portray his inner conflict but usually just comes off like he either forgot his lines or he doesn't know how he should feel sarsgaard gave an excellent performance his unforgettable confrontation with streep is easily one of the best parts of the movie again was terrific and i hope to see him in more mainstream films it's a shame that gyllenhaal with probably get nominated before him as shown on imdb has been is some films already but he is a newcomer in my eyes he along with mohammed and all gave great performances br br the story of and was not given any credit in commercials but it brings a sad humanity to the story the narrative was interesting as i was trying to really connect the two story until it was plainly told to us at the end i've read some comments on here that say the love story was useless but i disagree i think it definitely shows another side to the controversial issue as well as humanity in general was the real terrorist but he was doing it to avenge his brother and even though he is responsible for the attack you see a humane side to him through the story with not that i think we should feel bad for actual terrorists but i think the we are all people theme was definitely relevant br br whatever your feelings on terrorism politics etc leave it out of the theater the bottom line is this is an interesting story with a message we all need to hear
1	we start all of our reviews with the following information my wife and i have seen nearly 100 movies per year for the past 15 years recently we were honored by receiving lifetime movie passes to any movie any time at no cost so we can see whatever we want whenever we want the point of this is that critics count for zero your local critics or the national critics like ebert are really no different than you or me the only difference is that they get to write about the movie and are forced to see hundreds of movies whether they want to or not therefore it is our belief that if you get your monies worth for two hours of enjoyment that is good enough for us we never ever listen or read the critics we only care about our friends and those who we know like the same things as us well enough about that br br when meryl streep the head of the in the movie says the united states does not torture it got a big laugh at this movie it is of course a lie that the bush administration has denied time and again it is a very good movie and it is scary in what they can do to us as we lose all of our civil rights they can simply snatch you anywhere and tell know one that they have done it in this case they snatch a man who has a name similar to those who killed thousands on 9 11 he is of course just like you or i and so they take him to a secret location outside of the us to torture and him br br very frightening well acted by jake and reese and the entire cast
1	in the ever growing film genre of comic book adaptations blade is by far one of the best realised and most faithful overall to the source material given that the character has almost 30 years of history in the comics since his debut as a back up figure in marvel's tomb of dracula the writer took almost all of the characters and plot elements from the comic's history while changes were inevitably made the finer points of the film right over any criticisms don't let any of you friends tell you different blade is one fine film if it feels too comic for you stanley kubrick snobs out there it's because it's supposed to deal with it but don't dis it for it
1	an arab american man is kidnapped from an american airport and flown to somewhere in north africa where he is tortured the reason his cell phone received a call from a known terrorist the cia decides to avoid legal means to determine whether the phone call is implication of guilt or just a mistake after watching this movie we can only but pray some terrorist doesn't accidentally punch in a wrong number br br in addition to the rendition there are several related side stories one involves the daughter of the chief of intel secret police who is torturing the suspect and her involvement with her lover who happens to be in night school for suicide bombers this story is way too contrived but nevertheless intriguing especially when we see it's outcome the director uses a neat time line switcheroo to hook the audience br br the second side story is the attempt by the suspects wife to find out what happened to her missing husband she gets an old lover to help he a muted saarsgard is aide de camp to a senator alda and soon gets cold feet when he realizes that his job isn't worth uncovering the truth witherspoon is wasted in this role all she gets to do is look forlorn and pregnant with one brief rage attack streep is good and cold and stereotypical as the govt cia nsa homeland sec official who seems to be a cheney clone br br also is wasted as a minor analyst pushed into in area he's over his head in although he gets to do the right thing in the end br br i found the movie engrossing if somewhat languorous but thought it added little to the subject it is certainly not to be viewed as definitive and it certainly has an axe to grind like the kingdom it scratches the surface of a very complicated subject br br the movie tries hard to give us an idea about rendition but can only end up by being a cautionary tale about one botched one the whole point of rendition is not to torture but to get terror suspects to give intel by avoiding legal therefore obstructive barriers torture for sure may be employed especially if the rendition is out of our hands although we are obviously not in this matter but intel that can save lives is vital in this shadow war
1	rendition is a film not to miss with solid writing from kelley sane and with the direction of gavin hood that takes us on a story which is a ride through a man's journey through hell once again meryl streep in a convincing role of the cia today and great performances from a cast of superlative actors in reese witherspoon jake and alan arkin along with actors of middle eastern descent who add to the reality of the story br br in rendition you see how terrorism can breed terrorism and as the film progresses tying the story to what is playing out in the middle east is reality brought to the screen the external shots add to the intensity of the story and peter sarsgaard does a brilliant job of playing an assistant in the ass kissing way of how american politics are conducted too bad there has not been a larger audience for this film as along with the valley of and lions for lambs rendition plays an important role in showing an audience how the fight for and the protection of democracy can go seriously astray
1	i came out of rendition with a list of flaws a mile long so how is it that my overall impression is that it was a pretty decent movie it's definitely a film whose sum is better than its parts br br those parts include a cast of big name stars not one of them giving a memorable performance omar a relative unknown is the one you'll remember serviceable if undistinguished direction and a screenplay that's both too complicated and too simplistic at the same time is an egyptian born american citizen who gets kidnapped by the u s government's rendition program otherwise known as the process by which america tortures suspected terrorists into confessing information whether or not it's remotely true reese witherspoon plays his pregnant wife who calls in the favor of an old college friend peter saarsgard who works for a senator alan arkin and helps to track her husband down meryl streep plays the head of the rendition program jake gyllenhaal is a young agent assigned to the interrogation and whose conscience gets in the way meanwhile a whole parallel storyline follows the daughter of a top egyptian official who is allied to the american rendition program and her boyfriend who's in training to become a suicide bomber br br yi yi that's a lot of plot to pack into a two hour movie and i was about to wash my hands of the whole thing especially the egyptian romeo and juliet subplot that felt like nothing more than a distraction but then near the film's finale a twist of chronology brings all of the plot strands together in a way that makes you want to reassess everything you thought you knew about the motivations of the various characters and makes rendition a much more interesting movie than it seems like it's going to be br br witherspoon gyllenhaal and sarsgaard all look like high school students playing adults twenty years older than they actually are gyllenhaal in particular usually a fine actor looks so bored that you wonder if he's going to muster the energy to deliver his lines and the screenwriter should be arrested for having an actress as good as meryl streep at his disposal and giving her nothing more to work with than this one dimensional dragon lady the movie of course strives for relevancy but instead of addressing the tangled web of arguments surrounding the national security issue it charges right down the middle of the debate in a predictable fashion there are moments when you think maybe the film will veer off in an interesting direction what if witherspoon did actually begin to doubt her husband's past for instance what if actually had been in contact with terrorists as his accuse but no the movie takes the path of least resistance br br but like i said upfront i recommend this movie i know i've done nothing but list a bunch of its faults but it's got its head in the right place and it is entertaining or at least as as entertaining as a movie about torture and interrogation can be br br grade b
1	taut topical political thriller taking square aim at the controversial us policy of rendition another appalling orwell ian phrase collateral damage anyone for the illegal interrogation even torture of terrorist suspects by passing due legal process the inhuman interrogation is overseen by the egyptian chief of police himself the target of a fundamentalist suicide bomb plot thus entwining the two main plot lines of the movie both work very well the bombing set piece graphic and chilling in its realism with its denouement revealed in a stylish tarantino type flashback and the torture scenes on an innocent man also unflinchingly portrayed in all their gory detail the film scores telling points about the use of torture as a credible means of intelligence gathering in the war against terrorists and against the faceless bureaucracy here personified by a suitable cold meryl streep as the cia boss who casually gives the order for rendition which can ruin innocent lives never mind kafka's fiction think more the recent killing of the innocent brazilian in london in 2005 with the head of the metropolitan police still in his job and no one tried for the poor man's murder the acting is excellent throughout the two key roles of the innocent man and terrorist bomber are realistically and tellingly played by the unfamiliar actors omar and similarly as the intimidating chief of police and as his idealistic lovelorn daughter ring true with their performances their lack of familiarity at least to me adding to their characters' credibility of the bigger hollywood names present gyllenhaal's stature grows with succeeding films here playing the initially detached but later conscience stricken and anguished government man who does the right thing in the end witherspoon plays her distraught wife part mainly in one key but is believable all the same while david fabrizio and alan arkin convincingly show up self serving senators and their lackeys who'll only go so far to help you until their career prospects are jeopardised there are a few weaknesses plot wise there's little dramatic need to create the suspense surrounding el escape and streep's character is perhaps too obvious a bogey man woman worst of all is the meaningless inclusion of gyllenhaal's on the spot girlfriend around merely for decoration and a brief gratuitous love scene on the whole though an engrossing thought provoking cinematic experience
1	is torture ever right no the answer is simple and absolute with no qualifications possible the reason as this film showed is the effect torture has on a society the values that have been hard fought for in western society through centuries of revolution and struggle are for all men and women to be allowed to live in a free and open society one where individuals are treated equally and with respect to their essential rights as humans to protect this society institutions have been developed to deal with wrongdoing openly fairly and honestly these institutions have been adapted and honed through generations of hard work one could argue that these are the true of democracy as they belong to us all allow us all to be heard if we allow inhumane acts to be committed in our name if we split our society into those who have rights and those who don't then we undo the work of our ancestors moreover we are all complicit and all guilty and tainted whether those that we accuse are guilty or not is of no importance we are defined by our attitudes and our responses
1	the reviews for rendition generally haven't been favorable so i waited until it moved to the local discount theatre to see it the film tells the story of anwar el an american egyptian scientist who is plucked from his international flight and hauled in for interrogation after a strange coincidence links him to a recent terrorist attack in an unnamed north african country not as bad as i'd feared it's an interesting and thought provoking entry in the ripped from the headlines thriller genre br br the film ultimately asks tough questions concerning u s methods of prying information from political prisoners is crossing the formerly line of openly employing torture on suspected terrorists something our country should be doing does it yield useful information that helps save lives if so at what cost what sort of monsters do we create when innocent people are taken prisoner and tortured by sanctioning the use of torture what sort of monster do we as a country become it's always disappointing when a film with such provocative material is sloppy with some of the details that make good films great for example i'd like to have empathized with wife who spends the entire film trying to track him down but the only identifiable personality trait she's given is an advanced state of pregnancy rendition also seems to imply that arab women who don't go along with their fathers' arranged marriages are only asking for trouble and there's a poorly conceived scrapbook kept by another of the film's main characters that too conveniently spells out in great detail all the information his love interest just happens to be in urgent need of at that particular moment i laughed out loud when the moment should have been filled with dread br br the film features a good central performance by jake gyllenhaal and strong but too brief appearances by hollywood veterans meryl streep and alan arkin as well as impressive turns by omar as anwar el and also by actors and all of whom i would much enjoy seeing in future films that have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism good luck to them the five or so stories rendition follows are woven together nicely until the filmmakers insert a slight but effective twist that finally alludes to the never ending cycle of carnage that violent attacks of terror
1	this was an excellent movie with good acting and it keeps your attention through to the very end maybe people are either tired or uncomfortable with the subject matter and that's why it's being trashing so much it could also be too deep for many of the viewers out there who give movies like the american pie series higher ratings br br jake gyllenhaal is a cia analyst not an agent who is to observe an interrogation of an egyptian man by not egyptians he's not supposed to be a hardened agent and so comes off as naive of the interrogation techniques used this is more believable than if he were to come across as being an old hat at it br br the story jumps around a bit and can be confusing but it also makes you stay focused on whats going on until the end when everything comes together as the puzzle falls into place the supporting actors did a good job of helping to carry the movie i found the movie to be powerful and thought provoking
1	to solve a challenging problem you need to start by asking the right questions without these even the biggest library of information is useless this movie does just that where other movies guide your thinking along a story board this film pulls at your emotions and your understanding of justice and what's permissible these questions will tug at you throughout challenging your assumptions as the characters develop this movie is important it's relevant and a must see for anybody who stays informed of current affairs the fact it's highly entertaining and includes a slew of movie stars only improves the execution my advice watch it with a serious crowd or better yet by yourself not unlike how you'd read an editorial from your favorite news magazine in this case there is one difference the answers will be your own
1	very good political thriller regarding the aftermath of terrorism and the using of political torture to obtain one's objectives in flushing out the terrorists br br the story is interwoven where two families are adversely affected by the terrorist events br br this is one of meryl streep's best roles in years she plays a cold calculating cunning director of the cia who allows these things to go on she is out of the george bush dick cheney school of handling the war on terrorism had her part been expanded miss streep certainly would have been up for an award at oscar time br br jake gyllenhaal is our hero a cia agent who really can't take what's going on br br we have a terrorist who actually has a heart and it costs him his life in this well directed finely paced film br br alan arkin appears briefly in the part of a conniving senator mr arkin seems to get better with age
1	i'm egyptian i have a green card i have been living in the us since 1991 i have a very common arabic name i'm married non american but non egyptian non arab wife i have children who are born in the us i have a phd in cell biology from the us and i travel for conferences i make 6 figure income and i own a home in the washington dc area i pay my taxes and outside 1 or 2 parking tickets i have no blemish on my record since i came to this country in 1991 i look more egyptian than the character but my spoken english is as good as his br br a couple of months ago i was returning from a conference company business in spain through munich germany to washington dc home i was picked up in munich airport by a german officer as soon as i got off the madrid plane he was waiting for me he was about to start interrogating me until i simply told him i have no business in germany i'm just passing through he had let me go with the utmost disappointment that was nothing compared to what happened at washington airport which was not nearly as bad as what happened to in the movie the customs officer asked me a couple of questions about the length and purpose of my trip he then wrote a letter c on my custom declaration form and let me go after i picked up my checked bag i was stopped at the last exit point some homeland security crap i sat there for 3 hours along with many different people of many different nationalities i was not told the reason for my i was not allowed to use my phone or any other phone i was feisty at first asking to be told of the reason or let me go but decided to suck it up and just wait and see i asked if i can call my wife to tell her that i'm going to be late but was told no when i tried to use my phone and as soon as my wife said hello an officer yanked the phone out of hand and threatened me to it when i asked about needing to call home because my family is waiting they said three hours is nothing we will make contact after 5 hours when i asked to use the bathroom an officer accompanied me there it toilet was funny i guess it was a prison style toilet that is all metal with no toilet seat finally they called my name and gave me my passport green card and said you can go i asked what the problem was they said nothing i know it was only 3 hours but i was dead tired and wanted to go home to see my wife and kids br br as for the movie it was very well made unlike most movies that involve arabs and use non arab actors who just speak gibberish this movie the arabic was 100 correct i assume the country is morocco north africa
1	blade is a dark gloomy but vampire movie and is one of the best ones a bit of gore but nothing really that bad wesley snipes played a strong role as he eliminates the vampires not really like buffy because thats too tame but blade delivers a decent plot and it's the kind of movie that you would probably like to watch on a dark stormy night thats at best viewing br br 87
1	extraordinary rendition is a frightening practice authorized surprisingly under clinton that allows the u s government to seize and hold anyone suspected seemingly for any reason of being a terrorist against the united states this is a touchy issue especially after 9 11 because supporters of the practice will always criticize the opposition as withholding vital power from the u s that it needs to effectively fight terror fanatic supporters will label the opposition as terrorists in themselves br br but like a recent film that lent a similar level of humanity to the death penalty the life of david gale rendition shows us a story of the misuse of extraordinary rendition or at least the ease with which it can be exploited and falsely applied the story involves anwar el an american chemical engineer born in egypt who is seized on his way back to america from giving a lecture in egypt the cause given is that he made phone calls to a known terrorist no proof is ever given or needed that it was anwar that made the calls that his phone was never lost of stolen br br meanwhile extremely pregnant wife isabella is back in the states frantically trying to find her husband who got onto a plane to chicago but apparently never got off the flimsy explanation that he was never there evaporates when she discovers that he made an in flight purchase using his credit card br br lately i have been researching modern chinese history particularly that of the astonishingly selfish and brutal dictatorship set up by mao tse tung and it is more than a little frightening to see the similarities between extraordinary rendition and some of brutal scare tactics including his public executions which the people were forced to watch and extensive use of torture specifically used to extract confessions br br it is pretty disturbing to notice that mao specifically did these things to create an environment of fear in order to achieve obedience from the chinese people to say that the bush administration has not created an environment of fear and continues to milk it for everything it's worth would be naïve in the extreme and although extraordinary rendition was not created under bush it is clear that it does more harm than good br br adding to the thickness of the film is douglas freeman jake gyllenhaal who works behind a desk for the cia and has little field experience until his boss is assassinated and he suddenly finds himself supervising the torture of a man that he quickly comes to doubt has anything to reveal freeman's boss daughter also plays a pivotal role as does a aide played by peter sarsgaard who might have the most satisfying role in the movie meryl streep is also suitably cold and clinical as a chilly senator with a dogmatic support of the necessity and practice of rendition br br as a political thriller the movie is remarkably well crafted and paced but the scariest thing about it is that this is all real the movie's goal is to get people to really think about the things done in america's name especially when they claim to be done to prevent those same things conducting terror in the name of preventing terror will win no sympathy for us nor will extracting confessions through brutal torture which is the basest form of criminal investigation br br unfortunately we are gradually heading in that direction of doing these things more rather than less the frightening question is what is the event that is going to take place at some point in the future to convince us to stop and head the other way toward civilization and peace or will we just keep heading toward a military dictatorship until we finally get there
1	cia analyst douglas freeman gyllenhaal gets to see his first secret location interrogation when anwar is accused of having contact with a known terrorist bomb maker wife witherspoon is frantic regarding the whereabouts of her husband br br don't you just hate it when the title of a movie sends you to a dictionary i must have an old edition as this rendition is not a musical piece no it's the government's way of legally taking a resident or citizen somewhere to interrogate him and possibly use some torture to get the desired information br br while watching this movie i was reminded of a similar story line in the crossing jordan tv show now off the air and i expect we will see even more of these story lines it's inevitable the events of 911 are the br br this is a tough one to watch because we don't like to see people tortured and our government not telling the truth about things we like the idea that no matter what happens or happened that we can go somewhere to find answers but when that door is closed to us we are truly lost and without hope as wife was br br performances by all were first class and it's possible we may see more of i have no idea how to pronounce it because he resembles and can act like telly savalas no kidding br br violence yes sex no nudity no language yes
1	some films are designed to just entertain you others to make you laugh or cry or uplift others like this aim to provoke to make you think and to make you angry i was angry during this film not at the film but at the fact that it was true that america the free does torture in the illogical view that it is doing it for the greater good the torture scenes in this movie were harrowing the indifference of people was shattering the film was compelling in its argument and showed just how wrong it is to torture people of course now that makes me a bleeding liberal labels shoved on people by others who shut their minds to the facts that this does happen and should not people who don't realise that as the movie said for every person tortured you get ten or one hundred people rise up to perform acts of vengeance you get an ever increasing cycle of violence this film did not make me hate america although i can see how it could do but it made me hate the way that america has reacted in its post 9 11 world there is a significant quote in the film just after we have learned that 19 people have died and seventy five were injured in the bomb scene the quote is one american is dead that makes the difference you cannot kill an american america can kill thousands but you cannot kill a single american or they will do whatever it takes including torture to enact justice this is the american way apparently call me a liberal call me naive although i think the people who think torture is fine are naive call me deluded call me anything you like but this film is a brilliant example of what is wrong in america and the west today i wish this film would be shown to all school students at a minimum this film will stay with me a long time part of me wishes i could forget it because i wish this type of thing never happened but i know it does the other part of me wishes i would never forget because we need to remember these shameful events to prevent them from happening again whatever happens to me this film will be with me for a long time and i will be telling everyone i know to watch it not to be entertained but to be provoked because sometimes we all need to be provoked
1	the powerhouse cast pulls the crowd in the theatre despite the ominous title jake gyllenhaal guested on conan o'brien to promote the movie and explained that was a euphemism for obtaining information via torture since 9 11 allowed the government's intelligence agency to extricate people without due process and use any means necessary in exchange for information br br gyllenhaal plays rookie cia analyst douglas freeman note the irony who is torn about his assignment which renders him as a mere observer to unorthodox interrogation proceedings at an underground detention facility outside the us br br omar plays the suspected terrorist anwar el egyptian national and green card carrying hubby of american isabella fields el reese witherspoon isabella and her son wait for anwar to come home from a scientific conference when he suddenly disappears from the plane's passenger manifest she seeks help from her college friend who works in government and learns that the head of intelligence corrine whitman meryl streep is behind it all br br rendition is directed by hollywood newbie gavin hood who is set to do x men origins wolverine and begs the question of whether such is exercised in real life the movie was released locally in the wake of the explosion bombing mishap and a pivotal scene in the movie is when a bomb explodes in a public plaza so that must have sent chills up every moviegoer's spine seeing the exploding tableau with a lone red and yellow sign on the upper right hand of the screen plus the effect of silence and slow moving images magnified the impact of the scene's real life coincidence br br there are lessons to learn from this movie and it all boils down to personal decisions we make daily we all have choices we can exercise at will and we often do not always want to see how these affect others who may end up as hapless victims of circumstance what 'the greater good' is should not have to be a forced choice our leaders have to take if we each already decide correctly at the source now that's a utopia worth building
1	think of it as an extreme form of detention without trial without commenting and taking a side on the us foreign policy the process of extraordinary rendition involves taking persons suspected of terrorist activities to a foreign country an opposite to an if you wish to a place where torture is not a crime but a means to illicit information instead of staining your soil with blood of potentially innocent parties you do so on foreign land where such tactics are accepted interrogation techniques br br naturally given the severity of the tactics and attempts at breaking down a person sometimes you would get what you want once you pass the resistance or get nothing or worst of all get a confession just because the mind has been broken to the point that the subject will agree to whatever you say it's an ugly process and what better way to do it when you're the champion human rights giving the nod to use whatever means necessary in the name of protecting more lives in an age where information is key to the battle against terror and doing so in a country where probably the rights record is questionable br br rendition is this year's syriana though in the run up to the new year we do have a number of political thriller contenders to take that crown with rendition first of all followed by the robert redford movie lions for lambs starring tom cruise and meryl streep again though now on the other side of the fence and the kingdom with jamie foxx and jennifer garner though this one would probably turn out to be more action driven directed by gavin hood who did and will be helming the new wolverine spin off rendition is a decent thriller with a top notch cast in a narrative that has been proved quite popular these days the split which provides for some ample differential perspectives to be presented through an ensemble cast br br anwar el omar a chemical engineer gets en route to going home under the orders of cia top brass corrine whitman meryl streep at a detention facility outside the us jake gyllenhaal's cia analyst douglas freeman oh so prophetic embarks on his very first interrogation session no doubt being thrust into a position that he didn't sign up for back home a very pregnant reese searches frantically for answers to her husband's disappearance and sought after an ex flame alan smith's peter sarsgaard assistance since he's working for senator hawkins alan arkin throw in j k a terrorist plot investigation and a budding forbidden love story between and you have quite a bit going on in a busy picture br br given a number of casts locations timelines and the likes rendition wasn't confusing at all and it plays out with deft handling of the material never quick to judge presenting ideas and thoughts from both sides of the equation every character has their own agenda and the unveiling of this agenda engages enough not to bore nor to confuse you and the best part of it all is how very truly they bow down to self preservation in different forms and ultimately in various lose lose situations unfortunately it kept you guessing as well did he or didn't he and constantly played with your mind as to whether anwar deserved what he's getting it utilized one extremely smart of hand which i didn't see coming until it's too late so there goes the credit though it did succumb to the usual stereotyping of terrorist militants and without spending much time in depth to explore their motivations br br perhaps it didn't find a need to given so many movies out there already touching base on this issue paradise now day night day night syriana even while it turned out to be rather one dimensional personal tragedy to strapping of bombs to become a suicide bomber i felt rendition did right in not providing any saccharine sweet ending that this fight against negative destructive ideology isn't something that can be addressed in a two hour movie and i'm glad it steered clear such fairy tale implausibilities br br what we have instead is a well crafted tale that sets its gun sights on the issue of rendition and probably capable enough to spark discussion once the lights come on on which camp you belong to do you support inflicting severe pain in interrogation yes or no this is the quintessential question of our time yes or no ok i'm already geared for lions for lambs
1	most of this political thriller presented as a mostly run of the mill movie with a somewhat better development of many of the major characters that was much appreciated until the big twist and powerful climax that recalled twists experienced in silence of the lambs or the sixth sense reese witherspoon as the distraught wife of the missing egyptian husband and as the strong armed interrogator offer strong performances jake gyllenhaal unfortunately is handed a more two dimensional character and has to struggled with a stereotypical presentation of the emotionally torn cia analyst that has been presented many times before in other movies early on there is the nice scene with an explosion that resembles a scene at the end of saving private ryan the silent scene that was used so effectively in reflecting one consequence of violence the script also provides a little more glimpse into the mind set of the enemy but still doesn't allow the audience really much understanding again permitting the audience to wallow in stereotypical characterization the cinematography and photography also is somewhat of a letdown because unlike jarhead or blackhawk down the crisp raw visceral presentation is missing not allowing the audience to really be there in the movie there is some distance that keeps the audience from realizing the intensity of the emotions occurring on the screen however overall the movie redeems itself by the end offering the audience a measured look into the complexity of the united states' use of rendition and the possible complications and consequences that may occur through its use eight out of ten stars
1	the film tackles the here and now horror of rendition with a multi cast trans global account of all involved no one gets off lightly because we see the blindness of the players as they carve out their own slice of the worldwide game piling hatred and misery on their enemies and themselves in equal measure br br the interplay between the sympathetic senator's aide played in scintillating style by peter sarsgaard and the real washington power mongers is electrifying meanwhile out in the field new cia man jake gyllenhaal goes through a sea change in his attitude to the usa's new found cosiness with torture sudden though his rejection of what he initially tacitly condoned is one has to ask why on earth would anyone who calls him or herself civilized stand and watch anyone be humiliated and abused in this way the film has few heroes perhaps gyllenhaal's flawed and vacillating cia man is the exception and a necessary indulgence to make the film offer a sliver of hope br br the sad fact of course is that this film isn't fiction at all but a wake up call to those with a shred of decency left in them the awful truth is that we in the uk and usa have lost the moral plot and this film shows how low we are prepared to go all this in the name of freedom there's a wonderful line in the script that says that torture is a sure way to swell the numbers of our enemies this is already happening in real life and we should listen to the message that this film delivers and start using our might and money much more intelligently the message seems to be that any of us who claim that rendition torture and the abuse of basic human rights are necessary to protect our way of life are as wrong headed and stupid as the jihadists and suicide bombers br br all praise to the sensibilities of a talented south african director with a eye on the gross unfairness of how power is exercised and a cast of principled mainstream actors from the us and beyond oh and by the way the film has a sting in its tail with the ending a clever and thought provoking surprise which i won't give away br br i saw the film in an early london preview so it has not yet been widely written up but i'm glad to say that the tide of less than glowing reviews seems to be turning the bbc review has been very strongly in support and they and i suspect that much of the negative comments come from those who see the world through the simple specs of hollywood where the good guys and the bad guys are cardboard cut outs hence the reason that many of the truly great films of the year are increasingly indie and or non us pix
1	i fear you speak upon the rack where men enforced do speak anything this shakespearean line from the merchant of venice is echoed again in the new film rendition which introduces the viewer to the enhanced methods of interrogation renditions which began in the clinton administration and have become more commonplace since the terror attacks of september 11 2001 br br the film features an all star cast with oscar winners meryl streep alan arkin and reese witherspoon as well as peter sarsgaard jake gyllenhaal and omar supporting roles filled by unfamiliar actors deliver as well sucking the audience into the plot and showing how many people can be affected by overseas terror attacks and our means of investigating them br br rendition follows an egyptian born terrorism suspect who is taken by u s officials following his flight from south africa to washington dc to an undisclosed prison overseas his pregnant wife witherspoon ventures to washington dc to find out about his disappearance through a family friend and senator's employee sarsgaard gyllenhaal plays a young cia analyst at the overseas detention facility who monitors the violent interrogation br br this film follows the emotional plights of the torture victim and those involved in obtaining the supposed information from him some like the cia analyst gyllenhaal are visibly shaken and horrified by the methods exercised while others the stern senator streep and foreign interrogator see it as necessary and effective br br the film may be described by some as a political piece but is ultimately an emotional one performance as the tortured prisoner is oscar worthy the film does not intend to preach but rather to question and inform the audience on a topic that does not often have a human face put on it renditions have been known to work but have also been known to produce false information from innocent prisoners the film simply depicts the emotional struggles of those involved in such grave business and does so in a way that will affect every viewer differently the film will keep your interest and have you engaged in each of the character's plights
1	in this day and age in which just about every other news story involves discussions of images of abu ghraib or tales of forced at guantanamo bay gavin hood's rendition is about as up to the minute and timely a movie as is ever likely to come out of the entertainment mills of mainstream hollywood it's not by any stretch of the imagination a perfect film but neither does it merit the caterwauling opprobrium it has received at the hands of critics from all across the ideological and political spectrum br br the term rendition refers to the ability of the cia to arrest any individuals it suspects of terrorist dealings then to whisk them away in secret to a foreign country to interrogate and torture them for an indefinite period of time all without due process of law anwar el is an egyptian man who has been living for twenty years in the united states he has an american wife a young son and a new baby on the way he seems a very unlikely candidate for a terrorist yet one day without warning or explanation anwar is seized and taken to an undisclosed location where he is subjected to brutal torture until he admits his involvement with a terrorist organization that anwar claims to know nothing about br br on the negative side rendition falters occasionally in its storytelling abilities often biting off a little more than it can chew in terms of both plot and character the ostensible focal point is douglas freeman a rookie cia agent who is brought in to observe interrogation at the hands of egyptian officials the problem is that as conceived by writer kelley sane and enacted by jake gyllenhaal freeman seems too much of a naïve boy scout to make for a very plausible agent and he isn't given the screen time he needs to develop fully as a character we know little about him at the beginning and even less it seems at the end he goes through the motions but we learn precious little about the man within thus without a strong center of gravity to hold it all together the film occasionally feels as if it is coming apart at the seams with story elements flying off in all directions a similar problem occurs with distraught wife played by reese witherspoon a woman we never get to know much about apart from what we can see on the surface gyllenhaal and witherspoon have both proved themselves to be fine actors under other circumstances but here they are hemmed in by a restrictive screenplay that rarely lets them go beyond a single recurring note in their performances br br what makes rendition an ultimately powerful film however is the extreme seriousness of the subject matter and the way in which two concurrently running plot lines elegantly dovetail into one another in the movie's closing stretches it may make for a slightly more contrived story than perhaps we might have liked on this subject but hey this is hollywood after all and the film has to pay some deference to mass audience expectations if it is to get itself green lighted let alone see the light of day as a completed project br br two of the supporting performances are particularly compelling in the film omar who makes palpable the terror of a man caught in a real life kafkaesque nightmare from which he cannot awaken and who makes a surprisingly complex character out of the chief interrogator torturer meryl streep alan arkin and peter sarsgaard also make their marks in smaller roles special mention should also be made of the warm and richly hued cinematography of dion br br does the movie oversimplify the issues probably does it stack the deck in favor of the torture victim and against the evil government forces most definitely one wonders how the movie would have played if anwar really were a terrorist yet the movie has the guts to tread on controversial ground it isn't afraid to raise dicey questions or risk the disapproval of some for the political stances it takes it openly ponders the issue of just how does a nation hold fast to its hard won principle of civil liberties for all in the face of terrorism and fear and just how much courage does it take for people of good will to finally stand up and say enough is enough even at the risk of being branded terrorist appeasing and unpatriotic by those in power the movie also does not in any way deny the reality of extreme islamic terrorism br br thus to reject rendition out of hand would be to allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good rendition may not be perfect but it is good and it has something of importance to say about the world in which we now live and that alone makes it very much worth seeing
1	i liked this movie i saw it to a packed house at the toronto international film festival the day after the gala opener which must have gone over well the director gavin hood was supposed to be present for today's screening but alas his twins were born just hours before so he had to jet on a flight back in 24 was how he joked about it br br rendition refers to a term whereby suspected terrorists in the us can be sent without the legal consent of their parents nations to prisons abroad to be questioned and detained br br it's fairly predictable innocent egyptian american man wrongly accused of being a terrorist while en route from south africa to dc he is sent abroad while wife at home reese witherspoon fights to find him and free him but what makes this movie special are some nice choices in story telling 1 a human touch story of what is going on in the locale where a suicide bomb detonated 2 the humanity of a cia agent trying to understand and be honest with what is really going on and 3 the chronology of story telling which makes it a tight taut tale that moves and jerks at the right moments ah relief and a mix of emotions that swirl around as the story fights for an ending br br all around strong acting with meryl streep as a standout vixen
1	overall i give this film a decent 7 6 to start i'll say i love how the character was portrayed and adapted on to the screen if you read comics occasionally or simply watch dvd extras you'll see the blade character is drastically different from the one we see in the film among the changes blade is now most importantly half vampire therefore acquiring all of their strengths but none of their weaknesses the credit for this goes obviously to david a fellow fan of the darker genre of comic books thanks to him blade has become a much more interesting character and i find him one of my favorite anti heroes really wesley snipes is born to play this role although some would've probably washington or will smith lol his acting here doesn't need to be exactly oscar winning per say considering the character but i'm glad he to play the in the two sequels also starring is stephen dorff as our main villain and kris kristofferson as blade's alfred so to speak the acting is good actually and the action keeps the plot going for sure the opening scene in the club is one of my favorite parts i've got to say as much as like this movie there are few things that bother me which take away from this film ranking with something like spider man or x men stephen had the villains portrayed in a way i didn't like so much honestly their lines were so full of foul mouthed comedy it didn't really feel like a comic book film to me plus la a bit disappointing as the final villain but the intense sword fight makes up for it i guess not to mention a sense of extra non realism a black man in a leather coat with a sword the out of a cop in broad day light some how going unnoticed by the crowds walking by seemed kinda well dumb moving away from a few of its flaws the music by mark isham was great and fitted the film nicely luckily all these problems are fixed and improved on in the stunning sequel blade 2
1	imagine you have just been on a plane for 18 hours you have been on a business trip to south africa you are a high paid professional you've lived in the us for 20 years you are in your thirties you have a wife a little boy and another baby on the way one thing even though you have a green card you are still egyptian on transit you are asked to come with 2 security guards next thing you know you are overpowered hooded and chained and after a brief but still reasonably civil interrogation you are to be rendered this is what happens to anwar el at the beginning of the movie his is a story of pain and literally torture it's one of several story lines one follows his wife's attempts to get more information one follows the cold bureaucrats behind the rendition another story deals with the family of the man who leads the interrogation of anwar el there are some other stories too and by the end they all neatly come together though the more famous actors like reese witherspoon as the distraught pregnant wife jake gyllenhaal as the cia rookie forced to watch the interrogation in northern africa and meryl streep as cia hotshot corine whitman it is really the more unknown actors that carry the story and give it it's heart for me the actor playing the unfortunate mr el omar was the heart and soul of this movie his portrayal of a man in distress was shockingly well done it's almost as if he was being tortured for real also israeli actor was very impressive as the part worried family man and part extremely cruel chief of torture hard to watch and not exactly fun but still very worthwhile
1	i think this was the most outstanding edge of your seat thriller that i have seen in a long time the research for the film was thorough the writer kelly sane has left no loose ends the cast was seasoned fantastic performances all round omar was outstanding br br the cinematography is poetic music enchanting and the overall effect highly satisfying br br rendition goes into territory that even the media fears to tread it is really a wakeup call for those involved with espionage and the legal web that is the war on terror br br a woman walked out of the theater and asked me does this really happen that in itself speaks of gavin hood's masterful achievement
1	rendition presents a very topical matter in the form of a very tense thriller it's a gripping and not a preaching movie seeing it in an arab country with a mixture of arabian and european audience gave it an extra level of atmosphere the audience was totally gripped by the film and gave it a loud applause afterwards the story of an egyptian married to an american picked up on the suspicion of links to terrorist organizations and shipped to a friendly with us arab country for enhanced interrogation as meryl streep's character states in the film we have no torture in the us seems to be from the front page of todays news there is a very neat link between the various characters which appear in the movie and the pace of the film never drops the seems to be as stated by jake character in the film that by abducting and torturing suspects you create many more terrorists the acting is uniformly excellent with streep and reese witherspoon the stand outs not to be missed
1	i saw the movie yesterday and was shocked by it but even more shocked by some of the comments i have read here one person wrote that it was ambiguous if the victim of the torture was guilty or not therefore one person wrote that since he wasn't an american citizen therefore some people comment that the people in the middle east hate us and want us dead therefore so are we saying then that it is right to torture someone who is guilty of a crime are we saying it is right to torture someone who is not an american citizen are we saying that it is right to torture someone who may hate us and want us dead are we saying that as is written in the geneva convention the declaration of human rights and the constitution of the united states that torture is wrong but some torture is less wrong than others when does it become right to torture that is why this movie is powerful it is ambiguous but not about torture torture is always wrong and if we are willing to do it even in the name of justice and national security or freedom and democracy then we are wrong and we are evil we are doing exactly what we are accusing our enemies of doing and we are calling them wrong in the same breath my favorite line in the film was if you don't want to compromise join amnesty international right on
1	just reading why this show got canceled makes me rather steamed this was a favorite of mine as a kid and i always watched it when it came on no matter how many times i saw the episode sure the effects were not great but they were also not horrible either they did a fairly good job with the costume and it had the nice 70's vibe to it that is always enjoyable to see and hear as the music was also very 70's it did not really have any villains from the comics but then most comic book live show adaptations had none to very few actual super villains from the comics powers were a bit different here too he had his spidey sense and he could climb walls but he was not nearly as strong as the spider man of the comics he was super strong though as i do remember an episode where he broke into a room by breaking the door knob off he just was not the car hurler that the one from the comic book can be the show was set in los angelos so there were not as man buildings to swing from but they did okay with the web it is nice that this show actually has the web shooters and not organic shooters of the movie i love the movies but part of me wishes they would start over and do the more smarty pants spidey that has the mechanical web shooters this show had a good star as peter parker and he was okay as spider man it is nice to see a spidey who does not basically live in the slums like he does in the movies neither this show nor the movie though has a spider man that is quick with the insult like the one in the comic still this show was fun without being as corny as the batman show
1	some people think this was a rather bad tv series with cheesy effects considering it was filmed between 1977 1979 but really look back at those years and think we didn't have computers back then so if you think about it it's a rather good tv series br br i always figured bad ratings killed the show but no the network did they canceled out their theme as the superhero network and abandoned a short lived spider man series if it had gone on it probably would have run well into the 80's and if it was really lucky and i mean really lucky the early 90s br br and no one wanted to pick this series up br br anyways jolly old or young nicholas hammond of the sound of music fame is brought to the tv screen as peter parker the secret identity of the amazing spider man along the series peter deals with a clone a beautiful girl from a foreign country and a corrupt politician br br while the series is way out of timeline being that peter is already graduated from university and thats when he gets bit and uncle ben is already dead the audience is treated to action suspense and the attitude that the characters have towards peter and his alter ego spider man br br while it's also slightly disappointing that robert f simon looks nothing like j j jameson it's not so disappointing that betty grant isn't betty grant but a hot african american girl who reminds me of halle berry who is one of the hottest women on the planet so really this one wasn't so bad br br but considering the time and how much drama they packed into this one it kind of foreshadows what bad tv is today either way it's entertaining even for today br br 8 10
1	when i was a kid i remembered this show but thought that now as an adult the show might be a bit dated well yes it is but for me that makes the show more retro and the musics very funky br br this show is mostly well written i do think its a travesty that this show was cancelled after one season especially when this show was more popular than the incredible hulk br br i think fans should overlook the poor special effects and enjoy the stories br br this next sentence contains spoilers my favourite episode as a kid was when there were two spiderman that battle against each other interestingly a similar idea is concocted in spiderman 3 the movie i liked the ideas in this tv show some will hate it i believe stan lee wasn't a fan
1	though short lived the amazing spider man was one of the best made for tv versions of a famed comic book hero only wonder woman lynda carter the best of the genre and the incredible hulk bill bixby lou ferrigno were better br br the amazing spider man outclasses the 1966 1968 batman because the high camp elements of the latter often ruin the adventure spider man outclasses all three television interpretations of superman lois and clark smallville and of course the george reeves superman which brings up the rear br br the amazing spider man was an action drama during the late 1970's the pre cgi era when stunts had to be performed by stunt men not in the database of a computer spider man had its own very talented stuntman to perform the death defying daredevil acrobatics his name was fred waugh who donned the suit for the action sequences nicholas hammond better known as one of julie andrew's children on the all time movie classic the sound of music was spider man during the dialogue scenes hammond's spider man also had his own secret identity as peter parker similar to christopher reeve superman clark kent adam west batman bruce wayne and of course lynda carter as wonder woman diana prince br br it's unfortunate that the series only had thirteen episodes because when the first episode hit the airwaves in november of 1977 the entire country was watching it on cbs that wednesday night in all fairness cbs should release this pilot episode as well as the deadly dust the captive tower etc on dvd shortly spider man was short lived but did have a cult following and in my opinion was a heck of a lot better than the movie interpretation of the famed comic book hero starring toby mcguire br br cbs might be hesitant to release these episodes for two reasons a there might not be a broad market for them based on the lack of longevity of the series and a generation of children and young people who weren't born when the series originally aired in the 1970's b one of the early spider man episodes dealt with a terrorist with designs on the world trade center which was attacked twice many years after this show went off the air in 1993 and of course the devastating attack against this country on 9 11 01 in which the towers were destroyed and many innocent lives were lost br br however i don't think that it would be in bad taste to release this spider man episode even if the show was adventure derived from a comic book and camp in nature the live action amazing spider man doesn't have a large following but it has a cult following if and when cbs releases it out on dvd this cult following could be explained along with the episode in which spiderman saved the towers in 1978 but how in september of 2001 real life proved to be different from the movies i like to follow the news but i also like science fiction fantasy therefore i am eagerly awaiting the release of the amazing spider man on dvd
1	continuing with the exclusive film programme about complicated relationships in some european courts last night in the schloss theatre was shown anna boleyn a film directed by the great teutonic film director herr ernst lubitsch the film depicts the terrible story of the queen consort of the british king henry viii she was executed by her husband well not exactly the king ordered the executioners to do his dirty work not to mention that this marriage caused an important political and religious historical event the english br br the film stars dame henny germany's first screen superstar during those early years and herr emil jannings germany's actor in that silent era both play their characters in a suitable way dame as an innocent aristocrat who becomes progressively interested in the power that the court offers her and herr jannings as the unscrupulous whimsical and womanizing british monarch a character very suitable for this german actor who overacts appropriately given the extravagance and excessive personality of the character himself br br in the early film period herr lubitsch was known for his outstanding costume films colossal productions with big budgets anna boleyn cost about 8 million marks a fortune even for this german count taking great care in magnificent decors as can be seen during the coronation procession in abbey scene which employed 4 000 extras idle germans of that time were used causing revolutionary workers to create a fuss when german president friedrich ebert visited the set during filming br br besides the spectacle one of the most important aspect of this and every film of herr lubitsch even during his epic period is the complex relationship between the main characters we experience a game of different interests double meanings and the complicated art of flirting but what is treated lightly at first ends in tragedy the importance of those historical facts is brought to bear in an effective way but lubitsch is really more interested in the changing relationship between henry viii and anna boleyn br br and now if you'll allow me i must temporarily take my leave because this german count must take care that one of his fat and rich heiress doesn't lose her head for this teutonic aristocrat br br herr graf ferdinand von galitzien http ferdinandvongalitzien blogspot com
1	nothing dull about this movie which is held together by fully realized characters with some depth to them even the hooded torturers have body language jannings' performance is brilliant all will want and need a henry viii as he must have been henny is maybe nobler and purer than anne boleyn but she plays the part as written a victim caught in the jaws of a big huge baby br br cinematography is gorgeous in the restoration the tints sensuous lubitsch lets these characters breathe and reveal their corruption down to the tiniest of he takes his time which can try the patience of an audience accustomed to being carried away by action but the time is worth spending slow your heartbeat and watch this minor miracle of german silent film
1	would be an extremely above average comic book vampire hunter action horror if it weren't for two minor flaws 1 i loved seeing the all but invincible blade snipes do his slicing and dicing but the whole yes fist punch was literally a letdown 2 bad no make that horrible cgi – even for 1998 standards this is mainly in the last third but some sprinkled throughout okay despite those minor i really enjoyed this movie all actors did a suburb job and the fact that this now looks like yet another 'matrix' rip off is hilarious considering this came out one year prior so maybe 'the matrix' copied 'blade ' at any rate it's a very movie for multiple genre loving audiences comic book geeks action fanatics and horror vampire lovers so we have blade half man half vampire or day walker and his accomplish a la batman and alfred battling the undead who apparently almost out number humans who knew in a rare act of humanity blade's more of an antihero our sword ninja vamp rescues a newly infected coincidentally blood specialist doctor meanwhile trouble brews amongst the vampires as one wants you guessed it supreme power and needs blade somehow to obtain it it's not the most original concept if you read what i just wrote but still highly enjoyable you will want to see blade succeed you will root for him despite his imperfections and mannerisms and you will know what's coming as this is the typical act 1 2 3 of a comic book introduction movie still watch this without trying to go too deep such as vampire 1000 suntan lotion really what about the scalp wouldn't that still burn just like the money they burn for weapons uh okay i am going too deep once again sit back and enjoy the techno charged fun ride
1	silent historical drama based on the story of anne boleyn newly arrived lady in waiting to the queen who catches the lustful eye of henry viii bad tempered king of england who loves to feast drink hunt be entertained by his court jester watch and chase around after young beauties who jump out of cakes and assorted attractive females around the castle well he's soon annulled his marriage married anne and telling her it is her holy duty to produce a male heir she fails on that score and he soon has his eye on yet another lady in waiting meanwhile anne spends pretty much the entire film looking hesitant perturbed or downright ready to burst into tears she just doesn't come across as a happy camper or is it just bad acting br br this film is a solid piece of entertainment with an absorbing story that held my interest for two hours plus i enjoyed seeing the very lavish medieval costuming featured here on a gorgeous sepia tinted print emil jannings is quite striking and memorable in his well done portrayal of king henry the eighth he really seemed like he was henry the eighth i am not so sure about the performance given by the actress who plays anne seemed a bit over the top the dvd of this film features an appropriate nicely done piano score that perfectly suits this story quite a good film
1	this is a truly wonderful love story i liked the songs however even if you do not you have to love the story peter o'toole is at his best and clark is doing fine as well i first saw this when i was about 13 and loved it then now in my forties i still enjoy it probably even more still makes me cry and laugh and feel good it is a movie to watch only with a new age guy or by yourself as it is a chick flick but whats wrong with that need a little romance and maybe a little cry try this movie br br
1	30 years after the original film goodbye mr chips was made over as a musical peter o'toole and clarke starred in this wonderful remake of the beloved schoolteacher who is referred to as chips by his beloved wife br br o'toole was excellent here and received another oscar nomination you have to wonder what peter o'toole has to do to win an oscar he has lost the coveted award 8 times now you also have to wonder that he lost in 1969 to john wayne for true grit which was really a testament to mr wayne's long career and popularity this year was also marked by great performances by richard burton anne of the thousand days as well as dustin hoffman and jon voight for midnight cowboy br br surprised to see clarke cast as mrs however as this was a musical a beautiful voice came well through and she did a nice piece of acting as well br br who can forget the scene when chips carries on in the class despite the news that his beloved has been killed in a bombing he never got to tell her the wonderful news of his pending promotion br br the beautiful cinematography and music only enhanced a truly memorable experience
1	peter o'toole gives a brilliant performance in this movie i have seen the original version with robert and i much prefer peter o'toole's performance and the movie in general even though it is a musical i've really never seen anything that mr o'toole is in that i don't like he is a brilliant actor multi talented giving performances full of passion and depth clark also gave a surprisingly good performance and was perfect for the part it is an all around heartwarming movie full of tenderness and bittersweet fun i will always remember in para phrase the line where mr chips regrets he has never given her children and she replies of course you have hundreds of them all boys thank you for the opportunity to vote for this movie and to voice my opinion
1	great story great music a heartwarming love story that's beautiful to watch and delightful to listen to too bad there is no soundtrack cd
1	great acting is best rewarded by pairing with a melodramatic script which truly elevates the human spirit to all those minions who toil each and every day take heart your patience is virtuous your and decency will evidence in ways you will never anticipate this is your great story i do not believe you can watch through to the end without a wisp of moisture in that hardened eye or can you for me it would not be so the story is relentless the idealist denied his due will anyone speak up ah but you will need to see the show yourselves observe the schoolmaster in his prime without the notice and the observer would certainly expect and why does he continue so yes you must watch o'toole's performance for yourselves i can only wish it were still 'in to purchase then present to my friends as my evidence of respect for their faithful lives
1	chips is an excellent blend of music light comedy and drama with a picture perfect performance by peter o' toole and and effortless romantic supporting performance by clark o' toole is able to show the shy uncommunicative teacher that wishes so much to be loved by his students and is only able to express his love when he married katherine clark she brings him the world what a lot of flowers and he is forever changed he becomes the beloved headmaster of through tragedy but knows he could only have achieved his goal through love the songs with the exception of the music hall number are all thought songs coming from character's emotions and thoughts and the more you listen to them the more beautiful they become walk through the world with me and you and i o'toole's finest moment is the final speech he gives to the students it was the reason for the oscar nomination as a teacher we question what book learning ever gets through but as chips says we did teach them how to behave with each other and that is what really counts beautifully filmed perfectly orchestrated by john williams and one of the most moving films about love and how it can change you did i fill the world with love the boys sing their school song by the end chips realizes he was able to do it but only cause catherine was there
1	goodbye mr chips is a superbly written and photographed musical version of the classic 1939 film aside from peter o'toole's wonderfully controlled understated performance as the pedantic schoolmaster who finds love and is changed by it the film contains hundreds of stunning visuals from ruins to london side streets to an extended countryside montage the music and lyrics by leslie have been criticized as being dull or not up to par for film musicals but they are used to enhance the story rather than tell it many songs are used to underscore montages or scenes the few that don't are relegated to show biz numbers in this manner the songs do not intrude upon this delicate story but heighten what the characters are thinking or feeling where did my childhood go walk through the world with me and you and i are especially effective an absorbing brilliantly acted directed and written film
1	i love this movie because every single element of it is nothing less than excellent i will quickly praise a few of them peter o'toole gives us one of his great performances as he becomes the definitive mr chips clark has a beautiful voice and is perfect as katharine the director was able to bring the story to the screen in a fresh new way combine that with the fantastic and creative cinematography editing writing etc and you have a film that shows the fine quality of its production i can't praise the well planned camera work enough it moves us up and around zooming in and out giving us the best views of and letting the locations become part of the scene clark's last song 'you and i' is just 3 beautifully composed long takes and in this era of 2 second takes i can appreciate the extra care that everyone involved had to give to get those long scenes perfect the music is great and the songs move the story along just as they should leslie is one of my favorite composers listen to these songs how could anyone not like them this is a very romantic story between two people nearing middle age that find each other bring out the best in each other and it lasts till the end of their lives excellent production values acting camera work and music make this movie well worth watching
1	peter o'toole is arthur chipping a latin teacher with strict adherence to detail and in helping young minds grasp the meaning and definition of latin words and phrases he is seen as being cold and unfair and not in touch with the times but upon meeting stage actress singer katherine clark not only at a late supper after a performance of london is london but at an in greece his closed minded world starts to open up br br goodbye mr chips is an mgm musical remake of the 1939 movie also from mgm during this time musicals were out and the hollywood studio system was in total shambles when it premiered in new york los angeles and london the musical numbers were left intact but when it came to the local main street theaters world wide it was sans songs therefore making the movie shorter and gaped to the max br br thanks to mgm ua home video under ted turner in the late 1980's early 1990's when vhs and laser disc were the main home video formats of choice the musical numbers were re instituted and the gaps closed laserdisc though was the only format chosen to view goodbye mr chips in the widescreen letterbox format br br for awhile now the original motion picture soundtrack was only available on the original out of print vinyl and cassette tape and can still be found today on ebay br br thanks to the wonderful people at film score monthly com in 2006 the soundtrack has been digitally remastered and remixed into a 3 cd set featuring the completely reconstructed score the original 1969 general release album score and narrated sequences source music and interviews a plenty you also get 1 unused song which is a real lost gem tomorrow with me by clark which would have been chosen in place of you and i before hand br br this movie is both a classic musical and a real tribute to educators everywhere i most certainly would buy this movie if warner bros mgm and sony would put their money where there mouth is and get this film restored from all master film sources and put it on both dvd and blu ray with all the bells and whistles put back into place with all the extras you can find and stuff into a release
1	hope the summary line won't irritate you that much it's a little homage to the show charlie murphy but also to the character but i'll try to put all the things i liked about the movie in one paragraph and everything i didn't like in another paragraph so it will be easier to read br br let's start with the good things the quote strong bloody violence which is used by rating boards to describe the content of a movie does fit here very well this is not a movie for kids or for the faint of hearted it has blade as a central character wesley snipes is phenomenal and a crazy enough story thread to hold justify the action scenes the original idea is also very engaging and intelligent the action scenes are great here too br br ok over to the things i didn't like the overall story is too thin it's enough as i've written above to hold the action scenes together but there could be more and a character like blade deserves more imo the drama therefor isn't the best also it's use of clichés doesn't help some characters are underwritten that's that o
1	fantastically written acted and produced loved seeing this gleaming talented cast every single one of them give a such great performance this movie thoroughly warmed the cockles of my heart great storytelling br br this is a great movie for black history month full of an accurate portrayal of recent history and very real characters who weathered incredible pain with dignity and a belief in a better future it is so easy to see how these diverse adults all affected this child and contributed to the fertile imagination that would eventually fuel the talent of his adulthood the next time you're in the company of a listening and observing child remember show or he may be a writer in the making
1	i first saw this in the theater in 1969 when i was 9 and immediately fell in love with it i'm sad that sony has not seen fit to release this on dvd but one day one day i recently obtained a vhs copy of this on ebay and sat down to watch it 39 years later i'm happy to report it still stands the test of time the acting is spot on john williams' orchestrations are lush and leslie songs memorable when i am older you and i fill the world with love london is london are just a few of the standouts and not enough can be said about peter o' toole clarke michael redgrave and michael acting terence rattigan deserves an a for his update of the james hilton story there really is nothing not to like about this film it's a good cheer me up selection glad they have released the original soundtrack as a three cd set with lots of extras wish sony would hurry up and do the same with the film
1	i wish i was first exposed to this in a movie theater when it was first released as some of the commentors had been it really is a treasure to be fair i have not seen any other version of goodbye mr chips and neither do i want to to me this stands as a perfect version i first saw it on tcm years ago and never forgot it i had the pleasure of watching it with my girlfriend yesterday although i had recorded it from tcm days earlier there were portions of the movie in which both of us were teary eyed it really is a moving movie br br and shouldn't that be what movies are all about br br the music is beautiful the film was shot wonderfully the acting is top notch and the story is delicate and timeless br br one of my favorite movies of all time
1	i saw this film when it first came out and didn't know what to expect exactly what followed the overture was one of the most pleasurable filmgoing experiences i have ever had a lush score of songs and music by leslie of doctor doolittle wonka and the chocolate factory fame as well as making his mark on the broadway musical scene and scored by the incomparable john williams there's not a bad song in the entire film plus some of the most exquisite cinematography costume design and filming locations i have ever seen in one film not to mention the academy award nominated performance by peter o'toole and the equally strong performance in my opinion by the wonderful clark now given that peter is not the same caliber a singer that is he still manages to sell his songs to the audience and that after all is what it is all about this is a faithful adaptation of the excellent book by james hilton and deserves to be treasured for generations to come i recommend this film for family viewing though most men will consider this a flick but if you like a truly great film musical then this film is for you but be warned that a standby box of kleenex is just as important as popcorn for your viewing pleasure
1	peter o'toole one of our finest actors is magnificent as a reserved school master who is dedicated to teaching young boys he meets a show girl and falls in love the story is one of love and devotion clark adds spirit and sensitivity not too mention a remarkable voice you will enjoy this film even though the ending might not be a happy one i enjoyed it
1	yes 1939 robert greer garson version was the best perfection won the oscar in a very tough year gable in gwtw james stewart as mr smith were 2 of his competitors wow was that a rough year most critics in ny hated this version so didnt see in theatre finally saw this a m on tcm enjoyed peter o'toole was excellent glad he was oscar nominated for this esp pleased oscar finally gave him a special award this past year clark was good as mrs chips but her character i feel was poorly written some good songs esp you i sung by ms clark later recorded by many others including t bennett s bassey carmen macrae the b w version was more authentic but this is a good film beautifully photographed in color panavision enjoyable worth seeing bravo again mr o'toole
1	caught this 1969 film on cable tcm one night i remember when i first saw the film in hong kong i really enjoyed the songs and performances by peter o'toole and clark i love clark best in francis ford coppola's rainbow 1968 opposite fred astaire don and tommy steele simply ecstatic to learn that finally this delightful irish flavored pot of gold musical is released on dvd ah it's that old devil moon in your eyes br br peter o'toole as mr chips yes he did sing quite a deliverance he may not be a veteran at musical like rex harrison but he inhabited the role marvelously the scene of him running across the lawn in his cape a flying reminds me of the pbs series to serve them all my days a lovable schoolmaster and loving man he is 'mr ' clark and o'toole somehow gave us just the right mix of spunk and circumstance the songs and lyrics by leslie are catchy as usual the tunes of you and i and walk through the world with me stayed with me the most all these years and there's what a lot of flowers and the sky smiled fill the world with love not syrupy at all sometimes i think if the world is immersed in songs and words we would overcome all strife on earth and 'lovely' will be all our days yes talk to the animals too doctor doolittle 1967 br br musicals are a blessing to the world of moviegoers they are somehow larger than life like the music and lyrics by the sherman brothers richard m and robert b who gave us chitty chitty bang bang 1968 and mary poppins 1964 who wouldn't feel absolutely delighted simply uttering i was tickled by even just one featured song dance number in the spanish film km 0 zero 2000 my all time favorite is french filmmaker jacques young girls of rochefort 1967 with colorful cast of catherine deneuve and late sister francoise jacques michel danielle gene kelly and george chakiris singing dancing to michel music long live musicals
1	i enjoyed the movie and the story immensely i have seen the original 1939 i believe and enjoyed them both to really appreciate the story one must be familiar with english culture and customs the prof peter o'toole was dedicated to his school and the boys in that school it was an english public school which we in the u s refer to as a private school e g he is a very person and on the surface gives the appearance of being stiff stuffy uncaring and weak to the point of being effeminate he is strict in his educational standards because he does care for his lads i e he doesn't want them to get a cheap or weak education he meets through introduction a dance hall girl clark and is totally smitten in england at the time the reference to dance hall carried the connotation of extreme sexual promiscuity and was definitely lower class we find that the prof is in fact a very tough and courageous person as well as loyal to people and institutions that he loves and or respects clark becomes more than a lover and wife she his personality and allows him to grow as a man and a person much to the benefit of his beloved school and his own happiness the first movie was set before ww ii this one goes through ww ii also it is 1969 we've had the british invasion beetles etc clark had hits and was very popular then still is to me the music is great color and photography excellent i think o'toole played the character perfectly there are dedicated people like chips all around us but many do not receive the recognition very enjoyable movie and story
1	when it opened in london during the christmas season of 1969 this musical version of james hilton's famous story was by the critics the same reception greeted it when it opened in the us prompting mgm to withdraw its roadshow status and cut almost all of its songs what a mistake br br watched years later when the trendy world of the 60's and 70's has turned in upon itself this version of goodbye mr chips is a total delight first of all as chipping peter o'toole gives one of his greatest performances to watch him turn from the hated cold emotionless latin teacher at a boy's boarding school to a man who finally can see the colors in the world after falling for and marrying musical star catherine is to see a genius at work if you can watch lawrence of arabia the lion in winter my favorite year and chips back to back over a number of days or weeks then you will see what a truly great actor o'toole is and how magnificent he is in chips br br catherine as played by the glowing clark at the height of her popularity is ever man's dream beautiful loving understanding with a great voice to boot most of the songs are beautiful and fit the story perfectly while the direction by the late herbert ross brings the proceedings wonderfully to life br br okay this film may be a bit too romantic for some people but for those who are looking for a beautifully acted sung and directed love story look no further if you can get your hands of the laser disc wide screen version better yet i am anxiously awaiting chips' debut on dvd
1	thirty years after the 1939 classic film won robert an oscar and made greer garson a star goodbye mr chips overcame a multitude of problems before stumbling to the screen in this musical version original stars rex harrison and samantha eggar were replaced by richard burton and lee remick who in turn were given the heave ho in favor of thankfully peter o'toole and clark andre score was rejected and the one eventually used was composed by unfortunately leslie first time director herbert ross was handed the monumental task of transforming a simple love story that of a man for both his wife and students into a big budget extravaganza that it succeeds as well as it does despite the many obstacles in its way is a testament to its two stars br br arthur chipping is a latin teacher at a boys' school in suburban england where he himself was educated introverted and socially inept he is dedicated to his students but unable to inspire them prior to summer holiday a former student takes him to a london music hall to see an entertainment starring katharine bridges the young lady he hopes to wed the post performance meeting is awkward for all and chips as he is commonly known sets off to explore some of italy's ancient ruins unexpectedly he runs into katharine who has booked a mediterranean cruise to allow her time to mourn a failed love affair and ponder the direction of her career in the time they spend together she discovers a kind and gentle man beneath the befuddled exterior and upon returning to london pursues him in earnest when the fall term begins chips returns to with his young bride and the two settle into a life of quiet domesticity complications arise when aspects of past surface and again when world war ii intrudes in their lives but chips is bolstered by his wife's support and his new found confidence makes him a favorite among the students br br aside from a couple of musical interludes the delightful music hall production number london is london and declaration of love you and i most of songs some of them performed in voice over as the characters explore their emotions are easily forgettable and in no way enhance the film eliminate the score entirely and goodbye mr chips works quite well as a drama terrence script retains elements of the original while expanding upon it and updating it by a couple of decades he has crafted several scenes between chips and katharine that beautifully delineate their devotion to each other and infused a few with comic relief courtesy of friend and cohort over the top actress ursula delightfully played by phillips o'toole's real life wife at the time he also captures life at a british public school the equivalent of a private academy here in the states with unerring perfection br br ross does well as a first time director liberally sprinkling the film with breathtakingly photographed moments the opening credits sequence during which the school anthem echoes in the vast stone hallways of the school perfectly sets the tone for the film costumes and sets are true to the period the students portrayed by non professionals who were enrolled at the school used as handle their various small supporting roles well br br highest praise is reserved for peter o'toole and clark in the lead roles o'toole was long established as a first class dramatic actor so his academy award nominated performance here comes as no surprise clark a veteran of some two dozen b movies in the uk and the previous year's rainbow is absolutely luminous as the music hall soubrette who a theatrical career in favor of life as a wife her golden voice enriches her songs and almost allows us to overlook how insipid most of them are and she more than matches o'toole in their dramatic scenes together the chemistry between the two is palpable and leaves us with no doubt that this is a couple very much in love br br this version of goodbye mr chips is no classic like its predecessor but hardly the disaster many critics described when it was released ignore the score concentrate on the performances and revel in the atmosphere ross has put on the screen it's a pleasant way to spend a rainy afternoon with someone you love
1	if you only see one ernest movie in your life make it this one this is by far the best in the series with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages the other ernest flicks were good too but most people tend to get tired of him quickly not me however br br in this movie ernest p is assigned jury duty for a murder case the murderer nash just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest mr nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer br br a great flick if you haven't already seen it watch it
1	i admit i go more for the traditional vampire tale but this one is a real winner lots of way out graphics and good story to go with them made for an interesting 2 hours there was loads of gore with vicious blood suckers attacking mortals and even each other for control of the world a good one for all us vampire lovers
1	this is a good film this is very funny yet after this film there were no good ernest films
1	this was easily one of the weirder of the ernest movies especially in regards to the production design what was up with the pink guard uniforms sadly this film probably destroyed the ernest series turning the series into a straight to video series however jim varney gave one of his better performances by playing nash his criminal alter ego a misstep in the series but wasn't too bad in most regards the electro man routine was classic
1	this is an excellent movie there were several parts to the movie i liked this movie is very funny visit the ernest fun club web site at www com there are several movies such as the following ernest goes to camp ernest saves christmas ernest goes to jail ernest in the army ernest goes to school ernest rides again slam dunk ernest etc i highly recommend these for family movies all star jim varney again try visiting www com which is the best ernest movie in my opinion there are actually 2 ernest goes to camp and ernest goes to jail so if you have never seen ernest p its time to go and see him you will find him quite satisfactory no what i mean
1	ernest p comes through with his third movie presentation jim varney not only plays ernest but doubles as the evil mr nash from start to finish this movie has some solid laughs and makes a good family film rated pg for comic book violence
1	this is a really good flick with awesome humor jim as we know was very good with facial expressions and demonstrates a lot of it in this movie this is definitely the best of the ernest films i would surely recommend it to any ernest fan out there i find myself to have great taste in movies and i'm sure anyone will enjoy this movie in the movie ernest plays 2 roles bad guy and good guy and plays them quite well i really enjoy exaggeration type humor where things just seem impossible like in the naked gun films for example and there is plenty of it in this movie i bought this movie right after i saw it good directing good script worth renting
1	this movie brings back so many memories for me i was very young when it came out but i remember the first time i saw it my dad and i would always watch the ernest movies together we hadn't seen any of them in several years and i found a couple of them really cheap we watched them and could not stop laughing i love all of the ernest movies but this one is my favorite br br spoiler part br br the part i remember most is the magnet part my dad still does the electric chair scene br br end spoiler br br this is a very cheesy movie but a great one it's perfect for families it isn't like a lot of the trash out there but at the same time adults can laugh too if you like physical humor like facial expressions and the way people move then this is the movie for you
1	i love ernest goes to jail it's one of my top 3 favorite ernest movies the others being ernest scared stupid and ernest goes to camp in this movie ernest jim varney works as a janitor for a bank but he wants to be a bank clerk soon he is assigned jury duty but soon winds up in trouble when the evil murderer felix nash varney also knocks him out and switches places with him soon ernest is in jail and is forced to act like nash or else nash will kill charlotte ernest's love interest when they take ernest to the electric chair thinking he's nash he gets so electrocuted he winds up breaking out and goes off and saves charlotte from the evil nash filled with hilarious scenes and comics ernest goes to jail is a movie that'll make you laugh so hard it still does to me jim varney was such a fantastic actor he did a good job playing both good guy and bad guy varney was like his toy story co star tom hanks no matter what role they played their roles were memorabilia and that's one of the things that gonna be remembered forever for r i p jim varney 1949 2000 thank you for bringing ernest and other fantastic characters to life 10 out of 10
1	the last good ernest movie and the best at that how can you not laugh at least once at this movie the last line is a classic as is ernest's gangster impressions his best moment on film this has his best lines and is a crowning achievement among the brainless screwball comedies
1	if i had to decide which was the best ernest movie and don't act like that sort of thing doesn't happen all time it would be this one br br all of the ernest movies are entertaining but the best ones are the ones that have jim varney doing a number of different characters additionally i am known to enjoy the comedy stylings of bill and gailard sartain as brothers chuck and bobby tulip ernest goes to jail contains all of those elements as well as a funny script and a supporting cast that features several beloved character actors br br and that is why i have chosen ernest goes to jail as the king of all ernest movies disagree with me if you must but deep down you know i am right
1	this time the lovable dimwit gets summoned for jury duty where a corrupt attorney notices that he looks like a jailbird who wants to break out so the two get switched of course most of the movie is a series of gags in ernest goes to jail most of the gags relate to electricity i really liked the whole vacuum cleaner sequence early on overall the point of the movie is just to have fun and i'm sure that you will this is possibly the ultimate movie that you watch with a bud it's quite safe to say that jim varney will truly be missed fyi the only other cast member whom i recognized was randall tex cobb who played lyle you've surely seen him somewhere
1	it seems to me that a lot of people don't know that blade is actually a superhero movie on par with x men daredevil punisher and the likes what all these heroes and in the case of x men hero group have in common is that they were all conceived in the magical world of marvel blade was originally a normal person in a blue outfit who chased vampires because of a personal grudge and eventually facing of with dracula himself and he was for lack of a better word boring so boring in fact that the character was shelved and in fact never used in the marvel universe at least until he was reinvented br br david did a stroke of genius when he took the character of blade and turned him into a leather clad dark knight he can't take all the credit though and much of this must go to stephen as well who with his distinct visual style brings out the best of the character the blade character wesley snipes is pretty amazing in this film and mixes martial arts with batman like darkness snipes is pretty good as the title character and is successful in bringing out the duality and inner demons of the character he is however a pretty rigid actor both in voice and in posture and is only interesting enough for one film which is clearly seen from the inferior sequels kris kristofferson is good as well and really brings the tormented character of whistler to life with energy and sense of timing wright however is fairly weak as a leading lady making her character relatively flat and lifeless donal is pretty funny and manages to do a lot with a minor character german udo kier should also be mentioned as he brings a lot of finesse and style to the vampire race probably born of his experiences from playing dracula stephen dorf provides the best acting in the film and his chilling performance as deacon frost stands as one of the best screen villains i have perhaps ever seen br br the story is good and i feel renews the vampire genre something that hasn't been done since robert from dusk till dawn by adding a lot of contemporary elements and maintaining the comic book feel by saying that the film has a comic book feel does not mean that the film is unrealistic far from it a lot of effort has been put in trying to make the film seem as real as possible including the effects which are pretty good for their time i found the vampire to be a very nice touch in stead of adding a lot of blood when a vampire dies chose to let the vampires spontaneously com bust which looks great the fact that the overall effects were well done adds to the credibility of the film which would otherwise have fallen flat on its face br br as previously stated has a very distinct visual style that sets him apart from the directors of the following blade movies del toro is nearly as skilled but i prefer style his style gives the film a very special look and feel but most importantly it gives the film atmosphere a very tense dark atmosphere which works great in tune with the main character and story along with the visual style the music which also works fine and adds a lot to the atmosphere of the movie br br all in all blade is a very entertaining movie that should probably have had an 8 from me but a few annoying flaws which cannot be revealed without spoiling the movie suffice to say many of them are located near the ending of the film does that the film must settle with a high 7 br br 7 10
1	i watched this movie only because i didn't want to leave my 9 yo and her friend in the theater by themselves honestly i went in expecting to enjoy a good nap but found myself entranced by the movie i'd recommend it to anyone who asks roy's mom was on one of my all time favorite tv shows years ago playing a mermaid maximum bob she was really cute in this movie the three main characters were all excellent young actors also enjoyed seeing and hearing jimmy buffet the movie itself was quite beautiful showcasing some of what makes florida so great i'm glad i ended up going to this movie and to think i was disappointed that i couldn't take them to see stick it i think this was much better
1	this film was not great cinema but definitely a good film to see with your family especially children from 10 15 there are good topics of discussion brought up in this movie such as bullies the environment and working to make things right jimmy music was a plus and the scenery was wonderful the young actors were excellent and this is a movie i would expect to see on the family channel or the hallmark channel except for a few words in the dialog a middle school could show this film to start discussions in the classroom hopefully it will be shown in drive ins this summer so that more people get to see it it did follow carl book well and it was fun to see him in a cameo performance
1	logan lerman dean collins iii of jack bobby fame provide a nice touch of familiarity as friends in this even if not maybe as close as they may be on jack bobby but the expressions of young students taking their stand for a good cause is very well expressed in this movie logan lerman may be seemingly typecast in roles of being different as thusly seen from here as is seen in this as well as in jack and bobby the movie also opens up with a very nice tune coined as a lost 45 and i'm wondering where the lions are a song which i'd always heard on the speaker my old job of and got it played on my local radio show of the hosted by barry scott but the last time of which i suggested this with this movie as it's dedication but the dedication was left out environmentalist demonstration is well expressed in this movie too for the protection of the ground owls as seen in this movie too what a hoot too this movie is hoot a hoot in the tradition of the owl commercials of the 1970s too truthfully stephen steve g baer a k a ste
1	hoot is the best movie go and see it if you haven't about these 3 kids that stand up to the right and the wrong a perfect family film the characters mullet fingers cody beatrice brie larson and roy eberhardt logan lerman are the three main characters great movie the best i love this movie and you guys should too its a great movie i mean it a great movie go and see it if you haven't i like it because they stand up to the right and wrong and it has cut owls and the hot cody br br cody is so hot i love him so much
1	i read the book before i saw the movie i knew the movie was going to be good because the book was great i seriously recommend you see this amazing fantastic movie i know you will like it when i went to see it i was there with my sister and there was nobody that was with us i was a little disappointed but nobody that i know has gone in to that movie and came out saying that was a horrible movie nobody can it is so great i think everyone will like it to bad nobody wants to see it anyway i hope from what you have heard about this movie from me will make you want to see this movie i guarantee you'll like it as much as i do im obsessed i am
1	the story is incredible it begins with a new kid in town named roy while on the bus to school he notices a kid running with no shoes and on that same day he breaks the big bullies nose who is trying to fight with him roy soon discovers that kid is a runaway and he and his step sister are trying to mess a construction sight that could kill all the beautiful owls that live there roy decides to help them him there fight can they win this fight before the smart but bumbling cop dave luke wilson stumbles on to them an enjoyable film funny and adventurous i do admire luke wilson for taking this role i don't think his brother owen would even take this role
1	in hoot a new kid arrives to florida from montana he first faces the usual problems of blending in and dealing with the local bully soon though he becomes aware of a bigger problem a franchise restaurant chain is trying to build a site in the town right where a number of burrowing owls live this movie has the look of a family film but it is pretty more radical than it seems as it shows sympathetically how roy and a couple of friends do not shy away from including vandalism of private property and briefly kidnapping the manager of the chain of restaurants in the name of environmentalism to save owls no less now one might agree or not with those actions but at least the movie has the courage from not shying away from its convictions a good solid film all in all
1	i saw the movie hoot and then i immediately decided to comment it the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet some people think that if they have money they can do whatever they want to which probably is like but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful this movie is not just about kids this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do when i was twelve i saw some and i knew they are protected by law and didn't even dare to touch them not fearing of the law but fearing that i might harm them actually i am currently 15 what so ever the acting was great the 3 main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie and enjoy
1	this is a good family movie with a few laughs i wish it didn't have too much of the school stuff like the bully in it to fill the movie up also it seems a little too easy to save a piece of land from being built i mean the it just flowed too easily it does make you aware of the wildlife it had a cute way of introducing the piece of land which the fast runner but a little too slow for me a little too hokey for me and it reminded me of going back to school oh the dvd is chock full of goodies so don't miss out 7 out of 10 for the movie 10 out 10 for the dvd with the extras that is well worth to watch well worth your time to see this
1	i thought this was a really great movie especially since it was jut filler for me i was bored i got it from the library and i really enjoyed myself i've watched it twice in the two days and the more i watch it the more i like it i thought that the plot was going to be really corny but in the end it really could be said that it would be true i liked the main characters and i thought that they were well cast and you could see true friendship i thought they all did an excellent job the ending was good and you really hate the bad guys and you really like the good guys which is what a movie is supposed to be like
1	wesley snipes is perfectly cast as blade a half human half vampire known the he has all their strengths and his only weakness is the thirst for blood since he teamed up with whistler kris kristofferson he has hunted down vampires who have lived amongst us unnoticed for centuries but omnipotent overlord deacon frost stephen dorff is tired of living in harmony with the humans food as he calls them and he plans to the blood god and take control of the world br br this movie is well cast written and directed ensuring the viewer has a thrilling ride from start to finish packed with great fight sequences and slick dialogue blade is certainly more action than horror but it definitely delivers br br 8 10
1	hoot is a nice plain movie with a simple message it seemed like that this film was for young children but i know that adults will like this film the storyline is pretty simple a kid who moved to florida must help a soccer jock and an outcast save burrowing owls from construction of a pancake house the message in this film is big especially for animal activists and lovers the message is about doing all you can to save endangered animals the acting in this film is decent all the three kids looked like they had good chemistry the music is not too shabby i liked jimmy songs in this film overall this is a good family film i rate this film a 9 10
1	saw the movie today and thought it was a good effort good messages for kids a bit predictable the book was better gave more plot details ore about the environment and how the kids uncovered the conspiracy i think warped humor comes across better in the book than the movie but there were lots of funny moments in the movie as well it is probably a bit too slow paced for kids under 6 yrs of age loved the casting of jimmy buffet as the science teacher and those baby owls were adorable i wonder how they managed to film them the movie showed a lot of florida at it's best made it look very appealing am i imagining it or did the author carl make a brief appearance
1	hoot was terrific the owls are adorable and the movie highlights an interesting environmental issue i didn't know existed florida is full of so many fun characters and the film does a great job of bringing that to the screen my kids particularly loved all the different animals from snakes to owls to alligators it's really a simple story but also one that they need to hear at this age when kids are young that's when they really develop their sense of values and yes one of those must be caring for our environment and all the creatures that live in it i think it was great that the film even sparked a conversation with them on the ride home about animals and how to help them it was just truly sweet and enduring to hear my little girl talk about how she wanted to save the baby birds anyway overall it was really a great time and i'd recommend the movie to anyone looking for something entertaining and meaningful
1	i must confess i was surprised at how good this movie was when i first watched it i had planned to see it in theaters during the summer but found out unpleasantly that it had already been and gone therefore i expected it to have been removed from theaters because it was bad then today i rented it and watched it and really enjoyed it the speed that events were occurring was questionable it could have been a little longer i found it was very true to the book however it left out some crucial parts mullet real name etc i felt as if i hadn't read the book i wouldn't have really understand what was going on the acting was quite good another thing i had expected to be poor however the cop sorry i can't remember the actor's name could have done a little better all in all i found this to be a very entertaining movie and would recommend it to all audiences
1	in hoot mullet fingers is engaging in sabotage to stop the pancake house the problem is that the builders just start over again and he has to take more drastic measures when he is confronted with the dogs he scares them off with snakes not before he is bitten by a dog and has to go to hospital br br roy at bedtime asks his father who works with the department of justice how he deals with crooks his father says it involves the tedious steps of looking through papers because sooner or later they all slip up you can see this with enron and roy looks at documents relating to the pancake house and finds a suppressed document he does have to break in to the company trailer so when the police see it he has the law on his side unlike when he the police br br mind you as mentioned before roy is not always law abiding and when the company man is killing owls illegally mullet fingers takes direct action he can't wait for the law mullet fingers is in hiding the movie does suggest that one should work in the system
1	this is a delightful gem of a movie unfortunately pigeon holed as just for kids the plot revolves around a young man roy eberhardt newly arrived in southwest florida from the montana mountains trying to fit in with the other kids at his middle school roy discovers a brother sister team trying to protect endangered burrowing owls at an illegal construction site look for carl the author of the book upon which this movie is based as the male secretary to the evil boss at corporate headquarters writer director wil is also the clerk at the public records office where the intrepid teen detectives discover that the incriminating environmental impact report is missing luke wilson nearly steals all the crucial scenes from the charming teen actors who have most of the best lines wilson is the bumbling police officer in his three wheeled electric police cart complete with blue light and funky siren as officer dave he tries so hard to do well but usually ends up falling in the muck literally several times jimmy buffet is pretty low key as the tacitly supportive science teacher but young actors logan lerman roy brie larson beatrice the bear and cody mullet fingers are superb as the teens who finally put officer dave on the right track following the paper trail left by the evil corporate boss i hope you come away from this movie feeling as good as i did just plain fun one small complaint though i hope all non realize that not everyone from florida is as surly to newcomers as depicted in this film we're really a friendly bunch just ask carl and jimmy buffet
1	i highly recommend this movie to everyone my son and i read the book first and then saw the movie while the book was better in my opinion the movie was still great my son and i agree that while we like the book version the best we liked the ending of the movie better than the book ending the scenery is just tremendous and the soundtrack is a must have the fact that jimmy buffett has a small role and provides music is an added plus luke wilson does a decent job in his role of officer and is pretty much what i had mentally imagined would look like when i read the book i'm surprised that this didn't do better in the theaters and i'll be waiting for the dvd to come out
1	hoot is about these three teenage kids who try to save a bunch of burrowing owls now to me i thinks that right they stand up to whats right and whats wrong in this film a kid name roy eberhardt logan lerman moved from montana to florida and once he gets on the bus a bully name dana starts bullying him finally the next day roy punches the bully and runs off the bus chasing the mysterious running boy after all that roy finally meets the running boy who's name is mullet fingers cody well actually his nickname his step sister beatrice brie larson gave it to him because he can catch mullets with his bare hands anyway mullet fingers and roy becomes friends and they join together with beatrice to stop the construction of a new pancake restaurant mullet fingers is the one behind all the that happened there and also later he gets bit by one of the dogs that put there to guard the construction site so they stood up to the that was driving the bulldozer and everybody got to see the owls it turned out to be a great movie because it showed where kids can make a difference in life by standing up to whats right and whats wrong thats what is great about this movie it teaches a lot to everyone about wildlife and how important it is
1	i read the book in a summer book club and all of us there loved it my friends from that club agreed not to watch the movie lest the book be ruined i didn't agree and watched it recently with my younger brother and my parents br br i was pleasantly surprised the movie was very true to the book without losing it's own spirit the 'new kid' theme was shown just enough so that we get a feel of it but that's not what the story's about br br the acting wasn't the best i've ever seen but it was still good and the kids especially had a lot of energy the characters were interesting and the plot was cute and not too overstated it was a kids movie that works just fine for adults or teenagers too br br i wish there had been a bit more tough girl attitude from beatrice but she was still a great character mullet fingers was quite a bit like i had imagined him except his hair was a little obviously dyed with blonde hair and dark eyebrows roy worked very well as the little guy and the new kid especially interactions with his parents and friends br br the message and the ending which i won't discuss other than i liked it teamed up to make a great cheer up movie for a rainy day all in all this was a great film that you can watch again and again whenever you need reminding that the world isn't a horrible place after all
1	hoot is a nice young person's film about a group of middle school kids that try and keep a pancake house chain from a plot of land that is home to some endangered burrowing owls the acting is pretty good and the fresh faces are nice to see many well known comedians are in this film and keep the humor going almost nonstop it is a film for the young crowd perhaps 5 to 11 years of age i thought it was a nice change of pace from the adult films that the screen these days there is no realism here or accuracy about life in general for adults or kids it's just a bunch of fun with a constant message about saving the beautiful places in this country from becoming over developed if you can remember back to the day when you weren't fight for a buck you may remember that money isn't everything not many people over 12 are going to enjoy it unless they really have a soft spot for the old after school special series
1	if you like horror or action watch this film asap if the opening scene doesn't get your adrenaline pumping then someone should check your pulse great action excellent casting and top one liners this is the only film i have seen in a cinema where the crowd applauded each chop kick punch thrown not perfection but who cares when films can be this much fun its a pure rush of dark comic book action 9 10
1	i took a group of young people who were the same age as the protagonists and it appealed to us all i agree with the other post the wilson guy worked a thankless script into a great minor character it is good to have a movie for a certain age demographic too old for pg too young for r it also shows how they think and maneuver in junior high school you had to love how well jimmy buffet did as the cool teacher he kept us adults awake the level of kids questioning authority was kept reasonable their motives were specific and not like some a d d rebel the setting and music were beautiful overall if you enjoyed holes this is really similar
1	i took my younger niece to an early showing and she loved it i enjoyed it myself as well i don't need to explain the plot since the movie remains completely true to the award winning top selling book by famed author carl the movie takes the popular book and layers it with beautiful cinematography i want to go to florida now humor thanks to funny man luke wilson and some new comers and great music i have to get to get a jimmy buffet cd now i know a movie is good when i get goose bumps in the end overall it was great family film that i felt comfortable taking my younger niece to i'd recommend it to any and everyone
1	if you read the book by carl the movie follows pretty much true to form with a few minor changes for hollywood in my opinion this is a great family movie luke wilson officer pretty well steals the show from an all star cast that includes robert wagner and jimmy buffet the kids in the movie do a great job led by logan lerman brie larson and cody br br brie larson is maybe a little too petite to play beatrice i pictured a bigger girl maybe 6 foot 175 lbs in the role of beatrice this might have made her more believable in her role of beating up dana they should have developed her tough girl character more and had her bite through a tire or kick a soccer ball through a person she is very pretty and i understand why she was cast she is a box office attraction br br this is about as pg as a movie gets these days no sex and very little violence this movie is a come true a movie with a strong environmental message with kids that have deep appreciation for the beauty of florida and its wildlife it shows how adults have fallen short in the stewardship of our planet and that our children can demand better one of my favorite lines in the movie is when mullet fingers says florida could use some mountains like montana florida is so flat there is nothing to stop developers from clearing it coast to coast also the photography of florida wildlife spoke volumes without dialog as a family movie with kids ages 5 15 this is a great movie as a bonus parents' will be entertained especially if they're
1	in logan lerman plays roy eberhardt the new kid in school who has just moved from montana but florida is a lot different from montana despite is troubles in blending in roy discovers a bigger problem a new franchise restaurant is coming to town and families of burrowing owls are in trouble can the new kid a tomboy brie larson and a runaway cody stop big business from destroying these home br br this movie was pretty good the kids logan lerman brie larson and cody are the real stars of this film luke wilson officer is okay but really does not have a very big part neither does robert wagner mayor or jimmy buffett mr ryan br br nevertheless this was a fun film that the whole family will enjoy for a first time producer i thought jimmy buffett put together a quality piece of work plus the owls were really cute
1	what a refreshing change from the pg movies that have teen girls jumping in and out of bed young high school boys counting how many girls they can hook up with kids drinking doing drugs etc etc etc carl has written so many books that are enjoyable but hardly classic literature but he has finally written something that middle school kids want to read and this movie sends a message to kids that maybe they can make a difference that maybe their voices can be heard filmed in south florida the scenery is beautiful and natural and real who cares if its predictable and a little corny so was free willy and look how well that did this is a good family movie a rare breed
1	it is great to see a film starring kids whose idea of acting adult is not engaging in sensuality instead these kids see a problem in their community and take responsibility for helping to solve it hoot is a film aimed squarely at families looking for a fun day at the cinema the production values are good especially sweeping shots of montana and florida the soundtrack by jimmy buffet is a perfect fit the young actors are spirited and refreshing br br the plot about a trio of kids who work together to save some burrowing owls from death at the hands of an unscrupulous pancake house empire builder will engage kids so many films make children appear powerless it is nice to see a movie that shows children working hard to make a difference and even though parents are absent or temporarily distracted it was pleasant to see kids who want to follow in their parents footsteps and try to right injustices br br if you are tired of all of the self indulgent story lines about children that fill the cinema give hoot a shot then take some time to talk to your kids about the adventure of serving others and caring about the world they live in a positive message from a positive film
1	my family two 40 somethings an 8 year old and my 71 yr old mother saw this at a sneak preview on april 29th we all enjoyed the movie very much the story was a good one and knowing it was based on real life events made it that much more enjoyable luke wilson was a hoot pun intended to watch as was tim blake nelson and seeing neil flynn play something other than the mean janitor from scrubs was nice the kids in movie did well and i'm sure they will all appeal to a certain demographic on the heartthrob level the visuals were just lovely and the jimmy buffet music added to the florida feel ok maybe the story was a little too neat and well packaged for some adults but hey who cares i can't compare it to the book i honestly hadn't heard of it until the movie came out br br it was just a nice movie and it had a good message plain and simple
1	this surrealistic absurdist movie is the first film i have seen of cult swedish director roy he is a veteran filmmaker who has made his living filming commercials directing only four feature films in the last forty years this background shows the film seems like a collection of fifty 2 minute arty commercials there is no story interconnecting these vignettes though some characters appear in more than one vignette there is a theme throughout underneath them though the absurdity of modern life some of the film's mannerisms having the actors appear in light white makeup are more irritating than illuminating some of the skits amount to very little a man unsure in which queue to stand other skits are better though the best is the one about the rock chick dreaming that she goes on honeymoon with her rock guitarist bride on a house that turns on something akin to a train you have to watch it to get it a film worth seeing even if comparisons made by some film critics with such great filmmakers as keaton tati and seems overwrought lacks the vision of them and the lack of a story interconnecting the vignettes is fatal to this film's pretension of being a masterpiece
1	i saw this at the 2008 palm springs international film festival there are some wonderful descriptions of this film from other commenter's here and they seemed to have really enjoyed it so i won't too far into giving a film synopsis but you could see a little of woody allen and maybe a little of federico fellini in this film's collection of some 50 short sketches or vignettes strung together with no real singular plot a few of the vignettes are related to each other in their character and plot lines however and a a corner bar is used frequently as a central scene where they are always giving last call the beginning and ending scenes have a common theme too that bookends the film it took three years to film this and much of the time must have been spent on finding the and homeliest looking people in all of sweden to make the cast this is official submission for best foreign language film for the 2007 academy awards it's a nice movie but hardly worthy of an official submission for best foreign film last year official submission was the very weak and the year before it was expensive looking but dull so once again sweden will have no chance in picking up the oscar this film has it's moments and would have made a good 20 25 minute short film but it gets a little old and cold for a full length feature film roy directs gustav is the cinematographer editor anna deserves a lot of credit for the work she must have put into this benny of abba fame provides an entertaining music score it's an interesting film with a lot of dry humor and i did like it but it's nothing really special and could only give it a 7 0 out of 10
1	roy has managed to craft something that defies nearly all conventions of what a film should be a piece of art that is both beautiful funny and evocative at the same time the end result is a moving if somewhat fractured tale about humanity in its simplest and most honest forms br br this is unlikely to appeal to everyone in fact the humour is so finely tuned that many are unlikely to get on its wavelength the almost absurdly long takes awkward silences and consistent medium shots will most definitely put off even the most willing of audiences but it is within these disjointed tales and unconventional thinking that shapes a world where every character seems to take centre stage in their own absurd way each scene is absorbed by the desolate environments with the characters seemingly left alone in their own oddity its a difficult piece to watch at times not least because like many of its scenes it requires patience but whilst some may hail it upon an artistic throne others will simply look on in confusion its a film that blends understated humour with own brand of heart
1	blade is a fantastic action thriller that keeps you captured for the whole duration and wesley snipes delivers what i would say to be his best performance yet br br this film has everything that you would ask for in an action thriller it has plenty of blood guts and gore a twisted disturbed bad buy moments of humour but most importantly a very good story line with plenty of twists br br their is constant action throughout the film with breathtaking stunts and effects wesley snipes fighting movement is fantastic br br this film is in my opinion a must see wesley snipes cool solid appearance makes this film and i can't wait for the sequel 'blade 2' being released next year br br my imdb rating 9 out of 10
1	i enjoy the national anthem i enjoy the national anthem if for nothing else then just before the midnight news i imagine i'm playing the in the band not as easy as you may think one two three four one two three four but then what so i have sympathy with the practising bass drum player in roy wonderful film patiently waiting for his cue listening to a very 70s cassette player br br the 70s motif seems to continue throughout with some classic soulless furniture moreover every scene has an eerie jade wash which emphasises the minute nuances of the of acting br br which brings me to outstanding purple boots boots which otherwise would have inspired a silk cult advertising campaign br br but then the difficult bit someone asked me what it was about well there is a scene where the opening line as i don't have that length in green brilliant straight out of a gary larson carton br br i can't say what it's about go see yourself br br ron plasma br br hmm larson sounds swedish br br viewed
1	this which was shown dubbed in italian at a rome cinema not as bad as it sounds after being presented at the rome film festival is very much an art film and a festival film guaranteed to charm and delight such audiences for its distinctive style droll humor ability to draw comedy from the suffering of others appealing cheery music spot on performances overriding sweetness and humanity but doomed because of its oddity and lack of a compelling story line to leave average audiences wondering what they're watching it for and why anyone admires it how it even got made br br gives us almost a series of dry skits running through them are various themes money a guy at the next table waldemar nicks the wallet of a rich bore talking on a cell phone in a restaurant over a glass of brandy then goes and orders a set of posh suits made to order a deadbeat son calls his celebrated father away from an elaborate gathering to beg him for one more loan a shrink worries aloud about his depleted investments while his wife him in bed wearing only a shiny viking helmet br br depression an elementary teacher jessica nilsson breaks down in class because her husband has called her a harpy the rug salesman spouse collapses before clients because he's called her that several men have depressing dreams but hey this is sweden isn't everybody depressed love problems a fat bohemian couple is perpetually breaking up a girl groupie has fantasies about a lead guitarist eric wives slam doors when their husbands start to practice their instruments music too is obviously a unifying theme besides the dashing guitarist there's a tuba and a drum player who're in a band and also play in marches and funerals every scene has an added lilt from the music which links one sequence with another a raging storm outside the window of many scenes violent rain people out in it thunder so loud it sounds like a battle raging across the land this also the tone and gives the impression various scenes are happening on the same tempestuous day br br is a master of visual composition and the static middle distance shot and the film has a foggy gray green look engineered by dp gustav that's perfect because it evokes the gloom of a swedish winter but also with the subtle colors of the director's wit which ends every scene with a smile one almost never knew drabness could be so beautiful or perhaps one did sokurov creates such effects sometimes in very different contexts within scenes and in the film as a whole there's a kind of stillness that comes out of the visual style the pacing of scenes and the detached humanism of the overall outlook there's something about a fully mastered style that's calming reassuring br br not everything works equally well one may feel impatient with the succession of barely related scenes which read too much sometimes like the work of a saturday night live writer in need of prozac since some scenes plainly move you or draw a laugh it's obvious that others fall a little flat br br but some scenes are real zingers and one obviously triumphant climax of pure magic is a dream described and then visualized dreams being another important thread in which the girl groupie imagines herself in a wedding dress newly married to her fey guitarist ideal who plays a delicate series of riffs while a crowd of admirers gathers outside a big window the viewpoint switches to outside and the window slides slowly away as if the building the dream newlyweds look out of were a train moving out of a station to take them to their honeymoon it's a fresh subtle and rather sublime effect br br eventually one may feel everything in you the living du is a dream including the recurring scene where the barman is always striking a bronze bell and announcing last order time whereupon all the torpid customers rise from their tables and go up to get one more drink br br an italian reviewer called this a small great film and that's right it limits itself in a dozen ways but there is greatness in it roy is a little master like some medieval of the inner comedies of scandanavian gloom and this is a film unlike any other shown this year as a cannes un certain regard selection this is also the swedish entry for the 2007 best foreign oscar hard to say what bergman would think but worked with him is famous for his elaborately produced tv commercials some of which one can see on youtube bergman called them the best commercials in the world it will be interesting to see if this director whose craft is as subtle as his viewpoint will start working in longer segments some time meanwhile any good film buff really needs to get a look at this br br isn't quite the right word that means delight in the misery of others is teaching us to delight in the misery of all of us
1	roy du is not totally original as it is counter piece to previous movie andra still the movie has aura of total originality some conventions of movie making are still thrown away most of the actors look nothing like what you would expect in movie and the shots take long time most of the time camera doesn't move but people move around it the shots start from somewhere and many times the scenery builds up in amazing proportions w g comes to mind in literature with same technique because of the time invested in every shot the suspension is really high in many of the scenes there is a story and isn't it is left for viewer to build up in his or her own mind this movie is positive it is determined not to see this all in negative way and at the same time will not pass the social injustices one of the messages i got from it was that maybe all failures and accidents are not fatal after all great movie
1	you the living 2007 br br mordant i've never written that word before but it comes to mind here let me look it up well it's part of it corrosive but also funny as heck so funny this is a dour film for sure with so much dry dry dry wit and quirky humor it's impossible not to like it on some level filmed in a very spare style often with a static camera and really balanced stable compositions like theater stages we see a short enactment occur br br but that makes it seem ordinary which it is not ordinary life is shown to be frumpy ironic delightful coy and depressing and impossible we the living must live and since we're alive we may as well take note something like that i think it was ebert who said you find yourself laughing and don't know why exactly and the promo material somewhere said it was a cross between bergman and monty python and what they mean is it has the dry silent probing look of ingmar famous swedish films but it has the zany somehow touching elements of the british comedians br br i'd say definitely definitely watch at least half an hour of this there is part of me that thought i was through by then the rest continues in a similar assemblage of little skits and moments and they do gradually evolve but there is no great plot to follow or climax of the usual kind there are some great moments later even just the attention to the thunderstorm which takes us out of the mundane human events nicely br br the filming is gorgeous in its classical control almost like a series of gregory scenes and outdoing the photographer actually and the acting with all its very ordinary non glam is right on a startling beautiful odd experience
1	i laughed out loud several times during this film though give it a cursory glance and you would think it was something else altogether i adore the pace and the way it slowly burns into you as you are presented these beautiful tableaux gives us something else here shows us something i had not seen since his last film he is compositionally exceptional and via his method of fixing the camera and allowing action to take place before us he opens the door on humanity and we peer into a place that reflects our own lives our little lives it is powerful stuff it is the simplicity with which he allows the events to take place that creates the opposite feeling of complexity everything in front of the camera is anything but simple attention to detail is extraordinary i believe most scenes if not all are sets built from scratch according to his designs i cannot recommend this film highly enough for me it took me to a place and i came out of it having witnessed a world frayed and beautiful starched and pained barren and splendid at once alien and familiar this film is brilliant and life affirming i know because i came out smiling feeling wonderful it has taken him seven years to make this if he only made this one film he would still be up there with the greats
1	the large bell in a bar intermittently rings for last orders and the inevitable rush to queue forms at the counter – do we want what we need only when it's too late or is the irony of the opening scene's wailing cassandra a more resonant reflection of our perceptions on individual existence there's an endless fascination about where writer director roy wants to take us in his fourth feature you the living with fifty or so semi related vignettes strung together by a penchant for hyper reality its wistful interpretations and symbolic instances of life that bind us all in this great big cosmic sisyphean struggle the sheer simplicity of these vignettes act to the and immense of being apart of the symbiotic relationships we have with one another might whittle down the complexity of the human condition through harsh and fast cynicism more than he should but he also reminds us of the inherent reassuring glory of waking up each morning to a new tomorrow when we're all aware of our own distinct forms of arrested development
1	you can't really call roy prolific 6 films in 37 years nor can you accuse him of being conventional he doesn't do 'straight at least when it comes to narrative you the living his first film in seven years is like a surreal documentary in which a large number of characters are observed doing nothing very much and if that sounds off putting let me assure you it isn't this is a funny accessible and surprisingly warm hearted movie a slice of life far removed from that which we normally see on the screen br br of course of life' is hardly the proper moniker to apply to this movie since most people's lives are unlikely to be anything like this the incidents on the screen run the gamut from the almost terrifyingly ordinary to the downright wacky and while characters may flit by sometimes never to be seen again others to reappear as if anxious for approval on them all a kind of benign affection that and some rollicking music ensure the time we spend with them is time well spent
1	minor spoilers will follow br br this movie is even more odd and unconventional than songs from the second floor there is no main character we follow around there is no plot in the conventional way there is no emphasis on an happy end there is no in other words roy is back with a vengeance instead of falling back on convention and fixed formula roy concentrates his film around an idea i will not go into what that idea is but even if you don't get it i promise that you will see the greatest visual depth ever put to film the majestic scenes from songs pale in comparison here a work of visual splendor br br so be kind to your fellow man because after all we are the living and only you and i have the power to change our lives that is at least what i thought when i saw the final scene in the movie with the inhumane bomber planes sweeping in over the city in the film to take our lives away br br and of course don't forget to see this movie when it gets a limited release near you this is one of those movies that actually have the power to make you a better person like de sica's bicycle thieves a very warm and humanistic film
1	roy anderson's film 'you the living' comprises a series of fifty odd sketches snapshots and vignettes set in a swedish city some characters are on screen for just a few second whilst others appear in numerous scenes and are sometimes seen loitering in the background while another story unfolds many scenes are drawn from the dreams nightmares and fantasies of the strange but believable characters inhabiting this world it is a fascinating approach each of the scenes could be enjoyed in isolation but together they contain a powerful portrait of what it is to be human br br for the first half hour or so 'you the living' is gloriously funny much of the humour centres on the members of a brass band whose music practice infuriates the neighbours in their apartment block the comic highlight however is provided by a dinner party track gone horribly awry after this hilarious introduction however the mood of the film darkens considerably the dinner party dream turns grim when the hapless protagonist is put on trial for his life setting a mixed tone of absurdity and despair for the rest of the film br br in the subsequent scenes the unhappiness of the cast of characters becomes increasingly apparent theirs is a world where people are unable to connect with one another where talk of dreams nightmares and fantasies is widespread but where no person can be comforted even when others reach out to help them the despondent woman with the 'nobody loves me' refrain and the young girl with unrequited love for the rock guitarist are archetypal characters br br the world of 'you the living' is also blighted by selfishness an elderly professor is called away the warmth of a vast banquet to answer a phone call from his impetuous money grubbing son a thief steals the wallet of a ruthless executive an arrogant and impatient businessman insults a muslim barber and receives his comeuppance in the film's bleakest moment a woman in church recounts the long list of human sins as her fellow parishioners shuffle out at closing time br br and yet for all dark moments in this film the shared refrain of is another day' points to the ability of people to go on living in spite of many miseries the soundtrack provided by benny anderson of abba fame seems inappropriately jovial at first but makes more and more sense as the film realises this human capacity to persevere br br 'you the living' has an extraordinary visual style the same washed out pale green colours recur throughout and there is nary a shadow in sight this makes the characters appear exceptionally pallid and creates the sensation that human life is being laid bare for examination almost every scene is captured in a static camera frame as if these are photographs being brought to life the few occasions where the camera does move are all the more extraordinary the contrast between the life and movement of the great banquet form a startling contrast with the deadness of the scene in the most intense moments of longing and despair the characters the viewer by directly facing the camera – they know that they are being examined and have a few moments to pour out their hearts to us the viewers br br this is a wonderful human film
1	this film isn't supposed to be funny but it made me laugh br br it isn't designed to be sad but my heart felt heavy through a number of the vignettes br br it isn't written as action adventure but my pulse raced more than once br br just like life this movie doesn't manipulate your emotions and tell you how to feel it simply is and you react br br if you don't find it funny or sad or moving i suspect that says more about you than the film br br it amazing and refreshing to see a director so wholeheartedly celebrate that we are all human and embrace that we are all trapped here doing this life thing over and over for as long as we must br br tomorrow is another day
1	now here is a movie that does something that hasn't been done in a long time it take ten or so different elements that we're already familiar with vampires martial arts a techno beat top o the line special effects etc and turns it into something that feels brand new in what could have easily been merely a combination of mortal kombat and buffy the vampire slayer wesley snipes no favorite of mine since and mostly because of passenger 57 gives a really good turn as the half human half bloodsucker he acknowledges the internal conflict but doesn't dwell on it more than necessary he makes blade as deep a character as michael keaton made batman br br i'll say that the only part of the movie that got me a little miffed was the always present horror movie cliche of that one person that the hero happens to know who happens to know exactly how to stop the evil guy on the other hand you sort of have to have that in a movie like this so it's easily excusable br br well snipes is good and steven dorff hyped in the previews makes a more than bad enough bad guy to snipes' hero he's got class presence and enough control in his little pinky to teach al pacino how to tone it down a bit who would ever think that a comic book movie would be a launching pad for an actor i sincerely hope this is and whoa where the heck did kris kristofferson get acting talent don't get me wrong but the prolific actor hasn't done anything memorable since millennium and how many of us watched that just 'cause of the cool video box well here he is folks in a very obi turn as blade's mentor and father figure and good job too br br the quality of the acting is matched by the quality of the choreography and special effects accompanied by a pulsing techno beat the fight scenes brings back and quickly banish memories of mortal kombat hey it had a script too i was wondering what had happened to all the good writers out there br br the two major indications to me that i saw a quality flick were these i had no feeling of remorse about paying full price to get in a la any schumacher batman the avengers mk annihilation godzilla or armageddon wow how many of those came out this year ugh also i look forward to the inevitable sequel as per the film's ending let's just hope they do as good a job with it as with the first one br br
1	i really didn't see this one coming roy had me pegged out i am the perfect sucker for a static camera long live king borowczyk and i was laughing hysterically for the first fifteen minutes of the film he hit me straight between the eyes you have to be a brilliant man to make self pity hilarious reminds me of the third mate on the pequod in moby dick flask a man who took the whole of life to be a practical joke that the good lord himself is playing on us and the web of egotism in this movie is truly hilarious br br the level of satire is at fever pitch you have one deluded self pitying dreamer harp on about the cruelty of the world and then totally ignore a spiritual self reflection crying out in agony the very depths of egotism are plumbed i really never thought it possible to go further than bergman's the silence in this respect however the of the self love and self regard by every single character in this film is staggering we are shown an existence where the talentless and the idle rail against a world they believe has been unjust towards them they truly are legends in their own living rooms the human beings in this film make self deception and self delusion a great br br only one woman in the film appears to have any sort of understanding of what is going on an old woman who refuses to leave a chapel down praying for the forgiveness of all mankind her speech is the most electrifying condemnation of the modern world i have ever heard she reveals through her prayers that what is wrong with the world is not to be fixed by mere tinkering there are not a just a few faults there is an abyss of corruption that can only be mended by and judgement day watching this movie puts me in the mind of a naked monk stood waist deep in a cold river at midnight screaming out a thousand for the sins of humanity another grand is that it is clear that her prayers are futile and in fact she is stopping everyone going home at closing time br br this is not a film for the smug no one is spared no idols are left on the altar no one group of humans is harangued to the glory of another group never has there been a greater more transcendent more astonishingly beautiful summation of our sins it is a film for the end of the world it is the grand jest the great hideous practical joke of human life br br from the catalogue of images it is too difficult to pick a favourite i slapped my thigh and almost fell off my chair in the cinema screaming with laughter as a man attempted to pull the tablecloth from under a set service i won't spoil what happens but the suspense builds up and something truly unexpected occurs it is probably the funniest thing i have ever seen in a cinema i am quite reserved and i just couldn't control myself that is the measure of the greatness of this film br br the shooting of you the living is impeccably formalist we are shown the palette of an artist dingy browns yellows greys and sky blues set alive by the shock of luminous brass textures there is never a tone out of place it's like an hour and a half of symphonic colour meld the obsession that must have gone into putting that colour scheme in place is extraordinary and no shot is wasted as with all great movies there is not a spare inch of celluloid br br perhaps the best film i've ever seen
1	there is no plot there are no central characters there are no moving cameras or close ups in fact this film does not follow any of the conventional storytelling techniques used by mainstream film however roy du is a remarkable piece of cinematic storytelling it is a touching look at the human psyche br br comprised of a series of vignettes roy gives us an intimate insight into what makes us all human in perfectly framed static shots added with the perfectly in tune yet quirky music roy introduces us to a host of characters as they undertake their daily existence some bordering on tragic others hilarious we are taken on a nordic journey like no other br br it is a journey into the little things that make us human instead of over the top storytelling or visual techniques everything is stripped down to the bare minimum so that our sole focus is on the characters themselves it focuses on the insignificant points of our lives that make us who we are our dreams our desperation it's through this simple observation of others that we can accept who we are as individuals br br the washed out colours and deathly pale makeup of the characters only seems to emphasize their individual stories and remind us that unlike them we are all alive there is no happy ending or light at the end of the tunnel in this film yet you walk out of the cinema with a sense of life much more accessible than his earlier film songs from the second floor du is a truly inspiring piece of cinema
1	with all the misery in the world how can we not get drunk – mia br br a lovely aerial view of a major city turns ominous with the approach of a fleet of airplane bombers an irate hairdresser reacting to a perceived racial slur cuts a road through a businessman's bushy hair a man dreams of being dragged to an electric chair after a failed magic trick and a teacher breaks down in front of her grade school class because her husband called her a hag these and about fifty other vignettes that run the gamut from the outright depressing to the wildly humorous to the joyously uplifting populate roy you the living his first feature since his critically acclaimed if commercially unsuccessful songs from the second floor br br you the living is filled with the same kind of imaginative set pieces as songs replete with black humor surreal situations and strange looking characters though a bit overlong and less focused than his earlier work what remains constant is unmistakable style with its stationary camera sterile looking backgrounds and precise attention to detail if there is a theme that ties the sketches together it is that our time on earth is limited and tomorrow's another day' so let's treat each other with kindness along the way we are entertained by tuba and drum music from the louisiana brass band dinner guests at a banquet hall standing on their chairs singing a rousing song and a house that turns into a moving train br br the emotions range from the gloom of a daughter attempting to communicate with an alzheimer's patient to a young woman's ecstatic dream about marrying a handsome guitar player named to the cheers of a crowd of onlookers while there is no continuous narrative thread the theme of greed and desperation appears in several sketches the first of these threads features two corpulent individuals and their tiny dog sitting on a park bench the woman the fact that no one understands or loves her yet she blithely ignores the man's comforting and reassuring words br br there is also a hefty of irony during what seems to be an executive luncheon one man tells another on the phone that workers don't appreciate quality and how nice it is to appreciate money and the things that it can buy such as fine wine when he is not looking however a man at an adjacent table calmly lifts his wallet from his jacket on the back of his chair though cynicism is at times not very well hidden you the living has an underlying humanism that shows compassion for the human condition it is a cautionary tale that looks at the mess we humans have gotten ourselves into but suggests there is still time to turn it around if we heed the warning of the poet goethe that opens the film be pleased then you the living in your delightfully warmed bed before ice cold wave will lick your escaping foot
1	a short review without any spoilers follows br br i saw this movie yesterday at the cannes film festival my initial reaction is one of wonder and happiness i'm so happy films like this are being made in our age of blockbusters br br roy new movie you the living is nothing less than a complete masterpiece you the living is composed by some 50 vignettes filmed with a static camera i will not give away the content of the scenes here because i hate when people spoil even the smallest details but yes most of the scenes made the 1000 people in the claude debussy theatre absolutely baffled and amazed when the film was over we applauded for several minutes we had no other choice br br so what's the score with you the living hm isn't afraid to take on the heavy questions history guilt the holocaust during ww2 are big subjects and these themes work very well together br br the images created are brilliant the depth sometimes surpasses songs from the second floor br br well sorry for this ranting praising review look out for the flying house in the beginning folks br br 10 10 stars a masterpiece i never throw this grade out
1	the swedish filmmaker roy latest film you the living is not easy to review one of the reasons is that in his own words he has broken with the anglo saxon tradition of story telling in all essence the template of most western film productions another reason might be that although roy is somewhat heavy on symbolisms his unlike those of say andrei tarkovsky are of a more elusive nature it took him 3 years to complete this 86 minute long film and it wasn't because he was forced to have long breaks between shootings due to financial troubles or problems with the actors the film consists of 57 vignettes shot mostly by a still camera and it was the careful design of each of these scenes which required much time the imagery of this film which is closely related to the director's previous film songs from the second floor is of utmost importance to the story thus this story is told to a great degree by the surroundings and the environment in which the characters of universe dwell and interact before each scene was finally shot there would have been no less than 10 different test shootings with different actors colors dialog etc the result is a dreamlike version of the surrounding world which most of us would recognize and if the setting is like a dream why not dream a little just like in bunuel's the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie when somebody says last night i had a dream you get to watch it but then again what is perceived as reality here is not very much different from the dreams br br despite the fact that the film lacks a plot in the traditional sense of the word and there are no main characters as such the different characters who appear and reappear in different scenes still meet each other and their stories are inevitably intertwined what most of these characters have in common is their apparent loneliness despite being surrounded by other people the trailer trash chain smoking and binge drinking woman who dreams of having a motorbike so that she can get away from all this crap her corpulent and mostly silent boyfriend and his frail and seemingly gentle but rather absent minded mother members of a brass band whose skill improving efforts at home aren't getting a favorable reception neither from their families nor their neighbors the depressed middle eastern hairdresser and his arrogant customer on his way to a very important business meeting an elderly man having a nightmare about bombers in the skies a young girl dreaming about marrying the young rock star that she is so madly in love with it's all about dreams and nightmares versus reality but it works as much as a statement in support of the austrian philosopher ludwig claims that all human communication is miscommunication people speak to each other but it is as if they speak past each other they try to reach out to the others but shut the others out when those try to reach them br br you the living is a poetic film set physically in stockholm but yet universally applicable the society it portrays is sweden its artistic language and the people displayed are generally unmistakably nordic yet the subject it deals with namely the misery of the humankind in a selfish world reaches far beyond this hemisphere despite the seriousness of its theme the film itself seems a lot more cheerful and laden with humor than one might have expected but in the words of the director himself living is so complicated to each one of us that the only thing that saves us is our sense of humor hence this film is a tragic comedy or a comic tragedy depending on your sensitivities and not a depressing black reality tour of the human nature it is unusual in its language and structure but if you can think outside the box and enjoy it you will certainly find this film both entertaining and meaningful at the same time it was shown at this year's cannes festival as part of the un certain regard program which offers original and different works outside the competition after the film was shown in the salle debussy the 1 000 strong audience gave it a standing ovation for several minutes do i need to say more
1	i've already seen spin offs of cartoons such as the flintstones scooby doo tom and jerry and looney tunes and most of them are great br br when i saw the all grown up pilot in 2001 i thought it was interesting to see how the rugrats would look in their pre teens teens and it contained things that would usually happen during that time of life such as going to a concert going to school and being grounded br br the actual tv show is better because the rugrats seem to wear different clothes in each episode and angelica doesn't get punished as much as she did in the original rugrats series tommy and susie get punished in this series br br i've also noticed references to rugrats in this show and even flashbacks of how the rugrats looked in the original series they actually talk to the adults in this show because they're 10 years older br br this show is aimed at a slightly older audience than the original rugrats viewers of the original show may like this
1	this is an excellent movie and i wish that they would put it out on dvd for people to purchase it is difficult to try to catch it on tv all the time as you do not know when one of the stations will decide to air it can someone tell me what file company make it so i can write to them and see if they will release it to the public i only caught the last hour and a half yesterday and i only got to see it once last year my sisters and i are all looking for it in every store that sells any videos john denver is an excellent singer and actor and the plot line is great they put out some much older movies and i think that is great but there are quite a few that they have not put out and i think if we could contact the producers and voice our requests we might get some of them put out on dvd
1	my wife and i saw this movie once in 1989 and enjoyed it so much we wanted to see it again it was so moving that i was calling it a tear jerker the mystery that billings was sent to report on is really no mystery at all angles it seems that ever time he turned around something happened to him all good and i believe it scared george a bit considering that he did not realize what he had gotten into it just goes to show that even the cold hearted can change with the right attitude around if only we all could treat each other the same the world would be a better place to date we have been searching the net for a copy of it now i finally have a connection to it as soon as i can find a copy to buy i am going to grab it
1	the joy and tragedy of the christmas season lies in the fact that it mostly revolves around family that is why some people call it the children's holiday as we age natural and progress removes the people and the things that gave us our special memories john denver in one of his sweetest roles plays george billings a successful nyc architect and new widower who lost his wife about a year earlier his life is focused around his 9 year old daughter alex both are still grieving their loss george is trying his best to make this a special christmas for his daughter enter his boss thomas renfield played by the wonderful col flagg of m a s h guy edward winters who sends george to georgetown co to explore a possible real estate deal lying to his daughter that the purpose of the trip is a vacation rather than work george and alex fly into town where they're immediately met by a collection of loving generous but somewhat eccentric group of characters whose main eccentricity is that they all believe in santa claus georgetown is a picture book community we'd all love to live in and we'd love the people for neighbors george soon meets a love interest in susan jane were it not for the grinch renfield it would be an ideal time but the fact is he is in town to find property for renfield to develop and there is a nice ranch near town about to be foreclosed and the dark edges of the movie revolve around the impending foreclosure and the reactions of the townies the rancher and the outsiders i won't spoil the ending for those who've never seen the movie it's a typical happy christmas ending but it's handled in a fairly subtle and believable way that shows the best in the human spirit without being too syrupy all in all this is a most pleasant way to spend a couple of your christmas tv hours john denver and jane have nice chemistry and james as alex does a real nice job i've always loved the work of mary wickes a recognizable character actress and all of the other cast members do a nice job with less meaty parts this is a regular christmas fare for my family i rate it 4 5
1	this movie is my families favorite christmas movie because it is a beautiful picture of what christmas is really all about these days living in a big city which i hate i love to watch movies about the life i've always dreamed of having the town that this movie is set in is my dream come true for the life i've always wanted and the true feeling of community that has been lost in todays society i truly don't feel the true spirit of christmas anymore but watching this movie helps to find that feeling again my family taped this movie long ago of tv and now our copy has been worn out so i would really like to buy a few copies on dvd for my family and me if anyone can tell me where i can buy some copies please just post the info here and i will keep checking thanks
1	i didn't see this movie until it appeared on television because i was doubtful about comic flicks ever since the batman series spawn judge dredd and many other pitiful p g 13 bombs i dodged everything at all cost i would question in my mind why can't someone make a movie that is rated r and stays true to the story how difficult is that and finally my prayers have been answered with blade this movie pops right out of the pages onto the screen with sheer violence blood martial arts weapons fire the good against evil etc yeah sure a lot of action flicks contain all these goodies and most of them have bombed but not blade the movie was filmed just right not going overboard delivering a good length and never a dull moment blade ii is cool but not as cool as the first blade is indeed one of the best real comic flicks i've seen in a long time
1	just watched it on the hallmark channel i was surprised to john denver this movie was full of clichés but that is to be expected a made for tv christmas movie come on the acting is as good as any other '80's made for tv movie the story is as i said before predictable and cliché but still good if you are looking for a campy christmas movie it will certainly scratch your itch br br i was also pleased when i learned that it took place in georgetown colorado it is a real mountain town west of denver very cool as this is my home region br br i was never a big john denver fan i always found him to be pretty but he was a decent actor he is very good as the good old boy like he played in this film br br if you get the chance to watch it than do i'm sure it will be on again in 2007
1	it was good to see john denver again though he passed several years ago i found this film to be very heartwarming and a great film to sit by the fire on a cold winters night recollecting what christmas is all about the scenes of georgetown colorado were magnificent and make one want to move there immediately as i sit here in my own mountain seen in so california i loved the story and the plot i hope all who see this somewhat older film enjoy it as much as my mother and i did merry christmas a great film for all the family too see enoy and tell others about it thanks for the memories we need to have more films like this come out of hollywood
1	even if i had never seen or heard of georgetown co this would be a sweet little movie but my dad was born and raised there and those are my uncle's horses you see pulling the sleigh so this movie is very special to me a lot of the interiors are shot in buildings and houses i recognize and are very realistic the story is a little hokey but georgetown is that kind of magical place where things like that could happen john denver was a better actor than a lot of people give him credit for mary wickes plays the kind of common sense lady with a lot of sass she played so well in many other films most notably white christmas i usually don't get to go out there in the winter so i like to see this movie at christmas time to tide me over until my next trip
1	my santa lucia choir was chosen to be in this movie all 100 plus when it came time to film the movie i was asked to chose just 10 oh my goodness we had a little gal who went early to have her tonsils out because she wanted to be in the movie the choices were hard to make the people of georgetown are just a lovely as the people that they show in the movie gracious kind believers the town sponsors an annual christmas market the first two weekend in december every year i was there this year and it was wonderful the town is lovely and the people work hard to make it magical the town appears today as it did when the movie was made much credit goes to the historical society there that work hard to maintain the historical value the principal of the school that has been turned into a charter school was given an award by the governor of colorado for volunteers
1	i just finished watching the movie tonight and i truly loved it john denver didn't play a pastor but it was the reverend of the little town who decided to leave the floor for john denver to speak it's a really great movie with a wonderful christmas message it was also fun to watch
1	this is an excellent movie and should be presented every year during the holidays christmas beautiful with great acting john denver at his best i e sincere kind talented and natural the town is georgetown colorado and every bit as lovely as in the story
1	the great news is that this film is now available on dvd from http com for all those who wish to own it as well as on video this is good news as it is one of my favourite films br br i watched this film for the first time in the 80s and it is compulsory holiday viewing living in the small market town called picturesque and with its own traditions of reenactments and traditions we are also a cosy tight community we are now also faced with large housing developments which threaten to destroy the community and you can see why i love this film first of all and most important there are lashings of snow then there is the lovely legend of the christmas tree and also the christian denouement as all the community cough up the money to help the destitute farmer save his farm and stay in the community the evil developers only after the money are sent packing as the whole town pledge their money to help protect what they have which is very special i love the way the whole community send their message to santa via the post office which is misunderstood by the hero he and his daughter have a long journey to make after the death of the wife and mother of the family there is a likely candidate for this even a sleigh ride and most heartwarming of all is that the taxi driver whose engine is broken is mysteriously given a new one on christmas morning and no one had engineered it there is a lovely moment where denver sings a lullaby and an exciting search great gentle film for everything christmas is really about
1	living just down the hwy from georgetown co i remember this movie well and thought it was great the story seems like something john would do even in real life but there is something that i will always remember most about the movie for those of you who don't live in denver every christmas the city of denver co puts up a fabulous display of lights and decorations at the civic center in downtown denver well as it so happened during the filming of this movie a nativity scene was needed so it was borrowed from the civic center display with permission by the way someone had forgotten to advice the powers that be and it was reported stolen a frantic search began with law enforcement for a few days finally someone spoke up and remembered it to the film crew in georgetown it was returned and put back where it belonged as it turns out it wasn't featured all that much in the movie you can barely see it during the christmas show with the children it did create quit a disturbance though
1	my entire family enjoyed this film including 2 small children great values without sex violence drugs nudity or profanity also no zillion dollar special effects were added to try to viewers from a poorly written storyline a simple little family fun movie we especially like the songs in the movie but we only got to hear a portion of the songs mostly during the end credits would love to buy a sound track cd from this movie this is my 4th bill hillman movie and they all have the same guidelines as mentioned above with all the movies out there that you don't want your kids to watch this hillman fella has a no risk rating we love his movies
1	seeing gary busey in a g rated film was a first and a nice one at that i don't know much about the director but he obviously knows how to spend a few dollars and get the most out of them where did jillian clare come from my kids love her the only thing i remember christopher atkins doing was blue lagoon disney needs to see this film and put him to work the wife thinks he is very cute i liked what he did with his character he seemed so real what we liked most was the message this film sends out greed sucks and faith love and family wins this is the first low budget dvd we've bought that had so much stuff on it the producers made this one for kids and the kids loved it they liked the music and all the extras on the dvd the director probably won't stick to family movies but i hope he does cause he really knows how to get the most out of kids animals and stars like gary busey the dog was great and seeing gary busey act like a dog was even funnier there wasn't much we didn't like about this one it hard to find a family film without all the crude humor and quigley was a delightful surprise
1	i must confess that i've been a huge fan of the almighty david the hoff hasselhoff ever since he starred in the hit 80's tv series knight rider whether it's his extraordinary debut as a libidinous high school basketball player in the hilariously raunchy revenge of the cheerleaders or his brilliant portrayal of a dashing prince in the schlocky sci fi gem the hoff has proved time and time again that he's a simply terrific and shamefully underrated actor supreme the hoff excels here as gary a cynical and skeptical photographer who along with his repressed virginal writer girlfriend leslie attractive brunette leslie cummings investigates a seedy dilapidated haunted hotel located on a remote island off the coast of they're doing research on witchcraft throughout the ages and the hotel's last owner was an actress who allegedly practiced the black arts a bickering family also shows up on the premises to check out the hotel pretty soon various folks begin to get bumped off in assorted gruesome ways by the mysterious lady in black an effectively eerie hildegard knef br br granted the rest of the cast gives the hoff a run for his money the ever perky linda blair projects her customary charming flair as a spunky pregnant woman who winds up becoming possessed natch legendary jazz singer annie ross bitches it up with gleeful aplomb as a snippy old bat poor annie winds up being incinerated alive after she has her lips sewn shut and she's hung upside down in a chimney and gorgeous blonde catherine hickland oozes considerable sex appeal from every fetching pore as a lusty slut fabrizio competent direction a suitably creepy atmosphere slick glossy cinematography the fluid prowling steadicam tracking shots are especially nice the gaudy special effects carlo maria and randy miller's spirited score and the gory sadistic violence are all up to par but ultimately it's the tremendously dynamic and charismatic presence of the one and only the hoff which makes this choice tasty chunk of tacky italian horror cheese such a winner he takes his shirt off once hubba hubba gets sprayed with blood and warning major spoiler ahead even meets a pleasingly grisly untimely end produced by none other than joe d'amato this picture overall rates as good sleazy fun
1	this is a quiet movie it's a simple story about a writer who cannot write his story coming back to his home town to get started but instead he gets involved in a friendship with a weird older man whose life externally represents perhaps the internal state of the writer it's a museum of unfinished ideas outdated equipment and useless people br br there are no extraordinary circumstances or any big movements in the plot it's a movie about internal changes being stuck in their lives which are not developing much the principal personages get to help each other to transform stop leaving in dreams and achieve something or at least get a change and give their lives the desired and long awaited new direction br br on the film making side i can think of only one weakness which could also be considered as a feature we do not get much of characters description or inner world insights it's very narrative on the side of thoughts and events and we have to guess about their true feelings which are rather hidden but still you can see them and this is what makes your own mind work trying to figure them out to understand the impressions made by those people and it's not empty underneath the actors definitely hold well some inner states proper to their characters it's close to the real life where you mostly never know someone well enough to understand them completely and this turns us around and puts in front of our own feelings and choices br br what's most important for me is that this simple almost flat story leaves you pondering afterwards about your own life about your own dreams and achievements are there any or are we caught up in the routine and pleasures leaving at 100 or only dreaming about it could we do more and move somewhere we'd rather like to be than just leaving feed ourselves and others the tales like i'll do this one day not moving one finger to make this actually happen or i'm fine where i am because it's easier to go by the habits than to actually make a change at least that's the impression it left me with and it was very timely for me which adds to my appreciation of this far from famous movie i definitely recommend it to anyone who likes the movies meant for the heart but those who need events and actions should stay away
1	i just watched the movie tonight and i found it brilliant it doesn't have special effects that blow your mind and it's not violent or bloody no terrorist or aliens but it's brilliant it's just plain nice sweet and it brought me to a whole different time a much simpler time where people could take their time to walk down the street and look out at the ocean i think it was beautiful and i for one recommend it nick was a great character and his friendship with harry was one of the highlights of the movie everyone is entitled to their opinion but i believe everyone should watch this mostly when they feel down or when they want to share something nice with their friends
1	i saw farewell to harry at the plaza theatre while in new york city and was quite taken the performance of william hall jr is tremendous this is a movie for the classic movie goer garrett bennett's direction reminds me of early barry levinson and robert redford's work the movie seems to transcend the typical independent film it has a soul and a visual power that is quite unique i saw this with a small audience 400 who were captivated from the moment of the first credit to the last and although i wasn't out and out crying like the lady next to me i do have to admit i had a little watering in the eyes br br
1	rosie perez is the lead in this very engaging affair cast as mercedes a young woman from brooklyn who has resolved to become a film actress although not favoured by her circumstances living in east los angeles and struggling with a series of fruitless auditions for any sort of part at all mercedes has hooked up with a married and washed up actor harry harrelson harvey keitel who at one time had performed in a television western series during the 1970s and seldom since accepting him as her lover in part from loneliness and as well from a hope that film parts will be coming her way because of his contacts but these latter are of small consequence as harry is simply self delusional in his attempts at recovering what he perceives as past cinematic renown in order to adequately support herself financially mercedes toils as a taxi dancer in a downtown los angeles skid row dance hall bar while she continues carrying on her efforts to succeed at the motion picture business and it is while there at the dance palace that a young immigrant from mexico ernesto michael falls in love with her and the largest portion of the narrative depicts his efforts to please the object of his affections even if they may mean losing her altogether this essentially tradition rooted melodrama is given only a moderate budget despite the presence of a goodly number of well known players including steve buscemi anthony quinn and stanley tucci and was kept in the can for about a year before its rather desultory distribution and leaden marketing efforts on its behalf more's the pity as its solid production characteristics are firmly complemented by alexandre rockwell's admirably controlled direction a consistent virtue of his work and on display in this film from its very opening scene frames that form a montage behind the credits featuring perez at skid fifth and main streets rockwell has often demonstrated that he operates very closely indeed with his cast and this holds true in this instance as he allows his actors to create their roles while any ad libbing is nicely via the editing process resulting in an artistic success for the director despite negative comments from some mainstream the film's scoring is aesthetically spot on with a good deal of it contributed by tito who also plays as band boss for the taxi dancers acting honours here must go to the ever vital perez although nary a sub par performance is turned in a fair test for any film's quality is given when a viewer will watch it twice within a brief period sitting through this undervalued work will be considered a keen pleasure for many
1	the three main characters are all hopeless and yet you only feel sorry for one of them ernesto hopelessly devoted to mercedes this was part of the frustration screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry to no avail br br then there's the satisfaction steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite and harvey keitel's moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible when you least expect it quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man br br time and again great moments appear in the story but in the end it's hard to know what to feel about this movie it doesn't have a happy ending or even a complete one but it somehow feels right br br this movie is strange but then so am i no wonder i liked it
1	excellent special effects make this disaster move very plausible one can see that the producers went to some trouble to get the displays on the computer screens just right it all makes it very convincing the sets are also very authentic looking a good choice of music rounds off the film nicely br br acting is good and the presence of david suchet adds some weight to the cast of course compared to other movies of this genre flood is right up there with the best of them thankfully the human drama aspect has not been overdone as is often the case with this type of movie the human suffering is portrayed in perfect balance with the actual flooding scenes br br and of course the movie confirms what many of us suspect anyway weather so often do not get it right
1	this is a catastrophe movie set in london starting multiple hurricane and tornadoes on scotland are displaced towards east downing england coast and later the south after several hours of heavy the london barrier above thames is short from running over and it paves the way for disaster then a colossal tidal wave travel relentless down east causing devastation and lives of millions of londoners are in danger at the center of the story is a tom a who tries to save london from the effects of giant wave trying to convince the authorities that the town dike was unsafe furthermore a marine engineer robert carlyle and his ex wife samantha they are trapped into the barrier and dropped to sea meantime the secret government agency hq ruled by nash joanne whalley under direct orders of deputy minister david suchet attempt to control many displaced and avoid more dead approximately 200 000 they have a little time to save london from total catastrophe br br perfectly acceptable drama disaster with alright acting magnificent tom as a who predicts catastrophe and excellent robert carlyle and as ex matrimony rekindling their love the movie packs impressive flood scenes brought to life by the breathtaking computer generator special effects better than the classic of the 70s such as inferno and similarly to and day after tomorrow' although isn't a clear denounce we know that the flood is caused by the greenhouse effect and global warming which originates the ozone hole the motion picture is well directed by tony mitchell i would recommend this movie to people who like disaster movies another adaptations about floods are the following 1976 by earl bellamy with robert culp and barbara hershey rain 1998 ' directed by mikael with morgan freeman and christian slater ' flood a river's rampage 1979 ' directed by bruce pittman with richard thomas
1	i recently purchased this on dvd as i hadn't heard of it and like robert carlyle br br obviously this movie is not going to have hollywood blockbuster special effects in saying that though the special effects were decent enough and the acting was fine also br br i found the movie to be enjoyable and do not regret buying it at all at almost 2 hours long it is just the right length for this type of movie br br do not expect thrilling explosive action from beginning to end though it is a fairly well balanced movie with a decent enough storyline
1	the essence of this film falls on judgments by police officers who fortunately ethical and moral men act on situations within situations in a city with a super abundance of violence and killing good compound interacting story lines and above average characterizations
1	this showtime cable film features a talented cast and weaves together several storylines involving the darker side of new york from the naive and innocent tourists' nightmarish adventure to a pair of undercover cops on the streets to an old friend's betrayal it has it all br br well worth a look as is its sequel
1	please note the below text is taken from the irish dvd release some of this summary may be wrong br br edge of your seat chiller in which the legacy of an ancient witch and her bloodthirsty coven causes a deserted island hotel to become the embodiment of evil two centuries later br br when an inquisitive photographer david hasselhoff baywatch knight rider and his virginal fiancée linda blair the exorcist creep onto the island to research its gruesome history they are joined by an ting estate agent and his prospective buyers br br gradually the group find themselves falling victim to the ancient evil that lives on in the mysterious old woman who roams the hotel seeking fresh victims for satanic rites human sacrifice and demon ic possession br br check in at the witchcraft hotel we hope you enjoy your slay br br additional info on the movies contents br br violence some gruesome sexual violence very strong br br sex and or nudity some strong as well as innuendo br br bad language some strong br br other some drug use and references
1	naked city does a pretty good job of balancing its two a b stories eventhough i'm not all that fond of multiple plot movies and scott glen and courtney b vance make a great on screen dual however i'm not sure what kind of message a movie sends when two flat foot country girls can get off scott free with murder grand theft and to top it off win a free flight home in first class no less at least from the looks of their attire anyway gee i guess that blue wall of silence is still rather think br br rating 8
1	the magnitude of the stalingrad tragedy is concisely presented in the end note of the movie in the battle of stalingrad more than one million people were killed in action froze to death or died of starvation russians romanians italians hungarians germans austrians of the 260 000 surrounded men of the sixth army 91 were taken prisoners of whom only 6 000 returned to their homeland years later br br what the story does not tell was that who surrendered did not share all the hardship of the captivity of his men he had a special treatment as the highest ranking taken by the soviet army when during his presence at the nuremberg trials he was asked about the fate of the 91 000 prisoners he declared that they were fine he was freed after the war and died in the east germany br br the film only presents the first part of the tragedy the actual battle of stalingrad however for an entire picture the fate of the 91 000 should also not be forgotten
1	i found the movie very real just as much as saving private ryan and gave an upfront account from the german perspective the graphic action and individual characters gave this movie much to keep me interested through the whole movie stalingrad was very brutal battle and the scenes gave this movie that stark reality of this battle i recommend this for anyone who is interested in military history this was my second viewing of this movie in a few years and was captivated by it's realism again the weapons uniforms and hearing it german while reading the subtitles gave it much credit for a good military movie in fact this being a german perspective of the battle i was rooting for the germans even though they were the and ultimate loser of the war
1	having majored in western history when i was a student in college seeing the views on world war ii are quite discomforting and in a whole completely wrong world war ii was the most graphic and bloody affairs to ever occur in world history while the axis powers conducted many crimes against humanity which is still the view today and the correct many people forget that not every german soldier was out to exterminate the jewish population not every japanese soldier swung a samurai sword around and flew kamikaze missions and not every italian soldier was a fascist most of these soldiers for the axis powers were normal people like you and i caught in a terrible conflict and just happened to be fighting for a country they loved br br the battle of stalingrad was arguably the most lethal battles in world history with over 1 500 000 casualties sustained over the course of the battle the film stalingrad follows a german platoon and its leader lieutenant von as they are reassigned to the eastern front to battle the soviets at stalingrad von acts as sort of the main character with two other men rollo and fritzi they all are normal men and seem to be completely unaware to what is happening back in germany and poland br br the film follows the course of the battle the film is overall very bleak when it comes to its portrayal of combat and a soldiers life during the battle we are shown numerous gruesome battles and intense violence outside of the battles including a firing squad sequence overall the battles are the earliest examples that i know of that portray the loss of limbs and overall in your face death sequences and violence much of the inspiration for saving private ryan's battle sequences seem to have come from this film br br the film does not aim to make the completely innocent of everything in the film several of the higher ranking officers of the army are portrayed in the usual view most people are use to evil most of the soldiers are just normal people who often speak of home the film makes it clear quite quickly that not all germans were responsible for what happened during the holocaust most of the country and army was entirely oblivious to the fact that genocide was taking place the film makes it clear that the soldiers in the germany army was simply fighting for a cause they really didn't understand and most wished just to return home rather than freezing in negative degree temperatures in russia br br the film really shows how hellish war is especially world war ii the battle scenes will shock you with its gritty realism and the story is quite easy to follow as you are simply following a platoon during the battle as with most war films do not expect much happiness after seeing it it will leave you in a bit of a depressed mood just from seeing the life most of the soldiers on the eastern front faced not recommended for children br br 4 5 stars
1	describing stalingrad as a war film may be a bit inaccurate sure it centers on the longest and bloodiest battle in world history in the most expansive theater of the most costly war in terms of lives money and that has ever occurred yes it contains action scenes depicting bitter battles and terrible destruction the visceral storytelling and harsh images though make it something more than a war film even more than an anti war film stalingrad is instead a film about absolute and undeniable hell br br the film is fraught with visual descriptions of the worst kind of war one that is intensely personal and close where days are spent in taking one city block only to have it re taken in a surprise assault the early form of modern urban warfare that the germans came to call rat warfare is depicted in brutal and uncompromising terms the characters war in sewer tunnels rail yards and from building to building in the hellish bomb scape of ruined stalingrad only to be defeated by the unforgiving russian winter br br the film deals with the issue of nazism and the vilification of germans in that period in the way that many other films from both germany and the rest of the world do its characters are a group of soldiers swept along by the winds of war and simply attempting to make it out with themselves and as many of their comrades as possible alive the characters do not fight the soviets out of any ideological hatred between national socialism and soviet communism not for any grand dream of or racial superiority they fight only because if they do not the enemy will kill them and if the enemy does not then their own officers certainly will for refusing to fight this portrayal adds another layer to the suffocating envelope of trapped hopelessness that pervades the film br br a sort of ground based companion to das boot stalingrad frames the epic struggle of world war two in a personal light and from the unexpected perspective of the ordinary german soldier as a sort of hero made tragic by circumstance and a brutal government that would pervert his sacrifice
1	one of the best war films i have ever seen if not the best it is very hard to talk about such films as it is very difficult to point at any film mistake made the problem is as it looks too real and by that drags you in to the ruins of stalingrad and make you suffer for both sides this is for the reason that this film unlike the most of hollywood films doesn't glorify the war or the heroism of the main characters instead of that the film makes them heroes only for being human and by that is anti war as much as the reason can offer extremely convincing war scenes and so impressive acting most of the scenes look like isolated theater pieces also german army is played by germans which is so convincing as well the film is produced and realized by germans where you can see their love for details to perfection this is the reason why stalingrad is one of the films i can watch million times and never feel dull i watched the film with my father who fought in wwii and the first thing he said was this is like real this is how the war against germans looked like this is the place you can see how did it look to be a soldier in the worst nightmare of warfare in human history and turning point of wwii stalingrad
1	this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved it's always interesting to see the story from the 'other' side for a change this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad russia where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought br br it's interesting to see the other side of this battle since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the in this movie those are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you're fighting against at first it's kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the are the evil villains but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care and be interested in them br br the way this story is told isn't however the best it's hard to keep track of the story at times as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other the movie isn't always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who it doesn't always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one just not the most coherent one around in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies br br the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations though the movie wasn't even shot in russia itself it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere br br the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic but i don't know for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism it also helps that they're being played by well cast actors all of the actors aren't the best known actors around thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality br br all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values br br 7 10
1	from a military standpoint nearly everything in this movie is historically accurate beyond that it is an enthralling story that leaves you depressed at the end but quite glad you took the time to watch
1	stalingrad is a terrific movie well acted and directed and rather down to earth in it's approach to the various bizarre aspects of warfare and it's politics this is together with das boot one of the best war movies together with the finnish the winter war in english i believe it depicts the ordeals of some of the german soldiers that fought and died in and around stalingrad during world war 2 no big time heroics no over bearing emotional fuzziness only the fear of every day death in war the mood of the movie is similar to the one in das boot and that should give you some hints on what to expect i guess so if you enjoy realistic non hollywoodish war movies rent it buy it just make sure you see it finally a film buff's note for some of the previous reviewers information i only want to add that stalingrad isn't directed by wolfgang petersen who made das boot
1	this film does for infantry what das boot did for submariners if you appreciated das boot then that is all you really need to know br br this is a well done piece of cinema on a par with das boot basically it follows a company of elite german infantry who leave garrison duty in an idyllic italian seaside town and are immediately thrust into the chaos of the disintegrating russian front br br a good war movie illuminates both the senselessness and brutality of war and at the same time gives us insight into the experiences and essential humanity of those who fight this movie does that the film is full of drama and action and so is entertaining on that level as well
1	witchery is a decent little euro trash horror yarn david hasselhoff is pretty damn funny in this one and sadly he's one of the better actors linda blair is downright terrible and the lady who plays wife she is hilariously bad the plot of this film is ridiculous too it's got some holes which you can't help but notice but it remains entertaining throughout br br the gore in witchery is freaking outstanding i loved the part where the old bag gets sucked into the trash chute and ends up in the chimney to roast and the part where the lady gets taken advantage of by the devil was pretty damned disturbing i'd say this one is a must for gorehounds br br if you're looking for an overproduced well acted flick look elsewhere but if you like old school style italian sleaze and over the top gore witchery belongs on your shelf br br i'm surprised by the low rating on here what were you people expecting the exorcist 7 out of 10 kids
1	this was absolutely one of the best movies i've seen br br excellent performances from a marvelous a list cast that will move you from smiles to laughter to tears and back br br i couldn't help but care about the characters ms will blow you away as will the young man playing the young lead br br i also thought that the set design was top rate the viewer is really placed inside each era as it's presented br br the music is a blast too nice selections to represent mood time and place the blind blues man is stereotypic but he delivers some great songs br br this is a great story that will survive many repeated viewings take the time to watch it
1	bloody marvelous recommended by a friend who knew i liked thomas kretschmann in the pianist and downfall i loved the flow of the narrative how the characters moved from hope and ideals of valour through shock fear disintegration desperation and utter annihilation a first rate anti war movie that must have created quite the stir in germany not a proud moment for anyone and the study of a generation lost this movie was excellent at conveying the remove of the command from the ground troops and in pounding the utter futility of trying to control untamed nature and the russian psyche if i didn't know i would have thought it was a russian movie it was so fatalistic what an uncompromising ending a
1	this movie tries to run away to the typical 'i'm fighting because i'm obliged to defend the fatherland the nazi's are all bad guys i'm against them' typical of german war movies how by not talking too much about it and just referring the war and the pow's nevertheless i would like to see a german movie which would be something between the extremity of come and see and the bad nazi's das boot i say this because excluding this factor the german movies are the best depicting 2nd world war and the german side you easily see some of the german hierarchical relations very different from the ones in us army br br this is a movie which tries to get a real sight of what was stalingrad and i was not there and i doubt most people were there now but if i would choose one movie depicting this battle for sure would not be the all american enemy at the gates why do i say this because even the best soldiers are not hero's and given the conditions they may regard their own lives instead of the fatherland this goes for all the ranks and in the end you see von giving the example
1	a movie like this doesn't come along too often i'm surprised it took 9 years to finally see it politicians and civilian hawks should view this before making decisions on how the destroy peoples lives i watched this the day after viewing the tv version of uprising about the warsaw ghetto even with this fresh in mind i felt sympathy for the german soldier i felt sympathy for all parties that this tragedy could happen it will take awhile to thaw out from this one i'm surprised they have not made a movie based on the forgotten soldier by buy this movie shares the cold with the book both will haunt me for the rest of my life
1	this movie shocked me it was so realistic and the story was incredible touching they talk german and russian which makes it more believable and real this is a must see movie the actors are great too really a good piece of work the plot takes place within a german troop in wwii they have to go to stalingrad sovjet to fight against the armies you get more connected with every soldier in this group and follow them through all the perils as they get captured within stalingrad they get face to face meetings with death blood grief and the coldness of russia this is a must see movie and you cant afford not to see it
1	i just recently saw this movie in hopes of seeing an accurate portrayal of the bloodiest battle of the 20th century i got what i had expected and so much more just to think i came across this movie by luck before i had never even heard of it it's a german film made in 1993 so i suppose i can't be surprised that it's almost completely unknown to the modern american audience it's a shame cause this really is a remarkable film i dare say that its as good if not better then platoon full metal jacket apocalypse now and all quiet on the western front all of which are iconic war movies br br 1942 world war ii is in full swing nazi germany has over run mainland europe and parts of north africa then adolf hitler orders the full scale invasion of the soviet union a fateful move that ultimately dooms nazi germany to defeat in the early stages the invasion goes well and the german armies conquer large sections of soviet territory but a critical battle ensues at stalingrad a city that hold great symbolic strategic value the battle soon turns into a blood bath of epic proportions a nightmare for both the german russian soldiers fighting on the verge of taking the city the germans are suddenly counter attacked by the russians who end up cutting off the entire german 6th army inside stalingrad to make matters worse the russian winter arrives causing incredible suffering for the germans this entire battle is seen through the eyes of a few young german soldiers fighting for survival not only against the russians and the harsh winter conditions but also against their own sadistic officers who care only about medals glory and the generals who have little regard for the average foot soldier br br this film is going to haunt me for a while the german soldiers the film concentrates on are so young and naive then their humanity sanity are stripped from them and you really do feel sorry for them cause their not the demonic nazi's often portrayed in film everything they were fighting for is no longer important and everything they believed in was shattered and after fighting a gruesome battle against the russians inside stalingrad we see them further deteriorate with the onset of winter causing many to freeze to death the battle winter scenes were like a horrible nightmare but it also felt so real it's amazing in the beginning we see strapping young men in the prime of their life and at the end they a shells of their former selves stripped of everything after witnessing so much carnage these men just loose their will to live on it was really sad when there is finally a moment of hope they are betrayed by hitler who ultimately abandons these men to a horrible death which is just another one of hitler's crimes abandoning the men who fought for him to be slaughtered by the russians br br a good anti war film depicts the horrors of war and that's what this movie does the battle for the tractor factory sequence is the closest thing that comes to hell on earth but that's really what the battle for stalingrad was like the german russian soldiers were depicted with humanity it was only the bad apples specifically on the german side that doomed the men bottom line is this film is amazing cause we see how men breakdown physically emotionally during war we all have our limits and these men were pushed far beyond their limits in the most deadly battle of our time what the average foot soldier endured at stalingrad was beyond imagination even if they had survived everything they had seen done would have scarred them for life br br stalingrad shows us why war is hell and what exactly hell looks like
1	apart from the low budget there never seems to be more than 50 germans in one scene at any one time plus the same 2 half tracks this film is absolute top class everything is accurate that is the point i think from the uniforms to to the horror and the disillusionment everyone is as grey as the field grey uniforms grey men with the life drained out of them forget us made gung ho rubbish like blackhawk down and private ryan this is one of the best war films ever only cross of iron beats this for tension and story please could we have a proper un dubbed german language with english subtitles version in the uk without having to pay ridiculous import charges from europe most other dvd's are multilingual why not this one
1	simply the best and most realistic movie about world war ii i've ever seen not only because the german soldiers talk german and russian soldiers talk russian no english in a german or russian dialect also because of the realistic decor in which the movie was shot the acting is outstanding no hollywood sentiment at all even no love story stalingrad was supposed to be one of the most horrific battles during the war and in such context there's no place for sentiment or romantic scenes what you get is a movie which will make you thrill to the bone and which have one of the best unhappy endings a movie could have
1	if we compare the movie industry with an ocean we have the tendencies to observe only the surface driven by the strong hollywood marketing force we all saw war movies like saving private ryan the thin red line apocalypse now or full metal jacket but underneath the splashy waves grow in silence from time to time less known pearls when you pick one and look carefully at it you wonder why this pearl lie almost unknown and why it's not already on the crown br br stalingrad is such a gem why it has a bunch of multi million dollars rated actors no it have thousand of extras no it have breathtaking spectacular shiny computerized visual effects not at all so what's so special well in one word it's pure past reality recreated and transposed to celluloid fifty years later the tragedy of the most bloody battle in the history is here filthy wounded soldiers russian civilians who lost everything during the invasion burning villages collapsing buildings decayed suburbs explosions tanks in flames soldiers shot burned alive ground by tanks in their pits or shred to pieces you got all but the real horror is elsewhere people are reduced to simple pawns without the power to change anything the soldiers we follow in film try to leave the combat zone and they fail the civilians stay in prostration in the middle of nowhere only crying for their children killed the huge grinding machine of war melt together humans equipment villages cities and ask for more victims and destruction over and over br br in all this collective insanity a group of german soldiers struggle to survive and to keep at least a minimum level of normality they do their duty and fight bravely but as everyone know a battle is almost lost when people start to loose confidence and faith we see how all those people are abandoned how they plan to desert how they struggle to catch the very last plane to berlin full of wounded how some very bad injured soldiers were treated as and shot how they were forced to execute a small group of russian civilians including a young boy how they later discovered a place literally full up to the ceiling of food and drinks destined only for some superior officers of course one by one they drop dead the end of the movie is one of the most bitter depressing and touching ending i ever saw all on the magnificent score of the munich orchestra the war destroyed everything in its path br br this movie is a must see for everyone a true movie lover should have it in his her collection the strong anti war message must be a warning for all of us unfortunately the mankind never learn nor the politicians self destruction is in our dna and the human pain seem to last forever can we be enough reasonable to stop the war
1	the film is about the battle of stalingrad for those of you who don't know anything about it it was the worst battle in the second world war over 1 million people died in the course of the battle this is the only film that i've seen that seems to have actually captured how bad things were in the war between russia and germany what i really liked about it is that the two ideologies nazism and communism were nowhere in the film unlike most american films the germans are not seen as blood thirsty murderers but what the average german foot soldier was a person br br the film revolves around four soldiers fighting in stalingrad they were transferred there to try and take the city the film follows these men from august of 1942 to early 1943 during this time they learn about the horrors of war and try to find a way out of the battle br br through the entire film one feels the desperation of the entire battle unlike enemy at the gates the film makers didn't try to put some sappy love story or dress up factual occurrences of the battle this film may be fiction but it conveys what happened in the bloodiest battle in world war ii
1	this film is one of the historically most accurate war films ever made in that it displays the reality of soldiers in a battle situation as well as the particular circumstances of the battle of stalingrad obvious when one compares this film to works such as anthony book stalingrad br br unlike the better known enemy at the gates where the plot diverts into a sniper hunting story this film shows what war can do to individuals although filmed by germans stalingrad is anything but a nationalistic apologetic film it shows that war films can be something beyond flag waving jingoistic distortions of the grim truth of war like so many hollywood war products seem to be br br the scripting acting direction and other film techniques in are of the highest caliber br br it's a must see film for anyone contemplating to join an army and to obey orders from any type of fuehrer
1	linda blair has been acting for forty years now and while she will never escape the part of regan in the exorcist few of her subsequent horror films have used her legendary status to such great effect as witchery does she plays jane brooks a pregnant single woman who travels with her family to an abandoned island hotel that her parents want to purchase they are accompanied by a couple of real estate agents catherine hickland and rick farnsworth and upon arriving at the island they meet a photographer david hasselhoff and his writer girlfriend leslie cumming who are illegally squatting in the hotel while investigating the legend of a local witch hildegard knef it seems that a long ago witch hunt resulted in her suicide and she was with child at the time unaware of the danger jane has recently dreamt of the witch's dramatic death and jane's little brother tommy michael manchester has been more directly visited by her spooky black clad spirit which he calls 'the lady in black' the group's time at the island inn begins quietly enough unknown to them however the lady in black has already dispatched the captain of their hired boat george stevens before long the isolation and cold begin to affect everyone and it is during this period of moodiness and tension that the lady in black begins her reign of terror she plans to avenge her own fate by possessing jane and sacrificing her companions and her unborn child each of her other victims fulfills an aspect of her vengeful curse greed lust and the blood of a virgin as the sun goes down and the sea becomes wild she haunts them one by one in gruesome horrifying ways the island location is effectively scary and the inn is very creepy and hauntingly shot it's such a colorful film that it reminds me of dario argento's work the lighting is excellent and the set decoration is perfectly spooky the soundtrack is very effective and unique the horror effects are extreme terrifying and unforgettable the cinematography is great and it is this that brings us back to linda blair the creative team behind this film shoots her like a horror star should be shot lots of dramatic push ins lingering close ups that subtly detail jane's possession and moments that are reminiscent of other great horror films there are hidden homages to rosemary's baby jacob's ladder the shining black sunday and of course the exorcist she does a great job and absolutely steals the show with her moody and understated performance that isn't to say that the rest of the cast disappoints catherine hickland is sexy and very good and veteran performer annie ross is memorable as jane's bitchy mother rose hasselhoff gives it his best but he is not essentially a film star and his television persona gets in the way of his performance blair and young michael manchester have a wonderful chemistry together the film is otherwise so violent and creepy in a good way that it desperately needs their warmth blair also played a mother in 2003's monster makers and her maternal scenes in that film have the same tender feeling to them lastly hildegard knef in one of her last roles plays a great witch and she has the most amazing voice and accent along with blair she was also perfectly cast but it's blair's movie all the way jane brooks also seems to have some psychic ability and this aspect of the film hearkens back to exorcist ii the heretic i think witchery is up there with the exorcist exorcist ii hell night and summer of fear as blair's best genre work to date
1	the people of my generation and those who are older know about the ww ii or as it is called in russia – the great patriotic war not only from the school textbooks but from the witnesses and participants of the event my granddad was a soldier at stalingrad and when i was a small girl i used to listen to his stories of how he defeated the germans he also told me some anecdotes not all he told me was gloomy but it was long ago and no when i have a conscious interest for what happened there in the battle of stalingrad i have to turn to books and movies for information somehow most films i saw were made in the soviet union only a few in present day russia and is an exception in the movie the war is described from the opposite side and the fact in itself is interesting all that is shown in the film is quite different from what i’m used to br br the film reminds me a great deal of zu leben und zu because the war is shown through an ordinary german soldier perception and this soldier or lieutenant is rather obsessed by repeating he is by no means a fascist the movie heroes right from neat and enthusiastic europe from the italian coast arrive in the snow covered hungry soviet union they are doomed to die it is clear from the very beginning br br after the elite detachment had taken part in their first fight at stalingrad one of the soldiers said the phrase which reflected the whole idea for me he said you start thinking you will go and to my mind it is true for spectators as well from the one hand one may think ok just watch this movie and it dissipate me i feel sorry for the people on the screen as it were they who attacked my country and not vice versa however sooner or later but inevitably one starts sympathizing with the characters probably when the lieutenant chokes back his tears at seeing execution br br is hard to watch all these frostbitten legs dirt executions snow famine destroyed illusions br br as far as i know lt hans von is one of the few films where thomas kretschmann played his star roles i watched quite many hollywood movies where he was given unimportant parts of small fries such as or why did he do it and after i had watched i cannot make out the european actors desire to appear in american movies even second rated at any cost the fact puzzles me deeply i believe thomas kretschmann deserves better parts and much better screenplays than those he is given in hollywood and out of what i saw with him is the best beyond the doubt br br in my opinion the worst drawback is the way they speak russian in the movie i mean of course those who are supposed to be russian say the boy who spent some time with the germans or the girl with whom they planned to escape was it really so difficult to find actors able to pronounce a couple of phrases without that horrible accent initially i set down to watch just to listen to native german speakers because i’m studying the language i did not expect anything extraordinary of the film but it impressed me made me cry when i wasn’t going to at all i know i’m 15 years late to watch it but is not a run of the mill movie and after 15 years it is still watchable and shocking
1	for the main criticisms of the movie the love story that wasn't a love story those were two people distraught coming together trying to find humanity in anyone the same thing happened with soldiers and the russian boy it added a feminine touch but come on look at american movies no where close to love story there was no storyline does war have a storyline i think that is a silly criticism the storyline is this they start with 400 men and the movie narrowed down to show the lives of about 10 men and how each did their part and died death is the ultimate end to any story just because there was no happy ending doesn't mean it has no storyline br br there was a horrid truth in this movie i wouldn't necessarily call it anti war it had a political statement of course but the movie wasn't all about the politics in fact except for a few occurrences when the captain showed up there was never a stifling air of nazi germany they were far enough out of the reach of the main nazi party the fat cats weren't gonna go into russia br br maybe not completely accurate and not a hollywood hit but it exhibits a fine knowledge of the common soldier i'd say exactly of almost any nationality and war and what they must go through it was a losing battle of course the movie is going to be depressing and to the person who said that it was gutsy and silly to even portray germans as victims there are victims on all sides in every war any real soldier will tell you that br br this movie is a fine balance between movie and documentary a few problems with it when arguing for just one but it instills the best of both worlds watch it as such beware however because it is a hard movie to watch if not graphically emotionally br br i'm waiting til they make a movie about iraq it will probably have many of the same themes and will be very controversial i want to see who has the guts to do it first jarhead doesn't count
1	this is a film that i keep coming back to for a variety of reasons as a testament to the suffering of the ordinary soldier on the eastern front in the second world war it is a powerful one there are a number of very powerful scenes in the film which help to capture the horror of war such as the tank battle for instance furthermore from what i can see the experiences documented in the film are by and large 'true' if you read a book you will know what i mean the film is also successful in the sense that it doesn't allow character or plot to dominate it it is simply a tale of survival that attempts to depict the battle mainly from the ordinary german soldier's point of view i've read somewhere that the original screenplay had to be toned down which doesn't surprise me at all if they tried to really show what the battle was like it would have been almost impossible to make i'm sure even so there are still some moments that are difficult to watch this was made before private ryan but is possibly even harder hitting in places just one word of caution don't buy the dubbed 'english' version it's pretty awful and spoils the film try to get a copy in the original german version with english subtitles it's far more powerful you may need to buy a region 1 dvd of the film in this case as i did
1	the only reason i decided to view this film is because of the great acting talents of karen alyson haywood bad money '99 who is deeply involved with gary cole dave cry wolf '05 who is a great war hero and has all kinds of ways to make money and never seems to stop telling lies alyson and dave are trying to rebuild an old home and restore it to comfortable living conditions the relationship gets troublesome and alyson decides to find out what is going on and the plot gets very mysterious if you are a big fan of karen this is the film for you i only wish karen would appear in more films i miss her great talents
1	this is one of the best tv movies i have ever seen the title makes it so obvious and predictable but come on all tv movies are like that br br the story is fantastic it may seem ridiculous but it is based on an incredibly true story gary cole plays a military man named dave who feels trapped in his marriage he abandons his wife and kids and then fakes his death all so he could be with alyson karen how far will dave go to keep his secret br br the acting is top notch for tv movies gary cole especially keeps the movie together as a charming smooth talking sociopath who has an answer to everything when his wife gets suspicious karen does the best she can as a wife who discovers that her husband is a liar and doesn't know what to do about it teddi who i believe is gary cole's wife in real life plays her part well especially when she cries about the death of her husband wendy adds a nice touch as alyson's sister linda is great in her small role as dave's mother br br predictable but the acting and the story take this movie up several notches
1	this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole this is the story of a highly trained military man unhappy with his wife and children fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks predictable but not a bad watch
1	i thought it was an excellent movie gary cole played the role of a military man who feels trapped and unhappy with his wife who fakes his death fabulously over all i thought the movie was great definitely not a boring plot line it's sad to say but i think lots of men might feel this way i think he should have just gotten a divorce and asked to be transferred instead of the extreme he went to but he felt there was no other way out so he faked his death i thought it was neat that cole's real life wife played the wife he was unhappy with in the movie i think what the guy did was alittle extreme but the movie was great nonetheless definitely recommend it
1	he is very good in this role as a disaffected and bored husband a decorated air force officer who becomes bored with his predictable suburban life and decides to make a radical change br br one evening he meets karen an attractive woman younger than his current wife a relationship develops and cole decides to take it to the next level br br not only does he have an affair he fakes his death to escape his family obligations lies become increasingly more of a pattern as he begins to rob banks to keep his new wife happy and to project the image that he is a success a fictional delusion apparently br br this was also based on a true story which makes it all the more intriguing cole is believable and excellent in these roles recommended 8 10
1	some spoilers facing a mid life crisis and fed up with his marriage to cindy teddi who seemed to have more say in what he did and where he stayed then the air force usaf elite red beret sgt major davis bay gary cole decided one morning to just walk away from in all and start a new life as a civilian br br david first got this idea when he met at a halloween party sweet and adoring alyson karen keeping his background secret from her by telling alyson that he's in a top secret military outfit was the perfect cover for him back at jackson afb outside of austin tex david starts to review his life's options with cindy and the usaf and decides to change his identity by running away from it david then calls alyson who only met him once and makes a date with her before you know it david now using the name haywood is engaged to be married to her br br faking his death in a bicycle accident dave purposely leave his wife and kids out in the cold and deserts his military obligation to his country it didn't take long for dave to find out that civilian life just doesn't appeal to him it's now too late for dave to go back to his first wife cindy and his two boys with him facing the brig and a military court martial if he comes back to the usaf dave takes up the only job that he could do to support him and alyson and their infant son chris using his skills he learned in the red berets to rob banks br br based on a true story lies he told has dave bay haywood living three not two different lives one of a hard working family man one as a ruthless bank robber and yet another one as a dead and highly decorated by the president of the us and prime of gb all american hero gary cole is very effective as both master sgt david bay husband david haywood davids actions are even though unforgivable understandable in the case of his depression over his marriage to cindy the pressure of her nagging him got to the point where he just wanted to get lost and away from her and the kids but he should have sought professional counseling from the us air force which he would have been gladly provided with instead of choosing the easy way out which in the end lead him straight into prison it may have been that the overly macho dave thought it would have been a bad mark on his career as well as his ego to get help for his problems br br karen as alyson is the glue that keeps the film together with her at first going along with her new husbands explanation of his frequent disappearances some for as much as two weeks as him doing covert action in keeping the country safe from domestic and foreign terrorists the real reasons for his long absences were the result of him casing out planing and robbing banks which was the only way he knew how to earn a living given from what he learned in subversive actions all those years in the elite red berets br br alyson tracking down dave's mom carolyn bay linda who he told her was dead since he was a small boy in portland she finds out the truth about the double or triple life that he's been leading since he married her this lead to alyson finding out about his marriage to linda and the two sons that he had with her as well as his faked death and now awol from the usaf being that it's a true story the ending was anything that you would have guessed it to be in a standard hollywood or made for tv movie that's what makes the film lies he told a lot better then what you would have expected it to be
1	i don't like boxing don't understand the attraction i did like this movie positive portrayals of latinos with no drugs sex or street violence the plot actually showed stable loving families the fight sequences are violent as is boxing but not as over the top as rocky films nothing wrong with attempting familiar themes with a different angle and ethnicity it's a good rent
1	witchery or witchcraft as it's commonly known in europe beings with jane brooks linda blair waking up from a nightmare involving a witch jane's mother father rose annie ross freddie robert champagne are interested in buying an old deserted hotel on an island about 50 miles from boston renovating it reopening it together with jane their young son tommy michael manchester rose freddie are planning to travel to the island with an architect named linda sullivan catherine hickland to check on the amount of work that needs doing they also meet up with the estate agent jerry giordano rick farnsworth hire a local fisherman named sam george stevens to take them to the island once there they enter the hotel begin to inspect the property while back on the boat sam is killed the boat is let loose to sail off into the distance they discover two unexpected guests in the shape of a photographer named gary david hasselhoff his virgin fiancé leslie leslie cumming who happens to be researching a book that she is writing about the gruesome legends superstitions surrounding the infamous island hotel as the night draws on a raging storm outside isolates them from the mainland as a mysterious 'lady in black' hildegard knef keeps popping up as the ancient evil that resides in the hotel seeks fresh victims for demonic possession human sacrifice satanic rites br br the director of this american italian co produced film is somewhat shrouded in mystery as the imdb lists fabrizio laurenti as martin but there are rumours that joe d'amato did the honours either way to be honest despite it's bad reputation i found witchery quite entertaining in a so bad it's good cheesy sort of way the script credited to harry spalding daniele on the imdb again is confusing too as the actual credit on the film itself is daniel davis anyway whoever wrote this thing did a decent job please stop laughing at heart it's a haunted house horror but adds some gory deaths a surreal feeling to everything the different sets of characters have reasonable motives didn't get on my nerves as much as i'd thought they might it's not plotted very well it doesn't make a whole a lot of sense the dialogue isn't exactly top drawer stuff but as a whole witchery entertained me for it's 95 odd minute duration plain simple it's reasonably well paced a little slow to get going maybe but there are plenty of surreal bizarre goings on gruesome deaths to keep one amused one part of witchery which destroys some of it's credibility is this so called storm there is no storm in sight the sea is probably calm enough to swim in supposed 'twist' ending didn't really work for me either just check out the dumb expression on cummings face on that final freeze frame the hotel provides for a good isolated location adds a certain atmosphere to the film which has the distinctive indefinable 'horror' feel throughout cheap horror at that technically witchery is not too bad at all it was obviously shot on location so it looks good throughout while not exactly the pinnacle of film making finesse it's overall production values are slightly better than expected the violence gore is of typical euro explicitness a woman has her lips sewn shut hung inside a fireplace so she can't scream as the others light it someone is crucified then burned alive impaled on a swordfish someones veins expand pop a woman is raped by a man with no lips witchery was shot in english so there is no dubbing as far as acting goes david hasselhoff linda blair in the same film what more can i say yes ladies hasselhoff does take his shirt off for the lads cummings takes hers off both hasselhoff blair are a hoot to watch in this thing however the little kid is very annoying really can't act at all i sure most sane film goers will disagree with my opinions but i still stand by the fact that i liked it would happily watch it again witchery is pretty good fun definitely worth a watch if your into 'bad' films or your a horror fan in general
1	father hood br br i can understand why a lot of people hate this tale of a father kidnapping his two children and carrying them across america but i've seen much worse and when i saw this years ago i didn't think it was particularly awful patrick swayze is the worried father who takes his kids on the run with him for personal reasons and halle berry is the cop chasing them down br br overall a decent way to spend a couple hours of your life you could certainly do worse ever hear of the film pod people br br 1 2 out of br br rated pg 13 for some traumatic scenes adult content matter violence and language
1	father hood is an entertaining tale of an unwilling father who is definitely a hood patrick swayze plays jack charles who is a hood always on the look out for the one big score that is going to put him on easy street his wife died while he was is prison and his two kids were put in foster care when he got out he thought they were probably better off in foster care – besides he still had to score his fortune his daughter kathleen charles played wonderfully by sabrina lloyd breaks out of a foster care institution that is abusing the kids and money that is suppose to be being spent on the kids she hunts down her father tells him about how bad the place was and that her brother eddie charles played by brian bonsall just a little 7 year old kid was being moved to the institution that she had just broken out of and convinces her father to kidnap him the three start off on an adventure across country all the while jack keeps telling himself that he has to get rid of the kids patrick swayze is really good in this comedy playing a hood probably a little understatement for this criminal character who is similar to his johnny castle character of dirty dancing except jack is appropriately funnier in this comedy and more optimistic than johnny castle swayze is funny and rally does comedy pretty well halle berry plays kathleen mercer who is a reporter trying to get at the truth of the foster care system who becomes ally diane ladd plays rita the con artist mother of jack charles
1	father hood is an overlooked little gem of a road movie fine performances by halle berry sabina lloyd and brian bonsall two really fun over the top ones by diane ladd and michael ironside br br and a downright outstanding one from patrick swayze the movie is helped by an unconventional storyline but badly undercut by it's flashback framing which results in a abrupt ending father hood would have worked much better without these bookends nevertheless the movie brings up important issues of family responsibilities and the consequences of state intervention as long as the foster system rewards state institutions for not placing children such abuses will exist br br pick this one up it's worth the ride
1	the big trail 1930 released 10 24 1930 viewed 4 5 06 br br births richard harris harold pinter robert atkins br br doug in hollywood raoul walsh unveiled his latest film the big trail a western about the trek west across the frontier starring up and coming 23 year old actor john wayne in 1930 we are seeing many firsts but few bests besides the first john wayne film we have here the first widescreen film although we only watched the full frame version interestingly the decision to film in widescreen was essentially the same reason that widescreen became popular later to compete with television which hadn't yet appeared commercially but was still an emerging curiosity all the same this film was extremely good giving us a harrowing look at the trek to oklahoma the opening title cards let us know that this is a western of the most traditional kind about america about the land who should live on it etc and is an excellent demonstration of that walsh gives us some astonishing visuals of the wagon company out in the wilderness when they reach a cliff they must rope each wagon down one by one and we also get a revenge subplot involving wayne pursuing the man who killed one of his friends i seem to recall something similar in stagecoach wayne's tough cowboy routine is at least partly there and would surely evolve further in subsequent films since this film is representing all of wayne's early 30's work for the odyssey we will not see his face again until stagecoach but once we do we will keep seeing him to the end of the odyssey and beyond br br kevin ah our first sound western and john wayne's first starring role it's raoul walsh's the big trail this review will be short since it's been weeks since i watched it i enjoyed this movie but it was far from a masterpiece the mostly predictable adventure had a few surprises like when the brains of the bad guys red flack tyrone power sr in his last role is killed half way through i thought he would be the boss at the end but that ended up being bill ian keith i remember that i didn't like the way breck wayne kills and exacts revenge at the end i understood that that's what he was meant to do in the story but i really didn't like his reasoning when he tells ruth why he has to do it i think he had a far greater responsibility to the hundreds of settlers he was leading through the harsh west br br last film viewed animal crackers 1930 last film chronologically soup to nuts 1930 next film l'age d'or 1930
1	if we consider three films with a similar subject which are this one which was made in 1930 'the covered made in 1923 and made in 1950 the distance between 'the big and 'the covered is only 7 years whereas the distance between 'the big and is 20 years this is amazing because it shows how much movies evolved in those 7 years and how in the next 20 years the changes were slow to come 'the big trail is technically close to but ages apart from 'the covered the story is about the pioneers going from the missouri to the west in oregon tyrone power sr is the man leading the caravan he is a rough and mean guy john wayne is the good guy and the film makes too much of a point of his good looks not giving him a chance to be the wayne that we are used to marguerite churchill is such a proud lady that you wonder why wayne just does not forget her raoul walsh was a master at showing caravans and cattle moving through the west he directed 'the tall men' in 1955 which has a lot in common with 'the big
1	it's quite revealing to see this today and appreciate how far we've come along in what we expect from movies and at the same time appreciate how many notions were established br br here we have a full fledged narrative talking film the audio and the visuals are pushed to their period limits the framing is limited to about belt high and up no face close ups br br the compositions are remarkable there's an early over the shoulder cross cutting scene to showcase the dialogue there's a treacherous descent into a canyon with some harrowing perspective angles a sun bleached skeleton lies in the dust as the wheels and legs march in the upper portion of the frame the tension in the showdown between the hero and the bad guy is visually captured by filming above the long axis of a large tree that lies between them and on and on early visual treats abound br br today it's unsettling to see the young wayne carry a film unencumbered by ego or mannerisms br br i have to wonder if walsh recognized the self reference the subject is the journey of a disparate group of pilgrims those who appear on screen are a disparate group of stage actors vaudeville comedians shell game artists and probably carny barkers and ten in one show veterans they all journey together to blaze a trail for how movies would be made br br this is worth at least one viewing to appreciate the source of so many visual ideas borrowed in later movies
1	raoul walsh's mega epic stunning filmed in an early widescreen process by the great arthur can be slow and static in the early talkie manner but this classic wagon train journey across america to the northwest is thrilling as a sheer physical production when seen on the big screen on t v the lack of close ups and distant sound reproduction may prove daunting young john wayne scores easily in his first starring role with a natural delivery the rest of the cast can't command amazingly the film flopped and wayne spent most of the following decade in grade b western fodder
1	no one said that in the big trail and i thought it would be a natural nevertheless this was one of the best westerns i have seen and i am a big fan of horses and gunsmoke movies the scope and feel of this picture is simply staggering and as someone mentioned in their comment it does have the feel of the 3 camera triptych of napoleon 1927 nowadays the cost of the production and especially the cast of thousands would be prohibitive but raoul walsh got it done br br the cast was excellent although john wayne was better when he had no lines and just around in particular tyrone power sr was a perfect villain i had never seen him before and this was his only talking picture ian keith was a snake but el is an acquired taste as the comic relief he can be funny or annoying but mostly the latter and he shows up at the most inappropriate times br br it is a bit too long and it took a while for the indians to show up but this is as close to a documentary on manifest destiny and as true to life as you will see and a must for movie fans regardless of genre preference by the time the settlers got to california i was exhausted
1	the movie i received was a great quality film for it's age john wayne did an incredible job for being so young in the movie industry his on screen presence shined thought even though there were other senior actors on the screen with him i think that it is a must see older john wayne film
1	i first saw this film in video form even on a television screen the vistas were impressive seen on the big screen in its full glory it must have blown people away br br as one or two other comments have pointed out the story of the early pioneers and how they got around the problems of terrain etc on the road to oregon is as authentic as any film can be it therefore shows that it is totally unnecessary to take liberties with the truth something that today's film makers should take heed of reality is enough br br the plot relies on the struggle of man against the elements and hostile natives subplots are few and simple but the basic plot is enough elsewhere i have reviewed paramount's rival to the big trail fighting caravans in spite of having a more sophisticated plot and having better actors fighting caravans lacks the breathtaking scenes br br the big trail should be compulsory viewing
1	i like seeing linda blair playing in an actual horror movie again i had been disappointed with her in most everything since the exorcist movies which i loved what was up with all of those nasty b movies she did br br david on the other hand all i could do is laugh he is not cut out to be a horror movie actor david needs to stick to knight rider or baywatch br br all around this is an awesome movie even for the eighties this was an awesome film it has horror action and drama it is a suspenseful and i loved the way linda blair turned out
1	best cinematography i have ever the year the movie was made i was absolutely amazed and thoroughly impressed with the amount of attention dedicated to the scenes and with what appears to be authenticity though i am not particularly a western movie every single scene is given the utmost detail and it is haunting there is a sincere connection with nature at times i am overwhelmed with the amount of action passing through the scenes but i am never bored i feel as though i am truly peering into a time machine and looking back into the old west i recommend this movie to anyone who is studying set design location planning and for that matter photography in general it can be a humbling movie to experience with regards to the visuals considering this era of digital touch up that we now experience
1	the details in the big trail were so incredible that i felt that the movie was made at the time it represents i have never seen wagons that were so real they were big loaded with accessories and even felt as though they had been filled with details under the canvas covers that was never meant to be seen every speck of dirt every scratch every splinter was there modern day computer technology could never recreate the scenes of the numerous wagons as they move across the land or circle to fend off indians the wagons were all real individual vehicles each with its own real team of horses or br br the actors clothing could not have felt more genuine with the exception of john wayne's outfit and marguerite churchill's nice dress the clothes were very common looking tattered or dirty in an authentic looking way many of the actors and actresses were born before electricity and indoor plumbing were common and they must have felt comfortable with the surroundings all the indians were real indians rather than white extras painted tan br br women of the old west had to be sturdy because there was a lot of work in every scene showing work done by the people of the wagon train women are shown chopping wood hauling logs etc this realism was so natural looking that it did not come across as a statement on the role of women of the day rather than a fact of survival br br the plot of revenge and romance is played well nothing is overstated or overplayed br br something was lost along the way in the 1930's in hollywood as much as i love the fake scenery and controlled environment of old movies the big trail manages to feel real above all else the more i see big budget movies of the silent era the more i like them i can think of few movies of the 1930's that i have seen that equal the grandeur of the best of the 1920's if there were home movies made in the days of wagon trains the big trail is what they would look like
1	my giving this film a score of 8 is relative to other feature length films from 1930 by the standards of films made just a few years later this film might receive a score of only 6 or 7 mostly because the sound quality was so poor now it is possible that the film sounded better and the fox movie channel did show a degraded print it did have a lot of lines and scratches but i assume the sound problem was always an issue that's because sound in movies was still a novelty in 1930 and many of the hollywood talking pictures of 1930 sounded terrible with background characters often drowning out the leads characters huddled together to make sure they are picked up by the microphones or inconsistent quality such as what was seen in the bishop murder case hell's angels and other films of the day this was all made much worse in the big trail because most of the film was shot outside something unheard of at the time quite an innovation but also something that really stretched the talents of the sound technicians so while the film was very hard to listen to i realize that they had to start somewhere so i can forgive this especially since the outdoor scenes are breathtaking a major innovation for 1930 br br the plot is rather similar to cimarron a western that came out the following year and which captured the oscar for best picture unfortunately cimarron isn't all that great a film and i actually like the big trail more due to the scope of the film while some might balk at the big slow moving pace i saw it as a great history lesson about the hardships endured by those traveling west on wagon trains plus the whole thing just looked so beautiful as director raoul walsh went to significant trouble to film on location and the big trail looks almost like a film version of some adams prints br br as for the acting it was pretty good this was a major break for young john wayne as his previous screen appearances were at best minor and unremarkable here he was given the lead and did a dandy job though he was obviously young and a little less john wayne ish than he was in later films as his screen persona was not yet firmly established another interesting part was played by tyrone power ii tyrone power's father he looked nothing like his extremely handsome son and looked and sounded almost exactly like bluto from the popeye cartoons he made very few sound films dying just a year after making this film so it's a rare opportunity to see and hear this once famous actor br br overall the film is well worth seeing despite some sound problems and a few overly long scenes here and there for 1930 it was a remarkable achievement more so than the much more famous and award winning cimarron made the following year much of the reason the big trail didn't win an oscar most likely was because all quiet on the western front came out the same year and it is truly one of the great films
1	this movie is important to those of us interested in western history because it makes use of authentic techniques in its production br br the scenes of the wagon train are particularly authentic so far as i know it contains the only scenes ever filmed illustrating the techniques for river crossings at a bluff the horses and mules have to be lowered to the river level and the wagons let down by ropes and the scene is such that i could watch it over and again just trying to get a feel for what a crossing was like and the early travelers did it time and time again while crossing the country br br melodrama aside this picture is as authentic in dress and style as they come and worth watching for that alone
1	i never expected such an old film to be as impressive as this 1930 western turned out to be the scenes of the pioneers heading west in their covered wagons encountering storms and mud river crossings indian attacks and every manner of trial and danger are astonishing in their rugged believability much of the film was shot outdoors and the movie has a truly epic feel about it the actors must have experienced much the same conditions as the original pioneers did and the results are astounding the wagons the clothing every single detail looks and feels right the characters are simple but believable with a straightforward story that travels like the wagon train to its destination br br john wayne is slim and youthful in one of his first roles as the scout leading the wagons and he does a fine job as the idealistic young frontiersman he's up against a marvelously trio of villains including ian keith as a slick gambler charles stevens as a mexican sidekick and tyrone power senior as the bear like trapper power's bearded snarling larger than life portrayal is both comic and menacing i keep picturing him with a gold hoop earring and black eye patch with a parrot on his shoulder as he grunts and growls various threats and insults his character could easily be transferred to a pirate ship with no difficulty at all he nearly steals the whole picture br br tully marshall is delightful as a wily old frontiersman who is wayne's best friend the lovely marguerite churchill makes a spirited heroine whose initial meeting with wayne is a hilarious mix up resulting in a long running courtship consisting of insults and feigned indifference on her part to aw shucks persistence on his the results are quite humorous and one is glad to see them finally get together at the end br br the scenery is amazing with the wagons crossing real prairies and having to be lowered by ropes down cliffs indians who are clearly the genuine article and not white actors in makeup appear as both friends and foes and are treated with dignity wayne's character tells an admiring group of young boys that the indians are his friends who taught him everything he knows about survival in the wilderness br br the big trail is an uncomplicated tale told well by a talented cast and crew it will probably appear naive to many modern viewers but there is a quiet dignity about it that never lets it become corny there is a great deal of intentional humor including a rowdy rascal of a pioneer who makes loud animal sounds from hiding every time the smooth gambler ian keith tries to con the beautiful heroine into marrying him his flowery speeches about the plantation he allegedly owns are interrupted by very realistic imitations of yowling cats and quacking ducks causing the would be seducer to look around in annoyance for the unseen creatures br br highly recommended both for western fans and lovers of old movies in general this is truly a classic film for the ages
1	one of the myths of the early sound era is that they couldn't make westerns because they had trouble recording sound on location in fact it was the financial restrictions of the depression that temporarily killed off the genre at least in the a budget bracket however in the period 1929 1931 before the economic downturn had really kicked in the a western flourished notable examples including the billy the kid and cimarron the big trail was perhaps the biggest of them all – a gargantuan pioneer western shot in an early widescreen process appropriately titled grandeur thanks to a recent dvd release we now get to see the widescreen version alongside the fullscreen that was shot simultaneously br br the director was raoul walsh a man for whom the spirit of adventure lay in vast outdoor vistas and thus in many ways a perfect choice he makes great use of the wider frame to show off the western landscape at its most breathtaking very typical of walsh are a number of shots towards the beginning such as the one where a woman is chopping firewood most of the screen is tightly filled by the wagons and other clutter but in one corner we see the wilderness stretching out when the wagon train gets going the open plain is gradually revealed to us with wagons pulling away like stage curtains these shots are not so effective in the fullscreen version yet on the wider canvas walsh's expression of the outdoors was never better br br but there's an unfortunate flipside to this when it comes to dialogue scenes walsh's tendency is to place the actors in the middle of the shot as if they were in an imaginary fullscreen box the extra width becomes just that – extra it may seem logical at first because it means that height wise we see as much of the actors as we would in a fullscreen picture however it makes the players look small and insignificant within the frame while all the background business dominates the shot – and there is a lot of background business in the big trail when widescreen formats re emerged in the 1950s many directors would make the same mistake before eventually realising that in talkie scenes it is better to frame actors from around the chest up losing some of their height but allowing them to fill the screen br br it's a pity because the big trail is a particularly well balanced and finely scripted effort the romance and revenge subplots are simple but well defined and do not threaten to each other or the pioneer story it could have been a great intimate epic but it loses dramatic weight because every time characters start talking to each other we get distracted by herds of cattle drifting wagons or whatever else is filling every spare inch of frame still walsh's sensitivity to deeply emotional romantic moments is still on display and he manages to make the final scene effective and memorable there are also some nice comedy touches largely courtesy of comical swede el br br the big trail is also notable for being john wayne's first lead role while wayne is another victim of the distant framing in dialogue scenes we do at least see his strong physical presence and hear his warm but assertive vocal delivery he betrays his lack of experience but the potential is clearly there sadly that potential wasn't widely realised at the time and he spent the rest of the decade slumming it in b pictures before he finally hit stardom also appearing in this picture is wayne's buddy and later prolific character actor ward bond he's not credited but you can spot him in a number of scenes most prominently around the 80 minute mark where he is stood to tyrone power's left br br the big trail is a glorious epic that manages to defeat itself as a drama and it was this stupendous scale that would put the western and widescreen to bed for some time and although the 40s and 50s are now regarded as the golden age of the western it was by then a changed genre with stories of individual adventure and heroism in an established west – no better or worse but of a different form the early talkie period was the end of an era in which westerns could be truly gigantic
1	the precise text of an ad except the word chinese as in chinese at the end should appear in caps but imdb's racially sensitive formatting won't let it as published in the los angeles times of october 2nd 1930 reads as follows with denoting the break between each line in the ad br br gala world premiere tonight 8 30 promptly tonight all hollywood and los angeles boulevards become the big trail to chinese theatre the rendezvous of all that is beautiful and brilliant the gathering place of stars celebrities the great and the famous br br thousands will fill every seat many thousands will line hollywood boulevard to watch the gala festivities attending this world premiere br br tonight all southern california pays homage to the great american epic which faithfully depicts the thrilling soul stirring romance of the american pioneers who won the west and left us a heritage of peace liberty and happiness br br raoul walsh's the big trail story by hal g fox production shown entirely in grandeur cast of 20 000 featuring john wayne marguerite churchill el tully marshall tyrone power david rollins frederick burton charles stevens russ powell louise carter william v dodo newton ward bond marcia harris marjorie emerson fran andy helen parrish production manager archibald buchanan settings by harold miles fred chief grandeur cameraman arthur sound engineer george chief film cutter jack dennis added feature fox news exclusive interview with george bernard shaw direction elinor chinese direction of fox west coast theatres twice daily thereafter 2 30 8 30 p m
1	if one overlooks the technical problems of this early 1930 sound movie such as the sound quality and the occasional stiffness of john wayne one will find this movie to be an epic that is more realistic than almost any movie made since beginning at the missouri a large caravan of wagons people and animals head west the wagons are pulled down huge cliffs and cross a flooded river with considerable risk to the riders in the wagons indians meet with wayne and allow the train to pass through their land later indians gather west of the train to combat them the wagons form a huge circle with horses and cattle in the circle and fire their rifles creating with the circling indians a veil of smoke br br when the battle ends the dead are buried on the spot and the people and wagons depart this scene is remarkable as the camera stays with the dead as the living depart it is unique in the way it links the viewer with the dead and separates the viewer from the living the wagons encounter a major thunderstorm with torrential and mud everywhere they finally arrive at their destination near a redwood or sequoia forest in oregon the film is done in 70 mm widescreen at about a 2 0 1 ratio in 1930 br br i haven't mentioned the plot because it is secondary to the scenic grandeur and the enormous amount of work involved in making this film moviemakers will never work this hard again to make such a movie or any movie given the technical limitations of the sound the music is at times moving such as when wayne leaves his girl to hunt down his friend's killers and at the end br br while all the critics rave about the searchers and wayne's psychology racism short temper and complex characters the big trail gives us a story of simple people encountering extraordinary hardships one of the best westerns i have seen
1	sweeping and still impressive early talkie western of pioneering days other contemporary films in the same vein include the covered wagon 1923 the iron horse 1924 and cimarron 1931 – none of which i've watched though i do have the latter on vhs it was simultaneously filmed in the standard fullscreen ratio and in an experimental widescreen process called grandeur but only the former has been released on the bare bones fox dvd one can only surmise how it would look in a wider ratio but the careful framing – not to mention the splendid cinematography – is evident enough even in the standard version br br young john wayne is surprisingly commanding in the lead a role which however didn't lead to the expected stardom – as he'd languish in 'b' westerns for the best part of the next decade before john ford came to his rescue with stagecoach 1939 anyway he and marguerite churchill from dracula's daughter 1936 make a nice couple – despite her somewhat tedious character supporting characters include a variety of stock types veteran westerner comic relief sidekick with a penchant for making noises with his mouth burly and uncouth villain played by tyrone power sr his two slimy cohorts a mexican and a southerner the latter also filling in as wayne's rival for churchill's hand etc also among the members of the wagon party is a timid swede full of optimism for the promised land but who's continually put down by his irascible mother in law and later wayne regular ward bond br br the episodic narrative resolves itself into a number of alternately cornball lyrical and action packed vignettes – as we see the prospective settlers combating the elements the indians and themselves the film however has a completely authentic feel to it which smooths over its essentially dated and static quality also the editing is somewhat choppy particularly during the second half – little wonder since the dvd edition of the film is only 108 minutes long against the complete 158 minute grandeur version
1	i really liked this film it features john wayne in his first starring performance even then you can tell wayne has a real presence although he wouldn't really mature into the icon he is known for until stagecoach 9 years later in 1939 it's about settlers from all over the country heading to the new west to colonize it wayne's character breck coleman joins up but for his own personal reasons most of the main actors were stage actors and had never done a film before which makes the movie even more amazing they managed to create believable distinctive characters and there is quite an oddball mix here cimarron would come out a year later and had a very similar story though i didn't like it as much as this movie for me the big trail is a strong 8 10
1	during the making of this movie i once caught a statement on television about it something like is now taking off nazism br br so my comprehension of this movie was from the beginning to get a notion of nazism when recently seeing this movie in the tv version i had this filter before me and it wasn't difficult to see this br br strangely enough i haven't met this way of interpreting the film ever since i first heard it br br these are the things i found in four shades of brown in all four of the stories the lack of empathy leads to disaster br br 1 the worker shows no realistic empathy to the dead animals or to those who had to say goodbye to them in the room in dealing with death and fire it's almost like a cheerful game to him the seriousness of death and fire is not emphasized by the father and his boy accordingly in ignorance pushes a button that leads to the disaster that injures his father severely br br possible lesson the importance of showing the young adequate emotions when they grow up they need to know what behavior leads to disaster and what emotions lead to good br br 2 the magician maneuvers his wife like an invisible puppeteer just when she thinks she has begun to cut off the strings to the masters hand reaching for personality integrity and joy he pulls hard and she is back in desolation and despair br br their son has tried to revolt in creating his own life with perfection and good taste in opposite to his parents bad taste the real problem he is carrying within is far from comprehensible to him his fathers behavior passes on when suffocating his own wife in his spotless environment br br possible lesson oppression breeds bondage br br 3 the father who was abused as a child passes on sadism to his children when he cheats them on their inheritance he robs them of their childhood and in the end even of their inheritance br br possible lesson when no love given you cannot give any br br 4 the fathers abuse of his daughter creates in her a ruthless with sadistic aggression here the ice cold nazi sadism becomes very obvious in physical violence it gives a possible background and a somewhat plausible explanation to the actions of young head behavior when oppressing others br br possible lesson can nazism take birth in a pervert home br br can the hideous consequence of ignoring empathy in family life in the long run be that room is given to sadistic nazism br br very seldom does a movie contains so much it reveals little by little as i meditate on it i consider it brilliantly painted and the actors are superb especially the nice seeming bloke played by that turns out to be the worst of all
1	i just recently bought the big trail 1930 it's an awesome amazing film i knew it by reputation but never expected it to be so magnificent my version is the one shot in 35mm and i'll speak of that again later when one thinks of the western myth in film the names that come to mind are john ford and john wayne well you have only half the team here but the entire myth is present raoul walsh has given us a remarkable epic in which the true plot is the struggle of the expansion of the nation br br there is a plot centering on a romance between breck coleman wayne and ruth cameron margaret churchill with the main villain red flack being memorably played by tyrone power sr but this has an almost incidental quality as the wagon train struggles forward against incredible natural and human examples are the crossing of the river the indian battle and traversing the burning desert the aftermath of the battle is given a sombre touch when a doll is placed on the grave of a child killed while a faithful dog lies down on its master's grave br br magnificent panoramas are filled with energy and activity the opening scene as the wagon train prepares to leave the square dance interlude and the great buffalo herds are some that spring to mind marvellous use is made of location shooting throughout another feature of this splendid film is the fact that men and women are given equal credit for their parts in the great struggle women work fight and confront the terrible hardships with the same fortitude and strength as their male counterparts the finale has a powerfully uplifting experience as coleman and cameron meet in the gigantic towering sequoia forest to start their new life br br the acting is quite acceptable throughout i've already mentioned tyrone power's scene stealing performance tully marshall is excellent as coleman's sidekick and marguerite churchill convincingly portrays a woman who develops an inner strength as she encounters her own problems as well as those external to herself the comic relief is the weakest aspect of this film but these scenes are not common and are swallowed up in the tremendous sweep of the film br br i've read much criticism of wayne's even going so far as to blame his wooden acting for the failure of the film at the box office i think this is unfair wayne was in his first major role and certainly had not developed the charisma of his performance in stagecoach but he still does a serviceable job in a role which is certainly going to play second fiddle to the great over arching theme after the big trail wayne played in a large number of low budget b westerns i have a number of these and one can see the developing actor in them when stagecoach came he was ready for it and the big trail was a significant part of that apprenticeship br br i mentioned earlier that my version is the one shot in 35mm it's still impressive but to get some idea of the effect of the 70mm version i set the tv screen to 16 9 which doesn't cause any distortion while not having the complete effect of the grandeur version it was good enough to make me want to get the latter in addition the film shot in 70mm has a few extra scenes not in the form made for ordinary theatrical showing br br all in all this film deserves to be in any list of the greatest westerns ever made
1	what some mistake for stilted dialog and or dismiss as archetypal characterizations accurately represents how people talked lived and were before world war ii let alone in whatever years the big trail represent on film br br the movie took my breath away the first time i saw it years ago reading the boards here helped me understand why it missed at the box office and why movie goers got the benefit of wayne in b westerns for another ten years wayne was in my opinion better in the big trail and the years of bs than most of his star turns after 1939 with ford's incredible cavalry trilogy true grit and the shootist being big time exceptions br br what a shame theaters missed the boat on this in 1930 had this movie hit we might have enjoyed more movies with more realism and less hokum in my opinion this is not only one of the finest westerns ever filmed with accurate dialog and accurate character realization but among the finest representations of a passage of any kind ever put on film br br it still takes my breath away especially the dialog and accurate characterizations of types that simply don't exist any more some celebrate the surface of our culture that in fact hides the largest cultural degradation into 'people like us' and 'people like them' and political divide vs main in us history but for me the big trail represents a time when our surface differences were more obvious but underneath them most folks wanted to work out the nation's failures and most folks aspired to build a great culture and a great nation br br the big trail is an epic of the melting pot in motion toward the american dream certainly the finest film on that path i ever saw that subject ever filmed
1	i have really nothing to add to all the other comments save this to me the film looked like a silent film slowly being adapted to sound the text boards bringing the story along reinforced that impression i suppose along the way the actors were allowed to leave the stilted theatre like acting marguerite churchill very much looks like a typical early silent movie heroine at the beginning of the film but at the end is allowed finer expressions gus the swede reminded me of the comic characters of shakespeare plays and windy sounded to me like an early donald duck br br it truly amazed me that it was all filmed outdoors on location and even though the dust of all the wagons horses and cattle obscured the view it must actually have been like that for the real settlers it also was clear to me that many of those indians must have been real and i didn't detect any overt racism towards them and john wayne looks so incredibly young as someone who became a real wayne fan through the cavalry trilogy by john ford and thought that stage coach was wayne's first as a leading star this film was a revelation the plot is very simple again reminding me of a silent film but the grit is very real indeed an amazing film to have been made with that technique and under those conditions in 1930
1	john wayne is one of the few players in film history to have failed at his first big break and then succeed on the second time around of course everyone knows the second time was the classic stagecoach with john ford directing br br but we're here to talk about the big trail john ford's fellow director raoul walsh spotted this tall kid on the set of one of ford's films and thought he had potential he wanted to make him the lead in a big budget western that fox was planning to do the film as planned would be an homage to the famous classic silent western the covered wagon br br in watching the big trail i was struck by how similar wayne's character of breck coleman here is to the ringo kid in stagecoach both characters were likable young but both were also on a mission of vengeance and of course both films were done on location and show the expense in making them no studio product here with a backlot western set br br i also don't think that it was an accident that wayne got this break at the beginning of the sound era raoul walsh i'm guessing looked around hollywood and probably didn't think a whole lot of movie cowboys would have staying power in sound that's something else walsh spotted in wayne br br according to what i've read the big trail flopped because after spending all that money to make the film in an early wide screen process some genius at fox realized that their theaters weren't equipped with the wide screen to show it and when the great depression hit there would be no money to widen those screens at fox movie houses so the big trail got a limited release even in what we would call a formatted version and lost money big for fox films br br marguerite churchill is fine as the heroine who duke wins loses and wins again from ian keith keith charles stevens and f tyrone power are the trio of villains wayne has to deal with br br f tyrone power is the father of the famous movie legend tyrone power he was a big burly man with a grand background in classic roles on screen and on stage i wouldn't be surprised if his son who would have been 15 at the time might not have been hanging around the set br br also look for ward bond though you might have trouble spotting him under a big bushy beard br br watching the big trail now it is interesting to speculate where john wayne's career might have gone if the big trail had been a big hit
1	a heroic young trail scout leads a large party of pioneers along the big trail to the west with indian attacks natural disasters romantic complications all part of the adventure br br as sweeping magnificent as its story raoul walsh's the big trail is a wonderful film as entertaining as it was more than seven decades ago with very good acting and excellent production values it lives up to its reputation as the first epic western br br john wayne pulled from obscurity for his first important movie role looks impossibly young but he immediately impresses with the natural charm masculine authority he brings to the hero's role he quietly dominates the film with the attributes which would someday make him a huge star marguerite churchill is fetching as a lovely southern belle who slowly warms to the duke's attentions dialect comic el is great fun as a swedish immigrant beset with mule mother in law woes his appearance in a scene signals laughs for the viewer br br looking sounding like a human grizzly bear tyrone power sr vast repulsive makes a wonderful villain slick ian keith is a sophisticated bad guy his famous physical similarity to john gilbert is very apparent here silent movie character actor tully marshall is impressive as a wily old mountain man who helps guide the wagon train corpulent russ powell as a friendly fur trapper puts his vocal talent for making nonsense noises to good use sharp eyed movie mavens will spot ward bond as one of the missouri settlers br br what will surprise many modern viewers is that the big trail was filmed in an early wide screen process called grandeur more than living up to its name the picture looks marvelous with walsh showing a mastery of the new technology he fills the screen every portion of it with action notice during the crowd scenes how everyone is busy doing real work which adds so much to the verisimilitude of these sequences walsh deserves great credit for being one of the first directors to use wide screen in addition the film is blessedly free of the rear projection photography which so many older films it should also be stressed that it is only natural that the soundtrack sounds a little primitive talkies were still in their cradle that walsh was able to use a microphone at all with most of the scenes shot out of doors is more kudos for him br br the big trail was not a box office success in 1930 william haines' comedies were the big money makers and the public was looking for fare other than intelligent westerns most of the cast slipped into obscurity including wayne it would not be until 1939 when john ford rescued him in stagecoach that john wayne's legend would begin in earnest and despite its grand sweeping vistas it would be another 25 years before wide screen caught on with hollywood largely as an answer to the economic threat from television
1	i just saw the big trail in vienna's filmmuseum for the first time immediately i was astonished by both the pictures optical high quality and unusual format and by its beautifully detailed story who has ever seen such a documentary style western with john wayne and there is so much time you can actually look around on the screen there is so much to see one is ever grateful that the scenes are often static because every single shot is so well composed and you want to take it it even the acting is good and fits in well the long running time of the picture is wonderful you don't want to miss a minute of it
1	john wayne's first starring role just blew me away televised letterbox style on amc i had to check and make sure i had the right date sure enough this 1930 film was made using a 55 mm wide screen process aside from that it features some of the grittiest most realistic footage of the trek west i've seen wagons men and animals are really lowered down a cliff face by rope trees are chopped by burly men and burly women so the train can move another 10 feet the indians are not the pretty boy city slickers who portrayed them later they're the real deal a river crossing in a driving rain storm is so realistic it has to be real in fact i understand that director raoul walsh nearly lost the entire cast during this sequence i could smell the wet canvas each day is an agony the various sub plots are forgettable but the film as a whole is not i can't think of another title that can beat the big trail in evoking a sense of living history on the trail to oregon bravo
1	contrary to the comment posted directly below the big trail 1930 was not filmed in a three camera process much like the later cinerama that was the finale to napoleon 1927 a different film entirely the big trail was simultaneously shot in both 35mm and 70mm grandeur versions and both versions are shown on fox movie channel from time to time so it's easy to compare one with the other the grandeur version broadcast in letterbox approximately its original 2 1 ratio is more impressive cinematically with its wide angle panoramas but suffers from the same problem that beset early a lack of close ups forced upon director raoul walsh because of focus problems scenes involving individuals rather than crowds or long shots are much more effective in the standard version because the camera can move closer to the players thereby achieving a greater sense of involvement for the viewer watching the two versions simultaneously one gets an accurate idea of which shots walsh chose to shoot close up in the standard version but could not in the grandeur version there are also a couple sequences involving el a shell game with ian keith and some business with his wife a jackass which are in the grandeur version but missing from the standard version br br for the record the big trail is the only one of three fox grandeur films which has survived in its original wide screen format the other two are fox follies of 1929 completely lost and happy days which survives only in standard format other studios also experimented with wide film at this time but the only other one still known to exist in both formats is the bat whispers filmed in both and 35mm and released by united artists other wide films were mgm's billy the kid 1930 and the great meadow 1931 rko's danger lights 1930 and the lash 1930 all of which can be seen in their standard format versions on turner classic movies kismet 1930 was also filmed both wide and standard but seems to have completely disappeared it is rumored to be lost br br why did wide film fail in 1930 theaters were reeling pun intended under the impact of the stock market crash of october 1929 and the spiraling costs of installing sound equipment and so were adverse to taking on the added expense of installing additional new projection equipment and new wider screens to accommodate just a handful of films photographed in a variety of different systems that were not even always compatible with each other it would not be until 1953 when fox now twentieth century fox would try again and this time succeed with the introduction of wide screen cinemascope
1	with the fairly recent release of carlos saura's in the united states albiet a limited art house only release it's high time for a re release of this fine documentary on rodrigues this film is a treasure chest of vintage film clips of on american television as well as various other film clips including one of her her mother that could easily reduce the most macho man to tears i first saw this fine documentary a few years back when it received the unjustified art house release it deserved far better fortunately various recordings exist of best recordings on various budget line recordings which are generally available in places such as k mart or best buy or if you do a little searching one can fine some of the original releases either on e bay or one of those distribution services that specializes in pricey european imported cd's there are at least two versions of this documentary in circulation the original version with no english subtitles and the u s version in with english subtitles except the european version cannot be played on most u s dvd players due to the pal colour line system not rated by the mpaa but contains nothing to offend
1	this is an extraordinary film musically it made me feel awful that rodrigues died in 1999 before i had a chance to see her live to know that she performed a marvelous lincoln concert in 1991 that i might've been there but wasn't is painful beyond words br br i just purchased my first recording while the musical recording is fantastic being able in this film to see her face its tremendous expressiveness passion as she sings these songs of terrible sadness is wonderful sort of like seeing the face of mary as she cradles jesus in her arms in the watching her on film reminded me of being witness to a similar extraordinary concert performance by mercedes sosa in the mid 1990s at lincoln as i sat listening to mercedes sing i felt i was in the presence of a tremendous spiritual musical force that contained awesome primal power some of the art of 's musical segments are touching such as caetano paying tribute to singing one of her songs solo in front of a packed concert hall the musical segments also convey the incredible international sweep of her musical repertoire the bonds she created w fans throughout the entire world there is one segment in which she claims that she has played in every single town in italy that has a stage br br in another section talks about her bout w mouth cancer how she came to nyc to commit suicide in a hotel yet through watching fred astaire film videos she gradually persuaded herself that life was worth living turned away from killing herself amazing later in the film she quite bravely directly admits to the interviewer that though she might've conquered the world musically her personal life was one of pure sadness she admits that she has never been happy this is unbearably sad to hear but perfectly in keeping w a singer steeped in the which she translates as bad destiny or bad luck tradition also one longs to hear more about her personal life what was in that made her so sad what were her disappointments br br the art of is a little disappointing in other major areas my quibbles to show 20 30 full songs in the film yet to only provide an english translation for the very last one seems a waste unless the film was only intended for a portuguese speaking audience which i can't imagine to see the profound pain on her face as she sings not to understand the lyrics is a let down as for the other minuses there is almost no biographical material about family background there is one 20 sec snippet w her singing w her mother it's absolutely grand there is one short reference to her parents moving fr the countryside to lisbon i would've loved to see film footage of the village she came from the interviews such as they are are almost solely w herself a few close friends she is a good but not great subject there are no interview subjects who are experts on or portuguese culture society so we get no depth of understanding of her musical roots br br in short this is a wonderful film that everyone interested in should see but it's not a perfect or definitive work on the subject
1	this movie must be exported to the rest of the world an absolute masterpiece with a both bizarre and grim film about four different stories from four different locations in sweden the one with the newly renovated hotel with the improper wooden figure of an old finance minister is absolutely the best of the four odd story about love or career i would love to see all four as a film on their own they can be so much more extended br br also the unique pause in the middle is something i've never seen before br br can't wait for the series if they're doing one or the extended dvd apparently they had cut out a lot to fit it in to just 3 5 hours
1	this is an excellent documentary about rodrigues i enjoyed it very much it's very well put together and very informative if you want to know who is rodrigues i highly recommend you see this film the art of rodrigues br br
1	reading some of the other comments i must agree that some of the very few shortcomings found in this brilliant documentary about one of the 20th century's divas up there with billie holliday bessie smith edith piaf judy garland and mercedes de sosa are justified because initially this was a 6 hours plus tv documentary about her career forma de vida v 1995 1999 far more encompassing and with greater insight into inner world as for the subtitling her songs i'm all for it though the music the voice and the performance may be are universal there is so much poetry in the words just begging to be translated i think this was a conscious choice by the producers they were aiming at the 200 million portuguese speakers in brazil portugal mozambique france east cape verde guinea bissau canada the us south africa st tome and principe goa daman venezuela luxembourg germany and the rest of the portuguese speaking diaspora worldwide as for the lady herself she did not live to see this particular shortened dvd version of the documentary but she was given a preview of forma de vida and it seems to have been to her liking very much so
1	the lament and almost unbearable melancholy of music goes to a place in the soul that only music can stir in her voice and magical presence lies the exquisite agony of the an art form of which i was unaware until seeing this film br br for me the success of this beautifully and lovingly crafted documentary lies in the fact that the filmmaker resists the temptation to and simply allows us to share in the magnetism and elegant passion of this icon there seems to be an inevitable between the portuguese and american blues br br documentary filmmaking at its best transports us to a previously unknown reality and having been allowed this glimpse we are transformed br br sr de almeida
1	i had my son for the weekend and my parent's called me up and said that they wanted the two of us to meet them at the movies when i got there my mom said that she really wanted to see the women and asked if my son and i minded due to it being labeled as a chick flick i reluctantly agreed thinking this was going to be another first wives club type movie i gotta say that i was very surprised to find myself really enjoying the movie from the opening scene to the credits it was a great production and the cast was perfect in their roles my son and i found ourselves laughing through entire movie and we are glad that we saw it it made for a great saturday afternoon movie and i highly recommend it to anyone man or woman
1	this movie was funny from start to finish everyone in the cinema was laughing out loud throughout the film the best characters were alex fisher jada pinkett edie cohen debra messing the girl from will and grace and tanya the manicurist debi they had the best lines the best attitudes etc jada pinkett playing a lesbian was really funny she really played it well and was very convincing the only bad thing about the film was the fact that the other two main characters weren't as funny even though the movie focused around them all in all this is a great movie to go and see with your girls yes guys it's a girlie movie through and through enjoy
1	my sisters and my cousin female forced me to see this chick movie its not the kind of movie i would prefer to see but it really wasn't that bad i wouldn't want to see this movie but after watching it i couldn't say it was bad just not my kind of film it was very accurate in acting out what woman really talk about and do in certain situations as a guy i wasn't too amused by the jokes but man the women sure were they related to the movie and yeah it was funny to see themselves on the big screen oh em gee i do that to haha i've never seen the original nor would i care to if you are a girl this is a must see but maybe girls would say this movie sucked probably i don't see a 13 year old going wow i remember going threw that when i was 30 br br no man would have this in there collection but i can't say it was horrible so meh
1	the women is a cute movie about women at all ages but mostly 30 and their issues in life not just men and infidelity but also about relationships with friends family making time to connect with others problems with image compromising your values accomplishments in life and finding what will really make you happy br br it's also about being true to yourself a lot of times people will give you advice but not really follow it themselves sometimes they have created a delusion for themselves and should you really follow in that same path or react based on your feelings now i really liked this movie granted it was trying a bit to be like sex the city at times but that probably helped me like it the difference here is it's kind of like the discoveries after the stage in life that the sex the city stars were in here most are married or past the point of trying to find a man now they are trying to find happiness in their marriages and lives br br obviously it's not an oscar contender but it is entertaining and serves its purpose br br and for the men out there there were an equal share of men and women in the movie theater most were with their wives girlfriends and the men were in fact laughing
1	yes this film is another remake yes this film can be considered a chick flick and yes this film is not perfect the women is however a clever modern update on the social behaviors of all women with an impressive cast of a including meg ryan debra messing annette benning and bette midler br br the film revolves around four main characters mary ryan her best friend editor in chief sylvie benning alex jada pinkett smith and edie debra messing and the out of this world female creature who is responsible for most of the film's drama named crystal eva mendez mary is trying to deal with her cheating husband who's never actually seen in the film by following the advice of both her friends and her mother candice bergen br br aside from mary there's sylvie who's torn between her social life and her professional life she has decisions to make that test her moral and ethic values then there's writer alex who's a lesbian with a lot of spunk but knows her way with words and finally edie with four girls and another baby on the way who loves children and has a heart of gold with a hidden secret revealed at the end br br together the women live for revenge rely on each other and give each other life lessons but it's the cameos by bette midler candice bergen cloris leachman carrie fisher and debi that show the cruel and usual behavior of women bergen plays ryan's mother she's tough silver tongued experienced and yet feels she could have become what her daughter does later there's fisher who shows how to blackmail and test the boundaries of selfishness morals and betrayal the gossip girl that shows no mercy for what she says and whom she says it to leachman who plays ryan's sassy housekeeper she knows her place when and where she's needed and how to deliver a good one liner finally there's midler who plays leah miller a crazy eclectic but wise hollywood agent she's the one character who gives ryan's mary an epiphany on who she truly is by discovering what do i want despite midler's scene stealing performance and memorable quotes she was underused br br but back to the film together the women show the audience what it means to live in the 21st century without knowing exactly what you want until the time comes when you answer that very own question it tackles feminism what it means to be a woman fierce ruthless bad ass tacky smart sly clever shy proud ashame self conscious careless beautiful strong independent and also what it is that women want why are women the way they are it's funny modern and by all means not a masterpiece but the bottom line is it's worth the money and time to see veteran and younger actresses teach us all about women
1	i will freely admit that i haven't seen the original movie but i've read the play so i've some background with the original if you off the fact that this is a remake of an old classic this movie is smart witty fresh and hilarious yes the casting decisions may seem strange but they work br br i'm a staunch feminist and i wasn't offended in the slightest by this movie despite what other women might be saying this is not a movie for men to see so please ladies don't drag your guys to see it with you that's just cruel women will get the jokes the situations and the relationships br br i was pleasantly surprised by the depth that annette bening brought to her character she did an excellent job debra messing was adorable and candice bergen was fantastic i was less impressed by meg ryan she brought emotion to the table but her comedic take on it was less strong the all female cast is strong and it definitely a laugh out loud sort of comedy i thoroughly enjoyed this movie and fully intend to go see it again with my mother women will understand
1	mary haines meg ryan a rich woman discovers her husband is cheating on her with a younger woman eva mendes she doesn't know what to do and friends sylvia fowler annette bening edie cohen debra messing and alex fisher pinkett smith try to help br br ok there was no reason to redo the 1939 movie that's a true classic and doesn't need to be updated and redone naturally it was done this has gotten some of the worst reviews i've ever seen for a motion picture i love the original and have seen it many times i was constantly comparing it to that now this isn't a classic but it's not that bad br br minor spoilers first the bad the story is old and was badly updated really a man cheating on his wife is hardly shocking today meg ryan a wonderful actress is pretty terrible here her face seems unable to change expression i couldn't believe how bad some of her scenes came over eva mendes is bad too but it's not entirely her fault her role is badly written and she has to compete with joan crawford from the original smith's character a tough lesbian goes to pieces in an operating room it is funny but it's showing that a strong woman instantly goes to pieces when confronting an emergency also the script inserts some clumsy passages where ryan talks to her daughter about being yourself in those moments it seems more like a lifetime movie than anything else br br now the good this movie retains the decision to never show a man on screen this movie is about and for women men aren't needed btw i'm a man bening is just great as fowler whenever she's on screen the movie makes a great leap also smith is just wonderful she doesn't overplay or her lesbian character too much messing is good too but she's not in this much bette midler is just hysterical in a small role and cloris leachman pulls off the nothing role of a housekeeper the direction is good too especially during a fashion show sequence i heard director diane english purportedly had a lot of trouble directing her first full length movie but it doesn't show in the final product also there are some clever references to the original mostly certain lines that were inserted with no fuss br br i saw this in an audience full of women there were a few guys but not many and they loved it the movie ends on an operating room sequence that had everybody howling so this wasn't needed but it's not the disaster people are saying it is also people are saying we don't need a movie with all women well why not i see plenty of movies with all guys in the cast and no one complains about that ignore the complaints and bad reviews and see this with a better performance by ryan i might have given this an 8 or 9 but as it is i can only give it a 7
1	i didn't know what to expect from this hugely popular and hilarious swedish comedy satire team as they released their first feature film more broad satire well we do get four contemporary exceptionally memorable tales of family pains generation gaps and fatherhood in particular but it's drama thankfully and what drama epic in its scope as each episode is from carefully picked geographically different parts of sweden but each story could seriously carry a whole movie if expanded separately br br it's dark twisted harrowing yet massively entertaining and breathtakingly executed script acting and cinematography are absolute world class as three hours seem to get by in a blink it's four shades of mastery and easily one of the best films in the nations' cinema history it's answer to short cuts or magnolia if you like and instantly on par with those br br 9 out of 10 from ozjeppe
1	the people who don't like this movie seem to have some academic vendetta against it those of us who don't hold the original can totally enjoy it br br my husband who had never seen the original said i don't want to see a girly movie i assured him that the women is just a great movie not a girl movie he had a great time he was very glad to have gone and enjoyed it more than the boy movie we saw the day before burn after reading br br spoiler i even think the new ending is better maybe not quite as fun but it was beautiful at first i couldn't understand why they had made certain changes to the plot br br but when i got the end and debra messing gives birth and brings the first male into the movie i cried that's one thing to love about men – they are our sons
1	i am a 58 year old man on a rainy afternoon my wife suggested that we go see the women after reading the reviews i thought it might lead to an afternoon nap wrong this movie held my interest from start to finish it was great to finally see meg ryan looking super again let's face it meg looks much better with long hair annette benning looked different to me in every scene she was in candice bergen is showing her age as is carrie fisher the daughter molly was exceptionally acted by young india i was able to understand the dialog which is tough in many current films due to rapid speech cloris leachman and the woman from finland were terrific as the housekeepers who extend their regular duties the nyc scenes were nice to see oh and bette midler had a short role but as usual was terrific so i gave this chick flick a 9 guys go see this even just for the eye candy like eva mendes it won't disappoint
1	a terrific comedy drama about the powers of friendship despite it's a remake of a 1939 film of the same title it would probably be compared to sex and the city i would not compare to it totally the story starts with mary meg ryan who seems to the life most women would envy she's happily married has a good daughter great friends and a great home but perfect life isn't what it seems when she discovers her husband is cheating on her with crystal eve mendes from zach's mary is puzzled and doesn't know what to do but her four good friends sylvia annette bening edie debra messing and alex jada pickett smith try to be there for her in anyway they can i really don't want to give anymore away but i found this enjoyable and i'm a man meg ryan is great it is nice to see her in on the screen again after a series of flops and the rest of the cast are also great including eve mendes as crystal just an enjoyable lighthearted comedy
1	most of the comments so far have nailed this one right on the head viewers under a certain age and with iq's of three digits should avoid chance of a lifetime like a george w bush facing a congressional grilling br br the cast is composed largely of veterans who know their way around a well written script is the premise wildly original no but the movie stands out like a lighthouse at midnight in the current and non ending glut of movies tv geared to the most desirable audience demographic of teenagers and young adults br br in addition to betty white and leslie neilsen in the leads the cast also has ever reliable veterans like elaine and william windom the sharp dialog is effortlessly and effectively delivered by these pros br br chance of a lifetime is definitely not a movie for the will ferrell adam sandler saw slasher gore fests american eye dull and ninety percent of the rest of the sludge ground out by hollywood and tv
1	this is one of my favorites betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital mature woman if you've got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat
1	as a veteran screen writing instructor at college in dallas and a former mgm screenwriter back in the days of decent films i am thrilled to have accidentally clicked on channel 33 in dallas tonight and watched this enchanting film in which betty white is gorgeous and makes one yearn for the good old days of truly good movies before hollywood started banging out all this crap for the teenagers if a producer is listening i'd like to state that there are enough of us over 60's who will happily pay a buck to see a movie that has no guns no killing no special effects no sex and violence and just a good touching tale of human relationships that leaves you with a good warm feeling as this film did for me
1	florence vidor stars as the daughter of a strict bible toting father who throws her out of the house when gossip taints her name in the big city she finds the dying wife of her own brother the two had secretly married and raises their child on her own years later she goes back home to confront her family br br this old melodrama is heavily larded with fascinating feminist themes circa 1921 but sounding remarkably modern some of it is laid on with a trowel as the father theodore roberts gives his eyebrows a real workout but it's well put together dramatically and lovingly composed and shot by cinematographer henry sharp
1	vidor shines as judith the only truly strong and compassionate member of a strictly patriarchal family her brother david is so downtrodden by their father that it's a surprise he's able even to tie his shoes rather than asking dad to do it for him br br other reviewers have already outlined the plot so i won't rehash it i will however point out that nan who is pregnant by david is also married to him this is not an out of wedlock pregnancy which would have been horrific by 1921 standards the two are secretly married but father having been paid by david's father tears up their marriage certificate br br death scene with judith in attendance is a truly heart rending experience and highly charged with emotion this scene alone is worth watching the movie for but there's far more to the plot than that why on earth aren't modern movies made with the same attention to the story
1	hail the woman is one of the most moving films i have ever seen in my entire life i watched it twice in a row and sobbed my eyes out br br this silent film masterpiece deserves a much wider viewing audience unfortunately the sole surviving print is so badly scratched that most people won't watch it all the way through and they will miss the gem shining underneath the rough this film could use a digital restoration to help bring out its beauty but i doubt it will get it from anyone since its main theme is spiritual restoration before christ of the family unit and this is not politically correct these days however it remains a powerful theme for those whose hearts are hurting from the pain of broken family relationships br br the cast is magnificent especially florence vidor who literally glows as judith the daughter ethereal madge bellamy as nan the poor girl who gets pregnant and is cast aside theodore roberts as the crotchety old domineering father who destroys everyone around him through pride and handsome lloyd hughes as the son david afraid of his father but really of life itself br br this is a nice film to watch at christmas especially you will not regret being patient and viewing it in its entirety despite its deterioration
1	i'm impressed that the woman' was made at all released just one year after american women got the vote this turgid drama makes an earnest plea against the sexual double standard which judges women's sexual behaviour more harshly than men's br br slight spoilers ahead a prologue set in the plymouth colony in shows a pilgrim girl sentenced to the ducking stool for flirting with a boy the boy is not now we come to flint hill new hampshire in the present 1921 oliver beresford theodore roberts is a bombastic bible thumper what we call in britain and australia 'a god beresford is determined that his son david lloyd hughes become a preacher regardless of how david feels about it as for beresford's daughter judith well beresford is confident that women aren't important enough to be anything more than wives and mothers apparently god told him this personally br br david's evangelical career is compromised when he impregnates nan higgins the stepdaughter of the local odd jobs man tully marshall's character is identified in the credits solely as the jobs man' but a close up of a cheque reveals his name to be jake higgins the prejudices of 1921 require that he be merely stepfather not her biological parent to save his son from scandal beresford buys off stepfather with a cheque nan goes off to the big city to melt into oblivion as one more unwed mother br br judith is naturally dismayed by the limitations imposed upon her by her gender or rather by other people's perceptions of it she meets gray excellent performance by edward an author who encourages her to transcend sexist stereotypes but judith is informally engaged to local lout joe hurd who won't put up with such nonsense hurd is played by vernon dent a burly performer now remembered solely for comedy roles as a second banana to harry langdon and as a villain in three stooges movies he gives an excellent performance here in a role outside his usual range sadly in real life dent spent his final years in poverty and total blindness due to diabetic br br eventually judith ends up working at an orphanage this being 1921 i expected the orphanage to be whites only so i was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to include one chinese boy and unpleasantly surprised when he's used as the butt for a racial joke the movie makes one odd error here in a christmas sequence we see the orphanage mistress reciting 'a visit from saint but in a dialogue title she credits santa claus with six reindeer rather than eight this is followed by a brief animation sequence showing santa with six reindeer hitched to his sleigh i assume that the animators either by accident or to save money left out two reindeer and the title card revised the poem to match the error br br lloyd hughes was generally a bland and unimpressive actor his most famous performance is his role in 'the lost world' where he's easily upstaged by a rampaging brontosaurus for his climactic scene in the woman' hughes gives a memorable performance as he finally rebels against his father's tyranny in his performance as the gospel shouting father theodore roberts has been accused of overacting to the point of making his role a caricature i disagree sadly decades after this film was made i continue to encounter fools exactly like this man willing to destroy the lives of everyone around them and firmly convinced they have god's authority to do so br br in the central role of judith beresford florence vidor gives a sensitive realistic and intelligent performance i normally dislike vidor who tended to be cast in glamour roles but wasn't pretty enough to justify them here her character's physical appearance is less relevant than usual br br this entire film is impressively directed by john griffith wray a director who deserves to be much better known sadly wray died at the onset of the talkies era in his mid thirties had he lived another ten years he would surely have helmed several early sound classics in the woman' there are several extremely beautiful screen compositions i was especially impressed by a scene in the new england forest when vidor and dent have a quarrel in front of an enormous uprooted tree i wonder where this was actually filmed the woman' deals with unpleasant subject matter but it deserves to be much better known and i'll rate this ambitious drama 9 out of 10
1	never ever have i been as impressed by a film as this little piece about four groups of people that faces a crisis or many in some ways a little like short cuts but totally different at the same time br br there are a heap of lead characters whom we all learn to know very well as their stories unfold and they are as persons show their good and their bad sides their weaknesses and their strengths with lots of drama and laughter br br the closest equivalent in a us movie i can think of which then is far weaker in every respect is the royal tenenbaums br br four shades of brown as the title would be in english tells the story about a stressed out and his wife and his elderly parents who are traveling magicians about the receptionist at an animal and his family misadventures about the members of a cooking course who mostly talk about their sorry lives and fourthly about the funeral for a womanizing trotter jockey who tries to continue orchestrating the family from beyond the grave by singing and appearing in 3d during the funeral thanks to high tech equipment that has cost his entire fortune the family gets nil not even the famous horse is given to the family br br there is a warmth and compassion in this film that is filled with grief and laughter that i've never experienced before br br most actors were new to me except robert and one or two more but they all deserve the big slam the film took at the swedish extravaganza the swedish oscar awards a week ago br br male female and male supporting actor prizes went to this film plus a few more to boot br br if you have the chance go and see it the hours float by very quickly
1	i consider this movie as one of the most interesting and funny movies of all time it has so much highly intelligent thoughts in it that anybody who thinks the movie is awful did not get it and is not able to recognize really deep philosophical themes which are in it in all the 3 schneider movies without a doubt several universities in germany and throughout europe have made studies on schneider's way of seeing things by the way helge schneider is a very intelligent and sensitive person and on of the jazz in germany maybe europe he is mostly inspired by the great m davis and t monk so if you do not like him it is ok but please do not try to convince others that he might be stupid cheap boring or not funny because if you had to face this opinion in a discussion and if you are willing to really look into the art of h schneider you would have to surrender
1	best movie by far very funny very surrealistic if bunuel made a movie starring buster keaton as krusty the clown it would look like this br br brilliant performances by the cast we already know from other schneider movies especially helmut as the sidekick of andreas who once more plays the wife in this one is a bit annoying though and of course helge himself as baxter is absolutely incredible br br p s if this movie had a proper merchandising i would really like to buy a replica of that ist painting
1	the phenomenon helge schneider defies easy description or quick yet for the international audience not acquainted to him one could say he's something like a crude mix of weird al yankovich and andy kaufman adding a foible for jazz music and 70s outfits while his stage performances already are eccentric his movie works are simply hilariously outrageous br br 00 schneider is in my opinion best movie he stars in the two leading roles police detective 00 schneider and murderer villain baxter and also in a precious smaller role as physician dr br br in the opening scene we see how modern art loving baxter accidentally kills the circus clown bratislav from whom he has bought a used jaguar when a beloved sculpture slips out of baxter's hands fatally hitting upon reading about the incident in the newspaper 00 comes back from retirement to investigate the case with the support of his loyal sidekick lt who is played by an elderly actor bearing the same name they pick up baxter's track quickly and interrogate him at his weirdly decorated mansion one of the movie's best scenes but initially fail to gather any proof the story winds through many turns with several scenes that don't always really contribute to the progress of the plot but are hilariously funny such as a daydream by 00 including the most unusual view on a running man's brief clad crotch in movie history a police department party during which gets into a row with the chief and has to be hospitalized and a visit at the already mentioned dr baxter then is finally caught attempting to escape to rio de janeiro on a plane br br always worth special mention is andreas who in this case plays 00's wife as he's usually appearing in drag performing women's roles in movies br br so all you folks out there looking for new laughs i strongly recommend this movie the catch you have to understand german as i doubt there's an english version around
1	the answer no sadly not though miller and the sweep has to be hailed as a most whimsical cinematic treat the drama suspense romance and the unidentified crowd at the end all add to the films complex storyline which must have been too much for the audiences of 1898 a enlightening experience one for all the family
1	this is a bewildering absurdist short a miller dressed in white makes his way towards us from a windmill in a desolate landscape although the image is pared down there is an obvious logic here however he is stopped by the sweep all in black because of his work they start each other for no particular reason did the snooty miller insult the sooty sweep is this class war br br whatever he pelts his adversary with bags of grain which fly all over the fight making redundant everything he had done prior to the fight making redundant the windmill so that all becomes as pointless as the fight the miller's grain the blackness later westerns wouldn't be so subtle heroes and villains being colour coded is there a racial tint here br br if this wasn't marvellous enough the fighters are chased off the screen by a crowd of people who came from nowhere an appropriately kafkaesque ending to an odd story or are they just the social conscience rising up against a fight that negates order and purpose and very unusual in the days of early silent cinema this mix of comedy surrealism and the absurd is an obvious forerunner for buster keaton while the windmill reminds us of one of the great thrillers hitchcock's 'foreign
1	a fine ironic visual gag takes place in front of the spectacular backdrop of a twirling windmill but who are those people who rush across screen at the end customers relatives one of the earliest enigmas in cinematic history perhaps well worth a minute of your time
1	okay if this film had been made much later in the history of cinema it wouldn't be particularly worthwhile however in 1898 films were in their infancy and they were almost all rather dull and had no real story to tell instead just showing normal everyday folks doing everyday activities if seen today almost all of them are hopelessly dull and very very short often less than one minute long and so in light of this this short clip of a movie is pretty swell stuff and might just make you laugh two guys a miller and a chimney sweep bump into each other falling and throwing flour and coal dust all over each other as they tussle that's all the film is over before you know it
1	i absolutely positively loved the movie i just saw it and can't wait for it to come out on dvd it is a beautifully well drawn masterpiece i am always amazed with the intricately drawn work of ghibli studios br br others have commented on calling risa by her first name he never calls his father by his first name unless he is speaking about him to someone else i didn't get the impression that risa was his mother it was never even mentioned or implied by anyone it is quite obvious that she is his step mother that is why he makes her promise to come home and why he gets so upset when he finds her empty car his mother must have died when he was an infant because he mentions being nursed by risa this coupled with his father being out to sea a lot is why he has abandonment issues everyone also talks about how mature he is this usually occurs when a child loses a parent
1	rendered in beautiful water colors at the cliff is definitely a sight to behold vaguely remembering the trailer witch i didn't find that impressive i was surprised at how beautiful and detailed it was this film just washed over me with its purity br br at the center is a young boy that comes into contact with a sea creature and its their relationship that carries the movie miyazaki is a master both at creating memorable imagery and showing young ones interacting in a believable way with their little quirks intact br br there are a few parts that didn't sit well with me it would be an understatement to say that the music during a particular scene resembled ride of the its a shame because such a precious film as this cant afford to take liberties and it hurt a otherwise truly great scene the antagonist and its back story never interested me either but i guess it served more as a background then anything else br br anyway great film the boat trip scenario with all its imagery and sea creatures stood out me thinks pure and magical and yes artwork is more intimate then computer animated i'm really pumped for princes and the frog now
1	miyazaki has been doing his mojo since the 70s and it's only been recently that his movies have made it american shores via disney and fans fawning over his great talent is no exception although some of his other movies have been a bit more accessible to us audiences some may find this one a bit on the fence being sort of japanese in its presentation for the same reason pom is very japanese and doesn't make much sense to us audiences so too are some elements of this should not detract you from watching this fun film of growth hope and friendship br br what does come across well is miyazaki's very elaborate and magical animation and story that has elements of wonder and fantasy that coupled with his characteristic use of character development and often using girls and women as main characters he steps out of his zone a bit with as the main character is a little boy who lives in a small village by the sea with his mom while his dad is away at work on the high seas although not lonely is just like any other curious boy who likes adventure and allure of the sea similar to spirited away we see the different worlds of the humans and the sea creatures and i feel that miyazaki may be trying to draw the viewers attention to the vast and undiscovered nature of things that live beneath the sea and our acceptance of them and thing that are different br br i managed to watch the subtitled version of this last year and was pleased by the story and plot miyazaki has claimed that this is my last movie for many years but shortly after spirited away he gave us howl's moving castle is certainly proof that miyazaki has not hung up his spurs and continues to delight and pioneer the most creative animated movies of all time watch with an open mind and a tip of the hat to childhood fantasy and imagination and you'll be transported back to when catching fireflies and secret hiding places were more important than boring grown up stuff and eating your vegetables
1	this movie is about london and it's an amazing movie it will be released on dvd in april 2003 and i will buy it when it gets out so if you have not seen it until then buy it the music in the movie is even better saint etienne have done the soundtrack
1	obviously can be seen as just not another stupid animated movie that a studio might put out to simply survive it is far from it and it can be easily described as a captivating beautiful movie experience br br miyazaki has indeed another masterpiece now to many this has been said to be the least of his achievements in film making due to in part of his certain weirdness factor not being there that is true the morals and insights that are not quite so evident in his previous films are very up front in this picture is not too difficult to understand or comprehend his idea i believe was to make a children's movie that was just as suitable for adults as their kids and for it not to be too complicated he accomplished this perfectly and he also didn't lose any substance along the way which is the reason it gets a 10 br br besides that the film itself is so engrossing from the start and the way its presented is so beautiful it left me in awe at times because i remembered how they were all hand drawn by miyazaki himself i haven't been so enlightened and happy after seeing a film since i saw once a while back another film not to be missed everything about was absolutely stunning and breathtaking even the music for it was pure perfection the only bad thing i have to say about it was its english dubbing don't get me wrong they were good too but i had seen about 2 weeks before it came out nationally and i believed that in some parts i wish it had kept some of its japanese dialogue not all of it though did enjoy the english way too all in all everyone should see it's absolutely flawless and in another league of film making altogether finally and don't hold me to this but i wouldn't be surprised if got a best picture nomination as there are now 10 films that can be nominated for it it's just that good
1	no no is a beautifully animated film and a relief from the many heartless soulless cgi movies being made the pastel and color pencil backgrounds were a surprise after sen to chihiro no spirited away and no shiro howl's moving castle being so similar stylistically the style worked well for the film and was done exceptionally well the time and effort put in to animate this is greatly appreciated as it gives the characters so much more life the detail and care it takes makes the movie turn out so much better there are several great scenes throughout the movie that have lots of movement and action the greatest to me being a scene were sisters transform into massive wave like fish while she runs on top of them the story is simple but fairly well written and played out the plot stayed focused around character relationships and while it wasn't played out as well as in no totoro my neighbor totoro it is still great i felt that each character had the an appropriate amount of screen time unlike spirited away which was so jammed with distinctive characters that it could have been stretched out into an entire series the radish spirit there was a another whole movie right there my only real problem with the movie was the end the way its worded in the english version at least makes it seem like there's going to be some great test given to which turns out to be just him promising mother that he will love though putting more thought into this leads me to think that translation may not be that accurate to the actual meaning in that the test is the promise and that deep down he really means it the movie did seem to end abruptly though other than that the movie was great and i highly recommend it
1	it's rare for a film to sweep you away within its world and leave you wanting more once the credits roll hayao miyazaki's is such a film br br the film is the story of a young goldfish named who wishes to become human she swims to shore and is found by a young boy named who promises to take care of her course father an ecologically obsessed sorcerer named fujimoto tries to keep from becoming human in order to maintain the balance of nature which is eventually when finally transforms into a little girl causing a massive typhoon br br is a very rich film it is full of wondrous fantasy lovable characters and genuine heart what director hayao miyazaki has done here is tell a simple little story and while so doing creating authentic movie magic br br is an enchanting experience the love between and is very pure and true as well the environmentalist within miyazaki is still as evident within this film as in all his previous works miyazaki shows the filth and grime that fall into the ocean in an almost startling light not to mention father is on an obsessive mission to clean the world's oceans while the story is simple miyazaki manages to add this extra layer to provoke thought with expert proficiency br br the film is a beautiful work of art each hand drawn cell looks like a wondrous pastel painting the film looks very different than many other studio ghibli productions but the artistry is still just as spectacular as ever before the scenes underwater are simply beautiful to watch fujimoto's fortress under the sea is highly inventive and the sequence where runs across the jumping fish within the typhoon to reach is iconic br br course it is thanks to its wonderfully executed characters that makes this film such a memorable experience is a young boy who acts older than he actually is and the energetic is a laugh a minute every character is just so enjoyable and highly memorable br br overall is a wondrous experience enchanting in every single way while the film may be sold as a children's fairy tale i believe many adults will be swept away within its fantastic world along with their children while the film may lack the density of some of miyazaki's previous works here he keeps it pure and simple being true to himself delivering a film that is funny heartwarming and entertaining all in one this is a magnificent film br br i give a perfect 10 out of 10
1	my first exposure to japanese animation director hayao miyazaki and his studio ghibli production company was when an english dubbed version of spirited away was released about 7 years ago what a wonderfully creative and unique film experience that was so on that note i managed to get my movie theatre employed friend to see this new film of miyazaki with me especially since he loves all things disney this movie's u s distributor once again all i can say is wow what awesome visuals concerning the way water is depicted as the ocean and what about the title character's transformation from a goldfish to and seeing how some characters' demeanor changes and well watch this movie if you want to know what i'm talking about oh and the voices being used for this american dubbed version tina fey betty white liam neeson cloris leachman and lily tomlin good choices all does everything make sense no but that's part of the childlike charm that permeates throughout there's plenty of funny scenes concerning and the boy and many other people they encounter oh i think i've written too much so i'll just highly recommend hayao miyazaki's
1	written and directed by hayao miyazaki is a little tale that speaks of respect for the ocean respect for humans young and old and respect for cultural differences it is a new tale of a little goldfish wishing to be a girl rather than a retelling of disney's little mermaid miyazaki has animated by hand a whimsical magical film for the young and the young at heart the film begins with a slow undulating blue green palette of sea jellyfish and scores of little fanciful goldfish with childlike faces there isn't any need for narrative the motion of the creatures and the music of jo tell the beginning released last summer in japan won the japanese academy's award for best animation film and best score jezebel com the fanciful little goldfish leaves her ocean home on a jellyfish upon reaching the surface she is caught up in a fishing net full of other fish garbage and sludge she is propelled into a jar which is rolled to shore where five year old voice by frankie jonas retrieves it he cuts his hand when breaking the jar open to free the little goldfish tastes his blood which heals cut and puts in motion her transformation to a human at the same time throwing nature out of balance puts the little goldfish in a green pail and names her noah cyrus meaning soft and jelly like mother lisa tina fey lets him take to school which is right next door to the nursing home where she works lisa's crazy driving down the picturesque winding road past a dry dock through the bustling fishing town and up a tree lined road to the nursing home is representative of miyazaki's wonderful sequence of action and illustrates perfectly a parent's hectic morning miyazaki has created another strong independent female character in lisa making her a loving sensible modern mother both to and lisa's telephone conversation with the not coming home again husband matt damon because the ship he captains must make another run is a typical wife's reaction later that evening intercedes using a signal lamp to speak to his father as the ship passes the cliff their house sits on lisa refuses to acknowledge apology and jumps up and signals bug off bug off bug off it is a hilarious scene but when takes the signal lamp and tells his dad good luck love you lisa hugs him and tells him he has a good heart it is a very poignant scene br br my personal favorites are miyazaki's elderly granny type women in wheelchairs at the nursing home betty white noriko cloris leachman and lily tomlin their over little goldfish is wonderful and reminiscent of the bickering between the witch of the waste lauren bacall and sophie jean simmons as they trudge up a long flight of stairs in howl's moving castle magical sea god father fujimoto liam neeson resembling the wizard howl arrives to take back to her ocean home fujimoto uses one of his elixirs to try and put nature back in balance but magical little escapes again upsetting more elixir in the process and causing a tsunami running on the backs of giant dolphins to get to this redheaded little girl reminds the audience of the stubborn adventurous little mei in my neighbor totoro is just as adventurous and curious as mei when fujimoto realizes what has done he calls for gran kate blanchett the goddess of the ocean to help with the situation this wise calming goddess arrives in a blue flowing garment that never ends she has a private talk with lisa discussing the future of the young children which helps the audience understand and relationship is not that of lovers but of brother and sister the life goes on quiet simple ending is typical of miyazaki films leaving the audience full of hope
1	even from the very commencing title of this movie i really love the artwork and canvas layout of one of the national islands of japan we see some great rolling green hills and some oriental houses of a coastal town instantly we are looking at the pacific beauty on the widescreen of the theater and to prove how great this film is i have to say that charles darwin would be proud teachers of evolution classes and school sciences such as biology would fantastically favor hayao miyazaki's brand new movie entitled the title character as you will see may be the perfect animation icon of media to be represented in all classrooms and auditoriums alike br br besides the scientific aspect of all this let's dive into the blue waters of this exciting story we have a skinny old and powerful sorcerer named fujimoto who lives in a and is cynical of the urban expansion of mankind and their pollution of industrial waste he wants to have complete control of the seas and the cute looking peaceful aquatic life including fish and organisms fujimoto whose blood is composed to be half human and half amphibious resembles both an ocean loving anti hero and antagonist similar to the james bond villain stromberg in the spy who loved me who operates an atlantis dubbed underwater city br br his daughter whom he treats like an over cared for pet is named she is a large goldfish who already looks like a pretty red haired girl the father bans her from the real human world claiming it to be dangerous and too much for her to handle but quite frankly exploratory curiosity is as strong as her amorous nature eventually with building strength similar to wonderful scenes from nick park's chicken run she breaks free of her father's rocky and fossilized aquatic city and swims to the water surface of japan and to her luck and joy falls into the caring hands of a youngster ship tanker captain named br br living in an ocean front house at a neat looking beach or boulder filled beach has two overworking parents a senior home working mother lisa and the first mate of a tanker barge koichi lisa seems to be angry at her spouse for being away on a ship and leaving her with all the housework even more so the black magic that is exerted by causes an apocalyptic chain of events to occur the moon approaches the earth too closely and waves surge from the of the tidal interaction forces and humongous tsunami waves rack the peaceful but evacuated town however what seems to underestimate this curse and seems literally more powerful than supernatural might is the love and tightly embraced friendship between the childish captain and the adorable red headed who wants to be a sensitive human than just a preserved fish much like the haired and free spirited hobbits in the lord of the rings grants me a slight reminder of that br br i could write on and on about this amazing animated film the best since coraline which was in theaters in february and right now hayao miyazaki feast your eyes on another 10 star grade from your animation fan graham abraham the year 2009 may be filled with dozens of animated films however is the most towering film of many environmental beauties and should be dedicated as a new wonder of the world
1	my husband dragged me to this film as i had no interest in seeing some anime cartoon i was absolutely delighted by the simple story and amazing animation in a digital world where effects are computer generated it was refreshing to see gorgeous imaginative hand drawn animation the world of and is a vivid fantasyland intermixed with minimal reality i haven't seen animation like this since i was a child and it is wonderful to see it endure and succeed br br the actors supplying the voices in the english version were fabulous the length of the movie was perfect especially for children who tend to get squirrelly in films overall a delightful experience worth the very expensive ticket prices we have nowadays
1	few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability br br no too many are focused on john amazing ability to steal other movies plots turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius but i digress br br miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues usually ecologically themed and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance still miyazaki almost never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies children br br that said i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability where else are you going to have a film where a three year old my nephew link will sit still throughout the move enthralled a 7 year old my niece amber loving it all her own and able to appreciate the star power of frankie jonas and noah cyrus a 12 year old my nephew aaron who's review was of course it was good everything miyazaki san does is good a 32 year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation er that would be me and a 58 year old woman my mother able to connect with the mother characters and i'm betting the older too and loving the cuteness of the child characters br br and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker on the surface could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there a little boy names somewhat like the little mermaid but there is an entire different level at play here true to form miyazaki his film with intensely strong female characters mother mother the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed br br but the girl who takes the cake is herself once she decides that she likes the human world she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams her father is trying to keep her innocent and keep her a magical fish but young knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination br br once human she teams up with her friend whom she loves very much although maybe not as much as ham is asked to be the man of the house at age five when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by on her quest to become human frankie jonas yes he's related to the jonas brothers can we just get past that please gives perhaps the best performance in the film as young which is good since he has the most lines his character is also strong willed but also very respectful and friendly characteristics you're not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific br br in the end father fujimoto must cope with his daughter's decision and his wife's wishes to allow her to be human he hopes that and will remember him fondly and once again miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical bad guy although miyazaki has for some reason received some criticism for this it is honestly what makes his movies magical and yet relatable no one in real life is completely a bad person all humans are various shades of gray and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters br br and then there's the animation itself in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film especially the water miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means but every film in this was hand drawn and i for one was extremely grateful for that the character animation was extremely fluid and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on quite unusual for an anime film the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience this is what animation used to look like and what it should look like br br in the end i found to be thoroughly enjoyable certainly not miyazaki's best in my opinion that honor is still held by kiki's delivery service but still a 10 star fun movie for the entire family
1	hayao miyazaki has captured the imagination of audiences young and old across the globe and his most recent cinematic work of art is a children's fairytale borrowing on story elements from the little mermaid of course like other miyazaki classics such as spirited away and his last film howl's moving castle is full of a creativity that can only be truly appreciated by adults but this it is distinctly more a children's story than those recent efforts it's a magical story best described as beautiful and lovable aiming for charm instead of conflict br br is the story of a bug eyed childish looking fish of the same name the daughter of an undersea sorcerer who longs to escape the sea and become a little girl when she does she quickly befriends a young boy named in the process she gains a strong magic and unknowingly throws the world out of balance between land and sea and a giant storm drowns most of the cliff top town where lives with his mother and it threatens to end the world br br like howl's moving castle walt disney picked up for an american release and dubbed it over with an impressive selection of western voices even choosing homegrown products in the youngest siblings of disney band the jonas brothers frankie jonas and miley cyrus younger sister noah to voice and respectively also voicing characters are liam neeson fujimoto father tina fey lisa mother matt damon father cate blanchett sea goddess mother and a trio of hilarious elderly women are played by betty white cloris leachman and lily tomlin the effort is definitely there to make this film appeal to american audiences and disney is getting close br br but voices are of little significance in a miyazaki film which is all about visual creativity a fan of transformations and animating liquid and fluid motion creating a fairytale taking place partly underwater must've been a joy for miyazaki to work with and maybe even his entire motivation for choosing this story among the highlights are of water that fujimoto sends after that move like living waves as well as a variety of other magnificent sea creatures and breathtaking storm scenes make as as any other miyazaki film br br as a children's story however concentrates its efforts on being adorable the discovery of true friendship and love between and is heart warming even if noah cyrus shouting childishly when excitedly embraces human life can get a bit annoying but as delightful as many of the imaginative elements and loving relationships are there's very little antagonism or danger past miyazaki films have clear villains but the conflict in actually shrinks as the story goes along believes he's lost his mother at one point and in the background is the idea of the world going out of whack and that humans should be ashamed of polluting the sea but is mostly tension free most glaringly its climax is uneventful despite how overall likable all the characters are br br will surely satisfy miyazaki's fans in every way with its imagination and newcomers will still be smitten by his simple yet visually ambitious storytelling but this is distinctly more of a children's movie best for families and others who love fantasy regardless of its form or target audience it's not quite what you'd expect from miyazaki considering his recent work but it's sure to be remembered as another of his beloved stories steven c br br visit my site at http moviemusereviews blogspot com
1	for readers who have already seen one of miyazaki's films he is still in top form and made another worthwhile experience okay you don't need to read any further now br br i already guess most readers are older than the two protagonists of this picture so i should say is not so much a family film as a chance to remember the feeling of being a small child discovering the world as you wanted to see it making up your own rules and boasting an exuberant enthusiasm at doing things on your own for the first time swerves away from many of the problems that all age films tackle it never condescends all the characters have good genuine hearts and believable problems br br the two main characters may be two of the most believable children i ever saw put on screen they are not simple minded arrogant or naive just curious enthusiastic and learning the ways of the world they are so easy to love but even more easy to identify with many films regard children from the outside as the adult looking into a world only a child could enter brings everyone back to that world in there lies the first time to learn and choose what you care about most which the film values with high esteem it is worth it to remember to feel it again
1	being a fan of saint etienne and the city of london i was very excited to see this movie on the list of the vancouver international film festival this movie has great shots an absolutely excellent soundtrack and interesting insights into a 'not so well london br br the movie is held completely in 'dark' colours which i personally don't like too much furthermore the narration was a little too british and the comments sometimes got a little flat other than that there are some great comments by londoners and excellent shots doesn't glorify london by showing all the great attractions of the city but rather gives deep insights in what london is really like from the east end to the vibrant centre with its music scene as well as the 'special little for londoners br br all in all br br great soundtrack nice shots great insights br br narration to watch at times very dark picture br br worth watching i give it a 7 10
1	i have been reading a lot of different opinions and reviews of this movie and i understand why a lot of people get mixed feelings about whether it be the story line animation dialogue and so forth and i believe the most simple way i can answer to this is that it's a movie for a much much younger age bracket an age bracket much younger than that of totoro my neighbor totoro br br being a miyazaki fan like the majority of the surfers on this site i expected the wonderful animation music composition complex story telling the great steady development of characters how the story intertwines with today's society etc etc etc of a typical miyazaki film that we grew up with and to tell you the truth i didn't quite understand what the hell this story was supposed to be about or what the hell was going on until an hour and twenty minutes with twenty minutes left in the movie that this movie is not for the deep thinkers and hard core ghibli but for the toddlers and and happy go lucky japanese people also i believe this movie is based on simplicity and creative animation straight up grass roots ghibli studios style br br the fact that a villain is not present really surprised me other than the father and maybe that crazy ass typhoon but other than that this movie is just plain fun to stimulate a young one's mind and to make happy good time feeling that's all br br the animation goes back to the old school mid 80s early 90s era of miyazaki's films where very specific detail wasn't a big focus unlike mononoke princess mononoke and the latter i admire the simplicity which kind of created some small nostalgia when i first watched ghibli movies like totoro when i was a child the reaction and movement of the children are all very similar to that of kids and a lot of studio body language is very noticeable studio ghibli added some creative moments and sceneries that they can only do with it's wonderful animators but it probably won't take the ritual ghibli ist in awe br br the japanese dialogue also sounded very child friendly and a lot of scenes and dialogues are very very relative from what japanese kids and mothers would say and act the music if very hoppy and fluffy i guess you could say similar to totoro from beginning to end even the darker scenes didn't seem assertive br br in the end this movie is one of a kind just about every aspect of this movie is for children and i waited a whole 80 mins to realize that quite frankly i have never seen a movie told or shown it the way miyazaki did it's refreshing to see that studio ghibli can still tell a story for a wider and much different scale of audience and still keep that trademark ghibli impression
1	like the 5 year old protagonists of his latest opus hayao miyazaki's enchants with its unbridled innocence as though the anime meister has become a child himself in weaving a narrative that relishes in its simplicity and emits an infectious charm in the process miyazaki recalling his earlier works paints a brightly colored world obviously geared for the younger audiences and the raw effervescence gleefully strips off the grim thematic elements that distinguish its immediate predecessors br br voiced lovably by a fish with a young girl's face making her look like a cuddly child in a pink overgrown halloween costume escapes away from her underwater home and her school of siblings to explore the surface stranded ashore she is rescued by a five year old boy who along with his mom risa yamaguchi resides in a house on the nearby cliff this initial encounter and eventually friendship has a profound effect on who now wishes to become human but by becoming so inadvertently tips nature's balance and unleashes a maelstrom on land with help must pass a test to lift this curse and completely become a human br br despite the plot lacking the philosophical sophistication of say his most recent spirited away is nothing short of an astounding follow up characterized by the extremely diligent attention to detail and masterful balancing of the real and the fantastic and of the simple joys and great fears it's a straightforward tale that though at times stalled by its tendency to ramble like a toddler keeps in tune with its youthful pedigree to magically enthrall i will protect you tells matter of factly a childlike assertion not unlike the manner in which miyazaki endows his story with artful spirit
1	perhaps not miyazaki's best work but i couldn't help but love it to death a five year old boy finds what he thinks is a goldfish stuck in a bottle he saves its life and keeps it in a bucket as a pet but it really is a magical being the daughter of a human wizard and a sea goddess as the boy names her is taken back to the sea by her father who tries to discourage her from returning to land and becoming human but she gets into his magic elixirs and does what she wants to do the story is simple and cute where the film really comes alive though is in its tremendous artwork the drawings are more child like than in any of miyazaki's other works but there's beauty in its simplicity as with all of his films miyazaki creates this world of imagination that i was just so in awe of seeing it in the theater brought back memories of what it was like when the opening notes of jo hisaishi's score for princess mononoke washed over me and gave me goosebumps just short of a decade ago the score here is equally as wonderful i wanted to live in this world and never leave it
1	is a beautiful animated film with some dark undertones it features a kid sized story of longing and love with ecological implications but it is not preachy hayao miyazaki has fused andersen's little mermaid with japan's native myths and his trademark steam punk flights of fancy and the result is very rewarding there are some scary moments of storms and flooding but they are thrilling not horrific br br if you've ever wanted to run with the waves along the shore ride on a jellyfish as an elevator completely transform yourself or make a friend for life is a fable for you
1	i had heard news about this film from anime legend hayao miyazaki and i so wanted to see it but i was lucky enough to the film online at youtube after watching the film i knew that it is another miyazaki studio ghibli classic br br this film inspired by my favorite fairy tale the little mermaid is about a 5 year old boy named and his relationship with a goldfish princess whom he named who longs to become human and be with i won't give you anymore details you'll have to see the film for yourself so overall one of the best animated movies ever made with plenty of fantasy adventure and humor i loved it
1	it has been widely agreed that hayao miyazaki is a master at his craft when it comes to combining rich animation with thoughtful story lines and similarly imaginative characters his movies from nausicaa totoro kiki laputa and mononoke to the recent howl's moving castle are all not only gorgeously rendered in terms of art but in terms of movie making as well can this man do no wrong not really but it is impossible to expect everyone of his movies to always be five star marvels his newest film an unashamedly family friendly tale of a goldfish out of water is as lushly animated and alive with interesting characters as you would expect and yet this is the first film of his which treads into lesser territory don't get me wrong is not a bad movie by any means as mentioned it is a sight for the eyes and is as charming and adorable as totoro and kiki the problem is that the story doesn't stay afloat to satisfy anyone eager for another engrossing in depth plot br br for its opening hour is miyazaki storytelling at its finest in which a rowdy and young goldfish who later becomes named makes a forbidden trip to the human world where she is subsequently adopted by a boy her own age named modeled interestingly after the director's own son this does not please father a mysterious wizard named fujimoto who is very angry at the humans for their destruction of the sea this environmentalist theme is not much different from miyazaki's other films a problem he very much intends to rectify by creating jellyfish from the of his submarine he separates the pair and tries to talk into staying underwater with him the goldfish however has already tasted both blood healing a cut on his finger and some of the human food ham which she becomes inexplicably addicted to and of course steals into her father's forbidden potions transforming into a hyperactive young girl who is the spitting image of mei from my neighbor totoro this triggers a dangerous tsunami which threatens to engulf the entire world with water conspiring with his wife gran a diaphanous sea goddess who shifts from super sized titan to human size form fujimoto decides to test the two love for each other they do this by elevating the sea to the level of house prompting the youngsters to set out across their now ocean infested world in an over sized toy boat made possible by own magical powers br br it is at this point where begins to run out of steam although and are adorable and the scenes involving them are funny and cute they slow down the film where the film really takes on water unfortunately is at the climax in which must prove his love to presented in a way which is strangely anticlimactic and rushed bringing an otherwise charming tale to an abrupt halt this will likely viewers expecting another instant masterpiece from the man who has delivered far more interesting finales for many of his other movies remember the destruction of laputa search for little mei kiki's rescue of fight with curtis the rescue of the forest spirit's head or even the test between chihiro and all those resolutions were far more satisfying and felt more complete than this one br br on a technical level cannot be faulted the animation is absolutely gorgeous to look at produced entirely without a single shot of computer generated imagery and naturally joe hisaishi provides us with yet another breathtaking musical score the best moments being the rousing sequences underwater accompanied by a chorus and a soprano voice and the backgrounds are lovingly painted and detailed as any other ghibli movies br br having proved themselves worthy on translating and dubbing previous movies into english with top quality results disney studios and pixar once again provide an english dub complete with a mostly capable cast of actors frankie jonas is surprisingly good as sounding very natural and believable throughout noah cyrus as on the other hand sometimes goes overboard in shouting her lines before eventually settling down toward the end leads aside the rest of the cast includes liam neeson as the overprotective fujimoto who manages himself unsurprisingly well in the character cate blanchett as gran in an omnipresent tone which is not much different from her galadriel in lord of the rings matt damon as constantly seafaring father koichi who is good but nothing to write home about and tina fey as lisa of them fey is the best voice in the entire cast imbuing the character with just the right amount of spirit and personality her scenes with show real chemistry on the other hand cloris leachman who was spectacular as dola in castle in the sky is disappointingly wasted as one of three handicapped elderly women she barely has any lines who are also voiced by betty white and lily tomlin of them only character a cantankerous woman named shows any real personality but if i were casting the movie i'd switch tomlin with leachman probably the only really jarring drawback of the dub is a techno remix of the film's catchy but ridiculously repetitive title song which thankfully doesn't occur until midway through the closing credits br br on the whole is a good film a fine piece of animated work which is perfect for youngsters and family audiences due to the loss of momentum toward the end though it falls far short of classic status since miyazaki at his least is still better than a majority of other animated films though i'll be generous and give a full star recommendation because any feature of his is still very much worth watching particularly on the big screen be sure to catch it in the theaters while you can
1	said to be inspired from disney's the little mermaid on the cliff by the sea is japanese animation master hayao miyazaki's next big work after the well received spirited away in 2001 and howl's moving castle in 2004 in his signature style of animating fantasy realms and children characters are on display once again br br the boy lead in the film discovers a trapped in a glass jar while playing by the seaside below the cliff he stays with his mum lisa yamaguchi above and atop it shakes the jar forcefully to try and get the out but the little is stuck he then tries to pull it out but it just cannot come loose then place the jar on the ground before smashing a small rock onto it breaking it into pieces instantly while suffering a small cut on the finger he then checks to see if the is still alive as he observes it the reacts by licking the blood off his finger suddenly excited quickly rushes back to the house and put the in a small bucket of water in hope that it will survive it did and he named it br br the above scene would signify what is to come for the remainder of the film it is of the interactions between and and it is one that hayao miyazaki did meticulously well in portraying he must have a keen sense of observation and understanding of how children behave before he depicts this chemistry of communication between the two main characters the behavior of the children would also extend into the rest of the film in their further encounters br br the affection between and grew as the film progresses from the moment brought to school in lisa's car the best moment came when the two were reunited after a brief separation when father fujimoto george a magical sea dweller recaptures the errant before encapsulating her in a magic bubble with kind intention br br fujimoto who was once human has grown to refer humans with disgust for polluting the sea and stealing its life but all wants is to be human and be with so for a second time she escapes accidentally emptying his father's precious store of magical elixir into the sea creating a storm of tidal waves and the small town in the process br br what follows are the adventures of and in the flooded town br br is there a happily ever after in this one would true love prevail you find out br br looking at the art in on the cliff by the sea there appears to be a deviation from miyazaki's past works in terms of rendering it looks unfamiliar because the environment apart from the characters at play in every scene is not colored in the usual fashion as in spirited away 2001 and howl's moving castle 2004 the aesthetical appeal is discounted from what appears to be color penciled drawings the objects and characters are also not as detailed as before br br this is peculiar if taken on face value but from the way the story is written and told the possible explanation is that miyazaki is allowing the audience to view the film with a child's tint yet allowing the adults to reminisce on a japan when they were younger this move could have prevented prospective moviegoers new to miyazaki's work to see it the trailer did nothing to promote as well taking the case to japan however would be a different story as miyazaki's credential far than exceed any marketing technique br br in summary though the whole did not equal to its parts aside from miyazaki's ability to cast vivacious and animated characters the film lacks elements of thrill and wonder when measured against previous works resulting in a deficit of big screen presence br br the sparks of and failed to light up the film in a big way but moments of warmth kindness and love can still be found in recognizing the film as one that is not made for the kids but of the kids who everyone is or once was
1	miyazaki's studio ghibli shows his wonderful touch animating infusing life in every little action of the characters in when puts down so carefully his little boat to reach for the red fish you know that you'll have a very good time watching this movie br br the characters are interesting and you really care for them they recall visually other stories seems a grown up nausicaa with a son an old lady in wheelchair remembers the witch in howl's moving castle br br the presence of the elements wind rain and the sea with its great powerful waves is so strong that i think it has never been evoked in such a way in any other movie it is a simple story loosely inspired by the little mermaid and it reach for the very heart of the audience just like totoro the other miyazaki's true masterpiece br br an instant classic with a great soundtrack and a catchy song during the ending credits don't miss it
1	i have a strong feeling that what you think of this film will strongly depend on your frame of reference if you've never seen a miyazaki film before then it will probably confuse the heck out of you if you have seen a miyazaki film before then it will still probably confuse the heck out of you but you won't really care that's because i found that the first time i saw one of his animated films i tried too hard to figure out what was happening and why and it impacted my enjoyment of the film now that i have seen just about every miyazaki film i see the bizarreness and just take it all in enjoying the beauty of it all in many ways these films at least to western audiences is like drugs lots of strange and beautiful images that don't always initially make sense but sure feel great to see of all the miyazaki films this might have the most unusual and incomprehensible story line even more so than spirited away and princess mononoke or my neighbor totoro but like these and many other studio films if you just sit back and watch you are rewarded with a fabulous tale but because it is so hard to describe and others have already done so i won't even go there br br as for the artwork it's very typical of one of these japanese films though there was one noticeable change there was a very extensive use of what looked like colored pencils for the backgrounds this was not a bad thing at all the lovely pastel like look was very pleasing and unique in some ways it looked like a tiny bit of bill art style was infused into a typical miyazaki film with a high frame rate exceptional character animation which imbued them with tons of personality and a great wow factor this is an exceptional film for all ages though clearly designed more for younger audiences the totoro fans especially it is a bit scary here and there during the storm segments but there is plenty of great stuff for adults as an adult at least chronologically so i loved the cute stuff and applaud the other worldliness of the film br br a great film among miyazaki's best i don't give it a 10 because i am hesitant to ever do that plus i did like a few of the studio's other films a bit more particularly totoro but that doesn't mean you shouldn't rush out now and see it do it and do yourself a favor
1	i have recently watched this film and have decided to comment on it br br the best way to watch this film is to not expect what you have seen in the past by miyazaki miyazaki is well known for his work on on spirited away and howl's moving castle well for western viewers anyway both of them films were kind of similar to each other but at the same time completely different however is a whole different type of story and animation all together br br the story follows a fish that has the face a girl after runs away from her home at the bottom of the sea she find a whole new world she never knew was out there and new trouble as well when she almost caught by a fishing boat she was rescued by a five year old boy known as br br the story then follows the two of them and the pure friendship between a boy and a fish can really stay with forever br br i feel the movie was inspired by the little mermaid and at the same time similar to no totoro br br the movie is very short and you have very little time to learn about the characters in this movie but the characters a fish and a little boy so how much are you expecting to learn about them the film is set over about what seems to be 3 days i think this is why the movie is so short br br i really enjoyed watching this movie and i hope you all enjoy this movie as well
1	i absolutely loved this movie since i don't want to give much away it's basically about about a mother and a daughter and the life they have together it's very heartwarming story between the struggles they have i also think natalie and susan have perfect chemistry throughout the entire film this is definitely worth seeing two thumbs up way up
1	this is a must see movie you will laugh you will cry and when it's over you'll wish there were more well written and compelling this movie draws you in and holds on tight the casting was perfect the characters purposeful and the performances outstanding nanny is the standard to which all women should hold themselves strong forgiving protective and never judgmental nanny to me is the epitome of what a christian mother and woman should be a true pillar of the community if i were half the woman nanny is i might consider myself to be doing okay i would have been devastated if nanny had died at some point in the movie but since she didn't i will definitely buy this when it comes out on dvd i can only hope that the story continues and that ruben goes back to lackawanna to try to rebuild the town piece by piece and person by person
1	hayao miyazaki's latest and eighth film for studio no no on the cliff by the sea is a wonderfully fun and imaginative look at childhood at a time when it seems that film animation has been dominated by disney pixar's cgi masterpieces it is both refreshing and comforting to know that miyazaki is still relying on traditional hand drawn animation to tell his charming and enchanting stories br br the story revolves around the friendship between a magical sea sprite goldfish and the human child that she encounters during a curious outing to see the human world the human child lives in a small house on a cliff overlooking a small port city in southern japan based on seto island where he lives with his young mom lisa yamaguchi names the strange goldfish and takes it to the daycare nursing center that lisa works at is definitely not your typical goldfish and soon begins to adapt and take on human aspects she develops human speech and an appetite for ham meat by sampling some blood from a cut on finger br br yet just as and begin to develop a bond is taken back by her father fujimoto who is a former human who has rejected the surface world and is now attempting to collect and develop magical elixirs taken from the sea that aid him in repairing and rejuvenating the world's oceans br br desire to become human has become so strong however that fujimoto is unable to contain her anymore and she takes on a more human appearance and breaks free from her water world home and goes back to see br br during her breakout unintentionally releases fujimoto's cache of magical elixirs which unleashes all sorts of magical sea creatures that causes a violent storm in the seas surrounding town desperate to resolve rebellion he soon calls upon the help of his beautiful wife mother the water elemental mother lady of the sea yuki br br as with his past films miyazaki's no no touches upon various themes of ecology and environmentalism this time focusing on the health and vitality of the world's oceans the opening sequence is at times sobering when encounters a vessel which is scraping the ocean's floor uncovering mountains of garbage and debris one can understand the anger and frustration of the character of fujimoto who has spent his lifetime trying to repair the damage civilization is doing to its oceans yet finding it an daunting and almost fruitless endeavor br br enough can not be said of the remarkable animation in this film it is at times bizarre and outrageous but at the same time charming and curious clearly miyazaki wanted to capture the sense and style of a child's imagination the art style has the appearance of crayon pencil drawings and is wonderfully colorful and fanciful it is almost like a child's color book come to life br br child actors and do great work as and they bring adorable charm to their roles in particular sounds so darn cute as that it is little wonder that falls for the magical girl former campaign girl model and actress yamaguchi no otaku is also very good in her role as modern mom lisa i was a bit confused at first by her character as i initially thought she was older sister it also didn't help that kept referring to her as lisa rather than mom but i guess it is perhaps a sign of the times and an indicator of the modern japanese family in the anime series crayon also refers to his mom by first name as well br br 80s comedian sounds totally different as the serious fujimoto but wisely doesn't make his character sound cartoony villainous or goofy menacing while we don't get to know his character more former pro baseball player and actor who portrays father koichi also delivers some nice voice work the opening theme no by japanese soprano masako is simply beautiful and stirring in contrast the and no no theme is light and amusing and evokes images of a traditional japanese nursery rhyme during one brilliant sequence the soundtrack takes on an almost wagnerian operatic sound with music that sounds like die br br the film is not perfect however and does suffer from moments where the central story of and takes a back seat to some of miyazaki's overwhelming fantastical visuals i also had wished we had more time to explore fujimoto's back story as well as the relationship between and his father br br like kiki's delivery service majo no howl's moving castle princess and my neighbor totoro no totoro no no is another miyazaki classic that is a marvelous feast for the eyes like a modern day fairytale the film tells a timeless story of friendship and love that will surely be cherished in years to come
1	while hayao miyazaki's movies have always been hit or miss with me with regards to story they are unequivocally gorgeous to the eye with characters of simple animation against a backdrop of artistic images sticks to that formula with a lead character so adorable i want a plush doll of her and scenery so pretty it wouldn't look out of place framed up as a picture on a wall br br the story on the other hand i didn't enjoy quite as much as his last two wide releases spirited away and howl's moving castle it was just a tad too juvenile coming across as more for kids and leaving adults to just enjoy the animation br br i was also disappointed that the score done by joe hisaishi who also the scores for the above mentioned two movies wasn't nearly as memorable this time around while i can't quite recall howl's score now i still remember it being one of the most beautiful i had ever heard ditto though i only remember it being very complementary to the movie maybe it's because is more juvenile fare that the score isn't quite as haunting in any case this movie is still a must watch for fans of anime or miyazaki
1	this is the latest ghibli movie and it is also a major departure from the studio's established style first of all this film was obviously aimed at young children much more so than any of their previous films it lacks the depth of the other films and features a brand new far less realistic style of and yet it is ever so entertaining even though there is nothing put in to attract adults i still found myself drawn to the screen and fully immersed in the story the movie's secret is brutal honesty with regard to the plot and the characters the story and the characters are very upfront with their feelings intentions etc but that makes them all the more endearing special attention was also paid to the soundtrack which is absolutely amazing despite being way different from previous ghibli soundtracks i find myself singing the cute theme song all the time as will anyone who sees this movie
1	quite simply i was tickled pink watching this in the movie theatre and grinned from ear to ear eyes wide open whilst trying to take all the details in that are at the same time insanely simple fresh yet incredibly sophisticated breathtaking and in imaginative br br in terms of audience age range it is probably pre totoro the plot works because of the pure heart of 5 years olds who are focused in what they want and conscientious in their pursuit they lives in a world that is by cynicism and cultural learning of how everything is to work while most critics might disregard this film due to the lack of a 'message' or 'plot' film although it is in there somewhere it is precisely for this reason the film should be cherished too often our judgement are impeded by our own limitations of cinematic and cultural standing like most of film each is totally unique but undeniably may at times feel so unique and fresh it may feel alien like br br the viewing experience provide a wonderful change from all the generic children's products that are generally to please the adult demographics ie animals that talks like their human counterparts eddie murphy in shrek it is perhaps comforting to know that good old fashioned hand drawn cells still work so incredibly well in this digital era where shrek cars generally triumph it therefore feeling rather nostalgic at the same time makes the film feels timeless a bit like how totoro and jungle book hasn't really aged br br the subtleties of each character's expression and body language is captured in such nuanced interpretation that digital films like wall e can never compete on or if it does it would be a very expensive process it would be a big pity for wall e to win over this one at the oscars and it probably will this year yet it might be quite unfair to compare the 2 mediums as it is really the craftsmanship and the story telling that wins at the end of the day for this is a true master of
1	hayao miyazaki's magic continues with this absolute crowd pleaser on the cliff by the sea his latest animated film which turns on the usual sweetness to charm your socks off i thought that the trailer featured its song which was quietly hypnotic and i didn't have to wait for an invite to make sure i got my ticket for the sneak preview of the movie scheduled to open here next week br br for fans of studio ghibli films you'll probably know what you're in for as miyazaki has yet another winner in his filmography that will win new fans over i'm embarrassed to say the least that i've so far watched only my neighbour totoro eyes that pile of ghibli dvds and love it to bits but i guess this would serve as a final push for me not to continue missing what would likely be animated films that i would enjoy br br voiced by is a magic goldfish that yearns to know what is life beyond the sea with her constant forays in a bubble to the surface of the water to sneak a peek nonetheless these ambitions do not bode well with her humanoid dad fujimoto who harbours some hatred toward the human race for pollution and briefly touching a subplot on environmental protection revenge by mother nature as well an accident one day sees being washed ashore and picked up by five year old boy who lives on a house on the said cliff with his mother lisa yamaguchi while dad koichi is mostly out to sea since he's a sailor and you can expect some moments of throwback to the likes of the little mermaid or splash made for kids saying anything more would be to spoil the fun br br the artwork here is still simply astounding even though it's in 2d glory knowing that each cell is painstakingly worked on there are so many things going on at the same time within the same frame that you'll probably be game for repeated viewings just to spot them all this definitely beats any 3d or cg animated production any day given its beauty coming from its simplicity and not only from the artwork department but on its story too despite complaints coming in that it took a leaf from the hans christian andersen classic while there are avenues to make this film extremely dark it only suggested certain dark themes but opted instead for a film with more positive emotions suitable for both kids and adults alike br br at its core its about love that between the family members of koichi lisa and and especially between mother and son more so it's about the love between the boy and his new pet fish which he christened and i tell you herself has enough cuteness in her to beat the likes of bolt and eve all hands down characterization here is top notch and it's hard not to fall in love with in whichever form adopted especially when she's such a playful being who doesn't hide her emotions if she's upset with you either she turns away or you could expect a jet stream come spewing from her mouth into your face br br on the cliff by the sea is a definite shoo in to my top films of this year without hesitation and the next time i go to tokyo i'm sure as hell going to make my way to the ghibli museum to under the magical world brought to us by hayao miyazaki highly recommended film so don't you go missing this on the big screen
1	as a long time fan of studio ghibli and especially hayao miyazaki films i went to the film right on the opening day when i went out of the theater i had this strange feeling that something was missing this magical feeling i was experiencing in all miyazaki films before but i couldn't say why it failed this time after i thought about the other ghibli movies i may know the reason this film had most of the elements of a great miyazaki anime cute characters wonderful key animation a great soundtrack composed by joe hisaishi and the warm story telling giving you the feeling of watching a high quality japanese animation film however two elements were lacking a deep story and dramaturgy the purpose of this film was obviously to entertain small children with a simple story line as in case of totoro so a complicated story as been told in spirited away or princess mononoke is not really necessary but on the other hand this story was simply too superficial i could not connect to the main characters because there was no character development dramatic scenes were only limited and did not last very long i really hate to give only 7 stars for a miyazaki film because i would give 10 stars to all previous movies right away but this time it was simply not this wonderful ghibli experience
1	whenever hayao miyazaki does the tri writes directs and animates a movie he makes a classic film for the ages he has done it again with no no br br the story is about a girl fish who is kept on a very tight leash along with her younger sisters by her father a bitter ex human wizard named fujimoto the fish escapes from her father and rides a jellyfish to shore where she is caught up in a operation and finds herself stuck in a bottle this underwater sequence must be one of the most elaborately drawn animated scenes ever undertaken and stands on its own as a reason to search out the theatrical release miyazaki who shows no fear of having a busy scene has outdone himself there were literally hundreds of individually drawn sea creatures of every imaginable size all in motion at the same time br br when the fish escapes the operation while still trapped in the bottle a five year old boy named spots her in the water and is able to break the bottle saving her since she is the result of her father's magic she is capable of magic herself and her father actively tries to retrieve her the boy names the fish just when learns that can speak her father successfully retrieves her back into captivity br br after a war of wills with her father manages to escape again with the ability to change herself into a human she meets up again with in a storm and the story continues from there in many interesting ways there is a cuteness factor in this film rivaling and arguably surpassing that of no totoro joe hisaishi once again provided outstanding musical support br br the story itself is simple as are miyazaki's films in general and should appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers while i haven't viewed it enough to be sure the film doesn't seem to be one which will keep scholars in long discussions as sen to chihiro no did nonetheless this is the ultimate feel good entertainment movie i gave the movie a ten out of ten rating
1	this is a superb film and was immediately put in my top ten trust me i know films it's one of the movies that really makes you think not necessarily about the storyline but about yourself the film is about a fifteen year old kid leland fitzgerald who kills an autistic boy he is sent to juvenile hall where he meets pearl madison his teacher his relationship with pearl slowly grows and eventually pearl decides to write a story on leland and his peers but as he gets closer to finding out motive he learns he must deal with his own issues first br br this is a great film and a must see with great music by the pixies and a fantastic score watch it
1	the united states of leland was an amazing movie i kept passing it on the guide on my tv not knowing what it was and never having the chance to sit there and get into it then one morning when i woke up early i saw that it was just about to start so i decided to watch it i had the time and interest to watch it when i saw that ryan gosling was in the movie and then that he was the main character i was immediately sucked in and could not move from my couch the struggle that leland goes through is such an inspiring story everyone has to deal with the same type of thoughts throughout sometime in their life whether it be a small minor detail or something as big as what he's going through i have to sit and watch the movie again just to catch all the stuff that i may have missed the first time around as a general comment i would recommend this movie to anyone who is a gosling fan or anyone who just likes a good movie with a real good story the fact that there are so many other big stars who all also had great performances is just an added bonus so do what you can to take the time to check out this movie i can almost be sure it won't be a waste of time
1	this is what confuses me about critics and their opinion i usually do take in what the critics say about a film on most occasions before i see a movie br br however i saw this one without knowing anything about it mainly because of the cast kevin spacey and don cheadle are two of the most acclaimed and in my opinion best actors alive and ryan gosling is on a fast escalating journey up there as well his reality and humanity which he exudes in most of his portrayals makes the audience truly believe in the character and whats happening to him he's really my favourite actor of my generation i've always found jena malone pretty cute ever since donnie darko and if she chooses to keep doing similar roles then heck i ain't complaining br br back to my point this movie really moved me i believed it the acting was top class as one would expect the actually movie left the audience with the ultimate aim of a good movie reflection and pondering which ensues after the final credits roll i think i must watch it again to decipher how this movie was critically mauled i know that their reviews must be taken with a pinch of salt at least i know now
1	i just saw this movie tonight coming into it i thought it would be good because i like natalie portman alot and susan sarandon is a great actor too but it was way better than i could have imagined you come out of the movie feeling great the acting was excellent which is something that can be hard to come by lately natalie portman is destined for great things and me being a college student at nyu think that it is great that she is going to school instead of just being an actor anyways back on subject the movie keeps you interested the entire way through and i definitely think that everyone should go see it i would give more details but i don't want to give away the movie
1	maybe people do like having the devil around more than god maybe we like that safety net of a reason making a mistake only to blame the devil for the pain and suffering in the world there is so much hardship spilling out into the masses that it is difficult to not see the sadness on the faces of all you pass leland p fitzgerald understands all of this he knows that maybe everything won't be ok and maybe helping someone leave this earth to avoid the pain their life has waiting for them is a risk he needs to take for someone he loves credit goes to screenwriter director matthew ryan for creating a lyrical prose about two suburban families who have crossed paths in good times and bad just looking at the cast of almost all a and b list actors shows that the material really resonates with its audience emotions don't need to be worn on one's sleeve to exist sometimes all we want to do is end the suffering br br ryan gosling brings an understated performance to the table here that encompasses the of his character emotions he is a very passionate and intelligent young man cutting through the bs of life knowing what he sees and accepting the worse with the better the film is a catharsis for the souls of those affected by the horrific event of leland killing his ex girlfriend's mentally challenged brother in the confused mind of this teen he goes into the incident knowing full well what he was going to do he was going to stop the pain that he sees everywhere but most of all on the face of young ryan pollard almost immediately he realizes that he has made a mistake that maybe playing god is not a job he has been put on earth to do whether or not this is true will soon be put to debate as the murder begins a chain of events which finally bring meaning to many people's lives as they wake up to the tangential fragility of life this boy has opened their eyes to both sorrow and rebirth br br with haunting ballads sung by former sunny day real estate frontman jeremy the movie goes through a journey of small vignettes of two families' lives in the aftermath of tragedy the acting is superb throughout with special mention to a few for someone who plays the naïve lug in most films chris klein actually does well with much the same material here yet also with an evolution into a man of purpose his aloofness is effective when utilized in the right part similar to his success in election and i am interested to see if directors will be allow him to expand his talents and sink his teeth into something more substantial jena malone is effective in much the same effect as well playing the role of troubled youth as she has in donnie darko and life as a house don cheadle is a stalwart of professionalism giving us a different take on the compassionate therapist from the one he did in manic and martin donovan is brilliant as the grieving father trying to keep his wits together and eventually realizing he must keep his family from falling apart as well also it is great seeing the beautiful fenn in a small but important role br br when tragedy hits people band together to get through it all as leland astutely points out at one point you see men and women helping others out and hugging when they see the pain and suffering surrounding them but after a couple of days everything goes back to normal cheadle's character extrapolates the optimistic viewpoint that at least we get a glimpse of people's true nature of wanting to help and be good to each other only to be shot back at with the retort well at least we do during tragedy maybe we don't want to think we are good natured because it does make us feel we should be good all the time and that when bad must have in turn meant to be so by being flawed we allow ourselves to rebound and try again mistake lets him see the love he had for those close to him as well as opening the eyes of others to wake up and not let their loved ones drift any further from them one can't focus on the sadness of others when they must first come to grips with their own has crafted a parable for this and a truly effective piece of film making with hopefully many more to come
1	only few can understand character and to do that u most likely are inborn to see both sides of life and to face this reality is very hard and can lead some few to bad acts like character does but for such sad and real reasons that his intentions were good in the sense that the intention to save another from physical or mental in this case pain over long time and it is really sad how mostly everyone in this movie makes mistakes in it but the one character to make one through good intentions is killed by it the lesson of this movie is for the unique person to see realize face and make right of the real life situation u see and to make right or inspire one who can make right of a wrong situation but before that u have to see both sides of something and rationalize it for the sake of long peace and tranquility of all human life aka don't be ignorant
1	the title comes from an alteration an adolescent inmate in a correctional facility makes on the front cover of his school book on government titled the united states he adds of his name br br many characterizations in this movie work well the scenes between leland ryan gosling and becky jena malone pearl don cheadle and father fitzgerald spacey as well as with leland becky and sister julie michelle williams among many others br br but the central thread of this movie the on which everything hangs is the character and motives of leland he's a somewhat shy passive nice high school student who daringly introduces himself to becky whom we find is going to an alternative school because of a past history of drug problems in becky's family she has a sister julie who's just graduating from high school and preparing to go on to college julie's boy friend julie's age and whose parents' had recently died is also living with them br br leland lives with his mother his father kevin spacey and mother have long been divorced and his father is a famous novelist leland is very perceptive the young boy in the sixth sense saw dead people leland sees teenage lovers and recognizes that years later they will divorce that pain is going to follow many people's present experience of happiness but for reasons that are never made explicit his prescient gift seems to operate some times for some people some relationships and not for others br br parts of the movie feel a bit like a derivative quilt borrowing from american beauty the sixth sense the graduate and possibly some others i didn't recognize that wouldn't be bad if only the character of leland worked br br i think gosling did a great job of playing leland but the script and the story imposed limitations would such an observant meditative young man ever be homicidal even for altruistic reasons nothing in the film gives a reason for this i'm a retired therapist with much experience working with families and teenagers while many of the reactions shown in the film work this part this most essential element certainly does not br br and there is at least one other element which in my experience would not fit with real life although it's not as critical the reason for the differences between the sisters becky and julie are never hinted at but that's okay once two sibs begin occupying different roles one the all good girl the other the troubled one the roles themselves can begin driving each other to more extreme positions for the troubled one becky it's kind of what do i have to do to be loved around here give up being me and become julie and the pressure to live up to being the all good parent pleasing child is no less intense on julie so why would she break up with her boy friend of long standing and of whom her parents so obviously approve br br don cheadle was good as teacher all others were good in their parts 98 of the scenes were good what was missing was that crucial slip in understanding human nature br br good acting flawed story and psychology worth seeing not a total loss
1	after stabbing a retarded boy the fifteen years old troubled and pessimist leland p fitzgerald ryan gosling is sent to a juvenile detention his teacher and aspirant writer pearl madison don cheadle gets close and tries to understand him first with intention of writing a book and later becoming his friend leland slowly discloses his sad vision of world showing that he is a sociopath br br the united states of leland is a depressive and interesting study of a character the low paced riveting screenplay discloses pieces of the story like a puzzle there are excellent lines and dialogs the performances are great although the twenty three years old ryan gosling does not convince as a fifteen years old teenager but it seems that a part is missing to complete the puzzle and make the united states of leland an unforgettable movie the disappointing clarification of the why for the violent action of leland against ryan pollard is not convincing or touching indeed shows that this character is a totally deranged sociopath with a weird and sick sight of world further the way allen harris gets pearl's knife is ridiculous my vote is seven br br title brazil o mundo de leland the world of leland
1	i loved catcher in the rye it happens to be my favorite book jd the author of catcher has the rights to the book and made it so not one person can make a movie about it with his permission br br with that said heres united states of leland beautiful movie with much meaning and depth in emotion but a lot of it reminded me of catcher almost too much reminded me of catcher the few stories that leland told in the movie such as visiting new york and his adventures were very similar to those of holden's in catcher and the way leland views people and emotions is also similar to holden's they both are simple and true to themselves and others superior acting credited to don cheadle and kevin spacy great editing all falls together perfectly and loved the story all together recommend as a buy or at least a rent good movie br br the only thing that it does drag at some points but makes up for it in the long run give it time and appreciate a good movie
1	i enjoyed appreciated will view this movie again because i am sure there are subtleties that i missed wonderfully cast no over acting or cliché performance or plot uses a tragic event to reflect multiple relationships how those involved in each relationship are connected or disconnected and perceptions of life what position each one occupies in the relationship in life and how they cope with the confusion joy hurt and disappointment of discovering that things are not what they perceived them to be at first i thought there were observers and the observed but that is not the case we are all connected somehow and our perceived separation is only in small degrees i recommend the movie to everyone especially those in teaching social work religious counseling and every other person that breaths
1	my god ryan gosling has made a lot of deep characters in his career this is one of his wonderful acting jobs for me this is a very deep movie needs a lot of concentration not because is difficult to watch just because you understand it if you put your shoes in this kid even though has everything and has famous father that is a writer has a deeper mind you don't understand why he kills this poor kid until you really heard what he has to say and you start to think at least to me that a lot of things that he says is true simple kid sweet very gentle in a way normal like any teenage but inside of him suffer because he start to look at the world in a different way then you understand why he did what he did i recommend this movie for those who likes deep drama
1	this movie was a masterpiece of human emotions and experience i think that a lot of people get caught up in apparent mental illness as the storyline but i was drawn into the relationships of many of the characters and what they reveal about the force of human emotions much of the message of the movie is that we never know the good without the bad which is a little cliché but what makes this movie so good and so original is that it very eloquently portrays the crushing and devastating force that the bad can have whether you see the bad everywhere like leland or are experiencing the utter helplessness of unrequited love or a relationship that just isn't going to work no matter how bad you want it to this movie captures how helpless relationships and emotions can make you feel better than any movie i've seen and it is as depressing a movie as it is good
1	this has to be one of the most powerful message sending movies i saw lately it was absolutely flawless all the way amazingly original and thought provoking story is unusual and original and the characters make this story very very powerful it's about a guy who kills his ex girlfriend's retarded kid brother and as he is sent to juvenile prison through many memory flashbacks you get a grip on a story and you don't let it go until the very end murder he commits changes the course of life for every member of his family and the family of deceased and as you watch and realize that everyone has its own story and its own dark side you just appreciate this movie even more it's a total tour de force cause those actions cannot be described by simple words his motive of committing murder is left explained and it makes viewers think acting was pretty much flawless and the cast was very good it contains many familiar faces if you like the movies that are thought provoking and that just make u think during them e g 'mulholland dr ' then 'the united states of is an excellent movie choice for you otherwise you should pass this movie and watch it when you're in the mood for serious thought provoking movie br br 10 10
1	i remember seeing the trailer for this film and i absolutely knew i had to see this movie it looked like something that would be right up my alley br br the united states of leland is a terrific movie it is not one that will leave you with a nice pleasant ending but with a sad empty feeling instead and when i say it will leave you with an empty feeling i do not mean that as a bad thing i believe that you are meant to fill that empty feeling with your own thoughts about the characters and human's general motives and how they act as parts of society br br ryan gosling is perfectly cast as leland he is intelligent yet stoic i like the way that he narrates the film with his journal the supporting cast is terrific as well kevin spacey is very good as always and don cheadle is amazing as teacher and mentor br br this was a great story and is very smart and thought provoking i highly recommend it
1	i just came back from seeing this awesome movie i can relate to it so much it reminded me when my sister had to go to college we had to move from place to place and my mom acts like adele august boys might not like this movie since it brings tears to your eyes one of the best real life movies i've ever seen and natalie portman rules 10 10
1	leland follows the story of leland p fitzgerald ryan gosling a disaffected teenager who has apparently murdered a severely retarded peer the brother of a girl he was dating the issue is not whether he did it or not – leland admits to it straight away – but rather why interestingly rather than a crime drama leland becomes a character story examining why people do what they do – not necessarily the easiest ground to till br br and leland features the required indie group of screwed up people aside from the title character there's also pearl don cheadle who is his teacher at the juvenile correctional facility and who sees straight off that leland is different we meet distant and egotistical father kevin spacey in an extended cameo who never seems emotionally stirred in any way by what his son did but the real flavorings come out when we immerse ourselves in the the family of the retarded child first there's girlfriend becky jena malone a drug addict who can't keep herself clean her sister julie michelle williams perhaps the most normal person in the film who merely seeks to get away from it all and allen harris chris klein a young man who lives with the and is julie's boyfriend lastly there's ryan michael welch whom all the others call goofball who cannot communicate and seems barely aware of his surroundings br br leland focuses primarily on its eponymous protagonist but the movie slowly – occasionally too slowly – burrows into everyone's lives asking the chief question why do people do what they do while leland discusses it openly in a journal pearl allows him to keep examining notions of good and bad and personal responsibility all the characters at some point in the film face a moment where they must make the fundamental choice of their own happiness or another's perhaps the most basic choice any human can make and the movie takes a good look at what goes into those choices and the consequences of them br br in the beginning of the film you're simply struck by the depth of the cast spacey cheadle gosling michelle williams even chris klein – these are people who for the most part tend to elevate any film they are in and putting them all together makes for a heady brew for a space in the middle the film seems to stall sputtering along as it unfolds it looks for a while as if it will be content merely to ask questions and not supply any answers but when we arrive at the home stretch and the movie starts to hit its stride and come together leland becomes a quietly powerful piece of film making explanation of the world and his actions in the end bring every story into focus and all the investment you've made in the film pays off br br saying ryan gosling is excellent is like saying a sunny day is nice at this point in his career it's redundant – this is one of the finest young actors working today and it is a pleasure to watch him craft what could have been an unlikable character into a thought provoking protagonist gosling employs such subtlety here that it hardly seems like acting he has to face off most of the film opposite don cheadle whom we know has the goods and he not only holds his own he elevates cheadle's game as well cheadle himself is in top notch form imbuing pearl with a fully rounded humanity – for good and bad spacey is kind of one note but that's the character and he handles it excellently i was surprised by chris klein with this level of acting i thought he would be buried in the mix but he gives probably the turn of his career so far terrific work all around br br leland is a bit of a downer and again it's draggy in spots but it finishes strongly and leaves a lasting impact on the viewer on this one anyway there's also a subtle commentary on racism in the film in first day in juvenile hall class he's the only white person in the room that like much of the movie is very effectively handled i wouldn't go so far as to call this required viewing – some might find it too slow or too odd – but i thought it was one of the better films i've seen in a while far stronger and more satisfying than most fare out there i'd recommend it – with the above caveats – if for no other reason than to watch gosling further perfect his craft
1	i noted that the official imdb review refers to leland as a sociopath i believe that this diagnosis is manifestly and profoundly incorrect br br this is a movie about sadness and about the ability of one particular teenage boy to see sadness in daily life as it lies in wait around every corner in advance of the unfolding of the lives that it impacts a sociopath is a person who cannot empathize with others and who while understanding the difference between right and wrong does not care about this difference a sociopath is a subject who places himself or herself at the center of that subject's universe with total disregard for the impact that the subject's actions have for those around him or her one of the defining characteristics of a sociopath is that a true sociopath lacks the ability to feel empathy lacks the ability to feel that which others feel and does not changes in the moods of others as the result of that sociopath's actions with those actions a sociopath cannot feel the pain of others or understand that the pain of others is the result of the sociopath's own actions a sociopath is a person who is not completely formed a vital chunk is missing from the psychological and emotional makeup of a true sociopath rendering the sociopath immune to talking therapy and other treatment that involve human interaction and the exploration of personal feelings sociopathy is devastating even when the subject is treated and placed in a highly structured environment aimed at containing the damage that the sociopath can do to others many sociopaths function more or less normally and never raise a blip on the radar of the criminal justice system although they tend to leave a trail of emotional debris in their wakes br br leland fitzgerald is no sociopath he is a person who is blessed or cursed with the ability to foresee what he considers to be the inevitable consequences and outcomes of human interactions leland literally sees sadness written into the eyes and faces of people around him as he slowly assimilates and internalizes the philosophy that life is about loss and that people slowly succumb to the inevitable and inexorable fact that for want of a better metaphor things fall apart people who fall in love and who kiss and cuddle today turn into pathetic elderly couples the electricity in the eyes of mother a wealthy new york socialite who loves leland and who invites him into the home that she shares with her family when he arrives in new york city alone and determined to remain in the city at the age of 12 fades as she explains to him on the last of his visits to new york city that she learned that her husband had been cheating on her all the time that she got a divorce that having one's heart broken happens to everybody and that such loss is an inevitable part of growing up her eyes still reflect light but the electricity that once illuminated them is gone this scene this explanation late is it is in coming is crucial to understanding why leland commits a seemingly savage senseless crime killing the retarded younger brother of his ex girlfriend leland knows what lies ahead for this little boy a lifetime of unattainable goals of being taught only words that signify danger of never knowing the love of another human being of never feeling such love and of never connecting with another person more than any other character in this movie this little boy personifies everything that leland sees as being inevitable and horrifying about the world act killing this little boy is for leland an act of mercy committed because this was the one thing that he could do in a world in which actions cannot change outcomes whereas a true sociopath knows that actions can and do change outcomes but does not care about the harm inflicted on others by those actions leland does care what most people view as a barbaric and horrifying act is in eyes the only decent thing that he can do to alleviate the suffering of just one person br br it would be comforting to be able to present this as an explanation of actions comforting but incomplete for in the end blame for actions lies elsewhere as is so often the case there are no easy explanations and no balm to apply to the outraged soul why did leland not learn something that even the most pessimistic people usually acknowledge that sometimes just sometimes people do remain in love and that relationships do succeed and that even the saddest lives are transformed for leland there is no middle ground no inner core to which he can retreat and regroup there is only pain and sadness one is tempted to blame his arrogant and thoroughly unpleasant father the brilliant writer played by kevin spacey for not being there at critical times during development but given this man's thuggish nastiness that may have been a blessing br br in the end this viewer was moved by a tremendous sense of sadness why was leland doomed to view the world through a veil of pessimism and depression there is a maturity to character present for example when he repeatedly insists that nobody was to blame for his girlfriend breaking up with him that is both stoic and heartbreaking stoic in that it is absolutely genuine notwithstanding the heated of teacher but heartbreaking in that it is born not so much of understanding as of despair indifference to his fate is merely a reflection of the utter certainty of his belief that nothing really matters nothing that he does can change his fate br br this is not sociopathy on display this is if anything its polar opposite
1	one wonders about the state of a society that produce a father like albert t fitzgerald who we first meet on a plane as he is heading toward the place he abandoned a long time ago and where he left a wife and a child who is now accused of murdering a mentally challenged boy when we first see him he has caught a headline in the paper the woman in front of him is reading rather rudely he asks her if he could have the newspaper and the lady offers other sections well that's not what he asked what he wants the woman to do is to give him the front section she is reading br br matthew ryan wrote and directed this disturbing film that reflects in many ways our society as it is today in fact mr is pointing out exactly at what is wrong with it br br the film presents leland a teen ager who can't even differentiate between fantasy and reality it's evident that killing a human being even the sweet and innocent boy who hasn't done anything to deserve it will have fatal consequences not only for himself but for his own family and the family of the slain boy in fact leland seems to have no idea about what motivated him to commit the crime for he does not show any repentance about it br br it's obvious leland has been traumatized by his parents divorce his own father is an aloof man who couldn't care less about him it's pearl the teacher in the juvenile detention center who sees the turmoil inside the young man and wants to help but unfortunately he doesn't have a chance br br the best thing in the film is don cheadle a great actor who always delivers the ensemble cast does good work under mr direction kevin spacey has a good opportunity playing the egotistical father of the accused murderer and makes us detest him for being an arrogant idiot br br although a bit long the film leaves us with more questions than what it answered
1	this is a movie that really makes you think about your life our culture family structures and situational actions i will not give the plot in this post i think others have beat me to it already i hope that despite reading opinions on this site you will take the chance and see this movie for yourself i went to see this movie with my husband and a friend and i must say after the movie was over there was total silence in the theater after a few minutes i looked behind me and everyone in the theater was staring at the screen lost in thought this will make you delve deep into your psychological abyss to ponder several things br br how much does society influence my life and the lives of my generation br br how long does someone have to pay for mistakes that they have made br br if there is a second chance given is it ever realized br br is it better to live in a box or to not live at all br br my questions are not intended to show my approval or disapproval of actions i do not want my opinion of them to in any way dictate what you will take away from this film so i am not giving it see it for yourself i am still lost in thought attempting to answer my many questions from the film i enjoyed it greatly and hope that you will too this film is not trying to answer questions condone any action or promote any punishment this movie is trying to make us all evaluate our lives and take off the rose colored glasses that most of us view the world through br br great movie 9 out of 10 stars
1	every role down to the smallest has been cast and acted with bravado br br the extraordinary jena malone never takes a misstep her two co stars are equal to her in this film ryan gosling may be the best actor of his generation chris klein gives his best performance to date this is a thought and conversation provoking film that should be seen by teens and young adults you'll think and talk about this film for days highly recommended
1	there are subtleties in this film that i think a lot of people may miss if they're not careful you really need to follow what leland says and read his character to figure out the intended why the movie presents at the end nothing it solid it's not definite it's about what the individual viewer takes out of it i think that was the plan from the get go people aren't meant to all understand it in the same way it's almost about forming your own personal relationship with leland in order to maybe feel him a little better br br the storyline is interesting but its summary could never explain what the movie really is it's dramatic and thought provoking a lot of heavy ideas but the pace of the movie is almost soothing even with its more intense scenes with yelling i think it's probably leland he's just calm and almost serene even for all of his sadness the movie personifies leland in a way br br of course it is captivating and draws you in if you let it but there are some recycled ideas i mean leland has a lot of impressive dialogue he is anything but typical but he's not a prophet everything he says is not a revelation many people i know have mentioned things he mentioned even i have observed a few things he's observed leland is the unique and attractive character he is probably mostly for ryan portrayal br br in the end the acting is all exceptional there are no real bad guys there is no way to psychologically evaluate leland only to maybe understand him and life a little better br br comparable to goes down i think not comedic but similar in its general outlook on life
1	before i saw this film i read the comment of someone who wasn't very fond of it this i must admit made me apprehensive to dedicate 1 hour and 48 minutes of my life to it but i'm glad i did ryan gosling is a fantastic actor i especially loved the believer don cheadle was also fantastic the film presented an interesting view on life and death it was very touching and very sad yet it kept me interested which most touching stories cannot do it is a film that reckless of whether or not you like it you should see it it was unique and i don t think that anyone will ever be able to duplicate it all of the young actors did surprisingly well given the subject matter and the emotion that must have gone into it i was pleasantly surprised
1	i am no ebert what i am is a compassionate and i have never felt more compassion for a fictional character than i felt for leland p fitzgerald sorry if i do not offer a critique but i see nothing but perfection in this film i am sure that many who watch this film will never see the same things i do but if you look hard enough maybe you will see something you weren't expecting i've read that the character of leland was flawed it seems to me that who wrote this was not able to see past the question this movie presents i feel sorry for anyone who doesn't see the answers this movie delivers open your heart more than your mind and you may be able to let this leland p fitzgerald show you a world that truly has a meaning story with extraordinary acting ryan gosling deserves to be talked about
1	i was looking at the external reviews ebert etc for this film and they were all pretty much negative however after reading many of them i noticed that they all made the same point critics were upset that the film centers around what appears to be a senseless murder of an autistic child certainly this is a disturbing image critics like ebert want a traditional detective story that uncovers why the killing happened and squarely places blame on the guilty they want blame to be cast and resolved well that status quo theme is kind of what the movie is parodying just like society the critics wanted a very quick resolution so they could move on to their next tragic opera perhaps there is no simple question to be answered here there is a whole lot more to what happened then what is on the surface the film does not seek to rationalize what happens but rather understand the why what also steams me so much about these inane reviews is that all they look at in the way of performances is spacey and cheadle who were both great and generally are but there are other great performances at work here other than just the two current icons of hollywood gosling gives an incredible performance that really only somebody of his extreme talent could deliver somehow gosling is able to make the killer of an autistic child sympathetic this irritates many i am sure however if one watches the film they see what motivation is it is wrong but it is not evil malone is also on top of her game as yet another confused young character basically the killing of the child in this film is not the main theme of the movie the main theme is life itself and how people go about dealing with it the highs and lows and how they attempt to sometimes help others deal with their lives which does not seem to work out very well there is a lot of good and bad in this world and how we handle each has direct impact on how much more good and bad will take place and sometimes a confused attempt at doing good can lead to a whole bunch more of bad i think this is one of the more memorable films in sometime and has an ending that is as touching as anything in recent movie history i strongly believe people should view this film with an open mind
1	leland p fitzgerald ryan gosling has committed an unspeakable crime the stabbing of the retarded younger brother of his ex girlfriend becky jena malone no one least of all leland himself can explain why he's done what he's done whether the act was premeditated or spontaneous done out of hatred or love br br in the detention center leland meets pearl madison don cheadle a onetime novel writer who sees in case a second opportunity but pearl also wants to understand motivation and takes him under his wing as a confidante in the prison br br the film jumps from the past to the present several times often allowing the past to act as a context to the present and vice versa writer director matthew ryan hodge shows how crime and the events leading up to it affect the people in his life from becky to her family to mother lena olin and estranged father kevin spacey to allen chris klein a young man who is staying with becky's family after the death of his own mother br br the chief asset in the movie is gosling who is perfectly cast as the 15 year old like bartleby the scrivener leland just exists he shows little emotion during the film but instead his expressions belie an ocean of guilt sadness love and rage br br each of the main actors offered perhaps their best work to date save spacey who's not exactly a novice special praise is due to malone and klein two young performers who are better known for lighthearted comedy fare than the heavy drama of this movie br br another huge benefit in terms of the story is that none of the characters is flawless none are heroes out to save the day this is simply not a black and white movie
1	i'm sorry but star wars episode 1 did not do any justice to natalie portman's talent and undeniable cuteness she was entirely underused as queen amidala and when she was used her makeup was frighteningly terrible for anywhere but here she sheds her god awful makeup and she acts normally and not only can she act good she looks good doing it i'm a bit older than she she's only 18 and i have little or no chance of meeting her but hey a guy is allowed to dream right br br even though susan sarandon does take a good turn in this movie the film belongs entirely to portman i've been a watcher of portman's since beautiful girls where she was younger but just as cute there's big things for her in the future i can see it
1	don't let any reviews critics imdb users or mine influence you seeing this movie i read only the plot premise and became intrigued after watching this movie in my opinion is definitely worth seeing it gives a perspective on life that many have probably not contemplated its is not however as leland himself says a movie that can be wrapped up in a neat package with a bow and everything other user reviews on this website claim to have a psychological background and imply that the story is not feasible quite obviously they missed the entire point of the movie which is disappointing to say the least br br in short it is a well acted well directed movie the story is not a feel good one but i feel if you don't come away from the movie feeling good you may just have missed something to characterize it as art house is unfair in my opinion but as our society likes labels this is probably the one that fits if you find you know everything there is to know about the world i'd suggest skipping this one if you feel movies should be a form of escape from the world you won't find it here but if you do watch it you just might find something in yourself
1	leland fitzgerald ryan gosling is sent to jail for the murder of an autistic kid when pressured with the question 'why ' he doesn't have an answer while in jail he meets pearl don cheadle his teacher who decides to take matters into his own hands and helps leland figure out why he did it throughout this film we learn all about troubled life including his ex girlfriend becky jena malone his famous father albert kevin spacey and his whole sad life br br this film is matthew ryan second movie and it is spectacular in nearly everyway this is one movie which will leave you thinking in the end and wondering about how it all works the movie is quite dark but if you can handle that then you will realize just how good a film it is br br in this movie there is no bad guy there is no one you can blame for anything that happens there's no stereotyping and the audience does not try to prove leland guilty instead we sit back relax and watch this boy's life unfold throughout the of the movie all the problems depicted in the story are very real drug addiction parental expectations overwhelming sadness they all exist in our world br br ryan gosling gives one of the greatest performances of his career in this movie as the depressed teenager leland his father lives in europe and doesn't really care much about his son the only person he loves is becky but she has problems of her own he knows exactly what he did but as he says in the film 'you want a why but maybe there isn't one maybe this is something that just happened ' there is a why but we don't find out about it until the end as you watch the movie the audience finds themselves amazed that such a young person could know so much about the world leland notices things that people tend to ignore br br a particular thought provoking scene which really affected me was during one of conversations with pearl pearl just cheated on his wife and when leland asks why pearl replies that he's only human then leland says something which never really occurs to anyone why do people only say that when they've done something wrong br br another fantastic acting job was provided by chris klein in the film he plays allen harris the boyfriend of becky's sister julie michelle williams although he is not one of the main characters i found myself amazed at how deep his character was you can relate to allen a lot you know how much he cares for the pollard family it's as if they were his own flesh and blood by the end of the movie you realize just how far he would go to help them br br overall this movie is a masterpiece which has been overlooked by quite a few people if however you take the time to watch it you will most likely see that everything i've mentioned above is true and once you're finished watching it you'll never look at the world the same way again br br 9 5 10
1	simply delightful claymation feature from nick park and company spoofing such film greats as king kong and the wolf man has wallace and gromit as rabbit security finding it difficult to solve a major problem in their village a giant were rabbit is feasting lavishly on the vegetable crops of the citizens what makes this even worse is that the great vegetable festival is about to commence and the citizens have all prepared dutifully to win the top of prize what makes the situation even worse is wallace is the reason behind the whole vegetable eating rampage he was testing out a new invention regarding taking his brain waves in an attempt to brain wash captured rabbits into disliking vegetable crops what occurs is catastrophic as some sort of hybrid were rabbit is created in the process and it has more to do with wallace than he could ever imagine it'll be up to his loyal and startlingly intelligent and fast thinking dog gromit to save the day br br this is a clever and imaginative effort from the crew behind other oscar winning claymation features starring wallace and gromit seeing good ole fashioned claymation is refreshing considering the cgi boom that has featured rather lackluster fare here recently as the industry spits out more and more mediocre product here we get a full feature with witty humor and some wild stunts featuring marvelous animation not to mention gut busting sight gags
1	following on from the huge success of nick park and the aardman team with the wallace and gromit short animations we now have the first hopefully of many feature with the plasticine characters that so many love the dvd of the movie has proved to be the most durable and best used of my two children's many christmas presents by a long way the plot of the movie is straightforward enough but the beauty of the w g films for me is the background gags there are plenty of up front gags and slapstick for kids and adults to enjoy but the background is the killer for me all in a classy addition to an already classy filmography for nick park and i would recommend fans and new watchers to see this film often
1	the first full length film featuring the aardman characters wallace and gromit manages to bring in elements of all the previous half hour show which aired on television br br wallace runs a company to humanely capture rogue rabbits from people's vegetable gardens and has the bright idea to try out his invention on the hapless bunnies once they're caught of course as in other wallace and gromit films things don't quite work out as planned br br similarly to a close shave there's a love interest for wallace in this case the village lady posh and a big mean villain with a bullish dog gromit is beautifully animated with a wide range of expressions making the character laugh out loud funny and of course peter provides the voice of wallace again and is a perfect fit br br and as in a grand day out cheese features heavily to great comedic effect as the film moves along br br on the negative side this film is a little on the long side there are great effects and some pieces which make you sit up and watch but perhaps this story would have worked better as another short subject rather than pushing it to feature length
1	arising from characters previously developed in a series of much lauded shorts the curse of the were rabbit is about as far from run of the mill family fare as you can get beautifully crafted and with witty dialogue and clever concepts this really is a movie that will appeal to almost every member of the family br br the story concerns wallace and his dog gromit who live in a village obsessed with growing large vegetables for the annual fair and who operate anti a humane solution to all those pesky rabbits that torment passionate gardeners everywhere the business is a great success but wallace proves a bit too clever for his own good when he tries to rehabilitate rabbits from their vegetable crunching ways he unexpectedly unleashes an ancient horror of legendary proportions the were rabbit and suddenly no vegetable in town is safe the movie is full of crazy inventions unexpectedly smart dialogue and references to everything from king kong to the wolf man more than enough to entice even a jaded teenager but the real charm of the thing is in its characters the amount of personality the artists and animators can wring from bits of clay is amazing they seem as fully alive as any flesh and blood actor the dvd release and i recommend the widescreen includes a number of informative and entertaining extras as well greatly recommended gft amazon reviewer
1	although it isn't half as hilarious as chicken run the new wallace and gromit comedy the curse of the were rabbit out of yields more laughs than most live action comedies british director nick park who created the wallace and gromit characters and co director steve box rely on the old fashioned stop motion method of animation known best as claymation to create several visually adorable characters in more than enough side splitting scenes about a monstrously mutant hare out to devour every vegetable in sight amusing as its whimsical storyline is the heart of the hilarity lies in the imaginative way with which park and company have painstakingly constructed characters and gags out of a brand of modeling clay called plasticine basically every shot that you see in the curse of the were rabbit required patient souls that made minor alterations in the clay characters for a series of individual shots that merge into a veritable montage of merriment hollywood pioneered claymation as a form of animation as far back as the silent movies of the 1920s before the industry turned its back on the complicated process aardman studio animators managed to crank out a mere three seconds of usable footage per day for the record the curse of the were rabbit took five years to make the lumpy looking characters with thumb prints clearly visible in their respective clay complexions look incredibly funny with their ping pong ball eyes and over biting mouths interestingly gromit emerges as the funniest character a lovable mutt with no mouth but an expressively inexpressive face who says more than most of the talking characters br br wallace and gromit are respectively master and pooch as the human half of the duo wallace is a looking moron without a clue who somehow manages to construct machines that do some rather incredible things one of the funnier scenes shows master and pooch awakened by a system of hatches and spring operated contraptions that dress and feed them meanwhile gromit is the animal half the running joke is that gromit shows more common sense than his genius of a master as good as his ideas and inventions are wallace could not succeed without the loyal gromit giving him a hand our heroes run a pest protection business called 'anti ' essentially they must protect every vegetable patch for miles around using an ungainly looking device called a bun van 6000 that literally sucks rabbits out of their ground and into a huge glass container no wallace and gromit don't kill the critters instead they keep them as pets and wallace experiments with an o matic designed to convert hares into carrot haters this frankenstein meets the fly approach plunges poor wallace into deep trouble when he swaps bits of his brain with that of a rabbit not long thereafter a mysterious towering terror stalks the vegetable patches on full moon nights and creates chaos for everyone as the village's annual vegetable contest approaches br br initially wallace and gromit appeared in park's oscar nominated film school project a grand day out 1989 since then aardman has released ten other animated shorts among them wallace and gromit a close shave 1993 and the oscar winning wallace and gromit the wrong trousers 1995 curse of the were rabbit differs not only because it represents the duo's big screen debut but also it runs a whopping 85 minutes the first two thirds of were rabbit contain better gags than the last third but park and company never miss a chance to slip in an adult joke that kids won't get but attentive grown ups will appreciate wallace and gromit the curse of the were rabbit is hare raising fun
1	a great animation movie that really gets up to the level of oldies like the lion king br br i went to see this with one of my best belgian friends who also watched the series on tv i was lucky because i didn't know people in belgium were aware of wallace and gromit br br when it started and that good old theme started it started to bring back memories of me watching it when i was 5 br br the humor itself was very funny some nice sitcom style scenes some wordplay or just plain jokes the animation isn't as impressive if you have know the series but it is still fun to watch is you realize how it gets done br br my conclusion not only can it keep my happy and entertained some of the humor can easily appeal to older people so i say go and watch curse of the were rabbit as soon as you can
1	if you haven't watched the movie yet but you do like comedy go out and buy or at least rent it the fact it won the animation oscar is not a coincidence i haven't watched many other wallace gromit movies in fact i think i only watched one other but the humor is very distinctive and some would also say very british in a good way of course br br the story will only be an excuse for all the jokes to come but although it's not the most elaborate one it still works by the way my niece did guess see one of the big surprises coming i didn't kudos to her o i do think that after you watch this one you'll go out and seek the other w g movies that are out there have fun
1	i was extremely amused to read some of the bad reviews on this movie first many have said that they have taken their 4 year old daughters and granddaughters to see this and they did not enjoy it first i don't believe that this is a kid's movie at least not a movie for very very young children not 4 at least it has very subtle humor but it is not meant to offer quick amusement as seen in tom and jerry or something like this many people have also complained that it goes very very slowly i guess those people are all used to quantity over quality while i have a small quality problem myself with this movie and that is that the movie was not as detail oriented as the short movies i still believe that it managed quite well for a full feature film and how can people complain about the jokes the jokes were sensible timely and well thought out never rude insulting or in your face wallace is extremely smart yet cautious and is the most adorable smart and cute character that could be this was a beautiful movie and the theme was very appropriate for adults that is especially with the increase of obesity and disease in the world there's nothing wrong with promoting vegetables and fruits for once and this was accomplished in a very tasteful manner in that while people are concerned with the aspect of vegetables that doesn't necessarily mean that the are healthier or that they eat more of them but just that they temper with nature which is in fact what caused the legend of the were rabbit to come true and for those out there that complained about the religious jokes i say came on are you for real many villages revolve around the local church and legends premonitions etc are normal themes no harm done this movie was absolutely amazing yet some people had negative comments on it and i find this absolutely absurd
1	adam sandler's movies are my favorite comedies the silence of the lambs is my favorite horror movie the matrix is my favorite sci fi movie anywhere but here is my favorite drama br br perhaps the single most valuable asset that this movie has is it's acting br br susan sarandon is absolutely amazing by the end of this movie i felt as if i knew her character better than i knew myself she did a simply amazing job br br natalie portman also did a great job i recently rented her first movie leon 1994 in which she played a 12 year old girl i believe that she is a contradiction in terms she was a good kid actress well 5 years later she is still just as good an actress in fact she's much better br br not only did sarandon and portman portray their characters well but they also worked perfectly together i mean even now i can hardly believe that they are not actually mother and daughter in real life as well as in this movie br br this movie is about a 14 year old girl portman and her restless mother sarandon that leave their home town in wisconsin for beverly hills br br at first portman hates her mother for taking her away from her cousin and friends and the two begin a very tumultuous relationship that goes up and down over the course of a couple years usually down might i add br br although this explanation is a little vague the plot can only be summarized vaguely but when you see this movie you will see that the plot really is not so vague or weak for it is actually very deep what i am saying is that the plot is outlined weakly but then they focus in on it to make it strong br br and it is very strong but also the plot sequencing is great and there are a few brilliant scenes that i hope will someday be seen as classic br br i loved this movie i laughed i cried and although admittedly there are a few loopholes it's still a stellar movie and it really comes together in the end
1	this scene shows how wallace's experiment by using his brain manipulation invention goes terribly wrong creating the were rabbit his desire as a social entrepreneur is to improve society for the better therefore created a brain manipulator machine he risked his own life to help solve rabbit problem and more importantly to overcome the overcrowding of rabbits being collected and stored in his basement though he thought his experiment worked however it resulted in placing more pressure on him and gromit to find a solution before the annual vegetable competition again risking his life gromit who is a silent faithful dog and a loyal helper finds himself continuously thinking of innovative ways to save his master from his radical crazy inventions going terribly wrong what is interesting in this movie is trying to identify who is more entrepreneurial wallace or gromit
1	going into this movie i was a bit cautious i have always been a bit iffy about claymation movies i've always enjoyed decent animated movies but claymation was always different to me but this one caught me by surprise wallace and gromit are extremely lovable characters and it's a great story with jokes for all ages there's the silly burp fart jokes for the kids and the subtle but over the head of young kids jokes for us older people very neat claymation and while the story had holes it kept my interest beginning to end br br it's so rare to find pure and humor these days this movie was all the more refreshing wallace and gromit go doing their normal thing which is exterminating humanely the that ruin people's vegetable crops but this time they find themselves fighting some form of a freak huge rabbit that their humanely built traps can't even keep under tabs great laughs and a great hour and a half of fun if you have not exposed yourself to wallace and gromit i highly recommend this movie br br the only reason i rate it a 7 and not higher is because it's still a family movie and i don't have kids i enjoyed it but if i had been watching it with some little rug rats and my wife it'd be at least a 9 for sure give it a shot
1	wallace gromit have been around for some time but this was their first foray onto the silver screen fans of the british tv series like myself were eager to see them and the film did quite well in the theaters much of the reason is that the film is fun and quite original in a world of cg movies like shrek and toy story this stop motion film is a nice alternative to the trend in children's movies as well as being totally unlike a cartoon plus compared to much earlier stop motion films such as king kong and the ray harryhausen films such as sinbad the quality and movement of the characters are light years better looking very fluid natural and more alive br br apart from the quality of the animation this movie also deserves kudos on every other level first the voice actors do a great job second the script is very simple but also very cute and enjoyable with a few double entendres that should probably go way over the kids' heads third they manage to make this not only a movie for kids but people of all ages as the film is neither saccharine nor aimed solely at the younger crowd in particular i was captivated by incredibly cute the film was and especially the adorable bunnies i especially liked them in the closing credits which made me very happy i stayed to watch the entire film br br the bottom line is that unless you are a real stick in the mud you will enjoy this film it's fresh funny and amazingly clever i hope we see a sequel and this is saying something as i usually hate sequels
1	the folks at aardman have done a cool cute and wild adaptation of their short films of wallace and gromit to feature length as the man and his dog inventors who seem to have more of the intelligence or practicality for the latter in this case they've invented a machine that can capture all of the bunnies that are eating up the crops all over a quiet english village in particular for mrs or for those who are much to the chagrin of victor quartermaine who just wants to kill all the rabbits with his trust rifle wallace and gromit seem to have success with their machine but wallace has a mix up a machine he's made to make more food suddenly criss crosses himself with a rabbit the curse is on br br a lot of this is about as much light hearted fun that a kid's movie could ask for but it also tips its hat to the oldest tradition in classic cartoon slapstick looney tunes which in turn is indebted to much silent comedy and vaudeville granted the aardman guys nick park and steve box have a bunch more gimmicks and tricks and ingenuity with their material it's never less than amazing to see how they put the stop motion to use even when a joke or a gag might be a little on the funny ho ho not funny ha ha side a tired criticism but i'll say it curse of the were rabbit works so well on all fronts for the audience in its warped story and sudden dips into exposition the golden bullet story is a doozy park and box and company never lose sight of glee in the material br br it's fuzzy and warm hearted and completely off the wall for the kids even the very youngest will love the adventures and strange gadgets such as the truck wallace and gromit drive around in and for adults there's little barbs of funky absurdist tones in the midst of a classic english farce only and i'm probably a minority opinion here when compared to chicken run it's almost a little slight a work there's less any plot than there is a series of running gags and of course lots of puns involving bunnies and monsters and carnivals and cheese and horrible men with egos in their guns like the fiennes voiced quartermaine but when it strikes best it's one of the most entertaining films of 2005 it gives me a big goofy smile anytime it's on tv
1	there was something about the original three films that made them so special and delightful probably the length of them unfortunately this lacks the charm but it still ends up being a fun film br br the bright shimmering side is that our favourite figures are still doing a cracking great job there is good animation used there is a silly but well structured and entertaining plot an exciting fun adventure a good plot idea a were rabbit and a giant competition and good new characters br br as well as lacking the original charm the only other slightly gloomy side of the film is that the humour though good is slightly overdone especially compared to the original films br br the popular giant competition is drawing near and wallace and gromit are helping control rabbits from eating any now they are anti they are doing a good job but soon there is danger afoot a were rabbit is nearby br br recommended to all wallace and gromit fans and to people who like films enjoy wallace and gromit the curse of the wererabbit
1	who can ask for more taking my 2 and 4 year old children was a risk i admit but well worth it they were enthralled from credit to credit with their parents beside them br br i have taken the kids to films before with mixed results too scary too boring too sophisticated whatever with this film however i was glad to see a smart film with wit style and a sense of passion emanating from the screen any film that takes 5 years of production to make good or bad deserves some respect for the bravery and the patience it takes to film a film like this br br o k i'm gushing a little then again why wouldn't i get excited looking through the movie listing today only reminded me of the poor quality of films that are distributed at least for the moment regardless w g is a film well made perhaps the originality wasn't the most inspired nevertheless well told and well paced br br too much adult humour too many sex references maybe though my kids didn't quite catch them too young so in my case i didn't really notice br br well needless to say i liked it
1	this film is what most of the industry has forgotten how to make family entertainment meaning something which is enjoyable to people of all ages this particular wallace gromit can be enjoyed by everyone from toddlers who like the colors and cute bunnies to their grandparents who understand the adult references br br this film has direction as good as any i've ever seen and i mean that literally it is also packed with tiny bits of humor and each scene has so many humorous details in the background that i'm going to have to buy it if only in order to read all the signs and in w g's world br br i plan to see this movie at least twice more in theaters then buy it on dvd you too should see it
1	imaginative quick paced satirical americans do but the brits do and they love to poke fun at themselves ahem unattractive teeth large lips nose common or snobby obsession with the inside jokes for the older folk in the audience lots of action for the kiddies subtle use of devices from other classic films watch for 'back to the future' jones ' and more also a nifty film gromit is a quiet but resourceful sidekick add brilliant voice work by bonham carter and fiennes is it true the best acting these days is being done in animation enjoy i saw it with the grandkids fun time for all
1	gromit in the curse of the were is the same type of animation and from the same creators of but the story now is other wallace a inventor who loves cheese and his smart dog gromit who is always helping wallace in his problems are trying to keep the rabbits away from everybody's vegetables since there is in their town an annual giant vegetable competition but when wallace tries an invention he did to make the rabbits avoids vegetable the one who is going to be cursed is him before watching this movie i didn't knew that these two characters already existed and were famous i loved gromit and i think he is one of the coolest dogs i already saw br br aka wallace gromit a dos brazil
1	my only problem with the curse of the were rabbit is that the movie does not take the time to properly introduce wallace and gromit to those not familiar with park's short films strangely a close shave manages to do this with a lot less time to spare still i loved seeing the boys back in action and loved all the new characters human and otherwise i especially loved ralph fiennes voice as the scheming victor quartermaine it is also interesting to see the series on the large screen the workmanship with the clay characters really stands out it's a hoot and great for the whole family i buy very few dvds but i have every wallace and gromit and will happily add this one
1	being 15 myself i enjoyed this flick thouroughly i related to the character ann august more than most would my mother isnt as eccentric as adele but the feelings of lonliness is the same this movie is perfect in the aspects and natalie's and susan's performances are so linked together that it's the best onscreen dual i have seen in years their chemistry brings the characters to life they become real people i would recommend this flick to anyone who is hoping to get away because there is alot of people out there who would wish to be anywhere but here including me and if you can see this movie with your best friend or your mother its the tears that blend everyone around you together more
1	in 1989 aardman animations introduced the two heros in the grand day out in 1993 they fought an evil penguin in the wrong trousers and in 1995 they had to rescue sheep from an evil robot dog in a close shave in 2005 they're back and they are going to fight something that used to be cute and in the curse of the were rabbit in this full feature film wallace and gromit work in a pest control business there's going to be a giant vegetable competition but rabbits keep eating the neighbors wallace and gromit takes care with that problem but wallace had an idea he will brainwash the bunnies with his machine after doing that something suddenly eats all of the in the neighborhood and it's big it's up to wallace and gromit to save the day as a fan of these two characters i was impressed it kept what the 3 previous chapters had and instead adding a lot of hollywood actors for voice overs they put a no name cast to the job and boy they did a fantastic job wallace and gromit has not changed wallace is still the cheese loving freak like he always was and gromit is the silent newspaper reading dog also the script was not too shabby like other family movies were there is a twist of who the were rabbit really is the direction from nick park the director of the 3 previous chapters does a really good job with the storyline instead of adding the hollywood formula in it he just took the style of the previous chapters and adds a bit of a dark fantasy twist in it well done nick the rabbits are also funny and adorable but the funniest rabbit in the movie is one who has the mix of wallace in him the characters were not bad and they weren't annoying but they'll never top wallace and gromit the animation is indeed fantastic and wonderful i've never seen a clay animated movie that is so amazing since chicken run overall fans of the two knuckleheads including the teens will love this fantastic film it is a well done film that should get an oscar next year hooray wallace and gromit 10 10
1	this was very good except for two things which i'll mention at the end the animation is great highlighted by nick park and company's trademark of exaggerated teeth and mouths of the characters which make you laugh almost every time you see someone the color was magnificent too br br the best part of the film however is the clever comedy woven throughout this is another of these animated films in which there is so much to see and hear each frame that it would require many viewings to catch all the gags it's just a funny exaggerated look at the oddball wallace and his silent and smart dog gromit along the way it pokes fun people who get carried away with their vegetable gardens something akin to how the obsessive dog lovers were pictured in best of show br br my only complaints were two typical traits of today's films animated or not 1 let's make the cleric in the film look like a total idiot 2 let's overdo the final action scene with the predictable result but way overdone those aside this is still a very amusing film that should provide a lot of laughs to many people and a movie to enjoy multiple times
1	having just come home from my third viewing of the curse of the were rabbit i decided to jump on imdb and see what others thought i noticed a lot of brits loved it while those in america just didn't get it that really doesn't come as any shock as america doesn't get what english is br br wallace and gromit are very english middle class english in fact with a hint of eccentricity throw in for good measure the film is a lot like our two heroes simple and unassuming it has a nice and gentle plot so the children don't get lost yet there's enough beef there to keep the adults amused too there's some light innuendo which seems have to have offended the evangelic oh noes drama but there is nothing more rude than a bottom for a brief moment when people get offended by a plasticine anus you know the world's messed up br br one quick note to those all american so far that i have seen who think chicken run is a better film chicken run was made to pander to your sense of humour and i think it suffered because of it curse of the were rabbit is witty english and intelligent thomas the tank film was ruined because it was made to please the americans and i'm glad nick park did not let that happen to another great british institution br br to sum up you can keep your chicken runs your your that kind of crude crass slapstick comedy just doesn't compare to the wit and grace that is wallace and gromit in curse of the were rabbit english to the core and long may wallace and gromit stay that way
1	wallace gromit the curse of the were rabbit 2005 voices peter ralph fiennes helena bonham carter br br fantastic feats of clay wallace gromit save the day good entertainment br br nick park the creator of the animated team of wallace gromit is a genius his painstaking art in the form of claymation is a unique process involving literally thousands of hours it takes roughly an 8 hour work day to contribute 3 minutes of action to a film this foray into feature length storytelling took 5 years in making his lovable master loyal dog team take form is finally on the big screen in the duo's first full length motion picture and it's good to coin a phrase from wallace's usual reply to all things good br br park who co directed with steve box and co wrote with mark burton and bob baker sends up the horror genre in this funny and swift paced action comedy with the geeky inventive wallace voiced by british vet thespian and his mute yet loyal and sharper minded mutt gromit all eyebrows and mouth less insouciance have devised a service to their community pest control anti as they are known for the upcoming giant vegetable festival that has the entire town in the mood for all things vegetative a and the biggest are troublesome rabbits eating the crunchy goods wallace's inventive mind has created a vacuum container that is quick efficient and more importantly harmless to the cute vermin that plague the estate of lady voiced by bonham carter making a fast break to be the first lady of stop motion animation what with her earlier turn in corpse bride a few weeks ago who is housing the competition and is a love interest for the nerdy wallace br br the only fly in the ointment is vainglorious bombastic loud mouth and jerk victor quartermaine voiced by fiennes his first attempt in the animated arts coming across as a patrick stewart with hilarious results a badly wearing macho moron who is plotting to marry lady for her riches while he is a chief competitor to w g's humane attempts by resorting to his trusty guns and nasty bulldog br br to add insult to injury the duo are facing a terrible plight in the form of a huge were rabbit the titular monster a nice nod to both universal and hammer horror flicks that is terrorizing the village and devouring every veggie in sight the two set out to trap and dispose of the creature but there is more than meets the eye as things progress br br relentlessly funny and with such amazing elastic and kinetic energy to his wonderful clay counterparts park and box have created a truly magical and highly entertaining film with so much amazingly detailed production design to their little world that it may take more than one screening to absorb just how much effort in their blood sweat and tears have gone into making this instant classic for children of all ages br br wallace the cheese loving balding inventor could easily be homer simpson's uk cousin with his rotund body and constant knack for getting things wrong while attempting to do the right thing his heart is in the right place but his head is in the clouds his sweet crush for lady resembling a pre plastic surgery carol burnett who is a head taller than our hero will perhaps remind those of their first unrequited love with a smile of awkward admission his rube goldberg like gift for making the complicated into ease is inspired lunacy that fans will recall from the earlier shorter films the wrong trousers a close shave and a grand day out br br but it is in my opinion the wise silent and long suffering gromit his egg eyes of slow burns and disbelief at what is transpiring is one of the best animated characters ever created with such an amazing arsenal of exasperated expressions and subtle nuances that most live action actors would kill to accomplish in the attempt of conveying dismay concern grief genuine surprise and relief his final chase – a signature of the immensely popular comic team – is ingeniously set and quickly improvised especially his literal dog fight with the equally soundless bulldog with tenacity wit and a chuck jones fueled smartness that would have bruce willis and arnold schwarzenegger green with envy br br wallace and gromit match the best of laurel hardy abbott costello and any other classic comedy team that comes to mind here's hoping their longevity continues on screen for just as long as their predecessors the waiting is most eager
1	there are a few aspects to park's movies and in particular wallace gromit that i would say make them so great the first is subtlety and observation the flagship of which is the character of gromit he doesn't speak he doesn't make any noise all he has are his eyes brow and body posture and with these he commands the film park manages to give us everything we need from this silent character through his expression the comedy and the emotion is conveyed through the of movements and it works superbly well br br watching the movie you have to be aware of the entire screen normally you'll be guided to things in the movies the screen won't be cluttered too much there won't be many things to take your eyes away from the main clue or action park seems to need to look the other way with his movies he throws extra content at his audience there's action in the background to the side of the screen even off screen and there's just about always something in the foreground to catch your eye his movies are about multiple viewing and discovery they're layered with jokes and ancillary action br br throughout this film there are layers of things happening on screen jokes in the foreground maybe on a jar label and background shadows that give away action you can imagine that for park the movies has always been an event and the movies he loves are ones which he wants to watch again and again this is what shows in his movies and in through his most beloved characters br br then there are the bizarre and wacky inventions which wallace make something which is reflected in the storyline and the twists and turns of the plot everything is bizarre and off the wall yet it seems so perfectly normal in this world you can imagine that inside park is the mind of wallace br br there's also one more thing that make these movies so unique and that's the modelling and precise hand animation i must admit i was concerned when i knew dreamworks was involved in the making of this movie and i thought that they would bring their computer animation experience to the forefront what i was scared of was wallace gromit becoming cgi entities or at the smallest cgi being used to clean up the feel that the modelling brought to the movie br br not so you can still see and on the characters and far from distracting from the movie this just adds so much real feeling to it and a feeling of physical depth to the characters and the scene on screen br br so what of the movie well i must say that the plot twist was something i had thought about well before the film was in the cinema and it came as no surprise but that did not affect my enjoyment one little bit actually watching the twist unfold and the comic timing of the discovery and reactions was everything and it had me just as sucked in as if it was a thriller yet all the time i was laughing br br watching the movie was fascinating in various ways to see the animation completed how wild the inventions are how wallace is going to get into trouble and gromit get him out where all the cross references are in the movie and where all the jokes are i must admit afterwards talking with my friends i couldn't believe how much i had missed br br there's something different in this movie than with the others there's a new level of adult humour in here and i don't mean rude jokes although there are a couple that are just so british you can't help laughing i mean jokes that simply fly over kids heads but slap adults in the face the kind you are used to seeing come out of somewhere like pixar this just adds even more appeal to the movie br br okay though let me try and be a bit negative here i didn't notice the voices in this movie you know how you usually listen to the actors and see if you can recognise them well i was just too wrapped up in the movie to care or to notice who they were okay that's not negative let me try again the main plot wasn't as strong and gripping as i'd expected and i found myself being caught up in the side stories and the characters themselves again that's not a bad thing the film was just so much rich entertainment br br i honestly can't think of a bad thing to say about this movie probably the worst thing i could say is that the title sequence at the end is quite repetitive until the final title really that's the worst i can say br br the story is a lot of fun well set up well written well executed there's lot's of fantastic characters in here not just wallace gromit there's so much happening on screen so many references and jokes check out the dresses of lady cheese jokes everywhere jokes for all the family the characters are superbly absorbing and you'll find that you've taken to them before you realise there's just so much in this movie for everyone br br there's so much i could say and write about but i know it will quickly turn into a backslapping exercise for park and aardman it would also just turn into a series of this bit was really funny and there's a bit when and what i would rather do is tell you that this is a superb movie to go see it and to experience the whole thing for yourselves i will say though that the bunnies are excellent
1	i really refused to see this movie i refused to go with the school and i refused to go with my parents just by looking at the trailer it looked stupid to me anyway one of my friends wanted to take me to the movies that day and he offered me 2 choices the dukes of hazzard or wallace and gromit the curse of the were rabbit it took me 17 minutes to decide time was running out i had to choose it came up on the screen few as in a few tickets left by the time we had to line up and get our ticket only one of us could go in i desperately wanted nicholas to go in to see it but he forced me i crossed my arms and was very moody and disappointed that i was going in to see this childishness i walked in sat in the only seat that was available and prepared for the movie must say i was very surprised that i sat through that masterpiece it was amazing i don't know what i was complaining about the clay animation was by far the most best i've ever seen in my life the story was brilliant about a rabbit disrupting and crashing a carnival that had been planned for over 500 years basically anti pest control are protecting the people who are competing in the vegetable competition anti known as wallace and gromit who are in charge of this business try to keep all the rabbits away from the vegetable carnival i wont say anymore it's just too good to tell i'll admit that the whole idea of a were rabbit is ab it unbelievable and ab it childish but nick park adds substance to it which what makes everyone love it i mean there wont be a 10 foot rabbit on the loose and there definitely wont be 8 foot werewolves as said in dog soldiers then again were rabbits and werewolves aren't actual creatures but either way it worked out very well br br the jokes also were more grown up the kids wont get some of the jokes it goes way above their heads it had a lot of british jokes in there if you love british humor this is the movie for you br br i also loved the cast and the voices everything about the movie is so incredibly well done the direction and pacing was absolutely fantastic i recommend this to fans of the old wallace and gromit shorts and no i haven't seen them yet and i recommend it to fans who liked shrek and shrek 2 and most importantly i recommend it to the people who love clay animation cracking good movie 10 10
1	what ho this one is jolly good i say jolly good ol' chap or should i say ol' bean my mastery of british terminology is a little dusty anyway my biker boots and i walked into this screening with no prior viewing experience of wallace and gromit i'm happy to say that my boots and i walked out pleased to have made their acquaintance br br while not as adult accessible as toy story w g still manages to be clever enough to provide the grown ups with a little humor that will most definitely soar over the heads of the young 'uns who are too busy guffawing at the were to have any clue that something is amiss i highly suggest that you pay close attention any time you see books or words on the screen because there are quick glimpses of puns that you'll miss if you aren't paying attention my favorite is a book of monsters that refers to the loch ness monster as tourist if you've ever been known to say i can really relate to kevin federline or if you're just illiterate then not only will you miss out on these jokes but you probably should be spending your time learning to read instead of going to movies consider this a public service announcement br br the most impressive aspect about w g is its clay animation thanks to the tedious process it took five years to finish the film according to the press notes there were some days when the optimum goal was to merely accomplish 10 seconds of completed film folks i sometimes have trouble finding the motivation to finish responding to a handful of emails or adding captions to pictures for my reviews a point that is proved by a lack of pictures in this review so i can't even imagine having the required patience for that br br i really like the rough hands on quality of the claymation figures the fact that you can see fingerprints in the clay is a nice personal touch how can you not be impressed with clay characters that show more expression and emotion than paul walker and keanu reeves combined the curse of the were rabbit is as director nick park calls it the world's first vegetarian horror movie that should entertain both kids and adults alike relying on and as a male who prides himself in his shaggy haired cool bearded masculinity i hesitate to use this word cute and oh man i probably shouldn't use this word either lovable characters rather than outdated m c hammer references w g is proof that dreamworks can create entertaining animation when it chooses cleverness over the cheap joke
1	when wallace and gromit burst onto the scene in their academy award winning short a grand day out they created a fresh new look at claymation after two more shorts aardman's dynamic duo returned for this thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining movie it has an excellent voice cast humorous jokes and good animation as only aardman could do br br in this movie wallace and gromit run anti a rabbit removal company when word gets out about a were rabbit eating all the vegetables in town a frenzy ensues of course victor quartermaine the town's handsome toupee brandishing huntsman wants to get his hands on the rabbit to impress the lovely lady but can our favorite aardman duo save the day before chaos ensues br br the jokes i should say were hilarious one point the villain victor booty crack was showing prompting a character to cry out beware the moon vintage aardman br br the characters are crisp and hilarious our favorite aardman team of man and dog entertains us as only they could do earning them their second oscar remember a grand day out helena bonham carter was terrific as the lovely lady wallace's love interest ralph fiennes was especially funny and foreboding as the cunning toupee wearing hunter victor quartermaine but the one who really stole the show was the priest whose antics proved to be some hilarious comic relief br br hats off to aardman for creating another wallace and gromit masterpiece
1	wallace and gromit are the main characters in some of the best cartoons ever crafted the excellent mix of visual humor and claymation makes a grand day out the wrong trousers and also a close shave some of the best animated footage ever put on television winning several oscars and also countless other awards nick park became quite the popular man in the u k yet his impact on the united states has not been big after the third wallace and gromit short there was all this speculation about a full length wallace and gromit movie yet for years nothing had happened then in 2000 instead of a full length wallace and gromit film we get another brilliant claymation film from nick park which was chicken run which almost got nominated for best picture in the academy awards perhaps it was the success of this film that ultimately drove park to finally work on a wallace and gromit project br br 5 years later these kinds of films do take long you know and a lot of anticipation wallace and gromit finally hits the big screen despite the rather weak trailers and marketing campaign this movie delivers in so many ways this film will be a delight for both kids and parents with tons of adult humor hidden beneath the brilliant animation wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit is one of the few films that perfectly manages to equally appeal to both kids and adults this rather difficult technique is one that only pixar has already perfected and dreamworks has had a lot of trouble doing lately despite the dreamworks logo slapped onto the poster this film is mainly from the very creative staff of aardman animations br br wallace and gromit are first seen running a business that protects the townspeople's crops from being ruined by rabbits which apparently had been running around wild and in great numbers lately their business has gotten them plenty of respect from the others living in the town because a gigantic vegetable contest was rapidly approaching and the crops needed protection complications arise when wallace attempts to manipulate the rabbits into not liking vegetables and then a great eating machine is unleashed on the area it is up to wallace and gromit to find the gigantic animal and stop it from eating away through gardens and also their approval from the townspeople to add to that wallace wants to impress lady which also captured the attention of a snobby suitor by the name of victor simple plot yes but there is more than meets the eye be prepared for a few fun surprises along the way kind of like in the other wallace and gromit cartoons br br in animated films with little dialogue it is the animation that has to set the pacing and the mood of the film despite requiring 5 years to produce only 85 minutes of footage the payoff is fantastic there is a massive amount of detail that requires more than one viewing to truly notice even more incredible than the detailed and nearly flawless animation is the truly unspeakable amount of visual humor put into the film whether it is a creatively placed shot or normal labels put into the funniest position possible or it is the oh so adorable rabbits that is constantly shown in the film most curse of the were humor comes strictly from just watching the movie itself and catching all the references before it is too late just picture the movie madagascar except funnier much fewer pop culture references and better animation br br casting was great even though in a film with not much dialogue it was not that important peter yet again does a wonderful job as wallace even though in this movie there was no stand out quote that can be used anytime the wrong trousers it's the wrong trousers gromit and they've gone wrong ralph fiennes does a superb job as the lead villain victor and also helena bonham carter known as the crazy female lead in the cult hit fight club lends her lovely voice as she plays wallace's love interest even though nothing could top the final chase in the wrong trousers curse of the ware rabbit did have plenty of action scenes including one fantastically done chase scene between gromit and victor's evil dog last but not least the rabbits really steal the show at some moments whether it is their cute expressions their funny movements or their howling the rabbits in the film even take some of the glory from the main stars the funniest rabbit in the movie is the cursed rabbit himself to the very end of the movie he had the audience rolling in laughter br br bottom line despite not being as memorable as the wrong trousers this film is just as good and entertaining as chicken run unlike almost every movie to come out this year the movie does not drag at all clocking in at a short 85 minutes yet containing so much joy and fun it will leave everyone watching it asking for more there is very little wrong with the film it was a pure delight to watch this film is a total contrast of the decent yet vulgar uncut raw movies that have made a surprising amount of money earlier this year 40 year old virgin wedding crashers and sin city and for families and those who want harmless entertainment that is a good thing highly recommend this is the top animated movie to come out this year and among the best we have seen this decade wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit totally harmless fun from second 1 to second 5 100
1	this first and hopefully not last wallace gromit feature lives up to expectations there are plenty of jokes some a bit cheeky as well as some great tributes to past science fiction movies with the barrage of awful and formulaic movies being spewed forth from hollywood it's great to see such a great film like this that's enjoyable for almost everyone if there is any justice it will be top of the box office and be at least nominated for best animation at the next oscars the animation is wonderful the characters are remarkably expressive and their adventures are great fun this is one of those films that the whole family can enjoy charming clever fun and well made what's not to enjoy
1	its the best movie i have seen in 2000 it has the beautiful and talented natalie portman in it it has a great storyline cast and soundtrack i enjoyed it very much 10 out of 10
1	being a wallace and gromit fan i was looking forward for this full length movie surprisingly i saw it at the world premiere in vlissingen nl at the film by the sea festival a wonderful feeling to be one of the first to see this very amusing and merry movie it's about wallace and gromit whom i believe don't need an introduction having their own pest control company in the city which is hosting a giant vegetable contest in a few days everyone including an eccentric baroness is hoping his or her giant carrot or melon will win the golden carrot unfortunately the town is plagued by lots of hungry rabbits this is where w g come in the have their own cracking contraptions to control these cute creatures in a human way br br it's a very funny and colorful story anyone who liked the three proceeding short movies of w g which are more than great will love this full length movie nick park really delivered a wonderful and original result with a great sense for humor like in chicken run it truly amazes me how he can capture so much story and emotions in just a few frames job well done lad oh yeah the music was fantastic it really completes the ride enjoy
1	i saw it at a german press screening without giving too much away most critics really seemed to like it very much there was even applause afterwards which is quite unusual for that species from my point of view and until now it was the funniest movie of the year it keeps the charm and wit of the three w g shorts and it is enlarged with many references to these and other movies of course there are obvious allusions to monster and werewolf movies especially to an american werewolf in london jaws king kong and even to peter jackson's braindead dead alive but also to other genres br br characterization was better done in chicken run but that movie had a complete new cast where introduction was necessary here you are already able to know the two main characters so the new wallace and gromit movie is enjoyed best if you watched and liked the shorts already yet it also works on its own chicken run had the more convenient but also more storytelling plot instead this new aardman masterpiece keeps that crazier and somehow more isolated feeling of the w g shorts children should also enjoy it very much especially because of the sweet rabbits if you love cute bunnies this is a must see for you and because gromit has a lot do to and really steals the show children also love dogs but many jokes are thought for a more adult audience there are even soft sexual allusions in it the movie manages like shrek 1 2 and the incredibles to fulfil high level entertainment for the whole family with adding a british and at least a little bit darker edge to the humour of american animated movies br br the animation is – as expected – superb and they kept true to the aardman style because they didn't put in too many digital effects i realized just a few when it came to wallace's inventions br br finally the score works fine in the movie although one of the main themes definitely is borrowed by randy edelman's dragonheart score br br the bad thing is it will probably take another six years from now until we can see a new animated gem from nick park co
1	this is the kind of film they used to make amusing heart warming troubling authentic with convincing performances by people without nose jobs boob jobs eye jobs in other words real people macdonald plays the female love interest and she is so real you want to give her a cuddle at the very least imagine that a real girl in a movie whatever next hollywood would hate her because her freshness is a sharp rebuke to every false starlet in tinseltown this story has the same hilarious feel as sandy mackendrick's classic 'whisky with the humour of remote scottish islanders puncturing the pretensions of intruders from outside and enjoying a wee from time to time the actual intervals between those times often being rather short director stephen whittaker displays a rare skill in pulling this off just right and it is shocking to discover that he died before his film's release aged only 56 which was clearly a substantial loss to the screen ulrich thomsen does very well at playing a german rocket scientist who in the late 1930s goes to in the isle of harris to build a small rocket to carry postal between the islands there he falls in love with the alluring macdonald lass and she reciprocates the affection some wonderfully colourful local characters decorate the tale and the film is pure delight there is of course the threat of imminent war with hitler and we learn that hitler executed 1000 rocket scientists who refused to build weapons of war which is a shocking statistic tragic love is never far from view but lips must remain sealed in a review as to what happens in the end this film is a magnificent example of just the kind of films which people in britain should be making but are they being properly released in a nation whose tastes have been so corrupted by reality tv shows where repulsive have become the national heroes is there even a market anymore for a film like this after all there is no grunting sex there are no close ups of wounds or of anyone's genitals there are no drugs taken there are no mindless celebrities prancing around wanting to be looked at and so one wonders whether there is anything to interest a public which has become so decadent and jaded that only the most extreme sensations can briefly alleviate the tedium of their pointless existence anyone who is looking for an antidote to the vacuity of contemporary britain can take refuge in this refreshing and honest film
1	set just before the second world war this is a touching and understated romantic story that is loosely based on a real event br br it concerns a german rocket scientist ulrich thomsen working in britain in the advent of the second world war fearing hitler may recall him to germany to assist him preparing for war and his slippery assistant heinz eddie are evacuated by the british authorities to a remote scottish island they are given the task of building a rocket post box that will enable the islanders to communicate with the mainland br br mocked and bullied by the islanders they set up home with local girl catherine mackay the stunning macdonald with whom thomsen begins an affair but complications arise when germany comes calling br br the central romance between and catherine is subtle and sincerely played and the supporting cast is a colourful bunch with an array of respected scottish character actors including gary lewis and clive russell br br fine cinematography and a brilliant central theme song sung in the local dialect round out this movie br br intelligent but undemanding it is good for a quiet evening in
1	an excellent film for those who simply need to switch off and enjoy the beautiful scenery of scotland based on fact the film takes you on a journey of love amidst spectacular scenery the cast are down' for the parts they play so no glamorous costumes or hair in this film where acting is superb gritty and down to earth each character is believable giving a convincing portrayal of island life beliefs and culture of the time a definite for those who have even the tiniest drop of scottish blood as it will tug at the heart strings and stir the soul something that can be shared with the family and watched time and time again a real classic one that i am sure will walk alongside some of the great films that never die
1	i saw this at the 2004 stony brook film festival in ny and it was very warmly received in this pre ww2 film a pair of german rocket scientists are working on the scottish isle of as war looms on the horizon the characters encountered on the island are priceless in their creation and their portrayal macdonald is particularly memorable br br after getting up to speed on the accents the viewer feel right at home with these folk who watch with amusement as the germans work to link their isle with the mainland via a rocket based mail delivery as implausible as it seems this film was based on an actual story br br all in all a memorable film that will stay with you for some time thanks to its casting its story or its scenery
1	a wonderfully thoughtful and involving movie that leaves an imprint well beyond it's initial liftoff based on a true story one of the many small stories prior to ww ii that lend an understanding to the mindsets of the majority of common man cultures impacted by others perceived as former enemies and perhaps future foes with the darkening of war clouds on the horizon viewed at the stony brook film festival the film was enthusiastically received well written and expertly cast the characters were most believable and drew one in to experience their trials and tribulations
1	the first time i saw brotherhood of satan i was 12 yrs old i saw it in a little town in central washington state it played before tales from the crypt which we left early because my sisters were already scared from the brotherhood of satan all in all i thought it was a pretty good movie the beginning was good we had just sat down and that tank did a number on that station wagon br br what struck me about the movie was the scenery around the town in which it was filmed it looked almost like the area around wa where i saw the movie especially when they were driving towards the town of which is the location of the movie a small town in sw new mexico i have always liked jones and martin and also charles bateman who was on get smart another show i like i gave the movie a 7 and later on when i did get to see tales from the crypt i thought brotherhood of satan was better
1	a young couple father ben solid charles bateman wife nicky the lovely capri and their daughter the cute of i dismember mama fame find themselves trapped in a small california desert town populated by hysterical lunatics worse yet there's a pernicious satanic cult that's been abducting little children for their own diabolical purposes director bernard working from an offbeat and inspired script by william welch and l q jones devil times five director sean macgregor came up with the bizarre story relates the compellingly oddball plot at a slow yet steady pace and ably creates a creepy edgy mysterious ooga atmosphere martin delivers a wonderfully wicked and robust performance as doc duncan who's the gleefully sinister leader of the evil sect the top rate cast of excellent character actors qualifies as a substantial asset jones as gruff no nonsense sheriff moore as friendly local toby and charles robinson as a shrewd fiercely devout priest jack john arthur morrill's bright polished widescreen cinematography jamie mendoza spooky score and the wild rousing climactic black mass ritual are all likewise up to speed the idea of having toys come to murderous life is simply ingenious the opening scene with a toy tank coming real and crushing a family in their car is truly jolting nice eerily ambiguous ending too a pleasingly idiosyncratic and under appreciated winner
1	i was 10 or eleven years old when this movie came out and it has stayed with me for 35 years since when the movie came out all of the theaters in the st louis area distributed as a a pack of flower seeds that had the movie name etc on the front on the back of the pack it read in so many words plant these seeds at midnight if a white flower grows you are saved but if a red flower grows you are doomed suffice it to say that for an eleven year old kid i did not plant the seeds for fear of what may pop up here is the spoiler as the movie starts out you see a small toy tank moving about in the dirt on a small road a family is leaving town and suddenly the camera turns to the tank again and it is full size it rolls over the car and you see bloody limbs protruding from the wreckage then just as sudden the tank is small again br br the reason this movie stuck with me for that long was because i had a exact toy tank as the one in the movie unfortunately i don't know what happened to it but i did keep a wary eye on that thing ever since br br turn out the lights put in the dvd make a sandwich and watch this movie it is very good
1	since i am a fan of natalie portman i had to see the movie i enjoyed every minute of it it plays out in a very sincere way throughout the whole movie at seemed as if natalie was the mother and susan was the mother susan's character kept making bad decisions and kept getting burned because of it br br i heard that there was supposed to be a love scene involving natalie and some guy he's in outside providence but natalie would only accept the script if that scene was removed and i think that is great i think that a love scene would have ruined the tone of the film br br natalie must have a knack for picking good movies to be in because i haven't seen her in a bad film yet so any movie that has natalie portman will no doubt be seen by me br br a good film 7 10
1	one of the best lesser known occult oriented horror movies of the seventies it's gritty exciting scary surrealistic here and there and at moments even very smart which can't be said about many of the movies this kind i can't help seeing some stinging symbolic and metaphoric points at the seventies society and generation stuff of the time this movie was done the scriptwriter has obviously been cooking while delivering also some good old from the crypt kind of scenes with a job well done from a creative director the result is entertaining and thought provoking the simple yet effective ending specially shows how these things are treated right by those who can br br the excellent cast were mostly unknown to me except l q jones as the moody but funny sheriff and martin as the town doctor martin not surprisingly always ends up stealing the movie with that voice and skill he is one of the greatest loonies in movies for me anyway what an actor br br so it is a little bit of mystery to me why this movie has not gathered far greater recognition i think it would deserve almost equal place in the occult horror canon alongside rosemary's baby and the exorcist one helluva movie
1	not everyone likes this movie it is still one of the best you have to be thinking movies about satanism ever made the fact that it doesn't have mtv era jump cuts or gore every seven minutes is irrelevant also speaking as someone who actually knows satanists the spoiler warning portion of the film where the brotherhood exchange their old bodies for those of preadolescent children it has some genuinely scary scenes the section where second spoiler alert martin orchestrates the changeover is almost hyper real in that it uses very few special effects a hallmark of this film was seldom given a big budget but was often effective it worked in this case too
1	ben a fine charles bateman his young daughter k t a cute and his new girlfriend nicky the extremely attractive capri are on their way to a birthday party for k t they unexpectedly get waylaid in a remote southern town where no one is able to leave and with the exception of ben k t and nicky no one can get in either to top that off children are disappearing and adults are being murdered at an alarming rate ben helps some of the locals sheriff pete l q jones tobey moore and jack charles robinson the local priest try to solve the mystery br br this early 70's devil themed horror movie actually predates the exorcist and combines a bad day at black rock type plot of a rural town with a great big skeleton in its closet with horror elements for interesting results it actually sent a few chills down my spine this viewing as it inexorably moves along its ominous path the moody and solemn atmosphere is established quickly and holds for the duration the ever growing sense of panic gives it a real kick some memorable set pieces include the bizarre opening of a toy tank turning into a real one and squashing a car flat not to mention twisted nightmare vividly and stylishly realized by director bernard and crew jaime mendoza music is subtly sinister and gives it that extra sense of eeriness br br the steadfast and professional cast does some fine work especially the ever engaging martin as the affable doc duncan and producers actors l q jones and moore br br just the fact that the whole plot is right under the noses of our heroes makes it that much more scary jack the priest starts leading them in the right direction but will they be in time to put a stop to things it's an enjoyable little chiller worth re visiting just speaking for myself i was able to appreciate it a lot more after giving it a second chance i can say now that yes it is indeed under rated telling a good story in an interesting unconventional and effective way br br 8 10
1	a family is traveling through the mid west there's widower ben charles bateman his girlfriend nicky capri and ben's little daughter k t then hit a town named where everyone acts more than a little strangely their car breaks down and they're forced to stay they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil br br the story is not that good people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end the acting is pretty poor too bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same only old pros martin and l q jones give good performances still this movie does work it forgoes blood and gore there's some but this is pg and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works martin especially chews the scenery in his role i can't explain exactly why i sort of like this movie but it did work on me it's a quiet kind of horror that isn't made anymore hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered a 7
1	the '70s were a great time for horror movies the brotherhood of satan is yet another overlooked gem it's full to the brim with great surreal unsettling scenes it's also great to see martin and l q jones who also produced in decent roles br br some of it is a little dated and cheesy but the brotherhood of satan kicks butt over race the devil and many other '70s satanism flicks
1	this totally odd ball feature is a typical and prime example of satanically shocking 70's horror the events are thoroughly confusing and it takes up quite a while before you figure out what the hell is going on but the brooding atmosphere sucks you in immediately right from the indescribably bizarre intro showing a couple of eerie children turning toys into real life war machinery you just know this become an uncompromising and gritty shocker brotherhood of satan soon appears to be another installment in the alleged unofficial creepy little town hiding a dark secret sub genre a young widower traveling with his new yummy girlfriend and 8 year old daughter stops in a remote little town to report a car accident they witnessed on a nearby highway the villagers behave very hostile and insist the visitors on leaving right away the town clearly bathes in an ambiance of fear and panic as local children vanish inexplicably vanished and unnatural forces maintain everyone within the boundaries of town is in the grip of a satanic cult apparently ruled by the elderly members of the community i really liked brotherhood of satan a lot the story reminded me of a novel written by john saul but i can't remember the title it also dealt with a cult of elderly people abusing youthful villagers for their own greedy merits the film mainly relies on creepy scenery like dolls and witchcraft relics but a slightly more involving and coherent screenplay would have been nice the subject matter often raises a lot of issues and questions and director bernard can't always provide us with answers the climax is terrific very seventies meaning shocking and unforgettable beautifully shot film too
1	i had been interested in this film for a long time especially after reading a couple of online reviews of the dvd edition however i kept its purchase because of the excessive price tag and utter lack of relevant supplements when it went out of print earlier this year i finally gave in but the entire order which included a number of other highly desirable titles got lost in transit luckily the dvd has been re issued at bargain price and i'm sure glad i picked it up br br anyway this is one strange film and a genuine sleeper initially confusing but striking occult tale which manages to hit bullseye with respect to both its forbidding small town atmosphere and the inherent eeriness of the sinister goings on a small cast responds perfectly to a terse absorbing and intelligent script lead martin in particular makes the dialogue sound better than it actually is with his nuanced performance as the town doctor head of the witch's coven l q jones and moore both of whom also produced the film offer solid support as the no nonsense sheriff and his comic strip aficionado assistant br br the plot merges elements of various earlier films dealing with witchcraft and the supernatural and not only the obvious titles the fact that the town is held under a spell which can't at first be identified for instance brings instantly to mind the similar affliction of one specific bourgeois household in luis bunuel's sublimely surreal the exterminating angel 1962 the children' angle was borrowed perhaps from village of the damned 1960 there have been many films especially of a recent vintage where the satanic rites of a witches' coven are shown from the city of the dead 1960 to the devil rides out 1968 but since the proceedings take place in modern day america albeit in remote surroundings and revolve around elderly witches seeking a 'renaissance' the film they recall most of all is rosemary's baby 1968 br br the occult scenes accentuated as much by foggy exteriors as by the shadowy lighting of the garishly decorated house where the diabolical events take place are presented in a completely matter of fact way as to make them unsettling and extremely effective particularly the opening sequence involving an army tank crushing a car the rampage of a devil doll a concept which has been done to death over the years but here it raises an undeniable frisson a surreal dream sequence set inside the ice chamber where all the victims are kept since they can't be buried a sequence where the witches attack a doubting member of the coven a beheading committed by a horse riding medieval knight and the lengthy 'black finale with the witches accompanied by the respective child they will be 'taking over' all dressed in red except for a black clad martin presiding over the ceremony which culminates in ritual mass suicide br br the film also has the guts to deliver a downbeat 'curtain' it's so refreshing to come across a title albeit a low budget production from a major hollywood studio columbia that contrives to go so completely against the grain like i said the film is quite weird extending also to the editing and the score it's odd too that such a classy and cinematic horror offering sic should come from a tv director most often associated with westerns and other family fare by the way the same theme was dealt with almost in the nth christopher lee peter cushing collaboration nothing but the night 1972 which lee produced himself a film i foolishly missed out on some 20 years back when it was shown on local tv and which has been m i a ever since br br p s this review of the brotherhood of satan will certainly contain spoilers but then the synopsis and artwork featured on the dvd cover manage to give everything away anyway
1	i would probably say this was on a par with films like devil's rain and that sort of film although this is probably a bit better made i love 70's horror and this has most of the elements that make up other movies i like so it was pretty easy to enjoy a family on their vacation stumble across a small town where the people seem to be gripped by some sort of hysteria seems like the children have been disappearing after an initial attempt to flee this place the family is somehow stopped on the edge of town and find their way back but not without first finding a house where the kids are gone and mommy and daddy are dead seems like we have a different kind of twist on a senior citizen community center in this town they're all satan worshipers and they need the kids to renew their lives so they can continue on in their service i guess not that anyone seems too keen on giving up their kids for this enterprise this is fairly classy considering that it's scary and creepy without buckets of gore or the loud startling events that try to make people jump in films today which seem to have replaced actual scares we have hank kimball moore from green acres as tobey a sheriff's deputy that reads ufo magazines and jones as the sheriff and a very familiar character actor as the dad of the stranded family and martin plays the doctor who seems to be doing double duty unbeknown to his fellow townsfolk this is pretty good stuff but a tad on the confusing side sometimes but overall works pretty well is recommended for fans of 70's horror 8 out of 10
1	i had no idea what i was going to see when i decided to view this film and to my surprise its just an extremely well made horror film that is easily one of the best of the 1970's film is of course low budget and this is an excellent example of how the story and style of a film creates chills not special effects martin is one of the great character actors of all time and he has a rare starring role here and the film also stars martins good friend l q jones and green acres moore jones and moore helped produce this film as well tv veteran charles bateman is the star and enter the dragon beauty capri is his girlfriend capri is in a bikini at the beginning of the film and she's just gorgeous to look at film does a terrific job of staying with the story and not adding a phony feel good ending and i really liked the way the film ends great atmosphere interesting story and well directed by bernard martins performance is top notch also as he doesn't hold back at all and really throws himself into the role of doc good and underrated film
1	this is one creepy underrated gem with chilling performances and a fantastic finale all the characters are great and the story was awesome plus i thought the ending was really cool the plot was great and it never bored me plus while the child actors were bad they gave me the creeps this happened to be on the space channel a while ago so i decided to check it out and tape it i read some good reviews from fellow horror fans i must say i agree with them it's very creepy and suspenseful plus martin was fantastic in his role as the satan worshiper it has tons of creepy atmosphere and it keeps you guessing throughout plus all the characters were very likable and you really start to root for ben and his family it has plenty of disturbing moments and the film really shocked me at times plus it's extremely well made on a low budget this is one creepy underrated gem with chilling performances and a fantastic finale i highly recommend this one the direction is very good bernard does a very good job here with great camera work creating a lot of creepy atmosphere and keeping the film at a very fast pace ther is a little bit of blood and gore we get a severed leg lots of bloody corpses bloody slit throat slicing and dicing decapitation and an impaling the acting is excellent martin is fantastic here as the satan worshiper he is extremely creepy very convincing was quite chilling was extremely intense seemed to be enjoying himself and just did a fantastic job overall charles bateman is great as the dad he was very caring very likable and gave a good show i liked him lots l q jones is awesome as the sheriff he was funny on top of things looked very young had a cool character and just did an awesome job overall capri is good as the girlfriend and did what she had to do pretty well charles robinson overacted to the extreme as the priest and didn't convince me one bit and that laugh of his was especially bad is actually decent as the daughter she was somewhat likable and only got on my nerves a couple times i rather liked her moore was goofy but very likable in his role as tobey i dug him rest of the cast do good overall i highly recommend it 1 2 out of 5
1	most families will recognise similarities between their own family and that created through brilliant acting by natalie portman and susan sarandon natalie creates an on screen image that justifies her as one of the best actresses in america and one worthy of a golden globe nomination the control of her emotions are so in tact that at any point in the movie she can tap into them and release an unforgettable scene susan is also amazing in this movie as yet again she chose a role that is so different to any other and carries it through with true professionalism br br any natalie fan would've seen the film based on her past successes but you should also see it for the emotions that are released during the film it is a truly humbling experience
1	every great once in a while you stumble upon a movie that exceeds even your wildest expectations given the imdb rating of 4 0 i wasn't really expecting much with the brotherhood of satan i hoped that at a minimum it might be cheesy fun like the devil's rain or any of the other early 70s similarly themed satanic horror films i couldn't' have been more wrong what i got instead was an ambitious and intelligent film with a cast i really enjoyed speaking in broad terms to avoid giving anything away the film's style and structure are much more experimental than the straightforward storytelling so prominent in the early 70s the brotherhood of satan doesn't beat you over the head with plot points and explanations a lot is left to the viewer to fill in the blanks as a viewer you know something is amiss but for the longest period you're just not sure what it is the unknown helps make for a far creepier atmosphere than most similar films the ending is effective with its surreal imagery i sat in amazement as the final credits began to roll those wanting a big slam bang finale will be disappointed with the ending's simplicity a lesser film would have tried to pull out all the stops and would most likely have failed miserably br br there are moments in the film where it's easy to forget the director bernard had primarily worked in television before the brotherhood of satan there are a few scenes that are so well set up lit and shot that even the most accomplished of directors could learn a thing or two for example i've seen enough films over the years to realize that directors can sometimes seem to have trouble shooting widescreen shots indoors not here the scene where the men are discussing their plan of action in the sheriff's office is amazing we see all five men at once – each doing their own thing as in real life in a lesser film we might see all the men at once but each would be motionless quietly waiting their turn to deliver their dialogue it's a small scene but it looks so natural and is so beautifully shot that it's one of my favorite moments of the brotherhood of satan br br finally i mentioned the acting in my opening so without going into a long winded speech i'll just say that the brotherhood of satan features martin and l q jones any film with these two guys is almost an automatic winner with me
1	brotherhood of satan is one of the most underrated horror films of all times why it hasn't achieved a cult status is beyond me this is a chilling tale of terror and witchcraft which contains one of the most powerful and disturbing climaxes in the annals of screen horror in the small american town some children have disappeared and their parents been violently murdered what is the cause of hysteria the film is really eerie some scenes are genuinely unnerving and definitely not easily forgotten the suspense never lets up the acting is really good and the climax is bizarre and disturbing check out this forgotten gem of satanic horror absolutely recommended
1	man i remember this show with nostalgic i really dug because he wasn't the conventional hero he was more than a futuristic texas cowboy the man had the strenght of a bear the vision of a walk and the agility of a i can't remember that one br br the action sequences were great i remember that would always use his bazooka named translated to spanish anytime he was in big troubles br br this was a quality action cartoon i loved the characters the dialogs the music and of course the opening credits sequence long live to him a cult classic in my opinion and a must see
1	was released in 1987 by the now defunct american animation company filmation on the back of he man masters of the universe and she ra princess of power in 1983 and respectively the plot of the cartoon was about a native american cowboy named marshall who possesses the strength of the bear ears of the wolf speed of the puma and eyes of a hawk and his trusty sidekick a talking horse named thirty thirty who carried with him a gun aptly titled jane' and with the help of deputy fuzz and judge j b serve to protect new texas from the evil tex hex and his band of outlaws br br set in futuristic texas this was and still is to this day one of the very few cartoons set in a particular city in the us hence in the south thousands of light years ahead in the future considering this was made in the 80s the creators did an impressive job trying to recreate the wild west look but from a sci fi based outlook didn't just evoke morality and good verses bad as well as teaching children lessons about life but it also highlighted themes of culture and community and that we shouldn't take things and life for granted and despite the fact that this was an action adventure cartoon many of the story lines themes and issues it addressed resonate with children and adults in a way that makes sense to them in addition marshall was one of the very first major cartoon characters from a ethnic minority background to make an impact on tv br br the sound effects were amazing the music was great the theme song equally memorable and the animation was wonderful the characters were well designed and the stories were diverse and taught kids morals and the importance of what is right and what is wrong something of which the same cannot be said about today's cartoons sadly br br whilst was overshadowed by the success of he man it is still a personal favourite for many 80s cartoon fanatics suffice to say i preferred over he man because of the diversity of the story lines characters and that the depth of the situations and problems that the characters faced themselves were more what i would say realistic and identifiable in contrast for some reason they resonated more with people because like for instance in 'the where a kid dies from a drug overdose the fact that there wasn't a happy ending was important in the sense that when kids watch that episode well in fact anyone who watches that episode will realise for themselves the devastating consequences of drug usage and that no one should underestimate the dangers of drugs br br bold brave and at times thought provoking is definitely that bold brave and thought provoking a cult cartoon classic for many years to come it dared to take some risks but it had well and truly paid off in the end it will be remembered by many cartoon fans as one of the most interesting as well as best 80s cartoons ever and rightly so br br 8 and a half out of ten
1	bwana devil is reputedly the first major studio full length feature filmed entirely in the 3d process supposedly producer went to africa to shoot a different movie but after hearing the tale of two man eating lions terrorizing railway builders decided on this one it's a good story too almost hemmingway like fear redemption the great white hunter and all it's the telling of the story that seems to drag almost as though filming in the new process was too weighty for the crew the action scenes are stiff almost too staged but these technical problems appear small in light of the film's dramatic conclusion
1	i saw this film from 1918 recently at our local film archive it seems that the danish film institute has reconstructed it in 2006 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of which was one of the largest in the world in the early 20th century i believe there are several copies with english translations circulating around europe at the moment br br i found the film fascinating and the trip to mars well thought out the plot line is certainly original but i really don't want to reveal any more of it at the moment as now the danger of spoiling things for you really exists br br the film is also available on dvd query the danish film institute det web pages at dk with to get more info
1	i saw heaven ship at the 2006 cinema muto festival in italy what a great movie this danish steampunk saga is the stirring tale of the first trip to mars in an era when wireless hasn't been perfected the spaceship hasn't got a radio and the heroes are brought back from the landing field via even the intertitles are delightful some of them written in rhymed in the original danish br br the actors' performances are laughable largely hand to brow histrionics but the sets are astonishing easily surpassing anything done by georges melies a decade earlier or in die frau im a decade later of course the plot is simplistic the crew consist of seven thin guys and one fat slob guess which one cracks interestingly everyone in this movie except the dubious professor ardently believes in god even the martians br br impressively the scenarists have the sense to acknowledge that a trip to mars is no the title cards establish that it takes the scientists two years to build their spaceship which has an and six months to reach mars during the construction sequence there's one extremely impressive set up which must have been choreographed dozens of workers all hustle through the in different directions with no and no collisions the danish scientists christen their ship excelsior packing materials and set course for mars even though the moon and venus are closer when the ship which flies not vertically lands on mars it is greeted by martians who turn out to be nordic blondes all highly developed pacifists and vegetarians as a highly developed meat eater i resented that part br br conveniently enough mars turns out to have an atmosphere just like earth's as well as equal gravity in an exterior shot of the martian landscape the sun's apparent magnitude when seen from mars is the same as it is when viewed from earth i also couldn't help observing that all the wise elder martians are male in fact female elders are thin on the ground here both the earth born hero and the martian maiden are the martians speak a universal language wear on their robes and greet the earth visitors with a globe of earth which of course they hold with its north pole upward br br that martian maiden is played by an ethereally beautiful danish actress waiter i'll have some of that danish we see a martian dance of chastity which might have been twee or ludicrous but is actually quite touching and beautiful also the martian funeral scene features one shot which reminded me of a sequence in the seventh seal i wonder if ingmar bergman saw this film br br has a few flaws but its production design and its other merits very far outweigh its drawbacks the ole olsen who is named in the credits and who appears in a brief prologue is no relation to chic johnson's vaudeville partner from i would give a 12 but the scale tops off at 10 so a full 10 out of 10 for this delightful trip to mars the blonde planet
1	what is your freaking problem do you have nothing better to do than sit on your fat asses and blog about about how you find something in bad taste here's an idea go outside that's right walk outside your mom's basement that you've been living in for 13 years and go outside but i can't leave star trek is on in 30 minutes and i still haven't married that avatar on world of oh my god in that case stay inside alright i might have gone overboard there i mean star trek is okay but i don't really watch it that much anymore either way do you really have to write crap about mind of mencia it's a good show maybe you're just venting your anger because that girl dumped you on world of or you're constipated try putting fiber in your diet
1	i may differ from many people on this board but i enjoy watching mind of mencia the reason i like mind of mencia is the host is not afraid to speak his mind or exploit stereotypes carlos mencia does what we all do with our friends but are unwilling to admit and then some br br mencia has no problem doing jokes about any race religion sex or orientation while he gets a lot of flack for this it is a breath of fresh air in these politically correct times mencia does not care if he offends anyone but he is not a racist and even does jokes about his own race br br the typical format for the mind of mencia goes like this there will be an open skit making fun of a person or recent event mencia then comes out and does a 5 or 6 minute stand up where he talks about various issues the show then has 2 separate skits divided by commercials in these skits mencia does a variety of things such as making fun of people giving his personal opinions with a funny twist or simply doing parodies of people events or movies at the end of the show mencia comes out for a minute with either one final skit or something else to say br br people criticize mencia for exploiting stereotypes and say his statements are overly offensive carlos only does what everyone else thinks of certain races but are afraid to say as for mencia being offensive he is only speaking his mind i find nothing wrong with that br br the show is not perfect the skits can be not put together the best and sometimes mencia does go over the line in his jokes for the most part however it is a show where the comedian says what is on his mind no matter what the consequences and presents in in a humorous matter so if you aren't afraid to laugh at stereotypes and see someone speak his mind and often say what you have wanted to say then watch mind of mencia however if you are easily offended you should not watch this show because you will be offended or worse yet you might even laugh
1	if you like gary cooper this is one of his best roles his gentle intensity to right a wrong is what made his career hollister comes to dallas to take revenge against will and brian who burned his georgia farm and killed his family inept marshall gets in way attempting to arrest him when interrupted by a street shootout between hollister and wild bill hickock the shootout is staged to get the law off hollister he takes the back east marshall under his wing to keep him alive in texas as they switch identity br br that was a great beginning and the picture holds up all the way through action may be a little slow by today's standards but it is one of my top 10 favorite movies
1	susan sarandon she made this movie for me i've never appreciated her acting more than as i did in this movie she really acted as though she were adele august i can appreciate actors and actresses who leave their individual persona and create a character who's truly believable br br natalie portman as ann august helped create the ideal antagonist as their characters developed through the movie the movie was about them so the other characters were peripheral br br i gave this movie an eight rating but susan received a ten from me because of her performance as far as relationship movies go beaches and terms of endearment had a greater impact on me than this movie but i highly recommend it
1	gary cooper is a cool headed guy always liked his easy going level headed characters as some others have commented there are some oddities in the script such as a us marshall who got his job and can't even hit a barn with a pistol a rancher with about thirty hands but can't seem to keep his cattle from being run off br br but there is plenty of the quick thinking straight shooting cooper to keep you entertained br br this movie was made in 1950 people in their 20's and 30's have trouble understanding those movies were made for entertainment not oscars br br to expect oscar material does this film injustice it is about the good guys finding a way to round up the bad guys br br so rent borrow or buy this movie pop some corn and enjoy the coop one more time
1	dallas stars gary cooper ruth roman steve cochran barbara payton raymond massey it's directed by stuart heisler photography is from ernest pen duties fell to john twist produced out of warner brothers dallas is vividly filmed in technicolor out of the warner ranches in california very much a film with its tongue firmly in cheek the film is a throwback to the westerns of yore that exist without pretensions or deep meanings br br the plot sees cooper's civil war renegade reb hollister fake his own death so as to kill off his reputation and to free himself for the pursuit into dallas of the brothers who massacred his family in essence a routine plot story is perked up along the way by many a fun and exciting diversion there's role reversals dandy fashions horseback pursuits shoot outs a love triangle vigorous dialogue and deft little twists to keep the piece purely from painting it by numbers br br cooper seems to be enjoying himself too which further enhances the feel good factor on offer it's true he isn't really asked to do anything more than be a laconic dude on a mission but when called on for action duties he delivers the goods that his fans have come to expect during his successful career the villains entertain particularly steve vile and dopey bryant marlow because each have their own little peccadilloes to keep them from over familiar blandness the two ladies of the piece look gorgeous and hold up well in amongst the machismo while the high production value allows to really treat the eyes with the lush technicolor and involving camera work around the locations br br it has ideals to being an a list oater does dallas something it just can't quite attain but it's not for lack of trying and the end result is one of pure entertainment that in truth should be enjoyed on a cold winters day when the viewer needs a pick me up 7 10
1	gary cooper and a marshal change identities since they both agree cooper would be more efficient facing the outlaws what is remarkable in this film are the costumes both the and steve who is the bad guy cochran wears his guns backwards probably to be able to the film starts quite excitingly with a showdown with wild bill hickok ruth roman looking very pretty is the fiancee there is plenty of action never a dull moment but you have to concentrate because the story is a bit complicated good entertainment
1	a throwback to the old fashioned westerns of the 30s and 40s such as dodge city dallas has a number of things going for it gary cooper at his coolest blazing technicolor photography by ernest gone with the wind and a pulse pounding max steiner king kong gwtw dodge city et al score in addition there is a masquerade mistaken identity a faked death and more hair breath escapes than a republic serial as always cooper defines what it is to be a man under pressure forget the 50s angst western this is pure entertainment
1	i'm not going to tell anyone what happens in the end but it did not fit with the movie the rest of imaginary heroes though portrayed a realistic family going through realistic issues such as death drugs relationships and high school i could have sworn that they were my own family no joke br br emile hirsch was completely believable as a teen struggling with his brother's suicide and sigourney weaver plays a mother trying to keep the remains of her slightly dysfunctional family together br br although this family may take their issues to the extreme anyone can relate to what they go through whether it be graduation living up to expectations or being a parent
1	this film was great i love the way it mixes dark humor with drama there are times when you think there is no possible way you could laugh at the situation presented and yet you experience a surprising giggle it is wonderfully acted with great performances by sigourney weaver jeff daniels and emile hirsch it is well written with a stylish surprising ending i'm not one to say that everyone will like it as much as i did but give it a chance and rent it the dvd has great special features including full length commentaries by director dan harris and emile hirsch and one by sigourney weaver that give you interesting information about the film i hope my comment is helpful and that you enjoy the movie
1	some may think imaginary heroes is a movie exactly like goes down but it isn't in imaginary heroes the director lets us feel for the travis family and the people around them br br the movie itself is great and the acting is extremely well done weaver's and hirsch's acting is believable and helps make the movie what it is the actors director writer dan harris has made a movie that many people should see don't think this is just another teen movie it is a movie about a family and their problems br br i gave this movie a 10 10 because i believe it isn't the best film which no film can be but its the closest it can get to perfect
1	enjoyed this film which deals entirely about an average family so it appears ben travis jeff daniels plays the role as a father who is only interested in one son who is excellent at swimming and wins many however he hates it very much and even his father ben has very little to say to his other son tim emile and even his daughter penny michelle williams who is fortunate to be away in college the mother sandy sigourney weaver tries to hold the family together and even she is completely ignored by her husband also a very tragic event happens in the family which changes everyone's personality young and old start using drugs smoking pot and drinking all the time at parties there is even a homosexual scene and at the same time there is even room for comedy and of course there is a very dark secret that sandy travis finally tells her son tim
1	imaginary heroes is one fine little film written and directed by dan harris this story is classic theater weaving comedy and tragedy together so tightly that the climax of the film takes your breath away br br the travis family is an odd bunch no member is who each appears to be beginning with a suicide of the reluctant 'hero' child swimming champion matt kip the father ben jeff daniels falls apart and isolates himself from his family and himself while the mother sandy sigourney weaver turns to pot and rage and sarcasm the daughter penny michelle williams returns from school repulsed by her family's behavior and the remaining son tim emile hirsch takes the brunt of all of the above by avoiding his classmates girlfriend and teams with his neighbor kyle ryan donowho to leap into drugs and sexual experimentation throughout the film tim tries to hide bruises on his body that have a secret all their own yet lead his girlfriend to feel rejection his mother to rage against the trailer park trash bully she believes is the cause and finally open the window to the deep scars this family has suffered for years secrets and lies here and the resolution of them is painfully dramatic br br this may be sigourney weaver's finest role although emile jeff daniels ryan donowho and kip despite the brevity of his role all contribute top notch performances the story begins slowly and seems to meander and that fact may lose some viewers' attention but stay with this little powerhouse film and the impact of the work will stun you highly recommended grady harp
1	imaginary heroes the remarkable work of the then 24 year old dan harris is tag lined people are never who they seem to be perhaps this is wisely chosen as a stratagem of marketing yet i rented this movie in spite of the tag line rather than because of it and i'm glad i did i found the move an insightful examination of tragedy i personally found it to be a movie about coping with dreams particularly those which are lost in the case of one son loss requires deep examination of what he had and didn't have in his life yet the central tragedy of the movie while posing enticing questions in its own right acts primarily as the backdrop against which different coping styles are set into relief i believe the film inquires into an important question how do we cope with our dreams particularly where heroes become imaginary
1	it´s a movie to see on tv and only once i mean it´s good but it´s a little too lengthy and the plot is so well known it isn´t very original but it isn´t boring the best thing of the movie are the performances natalie portman and susan sarandon are great actress and in this movie they have done a great job i give it a 7
1	this movie was very good not great but very good it is based on a one man play by ruben santiago hudson yes he played most of the parts on paper it looks like stunt casting yes let's round up all the black folks in hollywood and put them in one movie halle berry even produced it the only name i didn't see was oprah's thank god because it probably would of ended up being like a hallmark movie instead this movie was not some sentimental mess it was moving but not phony the characters came and went with the exception of her husband pauline and the writer in question the movie revolved around the universe of nanny mrs bill crosby and how she raised the writer and took in people now being a jaded new yorker when he said she took in sick people and old and then we see them going to a mental institution to pick up a man i'm thinking looks like sister has a scam going getting folks jobs and taking the checks but no she explains to lou she just wants 25 bucks a week and did not want the money ahead of time i think that part was put in the movie just for us jaded new yorkers so we know she is not scamming the poor folks g it was written by a new yorker so he knows the deal g she almost seems angelic and looking through a little boys eyes i can see why she is married to a ne'er do well who is 17 years younger and fools around on her terrence howard was born to play these type of parts he was good but i would like to see him play something different who plays nanny is also very good but for some reason the person who stood out to me was a small role played by jeffery wright where is this mans oscar he already won a emmy and a tony he was in shaft and he stole the movie i did not even know who he was in this movie he is a chameleon never the same i never seen him play a bad part yet this was a 5 minute role and he managed to make me both laugh and cry i re winded the scene few times one time because i didn't know who he was his wife carman was excellent i have seen her in roles before mostly mousy stuff but she is so good here i actually know people who act just like her so it was very real to me macy grey who had one of the bigger parts was also very good i was very happy that they did not kill nanny off i thought she was a goner in the beginning of the movie but she was able to go home and start her old routine of taking care of people there are women like that in most of our lives people we might know or even lived with thank god for them i do not know how they do it all of the time i have a friend who lost 2 children and been through a lot of stuff but whenever i am feeling selfishly sorry for myself i call her and she always puts me in a good mood this movie is a tribute to all of those people i only wish they they told us what happened to some of the characters like the the one armed man boyfriend who is played by one of my favorite actors on hbo's the wire omar rosie character and richard the lesbian and delroy one arm man he was mesmerizing in another small role
1	before barton jumps all over my remarks let's all just keep in mind that opinions are like asses we all have them br br i loved sigourney weaver jeff daniels i loved the dialogue and thought the acting was sublime downplayed just perfectly and understated unlike some others i did not find this all predictable br br i found role refreshingly humorous and realistic especially her scene confronting the bully in the trailer br br i found it enjoyable and wasn't anticipating recommending this to all and sundry this is why there are different flavors of ice cream something to please everyone
1	the nyt review says that sigourney weaver's character is taut and frustrated and later that she could be the sister of character in ordinary people say what no way this lady was quirky from the start nothing like mtm in ordinary people sorry br br next the nyt goes on to say that sigourney weaver's sandy travis and jeff daniel's ben travis are 40 something year olds children of the 60s ms weaver must be dancing a jig i believe at the time she made imaginary heroes she was in fact 55 years old she was born in 1949 br br nyt perception corrections aside this was a pretty good movie considering it was made by someone so young obviously sigourney weaver thought so and so did jeff daniels the young man playing tim was outstanding br br there are some critical comments i could make about the script such as that i never really got a good sense of why sandy travis missed her son her sort of blown apart behavior was perhaps triggered by his death but that such behavior lasted ¾ of the way through the film i felt had more to do with her stagnation marriage her relationship with tim and where he really came from and other unresolved issues than from any mourning of her elder son ben's mourning was much more clear br br so matt travis was an asshole did his mom think so too still a very watchable film what is becoming clearer and clearer is not that there are no roles for women over a certain age rather that what it takes is a director such as this one to be so clearly in love with an older woman ms weaver and to almost make his film an homage to her sort of an anti woody allen
1	so i was completely in love with this movie gaga for it even with all its plot twists but the one thing i found really disturbing was the connection between the two best friends in tim and kyle while the writer of the film gave us such a poignant moment between the two and their sexual experimentation confusion he then gives us a plot twist that makes them half brothers although the subject isn't brought up in the film and left unexplained and unaccounted for i just thought that it was in bad taste and the fact that it wasn't even discussed is even worse oops we've created a taboo now let's not address the situation because that wouldn't really be p c otherwise a spectacular film
1	have just seen this film in australia on satellite as i have been avoiding the news more so than usual over the last week coming from the us of a regarding gunmen well to be absolutely blunt this film is a prescient gem a big bravo to all involved i had only a small idea of what the film entailed as is most often the case for good effect and this certainly came up with cinematic goods the setting of the scene is effective in the truest sense of the word with all the hairy confronting subjects of today's world in relation to one's own faltering family albeit suburb the first forty minutes sets such a professional theater i was not ready for the out loud laughs when they came although the cathartic moment built via comedy and character as the family and neighbors came together in an extraordinary way br br all in all a foreseeing of who and what we are a most meaningful film and a must see br br please note the date of this review
1	this film does not have the outstanding visuals that american beauty or the ice storm offered and because it was made after those films it cannot be marked as very original either the music though subtly brilliant sounds very much like that of american beauty br br the story has some similarities with the ice storm in particular as well as sigourney weaver without intent perhaps the film seems to try to recreate the success of the two aforementioned movies too much at times the story tends to stay a bit more shallow than it's bigger more successful brothers by having too much going on or by not delivering the most effective dialogs here the writing cannot measure with that of american beauty but that can be said about most movies ever made even the best and there is still a lot to like said music score and expectable given the cast effective performances of note is emile hirsch who would shine a couple of years later in the outstanding into the wild br br overall i can recommend this film if you like suburban dramas though it's not the first one on a list of must sees which would be topped by 1 american beauty 2 the ice storm 3 little children br br after you've seen and liked those check out this one
1	imaginary heroes is a 2004 film starring sigourney weaver jeff daniels emile hirsch michelle williams and kip br br the story concerns a dysfunctional family that becomes even more dysfunctional when the oldest child commits suicide br br ordinary people has been mentioned often in relation to this film it's sort of ordinary people with a role reversal the mother in this case sandy travis weaver is more accessible than the father ben daniels who is clearly devastated and unable to cope like ordinary people the younger son tim hirsch is the focus of the film br br for me the film was absorbing enough to keep watching but has a curious detachment about it there were some wonderful interactions mother and son mother and neighbor brother and sister williams and some good offbeat moments what never clicked was ben being any part of that family or having any chemistry with sandy this seems to have been the goal of director writer dan harris in one scene in a grocery store the checkout kid assumes sandy is about 30 and gives her his phone number in almost the next scene daniels asks sandy if she wants plastic surgery for her birthday weaver was 55 when this film was made actually probably 54 and looks phenomenal so what is ben looking at however there's something askew about ben's complete detachment because the viewer doesn't really see how daniels ever was attached to that family br br the end has a couple of twists and also some very touching scenes everyone is very good with weaver and hirsch being the standouts br br there's not a tremendous amount of dialogue in this movie and lots of stares the script could have been sharper but imaginary heroes is a good effort
1	another slice of darkness and denial hiding beneath the surface of american suburbia imaginary heroes chronicles the lives of the travis family all recovering following the suicide of their eldest son br br the pair at the center of the film is mother and son sandy sigourney weaver and tim emile hirsch both acting out in different ways as a result of the death while tim experiments with prescription medication and his own sexuality sandy regresses to her former self smoking marijuana and coming to terms with an old act of infidelity br br the relationship between sandy and tim is explored well especially when references are made to both of them being outcast from their own family sandy due to her affair and tim initially due to always being in the shadow of his more successful older brother considerably less time is allowed for sandy's husband ben jeff daniels who in a devastating depiction of denial orders sandy to make an additional plate of food for his dead son and place it in his old spot at the dinner table michelle williams' older sister penny is underwritten and could easily be taken out of the film br br despite its long runtime imaginary heroes doesn't explore its many subplots as much as the individual stories deserve while some of the movie's black comedy doesn't translate as well as writer director dan harris may have liked and the depiction of a disturbed family dynamic isn't depicted as strongly as the many other films out there with similar ideas but despite some issues the central performances from weaver and hirsch are stunning and easily carry the film to its successfully subdued conclusion br br rating b
1	as a perfect day for ends with the suicide of a prodigy this movie opens with the death of the star high school swimmer legend matt who shoots himself in the head with a revolver after in the opening scene but the death of matt travis serves as a key to unlock the door of another prodigy his brother tim who never in his life seriously bothered with the question what am i going to do br br when he finds his brother dead his head broken like a dropped watermelon the travis family starts vomiting out its secrets one by one the film focuses on tim he is a victim of bullying domestic abuse family alienation heartbreak issues of sexuality and friendship br br tim reveals his wounds by physical bruises but these are not the only injuries to his person as we slowly come to realize as the script painfully unveils the origins and outcome of tim scars everyone who loves him hurts him hirsch plays out the character quite well revealing frame after frame in the visual expression of his body a host of conflicting emotions inside the soul of a kid whom no one seems to listen to or know very well unknowing and unaware of his depth of soul and prodigious talent br br two siblings sharing a doobie curled up on a red playground saucer tim asks penny what am i going to do with the rest of my life the scene is framed in a familiar recurring image of the film the comfortable playground where tim obviously feels at home filmed from a bird's eye view because with every character tim feels comfortable to share a part of himself and we view these intimate moments he shares in the red playground saucer complete with childish graffiti carved in pencil from above after advising him to pass the joint penny tells him tim well the secret to the success of life is to find something you love and you have to do that for the rest of your life … and you better hope to hell that you're good at it because if you're not then you'll probably fail this simple line of advice from penny serves as the movie's central theme the responsibility of talent and the possibility of failure why does one person have a talent he cannot stand like matt who hated the attention his swimming fame brought but no one notices tim's talent – no one – because no one bothers to ask him not even us the film makes us aware that we ourselves do not know tim as well as we thought we did when we first meet this handsome sad guy in our intimate understanding of tim as it progresses we are reminded that not everyone is as they seem to be this is the other side of the film the failure of those who should – parents friends teachers – whoever – to notice and see the gifts of the people they claim to love not even his mother sandy played by sigourney weaver sees tim's gift despite her love for her son weaver does a deft job of a middle aged woman grappling with her own inner demons as she haphazardly tries to play the roles of domesticity and support when tim is found to be bullied at school she storms the boy's trailer threatening his life you can tease torture punch drive drunk with me i can forgive you hell i can understand it i'm a good christian you know i can forgive and forget but you mess with my kid and may god himself descend from heaven to protect you because as long as i live – and i will outlive you all – i will wake up and go to sleep at night just dreaming of ways to make your petty insignificant lives into hell on earth after flicking a paper cup into the mother's face she looks around the trailer and looking at them both the kid and his stunned mother comments nice trailer and leaves as quickly as she came weaver scores in her ability to match gusto with visceral wit that is acid and witty and tim's father played by jeff daniels is blind to who his son is treating him like a stranger not telling his family that he took time off from the office spending his days in the city park listless a carved out soul and sleeping in matt's bed tucked in with his high school letter jacket jeff daniels does a superb job of making us believe that he can be both a bastard and lovable because we grow to see that even an inept father can show his love for his son in an emotional scene tim confronts his father just when you think his dad is going to hit him he grabs for him to embrace him not letting him go he tells tim i am your father and you're are my son and i'm here okay but you've gotta talk to me i don't know how to do this by myself it is here at this moment in the film that a father tells his son you have to tell me what's going on inside of you you have to tell me who you are i want to know who you are it is in this scene that the film reaches a cathartic moment the visual movement from tim angry and alone to his father embracing him as he breaks downs and weeps revealing the emotions hidden beneath his shell tim experiences this moment of cleansing with his dad as a catharsis especially when you consider the mistreatment manipulation disregard violence and betrayal he has been dealt in the long year the film encompasses i recommend this film
1	it occurred to me while watching imaginary heroes that any screenwriter attempting to make a drama about family relationships should seriously consider killing off a kid or two in the opening reel as a way of getting his characters to open up and reveal themselves there must be something to this storyline for it seems as if every other family drama that comes down the pike uses this device in one form or another paradise and moonlight mile are just two of the more recent examples that spring immediately to mind although one could reach back to a golden oldie like who's afraid of virginia woolf to make the point as well it's not that the death of a child is an illegitimate subject for serious films to explore far from it it's just that like any topic it can be so overused that it becomes just another movie cliché a convenient bit of narrative shorthand to get the ball rolling and to give the characters something to grapple with for the remainder of the time we get to spend with them br br the latest such work is imaginary heroes a film that borrows heavily from what is one of the earliest and perhaps best known examples of the family coping with the death of a child genre the academy award winning ordinary people like the characters in that earlier film the seem on the surface to be the ideal suburban family until one fateful day their oldest son matt who is the golden boy athlete and thus the apple of his father's eye kills himself with no explanation one minor difference is that the son in ordinary people dies as a result of an accident not a suicide it is matt's younger brother tim who winds up finding the body and who assumes the role of protagonist in the film each of the remaining family members copes with the tragedy in his or her own way matt who has always lived in the shadow of his older brother becomes more and more estranged from the father who has virtually ignored him all his life and begins to turn to drugs for ben the father becomes swallowed up in feelings of remorse and guilt turning away from both his job and his family his wife sandy is the most complex character in the film a free spirited child of the '60's who feels oddly adrift in the role of mother and wife as she endures a basically loveless marriage in sterile suburbia she spends most of her time after the tragedy trying to reconnect with her pot smoking past br br as written and directed by dan harris imaginary heroes emerges as a wildly uneven film for every scene that feels real and authentic there is another that comes across as arbitrary and inauthentic one sometimes has the sense that harris would like to cram every possible life situation he can think of into his screenplay an admirable goal perhaps but one that makes the film unnecessarily melodramatic in the process instead of identifying with the characters and being caught up in their plight we often find ourselves thinking oh come next for teen suicide is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the hot button topics covered in this film the screenplay also touches on drug and alcohol abuse physical abuse sexual identity conflict life threatening illness even inadvertent gay incest it is this everything but the kitchen sink mentality in the writing that robs the movie of much of the credibility it needs to really make us care br br that is not to say that imaginary heroes is a bad or unrewarding film much of what it has to say about familial relationships and values in the 21st century is insightful original pointed and profound prime credit for its success goes to the actors emile hirsch sigourney weaver and jeff daniels who deliver incisive sensitive performances in their respective roles it is they who triumph over the narrative excesses to stimulate our brains and touch our hearts moreover harris in his direction achieves an effectively melancholic tone throughout but one that is frequently augmented by some badly needed flashes of daring dark comedy br br imaginary heroes may appear unfocused and derivative at times but its fine performances and subtle mood shifts make it a film worth watching
1	the kinks warned about media heroes outside the movies most heroes are also ordinary people society demands some role playing but what happens when that extends to the parent child relationship do some parents try to improve themselves through their children rather than vice versa how do you provide a role model but not a role a brilliant swimmer who hates to swim a brilliant musician who won't play offbeat funny despite depiction of serious problems very good multi dimensional acting by everyone lots of plot twists complement the emotional tension celluloid heroes never feel any pain i don't recall ever being disappointed in a sigourney weaver film i even liked the village
1	i was laying in bed flicking through the channels and boy do i have channels 500 of them with over 70 movie channels i probably watch a movie on cable once or twice a month dvd has me br br anyway i'm flicking through and i come to this movie and because i see portman i take interest 110 minutes later i am still interested how could this be when i first saw the previews to this movie in the theater i remember making fun of it i never thought i'd watch it nevermind like it br br the story is based on a book and you can tell the movie is very episodic not like the movie has a great plot it just sucks you in may be its that performances that do it i'm pretty sure in must have been br br this movie was good for no reason br br peter's movie rating out of 10 7
1	it is hard to judge heroes' without referring to the fact that director and script writer dan harris is only 25 you can hardly believe seeing this film which is not only a mature piece of work professional and deep but also with some of the defects of routine specific to older directors br br the setting is the american suburb too familiar from 'american beauty' or 'desperate housewives' as in 'american film turns around a suicide but here it happens at the beginning of the movie and we are left watching a mid class family coping with the death of the gifted sportsman brother and son emile hirsch plays the younger brother sigourney weaver is the mother both are excellent trying to cope with the loss to find the reason and motivation to survive harris drives his actors with a sure hand and the first two sections of the film there are four in total as the seasons of the year build a wonderful tension with credible dilemmas and real questions it is the second part of the film that disappoints slightly it looks too tired and conventional and i suspect that the producers may have interfered in the work of the young script writer and director trying to bring him closer to the hollywood convention that's how this film fails to be a somber version of 'american beauty' with a different focus i am sure however that we will hear a lot about dan harris in the coming years
1	imaginary heroes is clearly the best film of the year it was a complete and utter joy to watch i was riveted the whole audience up at the sunset five was riveted when the film ended no one moved spoke nothing i think this film is a perfect example of the of the power that drama has especially in so much as it sets an example of the quality of drama work of this younger generation br br there were moments in your film many like at least seven where i was struck by such a great amount of beauty emotional beauty that i actually couldn't breathe for a while and for a catharsis junkie like me that's about the best experience i could ask for it is the result of powerful masterful storytelling and direction like heavyweight stuff like and those guys br br each element of the film fit tightly together there were no missteps at all the cast was amazing i have been a huge fan of and ryan's for a long time and i thought they have never been better i was am will be continuously stunned by this film and i promise i will drag every person i know to see it it should be seen it should win awards
1	wow when i went to this film at the toronto film festival i had no idea what i was in for this movie takes you on an emotional roller coaster in the best sense of the term sigourney weaver was better than i've seen from her in years emile hirsch was great and jeff daniels broke my heart i can see how this won't be every person's cup of tea as at times it deals with some pretty harsh things that can happen to a family don't get me wrong it's really funny too at my screening the audience burst out in applause after laughing over and over again i just think if you're open to examining your own life imaginary heroes will sincerely touch you i can't wait until it comes out in theaters
1	this film is a powerful commentary on family life in north america today the story is so well constructed it almost feels like its happening across the street right now if you are connected with your family and community in any way this film will grab you and transport you to the home and not allow you to leave until the credits are done br br our imaginary heroes through a myriad of innocent circumstances often unwittingly lead us down a path of sorrow confusion and isolation the travis family after a terrible tragedy invite each of us father mother brother and sister into their respective lives to share their experience in a dynamic set of circumstances that just doesn't quit we see all of the above and eventually the joy in powerful performances by the major players and the rest of the cast making this film a movie goers absolute treasure br br in a film so well done as this it is usually difficult to to find something special but sigourney weaver's portrayal of sandy travis was outstanding i would be surprised if others didn't recognize it as such br br clearly a 10 well done
1	this film is chock full of little surprises many of them funny the fact that it's written and directed by a 24 year old blows my mind some of the scenes where the high school kids are using ecstasy made me very uncomfortable because i have a kid that age and i could picture her using it as parent of a teen i found the depictions of the parent child interactions to be dead on accurate br br i enjoyed the film's many little jokes and i enjoyed the fact that not everything made perfect sense and not all the issues were resolved by the end to paraphrase mark twain truth is stranger than fiction because fiction is required to stick to that which is possible while truth is not br br this is a film which plays with the viewer allowing us believe that people are what other people think they are only to allow us later to realize that the folks we assumed were right were completely ignorant of the real situation one of the film's strongest scenes a scene about which we feel very relieved and sympathetic about what the character is doing turns out to be based on a completely wrong assumption and the character while admirable is totally wrong it's very subtly done i think very realistic br br i liked the score a lot i thought it really aided the film really helped set the mood the film has a couple of screwball moments and the background music helps establish that br br the valedictorian speech is a hoot and a half got a big laugh the movie is really in my head right now saw it this morning will try to see it again time allowing tens are hard to come by but a solid nine in my book
1	saw this film when it was an entry in santa fe film festival heavy film depiction of a completely dysfunctional family taken to another level of the extreme might have left me depressed to the extreme had it not been for very funny sight gags and dialogue along the way which lightened the film's overall tone the relatively uplifting ending gave hope for those affected by the initial tragedy still i did not walk out of the theatre ready to go to a fun party the film stayed with me for several days br br brought back memories of ordinary people but with humor mixed in with the tragedy i thought the acting was excellent especially by sigourney weaver and emile how each character dealt with the tragedy was at times sad self defeating but also at times hilarious clever dialogue and situations
1	it's a shame that by garnering a restricted rating perhaps the audience that would find this film the most useful won't likely see it br br imaginary heroes follows the life of a teenager after his brothers' suicide not of course the most original story in the world however it does spend a great deal of time humanizing their parents the heroes' that failed in their sons' eyes br br for teenagers who tend to put responsibility for their failures on their parents but yet refuse to accept any real responsibility on their own the movie sends a powerful message that in the end we all have our own troubles we need to deal with and that we all make our own paths br br but unlike other movies that tend to urge youth independence this one resolves the issues between parents and child and they become a stronger unit for it that the eldest child committed suicide is regrettable but not overlooked later in the film and the responsibility by all parties for the tragedy is thoroughly explained br br although the subject matter has been covered before it hasn't been covered quite this way the film pulls very little punches now why this earned it an r rating is confusing you're unlikely to get across to a teenager in this era without being realistic but yet providing realism restricts that very audience br br were my junior high school class have been shown this film two suicides may have been prevented in this case the censors seem to have exercised extremely poor judgment br br 8 10
1	this short was nominated for an academy award losing to anna and bella not since doctor strangelove has nuclear war been so hilarious takes a situation and turns it on its ear and then gives it a spin for good measure visual gags abound in work and i always see something i missed before every time i watch this on the world's greatest animation well worth seeing for many other shorts recommended
1	man am i stoked i can leave feedback for this 10 minutes romp i love it br br after not seeing it in years i happened upon it the other day and watched it over and over br br 'stop shaking your eyes' and a rock and roll band' and 'stop sawing the table' are freaking classic lines br br the art is delightfully raw the dialog sparse and wonderful just find it and love it cannot recommend this enough br br thank you high school art teacher mrs for showing us this over and over thank you for letting it be made thank you for showing it for free at the moment at least br br i want a big snit t shirt now i'd love an animation cell but at 00 a pop that won't happen br br find this flick and watch it
1	just went on youtube and finally watched this oscar nominated animated short directed by richard i had previously watched his funny getting started there in this one a couple are playing scrabble the wife keeps shaking her eyes while her husband has nothing but e's on his side the wife leaves for a while to vacuum her bed and bathtub before catching her husband looking at her side briefly before this the husband catches a tv show called sawing for teens with the stars sawing something and the husband getting his own saw that program gets interrupted by a special report of a nuclear war happening the newsman is a skeleton here as everyone panics outside though the husband fell asleep during this time and thinks a parade is going on as he and his wife continue arguing about the game there's plenty of other bizarre things going on before the touching ending comes on quite hilarious and well worth seeing for any animation buff out there can't wait to see any more animated shorts from mr
1	i was impressed with this film because of the quality of the acting and the powerful message in the script susan sarandon plays the part of a flighty irrational and possessive mother who constantly gives her daughter the message that they must stick together she removes her daughter from a dysfunctional but loving family in indiana to pursue an exciting acting career in hollywood the daughter is dubious but at first she has no choice the bond with mother is pathologically strong br br in time the girl sees that the mother is off into flights of fantasy and does not have her feet on the ground she sees her mother go head over heels for a handsome seductive guy who loves 'em and leaves 'em she sees that the mother doesn't get it so how can she look to her mother for guidance br br the mother directs the girl to a drama try out and sees the daughter act out the part of the mother in such a way that a shockingly painful mirror is held up to the fly by night mother this causes a period of depression and the girl is horrified at the impact on the mother and is apologetic but the lesson takes hold br br there is character growth as the mother realizes her selfish claim on the daughter and eventually is persuaded to let the girl go it is a touching scene and a valuable lesson that parents however emotionally dependent have to let the child go and become her own separate person
1	this hugely entertaining short is considered one of the best shorts ever and i certainly won't argue with that even in a country where top notch animated shorts are created with regularity this film still manages to stand out if you ever get the chance to view this film please do so it's only ten minutes long and yet it contains a man who is obsessed with saws a woman who vacuums the bathtub and a nuclear war what more could you want in a film
1	this is a very strange little short film that initially didn't impress me from a purely aesthetic point of view the animation here certainly ain't pretty though after a while you notice that the simple and silly drawings do possess a certain odd charm that's probably because with the script as screwy as this one the animation works br br the film shows an older couple sitting at the table playing scrabble at the same time they are fixated on this game or other bizarre pursuits such as the husband's compulsion to saw things even the chair and table and all of this stuff occurs as the television warns of pending atomic annihilation armageddon is definitely here naturally the neighbors are screaming and running amok during which time the couple obliviously continues with this idiotic game heck even their cat knows the end is coming as the couple begin bickering about who may or may not have cheated leading to a very surreal ending indeed the film deserves kudos for both being unique as well as very funny while it did not win the oscar it was nominated for best animated short which it richly deserved
1	i have only seen this once in 1986 at an artsy theater in minneapolis but i remember it like i saw it a thousand times this morning hilarious sawing for teens playing scrabble with all e beautifully animated taking off her eyes shaking them back into position then putting them back on and poignant the end of the world the pettiness of a snit br br required viewing for the human race calling this simply a cartoon is like calling the great gatsby nifty typing
1	the world may never know the film that did take the best animated short oscar that year anna and bella is very good but it's no big snit both are available on expanded entertainment's world's greatest animation compilation in case you'd like to compare br br snit and its director richard have attracted so much attention that there's little for me to add i'd like to note however that the film contains one of my very favorite single shots in an animated short the one where the man opens the door to let the cat out i don't want to give away the actual events depicted here but the first time i saw the shot i was from one mood to another then seconds later to still another that shot has never failed to affect me that way since for this shot and for the way builds up to that set of moments the big snit deserves the tag of masterpiece
1	richard utter insanity cartoon 'the big is a trip through madness enjoyable backgrounds melting characters and a conclusion that nearly brings me to happy tears everytime i see it br br this short i have seen over and over and over and i never tire of it luckily having it on tape from a broadcast on tv it never stops to make me burst out in laughter uncontrollably and then reach down into the depths of my spirit highlighting the greatness of the human condition br br cause when someone says 'come on let's finish the game' everything is alright in the world and the troubles that we face everyday we suddenly realise are all petty fleeting things not to fight or worry about anymore this film at first seems just like a simple exercise in cartoon slapstick humour but it is far more than that this film hits a greater sense of spiritual meaning with mankind in the wake when everything seems to be so bad and trivial br br it is flawless in every way and damn funny too br br rating 10 out of 10
1	richard is a canadian marvel and one that should be shared with the world be it for gut busting early work such as getting started and the oscar nominated snit through the apprentice and the digitally made la is a treasured local hero but no singular piece of work puts a stamp on his career quite like the big snit and did i mention it was nominated for an academy award darn br br the big snit although clearly a dated message bearer from the 1980s the short revolves around cold war esquire nuclear annihilation but don't worry – it's hilarious as hell carries with it a larger meaning as is most of work in an understated sort of way while the planet scurries for cover from armageddon a couple bickers over each others' annoying habits in true fashion he the furniture while she shakes her eyes – literally and don't forget to watch it again and again there's always something to look at loads this fella up with countless visual gags and memorable catch phrases br br i strongly encourage this incredible piece of animation be tracked down in canada it's usually spotted in a national film board video that includes other stellar shorts including fellow cordell barker's equally funny the cat came back americans will just have to dig a little deeper but keep at it – the reward is worth the toil
1	this film is all about humans this film stayed as my all time favorite short cartoon for years br br isn't it the simplest things that make life so much more interesting we humans are so soft compassionate funny caring to each other one moment we invent the most beautiful and amazing machines to kill as many people as possible with the least effort the next in our short lives we destroy our world each other and often our own lives than spend the rest of our lives trying to fix what we've destroyed sometimes there is nothing left to fix br br this film can entertain educate and even help us realize what is wrong in our lives life is short and can be even shorter the ending is way too optimistic i am afraid br br i love richard mind and what he makes happen with it br br enjoy br br h k
1	'the big came into my life complete by accident and has left an indelible mark on my soul a scar of love destruction and pointlessness that will forever be a part of my life this is tale of beautiful futility we are helpless without each other we are helpless against governmental wrong doings we are helpless as to the choices we all try to make when in love deaf to the mutterings and goings on of an world outside the window blind to an inevitable apocalypse dumb of the hatred and greedy opinions of an over indulgent society this is a tale of personal commitment and triumphant love defeating the ideologies of war their petty bickering is a sublime observation of human nature and of how love comes with it's pains and darkness everyone has some irritating aspect to their personality and this is observed by the makers in the most simplistic and fantastic way we travel only a short distance with the two main characters but are left wanting to complete our own journeys with a some of their simple loving honest philosophy in tow i am so very glad that i exist in this 'our time' another 20 years either side of my birth date and i would not have seen and felt the big snit william white sheffield
1	this is a masterpiece 'the big is a crazy weird hilarious and eventually touching look at an old married couple and their quiet life who argue over sawing and scrabble while a nuclear war rages on outside everything in this great animated short stands out as memorable the eye shaking of the wife the binge the husband's saw fetish keep an eye on those backgrounds the very verbal cat the demented game show the informative news anchor the beautiful accordion serenade and the moving and memorable ending i am so glad i found 'the big which is hands down one of the greatest works of film ever produced
1	if you are going to see this movie by all means don't go into this movie with the expectation of this movie will be absolutely hilarious because you will be let down yeah sure its funny at times but i would consider it a political thriller masqueraded as a comedy the performances are very good especially by jeff goldblum as the head of the election company even though he has limited screen time he makes a lasting impression of course robin williams is excellent laura linney is very good too what a surprise she is one of the finest actresses in hollywood and one scene in particular shows this this film makes you think what if a comedian ran for president and actually won would the country be better off or would the country shatter into a million pieces
1	anywhere but here is not exactly anything new but the excellent performances by both of the main actresses made it worth watching sarandon and portman are a mother and daughter who move from rural wisconsin to sunny beverly hills california in search of a better life the main conflict comes from the fact that natalie would much rather have stayed in wisconsin with all of her friends and family and she felt that she was forced to go to california with her overbearing mother br br spoilers while it's true that the film as a whole is disappointingly predictable susan sarandon and especially natalie portman give performances that are so good that they almost make the material seem new anywhere but here doesn't cover any new ground but it does have the rare quality of being able to take overused subject matter and make it fairly interesting again also seen in this movie is the most heartbreaking facial expression seen in years seen on natalie portman's face when her mother drops her off on the side of the road and she watches the car fade into the distance particularly noteworthy is the ironic subplot about natalie's mother pressing her to become an actress as well as a very convincing performance from shawn hatosy as one of natalie's very close cousins from back home his death is a tragic cliché almost always seen in movies like this one but the rest of the film makes up for numerous weaknesses like this not great but anywhere but here is definitely worth a look
1	robin williams is a national treasure specially when he cuts loose and puts aside his maudlin approach to drama he manages to liven up the usual restrained pacing of barry levinson and there are moments in this film when he truly shines br br as the funny elected american president in man of the year williams recaptures the hilarity and outrageousness that used to be associated with him what makes him so appealing is his humanity and likability here is a man who can lash at his audience but truly loves them too his humour is like barbed wire and yet it is cathartic it is what makes him very appealing to the people in the film and in real life br br laura linney is once again portraying an intelligent woman in distress she is a fabulous and very talented performer but i think she has boxed into a stereotype and unfortunately it would have been more interesting to have a less recognizable performer in this case walken pretty much walks through his thankless role and the climatic scene in the snl skit barely floats above water br br go in for a few hilarious moments and those are priceless enjoy williams and forget some of the deep moments that slow down this otherwise entertaining movie
1	this was an interesting movie half comedy half political thriller it had a lot of good elements although it was a little predictable br br robin williams stars as tom dobbs a popular comedian with a hit show in which he gives political commentary think daily show with john stuart during the taping of one of his shows a female in the audience tells him he should run for president that followed by a few jokes taken seriously were all that was needed to get the ball rolling and start political career br br he runs independently and opposes democrats and republicans equally he is straightforward and honest and becomes increasingly popular but maybe not popular enough to actually win he's clearly the underdog in this election br br meanwhile a corrupt software company has created a program to make voting much quicker and easier for the common people but there is a glitch the glitch is discovered by a young lady named elanor who is appeased by the software developer with a lie that he fixed the glitch before the upcoming election br br election day comes around and lo and behold dobbs is declared the winner big surprise elanor knows that he is not really the president he didn't win legitimately she decides to tell the president but complications arise her company went as far as poisoning her in order to silence her in addition to that she quickly takes a liking to dobbs br br the plot takes a few twists and turns before reaching it's slightly predictable conclusion but it never got boring robin was great as usual and christopher walken often stole the show as manager turned political adviser and best friend br br it's an entertaining film and it has a good message i recommend it if you're in the mood for dark satire or something that makes you think overall i give it a 7 10
1	this movie reminds me of great movies that temporarily wake me up with the realization that the emperor is indeed naked our election process is unclothed and dismal my awareness is heightened and i want to see the world change after a short while i am lulled back to my little complacency and bubble life in the best sense of film this work will ferment into an edible stew for me and like in network i want to be convicted to as mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore ' but to whom my vigorous youthful idealism has been slowly reduced to concerned parent with quiet convictions or rather beliefs man of the year reveals how much i yearn for honest and sometimes humorous takes on our current political situation line i did inhale because i thought 'what the hell it's lit it's in my hand i'll inhale it ' was refreshing or would've been when clinton was president why can't politicians be honest and set that tone for debates we people must realize how much veneer is being put forth as real i am sick of this election process already anyone else let take off the veils and set an agenda for our elected officials and take them to task not re elect when they continue with evasion and non representation of citizenry this movie can inspire us to increase our expectations of politicians that spew rhetoric great film
1	i went to see this thinking it would be a great comedy and a comeback for robin williams but when i saw it i realized i had bee lied to by advertisers as this is more drama than comedy although it has a few really good laughs in it it felt like i was watching two movies one was a funny romp with robin williams that should have been the whole basin for the movie anyway but you also get a techno thriller movie with political angst in the middle i really don't know how to classify this film but i can tell you it was good and i did laugh not as much as i had hoped but at least williams is back in the right direction see this but know before going it is not all comedy and is a little intense
1	not every line in a comedy is funny this movie takes a serious subject the of voters and holds it up to the light while telling jokes about it it's the movie the daily show would have made if they wanted to turn it into a movie i found robin williams to be much funnier in this movie than he was in rv and while my wife and i share a few opposing political views we were both doubled over in laughter for several parts of this movie the script writers here could give fox news some lessons in fair and balanced lewis black was okay for his part but never really seemed to be able to bring out his particular brand of comedy for his role christopher walken was also good playing his fairly common subdued supporting role pushing a story along
1	robin williams shows his stand up talents and boosts up his status as a comedian in this movie of what's wrong in american politics and how can hollywood try to make an influence without boring people of course hollywood uses movies with hidden or not so hidden agendas i think this movie is for people who likes stand up and political discussion and the trailers of this movie were for everybody just to make sure as many people as possible will see this everybody knows hollywood is more liberal democrat than the bush co so they have to make these movies every now and then but this one was perhaps too obvious at least i thought so for making any real change br br still great stand up and fresh political issues and talks i enjoyed it and thanks to imdb com ratings i was positively surprised when i walked out from the movie theater and yes i laughed many times sometimes you just have to let it go and forget all the seriousness see this movie if you like good and clever stand up or politics and you will not be offended by the several references of how things are not good right now rent it if that doesn't match you
1	this film is a great comedy drama christopher walken is tremendous in his supporting role as manager and his commentary will keep you laughing robin williams plays a great role as a quick wit jon stewart and will amuse you if you are fans of comedy central the show is good because if the viewer has half a brain they will see it as a very needed sub cultural attack on the policies of the current republican government and a criticism on the american democratic process not to mention the means by which most politicians get elected br br i was amused at the sub plots and found the film to be very fast paced and entertaining without any of the usual oh brother's i would agree the film is less comedy than marketed however without question better than 90 of the garbage in theatres at present just my thoughts don
1	actually i'll admit i'm a political junkie so this resonated with me but the erratic nature of ms green yes i know what they did to her but the ending was such a copout and totally inconsistent with the film itself br br why can't barry l and crew just left us wondering what he was going to do let us debate it br br instead they have this oh i'm not worthy bullshit ending and it just shows that when the chips were down it's better to leave the table instead of doubling down stop the disney ending and putting a bow on it life isn't easy they should have had the courage to give the main character some backbone br br we had to listen to the rhetoric the entire movie and then it turned sniveling and the stupid inane behavior by ms green when the crap was out of her system just made for a ridiculous near end of the movie that was icing on the cake
1	this film was really different from what i had imagined but exceeded my expectations nevertheless this film has the exactly right mixture of comedy drama political criticism and satire not necessarily in that order without being patronizing or it reveals the open and subtle problems of our capitalist democratic high technology society it makes you laugh instantly and remain in thought afterwards for those of you who liked wag the dog and wished to have humane and politicians this film should definitely be the choice br br politicians are a lot like diapers they should be changed frequently and for the same reasons
1	over the years i've come to be a fan of director writer barry levinson and he didn't let me down with this very funny look at politics popular tv comedian tom dobbs robin williams has enlightened the nation with his scathing jokes about the state of the country and elected politicians responsible night after night he has his fans rolling in the isles then the question is proposed that dobbs run for president himself his manager jack christopher walken says go for it flippant truisms flames a grass root movement that puts him on the ballot comedian to president elect meanwhile a young woman laura linney finds a flaw in the computer system that will count the coast to coast my favorite sequence is linney's meltdown in the coffee shop williams is absolutely hysterical with his rapid quips others of note in the cast jeff goldblum lewis black and rick roberts
1	chick flick of course been done before many times predictable yes worth watching you bet i was delighted with sarandon and portman's portrayals of otherwise stock characters in a familiar story line i am a great fan of mother daughter stories what makes the difference between the good ones and the weak ones are the performances and the character development although this is not the best of its genre i will buy it and watch it again i felt the characters were believable and the acting was superior
1	the movie is more of a mockumentary of corruption in the whole american system the of those who vote who do not matter is so proved in the machines that end of voting a comedian to the oval office politicians are such a joke that we almost need a comic to represent us as we have been laughed at for years around the world have become a way of life for americans and will be the only thing left after he leaves office none to soon oddly the only person of honesty is someone not even elected to the position and tells the truth in the end the story is very subtle and if you go to it for laughs it ain't happening leaves a lot for thought overall i enjoyed it
1	robin williams is a genius one of the best comedians in the world he really shows off in this one cracking jokes left and right as the talk show comedian tom dobbs from the previous this looked like it would be a side splitting laugh fest and it was funny but there were a lot of serious parts in the movie that i was not expecting i would describe it as a drama comedy but it's still worth the money to see and i still found it to be almost everything that i expected robin williams is at his best along with the famous christopher walken they play a very good team in this movie and i was actually shocked to see how well the two were able to work together i recommend it to anyone who is looking for a light hearted movie
1	a political satire of a comedian williams who after dissing the political campaigns and presidents is forced into the running but shockingly we wins and makes a mockery of the office man of the year is not the funniest movie nor the best but in small doses it does work williams again teaming with levinson after a hit with good morning vietnam the two seem to have a great chemistry and work off each other i am not comparing them to scorsese and deniro but you can get the picture although i wouldn't quite say to rush out there and see the movie in theaters i would recommend renting it this movie is a comedy but also has a great satire please if you like movies like scary movie 4 this is not for you take your brain with you to see it
1	this movie was advertised as a comedy but was far more serious than the trailers made it out to be don't get me wrong i enjoyed the movie but was expecting more laughs great performances from robin williams and laura linney worth seeing but don't go expecting to be rolling on the floor the movie left me wondering what it would be like if robin williams character was a real person that was running for president would we elect a comedian i doubt it unfortunately that kind of stark honesty is something greatly lacking today this is a movie that i will be adding to my dvd library as soon as it comes out on dvd the movie has heart
1	when taken as a whole for its ideas and dissection of the current 2 party system and political process i think this is a great film granted the movie was not the comedy i expected but once i got over that this film really made me think so much of what we see and hear in regards to any election is such a joke there is in particular a debate scene in this movie that i felt was a masterful critique of our political debates and how policies are discussed at them i encourage anyone who thinks our process is fine to go see this film if you want something to laugh at however robin williams and christopher walken are not their usual selves in this movie they show us that the truth hurts not that the truth is funny
1	i completely disagree with the other comments i too saw this film at an early screening and found it quite enjoyable robin williams is in top form true the tone is familiar but it is williams of good morning vietnam smart funny on point after too many dark turns williams is finally back to what he does best the supporting actors give great performances especially laura linney and chris walken chris plays himself as usual but as the agent to the next president he was a delight each time on screen lewis black plays only himself basically but he is wonderfully well used here there is also a fun turn by jeff goldblum the movie is more than what the trailer suggests as well the movie is funny but it is not a pure comedy as suggested it has a bit of a thriller line which everyone should seriously consider especially if you pay attention to the newspaper
1	man of the year tells the story of tom dobbs robin williams a political comedian like jon stewart or stephen colbert who has his own television show on his show he talks about all sorts of things but his main focus are political issues which he is very opinionated about one day on his show a fan from the audience raises the idea that dobbs should run for president of the united states after that episode aired millions flocked to the web to create various and voice their opinions on why dobbs would make a great candidate for the president for the united states a few weeks later dobbs decides to run for president and low and behold wins the election everything seems to be going as planned until a woman by the name of eleanor green laura linney shows up and starts some controversy regarding his position a funny yet serious political thriller br br man anyone walking into this film expecting to see a brainless comedy will surely be disappointed i always wonder how some people are film marketers when i see how misleading their marketing campaigns man of the year is a great example of bad and misleading marketing because everything from the poster to the trailer to the online advertisements makes this movie look and feel like a comedy i would honestly have to say about 1 3 of the film is funny while the rest of it plays off as a political thriller that makes good arguments and allows its audience to think i kind of wonder in this case if the marketing was done on purpose since this film addresses pretty serious issues in between its comedy routine br br but enough about marketing lets get down to the film itself br br i really liked man of the year even though i was expecting to see a comedy instead of a serious film one of the many things i will give this film credit for is that the film does a decent job switching between comedy and drama even though at first it seems a little awkward i really think that after you figure this out that the movie is going to be more of a political thriller than a comedy you get comfortable with it some may not because they are lead to believe that they are seeing a comedy and don't understand what this film is trying to say in the end but for those people they can blame the marketers for not advertising this film right br br man of the year talks about a lot of things and seems to have a very strong opinion as tom dobbs speaks he is saying things that need to be said and isn't about candy coating them i also think the whole political subplot while most critics say hurt the film probably again because of the misleading marketing was very good the idea of voting has been tossed around the last few years and with all the problems computers have the issue being addressed in this film could surely be realistic also the control big businesses have over voting also gets addressed br br as far as acting goes i think everyone involved did a good job robin williams had a chance to be funny yet serious at the same time by playing tom dobbs some say that williams has overstayed his welcome as a comedian but i personally still think he is funny and he's a good serious actor as well this is probably one of the few occasions though that we get to see him go back and forth from serious to funny and i think it works well also it's nice to see lewis black co star in a decent film again i like black when he appears on the daily show and does stand up however most of the films he has been in were awful this was a good movie for him because i think his political views fit in with the story that director barry levinson was trying to convey laura linney is a fine addition to the cast and proves once again that she is a very good actress and lastly christopher walken and jeff goldblum both do a very good job as always with this roles handed to them br br man of the year was written and directed by barry levinson the man who has brought us such films as rain man good morning vietnam and wag the dog levinson does a fine job writing the film and directing it like i said i know a lot of critics didn't like the whole political thriller aspect of the film but i thought it fit in nicely it was actually nice to watch a mainstream movie that allowed me to both think and laugh at the same time barry levinson did a fine job with this film br br in the end don't go into this film expecting to see the movie that the commercials are selling you it does have laughs but at the same time it plays off more as a political drama it's not as stupid or silly as the marketing campaign leads you to believe i really liked the fact that this film that this film wasn't a typical hollywood film it tried to be a comedy and a serious drama at the same time and worked at least for me i like the fact that the film didn't really tone down any of the issues it addressed nor did it have a typical hollywood ending i was trying to call the ending from the get go but surprisingly it didn't end the way i thought which made me happy it's a movie that will make you laugh but then a few minutes later allow you to think and wonder what's going to happen next i think its a good movie that will be hurt by its bad marketing
1	leno talks through his punch lines this spoils the joke for those of you who haven't figured it out his show is held in a micro sized studio for a reason or two reasons the small amount of laughter will be amplified and few want to see him letterman's set is the polar opposite ed sullivan would be proud and the balcony is always full br br nbc tacky nbc will never get it founder david megalomaniacal enterprise continues to be all about the money at least cbs has a bit of a family feel to it br br leno collects cars or is it stamps while letterman races cars the difference is informative br br when i i used to ask other to email me if leno ever said something that was funny i never got a single email letterman has superb timing he also can re use the most unfunny joke in such a way that it becomes one of the funniest things in that night's show br br letterman has built other careers paul is now well known and respected in his own musical right even paul's other band members get recognition and career boosting biff henderson has become a name america knows of even the businesses in the same block as the ed sullivan theater get a boost what has leno ever done for anyone else personally i am glad that dave moved and leno got the carson gig i never watched nbc shows before and had no reason to after br br the top ten list is an american icon so is letterman leno is a dream nothing more
1	now i'm a bit biased since i'm a big fan of late night television i've been a loyal fan of jay leno for about 6 or 7 years and think he's one of the funniest most talented comedians out there and david letterman is one hell of a comedian as well though i only watch his show unless jay's a repeat during commercials or when he has a better guest than jay on the show daniel roebuck and john michael higgins are both fine actors and they very much resembled jay and dave but did they disappear into the characters nope roebuck barely nails down jay's voice and expression mumbling at a high pitch sounding like a castrati marlon brando higgins nails down david's facial expressions for example his trademark squirm but he doesn't nail down dave's voice those who aren't big fans of late night tv might be a lot less biased there's a couple comedians who can do dead on impersonations of jay why couldn't they have selected one of them for the part and the same goes with dave i'd rather they had norm mcdonald play the part norm doesn't look a hell of a lot like dave but he did a great impersonation of him on snl hey you got any gum that was so hilarious br br however i learned a lot about the late night wars which i had very little knowledge of at first i never watched the tonight show prior to when jay leno was host so i didn't know about the struggle to finally replace johnny carson and the countless negotiations that finally convinced dave to move to cbs i knew very little about what happened behind the scenes and found the film very enlightening and kathy bates gives a knockout performance as the foul mouthed former executive producer of the tonight show she basically steals the film br br my score 7 out of 10 br br
1	i remember this movie getting a lot of flak from reviewers when it was new letterman and leno themselves had objections letterman called it paraphrasing the biggest waste of film he'd ever seen and leno objected to the simpleton portrayal of himself but letterman had john michael higgins as a guest on his show so it seems he didn't take anything too personally a dvd re release with opinions and such from those involved could be interesting though i suspect the days when late night talkshow wars captivated the nation are gone and not returning soon br br i preferred the letterman impersonation to the leno but could never buy in to either they never rose above caricature and i never simply accepted them as actors for comparison paul sorvino as kissinger in oliver stone's nixon comes to mind as an impersonation which may have seemed laughable in the first few moments but which seemed at least plausible after the first moments of amusement wore off br br the highlight of the show for me was treat williams as michael williams' speech to letterman was not as great as but reminiscent of alec baldwin's entrance and quick exit as blake in glen ross br br they could have done more with johnny's role in all this i know he was mostly uninvolved in the events portrayed in this movie and most audiences will be familiar with his reputation such that johnny carson needs no introduction but more context about why dave and jay and all comedians revere johnny would have given this flick the substance it lacks in being a gossip film br br guess i should read the book br br rich little imitating johnny carson unfortunately came across as nothing more than rich little imitating johnny carson br br i tell you what after watching this movie then watching either the letterman or leno show all i want to do is crack open my johnny carson dvds and see the real thing
1	regarded as another one of the recent over the top drama's brought upon us by hollywood this movie excels where others have totally failed especially considering the most underrated performance in recent dramatic character portrayal by that of natalie portman this film is almost unanimously driven by the chemistry that both susan and natalie share they seem to be so natural during the movie that you would mistake them for a real family they go through so many mother daughter conflicts in the story its kind of hard not to pick up on their acting abilities i feel that these two actress' talented performances picked up where the story was lacking and almost too familiar full of cliche's and really saved the suffering plot i would recommend this movie mainly to those who like either of the two actresses or such over the top drama's
1	this is a clever and entertaining film about the backroom battling that went on to choose a successor to johnny carson on the tonight show however the movie's ultimate thesis that david letterman's superior comedic talents were overlooked because of his controversial nature and the show diminished by the of an inferior jay leno in the leading comedy program on television is simply untrue as anyone who has watched both leno and letterman perform can see for themselves the hard and simple truth is exactly as one nbc exec stated in the film jay leno is the funniest man in america and david letterman is not once you realize this then much of the machinations in the film become irrelevant ultimately the whole film amounts to little more than sour grapes by letterman fans who just cannot accept that the better comic was chosen by people whose business it is to know these kind of things the final proof is that despite letterman's early lead possibly because of the hype that emerged from the battle for tonight show succession leno's show has consistently proved to be the more popular thus in my mind at least refuting letterman's claims to be unfairly robbed of his rightful inheritance
1	good movie great story great characters i enjoyed it immensely enough to buy the dvd when it came out br br the real life story it purports to tell is more fascinating and engrossing than anything the could ever come up with my friend who is in the media business said they shouldn't show insider dealings like this it gives the business a bad name as if br br there are a few problems with the dvd though first the sound volume is awfully low so you have to run up the tv volume to watch it i notice that its also like that when hbo runs it so its in the original production copy second for about the first five minutes the left side of the video is cut off that is the picture is cut off about one inch short of the left side after the five minutes it fills the screen properly left to right sloppy technical production like that is very amateurish and i don't know why the director and producer let such sloppiness slide by br br still even with the technical flaws its an enjoyable story one of hbo's best i think
1	tv movies generally do not receive as much recognition or credit as great films and it is usually for good reason but the 1996 hbo movie the late shift is easily one of the best tv movies ever based on bill carter's revealing book the late shift is about nbc's handling of late night talk show hosts david letterman and jay leno when it came to filling the vacant tonight show seat once held by johnny carson we see what happens in front of the camera author bill carter director betty thomas and hbo show us what happened when the cameras were turned off br br unfortunately we can never really know for sure what really happened when it came time for johnny carson to be replaced by either letterman or leno but the late shift gives us an interesting possible reality while simply being a very well made film the late shift also does a really good job of portraying all the sides fairly equally although you wonder if the film makes letterman and leno out to be too nice of guys especially leno who seems a bit too saintly br br the performances are also very good in a very deserving golden globe winning performance kathy bates plays leno's extremely pushy manager helen who according to carter and the book film was very problematic for the studio and leno the real actually suited bill carter for over this portrayal john michael higgins breaks out of his usual gigs of getting small quirky comedy parts and gives an excellent performance as david letterman giving an excellent impression of letterman but also creating a dimensional and relatable character daniel roebuck gives a good performance as leno but does not quite measure up to some of the other talent in the film roebuck probably did the best anyone could have done it is just looks hammy whenever anyone tries to do an impression or portrayal of leno bob balaban a squirrelly warren littlefield treat williams a magician like michael and ed begley jr a pompous rod perth also give memorable supporting performances br br the late shift certainly is one of the best made for tv movies i have ever seen i suppose if one has not watched david letterman or jay leno the late shift might not be for them but it is an interesting film for those who get into the late night politics something that has recently reared its ugly head yet again with the 2009 10 conan leno nbc debacle
1	i don't even like watching those late night talk shows but i found this one really interesting i imagine it's probably close to the truth it feels like an honest account if that means anything kinda feel for the people somewhat when you watch it a nice movie for a saturday night
1	i read the book written by bill carter on which this movie is based many years ago the book is certainly stronger than the movie it provides more detail than a movie can possibly provide the end result being that i thought the movie seemed a wee bit sketchy on a handful of items all things considered though and given the limitations of the medium the movie provides a wholly entertaining and informative account of the battle between jay leno and david letterman in the early 90's to host the tonight show after the retirement of johnny carson br br the highlight is clearly the performances i can think of no more difficult performance for an actor than to play a character who is still alive and well known and on tv on a regular basis john michael higgins nailed the part of letterman perfectly watching him really was like watching letterman daniel roebuck tried valiantly to be jay leno but somehow didn't pull it off as effectively his whole look seemed fake and he just didn't seem natural in the role in a less central role rich little not surprisingly nailed the voice of carson although the look was a bit off in the book the most interesting of the central figures was probably leno's agent helen in the movie kathy bates was perfect in the role although not quite as out of control as carter's portrayal of the woman in writing br br in the end this is light and entertaining viewing the subject matter isn't especially important in the overall scheme of things but it's a fun behind the scenes look at a memorable time in the entertainment industry 7 10
1	spoilers this film depicts the brutal bloodbath caused by the retirement of johnny carson to determine who would succeed him the impersonations of david letterman and jay leno are performed in a satisfactory way by john michael higgins and daniel roebuck though the performances weren't great reni santoni is the best performing of the execs he plays john of nbc and warren littlefield played by bob is a close second i was shocked at the way in which littlefield eagerly discussed dumping johnny carson this was johnny carson this scene evinces the cut throat what have you done for me lately world of television kathy bates delivered the best performance of the film as jay's agent helen another commenter asserted that leno was portrayed as a simpleton in the film i respectfully disagree the relationship with bordered on something akin to domestic violence she orders him around and when he rebels against her at the end she tries to play the sympathy card mentioning her dead husband and son however when jay terminates their relationship she turns violent again screaming don't you leave me you two faced bastard before smashing a picture on the floor overall the movie is hilarious and i wish that it were shown more often
1	the directing is brilliant the casting is remarkable though i would've loved to have seen a little more of aaron lustig from y r fame who played paul shaffer i only have two minor quips about the film as subtle as they are one leno is excellent but his stage presence i e during what appears the taping of one of his late show episodes is a tad underwhelming two the distribution of the foul language i am willing to tolerate foul language so long as it is not used gratuitously and to a degree the film was gratuitous the language seemed to be used as a tool to reduce the pathos of bates' otherwise well portrayed by her frequent use of it and served to make leno a goody goody by his lack of use of it of course if the characters really did behave this way kudos to everybody nonetheless the piece is an excellent one as far as television and video are concerned the film i feel had potential for the big screen but would've required re casting for the bit parts and probably a different director as well the aesthetic feel is that of the larry sanders show good for hbo mediocre for cinematic purposes
1	i think this movie actually has a lot of nice things to say about a lot of people johnny carson ted and it shows that letterman and leno actually liked and respected each other a lot treat williams as the half kung fu master half godfather like mike is terrific
1	over the years i've watched this movie many times from seeing it on hbo and i now own a copy on dvd i must say it's very memorable and entertaining in the meantime it's interesting and educational too as any tv fan can relate to the time of the early 90's when the time came up to replace johhny carson the tv living legend of the tonight show who's it gonna be jay or dave this original film from hbo the late shift stays true to form and depicts the real events very well showing the behind the scenes battle between networks heads of nbc and cbs and even abc they were all fighting for the services of jay and dave the acting makes it seem real as very little actual tv footage is shown with real life people as the actors portraying leno and letterman make it seem so real i haven't read the bill carter book so i don't know if it stayed true to the pages but i have highly enjoyed this film over the years from the moment when it starts showing cbs entertainment heads watching leno sub for johhny and they decide they want to get in on the late night game yet when carson announces his unexpected retirement nbc wants to stay loyal with leno yet conflict arrives when letterman wants a crack at the slot at 11 30 too it was fun to watch the wacky meeting with michael treat williams who makes all networks want to consider letterman for a show it was interesting to see the scene of johhny telling letterman by phone in a direct way to walk from nbc and consider cbs and by the way rich little was terrific as johhny carson his portrayal couldn't be matched and plenty of tense moments were provided by showing the bickering and firing of leno's talent manager helen which nbc heads pressured him to do overall great film that showed what tv is really like and it proves that networks are power and money hungry while showing that's it's a cutthroat business clearly there's no business like show business great work from hbo very memorable and a watch anytime it showed the true story of the late night wars
1	the late shift is a great book i read the book several years ago and i was transfixed at the cutthroat debauchery that went on when johnny carson retired and jay leno and johnny carson tried to grab his spot when the movie came out i snagged a vhs copy of the movie and having reread the book recently it's hard to say which i enjoy more because they're quite equal in the amount of information conveyed the two lead actors john michael higgins and daniel roebuck two actors i never heard of before and haven't heard of since play leno and letterman convincingly despite letterman's dismissal of his portrayal as being poor they play the parts quite well despite a lot of people looking for an imitation of the two i wasn't as interested in that the story is what counts and that brings me to kathy bates kathy bates playing helen is this movie she plays this evil bitch of a character so menacingly you realize how on earth can this woman control herself much less a national tv show yikes there should be a sequel
1	i thought anywhere but here was a good movie it stars two wonderful actresses susan sarandon and portman which when i heard they were in a movie together i resist watching it overall it was a pretty enjoyable movie it had it's moments where i felt as if they tried to hard and there was also some really overdone and worn out material but there wasn't anything in the movie that i absolutely hated i even liked how they used the pop up performance of the uncredited birch and all the little happy sad moments are touching and effective if you want to watch this movie go ahead because even though i don't recommend it it's not something you should avoid and a 5 9 rating seems unfair in my opinion
1	although a made for cable film by hbo it is an enjoyable movie and a fascinating look at the back stabbing and double dealing world of television allowing the viewer to peek behind the scenes of the so called late night talk show wars in the early 90s as jay leno and david letterman competed for the coveted position as host of the tonight show kathy bates gives a bravo performance as leno's mercurial manager helen and one can feel empathy for what leno letterman endured at the hands of tv executives it is just as timely now considering the recent events involving the failed attempt by abc to replace nightline with letterman no matter how many times i have seen this film i still find it as much a pleasure to watch as i did when it first aired if this should ever be released on dvd i would certainly add it to my collection
1	the late shift was an interesting made for hbo movie that took a detailed look at the power struggle that ensued between david letterman and jay leno when johnny carson announced his retirement and both wanted to replace him this struggle is now part of hollywood folklore but for those who don't know the story and are aware of where letterman is now it might be interesting to learn that david letterman wanted to replace johnny carson as host of the tonight show more than anything in the world but letterman found his dreams being derailed as frequent guest host leno had one of hollywood's most powerful agents helen in his corner and working tirelessly to get her client the job it's not often that we get to see behind the scenes hollywood machinations recreated for entertainment value but for fans of these two late night superstars this movie provided a fascinating look at a very turbulent period in late night television according to this movie letterman was practically promised the job by carson himself while nbc had promised the job to leno and that's where helen came in the movie presents leno as sort of a milquetoast who allowed his career to be manipulated by and feigned ignorance to some of helen's strong willed manipulations of some of nbc's biggest power players and it presents letterman as this smart and savvy businessman who despite having carson's support was railroaded by nbc and john michael higgins and daniel roebuck credibly recreate letterman and leno respectively but it is the razor sharp performance of oscar winner kathy bates as helen that keeps this movie bubbling bates commands the screen in one of her best if not so well known performances as the venomous hollywood agent who eats television studio executives for breakfast there is also a wonderful turn by impressionist rich little as johnny carson but it is primarily a fascinating story and the powerhouse performance by bates that make this one worth checking out
1	alright so maybe the impersonations of jay leno and david letterman are not spot on but you still get a sense of who these people are and how they operate behind the screen bob balaban and treat williams are as warren littlefield and micheal br br the movie doesn't go for joke and punchline but it is still funny kathy bates in particular is amazing as leno's manager br br funny amazing interesting very watchable this is a good tv movie
1	as a former tv editor i can say this is as authentic as it gets it even led to letterman's producer thought to be a source resigning eventually in real life letterman was outraged ok so one goofy thing is it has him throwing at a tire swing on his estate total fabrication but the main information is hilariously true from the silly bidding war for letterman once he decided to leave nbc to leno's problems with an agent who was not ready for big time but who he let run the show almost to a disastrous exit out of his famed loyalty if any of you kids don't grasp the idea of why letterman is jealous to this day see this tape
1	captivating tale of backstabbing behind the curtains the movie follows the plight of david letterman and jay leno as they struggle for the elusive tonight show spot letterman led by his desire for the coveted time slot and leno led by his agent and little devil on the shoulder helen br br kathy bates is excellent in this movie alienating herself from such top dogs as bob wright warren littlefield and howard stringer towards the end of the film you are so entranced with how she handles every situation from guest bookings to delayed taping that you find yourself wanting more br br john michael higgins letterman plays his part to the tee at times i found myself wondering if he was any relation to the real letterman br br i highly recommend this movie to anyone interested in entertainment or the world of corporate negotiations
1	i have just returned from santa fe i visited chapel as i looked around this building which has been acquired by a private owner i relived the movie version of the staircase it is an overwhelming mystique that occupies this building it is about what can happen if you really have faith the bookstore there has a narrative on the subject which is the story of the staircase i read the narrative in its entirety i was absorbed by the ambiance surrounding the people therein it was like we were totally enclosed in a time warp all with the same thoughts and awe when we departed the hush was overwhelming everyone should visit chapel in santa fe
1	excellent story with acting by all of the cast the warmth and insight into who represents moved off of the screen and into the heart of this viewer the and tenacity of mother in her quest to do his work till her last breath was also done with excellance by barbara hershey the intertwining of the personalities of and mother grew throughout the story line with a breath taking crescendo in the final scene
1	i saw this movie when it aired on lifetime back in 2004 i have never seen it since then but have thought of it often it left such an impression on me i've been searching for it lately i found it finally and realized it was made just for television the movie is fabulous filled with great writing and acting william petersen is perfect as always this movie left me speechless and in tears it's a wonderful story of faith love and compassion does anybody know how i can obtain a copy of this movie for my home is that possible with television movies i really would love to see it again this is a must have among my collection
1	i have not seen it since 1998 and yet i still can't get it out of my head or stop recommending people to find it so that shows what an impression it made br br just a wonderful story br br i just hope to see the stair at least once in person br br i didn't know much about mr petersen before this movie as i hadn't seen any of his previous works but his subtle acting in this impressed me and i think his portrayal of grissom on csi just shows more of the same he knows enough to let the character shine through instead of the actor shining through which makes him just that much better of an actor br br i can't remember enough about the poor accents to comment but i must say i have always enjoyed barbara hershey in all of her roles as well and i thought she also did a phenomenal job in this movie
1	almost no information is available about this movie or its air dates after an ongoing and exhaustive search i found the dvd to be available for 3 99 release date february 28 2006 try yahoo dvd and video in order to get this information posted i will continue to state that this is a well made film with a true and fascinating story about a mysterious carpenter who builds a very unusual staircase in a church it is a chance to see william l peterson before c s i turned him into a star equally featured in the story is the venerable barbara hershey does anyone remember when she was barbara hershey seagull i have to keep writing to get this posted thank you to the previous commentators for taking the time to recommend this somewhat obscure tv film which obviously leaves a lasting impression on many
1	this film is about a single mother who is happy go lucky to the point that she is almost irresponsible and her sensible teenage daughter who is undergoing adolescent turmoils br br anywhere but here is an engaging film from beginning to the end both ann and adele are described well right at the start so we get to know how different their personalities are clashes inevitably ensue and they are engagingly presented i find myself so drawn to their state of minds and their circumstances it is as if i am living their lives feeling what they are feeling br br susan sarandon gives another excellent performance in anywhere but here she is charismatic happy go lucky hedonistic warm and loving all at once i have always liked susan sarandon and i think she is grossly underrated br br anywhere but here is a captivating emotional journey
1	and i would have rated it higher than a 7 out of 10 if it wasn't for the seriously uneven irish accent of barbara hershey in the leading role of mother the accent came and went unfortunately which i found more than a little distracting br br however the performance of william l petersen in the role of was outstanding he brought a warmth and depth to the character in spite of some periodic hokey dialogue captivating and genuine i found him quite astonishing in the way he captured the character br br the premise of the film is fairly simple the building of a forgotten staircase in a church it is based rather loosely i believe on a true story and i had heard of this staircase prior to seeing the movie br br it was a phenomenal engineering feat for its time a floating double helix made without nails or screws it exists to this day although it is now in private ownership br br minor spoiler good supporting cast and barbara does dying so well in all her movies and here she doesn't disappoint lots of special moments br br 7 10
1	i am from texas and my family a couple of years ago to fe with my brother he suggested we go to see the church with the staircase i was absolutely blown away by the miracles that took place there the movie is great barbara hershey and william petersen were perfect for the parts they played it is amazing absolutely amazing if you have not seen the staircase in person it is worth the trip to go see it the wood is beautiful and the architecture is astounding just being in the chapel gives me goose bumps to read about the history of the chapel and then to see its beauty is breathtaking see the movie it is great then see the staircase in person
1	to those of you who've made comments on this film earlier and hoped to see it again i hope you did it was broadcast today nov 28th '04 on lifetime movie network i subscribe to dish br br karen arthur directed william petersen and barbara hershey in this southwestern gothic like tale expertly the lighting editing and dialog contributed greatly to the film and hershey and peterson were perfectly cast for the roles both playing sensitive bold and intuitive characters the screen play was excellent as well the supporting cast br br not having known ahead of time i guessed correctly the story was based on truth and now that i know it i must make the sojourn as santa fe is a hop skip and a jump from tucson br br as an engineer i was fascinated with the theme of the unique construction of the staircase and the man who designed and built it who was he an angel but the storyline and it's several plots of how it came to be is what most captivates you you certainly get a strong sense that god in his heaven was in every detail of this entire drama in history for you who have seen the film you know what i'm talking about for those of you who haven't i won't spoil a minute of it br br bon holiday br br bob shank jr missile systems tucson az
1	seriously any film with john malkovich is usually very good and this includes clint eastwood rene russo john mahoney frasier dylan mcdermott the practice and many more great actors br br clint is getting old now but thanks he is also an awesome director in his own right br br we are used to wolfgang water films like das boot poseidon and perfect storm this was really different but just as sublimely directed br br the premise of the assassin is as serious as it comes the film is well paced some of the violence is a bit but altogether recommended but not for kids
1	wolfgang petersen das boot air force one gives us an exciting film where the accolades go to the supporting actor john malkovich his criminal attempting to assassinate the president was first rate and credible br br that is not to diminish the efforts of clint eastwood and rene russo or even fred dalton thompson who plays a real jerk of a white house chief of staff eastwood was great and i love any film that russo is in br br the movie feature original music by five time oscar winner bugsy the untouchables the mission days of heaven ennio morricone that alone makes it worth your time
1	wolfgang peterson directs this thriller that has clint eastwood playing service agent frank who matches wits with a clever psycho john malkovich in a cat and mouse game involving the the protection of the president mitch leary malkovich keeps in touch with teasing the agent with discouraging remarks about his abilities as well as the secret service's protection of the presidents in the past agent lilly raines rene russo tries to keep grounded but he is head strong in stopping leary from carrying out his threats of assassination very good fx and fast pace sustains the plot eastwood and malkovich are superb russo has a way of getting your attention rounding out this strong cast are dylan mcdermott fred dalton thompson john mahoney and gary cole
1	what i've seen of wolfgang petersen's films has been pretty good he knows how to direct action create suspense and get you interested eastwood tends to be great sometimes excellent this goes for both his acting and his directing they both hand in solid work here the concept isn't bad and the cat and mouse game works well malkovich performs rather well and his and eastwood's playing off each other adds to the film i suppose this won't introduce anything new really but it never really claims to nor needs to it's two great actors each playing a basic type of role that they have proved at other points in their careers that they can manage remarkably well and with a magnificent director at the helm really it's entertaining well done and it just plain delivers editing and cinematography are good acting and character writing is as well the film manages to be suspenseful and intense and if you let yourself you will probably be entertained and engaged even if there are superior films out there the pacing is pretty much spot on i recommend this to any fan of the principal actors the director and or this type of film 7 10
1	this is one of the few movies of this type i have reviewed and enjoyed while clint eastwood is his usual self the overall story works well even in the limits of washington d c br br the theme an assassin is tracking the president and there is only one person who may save him br br it cannot be easy to make a film which audiences enjoy these days involving this arena this film succeeds on several levels eastwood is his usual underplayed hero wanting to save the president since the kennedy era he does well in this role as does his foil russo an fbi agent overall well done and suspenseful with extra stars for malkovich 9 10
1	this is a hollywood film the credentials of those involved are not revolutionary this film will not change the world however it is well made well plotted and well acted which counts for a lot br br it's the cat and mouse story of a disgruntled former cia assassin who feels betrayed chasing a secret service agent who was protecting john f kennedy when kennedy was killed in dallas the agent has been understandably troubled by this failure during the subsequent years of his career and when the movie picks up in 1992 or certainly in contemporary america this would be assassin mitch leary john malkovich in a tour de force of creepiness in which he gives a transformative performance has been consumed with frustration and anger and decides that he is going to assassinate the president he imagines he has common cause with secret service agent frank clint eastwood at his cool calm good naturedly grouchy best who he believes should hold a grudge as he does because the warren commission blamed unfairly leary believes for the assassination of president kennedy the tension is up through some phone calls from leary to leary wanting to keep close but not to betray his location and plans br br rene russo is excellent as lily raines a fellow agent with whom develops a grown up relationship it is nice to see a relationship between two equally competent peers even if russo is a fair deal younger than eastwood at the time of filming russo is a calm capable agent who is able to go toe to toe with the quick witted in friendly banter it is a nice part for russo allowing her to play the role of a capable professional woman and not just the default romantic interest of the older man the acting by the leads wolfgang peterson's competent direction the thoughtful use of music in plot development and excellent cinematography make this a film i can watch over and over
1	this is s superbly crafted top notch washington thriller directed by the talented wolfgang petersen with hotshot screenwriter jeff maguire who seems to have done very little over the years so maybe he tends his roses the film has clint eastwood as an ageing secret service agent and john malkovich as a vengeful assassin pitted against each other in a massive test of wills and ingenuity where the president's life is at stake unnecessary secrecy and competition between rival security agencies almost dooms the president which is an authentic touch this film was made when both eastwood and malkovich were at their peak probably eastwood has never done a better job than he does here and it is all so effortless for the old pro there are some wonderful sound effects of him huffing and puffing as he runs along beside the president's car as a bodyguard for which he is too old i wonder if anyone else noticed the humour of those noises having been added my angel' whose name is vigil enjoyed this movie even more than i did but then bodyguard movies are very much his thing rene russo was a perfect choice for the female agent who falls for eastwood as she is so but so talented and she shines the tension is taut every inch of the way in this story and the psychological struggles of eastwood to redeem himself from an earlier protection failure are beautifully shown by his typical understated acting with eastwood if he lifts an eyebrow by a millimeter watch out of course he is the master of the super cool malkovich has the opportunity to indulge all the creepiness he could wish in the paranoid character he portrays and he captures the man's central vanity to perfection what a good 'un
1	the main attraction of anywhere but here is the superb performance of natalie portman she gave her rather thankless character a lot of much appreciated emotional depth susan sarandon a fine actress is suitably sincere as the mother figure i thought the chemistry between the two stars was believable a chemistry that could have been developed more with a more involving script i am not saying the script was bad in any way i am just saying it seemed underdeveloped at times i don't think it was the script writer's fault the film did suffer from being overlong and became sometimes unfocused in the longer scenes the film does look beautiful with some good direction and excellent performances all in all watchable certainly but maybe more for an older audience 7 10 bethany cox
1	an assassination thriller in the mould of day of the in the line of fire has the added twist that eastwood's old timer bodyguard frank is troubled by past failure on the job the chase becomes personal as john reptilian assassin leary taunts him over this neurosis with the rather clunky exception of the love of a good woman russo's lilly raines nothing's going to set frank's mind at rest than taking leary down personally br br malkovich is a volatile presence not simply combustible on screen but often a changeable actor too this is one of his good films focused and playing director petersen's game eastwood is too old but a the audience don't care cos it's him and b his age is written into the script not only in the narrative but also as a recurring joke pretty much as you'd expect but well handled 7 10
1	i really love action adventure films and this is one of the best of course we love the stars of this genre bruce willis sly stallone clint eastwood kurt russell arnold schwarzenegger and the rest but its the story that really counts the best are somewhat feasible but we can tolerate those that are a little over the top as in the comic book style of action the more twists and turns the more dire situations the heroes are involved in and the more shocking moments in the film the more we action adventure fans enjoy them in the line of fire has all the elements required for a rip roaring action thriller it has clint eastwood as a near retirement secret service agent whose one bad moment of failure haunts him it has one of the most evil despicable maniacal villains in john malkovich the type in which you can't wait to see him get his due it has rene russo as the 'love interest ' it has twists and turns an occasional shock and even a touch of warmth and humor it is extremely well paced by director wolfgang petersen and even has a score by the great ennio morricone this one is a real roller coaster ride of a thriller don't miss it
1	frank clint eastwood is being harassed by mitch leary john malkovich a bomber terrorist who literally believes he will not be caught in the opening is everyone's favourite modern serial killer john kramer tobin bell from the saw series through clever planning and influence frank is able to make the arrest of mendoza bell br br from thereafter its a series of cat and mouse chase malkovich is a tremendous actor and incredibly versatile once again showing a different role in this film he astounds me with his ability to his characters with the next film br br i've watch malkovich play in con air as a menacing insanely smart cyrus in of mice and men as the tragically challenged bunny lover lenny to name a few he plays a very smart bomber terrorist who is very sane but is deluded into thinking he can elude his captures br br clint eastwood is no one special me he's too old to really do much action in films so the only thing he can really astound you with is his ability to create dramatic scenes the characters he plays are simplistic and one dimensional br br rene russo plays eastwood's love interest in the film and captivates me with her supporting actually being a bigger role to me than eastwood's br br while this might seem like an action blockbuster it's relatively slow paced and plays on anticipation you have to wait for the build up and the ending and it will pay off in the end along the way you'll be mesmerized by malkovich and eastwood's chemistry and their scenes of cat and mouse
1	in the line of fire is one of the best thrillers i have seen it builds and builds to a great climax this film really draws you in your heart is beating and you are out of breath from the action the cast turns in strong particularly clint eastwood and john malkovich this film is expertly directed by suspense master wolfgang petersen thrillers don't get much better this don't miss it
1	i just saw this movie for the first time last night wow what a movie this is the kind of movie you want everyone in the world to see because its just so cool and so interesting br br i do not want to give a single word about the plot because i think it would be better for people to go in cold do not read the plot summary before you see the movie all i'm going to say is that eastwood malkovich peterson and the screenplay by jeff maguire are top notch i wish all thrillers were more like this one
1	i am a huge fan of big loud trashy completely stupid action movies such as the rock con air etc all of these are great fun to watch but when you think about it extremely silly in the line of fire tells a story and it tells it well with plausibility as well as excitement and suspense it also addressed several important moral questions that really make you think the last shot of the movie is eastwood and russo sitting together on the steps of the white house watching the pigeons to gentle peaceful music and i felt a deep feeling of satisfaction this was because i cared about the characters and i was happy for them that their story had come to a happy conclusion it felt like a true story as the aging secret service agent tormented by the fact that he failed to protect jfk on that fateful day in dallas clint eastwood is fantastic he brilliantly conveys his paranoia and his personal need to stop his adversary on the other side of the spectrum is john malkovich as the creepy predator who tortures eastwood about what happened in 1963 by openly telling him of his plan to kill the current president this oscar nominated performance really gets under your skin throughout the movie malkovich talks to eastwood as if they are friends he doesn't threaten him he doesn't lie to him he doesn't laugh at him but he tortures him with his unbearable friendliness right up to the last moment as well as this thrilling main plot there is a charming love story involving rene russo another agent and eastwood despite the age difference they have superb chemistry on screen and the director wisely does not let this dominate too much but keeps it as part of the backdrop which works nicely to sum up i love this film because it has a mind
1	'in the line of fire' tells the story of the game between an old presidential bodyguard and a former government assassin turned psycho the secret service agent bodyguard eastwood is on defense and the assassin malkovich is on offense the stakes the president's live br br i really like this movie i've seen it numerous times on tv and have recently bought it on dvd yet it's not an excellent movie the plot is way too thin and the attempts to it are downright ridiculous the whole love story isn't very plausible and the way they brought an extra character into the story just to be able to kill it off is kind of insulting to the more or less intelligent viewer though i feel these mistakes can't be forgiven i can easily look past them to mr malkovich exquisite performance i've always deemed him to be a great actor but in this movie he's really on fire there's a reason why he got an academy award nomination rene russo and clint eastwood were okay but i don't deem their performance to be memorable they're never at the best of their abilities br br if you don't expect too much you'll certainly like this movie it's no masterpiece but john malkovich is really extraordinary and i don't think anyone can't enjoy his performance really worth the watch
1	back when i was working person i remember having a really obnoxious client to deal with who insisted on making everything on a personal basis i was telling him things that my agency could do and could not do and he firmly believed i was personally out to do him out of what was rightfully his i swear but i was thinking of this guy as i watched john malkovich and clint eastwood in their battle of wits br br in the line of fire casts clint eastwood as a veteran secret service agent who was on the job in dallas as a young man when john f kennedy was assassinated he's had his doubts ever since and been given to drink and his life at one time was a real shambles he's gotten back on the white house detail now and when a potential assassin's landlady rats on her tenant to the secret service it's eastwood and partner dylan mcdermott who draw the case br br but the assassin is no ordinary crank case he's a professional at his job trained by and used by the central intelligence agency john malkovich earned a deserved academy award nomination for best supporting actor he lost that year to tommy lee jones for the fugitive and i'm not sure but that i thought malkovich was better br br oddly enough malkovich might have been better off but he saw eastwood as the agent in charge breaking into his apartment while on the job and he insisted on making the whole thing personal he calls eastwood throughout the film and taunts him and after a while what malkovich says and does causes clint to get real personal br br the presidential assassins we've had in our history have been lucky amateurs unless you believe in some of the conspiracy theories about some of the assassinations a guy like malkovich a professional with a real or imagined grudge is the most dangerous kind of foe br br others to note in the cast are fred dalton thompson as the white house chief of staff and would be president in real life rene russo as another agent who falls for the eastwood masculine charm john mahoney as the secret service head gary cole as the white house head secret service guy gregory alan williams as another agent and jim curley and sally hughes as the president and first lady br br but when malkovich is on he owns in the line of fire the climax with him and eastwood is unforgettable
1	here's another entertaining clint eastwood action suspense film i am not a particularly fan of his but i have to hand to him he knows how to make entertaining movies this is one more example it didn't hurt either to have john malkovich as his co star now there is an intense actor in this story malkovich plays an assassin and he is fascinating to watch thanks to his different disguises and the terrific dialog he was given he also has a interesting voice br br rene russo is fairly low key for her but that's fine and eastwood plays the usual loner cop role not appreciated by his superiors but showing them all up in the end i guess he couldn't stop playing the dirty harry type figures but he played them well br br there were some negatives this film however namely credibility in parts as there were a couple of times had this been real life the killer would have done away with eastwood the climatic scene in particularly had too many holes in it there also were too many abuses of lord's name in vain in here br br overall however this is good escapist fare
1	wolfgang peterson's in the line of fire is cunning and occasionally a truly white knuckled ride even if once or twice we might feel like we've been down similar roads before how could one not when clint eastwood right after allegedly closing the book on his western legacy likely closes the one on his gritty detective pictures don't count blood work in there but there's more than that because eastwood's character here a hard bitten demon ridden and hard as nails secret service agent has a slightly charming side to him even the more romantic side that one never got to see in the pictures where he spouted his trademark lines there is some complexities going on here that don't rely on just the usual swagger and it's note worthy for how such a possibly contrived back story didn't save kennedy from being assassinated in 63 is made somewhat believable amidst the rest of his persona which more than likely hides his wounds most of the time eastwood goes to town to make himself a great presence in the film however and under the circumstances the character seems tailor made for him br br but there would be the risk of his part in the movie being slightly conventional we still get the 'harry' type scenes of him being smarter and as smart ass over everyone else in the room and being scolded and told to back off by the top brass here a chief of staff including here protecting a president that wisely we never really see or know at all even the romantic sub plot which is sort of undercooked if there for some machismo laughs would make the picture a little sub par if the other quasi dirty harry aspect didn't come into the picture an indelible villain this time there's some extra hollywood suspense however intelligent suspense almost smarter than the rest of the movie deserves with the john booth character played in an oscar nominated performance by john malkovich as someone who's described more as a predator than an assassin there's ways this could go wrong with the eastwood character but malkovich possibly trumps some of his former villain counterparts by being extremely cool and un collected there's that devastating cringe worthy scene where he kills the bank teller and her roommate and as his past is revealed there's still that element of 'what the hell is with this guy' that keeps the audience and eastwood's agent guessing and extra paranoid it's a classic malkovich performance quintessentially creepy and always measured in the level of insanity and professionalism br br it's also aside from the conventional points just a sleekly made picture from peterson and company and they come pretty close to the spunky pulp realism of don siegel but peterson also has a couple of cinematic tricks up his sleeve that had me grinning at times anytime someone puts in such a blatant but exciting homage to vertigo jumping from rooftop to rooftop hero dangling from the ledge the 'twist' it still provides some shivers down my spine there's also the phone conversations between eastwood and malkovich where we see the depths of the cat and mouse game probably another kick in the ribs to but in the end even with all the excitement and brutal danger and crisp formalism in the climax it's also a characters picture in some ways throughout and everything is fairly realized to give the audience a fine amount to ponder over at least in the suspense movie sense a great lead russo plays the female possible love interest sincere and mature and malkovich is top of the pops there's also a few notable supporting roles too and a fine studio score in there one of the better films of 1993
1	anne natalie portman tells us about how much she hates her mother adele sarandon that's how the movie begins adele decided that her and her daughter were moving to california without asking anyone and leaving her husband without any reason the story is about the relationship between the mother and the daughter it's really deep and touching thanks to the great work of the actresses natalie was nominated to a golden globe for that role she is one of the most talented actresses i ever saw and so is sarandon they really look like mother daughter the soundtrack is also great the movie is incredible 10 out of 10
1	i was watching the perfect storm and thought about another wolfgang peterson film which is much better this one although certainly not based on a true story in the line of fire is how a movie should be made it has a terrific story with a great cast malkovich won a well deserved oscar for his performance as the creepy killer with a grudge against the government he served all too well eastwood is good as the tortured secret service and russo is easy on the eyes if you haven't seen this definitely rent it or buy it as i did definitely one of the best crime thrillers of the past decade 9 10
1	i have seen quite a few action thrillers in my life and this is clearly one of the best ever there are very few films which i even consider watching several times and this is one of them everything in this movie is just right clint as the superb leading actor rene russo as his non stupid female partner this is a very rare combination sad but true of course john deserves a lot of praise for his excellent villain but let us not overlook eastwood s initial buddy played by dylan mcdermott who in my view fits the role perfectly the soundtrack is absolutely fantastic but sadly never released on an original soundtrack cd shame on the producers the plot makes sense and there is no loss of pace the audience is kept in constant excitement of the outcome of the duel between eastwood and i give this one 10 stars
1	one of the finest movies i have viewed good script original plot of a man who is haunted about jfk's assassination when he was assigned to protect him on that cold november day in 1963 thirty years later another anti social lunatic wants to assassinate the current president the secret service agent loses his partner along the way to the crazed gunmen who schemes lies and murders anybody in his path who'll stand in his way of his mission br br the movie accompanies with a great memorable score and a restrained but meaningful romance between russo and eastwood which displays how difficult it is to have a romantic life in that kind of work is great sure many other candidates could have played the role that he played but how many could acted with such craftiness and intellect that he displayed in the movie br br needless to say i thought this was a great movie everytime it's on television i have to watch it and i own it on dvd i'm a big eastwood fan this only boosted his already fabulous career and best role to date br br
1	in the line of fire in my opinion is an excellent suspenseful and edge of your seat action drama thriller i thought that agent clint eastwood and agent raines rene russo looked good in the attire they wore at the presidential dinner as for leary john malkovich he was a sick man who loved to toy with frank by phone he looked good in the tuxedo he wore near the end of the film though one thing that surprised me was the growing attraction between agent and agent raines before i wrap this up i'd like to say that the entire cast and crew did an outstanding job i loved the setting and i couldn't get enough of it now in conclusion to all you clint eastwood fans who haven't seen this excellent suspenseful and edge of your seat action drama thriller i highly recommend it
1	this is another of eastwood's many movies mixing intrigue action and a dollop of romance along with the gauntlet and so forth clint's acting range by now is pretty familiar in this one he's taciturn and a bit outrageous especially with women and superiors there are no surprises in his performance but the film itself is something of a surprise it's above average br br clint is frank a secret service agent who perhaps in a moment of doubt failed to catch the bullet that killed jfk he then took to drink which drove his family away and now plods along in the bureaucracy until he is contacted by john calling himself booth who strikes up a sort of skewed relationship with him based on their shared disillusioned conviction that everything is meaningless except the impulse to escape dreariness and predictability now this is rather an set of attitudes for a performer like clint to project but he does rather well less robotic than usual and he does seem to carry around with him like a burden of stone the memory of that moment in dallas he's tested again halfway through this movie he is hanging from the roof of a tall building grasping booth's hand and he pulls his pistol and points it at booth who asks him if he is really willing to shoot if he does of course he saves the president from an attempted assassination by a cia trained murderer but he does so at the cost of his own life booth twits him about the situation as they hold hands in midair and clint even has a short speech talking to renee russo about his failure to save the president in dallas if i'd have reacted quickly enough i could have taken that shot and that would have been alright with me it's underplayed but his voice chokes slightly his eyes water and his lip it's one of the few scenes in any of clint's films that might properly be called moving we know from his newfound resolve that given another chance he would take the bullet this time the irony is that he doesn't like the current president who could he gives pompous speeches in colorado about how they carved a nation out of the wilderness didn't they do the same thing in las vegas br br it's often said that a movie is only as good as its villain it isn't true nothing is that simple but an argument could be made for its truth value in this case the reptilian john with his eyes is marvelous br br talk about disillusioned okay he can ham it up a little sniffing with disdain even as he plugs two innocent hunters between the eyes but he's fascinating on the screen renee russo has little do to fred thompson as the chief white house aid is now back in politics a relief for movie goers if clint's acting range is limited thompson's is something less in every film he's been in he wears the same solemn and dissatisfied expression as if constantly plagued by some form of volcanic digestive disorder br br the direction by wolfgang peterson is as good as it was in das boot which is pretty good there is a great deal of the usual suspenseful cross cutting in the final shootout and when clint and russo fall into an impassioned embrace in her hotel room and scuttle backwards towards the bed like two weasels in heat peterson playfully shows us their feet along with a succession of objects dropping to the floor not only the usual garments but handcuffs guns palm pilots dick tracy wrist watches and other impedimenta interrupted clint lies back on the bed and sighs now i have to put all that stuff back on again br br well written and worth watching
1	a great performance by clint eastwood and particularly john malkovich in my opinion his finest one to date malkovich had this one nailed right down to the floor it's incredible eastwood is agent mike an aged and cynical secret service agent who is finishing out his career busting and chasing down routine assignments but one assignment which appears to be run of the mill at first turns complicated and deadly serious and his new partner al are sent to investigate a threat on the president by a wacko as fate would have it has stumbled not upon a delusional nut but a professional lone wolf who has a big bone to pick with the white house as dives deeper into booth's world he attracts the bad guy's unwanted attention and unbridled admiration for him was jfk's top agent and present in dallas texas when he was assassinated and blames himself for what happened now he feels it's up to him to stop the current head of state from joining the list of dead presidents but this killer has turned the tables on and now he's the hunted one in a life or death cat and mouse game who will win who will die it's a race against time to save the pres from a chameleon like enemy who can get to anyone my favorite secret service movie and as good a nail biter as any
1	frank clint eastwood is a secret service agent plagued with guilt over the assassination of president john f kennedy while he was on duty thirty years later and the current president is entering a re election campaign but he is receiving death threats and has been called in to assist in what should be a routine research operation john malkovich plays the professional assassin and master of disguise who is tracking the president and using the past he begins to torture in a psychological duel of cat and mouse br br malkovich eastwood and rene russo all give wonderful performances in this top notch thriller the direction is excellent and the entire picture is charged with tension and intrigue throughout br br a must see for thriller fans 8 10
1	clint eastwood scores big in this thriller from 1993 teamed with an absolute master of edge of your seat suspense wolfgang peterson eastwood delivers as only he can also john malkovich goes on my list of most effective screen villains in the history of cinema as the demented assassin as for rene russo as clint's love interest i think kirk douglas said it best when he said referring to his own career i keep getting older and my leading ladies keep getting younger this film is a very effective thriller with enough plot twists and surprises to keep you going eastwood and peterson should team together more often top notch movie
1	quite simply a well made well written and wonderfully acted movie eastwood is classic as grizzled secret service agent frank and rene russo br br holds her own as partner and love interest lilly raines but the movie's br br greatness rests on the shoulders of john malkovich as booth he captures br br this character's rage and hatred as well as his humanity oddly enough br br personally i think this was his best performance and should have received an br br oscar for it but i loved tommy lee jones in the fugitive as well that year overall a great movie to see you want to peek into an assassin's mind and be br br on the edge of your seat the whole way through enjoy
1	in the line of fire gives us a great game of cat and mouse clint eastwood is plagued by john malkovich in this riveting film malkovich says he's going to kill the president and he purposely calls eastwood and pushes his buttons he questions eastwood's ability to protect someone malkovich brings a cold but very intelligent mindset to his character everything he does he does for a reason and he's not shy about killing eastwood has to overcome the suspicions of his superiors in order to catch malkovich but no one wants to listen to him the result is a film that crackles with suspense that escalates to a tense scene in a ballroom at the hotel wolfgang peterson ratchets up the tension and we feel every turn
1	i was able to see anywhere but here last night as a free sneak preview i absolutely loved the film i was drawn to it because of the realistic portrayal of a mother daughter relationship there was definitely a connection between adele a and ann i think that speaks volumes of the outstanding performances of both susan sarandon and natalie portman sarandon was just the right actress to portray adele and after leaving the theater i could not think of another actress in the role portman was also excellent as ann she brought a sense of maturity and intelligence to the role that i don't think any other teenage actress could i think it would the academy of motion picture arts and sciences should give credit where it is due and nominate both sarandon and portman for awards in the actress and supporting actress categories it would be a shame if they were overlooked
1	this was a great movie something not only for black history month but as a reminder of the goodness of people and the statement that it truly does take a village to raise a child the performances by s was outstanding mos def and his singing was off the hook had to do a double take when i saw that was rosie perez there but the supporting cast of actors and actresses made this worth watching all the different stories they had was amazing and how nanny protected jr and literally everyone else that was in her presence i can truly understand her being the matriarch of that time period and even more so how tired she was in helping everyone cant wait for it to come out on dvd it would be a welcome addition to any movie library
1	'in the line of fire' is one of those hollywood films that shows up on tv quite a bit but although i've seen it a few times i usually end up sitting through the whole thing again why it's good clint eastwood is great as usual and the character he plays is interesting and more fleshed out than usual the character secret service agent frank is haunted by the fact that he was on the detail that failed to protect president kennedy in dallas and now he's forced to match wits with a professional assassin that is openly declaring that he will kill the president however the film doesn't make him a depressed brooding and obsessed character he's charming and personable and is realistic as a guy that has experienced a lot in life and is comfortable in his own skin he's even quite convincing when he flirts with the pretty younger agent played by rene russo the killer played by john malkovich at his best is cerebral deliberate and enjoys playing high stakes games of life and death he even goes by the name of another presidential assassin john booth br br the film is consistently enjoyable and it delivers all the goods suspense action romance and drama all in their proper amounts it's a fun film that is really helped by the great actors in it
1	written by brilliant tv writers gerald gardner and dee caruso which way to the front was the last of the jerry lewis movies until hardly working almost a decade later jerry's comedy is evidently an acquired taste and admittedly he can occasionally be his own worst enemy when he helms as producer director but even in the of his films there are always moments of brilliance br br which way manages to be amusing entertaining and yes quite funny it is somewhat unlike any of the typical lewis films the pace is very upbeat and ther are lots of excellent supporting players a kind of jerry does heroes the whole thing looks kind of like an tv pilot and you will either love it or hate it but hopefully you vill laugh
1	for some inexplicable reason jerry's movies often seemed to come in for diatribes from certain quarters although they were rarely box office disappointments it's one of life's great mysteries to me because his films have always had a 'feel good' factor about them for me but this film is not only not bad it's an exceedingly good and clever comedy to those who may be tickled by 'modern' crude or cruel humour don't see this film there's nothing in it like that and you'll be wasting your time br br i've only seen this film once on the television i've waited ever since to see it again and that's been quite a few years you'd think the idea of an arrogant millionaire businessman heading off to win the war against the nazis with his own small private army of subservient employees would be boring wouldn't you well only jerry lewis would dare try such a plot for an out and out comedy and it works i have to say brilliantly br br i think that as with 'the nutty professor' and most of his other films this movie is testimony to his comic genius both in concept and execution i think buddy love might have said you know true comedy can not only make a six year old hysterical it'll do that for his dad too maybe a few nutty nazis generals with and a limp would dislike this movie honestly if you only see one more comedy in your life see this one be careful though you might die laughing and i'm not joking
1	a very different jerry lewis film not like all those more famous films that everybody knows lewis deals with the difficult task of ww ii and national socialism in germany in a rather unconventional way but even more interesting and important he does it in a very un american way and as with so many things in the world and especially in the film industry un american means more sophisticated more subtle more intelligent or simply better that is the reason why the film was no success in the us but a very great success in europe br br all in all jerry lewis has proven by this movie that he is able to do much more than simple slapstick comedy
1	i think this movie is the most misunderstood film in jerry lewis career it's little slow starting but after it gets going is very funny jerry's use of irony like never before in his earlier films ie who's minding the store the nutty professor etc the idea is clear it's a mock of the dirty dozen instead of getting soldiers on death row to do a suicide mission as in that film you have 4 4 f's 2 tag alongs including the former l a dodgers all star willie davis as hilarious love that movie
1	a sick man carleton dee snider cruises the teen chat lines as captain howdy he poses as a teenage boy and invites other teens over his house to party he instead knocks them out strips them sews their mouth closed and tortures them mostly with needles he captures the daughter of cop mike gage kevin gage he finds him arrests him and he's institutionalized four years later he's released totally cured but a lynch mop led amusingly by robert englund attack him and hang him he doesn't die but he snaps and captain howdy is back br br a very sick disturbing twisted horror film captain howdy enjoys pain and torture and is trying to show the kids he kidnaps how to enjoy it also the torture scenes aren't that explicit you hear more than you see but what you do see is very very sick there's no humor and the muted screams of his victims sound way too real i was cringing away from the tv during most of the scenes br br the acting varies kevin gage isn't that good as the cop he's not terrible but he could have been better dee snider is very scary as captain howdy his attack scenes are not pleasant br br all in all not your typical horror film i'll probably never see it again this film really gets under your skin but i recommend it to all horror fans at least those with strong stomaches i give it a 7
1	many people have said that this movie was not a good movie at a horror perspective i agree it was not very scary it did have some gruesome ways of torture yes hooks going where they shouldn't but not scary but it was a good movie at a comedic stand point i thought it was hilarious such bad acting from dee snider with his stupid theological questioning and every second word he said came out as what is define then the angry mob at his house with one of them holding a sign saying we're not gonna take it which is a song from his band twisted sister but i think the part that made me laugh the most was the one guy's wife that was dead and dee snider was holding her up and making her dance when i saw that i broke out in tears so i would not recommend this for avid horror lovers but for those who love horror for its comedy i recommend this movie 100
1	this off beat horror movie seems to be getting nothing but bad reviews my question is why i think this movie is pretty good dee snider did very well for his first and only time directing he also plays the antagonist captain howdy this movie seems to have a view of the future although it came out back in 1998 it seems to be about modern issues internet predators seems to be the underlying plot here although taken to another level this is an issue which we still face today i'll admit the story fell short a few times but that doesn't make this a bad movie at all robert englund is even in this movie that automatically makes it better the acting wasn't bad the characters were pretty good as well was a pretty good antagonist i think i give this off beat horror a 7 10 recommend for fans of saw
1	everyone told me this movie was downright not good and sick etc so i finally rented it and i was amazed i thought the torture was gonna be much much worse but it did get shocking near the end but that was about it i wouldn't call it a horror movie maybe a mystery or something under the category of silence of the lambs and or kiss the girls it did get stupid at times but the rest of the movie kept me on the edge of my seat 7 10 br br rated r for strong torture violence language and sexuality
1	i don't understand where these bad comments are coming from the movie had you on the edge of your seat and made you somewhat afraid to go to your car at the end of the night br br the part that gets you is that this could all happen not to the extent perceived in the movie but the whole idea is reality this movie took that reality and twisted it into a dee snider nightmare br br three thumbs up the third one is from the dead body in my freezer
1	my one line summary hints that this is not a good film but this is not true i did enjoy the movie but was probably expecting too much br br adele who is solidly portrayed by susan sarandon did not come off as a very likable character she is flighty and irresponsible to what would be an unforgivable degree were it not for the tremendous love she has for her daughter this is the one thing she knows how to do without fail daughter anna is a sad girl who is so busy making up for her mother's shortcomings that she does not seem to be only 14 17 years old this of course makes natalie portman the perfect choice to play anna since she never seems to be 14 17 years old either portman pulls this role off with such ease that you almost forget that she has not been making movies for 20 years yet even with the two solid leads wayne wang never seems to quite draw the audience in as he did with the joy luck luck and even more so with smoke though i have not read the book the film feels as if it has made necessary changes to the story to bring it to the big screen changes which may drain the emotional pungency of the story i enjoyed the film for the fun of watching two wonderful actresses do their work but i never got lost in the experience and i never related to their plight
1	this thriller is one of the few film surprises i've had in quite some time everybody and i do mean everybody i talked to when it was in the theatres said it was awful but then i got to thinking none of these people really understand horror thriller films or metal rock so why do i listen to them in the first place this film kicks ass but only if you are able to comprehend and enjoy this type of entertainment in short too late see it with an open mind and it might just open your mind the soundtracks great too
1	i didn't really think this movie was bad sure the detective kinda sucked at what he did and he usually happened upon capt howdy by accident but he got the job done capt howdy himself was pretty scary the make up artist did a great job i really liked seeing dee dressed up all geeky i laughed so hard when i saw that i personally don't see how someone can sit through crap like texas chainsaw massacre and call it a great movie and then watch which is more disturbing because a lot of it could actually happen with the internet being so popular and call it bad i personally think that texas chainsaw massacre was loads of crap probably one of the stupidest movies that i've ever seen i enjoyed it was a very disturbing movie because almost all of it actually happens
1	dee snider was inspired to do a two part song by a horror movie this movie he wrote directed produced and starred in details the subjects from those songs horror from stay hungry people have commented he must have a sick mind to put something like this out i don't hear anybody making comments like that about stephen king wes craven dean koontz or in his own time alfred hitchcock the movie profiles a modern psychotic created by current trends in society personally i thought it was pretty well done from sheer imagination and inspiration also without the benefit of a large budget and interviews with actual victims criminals this movie is perfect if you want something to give you nightmares and make you cringe about the possible and probable it could happen
1	honestly this is one of the best horror movies i have ever seen i was captivated by the story petrified of captain howdy and on the edge of my seat for the whole ride i do not really understand all the negative reviews br br the set up has already been discussed in depth captain howdy is an on line predator who sets up meetings with teenagers abducts them and introduces them to his favorite pastime of body modification and piercing dee snider is captain howdy and he is one of the scariest psychopaths ever created maybe the scariest because he is so human and you get the sense especially if you are into body modification at all that there are really people like this in the world br br but the biggest reason i liked this movie and the reason it is so horrific is that captain howdy becomes the hero at the beginning of the movie the roles are clear cut the victims are innocent the cop is the good guy and howdy is pure evil by the second act however things have changed a little you want howdy to be evil but it turns out that he is really just a victim of circumstance and maybe the good and the bad are not obvious it is terrifying to find yourself cheering for the bad guy br br a couple people have mentioned that should have been broken into two separate movies to be sure there are definitely two separate acts but this movie works so well because the two acts are back to back the first act is the typical psycho thriller but the second act is the most disturbing because of the viewers reaction to the situation i do not think it would have worked quite the same if the second act were expanded and turned into a sequel br br as a big horror movie fan i highly recommend this film it is the first horror movie ever to give me nightmares
1	seems to have a love hate relationship with many of its viewers i personally loved the movie and everything about it br br the acting in some places could be improved upon but the filming adds to the atmosphere where the acting can't in some areas the dialogue is a bit cheesy and over dramatic but really what do you expect from the late 90s over all dee did an amazing job in writing what i believe to be one of the most terrifying thrillers i've ever seen it plays on the fears of many age groups adult parents and children every parent fears that their children will get too involved with chat rooms and will meet strangers from the internet and it does happen in the real world and every child and adult fears being kidnapped and tortured against their will that happens too in the real world which is what makes this movie such a sensitive subject for many br br my only warning is if you know you are sensitive to things such as strong violence visible torture and gore then you do not want to see this movie if you are unsure about if this movie will entertain you then read as many reviews as you can ask people you know who have seen this movie and be prepared to turn the movie off at any time should you become disturbed
1	a lot of people give this movie a lot of crap and all of it's really undeserved people give this movie a hard time either because it's such a sick subject or they harp on some technical aspect of the movie no one else observes when they watch it if just by looking at the cover you think this movie will make you uncomfortable don't watch it however you'd be missing out on one of the better cinematic experiences of the late 1990's despite what anyone else says br br dee snider is wonderful here as captain howdy the depths of insanity he plumbs to play this character has to be beyond words and is much farther than any one of us would have to be willing to go the acting here is wonderful the film itself beautifully shot the subject may be a bit too much for many to swallow but it's still well worth your time if you haven't seen this movie check it out
1	andrew mccarthy played the role of an atheist very well i liked the plot of the movie it gave something to think about other than a comedy it had a very twisted mind and a good cop versus god a very well used plot line
1	i enjoyed the film and the fact that it aimed rather high in dealing with some sophisticated material i saw the film in a preview screening and it wasn't ruined by any silly video boxes that spoiled the ending the performances were quite good especially andrew mccarthy in a more mature roll i also enjoyed the look of the film which gave it a mysterious air i also enjoyed some of the twists in the plot and don't want to give too much away in case other countries' video boxes don't give it all away the script was a little over the top at times but i appreciated the fact that the film makers weren't afraid to challenge the audiences with interesting and puzzling regarding the roll of faith in our world and while some might find the ending a little too open ended i appreciated the fact that the movie refused to tie everything up neatly with a bow that's not how life works
1	this film was different it took a sort of typical thriller story and reached for a more interesting in depth look at an individual character's struggle with faith of course it helped that the main performance by andrew mccarthy was quite excellent the other performances were also quite interesting although not as consistent the ending was a bit of a let down but there were lots of good moments the film makers tried something different here they didn't just go for the obvious chills and scares this is a dark film not for everyone but if you want to be entertained and not talked down to try this one
1	i saw this movie on my local cable system under the title of 'beyond redemption' i was searching for new material to watch since most of the reruns one saturday morning didn't interest me i've always been a fan of andrew mccarthy and michael ironside so i chose this movie i was pleasantly surprised br br personally i enjoyed the film rich who posted a comment about the film being spoiled for him by seeing scenes from the movie on the back of a video rental box are well justified i did not have the disappointment of knowing beforehand anything about the film this led me to rate the movie higher than the average score listed on the page br br i like suspense movies and this one was no exception the movie kept me guessing until the very end i was surprised by the ending br br the moments of reflection and remembrance of past experiences by the main character during the film only added to the suspense his reactions to those gave the film a sense of the humanitarian yet side of police work the struggle with his faith is also a welcome addition br br if you like suspense films but also like films that expound on the character's feeling personal inflection side this film is for you br br should you find this movie on your local cable or satellite guide watch it br br however if you are looking for a rental video follow rich advice and have someone get the video for you before watching it
1	portman and susan sarandon play off of each other like a symphony in this coming of age story about a young girl who is sentenced to life as the daughter of one of the women you will ever encounter sarandon has this ability call it talent if you will to play some of the most off beat characters and bring their humanity to forefront of any film she makes as the mother of this obviously brilliant and beyond her years young girl sarandon alternates between being the mom and being the child with the ease of a ballet dancer more importantly she does it with strength and flare without stomping all over portman's portrayal of the daughter the question is always asked when we deconstruct the film plot who changes this film is certainly about the daughter but if you look close at the dreams and sacrifices that mom makes you come to understand that she changes in step with her daughter i am willing to bet this makes all of us in the audience change also the hallmark of fine drama
1	look this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie she is smokin' hot and a great little actress to boot these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film my friends bob bill and dennis agree lisa is not only brilliant she is a hottie the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard but as soon as lisa hits the screen things really start hopping the others are clearly not in her league this is not the exorcist but as i said if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress this is the one to see
1	a man named jerry comes into possession of an ancient aztec doll however this creepy little figure is possessed by an evil spirit which takes over jerry's body and pushes him to spill the blood i have seen two other horror movies the dorm that dripped blood and the kindred made by stephen carpenter and jeffrey obrow and i must say that the power doesn't disappoint either the plot is slow moving but there are some effective human goo effects and a little bit of gore the scene of a female tabloid reporter being attacked by arms that come ripping out of a mattress is a hoot i liked this low budget horror movie and you should too if you are into 80's horror genre 8 out of 10
1	abe zwick perfected the one off beautifully he never made another film but created a brilliant portrait of homosexual self hatred in this film that is both caustic and affecting he commands the screen presenting the crumbling debris of a man breaking down under the strain of an increasingly meaningless life br br paul zwick is an aging queen who's somehow convinced stanley wayne crawford a doe eyed idiot with no sense of the future to follow his star he's a petty thief who's seething hatred has escalated recently he's been forced to skip town and move to a suburb in miami as a disguise he dresses up like a dried up old blue stocking with as much seething sexual torment as the church lady he tells stanley to tell his friends that he lives with his aunt martha paul himself has no friends spends far too much time alone in the house and has to deal with stanley's dissolute lifestyle it would be enough to make any man cross the line into homicidal mania br br again zwick portrays paul as a tragic figure who has utterly lost any understanding of how to relate to other people nevertheless there is a certain poetry in his anguish which burns slowly over the course of the film he's tragic but also elegant this is ultimately a very sad film it certainly has many hilarious moments but there is such an undercurrent of hopelessness and despair that the humour is bittersweet this film is worth watching for the performance of abe zwick he could have really built his career on martha she's quite a gas once you get to know her just make sure you cut your hair and stop your horsing around she really hates that
1	haha what a great little movie wayne crawford strikes again or rather this was his first big strike a deliriously entertaining little ball of manic kitsch energy masquerading as a psycho killer movie it's actually a brilliant satire on post hippie american culture in country though the movie was actually filmed independently in miami it defies any kind of studio oriented convention or plot device that i can think of sometimes aunt martha does dreadful things may not be a very technically adept movie but it is a wonderful little slice of americana made on the cheap by people who were honest ambitious imaginative and had balls made out of steel it took guts nerve and guile to make this movie which amazingly appears to have stood the test of time this movie is fresh vital alive unforgettable and charmingly weird enough to recommend to just about anyone with a sense of humor br br i dug up last year during a period of time when i was fascinated by star wayne crawford here billed under his pseudonym scott lawrence a maestro of what can only be called regional film making usually of the b grade variety he's a writer producer director and actor all in one probably best known for the 80s teen apocalyptic favorite night of the comet here he plays stanley the pants wearing half of a couple of truly marvelous characters apparently homosexual spree killers on the lam after knocking off some old lady in baltimore for her jewelry unsung screen legend abe zwick is completely convincing as paul who poses as stanley's aunt martha the cross dressing brains of the outfit who has conned stanley into thinking he's committed murder to ensure his loyalty martha looks about as feminine as the sailors from south supporting choir in their coconut bikini tops yet somehow nobody seems to notice or care that she is a he has no visible means of income seems to spend all day fretting about where stanley is and scurries around the neighborhood in her carrying a butcher's knife only in america br br as the film opens the two of them have just arrived in florida and set up residence in what looks like ward old house a garishly lit designed television home that is so cliché as to be surreal during one memorable scene martha and an unwelcome house guest sit on the couch talk problems and drink cans of budweiser in what is one of the most mesmerizing ordinary sequences i've ever seen outside of a john waters movie then there's stanley always getting into trouble as he is a mop topped hippie with an patch on his vest who drives a psychedelic painted van that's about as subtle as the batmobile drinks his milk straight from the carton snorts drugs with blond bombshell bimbos and hoards donuts in an old cigar box for a quick snack opposites attract i guess br br but stanley also has a thing about not liking it when the young ladies he gets stoned with try to remove his pants and it always seems to be up to aunt martha to get him out of the trouble that inevitably results the bodies pile up a nosy junkie blackmails them into using their house as a flop stanley's birthday cake gets squashed and everybody meets down at the local pizza shop before heading to the wood shed on the back property for a hash party where the girls dance in their underwear things get out of hand when one of the neighbors tries to get a bit too chummy with martha who naturally prefers to keep people at an arm's length when they rudely invite themselves over for a nice chat and this is a woman who carries not just a butcher knife but a loaded 38 in her slip eventually the strange duo find themselves stuck with a body a baby and no place to go and end up taking refuge at an abandoned movie studio where no doubt the technical crew borrowed the equipment used to make the film i just hope they politely asked for permission first and cleaned up after themselves br br a word of course must be said about stanley and martha paul's relationship since to dance around the fact that the two are at least suggested to be a homosexual couple would be to miss the primary gist of the plot we never see the two of them get intimate and indeed even though stanley mockingly refers to being balled in one scene their relationship is more symbiotic than sexual it certainly isn't a gay movie with abundant female nudity and an air of 70s misogyny that cannot be denied either stanley paul never their implied sexuality on screen even though the movie certainly would have had the guts to do so if it were important it isn't the story isn't about their sex it's about the bond they share and how weird it is not their being gay but their being the distinct individuals they are who are two of the strangest movie creations ever to inhabit my tv set br br the film is unique it was made for only a few thousand dollars on what look like borrowed studio sets the occasional location work and an couple of public locations they managed to sneak a camera crew into when nobody was looking the dialog is completely bizarre mundane and delightfully esoteric it's a movie that will take you by surprise not everyone will like it but for those with a taste for low budget american horror thrillers like the night god screamed help me i'm possessed blood lace and children shouldn't play with dead things you've got yourself a winner here br br 8 10 usually i'd say something like deserves a dvd restoration but somehow i think doing so would ruin the movie's tacky ambiance and wayne crawford you sir rule
1	the working title was don't spank baby br br wayne crawford went on to become a successful producer films like valley girl night of the comet and others even though he wasn't too terrific in this little gem and little known abe zwick should have gotten tons of work from this film but didn't filmed at studios in hollywood florida on the same lot the early tarzan movies were filmed this film is definitely for those who appreciate the abstract the movie was originally shot with some nudity and much more graphic slasher scenes for reasons only known to tom casey the director the bloody slasher scenes were given a tab of lsd and the nudity was removed even though this version is worthy of a look for those so inclined in my opinion the original version would have packed the punch needed to make this a full on slasher 70's cult classic
1	the title refers not to a questionable poker hand but to six comic players they come in twos charles and mary boland as a couple driving to california for a second honeymoon george burns and gracie allen as another couple who go along to share expenses and w c fields and alison as a sheriff and a hotel owner in a tiny nevada town no attempt is made to fashion a coherent a collection of comic bits strung together all the first couple want to do is spend time together but burns and allen's characters aren't married so the men bunk together as do the women there is a bit of a plot a bad guy plants 50k in the suitcase pinky is taking out of town but because the expedition is being guided by gracie the loot cannot be found the bad guy shows up in nevada and fields accidentally captures him a bunch of pleasant bits confused expression gracie's batty breakneck talk and fields playing billiards with a corkscrew cue and doing a fluttery craven backwards stepping double take when he's threatened and his wonderfully distinctive way of lingering over words and trying to remember the name gracie he tells hmm starts with a k she answers oh no no no no mmmm no no no no no oh gracie yes that's right
1	the gimmick as it were of this 1934 paramount comedy is the six comedy performers paired off into three man and woman teams who all appear together w c fields and his frequent screen partner appear in the second half of the film and shine in their roles as a small town sheriff and innkeeper fields seems to have been given the latitude to inject plenty of his own one of a kind brand of misanthropic surreal comedy into his part and it works wonderfully especially where he is allowed to do his famous pool table routine a digression that is totally welcome since it is hilarious br br at first thought it might have seemed like a mismatch to conceive of a film to be carried by the subtle domestic comedy of charlie and mary boland next to the broad jokey vaudeville patter of the great husband and wife comedy team of george burns and gracie allen but here it works perfectly because of the parts george and gracie are given in the script they are there are freeloaders hitching a ride to california on and honeymoon trip and consistently find ways to annoy them at every step including brilliantly while they are each holding on to the side of a cliff for dear life br br making burns and allen comic annoyances to two sympathetic characters turns out to be a perfect way to fit their far out larger than life comedy characters into a real world setting the comedy of people reacting to them in a believable way turns out to be as much as a gold mine as gracie's famous naive delivery itself br br charlie deserves special mention for his performance as the fussy banker pinky he's marvelously subtle and underplayed and draws laughs from lines that in another actor's hands might not even have been heard br br the script is wonderfully witty all through and most of the way it's a perfectly extended comedy of frustration in which our sympathies are with the poor who can't get a moment alone and the extra bonus is that what frustrates them is just more first rate comedy material from burns and allen br br for the pre code watchers out there there is some rather suggestive material in some of the most amusing scenes as tries to get across to george just why he and his wife want to be alone for a while br br there are a few signs of a rushed production here the occasional jump cut one of the most obvious drop sets you will ever see in a movie right up there with w c field's own short the golf specialist and the knot in field's tie is constantly changing in shape these don't bother me though and they shouldn't bother anybody who is enjoying the film br br six of a kind is a real little known gem and one of the funniest movies i've seen in a while if you're thinking about whether to watch it the answer should be yes
1	but george and gracie's are not among them the movie is fun and the pool table scene with wc fields has to be among the funniest i have ever seen but gracie and george are more irritating than comical in their roles partly from script deficiency and partly from their interpretation i gave it a 7 out of 10 for the rest of the cast wc is a treasure of comedic timing and energy in this one
1	i watched six of a kind for w c fields he's only in it for around 10 minutes and has one long scene the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville and several other great moments the 55 minutes are also delightful thankfully mostly due to the hilarious charlie as the bumbling banker j he is everyone's foil he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure also his comedy partner mary boland plays his wife flora joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end but gracie and use up most of the picture gracie's funny quite but she can also get tiring and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time i don't remember laughing at him once although he has one great scene with where tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while and one with fields where he asks fields to sell him a sweater that bit is exclusively fields' though the situation is constantly funny the are going to drive to california but to help them with expenses george and gracie are recruited 8 10
1	three zany couples all six of a kind become entangled in a madcap search for stolen bank loot br br this is a lively hilarious comedy with the six stars charlie mary boland w c fields alison george burns gracie allen all heartily engaged in doing what they did best getting laughs br br boland make another of their film appearances as husband wife this time rather more amorous than usual they were a perfect team she the strident lioness he the nervous rabbit and they dominate most of the screen time here from beginning to end they are a delight br br burns allen continue the patter they originated in vaudeville perfected on radio would eventually take to television with george the perpetual straight man gracie the eternal fool at times in the film she tends to go a bit over the top but it's difficult to dislike her her heart was obviously made of solid gold br br while is given rather short shrift only fragments of her formidable personality flash through fields is in his element as the disreputable sheriff of nevada whether explaining how he got the nickname john' or skulking about at night looking for the missing he is never less than wonderful best of all he gets to perform his entire classic pool routine preserving it forever for a grateful posterity finally he executes the near miraculous he gets gracie to shut up br br paramount was so pleased with the success of six of a kind that they wanted to hurry the principle players into another comedy only fields he felt he had now arrived at the point where he no longer needed to share a movie with other celebrity comics the studio finally agreed and began preparation of fields' first solo starring feature you're telling me 1934
1	being a freshman in college this movie reminded me of my relationship with my mom of course my situation doesn't with natalie portman and situation but my mom and i have grown up with the typical mother and daughter fights there is always the mother telling you what to do or not being the kind of mother you want to be i was balling my eyes at the end of this movie reaction of her daughter going to the east coast miles away after all they've been through reminded me of how i felt being from a small city in the west coast going to new york br br the movie is meant for women who have children that are now all grown up it is very touching i was moved by the movie every feeling out of the characters in this movie was utterly real you didn't get any phony sentimentality i was sitting through the credits at the screening of this movie alone wishing my mother was sitting next to me so i could hug her and thank her for everything this movie is a bit corny of course but everything is trully momentous its all about what a mom can learn from her child and what a child learns from her mother 8 10
1	that was one of the lines in a trailer about this film and for once the publicists did not exaggerate all six of the featured players here are on the screen 99 of the time so they have to be good br br it's always fascinating how certain plot premises can be worked for either comedy to a deadly serious situation mary boland of the ditzy and charlie of the henpecked play their usual characters who are planning to motor all the way to california to share expenses they advertise for someone to share the ride they get burns and allen and a monster of a dog that same premise was a deadly serious one several generations later in kalifornia br br of course if you're traveling with gracie allen you know you're going to be going absolutely nuts trying to figure her monty reasoning about the whole world and if that ain't enough you get to run into w c fields part time sheriff and full time pool hustler who's living in sin with alison but back then we didn't delve into such things br br a real classic comedy from the thirties not to be missed
1	it is not always certain that by mixing comedians together you will produce laughter the comics involved have to actually like or admire each other or be willing to put up with each other's go west with the marx brothers had buster keaton write the script as a gag man groucho did not think too highly of keaton's ideas and embarrassed him at a script meeting and though some of keaton's gems still appear in the finished film such as the gun that turns into a brush that turns into a gun the film was one of the weakest the marx brothers ever made br br a better film but also affected by dueling comic egos was w c fields and mae west in my little which jettisoned the script for a series of duels of one liners between the leads but the one liners were equally funny so the film remains a success br br but six of a kind is an example of six film comics who worked well together the reason is simple it is really three comic teams working together charlie and mary boland george burns and gracie allan and w c fields and alison and boland were paired in about half a dozen comedies during the 1930s usually with boland as a somewhat bossy wife and as a nervous wreck of a husband fields usually a single act was paired three times with tilly and gus and if i had a million were the other two times skippy always figured out how to control or counter the larcenous activities of her man it the present film she takes action into her own hands with the stolen money that is being searched for she knows that the local sheriff fields is not the one to trust with this as for burns and allan they manage to effortlessly involve themselves with the put upon and boland on their cross country trip by car br br quickly gets to realize what a mistake it was to agree to travel with gracie at one point she manages to cause him to fall off a cliff and dangle from a branch he is relatively helpless when she insists on 1 photographing him on his perch and 2 his grammar the presence of george and gracie's humongous dog ran tang tang is it's name does not make travel arrangements easier for charlie and mary br br fields has some choice moments when he insists on shouting at the quartet he says he's allowed to do so he's the sheriff he also explains during a pool game the improbable story of how he got his undeserved moniker honest john you have to listen carefully to the tale as it is interrupted with his attempts to play pool a few times once getting accidentally by a billiard ball but it does show that there were items that even fields would have had no reason to steal br br oh in the summary line i mentioned a forgotten actor named bradley page he was the man who is responsible for the trouble that charley is suspected of bradley has to have a reason to leave town in order to catch up with the unwary and boland so he telephones his girl friend he tells her to call back his job and say that he has to leave town because somebody has died there is a pause as he apparently hears a question shot back by the girlfriend anybody he says clearly annoyed although the bulk of the humor in the film is carried by the sextet of performers mr page happened to have the most amusingly unexpected line in the film
1	michelle pfeiffer stars as a mob widow who seeks a normal life but has her hands full with the new boss and an undercover agent a lighthearted demme film with some good laughs and pfeiffer in a comical role that she has fun with on a scale of one to ten 8
1	nicely done evil little comedy pitting the fbi against organized crime with a nice lady caught in the middle the actress who played the jealous wife of the mob boss the tiger' almost stole the show with her raging tantrums 3 stars
1	strange but acceptable mob comedy that has an undercover fbi agent matthew modine flirting with a mobster's concerned widow michelle to tie two murders on a elusive mob boss dean stockwell br br the movie shows that it doesn't have to go over the top just to be funny and director jonathan demme the silence of the lambs philadelphia keeps the movie from looking like it being was restrained that's good and it avoids being too
1	i'm surprised with the amount of negative reviews on this film if you don't like this movie for what it is a silly over the top mob story then you are simply reading too much into it this film is a classic tale of a mob wife trying to escape the life and the troubles that follow her michelle pfeiffer is terrificly 80's who is an uncertain uncomfortable mob wife while matthew modine is an anal retentive like mob tracking cop who falls for her the plot is mostly predictable and cutesy and mercedes steals the show as the queen of mob wives if you aren't looking for something too dynamic and complex this movie is absolutely entertaining and an 80's cult classic you won't be able to stop watching if you start
1	married to the mob was one of the first vhs tapes that i had along with coming to america and grease i still have fond memories of this film after all these years hell i still have the vhs of this film in good condition br br the story undercover cop mike downey matthew modine is sent to spy on angela de marco michelle pfeiffer the wife of the slain mafia member frank cucumber de marco alec baldwin he later falls in love with her after he realizes that she is innocent in all this angela not only has to deal with the unwanted advances of mob boss tony the tiger russo dean stockwell she also has to deal with his jealous wife connie russo mercedes ruehl br br married to the mob is funny and still keeps your interest when its not trying to be funny i like the little jabs it takes at mafia life the jealous mafia wife the mob boss that doesn't realize that he is not a chick magnet etc and you like the characters of angela de marco and mike downey it was the last of the funny phase of johnathan demme before he got serious and gave you gems like philadelphia and silence of the lambs best thriller of all time if you're in the mood for comedy married to the mob is a keeper its better than the rubbish that passes for comedy nowadays epic movie date movie meet the spartans disaster movie etc
1	the only problem with married to the mob is that it is not funny it dresses up exactly like a romantic comedy but almost nothing that happens is funny but if you can look at it as a film where almost nothing funny happens then you'll have a really good time it's a glitzy mob film too as per the title extremely glitzy but the director jonathan demme is one of the few prevailing cult directors who fully and completely embraced the 1980s in his work from that decade rather than understandably pretending it was still the 1970s br br the opening credits combine 1980s animation italian americanism and mise en scene lathered on top of each other at once from there despite it feels about right the lighting by demme's frequent cinematographer tak fujimoto and jukebox soundtrack rife with widely varying pop and alternative jams are gaudy and that is indeed controlled and nuanced as part of the atmosphere demme is good at colorful instant characterizations in his visual and sometimes seemingly impetuous composition of a fun mix of styles a plot that could've gone any which way where a smooth fbi agent played by a very bland matthew modine trying to infiltrate a mafia family sees a chance when a gun moll played with come hither allure by michelle pfeiffer tries to leave the criminal lifestyle after her trigger man husband in just what you would hope for in an alec baldwin performance is wacked br br the way it goes works for awhile because demme seems to have a firm hand on the wheel he knows the significance of showing us the very subjective and relatable life at home scenes with pfeiffer as well as her cares and longings as a morally conflicted mom although her relationship with son joey is taken a bit for granted what mobster's son is listening to party mom when dad's boss played with dean trademark naturalness and by far the scene stealing stand out of the cast is giving him such awesome gifts on the whole though demme's lathered on stylizations are easily viewed as a novel take on a fun crime thriller tale br br ultimately though we find we've been going the wrong way because inevitably modine and pfeiffer have to fall in love that's not inherently bad and every here and there it actually feels bearable but as a romantic subplot it is not handled interestingly or well hardly at all because it across various sundry clichés which fulfill the initial expectation of a cheesy 1980s date flick and for that audience i think it has just the right impact but for someone who has found themselves genuinely interested in the story and the aesthetic approach it is a let down into state of tedium br br so it's a decent movie with huge missteps at certain points but as a date movie or a nostalgic piece for those who grew up in the '80s perhaps saw a lot of date movies in the '80s the entertainment value is not as likely to except for said deficit in true laughs there maybe a few scoffs and it's very broadly tongue in cheek but i wouldn't leave the comedy aisle with the high hopes with which i'd have initially entered whatever the case anyway there are additional joys in bit roles by great character actors who have by now begun to fade like nancy travis joan cusack and oliver platt
1	i just wanted to write a quick response to all those people who give this film a bad review because they think it isn't funny or that it's boring br br here's the trick the film is not meant to be just a comedy it's got some depth to it like many demme films it deals with people living in some of the odd corners of our society who are trying to work out how to put together a fulfilling life for themselves br br unfortunately the movie and home video industries don't deal well with subtlety and drop this in the comedy bin it is funny but a lot of the humor is off beat however the heart of the movie is not about the humor but about the people in it br br it may not be one of the greatest films in the world but it is solid and entertaining br br and the cast is one of those that shows why casting is an art unto itself michelle pfieffer is great and this may be the film that showed she had some acting chops to add to her beauty mercedes ruehl is a big hoot and gets to chew the scenery in the way only she can in a role which requires it throw in oliver platt joan cusack in smaller roles and the talented dean stockwell and even chris and you've got a great cast throughout which here as usual makes a great difference br br matthew modine is fun but more important he's a major hottie in this movie hot cute and sexy br br sit back expect the unexpected and let the movie take you where it wants to go and you should have a great time
1	if you're looking for a not so serious mob movie with a female as the lead you're in the right place pfieffer has acted much better than this you can see she has matured beyond this picture br br when i first picked this movie up i expected pfeiffer was poorly miscast however she plays her mob wife role to the hilt not a bad performance from baldwin either br br if you don't pay attention to the hair you might enjoy this movie but don't take it too seriously
1	the interaction between portman and sarandon was quite interesting and i was really sold on the mother daughter relationship it is a family story that isn't dulled down by frills and special effects a story of how it really is i couldn't help but give of a sigh at the end of this movie for alas it is a well told bittersweet tale of growing up and relating with family and friends the acting was quite exquisite and i hope we'll be seeing both portman and sarandon in familiar roles down the road
1	michelle pfeiffer is ideally cast as the frustrated mob widow in this colourful black comedy matthew modine plays a clumsy fbi agent who has taken a fancy to her dean stockwell steals the show as the big shot who keeps on pfeiffer mercedes ruehl is dynamic as his jealous wife it's all very eighties but that just adds to the fun a nice little flick though not for every taste
1	i'm not a fan of this brand of comedy stereotyped characters over acting their way through a cops and robbers farce but there are enough likable characters to sustain interest michelle pfeiffer is adorable but the person really carrying the film is dean stockwell who steals every scene as the head mobster named tony no less br br performance is the reason i'm writing this review and the only reason i'd recommend it in fact you'll be tickled by his screen time he's plays the mob boss perfectly with comedic touches in the right places managing to avoid becoming an overbearing cliche in fact a complete delight to watch a master of the take ' and a real in those classy suits and fedoras br br says a good film to watch while folding laundry or eating leftovers
1	what happened to ava gardner in the 1940s and marilyn monroe in the '50s also seemed to take place for modern day actress michelle pfeiffer in the '80s her remarkable good looks got in the way of her being taken seriously as an accomplished superbly talented actress anyone looking for validation of dramatic abilities need look no further than her work in 1991's frankie and johnny or love field a personal favorite of mine those looking to see what a splendid comedic actress she can be when given the right part should check out 1988's married to the mob in this one she plays angela demarco the widow of a recently iced mob hit man who moves from her garishly tacky long island home to start a new life for herself and her son while being pursued by mob boss dean stockwell and fbi man matthew modine while this movie has lots going for it a very amusing script offbeat characters sudden sharp turns to unexpected violence as in director jonathan demme's previous effort something wild and hilarious yet menacing performances by stockwell and mercedes ruehl as his jealous wife from hell michelle steals the show easily notice how perfectly she nails angela's long island italian accent and the many fine mannerisms that she brings to the role to really flesh out this spunky and surprisingly bright character once upon a time long ago oscars were handed out to actresses for comedic roles such as this one had this film been made 60 years ago michelle been a
1	first don't be fooled by my family name my mother was full blooded italian so i really know italian families and i love mobster movies even the funny ones like this br br for those people who have bad rapped this film you know who you are you should have your movie privileges taken from you because you don't know what good is this is a damn funny and well styled film the fact that almost nobody is italian in it is part of the joke so far as i can see and what red blooded straight male could complain about spending an hour and something with the likes of michelle pfieffer puh lease when i saw this film it won me over with the opening song by rosemary clooney who was as irish as one can get but her pronunciation of the italian words in mambo is flawless and sets the tone of what is to follow perfectly hell i even bought the record the next day because of it just the look of every garish thing in the apartment that i have personally seen in my relatives houses though not in the same place which i found hysterical sold it for me br br this movie is like goodfellas on laughing gas i just wonder why there are no burger worlds and what happened to the food these guys were supposed to get my guess is the crew ate it the fries are crispy the shakes are creamy my mouth is watering almost as much as it is thinking of the gorgeous ms pfieffer and i never trusted clowns anyway and the three best things about this film are mercedes achingly funny mob wife spurned dean stockwell as her philandering husband tony the tiger and last but definitely not least the great mugging by oliver platt who should get more comic roles and note to myself find out where that black chick went ouch why does she work so infrequently this picture is right alongside the great mob movies as it should be
1	michelle pfeiffer and matthew modine are a joy to watch in this screwball comedy alec baldwin who was an up and coming star when the film was made is a hoot dean stockwell in a sendup of john is hysterical but mercedes ruehl as the paranoid and over the top connie steals the movie br br jonathan demme previously known for wacky comedies like something wild and melvin and howard proves once again that he is a genius i was not surprised at all when he went on to win the oscar for directing silence of the lambs the performances he evokes from his actors in married are inspired and the audience is taken along for a wild and wooly ride br br one of the cutest most endearing films of the 80's it stands head and shoulders above many of the satires of its era
1	this is a fun movie with subtle intention its off beat comedy is hilarious to me unfunny to my friends the soundtrack is perfect br br i own this on vhs and i have watched it many many times because it's simply a fun and funny love story with great performances by all the principals though using joan cusack solely as a perch for big hair was a waste of her talent i know i know she was still young br br on a sad note i decided to check out the dvd last night instead of watching my vhs tape and was shocked to find many crucial scenes cut and on the copy i watched there was no special feature of deleted scenes it was as if the deleted scenes never existed i am so glad i bought the used vhs at a flea market br br it is clear there was a great deal of choreography in this which is another reason i love it so much it takes great skill talent and genius to move around the scenes like mercedes ruehl dean stockwell and matthew modine do from scene to scene note the scene when the grocery carts converge the rolling on the floor during the shoot out in miami the chicken lickin' debacle the foot massage the salon hair washing there is a very theatrical feel to this film which may be the turn off for so many whose poor reviews follow i know some viewers who don't quite understand this style mistake the exaggerations and over the top performances for poor acting and worse direction not so jonathan demme does a great job bringing to life the entire company and their respective roles br br the opening credits and first scene rank among my all time favorites as well another favorite opening credits first scene fly away home br br too bad matthew modine so ardently skipped out of the public eye i really like him and found his casting perfect in the role of mike smith actually this film is well cast from soup to nuts everyone is believable and true to his role as for the question of expecting audience to accept pfeiffer and stockwell as italians why not i thought they pulled it off perfectly well br br charming fun exciting what is there not to like if you want a little fun watch this quirky colorful adventure mob love story if you are looking to learn more about organized crime and families tune to hbo's the sopranos
1	this is a romantic comedy so it's really a fairy tale but an unconventional one cinderella rather than living in the ashes lives in an castle in the suburbs with a good looking husband who's no prince she does find her prince but he's not that handsome instead of a castle at least initially she gets a tiny walk up in manhattan br br stockwell and ruehl lead a cast of fully realized if a little over the top characters br br demme reaches the highest level of movie making in my mind he creates a world i want to move into a manhattan neighborhood and street life teeming with life and community br br i wish imdb linked to reviewers' other comments i'd like to know what other movies the people who panned this one hate i am always looking for a lot of laughs and for nice places in which to live at least for an hour or so
1	time does extraordinary things it's the ultimate judge time has granted married to the mob an extra doses of freshness there aren't any dead moments or cheap shots it's more of a delight now than it ever was michelle pfeiffer creates a mafia widow that it's as far away from a caricature as anything she's ever done a true original creation touching or hinting at the stereotype just to guide us through but her angela is quite unique the legendary dean stockwell presents us with a a mafia boss that it's just as menacingly real as he is hilarious and matthew modine why did i think back then that he didn't have any chemistry with pfeiffer i was wrong they are wonderful together they reminded me this time to the barbara stanwyck fred macmurray of remember the night i'm writing this comment now to entice you to visit or revisit this jonathan demme gem
1	it was a very well written movie and the actors had a very exquisite way of portraying all the character but as the movie came to an end i felt as if there was more but they forgot to put it on the dvd maybe they are planning on making a sequel well even if they don't it's a good movie and a good rental but even a better purchase
1	this movie just felt very true to life i liked the ending which seemed to resolve naturally without any big moments but with a lot of little moments coming together you could tell it is an honest love story it doesn't matter what the of the main characters are it still a story about love and understanding br br there were a lot of scenes that involved the family the setting is during what for some people is a very stressful time namely the holidays christmas to be precise br br like most good films this one addresses issues of love fitting in expectations and can't be overcome biases in the end alexandra and casey make a choice for each other knowing that love is difficult and about giving well done
1	well i have not much to say about this film except that it was a truly wonderful film natalie portman is absolutely fantastic as the daughter in this lovely mother daughter relationship film br br beautiful film
1	treading water is a very beautiful movie i would put it straight under the wonderful short movie bella from fiona mackenzie it's not only about coming out but also about tolerance and acceptance in general i am looking forward to seeing more of laurel work in the future the actors angie redman and nina are quite good the main characters relationship could have been a bit as we understand there is a very strong bond between them but maybe this could have been explained a bit i am surprised that angie redman doesn't appear much in other movies a great first step as a director for laurel himmel i am sure there's more to see from her skills
1	lauren debut movie is well directed with a nice polished feel to it there's a strong storyline going on with a meaningful point to it all even if at the end nothing is resolved hence the name treading water the storyline revolves around a lesbian couple and their battle with ones mother for acceptance 7 5 10
1	the pickle was the most underrated film of the decade despite my best efforts at home it is still seen as a bad movie i say to hell with everyone on this every one doesn't understand that it is in part a comedy with a dramatic twist at the end danny aiello plays a burnt out director with perfection and conveys a sad depressed man the scene when he is trying to record a last message is quite good the interludes of stones movie are absolutely funny this is harry stone and today i become a man in all a fine and sadly misunderstood movie plus a great cameo by little richard hilarious i hope that more people see this movie because people is not enough for a consensus br br silence
1	this is a great off the wall romantic comedy about love work pandering to the public taste and midlife crises the main character is a talented movie director who decides to make a silly pg 13 movie to get himself out of hock with the irs it has an excellent cast a wide range of humor from deadpan to slapstick and fine writing it's also a wry send up of the movie industry the includes several excellent cuts between reality and the movie that's being made and in some places the film departs from strict realism the result is a multi dimensional masterpiece of wry midlife humor
1	i liked this show from the first episode i saw which was the rhapsody in blue episode for those that don't know what that is the zan going insane and becoming 10 ep best visuals and special effects i've seen on a television series nothing like it anywhere
1	i have watched farscape from first episode to now and i will continue to watch it the setting and the characters are amazing and the plots are great the show really keeps me on the edge of my seat and when the show goes off after an hour i keep hoping it will be another hour
1	great characters great acting great dialogue incredible plot twists in plain language one of the best shows i've ever seen in my life do yourself a favor and watch this show you won't regret it this show re writes the book on sci fi
1	is truly one of those shows that just has it all great acting great cast great writing sets chemistry muppets it's got it all and then some except a home this fantastic series it's seem has it all except and ending seem to think this is a series that is consecutive single set shows when anyone who watches know this is an ongoing one epic love story that has an end that must been seen if you have never watched farscape do a favor and check it out on dvd when the season 1 will be released in october and season 2 is the best there is watch the reruns on the scifi channel to catch up and then the new season starts in january through march when most shows are going in to and be sure to watch if all goes well we will get our ending
1	farscape totally rules in my opinion it's very close to babylon five although there are only 7 main characters in the series spaceship included the humour is excellent and the writers manage to keep the show interesting though pretty much everything happens on the ship br br what i really love and appreciate in is that they don't use cgi for the alien characters or if they do it's unnoticeable they use those lovable crappy rubber animatronic puppets very similar to the ones used in the original star wars br br farscape is something you definitely want to look into if you already haven't
1	growing up in the late 60s and 70s i could not help but become a fan of science fiction with america's space program in top gear sci fi books movies tv shows and comic books fueled my imagination and opened my mind to the possibilities that exist in the universe farscape is so unlike any other sci fi show yet it has all the ingredients that made shows like star trek battlestar x files and deep space nine personal favorites one of the criticisms of farscape is that the casual viewer can't just jump in and watch one episode and understand what is going on there have been other very successful shows that used multiple episode story arcs and complicated characters this for me is one of the charms of the show i don't need or want to have the story all tied up neatly at the end of every episode like the various incarnations of star trek have done all in all farscape has wonderful and funny characters and a running storyline that says that although humans may be the least evolved or advanced intelligent species in the universe they still have unique qualities and abilities br br unfortunately the shortsighted people at the sci fi channel have canceled 5th season they have stated that the cancellation was based on sagging ratings yet just a few years ago it was their top rated original series and a critical favorite it's a shame that all of the artists who help create this show will be unable to continue their labor of love because of the fiscal problems of the very channel company that made it all possible in the first place br br hey don't take my word for it watch the show watch the re runs and make up your own mind help save farscape
1	this film was a new direction for natalie portman a much more adult role though she comes to it from the traces of a child in the movie itself ann portman and susan sarandon who plays her newly divorced mother adele travel from a small town in the middle of nowhere to beverly hills there these tortured souls try to come to terms with their new life and their new relationship as portman's character grows up unknowingly at first to adele she grows up and becomes a better mother for it br br ann sees her mother telling her she wants to be an actress or so she thinks adele uses that crutch every time there are problems in their lives we see their struggle as mother and daughter come to terms between themselves and with being alone having left their old lives behind br br the acting is top notch from both of them they seemingly become mother and daughter before your eyes you can almost feel there is a bond there beyond the actual movie br br though this movie really doesn't take us to any new ground in these types of films the fact that the acting is well done and the story isn't too flawed let's me recommend it br br i will say however it will probably go away soon i don't believe it can have the staying power needed for a huge christmas season of movies starting in a week or so see it now before this happens if you like either of these actresses
1	farscape is the best sci fi show period for one main reason everything the show attempts it does very well from a technical aspect the music is original and perfectly fitted to the show the special effects are abundance and higher quality then almost any thing else that you will see on your tv the acting is also great too many shows nowadays use only the american market of actors for their shows remember the first time you saw the matrix and you said wow where did that agent smith come from its the same feeling that you get watching claudia black anthony virginia hey and especially wayne these aussies are great and it comes through in this great show br br the plot is second to none the next closest thing i can think of is babylon 5 during the shadow wars episodes but this tops even that its a real treat getting to watch all the episodes sequential again the intricacies of the interpersonal relationships of the characters are well scripted and performed the overall plot is both original and thoroughly entertaining i am always itching for the next show br br the comedic episodes are funny the drama episodes are touching and the action sequences are tense the beginning of the second season had some great comedic episodes which had me laughing aloud something that rarely happens while watching television that is not south park or seinfeld the drama is even harder whether crichton is meeting his mother or the characters face thier mortality all is done with heart and intensity lastly it goes without saying that the action is tops this is sci fi br br if you are a fan of science fiction in the slightest if you enjoy good television at all if you like good serialized plot you owe it to yourself to watch farscape br br oh and ben browder owns
1	an astronaut gets lost in deep space and finds himself traveling through unknown territory on board of a living spaceship accompanied by a group of alien outlaws this incredible plotted and enjoyable tv installment comes along as a positive birth fantasy the individual characters in conflict at the beginning of the series have to learn to get along with each other and evolve into a powerful group at last most of the action takes place inside the womb of the living space ship who even gets pregnant and gives birth to another ship while science fiction stories are usually interested in negative birth fantasies watch the 'alien' movies for example especially the fourth part 'resurrection' this comes as a surprise also enjoyable is the absence of military hierarchy on board of the ship and the positive attitude towards sex and the human and alien body one of the female characters who is actually a plant experiences while being exposed to sunlight the crew even has to go to the toilet wouldn't that be impossible in 'star trek'
1	having just borrowing the series one dvd collection from my somewhat obsessive brother i was expecting to get through the first couple of episodes and handing it back i have just found myself yelling at the screen for ending the first season on a cliff hanger a mere week later and i've watched the entire season where i found the time for this i have no idea br br this show is great it doesn't take itself too seriously it has likeable characters who are well acted and the special effects ignoring the odd tacky puppet here and there are special enough to give it that polished feel at first i didn't realise it was filmed mostly here and it seemed odd to hear so many aussie accents on a sci fi show it was most amusing for the main character john to land back in sydney midway through the first season br br i believe this show's biggest strength is the vision that the creators of the show obviously had they have gradually introduced new aspects of the characters that have explain previous actions and the continue to john's conversations with slang in an amusing and unforced way on top of that having watched the entire voyager and next gen series i see little plot rip off so it has managed to maintain a sense of originality throughout the entire first season i hope the rest of it is as good br br farscape is not like any other sci fi that i've enjoyed in the past i heard that the fourth season wasn't as good as the first three and i am now quite annoyed that they cancelled it before the 5th i hope that they revive this show with the same actors in either a movie or another series it would be a shame to leave so many plot lines unfinished as i imagine that with a show that's had so much thought put into it to have it axed without adequate warning will leave me feeling robbed br br gotta go now heading back to my brother's place to the 2nd season br br v
1	one of the greatest crimes made against sci fi television was the cancellation of farscape one of the most well written well acted and over all best shows ever to grace the airwaves it set new standards for sci fi television once the flagship highest rated critically show of the sci fi channel it defies explaination as to why shows like buffy tremors the series and even stargate sg 1 have lasted as long as they have yes even buffy but i'll save my buffy bashing for another time farscape was poorly treated by the sci fi channel continually tossed around in scheduling reruns rarely shown and never really advertised but while the show has been cancelled all those involved in the production of the show want to bring the show back even henson company ceo brian henson there is also an extensive fan based movement to bring the show back overall things are looking far from dark and hopefully fans will get their season 5
1	the other reviewers are way waaaay off as to why the farscape show has been temporarily put to rest it has nothing to do with the quality of the shows in fact the exact opposite is true they kept getting better and better i have seen every episode and when you simply watch them in order you really become in awe how much cooler it gets as they move on and on and the wormhole subplots are really very interesting and gave it more vibe not less before it was sort of chaotic slow and rather aimless they spent like the first two seasons running from this foe type but in the second two they were actually trying to do something also i have never seen such a great fun blend of sexy gals and attitudes in sci fi the blue girl was cool but not they literally got to the point where the gals were running around in leather corsets and high heels blasting aliens now tell me what could be cooler than that br br the real reason farscape went off for a bit is because it was costing too much and that is a good thing for the fans because the show watched end to end is really like a 60 hour long epic movie with all the cinematics of the blockbuster stuff ok ok they do use similar sets a lot but the cg is great and the gals are br br blah blah the real reason is because tv shows are about profit it is a business and the sci fi channel or whoever was not getting as big a return on this expensive farscape show as they could with junk shows like 'stargate' was actually cool until they got rid of the hot german girl and replaced her with this bizarre fat lipped oddity br br anyway yes remember this farscape kept getting better and better until it was really like a little real movie each week then the networks decided 'hey people will watch any old piece of drek we shove on the air as long as it is the only sci fi thing on at that hour so why are we spending all this money on farscape let's shove cheesy low budget 'stargate' down people's throats and call it a 'hit series' because it's like all we play every darn night lol br br that's the way it goes also i gotta tell ya that claudia black is a really cool actress after she got her facelift got the baggy eyes tightened she was looking really cool one of those dynamic types like judy davis and sometimes hot looking sometimes ugly like a roller coaster ride i'd par claudia black with lucy lawless in style and substance both very fun to watch not just and yeah you may say the pregnancy thing was cheesy but how many sci fi shows have a believable and deep romantic subplot that actually goes somewhere and progresses it was legitimately cool as a romance story the actors on the show are great it really is a shame the show is in limbo for now but i hope it comes back in more episodes soon and movies as well because i will deffinately buy them d
1	i have to tell you i've been a fan of star trek tng since i was a kid br br well sometime ago i gave a friend of mine some ds9 episodes and i asked him br br hey man what are you watching lately because i'm done watching all tng episodes he said well i got these episodes of farscape i said ok let me try it i was pretty sure at that time that i wont like it because i was just watching tng and found it great br br i had 3 episodes viewed those but the show didn't impressed me very much i found it childish initially and i thought its just another tv show nice adventures but regular music was a little bit different neat special effects though and i had the vague impression that the actors didn't fully get into the characters skin br br i watched another 3 episodes thinking that 3 eps were not enough to decide i like or not since then the show started to get me i got a good grasp of the action and wanted to see what happened next to the poor crichton the rest is history br br i think i mostly like the freedom of the characters in the context of the action unlike star trek where everybody slept when they were supposed to do and way too much high tech bullshit br br the show got better with each episode very interesting story line what can i say this movie its like poetry br br i highly recommend it
1	this series is vastly underrated like many others i came upon farscape after the series had been cancelled bought season 1 and was surprised to find a smartly written drama infused with a balanced mix of suspense romance wit and of course sci fi right off the bat it got a 10 for being the first series or movie to satisfy us how our hero and every alien with whom he comes in contact speaks english okay a few others have the issue but farscape did it the best the point is the writers pay close attention to detail to make the show as believable as possible br br with so much bad programming out there it's a shame that balanced entertaining series such as farscape don't get enough exposure and recognition to stay in production while we enjoy the four seasons and thankfully the four hour miniseries maybe we can make enough noise to convince the producers to continue the show
1	farscape is the one sci fi show which restarted the interest in science fiction in me br br but farscape is so much more then plain and simple sci fi comedy drama and much more the acting is very good luckily farscape survived also it's cancellation and showed with wars that it is not dead yet i hope there is a future for farscape in my opinion it is also not problematic that some of the characters in the show are muppets you have to look behind that and you will see what a beauty farscape is br br farscape set a new standard in television and i think it will be truly hard for new shows to prove that they can be equal or better than farscape i love this show br br
1	when i first saw the premiere episode of farscape i had no idea what to expect i was immensely impressed and satisfied with premiere subsequent re watches however have made numerous flaws apparent to me that i missed initially premiere is not a great farscape episode but it deserves credit for successfully and efficiently setting up the plot and giving the basic back stories to many of the regular characters br br the episode begins with john crichton ben browder an astronaut and scientist preparing to launch into space in the farscape module a small space ship perfected by crichton and his friend dk crichton has a revealing conversation with his father jack crichton and then begins his test flight in space of course everything goes wrong and crichton is shot through a wormhole and winds up in a distant part of the galaxy br br after exiting the wormhole crichton's module is pulled on board a living space ship from here the characters and story line for the farscape series are introduced in an entertaining albeit rushed manner br br the regular characters are properly introduced during the first half of the episode of course there is crichton played well by ben browder he offers a the audience a sympathetic character to identify with he's lost and has no idea how to do much of anything in premiere crichton has to choose between joining the prisoners or the peacekeepers he knows nothing at all about either side but in helping a captured pilot it becomes clear that he intends to help the peacekeepers he probably would not have ended up siding with the prisoners if it hadn't been for a captain declaring crichton to be the murderer of his brother this puts crichton in an interesting situation he's stuck with bizarre violent escaped prisoners in a far off galaxy about which he knows nothing at all crichton's total lack of knowledge of the world makes him a particularly interesting protagonist during first season br br the supporting cast is just as compelling there's a blue and former prisoner she's peaceful and reasonable as opposed to fellow prisoner ka a powerful and hard headed warrior virginia hey is totally covered in blue makeup allowing her character of to appear cool and convincing mega makeup in contrast is below par he looks kind of silly with his giant tentacles and strange nose and there is something peculiar about his eyes they look as if they have had some sort of allergic reaction to his makeup farscape would give some improvements to his makeup in season 1 but the overall costume would for me at least remain as a problem until season 2 br br the puppet digital characters of and pilot are to put it simply excellent is a tiny who floats around on some sort of in premiere he is given some good dialogue but not much else pilot nearly steals the show as the liaison between the living ship and passengers even in the first episode pilot gives off the appearance of being a real living alien he never once in the show seems to be a giant expensive machine br br the characters introduced are quite interesting as well the peacekeepers are made up of a race called who look just like humans the chief antagonist is introduced in premiere as captian who believes that crichton killed his brother in reality brother's death was merely an accident resulting from an accidental collision with crichton's ship sun a pilot who crichton helps escape tries to explain that the death was an accident but just claims that she is contaminated and refused to change his mind obsession for revenge warranted or not it should be clear to that crichton isn't responsible is mysterious in premiere but would be explained later in the season herself provides an extremely interesting character by being forced to leave the peacekeepers she changes her whole way of life and is in that regard in a similar though less severe situation as crichton br br the actual episode as mentioned earlier feels somewhat rushed and clunky so much happens that not enough time is spent on anything also for now looks kind of silly running around in his mediocre costume trying to appear menacing still premiere is solid entertainment the special effects such as in the sequences are impressive most of the costumes and the sets on board are original despite its flaws premiere is a must see for farscape fans 3 4
1	watching this series will probably make you feel like how our parents felt when watching star trek for the first time br br this series has it all the kind of stories that makes you forget how to blink the kind of characters that makes you want to jump into the tv to join the action and the kind of atmosphere that makes your hair in awe and endless admiration br br in short we start out with john an astronaut who gets shot into a wormhole and ends up with a gang of prisoners on the run from the badguys in black ironically known as peacekeepers br br other colorful characters consists of big dude with a short temper and a sword laser rifle sun former and a ph d in who's a plant no really she is she's also a priest but with a mean streak there's also xvi an fat lazy bastard who farts helium and generally does more harm than good br br later in the series we meet the most sexy alien that has ever been on television namely a young and seemingly chronically horny she is played by gigi which is a name you should remember br br one of the many things i love about these series is that since john ended up in this part of the galaxy by mistake he keeps giving references to real life namely when john is having a bit of difficulty accepting the fact that he will be frozen as a statue for 80 years one of his many complaint is that when he returns buffy the vampire slayer will be dead br br so all the other series get your dren together and spend an ahn on one of these episodes i can assure you sci fi as you know it will change forever br br this series has it all it's sexy it's actionpacked it's hillarious it's farscape
1	susan sarandon and natalie portman play adele and ann august a single mother who's the working definition of the word dreamer and her solemn pragmatic daughter adele wanting to make a fresh start in a big city moves them from wisconsin to california br br decent if not exceptional or particularly memorable with some serious and sad moments it pushes some emotional buttons that's for sure best thing it offers is a solid cast and sarandon and portman are quite good in the leads even if their characters are one dimensional at times br br could be better could be worse br br i gave this one seven out of ten
1	i must admit at first i was worried about farscape the opening segment was not very strong and i began to worry about what was to come however once it set in to familiar henson territory with the wry sense of humor the unique and enduring characters and the compelling story combined to create an excellent piece of science fiction the story follows john crichton played by ben browder a scientist who has developed a spaceship and theory that rely on slingshot propulsion however during the first test his craft encounters an unknown magnetic field and he is propelled into an unknown galaxy where he finds himself in the middle of a struggle between escaping prisoners on the starship and the peacekeepers human enforcers he is quite literally drawn into the prisoners ship and after many twists and turns finds himself united with the prisoners ka a warrior a priestess xvi a deposed ruler and sun a who has reluctantly joined the crew with excellent special effects moderate make up and puppets and robots that exceed the henson standard of perfection as well as a very well written story and character driven plot farscape looks to be a fantastically original creative and clever science fiction series
1	i'll admit that the first time i managed to catch sci fi's sci fi prime was last week but despite the fact that i was a huge sliders fan coming into the experience farscape is now easily my favorite of the four shows br br unlike most modern sci fi shows including regrettably the two new star trek series this show manages to be fun without coming across as fodder for mst3k
1	having watched the show for about four weeks which is enough to get a feel for the show i think it shows potential whilst much is borrowed from other shows what sci fi doesn't these days and the characters are stereotyped i like what they are doing with the stories there is some continuity with plot development and character interaction relationship building despite the essentially modular nature of each episode there have been some science related topics explored as well as character secret weakness revelations these have also added some comedy to the show something i would gladly see more of in serious sci fi in all this makes for good balance such that can appeal to larger groups of people unlike the star trek vs babylon 5 debates i've been numerous participant and witness to the visual aspects of the show are more than adequate and well budgeted for a first season the acting is acceptable and i am curious to see how well the actors manage to grow their characters out of their scripted stereotypes i see enough positives and potential to remain interested in seeing where the show wants to go
1	not since j michael babylon 5 has a television show captured the wonderful art of applying a story arc to a television show this is easily the best thing on tv right now the characters are likable and one can easily get attached to them and care for their well being the villians are the type you love to hate and leave you wondering what they're up to next and brian puppet work is the most innovative out there kudos to s for a job well done
1	after 2 years of using this site for movie reviews i finally registered with imdb just so i could give farscape a 10 the show's writers cast and crew have proven themselves the unambiguous masters of the science fiction genre even those who do not normally appreciate sci fi should be encouraged to give this exceptional series a chance br br virtues are simply too numerous to list but one of them stands out above all the quality of the writing is amazing i haven't heard dialogue this good since blake's 7 in fact farscape feels a lot like a blake's 7 with good special effects and a bit more romance br br everyone enjoy
1	i remember ignoring the tv series when it first debuted because of its 'look' with the jim muppets however recently a friend let me borrow his farscape dvds and i am just now realizing what a terrible mistake that was br br as with any tv series there are episodes that shine and those that don't i ride the adrenaline and emotional rush during the great episodes and suffer through the lackluster ones however i endure regardless because of the core storyline that ties all the episodes together what i'm talking about is the growth of the main characters and their love for each other let me warn you it is something that is absolutely irresistible to watch i cannot recall any other tv series babylon 5 buffy angel etc that smartly and intelligently put together such a heartbreaking at times and suspenseful ride br br i think that at the end of the fourth season things were finally becoming tightly focused and i am shocked at the decision to cancel the series i wait anxiously for the release of the miniseries and invite others to discover this incredible gem
1	i happen to love this show its a refreshing take on some older sci fi feels and styles they aren't afraid to shoot and when they do people tend to die far too many show's are afraid of this and end up just pointing the guns and then having it be a standoff farscape also comes complete with a large amount of heartwarming characters they all grow on you till the point where it confuses you to hear them discuss taking some of the animatronic ones out of their to make the mini series from beginning to end farscape leaves you with a feeling of hope and as new and unexpected things happen and then people live and die surprising you every time worth a watch even if you don't have the time
1	i think that farscape is the best scifi since babylon 5 and is one of the best sci fi television series of all time ranking up there with dr who blake's 7 red dwarf mst3k and the aforementioned b5 i find the characters and races of farscape are much more interesting and imaginative than the typical humans with birthmarks that are found in many series the effects are quite good and the stories engaging despite missing the bulk of season 2 and some of season 1 i find the character development very well done
1	i heard about this series in 2001 which a friend of mine was recording off the television each week i never bothered to watch though i became acquainted with the series through the magazine which i looked at every now and then in bookstores i recently purchased series one on dvd and have become addicted to this fascinating and original series the characters at first seem unlikeable but it is amazing how fast they grow and develop into a united force as they begin to care for one another it becomes easy to care what happens to them bearing in mind that this is only a tv series and they are fictional br br however it isn't the pc world of star trek and so whilst every character shows a good trait they each have their own flaws and demons that they must deal with story lines mixed in with an overall multiple story arc make this one of the most complex and rewarding television experiences i have ever had the pleasure of viewing i absolutely enjoy watching each of the characters interact with one another br br this strange new world we are introduced to is brilliantly portrayed through the eyes of astronaut john crichton and as he learns and adapts to being on the other side of the galaxy strange alien creatures different cultures being hunted by a character that wants him dead and being treated as inferior by his comrades we can easily relate to what he must be feeling as he becomes used to his surroundings so do the viewers and his compassionate strong willed and brave character is a joy to watch br br i have watched only seven episodes of farscape season one and look forward to continuing through seasons two four and the mini series maybe one day we can all enjoy a season five highly recommended viewing and well worth setting time aside to watch buy and enjoy 10 10
1	well how can i categorise farscape without resorting to gushing superlatives ok here goes the scripts are fantastic with each episode offering so much entertainment drama humour and sheer watchability the casting is perfect especially that of the blue lady played by virginia hey each character has a depth that just isn't there on the star trek series br br i think having an australian spin on the show makes this for me australia has been knocking out quality films for years and farscape is no exception br br i have only seen the first four episodes in uk order and they have a quality that makes each 45 minute show in the uk stand out more like a film than a weekly tv series br br the episode that really does it for me is 'i which turns the alien concept around where a living ship even the spacecraft has a great character is forced to land on a planet that has yet to make 'first contact' and is surprisingly earth like and crichton meets a radio telescope operator and he is the 'little green man' to them gripping stuff br br in short the effects are great the scripts are top quality and the main characters not one of them really given any more importance than any other are interesting not always 'good' and well just excellent br br roll on the second season
1	wayne wang's direction may be the ingredient which made this film much more impressive to me than slums of beverly hills which covers remarkably similar ground the interplay between susan sarandon and natalie portman is riveting real chemistry there this film succeeded in bringing me inside the dysfunctional life of these two women without dragging me down into depressed frustration susan sarandon's character hammers at all the nerves which a narcissistic parent is capable of touching in an insecure adolescent she amazingly manages to do this without coming across as insane or intentionally sadistic and natalie portman deflects each attack on her character's ego with the resigned grace of an intelligent codependent child untainted by the smug cynicism of the natasha character in slums of beverly hills portman's character is an adolescent with dignity under stress an unusual creature in modern films the film reaches a very satisfying resolution without trying too hard i highly recommend this film to the viewer who wants to be challenged and entertained
1	this is perhaps the television series with the greatest potential of any series around the production values are in a class of their own the characters are rounded and interesting this is entertainment at its best some of the aliens are quite grotesque but there is an underlying humour which makes it unmissable i hope that this series goes on for many years and will have many spin offs science fiction has had its bad press some justified but this is truly a flagship science fiction series and i thank henson for it top marks
1	somehow i missed many of the early farscape episodes so i'm seeing them in all sorts of orders as they are repeated on various channels i first caught it entirely by accident whilst lounging in a hotel room the first 10 seconds had me completely hooked this is what sf is all about br br the characters are strong and pilot the living ship is what should have been the plots vary in quality but none falls below excellent in my opinion and i have to mention what a gloriously irreverent character none of your smarmy sugar coated star trek aliens here this is the real deal cynical self serving and replete with disgusting personal habits is the creation of a genius br br last week the scifi channel showed out of their minds the body swapping episode a true classic i couldn't stop laughing from start to finish br br long may farscape grace our screens
1	not many television shows appeal to quite as many different kinds of fans like farscape does i know youngsters and 30 40 years old fans both male and female in as many different countries as you can think of that just adore this t v miniseries it has elements that can be found in almost every other show on t v character driven drama that could be from an australian soap opera yet in the same episode it has science fact fiction that would give even the hardiest trekkie a run for his money in the stakes wormhole theory time travel in true form magnificent it embraces cultures from all over the map as the possibilities are endless having multiple stars and therefore thousands of planets to choose from br br with such a broad scope it would be expected that nothing would be able to keep up the illusion for long but here is where farscape really comes into it's own element it succeeds where all others have failed especially the likes of star trek a universe with practically zero element they ran out of ideas pretty quickly kept rehashing them over the course of 4 seasons they manage to keep the audience's attention using good continuity and constant character evolution with multiple threads to every episode with unique personal touches to camera that are specific to certain character groups within the whole this structure allows for an extremely large area of subject matter as loyalties are forged and broken in many ways on many many issues i happened to see the pilot premiere in passing and just had to keep tuning in after that to see if crichton would ever get the girl after seeing them all on television i was delighted to see them available on dvd i have to admit that it was the only thing that kept me sane whilst i had to do a 12 hour night shift and developed chronic insomnia farscape was the only thing to get me through those extremely long nights br br do yourself a favour watch the pilot and see what i mean br br farscape comet
1	i too remember seeing this film as a youngster at a local small theater that presented foreign films each week it was the daring adventure of it all that stayed in my memory ever since br br especially impressionable was the scene with noel purcell as the old seaman paddy who drank too much saw or heard apparitions and died of fright in a cave i always kept track of career even decades later due to my seeing him then there's also a youngish cyril cusack as the leering james with designs on the lovely jean simmons shown as grown up br br would very much like to own a video of this haunting film and refresh my memory of it where do i send my request
1	i saw this movie as a child and i am longing to see it again has it survived i discount the 1980 version entirely as being fluff i am sure that there are many that don't feel it is necessary to preserve these films it is so unfortunate to discover a lost gem after it is gone young people today don't realize the hallucinatory quality and the impact on one's life a film seen in early youth can have in later life this film the blue lagoon had that effect on me how many of us have wished to find ourselves in a place removed of the fears and chaos of the modern world this was an idyllic story of a boy and girl castaway on a tropical island there are troubles to be sure but in the end they fall in love and the have a baby life should be so simple and beautiful
1	i saw this film as a kid about 30 years ago and i haven't forgotten it to this day i couldn't say whether it's a good picture but in those days i instantly fell in love with jean simmons the memories concentrate on the very erotic feel of the movie but i still remember the plot simmons was very young then and there is another film that gave me the same feeling david lean's great expectations and again it was the young jean simmons it's a pity that blue lagoon is not available on video i'd like to correct my memories
1	this movie appears to have been overlooked by everyone someone should bring it out on vhs and dvd it is an excellent film and far superior to the one with brooke shields which was terrible br br jean simmons deserves more credit than she is getting now days it would be nice if all her films were offered on vhs or dvd jean simmons was and still is a very good actress she certainly was a beauty in fact she is still a beauty she also has done extremely well on t v she is so much better than many of the actors today
1	for the record the 1949 version of the blue lagoon is not the original film as many have stated br br this story was filmed in great britain in 1923 just after the novel was written as much as i'd love to see the 1949 version i'd thoroughly enjoy an opportunity at seeing the true original release of this story on film br br granted the 1980 film with christopher atkins brooke shields and the two youngsters was filmed with beautiful cinematography the acting didn't seem all that great when i first viewed this film but after having viewed this a few times it becomes obvious that two children growing up on an island without adult guidance would indeed have a simplistic way of approaching life whether it be in their language appearance or daily activities br br although some have been fortunate enough to view the 1949 blue lagoon i cannot help but wonder if there is anyone living who can remember the 1923 release of this story to film
1	this may not be regarded as a review on any film but just a comment on a film i saw when i was a youngster i remember coming home of an evening all full of wonder at what i had seen i tried to retell my parents part of the story but they listened without understanding well what was so strange about two kids stranded on an island who fall in love and grow together and have a son as you must have guessed by now i'm referring to the blue lagoon 1949 which has kept me bewitched and bewildered through the years almost 50 and now wonder full of anxiety and disgust who or what has prevented the film from being available in cassette or dvd or whatever i've spent a lifetime chasing the opportunity to get hold of it one day and nobody knows anything about it what a waste indeed sorry if my english is not at all technical or scientific but my mother tongue is spanish i'm doing my best to make myself understood thank you my name is juan and i'm writing from uruguay in s america
1	i think did her evil part very well she should have won an award anything that dunne is in is salvageable because dunne is a great actress and can pull anything off even a weak script therefore i would recommend it for this reason alone this movie may have been a little ahead of it's time the plot might be more acceptable these days br br during the golden age of hollywood movies were meant to entertain or teach mostly to make us feel good or cope with the times this plot seem to deviate from that profile yet again i must say what ever irene dunne was in at least was good because she made things so believable the only other actress i can say made me think this way was maybe deborah kerr watch silver cord if you get the chance for the acting if nothing else
1	a must see documentary this movie had so many things to consider while watching it it was a great documentary of a trial of a 15 year old black kid named butler he accused of killing a white tourist in florida it shows how the police took statements from the husband of the dead woman of the description of the man that killed his wife the husband seemed to want to change some things to merge with what the police said the young man was wearing the police little to investigate the crime lawyer patrick is meticulous in getting information to help his client he tells the viewers what he thinks and the strategy he will use on the police to show their incomplete investigation and beatings against his young client to get him to confess the camera goes with to where was questioned also takes pictures of the room and how the audio is monitored he questions a policeman on the stand and ask what the heard say to one of the investigators and he challenges their own words investigates with ann each place the police should have gone and the things they should have done but did not the movie shows the butlers as a loving christian family who have faith in their son's innocence and faith that god will set free they visit him in jail and pray with him there to encourage him there are scenes of group prayer for the lawyers the judge and everyone involved in this case i am a white and i was surprised to see how blacks in high police positions treat other blacks it was very disappointing to see black and white police stick together when they think they got their man police have a hard job and i believe most of them are honorable not like the ones in this movie i think this is a great movie for anyone involved in the judicial system including judges police and lawyers and even potential jurors to watch this movie and learn from it
1	who won the best actress oscar for 1933 it should have been laura hope for her magnificent portrayal of the most monstrous mother ever she truly is one of the great character actresses of all time she played the frivolous prudence in camille 1936 and her best remembered role is aunt in gone with the wind br br irene dunne was the official star of the film but her scenes with laura hope were dynamite br br david joel mccrea is in heidelberg when he is offered a job in new york his wife christine irene dunne can continue her studies at the centre their first stop in america is a visit to david's mother mrs phelps to say that laura hope dominates every scene is an under statement from her first entrance in a frantic burst of effort to greet her big boy all attention is on her even sitting around the tea table when she forgets existence even forgetting how she takes her tea you know something is not quite right hester has been living there for a while br br frances dee is completely sweet and so right in her role as the adorable hester her performance in this film especially the scene where she has hysterics and the aftermath proves how under rated as an actress she was br br all the young cast are excellent eric linden is superb as robert the younger son who comes to the realization that his mother is horrible but can do nothing about escaping from his mother's spell joel mccrea at one point says painting roses on bathtubs that's more your style there is a very subtle suggestion in the film of robert's sexuality br br irene dunne is excellent in whatever film or genre she tried
1	this story of the troubles caused by an over possessive overpowering domineering and unscrupulous mother laura hope crews for her two grown sons and their girls is a strong vehicle for stellar performances by irene dunn the new daughter in law joel mccrea the number one son eric linden the number two son and frances dee fiance of number two son here's the show of the pure tyranny of mother's jealousy and possessiveness run amok as four good people find their owns lives damaged their plans changed and their own identities in jeopardy irene dunn is stellar in her role joel performance is open and clear and laura hope crews is masterful as the mother br br yet this reviewer finds frances dee's performance the best of all hers is the first character in the story to show the strength of her inner feelings her portrayal in her heartbreak broken engagement scene is gut wrenching and even raw dee yanks the viewer around and drives you into her pain without even showing her face br br frances dee like laura hope crews has been too long overlooked and is now almost forgotten as the magnificent actress that she was no actress who started in film after wwii has had anything to speak of on frances dee br br if you're lucky enough to see the silver cord which was never released for tv you'll find this old fashioned drawing room drama to be an outstanding film that shows very well 74 years after its 1933 release because it is filled with superb performances
1	i really felt the movie was ahead of its time the one potential daughter in law was such a strong career oriented woman she knew what she wanted and was diplomatic but firm with the over bearing mother in law to be the mother's role was played extremely well you just loved to hate her her need to control her son's lives was neurotically evil if you've ever been in a relationship where you've been judged and found lacking and everybody involved knew it this may hit too close to home it's been years since i saw this movie and i remember thinking that this plot and dialog would work in a 50's or 60's movie it is difficult to watch because of the mother and sons' dynamic but i would love to watch it again i keep hoping to find it on one of the old movie channels but so far no luck attempts to buy it were also futile i don't believe it's on tape or dvd
1	terrific acting by the 5 stars makes this one a must see br br based on a stage play the silver cord is about mother love at its worst the film was very controversial for its implied homosexuality of the younger son and the mother's unnatural romantic feelings for both sons br br irene dunne stars as the new bride and biologist who travels with husband joel mccrea to visit the family before heading off to new york city for their new jobs but something seems wrong br br the mother laura hope crews seems rude to the younger son's eric linden fiancée frances dee but dunne puts such thoughts aside and ignores a few of the strange things the mother says then she finds out her room is down the hall from and his room mother's room br br later she walks in as mummy is in mccrea and kissing him on the lips good night mummy has also been working on linden and getting him to doubt his feelings for dee everything blows up and with dee running into the snowy night toward the frozen pond as the boys run after her mummy shouts from the window for boys to come back and get their coats dee falls through the ice and is rescued br br as the girls leave the house the following morning dunne lets mummy know what she thinks of her and her attachment to the boys but mummy has a tight hold faking illness and forever boasting of her sacrifices the girls leave but the boys stay behind br br crews is magnificent as the voracious mother repeating her stage role it's a part few actresses would dare play the sexual overtones are incredible for a 1933 film and crews take advantage of her best film role dunne is also excellent as she tries to maneuver the course without losing mccrea dee has some excellent scenes after she gets dumped by bewildered linden all 5 stars are terrific in this drama that is bizarrely underrated and unknown br br a neglected gem for anyone who likes great acting
1	yikes and we all thought joan crawford was the horror mommy dearest well laura hope as mom in this stinging 4 character film delivers and cops the goods in this cracker of a marital mommy mangle the silver cord is a genuinely sensational pre code drama from rko made in 1932 released in from a 1929 play so astonishing frank and honest is each startling verbal exchange between one son's wife along with the other's fiancé as these two younger girls together go to war gleefully angrily unwrapping the clearly incestuous of mom towards her hunky eldest son played by virile joel and her younger son payed by delicate and beautiful 25 year old actor eric linden i would think this film played to many howling appreciative audiences in huge theaters in 1933 and offers viewers even in 2005 a very fruity melodrama enlivened by crackling dialog not afraid to call mother exactly as she is this film would have been impossible to make after the censorship code came in after 1934 other viewer comments on the imdb support my reaction and you will find almost everyone lucky enough to see and tape the silver cord will agree it is an unforgettable and pungent script in a superbly produced film it would have played like the virginia wolf of 1932 laura hope must have kissed the sound stage at rko for this role of a lifetime even more than her fluffy turn in gwtw irene dunne is as gorgeous and casual and believable as ever fighting for her husband yet again and it is well worth seeing the divorcée made in 1929 as a companion piece to the silver cord joel is certainly in the same league as cary grant and randolph scott in the handsome and lovable stakes i had never seen eric linden in a real acting role before he played the leg amputee in the hospital horror scene in gwtw and here he is startling and youthful with an excellent role as robert the younger and more sensitive son some verbal barbs leveled at him again would not get past the code office if made later this is a really good film and if the viewer forgives some of the of its time and settles in for a sparring match of unequaled pungency for a 1932 movie you will be well rewarded at first i thought some of the throat clutching melodrama of mother was dated until i realized it was a set up of the excellent screenplay to make the viewer laugh at her as though she is a weak little old lady not but nor are the other two women in this powerhouse play on film hence the fantastic retort dialog that ocean liner seen in reel one is the leviathan the monster ship the us won from the germans in ww1 that was so huge and unwieldy that crews were nervous wrecks trying to wrestle with it upon the atlantic it is infamous for ploughing headfirst up a colossal wave in a storm and shot over the crest at such an angle the spine along the bottom cracked and the ship split vertically between the it limped to port with rattling steel panels and winking rivet holes and mentally shattered crew and passengers it was scuttled in 1935 after being cursed and plagued with horror mechanical problems all its existence not such a war prize after all br br anyway the dialog in the silver cord is enough excitement for one night eg mother the doctor said there was nothing wrong with you in fact he said it would take a stick of dynamite to kill you
1	broken silence or race against fear 1998 starring ariana richards william susan blakely tracy ellis ross scott marissa ken david bruce dawson director joseph screenplay sara jean phyllis murphy br br this is another lifetime channel film made exclusively for television released in 1998 directed by long time tv series director joseph l inspired by true events it's a lot like the majority of lifetime movies a cautionary tale for women raising awareness of the predator lurking within the family a mother father wife husband and mentor teacher in this case track coach the young and little known actress ariana richards she played the small girl in jurassic park delivers a highly convincing performance as high school track athlete mickey carlyle who is raped by her coach kurt william and must suffer in silence as no one believes her story except for of course her own mother susan blakely together mother and daughter fight to put kurt behind bars the film drags on quite a bit is ultimately predictable at times far too melodramatic for the sake of drama itself but is genuinely powerful in the end ariana richards' performance is of the daytime soap kind but she is the strongest in the entire cast her facial expressions body language and overall acting is realistic in terms of how she as an aspiring athlete idolizes her coach is in turn violated by him and must now live with the shame trauma and further fight him in court william plays the part with a nasty sort of duplicity though he is far from subtle he has abused other star athletes before who have remained silent and made it to the top and appears outwardly innocent william a lesser known actors like the others has has never done a role like this but but he does a believable and strong performance overall it's especially disturbing to see him in this role because he is a sexy lead actor in everything else he does including some lesser known films and on the soap opera guiding light the only real problem i had with this film is the manner in which the film is structured as the film opens we watch coach about to rape mickey letting us know right away that this guy is no good but this makes for weak character development and story if the first scene had instead been the sequence with the opening credits in which we see mickey running jogging in the city across a lake we would have better character development because we don't know that coach while seemingly interested in the success of his star athlete is really a nasty piece of work and we would have seen mickey a person whom she thought she knew and then received a rude awakening when she realizes she was wrong about him director joseph is no stranger to drama for tv knott's landing star trek quantum leap the outer limits lois and clark earth final conflict and movies like la femme in 1996 had directed another lifetime movie similar to this stand against fear 1996 he manages to convey the gravity of the event we are genuinely disturbed by the coach lurking around the showers where he rapes his own student these scenes are graphic and ought to be viewed by mature audiences but its message is clear sexual predators and rapists are not always a stranger and can assume different forms and their preying grounds can even include a high school this film supports the cause of fighting to prevent violence against women and urges women who have been silent victims to testify and fight so that rapists will cause no further harm to others despite other negative reviews this film does a great job in expressing its message and ought to be given to mothers daughters high school students including both male and female as bad as rape is staying silent when it happens is even worse
1	race against fear has to be one of the most moving tv movies i've seen for a long time all of the performances from the main actors were superb especially that of ariana richards mickey carlyle william coach kurt and susan blakely margaret carlyle ariana in particular put on an extremely emotional performance with facial expressions to match she portrayed the emotions that mickey was feeling perfectly and you could easily believe that she really had been raped so realistic was her performance br br raf is an incredibly realistic movie due to the moving performances from the cast came across as a rapist incredibly well and you hated him more and more as the movie progressed blakely also put on an emotional performance as the mother of the raped girl mickey carlyle and you felt increasingly sorry for the carlyle family because no one believed them about the rape br br all in all raf is a great movie it is both moving and full of suspense as you are continually unsure if would be prosecuted for the rape due to the lack of witnesses evidence and belief in the claim i thoroughly recommend seeing this movie
1	this film is probably hal hartley's best one the subject of a unusual originality is treated that's usual with hal hartley with great humor this characteristic isn't at all the only quality of this film the fussy frame composition everything is parallel until the smallest details shooting angles lighting giving a more supernatural dimension to these blurred images jesus' coming down couldn't be filmed in a conventional way the falsely poser acting are qualities that make this bible re reading carried out in the form of an apocalyptic delirium essential
1	in this peculiar movie the themes of the end of days and satan versus jesus are treated in a new fashion jesus doesn't want to open the two last seals and satan is thwarted in his attempt to get another soul into hell armageddon armageddon and turns out to be a company and the book of life is a little hard to open br br what's memorable about this movie are the slanted image out of focus shots and light effects which are effective but sometimes irritating and of course donovan is great as a disillusioned jesus trying to come to terms with what the world and its people have become so do see it if you get the opportunity
1	in the book of life martin donovan plays jesus who shows up at jfk airport on december 31 to usher in the new millennium by battling with thomas jay ryan satan and deciding the fate of the world there is also david kurt the accountant from amateur as a compulsive homeless gambler br br as usual hartley creates a surreal world in which the beauty of the ordinary made strange and otherworldly flows through artfully framed scenes and urban industrial landscapes filled with dazzling light and shadow as usual he introduces seemingly incidental details early then brings them back later in hilarious and unexpected contexts the humor is simple but giddy and irrepressible hartley has an amazing ability to build toward small and rapturous moments of the simultaneously mundane and outrageous as usual he creates a tone that is jaded and world weary but at the same time vulnerable open and honest he moves within minutes from uproarious humor into language that is metaphysical and poetic the kind of writing that is so dead on and perfect that it's difficult to hold back tears despite the lack of obvious emotion another awesome and highly entertaining film the book of life is shot a digital camera with a blurry effect a sense of the celestial hand in hand with impending doom and a hyper awareness of the present as fragile and fleeting in it's last moments all of hartley's films have a way of the present but this unique effect compounds it as the images wash across the screen in a way that is at first jarring but becomes increasingly beautiful as you settle into it the final shot is spectacular all this may sound precious but the film is a comedy and it makes fun of itself even as it makes fun of the concept of armageddon judgment day and ' although it is actually quite profound moving and life affirming it is for the most part lighthearted and playful the acting is flawless in terms of the kind of the subdued tone that hartley has developed in his films a tone that some people don't get and that prompts them to judge such acting as hollow the same people who have a negative response to peter greenaway as always there are bound to be people who respond to this film with cynicism and scorn people put off by hartley's abrupt shifts and what they see to be pretentious or techniques but who has time to consider the opinions of such dull and callous fools anyone who is a hartley fan will love this film if they can get a chance to see it that is it's hard to say what it would be like on video
1	i saw this movie last night on hbo didn't expect to get hooked i usually fall asleep when i watch hbo but it happened you will too it's a tragic documentary 2002 oscar winner about a murder of an elderly female tourist in florida and subsequent investigation arrest trial of a 15 year old boy br br watch this movie today get a feel for how we have progressed as a society this film was most deserving of an esteemed oscar you'll be moved to tears
1	no blood no sex though it oozes passion no special effects but just one of those pearls that comes across your movie screen when you're not really looking and grabs your attention br br great acting great sets great music beautiful storyline if only there were a lot more movies made like this one br br the sets move us through time and make us feel like we were there br br the acting appears like real life and elevates us to the level of awareness of nanny to whom no one is a lost cause least of all the inhabitants of her own halfway house br br best of all it's a true story of misfits learning to fit in i was somewhat jealous of the good times that everyone appeared to be having in the movie could we all spend some time in nanny's house
1	in the book of life martin donovan plays jesus who shows up at jfk airport on december 31 to usher in the new millennium by battling with thomas jay ryan satan and deciding the fate of the world there is also david kurt the accountant from amateur as a compulsive homeless gambler br br as usual hartley creates a surreal world in which the beauty of the ordinary made strange and otherworldly flows through artfully framed scenes and urban industrial landscapes filled with dazzling light and shadow as usual he introduces seemingly incidental details early then brings them back later in hilarious and unexpected contexts the humor is simple but giddy and irrepressible hartley has an amazing ability to build toward small and rapturous moments of the simultaneously mundane and outrageous as usual he creates a tone that is jaded and world weary but at the same time vulnerable open and honest he moves within minutes from uproarious humor into language that is metaphysical and poetic the kind of writing that is so dead on and perfect that it's difficult to hold back tears despite the lack of obvious emotion another awesome and highly entertaining film br br the book of life is shot a digital camera with a blurry effect a sense of the celestial hand in hand with impending doom and a hyper awareness of the present as fragile and fleeting in it's last moments all of hartley's films have a way of the present but this unique effect compounds it as the images wash across the screen in a way that is at first jarring but becomes increasingly beautiful as you settle into it the final shot is spectacular all this may sound precious but the film is a comedy and it makes fun of itself even as it makes fun of the concept of armageddon judgment day and although it is actually quite profound moving and life affirming it is for the most part lighthearted and playful the acting is flawless in terms of the kind of the subdued tone that hartley has developed in his films a tone that some people don't get and that prompts them to judge such acting as hollow the same people who have a negative response to peter greenaway as always there are bound to be people who respond to this film with cynicism and scorn people put off by hartley's abrupt shifts and what they see to be pretentious or techniques but anyone who is a hartley fan will love this film if they can get a chance to see it that is it's hard to say what it would be like on video
1	the promise of martin donovan playing jesus was quite honestly enough to get me to see the film definitely worthwhile clever and funny without overdoing it the low quality filming was probably an appropriate effect but ended up being a little too jarring and the ending sounded more like a pbs program than hartley still too many memorable lines and great moments for me to judge it harshly
1	hal hartley has been likened to a modern day william shakespeare by virtue of the fact that he gets his actors to deliver their lines in an iambic pentameter he certainly knows how to assemble a cast and once again martin donovan is sensational whilst thomas jay ryan plays his role with an intensity that is unforgettable although the film is only 1 hour the time frame works wonderfully and keeps the audience on a fast tracked race right till the very end without a doubt hal hartley is one of the best directors to come out of america in the last 20 years with a vision that is unique funny and heart warming
1	while the camerawork was certainly funky perhaps one dutch roll short of stoned the premise of the film was fantastic it really took a scathingly satirical in the true traditional of hal hartley look at god jesus and devil the interaction of jesus and satan provides some hilarious scenes even the monologues of jesus were great this was by far the best jesus i've even seen so zen like son of god ish but still such a nice guy on one level this is a very general look on the paradoxes of christianity but yet there is still a personal level where you can relate to jesus christ without having a god complex thanx to martin donovan and hal hartley
1	the book of life was rather like a short snack the appetite for hartley's next full length movie br br this movie doesn't need to be seen on the big screen watch it with a few friends who are hal hartley or wayne wang fans or better still try to convert some newbies
1	hilarious film about divine retribution camera work stinks shot on digital video and looks like early mtv videos turn the other cheek by looking past the visual and concentrate on the story laughs galore for those with a well developed sense of irony
1	though not hal hartley's best work my personal favorite is surviving desire there is still much to like about this movie especially for fans of hartley's dialogues even to audiences new to hartley i would definitely recommend this movie over the sophomoric dogma this movie is more intelligent truer to its source material the bible and more fun than any of the other pre millennium apocalypse movies br br this movie is actually part of the french 2000 as seen by 2000 par vu series as such it is perhaps even a lower budget film than hartley's other works while the need for simple scenes shot with digital camera is understandable in this context the main problem with this movie is the unfortunate overuse of the blurry jittery effect i'd be happy to never see this effect used in a movie again especially at the beginning it almost makes the movie unwatchable but overlook this flaw and you'll be treated to a fine film especially notable is played by p j harvey relating how jesus saved her from being stoned to death a short scene i found surprisingly moving despite the fact that it was not mary magdalene that this happened to the woman in the bible was unnamed br br
1	one of my favorite hartley movies as if there could be a bad one although this may be a bit more on the religious side of things than we would normally expect nonetheless it still maintains that hartley slant to which we've all become accustomed br br first picture jesus and satan discussing their ideas opinions hopes and regrets about the impending end of civilization now imagine the entire conversation taking place over a few drinks in your neighborhood bar and as an added conversational not to mention visual distraction let's toss in pj harvey as the sultry companion aka to mr then just for grins in the background an ever present salvation army band played by yo la to serve as an added diversion the road to moral justification has never been such a pleasure br br quite possibly more questions than answers but therein lies the fun and mr donovan is subdued brilliance as always
1	this 1 hour 30 minute inside joke is best understood by catholics the number one religion of self medicating comedians the world over that isn't to say it can't stand on its own which it does that the film isn't without its flaws which its got technical issues mostly belief that in 1998 digital was the answer when in fact it was in its infancy a beta of a beta if you will and re mastering will never improve it for the love of god hal please get yourself a red one or three br br if you like hartley films of course you'll like it i liked it because i liked grim fool and there were added benefits of retrospect i couldn't help noticing a disturbing self prophecy an airliner soaring overhead used as a harbinger of armageddon in this 1998 movie it was as if cheney had gotten the whole idea from hal it's true hartley moves his players round into the camera like it's the house of just one piece of the gimmickry that needs a rest after all we're already paying attention to the actors and the writing is alive not great writing but fervent can i use the word fervent purposeful intelligent not condescending br br absolutely love pj harvey in this course i'd love her anywhere oddly if helen mirren needs a younger self she should look harvey up and bring a bottle of blond
1	this is my favorite hal hartley movie all his movies are small gems i love independent movies and i hope hal hartley never goes mainstream or sells out what if the lord jesus did come back and loved his people so much that he could not open the final book and destroy the unbelievers it was nice to see p j harvey in a movie since i am a fan of her music don't watch this if you are a fan of cookie cutter hollywood movies you will be disappointed
1	this is an extraordinary film as a courtroom drama it's compelling as an indictment on the american justice system it's frightening for butler the consequences of this system could be devastating this film highlights the fundamental flaws of the legal process that it's not about discovering guilt or innocence but rather is about who presents better in court in truth the implications of this case reach beyond the possibility of an innocent man being found guilty or a guilty man being free every citizen has a right to justice whether a perpetrator or a victim but do they get it the film is well paced understated and one of the best courtroom documentaries i've seen
1	hartley on low key form martin donovan born to play jesus comes as messiah to millenial manhatten p j harvey is excellent as sidekick a slight film but amusing short and sweet
1	one of the many speculations about y2k was that the world was going to end at the stroke of midnight on december 31 1999 in the book of life ' writer director hal hartley takes a look at the possible ramifications of a new millennium armageddon beginning with the return of jesus to earth on new year's eve the story examines the task of the son of god who must open the remaining three of the seven seals contained in the book of life now contained in a mac laptop computer in which there is also the names of the one hundred and forty four thousand good souls who will be spared on the last day jesus martin donovan along with p j harvey arrives in new york city to make the preparations necessary for carrying out his father's will but he begins to have second thoughts must he judge the living and the dead do they deserve what must befall them it is a cup he would prefer not to embrace at this particular moment which gives encouragement to satan thomas jay ryan who fears that the fruit of all his hard labor is about to be washed away at midnight for he can only continue his work so long as there are people around who cling to their pitiful hopes and dreams an artistically rendered high concept film hartley presents the story in an intelligent thought provoking manner taking great care in dealing with the sensitive subject matter so as to make it inoffensive even to the most ardent fundamentalist the dialogue between jesus and satan is intriguing and stimulating as is the effect of their presence upon those they encounter during their corporeal stay in the city it's an engrossing meditation on the spiritual side of man's fragile existence and a contemplation of that which has been prophesied in the revelations of st john in the apocalypse the last book of the new testament and there is logic in hartley's approach to the second coming he maintains the aesthetic of the contemporary setting while employing altered film speeds which visually give the film an ethereal quality christ wears a suit and tie effectively blending in with the populace while satan's attire is a bit more casual his appearance somewhat scruffy he sports a bruise above his left eye donovan is well cast as jesus lending a benevolent and a sense of restrained urgency to his character that is very effective it is of course a unique portrayal of the saviour and possibly the best since max von sydow's in the greatest story ever told ' he successfully conveys a feeling of inner peace and tranquility of serenity that is the essence at the very core of the character and ryan is thoroughly engaging in his role of the prince of darkness he has a distinct manner of speech and a resonant quality to his voice that make him absolutely mesmerizing to watch his eyes are darkly penetrating a trait he uses effectively with furtive glances and captivating stares he's the guy who could sell you anything in exchange for your soul before you ever knew what hit you it's a memorable performance that contrasts so well with portrayal of jesus the supporting cast includes martin martyr edie dave dave d j mendel lawyer james urbaniak true believer lawyer's assistant and anna kohler hotel clerk in his own inimitable style with the book of life ' hartley has crafted a perspective of the last days that is interesting entertaining and truly unique he has a way of capturing life as it is just off center a method which works especially well with a film like this comparatively short for a feature film running time of 63 minutes it nevertheless is one of hartley's best and more than worth the price of admission it's a film that will stay with you and perhaps make you think about some things you may have tucked away in a corner of your mind for later and that is part of the attraction of this film it makes you realize that later' most likely is now i rate this one 9 10
1	hal hartley entry into a european film series is one of his two or three best efforts to date and one of the few available on dvd at only 63 minutes running time my only quibble would be with hartley i always leave wanting more but never so much as this time martin donovan is astonishing as jesus pj harvey is beautiful and interesting as but the high point for me was thomas jay ryan henry fool as satan hartley gives him excellent dialogue and a chance to use his resounding voice to full effect look for three scenes in which a microphone awaits him as if a poetry slam is about to be won by the devil i have read other comments on this film and had to add mine because there is not enough praise going around if you like henry fool martin donovan in anything opposite of sex and or very clever comedies based on biblical ideas get this as quickly as possible
1	i thoroughly enjoyed this movie and i watch it from time to time still i've used it in my music classes at the school where i teach the kids seem to enjoy it although they wish it were in color br br the best thing about this movie is for me who grew up after had died is the chance to actually see the master violinist work his craft i was surprised at how up to date the story line is although references to reform school are outdated a boy whose father had died and is being raised by his mom and stepfather most of our kids today are being raised by although the movie makes it seem like most are cruel i get very angry when his mother doesn't take his side and defend his actions against the step father br br also the musical selections are difficult to believe i find it unbelievable that a child who looks to be about 8 can play the minute waltz or that a 13 year old girl could sing an aria from rigoletto br br other than that it's a really fun feel good movie and i do recommend it i wish it would come out on dvd
1	as you can tell from the few comments posted here mine may very well be the last you'll see unless there is a big dvd release or tcm plays it again this is a kind of our gang movie with a bunch of different kids mgm certainly was the musical studio if the musicians dancers and singers weren't under contract they were on tap was one of the most expensive that does it for a little charity work the fee he received in that era was unheard of another musical film with jose iturbi mexican pianist featured about 100 kids playing some simple tune on 100 pianos so those skeptics who think young children aren't musical are mistaken i was one br br as all write frankie smith good ole american name gene reynolds was the bad but good kid who is taken in from the streets by the owners of a music school can you believe that walter brennan prof lawson of all those western movies was the man running the school joel mccrea peter mccarthy and andrea ann lawson were the bigger stars in they shall have music with a host of well known extras many of whom went on to become stars in their own rights as others have commented almost all of the kids in the orchestra actually the symphony from los angeles made big successes of their lives either as musicians for the studios and other businesses br br sad to say there aren't that many young people's orchestras today a sad mistake parents with children in school are usually so busy trying to keep their heads above water and many don't even know what is happening to the kids in school musical instruction can get to be pricey and almost everyone would rather had a football team br br this is the cheapest concert by jascha you'll ever hear is contained in this movie in those days a quarter his playing is brilliant even if he looks like he'd rather be someplace else emotionless by contract any concert by yo yo ma is so joyful it makes you want to run right out and buy a cello this guy is having a good time like the kids in the street concert when they hoodwink to play at their school br br all of the orchestral numbers were played by the kids and they make it sound easy i love this type of movie their plots are so simple it doesn't take you two days to figure out if you enjoyed or understood the movie at all we need some new movies like this can't do anything but inspire younger kids to play other instruments than guitars bravo
1	i really enjoyed this movie and i'm not a classical music fan the story of the tough street kid discovering classical music and changing his ways was great to watch without being sentimental or too unbelievable although some details had me scratching my head frankie and his dog can live in the basement of the school without any of the students or teachers discovering him where did he eat bathe did he ever get a change of clothes what did he feed his dog the owner of the school didn't think it was important to notify the police about finding a missing boy but let him live in the basement indefinitely but we can let such unrealistic details slide and just enjoy the touching fun and slightly suspenseful for me anyway story and wonderfully talented children br br i loved the scene with the mothers standing shoulder to shoulder on the steps barring the policemen from entering the school i doubt they would get away with that nowadays and i liked the nice touch about the boy frankie stole from turning the tables on him although that never really went anywhere and frankie's friends helping him out in the end br br all in all a great movie for everyone
1	although many audio recordings of great musicians like jascha survive the cinematic or televised record is limited indeed this is why musical offerings like they shall have music are such rare gems while with modern eyes and ears one can quibble about the plot the perceptive viewer should put this film's unique delights in their proper perspective the plot was designed to appeal to both young and old audiences of the era but it remains enjoyable to this day a important aspect of the experience of watching classic films is to see them through the eyes of the moviegoer of that era br br i must take issue with reviewer who complains about a film that is in black and white or who feel obliged to report that their students express such reservations these are juvenile complaints which reflect a limited historical perspective for the teacher this should offer up an educational opportunity to explain the unique qualities of black and white photography and its place in cinematic history color can in fact get in the way of a good storyline or the music for example the black and white photography of john ford's stagecoach is like the still photographs of adams an artistic masterpiece br br as for being wooden i could not disagree more if you want blatant emotional posturing go to a rock concert the role of a classical musician like is to move the audience not him or herself emotion is conveyed through his playing not through his body language he had a rare ability to extract every emotional nuance out of the music and transfer it to his listeners it is the listener who should be moved not the artist br br incidentally one reviewer asked about seeing on youtube playing the 1st movement of the tchaikovsky violin concerto with frank mchugh in the audience this is from the 1947 film carnegie hall not they shall have music carnegie hall is an even greater treasure of many great classical artists in their prime we are blessed that there were film producers who at least in these limited instances chose to showcase these artists in was still an era not totally overwhelmed by the lowest common denominator tripe we get today
1	a bright youngster interested in serious music admittedly a vanishing breed who'll play the fiddle when no one can play the violin could find this an interesting fiction about street kids and great musical stars was indeed the greatest violinist of his generation and the film gives him a rare on screen chance to display his technique the kids especially gene reynolds are fine and all in all the pic is a good example of first rate studio family fare of the late 30's it doesn't hit the top of the great '39 list but it's a nice way for an intelligent family to spend a rainy afternoon with amc or the video store good luck at blockbuster
1	i think samuel goldwyn was trying to accomplish two things in this film first the film is a homage to jascha considered to be the best violin virtuoso of the past century secondly having brought to the screen the dead end kids with his film of the same title and seeing them sign with warner brothers he was trying to create a second gang of appealing urchins br br though the film was good there certainly was no demand that the kids from this film be reteamed for another feature br br leader of the gang is gene reynolds who at one time played the violin but now leads a street gang of disreputable urchins his stepfather arthur hohl breaks the violin his late father gave young reynolds and threatens to send him to reform school over the feeble protests of his mother marjorie main br br young reynolds happens to stumble onto a music school run by the old music maestro himself walter brennan and his daughter andrea they take him in but they have their financial problems with a lot of creditors led by porter hall br br this film is mostly to be seen today because it's a chance for classical music lovers to see and hear jascha who as you gather is the solution one way or another to everybody's problems joel mccrea is in this film also but has a rather colorless part as andrea boyfriend br br besides one thing the film does do is touch on albeit gingerly on the topic of child abuse and battered spouses arthur hohl is one mean man and marjorie main is very clearly a much battered wife br br the kids in the cast do well reynolds tommy kelly terry and a young girl under the name of jacqueline nash who grew up and performed as gale sherwood nightclub partner to nelson eddy she had a nice soprano even as a child br br but it's you see the show for
1	for many years samuel tried to bring his friend jascha to the screen one evening when goldwyn and his wife frances were having dinner with and his wife silent screen star florence vidor goldwyn proposed that star in a movie after some persuasion agreed on the condition that his acting be kept to a minimum and the movie originally titled music school was born br br the story itself is rather stock a streetwise boy gene reynolds who is best known as the producer of m a s h runs away from home and ends up at a financially troubled music school run by professor lawson walter brennan while attempting to raise funds for the school the boy and some other kids happen across at carnegie hall after much ado ends up appearing at the school concert and sponsoring the school br br the story while predictable is surprisingly well written although the film contains several minor gaffes where different scenes were patched together the most obvious being the young cellist who is sent out of the orchestra room on an errand and is seen sitting in the orchestra a few seconds later br br what is not surprising is how good the acting is as was customary for studios then the studio surrounded the inexperienced star with veteran talent brennan joel mccrea andrea porter hall marjorie main later of ma and pa kettle fame arthur hohl paul harvey and a who's who of character actors actress diana lynn and singer actress kaye connor made their uncredited debuts in this film as did longtime nelson eddy singing partner gale sherwood as jacqueline nash child veteran actors reynolds walter and terry also appear br br goldwyn hired the peter symphony a highly regarded youth orchestra from the los angeles area to appear in the film most of the kids in the orchestra weren't actors but they were excellent musicians as good as professionals which many of them later became many of the kids in the orchestra went on to noteworthy careers kaye connor and diana lynn both starred in the theater and movies richard was a producer and director mitchell lurie founded a well known music supply company elliott rapaport went on to be a prominent lewis elias was a band leader thomas a conductor with different symphonies channing robbins a prominent instructor at the julliard school his sister joyce robbins an instructor suny and many of the kids in the orchestra pursued musical careers with major symphony orchestras br br while acting was kept to a minimum his salary wasn't he commanded 70 000 for seven weeks when some scenes had to be re shot at a later date he got an additional 50 000 for another four weeks what thankfully wasn't kept to a minimum was his musical output composer alfred neumann who was once a orchestra conductor handled the scoring performs the and rondo by camille saint his own arrangement of manuel with an off screen teddy accompanying devilishly difficult staccato from a vitaphone recording with emanuel bay at the piano an excerpt from tchaikovsky's melody an excerpt arranged for violin solo from tchaikovsky's well known from his opus 11 string quartet played during the opening credits at the beginning of the movie and the final movement from felix e minor violin concerto during all of these performances there are many closeups of performing including some very close shots of his fingering and bowing something that would be of value to desiring to study his technique br br the orchestra also shines here performing the arias caro by verdi and diva by both with sherwood singing an arrangement of the overture from barber of seville a short excerpt from mozart's eine kleine nachtmusik and the previously mentioned concerto with diana lynn can be heard in the background of one scene performing part of nocturne in b flat minor and a five year old mary ruth performs popular minute waltz br br all in all this is an excellent movie amc showed this regularly up until early 1992 i haven't seen it on television in recent years but copies of it are not difficult to obtain if you have the chance i highly recommend that you view the movie
1	art imitates life imitates art atticus finch is reincarnated into the d a in this tragic and suspenseful gripping documentary that plays more like a who done it and how did it happen the authenticity and sometimes reluctant honesty of the individuals make this a compelling story in many layers although racism is one of the themes there are other elements such as work ethic integrity and coping with grief that have drawn me back to view and review this film again and again the music is driving but not obtrusive the pacing and visuals are such that there is no mistaking the fact that these are real people going through an authentic experience
1	the story itself is routine a boy runs away from home and ends up in a struggling music school for kids he convinces a famous violinist to sponsor the school the film is a splicing of shootings over 11 weeks and leaves many amusing holes which the observant viewer may find for him herself br br however long the whiskers of the plot might have been the movie is justified by its music and acting there is plenty of music featuring classical works played by and by the orchestra one of the leading youth symphonies of that day and said music is excellent by itself it would make the picture worth viewing the conducting and scoring duties were put in the best of hands those of alfred neumann br br the acting is a study in contrasts the kids in the orchestra most of whom had little or no acting experience must have driven director archie mayo crazy looking into the camera overacting the parts that they had and following directions given to them but the spontaneity that results from their lack of training adds an interesting charm to the picture the veteran actors were marvelous with the material they had to work with walter brennan was perfectly cast in his role one that he emulated in real life joel mccrea and andrea were ideal fits for their parts and the supporting acting was a veritable who's who of character actors marjorie main arthur hohl paul harvey charles coleman perry and porter hall in his typical role of the heavy all ideally cast and the bit players jessie arnold john hamilton marjorie wood jimmy flavin day the gravelly voiced lee phelps in his usual role as a policeman and many many more if you're a fan of character actors this movie will bring back a lot of memories br br overall the picture is very enjoyable and is recommended even if you aren't a fan of classical music br br
1	david lynch shot his first film over several years adding new scenes each time he managed to raise a little bit more cash kevin smith made 'clerks' at work while working as a clerk and robert rodriguez has boasted that 'from dusk till dawn' cost precisely 30 000 but 30 000 is still a hell of a lot of money to raise if you work as a cleaner in a cemetery and what if an aspiring film maker not only had such a job but also had all the ambition of such luminaries and all the of smith but absolutely none of the talent such a figure is mark the subject of this hilarious documentary which chronicles his attempt to make a pair of movies over many many years combines his lunatic dreams with flights of depression and a fatal inability to call it a day one senses he almost prefers the endless labours of searching for an impossible perfection to an accommodation with the reality that he's simply on the evidence presented in 'american movie' not very good and like a modern day ed wood he surrounds himself with an epic crowd of fellow losers his genuine affection for whom is his greatest redeeming feature the collection includes his warring parents his best friends one a criminal the other a reformed drug addict his own hapless children and best of all his aged uncle bill bill may live in a trailer park and just about have given up on life but he is the owner of a small fortune 280 000 to be precise and the touching but potentially exploitative relationship between the two men lies at the heart of the film manages to enlist a few actors to perform alongside himself of course but in the main he is wholly dependent on friends and family to complete his work even bill has a role on camera on british tv the bbc brilliantly scheduled a screening of 'american movie' back to back with 'lost in la the story of terry gilliam's ill fated attempt to film 'don quixote' in that film one was impressed by the huge amount of professionalism on display inadequate as it was to the task in hand and just how damn difficult it is even for experts with millions to spend to make a film whereas is not only penniless but also such a clown that he can't even pronounce the name of his own work properly ultimately is human enough for you to want him to succeed but awful enough for the viewer to still be able to laugh at his failures if this film was fiction you'd dismiss it as unbelievable but as it is it's one of the funniest documentaries you're likely to see
1	chris smith is a superior filmmaker with the seldom seen talent for spotting a good story then getting the hell out of its way smith's american movie is the true to life record of filmmaker wannabe mark a loser intent on milking his elderly uncle for cash to complete his horror short but never under any circumstances to pursue gainful employment or support the children he's conceived br br such is producer smith's skill that mark appears more sympathetic than otherwise even as he entices uncle bill with sugar spun dreams and executive producer credits it is his desperation to be somebody to have his name coupled with the likes of scorsese and spielberg that touches us br br american movie also belongs in that rare often attempted but seldom achieved sub genre that successfully blends hilarity with horror the humor comes from ed wood style belief in his own genius from his appalling attempts at acting from his substituting his less than film savvy mother for a missing cameraman and from his employing sweet but brain damaged friend mike whenever he's short an actor or crew member br br the horror comes from seeing what cannot it is this very american attitude i want therefore i am entitled that keeps him from seeing just how much he has to learn about his chosen craft he is so confident he can't fail that failure is guaranteed
1	let's face it lot's of bad movies are made all the time for those people who work in film you have probably poured a lot of time and effort into many of these plot less wonders sometimes and this is my opinion it is the act of merely making the movie that is important to us to tell a story no matter how simple and unrealistic also the collaborative process is one key characteristic that is unique to film and theater to put on a production of any caliber requires the talents of a varying amount of people depending on its scale to bring its story to life the most intriguing part of american movie however is not the movie being filmed it is the movie maker himself as a character of his own life which demands our attention none of them serve as models of the filmmakers we know and have worked with but i will argue they are archetypes of small parts of us which try to be a part of this cult activity of independent film making alright a very small part of us these are the people who live under the rocks of their own lives and just so happen to be by the romance of cinema this leads me to my next argument american movie captures the raw spirit of independent film making bad stories told on nowadays digital film with sloppy effects and horrible performances because this is the best they can do with a budget of a couple thousand dollars rather than a studio budget of several million dollars a day that is the difference between low low low end productions and studio productions the independent filmmaker just wants to create a linear or even a nonlinear story to shoot as well as he can with the money he's investing in himself and the resources around him in order to see a finished product on his rundown tv rugged individualism materializes in every art form i find this film to be a brilliant document of truth for many filmmakers and no i'm not full of myself man these people are hilarious their problems seem hilarious their characteristics are hilarious best line of the movie it's alright it's okay there's something to live for jesus told me so said a million times by a funny old man hat's off to tom beach chicago rules
1	chris smith's american movie is an insightful examination of the american dream the movie focuses around mark an independent film maker from wisconsin mark has dreamed of becoming a great writer and director since he was a teenager and had an out of focus hi8 camera the movie follows mark through his attempt to make his dream feature film northwestern there are a number of hilarious scenes in the film as mark goes through pre production of northwestern and later his short film coven pronounced co ven the correct pronunciation mark says sounds too much like oven which he plans to use to raise money to complete northwestern this film's insight and humor is on par with roger and me michael moore's great film i first viewed it at a chaotic sundance film festival screening that brought out the spirit of the movie a giant air duct fell from the ceiling at the beginning of the movie hit seven people and caused a twenty five minute delay half way through the film the sound started fluttering and the projector had to be stopped to fix it and in the last twenty minutes the projector stopped and the film burned up despite the delays the audience stayed through the movie and gave it a standing ovation american movie also won the grand jury prize for documentary at the end of the festival i highly recommend this fine film worth sitting through any hellish screening
1	american movie is a wonderful documentary it follows the trials and tribulations of a very determined independent filmmaker as he struggles to finish his first film br br the raw footage and insightful content of this film is an excellent example of how documentaries should be produced i also feel that the film can very inspirational to those of us that want to be filmmakers ourselves
1	this documentary is such a wonderful example of what an entertaining and amazing experience a documentary can be if done so well as this the subject mark is smart funny and very driven and this story of his personal fight to live his dreams will be inspiring to anyone who knows what it is like to harbor an impossible dream see this
1	the subject matter of this film is potentially depressing a man about thirty with no job little education three kids from a failed relationship living in his parents' house but with a dream of directing feature films but about a half hour into the movie you realize that mark has a bottomless supply of drive and ambition it's just that it's all channeled into his need to direct movies and nothing else will make him happy the movie jumps all over the emotional spectrum but in the end you come away feeling happy because you've just gotten to know some wonderful people go to see this you'll end up wishing it was longer
1	anytime i'm not giving 150 to my dreams or my goals i think of mark the real life subject of american movie mark's dogged persistence at having his first feature film produced and shot is so captivating that it will have you laughing shaking your head with sadness and rooting for him br br i haven't seen a documentary this honest since the movie on r the supporting cast mark's real life family and friends are all great give this movie a chance and you'll see a great film and a wonderful portrait of the stuff that the american dream is made of
1	my companions were astounded to find that this movie was a documentary it was so funny it seemed scripted yet it gives a stirring picture of real life in the indie film life we felt moved to purchase coven and wanted to meet mark and mike as college students this film gave us a much needed glimpse of real life
1	anyone that is looking for an episode of law and order or csi would have to look elsewhere as the most basic elements of police or forensics work were totally ignored in this case br br a murder took place and all the police did was to grab a 15 year old boy off the street and take him to the only witness a 65 year old man and say is this the guy who did it sure the old man thought that the kid in the back of the police car had to be guilty never mind that he looked nothing like the real killer and was dressed completely differently he must have shrunk reversed his age by 5 10 years and changed clothes br br the police made absolutely no effort and they admitted it the did no forensics on any of the evidence they questioned no other witnesses and they beat a confession out of a 15 year old br br the saddest thing about this compelling look at the criminal justice system is that it occurred right down the road in florida let everyone now start talking about southern justice
1	i'm proud to say i'm a student at milwaukee where parts of the film were shot yep i recognize mitchell hall where i took a film class possibly the same course as fellow student smith br br that's where i learned about american movie our professor told us about it shortly before its release to be sure i was intrigued but for some reason i put off seeing it for several months it must've done pretty well if it was still playing at least in milwaukee br br when i finally got around to seeing it i thought it was an entertaining documentary it's not a masterpiece it goes on a bit too long but i find mark's passion and commitment inspiring i hope this film signals the beginnings of bigger and better things him maybe his forthcoming northwestern will propel him to fortune who knows br br rating out of br br 108 min released by sony pictures classics
1	i rented this movie for two reasons the first was all of the good things that i read about it i definately was impressed and couldn't agree more with all of the reviews i read the second reason is because i know these guys i don't know mark as well as i do mike he hasn't changed much from the years we knew each other i know him as the reaper from a local milwaukee radio station the way he is in this film is genuinely mike 100 he once gave me a table that he made it was a little one about 15 high that said metallica on it the odd thing about it was it only had two legs sometimes it's the thought that counts and mike always has thought about others first
1	this may actually the finest film of 1999 no i'm not kidding this documentary directed by chris smith captures the very spirit of artistic compulsion smith does the smart thing any documentary filmaker should do he keeps invisible and refuses to judge his subject br br as the viewer watches mark and his efforts no matter how aggressive they may prove to finish his films he refuses to compromise and suffers repeatedly as a result but lest we forget remember speilberg scorsese and others started just as humbly br br and what a great subject he chooses mark his family and friends are all fascinating characters far more than any character created in last year's fictitious cinematic products this film on the dime between comedy tragedy touching sympathy and leads us ultimately to inspiring any viewer with an urge to create despite talent issues to get off their butts and make something br br the film is about maverick artists and their passions it is also about families no matter how co dependent and they may be and how unique and beautiful that organism truly is mark proves in the film to be utterly devoted not only to his dreams but also to his family as well and they to him br br why this film was not nominated for documentary of the year is beyond me and criminal that is assuming it was eligible last year this film is to be sought out and treasured
1	i enjoyed this one because i can relate to it br br at one time in my life i was trying to make films and experienced many of the same problems mark did in trying to make his film and i also went through a protracted period of self absorbed arrested development where i refused to grow but then miraculously i got married and had kids i realized that being a struggling filmmaker was in all likelihood not going to feed my family so i got a decent job and did what i felt i needed to do to make that happen that is what an mature responsible adult does br br mark hasn't faced up to that reality as yet and so in that sense he is a retarded adolescent for this reason there is a hopelessness about him like don quixote he seems so inept and self deluded that he doesn't realize how bad off he really is the viewer feels a sense of superiority and pity for him and his circle mark has kids and an ex wife and bills to pay but the film depicts him caring basically only about pursuing his artistic vision br br despite this mark comes across in the film as a likeable individual surrounded by a very interesting family and group of friends unfortunately mark lacks many of the things necessary to be successful both in life and in a career maturity responsibility education knowledge life experience financial clout etc yet he trudges on much like ed wood apparently without any semblance of a clue br br i guess we are supposed to feel encouraged by the spectacle of the never say die attitude of this noble individual struggling against the odds and man what odds there are kiefer sutherland colin hanks tori spelling and angelina jolie are all offspring of big time film or tv people no doubt they will all want to direct some day if they aren't already how much room is there for an independent like mark it's like watching a guy hit himself in the head with a board over and over again come to think of it that is pretty close to what happens to one of mark's actors with the kitchen cabinet door in one of the funniest scenes i have ever seen in any movie br br despite these misgivings and seeming criticisms i truly enjoyed this movie and would heartily recommend it to anyone uncle bill is amazing i have a friend who met both mike and mark and he told me that in real life these guys are just exactly the way they appeared in the movie
1	what gives this movie its personality is the knowledge in the end that it is all true while it is a compelling and humorous documentary that does border on mockumentary in some parts are they staged or is it really happening humorously it does seem to get a bit long towards the end br br this movie is funny in places it needs to be and flows relatively well reminiscent of christopher guest's movies if you liked those or adaptation then i recommend you keep a look out for this one br br b
1	when we are young we all pick out an ideal occupation for ourselves artist actor writer rocket scientist etc while most of us grow out of our pipe dreams the main character of american movie mark has yet to let go of his and at a thirty something age too to become a wealthy acclaimed director despite the fact that murphy's law won't leave mark alone and something always seems to go wrong mark is able to persevere during each incident with an even greater drive to reach his goals his desire to be a director so controls his character that he sees any person or thing in his life as something to exploit to reach the goal while i noticed other imdb commenters are lambasting mark's selfishness i think it's an almost justified sort of selfishness because for mark not becoming a famous director is equivalent to death he talks incessantly about leaving some kind of mark on the world and he sees filmmaking as a way to do this br br unfortunately any viewer of this movie picks up early on the fact that mark has a near zero chance of ever achieving his dream is he aware of this no not in the slightest and none of his family or friends want to let him in on the secret in fact even some of them believe in him strangely enough though the disappointing future the viewer feels is sure to occur for mark doesn't impede the ability to find humor in the film this is a very very funny documentary most of the laughs come from when mark is filming scenes for coven there's a scene where an actor has to have his head break a cupboard and it's just not working another scene has mark's very old uncle bill saying a few lines to the camera needless to say after 20 takes of a lot of and line stumbling bill finally decides he's had enough a lot of humor sadly comes from mark himself his screenwriting which he seems to think is worthy of a pulitzer is laughingly bad it's alright it's ok there is something to live for jesus told me so br br american movie is contrary to what people might think a documentary that anyone can enjoy even though my sister who watched some scenes seemed to think it was downright bizarre the fact that chris smith can successfully bring to the screen a film that inspires both sadness from mark's depressing lifestyle to hilarity with scenes with bill who unfortunately passed away before the film was released says quite a lot about him i wonder how the dreamer mark regards this documentary does he realize that it casts him in a bad light or that it sets up to show him as a fool in many scenes of the film or does he see it as something that will be shown prior to his own a e biography segment it's an intriguing subject of wonder and i hope the latter comes true for him some day br br i highly recommend this movie 9 10
1	for me the best most memorable movies are often those which on first viewing i know nothing about american movie is a perfect example of just such a gem watching tv late one evening i spotted the one only good review among the dross thankfully i settled in for a real treat american movie is a documentary following the unforgettable mark pronounced orchard i believe a highly articulate charismatic lad as he struggles to write direct and produce midwestern a gritty low budget horror movie on which he has been working for years in mark we discover a young man filled with contrast his appearance is of the classic trailer trash stereotype skinny bum fluff mustache '80s heavy metal styling mullet hairdo etc to camera however mark reveals startling wit insight as he philosophizes upon life love movies the american way as the movie unfolds it sadly becomes clear that mark's lack of discipline heavy drinking are relentlessly sabotaging his creative efforts american movie is a charming watch filled with hilarious moments vivid characters chief among these is mark's lovable buddy mike a soft spoken reformed stoner who having conquered an addiction to scratch cards is now dependent on soda pop i absolutely loved american movie it generates real empathy between the viewer principal characters and provides hilarity without feeling exploitative i would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone
1	looking for proof that real life is more entertaining than fiction you just found it this superb documentary about an aspiring feature filmmaker mark who refuses to admit defeat is the funniest film i have ever seen probably because it's also one of the most tragic oddly enough the more i watch the film the more inspired i become
1	this documentary is the most hypnotizing film i have seen in a long while i must have had it on for an entire day the selected material included in the piece flow amazingly well and develop three characters that are impossible to ever forget the different layers of these people peel back to make an oddly moving film about perseverance loyalty and determination these characters ended up suprisingly fascinating and the film is unforgettable
1	okay so i'm a sucker for a good documentary particularly where it tells a modern day don quixote story a caveat i met mark in the winter of 1995 96 while he was still working on coven but i'll save that story for later american movie which commenced production not long after accurately portrays the person that i knew although in greater depth than i expected or believed existed this is simultaneously a very funny and very sad film and is brilliantly executed mark comes across as his own worse enemy his childlike ambition and optimism which i admire is undermined by his apparent artistic ineptitude as well as his bizarre fiscal expectations but he's also a charismatic guy his loyal sancho sidekick is equally likeable loyal if frazzled to the core like don quixote american movie presents an often ignored inefficient aspect of freedom that people will be drawn toward professions to which they are not particularly well suited irrespective of repeated failure it is a great film
1	very good film very good documentary br br very good to see those vermin detectives humiliated and found out as the bigoted narcissistic heartless their one eyed parents community and environment raised them as br br i tip my lid to pat can we get this decent human being on some kind of 911 commission or investigation we need his integrity endurance intelligence clarity and spirit fighting the rigged game that is world politics and big business br br all the animals come out at night whores skunk pussies queens fairies junkies sick venal someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets pat should be the first drops of that real rain the people who control this earth are animals they need to be drowned br br i'm just in shock walking the night is scary business the inhuman howling and cackling is of detectives in murder on a sunday morning in pat blazing spotlight they look horribly caught horribly guilty and ready for a just and horrible drowning br br it is exceptionally satisfying in a world in which the punters play a rigged game to see justice done and to see every narcissistic felon drown like the pathetic human rats they are br br how does it feel you abominable snaky fingers of the law how does it feel to have your rigged prosecution your rigged confession your rigged detective work found out for what it really was how does it feel br br i hope it twists like a knife you miserable one eyed nothings
1	this depiction of forlorn japanese forces in the is a tour de force in the utter meaninglessness of war it is an effective representation of japanese pacifist views after ww ii in the movie japanese soldiers have been left to fend for themselves in the jungles of the faced with impending starvation they resort to cannibalism and gradually lose what little humanity they have left to call this film depressing would be something of an understatement the viewer is left with an utterly despairing sense of life's lost value in modern combat the final scene is almost too nihilistic but the film is a worthy statement none the less highly recommended
1	they are hunted and starving they are completely and yet they press on through sheer inertia this film tries to answer the question how far will human beings go to survive hopelessness emanates from every of this film and like so many japanese films of this time it condemns the blind military loyalty that pressed the japanese people into war
1	fires on the plain directed by kon ichikawa and written by shohei and wada is a world war two movie which is finally not showing the allies fighting the axis powers but the japanese fighting and struggling for their lives on the philippines the main characters name is tamura played by and he is a soldier leaving his regiment because of him being sick all he has on him is a hand grenade his gun and some potatoes like this he is trying to make his way to the hospital in order to get a doctor and a cure for his disease but since the hospital turned him away and gets destroyed he begins a long walk throughout the whole movie tamura remains a bit but very civil when the other soldiers become more like animals by using their basic instincts for survival tamura is still remaining human and would not degrade a scene which has influenced me a lot to think positively and different about this war movie is when tamura comes into a village which is completely deserted there he fights a dog and finds a lot of corpses of japanese soldiers stacked up in front of a church this makes tamura think and even more scared than he already is that shows that the soldier is not a brave killing machine but a servant to higher beings and human most importantly after he turns away from the corpses two a couple or brother and sister very close relationship return to the village in order to get their stash of salt back the main character of the movie wants to be friendly at first although he walked up to them with his gun but shoots the woman once she starts screaming her brother boyfriend husband then runs away in fear and after a moment tamura follows him and shoots wildly at the fleeing filipino he does not hit him after tamura picks up the bag of salt something very precious he drops his gun into a river this gesture is very important in order to understand kon shohei profiling of tamura and the war comparing this movie to other world war 2 movies it is not typical at all of course all movies have suffering heroes but their heroes are more heroic than tamura he expresses everything that is human he is getting manipulated he is weak he gets scared he has hope this is typical for japanese world war two movies and for japanese society since world war two is not a discussed theme in japanese society japanese are likely to put japanese in the second world war in the role of the victim this is also very visual in this movie one of the examples is tamura another one the piled up bodies of japanese soldiers in front of the church and another important one is when the japanese soldiers are trying to cross a street and the americans are already waiting there for them and shooting all of the japanese soldiers which have worse equipment and are fed worse and have no health equipment or anything alike in my personal conclusion i have to say that it is worth seeing this film in order to finally see a movie from the other side than usual it also has no nationalistic propaganda which could've been easily built in once you have watched the movie fully you will be able to see the horrors of the second world war to its total extent
1	the title is a reference to the destruction of the remnants of a harvest like rice husks by farmers who burn them creating fires on the plains this is a bleak tale of the destruction of the japanese soldier br br the story is set in the closing days of the philippines campaign as a soldier with tb who returns from a hospital because since he can walk they have no room for him his superior officers don't want him around since he's really too sick to work or fight abused by his officer he's sent back to the hospital with orders to either be admitted or kill himself they still won't take him and he's soon left to wander across the war ravaged landscape trying to find help or a place to stay or even just food its a bleak journey with no hope in sight and only death and man's inhumanity to man at every turn br br billed as a harrowing journey into the dark heart of man and war this is also a very funny movie this isn't to say its not horrifying it is at times but its also darkly comic how could it not be here is a film where madness and insanity run rampant people are constantly trying to hustle tobacco leaves for food trying to get even a slightly better pair of shoes trying to remain a japanese soldier in the face of absurdity by marching constantly but never getting anywhere and you can't help but laugh to be sure things go darker as it becomes clear that cannibalism maybe literally and figuratively the only way to survive but at the same time there is something uncomfortably funny about the human comedy br br hailed as a great anti war film its stark photographic style makes clear the insanity of war even as it dazzles our eye with its beauty here we see landscapes full of bodies that include the soldier and the civilian set amid fields forests and trees that would otherwise be and to some extent still are quite beautiful its a jarring sensation br br what intriguing is that i read that this is based on a novel about the redemptive power of christianity the director removed all over the religious references to hope and salvation and instead used it as to show that life stinks war stinks worse and that there is ultimately no hope br br intellectually i admire the film emotionally i don't part of it is a strident downbeat score which for me over accentuates what we are seeing on the screen its almost gilding the lily since the imagery is so strong it doesn't really need to have the music force you into feeling one way or another br br is it a great film thats for you to decide for certain its unlike any other war film bloody horrific and real in ways that big budgeted films claim to be but never are this is not for those adverse to blood and gore since its here in spades br br definitely worth a look
1	i got this movie out a week after the death of ichikawa kon i suppose if there is one way to mark the passing of a great director its to raise a glass of wine to him while watching one of his greatest movies ichikawa had one of the finest careers in japanese film but as he never had a distinctive style or theme he often seems to be overlooked compared to his near contemporaries such as ozu and kurosawa he was a little younger than them but not by much he is one of those directors who defies auteur theories its likely that his wife who wrote the screenplay for this and many other of his movies was as much responsible for the quality of the movies as he was but at his best he was as good as any japanese film maker at the time in particular he had great technical skills allowing him to tell complex stories in an accessible manner but in terms of theme this movie could hardly be simpler war is hell no really its seriously hell br br fire on the plain doesn't follow the normal war genre rules there is no real beginning we start as the wretched tamura who is a regular private although it is implied he is more thoughtful and educated than most of the others at one stage it is shown he understands english but he clams up when the others ask him how he knows it is ordered to hospital as his unit is already in an appalling state the soldiers are defeated and starving to death they are no longer an army just a rag bag group of refugees hunted by the locals and pretty much ignored by the americans who have bigger fish to fry hunger and despair is driving the soldiers to the edge and beyond of madness br br in typical ichikawa style its not all just grim its oddly funny in parts a very black humour of course br br the high points of this movie to me are the outstanding performances from the leads and the vivid photography the characters in all their humanity but also their complete loss of humanity are all too believable this is that rare film one which will refuse to erase itself from your head even if you want to forget it
1	this is probably the greatest war film and certainly one of the greatest films there's no sentimentality no patriotic agenda not even a hopeful message of universal brotherhood in this bleak glimpse of what we can only call hell it's this quiet rigor and lack of manipulation that give the film its astounding power there aren't any attempts to make a hero out of protagonist tamura either he's just a poor doomed sap trying to stay alive in a world of horror who hopes but isn't sure he can hang on to his humanity in the process fierce lack of cant and illusion make fires on the plain stand alone ichikawa died february 2008
1	my first ichikawa in many years and the first of his war films that i've seen this was gripping and brutal from the very get go in the very first scene nominal hero tamura is told that he can't continue on with his unit to which he has returned from the hospital he apparently has tb – but he is not sick enough for the hospital to take him given the quantity of war wounded they have but his old unit won't take him back either his co gives him a grenade and tells him that if he feels truly hopeless to blow himself the honorable thing to do br br the phillipines 1945 and the situation really does seem hopeless for tamura and everyone else is an odyssey through hell or rather hells – denuded forests dead rocky plains and the dead and dying japanese soldiers hoping just for an end through peace or death film is photographed in stunning b w scope which serves to highlight both the desolation felt by tamura and those he meets on his journey towards his doom and to show how truly small and naked they all are amidst the immensity of the mountains and the this small affair of humans will end soon the earth seems to be saying but i will survive and barely notice it br br tamura travels back towards the hospital but is not surprisingly rejected there and spends the rest of the film trying to stay alive stay human and get out of danger he doesn't manage to do very well on any account slowly starving and eventually committing some fairly repellent acts eventually he hooks up with two other desperate men who have lost or survived their units and have resorted to in his weakened state facing other armed men finds that the only way to live is to break with everything that he believes in br br film is as brutal uncompromising and intense as any war film i've seen there are moments of humor and tenderness but they are fleeting and don't stick in the memory such as the scene with the man on the who practically begs tamura to eat his recurring black comic bit with tamura exchanging his ragged shoes for the better of a fallen the that humans will endure to the truth that this is any war all wars all mankind as long as we continue thus a masterpiece that i probably won't watch again for a long long time watched via the beautiful criterion collection dvd
1	kon ichikawa had lived through world war two and saw what its effects it had on his people in japan but so did novelist shohei whose book was the inspiration for film fires on the plain it's a film about the men in this war or perhaps more universally in wars in general who lose their humanity the soldiers trudging along through these fields and jungles of the in this story are almost completely without hope if not already just that it makes stone's platoon look like a picnic at least they had certain things like food after all br br they have little to no reserves or supplies or ammunition no back up no sense of anything going their way in this combat that they've been thrust into they can't even get some proper hospital care unless if they can no longer walk at all or have lost limbs for example say if you have tb you're on your way but its really through the prism of one soldier a private tamura that we get a full sense of the futility of war both in its bleak scenes of nothingness and boredom and decay and those flashes of intense and brutal violence br br in the film tamura just wants to get some medical care this is right at the start and his told by his superior officer already he is with eyes that stare off and an expression that has been drained by years of battle that he will die if he doesn't find a hospital he doesn't really but does end up in with some soldiers at first with a platoon that seems to sort of have their act together but is really led on by a power hungry brute who just wants stash of salt and then later with two other stray soldiers who are part of a group that had previously been ambushed while crossing a road at night br br the story isn't entirely a straight line but it doesn't need to be path in fires on the plain is told in vignettes little stories like when he comes upon a seemingly deserted enemy village two of the populous comes back to get some supplies and tamura sneaks up on them it's an excruciating scene since so far with tamura we haven't seen him do anything outright wrong but he does so in this scene not even so much out of evil but out of fear and desperation this is also without spoiling it how he gets a stash of salt little scenes build up so brilliantly and with devastation like a simple task of finding a pair of shoes which there seem to be none or when tamura later in the film discovers his teeth are becoming torn apart and falling out from lack of total hygiene so much for food so it goes br br it should also be mentioned that this is a hauntingly realized film from ichikawa shot in a stark black and white view of the fields and woods the cinematography filling everything we see in black blacks and white hot white ichikawa also makes sure to get everything authentic from his actors not simply emotionally but with their own emaciated look and looks of desperation right on them it's as if ichikawa has to have them all surviving the film as well as characters surviving out in the wild by wild by the way i mean also cannibalism the shock of this is two fold first is the way that a soldier says half jokingly early on about eating other soldiers to who asks if it was true and only in response getting a don't ask word of caution and the second with the depiction of cannibalism itself from the crazy starving man on the hill who pulls out guts out of his lap and says with a straight face to our hero that you can eat me when i die br br this makes thing especially more brutal when it comes to the director filming the brief 'action' scenes these are i would argue more brutal than 'private ryan' in their depictions of violence in battle the carnage that is completely random a scene i would point to and that contains just a shot that is excruciating to watch is when from a high angle we see a group of about twenty soldiers walking slowly along a hail of gunfire comes that kills only four or five but it just happens so fast and the soldiers just keep walking along at the same crawl this isn't the only shot of horrible carnage that's shown when needing to be bloody its there but splashed across the screen like something completely of the macabre but it drives the point completely br br all of the acting is staggering especially who looks to be both most at peace and most horrified by what he sees in the of looks most of the time all of the major set pieces provide something else to the gruesome experience and it all amounts to the ultimate question with an anti war film how can or why do people fight in wars like these it's almost too depressing to put into words and so ichikawa pushes our noses right up into the muck and filth and blood and demands for us to take it in so maybe some day it will never happen again or one can hope this by the end of such a bleak and great film as this
1	an unflinching descent into psychological and physical oblivion that will undoubtedly burn images of the truthful brutality and suffering of war into your cerebral in a way not many other films will in fact there is simply no other war film like it br br director kon ichikawa witnessed the unthinkable horror of hiroshima first hand only 10 days after the bomb was dropped he has said that from that day it would always be his mission to express the pointless empty violence humans inflict on each other and themselves br br mr ichikawa shows us that there are no winners in war for the paths to victory and defeat are paved with the same soldiers marching down roads which only have death and destruction at their end br br mr ichikawa succeeds in bringing his message to the world thru this haunting piece of cinema
1	i saw this in 1993 on a vhs tape but have been unable to find it at any source since this is a very bleak and uncompromising look at the last days of the japanese army in the phillipines anyone with an interest in the pacific war would do well to view this film and see what conditions the other side fought under from what i can tell this is historically accurate and depicts how easily men can descend into complete barbarism i understand the japanese army was completely cut off from any re supply in the phillipines by 1945 so there is no doubt many of the horrific incidents depicted here happened i might not have been able to identify with the film's characters but i appreciate their humanity and struggle to survive if i had to compile a list of the ten greatest war films this film would be on it see it if you can get it
1	you think the police are always right br br you believe that eye witnesses are always right br br you believe the prosecutors will not take a case to court if lazy police have failed to perform 98 of a basic investigation br br you believe a u s city might have a few bad apples in law enforcement but that the good cops will quickly nip those who systematically engage in evil for sake in the bud br br you believe that the possibility of an ex football being as a detective solely because his dad is the county sheriff and being allowed to beat confessions out of randomly selected teenagers with absolutely no fear of negative consequences to himself could happen in the america of the 1930s but not today br br you believe a judge will not send a case to the jury if anyone with a brain in their head can see the defendant is a totally random passer by nabbed by the police because it was hot and they did not feel like working that day br br you believe that all the innocent people imprisoned six months here or 20 years there are exceptions to the rule and an injustice like this could never involve your family member someone in the middle class or someone like you br br you think that you are aware of every terrible indisputable 100 proved outrage of the last 10 years in america yet you haven't seen this film
1	fires on the plain 1959 br br you don't see films like this anymore on the is an incredible depiction of the lives of the soldiers of the japanese imperial army kon masterpiece follows tamura a soldier with tuberculosis as he wanders around the philippine landscape in the last year of the war he is sent away to the hospital by his commanding officer only to be refused treatment and so he is sent back his co tells him to go back and if they refuse him again then his last order is to kill himself with his grenade he is refused again but meets up with a band of squatters sitting outside the hospital the next day they are shelled by american troops and tamura flees choosing not to kill himself and from there he wanders from place to place trying to get to he discovers that some men have been eating human flesh in order to survive while others trade as much tobacco as they can for whatever they can get back br br the film is filled with a quiet sense of desperation and desolation with a hint of insanity everyone we see is skin and bones covered in dirt wearing torn and tattered rags ichikawa uses his camera to catch some beautiful shots of the destructed landscape and the japanese soldiers who walk it kon ichikawa was famous in japan for making many comedies and satires and there are moments in fires on the plain that are bitingly hilarious take for example a shot of what appears to be a dead man lying face down in a pool of water a soldier walks but and asks himself aloud if that is how they will all end up to which the man lifts his head out of the water and replies what was that and then drops his face even deeper into the puddle than before another hilarious sequence involves one man finding a pair of boots along the trail he takes the boots replacing them with his old ones another man walks by and sees that pair of boots and switches up for his old boots the scene continues until finally tamura finds the exchange spot and examines the boots left without hardly any sole he looks carefully at his own and at ones on the ground and deciding that they're both he removes his own and goes barefoot the film is filled with incredible scenes one after another like and kurosawa ichikawa knew how to use his camera to paint beautiful and stunning pictures there are many stunning shots of men in barren empty plains surrounded by nothing but smoke in the air and dead or dying bodies on the broken earth there is another incredible scene where dozens of japanese soldiers attempt to cross a road guarded by yanks in the middle of the night all crawling on their hands and knees as the camera watches on from above br br the film gets its name from the columns of smoke rising up from fires on the plains seen throughout the film they represent to the soldiers life a little more ordinary the lives of japanese farmers back home burning husks of corn their of hope for the normal life however are in hostile hands br br the film caused a stir in its day with its graphic content much emphasis is placed on the horror of war not just with the enemy but within your ranks and yourself kon fires on the plains is an incredibly authentic and moving and somewhat disturbing portrait of the horror suffered by the men making up the lower ranks of the imperial army clint eastwood's letters from iwo jima while it is a very good film comes nowhere close to realizing the horror of war depicted in fires on the plain eastwood was no doubt influenced by the film seeing as he claims to be such a classic japanese film buff many war films show that war is hell through the eyes of the winners in fires on the plain we're shown that war is even more hellish when you're on the losing end br br 4 4
1	this film is a knockout fires on the plain referred to is the burning off at the end of harvest time a happy memory for tamura he relives this in his mind many time's and at the end of this bleak film like a man dying of thirst he he is home and this last illusion is all he has left billy wilder's the big carnival ace in the hole is the only film that comes to mind that is as bleak as this little masterpiece by kon ichikawa while i think the whole film is brilliant two scenes that come to mind are when a platoon of japanese soldiers trying to escape crawling on there are ambushed by americans and massacred true horror and as an american soldier and a pretty philippine girl soldier are having a cigarette on the side on the road she smiles as she with the yank then her face changes to rage as she see's two japanese soldiers trying to she grabs a gun and kills them with joy the american soldier attempts to stop her but has no chance to me this speaks volumes at the committed by the japanese in the philippines all in all a great film if you have the stomach for it
1	the main achievement of this film is that though racially the film still manages to carve out a tableaux of war portrayals that leave a lasting identification with whoever may view it and whoever was present at this time though good films may have the ability of their subjects which is often a hard thing to do great films have the ability of their subjects which is what this film does br br instead of carving a context of unity the film depicts the japanese in the sick finality of the phillipines war front in february 1945 making signs for pacifism or war but rather making signs of the feelings death destruction victory and sickness of war with the bloody hands of the defeated far different and superior to films such as apocalypse now and full metal jacket both which needed a satirical methodology of trivializing and the american and using all races as one struggle which is fine yet not as grand as a film that uses one race and view which would look fascist if created in america to convey the horror of war and show what it is really like br br the only way the main character makes it through this movie to the end is by being sick thence inedible hence through this character through his sickness his saving face we see the end of wwii in the phillipines in february of 1945 and the way in which the americans japanese and came together in bloody acts of warfare where you live to die br br the film is patently influenced by a neorealist way of filmic portrayal which is original and beneficial to a viewer whether then or now for the neorealist techniques it employs conveys all the horrors of war in pictorial form whether a showcase for pacifism or like anno zero by roberto rossellini a story emerges from the environment and the conditions associated with it br br the film's opening with the two way discussion between the two japanese soldiers prefigures and the events through this opening we feel that the struggle is human against human and human with human it shows that they relied on each other to face the enemy in the past battles but now in this opening or of the experiences of the japanese in the phillipines new information is relayed to the main character tamura giving a of a cannibal reliance on one another if they wish to survive br br the jungle is gritty wet and thick and the sky is not infrequently cloudy and pouring we wade with the though puddles and marshes as sick as the land around them nameless cadavers are strewn everywhere every now and then one can not tell if they are bodies rocks or corn apparently there is no difference here all is dead and sick all is dying all they have lest to feed upon are rare monkeys and dead bodies of fallen comrades and or nameless enemies br br often tamura meets a fallen other near death though crushed in spirit and crushing his some offer up their bodies for him to eat but he refuses he still like hiroshi as in giants and toys will not into the death of dignity and japanese morals for this is all he really has to hold up for his survival a dignity of self hence when is dissecting a soldier for consumption he shoots him because of it tamura may be used to the killing but to the sickness of killing and pillaging he can't decipher he is neither a good man or a bad man he wishes to survive but will not go the extra mile beyond simple straight war killing his self belonged dead on the battlefield he isn't happy here to wade and wipe the weak for his survival br br the sickness he carrys he sees everywhere in everyone and sadly he lacks the ethical rationale of thinking either thinking entirely about others since he can't give up his body for them since of his contagious or thinking entirely about himself since he sees the sickness in everyone though still killing them even if they do no harm seen in his attack on the two in the hut he can't see anyone no one can see anyone the only see an aversion from and an to health the heart of survival instincts br br often an arm appears pointing to the left of the screen towards what must be hope for there in that far lies their freedom yet it is blocked by american soldiers leaving the japanese to slowly die in this dirt even a church tower appears reflecting the light off an unseen sun but on closer inspection crows flutter wildly about it religion too is an air of poison br br the japanese title of the film gives more evidence to the themes or feelings of the film the servitude to fate the heaviness of existence under leaders and lives controlled by others its proper translation has a subject of heavy debate among historians as non koreans translate it as slave and slavery while many koreans argue that was not a slave system but a servant class system that does not meet the criteria for slavery a way to typically to escape wrenching poverty this improves upon the war theme and symbolism of br br isn't it important at the time period to ask ourselves what the purpose is of what will become our won history should we be comfortable of letting it without conscious effort for change is it not who we are fighting that age old history question but rather why are we fighting fires on the plain is with osamu and mickey curtis based on a novel by shohei in japanese with subtitles
1	or fires on the plain is a film that is so excellent on so many levels that not enough good things can be said about it my only regret is that i was not able to see this 1959 film sooner br br being something of a film purist i tend to look at films for their artistic merits based upon dialog acting photography and even the efforts to remain true to the period in terms of costume ultimately i want to know if the film is truthful enough in revealing the human condition to make me think without oppressing me with what the director wants me to think br br fires on the plain is a great film because it crafts a portrait filled with realistic human reactions to the dying fires of a great historical catastrophe br br film is a condemnation of war on all levels as any good war film should be war is horrifying bloody destructive it is also murderous on the psyche however what is fundamental about fires on the plain is its unapologetic look at the japanese soldiers it shows them slowly collapsing under the weight of superior american firepower and their nation's inability to wage a war of its own making a fatalistic code encouraging death before surrender is at the heart of this madness br br i was astonished to see such an honest and brutally close look at the bitter fruits of japan's military misadventure made just 14 years after the end of what the japanese call the great pacific war ichikawa reveals what the germans called the war life the plight of the common soldier br br film is interesting since even today japan is having a hard time fully coming to terms with its wartime fanaticism its subjugation of conquered peoples the racism of its war against the chinese and war crimes which included cannibalism by soldiers and officers practiced not only against one another but against allied prisoners of war br br ichikawa produces a stark representation of the victimization of soldiers by a of bad political decisions and cultural pressures br br this stark examination is skillfully done by portraying the doomed soldiers as human beings who exhibit at various times fear brilliantly laconic humor dialog enriched by its and a plot whose complexity is belied by the grim wilderness setting br br portrait is a ragged and painful tapestry of defeated men the tubercular tamura played as a woebegone and gentle soul by is a good soldier who can't abandon his humanity though he is as frightened and lost as his comrades before he departs for a hospital that will reject him as too healthy tamura is given a hand grenade by a superior who recognizing the hopelessness of their situation advises tamura to kill himself br br why hopelessly ill supplied and militarily incapable unit was not ordered to surrender at the start of the film is telling ichikawa makes it plain that the war is over and everyone is merely waiting to die as tamura leaves his unit for his hopeless search for physical and spiritual salvation he sees his comrades pointlessly digging an air raid shelter they appear like corpses looking up from their own mass grave br br we later watch as the overworked hospital's medical staff abandons the dying patients to an all consuming american artillery barrage the pathetic patients who crawl from their huts in a vain attempt to survive appear like pathetic serpentine creatures dragging themselves from an omnipotent force you know they won't survive br br ichikawa makes it plain that the only thing worse than a defeated army is one that has lost its honor by abandoning its humanity and its comrades as tamura staggers through the jungles of leyte we encounter the noble the dying and the exploitive cannibalism rears its ugly head as soldiers begin to eat one another rather than surrender to american beef br br when the men do talk of surrender the propaganda of how americans kills prisoners is countered by a worldly wise soldier who reveals that the approaching americans feed and care for prisoners of war because they unlike the japanese respect brave soldiers who are forced to give up br br it is the japanese who intend to die fighting for the emperor long after resistance has lost all meaning those willing to fight to the death will be killed it is the calculus of war br br after shooting a murderous and cannibalistic comrade whom he earlier offered his own body to as food the fatalistic careless surrender also seems to be an intentional form of suicide his death is a lonely image was ichikawa trying to tell us of the internal conflict of the ordinary soldier who wants to live but who is still trapped by his nation's suicidal cultural codes br br if someone watches this film carefully he or she will see that and fanaticism is the enemy the americans are portrayed as a technologically advanced people willing to employ that technology in the form of inexorable military power a lesson that transformed japanese postwar society film isn't so shallow that it america ichikawa the layers of japan's destructive policies that created the war and then to continue it when all was lost br br ichikawa does not mention the nuclear weapons dropped upon nagasaki and hiroshima he doesn't have to the slow motion destruction of the imperial japanese army in the philippines reveals the seeds of japan's
1	a harrowing masterpiece on the sheer madness and despair of war fires on the plain is not going to be to everybody's taste this is a war movie in the truest possible sense of the term one that resorts neither to flag waving patriotism nor saccharine sentimentality cuts deep it's ugly tenebrous and bleak as few things ever committed on celluloid will ever be this is war behind the cannons with no triumphs or heroes no moral victories or defeats to be had just a handful of gaunt and terrible looking men strewn across a land ravaged by war like penitents fleeing a great disaster the characters defy moral judgment because they are creatures beset by a great woe a woe that does not permit questions of a moral nature war and survival pitting one's will against the other's in a battlefield arena the loser is simply removed from existence br br tamura soldier in the japanese imperial army is discharged from his platoon and ordered to report in a nearby hospital on account of him coughing blood and being disliked by the rest of the platoon he's told to never come back and instead commit suicide by hand grenade in case the hospital rejects him which it does the hospital is nothing but a shack made of wooden planks and the hospital surgeon simply tells him that if he's capable of walking he's just fine it is in that shabby excuse of a hospital that one of the most harrowing scenes of the film takes place as the area is carpet bombed by american planes the doctors and those who can walk and sustain themselves flee from the hospital and into the woods moments before the hospital is blown to pieces the gaunt and crippled figures of the sick and injured crawl out of it in every manner of posture dressed in their sickly white robes as if the building is some kind of beast spewing viscera and filth out upon the earth br br that is greatest success the stark and brooding depiction of the suffering of war in simple but evocative images without melodrama or pseudo heroism soldiers cross a marsh wading knee deep in mud move across the opposite bank and into a field only to discover enemy tanks hiding in the woods their lights shining like malignant eyes as they scan the dark a procession of injured soldiers dirty and half mad crossing a road dropping to the ground on the sound of enemy planes buzzards feasting on a pile of dead bodies an abandoned village a mad soldier that believes himself to be buddha sitting under a tree covered with flies and his own excrement offering his arm to be eaten by tamura when he's dead these are the images kon ichikawa conjures for our eyes merciless and unflinching in their poignancy but honest and raw br br doesn't rush to get somewhere it is content to follow travels through the war torn land as he tries to reach the regrouping center of and observe the madness and obscenities of war the movie wades through the sludge of the horror of war slow and brooding just like the characters it follows the final thirty minutes with tamura taking refuge with two who feed on 'monkey are the closest comes to adhering to conventional narratives and they're no less powerful for that matter strikingly photographed in black and white with great performances from the cast and assured direction is not only among the best war movies to be made but also among the finest of japanese cinema
1	every american who thinks he or she understands world war two should see this movie few hollywood films about the war have defied the stereotype of japanese soldiers as emotionless brutes obeying orders without thinking we like to think that every japanese man was ready and able to fight to the death right up to the day we bombed nagasaki fires on the plain shows a different reality troops pathetically and starved to the point of cannibalism they refer to human flesh as monkey meat the movie and novel on which it was based also put to death the myth that japanese soldiers all preferred death to surrender they had good reason to believe that their enemies were in no mood to take prisoners to me it raises a question most americans would rather avoid if the japanese military was so beaten down at this point in the war why was it necessary to nuke hiroshima
1	this is undoubtedly the most harrowing black and white war film that i've watched as a matter of fact the only western director during this time to remotely approach its level of intensity and sheer visceral power in his work was samuel fuller by the way i had attended a kon ichikawa retrospective at london's national film theatre in september 2002 but only managed to catch some of his work made between 1960 and 1973 br br the film is certainly as depressing as it's reputed to be however it also displays welcome touches of black humor throughout the 'dead' man who wakes up to answer a soldier and promptly again the deliciously ironic shoe exchange sequence a moribund eccentric telling the hero which part of the body he should eat etc incidentally the script was written by a woman wada the director's own wife br br ichikawa is a versatile and prolific film maker whose reputation may not be as high as it was during his peak years 1956 65 but his direction here is often striking the startling pre credits sequence the hero is violently rebuked by his superior officer for being discharged from hospital earlier than expected the death of a surrendering japanese at the hands of a gun toting philippine woman the bombing of a hospital with the medical staff running away to save themselves leaving the wounded soldiers behind to crawl out of the shack at their own limited pace the automated march in the rain of the disillusioned soldiers which also involves the afore mentioned business with the shoes that actually recalls a similar scene in all quiet on the western front 1930 a hill littered with the bodies of soldiers attempting to climb it the finale etc surely one of the film's major assets is the stunning cinematography of the unforgiving and desolate muddy landscape br br the film is notorious for treating the taboo subject of cannibalism almost 10 years before it became a staple of horror movies but approach is not only subtle but highly effective the flesh is actually referred to as monkey meat while the hero is seen partaking only once and promptly spits out the piece along with most of his decaying teeth conversely when the weak underling soldier played by mickey curtis who despite his name was a japanese pop idol of the time rabidly indulges the ground nearby is splashed with blood br br in the supplements ichikawa remembers that method practicing lead actor whose portrayal is unforgettable by the way arrived on the set at starvation point with the result that production was forced to shut down for two weeks until he donald richie's perceptive interview favors the nihilism of the film over the underlying patriotism behind such gut wrenching recent hollywood fare as saving private ryan 1998 br br fires on the plain is universally considered to be one of its director's top efforts and out of the several films of ichikawa i've watched the closest to it in spirit are the burmese harp 1956 another character driven war film but with a spiritual tone and which is also available on dvd from criterion and aka conflagration 1958 which was actually given a limited theatrical showing locally as part of a foreign film week a couple of years ago personally i also have a particular soft spot for the director's stunningly stylized color extravaganza an actor's revenge 1963 which i've actually caught twice at the in 1999 and the afore mentioned 2002 retrospective
1	this is one of the most anti traditional war movies about was i have seen instead of the typical films that stress glory and perhaps super human characters like john wayne this film is the exact opposite stressing the de humanization that also happens in war the story concerns the japanese who are stranded in the phillipines after the us returned in late 1944 early 1945 by the time the movie begins the japanese have clearly been beaten but because of the insane logic of bushido they cannot allow themselves to consider surrender at one of many poignant moments the lead character is told at the beginning of the film to report to the hospital since he isn't capable of fighting due to his tb the problem is that the hospital won't accept him so his commander tells him to once again go to the hospital and if they won't accept him he should blow himself up with a grenade well this happens just in the first five minutes of the movie a lot worse things befall this soldier and the few because they won't surrender plus there is a case in the movie where a soldier does try to surrender but is gunned down this happened a lot later in the war because so often the surrendering japanese soldiers booby trapped themselves to blow up when they came near in addition the film shows the most vivid depiction of starvation and the accompanying madness of any film i have seen in addition cannibalism cowardice and betrayal all accompany this very gritty realistic and depressingly realistic film you simply couldn't have made a better film of this type horrible but great
1	during ww2 in the japanese soldiers are starving dying growing weak and becoming more and more insane a small group of soldiers trying to stay alive have eventually resorted to cannibalism this film perfectly portrays the insanity that overtakes people under extreme conditions there are a few humorous parts in this movie but the majority of it is just a very slow moving and realistic film it follows these soldiers from one painful moment to another and eventually to death a very interesting film showing the death and the horror of what may have been the worst war the world has ever seen
1	although it has been a failure in movie theaters because mainly farmer one of the 3 top stars in france had not the first role fans had changed their mind after that and were waiting for it on dvd when it has been released on dvd this year it has have a tremendous success the others fails was the slow pace and the incredible length at that time 1994 that have annoyed critics but the melancholic story makes mandatory that slow pace and long time the moral of the film is you cannot escape from the death you are destined for it is the same theme than in the movie final destination and makes it a gothic tale the atmosphere is very melancholic
1	i watched this on hbo because it won the oscar a week earlier it compares favorably with fictional courtroom dramas br br the story is of a 15 year old black kid placed on trial for the fl murder of an elderly white woman based almost solely on the identification by the victim's husband and on a confession that the defense contends was coerced br br about half the footage is of the trial it's supplemented with footage of the defense lawyers two public defenders explaining their case interviewing witnesses and visiting key locations this is edited with a minimum of needless repetition and placed in logical order the camera work is pretty solid and there's a mildly surprising epilogue
1	i finally managed to see this movie after so many years of expectancy br br i was so curious to see if this movie it is as bad as some people say br br and my opinion is that this movie it wasn't bad at all on the contrary it was amazing br br i enjoyed every second from it from the beginning until the end br br the actors were great they sent me the feeling that i was living the story at the same time as the movie was playing br br the landscapes were so beautiful were the film was shot and it did charmed me also the music was extraordinary and i have nothing br br to reproach br br i think that the plot was very original i don't think that i saw a movie like this br br it is a shame that it isn't recognized all over the world to bad for those who didn't get the chance to see it i give this movie 10 10
1	how to summarize this film it is simply impossible why you should see it maybe for the story very probably for the actors giorgio catherine above all for the universe and the poetry this is a tale sad sometimes dark but a tale i love this film just waiting for the dvd thank you mister
1	can to some people look a bit long but it's one of rare real adventure film it could be compare to with a bit of sleepy you must see it
1	i think it's incredibly hard to write any kind of full scale review to merely because it's one of those viewer dependent complex poetical and philosophical movies that are brain wearing if while watching them you're trying to enjoy their shell and get to their core simultaneously yet there are several things which are certain and beyond any doubt for any man of art which i hope i am the first thing it's a certain masterpiece even of that kind of art which remains through a long long time the second it's one of those rare dark movies in which darkness is poetic even romantic attractive and much more sad than depressing like the art of or caspar david friedrich as to the core of the movie someone called it though i don't agree with that because actually it's far beyond kafka's misanthropic logic and much more like edgar poe's parables dark and scary but through that touching the most gentle strings of our souls actually on the poetic side which is much more important than the narrative is a tale about eternal peace and love which can be achieved only through eternal childhood of soul those who have such souls are usually branded as crazy by our society but from another point of view they all have the virtue all the others lost when become grown the virtue of god's love indeed is a very christian movie be like children mt 18 3 is it's real hidden tag line though the movie never deals with any kind of moral and concentrates only on the christian philosophy for dare to suppose true god is beyond any human moral yet i think that is too harsh portraying grown people as a sort of demons trying to steal childhood from rare survived souls but it's his point of view and he has a right to think so while watching don't try to look for some hidden symbols though there are some better look for thoughts expressed through characters and their behavior and do learn from them also i cannot mention that the movie looks astonishingly through excellent photography especially through rational use of color filters incredibly apposite editing wonderful acting of all the cast and of course due to the atmospheric beauty of winter mountains that reminded me of the hunters in the snow also interestingly enough the scene with death in the form of an old woman with sunken black ringed eyes riding a cart instantly reminded me of plague from the series of drawings by the norwegian painter theodor depicting how a black plague is sweeping out the population of a small town in the mountain valley is it a coincidence
1	that's certainly not the best film ever but that's certainly worth seeing for people with a special kind of mind so the one who loves sadness and depression and scary fairy tales at night and wolves and real madness welcome if you find a copy of course as for me i could stand it only once but since that the wolves and saint lucy and children's drawings and a headless christ live in my nightmares
1	is a long excruciating journey from bad to worse in the life of protagonist after whom the movie is named young gas poisoned first world war lieutenant of very delicate health who previously was a doctor in an orphanage for children with some mental goes in a search of their new location and finds much more than he ever intended to and quite of a different nature depressive atmosphere of ultimate despair where the insane ones are much less horrible than the sane where the madness is a kind of poetry will hold you hypnotized from the very first frames of this film to the last and all the beauty beauty of the winter and mountains beauty of snowy landscapes and wild woods i don't even know how all the sorrow and sadness of last days of war could be made so beautiful
1	br br is a strange dark obsessive object the casting is impressive the plot is powerful reminded me of edgar poe's tales probably not a masterpiece but it does leave us with the remembrance of strong images fine music fear sadness confusion and a sentence that says it all the wolves are coming is quite forgotten now and when it was released nobody seemed to appreciate it that's a shame if you ever have a chance to see this well give it a try
1	simply one of the best movies ever if you won't get it sorry for you i believe that someday people will include this one in their all time top 10's not now but in the far future
1	a wonderful film a charming quirky family story a cross country journey filled with lots of interesting oddball stops along the way several very cool cameos great cast led by rod steiger carries the film along and leads to a surprise ending well directed shot a really nice movie
1	i loved this film a must see for any rod steiger fan producer suzanne and director stewart have brought us a true family film that touches the soul an incredibly well put together movie with a beautiful soundtrack
1	with that carry the same dark weaknesses we all unfortunately possess lying deception laziness the list goes on br br however as an american i was shocked to see that corruption and racism exist in today's police force as is reflected with the duval county sheriff department's horrible detective and police work with the murder of a white female tourist and a 15 year old accused black youth i shook my head in shame that detectives were protected from their abusive work while a young man's life hung in the crooked balance of justice br br however there is also a story of hope with our judicial system and how poorly paid public defenders stuck by their guns irony intended and forced the truth from the detectives i wanted to fly down to florida and tell anybody with influence what a great public defender team they have in duval county those lawyers care about the little man and most importantly for justice br br the other story line is about faith and family praises to the family and their strong christian submit any dedicated religion beliefs and wonderful family values i hope they win their lawsuit against the duval county sheriff's department br br bravo for justice bravo for the little guy
1	this film is a sleeper because rod steiger's is the only big name in the credits yet all of the supporting actors fit well with his character it was fitting that in his last film rod steiger reminded us once more of his inventive power as an actor he portrayed a grandfather's impulsiveness stubbornness and acceptance of the end of life in a characteristically individual and convincing performance because his character was close to death the story brings us closer to the most precious things granted to us the privilege of life relationships with family members and the empathy of those who care for us his search together with his grand daughter for one of his sons provided enough suspense to keep me waiting expecting a highly charged climax such as the meeting of two long separated elderly lovers who were also on the cusp of death in forever young i wondered how the meeting would be staged and how tightly my emotions would be wound by the time he and his granddaughter reached the end of his quest i was delighted to find that the story brought more than i expected the delightfully satisfying climax brought for me a greater appreciation of the value of the precious gifts of life love and family that are enjoyed today by me and by all of us
1	i found this film rather brilliant initially i wanted a when animals attack flick along the lines of frankenfish or even rogue but was delivered a truly horrific ordeal that was not devoid of humanity having been to the areas this was made including the croc farm at the start of the movie even sharing the same guide it added to the fear factor those crocs really are everywhere up there though i don't think they had the attitude of this beastie yes there were some melodramatic moments but they contributed rather distract from the whole atmosphere i genuinely cared for the characters and shuddered contemplating what would i do in their boat not knowing where your enemy lurked or the sound of the croc chowing down at night was genuinely frightening i would argue that this flick is one of the best horrors i have seen in years coming close to the descent i give it four alligator handbags
1	spoilers looking for a little more excitement then seeing crocodiles being fed at the local game reserve sisters grace and pat diana glenn together with grace's boyfriend adam andy decide to take a trip upstream in the desolate and deserted of human australian swamps br br with their swamp guide jimmy ben at the helm of his motorized boat the four get by a giant saltwater crocodile who quickly grabs and drags a terrified jimmy down to the bottom along with him grace pat adam end up stranded on a tree in the swamp with pat hanging on for dear life on the boat the rest of the film has the hungry and determined crocodile play a cat and mouse or and human game with the trio that ends in a showdown at a mud bank just where the dead and dismembered body of jimmy finally came to it's rest br br both the director and actors in the film take full advantage of the swamp making it at times far more scary then the giant crocodile swimming in it we get to see the killer crocodile just about a half dozen times in the movie but everyone of them hits you and jimmy grace pat adam right in the gut br br alway there were kept in suspense by the giant reptile always doing his damage from beneath that comes so unexpectedly that it the crock attacks has far more effect when you don't see them coming then like in the last ten minutes of the movie when you do you wonder right from the start who in the end would survive the crocodile attacks and eventually live to tell about them the ending with the crocodile vrs human confrontation was about the weakest and most unrealistic part in the film br br the crocodile who was both so cagey and effective in the earlier scenes seemed to have punched or swam himself out not having either the strength or speed to grab with his deadly jaws and finish off the sole survivor of the expedition in fact the killer crock was so ineffective that even after he his victim or victims he just couldn't hold on to them this in the end turned out to be fatal on his part br br a lot like jaws the film black water has the killer crocodile like the great white shark in jaws more interested is killing his human prey then eating them with all the food available in the swamp and rivers that he inhabited the crocodile was only after the quartet grace pat adam jimmy for invading his watery domain that he felt was the grand ruler of and for daring to do that they were to pay with their lives
1	the movie starts out with three people on a play it by ear holiday who decide to first visit a crocodile farm and then go on to a little lighter activity a fishing tour br br you pick up some interesting information about crocodiles during their visit to the farm and the information adds just enough to increase the suspense later during the movie as you recall what was told earlier on br br the action in the movie is well timed and not over done suspense is built through the what ifs the unknown and the sometimes gut wrenching decisions the characters make in the movie br br i found myself wondering what i would do if i was in the same boat no pun intended br br the film quality was really good and the effects where realistic believable and not over the top or cartoon looking and out of place the way you sometimes get with cgi br br as a horror movie buff i watch just about every horror movie i can get my hands on in just about every genre and this is one of the best crocodile horror movies if not the best i have seen br br watch this movie and you will not be disappointed
1	black water is a movie that in a way surprised me and definitely exceeded my original expectations black water is truly a very well structured unpredictable thrilling well directed and well creepy movie the plot is actually somewhat original and will definitely keep you intrigued with it one thing i love about this movie is the direction because mainly on how it surpassed my original expectations my original expectations of black water was that it was a crappily made acted directed paced and boring movie it really wasn't well the acting is nothing to praise because there were times were i feel they didn't show enough emotions and there are some lines that feel just so scripted however i love the direction because all of it's shots seem predictable but arn't like when watching it say the camera gets a slow shot of the water and it goes quite you're like the croc's about to attack however the croc's attacks are very unpredictable which was bad for me who doesn't handle films like this all to greatly and this does make you jump plus i just love that it's one of those horror movies that don't rely on the sudden big sound blast to make you jump but instead the actual movie i also like how the story is about people who are trapped in these trees it made it seem very real and definitely kept your eyes on the screen i must say i didn't think the opening 20 so minutes were done well and i think they made the boat a little heavier than it would have been in real life plus i didn't like how they tried their absolute best to make the characters situation seem entirely hopeless when it really wasn't also again i just don't think some of the characters actions were realistic for example i wouldn't have gone anywhere near the water knowing their was a crocodile in it let alone a killer one however these problems really arn't that major and i was still able to enjoy the film overall as far as movies go i've seen better but as far as animal attack horror films a genre i get easily scarred at it's one of the better ones you'll see and sure it's not perfect but that doesn't mean it's not worth a shot
1	if you've ever seen open water this is the same kind of gritty edgy indie style of film i liked the action suspense the slow building of it all i just hope they don't do to this one what they did to open water with that sequel but anyways the one thing i didn't like was the annoying younger sister i was rooting for the croc the whole time film starts out pretty much like it should kids packing up for a trip they hire a guide who mysteriously left 5 mins before they got there so i guess his assistant takes the two sisters and the boyfriend out on the water now mind you this is the second day of their adventure curiously enough the first day they spent at guess hmm a crocodile farm so they are out there and all is good for a little while then bang crocodile time very intense you know something in this movie you don't see the crocodile a whole heck of a lot but when you do gosh it is very scary i love the croc's snout and eyes and the shroud of fog that seems to the croc every time he raises his head above the water very very creepy but good overall this is a great film if you can get past the annoying little sister
1	when i read the synopsis 3 people lost in the wild battling against a huge crocodile i wasn't exactly drawn in it sounded like the typical yawn movie horror formula of a bunch of people stalked by a monster except in this case there are only three of them so we wouldn't even get the macabre of watching them get picked off one by one br br however i watched it couldn't sleep nothing else to do and it turned out to be much better than expected the acting is great the atmosphere tense and you really get that rare sense of a low budget winner br br horror as it should be done first rate film making it's not perfect but it's well worth seeing i give it a 7
1	black water has to be one of the best australian movies i've seen in many years my girlfriend and i sat gripping each others hands jumping in all the right spots this is as much a crocodile film as open water was a shark film in other words the creatures are merely part of the dilemma the trap in which people find themselves through circumstances how director's andrew and david wring as much suspense and terror from such a modest situation is amazing to watch unfold and when i say terror its not overblown artificially constructed squirm moments but more little touches that when you ask yourself how would i feel in that situation lead you to conclude scared witless performances were great the pacing and gorgeous cutaways to other life in the were excellent and the ending moments of the film felt very right this is a fitting feature debut for two directors who should rightfully by very proud go and watch this very beautifully shot and acted suspenseful film
1	went out with my friends and saw this movie last weekend here in london we didn't know what to expect the poster gave some of it away and i won't say any more so as not to spoil the plot but we found it to be an excellent film with great acting convincing plot and scary as hell having done some research on the making of the film i have to hand it to those guys the filmmakers actors writers etc for having put together such a film with such limited resources post production very well done too for all of that i give them a 10 out of 10 and i hope they will continue their fine work keep it up guys you rock
1	like most i thought 'another crocodile movie' so far we've had primeval and rogue in the last 12 months what can they do that's new where both those films were about action and violence this one's about fear and tension br br the performances aren't oscar worthy when there's nothing going on but in times of distress or terror these people suffer so much it's like torture there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don't really behave like this as others have pointed out but the fear is so effective it's a stretch to say you'll enjoy this movie it'll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ
1	i watched this movie with my mother she is 81 yrs old and was raised to be a bigot she even acknowledges this i don't think she really understood what was happening she had already made up her mind that the kid was guilty scary i felt for this child and his family what torture they went through and remained faithful that is true faith back to the movie i was disgusted by the police force and their ineptitude i am so glad that this public defender was chosen to work this case it was very fortunate for this family that they had a person that cared enough to see through the crap that was handed to him i could tell when one the cops was lying he would not look the defender in the eyes his eyes moved to the side when he answered the questions it is unfortunate that a black person has to be punished because of the color of his skin i read the book about the black man being dragged behind a truck by three white men they were finally found guilty after many years i can't remember the title but it was the same premise whites doing whatever they want with blacks i am sure the child in the movie will be traumatized for a long time if not forever i pointed out to my mother that most serial killers and pedophiles are white no comment from her i want to commend the director and producer of this film i feel the exposure they gave to this blatant injustice was a necessary project i am an avid viewer of indy films i feel that they are well written and have substance i am pleased that i happened to grab this movie on the shelf i felt compelled to write a comment because of how strongly i feel about the film and the prejudice that continues to exist in our modern society
1	the basic plot of this film has already been detailed in several other comments so i won't bother i'd like to first commend the producer cast directors and crew for creating a wonderfully engaging film on a meager budget a small fraction of standard hollywood fare that doesn't look cheap these people have a drive to make something new and entertaining while not spending a fortune doing it this is essentially art for art's sake i know i know some of you will decide that this is not art but something less and that's fine i for one am glad that people like these will continue to put forth the time and effort for our benefit without expecting huge dollar payoffs br br now to the criticism i feel that the scenario presented is credible to a point it's wonderful when everything works out and the hero heroine saves the day and all's well that ends well what gets me is the blatant manipulation of events so that blind luck is responsible more than courage and strength br br when lee was attacked but not severely injured somehow she washed up on a mud bank right next to the dead guide then miraculously his loaded revolver is still in his holster and it actually works after some cleaning and fiddling finally when lee is attacked on the mud bank and jumps in the water once again the croc fails to kill her she ends up with her hand in his her mouth and manages to repeatedly pull the trigger ultimately to blow the croc's brains out literally br br i came to the conclusion that having lee go hand to mouth with the croc was just a way to end the film with the human in triumph based upon what i have seen the croc's attack and continue to hold on until the prey stops struggling croc's will spin around and around to dismember and drown the prey that happened to the first 3 victims but not to lee she had teeth marks but they were not deep br br i think that the ending would have been better had the croc won frankly thereby proving his dominance of the his territory for millions of years but then how many of us would have been upset or disappointed that the pretty girl didn't get out alive
1	i put this movie on not expecting much other than a b movie gore fest thankfully i was presented with a very well made film that built up the suspense and managed to maintain it throughout its run time this was an impressive achievement the acting was solid creating characters that you cared about and related to and although some may find the film slow it did force you to think about what you would have done in the same situation added to this there was some fine camera work and the directors pulled it all together admirably an excellent effort then that is well worth your time if you prefer development and suspense over gore
1	i've read many unflattering comments regarding this film and the only things i have seen that they all have in common are boring and unrealistic br br first of all they used real frickin' crocs how much more realistic can you get no cgi no animatronics no miniatures just a croc and a piece of meat have fun fellas br br there is no question that this film gets off to a slow start character development what little they had anyway does take a bit of time and i think this is primarily where this film lacks br br however when the film gets going i found the action picked up dramatically i don't mean to say that there is a lot of action if anything there are more moments where the croc can't be seen at all and the people are just waiting however we know that there isn't going to be any relief and that the croc is just biding its time this had a similar eerie feel to other films that achieve their horror through non action such as open water another film that has been criticized by some viewers as being boring personally i think that viewers who find themselves incapable of feeling the suspense have had their attention spans surgically removed at birth but that's just me br br finally the characters feel real and the situation is such that it really could happen to anyone in the right circumstances furthermore the deaths are completely real and at times it's a little tough to watch br br all in all this one's a winner
1	one of the best horror suspense movies i have seen in a long time wow it was a big surprise and stunning at how good this movie was sometimes a gem like this will surface but is rare i expected a popcorn monster flick and a mildly diverting way to spend a late night but instead a very well made and directed movie with great acting and made with passion and heart br br this is a movie that makes you feel for the characters and what happens to them and it is filmed like you are there and it is really happening i know some people in other reviews compare it to open water but i disagree because i thought open water was quite boring and mediocre while this movie was the opposite although superficially they are filmed in the same realistic style br br the actors are unknowns at least to me but they all are very effective and convey the dire situation with frightening intensity and realism the story is well done and flows smoothly the plot is logical and appears to be something that could happen all the actions and thoughts of the characters are quite what a person would do and think about very believable and this makes the movie more real because of it br br i had tears in my eyes at the end i must say a movie seldom has this effect on me this is how powerful and emotional this movie was done and i am suitably impressed by the director and actors of this great movie
1	so well made no cgi crap has anyone else been on the jumping crocs tour of darwin's adelaide river before black water was way realistic rogue was a bit cringeworthy br br thought the blonde chick was excellent in it haven't really seen her before and the other chick is a babe she is always excellent br br v suspenseful i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick br br got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with and as well br br loved it
1	i live up here in croc territory and remember well the true events that inspired this movie our guts fall out each time we hear of a croc attack black water is quite simply the best croc movie i have ever seen while i loved rogue last year for all its effects and splashy scenes it was the local scenes that captured our audience we laughed in rogue more than anything black water however really resonated with the eeriness and fear that you can experience when you are alone in the you guys call them swamps or but they're every tourist should see this film before heading to the northern territory the ending was a bit of a letdown after the rest of the film but i'll be adding this one to my dvd collection when it becomes available
1	black water co directed and written by david and andrew is very simple in its execution yet effective the film is a low budget australian movie that will unfortunately not get the recognition it deserves because as far as creature features go this is one of the best out there the setup is rather basic grace her husband adam and her younger sister lee are touring some in the northern territory when a saltwater crocodile flips their boat and leaves them stranded in the trees the whole movie is about their survival while the crocodile is lurking below waiting to strike unlike greg rogue another killer croc movie released earlier in 2007 black water is not about the audience having fun guessing who's gonna be eaten next it is about hoping and praying that the three people will get out safely br br the three unknown actors do a great job with pretty demanding roles considering it was filmed on location with a real crocodile instead of cgi the characters act realistically in the situation and the dialogue seems natural and not forced suspense is built up throughout the entire film we do not see a lot of the creature but just knowing it is near is terrifying enough this is edge of your seat stuff and highly recommended if you enjoy original and most importantly scary horror films br br 4 5
1	this movie sets out to do something very particular it also sets out not to do certain things in short it has a definite premeditated trajectory to deal with the idea of facing death with very few choices and all of them bad as grave and real rather than something casual or amusing in search of that realism it has eschewed certain conventions such as obvious character arcs and hooks it not about the characters so much as about the human condition never mind what the actors would do what would you do in their situation br br open water may have been a starting notion for this movie but it goes a lot further unlike that film it doesn't cheat the audience in the end when you find out there aren't really any sharks to speak of at all this has a real monster not just the idea of a monster and not just an animated stand in it also has fine production values given what these very resourceful filmmakers had to work with and again in contrast to that other film it has some exhilarating and brilliantly rendered action at it's climax and let's not forget the shall we say 'dazzling' screen presence of its youngest star she may prove to be quite a discovery
1	i'd never heard of this aussie horror prior to michael elliott's enthusiastic review in fact after having read it i decided to check if the dvd was available at my local rental outlet and it was albeit a german edition i e sans the r1 extras so i opted to check the film out immediately br br while i wouldn't go so far as to give it full marks – only a select few titles get them from me let alone an obscure modern flick – i have to say that i was quite impressed with black water rather than looking back to previous crocodile movies such as alligator 1980 and lake placid 1999 it evokes the memory of two which saw a small group of people who go on a trip get lost and find themselves at the mercy of the elements and the creatures inhabiting the place – namely long weekend 1978 itself a little seen but impressive australian production and open water 2005 br br the compact simply plotted film involves a couple and the woman's younger sister who decide to go fishing in a remote and forbidding part of the australian wilderness known as crocodile territory very soon in fact before even 15 minutes have elapsed their boat is and the guide killed by an alligator – so our luckless adventurers take refuge up a tree the dvd talk reviewer believes the film suffers from spending too much time in this one location – with the three arguing about what they should do attempts to retrieve the boat seeking a way out of the jungle through the trees only to be met with nothing but water and the occasional attack by the monster however i think the makers take the situation as far as it will go without slipping into tedium this is due to the palpable suspense and as michael said the believability of the characters particularly the two women …but also the fact that the crocodile here makes for one of the scariest and most memorable in recent memory i wonder how they got it to br br i also agree with mike that the film contains some really effective shock moments – the alligator leaping out of the water to take a bite at the petrified heroes its head suddenly emerging in front of the women as they're making for the boat even though one of them does reach the vehicle the monster manages to lift its massive weight and get in the boat with her towards the end as the same girl manages to find a gun on the mangled body of their guide loads it and lies in wait for the alligator to appear the latter sneaks up from behind her incidentally the creature is bestowed with the craftiness of the shark in jaws 1975 with this in mind the finale is just as crowd pleasing though on an obviously smaller scale as that of the classic spielberg blockbuster – even if it has a downbeat follow up another definite asset is the film's sparse score – which is generally rather lovely but becoming unnerving at just the right moments br br at the end of the day black water emerges as a breath of fresh air in the face of the slump into which horror cinema has fallen of late for this reason alone it deserves greater exposure so as to remind us that there's hope yet for our beloved genre without the real necessity of resorting to the gimmickry of a cloverfield 2008 to command attention …
1	gore hounds beware this is not your movie this little nail bitter has very little blood and guts its basically a version of open water that is effective and worthwhile but what sets it apart is that we actually like the three leads unlike open water who find themselves up a tree when a crocodile flips their fishing boat and munches up their guide we don't want any harm to come to any of them so when they start getting into dangerous situations we actually care br br now i like killer animal flicks but i haven't been too impressed with lake placid up to primeval although i'm still waiting to see rogue and hoping it is somewhere as good as this one but this little bugger did the job and did the job well it's scares are creative and it only lapses into the run of the mill frantic crying sobbing and arguing for brief stints of realism so i never got annoyed br br i remember reading the true story that inspired this where three guys went fishing and two ended up in a tree while their buddy was killed by the crocodile but the thing that always impacted me that gets left out from the film was that the crocodile didn't eat up the buddy no for hours and hours he swam around the tree and shook the dead body still in his mouth at the friends in the tree seeming to stay if you come down here this is what will happen to you
1	i just saw the movie through netflix i was intrigued by the way the movie was described but in the end it was better i was moved in many different directions while watching this movie i was filled with hurt hate angry bitterness pain and finally relief to look at the young man accused would break your heart and convince you that they had the wrong person the smugness of the police makes you because just as the rodney king beating brought to light the brutality of the police this movie brings forth the total lack of moral fiber in these police and the fact that they beat this boy and got away with it only infuriates you more br br but i have to tell you i fell in love with the attorney mc guinness one of my favorite lines when he was telling us what an a hole on of the cops was the cop told him to go on keep sucking on that cancer stick mc guinness told the cop 'i always have a cigarette before sex ' i was letting him know i was going to screw him br br i have a new respect for some of the law in this country
1	as a kid i loved the song never smile at a crocodile and if i found myself in this state of affairs which is actually inspired by true events smiling would be the last thing on my mind from the opening set up i've never been so entrenched caught up and finally exhausted like i was when watching this limited budget independent australian horror film about three people in northern territory trapped in a swamp with a very conniving crocodile waiting in the water below them what really brought the film alive was how realistic it managed to be in transporting the fear and uncertainty of the characters' situation to the audience semi documentary camera work with a eerie backdrop and authentic performances effectively take you out of your comfort zone what we get is a patient survival tale than just a bloody all out creature feature onslaught think of open water 2003 where its budget and time restraint made sure it would stay low key but this minimal barrier enhanced the experience br br the slow grinding story might be black and white but it never seemed to become disposable or succumb to formulaic patterns well not largely and the connection between the characters were emotionally engaging even with a bare straight forward script although you can say less is more with the actions and expressions illuminating the lingering thoughts plaguing their minds the ordeal is utterly terrifying because the threat is very alive and never seems to loosen up this is what drives the film's chaotic adrenaline and in which it lasts even when its kept buried through to the very end br br writers directors andrew and david economical guidance alienates and smartly strings along the viewer with its taut pacing and harrowing psychological traits in certain patches the notch goes up with pressure induced suspense and startling images the way the night sequence is executed is immensely chilling and pulsating the menacing crocodile manipulative toys with its fresh meat in a distressingly suspenseful approach sure some moments felt unlikely but never does it get in the way or distract sound fx is the key and at times the lack of any just eats away at you may's musical score is unassuming and doesn't really enter the mixture much but when it does it builds an organic sounding quality the cinematography of john is beautifully devised and rapidly aggressive when the mood changes it was always on the move and claustrophobic but none of this jerky movements the editing was sharply handled and the effects were professionally catered by superbly combing live crocodile footage br br something like this production would also have to rely on its cast to sell to the story in a believable manner and they do it diana glenn andy and especially are persuasively good a lot of the responsibility falls on and she strongly delivers with an inspired turn now this item might cop some comparisons with another killer crocodile film rogue 2007 but the two couldn't be any different in what they want to be and how they end up if i had to pick though i'm leaning more towards this outing for its sheer involvement to snap at you br br a remarkable effort on all fronts with everyone involved showing potential to really look out for
1	this low budget crocodile movie really delivers the goods the fact that it was inspired by true events would mean little if you wound up with a fake looking crocodile bad c g i or an obvious studio setting fortunately none of the above are involved with this terrific very realistic film the crocodile is real there is no c g i and the on location filming takes place in an actual australian swamp the actors were obviously inspired to create as much realism as possible in their performances and they succeed you can place yourself in their predicament which is testament to how realistically black water translates as entertainment highly recommended merk
1	black water is one of the most tense films i have viewed in a long time the story moves fast as it follows three tourists all great actors into a swamp on a tour with a butch tour guide on a small boat soon after dropping anchor in a remote area of the swamp they are flipped over by something huge in the water br br hastily the three manage to make it into a tall tree nearby as they realize that a crocodile has attacked them throughout the next two days they have to desperately try to escape from the crocodile's evil watchful eye and he doesn't seem to want to go away the movie drags just a tad bit but what can you expect from the setting and the limited budget it's so much better than primeval and other recent crocodile underwater predator thrillers the tension is heavy and all three leads give terrific performances truly chilling this movie struck a deep chord of claustrophobic fear in me apparently based on true events
1	while on vacation on northern australia gracie diana glenn her husband adam andy and her younger sister lee decide to take the blackwater barry tour in the swamp for fishing their guide jim ben uses a small motor boat and takes the tourist along the river to a remote spot when they stop they are attacked by a huge crocodile that their boat and immediately kills jim the three survivors climb a tree and when they realize that help would never come to rescue them they decide to try to find a way out of their sheltered location however in the muddy water their boat is flipped and the crocodile stalks the trio under the water br br black water is a tense realistic and dramatic low budget movie and in accordance with the warning in the beginning based on a true event the acting of the unknown diana glenn and andy is top notch giving credibility to this simple but scary story there are many similarities between this movie and prey but in different environments my vote is seven br br title brazil profundo deep fear
1	warning i advise anyone who has not seen the film yet to not read this comment br br this movie was on the shelf at a movie store and since i had seen a handful of very corny horror flicks there i had really low expectations for this one well i put it in and almost immediately i was sucked right in while watching i got deeper and deeper into the story and pretty soon i was staring in complete interest this movie is surprisingly spectacular and i loved every second the story is about a boat ride down a river in australia it seems safe enough until their boat is ambushed by a croc who's ready for some food when i looked at the back of the case i thought that this movie was going to have crappy visual effects like in lake placid 2 and a lot of others but when i first saw the crocodile it looked amazingly real don't laugh when i say this for i am being serious but this is one of the most creepiest films i've ever seen it really knew how to build up nail biting tension and suspense with it's intense situation i mean think about it your stuck in a tree nowhere to run nowhere to hide with a hungry predator in the depths of the water below you can not tell me that doesn't freak you out just a little it even managed to give me a few chills down my arms like when adam was taken by the croc and grace and lee are left baffled this is a very appealing movie there were maybe 1 or 2 parts where i found myself slightly uninterested but other than that i would say this is my favorite animal attack film that i have seen
1	black water is a thriller that manages to completely transcend it's limitations it's an indie flick by continually subverting expectations to emerge as an intense experience br br in the tradition of all good animal centered thrillers ie jaws the edge the original cat people the directors know that restraint and what isn't shown are the best ways to pack a punch the performances are real and gripping the is extremely well done indeed if the black water website is to be believed that's because they used real crocs and the swamp location is fabulous br br if you are after a b grade gore fest croc romp forget black water but if you want a clever suspenseful ride that will have you fearing the water and wondering what the hell would i do if i was up that tree then it's a must see
1	while many people found this film simply too slow and simplistic i really connected with it there is no plot as such rather the film takes the form of a human survival story about three people trapped up a tree with a man eating crocodile lurking somewhere in the water beneath them br br personally i thought the acting was mostly very good despite the roles being quite demanding at times and i felt a sense of warmth for the characters the situation they were in was quite terrifying and i really felt nervous for them i found the whole film quite nerve wracking because of the sheer helplessness of their situation and the constant threat to their survival br br the crocodile effects were handled surprisingly well for such a low budget film and believe me i have seen my fair share of dodgy croc movies the creature moved well and had real menace and although the audience i was with didn't seem too keen on the film as a whole they still jumped and gasped whenever the crocodile appeared br br script wise i would have made a few changes particularly towards the end but this was not a major problem for fans of slow burning survival horror set within the realms of reality this will be an engaging film but unfortunately i think for many audiences seeking a thrill ride and higher production values from their cinema experience the point will simply be missed
1	br br as i am a teenager i have about one hundred years of movies to catch up on i try to see a mixture of classics mainstream art house and other movies the 70's is one of the most important decades for films it's when the average common classical films changed into full of messages and anti social behavior it became like nothing anyone had ever seen before what a decade under the influence basically shows is how important all of the movies from around the graduate to about star wars br br richard lagravenese and the late ted demme are the primary in this documentary which interviews such people as dennis hopper francis ford coppola martin scorsese robert altman and jon voight among others about how those few years changed cinema forever it's a very professional polished documentary and it's even financed by ifc films however as this is a very professional one i would think that they would at least edit out the noise of someone behind the camera laughing to me that took out a lot of how neat and clean the whole thing was br br on the other hand it's a very interesting documentary about film by the people who make it of course they aren't bashing their own films or anything of the like but they're portraying honesty on what they thought of the films and what they meant i don't know much about film but i want to be involved around it when i become an adult so i feel like to someone like me this movie is a huge asset i have seen a good number of movies that they mentioned like chinatown and one flew over the cuckoo's nest but a little more insight into those movies were very informative br br the main reason however i didn't love influence is as slickly as it was edited it seemed to take its time in the beginning and be quite relaxed therefore not having enough time to get to everything that they wanted to show they crammed in star wars and jaws in the last few minutes when they were two of the most important it seemed like they tried too hard to show lots of clips and that's fine but some of them were unimportant such as an extended one from network br br overall though influence is a very enthralling informative documentary that helped me at least learn more about a second golden age' in american cinema br br my rating 7 10 br br rated r for language and images of sexuality violence and drug use
1	i swore i would never allow myself to devolve into to the bogus authority figures of the sixties who told me things were better in the good old days – the current australian prime minister is a sordid example of just such a mind set br br but i switched over to a decade under the influence because i found watching the much heralded sneakers documentary on the other channel such a dispiriting experience i found the values expressed by the sneakers interviewees too ugly to accept as reasonable so materialistic so devoid of any sense of outrage at a society that can countenance killing someone to steal his very ugly shoes so lacking in any worthwhile purpose that they can report without distaste the exploitation an audience by haranguing them to hold those shoes above their heads to lock in a sponsorship deal for themselves with a company of cobblers was just too much to continue watching br br a decade under the influence depicted a completely different response to the fruit of stupidity corruption and in high and low places br br i have noted the change in film making that accompanied the exposure of america's disastrous foreign policy debacles in vietnam and so many less reported places in my www com au website a decade under the influence documents the precise moment at which that change took place br br before the seventies the armed forces were depicted in american films as an invincible fighting force comprised of decent human beings who into conquering heroes on the battlefield after the seventies they are generally portrayed as a rabble misled by a bunch of bureaucrat clowns in the pentagon before the seventies the fbi agent and the honest cop tended to be depicted as your friend and protector after the seventies the fbi agents were all incompetent and the best a cop could aspire to was to ignore their foolishness and his superior's corruption and uphold justice in his own idiosyncratic manner br br before the seventies the archetypical american little guy the average joe the jimmy stewart type would face down the problems encountered and thereby gain some insight into underlying wisdom of his elected leaders and justice of the american way after the seventies kevin costner that role but now he is the voice of one crying out in the wilderness for evil to be exposed or accepting his lot and making out the best he can br br and now those old time religion mindsets have been stripped of any honesty and righteousness and portrayed with a certain amount of justification as sanctimonious bigotry and self serving hypocrisy br br a decade under the influence tells it like it was a decade under the influence tells it like it is now it depicts the redemption of the american film industry from the hands of the artistically morally and intellectually bankrupt studio moguls it shows the storming of the hollywood bastille by the independent film makers who promised to get a disillusioned and tired audience back into the cinemas the fact that their failures were numerous and at times disastrous merely underlines the greatness of their achievement an achievement reflected in the adventurous and questioning attitudes of the big box office stars such as clooney daman affleck etc and the directors and producers who provide the vehicles for their talent
1	this exploration of a unique decade in us cinema begins with the fall of one ailing out of touch empire and culminates with the unstoppable rise of another equally associated with escapism and box office receipts meet the new boss same as the old boss or as peter fonda observed in easy rider we blew it in between from bonnie and clyde to star wars the young turks some under the guerrilla tutelage of roger corman were creeping under the wires to produce some of the greatest artworks of the 20th century while the story is already familiar from peter easy riders raging bulls directors demme and lagravenese are less concerned with than in providing a platform for the filmmakers and stars themselves br br everyone from martin scorsese to francis ford coppola and julie christie is interviewed and a roster of well edited clips places the decade in a socio cultural and economic context if their responses are self congratulatory to say the least they're also highly quotable funny and revealing making this something of a wet dream director william friedkin reveals how the original the exorcist poster was to feature a little girl's hand holding a bloodied crucifix and the legend 'for god's sake help her before he complained former warner bros ' head john recalls that when he first saw robert de niro in mean streets he assumed scorsese had secured a day release for the shoot br br happily a certain amount of hard perspective has crept into the mix as might be hoped from a politically motivated consciousness expanded generation hopper stresses there's a lot of real crap in there too julie christie observes that 1970s us cinema was not a good time for women but if demme responds with a spoonful of to women's movies brief clips of alice doesn't live here anymore they shoot horses don't they and klute we're soon dragged back to the usual male wall pissing contests br br the shift from tough socially conscious film making to no risk crowd pleasers like jaws for 'nam weary fantasy craving audiences is also documented though a little rushed but kudos too for the inclusion of lesser sung but equally relevant films like panic in needle park and joe we weren't handsome muses bruce dern on his contemporaries but we were f interesting
1	this is a fascinating documentary about a 15 year old black lad who is accused of murdering a tourist in florida and the court case that follows what this film shows is how corrupt the american police system is and how easy it can really be to convict an innocent man and how a senile old fool who thinks one black man looks very much like another and sod it if he rots in jail because i said he was the man who murdered my wife the star is the defence lawyer who is brilliant at not only his job in court but he also did he what the police should have done all along fascinating stuff 7 out of 10
1	lackawanna so emotionally powerful in its portrayal of urban blacks during the 50s and early 60s a culture of joy and sadness specific to working class blacks that existed outside the mainstream culture the characters of santiago hudson's play depicted black individuals who lived imperfect lives but maintained strong positive values of love loyalty and honor although the characters moved away from those values at times they did not deny the importance of the values instead they recognized and accepted their own imperfection and those of the other characters without judgment that passed through the life of nanny the central characters were strong and believable the settings were realistic and brought back personal memories of a by gone era pre integration urban life was a time of sensory intoxication sight sound and smell that could almost be experienced by watching the drama lackawanna blues unfold i will watch it again and again
1	what a wonderful documentary i sat down thinking this would be a rehash of the bitchy stories told in easy riders raging bulls but it is in fact a clear eyed glorious celebration of a strange and twisted era that spawned some truly great movies what struck me was the lack of bitterness apparent in the director interviews given that now the movie business sucks in a large fashion instead folk like friedkin and coppola's eyes seem to positively glitter recalling their glory days the footage of an audience coming out of a daytime screening of the exorcist was priceless 'it was traumatic ' one guy says a great epitaph for the late ted demme a thrilling film i just wish it was longer i could have sat through a three hour cut of this
1	a surprisingly good documentary my surprise was mainly due to the fact that i was confused by the title i assumed this was about the influence of the drug culture on film making but no it is a much more far reaching and intelligent film than could have been expected demme has done a great job in encapsulating the period from the late 60s to the late 70s from and the collapse of studio influence through all those introspective 'real life' movies where brilliant young directors tried to express themselves politically sexually and artistically through to the beginnings of the blockbuster and the return of the reigns to the money men and their studios as someone who saw the 'real life' movies of britain and the rest of europe through the sixties and then the revolutionary us films of the 70s and is sad that the sequel to the sequel is so much the order of the day this was a most fascinating film the interview clips are measured thanks to dvd the full interviews are available as extras and the film clips well considered also as someone who has only just caught up with 'joe' i am impressed that this important little film gets its well deserved entry here
1	and my reasons for which are simple there are so many great films presented and discussed here most of them by their own directors and stars so many clips of infamous moments in 70's movie history and in fact a number of films i have yet to see that it wouldn't be fair to grade this work by this logic i shouldn't have given grades to other movie documentaries like martin scorsese's personal journey through american movies and my voyage to italy but while those films were on the basis of one man's view of cinema narrating through most of the way richard and the late ted a decade under the influence lets the films and the creators speak entirely for themselves br br what makes worth at least one watch for film buffs or just anyone who likes the films of the late 60's 70's in america are the levels that it goes to that in the uncut version three hours not the theatrical version which i have no comment on plenty of ground is covered interviews include the likes of scorsese robert altman sidney lumet julie christie jon voight francis ford coppola paul schrader pam grier bruce dern peter bogdanovich roger corman dennis hopper robert towne etc and there's a constant flow of insight from start to finish the way the clips and directors actors pop up edited together in a flashy and quick style is also fascinating br br the one down comment i have on the documentary is that most of the information presented has been reported on in various books like easy riders raging bulls and though i haven't seen the movie version of that book yet i'm sure it would have covered many of the films and directors and incidents as here in fact the book of that is one of the best i've ever read however this documentary serves as something special for film buffs and occasional movie goers of the future they can look at this and learn not only about such well known pictures as easy rider the last picture show annie hall coming home and lessor knowns like scarecrow panic in needle park the landlord joe they shoot horses don't they they can also learn about who influenced them new waves of europe and asia who they served as influences for and how the subject matter that created controversy after controversy still serves as intriguing and chancy material for the contemporary crowd seek this out
1	in retrospect the 1970s was a golden era for the american cinema as demonstrated and explored by this documentary directed by ted demme and richard lagravenese this ifc effort serves to illustrate and clarify the main idea of what that time meant for the careers of these illustrious people seen in the documentary br br the amazing body of work that remains is a legacy to all the people involved in the art of making movies in that period the decade was marked by the end of the viet nam war and the turbulent finale of those years of jimmy carter's presidency br br one thing comes out clear films today don't measure against the movies that came out during that creative decade because the industry as a whole has changed dramatically the big studios nowadays want to go to tame pictures that will be instant hits without any consideration to content or integrity as long as the bottom line shows millions of dollars in revenues br br the other thing that emerges after hearing some of america's best creative minds speak is the importance of the independent film spirit because it is about the only thing that afford its creators great moral and artistic rewards br br this documentary is a must see for all movie fans
1	the 1970s opened the door to the largest most diverse era of film in the history some films were great the godfather the conversation mean streets chinatown the french connection five easy pieces jaws mccabe and mrs miller others were not so great the getaway the outfit badge joe the taking of pelham one two three brewster mccloud castle keep and others were barely worth the price of admission br br yet every one was a fresh breath of air compared to today's corporate hollywood where every film is given a big weekend to recoup its cost or go straight to hbo and rental br br what decade does so well is to relate the sudden and rarely experienced sensation of freedom to be given money to make and direct a film perhaps personal perhaps not sometime with a clutch of extras sometimes in the middle of a busy street before the cops show up long before the corporate suits committees and lawyers ever became part of the system br br the commentaries are superb especially julie christie and dennis hopper though as you listen you'll slowly discover just how many big directors today coppola scorsese ron howard dennis hopper peter got stated as roger corman commandos working long hours with short pay shooting a film in under a month learning all the steps and tricks of the trade by doing it themselves turning in product that was on time and under budget br br see decade for its message and for a long and varied list of films to watch made through those wondrously turbulent years br br though i would not complain if ifc decided to devote another documentary solely to that most under rated grand pioneer of film roger corman
1	this is a great compendium of interviews and excerpts form the films of the late sixties and early 70s that were a counter movement to the big studio films of the late sixties directed by ted demme it is obviously a labor of love of the films of the period but it gives short shrift to the masterpieces of the times br br many of the filmmakers of this period were influenced by truffaut antonioni fellini bergman and of course john cassavetes unfortunately the documentary logging in at 138 minutes is too short the film is rich with interviews and opinions of filmmakers some of the people interviewed are martin scorsese francis coppola robert altman peter bogdonovich ellen burstyn and roger corman bruce dern sydney pollack dennis hopper and jon voight br br bruce dern has a moment of truth when he says that he and jack nicholson may not have been as good looking as the other stars that came before them but they were interesting this summarizes the other areas of this period of film making in american history br br the filmmakers were dealing with a lack of funding from the studios because they were expressing unconventional attitudes about politics sex drugs gender and race issues and americas involvement in overseas conflicts like the vietnam war br br there is a great interview with francis coppola saying that he got the chance to make the conversation because the producers knew he had been trained by roger corman to make a movie with nothing so they bankrolled his film br br another interview is with jon voight who was directed by hal ashby in coming home a clear anti war film about a crippled soldier immersing himself back into society after his facing battle voight talks about how his working methods helped him achieve an emotional telling point when ashby said that they were doing a rehearsal take and it ended up being the take used in the film it was better because it was so un rehearsed and not drained of its freshness by being over rehearsed br br there are also many fine excerpts from al pacino's break through film the panic in needle park and interviews from dennis hopper on the making of easy rider and interviews from sydney pollack about making films br br all in all the documentary is a fine jumping off point for any film lover who wants to see great examples of what the new voices in film were like in the seventies many of the sundance folks where this film made a big splash are unaware of just how much the independent film maker today owes to the films of john cassavetes milos foreman william friedkin and roger corman br br rent it from your favorite shop it will at least perk you up to some films you may not have seen before and can enjoy today amazon com has it for as little as 11 50 if you want to buy right out
1	when i tuned in to my local pbs station last night to watch the war that made america i was expecting a dull documentary instead i got a very good and believable reenactment of the major events of the time now i see the reasons for the american revolution and the part the indian wars played larry is george washington and he is perfect for that part the narrative to the camera also work fantastic i'm looking forward to next week to see the rest it's good to see pbs really using the hd format to bring the 1700 right in to our living room br br i hope larry is seen more in the future since he is such a talented actor
1	as a long time resident of western pa i have an intimate knowledge of this topic and found it to be so authentically captured on film kudos to the producers of this epic and what a great legacy to the school children for years to come br br the attention to detail and realistic depiction of this complicated web of events make it a one of a kind production br br viewers will find themselves mesmerized by the storyline and captivated by the storytelling br br grahame greene is magnificent as the presenter br br bravo
1	the student nurses is not a typical sexploitation movie sure the nudity and sexual openness is there but it's not all for laughs stephanie scripted a socially compelling well written tits ass movie which confronts the topics of racism socio economic rape abortion medical ethics public health issues human rights the vietnam war free love lsd and drug experimentation four sexy college roommates are taking their nursing at the same time sharon elaine is assigned to the terminal care ward lynn farrell to public health administration priscilla barbara leigh to and karen carlson to psychiatry these four beauties have ample opportunities to disrobe and fornicate of which they take advantage much to the delight of male viewers these are liberated women at the height of the sexual revolution after all and are as intelligent as they are horny and beautiful visceral yet low budget action sequences are interspersed throughout there's a very bloody gunfight at the resistance movement headquarters in which two policemen are shot and killed along with several members of the group an anti vietnam war protest consisting of spookily dressed young people of all races painted like skeletons becomes violent with cops beating protesters the effective trip sequence on the beach consists of beautiful weird and confusing sensory and memory montages with hyper sensual overtones in short the student nurses is a thoughtful and compelling reflection of the times expressed through real women's perspectives since it was written and directed by a woman but it's still fun and titillating despite its sobering treatment of subject matter
1	four lovely young nurses in their last year of nursing school experience all kinds of turmoil and excitement in their lives sweet susan winsome brunette elaine tries to comfort the bitter terminally ill greg a moving performance by darrell larson eager but neurotic lovely blonde karen carlson romances handsome jim caspar affable lawrence casey free spirited hippie priscilla the stunningly gorgeous barbara leigh gets impregnated by laid back drug dealer les the solid richard rust and compassionate lynn nicely played by farrell helps out angry mexican revolutionary victor charlie the excellent reni santoni despite the fact that this film was made for roger corman's legendary exploitation outfit new world pictures it's anything but your standard mindless piece of leering soft core schlock instead it's a very pleasant charming and even often thoughtful time capsule of the social and political upheavals of the groovy early 70's the subplot involving lynn and the revolutionaries is especially potent and provocative special kudos are in order for director stephanie who brings a welcome and refreshing intelligence and sensitivity to the material moreover the four attractive and appealing female leads all turn in sound and praiseworthy work scottie macgregor likewise impresses as wise supervisor ms boswell and ubiquitous 70's trailer voice guy ronald gans supplies the off screen voice of a psychiatrist larner's polished cinematography the fantastic rock soundtrack and the flavorsome score by clancy b grass iii are all up to speed a real sleeper
1	i happened to leave hbo on last night following six feet under what ran next has left me speechless what an incredible piece of work i don't just recommend this i mandate that you see this it's better than anything hollywood could ever ruin i just hope they never get their hands on it
1	the student nurses is an excellent film that deals with four women bonded by friendship and career for the first time one is able to see a realistic portrayal of relationships inside the work place outside the work place the risks of those relationships and the consequences this film also offers a rare chance to see veteran stage and television actress katherine scottie macgregor as the instructor miss boswell ms macgregor is best known for her performance as mrs on the television series little house on the prairie the direction music and print color are very good as well as the opening theme song performed by clancy b grass iii this film offers a rare opportunity for those who enjoy themes centered around the late 1960s and early 1970s which offers a softer side to life while appreciating the beauty of the female sex
1	this is by far the best stand up routine i have ever seen john leguizamo's one man show tells the supposed story of his life in a barrage of lines and situations by far better than any other comedy out there
1	john leguizamo's freak is one of the funniest one man shows i've ever seen i recommend it to anyone well anyone with a good sense of humor
1	john leguizamo's one man show is both funnier and more involving than most movies you'll see a number of devices such as slide projectors are used to enhance the story but this is essentially good old fashioned performance art in particular check out his hilarious rendition of i will survive highly recommended
1	john leguizamo is a great comedian and storyteller every time this has been on hbo i've had to stop and watch it john tells the story of how he grew up probably some fact and fiction and adds hilarious stories in the midst if you like john's comedy i would have to say this is probably his comedy at his best
1	this one man show may be the most fantastic show i've ever seen to call this simply a stand up act is to do it a great injustice there is a definate reason that this was a broadway show john leguizamo is a master of making people of every culture feel at home listening to his story of growing up and dealing with his family and life in general i would reccomend this show to anyone as long as they can handle the language
1	after watching john preform this one of a kind show i had to share it was really something to watch a grown man portray himself as a child i like the fact that with every character he became you could picture what they looked like it is more entertaining when you can understand the individual freak is what real stand up should be john is real talent
1	john has made two one man shows o rama and freaks and neither one has shown up on dvd john why do you this to me john put it on dvd john so the people can see they need to see john d just in case anyones keeping a watchful aye
1	this was very energetic and well played show i saw it back in 98 and my friends and i still joke about it each time i watch it's always as funny as the first i also love the way that everyone can relate to it in their own particular ways i am very much looking forward to seeing more of john's own scripts and productions br br unfortunately i can't find it anywhere for sale and i've done quite a lot of looking if anyone knows a website or store to refer me to i would very much appreciate it as i am looking for his other live performances as well please send me a message if any of you have info on the subject thankyou
1	i never saw any of john leguizamo's stand up before i watched freak and after seeing it again on hbo comedy recently it was better more enlivening and with things that at the age of 14 i couldn't understand quite before spike lee did a wonderful job directing keeping the visual angle up to par with leguizamo's theatrics and the style of personal storytelling it's substance and style merging together but we get leguizamo's rants about race and sex the bits about sex are classic but a lot of it is about family and what sticks still fresh in my mind is about his father even when things get dark in some of the stories there's something fresh or crazy or random that leguizamo pulls out to get a laugh and it works more often than not if something does fall flat for me at any rate it might be his personality tics here and there but overall it's the kind of fun material that isn't heady but is so true to itself that it stings find it if you can
1	i don't need to say much about how good this documentary is it's truly an amazing piece of true narrative the story is simple enough a white senior citizen tourist is murdered by a young black man in florida and the boy who is arrested is mistreated and put on trial with only the public defender and his family on his side it's very enthralling and the public defender is a joy to watch in all his human ways you can't help but pull for the triumph of justice and the ending fulfills more than could be expected of a true story br br it's a shame more people haven't seen this documentary but hopefully you will find a way to watch it for those interested in race relations in the united states and the actual workings of law enforcement and the legal process it's well worth your time and effort to find this documentary i give it a 10
1	after seeing this routine by john leguizamo i finally realize why he is such a talent i enjoy great stage work and this is stage work at its best i cannot label it as a stand up routine because leguizamo is so intense when playing the different characters the only time he breaks character is when it is necessary for him to complete his part in which he does so coolly that you cannot help but appreciate his talents i wasn't really sure how i felt about him as an actor but freak solidified my appreciation of him for those out there that have not had the opportunity to see this show i feel for you definitely check it out it is one of the nest routines i have ever seen ranks with eddie murphy bill cosby and chris rock four stars and more
1	john leguizamo's one man shows are hit or miss mambo mouth showed off his intense characterizations and great timing but the material was average o rama accomplished the former as well but this time the material was funny freak is a classic followed by his disappointing sex o holic but his stuff in freak showcases his genius and when he's in the spotlight he's without peer br br semi autobiographical look at the journey of a young man has power and resonance i don't think even it's creator knew about by allowing us the chance to see his soul mr leguizamo gives us an opportunity to project our own life onto his and there can be no greater gift a performer can give the willingness to drop 'the wall' expose and share is too terrifying for most actors they use characters to hide behind but goes full throttle and gleefully smashes any pretenses lenny bruce and richard pryor were our best cultural observers comedians actors because they spoke from their heart about whatever they noticed in society and the truth provided slashing humor combine that with a great actor's gift of mimicry and being in the moment not to mention a sense of humanity and you'll see john leguizamo has the power to do the same at least in freak he does br br from birth to his first big break and every life altering moment in between a viewer sees our host and other characters in their most private moments all the while experiencing the pain hope and humor that comes with looking drained and lean muscled tight is ringing with sweat by evening's end having offered up his crazy life for an audience spike lee's fluid camera work captures the actor's nuances down to the last lip curl and slow blink the scenarios range from drinking with his machismo fueled father when he was 9 to seeing a chorus line with his gay deaf uncle his first girlfriend's vicious humiliation when he strips naked eager to have sex a nightmarish first sexual encounter with a large german woman in the back of a kentucky fried chicken follows an unsuccessful attempt to pick up a drunk lapsed catholic in a bar on st patty's day climaxing in a serious showdown with his mother and father it's here that he shows his true genius he plays a scene between these two characters and himself and his brother with such a strong dramatic humourous intensity you forget you're watching only one person there's no costume changes bad wigs lighting tricks or makeup just an actor giving his all it's simply amazing br br other actors comedians that stand out right now are eddie izzard and chris rock but they don't dive into themselves as deeply as john leguizamo does that's not a criticism not by a long shot i love their work but freak is different it's moving in a no b way it's the best one man show out there and no one will be able to touch it for a long time
1	definitely not a film to revolutionize the industry or introduce any new techniques of film making this is a very handsome and solid production it's miraculous that we can today enjoy it in superb quality on dvd probably most of the viewers about a 100 years ago saw a black and white copy as the tinted de edition was available only at the very best theaters even if you are not fascinated by this film or the subject of it you can't but marvel at the copy released by image entertainment together with another gem from the manger to the cross 1912 it's virtually impossible to see a film that is over a century old but shows so little damage the process of colouring was a very effective one and compared to the occasionally blurry and smeared images of hand coloured film the colours are crisp and well defined filmed within the limitations of the film making as known back in 1902 when the filming commenced the static nature of the scenes can today be considered almost intentional meditative and solemn the tableaux keep moving at a steady paste so the film never gets tedious you might not be fascinated by this film as a work of cinematography but it sure is handsome as a work of academic picturesque art if you are a religious person the fact that you are watching anonymous long since departed people playing long since departed characters adds to the mystery significantly a proper viewing for christmas or lent br br p s i've ticked the contains spoilers box just for fun as you can see i haven't revealed the ending
1	i have always been fascinated by silent films there is something about seeing actors and actresses from 100 years ago performing jaded by today's high tech special effects i always try and imagine what it was like to watch a particular film at the time of it's original release it helps to appreciate the crudeness of early cinema br br the life and passion of jesus christ is a very charming production from pathe originally filmed in 1902 but expanded and finally released in 1905 imagine a series of famous religious paintings coming to life separated by title cards and you will have a pretty good idea of what this film is like for example the scene in which mary and joseph rest as they are escaping to egypt is almost identical to luc olivier painting rest on the flight to egypt right down to mary sitting on the famous sphinx while some might find these living paintings an unimaginative cop out i found them to be very charming and very nostalgic br br the sets and costumes appear to be right out of a stage production of the life of christ possibly from and elaborate passion play of the day the make up on the cast is very theatrical so much so that a close up of jesus is almost comical again where others might be bothered by the of them i was quite charmed br br having been filmed over a period of 3 years the continuity isn't too bad the biggest flaws are in the casting changes made over that time the characters of john the apostle and the 12 year old jesus change in mid scene much to the audiences surprise br br the best unintentional humor of the film is in the birth of jesus scene the baby literally appears as if by magic in the manger between mary and joseph maybe it was simply my frame of mind at the time i viewed it but i laughed out loud if only child birth were that easy to top it off the actress who plays mary looks bored through the whole scene actually through the whole movie as if this sort of thing happens every day my how times have changed br br as simplistic as this film is compared to today it's really a wonderful window into the past i recommend it br br
1	tempo di time to kill by is a bit of a strange film but it's good in it's own way br br i won't bother with a summary of the plot most that i've read gives the wrong impression and makes me believe that most people who wrote those didn't really understand the film and you need to understand it to some level even if you cannot describe for yourself what it's actually about this film is strange in a once upon a time in america way only shorter br br many 'hollywood' stars whatever that may mean have played in lesser known italian productions it's known that many actors who are past their prime or slowly rising to it do this cage was not yet a real star when this was made i'm not a fan of him he's very good in some roles raising arizona bringing out the dead and weak when he plays the hero i don't really know what to think of him in this one but he sure doesn't portray the typical hero main character this film could have done without him but the fact that he starred may be the only reason this one ever made it to dvd br br the supporting cast is good not one of them looks fake and they act as if they are really there solid support br br i have seen 3 films by marco polo sacco and this one and i think he is one of the greater directors of this time unfortunately nobody knows him this movie was his last in a long time a break of 19 years i think that this movie might have failed at the office but from the way it is done i think that for it was a personal project that he really liked br br the production is great it's always enough the dusty army camps the cities and the magnificent landscape all play a great part it all feels very real in some scenes you can almost feel the heat the sound itself is nothing special but the music by ennio morricone is very good it's not a piece that you will whistle when in the shower but it sure works great br br so this movie looks feels and sounds just right it doesn't serve the lessons learned from it on a golden platter but that may be the biggest difference between hollywood and euro cinema all around it might sound strange to give it an 8 and not recommend it to people but that is what i do if you are looking for action avoid this one if you are looking for a well made apocalypse now in a different time and setting but with a bit of similar journey into a 'state of mind' sorry if this sound corny but i don't know what else to call it you just might enjoy this one a lot
1	in the wake of my personal research into the pending end cycle time of 2012 presented by the mayan calendar system i believe this movie should be seen every bit as much as what the bleep do we know while some may believe that matters of top level science should only be communicated in doctorate level speak the elegant universe breaks such barriers the visuals and the select dialog make it easy to comprehend this walk through the history of physics there are numerous messages in this movie the least of which is that academic science must always be ready to revise what's being taught true pure discovery science is beautiful because there's always something additional and exciting to bring to the fore if we have the courage to seek it out in the face of established science
1	the elegant documentary br br don't watch this movie if you're an egotistical know all student of physics this much less than one percent miniscule fraction of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know br br do watch this movie if you're one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than 99 of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity quantum string and m theory br br what a brilliantly architected documentary starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic and dimensions beyond i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you're about to fail the grade br br the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence br br we are all and everything around us is energy with a natural tendency towards harmony this movie may blow your mind or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us even with the telescope and far far smaller than the and within the atoms we learned about in high school m theory holds many magnificent of br br it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it's very nature move by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting out of the realm of science and into the realm of br br you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god br br bravo brian greene well done indeed br br p s if you're interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the quantum mechanics blended with spirituality of all things can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch what the bleep down the rabbit hole yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn't seen one before my eyes process light reflections just fine i see things everyday that i've never seen before and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don't divide but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don't like and hang on to those that you do there is a lot to like about this film br br then watch the secret 2006 documentary about the law of attraction search for imdb title this information just might change your life profoundly forever if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought if you'll listen and some are and that is truly incredible there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha those among others that history suggests have communicated with the non physical alive today and she lives in texas i know some of you know what i'm talking about br br i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now
1	ok on the whole this three part documentary will bring most interested people up to date with on in the world of physics and the last 300 years of discovery of our universe if you have read stephen brilliant book a brief history of time and understood it then you might benefit from the visual description of certain concepts which i did to a certain extent greene is bearable but obviously for the sake of the masses tends to explain things in a patronising way this is of course deliberate and will be perfect for almost everyone who watches this series br br the guest scientists were good no hawking but i suppose he has his own dvd s i kept waiting for him to appear but they rotate through the same ones for almost 3 parts very american weighted here with a few brits and one i bought the nova 2 disc edition ntsc and there were a few inclusions that really detracted from the overall experience br br 1 the this is brought to you by at the start of each part was a necessary evil for the first part but seeing it 2 more times before it was over was very ordinary br br 2 can't be helped i suppose but there is quite a bit of overlap at the start of 2 and 3 which had me reaching for the button a few times br br 3 this disc set was straight from tv ie ads what happen last show for those that missed it and frequent goto pbs org for more appearing throughout the presentation quite unlike bbc material which is unmatched for presentation planets the blue planet etc my 7 10 is based on content alone the niggles were there but i got over them if this had have been done with that classic british accented presenter you know the one it would be a perfect disc set in my opinion br br if you have seen this and want more then i highly recommend book a brief history of time i wish it was a movie too br br happy viewing
1	i myself am a physics student and i have to say i think this is one of the best introductions to string theory that's out there the elegant universe manages to make the entire topic of string although it's actually m theory accessible to a wider audience br br some science' programmes feel that the best approach is just to throw the audience in at the deep end throwing technical jargon at them without so much as an explanation and presenting the theory in a boring stale style this programme goes through concepts such as general relativity and quantum mechanics and explains the issues that need to be resolved between the two so we have a coherent theory that can be applied to the universe on both a large and small scale br br i suppose some could say it's slow and takes too long to get to the interesting stuff like extra dimensions and wormholes but the thing is that's against the point explaining string theory from the start is nigh on impossible without at least mentioning the physics at its base and the way it's explained in the elegant universe is clear and entertaining br br whether you'll like this program really does depend on if you're willing to perhaps be initially dumbfounded by some of the ideas that greene presents extra dimensions and warping of spacetime aren't exactly prevalent in everyday life are they but if you persevere with some of the more exotic concepts in this programme you'll find that it will give you an insight into the research that drives the world of physics today and if you're studying physics well it's great entertainment as well as you'll be likely able to follow this and appreciate it even more
1	ladies and gentlemen the show begins with this documentary film it's structured in three chapters each one chronologically arranged the first presents the classical physics and links to einstein the second studies in depth the quantum physics and enters in string theory the last reveals the everything theory the difficult concepts used here are introduced in a very simple way with daily objects although you must believe them without checking by yourself if you are not a scientist and even if you are a scientist the film is not a masterpiece by its fabulous technique or the way it's produced what really imports is the story and what a story
1	you know before seeing this film i had little sympathy for those caught up in criminal cases i mean if they were arrested and charged they must have been guilty i reasoned br br i formed this opinion over some years you see a good friend of mine once worked as a detective in some of the more seedy areas of sydney he frequently complained that his policing efforts were wasted due to heart' lawyers and magistrates he would bang the crooks up in the morning and they would be back on the street by noon it took its toll they wore him down he quit br br he has argued since not unreasonably i thought that creative evidence gathering to keep the baddies where they belong was well acceptable br br my arguments about the rights of innocent people weren't valid he claimed what are the chances that you will ever be arrested and charged with a serious crime he would argue and being a law abiding citizen the weight of his argument convinced me he was right the chances of me or any of my family or friends being charged with murder or a serious offense were zero to none i thought br br hmmmmm well as mentioned earlier seeing this wonderfully enlightening documentary changed all that br br i'm sending him a copy
1	many of us who went through high school probably made it through alright without having to take a physics course i know i didn't but after watching this program i surely wish i had br br this documentary is a guide to the 'holy grail of the quest to unify all the fundamental forces of the universe into one 'master that eluded einstein during the last years of his life brian green a professor at columbia university introduces us to this mind blowing theory in a wonderfully simple way and leaves us with an even greater appreciation for the universe we live in br br we start with the tantalizing possibility of a 'master that could unite and explain everything everything in this universe including the four fundamental forces that we know that exist the strong nuclear force the weak nuclear force and gravity green takes us on a tour of how our understanding of the universe came into view with the work of newton then einstein and then later on to the revolution of the physics at the quantum level br br but it is at this point that we run into a problem that has plagued physicists for years and one that no one has been able to solve just yet how can we unify all these forces that we know together we find as green constantly points out throughout the problem that the answer to this perplexing problem could be in the theory of strings however if we are to describe the universe in terms of string theory there is a very big price to pay br br it turns out that out of the mind numbing mathematical equations of string theory that as a consequence we find that we could possibly be living in a universe filled with not just 3 dimensions that you and i see every day plus 1 for time but rather that we may actually live in a universe of 11 dimensions but the math that arises out of that theory doesn't stop there the possibility exists that there may actually be parallel universes some of them right next to you and me could we possibly take such a theory that leads to such consequences seriously as green points out we have yet to fully find out but we do know that the math that has arisen from these equations are already showing us that the universe still has much to show us br br for those of you who fear that you won't be able to understand the concepts in this program fear not professor green does a wonderful job of doing away with the math and harder concepts of physics and instead focuses more on the concept which when you take away all the math from it transforms from a monstrous beast into an incredibly simple and as green constantly points out concept viewers of this program need no prior background in science the concepts are so simple even a child could understand them br br when you finish this program you will truly come to understand what a wonderful and mysterious universe it is that we live in
1	this program was quite interesting the way the program was displayed made it all the more interesting string theory is also very interesting to listen too the whole three hours in my opinion were well worth it i enjoyed listening to the ideas given by the physicists extra dimensions really boggle the mind if you have the chance watch this amazing documentary
1	my local pbs station philadelphia recently showed the elegant universe after three hours of watching it besides having my brain hurt i learned all about wormholes quantum mechanics and parallel realities and alternate universes br br the last hour of the show was about string theory physics a semi new branch of physics which makes many of the the ideas of science fiction not only possible but probable with the string theory it sounds like wormholes alternate realities and alternate timelines are possible and it could just be a matter of time until we get the knowledge to use them br br although it may not have given new information to someone familiar with the topic i found the show very interesting and informative it was very understandable to anyone who is just being introduced to this subject
1	the elegant universe brings to light many ideas of the universe and existence after watching this documentary one can't help but take a step back and rethink their view on the existence of everything there is a large cast of scientists mathematicians and others on both sides of string theory it is continually brought into question as untested and possibly dead wrong the closest to proselytizing that anyone does is to explain that quantum physics the set of mathematical ideas that give extremely good approximations of what happens to sub atomic particles has never made an incorrect prediction not so with string theory no one is willing to say on camera that string theory is the truth and in so doing the piece retains a certain respectful distance from the subject
1	i cannot believe someone gave this movie a 1 rating and it is only a 3 average what is not to love about this film it is original it has lots of scare scenes that actually made me jump out of my seat and it has some great special effects the story is fresh there is some nudity and it is very campy the killer was scary in his own demented way and the end is very unexpected i must admit that i really love this film one of spain's best horror films ever if you consider yourself a true horror fan you need to get out there and try to find this film you will be pleasantly surprised to do so
1	bit of a curate's egg this one i started off hating it with it's old dark house' set up it's constant references to recent us horrors and regular trips up and down dimly lit corridors br br but it does get going and has it's moments of originality br br i began to wonder once the killing started how they were going to last out with only a cast of six but then we get flashbacks to a previous visit to the building and see a whole slew of gory killings which is pretty effective br br naschy is fine and by the end it's been an enjoyable enough movie it just does not jump up and grab one hard enough
1	six teenagers go to an old remote abandoned school where 27 years ago a horrible massacre took place for a night of fun and pranks instead the kids run afoul of the vicious crazed security guard excellently played with supremely creepy menace by spanish horror icon paul naschy who committed the nasty killings director carlos gil relates the intriguing story at a brisk pace and does an adept job of creating a compellingly spooky and mysterious atmosphere the witty script by and mercedes offers a clever and inspired blend of slasher and supernatural elements that keep the viewer guessing to the very end the slick cinematography by fernando makes expert use of light and shadow david san moody score likewise does the trick the attractive and appealing young cast all contribute lively and engaging performances with especially praiseworthy turns by carlos as ringleader ramon olivia molina as the panicky maria zoe as obnoxious joker jordi and carmen morales as spunky goth chick sandra the murder set pieces are every bit as bloody and brutal as they ought to be terrific whammy of a surprise dark ending too a solid and satisfying shocker
1	why has ramón carlos brought his five college mates to a spooky abandoned school building which used to service the black sheep children of wealth that answer might just lie in a diary in his possession supposedly written by his dying father what they come in contact with is in fact a relived episode involving another group of six with five of them presumably meeting graphic fates at the hands of a sadistic security guard paul naschy which occurred 20 some odd years ago but as they seek out a way to escape from this place terror awaits them as that horrifying moment in time replays as the group run for their lives often in states of panic as the killer begins to hunt and destroy them in a various bloody ways will ramón and any of his pals survive this night of horror or becomes ghosts forever repeating the very same night like those before them br br stylish spanish slasher has that professional gloss and potent shocking violence to match some witty exchanges between the characters layered in their dialogue are pop culture references to american horror films which might annoy some viewers a demented naschy is really ferocious with the kiddies as he attacks them gleefully quite a bloodthirsty maniac who carries out his violent acts with relish i found the loud musical cues a bit annoying and the filmmakers often use flashbacks from previous events in the film as reminders to the audience i don't think these tricks are necessarily needed but felt the director wished to communicate in depth with the viewer hence the use of cues and flashbacks a minor diversion for this film's plot keeps moving and the camera follows the pace of the characters and how they react to the chaotic situation presented to them your enjoyment of this film may ultimately come down to your acceptance of the paranormal supernatural aspects of the plot moments in time relived and a killer who continues his work seemingly from the grave the twist does seem a bit jarring and abrupt but this might or might not work considering how the story plays out regarding why father is shown amongst those ghosts re enacting those grisly events two decades prior i will say that this film probably wouldn't hold up if scrutinized in detail but as a slasher flick it's a breath of fresh air
1	a group of teens decide to take their slumber party to an abandoned school where 27 years prior a horrible massacre took place unfortunately for them the person responsible for the slaughter still lurks the halls of the derelict school and he is not happy with their presence br br this film is not like most modern teen slashers we've seen it's much darker much more suspenseful no wise cracking murderer etc and i liked it for those reasons from a film making point of view it's not great the acting is below average the writing was pretty bad and quite full of clichés containing randomly tossed in references to american horror films some that didn't even make sense like have you seen scream 3 a girl asks yes i have and it had nothing to do with walking through the doors of an old school so it in no way relates to this film but hey it's a slasher flick those are part of the fun also the of characters was heavily exhibited in this film there were six main characters not including the security guard and to be honest only three or four were really used two characters the token black guy and some other girl that wasn't important enough to get a label barely spoke between them i'd estimate about five or six lines total also the girls other than one weren't formed well enough to differentiate them from one another they could've replaced each of the girls with one another repeatedly throughout the film and i wouldn't have noticed the difference the pacing however works well as the horror begins right from the start and rarely ceases the atmosphere is utilized well and the direction reveals some truly chilling moments although the overall appearance is a bit cheap looking due to what i assume is low grade camera equipment and operation the ending though i liked the idea they were going for was fairly poorly done it felt rushed and without explanation enough to make it effective with the amount of time they spent running around looking for nothing they could've spent a little bit more time on the conclusion to make sure it didn't feel like some random event thrown in for no good reason which is a flaw many modern horror films are afflicted with however ignoring a few irksome issues and trying to focus on the first 98 of the film rather than the ending this is actually a rather good modern slasher that should be checked out especially if you're a fan of spanish and or atmospheric horror br br obligatory slasher elements br br violence gore there's a good bit of blood and gore realistically done but not buckets the violence is extremely well done not to excess but pretty brutal at points br br sex nudity little bit and with the hottest girl in the film br br cool killer well security guards are hardly considered 'cool ' but this guy is pretty wicked his creepy smile was chilling br br scares suspense the suspense is top notch very tense very well done there are also some extremely creepy moments that fused jump scares and the spooky atmosphere br br mystery none at all really br br awkward dance scene of course between a couple of guys and a half unwilling female in the flashback br br classic quote of the film 'one more trophy ' br br final verdict 7 10 this may be stretching it but fans of session 9 might want to check it out simply for the similar tone and atmosphere br br ap3
1	paul naschy as a ghostly security guard in this is scarier than most of his fur and shoe polish werewolf guises the story is not unfamiliar a bunch of kids going to party at an abandoned school the thing is that one of these kid's fathers did the same thing years ago but he's now deceased and the latest group of kids seem to be reliving an event from 23 years ago this is fairly well done for films of this type and there's an air of mystery to what's going on because apparently what happened to the kids before is somewhat of a mystery and perhaps the truth wasn't revealed so no not just your standard slice and dice this moves along at a fairly good clip and doesn't let you lose interest like a lot of films do and the oddball story is compelling enough to keep you interested too and there's some suspense which is lacking in a lot of films these days the ending is rather abrupt and i suppose is left mostly to your imagination but then again it doesn't out stay its welcome either 7 out of 10 check it out
1	i absolutely adored this movie for me the best reason to see it is how stark a contrast it is from legal dramas like boston legal or ally mcbeal or even la law this is reality the law is not bs won in some closing argument or through some ridiculous defense you pull out of your butt like the chewbacca defense on south park this is a real travesty of justice the legal system gone horribly wrong and the work by good lawyers not the shyster stereotype who use all of their skills to right it it will do more for restoring your faith in humanity than any frank capra movie or to kill a mockingbird and most importantly i wept during the film during the featurette included at the end of the dvd it's amazing wonderful film wonderfully made thank god the filmmakers made it
1	let me just say that granny was extremely well made with the horror violence and sure suspense moves the best indie horror movie i have ever seen that is only 58 minutes long it is my 5 out of 20 most favorite movie of all time you people should love this i give it a 10 out of 10
1	my partner and i sat down to watch this film over a bottle of wine last saturday and although we initially had our reservations once the story got going it was in actual fact rather gripping the scene in which one of the characters in brutally murdered by knitting needles was particularly shocking and echoed the work of korean new wave auteur park chan wook the weapon of choice was a particular masterstroke and allowed us to see into the psyche of heavily altering the connotations of a loving warm grandmother into a murderous hag the dialogue was incredibly moving and lyrical in expressing the innermost paranoia the protagonist selections of mise en scene furthermore enhance the unnerving and atmosphere of the nights events combining with the oscar worthy performances to create a chilling and thought provoking masterpiece the ending which i won't spoil for you here reminded my partner and myself of m night shyamalan's institutional masterwork the sixth sense for it's mind altering twist that has left me thinking weeks after viewing definitely one to watch repeatedly
1	granny is the best movie ever is the best movie i have ever seen the plot was like nothing ever seen or done before these people are truly blessed with a talent no joke i love this movie i need to buy it but i cant find at any place it is a dream for me to go and meet the actors and try and do a granny 2 i rented granny at broadway video and kept it for a week longer than i should have and asked them if i could buy it off of them they said no a big disappointment and an even bigger one the week after i returned it i wanted to go and rent it again but come to find out broadway video was out of business if anyone has the movie or knows where i can buy it at then please tell me write to me at aol com
1	forget samara and jason br br horror has a new name granny the plot is simple but efficient the actors are good two thumbs up for michelle and the killer and the dialogs are even quite clever from the beginning to the end the action will leave you breathless you just can't escape it there is blood awful murders funny moments and a sense of perversity that goes far beyond any rule deja vu surely not granny is not another slash movie it's truly a classic of its own it deserves the success it had and there's even more success to come with its re release congrats
1	right here we go you have probably read in previous reviews on this film that it is awful badly acted avoid at all costs well i suppose in some ways this is true it is fair to say that you couldn't write a spoiler in this comment as there is no plot to spoil however there is a fine line between plain awful and absolutely hilarious and believe me this film is the latter the acting is so bad the plot so non existent and the ending so completely baffling it will have you laughing the whole way through there are scenes in this film that take comedy to a new level do not expect an oscar winner but believe me for the small price you will pay for this disaster it is worth every penny
1	on seeing this movie i didn't expect much i was delightfully surprised although the writing was unpolished as some of the dialog seemed drawn out and contrived the script did have shining moments my favorite line life is like a rich meringue an and i'm diabetic so i can't enjoy it the plot was new and refreshing as opposed to some of the newer more main stream horror that most of us are sadly growing used to i do believe some of the scenes could should have been longer and maybe some shorter the superfluous use of blood was campy but seemed to make sense in the end ah the end the end would have been a little better if they had explained why what happened happened i don't wanna spoil it it might have also added to the movie time which is in the area of it's only an hour long how good could it be answer quite good
1	a young man discovers that life is precious after he is seriously injured in a street racing accident his father is a pastor who changes his outlook on life and he spends the whole movie sharing his new found love for others in this shocking and heartwarming movie the theme is built around street car racing and it is an excellent movie for people who are into that and movies like 'the fast and the furious' this shows how people can overcome their problems and gives the general message about the meaning of life in a new and exciting way
1	this is a very right on case movie that delivers everything almost right in your face i'm a christian and liked the film in one way it had some average acting from the main person and it was a low budget as you clearly can see it can be a bit long winded but the film has some quite nice cars that rescues it from a lower rating from me as a christian film it was quite good but maybe a bit right on in the message the film works best on a big screen spoilers the fighting scene with the two brothers can remind you of the fighting scene between the two brothers in the christian thriller mercy streets starring eric roberts end of spoiler i give it a 7 10
1	this movie was amazing i was in tears by the end of the movie okay i know the acting sucked but that's not what was important the message came through loud and clear about god's love for us and jesus's sacrifice the movie was realistic and showed actual human feelings whether it be pete's anger of the blond girl's sneers or the guy that asked questions but it also showed the joy that comes from a true relationship with christ the cars were awesome and the actors were very hot and that attracted my eye but what i liked most about this movie was the clear gospel message the mother and pastor supported ben in his new walk with christ and tried to be a godly example to others nicky d showed that no matter if you have all the world has to offer without christ it doesn't matter nina showed how a misguided but good person can easily miss the mark i loved this movie and think that it will bring many teenagers to christ
1	id just like to say that the film was good and touching the film explains to you the real meaning of being saved or born again and is very well set out the acting was quite good but could do with some improvements the story board is catchy and when my church had youth service and we watched it 8 people gave there life to christ id just like to say too anyone who is reading this give your life to christ and repent from your sin please visit www com thank you andrew br br the word of god will not turn void so get saved and repent from your sin
1	i'm pleased that this was the work of foreign cinematographers because it can't be accused of unfair bias with absolutely no cause the cops rush to judgment in this case and pick the first black suspect to accuse of the murder of a white foreign tourist they picked a 15 yr old kid who is just about as close to a saint as you could randomly find and then make fools of themselves trying to pin an unlikely case against him in addition to the unfairness resulting from the blatant prejudice there is the matter of 6 months of unjust imprisonment of a completely innocent young black teenager it makes one question whether as a society we should compensate those who are charged imprisoned and subsequently found innocent this docudrama is well produced professionally recorded and presented in a captivating package from which you won't want to take a 1 minute break if you care about social justice don't miss this one it certainly deserved its oscar
1	i am a christian and thought this movie was pretty good while the acting wasn't academy award caliber i thought it was good considering the cast has had limited acting experience at the time this movie was made br br the gospel message and the transforming power of jesus christ was explained wonderfully the message that the director was trying to get across which is the important thing not how the characters dressed definitely got through the theme of having the main characters involved in illegal drag racing was a good idea too cool muscle cars btw i think this movie will definitely reach out to a lot of young people br br i would definitely recommend this movie it is a great witnessing tool
1	i can't even begin to imagine why everyone hates this movie so much it had me literally crying with laughter several times i trust you slept well actually we had a bit of a rough night ah the perils of adultery br br admittedly the ending is a little flat but still has its moments the booger ball's obvious fake as flew into the ocean beach house paradiso br br personally i think this is the funniest movie i've ever seen br br 10 10
1	i cant see how some people cant find this film funny i saw the end of it on sky movies in 2001 thought i would by the dvd since then i have laughed my balls of with lines like laugh and hello night porter when they never get any phone calls overall i think this film is very very funny
1	my god this is funny stuff yes it's puerile in the extreme but also rather witty here's the page with all the on it it's a little early for us i'm afraid well what are you doing up then and the fight sequences are second to none despite what you may have heard the laughs do keep coming and at a surprisingly generous rate the sheer comic abilities of and adrian help keep it riotously funny wringing every drop of comedy from the script i can only compare it to fear and loathing in las vegas you either find that film hysterical throughout or not at all the same applies here it's probably the funniest british film since withnail and i but to say it's an acquired taste is something of a gross sic understatement
1	i own this movie on dvd and i have watched it about 10 times and it's still funny the jokes will never get boring and i often burst out laughing at inappropriate times just thinking about them the premise is that richard and eddie of bottom fame own the cheapest hotel in britain next to a nuclear power plant they are desperately in need of cash and when a film star in hiding comes to stay their luck just might be in br br to watch this movie and not become utterly bored or disgusted you first need to like the humour some would say that only hardcore fans really enjoy watching it but overall it's a great movie
1	this is a gem of a film slapstick violence a plenty simon pegg and green spew br br a suspicious looking power plant and an incontrollable motorbike add to this br br if you haven't seen this i can highly recommend it maybe not quite as good as bottom but not far short br br if you have never seen a man impaled by the nose on two hooks then what are you waiting for buy this film br br i didn't even see the twist at the end coming when it turns out that ritchie and eddie are both ghosts br br feeb 1 boiled egg
1	okay this may not be the most sophisticated movie you'll ever see actually there isn't a bit of in it it's puerile adolescent inoffensive idiotic and utterly hilarious basically richie and eddie run the worst hotel in britain cue some ridiculous antics with the guests while they beat each other up try to get the rent money out of the only resident who is daft enough to stay have an all night drinking binge with the boys from the power plant next door and fall in lust with the beautiful actress who comes to stay to avoid the press give it a try if you're a fan of and and their work if you're not don't get the movie simple as that br br i'm not being thick this is a word from another one of fab into the movie world
1	bottom has been my favourite sitcom ever since i saw it on t v and the movie is even better if your a bottom fan i say this is a must buy the plot is that eddie and ritchie run a hotel named guest house paradise but not all goes right for them as customers leave until a famous actress come to stay they try there best to impress her but not all well go right this is a upbringing to british cinema so buy this and you will wet yourself with laughter also starring simon shaun of the dead and also bill neigh love actually it might of not done good in the box office or by the looks of it on this website but don't listen to them buy this and i swear you will love it
1	i had been looking for this film for so long before i found it i had seen it when i was younger and loved it after my second viewing i still loved it and i still do br br this is a love hate film if you like bottom young ones the comic strip then you will find this funny if you don't like that kind of humour then don't bother i love this film and have grown up with these comedy programmes for me this film is simply placing their comic genius on the big screen it is not an award winner by any means but if you just want good wholesome slapstick then this is it br br the film lacks the quality of the tv series and this is usually the case with films but it still has enough material to keep you laughing even if a lot of the jokes are pretty similar to their previous work br br yes the humour is a little childish and not to everyone's taste but sometimes you just need that in a film
1	iv been a fan of and ever since i can remember weather its young ones or bottom and i just have to say i have never laughed so much in all my life guest house paradiso is bloody brilliant i know its not going to be everyones cup of tea with the vomiting slapstick comedy violence and foul language but then just don't watch it if it ain't yours its not like no one knows what sick and twisted things and come up with when they're working with one another i think its unfair that this film received such a from critics because and i don't think i'm the only one to think this this film is 10 out of 10
1	this is a pretty obscure dumb horror movie set in the 1970s everglades it is really stupid and lame for the first half then it actually starts to get good for the last half there is a scene with the hero running to save his friends interspersed with shots of a church group singing i don't know it is mesmerizing i was impressed with the night time scenes because it actually looked like night unlike most low budget horror films where it still looks like daytime i feel like the director was really talented but was working with a miniscule budget and a tough schedule there are a few scenes towards the end the one mentioned above and also the end credits that are extremely cool this movie could have been a genuine classic if it left its scooby doo conventions behind and went straight for the throat i was surprised at how good this movie turned out to be i couldn't take my eyes off of it and i had to ask myself why
1	why did i vote 10 10 for this movie that is just completely off guts quite simply because if you just let yourself find it funny you can just laugh until you choke some people might find that it goes too far it is certainly not for everyone but whenever i'm down and just need something really really stupid to laugh at chuck on bottom or and i can forget all of my troubles and be transported into a magical dark and weird world br br completely off guts is an australian expression it has no literal translation
1	this film had some very funny moments the aforementioned feeb sketch for starters br br the parts where tries to act dignified in front of his guests looking down at them through his nose very subtly done especially as the guest was a toffee nosed adulterer himself br br the scene where finds out that gina has a fiancé ahhh she was stringing me along all the time the brazen hussy with his 2 candle eyes like as if she really fancied him but he believed it that's why it was so funny great moment br br gino was also excellent he should have been used more as the bad man where are the whores i ordered he bellows brilliant stuff
1	the first bottom movie was an absolute laugh from the beginning excellently made and thought out i will definitely take my hat off to the production team and the actors the bottom actors attempt to run a hotel if you look closely this film was most probably shot in the isle of wight near my home
1	i haven't written a review on here in ages but rewatching all of bottom tv show live shows and this i felt i had to make my views on this movie known it is i feel the perfect comedy movie it lacks the lovey dovey story lines i wouldn't really call with gina love would you or him and eddie going up there naked not love that make the rest of comedys go from good to crap it lacks the usual dilemmas that one must overcome in most other comedy movies unless you count the fact that they poisoned the guests and must escape from the guests green vomit as a dilemma thats similar to other comedy movies no this movie just sets out and succeeds in doing one thing and one thing only making one laugh what does one require from comedy movies laughter this movie just piles on laugh after laugh without stuffing up the laughs with serious crap like other comedy movies thus i call it the so far only perfect comedy movie ever made and i will never ever stop watching this beautiful movie i rick and on such fantastic genius
1	it may not be oscar material however this was a very funny film i was always a fan of eddie richie bottom young ones were legendary tv series' and it was about time they made a film some of the stuff they get up to is brilliant from the pencil is the rear end to the rubber sex pants as well was the infamous line that richie says when he falls and a candle he is carrying goes into his eye he says to eddie candle in the eye candle in the eye and eddie been the simpleton that he is sticks the candle he's carrying into his eye can't forget when eddie is on his motorbike and he needs to urinate it was a great comedy not to be taken seriously at all but the film lacked with an ending br br overall a comedy full of laughs and lots of fake green vomit a 9 10 br br
1	bottom at its absolute highest perfection who ever says slap stick comedy is dead and boring is completely wrong not that this film will only appeal to those who are of a masculine nature this is another quality british dark comedy with many many jokes not violence related but it helps if you can let your senses go and laugh at the sheer stupidity of it all br br this is a true example of thriving british ingenuity and homegrown talent hats off to them on a performance level it reminds me very much of the early works of the marx brothers where the same level of enthusiasm and devotion are present in their acting styles resulting in a performance where the audience can really engage the innate human desire to see others suffer yet to be detached and still feel safe much like the principle many tv chat shows operate on a truly marvelous bit of manipulation leaving all parties feeling better off
1	while possibly the stupidest most tasteless and violent slapstick comedy ever made guest house is also a very funny one don't listen to the critics they have no sense of humour while the climax runs out of steam but not vomit it's still a funny party movie seven candles in the eye out of ten
1	this is probably the funniest thing i have ever seen from start to finish it was perfect in timing atmosphere punch lines background music fighting sequences and every other possible aspect you can think of to be absolutely honest i find this movie as funny as their sitcom bottom maybe even funnier i laughed constantly throughout the whole movie and can only recommend seeing this film however if you watch it without knowing or liking the type of comedy and has done before you might not think it's funny at all but i really can't understand those who dislike it this is humour folks people getting hit with frying pans guys running around wearing red rubber lingerie green vomit filling the hallways guys getting kicked in the b s and getting candlesticks in the eyes how can this not be funny 10 10
1	i saw this when it first came out and found it to be a work of some genius but i must confess i was clearly in the minority at the time br br for me the progressive lunacy of the proprietors of guest house paradiso just gets better and better throughout the film with one of the most hilarious climaxes to a film ever br br but i wouldn't recommend it to mother br br lovers of gross out comic book style humour will appreciate this movie there are subtle jokes hidden away but they are usually quickly flattened by a comedy frying pan and are superb and the deadpan unsuspecting guests are also excellent
1	a sign of what to expect in this film came when i spotted that this was the first and probably the last film to have in its credits a vomit technician br br in what is a couple of hours of silly gags hilarious violence and excellent slapstick humour br br this film was just what you'd expect from the bottom boys and it is great to see them back in their best form after mayall's life threatening accident br br richie and eddie are too similar to their bottom characters if we can have any criticism at all and does a surprisingly good job in directing the film also br br this film has already spawned the predictable comparisons to fawlty towers that just aren't there and the guest house paradiso itself is hardly br br watch out for some excellently crafted dialogue amongst all the violence and mayhem br br if you don't like bottom you'll probably hate this but i loved it
1	i give it 8 out of 10 because it is a cult classic also it is directed by legendary sasquatch hunter robert w morgan who also plays the part of jarvis in the film in listening to recent show called the show robert morgan is a co host he tells that because it has become such a cult classic and does well at movie conventions and such there are plans to maybe do a sequel to this film i think he said that two of the original stars have signed on and he hopes to have a few more robert is a good man and i hope it does well he has devoted 50 years of tireless work as a researcher which is also one of my interests and author check out his show on the paranormal and maybe look for blood stalkers ii sometime in the near future
1	if folks were really this stupid i could be the supreme ruler of the world in this one knotts plays a dimwitted bean counter for some little jerk water town run by a group of crooked simpletons only slightly brighter than he is when things appear a bit shaky for the crooks they go for a frame up of the patsy figg plenty of laughs as knotts does his usual bumbling stumbling act i especially appreciated the extension cord scene asininity at it's highest level
1	this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever frank welker welker makes the film knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty knotts works for a small no where town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials when things go wrong the city fathers allow knotts to take the fall frank character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott's good name this film shows the usual knott's scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film this may have been knotts' last good outing when you have an extra 90 minutes get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon don knotts
1	this zany film rivals the ghost and mr chicken as one of don knott's finest film performances knotts is an accountant for a podunk city hall that is good for the citizens they fire the three competent and keep the dumb one knotts of course is the dumb one when his garbage collecting cohort accidentally empties the wrong trash can knotts finds himself wrapped up in a bizarre trap set by the city council for him funny moments in the movie include the bowling alley restroom scene and the cemetery scene is absolutely hilarious typical knotts the nervous act is well used and as usual he is surrounded by lots of crazy character actors from the sixties such actors as frank welker and pitt herbert add to the mayhem as one may expect armed with a big car a pretty girl and no real clue of what he's doing fun for anyone especially nostalgia buffs but just about anyone will love it
1	this movie i watched back in 1981 when it came out although i missed the first part of the movie what i did see was great this movie is hard to find but if found you must see the acting is great very believable sad movie if i ever find me a copy i definitely will buy me a copy to treasure
1	hello i was wondering if anyone has a copy of the movie broken promise i loved this movie growing up and watched it every time it was on it has been years since i have seen it and would love to get a copy i have checked all of the internet and have been unable to find it if anyone has a copy to trade or sell em please email me at yahoo com thank you and have a great night christine the broken promise was made to eleven year old melissa whose parents have deserted her and her siblings taken in by the county has had to watch helplessly as her brothers and sisters are split up and out to different families one of the kids is even institutionalized juvenile court officer chris sarandon joins in her struggle to reunite her family under one roof broken promise was originally offered as a general foods golden showcase presentation it was first telecast may 5 1981
1	this movie from what i remember was such a great movie i watched it on television when i was 11 and couldn't remember the title of it if i remember correctly i do believe that it was a christmas television movie special one of my friends at work and i were discussing it several years back but neither one of us could remember the title but we did remember almost the entire movie no one else at work remembered ever seeing it thank goodness someone at a tv movie website answered my post now i have the fun job of locating a copy of it it's amazing what you can remember as a child but this movie definitely remains vividly playing in my head even after 28 years and i do believe i only watched it once maybe it was because i am the oldest sister in my family or maybe because i babysat and worked in day care centers that it stuck with me that long regardless of the real reason it has remained one of the movies that i have been really wanting to watch lately if anyone knows where to watch it online or has a copy please let me know i would so love to see it again thanks so much seriously i tried to post this and it says my comment isn't long enough so apparently i have to type more did you know that melissa is the sister of peter billingsley who starred in a christmas story i know i'm not the only fan of this movie so if anyone has any idea on where to find this i would greatly appreciate it
1	i saw this movie when it first came out patty didn't want to be separated from her siblings however the juvenile justice system don't care when patty looked at the case file the judge sent her to a juvenile detention facility he claimed she violated the rules of privacy by looking at private files she just wanted her family together i couldn't blame her the parents were not even fit parents one of the smaller children had to have a restroom the father stopped and let them off he drove off him and left the children stranded at the service station patty had to take authority to protect them since she was the oldest they were placed in foster homes the good part is that the social worker got them back as a family the head social worker kept telling him to butt out and not interfere he was power crazy he was the one who had patty placed in the juvenile facility why didn't they go after the father who was released from prison for abandonment yet the children are caught in the middle and made to feel insecure
1	this film broke a lot of ground and receives on the whole a lot less credit than it's due it touches on a topic that is ever present in our daily lives but which is seen as a phenomenon so common that it does not merit discussion this phenomenon is that of be they doctors or as in broken promise a senior social worker who abuse their position in order to harm those they have been charged to protect br br in broken promise patty and her family are abandoned by their parents but are soon picked up by local law enforcement faced with the certain prospect of foster care patty begs a young social worker to keep her and her brothers and sisters together this social worker approaches a senior member of another department but his request is denied br br the children are off to seperate homes thereby following the prevailing opinions of the day and ensuring a clean break but it is this event the broken promise which gives the film it's name which causes the dramatic tension that is to continue throughout the film angered by the young social worker's apparent betrayal patty runs away from the foster home she has been sent to br br faced with the daunting task of finding her family in a climate where the ideal is seen to be a complete separation from the past she does the only the thing she can to ascertain their whereabouts and breaks into the senior social worker's office to steal the br br apprehended soon after she finds she has made a dangerous enemy furious at the embarrassment this little girl has caused him and his department the senior social worker decides to use his power and authority to destroy her something that legally he is quite capable of doing br br br br this topic of the harm of to clients is relatively taboo it certainly has been touched on very little in films as few directors wish to tread the path that would imply that cause harm br br i think that this film plays a very important role in making the public more aware of this sort of thing the case portrayed is not only plausible but has probably happened many times before to many other children all over the world this film is critical to changing public opinion in order to get rid of the laws that protect harmful people like the senior social worker in broken promise br br i strongly recommend broken promise it is especially appropriate viewing for trainee social workers psychiatrists psychologists doctors and other professions it is a lesson in avoidance that should be taken to heart br br br br in terms of the acting in broken promise melissa plays a superb part as patty especially in films such as this believability is critical if the viewer did not identify with the character of patty the whole message of the film would be in jeopardy it's unfortunate that melissa doesn't still act in films today as her performance in broken promise shows her to have had exceptional talent
1	well someone who enjoys traveling down the highway at eating mcdonalds and running the air conditioner twenty four seven and watching fox news non stop i found this documentary interesting one thing i picked up when they being they talk about north america i assume this documentary was au for the canadian bashing i will leave that to bill o'reilly br br the consequence of the depletion of oil will affect everyone especially those who live in big countries of australia canada and the united states i am sure that green peace are cheering no more gas means no more suvs without realizing people who live in the sub zero temperatures could starve to death br br as someone who has studied economics i know for a fact we are living in a world of finite resources i will give the documentary props for trying to present a balanced point of view about the depletion of oil however i am studying a degree in journalism this documentary is full of loaded messages republican as what the democrats didn't send troops to vietnam br br if you are going to present a documentary about economics and resources it is best to leave the political bashing to one side because it could cause a potential audience member to totally shut down concentrate on the issue of finite resources at the end of the day it is best to open the minds of the mainstream as it is no good preaching to the minuscule choir br br i really do enjoy watching documentaries such as fahrenheit 911 and end of suburbia not for their political bias because they do remind us the world isn't so safe sure i like to shop and consumer junk food like there is no tomorrow but if the world is going to end tomorrow i would rather die rich and consume the living beep out of it br br for the potential documentary makers out there just give the people facts and let the viewers make up their own minds if you are trying package your political views as a balanced documentary the people are going to smell a rat a mile away
1	a good documentary reviewing the background behind our societies oil addiction the problem concerning our present energy usage and finally discusses the effects of the coming energy deficit originating from the peak oil production problem br br this movie should be educated to all students as part of their education show it to your children parents relatives and friends they will thank you eventually br br after reviewing the contents of this documentary and comparing its mentioned sources i would say that the facts in this movie are well scientifically supported
1	quality entertainment all around the spectacle of kermit on his bicycle is one thats as memorable as any in cinema history there's just not a bad thing to be said tons of muppets great cameos slapstick puns whatever you want its here the lovers the dreamers and me indeed
1	i'm giving this film 9 out of 10 only because there aren't enough specific scientific references to the amount of energy it takes to produce food to satisfy the science haters seems to believe the admittedly biased commentators are making this stuff up but even an elementary understanding of resources and the laws of will indicate that at the very least they are on solid scientific ground when they state that we cannot continue to depend on oil we must transition to different types of energy and do not have a plan that will replace the amount of energy we get from oil other civilizations have refused to face the facts of life and have perished read jared diamond's collapse which is a popular book or any elementary ecology or earth science textbook and you can verify the basic premise of this movie go ahead fiddle while rome burns
1	i have been most fortunate this year to have seen several films at my art museum on occasion well more like half of the time i am unable to watch the films there i have systematically attempted to view each of the films that i have missed so far plagues and pleasures on the salton sea and who killed the electric car are the other films that i have had to watch this way the film covers an intriguing subject matter and is well theorized emphasis on this later but not as successful as plagues and pleasures but far superior to electric car br br the film's thesis the future of the american concept of suburban living it questions the feasibility of such a practice as oil prices rise so the film discusses the origin of the suburb and it's evolution until the early 2000s one theme the film discusses at length is the alienation the suburb creates among its inhabitants while several people may live together they do not know each other as we define the word this to me represents the strength of the film its appeal to actual human emotion we are able to understand the filmmakers' argument so much easier because they do not have to convince us of their legitimacy this is also one of the reasons salton sea is such a wonderful documentary br br unfortunately suburbia loses its message in firebrand explanation in support of its central argument as those interviewed speak their arguments become progressively more akin to those made by militant environmentalists we are told that oil production will hit its peak in this decade but are given no scientific evidence professional reports statistics etc in support of this claim we are given little information as to how this date was calculated fortunately this was the only significant flaw that i was able to detect in the film's argument yet it's a glaring one nevertheless another less important discrepancy i noticed was the liberal political bias which could some viewers however this bias is revealed thorough clips of various events and not the filmmakers themselves the clips especially those from the 1950's seemed a tad unnecessary to me the film was no better with their presence and would have been more concise in their absence br br as i thought more of this film before composing this review i thought about why i found its argument more convincing than other documentaries that i'd recently viewed finally i realized that the filmmakers actually offered analysis to the suburban problem they propose a village system where pockets of people would live together they posit this practice would lower the necessity for fossil fuels and reduce wasted space they define wasted space as the long stretches of parking lots between shopping areas for instance what is incredible about this is that it's actually conceivable most documentaries vaguely state that some problem should be ended but offer no method of doing so thinking more about the film i decided that this analysis is what saved the film for me and why i give it a favorable review br br while neither perfectly convincing nor fluid in presentation the end of suburbia is a worthwhile investment of one's time it not only addresses the contemporary problem of sprawl but it also provides realistic insight on how to amend it the audience can also enjoy the high production value with various clips from the 1950's spliced with the modern people living in atlanta georgia or the triad region of north carolina will particularly enjoy this documentary as sprawl is the most established there
1	the end of suburbia is a very useful film it's also important and provocative there seems to be no middle ground with either the film or its main source of entertainment the anti sprawl meister james howard br br while i am not a big fan of the new my criticism of it is because of its small vision in the case of new peter another talking head you finally hear what's somewhat obvious in and amongst the special added out takes just doesn't understand peak oil br br i've used this as a teaching tool in economics classes to get at the importance of land as a factor of production a fact long diminished by economics and also as a vehicle for educating about peak oil our wastrel land use global warming our threatened food production public transit our compromised future br br move over south park made by canadians from toronto for 25 000 and released in may 2004 this video sold over 24 000 copies by october 2005 one major dvd rental vendor recently ordered almost 400 more copies br br the end of suburbia sales were actually climbing 1 1 2 years after its release and it has also been available on one of the major online video services since september 2005 br br a sequel escape from suburbia is in the works with a possible release by august 2006
1	the end of suburbia as it should appeal to general citizens mass consumers alike is likely to become of cultural reform status the film uses super cynical analysis by authors policy makers and social philosophers on the paradox created by suburban style living mainly in the post war era br br what we have created in america is a place with none of the amenities of country life and none of the amenities of urban city life this is the prescription that is laid out for suburbia and the film on the singular idea of oil basically in the most general sense that the world is nearing or at it's peak oil production and when we realize this in full major lifestyle changes will be in effect whether by our best interest or forced violently upon us by a quality of living even the slum dwellers of calcutta couldn't describe to us br br if nothing more the end of suburbia will siphon the viewer flush in their gut creating a sickening feeling this is bound to happen it's a bleak outlook on our inherent way of life the ambivalence lies particularly in each respective viewers critical analysis of the film i foresee many unprepared viewers slandering the film as smug liberal propaganda like a michale moore film what they fail to consider is that a reaction like this is all too normal when such a message hits so unbelievably hard to the lifestyle of the vast majority of the masses br br this is the truth and as a student studying city planning i can tell you that we better get prepared now because what slim chance we have of maintaining quality of life in this dwindling cesspool of tampered resources is fading faster than a race of people stricken by the black plague
1	the end of suburbia is an important documentary about modern dependence on cheap energy and the coming peak in world oil production the film is an excellent introduction to the peak oil phenomenon and includes interviews with experts like adviser to vice president dick 2001 energy task force mathew simmons author richard options and actions for a post carbon world and author michael t blood and oil the dangers and consequences of america's growing dependency on imported petroleum br br economic growth is predicated upon more electricity electricity is predicated on hydro carbon energy period and mathew simmons made a very clear statement he said future growth is not possible and for a guy from his background to say that was one of the most that's like the catholic church saying the earth is round before galileo michael c ruppert br br the peak has happened and now instead of being prophets we're now historians kenneth
1	a truly scary film happening across curmudgeon james rants led me to recently formed web logs like life after the oil crash energy bulletin and the oil drum and the data behind the theory of peak like this film and paint a grim picture of die off or die back i hope they're premature but in mid 2005 rising gasoline prices rising oil prices will you join us campaign bp becoming beyond petroleum and even t boone pickens lend credence to the idea that we are at or near a peak of oil production br br after copious research of limited data oil investment banker matt simmons has suggested that the may no longer be able to increase production in their immense but aging fields in the face of increased demand primarily from the us and china the have not responded with higher production despite previous assurances stated world production from 2000 and 2004 indicates that light sweet crude has indeed peaked which means that will become more costly br br the film seems aimed at baby boomers but younger people our children also need to understand the implications of an energy depleted future
1	i own a video store with hundreds of documentaries i have seen loads of them and love all of the great info out there only a small handful though even come close to offering info as important as this one i have been reading through other peoples reviews of this film and can't help but notice that the main things people are criticizing are irrelevant such as it is very one sided such a pathetic criticism every where in society that you look you will see the other side and if you still need help go to com it is the same people over and over uh one might be led to believe that these people are the experts so maybe they are the best people to interview filming style is all the same head shots with few exceptions if you want flash and dazzle watch micheal moore if you want info watch real docs such as this one as you can plainly see none of these complaints have any relevance to the information contained my guess is that these people are just missing the point and don't wanna give up there suv's br br my recommendation watch it learn from it and continue your education about such subjects it is very important stuff for everyone
1	the end of suburbia neatly collects many of the concerns with the coming peak of the world's oil supply as the world population grows so does demand for oil and power as we extract oil and power we come to a peak in production more oil is demanded less oil is generated the inevitable outcome is conflict and major change br br this film will be disturbing and alarming if you're new to the topic you may react at first with anger and denial because the implications are so grim it should be required viewing beyond politics beyond optimism the math is undeniable br br suburbia is the focus because our suburban living areas will be the communities most impacted when the price of energy skyrockets while intuitive logic would tell you that the big cities will be the places to avoid during a time of crisis the spread out nature of suburbia will make it difficult if not impossible to maintain an efficient community without our vehicles to transport us br br peak oil is no longer a topic for discussion by and backwoods crazies this issue will be at our doorstep sooner than we think this film is a lucid coherent look at it
1	i have the good common logical sense to know that oil cannot last forever and i am acutely aware of how much of my life in the suburbs revolves around petrochemical products i've been an avid consumer of new technology and i keep running out of space on so i know that even the energy crunch associated with peak oil will change my life appreciably br br the end of suburbia shows in a rational and entertaining manner just how much my whole family's lifestyle will have to change in my lifetime i am particularly concerned for the future generations who will have to pick up the tab for our excesses however the film makers do offer a glimmer of hope in that they acknowledge human resourcefulness and determination and the sense of community that tends to be engendered by shared hardship br br there is no point in trying to pretend that peak oil is baseless propaganda or in treating it like the approaching radioactive cloud in on the beach i e with suicide pills at the ready even with our best efforts times will get harder all over and i'm hoping there's enough compassion and humanity to go around
1	i always knew the day was coming we all knew there's only so much oil in the ground and one day we'll run short but isn't there supposed to be enough coal to use instead and wind power or something things for future generations to worry about br br then this documentary hit me smack between the eyes oil makes the fertilizer that is the reason for the first time in world history practically no one lives on farms when the inevitable oil shortages hit a lot of things air travel many drugs plastics life in the suburbs will become impossible but the craziest insight from the documentary is this oil gives us so much energy with so little effort that without it our lives must change even if substitutes and conservation are implemented immediately at best they'll smooth our landing into a strange post oil world which the documentary claims could be starting now br br despite its gloomy message the documentary is often highly entertaining it contains fabulous historical footage sober images of dark urban factories and campy funny stuff from the 1950's which reminds us of why we moved to the suburbs in the first place it also offers hope that a massive effort started now could both ease our transition from oil and make the world a better place br br my only complaint about the documentary is that it does not spend time on the mystery of why we are finding this stuff out now how can this be a big emergency all of a sudden we knew in the 1970s we should be preparing for a post oil world and we started to prepare with alternative energy research and smaller cars if our failure to follow through on president jimmy carter's 25 years ago has doomed us to a hard landing in a post oil world why was no one shouting about it on br br in the end i found the documentary highly persuasive and it left me with the terrible chill of being dragged out of a very lovely dream this is must viewing for everyone not afraid to face a very likely near future that we still have time to do something about br br charles
1	first of all before i start my review i just read every review for 'the muppet movie' here and i can't believe that someone could give a negative review to a movie like this fortunately there was only one i mean i can understand how someone may not like 'star wars' due to the whole sci fi genre but to not like a movie starring some of the most lovable puppets in the history of mankind is almost sad br br okay i will step off my soapbox now and review this movie br br 'the muppet movie' came out when i was seven all of my friends wanted to see this as their birthday movie so i think i saw it about four times in the first month in theaters br br as a child many things attracted me to this and all the other muppet movies tv shows the singing was probably the main one most of the songs in 'the muppet movie' are classics from rainbow connection to i'm going to go back there someday they're entertaining and thought provoking br br as an adult i see 'the muppet movie' in almost a whole different light yes the things that thrilled me about it as a kid are still there but it's the little jokes and such that are just plain hilarious br br i mean when you think about it jim henson is a sick man br br kermit is a frog and that is in love with a sweet pig that wears purple gloves and could karate chop you into two pieces fozzie is a stand up comedian bear gonzo is a that is infatuated with chickens then you have two old guys that heckle a piano playing dog a rock band with a maniac drummer a swedish chef that you can't understand and a number of other characters that are just plain eccentric br br yet for these reasons and more henson has entertained millions of children and adults giving us all something special to watch and remember him by br br 'the muppet movie' will always remain in my heart for many reasons but i think the biggest one is because it's a movie unlike a lot of recent children's movies that i feel comfortable to have my kids watch plus i don't get bored out of my mind with jokes that are dumbed down to my kids' level br br it's a great movie that is sure to be remembered forever
1	this documentary was my first introduction to peak oil theory a fascinating concept that has a lot of frightening consequences if it turns out to be correct i had absolutely no idea that the effects of oil depletion would come so soon it literally took my breath away this movie will probably open your eyes as to how strongly the american way of life is dependent on the abundance of cheap oil a term used throughout the film a lot of the topics are plain common sense and they don't go into a huge amount of depth about any of them but you've probably never put all the pieces together like this movie does the interviews with the authors and energy experts are all very interesting i don't think this film is meant to scare people it's merely meant to inform people about what to expect in the years ahead and maybe to encourage you to think twice about to work and leaving your lights on all day long br br after watching this film i was no longer able to look at the cars and buses zooming by quite the same great documentary everyone should see it
1	first of all this movie is a piece of reality very well realized artistically some kind of combination between american beauty and as good as it gets and of course something specifically to all russian movies of course the valuable one no dirty propaganda the problem of loneliness of man especially recommended for the people which really want to see beyond all propaganda about communism both positive or negative propaganda a movie about common people their problems lack of satisfactions especially for young ones fear when touch the real and too dirty face of the society and about the fake solutions alcohol and violence and probably the only real solution true love of course it's very well located in the space and time of russian perestroika but it's valid for all the society except a perfect one but don't worry not possible to find this on our earth for the last time definitely recommended
1	this movie was groundbreaking in the former soviet union because it was the first movie released there that contained a real sex scene however the movie can be considered great for many reasons not the least of which is its true gritty portrayal of disillusionment and pain in the family of a working class soviet family i would definitely recommend it
1	there was a lot about little vera that was strange to me all in all i did enjoy this movie but a lot of the way the characters behaved was not what i was used to for example the environment that vera's family lived in was very tense almost every time the family was together they were either drinking fighting or yelling and frequently it was a combination of the three after i had viewed the film i felt tense because of all the confrontation that took place during it i was however very interested in watching the story if this middle class russian family throughout the entire film we are reminded of the industrialized state of russia because of the repeated shots of a train passing by the screen it gave the viewer a sense of a mechanically lived life the characters seemed to be focused on living their lives through work and drinking after work there was not a feeling of happiness throughout the film the only time a character was not yelling was when vera first fell in love with her fiancé sergei this was very short lived because the viewer later discovers after sergei locks vera's father in a bathroom and vera lets him out after which the father proceeds to stab sergei that he is abusive another time vera is told that the only reason she was born was so the family could get a larger apartment it is very interesting watching how both vera and the family were able to cope with each other's behavior the film was definitely worth watching because of its depiction of how life could be in areas of russia
1	little vera is the story of a russian teenager her family and her attempts to find meaning and value in a life sliding increasingly into decay in her search for meaning she falls in love with a more intellectual and rebellious sergei whose hatred for her deeply flawed parents quickly spirals out of control br br little vera is shocking and disturbing in nearly every way the drinking of the father the enabling and lack of understanding of the mother the casual lies and misdirection of the brother and vera herself forgiving them all their flaws are all shocking and slightly disturbing to watch however the raw honesty of the film somehow manages to become even more shocking than the plot or characters set in cramped spaces and vast urban decay little vera presented a vastly different view of soviet life than had ever been seen before in fact little vera is a portrait of the collapse of soviet society painted in shades of pain desperation and rust it is the implosion of a family set against the implosion of an entire social order br br although painful and desperately unsatisfying the film itself is definitely worth seeing if only to understand the feelings and cultures still reshaping russia today
1	a gritty presentation of the decay of family values and human dignity in the wake of soviet communism 1988 film little vera is a landmark film of modern russian cinema brutal drama marks a strong departure from the images of sanitized idealism promoted in soviet times as in circus moving the social chaos of his time into the public spotlight a contemporary ukrainian setting further intensifies the effect first by the immediacy of the film to its time period second by its of a locale not only struggling for identity in lieu of a soviet system but also as a nation distinct from the russian idiom that had dominated the u s s r br br vera the film's title character and protagonist is a rebellious adolescent girl with a dysfunctional family including a hard drinking father and a mother care worn rejecting her would be beau andrei vera begins a destructive and primarily sexual relationship with a college student named sergei despite her parents' dislike for the lazy sergei and despite rude contempt for her parents he moves into their cramped apartment tensions escalate until vera's father drunkenly stabs sergei vera must decide if she will stay loyal to her intolerable family by testifying her father acted in self defense or continue to support and defend the ever detached sergei br br unbearable in almost every imaginable way little vera masterfully captures and communicates the inescapable void left in social life after the collapse of communism the sexual aggressiveness of the film it was the first film to show explicit sex combined with the unrelenting presentation of social reality a marked distinction from the socialist realism demanded by stalin effectively confronted the conditions of former soviet life most interesting however was public reception while many wrote hate mail to the director and star the film was wildly popular here the double edged nature of film as social criticism emerges if done correctly the film will make the audience uncomfortable because no easy solution presents itself some viewers will hate the film and filmmakers for bringing up the issue many films come to mind as somewhat comparable in this regard larry clark's kids harmony korine's gummo even popular movie's such as john hughes' breakfast club br br i recommend this film to those viewers for whom the prospect of nearly two hours excruciating domestic conflict and social miasma is not overly daunting the film is absolutely beautiful and incredibly challenging despite the difficulties of watching the film some moments within it are profoundly beautiful of course the socio historic and cultural significance of the film cannot be overlooked and in fact operate as an even more assertive reason for watching this film
1	forget every spy movie you've ever seen this is what life was like in the ussr and still is in many places in russia and the ex soviet countries vera dreams of life of leisure as she imagines the west to be her reality is very different with a bitter mother a violent father and the ever present alcohol and her prospects for the future are not much better she finds a man and they try to patch up a life together but he is afflicted by the same environment both socially and physically the scenery in this movie is brilliant sitting comfortably in the company of post apocalyptic movies but obviously done with no special effects they have just walked in and shot whatever happened to be in front of the camera br br forget your stereotyped cold russians of spy movies this is the real deal people are passionate vibrant and present in a way you'll never see in a drama from the west
1	in russia the ordinary teenager vera lives a life with her drunkard father and her simpleton mother without working and waiting for the calling for a technical course of telephone operator her brother victor aleksandr lives in moscow with the family of his own and occasionally visits his dysfunctional family and vera being always motive for arguing when vera meets the student of university sergei andrei they fall in love for each other and decide to get married sergei moves to vera's house but lives in conflict with her father this relationship leads the family to a tragedy br br i have just seen vera and i liked a lot this deep family drama i am not familiarized with the life style in the former but there are some unusual behaviors that i found very interesting the first one when victor tells vera that she was conceived not because her parents wanted to have her but because they wanted to move to a larger apartment another one when the family goes to the beach in a truck many difficulties of vera's family and their friends the repression in the park and other situations pictured in the movie are common in third world countries this low budget movie is very well directed and the story is very profound and real the cast has great performances and the actress is very beautiful in the cover of the brazilian vhs released by distributor there is information that was the centerfold of playboy magazine i am not sure how precise are the subtitles in portuguese since many long sentences spoken in russian are limited to short translation in few words my vote is seven br br title brazil a vera the little vera
1	one of the major aspects of vera called little vera in english is that it was the first movie from the soviet union that featured a sex scene albeit a short one the title is important vera is the russian word for faith identifying that punk vera has little faith in the soviet system and as the movie shows there's not much faith to be had in it the opening scene shows the bleak industrial town of nearly a hell on earth when vera's lover sergei moves in with her family it leads to some unexpected events br br like in many russian movies people's names describe their characters for example there's viktor remember that victor means winner all in all this is a good look at the soviet union while it was collapsing and we can see why it was collapsing really good
1	it is difficult today and in the us to understand this movie we have nothing really to compare it with here is an attempt at comparison it is as if during the last years of rule a filmmaker in iraq were somehow able to make a film which for the first time ever showed life as it really was lived in that country the life of ordinary young girl with all the terror and the repression full blown then the film was exhibited freely in iraq if you could imagine that unlikely event then you might have an idea of what went on with this film in the last few years of the soviet union prior to this film soviet cinema was highly censored soviet movies would only show an ideal life in the worker's paradise then suddenly this the alcoholism the random sex the ugly wasteland that was the soviet city the choking pollution the proletariat victimizing each other and themselves the utter hopelessness it is all there people were stunned soviet women would often weep during the showings many would say that this is the story of their lives it was a cultural earthquake the like of which filmmakers only dream of accomplishing it undoubtedly the breakup of the soviet union br br reading the reviews here i can see that few understand this film one says it was groundbreaking because it contained real sex to the soviet viewers at the time the sex was a minor event compared to fact that it portrayed reality for the first time in soviet cinema br br others compare it to current films such as as good as it gets might as well compare homer's to the latest john novel they simply do not compare this is not just a film this is was a social document and a transforming social force it needs to be viewed that way or you will not understand the film br br other reviewers see it as a film about a dysfunctional russian family one even says that it is difficult to feel sorry for vera because she keeps coming back to her family the point is that vera and her family are symbols for all of soviet life there was nowhere else to go because the family down the block and in the next town were the same this was life in the soviet union for most people br br this is a film that can be viewed on many levels as a drama it traces the landscape of despair as a social document it shows the living conditions of the time as a political document it shows the attitude of the people and many of the reasons for the break up of the soviet union and as a moral document it shows the evils of a dictatorship that is out of control and the cruelties that victims will practice on each other br br little vera clearly shows the human toll that socialism eventually takes on its victims despite any good intentions that system may have in doing so it helped end the soviet regime thus contributing to one of the major changes in modern history this film achieves what only a few films have ever accomplished it is not only an stunning representation of history but it also become a force in that shaped history
1	this wonderful movie captures so many elements of what makes a family comedy funny entertaining sweet and memorable it's difficult to decide where to start br br from the opening number rainbow connection paul williams's excellent score sung with gusto by kermit d frog which gives us a prologue of what the whole adventure is about throughout the story this is one fun movie br br essentially it's a road trip movie where kermit travels cross country with a dream of pursuing a rich and famous contract to entertain along the way our green hero meets a series of other aspiring actors comedians singers and musicians who coincidentally are muppets like kermit himself is this how the muppets really started approximately how it happened kermit tells us br br not since it's a mad mad mad mad world has the cameo formula been used so and successfully the aspiring stars encounter many recognizable faces during their odyssey some just blink across the screen but others have very memorable cameos steve martin's amusing bit as a rude waiter is probably the best puppeteer jim henson's nod to his inspiration edgar bergen is especially touching br br anyone who ever watched the muppets tv show will get to see all of their favorite characters they're all here the puppetry work is magnificent look especially for kermit riding a bicycle how dey do dat in jokes and references to old movies are everywhere but the best one liners are reserved for kermit himself an example when the crooks are terrorizing kermit and piggy she affectionately says to her short green and handsome beau i wouldn't give up this evening together for anything would you uhhh make me an offer i also love the gunfight at the ok corral scene brilliantly absurd silliness br br gotta get movin' right along now but to summarize a good natured movie that can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of age or movie genre taste highly recommended
1	i gave this film my rare 10 stars br br when i first began watching it and realized it would not be a film with a strong plot line i almost turned it off i am very glad i didn't br br this is a character driven film a true story which revolves mainly around the life of rachel nanny crosby a strong beautiful inside and out black woman and how she touched the lives of so many in the community of lackawanna br br highly interesting not only its strong characterizations of nanny and the people who lived at her boardinghouse but also it gives us a look at what life and community were like for african americans in the 1950's prior to integration and the good and bad sides of segregation and how it ultimately affected and changed the black community br br in addition to excellent performances by all members of the cast there is some fine singing and dancing from that era
1	the captain and have released a very good 3 dvd package with minimal editing unlike most variety show releases these shows have not been hacked to bits the musical and dance numbers are included with the skits just as they were when first broadcast i suspect that some musical numbers on the dvd may have been edited into shows in which they did not originally appear but have been unable to verify that suspicion i've noticed a few inconsistencies between what is on the dvd and program information i've found on the net i've been unable to verify whether the net information is inaccurate or if the musical performances have been edited into the shows on the dvd whatever the truth may be i'm very appreciative of the efforts made by the production company i wish every variety show released would show the same respect for the format i would guess about half the shows broadcast are included i believe they ran into rights problems on the shows which weren't included hopefully those issues can be resolved and a volume 2 can be released sometime in the future there are some individual music videos along with a dance rehearsal among the extras i recommend this dvd to any c t fan
1	this was alright it was one of those we gotcha but we don't have enough evidence yet storylines in the couple of movies i've seen her in i've never really though much of stephanie zimbalist a professional tv actress she is but nothing really outstanding here in this she was definitely above average as the former fed or was it fed on loan profiler her character got along well with the motley bunch of special investigation unit cops she was assigned with there wasn't really a goofy character you'd roll your eyes at and just despise which was good also good is it takes awhile to know who the murderer is but when i found out i wasn't that surprised oh well one more thing that was good was the los angeles locations quite possibly if this was made today they'd use toronto or vancouver but here they really shot in downtown l a like that a lot even though i semi despise l a liked the movie too i don't know if i'd ever watch it again but it wasn't too bad my grade b
1	i have to admit that when first saw madonna performing holiday on top of the pops many years ago i said to my wife another american one hit wonder getting the whole thing wrong well she was wearing a fright wig and was appallingly dressed i have never grown to love her the way my daughter does but i have to eat my words i do like some of her stuff and sometimes enjoy her filmed concerts this confessions tour film is great even if the music is not and its not i was impressed by the staging and concepts madonna's own performance was enhanced by the incredible dancers she chose to support her my daughter was at the london gigs and was crazy about it the lady madge has proved my initial assessment of her so very wrong
1	this show was so exhausting to watch and there's only two numbers drowned world substitute for love and paradise not for me were you can sit down and just contemplate it all the opening of this show will go down in history as the most visually thrilling as madonna enters the stage via a gigantic crystal ball that comes down from the ceiling and the huge screens from behind it show images of horses galloping horses play a role in this show due to madonna falling off one the infamous scene of madonna on the crucifix is in this show as a huge screen counts to 12 million the number of how many african children are orphaned due to aids at the end a website address comes up for anyone interested in donating we then go into the theme of the environment and again images of politics and religion are shown there's an interlude and then the show starts again to the music of i love new york and ray of light this part of the show is one of my favorites with the dancers doing there funny hand movements towards the end there's the music number with the song disco inferno mixed in with the song and the dancers make more of there presence known the ending again is full of energy as the show wraps up to the tunes of lucky star and hung up and hundreds of golden balloons fall from the ceiling at the end the message have you confessed comes up the dvd is worth buying and when it came out the soundtrack for the show was added as a bonus jonas did a great job with the footage for this show keeping it consistent with the style of the tour
1	madonna has been rocking the boat for over 20 years and with that comes a lot of experience obviously and a lot of knowledge she was never the one to think about yesterday au contraire she seemed to know what is going to be popular tomorrow she bravely takes all the new trends technologies and incorporates them into her own acts her world tours have never been 'average' when madonna performs she gives 120 everything is bigger better theatrical and meaningful she takes inspirations from east west and makes then unique everything is given a deeper meaning and the confessions tour is not different from the very beginning you find yourself sitting on the edge of the chair she starts with bang then she does brave circus poses on a horse high up in the sky she does everything she can to entertain you she remakes her own songs giving them a modern feel she sings on a disco cross she almost comes in the middle of the stage and with her amazing dance crew that know no dimensions of fear the show is absolutely more than you bargained for it's a spectacle an audio visual orgasm that cannot be put in words lucky are the ones who actually experienced seeing madonna on stage pushing fifty she is still in an incredible form recent sticky and sweet tour is even more ground breaking which proves nothing else that madonna was is and ever be the one and the only queen of pop
1	the show was amazing and very professional madonna is a non stop dancing and singing for 2 hours the opening was pretty good when she came out of the disco ball and also jump was a really good performance the entire show was full of energy so it's kind of hard to say which were the highlights because every song had something special and unique i saw live couple of her previous tours drowned world and reinvention tour they were good but you can't compare with this one the dancers were fantastic the lights and the whole show were just perfect madonna still looks very good if you haven't seen it yet i highly recommend you to see it you'll enjoy the show from the beginning to the end madonna is still the dancing queen
1	this concert is the type of concert that only comes around every twenty years or so madonna's confessions on a dance floor era will certainly be remembered as one of the high points of her career she's 48 and she looks simply divine she keeps up with the dancers that are almost twenty years her junior i am also very glad to report that all the songs were sung live which is good because she actually sounds better live each song was so unique the visuals where stunning the performance of 'live to tell' was fantastic and had me awestruck was exotic and gorgeous and was rich with political symbolism the arabic horn the american eagle set free i particularly liked the performance of 'i love new york' i almost stood up in my lounge room and cheered when she told her critics to suck george bushes and then again i was impressed by the 70's inspired music inferno remix this spectacular concert made a fan out of me br br verdict highly recommended with a capital h
1	well i have to say i had the chance to see this show here in philadelphia pa sometime in june of 06 and i really loved it my all time favorite madonna look was the 1990 blond ambition tour era this to me is madonna now that she is a mother of 3 she has to change some things to suit motherhood and i totally agree this is a classic madonna concert i wish live to tell wasn't edited we saw body's falling from buildings on 911 we can see a woman on a cross any way i'm looking forward to the release of this tour on dvd and hope it is the entire show unedited and with a bunch of bonus footage she is a artist of all time the best out there and still at the top and going strong long live madonna
1	this is a spectacular production i have seen the show live twice in chicago and my only problem with the production was the fact that i was able to perceive only fragments of what was going on the stage consisted of three giant catwalks and the platform and as the action moves from one part of the stage to the next sometime you loose track of what is going on no matter where you are located as always this is a thought provoking sensory overload skillfully captured in high definition with 15 cameras the footage was masterfully edited one of the best concert dvds of all times in my opinion i only hope and wish that they will release this on blu ray of hd dvd so that we can re live this extravaganza over and over again
1	years ago with ray of light madonna broke through to a truly amazing level of musical artistry and since then she's occasionally transcended even her own standards this concert production with its hypnotic editing amazing dancing hallucinatory lighting effects and trance inducing arrangements blows away all previous efforts madonna's apparent ambition to single handedly bring about world peace through music and dance may seem hubristic or absurd to some but hell somebody's got to do it thanks to her assemblage of the remarkable talent of everyone involved in this production confessions tour live from london places her once again among the top ten artists working anywhere in the world in any medium
1	this is a movie that will brighten up your day for sure kermit the frog is just an ordinary frog in his swamp when a talent agent stops by and tells him that hollywood is looking for frogs to be in movie lol on the way kermit meets fozzie bear miss piggy gonzo and his chicken camilla rowlf the electric mayhem bunsen and beaker but also trailing kermit is the proprietor of a restaurant chain doc hoppers french fried frog legs all things considered though kermit and the muppets make it to hollywood br br this movie is recommended for everyone young and old br br it has some wonderful musical numbers like the rainbow connection i'm going to go back there someday and movin' right along the muppets also use many forms of transportation in this movie kermit rides a bike fozzie drives a and another car gonzo takes flight with a bundle of helium balloons which is one of my favorite moments by the way and kermit and the rest of the muppets finally go the rest of the way by the electric bus dr teeth floyd janice scooter and animal who meet up with them in the desert after car breaks down br br even some sesame street muppets make cameo appearances i e big bird is walking along on the road on the way to nyc to break into public television the end is also a very heartwarming moment every single muppet created is in the final scene along with a final rainbow connection reprise br br but those poor muppets worked so hard on their movie set then it all comes crashing down and the camera explodes in a huge ball of sparks you'd think everything is ruined and destroyed but the rainbow comes shining through the roof at the end and it all sums up the magic of this film and you know everything will be all right br br perfect 10 10 watch it and you'll be enchanted by the fun and sadness of this movie
1	hammer house of horror witching time is set in rural england on woodstock farm where stressed musician david winter jon finch lives with his actress wife mary prunella gee is currently composing the music for a horror film one night while looking for his dog billy david finds a mysterious woman in his barn calling herself lucinda patricia quinn she claims to be a witch who has transported herself from 300 years in the past to now obviously rather sceptical david has a hard time believing her so he locks her in a room in his farmhouse calls his doctor charles ian to come examine her however once he arrives they enter the room lucinda has disappeared charles puts it down to david drinking too much but over the next few day strange disturbing things begin to happen to david mary br br witching time was episode 1 from the short lived british anthology horror series produced by hammer studios for tv originally aired here in the uk during september 1980 the first of two hammer house of horror episodes to be directed by don leaver episode 13 the mark of satan being the other i actually rather liked this as a series hammer house of horror dealt with various different themes were all unconnected to each other except in name unsurprisingly watching time is a sinister effective little tale about a witch the script by anthony read benefits from it's slight 50 odd minute duration moves along at a nice pace the character's are pretty good as is the dialogue there are some nice scenes here i liked the way it never quite reveals whether david mary are going crazy or not i think it's a well structured entertaining reasonably creepy horror themed tv show that i enjoyed more than i thought i would br br being made for british tv meant the boys at hammer had a lower budget than usual if that was even possible as such there is no gorgeous period settings here as in their most well know frankenstein dracula films although the contemporary english setting does give it a certain atmosphere that you can relate to a bit more another tv based restriction is that the exploitation levels are lower than you might hope for there's some nudity gore but not much although i didn't mind too much as the story here is pretty good it's well made for what it is hammer's experience on their feature films probably helped make these look pretty good the acting is good as well with genre favourite ian making a bit part appearance br br witching time is a good start to the hammer house of horror series as a 50 minute piece of british tv it's pretty damned good now why don't they make show's like this over here anymore
1	as a great fan of the hammer studios and enthusiastic watcher of their gothic horror films i wonder what took me so long to start watching their tv series hammer house of horror which only ran for one season in 1980 now that i've seen the first four episodes of the show i can say that it easily satisfies my expectations so far while this first episode witching time is maybe not the most imaginative horror story ever told and doesn't quite deliver the marvelous gothic atmosphere that i love hammer's films from the 50s to the 70s for it doubtlessly does accomplish to tell a surprisingly spooky tale and create some genuine creepiness within fifty minutes film score composer david winter jon finch is tormented by the 17th century witch lucinda patricia quinn while he story may be simple but for a running time of less than an hour it is effective and delivers many creepy moments northern irish actress patricia quinn who is probably best known for her role in the rocky horror picture show 1975 as well as the fantastic monty python comedy monty python's meaning of life 1983 is wonderfully malicious in her role which fits her like a glove jon finch is also quite good as david and while prunella gee who plays his adulterous actress wife may not be the best actress ever she is definitely nice to look at the episode is accompanied by a nice score which plays along well with the atmosphere overall witching time is a very entertaining episode with several truly creepy moments and decent opener to the series
1	this was my first look at this short lived british tv horror series but i had seen a couple of hammer horror films horror of dracula captain kronos vampire hunter and thought highly enough of them to give this a look br br this first episode was a shocker not for the horror but for all the nudity was this regular tv in england in 1980 if so it showed a lot more skin than what we see in north america there were three separate scenes showing naked women and their breasts one scene where a guy put his hand on one and another scene with man a top of a woman faking intercourse hey i'm not complaining br br the story is a simple one a witch who had disappeared in the 17th century comes back to her old house and makes life tough for the married man the latter jon finch as david winter wasn't much of an actor but his wife wasn't bad and was a really beauty she was be prunella gee as mary the husband suspected her rightly so of having an affair and that plays a part in this story br br patricia quinn was entertaining as the laughing witch lucinda jessup who comes back with a mean streak in her and has a good time tormenting the couple until things go wrong at the end as a man i'd say it was particular fun to see the two women going at it this starts off slowly but once lucinda starts stirring up things it gets very entertaining
1	possibly john cassavetes best film to date and definitely his funniest seymour cassel plays the young moskowitz smitten with real life wife of cassavetes gena rowlands excellent as usual a must see gem of a film if you can locate it
1	i would recommend this for anyone who is an admirer of the late john cassavetes and for those who have never known of cassavetes it is an excellent film i really don't have the time to go into the details of why this is my opinion but if you're looking for something gutsy with lots of scenes to mull over then this one is for you the cinematography is perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the film as well as the story itself this review does not do the film justice it is an experience one must view for themselves lots of character very genuine
1	although it may not be cassavetes' best work minnie and moskowitz is almost perfect in all its endeavours the plot is whimsical and charming and surprisingly dramatic with an impressive range of emotion much more drama than comedy contrary to imdb's profile yes the story is whimsical but not arbitrary it succeeds as believable albeit a tad forced which i will come back to all of the artistic aspects are of true cassavetes form the cinematography and camera work are delights and the soundtrack albeit barely there is complimentary plus i believe i noticed some nods to godard and such in the editing as i have in a few of cassavetes' other films namely the abrupt cutting of a song in one scene which are interesting br br i feel the plot is built up nicely with the first half being particularly enjoyable seymour's conversation with morgan morgan timothy carey in the diner for example is wonderfully funny and fascinating and sets the tone for the philosophical commentary made throughout the film this philosophising a tradition in cassavetes' films is what made the film for me seymour's amusing and profound monologues instantly eliminate the first impressions one may have of him as a hippie though his character is curiously similar to that of his in faces 1968 this tipped me however on second viewing into the opinion that it stands up against cassavetes' best work i gained an affection for this film that i lacked on first viewing br br there are sadly several aspects that make this film imperfect i find the plot to be unbalanced as i said before it builds up nicely but it wanes a bit here and there particularly towards the end because of the spontaneous style in which cassavetes worked and particularly the freedom with which he allowed his actors to improvise the quality of his product can easily go either way in this case it's inconsistent i assess that most of this film was improvised and most of it beautifully but one or two scenes unfortunately just don't work in particular the scene after seymour fights with work associate outside her house during what is intended to be the most intense scene of the film cassavetes allowed his actors to run free with the dialogue presuming some was planned beforehand this i believe was a mistake one gets the impression cassel doesn't quite know what to do as he repeatedly fumbles in his speech often not making sense and overacts all of this damaging the scene and the character development i understand seymour is intended to be a bit of a brash fool but cassel's attempts here are why does he cut his moustache off these flaws are resulting from a lack of direction on cassavetes part a lack of understanding and forethought on cassel's part a lack of rehearsal and preparation etc evidently cassavetes didn't learn from his mistakes as he allowed this same thing to happen in his next film a woman under the influence 1974 the committing scene and ending br br the flaws i mention are not minor but they do not ruin the film they simply make some scenes cringe worthy and unrealistic spoiling the flow of the film and compromising its potential however i am very very fond of cassavetes and all of his actors particularly cassel in spite of the faults i mentioned this is a very enjoyable film although it proves the of cassavetes' style
1	real love true love mad love beautiful love ugly love dirty love sad love happy love silly love smart love gorgeous love dumb love love love love minnie moore understands that what she really needs is a man who trust her trust her and love her madly of course when this man comes along she tries to run away but seymour wonderful seymour he trusts her he believes in her so he is going to fight for her against her i want to be like seymour moskowitz i want to be that kind of man a man willing to love without been afraid to fail but willing to fail that's a kind of hero that's my kind of hero and minnie moore is my kind of woman long live cassavetes and all his lovely bunch
1	minnie and moskowitz is the most pathetic and love story i've ever seen between minnie a disillusioned museum curator whose abusive married boyfriend dumps her and leaves her even more uptight and confused than she already was and seymour moskowitz a parking attendant so desperate for attention that he spends his nights going to bars and restaurants aggravating people there is a chaotic and disenchanted match from the start just like so many pairings that we see every day br br in nearly every love story there is a man and a woman the man being confident funny either classically hot or attractive in his own way whose shortcomings are charming and the woman a wounded soul who could have any man she wants who chooses this guy because there's just something about him these movies make everyone feel so good because the characters embody what every man and woman wants to be not what they are minnie and moskowitz instead of indulging in any hint of fantasy in the realm of romance depicts people who may just be more common than the attractive confident people with so much experience playing the field what's the story behind the love affairs of the ugly alarmingly awkward man with no life and no job that we all run into or the woman so crippled by insecurity that it's difficult to talk to her br br this film is not as fascinating as cassavetes's faces or opening night but it has that riveting quality that cassavetes always fought so hard to render which is an unbridled depiction of people underneath the ego that hides behind itself in nearly all other films gena rowlands and seymour cassel delivering startlingly pitiable people are hardly likable moskowitz nearly drives us mad let alone minnie he imposes himself so forcefully in her life the dates are an explosion of the inner voices of ours that respond to the screamingly inept uneasiness on dates we've all been on rejections we've all swallowed and arguments we've all had that we know were our own faults i admire a film like minnie and moskowitz because as the trademark is with the films cassavetes helmed himself it identifies with us in 100 honesty our egos play no part in company with his characters thus a tremendous achievement per performance by actor
1	life is crazy you're crazy i'm crazy we're all crazy we're all a little bit minnie and a little bit moskowitz sometimes it does seem best to be sensible but then what might you be missing out on br br you gotta be you you don't have to park cars and semi randomly yell at people but you can't hide yourself behind a veil or dark sunglasses and pretend and act like everything is okay and sometimes you really do have to throw caution to the wind because why else are you alive br br i'm not going to this love compared to cassavetes' other movies because they are all absolutely 100 unique works and each their own individual act of expression and exploration of our lives in that sense they are all great and comparisons are odious for sure this movie has that one crazy sometimes maddening but ultimately wonderful and freeing quality that all his movies have you never know what's going to happen next and you never know what the characters are going to think do or feel next neither do the characters themselves and do we really want to live our lives any other way unlike moskowitz you can have a great job and sock away money into your ira but still live the life of an adventurer inside in your feelings your spirit and your very experience of life yeah we can have it both ways that's what cassavetes shows us thank god somebody did
1	i feel as though i know these people and have known people similar to them these days though people are discouraged from showing such passion about anything especially love and loneliness it has a slow beginning but then look out if you love romantic comedies but would like to see one that had some basis in reality for a change or at least did have back in the 70's then you should see this movie
1	as muppet movies go this is easily and clearly the best it features loads of cameos by big named comedic stars of the age a solid script and some great disneyesque songs and blends them together in a culmination of the best display of henson's talent the story is basic and the jokes are many leveled in order to amuse both the adults and the kids to which this was marketed without exposing them to ideologies their parents may not find desirable br br this is simply fun but it is also a well made well written beautifully endearing classic br br it rates an 8 9 10 from br br the fiend
1	this light heated for cassavetes love story is pleasantly conveyed by two wonderful performances by gena rowlands and seymour cassell rowlands was never more beautiful as a repressed damaged mid 30's woman who meets her match in seymour cassell is a of energy and romantic notions on his terms br br there is a great supporting performance by val avery as swift and an unusual as always timothy carey that's worth the price of admission made between husbands and a woman under the influence this is most accessible film that should touch the heart of anyone especially the cassavetes haters who claim his films are too long and ponderously heavy at times made my top ten that year and not seen by enough people an 8 out of 10
1	oz is by far the best show ever to grace television better than the sopranos yes er yes csi absolutely uncompromising daring and utterly disturbing yet profoundly moving oz took us past any image of prison that anyone had ever conjured up on television tom fontana truly did a brilliant job with the writing no topic is taboo rape drugs murder oz is evidence of just how good tv can be it follows characters of all different backgrounds and all different races but always comes back to your everyman tobias in jail for vehicular manslaughter we see what we don't want to see pain death mayhem oz will disturb you make you cringe make you look away but most of all it will make you think to see oz is to see a truly magnificent television production
1	oz is one of the most mind blowing and addictive tv experiences ever br br having caught pieces of this on sbs i was at first skeptical however having finished now the 4th season i sadly know that that this brilliant show is approaching its end 6 seasons and yet i still can't get enough of oz br br want something that will push your senses and your stomach to the limit oz fits the bill hands down br br this isn't kid's stuff folks its violent brutal and not pretty why its a experimental unit inside a maximum security prison br br tom fontana's oz is brilliant in all the right departments the actors the writing and directing br br hbo's oz site is also highly recommended for newcomers for info about this series this was the first one hour show produced by hbo and it proves what a master work it is and that others would follow br br thank you hbo
1	one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just 1 oz episode you'll be hooked they are right as this is exactly what happened with me br br the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence which set in right from the word go trust me this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs sex or violence its is hardcore in the classic use of the word br br it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state it focuses mainly on emerald city an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face so privacy is not high on the agenda em city is home to many aryans muslims gangstas latinos christians italians irish and more so scuffles death stares dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away br br i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn't dare forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences forget charm forget romance oz doesn't mess around the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal i couldn't say i was ready for it but as i watched more i developed a taste for oz and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence not just violence but injustice crooked guards who'll be sold out for a nickel inmates who'll kill on order and get away with it well mannered middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience watching oz you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing thats if you can get in touch with your darker side
1	hbo created this show for purposes of making us see the most realistic view of prison possible and they did a hell of a job oz was created by the creators of homicide who wanted to show a raw version of prison this show is what launched the idea of every other hbo original program such as the sopranos sex and the city the wire arliss deadwood and six feet under amongst others oz is the nickname for the oswald state a fictional prison in some us state which is never stated though with the accents crime scenes and racial distribution ny is assumed the main prison unit looked at on the show is emerald city a seemingly ideal prison unit with more than others thought out by a liberal unit manager named tim mcmanus overall this show shows us what it is really like if one wishes to survive in prison br br there are about 10 gangs shown on oz first we have the muslims a group of blacks who wish to destroy the injustices of the criminal justice system and help improve living conditions for blacks everywhere they are led by kareem said a black militant minister who wishes to destroy everything racist about the judicial system as a group they are not so much anti white but rather anti injustice our second group of blacks is the homeboys who are essentially the street blacks who wish to keep all the bad ghetto behaviors up and run the drug trade their leadership varies mainly because they are always losing members due to violence in this group one character who is acted terrifically is simon is an african inmate who is essentially the most frighteningly evil character alive this gang as a whole gets side help from the irish at times and is always in conflict with the latinos and for drug distribution purposes being that oz is mostly black the homeboys have the most soldiers of any gang inside br br the latinos and like the homeboys have varying leadership due to violent deaths that occur throughout the show the pretty much have the most substantial say in how any illegal activity gets conducted in oz the latinos make their presence known so that they can at least be coasting well if they are not in control unlike the homeboys however these gangs do not have as much internal battle for power and are usually more stable when it comes to drug usage the irish who are mentioned above are a smaller gang led by a manipulative and ryan o'reily o'reily always manages to stay in good graces with all the drug powers and manages to manipulate things in his way whenever he wants they are in no illegal control but they are at least on good terms with all those who are br br amongst the whiter inmates we have the bikers and aryans the bikers are merely a bunch of tattooed drug users who help the aryans out most of the time the aryans are the most hated and hateful gang to most any viewer of oz they are led by vern who is amongst the most racist sickest and sadistic characters one will ever see both gangs control nothing illegal they just merely let the darker skinned inmates see that they are a substantial threat to anyone who thinks all white inmates are soft we also have the others the others is a gang of outsider prisoners who are not necessarily a problem to any other inmate in this group we see tobias a lawyer who accidentally killed a young girl whose life is forever altered by prison we also see augustus hill a black man bound to a wheelchair for killing a police officer who narrates the show and introduces the audience to every inmate the character's crimes are shown as they are introduced and augustus lets us know how long they will be in prison finally amongst gangs there are the christians and gays the christians merely stay religious to keep from going mental and the gays are a bunch of cross dressers who are often raped by other inmates br br this show gets in depth on a lot of issues dealing with the criminal justice system and is more explicit than any movie about prison since language is unedited we here more racial epithets and cuss words than we would on any other tv show augustus hill's commentary provides a good way for us to truly understand each and every issue involved with oz this show as good as it is is not at all for the light to medium hearted it explicitly shows drug use and distribution by any means possible prison rape murders fatal stabbings and general gore than anything anyone else has seen in my opinion it is the most influential and greatest show ever created but i can see at the same time why other people would be disturbed by this show if you are at all interested by shows and movies about prison oz is a must see
1	oz is the tv show which is intensive non stop adrenaline its a show which is not aimed at a large audience but a specific one as its themes are very adult orientated it obviously did not achieve mainstream success as this was an impossibility but had much fame with its audience and many famous actors either guest starred or became part of the show br br oz is a series of fictional stories based on a prison located somewhere in the new york state there are many different ethnic groups which play a somewhat equal role in being represented these groups are the muslims homeboys aryans bikers italians latinos irish christians gays and others some have some form of affiliation with each other such as the bikers and aryans whilst the aryans are the enemy's of numerous groups such as the muslims and the homeboys br br in oswald its official name there is a policy that not too many members from any one ethnic group may be allowed it is the maximum security prison and the regular prison where sometimes prisoners are sent to or from in the show is called general population or gen pop the main character of the show is augustus hill who also narrates the story before and after the main segments crossed between a documentary type and a biographical one hill is bound to wheelchair usage as a consequence of his unknown past he is part of the others group which features individuals which don't fit into the other prison gangs br br of the many groups it is the smaller ones which are able to keep themselves avoided by trouble most of the times as the larger ones are busy in conflict with one another are few of the most noteworthy characters are as follows 1 ryan o'reilly is in charge of his fellow irishmen and somehow always voluntarily gets himself involved in lethal activity for the weakest link 2 miguel alvarez is the watched latino who has constant struggles with coping with his popularity within his own gang and with others 3 simon is the who was the former leader of the homeboys gang hes also very physically quite large and solid these two reasons are why he is one of the most powerful inmates inside of oz 4 said is the muslim and black nationalist who is a very defined in his opinions and desires he fights for the rights of his people on many levels through the show from his own muslim group to his wider black group and even fighting for all the groups against the unjust rules of authority he character seems in some ways identical to malcom x the famous black rights fighter who was also muslim br br all in all for its genre oz is possibly the greatest fictional prison show or show based on ethnic relations if it doesn't sound as if your own type of series it probably shouldn't be tried out but if it does interest then it is definitely worth viewing the biggest problem with the show is how it is addictive some may feel wrong viewing a lot of this kind of material researchers argue on whether it is harmful or not but in the end it is just a reflection of the society of the world we live in today this means that it is as an informant and an indicator of the world than an aggressor
1	this show has everything you could ever want from a prison drama there are twists and turns all the way till the season finally the characters are very strong and it gives the show a lot of power when watching the show you feel for not only the prisoners but the prison staff the actors who play prisoners on this show have done a very good job portraying a prisoner also if you like law and order svu or law and order criminal intent there are many actors from this show that appear in those shows the only problem with oz is that it was not long enough this show could of easily had nine to ten seasons without getting old even after the season finale i sill find myself watching oz all the time on dvd this show is easily one of the best shows on television don't be a fool go watch oz
1	what a great show a very underrated dramatic show it is great how there are no main characters and every episode some other character s are the main character s i think the best character on the show is vern he is a tough bad guy and an aryan on top of that which makes him a true bad guy prisoner who there are many that are known to be this show has many murders i think it is a little over exaggerated for the killing on the show but i have to admit that is one of the reasons why i think the show is so great i think some characters were killed off a little early but some sure still made their mark you can't compare things like prison break to this show they are totally different i think some of the actors on the show are also very good and underrated and should what is due to them a great show my favorite's a show that should be considered of the the greats for years to come
1	yes this show had a lot of male frontal nudity and yes over the years the plot lines became over the top melodramatic and very unrealistic however it didn't matter because the show is great you really get involved in the characters and every character no matter how minor or major is perfectly cast br br i can't imagine anyone else except simmons play the neo nazi racist rapist leader nor anyone else playing tobias except lee the transformation of his character from season 1 to season 2 is amazing however the character that made oz oz was chris keller played by christopher meloni he didn't have relations with anyone else in prison except well except ronnie but that was only to get ronnie to stop playing around with keller's lover boy their relationship transcended sexes and tom fontana actually made us care about those two and want those two to be together br br i loved soft spot for his kids in the show and how fontana made sympathetic characters out of all these heinous criminals that we grew to adore even simon br br however some plot lines were totally unbelievable and unrealistic a guy building a bomb in oz guys standing in a spotlight in their windows in their pods looking at other men plotting something in their mind too over the top drugs getting in oz everyone in the rehab group used or sold drugs and sister pete never helped anyone in six years people getting killed in the gym supply closet and kitchen no one hurting ryan's mom no one fighting cyril outside the boxing ring except vern of course two inmates with tools being left alone in the elevator shaft and one of them dying with no investigation karl metzger guard gets killed and no one investigates governor holds all his press conferences at the prison all an inmate needs to do is say i want to see glenn or i want to see mcmanus and they are taken to them no questions asked people die every week in oz on the outside people kill someone and get 20 years up for parole in eight but if they kill someone on the inside they go to death row almost immediately there is no on site paid staff in the kitchen or mail room inmates run both departments no questions asked aging drugs for inmates to substitute as time served ryan has no friends or associates but he never gets hurt killed maimed raped or beaten the guys never flush the toilets when they go to the bathroom or throw up an nba scout comes to the prison to recruit for an nba player yeah right br br however with all these flaws this show is still awesome it's gruesome brutal sexy edgy raw and innovative dean winters scott william winters simmons christopher meloni luiz guzman adele the guy that played simon walker lee terry mums male alexander ll cool j etc etc etc all are awesome and made the show worth watching br br i highly recommend renting this on dvd season six comes out 9 06 next month first five seasons are on dvd watch them and then watch them again with audio commentary i loved the director's commentary with chazz palmentari the sequence with andy running down the cafeteria tables and then falling into the hole was an awesome top notch shot kudos and kathy bates directing family business and the famous wrestling scene between and keller simply amazing brilliant that'd have to be so weird for meloni to touch private part in front of an icon like kathy bates in that one scene wow pulled that off beautifully pun intended br br i'm waiting for oz the next generation like with star trek etc c'mon let's get it started
1	one of the best tv shows out there if not the best one why simple it has guts to show us real life in prison without any clichés and predictable twists this is not prison break or any other show actually comparing to oz the show sopranos look like story for children's profanity cursing shots of explicit violence and using drugs disgusting scenes of male sexual organs and rapes all this and more in oz but this is not the best part of oz the characters are the strongest point of this show they're all excellent and not annoying despite the fact we are looking at brutal criminals the actors are excellent my favorite are the actors who are playing ryan o'reilly and tobias because they're so unique and changing their behavior completely and most of all the don't have no remorse for their actions overall oz is amazing show the best one out there forget about csi and shows about stupid doctors this is the deal oz
1	looking back on jim henson's works years after his death is like taking a look back into another time for unlike most so called creative types attempting to sell to or worse yet cynically exploit children nowadays jim never seemed to really forget what it was like to be a child and if there ever was a moment in which he demonstrated this labyrinth aside it is 1979's muppet movie filmed as an allegorical story about how henson came to work in children's television as a puppeteer and ended up with a half hour show of his own on primetime television the muppet movie ends up an affirmation of everything more progressive understanding sorts would say to children who did not quite meet the expected norm during the 1980s and as we enjoy the fruits of an era in which we are gagged and bound from speaking about anything lest someone might get offended the open celebration of difference or diversity that formed a large part of the muppet show is on offer here i have said it in other comments but i must say it here a great light in the world went out the day jim henson died br br the muppet movie begins with its cast sitting down to see the premiere of what were about to see for the next eighty or so minutes in short precise strokes we are introduced to the major players as well as some of the minors and when the story proper begins boy are we given a great song to bring us into the moment the rainbow connection painted both a beautiful and sad image of what the muppets especially kermit were these were not just a bunch of felt puppets with singular personalities who combined to put on a show they were living things based upon a part of all of us only writ so much more boldly than we are used to as each muppet was introduced to us in turn we saw another reflection of part of ourselves and of course the children in the audience would respond differently to each character hence everyone had a favourite when animal appeared behind a drum kit and attempted to eat a cymbal i knew i had found one of mine nowadays i am more of a swedish chef fan but what the hey br br complementing the characters was a string of musical numbers that further developed their motivations and personalities can you picture that shared an insight into dr teeth and his band as well as the creative soul of henson but the most relevant song to me was gonzo's number asking what he is and where he came from many of us would spend a lifetime gazing into the stars and like gonzo saying we knew we would be going back there someday not that all the songs were so deadly serious of course and kermit share a number after they decide to combine their talent or lack thereof and hit the road if any evidence were required that present day musicians have lost the ability to use the pop structure to create something listenable this number would be it never before and never again would the group dynamic of a cast and the music so perfectly complement one another with the and voice actors so perfectly on top of their game the human cast had a lot to live up to br br which makes it all the more amazing that the human element also lived up to their end of the deal cameos literally pepper the film with everyone from steve martin to telly savalas popping in to offer their support even richard pryor the last man one would expect to see in a film about the muppets appears to set up a hilarious moment mel brooks' cameo is just as disturbing to me as an adult as it was when i was a small boy but i suspect that is because henson knew why i would find it disturbing now the big acting strength though comes from charles durning who as doc hopper embodies everything both henson and his audience determined to resist at every junction hopper comes to either offer kermit the chance to sell out and betray his own kind or perhaps offer stops being the right word when hopper's attempts to ensure kermit's compliance become progressively more forceful and violent the whole thing is one big metaphor for how every artist has his heart broken by the world br br of course animal also shows up to remind us that just because our friends are not sweet and cuddly does not make them any less of a friend in point of fact animal turns out to be the best friend that kermit has in that moment and that has been the core message of every good show or film henson has been involved in ever since that shunning or dismissing others simply because of linguistic or cosmetic differences could literally be the worst mistake one ever makes there can be little doubt that in today's world where a moron in a purple suit can tell my sons they are not good if they do not have good feelings for fifteen seasons and still not come under serious investigation by child welfare authorities henson's creature workshop could never have got off the ground to misquote the album title daring to be stupid is one thing but enforcing the choice upon others is another matter the muppet movie demonstrates how henson dared to ask us all to think both inside and outside of the proverbial box there will never be another entirely like him but he never would want us to stop trying br br therefore the muppet movie is the epitome of a ten out of ten film if we were to send a film out into the cosmos to prove to intelligent life that we are worth more than being obliterated this would be it
1	i admit that i almost gave up on watching tv shows why because most of them are about doctors forensics or some girl boy who can predict a murder by sitting on the toilet seat but i must say i was wrong when i watched the first episode of oz one of the most brilliant shows on tv until today oz is a show about maximum secure prison and shows episodes in life of every cell mate inside the prison and their frustrations what i like about this show is the fact it has the courage to show the real life in prison without any annoying characters stereotypes and unrealistic dialogs even thought the characters in the show are not supposed to be heroes you became quickly attached to them and their life sure their is a lot of violence in this show and some disturbing images of rape and taking drugs but that's the point of this show to present how brutal and frustrating can be life in prison heck you can't show life in prison like a clean environment with likeable characters right oz is perfect in every way the actors are doing an excellent job and the whole hour of this show is going threw really really fast the only thing that i didn't like in this show was the last season of the show i think it became too weird and brutal and the finale was not satisfying but overall oz is still my favorite show on tv so far it surpasses sopranos and million csi and dr house crap with just a main title brilliant show which has the balls to show what other shows are taking away from us realism
1	oz is an old tv series released by hbo it shows the life in one security prison called oswald but the main plot is focused on emerald city which is one of the prison levels br br oz have an amazing plot and an outstanding cast there are many of characters and almost all of them are very interesting basically they are divided in groups gangs the the black people the aryans the gays the latinos and many others who doesn't have any specific group but deal with many others like ryan o'reily the irish br br the plot is very well built there are a lot of conspiracy inside a lot of fight for the power but all of this is not just exposed in form of violence all is very intelligent and smart nothing happens without a reason all is connected and very interesting to guess i really love this series and who wanna see something intelligent very well produced with a very good cast and performances must see oz
1	oz was the first original television show that hbo put onto its channel in the 1 hour forma and it remains to this day the very best the story is simple oz is a surreal look into the lives of high maximum security prisoners at oswald primarily focusing on em city now there are many things to compliment this show on from the writing which in my opinion was the best on television when this show aired directing top notch acting best of the best and the characters this show just literally blew my socks off this show was a critically acclaimed gem until the sopranos bowed after that critics were salivating over that epic tale of trust and family to notice this compelling drama oz to me is a better show than sopranos overall and it's a shame that i never won any major emmy's br br kudos to all who were involved in this magnificent gut wrenching show br br kudos
1	hi to read the entire plot around oz just look at imdb here to find it br br warning spoilers inside this review oz is the a series that has not only moved me but also shows a small bit of the american prison system but i have to say judging on discovery channels program over jail it is not really realistic br br although i got to say there not shy rapes stabbing happens allot still it is television so for you ppl out there that think this is realistic wrong br br there is a good degree of violence in it and some here and there overdone scenes plot over plot over plot that can get pretty boring but remember the series is almost ancient by now so times do change as well i believe i should judge this in the time line as it came out br br as the season prolonged up to season 5 it was pretty good until one of the cons wins a lottery ticket of 2 million dollars because he talked to god it struck me as ok this is getting to the point i do not want to see this series no more still i proceeded and now i just seen the episode 3 of season 6 this is were cereal gets his brain zapped and then his mom hold him after while he is drooling then you see o reilly cry as well seeing his bro like that rl brothers as well now thats by far the best scene out of the entire oz series that was real to me still do not read this wrong that i'm trying to crash and burn it it is a really good series and even now 2010 well worth a watch i give it a 7 because of the storyline that weakens with the season but still a golden glove
1	this is a hard show to watch it's not something to sit back and relax to it kept me on the edge of my seat for several seasons people get screwed over raped tortured and die like flies there are male organs everywhere there is excrement puke and blood oz is a brave show it brings up issues like racism homosexuality prisoners reality and most of all capital punishment it is in my opinion also successful in doing so unlike for example the single tracked medium br br it bored me sometimes it had some weird story lines and they spent to much time on characters that just didn't interest me strangely enough i found season 1 to be quite boring if i had watched it while it aired i think i wouldn't have continued to watch it i love seasons 2 4 season 5 and 6 are watchable although i think it shouldn't be allowed to utter the words cyril and death row in the same sentence br br there are so many marvelous characters to root for the old guys bob and who i absolutely fell in love with from day one said and four very strong and charismatic leaders in their own way augustus hill who's monologues tied the episodes together so efficient the staff with people like sister pete and ray also brilliant also minor characters that was only in for a couple of episodes or a few seasons but left a good impression as well br br my favorites are the o'reily brothers their relationship was the most gut wrenching and warmest i seen on television if there is anything i will always remember about this show it's them there will never be another pairing or what to call it that will make me ache so much thats why when the ends come for them as well it almost hurt to much i wish it would never have happened i wish i had never watched it br br but good one fontana i do recommend it
1	harrowing series about life in oz an experimental prison where they try to rehabilitate prisoners there's gay sex rape torture mutilation killings humiliation tons of male nudity all in your face and going full force br br it also is easily one of the best written dramas ever put on tv and almost all the actors are just great since this was on cable there were no restrictions on what they could say or show there's plenty of racist comments flying in here but it's for all races in fact the white characters come off pretty badly especially the aryans and the black characters come off better the peace loving muslims the hispanics don't have a strong role and there are no asian prisoners at all all the prisoners seem to be back and willing to kill anyone at a moments notice but you still find yourself sympathizing with some of them even the guards counselors and doctors at the prison have serious issues br br i heartily recommend this but rent it don't buy it i have the whole collection and to be totally honest i don't think i ever want to see it again it's incredible tv but so grim dark and depressing guess i gotta sell it all online br br i give it a 10
1	in relative terms having watched a lot of disgustingly bad tele tom fontana levinson are geniuses for creating delivering in this writer's book the greatest ever tv show oz was treated horribly in this country the finale went out well gone 3 in the morning before that it was strictly considered alternative viewing for those oblivious to prime time garbage br br i first caught oz towards the end of the first series and from then on it was an unmissable watch my man possibly the most intimidating villain ever the perfect anti hero walker's an acting class in evocation there was the hardcore stuff of course some plain evil but essentially oz had soul augustus narrates the unfolding plot with pearls of insight while the struggles of mcmanus etc are better than any soap opera before or since compassion violence wisdom tragedy intelligence pain joy brutality love heroism oz went through the spectrum of human emotion all inside a max security prison br br i can honestly say those thursday nights with the great to follow oz series 2 3 way back in 99 were the best tv i'll ever see assaulting vern in the gym is a moment i don't need a video for a small screen classic i'll never forget br br imagine what oz would have done with the same push as the sopranos given a 10 pm timeslot and all the promos fine i'm over that now for those that caught it consider yourself privileged for those who didn't tv is shite and you deserve it
1	oz is without a doubt my favorite show of all time the best word to describe it is genius the writing the acting the story lines everything about this show is absolutely amazing br br i just discovered the show and i became addicted to it right away and i was really surprised that it hasn't gotten the recognition it truly deserves it is violent and most of the characters aren't meant for you to like them but the show is written in such a brilliant way that allows you to look past the violence and the criminals and see them as real people they are the lowest forms of scum but it still finds a way to allow you to understand a lot of the characters and even care about their stories br br the violence in the show is necessary for it to be as realistic as possible but the show isn't about the violence like some people might believe it really is a work of art and i'm sure who ever gives it a chance will love it just as much as i do
1	i've watched a lot of television in my 51 years but i've never had so much fun week after week as i had watching oz the acting by the entire cast was excellent the writing was just perfect with every character remaining consistent throughout the six year run i also enjoyed the mayhem and the ultra violence it may sound odd but it was at times comical finding out how one of the characters would eventually end up dead i particularly enjoyed the true romance and love between and keller those two men really knew how to throw down in every way possible i truly hope that hbo will continue to show us re runs of this great show forever i've watched every episode at least 4 times yet i still look forward to tuesday and thursday nights at 11 p m for an episode of this fun and very entertaining show
1	i can't stand people who comment on this program or other hbo programs as too graphic or unnecessarily graphic or that they contain gratuitous nudity violence sodomy etc br br guess what prison life isn't pg 13 the gratuitous graphic content is true to life of this situation prison contains inmate rape killings drug deals and showers if you don't like it then don't watch the program i'm certainly no fan of prison rape but if it was left out of the show i'd be surprised and lend the show less credibility if the prisoners didn't curse it would just be silly sure it's gratuitous language but that is realistic br br the show is good some of the viewers not so much i guess
1	i first saw this movie as a teenager when it came out in theaters way back when seeing it again nearly 30 years later i was surprised at how well it has held up the gags are still funny the interaction between characters works great and the cameos come off better than ever steve martin's has to be the best one br br my kids 9 11 and 14 all loved it and the music is good enough that they are still humming the tunes many days later br br i would suggest that before seeing the movie you should view at least a half dozen episodes of the muppet show to get a sense of the back story behind the characters otherwise the movie won't make all that much sense
1	tom fontana's unforgettable oz is hands down one of the greatest television series ever created brilliantly written acted and directed it is as close to perfection in any art form film television literature music as it gets haunting in it's extreme brutality it creates a prison world filled with diverse characters that range from compassionate to flat out terrifying it is a show that no matter how brutal it is get through one cannot take its eyes off of the combination of professional trained theater actors with film and television actors allows for a range of diverse and all original performances br br and while the show is universally praised and has had a loyal fan base one cannot feel that it was under appreciated during it's television run because of other hbo dramas such as the sopranos sex and the city and six feet under and while all those shows are fine and borderline masterpieces in their right many people forget that it was oz that was hbo's first entry into one hour television drama series it was a brave risky first entry and with it hbo hit a grand slam with it this is as good as it gets
1	i've never seen a show with as much story mystery suspense and hard hitting excitement before i barley watch tv anymore but i own every season of this show and it's amazing every episode is extremely well acted written and plotted towards the end of the show i felt that the stories were getting too far fetched for being in a prison but the actors pulled it off sucks huge compared to oz in fact any show that is on a cable network hbo or not just cant hold a candle to oz i wish it would come back for one more season if it did happen they would probably kill off every character on the show but hey we all gotta go sometime as far as the characters i'd say o'reily and were my favorites both were in a scene together but their individual stories i thought were the strongest of anyones except of course but still anyway best show ever best network ever some of the best actors ever period
1	oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full stop oz is the greatest show ever mad full
1	oz was a fantastic show as long as frequent male nudity doesn't turn you off there was way too much frontal male nudity in this show more than any other show you'd see on a porn channel minus that it was the best show on tv and a previous commenter said better than prime suspect prime suspect is tom and jerry vs the simpsons no contest if you have directv they are now re running it from the start on channel 101 they're at episode 3 now highly recommended the creator tom fontana also did homicide which was an awesome show but why all the male nudity we all know that stuff happens in prison but did they really need to show it as often that was the only thing that turned me off the show if i want to see naked men guys getting raped i'll kill someone myself and witness first hand otherwise i like my tv shows free of black penises every five minutes
1	oz is a great series one of televisions underrated shows it has a certain relationship to soap opera in that something evil is always happening and it is the unfolding of each instance of evil that fascinates from my discussions with people who are actually in prison it rings true every interaction has some machination working in the background behind every action there lies a scheme a plot to do someone else in i like this series so much that it is one of the few tv shows i have bought completely on dvd br br and yes i agree with the writer before me who commented that there are elements of satire in it the character in the wheelchair who offers his jaundiced view of life does so with a certain bit of ironic humor
1	oz is set in oswald state correctional facility it tells the story of confrontation cruelty violence hate and survival at any cost in a place like oz you have to have eyes in the back of your head br br this completely original intelligent and compelling drama tells of how warped life becomes as soon as you step through the gates of emerald city br br what is supposed to be a state of art correctional facility is in fact far from being such the show brings to light some of the many flaws in the prison system the underestimating of the humanity that cold hard killers are capable of still retaining and the one true fact the prisoners are the one's who control the prison br br this magnificent and somewhat surreal show teaches about the importance of every life and helps give an understanding to the reasons that most of the prisoners are there this show may seem shocking at first but to truly tell it like it is such a thing is necessary br br oz is a great depiction of hell on earth and how such a place teaches you some of the most important lessons you will ever learn
1	okay so i've read most of the reviews on this movie as well as comments left by visitors to this site and the feeling i get is that most people who wrote reviews really didn't like this movie that's why i'm writing now i represent the minority because i did i admit i went to see the movie because i am very impressed with ryan compelling abilities and the projects he has been a part of lately have been nothing less than incredible he is an amazing actor that aside i wanted to see this movie because it seemed intriguing to me why because it's a whodunit where you know from the start and that's kind of unusual br br as the plot goes two teenage boys endeavour to commit the perfect crime because they believe in a twisted philosophy that only through committing acts of crime are human beings truly free the uninhibited and let's remember acting out of one's will the relationship between richard and justin was complex hinted at homosexuality and was brilliantly acted by ryan gosling and michael pitt gosling was the manipulating controlling smooth talker and pitt was the extremely book smart socially awkward outcast enter sandra bullock's character who it seems most people didn't particularly appreciate i think when people see she was the executive producer they automatically assume any role the actor has in it is a self glorification thing i didn't see that as the case here without cassie's personal history about the ex husband that nearly killed her who not surprisingly shared similar traits with richard hayward she never would have pursued her instincts about justin and richard the case was seemingly airtight against ray the unsuspecting school janitor and friend of the boys even when the boys are questioned near the end of the movie neither bullock nor her partner have much solid evidence about them other than the fact that they lied about knowing each other and the vomit justin left at the sight therein lay the genius of the movie because the philosophy the boys were trying to prove through the act of killing the acting out of will as true freedom ' ended up working against justin who ended up having a conscience after all and ended up leaving part of his conscience at the body dump site without that crucial piece of evidence they almost had a murder by numbers and to readers out there who have puzzled over the title as much as i have i looked in to it and found that something done by numbers such as a painting suggests careful and critical planning and exacting there's also a song by sting called murder by numbers but that's beside the point br br many readers questioned the necessity of the relationship between cassie and her partner but i think it really meant to show how cynical and manipulative she had become because of her history like it or not her history does play an important role in this movie because without it she would likely have never followed her instincts about justin and richard yes it was a bit of the cliche women scorned woman acting out vendetta in every facet of her life' plot but i think without the depth of cassie's character you have just another movie about teenage killers and they just may have gotten away with it there's no movie there br br and to the reader who commented that the teenagers obviously didn't commit the perfect crime because the police were on to them from the beginning can i remind you that the reason was because of the purposely placed and totally traceable shoe prints the boys wanted to be involved it was a game they were so confident that they had committed the perfect crime that they wanted to see first hand the difficulty the investigators would have in uncovering what they think is the truth what they didn't expect was that cassie mayweather had an overactive case of instinct working on her side a little unbelievable maybe but many crimes have been solved by police officers who have followed their instincts however this is a movie br br i saw this movie in theatres about three times and each time it revealed a little more to me and i liked it a little more the more i watched it the more i was captivated and frightened by the psychological depth richard hayward there are people really like this my main complaint about the movie would be that they should have had justin and richard's interactions a little more central because let's face it there lays the intrigue in the entire film and my main props go to characterization each character was very distinct and interesting in his her own way it was very well acted although i would have given ben chaplin's character a little more depth to work with he's a good actor and maybe pared down bullock's character a smidgen br br i think everyone should keep in mind that for a hitchcock type thriller like this to basically tell you the whodunit at the beginning it poses a very big challenge for the writers to keep the attention of the audience until the very end i think they did so quite well by utilizing a few small plot twists throughout slow revelation of the different character dynamics and by lighting up the screen with some really emotionally charged performances by the young actors ryan gosling and michael pitt i think if we remove our innate cynicism and attempt to see how psychologically complex the characters and their interactions are we may be able to look beyond any apparent plot holes and see the real texture and quality of this movie if only in the characters who were brilliantly portrayed especially richard hayward not that i'm
1	i liked this movie unlike other thrillers you learn to know the killers very well you also get to know the two detectives hunting them the killers are two high school kids they are very intelligent and want to prove they are smarter than the police so they plan the perfect crime we all know this crime will not turn out perfect what we don't know is if they will be caught or may be just one of them or even none in a way i kind of hoped they both would get away with it although i don't know if this was the movies intention br br the story is told in a nice way you are starting to get to know the people involved the character of sandra bullock is likable but has her own secret which works against her ben chaplin is pretty good as sam and the two kids are both great the scenes between them are the better scenes in the movie br br i think you can say the movie is pretty good and not as predictable you would think for a nice evening with a movie 'murder by is a good one
1	not bad but could be loads better also seems to follow a staple diet for crime drama you've got sandra bullock as the cop who finds it difficult to work with others you've got her placed with a new partner there's a closed case but a cop who works on it anyway and there's so many lines in the film it makes you want to scream br br however if you can look past the formulaic elements there is a good film hiding underneath it's gripping and the subplots worked for me well worth a rent but maybe not a purchase
1	this thriller has so many twists and turns it had me on the edge of my seat i saw it on video some of the landscape at the bluff might have been a bit more spectacular on the big screen cast has sandra bullock ben chaplin from the truth about cats dogs michael pitt henry parker in dawson's creek and ryan gosling
1	the muppet movie is an instant classic i remember the opening scene with the bird's eye view of the swamp and kermit starting into in my opinion the most loved song in the history of songs at this point my mom would always sing along with kermit br br watching this title as a young adult it makes me smile i can still sing along to my heart's desire like many muppet films there are in jokes for adults that are in my opinion still funny today my favorite line of all time is actually from this film it's the last line spoken by my green goggle eyed hero kermit life's like a movie write your own ending that's what i intend to do thank you jim henson
1	this multi leveled thriller kept my attention throughout it is disturbing and informative to see how perverse human behavior can be it is also instructive as to what past wounds can motivate present behavior no one save sandra bullock's partner is very likable however all are believable sandra did an excellent job her character cassie comes alive with all her pain and fear and defenses she is a survivor and so her life experience finally brings her to a healing moment i enjoyed this movie very much tom landers
1	rating 7 out of 10 directed by barbet schroeder if you like hitchcock's then you will like this movie murder by stars sandra bullock as psychologically troubled yet brilliant police detective cassie mayweather her partner is sam kennedy a non discriminatory detective played by ben chaplin br br the teenage killers are high school students richard haywood ryan gosling and justin pendleton michael pitt these young psychotics are out to prove their superiority by committing the perfect murder and getting away with it but the nearness of capture is exciting and thrilling to at least one of the killers br br the supporting characters include a police chief an assistant district attorney and the high school janitor that the killers pin the murder on the movie reminds me of various movies crossed with the tv show law and order' we see a fair bit of police work and it is really interesting to see which clues the detectives follow and which ones they don't br br the other plot in the movie relates to cassie mayweather's past and incarcerated ex husband most viewers found this aspect of the movie unnecessary and slow moving but i found this to the most intriguing part of the story br br murder by is a nicely crafted movie if you are looking for safe or should i say dangerous murder mystery for more thrills and suspense try or hitchcock's dial m for murder'
1	sandra bullock paints a believable picture as the troubled detective though seeing her as a cynical man eating victim turned requires a leap of faith or two the two creepy troubled kids are portrayed adequately by ryan gosling and michael pitt br br i do have quite a bit of trouble getting ben chaplin into the equation same problem arose when watching 'the truth about cats dogs' http us imdb com title i mean when you put an englishman into an all american movie shouldn't there at least be a reason to put him there shouldn't there be some story leading up to the fact that an englishman is serving as a detective on an american police force shouldn't there be some dialog pointing out and explaining that rather obvious fact or even some jokes about him being that english br br he looks out of place here as he looked out of place in 'the truth about cats dogs' producers really should take notice it distracts and annoys the audience at least me nothing wrong with chaplin's acting it's just a matter of making an actor who is 'out of place' believable and not putting him somewhere without a good reason or a storyline br br the movie itself well thrillers especially those dealing with solving a complicated crime require some suspension of disbelief this one's no different actually it requires quite a bit more effort than usual in order to make bullock smart enough to crack the case despite of all the pressures requiring her to let go of it some unrealistic assumptions are being made about the evidence and i'm sure a lot of people who watched it had a few moments of 'come on this is highly unlikely under the or even 'hey you can't brush evidence aside like that to wrap this movie up ' br br like i said reasonably entertaining and watchable just don't use this as required viewing for detective exams there are no shortcuts there
1	i find it hard to believe this could happen at all we do not know if justin and richard were troubled or had committed crimes in the past the movie seems to imply that they were not in and out of trouble so the first crime they commit is murder just to play and jostle with the cops how do they pick up any girl and just say you are it also richard seems to strangle the woman with little or no effort nor does the women seem to struggle hmmm this whole concept is really hard to believe that said let's move on i found myself really hating these punks and would love to have been present with my shot gun with police tactical ammo and see what their plastic suits do then as for cassie who was a victim of carl hudson has a horrible time trying to survive the memory of having been stabbed 17 times by carl leaves her in an emotional mess sandra does a superb acting job she sure made me believe she was one angry cop as for solving the crime i thought it was great this movie kept me planted in my chair loved the acting of all but sam he had no get up and go the one thing this movie did not need was the love scene or should i say the rape scene
1	this is an excellent suspenseful murder mystery movie not only was the plot full of suspense and intrigue but you get to see gorgeous ryan gosling for a couple hours what's not to love also sandra bullock is good in this movie i've always been a fan of hers i just wish she hadn't decided to be in the lake house which was horrible but that's another story altogether obviously since there are thousands of other murder horror movies out there there are bound to be similarities between them no need to bash this movie for having some similarities to at least a few that have already been made anyway this is a great movie for those of you that actually enjoy scary movies it's a little dark and twisted but overall a great movie
1	cassie sandra bullock is a hyper serious police detective as an ex boyfriend once tried to kill her and indeed left her grievously wounded she is determined to bring those who harm others to justice as the result of her near death experience also cassie favors one night stands and trusts no one one day a woman is found dead in the woods near cassie's community she has been murdered heinously beaten severely and left to die alone naturally cassie will stop at nothing to find the murderers assigned to help her is fellow officer sam ben chaplin he soon discovers cassie's relentless attitude and all consuming instincts when she asks him to pick up a sample of vomit that has been left at the scene for analysis among other actions the trail soon leads them to two high school students richard ryan gosling and justin michael pitt could these teenagers really be responsible for the planning and execution of the perfect joy killing this is an intriguing film but viewers should be warned that the subject matter is grim indeed killing for the sport of it is seldom the topic of films that are of the all sweetness and light variety and this one is no different that said the cast is great bullock without a hint of her talent for comedy is terrific as the police officer whose own past compels her to lock up the evil folks of the world chaplin too is quite nice as the detective who is both attracted and repelled by the forceful cassie as for gosling he gives a most memorable performance as a brilliant mind with a satanic soul the production values for the movie are good too with appropriately fine costumes settings and photography if you are a fan of bullock's looking for a laugh this is not the one for you but if you adore mysteries even those with the grimmest of plots you will find this tale enthralling
1	now i know that sandra bullock produced this film but she needs to learn that sometimes you need to make certain sacrifices in order to advance the story like not trying to make the whole movie about her character br br the story is about two high school students one rich and popular the other smart and anti social who formulate a plan to commit murder and follow it by the number just to see if they can get away with it enter sandra bullock and ben chaplin as detectives trying to solve the case the boys have planted evidence created alibis and cleaned up after themselves so well that the cops fall for the whole act but sandra has a feeling that all is not as it appears to be br br this movie could have been a great little hitchcock style thriller but the movie spends too much time on getting to know sandra's character rather than focusing on the actual crime itself you see something happened in her past that keeps haunting her throughout the film and we get to know all about it all about it it just gets rather tedious after a while especially when you are right in the middle of an intriguing murder investigation and then have to stop that investigation to hear about what happened to her in the past br br ryan gosling and michael pitt are the real winners in this movie they play their characters convincingly and with just the right amount of malice if the script had spent more time focusing on these characters and kept the detectives there to just do their jobs this could have been an immensely entertaining thriller with the way it is most of the thrill is lost they should have cut out all the stuff with sandra's character and made that a separate tv movie for the lifetime channel but i digress it's still an entertaining movie nonetheless i do recommend this movie but wait for the video dvd
1	i knew little of this movie when i entered the theatre for an advance screening i gathered from the ads that it was a thriller br br what we have is like compulsion meets matlock two teens decide to commit a perfect murder a victim is selected at random and then carefully executed so that no traces of the actual murderers is found then a bunch of false leads are planted that point to an innocent bystander innocent of the murder anyway br br enter sondra bullock as the investigating officer imdb says that she's fbi but i don't remember that i thought that she was a regular cop she's frustrated by the inconsistency of the killers profile the profile doesn't fit the profile and by the power and influence of the father of one of the boys br br she's also has demons of her own which figure prominently in her to become a cop but this is the only character that is really more than one dimensional all others are pretty flat br br for a thriller there are really no big thrills it's mostly a cat and mouse game like an episode of matlock which she's watching at one point in the film the twist is that there are two involved in the killing just who is the real murderer justin or richard it'll cost you eight bucks to find out
1	murder by numbers is a pretty good movie even though the plot rolls along at a snail's pace what with sandra bullock's character getting all mixed up with her partner and the movie flashing back to a previous trauma situation she had been in it does succeed in keeping the viewer involved in the film br br having said that i do think that it does a good job in setting that eerie sort of who done it type atmosphere it keeps you guessing at which one of the boys really was behind the murder if not both of them i think ryan gosling and that other kid lol do a good job of selling that bully versus dork relationship not sure about gosling playing a bad ass but for a guy who would later star in a movie like the notebook he did a pretty good job once the movie gets rolling though i really found myself involved in the story sort of asking myself oh my god what would i do if i were in that situation like i said a good csi type movie maybe not for the extreme crime drama movie junkie but a good all around flick br br 8 outta 10
1	i can get very tired of murder mysteries with the exception of a few really excellent tv series otherwise there are just too many of these murder plot themes i don't like the theme of the two over clever selfish youths killing as an intellectual exercise i've no interest whatsoever in hitchcock who appears to have been associated with this in some way i don't intend to find out about but don't misunderstand me the theme is in itself excellent the whole movie is so well done and of course sandra bullock is superlative as always br br sandra's character is as in miss congeniality not rated by the male team she works with in spite of her obvious skills and the boss mostly ignores her ideas eventually forcing her aside and giving the case to her male partner of course sandra works out what's going on and nearly gets killed in a very dramatic denouement it's intriguing how the boy who worked out the murder plot can't allow her to be killed by his colleague he has a conscience of some sort and perhaps could be saved while the other is a true psychopath br br sandra's hard shell is caused by misery in her past that's tied in poignantly with the murder case her colleague realising that sandra's solving this case in spite of being balked by the dense superior finally discovers what happened to sandra herself in her teens that she must now face up to and exorcise and the last scene shows her starting we hope anyway to do just that br br i can see from the few other reviews i've had time to read that this movie would attract a group those interested in the two spoilt boys away their time with their grisly philosophical determination to trick the police and get away with the perfect murder the relationship between them that's so cleverly depicted the ghastly links to the heroine's past a police theme and some smokes and mirrors as well as for hitchcock fans br br for those who've why bullock's character has to have a problematic past really i think this would be a far less interesting movie if she had been just a detective trying to fathom what was going on with a willing sidekick helping out and a male chauvinist boss the link between the murder victim and the detective is necessary to show the detective becoming too involved or otherwise how would she lose her arrogant boss's confidence and thereby nearly lose her life that's hardly an original theme in fact it's usually an extremely irritating theme as this male chauvinist boss brutally tells his frustrated but obviously inspired operative to get off the case and leave it to someone who clearly doesn't have quite the skills to solve it nice though the sidekick is i was getting very worried towards the end re what might happen to sandra's character as her emotional involvement in the case and special sympathy for the unfortunate victim of the crime dangerously drove her on with this case by herself br br i wasn't disappointed re the relationship between bullock's character and her sidekick that goes along interestingly and at times very poignantly br br the relationship between the two boys is definitely intriguing if that's what you were interested in watching i felt it was kept low key in some ways either because the movie makers didn't want to get into boy boy friendships too much or because we weren't supposed to think emotion ruled their relationship the movie cleverly makes you wonder which boy's in charge of the situation and there are some twists and turns and the boys show their underlying immaturity at various stages br br there one thing i wish had been clarified and that's what happens after the movie ends when sandra's character arrives at the court you need to see to movie to know why she's there br br very well acted by all i certainly can't agree with those who complained against bullock's acting she was superb the part suited her very well indeed the story is gripping even if murder mysteries aren't your thing and they aren't that often mine
1	why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side kermit poses this relatively simple double near the beginning of the muppet movie while singing his signature song the rainbow connection as time goes by the question and the movie only gain profundity br br i'm going to forgo the review of this movie as a children's comedy but look at it instead as a classic for every generation to love with serious ideals and a heartwarming message that gains more warmth with each passing year br br as the milestones in my own life come creeping up on me i hear more and more the evocative strains of that elementary ditty and realize that it can fit the soundtrack to anyone's life because we all dream and that is what this movie is about it's not just a bunch of puppets it's a bunch of puppets having the strength to pursue their dreams which is a good lesson for everyone br br and while the humor and mirth of the film always feel good they're not a fair judge of the movie only the rainbow connection and the powerful emotions it will realize and it all fits in rainbow connection is the muppet movie and vice versa it's existentialism meets children's entertainment there's no simpler way to describe it
1	this one is about a homicide detective who battles a couple of young rich kids who have nothing better to do than plan an intricate murder and cover it up they seem to outwit the police force seemingly at will they taunt the detective by planting clues and leading them off on a wild goose chase this one has a decent plot with a few good twists at the end of the movie sandra bullock does a fine job in this one as a woman on the edge not sure of herself and battling her inner demons she can't seem to keep a man in her life especially partners they seem to keep leaving her for some reason altogether this isn't a bad film it keeps you guessing all the way the very shocking ending
1	murder by numbers stars ryan gosling and michael pitt as two rebellious high schoolers who are content on the perfect murder for the sake of overcoming their shattered self esteem sandra bullock plays the heroic thorn in the way of their plans as det cassie mayweather this is nowhere near the traditional finger pointing murder mystery as the film graciously reveals the killers to us gosling and pitt what the film does instead is concentrate on the purposes of their killings and if they have what it takes to commit the perfect murder br br the title itself is a rightfully chosen one for various reasons mainly being that the numbers in the title is the most vocal the angle focusing on the reasons behind the heinous killings although will haunt you with its chilling dialogue especially from the callous boys it doesn't fully live up exploring the origins of what lead them to their killing frenzy the characters are riveting you have the good looking rich kid richard ryan gosling and the intelligent but socially awkward justin michael pitt in school they pretend that they despise one another and even share a liking towards the a classmate name lisa agnes bruckner but off school they are allies and collaborate in a ritual in which murder is an escape to free the mind br br sure the story involving the boys seems exciting but it's pushed in the background to a more mundane subplot involving det mayweather bullock who assumes their murders was because of discrimination hence the arrogant looks of gosling and unexplained characteristics but manages to get it right at first the audience may despise cassie's character due to the fact she's very headstrong and not very supportive she displays dominance and control over her junior partner sam kennedy ben chaplin even as he tries to reason with her he knows it's a battle he surely won't likely win br br the reason behind her tyrant behavior stems back in which cassie was the sad victim of a crime that has left a permanent mental scar on her this side story does not have much of a place in this movie partially because it doesn't offer anything riveting with the main plot the boys' murder spree it also offers some development to bullock's character in the movie but it's only a half assed job and not very fulfilling i would've liked it if they the diabolical students had a side story the resources were right there in front of them for the perfect crime foil the creative schemes for the boys to manipulate the cops with their phony evidence and lies just to get out of a potential life sentence in jail br br despite the sub plots and the pointless real killer ending murder by numbers sports a strong performance by a great cast sandra bullock was convincing as the tough verbally remorseless cop who tries to shift her inner pain to a more positive light ben chaplin shows his strength as the young detective who tries every way to understand his partner and is able to fend off her occasional tyrannical put downs but the scene are the devilish duo of michael pitt and ryan gosling as they keep you glued to their seat waiting for what they're going to do next the chemistry of the boys is reminiscent to matt damon jude law in the talented mr ripley
1	barbet murder by numbers starring sandra bullock is solid work though not particularly compelling i am a big sandra bullock fan and she is effective here as forensic detective cassie mayweather who is not very likable and a broken person too however there is a sense of detachment inherent in the story structure it's about the perfect murder executed by two spoiled sociopath teenagers richard ryan who is the cool one and justin michael pitt who is the sympathetic geek basically richard and justin kill a young woman because they have nothing better to do on a school night they are very smart and very arrogant which is normally not a bad thing but it just doesn't work here tony script does a great job of detailing the investigation of a puzzling murder and it is truly by the numbers we have these two punk kids flaunting their superiority and we just want them to take a fall br br this is not a great exploration into the dark side like reversal of fortune about claus von bulow there are interesting turns in numbers the movie is not so much a thriller but rather a character study of cassie sandra bullock balances the bravado of cassie her fear of letting people get in with her and her secret past bullock brings courage and strength to a suffering character her partner and sort of love interest sam played by ben chaplin is more a plot than a real character though chaplin does the bewilderment thing very admirably the other nice touch is having richard and justin involved a strange sexual attraction the most interesting thing about numbers are pitt and br br there are many entertaining twists and turns throughout the movie everything is done very competently i saw the movie about a week ago and in retrospect i like it a little more than i did when i saw it however it is just not inspired work sandra bullock and barbet schroeder deserve a lot better and so do we
1	this movie is possibly one of the most creative works of horror ever it has everything you could want suspense drama comedy confusing subplots native americans brain eating if you're looking for the be all end all of movies look no further the story of a man bent on revenge and how better to get it i know i'll suck out their brains with great sound effects and impressive special effects i can't recommend this movie enough
1	i remember this film as the other person that commented said i recorded over it but wish i had it now just because it had to be one of the worst movies ever funny in a real bad way i remember the tag line on the box was the ultimate frontal lobotomy i got it from my mom who got it from a friend at work who said it was the worst cheesiest movie she had ever seen so my mom said my son will probably love it and the woman gave it to her just to get it out of her possession i then later taped over it which i regret i also remember the screw thing was one of those ball catcher things the yellow cone shaped things with a red button at the end and when you hit the red thing it sends a ball flying well they used that with a crank on one end and a corkscrew in the funnel when the killer killed they would show him coming forward with the weapon and then cut to a close up of what appeared to be raw chicken and fake blood on the victims head i don't know what else to say about this gem except that if you like bad films it doesn't get any worse than this
1	i went through the highs i went through the lows cried laughed puked my ever loving guts out but through it all i was made whole i became a better person for having sat through this experience in self imposed degradation it's not every day we can say that we have lived through the worst and come out the other side with something closely resembling our sanity whole and intact friends neighbors unite and be as one now go out and find this film and languish in its place it high on the and kiss its polystyrene box take it to bed take it out with you when you go shopping or have blind dates with strange people they will appreciate you all the better for your sublime and uniquely schizophrenic slant on cinema and then they will throw their beverage of choice in your face but you will have the last laugh i ran for governor with this little beauty under my belt and you can too it is a treat worth having again and again
1	there is only one racist joke in this daffy duck short which is basically when daffy rides black beauty it is a black woman i can understand partly why this joke was included as at the time few people did not know how rude it was to be racist and it wasn't even illegal to discriminate black people yet br br aside from this point a coy decoy is basically a fun interesting short where daffy meets characters in books and does things in books i liked this short quite a lot despite the other reviewers on here the way daffy is so in love with the clockwork duck is vaguely disturbing yet highly amusing at the same time porky is a nice edition to the episode though it was not vital for him to be there the wolf is an example of how people thought of wolves in those days as well blood thirsty terrible animals which of course they never really have been unless they are very hungry i also liked the style of animation used and the theme of the episode br br for people who are totally into daffy duck and for people who do not mind the occasional racist joke in cartoons enjoy a coy decoy br br available on youtube
1	when i was very young my mother had a series of four looney tunes merrie melodies shorts on tape and i watched them all several times a coy decoy was one of these shorts and i was truly shocked to read in another comment that it had been banned when i was young i probably did not even understand the black beauty gag to begin with still this is probably why it was banned though until i watched this on a video site i did not even remember the gag upon viewing the video i did remember certain shots in particular the shrinking of hat and eyes becoming as the decoy him in the lake i was not bothered by the gag that was most likely the reason the gag was banned instead i was flooded with childhood memories of watching this short because of how much i liked this short as a child i rate it 7 out of 10
1	having been familiar with hartley's the go between for a good while both in its original book form and in its disappointing pinter losey film adaptation this was interesting stuff the proves almost a mirror image at times set in a slightly less distant period for the main part featuring exposure of the british class system and containing a set piece sports match boxing takes the place of cricket that reveals rather a lot about br br this refreshes in its small scale character focus you do not exactly get to lady franklin and in the novelistic sense but this distance is appropriately played out in telling body language and inflection from the actors your distance from ever fully sympathizing with any one true character mirrors the dormant that so dooms the central relationship miles and shaw are wonderfully subtle and we see more in their 'less' never once are these showy performances they are fittingly interpretations that create the impression of these characters having life outsides the confines of the film all other parts are very satisfactorily handled though they are far smaller in this film than i presume in the novel and compared indeed to the go between a stunning work about disillusionment br br the disillusion at the centre of this film is so sadly and movingly conveyed in the late scenes where shaw kisses miles and is rejected and then where a drunken confronts and lady franklin it's a howling shame that what would have been an incredibly poignant ending of spoiled desolate lives at either side of the screen is with a decidedly odd little coda one is entirely bemused by the jump in tone as shaw's goes beserk and ironically sings rule britannia and god save the queen as he crashes his car into things the political point is heavily over egged by this bombastic rather operatic ending all sense of subtlety so effectively conveyed hitherto is lost as the implicit point is heavily and noisily made prop surely has no place in this sort of delicate period drama br br overall however one cannot be too harsh while this absurd end piece is a major flaw the rest of the film must be praised as a sensitive evocative film of sadness and detailed observation about the way british society was in the past hartley's languid but crystal clear touch is very much in evidence throughout it's just a shame that we don't end on the shattering conclusion to shaw's drunk scene the tragic deluded figure of sarah miles' lady franklin is abruptly denied her place at the epicenter of the film as the excellent human drama bizarrely slips into the realms of political point scoring shaw also that most dry and yet deeply feeling of actors is betrayed by the out of character excess that closes the film thus a fine small scale triumph is sabotaged but we ought to remember the many good points br br rating 1 2
1	i was recently given this film on dvd as a gift and was unsure at first if it would appeal although one of my favourite actors has a leading role in fact it's on its way to becoming a favourite br br first of all thankfully it's not the same as the book the ending of which i think is excessively melodramatic secondly it's one of the best films i've seen about the first world war what you may ask it's not a war film true we see no battles or no trenches no gas but it shows the cost of war the damage done to the lives of the men who fought in it and the impact this had on those close to them br br we first see helen sarah miles a widow awaiting her release from a mental hospital all the women in the film appear to be widows some from the war but helen's much older husband sir thomas we see him later in a photograph was taken ill and died while she was at a party hence her guilt stricken breakdown she is lost and lonely the wire around the hospital grounds evokes pow camps and the trenches like many of the men in the outside world helen is suffering from a kind of shell shock br br out of hospital she has to find her feet in the outside world again a world we experience through her eyes as bleak desolate and unfriendly her mother is unable to provide her with any real support herself a widow she has put up her own emotional defences behind which she hides to avoid dealing with her daughter's distress like many people especially in that time she seems to find mental illness embarrassing br br the hired driver becomes a supportive presence and helps helen begin to adjust to life again but she does not realise that he is becoming dangerously obsessed with her this is a superb performance by robert shaw is a former regular soldier an ex sergeant major who runs a boxing club and has set up his own car hire business superficially he seems tough and strong dependable but there are cracks beneath the surface he has not really adjusted to civilian life he invents for reasons he later explains a family and home life he does not have he has brutal outbursts with colleagues and affection less sex getting close to helen – a woman whom even with the greater post war social freedom he could not realistically have hoped to marry – exposes psychological fault lines that tear him apart these days one might diagnose ptsd br br the same is true of the other man in helen's life aspiring politician captain hugh peter egan he is ambitious handsome but also very young tellingly his girlfriend connie caroline mortimer mothers him combing his hair and making sure he has a clean handkerchief before he goes out he is known to both and helen the former had served under him during the war and helen had met him in political circles and had thought him a popinjay however he and helen now begin a relationship with helen intending to support his political career financially and emotionally peter egan fresh from his stage success as in r c sheriff's end' makes hugh more than an immature cad there is a revealing understated scene in the back of the car between helen and hugh in which they quote brooke's 'the old at she asks of his war experience was it very bad he cannot answer she says well you're back now but his softly spoken reply – am i sometimes i – is the key to his character as light and shadow flicker across his face we know that there are some horrors that cannot be put into words the disproportionate casualties suffered by junior officers of his sort – straight out of school or university and expected to lead from the front – are well known in a nervous speech during which helen reassures him to local political folk at a dinner party he reveals that he will stand as an independent no longer as a liberal the party which had taken the country into the war his emotional life is as damaged as he cannot easily extricate himself from connie who depends on him emotionally and financially reading between the lines she is probably a war widow perhaps of a former comrade with a child whose drawings we see on the wall of her home br br spoilers br br the crisis between the trio builds slowly with a frightening scene between helen and in the car and listening in to hugh and connie when he is driving them as hugh tries to persuade connie that even as his relationship with helen develops they can continue theirs that he will at least continue to support her jealousy obsession and his belief that he must protect helen from a duplicitous gold digger lead to confront her and hugh violently in her home br br the ending is entirely different from that of the novel and is better for it it is dramatic but less melodramatic and maintains an unsentimental tone we began with one character recovering from a mental breakdown we end with another suffering one helen one senses is now wiser and stronger than both the men who have been unable fully to adapt to the so called 'land fit for heroes' to which they returned from the nightmare of total war the new ending is open one feels that she at least will cope with whatever lies ahead without illusions in this it reflects well the reality of the time in which women helen connie and so many others had to pick up the pieces of a world in which too many men had died or had come home with varying degrees of mental and physical damage br br well you're back now – am i sometimes i
1	a delight from start to finish br br if you don't like the muppets then i just have to feel sorry for you this terrific film doesn't simply cash in on the muppets' popularity it's a well conceived and well written film in its own right it's got great songs and it has that thread of wistful melancholy that was always present in jim henson's creations and which is most personified in the character of kermit the frog i always responded to this as a kid and it's what makes the muppets still enjoyable to me as an adult when other material aimed at children drives me crazy br br a huge cast of big names appearing in cameos makes this film feel like a kiddie sized version of around the world in 80 days except that it's about 80 times better br br grade a
1	this is a thoughtful film that lays bare the inequities of the so called upper class and those who work for them the haves and have nots robert shaw does a creditable job in his role as the obliging correct chauffeur steven who helps lady franklin sarah miles overcome her mental depression at the outset however steven has many mixed feelings regarding this lady of the upper class he inevitably falls in love with her which of course is the societal boundaries that separate them br br i have not read anything prior to this and only judge the movie as i have seen it i consider it a very honest story about the realities of daily living and the conflict of what we might wish or expect from life and what we get it's a fine drama worth seeing again
1	this is one of the great ones it works so beautifully that you hardly notice the miscasting of then 37 year old dana andrews as the drugstore soda jerk who goes to war and comes back four years later when he would have been at most 25 but then who else should have played him
1	i first saw this film as a teenager i'm now in my 40's and have long considered it to be my favorite movie the story is enormously moving without being sentimental the acting especially by march and loy is dead on and the fact that dana andrews is too old for his role doesn't take away from the believability of his romance with theresa wright whom i believe is the only major character in the film still living this could have turned out to be another post war melodrama but the script and cast are simply too good for that to happen
1	the brilliance of this film lies not in the filmmaking process which is a conventional but executed intertwining tale of the lies of three servicemen post wwii but in the fact that this story was told at all samuel goldwyn deserves credit for having the chutzpah to push through a film who has for its leads a disabled vet with pincers for hands an alcoholic and an underachiever
1	what can one say about any wilder film other than they are the most human and real stories about people and what drives them bugs them haunts them billy created pictures like paintings that stand forever reflecting the human condition he paints the good and the bad in all of us he also paints with love i can't imagine anyone having a list of greatest films without a wilder film on it they will last because they are true i first saw this movie on tv in the 60s when i was a kid and i had to leave the room because i felt tears welling up in me and was embarrassed now i'm an old man and i still feel the tears welling but don't leave the room i knew these people and loved them and grew up around them billy preserved them in this film and not in a generation' way but in a most realistic way that preserved the power of the human spirit
1	this film has gone in and out of fashion more often than the miniskirt a triumph in the post war period it was virtually forgotten by the 1970s except by students of cinema recently it has begun to get recognition as perhaps the most even handed representation of soldiers' integration into post war life ever made and that most definitely includes films such as the deer hunter i like it but my overall evaluation is somewhere between those extremes br br the tale is a simple one three very different servicemen who have mustered out after world war ii the big one fly home to their midwest town and try to resume or create civilian lives one has a disability one has a cushy job waiting for him and the other has nothing to go on but determination br br there are some good but unfortunately uneven performances march won the best actor oscar for playing an old sergeant who returns to his job at the local bank personally i think jimmy stewart deserved it for it's a wonderful life which also deserved the best picture award but clearly this film touched a nerve with the post war audience as i said it was fashionable march has one fantastic scene a humorous speech that brought to mind somewhat similar incident involving real wwii hero pappy and otherwise is solid but unspectacular br br i am going against the grain here but i thought that myrna loy who played march's wife was justly ignored by the academy i detected barely a hint of warmth from her in fact i kept thinking she was going to slap frederic march for annoying her she practically every time they were together something was definitely missing there in her forced smiles and her air of tolerance rather than i think all this nonsense about her being the perfect wife is correct only if you think a passionless 1950s homemaker is your ideal you may disagree with that but the academy voters apparently did not she is a major problem with this film terribly miscast br br dana andrews as a former soda jerk who became a war hero then winds up behind the counter again is amazing he is saddled with a wife who evidently married him right before he left for the war for all the wrong reasons and his future looks bleak but then he chances upon march's daughter peggy teresa wright in a fantastic turn and fireworks explode both are great but then comes that unevenness again that pervades this film some moments of pure soap opera intrude punctuated by the all time classic line i'm going to bust that marriage up the romance is uplifting and does mirror a common condition after the war that of returning servicemen finding love upon their return br br speaking of uplifting now we come to harold russell he has a naturalistic quality to his acting or is it non acting that rings just as true today as it no doubt did then taking a no nonsense approach to his situation he is an inspiration his best scene one of the best in all cinema is when he brings the girl who likes him up to his bedroom to show her the truth of his condition i'm lucky i still have my elbows unlike some of the boys truly great stuff br br the film has some moments that soar it also has some moments that belong in the afternoon soaps take the good with the bad and see this one for the high points
1	since there have been so many reviews of this fine film i will write in a list form and attempt to address issues that have not been discussed br br 1 dana andrews was 38 during the filming of this movie his character according to the screenplay was in his mid 20s andrews a highly underrated actor did brilliantly play a character who was supposed to be much younger br br 2 march like all great actors needs at times to be restrained by the director to avoid over the top acting he was mugging for the cameras when he was drunk on the night after his arrival and also the next morning when he was checking out his hang over in his mirror br br 3 dana andrews was superb as he was in laura the ox bowl incident a walk in the sun the purple heart and many other films why did march win the academy award and why was dana andrews not even nominated for his outstanding performance br br 4 harold russell gave the best performance i have ever seen by a non actor br br 5 i realize this was the 1940s but dana andrews seemed to have no romantic interest in his exceptionally attractive wife virginia mayo br br 6 ray teal who played the right wing bigot years later became famous for portraying the sheriff on bonanza br br 7 the professor from the south wrote that the film was slow moving boring and poorly acted the professor more than likely is uninformed about classic films the beauty and significance of these ageless classics is that they are slow moving character studies that avoid profanity excessive violence and gratuitous sex br br i was surprised that zero out of 3 people found my review useful
1	this superb 40's post war classic tends to be overlooked these br br days when it was released in 1945 it cleaned up at the 1946 br br oscars mostly at the expense of it's a wonderful life ' both films were up for best film best br br director and best actor all won by years' frederic march br br and dana andrews along with an amateur actor harold russell a br br real life soldier who lost both hands in an explosion play the br br returning soldiers finding life is very different from what they br br remember myrna loy is superb as march's wife who has to keep br br the family together while he has been away the tear jerking br br scene where march and loy are reunited is magnificent all three br br men find that they have problems readjusting to post war life not br br least russell coming to terms with artificial hands and his finance br br cathy o'donnell trying to be too helpful sam is quoted that he doesn't care if the film makes no br br money at all as long as everyone in america sees the film so they br br will appreciate what these men went through if any film is worth 10 out of 10 it is this one
1	while watching a mundane modern movie the runaway bride with my granddaughter age 22 she asked me since you've been watching movies since 1938 what is the greatest movie of your lifetime boy what a choice that is it took me all summer of thought and a some flicks before i made my decision it is the best years of our lives this movie has no flaws it is one movie in which each one of the minor characters part and dialog is essential to the whole story there is not a single part in the film which could be left out the young girl's fixation with her brothers lack of hands the man coming home to young adult children who have grown up without him and with different ideas the portrayal of a young man whose only was as a soda jerk who became the leader of a group of men and was awarded medals for his action a women who must now adjust to the husband who's life has been away from her for years the realization of the folks who were in the safety of there secure homes of the sacrifices these ordinary men made in their behalf the look into the life of loving and living with a man without hands a parents first look and reaction to their son's new deformities a man used to making life and death decision in a instant having to return to the way of plodding though a conservative bank's loan structure this is no sympathetic tear jerking heart strumming act this was real life it could not have been portrayed any different this my friends is how it was this could easily be considered a documentary in this day of color film please do not be turned off by the black and white because it is one of the finest b w filming editing and directing you will ever see the casting was perfect if i could i would make it compulsory for anyone taking history film making creative writing sociology family or psychology to view and report on this magnificent example of the film makers art
1	i was blown away when i saw the best years of our lives the acting script and master william wyler's direction winner of best director in 1946 is brilliant br br the film is about three world war ii veteran's who come home together on a plane and all by chance live in the same town they all are reunited with their families br br the first man al stephenson played by march in his oscar winning role has to adapt to his wife millie played by myrna loy and children peggy and rob played by teresa wright and michael hall being different than before he left for the war br br the second man fred derry played by dana andrews in an role has to find a good job and adapt to a wife he had only been married to 20 days before he left for the war he begins to find out that she is not the same br br the third man has a much more harder adaptation to make homer parish played by harold russell in his oscar role he has lost his hands in the war and must deal with his family's and fiance' played by cathy o'donnell reactions to the hooks he has instead of his hands all of these men and their families are reunited in the film in different scences the stories of these men are all interwoven beautifully together br br this film truly defines the meaning of a classic this unforgettable drama winner of best picture in 1946 is a film that everyone should see br br if i was asked to pick a favorite film i would pick this one br br out of 10 i would give the best years of our lives an 11 br br so the next time you rent a movie rent this one you won't regret it
1	i enjoyed the muppet movie very much it was the first of the muppet movies and is by far the best because it's so creative and fresh with later films the ideas just didn't seem quite so original but here we get to see kermit and miss piggy riding bikes an incredibly difficult scene an excellent ensemble cast and just a lot of fun i loved every minute the muppets were performing and i would have rated the film a lot higher except for one serious problem in this and most subsequent muppet films some powers that be felt there was a need to include lots of non muppets in particular many many cameos by stars some worked fine such as charles but many just seemed irrelevant and slowed the picture to a grinding halt probably the worst of them was with edgar bergan yes he was an amazing man who inspired jim henson and the rest of his crew but the tiny scene he's in just wasn't needed nor were most of the cameos still despite this big complaint it's a great film for the entire family from the kids to even the most demanding adults
1	i was blown away when i saw the best years of our lives the acting script and master william wyler's direction winner of best director in 1946 is brilliant br br this film is about three wwii veterans who come home from the war and are reunited with their loved ones but have to deal with the hardships of coming home from the war br br the first man al stephenson played by march in his oscar winning role comes home to find his wife millie played by myrna loy and children peggy and rob played by teresa wright and michael hall are more grown up and different than before he left for the war br br the second man fred derry played by dana andrews has to find a good job and come home to a wife he had only been married to 20 days before he left for the war he begins to find out that she is not the same br br homer parish played by harold russell in his oscar winning role has lost his hands in the war and must deal with his family's and fiance' played by cathy o'donnell reactions to the hooks he has instead of his hands br br all of these men and their families are reunited in the film in different scenes the stories of these men are all interwoven beautifully together br br this film truly defines the meaning of a classic this unforgettable drama winner of best picture in 1946 is a film that everyone should see br br if i was asked to pick a favorite film this would be it br br out of 10 i would give the best years of our lives an 10 br br so next time you go to your local video store rent this movie you won't regret it br br no objectionable material a good family film
1	this is one of the great movies of all time the story is fascinating and the actors are convincing your really identify with the characters william wyler proofs with this movie that he is a great director his craftsmanship is unsurpassed
1	although the wonderful soda counter in the local drugstore no br br longer exists and the clothes are definitely immediate br br post war vintage and good and evil are easy to understand and br br those old planes are really dated this movie will never be dated br br the human adjustments and problems post war the beautiful br br love stories the wonderful acting especially harold russell and br br dana andrews are as moving today in 2002 as they were in br br i was one of the young women who welcomed our marvelous br br veterans home from world war ii like so many my memories of br br the war years and the are as fresh today as if they br br took place yesterday this movie is very relevant for our times
1	this film tells the stories of several couples coping with post wwii life through many moving accounts the audience learns how the war has changed people while their human spirit went on to triumph br br my favorite scene is where a young service man who returned home as a double amputee after losing both arms up to the elbow is sure that he would be no good to his sweetheart who still wants to marry him his girl simply said that she would help him with the things he wouldn't be able to do but that they would be fine together moved by this true demonstration of love the man embraces his fiancée in tears br br the scene where a service man asked for a bank loan is also a highlight when he is initially refused as a high risk a higher ranking bank official takes over saying you fought for our country and kept us safe that's good enough for me your loan is approved the best years of our lives won 6 oscars including a special statuette for the disabled actor who showed us all that life goes on and will continue to be worth living even with a severe handicap this film is a joy to watch over and over again a true classic highly recommended
1	so many great talents were utilized in the best years of out lives the result has to be somewhat miraculous think of what its director william wyler faced in the aftermath of a military victory over powers who had committed abominable crimes and engulfed the world if battles he was making a film that argued that the us's leaders were themselves profoundly anti individual that they had wasted the best years of the lives of those drafted or misled into fighting the war which since it ignored the rights of individuals had been for nothing except argument over the degree of slavery men were to exist under there are beautiful sets by julia heron gregg toland's cinematography and a script by robert e sherwood author of the road to rome and other defenses of individuals against tyrannical ideas the ironic title was used to draw the talents of actors such as frederic march myrna loy teresa wright dana andrews virginia mayo cathy o'donnell and carmichael into a large scale but thematic drama the clever plot line was the experiences of thee couples after the soldiers three being spotlighted tried to return home to a culture their bitter experiences and their realization of their own need to fight again against what was happening on the homefront poses a strong and sobering counterpoint to the conventional notion being sold that all was well with america march and his wife have a terrible time adjusting and he is drinking o'donnell's young man harold russell has hooks instead of hands and wonders if life can even be worth living and worst of all andrews' wife throws him over for a guy with dough and he has lost years causing employers to ignore or deny his rights to a job to consideration on his individual merits to have even what he had before he had been ripped from his life and thrust into the arena of risk for nothing and loss of everything he had ever had the shattering climax of the film comes when each of the three has to confront the need to do battle again each for his own happiness and all three succeed in finding the courage to go on fighting each for his own happiness which is now being threatened by a curiously anti self anti reality indifferent an un american united states wyler's direction especially of the scene where andrews sits in the cockpit of a mothballed b 17 alone and the scene of russell's wedding is wonderful indeed this is a most powerful film and a great one on its own terms one women and men can agree on for once music by hugo and costumes by irene sharaff add to its luster one of the best and most unexpected films of all time in stunning b w
1	the movie features another exceptional collaboration between director william wyler and cinematographer gregg the first after worked on citizen kane but the talent of both these men was focused on achieving a perfectly crafted movie understood in the good old american sense as a great story the technical aspects of the movie are covered so as the viewer gets absorbed into the action that takes place on the screen without submitting to the power of the image technique is seen as a vehicle of representation unlike in citizen kane where welles' baroque style almost drew the attention from the story to the way the story was told one of my favorite moves with deep focus in this film is the drama conveyed by the returning home welcoming of homer and al if homer's girl comes towards him perfectly in focus al goes over to his wife also perfectly in focus this is a brilliant move because it shows only through the use of the image the nature of these relationships as we will see them throughout the movie loves homer and she accepts him as he is al's wife loves him also but she feels unprepared to fully welcome him home also later in the film we find out that their marriage has not always been a bed of roses br br wyler is a director whose force lies in being true to his work without feeling the need to boast he wanted to show his audience how hard it was for the american soldiers returning from the war to fit into a society that either didn't understand them or treated them with contempt with a perfect cast and great dialogue and wyler produced a movie that will forever be the template for any other returning home movie the three hours which coincide with the rough cut because the test audience back then never felt for a moment that the action was slow and indeed every scene from the film seems perfectly justified the whole thing is constructed beautifully every character gets a fair amount of exposure nothing is left to chance and it is quite pitiful that hollywood nowadays never manages to bring so much character conflict to the screen explores the depth of the american way of life of the american family and society to an extent that makes other movies look like the children's hour
1	with wwii over movie studios quickly rushed to focus on vets returning home the best years of our lives was probably the best example it portrays various people returning home and how they have to readjust not only to their pre war lives but to the overall changing world probably the most interesting cast member is non actor harold russell having lost his hands in the war he plays a man with hooks where his hands used to be and reminds people that he wants to be treated just like everyone else he went on to win best supporting actor and a special oscar for the role making him the only person ever to win two oscars for the same role there will probably always be debate over whether this deserved best picture more than it's a wonderful life but i certainly think that they did a good job with it very well done
1	as a cusp pre baby boomer born in 1944 in los angeles thereby having the dubious distinction of having been alive while hitler was still actively involved in his last great offensive but also with our president roosevelt still actively fighting the offensive this was one of the most important first films of my young life having the opportunity to see it in re release several years after the 1946 opening a common studio custom in those years answered even to my very young mind oh so many questions i had being surrounded by our returning vet heroes ensconced in all the many of william wyler's of subtle multi plots intentionally not surrounding mini or sub plots in all their colors and shades of intensity did more than anything else i can recall to provide to me some semblance of reason and rational explanation of what had been going on all around me in real life my personal experience perchance being a new and different angle when looking at this classic film
1	in a film as successful as this it is difficult to single out any one factor all departments work in perfect union to create on of the most moving human dramas ever put on film br br the production is a tribute to the ensemble efforts of the writers producer cast and crew to name but a few the magnificent score of hugo is a subliminal marvel the subtle yet striking photography of greg and the unbelievably effective direction by william wyler all combine with an ideal cast to create an american classic br br the dvd format version is a special treat to view what a pleasure to see the best years of our lives so beautifully preserved for generations to come to enjoy
1	the best years of our life is often compared to it's a wonderful life they never should be their only commonality is the desire to make a serious comment about a war that took millions of lives it is hard to know what value individual life may have how many people know that 1 in 22 people lost their lives violently in the last century what a statistic we have to live with also our feelings about war have changed in 60 years we have progressively moved from thinking that war is just if the enemy is the right one to believing that no war is totally just especially the ones that have been fought recently br br i have been a life long pacifist i oppose all war not long ago i had that position tested it occurred while i was on the uss lexington which is permanently anchored in corpus texas the ship required a crew that is 3 or the community in which i live it is a powerful experience moving around on her decks she had seen a great deal of action someone granted me the right to be a pacifist and it was not cheaply bought br br i cannot watch the best years of our life without thinking about things like the lexington br br each of the three veterans paid their dues and they paid mine as well br br no one of them got off any easier than any other the navy air force and army paid equally although in different ways each had problems directly related to the war and each had to work terribly hard to overcome those difficulties it took more courage to face their civilian surroundings than it did to deal with war because each had to do it on his own each could understand and sympathize with the problem of the others ultimately no one could help br br the moving part of the film this could be the beginning part of the spoiler is what follows when one of the male leads found someone who knew enough to give advice the obvious case is when derry told herald to marry the girl don't hesitate do it tomorrow it is hard for harold to believe that anyone could love him when he had been a football hero and athletic star before the war but to his credit harold listens br br the other is when al tells derry to stay away from his daughter the meaning was clear mend your relationship with your wife – standard fair for 30's 40's films derry did not debate the point he felt he was not fit for al's daughter so he agreed the truth of the film comes out when we consider the daughter feels the same way about derry real emotions from real people i think our era has deep problems with feelings and sentiment and honor i sometimes think we believe these values do not exist that's perhaps why people looking at this film have problems br br al is not free of advice he does not totally want any time his boss talks to him al gets tied in knots and rightly so there are some things that cannot be judged by the standards of occupation they must be judged by huge general and only someone tested by the severities of life would understand what those are br br all of this leads up to a scene near the end where all the planes that fought so valiantly are stripped stacked stored discarded and soon to be recycled their function worth and pride as translucent as derry himself he can overcome that which he does making him fit in his mind for the woman he loves br br i gave the best years of our lives a 10 and there are few films i feel that way about this is not a film for popcorn it deserves our attention we are very privileged to eves drop on something so private as the lives of these wonderful people we ought to be careful that we don't abuse that privilege
1	the first feature length adventure of jim henson's beloved muppet characters is a very competent musical comedy vehicle as kermit the frog leaves his carefree swampy surroundings for the bright lights egged on by stranded hollywood agent dom deluise who overheard him singing on the way he meets fozzie bear a pitiful stand up comedian at james coburn's el café who has telly savalas for a bouncer and madeline kahn a patron the piano playing dog rowlf bestial drummer animal and his laid back funky band egomaniacal beauty queen miss piggy in a ceremony presided over by elliott gould and edgar bergen etc all the while kermit et al are pursued by burger magnate charles durning and reluctant acolyte austin pendleton sold cars ice cream and balloons to by respectively milton berle bob hope and richard pryor served food by insolent waiter steve martin nearly brainwashed by mad german scientist mel brooks and finally land an audition in the offices of movie mogul orson welles who has cloris leachman for a secretary the pleasant song score comes courtesy of paul williams who also makes an appearance as the resident pianist at el for the record i have recently acquired four of the subsequent muppet movies and should be watching them in the weeks to come when their turn falls due
1	wwii veterans return home and find it hard to adjust to civilian life this superb drama is expertly directed by wyler and beautifully filmed by famed cinematographer despite its near three hour length it does not drag for a minute the script by sherwood features very human characters and great dialog andrews has perhaps his best role as a man struggling to make ends meet also good are wright as a love sick young woman mayo as andrews' trampy wife and real life veteran russell as a man who lost both his hands however top honors go to march and loy as a long married couple facing challenges while getting reacquainted with each other
1	best years of our lives perfectly captures the era of my youth and the feelings of that time the cast was uniformly wonderful this was possibly dana andrews best role of his career and he should also have been nominated for an academy award there are so many wonderful scenes in this movie it is almost impossible to list them all the cinematography is among the best of any film this movie is a time capsule of what is was like in the 1940's a must see movie for any true movie fan some critics have said this movie has aged i disagree the theme of human desires is timeless and the obstacles faced by veterans returning from war will always be with us this is just a great movie one that can be watched over and over again
1	best years of our lives is a film that slipped under my radar for years i had heard about it but never had the opportunity to watch it thanks to tcm on demand i was able to watch it uncut and commercial free br br what surprised me about this film was how quickly it was made after the war the film frankly deals with the people who were wounded in the war both physically and mentally it manages neatly to encompass nearly all the varieties of war experience within three characters br br we have the air force officer who was a veteran of the early european bombing campaign because of the horrific rate amongst the crews of the bombers the air force at that time had a reputation for cranking out officers who quickly rose through the ranks such was case with this fellow who went from a lowly soda jerk in civilian life to a captain and bombardier of his b 17 he also suffers from ptsd called battle fatigue at the time br br we have the army non com who served in the pacific and suffered through the horrors of that campaign his story is opposite that of the air force fellow in that he goes from a prestigious job as a banker to a lowly grunt in the army and rises to the rank of sergeant from the stripes on his sleeve it is clear that he is the highest level of sergeant yet he is still on the front line br br finally we have the navy seaman who is part of the faceless support staff commonly referred to as rear echelon by the fellows on the line ironically he suffers the worst physical wounds when working as a mechanic below decks on a navy ship his ship is struck presumably by a kamikaze and is sunk with loss of 400 lives he is pulled from the water but his badly burned hands are amputated and replaced with prosthetic hooks br br tells the story of how these three meet on a transport plane they have boarded for home and how they readjust into civilian society br br what impressed me most about this film is that despite the obvious issues that face the three protagonists it never descends into melodrama the navy kid played by an actual amputee is placed into situations where we might feel sorry for him yet the script never lets us feel that emotion the army sergeant is clearly an alcoholic and the story points that out but never dwells on it the air force captain struggles with the loss of status when he is forced to return to the drug store he soda jerked in now bought out by a large chain and take a demeaning job to support his ungrateful and disloyal wife br br the script allows plenty of opportunities for all these characters to come to some dramatic climax regarding their plights but it neatly avoids that but for the overly dramatic score the director has tread around exploiting the obvious br br in one scene that well represents the entire movie the daughter of the army sergeant frederic march is having a discussion with her father and mother regarding the air force captain despite his marriage they have fallen in love and she is determined to break up the marriage which is obviously troubled now we've seen thousands of scenes typical of this where the father blusters angrily and the daughter ends up running away to her room in tears slamming the door and falling on the bed later mom shows up consoles daughter and offers words of motherly wisdom and everybody lives happily ever after br br in this scene plays out completely differently than the cliché i have described above sure the conversation gets heated but all parties are reasonable and there is a serious and timeless discussion of the nature of relationships that has some of the best dialog i have seen br br ultimately is a highly satisfying film with honest performances from the entire cast technically it is well shot the editing and cinematography frame but never overshadow the gripping narrative despite the score which is cliché and over dramatic i give this film the highest rating that it clearly deserves
1	sometimes but very rarely a movie tells a story so well that it almost becomes difficult this movie tells several stories so well simultaneously that it was the first few times a movie i could not watch to completion it was too real and the characters so strong that watching it became a personal struggle seeing these three men and their families deal with their hardships one in particular often hit me too hard now i have watched in its entirety without interruption several times and i realize what i always suspected this movie is a masterpiece the writing the acting the blending of several stories without being even the least bit choppy everything about this movie is exceptional seven academy awards no wonder it certainly must have deserved them
1	blue ribbon banners stars and stripes forever decorated generals and unconditional surrender from the enemies which required tons and tons of radiation this was the summon substance of the united states victory in world war ii the celebration on times square as well as everywhere else in the united states suggests a national zenith america is on top right one thing one agonizing and painstakingly perverse thing the period of adjustment the actual celebration ended when the bottle of champagne was finished now everyone needs to get on with their lives only one problem though they have to get new lives the old lives are gone forever polite and pleasant smiles had a fragile facade with a longevity of ice cubes in boiling water everyone of the characters in the movie is paraded by primal doubts and unable to masquerade a pretense about how nothing was seriously wrong for the simple reason that it was not true once sergeants and generals and their wives and daughters and sons and virtually all other americans touched by world war ii were exposed to disabilities nightmares and recriminations of world war ii and what it really accomplished as well as nobody was the same for now social and moral issues had a self serving interest frederick march and myrna loy had to start over dana andrews realized that he should never have been married to virginia mayo in the first place theresa wright has become painfully aware of the fact that she is constructively selfish las but not least the character homer is about to get married and he thinks that everyone around him is as devastated by his injury as he is basically in the sense that they are unable or unwilling to cope br br the reason this film is so fabulous is because a happy ending was attained the hard way once everybody recognized the new beginning of the new united states and the new world overall tragedy from wwii was recognized and things that were emotionally torn asunder were taken in stride and dealt with accordingly frederick march and myrna loy need to go back to chapter one in their marriage homer has apprised his new bride as to what it takes to be married to him i e half the times she will feel like a nurse and wright's involvement with dana andrews means that her entrance into adulthood has resulted in partial responsibility for breaking up a marriage this is tantamount to learning how to drive a car to get your driver's license at the indianapolis 500 the characters in the movie are the typical post wwii americans in that they are by the rude awakening of changes to their lives happiness no longer is afforded the luxury of the adjective cop aesthetic it is now about formidable conditions and good winning out over evil by way of the less ugly choice world war ii did not just happen it will henceforth dominate the social patterns of american living br br the catastrophe of world war ii has mirrored most americans' feelings of personal human inadequacy as well i loved this film and so did afi probably for the reason that it brought out issues that were at one time unjustifiably taboo bottom line see this movie nightmares about combat dilemmas about marital unhappiness and or coping with your life when stricken ed by a disability and just basically acting human are portrayed constantly in movies and television today however this is 1946 very new to americans then remember that director william wyler has illustrated how americans feel about the aftermath of wwii in the days when the movie industry has left him with one hand tied behind his back take that into account and you will probably realize just how sensational this movie really was
1	thirty years prior to the deer hunter came this movie an excellent meditation on the effects of war inflicted on the american family as seen from both the war heroes and their wives a truly ironic title the best years of our lives is anything but since those times have vanished into still images and all that is left is an uncertain future for those involved br br truly an ensemble cast despite the top billing of myrna loy the best years of our lives focuses more on the stories of the men al stephenson march comes back to a household that has irrevocably changed as his sons have grown although he finds support from his doting wife milly myrna loy fred derry upon returning cannot find a decent job despite being a war veteran and is trapped in a marriage that he does not want to marie a happy go lucky girl who wants more out of life and who increasingly comes to hate him homer parrish on the other hand has greater problems due to his loss of hands at war and feels the entire world including the girl he loves and her family thinks he is a freak of nature br br at almost three hours of length the film never seems long and drawn out there is so much emotions happening even in small moments that the plot breezes by nothing seems wasted or placed on screen due to a lack of editing not a performance rings false though the standouts are those of dana andrews as fred derry harold russell as homer parrish and virginia mayo as marie derry even then every character has his or her moment on film and the time was right to talk about all the pain and suffering that until then had not been seen in american films including the ones made around world war one which did not dabble in such topics while there is never any overt violence it's all there in the haunted expressions of the three male leads' faces in the lot where the planes now reside ready to be turned into junk and therefore in the cynicism of the store owners who couldn't be bothered to employ these shell shocked men who had seen battle or even worse to goad them into wondering what was it all worth for this is the film in which coming home and born on the fourth of july are indebted to at a time when america fled from war films to come up with this when the end of the second world war was still fresh was a necessity in order to make a more honest film making
1	one of the great things about the best years of our lives that even though it dates itself rather firmly in the post world war ii era the issues it talks about are as real today as they were on v e or v j day of 1945 the problem of how to assimilate returning war veterans is as old as the written history of our planet br br and while we don't often learn from history we can be thankful that for once the united states of america did learn from what happened with its veterans after the previous world war the gi bill of rights is mentioned in passing in the best years of our lives was possibly the greatest piece of social legislation from the last century so many veterans did take advantage of it as do the veterans like march dana andrews and harold russell who you see here br br all three of those actors played archetypal veterans characters that every corner of the usa could identify with they all meet on an army transport plane flying to the home town of all of them boone city iowa br br war is a great leveler of class and distinction bank employee march soda jerk andrews and high school football star russell probably would never meet in real life even in a small town like boone city but they do meet and war forges indestructible bonds that can never be broken br br march is the oldest a man with two children and hollywood's perfect wife myrna loy he settles in the first and the best he has some wonderful scenes getting cockeyed drunk on his return and later with a little bit of liquor in him tells the bank officials at a banquet off in no uncertain terms br br i also love his scene where another returning veteran a sharecropper wants to get a bank loan for his own piece of land watch march's expressions as he listens to the man's pitch for money you can feel him read the man's soul it's what got him his second best actor oscar for this film br br harold russell was a real veteran who lost both his hands during service in the pacific he got a special recognition oscar for his performance because of that it was probably unfair to nominate him in the supporting actor category which he also won in his performance especially his scenes with cathy o'donnell as his sweetheart who loves him with or without his hands is beyond anything that could be described as acting br br dana andrews is the only officer of the three a bombardier in the army air corps of the group of them maybe he should have stayed in he also comes from the poorest background of the group and he was an officer and a gentleman in that uniform that uniform and those monthly checks are what got virginia mayo interested enough to marry him the problem is that he's considerably less in her eyes as a civilian br br while mayo is fooling around with steve cochran andrews has the great good fortune to have march's daughter teresa wright take an interest in him they're the main story of the film andrews adjustment to civilian life and adjusting to the fact he married the wrong woman not all veteran's problems were solved with gi bill br br myrna loy gets little recognition for the best years of our lives my guess is that it's because her role as wife was too much like the stereotypical wife roles she had patented over at mgm still as wife to march and mother to wright she really is the glue that holds that family together br br the best years of our lives won for best picture for sam goldwyn best director for william wyler and a few others besides the two acting oscars it got it was a critical and popular success possibly the best film sam goldwyn ever produced it remains to this day an endearing and enduring classic and will be so for centuries it's almost three hours in length but never once will your interest wane br br the best tribute this film received came from frank capra who had a film of his own in the oscar sweepstakes that year in several categories in his memoirs he said that he was disappointed to be at the oscars that year but that his friend and colleague william wyler had created such a masterpiece he deserved every award he could get for it br br by the way the film capra had hopes for was it's a wonderful life the beat years of our lives can't get better praise than that
1	very glad to see that this excellent film gets such high marks from the users of imdb the best years of their lives remains the finest cinematic statement about veterans returning from war that i have come across easily the finest performance by the often overlooked frederick march in fact the entire cast shines including music legend carmichael who treats us all with a subtle version of his classic lazy river i would recommend this excellent film to anyone who loves movies
1	this american masterpiece came as near perfection as popular art contrives to be from its beautifully equivocal and suggestive title to the magnificent performance elicited by william wyler from the nonprofessional amputee harold br br the film epitomized both the dream and the reality of the postwar this intimate engagement with the psychological facts of american life gave it an almost universal audience… but unlike contemporary and preceding message pictures it was not a it showed americans as they are presented their problems as they themselves see them and provided only such temporary they themselves would the picture's values are the values of the people in it… br br william wyler an outstanding director triple winner of the best picture oscar adds an air of distinction to melodrama epic and westerns with his distinguishing visual style and his taste for solemn material he gained a reputation as a meticulous serious artist wyler's most adept use of deep focus reveals the real commitment to emotional content br br the film tells the story of three men coming home from war to a small middle american community and find it variously difficult to pick up where they left off the three heroes are a middle aged sergeant march magnificent as the devoted family man who succeeds in breaking the ice with his family an incisive air force captain dana andrews returning to an unfaithful wife and a tormented sailor harold russell who has lost both hands in service replaced by hooks in real life br br winner of 7 academy awards including best picture the best years of our lives is eloquent and compassionate a deeply personal motion picture with touching wordless homecoming scenes br br the first words of the sergeant's loving wife when he arrives home unexpectedly i look terrible it isn't fair of you to burst in on us like this br br the involuntarily sob of the sailor's mother when she first sees her son's mechanical hands she blurts out it's nothing br br with her dry martini voice myrna loy combines charmingly her qualities with motherly ones teresa wright is lovely as the sergeant's nice daughter who falls in love with the pilot virginia mayo is harsh as the disloyal flashy blonde wife whose first loves are money and high life and cathy o'donnell is wonderful and sensitive as the sailor's fiancée br br the situations and even some of the characters seem a little obvious but this is a superb example of high quality film making in the forties with smiles and tears cunningly spaced and a film which says what is needed on a vital subject
1	i watch this movie every time it plays on tv a simply brilliant film three men return home from war and try to return to civilian life with great difficulty all three led opposite lives during the war executive banker became an army corporal a soda jerk became an air force captain and the high school football hero loses both his arms in battle and now each must reconstruct his life and connect with a new reality the homes they return to with grown children and independent working women along with a depressed economy only add to the strife it's the scenes just off camera and the unspoken dialog which resonates the most loudly however the awkward intimacy of frederich march and myrna loy and his struggle to return to his place as leader both at home and at work are heartbreaking br br dana andrews is riveting as the handsome decorated captain who struggles to keep his life together without the uniform br br the film is filled with honest characters and each is portrayed by a gifted actor br br this film however took on a whole other level after seeing saving private ryan the reality and magnitude of what these men lived through for love and country and obviously it didn't end on the battlefield br br this is an essential for any collection br br
1	i've seen the beginning of the muppet movie but just the half because i only watched it at mrs kelly's friend's house the songs were the best and the muppets were so hilarious they learn that if they believe in the end of the rainbow anyone can make it no matter how small no matter how green which was included in the trailer br br kermit is my favorite protagonist which means it describes the main character and so are the other muppets mel brooks was amazing when he played professor max the scene where miss piggy saves kermit by doing kung fu on those guys it was so cool br br the muppet movie is the best jim henson film with the most hilarious characters and people will cherish for his successful film
1	superb editing outstanding acting especially by and highly enjoyable musical soundtrack this film reaches back to the 40's to comment on the racial lifestyle differences and some effect of desegregation while it weaves the true story of a truly admirable and fantastic lady br br the actor portraying the young terrence howard character does a wonderful job reflecting the life and times of his upbringing in the small upstate new york town the audience laughed cried and erupted in applause for the film and its director br br soon to be shown on hbo feb 7 i believe fire up the tivo and enjoy a great story
1	in 2004 i wrote the following statements on an imdb message board when a user wondered if the best years of our lives was a forgotten movie br br to me watching this movie is like opening up a time capsule i think in many ways the best years of our lives is probably one of the more fascinating character studies and it holds up extremely well as a look at life in the us in the mid 1940s after wwii i believe coming home and the deer hunter both released in 1978 were the most recent films that were closest in capturing the numerous issues of military men returning from war that were brought up in the best years of our lives br br what really impressed me was watching the movie in its entirety when i was in college around 1980 81 and many if not all of the college students applauded at the end of the movie br br this movie still packs a wallop and i'm very happy to read in other posts other users feeling of a movie that will definitely stand the test of time br br i'm very happy to see the movie ranked near the top 100 movies on imdb and afi also though it was in competition with what eventually became a christmas classic it's a wonderful life arguably the best years of our lives' oscar wins including best picture were very well deserved br br i've just seen the film again in 2005 and after almost 60 years the best years of our lives is still a powerful beautifully acted and well crafted motion picture
1	everyone agrees about the technical excellence of this film by jutra whose life ended short so tragically as for the content of course it makes a difference if you're a and this explains some of the divergence of opinions for me it is to cinema what mon pays ce pas un pays is to song in addition jean was himself a part of legendary quebec br br this film can be contrasted with crazy a current quebec release that is successful enough to be showing here in spain and is also about the 1960s urban quebec crazy vs rural quebec antoine but also a film that must be something very different for foreigners and for people who know quebec from the inside
1	this isn't quite the best canadian film ever imo i won't get off track and name 3 or 4 better just a couple of nights before i'd seen the bicycle thief the highly rated italian classic and there are some parallels both filmmakers shot their film in a specific time and specific place with minimal resources in terms of sets and cast and the result in both cases is fascinating and a joy to watch for the realistic setting and characters alone the lingering shots over faces and landscape almost make this worth watching on its own that being said this one isn't quite in the same league as the italian classic the movie is shot in a frigid barren quebec asbestos mining town that is contrasted with the warmth of the people and the eye of the filmmaker claude jutra basically what you get is a series of vignettes that are likely nostalgic recollections of jutra not ha ha funny but poignant and probably sometimes difficult at the time but now warmed over with the of nostalgia the movie meanders there is little tension somewhere around half to two thirds way through the story begins everyone you've met to this point is involved and you've gotten to know these characters rather well so have a little patience at the outset the story is a good one it will leave you thinking and it involves sex love and death all the basic elements if you like bergman godard truffaut all that kind of stuff you won't be disappointed by this
1	i saw this film when it first came out and have never forgotten it my uncle antoine is much much greater than the sum of it's parts the movie loosely is about a pre adolescent who is sent to live with a relative in a small town in canada there are adventures that seem more or less typical but underneath there is a current building has a leisurely pace but have patience the reward is coming i believe the film was sub titled and as with all non english speaking movies i've seen it is well worth avoiding any dubbed version inevitably dubbed movies reflect the attitudes of a new director and actors with the additional necessity of lip synching lines that don't quite fit the english speaking is a travesty for example while the sub titled version sings my uncle antoine is well worth the time to find and watch it in french
1	mon oncle antoine observes the craggy face of a homespun community from various angles slowly taking its time through the beginning as it should until we emerge from shattered but banal hopes and expectations into swirling of dreams and a heart stopping revelation about the terrible enigma of mortality br br aimless pans and zooms across the snowy mountainside comfort the mind and hypnotize the viewer this restless camera work is personified in a fringe character who is equally the drifter quitting his job at the coal mine and leaving his family to cut lumber then quitting again and returning to the stark humanity of his boy dead br br a fetching old woman cheats on her husband and a young boy dies old things become new and new things die throughout is the snowy whiteness as wonder stricken as the history of cinema
1	don't be fooled by the nostalgic aura that surrounds mon oncle antoine because like the best of canadian films darkness lurks just below the surface br br set presumably in 1940s rural quebec the story explores the developing consciousness of young benoit as he learns to deal with both sexuality and death br br the look of the film is astonishing especially seeing as a high proportion of criticism towards canadian cinema by the general public surrounds aesthetics beyond this the unassuming benoit is a seductive protagonist for the audience looking at his corrupting community with fresh an innocent eyes br br i recommend reading jim critical essay on the film in canada's best features for anyone looking to place the film into a historical context while also dissecting the form of the film definitely check this one out
1	in a genre by itself this film has a limited audience and narrow appeal coupled with a subtle undertone which permeates the entire production nevertheless it is a remarkable piece of cinema which is as timeless as a rare work of art capturing a time in rarely seen in movies mon oncle strength lies in the depth of its characters and the richness of the settings parochial and feudal is brilliantly cast as the backdrop which could not possibly be achieved by anyone other than a pure laine br br it would be far too easy to resort to stereotypes clichés and single minded myopic statements in this story yet the director chose to skip the forced imagery and instead focused on the essence of life in rural of the time that makes this film exceptional in its authenticity while not being pretentious in its presentation if only more contemporary cinematic endeavors would do the same the viewing public might not be forced to choose between the over hyped hollywood that passes for 'must see' viewing br br mon oncle antoine is in every sense of the word unforgettable it will leave a lasting impression on anyone who has ever lived in or visited a classic br br follow up 10 may 2008 br br after reviewing some of the comments it's worth noting mon oncle antoine is not and probably wasn't meant to serve as standard hollywood american cinema for mass market sales a coming of age story yes but far more than simple memoirs of adolescence in 1940's viewers who're looking for sheer entertainment at the expense of complex development of the characters will be sorely disappointed go watch action adventure romance comedies to be amused watch mon oncle antoine to be drawn into a seldom seen but absolutely remarkable society that has been overlooked and ignored for far too long br br the grapes of wrath is hardly an edge of the seat thriller yet the story and characters are what makes this american classic an enduring film mon oncle antoine is in the same genre
1	i've seen jimmy stewart in all the regular roles but the spirit of st louis was reported to be one of his favorites a poor box office performer when released this film has been largely forgotten today telling the well known story of lindberg's famous flight in 1927 stewart seems to be badly miss cast at first and his well known voice never lets you forget who you're watching it feels like george baily all over again but stewart obviously worked hard on the role and he does everything right so before long you don't care anymore that stewart was 20 years older than the man he's portraying stewart's lindberg is so gosh darn all american apple pie likable that you get caught up in the story and you realize that stewart intended to portray lindberg with all of the aw shucks yankee know how he could muster up lindberg was an almost mythical hero in the u s and stewart seems determined to keep up appearances br br flash backs are cleverly used to keep what is really a rather dull story moving along and i was struck by the subtle references to faith that were scattered through the film lindberg trying to teach a hopeless priest how to fly only to be confronted by the priest on his beliefs or lindberg refusing to carry a proffered st christopher medal to save weight on the plane only to find the medal hidden in his lunch bag after he'd crossed the atlantic for me this is a film not about a man's epic journey into the unknown but his realization that this life is much bigger than the things we can see and feel
1	jimmy stewart brings the story of charles lindbergh to life as he almost narrates the entire film while he crosses the atlantic it well edited with flashbacks over life franz waxman score is shear brilliant and truly gives the picture a heroic feel one of stewarts finest roles and this film can deliver time after time look for appearances by murray hamilton the mayor in the jaws movie as bud gurney comes out on dvd 8 15 06 with the release of a few more of stewarts classic films i consider jimmy stewart to be americas greatest actor and never tire of seeing him in any film i see watch this picture and you'll agree
1	billy wilder created a somewhat conventional biopic about the charles lindberg flight he structures the film using flashbacks extensively to tell the lindberg story leading up to the famous flight across the atlantic which happens in present time in the film flying an airplane for hour after hour is not the stuff of excitement and wilder is not going to deviate from his theme of lindberg as hero of the common man so things are predictable however james stewart is well cast and quite believable as lindberg and the many obstacles he has to overcome just to get his plane in the air keep one watching br br the film comes through most successfully as wilder weaves the parts of the story together in a way that create tension then relief then tension again the cinematography is quite good score by franz waxman enhances the scenes and stewart really seems to make lindberg come alive makes one believe he could be lindberg there is a bit of 1950's religious schmaltz at the end but overall the direction acting and high production values overcome the predictability of the story would anybody really see this picture and not know that lindberg made it across the atlantic to make an enjoyable film that has aged better than most films from that time billy wilder made films of a wide variety of types and this is one that is representative of his craftsman like best
1	if i rate the film maybe a bit high you can blame it on sentiment this is one of the first movies that i remember seeing and totally loving i saw it at the drive ins here in california in the late 70s i was already a big fan of the muppet show on tv so i was primed for the movie and the movie did not disappoint basically it takes the whole absurdist ethos of the muppet show and transports it from vaudeville into a road movie kermit the frog is on a quest to become famous not because he wants to take champagne baths and ride in a private jet but because he wants to make millions of people happy of course br br along the way he picks up all his beloved muppet friends most endearingly fonzie bear who he meets at a seedy bar doing stand up they sing movin' right along a song that has always charmed me with its upbeat melody and its theme of friendship and shared discovery he also encounters enough hollywood movie stars to fill a stanley kramer movie including comedy luminaries like richard pryor steve martin edgar bergen milton berle and mel brooks brooks in particular has a rather dull bit and you are left feeling that henson could have cut a few of these cameos out if he wasn't afraid of offending the stars anyway as befits a road trip movie like this the very first person he meets is dom deluise br br the ending is one of the more odd examples of literally breaking down the 4th wall that you will find in any children's movie the hollywood dream seems to be crumbling all about them when a real rainbow pierces the hollywood set with its authentic joy and mystery i'm sure this was meant to relate to some of jim henson's own personal or spiritual experiences br br this is the best movie with muppets by a long shot if you or anyone else was wondering why the muppets were so popular back in the 70s considering how poor the movies have been for the last few decades i think this film has at least aged well enough to provide a clue
1	everyone knows that succeeded in the first transatlantic flight so how can there be any suspense or intrigue in this film well there is don't ask me how but there is partly due to the director's expert telling of the tale but mostly due to jimmy stewart's thoroughly engaging performance we are drawn into the story as if it were unfolding for the first time right before our eyes despite the fact that half the movie is filmed in a cramped cockpit it is as dynamic as any action flick out there so if you are apprehensive about seeing this movie because you think you know the story already give it a shot i think you'll be impressed
1	stewart's age didn't bother me at all in this movie although he was portraying a much younger person i still recall my fascination with story and while i was thoroughly adult by the time this biopic was made i had to see it br br not only does this boast a great performance by stewart it also gives a lot of fascinating technical data making it understandable to those technically challenged such as myself and the look of the plane itself was great br br i quite loved this depiction of a period before my birth and reawakens the childhood love i had for airplanes and for the idea of air travel
1	others have harped here about james stewart's age when playing he was 47 was twenty five but stewart does not look his age and the film for him was a dream come true an actual pilot and a retired air force reserve general at the end of his life stewart had the feel for the character and understanding of his passion which other actors could not bring to the role added to the cast was co star murray hamilton who was also to be featured in the f b i story with stewart and such other well known character actors as richard deacon of the later dick van dike show and robert of the thing from another world the 1951 sci fi classic br br billy wilder captures the flavor of the autobiography and the telling of what was to become a major event in the history of aviation this story and film are a testament to the soul of determination and perseverance to realize a dream a box office failure at the time of it's release it has since become one of the great classics of american film and another in a long line of outstanding performances by an actor that has been called america's everyman no student of film history should miss seeing this one there have been over 500 000 films since the beginning of motion pictures and this one belongs among the top 500
1	this is one of those movies that showcases a great actor's talent and also conveys a great story it is one of stewart's greatest movies barring a few historic errors it also does an excellent job of telling the story of the spirit of st louis
1	jimmy stewart was a real life pilot wwii flier and a one star general in the air force and therefore a natural for how real pilots react when they fly when you see the faithful recreation of the actual plane you begin to understand the real life bravery and courage of lucky lindy when he flew the atlantic solo in 1927
1	what you bring to the movie influences your view of it i brought 30 years in the air force to this and every time i see it i am moved by the ending would a youngster of 15 who's spent their life flying in jets feel the same way yet i can only just its impact on me br br jimmy stewart gives a wonderful turn as jimmy stewart considering he was a pilot and an air force reserve general he probably comes as close to being an expert on how a pilot would act as any man alive one can't fault his delivery or his acting he is a pilot being a pilot that's enough br br spoilers br br it's the final minutes of the film that continue to grip my heart lindbergh has been flying without radio communication and has no idea if anyone is even expecting him when he flies into the paris airport the uncertainty of the landing field draws you in what is it below those shifting circles that look like cobblestones or a field of corn must make you wonder is he in the right place they go on and on streaming past his vision until he gets low enough and see that in the paris night what he was seeing was the light of the city reflecting off the faces of the thousands of people waiting for him to land
1	from director billy wilder double indemnity the seven year itch some like it hot i can see that this is a bit of an under shown and underrated film one to be seen this is the biographical story of charles augustus lindbergh james stewart who in 1927 wanted to be the first man to cross travel solo flight from new york crossing the atlantic ocean to reach paris in a small cockpit the first half hour or whatever is seeing lindbergh getting permission to do it and the construction of the plane named the spirit of st louis and making all necessary preparations then of course the rest sees his perilous journey crossing the journey overcoming tiredness near fuel loss and moments of losing sense of direction but he was successful also starring murray hamilton as bud gurney patricia smith as mirror girl bartlett robinson as benjamin frank mahoney robert as harry knight sheila bond as model dancer marc connelly as father arthur space as donald hall harlan as and greer as apparently lindbergh was a bit younger so stewart was a shade too old to play him but then again you can't think of anyone else that could do better it is a witty and emotional drama with stewart as always being fantastic great music score by frank waxman and good direction from wilder a good little known gem it was nominated the oscar for best special effects the only award it was ever nominated james stewart was number 12 on the 100 greatest movie stars he was number 3 on 100 years 100 stars men and he was number 13 on the world's greatest actor very good
1	it's a thoroughly successful example of a 1950s biopic it has the stalwart and handsome young hero well not so young anymore on screen superb if unlikely direction by billy wilder a stirring fully orchestrated musical score of uplifting scales and when required heavenly strings by franz waxman strong supporting players a gripping story stunning photography by hitchcock favorite robert and a narrative about a singular historical event br br the film begins with jimmy stewart as charles lindbergh trying to get some sleep in a long island hotel before his epic solo flight across the atlantic from new york to paris and he can't sleep br br the flight itself is filled with flashbacks to personal history and the purchase and construction of his unique high wing the spirit of st louis st louis missouri is the home of the partnership that sponsored the flight even in 1927 money talked anyway the movie had to have multiple flashbacks and stewart's narration what's the alternative observing the thirty three hours of watching jimmy stewart sitting silently at the controls of his noisy airplane while days and nights come and go i found the script and the direction impressive for their time unpleasant things are of course left out so as not to introduce more ambiguity than the contemporary audience might manage br br my bet is that the howling mob that surrounds lindbergh at le ripped the airplane to pieces for souvenirs and of course nothing about the pilot's relief tube though it would have added more opportunities for humor some of today's viewers will find some incidents corny if they think too much about them aloft stewart chats with a friendly hitch hiking fly that in its own quietly concerned way wakes him up by landing on his cheek at a critical moment later the st christopher's medal that father gave him taps gently against the glass crystal of one of the instruments just as stewart is desperately trying to land the atheist stewart is saved twice once by a fly and once by god br br but never mind that it's an impressive film that landing at le with an exhausted stewart behind the joy stick confused by sweaty with fear and collapsing with fatigue is really convincing i'm going to tear this airplane up he tells himself and we can believe him br br flying a light plane is not at all like driving a car there is no smoothly curving highway to tell you where to go no lanes to provide guidance you're busy every second you must watch the instruments check each wingtip to see that they touch the horizon ditto the nose and constantly watch up down and sideways for other traffic although that last wouldn't have been much of a problem for lindbergh he was all alone over the ocean br br why in one of the movie's moment stewart and murray hamilton two gypsy of the 1920s are lounging near their airplanes in a midwestern field what is it what makes us love flying so much asks hamilton no answer later his financial backers try to talk him out of the flight five other have already died trying it but don't you understand it has to be done says an impassioned stewart br br well that's not much of an answer either why does it have to be done now and why by lindbergh why not wait ten years and stop wasting lives in the meantime the answer dear socrates lies partly in our glands pilots are a placid and confident lot given to occasional arousal their chief problem may be an addiction to an internal rush of adrenalin just kidding some of my best friends are pilots still lindbergh must have been quite a guy he deserved to be treated as a hero not just because of the flight itself but because of his later demeanor quiet modest a family man we can easily forget his admiration for hitler since he more than made up for it by testing corsair fighters in the pacific and advising the navy on how to tweak the airplanes and get the best performance out of them br br see it if you have the chance if nothing else it's a history lesson told with visual splendor
1	biographical tale of the life of charles lindbergh the first man to fly solo non stop across the atlantic in 1927 aboard his plane the spirit of st louis br br while not amongst director billy wilder's best films it does boast some very impressive production values especially for a film made 50 years ago the story is well told and the performances are also good though not outstanding br br one definite limiting factor upon the storytelling is that lindbergh flew alone and without a radio which meant he has no one to speak with this necessitated a few different story telling techniques such as internal monologues speaking with a and the occasional bouts of talking to himself especially once the exhaustion sets in also in order to avoid an extended sequence of the famous flight it is interspersed with flashbacks from his life and the methodical preparations for the flight br br charles lindbergh was a huge hero of his era but his controversial beliefs would taint his legacy somewhat despite this he would continue to contribute to the aviation field and assisted as a civilian aircraft consultant to the us effort in wwii br br jimmy stewart certainly had the flying background to back his portrayal of lindbergh he rose to the rank of colonel in us air force during wwii and while in the reserves following the war would reach the rank of brigadier general
1	this film recreates historic flight across the atlantic while touching on episodes in his aviation career through flashbacks stewart was about 20 years too old to be playing the young flier but his fine performance particularly in the solo flight sequences makes this a minor quibble waxman's rousing score is a big plus despite the long running time wilder manages to make it quite exciting and is able to sustain the drama even though the outcome is known what a year 1957 was for wilder besides this he also wrote and directed love in the afternoon and witness for the prosecution and his next two were some like it hot and the apartment what a run
1	the muppet movie br br directed by br br james frawley br br kermit the frog and friends relive the tales and stories of how they all came together br br the muppets star in their first feature film bringing the magic they are known for to a bigger picture the story is not too complex and is written as a prequel of sorts the well written jokes appear as each character gets a worthy introduction the cameos aren't just thrown in either but written in as interesting characters making one of the many peaks for our furry friends
1	in 1927 a young man alone in a single engine aeroplane flew non stop from roosevelt field in new york across the entire north atlantic ocean to le field in paris a distance of three thousand six hundred and ten miles in this triumph of mind body and spirit charles a lindbergh influenced the lives of everyone on earth for in the 33 hours and thirty minutes of his flight the air age became a reality this is the story of that flight br br billy wilder adapts from charles a pulitzer prize winning novel of the same name in what is re creation of historical 1927 solo flight boosted by a considerably strong lead performance from james stewart himself a pilot as lindberg and containing an intelligent screenplay from wilder and wendell spirit of st louis is a sincerely well told story br br in what at times threatens to become a monotonous film wilder keeps it ticking over by using flashbacks to life after the nicely told build up to the event such as the peril being realised as and go missing never to be found whilst attempting the same trip in reverse we learn stuff like how he come to buy his first plane and his work with the flying circus this is all relative to understanding the man and his obvious passion for flying this also helps to give us a complete picture of lindbergh thus putting us with him in his isolated cockpit as he undertakes this dangerous journey battling isolation his only company is a fly and chronic tiredness it's here where stewart perfectly portrays devotion to the task aided by a terrific score from franz waxman and academy award nominated effects by louis wilder's movie turns out to be an engaging human interest story that got a thoroughly professional production 7 10
1	this is a great story although there are some jimmy stewart cornball parts for the most part it is a compelling tale about an individual with a compelling drive vision and sense of adventure to say the least the bottom line is it is one of my favorites to watch and i've done so probably dozens to times that is until someone stole it our of a bag i left on a plane on a flight to california br br some have commented about too many flashbacks but i don't know a better way to keep a long flight interesting for those of us who actually fly flight can be hours of boredom punctuated by moments of terror i wouldn't have wanted to see the flight shortened at all the oppressive need for sleep and the drone and surrounding loneliness is part of the story br br there are many parts that i particularly like including the takeoff from long island and landing at night in paris wow things have really changed with us and the french since then the airplane building scenes and the record breaking flight from san diego are interesting as is the incident over the atlantic in ice which i understand is not completely true but did happen on the san diego flight br br one gets the sense that one of biggest assets are his enlightened supporters as well as his persistence br br some of the lines that ring in my head now and then include pull the on the takeoff scene and i hope i don't have to use it that way when describing the submarine like periscope to the lady who lent him a mirror so he could better see his overhead instruments br br this movie is not for everybody but it certainly is for me i hope they make it on dvd soon so i can replace my stolen version
1	billy wilder continues his strong run of films during the 1950s with a biopic of charles lindbergh the young american pilot who became the first man to fly solo across the atlantic in 1927 jimmy stewart plays lindbergh and while he might be a bit too old for the part he still brings the sincere warmth and confidence needed as well as his trademark down to earth goodness that makes him an iconic film star wilder directs solidly balancing the background story with humor and drama to give us a clear description of what lindbergh was up against when he decided to take this challenge it certainly isn't his nor stewart's best work but it is a gem of a movie it lifts your spirits with the plane and makes you proud to be an american overall it is just plain good
1	a great movie about triumph over all the nay sayers who try to kill your spirit achieving the impossible i won't go on about it other than to say that i liked to reflect on the this film when i'm facing something particularly daunting and realize that if lindberg could do what he did i can certainly face the task before me definitely a feel good movie br br see it you won't be disappointed
1	1st watched 10 10 2009 8 out of 10 dir billy wilder spectacular rendering of famous flight by james stewart as lindbergh and director billy wilder there isn't really a whole lot of background built into this story but that's ok because wilder makes the event really remarkable as it comes directly from perspective since he used his book as the basis of the movie this early movie about flying has to be one of the best about the act itself as well stewart talking and thinking to himself during the flight gives you so much insight into what lindbergh went thru in this 33 hour solo flight across the atlantic and he did the whole flight without sleeping the night before which is amazing there is a little backstory about how he purchased the plane and got the financing and some flashbacks about his life during the flight but the movie is mostly about the flight the story is also beautifully made and photographed and is a joy to watch despite it's age i appreciate the fact that they didn't throw in a lot of fluff and just let the story tell itself well done throughout this is a classic movie that should be viewed by all
1	every year there's one can't miss much anticipated red hot big budget title with the right combination of star director and subject matter that fails miserably at the box office this year it was superman returns in 1982 it was blade runner in 1957 it was billy wilder's the spirit of st louis a film that had everything top director huge star best selling true story about an american hero except enough of an audience to cover its costs maybe the public still remembered lucky lindy's anti semitism and his loud admiration for nazi germany's achievements before the war neither covered in the film which ends with his arrival in paris before the legend got too tarnished maybe because they thought they knew the story or that it was just going to be one guy stuck in a cockpit for two hours certainly wilder and co writer wendell are aware of the dramatic pitfalls of relatively uneventful flight alternating between a well executed flashback structure to key points in his life and the build up to the flight itself once the film is airborne it's both surprising and suspenseful finding genuine drama in his attempts to stay awake and to navigate without proper instruments br br it also builds up a quite remarkable sense of dread that's unlike anything else in wilder's filmography allied to a real sense of the epic shots like the ominous storm clouds over the hanger the dark dawn before the flight carry a real chill of foreboding to them even the typically muted and problematic warnercolor adds to the film rather than detracts from it along with the superb use of cinemascope there's a remarkable score from franz waxman majestic soaring but filled with understated menace and cleverly used as part of the fabric of the film rather than mere musical accompaniment the film does lose points for implying though never actually saying outright that this was a race to be the first to fly the atlantic in fact lindbergh was the third man to fly across the atlantic after almost completely forgotten brits and brown's astonishing flight eight years earlier but it's still a remarkably tense and engrossing adventure story that deserved the success it never found
1	the word impossible has led many to select a particular view concerning any incredible task in 1927 it was believed no man could fly the breath of the atlantic ocean many had tried but failed and some even gave their lives to the effort nevertheless it had to be done as every challenge needs to be met with equal determination such then is the heart of this movie called the spirit of st louis the actor chosen for this historic film is none other than america's own james stewart who convincingly plays charles lindbergh although there are many facets of life the segment featured here is his efforts to be the first man to fly across the atlantic the story is an interesting one and for fans compelling to say the least seeking enough funds to build a special aircraft to the fateful decision to began the journey on a gloomy day in may 1927 as he was christened endured enormous risks which are featured in this superb film other notables which helped make this film believable are murray hamilton who plays bud gurney bartlett robinson as ben mahoney arthur space and charles watts as o w schultz the sum total of this now famous movie is that despite poor endorsement on its debut it has since become a classic in it's own right well done
1	i have watched this film several times over the years and always find it an entertaining experience as a retired airline pilot i am interested in most aviation movies and this is one of the better ones i know that lindbergh was only 25 years old at the time of his historic solo flight to paris and that james stewart was almost 50 when making this movie but i can overlook that fact because stewart has always been one of my all time favorite actors and does one of his usual outstanding performances as the lone eagle br br there is a good mixture of comedy and drama throughout the film and a good use of flashbacks it also helps that james stewart was a pilot in real life both in the military and civilian life
1	the spirit of st louis is billy wilder's film tribute to one of the best figures in aeronautical history remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the atlantic ocean in may 1927 with james stewart a little too old for the part playing charles lindbergh br br as a tribute it is eloquent enough and although a few nice liberties may have been taken with historical fact the motion picture describing the detailed odyssey before and after the paris flight on may 20 21 in the spirit of st louis br br although the lengthy internal monologue employed during the journey may be disappointing to an audience the truth is that it helps keep the picture focused tightly on its essential point stewart dignified the portrait of one of the greatest adventurers in the air the world has ever know departing in a highly modified single engine from long island new york to paris france br br no action is depicted in the trip only some flashbacks to break up the monotony of the long flight but there is superb determination of the ordeal of a brave and talented pilot decided to fly alone his equation is simple less weight one engine one pilot would increase fuel efficiency and allow for a longer flying range but with so much risk claim to fame was doing something that many had tried and failed br br even though wilder has bravely put it upon the screen in a calm unhurried fashion it comes out as biography of intense restraint and power but it is james stewart's performance controlled to the last detail that gives life and strong heroic stature to the principal figure in the film br br from it there emerges an awareness of a clever firm but truly humble man who tackles a task with resolution plans as much about it as he can makes his decisions with courageous finality and then awaits with only one thought in mind to get to paris in his efforts to cut off the plane's weight any item considered too heavy or unnecessary was left behind br br the record setting flight proved not only to be a fight with the elements and a test of navigation but also a long battle against fatigue a busy schedule and an active mind kept lindbergh up all of the previous night still he managed to stay conscious enough to keep the from crashing and landed at le near paris 33 hours and 30 minutes after leaving new york br br stewart gives an able portrait of a brave pilot who attains legendary status emphasizing the intention and dominant resolution to fly nonstop 5 kilometers 3 miles across the atlantic br br photographed in cinemascope and warnercolor and backed by franz waxman's beautiful music the film effectively captures the pioneering spirit of the era and the hero's ultimate achievement since he takes off that day from roosevelt wet field and clears telephone wires at the end of the runway
1	if you are looking for king kong you your search this is a low low budget movie that was ment to entertain people in a comic sense here is the most ordinary human who is the only 1 who can save the world from a 300 ton surely you can see the humor in that
1	i am 17 and a biased muppet fan and while i love treasure island christmas carol and great muppet caper the muppet movie absolutely deserves to be up there with the best of them it is enormously entertaining thanks to the snappy script by jerry and the film looks lovely with some beautifully staged musical numbers speaking of the songs i really liked them sure they aren't the best song score out of the muppet franchise but they were very nice to listen to especially never before never before is now one of my favourite muppet songs along with first time it happens and professional pirate the muppets as usual were fantastic particularly the always delightful miss piggy and the chemistry between kermit and fozzie was great and what a brilliant human cast from bob hope to orson welles from madeleine kahn the same wonderful actress who brought us hilarious movies like what's up doc blazing saddles and clue to cloris leachman from steve martin to richard pryor all of whom made memorable guest appearances if careful not to overshadow the muppets in a fantastic film 10 10 bethany cox
1	this year's royal rumble wasn't really bad but last year's was definitely way better br br first match shawn michaels vs edge even though this match did take a little too long it was still alright edge wins after using the ropes to pin shawn michaels 4 10 br br second match undertaker vs in a casket match now i don't really like casket matches this match was boring sloppy but in the end it picked up it's pace as undertaker nailed the tombstone then rolled in the casket for the victory 4 10 br br third match jbl vs kurt angle vs big show in a triple threat match for the wwe women's championship not a bad triple threat match too bad jbl wins again to retain his title after nailing a clothesline from hell on angle for the win 5 10 br br fourth match randy orton vs triple h for the world heavyweight championship great match by these two men the match was a bit sloppy but it was still good it picked up pretty towards the end even though orton lost the match was fast paced great towards the end hhh nails the pedigree on orton for the win to retain his world title 5 10 br br fifth match royal rumble this was a cool royal rumble every royal rumble is good after all 30 men entered the last four remaining superstars in the rumble were cena edge mysterio batista edge was able to spear mysterio out later batista cena edge out together it was now up to cena batista first after reversing an f u batista went for the batista bomb but suddenly both men crumbled on the outside at the same time after a controversial decision mr mcmahon making his way to the ring to settle the matter the match was restarted again as batista cena battled it out but batista got the better out of cena nailed a spine buster threw cena out to win the 2005 royal rumble go on to wrestlemania 21 to face the champion in the 10 10 this was a very good royal rumble but last year's would always top every royal rumble in history br br overall i'll give it 8 10 b
1	probably the best royal rumble in years br br match 1 sees edge battle shawn michaels in a good but very long match next up one of the worst wrestlers on the roster takes on the undertaker in a boring casket match match number 3 sees bradshaw defend his wwe title against big show and kurt angle in a surprisingly good contest the next match up sees triple h defending his 10th heavyweight title reign against randy orton in a great match up br br next up the royal rumble takes place in which 15 raw superstars and 15 smackdown superstars hit the ring to try and win the rumble and face the champion whoever that may be at wrestlemania 21 highlights included tough enough 3 winner daniel getting his ass kicked by chris benoit eddie guerrero and hardcore holly all of the superstars beating the crap out of muhammad hassan and raw superstars vs smackdown superstars br br not a bad ppv at all br br edge vs hbk 8 10 taker vs 4 10 jbl vs angle vs big show 7 5 10 triple h vs orton 8 5 10 the royal rumble match 9 10
1	this royal rumble basically had the message of wrestling these days gimmick and image are more popular then wrestling ability br br hbk vs edge pretty good match a lot of heat for edge who was just starting out as a heel again and what better way to go into a match with hbk it kind of got a little slower at the end then usual overall this match gets a 6 10 undertaker vs not a good match undertaker had to carry through this match who seemed to be really lost and screwed up his moves it did get interesting to see gene and a bit later kane come into this match overall the fans seemed more interested when this match ended 2 10 kurt angle vs jbl vs big show this match was slow at first but got pretty good at the end when angle managed to speed up the match kurt angle did some really good wrestling moves and proves he is the best wrestler out of the match jbl and big show put on a slow match the ending to this match was bad over all this match was a 5 10 because of kurt angle randy orton vs hhh good match surprising heat for randy orton who was the face in this match randy proved he can go the limit with any top star this match also marked the first match hhh has wrestled where someone dosn't run down and save him from a loss over all this match was about a 6 10 br br royal rumble match was ok some surprises some not so good surprises i was kind of upset that kurt angle wasn't given enough time in this match but over all this match had a guy who i never thought would be pushed so soon i won't tell ya who wins i give this match a 8 10
1	the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events and i've been a wrestling fan for a good few years now the other shows may have better matches but i've always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement br br i'm not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don't see it as fair to ruin the results on a review i will comment on the quality of them though br br we have the standard 4 matches and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw br br shawn michaels and edge open up for raw this proves to be a good match from two talented guys this is a match i'd recommend watching it's hard to sum up without giving away the winner br br next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it is giant gonzales yokozuna kamala well this time it's its also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if you're a fan i have to admit i am purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match br br the next two matches are the title matches for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable but with a anti climax and let down to end it raw's match is a pretty dull and boring affair which is a pity as i'm a fan of both guys involved br br now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it's a pretty good one this year coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey its very enjoyable there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated there is the token guy who doesn't make it to the ring the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant it has its usual highs and lows and i loved the ending in particular the vince mcmahon entrance br br i'd recommend this show not the wwe on top form but its still good add it to your collection
1	shawn michaels vs edge 8 kind of hard to believe shawn michaels is in the opening match but still a great match by both men edge whether you like or not is a great performer in the ring and shawn michaels is just ageless when it comes to his performance the undertaker vs casket match 2 ok after a good opening match now this what a crappy match undertaker has given some great matches at the royal rumble and 1998's royal rumble against shawn michaels was the same type of match but this is way worse then that match br br kurt angle vs big show vs bradshaw triple threat wwe championship 6 it's alright i feel all three men could of given a better performance this just really didn't show them at their best br br randy orton vs triple h world heavyweight championship 9 triple h gets a clean win can you believe it sure he takes out the sledgehammer but doesn't use it randy orton did great when acting like he got a concussion but how he got the concussion is really ridiculous i really liked this match this was the best performance i've seen from hhh in forever br br the royal rumble match 7 this was highly entertaining and i usually don't score the royal rumble match this high the winner is again very predictable but just this had a lot of moments that were very entertaining to watch the segments with flair and guerrero are hilarious the best segments i've seen in a while br br overall this is a great ppv and a must own for wrestling fans
1	a respectable royal rumble event br br 1 edge vs shawn michaels br br 7 5 10 a very strong opener heel performance was sublime as it was during the rumble event overall id say edges night br br 2 undertaker vs casket match br br 7 10 a lot of people hated this rivalry though i liked it i thought really played his character well the match wasn't amazing in excitement that was until kane and get involved it gets better as it goes on br br 3 kurt angle vs big show vs jbl wwe champ wwe title match br br 7 5 10 a surprisingly good match as there was only 1 really exciting in ringer in it angle of course very good title match good pace though a predictable end but aren't all royal rumble title matches predictable br br 4 triple h world title vs randy orton world title match br br 6 5 10 actually not that good for the guys involved went on too many dry patches orton sold his concussion amazingly ending though was some what of an anti climax br br 5 royal rumble event btw during the other matches there were a few segments two which were really cool cena rapping on christian and guerrero stealing flairs number 30 entry ticket the event was good 7 10 would have got a 9 if cena won but unfortunately my biggest enemy batista wins though i understood why vince comes down and takes a drop and the whole arena crack up in laughter
1	the 2005 edition of the royal rumble came live from the save mart centre in california the two top championships of the wwe were being defended the undertaker was battling in a casket match shawn michaels was taking on edge in a grudge match that had been building up since last october and of course the every man for himself over the top rope royal rumble match itself who was going to take the price this year chris benoit edge eddie guerrero edge john cena batista edge shawn michaels there was no shortage of contenders br br it was batista that picked up the popular victory in the main event battle but not without controversy or should i say a botched finish batista and john cena were the final two men in the ring batista was supposed to dump the young smackdown star over the top rope but it all went wrong and they both went toppling to the floor the referees acted on their feet as we had an arm raising contest similar to that of bret hart and lex luger back in 1994 this brought out the chairman of the board vinnie mac walked down to the ring the way only he can but injured himself badly getting into the ring it was unusual to see vince mcmahon sitting legs out telling the two men to restart the match batista then did was he was supposed to do first time round and dumped cena to the floor sealing his own future with a championship match at wrestlemania 21 br br the undercard for this years royal rumble had a very solid line up with many of wwe's biggest stars competing in matches each brand had two big matches each br br raw opened the night with the match between shawn michaels and edge this was a good technical contest back and fourth all the way until edge got the pinfall this was a smart booking decision and kept edge as a contender to the world heavyweight championship br br the second match of the night was the feud ending casket match between the undertaker and the match was not a classic but then again have their been any classic casket matches it was entertaining especially when got involved and then kane popped out the casket to a great pop the undertaker surprised no one when he got the win slamming the lid on and this mediocre feud br br the first of the two championship matches of the night was john bradshaw defence of the wwe championship in a triple threat match against both kurt angle and the big show this match was very good again not a classic but entertaining none the less jbl took the win after pinning kurt angle his celebration was short lived however when backstage teddy long informed him at no way out he would defend the wwe championship in a barbed wire steel cage match against big show not a very nice way to spend a sunday night br br and of course there is no show without punch punch of course being reigning world heavyweight champion triple h his rematch from unforgiven 2004 with randy orton was lot better than the original encounter it's a pity because they just don't seem to click to well in the ring and this would be an excellent feud if they did orton played the concussion role very well and went down in defeat to the game br br so the first big one of 2005 was a good one it achieved its goals feuds ended and new ones began we were now officially on the road to wrestlemania 21
1	i have enjoyed both of the van dykes over the years and was glad to watch them again br br just as cute and funny and easy to watch and enjoy br br dick was good when he was younger but i enjoyed him more as he got older br br son berry has been a great one to follow in his fathers footsteps br br together they make a great team and work well together br br i am disappointed that i have not found another murder 101 listed anywhere br br i have seen both of the ones that have been shown i am hoping for more as it is really an enjoyable duo to watch br br you can sure tell berry follows in his dad footsteps they talk alike and have the same mannerisms br br would enjoy anything they do separately br br will be sure to watch anything they do alone and together
1	if you enjoyed the tv series diagnosis murder you'll love murder 101 it's great to see dick van dyke in a murder mystery again if we're lucky this one will be a start of a tv series or at least series of movies br br this movie definitely had some great and notable actors filling the roles but it didn't feel like a face movie it was really a story that drew you in making you forget about the fame of those on the screen br br i made a guess as to the ending and was so pleasantly surprised at the end that i had to watch it again this is a must see for any mystery buff or dick van dyke lover
1	this was essentially a remake of diagnosis murder minus victoria rowell scott baio charlie schlatter dick is playing a college professor who teaches criminology 101 and can't even find his own classroom barry is now a private eye not related to dick this lets barry shoot at guys speeding away from him which a cop can not do barry still gets the girl in the end tracey needham portrays the girl she is the prime suspect and dick and barry believe she's innocent and prove it that's all the spoiler you get the ending is sufficiently unexpected that you don't already know it half way through the movie br br don't take it seriously don't critique it just sit back and enjoy dick and barry van dyke
1	who doesn't remember the muppet movie br br kermit the frog is now an american culture icon what child doesn't appeal to this character br br as the first actual muppet film the movie simply called the muppet movie did very well kermit takes a hollywood agent's advice and goes out of his home swamp to respond to the ad along the way he meets up with a pig a bear chickens a rock band and a few other quality puppets watch for dozens of cameo appearances like kahn steve martian richard pryor mel brooks and several more i grew up watching this movie and i loved it
1	psycho criminal pure by carl who is active in hollywood like mrs soutendijk george and are stealing the last peace of they are too able how can i get calm into a lift next time
1	admittedly there are some scenes in this movie that seem a little unrealistic the ravishing woman first panics and then only a few minutes later she starts kissing the young lad while the old guy is right next to her but as the film goes along we learn that she is a little volatile girl or slut and that partly explains her behavior the cinematography of this movie is well done we get to see the elevator from almost every angle and perspective and some of those images and scenes really raise the tension george plays his character well a wannabe hot shot getting old and being overpowered by young men like the character wolfgang who i admired in hitchcock's the torn curtain delivers a great performance that although he doesn't say much he is by far the best actor in this play one critic complained about how unrealistic the film was and that in a real case of emergency nothing would really happen but then again how realistic are films such as mission impossible or phone booth given the fact that we are talking about a movie here and that in a movie you always have to deal with some scenes that aren't very likely to occur in real life you can still enjoy this movie it's a lot better than many things that i see on german tv these days and i think that the vintage 80's style added something to this film
1	i must i was a little skeptical when i entered the cinema to watch french comedies tend to be so self satisfied nowadays that only the most stupid ones score high at the national box office but i was surprised that though the humor does not always reach the level of the monthy pythons the many references to the vision of the world in the 1950 which represents are hilarious et the director managed to recreate film making style of that time with an astonishing fidelity to put it short a bit of a good surprise not to mention the excellent performances from various secondary actors and at least for once jean style which can get on many people's nerves perfectly with the character he plays
1	what a pleasure this is really a parody only french people can do that kind of thing without being coarse and as a result you spend a really good time watching jean playing the dumb most of the movie stands on his shoulders and he has them wide enough to make this movie a good one he has the perfect way of overdoing the james bond kind of guy that he is no match for mike meyers in austin powers for example the dialogs are also good enough to keep up the attention of the spectator with a lot of stupid jokes that's really perfect both of the women having the main parts in the movie bear the comparison with the main character and that was a challenge there is no really plot in this movie but that's not what is expected in this kind of movie you just wish to laugh one hour 40 minutes and that's precisely what the movie manage to do it deserves the success it has in france
1	if you're going to spoof james bond it's a brilliant idea to find a leading man who resembles both sean connery and leonard so step forward jean who captures perfectly the connery sneer that masquerades as a smile plus the self delusion of thinking he is suave plays it like a clouseau who can hold his own at karate the plot has him looking for our man in who has disappeared mysteriously and includes such improbabilities as a nazi cell concealed inside a pyramid if there is a jarring note it is the leading lady who has all the sensuality of a suet pudding and is eclipsed but only just by it's good for one viewing but that's about it
1	it's a deeply stupid humor but i loved it jean is a great actor in this movie is cute it makes fun of all the secret agents like james bond refreshing it's probably the most hilarious movie i've ever seen i already saw it three times and i still want to see it again buy the dvd as soon as you can you won't regret it it's the kind of movie in which you don't need to have a great scenario because it's a parody the only defect is that oss 117 is too short it's a jewel it's not really frequent to see a french movie get success in the usa but i think that this one has everything to succeed trust me
1	pretty amusing spoof with great attention to detail re the look of the 1960s spy films and the way the action was staged back then the fight sequence in the hotel room was a hoot and the casting was perfect with a peter lorre lookalike added to the mix of villains a big plus jean is hot and the scene in which he is tied up without a shirt was a highlight plus his eyebrows deserve some sort of recognition for doing a great job br br funny aside the people behind me in the theater kept gasping after every plot twist as if they were watching a 'real' spy thriller br br before the movie started a trailer for get smart was screened the preview made the movie look embarrassingly bad with lame attempts to incorporate the jokes and gags from the tv series looks like a bomb and quite a contrast to the comparatively sublime jokes and gags of oss 117 though of course oss had its share of misfires the overall tone of oss however was not an insult to the audience's intelligence and the material didn't feel as it had been 'dumbed down ' i did get the distinct impression that if i understood the language i would have caught more of the jokes and one in particular the pistol gag was mishandled in the interpretation for the subtitles
1	fans of the pink panther naked gun or get smart will certainly enjoy this farce that won one césar and was nominated for four more br br jean is agent oss 117 a man who wouldn't know a clue if it hit him upside the head he is also a reflection of the colonialist attitude indicative of the west br br all of the russian spies nazis and muslim radicals around him are just as stupid but there is and the princess to keep things interesting br br oss uncanny ability to pick up languages play musical instruments the first time he picks them up and sing like a native are all more impressive than bond's tricks but he is still stupid
1	the two new oss 117 movies has a kind of humor which is both intelligent and dumbed down at the same time which i find extremely amusing it really reminds me of the classic pink panther movies with an almost as good leading man as peter sellers in jean and unlike steve martin completely ruining clouseau is quite brilliant br br the comments regarding the movies' being anti semitic are obviously a case of a complete lack of humor and therefor understanding br br whether you will enjoy or hate this movie really comes down to what kind of humor you have i can't wait for the sequel
1	saw the move while in paris in may 2006 i was debating between that and mission impossible i am very glad i choose oss 117 not only because it was funny but might as well watch a french movie while in france i had a great time would recommend it it is important to have some understanding the french society of today to really enjoy the humor of this movie cannot wait for the dvd to come out i don't know how some of the de would be translated in english i certainly buy it when it is out p s i saw on de nice' which is a movie starring that all kids were talking about in france this movie is a comedy but sillier than one can imagine in comparing both movies i have to say that did a good job in oss 117
1	a bunch of full length movies featuring the muppets created by jim henson co have been made but the muppet movie was the first one of them all and the first in the original trilogy which also features the great muppet caper and the muppets take manhattan it was released seven years before i was born so i obviously didn't get to see it at the time nor did i get to see its two successors when they were first released however i saw a lot of the muppets during my childhood mostly after henson's premature death in 1990 i finally got around to seeing this movie for the first time around the mid nineties after hearing the soundtrack unsurprisingly i liked it at the time and revisiting it in recent years hasn't exactly been disappointing br br one day while kermit the frog sits in a swamp with his banjo after singing rainbow connection a hollywood agent named bernie comes by in a boat and urges him to pursue a career in tinseltown kermit takes his advice and goes west he soon meets fozzie bear an unsuccessful stand up comedian in a restaurant and convinces him to come along the frog is also noticed by doc hopper the owner of a frog leg restaurant chain who wants kermit to be his mascot as a frog kermit is disgusted by this so he refuses and leaves with fozzie on their road trip across the country kermit and fozzie meet other muppets who join them including miss piggy who soon becomes kermit's love interest and gonzo unfortunately as they all try to make their way to hollywood doc hopper assisted by max is willing to do anything to force kermit to become his restaurant mascot so kermit finds himself in increasing danger br br one thing many people praise this film for is the songs and i can understand why there is of course the oscar nominated rainbow connection at the beginning and more good tunes follow such as kermit and catchy road song movin' right along and i'm going to go back there someday a poignant ballad sung by gonzo never before never again the song miss piggy sings when she first sees kermit is the only one i would consider rather weak and their romance seems awfully sudden the muppets in this movie are generally lovable just like they are on tv and some of them provide a lot of the humour including fozzie making his first appearance in the film hopelessly trying to entertain people in a restaurant with his stand up and well if you're familiar with these famous muppets you should know what to expect from each of them some of the live actors who appear briefly in the film can also be funny such as dom deluise as bernie the agent and steve martin as the insolent waiter also it's not 100 comedy there are serious parts of the film which they also did well br br watching this original muppet movie again this year was my first time watching any of them since seeing muppets from space one of the muppet movies made after henson's death released in 1999 for the first time last year i was very disappointed when i saw that film which had never happened before when i watched any film or tv show featuring the popular puppet characters not only is that movie not very funny i also think it's a tad too dark and cruel for the muppets as i stated in my review of it however i can't say i think the same of any of that movie's predecessors including this one released twenty years earlier the muppet movie seems to be the most popular of the bunch and since it has so much to like not just for kids that's understandable i highly doubt there's much left to say about the muppet movie that hasn't been said at some point in the past thirty years but today it remains good family entertainment
1	this is the latest entry in the long series of films with the french agent o s s 117 the french answer to james bond the series was launched in the early 1950's and spawned at least eight films none of which was ever released in the u s 'o s s 117 cairo nest of spies' is a breezy little comedy that should not repeat not be taken too seriously our protagonist finds himself in the middle of a spy chase in egypt with doing stand in for egypt to find out about a long lost friend what follows is the standard james bond inspector kind of antics although our man is something of an overt xenophobe sexist it's treated as pure farce as i said don't take it too seriously although there is a bit of rough language cartoon violence it's basically okay for older kids ages 12 up as previously stated in the subject line just sit back pass the popcorn just enjoy
1	i loved this film and recommend it to anyone who like a good spy spoof and who thought johnny english was an embarrassment this is the film je should have been but it's based on an old french films series so it's not really bond related br br the production is brilliant you'll almost believe the film was shot back in the 60's it even has that same pastel kind of colouring films had in those days jean plays his part with just the right amount of dumbness and naivety not with ham fisted pantomime silliness like rowan atkinson and even if you don't like the film you will want to see it for ooh la la she is the hotness
1	oss 117 was fun from start to finish br br it's difficult to define why one film touches or connects with you or not and i won't try to analyze such perfect comedy so politically incorrect that even academic papers should be dedicated to it br br everything is old fashioned here from women's clothes sigh mambo dance the hero singing bambino sounds like an italian sung in arabic br br hubert is physically imposing but dumb as hell from all the he looks like sean connery but is definitely more because he's silly speaks his mind all the time giggles even has some homoerotic fantasies and there are rumours about him in short as an anti hero he rocks sometimes he only raises his eyebrows or frowns and that's all it takes to make you laugh br br is the true queen of the film graceful treacherous but with ideals to the contrary is reduced to a femme fatale of sorts it's surprising to see her that sexy bomb thou br br you just can't compare it with austin powers i agree with amazon's d hartley seattle wa on it being respectful to the genre br br which is your favourite scene one of my favourite scenes is the fight of the chickens with the masked villain but the truly perfect one is when chatting at the cocktail with his contacts how they all mutter platitudes with confidence this scene alone makes the comedy genre worthwhile
1	jean gets connery's mannerisms down pat the adjusting the cuff links when entering a club as all the women turn to admire him the nonchalant straightening and down of the tie the swaggering steely gait it's uncanny and you come to realise just how much of bond in the sixties was connery's creation and not really ian fleming's character br br the cinematography is a nod to those early films the movie takes off from russia with love and thunderball mainly the main joke is how chauvinistic the hero is not just in terms of sexism but nationalism and colonialism and how he puts noses out of joint when he is sent to egypt br br it's not perfect about 20 mins in it seems a one joke movie and bits of it remind one of spoofs of the day of which there were plenty and wise's the intelligence men had suspect looking men in following their heroes around too and that's going back a bit unlike sellers' clouseau or baron cohen's borat doesn't give his character that layer of realness or genuine pathos he is too busy perfecting his connery mannerisms it doesn't do enough with the credits or a big song and there's no funny or serious villain like mike myers' dr evil or ricardo naked gun nemesis for the hero to go up against br br but the scene where wakes up in cairo one morning had me laughing out loud in the three quarters empty cinema and the whole thing looks wonderful plus you'll never get a chance to see operation kid brother on the screen and the women are ace crumpet really hot it's a bond spoof without falling into the mad scientist ken adam sets or funny gadgets routine throughly recommended
1	as a french i found it very pleasant to be able to laugh at the old stereotype which is made of french like that at some defaults of westerners at spy movies etc and at a lot of other things too en route i already saw it 3 times and each time i discovered new things and laughed to tears jean the director and all the cast all the crew did a fantastic job this movie is funny but is although much more than that it's got plenty of levels to it you laugh because of simple gags because of some critics made with wit the movie's courageous enough to be critical because of physical comedy because you believe in the characters etc esthetically and musically it's a success too go see it if you can
1	that's how i'd sum it up there were other who said naked gun meets james bond i think mine is more accurate but i'm not neutral on that point o br br this movie is kind of a blast from the past it reminds you of the old movies from the '50s '60s and that's not only because it plays in that time period 1955 to be exact with the flashback exception but it's the mood the movie is made in and it shows on screen the main actor here who is as i've been told very popular in his homeland france is perfect in his role here he's the spy with the number 117 attached to him there is one character who sums him up in the movie by asking a question about if he's good or not you'll see when you watch the movie br br very funny indeed this is and if you like your spies mixed with comedy with old school flair but not taking itself or anything else for that matter seriously than you need to watch this o
1	i recently saw this at the 2007 palm springs international film festival where it ended up as one of the audience favorites this is a spoof on the french cottage industry of oss 117 films of the 50's and 60's the first oss 117 film based on the novel by jean bruce was brought to the screen in 1956 long before the first james bond film staring ivan desny as hubert de la bath and six subsequent action adventure spy films were made up to 1970 with luc frederick stafford kerwin matthews and john all taking turns as oss 117 jean is in the title role in this comedic take on the series as the film begins set in 1945 he has a french mustache and resembles desny but as the film begins it's setting of 1955 he really looks like sean connery jean françois wrote this hilarious screenplay of a spy sent to egypt to investigate the murder of a friend it borrows on the silliness of naked gun get smart and the pink panther and uses fresh humor on current events in a delightful combination that international audiences will enjoy and i am sure this will be the only the first of more to come of a revived oss 117 reworked to comedy adventures michel directs i would give this a 7 5 and recommend it
1	i just saw this film last night and i have to say that i loved every minute if taken in the spirit of a parody of bond esquire films it's truly superior the true comedy of the film is in its blatant disregard for political correctness the misogyny cultural insensitivity and almost laughable macho ism of the films of this genre are used for major comic effect it also calls the illogic and formulaic elements to task with agent oss 117 constantly learning difficult things insanely quick such as arabic and how to play a traditional instrument while missing some pathetically obvious clues some of the lines from the film left me laughing for hours after the movie was finished and i have to say i have learned some interesting french vocabulary that would probably have my professors quite exasperated with me were i to use all in all i thought this film excellent intensely funny and the first film i've ever seen that truly parodies all aspects of the spy film
1	seems like m is back the man behind la comes back with a really fun and clever sequel to those old fashioned oss 117 whereas directors tend to over actualize sequels of old classics remember the avengers chose to work on a really cheap hero oss 117 a kind of low budget french 007 and decides to do it in a old school way the photography the body attitudes the fights choreography and the fx everything is like an homage to the way films were made back in the 50s and it works as the tone and jokes of the movie are really good jean embodies perfectly this stupid arrogant macho selfish french spy lost in a country he understands only in terms of folklore and inferiority yes that's it just the way the occident uses to consider its colonies back then and oh no i won't say it has anything to do with what happens nowadays in the very same area ah ah he just looks like an unfrozen lino ventura with something like 40 pounds less which is perfect for the role the other members of the cast fit perfectly as well with all you can dream of russian spies egyptian and former nazis and of course the women as there has to be femmes fatales in any good spy movies the plot is good maybe not brilliant but really good enough taking place between actual historical facts and remembering us in a funny way how france and the others treated its colonies back in those days it all starts in 1955 with a british spy disappearing while tracking a russian cargo full of weapons in then france sends his best friend agent oss 117 to discover what happened to both the shipment and the agent the fact is that this agent is really as dumb as can be and he slips through the story without even understanding it solving it in a very clouseau esquire way i have to say i had a bad feeling about the movie as the publicity made around it was quite frightening and as french humor tends to be quite populist and flat forget about les 3 or camping but i was really surprised and in the good way i highly recommend it whether you want a good parody of bond esquire movies much more fun than in d e b s for example but less skirts or you're a fan of that genuine and candid way of filming they had back in the yes that's it clever and really funny you've got the point once again mr
1	just saw the movie it's actually pretty good the left me an impression of either yet another one man show turned film à la brice de nice or an expensive stupid french comedy surprisingly it's neither secret agent oss 117 is stupid but at least he sort of knows it whereas i've always found that james bond was stupid but acted like a smart arse dialogue is witty with a lot of tongue in cheek humour that one would expect from a british rather than a french movie the women and the music are beautiful a refreshing trip into the past when the bad guys were ex nazis or soviet brutes cars were shiny and france had colonies
1	i have always loved the muppets though most children's entertainment then wasn't that likable the muppet's was the muppet's are very very funny they are probably the most likable children's characters ever br br not only did the muppets have their own show they also have starred in many films from the muppet's christmas carol to the muppet's treasure island the first muppet's movie the muppet movie was also like the show and the other films excellent br br the muppet movie is about how they all got started kermit the frog used to live in a swamp until one day a movie executive tells him that there are auditions for frogs in hollywood so kermit takes off for hollywood along the way he runs into lots of people such as fozzie bear gonzo the great and miss piggy also an evil man is trying to capture kermit br br all of the muppet films are highly enjoyable i mean they are all very funny this film has many film appearances such as steve martin mel brooks elliot gould carol kane richard pryor and orson welles the muppet films are all very enjoyable i hear that jason segel is going to star in one soon i can't wait to see it
1	this is probably one of the best french movies i had seen in a very long time this pastiche or parody of spy movies is very well made and is going to make you laugh from the beginning to the end some references to today's world are very subtle the whole context of the movie is to be understood in light of today's french culture environment that said all the jokes and seemingly shocking remarks that could have been understood as such because of this context are permitted and accepted because this is a parody br br i was told by my sisters who had already seen this movie that i should go too and assured me that i was going to have a great time and indeed i had if you liked the old 007 movies with sean connery and also like movies like airplane or hot shots you will be delighted i just hope this movie is released on dvd in the us wait and see
1	excellent exercise on multiple plans br br showing the not yet ended colonialism spirit in france br br more generally the boring mindset of superiority from all western people br br a renewal of the spy and thriller movies oss 117 is uncultured and stupid br br the good idea is that in spite of all these messages it is a funny film plenty of jokes and gags very light and sparkling br br special mention to jean and br br definitely worth seeing wonder how it will be appreciated in us br br seems to be a success in france so probably a next version will come
1	one of earliest films made in france is possibly his only political satire the story of the frogs who wanted a king mirrors its title as a group of high feel that democracy has gone flat so they demand a king from jupiter to rule their land when he sends down a stump the frogs ask for another king saying the stump is but political timber jupiter sends down a hungry stork this time whose frog lusty eyes devour the town's residents as the original is about to slide down the beak he speaks his moral let well enough alone this film features a few beautiful crowd scenes of dozens of puppet frogs starewicz tricks the audience into believing they are all moving at once by keeping the background in constant motion and animating only about six frogs or so at one time the slightly corny dialogue and problems with lighting in a few places diminish the quality of repeat viewings however its historical significance in starewicz's life make it of importance to watch his feelings towards government immediately following his flee from russia are likely expressed in this film in addition the technical accomplishments of animating so many characters at once in a stop motion film is astounding
1	wladyslaw starewicz was a russian born animator living in france who did incredible things using stop motion i've seen a couple of these films before and they feature his favorite subjects insects frogs and various animals they are extremely realistic and lifelike and even today are amazing to watch the quality is simply fantastic br br this one stars lots and lots of frogs they appeal to their god jupiter to give them a king why do they need a king wonders jupiter their lives are perfectly fine now so to teach them a nasty lesson he makes an the king and one by one it starts eating its subjects then the frogs once again appeal to jupiter who states the obvious moral that it's best to be happy with what you have br br while the animation quality is incredible this is a very creepy film for kids i would think this would terrify them both by how real the animals look as well as the story itself which is not for the faint of heart
1	the frogs who wanted a king or frogland is ladislaw starewicz's most cautionary tale about people wanting government to solve their problems that i've ever seen the ironic thing is that they pray to the god jupiter for their answers jupiter responds first by sending a tree stump and then a stork neither works out and the stork is especially dangerous to the creatures the frogs have some human qualities when we see them dress in the latest fashions of the day and we see some take pictures or use a movie camera when the stork arrives like i said this short is very much a political allegory more suitable for adults than children in fact i first saw this on the rhino vhs that had bambi meets godzilla that alone should tell you what to expect here
1	many animation buffs consider wladyslaw starewicz the great forgotten genius of one special branch of the art puppet animation which he invented almost single handedly and as it happened almost accidentally as a young man starewicz was more interested in entomology than the cinema but his unsuccessful attempt to film two stag beetles fighting led to an unexpected breakthrough in film making when he realized he could simulate movement by manipulating beetle carcasses and photographing them one frame at a time this discovery led to the production of amazingly elaborate classic short the cameraman's revenge which he made in russia in 1912 at a time when motion picture animation of all sorts was in its infancy br br the political tumult of the russian revolution caused starewicz to move to paris where one of his first productions coincidentally was a dark political satire variously known as frogland or the frogs who wanted a king a strain of black comedy can be found in almost all of films but here it is very dark indeed aimed more at grown ups who can appreciate the satirical aspects than children who would most likely find the climax upsetting i'm middle aged and found it pretty upsetting myself and indeed prints of the film intended for english speaking viewers of the 1920s were given title cards filled with puns and quips in order to help soften the sharp sting of the finale br br our tale is set in a swamp the frogland commonwealth where the citizens are unhappy with their government and have called a special session to see what they can do to improve matters they decide to beseech jupiter for a king the crowds are impressively animated in this opening sequence it couldn't have been easy to make so many frog puppets look alive simultaneously while jupiter for his part is depicted as a droll white bearded guy in the clouds who looks like he'd rather be taking a nap when jupiter sends them a tree like god who regards them the frogs decide that this is no improvement and demand a different king irritated jupiter sends them a stork br br delighted with this formidable looking new king who towers above them the frogs welcome him with a delegation of formally dressed dignitaries the mayor steps forward to hand him the key to the commonwealth as newsreel cameras record the event to everyone's horror the stork promptly eats the mayor and then goes on a merry rampage swallowing citizens at random a title card dryly reads news of the king's appetite throughout the kingdom when the now terrified frogs once more beseech jupiter for help he loses his temper and showers their community with lightning bolts the moral of our story delivered by a hapless frog just before he is eaten is let well enough alone br br considering the time period when this startling little film was made and considering the fact that it was made by a russian émigré at the height of that beleaguered country's civil war it would be easy to see this as a parable about those events starewicz may or may not have had russia's turmoil in mind when he made frogland but whatever prompted his choice of material the film stands as a cautionary tale of universal application frogland could be the soviet union italy germany or japan in the 1930s or any country of any era that lets its guard down and is overwhelmed by tyranny it's a fascinating film even a charming one in its macabre way but its message is no joke
1	the ascent is a very worthwhile addition to recent re releases from the soviet union director 1977 film examines the moral ramifications of allegiance and honor in german occupied russia during the second world war on foot and in a blizzard two members of a partisan soviet group leave to locate supplies and are captured by nazi soldiers the focus of the movie is on how each man handles or internalizes his moral alternatives one chooses dignity and integrity while the other opts for collaboration with the enemy however in the end he cannot abide by his selfish decision the film makes much use of slow wide angle pans which shift to extreme closeups and highlight the spiritual quandary within the souls of each man this is not a great film but it does effectively portray an intense moral dilemma against the backdrop of a harsh and frigid soviet wilderness
1	i missed the beginning of the film i came in when the were in the farm house i can truthfully say that it was horrifying the moral ramifications are staggering br br my fear of pain and torture leave me unable to see myself other than cowardly i see the christ like ability that was depicted by the brave patriot and i can only pray that i could or would have the moral to follow his example br br i see that a main theme of the film is to show the weakness strength of the tortured but what a dismal decision to have to be confronted with all because the soul of man can be distorted in such a way that pain and suffering being brought to bear on a fellow human being is in some way satisfying be it mental or physical br br i found the film very thought provoking
1	during world war ii two soviet russian soldiers try to avoid being captured by occupying nazis as they trudge through snowy terrain searching for food and safety if you happen not to like black and white foreign films you may still enjoy in english the ascent director paces the film extraordinarily well despite its being a largely introspective piece of work her untimely death in a car accident made this ms final film unfortunately br br after the opening mission is declared there doesn't seem to be much that could happen in the snowy woods but and a changing setting make it unexpectedly exciting leading players vladimir as the spiritually wounded and boris as the physically wounded successfully avoid being crushed by the ever increasing symbolism their allegorical performances under sharp direction provide a memorable and thought provoking take on a familiar story br br 4 2 77 vladimir boris lyudmila
1	reading the comments i am struck by the obvious effect this wonderful film has on viewers but how can you watch this movie and not reflect that the artful dialog was a subtle and oh so daring rebuke to the authorities in control in what was then the ussr at that moment in history it wasn't the souls only in the time and place of the action being revealed the questions superficially asked are nakedly provocative when directed to the here and now who are the real collaborators i marvel that the writer stayed out of prison i read somewhere that great stress can be a catalyst for producing great art this film is a masterpiece of misdirection apparently pointing one way while asking the audience to look over my shoulder at what i'm really talking about what courage
1	i have not seen this movie since 1979 when i was a teenager i grew up with the sesame street muppets and later realized how much effort and time went into bringing these characters to life jim was a genius and master when i watched this movie the other day it took me back in time when i was younger and things seemed so much simpler for this bit of time travel i rate this movie a 10 br br the plot line explores how kermit goes from the swamp to hollywood the laughs and gags are classic i am glad these films are still around for the next generation i hope i never out grow the magic of the muppets
1	it comes as no surprise that was married to elem who would later direct the most harrowing war film ever made 'come and see 1985 ' 'the ascent 1977 ' – final completed film before a premature death – is built in very much the same mould set during wwii the film follows a pair of soviet partisans who try to secure food for their starving army while evading the occupying german forces the first forty minutes are agonisingly tense as the two men drag themselves though the harsh snow covered landscape the world around them completely sapped of life warmth and colour indeed so monotonously drab is the scenery that it literally took me this long to realise that the film was shot in black and white br br following the capture by german soldiers the film becomes a cold meditation on loyalty and morality whereas boris refuses to betray his army even under extreme duress the less resolute vladimir attempts to save himself is he wrong to do so betrayal is disheartening but the film doesn't immediately condemn his actions are treacherous instead the viewer is forced to consider what their own response might be in such a situation pities as the bible pities judas both men betrayed their allies to the enemy and were forced to watch them executed however whereas judas committed suicide by hanging at least according to gospel of matthew finds even that option closed to him – in an excruciatingly taut climax the belt around his neck becomes unfastened br br 'the draws its emotional power from astonishing pursuit of realism i have no doubt that the two principal actors spent days on end across the snow covered earth on their hands and knees and indeed so convincing is their misery that i actually developed a cold while watching the film seriously i did interestingly the film on this reality on several occasions as imagines himself making a bid for freedom and then being gunned down by his german captors this device though unusual works well with its biblical allegory is facing a trial of his worthiness and faced with a new dilemma at every turn he consistently chooses the selfish alternative his own life the only deciding criteria at film's end he is still alive but the nightmare of war and guilt persists
1	if you have a chance see this russian how should i call them gems masterpieces hidden treasures war movies like this one or the dawns here are quiet or na and right after that watch again the american war movies or the international productions those one with the allies and the germans etc or even worse watch the italian war movies everything from the west will seem shallow contrived ridiculous in comparison with the russian movies i am sooooo stunned by the quality of the aforementioned russian war movies that i cannot find the words to praise enough their shattering superiority over anglo saxon war movies
1	fantastic russian wwii movie like most russian wwii movies the ascent is incredibly harrowing it's also dense in its symbolism the story follows two partisans and boris and vladimir who go on a mission to search for food on their trip they are spotted by german soldiers who wound in turn kills one of the germans which leads to trouble for the two partisans and everyone else they later run into the greatest success of the film is its vivid sense of place russia is frozen and snowy and it's hard not to feel that cold go straight to your own bones keeps her shot close to the characters examining every of their faces it was probably not the choice but the film is framed 1 33 1 which gives the film a sense of claustrophobia while the entire film is quite an achievement i did feel that the first half was stronger than the second my main complaint about the movie is that it develops into a very unsubtle christian allegory by its climax i just don't think the symbolism adds much to the proceedings especially when i was already intrigued by the debate between the two partisans it's not quite fair i was weighing the pros and cons of their argument i began to lean toward the point of view of a certain character and then the director pops up and tells me that he's judas despite some heavy handedness this is still a must see
1	i agree with another reviewer this is such a shattering film that will be tough to watch again soon though for quality alone it deserves repeated viewing the complexity of the characters the incredible cinematography and superb direction make this movie worth the emotional price of watching br br there is one scene of the two partisans dragging themselves through the snow to escape a patrol that's perhaps for sheer physicality the most amazing performance i've ever seen in fact though not episodic the story flows this is a movie of memorable scenes there's the passing of rations amongst the partisans the snow scenes the ruined farm scene the encounters in the houses the interrogation the basement scene the ascent all stand out like jewels in a necklace br br for me the religiosity isn't overt frankly i don't think it would have been permitted in a soviet film i do see this as an existential parable about the value of life here is a tale where the hero and he is a true hero becomes the villain and the weaker one becomes the stronger one is this a mystical process or one dictated by circumstances there is a but does it come from within or without you must see the movie to understand the issues for they can't be discussed without giving away too much of the story i can't say enough about the acting it's hard for me to choose which of the leads is more affecting i'm not familiar with soviet film of the 70s and am not familiar with any of the actors but they are all superb i also note how director uses children they remind me of child angels br br there is a little muddling in the end there is apparently a prior relationship between the soldier and the interrogator but this is left dangling and the final scene is a bit ambiguous but compared to the total experience these are quibbles this is a movie that will mark you for life
1	the ascent 1977 br br is a name very few are familiar with her bright career as a director only lasted a single decade ended abruptly by a tragic car accident despite her short career she however managed to create some of the best soviet films of her time her last film the ascent is widely regarded as one of the finest soviet films of the 1970s nevertheless her work remained in obscurity throughout the years that followed usually only available on rare and poor copies on video that has now changed thanks to the folks at criterion they've released two of best works through their eclipse department wings and her penultimate masterpiece the ascent br br set during the darkest days of wwii in snowy rural russia two partisans trudge their way across the land in search of food after their party is attacked by nazi patrols they're originally only to go to a nearby farm but when they arrive they find it razed by the germans not wanting to return empty handed they continue on deeper into enemy territory along the way they must confront not only enemy soldiers but the harsh conditions of the russian plains potential betrayal and their own souls br br the movie does not fall into simplistic plot devices or destinations it addresses difficult questions with painful rationality it never takes the easy road or gives us comforting answers the second half of the film is filled with moral dilemmas shows us the intimate horrors of war through the internal conflict between fellow russians those who collaborated and those who fought back while she does show the collaborators as the clear heels she nevertheless also shows why many turned to such tactics survival br br the film contains a number of religious references particularly to the lead up to the crucifixion this is a spiritual journey into the hearts souls and minds of the two partisans and those they encounter and her cinematographer capture the journey in beautiful black and white photography the camera moves in long shots similar to the camera work of another of russia's greatest filmmakers andrei tarkovsky like many others was clearly influenced by tarkovsky's style and the ascent takes some of its rhythmic notes from childhood it is a stunning film to look at and does a fantastic job of capturing the cold and terrifying atmosphere of occupied russia br br husband would pay homage to her great film a decade later elem made his own war masterpiece with one of the greatest films i've ever seen come and see the story and themes of that film were clearly influenced by the ascent though that film is also a fairly obscure one it received far more attention that any of films that however acted as a bridge to and has been one of the best helps to keeping her work alive br br the ascent is a truly magnificent film and rightly should be considered one of the best films of the 70s it's stunning cinematography is inspiring its mood is frighteningly authentic and its lessons are unforgettable it is in any definition of the word nothing less than a masterpiece how unfortunate that career was cut short just as it was hitting its peak
1	this greatest movie gives us clue to the depth of our souls in most deadly moments of our lives my heart is shrinking every time i saw the scene of hanging i have no words any you must see this brilliant picture
1	i saw this film many years ago along with another of films wings as part of a soviet film series at a local film archive but none of films as far as i can tell have ever made it to video or dvd in the united states ascent is a great film by any standard with stunning black and white photography hypnotic direction and actors so deep into their roles that you have no sense of them merely giving a performance although the period details of russian resistance to and collaboration with german occupation are very telling the story is timeless two russian partisans are captured by the germans and the interrogation tests their integrity as well as their courage i suspect the reason why it has not been released on dvd by the russians here comes the spoiler is that the jewish intellectual and not the tough russian peasant is the partisan who resists both threats and temptation goes serenely to his death and sets an heroic example for the villagers
1	even if was your favorite film it would only be possible to watch it at most every ten years its just too emotionally strenuous widely regarded as finest film the ascent is the story of partisans operating in the forest in the dead of winter in german occupied soviet union br br while assaulting the audience with the sheer physicality of the wartime experience particularly the of cold and snow the actual struggle for survival against both nature and the fascists there is always a subtle barely inferred sub text of moral judgment and the question about whether a man can be moral or immoral in one context but otherwise in another br br a partisan group hiding in the woods is attacked by a german patrol and loses their food supplies two men who knows the area and a jewish schoolteacher are assigned the task of going to a small village for food they find the village burnt to the ground with nothing edible and nothing more than charred timbers and foundations in which in one cubby hole there's a children's mirror hidden the overwhelming feeling is that whoever brings the brutality of war to a land and a people become truly cursed i thought of the war that the americans and british brought to iraq and about how bringing the horrors of war to people is the act of a degenerate nation br br the two move on to a nearby larger village where they obtain under duress a lamb from the collaborator the arrive and the two partisans escape under fire is hit in his foot and holds off the as gets away with the lamb becomes so desperate that prepared not to be taken alive he removes his boot in order to put a bullet into his head just then returns and drags out of the line of fire br br drags through the forest bloody meter by meter all done in one long take each meter is an agony and yet he still pulls him through deep snow up across over black bush stumps which crack as they snap under the weight of the men there are several similarities to the cinematic vocabulary of here the long takes documenting a process the effect of using repetition and the resulting emotional stress which builds the longer the shot goes on in the background unnoticed because of the action there hangs a question did commit an immoral act by going back for whether under the moral standards of marxist or merely the common imperative of the survival of the group wasn't his duty to get the food back to his starving band and leave to cover his escape to sacrifice one man in order for the group to survive which leads to the question can a man who is immoral under one philosophical system be expected to be moral under a different moral system the partisans come as if another curse of war to a farm house containing a woman with three small children she is embittered by the scourge of war and barely hanging on with her three children they are barely rested when more germans show up they make their way to leave and are directed to the loft to hide br br cough gives them away when a german pops his head in to have a look and no one responds he threatens to fire across the loft and nerves break and they are captured now who has the moral responsibility here for coughing or for cracking the two partisans and the mother are trussed up and taken to a nearby town passing ominously under a wrought iron arch at the entrance they find the and a small girl already in custody they are interrogated by a turncoat played by favorite keeps his head during interrogation and torture and only asks what the prewar profession was he doesn't answer but from his ease standing behind a desk the likely answer was br br on the other hand begs for his life and even offers to join the police the previously unnoticed character defect making a 'wrong' moral decision the ambiguity sentimentality of which disguised it from judgment now becomes obvious unsettling and very ugly br br the five sit in a dark cell they are all scheduled to die the next day from here the elements of a christian parable become stronger genuine rembrandt lighting and compositions are used as other old master poses of christ are represented he decides he can save everyone if he takes on the guilt for everyone he must be kept alive until morning so he can save everyone he asks the mother for forgiveness and the knowing what is taking place doesn't feel such despair at dying uselessly as he did before br br morning comes the germans don't care if takes on all of the sins of his companions or not they will all be hung they trudge up a inclined street which is a virtual via a bench is taken up to the site of execution which is the gateway to the town five ropes hang from it the bench only stands three so stands on a tree stump which kicks out from under him they all are hung br br as descend the road with the germans someone in the crowd calls him a judas an unnecessary allusion only misstep imagines several times being shot in the back trying to escape dying an honorable death and tries unsuccessfully to hang himself in the but leaves with the germans as the beaten dog he is however if was morally right to go back and save life is he wrong to try to save his own life
1	having just seen this i find it hard to believe that it is not better known this and the slightly better known but almost as shamefully neglected come and see 1986 must be two of the greatest war films they are meaningful powerful incisive the ascent is also gifted with a sparingly used but brilliantly trenchant score by
1	is the wife of russian filmmaker elem who directed the more commercially known 1984 film come and see generally regarded as one of the most realistic war films ever bar none notable for its searing poetic intensity but i believe it lacks the inner complexity of this even greater russian film which examines not just the graphic outer horrors but she finds truly inspiring images focusing on individuals or small groups of characters that reflect the absolute insanity taking place inside these human beings the ending of which is simply awe inspiring bullets are flying and bodies are dying in a gun skirmish over the opening credits where the intensity of the film never lets up throughout the duration focusing on grim faces worn out soldiers with next to nothing to eat a terrified population under occupation starving children with petrified mothers all cast in an immense landscape of endless white snow like cranes are flying 1957 this features a russian army in retreat a traumatizing shock early in the war when they were nearly wiped out the russian countryside has been overrun by german nazi's who are terrorizing the citizens stealing what food they have forcing them under duress to become their informant eyes and ears what russian soldiers are left hide under cover of forests but are forced to send food to neighboring farms this film follows two soldiers that from the outset are on a near impossible mission as there's little food left anywhere in the dead of winter one is healthy and fit vladimir as while the other boris as is slowed down by a tubercular sounding cough and eventually a bullet in his leg that nearly leaves him for dead but his partner heroically rescues him as they step through knee deep snow drifts crawling at some points with insufficient protection against the harsh elements like so many other russian films nature itself becomes their toughest foe br br spoilers everything is reduced to a matter of survival when they reach their destination the farm has been demolished and left in a state of rubble pushing forward into german occupied territory where the next farm is manned by an elderly soviet collaborator who fears nazi retribution the partisan soldiers think him a coward but move on where they are eventually captured and brought to a nazi camp in a nearby town and held as prisoners along with a proud and protective mother lyudmila who helped hide them tarkovsky stalwart appears as the interrogator a russian teacher from a nearby academy turned nazi sympathizer russians torturing and executing fellow russians is the depth of war depravity and is brilliant in the despicable role he's perfectly suited for from what we can see as nazi officers chat in close proximity to one another he is an outsider even among this group seen instead as a kind of gruesome black cloaked undertaker who routinely sends men to their graves the audience is not spared from witnessing acts of torture on who offers nothing but contempt while speaks freely hoping to save his life but both are condemned to die though is offered a chance to serve the german reich as a police agent the mother the elderly collaborator and a child are added to this group spending one last night together alive where together they discuss the merits of a soldier's mission of being a patriot a mother a coward or a collaborator each seems individually driven by a desperate need to survive but offers himself as a selfless example attempting to confess his guilt to spare the others where the aptly chosen title reflects his spiritual redemption br br by the next morning seems mildly amused mocking them at their sudden willingness to talk but spares no one except who changes sides to keep his life in his thoughts that if he's alive at least he has a chance to escape but there is no from this torment what happens is shown with exquisite delicacy and poetic grace as we witness the treachery of war without a single shot being fired as the execution by hanging is turned into a public spectacle where the villagers at the point of a gun are forced to witness the pace and harrowing intensity of this film is relentless as there is never a moment without impending menace gorgeously shot by vladimir who died in the same car accident as featuring perfectly composed landscapes and plenty of camera movement much of it at close range using especially that of a fierce young boy at the end who eyes the condemned men who makes a surreal connection to the next generation without any words being spoken accentuated by the psychologically horrific music of alfred which resembles the transcendent yet furiously disturbing monolith music from kubrick's 2001 a space odyssey 1968 the sound design of this film is highly advanced and uniquely modern where the use of off screen sound continually exposes the raw nerves of each moment dogs barking wind blowing bullets firing nearby nazi's chattering in untranslated german or laughing sadistically at their helplessness which only ratchets up the hideous tension to insane heights in many ways resembling dreyer's the passion of joan of arc 1928 utter insanity is exposed here the relentless realization that you have no choice yet you are forced to make one anyway the nightmarish inner thoughts at the end are expressed where the nobility of the dead speaks volumes where voices continue to reverberate inside the heads of the living like an explosion of neverending echoes yet only silence fills the crisp wintry air with a mournful reverence and a profound sense of loss
1	this film is one of my childhood memories seeing the muppets at the height of their popularity heading hollywood singing and dancing with miss piggy her beloved kermit fozzie bear doing his best as everyone's manager and a generous cast of extras delivering a film that turned out to be okey br br kermit's melancholy ukulele number rainbow connection was nominated for an oscar that year but was beat out by norma it goes like it goes i'll pick kermit's song any day get the kids and enjoy this timeless fantasy someday they'll find it the rainbow connections the lovers the dreamers and me
1	the ascent 1976 is an extraordinary gruelling account of the fight against the nazis in german occupied the ascent reflects the russian obsession with the horrors of the great patriotic war but unusually is both steeped in religious symbolism and ready to acknowledge the existence of the less than great russian collaborator the true battle is not with the nazis who hover in the background as mere extras but between the russian nazi investigator and the captured partisan who finds the spiritual strength to go to his death with its many references to the crucifixion the story takes on heroic proportions glorifying the sufferings of the martyr and his influence on future generations a remarkable piece of work
1	this is one of the very very few films that are so overwhelming that you are very unlikely to watch it more than once or twice in your lifetime other examples are claude documentary shoah and come and see by the director's husband elem which covers much the same unbearable territory but in a very different way br br i suppose this is just as well given the difficulty of ever seeing a print br br apparently it's extraordinarily overt christian symbolism and admission that there were active russian collaborators ensured that it was hardly ever seen in the ussr and of course post soviet russia has very little interest in films of that era br br the one time i saw it in london was in a festival of russian movies shown during the glasnost era i e probably c 1988 however it apparently has been shown several times in the uk more recently so at least one subtitled print must exist here br br as far as i know it has never been released in the west on dvd or video so if you haven't seen it your best chance is probably to join a film society and endlessly nag them to find a print and screen it
1	a stunningly harrowing account of two soldiers plight in wwii set against a freezing backdrop of not only the fight against the nazis and traitors in but the harsh natural elements this film tells a tale of two soldiers of polarized morals one who survives but finds it somewhat impossible to deal with his own circumstances and one who dies having done all that can be done in the face of intimidation and everything possible to break one's spirit in fact the ascendant of the title a film that should be seen by all particularly for the phenomenal performances of the main characters and shuddering set pieces the incarceration and hanging scenes in particular an absolute must see
1	in the of 1942 two soviet soldiers are captured by nazi friendly in captivity the attitude of the two men toward their fate differs greatly one of the soldiers manages to find an inner strength and spirituality incomprehensible to the other man last film is one of the most beautiful war films in cinema history the cinematography by vladimir is incredible particularly in the opening sequence where long slow tracking shots depicting the solitude and almost desperate nature of winter landscape in rural set the mood perfectly it is easy to draw comparison to tarkovsky's films even more so since tarkovsky's alter ego has a small but important part in the ascent the acting is overall brilliant especially by boris in the part of the film reveals an old fashioned belief in the strength of religious passion which feels related to characters such as dostoyevsky's prince or tarkovsky's stalker however this is not a weakness of the film but rather one of its greatest strengths the religious content seems so honest and human that it is impossible not to be moved the emotional richness of the film cannot be overstated the answer is not as simplified as a short summary of the plot would make you think the slow development of the characters and the emphasis on their complicated relationships to each other are somewhat reminiscent of the commissar another great soviet film the ascent deserves a second watching as well as a third and a tenth it continues to provide interesting ideas beautiful images and emotional complexity
1	this is one of my favourite films a delightful comedy so i was thrilled to learn it is about to be released on dvd in the uk september 2007 br br played by daniel auteuil is a rich company president of a dairy firm juliette played by the excellent richard is a cleaner of the company's paris offices juliette a black mother of several children discovers a plot against who initially ignores her attempts to warn him slowly he grasps what this charming lady from the parisian underclass has been trying to tell him 'he seeks shelter in her crowded apartment as his marriage and career fall apart an unlikely love blossoms cultures clash in what is a truly delightful light hearted comedy
1	this movie is a gem it is the story of juliette a perfectly ordinary cleaning woman who works in the large corporate office of a yogurt company and the president of same he takes no notice of her he takes no notice of anyone until several plots to wrest his company away from him all hit at the same time he is lost no one to turn to and no one to trust when he discovers juliette as the cleaning woman no one pays any attention to her so they say and do incriminating things in front of her that she is smart enough to catch on to and use to help her helpless and hapless boss br br i have been keeping an eye out for years for the dvd of this and to see a previous comment about it being released in sep 2007 raised my hopes alas i cannot find a dvd does anyone know if there is was one
1	i would not compare it to le placard which imho had more comic moments but juliette while being a slow starter certainly kept your attention going throughout the film nicely paced and reaching a heart warming conclusion there were many marvellous comedic moments some brilliant pathos and realistic situation acting by all actors br br it was a typically french film in which while confronting prejudices and phobias which in turn the made the viewer confront his own shortcomings i am certainly pleased to have this in my library and will no doubt watch it time and time again which to me is a mark of a great film
1	i was glad that this movie did without all the supposed depth of all too many pseudo serious interracial movies race was one issue yes but so was class and loyalty and honesty etc br br i also loved the idea that the love affair wasn't couched solely in the aspects of either character's appearance aren't our divorce courts on both sides of the atlantic i daresay filled now with enough couples who thought good together ' is all it takes to make a solid marriage in any case the tenderness and sensuality of both characters was thick enough to cut in love scenes that would have brought a rainbow to any dreary day in other words a light hearted movie that's by no means a light weight
1	this is one of the best movies i have seen in a long time the director did a wonderful job showing the contrasts between social classes a situation that is very pertinent in france today all the characters are lovable especially juliette and her family the development of the romance is while not entirely realistic at least plausible and does a wonderful job showing how much people will change for love i found this to be a heart warming cinderella story but one in which cinderella is a powerful woman in and of herself i laughed through this entire film and absolutely loved it i recommend et juliette to anyone who enjoys unique characters comedy and romance
1	i love foreign films and this is among the best i tend to not see this as a comedy as it is listed and find it a commentary on how we see others around us the lead in the film is not regarded must as she is a domestic in a large firm and people say and do things around her all the time that they otherwise would not say in front of others br br this leaves her with a bevy of information that can make or break the mere mortal this actress is wonderful as this character and it is a poignant tale there is an underlying tale and almost many stories within the story in this film i just hope that if someone does decide to make an american english version of this film it is not the vein of three men and a baby that would definitely do a disservice to this film a must see
1	the first feature length muppet movie and excepting maybe the muppet christmas carol the movie the world over are still looking for as a guide disney has done the muppets a dis service and this movie proves it over and over again featuring classic comedians and guest star cameos keeps to a simple but original plot classic muppet lame jokes paul williams genius in song writing and electric mayhem madness and comes off with an amazing movie especially when you realize that the major cast are puppets only croft has come close to genius with puppets half of the fun today is playing is that cameo actor actress still alive i can only hope frank oz and dave goelz and the rest of the surviving muppeteers can somehow rescue and revive kermit and company from the deadly grasp of disney
1	this movie came out about the same time as pretty woman while the general theme is the same wealthy man meets and learns to love a poor working class woman the characters of and juliette are much more lovable and worthy of our time with them i have never forgotten them and consider the movie superior to pretty woman in so many ways juliette is a remarkable woman and the clever ways she helps her boss overcome his problems will make you cheer the final scenes contain some of the most memorable lines in romantic comedy the efforts makes to win the love of juliette surpass the puny climbing scene of pretty woman a hundred times over see this movie it will warm your heart
1	this movie is a hard to find gem it is the story of juliette a perfectly ordinary cleaning woman who works in the large corporate office of a yogurt company and the president of same he takes no notice of her he takes no notice of anyone until several plots to wrest his company away from him all hit at the same time he is lost no one to turn to and no one to trust when he discovers juliette as the cleaning woman no one pays any attention to her so they say and do incriminating things in front of her that she is smart enough to catch on to and use to help her helpless and hapless boss the complications are wild she is not so ordinary as she seems with five children from five different ex husbands who are all still madly in love with her and he is not so shrewd as he thinks he is this movie doesn't follow a predictable path and that's what keeps you watching the acting is superb and there are some very moving moments along the way as well the working class displays more savvy than those above them almost in the same way gosford park showed the upper crust is not all it's cracked up to be mentally i recommend this movie very much see it 9 10
1	et juliette is one of those french romantic comedies where they seem to break all the rules rather like belle pour toi the gorgeous daniel auteuil learns about true loyalty and love when his life threatens to crash around his ears the film isn't a preachy morality tale but a wonderful story that will keep you hooked until the last richard as juliette is a heroine that women will cheer her laughter is my abiding memory of this warm and witty film the down to earth way she has of including all her children by their different fathers particularly the birthdays gives the film an edge that lifts it above your average romantic comedy but its always the french that seem to show us how effortless this all is
1	one of the two best films of the year a well filmed well written well put together film with an outstanding cast lau ching wan and his friends wong chi wa anthony wong sun francis ng chun yu jordan chan siu chun cheung man tat had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances theresa lee plays her comedic role well though much like a female version of michael wong her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes something i haven't done since 1 the fan boys took over alt asian movies and 2 john woo's hardboiled sure the ending was expected but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members highly enjoyable
1	i'm slowly ploughing through as many hong kong action films as i can get my hands on and came across this gem mainly due to ching wan lau who is one of my favourite actors br br its a great action film although not as ott as the title might suggest it moves along at a great pace and is truly enjoyable br br the biggest surprise of this film was the soundtrack it would appear that rob the guy who did the to death' song which was popular in 'the matrix' has lifted the soundtrack from big bullet and compiled it into one of the tracks on his angels' album the tune in question is called 'im not driving anymore' and is also the opening tune for the tv series 'law and order' and the opening track on the reloaded' dvd menu teaser that really surprised me due to the sheer
1	br br this film has some really impressive action scenes the humor and action are blended well though the intensity of the film does not sustain itself till the end the last scene is a slight anti climax in terms of action quality and astonishing of the scenes preceding it the humor doesn't seem to be so ridiculously clumsy as in many other hongkong movies and this film is of totally other class than most american action comedies of recent years lau ching wan acts as a typical intuitive police hero who scoffs at invalid orders from incompetent police superiors the dialectic of the film is built on the superhuman coolness and ruthlessness of the drug gang humiliating the police force while providing a serious dose of lead poisoning with a variety of machine guns leaving plenty of corpses in it's wake yu is especially impressive as an ultra cool merciless gangster in this woo like piece of action where tough guys are truly die hard
1	i guess i have to write something here although i think my one summary says it all i'm not a huge ted danson fan nothing against the man just hasn't done it for me this covers the sides of swift's novel that were never covered before you can tell the cast was having a wonderful time filming this
1	this version of the gulliver stories is definitely bizarre the production adds a frame story that's what it's becoming famous for of gulliver returning to his wife and son in one incredibly overlong and sometimes fails to hold attention throughout but the odd images and diverse cast will keep you looking mary steenburgen does the best job of the cast danson seems a bit out of place with his american accent the whole asylum thing is awfully disturbing often but is nonetheless interesting and holds the journeys of gulliver together well character really does seem insane however he should have worked on being a little more believeable to everyone in my opinion also confusing is going from present to past anyone else think the yahoos are the ugliest things ever to grace a television screen or in line for it confusing sometimes boring but still highlighted by some good acting overall wonderful visual effects and a few enjoyable parts nbc's first of many event films from robert sr see it for yourself to decide how it goes for you however i give it 1 2 out of 5 stars
1	at first i didn't like they way the director was constantly switching from the past gulliver's travels to the present gulliver in the insane asylum but it really is the best way to film the story even though it took some getting used to danson is outstanding as the title character and edward fox makes a wonderful villain worst part is mary steenburgen as gulliver's wife she never has been hollywood gorgeous and in this film they make her look downright dowdy for some reason i'll never understand why directors make a woman ugly when it adds nothing to the story plus you want to strangle her for being so damn stupid in believing the lies bad guy bates keeps telling her even her son can see thru the bastard still a good show and i rate it b
1	swift's socialism and pacifism come through against all odds in this well done remake did you know there is no after well fact he meets warlike miniatures socialist giants head in the clouds literally philosophers and pacifist horses who rule over yahoos nearly neanderthal humanoids is that where yahoo came from we also meet the dastardly dr bates the devoted mary gulliver the sweet and devoted son thomas and the full cast of a truly horrific 19th century lunatic asylum suspension of disbelief comes easily and our 7 and 12 year old girls enjoyed it as much as my husband and i did sorry for the length imdb requires 10 lines
1	who doesn't love the muppets impossible it is to watch them without getting some kind of warm fuzzy feeling inside so i guess what's important is that this movie seemed to very successfully capture what makes the muppets so special i don't remember much about the details of the plot but the various moments and characters in the film i recall quite fondly in fact there was quite a nostalgic atmosphere to the whole movie but without being self conscious in any bad way refreshing for someone who possibly gets too hung up on meticulous details and technique the magic transcends all that other stuff 'tis indeed what movies are made of br br so how does the film achieve these things hmmm nice question stumped am i let's see really i feel like it's quite simple the filmmakers believe in their material and don't take themselves too seriously in the process i probably wouldn't say the film has many truly inspired moments but it does have a certain life to it that funnily enough a great many real people movies lack a zest you really want to believe in these funny little people and their adventures they also have a certain innocence about them that makes them all the more endearing br br generally i get the impression that the people that made the movie just weren't afraid to try whatever felt right to them at the time which gives the whole thing quite a loose feel kind of like a really accessible and enjoyable extended jazz session lots of talent little predictability and plenty of warm personalities coming through the cameos were of course a bunch of nice surprises for instance maybe i don't feel i have much to say about it because i was half asleep when i saw it and or as i write this review anyway i'm sort of semi repeating myself here but i really liked the sense of family the movie had full of love i suppose you might say again a feeling of nostalgia comes to mind which not many films manage to achieve so effectively or effortlessly br br and to repeat myself once more one of the film's best charms is its very relaxed and welcoming atmosphere like the nathaniel hawthorne quote about happiness being like a butterfly so the muppet movie greatly succeeds partially by not seeming to try to do so same with beauty being best undiscovered or untouched or unforced or something like that anyway if that sounds sappy i also reckon it was pretty hilarious br br so all in all this movie was very funny touching and difficult not to smile along to plus it features lots of great music highly recommended to all humans both the young and the young at heart
1	i always felt that ms had never gotten a role fitting her skills familiar to millions as the lt on law and order she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases always in a supporting role hbo's lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna new york a suburb of buffalo br br the story could be set in any major african american community of the 50's and 60's from sweet auburn to new york's harlem but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny's boarding house the story revolves around nanny's relationships with all kinds of people played by some of the best actors in the business i purposely did not say black actors this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black except for jimmy of course i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day
1	i only went to see this movie because i have always liked kevin costner i felt that ashton did a great job in the butterfly effect unfortunately even though these two actors were are capable of good if not great acting moments some of that was missing here some of the scenes were just not believable and didn't have enough story line support br br though the movie claims influence from the hurricane katrina aftermath there was very little none to that effect in the movie br br overall i liked the fact that the movie brought forward some of what goes into saving lives from a water perspective br br the special effects were pretty good and more than a little intimidating not sure i'll ever go deep sea fishing again br br i expected a little more emotion in the film than what was presented br br definitely a movie that could've been seen on dvd
1	gulliver's travels is at the beginning a satiric novel written by a great misanthropist called jonathan swift so it is not recommended to judge of this movie just by itself we must go deeper into man's conscience to get to the point where swift would have lead us gulliver has lived a voyage of truthfulness of solitude of apprehension of what may be his true life we cannot just sit and watch that movie saying it is so cutie or so boring the matter is far beyond that and i would like everyone to expect that this is the greatest movie ever as far as you can feel the truths that emerge from ted character the unforgettable gulliver
1	gulliver ted danson is a doctor who goes missing at sea leaving pregnant wife mary mary steenburgen behind eight years later he turns up disheveled and seemingly mad babbling about his adventures in the lands of the tiny the giant the floating island of the intellectual laputa and the a race of intelligent talking horses who have to deal with the yahoos a race of bestial humans among many other adventures the not so good dr bates james fox who has designs on wife has gulliver incarcerated in a mental institution and mary and son thomas tom must find a way to prove his sanity br br a splendid adaptation of jonathan swift's satirical novel this film is a magnificent adaptation on so many levels the story the satire the characters the visuals the brilliant cast it's simply a treat to watch and it's almost amazing considering that it was a made for tv film br br the film does a brilliant job of capturing swift's vicious satire which cuts like a hatchet through british society of the time but still resonates today the wise and the are almost perfect individuals who find it virtually impossible to understand why gulliver speaks with such pride of the vices and of his society the scenes where gulliver struggles to prove himself different from the yahoos are perhaps the best with biting satire in describing how they pick their leaders they seem to pick the worst among them who rules until they find someone even worse go to war we only go to war for a very good reason such as they are weaker than us or we want all of their land etc the scenes involving laputa are also effectively done the intellectuals are so wrapped up in their specialized fields that they have no time for anything else and really possess little common sense and the addition of the asylum plot line enhances the story greatly dr bates is truly nasty character and when he gives a speech to the inquiry on gulliver's alleged vices it's quite clear that he's describing his own faults br br the film makes use of beautiful and fairly convincing cgi effects depicting the very diverse settings of the novel with great effect the contrast of sizes is done in a very skillful way and all of the worlds depicted in the story are convincing in their own way the cinematography particularly that concerning the asylum and the costumes are brilliantly done the editing of the present with memories is a device which could be awkward but works very well br br the cast is truly wonderful a veritable who's who of british and american talent ted danson gives an excellent multi layered performance as gulliver showing effectively his transformation from a person bewildered by his strange surroundings to the lunatic state he was in when he reappears to his rational intellectual personality at the end most well known for his work on sit com danson shows that he's more than just sam malone with this wonderful serio comic performance mary steenburgen is effective as his wife and james fox is absolutely repulsive as bates the rest of the cast is made up mostly of cameos with peter o'toole omar sharif warwick davis kristin scott thomas geraldine chaplin alfre woodward edward fox and sir john gielgud being the most memorable but even the smallest parts are very well played br br while not 100 faithful to the book gulliver's travels is a triumph of story and images it's not to be missed br br 9 10
1	this was a truly epic production that had all the elements that one would want in a fantasy film the costuming the music the cinematography all artistic elements of this film were absolutely beautiful and provided a rich experience br br ted danson best know for his tv roles in cheers and becker was excellent in the role of gulliver mary steenburgen time after time cross creek performed equally well in her limited role as his wife br br other performances i really enjoyed were james fox as dr bates alfre woodard as the queen of and peter o'toole as the emperor of br br this would make an enjoyable children's film but it also would definitely appeal to adults for it's deep social commentary
1	i remember when this nbc mini series aired when i was in high school after reading the novel i thought i'd check out some adaptations didn't expect much out of a tv mini series but now i might have to check out some more this is actually excellent and the best possible film version that could be made writer simon moore who wrote the teleplay for the original traffic mini series upon which the soderberg film was based came up with a brilliant narrative conceit which helps the story flow very smoothly he frames gulliver's adventures as flashbacks with the actual story beginning as gulliver first returns home everything having happened on one journey gulliver played by ted danson is sort of crazy seeming when his wife mary steenburgen welcomes him back into his home unfortunately the house is now owned by the local doctor james fox who has designs on steenburgen gulliver seems merely disturbed at first but when he starts telling stories of tiny people that's all the evidence fox needs to throw him into an insane asylum all four of gulliver's travels are related in this version in the same order as the novel the only time this has been done on film i love the way his present situation reflects his flashbacks gulliver's small son whom he has never met before reminds him of the the doctors who observe him in his cell from a loom above him and remind him of the and the scientific inquiries remind him of the insane scientific experiments and theories of the and the professors at the academy finally when he is put on trial he is reminded of the and the yahoos the cast of this thing is amazing and includes peter o'toole ned beatty alfre woodard john gielgud kristin scott thomas omar sharif and warwick davis the biggest flaw of the mini series is that the acting is really uneven you have all these fine actors but the lesser characters are often played by actors who were probably fine in episodes of l a law but don't do well in a costume drama ted danson isn't especially great although he has a few sequences where he excels it's probably better that he didn't attempt one but all the other characters of the film speak in an english accent steenburgen is actually pretty good at it and is quite good overall another flaw the series has is that the adventures happen a tad too quickly it's not believable that gulliver spent eight years away from home as is claimed but in general it captures swift's tone and purpose very well while with its structure adding a new emotional level
1	despite its many faults 1995 version of gulliver's travels is still the finest adaptation of jonathan swift's satirical classic largely because it not only includes all of gulliver's many travels but also includes the satire that's often overlooked unfortunately the twin problems of the book's highly episodic structure and a television budget even a fairly lavish one remain the book is a somewhat rambling collection of tales moving simply from one surreal landscape to another but simon moore's adaptation tries to impose some order on the chaos by providing a parallel plot that sees gulliver returned to england clearly deeply traumatised and trying to prove his way out of the insane asylum where the rival for his wife's affections has had him committed the england scenes at once mirror and comment on the travels elements of which occasionally spill over into the real world the trouble is that for the first hour or so it acts more as a distraction constantly pulling you away from the story just as it starts to get interesting the scenes suffer worse here with the feeling that the home scenes are too often designed to save them from filming the more expensive setpieces this has to be the only version where we don't see gulliver pulling the fleet behind him br br yet once gulliver makes his escape the tone becomes more consistent as he finds his situation reversed and himself the pet of the giants of the of a guest of the wise men of the floating island of laputa who are so engrossed in science that they have no common sense left the guest prisoner of a historian who leans history directly from the source offered immortality with all it's terrible consequences before finally finding a world he wants to belong if only he can convince the sublime talking horses the that he's not an uncivilized yahoo each new destination convincing him of what an absurd and petty species humanity is for the most part it's a darker set of travels than expected with only gulliver's curiosity and commonsense and disappointment keeping it from plunging into irretrievable bleakness and even this is offset by the scenes in the asylum where it becomes more obvious that even if he is telling the truth it may well have driven him genuinely insane it's in these latter scenes that ted gulliver really shines never more so than in an extraordinary speech where he turns his trial into a disappointed judgment on the whole human race br br being made for television the yahoos are rather less literally scatological here than on the page but for the most part this is a more adult treatment than you might expect with no real dumbing down the star cast is certainly impressive and for the most part well used if somewhat briefly in a few cases mary steenburgen james fox peter o'toole edward woodward omar sharif shashi kapoor edward fox ned beatty alfre woodard kristin scott thomas and isabelle huppert among them it's hard to imagine the upcoming jack black version even coming close to being a fraction as impressive as this
1	this production was quite well done for a television original providing a very appropriate original slant on swift's work to make the frame story work well the film begins with gulliver arriving home everyone who has read the book knows that will happen anyway the frame story of the book has gulliver's crazed confusion in sections for example he is horrified that he will trample little people in england because he has just returned from a land of giants but the film has all the book sections within one long voyage when gulliver narrates his travels the editing cuts from england to the travel are very effective i confess i found them intrusive and irritating at first then they became natural by the end moreover they have become a welcome addition to the story as he tells his adventures to a larger and larger audience more and more people listen to his compelling fantasy even though they doubt its truth for example his hatred of filthy yahoos and admiration of pure logic from the fourth section comes across well when he is defending his own sanity the intercuts between events in england and similar events or scenes in the tale is very effective for example ripping the cloth from the table to suggest the motion of towing a group of ships is inspired filming the addition of gulliver's family threatened by the lecherous doctor works well swift only hints at this by having the long suffering wife protest against further voyages it becomes a natural part of this story the casting and acting were competent throughout some roles were exemplary omar mad magician is superb o'toole's little emperor is doddering delightfully toward senility many specific complaints made by other writers here strike me as simple personal preference which after all is what we are about here i read the abridged version several times a year from fourth grade on i may have escaped the complete version until a college class but have read it a few times since and i had to start it again as i began reading about this film while the danson version is superior to any previous film it does not replace the book however i think it will bring many readers to the book if you have not read the book enjoy this movie then go to the source if you appreciate the satire in it find swift's a modest proposal and his letters both are satires attacking the wretched treatment of ireland and the irish during swift's time the protests cheap inflated copper coins being dumped on ireland these were wood's light weight not good for face value in paying taxes and official debts the outcry from swift's satire caused the coins to be sent to another mistreated british territory the american colonies the universal satire in swift's book and this movie just poke fun they cannot change human nature give torturous experiences a chance i think you will find them thought provoking and entertaining
1	i first saw this when i was a teen in my last year of junior high i was riveted to it i loved the special effects the fantastic places and the trial aspect and flashback method of telling the story br br several years later i read the book and while it was interesting and i could definitely see what swift was trying to say i think that while it's not as perfect as the book for social commentary as a story the movie is better it makes more sense to have it be one long adventure than having gulliver return after each voyage and making a profit by selling the tiny sheep or whatever br br it's much more arresting when everyone thinks he's crazy and the sheep do make a cameo anyway as a side note when i saw laputa i was stunned it looks very much like the kingdom of zeal from the trigger video game 1995 that also made me like this mini series even more br br i saw it again about 4 years ago and realized that i still enjoyed it just as much really high quality stuff and began an excellent run of sweeps mini series for nbc who followed it up with the solid merlin and interesting alice in wonderland
1	excellent story telling and cinematography poignant biting social commentary br br superb effects well filmed and acted br br however the parallel action between the present and the travel adventures though very well done at times drags on a little too much about 3 hrs and over interrupts the flow of the story br br i first read the book as a child and enjoyed the parts about the giants and the tiny people but the book lost me when it got to the floating island and the land of the yahoos well although the adventure plot may sound like a children's story it's in fact a very adult story full of symbolism about the moral decay in england at the time of jonathan swift the author of the novel that the film is based upon
1	ted danson was a great choice to play gulliver even though his background was mostly comedy he shows here that he can do drama just as well or perhaps even better though there is a lot of humour in this hard to turn a blind eye to his american accent especially since his character is supposed to be english but that's just a minor thing br br all the villains are equally well cast james fox edward fox peter o'toole warwick davis john standing etc despite the fact that most of them are either tiny people or giants they are 100 believable in everything they do and their motivations are very clear e g the unremitting suspicion of gulliver the giant dwarf's hatred of him for usurping his position as court jester dr bates' attempt to have gulliver proved insane so he can marry mary br br mary steenburgen is great as mary gulliver another 17th century english character with an american accent but never mind she is a deeply tormented character because she has been waiting nine years for her husband to return home and when he finally does he is talking about tiny people giants a flying island and talking horses mary despite the strong fantasy element in the story is a very believable character br br the special effects are breathtaking especially when you consider that it was filmed on a television scale at a time when cgi was in its infancy it looks very realistic when we see a 6 foot tall man walking through a city filled with people who are 6 inches tall br br the cameos are great as well omar sharif richard wilson sir john gielgud kristin scott thomas ned beatty all great actors who create a strong supporting cast that complement superb acting ability br br the and the yahoos are probably the most effective element of the story on the satire side of things a society of talking horses who do not possess any of the vices that humans have while the yahoos are primitive disgusting humans who mate forcefully and appoint their leader depending on how disgusting he is gulliver and study of them is also very well done and displays the differences and similarities between humans and yahoos br br the best version of gulliver's travels by far and one of the best mini series ever
1	we all know bits and pieces of gulliver's travels tiny people yeah sure giants too some of us may recall some might remember the word yahoo comes from here that's were it stops for most people br br swift's book is omnipresent in school libraries that's were i first read it and there's were a lot of people read it for the last time it is treacherously lightly written like many of the old adventure books children can read it still it's dripping with satire black and uncompromising that's something i think most screen writers forget when they adapt this movie br br this movie remembers however our hero ted danson gives a credible and serious performance as the world adjusted man who's thrown to mysterious countries so like our own gulliver's travels criticizes everything scientists government ethnicity humanity itself few are spared and most of the satire is just as fresh today br br while very faithful to the story the movie also dares adding new angles all which work very well the screen writer deserves all credit for managing to balance so well between time and activity it's not boring that is br br production values are way beyond a tv movie with some marketing this movie would have done well at the box office all of the fantastic worlds gulliver visits are well made explained in detail and often very funny much like swift's book br br actors are all pros since this is a british production mary steenburgen stands out along with james fox's dr bates the chillingly cruel doctor who much like nurse only wants the patient's best br br so a modest proposal if you ever get the chance to get this movie do so it's a real treat
1	i would have been about 11 years old when this movie was first released all these years later at 37 and i had no qualms hiring it on dvd great entertainment for all ages and what about the song the rainbow connection see br br why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side rainbows are visions but only illusions and rainbows have nothing to hide so we've been told and some choose to believe it i know they're wrong wait and see someday we'll find it the rainbow connection the lovers the dreamers and me br br who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on the morning star somebody thought of that and someone believed it and look what it's done so far what's so amazing that keeps us stargazing and what do we think we might see someday we'll find it the rainbow connection the lovers the dreamers and me br br all of us under its spell we know that it's probably magic br br have you been half asleep and have you heard voices i've heard them calling my name is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors the voice might be one and the same i've heard it too many times to ignore it it's something that i'm s'posed to be someday we'll find it the rainbow connection the lovers the dreamers and me br br da dee da la la la dee doo
1	this film is wonderful example of the quality dramas that channel 4 and the bbc have produced over the years ted danson delivers a powerful performance of a man tormented by memories noone will accept and a society that believes he is insane it is a remarkable performance by a man most known for his role in cheers a tv comedy sitcom the supporting cast are all very well chosen not least mary wife who acts the part of gulliver's wife in the film but above all it is the seamless and very delicate shifts between our world and gulliver's world that make this film the difference in perspective between giants and midgets all acted by real actors is beautifully captured a rare treat of cinematography and direction
1	swift's writing really has more in common with kafka and orwell than with fantasy adventure writers so it's curious that gulliver's travels has been deemed a children's novel lucky kiddies br br the same applies to this movie there have been some really awful versions of this story which must be why people are reluctant to look at this version i mean it's a tv movie and it comes from jim henson so how should we expect anything but cuteness br br look again beauty turns up in the oddest places children love this movie enough to sit through all three hours of it but it also takes the time to get swift's dark vision right i hate special effects but here they are used to carry the story forward instead of just dazzling us please note that the producers took the trouble to recruit classical actors like john gielgud and peter o'toole who perform their eccentric roles with perfection br br dramatically the romance between gulliver and is rendered touching and poignant as well as funny she's a little girl but twenty times his size the frame story has a theme about absent fathers that many children will relate to and the part about gulliver in the asylum introduces an element of horror dealing with the abuse of authority apparently deriving from val lewton's bedlam 1946 another forgotten masterpiece br br the vhs is always turning up in the bargain bin for a few cents which is an insult to the many great artists who put this thing together i encourage audiences to recognize a good thing by getting this movie and inspiring others to watch it although it has a lot to offer children grown ups will find that it stands up nicely to such classics as aguirre brazil 1984 and other serious fantastic works
1	after clocking up five seasons on the small screen from 1976 79 'george mildred' transferred themselves to the big screen in mid 1980 instead of johnnie mortimer and brian cooke retaining their roles as writers dick sharples was brought on board as the writer sadly this film adaption just did not seem to hit the spot with the public shame i liked it better than the series itself in fact it was a guilty pleasure br br yootha joyce is keen to ascertain whether or not her slovenly husband 'george' brian murphy has remembered their wedding anniversary obviously he hasn't but to try and convince his wife otherwise he books a table at the restaurant where he proposed marriage to mildred several years ago br br upon arriving at the restaurant they find out that the place has changed hands eventually seeing through george's lies mildred insists that they celebrate their anniversary at a swanky hotel upon arriving at the hotel george is mistaken by crook johns for a ruthless hit man who wants a rival to be exterminated br br not an outstanding comedy as such but a good natured piece of fun all the same plans to revive the series after the film's showing were sadly terminated when yootha joyce died on 24th august 1980 of alcohol poisoning br br funniest moment george talking to his favourite garden gnome his neighbour tristram creeps up behind him and says think its time we had a george thinking it has developed the power of speech drops the gnome in shock br br merry christmas to fellow imdb users in particular and have a good one
1	the whereabouts of al capone br br who shot jfk br br cynthia lands the part of gypsy in the tv remake br br these are some of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century how else can i say it except i thought she was awful mannequin mannerisms poor reactionary acting ie that blank stoic stare while he co star in the scene speaks and a singing voice that most voice coaches would rate mediocre but she is stunningly gorgeous and after all wasn't that what the gypsy character is all about cashing in on her looks she didn't cut the mustard in the talent department br br as for the rest bette is fantastic whether or not she's playing herself or playing mama rose it works either way and i for one thought rosalind russell was as exciting as drywall in the original peter as herbie is the perfect understated foil to bette's over the top mama and he's the medium temperature porridge between midler's hot dish and gibb's stone cold mush is right br br one final holler to the man responsible for decades to come of cher jokes bob drag queens would kill for the glitz and glamour on display here everything's coming up sequins and bugle beads br br
1	i'm not a big fan of movie musicals annie was a stage show i loved but the movie was a flop the phantom of the opera movies and i believe there were three failed to match the weber staging but i loved this the dvd will take a place of honour among my keepers even though it's a movie adaptation it somehow captures the flavour and the atmosphere of live theatre bette midler always a treat is just exceptional in this role there's great music lots of laughs and even a tear or two i've seen most of the big musicals of the eighties and nineties somehow i missed this one so there's no comparison to make but if it gets revived i shall be first in line for tickets but this movie is so good i'll be in the odd position of wondering if the stage production will measure up to the movie
1	and i for one think that is a good thing i've just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this br br as for the rest of the production i think it was slightly less than the original movie one of my favorite minor characters in the original was with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out hey it takes a lot more than no talent to be a and although i missed it i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy br br i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre not just at the movies br br i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song let me entertain you which becomes completely annoying after about the 5th time you hear it
1	based on the memoirs of gypsy rose lee who painted a much more affectionate picture of their mother than did her sister actress baby june havoc in her autobiography early havoc on which they shoot horses don't they was loosely based i saw merman in the original broadway production of gypsy and she was great as mama rose but certainly more merman than rose i was disappointed with rosalind russell's portrayal in the 1962 movie version an otherwise excellent actress russell was a very wooden substitute for merman bette midler by contrast was better and more believable than merman and i'd recommend her performance as the definitive one
1	watching this on comcast on demand br br every time i see this musical i am amazed at the songs one show stopper after another br br this interpretation is for me magical the songs sparkle the vocals orchestrations and choreography are amazing for a made for tv movie better than many stage versions i have seen br br the debate over bette just doesn't make sense she is her voice is brilliant and yet full of the pathos of the stage mother living through her daughters i still get tears at the end when she finally has her moment of glory no matter how faded that glory is br br the tulsa louise duet dance is on now fabulous br br stephen sondheim is the king of musical theatre his lyrics just roll off the tongue like silk music is perhaps the best ever penned for the stage screen br br thank god we have this masterpiece of the american musical theatre captured on dvd
1	gypsy is possibly the greatest musical ever written so it's too bad that it's film version was such a disappointment to make up for that we have this re make which if not flawless is an enjoyable and well done adaption of the musical the script is completely accurate all the songs included and the staging remains close to the original jerome robbins' staging bette midler is a deft choice for rose her singing and personality merman esquire and her acting splendid peter reigert is a fine if not a great singer and cynthia is a straight forward natural louise in truth a live taping of the 1989 revival with tyne daly might have been a better idea if only because gypsy is simply more exciting on stage but this film is a fine translation of a great musical
1	this is easily one of my favorite musicals of all time bette midler comes as close to real magic on screen as anyone has in her turn as gypsy lee's blustery bosomy brave and very scary mother she evokes a sense of desperation that is at times both comic and tragic but always genuine and quite beautiful such charm and grit she is indeed a pioneer woman without a frontier that frontier is discovered for the children who in turn must forge their own in a world ruled by their domineering mother br br this particular version is as i understand it in it's entirety including the brilliant choreography of jerome robbins as well as the original stage directions
1	first of all i'd like to say that this movie is the greatest thing that ever happened to mankind it is the best out of all the excellent muppet movies and every other movie out there so boo ya for jim henson br br this movie is the first of all the muppet movies and the best boo ya it's about a frog kermit who tries to make to hollywood along with the awesome friends he meets on the way comes a couple of the greatest songs ever made that are bound to become classics including the rainbow connection br br in conclusion i would like to say that watching this movie was the greatest thing ever if you havn't already seen it then get off your computer and get you to your nearest video store if they don't have the muppet movie i'd sue them big time
1	this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever i have heard the merman cast album the angela lansbury album i have seen tyne daly live and i've seen the rosalind russell movie countless times i think bette is if not the best then tied with the best she captures not just the bravura but also the pathos of mama rose i was never a natalie wood fan so i really enjoyed cynthia in what is arguably her best role everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful the three strippers led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back with cher but i think bette would be the best bet pun intended for auntie mame
1	too often screen adaptations of musicals compromise but this is one of those rare occasions when every ingredient perfect in itself comes together and perfectly midler was born to play this role and her performance will most likely be remembered as definitive she is supported by an ideal cast and the direction and design are tops it doesn't get any better than this
1	if you want to see what could be classed as the version of gypsy this is the film for you br br if you enjoy ed listing to the merman recording of gypsy then you really enjoy watching midler as mother rose it's my opinion that midler has the volume vibrato and presents that merman once had br br it's not often these days when listening to update versions of musicals that i get that tingling sensation that makes the hair on my neck tingle but bette midler certainly shows her talents in this movie see how you like them apples br br i know you may not like it but for me ms midler is the definitive gypsy
1	this is the best version of gypsy that has been filmed bette midler is simply superb as mama rose she has the voice the gestures the look and most of all a supreme acting ability to carry the role off and to make her character come alive her singing is simply put magnificent she especially shines in two numbers everything's coming up roses and rose's turn the other actors are also fine particularly christine as tessie also good is peter riegert his portrayal of herbie is acted with great style and believability the direction of this movie is very very good there isn't a false note or gaffe in the entire production this film is a vast improvement over the roz russell version filmed in 1962 since viewing it again i can state that the three greatest mama roses are ethel merman bette midler and angela lansbury see this movie you'll be glad that you did
1	i own this movie and i love canadian movies but hire an actress like rose i don't understand she is completly useless in this movie just a name that's all the rest of the cast is good good enough to make this little thriller work i was surprise by the plot which is not the first time it was used but those unknown actors did very well even i'm not a big fan of his but i liked him in this movie if you got the chance to see it go for it
1	the plot starts out interesting however towards the end too many die in too short a time turning the thriller mystery aspect of the story into a slaughter br br the only true highlights were adam beach and jürgen prochnow who were once again their excellent selves nice try with an inappropriate last third though a good ending
1	i came across the last stop one day at a video store and they were selling it for only 2 i decided to give it a try and bought it it was pretty good i enjoyed it the story is about several people all caught in a cabin somewhere in nowhere because of a raging blizzard there is a police officer nancy his ex girlfriend two brothers that just got out of jail a older man and his lover a black man and the couple that owns the cabins and their retarted son that never speaks suddenly someone is found to be murdered and a bag full of cash is found everyone is a suspect the last stop is a pretty good thriller i would give it 8 10
1	i was fortunate enough to see the last stop here where i live at the moving pictures film festival for those of you that don't know the moving pictures film festival is a tour of canadian made film in canada i was told just before the movie started that it was the world premiere and that it was on the verge of getting an american distribution deal which added to my excitement br br i'm a big horror movie fan and yes i love the scream trilogy as well so when i found out that rose was doing a ten little indians type of movie i knew that i was in for a treat rose was the biggest name actor actress at the entire festival br br the best way i can describe it without giving away too much of the plot is that it's not quite like scream and it certainly is worth seeing it's set in the middle of a snowstorm it was filmed in vancouver b c canada at a motel which adds to the suspense rose puts in a great performance as the girl next door along with the rest of the cast and as for what happens at the end well the only thing i'll say is that you'll never guess the ending br br sadly it probably won't make it into mainstream north american theatres because the only decent money maker in it is rose but if you get the chance to see it i would recommend you do and if worse comes to worst there's always video br br i gave it a 9 out of 10
1	i must tell you the truth the only reason i wanted to see this movie was because of rose i think that part definitely worked out pretty well actually however the film was very good too some parts of this movie are really good br br the film has great action also the mystery is pretty hard to figure out and rose does some oscar worthy acting towards the end of the film but i don't want to give anything away adam beach and jurgen prochnow are also great in the movie along with some of the other stars br br if you like mysteries or action movies or just like rose i totally think you would like this movie
1	this movie is a little slow in the the beginning for about the first 10 minutes or so but once it kicks in you can't turn it off adam beach and rose play the best parts and are great at their acting job you would never be able to guess who the killer is i gave this movie a 9 because at some parts adam beach needs to speak up a little so you can hear what he's saying br br 9 10
1	jim henson as kermit dr teeth rowlf and waldorf br br frank oz as fozzie piggy and animal br br jerry nelson as floyd pepper robin the frog lew zealand and crazy harry br br richard hunt as janice statler beaker and scooter br br dave goelz as gonzo dr hunnydew and zoot br br charles durning and mel brooks br br cameos by steve martin carol kane orson welles bob hope richard pryor and others br br this is the first muppet movie of the billion others that came out and is also the best by far this deals with kermit the frog going on a trip to hollywood and meeting the other characters along the way this movie along with being already good has excellent songs performed by the muppets including rainbow connection can you picture that moving right along and others this movie unlike the other muppet flicks carries a strong sentimental value to me it's such a nice movie also noted is it's many cameos featuring steve martin mel brooks and a dozen others br br my rating a plus 109 mins rated g
1	what makes this low budget production one of my favorite movies not kidding i was watching it already 10 times or so and did not get tired is it the tender melancholia throughout the whole thing is it the similarity to classics like niagara i was thinking a long time about that and figured it out i guess it is there is no hero there are only people some try to be good some gave up trying to be good some are hopeless cases but carry still the spunk of being human inside it is the story of a catastrophic night in a motel at the end of the world one way the catastrophe is nothing but the end of a chain of coincidences the other way this night reveals the logical of this peoples lives because they are in a certain constellation cut off the rest of the world it has something of a tale
1	i also saw the last stop at the moving pictures film festival in prince george i have to confess the only reason i went to see it is because i am a huge callum keith rennie fan and he didn't let me down he gave a good performance of a rather unsympathetic character and provided about the only comic relief in the whole movie br br the movie itself is the usual of bad people trapped in a snow storm together' storyline but it did have a couple of twists that kept me guessing the characterizations were strong and the whole cast performed fairly well the only problems i had with the cast was rose she was so cold throughout the movie that we didn't get any idea of her character's personality or motivations other than her and a few small problems with continuity this was a well written well acted thriller
1	being a self confessed slasher addict means that it's very rare that i get the chance to review many bigger budgeted movies with creditable casts aside from james successful box office draw identity there have not been any big name entries since the scream trilogy once again put wes craven's name back on the hollywood map that's why mark malone's the last stop – a mystery thriller with blatant slasher overtones instantly intrigued me with a decent line up including adam beach and jurgen prochnow and an intriguing soundtrack that even finds space for lynn anderson's rose garden i must admit that the initial signs were very positive for this claustrophobic feature to the best of my knowledge there have only ever been three other snow bound slashers unless of course you consider demon possessed to fit in the category the first slice and dice on the ice was the bone dry satan's blade then came the lisa loring cheese feast that was blizzard of blood and the enjoyable shredder followed some fourteen years later br br during an extreme blizzard state trooper jason adam beach battles through the snow to reach a remote lodge in the colorado mountains his task is to inform the guests that the road is closed and they must stay for at least one more night until a path can be cleared through the hazardous conditions this news doesn't go down to well with the suspicious bunch which includes two troublemaking brothers callum keith rennie and peter flemming a truck driver that really doesn't want to hang around william s taylor a randy couple of lovers winston and amy adamson and jason's ex girlfriend nancy rose the motel owners jurgen prochnow and p lynn johnson aren't overjoyed by the news either but they offer rooms to the stranded guests and attempt to calm the tense situation things take a turn for the worse when jason finds a mutilated body and a bag full of stolen cash lying in the snow behind the cafe just like a chapter out of an agatha christie mystery the lodgers begin dieing at the hands of a masked assailant that seems intent to re claim the money with so many dodgy characters to choose from and no way of leaving the crime scene jason has to attempt to stop the maniac before he kills again… br br a good mystery needs at least a handful of shady suspects who each have a credible motive a remote location that no one can escape from and a smart protagonist to help unravel the clues fortunately the last stop provides each of those essential ingredients in a thriller that has its equal moments of brilliance and downright stupidity the film kicks off superbly as the dubious personalities clash in a claustrophobic environment that manages to keep the tension running high throughout the runtime malone keeps the interest levels raised as each character unveils their own reasons to attract some of the suspicion and to be fair the essential twist isn't one that you'll guess easily in fact i found myself watching the movie through once again to see if i could pick up on any hints that i missed first time around unfortunately when the maniac is revealed to be an over the top psycho that wisecracks like a comic book bad guy the last stop a huge amount of credibility thankfully all is not lost when an unexpected and brilliantly orchestrated plot twist salvages the film's finale br br similarities can be drawn with the excellent identity as the two plots are almost interchangeable james effort has to be the better of the two mainly because of the star billing of john cusack and the ever reliable ray liotta with that said though adam beach does a good enough job in the lead while jurgen prochnow amy adamson and the brilliant callum keith rennie add some credible support rose acts as in this role as she probably does from day to day in reality and winston started fantastically before going completely overboard with the film's climax if you're a die hard slasher fan that's watching this for some bloody killings then you're going to be disappointed the balaclava wearing psychopath only pops up once and the rest of the murders are committed off screen but as i said earlier malone's directorial talent means that the suspense is never too far off the boil and you can forgive the few flaws because the positives just about triumph br br the last stop is well worth a look for slasher addicts and movie fans alike yes there are a handful of negatives but overall this is a solid example of emerging hollywood talents if you liked identity then certainly give this a
1	story wise this isn't among the best or most cleverly written columbo movie but the movie is extremely well made with excellent directing and truly fine acting br br especially the acting within this movie attracts the attention director nicholas did a great job with the actors in the movie appereantly he allowed peter falk and john cassavetes lots of space to play with also since both are being credited on here as uncredited directors of this movie must be part of his directing style to allow the actors this much room it works out extremely well for this movie perhaps he did this because himself also used to work as an actor he is perhaps best known for playing the role of coach in the hit series cheers from the very start of it in 1982 until his death in 1985 br br so peter falk seems better than ever before in his role as lt columbo also veteran actor john cassavetes does a real great job as the movie its murderer and is a good match for the lieutenant beside them the movie also features myrna loy a big star from the silent movie era and also pat morita in a small early role br br but not just the acting directing within the movie is real good visually and technically it's also a really great made movie with slow long shots without the use of any cuts also obviously the reason why this movie is longer than most columbo movies it really takes its time to set up things and tell its story the movie also features a couple of nice artistic and experimental kind of shots of course all really fitting for the '70's br br but like i said before story wise this just isn't among the best columbo movies also the clues being left out for the lieutenant are a bit too obvious this time it makes the murderer come across as a bit dumb like he didn't thought his plan over good enough while the character obviously is an intelligent man columbo this time also tries to irritate the suspect and other characters a bit more than he usually tries to do in order to solve the crime this and peter falk's different acting approach are a reason why his character might come across as different than he does in other columbo movies but different does not mean worse in this case br br the movie also features a quite good musical score by richard who after this became sort of the steady composer for the columbo movies br br a great columbo movie to watch br br 8 10
1	after repeatedly saying how brilliant so many columbo episodes are it's time to honour an episode with maximum points etude in black is not 100 percent perfect but it's certainly more than 90 percent maybe 96 or 97 br br last week i reviewed just married and compared it unfavourably to meet the parents well here's one of the parents blythe danner in a much earlier role as the wife of famous orchestral conductor alex benedict played by the legend that is john cassavetes alex has been having an affair with jennifer wells a girl in the orchestra not his first affair one suspects she is blackmailing alex to leave his wife but as his wife's mother holds the purse strings for the orchestra alex doesn't think it'd be such a smart move to destroy his career and marriage overnight instead he hatches a plot to sneak out of the concert hall before a performance and murder his young lover while making it look like a suicide br br enter columbo and guess what it takes him about two seconds to realise that homicide is more likely than suicide it doesn't take much longer for columbo to connect alex to the victim and soon he's following him around wherever he goes even though columbo is certain alex is his man it actually takes quite a while and a few false leads none of which columbo really swallows before he has the vital piece of evidence br br along the way there are some top notch extra characters ranging from the precocious young neighbour of jennifer wells and the english mechanic who sounds like he would be more at home on coronation street through to the bedraggled looking brass player who nearly finds himself fitted up for the murder he had also been seeing jennifer wells the busy girl and there's even a brief cameo from commandant from the police academy films as with leslie nielsen in lady in waiting it's impossible to take him seriously i bet you're thinking of that speech he made at the podium aren't you br br but it's blythe danner john cassavetes and peter falk who steal the show here blythe is absolutely divine as mrs benedict from the moment she spots alex jennifer wells' number from memory she feels deeply troubled by exactly what their relationship was it's a masterful performance as she struggles to trust alex despite her intuition telling her something is very very wrong columbo doesn't help matters by interrupting her game of tennis to ask her questions about alex's relations with members of his orchestra br br as for john cassavetes well it's a shame he didn't make any repeat appearances as columbo villains because he could have been up there with jack cassidy and patrick mcgoohan as one of the all time greats of the show but this performance is superb he's another one who falls into the highly irritated category losing all patience with columbo rather than befriending him and indulging him despite this when the game is finally up he does grudgingly acknowledge columbo's genius br br well it's a really really fantastic show it loses a couple of very small points for its rather sledgehammer view of classical music as highlighted by many of the posters here but none of these have any bearing on the logic of the story or the characterisations and at least the music is good dramatic and exciting br br finally if you haven't come across it there is an absolutely amazing clip of john cassavetes and peter falk on the dick cavett show from the early 70s i'm totally convinced steve coogan watched this clip and based alan partridge on it everything about the clip resembles knowing me knowing you from the cringeworthy introduction to the total humiliation of cavett by his guests even the orchestra get in on the act playing circus music while falk cassavetes and their friend ben gazzara fool about and ridicule the host br br it might not be strictly relevant to this review but the cavett show clip gives a nice insight into the deep friendship and professional relationship between peter falk and john cassavetes it's clear to see from the quality of etude in black just how well the pair worked together
1	this columbo episode is one of the better and perhaps one of my personal favorites the cast includes rosemary's baby john cassavetes as the maestro his wife played by blythe danner gwyneth paltrow's mom and his mother in law played by myrna loy one of america's greatest leading actresses in film of our time anyway i disagree with anybody who criticizes against this film this episode is one of my favorites because you have an excellent cast who do a superb job in performing i love watching columbo with his beloved dog who he never names in the series this time the episode focuses in on classical music at the hollywood bowl one of l a 's attractions of course columbo becomes as interested in classical music as he does anything else involving a crime
1	my first 'columbo' rather enjoyed it great format and peter falk's character extremely good wonderfully quirky he can take his place next to poirot miss marple and also the likes of marlowe and rick diamond i can see why this series has such a following br br as a professional musician i have to say a few things first of all a conductor who merely produces these pedestrian performances of the most basic examples of the repertoire eine kleine nachtmusik strauss waltzes beethoven is never going to have a house like that or fame like that or cars like that much less be called a genius and the conducting that the actor does is so bad as to be laughable no orchestra would take him seriously br br there are several little things too such as his rehearsal of eine kleine nachtmusik why rehearse it when they've just performed it for tv any orchestral musician would be able to play it in his or her sleep anyway his instructions to the ensemble are downright nonsensical and when columbo asks blythe danner what means she says it's it's italian as are the vast majority of musical instructions br br and finally no two great musicians would ever have the following play something what should i play chopin music is their job and passion they know it well something far more specific would be asked for and offered br br i know i should get out more
1	alex benedict john cassavetes is an orchestra conductor having an secret affair with his pianist when she threatens to expose him and create a scandal if he doesn't leave his wife he sees he has no choice but to murder her and make it look as if she had committed suicide too bad for him our rumpled detective lt columbo peter falk is on the case br br stephen bochco has written another razor sharp episode for the series following marvelous detail with marvelous detail we watch the villain commit his murder and set up his alibi for about twenty five minutes and we're completely engrossed then when columbo appears on the scene it gets even better br br we first see columbo after the murder as per usual this time he's at the vet with his new dog scenes of purely comic relief are usually the weakest ones in the show think columbo's discomfort over the nude model in suitable for framing columbo is hilarious when he's dithering or bumbling deliberately in order to trip up his quarry but too many writers make the mistake of showing him in a ridiculous light when he's with non suspects bochco by contrast shows columbo a bit awkward with his new pet in a handful of low key scenes that are funny and artfully integrated into the story and i'm grateful he didn't strain for a punchline to columbo's quest to give the dog a name as far as we learn the dog remains nameless bochco gives columbo some of his best moments in this episode and peter falk makes the most of them he's particularly good in a monologue where he expresses disbelief that anyone could kill herself much less this brilliant and beautiful young pianist and he's even better in his scenes playing cat and mouse with cassavetes that these two long time friends and collaborators would play off each other brilliantly is to be expected and that's what we get notice how alex benedict can't help but admire the deceptively dimwitted columbo even as the brilliant detective is tightening the noose around his neck br br bochco makes the most of every situation in his script when columbo goes to question snooty mechanic of course – of course – he asks the man to look at his own beat up heap and when benedict finds columbo at the hollywood bowl before rehearsal of course – of course – he's on the piano playing chopsticks and what should our audacious lieutenant bring with him but the victim's typewriter with the phony suicide note still in the roller br br columbo also has good scenes with a precocious little girl dawn frame and the lovely blythe danner who plays cassavetes's wife it's nice to see myrna loy show up as mother though she does little with her minor role br br the director nicholas who also acted most notably as coach in cheers does a perfectly creditable job though he follows the lead of nearly every other columbo director by adding one or two silly flourishes scenes end by going out of focus and begin by coming into focus then there's that bit where cassavetes sees the he dropped at the scene of the crime – and we see a zoom in shot of it reflected in his sunglasses there's also one scene with myrna loy and group of old fogies that is atrociously performed by everyone except cassavetes br br these are quibbles though this is a splendidly entertaining episode the kind that made me a columbo fan
1	this is another of my favorite columbos it sports a top notch cast including john cassavetes who was never or sexier comer myrna loy and blythe danner now here's something i've always wondered had paltrow been born when this episode was shot or was danner pregnant at the time thanks to imdb i have my answer she was five pregnant now i can really feel ancient br br cassavetes plays a brilliant conductor whose marriage to danner was apparently to use the social connections of her mother loy he has a mistress on the side comer a prominent pianist but she announces she wants more she's sick of being back street on the night of their concert he gets rid of her and makes it look like suicide columbo picks up a few problems immediately one thing he notices you have a beautiful woman here bedroom eyes she has money a body and a career where's the man it's wonderful to see falk and good friend cassavetes together there's a very funny episode at the vet with columbo's bassett everyone in the cast is great br br this is one of the episodes that made columbo the classic series it became
1	one of those tv films you saw in the seventies that scared the hell out of you when you were a kid but still gives you an eerie feeling no great actors or expensive production but everytime that phone rings
1	y'know it's very interesting watching this half the people involved with it are now dead br br anyways it's been a long time since i've watched anything muppet related but this stuff is pure gold i'm a great fan of puns and this movie has them quite well placed but one of the amazing aspects of it is its pacing it's not really high speed children's pacing where the filmmakers just randomly decide to move the story along without giving the character's depth it's just kind of moves along with the characters wherever they want to go br br kermit the frog is just an awesome character his voice and the expressions on his puppet face are fantastic but above all he points out why he's popular he can sing and make jokes too but more appropriately why he's so endearing he without any effort inspires everyone to search for their dreams in the meantime he also has to deal with himself which is an uncommon theme in family movies br br it also contains quite an ensemble of comedians making appearances here and there some to great effect others to a little less i think mel brook's part was just a bit overplayed do you some parts of the film are just kind of odd but it's highly imaginative and takes itself to the same destination from a very different direction br br moving right along br br polarisdib
1	elizabeth ashley is receiving phone calls from her nephew michael he's crying screaming and asking for help the problem is michael died 15 years ago br br this film scared me silly back in 1972 when it aired on abc seeing it again years later it still works br br the movie is a little slow and predictable the deaths are very tame and there's a tacked on happy ending but this is a tv movie so you have to give it room elizabeth ashley is excellent ben gazzara is ok and it's fun to see michael douglas so young and those telephone calls still scare the living daylights out of me i actually had to turn a light on during one of them br br a creepy little tv movie worth seeing
1	jack webb finally gives something besides his usual wooden indian performance he played the epitome of the jarhead brainwashed storm the beaches fi bonehead military idiot the corps before all else even humanity this great film showed the of boot camp to it's fullest 4 stars
1	i haven't seen this fine movie in 50 years but i'm entering a comment on it anyway br br while jack webb's movie was no doubt intended purely as an entertainment showing marine basic training at parris island in realistic terms as a tough character building exercise it was said the military was afraid the movie would discourage it did not work out that way the movie showed that entering the marines was a greater challenge than most young people ever realized and guess what being offered a king sized challenge was exactly what many guys wanted i personally knew lots of guys that joined the marines shortly after seeing the di lines at recruitment centers were suddenly so long the marines had more recruits than they could handle br br so it goes america will always have youth seeking to make themselves into the best while the slackers and born losers limp along to nowhere br br what we don't have in 2007 is any films that inspire patriotism devotion to duty of any kind positive values et cetera what we do have is films that inspire the airhead ed to be airheads the beer drinkers to beer other negative values exhibit 1 is that the airhead teen travesty and beer guzzling epic superbad is now 81 in the all time great films list values mean values
1	misfit recruit private owens tests drill instructor sgt moore's jack webb skills no explosions or bloodshed or hip soundtrack or sex it is set at the parris island s c boot camp and most of the cast were actual marines memorable one liners abound and the closing credit's dedicated to is intense with such strong male and female characters this movie could not be made in today's touchy feely world
1	i went through boot camp at parris island in 1953 and this film is about as accurate a depiction of what boots went through in that era even to burying that sand flea many of the actors in the film were active duty marines this film may be more entertaining to marines than others but i feel the film itself is very well done and jack webb made a good di fi
1	jack webb's movie 'the d i' came about from the real life investigation into the deaths of several trainees in a swamp in paris isle in the 50's as always webb being the patriot that he is came to the defense much like all the rest of his shows i actually found this movie tame by 1957 standards i served in the army and can understand the intensity of the training at parris island camp death by some so this movie can never come close as does 'full metal jacket' i think this is a good movie which is more patriot than it is actual but again think of the time period it was made 1957 and what could be allowed and said on film at that time i have always found jack webb to be clean cut and very loyal i know many have criticized the film as one sided and government propaganda if you feel this way watch 'full metal jacket' with r lee ermey i am a webb fan and enjoy the movie for it's merit not accuracy as i have said webb believed in this country and held institutions to high moral standards lapd dragnet adam 12 emergency etc just sit back and enjoy this one from a very strict moral time period in this country don't be too judgemental of mr webb mark lockwood texas
1	hey there army sgt i'm sorry dude but being a sgt in the army and being in the army national guard does not make you qualified to comment on a marine movie you are not a marine and just because you wear a uniform doesn't mean you can relate to being a marine we simply are the best we have the hardest training yes we have big heads about ourselves but hey when you are the best you like to strut your stuff i was in the iraq invasion and in i fought next to soldiers you are not qualified to say anything about my marine corps i hate to be the one that starts the whole which branch is better but you have no right to say you are qualified to judge a marine movie oh yeah we are drill instructors not drill that's the biggest clue you have no idea about what you are talking about yeah we do not curse at recruits anymore tell me how is cussing at someone going to make them a better marine how will me hitting someone make a marine a better marine yes it is a kinder boot camp from what i went through but we are dealing with different times and people we are training people who are over all smarter than our generations recruits we want smarter recruits not meaner and anyone who signs up to be a marine in the first place has a dedication to be the best his country has to offer we don't have to reinforce that in marines come to wanting to be killers we don't need to teach them that by them by swearing at them and beating them at least that is how i feel and yes i am qualified to say that i have been on the battlefield numerous times and i have trained marines and recruits who eventually ended up on the battlefield but then again what do i know i was just there done that got the t shirt sgt of the army get a clue
1	jack webb's portrayal of the marine drill instructor shaping new recruits in basic training requires no interpretation straight forward direct up front are all applicable to this classic in a time when parsing the statements of our leaders is a necessity in order to understand what they are saying this movie that plays no games with our language or our moral fiber right and wrong are clear and easily defined if you like clear well understood dialog in a disciplined military setting this movie should suit you
1	by today's standards the di might seem a little hokey lee version is more accurate i graduated boot camp in parris island sc in 1964 jim moore is as close to the real thing as you could put on the screen in 1957 i can't comment on the plot but i thought the ending was unrealistic for pvt owens is like many who found himself in a lot more difficult situation than he bargained for like so many he joined the marine corps for all the wrong reasons my drill were more like hartman than jim moore a lot more the di is more korean era and full metal jacket is more viet nam era today's movies allow that sort of thing on the screen i have the di in my collection i only recently found it on dvd
1	i saw this movie on tv back in the 60s and it still stands up well even after brilliant performances as a di by r lee ermey lou gossett and even frank sutton in a comic vein on gomer pyle usmc i wasn't in the service but my brother had a recording of a drill instructor in the air force and it was scary others in the family who were marines told me that ermey and even sutton were pretty spot on in their roles the only thing missing in the d i is the language in 1958 they couldn't yet use profanity on film yet jack webb came across pretty damned tough without it i think it's his best role ever in dragnet he was quite stiff i'll admit though not as bad as george raft but he used it only to effect in the d i you never forget the funeral for the dead flea the romantic part was just to stretch the movie but didn't really interfere with the basic plot don was pretty good to but he never surpassed this film in his career as far as patriotism jack webb was tv's john wayne he carried it a bit too far in some dragnet episodes but not in the d i after 40 some years i hoped the film could stand up to the likes full metal jacket and others and it did
1	jim henson's the muppet movie is a charming funny and brilliant film that can be watched and enjoyed by adults and kids i feel this is my favorite childhood film because it combines great characters great story and great wit that it is irresistable the plot involves kermit the frog and voiced by henson in his odyssey across america to follow his dream in hollywood along the way he meets fozzie bear the great gonzo my favorite miss piggy rolf and dr teeth and the electric mayhem br br this film has so many good things i can't even say them but it is memorable and every time i think of a puppet or muppet i will think of this film look for cameos from mel brooks dom delouise paul williams madeline kahn bob hope richard pryor steve martin edgar bergen and charlie elliot gould carol kane and the great orson welles excellent and spectacular one of the best films of the 70's a
1	fi i saw the d i in 1957 two and a half years later i joined the corps br br web and company got it as right as they could in boot in was more like in fact exactly like the boot camp shown in full metal jacket yes a black recruit in my training platoon was called snowball i was called stick because i was skinny as a rail every recruit had a nickname some rather vile that stuck with him through his service in the corps getting smacked or knocked on your ass when you screwed up was sop drop and give me fifty got to be ho hum then it turned into drop and give me two hundred br br the d i 's were a bunch of sadistic bastards but it was a controlled sadism and with a primary purpose of keeping us stupid alive when we hit combat 200 years of experience was ingrained in that sadism and everything the d i did or said had a purpose geared to his mission br br a bad d i gets grunts killed a good d i though seemingly the world's biggest asshole keeps 'em alive you can't kill the enemy if you're dead br br in case you didn't know the marine corps has one primary mission kill the enemy br br everything else is pure bravo sierra br br usmc ret
1	having been a marine i can tell you that the d i is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore a tough but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina the film centers on one recruit who doesn't seem to get with the program a more recent film full metal jacket also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing
1	i have seen this movie and anybody who has every been with the marines or any branch of the service can appreciate the accuracy of this movie it is a must have for any collection jack webb does an excellent job as the hard drill instructor my father went to marine boot camp at camp and says this movie is so accurate that he feels like he is back in basic training there is a line in the movie where jack character gets mad at a boot for killing a sand flea well let me tel you there are nothing but sand fleas at the camp i have been there and can appreciate it as a matter of fact the exit to the camp is las which in english means city of the fleas you must watch the movie to appreciate what i am saying anybody who is into wwii movies all the battles start right here with the drill sgt a must have for you collection
1	i served as a at parris island in the late 60's a little over 10 years after the d i was shot i was in some of the barracks where they filmed some of the indoor scenes i knew a lot of drill instructors and a lot of recruits i think the movie is as close as any movie to showing the life of a recruit and that of a drill instructor without a doubt i think it is the best thing jack webb ever did if you have been in the military you need to see this movie this was the way it was it shows how important it is to take a bunch of raw recruits and turn them into men ready to defend our country one feature i found fascinating is that most of the characters are played by real marines not actors
1	i would purchase this and thirty seconds over toyko today if available i also saw this movie after seeing large billboards of jack webb in his dress blues on the highway at the age of 12 always admired jack as a john wayne type and american all the way almost became a marine just because of this movie but served instead in the air force air force reserve and army reserve for 32 years have not seen this movie on tv at all and would love to own it on dvd at least if it was on tv i would copy it to vhs and use it until available on dvd i also have a large collection of wwii and korean war movies and always look for new releases on dvd
1	i first saw this film in the late 60's and try to see it every time it comes on tv which unfortunately isn't often now that i have tcm and fmc i hope it will be on at least once a year like louis gossett jr in an officer and a gentleman jack webb delivers an unbelievably great performance as a parris island drill sergeant with the classic screw up recruit and the story line in this one though dated is touching and very well acted and having real jar heads in the cast certainly helped in the realism of the film as well it's a great film with top notch acting and a superb story see it if you have the chance it's well worth the time
1	well as you can see i got to this party quite late but have the advantage of reading all the previous entries before making my comments i found this site by happen chance when i was looking for other marine corps films so let me start by telling you that i played a marine boot in the movie pvt and was stationed at san diego at the time jack webb and his crew selected 15 permanent personnel of which some of us had the speaking parts and another 15 marines that had just completed boot camp that made up the platoon and the marines who portrayed the various dis to the best of my recollection the capt and pvt owens don were not in the marines we spent about three weeks up in hollywood studio city film lot ca shooting the section of the movie that we were involved with and then they completed the other shots after we left br br so as i ramble along here let me clarify some of what has been questioned in previous entries as best i can cuff daddy was commenting about the ability of our platoon to yell yes sir without moving and etc yes we did the yelling for the sound guys and it was while shooting the scene as you fellow marines remember when the di or who ever started to ask a question and before they completed it you had already taken your breath of air enabling you to yell at the top of your lungs the proper response that is how it was done br br commented about walking through the same building at paris island however as i mentioned earlier all the scenes were shot in studio city ca they were built from photos taken at paris island and from on site trips and marine advisers from paris island sorry you were in the real buildings not the sets br br brought up many good points but about the incident with the platoon at paris island at the time all that jack webb said to us was the movie came about because of the accident and the marine corps didn't want to put out anything that would impact any of the family members of the marines that died that night although the marine corps would provide any marines and assistance needed for a movie answering to the public why a marine di does what he does br br as mentioned by a few of you i also at the time we were shooting the scenes caught my self thinking this dialog has been cleaned up to much and obviously isn't how it goes down in real life back in the 50's that is how it had to be done br br one story i would like to pass on is about the interaction that occurred between us marines and the movie crew and between the movie crew and jack webb from the start by custom the marines replied yes sir to anybody that moved going into the second week it was getting more common to hear yes sir coming from all directions on stage someone would bark out a request for something to be done with the lighting and from out of nowhere up on a catwalk above the set a reply of yes sir would sound out to all of this at one of our informal gatherings jack webb stated if i had known that i would have gotten this much respect from this crew i would have brought you guys up here years ago there was a lt brought up from san diego to play the role of the di from the other platoon and the one jack webb fights with but during one shooting he was up to take number 32 and still webb kept trying to work him through how he wanted it done and didn't show any lack of patience with him the next day they used the paris island adviser who was a di sgt from paris island and he worked out fine br br at the time i was somewhat of a camera buff and got to know the still camera man to get some pointer from him and as it turned out he would give me still shots and some of the 35mm film of the daily shooting that were not going to be used those film strips i cut up and made slides out of them after the movie came out in vhs tape the di b w 106 min my kids and the grand kids have a blast when they try to se who can find me the most times on the screen
1	i was a marine at camp pendleton when the d i came out 1st marine division 11th marine regiment 3rd battalion i battery i still remember standing in line with a bunch of other marines to see the movie at the star theater in california br br we did not remotely expect the movie to portray everything we experienced in boot camp but we were all pleasantly surprised at how well done the movie was the idea of using real marines in the movie was a great idea i believe they were all real drill instructors too as good an actor as jack webb was he just couldn't call cadence like a real marine drill instructor br br all of us got a laugh when the problem mother came to boot camp to talk to the captain never in a million years would this have happened but that's hollywood and we didn't let that episode keep us from enjoying the movie br br i went through boot camp at in san diego during the summer of 1956 and at that time there was virtually no limits as to what the d i 's could do to you the ribbon creek event at parris island had not yet affected boot camp at least not at san diego br br i agree with what a lot of the other reviewers have commented on concerning sgt moore's stiffness around his girl friend i believe this was just webb's acting style and although they could have deleted this part of the movie it didn't really hurt the production that much br br one minor note the character uncredited of pvt rodriguez was played by one of my drill instructors sgt peter j o'neill sgt o'neill used to tell us that some day he wanted to be an actor we secretly laughed at this but he surprised us all he was a great drill instructor and i thought he did well in his bit part also he really did enjoy throwing knives he often demonstrated his skill to us that summer in boot camp i have often wondered if he is still alive
1	the d i 4 outta 5 stars wow i certainly did not expect to be enjoying this movie as much as i did i had never even heard of it until i saw it sitting in the discount video bin one day i figured jack webb playing an army drill instructor might be good for a chuckle but figured the drama would pale in comparison to such recent movie d i s as portrayed in full metal jacket or an officer and a gentleman boy was i wrong this is probably the best work webb has ever done far and away better than his one note dragnet performances the delivery of his tough guy dialogue is just brilliant done in his patented deadpan monotone and yet you know that the guy means every word of it the story might seem a little hokey compared to the grittier military movies that have followed but i still found the movie fascinating and compelling even a completely unnecessarily musical interlude in an army nightclub had me hooked anyone know where i can get a copy of that terrific ray song you don't somebody else will webb plays the toughest dang drill instructor ever and he's under pressure to kick out the deadbeat private owen but by golly he sees a man buried somewhere in that and he's gonna drag him out kicking and screaming great stuff
1	i had the good fortune to be at island in the fall of 1959 the di showed one evening at the outdoor theater directly in front of our barracks b co 1st 1st br br although we hadn't been there long enough to even think about seeing a movie we could hear those that were laughing it's one of the many indelible memories of my thirteen weeks at pi br br at some later date i got to actually see it in a theater i'm still convinced that to date it remains the most realistic portrayal of the experience in the late 1950's ever done no one has done it better than jack webb
1	in many ways the perfect movie the incredible journey and horatio alger tale come together for a positive spin on the usually depressing subject of existentialism in essence the travails of the muppets boil down to the finale song of the movie life's like a movie write your own ending keep believing keep pretending they create their own reality which has all the trappings of every epic tale a lofty goal at the end of what is necessarily a obstacle laden journey an ever increasing group of like minded individuals for camaraderie a nasty set of villians who are not beyond all redemption and a big budget hollywood ending because darn it all they can br br only jim henson could pull this off he walks the line between sentimentality and philosophy without too long or too hard into either of course it seems odd that invest such weight into a film starring puppets but in the end perhaps they are the perfect uh puppet to make these points the movie's atmosphere allows for the pure enjoyment of the hollywood dream the happy ending unnecessary cameos and bursting into song at the drop of a hat usually these aspects are anathema to quality in film but the self deprecating manner under which the story is delivered makes for guilt free viewing one of the few films that can truly be called suitable for all ages br br the other muppet related films including the empire strikes back while palatable do not touch the simple grace of this film take for instance the musical number hope that something better comes along the duet of kermit and rowlf amusing in its vaudevillian goofiness yet makes a bitingly crucial point about the motivations behind life choices brilliant
1	jack webb is riveting as a marine corp drill instructor in the d i webb play sgt jim moore a tough but fair marine whose job it is to prepare young teens for possible combat no one could have played this role any better that jack webb as a former marine i can assure that this is the most accurate film dealing with basic training in the corp extremely entertaining
1	of course i'm a bit prejudiced but for the time it was the most accurate portrayal of marines ever shown on the big screen br br i was at camp pendleton undergoing infantry training when webb brought his crew down to film some outdoor scenes and our company was asked to participate it took about two or three days as best i can recall br br webb and don were serious and businesslike br br during the filming of our short scene which seemed to take forever to an 18 year old webb was very conscientious about getting things marine things right and he did a good job with one exception that scene where a recruit was wearing sunglasses never happen for a host of reasons br br i have a video of the movie and will bore my grandkids anytime i can make them sit still for a few seconds as i show them their when he was a young stud and part of the world's greatest fighting force no brag just fact br br what amazed me then was how well the real marines carried out their acting roles that was before i realized that dis have to have some acting genes to get their job done br br the only film i've seen since that is the equal of the di is the first half of full metal jacket and that part is superior only because of the foul language when the di was made cursing wasn't allowed on screen br br despite the lack of profanity it's still a great movie to rent br br br br fi do or die
1	is one of the best new danish tv series that i have watched br br the series is about the danish police force's unit 1 a kinda fbi style team that help solve murder cases all over the country and the cases they work on plus the influence that their jobs have on their personal lives and the price they sometimes has to pay to be a part of a top police team br br i didn't expect much when i started watching this series i was pleasantly surprised the series is exciting sometimes fun it's got both drama and suspense i love it
1	this production build on real danish crime stories is a experience through excellent directing acting on all levels and has a nerve not often seen in crime series every episode is a thrill because it's seems like the hole team believe that this is my life right now this murder or murders are my responsibility to solve and the output is brilliant br br as a viewer you just have this wonderfully filling of being entertained cause it feels like their focus on purpose or not lie on that they wont you to have a good time o don't miss this one it's just right under 'band of brothers' quality and is a must have seen experience what a wonderful crime time
1	this is one of the best non english series i have seen it weaves interesting single and double episodes of crime solving together with a personal aspect that you just don't get in csi the individual characters all have personal lives that combine well with their day job and occasionally interfere additionally the characters all manage to naturally evolve throughout the episodes br br the casting is superb and it was taped all over denmark giving a good example of the highlights that majestic country has to offer unfortunately only 32 episodes were made however they are top notch television here's hoping they consider making some more episodes of the same caliber
1	first off i'm an american i haven't seen any comments on imdb about this series yet from a u s viewer secondly i work in the television business in development so i wallow in much of the sludge that comes out of american broadcast programming unit one is an example of television that's a throwback to what i would attribute as '70s style scripting feature wise namely those films made by young who had free rein to make the dramas feel more realistic and to allow for organic character development it tacks more along the lines of stellar british dramas like cracker and prime suspect as well as australia's brilliant underbelly unit one features stand alone cases that are committed then solved each week the mysteries aren't extraordinary or particularly byzantine they usually center around one single twist clocking in generally at the 40 minute mark and resolution is neatly wrapped up in the 15 minutes thereafter what makes this series a breath of fresh air is that it features main characters that you are hooked on and find relatable by episode 2 these are real breathing alive characters that have personal baggage yet it's not a talky batty type of baggage that american flotsam such as grey's anatomy or desperate housewives spoons out these are realistic individuals whose backstories unfold leisurely over the course of the series as if you work with them on a daily basis after the mindless decade of and criminal minds along with their subsequent spawns it's refreshing to actually sit down to watch friends you want to spend time with as is the case with unit one the banter the unemotional wooden dialogue and the over the top jeopardy that those american series i mentioned bludgeon us with each week are absurd compared to the nuance and the quiet resonance you get with this remarkable danish series i'm on episode 7 of the first season but i've already bought all four seasons and am in for the long haul if you need explosions and farcically hopped up testosterone along with music by the who and fast cutting neon lit jittery palsy cam action with cipher like main characters as your main diet of television drama viewing i suggest you stay away from this series if you are an adult with a hunger for subtle poignant thoughtful and yes sometimes straight forward procedural crime dramas i urge you to check this show out
1	we've just watched the last of the series shown on the sbs network and will miss our weekly dose of danish delight my wife and i picked up the show after the swedish show the eagle finished and it seemed by comparison to be a very poor substitute for our then favourite show on tv week by week however the show grew on me and whilst not as glossy as the swedish show and definitely grittier in terms of their investigations of everyday crimes it certainly provided a very satisfying weekly viewing meal indeed br br prior to these 2 shows i had not really been a fan of the cop genre and can't say i am now but the 2 scandinavian shows really provided us with an insight into life in those northern countries through the eyes of their special policing units
1	have just seen the last episode no 32 though the site says only 30 episodes were made and i must comment on the fact that this series was really very good and i would thoroughly recommend it to anyone who enjoys crime cop stories supposedly all 32 were based on fact with information at the end of each episode of the court sentences imposed on the perpetrators of the crimes this has at times been a gritty well acted believable and dare i say entertaining series the fact that the powers in denmark decided to disband the unit was almost unbelievable as they did their work so well and in the series at least never failed to get their man it's a definite 10 10 for me
1	the english patient not only has it all doomed romance tragic war great characters but it has it in a way that no other movie does it is a tale told through flashbacks featuring amazing performances by all involved visuals characters we care about and the most rapturous love story ever told a cinematic landmark the best film of 1996 and one of the very best of the 1990s
1	i chose the english patient for a history extra credit assignment i thought that this movie would be incredibly boring instead it has become one of my favorites it portrays life in wwii quite accurately and the love story is amazing the love story made the movie so incredible i felt this interesting feeling of passion or something it made me want to watch the movie over and over again kristin scott thomas and ralph fiennes are amazing actors and the way they played their characters is amazing the look wonderful together and actually seemed to be in love i recommend this movie to anyone looking for a movie to watch as a leisure activity or for an assignment
1	minor spoilers br br misunderstood classic remains one of henson's finest and most personal films it may seem funny to call a movie as beloved as this one ' but people do seem to remember this one mostly for jerry snappy screenplay and paul williams's knockout songs now while these things are admittedly great as is the movie's formal playfulness screenplay within the screenplay film break etc what distinguishes 'the muppet movie' from the other muppet films is the serious wistful thread that runs through the picture it's a road movie all right but like most road movies the pleasure is in the getting there and the achievement of the characters' goals is tempered by uncertainty and by the knowledge that they can never really go back again throughout the film we are shown the down side of show business even before the muppets have 'made it' piggy abandons kermit without a second thought at a phone call from her agent gonzo expresses the loneliness and regret of a performer's life on the road in his haunting 'i'm going to go back there someday ' and worst of all kermit is continually tortured and tested by doc hopper who wants him to commercialize his art for the of purposes one can only wonder what henson would have made of his family's management of the company after his death kermit himself agonizes over his choices in the desert conversation scene and the final 'magic number questions whether it's all been worth it before concluding that it probably doesn't matter either way all this is punctuated with the expected muppet chaos and satire and deliciously awful jokes and of course the serious stuff wouldn't work if it weren't but 'the muppet movie' isn't just another as the rest of the diminishing return muppet films would become no it's a lovely gentle metaphor about the relationship between art and entertainment and business and it's every bit as effective today as it was 25 years ago 9 5 out of 10
1	a wonderful story so beautiful told so intense so whit no keyboard to describe i think go see it feel it it a story about love romance war and be trail so wonderful so full of romance if you love romance see it if you don't love romance drama well skip it that's all i can i vote 10 out of 10 stars wonderful
1	i have heard an awful lot about 'the english patient' and i finally decided to get the cd and find out what all the ballyhoo was about what i found out was a cinematic delight and should i repeat always be watched with an open mind if you are a religious moral zealot i am afraid this is not a film for you as you will fail to see the beauty of this cinematic masterpiece as you will keep on harping on the moral dilemmas this film creates as i remember correctly before i watched this film i read the review in this site and was thoroughly disgusted by the views of that person who i quote said 'that the protagonists thoroughly deserved what they when it comes to morality i agree with him but this is not the way to comment on a film of this magnificence br br i must admit rarely have i seen such a wonderfully crafted film i keep on hearing the background soundtrack in my subconscious first and foremost this is a love story and yes it's an extramarital affair beware but lets not keep focusing on that instead let's focus on how the story was told it's an of flashbacks and the present its set in the world war ii and tells us the story of a survivor of a plane crash count played wonderfully by ralph fiennes who is looked after by an army nurse juliet binoche in war torn italy just before the beginning of the end defeat of the axis powers the burn scarred patient very much in pain kept on remembering the torrid affair he had with an english woman katherine kristin scott thomas shown in flashbacks set in pre war africa the past and the present are interwoven so adroitly in the story that you're sort of transported in the story and get the feel of a first hand viewer the locales in the desert and in italy are beautiful and so are the characters i am a romantic and am not ashamed to say i had tears after it ended watch it with someone you truly love the movie starts and ends with the same shot of the desert where the sand dunes twist and curves like a woman's body and it was breathtaking the sense of loss and grief was conveyed so overwhelmingly by the actors that it makes me wonder why god why do we have wars that destroys beauty and the most unforgivable of all the destruction of innocence br br anyway it deservedly won a bunch of oscars and i will go hunting for other works of director anthony it kind of brings back the romanticism in the david lean genre of films it almost reminds me of 'lawrence of arabia' which was also based in the desert happy viewing folks
1	in a critical scene as katharine clifton kristin scott thomas lies in the cave of swimmers she writes something read aloud by hana juliette binoche in which she proclaims that the light has gone out now and i'm writing in the darkness a sentence of such poetic beauty could not be more perfect for the cinematic brilliance of the far from tiresome the english patient with such a dramatic sweep that keeps one firmly on their feet and a strength about the film that doesn't let up this film proudly celebrates the mysteries and romances of world war ii taking elements of casablanca and lawrence of arabia along with some independence in the form of tuscany br br the english patient unabashedly pulls the heartstrings and takes us through a mysterious first act a romantic second act and a beautiful beautiful final act and it isn't just the wonderful pace and setting it's the performance of ralph fiennes who keeps us sympathetic even when count from the very start proves to be a thoroughly unlikable character usually typecast as a villain he shows tainted but ultimately human colours as a man taken in by a desperate love that he must fulfill br br many will criticize this film based on its so called glorification of but those who do know nothing the contrasts between the two periods before and after the plane crash seen at the start are spectacular as the patient is the regretting man who suffers because of what he did the evil that was once in him now absent whereas the man of before the crash is an individual like anyone else he wants this woman but he cannot have her fiennes brings the human like qualities out of in a way absolutely no other actor could there couldn't have been a better actor for the job br br so please take these comments to heart see the film those who call it boring or despicable know nothing and should be ashamed of such a one dimensional view on the film a view that they have neither studied nor corrected and probably don't plan on the english patient is the best of every film to have ever won the best picture oscar and for so many reasons hidden in their poetic triumphs
1	from 1996 first i watched this movie i feel never reach the end of my satisfaction i feel that i want to watch more and more until now my god i don't believe it was ten years ago and i can believe that i almost remember every word of the dialogues i love this movie and i love this novel absolutely perfection i love willem defoe he has a strange voice to spell the words black night and i always say it for many times never being bored i love the music of it's so much made me come into another world deep in my heart anyone can feel what i feel and anyone could make the movie like this i don't believe so thanks thanks
1	the english patient is one of those films that mostly deserve all the highest praise i say most because this movie albeit very serious intense deep and really thoughtful still suffers some drawbacks first and foremost why oh why are the modern films so long this one lasts for more than two hours and from time to time it becomes really hard to concentrate and follow the extremely serious plot i say if the film were an hour shorter that would serve it only good however we have what we have the winner of several oscars the english patient is still very good it is a deep insightful treatise of human soul love and betrayal war and cowardice violence and bravery ralph fiennes is a smashing superb actor his hero neurotic and silent is an enigmatic person ready for everything only to save the life of his lover he is great even though half the time he is a deformed cripple he is the strongest link here juliette binoche is as usual very convincing and sweet she adds a lot with her excellent play and the love story plot with that sikh officer willem defoe colin firth christine scott thomas are all here all enormous and all very strong and then there is desert of egypt then there is deep sky green of italy the nature is here even when people die bombs roar land mines explode war is here too it is obvious terrible and bloody then there are corpses horrible gory bodies then nude bodies adultery and all i do not know what to say so much of a splendid actors' work so much of realism so much of brutality that war brings this is not a film for relaxation it makes you think
1	even after all these years this remain a perfect movie for me i still remember sitting for a long time in the theater after it was over stunned by the experience overcome by emotion i own the dvd of course is see at least once a year it's incomparable and i cannot add much to has already been written about its excellence and beauty so glad others love it as much as i do a note the author of the book on which it's based michael was enchanted with the film and is quoted as saying he wished he had thought of some of the lovely scenes written purely for the movie the way kip invites hana to his side with a trail of small candles and the way he arranges for hana to view the frescoes in the ruined medieval church
1	was curious to know the name of the tuscan village where the filming in italy was done i know the name villa san however would like to know the exact location in tuscany the cinematography is excellent and it would be wonderful to visit that area i would also be interested to know what the location of the desert shooting is as well travel extensively in europe and africa and would am interested in visiting the areas that the book and film were about please e mail me with any information on the sites that any one might have we would be very grateful and if any one knows if the villa in tuscany is still habitable that would be awesome as well i await any information and i thank you in advance for your time
1	there have been several comments already on the site focusing on the prestige feel of the film and there is a lot of heavy weight talent on show from fiennes and scott thomas to the magnificently rendered design and scoring to the masterly direction no wonder that andrew lloyd webber's acceptance speech for evita at that year's oscars began well thank god that the english patient had no songs in it writing of oscar winners takes me to juliette binoche who in a stellar cast gives a beautiful performance it is heartening to see that the dynamics which seem to influence the award for best actor often going to showy display aren't at work in the female categories just as emma thompson's hugely well deserved oscar for her portrayal of margaret in howard's end proved that one of the hardest things that an actor can do is make the portrayal of goodness involving so binoche's win proved that it could be that and seriously sexy her performance in this terrific film is a thing of beauty
1	in world war ii a badly burned amnesiac known only as the english patient is found in the african desert and is transported to italy where he joins a convoy of medical troops and others at an abandoned monastery among them are hana juliette binoche a canadian nurse whose lovers generally meet unpleasant ends kip andrews and hardy kevin whately two explosives experts who search the monastery for bombs and david caravaggio willem dafoe a canadian soldier of fortune who knows the identity of the english patient and has a score to settle br br through flashbacks we learn the story of the patient he is ralph fiennes a hungarian explorer who in the late '30s falls in with a group of british including geoffrey clifton colin firth and his wife katharine kristen scott thomas while mapping the deserts of north africa after clifton leaves them on government business katharine and clifton fall in love with each other in the desert resulting in an affair that naturally has a less than happy ending br br if one is able to overlook the illogical parts of the story line such as why would a patient found in africa be sent to what is essentially the front line of the war in italy then you can appreciate the english patient as a throwback to the intelligent layered sweeping epics of david lean in the '60s much more than titanic or other epic romances of late this movie puts one in mind of doctor zhivago and gone with the wind an epic love story set against a huge historical backdrop you shouldn't expect a war film though there are some striking if all too brief scenes of violence that stand out more than the romantic sections as is usually the case interrogation by a sadistic ss officer jurgen prochnow in particular br br the movie is very ambiguous in regards to pretty much everything the central question of the film is how far are you willing to go for love as critics of the movie are fast to point out is on the surface a far from likable character he has an affair with a married woman and betrays his country by giving maps and intelligence to the germans causing the death of his friend julian and the torture of caravaggio and actually killing a british soldier who has him under arrest at one point the fact that is in many ways reprehensible is kind of the point he's in love with katharine and sees the world narrowly in terms of his love that loyalty to country or anything else for that matter is secondary as says he hates ownership being owned the two engage in a rather bold love affair shagging within ear shot of hundreds of people at a christmas party and it's clear that katharine is more drawn to the mysterious exciting than the comparatively boring geoffrey br br the 1944 subplot is somewhat shaky and seems superfluous the romance between kip and hannah is never completely believable and i feel the film could have done without it but those sequences do add an interesting texture of mystery and complexity to the film so i won't complain too much br br like the epics mentioned above the film is able to convey time and place through simple devices like crowd scenes strategically placed posters and military presence we do not need to dwell on the fact that it's 1938 in cairo but it's helpful to know the direction of anthony and the desert cinematography by john are absolutely gorgeous the sand dunes sand storms and haunting caves of the desert are captured in beautiful detail gabriel score is haunting and atmospheric br br the acting is generally solid fiennes gives a very layered performance as a character who is mysterious complex and haunted the difference between the of 1938 and 1944 are remarkable one exciting and somewhat carefree the other haunted and reflective kirsten scott thomas is effective as katharine the female explorer looking for adventure and colin firth gives one of his best performances as geoffrey who realizes early on that he's no competition for the exciting willem dafoe does nice work as caravaggio the shifty hunted thief turned spy driven by revenge jurgen prochnow gives a performance reminiscent of jose ferrer in lawrence of arabia and a similar character too very brief but more memorable then some of the major characters some of the 1944 actors are unremarkable juliette is nothing special while andrews is good but unremarkable kevin whately as kip's ill fated partner does what he can with a rather role br br the english patient is not a perfect movie by any means but the attacks on it by much of the movie going public are not deserved at all maybe it's a show of how film sensibilities have changed since the era of the leans and kubricks or maybe people were expecting something simple to understand complex to fault brilliantly directed and shot the english patient is a wonderful modern day epic br br 8 10
1	the book is better than the film mostly because of the writer prose before i saw this film someone who had seen it told me the love depicted in this film isn't real after seeing this film i can see how her suspension of disbelief in this regard could've been distracting to other movie goers as well frankly some of the intense displays of love were laughable and seem to be on the edge of parody but by the end everyone should realize this is a big message piece of art it is not specifically about love at all it uses love to reveal the human divide or the arbitrary borders of countries that help justify wars and hatred it is about misunderstandings and the blind following of the things that supposedly separate us the critical scene for the real theme of this movie is when the hero or pleas for help for his stranded lover in the desert is ignored and disregarded for the reasons shown in that scene this film is also about hope and forgiveness the hope epitomized in the interracial relationship between binoche's recovering character and the indian minesweeper echoed in the buddy buddy relationship with his white coworker who ends up dying and the forgiveness epitomized in the caravaggio character's first hunt and then forcing out of what he thinks will be the hero's confessions for his war crimes betrayal of country i think the film could've been made even better than it is i don't know if a more realistic portrayal of the circumstances of love would've made the real themes and points of this film even more obvious or not but i agree this film is not about realistic romantic love as the people behind this piece of art or film imply in an early scene when the eventual lovers first meet the hero talks about how a new car broken down car fast car etc i'm paraphrasing is still just a car no matter what adjective you put in front of it she replies but parental love platonic love romantic love etc are very different kinds of love this is ironic because this film is really about the one love all humans should want which is the love of or for peace not materialistic things which are usually the real reasons for wars epitomized in something most of us want such as cars let's say otherwise we may be left stranded to die in a cave in a vast desert with ancient wall art drawings of swimmers suggesting that the seas and life supporting waters which were once there have all but disappeared i believe the english patient won the oscar because of these big messages not specifically for its depiction of romantic love awards tend to go that way the relationship of the hero and heroine was necessary to draw the audience in unfortunately this view of love may be antiquated in the age of divorce and so many singles who can't seem to get together on so many levels so ridiculous versions of mythic love are hard to get into even in daydreams which film love has always been especially in good old hollywood the film may fall short of what people expect but a 7 out of 10 movie worth seeing regardless
1	this film is about aging geisha in post war tokyo played by the incredible lends money to two other ex geisha and yuko and they resent the way she is somewhat smug about it has a son a daughter who during the film announce they're leaving them while never a mother gets visits from two men in her past who it turns out just want money from her its a compelling tale of what choices you make what you do to get through life and who you're responsible and beholden to has always been in my eyes one of the greatest character actresses ever from any country and she plays the mostly unyielding less than compassionate with an air of superiority that makes you not like her but at the same time almost envy her at a time when great films were made by ozu and kurosawa amongst others mr is right up there with him if you have a region free dvd player you should attempt to find the two box sets released in england i think this film was a great character study of women who are in danger of being irrelevant that they are really not makes this film a veritable masterpiece
1	i can never figure if this is the artiest soap opera ever produced or the art movie no matter john is utterly ravishing novel is not reduced but for once elevated to film if there is a fault it is in the original novel not in anthony beautiful movie anyone who has a problem with it's length almost certainly has not read the book and probably cannot read i do not like repeating adjectives but ravishing serves the purpose br br apart from the storyline the players excel but it is the australian sense of light and shade that ultimately triumphs like some dutch master uses a blast of light where van rijn would have used shade one could weep for cinematography this magnificent
1	a sweeping and deeply moving love story featuring powerful performances from ralph fiennes willem defoe and juliette binoche br br it tells the story of a badly burned man ralph fiennes who gets pulled out of a plane wreak during world war two and tells his nurse juliette binoche his story br br just before the war he fell in love with the beautiful katherine clifton kristen scott thomas however she is married to jeffery clifton colin firth and the two begin a passionate and forbidden affair br br a very haunting and tragic story of love and desire set against some absolutely gorgeous locations in the desert a must see especially if your a fan of anthony work but be prepared to shed a lot of tears its very moving especially at the end
1	one of the most charming and for me at least the most powerful elements of anthony enthralling best picture winner the english patient is that in the mid 90s when hollywood was in the initial stage of having lost its nerve for grand new projects a film was created that brought back powerful the sweeping wonderful majesty that crafted movies such as lawrence of arabia 1962 and the ten commandments 1956 the english patient contains very much of what made those films so powerful it has that glorious feeling a stretched running time that hardly seems long at all and fascinating characters with pasts and stories br br the english patient based on a novel by the same name by michael is like the godfather part ii 1974 in the sense of how it's constructed it's a blending of two stories the past and the present and it all revolves around the titular character an english patient in the post years of world war two ralph fiennes plays the english patient who has been scarred for life by a plane crash and being taken care of in an isolated church by a single nurse played marvelously by juliette binoche apart from bonding with her raspy voiced troubled patient binoche comes to learn about his past when a stranger willem dafoe arrives and the two men appear to know each other br br that's just one of the two beautifully crafted stories that shape this film the other one told in flashback is the patient's past before he was scarred and dying in a bed the story of the present mixed with the patient's past and his love affair that tragically changed his life forever br br to be blunt the english patient is a love story blended with a sweeping epic sensation and it blends magnificently what i really admired about the love story between ralph fiennes and kristin scott thomas was how passionate how obsessive how enchanting it was shown on screen usually in love stories such as later cold mountain 2003 the romantic elements seem far more lustful than obsessive to me some of the love scenes feature elements that may tend to be associated more with lust than love but still because it is so well developed and not rushed and not exploited out of proportion we can believe that there is a sure true love between these characters it reminded me a lot of vertigo 1958 in how well the filmmakers and performers convinced us that these were two actual human beings who truly fell in love with each other br br performances all around were great i was especially enthralled by the performance by juliette binoche who took home the oscar for her performance the following year i also liked willem dafoe playing the sort of cynical questionable character that he's always quintessential at playing and of course i can't leave out fiennes and scott thomas and their portrayals of two very passionate lovers br br despite my enormous enthusiasm for this epic i would be dishonest if i were to describe it as a perfect film there are two flaws that i cannot glance over number one it is a little too long and the reason for this is my second complaint there are a few unnecessary subplots i was not enchanted or particularly interested with the second love story between binoche and a bomb specialist played by andrews my research has led me to assume that this plot element comes from the original book and i'm sure it worked perfectly in there but in the film it just seems a and the relationship between the two characters didn't fascinate me i was far more interested by fiennes character and his relationships with his two leading actresses br br nevertheless these two flaws are easily forgivable even if they do slow things down a bit those put aside the english patient is an extraordinary achievement of film making to me it was sort of like an insane mix up between casablanca 1942 and lawrence of arabia 1962 two remarkable and better films and this effective blend proved to be well worth my time it is a real shame that anthony has left us for he was a truly gifted filmmaker this is all the evidence anybody needs
1	i watched this movie when it was released and being really young and not too much into cinema it was one of the most fascinating cinematic experiences i ever had and it really left a mark inside me at first i didn't quite understand the story and probably failed to make the necessary between past and present as the movie presents them to the viewer br br years after i first watched i managed to watch it again and this was the time that i fell in love with 'the english patient' it touched me so deeply and for me it became the best film ever made br br anthony made an absolutely stunning film all the locations are amazing and through his camera he manages to create unbelievable emotions inside you br br of course the music of the film is such a big part of the whole emotional journey of the characters and the film would not be the same without it br br but personally the best thing was the fragile performance that ralph fiennes gave in this masterpiece he plays so well the man that falls in love slowly but so deeply with katherine clifton opens up his heart and dives into this prohibited affair br br the most heart breaking scene for me will always be the one where hurt katherine is carried by towards the cave of swimmers and she wears the that he bought her she says 'i always wore it i always loved you' and at that moment he starts crying with such pain flowing from inside him br br juliette binoche is also amazing in her performance and really deserved the oscar she won br br overall this is a film that anybody who proclaims himself a cinema lover should watch in their lives
1	i won't go to a generalization and say it's the best love story of all time as some have said that's fine people feel very deeply about this film you either love it i believe or you simply hate it i don't want to say the best of all because that is simply too for me to make a statement like that however i feel very passionately about the english patient as well as millions of other people do br br the awards say it all br br i don't agree with critics on many levels however the ones that picked this one i couldn't agree more br br 9 oscars br br 41 wins br br 37 other nominations makes this love story on the top of the bunch br br from the director anthony the story that bursts onto the screen and as mr from t v s seinfeld said elaine i simply can't take my eyes off of it in this instance i don't agree with response but the story builds and takes the right time needed to make it's case beautifully the cinematography john won multiple awards as well as it ought too i have not really paid much attention to juliette binoche until now well not entirely true i loved her performance in sabrina lovely story of a somewhat complicated relationship next to harrison ford but this was simply an incredibly differing character for her and as deeply talented as she is she simply shined in her own subtle and graceful way she was just what this film was looking for i'm truly glad that it was her performance and not another actress ralph fiennes was also spectacular in portraying count de i had a new respect for his ability after seeing this one what can you say except see this picture again
1	anthony 'the english patient' is a film that takes us back to the golden years of hollywood it is grand and impressive in scale and yet so heartbreakingly intimate in its portrayal of human love and suffering at the 1997 academy awards the film owned the night taking home nine awards from twelve nominations the most decisive since bertolucci's 'the last in 1988 based on canadian author michael 1992 booker prize winning novel of the same name 'the english patient' is a touching meditation on life love and loss tracing the history of a critically burnt man in the aftermath of world war two br br during the war a man ralph fiennes is discovered in the burning remnants of a crashed plane with his face scarred beyond recognition and with the man seemingly suffering from amnesia he is assumed to be an allied soldier and is simply referred to as the english patient after the war in the mine ridden hills of italy a kind nurse hana juliette binoche who has apparently lost everybody close to her remains in a ruined monastery to look after the dying man over time she comes to learn more and more about her english patient who is actually revealed to be a hungarian count de rather than losing his memory in the plane crash we learn that this scar ridden man has perhaps chosen to forget his past both to protect himself from persecution and to cure himself of the tragic memories of his past love via numerous flashbacks we learn of former exploits in the sahara desert and his romantic liaison with a married woman katharine clifton kristin scott thomas br br it's certainly easy to see why 'the english patient' was so successful at the oscars it is such a beautiful film blending the quiet beauty of the italian countryside with the endless golden sands of the desert cinematographer john captures the landscape to perfection not since david lean's magnificent 'lawrence of arabia' has a film shown the desert with such beauty and grandeur making particularly good use of sweeping aerial shots from plane even in the film's more intimate moments excellent use of close ups and lighting capture the emotion of the scene coupled of course with the brilliant performances from all the cast members br br a long time favourite actor of mine 'the english patient' might just contain ralph fiennes' finest performance and considering his history includes such films as 'schindler's list' and 'the constant gardener ' this is not a complement that is to be taken lightly his count de is initially a very sympathetic character but as we slowly learn more about his past his likable qualities are eroded by his less admirable tendencies towards others ownership is a major theme of the film when asked by katherine what he hates most replies with ownership being owned when you leave you should forget me however as the relationship progresses and katherine perhaps tries to distance herself from him reveals a hint of arrogance insisting that his love for her somehow entitles him to have her whenever he likes i want to touch you i want the things which are mine which belong to me br br juliette binoche who received an oscar for her performance here is excellent as hana the lonesome nurse who fears to love because of the tragedies that have always harmed those close to her after some time of caring for alone she is joined by a dubious canadian thief david caravaggio willem dafoe who lost his thumbs during the war and who suspects that it was who betrayed him to the germans hana also strikes up a tentative romantic relationship with kip andrews an indian bomb in the british army however due to her past history hana is afraid that becoming involved with kip will doom him to death particularly considering his very dangerous line of work br br at 160 minutes in length 'the english patient' wonderfully evokes memories of the classic romantic epics of old successfully finding a balance of mystery love joy and tragedy the ending of the film is heartbreaking and sorrowful but also uplifting in its own way whilst some romantic relationships are doomed from the very beginning others have a very good chance of bringing happiness nevertheless in every case it is always better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
1	it is a strangely powerful and moving experience to see the english patient again after anthony death most of his body of work is dedicated to one shattering point the endless moral struggle of those who consciously walk a very thin line in the talented mr ripley moves away from patricia amoral tom ripley to give the murderer a conscience in breaking and entering gives jude law's character the need to confess and the rewards are chillingly moving here in the english patient the characters in love are never too far away from their corroding feeling of guilt ralph and kristin scott thomas are extraordinary they strip their characters from every pretense in a compelling complicity with us the audience juliette binoche is quite simply spectacular and her scenes with the wonderful andrews are filled with a sensual innocence anthony gave us films that were one way or another that elusive mix of art and commerce he was true to himself but thought about his audience he knew how to push our buttons without betraying his own there is something clear honest and startling about opus i miss him already but i'm grateful for the reflection of his soul he left behind
1	'the english patient' can rightly be compared to the films of david lean whose sweeping epics such as 'lawrence of arabia' and 'bridge on the river must have inspired the director anthony the film is beautifully photographed and like is set in northern africa but during the second world war the story is complex but it boils down to a forbidden love between an opinionated and often difficult archeologist played by ralph fiennes and a married woman played by kristin scott thomas br br the story based on a novel by michael is told in flashbacks by fiennes' count de the titular character the fact that his name does not sound like he's english plays a key role in what unfolds he has been badly burned in a plane crash occurring just as the film opens and is being cared for back in europe by hana an army nurse played by juliette binoche what makes this story epic is the vast sweep across place and time and the development of characters beyond that of the two ill fated lovers the film makes clear that true love and passion even with dreaded consequences can make life worth living or worth dying for if you're a romantic at heart and can appreciate a film without the standard happy endings and simple moral codes you may find that 'the english patient' speaks directly to you br br
1	count ralph fiennes has just been transferred to a hospital in italy during world war ii he is horrifically burned from an ambush his nurse hana juliette binoche tends to him body and mind for she fears quite rightly that he may be a very troubled soul in the course of his care the count starts to tell hana of his recent past it seems he worked in a government capacity in africa where he met a beautiful married lady named katherine kristin scott thomas although they tried to avoid each other they fell in love after a brief affair katherine called it quits leaving the count desolate even so the two would meet again under heart wrenching circumstances meanwhile hana herself falls for a man in the british bomb squad yet the war is raging relentlessly can love exist when the world is in turmoil this is a tremendous film based on an equally fine but complex novel the plot has many story lines that are woven together beautifully each of them poignant beyond description the script itself is elegant and contains many memorable lines fiennes is magnificent both as the burn victim and as the man who thought love was a myth scott thomas is also quite fine as the woman who fights against her passions as for binoche she richly deserved the oscar that she was presented as her nurse is a shining example of hope in a hopeless situation the scenery is utterly gorgeous as are the costumes the direction and the production if you have missed out on viewing this film rectify that soon very soon the english patient will remain one of the greatest achievements in film for centuries to come
1	tep is like a long cool drink of water after crawling across the sahara to classic film buffs who have been too long deprived of that certain cinematic magic not only is it beautifully photographed but the characters are perfectly portrayed if you're looking for the film to be a mirror of the book you will be seriously disappointed instead it is an excellent companion to the book and i think that is what anthony intended ralph fiennes is probably the most beautiful man in the world not to mention a brilliant actor juliette binoche is the posterchild for vulnerability and childlike enthusiasm and of course i'll go see any film in which kristin scott thomas is featured she simply must be the best actress since the likes of deborah kerr so much was promised with this film and so much is delivered
1	is typically considered one of the 3 master founders of japanese film the other two being ozu and this is an interesting and honest film on the lives of retired geishas whatever happens when such a woman ages and loses her charm and mystique well for those who are interested watch this film one is successful as a money lender but the other two have to borrow from her and are resentful doesn't have any children but the other do finds out that her old love is coming to visit her and is excited is a master in subtle studies of his female protagonists' characters ultimately draws the viewer into the study of the questions of ones happiness and one's life worth very good film indeed
1	i like this movie above all others it is multi layered there is so much to see and appreciate every viewing brings a new appreciation of the story line the plot and the characters acted and extremely enjoyable if you take the time to watch it and appreciate it i love the interaction between the players the subtle relationships the period atmosphere ralph fiennes is perfectly cast as the brooding lover and geoffrey the wronged husband is beautifully underplayed by colin firth the scene in the sand storm where catherine el are discussing the different types of sand storms is one of the high lights of the film and where the affair really starts the other relationship between hanna el is yet another layer of the movie which is totally enchanting and heart rending a worthy winner of so many awards
1	as can be read in many reviews here it is a movie you love or hate apparently not so much space for opinions in between i for one think that is a good sign br br i always appreciated this movie although the genre is not my typical style i never watched titanic for instance and am not planning to br br the english patient grips because it shows how people can be different when they are in an exotic environment as opposed when they are 'home' katherine it shows how destructive love can be in a slow strong and utterly painful way it excites because of the extremely passionate affair the pain of the one s who leave behind how pointless one can feel to move on br br the photography is just stunning not to mention the play of the actors the pace is slow but timely and that does justice to the book the timeline and the depth development of the characters to put this in 110 minutes as some seem to suggest here would amputate the multi of this movie people tend to have difficulties with the pace of movies as if they are in a rush to get to work hey get a life enjoy br br i give this movie 4 5 out of 5
1	i've seen a few movies in my time but this one is exceptional you'll have to watch it more than once to truly appreciate it it is emotionally very complex it explores love and passion at it's most extreme and it's cinematography is just breathtaking the character of the count is intensely passionate and tragic without him having to raise his voice or indeed leave his bed the film is perfectly cast and perfectly acted the film has a sort of mathematical precision and perfection to it which is rare these days it combines action love tragedy drama and politics all in one this movie is unmissable all the hype surrounding it and all the awards cannot begin to do it any justice hats off to michael for writing the incredible book on which it is based
1	'the english patient' is a love story set in europe as world war ii ends it is a wartime romance mystery epic like mon amour ' 'the sweet hereafter ' and 'after life ' anthony weaves extravagant beauty around a central character whose condition is grotesque and puts emotional barriers between the characters and the audience br br this adult love story is an intimate portrait in the tradition of 'casablanca' and 'dr zhivago ' the film sweeps gracefully attaining a level of eroticism and emotional connection that many similar films had missed told in flashback it is a masterpiece of intimate moment and spectacular largesse br br ralph fiennes plays the english patient count de a hungarian cartographer of few words who works for the british government and is stationed in the north african desert br br count is the unidentified survivor of a plane crash turned over to the allies taken into custody by a medical convoy in italy and essentially left to die in peace in an isolated monastery in tuscany under the care of an inspiring pretty nurse who injects him with morphine and reads to him a book considered his great treasure and his one surviving possession br br hana seeks to stimulate his touching memories wrapped up in his head released in lost pieces from his disturbed mind br br fiennes gives a haunted pained performance playing the young man whose veneer of charm cannot plainly cover his heart's capacity for passion he makes us sympathize with the character in showing self doubt and weakness as a badly burned man he has only cherished memories his joy and heartbreak are completely clear and visible in his eyes he remembers falling under the spell of an attractive english married woman he remembers the way this turns him from a harsh abrupt wanderer into a man willing to betray everything for love his tragic love affair forms the heart of the motion picture br br kristin scott thomas matches fiennes' work with a radiant sensuality she is captivating as the married european woman conveying the audience with the energy and enthusiasm for life that the count finds irresistible their different world despairing and hopeful menacing and resilient is simply beautiful with intense passion and intelligence this attractive blonde burns the screen as the different wife br br juliette binoche seems to shine as the french canadian nurse full of life and energy this vibrant young woman has a heart of gold kissing wounded soldiers but she thinks that she is a curse as anybody she ever loved tends to die on her br br colin firth is good as husband he is a british spy flying into the tough desert in a yellow biplane to take aerial maps of the whole north african continent he quickly becomes friend of the count yet when he realizes that his wife has committed adultery his face reflected a peaceful fury br br william dafoe plays a double agent spy who covers his anger with a strange charm he is a crippled war veteran who has a hidden agenda this cunning canadian man seems to know of some dark secret in past he believes the 'english patient' is partially responsible for the mutilation of his hands and is busy seeking revenge on everyone even remotely involved br br andrews is ardent he is a handsome sikh and an explosives expert with a dangerous there's a scene that is stuck in my head because it literally had me on the edge of my seat for what seemed an in this particular scene the military has to cut the wires on a bomb that has been hidden on a it's on a timer and he only has a few minutes left… the scene cuts back and forth between his tense face the wires and his dirty fingers as they try madly to figure out how to untangle and cut the wires without detonating the br br all the conventional elements of the genre are at peaks of excellence in the english patient john cinematography is breathtaking and gabriel majestic music is dreamy and this is a rich motion picture with ambition and style a fever dream lyrical and we are almost able to feel the heat of the desert the pain of the burnings the intimate flush of humanity that becomes the most haunting element of this epic love story
1	in a style reminiscent of the best of david lean this romantic love story sweeps across the screen with epic proportions equal to the vast desert regions against which it is set it's a film which purports that one does not choose love but rather that it's love that does the choosing regardless of who where or when and furthermore that it's a matter of the heart often contingent upon prevailing conditions and circumstances and thus is the situation in the english patient ' directed by anthony the story of two people who discover passion and true love in the most inopportune of places and times proving that when it is predestined love will find a way br br it's wwii flying above the african desert hungarian count de ralph fiennes is shot down his biplane mistaken for an enemy aircraft and though he survives the crash he is severely burned to his great good fortune however he is rescued by a tribe of nomads and winds up in a hospital but existing conditions are governed by circumstances of war and soon becomes one of many patients being transported via convoy to a different facility upon reaching italy he is too weak and ill to continue on and a canadian nurse hana juliette binoche volunteers to stay behind with him at an abandoned monastery br br hana soon discovers that her charge is something of a man of mystery as remembers nothing of his past and not even his own name thought to be english the only clues pointing to who he is are contained in a book found in his possession after the crash but even they are as cryptic as patient slowly however under prompting from hana begins to remember bits and pieces of his life and his story begins to unfold and his memory is helped along even more by the appearance of a mysterious stranger named caravaggio willem dafoe who suspects that is the man he's been looking for a man with whom he wants to settle a score but burned beyond recognition may or may not be that man meanwhile memories continue to surface memories of a woman he loved katherine clifton kristin scott thomas as well as memories of husband geoffrey colin firth and crippled in mind and body as he is those memories become the only thing left to which he can cling with any hope at all even as his life seems to be slipping farther away with each passing moment br br in addition to directing anthony also wrote the screenplay for this film which he adapted from the novel by michael the result is an epic saga presented in the tradition of lean's doctor zhivago' and lawrence of arabia' a magnificent film that fills the screen and the senses with unprecedented grandeur and beauty simply put film is genius realized crafted and delivered with a poetic perfection watching it is like watching a monet come to life from the opening frames casts a hypnotic spell over his audience that is binding and transporting with a story that has an emotional beauty that equals the engagingly stunning and vibrant images brought to life by john remarkable cinematography images that virtually fill the screen as well as the soul of the viewer in every sense this is a film of rare eloquence with a striking emotional capacity that facilitates an experience that is truly transcendental nominated in twelve categories it deservedly received a total of nine oscars including best picture director supporting actress binoche and cinematography br br if one had to choose a single word to describe the of this film it would be excellence ' even an extraordinary film however does not receive nine oscars without performances that are extraordinary in kind and the performances given by ralph fiennes and kristin scott thomas here transcend the term oscar worthy ' nominated for best actor for his portrayal of geoffrey rush was awarded the gold for fiennes has never been better achieving an emotional depth with his character that is nearly palpable private and introspective is not by his very nature an individual to whom the audience will be able to form an intimate connection fiennes however finds a way to open that emotional door just enough to let you in enough so that you taste the honest passion welling up within him and it works does not seek your friendship he will however gain your compassion br br kristen scott thomas too received an oscar nomination for best actress frances received the award for for her portrayal of katherine a woman whose stoic countenance masks the emotional conflict raging within her born of the forbidden passion that enslaves her and yet to which she gives herself willingly casting off her shackles of repression to embrace a love so strong it threatens to consume her the reserve katherine must maintain evokes the empathy of the audience as scott thomas successfully mines the emotional depths of her character to the greatest possible effect it's the kind of performance that draws you in and holds you fast taking you as it does beyond that curtain of hypocrisy that dictates what must be if only for the sake of appearances and allows you to experience a true sense of unbridled passion understated and shaded with subtlety it's terrific work by kristin scott thomas br br binoche gives a stunning affecting performance as well as the kindhearted nurse hana it is her humanity in fact which defines love in it's purest sense and offers a balanced perspective of it within the context of the film her relationship with kip andrews affords us a glimpse of passion of another kind which contrasts effectively with the intensity of that between and katherine the english patient' is a film that will move you and fill you emotionally one you will not want to see end 10 10 br br br br br br
1	the biggest heroes is one of the greatest movies ever a good story great actors and a brilliant ending is what makes this film the jumping start of the director thomas great carrier
1	this must be one of the funniest danish movies ever made ulrich thomsen and thomas bo larsen are hilarious as they drive across sweden i don't know how ulrich thomsen does it but somehow he can manage to play insane in a very sane way but if you don't understand danish i am not referring to your pastry here don't waste your time on this – i don't think it would work with subtitles
1	this is one of the best movies i have ever seen it is about true love and friendship about turning your life around and doing something good for someone else thomas bo larsen may play the same role he has done in so many other movies but recently we have seen him in other roles which he does great too but so what if he plays the same role that he has done in other movies – he's perfect for that role ulrich thomsen does a great job too these two criminal low lifes are the best friends ever they share everything and they do everything for each other no matter what the costs are when they find out that peter's daughter is being abused they put everything on hold things you can't put on hold unless you have to make even more criminal acts and takes her to a better place they do the best they can – these two men are not masterminds but they have their heart in the right place all i can say is that peter and are my biggest heroes too…
1	it's all there two classic anti hero buddies a headlong chase through beautiful swedish scenery guns violence sex and a butch cassidy sundance kid style finale br br add a touch of surrealism and some distinctly danish humour and you've got this excellent road movie
1	hit and run is a shattering story starring the always wonderful margaret colin as a society lady who has it all until she hits a child with her car and leaves the scene hence the title the tragedy is that she goes to call for help and returns but is frightened away by angry passers by who think the hitter abandoned the scene this was made in the days when not everyone had a cell phone or there wouldn't be a story br br colin's guilt and anguish are palpable and cause her to act so strangely that a detective gets onto her right away her lies sink her deeper and deeper into a self loathing hole causing her to make a bad situation worse br br this is a very thought provoking story and one can't help but to feel this lady's pain wishing throughout that she would simply come clean br br as a tv movie thanks to colin and a strong script this is a well above average tv movie
1	a look at three geishas who are way past their prime now they look back on their pasts with fondness and bemoan their present kin played by floating has sworn off men and has made a good living as a everyone on the block owes her the other two nobu and wish they could land husbands but are not foolish enough to believe they ever will meanwhile their children one has a son and one a daughter are both about to get married not to each other is irked at how much prettier her daughter has become than her and bitterly tries to convince her not to marry the man concerns about her son are more legitimate in nature but they are also understandably self serving after her son leaves she'll be alone a bit into the film two of former clients come looking for her one a man so obsessed with her that he tried to get her to commit double suicide with him the other one of her handsomest clients unfortunately he comes for her money not her love the way i've described the film makes it sound unrelentingly depressing but it's really not sad but not fatally so it's more bittersweet unfortunately i only marginally liked late the story seems better when i look back on it but it is very slow and dull i actually nodded off twice during the film and i wasn't at all tired before i started it this is the kind of film that i can appreciate more than like it reminds me very much of my reaction to a couple of ozu's more famous films 7 10
1	the main reason for watching this picture is to savor the brilliant performance of s ms dominates this film with her tremendous presence as nanny the woman who believes in doing good no matter to whom with no strings attached this actress clearly shows a range that is amazing br br thanks to director george wolf for bringing this distinguished cast of some of the best black americans actors together this ensemble group under his tight direction help create the right atmosphere in which the action takes place br br of course none of this would have been possible if ruben santiago hudson hadn't written his wonderful play working with mr wolf perhaps the best theater director of this generation they have opened the play in a way that it evokes that not too distant past where a child lives under the influence of ms crosby when his own parents are not around to take care of him ms crosby becomes the adoring mother of little ruben in a way he represents her reward for having lost her own daughter br br unfortunately there is no time to develop some of the characters as the action solely concentrates in enhancing the relationship between nanny and the young ruben played with such charm by the young marcus carl franklin who is a natural the only thing that could have been done differently was the voice over narration that is at times intrusive as it doesn't clarify or justify what one is seeing frankly just by watching the interaction of the players is self explanatory br br in the background there is always music no matter what hard times these people are going through but nanny's house is full of laughter and that glorious music that takes us back to that era br br aside from ms other notable performances are given by terrence howard one of the rising stars of the moment mos def jeffrey wright marcy gray louis gossett jr delroy lindo rosie perez carmen jimmy and the rest br br ms s deserves to be seen by a wider audience in lackawanna blues she clearly demonstrates she can do anything she wants because of her enormous talent and charisma
1	spoiler alert i worked as an extra on this lifetime tv movie filmed in seattle it's really interesting when you take part in the production of a movie because usually they are still in the process of either still writing parts as was the case here or making editing cuts and major changes from the final parts br br my husband and i both worked as extras in this movie and i recall them discussing on the set how it was yet to be determined whether or not the little girl dies in the end frankly i never thought margaret colin's character really got adequate punishment for her crime of hit and run lying to police covering up etc could you imagine how the ending would have had to change if she had ended up killing the hit and run victim instead of her ending up coming out of her coma okay just something to think about br br by the way i play a police detective you can see for a split second and my husband plays another detective you can see quite often we've counted four times margaret colin was great to work with and very down to earth although lisa vidal now a lifetime regular was aloof br br overall the movie turned out to be about a 7 10 but like another poster commented is still a real tear jerker and makes a great saturday afternoon cable flick
1	spoilers spoilers wow what a predicament joanna has found herself in after accidentally running over a young child she goes to call for help only to return to the crime scene amidst a group of very angry onlookers this is too much for her to handle and she flees the scene luckily the child didn't die but is seriously injured and in a coma so starts the biggest struggle in life should she keep quiet or speak up at first she doesn't but eventually she realises that it's torture living with such a horrible secret br br at one point she even joins a search party to help find the culprit and gradually a detective starts to question this woman's behavior she wants to tell the truth and she never meant to run away from the crime scene but is it worth telling and having the whole town hate you for it br br the thing about this movie is that you don't choose sides joanna is very much a good role model even though she's made some wrong choices you feel for her even though you know what she did was wrong her journey is a good representation of what any human being would go through if something like this were to happen to them br br margaret colin is an absolutely brilliant actress she was amazing in the tv series now and again and great in films like independence day and the devil's own her performance here is so realistic and unforced that she carries us singlehandedly through the entire film in the end i wanted to see more of her lisa vidal also provided some good supporting work as the gentle resourceful detective br br to wrap it up if you wanna see a movie that will make you think long afterwards one that will say this is reality then you won't want to miss this one br br my rating 9 10
1	just watched this film on tv and it was awesome br br had just planned on watching it whilst doing some work however i ended up watching the whole film with out doing work as it was so good br br actors my not be very well know but the story line makes up for it the fact that the actors make are less well known only makes it more believable that the events could occur i did not feel a biased towards one character as i have no judgement of the types of character as i have never seen any of the actors in a film before which made it even more enjoyable br br would recommend watching it
1	there are spoilers driving down a lonely country road one rainy afternoon joanna margaret colin is distracted for a brief moment and runs down a little girl riding a bicycle on the side of the roadway doing what she can to keep the injured youngster comfortable joanna goes to call for help at a local service station before she can give her name joanna hangs up the phone in order to get back to the girl and see if she's all right it's then and there when the nightmare begins for joanna br br heart wrenching drama that can effect any one of us when you try to do the right thing but are influenced by the words and feelings of those around you getting back to the accident site joanna sees it's off by the highway police before she can tell them what happened and her involvement in it joanna starts to have second thought about turning herself in br br what would at first have been a tragic accident turns out to be a hit and run with joanna facing time behind bars if caught even far worse she has to live with herself in what she did seeing almost every day the family of the little girl she ran down kelly corey dallas who goes to the same school as her two daughters mindy holly gretchen esau kira posey life starts to come apart as she tries to keep the truth from her friends and family not to mention the eaton police of what she was involved with in little kelly's accident br br you can easily see how the words of her friends and neighbors as well as her husband doug drew about the hit and run effected joanna it was those words that had joanna unable to bring herself to admit what she did not just for her own concern but her two daughters and her husband as well feeling that they'll be shunned by the people that they knew as friends as well as neighbors for years br br joanna on the verge of losing her mind tries to implicate her friend nancy grayson sherry in kelly's hit and run accident by trying to plant her earing that she lost in joanna house at the accident site it's then that she realizes what she's doing and suddenly stops keeping her from making an already bad situation even worse not wanting to have kelly's accident but also innocent nancy's freedom and reputation on her conscience as well br br colin gives a stunning performance as the guilt ridden joanna kendall and you can really feel for her seeing how she's being eaten up inside and not knowing just what to do wanting at first to turn herself in to the police a series of miscalculations causes joanna to become a fugitive from the law when she eventually did joanna became the most hated and despised person in eaton br br not being herself when still at large husband starts to feel that she's either back to smoking or even having an affair never in a million years would doug have thought that joanna was the person who ran down little kelly and left her to die on that rain soaked road the look on his face with his mouth quivering when he found out the truth said it all br br the last few minutes of the movie took a lot out of you knowing what joanna was going through not to downplay the suffering of the injured kelly corey and her parents and how she now has to face the music for what she did and have to live with it for the rest of her life
1	the main point of the movie imo is the fact the whole life has been nothing but a series of facades the movie opens up with her secretly dying her gray roots and hiding the used kit in an empty tissue box what is strange is that she is hiding this from her husband if she has to hide mundane things from her loved one one can bet that she is hiding even bigger things from others involved in her life br br when joanna accidentally hits cory she leaves the scene to call the police by the time she returns the police and ambulance are there as well as people from her community remarking what kind of person hits a child then just leaves her there well respected in her community she makes the decision to keep quiet about what she had done but she never realized how difficult it would be the keep up her facades br br great movie i have seen it many times
1	this is such a great movie to watch and all the actors put together a great film which would be enjoyed by everyone it is very emotional in parts so when you watch it grab a box of tissues to keep you company this movie doesn't deserve a rating below 10 10
1	margaret colin stars as the principal figure in this story as i watched it i remembered her bit part in adrian as diane lane's neighbor in a tony ny neighborhood br br this movie was surprisingly good and diane stillman deserves credit for an accurate portrayal of class crimes and which actually occur in upscale neighborhoods perish the thought it is real but not over dramatized the audience lives through her accident the pain it has caused denial and the ultimate resolution br br it is more than just a question of what is a good person as colin speaks to her husband is a person's character defined by one single act and should they be condemned forever because of their action the questions are pertinent it is also amusing to see several cinematic references to martha stewart i e the fussy bothersome mother colin is reputed by her sometime friends to be a perfect hostess with perfect genes gag and a scene wherein colin is confronted by police the friends also betray her later br br the denial and facades of american society are addressed oh murder doesn't occur here similar to the theme in season in purgatory by author dominick dunne about the true murder of martha in greenwich connecticut colin is aware of her crime but consciously finds herself perpetuating the facade until she finally breaks down rent or buy this film she is an underrated actress who does quite well in these roles
1	boasting the title for the sickest film ever made pink flamingos is an undisputed classic sure the camerawork is shaky and off center the story is muddled and slow paced and every single character in the movie is repugnant and despicable but pink flamingos has a certain playful charm and brilliant satiric wit that no other movie can match br br while this film is indeed an offensive one reading descriptions of what goes on in the movie is much worse than actually seeing it only john waters can succeed in making rape murder sadism cannibalism coprophagia and just about every other form of human debauchery known to man seem absolutely hilarious this movie must be seen to be believed
1	pink flamingos a representation of society's past br br pink flamingos a film directed by john waters in 1972 is a very disturbing portrayal of the negative impact a traumatized childhood can have on future life babs johnson grew up in a very non typical home blatantly you can see the impact this had on society through her actions up to the ending where she engulfs dog feces was this film just some sick and twisted perversion of endless gut wrenching occurrences or was it symbolic of something much deeper to side with the first would be the easy way out and to the side with the latter might seem demented but possibly true the film does have some credible resemblance to actual events of our societal past every leader that we as people view as displays similar characteristics to those of babs johnson ivan the terrible genghis khan adolph hitler and joseph all had childhoods babs johnson had a troubling childhood and therefore is associated in the same class as all of the previous mentioned rulers that is why a great deal of her actions throughout the film can be seen as disturbing however were her actions her own fault or society's for letting her grow up the way she did furthermore each character in this film represents either a past leader or event another coincidence is edith's obsession with eggs with an open mind this can be tied into the genocide and hitler's attempt to annihilate the jews some view hitler as a genius others a mad man john waters must have seen him as a mad man because his representation edith was indeed mentally ill edith's son crackers and traveling companion cotton are symbolic of what was wrong in our own backyard slavery both names are slang terms that represent a time period that most of us would rather forget theses characters are crucial in terms that it points out that in some times our society in america was no better than what we often view as horrendous acts of social onslaught in other cultures the chicken f king scene is the epitome of what was wrong in our society in this time period and is still wrong chicken is a 1970's slang term for woman therefore it might be possible that john waters were trying to bring out the subject of rape through cotton and crackers actions the antagonist family if a single antagonist can be determined in this film was the marble is often mentioned in association with wealth therefore this may be symbolic of the struggle between the poor and the wealthy a fight that still continues on today and will probably continue on forever pink flamingos is a monumental film for its disturbing scenes but should also be noted for its camouflaged political agenda that waters displayed so throughout its entirety
1	the story of dirty fat filth like middle age woman who lives out of society be knowing as the filthiest woman ever lived can someone take her the crown there is one couple the nice film for people who don't like ordinary pieces of comedies and don't mind some disturbing sense of humor i was very surprised seeing some scenes and love theirs pungent kind br br
1	examination of the lives of three idling constantly complaining single ex geishas in post war japan is a wonderful character piece they used to be friends in the old days but now their relationship is strained because one of the women has become a successful and the other two owe her although the is the only one who has become successful in this rebuilding economy she is the only one of the three that has no children the other two each have a child whom they depend upon for income because neither of them work complications ensue when the kids decide to get married though not to each other and leave home this leads to the bitter grumbling old women to become even more bitter and grumbling getting drunk and bemoaning their rotten children and inconsiderate friend the meanwhile the is herself unhappy despite her fortunes she has no one besides her young deaf maid to keep her company and chance encounters with two former lovers from her geisha days lead nowhere all they really want is to borrow money from her the three characters are all neck deep in the quicksand of their own bored lives and are too weary to struggle much usually opting instead to resign themselves to the futility of it all or at the very most toss complaints back and forth to each other br br late is very slow moving and not much actually happens but like all great directors has the ability to do much with very little i haven't seen much of his work but i suspect that this isn't his best even though it is very good the problem i think is that it all doesn't seem to amount to much but the film is full of good points although it is cynical it isn't overly so seems to sympathize with his desperate characters and he paints vivid portraits that make the characters seem even somewhat noble in the squalor of their self made misery while the film isn't a must see it is important as a fragment of the work of a great little known outside of his own country director precious little of which is available on video here in the u s
1	after watching desperate living i was hooked on john waters films i heard about pink flamingos and had to watch it and boy was it worth it believe what you hear it is trash it is packed with everything filthy which is actually the main plot of this film it contains the following incest cannibalism rape chicken shagging nudity like you never seen before beware of baby's birthday party entertainers poo eating arson trailer trash perversion egg cross dressing you get the picture above all this is a definite must just beware of the birthday party entertainer and divine wondering around the park
1	pink flamingos was revolutionary for its time and even today it's still hard to watch not that i didn't enjoy the film it's hilarious but it's very repulsive and jonh waters pushes the envelope as far as it can go the story concerns babs johnson devine she's the filthiest women alive she lives in a trailer with her son crackers and daughter cotton not to mention the overweight edie who's obsessed with eggs and sleeps in a crib then there's connie and raymond marble two filthy perverts who are jealous of babs they long to outdo her in being the filthiest person alive this means having their janitor impregnate kidnapped women and selling the babies to lesbian couples flashing people in public and even sending babs a turd in the mail babs fights back to prove she's the most deranged person alive which even includes incest murder and eating dog crap and other sick sexual acts it's a film that's fun for the whole family well depending on where you live watch pink flamingos but don't forget your barf bag for more perverse weird sex and bodily functions also see sweet movie
1	i was first introduced to john waters films by seeing female trouble on ifc i was disgusted but for some sick reason i enjoyed it then i picked up the pink flamingos dvd in the john waters boxed set the movie is about babs johnson the filthiest person alive who lives in a trailer in maryland with her obese egg obsessed mother and her deranged son crackers in the movie you will see such sick sights as sex with chickens drag queens people eating feces torture and all other sorts of random humiliation the film has a soundtrack from 60's rock and roll artists the only problem is that some parts of the film seem to drag on and can get a little boring i found female trouble a little more fun rated nc 17 for explicit sex violence and disturbing images enjoy
1	pink flamingos is a movie no word can explain it was just as good i thought it expands films starting with a multiple beginning and ending with a shocking but clever ending pink flamingos is one of the best films of the year don't miss this opportunity to see a great film rent it on video or see it at a late midnight showing like i did but just see it
1	well i can safely say i'm human wong and i didn't throw up i laughed and laughed if this movie made you puke there is something wrong with you but this movie is incredible i bought it four days ago and have watched it 5 times already the animal cruelty gets my heart but not long enough to be guilty the movie is shocking disgusting and vulgar the acting is horrific what else do you want from a movie i am a die hard cult film maniac pink flamingos is awesome it makes rocky horror as someone has said look like the teletubbies
1	a brilliant film by the great john waters the characters are unforgettable the acting script and camera work only enhance the overall greatness of this film perversion as an art form a must see for all easily a perfect 10
1	for all viewers out there who have slammed john waters for creating a film like pink flamingos just stop it's getting you nowhere has anyone ever cared to stop and think about the ambition and dedication mr waters possesses to gather your best friends up and to create a movie just to gross out thousands of viewers all over shows this man has a great deal of ambition inside himself just read his biography shock value it discusses the lengths he went through to get this film finished maybe it wasn't just the fact that john made this film to gross people out it was to prove that there can be something such as good bad taste
1	rating 10 classic waters one of his best and most shocking films divine is the most filthy person ever mink stole also delivers a superb performance
1	i loved this thing the most wonderful thing about pink flamingos is that it strives desperately to be in horrible taste but has really gained a cult following world wide says a lot about us us being people doesn't it pink flamingos succeeds because waters made the film he wanted to make a film need not be disgusting to succeed but it may be when you watch this film you see things that are disgusting but are ultimately brilliant because they are freely displayed what we have here is an honest piece of personal creative expression everyone who ever cares to succeed as an artist be it in film or any other media should watch this film
1	the film that gave us john waters is one of the funniest films ever yes it may be gross but it's filled with hysterical moments that nobody has done since the infamous dog scene has to be one of the highlights of cinema not a film for the easily offended it's one of those movies where you always see something new performance is worth the reputation mink stole is hysterical this is the film responsible for the farrely brothers and the entire gross out comedy genre i know that sounds a bit extreme but think about it before this comedies were very run of the mill and almost identical after this movie comedies became strange and weird but in a good way i'd give it 15 out of 10 if i could
1	for me late was interesting not only because it was my first film of i completely enjoyed but because it was technically as modern and innovative as his 30s work i've seen this doesn't mean innovative editing in the way godard would introduce it with breathless in 1959 but quite the opposite br br the editing was as fluent as in the best of hollywood films from the 30s 40s but at the same time incredibly fitting regarding the way he was telling his story unlike them it never purposefully accentuated anything or tried to make itself invisible but together with the cinematography made me feel like i was traveling on a gentle stream constantly feeling the waves beneath me like a gentle stroke of the hand or the almost unnoticeable rocking of a cradle in this sense the film was comparable to ozu's and work but somehow even more subtle br br what was so modern was the fact that the editing seemed almost a character in itself similar to the remarkable camera work in dreyer's ordet 1954 or 1943 which is revealing us a deeper understanding of the film and its characters rather than simply showing them to us br br i feel that editing and cinematography are the most interesting aspects of his films elevating the stories significance beyond the obvious the wonderful sets and settings shouldn't be forgotten either i found the story itself to be rather conventional br br the narrative and its characters were introduced in a very interesting way and i thought that the first half of the film was setting up a delicately ingenious spectrum of emotions and interrelations unfortunately the second half of the film and its resolution were rather didactic and and formulaic compared to the set up though by itself it would have been perfectly fitting in any other less complex film somehow i felt that he failed a bit in trying to dissolve the many layers he had woven maybe he should have kept them intact this criticism might seem a bit harsh to a viewer of this film especially since the procedure is again reminiscent to the way ozu dealt with the plot in his films unfortunately i haven't yet the feeling that was able to elevate the story and its characters in his films' conclusions in a similarly sublime fashion the best efforts i have seen to date floating clouds 1955 and scattered clouds 1967 sustained the energy he had built throughout the narrative while delivering poignant and resonant endings br br this is already more than most director's are able to do and in my opinion the basis for a real mastery of the cinematic medium in this regard and considering the resonance of the last two films i've seen by him he may have already become one of my favorites br br the only problem i have at the moment is where i'm going to see more of his films on the big screen
1	out of any category this is one demented and over the edge film even in todays standards filmed entirely in crap o rama this film will blow your mind and something else too br br the amount of hilarious bad taste and sleaze is astonishing the dialog is breathtakingly fast and campy you'll either love or hate this film but give it go i've seen it 4 times and absolutely love it divine is in the quest for being the filthiest person alive but so are her rivals too in this obscene and disgusting but funny and stylish little film br br divine was phenomenal and she will always be missed greatly edith massey does the unforgettable performance as the and don't forget the energetic mink stole br br crazy s t br br recommended also for you sick little puppies br br female trouble br br desperate living br br polyester
1	more entertaining than all the gay orgies in 300 combined more heartbreaking than a shakespearian tragedy more poetic than even the most melodramatic poems about lost love and blah blah blah and on top of all that the greatest trash ever made br br a black comedy testing the limits of the human senses john cult movie pink flamingos is a story about the conflict between two families that ends in humiliation death and of course the eating of dog feces yeah by the way that is not actually the humiliating part no no this is not about the impossible love there are no or on these 90 or so minutes this movie is about the battle for prestige if you could call it that the battle for the title filthiest person alive br br on one side we have divine played by the cross dressing waters regular umm divine a caring daughter good mother cannibal murderer pervert and current owner of said title she loves her son crackers a bit way too much crackers himself sports a sexual attraction to both chickens and young ladies sometimes mixing them up in threesomes family friend and loyal accomplice cotton gets her satisfaction from watching crackers during some of his acts involving the mentioned earlier objects of attraction last but not least mother and grandmother to crackers edie a 400 hundred pound woman sleeping eating and basically living in a baby cradle she is addicted to eggs and loves the egg man the man who brings the eggs lol br br the four of them live peacefully in a caravan outside the city until the moment when they become a target for the marbles cheaters very evil people actually their main source of income comes from the kidnapping and impregnating of young women for the impregnating part they use their trusted and loyal cross dressing butler to provide the semen after that they sale the child to the highest bidder br br it was the envy towards divine and her title that will lead to an inevitable confrontation between the two families an epic battle of filth perversion and violence br br pink flamingos is an unsurpassed masterpiece in the trash movie genre loaded with oddities and strange acts john movie is loathed and hated by critics and the average movie going audience but for the few that remain by these generalizations the flamingos is an unforgettable experience funny and sick violent and poetic it truly is an exercise in poor taste
1	for me pink flamingos lived up to it's reputation as being the shocking disgusting repulsive trashy film i was expecting it to be that really contains everything but the kitchen sink we are treated to almost two hours of nastiness that never lets up rape sex sex with chickens transsexuals castration murder cannibalism and a horrid display of singing out ones anus it is about a strange couple who begin a competition with a trailer trash family trying to steal their title as the filthiest people alive divine a fat guy in drag is an unbelievably vile human being who actually becomes painful to watch trust me when i say that this film is not one to be quickly forgotten especially the end scene in which divine eats dog crap off the sidewalk i have always thought john waters was over rated and i cannot say i like this film but it is an experience if you ever get a chance to see it
1	i grew up in baltimore so i was exposed to the films of john waters since i was way too young to watch them and if you're knowledge of john waters is limited to hairspray or cry baby or other family friendly movies then you must prepare yourself for pink flamingos br br explicit sex acts incest an old lady who eats nothing but eggs and acts with chickens are just a mere portion of some of the depravity in this movie the film ends with divine waters' 300 lbs cross dressing star eating dog excrement br br the premise is about two families one a pair of inbred trailer trash which includes divine and edith massey as the egg lady and the other is a rich swinging couple both families are competing for the title of filthiest person alive enjoy john waters' finest movie but only see it if you're an open minded individual with a strong stomach because some scenes in this movie will gross you out
1	you know the saying curiosity killed the cat well i have heard so much about this film from a magazine that named this one of the most shocking movies of all time my 1001 movies you must see before you die my sister who saw this at a film festival and the i love the 70's show on vh1 i just had to see this movie since it was named the grossest movie of all time and well after viewing this film last night i have to say that it really did live up to it's title my god this movie was so weird i thought i really did see it all with some of the sickest movies and tv shows i've seen some things i guess will always still feel like a shock br br well babs johnson aka divine has been named the filthiest person alive and a jealous couple named the marbles are competing for that title they want to take divine out and be named the filthiest couple alive by kidnapping women raping them impregnating them and selling their babies to lesbian couples but it seems like divine and her family of well i don't know seems to keep the title by having sex with chickens butt lip syncing eating dog feces stuffing meat up their skirts incest and it just gets grosser and grosser br br pink flamingos is horribly acted horribly made and well just plain horrible the reason for the 10 rating i'm going to give it is due to the fact well how could you rate this film i always rate so i just figure what the heck through the grossness of this film you have got to give john waters some credit who the heck would ever think of this movie over 35 years later to the cast and crew who worked on this film you guys are just plain nasty br br 10 10
1	babs johnson divine lives in a trailer with her son crackers her daughter cotton and her mother edie edie massey she's in competition with a couple named connie and raymond marbles mink stole david to be named the filthiest person alive the film shows their attempts to outdo each other br br this film is very much not for everyone it's a in your face no holds barred assault in bad taste crackers has sex with a woman with a live chicken between them while his sister watches the marbles pick up female hitchhikers impregnate them keep them chained in the basement and sell the babies to lesbian couples divine and family have a party which includes cannibalism etc etc it's disgusting but in a way not unwatchable it's so over the top and is so unapologetic about it that it's kind of fascinating as director john waters might say it's bad taste done well also it's kind of amusing to watch the acting is so wretched especially by massey that you just watch it in disbelief a friend laughed out loud at how bad massey was she improved in later pictures br br this is not for people who are easily offended even though it's over 30 years old it's still shocking however if you have an open mind and can take a lot of extreme behaviour this is a must see the only part that really was too much is what divine does at the very end
1	what's there to say about pink flamingos it is beyond criticism or even explanation because it doesn't really aspire to be like any other movie you've seen you will either get it or you won't laugh at it or roll your eyes in disgust or both john waters is an odd filmmaker putting that mildly mixing both innocent childlike humor with shockingly offensive moments intended to well who knows what his intentions were it is like a form of assault albeit a funny one br br the thing that makes humor so infectious and effective is that his characters inhabit a world that can seem both alien and completely familiar to the viewer like the petty rivalries that form the plot of pink flamingos surely everyone has experienced this kind of thing at some point but almost certainly the matter at stake was not the title of the filthiest person alive what makes the movie compelling viewing for me is the way that waters creates giddy self contained environments and doesn't let you in on the joke right away the people in his films are completely in tune with one another for instance when cotton tells babs that she doesn't want to accompany her into town because crackers is bringing his lady friend out to the trailer babs reacts with a knowing smirk and says to her in a conspiratorial aside that little just perfect at this point we do not know yet that crackers plans to take his lady friend out to the shed to thrust live chickens at her naked body while cotton watches through a window but this weirdness is totally commonplace and understood by the characters in the degenerate world that waters creates br br another example would be the conversations between the girls in the basement and channing the deviant butler the first time we see them waters cuts jarringly from a scene in connie's cozy office to channing descending into the basement where we see that there are two women down there one dead and one very much alive and p ed off susan is not a cowering victim but is enraged and abusive to channing leaping up to launch a full scale verbal attack on her jailer they both have a weird understanding of the bizarre situation and she is not so much intimidated by her kidnapping as she is violently insulted and righteously furious she does not let up for one second while channing is in her sight and the two scenes that feature their delirious banter are two of the comic highlights of the film later in the film when divine and crackers break into the home and discover their crimes of keeping abducted women in their basement it represents the total lack of support that divine and her family have for the brand of depravity that the marbles are pandering here is something divine is unfamiliar with a corruption devised by her newfound rivals and she despises it furthermore while kidnapping does not seem like something divine would think twice about she is indignant that the girls are being held down there and happily sets them free relishing the revenge that they take on channing br br at the other end of the filth spectrum waters occasionally reminds us of the line between his twisted fantasy world and the real world the first time we see connie she is belittling a minor character named sandy who has never heard of divine cookie on the other hand reacts with a hilariously matter of fact evaluation of title as the filthiest person alive revealing that she inhabits this world of unspoken and understood lunacy as well br br something also must be said for the way the players are in touch with their respective roles especially divine who doesn't miss a note not once does he falter in the ridiculous garb and character he's been given and it takes pink flamingos to a new level or weirdness people actually believed divine was like this in real life and it's easy to understand why because while watching the movie you're not really thinking about the movie you're thinking about these people who made it since they're really doing the outrageous things in the script you start to think that maybe this is not a story but a bizarre documentary br br but even more so pink flamingos is not so much a movie as it is an event or something that happens to you even though its shock value is mostly gone for me now i say mostly because the a hole scene and the chicken scene still make me wince i still find this film to be hilarious and habit forming
1	a very strange disturbing but intriguing film i don't think i ever needed to see what a human being can do with his butt and i doubt if i'll ever want to see it again that said there is much to be amused by like take on jayne classic walk in the girl can't help it and putting slabs of meat between her legs in a grocery store a gritty feel very much like a russ meyer film generally poor acting with the notable exception of divine
1	my 10 10 rating of course applies only if you're willing to get completely and utterly grossed out because you know that only john waters can do that in pink flamingos his directorial debut he portrays two families locked in combat to see who can be the filthiest person alive what divine famously does at the end pretty much answers the question but even aside from that the movie is basically an excuse to shock people beyond what anyone would usually imagine you had better have a very strong stomach to watch this movie even some of the lines are rather mind blowing br br otherwise avoid this movie like you would the ebola virus
1	like those who listened to radio reports about the attack on pearl harbor every one who has ever seen pink flamingos can tell you exactly where they were when they first saw it and some thirty years later the movie is still one of the most unspeakably vile obnoxious repulsive and hilariously funny films ever put to celluloid guaranteed to test the strongest stomachs and the toughest funny bones br br filmed with a close to zero budget and some of the cinematography around pink flamingos tells the story of two families that compete for the tabloid title of the filthiest people alive just how filthy can they be plenty the film includes everything from sex with chickens to what i can only describe as a remarkable display of rectal control to a heaping helping of doggie doo and i guarantee that you won't want to eat an egg for at least several weeks after seeing it br br the cast is either wonderful atrocious or atrociously wonderful depending on how you look at it the star of course is divine and to describe divine as the biggest drag queen on the planet would the understatement of the year she is a mammoth creature given to big eye makeup big orange hair and big expressions she is the charleton heston of drag and whether she is almost running down a jogger pausing to use the bathroom on some one's front lawn or startling real life shoppers by taking a stroll along a baltimore sidewalk she is both unspeakable and unspeakably funny others in the cast include mary vivian pearce danny mills and the ever appalling edith massey as members of family and mink stole and david as the white slaving baby selling couple who challenge status br br it should be pretty obvious that pink flamingos is not exactly a movie that will appeal to just every one and viewers who know director john waters only through such later films as hairspray and crybaby will be in for a major jolt but if you want to see something so completely different that even monty python couldn't imagine it this is the movie for you just make sure you eat before you see it because you probably won't want to eat afterward and you might want to keep a barf bag handy just in case br br gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
1	sadness and nostalgia permeate late a 1954 film by japanese auteur now undergoing a retrospective of his long unavailable films thanks to james of cinematheque ontario and the japan foundation based on three stories by fumiko late tells the story of four retired geishas now middle aged whose lives have become full of disappointment and regret performance are uniformly outstanding particularly that of who starred in films by ozu's late spring floating weeds and tokyo story among others portrays kin a former geisha who has no children and lives only with her young maid who is unable to speak br br she has become cynical about men and has turned her attention to money particularly real estate speculation and money to her friends nobu and tomi yuko all former geishas friends live in meager circumstances and complain about how kin has become greedy and tomi spends considerable time gambling to try and make ends meet both tomi and are in the process of losing their children son is leaving to work in the in and daughter has decided to accept a marriage proposal from an older man both resist the change in their circumstances but come to accept it as inevitable br br two male friends visit kin a former lover with whom she once contemplated double suicide and ken another lover who she looks forward to seeing again after many years her mood is upbeat but soon turns to resentment when she discovers that the two men are only interested in borrowing money cuts between two extended sequences seamlessly as kin confronts and tomi and console each other over the loss of their children the dialogue is extremely natural and the characters are women of strength who though their future does not seem bright refuse to see themselves merely as victims late has the simplicity humor and stoic acceptance of life prominent in the films of ozu and is a bittersweet reminder of the slow passing of time and the comfort that memory and companionship can bring along the way
1	pink flamingos is a cult classic the plot of this film revolves around the challenge to supremacy as the filthiest person alive pink flamingos contains some memorably repulsive scenes like a sex scene with a chicken and the scene where divine eats fresh dog feces yes the movie is shocking and funny at the same time but the biggest laughs come from the actors' lines check out especially this line from divine kill everyone now condone first degree murder advocate cannibalism eat s filth is my politics filth is my life on the whole i really enjoyed this film still its tagline an exercise in bad taste should be taken to heart and even those used to the gross out movies today may find this gem hard to stomach highly recommended
1	this is a really amazing story and the most amazing part of it all is that it really happend in case you haven't noticed it's based on a true story br br possible spoiler br br imagine the shock and horror of discovering that your own father was once a ss officer in ww ii br br it's a very intriguing story and i'm really surprised the movie is rated a lousy 5 3 here on imdb com br br my rate 7
1	i watched this movie miniseries on television back in 1989 and it was an amazing movie i would love to track down a copy of it just to watch it again and again it's been 15 years since i watched it and it still sticks out in my mind br br from the beginning it draws you in the characters and plot line keep holding you the ending was superb the feeling and rage that the son displayed when finding out the truth about his father are unforgettable the suspense on how it will turn out and how he will confront his father is really intense br br if you can get a copy of this movie you will thoroughly enjoy watching it br br then email me and tell me where i can get a copy
1	i stumbled upon this movie by chance i was traveling a few years back and this movie was on some channel on cable at the hotel late one night not much else on and figured i watch it for about 20 to 30 minutes until i decided to go to bed needless to say i stayed up and watched the complete movie the plot was very interesting and does make you wonder if there had not been ss who did this or at least thought of doing it i have been looking all over for this movie i even sent and email to the production company but the weren't sure that it would ever make it to dvd but said there was always hope if anyone finds this movie drop a note here where you found it as i'd sure like to get a copy some day
1	yeah i watched this mini series with my mom and dad as a kid it was one of the few mini series that my 9 year old mind actually could follow i recall it was very well done and didn't necessarily have the feel of the typical crap mini series it was more or less an original concept that really grabbed your attention i would recommend this miniseries to anyone who is a fan of history and plot twists although most twists in this movie are either spelled out or predictable it is still worth the time i haven't checked to see if you can get it through netflix yet however i would imagine not they should play it on the history channel or something
1	like most other reviewers i really enjoyed this tv miniseries i didn't see it when it first came out but my grandfather a big fan of mysteries and war films happened to record it in 1989 i remember watching it at my grandparents' cabin one night and i was completely drawn into the story it has a very intriguing plot and a good mix of drama romance and espionage i've seen lots of films that are set during wwii but none with a twist like this thankfully i was able to make a vhs copy of the film several years ago i've watched it several times since then and i still enjoy it i would love for this film to be released on dvd it would be so much easier to view with chapters
1	i have been looking for this mini series for a very long time i saw this movie when i was living in back in russia many years ago i'm curious if somebody who has the recorded copy of this movie can send me the copy i'm willing to cover all the expenses and pay for the extra tapes or dvds this is one of the best tv series that i have ever watched i would recommend it to anybody who is somewhat interested in israel history and world history after wwii i'm also trying to find a book i have heard that its even better than the movie however the new one costs around 50 on amazon and i have never purchased a used copy my e mail address is hotmail com thank you very much for you help
1	i agree with so many of the other reviewers here this was a great film and an even better novel by robert fish unfortunately i believe the author died before he could see this film made the performances are all top rate with the three principles john glover ben cross and veronica seemingly made for their roles the exteriors both in europe and israel seem very authentic and the 4 hour miniseries length was just right for the telling of this story fortunately i did tape this when it was on television and have enjoyed watching it ever since i can say unhesitatingly that it holds up even to this day i gave it a rating of 10 if you haven't read the book you should really find a copy this would be an outstanding film to release on dvd with extras that could easily include interviews from the cast
1	i watched this on tv in 1989 and regretted not taping it i was very intriguing and suspenseful it is amazing as the events unfold and this man's past catches up with him br br the acting is first rate and the story is exactly what the title claims twist of fate but no one could run away from a life that this man had at the beginning of the movie
1	william m thackeray once said a good laugh is sunshine in the house when i watched take away i must say that the sun did shine in my house this film was superb the opening was very cleverly done the story held together well in a nutshell two chip shop owners who normally enemies are forced to form an alliance of sorts to engage in a david and goliath struggle against a fast food chain which builds a restaurant on their street the ending was hilarious even though i have found many who disagree with me on that one br br the film was though very discreetly portraying contemporary australian ethnic stereotypes in particular the collision or culture clash if you will between the traditional anglo australian and italo australian stereotypes and how they found a sort of unity though adversity very nice br br i found vince performance as tony an italo australian fish 'n chip shop owner in his thirties to be first class his acting was very genuine and convincing through his performance he managed to really bring to the surface the essence or i should say the soul of the italian australian stereotype which in reality is not too italian but not too australian either found that balance breathed into its lungs and gave it life br br the cinematography could have been better more shots of the local area would've been nice from what i can see it was in melbourne but where in melbourne to me it looks like somewhere between ivanhoe to though i am not 100 sure on that one br br i don't know why so many people are comparing this film to the castle though they have similar themes running through them take away stands in a league of its own br br i think the film was excellent with a capital e it has everything it's funny the jokes are great it deals with contemporary issues facing australian society the story holds well i loved it i highly recommend it
1	subtle delicate touching br br a young man in a summer dress on a bike like incarnation of perfect joy history of a coming out and anatomy of relationship br br soft ambiguous gestures slices of desire and a day like space of innocent miracle expression br br two men a girl a afternoon on beach some words and a gift religious traces and a vision of light and expression nooks of an ordinary day and hot evening br br a erotic chaste film in which the gay identity or the first sexual relation are only instruments for good definition of a universe with values br br pledge for self discover universe of beauty exploration the sign of ozon and same nostalgic air of every creation robe is a splendid occasion to understand the moment like projection of dream to look with emotion and child soul the essence of the essence beyond the images or people
1	i hadn't planned on seeing this movie however i wasn't disappointed when a friend dragged me along although there are no real surprises here the guys do reasonably well with their obviously modest budget br br if you've seen the trailer you probably know what to expect from this type of movie and there's a pretty constant stream of jokes here with a couple of classic moments with the highpoint probably being an excellent flashback to what the guys were like in the 1980's also i've read elsewhere that the ending was a disappointment but i found it refreshingly different from what i had expected from this genre br br overall this movie wont change your life but it's got enough laughs there to keep you entertained throughout
1	though several scenes of can be described as over the top i thought that it was refreshing to see something that was willing to go to a level of near taboo twisted comedy br br is a great film with great dialog i wouldn't say that this film is for everyone but the film is on my top 10 list br br if you can look beyond it's occasional offensiveness and watch it for the film that it is i would hope you could see it in the same light that i do
1	i like the earlier description of this movie as a life poem i caught this totally at random on the movie channel last night and was captivated enough to stick with it the whole way there's really just a unique voice to the film a poetry of narration that's meaningful without straying into pretension there's also many hilarious moments from middle school days that are crude without being potty humor it's sad that this movie is so low rated the fact that there are so many 1's makes me think the numbers are cooked i can't see how anyone could see the movie as that abysmal sure this is by no means a typical romantic comedy but it is a very unique viewpoint of a very unique life of a man whose very appeal comes from his detachment a detachment he must overcome before it destroys him give this flick a chance it came out of nowhere for me and i feel the richer for it
1	i was surprised to read the comments of the person who so disliked this film it really is quite funny there are definitely a few laugh out lines that my boyfriend and i quote to each other some of the situations might be unsettling bisexuality drugs a particularly strange child's view of sexuality but believable at the same time it's about communication and miscommunication between men and women
1	i saw this movie on a night i couldn't sleep i loved it and searched to find out when it would be on again probably the best movie i have ever seen at the time and even now the cast is full of people i had never seen before but it seems like a real life story based out of nyc this is the kind of movie that elevates the viewing pleasure because you see it hear it and feel it from the moment i saw drinking a beer and watching the game i imagined what it must be like to grow up without a father there are so many lines from this movie i use on a daily basis like the personal alone time in the bathroom drinking a 7 11 beverage great film
1	i as many imdb patrons seem to have stumbled upon this little film when it appeared on the canadian showcase network i was as many of you also sucked in and watched the entire film i was hooked at first by the literate dialogue and wry sense of humour that the film is rich with i was coasting along comfortably on a sort of kevin smith meets killer films wave until half way through when the movie really buckled down and explored it's themes in more detail with a decidedly darker and more poignant edge far from being taken out of the experience i was brought further in this is not the best film of it's kind and will certainly not have universal appeal so i do understand some of the more negative reactions to it but i bought in and enjoyed it immensely the flash back type movement in the chronology was effective the characters were well realized and the issues raised were human accessible to my experience anyway and interesting i was quite impressed with the film's ability to remain sweet funny and entertaining while not shying away from controversial subject matter and raw emotional language dynamics and situations this movie is a great antidote to a lot of the schlock that has permeated the witty clever romantic genre a kind of male brigitte jones for the literate sect take 2 hours out of your busy schedule and jump into world or you could go rent you've got mail 'cause if that appeals to you you won't like this anyway those of us who did like it will be alright without you on our side
1	journey through the final days of liberally sprinkled with flashbacks to a sexually active and diverse childhood br br it's definitely not a feel good romance movie it is a romance movie but one without illusions everyone's an adult here not your cup of tea if you want another sleepless in seattle or notting hill
1	as i watched i couldnt but laugh at what was taking place on screen sure got a lot of play from both boys and women but i was confused as to why the actor that played in h s was 10 years old then the actor changed age to like 20 to play when he was a senior in hs but whatever i thought it was funny
1	an example of genius filmaking the epic story of three major stages of life for a young boy told with eloquence and raw fearlessness rarely does a film come along that causes me to out loud say during most of the viewing this is a really good film again and again that is exactly what happened when i watched this film i really do not understand how anyone could not like it i found myself at moments crying and laughing at the very same moment unable to control how i felt about the scene the acting is outstanding eric why is he not all over movie screens he was really extraordinary his seemingly effortless attempt on the screen impacted me in deep visceral ways i thank him in my opinion eric schaeffer is one of the best filmakers around and i hope he continues to rise to the challenges that he faces while trying to give us art in the face of ferocious commercial filmaking br br
1	i disagree with the imdb com synopsis that this is about a bisexual guy preparing to get married it's more about all the crap we go through self induced and because of our parents that we have to get over when we grow up like the linda poem says childhood is the barrel they throw you over the falls in this movie is much more like a narrative poem it's about life and the mistakes we make and hurt we inflict and experience over the years and how in the end it's all about love i'm not trying to be hyper sensitive or and finding and being with one special person
1	i expected it to be good after i'd seen some other superb moments and read much about it but this movie is brilliant clever very bright emotionally and perfect in all moments every movement is there for a reason everything fits so closely and true and honest this is the movie about the beauty and innocence about it's simplicity
1	instead of watching the recycled history of pearl harbor with nothing new to reveal except for a couple of real events involving a few individuals thrown in so the makers of the film could say they contributed to the spread of history along with nothing but cgi explosions filling in for a sappy romantic triangle one should go see dark blue world br br this film takes place during the historic time in wwii which the czech pilots left their homeland and went to fight for the raf instead of laying down their arms and giving in to the nazis it was a part of history that should at least be told once to the outside world a love triangle takes place between the main characters but one of them does not die off conveniently like in pearl harbor but through sacrifice for true friendship the movie is tragedy after tragedy with not even a bittersweet ending with our hero not enjoying glory of taking his country back the return of love by his current lover the return of love by his reunited lover or even the return of unconditional love by his life long pet he is utterly heartbroken and feels no worse off in the russian labor camp this kind of ending is something that hollywood would probably change if it was their script br br the movie does play on the sentimental sometimes but it also shows the humanity of people overall a worthwhile movie
1	this is an excellent film the aerial scenes were well done it was also the right balance of war and love the film gives meaning to the phrase never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few
1	this feels as if it is a czech version of pearl harbor it has a same story both guys fall in love with the same woman and add to the twist the woman is actually a married one whose husband has been missing for a year i don't think that the story line is too strong the younger guy is quite naughty that is cute it kept me watching because of the emotional music and the pleasing scenes one after another it also has some strong visual special affects best of all the love stories is seamlessly integrated with the story br br i think that if it was in english it would be such a big shot all across the states it is too bad that not that many people are open for foreign movies
1	for a squadron leader normally the only guy trained and equipped for navigation in a squadron and very hard to replace to risk an expensive plane and himself to pick up a crashed fellow pilot no matter how close a friend he is in the face of oncoming enemy troops is hard to believe especially when they both have to share a cramped spitfire cockpit two into a ok but a spit come on this part of the film is a adventure not fitting a film that one is supposed to take seriously as said by s eriksson gothenburg sweden is rubbish not at all one true story of the war comes to mind of two grounded spit pilots who planned and flew illegally a strafing mission over france one had to crash land and his friend landed his spit under fire while german infantry was moving in on them and flew them both out of there in a spit they were both severely injured in former fights one had an artificial leg from the knee down now that may sound like something out of but it happened ill get sources if needed
1	this is the movie that finally pushed me over the line into registering with imdb so that i could vote for and comment on it i've only recently come to appreciate well produced war movies and this is one of the most thoughtful i've seen br br stunning is the word that comes to mind when i think of this viewing experience my husband and i watched this film last night for the first time it is gently moving yet exciting at the same time not a contradiction this story in the hands of hollywood could have become just another smarmy action packed top gun time waster br br the two lead actors playing frantisek and karel played off of each other marvelously well and is a very pretty boy without seeming to exaggerate or exploit that fact in terms of acting ability and appearance my husband said tongue in cheek well he's no tom cruise i replied thank god if you appreciate beautiful and understated acting see this one
1	i saw this film in wales in july it deals with the courage of czech pilots who flew numerous missions for the raf after their country had been occupied by the nazis in this film the action takes place both in the early 1950's when these pilots are being beaten in political prisons in and during world war ii in britain they were imprisoned after their return to their homeland because the communist regime viewed these warriors as a threat to their occupation of the pilots maintain their dignity in prison and during numerous air battles against nazi pilots this film contain a love sub plot that does make sense because it helps us to understand that both civilians and soldiers made great sacrifices to preserve democracy the end of this film indicates that the heroism of these czech pilots was finally recognized in the early 1990's after the restoration of democracy in the country then known as this powerful and moving film was made with financial support from the czech government i highly recommend this film
1	a surprisingly beautiful movie beautifully conceived beautifully directed beautifully acted beautifully acted and most beautifully photographed the cinematography is nothing short of splendid it is a war movie but is epic in it's scope and blends romance tragedy and comedy into a story that is as harrowing as it is provoking
1	yet another foreign war movie that puts hollywood to shame real in the same proportions that hollywood productions such as harts war and are unreal a moving story backed up by strong acting and great film making
1	along with having minor flaws to it this film is a masterpiece and most definitely the best war film i've seen not the mention it's one of the best films i've seen in all genres i might have written this for no man's land before but now i think this one's better it's very sad in the ending and i almost cried after the two shocking scenes that came within 5 minutes close to the film's final br br performance as the main character was fascinating although he's supposed to be a rookie considering his age this film makes you think a lot makes you cry or at least gets you close to it and makes you hate any kind of war and political bs the flashbacks to the prison hospital make the film even more delicious br br one tiny flaw about the film is the non british accents of supposedly british people most of the british people on screen were actually british but how about the ones who are supposed to be british and speak with a foreign accent that really didn't fit into this adorable film but it's pretty much the only flaw i've noticed effects could also be a bit better but then again we all remember many films from one particular land that have tremendous fx and absolutely nothing else br br briefly this film is a total masterpiece and every single individual should see it if you want to travel to the czechoslovakia of 40's and if you want to virtually witness a tremendous amount of emotions at once this film is for you if you don't want to do those this film will make you want to do so
1	engaging entry from europe about czech fighter pilots flying for the raf during ww2 it's always interesting as an american to see a new point of view on familiar events in history there's nothing terribly original or revolutionary about the style in which this is filmed or the romantic love triangle that anchors the narrative still it is compelling all the way through there is a good balance between drama romance humor action and symbolism that is understated beautifully by the director and cast this is a breath of fresh air after sitting through overblown and boring hollywood epics like pearl harbor a solid production all around this is definitely worth your time if you are a fan of foreign cinema
1	there's not a dull moment in francois robe it's surprising how much is packed into this short film while reclining on a deserted beach after a nude swim a young gay is approached by a girl seeking a light for her cigarette she invites him to make love in a wooded area near the beach on returning to the beach they find that all his clothes have been stolen she lends him a summer dress to cover his nakedness and requests he return it next day he rides his bike back to the holiday cabin dressed as a girl his gay companion is sexually excited early next morning the young man returns to the sea and bids farewell to the girl whose holiday has ended she suggests he keep the dress as a memento of their summer romance it's a light hearted film that captures the spirit of summer holidays by the sea but perhaps not for those who are embarrassed by nudity or homosexual themes
1	nothing short of magnificent photography cinematography in this film the fact that you keep seeking and hoping for more flying sequences tells you that they have just enough the acting is fantastic the stories are seamlessly woven together and the dogs are splendid br br a must rent view or see br br don't be afraid of subtitles br br its worth a little aversion therapy br br 10 10 br br
1	this is such a beautiful movie not only does it portray war it also has friendship love the life of is filled with sadness every aspect of his life fell apart i can only imagine how he would feel when his friend make the ultimate sacrifice br br i see a slight similarity to 'pearl harbor' which is also about two pilots falling in love with the same woman however this film is much better made because this does not portray the woman to be unfaithful easy going the friendship between the two men is also much more convincing well built up i definitely recommend this movie to all people
1	this is one of the best czech movies i have ever seen the director did excellent work there is great camera and the actors are really great i like war movies so i really liked this one i would recommend it to anyone who wants to know something about czech pilots during 2nd world war and their life after the war in communism
1	a nicely paced romantic war story that should have got more exposure the czech pilot who played piano gives a mellow touch to the story the flying footage may not have been enough for aviation buffs like myself but then again this really isn't an action movie though it does not have anything in common with the james novel the hunters that became the movie about korean war sabre pilots dark blue world had a similar feel but with more of a romantic element to it better in some ways than battle of britain in that it doesn't rely on big name actors suggest viewing this movie with some czech beer and some czech called sp
1	absolutely one of the best aviation movies of all times on so many levels hardware junkies will drool over the largest single massing of outside of a battle of britain reenactment no less than eight flying spits are on hand for very accurate ground and air sequences br br those that marvel over the lore of flying and get misty eyed reciting high flight will identify with the central characters' reverence for the freedom of being fast free and high in their dark blue world be warned romantics and even dog lovers are treated to a very emotional ride in this movie the core message is one that is shared by many war vets in that their finest hours their period of life when they felt most alive was in fact during the war when everything else is sad and gray br br the plot concerns czech pilots who escape from their country when the nazis invade and join the raf free czech squadron there are a few subplots all of which are worth careful attention this is just a plain old excellent movie that even the most ardent anti hardware romantic will love keep the kleenex on hand beautiful photography first rate acting accurate details of raf life during the battle of britain easily a candidate for any aviation personal dvd collection
1	compared to battle of britain this is a real film with real characters and a real plot battle of britain is basically a documentary with the occasional lawrence olivier and michael caine but the real protagonists are the spits the hurricanes etc here on the other hand you have two well wrought characters actually three and a real plot i strongly recommend it to anybody even to those who are not particularly fond of war movies it's well filmed and i wonder what the director might do if he had the big capitals behind him and i do not think that it's over sentimental it's only that in the fighters you have real people with real feelings and a real life as real as any fictional life in any great film
1	it seems that no matter how many films are made on the subject there is no shortage of stories that emerge from the second world war it stands to reason that a conflict on such a scale as global warfare would capture the imagination of filmmakers everywhere and provide them with ample material on which to base a story heading in a different direction than most mainstream movies about the war is dark blue world a film that does not deal with the traditional major battles of the war does not tell the story of many of its major figures and does not even focus on soldiers of any of the major allied or axis powers dark blue world instead ventures into the world of refugee soldiers fighting in exile for their occupied nations br br the film does a marvelous job of portraying the challenges faced by czech pilots flying under the british royal air force expressing the frustration that they felt both at the language barrier between them and the other fliers but also at being restrained from achieving vengeance against the germans until being re trained br br dark blue world also works quite well outside the arena of the war film as being a story about human relationships a love triangle develops between the two main characters and an english woman that complicates the teacher mentor relationship of the two exiled soldiers this relationship is extremely well acted throughout developing into almost a father and son relationship at many points br br the aerial combat in the film is among some of the best and is also very interesting in exploring the cultural challenges mentioned above as the men struggle to fly their machines fight the enemy and relay commands and replies in an unfamiliar language the tension and struggle of these scenes continues the tension between the men on the ground just as the tension on the ground continues that felt in the air br br this may not be a film for everyone the hardcore war film buff may find its exploration of relationships a bit off putting but it is on the whole an excellent film regardless of the bellicose element or not
1	if you want to see the true vile nature of communism watch the movie dark blue world svet it recounts how the brave czech pilots who refused to surrender fled to england to join the fight against the nazis after the war the communists feared they had picked up dangerous western ideas about freedom so they had these heroic czech pilots thrown into a nightmarish prison where some of the guards were the same nazis they risked their lives to defeat br br if hollywood wants to understand why so many of their movies fall flat they should compare the character drama portions of pearl harbor with this movie in dark blue world you really make a connection to all the characters in pearl harbor everyone is like some slick cartoon version of a real person br br there are innumerable instances of brilliant writing in this movie one funny scene that sticks in my mind is when the character karel is being taught english by a rather formal englishwoman when he can't pronounce a word he ridicules the lesson in typical stoic english fashion the teacher calmly but forcefully confronts karel and shames him into behaving br br the aerial battle sequences in this movie are amazing and they help to keep the movie lively i read that it cost 11 000 an hour to rent the planes but it was worth every penny br br ladies you are expected to cry at sad movies but guys beware this movie would make general patton weep and if you are a dog lover you'll use up half a box of kleenex don't say i didn't warn you
1	i came out of dark blue world feeling sigh 'so yet it was definitely a film needed to be made and it's truly well done from czech republic it's entertaining in spite of the 'sad' premise it is full of feelings the bonding and undeniably true friendship between the two lead characters one mature lieutenant pilot ondrej as and the young ever so eager budding pilot as karel the inevitable love triangle and the now and then reminders of the grim prison situations in czechoslovakia in the '50s it's all in one film put together by the father screenwriter and son director team zdenek and jan previous achievement being the lovable kolya br br it's not as long as east west french est 1999 which was heart wrenching multi layered story about a returning russian doctor and french wife's ill fates after wwii in russia the plot of tmavomodrý svet title in czech is quite straightforward and has sprinkles of light humor music songs of wwii england sung in czech modest special effects of pilots and air crafts in the sky not elaborate like hollywood there's no need to be bing bang boom all the time when showing air battle scenes the sadness was explained up front in the beginning two paragraphs in english and wrap up with follow up paragraphs the film is not totally subtitled only when translating the czech conversations the rest are in english be it very british or in czech accents so it's a foreign film with english language and includes british actors br br the three lead performances especially of the two czech pilots were wonderfully delivered there are nuances between the two of them even though it's the steadily mature vs the eagerly young i always appreciate tara fitzgerald yes there's brassed off 1996 opposite ewan mcgregor and pete postlethwaite remembered her from hear my song 1991 opposite adrian dunbar and ned beatty opposite hugh grant in sirens 1994 and the englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain 1995 besides her appearances in pbs masterpiece theatre mini series br br 'so the fact that heroes defending one's country can be so ill treated and for so long 40 years thank goodness for worthwhile memories and the imprints of friendship unforgettable hence the pause for a ray of sunshine through a stain glass window ironic or coincidental that it's of a church where the hard labor took place symbolic of hope never give br br other recent films that have stories needed to be told with as the canadian from afghanistan taking a journey to with a personal in mind more than meets the eye behind a by iranian director makhmalbaf everything put together with radha mitchell as a new mother facing sid sudden infant death insightful film by swiss director marc forster and his much talked about controversial film monster's ball i've yet to catch with halle berry billy bob thornton and peter boyle see the films without prior expectations or comparisons to films before just see it
1	being advertised as the most expensive movie ever made in the czech republic it automatically makes the you think it will be over glorified and clichéd out of fear of the budget however with a budget of 8 million and half the movie in english it was not exactly a big budget high risk movie br br what we have a grand epic tale centered around the friendship of two people the younger karel and the older frantisek as pilots in the czech air force when the germans invade before the beginning of world war ii they escape the country to england to joined the raf br br their friendship becomes strained through the love of the same woman however there is a bond of friendship that goes beyond merely being friendly their friendship is an elegant metaphor for the attitude of the czech people and their country remember they were not the winners the defeated the germans only to be invaded by the russians br br funny exciting intriguing beautiful sad and illuminating this movie is one of my favourite war movies most of all i like the way they make fun of the british in a way that is amazingly affectionate and gives an amazing insight into the way the british military fought wwii br br forget the recent american efforts peal harbour saving private ryan this is the best wwii movie for a long time
1	i'm just starting to explore the so far wonderful world of monsieur ozon i've seen only 4 films so far and with the last one in the row it hit me that all of them were in fact about lonely women and their actions not a single non lonely female character out of 12 and all of them bring heavy impact of surroundings br br this film is probably the only one out of four where this impact is for good br br the gay theme is an almost standard part of background for films so it doesn't grab the accent although the looks of the characters might watch for the feelings not for their objects br br very nice and fleeting truly like a summer romance and while being a relaxation to thought and mind it gives some food for the soul
1	since growing up in czechoslovakia i was following history of raf pilots and crews in wwii great britain their stories and tragic ending either in the combat or in communist prisons and camps this is without any doubt more than dark chapter in our history although the fact that those brave men we're able to go through all this and recover afterward is amazing to all people who want to see great movie this is the one during recent visit of czech republic i saw this movie three times in three days they we're just playing it for three days otherwise i will go to see it even few more times it's worth of it i hope you will enjoy it although it requires a little more thinking and knowledge of background information behind the story pretty much same way that the movie kolya was it's not a simple movie because of it's deep story and the way its told will most likely make you crying it did to me three times in row zdenek sverak did as always a great script his son jan made a great movie and the cast without doubt all of them did great job i was amazed by ondrej by great role played by kaiser and all other actors which made this movie simply great if this is not an oscar nomination i think that i will be on strike in
1	this is a beautifully made film finely balancing the fragile human stories both before and after 1945 and the indiscriminating combat of war the use of outtakes from battle of britain a film that does not nearly so well portray the 1940s enhances rather than detracts from the whole a deeply impressive work this lived in my memory for the 2 years since i saw it and i have just bought it to explore the making of extras br br i highly recommend this film movie like aces high it alternates between viscerally exciting or scary air combat sequences where the viewer might experience actual loss of characters they'd come to care about but also unpredictable interactions on the ground where skillful writers and real life experiences inform some involving and moving events this also underlines the fact that for many people 1945 marked not just the end of one conflict but the beginning of another and even today we still don't recognise the loss bravery and sacrifice of so many nameless heroes or even worse we venerate them from a distance without allowing them to be human beings with all the emotional weaknesses that entails making their sacrifices all the more valiant br br watching this movie is an experience which will take you from the heights of friendship to the depths of jealousy and back to love that endures even beyond death if all war films were like this we'd never have to fight again br br did i mention it's worth watching br br 10 10
1	i've been a devoted imdb visitor for a few years this is the movie that finally compelled me to write in a review br br i caught this movie by chance the opening credits happened to be scrolling past when i turned my tv on one morning i thoroughly enjoyed the film for many reasons all of which have been well covered by other reviewers the moodiness the forgotten history of the czech pilots the subtle charm of the supporting characters the fatalism of the main characters and the first person view during the battle scenes br br but the element of dark blue world that really stood out was the lack of dramatic effects especially during combat and this is a good thing while the pilots were flying in battle no musical score accompanied them no manipulative shots of worried spouses girlfriends were interwoven every little aerial maneuver did not elicit trite patriotic cheers and viewers weren't asked to swallow unbelievable james bond esque pilot heroics instead the audience is allowed to feel the melancholy fear and isolation of these single pilot fighters while they try to stay aloft during combat as comrades are shot down we are spared tearful howls and the typical but audience pleasing revenge based heroics instead the other pilots sadly and quietly observe their fellow pilot's fate in reality they still need to remain intensely focused on their own safety and objectives at that very moment we only briefly experience the pilot's breathing and the background roar of the engines as we the audience witness a friend spiral quietly down to his death and then immediately need to jump back into combat mode and focus on survival br br too often in hollywood we're spoon fed the emotions we're supposed to feel and no room is left for the viewer's imagination dark blue world maintains a that captivates and involves the viewer allowing us to invest in the movie and fill in the gaps and spaces using our own thoughts and feelings br br excellent film well worth seeing
1	a beautiful film cleverly shot with an eye to war era detail and considering it is set during wwii minimal violence br br a small cast weaves an emotive journey through the occupation of czechoslovakia the separation from loved ones as the pilots depart for england the separation from the spaniel will touch hearts spitfire scenes love friendship and betrayal the theme of betrayal runs deep through the movie from betrayal of love to betrayal of friendship and finally the betrayal shown by the communist regime to former raf pilots post war br br a desperately sad film all the more so because it is so factually accurate i would recommend it to everyone
1	i missed it at the cinema and have rented it on dvd if you get the chance i would recommend it as it´s better than nearly everything i´ve seen at the cinema or on dvd this year that isn´t to say it´s one of the best films ever or anything it´s just i´ve seen a lot of rubbish br br can´t really add to what´s already been said except 8 10
1	i was turned on to this movie by my flight instructor and now i wonder how the heck it was out there for nearly five years before i finally discovered it if you have any love of flying at all especially an attachment to the planes of wwii this is an absolute must see vastly superior to the pathetic pearl harbor and up there in rivalry with the famed battle of britain filmed more than thirty years ago there are moments when you feel as if you are flying literally dodging the shell casings of your leader as you roll in on a me 109 or he 111 br br as an historian this film deeply touched me as well for it is about the plight endured by tens of thousands of gallant poles hungarians and czechs who in 1939 1940 fled their homelands made it to england fought with utmost bravery for the survival of western civilization and then were so callously abandoned by us after the war when they were arrested by the communists upon their return to their native lands i have stood atop monte in italy and was moved to tears by the cemetery for the polish troops that stormed that mountain that british and americans could not take i have traveled as well to prague the most beautiful of cities and studied their history their story of abandonment i believe should be a lesson to us even today about obligations to gallant allies br br but back to the film if you love flying see this if you are interested in the aircraft of wwii most definitely see it without doubt the most brutal direct and frightfully swift air combat scenes ever replicated for film and yes if you even are seeking a touching romance there is that as well in heartbreaking detail br br bill professor of history co owner of a wwii replica p 51 mustang gloria ann
1	this is a brilliant lavish czech film from the sverak father and son team all about two czech pilots who flee to england to help the raf in the battle of britain but who also fall out over a woman the beautiful tara fitzgerald features some excellent and incredibly realistic aerial combat scenes – probably the best ever and much better than pearl harbour or even the film battle of britain and a number of interesting general themes such as love war romance comradeship loss and servitude also the trials and tribulations of moving abroad and learning a foreign language though made easier here with the great stalwart anna massey br br the film has some great little motifs such as the world famous raf bullseye device shown throughout and at one point nicely reflected in the black vinyl record spinning around cutely music is another theme of the film of course plus all of the traditional icons of english life dimpled beer glasses unlike the post war straight glasses used in pearl harbour tea in a nice china tea set in an english country garden though shot in the czech republic the mascot dog a vintage bottle of hp sauce even a darts board br br of course the airfield and surrounding countryside is ridiculously unlike anywhere in the south of england though the aerial sequences make up for this showing and the seven sisters always synonomous with southern england and the battle of britain but best of all is the sensational musical score from ondrej as good as anything from hans zimmer yet all in the tradition of the late excellent ron goodwin who scored the original battle of britain film amongst other classic english war films there's even a nice little cameo role for the – apparently – famous czech musician and actor and kevin kline lookalike kaiser who plays on the piano the title theme song dark blue sky excellent br br it's got a few smutty yet funny little freudian devices too such as always showing an inflated condom floating by the ceiling whenever karel the callow but brilliant is stuck at the airfield while his love rival and fellow pilot frantisek ondrej is with susan br br another great english actor in this film charles dance is of course fine as wing commander bentley br br highly recommended and well worth watching hiring – get the dvd with special features stuff like how they created the dog fights and stuff probably the only film ever to combine subtitles with characters speaking english german french and czech all at once
1	i'm czech and soldiers not only pilots who escaped czechoslovakia after nazi's invasion in 1939 and fought against them abroad are true heroes and bravest men in our history for me this movie from director of academy award winner kolya 1996 is a tribute to these men it's first big screen movie about wwii soldiers since 1968 i think dark blue world is a good movie good acting good special effects nice music etc movie is half in english and some actors are britons but greatest thing about this movie is it's pure existence it's great chance to show people all around the world and to many people in czech republic too that role in wwii was not only as occupied country but as an active member of allied campaign br br leading characters are older and wiser frantisek and young karel they escaped together from czechoslovakia they are flying in the same squadron and they fell in love with the same woman maybe it's a cliché but fortunately this storyline is not so aggressive and is in good balance with other scenes including great dogfights i don't want to compare dark blue world with pearl harbor someone will like ph more and someone will like but if you like happy ends is not for you so i think it's very good movie for everyone who likes this type of stories and very good movie who wants to get to know something about this chapter of history br br btw main theme dark blue world is from czech 30's and 40's composer he wrote this theme when he lost his eyes
1	centres on czech ww2 pilots – the older frantisek the boyish impulsive karel and in the background the quiet piano playing as the film opens it is 1950 the war is over and frantisek and are imprisoned in a former monastery in their now soviet controlled native country they are of the people' is severely by his communist countrymen and dies br br in 1939 many pilots manage to escape german occupied europe and make their way to england where they join the raf notwithstanding their high motivation and experience they face raf reluctance and british stiff upper lip finally they fight in the battle of britain however frantisek and karel find their friendship severely tested when they both fall for the same woman br br in terms of romantic sub plot this is very similar to the hollywood production pearl harbour however given the context of the film and eventual fate it is also possible to read the english woman's treatment of the two men as symbolic of british treatment of the czech and polish raf pilots conveniently forgetting them once the war is over br br in addition the film is a lot less cliché than pearl harbour and the characters are more fully realised dark blue world also scores in terms of its stunning aerial dogfights which were seamlessly created using a mixture of models actual live action aerial filming and out takes from the 1969 epic the battle of britain br br in short dark blue world is a well made moving thought provoking and exciting drama that puts the likes of pearl harbour to shame highly recommended
1	i absolutely loved this movie great realistic looking combat footage for one thing and a touching genuine story also the calm understated manner of the lead character makes him very likable the human relationships in the story seemed so very typical and possible of what you could expect in war time the bond between and carel shows the loyalty wartime comrades can have for each other and that is often described in books and interviews with veterans the subtitles do not detract from the story at all and actually serve to underline the problems the czech pilots had in the raf the postwar storyline is a great reminder that for many the suffering of ww2 did not end in 1945 especially in russian occupied countries the cinematography was also very good wish i could have seen it on the big screen
1	this is one of the movies one has to start watching with an open mind one knows it's going to about a mute one could look forward to or be afraid for a lot of sentiment br br well forget it the movie starts with a little black humour and then gets started from then on its takes you on an ever frightening ride through the dark centers of moscow all right it must be said the unexpected twists are expected and the mute is mainly used as a plot tool or fear builder but this movie doesn't let you go br br it's like the old gangster movies but then without any glamour at all and in russia and that's one of the most important aspects of this movie it's situated in russia this does have a great impact on the movie according to me it makes it better everything becomes simple and basic life is without nonsense this could be a great potential for more movies in the future gangster movies about the russian mafia br br it is a beautifull and terrifying movie it's horror but you can't feel but sympathy for the little mute one last advice don't look this too late in the evening if you want to sleep well
1	comments must've been written on topsy turvy day because everything stated by that simple life form is the opposite of real truth br br eighth wife' is hilarious in every scene in every way the chemistry between colbert and cooper could not have been finer supporting cast is superb br br writing and direction are magnificent br br like so many other comments on this board again i lament why can't films be like this anymore br br this is classic paramount 1930's screwball comedy at its best folks
1	it's all about getting what you want when you want it and the message of eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for until what you wish for wishes for you br br most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn't relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue misogynistic pirates aside cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it learning only too late that it wasn't what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert through a twisted in soul and in practice business deal he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her but she will have none of it literally and frustrates him at every turn and corner and room and tourist attraction br br the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you're not accustomed to and may not enjoy seeing in either cooper or colbert the whole reason i watched the film was because they are likable actors and the whole point of this movie is that they're unlikable people or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves they think from the world br br if you can accept it on its own terms you'll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film and satisfaction as we said is what it's all about such a movie with such a cast only comes around after all once in a ummm blue moon
1	gary cooper michael brandon played the role as an american millionaire who had seven bad marriages but always divorced his wife's with plenty of money to live on michael is in paris on business and goes into a french department store to buy a pair of tops and the sales people refuse to sell him just the tops he has to buy the bottoms or there is no sale nicole claudette colbert listens to this conversation and offers to buy the bottom of these pajama's michael becomes very interested in nicole and they have occasion to meet and go on dates it is not too long before michael proposes marriage to nicole and she is very taken back with his request for marriage since she really does not know him very well however once she finds out she is going to become the eighth wife of michael she begins to change her mind and this story becomes quite entertaining and funny don't miss this film it is great entertainment by great veteran actors enjoy
1	the lubitsch's touch is more than ever in this film humour at anytime and very subtle the plot is simple but turned in a delicious way by the director the film cut is very clever and add to the comic effect a real piece of comedy that isn't getting so old for a century spectator the character are finely acted by gary cooper and especially claudette colbert so smart and mean with this poor micheal in the movie she avoid every traps from her husband and turn the situation to her advantage very funny and no problem with lubitsch there is always an happy end a film for men too confident with women don't let your girlfriend watch this movie
1	this film reappeared on channel 13 in the 1990s when they did a series of comedies from hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s in fact to the tune of the jolly fat policeman they had a montage of scenes from the films to introduce the series of people laughing including one of gary cooper when watching a film in a movie house a sequence from this film br br it all begins innocently enough when cooper a millionaire goes into a fancy department store in france to buy pajamas but he only likes to sleep in the tops the clerk tyler brooke insists that he cannot sell half a pair of pajamas as cooper wants claudette colbert hears the argument and offers to help she only likes to sleep in bottoms what if brooke sells them each half brooke has never had such an offer before so he goes to the floor walker rolfe sedan and asks him if this can be done he is disturbed too the request is quite unconventional eventually they contact the store's owner charles halton halton is in bed and gets out his skinny frame supporting only a top if a suitably long one for the sake of censorship can they sell the two customers one set of pajamas half for each properly horrified halton answers no of course not that is communism so the sale is not allowed apparently nobody thinks that cooper can buy the total pair and sell half to colbert br br lubitsch's eighth wife has had a reputation of falling flat most viewers not liking it because of a misreading of colbert's character she is seen as quite mercenary towards cooper selling herself to him on her terms br br actually cooper's character is the nastier as he is rich and figures that everything has a price he is correct most of the time look at the way colbert's aristocratic pauper of a father edward everett horton sees his new son in law as a golden goose he can use cooper's willingness to marry colbert somehow includes an agreement that if he is hesitant or chooses to not marry her he has to pay damages horton when he realizes this takes out a watch and in a most reassuring voice says to cooper take your time my boy to come to a decision later we see horton's wardrobe has gotten more modern and fancier br br the film script by billy wilder and charles brackett compares well with their script for mitchell leisin's midnight also with colbert but with don ameche and john barrymore there colbert is willing to sell herself for a money marriage to to francis lederer but it is complicated by a fictitious marriage to ameche she really loves ameche a taxi driver but she explains to him in an unexpectedly realistic moment that her parents married for love but poverty made them grow to hate each other this is not found in eighth wife where colbert does not have a background like that she is after all the daughter of a marquis her mercenary plotting is to teach cooper a lesson about his standards br br the film has some nice work by the supporting staff including herman bing as a private eye who turns out to be hiding things that colbert learns about and a young david niven who has a set of choice moments as a stand in punching bag and as a willing ear to cooper coop tells niven about his problems with colbert and how she is so infuriating niven listens respectfully at the end cooper is touched by his willingness to hear what he had to say albert how much do i pay you cooper asks him niven thinks and says thirty five francs a week sir cooper looks deeply into his soul and says shaking his head that's fair
1	ernst lubitsch gave us wonderful films like design for living ninotchka the shop around the corner to be or not to be and other wonderful films but people usually put eighth wife as one of lubitsch's weakest films br br but i consider this film as an important film this film began the collaboration of charles brackett and billy wilder charles brackett billy wilder and walter wrote the screenplay for ernst lubitsch's ninotchka of course lubitsch worked with writers in the scripting process after that charles brackett and billy wilder worked together they together wrote the screenplay for famous films like the lost weekend and sunset blvd br br there are lots of funny moments in the film i thought the taming of the shrew was very funny there is a famous expression called films are slices of life and here is a great example from eighth wife 1938 br br at the first session of the scripting process lubitsch posed this question how do the boy and girl get together billy wilder promptly suggested that the opening scene should be the men's shop of a department store the boy is trying to buy a he but he sleeps only in the tops he is thrifty so he insists on buying only the tops the clerk says he must buy the pants too it looks like a catastrophe then the girl comes into the shop and buys the pants because she sleeps only in the pants ernst lubitsch and charles brackett were enchanted it wasn't till months later they discovered that billy wilder himself is a tops only sleeper and that he had been nursing the idea for months waiting for a chance to use it br br i got this information from a book i think this film can be considered as the return of ernst lubitsch right after this film he made wonderful films like ninotchka the shop around the corner and to be or not to be br br i thought gary cooper's performance was good i think lubitsch casted gary cooper probably because gary cooper played long fellow deeds who inherited the fortune in frank capra's mr deeds goes to town but this is just my opinion br br as for me i highly enjoyed the film i rate this film 9 out of 10 lubitsch films are different because his films are slices of life
1	years before pre agreements became a regular thing ernest lubitsch made a screen comedy on which they are the basis eighth wife involves gary cooper as a multi millionaire living on the french riviera who's been married seven times and now marries claudette colbert for number eight but cooper's a good sport about it he always settles with his ex wives for a 50 000 00 a year as per an agreement they sign before marrying him sounds like what we now call a pre agreement br br of course claudette wants a lot more than that and she feels cooper takes an entirely too business like approach to marriage she'd like the real deal and is willing to go some considerable lengths to get it br br eighth wife has some really funny moments the original meeting of cooper and colbert in a men's store where cooper is insisting he wants only tops and colbert looking for only bottoms and of course my favorite is colbert trailing and blackmailing the detective cooper sends to spy on her herman bing has the best supporting role in the film as that flustered detective br br i've often wondered how back in the day hollywood could get away with casting so many people who are non french in a film like this of course cooper is an american and colbert of the cast is the only one actually of french background though david niven is charming as always having him be a frenchman is ludicrous he is sooooooo british br br nevertheless eighth wife is an enjoyable film and a great example of what was called 'the lubitsch touch' back in the day
1	for some perverse reason best known to themselves these imdb boards seem reluctant to credit the great billy wilder as co scriptwriter on at least two this one and ninotchka of his early classics when any buff can detect the wilder hand at work as it happens this represented the first time he was teamed with charles brackett who does get a credit and it was a great start one commenter has noted how satisfying it is to see these type of films in old fashioned cinemas and i couldn't agree more in paris one of the smaller revival houses shows in one of its salles a more or less continuous lubitsch retrospective and i'm pleased to report that this played to a very appreciative audience right across the age spectrum though i doubt whether any were actually alive when it was first released in 1938 the famous wilder schtick the meet cute is particularly tasty here when millionaire but careful with it cooper attempts to buy half a set of pajamas in a department store on the riviera and meets with sales resistance until claudette colbert turns up and agrees to buy the other half the gag is milked even more when having exhausted the chain of command at the store itself the manager places a call to the owner who is in bed and leaves it to reveal that he too is only wearing the top half of pajamas the film is full of sight gags like this balanced with verbal wit which makes it just about perfect claudette colbert is only terrific and gets great backing from edward everett horton as her impoverished titled father david niven in fourth billing has some funny as does franklin pangborn and if gary cooper is not up to his role lacking as he does the verbal dexterity and sophisticated persona that wilder scripts called for at this stage of his career well you can't have everything and what you do have is darned near perfect
1	br br there is something about seeing a movie in a good old fashioned movie house that adds enormous appeal to every picture i fortunately enough was able to see at film forum in new york city a pair of ernst lubitsch comedies during their three week tribute to the legendary director the double feature i attended was a screening of lubitsch's 1938 comedy eighth wife and the pre code classic design for living neither of which i had seen before everything i read of design for living praised the film but i could not find a good review anywhere for eighth wife leonard maltin disliked it too gave the comedy a low rating its imdb score was not complimentary and pauline kael not a great surprise blasted the film in her scathing review so when i went into the city that day i was expecting to enjoy eighth wife only slightly and love design for living completely eighth wife which was showing first began as the eccentrics who populate the cinema took their seats and the thirties music subsided adolph zukor presents claudette colbert and gary cooper in ernst lubitsch's eighth wife ' the title card read then the picture opened with a hilarious scene cooper wants to buy a pair of tops but he doesn't want any part of the bottoms he gets into a squabble with the clerk who seeks the help of his higher bosses and their seems to be no end to the argument enter claudette colbert one of thirties cinema's most beautiful charming and talented personalities i'll take the bottom ' she kindly intercedes and there you have perhaps screwball comedies finest meet cute' ever the film kept my interest wonderfully i found myself laughing almost constantly when colbert discovers just before a family portrait is taken that her groom to be has been married seven times the entire theatre broke into when she bargains for money immediately after she gets over her shock the laughs which still haven't ceased intensify and edward everett horton milked some hilarious reactions out of the script as well when cooper takes inspiration from shakespeare's the taming of the shrew in disciplining his wife by slapping her in the face i could not control my laughter when she slapped him back and the drunk scene with the is one of claudette colbert's funniest comic scenes the greatest comic moment of the film came when colbert a boxer to teach her husband a lesson ' in pure screwball fashion he knocks out the wrong man instead putting her friend david niven into a cold sleep he awakes as cooper is arriving in order to cover up the situation colbert herself in a moment of strong sexiness puts her fist up to niven asks where did that man hit you here right here right here ' and then bam knocks him out again the film was wonderful from beginning to end it was a perfect delight i loved design for living too though i dare say i think for sheer laughs and entertainment eighth wife was the better and more enjoyable film there is some charm of seeing a vintage film on the large screen and in the presence of others laughing one feels more comfortable doing so himself that is perhaps why i felt the way i did about eighth wife
1	sleeper cell attempts to swim both sides of the pool terrorism patriotic muslim americans and it does neither very well br br i had put off watching this show for a very long time because i had a feeling it would be too predictable but after a year in my netflix queue i finally moved it up to the front br br the show is about an undercover muslim man working for the fbi in an attempt to infiltrate a terrorist cell operating in the united states the undercover agent in the show actually is a muslim so we see his conflict resolution between his patriotism and his religious beliefs personally i would have rather watched a drama about a muslin american family living in the united states but it is doubtful that an america tv channel cable or network will ever produce anything that shows muslims in a flattering light br br i am not a muslim but i have a lot of muslim american friends and i can honestly say that none of them are terrorists and they all love america br br sleeper cell comes close to busting stereotypes of muslims but it also focuses on the worse muslim stereotypes in the first episode we see an honor killing which is a very poor portrayal of islam but in the 3rd episode we see a very respected moderate muslim scholar teaching the viewer that the real jihad is actually a personal struggle that is not meant to incite violence towards others br br if only the moderate muslim scholar had been the main character of the show br br americans need to learn a lot more about islam sleeper cell helps a little bit but it comes up far short of giving the america audience what it really needs to knows br br that said the acting in this show is superb and the drama is extremely engrossing if only they had made this show about islam in america without the terrorism it would have been first rate
1	first half of the movie scared the hell out of me and normally i'm not easy to scare but second half of this thriller didn't work quite a well but still very scary a good thriller than use simple ways to make good horror lowbudget set in russia unknown cast and made in europe but still great fun and yes there is a few laughs throw in for good matters as well
1	to be completely honest i completely intrigued by the original concept of cell ' having watched the best part of the series on fx channel uk my sky got broke meaning i missed the crucial finale but what i did see of it i assumed it to be a great story line good acting and as i don't watch '24' i thought it was great and it's been confirmed for a second season br br one of the best tv programs i have seen much more realistic and believable than 24 excellent character development and plot line does not bash islam but gives a thoughtful and considered approach showing the difference between radical terrorist islam and true islam everybody should see this show br br stringy xx
1	nice description of the situation in the us it explains different kinds of islam not just show terrorist and extremist islam can be other thing that killing they show why some people become terrorist and how to be muslim without being extremist it is a great series that muslims and no muslims should see now we hope that other series or films will be done to change the idea of all muslims are terrorist and all americans want to destroy islam it gave me the interest to discover what islam is exactly and what the us and also european government do to help cohabitation between people of different religion
1	the problem with this series is that it is too real i am watching it on amazon and having just finished episode 2 i hate absolutely hate the leader of the cell i cannot recall any television series ever having this emotional impact remember the old tag line for horror movies just keep telling yourself its only a movie well i find myself repeatedly reminding myself that its only tv but of course it isn't only tv is it the possibility of a cell such as the one portrayed here actually operating in the united states is certainly within the range of plausibility that's what gives this program its vicious authenticity and that's why i hate it so much
1	a scarily real drama there isn't another drama out there that has scared the crap out of me like this has the characters are not your typical islamic terrorist you have a blonde haired blue eyed guy who is as dumb as he looks he is a converted muslim a well respected business man who pretends to be jewish and a frenchman who has converted to islam but has clearly taken the word of the koran to a whole new level the hero of the plot is who is an undercover fbi agent who has infiltrated the terrorist cell and has to do all sorts of god awful things to prevent himself from being detected the first episode is a small taste of what's to follow although it is about islamic terrorists the drama has a unique way of pointing out that not all muslims are extremists which is comforting to those concerned with racism considering half the terrorist cell are islam converts it makes you think that maybe they are the ones to be afraid of the most chilling drama i've ever seen the reason its so chilling is cause you never know who your friends your husband or your neighbours really are terrorists can be anyone anywhere anytime
1	i have found this show by accident and was surprised to find out that nobody i know has ever heard of it this was by far one of the best shows i have seen in months if not years and i cannot wait for more episodes to come out sleeper cell portrays a psychological struggle of an undercover agent inside of a terrorist cell who has to constantly make difficult decisions in order to maintain his cover while staying true to his real cause this is an extremely well done show it keeps you intrigued from the first episode till the end and though progressing slowly is fast enough for you to feel on the edge quite realistic and humane it touches on important topics and every episode presents an interesting question to ponder about this show is not 24 or any of the cop shows on tv and is not trying to be anything either it is genuine and unique it is a show about a human being his difficult choices and his life of struggle where a simple mistake can cost him everything br br i gave this show a 10 for great storyline good progression excellent cinematography excellent music and realistic characters each with a story to tell
1	imagine 24 completely uncensored given free license to explain the situation in any detail needed and showing how and why both protagonists do what they do to kill prevent and you have an idea of how good this tv series is people in the us have known for a long time that showtime is the new hbo they are making far better cutting edge powerful shows and this is no exception the show takes the viewer all the way through the creation of a sleeper cell to when an attack is attempted taking in important facets such as faith religion funding means and needs to the uninitiated there is much to be learnt about the muslim faith here unlike on mainstream shows like 24 where the terrorists are merely nutcases who the good guys shoot their purpose and reasonings here are fully examined what gives the show more credence is the latest technology the cell fbi uses and the authentic shots in europe the us and the middle east no expense is spared to tell the story accurately the cast are relatively unknowns but the acting is superb with the aid of a tautly written script that constantly keeps the viewer on edge with many unexpected twists and turns this show has not got the credit it deserves and ironically is a bit of a sleeper hit itself must see for anyone at all interested in this genre
1	smartly written well acted intense and suspenseful this show lives in the real world not as fantastical as is 24 and i am a huge fan of 24 incidentally it has believable characters and in many ways is much smarter than most in this genre it tries to present both sides of islam so far i have watched the first 4 episodes and find the story to be more evenly balanced the terrorists are more complex and not one dimensional and as a result of that balance the terrorists become more frightening than the typical villains being portrayed in film and on television last but not least the hero is truly heroic without being a cartoon i recommend this show for anyone who is a fan of 24 and the like
1	if you watch this series you will get an interesting 10 chapters about a sleeper story and each characters and more intense with a fbi's infiltrate br br nice story nice characters and performs but something is wrong for me of course the final is wrong you wait ten chapters hoping a great final it doesn't matters if they fulfill its objectives or not but well i think is not enough its a small final for a big series also i hoped more definitions about characters stories br br but i repeat it's and interesting miniseries if you don't want to wait with large series 22 24 chapters watch it i give 7 of 10
1	i'm not sure how this could have been better so i gave it a 10 the acting was excellent the main woman was so hot the chap who played was a smouldering pensive character who showed the inner turmoil he was suffering the truck driver's death is one example excellently the storyline was believable and the series length was just about right i e i love lost but will it ever end as a brit i tend to think of yanks as gung ho the lapd were in their ill advised attempts to arrest him but the other agencies were portrayed positively my main thought about programmes like this and the also excellent 24 is could it happen would it happen is it happening now possibly probably br br i hope they do another series but after reading some of the previous comments it would appear not br br to summarise if you haven't seen it make sure you do
1	be warned of possible spoilers br br a friend told me to check out this series and i'm glad i took her words for it br br i read the synopsis on the dvd cover and i was immediately intrigued the main protagonist is muslim no way this is a first it's about an fbi agent who is under deep cover to penetrate a possible sleeper cell in la and get this he is a practicing muslim i was a little skeptical at first half expecting some hero or the antagonist to spout maybe silly gratuitous and mindless holier than thou fanatic let's face it a lot of shows have been guilty of this br br but then i watched the first three episodes and i thought okay this is good it wasn't until episode four scholar when i was well and truly impressed i would like to commend on the great writing and also superb performances from the actors i just love how complex every one of these characters they're not straight out two dimensional cardboard cutout good guys bad guys michael gives a wonderful and believable performance as the muslim fbi agent al treading the fine line between being the good muslim and being a man with flaws gives his character an interesting depth is not the typical oily middle eastern stereotype but simply someone who truly believes in his cause and doesn't see himself as a fanatic but a man willing to do whatever extreme measures to justify his beliefs he's very charismatic and authoritative but i would say that it was alex performance that clearly left an impression in me in scholar his portrayal of his character's emotional struggle was amazing torn between the softly spoken words of a muslim scholar encouraging him to return to the non aggressive way because it is the only acceptable way in god's eye and persuasion to believe otherwise br br i'm looking forward to watch more shows like this and not some ridiculously high octane one man show series it's clever and open minded
1	if you want to see a true thriller rent this it's not from the director or screenwriter of scream doesn't feature overacting overpaid tv actors passing off as stars and is not a run of the mill special effects bonanza instead you'll get a top notch edgy very strong in violence yet thrilling
1	the centerpiece of lackawanna blues is the character rachel nanny crosby who runs a boardinghouse and provides unflagging support to a young boy ruben the narrator of the film based upon the experiences of writer actor ruben santiago hudson the film lovingly recreates the upstate new york boardinghouse and evokes the cultural climate of a world in transition in the 1960s br br the first half of the film is virtually non stop music the second half addresses more completely the various characters in the boardinghouse nanny's ability to take fragments and make them whole affects everyone within her sphere an especially vivid scene is when she confronts an abusive husband telling him firmly if you ever touch that child again we're going to dance as delivered by actress s that line is so steely and filled with such resolve that the husband with the hair trigger temper is frozen in his tracks br br from start to finish delivers a commanding presence her character binds together the disparate lives of the borders in her home this was a touching heartfelt film with a wonderful cast as played by the character of nanny simply radiates love this is a film experience that i will remember for a long time to come
1	sleeper cell is what 24 should have been 24 is a cartoon i watch 24 but feel cheated with every stupid episode all four or five seasons so far who can keep track as they are all the same jack gets in trouble jack gets out of trouble and then immediately gets back in to trouble and then sleeper cell is really well done and is far superior unfortunately they blew it with the ending in season two i can think of a half dozen better endings off the top of my head that would have worked better for the writer's obvious goals and not been so contrived shame on the writers for wrecking what had been up to that ending a really good series
1	i don't understand why this show didn't go on there could've been various ways to continue on the line of darwin and after season 2 obviously darwin couldn't have been the uc agent infiltrating cells and them from the inside but still they should've given this show at least another season br br the show is well casted believable and views the islamic religion from both the normal and the extremist point of view it touches controversial subjects in detail and it has a dramatic meaning that can be said of very few shows nowdays i'm actually sad that i didn't know about this show until late 2007
1	i enjoyed this series but felt that the whole thing was let down by the sound recording mixing br br for whatever reason they've had to employ an awful lot of what's called adr where the actors replace the original location sound with a re recording of it in a sound booth br br the reasons for doing this are usually due to problems at the location or because somebody screwed up somewhere in the sound production chain br br it wouldn't be so bad if the adr was done well but at times it's just plain distracting it's not just the adr that's the problem the sound mix just doesn't match up to the quality of performances and the pictures br br i'd be curious to know what went wrong
1	has the drama suspense and character developments you would enjoy if you like drama that engages you and entertains as well as educates br br the writers know their material and it shows the direction is always engaging and not blase and the acting terrific why this show didn't win any awards tells me the powers that be in hollyweird don't know drama or much else for that matter br br there is a plot twist in this episode at the end was a complete surprise and was very well played out i'm glad it wasn't used as a shock scene for any climatic end to this series which would have been more typical and dull rent this series at once let's hope its brought back from celluloid extinction
1	i watched sleeper cell with a bit of trepidation worrying over whether the terrorists would be glorified this mesmerizing series not only handled the subject matter responsibly it created depth and substance to almost every character just gobbles up the screen in every scene he's even though his character is the charismatic leader of a jihad terrorist cell he still has hypnotic appeal michael held his own well though in some scenes i wondered why he wasn't shot on the spot because of the scowl he wore on his face br br the pros of the series are the two leads and the well written characters all of which were believable and tragic and the disconcerting issues addressed in the story having been married to a muslim myself the atmosphere created was quite realistic the cons for me personally were that the female t a was seemed gratuitous as well as some of the sex scenes despite that it is a raw gripping series that will make you think somebody give more juicy roles like this one and let him run with it he's got incredible screen presence and a strange kind of innate power emanating off him
1	this is an extremely involving series that is well casted and portraits a sensitive subject with great splendor we follow michael as the undercover fbi agent set to infiltrate a terror cell lead by oder the series is very well written and has enough plot twists to keep you sitting at the edge of your seat waiting for whatever happens next br br michael is by my definition one of the best actors i've seen portraying an undercover agent cold on the outside but still a good human being underneath trying his best to keep his head afloat in a highly emotional roller coaster ride that fbi has had him embark on oder on the other hand comes off a guy that pretty much could fit into any social scenario big and strong but yet able to disappear into the gray mass if so needed highly authoritative and extremely cunning the way the two communicate on screen is nothing short of spectacular br br the way the story develops and the level of detail that the script offers makes the whole story extremely believable and also very true to life i would imagine it is of such magnitude that you're left with the feeling of being insecure not knowing what might happen next in real life we read about terror every day and here we are given a good sneak peak into an underworld which most of us know very little about br br it's a series that will for sure have you coming back for more sitting there at the edge of your seat just waiting for next weeks episode to come on it's a sure winner in my eyes and i have no problems stating that this series is on my list of all time best
1	a real sudsy soap opera here as spencer tracy tackles the role of an illiterate until the age of 20 he marries the woman who teaches him and her ambition and his drive leads him to success br br success but no happiness here a do well son and a faltering marriage leads to disaster and tragedy tracy buys a railroad and succeeds only to be subjected to a disastrous rail strike and the death of workers br br the film appeared at the beginning to be uneven but is rejuvenated thanks to the excellent use of flashbacks here br br a double separate suicide here we know that riches can't buy happiness but this is a little too far fetched nonetheless we have riveting performances by tracy and colleen moore ms vinson as the 2nd wife is also quite effective
1	despite later claims this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with citizen kane it's a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional told in flashback but hopping around time the scriptwriter preston sturges shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of kane are evident still it's very watchable with a young spencer tracy his old man makeup makes him look just like well an old spencer tracy showing depth and authority and colleen moore a little past her prime and not physically well matched playing a multifaceted woman behind the man there's also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets and there are some plot holes left open how would she know whose son it was if she's sleeping with both of them and the music is awfully hokey for all that i was quite fascinated
1	a precursor to citizen kane in its analysis of the life of a just deceased tycoon here reviewed by his faithful secretary in a series of interlocking flashbacks in spencer tracy's 15th film he already looks middle aged even in the scenes where he is meant to be young br br a little silent screen type emoting is understandable given the vintage but this is a most enjoyable well written drama
1	preston the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late 1990s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane was based on screenplay here as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site kael overstated her case br br there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane the newsreel representing ralston the henry clone thatcher's memoirs bernstein jed leland susan alexander kane and raymond the butler each has his or her different slant on kane reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane's story this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident br br this is not the situation in the power and the glory yes like kane it is about a legendary business leader here it is tom garner spencer tracy a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country but there are only two narrators they are garner's right hand man henry ralph morgan and his wife sarah this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner henry when he narrates is talking about his boss and friend whom he respected and loved his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public she sees only the flaws in henry br br typical example although he worked his way up tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years unions are troublemakers and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans henry describes tom's confrontation with the union in a major walk out and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life but henry's wife reminds him how tom used and violence to end the strike apparently blowing up the union's headquarters killing many people so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black br br i'm not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane's success few films do including all of orson welles' other films but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one's interest to the end and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home br br when they marry tom wants to do well in part to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had but in america great business success comes at a cost tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire he expands it and improves it constantly but it takes him away from home too much and he loses touch with sally and he also notices eve helen vinson the younger woman who becomes his mistress when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her br br similarly tom too gets a full shock which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry eve marries tom and presents him with a son but it turns out to be eve's son by tom's son tom jr philip trent the discovery of this incestuous causes tom to shoot himself br br the film is not a total success the action jumps at times unconvincingly yet it does make the business seem real note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line and he discusses the use of for financing the plans came from a wealthy background so he could bring in this type of detail so on the whole it is a first rate film no citizen kane perhaps but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america
1	well this film came on on a workday at the cute little actress who played billy caught my attention initially and after the 1st 15 minutes i was held captive to my television till the very end it has you on the edge of your seat then throws in clever bits of comedy during the most tense sequences br br the only draw back is that the story was not substantial enough to fill hour an a half film causing certain sequences to drag just a little nonetheless it was still very entertaining and i recommended it to all my co workers the next day
1	the story of tom garner opens with his grand funeral and is told through a series of elegant flashbacks narrated by his faithful lifetime friend henry henry and his wife debate whether tom was a great man and a genius or an utterly worthless scoundrel the film is beautifully written acted and directed and i highly recommend it br br tom was the fabulously rich and successful owner of a large railroad dominating his board of directors and his competition terrorizing his employees slaughtering tom's ambitious wife sally was responsible for all of tom's success when he met her he was illiterate and entirely content with his work as a for the railroad sally teaches him to read and takes over his job while tom goes to school he starts to rise one step at a time through the railroad hierarchy until he eventually takes over as president br br but as tom becomes a business tycoon his marriage to sally gradually falls to pieces his spoiled son despises him and he takes up with a much younger woman the aptly named eve with predictably catastrophic consequences in his business life tom is a total success in his personal life a disastrous failure much like the hearst figure in citizen kane tom symbolizes the best and the worst of the capitalist system br br spencer tracy is terrific in the role of tom garner and the business scenes ring with authenticity colleen moore is also excellent as sally both of them age beautifully in the multi generational story the film was written by preston sturges but is nothing like the screwball comedies for which sturges became famous
1	when i first saw colleen moore it was in the excellent series about silent films called hollywood there she was in 1980 her hair defiantly bobbed as it was in the twenties a sparkling witty and charismatic elderly lady the very definition of presence then i saw her fabulous silent comedy work in films like ella cinders and orchids and ermine then the disappointingly sombre talkie the scarlet letter and now here she is in the power and the glory giving a performance of staggering power working expertly alongside one of the talking cinema's finest actors spencer tracy br br i found the movie a little lack lustre story wise but moore and tracy give such brilliant performances that the story hardly seems to matter both actors age from youth to old age in the course of the film and this is done mostly through acting alone with minimal make up and hair changes moore is almost unrecognisable as the elderly wife and the scene where she finds out her husband is seeing a younger woman is one of the most magnificently performed scenes i have ever seen she does most of the scene without dialogue which is where her silent acting experience gives her the edge even over tracy contrast this with her delightful comic playing in another silent sequence when she is a young woman and tracy is struggling to propose to her astonishing what this film reveals more than anything else is how shameful it is that hollywood let this remarkable actress slip through its fingers and spend most of her life in retirement
1	was my favorite movie in the later part of the 80's when it came out my dad taped it for me i watched it all the time until my step mom taped oprah over it my heart was torn i would love to know if or where i can get it from i have been looking for it i believe they even came out w a 2 it wasn't as great as the 1st but i would like to have all of them if i could find them i do not think all that it was a bad movie it was a very interesting movie with a lot of action yet it had somewhat of a love story plot to it the actors actresses in the movie were great it also helped me to understand that this is not just a man's world but it is also a woman's world many women can do the same things if not more than what a man can do women deserve much respect for their duties as well
1	let's get this out of the way so the ones checking out this page looking for info on anything related to the word breasts and you know who you are can move along this is not in any way pornographic on the contrary if this has any value as masturbation material then frankly the filmmaker didn't do a good job since the aim is to keep it on subject and on the experiences of women and their bodies and images of themselves and society and health and so on indeed i would be a little circumspect of one who came across this on dvd or if it ever plays again late night on hbo or cinemax and used it as a means for pleasure you might as well go to the supermarket and pick up a pair of ripe melons and take them home and squeeze them and uh well you get the idea br br no this is semi serious film making meant for premium late night viewing but it shouldn't have to be just for the late night types this is intimate in setting but not in tone all of the women in all their variety of shapes and sizes and races and even with one man thrown in with fake breasts have something of value to say from life experience in the most straightforward way if i say semi serious it's due to the several little segments that the director feels she needs to throw in with the archival footage of old how to videos about puberty and sex and breasts and super rare cartoons with the knockers flying about this isn't a problem but an asset we need a few little visual ways to go between these interviews br br nothing is held back and we see it as feminism in a liberating form they don't need to cover up and even if they choose not to take their tops and shirts and bras off they're still open as can be about a natural part of their body that is an object of sex surprise comfort discomfort curiosity motherhood and sadly cancer in that last part there's another brave step taken as we see a woman who survived her cancer with only one breast you know you've become mature and an adult when you can see this woman who has somehow gone on to live a semi normal life with one breast the most bittersweet moment is when she says if a fairy godmother said she could have one wish to have two full breasts she would have to think about it and you don't snicker or go eww gross that's the test folks br br it's not shot under the best of circumstances but then again for tv it's edited with a tight pace it's never dull for a moment and we never feel like anyone is holding back especially when a man might hear the hard truth like that breasts may not really be or that a flat chest is very attractive to some men breasts a documentary is about deconstructing myths with real faces and breasts and minds and hearts laid bare if that's worthy of a i was alone session then well more power to you i guess though it's not the intention
1	this is a wonderful look you should pardon the pun at 22 women talking about breasts theirs their mothers' other women's and how they affect so many aspects of their lives young girls old women and everyone in between with all shapes sizes etc talk about developing reacting celebrating hiding enhancing or reducing their breasts br br it's charming delightful sad funny and everything in between intercut with documentary footage and clips from those famous old young women's films that the girls got taken to the cafeteria to see the interviews are a fascinating window for men who love women their breasts into what the other half has to say when they don't know you're listening
1	in the spirit of the great space coaster but a few years earlier br br hot fudge was one of the psychedelic kid's shows that i grew up on seymour was a big fuzzy green puppet with a crescent smile of enormous teeth which nearly split his head i recall him wearing a variety of elton john type shades br br he played piano and had a jesus looking dude in a white tux sitting next to him they would have a moral discussion and then do a song about it br br don't remember much else except the opening theme seymour and the hippie br br no one else i know remembers it at all i grew up in jersey so if it was produced in detroit as a previous post said it wasn't just local seymour reminded me a lot of sherlock the squirrel from the magic garden another psychedelic kids show if there ever was one people always talk about effects of music and movies of the 70s but it seems kid's show writers got a dose as well
1	this educational show focused on emotions interactions and relationships it was produced at detroit's abc affiliate and syndicated in 90 markets nationwide this past week detroit public tv had a 1 1 2 hour clip show as part of their pledge drive wow the memories that resurfaced while i remembered the show there were segments that i'd forgotten about but remembered instantly a soon as they'd begin hot fudge holy detective tomato and the pies in his face br br for more on the public television special do a search for hot fudge comin' concert
1	every episode i saw when i was an innocent child was stupid there were some funny looking puppets called the mitts who would always discuss childhood things they would play this song before the mitts part of the show that goes like this let's join the mitts there was a groucho marx puppet that told jokes before the session this man would sing hot fudge right on there was a green puppet with teeth that was called seymore we would always see more seymore he would crack jokes and sing every episode there was always a moral in every episode one episode a man sang liars are losers another episode he was singing about sharing and caring seymore said tell me about those two little girls sharon and karen the hot fudge holey part has this man doing weird stuff and they played weird music
1	my favourite story from 'tales from the crypt' brion jones was born to play the part of the maniac lumberjack axe swinging madman steve dixon having seen him before in tango cash i can state this actor never got the proper credit he deserved a jealous husband takes offence in his wife showing an interest in a hunky young worker he's just employed and you know when dixon finds out there's gonna be hell to pay the young worker ted billy wirth receives an almighty beating from dixon leaving him blind now how is a blind lumberjack supposed to work a tribute to black humour if there ever was one the co stars do a pretty good job too supporting ted when dixon when he has his initial suspicions about his wife desiring another man dixon's behaviour making the bond stronger closer between the colleagues one even stated he became a changed man when he got married though ted should have done the wise thing and left when he could
1	this enchanting movie is based on a novel by the bestseller is one of the best books i've read here's the story br br one day journalist and photographer decides to leave his past behind and starts a new life wandering across the finnish forests and countryside with him he has a companion a young hare hit by a car has to take care of the hare because it's leg is wounded so they start a journey together taking care of each other br br in the course of their adventures they get almost shot by hunters get caught by the police meet many people and finally get to where they live peacefully until a group of foreign tourist disturbs their privacy the hare falls ill and they must return to helsinki to see the vet br br has found an ideal way of living but the modern society tries to tie him back to his duties and taxes in helsinki took to drink gets even engaged and imprisoned but finally he and the hare flee
1	mute witness is a modest yet very solid thriller that never really received the attention or good comments it deserves the film – written and directed entirely by anthony waller – is a tense action packed thriller with black comedy aspects and horror influences no pointless mumbo jumbo or endless plot straight to the point mystery mute witness handles about the vicious topic of movies and is effectively set in russia spoilers since the production costs are cheaper there a us film crew temporarily moves to russia for shooting a horror film an old hangar is used as film location the female make up artist of the team accidentally gets locked up overnight and while trying to find a way out she witnesses the recordings of an authentic snuff movie she's caught and tries to escape but since she's a mute she can't cry for help and neither can she explain what she saw to the police properly the girl's life is in real danger now since there's a whole hidden network behind these snuff productions and they don't want the witnesses to be end spoilers mute witness contains multiple highly exiting action sequences and is rather bloody some of the mystery clues are effectively kept secret till the very end regarding the similar topic i'd say it's definitely better than the more famous 8 directed by joel schumacher and starring nicolas cage the acting in mute witness isn't great but the leading actress who's russian herself looks really cute sir alec guinness makes a special appearance too and a very cool one i may say surely recommended with guaranteed fun and scares
1	is one of most political movies it takes stance strongly against modern day society's authority status in the life of the common man and how it has estranged men from the nature completely it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society br br smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a 'free country' isn't all that unambiguous in other words the society has the common man by the balls br br still the thing that makes so exceptional besides the visual and brilliance is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the 70's as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation is like an archetype of a classical finn in his and social since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes emotionally exceptionally moving
1	all films are worth of seeing some like and loma are best films in their genre and have reached a status of a classics in finnish cinema history br br most people have formed a impression of actor through films acted leading role in three of films which all became successes at box office and movie reviews br br it's nice to see that idea of still lives in commercials i think it was tele operator tv add where was walking in mountain fell at with hare in his arms who has seen the film knows what i am talking about is a beautiful film with great actors and good filming locations like famous small town in where the best film festival in the world is held the midnight sun film festival i recommend it for all to go there on june but remember warm clothes and raincoat
1	a wonderful film in the best scandinavian magic tradition with very far sighted analysis of much of the big issues we are just starting to face br br should be compulsory viewing for all politicians br br take your pick from privacy nuclear global climate change quality of life br br reminiscent of walden but with modern twist and considerable humour br br i'm not finnish although i've travelled there and have good finnish friends but i found it totally accessible and also culturally informative
1	an excellent example of what happens when one central body controls everyone i liked this movie because glenn corbett also appeared in star trek as cochrane in 1967 i also liked it because i am a fan of the apollo space program
1	i suppose it depends on when one actually sees the movie for the first time that their impression is formed the way it is br br i saw it as a child on tv back in 1973 when it was the stranger and i loved it such was the time when the space program to the moon was a reality when shows like search ufo and man were showing a child of 12 of what the world could hold in their future adventure and technology br br you got to see shows only once and that was when the network aired them the only way people could slash your shows was by making their own parody of it they didn't get to take your show and add in their own comments over it br br i did not know what this concept of a pilot was i saw the movie and was hoping thru out that stryker would get home did not know that there was a possibility of it continuing beyond two hours br br back then would i understood what so many people hate about the movie now i doubt it because i don't remember it as such do i understand now not really for to understand the story one must not see it from their perspective but rather from that of the characters in the movie br br if one is watching as an american it might be humorous about the lack of security in a police state but if one is a subject in that state then compliance could be expected and security can be less when things are suppose to be perfect perfect to an extreme degree perfect that one is not suppose to doubt then one is not likely to question as quickly when things are out of order br br the subplots of the movie are interesting such as the old man who remembers the time before but watches his words since he suspects that there are spies everywhere or that the police state values knowledge to some extent for they are careful about how they control or harm their brain power br br these days one is likely to know exactly what the movie is about before they see it so much of the suspense surprise is lost but the duet between the astronaut and his doctor at the beginning of the movie is a perfect exchange if one considers that this movie was made well into the cold war and the astronaut's biggest fear is that he has crashed in the ussr one gets quite a distance into the movie before it becomes apparent that such a possibility is the least of his concerns br br this is the primary difference between the stranger and doppelganger the latter can be considered timeless since any comments it has about the ussr are comparatively minor and lost early on in the movie in the former those links are through out the movie supposedly directly in the beginning and then as a theme variation after wards br br all that said despite my fond memory for the movie it is rather easy to see that it would not have made it as a series each week stryker would make friends benedict would chase stryker would get away eventually society would get rid of him someone else would pick up the chase a rut would develop there might be a jab at something new such as perhaps another crew member from mission showing up but it probably would not be enough to keep the show going br br if one goes in with the knives that others have used to slash the movie odds are they will slash it as well but if one remembers that this was made during the cold war and what fears and estimations of the other side were during that time of what the popular environment contained for the viewer then they may find some entertaining and intellectual themes in it
1	i actually had seen the last parts of this movie when i was a child thanks to the search feature of plots i was able to find out the name of it for years i did not know the name but the movie stuck in my mind the ending left hope that the main character would get back to earth eventually it was a shame it did not make it to a series this movie reminds me of journey to the far side of the sun also known as doppleganger if you liked this feature the other one is worth a watch it was done before the stranger but shares a similar plot yet different i just picked up the stranger off of ebay on vhs hope they make a dvd but it is doubtful unless it comes out on dollar dvd a few pilots are making it on the budget dvd's and maybe this one will
1	tourist trap 1979 is an entertaining horror movie from the late 70's the movie is about a bunch of young friends who get stranded on an old deserted lane by a creepy old waxwork museum br br the owner of the museum seems like a strange but harmless old man but things take a very nasty turn when members of the young group start getting killed off who is responsible for the murders is it old man or is it his collection of creepy mannequins who seem to be alive and hungry for blood this film was good stuff it was fast faced the performances were very good from the actors actresses tanya roberts was very sexy and the film was never boring and like i say it had some very creepy scenes so be prepared to hide under the covers definitely recommended to horror movie ghost story fans i give this film a highly respectable 7 2 out of 10
1	i have to admit thanks to this movie i'm now afraid of mannequins hahaha br br but yes first off the acting in this movie at least by my standard is pretty swell most of the actors are pretty decent in their roles the script also seems to be pretty good too sure some cheesy stuff in there but also some decently written character and some damn scary scenes i still get shivers thinking about that one scene with the dude and the mannequins brrr br br yeah i'll say you should check this movie out it's pretty good and very entertaining a good watch 8 10
1	a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere one had a flat tire the other's jeep mysteriously won't start one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend they come across nice mr who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down hermit like house which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the 3 girls in the house before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack he warns them about davy his brother who is lurking about and isn't all there of course one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again is it is it davy the mannequins tourist trap has the usual horror requirements jiggly big girl goody two shoes girl curiosity getting the better of people and never working out but it stands apart from the rest of the 70's genre in it's twist of an ending i started to feel sorry for chuck is a terrific creepy over the top performance at a point in the film and you almost see the character of molly doing the same this is a gem if you can find it i had taped it off of cable when i was younger and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced but well worth it fans of tanya roberts won't be disappointed either best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup and crackers br br i gave it a 7 because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain
1	a group of young adults get stranded in the back of the beyond where the only place in the vicinity is a museum full of wax dummies and the only form of help is affable local mr chuck connors as night falls the kids get picked off in record time br br an odd freaky b movie that combines the creepiness of backwoods settings with the plot device of all too lifelike mannequins making this a good update of the bodies in the wax museum genre this is an intense shock fest along the lines of the texas chain saw massacre it should then come as no surprise that art director robert a burns repeats that duty here and his eye for great set decoration always comes in handy pino score is downright chilling accompanied by the murky photography of nicholas von sternberg it the film in oppressive atmosphere br br plot twists vary in level of success there was one that i saw coming a mile away and one that actually took me by surprise and i was all the more happier for it one of the best moments is shared with us almost right up front as the first chump victim is trapped in a room with objects flying at him of their own volition the capper is a great impalement by pipe with blood dripping out of the end br br star connors offers an engaging performance as our down home good ol' boy antagonist while the younger co stars predictably can't perform at the same level although jocelyn jones is a likable enough and certainly winsome lady who has enough appeal to rate as a sympathetic damsel in distress co star tanya roberts a brunette in this film is okay in support if i had one problem with this film it's just that the victims are a little too stupid then again that doesn't make this much different from many horror films of the 80's future notable names among the credits are future directors ted who was the editor here ron underwood who made a great debut almost a dozen years later with tremors as the assistant director and veteran makeup artist ve neill who's done many films and won three oscars since br br although some horror fans may be disappointed by the lack of nudity and sexual elements this is otherwise a nice little surprise that debuting director david schmoeller delivers with conviction and gusto recommended br br 8 10
1	this is a very good movie i give it a 10 br br it's very different in that it's kind of a long stalking scene all the way through the fact that the main character is mute is used throughout the story in a very believable way br br she sees a murder for a snuff movie and decides to run but is chased this takes quite some time i won't reveal the rest of the movie for it would spoil the experience but rest assured it's very believable well played very intense and has some nice surprises plus a great ending br br don't miss this movie
1	tourist trap is among my favorite late 70's early 80's horror flicks a group of young people are heading somewhere one pair in the car ahead that car has a flat and our film opens with the young man woody pushing the tire along looking for a service station he finds a seemingly abandoned place and yet hears voices and investigates and ends up with a piece of pipe through his stomach for his efforts along comes the rest of the young folks in a vw thing and they pick up woody's girlfriend and find this very same place oasis or some such thing and then mr happens along while the girls are enjoying a dip in the stream of course the vw thing has mysteriously died at that point so odd mr chuck connors offers his help mr has a museum with lots of wax figures and he lives in the museum but behind is a big house where he says lives and who is why crockett he says but if it were crockett they'd all probably be safer the girls are left alone while goes to help with fixing the car but of course curiosity gets the better of one she goes to investigate and finds the house full of creepy mannequins and one rather animated one named what follows is a rather creepy night of terror as one by one they're taken prisoner by who says he's brother one girl kidnapped earlier is treated to a plaster facial which results in her death when it covers up her air supply at any rate there's somewhat of a twist to this and kind but weird mr is not exactly what he appears to be a good creepy late 70's horror flick and lots of mannequins make for a very creepy atmosphere 7 out of 10
1	i really really liked this one i know it's rampant with what are now cliché plot lines and plenty of overacting but it was hell of a lot of fun br br in our quest for 70's and 80's horror cheese we come across many flicks that are so bad they're good we also have some that are so 'good' they suck and then we have some that are so bad they are just bad this is definitely so bad it's good br br some teens traveling come across an in the middle of nowhere a forgotten slice of roadside america and they decide to 'check it out ' they cross every line of inappropriate until it is absurd and they pay for it they pay dearly br br i would not normally give a movie like this a 9 but the girls in this one are the type that we miss from the 1970's ditzy scantily clad and fit these aren't the anorexic broads from today's horrible horror they look awesome in booty shorts br br i give it a 9 out of 10 kids
1	perhaps one of the first slasher film that came out after halloween although made from irwin from halloween i must say i honestly found tourist trap to be scarier and funner tourist trap is one of those remarkable treats you find every now and then and are left with the most enjoyable feeling of surprise it was destiny i tell you but one night i was at my local blockbuster one or two months before it went out of business and had nothing to get then i stumble upon this movie i think huh seems like a laughable b movie i rent it and took it home boy was i in for a good scare tourist trap comes off as a bad movie it definitely has it's cheesy moments but in the end you're having to much fun with it to really care br br the things that impressed me the absolute most and the things that made this movie one of the scariest ones i've seen is number one the setting a horror movie without a good setting isn't very fun not here i just love love love the location it feels like we can relate to it it almost feels like we've been there before which makes it creepier next is the characters non of them are really stereotypical and they all have a real personality for example they're not stoners alcoholics or even sex obsessed people they feel like normal young adults plus they look realistic enough and then their is chuck connors who gives a great performance as mr who we all take an instant liking too because again he's so real he feels like that nice guy grandfatherly figure we adore the last and probably most important thing that makes this movie scary is how they make us the audience jump half way out of our seats and turn on the rights for the right reasons for example most of the time in horror films we mainly just jump because of a sudden change in the music pitch but in tourist trap prepare yourself that's not the case with it's perfect use of lighting mannequins and weirdness you feel utterly creeped out plus i love because although they may go a bit over the top with some things you still feel like this could happen which is exactly what a horror movie who takes such a ridicules premise should do and that is make us the audience feel unsafe and terrified br br overall as far as any major problems go i have none only that it's weirdness may get a little too weird at times however in the end tourist trap holds a place near and dear to my heart for being one of the few horror films to make me turn on the lights and feel unsafe about traveling
1	after a group of young friends experience car trouble whilst travelling off the beaten track they accept an offer of help from lonely local mr chuck connors owner of a nearby museum full of historical wax mannequins once at the creepy roadside attraction the friends are stalked by a mask wearing lunatic who can bring the museum's dummies to life through the power of the mind br br tourist bad guy is a demented cross between the texas chain saw massacre's leatherface and anthony the scary kid from the classic twilight zone episode 'it's a good life' whilst the plot is a blend of elements from the aforementioned tcm hitchcock's psycho and house of wax the atmosphere and execution of tourist trap however is so totally off kilter that in this respect it's virtually impossible to draw comparison with other earlier movies br br director david continually inventive and unpredictable treatment of his own script gives the film a distinctly nightmarish quality and with a brilliant left field performance from connors an impossibly creepy score from pino donaggio a collection of truly unsettling mannequins with detachable jaws and the presence of super sexy tanya roberts who spends the film in and briefly out of tiny denim hot pants and a figure hugging boob tube tourist trap is a totally unforgettable and ultimately one of a kind horror experience well deserving of its cult following
1	slasher movies started may be 30 to 35 years before this movie but believe me this one among those pearl that will stay longer after you turned of tv set especially if you are a person easily scared this is the movie for you for which you wouldn't have stomach to take it full even after so many years the movie hasn't lost its charm and thrill br br no blood no gore but the thrill will for sure chill your spine out the movie starts with the bang and it stay with the same pace till its end bgm is nerve cracking and i remember this was the one copied in many indian movies those days kings favorite no wonder why thats the only reason i wanted to see this and it didn't let me down don't turn off the lights coz you wont find enrique but may be a smiling doll sitting right behind you beware not for the lite hearted br br two thumps up and i am going with 8 out of 10 which is pretty low but still i preserve my ratings for dramas
1	let me just start out by saying that tourist trap is a better movie then 99 9 of the horror films that have come out of hollywood lately if you don't believe me see darkness falls or they and it is certainly better than any of those crappy direct to video releases like stab bleed the pool and so on one of the big problems with the film tourist trap is that is never really found an audience when the film opened in 1979 it was given a pg rating by the mpaa anyone that knows horror films knows that a pg on a horror film is usually the kiss of death for the film director david schmoeller talks about this problem on the dvd's commentary track there are exceptions though like poltergeist which had also received a pg rating however there are big differences between tourist trap and poltergeist tourist trap was not a big budget hollywood film like poltergeist nor was it produced by steven spielberg that alone was enough to guarantee poltergeist success still for those of you that have seen tourist trap you will even scratch your head as to why the mpaa rated this film pg the 'heart scene alone should be enough for the film to be slapped with and r rating or how about the pipe in the back with the blood running out of it i have to admit though that when i was young i looked at a copy of poltergeist in the video store shelf picked it up saw that it was rated pg and put it back on the shelf in favor of an r rated film instead years later i finally saw poltergeist and realized what a great film i missed out on for not renting a pg horror film from then on i would never judge a film based on it's rating again this is most likely what happened to tourist trap people like me with poltergeist will probably overlook it in favor of the r rated film most likely it would be a teenager too which most of these types of films are targeted at friday the 13th was no masterpiece either but did extremely well at the box office due to the fact it was rated r and was heavily advertised by paramount at the time it found its audience and made enough money to spawn several sequels when you look at it folks tourist trap is just as good as friday the 13th the same thing could've happened to tourist trap we could have seen tourist trap 2 3 4 and so on as far as the film goes tourist trap is an entertaining horror film made on an extremely small budget but it is well acted well directed and well made on many levels chuck connors is a riot as mr and gives the best performance in the film special credit must be give to composer pino donaggio whose score for this film really is what sets it apart from others and gives it its creepiness the music in the scenes involving the mannequins is especially creepy donaggio worked on the horror film carrie and many other film scores since tourist trap he has done exceptionally good work in film and continues to score films to this day the weakness with tourist trap is that there really is never any explanation of powers maybe that is how it's supposed to be he just has them and we should accept that in order for the movie to work we do accept it to a point but then the screenplay has incidents like how makes the phone ring in the store while he's in the basement of the house in that case is limited in using his powers can he make a phone ring in houston detroit los angeles what is his range those are things that people that didn't care for this movie would most likely to point out as flaws others would accept it as a mistake i accept it there is not enough of those type of questions generated by this film to make me hate it this is a horror film we should not be required to read too much into it many people have called this the 'killer movie i assure you that no mannequin kills anyone in this film the mannequins are controlled by the power of who uses them as a weapon this is a common misconception about this film some people have a problem with the mannequins and some have even said they are just downright silly i think they add to the overall creepiness of the film overall tourist trap is a good fun rental out of 5
1	this is a bizarre oddity directed by the guy who edited the texas chainsaw massacre chuck gives a hilariously over the top performance as the owner of a roadside wax museum which our doomed teenagers happen to break down near the wax figures look so real one of the teen's points out heh heh heh not so much a slasher film as a weird mix of psychological horror and old fashioned house of wax style terror i can think of many many horror films that are worse than this one
1	some films just fade away but tourist trap has withstood the test of time and has justifiably become a cult favorite though not completely original it owes much to the texas chainsaw massacre it holds its own with a sense of humor genuine creepy moments a brilliant score by pino donaggio and the fun performances by chuck connors and the cast don't let the pg rating keep you away this film proves that gratuitous gore and nudity are not needed in every horror film to make it entertaining those elements are usually used to cover the lack of thrills in a film here the scares are merited and effective plus only chuck connors could carry a scene in which he has to share soup with a mannequin a classic scene indeed now more accessible on dvd in widescreen this film is a must for fans of '70s horror fare
1	like one of the other reviewers might have been amazon i was first introduced to tourist trap by the beloved decrepit old 9 in ny around january 1983 devil dog the hound of hell which i'd been waiting to see since it debuted on halloween 1978 had just ended and i thought i'd had my horror fill for the day quit laughing that three eyed sp monster ike eisenmann draws up in his room is scary br br for as much as i still enjoy richard crenna wearing his made for tv horror hat it was the first 10 minutes of tourist trap following devil dog that day that really left a mark and months later it ended up being the first movie i ever taped off tv used to play this fairly frequently often as the saturday afternoon million dollar movie as others have observed it's one of those offerings that delivers a powerful horror punch up front a veritable left hook and then practically starts over with the rest of the cast dances and jabs putting the opening scene a larger context along the way then moves on to the real climax see night of the living dead re animator br br two paragraphs and i haven't mentioned a single mannequin face it the damn things are scary enough without the music and the script i too can remember some scary dress dummies and the like in various relatives' and basements and say what you like about how relatively straightforward schmoeller and carroll's approach is no one before or since has played it this well in real life a good mannequin will make you do a double take and here that's about the last thing you're likely to see if you happen to be stuck at defunct wax museum and roadside stand yes there is a point i loved her very much where chuck connors is trying to pass for vincent price yes the plot might have taken up all of a paragraph in the early stages i can't see the script being all that thick it doesn't matter from direction to competent acting meryl streep's emphatically not in attendance and here that helps instead of hinders to another useful and effective pino score see carrie and various other de palma movies to various lighting film stock use of varying sound levels i could go on every element of this low budget production comes together and you get a work very much greater than the sum of its parts br br did i mention it's scary as hell stephen king talked this movie up in danse macabre a year or so after its release and with good reason like much of his work it may not be great art but it sure does tell a scary story and does it well the rest of the cast may be relatively unknown wasn't jocelyn jones in that texas car chase movie as well but chuck connors and tanya roberts were and are just familiar enough to audiences to make you think stephen king style that this could happen to you or people you know br br comparisons to psycho plot and the texas chainsaw massacre overall look and feel even if they aren't the first associations in my mind are valid i only wish i could comment on the dvd which i look forward to buying as tourist trap has become notoriously hard to find on video since the near complete extinction of independent video rental outlets where it had a home aside from and cable in the 1980s though tmc showtime appear to have picked it up and play it regularly now no no spoilers here i'm afraid no plot breakdown go see it yourself all right there may be a tiny little one below so scroll away if you like better safe than sorry the mannequins are damn scary and i'd rather show than tell br br for the record tourist trap is also chock full of great lines from we are going to have a party how do i look huh how do i look to you're so pretty you can't hurt me i shouldn't have to hide it it feels good listen for that vincent price inflection again there the inevitable you're crazy delivered at the right moment and in the right tone and try just try to keep the hair on your arms down when you hear the head screaming molly especially once you realize whose head it used to be br br p s charles band was the producer on this i believe and likely owned the rights to music band from what i understand was the brains behind full moon entertainment which might explain both the music's subsequent use in puppet master and well the 40 commercial approach has characterized full moon throughout from the enjoyable puppet master and subspecies franchises to uhhh trancers and bad channels sorry
1	despite a silly premise ridiculous plot devices and low budget tourist trap br br manages to be striking an inventive beautifully scored film a must see you have to throw rationality out the window to fully appreciate what the director was trying to do if you can manage that you will be in for a pleasant surprise also take note that this is one of the few semi classic horror films that wasn't spoiled by numerous sequels
1	superbly crafted low budget thriller with more twists and turns than you can shake a stick at and plenty of ghoulish humour along the way as well br br the cast play it very well although richards' self centered movie director is a bit hard to take at times the tiny two scene cameo by sir alec guinness oozing menace as the crime czar of moscow is simply the icing on the cake br br well worth repeated viewing but not on dark nights when you're all alone
1	this is fantastic everything from the score to when the final credits role this movie is a masterpiece it's genuinely creepy and its effectively hysterical setting is enough to give anyone the creeps it is apparent that the movie was not rushed and that david schmoeller who would later work with fullmoon on the puppet master series had a clear and concise image of what he is trying to direct the professional aspect of the movie is astonishing considering it's relatively low budget it relies on scares without effects mainly due to budget restrictions but still creates a tension filled atmosphere br br stephen king stated that this was one of his favorite movies and i seriously cannot blame him it's one of my favorite horror movies and always will be this is my favorite fullmoon movie and has been ever since i first purchased a good few years ago br br money well spent i own both vhs and dvd versions br br 10 10
1	this is one of my favorite horror films of all time and i used to think it never really got its due that is until i read the glowing reviews here it seems many feel the same as i did when i first saw it br br it's a damn creepy film and i've spent most of my life watching creepy films i've always found dolls mannequins and such damn creepy check out the dolls in beyond the door and of course the great trilogy of terror and what about the magnificent twilight zone episode living doll hell dolls are creepy and tourist trap has some moments that will make your hair stand on the back of your neck all aided by an excellent soundtrack that just makes connors' performance even more heart pounding br br i remember seeing the trailer to this film on late night tv and thing wow i gotta see that it was memorable and it's one of the only trailers i remember seeing as a kid that creeped me out took me years to see it but it was a treat br br stephen king also mentions this film in his danse macabre book and gives it a glowing recommendation pretty good company br br this film will always be high on my list of must sees it's a real solid addition to the genre of the time and deserves place alongside the best of the 70s
1	a group of young travelers that just ran out of gas go into a weird wax museum called lost oasis owned by a strange man named chuck as the dummies are controlled by some mysterious force and a madman with special powers wants them dead br br one of the most under appreciated horror movies of the late 70's this charles band producer of re animator production has became one of the scariest and most unique low budget horror productions of it's day combining some psychological themes along without having to result some gore like the usual slasher movie the movie keeps the viewer on the edge of their seats with tension and some scares the movie has became a cult diamond in the rough for the genre since then and this is well worth watching br br also recommended pin the texas chainsaw massacre 1974 the hills have eyes 1977 maniac 1980 magic 1978 dolls may just before dawn house of 1000 corpses the devil's rejects sleepaway camp mother's day a nightmare on elm street friday the 13th halloween 1 2 puppet master house of wax 1953 and 2005 jeepers creepers high tension evil dead ii from dusk till dawn waxwork nothing but trouble and psycho 1960
1	tourist trap is a bizarre great horror film from the '70s the film is about a group of young adults becky jerry and molly who are traveling in a jeep through a desert area their two other friends eileen and her boyfriend woody are in a separate car when a wheel goes flat woody takes it to a nearby gas station and meets a grisly fate to some bizarre telekinetic mayhem and some creepy mannequins the friends get tired of waiting for woody and go to a local tourist trap mannequin wax museum in front of the entrance the car randomly breaks down and the girls find an oasis area to go swimming in where they are approached by mr who runs the roadside attraction that is now closed down he takes them up to the old western wax museum and the girls stay behind while he and jerry go to fix their car eileen the curious of the two wanders to an old house nearby where she also falls to the hands of a mysterious masked killer and a bunch of life like mannequins after awaiting for eileen becky and molly go to look for her that's when the real horror begins and the telekinetic can move objects with his mind masked brother of mr begins to kill off the teens one by one while controlling his large amount of human turned mannequins br br sound similar to the 2005 house of wax remake well it is i'd heard of this movie but never seen it when i saw house of wax but now i can see the striking similarities the two movie share tourist trap was obviously a big contributor to the house of wax remake the mannequins in this movie are scary to begin with some with moving eyeballs some with no eyes at all and some with dropping mouths that sing too the singing was extremely creepy if you ask me and the mannequins were eerily designed mannequins are creepy to begin with they're so lifelike yet they really aren't the movie tightly blends elements from texas chainsaw massacre the masks the killer uses are similar to those of leatherface with a little bit of the original house of wax and the telekinetic powers that are displayed in carrie the result is quite satisfying the telekinesis was a nice touch to the movie it made the killer all the more menacing and inescapable the masks were terrifying and the scene was really disturbing br br the score for the film was really well done if not a little overused during some scenes the acting may not be particularly on key but it really wasn't that bad chuck connors was really good as the shadowy mr giving the character a shady but friendly feel a young tanya roberts is also in the film she's most known for her role on charlie's angels and more recently the sitcom that '70s show playing donna's mother robert a burns serves as the art director he did a phenomenal job on the original texas chainsaw and does a good job here as well creating a cluttered musty atmosphere to both the rundown museum and the old house filled with mannequins i found it a little odd that the original rating for the film was pg it seems a little too scary to have such a tame rating but the film really isn't too violent br br overall tourist trap is an eerily unique fast paced extremely under appreciated horror classic full moon gave it a decent 20th anniversary dvd release the commentary was interesting and the picture was clear and crisp for the most part better than the video versions if you enjoy older '70s slasher horror films tourist trap is an underrated retro gem 8 10
1	this is the single greatest movie i have ever seen mr is simultaneously br br 1 tortured about his talents e g i can control it i can i shouldn't have to it it good br br 2 desperate to make friends e g br br how's the soup br br the soup is very good br br would you like some crackers with your soup br br i'd like some more crackers please br br how's that br br yes the soup is very good br br 3 proud of his accomplishments e g pretty neat trick huh br br 4 a ladies man e g you're so pretty why don't you like me and br br 5 sometimes very very angry e g you can't get away br br connors should have received an academy award for best actor for this movie i mean who was possibly better tanya roberts rocketed to the stratosphere following her performance in tt it's a wonder not all of the stars of this masterpiece did not go on to have brilliant careers i highly highly recommend this film it's available on amazon com everyone should own it make a night of it and have a bowl of soup while you watch
1	tourist trap is an odd thriller that came out in the 70's it's about 5 friends molly jocelyn jones jerry jon van hess eileen robin sherwood becky tanya roberts and woody kevin mcdermott who stumble upon a down museum lost oasis a curious and eerie roadside museum this goldmine of decaying but strangely life like mannequins is run by chuck an eccentric but seemingly harmless has been has one warning for the youngsters stay away from reclusive and disturbed brother br br the curiosity gets the best of them and they go exploring the trap is sprung amidst flying objects slamming doors scarves that strangle on their own empowered by some hidden force the trap slowly closes in on the group the creature and his army of murderous mannequins make quick and brutal work of the friends until only one remains br br although not a slasher movie tourist trap still contains elements of slasher movies such as the chase scenes and the stalking and the fact the killer wears a mask br br the seemingly telekinetic abilities of the killer to lock bolts and animate the wax dummies is used to great effect perhaps the scariest thing about this movie are the mannequins which are admittedly scary enough to start off with but are rally spooky here the film succeeds despite or perhaps because of an obviously meagre budget these wax figures are blatantly plastic shop dummies but this only goes to serve as even more eerie when their eyes move with an incredible human the acting is actually pretty good chuck gives a well rounded and creepy performance as mr jocelyn jones is great as the female lead
1	tourist trap is a genuinely spooky low budget horror film that will surely satisfy horror fans it contains extremely strange atmosphere and there are some quite unnerving moments of total dread and fear some scenes are downright bizarre for example there is one scene when chuck connors sits down to have dinner with a mannequin that comes to life and starts conversing with him before its head falls off there is very little gore but the violence is quite strong for pg rated horror film the mannequins look very sinister and the climax is horrifying david schmoeller returned to make several other genre films including puppet master and netherworld still tourist trap is definitely his best horror film so if you want to be scared give this little gem a look br br rated pg for brief nudity violence and profanity
1	ok i have seen just about everything and some are considered classics that shouldn't be like all those halloween movies that suck crap or even steven king junk and some are considered just ok that are really great like carnival of souls and then some are just plain ignored like evil ed or pumpkin head and brain dead the bud cort one then some stick in your head once seen and never leave that's what this did to me and for my money this is much better than last house on the left last house was great till the ending then it blew chunks what kind of dummy is gonna give a blow job to someone who just killed their kids completely stupid go find the movie bully or even funny games if ya want realism and to be creep ed out but this damn thing stuck with me for years one cause chuck connors always was scary two tanya roberts is the best female victim ever three the chick being smothered in plaster still is one of the all time worst killings on film and 4th the telekinetic powers thing blew my mind and came totally unexpected not to mention the dummies wax figures puppets etc it should be right there with psycho last house texas chainsaw etc it's a classic and deservedly so
1	lost oasis a place for food fun and murder after a guy disappears on his way to a gas station a group of her friends head out on a trip to search for him they come across a wax museum where they think their friend might have ended up unfortunately for the friends however the owner of the roadside attraction possesses the power to control his wax mannequins and use them for evil one by one the tourists are stalked down and killed by and his legion of wax dummies can the friends escape or will they fall to the same fate as their lost friend following in the footsteps and twisting them around of the great classic wax films house of wax mystery of the wax museum tourist trap takes the slasher genre to a whole new level of strange and fascinating with its bizarre story and style as far as character development action dialogue flow etc it seems to be just a basic slasher flick but it goes far beyond that as the director takes control of the plot and moves it to the supernatural thriller it is the acting ranges from acceptable from the main cast to very good from backwoods showman mr played by western legend chuck connors the writing moves well and the dialogue is well structured but there are some flaws in logic as the film moves deeper into the story also some scenes are a bit silly like the moaning mannequin attack on becky it's nothing however that would detract from the effect of the film as one would expect from a film about wax dummies it is full of the endless creepiness supplied by the mannequins it's strange that a mostly inanimate object can just sit still and somehow be so unsettling perhaps it's the human likeness or the blank stare or the fact that you know it's about to spring an attack whatever it is the dolls are extremely spooky and that effect is used very well throughout the entirety of the film as far as slashers go it's one of the best and it stands as one of the creepiest films i've ever seen br br obligatory slasher elements br br violence gore the film is full of some cool deaths the gore isn't excessive but it's done well and leaves it as being realistic br br sex nudity there is an extended skinny dipping scene with the very attractive lead females though 'very attractive' barely begins to describe the ravishing future angel tanya roberts but it's all a tease as the girls remain mostly underwater they do remain scantily clad throughout the film however br br cool killer s creepy is just the beginning of and his mannequins one of the best killers in the slasher subgenre br br scares suspense from the opening scene on the film maintains a great blend of the creepiness of the mannequins jump scares from the attacks and a strong level of suspense in the stranded situation it's all very well done to make for a genuinely scary film br br mystery well mystery wasn't really the point of the film just the meaning behind all of it is what matters br br awkward dance scene all these cute girls and not a single dance shame br br final verdict 8 10 see this creepy slasher br br ap3
1	one of the oddest most strikingly eerie and creepy horror films to come out of the 70's tourist trap even by the loose free wheeling convention defying anything goes standards of its time rates as a real yet it's the picture's very strangeness a masterfully mounted uncanny atmosphere of pervasively off kilter supernatural dread which from the get go registers as powerfully spooky and becomes more increasingly opaque and frightening as the film progresses offering up ample shocks amid a few scattered moments of lovely dream like elegance and ending on a bitterly ironic crushingly nihilistic note with a haunting final image that's hard to shake which makes it such a unique and singularly unnerving experience br br five teenagers traveling through the desolate california desert by car get hopelessly lost they stumble across lost oasis a seedy rundown roadside dive that's one part gas station three parts crummy wax museum and all parts ratty and foreboding the lonely seemingly friendless and harmless owner overplayed with infectiously hammy brio by chuck turns out to be a deranged psychic killer with lethal telekinetic powers brings his freaky assortment of uncomfortably human like mannequins to life and picks off the kids one by one so he can add them to his ever growing collection of victims br br director david the arrival schmoeller adeptly wrings every last ounce of tension he can squeeze from the pleasingly ambiguous and open ended script he co wrote with j larry carroll said script's stubborn refusal to provide some rational excuse for all the bizarre stuff which transpires throughout the movie often wrongly criticized as one of the film's principal weaknesses is actually the movie's key strength giving the picture the scary anything and everything can happen common logic be damned quality of a true nightmare come horrifically to life which never would have been achieved if there was some kind of credible explanation offered for what's happening pino beautifully chilling understated score nicholas von shadowy cinematography and robert a burns' grubby cramped production design add immensely to the film's profoundly unsettling mood excellent performances are another significant plus with the pretty perky jocelyn jones ellie jo turner in the great texas dynamite chase particularly fine and personable as the most resilient and sympathetic of the endangered teens even tanya roberts fares well as a luckless lass who has a knife levitated into her head offbeat and unusual tourist trap is well worth visiting
1	an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night after she tries to get away from the murder scene she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat
1	i love this movie when i saw this movie on tv when i was a kid it scared the hell out of me probably because mannequins give me the creeps too jocelyn jones molly is an excellent actress she uses her facial expressions especially her eyes at playing terrified chuck connors is great as mr i was happy to see him play such a different roll the other actors in this movie are great too tanya roberts becky and robin sherwood eileen are great actresses and i hope to see them in future films especially jocelyn jones br br so if you love scary movies but are tired of seeing the same old thing check this movie out
1	1979's tourist trap is a clever unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it's kind br br travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner's mannequins are a little too life like for comfort br br while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery that reaches nightmarish proportions also adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings br br actor chuck connors is the best of the film's decent cast pino music score is excellent having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie a number of the film's sequences are quite memorable br br for horror and thriller fans alike tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film br br 1 2 out of
1	don't you just hate them slashers that never seem to get started it sometimes takes them a full hour of lame red herrings before some real action takes place tourist trap isn't like that if it's typically gruesome slashing you want than it's typically gruesome slashing you'll get plenty of it and constantly from start to finish this movie contains what is probably the greatest opening sequence in 80's horror cinema when a teenager on a stroll after engine trouble is trapped in a deserted house and assaulted by a creepy collection of wax statues four other lambs to the slaughter arrive at the house and encounter an utterly insane maniac that looks somewhat like a mixture of leatherface from texas chainsaw massacre and one of those mad from old wax museum movies tourist trap is exciting horror entertainment with some genuine suspense grisly images ultimate weirdness morbid humor and terrific make up effects the plot twists aren't always original and the acting is pretty lousy but seriously who cares the fast pacing and the groovy killer icon caused this tourist trap to earn a spot amongst my 5 favorite slashers a bit surprising is the total lack of nudity though too bad because all the girls look ravishing and after only 10 minutes the obligatory line who needs a bathing suit is spoken
1	tourist trap is a genuinely spooky low budget horror film that will surely satisfy horror fans it contains extremely strange atmosphere and there are some quite unnerving moments of total dread and fear some scenes are downright bizarre for example there is one scene when chuck connors sits down to have dinner with a mannequin that comes to life and starts conversing with him before its head falls off there is very little gore but the violence is quite strong for pg rated horror film the mannequins look very sinister and the climax is horrifying david schmoeller returned to make several other genre films including puppet master and netherworld still tourist trap is definitely his best horror film so if you want to be scared give this little gem a look 9 out of 10
1	the slasher sub genre has been pretty much exhausted in fact even by 1979 just one year after the supposed 'first slasher' halloween which was released seven years after bay of blood was released the sub genre wasn't far from being exhausted but tourist trap represents one of the more original outings the film follows the same basic formula as most slashers i e madman murders a load of kids but draws its originality from the fact that madman is shown from the beginning as opposed to an unseen assailant or a man in a mask and we actually get some insight into his character the fact that this killer also has telekinetic abilities including being able to control the wax dummies that fill his house adds to the originality we kick off with a great opening sequence which sees a young man fall foul of having a flat tire after finding himself in a gas station of terror the scene is amazingly creepy as the wax dummies taunt him and things fly from the shelves and it gives the audience a great insight into what is to come namely a very creepy horror film br br the acting credibility is as non existent as you would expect from a seventies slasher but to be honest it's not all that bad the girls look hot the boys don't really matter and chuck connors is more than adequately creepy in the role of the psycho he's not exactly anthony perkins but still good enough it's not the acting that's the star of the show however and as you might expect the creepy atmosphere takes that prize wax models as proved by the likes of house of wax vincent price version are very creepy and the film makes best use of that fact there are very few things in cinema that can be frightening by simply being there but wax statues are definitely one of those things the killer's special ability could easy have gotten in the way of the atmosphere but the film makes best use of this fact even by having various things fly off shelves and it goes well with the rest of the movie on the whole this is a very good film while tourist trap might not be absolutely essential viewing it's well worth seeing and i can recommend it
1	the movie inhabited is about a family of four moving into a new house not knowing that dangers are lurking the daughter befriends the dangerous creatures as they gain her trust when they do they use it against her a man who use to live there as a child or a teen knows about the creatures and try's to warn them the creatures steel and take shiny objects to make new stuff out of them mostly weapons they has a cat and it murderously disappeared the man that tried to warn the little sister was tricked by them and end up into a psyciatric ward she then help them defeat the creatures and destroy the man one after they do they leave for good with nothing but each other and something happens to the doctor
1	okay this wasn't the greatest horror movie i've ever seen in my life despite the fact that it's lower budget it's a pretty decent movie though the monsters are unique and believable heck they're even kind of scary in the scenes where they show them briefly wreaking havoc on this poor family although when you finally do get to see the monsters completely you really think wtf those itty bitty things are after them the only part that really disturbed me is when sniff they killed the kitty not the kitty noooooo why seriously though if you are looking for hardcore violence and gore this is not the movie for you go rent the hills have eyes or something along those lines if you have small children i wouldn't recommend watching this with them though probably would give them nightmares about trolls in their room
1	minor spoiler br br inhabited isn't scary but it is creepy it is an interesting 'little' story with good acting and great special effects makeup br br basic plot a little girl blames the strange things going on at her family's new house and accompanying playhouse on her faerie friends br br the movie doesn't waste time getting moving though the ending could have been more involved br br i don't recommend this movie to those expecting wanting hardcore horror but i do recommend it to those who want a chiller and not necessarily a thriller
1	this little flick is reminiscent of several other movies but manages to keep its own style mood troll don't be afraid of the dark come to mind the suspense builders were good just cross the line from g to pg i especially liked the non cliche choices with the parents in other movies i could predict the dialog verbatim but the writing in this movie made better selections if you want a movie that's not gross but gives you some chills this is a great choice
1	malcolm mcdowell diagnoses megan gallagher's daughter and she as having a form of illness when they believe they are seeing the troll like creatures which live with the rocks and the roots to quote the movie br br basically a family moves into an older house which has a smaller doll house in the backyard the daughter well played by sofia starts to befriend the creatures until they become vindictive the family cat also disappears br br there are a few good scenes with megan gallagher millennium and malcolm mcdowell as the psychiatrist there is also something strange which occurred to one of mcdowell's patients br br if you enjoy this type of story you may also like bad ronald which had a similar odd theme and the house is haunted by bad ronald scott jacoby only that movie is from the 70's 7 10
1	this is definitely one of the most scary and spell binding films ever made you are stuck to the movie from the beginning to the very end even though there are some plot holes it keeps being exciting to the final showdown besides 8 mm and peeping tom this is one of the best films about snuff movies a taboo theme of our culture if you like the scream trilogy you will probably love that one
1	shadow magic' recaptures the joy and amazement of the first movie audiences it also shows the power of film in its ability to bring the world a little closer overcome cultural barriers and to preserve ourselves for generations yet to come certainly anyone who truly loves the art of the motion picture will enjoy this film it's a great first effort by writer director ann hu who will hopefully have many films to follow
1	this is a beautiful funny vivid film it's even better than nuovo cinema paradiso which it parallels but doesn't replicate the story completes a full circle and had the theater beaming as the credits rolled a hundred years after this story takes place we're just as intrigued by flickering images in a dark theater
1	unlike some movies which you can wonder around and do other things this movie kept me in front of the screen for the entire two hours i loved every minute of it br br however i have to say that the story is not very believable especially when the foreigner was expelled by the government and then later on actually sent a package to the guy who helped him xiao liu is a very good actor he shows his emotions and he shows his silliness and his love toward that girl
1	a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china captures the amazement of film's first audiences pretty much as it's described to have been worldwide and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities i don't agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow's part i thought he was fine but the chinese lead really stole the show in any case i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd
1	a beautiful film about the coming of early silent cinema to china shadow magic deftly combines a love story with the drama of the cultural clash between china's ancient traditions and modern western culture in the form of film an amazing first film by chinese director ann hu if i correctly understood ms comments at the 2000 sundance festival this film was produced as an american film with co funding by the chinese government and shot in china shadow magic reminds me of films like il postino and cinema paradiso not necessarily in theme or plot but it has a similar feel
1	this film is about so many things most obvious is the hold that film can have over an audience and how capturing life on film can be a kind of magic there is also the tense relationship between china and the west as many chinese saw probably rightly so the barbarians as trying to take over and pollute their way of life liu even seeks to preserve their way of life on film because he sees that it will one day disappear their is also liu's internal conflict between the loyalties and traditions of china versus the self determination philosophy of the west all these themes are woven quite skillfully into a coherent and enjoyable whole by hu a very enjoyable film
1	gentle and genial film seems to have been overlooked as a triviality and to be fair the narrative is a bit tenuous and lightweight as drama but i feel the simple wonder and joy of the scenes depicting the first impact of a new art on an alien and sceptical society have a radiance and naturalness which capture the century long romance between cinema and audience better than any film in years immensely sympathetic performance from jared who seems to have inherited all of his fathers charisma hopefully without poor richards penchant for and and charming offbeat cuteness from costar yu xia combine to make this a real radiant location photography including beautiful scenes at the great wall and sensitive direction by ann hu give film added impact in short a must for anyone ever enchanted by a shadow flickering to life and making magic in the dark
1	a very sweet movie about a young chinese man enamored of western technology and an englishman trying to make his fortune showing movies in china it's a very interesting story that is presumably based on true events although i'm assuming it's more fantasy than real it's got a fairy tale quality you rarely get in real life and it's also got 8 people credited for the script so they must have been making up stuff right and left br br this is a very likable movie that conveys how magical film was to people who had never seen it before it is not an especially deep movie touching briefly on the loss of tradition and the encroachment of western culture but mainly just being a pleasant little movie it's actually a movie i enjoyed very much that is already beginning to disappear from my mind 15 minutes after seeing it light as a soufflé but i enjoyed every minute
1	god bless joe d'amato i love italian horror cheese movie wise sci fi etc br br this one admittedly was a bit harder to watch but another fun bad movie br br i like how people preface a negative review with i normally enjoy bad movies but no buts this was a bad movie for people who love bad movies it's one of my top bad movies br br miles o'keefe was a poor man's conan but oh what fun who can't have fun with a primitive nuclear bomb a and a cheesy rubber monster it's fine to hate this movie if you only like hollywood drek like titanic or pretty woman but if you truly i mean truly love bad movies check this one out br br this is one of those movies that are fun to rent for a or when you have a couple buddies around and looking for a little mindless fun br br my rating 8 10
1	is definitely a memorable entry in the swords and sorcery category of movies i found along with quest for the mighty sword at a thrift shop attended by mentally handicapped people and was very happy to pay 2 00 each for them believable sets and costumes good sword fighting and a beautiful female warrior mila make this an enjoyable watch a few problems though there were a lot of details in the plot that didn't quite fit like the cave men for one i didn't understand their purpose also this movie could have really benefited from some more monsters the snake was cool but i guess it does borrow a little from conan however any primitive sort of movie where someone winds up with a is ok by me see yor and battle for endor i think ator is cool oh and was anyone else reminded of by the villain or is it just me i give a 7 10
1	i love this movie i think i've seen it 5 times already it was quite a success in france and they often play it on tv ok it's a thriller and there is great tension but mostly and specifically in the second part it is absolutely hilarious and very original the directing and photography are just splendid
1	the ator series is a shining example of what b movies should be they fail in every aspect but in such a hilarious way that they are funny rather than sad ator 2 aka the blade master aka cave dwellers shows us europe's favorite conan clone ator where we left him in the first movie after showing us a lengthy recap of all the events of the first film this time the world must be saved from the a kind of bomb represented on screen as a bright light i guess they couldn't afford a prop this one features invisible attackers and samurai as with the first film lots of stock footage is used including one rather obvious bit from star wars thoroughly laughable and unforgettably bad this is an exception b movie
1	this film blade master may be cheap clumsy in appearance and it is sometimes but it shares thoughts on problems that are way beyond the era this film is set in ator is the chosen one that has to protect the earth against a terrible weapon that is compared in an unforgettable and unpredictable way to the atomic weapon he goes through obstacles as a character who is just more than muscle power although he has quite is lot i would say this aspect of the movie makes it surpass a film like conan the barbarian which is the least i can say quite brainless it doesn't diminish in any ways the great adventure movie that is conan but it gives ator his wholesomeness that he shares not with the barbarian for a lower budget movie this film does good in terms of setting and the fights are most of the time believable the villain has with is prisoner throughout the film one of the most interesting psychological confrontation that gives tension to the movie even if ator seems way too fit for the task to loose br br what gives this movie that little extra are those scenes that may look quirky but worth of mention the fight with the serpent god even though he is a gigantic puppet is well handled as the snake with good lightnings remains a silhouette and the fight is quite convincing the movie climaxes in a most unusual way quite anachronic but breathtaking the sequence the scene itself is not introduced properly read not at all where did ator get that machine it's pretty unconvincing but it leads to a really poetic and beautiful midair sequence that standalone is the culminating point in the movie elevating ator in a place where few human fantasy heroes have been br br if blade master is not among the great fantastic movies of all time is no surprise due to its lacks it's a bigger surprise considering the philosophical way it chooses on the confrontation between good and evil the truth it speaks and the heart it shows that this movie is so i suggest it for every fan of the genre and try take it seriously as an intelligent movie that's to be taken more seriously than it seems
1	this film must have been quietly released on some other side of the world perhaps even in english hopefully nobody understood a word not there's anything to understand in this movie anyways call me a nut but i think this is one of the best movies ever why would i come to that conclusion because it's my national to sabotage horrible films and this one begs for it every other minute once i became a fan of science theater 3000 i had no doubt in my mind they'd find it somewhere and use it sure enough the version they acquired was entitled cave dwellers using some strange intro footage not even from the film itself apparently they were ashamed to use footage from their own film i can't say i recommend buying this film rather i highly recommend getting the mst3k version sure to find it most anywhere mst3k dvd's are sold don't miss out
1	the second part directed rapidly by joe d'amato specialist in all kinds of of exploitation and interpreted again by miles o'keeffe the budget of the movie to be derisory or minimal in spite of not being a better movie of his not mas entertained ator 2 either it has something something that makes it his introduction you prop it explains origin to us with images of the first part the script is incredible is like any comic book of the brilliant roy thomas has so fantastic elements inside world of the sword and such fantasy as invisible men black gentlemen cannibals monkeys the role of the villain this one interpreted brilliant the final this struggle very well lacking mas violence and blood but this one well never it becomes boring it has everything what there was lacking ator 1 be charmed with to my me 4 5
1	when the italians and miles o'keeffe work together nothing can go wrong as ever miles is great as the almost as great ator the most lovable barbarian of all times totally lives up to the first movie
1	miles o'keeffe once again assumes the role of the mighty ator in this the first sequel to the original film br br what can i say this pretty much represents b movie nirvana br br the plot is ludicrous the script is terrible the acting is hammy throughout the special effects well let's not even go there all in all this movie is a veritable delight br br highlights of the film include ator and thong his mute companion not his undergarments being attacked by invisible assailants in a cave certainly saved on the fx budget there ator battling what has to be the most unconvincing giant snake ever committed to celluloid and of course the infamous scene br br there's one question i have though at the end of the movie we see a huge atomic explosion when ator supposedly destroys the geometric as the narrator tells us how in the hell did ator destroy it and manage get out alive did he fashion some form of primitive timer detonator or something br br oh well such an illogical ending really only adds to the movies overall charm they just don't make them like this anymore
1	the jazz singer is one of a number of films made in the late 1940's and 1950 about the jewish experience in the united states other than crossfire 1947 and gentleman's agreement 1947 which dealt with anti semitism they usually had a musical theatre background these films included the jolson story 1946 jolson sings again 1949 the eddy story 1951 the eddie cantor story 1953 the benny goodman story 1956 and morningstar 1958 the leading actors in these jewish films were always played by non jews for example larry parks a non jew played al jolson and gene kelly played noel airman in marjorie morningstar this casting was probably done to make the jewish theme palpable to a mainly non jewish audience the jazz singer 1952 is no different danny thomas was a devout catholic and peggy lee was certainly not jewish although she plays a non practicing in the film the clue to her background is when she attends the family meal before entering she says i haven't been to a service since i left home br br the film is about a son who has just left the service after seeing action in korea his dilemma is whether to become a cantor a family tradition or to be a singer in musical theatre his choice of theatre leads to an inevitable conflict with his father br br however there is much more to this film than this this film was made after the rosenberg trial during the mccarthy and the hollywood blacklist therefore in this film the jews are shown as good loyal citizens and br br are american the synagogue choir would rather play baseball than practice the friends also talk about baseball in fact one of them is a major league umpire the synagogue itself dates back to and george washington is said to have visited therefore jews are presented as part and parcel of american society nobody in this film has a eastern european accent peggy lee appeared in very few feature films in this film you get to see her sing lover and just one of those things wonderful danny thomas is quite credible and he acts and sings the part very well the comedic routines could have been left out yes the film is schmaltzy and sentimental but it is well worth seeing i enjoyed it very much
1	to be frank this is probably the best version in my book as a sound movie version of the jazz singer the 1927 version is really a silent movie despite its build up as the first talkie br br danny thomas is a great comedian and he sings very well he does the jewish stuff with feeling peggy lee is great and any film that has her is always entertaining allan joslyn is not too entertaining and we could have done without him one question since when do live in such luxurious houses
1	by 1952 hollywood decided to remake the al jolson first talking classic br br this time the son was played by danny thomas coming home from the army it is expected that he follow in the footsteps of his father and other male relatives by becoming a cantor however young mr has quite a zest for show business br br at this time he meets peggy lee an aspiring singer she acts very well and her rendition of her favorite song lover is remarkable the film writers were smart not to plug the obvious jewish guy and non jewish girlfriend relationship if anything this is glossed over in his anger for betraying his pledge to become a cantor his father makes the traditional jewish sign indicative of a loss in the family this would not be done under circumstances of breaking a pledge it would be done if among the orthodox an inter faith marriage would take place br br thomas does a really good job of playing the son his singing is up to par as the film ends on a positive note br br am surprised that technical advisers did not realize that women do not carry pocketbooks into synagogue on the sabbath or at all during that period
1	this is like something i have never seen before it had me cracking up the whole time i don't think there was one scene that i didn't laugh through it is about a girl from the country in south who goes off to a big town for college at the school she befriends the ra across the hall when she realizes that he has no family to go to for thanksgiving she invites him to come home with her and her family and her serious boyfriend all go out to dinner one night and realizes what her boyfriend is about to do propose she urges to do something so he stands up and shouts something like sorry mate but you are too late i already asked to marry me a couple of weeks ago back at the school and she said yes that all turns into chaos please watch this classic it is totally worth it i swear
1	i've waited 9 years to watch this film simply because i never saw it advertised on tv eventually i caught it and it was well worth the wait it's much better than your over hyped scream or last summer garbage because it's all at a fairly quick pace with no drawn out creeping through the house to cheesy music scenes only the bad dubbing lets it down a little but don't let that put you off in any way what lies beneath over hyped and crap mute witness low budget not hyped at all and very good
1	the cast was well picked pauly shore is hilarious and does a good job of bringing the plot of the movie together however tiffani amber is who really makes this movie special her talented acting combined with her great looks makes this movie a definite see
1	this movie is extremely funny and it also contains the best looking girl this young man has ever seen tiffani amber is a great actress and she has the looks that stop traffic tiffani completes this movie which contains funny scenes put on by shore
1	this movie was great and funny pauly is funny the best looking girl is all the way tiffani she is totally hot in this film and she proves she can act with this film this movie is a must see comedy and its not all about tiffani its a great movie in general but tiffani adds the zest to this film cause she does her scenes very well and she is all the way sexy
1	i was cast as the surfer dude in the beach scenes almost got cast as the muscle guy since the real muscle guy was really really late that day pauly had my brother and i the skateboarder in front of the tattoo place do some vj stuff in between takes live from venice since he was still doing his mtv thing this movie is really good as well would it have made my top 100 if i wasn't in it
1	i think this is pauly shore's best stuff he played the part perfect i really enjoyed this movie patrick is really funny as zack the annoying little brother son in law is a good comedy worth your time but the only thing i wish tiffany thiessen was the farm chick instead of the one they had
1	when i first saw that this movie was going to be playing on tv i only new of pauly shore as this joke of a comedian who wore really weird outfits back in the day i still decided to watch it and i was impressed shore brings a fresh breath of air to the screen in this movie he plays crawl a college adviser that probably needs his own adviser as well carla in an underrated role plays a midwestern farm girl with a simple family and a movie cliché boyfriend travis when she heads off to ucla she meets crawl and he quickly turns her into a bubbly blonde californian girl she decides to bring crawl home for the thanksgiving break when travis decides to propose needs a distraction crawl then decides to make everyone believe that him and are engaged already this leads to crawl spicing up the romance between parents befriending her brother and even getting the dancers at the local bar to get a little loose i'm not going to reveal the end but i liked it anyway don't rent it if you want a poignant performance rent it if you want to laugh your butt of and enjoy an often missed part of 90's humor
1	this was such a funny movie which was soon forgotten about probably because there are so many teen and young adult comedies such as this the movie is not quit as predictable as one would think crawl is an unattractive but fun and caring and most importantly a very devoted friend still an unlikely match for rebecca who has an attractive and seemingly kind boyfriend back home when he helps feel more at ease at school by showing her around the neighborhood and encouraging her to socialize more they become buddies but it is completely platonic when she realizes her boyfriend might propose she does not feel ready he seems to like her boyfriend but she seems to be enjoying her free laid back party life at college is not yet ready to live a life of marriage and responsibility you kind of learn what a good friend crawl is when he tells her he will help get her out of getting married when her boyfriend proposes to her in front of the whole family she kicks crawl and puts him on the spot he tells the whole family that he proposes to her and gives her his diamond ring which it out was his the whole time he must have come from money or something well they never really show a close up of the ring the message of the movie seemed to be not to judge people by their looks and not to judge people before you get to know him rebecca's boyfriend who her parents love turned mean when we find out he his new girlfriend after rebecca amber and crawl so that rebecca would have broken up with crawl thinking they were a couple although they were not rebecca was mad at him which when you think about it was kind of unfair since they were not a couple but i think they were starting to like one another and i think she thought there was more the movie never showed them actually become a couple they left it open for the viewers to decide they never even actually kissed at any point although there was one part where they almost did that was one thing most viewers seemed to misunderstand many people saw it and said that he would be a nightmare for fathers to see their daughters bring home or a shock but they were just friends the whole time even towards the end and she did not introduce him as her boyfriend still they never told her parents they were not engaged rebecca almost did even if he would never become her boyfriend they could have still been friends in the 90s for some reason men were in and there was this big stereo type that woman liked men not that there is anything wrong with that think it came from the fact that women like the kind sensitive type which crawl proved to be through his friendship with rebecca but when i saw the movie i must admit if i went for looks i thought i would have gone for the first boyfriend still it was a creative movie that tried to teach a lesson on friendship and judging others
1	i've sat through several pauly shore movies but this is the only one that i've liked of course it helps that he is far less irritating than usual perhaps even a little likeable the rest of the cast does a fine job especially underrated carla the film itself is basically a harmless and silly comedy and although few of the jokes are especially funny the film is quite entertaining overall
1	if you like pauly shore you'll love son in law if you hate pauly shore then well i liked it
1	this is the only pauly shore movie you should ever see o k it's the only one i've ever seen and i think i've made good choices i normally find shore's shtick kind of tired but he is very funny in this movie actually the script is pretty funny and shore doesn't overwhelm the other actors with his what do you call it tomfoolery anyway this is a funny if ultimately forgettable film 3
1	the plot is somewhat original and all the actors did their job pretty well there is a plenty of comic relief too some things do not make a lot of sense e g the first chase scene why would the heroine not just hide somewhere and wait until the baddies leave the russians actually speak russian without accent but the cars are extremely strange with models spanning like 50 years and so the place seems weirdly out of time overall if you like thrillers you will probably like this one as well
1	despite myself i really kinda like this movie pauley shore is invariably laugh out loud funny and here is no exception he is just excellent at playing the weirdo with a heart of gold br br his performance in this although nothing out of the ordinary for him is so good it seems to lift other cast members' performances perhaps this is because he's the kind of guy it's easy to bounce off of br br the clichés about country life in this movie are hilarious and the way shore's city boy crawl is so at odds with the way of life is funny too but it's not only he who's a fish out of water comedy also comes from the fact that to any ordinary person or people crawl is a freakish nightmare of a person that's why this movie works in such a great way we love crawl he's a breath of fresh air but we can also sympathise with the warners he is one hell of a culture shock br br although this movie is classic pauley shore so there's no great brain power needed to enjoy the movie enjoy it you do and there's even a never judge a book by it's cover type moral here somewhere not bad not bad at all
1	i didn't expect much when i decided to watch this movie so i was surprised to find myself thoroughly enjoying it a couple of scenes had me laughing almost uncontrollably the characters were engaging no pun intended however the story is predictable the fun of it comes from watching crawl shore's character a ditzy yet wise california dude a country college girl brings home for thanksgiving trying in his awkward yet endearing way to fit in to their lifestyle i was also surprised that in all this there was a message if you have a chance see this movie
1	i love it i love pauly shore it seems some people don't agree it's humor and he's not like everyone else the movie is great i love the story line and most of the people in the movie it's funny from the first time she meets him at school i like the fact that she chooses him over the guy back home i like that tiffani isn't a bad girl in the end all the secrets are let out only the people you want to see are left in the end except for those of you who don't like pauly shore even if you don't like him there are funny parts and her family tortures him through most of the movie she's country girl gone wild and needs to be heard she finally makes it it's got just the right amount of love and romance i give it an 8 out of 10
1	one of our all time family favorites when we need a laugh we just put this one in and laugh all way thru like it is the first time we've seen it this film has good clean family humor pauly shore is brilliant with no plans for the thanksgiving holiday crawl shore is invited to spend the holiday with a conservative coed crawl being a big city boy must adjust to the farm life if he is to fall in love with but crawl isn't the only one who is learning new things crawl teaches and her parents how to be more open about their feelings and accepting others this is fun for viewers of all ages
1	along with in the army this ranks as one of pauly shore's best movies if there is such a thing while the whole west coast meets midwest culture clash isn't anything new this film proves to make the story a little more entertaining with the wild and unpredictable antics of a then fresh shore while the change in values probably would have gone in the other direction the whole concept was rather entertaining not only was shore's interaction with the family hilarious it also had carla and tiffani amber theissen she'll always have the amber in my book in two ravishing and early roles one of those films i have no problem watching when it is on tv
1	son in law didn't do so hot in the box office but that only means the masses were wrong this movie is one of the few movies that pauly shore really excels in with some of the funniest lines i've ever heard although the ending is sub par the antics of shore carries the movie
1	conrad phillips stars in the 1950s action adventure series william tell set in the century during the hostile austrian occupation of switzerland william tell is a reluctant freedom fighter battling heroically against the tyranny and oppression of the invading forces william tell is the swiss version of robin hood conrad phillips plays the protagonist fantastically it is possible that pascal would have had greater success in the role but he was unavailable at the time of filming the classic action show is made up of series of 39 the episodes are in black and white but this does not detract from the entertainment in any way
1	you could tell from the opening shot of the conveyor belt in the bank that this was going to be a great film br br a touch minimalist in feel with a twist of retro this film oozes style the brilliant camera work acting script and the manner that the secret life of the protagonist unfolds all complement each other in possibly making the best italian film i've ever seen up there with la stanza del albeit different br br shame on the people sitting behind me who made it obvious that they couldn't see the relevance of the slow but painfully beautiful scenes meticulously crafted by the camera don't miss
1	i've read that paolo inspiration for the consequences of love came from simply observing a businessman alone in a brazilian hotel and speculating what he might be doing there the film unfolds to us in a similar way we view the existence of who has lived alone in a hotel in switzerland for 8 years he is secretive and avoids friendship his life is dominated by order and regularly gradually the truth of his existence is revealed to us until finally his world begins to fall apart br br the mystery of is central to the consequences of love and it works thanks in large part to the superb performance by toni his character becomes all the more intriguing to us as little details are revealed that he injects heroin once a week that he has no imagination although some here criticise the dialogue for not being naturalistic that doesn't matter in my view this is not that sort of film and i think the script is great the camera work is also excellent br br if you have to criticise the film does lose its way a in the later scenes as the mystery of existence is revealed to us and as his world begins to fall apart however the tragic final scenes are every bit as good as the earlier build up
1	someone on these boards has predicated that the whole thing is being dreamed by the best friend of the protagonist albeit a friend he hasn't seen for some 20 years i'm reluctant to dismiss this out of hand but it does raise some viable questions why would a telephone engineer or a shoe salesman or butcher for that matter want to create a mythical world and weave it around a friend it in the process with a set of equally mythical supporting characters with an imagination that good the friend should be writing not dreaming dream or not someone and the obvious candidate is director paolo has created a very watchable world in which tony makes stillness a fine art we are asked to believe that forty something la the mafia some years prior to our meeting him and as penance he is a virtual prisoner in a small swiss hotel from which each week he drives to a local bank with a suitcase containing nine mill large in used notes other than this weekly trip he is free to do as he likes and what he likes to do is smoke play cards with a man who cheats and a wife who reminds the husband how far they have fallen socially and ignore the friendly overtures of olivia magnani who has spent two years trying to get a smile and or a 'good out of him for reasons best known to himself and which are inconsistent with a man who has no interest in anything or anyone spends a certain amount of time every day applying a stethoscope to the wall of his bedroom and listening to the private conversations of his card playing partners eventually he does respond to magnani he has to do so or they would be no film this is plot the one about destry who never wears a gun or sean duke wayne the 'quiet man' who refuses to rise to provocation and fight until the obligatory scene where the gun is strapped on and the fists cocked but instead of himself with a polite come he removes 100 000 from the suitcase and buys her a car the final inconsistency occurs when magnani tells him she will pick him up the following day at 4 pm in her car and they will drive into the mountains to celebrate his birthday we've established that she lives locally so why she is then seen driving from somewhere miles away ignoring a police roadblock to drive off the road and overturn the car is anyone's guess this inconsistencies apart this remains a fine piece of film making with an excellent lead performance and a very good supporting one
1	i enjoyed the acting in this movie except for the sister she reminded me of janice on friends i could never quite believe she was anything but obnoxious br br my main problems with the movie were the anticlimatic ending and the execution scene with the sister and brother in law the guy falling out of the exploding car maybe if his hand had been blown off and he ran to the mute for help and she kissed him and rushed him to a hospital maybe then i could have gone for the ending i think somebody needed to die in the execution scene mainly the brother in law he was such a pain in the ass anyway or maybe the sister needed to accidentally kill the guy who saved the mute i could have even bought into the brother in law killing the hero and the ending being the two sisters being put in snuff films br br it is worth watching again and as i always say it is much easier to be a reviewer instead of an author
1	fun entertaining movie about wwii german spy julie andrews falling in love with american pilot rock hudson while trying to get secrets from him for some reason this was attacked by critics and shunned by the public in 1970 i can't see why it's beautifully shot has wonderful costumes and interiors and exciting aerial dogfights also it has andrews doing a strip tease strictly pg material and singing a beautiful song whistling in the dark the movie does have problems andrews and hudson did not get along during the shooting of this and it shows their love scenes lack spark and they have zero sexual chemistry still they turn in ok performances the film is a little long even in the 105 min director's cut i saw and gets way too dark and serious at the end still worth catching try seeing the directors cut the other one runs half an hour longer
1	the movie is a really well made one which is great and looking and passionately directed you can tell that every shot is thought over and executed to perfection for the lovers of cinema this is especially a great watch and they especially should be able to appreciate the beauty of it and the passion for cinema that is being put into it br br it's hard to place this movie under one label it's not really a drama it's not really a thriller and it's not really a comedy instead its more a movie with its own style that does things its own way it doesn't necessarily follow the rules of cinema and features many different elements from many different genres combined br br but just like the movie its main character the movie gets sort of slow and boring in parts the artistic style of directing tries to conceal that the story is actually a quite simple one and it's more as if the movie relied solely on its style and overall atmosphere created by the movie it doesn't make the movie horrible or anything but it just prevents it from being a true absolute must see in parts the movie also feels as if it's trying to be too poetic and tries to let the images speak too much for itself it just feels a bit overdone in parts though for most part of the movie it still works out beautifully br br it features some great camera work and some unique storytelling which makes this an original as well as a great film to watch br br 7 10
1	i saw this interesting film back to back with the chinese french film 2046 at the recent dubai film festival both were intelligent works made the same year 2004 2005 both had the main characters living in a hotel in both films the hotel is more a metaphor of exile than a location both dealt with love between a man and a woman both had wonderful music and riveting performances what a coincidence and yet how the two films differ in treatment of the subject somewhere at the beginning of the film a man walking on a pavement turns to look at a woman and in doing so hits a lamp post the audience erupts into a volcano of laughter innocently but isn't that brief shot the synopsis of the film that entertains you for 2 hours while the film is a wonderful blend of black comedy e g using a stethoscope to listen to neighbor's conversation the film builds on what buster keaton and jacques tati had introduced to cinema earlier stoic faces that leads to comedy quite in contrast to the equally intelligent world of robin williams or the heartwarming danny kaye a sudden frenzy of activity transforms an otherwise stoic character while moving money from the hotel to the bank is reminiscent of tati's works br br but the film is not mere comedy the anti automation statement cash counting and the reaction of the bank staff to the statements relating to it the dummy that acts as an ineffectual warning to the speeding lady the reference to as the fictitious company he works for etc are several cues that the director is offering a loaded comedy to the viewer laugh yes but reflect on it and enjoy further br br the movie's strength lies in is brief staccato script by director paul that offers comedy that is mixed with philosophy truth is boring dad is dead but nobody told him bad luck does not exist it is the invention of the losers and the poor then the director goes on to provide you with a fascinating lecture from the main character on insomniacs you will not sleep through this lecture br br provides entertainment pegged to the subject the italians know best the mafia it is an existential mafia film br br since truth is boring the director provides a dessert as part of the fine meal of superb acting toni good music clever camera work luca a beautiful enigmatic actress magnani grand daughter of the great anna and powerful script the dessert is for the viewer to figure out whether what preceded in the film was the truth it would have been boring if it was wouldn't it
1	the opening shot of the consequences of love perfectly sets up this intriguing and absorbing film a slowly carries a solitary out of focus figure towards the camera trailing a huge suitcase behind him like the central character in the film we know nothing of him and our initial interpretation of him his profession the contents of the suitcase could be way off the mark br br consequences of love is that kind of film from the title you might expect a dissection of a relationship what we have instead is a lead character living life in emotional exile seemingly choosing to cut himself off from those around him if the film can be classified in any way i would call it a mystery as we are engaged in working out who is and what he is about what we know from the start is he is cool composed and expensively attired he has lived for the last eight years in a plush looking swiss hotel always paying his room fee on time but seldom showing any interest in the staff or other guests br br his only real companions are a couple who he plays occasional card games with the couple it transpires used to own the hotel but have now gambled everything away and have only the room they live in left their love of money antiques and each other was their undoing and seems to identify with their plight he once had it all but now is now living as a virtual prisoner in the hotel his brother a long haired surf instructor drops in to see him occasionally but he sees his visits as more of an intrusion than a pleasure they talk about the person considers to be his best friend even though he hasn't seen him for 25 years this long lost friend is now a telephone engineer repairing the communication network that brings so many together meanwhile phone calls to his wife and children end quickly when they refuse to speak to him br br midway through the film makes an uncharacteristic move and begins to open up to a young barmaid from the hotel with his judgement clouded by emotion he sets himself on a course of actions that will ultimately seal his fate for good br br the slow unfolding of fall from grace is and beautifully scripted shot and scored the thumping techno soundtrack does much to build up the tension as more and more secrets are revealed the final half hour turning into a taught thriller as lets his mask slip and must once again face the consequences of his actions the ending with a visual nod to is dramatic yet ambiguous and leaves the audience to once more question his motives br br patrick bliss 01 06 06
1	le 2004 is a beautifully made film that takes small carefully positioned steps towards its ending that need to be savoured in order to be enjoyed from the contrasting landscapes to the tightly enclosed world that the hero inhabits we are taken by the director and controlled from the very moment we enter the hotel we like the hero will never escape from the suffocating intensity and paradoxical monotony of his criminally driven mafia world that the film resists mafia stereotypes whilst revelling in them makes it all the more successful the concrete grave the inevitable brutal executions and overwhelming are laid bare and exposed for what they are just brutality and business and no more life is about being part of the corporate machine that is organised crime and not about love or living for self family or others our hero is indeed a hero in that he gives up his life for the sake of the touch of the beautiful barmaid the resolution of the misery suffered by his only neighbours in the hotel and in order to escape his decorative prison the consequences of love are indeed beautiful and brutal at the same time see it
1	a true masterpiece by and tony demonstrates his exceptional acting ability as the cool enigmatic br br yet another example of a must see movie that the everyday person will not receive access as the high street cinema chains are full of hollywood funded nonsense fortunately i reside in the metropolis and amongst the privileged few who enjoy the choice the art house cinema provides i champion the day when cinema investment will be into film screenings allowing choice for the masses and away from assembling penny sweet counters br br film of the year for me so far and yes i've seen a few
1	maybe my rating should have been a 9 but the film absolutely stunned me when viewing it first time and my latest viewing confirmed my initial belief stylish yes every scene has crafted scoped views terrific angles with a perfect sound side accompanying them br br put on top great acting from especially toni garner it with one of the most beautiful and charming women in olivia magnani and a fine plot and you will end up seeing this small masterpiece over and over br br paulo next movie de which is in competition in this years cannes festival will be eagerly awaited
1	i've seen this film so many times it's that good maybe because i can relate to way of life is the reason why not everyone would find it to their taste also my is improving after each viewing am i a sad case thankyou mr i look forward to your next film although i did not see the film at a cinema i have the dvd and would encourage anyone to buy it the special feature extras alone is worth the price the amount of time a director spends on the making of a film is very seldom appreciated the extras on the dvd gives an excellent insight to the making of a film as for the story of the film i'm bias i happen to rave about it to all my friends but as i said before i relate very much to the main character who is a loner in a situation not of his own choosing the mafia in sicily use to their money in a swiss bank he owes them for costing them millions of dollars years ago in stock market deal that went wrong love kills
1	stylish thought provoking cool and gripping – just four aspects of a film that will long remain in the thoughts of this viewer br br slow paced it may be at the beginning but the director beguiles with beautiful camera work sophisticated compositions and elegant editing the unfolding of the story not so much the narrative line but the revelation of the characters' inner selves is masterful br br olivia magnani who plays sophia the hotel receptionist who finally breaks down the icy reserve of former di tony is coolly beautiful and reveals hidden depths and personal honesty in her brief but profound relationship with br br the disgraced mafia middle man forced to live out an empty life tormented by insomnia in a swiss hotel becomes caught up in the similarly empty lives of the refined older couple who formerly owned the hotel but are now forced to live there as residents after the husband gambled away their resources years earlier the husband is constantly dreaming about recovering his lost wealth and making a grand statement to the world his wife realises this is but a pipe dream this nicely counterpoints the resignation of who sees no way out and does not seek one br br the fleeting love affair between and sophia has consequences that no one could have foreseen it enables him to escape his prison without bars but to pay a huge price that he willingly accepts and in doing so provides redemption for the older couple
1	i saw this the week it opened four years ago and i really did not know what to expect being unfamiliar with work at the time he has created a very intriguing and ultimately moving account of an odd character one for whom the phrase 'life is for living' no longer applies it outwitted me at every turn and i was constantly surprised by the story i enjoyed the pacing very much and the way i was gradually given the pieces to work out what was happening tony is superb as is magnani it opens with a brilliantly stylish wide shot and concludes with a very moving image that takes the movie into sublime territory i thought long afterwards about the main character and the position he was in and his final fate and i didn't shake it for weeks i recently bought the film and that final scene where he thinks about his friend gets me every time i still have yet to talk to anyone who has seen this it's a shame that it did not reach a wider audience as if this is the direction of italian cinema it can only be a good thing
1	i was a little worried about actors and acting in italy then le and toni came it was a long time that i didn't see a so charismatic actor on screen paolo has written a wonderful story about loneliness and tony has built one of the most unforgettable characters seen in movies in recent years the movie is not completely perfect but di will stay with you for a long time after the vision of the movie toni please keep on acting in movies you're for sure the coolest actor around today and not just in italy his performance deserves international acclamation i rate this movie 9 10
1	this is without doubt one of my favourite horror films ever i really cannot believe that it didn't gain much more popularity when it was released especially when the main contenders at the time were the usual wes craven sequels and copycat horrors mute witness has all the style suspense and plot twists of a hitchcock depalma movie coupled with some very sharp black comedy and a great plot it never promises to be any more than a good popcorn and hot dog movie but it is difficult not to just enjoy the film for what it is br br the plot centres on billie hughes a mute girl working on the set of a horror film being made in a russian factory by a series of events she finds herself accidentally locked in and stumbles on the filming of a snuff movie br br one of the best things about the film is the lack of screaming that seems to invade every horror film ever made as the main character is mute she cannot make a noise something which is a blessing at some stages of the movie and a curse in others br br the director seems to have studied his hitchcock very well even the opening scene is a tongue in cheek nod to both hitchcock's psycho as well as fairly generic slasher movie scenes br br while the acting can be hammy at times the whole film does hold it together not only throwing in a couple of excellent scenes that put you right on the edge of your seat but a few neat little questions about how the film is going to end br br all in all a hugely overlooked well paced and action packed psycho thriller which i would recommend for any jaded viewer looking for something a little different from the usual freddy jason scream michael myers damien at
1	well where do i start br br as one of the other reviewers said you know you're in for a real treat when you see the opening shot minutes and minutes of film time spent on a guy standing on a br br i won't repeat rubin's excellent summary of the story what i would like to say though is that this film gripped me more than any film i can remember i sat open mouthed and on the edge of my seat all the way through the camera work sound track and fantastic performances particularly that of tony draw you to the screen and won't let you look away br br it's italian so of course everyone looks fantastic but it is by no means merely an exercise in cool style this is a film with lots to say about luck loss and love br br go and see it
1	ok i'm italian but there aren't so many italian film like this i think that the plot is very good for 3 4 of the film but the final is too simple too predictable but it's the only little mistake the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack i'd like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it is a great great actor you know if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance but it's only a great theater italian actor called toni yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it's too slow it's so boring so many silences but i think that this components its fantastic its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian films
1	this is a very visual film by that i mean that the dialog is sparse almost to the point of being a silent movie for some very long takes beginning with the opening shot br br the silences however are broken by a stunning sound track that ranges from discordant staccato beats to a haunting mix of violins and interspersed with vocals that sound like dreams it's a feast for the ears as much as for the eyes one of the early visuals being a man walking along a street so preoccupied with his interest in a shapely woman that he walks into a lamppost one of the consequences of love and a metaphor for what lies in store br br a long time ago another movie – love story 1970 said that love is never having to say you're sorry this narrative turns that idea on its head in a number of ways beginning with the main character toni a seemingly innocuous long term resident in a plush hotel somewhere in switzerland everyday week in week out he sits at the same coffee table enjoying the passing world his cigarettes his coffee his solitude – and he's been doing it for ten years he sits he observes and once a week he engages in three very surprising activities that you'll find out about when you see this little masterpiece br br love is explored in another way in a direct counterpoint to solitude and reserved nature two older residents of the hotel are still much in love but the man wants to die in a spectacular manner when his time comes while his long suffering wife berates him for cheating at cards with the other guests one of whom is now knows about their squabbles their love the man's cheating his apologies to his wife and his whining how in a surprising and black comedic manner one of those surprise activities i mentioned br br but this is no comedy in reality although it does touch upon the idea of the human comedy in a sense the irony of life and what to do with it that decision had been made for ten years earlier when he left his wife and began to live in the hotel he keeps in touch occasionally and it is clear that he still loves his children now grown up and the sorrow in his voice speaks volumes but there's something more than just sorrow br br such a life as would obviously seem to be utterly boring and it actually is from many perspectives it is only when we learn what lies beneath his almost death like countenance however that the horror of his situation hits the viewer between the eyes but not before we know that the female bartender sofia olivia magnani is very interested in and goes out of her way to pique interest in her br br and that's when things start to unravel for he eventually succumbs to her femininity and in doing so discovers once again the consequences of love ironically in doing so he finally realizes what he must finally do with his life and in a most spectacular fashion br br i know that all of the above is somewhat cryptic but to say more would spoil the film and story for you if you like italian cinema – i love it – i urge you to see this one the acting is superb the sound track chills the spine the camera work is truly innovative the direction shows the maturity of a true artist br br i know i'll see this movie again and again
1	although i totally agree with the previous comment regarding the marvellous acting of toni as di i would also like to add the beautiful filming and montage which turns this movie virtually into a painting the young director paolo had the courage to experiment with different types of camera techniques which reminded me of darren requiem for a dream they both used the same mtv style filming combined with modern alternative techno music making the film – le stand apart from the other crime mafia movies in its genre even though the movie may start of very slow paced almost sec compared to the faster hollywood productions it should be enjoyed cause of its serenity marvellous character portray and splendid ending definitely a must see for people who enjoy the european italian cinema ps toni keep on acting like this we need an encore
1	i saw this movie in the rotterdam film festival and i was pleasantly surprised the photography is just so stylish and beautiful and the story it's just not your average mafia movie actually that storyline is pretty much in the background it's more the personal journey of a middle age man that is trapped in an existence he was forced to live the actor toni is superb he excels this quiet man the girl olivia magnani is the grand daughter of italian actress anna magnani and lives up to the family surname br br if you're expecting your typical italian movie where everybody is screaming to each other in big families this is not your movie there are not you're average clichés and it's definitively worth seeing this one
1	the consequences of love there is really something special about this film but it's very hard to put your finger on it is a love story of sorts but not really one i've seen before it has several love themes running throughout the film one mans love for a younger woman a younger mans love for his older brother the mafias love of money at all costs these are just some that intertwine in a story that has you guessing or rather not knowing where and how it will end the cast are all superb from sophia the teasing barmaid to the straight faced ness of the films central character with simple yet affective camera work bounced off an ever changing soundtrack that mixes low fi trip hop with lush orchestral pieces the style of the film changes beautifully using several styles without ever getting cluttered love has never looked so diverse and powerful as the tales we are told rumble towards various conclusions the director has married old and new into a rich italian classic
1	there are movies that are just a different version of another one not remakes but just similar to others it is not although it talks about mafia it is watched in another way and often it seems just a secondary theme i went to watch that movie for case because the theatre was full and i was satisfied at the end it surprised me because of its black irony or cynicism and there are more and more interesting items to analyze it doesn't follow the classical ways of movies it is just different and i think not to be the only one to like that i am very happy also because it is italian and i was afraid that italian directors and producers were not enough brave to change themes in this movie you can watch new italian style as well but is not blocked into clichés i hope to be understandable enough i know it is difficult i hope also that this movie can be exported out of our frontiers it is a good product to export i want to point out also the music very good soundtrack the movie needs it because of its long silent pause and they are covered perfectly by that music many compliments to the director and thank you cinema needs these movies
1	i saw le on the 2005 rotterdam filmfestival it was the first of ten films i saw there br br le has left the most powerful impression of the ten films from the first shot you know the movie is going to be something special the beautiful cinematography left me in awe of what can be done with a camera the music is also on par with the visuals complementing the colorful and stylish architecture like images br br toni plays the main character in the film he's a tax expert gone wrong who lives in a hotel every week he brings a suitcase with money to a bank and the story plays around this br br he is always very controlled and shows almost no emotion to anyone looks calculated and well dressed he has a habit of ignoring people who are of no significance to him for example sofia played very nicely by olivia magnani who works as a barmaid in the hotel where he lives although she's been working in the hotel for two years he never greets her even if she does greet him on one day she confronts him with this and the next day he sits at the bar instead of his usual spot at a window from here the story really begins and will unfold in a strong tale of love sacrifice and the mafia br br i won't spoil the rest of the film see this film if you love stylish movies like ones from david lynch the godfather etc don't see this if you're an action buff
1	one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist the mafia middle man di a physically non descript middle aged man originally from in southern italy when we're introduced to him at the start of the film he's been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di cash tell him that 10 000 dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked at the news he quietly but threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account meanwhile he tells us the spectators that when you bluff you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous he says you can't bluff for a while and then halfway through tell the truth having eventually done this only halfway through and told the truth and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately love is exactly the reason behind the beginning of di troubles br br this initially unsympathetic character a scowling taciturn curt man on the verge of 50 a man who won't even reply in kind to and waitresses who say hello and goodbye becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about at one point in his non life decides to feel concern about appearing ridiculous the first half of the film may be described as slow by some it does indeed reveal di days and nights in that hotel at an oddly deliberate pace revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details however scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes the existence of di the man with no imagination identity or life the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out br br never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le or another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist's insomnia not unlike the machinist and in a far more explicit way the al pacino film insomnia le uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that's been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious it's almost impossible to pin point its cause if indeed there is one br br the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia played by olivia magnani grand daughter of the legendary anna and the memory of best friend a man whom he hasn't seen in 20 years unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that eventually though tentatively at first accepts to look through again though it's never explicitly spelt out the spectator knows that to a man like accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences a film without a single scene of sex or violence a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the expectations le is a fine representative of that small quiet discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of during the second half of the 70s the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare more la vita bella style films neglecting to explore fine creations like le and others your loss world
1	while this film might not be the next evil dead hell who knows maybe it will it has only been out for a year it is worth a look don't expect a 10 million film cuz you'll be disappointed do expect to be entertain to laugh and to enjoy the experience all in all this film is much better than many if not all of the low budget horror films out there i have seen films that spent more than 10 or 20 times what this film cost to make and turned out times worse the effort that was put into this film far out weighs the set backs it faces by having a limited budget movies are meant to entertain and this movie sure does that in fact this film might even open up new doors for you in movie watching it's available on netflix if not your local video rental store so watch it then decide
1	one of my all time favourite movies nothing can beat watching this movie for the first time if i could go back in time and erase my memory or suffer from momentary amnesia i would so i could enjoy this movie as much as i did that very first time it's still enjoyable second and third times round but i found myself appreciating the humour more as the shocks and thrills weren't unexpected if you want a see a film that you truly won't be able to predict the ending of then i highly recommend this film its chilling shocking full of suspense and there's also loads of humour to help you through it too if you watch this film and don't love it i truly question your sanity
1	i own this movie i am actually from the same town as the brother directors but that doesn't make the film any better but if one night you wanna watch something not serious and don't have and high expectations i strongly recommend demon summer yes the lines are cheesy and the plot is corny but it contains key elements of a horror comedy i just wanna see some small town kids make a movie full of effects and i say bravo to the campell brothers they are now making more movies and continuing a long dream demon summer was one of the movies that are gonna help them start a great career with a great future speed freak productions and compound pictures described in one word potential
1	the mystery and its solution was a great noir conceit i do have some questions though maybe i wasn't paying enough attention br br who killed the neighbor and why who killed the replacement girl and why br br and some minor quibbles they should have shown the at the hotel for the switch not that they should have shown the switch but they should have shown jim and the girl going in the hotel jim going to the bathroom coming out and being told by the bartender that his girlfriend went to the car without him br br then jim getting back in the car and seeing the sleeping woman and little girl in his back seat br br this would have given the viewer a sporting chance at figuring out the solution br br i wish i taped it though i'd like to see it again
1	a variation of the same plot line was used in a simon simon episode thin air that originally aired in dec 1982 br br the gender of the victim was changed the surviving spouse is one of rick's old flames it's also interesting to note that gerald mcraney had a role in this rockford file episode br br both episodes were based on a story by howard browne as noted in the list of 'writing credits' br br anthony james plays one of his classic tv bad guy roles br br the continuation of the concept between the rockford files to magnum pi to simon simon quite interesting
1	of hand' is my favorite rockford files episode of the entire series this episode shows a side of jim rockford that is usually ignored to wit jim is genuinely in love with a beautiful woman and is shown as a father figure to her young daughter the woman is recently divorced and she and jim have recently returned from a weekend getaway along with the youngster through a strange turn of events the woman is discovered missing after they return to her home br br recounting to his father rocky of the events leading up to the woman's disappearance is reminiscent of mickey spillane's mike hammer series from an earlier era after much brooding and reflection and with encouragement jim stumbles upon the clue that sends him off investigating the disappearance with his usual br br unfortunately jim's girlfriend karen unwittingly witnessed some mafia activity while they stayed at the buena vista inn the crime bosses responded by killing karen and substituting another woman into jim's car the imposter ostensibly asleep in the back seat made her exit immediately upon arrival at the home a couple of cover up murders ensue and jim proceeds to their solution while under suspicion of the l a police department even as warrants are issued for his arrest br br this episode evokes more emotional reaction than all other rockford files episodes combined james garner as jim rockford is seen at his most vulnerable moment and yet he retains the presence of mind to pursue the case this is personal for jim rockford in this case he is not hired to do a job but he is trying to recover his lost love to save her life unfortunately this is not possible but jim tries hard to sort out his feelings but it is apparent that he will not soon get over his hurt br br despite the appeal of the main story line many key questions are raised but never answered in this episode 1 what becomes of the young daughter of jim's girlfriend 2 what did karen actually see at the hotel that made the mafia kill her 3 how could jim drive for hours with an imposter in his back seat without noticing this 4 the daughter stated that mommy didn't come back with us so why didn't the girl scream or cry when she noticed that her mother was absent for the hours long car ride regardless of these ambiguities of hand is the rockford files episode which comes closest to being a tear jerker the suspense is compelling and the story is told in a sensitive and vulnerable style which makes us feel pain
1	i just recently discovered this fantastic series and i just can't seem to get enough of garner's laid back pi the shows continually display excellent level of writing and suspenseful episodes br br this episode of hand is a little different forsaking humor in favor of a more serious turn for rockford as he searches for his missing girlfriend br br the mystery is great and it's unraveling is convincing enough it's based on a book can't remember the name and it could easily have been stretched to a feature length episode garner excels here as rockford gets tough and really means business this has a noir feel to it all the way the dark lighting and overall mood echo the great dark thrillers of the 40's and 50's br br really good episode in a class a series easily deserves a 10
1	the episode begins with scenes of a dead woman washed up on the shore a forlorn jim strolling along the beach lost in reverie and a night ride home that ends in murder and mystery yep this is an atmospheric little number with a super twist at the end jim does well to unravel what is a priori an inexplicable case of a woman going missing 20 seconds after she enters her home to be sure the eventual explanation is a little far fetched why for example go to the lengths of substituting a woman midway thru a car journey when simply rubbing her and her companions out would've been as easy and left less of a trail however these niggles aside it's a memorable episode full of invention even if yet again jim gets put in the frame by an ever suspicious police dept i mean to say have the ungrateful so and so's ever sat down and counted just how many of their files have been solved by dear ol' jimbo
1	this is a very noir kind of episode it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorced karen mills pat daughter in law of john huston who knew a few things about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect br br this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn't think was important at the time but now might lead to a clue as to what happened it's a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn't just some clueless old man either as he says you come to me because i'm your father and i'm smarter than you this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts br br this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker who played angelique in the dark shadows series and went on to play laura banner bruce's wife in the incredible hulk series a few years later she looks terrific here br br this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family this time its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend br br lt diehl tom atkins makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they were right though i prefer the later lt chapman to lt diehl br br not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart
1	barely three and a half years after just scraping out a month's run 7 31 oct 1953 at broadway's theatre on west 49th street since renamed the o'neill mgm relied on the earlier solid london success of the play to lavish a wonderful cast and for the most part carefully opened up production on a sadly trimmed down screenplay of this slyly subversive boulevard comedy and were rewarded with a modest hit br br ava gardner is the increasingly frustrated wife of stewart granger an internationally successful and entirely complacent workaholic before the term had been coined using the perpetually frustrated david niven to attempt to rekindle passion in her spouse when the second honeymoon cruise gardner granger into leaves the trio and granger's dog marooned on a south sea island were there other survivors that's for later plot developments granger continues right on managing the world around him building a big hut for himself and his wife and a little one of the title for niven or the unattached male br br the core of the actual plot of the play only gets going about half way through the film when niven proposes that granger and he alternate as tenants of the little hut sharing the only female on the island as granger has been willing to share the only pair of shoes his br br reason which granger considers his strong point reigns and frustration reigns supreme for a while br br david niven and ava gardner are superb in their appointed roles of suave would be seducer and seductress and stuart granger usually called upon merely to be handsome and virile in action roles and the odd miscast specialty a pretty boy as in shaw's caesar and cleopatra in 1945 gives one of the better acting performances of his film career as the husband who may actually be as smart as he thinks he is 33 years later he would again show this suave opposite rex harrison in granger's first and both their last broadway engagements in a hit revival of somerset maugham's the circle which only ended with harrison's death we'd be far richer if granger had used these skills more often br br as promising as the menage is this is after all a very british boulevard comedy and hollywood in the 1950's which is to say that unlike the source play very little sex actually goes on to be frank if you don't give yourself over to the ideas driving the contrivances it does get a bit silly the same basic plot is far more satisfyingly developed three years later in the cary grant deborah kerr robert mitchum jean simmons stewart granger's actual wife the grass is greener based on an even less successful play but for some reason that superior trifle failed at the box office br br as lavishly as mgm set the piece there were unfortunate lapses the silliness which ends the stay on the island is cartoonishly presaged in what should have been a moment of genuine excitement the sinking of the yacht that puts them on the island ultimately we only get about three quarters of an hour of the real little hut but ninety good minutes of david niven ava gardner and stewart granger that make the film a fun diversion not high culture but a worthy guilty pleasure br br we even get some very nice in walter reputed to be actual lover at the time as one of his better speeches goes
1	a fun filled romp full of silly if not sometimes cruel jokes not the best of movies but definitely well worth watching david niven and stewart granger are their usual charming selves with granger as an especially delightful and ingenious gentleman ava gardner as wonderful as always with such a delightful character that is absolutely the story line is typical but full of surprises especially concerning the unconventional relationships between granger gardner and niven
1	bergman and comedy don't quite go together some of his comedies are so naff you almost wince this film has the odd naff moment the last 30 seconds being the nadir but on the whole this is a charming rather than funny piece enjoyable throughout bergman casts several of his usual suspects who perform well there is a great scene on the train between david marianne and an uncouth salesman which will stick in the memory some of the marriage material is typical cynical bergman but this is bergman in a light rather than dark mood br br this film has its moments and is worth the 90 odd minutes not one of his classics and not the place to start if you want to fall for bergman
1	i don't know how this film went unnoticed for so long br br i saw this film on tv i was flipping through the channels and came across this unexpectedly well made film i missed the first probably 10 minutes but that does not matter this film literally gripped me it is a real spine chiller br br the absence of well known actors in the film adds on to the effect u do not know what to expect from the actors because they are new u never know when they will get killed or what they are up to so it is all the more tense even though there are many new faces their performances were top class br br the filmmakers play with your mind just revealing enough gore to make imagine the rest the shock fear horror and helplessness are also brought out well by characters in the film br br the well written situations n twists fast camera movements slick editing and superb direction makes it an excellent suspense thriller this film actually switches between the genres horror and suspense thriller leaving the viewer clueless and tensed undoubtedly comparable to hitchcock br br i could not even move from the tv even during the commercial breaks i was the helpless mute witness to this superb film
1	bergman is a sublime comedy director and writer this fact becomes apparent in en i where the comic elements range from pure slapstick to deep yet very emotional scenes this movie is paves the way for bergman's later comedies and all of them starring gunnar as well as eva this is an excellent movie with which to start your bergman experience acutely portraying emotional troubles of the young as well as the old the cinematography by martin is astounding for instance in the picnic scene in short the movie is a perfect example of a successful comedy with a clarity of depth even surpassing some of bergman's own comedies
1	though not exactly a comedy in the usual sense of the word this more rewarding than any movie full of laughs but devoid of substance i don't think bergman's movies can be easily classed under narrow genres even the lightest are quite complex this movie in spite of its light touch poses a series of problems related to marriage and its shortcomings and what happens when the flames start to die etc i don't really communicate personally with all these issues as i am sure others do but the atmosphere of the movie is extraordinary you almost wish it not to end i have to admit that i was swept away by the bergman of the fifties having come to know most of his later groundbreaking efforts before nykvist von sydow etc the master produced some of the richest warm and touching movies i have ever seen though it's a long shot i have seen this kind of love for human kind in its complexity only in fellini's movies of the same period a lesson in love alongside smiles of a summer night are worth seeing for bergman fans to have the full image of the man's capabilities and for those who love cinema with a heart may he rest in peace
1	i've been watching buffy the vampire slayer and really didn't begin to love the show until season 4 started this episode hush was view by me alone in the dark just after midnight with my windows open and the wind blowing through furiously by an after storm the writers of this episode did an excellent job scaring the heck out of me i was in awe the entire episode which i just finished 2 minutes ago amazing doesn't touch the surface of what this episode accomplishes with almost no dialogue if you've never given this show much thought at least watch this episode if this doesn't impress you then no episode probably will br br btw my heart is still racing
1	having seen the movie years ago and been disappointed by its squandered potential when i heard that it was becoming a tv series i flatly refused to watch it my best friend became a rabid fan immediately and knowing my love for horror movies could not believe that i wouldn't watch a single episode i told him that the movie had scarred me for life as far as anything buffy was concerned and he told me to forget that the movie even existed he insisted that i give two episodes a shot once more with feeling and this one br br both of them are why i am a buffy fan today he was right i was hooked immediately i have never seen a show with the guts to dare try an episode that has next to no dialogue and nothing else could've pulled it off with the panache and the pure creativity of buffy i think x files might've gotten away with it if they'd thought of it first but i'm glad that buffy did it instead br br it is a credit to everyone involved that you are riveted for the entire hour sometimes hanging onto the edge of your seat and when it was all over i craved to know more about every character so i went out and bought the season one boxed set and the rest is history br br i guarantee you that if you've never seen it either you'll want to see more if you make this episode your first br br the only reason i'm not giving it 10 out of 10 is because i'm reserving that score for once more
1	this is a good episode but it's not my favorite a lot of people love it and on a creative level it's brilliant most of the episode has no dialog which is such a cool idea and hush handles the silence really well plus this episode introduces tara who i like a lot but i don't like or the or maggie walsh and they seem to get a lot of screen time in hush plus i don't think the gentlemen are that scary and i get tired of watching the float around sunnydale i know that i'm in the minority but i tend to fast forward parts of hush of course there are other parts of the episode that i think are great so if you're watching on dvd i recommend seeing this episode it really is a classic br br hush revolves around the entire town losing their voices looking demon guys called the gentlemen arrive to gather seven hearts from human victims but if they hear a human scream they die so they steal the voices of everyone in town buffy and the try to figure out what's going on while the also start investigating meanwhile xander comes to realize how much anya means to him and willow meets a fellow witch named tara buffy and finally come face to face while fighting the gentlemen they are both stunned about what they learn he's a commando and she's the slayer in the end buffy saves the day but she now has to deal with her new knowledge of secret life br br really the creativity of hush can't be seen in a basic outline of its plot it's the overwhelming silence of the episode that makes it so great the characters try to communicate in different ways white out boards pantomime obscene finger gestures etc and it all just works really well after a while you forget that there's no dialog because they're all so good at expressing themselves during the talking parts of the episode there are a lot of references to the importance of really hearing each other anya claims that xander won't really talk to her ignores spike and protests and insists that spike move into apartment buffy quickly substitutes the word petroleum for patrolling when she talks to so she won't have to explain her calling and then at the end when buffy and really do learn the truth about each other they sit there with nothing to say it's all pretty cool br br there are a lot of good parts to this episode i love that people keep forgetting that they can't talk buffy and xander both try to use the phone riley can't use the voice recognition thing in the elevator people try to scream it's basically what everyone would really do if they suddenly had no speech and i think it's hilarious that spike has to move in with xander they'll also share an apartment for a little while in season seven xander and spike have a fun bickering childishness that's just hilarious also i like the beginning of tara and willow's relationship tara plays an important role for the rest of the show and she and willow are pretty cute together it's nice to see them just starting out br br on the downside i don't understand how the gentlemen are choosing their victims they just seem to float around dorms and pick random people also i don't like i've never liked him but from hush on i'm pretty much just waiting for angel to come back to town and beat him up finally what happens to olivia after this it seems like we just met her she and have a relationship everything's going fine and then she's suddenly dropped i don't get it br br my favorite part of the episode who are the gentlemen lecture to the the whole scene is wonderful and his over heads are just hilarious he makes some similar looking in season first date pretty much anytime starts drawing monsters it's just gonna be fun
1	the creepy demons the gentlemen capture the voice of the population of sunnydale to steal human hearts without scream find that in accordance with a legend if a lady screams the creatures will be destroyed but buffy and her friends including riley have to fight the monsters speechless br br hush is certainly the best episode of the fourth season of buffy up to this moment having lots of humor and funny situations i liked a lot spike is hilarious the romance between xander and anya is cool but i loved the intense dialog between buffy and riley in end the gothic scenario of the final battle against the gentlemen recalls the environment of dark city my vote is ten br br title brazil silence
1	this episode of buffy was one of my personal favorites also number three of personal favorites as well the episode featured very little dialogue and despite that the good folks at the emmy's decided it merited a nomination unfortunately it didn't win when hush first premiered it received about 6 million viewers which was the highest rated episode of season four that should tell you something even though there was very little talking it managed to intrigue people enough to tune in those gentlemen characters who were played my mimes were some of the scariest creatures the show has produced or any network tv show i've seen nothing is creepier then a bunch of silver teethed men coming at you with a scalpel while smiling away i think that despite the lack of dialogue the actors did a fantastic job on the episode
1	episode no thirteen of the fanciful excuse the incredibly gay terminology supernatural tv series relocates sam and dean winchester to missouri where they have been called upon by an old flame of dean's to investigate a string of mysterious murders occurring in their small town as it turns out a large pick up truck with an unseen driver is running down african americans on a desolate stretch of road while dean attempts to rekindle his past love affair more towns people turn up as roadkill the cause appears to be due to a past racial incident back in the 60s causing a frustrated redneck spirit to remain in ghostly limbo seeking to kill black motorists route 666 is another good installment which isn't uncommon i've noticed which contains a few notable aspects pertaining to the pair of main characters such as dean getting laid and sam's admitted regret for having left college the killer truck come across as the most terrifying thing in the world though for an hour long show it does it's job well not a hands down fantastic episode but a solid concept with more horror movie references
1	apart from being a clever and well marketed variation on the nowadays hugely popular horror genre and a splendid formula to attract potential new fans in general i always somewhat considered supernatural as a massively giant homage towards the genre through the decades although not always noticeable to younger viewers and or people who only have an interest in more recent horror films each and every single episode contains a few obvious and subtler references towards classic and influential titles from that point of view it was only a matter of time before the writers would pay tribute to the vehicle without a driver' type of films and even more specifically the 70's milestones duel steven spielberg's acclaimed debut and the car being an avid fan of these two films i enjoyed route 666 a lot even in spite of its flaws and shortcomings the episode opens tense and atmospherically on a remote road where a black man is hunted down and eventually killed by a menacing monster truck with seemingly no driver behind the wheel the victim's daughter cassie happens to be dean's ex girlfriend and she calls the winchester brothers in for help the brothers can't prevent two more similar accidents before discovering the ghost truck sudden presence relates all the way back to a racial dispute of the 60's involving both of cassie's parents as well as several more prominent inhabitants of the little town some of my fellow reviewers around here tend to label route 666 as one of the weaker entries in season one mainly because the script is too preachy regarding racial issues and shows a different and more emotional side of dean's character he's usually the strong silent type whereas here he's confronted with unfinished romantic affairs from the past here to a certain level i agree with the racism debate but it didn't bother me that much really the writers eventually had to give an explanation to the presence of the ghost truck and racial conflict is an acceptable one as far as i'm concerned concerning dean's emotional vulnerability i can only state it's admirable to see how the writers continuously attempt to provide depth and detail to the main characters dean's behavior towards cassie sheds a whole new light on him in fact besides what really counts in this episode is the wondrously sinister truck and its virulent attacks it's an impressive and overpowering vehicle producing blinding lights and grisly engine noises in case you worshiped the brilliant aforementioned duel you will definitely find some amusement in the compelling chase sequences depicted in route 666
1	excellent episode showed dean has not only good taste by picking cassie for his girlfriend but also shows he does have a heart and can love just one woman and he's not just some guy who loves and leaves em e episode applaud them on this one i only hope that some way they go back to the cassie relationship next season if there is a next season i would like to see her come back into their supernatural lives especially dean's also i like the fact the chose an african american woman to be the special lady in his life that got away somehow i hope they don't screw that up and end it as he episdoe ended the girl who played cassie was truly a looker and it was good to see the wb branching out into what we all see in everyday life the interacial coupling that has become common and acceptable finally
1	man i never laugh so much this year and it's pretty hard to make me laugh while i expected some hostel style movie the smile came to my face even from the beginning this film inside film shows a female stabbed victim messing the whole set until she finally die her overacting drive the director nuts and his funny reaction tell us the viewers that mute witness is not a typically horror movie br br the main character the mute american make up artist billy hughes is played by the beautiful yet talented russian actress marina her performance is top notch her character can't speak so the body language and the emotions on her face must compensate and oh boy she did a wonderful job her sister fay ripley is the girlfriend or the fiancée or the wife of the in film director evan richards they were both very funny most of the time i won't spoil more but the scenes following the bathtub moment with them two the fake policemen and later the angry neighbor were plain brilliant black comedy br br the plot get twisted near the end possibly misleading at one particular moment but don't worry such a delicious movie can be viewed in family or with your boy girl friend
1	in a lonely road in cape missouri a black man driving a car is chased and hit by a truck falling off road and dying his daughter cassie robinson calls her former boyfriend dean and asks him to investigate the mysterious accident sam and dean see that three afro americans and the caucasian major of the town were killed in weird accidents on the same road when the truck threatens cassie her caucasian mother mrs robinson tells a tragic racist murder that happened thirty years ago and the brothers realize that they have to fight against a hatred spirit in a ghost truck br br in this episode dean discloses his first and unique love to his brother surprising sam and showing that he has feelings but also that his hunting wish is stronger than his love the story is only reasonable touching in the delicate theme of racism in an efficient manner and blending it with a supernatural event my vote is seven br br title brazil 666 route 666
1	i just watched return from lonesome dove and it was very good i've seen a lot of negative comments about it and i don't think the viewers are being real about it in the television movie business it is hard to get all the actors back for a 2nd sequel or 3rd part we are lucky to have another miniseries that ties into lone d faithfully this production was top notch with the original music score and the actors put their hearts into it you can tell if you want to watch lonesome d with robert duvall and tommy l j then watch the original return to l d didn't have as much wit and takes on a more serious tone but is totally captivating none the less from the touching moments to the villains this one is a winner wonderful
1	at first glance of this mini i was a bit disappointed that tommy lee jones and anjelica huston didn't return to the cast both john voight and barbara hershey did commendable jobs replacing very important characters for the continuing saga of this legendary epic western br br cherokee jack jackson haysbert played an excellent bad guy and louis gossett jr was as always true to form with his excellent acting skills br br the drama that seemed true to life in many scenes including one of the best where the valiant shoot out ended with ranger walker being killed made me feel that i was actually in the film return to lonesome dove was to me almost up to the quality of the first of the series the next 2 follow ups with james garner as call just didn't make it for me and that marries pea eye how the heck did that get in their that was a total mismatch of characters the first 2 of the series made the epic story the next 2 in no way were of the same quality br br now if the first 2 could be remastered in dolby digital and an anamorphic presentation the films could be where they should have been like the movies of today
1	i had my reservations about watching the return to lonesome dove after seeing and enjoying the original so much without tommy lee jones reprising his role as woodrow call or anjelica huston as clara i figured it just wouldn't seem authentic enough upon viewing i can honestly say it's a worthy successor the actors really make the show with jon voight rick schroder and oliver reed all preforming at their very best i admit the story might not be quite as engrossing as the first but definitely has it's share of excitement and captures the romance of the old west in a way that few other films have anyone who still has reservations can rest assured that the return to lonesome dove succeeds in capturing the 'feel' of the original and will not disappoint do yourself a favor and check it out ol' gus would be proud
1	this a wonderful sequel to the award winning lonesome dove miniseries in the 1980's this sequel is perhaps better than the original it is definitely more family friendly the language is more subdued there is plenty of violence and one particular scene with cherokee jack is particularly gruesome however overall a great movie the acting is superb william peterson is fantastic such a great dramatic actor with a quick sense of wit and comic timing jon voight aptly fills tommy lee jones' shoes as captain call ricky gives a great heart filled performance as the young boy who grew up with no family to claim him highly recommended
1	let me begin by saying that there is no bigger fan of the original lonesome dove than i both the pulitzer prize winning book and the towering mini series adapted from it stand alone in my experience as moving dramatic believable and engrossing works there is no comparison between lonesome dove and any western film at least not since the legendary collaborations of john ford and john wayne it was with real reservations that i sat down to watch this new mini series what with non participation and the missing original cast members after watching the first episode it was clear that this is no lonesome dove in almost every way this sequel falls short of the original but so what i wasn't expecting it to measure up taken as an effort of it's own this film is engaging entertaining and of a very good quality if it were done as a new story not as a sequel to lonesome dove there is no question in my mind that it would not have received as many negative ratings jon voight did a creditable job as call barbara hershey was a terrific clara and the new characters like gideon walker and vega were well rendered and believable louis gossett jr deserves special mention as the horse wrangler pickett the film made me care about the characters and i don't ask any more than that from an actor it is unfortunate that this worthy effort stands in the shadow of it's predecessor it is worth viewing in it's own right
1	i've seen lonesome dove dead man's walk and the streets of and now the return to lonesome dove if you are hungry for more after watching lonesome dove this'll fill yer belly great cast great story most definitely a close second to lonesome dove i will be purchasing this movie to add to my collection this is the best or at least my favorite performance by jon voight he is captain call lou gossett jr playing pickett is not somebody i'd mess with he is a bad ass with perspective william peterson does a great job as well rick schroder is back as newt with an angst filled performance that reminds me of his stint on nypd blue my only problem with this film and it's really picking nits is that i had the impression that call wanted to be the first man to cattle in montana and it's obvious that had already been there a while a little inconsistent but easily overlooked as you lose yourself in the fantastic tale i especially love the apparent character growth of jasper and july johnson i've watched this movie several times and am ready for another sequel
1	not a larry masterpiece but it stands on its own as a good western any of the lonesome doves do who ever takes on the role of woodrow call does a great portrayal in their own style it's also easy to see that they were looking to use this as a stepping stone to the t v series both version of it and that the writers knew how to keep the flavor alive william peterson was awesome in this the geeky c s i guy is not the character he plays in this this guy can do it all it seems br br it's deserve to be enjoyed by those who enjoy westerns br br stars
1	let me say first off that i am a huge fan of the original series lonesome dove and the book it was based from i have put off watching this sequel for the better part of 10 years due to the bad reviews i'd heard about it if tommy lee jones wasn't playing capt call i didn't see the point if larry wasn't involved why should i care how wrong i was br br this is in so many ways a worthy sequel to lonesome dove maybe even more so than the dark mood of streets of the story acting production cinematography are all top notch of course the script isn't as colorful as lonesome dove but it has it's moments and much to my surprise there are bits of lonesome done in this series the relationship between july and clara completely dismissed in the prequel is brought up here almost identical to the book a most welcome surprise the story isn't all roses it has it's surprises too by far the biggest surprise is jon voight's interpretation of capt call while not a direct copy of tommy lee jones' his is both faithful and unique to voight's credit the cast is fantastic all across the board and i don't think rick schroeder has done a better job of acting than in this series oliver reed practically steals the show here he is superb in a role that makes you care for his character as equally as you hate him br br it is worth it to watch this if you haven't due to bad criticisms especially that the dvd is so affordable i got the 2 disc set for 10 99 you can probably find it cheaper it is in no way the disappointment that dead man's walk turned out well it was for me and was involved with that one
1	a rich experience is to be gained from watching this film br br this is a seemingly simple story of a gifted pupil kwok who later becomes a teacher of classical chinese poetry he is married with two sons and things at home seem normal he still loves his wife after twenty years of marriage and his sons alternately fill him with pride the elder one and disappointment the younger one br br his passion for the poetry makes him an object of infatuation for a senior student in one of his classes the student choi lam draws pictures of him during class significantly one of him with a flower coming from his mouth she teases him more with her intelligence than her sexuality although that too is an element he of course is not immune to her attention though he tries for a while to keep the demarcation line between teacher and student in place br br the reason why he doesn't succeed in the end is complicated firstly there is a real depth to the communication between him and choi lam it becomes clear that she genuinely likes him and it's mutual secondly there is a long standing problem in his marriage that is brought to light when an old friend of both his and his wife becomes ill the consequences of the wife's involvement with this friend both past and present are almost too sad to bear br br nothing is treated in this film all the characters have a vivid internal life and an easily discernible history the two leads jacky cheung and anita are outstanding as are lam as the student choi lam and shaun tam as the elder son on yin br br recommended without reservation
1	in today's world of advertising and teenage horror and sensationalism it is very rare that one gets to see a movie and no nothing about it movies like psycho and blair witch while being great in suspense both with great build ups are spoiled by the fact that we know all about the best scenes and at least the plot before we see them with mute witness a rare treat i stumbled upon this film and watched it scared witless in the middle of the night i was scared by the menacing russian ambience the 'snuff' theme and the claustrophobic plight of the mute and the fact that the amusing which always leads to likeable characters could meet the end at any second since this is a low budget and rare film we watch it without any expectations it also has fay ripley in a rare movie role watch and prepare to be excited scared and thrilled in totally unexpected ways
1	this story of a teacher who has a relationship with a student is told in a subtle manner something which sets it apart from most films with this plot mr lam jacky cheung has a relationship with choy lam who was also so good in koma in what at first appears to be an inexplicable situation he is married for 20 years to ching the great anita in her last role before she was cruelly taken from us and it appears to be a loving relationship when ching offers to care for hers and mr lam's former teacher choy and mr lam have the opportunity to be together what makes the film so good is director ann pacing it takes a while to uncover the secrets of the and it all makes sense the movie is very dramatic and touching you don't feel any repulsion about the teacher student situation something that elevates this film above many with the same plot it is slow moving but stay with it also revel in ms wonderful unglamorous but beautiful performance she was and is someone truly special and in this film you fall in love with her one last time it is worth the time to witness and just be there with her
1	a touching love story reminiscent of the mood for love' drawing heavily on chinese poetry and how this is used by eastern people to communicate feelings to each other the story focuses on a schoolteacher who wants so much to be a model teacher as well as a good husband and father a senior student is very attracted to him as the story unfolds we see the emotions below the surface in his 20 year marriage and how he grapples with the moral dilemmas that face him a beautiful and moving story
1	excellent introspective interpersonal piece that really had some teeth to it without feeling hopeless or worse manipulative artificially gratifying might be a good double feature with american beauty as well best performance to date that i've seen from anita and every actor in this seems like a powerhouse hats off to ann hui for the direction and ivy ho for the brilliant script seriously one of the best dramas i've seen in a while especially if you have a taste for classical literature ala poetry again excellent
1	another keystone comedy set in the park it seems that the number one location spot for shooting was in this same local park as so many of chaplin's and arbuckle's films are set there and while this is yet another one it is different enough and well made that i still enjoyed it br br fatty is interested in a younger than usual looking and acting mabel normand i think she's supposed to be a little younger though in her mother's eyes she is too young to be interested in men well fatty does not share her feelings and soon he and mabel run away for some innocent fun things get complicated when the mother's watch is stolen fatty finds it and gives it to mabel as a gift and many problems result br br decent pacing and the fact that this movie did not rely too much on cheap slapstick but a reasonable plot make this a cute and enjoyable little film
1	i really liked two coyotes one of my friends rented it the other night and we were really impressed with how good it was and how cool the main guys were i wonder if they are thinking of making a sequel because that would be excellent br br two coyotes rocks
1	this first time writer director comes across as a season pro with two coyotes most action dramas are all about the action first then the story but this picture works the other way around if this is just the beginning for this director then hollywood will soon be making room for this rising star independent movie making has once again reached a new level
1	this film is an excellent example of what an independent film can be the director does an excellent job of riding the line between emotional and physical violence but in the end he remembers what so many indie films forget he tells a good story when watching this film i was reminded of how timid and mundane most big budget hollywood films really have become br br especially notable is an exceptionally strong performance by the film's lead jorge cordova as an villainous thug on his way to the top of the crime heap cordova plays a conniving brutal conceited devious and sleazy s o b but he is so likable that he keeps you entertained the whole time br br i read somewhere that these guys were part of the new wave of latino filmmakers in los angeles called la or something like that either way this film makes you look forward to seeing more of their work br br
1	first i must say that i don't speak spanish and usually do not enjoy spanish speaking films but two coyotes is an exceptional film there is enough action and hard drama that it doesn't matter that its a spanish speaking film the subtitles were easy to read and didn't block the action or the drama br br i would tell fans of spanish speaking films and non fans of spanish speaking films to go see this movie the action and drama are worth every penny br br
1	i was very impressed with this film from newcomer dir writer jose reyes the cast was excellent jorge executed a powerful br br and shocking performance as the lead character of it's inspiring to see independent films with this level of talent br br it takes talent courage and determination to go out and make a quality film br br i admire anyone who can take an idea from concept to conception and go the mile br br it's easy for people to judge young filmmakers more harshly but i applaud jose reyes br br and the talented cast for their successful efforts
1	one of the most underrated comedies dan akroyd is hilarious in this over the top role charles grodin gives a performance nearly as good as in midnight run and walter matthau gives a superb comedic performance in this sometimes subdued sometimes wacky film akroyd and matthau have great chemistry together
1	i couldn't stop watching this movie though it was far past my bedtime br br comparisons to hitchcock are deserved this thing really plays with you it walks a wonderful line between real immediate suspense and a dark distancing humor like many of hitch's heroes our doe eyed mute witness has innocently stumbled into something truly horrific and we are taken on quite a ride with her at turns identifying totally and feeling her fear at turns watching in thrilling suspense as she is placed further in jeopardy br br the filmmakers have put in a lot of tender care in working this out right from the opening shots they engage and challenge you to determine what is real and what is fabrication who is to be trusted and who is a monster the plot twists and turns unpredictably suspense is created with a combination of carefully chosen camerawork imagery music but most simply the eyes of the characters which sends raw fear right into you br br a warning there is some frighteningly real gore as well as some nudity the horror scenes are done in an emotional way that make them far more scary and disturbing than in any teenage slasher pic br br and a teen slasher pic it ain't the characters are quirky and feel like real people for one thing a couple including the heroine you may even find endearing as i did there will be no mistake you're watching a movie made for grown ups i mean alec guinness is in it briefly and you know he didn't need the work br br pop this in the vcr some night when you can't sleep and don't want to yet
1	the couch trip is one of those silly comedies that they cranked out in the '80s in this case dan aykroyd plays a mental patient who poses as a psychiatrist and he goes to beverly hills to sub for charles grodin most of the movie's humor springs from their satirical look at beverly hills and people's empty lives there a woman has a power struggle with her maid br br it's the sort of movie that you just watch to have a good time don't expect any kind of religious experience but you'll most likely laugh a lot at how the beverly hills people flaunt their wealth also starring walter matthau donna dixon arye gross and victoria jackson of uhf
1	dan ackroyd in his prime stars as burns a mental asylum escapee who poses as his own shrink to travel out to la la land and host a popular radio talk show while the regular host charle grodin in his snarling prime takes a vacation along the way ackroyd hooks up with walter matthau a fellow nutjob and the rest is sheer hilarity ackroyd and matthau play off very well off one another ackroyd's stunning real life wife donna dixon is along for the ride as yet another shrink the ending feels a bit rushed and contrived which is the only thing that keeps me from giving this film my top rating an 8 a lost '80s gem
1	to say i wasn't expecting much sitting down to watch the couch trip is an understatement i had no idea what it was about i thought it was going to be a journey into the realm of sexuality when i heard chevy chase played a condom man and the movie's title involves the word couch trip wink wink then i figured out that it had something to do with a mental institute and a patient escaping my expectations dropped even lower br br i was literally expecting a grin movie the type where you grin once and walk out feeling a bit cheated and in a way this is cheap comedy it doesn't have the greatest gags the plot is ludicrous but you know what i had a big dumb smile on my face the entire time i was watching it br br dan aykroyd plays john burns a patient at a mental hospital who may or may not actually be mental he gives the psychiatrist lawrence david plenty of grief and misery which leads us to believe he is a sane person after all br br following a little bit of a riot in the mental institute's cafeteria burns is awaiting a tongue lashing from in his office when the phone rings burns picks it up pretends to be and finds out the caller on the other line harvey michaels richard romanus wants the real dr to come fill in for a radio shrink named george charles grodin who is taking a vacation with his wife vera mary gross michaels wants so bad he has even booked him a ticket on an airplane br br burns escapes the institute with the help of a receptionist and drives to o'hare he gets dr ticket gets on the plane and eventually poses on the air as dr his show is a phenomenal success people love him one man says and the other man replies it's because he actually cares about them br br donald becker the late great walter matthau is an ex mental patient who recognizes burns' clothes to be confinement issued pants and shirts to keep him quiet burns promises becker a percentage of his income the secret is kept closed br br meanwhile and his wife get in an argument he flies home to end his vacation short and realizes that the man on his talk show is not in fact dr after all but no one believes him he gets the real dr but unfortunately he has lost his id so the police take them as nutcases and don't listen to their story br br let me name just a few of the plot holes i noticed while watching this film burns poses as dr but is never asked for his id even when claiming his plane ticket he was robbed he says but they would still make sure he is if burns becomes so very famous how come the real dr in chicago never heard people talking about him word travels and finally why would the police ever arrest and the real that is without following up on their stories br br to be frankly honest i couldn't care less i went into this movie with a closed mind and it surprised me i really liked it it entertained me its ideas are essentially ludicrous and not at all realistic but dan aykroyd gives a truly spirited performance as a half a loon that makes the couch trip a trip worth taking br br 3 5 5 stars br br john ulmer
1	this is a strange little forgotten movie from the late eighties it's one of those large cast kitchen sink movies that delivers some good gags if you like the people in this one give it a shot
1	does anybody know why this movie is called the couch trip i was just watching it and am still not sure why this title was picked the movie was very funny and its probably my favorite dan aykroyd performance it even beats out his ghostbusters performance i had never heard of the movie before i seen it in a sears store i read the back and thought it sounded good so i bought and when i finally got a chance to watch it i thought it was better than what i had originally expected this movie rates as good as animal house and national lampoon's vacation in my mind i wish comedies that have come out lately were written as well as this one was nothing sad happens in it and the bad stuff that does happen are also funny parts if anyone else feels this way and would like to read a comedy script for a movie that doesn't have a sad situation in it email me at hotmail com
1	a lot of people don't think dan aykroyd is funny this movie proves otherwise aykroyd is brilliant delivering his one liners in this comedy the only major problem with this is that it wastes far too much time near the end jumping back and forth from aykroyd's character and the doctor who is pursuing him to prove he's a fraud the doctor goes nuts like doctor leo marvin richard dreyfuss in what about bob the scenes where the doctor is desperately trying to get back to los angeles are silly unbelievable and unfunny other that this aspect the movie really is funny especially the first half
1	i would agree with the comments already posted to this site by the previous rater br br i first stumbled across this movie back in the '80s when i was employed at a psychiatric hospital unfortunately many of the barbs aimed at the psychiatric profession do hit home i especially enjoyed the ending where the psychiatrist would speak thru the door to the hospitalized grodin trust me its fairly accurate br br of course doors at most psych hospitals are not locked nor are used much these days and any hospital must be licensed to have a padded room br br but a wonderfully underrated film and certainly one that is quite amusing br br jeff
1	i first saw the couch trip 1988 on late night television years ago and instantly fell in love with it the funny thing is i usually catch all the comedies made but have never even heard of this one until i saw it dan ackroyd is plain and simpley hillarious period he has made a couple great movies with belushi and don't forget saturday night live but i think the couch trip is probably his best and funniest with a good supporting cast of charles grodin david and walter matthau this piece of cinema shines with comic gold ackroyd's wife donna even does a fine job here my favorite moments of the film involve ackroyd and david charachter lawrence those two played well off each other so if you haven't seen a good comedy in take a trip back to 1988 and rent or buy the couch trip i just did amazon 78 cents what a bargain too bad i got hit with a 2 50 shipping fee oh well still well worth it any guy will love this flick check it out
1	i am surprised that this well above average 80's comedy scores only a 5 2 from all the imdb voters dan ackroyd does his usual satirical turn as a con who seizes a great opportunity to steal a contract from his prisons physician he retreats to california to start his work giving advice on a radio show pretending to be the infamous dr lawrence the only person that knows he's an imposter is the drunken priest walter matthau who comes along to be pampered by ackroyd's new found wealth having him charles grodin throws in a good supporting performance too for its genre i think this film deserves the same as 'ferris bueller' or 7 5 10
1	as a fan of dan aykroyd i watched this film when it was recently shown in the middle of night on tv i wasn't expecting much so it came as a big surprise that i loved it so much br br this is the type of film that dan aykroyd seems to love to make a chance for him to it up' and not take things too seriously if you loved him in the blues brothers or ghostbusters you'll know what i mean and you'd be wise to check out the couch trip br br avid fans of aykroyd will also have fun spotting all the tiny links to his other films in the script br br i can't describe this film without spoiling it for you so all i can do is tell you to check it out i can't praise this film highly enough and it must surely be time for a dvd release
1	the story is airtight from the beginning until the latter third of this movie then the story gets more and more outrageous the main character portrayed by marina is fantastic and had a difficult role this could have been a super great movie had the ending been more realistic
1	michael ritchie's the couch trip is a wonderfully anarchic comedy about what makes a good psychiatrist it is so subtle and wicked that you start to realize what a stinging satire it really is it is also dan best movie made in a particularly great film year 1988 for him first the great outdoors and now this br br akyroyd stars as john burns a career crook who fakes insanity to escape prison now a dumb comedy would just be about this but the couch trip uses this as a springboard for everything else beverly hills psychiatrist george charles grodin subtly hilarious here has a nervous breakdown and a replacement is selected lawrence who happens to be psychiatrist you can pretty much guess what's going to happen but the great thing about the couch trip is not what happens but how it is done br br the couch trip gives dan akyroyd the best role he has ever had his john burns is one of the truly original comic creations in movie history wicked one liners and physical humor are a part of it but what makes it special is that akyroyd makes burns a lovable character we root for him and grow to like him a whole lot during the 98 minute running time br br but akyroyd isn't alone here he gets strong support from other great comic actors walter matthau joins the hilarity as a con artist minister who catches on to burns' secret and commits genteel blackmail charles grodin slow burns his way to another great comic role as the burned out psychiatrist grodin has been one of the most underappreciated actors in hollywood it's criminal they haven't used him more often richard romanus plays grodin's slimeball lawyer to perfection br br the couch trip is one of many films made by the now defunct orion pictures corporation that are currently unseen mgm spent a fortune buying the orion library but have yet to truly cash in on their acquisition the couch trip joins dressed to kill blow out and countless others in gathering dust rotting in the vault shame on mgm for their inaction hopefully with new management the couch trip will find the audience and respect it deserves br br out of 4 stars
1	i loved complete savages why did they cancel it anyway they should have made a second season and so on god they always cancel the good shows and leave all the boring stuff nothing interesting at tv since complete savages is gone this show was a great idea a single firefighter father with five crazy sons and a lazy dog each and every one of them has his own madness in that house tj is always the kid always the smaller one kyle rocks he breaks everything he touches he's always on detention he's always doing the wrong stuff but still he's so funny by all the things that he does sam is the smart one he's always shy and stupid when it comes to girls finally he ends up by dating angela chris is the sports guy who doesn't have much to do with school studying and stuff like that he's always funny and finally jack the rock of the show the oldest of all the macho guy the rock star but still as crazy as everybody else nick is helpless with these guys oh and i almost forgot uncle jimmy he's the man he's like a 30 year old kid he's like doing the same stupid things that the boys are doing i always wondered how did he end up by being a firefighter and the dog is the image of all the savage family the thing is this show had everything to become something really big it had everything man but of course they canceled it
1	a great show br br first to the people who don't like it don't like it then don't watch it br br this is was an awesome show better than according to jim a favorite of mine it shows a real family household as opposed to 8 simple rules etc where everything goes peachy br br they're loud they're messy i can sympathize with their dragging all the garbage into the kitchen it happens in real life sorta like the portal to hell and everyone growling like dogs over the fast food boxes br br it's a been there show you know what's coming but fun to watch because you have been there before br br a good cast they work great together a admirable enough show to warrant a dvd release mel gibsons safety videos were a highlight of the series as well br br opinion good show really deserving of a dvd release deserving to not be canceled as well
1	am glad that i am not the only one to find this series very good this is the best series for young ladies i have so strange taste on comedies and i find so hard one to please my intelligence and i am so happy that their humor is exactly what i need love the gang of actors if anyone knows a series or just a movie similar to this one i say pretty please write back because i miss the series br br and kindly ask the writers and the producers to continue it even if the actors are now all grown up i guess br br have a nice morning day evening night because i do not know the exact time you will be reading this post
1	each show is excellent finally a show about something other than why it sucks to be married or good looking people talking about why they are like normal people shame it got canceled br br mike scully and julie formerly of the simpsons wrote or executive produced some of the funniest episodes of that series and a lot of the similar style humour seeps in here take officer steve cox and think troy mcclure however it does come with its own unique brand of humour and let's face it a teenage girl will love it just by on the faces alone br br what is it with television that cancel most good shows and we are spoon fed with such abominations as who my mother almost slept with or whatever that show is called please learn a lesson not everything has to be about cuteness or romantic travails or especially reality shows on how to demystify every aspect of life some people actually like to laugh and not have to think afterward well my griping is done for the day now back to the simpsons when is it on oh yes all the time
1	i think that complete savages is a very good tv show and they should make many more episodes it is one of my favourites it is very funny and it is really good acting i say that you should give them a chance to do more episodes that they can and they should they should put complete savages on nickelodeon more than what they do i'm sure that many people will agree with me i like the tv show because it is a very good programme for people our age and it is very funny i also like complete savages because it isn't always about the same thing and things that happen could be real unlike other programmes when they advertised it i didn't like the sound of it but i watched it for the first time and i loved it complete savages is an excellent comedy and i miss it being on tv i can't really compare complete savages with any other tv series because it is different
1	teen is a great film a very breezy entertainer and a very modern film for its time in the 1960s the music and songs are terrific though the lyrics of are meaningless at places dev anand is a tremendous star and as usual does great justice to his role is sexy and is ok simi too is just about ok the film has terrific dialogue by who wrote most of dev anand's films like mahal warrant note manzil etc etc br br it is a story of dev getting attracted to three females the mod simi and the homely he eventually opts for the story is about ok but its been narrated in a gripping way and the dialogue and songs and the great dev anand are the highlight of the film a must watch film for all dev anand fans
1	one of the best romantic classic teen is a film which is all about selecting among equals your most soft emotion love this is a simple story of a middle class man who came into limelight by his poetic talent and charming personality he is attracted towards three women and vice versa one a hindi movie star the second a rich lady and the third who lives in his neighborhood br br the situation put him in confusion as he has to decide one of them as his life partner he asked for few days from all of them ultimately he goes to a and asked him who he loves most his confusion is no more and he came to know the lady living in his neighborhood who really cares for him and loves him is his true love played the lead character and has fully justified his contemporary romantic image
1	i saw teen in 1993 in doordarshan on a friday night and could scarcely believe that such a remarkable film was ever made in bollywood it was mind blowing – a film with a modern storyline superb music three lovely ladies and my fave superstar dev anand in this unusual storyline dev falls in love with three women – the simple the ravishing and the sophisticated simi they too are enamored with him and want to marry him this puts dev in a dilemma which is the crux of the storyline whom to marry he consults a hypnotist who asks dev to gaze into a crystal ball dev finds the answer and marries beautifully directed most probably by dev himself not by the official director the b w classic has evergreen music – some of sd helped generously by rd burman best compositions uff hai yeh ruth is the probably the most sexiest song ever composed in hindi films credit should also be given to for penning the memorable lyrics teen is a breezy musical which completely suited the style of dev anand and he did full justice to the role unfortunately teen has never received the recognition popularity it richly deserves br br a must see for any hindi film buff i will rate the eternal favourite 9 5 out of 10
1	i think it was way back in 1987 that we had our exams and my friend and i saw in the papers that one of the theatres was playing 'teen we decided to go just for the heck of it without hoping anything great but we were in for a pleasant surprise the movie was made in 1965 but even by today's standards the plot was absolutely modern and way ahead of its times the music was wonderful and dev anand as a city bred looked and acted his best i still remember that elated feeling when we came out of the theatre after the movie was over br br whoever thought of this story of one man falling for three very different girls at the same time no he is not three timing or fooling them but he genuinely likes all three of them for different reasons one is homely one is an actress and the third is a 'high society' girl who can also help dev in his career as a poet the question is which one is the for him what makes the matter worse is that all three of them like him too when things come to an impasse a hypnotist takes him in and in his hypnotized state he dreams of his future with each one of them and reaches the right decision br br this dream of his which is the only colored part in an otherwise black n white movie is the crux of the film but surprisingly is edited out from most of the versions available today if you want to watch this movie make sure that this part is intact in case you watch this movie without this part and get confused don't worry because you just watched an incomplete movie
1	it is always a well known and important directorial device to set up the atmosphere of a film within the first 5 minutes in the crucial opening scenes the film should assert itself and make the viewers take notice and get interested in the rest of the film here in mute witness we find a prime example of this br br scene spoiler br br in the first 5 10 minutes the film opens to a very hitchcockian scene of a pretty blonde lady in her apartment with the radio on she's wandering around applying lipstick herself up and ignoring the news report of a serial killer on the loose of course the serial killer is in her house and monitoring her moves knife in hand she hears a noise looks in a room and there is her partner in a pool of blood at the very point of her screams she turns around to be faced with the knife wielding maniac who stabs her repeatedly in a brutal and horrifying act br br then something odd happens as the woman in her death throes the killer sits down and takes out a cigarette to watch his victim perish before he finds his lighter his cigarette is lit from someone else in the room the camera pans out and we realise that there are more and more people in the room some taking notes some filming some recording the death and that the lady is taking an awfully long time to die and making a very hammy job of it too when the audience realises what's going on and the whole scene is part of a film the suspenseful and horrific scene takes on an element of humour br br end scene spoiler br br i have highlighted this opening scene for several reasons firstly it portrays the atmosphere of the whole movie perfectly a thriller in the style of hitchcock or de palma with some very and even blackly humorous moments it conveys a central subject matter that of the difference between a 'movie screen death' and a 'snuff film death' an issue which is elaborated on later in the film and finally it introduces the viewer to the characters all as silently as possible br br the plot of mute witness centres around billy hughes an american special effects make up artist who is working on the set of the film being shot in a large warehouse in moscow billy cannot speak but she communicates in sign language through her sister after the end of an evening's filming billy inadvertently finds herself locked in the warehouse by accident and in her attempt to escape is witness to two of the crew making what first appears to be a porno film but turns out to be a snuff movie suddenly her escape from the warehouse is a matter of life and death br br without doubt the first half of the film is powerful and absolutely gripping billy's saving grace and her handicap is the fact that she isn't able to utter a sound in fact in my opinion one of the best aspects of the film is the fact that it isn't chock full of women screaming there are some utterly disturbing moments and some superb set pieces of real suspense the and the elevator shaft are perfect examples the timing is fluid and the whole first half is an incredibly satisfying experience in itself br br the second half of the film introduces new concepts while there are still several suspenseful moments the focus is on plot twists new characters are introduced and it is ambiguous as to whose side they are on while there is nothing wrong per se with the second half of the film it just doesn't quite measure up to the first half there are some neat moments of black humour that perfectly juxtapose and punctuate some very dramatic scenes but there are also some very lame comedy moments coming specifically from billy's sister and her fiancée who happens to be the director of the movie billy is working on that almost ruin the film just because they are badly misplaced and or mistimed and ruin the pace at the end the twists keep coming at a rapid fire speed and the climax of the film is appropriately as tense as the first half br br there are several things that really make the movie work the barriers of communication that billy must face both as a mute and as an american in moscow mean that even an emergency call for help becomes a dangerous situation the actress that plays billy natasha does a wonderful job in the film with an engaging on screen prescence and a brilliant performance and finally the direction as a whole but most particularly in the first half of the film which truly is a study in alfred hitchcock's suspense thriller film techniques br br as i have already said though the let downs in the film are from some terrible comic relief moments that really do not need to be added there is already a consistent and effective streak of dark humour that appears in the film without the need for the characters of karen hughes and andy clarke the sister and the to turn their scenes into some unusual sit com however despite these shortcomings the film is a thoroughly enjoyable thriller and ideal for a group viewing at halloween certainly better than the usual slasher horror film
1	for all intents and purposes 'teen might seem like just another lightweight bollywood musical to some extent this might even be true especially because the producers had to be sure that the film succeeded with the masses but somewhere behind the scenes either sadashiv who had the 'idea' for this story or who directed the film decided that there would be a twist to the usual formula and succeeded perhaps beyond even their own expectations br br this is not simply about a handsome man flirting with 3 women undecided on whom to choose as his life's partner dev anand's character was really in love with each of the 3 women at various times and they with him despite being aware of the other two dev anand's relationship with simi and is particularly interesting in that each of the women comes to depend on him heavily there are quite a lot of suggestive teasers in the stars' body language that lend themselves to imagination depending on the viewer's maturity the theme is surprisingly adult and after all that it was ashame that the ending was tame obviously designed to please the masses and deflect criticism
1	this flick is strange but i liked it a lot its about a good girl who loves her bad boy and their messed up honeymoon he doesn't love her back and he's a mean son of a bitch he starts to love her after some really whacked stuff happens on their honeymoon i wont give it away its weird yeah but different than other movies in a good way i think i don't know what to compare it to but its a love story but has lots of funny stuff too like get to see james franco in a wig i liked the notebook a lot and it kinda felt like that because of the love story but the rest is way different nothing like that sienna miller is really good i saw this movie at a test screener because i like her a lot and her fashion i liked her in factory girl but this is a better movie than that was her and james franco look really in love in this movie and i hope they are together in real life but don't know br br see it
1	i saw this at a test screening in chatsworth a week or so ago and went with a bunch of my girlfriends we all really loved it a lot james franco is amazing and so hot i would see it just for him but sienna miller is also really good and plays a southern girl who is in love with him so much that she can't let go david caradine who was in kill bill plays a cowboy and he is perfect for that the story is kind of strange but if you believe in the power of love and magical things you will love it it is really original and it is also very funny and everyone laughed a lot but by the end it gets more serious and we all ended up crying i am going to see it again with my friends as soon as it comes out it is really good
1	this movie rocked saw it at a screener a weeks ago kinda a strange story where james franco plays this jerk who marries sienna miller just to get out of the country and they go to niagara falls for their honeymoon don't wanna give it away cuz the movie isn't released yet but its totally cool and you would never expect the stuff that happens i kinda thought i would hate it cuz its a romance but its also kinda twisted and stuff which i like a lot the acting is really good and sienna miller is totally smokin' and plays this really sweet girl i think she should do more roles like this james plays a jerk but you end up liking him and the end of the movie is really good david carradine plays a cowboy and he is good i gave this movie a 10 because i came out of the movie really liking it and wanting to see it again which i didn't expect and my girlfriend really liked it and cried good date flick
1	i saw this movie at a screener and its the best movie i have seen in a loooong time i loved it james franco is sooo hot and him and sienna miller make the perfect couple i don't want to give away what happens but they play a pair of newlyweds who go off on their honeymoon to niagara falls and some pretty wild stuff happens along the way the movie is really really funny and sad and original i can't even say what it reminded me of but go see it i cried so hard but really loved it and wanna see it again as soon as it comes out my friends cried too i hope it comes out soon does anyone know when i would really go see it if i were you
1	i loved it others have revealed spoilers but i won't it was an unusual premise actually sort of weird but i went along with it completely camille was a difficult part to pull off convincingly maybe that's why some people hated it but i think sienna was excellent and her acting skills enabled her to nail the part perfectly without being maudlin or ridiculous i don't know why she was even interested in a loser like james franco but married him anyway i like him as an actor and also thought he did a terrific job he has nothing to be ashamed of there have been movies with with similar setups e g ghost i simply love sienna miller and went along with the situation as written in the script i feel her great acting talent is vastly underrated and hope it becomes more recognized by the public i thought all of the actors played their parts very well and hope more people get to see the movie i highly recommend it i was surprised that my local block buster store had about 10 copies available i definitely plan to buy it
1	an unusual movie which starts off with the classic premise of a hooligan who marries a girl who loves him in order to escape the country but a twist soon turns the tale upside down most of the film hits the right buttons the story develops smoothly acting is solid sienna miller's drawl is priceless she really can act chemistry between both leads works and rolling american rural scapes and quirky side characters really make for a good time the mood which starts off as light and romantic soon moves into something darker and downright eery at times br br at times though the pace slows just a tad more than we would like but don't let this stop you watching this unusual little cinematic treat alexandre paris
1	as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clichéd movies that hollywood makes there seems to be no creativity in hollywood companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in br br this movie is a welcome change it could be classified as romantic comedy for it's genre but don't let that turn you off this movie this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces br br if you are reading this you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are interstate 60 and art of travel which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage br br this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same br br dean
1	super original really great movie james franco and sienna miller really do go so well together on screen i sure hope it comes out soon i first saw this movie at a screening because of my age and gender i was asked to stay for a talk we all got to comment on the movie and a lot of people didn't seem to like it i really loved it and i don't know why so many people didn't think it was that good go see it when it comes out and decide for yourself one thing that you might want to do if you are going to see this movie is to go into it not knowing anything about it i had not known anything when i went to the screening other than it was called it really is worth seeing
1	the psychopath 1973 a trip down memory lane i saw this film many years ago on a old black and white t v a children's' show host mr avenges the brutal abuse that parents inflict upon his kiddie fans mr who looks like he's always on the verge of losing it finally cracks and decides to go on a hunting trip watch out bad parents cause mr is on the prowl what happens next is priceless however trying to find this movie will be quite a chore br br what makes this film notable was the fact that joe maniac spinell made a short promo reel for a film based upon this one in his unfinished film he plays mr robbie a t v clown who looks like a pudgy out of shape edward james olmos who avenges his young fans child abuse by going after their parents sadly mr spinell could never find the funds to complete the project the film was going to be titled maniac ii mister robbie or robbie the similarities are all too close for comfort pretty violent for a p g movie br br recommended
1	if you enjoy suspense this movie has it the fact that marina portrays a mute adds to her and increases the suspense alec guiness's appearance was nice but didn't really add to the movie i'm not sure if evan richard's part as andy clarke was an attempt to add a little humor or if he was supposed to just be a bumbling idiot i thought the cinematography was excellent this added not just to the quality of the production but to the suspense as well the bathtub seen with the water in slow motion was wonderful also the scene where the knife comes down and then it switches to andy clarke cutting an extremely rare piece of meat was very well done i would call it overall good entertainment
1	it gives the ordinary guy girl the chance to be on television singing as their favourite stars br br for the majority of the time they sound like the singer they are meant to be portraying br br another twist to it a team of make up people and costumers dress the contestant up like that singer they might not look like them but the likelihood of getting someone that sounds like a person looking exactly the same as them are very slim br br it's a load of fun for your saturday night and the contestants aren't raging wannabes like they are on another tv singing show the fact that there are no prizes involved and it is for fun means that it will attract a different type of person br br the only gripe i have is with the kids version it looks like they have done the round of stage schools what happened to the normal kids
1	on a routine mission in iraq a group of delta soldiers recover a computer hard drive from an training camp detailing the location of weapons specialist dr walsh after witnessing the termination of his top secret weapons development program dr walsh finds an alternative funding source and sets up a new research facility deep in the notorious forest in where he is developing weapons and selling them to rebels the team of deltas is sent on a black ops mission to retrieve the doctor and his technology before the russians find him and his lab what the delta team soon discover is that the doctors latest weapons is a flock of large carnivorous bats that have been genetically altered to develop a taste for human flesh i found this movie to be much better than what i was expecting there is lots of action and lots of blood its more or less what you would expect from a creature feature the acting isn't great but its passable i have certainly seen worse overall its an enjoyable movie for what it is a good popcorn movie
1	my wife and kids was and still is the best comedy series on tv ever made i really enjoyed it and everyone in the u k still watch the the wayans bros should all somehow be featuring together in a comedy show my wife and kids was a comedy the whole family could watch and you don't get that very often isn't there anything we can do to make it happen again we would do anything to have that comedy show on again 1 damon wayans should make a come back i would really like damon wayans to star or make another comedy like this one of course with the help of the whole wayans family i was really sad when it ended that way and i hope they will be more to come in the future brilliant comedy excellent stuff yours truly
1	if you take the parents and blend them with the kyle parents you get a perfect blend of over the top and under the edge parenting that you can wish for your own family child skills the best part about each show is that the parents do not come off as pompous self righteous upper class know it alls but at the same time they are not the stereotypical under educated parents who are constantly being bamboozled and disrespected by their children my kids are 20 16 and 6 just about the same ages as the kyle kids and i see so much of their situations mirroring my own experiences with my family the silliness that they indulge in only goes to show that when you have love in your family you do not have to take yourself too seriously to keep your household together and have fun with your kids
1	this show is great for many reasons the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy sexy drugs bad dates death etc the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way great show for the family i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off great pg 13 rated show i loved of this show
1	it's one of my favorites tv series a wonderful cast great screenplay and a out siding plot br br watching the routine of the kyle family is of great moments of humor and great comedy performers let's see damon wayans no commentaries he's one of the bests today se has a perfect timing and always get the point of the joke br br campbell her's paranoid and sentimental jay is just wonderful to see br br george o gore ii perfect for the paper it's impossible to imagine someone else as the adorable and dumb junior br br jennifer nicole freeman the egocentric claire found the perfect actress beautiful talented br br parker posey impossible to not fall in love for her br br noah grey this boy have future i'm sure of it br br i get very sad when it ends but this show will be in my mind forever michael jay claire junior we love you
1	my wife and kids is a good and funny series that truly shows the worries and problems that happen the most even in the best families br br michael kyle daddy is a man who is always trying to stop his children from doing teen's stuff like partying drinking loving or making love when they do something wrong he is right there to correct them by the way he loves to make bad penalties br br janet kyle mother has a strong personality and rarely agrees with her husband she understands that their children are teenagers and like to do wrong things unlike michael does br br michael kyle is a dumb guy who believes in everything other people say in the beginning of the series he's such a cool guy and tries to be like his father but lately i don't know why he becomes a very very dumb dude and he starts being a problematic guy in the end of the series he falls in love with vanessa and becomes a father or should i say a dumb father who does nothing right br br kady kyle is a typical teenagers who loves to party kiss and drink she has many problems with her parents because they invade her privacy too much she has a boyfriend called tony who is catholic and is scared of everything so we can't understand what makes she date him i can remember one episode that they're prepared to have sex but michael kyle scares tony claiming that sex is very dangerous and deadly so he decides to guard himself until he's married br br i resume this is the best series of my life and i still watch it everyday after 3 years so i recommend to all of you mostly for teenagers
1	this show was crap when it first came on the first actress that played the daughter didn't fit the role the writing was hit or miss and damon wayans clearly wasn't comfortable doing such a cornball family friendly show the chemistry between himself and cambell they're long time friends as are all of the wayans clan with husband and will smith and jada pinkett did work so they retooled the show once it returned they recast the daughter made the son much dumber a la eric from boy meets world and made the youngest daughter into a genius later they gave her a little genius boyfriend to do comedic guest appearances the show while if often from over the top buffoonery to being corny walks the line enough to keep it as a show that you can see damon wayans be comfortable in his own skin on the set especially since the main writers directors and consultants were all members of the wayans family and in his character once everyone had been on the show for a while they worked to everyone in the casts strengths and were able to make a consistently funny show on the air br br however there is too much buffoonery too many over the top antics and oftentimes too much chaos happening in the life of the kyle family they made junior too stupid they also made the eldest daughter an attractive clumsy idiot from time to time and the youngest daughter wasn't even spared by the writers i feel they jumped the shark and signed the shows death warrant when junior got his girlfriend pregnant she moved in and he married her and her parents were introduced junior's wife's father's character makes me wince just thinking about him the show remained funny but it was a upn show on abc if that makes any sense to the reader br br the reruns are funny enough but i'm relieved it's over there was nowhere left to go with it when it's bad it's really bad it tends to be cornball at times but at least he was a black man who had a sitcom make it to syndication on a major network who can say that for themselves now given the cw and the on tv networks lately that is one
1	my wife and kids in my opinion is an absolute abc classic i haven't seen every episode but i still enjoyed it there are many episodes that i enjoyed one of them was where junior george o gore ii got his driver's license if you want to know why you'll have to have seen it for yourself before i wrap this up i'd like to say that everyone always gave a good performance the production design was spectacular the costumes were well designed and the writing was always very strong in conclusion even though it can be seen in syndication now i strongly recommend you catch it just in case it goes off the air for good
1	the biggest problem that the tv program key west faced was that it was advertised wrong if you saw the ads you would think it was a jiggle how and be sorely disappointed it was a vastly more complex show than that br br i happened to be in key west just before hurricane andrew hit and i think i actually found myself having a drink or two with some of the cast in rum runners of course that was before the show hit i did see the that was in the opening go by a few times and with the guy who you see hacking up in the opening too he was a real local yes i'd love to see this on dvd
1	i went into this film expecting a slasher and while mute witness does take influence from said style of film making this is much more than just your average slash flick there are a number of thrillers that focus on a certain disability blindness is more common blind terror wait until dark cat o'nine tails to name a handful but the implications of having a mute lead in a thriller such as this are well portrayed and actually integral to the plot as the fact that the lead character can't speak is often the reason why she finds herself in dangerous situations that would be easy for anyone else to get out of our mute witness is billy hughes a make up artist working on a horror film production at a studio in moscow she finds herself locked in after hours one night and after attempting to phone her sister for help she stumbles upon what at first appears to be the making of an illicit sex flick but soon turns out to be a snuff movie she tries to convince the authorities of what she's seen but finds that no one believes her story br br recently hostel made the headlines for showing snuff movie making in a foreign country but this film did it first and actually does a better job it's maybe not quite as nasty as eli roth's opus but the gore is more effective and since director anthony waller who went on to direct one of my favourite modern thrillers with 'the implements a good sense of humour into the proceedings mute witness is both sufficiently gory and fun to watch the director certainly has a talent for crafting suspenseful thrill rides as this one never stands still the plot is put into action quickly and waller constantly introduces plot twists which give a big helping hand to the overall entertainment value of the film the acting isn't bad for a b movie with young performers marina fay ripley and evan richards delivering good performances the atmosphere is gritty and the russian locations are suitably unfriendly which helps the film to retain a foreboding atmosphere overall mute witness is a much better film than you might expect it to be the plot flows well and the atmosphere and tension are spot on
1	it really is a great film after being able to ignore blake edwards pink panther references which he appears to be obsessed with and are hugely unfunny julie is as usual wonderful singing and acting brilliantly i remember seeing it at the odeon cinema in the london on its release however julie's non appearance at the uk premiere of star was most unfortunate and apparently due to filming the aerial shots for darling lili over ireland a reasonable excuse if she had appeared in any of these aerial shots but she did not two box office flops in a row ruined her film career for quite a few years but darling lili just like star deserves much more public appreciation
1	i think that key west might do well as a dvd there probably are a lot of failed star treks that just never had a chance to succeed we will never know if this could have been a great series i would love to know if there is a way to see older shows like this or are they just another hollywood footnote is it possible to find copies of these shows so that we loyal oddballs can enjoy them again the show had a great writing talent and some if not all of the episodes left you with a feel for the characters that is often missing in todays hit shows i often came away with a sense of learning something from the story lines and greatly entertained by the very unique characters thank you
1	we all seem to be in agreement it was an excellent show and let die way before it's time i've decided that if i really enjoy a show it's often the kiss of death i love the quirky ensemble cast shows and a great setting always helps i really expected to see a lot of these stars in other television productions but short of mariska who played fisher stephens crazy girlfriend i've not seen many of them except in occasional cameo roles what a shame br br key west northern exposure gilmore girls and veronica mars all great shows all sadly gone before their time br br hear us loud and clear we want key west on dvd please
1	agree that this was one of the best episodes of this show i remember the series well as i was in the florida keys when the show had its debut i was looking through old vcr tapes that were keepers and came across two that had about eight episodes i ended up spending part of christmas night and the next watching these shows the singer was saw his name come up on the credits he's from and owns a beach front bar called the dune preserve he's a longtime friend of jimmy buffett and classic song still in paradise is featured on the latest buffett cd dvd combo called live in it is track 12 on cd 1 and 8 on the cd i too would like to someday see this short lived series come out on dvd keep the faith
1	this series while idealized and fictionalized has the quirkiness and good heartedness that does come from living on an island br br i lived in an out of the way part of hawaii for a few years and found some hilarious quirky and fun people in some remote non tourist areas br br every time i see the reruns of this series i fondly compare my memories of experiences in out of the way parts of hawaii with the memories portrayed and fictionalized in key west br br this series is not reality television i hate reality television br br it is from the era when people still wrote creative tv shows give me a young writer who takes their inspiration from the angels in the spray wizards in the palm trees and elves in the any day
1	i am right now watching the big chill on dvd one of its actors is meg tilly i looked it up on imdb which led me to reading meg's bio which mentioned and reminded me of meg's sister jennifer tilly whose filmography included key west which was one of my wife's and my favorite shows i then read this entire thread of reviews br br wow i really loved that show also and agree with all of the sentiments about the quirkiness and uniqueness of the characters and situations br br as most everyone else i wish it was on dvd or otherwise available br br the last reviewer says he watches it on reruns so i wish i knew what network channel day times it is on br br so if anyone knows how we can watch episodes of key west please let us know
1	such a shame that this wonderful bright spot on the small screen had such talent in writers and actors such wonderful scenery that was the ultimate escapism for those in a land locked sun deprived state many of the actors went on to bigger things another indicator that there was something wonderful sadly lost i lived in columbus ohio at the time with all of my now ex husband's very large family in a chorus of 'no no ' every time it would be yet again taken over by a baseball game broadcast br br someone who wrote here mentioned it was up against all my ex and i noticed was that it was always always always preempted by baseball yes fox really wasted something wonderful that one and nothing will ever equal it thank you for the memories of it
1	key west for too short a time was appointment tv for my family i'd stop by red lobster and pick up a party tray for the night it was on the irony of the situation was that i was working for a fox affiliate at the time and every one at the station was incensed at them not renewing the show everyone in that cast was excellent fisher stevens perfect who couldn't fail to identify with an everyman who dreams of being a writer in key west jennifer tilly was always remarkable and she is one heck of a texas player you can still find the pilot episode on youtube wish they'd post the hurricane one that episode alone should have won an emmy as well as the rest of the cast
1	where to begin where to begin savannah in the episode gimme shelter to disabuse fox does not at this point in time have any intention of releasing the show on dvd but be not that you are reading this reveals that the magic lingers fifteen years on and small wonder this was post modern television a valiant attempt to visualize magical realism 'neath the blue patina charm and brio were scripts bursting with symbolism and metaphor music that actually interacted with scenes and ultimately an attempt however doomed to recapture one's belief in innocence to reclaim eden as it were it's potency is perhaps best attested to by the fact that even as we umm type a book is being written about the show wherein will be found the thoughts fancies and reminiscences of many of the show's actors writers directors and producers in the anyone desirous of once again visiting the end of the world and themselves with seamus sheriff cody savannah et al should not hesitate to contact me i may be able to make you a copy angels in the spray wizards in the palm trees
1	compared to this tarkovsky is a speed freak br br compared to this bela tarr is mtv br br compared to this the movie russian ark is a roller coaster ride br br i've just described 3 of the experiences i've ever known and this one tops them all but that's not saying it's bad on the contrary i really liked it but it was a chore br br i won't describe the plot because you can easily find that elsewhere suffice it to say that the plot is insane it's one of the most creative and bizarre ideas since becoming john malkovich i believe the interesting plot is the main reason i kept from nodding off also the humour was nice that's something we rarely see in slow artsy films br br here we see a bizarre reversal of the norm most movies have little plot little substance yet they fill 90 mins with a lot of images to keep us enthralled but the hole has 100 plot theme without much to please the eyes in that respect i suppose it's a truly intellectual experience much like reading a painfully verbose novel like vanity fair which i've never been able to finish br br if you have a tremendous attention span i think you'll really like this film despite its pace it's highly creative and imaginative it's like jean pierre jeunet on quaaludes and with a drab dusty camera lens best of luck
1	this film is like a dirge until it gets to musical numbers which are like mind f ck but gentler like a mind caress mind foreplay the depressing vibe given from the speed desperateness of the characters can be pretty kill yourself awesome until you get to the musical numbers it's a great film optimistic weird manic depressive bipolar that's it this movie is bipolar anyway see it it's a musical with depth if you like the existential dross like the stranger or waiting for godot then your probably get a real kick out of this one i had to get the dvd through amazon com for like 12 oh the songs rock well they rock but they aren't rock there like jazz broadway but by grace chung i can't find the soundtrack nowhere but i wanna the songs are great the dances are so fun
1	billy hughes is a mute young lady working for make up on a cheap horror picture being filmed in moscow by an american director one night billy gets locked in the movie studio later that night she hears that someone might be in the building and goes to check it out that's when she stumbles across a woman being brutally murdered while being filmed after escaping the clutches of the murderers billy informs the authorities only to be red faced when the men show it was an act billy knows what she saw and soon her life is in turmoil again from underground figures that believe she has something of importance br br i don't know how this heart pounding sleeper passed me by but i thought it was a much older flick there's one thing though it's got to be one of the most jarringly and intense thrillers i've seen in quite a while it's just a great suspense builder and mostly everything clicks into place the first half of the feature is surprisingly gripping with taut sequences that have your heart in your throat and clouds us with an atmospherically foreboding environment of alienation underling this is a humorously wicked black streak faults do pop up in the story as it does lose that furious grip it held so early and goofy humour or better putter comic relief between fay ripley and evan richard's characters is a hit and miss affair by being too forceful in the long run it probably could have done without despite some cringe moments this aspect didn't hinder my enjoyment of it for me the soft ending they decided to go with just didn't feel right br br the interestingly mysterious premise was eerie to the bone and packed some unsettling goods so multi facet was the context and its thrills there was something fresh to how this all plays out and the nervy jolts and unbearable tension are weaved into a range of sudden plot turns and twists really they made superb use of the novel idea of this disability and to handicap the situation by staging it in a foreign place where not too many spoke english and so we are caught up in the confusion too the delicate marina gives a harrowing portrayal of the american mute girl billy the way she able to display the erratic emotions through her eyes and actions gave it some gruff and believability director anthony waller shoots the flick in a rather stylish well timed and skillful manner without loosing that grimy look that eventuates from its rigid surroundings and a powerfully airy music score persistently nags at you the only real name to make an appearance was small cameo part by alec guinness the performances by the cast were all fine especially the nail biting turns by oleg and igor as the russian murderers br br this riveting feature that's mostly made up of unknowns is way better than your average dark thriller highly recommended
1	the whole world is falling prey to a lethal disease and rain never stops pouring down nevertheless in this atmosphere of nightmare a man and a woman discover that they are neighbors thanks to a hole in the floor of the man's apartment they fall in love at least all would not have been lost although this wonderful film expresses the loneliness and the weakness of human being there is also some room for hope in the shiny singing scenes
1	in the middle of the hole i e mailed a friend of mine to summarize it not sure if the film would break down into a series of submissive gestures i felt a little un easy recommending it but then i saw the ending it's perfect i've been living in korea for 6 months and this film could just as easily summarize the strange ennui and frustration of any asian metropolis as it takes on here it uses the myth of hong kong musicals the same way godard or hartley use western musicals but takes it to an extreme it's gritty world and occasionally kafka esquire logic make it all the better i really feel like the closest comparison is hal hartley's surviving desire but have a kinda bleak edge to what are ultimately hopefully and strangely metaphorical films anyway this is what i wrote to esther hope you like the hole too br br hey br br watching a move called the hole taiwanese i think seems a bit to weird for china unless it's hong kong it's worth seeing so far it's about a guy and a girl in an apartment complex the guy's ceiling caves in and the girl starts to get annoyed and well it's kinda a weird metaphor for the simultaneous pleasure and pain of a rather intense crush there's also a kinda zombie virus sub plot too and a lot of weird little scenes where the girl acts out her desires through rather innocent and kinda fun 50's doo sequences worth a look
1	this movie one of the best i've ever seen talks about it does it plunging ourselves in a taipei stained in cold colors where the rain falls incessantly a damp world it does it displaying us the story of two persons living in this world a man and a woman a coincidence or the fate links their existences but they're not able to open one to the other with words characters are the mirror of the difficulty of our society concerning interpersonal relationships an that here is taken to the extreme limits all the characters exchange only a few words during the movie dialogues are nearly absent and when some words are spoken they're often weak and empty far away from describing people's real feelings so the progression of the story the revelation of character's feelings is developed brilliant idea by the musical digressions only apparently meaningless that speckle the movie the proceeding of the sentimental event and the drama of female protagonist lead us to a splendid ending heavily symbolic a movie totally different from the usual a clever realization by a great talented director ps forgive me for my bad grammar
1	it's less visceral than the only other tsai film i've seen vive l'amour but the idea of doorways holes into others' emotions and existences is vividly portrayed here as tsai sets up long shot after long shot usually with long takes suggesting a sense of alienation in taipei the musical interludes inspired by grace chang are perplexing but welcome mile markers that add new dimensions to the slowly evolving relationship between the young man upstairs and the woman downstairs it's not necessarily an easy film to watch although it's not heavy handed by any means so i'd warn any casual viewers who are looking for some indie entertainment like tarantino or guy ritchie but if you'd like to know something about isolation among city dwellers in taiwan and something more universal about city alienation and romantic yearning then watch this film immediately
1	the description of the mood of the movie may be considered as a spoiler because there is not much action in fact br br great one br br is it for my peculiar interest for the and is it for the atmosphere of the movie or is there some more magic if yes it is for sure the utmost human one br br this film is no doubt extremely artistic artificial depends on taste i can imagine most of the people who hate to watch slow movies and those of tsai ming liang who i didn't enjoy other times are one of the slowest that i know suffering during the movie yes people are unable to slow down and to let time pass and to watch it without feeling they waste it one can take this piece as torture or as a therapy br br the topic at the surface the lack of communication even if we live in rabbit cages one next to each other but not really together people are tired sick of something and unable to describe it just don't want to meet touch talk confront the others like if they had disappeared the big block of flats looks void and the rain falling constantly evokes the strange melancholy inside and sometimes it must be something abnormal unexpected some unwanted decay as a hole in the floor of concrete that allows us to reach each other br br one of the possible ways to look at it is this don't survey the inner world of the characters consider the whole movie space to be inside of yourself and ask why is it there where could these depressive states and moods come form is there a place for them they don't have a right to be here and search for the answers if you need them among the walls and halls of the block instead of inside hardly transparent mind of a man br br the key to understand is not to understand to let a movie borrow us as a subject of study inside itself and at the end safely return us to our more colorful and normal looking reality br br then maybe you will reach like me the feeling of real possible non pathetic hope that in core we are still humans and this state of mind can help one much to live in this world
1	minor spoilers br br need any further proof that tsai ming liang ranks among the most original and provocative filmmakers working anywhere today see this film br br working from slight variations of a theme running through most of his work the hole represents a study in alienation and loneliness in this case between a man and woman who are upstairs downstairs neighbors and how varied structures real or psychological of modernity wall people off from one another here the woman the downstairs neighbor attempts to endure as her apartment is flooded by a prodigious leak from upstairs a plumber attempts to locate the source of the problem then disappears after creating a large hole in the floor already isolated and desperate both characters are among the few residents of a housing project who haven't fled in advance of a mysterious near apocalyptic epidemic the hole linking the two apartments functions first as yet another in a long line of indignities but soon begins to take on a significance of near mythic proportions br br tsai's sense of humor and sense of cinematic history is displayed with a bit more than usual as the woman's occasional daydreams revolving around her upstairs neighbor are visualized as musical numbers set to the music of grace chang which explode from the screen in brief bits of surreal romance and humor quite reminiscent of the big screen pennies from heaven and for all of the ennui and alienation on display here tsai's skewering of late 90s pre millennial tensions is funny absurd and gives this film a very appealing the final scene is extraordinary br br meanwhile tsai in typical fashion subverts most of the usual expectations or preconceptions westerners bring to asian cinema with a nonchalant casually revealed directness focusing on both the absurdist tendencies of the human mind and the most absolute of there's an utter nonchalant of almost everything about his characters backstory or most cultural signifiers which does amplify the isolation of the characters making the hole and his other films rather disorienting but also always fascinating and insightful
1	in the final days of the year 1999 most everyone in taiwan has died a strange plague has ravished the island supposedly spread by cockroaches the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects eventually they die the hole takes place in a crumbling apartment building which is especially well created kudos to the set designer its two protagonists live right above and below each other the woman is on the lower floor and the pipes above her apartment are leaking fiercely threatening to destroy her food supply not to mention her sanity she calls a plumber to go check it out and he accidentally pokes a hole through the floor of the man's apartment the two have never met before and they come into contact through the hole br br the script is quite brilliant few films are simultaneously this funny while remaining completely human deeply exploring the human condition especially feelings of loneliness and despair tsai's direction is simply beautiful like a lot of other taiwanese directors he uses a lot of long takes but unlike say hou hsiao hsien tsai doesn't overuse them in fact i don't know if i've ever seen them used better they're always effective and never tedious br br it would be wrong to review this film without mentioning the musical numbers yes the hole is also a musical and a great one at that in the film's best scenes which is saying something considering how good all the other scenes are the man imagines that the woman is a singer almost a cabaret singer these numbers are fully choreographed often with backup dancers and singers in a stroke of genius tsai has these elaborately produced numbers take place in the crumbling building the signs of apocalypse and decay this provides both a sense of pathos and absurdity br br the hole is a film that begs to be seen it ought to be a cult classic if nothing else before i went to see this i was told that it was a decent film but probably tsai ming liang's least good one well if that is true i just cannot wait to see another one 10 10
1	footprints certainly isn't your average run of the mill giallo and that's no bad thing unlike his previous effort the fifth cord which was your 'classic' giallo luigi film almost all of the giallo trademarks and instead of murder the focus is very on psychological mystery it's obvious from the outset that this is going to be an entirely bizarre film as the film opens up with a scene set on the moon things don't get any clearer after that as the lunar sequence turns out to be the dream of alice a troubled woman alice is tormented by dreams of an astronaut stranded on the moon which have apparently come from a viewing of a film called on the moon' after several things go wrong for her alice decides to go to a mostly deserted former tourist spot named upon her arrival she is surprised as the people she meets seem to already know her alice also meets a young red headed girl who also seems to already know her the girl tells alice she looks exactly like nicole except nicer and with shorter hair br br the fact that footprints doesn't feature much in the way of sex murder and other giallo trademarks puts it somewhat on the back foot with it's primary audience from the beginning as most people going into this film aren't going to get what they were expecting or probably wanted but on the other hand footprints commands respect for the fact that it doesn't just follow on from what went before it by 1975 the giallo had started to lose it's popularity and many of the films coming out around this period with a few very notable exceptions were merely retreads of what came before so luigi would have been taking a big chance on this film florinda bolkan gives a strong performance in the lead role and the fact that she's not the prettiest giallo heroine isn't really important the mystery builds nicely throughout and while it can become a little turgid at times footprints is generally speaking intriguing for the duration it probably won't come as a surprise to many once they get there that the ending doesn't make much sense and doesn't really clear anything up but it nicely adds to the bizarre cult value of the film and all in all i give footprints a thumbs up
1	ok the end of this may be something of a letdown after what has come before and klaus kinski should have had his 10 second appearance cut out but there is no getting away from the fact that this is a really wonderful atmospheric euro thriller i can't believe i have never seen this till now its good to know there are films out there that are still worth tracking down and this really is stunning visuals haunting and builds an amazing atmosphere florinda balkan is perfect as our heroine and the scene on the beach with is some of the most relaxed and perfect acting you could see lila kedrova is spot on as a fellow visitor to the town who may or may not be who she seems if you miss the hay days of euro cinema then chase this out there's a decent widescreen print going round and please get this out in a restored dvd someone they did it with the directors fifth cord and this is a much better film
1	footprints is a very interesting movie that is somewhat difficult to categorize psychological thriller is the most appropriate description i can think of the female protagonist alice discovers that she doesn't remember anything of the last three days the only clue she has is a torn photo of a hotel she is also haunted by a recurring very vivid dream about a science fiction movie that she believes she saw many years ago in her pursuit of the truth behind her amnesia she doesn't trust anyone but little by little it becomes obvious that she has visited the town where the hotel is located before this is an exciting flick whose main virtue is that it is virtually impossible to predict how the events will unfold and particularly how it will end the unusual loneliness of the main character and the of everyone else ensure that the good old paranoid feeling is present throughout the film whereas beautiful colors and some spectacularly filmed sequences make this a visually attractive movie as well the important part of the one and only everyone's all time favorite redheaded obnoxious child star of italian horror is an extra bonus
1	a couple of years before scream spoofed the slasher horror genre with savvy self conscious young things knowing every trick in the book of what to do and not to do in a precarious situation a little movie produced in russia hit the theatres without any grandiose pretensions br br this movie was mute witness starring a cast of unknowns except an extremely brief cameo by sir alec guiness whose scenes were purportedly filmed eight years prior to the actual filming of this movie it told the story of a mute make up artist billie who is working on a film on location in russia produced and directed by her sister's boyfriend andy she is unaware that the set has closed when she goes to retrieve her belongings and inadvertently stumbles onto a porn shoot that becomes extremely bloody overcome with horror she alerts the murderers of her presence a chase ensues and finally she is rescued by andy who take her home as they alert the police the trouble is there is no body no evidence that anything of the sort took place even so a mysterious inspector seems to be on side of the story br br and to say more would be criminal mute witness is the kind of film that demands a scrutiny of viewing similar to the most intricate clever thriller because as much as it is a convoluted thriller it's one that pays its dues to movies like wait until dark and the best of hitchcock in its choice of camera cuts deadpan humor americans reacting in foreign countries where they are powerless and nail biting suspense until it seems something must snap even if the story does become a little too implausible due to the fact that the story arc suddenly becomes the focus of an even greater conspiracy the film succeeds in not trying to trick the audience with cheap shots for example the sudden appearance of a person on camera accompanied by a crashing swell of violins but with the fear of the unknown and that death is only a shadow away very smart
1	in a bizarre experiment an astronaut is abandoned on the moon as alice florinda bolkan a troubled translator living in italy wakes from a nightmare about a lunar mission mixed with an old movie that frightened her as a child she also has no recollection of the last three days except for a torn photo of the hotel she finds in her apartment fired from her job alice heads to that resort island to try and piece together the mystery br br often touted as a giallo due to it's director the fifth luigi and the presence of evelyn stewart and klaus kinski footprints is actually a deliberately paced psycho thriller with sci fi overtones blurring the distinction between dream reality memory and movies the disturbing story is beautifully photographed by oscar winner vittorio storaro with a pensive score by nicola piovani it also combines elements of such diverse films as armando and visconti's death in venice in it's depiction of alienation isolation hallucination and maybe madness brazilian actress florinda bolkan on screen all the time does a redux of her carol hammond in lucio fulci's a lizard in a woman's skin as alice a young woman thrust into a mystery that makes her question her sanity the locations mirror alice's unstable state of mind the island of off season with it's arabic influence and ancient ruins is a lonely almost mystical place unwilling to give up its secrets evelyn stewart has a bit in the beginning as a concerned friend and oscar winner lila kedrova are hotel guests peter plays a handsome biologist trying to help bolkan and the ever intense klaus kinski is in the film within a film footprints on the moon br br footprints is a classy case of guaranteed 100 euro weird but not for everyone there's only one murder toward the end but you won't see it coming as the film starts to come together
1	i first heard of this one while searching the 'net for reviews of another italian giallo horror effort the contemporaneous the perfume of the lady in black 1974 whose r2 se dvd from video by the way i recently acquired – where it's referenced as being in a similar vein but also just as good having watched footsteps for myself now i can see where that reviewer was coming from – in that both films deal with the psychological meltdown of their female protagonist stylistically however this one owes far more to art house cinema than anything else – in particular the work of alain resnais and michelangelo antonioni and specifically last year in marienbad 1961 and the passenger 1975 respectively accordingly some have accused it of being deadly boring – an epithet often attached to such read cerebral fare br br anyway the film involves the quest of a woman florinda bolkan to determine her movements in the preceding three days – of which she seems to have no recollection following a series of cryptic clues she travels to the land of nearby locations then bear the equally fictitious names of and – where she encounters several people including lila kedrova as an aristocratic regular of the resort who ostensibly recall the heroine staying there during her most prominent though are a young man peter and a little girl from mario bava's baron blood 1972 – the former always seems to happen on the scene at propitious moments while the latter apparently confuses bolkan with another woman sporting long red hair and a mean streak br br while essentially a mood piece this is nonetheless a gripping puzzle inevitably vague events transpire at a deliberate pace – and where much of the film's power derives from the remarkable central performance which can be seen as an extension of bolkan's role in the fine lucio fulci giallo a lizard in a woman's skin 1971 however there's no denying the contribution of cinematographer vittorio storaro who provides any number of sweeping camera moves and an effective color scheme – adopting orange red blue filters to create atmosphere and coming up with a saturated look for the bizarre finale and nicola piovani's fitting melancholy score the composer is best known nowadays for his oscar winning work on roberto holocaust themed tragi comedy life is beautiful 1997 br br with this in mind it's worth discussing how footsteps was presented in the version i watched well being apparently hard to get in its original form i can't be sure whether it's uncut here or not except to say that the film ran for 89 minutes while the imdb – lists it at 96 this edition is culled from a fairly battered english language vhs the dubbing is surprisingly good given the international cast with burnt in swedish subtitles to boot besides the divx copy froze for a few seconds at a crucial point in the story around the 82 minute mark still we do get a welcome bonus i e a 9 minute from the in mp3 format br br i realize i haven't yet mentioned the moon mission subplot to which klaus kinski's presence is restricted incidentally around this same time he had a similarly brief but pivotal role in another good arty thriller with sci fi leanings and also set in a distinctive location – namely lifespan 1974 as i lay watching the film i couldn't fathom what possible connection this had with the central that bolkan mentioned a recurring dream about a movie she had once seen though not through to the end called footsteps on the moon a somewhat misleading alternate title for the film itself – amusingly she at first recalls the picture as being called blood on the moon which of course is a classic 1948 western noir with robert mitchum and directed by robert wise that said i took this in stride as merely one more outlandish touch to the film given also bolkan's former employment as a translator at a conference discussing earth's future – and certainly didn't expect the astronauts to turn up on beach at the very end to pursue the female lead where the sand then turns ominously into the moon's br br the film's plot will probably make more sense on a second viewing – though to be honest this is best approached as a visual aural experience and one shouldn't really expect it to deliver a narrative that's in any way clear cut and easily rationalized for the record the only other effort i'd managed to catch prior to this one was the middling straight giallo the fifth cord 1971 starring franco nero which i had recorded off late night italian tv some time ago i did get hold of his spaghetti western rendition of carmen titled man pride and vengeance 1968 – also with nero and kinski – as a divx after i'd already missed a matinée broadcast of it …but the conversion had somehow proved faulty and consequently the disc wouldn't play properly
1	i was very impressed with with this film which was directed by luigi the story was about a young woman translator who suddenly has lost all memory of the last three days and has suffered nightmares about astronauts on the moon she can not explained how this has happened to anyone one day a postcard arrives for her from the island of where she goes to visit strangely though people seem to know her even though she has never been there before also her dreams of astronauts on the moon come back to her br br i thought that this was a very strange italian movie that seemed very haunting at times and there was also strange images in the film that seemed to stay with you throughout the the time you were watching the film i would recommend this film to people just to see how good it is highly recommended
1	i saw this movie many years ago have tried to locate it but perhaps understandably it is nowhere to be found it was so esoteric yet one of a handful of movies that remains with you for a long time i am still not sure what the reality of the movie is and perhaps like the uncertainty principle the obscurity is the definite thing acting is superb the atmosphere is always filled with a sense of foreboding an overall permeates yet it is hard not to be absorbed in the story i rented it thinking it was science fiction it was in the sci fi section with some totally misleading blurb but quite clearly it is not or horror or even suspense in fact one feels thankful the director took the courage to make a movie like this for which obviously there is no solid audience i know some people have complained about klaus kinski's short role but i think it is very appropriate his limited exposure is critical to the formation of the mystery of this movie
1	footprints on the moon is almost certainly the strangest most convoluted and most atypical giallo ever made it may come as a restraint to some of the sub genre's fans but this film doesn't feature many of the regular giallo trademarks like bloody knife murders preferably committed by a masked killer wearing black gloves ravishing scantily dressed beauties and unpredictable red herrings however to compensate for all this – and much more – footprints benefices from the most indescribably mysterious and non stop compelling atmosphere i ever experienced in this type of film the level of mystery in this movie is so high and unbearable it literally makes you feel uncomfortable and scared like the female protagonist alice herself you absolutely have no idea of what's happening or why and this feeling of utter powerlessness is unquestionably the film's main strongpoint as a viewer you crave to help this poor woman understand the things that overcome her but you simply can't alice has a successful career as an interpreter but her quiet and peaceful life gets brutally interrupted when she wakes up one morning and slowly begins to realize she has absolutely no recollection of the previous three days she finds a torn apart photograph of a hotel located on the holiday island gama and decides to go there in order to investigate what happened on the island several people including a lonely little girl seem to recognize alice only she used the fake name nicole wore a red haired wig and acted like she came to the island to hide from an unknown danger meanwhile even the poor girl's nights are restless as she has reoccurring dreams of astronauts hopping on the moon surface and an uncanny scientist called dr blackman the plot of footprints is truly bizarre and slowly brooding and particularly the cosmic sub plot is really difficult to link with the rest alice assumes they are just images from a sci fi movie she saw long time ago which sounds like a reasonable enough explanation but you sense there's a deeper meaning and actual connection to all the other events fans of tension driven and stylish italian cinema can't afford themselves to miss this film really this is director's luigi psychological tour de force with staggeringly beautiful photography and mind altering music in spite of the lack of violence or maybe just because of it the film is genuinely disturbing and the mental agony alice goes through honestly affects the viewer emotionally as well as it is sadly too often the case in gialli cinema the climax suddenly comes rather abrupt and nearly doesn't give a explanation of all the awkward events you just witnessed for the last hour and a half still the content of footprints will keep you contemplating long after the film has finished and its powerful impact will only increase florinda bolkan is sublime as the tormented leading lady and receives excellent feedback from the limited supportive cast including the young the eminent euro cult star klaus kinski receives top billing as well but his role is merely an extended cameo this film is actually a lot better than director more acclaimed and much easier available giallo the fifth cord so here's to hoping footprints will soon receive a fancy dvd release as well
1	a very insightful psychological thriller footprints is a stylish example of the 70's powerful italian film making and luigi a wrongly underrated director and visually amazing the movie develops its unusual plot with an incredibly suspenseful atmosphere and never disappoints especially in its sad and dramatic finale florinda bolkan delivers an excellent performance rich of nuances and touching sensitivity being able to portray a dark lady who is not only fascinating but also painfully real and tragically lonesome but the all cast is a treat as well lila kedrova the mysterious kid by the beach italian screen legend caterina and stunningly beautiful b movie queen evelyn stewart in the brief but haunting role of the protagonist's friend and klaus kinski in a surprisingly disturbing cameo it's peculiar to notice how incredibly well done movies like footprints were vittorio moody and creepy cinematography stylized locations and sets nicola piovani's haunting score and first of all the story so intense and disturbing so intelligently layered and structured a thriller with fantastic elements but especially with a soul and a personal vision i wish movies like footprints would not be forgotten i wish the movies were more insightful and personal today as they were back in the 60's 70's and yes i wish somebody will soon make a digitally remastered widescreen dvd out of this little masterpiece
1	alice florinda bolkan a translator living in italy discovers that she has a memory loss and can't recall the last couple of days she starts to follow a trace of memory fragments which leads her to the small town of people in the town seem to recognize her and she's beginning to suspect that the re occurring nightmares of astronauts conducting horrible experiments has something to do with her own amnesia br br the movie is interesting and the plot is good but it's a bit to slow moving and arty for my taste the plot takes some nice twists and it's really hard to figure out where it's heading florinda bolkan is good in her role but even better in flavia the heretic and it's always nice to see star child actor klaus kinski's role is too small though this is not a movie for the die hard gore hound or exploitation addict but still a very nice hour and a half mystery
1	footprints is a very interesting movie that is somewhat difficult to categorize psychological thriller is the most appropriate description i can think of the female protagonist alice discovers that she doesn't remember anything of the last three days the only clue she has is a torn photo of a hotel she is also haunted by a recurring very vivid dream about a science fiction movie that she believes she saw many years ago in her pursuit of the truth behind her amnesia she doesn't trust anyone but little by little it becomes obvious that she has visited the town where the hotel is located before this is an exciting flick whose main virtue is that it is virtually impossible to predict how the events will unfold and particularly how it will end the unusual loneliness of the main character and the of everyone else ensure that the good old paranoid feeling is present throughout the film whereas beautiful colors and some spectacularly filmed sequences make this a visually attractive movie as well the important part of the one and only everyone's all time favorite redheaded obnoxious child star of italian horror is an extra bonus
1	this is actually a very good surreal mystery movie despite the description that tries to sell it as a sci fi movie balkan stars as a woman haunted by mysterious visions and lost memories that she is trying to piece together she spends the majority of the movie trying to make sense of her visions very atmospheric and effective it is true that kinski does not appear very much in this film but the staring actors are very good there is only an english dubbed version available in the us and the dubbing leaves something to be desired but the actors do a very good job the cinematography by academy award winner vittorio storaro is excellent an earlier giallo by director the fifth cord is also excellent and also lensed by
1	when oh when will someone like anchor bay or blue underground release this on widescreen dvd le which i only know because of my rare vintage video collecting habit is a film in my collection that i would not only sit through but actually enjoy watching the fact that klaus kinski is top billed but is only in small parts of the film means little to me though several comments expressed disappointment in his rather limited screen time i cannot say that this is a good horror film a good mystery a sci fi epic or anything of that nature it is simply unclassifiable in the genre sense of things it is more like a confusing frightening though not particularly violent or bloody dream filled with great visuals and mystery it relies on visuals and emotion much like bava's lisa and the devil both films are beautiful in almost every sense but almost impossible to describe in a logical manner they both occur in such a dream like atmosphere don't be deterred by force video's synopsis on the back cover it is infinitely more complex and intriguing than that though force video's release from 1986 the only one in the us that i know of is cropped to full screen on tape even in that format it is still great releasing it remastered and or letterboxed would make it magnificent hint hint dvd companies
1	an amazing piece of film that was well conceived and kept me on the edge of my seat brilliantly orchestrated in its timing and the comedy kicked in exactly when the tension needed a release the acting was generally well done the director should've asked alec guinness for acting lessons and the shot selections were impressive as in the hall as billy tries to race to the door in the studio this movie didn't let up since the opening scene
1	this a haunting piece of work its only ten minutes long but i would sooner pay ten bucks into the cinema to see this than to see any full lenght movie currently doing the rounds it is a simple piece of a man's reflection he arrived a young man in this place and was mesmerised by a room and the music coming from it and now here he sits dying in old age in this place he so fondly connects to his youth the music in it is brilliant the guitars have that jazz room twang like neil young's music in dead man if you get the chance watch this film its worth it if rutger hauer made more films like this i think he would get more respect than he gets at the moment you hear him put under phrases like everybody's favourite psycho im sure that is not what rutger would want to be as an actor for he also directed this film so in this shows that he a very artistic actor director a change from the b grade movies he has been doing since the early 90's i hope to see more of this rutger hauer as he is one of my favourite actors
1	it must be so difficult to tell a story where not much happens yet still grip the viewers attention i think this short film achieves this with effortless quality rutger has an amazing voice that is very soothing wise and fatherly i'm not gay it reminds of the qualities that robert redford has in narrating the end is very sad but beautiful one wonders how long harry has left will he be lonely and will he get to say his goodbyes also one gets annoyed at mr hauer for not getting involved in more work of this caliber lets hope he continues to do fine work in holland and stays away from hollywood br br worth watching
1	i recently had the pleasure of meeting mr hauer at the 2005 film festival for the u s premier of this film not only was he gracious enough to autograph my copy of blade runner he took the time to answer some questions about the film before screening the room for a packed theatre br br i was so impressed by the film that i used it as the yardstick by which to compare all other films i had seen at the festival it was powerful and moving yet subtle and brief the film tells the story of how a young man older version played by rutger one day finds himself entranced by a seemingly ordinary room in an unremarkable building near the street walking by he notices a single window always open from which a haunting melody can be heard each day he passes by the room sometimes standing for hours outside watching it through the silken drapes that flutter in the light breeze hoping to get a glimpse of its occupants towards the end of the film we find out how significant this room really is and what has drawn our protagonist to it br br the film was cut beautifully not a second of screen time was wasted on an uninteresting shot any single frame from the film could stand alone in an art gallery rutger is amazing he is mysterious yet approachable his dialogue encompasses a series of reflections on a life that has run it's course for better or worse his words conjure familiar feelings and thoughts from the audience i was particularly moved by a scene in which he is looking at some old photos remembering his favourite dog his favourite horse and his first love you get the feeling that you are in his presence as he allows you into his world to glimpse precious memories of a life that is nearing its end br br i loved this film and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for something fresh intelligent and moving should be required viewing for all film majors
1	i rarely watch short films as they only seem to be on late night television and are not publicised enough for me to know which short films are worth while as the room is an extra feature on the hitcher dvd it gave me a wonderful opportunity to witness a high quality short with rutger hauer in excellent form br br artistically shot in black and white the room explores a man's obsession with a room he passed by in the early stages of adulthood and is expressed in a documentary interview style the dialogue is very poetic typical of a man expressing his feelings for a woman but is also juxtaposed with ramblings and occasional deficiencies in this adds great realism and depth to performance who is perfect as an eccentric man with most of his life behind him br br the piano music that harry hauer hears from the room is constantly in the background and enhances the touching atmosphere of the film and intensifies the feelings of sadness expressed by hauer br br hauer proves he is more than just a psychotic hollywood bad guy with this role and perfectly displays his more sensitive side is also effective in the flashback scenes as young harry with a silent role he shows how affected he is by the music and his disappointment when it goes away br br the ending is prophetic and leaves you in a reflective mood longer than many feature length films a very good effort
1	co directed by and starring rutger hauer this film short was based on a short story by dutch writer harry br br in the 10 minutes of the film's length you will get to see a life time as 'harry' unravels his long time fascination with a room he passes constantly in his youth returning to the city many years later he finds he has rented the same room br br using black and white film the textures are accentuated in this delicate telling of a tale the voice of 'harry' drawing you into his world br br a subtle tight performance from rutger hauer and 2 non speaking characters wonderful soundtrack by dutch musician br br at the moment difficult to see this movie as it is only available on dvd region 2 liv ullman as a bonus track but is due to be on the re released dvd of the hitcher another tight but very different performance from hauer br br see this film if you can
1	ok who ever invented this film hates humanity and wants to see them all slit their throats this film was absolute and utter filth what the heck was up with the weird old bags eyes seriously was she on some sort of horrible drug and then she like just thought she could control people she was running around with her freaking evil eye and it was like what do i have a booger hanging out of my nose what are you staring at are you like the sea witch or something all and all though i thought the graphics were top notch old chap for that alone i would give it a ten but just cover your ears when you are watching it the pure and complete evil that comes from that film will make your ears bleed and your eyelids fall off who knows you might even get a knot in your small intestine you better watch out fools
1	i remember watching this film in 1981 when i was 7 it was absolutely brilliant i found the dvd just a couple of months ago i was nearly jumping up and down with glee i bought it and showed it to my kids they loved it too they asked what words the was singing i didn't tell them though because i don't think telling the words 'gay' and 'ecstasy' to 6 year old kids is very good parenting the songs are brilliant i still remember them all i'll still remember them when i'm 60 there or near abouts tommy is was such a brilliant actor it's a pity he gave it up br br if you find the film buy it you'll love it
1	i first saw this film when i was about 6 ish my grandma thought it'd be a nice kiddies film to entertain me and keep me occupied however every time i watched it i had nightmares the same night yes it masquerades as a kids' film but even now i find it really dark in places particularly the haunting music that is played each time the guardian angel woman is on the screen and her rather hypnotic eyes and voice the actual baddies of the film ie the sharks mr etc didn't scare me at all i just always found the whole film rather creepy and dark this is obviously something i can appreciate now that i'm 21 years old but speaking from experience there is no way i would show it to my kids
1	like many i first saw the water babies as a child young teen in the late seventies early eighties it has remained with me since then with its catchy tunes memorable portrayals less then successful animation and a story full of heart coldness and ultimately good vanquishing evil recently i sat down and saw it again after at least two decades passing and i noticed this time around its striking similarities to the wizard of oz no these aren't blatant but hear me out in this one we have a boy and his dog having personal problems at home running away from something and in the scene right after they run away changing the substance of their appearance in this one the boy and dog become animated in the wizard of oz dorothy and toto are in color in this one the boy and dog are told they must find the water babies for answers and then ultimately the for guidance and he has the ability to let tom go home if he shows he has courage etc in the wizard of oz dorothy must also find an authoritative figure that tests her before he will allow her to return home in the water babies tom meets three characters that will help him on his journey to the water babies dorothy has three helpers as well when each helper is met we are entertained with a rendering of hi hi hi hi hi we're on our way in the wizard it is we're off to see the wizard dorothy has a good witch sort of look after her tom has a woman with many roles billie whitelaw do the same if you look closely at the two there are many other that being said the water babies is not a knockoff in any way i was just commenting on the eerie likes between the two this film has some solid performances from bad guys bernard cribbins and the always fascinating james mason the kids playing tom and ella are good the supporting cast of joan greenwood love her voice david tomlinson and the vocal talents of john pertwee and lance percival add greatly to the mix i must confess that the animation is less than sterling even for its time but is adequate enough to the challenge the three animated characters that help tom get home are all likable i always have trouble picking my favorite between the french swordfish and the john mr humphries like the scene where we hear this guttural maniacal laugh from a shipwrecked vessel only to see a with a huge polka dotted bow tie bob out always has me rolling the water babies is a lot of fun sure it is more of a children's film but it has and always shall have a fond place in my heart the bulk of the credit for what successes the film does have must go to director lionel jeffries jeffries is a wonderful comedic actor and his sense of humor is clearly evident throughout
1	the 1978 adaptation had all the ingredients of a potentially wonderful film it is based on an absolutely charming book by charles kingsley it has a truly talented cast from the likes of james mason bernard and david not to mention the vocal talents of david jason and jon pertwee there is also lionel jeffries the director of wonderful classics such as the railway children and the amazing mr and while the film is good on the most part it was also a little disappointing i had no problem with the performances particularly those of mason and as and sir john harriet respectively and tommy and samantha gates are believable as tom and ellie the voice cast is also commendable especially jon pertwee voicing charming characters in their own right i also liked the incidental music it is so haunting and beautiful and the script was fairly faithful and in general well written particularly at the beginning the characters especially the water babies are very charming and the villains are sinister and funny at the same time i loved the part when tom and his friends help the water babies escape seeing the shark chasing the electric eel with an axe was very funny however i will say the film does look dated especially the animation sequences the live action parts weren't so bad if you forgive the rather dark camera work the character animation was rather flat and the backgrounds sometimes were a little dull though there were some nice moments like the scene with the and of course the first meeting with the water babies i also had mixed feelings about the songs the water song was beautiful but i found the first song forgettable when tom ends up underwater hi is an example of a song that is like marmite you either love it or hate it i personally don't know what to make of this song it was fun to listen to at first but once it's in your head it is perhaps annoying as much as i like lionel jeffries and his films his direction just lacked the wonder and the magic it usually does all in all certainly not a terrible film but could have been better artistically 7 10 bethany cox
1	this may be the most tension filled movie i have ever seen br br in fact it's so nerve wracking i haven't been able to watch it again after viewing it two years ago but i will since i have the dvd there were a couple of scenes in here that are almost too much to watch so if you've got problems and need to escape for an hour and half this film will get your mind off anything else br br the russian actress marina did a super job in facial expressions alone which she had to do since her character in here is a mute she plays a cute and wholesome makeup artist for a sleazy filmmaker after the day's shooting is done and billie is about to leave she hears something she takes a peek into the room where they were filming and discovers they are now shooting a snuff film and actually killing someone eavesdropping is discovered and she runs for her life as the killers go searching for her in this big warehouse type building br br there are two extended scenes in which our heroine is running for her life and both of them will wear you out the first i described above the second scene the climactic one goes on too long and isn't as well done as the first in fact the film should have been trimmed a bit but overall since it's so good at keeping our attention then it served its purpose as entertainment
1	in 1850 in yorkshire a boy chimney sweep is falsely accused of theft by his crooked master and runs away he falls into a treacherous local river and is transported into an underwater realm where he makes many friends and rescues the mythical water babies from an evil shark br br based on a book by charles kingsley this is a lovely children's film half live action and half animation which is both a grim and evocative depiction of victorian times and a terrifically enjoyable undersea adventure it really is two films in one which somehow complement each other and combine into a much richer whole the animation by tony cuthbert jack and is wonderful as is the photography by ted and the music by phil coulter and bill martin has a great rough diamond quality as the literal fish out of water i love the moment when he's on top of the mansion sees all the chimneys and shouts blimey at the top of his voice mason and cribbins are the filthiest nastiest bullies you could hope to see in a costume drama if you want to see real victorian values don't watch sense and sensibility watch this and whitelaw pertwee who does umpteen voices and percival are all excellent this is how a good children's movie should be good old fun but also just a little bit thoughtful sad and frightening high
1	this is a movie that i watched when i was a young girl and never forgot it is certainly not the best movie ever made but there is something very special about it that i can't quite put my finger on i love it i am the kind of person who likes everything explained to me though and for that reason alone this movie drives me crazy br br exactly what who is that mysterious witch lady and what is her relationship with tom why and how did he become a water baby why was he raised on the earth it is questions like these that are just eating at me i thought if i read the book i would get answers but i just read an article that the book from which this story is based is a lot different so i guess i'll never know what the writer was thinking br br i still love this movie though and i recently watched it with my two year old niece she loves it too although she insists on calling it baby water for reasons unknown to me she loves the part where he jumps in the water and then declares i'm all clean you have to understand that my niece is the cleanest 2 year old in the world we watched that scene over and over br br i am so glad that we can enjoy this film together there should be more films like this but what is up with the gay
1	for years i've had a distant memory of watching this film i looked on the net to find it somewhere and couldn't find it anywhere so i thought it must have disappeared br br until my gran showed me a box set she sent off for in the daily mail and i though nah there wont be anything decent in there but to my great surprise there amongst other gems was the water babies i hadn't been that excited ina long long time its a great light hearted film the songs aren't memorable probably if i was a child during the time it came out i would have stuck in my mind more sadly it was just a film i watched at my 10 years ago when i was a little spud and watching it back now the animation is terrible and the re recored voices they do to get a richness to the sound in films is totally off but who cares when your a kid you never think of those things even if they lead boy is about 10 and sounds like a boy in the middle of puberty br br great classic kids film
1	an orphan boy named tom tommy who works for a pair of shady chimney sweeps is falsely accused of stealing from the mansion where he is working at by mr james mason the real thief and goes on the run tom's only alibi is the niece of the mansion's owners samantha gates a slender blue eyed blonde with long wavy hair who i'm sure was the primary reason why i repeatedly watched this as a boy he and his dog jump into a river and a witch turns them into water breathing cartoon characters while underwater he befriends and rescues a group of water breathing children known as water babies from a shark br br a very interesting and always fascinating fable set in 1850 that should appeal to all children the animation 42 minutes of the 85 minute hbo vhs print is just average but it's preferable to most modern day animation even computer animation my only real gripe is a plot hole caused by a deleted scene at 42 06 after the first verse of high the film cuts to a scene with swimming followed by tom and encounter with terence this leads to a scene in which the killer shark voiced by mason leads our heroes into a trap the shark then greets tom with young tom so nice to see your ugly mug again but this is the first time in hbo's print that tom meets the shark most reference books list the running time as 92 or 93 minutes and it was previously available from sultan entertainment and nelson so it's very likely that hbo's print is edited and or time compressed adding insult to injury mgm released a fullscreen 76 minute print on dvd in 2002 let's hope a restored version appears in the near future br br the film is copyright films 1978 is the water baby voiced by samantha gates bernard cribbins who plays mason's partner in crime also voices the electric eel a k a slip slide adventures
1	i absolutely loved this movie as a child i can't seem to find it anywhere i was mentioning it to some friends just the other day and not a single one of them remembers it can anyone help me out my older sister vaguely remembers it there was also another movie i remember that was half live action and half animation but i can't remember the name of it the characters were animated and the background was real i seem to remember it being about a kangaroo and i believe the setting of the film was in australia i'm going out of my mind trying to obtain copies of these films that were such a memorable part of my very enjoyable childhood edit i searched imdb for this other movie and found out it's called dot and the kangaroo all i had to do was type in kangaroo in the search bar under characters and the name of the movie in the list was like a bell going off man i love imdb thanks
1	i saw this movie as a child and fell in love with it it has a sweet sensitive story something children can appreciate i loved so much as a child i had to find it for my daughter it is definitely a movie i would watch with kids it reminds me a great deal of story's of a disney nature like pete's dragon and mary poppins both because of the live action and cartoon features but on its premise it is also a good story to show kids that if they tell the truth they can be trusted and adults will listen to them i think all kids should see it and would enjoy it it is such a break from the violent movies of bad taste so many kids watch these days it has all the charming qualities so many of today's movies don't have
1	wonderful songs sprightly animation and authentic live action make this a classic adaptation of a classic tale a nice british feel which sets it apart and above from the standard saccharine sweet disney cartoons
1	i was wandering through my local library browsing vhs tapes when i saw a movie that made my mouth drop i have been hoping to see this movie again it's been over 22 years since i saw it cable movie channel around 78 79 i had recalled a good many of the details in particular my son who is 4 and i watched it br br he agreed with me that was not nice and the best way for me to describe it was that he didn't love tom he accepted that it was amazing that i still recalled some of the songs too they had stuck in my head for 22 years which means they had to have some memorable ness eh br br it's a good child's movie with parental guidance in case of questions about what children had to go through that were not nobility society in the time frame this is what all the children faced daily except for a few lucky ones and while we try to disney coat movies making them more pc for children these days it doesn't mean that cruelty didn't exist or even still doesn't i enjoyed the animation it wasn't disney no i don't think don bluth touched a paintbrush on this movie br br there's a lot going for it though david t plays two roles i really like him james m does too the themselves are cute you feel sorry for tom and root for him then billie herself is extraordinary in the multi role part she's playing it's as if her eyes are magickal i'm a huge fan of woo tw and company and looking forward to hp and i filed this along with those kind of movies yes he jumps in the water but not because of suicide he jumped because he trusted the lady in black she'd been appearing to him all along br br i think it's a good movie if you have kids pick up a rental copy if you happen to locate a buy able copy let me know where ian liked it br br dee
1	i read the above comment and cannot believe it of course its a children's movie its an adaptation of a children's book this film is easy to get a hold of try play com or amazon and its very easy to gain a copy the jokes are hilarious for kids and adults alike and the adventure is clean with no violence its completely suitable for children of all ages the songs are fab and yes a little repetitive but thats what children need and whilst watching it my little ones were heard singing hi hi all night they loved it a story of innocence and friendship very lovely and well worth watching for kids and adults of all ages
1	when i first saw the ad for this i was like 'oh here we go he's done high school musical but he can't coast along on that so now he's making appearances on other disney shows' personally i love the suite life and i'm a big fan of ashely but for some reason i'm not too keen on zac although all my friends think he's the best thing since jesse mccartney but he really annoys me anyway i watched the show taking a break from english and was pleasantly surprised the performances were good all round especially from the regular characters on the suite life and zac wasn't as bad as i had anticipated all in all a pretty good show
1	i just finished this movie and my only comment is oh wow jennifer beals is ok as the fiancee but yancy butler as the female dance instructor is pure sexual dynamite having watched her in witchblade i was not prepared for the pure unadulterated sensuality and raw sexual excitement she launches onto the screen br br i gotta see this movie again if only for yancy butler as
1	i am so glad zac was in 'the suite life of zack and because that is my favorite show and he is my favorite actor it is a really funny episode and a funny show i love everything about the show and the characters all of the performers are great keep on acting zac and i am so happy that nearly all of my favorite actors including high school musical characters are in this show zac is so 'hot' and i have an autographed picture of him it is not a photo copy and it came all the way from america to australia and it nearly did not arrive in time for christmas also i got a high school musical mug with my name printed on it scarlett 8
1	if it had been made 2 years later it would have been banned the number one must see recommendation of the day the best mamoulian film i have seen this far have but have not yet seen j h br br there's no wonder why this film got less than 200 votes a bigger that could not care less about what's proper would not be seen again until the 60's as morally ambiguous and dark as 70's grit but with a certain charm as well of course this had to lay low in the later 30's and sadly it does not appear to have been re discovered br br seriously this got it all great actors gary cooper sylvia sidney and the this time not so lovable guy kibbee and a mighty good director this far i haven't been biggest fans but i have liked his films a lot and with this he steps into a new league one of the best 30's films i have ever seen this is something i never thought even existed 9 5 10
1	city streets is amazingly modern technically speaking for a movie made in 1931 also who could not be mesmerized enthralled by gary cooper's powerful magnetism galvanizing the audience attention the plot is quite elaborate and clear the scenarios decor are exceptional in every detail all the actors are above average i keep guessing how the director and his staff including editing sound lighting photography could have been so brilliant i couldn't find a flaw understanding that the scenes in the road bumpy ride with the large motion pictures screen on the background was the best they could get in 1931 all in all i found this movie superb and so much alive thanks to gary cooper charisma
1	i thought i'd witnessed every wrinkle the crime gangster flick had to offer but the garrett hammett combination pull off some genuine thrills and surprises here thanks to the inventively forceful direction by mamoulian the atmospheric photography by lee garmes plus remarkably sharp film editing and flawless special effects brilliant acting helps too coop gives one of his most convincing performances as the reticent hayseed turned fearless the sort of character progression he was to repeat in other roles such as sergeant york miss sidney pictured center in her first major role is also an eye opener the principals receive great support from paul lukas gibson and stanley fields as the heavies and even from robert hard as nails detective the movie has obviously been realized on an extensive budget which is brilliantly deployed in its realistic crowd filled sets
1	i saw this film last night at a pre code film festival and i have to tell you that when gary cooper turned his head for his introductory close up the entire audience gasped he was just that beautiful br br cooper's looks aside this film displays directorial artistry to perfection wonderful scene fades creative camera angles symbolic allusions mamoulian just keeps exploring the directorial medium and coming up with innovation br br this was sylvia sidney's first role in hollywood after her success on the new york stage and she is just as lovely as a gary cooper leading lady ought to be it's nice to see her in a role with a harder edge than many she was given so often she looks like she's afraid she's about to be hit by someone br br there are lots of familiar faces in this film including the wonderful gibson most striking is guy kibbee best known for playing fatuous rich men as a grinning and mendacious hit man br br there aren't nearly enough of these pre code films available on vhs or dvd so if you can't find a pre code festival near you try campaigning turner classic movies for a broadcast as for the reviewer who believes gary cooper was too stupid to have dialogue more complex than yep or nope he should perhaps consider coop's performance in films such as mr deeds goes to town or meet john doe although heaven knows anyone who looked that good shouldn't have to be smart as well
1	clearly patterned after the first gangster movies that warner produced the same year little caesar 1931 and the public enemy 1931 this gangster movie is one of the better efforts i've seen although not quite in the same league as the previous mentioned classics it has a powerful performance by young sylvia sidney she's magnificent and delivers her lines more natural than perhaps anyone did at the time gary cooper is better than usual at this stage in his career and shows signs of what would follow the next few years when he rose to the top the movie has some fascinating villains in paul lukas never seen him this detestable and guy kibbee what a shock to see him act the hoodlum the direction of mamoulian is very inventive probably the first voice over to show a persons thoughts appear in this movie if you get the chance to see this little gangster flick don't let the chance go by
1	a gritty look at new york city and dock workers this is a classic film realistic brutal at times always believable it was originally shown live on tv also starring sidney poitier john cassavetes was a fantastic director and actor
1	i first saw this film on cable in the 80's and it rocked me to the core it showed up again on tv about six months ago br br filmed on location the black and white cinematography graphically portrays 1950's new york as the gritty urban jungle at a time when there was far more industry and port activity in the city particularly in manhattan br br john cassavetes always brought a special intensity to his acting and is magnificent in the role of the army dodger his brief 1959 tv series johnny staccato is also a joy to watch br br sidney poitier and later in the film ruby dee bring freshness and vitality to their roles but it is jack warden's superb acting as the vicious brutal shift boss that grabbed my attention to get an idea of warden's versatility watch this film then check out a 1962 episode of the tv series naked city entitled specter of the rose street gang available on video if you are a fan of film noir this is a must see enjoy
1	axel cassavetes shows up on the new york looking for a job but with a hidden past he gets one on condition that he pay a kick back to surly crew boss jack warden while there he strikes up a friendship with black man sydney poitier that unfortunately leads to a gut wrenching moral dilemma for a man who we learn typically runs from his problems br br the movie looks like oscar winner on the waterfront feels like on the waterfront and most importantly plays much like that 1954 kazan production however its racial theme is ground breaking for the time the black poitier and the white cassavetes are treated as equals in every respect it might even be called the first of the black white buddy pictures that would later dominate so many action films br br it helps that the two leads play so well off each other nonetheless the movie's central flaw is failing to indicate why crew boss poitier pushes a friendship with the dour cassavetes in the first place he really goes out of his way to befriend the newcomer but why he would cross racial barriers to do so is never really suggested one possible explanation is that poitier wants to use cassavetes as a pawn in his rivalry with other crew boss warden but then comes to genuinely like the guy there's a hint of that in some of cassavetes's suspicious reactions but beyond that the relationship appears unmotivated br br if there's a single stage shot in the entire movie i couldn't spot it everything is done on seedy new york location without the usual movie extras in that sense it's an anti hollywood production carefully even down to the night club scene which itself looks like a real after hours crowd i suppose would dub this rather raw slice of life a glimpse of the working poor br br yet for all its virtues which are many the film remains too close to the brando kazan movie for comfort here a fine unknown actress kathleen maguire gets the role of the redemptive girl friend warden the role of the corrupt labor boss while cassavetes like brando must suffer a bloody beating before regaining his moral standing and doing the right thing still and all despite the derivative nature the gritty urban drama retains enough of the original force to merit a look see
1	highlighting the acting of sidney poitier and the brooding on screen presence of john cassevetes the edge of the city is a highly watchable film from the fifties directed by martin ritt there is great acting and stunning on location photography in black and white br br poitier is a delight at this point in his career and tommy tyler the character he plays is happy and outgoing he befriends axel played by cassevetes who is a young man suffering from poor self esteem and a past that he wants kept under wraps tyler a black man brings his friend out of his shell and introduces him to his family and a new girlfriend br br tyler and are employed on the new york docks at a time when the workers were expected to tow the line if they knew what was good for them the boss charles malik played by jack warden in one of his many hard bitten roles becomes the focus of discontent which leads to a climactic showdown with br br at the end of the movie we are left with mixed emotions however the two main characters have left the audience with a story of friendship between two different men in a hostile world
1	i felt that this movie had a lot of heart and must have been a labor of love for eleanor the primary actors campbell scott jennifer beals yancy butler james goodwin iii patrick stewart and leslie caron were very well selected and played their parts with excellence it was a very uplifting movie that i wish was available on tape or dvd a rare gem
1	the reason why this movie isn't any better known and more appreciated to me seems because of its subject because of its controversial subject this movie never got a proper big release and still remains a fairly unknown one to this very day not that it's subject is that controversial now anymore though br br basically in essence it's a movie about a white man befriending a black man the friendship does not seem forced or unrealistic but the way it gets portrayed in this movie makes it all feel very real we see these different mingle in with each other as if it's just completely normal unfortunately of course back in those days it really wasn't regarded as anything normal seeing a black man talking to a white girl and just having fun with her as a friend must have been an hard thing to watch for instance for some proportions of its 1957 audience br br you can really understand why sidney poitier has always been and still is being respected so much by the hollywood society and the black community in general of course it's one of the reasons why he also received an honorary award at the oscar's in 2002 in his movies he often fights against discrimination and prejudiced issues with of course in the heat of the night as the best example of this a real role model that certainly has inspired many afro american actors to this very day but on top of that he also was a great actor yes he is still alive but he has pretty much retired completely from movies now it seems since his last credited role is from 2001 br br this movie was martin directorial debut and he also wasn't given too much movie to spend on his movie the studios were probably also a bit reluctant mainly because of its concept and or because it was first movie or perhaps it was simply due to the fact that mgm just wasn't that big anymore and it had left its best days behind them ever since the '50's on metro goldwyn mayer sort of had the reputation of making not too great and cheap movies while in the early years before that it was really one of the biggest studios with lots of stars and acclaimed directors attached to it who made many award winning classic movies luckily for them their reputation is starting to change again and whenever the mgm logo appears at a movie people are no longer expecting a lesser movie anymore br br anyway even with its restrained budget and limited resources they managed to make a great movie out of this one the movie is very simple with only a few characters and a simplistic plot in it the movie however still manages to capture you with its story and subjects without ever starting to become preachy or anything about it it makes the movie an effective one as well with its subjects br br really a movie that deserves to be seen br br 8 10
1	this is a powerful film which seems to have never re arisen after the joe mccarthy censorship period it influenced me as a jewish teen ager who had friends of various colors and whose father's family had suffered under the fascist regimes in europe during the second quarter of the twentieth century unlike the later rip off on the waterfront which seemed to take some of the same themes and twist them to fit the enforced hollywood political correctness of the time it told its story direct and with respect for the characters and for the reality it reflected it was an antidote to gone with the wind birth of a nation triumph of the will and so many other of hatred and violence i would place it alongside the recent german film also virtually hidden in the us rosenstrasse br br i remember that the tv version also black and white in format as well as story was blacked out by some stations because the black hero's wife appeared white as a young civil rights worker it produced a conflict for me because on the one hand i was opposed to smoking cigarettes and on the other opposed the boycott in georgia of a sponsor of the tv show a major tobacco company i no longer remember which one does anyone else br br i would love to find a cd of either the film or the tv show to let my sons see something that informed my opposition to racism universally as opposed to only fighting racism against jews and recognition of the inherent connection between racism and
1	1957's edge of the city directed by martin ritt stars john cassavetes sidney poitier jack warden and ruby dee it's the story of a troubled man axel who has a mysterious past that gradually comes out during the film he has a connection that gets him a job on a loading dock working for charlie jack warden a real meanie who takes from his workers and rides them hard charlie has an intense dislike for a black man t t poitier who holds the same position t t invites axel to work on his team axel defies charlie and does so axel finds a place to live and with t t his his wife dee and their son's white schoolteacher kathleen mcguire when tragedy strikes none of the men on the loading dock will talk to the police and axel has to come to grips with his values what he stands for and the meaning of friendship br br this is a really excellent black and white film that curiously isn't really about being black or white it's really about the limits one puts on oneself and knowing who you are charlie is a bigot and hates that a black man has a good position on the dock t t teases charlie and gives as good as he gets there's no discussion of t t and axel spending time together or of t t 's son having a white teacher with whom the family also what axel a loner finds difficult is accepting any friendship or in anyone these things he learns through t t br br poitier absolutely shines in edge of the city he's warm energetic loving and smart a man with a real enthusiasm for life afraid of nothing cassavetes is excellent and plays a character totally opposite hiding in the shadows chronically depressed and always nervous br br the film leaves open what happens to axel whatever does he's a different man now br br strangely underrated and unknown film possibly in the shadow of a lot of the angry young men films that came out in that era
1	i cry at a lot of movies call me sentimental call me one of those viewers who always likes to see a happy ending this movie though it has a sad ending was great of all of the actors that i would love to have lunch with it would be sidney poitier his acting along with john cassavetes and jack warden of 12 angry men fame is stellar his character who befriends a man on the run cassavetes and helps him out in every way possible is incredible br br this is another one of those forgotten noirs made during the end of the noirish era it is well done has a superb cast extremely talented acting and great cinematography it is a film worth watching over and over again i highly recommend this one this is just another truly great film done by mr poitier and should be sold on dvd even though i cried kudos to such great art
1	this is an excellent movie that tackles the issue of racism in a delicate and balanced way great performances all round but absolutely outstanding acting by sidney poitier br br he makes this movie breathe and alive his portrayal of a guy who struggles against discrimination and violence is simply mind blowing his acting is forceful and delicate and subtle at the same time truly worthy of an oscar poitier had to wait because of his skin colour for many more years before the sheer brilliance of his acting was recognised by the academy br br cassavetes turns in a great performance too withdrawn troubled and realistic as it has become his hallmark he and poitier contrast the forces of cowardice courage and human transformation through friendship br br the movie is enjoyable and at the same time deeply haunting in its portrayal of racism in the us the irony is that it somehow mirrors the realities under which poitier had to work
1	although this small film kind of got lost in the wake of on the waterfront edge of the city can certainly hold its own with that star studded classic it's another story about the docks and the code of silence that rules it br br next to the corrupt union that lee j cobb ran in on the waterfront jack warden is really small time corruption but he's real enough as the gang boss on one of the docks who intimidates the other workers by being handy with his fists and the hook and he gets the rest to part of their hard earned money and it's all hard earned money in that job br br one guy warden can't intimidate is sidney poitier another gang boss and when he tries to intimidate newcomer john cassavetes poitier takes him under his wing the two develop quite the friendship and poitier and his wife ruby dee even fix cassavetes up with kathleen maguire br br warden is truly one loathsome creature and it's sad how by sheer force of personality and physical prowess he cows almost everyone else into submission in that sense he's tougher than lee j cobb who did have to rely on an impression collection of goons to enforce his will in on the waterfront br br edge of the city marked the big screen directorial debut of martin ritt who did a great job with a good cast of new york based players and spot on location cinematography the film's low budget does show but you're so impressed with the ensemble cast you don't really care br br cassavetes as the loner with a past and the hip and tough poitier are both fine but my personal favorite in this film is ruby dee she should have gotten some award for her performance her final scene with cassavetes is outstanding br br catch this one if ever possible i wish it were out on dvd or vhs
1	this is one of cassavetes' best performances the entire cast is outstanding as is martin sublimely understated direction the anger angst and of urban labor battles is magnificently told in a fashion that is neither obtrusive nor patronizing in a way it is dated with its era but in many ways it is gloriously timeless
1	edge of the city is another movie that owes a lot of credit to on the waterfront from it's nyc locations to its score to the belief that whatever trouble you may be in you can somehow right your wrongs br br edge also deals with ideas like loyalty and racism in my opinion that is where the movie does not succeed like waterfront at 85 minutes the movie rushes through the establishment of relationships and ties everything up so quickly that much of it seems forced and unbelievable br br possible spoilers br br the relationship between sidney poitier and john cassavettes could have been further developed in the beginning i don't believe that these two characters from two very different places would have built such a strong relationship so quickly br br i think that the whole love sub plot with cassavettes could have been eliminated he is so awkward with a woman that it becomes painful to watch the only reason why it is in the movie is so that she can motivate him to do the right thing at the end there are other ways that they could have shown this i would have also liked to see some scenes of axel in the army to illustrate why he is the way he is br br the acting is excellent poitier is terrific in a role that is beautifully written his role as tyler is interesting and multi layered and especially for 1957 a man who is confident respected and intelligent cassavettes as axel north while very good does not seem quite right for the part warden is terrific as the boss who knows secret although his fight scene with cassavettes at the end is staged horribly too many break away boxes i thought ruby dee was wonderful in role of poitier's wife br br on the whole edge of the city is a smart movie with a very good cast that tries too hard to be an interesting noir style picture without taking the time to let the drama build br br 7 out of 10
1	a skillfully directed film by martin ritt where a drifter and anti hero john cassevetes lands in n y to escape a tragic incident in his life where he killed his brother in an automobile accident as well as going awol from the army br br cassavetes always an intense actor shows grit in his portrayal of a film am surprised that montgomery clift didn't get this part br br ruth white is his mother and does remarkably well in two scenes on the telephone br br once in new york he befriends sidney poitier as the two work on the docks immediately jack warden a bully and villain in this film takes a dislike to him and tragedy ensues when poitier tries to defend his friend br br ruby dee plays poitier's wife in this film and is brilliant in a scene where she urges cassavetes to reveal the killer of her husband br br this is definitely an interesting film of moral values and the loner in society with the backdrop of tenements the right mood is depicted in the film
1	john cassavetes is on the run from the law he is at the bottom of the heap he sees negro sidney poitier as his equal and they quickly become friends forming a sort of alliance against a bully of a foreman played by jack warden br br as someone who has worked in a warehouse myself when i was younger i can tell you that the warehouse fights complete with tumbling packing cases and flailing grappling hooks are as realistic as it gets i've been in fights like these myself although no one got killed br br the introduction of sidney poitier's widow is a variation on shakespeare's shylock do i not bleed this is an anti racist film which at the time was much needed br br all the three principle characters warden cassavetes and poitier are superb with warden the most outstanding of the three
1	love this little film that reminds me somewhat of the original japanese gem shall we dance not the overblown gere jlo remake luckily i found it and taped it when it was showing on a starz promo weekend because as far as i know it's not available on dvd i'll watch just about anything with yancy butler anyone remember the short lived tv series mann and machine in it and she positively shines in this she does a dance routine to a disco song that is hot loved all the other characters in it especially the ones played by patrick stewart and leslie caron where's she been all these years this is one of those films that i take out from time to time and always come away smiling after watching it recommended highly
1	martin first film offers an exceptional existentialist answer three years later to elia kazan's more conservative on the waterfront while waterfront benefited immensely from an electrifying marlon brando who inadvertently disguised kazan's offensive theme of trying to justify naming names as kazan did eagerly before the house un american activities committee edge of the city boasts a young john cassavetes and an upstart sidney poitier daring to confront issues that waterfront failed to acknowledge namely workers' rights and race relations br br edge of the city boldly dives into this then unknown territory and although the quite appealing black protagonist poitier may seem a bit hollywood simplistic the courageous struggle against thinly veiled bigotry and violence has hardly aged at all one wonders how shocked initial 1957 moviegoers were at such a bold presentation of white black relations if some of the bigoted didn't leave the theater early they must of left dumbfounded if not offended br br the last reel of the film will still surprise audiences as it refuses to sink into expected clichés including those that tainted waterfront only the most jaded viewers will not realize what a radical and entertaining film edge of the city ends up being br br what's most disturbing about this lost classic how it sadly remains unavailable on any format for reasons that remain quite cloudy this film should be required viewing in high school or college history classes across the country yet one can only find it on obscure late night tv if ever at all
1	alex north john cassavetes has problems in relationship with his father and flees home to join the army from where he very soon deserts and comes to new york intending to start a new life using as an advantage the fact that nobody knows about his past he finds a job at the waterfront where he meets tommy tyler sydney poitier a lively young man who is happily married and is a living contrast to cassavetes' sad and unhappy character they very quickly become good friends and tommy does his best to help his friend the only problem is that their superior at work a tough worker charles malik jack warden is sort of envious of their friendship as well as tommy's constant happy disposition and success in personal life he really manages to make their life difficult when he comes to know the truth about alex's past br br a good drama skillfully directed by academy award nominated director producer martin ritt the hud and featuring wonderful performances from sydney poitier and jack warden 7 10
1	led an extraordinary life and his story is told rather well in all american we follow incredible journey from young norwegian boy to iconic american football legend produced in 1940 the film may at times seem a touch dated and at times downright hokey and the filmmakers do lay it on a bit thick at times as is and lovingly portrayed you may come away thinking should have been nominated for sainthood when in fact he was after all just a football coach but it is undeniable that he had a great impact on the game of football as well as having a tremendous impact on the lives of so many of the young men he coached this film shows the great impact he had and gives you an insight into why he is so revered to this day br br playing pat o'brien gives an impressive performance it's unquestionably o'brien's movie to carry and he makes the film and the character his own the real life was renowned as a great inspirational figure and o'brien's performance will make you understand why the only quibble comes early in the film when o'brien in his early forties is playing the college student in his early twenties all the makeup in the world wasn't going to make that believable and the effect is rather jarring but as the character ages and begins his legendary coaching career o'brien fits the part perfectly br br as for the rest of the cast one name jumps out and that is of course ronald reagan playing the young charismatic but ultimately doomed football star george in the grand scheme of the film it's not really a large part with reagan appearing for no more than 10 15 minutes but the performance has become legendary thanks to reagan's famous win one for the deathbed speech it's a brilliantly played scene chock full of emotion reagan may not have been on the screen for very long in this film but he certainly made a tremendously positive impact in a winning performance br br the rest of the film strikes a balance between football and life in general with having great lessons for his young men in both areas for football fans and history buffs there is a rare treat as actual archival footage from notre dame games of the era is interspersed throughout the film it's a rare opportunity to see just how much the game has evolved in the last six plus decades and an opportunity to see legendary strategic innovations put into practice if you're a notre dame fan you'll probably enjoy the fact that the notre dame victory march provides a seemingly constant soundtrack for the film if you're a notre dame hater well then you're probably not watching this movie anyway all american is an inspiring uplifting emotional film perhaps a tad overly sentimental but that's not such a bad thing it's a very enjoyable film one well worth taking the time to see
1	some time ago we read of the results of a poll taken by some newspaper sports writers the questions posed were only two and were brief and right to the point br br the question number 1 asked to tell who was his most beloved college football team question number 2 asked the fan to name his most hated college football team the answer to both questions was simply notre dame nd is tops on both lists yeah love 'em or hate 'em but you sure don't ignore em br br the roots of this unique position of this college football powerhouse are found in the life and career of one grown up little immigrant boy from chicago named br br as a biopic the production of all american 1940 came out relatively close to the death of coach in a 1930 plane crash it was about 10 years after that the film was released that would mean that preliminary work on the project started about 8 years after our nation's great loss of mr br br his likeness and voice were well known from newspapers radio and motion picture news reels both widow bonnie and the university of notre dame had approval rights in choosing the actor to play the lead and the script we think that they could not have done the job any better pat o'brien truly looks the part and was himself a footballer in college ronald reagan is cast in the pivotal role of george a free spirited student going to notre dame on a baseball scholarship he was a walk on football player br br the cast runs full of talented players we have griffith veteran donald crisp as fr callaghan c s c notre dame president albert is fr the chemistry prof and mentor gail page appears as the mrs bonnie owen davis jr is cohort gus the passer in that historic nd vs army game at west point br br the cast is rounded out by kane richmond nick william marshall and william byrne as the four horsemen real life big time college coaches howard jones warner bill and amos alonzo appear as themselves in scenes of congressional probe into college sports and add an authentic touch br br as for biopic all american all one can only say that it hits the ground running and did not slow down from beginning to end there is no wasted time either all the screen time is used to move the story along br br use of notre dame choir the campus itself and all that brass band march music all ad to the feeling of really being there br br to this day even though their basketball team and other sports teams compete in the big east conference notre dame remains an independent in ncaa football what this means that in effect the fighting irish play a national schedule br br there was no such agreement with the family of george there was a lawsuit some years ago over the scene portraying young mr giving the famous win for the speech television prints of this all were minus the speech in the death bed scene br br other notre dame themed films were made over the years the spirit of notre dame universal 1931 featured j farrell mcdonald as a look alike coach it also featured lew ayers andy devine nat pendleton as well as the members of the real notre dame championship teams featuring the real four horsemen then of course we have rudy tri star 1993 with sean astin jon favreau ned beatty and charles dutton among others in a fine cast there was also talk of an unauthorized film critical of notre dame called golden glory but nothing has materialized has it let me know dear reader thanx br br warner brothers always had great music in their both in opening themes and in incidental music in this movie they have incorporated the notre dame fight song in the score along with it were step notre dame and the notre dame alma mater which had its premiere at the funeral in 1930 at the notre dame
1	recently was traveling in norway from bergen norway and stopped in the small town of voss norway and there was a monument in honor of who was born in voss years ago the people all know about to this day and tour guides are proud to stop at his monument this film is a great history of this great man and his great love for notre dame never realized that has such great talents in chemistry and laboratory science and also taught chemistry for years and at the same time coached the football team ronald reagan played the role of george the who was an outstanding football player reagan had a short role but gave a great supporting role in this film donald crisp father john callahan was outstanding as a priest who always had great faith in during his entire life at notre dame this is a great classic film and will be viewed by many generations to come enjoy
1	the true life story of perhaps the greatest football coach the game has ever known led the game of football out of the stone age with innovations such as the forward pass and offensive formation shifts but he is probably best known for his motivational locker room speeches along the way he brought fame and glory to a tiny little unknown catholic school in indiana pat o'brien is incomparable in his role as terrific cast that includes ronald reagan who gives a great performance as notre first true superstar george br br for football aficionados this is the greatest football movie ever made do yourself a favor and rent the black and white version some versions have deleted scenes for some reason if you got the good version look for a brief cameo by the immortal jim as he sticks his head in the locker room telling and the team they only have a few minutes left before the 2nd half begins
1	all american the biopic about the famous notre dame beloved coach is an excellent sports film to watch not ever having seen it we were surprised by the technique used in the movie by director lloyd bacon who shows he was ahead of his times in photographing football games the result is a vibrant picture about the man responsible for the legacy of the sport br br the film presents from his humble origins in chicago to his studies in famed notre dame university in south bend indiana he was an ambitious man who had a vision about how the game should be played luckily he went to give his beloved notre dame the glory he was after br br pat o'brien looks a bit older when he starts as a freshman in fact he doesn't change much throughout the film but he is fine as mr pat o'brien shows he could inspire the players under him by just being a father figure gale page plays bonnie the wise woman who understood her husband's call in life ronald reagan plays george the who was a legend that died much too young but who left a legacy behind donald crisp makes a good contribution as father john callahan who was mentor at the university br br this film will delight not only sports because of lloyd bacon's direction and the fast pace he gives to the movie
1	it's hard to imagine in this day and age how popular and how much of an impact a norwegian immigrant and would be chemist had on the american public and how much of a national tragedy his sudden death in 1931 was viewed but was an extraordinary individual who both revolutionized and popularized college football and put a small obscure catholic college on the map br br i've heard clips of famous pep talks and it is uncanny how pat o'brien got the voice and the inflection perfectly in what turned out to be his career role pat o'brien captures the integrity and fighting spirit that was is assisted by well by gale page as bonnie stiles who complained about her home being a training camp for notre dame but never threw anyone out of her house br br first impact on football was as a player with notre dame not a coach one fine day in the second half of a losing football game against heavily favored army and team mate gus played by owen davis used the forward pass as an offensive weapon before that football was simply a game where you just got bigger guys for your side and ran through the defense didn't invent the forward pass but he popularized and football became a game of strategy as well as brawn after that br br knew how to work the media also those well publicized pep talks of his were not just to inspire his players they were well publicized and it was in a lot due to him that college football became a major sport in that golden age of sports in the roaring twenties br br playing a small but key role is ronald reagan as george the first player coached to achieve greatness reagan not only got a good performance but forever after a name that was handy in his subsequent political career that deathbed scene which swore was accurate became a republican battle cry as many a gop underdog went out to win one for the br br i still remember a widely distributed photograph in 1981 that was one of the first of recovering president ronald reagan at notre graduation with his old friend pat o'brien reagan always credited o'brien and dick powell of all the warner brothers stars of the period as the ones who were the kindest and most encouraging to a young player on the lot trying to make good br br notre dame itself owes its prestige to it's quite possible that notre dame would be an obscure small catholic college without the reputation that football brought to it br br though george and the later famous of the four horsemen certainly had their place in the sun it was who had the reputation it's no accident that warner brothers was able to get amos alonzo glenn warner howard jones and william contemporaries and coaches with great reputations in their own right to appear in all american it was there way of honoring the guy who was number one in their profession br br i think more than football fans will enjoy all american though you might become one after seeing the film
1	pat o'brien had his best role ever as notre dame football coach from humble beginnings entered notre dame as a student circa 1910 he is into chemistry but becomes a marvelous football player and hero br br upon graduation he teaches chemistry at the school but he has got the football fever that tugs at him this forces him to give up chemistry to pursue his dream of coaching the game in a way too bad the school probably lost a great chemistry teacher certainly far better and nicer than the one i had in high school erasmus hall in brooklyn to be exact br br he motivates his students he will not tolerate academic he is a coach for all seasons br br o'brien captures that common kind touch one of his students george is memorably played in a fine brief supporting performance by ronald reagan br br the years pass and the achievements run high but remains the same kind coach who testifies before congress when football is called into question br br donald crisp is outstanding as a notre dame priest who knew that was destined to coach football albert is adequate but his jewish accent in the portrayal of a priest is awkward at best was nominated that year in the supporting category for foreign correspondent br br tragic death in a plane crash robbed the world of many more years of a totally professionally wonderful human being the film is great
1	you don't have to be a notre dame football fan to enjoy this because i am not but as a football fan in general this was fun to watch it almost makes me a fighting irish devotee if you can't get caught up in the emotion in this film gridiron fan or not you better check your pulse because this is an emotional film with some very touching scenes br br as a sports fan i loved watching the classic footage of early college games they had some pretty wild plays back then with a lot of they interspersed that footage with pat o'brien shown as head coach on the sidelines and some of the players such as george ronald reagan br br reagan gets pretty good billing in this film but his part really isn't that large o'brien is the only actor with a large role in here the rest all playing nice characters include gale page as wife bonnie donald crisp as the notre father john callahan albert as chemistry professor father and reagan as perhaps notre most talented and famous player ever br br what this film does nicely is balance the personal story with the football neither angle is overdone the characters in here all people you can root for as there are no villains on my last look it was interesting to discover johnny sheffield tarzan's son playing at the age of seven and to see george reeves tv's superman as one of the players br br there have been very few football movies made in hollywood for some reason and precious few good ones this is one of them
1	meant to be some sort of a social commentary about the way that our lives were spinning out of control in the 1970's this movie plays more like something mr schlesinger threw together after having a bad day on the freeway a mish mash of snippets about the nuts encountered along the freeway in florida and along the freeway of life the cast is mostly wasted and probably ended up on the cutting room floor the problem is that what didn't end up on the cutting room floor probably should have now available on dvd it's kinda fun to see a comedy that would have cost 100 million to produce had it been made in 2004 it rolls along and isn't too difficult to sit through and strangely enough in 2004 we're all still pretty much just br br hopping in our cars and going faster and faster heading nowhere
1	this is a classic street punk rock movie if you remember those times out on the city streets 14 years old two in the morning and nothing better to do than skate from friends house to friends house and sparking it this movie brings back old
1	i watched the movie about 13 yrs ago while living in beach qld australia i had found it in the shelves of a little shop in the back that most don't bother to browse br br to my pleasure i found it and watched it with the intention of one day owning it and being in my collection i still do not have it but will one day br br i like the concept with the poetry and the fantasy the semi deserted street scenes with a busy teaming city in the far background added to the visual effect br br i have numerous times mentioned this movie to people that enjoy this genre with nothing but praise it has stuck in my mind and will for a long time to come br br i fully recommend this film but only to those that are into this type br br this comment and the one from la ca can assist you when choosing to watch this film the comments may be negative but i found them positive if you look past the derogatory connotation
1	the beat was an exciting movie about a couple of young punks trying to survive in 1980's new york this involves fighting with the other street gang that they directly share a high school class with trying to stay in school as well as going to local shows that involve bands that look like the dead kennedy's and have the name skulls for their band name rex played by david jacobson plays an autistic kid who starts to get a long with all of these kinds and starts to show them that poetry is really beautiful and if applied to what these kids do in life can really make things work out for the better billy kane played by william mcnamara and kate kane played by kara glover are brother and sister although they roll with this crowd of thugs these kids are not the same type of people as this group they care for rex and they care for others and really show an enlightened side of themselves while his sister sleeps with the head of the gang she is also falling in love with rex trying to show him that she is not a slut but in the end the teachers at the school finally get to him and want to put him in a mental institution he finally feels it is time to end his life while animals of sound played without him but they like to think that he is not dead he is just living his life to the fullest riding sharks and being happy living in the ocean this movie was one of those movies where i was glad that i watched it while it was extremely entertaining it also had a big message to it something a long the lines that these kids had no direction no future no figure heads to look up to but because a troubled kid came along they all realized that there was way more important things to life then fighting the local black kids or being destructive to everything rex showed them the beauty in angry music rex showed them the beauty in rats disease and murder rex showed they the beauty in almost everything while some of those things have no beauty involved they still were able to see that when used in poems these poems speak to people rex played an important part in this move who changed everyones heart from depression to see that there is hope for them and thats why he started to show them the beat
1	i think it's the sort of film you either love or hate and i'm really not the type to go in for arty movies my mother rented dr the other night and i nearly ran from the room ha but i love this film br br we recorded the beat one night when we had just let the tape run and got a great film that way by accident saved that tape and watched it a lot i eventually got the vhs to add to my collection i've watched it many times and at one point copied down the poems i even tried to preform one scene for my high school drama class she had said we could do any scene we wanted and just cut out the bad words she refused to let me do it if it could upset my drama teacher that much it has to be good honest she never treated me the same after that br br i liked the acting it came off very true and honest it wasn't clean and polished but it was better than that it was true to life how anyone would truly behave and display emotions not how hollywood does it was great acting especially by the one playing rex br br the story was original not only do the characters get drawn into his world but you do too not your typical person meets inner city kids and saves them through knowledge film at all simply caring and friendship make things a bit better br br the only thing is that even in the 80's there was more gun violence and less simple stuff like rock throwing but that little bit of innocence didn't hurt this film br br i think it's a must see you will either love or hate it but either way it makes an impact and that makes a good film that you will remember and talk about later
1	my first review at imdb after a few years of using this site constantly br br anyways saw this on the tube the other night loved it it's in the mindset of a dangerous minds or a substitute but much better was sure for a moment that rex was speedy in waking life but after checking it doesn't seem so br br i can see why many have problems with this plot and its poetry but i also think these people are close minded admittedly the ending wasn't quite what i was hoping for but overall it was so unique and well acted i can't complain i wouldn't call this cheesy as one reviewer did it pulled off the scene better than most films of the 80's did and they refrained from playing any really 80's music br br can't remember everything that made me smile when i saw this but basically it realistically showed very creative individuals surrounded by mediocrity and whether i share rex's beliefs or not i love original attempts to describe the meaning of life and his mutant theory is to my knowledge original he rambled a lot as well but they showed how confused he was at times and why he might have some psychological issues and then in his moments of clarity he was a philosopher extraordinaire a person who noticed the little details in life and tried to give expression to them br br also i was very impressed with john savage as the teacher usually actors fail at that role he pulled it off brilliantly br br if you enjoyed waking life i say watch this movie if you get a chance br br 9 5 10 br br
1	the beat is too strong we're deaf mutants now like them rex br br i am surprised that this movie has been uniformly bashed let me be the first to actually discuss the virtues of the beat and why you must see this film now br br make no mistake this movie is cheesy and bad in the conventional sense the story is preposterous the poetry is silly and the acting is inconsistent br br but these are the film's charms all of these ingredients form the recipe for one of the most underappreciated cheezy films of the 80's br br if the reference to deaf mutants didn't pique your interest then perhaps this will what kind of name is rex anyway it is such an unusual name for north american audiences that i said to myself even the names of the characters in this friggin' movie are silly br br well the beat is so fabulously cheezy that the meaning and symbolism behind rex is revealed not too subtly by bart waxman the misguided guidance counselor you love to hate i won't spoil the revelation behind rex's name but please don't get too excited o k br br overall the acting is inconsistent john savage who plays the concerned teacher mr ellsworth is pretty good as is the fellow playing bart waxman but the rest of the cast are unconvincing that said the acting does not detract from the film why there is a sincerity in each of the actors' performances that makes the characters they play endearing so although the performances may suck you are still left with the impression that the actors are really trying to do their best as a result the actors' sincerity succeeds where their acting fails which is quite often br br the homage to beat poetry in this film is bad bad bad but this is a good good good thing when it comes to entertainment would you actually enjoy better quality or more respectable poetry especially in a film like this br br folks that would be boring think about the droll they made us read in high school sanitized to avoid corrupting the youth politically conservative and devoid of any critical analysis etc even if you don't like poetry or arty movies with all of the intellectual posturing that implies you most certainly can and should appreciate ludicrous poetry in a wannabe art film how could you not enjoy the following br br do you remember the roar of the dinosaur a woman's scotty craps on the floor bad scotty bad oh the woman's so sad she washes her hands and then waits by the door today yeah today br br yes that is an example of some of the remarkable poetry liberally sprinkled throughout the beat but what about the story you ask br br well the story is preposterous but then again that is the beauty of this film apart from some cliches stereotypes and predictable plot points there are enough genuinely unique elements to the plot story to keep things interesting who is rex where did he come from what the heck is he talking about deaf mutants illiterate angels do billy and kate really understand what rex is saying is the audience supposed to understand rex and his poetry posse i've seen the movie several times and i still haven't figured everything out br br will bad poetry and high school talent shows really end gang violence br br i guarantee that you have never seen anything quite like the beat a perfect combination of brilliantly bad poetry mediocre yet sincere acting and a conquers gang violence storyline that has yet to be rivalled by any film ever made br br bonus for fans of classic nyc hardcore the cro mags make a rare film appearance as the iron skulls and it's a hoot to see them perform several songs i wish they included more concert footage but maybe that will be an extra included on the collector's edition dvd i fantasize about br br
1	of all the major 30s star actresses miriam hopkins has been the most bizarrely overlooked and underrated her string of excellent 30s and 40s films is quite impressive but she is often referred to as stagy or brittle yet she had a great sense of humor and was memorable in several comedies including this film old acquaintance with bette davis and the smiling lieutenant with maurice chevalier and claudette colbert hopkins was famous for her dislike of hollywood and the results has been a bad rep undeserved br br in wise girl she play an heiress trying to rescue the children of her dead sister from their guardian the sister's brother in law ray milland the film offers several hilarious scene such as hopkins taking a bath is a hopkins joining milland and guinn williams in a greenwich village restaurant for 3 apiece to act as bohemians and hopkins going ringside during one of williams' fights milland is also excellent and very funny br br hopkins and milland make a great couple the film also boasts solid support from williams walter abel henry stephenson james finlayson margaret dumont grace hayle leonid and inez the two girls are ok br br but hopkins drunk on a slice of wine and wearing a pinned together dress that is twice her size is hilarious as she blows at stray hairs while smoking a scream
1	society heiress susan fletcher hopkins and her wealthy father simon fletcher henry stephenson are vexed that their young nieces joan betty and katie are living a bohemian lifestyle in greenwich village with their artist uncle john milland after the death of their parents susan's sister and john's brother simon has given up trying to convince john to allow he and susan to take care of the children and have resorted to using private detectives to catch him in either unbecoming behavior or unemployed and therefore unable to care for the children properly susan finally decides to take matters into her own hands and goes to greenwich village herself posing as an actress to try to gain information and or persuade him to see reason what she discovers however is that she not only likes the free and artistic lifestyle john and his friends are living and that the girls are being brought up well but that she is quickly falling in love with john inevitably her true identity is discovered and she is faced with the task of convincing everyone on both sides of the custody debate who should belong with whom br br i really enjoyed this film and found that its very short running time 70 minutes was the perfect length to spin this simple but endearing story miriam hopkins one of the great 1930's 1940's actresses is delightful in this film her energy style and wholesome beauty really lend themselves to creating an endearing character even though you know that she's pulling a fast one on the people she quickly befriends this is the earliest film i've seen ray milland in and he was actually young and non patrician looking and apparently three years younger than his co star his energy and carefree manner in wise girl were a refreshing change to the demeanor he affects in his usual darker films honestly though i am usually not remotely a fan of child actors i really enjoyed the two young girls who played susan's nieces they were endearingly precocious and were really the jewels of the film unfortunately i can't dig up any other films that either of them were subsequently in after this one which is a shame since both exhibited a large amount of natural talent br br wise girl was a film that was made three years after the hollywood code was and to some extent this was abundantly clear by the quick happy ending and the pie in the sky and ease with which the characters lived the alleged bohemian co op was in fact a gorgeous cul de sac where the artists lived for free or for trade and everything is tied up very nicely throughout fortunately this was a light enough film and the characters were charming enough to make allowances for its fluffiness and short comings and i was able to just take wise girl for what it was a good old fashioned love story that was as entertaining as it was endearing unfortunately films of the romantic comedy drama genre today are considerably less intelligent and entertaining or i wouldn't find myself continuously returning to the classics 7 10
1	sometimes it's hard to define what separates a successful delightful comedy from one that falls flat in this case the contrived plot about a spoiled rich girl who schemes to take her nieces away from the greenwich village who is raising them only to fall for him herself is not promising and nothing in director leigh jason's filmography suggests that he was an overlooked major talent and yet he must have been responsible for creating a relaxed happy atmosphere on the set that was faithfully recorded on film br br he also had the good sense to cast this movie properly the one small flaw is miriam hopkins in a part that ginger rogers would have been perfect for hopkins is efficient but brittle lacking the warmth and sexiness rogers would have had she is further hampered by a pair of bizarrely long and sooty false eyelashes that are sometimes a distraction but a very young and very handsome ray milland couldn't be better in an exuberant uninhibited comic performance of great charm br br and better than that particularly for new york city residents is the hollywood depiction of greenwich village in 1937 though completely synthetic and idealized it remains recognizable to a contemporary viewer art director van nest created an amiable jumble of apartments and ramshackle shared that is the perfect backdrop for this picture's collection of artists smart alecks and wannabes best in the supporting cast is guinn williams bringing sweetness and light to his role as a prizefighter sculptor suggesting the self invention and fluidity sexual and otherwise of life in the village even more refreshing are betty and playing the little girls plain intelligent and full of humor these girls seem like real human beings and are nothing like the professional child actors of the time br br of special interest are a couple of memorable comic set pieces ray milland's vacuum cleaner demonstration to a woman with a howling baby is played with more spontaneity than one expects the baby and his contortions are marvelous moments and a phony domestic 'play' in a department store window that degenerates into a free for all is also fun the movie slides slowly downhill with a straight faced custody trial and then never quite gets back on track when the action moves to long island but this movie is still worth a look
1	i bought this a while back during a massive martial arts movie phase although this certainly ain't the best i do love this kind of film making and there was a lot to keep me entertained in this one leung kar yan is one of my favorite martial arts stars i always appreciate the fact that whilst he lacked formal martial arts training he usually gave a more than capable fighting performance he also has a good beard this movie has him in a good heroic role and although he doesn't kick as much ass as in some of his other movies he still acquits himself well early appearances from cherie chung and chow yun fat are also nice too see especially for the fact that chow yun fat takes on the bad guys without his trademark gun play he may not be a great fighter but he does ok eddy ko is as great a bad guy as ever he performs the same as in many of his other films and does it great as per usual the fellow who plays bu is good too i don't recall his name but he's in magnificent butcher too although the fighting isn't as good as other movies of the era the postman fights back makes up for it with a lot of imagination quality cinematography and a nicely quirky ambiance there are some very nifty scenes good characters and a good eclectic mixture of hong kong talents all coming together to decent effect all in all i would recommend this to kung fu and general hong kong action fans it may not be a stylised classic like the shaw brothers films or as crowd pleasing as jackie chan or bruce lee but it is rock solid entertainment
1	i found this movie on netflix and had to add it to my queue i wasn't disappointed when i got it as it's just as funny now as when i saw it at a local drive in theater back then br br it builds to a climax nicely with you getting glimpses of the various characters as they begin their trip across america on the honky tonk freeway america on wheels this was a strange comedic role for william devane as i remember him as kennedy in the 1974 tv film the missiles of october and felt no one could have pulled that dramatic character off as well as he did br br it reminds me a bit of dick van dyke in cold where van dyke played the local minister role as mayor minister and activist was typical for small towns so it makes his character seem amusing and real br br howard hessman and teri garr as the spoiled family in the rv was on target for the time as well anyone who has traveled across country with small children are we there yet will appreciate those scenes br br the scenes of a small town struggling to survive reminded me a lot of the small town i grew up in but they handled it with the charm and humor that you often only saw in small towns it's sad that many small towns disappeared because of the freeway system and it gives a realistic if humorous view of what they had to do to survive used zoo animals anyone br br all in all it's a lightweight comedy with no particular message but a humorous glance at america during the early 80's well worth watching if you just need a bit of good cheer
1	i am a huge fan of the 5 50 dvd bin at my local walmart hopefully you have one at your local branch you can find a bunch of campy flicks a bunch of trash and the occasional surprise this movie is one of the surprises my friend recently bought this one and in thinking it would be another cheesy kung fu laugh riot i was genuinely surprised at how good it was i watch a lot of movies and as a result i can almost always call how a movie will turn out and if there's a plot twist what it will be not this movie the directing is brilliant the plot is awesome and the fighting is unbelievably inventive if you see this one sitting around somewhere at a dirt cheap price get it if you see it at full price i would still recommend it
1	freely from one scene to another from one story to another just like when walking from a shadowy path to an open place like the wind in the leaves from a tree to another how many different sounds just like when traveling people meet and tell their stories and then part forever who knows and just like when walking through these places full of the lost expectations from another time the human of the world takes the breath away br br i saw this movie with friends of mine not all of them liked it maybe were they too used to scenario based and ready made stories i don't know so this movie is for the silly ones who love looking at the sun sparkling on the sea walking without any hurry in the hills or through the little villages listening to the growing grass which tells the stories of those underneath six feet under in the warm wind of summer
1	in august days dies marc has given us a sun saturated catalan documentary style road movie that's mostly a meandering improvised meditation on brotherhood and reclaiming the dead the beautiful sometimes large scale richly atmospheric 35 mm landscape images nice soundtrack and catalan language narration are enchanting as a mood piece if one is content with a trajectory that hasn't much momentum and doesn't lead anywhere in particular filmmaker marc and his non identical twin david are the stars and the narrative is voiced by their younger sister marc had been researching the life of ramon 1940 2001 a socialist editor who had been a family friend he felt he was saturated with information and had to take a break the break turned into making this film which seeks to capture the mood of the interviews with associates thoughts about the spanish civil war the drought season they were experiencing the rugged landscape the brothers' affection for each other swims and nudity and whatever characters or stories they ran into as they camped out of their van this leads to pursuit of a giant catfish and the temporary disappearance of one of the brothers in the end david has to go back to barcelona to be with his daughter and marc has to return to his project and there it ends i found it fascinating to listen to an extended narration in the catalan language with its blend of spanish and french sounding words perhaps linked with this isn't a major film but it commands attention and makes sense as a film festival choice with its clean visual and auditory beauty and its way of playing around with genres and blending autobiography with fiction and documentary in a fresh and thought provoking way br br an official selection of the 2006 new york film festival at lincoln center
1	this is the fourth full length feature film by marc by the third 'les mans empty hands i promised myself not to cut my veins anymore but this time round the plot is completely different a kind of homage to ramon 1940 2001 a catalan journalist the visuals in the trailer are stunning a gleaming river bathed in sunlight and the promise that marc himself would be in front of the camera with his twin brother none of both professional actors convinced me at last six weeks after its release abandon yourself in this very unusual road river film learn almost nothing about ramon but his most poignant legacy his constant fight against amnesia of what we chose to forget 'la de look for battle of the at the wikipedia was lost not once but twice because after 40 years of silence and 25 years of half hearted democracy nobody has done much to remember the legitimate side of the spanish civil war and those who fought it this film is about the lonely people roaming the same places with very little conscience of what took place there 70 years ago this film is about the landscape
1	thank goodness not all dutch people are that ruthless i think jason is being judged like that by most people simply because he has a famous father maybe he's not as great as some of those actors but he's definitely not as bad as suggested br br i watched the movie some years ago and i actually loved it i knew jason from other movies and of course robin of sherwood but i must say i really liked his acting from this movie on it was really good br br during the movie i actually forgot he was the son of sean who br br and if you're a shakespeare lover i can recommend this movie i'm sure you'll enjoy it
1	what do you mean son of actor not an actor you don't become an actor just because your daddy is a superstar it doesn't work that way not in uk at any rate br br macbeth this version is a low budget scottish movie you can't compare this to the polanski version because polanski has all the budgets in the world br br jason acted throughout school but his big break came in 1985 when he landed the role of robin hood in britain's robin of sherwood television series he has appeared in many films since then including shanghai noon and lord of the rings jason has since moved behind the camera forming the production company unconditional entertainment he recently wrapped filming on his latest movie which stars cuba gooding jr and ray winstone br br and all this has nothing to do with being the son of sean connery if you think jason said to sean daddy i wanna be in macbeth movie that they are going to film and sean said sure son whatever you say and made a phone call and got his son the role you are mistaken in fact jason connery is being cut out of his father's will seeing as how his father is sean connery that's a big chunk of change jason will be losing out on the reasoning behind the decision is apparently sean's strong feelings that his only son should learn to provide for himself the relationship has become fairly strained with jason even threatening to change his name br br of being the son of sean connery br br i realize that i'm always going to be compared to my father there are innuendos all the time should i spend my whole life justifying myself br br so stop being a jackass and accuse him of not being able to act just because he is son of sean connery big deal br br watch jason in bullet to beijing and you'll form a different opinion about his acting ability
1	every review i have read so far seems to have missed a crucial point shakespeare wrote for the accent and the pronunciation just as he did for northerners in other plays the scottish accent changes the emphasis and rhythm of the language and affects profoundly what is said and the way it is taken so listen again and note the difference the play is well done and the rhythm of the words are so much better than that provided by people using received polite well enunciated english i am reminded of the time a teacher in a school in leicester unknowingly asked me age 14 to read a piece of walter scott which was written in the tone of the border i come from the border and when i read it as it should be read it made all the difference
1	excellent performance there still are good actors around also great directing and photography very true to shakespear and a 'must' for all shakespear fans macbeth jason connery moved me to tears with his final monolog out brief candle out he gave the sphere of moral decay and dark forces a human face which makes it the more interesting helen is a very credible lady macbeth who can be very at times and sometimes she just looks like a naughty girl but deadly in her taste for blood and evil if you love death and decay and lyrics this is the one
1	excellent performance there still are good actors around also great directing and photography very true to shakespear and a 'must' for all shakespear fans macbeth jason connery moved me to tears with his final monolog out brief candle out he gave the sphere of moral decay and dark forces a human face which makes it the more interesting helen is a very credible lady macbeth who can be very at times and sometimes she just looks like a naughty girl but deadly in her taste for blood and evil if you love death and decay and lyrics this is the one
1	what about dj cash money this film fails in part by not covering the mid to late 80s there was only a small mention of dj cheese in 86 br br also it's not
1	back in august there was a country ish buzz to movies big hits like urban cowboy every which way but loose smokey and the bandit were all the rage for that reason i suspect the producers of this movie chose honky tonk freeway as the title hoping it would help the movie's box office receipts by drawing in that same urban cowboy crowd instead honky tonk freeway bombed at the theaters and i suspect it do so in part by being burdened with a poorly chosen title thats same problem burdens it now on video and thats too bad because its a pretty good movie and in a comedy style ahead of it's time no matter what probably anybody who can remember 1981 will enjoy it br br its too bad this movie bombed but i think it would have anyway even if it hadn't been saddled with a poor title its a movie ahead of its time one could look at this movie now and see that its clearly a father or great uncle anyway to the kinds of comedy made today for its day honky tonk freeway was pretty full of innuendo and a kind of frankness about life that didn't get popular in comedy till much later on while clearly its a child of airplane its more mature and while its certainly no knocked up it clearly points in that direction the characters are more comedy mature in that they are low key and don't ever think anything they do is anything other than serious the jokes are in the choices of what to emphasize and the camera views and the way the view themselves and their situations br br but more than that honky tonk freeway is a real time capsule a great look back at the exceedingly early 80's the people in this movie are dressed and act as everyday people of 1981 did it was clearly meant to reflect the times and be a sly comedic comment on everyday life around them br br i don't know if my review is helping you but this is really a good sometimes kind of excellent movie thats worth renting if you want to see how a lot of faces that are familiar today looked when they were 30 years younger beverly d'angelo is so young its hard to realize its her sometimes so are beau bridges and terri garr terry garr was just about to become the toast of hollywood as her next movie after this one was tootsie which finally made her a star howard was arguably the biggest current star of the the day when this movie was made back in 1981 howard was the star of the big hit tv show wkrp in he played its lead character the rascally night dj daniel stern was just about to break out as a star as the grown up narrator voice of the lead child character in the popular 80's sitcom the wonder years there are also several faces that are no longer with us these days its nice to see hume and jessica tandy as a an old married couple on a journey jessica tandy would finally pick up her oscar ten years after this for driving miss daisy there is also the great geraldine page in one of her final movie appearances though she'd had a brilliant career she didn't get her oscar till four years after this in trip to bountiful for which she richly deserved it and she died very soon after getting that award br br plus there are lots of other faces in this movie actors who aren't big stars but who have done tons of supporting work many are familiar even if you can't think of their name br br this movie is a pleasant little diversion a bunch of people with a variety of problems set out from various locations each for their own individual unrelated reasons who all in a vaguely altman esk way end up heading towards florida and unbeknownst to them a in the little town of florida which happens to be reeling from the effects of being bypassed by the recently constructed interstate nearby which did not construct an exit to which effectively takes the town off the map br br and thats also what this movie is about fascination with the whole idea of the interstate system which had only recently been completed it had taken a generation to build from when it was authorized by congress around 1960 through many years as different parts were built and then went live and by 1980 most of the system had finally been built and all connected together and first the first time the promise of what the interstate system would be had turned into what is and people were enchanted by it everybody by 1980 was pretty much an interstate freeway veteran in the sense that by then everybody had used parts of it and knew how it worked and how it was different from other roads in that it had no red lights or stop signs only on and off ramps and that it went to places that were formerly less accessible by 1980 anyone could drive anywhere in comfort and without having to stop for anything except to eat and sleep and a bathroom and this was all new then br br the ending is anti climatic and isn't that satisfying albeit its one spectacular moment what makes it great is it's the journey not the destination that makes honky tonk freeway timeless in spite of it being such a product of its day forget its title instead let it take you down memory lane
1	darling lili is a mixture of perfection and magic the stars julie andrews rock hudson could not have done a better attempt if they tried it's full of all the magic that a young lady wishes for and it makes it seem as if it can all really happen to you the brilliance of the director blake edwards is shown to be at his best he was truly capturing the woman he loved on screen br br the blend of each song went perfectly with the moment in the film the film opened with julie andrews singing whistling away in the dark and closed with the same song by andrews br br for a film of this excellence to have been such a failure when it was released is a total shock br br as it is inspirational purely inspirational one of andrews most memorable lines in this film
1	scratch it just as created rhythms with the of an ass and virgin islanders oil drums into ear pleasing steel bands so did urban dj's itch to scratch in the pursuit of new methods of creative expression scratch is a wholly documentary which will take you to the heart of the hip hop rap movement and explore the genesis of the art of scratching vinyl and the ultimate dj mc entertainment expression the film reveals some surprisingly intelligent and articulate with startlingly unique abilities in concert and competition where the beat meets the street good stuff for anyone interested in grass roots or ghetto gutter movements in sound art b
1	just saw this film at and was floored i've never been a huge fan of scratching but this film had me hooked from the getgo it's listed as a documentary but never really felt like one can't remember the last time i had so much fun watching a documentary it has a style and an energy that is refreshing insightful and never too preachy the production values were up there too shot on film with cool cuts and an amazing soundtrack overall a smart entertaining and enlightening piece
1	wow most of the audience just seemed to shake their heads through much of this documentary at the sheer wizardry displayed on screen br br the shift from the early days as a new york based black american phenomenon to current days as a racially diverse subculture and largely west coast based is profiled well br br the humble turntable is not given the respect of any traditional musical instrument but it can be so much more versatile and technically complex these djs take the required skills for any musical instrument dexterity rhythm and timing among others and apply them to a new technology with several more variables br br dj comment that he pictures what music must sound like on advanced planets and then works it out seemingly silly at first makes more and more sense as you watch these guys go and spit out a multitude of sounds that no single traditional instrument could ever create br br some critics have said that this film focuses too much on certain 'stars' and squanders an opportunity to profile the wider hip hop culture one film at a time people
1	this film is essentially for those who have had little or no introduction to hip hop specifically as was the case with the director before he started this film it was cool to have it focus on the bay more than expected because ny is always getting all the credit but from the bay the q bert worship is a little out of control this film didn't introduce anything new to me but it did change my opinion in that going into it i was sketchy about the prospect of giving the tables the distinction of being a bona fide instrument this film ought to convince anyone that it's right up there with the viola and clavichord
1	wonderfully funny awe inspiring feature on the pioneers of dj shadow and q bert are amazing in this terrific documentary check out just about every major dj crediting their getting in to scratch thanks to herbie hancock's post bop classic and archival footage of some of the most complex and mind blowing turntable routines of all time
1	scratch is a documentary about djs and their art of scratching from that one line description of the film you would have no idea how entertaining and educational this little film is it is a joyous and vibrant celebration of a cool subculture which is little known it's filled with great underground hip hop music and you get to see some top djs e g dj q bert dj shadow and mix master mike from the beastie boys showing off their stuff going into the film i wasn't sure that scratching can really be called an art form or that the turntable can be viewed as an instrument in its own right scratch completely changed my mind on these points what these guys do with their is truly amazing it is definitely some kind of art and the turntable if you know how to use it can be transformed into an instrument that you can play as much as a drum or a guitar and you even get a lesson on the basics of scratching from dj q bert e g how to use the to get different sound effects all these djs in their own way were inspired to take up the art of scratching after watching herbie hancock perform his song rock it you remember that song don't you live at the what got their attention was not hancock himself but his dj and his scratching not only is scratch about scratching but it does some scratching of its own thanks to the creative way in which this documentary is shot and edited there are moments where clips are quickly rewound and then forwarded several times which mirrors in the film medium what happens when a dj quickly moves the record on his turntable back and forth while using his that sound whether you're a fan of hip hop or not you can count on scratch to give you a very enjoyable night at the movies after seeing it i had an itch to go buy a turntable of my own and i mean this as a compliment
1	being a huge fan of hip hop and to begin with i always knew i would like this film however i wasn't prepared for just how good the documentary actually is it covers almost all the important aspects of the only element of hip hop which has been there from the very start the story begins in the early 70's and follows the evolution of as an art from up until early 2000 aficionados will point this out as significant br br the editing is nigh on perfect throughout the film aside from the excellent visual scratch techniques which they used the rapid cutting between interviews and the stock footage is excellent giving the film pace when it is needed the sound editing is also very good with some nice sweeping sounds being used to help with transitions br br the absence of a narrator was also welcome we aren't taken by the hand through the story and as a result the audience is able to make their own assumptions easier each dj adds another side to the story and it is so interesting to hear about the unknown stars of hip hop especially those who were there when hip hop was being shunned left right and centre by the music business br br although there are many excellent things about this film i do have a few gripes the biggest of these is the absence of several notable djs such as ca and jazzy jeff and also djs from outside america such as scratch perverts and dj noise however if you watch the commentary on the dvd something which i highly recommend producer and director go in to great depth about how they regret not being able to feature them the deleted scenes contain many interviews with ca jazzy jeff and the scratch perverts br br this is definitely the best documentary i've seen on hip hop culture and music it does stop short of showing the true potential of for that i highly recommend checking out the and videos however that is a minor quibble i highly recommend this movie not least for the phat soundtrack with excellent music throughout 9 10
1	the omission of jazzy jeff the creator of the chirp and transformer scratch raised a few eyebrows but it's good to see he made it to the extras of the dvd after all with scratch doug pray who previously chronicled the grunge phenomenon of the '90s in hype 1996 made an excellent documentary about the world of the hip hop dj and the evolution of his latest documentary infamy 2005 explores contemporary american graffiti culture after a couple of viewings four years ago my dvd had been gathering dust ever since but recently i watched it again and besides the subject material i was surprised how well shot and edited this documentary actually is an immensely enjoyable soundtrack as well and not just talking heads but lots of music old school footage parties break dancing you name it one of the best things about the film is that it mainly examines where the art of is today in 2001 that is without disregarding the pioneers of course good stuff br br camera obscura 8 10
1	i'm not a fan of scratching but i really dug this movie it gave me a real insight into a world i never had a clue existed and what else is a documentary for funny clever hip just like previous film hype about the grunge music scene
1	that's pretty much the whole soundtrack to this film i just saw this baby at the munich film festival and it rocked the house director doug pray is never seen in this documentary nor i think he is even heard but he has done a very intimate look into the lives and history of the mixer he has segmented his film into about eight chapters and then his motley group of enthusiastic interviews will be spiced throughout according to what they are talking about i was never big into scratching but the film does a wonderful job of keeping elementary for those who know little and infusing in jokes for those who are experts themselves in this area mix master mike from the beastie boys is in this film but it wasn't until after the film that i could name several heavy hitters in the industry dj shadow q bert etc the extreme fascination for by these talented and quirky djs is evident in their explanations of what their music means to them the film also sheds some gratifying light on these guys and one woman to be classified as musicians pray doesn't let his film idle and if there exists a slow scene it is soon re energized by hardly ever music if nothing else this film will increase your slang vocabulary i have to get back to digging so i'll end this review see it it will be of interest good stuff man good stuff
1	a wonderful film ahead of its time br br i think so in the it was all about winning greed is good remember that one i have seen this film more that 20 times to me this is a real desert island film i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love jessica tandy and hume are simply wonderful also beverly d'angelo beau bridges come in at a close second don't get me wrong there are many more great in this film and it is also the way it is written that made it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv shows like exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it is not a tom cruise film
1	okay i think we're all agreed that michael jackson was the low point br br and the special effects too but please keep in mind that this was not a big budget film okay not every film gets as much of a budget as harry potter or star wars br br however i thought it was pretty funny altogether b nothing that would in my opinion waste your time br br parodies are always fun to watch and just because it wasn't big budget doesn't mean it's bad br br i think this was a good movie if weak at some points br br hope this comment helps angela
1	if you like silly comedies like airplane you'll love this movie it's definitely in the style of airplane and scary movie a fun film it has the strangest cast of characters all in the same movie michael jackson evan marriott joyce stuart pankin charlie and eric roberts the special effects are hokey but i think they're supposed to be since it's a silly comedy there is apparently two versions of the film one at blockbuster and one on the official website com the one on the website appears to be a preview release version signed by the director there's some fun behind the scenes material filmed at neverland with michael jackson as well the movie was filmed in 2003 and says it's pg rated fun on the box
1	i don't understand why this movie has such a low rating it totally deserves more sure it's completely ridiculous but that's what it was supposed to be don't expect cinematic transcendence from a movie about beauty pageant contestants stranded on a caribbean island what you should expect is a huge spoof of pretty much every relevant sci fi fantasy and block buster movie in cinematic history and even references to other all completely exaggerated and sometimes totally unnecessary but that's exactly what makes this movie stand out if you like parodies and enjoy say leslie nielsen or mike myers you're gonna love this i sure did
1	miss cast away is an amusing trifle which dispenses with serious plot or character development to pack in as many gags as possible best enjoyed with a large audience that is open to such entertainments and perhaps has had a few drinks most of the jokes are current event based so in future years this film may become a time capsule of turn of the 21st century pop culture references br br the to conversion of the footage does create a jerky appearance in some parts most noticeably the opening aerial shots br br the appearance of micheal jackson is indeed a strange non sequiter event but i for one find it encouraging that mr jackson has shown a helpful interest in one of his protégés even after he the director has passed from the cute preteen boy stage br br the effects work is not as bad as one review suggested most of it was done by a one man crew in a brief span of time consisting of animator william sutton whose name seems to have been omitted from the imdb credits his work is an extraordinary achievement and really helps to fill in the gaps in this movie i hope he's finally been paid
1	i love this movie one of my all time favorites ann blythe as sally is sweet and trouble free she believes that praying to saint anne will solve all her and her friends troubles the sub plot of the dastardly bad man to get her father's property is funny and clever her brothers are what kind of brothers any girl would love to have also look for aunt bee as her mother a strong irish woman who won't leave her house that she brought her family up in they don't make them like this anymore that's for sure
1	sally and saint anne is a very funny movie the first time my mom told me about it i was 7 and saint anne had just been the saint i had for my communion saint my mom knew this so she told me to watch this with her i did and have seen it many times since because it is really funny aunt bea from the andy griffith show was in it and sally's grandfather was the guy who played santa claus in miracle on 34th street so there were lots of actors we seen on tv shows too there is a bad guy who keeps trying to steal the house away and sally keeps trying things with st anne to help raise money so they can keep the house that includes a boxing match with hugh o'brian who plays her older brother this is a good and funny movie that i still love
1	i watched this movie a long time ago but i've always loved it the story is about a young girl sally who finds out at a young age that when she prays to st anne her prayers are answered hence her missing lunch pail and a mean neighbor who on her and she prays that someone should give him a black eye for well a minute later something hits him and he has a black eye sally then believes in the power of prayer and decides to use that power for good she is well known and loved around the neighborhood as she has journals filled with all her friends requests to st anne br br meanwhile a local boy returns home from college i believe and sally is awestruck at how much he's grown up sally has a huge crush on him but is so shy should she use her power of prayer to st anne for her own selfish desire or just watch as the most popular girls in school try to snare the man of her dreams this is a fun filled movie with a grandfather who is so charming and irish brother's who are hilariously annoying and a sworn irish neighbor enemy who spars with grand pop on an everyday basis he has his own story of wanting to buy the property which is a little house in the middle of two huge apartment complexes his own in other words the house is an eye sore to his lovely buildings br br this movie is definitely worth a watch and is good enough and rare enough to add to your movie collection i hope you enjoy
1	this film centered on a young lady who makes prayers to help her family and friends when they encounter difficulties in life it made me think of other movies like the song of bernadette and francis of and has a very strong catholic faith influence in the film ann blyth is very charming as first the catholic school student and then later as a young woman who buys a statue of saint anne which is the name of the street that i live on by the way and makes many prayers for the whenever problems come up in her life frances aunt bea from the andy griffith show and edmund gwenn from miracle on 34th street play relatives of her a local priest of mine used to say that my sister resembled ann blyth and the both of them have the same first and middle names a nice good family film that came from an era when life was a bit more simpler
1	wonderful family film that should be a staple at christmas time it's a mystery to me why it isn't a true lost film that i first encountered flickering away on my old 19 black and white rca when the million dollar movie was still in vogue on channel 9 in new york city this rudolph mate directed fantasy should be nestled under everyone's christmas tree but it has never been released on home video too bad i believe i saw part of it on amc a few years ago before they cut many of their older films from the rotation tcm should take up the slack and play it at easter or on christmas eve any movie with santa aunt bee the hostess lady and an actor with the first name king can't be bad ann blyth as sally is a bundle of energy during her school years she rushes over to the chapel to pray for st ann to help and give guidance to her mixed up and financially strapped family it works so after she graduates she places a statue of st ann in her own bedroom at one point the entire residence is moved to another address i think this was done to put an end to a neighbor dispute between the and the dastardly fellow next door blyth is cute as a button edmund gwen can play the reclusive grandfather in his sleep all in all this is a satisfying movie experience
1	this is a family comedy in the very best senses of the term about faith and family ann blyth with the help of everybody's favorite grandpa edmund gwenn gets divine help in lifting the above the would be vengeance schemes of mccarthy john mcintire pure fun
1	i remember watching this movie over and over again when i was a kid i loved it whilst i haven't watched it recently i am sure i would enjoy it just the same today its a very light funny movie guaranteed to make anyone laugh the situations with each one of the characters were so funny and imaginative i particularly liked the one with the girl traveling with her mother's ashes who ends up picking them up on the highway after the explosion the robbers and the nuns this nice humour style is much missed these days also this movie proved that actor paul keenan dynasty days of our lives was off to a great start i recommend it to anyone lucky enough to find it in their local video shop
1	dan dailey gives a sincere and colorful performance as the great dizzy dean his handling of the character is very true to life and captures the flavor of dean's background and limited education the film of course centers around dizzy deans rise to fame and his sudden trip to the sidelines with an injury he chose to ignore much to his regret his wife is splendidly portrayed by joanna dru who gives a very down to earth quality to the woman who loved and supported the ballplayer who rose to a dizzying height so quickly the portrayal of later career as a sportscaster is honest and unflinching reflecting his troubles which stemmed from his poor education and his colorful language both on and off the air dizzy was quite a character and daily has breathed life into his story with admirable skill if you enjoyed this film i recommend the comedy kid from left field 1953 wherein daily plays a down and out has been ballplayer idolized by his young son billy chapin daily again fleshes out a ballplayer in a completely satisfying manner i heartily recommend pride of st louis to baseball fans everywhere
1	in a sport that prizes quirkiness and treasures it's characters one of the greatest of them from the 1930s was pitcher dizzy dean he was so colorful a personality he was probably elected to the baseball hall of fame on the strength of that as opposed to his pitching statistics after all part of the dean story is that early end to his career br br in the pride of st louis dan dailey successfully captures the character of dizzy dean at least the dean i remember i'm not old enough to remember him pitching but i do remember him broadcasting baseball game of the week during the 1960s for that's part of the dean story as well being a pioneer broadcaster on radio and later television now that announcers are in the hall of fame there's no question dizzy belongs there br br jerome herman dean was one of a tribe of kids who had very little schooling but an amazing talent for throwing a baseball at blinding speed in fact he had a younger brother paul dean who was a pretty good pitcher himself br br richard crenna plays paul in this film and it's one of his earliest film roles paul dean in real life was a quiet retiring sort who's career was also cut short by injuries because of that crenna isn't given much to work with during the dean heyday tried to pin the nickname of daffy on paul but it never took br br joanne dru taking a break from playing western gals in dresses and corsets is first rate as the wise patient and understanding patricia nash who met and married dizzy while he was playing for houston in the texas league br br in the 1937 all star game dizzy started for the national league facing cleveland's earl dean was hit on the foot by a line drive smack at him refusing to listen to medical advice dean came back to pitch too early he'd broken a big toe and put too much of a strain on his arm he was never the same pitcher and his refusal to accept that is part of the story br br had he had a career of say ten to fifteen years who knows what pitching statistics he might have rolled up dean was the next to last pitcher to win 30 games in 1934 and after denny who was something of a character himself did it 1968 it hasn't been done since br br dean went into broadcasting and while he was not the first former player to go into the broadcast booth his colorful game descriptions made him an instant hit he started broadcasting for the other st louis team the browns and the browns were a pretty miserable team with not much to cheer about dean became a star attraction there br br of course part of the dean story is the trouble he got into because of his lack of education and his colorful way of expressing himself on the air that's part of the story i won't go into but in the film it's handled with tact and humility and your eyes might if you tend to the sentimental br br a fine baseball film a real tribute to an american success story
1	fred was such a great show it was simple but somehow very addicting i can still remember the days when i'd watch this on kids wb saturdays but then kids wb did the unforgivable kids wb became like that older relative that tries to act hip and funky fresh shudder they became like that relative who tries to act all cool but the attempt is a cheesy disaster they pulled coconut fred's fruit salad inland and all the other good shows to put on some of the most pointless shows i've ever seen in my life johnny test the only thing that keeps me watching anymore is the occasional bits of the old shows and the anime on 4kids it was such a huge mistake to pull this show off of the schedule this brings me back to my first point bring it back
1	coconut fred's fruit salad island is a hilarious show that is on saturday mornings on wb it stars coconut fred and all of his friends on the island and every episode is a very funny misadventure of theirs most of the time it is because of coconut fred's trouble making antics which makes it funny and other stuff going on on the island at the same time the humor is great and nobody on the island is very bright at all which adds it being as amusing as it is i don't think this could be funnier the voice talents of the characters are magnificently superior and are exaggerated which adds to the show's hilarity if this is ever on dvd i'm getting it a s a p br br strongly recommended for a good laugh
1	fans of apocalyptic movies will savor this well made low budget thriller that is essentially a remake of the 1951 george pal classic when worlds collide a comet is headed for a near collision with earth and when his fellow scientists disregard his warnings of doom eccentric scientist peter crawford dennis hopper gathers a group of private investors to secretly construct an underground sanctuary br br the story unfolds through the eyes of muscle bound gulf war veteran jake lowe peter onorati who inadvertently discovers crawford's hidden sanctuary and then decides that crawford is wrong for keeping his project hidden from the rest of humanity as the comet approaches the subject of who should live and who should die makes for interesting drama br br while the special effects are not in the same league i enjoyed the story more than i did spielberg's war of the worlds because i feel this screenplay is better some suspension of scientific reality is required but it's worthwhile for the development of a good story i highly recommend this film to fans of the genre
1	for a movie shot in 18 days and a budget less than 2 million this little movie that could deserves a 'best we award interesting premise aside from the usual meteor stuff with solid by a cast of familiar faces 2 thumbs up advice to the other reviewer don't be afraid to say you liked something
1	a £3 50 dvd can be a gamble and this was one that sort of paid off br br a decent saturday night type movie that entertains if you gloss over the obvious plot flaws special effects are a bit few and far between with some repetition and why does london always look as if it's in the 60's br br if it had the budget of say armageddon then i'm sure it would have performed better at the box office as the story is quite a good one br br overall is consigned to b movie history but if you see it for £3 50 then it's worth buying
1	this is the first american film i have seen at this year and i think it will be the greatest one because of the feeling as a teenage singer in america aaron is not as pop as before most americans i met said his song is fake and that he even didn't know how to rap but attention everyone he is a kid how many people can understand him being a pop fan is difficult and being a pop star is more difficult i think this time aaron jd has shows something real to us and i think people should learn to understand each other at another hand i like the music in the film very much i remember the first song appeared in the film is saturday night and it also include some aaron's real live show and the second one is one better so i think if you enjoy this film maybe you'll be a pop fan too at last i hope you will have a great time a voice from a chinese boy
1	i love aaron carter but even i expected pop star to be predictable but i was so wrong aaron carter was really funny in it and a great actor also the actress who played jane was a brilliant actress every one who i no who watched it loved it br br the music in it was also really good br br the my favourite lines from the film is you cant send me to a public school mom im a and take your time it'l come to you br br although the endings kind of cheesy all the good chick flicks do this film is great and a proper good chick flick that i can watch over and over again
1	i just got it and it is a great movie i loved it although jane voice n the beginning is so annoying because of her braces she don't open her freaking mouth but ya have to watch it cause its a great movie the things he says in here are so funny and extremely cute and i'm sure aaron would probably say some of the things in real life cause i don't know it just seems that way ha ha there is a part in tha movie that is really funny its wen jane's little sister meets him but i cant tell ya what happens cause ill just have to let u see for your self i went to go see aaron n concert and it was so much fun n he smelled so good ha ha i still cant believe i got to meet him i have pictures if anyone wants to see them steph
1	a notorious big budget flop when released this robert altman inspired comedy has some terrific moments and an occasionally inspired cast although it goes on to long an loses its focus completely there are enough funny moments that will keep a curious viewer watching until the end if you are a fan of character actors and actresses this will be a treat for you you will recognize so many terrific little known performers throughout this movie you may not know their names but you know their faces heck even the kid from a christmas story turns up in a small part rent if from netflix if you read this i bet you will enjoy it
1	this is a really cute movie i had a massive sleepover girls 10 11 and they absolutely loved this movie they watched it twice don't let the rating fool you you have to be 13 or older to rate a movie on imdb that eliminates the movie's target audience if you have a girl or boy between 7 and 13 i guarantee they'll enjoy this movie br br sort of a gender reversed notting hill set in high school aaron carter plays a famous pop star who is failing his privately classes his mom sends him to a regular high school with the ultimatum pass high school or no summer tour taking the advice of his manager former pop star david cassidy he befriends the smartest girl in school alana austin with plans to cheats off her look for the humorous and insightful janitor another former pop star garrett
1	i am probably a little too old for this movie 16 and being a guy the story is a little too girlie but i really thought it was a cool movie overall all the girls in this movie are so hot and really great actresses from alana to adrianne to to kimberly all the way down to the cute girl that plays little sister rachel i am not a huge pop star fan with the lovesick songs but i thought that aaron carter did a really great job in this and seems like he was really into this movie and made it seem real my mom liked all the older farts that she grew up with so that's cool too i kept thinking that i liked a lot of the people and wonder if i will see them again a sequel would be cool i rented this but i might buy it too since i have a ton of dvd's and like to go back to see something that i missed i couldn't buy it at blockbuster though so i don't know where i could buy it right now but i'll look into that anyway i am a 16 year old guy i already said that i know but i would totally take a date to see this it's really good for all ages really i think even my little half sister who is 6 could see this that's what is so cool about it that it is something that all ages can see i'm sure that was done on purpose but it really works girls can dream about being with aaron carter and guys like me can dream about all the hot chicks in this movie there is something for everyone
1	i know what most of people will think about this movie without even seen it 'the typical movie from a famous singer it will be a pink movie a teenage film it will be stupid ' and stuff like that and yes it is i mean it's a pink movie but you know what i loved it seriously it's a very romantic film i think that every girl in this world has dreamed with something like the plot of met his favorite singer know him as a person and even have a romance with him right i really enjoyed watching that in addition it's really funny br br i think the actors did a great job there's a lot of loving characters and aaron carter jd is not the exception to be honest in the first five minutes of see him act i thought 'this will be but then he surprised me really pleasingly br br also i gotta say that the music performances on the film are great i specially loved the part when jd aaron sings without music only with a guitar a very beautiful song this guy is really talented time will tell br br my advice to you watch it don't make a prejudice
1	well i have to say this movie was probably the funniest movie i have seen all year and i don't exactly mean that in a good way this is probably the most pathetic movie i have seen in a while and yet that's what makes it so hilarious you can tell these people are really trying to act unfortunately for them they aren't doing such a good job making it so even lines delivered in what is supposed to be a serious tone come out sounding really funny aaron carter is essentially playing a character quite similar to himself in real life and still he manages to make the character seem corny and not at all realistic this movie is one of those movies where everything that is supposed to sound serious comes out really funny and all the things that are supposed to be funny are just so stupid and corny that you have to laugh because you know how hard they are trying this movie is so bad it's actually good i would definitely recommend it if your in the mood for a good laugh
1	even though i am slightly older than the recommended age group i really enjoyed this movie it's a little break from reality and it must be every little girls dream to become friends with a pop star i know it was mine to be sure the first 10 minutes were really cheesy and the mean girls said a few things that were also slightly cheesy once you get over that you can really start to enjoy it i loved the relationship between jd and jane it was really sweet and you could see how much they began to like each other the soundtrack is perfect and it fits into the film really well i also liked the family set up for jane her sisters seemed lovely very well made film
1	aaron carter plays the pop star j d mcqueen in this movie surprise surprise this is a typical movie where the leading lady jane has a huge crush on j d mcqueen the pop star as well as many other girls but she's the lucky one that gets to spend the days with j d and forms a relationship with him that is more like a fantasy j d has to go to a public school to keep his math grade up in order to do his summer tour problem is j d isn't good at math he finds the smartest person in school jane to tutor him jane tutors and falls in love with j d j d in return falls in love with as well but j d screws up and has to fix everything in order to win the girl and make the summer tour the movie is definitely worth watching aaron will be a great actor
1	wow is all i could say i really loved the movie and one thing i could say to aaron carter is that i really think that you should be in a lot more movies cause you rock i love aaron carter so much hes hot and so i say thank you a lot for making this movie great i really do so wish he would be able to make a lot more movies because he his a great dancer actor and singer i so wish i could sing as good as he could and i've been a fan of his for like ever and i will never ever stop loving him i rented the movie and i've had it for two days and iv'e literally watched it over like 10 times laugh out loud you could call me crazy but that just proves that i liked it a lot if u wanna talk you can hit me up at aol com so e mail me if you wanna i love you aaron carter
1	this film brought me to tears i have to say that if i did not have a beautiful husband at home i would ask this beautiful piece of art to marry me aaron carter gives a masterful performance as a confused young pop star while timothy barton writes quick and witty dialogue that only furthers the genius of carter's performance kyle is pretty gay but his performance was nothing less than spectacular he is also very handsome and cute i'm thinking about asking him out on a date and giving him a very sweet goodnight gift br br if you would like to discuss this film in the future please contact me br br nick vassar class of 2012 malibu california malibu west
1	i don't understand why everyone hates this movie aside from the fact that they're just jealous their music careers never took off like mega popstar aaron carter like it or not aaron has seen more success in his young life than most people could ever dream of having so it only seemed natural for him to do a movie lou pearlman and company have been known for over exploiting their pop you remember justin timberlake's foray into tv movie model behavior granted this movie isn't big scale and impressive but it's not supposed to be it's not trying to impress people or be an emmy award winner it was released straight to dvd it's just a cute little movie about an awkward teen who gets her dream of being with her favorite popstar i know a lot of you out there have had that dream at some point or another about you favorite singer don't deny it it's sweet and gentle and i applaud it for not stepping into the realm of sex violence and vulgar language that seem to be creeping into more and more of our movies today where's the decency where's the line teen dramas come in dozens these days because teens are a big market for companies at least this one is more tolerable to me than aka with all the fake little girls running around going oh mah gawd in tank tops and mini skirts and is fathoms better than those gore fest movies like saw i feel for the main character girl because i was nerdy outcast girl in high school who loved aaron carter and nsync and the backstreet boys and other pop music and still do and like aaron's character would get crushing especially in math if you judge this movie solely based on the fact that you don't like or are jealous of aaron carter and his fame then of course you're going to hate it and trash talk it in reviews the only reason britney spears' dribble crossroads got a higher score is because she has boobs accept this movie for what it is not what you want it to be i think this happy formulaic teen movie ends on a high note and makes you want to sing
1	if monte hellman's legendary early 70's road movie masterpiece two lane blacktop had been done more like a stark stripped down fiercely taut and straightforward brooding mood piece embellished upon by that distinctly very raw and ragged macho australian mentality and topped off with a generous sprinkling of dour despairing no hope whatsoever end of the road punk nihilism it would undoubtedly be much similar to this jarringly bleak and atmospheric knockout br br nice guy factory worker mike an appealingly scruffy terry serio runs afoul of sneering shades wearing fascist car race champ fox a perfectly hateful richard when he steals fox's fetching model girlfriend julie the lovely deborah conway away from him mike and fox begin competing in increasingly lethal races in which the stakes become higher and higher with each successive bout finally culminating in an especially pulse pounding all or nothing race with only one true winner allowed mike assisted by his worried but loyal italian mechanic pal tony a splendidly smooth turn by vangelis mourikis and by blind supremely hip 50's style greaser rebel marvelously essayed with maximum coolness by max cullen willingly puts his life on the line for the sake of his reputation the affection of his old lady the money and most importantly for the chance to topple the haughty fox from his gloating thrown directed with utmost gravity and intensity by john clark written to laconically right on perfection by barry with a shivery flesh crawling synthesizer score by peter and spare unadorned cinematography by david this authentically gnarly early 80's item presents the concept of racing cars as not only a funky alternate lifestyle but also an all consuming obsession and reason for living it's the sole thing most of the film's characters are really passionate about with a remarkably astute and unblinking eye complete with a harrowing downbeat ending and grim central message about the bitter price one pays for being top dog this riveting depiction of a dead end existence rates as an extraordinary cinematic achievement
1	in the early '80s i recorded honky tonk freeway from the cable since then i have waited hoping it would be on dvd yesterday i found it it is one of the best humorous character studies i ever saw the old fashioned episode is priceless at this time 4 28 02 only two have reviewed it one hated it the other loved it if you have a dvd player either rent it or buy it as i did
1	whenever this film gets a mention usually the discussion begins and ends with the wonderful collection of cars and drag scenes often overlooked are the at times eclectic characters that populate the film around the three central characters br br one character that stands out is rebel played by the great veteran australian actor max cullen rebel is a blind drag racer who nearly runs down the hero and his group in the middle of the night because he is not using any headlights br br in the back story we discover that rebel master builder of street racing cars and he and his wife seem locked in a time warp of the 1950's rebel goes on to play a small but pivotal role in teaching mike played by terry serio the almost spiritual truth about street drag racing it is not speed reaction times that make a great racer it is the one who feels the car best who will become the greatest br br this is best exemplified as rebel explains to mike after a test drive you got all the agony just missing the style br br graham bond is another well credited actor lending his talents as a crooked police officer looking to get in on some of the financial action being generated by the street racing the confrontation between bond and fox played by richard adds tension to the story bond not only expects results but also fox to drum up racing business br br for most of the movie fox displays a real manipulative and evil side yet in the climax he presents a sense of honor that turns the final few minutes into an extremely tense and memorable ending it is almost as if the film is on its true intention to show us the culture of street racing rather than the day to day activities of people br br one of the major complaints about the film is the script although it is nothing exciting i believe the complete lack of any chemistry between mikes girlfriend played by deborah conway and his mechanic played by vangelis mourikis has more to do with the problem any scene in which these two interact simply should have been cut br br lastly in terms of the actors one truly standout performance is delivered by kristoffer greaves who plays a deaf and crippled member of fox's inner circle his back story is never explored was he injured in a race born that way what is it that fox sees value in to keep him around br br the reality of the film is simple it is about street racing and the culture behind it when the cars are flying and action sequences are in motion it is the only time director john clark and his writer barry seem really comfortable with what they are doing br br so if you are looking for an in depth exploration of human relationships moments of life defining drama then this film is not for you if your pulse races at the thought of a blown 57 or the iconic gto phase 3 blazing away on the streets of sydney then you wont find much better than this film
1	i'm guessing that we all no matter if we are fans of cars luv the sound of a dodge challenger as it growls along the road the noise a 57 chevy make as it screams with ecstasy when it tears round a corner and most of all the blast of sound as a classic vehicle bursts into flames as it explodes i'm not the biggest car enthusiast by any stretch of the imagination but any of the above really does rev my engine there's no denying the importance of transport on cinema it has even been said that the invention of the train was one of the biggest influences on early cinema looking out a window almost like a moving picture and the idea of being transported to a different time space but the car remains the most popular and most luved it's even got its own genre the genre a genre that focuses purely on the beauty of cars in effect it's just porn car porn and i'm not talking about that rather nasty documentary on channel 4 in which men actually had sexual intercourse with cars whatever floats your car i guess moving on whilst running on empty isn't quite as pornographic as vanishing point richard c sarafian 1971 for instance with its close ups of the car in motion all it's bumps and curves this doesn't mean that the car isn't the main focus of this film in fact the cars themselves become characters more on that later they're objectified and as much as the women in fact maybe even more and holy holy are these cars something every car in this film besides the ones in the background are simply beautiful – works of art there's no question about it br br as i was saying these incredible cars are in a way given characters themselves you actually start sympathising with the car spoiler – most notably during the scene in which the car is being wrecked and burnt spoiler over this has become almost a convention of the genre the evil 1978 plymouth fury from christine john carpenter 1983 satan's custom lincoln mark iii in the car elliot silverstein 1977 the nifty little mini coopers from the italian job peter collinson 1969 to the friendly volkswagen beetle in the love bug robert stevenson 1968 and of course each car from death race 2000 paul bartel 1975 and even wacky races 1968 1970 all of which had their own character ironically however this emphasis on the car often over takes the human characters and this is certainly the case with running on empty in which only one human character the blind character who drives his car with his hearing rather than sight has any sort of dimension the rest are very much stock characters these are all your stereotypical australian 1980s teenagers big hair annoying accents and none of whom would look out of place in neighbours especially the kylie look a like but who gives a damn it's all about the cars racing and crashing that's it if you don't like that you really are watching the wrong genre br br the car scenes are certainly the selling point of this film and the best thing it's got going for it they are fast very fast and we're not talking about the rather annoying technique some films seem to use where they record the car at around 40mph and then speed it up oooh no not with this film you don't these cars are zooming along at top speeds in real time – no fancy editing tricks here so we've got speed check what about crashes check check check whilst there isn't cars crashing everywhere a la the incredibly blues brothers john landis 1980 when cars do crash in this film they certainly crash it would seem that they use gunpowder or something similar to build the cars as one little hit and they're up in flames it kind of reminded me of thriller a cruel picture bo arne 1974 in that sense br br between these simply awesome scenes especially the very start and the very end there are quite a few scenes which slow everything done and in my opinion fail to add very much to the film note more exploding cars needed however there are a couple of exceptions here which are great scenes – spoiler especially the attempted rape scene br br so all in all this is a man's film a boy's film full of cars around the outback and a couple of tits thrown in for good measure too i'd recommend this little film to anyone even if they are keen cyclists – it's a great film which you can just switch your brain off sit back in your leather chair and put on full volume i'll give it 3 5 luvs out of 5 luvs – p s – amazon are selling this for just over £2 – it's a real bargain although the dvd lacks any special features whatsoever
1	this is a top car flick its a work of art yer a work of art all classic cars no plastic fantastic i have watched it over over again i have worn out two video tapes and will wear out lots more lots more car lovers young or old will love this film watch it more than 1 time so hire it or buy it just see it i wish they would make more car movies like this power not gassed up little snippers br br shes a right motor magic the heap the chariot br br you've got to learn to feel the power
1	the movie has started the wheels spin your car has entered a race against the fox you're behind you can't get in front you figure if i go out i'm taking you with me you smash into the cars parked on the side of the road you turn to hit fox but your aim is bad bang you've gone up the back of a vw and smash you've landed in a reservoir your car lights on fire you could get out if you wanted but the shame of losing has taken you bang your car blows up everyone looks on in despair some crying the sound of a siren tells you the cops are coming everyone gets in their cars and bolts leaving you to burn the charred remains of the cars frame sits there haunting the on lookers you're dead br br this is one of the scenes actually its the first scene in the movie there are many more like it as you enter the cockpit of the fox in his pimped out ford terry serio in his crazy and many others in this blast from the past john clarks masterpiece running on empty he'll win at any cost
1	for those of you out there who have seen this pic on vhs i would recommend the dvd in fact the vhs is utter rubbish the main reason is that the film was shot widescreen 2 55 1 and the producers ran out of money making the vhs version and released it as 4 3 the result is that several actors are not on screen at all and in many drag races less than half the cars are showing since one is on each side of the screen the dvd is actually a reasonable version of the film br br a lot of the best scenes in the film were cut before the final release they were viewed as being too offensive to minority groups in fact the prospect of a us release caused even more cuts in the film for example the americans reputedly did not understand words such as petrol strides br br mike's dad and mum were meant to be hippies the dad survives in the film as a wasted dope smoking guitarist but the following scene with the mum was cut the scene took place in the roof space of the house which was lined with aluminium foil lights and filled with plants you get the picture the producers had rounded up a lot of real plants for the foreground and when they saw the result on the big sheet they freaked and the scene was cut cowards br br yes the film is noted as an australian cult classic voted 2 in street machines best 100 films of all time narrowly missing out to mad max ll the latter had over 10 times the budget of in fact the budget on was so small that the director could not afford to wreck any of the cars even though there would have been a public outcry if anyone had wrecked a real ho compare that with smoky and the bandit or blues bros where dozens of cars were wrecked br br so there's one real and two fakes one of the fakes was bought from the local indigenous community in after the standby crashed into the back of the country boy's truck that was unscripted the car was meant to burst out from the side of the truck because the budget was so tight the car was made up with ordinary brown masking tape instead of the painted on gold trim of the real thing br br the 55 is absolutely real the car began as a very plain 4 door and was brilliantly and quickly converted to the blown '55 in the film the motor was a which made around 1000 this was reduced to around 600 for the filming the car was able to easily to 170 mph as show in several scenes in the film br br just for the record anyone with 12 000 could have picked up all the cars after the film the ho the dodge the ute 53 the lot wonder where they are now br br sw
1	i remember watching this movie many years ago on vhs at a friends place at first i thought it would be a boring car movie but much to my surprise it ended up being one of the best movies i can remember watching for its time br br it has a good story line and best of all it has some awesome aussie cars and street racing i really loved fox's car the most which was a worked dodge charger the paint work which was done on this car was truly outstanding in my opinion br br there's also a black two door blown 57 which comes into the movie later on br br i actually managed to get a copy of this movie on vhs last year at k mart over here in australia i did have plans of converting this movie to dvd myself as i believe it is a movie worth the conversion but much to my surprise this weekend while i was browsing the dvd movie bin i came across it on dvd so of course i grabbed it while i could as it was the only copy there br br anyway if you really want to see some classic street racing with real muscle cars including a great story line without a rice burner in sight then this movie is for you br br here is some additional info taken from the back of the dvd br br he'll win at any cost fox is a young man that lives in the fast lane he believes he is the fastest man on the road but street racing is illegal if he doesn't accept his latest challenge he could loose his girl if he does accept he could lose his life living dangerously living fast and winning at any cost is their obsession they don't turn back the don't give in and the don't ask for help
1	this is one of my all time favourite movies if ur not into cars then forget it this movie features 1 of aussies greatest muscle cars the yeah so the acting not the greatest it was never made to win an oscar the car action will keep you back for more and more there is a cool collection of muscle cars from the 70's and an awesome with a real cool cat it also there is a really cool song sung by terry serio the main actor the acting is pretty funny when taken lightly but the tyre smokin and drag racing is the main focus in this movie big fast cars with of steel no plastic cars and some cool street dragging i recommend it only to people that are into cars and not someone looking for great acting
1	i saw about a year ago and was mesmerized the only japanese horror film i had seen before this one was which i proudly own on dvd by the way superb the idea of a town being absorbed by spirals sounds exactly like something out of lovecraft certainly it reminds one of shadow over of the inhabitants slowly turning into monstrosities in this case giant snails and who can forget the washing machine sequence i hope we will soon see this one available on region 1 dvd i see that sundance has recently screened it on us tv hopefully they'll do it again very soon so that we can all see it highly recommended
1	having discovered the ring trilogy i have been gobbling up all those other japanese and korean films that are either on or following the bandwagon br br i don't have an easy definition of horror but this film certainly pushed some of my buttons even though i can't claim that the film makes a lot of sense i'm squeamish so there were several points in the film when i just didn't want to watch what was happening on screen the film unnerved me so i became apprehensive of seeing things that i thought i was going to see br br it's an imaginative film offering a great deal visually it also provides food for thought and plenty of material to argue about when the film is over br br the characters are well defined to say the least could they make films like this in the west br br so it doesn't make sense in the end but when one has an appetite for the occult the supernatural the bizarre the otherworldly then no film is going to deliver a final all explaining pay off
1	watched last night and right away was reminded of two early peter weir films from australia the last wave and picnic at hanging rock they were films loaded with atmosphere but short on actual horror to me seems clearly influenced by these films it has a number of fairly mundane scenes that become more portentous the deeper you are sucked in by the film it also has more scenes of outright horror and although i don't think the film actually measures up to those two films it is well worth the time of most thoughtful fans of the unusual not necessarily horror 7 out of 10 seems fair but i must say that years after seeing the last wave the film still stays with me and it is precisely picnic at hanging rock's unresolved ending that makes it so haunting p s all the people criticizing the acting in this genre
1	very memorable comedy it's fun to watch the many situations develop and finally converge after a long journey on that greatest collection of eclectic humanity and the world's largest honky tonk the great american freeway like mad mad world it's got loads of contemporary talent old boy politics good comedic action and dialog unlike that one it is the target that seeks not the unwitting seekers they have no idea what they really want as they drift along america's great road nor does it carry the weight of having a great fall guy who is saved only in the end by a great belly laugh but the ending stunt sequence is nothing short of spectacular with excellent film editing humor and timing and the big city bank scene is hilarious with very original acting by one very talented character in particular the total aplomb of the city dwellers in the face of chaos leaves one feeling like the proverbial fly on the ceiling the slapstick is funny but honky tonk freeway deserves to be heard and seen closely because it is surprisingly loaded with nuance and character reactions that are easily missed all in all a very funny reflection of who we were and are good or bad and the goofy situations we find ourselves in it was just meant to be funny and it is
1	succeeds as at plunging you into a bizarre surreality where shapes haunt and curse a town it fails at being a competent horror movie while the film is sure to draw attention mainly to it's bizarre plot line and a few interesting visual treats it's going to come off better as a dark comedy than a horror film it's definitely a film you should see if your into the kind of stuff but if your looking for a scare or even a small chill you'll want to look elsewhere doesn't really have much else up it's sleeve but a great chain of odd events br br a
1	to be honest i thought this movie would be a japanese drama i was dead wrong this movie is based of the popular japanese anime novel of the same name it tells the story of a town that is cursed by the or the spiral in english little by little the towns residents start to slowly become dangerously and violently obsessed with anything to do with spirals and some of the residents start to actually turn into living things the actually have some sort of spiral within them such as a snail br br the movie was one giant random acid trip twisted with romance and drama sort of like what makes this movie disturbing is the ways that some of the people are obsessed with the spiral for example one of the dads has a garage full of house hold objects with spirals incorporated into them one girl took her extremely long hair and teased to an insanely huge spiral like style one kid slowly transformed into a human snail one man could twist his body into a spiral shape one woman attempted to cut her ear open to obtain the inside and one teen ran over himself so that he could be twisted around a car tire and one kid stuffed himself into a washer so he could become a spiral br br another very disturbing aspect of this very well syndicated is the atmospheric tone and the style in which this movie was shot the camera angles add to the psychotic and twisted story in other words a very good cinematography the overall coloring of this picture makes for a somewhat demented story the coloring is a blend of lime green yellow and a little orange and the special effects with some of the spirals are outstanding br br however like many japanese films this one has an undertone of forbidden love and romance between a girl and a boy however with all the spirals and strange happening going on in the town it is hard to keep up with the relationship of the two teens but in some way it is very irrelevant more like a second hand story that has nothing to do with the actual story of the spiral obsessed town br br overall i would recommend this film to anybody who likes vastly different and bizarre foreign films it has just enough wackiness and insanity it touched me
1	has a formidable reputation within lovecraftian circles and now i know why br br is based on a manga title which unbelievably is allegedly better than the film and follows the bizarre events a typhoon in an isolated japanese town i'm not about to tell you anything that happens in this film because it is an absolute must see movie i watched it for the first time last night and i was blown away it shot into the my top movies of all time and leap pans labyrinth as the best fantastic movie literally and that has been released in the last decade br br this movie is very lovecraftian in nature without formally having any direct connection to the mythos it has been made in the same way that lovecraft composed his stories it exudes power as an aura of not quite right here' intensifies through a brooding phase to dread and ultimately horror through subtle progressive changes in the soundtrack and the cinematography this is indeed a weird tale par excellence br br simply stunning
1	has a very unique story and i will never look at spirals the same way again not really spine tingling horror this film has a dark morose acid trip feel to it during certain parts was it just me or did you see vortex visuals the camera shots are interesting and the movie lets your imagination run wild the bizarre supernatural feel of this film draws you in just as the title suggests acting is done well and the town setting itself seems wrong with to begin with br br this may take a few viewings for it to sink in a great trippy film
1	that's japanese for spiral or vortex is one of the most absurd films i've ever watched a town becomes obsessed and then all consumed by the vortex pattern in some very grotesque ways fingertips are cut off people commit suicide in washing machines just wild and crazy japanese horror possibly as psychologically damaging as the ring generally not as scary as the eye but the imagery in this is more sickening than most of the things in the eye and not as gory as the untold story but that isn't to say there isn't a fair amount of blood and dismemberment seriously if you enjoy horror films and especially asian horror you must add this film to your list a few parts are a little odd with the sound effects the story is adapted from a manga comic and it shows but it really fits unlike some films that try too hard to capture the original source house of the dead this one does it perfectly the most original film you will see not just this year but probably ever recommended
1	a girl begins to notice that people in her small town are becoming fascinated by anything that is shaped like a spiral soon the fascination turns to obsession and things get deadly while i won't say that was an excellent film i will say that it was unlike anything i've seen before throughout my viewing i felt like i was watching a cartoon there are funny segues between scenes and characters with digitally enhanced eyes later i found out the film is an adaptation of a manga comic so this makes sense however just when you think you are watching something that could be a kid's movie you are bombarded with nasty and gory visuals the story often lags and the ending is somewhat abrupt and seemed anti climactic at the time but in retrospect i appreciate it more for its originality my rating 7 10
1	is a visually astounding film however i felt as if some of the story line may have been sacrificed there is hardly any character development which left me feeling personally detached from the film which is ironic because all puns aside this film really does draw you in with its many slight spiral effects and stunning scene transitions at first the overall cinematography threw me off but as you get used to the overall appearance you start to see the beauty in this twisted film this is a great movie if you are looking for a looker with out too much substance or deeper meaning it is a great horror film that is not actually scary or suspenseful but somehow eerie
1	a couple of weeks after i saw this movie it began to remind me of john carpenter's in the mouth of madness not for the story for the atmosphere the fast elements of surprise and the dreamlike sequences on the other hand this movie mixes very well the image and the music note the 4th chapter in the movie
1	anyone who enjoys the lynchian weirdness of twin peaks or any fan of hp lovecraft who knows that the most frightening things are the familiar things will really enjoy this film don't watch it as a horror film in the traditional western sense but more like a grimm's fairy tale it is gory and definitely for 16 but once you start watching it you too will find yourself drawn into the vortex definitely one of those movies that hangs with you for a few days after watching i'll never look at my snails the same way again
1	br br horror movie time japanese style spiral was a total from start to finish a fun at that but at times it was a tad too reliant on kitsch rather than the horror the story is difficult to summarize succinctly a carefree normal teenage girl starts coming face to face w extremely disturbing events as the small town she lives in seems to come under the control of spirals the spirals are everywhere in the air clouds dirt and everyday objects the spirals take control of people and bad things will happen to them oh another thing people are randomly turning into snails why who knows or cares people are turning into snails that's enough for me this wasn't as much scary as just creepy as it doesn't have a lot of suspense or jarring attacks as horror films often do prefers to creep and crawl like a snail might rather than to jolt a favorite scene a woman lies sleeping in a hospital room when this long thousand legged centipede creature makes its way into the room and slowly up the bed post across the sheets over the pillow and into her sleeping ear i cringed and curled my toes has a handful of scenes really violent but that are sort of humorous as well for example a man is obsessed w spirals he gets into his washer because he sees a spiral in it when it spins he commits spiral suicide inside the washer the last shot we see of him is w his body all rubber like a human flesh spiral w a single eye blinking in the middle of the washer a bizarre image has a blatant slant to it which adds to its charm and fun i love horror movies like this it's not about killing a la slasher films it's about a force of evil the spirals taking over you and trying to kill you force you to kill others films like prove that there are many ways to make a horror film and thank goodness for that
1	this movie bombed at the box office and in the voting here but i loved it one measure of a movie's worth is how much of it you can still remember after 25 years i won't bore you with a list but there are dozens of deeply comic scenes also a good story and great casting the inept robbers are a hoot see it and judge if it ever gets on tcm
1	i'm a horror movie freak and this has got to be one of the most phenomenal horror flicks i've ever seen the plotline is totally original who else would think up a town who gets totally obsessed with a certain symbol to the point of death and insanity the special effects are amazing and the cinematography couldn't be better some may find it disturbing but that doesn't mean it's a bad movie it also makes a good point the spiral symbol is kinda ubiquitous the spiral notebook spiral spirals on cakes of all the shapes they could have used square triangle rectangle this was one of the best choices if you can find this movie definitely see it it's certainly unique and quite unforgettable
1	is a visually stunning film and i don't think anyone is going to be able to argue that but unfortunately the story somewhat falls flat br br the film nevertheless is very entertaining it uses it's wild style to tell a somewhat non existant story the film almost works just based on it's characters and style but in my opinion leaves something to be desired
1	i enjoyed this film very much it effectively combines humor fantasy and a few moments of horror with a solid film making effort from brilliant visuals and a very original story concerning spirals my only complaints are that it had its dull moments and wasn't as daring as it could have been still i give this a solid 8 out of 10 the u s should take note of this and other fine japanese horror fantasy films that have come along recently and have them available on region 1 dvd actually asian cinema in general have some of the finest films that have been unnoticed by the american public because they're hard to find i strongly recommend people to go look for these treasures they're hard to find but once you find them you'll be glad you did
1	wow i just saw this movie on the sundance channel and it really is bizarre i may not be a film expert but it's probably the most bizarre film i as an average movie fan have seen br br whoever came up with with it had a great imagination i'm a bit of a fan of japanese dramas and there are often actors from dramas in movies for example the lead in ringu is a major j drama star but it looks like this is the first film for and portrayers i must say if they really are debuting here they do a pretty good job br br was a very sympathetic character i thought she was easy to relate with she was kind and good hearted perhaps not the most popular girl but nicer than some of the other attention seeking girls she was also pretty in a classic kind of way i hope she does more films but it's been a couple years so maybe she has no such plans br br the ending was odd i'm not going to give anything away but the rest of the movie's bizarreness was kind of put to shame br br very bizarre but very imaginative and unique movie i'd recommend it for japanese horror fans though i'll warn you it's a lot more bizarre than ringu br br nonetheless i'd give it a 7 5 out of 10 for originality imagination good characterization above average acting and just being plain intriguing
1	as is frequently the case when manga is translated into live action there is quite a bit lost in the translation however this remains a highly entertaining film the premise is unusual and it is presented in the quiet understated style so prevalent in japanese films ha the special effects are a little 70s camp but it adds to the comic book feel of the film i wouldn't recommend this film to everyone but if you are familiar with and enjoyed other japanese horror films like evil dead's trap this film will appeal to you
1	hey now i have never laid eyes on a manga comic but apparently this movie is based on one ah well such is life anyway this is a pretty bizarre to say the least movie as things literally spiral out of control in a small japanese town people are becoming obsessed with the spiral and this young girl watches her friend's father videotape a snail and later in the movie people start becoming snails it also seems this boy's dad becomes so obsessed he somehow commits suicide in a household appliance there is some bizarre humor here that might be at home in a tim burton movie but there is some nastiness gore like only the japanese can do with justice as with a lot of japanese films though the ending is the ending and did anything get resolved well not to my mind it didn't there are some hints as to why this is all happening but they aren't explored and there's a lot left to either the imagination or else it wasn't deemed important still though there are lots of things for the eye to feast on and if you aren't obsessed with everything making perfect sense this is well worth seeing because it's just so original and bizarre my favorite was the father with the spinning eyeballs personally 8 out of 10 stars
1	i've seen a fair few films from the far east recently some were excellent battle royale infernal affairs the eye and some were not so great versus the triple cross then there are ones like and which while flawed i still enjoyed br br the basic premise involves the mysterious and horrific effects that a growing obsession with spirals has upon a community sound silly yeah thats what i was thought firstly the good stuff direction was top notch sure a bit over the top in places but never the less interesting and stylish secondly the story was original and like other writers commented very lovelace esq it was interesting what it reminded me most of however was early cronenberg films like shivers and videodrome br br the acting wasn't great but not too horrible either to be honest i was actually bored on a few i felt the pacing especially initially was a little slow my main problem was that it was too silly and funny to be true horror and yet not so enough to be considered a comedy spoilers below br br spoilers some good scenes washing machine and i liked the final shot voiceover at first i thought it ended far too abruptly but about 20 seconds later i realised the meaning and liked the end however because of the lack of seriousness in the story combined with over the top scenes such as the news report at the school ment that i did not care for the characters much in the end the final scene which was perhaps supposed to be a little while in reality i couldn't really care for the girl or her boyfriend spoilers end br br so overall i kinda did like this film but it frustrated me and i think there was real potential in addition to some good scenes couple of other points the main girl is quite pretty and cute and the song that plays at the end is good too i rated it 7 10 br br
1	i happen to have read all of english released manga i watched the tomie film and it was a big steaming pile of turd thankfully actually does justice to the manga i think those who have read the manga will really appreciate this film more as many screenshots and camera angles are exactly like in the manga and it is interesting to see how the book characters are played in the film this film reminds me of eerie indiana the ending differs to the manga which i was expecting looks like her manga counterpart and her male friend suits the whole very well very creepy i have to admit this film feels like a feverish nightmare the kind you have when you were a kid not really scary at all but freaky if you get my drift another great horror from japan get yourself a copy
1	it's very true that this film defies convention by not spelling out the plot for the viewer while some may have a problem with having to figure it out for themselves i embrace for its irreverence there is a plot it's just that it may not be immediately accessible to a lazy viewer this is a film that invites numerous interpretations as all great art does however this film is also very entertaining making it a rare film experience it's simultaneously provocative and fun
1	takes place in a small japanese rural town where people are going mad they go nuts over and spirals the crisis is getting worse because people are turning into snails and appear everywhere has to be one of the most bizarre and original horror movies i have seen the plot is really clever and the gore scenes are really funny as the film doesn't takes itself too seriously is wonderfully photographed and the use of colors is top notch the characters are likeable and there is enough shocking surprises to satisfy fans of japanese horror despite of some hilarious scenes the overall tone of this film is pretty dark is not as good as ringu ju on or audition but if you like japanese horror movies you won't be disappointed 7 out of 10
1	this is an interesting hard to find movie from the early 70's starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn't make the cut as a marine dressed in 'baby outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home the failed recruits are sent packing vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine gere's character is already jaded and contemplating desertion and he takes advantage of vincent's innocence stealing his 'baby uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway vincent's character whose name is marion takes gere's outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town in the local café he meets rose who immediately catches his eye staying with parents marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks mr suspects marion and wonders how a marine could still be so innocent the story also brings up the japanese camps as the towns folks go 3 escapees marion is shot accidentally during this hunt but there's still a happy ending which befuddled me a bit i would have preferred a little more drama anyway this captures jmv at the peak of his 70's performances buster and billie baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid 70's were amazingly good jmv performances he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time he made a lot of quality movies during his career and continued to do so up into the mid 80's with the great tv show airwolf he does a very good job in this as quietly observing the way people treat him in his uniform as he travels across the country he must have performed some of the stunt work as well there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he's the guy getting tossed down the river to me but really at the height of his popularity this movie could have done so much more with talent and his looks innocence can only be so interesting evil as explored in buster and billie is much more dramatic anyway glynnis o'connor is delightful as rose the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting the outdoor scenes are gorgeous must have been filmed in canada
1	a town in japan is being taken over by a horribly brutal abstract shape the spiral it's becoming a theme in everything from animals to clouds to people and twisting them mentally and literally this film shows it happening to several groups of people some demonic possession is implied but nothing is entirely sure except that the best bet is to get the heck out of dodge the film progresses really well from normal life to abnormal phenomena giant snails and crazy people to the truly supernatural walking dead br br as a jaded american horror movie fan this was just what i needed maybe it was just the novelty of a different culture's film but it seemed to have a very original progression set of characters and the premise was definitely new the japanese may think horror shapes means spiral i'm told are old by now but it was nice for me because i'm used to monster alien virus disaster undead films in an american movie you know who's going to die the annoying nasty lascivious racist characters and who will live the children heroine dogs cats nice guy that's not true in japanese horror it was not predictable how they would fight the evil or how it would end up also it had this really new but probably typically japanese color pacific northwest style cloudy day thing going which was a fresh visual effect for me the horrific moments were seriously creepy relying on a little gore but mainly just impossibly overdone facial expressions think the ring and body manipulations this should be one of the greats up there with once original ideas like the first nightmare on elm street or night of the living dead
1	each frame in the movie is a lesson to new directors or existing directors to know how a movie should be taken hats off to he is underestimated in indian film industry the director has got all the qualities in taking this movie in the range of ray every character is portrayed effectively in the movie though it's simple story it's been taken to such extent it can be considered to one of the best in india i don't have enough adjectives to praise the movie just as the way the life goes in day today atmosphere the movie has been taken though the songs in indian movies are considered to a weak area songs in this movie has given extra energy to the potential of the movie especially background score it's amazing
1	anand is one of those low budget but well taken movies it's a cup of coffee entertainment with no violence blood or jump out of your seat excitement which most telugu films have however it does have some of it's own is a headstrong and down to earth young woman who is not afraid to confront any sort of situation even her offensive mother in law's distaste for her she even backs out of the wedding because her fiancé doesn't stand up for her however her air of confidence and independence is enough to make anand a rich young gentleman living in the city aspire to be her new husband his father accidentally kills her parents in a car crash anyways so why not pay her back but is not the kind who will fall for charming smiles and polite behavior she puts him through a bunch of situations continuing to be rude and a pain it's not until he stands up for her and saves her life that she understands she loves him too but complications
1	when i first saw the poster of this movie i discarded it off as another low budget movie targeting youth after some days when it finally made it to the theaters one of my friends told me it's a good one br br a year later the first time when i saw the advertisement that anand was going to be aired on television and the moment finally came as i flipped channels and for a moment i stopped to watch and that's it i ended up watching the whole movie br br and by now 3 yrs later i'd have watched the movie at least 7 8 times and i don't really watch movies again and again br br this movie is great because it tries to be different when all telugu movies were composed of 6 songs and 4 fights br br it's a simple movie a bit slow but a very gripping screenplay there're no loose ends in the movie very well versed dialogues which is really really hard to find by br br music is both classic and soothing great renditions by radha krishnan some great also come in the through out the movie br br cinematography deserves a mention editing is not slick but adequate for a romantic one such as this br br but what really blows you out in this movie is two things 1 the way each scene has been treated with utmost respect by the now famous br br 2 the beautiful lyrics by br br and one more thing deserves a special mention kamalini part of her success attributed to for lending her such a beautiful voice really tell you the voice does wonders to me br br the other actors are equally good raja in the title character and the little girl and the way she shouts when she gets a new dog br br ultimately i can tell you this movie is soon on its way to be another classic with those old classic romantic ones along with another classic romantic piece
1	mukherjee loses her parents and other family members in a gruesome car accident she starts living on her own as an independent woman without taking any help from her relatives she has a boy friend named rahul and is about to get married to him but backs out due to the behavior of her future mother in law and due to lack of confidence shown by her boyfriend anand raja joins her neighborhood and he starts making feel comfortable and secure the rest of the story is about why anand md of the richest corporate house of ap has chosen to reside as neighbor of and what follows next br br this movie has a freshness to it which we rarely see in indian movies to it although the story goes slow you get a sense of familiarity with it kudos to the director shekhar for such an awesome direction brilliant music and background score composed by k m adds to the quality kamalini mukherjee as has given a marvelous performance i think she was the best choice for this role because of her non glamorous looks and amazing histrionics anand as raja has done well too i have watched this movie thrice now and enjoyed it thoroughly every time it is a class apart from the daily dose of action movies we get here highly recommended
1	i was one of the lucky people to be invited to view this film in new york it is a compelling story of how a group of extremely tight friends dealt with the tragedy of september 11th this film made me laugh and cry and showed me how the human spirit through love and friendship can endure and create wonderful things out of one of our darkest days the film makers truly captured the emotions of the individuals involved it was amazing to see how the same story was told through the eyes of so many different people i walked out of the theater that day wanting to call all my friends just to say hello i would recommend everyone see this documentary i would rate this movie with an a see it if you get a chance
1	almost 4 years after the events of 911 if asked what comes to mind about that day most people would probably comment on things such as the sight of planes crashing into and the collapse of the twin towers the scores of people being killed acts of terrorism and heroism mixed together etc everyone who was alive at the time will never forget that day yet for most of us the memories although moving are not on a personal level now comes an extraordinary film which gives everyone who did not lose a friend or a family member a chance to become involved at a personal level in just what we lost on 911 this is a film that needs to be seen
1	a touching documentary that puts a human face on the tragedy of 9 11 by showing how one small community to honor two high school friends lost on that day the film interweaves the lives of chris and tom through interviews with family and friends and snippets of old photos through their reminiscences we glimpse two lives tragically cut short the film also documents how through a series of coincidences an inspirational memorial garden was brought forth through the efforts of many people both known and unknown to the two victims through the laughter and the tears and the sweat we see the power of hope and honor and love this films evokes many different emotions but the final feeling is one of admiration of the human spirit by tragedy
1	maa is different finnish film but the things which makes it different are copied abroad some techniques of narration are from amores perros jackie brown and elephant scenes are shot from different angles again maa is a good movie but it isn't so good that the hype realistic movie no happy end and no commercial some actors did great job was so good as a vacuum cleaner peddler also jasper shows his skills but was so lame he is so overrated actor he's handsome and a nice guy but not the best actor of finland but if you like finnish movies maa is worth to see
1	i just wanted to say i liked this movie a lot but i also want to ask about something does anyone know the artist song name of the song that the young boy cant remember his name now plays on his cd player when his dad and 2 men comes and takes the tv and the cd player that song is so freaking cool even though i cant understand a word what they're saying feel free to mail me the artist song name at x hotmail com thanks a lot in advance repeating i just wanted to say i liked this movie a lot but i also want to ask about something does anyone know the artist song name of the song that the young boy cant remember his name now plays on his cd player when his dad and 2 men comes and takes the tv and the cd player that song is so freaking cool even though i cant understand a word what they're saying feel free to mail me the artist song name at x hotmail com thanks a lot in advance
1	i first saw this film in 1980 and it touched a cord which reminded me of a more innocent time the opening narrative music and paintings by norman rockwell set the tone for me you either love the movie or hate it jan michael vincent was at his all time best and portrayed cpl marion in a most innocent and touching way this movie is at the top of my all time favorites a shame it isn't available on dvd or vhs anymore the ending was also wonderful john hancock did a marvelous job of capturing the essence of the time
1	the problem i have as a finn is that most of the actors in this movie are in every finnish movie i have a feeling that finland has only like five actors i think that if you're not from finland you really like this movie as a refreshing novelty br br this movie is about a dreadful chain of events that affects a few people quite harshly alcoholism cold climate and darkness may all be clichés but they're still very real in todays finnish society a lot of people in finland have depression especially during winter br br the tone of the movie is very melancholic i enjoyed it and directing was again very solid i liked this movie a lot only negative thing is that you see the same faces that you've seen over and over again
1	i saw this on dvd with subtitles which made it a little frustrating to get through because of the film's length but i was riveted throughout all of it that i was fascinated by the characters and always engrossed in the story despite the subtitles is a testament to the film's power it's an amazing piece of work i have it on my list of ten favorite films of all time it's easily the best foreign film i've seen in the last twenty years or so i would like to know the full story behind the making of this film it must have taken a very long time and required the use of hundreds of locations its use of some hardcore scenes on the tv in the motel room may unfortunately make some people choose not to see it but if you don't mind those you'll be deeply moved by all the stories in this one
1	imagine the most depressing winter you will never experience grey instead of white no snow fights and certainly no this is the finland as portrayed by land' this film follows a bunch of people whose lives are oddly linked to each others' with results beyond anyone's nightmares yes most characters are flawed in the way that only celluloid characters can completely annoying and frustrating to watch yet for some reason you wish for their luck to turn br br with some randomly placed humour and a cast that groups together finland's somewhat mainstream faces frozen land offers a glimpse of the finnish mentality that despite its depressing downward spirals manages to restore some faith in humanity more so than to say the least
1	this was a movie of which i kept on reading the reviews again and again and despite it being played at film museum and not at pathe theatres – i decided to give this movie a try the reasons were many – in the reviews it was compared with pulp fiction it had several parallel stories running in the movie and lastly it had already won 17 awards internationally in various categories i was eager to see this movie and due to my off day at i decided to make myself happy by going and seeing this movie br br it is a story based in finland i think it reflected the current life of people in general – drugs crime sex anger anguish fear and guilt every emotion was captured brilliantly in the movie there are several characters and stories interwoven but a few characters come back in the latter half – making a link with the beginning sequences and that takes the story forward br br the story is about two friends – one of whom is computer geek and the other is a drug addict – son of an abusive father the drug addict boy trades a euro 500 note – printed by his friend – to buy back his music system and in returns gets huge change of cash back to buy more drugs the trading of euro 500 note continues to bizarre events – from the shop trader to an auto mechanic cum robber – to a car dealer – to a vacuum cleaner salesman – to a prostitute – to a police officer – then to her family and children how the beginning of a small thing – creates a chain reaction that lead even after 5 years of that first incident to a depressing last note – which i won't reveal here br br the direction is excellent the character development in the movie is first rate the character that sticks on your mind even after you come out of the movie is of the vacuum cleaner sales person all the departments of the movie are handled nicely here i would like to make a couple of critical comments first during the sequence of one event leading to another i felt that the coincidences were too rapid and forced but this screenplay writing error is pardon when one sees the whole canvas second the trail of one character leading to another somehow leads back to the first two characters and that again i found to be a forced decision by the screen play writer there was no need to have the same characters showing up again when there are different causes leading to different effects in such a big city br br but after saying that – it is an excellent movie it is a dark movie with quite a few sex scenes the characters are having the black white and gray shades and emotions that change from facing different situation which is brilliantly captured by the director br br a top rate movie it has all the ingredients of becoming a cult movie i hope that only such movies should not become and achieve the status of cult movies and win lots of awards because without crime sex violence drugs etc too one can make fantastic movies – bicycle thieves and are its prime examples – only thing is that they were a long time back and times are changing and i think movies are reflecting the current times
1	i saw this film at the 2006 palm springs international film festival and director aku introduced his film and was on hand for q a after for some reason this movie is titled frozen land in english so i don't know how the distributors got frozen out of this is a very good film it doesn't for me have enough that i would knock it up a notch to the excellent category but i did talk to some viewers who felt that it was an excellent film said that back in finland people either loved this movie or hated it and said a lot of people in theaters walked out on it i'm sure some objected to some of the violence swearing drug and alcohol abuse and sexual scenes it's a very clever story of how these different lives are woven together because of a trickle down effect this film has very interesting and strong characters i would rate it a 7 0 out of a possible 10 and would see it again and recommend it with caution
1	this is another of those rare movies one feels grateful to be introduced to instead of the usual hollywood tripe it really is a roller coaster ride as we follow the effects of a a forged 500 euro note on a multitude of people one asks 'what if' all the time but it certainly is a butterfly effect captured on film it'll have you laughing crying and biting your lip i loved every minute of it and thank you sbs australia for showing films that are truly entertaining even worth the effort to read the subtitles the only downside to my mind is that i wont be booking a holiday to the frozen land they all seem to be far too depressed must be all that cold weather either way watch it it's worth every second
1	for finland sometimes seems like a land of dreams a land where many of us want to go and work there or start a business find love start a new life etc but aku has made this brilliant piece which shows that everything is not so good in finland as well that finland can be just as maa the bad land than any other country it shows that people there can be just as miserable in their lives than we in everywhere else that sometimes there's nothing good this movie nicely shows why finland is one of the top suicidal countries it's not easy to live in north cold climate changes us i've become more and more attracted to finnish movies and this one is very good the acting is great as well jasper has become one of the top finnish stars beware of the sex scene if you have little children and a little depression that might come afterwards the movie 8 10
1	before i'd seen this movie i've heard a lot of praise about it and quite many exclamations about how horrific it was not to take any credit away from this movie i think it wasn't all that horrible or even shocking it's just a movie about people living in the darker side of the town and a good one at portraying the point br br there's some great acting here and a well thought of manuscript westerberg is a renowned writer in the finnish movie scene and he's the best in what comes to describing the contemporary finnish culture albeit he's not the only one writer for this movie but i dare say he's the main writer anyway correct me if i'm wrong br br the casting is excellent except for jasper the pseudo main character who in my opinion should have stayed in the soap opera scene and the sets the cuts and sounds are very well done as well and give great atmosphere to this movie br br this movie is a story about loosely interconnected sad destinies that according to a famous finnish band's very well known song maa which very roughly translated to maa throughout the whole finnish society lead to a sad dark end accompanied with booze and the bad choices and it's the side of everyday finnish life about 80 of the population have no awareness of unless movies like this are made
1	this film came as a gift a late night offering out of the blue so unlike other reviewers i had no preconceptions whatsoever i found myself glued to my seat as the film slowly dictated its own rhythm its own unfolding i was drawn to acknowledge my own deep love and humanity as i willed for good to prevail but also forced to wryly acknowledge that sometimes i was on the side of the bad guys the film is quite quite beautiful the word elegiac comes to mind and this more than because the film begins and ends in an far from being depressing or confronting to me the film acknowledges deep suffering and then by its nature with the births and re births as well as the deaths the film celebrates the fact that to quote an aussie poet there is sometimes gladness oh gods i feel as tho i've just written a love letter to this film but there it is
1	i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival 2005 only a few days ago i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness
1	spoilers beautifully photographed slice of life home front wwii love story with norman rockwell paintings in the beginning and end of the movie about how a war hero is not just someone who kills for his country but is also someone who thinks for himself and isn't corrupted by the war propaganda that's constantly drummed into his head washing out of the marine corps marion jan michael vincent is kicked out of boot camp after five weeks and forced to put on a baby blue marine uniform that shows that he just didn't have it to make the corps and scorned wherever he went as he's going home to st louis and terrified what his family whom his dad was in the marine corps in wwi would think of him in that he couldn't cut the mustard as a us marine br br stopping in a bar and finds sitting next to him is a marine member of the fearless and deadly marine raiders richard gere whom a admiring hedge buys a beer making conversation with richard hedge is shocked to find out that not only is he being sent back to the pacific theater after all the battles he fought in and combat medals he got but the totally gray hair and mid thirty looking richard is going to be 21 next month that's what being in the marine corps and wwii did to him buying hedge a number of drinks richard takes the drunk baby blue outside and knocks him out taking his baby blues and leaves his impressive us marine uniform with some money in it for hedge to ware br br as soon as hedge puts on richard's uniform that fits him perfectly he's confronted by this big drunken us paratrooper who calls himself cement head wanting to have a fist fight with the marine raider hedge doing everything he can to avoid trouble is forced by cement head to belt him after he himself cracked two beer bottle over his cement head to get himself warmed up for the big bout between marine hedge and paratrooper cement head hedge incredibly floors the big cement headed buffoon knocking him out cold with one punch i guess the trick is not hitting him in on top of his head a stunned hedge tell his cement heads fellow g i's br br hitch hiking to this small town of hedge notices this us military camp for japanese americans who are there because their considered a threat to us security it's later in the movie that hedge shows everyone what a real hero he is not who the people in the town think he is by risking his life to save one of the hated japs who mindlessly together with two of his friends escaped from the camp where the hell did they think they were going anyway hedge risked his life by saving the scared to death japanese american from drowning in the dangerous rapids outside the town hedge in his actions taught the people of that not all japs even those who are american citizens are bad and treacherous banzai screaming suicidal like they were thought by the newspapers magazines and movies at the time to think that they were br br hedge strikes up a conversation with the very cute and pretty waitress at the local diner rose glynnis o'connor who's just crazy about him that even hedge at first thinks that it's his uniform not him that impressed her later when hedge admits to rose that he's not what she and her parents think a us marine raider that he is rose had by then gotten to know the sweet and caring washed out marine so well that it didn't matter to her at all what he was supposed to be a marine a paratrooper or a post office worker it was what was inside his heart that really counted br br the film has a number of touching and beautiful scenes in it between hedge and rose that shows how movies used to be made years ago without all the sex and profanity that we see and hear in movies today that involved two people in love with each other br br the way the film accurately not phony baloney shows the true feelings of average americans back then in 1943 about the war in general and japanese in particular couldn't have been done in more authentic and accurate as well as good taste baby blur marine does it's best not to be too politically correct in not showing the hero's or leading actors and actresses in the film having the same feelings and ideas back then during wwii as most people have now which would have come across as phony as a three dollar bill to those people watching the film who lived during those historic and momentous times when the film was to take place
1	so far miguel career it's been one of the more dreadful of recent spanish cinema he's made nothing but rubbish until now has been quite a surprise it's a serious film with rhythm with a great cast and very entertaining br br the art of robbing that's what is about a film much alike to david mamet's house of game and stuff like that a thousand of twists in the script and a story where nothing's like it seems br br the weak points in latest movie may be the so american language that makes some of the characters look rather unnatural especially victoria she's a hell of an actress but in she looks a little bit forced ernesto alterio is not that bad but he's not half as good actor as his father and what to say about well he's the man br br in short a good movie the best that miguel bardem has ever made i hope this is the beginning of a brand new stage in his career br br my rate 7 10
1	ernesto is a man that makes a living out of duping other solid citizens of their hard earned money together with manco an older man with a lot of experience he pulls out capers that allow him to make a decent living but that is not making him a rich man by any means enter federico an older man who is more experience in the art of deception together with the younger ernesto they prove a winning combination that only lasts until pilar former love interest appears in the picture br br this spanish film directed by miguel bardem is light in tone and pleasant to sit through other better made caper films have been made with much clever plots than this one but the film is easy to take and at times it has a lot of funny situations br br this viewer will see federico in anything even reading the telephone directory he is an actor's actor we have had the privilege of having seen him in the buenos aires stage doing excellent work before his international film career as federico he does what he does best it's impossible to imagine anyone better in his role ernesto alterio the son of hector alterio is a young actor who promises to have a great career victoria abril makes pilar fun as she gets involved with these con men miguel alexandre a veteran actor is also good as manco
1	this is an outstanding criminal thriller and with a great cast too spanish language cinema's best and most popular actors of the past couple of decades victoria abril and federico team up in one of the better spanish language crime thrillers of 2004 5 br br the film begins by focusing on thirty something ernesto ernesto alterio an elegant attractive and slick thief who learned from childhood friend and more recently from manco an old seasoned swindler manco introduces ernesto to federico federico an also elegant but more astute experienced methodical thief the best in his class br br only known weakness is pilar victoria abril his former mistress and partner she suddenly appears and proposes a fabulous rip off scheme to her former lover a crime in grand scale which will eventually require the help of ernesto manco and among others br br the script is full of twists and surprising reversals particularly towards the end of the film one criticism about the film i've heard a lot is that there are too many plot twists towards the end but i disagree the film captivates the audience so much that all the unexpected events are not too much to follow in fact these are what make the film outstanding i highly recommend it
1	i used to watch this too at junior school in hampshire around 1975 the odd thing is that from time to time i still think about it i am now 40 the big question running through out the length of the series no idea how many episodes 6 was the identity of the person riding the motorcycle 'i've ask friends in the past about this series and they have no idea what i'm talking about and think its some kind of weird dream i've had i've never understood to this day the educational benefit of this but thought at the time it was great but slightly scary i seem to remember that there used to be a break of some sort in the middle of each episode no idea why would love to see it again got hold of a short clip via the bbc cult website
1	to regard the film as nothing more than a documentary about skateboarding would fail to recognize several important aspects of dogtown peralta a well known skateboarding figure himself has crafted a film that not only deals with the birth of what we know today as skateboarding but also examines the socio cultural and economic circumstances in which this sport emerged and gained wide appeal in addition his film is rather personal peralta's first hand association with this cultural phenomenon serves as both the informed cinematic investigator and the involved participant subject in this role he is a quintessential participant observer while gathering together a wide array of personalities whom were integral to this movement and those who were profoundly affected by the advent of skateboarding as a competitive sport and subculture the film employs a uniquely stylistic form of film and sound editing and the narration by sean penn and interviews adopt a rather genuine unrehearsed form that is akin with the anarchic nihilistic spirit of sidewalk surfing the film exhibits the kinetic appeal of a protracted sporting music video tempered with an sensitivity to the importance of time place and circumstance
1	not only was this film exhilarating but it took me back down memory lane with its true to life sound track these were the things we were saying and doing these were the songs we were listening to all during this same time period in the same era way down south in alabama i may not have been one of the skateboard set but i was definitely one of the observers sitting on the curb with the old radio listening to neil young watching those more brave than i ever hoped to be as they put the spin on their surfboards on wheels applying the tricks of and adams hoping that maybe just maybe for a brief moment they'd adopt the style it just goes to show how much alike we all were during those wonderful days
1	when the hit i was in hershey pa and part of the skate team we didn't do anything except skate around trying to learn what we were reading in the pages of skateboarder magazine a couple of local hills provided all the speed wobbles you could handle at the time mike weed was the hot stuff along with russ whats his name with the z boys hot on their tail i had a gt plastic board with power paw wheels loose bearings br br my parents told me we were moving to california later that year and that they were taking a trip to go house hunting i was an extremely good son that summer and asked if i might not be rewarded with a real skateboard from california they delivered it was a deck with the surfer magazine logo screened on it wide trucks and big red wheels precision bearings don't ya know they got it at oak street a surf shop in laguna beach br br when i got to california all of 13 anaheim had the concrete wave and had a great park as well soon came skateboard odyssey in mission viejo an indoor park with every scenario imaginable all the while i was reading about stacy tony and jay this flick was right on the money and a wonderful experience to watch
1	this movie was awesome it's a documentary about how surfing influenced skateboarding in the early days it has interviews with skaters such as tony hawk my idol and stacy peralta to name a couple dogtown is a so called ghetto part of california where there used to be an amusement park that was torn down people started riding alongside the dangerous ruins of the park soon the surf team was formed that led to first real start in dogtown the z boys were a team of ragtag teenagers who loved skateboarding and started the phenomenon known as vert skating they started it by skating in drained swimming pools that's just a bit of the story behind it it even contains rare footage from charlie's angels of stacy peralta making a cameo i think you should buy this movie if you are a skater it'll teach you that skateboarding wasn't always popular even if you are not buy
1	i must say that this has to be the best documentary i have ever seen in my life i first say the movie at my friends house and didn't get a chance to finish watching it from that point on i spent my free time trying to find the movie i never found it but on my birthday my friend who knew i had the hardest time finding the movie got it for me as present sean penn does a great job of narrating the documentary i loved how it told the story of each of the z boys and the history of dogtown i have been to venice and the surrounding area many times and had never known what had taken place until i saw the documentary i didn't get a chance to see the actual movie and i heard it was nowhere near what the documentary was i don't know if i actually want to see the movie but who knows
1	this is a pretty good documentary i'm not a skateboarder i don't particularly like skateboarding or skateboard culture but somehow for about 2 hours this movie made me interested in the subject br br i wouldn't call it the most intriguing film of all time but for some reason when those guys were talking about how they started their skateboard clubs and were skating in those empty southern california pools i was interested br br i should also add that the music in this film was pretty good too i don't sit around yearning to hear more 70s rock bands but it seemed appropriate for what they were talking about
1	i was actually around 13 years old camping near the mccloud river near when this movie was being filmed my family was paid to leave our campsite for the afternoon when they filmed vincent floating down the river a little trivia the scene where they pulled him out was actually where he started his float down the river and if the stunt man missed the netting there was 20 foot waterfall about 1 4 mile down farther br br anyway i watched it at the time and didn't get it it wasn't until years later when i saw the movie and actually understood the meaning of it it's pretty powerful movie and certainly a fine job by jan at such a young age his movie career never really took off as expected but of course he later found success on tv i wish this movie was available cause i would love to see it again
1	i am an avid julie andrews fan and i just watched this for the first time on dvd the director's cut version i was very surprised that it was rated g how did they get bedroom scenes a seduction story line two strip tease acts and war shooting blood into a g rating weird i would rate it pg 13 br br other than that i thoroughly enjoyed the movie it was a beautiful showcase of andrew's voice and talent the acting was great the storyline was a little weak leaving gaps that could have been filled with some good dialogue there were too many no talking just walking scenes for me i would have liked to see the the relationship between julie and rock blossom so that the intense love would be more believable
1	actually i have more a question than a comment i loved z boys and the lords of dogtown saw lords first then the doc and while i loved the story i am curious as to why in the movie sid was an important character but in the documentary he wasn't part of the team and only merely mentioned as just some kid they knew does anyone know the story on that the story of these boys was amazing i never experienced the skateboarding craze where i grew up but my kids have enjoyed it what i have seen in local skate parks is what these boys had invented i never knew that when the film showed the competition and z boys did their thing they put to shame the others in competition
1	right there good entertaining and accurate era feel to most scenes enough personality variations to cover the real people around those days without story distractions from the exceptions the credits show peralta from mar vista california up the hill from venice and south of malibu i lived there in the heartbreak hotel days pre next to that surfer kid bob cooper up on avenue where the alley was used to burn surfboards that didn't work old were used on plywood cutouts to roll down sidewalk waves things were different in each succeeding decade as the cool innocence of the fifties broke into the warmth of the sun whitewater freedom and exhilaration of the electric sixties and then into the innovative playtime and inventive evolutionary madness of the weird seventies the movie gives you a piece of that kind of magic moment in time in a place where the imaginary wave was real the source of culturally significant influences and btw there's another movie that has a similarly american street edginess to it and has the same genuinely unique goodness with laid back realness that helps refine that elusively eternal sense of cool two lane blacktop with one of the best examples of attitude in west coast california history dennis wilson like monte hellman did with that one thanks sp for being right there with this one
1	i hate films about sports i guess the pre fabricated hollywood sports film is a bit tough for me to swallow because it follows the most identical of ideas each year what i am trying to say is that there isn't much creativity in this genre use exhibit a – the game plan as evidence of this if you want so needless to say i was hesitant to watch this documentary because of the sports theme element but at the same time i couldn't wait because i love surfing documentaries like step into liquid and billabong odyssey i took a step i plunged into the unknown and to be honest at first i wasn't happy i didn't like the direction the people or the style that the film encompassed to present these young sport with my first viewing i thought that history couldn't be fully recorded so i thought stacy peralta was splicing stock footage with faux actors acting like they were from the late 70s the music was intense it matched well peralta had made a mixed tape from this generation for our enjoyment but the visuals were anything but stimulating the elongated scenes while using amazing music to support just seemed flushed and too long for my attention i wanted to get to know the pioneers not just watch them skate for ten minutes in an empty pool i wanted a combination of who these kids were where they went during their rise of fame and where they are now it felt like i was watching the birth of our nation with a great score to the settlers just rowing their boats all day i wanted to know the men behind the myths br br then with a thought that i would have another negative review under my belt i watched the film again with peralta's audio commentary his passion his voice his knowledge of the people and what he had to do to get this film accomplished wow ed me this suddenly transformed into the film i wanted to see peralta lets us know more of where these kids are today what they are still doing and how difficult it was to get some of them onto the camera he hadn't seen many of them in 20 years so to hear these challenges brought the human element back to the surface he was sincere he was sympathetic yet he showed so much dedication to this project while i do not agree with everything that he chose to do i e the sean penn mess up is not punk rock he revitalized this film for me it was due to this commentary that i rate this film much higher than originally thought br br jay adams tony jeff ho peggy these are just a few of the name that need to be mentioned and continually praised if skateboarding is to continue the fast growing trend that it currently sees while tony hawk's name sells products it is these guys these mild mannered pavement slackers that redefined an entire sport sure others were probably doing it in the stone ages but these guys did it with style grace and moved it to the next level this was a hobby for them but it also propelled them in a direction i believe none of them were ready for dogtown and z boys is the story of evolution being in the right place at the right time living in a generation without televisions to keep us planted and about friendship we have seen so many stories during the years that show the progression of humanity and this is definitely a story that should be added to that i cannot say that i loved this film nor will i but it should be standard viewing for everyone learning or wanting to experience the growth of the skateboarding trend it was sad it was emotional and these guys aren't multi millionaires over again – they are people with a passion and very rarely do you see that in documentaries br br overall i cannot watch this film again but i will suggest it to friends and family time after time i think the downfall for this film to me was the filming – the attempts to be avant garde with the style which ultimately drew away from the characters and events as mentioned before there were some elements that dragged on too much which left us with little to no time to know where these guys were now peralta obviously had a passion for this sport for the people but he seemed out of focus at times the music was intense and worked perfectly with the film sean penn while he was decent with his voice over wasn't needed at all they could have spent the money elsewhere on the positive the audio commentary captures everything that the regular film was missing peralta's voice instead of penn's brings a stronger human element to the scene while he tells us better stories of the people places and events watch this film but don't expect to be blown away listen to the audio commentary i think you will be impressed br br grade ½ out of
1	my son an avid skateboarder sat me down and made me watch this with him as i love documentaries it didn't take a whole lot of pressure on his part the whole amazing story of it all a bunch of dirt poor kids drift together and end up creating something revolutionary out of thin air well more out of some wood wheels and lack of waves to surf it just floored me it still does i didn't think i would enjoy it the way i did nor did i think i would tear up watching stacey peralta tear up over the fate of jay adams and just watching jay adams himself the sheer genius of the kid skating and the shrug of the adult remembering i watched it again last night for what has to be the 10th time and i still get goosebumps watching him fly down the hill with jimi hendrix's freedom playing in the background and i teared up again not too many movies have the same impact with me after several viewings brilliant
1	dogtown and z boys is a documentary about the skateboarding team and their influence on skateboarding it also focuses on the history of skateboarding it was directed by stacy peralta a member of the original team and was written by stacy peralta and craig another member of the team the documentary stars the members of the team and is narrated by sean penn br br the documentary talks about the beginning of skateboarding and how it evolved from surfing it discusses popularity in the late 60s and the 70s its decline in the 80s and its in the 90s skateboarding was introduced in dogtown the nickname of the poor side of santa monica california the team originated from the surf shop which manufactured the first modern skateboards the documentary mainly consists of the original team members talking about the past in the team the competitions they won and their popularity and prestige it focuses on three particular members of the team peralta tony and jay adams three of skateboarding and probably the best three members of the team br br the interviews in the documentary were usually voices over archival footage from dogtown in the late 60s and 70s very rarely to you actually see the people being interviewed but when you do they are shown in black and white while the archival footage was in colour i think stacy peralta used this technique to show that the documentary was about the past i e the glory days of the team and not the present the documentary is very fast paced in that we often see clips of impressive skateboarding over up beat music of the era such as jimi hendrix led zeppelin and david bowie and the interviews tend to be quick and to the point knowing nothing about skateboarding i e not even knowing how to ride one straight along the ground i was very surprised that i found this documentary so interesting the reason is that this doco was more about the team than the actual sport of skateboarding so while i couldn't relate to skateboarding i could relate to the boys in the team because it was made by actual members of the team it gives it a little more depth and authenticity br br all in all i would have to say this is one of the best documentaries i have ever seen it gave me a whole new insight not just into the team but into skateboarding as a whole for those who love skateboarding i can only imagine how it must be even more interesting seven and a half stars out of ten
1	dogtown and z boys br br summary dogtown and z boys is a documentary about a group of revolutionary teenagers that changed the world of surfing and skateboarding in venice dogtown california as we know it today with their low pivotal style they embarked on a larry influenced journey that would lead to countless successes and a couple failures after the dogtown articles were featured in a reinstated skateboarder magazine the sport was revamped and the members of the skateboard team forgot about jeff ho and looked to be on summer vacation for the rest of their lives by joining other skateboard teams that could afford to pay them like movie stars the original skateboard team put together by jeff ho owner and craig photographer included jay adams tony stacy peralta bob chris cahill shogo paul jim muir peggy the only female nathan pratt iv allen and david ray perry all of the original members except jay adams and chris cahill are still well and surfing skating jay adams at the time of the documentary was serving time on drug related charges chris cahill at the time of the documentary was last seen in mexico br br themes the themes of this documentary are kind of read between the lines but if there were a clear cut theme it would be that even kids can spark revolutions other themes would include extensive partying in one's past may lead to an unfulfilling future and by planning and being careful with one's assets a very rewarding future could be at hand br br other works stacy peralta writer and director has a fairly wide range of documentaries that he has either written produced or directed most with a common theme of surfing or skateboarding such as riding giants tv the bones and lords of dogtown he has also done films with a theme of growing up in america as a teenager films such as influences from yesterday to today and bloods made in america and the 70s the decade that changed television br br subjects the subjects of dogtown and z boys are the original members of the skateboard team excluding chris cahill peralta included jeff ho and craig in the interviews other subjects were people who grew up during the 70s reading the dogtown articles as well as skateboard enthusiasts skaters from the dogtown area but not on the team were interviewed br br editing the editing of this film was phenomenal in my opinion there were scenes of the subjects talking so that the audience could see who was speaking and get a sense of the character but would immediately cutaway to archival footage that would explain what the speaker was saying when a song could explain the emotions of the subjects better such as when jay adams' unfortunate life was a subject of talk the song old man by neil young was played which evokes many emotions sean penn was the narrator for the film and he explained the transitions throughout the film the film was presented chronologically from the time the surf team was put together to creating the skateboard team to all of the z boys leaving the team to join other skate companies or create their own company br br cinematography the film was shot in an interesting way the film of the subjects speaking were all in black and white and all of the archival footage of the z boys surfing or skating were in color of course the footage from the 70s was grainy but that only enhanced the film the interviewees were mostly shot in the same area it appears but all were outside all of the footage was very well controlled even the archival footage which i found very surprising br br music seasons of wither performed by toys in the attic performed by generation landslide alice cooper one way out performed by the brothers lollipops and roses and whipped cream performed by herb alpert into the void and paranoid performed by black sabbath godzilla blue oyster cult aladdin sane and rebel rebel david bowie the gut feeling devo i'll give you money peter funk 49 james gang rider and foxy lady and freedom and bold as love jimi hendrix sidewalk surfing jan and dean achilles last stand and hot on for nowhere led zeppelin six underground the sneaker pimps the lively ones cat scratch fever and motor city madhouse and wang dang sweet ted nugent us and them pink floyd bad boys the pretenders maggie may rod stewart i wanna be your dog and gimme danger the stooges children of the revolution t rex bad reputation thin lizzy disco inferno the tramps hannah rob rocky mountain way joe walsh old man neil young la grange zz top br br the music in the film make the movie every one of these songs contributes to what the subjects are saying and evoke emotions that would not have been called to mind otherwise
1	a dozen bored surfers mostly kids in venice california not only reinvent the skateboard but remake a once forgotten about suburban fad from the 1950s into an action sports revolution br br by sean penn dogtown depicts life in the more rundown locals only beach communities circa 1974 which consisted of mostly of surfing in the early morning tides and loitering the team or z boys as they are called spend one summer combating the boredom by building their own boards with the help of a local who owns a surf shop after they enter re emerging skateboarding competitions in socal they it all into their own scene one that rouses a generation of consisting of greats like tony hawk shaun white and the creators of the of x games br br dogtown puts chronological perspective into skateboarding and the up from the bootstraps history you never knew it had br br from andy frye at blogspot com
1	take a subject i didn't know much about and make it exciting why don't you it so happens that back about 1979 director robert altman said that he didn't believe he had ever made a real movie and that he expected that one of these kids riding skateboards if he doesn't break his neck will make the first movie well i wouldn't put such an expectation on stacy peralta but he is a skateboarder who has made a good movie of course he was forced by the nature of the film he was making to use existing footage and it is certainly a good thing that so much archival footage existed peralta edited it together well with not your usual talking head shots of his erstwhile colleagues as they are today the whole effect is post modern in the best sense but that has been done altman's prediction hasn't quite come true what peralta has done however is capture enough of the energy of those heady days that we can appreciate what it must have been like when modern skateboarding was invented by the z boys this is all good i highly recommend dogtown
1	excellent piece of work br br i am not a surfer nor a skate board fan but work this good about sorting sock drawers would have been riveting a must see br br there is a lot to enjoy here excellent visuals great sound track mix huge body of documentary work both pictures and film br br the life work and love of the subject is captivating
1	solid documentary about kids who first surf then skate in the face of the american dream sadly some of the youngest and most gifted succumb to the lure of drugs while others become slaves to the crass marketing of their go for broke instincts few come out on top but the die is cast and fruit of it all is the new national pastime skateboarding the new york times notes that it was once considered a snub to authority now however skateboarding has its own summer camps video games magazines actually it always had these and corporate sponsors commercialism co opts another kid cultural
1	just saw baby blue marine again after 30 years i still find it a pleasant and romantic film which catches a time which has been lost forever the innocence and purity of a time now long gone is truthfully captured in this small film the acting is above average and richard gere's brief appearance as a shell shocked raider marine war hero holds a keen interest for any film buff or gere fan jan micheal vincent is in his prime and looks and acts like the all american boy the late bruno kirby who was billed as b kirby jr has a meaty role as pop a peace loving marine corp reject dreaming of getting back home to his wife if you're looking for sex drugs or rock and roll this movie is not for you if you're looking for action and adventure the same applies however if you want to recapture a time in america of innocence honor romance and love then baby blue marine is a movie for you
1	in the groovy mid 70's a scruffy bunch of brash young venice california adolescents from broken homes and the bad side of town known as the z boys turned the previously staid world of professional skateboarding on its ear with their fierce punk attitude radical unconventional riding style and unbridled spirit of pure in your face aggression the sport in the process and paving the way for the many extreme variations on sports that popped up in their influential wake director stacy peralta who's one of the legendary z boys himself relates the incredible exploits of this amazing ragtag crew in a ferociously punchy and visceral manner that's both informative and wildly entertaining the snappy rapid fire editing ceaseless speedy pace and raw gritty photography deliver one hell of an infectiously kinetic buzz projecting a sense of sheer joy and full on bustling energy that's a total pleasure to behold better still this documentary neither sanitizes nor its subjects these lads were so fiercely competitive and out for themselves that they all went their separate ways when the lure of fame and fortune manifested in their lives the ultimate fates of certain guys is poignant and heartbreaking with gifted and spontaneous ace skateboard rat jay adams rating as the saddest and most tragic he blew his chance at the big time and wound up doing time in jail the other dudes are very colorful and personable as well charismatic ball of cocky and defiant fire tony in particular comes across as one arrogant yet impressive piece of furiously assertive work marvelously narrated with delightfully nasal nonchalance by sean penn the terrific rock soundtrack likewise seriously smokes but what really makes this documentary such a winner is its refreshing complete dearth of pretense it's every bit as dynamic exuberant and larger than life extraordinary as the gloriously outrageous z boys themselves
1	this film to me deserves a lot of praise because even though i am not a surfer or skater i remained inspired throughout the whole documentary br br the depth of history and development of these two extreme sports emphasised what they were able to do for two groups of individuals the dedication that these individuals had have is truly inspiring and it was because of them that others can now enjoy and do what these guys founded br br unlike most other documentaries this one was cleverly put together the amount of footage that was recorded and survived throughout the decades is outstanding and it was because of this that some of the greatest editing i have ever seen was put together and resulted in the subject remaining focused without the urge for them to retort to recent footage of the more famous surfers and skaters that remains popular today br br the film explores areas such as the success such accomplishing new tricks winning competitions and gathering fame as well as failures such as injury or burning out br br it was also fulfilling to hear the experiences come from the skaters and surfers themselves and not from second hand information this resulted in a better picture to be drawn br br overall a truly outstanding effort
1	i saw this movie on the festival 23 24 25th of august after a friend of mine said this is a very cool movie about the history of skating i didn't now what to expect from this movie was it recorded by a couple of skaters who thought they could do a couple of cool tricks or was it a documentary about skating br br so i went in after waiting for about an hour whit out any expectations br br this movie is really a nice piece of work about the beginning of skateboarding it started with the team who where a fine group of surfers this is taking place in a not so nice area to live in at a certain point the waves are not so good any more to surf on so they try something else skateboarding was a fact br br if you were a part of the team in that time you where one of the cool guys girls because a lot of people saw an escape from the place they were living in with the team so they were trying all there new tricks now on a skateboard br br in no time skateboarding was popular again there were a couple of competitions and one national competition the team was taking part on several competition and also the national one but what they were doing on there skateboards was unbelievable but the jury didn't now how to judge them so they put the whole skateboarding world on it's head br br anyway i can tell you the rest of the film documentary but you must see this one with you're own eyes because then you can feel the vibe of this movie this movie got a lot of style for me so i rewarded it with a 8 br br greetings from and the rest of holland see you
1	this film moved me at age 39 in the same way that all the footage and coverage of dogtown affected me when i was 13 for all of those who criticized the self promotion of the z boys interviewed they have the last laugh on you that was their whole deal we're better than all of you and here's why insert footage of the smoothest pool carve imaginable this was a film to tell their story and that was their story whether you like it or not it was their opinion of their skating that mattered not yours or mine i thought the film captured their attitude and influence exactly as i remembered it in the 70's the reality is that they did revolutionize skateboarding they were the impetus behind extreme sports and they did inject a cultural paradigm that reached into every corner of americana this movie gave rebirth to images of on a wave and and jay adams ripping up the coping that was the california dream to an entire culture of young american teenagers that just wanted to have fun and get rad as i watched this film i realized that it was these images that i lived with every day until i was old enough to move out and back down to so cal after my family had moved to nor cal when i was five until i could get back my buddies and i built and thrashed ramp after ramp searched for every empty pool possible and mimicked everything covered about these guys we are all educated and have family's and careers now but this film reminds me who i was at that age and why i still surf this is an inspired film that anyone who has an interest in pop culture extreme sports the 70's or even just good documentary film making will enjoy completely whenever it comes on cable i can't change the channel kudos to stacy peralta for making a beautiful piece of art
1	i remember when skateboarding had it's rebirth in the 70s i begged my parents for money to by a second hand skateboard from a friend it was a piece of junk complete with clay wheels and everything i also remember reading skateboarder magazine and being both completely impressed and totally terrified of the dogtown crew skating never became a way of life for me but in some ways it has always been a part of my life whether it is using a board for transportation or just having a bunch of friends that skate br br this film is a brilliant documentary of the real birth of modern day skating watching this crew turn skating from the flat boring hobby it was into the vertical lifestyle it has become had me sitting slack jawed for 90 minutes br br it's amazing that enough footage from this period still exists to have created this film and thank god for that the footage is brilliant it gave me the feeling of watching an old buster keaton film i've seen some of the tricks keaton did repeated countless times in other films since then but when you go back and see the first person to perform that trick it's amazing that not only were they the first person to try it successfully but that they lived through it and made it seem effortless that's the feeling this film gave me yeah i've seen people skate pools before but to watch the first people skating pools and inventing the tricks that eventually became the basics of modern skating is like watching the facade of the house fall on keaton leaving him standing safely in the frame of a window it's absolutely brilliant to watch something that up until that point had never been tried before but since has been tried by almost everyone br br this film is beautiful to watch and incredible to listen to the soundtrack is one of the best i've ever heard in a film this is a film that will appeal to people whether they like skating or not i've talked to a couple of friends of mine who made their girlfriends sit through this film after heavy protest and they all said that their girlfriends were mesmerized by the end of the film and loved it as much as they did br br as for the previous comments on this board that complain about the film being too self congratulatory i think that's an unfair disparagement i liked seeing these guys get excited about their past they created something that influenced their sport and changed it forever they have the right to pat themselves on the back they were stars for doing what they loved to do most of these guys girls never achieved the staggering success tony hawk enjoys today but that kind of success wasn't available to skaters then sure they had some success but more importantly they have been able to live a life doing what they love to do and as we see in the end almost all of them still surf skate or work in the surf skate industry how many of us can say that we have been able to live our lives and have been successful by breaking all the rules and doing what we love to do they can my hat's off to the dogtown and z boys for being themselves and changing the world of skateboarding forever
1	this is one of the greatest documentaries i've ever seen along with dark days i have skated for maybe an hour my entire life and i still love this movie peralta and his excellent editor captured the feeling and atmosphere perfectly helped in part with some incredible archival footage tony is one of the coolest individuals in existence love those knee high striped sport socks you rock tony br br not only is this movie a visual feast but the soundtrack has to be one of the best in history if you're into 70's rock buy the dvd you won't regret it
1	i have seen this movie twice now on cable the first time i saw it it caught me by suprise the skaters i was seeing were the guys we followed in the pages of skateboarder magazine back in the late 70's these were the guys we copied and tried to become while skating i am glad that a film was finally made that gives an accurate account of how it all came to be i am almost 40 years old now and i guess a pretty uptight kind of guy with all of life's problems however this film did a great job of taking me back back to the vacant pools the backyard and the road trips to cherry hill nj i suspect that in order to really understand this movie and appreciate it you had to live it otherwise it probably won't have the impact on you as it did me but for those of you and you know who you are who did live it you know exactly what i am talking about in any event i don't care who you are if you get a chance to see this movie do it i give thanks to the z boys of dogtown for the memories of my youth and thanks to stacy for making this movie job well done
1	let me say first of all that i spent a total of about two minutes of my life on a skateboard before i realized i was totally uncoordinated i've always thought it was cool watching cats that know how to get extreme on 'em do their stuff but i've never been a skateboarder and have never really followed the sport that being said i thought this was a very informative and interesting documentary some reviewers have said that these dudes were sort of waving their own flag a bit but what the hell it looks to me that these guys probably deserve as much credit as anyone for giving the skateboarding world a jolt and they've provided some good footage of their innovations to back it up it's great the way viewers are allowed to see these guys both then and now and the footage they shot while they were teens growing up in california provides some interesting nostalgia that goes a bit beyond the sport of skating i never would have realized where extreme skating came from but this films sort of ties all the pieces together and gives us an informative documentary i'm sure it's at least a tad biased but aren't all documentaries worth watching for anyone interested in the sport or as in my case anyone who grew up in the 1970's
1	this documentary traces the origins and life of the skateboard team using original film shot in the 1970s mostly by craig combined with interviews of the team members and other influential people today br br the first part of the film documents how the dogtown section of venice ca came to be starting back around the turn of the century when the town was created to be a venice italy like european city by the 1970's the one remaining local attraction the pacific ocean park had been abandoned leaving a beach with lots of exposed piers and other hazards the poor kids living in the area had nothing better to do than surf and they excelled despite or perhaps because of their surroundings because the waves dissipated in the afternoon they took up skateboarding to fill their time and the empty swimming pools caused by the drought during those years plus their surfing backgrounds led them to create the vertical skateboarding style that is mainstream today br br i found that the film covered much more about surfing than i expected which seemed like a bonus since i really didn't know much about surfing or skateboarding before i watched the film the soundtrack not surprisingly was good as well i also liked how these kids were just following their passion and generally ended up better off for the experience the parts that didn't work so well for me were the drama that they tried to create which seemed somewhat forced and the team's somewhat sense of self importance although this is probably just left over street attitude from where they grew up this is not to say that they didn't have significant influence but only that it seems extremely likely that there were other factors as well br br one note my wife is more affected than most to nausea when films use what we refer to as wiggling camera movements this film is often guilty so if you are so afflicted be warned br br i would recommend this film to anyone but especially to anyone with skateboarding and or surfing in their history br br seen on 5 11 2002
1	back in the day i was one of the in the emergency rooms these skaters would occasionally land in they were not treated well and some of it was brought on by their personalities but we all knew they were a talented bunch of even then they deserved better care than they received i'm afraid they had attitude in spades br br i'm so glad i caught this documentary on ifc tonight it will be on again at 1 am and i'll be watching again br br little attention was given to them until the rich dying kid was able to talk his parents into draining the pool and the film really highlights that as the taking off point it was an amazing time and deserved to be recorded stacy peralta is due all the praise heaped on him and long may those z boys enjoy their memories and contribution to the real sport of skateboarding as for the few sour grape reviews contained herein there always were and there always will be wannabees and hangers on who never do more than dream the z boys lived it breathed it were it br br nice to see the vintage films and even the lone girl peggy who was so talked about as being the only female to win their respect br br thanks to ifc i get to really take the occasional drug free head trip of my youth and relive the heart pounding excitement again
1	cheezy yep poorly filmed you betcha zero budget they proudly claim it on their posters brilliant anyway or because of it for sure br br this movie celebrates and makes fun of everything that was classic about the 80s teen horror genre characters with absolutely no depth fitting into a stereotyped roll they never escape for a moment teenagers trying to survive a slaying by some mysterious force they disturbed by doing something lamely adolescent completely gratuitous nudity impossible amounts of blood coming out of victims slow moving zombies great one liners and our hero even wears a michael jackson jacket br br this is not an all out spoof like scary movie but more a tribute film to the lost innocence of the 80s horror movies when being scared and grossed out could also be a fun silly sexy and goofy good time
1	if you have ever been has a friend or a kid that is or was into skating at one time then watch this flick i have seen it several times and i get something new out of it every time that i see it it reminded me of why i got into skating in the first place a long time ago it reminded me of what skating brings to a person and i have found will also help a person who doesn't understand why skaters well skate sure there is a very dark side to the whole seen which the movie does touch on slightly but it tends to focus more on what is at the core of skating just a person on a board doing it because they love to do it this movie was so inspirational to me that i'm now skating once again i'm 32 and i haven't been this happy with my self in give this one a go you will not be disappointed
1	being in the suburbs of new york when the z boys were creating history in dogtown i was only exposed to a glimpse of what was going on i had a p o s black knight skateboard with clay wheels it is long gone and on the ash heap of my personal life but i never forgot it's like watching long lost brothers and friends and it hits me right where i live i cannot watch this film enough every time i view it some other aspect rises to the top some other viewpoint come into sharp focus the vintage footage the incredible stills the current personalities with the vivid shadows of the brightly lit past the heartfelt and not over done narrative all beautifully edited together in such a way as to make a landmark documentary of a genuine slice of american history in the words of glen friedman it was f ing unbelievable
1	my skateboarding career ended in 1974 when my two by four skateboard with steel roller skate wheels hit a rock and i tumbled for days it seemed down the sidewalk outside my parent's house in boston by the time the cast came off my arm summer was gone br br but i have always admired the x games types and surfers especially i think i spent the first month after i moved to southern california on the beaches and piers watching the surfers bemoaning that fact that i had missed my calling it's the sort of thing you should learn young before the horrible senses of self preservation and self awareness burrow in or else at best you'll be so worried about not getting hurt or laughed at you'll wind up looking like a trained bear br br i always admired how a good surfer seems to not care about anything but that moment that wave that experience at one with the forces of nature a good surfer makes it look like there is nothing else but that wave right there and the way you interact with it there's a lot of zen in it to me br br this documentary outlines how a few young folks took the surfing concepts and extended them to skateboarding ramps downgrades low sweeping curves while interacting with the cement waves beneath their feet in their day and time this was all new radical prior to the skate team the idea apparently was to go as fast as you could in a straight line on a skateboard hence my long evel knievel at palace like tumble down the front walk br br this film is a look back through time to an america before everything was labeled tagged marketed and jam forced down our throats as extreme seriously what's so extreme about an extreme value meal at taco bell other than the fact that it is an extreme hazard to your colon br br watch this film and watch the birth of before there was an x games before boom boom huck jam before crusty demons before the there were these young street urchins who created without really trying they were just doing it for the purity the pure pleasure of skateboarding in the sun with friends br br i hope they get a cut of the 'extreme' money out there goodness knows they don't get the credit they deserve maybe this film can correct that br br excellent film with a great soundtrack a portrait of a southern california indeed an america that no longer exists br br i don't care for sean penn but he does a decent job narrating
1	anyone looking to learn more about the development of skateboarding should find dogtown and z boys adequate research material this is not to be confused with lords of dogtown that sorry hollywood attempt to cash in on the success of the original dogtown revival br br directed by stacey peralta a former z boys himself as well as pro skater and mastermind behind the 80s bones brigade and co written with skateboarding photojournalist craig this documentary traces how a group of surfing kids from southern california's mean streets known as dogtown who formed the z boys skateboard team actually there was one girl peggy revolutionized skateboarding the film contains interviews from nearly all of the z boys chris cahill's whereabouts are unknown with the most being bad ass tony and the youngest jay adams who's talents along with seemed to transcend the rest of the teams there are interviews of the team's and the dogtown shop founders surfboard designer jeff ho skip and craig there are also interviews of folks like tony hawk obviously ian and henry rollins who were young kids in the 70s when dogtown was making it's influence on skateboarding skateboarding was a whole other context in previous years as the documentary explains br br it really shows you not only who the dogtown team was and how they formed but why their style changed not only skateboarding tricks pool skating became popular and thus gave way to vert skating but also facilitated the sport though not into the extreme commercialism it is today as more than just the fleeting fad it had been earlier as these surfing kids who's waves ran out in the early morning needed ways to spend their time and eventually got into skateboarding the days of russ howell and alan were long over as the dogtown at least through the publicity of their skate team paved the way for the new generation of skaters because dogtown got all the attention they were able to push skating to the next step br br it's a great documentary in the way that it is put together though stacey peralta always knew how to do this even when producing the bones brigade mini movies skate like ban this and search for animal chin narrated by sean penn the film is accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack contains lots of terrific archive footage and lots of interview to give you a genuine feel of who the z boys were and how they made their mark on skateboarding
1	after watching ingmar bergman's i had many feelings but most notably i felt unsatisfied i have heard so much hype about this movie but i came to find it lacking don't get me wrong i can fully appreciate the artistic value of such a film but as far as depth and emotion i was not so impressed i found the characters to be disagreeable and unrealistic which detracted from the dramatic effect in addition the fact that the war was fake led me to feel that the emotion was not real dramatic war movies in my opinion are much more effective if the events not necessarily the story itself really happened i find that of all the movies that try to show the brutality this one falls in the middle as far as effectiveness
1	oh it's an excellent piece of work to be sure in fact several of the best scenes in cinema or at least in bergman's cinema are to be found in this film liv and max von sydow are as good as you would expect do these two give bad performances sven nykvist delivers some masterful although unconventionally masterful cinematography the script is quite good especially in individual scenes sometimes the film lags and the pace is uneven though probably intentionally br br so what's the problem well the film is too bleak for its own good other bergman films are similarly bleak but nowhere near this harsh eventually i just gave up and i started to become a little irritated i was greatly affected often during the film but by the end i felt uninvolved it's a great film but i doubt i'd ever watch it again nor suggest it to friends or if i did suggest it i'd be very sure to warn them of what's ahead 8 10
1	it came as no surprise to me that this was a very depressing and draining movie after all it's all about the impact of war on civilians and it's by the king of depression ingmar bergman in other words so many of bergman's works delve deep into human misery and angst and so this movie seems not so extraordinary coming from this director br br even though it is more difficult to watch the last half of the movie offers perhaps more insight into the lower depths of humanity that's because initially the main characters liv ullman and max von sydow try to overcome adversity and are basically decent though a bit stupid people however as deprivation after deprivation occurs they especially von sydow become less and less humane and more animalistic doing anything in order to survive br br fun to watch no freaking way but an interesting insight into human nature br br ps 1 thing i loved about this film is that it avoided a stupid movie chiche when the couple sat down with the shopkeeper to drink a glass or wine they finished the wine completely in most movies they barely touch their drinks or leave them untouched it drives me crazy as i would never leave a 4 alcoholic beverage without drinking it unless it tasted terrible or had a bug floating in it bravo
1	shame is a swedish film in swedish with english subtitles the film is about a husband and wife named jan and eva they live on an island working as farmers there is a war going on and soldiers start attacking people on the island once the war subsides a little jan and eva are arrested as going along with the opposite side once released even more trouble ensues and the film shows how two ordinary people will act in a situation of war and life or death winner of the award for best foreign film at the cinema writers circle awards the award for best actress liv ullman who plays eva at the awards the award for best foreign language film and best actress at the national board of review and the award for best actress best director ingmar bergman and best film at the national society of film critics awards shame has good direction a good script good performances by both max von sydow who plays jan and liv ullman who plays eva good cinematography and good production design shame is a well acted and well made story of how people in a desperate situation will sometimes do whatever they can do in order to survive the film has a powerful message and is a good film the reason i'am not rating this film higher is because it is not a masterpiece like some other ingmar bergman films like wild strawberries the seventh seal or persona for example the film didn't have as big an impact on me as i thought it would and it lacked ingmar bergman's thoughtful and philosophical dialog while nowhere close to being one of his best films there is still a lot to like about shame and it is a good movie i just probably would have liked it more having not seen some of those other bergman masterpieces
1	tale about how the hell of the war can drive a sensible couple of musicians to the with many memorable scenes throughout the film i found particularly remarkable that close to the end where and von sydow go in a boat completely surrounded by corpses of soldiers floating on the sea a fascinating masterpiece
1	being a huge fan of bergman i had to search literally years to find this movie at a price less than 60 i mean and finally bought it a few weeks ago the basic premise of bergmans films are the relationships between the characters and how they deal with trying situations this film therefore is the same yet it is different because the setting is far different than most of the bergman films the i have seen br br it is set in wartime and the heros are caught in the middle br br it is riveting from start to finish and it once again proves that liv ullman is one of the best actresses of the 20th century a must see
1	ok so the following review is more of a synopsis more so than really containing any spoilers but better safe than sorry so as to avoid being blacklisted right right consider yourselves officially warned and read on br br in this parody tribute to the greatest time in horror movie history the 1980's a group of stupid teens are getting together to host a in the house of the notorious murder mcgee who butchered his entire family a few years back and buried them in the back yard as i'm sure you can guess things go from bad to worse faster than you can say where's the beef and in typical 80's horror movie fashion the deaths are bloody the dialogue is cheesy and beautiful women are taking off their clothes every chance they get good times br br no clique or 80's horror movie clichéd characterizations are left here in fact no stone was left unturned at all – we have the cool hero his innocent girlfriend the goth chick the tough thug think john bender the hot blonde who keeps losing her shirt the shy dork in love with the hot blonde that keeps losing her shirt a couple of gorgeous half naked lesbians and two big geeks br br as you can plainly see the cast is pretty big usually larger casts are where things can fall apart quickly with one or two sour apples up the whole barrel not in this case though not a single cast member left me disappointed the acting was very well done everyone from the cool hero in his thriller jacket played by jovan meredith to the goth chick played by renee dorian to geeks one two played by cory jonathan brett – they all played it straight brought their a game and knocked it out of the park if you're a fan of gary wyatt in weird science you'll immediately fall in love with the geeks br br director co writer jeff c smith is a guy to watch for in the future trust me on this if this is what he can do with a low budget there are nothing but good things ahead for him when he gets more money for future projects the characters were dead on the atmosphere was perfect the laughs were huge the blood flowed and squirted and sprayed beautifully – it was just like watching a horror movie from the 1980's call this one the breakfast club meets night of the demons the tag line says it all and says it honestly excessive violence gratuitous nudity zero budget no false advertising here folks as fans of this genre we have to look to the indies and support these hard working folks who are busting their out there bringing us original tales lest we forever get stuck in a world filled with big studio watered down pg 13 'horror' or pointless remakes like the hitcher no thank you no more of that for me br br in closing i honestly have to say that stupid teenagers must die is by far one of the best indie flicks i've gotten the pleasure of watching this year it's a bloody good time and holds up on repeat viewings from the dialogue to the characters to the wardrobe even the closing love theme over the end credits which if that doesn't bring back fits of laughter recalling mid 80's power ballads by over pronounced r's on every word starting with the letter 'r' then i'll eat my dvd right now bottom line is if you're a fan of 80's horror or horror in general no more hesitation this flick deserves to be in your collection
1	this is a harrowing movie and it moves relentlessly still it is utterly unique among war films in that it focuses exclusively on the civilian experience the loss of humanity ordinary people undergo during wartime the two young married musicians undergo a slow battering process of degradation at the hands of both sides of a civil war utterly stripped of sentimentality the film offers a bleak vision of the modern world and one i believe particularly recognizable to many europeans with brave intense performances by liv never better and max von sydow likewise for my money the most indelible film bergman ever created
1	i should no longer be surprised when critics miss the most obvious things in works of art because they are human beings and the vast majority of human beings are lazy by nature that said the simplistic notion that ingmar bergman's great 1968 film shame or is merely an anti war film does a great deal of damage to the reputation of this very complex and highly nuanced film compared to its more filmically predecessors persona and hour of the wolf shame is seemingly a more classic film in terms of narrative but the key word is seemingly for while it lacks the bravura pop psychologizing of persona and the gaudy horror film homages of hour of the wolf it is one of the best films ever made about war and not as an anti war film nor a pro war film as such it has to rank with wild strawberries as one of his greatest films as well as one of his best screenplays if not the best br br although ostensibly a more psychologically exterior film than the films that preceded it it truly says far more realistic things about the human psyche and the will to survive in it max von sydow and liv ullman play jan and eva rosenberg perhaps a nod at the infamous american spies whom many european intellectuals felt were innocent two musicians who used to play for the local philharmonic orchestra before a war broke out and they retreated to live on a small plot of land on an island content to working in a greenhouse the country they live in is unnamed as is the island they live on although the film was made on bergman's small island of just off the northern end of the swedish island of it seems that their nation has been at war for some years with an invading country or perhaps engaged in a civil war with rebels from another province this is all left deliberately hazy as this war is meant to symbolize all wars this is reinforced as the film starts with assorted war quotes on the screen as the credits roll these include quotes from hitler to vietnam era american military figures after early scenes that depict the prosaic nature of their rural life and then the coming of war where even old men are conscripted an aerial attack ravages the land as enemy jets fly overhead dropping bombs and what seems to be chemical weapons of an agent orange like nature one plane is hit and a jumps out and ends up hanging in a tree jan who starts off the film as a sniveling coward refuses to go and help so eva goes alone jan joins her and they find the pilot has been shot it seems he is indeed part of the invading or possibly rebel force a bunch of government soldiers soon stop at their home and ask questions about the dead pilot then advise the couple to leave their home as the invaders are there are the misinterpretations of the film on a micro level such as that of bergman scholar marc gervais who provides the film commentary on the dvd of the film like many other critics he claims that jacobi is a who has collaborated with the invaders but this is clearly and demonstrably wrong for jacobi is with the original fascist government as proof first off the invaders are repelled after they invade the land and shoot their agitprop interview we know this because the government that later questions them of the faked interview and words put into eva's mouth see the film as supposed proof of their treason and jacobi is clearly working with them the fascist big brother secondly jacobi is in charge of deciding which of the townsfolk are sent to concentration camps for collaborating with the invaders and the again are among those spared thirdly in his seduction of eva jacobi tells her his son is on leave from the military and clearly if he was an invader he would not be speaking so happily of his son serving the state also rebel forces are not official armies and do not grant official leave lastly filip is clearly with the rebels or invaders of the organization and why would he have killed a colleague br br that gervais and other critics so blatantly and wantonly and flat out miss such a key and manifest point of this film brings into question their ability to discern any and all aspects of all of bergman's films this is a wonderful and great film and very high in the berman canon but it is disappointing to read how so few critics and viewers have really understand its complex message instead opting out for the cheap lazy and easy claim of its being merely anti war and a rather simple film in comparison to its two predecessors and that in the long run is the real shame of shame
1	shame represents a high point in the career of a master ingmar bergman penetrating existential study of a couple on the island of dealing with surviving a long war liv ullman and max von sydow give painfully detailed performances in this spare stark drama the films intensity rests in bergman's keeping our focus on the minute intimate relations of his two characters both accomplished musicians trapped in a landscape they have ceased to understand we see the way the external pressures of the war complicate and their relationship both characters are forced by the material circumstances of the war to betray their own sense of ethics in one of the most powerful episodes bergman forces us to reflect on the manipulative power of the cinematic medium by showing us a filmed interview with ullman's character that has been re edited and distorted for political effect by one side of the conflict and is used by the other side as evidence of war crimes in a brutal interrogation scene br br
1	a very credible and unsettling movie portraying the effects of war on the general public shame gives us a chilling understanding oh ingmar bergman's beliefs the absence of color and sound as in a soundtrack helps to give the film a more realistic feeling there is no soft or hard lighting or a variety of camera angles to give the story a charming or dramatic effect everything is very simply portrayed as it would be in reality at times the storyline was confusing but perhaps in order to give a sense of the characters' frame of mind – how they too do now know what is happening or why the simplicity of the film made it somewhat boring but i could understand how the director is trying not to glamorize the story and points he depicted the harsh and unsettling events and effects of war in the beginning the characters were introduced and shown as content with the lighter settings and very long drawn out shots when all of a sudden the war struck upon them they were much darker and quiet with less intimate shots bergman did a good job on allowing us to be consumed by the war ourselves and presenting an image of it the so adequately corresponded to war although the storyline itself was not too impressive the content of the film was
1	extremely pinching vision of a war situation where the couple from ok they have different names and initial situations but the actors are the same gets caught in the crossfire of two fronts the depiction of the fighting parties as faceless authorities are often captured in sublime surreal pictures and draws interesting parallels to orwell's 1984 even if bergman thwarts this context on a personal level of a slowly burgeoning conjugal war that is why countless fundamental and philosophical questions towards eva's and jan's marriage are relevant and essential while the threat and danger from the outside tears open an abyss in the inside which was covered with before an intense allegory on the fragile facades of civic conventions
1	this begrudging and angry film is against not just the war during which it was made but all war it doesn't care what war it is it might be the most emotionally involving experience i have ever had with ingmar bergman's work there are no sides to the two main characters in this impacting drama which doesn't intimate a point in any ceremonial symbolism as per bergman's usual but plainly showcases people and their lives and exercises what bergman has already proved he understands about a person's reaction to a movie br br his top drawer regulars liv and max von sydow play an but bickering married couple who were once orchestra musicians now they live in a weathered farm house on an island part of the building frustration we grow to share with these two people in the detail that nothing in their house seems to work they are not reclusive intellectuals either they are a rather familiar marriage that has more or less resigned from life and is essentially apolitical they only get wind of distant rumors of a war that has been going on forever is concerned with the danger to their lives and to her desire to bear children her husband von sydow shrugs off that the war will pass them by their serenity is interrupted by screaming fighter planes flying low over their house the killing of a parachuting airman the arrival of dubious troops their inquisition and eventually their capture by what appears to be the local side but loyalties have long since splintered br br they are sent back to their home witness gratuitous destruction and suffer the vindictive consequences of such an agonizingly distrustful marriage this one of my top favorite bergman efforts is a study of a couple jarred from their safely self unaware lives and violated by a manipulative despair testing them both to reveal who they really are she lacks compassion to some extent too self serving and restless to have any patience for his capricious breakdowns into crying his suppressed emotional issues have led to the repression of the very initiative and excitement that attracted them to begin with the immense last twenty minutes sporadically interrupted by images of the overwhelming gray sky are among the closest to real emotion that bergman ever filmed br br all systems of dogma and faith are the antagonists in this very essential and downbeat portrait the basically clearcut personalities of and von sydow's characters are hurled into the degenerate world of war because they are accused of being sympathizers but the film shot on bergman's small home island of doesn't give any information about where or when it's set who the two sides are and for what they're fighting to an uninvolved civilian caught in between the knowledge base is likely to be quite similar br br and von sydow are not sympathizers for the apparent enemy but they're partisans for who are apparently their side this 1968 reactive allegory could be about the common citizens of iraq or kosovo or vietnam or israel or palestine or
1	ingmar bergman's meditation on war concerns a couple living an idyllic existence on a small island off the coast of what country isn't specified raging off in the distance is a war they know only from news reports as they go about their day the war comes to them and it soon becomes a struggle for survival as both sides seem not to care about them bleak look at the human cost of war and those not readily engaged in battle but caught in the cross fire none the less its a movie ahead of its time as some 40 years since it was made the notion of armies at war where most of the casualties are the civilians have come of age this is a dark disturbing film that is told from the average person's point of view with the complete sense of hopeless and confusion best expressed in the thought that kept running through my head what do i do now as an intellectual exercise the film is top notch this is a film that will make you think as an emotional film it is touching but never fully moving i was never moved emotionally even as the horror of the situation made my brain do flip flops i should state that i admire bergman intellectually for the ideas that he brings to the table however i have never been moved by his films i am not a fan i always sided with fellini in the old film class argument as to who was better since he had more emotion to his films reservations aside this is require viewing especially since we live in a world were war for most of us is just a thing on a tv screen
1	bergman's regular max von sydow and liv starred as a village couple jan and eva rosenberg the story began with an ordinary couple who fights and make up jan was a sensitive person but an escapist who isolated himself from the world eva is a practical woman who is getting fed up with her husband's lack of ambition because jan procrastinating in fixing their radio the are oblivious of the impending war of course the war arrived and the movie was a fascinating study of their transformation of each other and to each other through the invasion as they were mistreated by the enemy and by their own government br br there were no musical score to the movie but the soundtrack was the war noise in one scene the pulsating background gun shot the explosion and sound of the fly by planes was incredible now and then bergman zoomed into the facial expression as different event took places when something violent happened he zoomed out to let the audience sensed the violence rather than seeing up close very well done movie
1	this film offers one of the greatest experiences available to movie goers it is by no means a pleasant film but offers realities and emotions the human mind may never have meant to touch upon it opens pathways in how an individual thinks and afterwards will change the person forever br br the first time i saw this film was in class and immediately after seeing it i had to skip my next class and walk around campus in order to reset my body and mind i felt devastated and somehow unreal as if i didn't exist it was only a few months later that i was telling one of my friends about shame and she asked oh is that when you were messed up after seeing it and ran into me talking all strange about it i didn't even remember running into or talking to anyone at all while outside that day i was astonished br br in plot terms it is the simple tale of a couple torn apart by war there suffering is greater than that of the dead and by the end there are no words to complete the image that bergman creates its like a horrible dream which causes you to wake altering your own reality forever this film must be seen
1	what bergman has got here is what if all that bad stuff happened here in sweden to nice people like us and what he gives us in the swedish language with swedish actors on swedish locations and using what appear to be genuine swedish military vehicles is what was familiar from war films set in almost every other country in europe all the confusing invasions and counter invasions political lies camps faked confessions summary executions torture turncoats collaborators and so on as in a modern short story it's done in the abstract with no real names cities or countries used but the stronger faction are nazis they strut about self importantly and some wear shiny knee boots one even whips things with a riding crop ok it's actually a cane the victimized couple are named rosenberg apart from the shame they feel at finding dirtier ways to survive and who would not do what they did what all of the above suggests is that the title is clearly meant to refer to de facto complicity with the nazis indeed what we are shown is what sweden might have looked like if germany had asked for a bit more than mining concessions br br the first half plays like a black comedy we see the fog of war from the point of view of a comically passive couple who ignore the troops all around the long convoys the bombed out buildings the news reports c they do not even bother to find a working radio they are the ultimate in not in my backyard they talk of wine and meanwhile friends are mysteriously conscripted and growing numbers of troops show up in the town they show no curiosity about the war that has been going on around them for many years br br the man von sydow is cultured sulky and a navel the woman ullman is somewhat more impulsive passionate and outward looking there's a beautiful scene in which the man talks about his violin the manufacturer he says fought in the napoleonic wars but his own interest stops with the cultural artifact in his hand or more precisely which his own warm feelings about owning it and the security that that ownership assumes not in my backyard but when war finally breaks into their bucolic idyll the man's timidity an irritation in good times turns into a liability one he ends up overcompensating for as is often the case as bergman demonstrates subtly and beautifully definitely worth seeing
1	loved this movie kicking it old school love the idea love the script love the characters i really really really loved the geeks i was excited to see the silly slapstick horror flicks still being honored this was right up with my such as saturday the 14th and pandemonium if you are a big fan of scary and silly then this is your movie only taken off one star because i would love to have had better sound not bad sound but would have liked to have more great blood splatters great murder weapons great costumes i really love the nod to the great 80's teenager stereotype ala breakfast club and i can appreciate the non cgi suspense really good camera action and light suspense instead of cutting to cgi i would rather have good fake that really fake fake br br kisses to the cast and makers oh loved the making of too
1	this is one of the bleakest the most harrowing of bergman's films i've seen i also think this is one of the most powerful films about the ugliness of war and what it does to the human souls br br the couple of musicians who left a big city for a remote island and make a living as farmers find themselves capable of unspeakable and shameful acts that would have ordinarily been impossible for them even imagine as they struggle to survive horrible reality of war they betray their souls their friends and even each other in a desperate attempt to simply survive another day liv and max von sydow are brilliant as usual as lost confused and terrified couple that got caught in the midst of a civil war br br 9 5 10
1	the apolitical musicians eva liv and jan rosenberg max von sydow have been married for seven years and live in a small farm in a remote island to escape from a civil war in the continent they provide to a couple of costumers to raise some money and buy some supplies they love each other and eva is twenty years old and wants to have a baby but the reluctant jan who is a weak and sensitive man does not want to have children when the rebels arrive in the island their peaceful and calm lives turn to hell and they get in the middle of accusations from both sides when colonel jacobi gunnar stalks eva jan changes his behavior and becomes a brutal man and the love and affection they feel for each other change to hatred and indifference br br shame is an antiwar movie by the master ingmar bergman focused by the eyes of a couple of artists that are apolitical and does not listen to the news but when the war arrives to their lands they have their love friendship and affection destroyed by the senseless soldiers liv and max von sydow have top notch performances as usual and i do not recall seeing the breast of liv in any other movie the process of of the pacific and sensitive jan rosenberg by the war is impressive and the bleak open conclusion is pessimist and adequate to the dramatic story my vote is nine br br title brazil shame
1	i watched this movie on a big screen a few months ago i didn't know what to expect precisely and for the first ten minutes i feared i might not enjoy this film it was beginning very slowly in silence and almost banality which was all the less exciting as the sound was quite bad and the subtitles sometimes impossible to read br br but i definitely do not regret to have gone on watching it it is one of the most beautiful bergman movies i've ever seen at the same time human ruthless and psychologically so convincing br br seldom have i seen actors play so wonderfully with such an intensity on their faces liv ullman's interpretation is unforgettable and sydow is excellent too br br there is always psychological violence in bergman movies and this one may be the most physically violent of them all the strained relationships between the man and the woman evolve in parallel with the physical violence that is surrounding them br br finally this sober violent and powerful film contains a surprisingly striking human depth an excellent bergman br br
1	shame is rather unique as a war film or rather quite the anti war film in that it not only doesn't focus on the soldiers or politics involved there is politics but not how you'd think it'd be shown it deals with its two main subjects as the only two beings that can possibly be cared about at all in this brutal decaying society they inhabit ingmar bergman in the midst of his prime and following two other heavily psychological films persona and hour of the wolf is far more interested in seeing what the effect of war has on usually civilized beings that it brings out the worst in them and also in a cathartic way is a reminder of what is truly crucial in living his two key actors are frequent collaborators and friends max von sydow and liv ullman as the oddly enough who are musicians living on a farm on an island not too dissimilar from when one thinks about it br br they see the tanks roll by and a couple of old friends already getting worn down but they try not to put it too much to heart there's a sweet scene where the couple just talk rather frankly but with heart all one shot as is repeated through the film is to perhaps create a sense of being provoked then comes the trouble including a fake film of propaganda made at gunpoint with the the psychological turmoil in being prisoners of war and the terror involved with a 'friend' in the military one of gunnar most subtle works with bergman needless to say this is not one of the easier films to go through in terms of bergman's filmography however for some it may be one of his more accessible works his religious themes this time is kept very low key even as the idea of keeping a sort of faith pervades the film's atmosphere when there is war action it's shot in unconventional quick ways via great amigo sven nykvist br br and the deconstruction of the relationship between jan and eva is corresponded successfully with the backdrop of a chaotic kind of war ground where the lines are never too surely drawn in a way this film shot right at the height of the worst times in vietnam is even more relevant for today i couldn't help but see chilling uncompromising coincidences between iraq and elsewhere with some of jan and eva's scenes with the fighters or those 'in charge' the very last scene by the way is one of bergman's very best all around acting directing lighting it's not the kind of war picture or again anti war i find little of the john wayne spirit in this production that i would recommend right off the bat to my friends all into saving private ryan it has a little more in kinship with paths of glory looking at the effects of the hypocrisy of war but in reality like any of bergman's genre films it stands alone however one that packs a wallop for the art house crowd
1	a gruelling watch but one of bergman's finest films interesting to compare this with the hour of the wolf as both feature the same lead actors as artists or an artist and his wife who have taken sanctuary on an island in the earlier film it's largely inner demons that lead to von disintegrating personality at least that's how i read it whereas here it's very much circumstances beyond his control br br much has been written about the unsympathetic central characters particularly von sydow's for me there are flashes of a good if flawed man early in the film but one who copes badly with adversity the flaws become all that is left as his humanity is gradually eroded by one horror after another br br i watched a passion and von sydow on their island again soon after this and was amazed to recognise many of the same locations and then there's a dream sequence
1	first of all the story is not so simple as many earlier reviewers tend to emphasize it is actually a very complex story unlike bergman's other movies that are more bend towards character study in we have two main characters but as we are thrown from the start in the middle of a war we have no idea who is fighting and why everything is open for any resolution this creates a huge tension and makes every event meaningful as the story unfolds we are introduced to numerous characters that are turned into symbols of humanity both its dark and luminous sides we have the example of the innocent bystanders who try to get by during an absurd war the cynical doctor who makes fun of his patients and provides the only bitter humor of the whole movie the perverse opportunists who try to make the best of an atrocious event character the innocent dead children the nameless figures almost turned into animals from the boat etc all of them are somehow seen through the eyes of jan von sydow and eva their characters are more restrained then in other films en passion and this is exactly because what is important here is the story the way exterior events have the capacity to radically change human nature br br bergman made this film two years after persona where the main conclusion expressed by the only word uttered by liv character is nothing that's it the meaning of art and the meaning of life the latter being nothing more than a play that includes all plays but what about war and especially the ones of the century in persona the only real emotion suffered by character is when she sees a victim of the vietnam war turned into a human torch in that idea is extended to a complex analysis of the dehumanizing nature of war in a nameless region of a nameless country we only assume it's two factions speaking the same language fight an absurd war jan and eva are two dreamers caught in the middle but their dreams are woven in a sort of counterpoint jan is at first an idealist unable to react properly to the world and a subject to his wife's will towards the end he turns into a radically different personality capable of unmotivated murder strong willed pitiless watch carefully the suicidal on the boat the simplicity of the act is harrowing on the other hand eva progressively looses touch with reality and at the end she is completely suffused in her own unfulfilled dream br br from a technical point of view the whole movie delivers its message in a very effective way bergman places the viewer alongside the character putting the camera in the car with the actors or in an extreme close up behind the actor nykvist manages an extraordinary control of the camera there are some masterful hand held effects very good in making everything seem real the shots when the characters are captured by the army look remarkably documentary like the screenplay is minimalist but the story is quite complex for that matter actually the whole movie is paradoxical it has an intensity in the subject that is in a sharp contrast to the coldness and lack of emotional involvement with which it is directed and filmed nothing is melodramatic here there is no compassion no hope and no apparent redemption but as in liv dream at the end it is all so beautiful one cannot help but being amazed at it it was not so awful since it was so beautiful
1	bergman's is one of the most realistic depictions of war ever set to film this is not an action film by any means though the pacing is faster and there is most action than in most any other bergman movie nor is this a of war or patriotism unlike most war movies in fact the gritty realism and the deliberate ambiguity of the character's loyalties has a very contemporary feel br br is a darkly lit movie that should be watched at night so as to let it work it's magic many of the effects are conveyed indirectly but so effectively that some scenes compete in intensity to a contemporary insanely huge budget film like saving private ryan of course the action in is on a much smaller scale but it is impressive none the less br br while the film making style feels contemporary the setting of the film feels timeless and the war torn countryside and even the yet intact provincial hamlet could be anywhere any time and this film is not so much about specific historical events with specific names and dates but about universal human reactions to adversity and chaos br br the acting in though typically impressive from ullman and sydow is not of primary importance in this film unlike most other bergman movies through much of the film they are spectators much as we are bergman has the war imposed on them and through them on the audience and their reaction is perhaps what any of our reactions might be br br highly recommended 10 10
1	i don't recall a film which so deftly shows the emotional destruction of war as mirrored in one single marital relationship the focus of the film is the union between ullman and von sydow the two are in every scene through the course of the film they experience a role reversal one has the strength of survival and the other is reduced to emotional escapism through dreams both will lose a measure of humanity but one to a greater degree than the other the characters and the viewer go through periods of fluctuation in regards to closeness the camera pulls out and away sound disappears words are lost only for the camera to return to painterly closeups of its facially expressive stars the confusion and fluctuation may make this film hard for some viewers but this is all purposeful under the master hand of bergman i think the use of a fake war makes the film timeless as relevant today as ever before and by focusing on the human relationship through war makes the film relevant to everyone the pair could be anyone the film is not grounded in place or time but rather in emotion a unique and effective war film unlike any other bergman's films are virtuosic in presenting human relationships that he would bring this to a war film is masterful
1	when liv ullman's character says i feel like i'm in someone else's dream and they're going to be ashamed when they wake up she is referring not only to being an unwilling player in society's war games she is referring to being an ignorant participant in life itself at the film's end when she says that she had a dream that she had a child and she was trying to take care of it but she forgot something else the implication is that she has forgotten what she has learned in the war she's just survived that like her own mother before her she will be unable to pass on any vital lessons to her own child and therefore the cycle of the shame of ignorance will continue ad infinitum
1	how is it possible to like and dislike the same movie br br the plot is very much like that jody foster thing only not as good nicole was great jude was adequate they didn't give him many lines is there a reason for that generally he's a pretty good actor she's so elegant his character is so country bumpkin it makes one wonder what they see in each other br br romance between two such was only successful in lady lover br br i think the dislike comes about because the movie is too long they could have told the story in two hours br br the story is good good locations good filming the character actors were great
1	is one of the most fun and enjoyable low budget films i've seen in quite some time director jeff smith who also served as co writer cinematographer and editor definitely shows his love of under appreciated 80's horror films with this movie anyone who loves the cheesiness preposterous situations wacky and stereotypical characters of 80's horror movies will definitely love this very tongue in cheek homage to the past br br definitely lives up to the qualities described in the poster and then some it has all the excessive violence and gratuitous nudity that is reminiscent of those entertaining 80's horror movies we all love i had a blast watching from the 80's outfits that the stereotypical characters wear to the blood splatter to the goofy tone i just couldn't get enough
1	i really enjoyed this epic thought not quite so much as the english patient a modern day classic the first 20 minutes or so feel awkward but as jude law embarks on the journey back to his love ava nicole kidman the film picks up in leaps and bounds and it becomes a very memorable thoughtful romantic drama apparently it is fashionable to hate kidman at the moment but i don't agree at all and she does well here i actually think that the romance between and ada is weakly developed in the script they really don t get much screen time together to develop a relationship but law and kidman give it their all and convince ada's journey is the crux of the film she becomes a strong woman who can bear almost anything zellweger at first seems all wrong as ruby but she grows on you after all and sparkles in many of her later scenes the film has beautiful photography and set design but never really captures the true feel of a period piece jack white in particular has long hair and a pale that look completely out of place with the setting cillian murphy fans will enjoying seeing the talented irish actor in an early bit part and natalie portman actually proves she can act in probably the film's most striking sequence it's a pity that in the other boleyn girl she's so inadequate
1	it's initial premise is based on the american civil war but it's ultimately a love story we start at the beginning of the war where the main characters kidman law are obviously aware of each other and there's an obvious attraction they have a passionate kiss on the day he leaves for the war the main thrust of this film is for law's character to return to kidman's and his struggles to achieve that and her struggles to survive until he returns the reason it fails to convince is that we don't see enough of this relationship before law's character leaves for battle it's difficult to believe the premise that 2 people yearn for each other so much given they've had so little contact everything else is just about fine renee zellweger and her incumbent father and his entourage are lovely additions as is the threat from the gang chasing sure it's a long film but it does hold the interest and the cinematography is great an honourable attempt that doesn't quite make it but worth a watch nonetheless
1	it's been awhile since i've seen cold mountain bit i do knew that i enjoyed it immensely though it does take place during the the last days of american civil war it's not really a war movie it's more of a romance drama and it works mainly because of the performances usually i don't like nicole kidman but i liked here i thought she was very convincing in her role i liked rene as well who i'm not usually a fan of jude law is good as usual the supporting cast there are some great supporting performances her too numerous too mention there's also some breathtaking scenery in the film and there are also a number of very nice musical pieces as well the story is sad and tinged with tragedy but it s a beautifully done well told story for me cold mountain is an 8 10
1	watching cold mountain gave me the impression that its director anthony was deliberately trying to outdo himself and the own film of his' that he was trying to beat was the virtually impeccable the english patient from 1996 comparing the two movies the premise is quite similar we have a passionate love affair between two people set in a turbulent time of war and they end up treating the war more or less as a disturbance in the background while trying to find themselves back in each other's arms again the primary plot differences are that nicole kidman's character is not married jude law's is a deserter and the conflict is the american civil war br br cold mountain is story wise more watered down and mellow than say the english patient and it's more on the level for people who want a simple love story with some kind of an exterior turbulence causing a problem it is a shorter film which is a plus for people with less patience however it's not as spectacular or original or genuinely gripping as the english patient my only big complaint about cold mountain is astonishingly the love affair between the characters of jude law and ada monroe nicole kidman amazingly their love was the least interesting thing in the picture they don't have a real relationship we don't feel any real passion coming from them and the passion that we do see is more physical than emotional i was more fascinated by the friendship between nicole kidman and oscar winner renee and also jude law's travels across country dodging vigilantes and enemy soldiers if had strengthened the importance of the love story then he would have had i feel a better picture br br of course the movie is entertaining even if the love story is uninteresting the civil war sequences are absolutely great they are of the modern tradition that show war as horrible and dehumanizing the re enactment of the petersburg campaign in which tons of explosives was detonated from underground and then followed by a hand to hand battle is horrifying does not shy from showing blood and gore in an artistic and sensible manner and he's not afraid to show casualties of innocence and life in these scenes there are moments where women as well as men are killed oftentimes by crossfire and there's more to it just the sound design of the movie generates tension there's a scene where and another deserter make themselves a meal by sawing off the head of a dead cow we don't see the slicing but the sound effects of blade going through bone are sickening br br lastly i must congratulate the cast for the performances jude law was terrific in the movie and deserved the academy award nomination he received i feel that nicole kidman deserved one as well even though her character was a bit shallow renee had the most personality and screen stealing atmosphere and then there's just the bit parts that also really work to complete this stylistic world recreating a horrible time in america's past br br maybe cold mountain would have been better as a war picture but it most certainly would have been spectacular like the english patient if its love story had been powered up and made more passionate by the screenwriters and director anthony as it is it's a most enjoyable picture i wasn't bored by it and i recommend it i just say that its love story though a central plot point is a little more mellow than it needs to be and all the stuff around it was what really worked
1	how can a name not even a real name break your heart here's how there have been few film versions of a celebrated novel that have done better justice to their source material than anthony movie of charles cold mountain if you've read the book you will be able to feel most of the major scenes soul shakingly recreated i personally cried numerous times while reading the novel and spent much of the evening watching the film through tears br br astounding scope beautiful words great acting and great music in the interview on the dvd accompanying the film talks about the multiple layers of the story all of them work one of the best films i've seen and an invitation to one of the greatest novels of the last ten years
1	i went into this film thinking i wasn't going to like it but hoping to be surprised but this much like the film ended up being bleak and hopeless but don't get me wrong delivers every bit of a grand epic and for those who enjoy that kind of experience and are willing to take that adventure and accept what comes as just that then they will not be disappointed and it will be one of the better films of the year in their opinion the acting is of a high quality and will most likely come away with a trinity of oscar noms for law kidman and zellweger even though portman's few scenes may be the most powerful in the film the locations are beautiful and has an eye for a good shot br br however for those like me who want the director to take them on the adventure instead of going willingly may come away disappointed mainly due to and his adaptation the film is so utterly bleak it makes for what i consider to be a punching bag epic which is a film that that tries to hit hard with emotion but does so to such an extreme and so often that during the film i didn't have the time to emotionally invest or hadn't recovered from a previous blow and it became unrealistic and consequently too difficult to really care not to mention predictable overall the cold mountain almost left me too drained to even think back on the good aspects of the film as all i remember is death which may have been an original motif but ends up being the focus instead of the characters
1	i watched cold mountain and the english patient again this weekend the former is a civil war melodrama about jude law a confederate soldier who deserts the army to return to ada monroe nicole kidman a girl he barely knows both films were lovingly directed by anthony who does an exceptional job although cold mountain is very good it could have been a great movie with the right casting and less folksy backwoods dialog br br romantic epics need a convincing heroine the english patient had kristin scott thomas who was perfectly cast as the smart alluring and beautiful katherine clifton the main problem with cold mountain is ada who seems silly and dim witted and lacks that quality would make you believe that could become obsessed after one kiss as an actress kidman has a limited range she usually plays stern faced women who face adversity with stoicism kidman was also too old to play the ingénue and law's love interest the film needed a young actress who could play charming warm and vulnerable for someone who was supposedly enduring hardship and near starvation she seemed ridiculously well fed and over dressed kidman was so impeccably groomed that it looked like she had spent three hours getting made up for each scene michele pfieffer in her younger days could have played the part perfectly even natalie portman would have been an improvement br br renee was more appropriately attired but her animated performance chewed the scenery but maybe she was trying to compensate for kidman jude law was in his own silent movie in the odysseus role but played his part well ray winstone was excellent as the london southern villain br br during the civil war people were probably not very well educated by today's standards and maybe they did speak in monosyllables however if you watch bbc adaptations of dickens austen or mrs everyone is articulate maybe this is unrealistic but it would improved my entertainment
1	i just saw the dvd and loved it in particular i thought the director and jude and nicole did an amazing job with the kiss between and ada just before left it was the most romantic kiss i've ever seen in a film i thought it was crucial for setting the tone for the rest of the movie it managed to make it believable that and ada would walk wait respectively for each other for all that time without ever really having had a relationship i thought the film managed this crucial plot point much better than the book itself i'm sure many of you will be quick to name other film kisses which best this one but this one is it for me jude and nicole had showed incredible chemistry in the far too few scenes they had together
1	well i expected for all the hype and oscar nominations an epic civil war drama something with the magnitude of the english patient given the same director this film isn't of epic stature but it turns out i was relieved it wasn't it's a love story in the midst of the horrors of war where young men are sent off to fight are tracked and killed and the women and children at home are left to fend for themselves while the men are gone br br anyway i thought nicole kidman and rene were pretty decent and not knowing much about jude law he was all right also it seems rene z had the more fun part of the 3 leads and was able to smartly play a spirited feisty downhome woman with much aplomb also for me it was good to see actress kathy baker someone's who's talent needs to be more recognized acknowledged br br this film is worth seeing this i'm can't articulate why really but maybe because it is a slice of americana br br
1	this movie worked for me because i see this movie as an exact opposite of with the wind ' farm owners instead of plantation owners scarlett fights and for what she wants ada gets depressed and turns inside herself until ruby renee zellweger shows up to save the day sort of in a round about way instead of officers trying to get back to their families the lists goes on and on even the love story was opposite if this is what the producer and writers were trying to get across it succeeded with me br br there are only two things i didn't like about the movie the rest i thought was well done and i liked it enough to recommend it to friends first i couldn't see the attraction between jude law and ada nicole kidman as being strong enough for to desert to get back to her said he only had written to her a few times where ada wrote to him almost constantly second something or someone getting killed or dying in almost every scene was a little much i must say it was full of action because of that but after about the second scene i knew something or someone was going to die in the next scene i like to be surprised by the next scene not know what is going to happen before it does br br i thought all the acting was very well done with zellweger the best she deserved the credit she got for it i thought she played the part of the hillbilly girl very well she must have done her homework on the part zellweger even said in the movie that she was smarter than people thought she was i think that was true law did well with his part with all he had to go through to get back to kidman it must have been a lot stronger love to go through all that than i thought it was now he showed a lot of emotion in his face during his trials kidman's part may have had something to do with the fact i chose her performance after the other two except when she was depressed she didn't show much emotion i don't know if that is how the part was written or if that is how she perceived the part she still did a good job i just thought the other two were better br br i liked the scene with the zellweger kidman and the rooster even though it was one of those scenes i mentioned above i thought the 'home guard' was exactly as they probably were back then even though we don't hear much about them they were a part of that time i thought the scenery was beautiful the movie had everything needed to be a good historical romance
1	it's the 1980's and the teenagers are ready to party it up in a scary old house that is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of murder mcgee after mistakenly conjuring the dead through an unfinished conversation on an board the kids are forced to fight to the death battling a vengeful ghost who possesses and kills all of their friends one by one sound familiar it's supposed to it's clearly marketed to pay homage to the classic 80's slashers with the tagline excessive violence gratuitous nudity zero budget br br can't get enough it's pure entertainment i enjoyed the humor and the way it poked fun at all the horror cliché's but at the same time embraced what was fun about movies from this time there is something you get with this movie you never got with the old 80's slasher films though good acting the entire cast was very talented and you don't see that very much in any low budget flicks recent or otherwise there was a lot of chemistry between the characters i was very entertained throughout the entire film and i am fully convinced the writer director and cast will go a long way in their separate careers the script was very well written and the dialogue flowed naturally br br the effects were a bit amateur and the scenes were not lit well but the fact that this movie admits on its cover there was practically no budget i already know this going in this film makes it simple to politely ignore its faults and just sit back and enjoy although this is not an oscar award winning opus it never claims to be and props to that it's a lot of fun if you like slashers you'll really appreciate this film if you like blood and boobies you'll appreciate it also
1	i have not managed to completely block out this film from memory even though it has been two years since i've seen it br br don't get me wrong i have long forgotten the main story line the relationship between kidman and law that made no impression on me but it was the torture scenes in the film that really struck me i cried for about two hours straight after wards br br it had never previously occurred to me how people in war time could take advantage of something as pure as a mother's love we see several examples of this here in both the scenes with natalie portman and with the mother with her fingers in the fence for keeping her son hidden at home i was shocked at these scenes and will probably never watch the film again as a consequence because the scenes even now are perfectly clear in my mind however i am glad i watched the film simply because it has made me more aware to the horrors of war and the horrible cruelty that mankind can inflict on it's own br br the blonde albino character has been top of my list of most evil bad guy ever since i saw the film his horrible sneer and lack of any human feeling for the people he tortured really hit a nerve with me at one point i wanted to get up in the cinema and kill him myself see the movie pushed me over the edge of reason it only occurred to me afterward that i'd only be hitting a big screen that shows the film's power and intensity at least br br i recommend the film for it's sheer experience not for the entwined love story but for the manner in which it depicts war without needing a battlefield
1	in cold mountain north colorado near to the period of the american civil war the reverend monroe donald sutherland arrives in the small town with his daughter the shy ada monroe nicole kidman due to health reasons ada meets the also shy jude law and they fall in love with each other with the beginning of the war becomes a soldier and his great support to stay alive is the wish to see ada in cold mountain again meanwhile ada meets ruby renée zellweger a survivor of the war who helps her in the farm and becomes her best friend the story alternates present and past situations disclosing a beautiful romance i liked this film a lot having names such as philip seymour hoffman natalie portman and giovanni ribisi in the supporting cast a magnificent direction of anthony and seven indications to the oscar this movie does not disappoint my remark is that there are some very important scenes deleted in the story and presented in the dvd at least one of them which show what happens with sara her baby and the three dead bodies in her farm should not be deleted as it was my vote is nine br br title brazil
1	anthony writer director cold mountain is a carefully constructed sensitive and intelligent drama set in the social context of the confederacy during the civil war which deals with the politics of the war in a very subtle and realistic manner while it accurately depicts the brutality and inhumanity of that war it also does something that many films related to this period to not handle as effectively cold mountain studies the southern context from the inside out and portrays changes among the non slave owning common people wrought by the war and almost uniquely cold mountain does not over generalize southerners northerners or anybody else br br the film surfs through genres as needed never presenting a dull moment it is a romance a war story an action adventure and historical fiction all nicely woven into one br br the story centers on jude law and ada monroe nicole kidman who are smitten with each other for very simple reasons as this young romance begins to bud enlists in the confederate army taking with him a book ada has given him and a photograph of her ada's character is one of the most brilliant aspects of the film which is important because the audience experiences this film from a third person perspective but the story is clearly hers from the beginning to the end ada is an intelligent southern belle and daughter of a liberal minister she begins the film as a daddy's girl skilled in many of the arts that southern women who have been surrounded by servants most of their lives were expected to learn in other words as she admits to ruby renee zellweger she is a master of everything useless br br ada's father passes on and she is left to manage his modest estate by herself with no experience of this sort she struggles and survives by holding the memory of close to her heart ruby enters the picture as a tough young woman who has been raised by a drunk and negligent father ruby has all the skills and abilities ada lacks and as they become inseparable business partners they grow to love one another as best friends experience is radically different but something of a mirror image during his participation in the war he sees many friends killed for causes they don't really believe in and decides to desert nobody he meets comes to his rescue as he begins the thousand mile walk back to cold mountain and ada and most of those he meets die br br the bulk of the film takes place during long walk following both of the protagonists as they live learn grow and change an on going act of will borne of desperation preserves their intense passionate love for it is his only source of hope in a world of pure desperation for ada it is very much the same thing but also a symbol and remnant of the old south a world which is rapidly passing br br the cinematography is powerful and breathtaking there are beautiful shots of appalachian landscapes which give the film a strong sense of history the script and editing are also extremely strong emphasizing the broad class and educational differences reflected in the ante bellum southern dialects of the middle and lower classes with the cast of this film nothing short of perfection should be expected and the cast mostly rises to the occasion my one criticism however relates to the accents adopted by kidman and law's characters an australian and a brit probably should not be expected to accurately reproduce southern american speech but there are a few occasions where these two exceptionally gifted actors produce distracting vocal slips i admit my to this and can say with some confidence that it won't bother most people performance is outstanding and she creates a character i will remember into my br br very highly recommended
1	this movie moved me more than i was expecting and i was fully prepared to cry the acting mainly carried this film with superb performances from jude law nicole kidman and renee zellweger as well as the supporting cast these actors portrayed characters so intensely human that they lingered the remainder of the night with me and i had trouble shaking this war drama the costumes and cinematography were also magical but didn't get carried away with themselves they didn't take focus but added to the whole effect cold mountain could never become my favorite movie as that title will always belong to the english patient but it's in the top five the story itself was well developed and stayed fairly unpredictable i did not find myself guessing what line came next a heart wrenching story about humanity and war in fact this movie was so strongly real that it was barely noticeable it took place in the 19th century it seemed to apply to all times
1	'war movie' is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clichéd dialogue rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat once in a while however a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen the civil war era cold mountain starring jude law nicole kidman and renée zellweger is such a film br br then again calling cold mountain a war movie is not entirely accurate true enough the film opens with a quite literally quick and dirty battle sequence that puts glory director edward zwick shame however cold mountain is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier played by jude law who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind ada monroe played by nicole kidman at first glance this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier's tribulations on the battlefield indeed the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived br br cold mountain soon takes a drastic turn though as the intrepid hero turns out to be a deserter incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates and begins a long odyssey homeward meanwhile back at the farm ada's cultured ways prove of little use in the fields soon she is transformed into something of a coming to ada's rescue is the course tough as nails ruby played by renée zellweger who helps ada put the farm back together and perhaps more importantly cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada br br within these two settings a vivid compelling and at times very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds the characters with whom and ada interact are surprisingly complex enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby's deadbeat father ray winstone as an unrepentant southern lawman and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother all have been greatly affected and changed by the war of northern aggression mostly for the worse the dark pervading anti war message accented by an effective haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century it's hellish effect on the land is relevant br br director anthony manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters the love story between and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film though the inherently distant abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot br br make no mistake cold mountain has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether
1	i really enjoyed this both times i watched it and both times i walked away thinking about it and the morals of the story a great deal i agree with another reviewer in that the movie is not centred around the sci fi aspects you might expect from an alien on earth movie but rather is about the human condition the characters in the psych hospital provide a great insight in to that and how they go from hopelessness to hope this movie has touches of sadness to humour to sympathy to the final is he or isn't he that final question was well handled and even though some might argue you don't know what happens in the end and the question goes unanswered i feel it is done in far more detail than something like say the movie ronin with robert de niro where you never find out what's in the box and feel very frustrated because of it i highly recommend k pax 8 10
1	kevin spacey again picks a winner with k pax an endearing movie that expresses profound revelations at human existence via the character's naive yet at the same time unquestionably wise point of view br br it's enjoyable trying to work out 'if he is or he as the plot expands and the robert porter character gets fleshed out however some may find the ending a little unsatisfying but in reality it couldn't have been any other way br br my few issues with the film revolve around the rather cartoony and over simplified portrayal of mental patients i was surprised because the films plot shows a great deal of intelligence and i don't feel it would have lost anything by being more honest regarding how people with mental health problems behave br br that said i realise this was a movie and not a documentary and the film itself is shot and the story unwraps at a pleasing rate br br bridges is great and spacey delivers a languid and relaxed performance more like a stand up than an alien br br a good film that will get you talking with your friends
1	i thoroughly enjoyed this film i had read the book a good ten years ago and was intrigued about how it would translate to film br br the screenplay is very true to the book which i was charmed by this is a rarity in itself these days the characterisations were solid and believeable and the kept me shifting in my perceptions even though i already knew the ending from the book br br an intelligent and well crafted film
1	after watching this movie once it quickly became one of my favorites as different events happen in the movie you change your mind about back and forth until the end and even after the movie is very thought provoking and a must watch
1	at last a movie that handles the probability of alien visits with the appropriate depth and loving warmth just in case we're not alone i do believe that these visitors are just too to care for us or give that wayward bunch of anthropocentric goofs a stable proof of their existence we wouldn't interfere in the battle rites of some agitated desert tribe either unless we're out for messing with our travel insurance huh br br anyway the movie depicts the transitional of a weary mind and body by a superior entity that happens quite unspectacular and rather unrecognized but we're dealing with a movie here right so hospitalization is just a trigger to the plot br br jeff bridges acts great as usual but spacey is hilarious the role seems tailored downright to him convincing and lovingly mad eating bananas sitting in a tree giving his doctor a hard time with quickness wisdom and most of all stunning quotes they made me think and philosophize for hours already br br it's an encouraging film to say the least and the soundtrack by edward shearmur is simply beautiful just go and get a copy catch a beam of light now
1	this brass eye special was swamped by complaints more on that later when it was broadcast in 2001 following a national debate around a possible sarah s law following the abduction and murder of school girl sarah payne in fact it s scheduling was delayed while phil collins took legal advice after he found out he d been fooled by the show s maker chris morris into a starting a campaign entitled sense br br if truth be told this show is probably more remembered for the controversy than the content which is in very poor taste but i do confess that i laughed out loud the edition centres around and how society treats both them and their victims chris morris plays the presenter who tells the audience that an infamous paedophile has been launched into space then confesses that an eight year old child has accidentally been placed into the capsule along with the paedophile cue the child s frightened screams like i said very poor taste br br other highlights of the show include dr fox giving a scientific lecture that share an identical nervous system to crabs no one knows this but it s a scientific fact labour mp barbara follet giving a public warning about equipment put on their genitals while surfing the net and kate thornton warning viewers that can send gas through the internet which makes young children to sexual predators including one victim who was once a shy innocent child and who now has the sexuality of a sixty year old colonel morris also shows a police officer in the child protection squad a serious of photos wanting to know if they re classed as obscene the photos included barbie surrounded by a marital aids and a composite photo featuring a young boys head a dog s body and an erect penis that could only have belonged to john holmes hey i never said this show was tasteful did i br br it s impossible to mention without the hypocritical fall out that surrounded it where politicians childrens organizations and policemen rushed to condemn the show for making fun of a very serious subject the show was poor taste despite me laughing all the way through it but it s a biting satire perhaps the critics should take a long hard look in the mirror where a liberal elite allows convicted paedophile slime to walk around the streets of britain before they criticise a mere tv show for tensions
1	who's the man what's that i hear a resounding cry of kevin well if you didn't shout for the 'usual suspect' i'd recommend changing your medicated prescription anyway this is no first class movie just a very well produced story that is almost believable considering its about an alien your probably wondering what the all acting is top stuff and also the first i've seen a balanced sarcastic alien just enjoyable is all i can say and almost for the whole family if not for the scene later in the movie seven stars
1	may be spoilers no doubt one of the best dramas if not the best in the genre i've ever seen is an alien or just a crazy bugger this is the question you'll be asking yourself all throughout the movie br br kevin spacey is simply amazing as is jeff bridges you can't beat this kind of acting plus some humour at times some of kevin actions in this movie are very funny when he was up in the tree for example and when he was talking to the queen mental patient the way he hid half his face around the wall and just stared br br to simply put it right from the start you'll be hooked and if you really love drama's you won't be dissapointed br br a solid 85
1	possible spoilers warning br br you never know the guy keeps telling he's an alien but oops seems to be the most human in the whole story arrived from distant planet said weird things advanced the earth's science healed the doctor or was it just a crazy dream you never know better see k pax for yourself think br br great acting of all the cast don't forget to notice the music it's right in a place lot of fun some sadness 8 of 10 after all
1	if you like movies that will make you think this is absolutely one of the good ones i always liked david lynch and cronenberg they have always made high quality movies br br has directed k pax brilliantly the movie tears in feelings and philosophy of the mind and world kevin spacey and jeff bridges both delivers superb acting skills it caught me i did not take my eyes away from the screen during the movie on the other hand if you are hoping for a special effect sci fi movie this is not for you the story is being dragged a bit which can be a bit boring but also works as a way of building up the theme of the movie br br enjoy this film i did
1	i thought this movie was highly underrated the subject matter does seem like it would be a little strange and i was put off at first but once i was watching the movie it didn't seem strange at all i was intrigued with all the different possibilities that the story had to offer and i couldn't wait to find out how it would end once it did end i thought about it for a long time after i was pleased with everything about k pax from the acting and the story and the scientific elements and psychological issues to the ending it's not an especially upbeat or happy film though it does make you chuckle from time to time but i found it to be especially entertaining and thought provoking i own it now and intend to watch it many times
1	kevin spacey is a mental hospital patient who claims to be native to a distant planet called k pax his psychiatrist dr mark powell jeff bridges tries to help him all the while trying to understand and find out if he is really from k pax br br this movie doesn't really fall into any particular genre one big part of k pax is drama science fiction another part fantasy plus add to that a dash of comedy and you begin to get what k pax is all about the story as you see above isn't too complicated or deep but it still offers some good twists and turns of the plot that may still surprise you as they did me no special effects or graphics accompany this movie and there's no need to have them the music in the film is great however a techno soundtrack along with a terrific piano piece makes k pax sound sci fi and makes certain scenes intriguing br br kevin spacey is the heart of the movie and plays a very convincing alien from the planet k pax emotional with great facial expressions spacey does a fine job in the lead role jeff bridges is dr powell that aids and attempts to understand bridges is also excellent in his part bridges and spacey fit together very well and they should after all they've both had a lot of experience the wife of dr powell is rachel powell played by mary mccormack mccormack plays her part well showing the frustration from having her husband gone and so dedicated to his patient woodard plays dr powell's coworker claudia we don't really see claudia too much but overall she puts in an alright performance br br k pax is rated pg 13 for a sequence of violent images and brief language and sensuality and that covers it as far as violent images go we don't see too much a few people that have quite a bit of blood on them but that's all language is as follows 1 f word wow only one 11 s words and a few uses of the lord's name in vain not too bad really the sensuality part is just from when explains to dr powell how reproduction works on k pax nothing terrible just something about it feels like having your nuts in a vice not too bad on the content level for a pg 13 movie it could have been a lot worse br br in conclusion k pax is not a bad movie it won't stun you but it is enjoyable and kind of fun to watch it has some funny parts sad parts really sad parts and well you know what i mean it's a story of a mental hospital patient what do you expect all in all a good rent for those of you looking for a good drama that you can kick back and relax to k pax is a well done movie br br bonus if you've seen this movie already like it and are thinking about getting the dvd i would highly recommend it it has loads of extras to look through and even an alternate ending and deleted scenes 8 10
1	a beautiful magical thought provoking and heart warming story excellent direction perfect cast marvellous script excellent score beautifully lit need i say more br br if you love films that not only make you think but also warm your heart some that spring to mind are of dreams' and 'groundhog day' then you're sure to love k pax br br most highly recommended
1	well not much really to say about this but it is really good very good job from directing and the movie have good cast of acting movies plot is also believable and hehe good so the good is main word in this case i just hope there would be more this kind scifi movies thats why this one s pointed out in the crowd i give it 8 5 of 10
1	just watched this and it was amazing was in serious doubt about renting the dvd or not so if you are and like watching other than brainless action movies don't hesitate any longer don't let the dull cover put you off the script is one of the best ever funny original touching and keeps you at the edge of the seat through the whole movie i had already watched another movie right before this one and was really sleepy and usually i get bored on watching a second movie in one night but this one really made me wake up and didn't have any boring moments it also made me rethink a lot of things in life and gave me a really good feeling br br also the acting is great one of kevin spacey's best roles the visuals are beautiful and the use of music is very well chosen if i have to come up with something negative to say about it well i can't really find anything enjoy 10 out of 10
1	this is a movie that will leave you thinking is he or isn't he while many people have complained about the ambiguous ending it gives room for the audience to think and interpret it from the signs this is my interpretation and theory and i believe it is very sound br br first here is the plot one day kevin spacey suddenly appears in the midst of a busy train station after attempting to help a woman from muggers he is arrested and sent to bellevue and later transferred to dr mark powell's jeff bridges hospital freely talks about how he came from the planet k pax and is here to do a report on earth naturally he is classified as a looney and is locked up in a low security level ward he befriends the other patients and quickly convinces them of his story in fact he tells them he can take one person back with him soon dr powell is beginning to question insanity and as the plot progresses it is harder and harder to prove wrong br br in the end dr powell learns that is robert porter a smart man who worked in a slaughter house in new mexico when his wife and daughter were murdered claims that he plans to leave for k pax at a precise time on the fifth anniversary of the murders the time comes and goes and powell finds or robert in a catatonic state one of the patients is missing and is never found again br br on to my theory is not crazy is from the planet k pax robert porter is a friend of on one of previous visits to earth robert was a child learning about the constellations from his father and robert became best friends after the death of his family and robert slaying the murderer robert decides to commit suicide is on k pax at the time but he rushes back in of light speed to stop robert so takes over the thinking of robert taking over his body so to speak awhile later still inhabiting robert's body comes to new york and is locked up when he leaves for k pax on july 27 he takes bess with him but he must leave robert's body behind hence we now have the catatonic robert br br explanations or clues br br knowledge of the planets around libra as says any child knows about their own system only a few people on earth had an inkling about the system and added to their knowledge robert porter while smart and knows his constellations was no astro physicist br br dr powell feels chosen by it's true could've left the institute at any time but chose not too last words to dr powell are now that you've found robert take care of him was probably staying there to ensure a place for robert when he left br br super human abilities it was a proven fact that had a significantly higher sensitivity to sunlight and could even see uv rays provides his usual k pax reason but there was no earthly reason given it was also mentioned that was given extremely high doses of medicine with no effect br br helping the patients throughout the movie you see helping the other patients or the patients discussing suggestions to a better sane world while the psychologist balk at help dr powell talks at the end of the movie about the new lives the patients are leading br br the sprinkler scene the sprinkler is associated with porter's home in new mexico which is ironically where roswell is does porter associate the sprinkler with the death of his family is her trying to protect powell's daughter from that horrible fate i have a different point of view it is assumed that porter had committed suicide in a river indeed under hypnosis is greatly concerned about robert i believe that associates the danger with the water not the sprinkler he is trying to protect the girl from watery death like he did robert br br hypnosis dr powell feels that under hypnosis he can uncover true identity but while gives plenty of information he never gives up his persona and claimed homeland of k pax br br the security camera why would the camera just give out for no apparent reason br br mysterious disappearances first disappeared for a few days to his trip up north funny the patients are not at all alarmed indeed they try to reassure the doctor sometimes i think they understand better than the staff naturally the most telling disappearance is of bess the winner of the essay contest not only does she disappear at the approximate same time but the only remaining clue is her winning essay br br this is only my humble theory you can conclude what you want you can take dr powell's theory that was merely a persona taken up by robert porter to mentally defend himself from reality but that would be giving up too many plot holes
1	who ever put that review as 'of bad taste' is not all quite there its so funny genius and fantastic you could watch it until your eyes are square not to mention the rest of the work he has done on the rest of the series all is as good as morris' standards if you think that it is 'awful' or 'sick' then i can only think of one thing to say to you go to hell thanks it had to be said i think that the way that so many people complaining was a complete joke i would like to make a shout out to all the people that actually did that haven't you got anything better to do with your time what are you trying to prove thanks for reading my heart filled review on the matter cheers
1	at least for me and rather unexpected as subject a movie that makes you question your beliefs your life your approach on everything that helps you see the world you we live in through a lens or a multitude of lens a moving surprising and haunting movie br br and it benefits of one of the best performances ever from kevin spacey very well by jeff bridges there isn't a false note in this tango it's a perfect dance perfect 'till the end br br what does the ending reveal well everything you want it to br br a movie one will want to see again maybe not right away maybe after a few days months years but it's something to go or come back to
1	if you have enjoyed the butterfly effect donnie darko or the machinist you will enjoy k pax too br br to me this movie felt really uplifting and yet depressing in the end spacey delivers a great performance as also lets not forget the appearance of saul williams in the movie who i am a big fan of br br after watching it i recommended the movie to lots of my friends and everyone was pretty much blown away br br but still it is very underrated maybe because of the lack of action and explosions i'm sorry this is not a movie about blowing things up it's about how humans behave and how people live in worlds that don't exist br br go on and enjoy
1	the always delightful kevin spacey makes us once again question certain truths in our lives after driving us into believing he is a mumbling small time crook only to expose the true power of cinematic deception in the classic the usual suspect this time around he leads us into believing he is a likable alien who assumes a human form whilst strolling around the earth br br is a peculiar stranger who has seemingly appeared out of nowhere only to be hospitalized in the manhattan psychiatric institution dr mark powell jeff bridges soon takes extreme interest in him and even finds himself pondering if is actually a supreme being from planet k pax or perhaps he is only a forgotten human being with severe psychiatric issues while the ending can be seen and discussed in many ways it remains a complex enlightening journey which leaves a gr eat deal of intriguing philosophical questions behind it
1	in brushes on the subtleties of eastern religious mores from the small archetypes embedded all over the film to the actual purpose of spacey assumes a predominantly didactic role throughout the entire film it is as if the statements he makes embody general truths about a culture of peace which is strongly promulgated in buddhism and hinduism it can be said that is the eye of the storm the world is in disarray and is and the false veil of reality is what everyone else sees but sees truth he sees the minute and appreciates it and at some points fears it as he transcends his social construction of reality and becomes more humanly br br the film is particularly detailed therefore i would recommend that you watch it at least twice to see how nuances listen carefully to the narratives at the beginning and end as they truly touch on concepts not commonly presented in western philosophies br br 9 of out 10 rating superb with nominal room for improvement
1	i was truly surprised when i first saw this movie directed by it differs in so much ways from the usual hollywood mass production the plot itself is simple kevin spacey plays a mental patient who claims to be from the planet k pax who arrived to earth by a beam of light while dr powell played by jeff bridges tries to help him to solve his delusions first of all i must admit the cast is perfectly chosen kevin spacey is really brilliant in portraying the intriguing character of always walking in the fine line of convincing us that it is real and then making us wonder whether he is delusional or not some of the gem scenes include the one where innocently eats the whole banana even the peal while in session with dr powell or the observatory scene where he confidently shows his knowledge of the k pax system to the astonished astronomers jeff bridges on the other hand is the subtle rational side of this movie and he delivers it perfectly there is a whole other cast of excellent actors like saul williams' convincing performance as ernie who make this film truly work br br k pax has it all elements of comedy sci fi even psychological thriller concerning the identity but most importantly it can be categorized as a heartwarming drama the main premise of the movie is quite intricate but the director never lets it get loose he always keeps it believable and yet two ways the camera and photography have almost a crucial part here continuing the main idea of light travel there is much focus on light shadow play lightning settings one of the memorable scenes is where dr powell holds a crystal figure in his office which light in a beautiful way while all the time he suspects can the idea be true br br subtle and slow paced intriguing and pleasurable k pax is truly a gem to watch one of the kind movie that may not be for all tastes but those who see it might fall in love with it
1	following a mugging incident at new york's grand central station an innocent bystander kevin spacey the usual suspects is arrested by police who believe him to be under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs we can understand why they think this considering how the man politely informed them that he wears his dark glasses because the light on your planet is really bright and so as he identifies himself pronounced as rhyming with goat is shipped off to the psychiatric institute of manhattan where a weary workaholic doctor mark powell jeff bridges the big lebowski attempts to understand this man's so called delusion br br manner is courteous and cooperative when asked why he believes he has been institutionalised he matter of factly replies that it is because you think i'm crazy within minutes after satisfying his insatiable newfound hunger for earth fruit the completely forthright has revealed that he is an extraterrestrial from the planet k pax which resides 1000 light years away circling the star system agape and located in the constellation he also details how his infinitely more advanced species has already mastered faster than light travel through harnessing the energy of light an accomplishment that is allegedly eons away for the human race br br powell is understandably very skeptical of these outrageous claims though he is nevertheless fascinated by them and commits himself to understanding how came to believe such a thing meanwhile uses his time to observe his fellow patients in the psychiatric ward eventually offering everybody around him something to live for and hope of a cure on july 27 later reveals he will depart again for k pax and he can only take one human with him of what will actually happen on that date nobody is certain br br originally slated to play dr powell – with will smith as – kevin spacey stepped into the main role when smith had to withdraw from the film you can tell that he had a lot of fun with his character the completely matter of fact delivery of his sometimes ridiculous dialogue your produce alone has been worth the trip often eliciting genuine laughter there is undeniable intelligence behind many of words but logic maintains that he must be delusional mustn't he br br the audience is led back and forth between the possibilities – for the first segment of the film we almost accept the possibility that is an extraterrestrial this is a sci fi movie isn't it before being totally convinced when inexplicably displays an impossible knowledge of the astronomy of a newly discovered planet system a final investigation by dr powell offers us a neatly packaged terrestrial explanation for delusions but this is just as quickly whisked away and we are left scratching our heads again the film quite rightly keeps its ending open leaving the audience to contemplate what they've just watched and to discuss it with those around them nevertheless whether you believe to be an alien or not two irresistible linger in your mind the universe is indeed a fascinating place and perhaps there are higher forces that we humans are yet to discover
1	one of the best movies ever the idea of a double interpretation involves we all br br would be a schizophrenic or an e t no doubt in my opinion but let's keep the question open kevin spacey the big screen monster plays as it should be done let's not forget jeff bridges and his great psychiatric br br lastly a masterpiece that for itself can keep our eyes wide open from the beginning to the credits and our minds thinking even when the movie is over if you still didn't watch it go right now and again again
1	usually i do not like movies with about aliens but k pax is different the actors are great in the movie especially kevin spacey played his character breathtaking the movie never fall to a lower level the suspense is always in the movie and you absolutely wanna know how it ends what's about you have to think a lot after the movie over the movie because there are a few open questions is robert porter or is only using robert porters body as a means of transportation how can he see uv light and how can he know that much about but everybody can make his own end and can decide in what he wanna believe very good movie with an excellent kevin spacey
1	i'm a fan of jeff bridges so i snapped this up on dvd without having seen it previously i instantly became a fan of kevin spacey also br br the general plot of alien in human body has in my experience been done to death but i liked the approach taken in k pax which struck me as quite different and much more sensitive than most bridges makes an excellent doctor you want to tell him what's on your mind and spacey's expressions and gestures are perfect in the role br br the interaction between and the entirely human characters in the clinic is delightful particularly the subtle manipulation of their behaviour br br the ending is bittersweet i like choice but the final scenes with bridges made me teary
1	personally i think kevin spacey is one of the greatest actors of his generation maybe the greatest this in combination with another amazing actor named jeff bridges it can't be bad and that's exactly what this movie is k pax is one of the most pleasant surprises of the latest years to start with has the movie a brilliantly written story it's part of what makes the movie so great the other aspect that contributes to the greatness of the movie is the acting the combination spacey bridges really works br br this was already the second time i saw the movie and i'm sure it won't be the last time k pax has everything there are moments which are extremely funny parts that remind of a true thriller and others which reminds of high class drama i think this movie deserves a much higher rating and a lot more awards great movie br br 9 10
1	chris morris' brass eye tv series had always generated a large number of complaints both from the audience and from the people taking part but nothing he has done has managed to stir up more controversy than this the 2001 brass eye special before the hugely overrated jerry springer opera arrived the brass eye special held the record for the most complaints received about any tv program ever aired br br the sheer volume of complaints that the general public made towards the brass eye special was unbelievable many complaints were voiced by people who never even watched the program the subject that the program handled turned many heads but the message was widely misinterpreted the message was even lost on some who enjoyed the program this was not a show that mocked the subject of paedophilia the show was purely about the media and it's presentation of the subject morris is and always will be a media satirist the notion that the program 'makes fun' of and children who have been abused is completely laughable morris never attempts to do either such thing he merely draws our attention to the overwhelming and very often stupid media hype surrounding the subject br br using many of his established 'brass eye' characters such as ted maul and others morris shows just how much the media over blow every little thing about a subject that they themselves created and built up and the result is as funny if not funnier than anything morris has done previously using his tried and tested formula morris manages to trick several gullible celebrities into believing that they are working on a serious documentary in actuality they are made to look like exactly what they are retards br br all in all the brass eye special needs to be seen to be believed and with one opening line morris manages to sum up the entire media situation as it stood in 2001 welcome to
1	this film is brilliant without a doubt watched it a while ago after constant from family members who are right into their sci fi films which i am not and thought it was quite good but after recently watching a few documentaries on outer space etc we watched it again and it is good br br kevin spacey is without doubt one of the greatest actors ever and i really like jeff bridges big blown away arlington road the film revolves around a patient in a nursing home who claims he is from another planet yeah right you think but what if his story is so believable that even his psychiatrist begins to wonder if he is telling the truth br br that is how the story evolves with bridges going through all kinds of emotions dealing with as he is known his own psychiatric colleagues his wife and family his brother in law and his astronomer work colleagues who after getting some data from pretty much admit that he might be telling the truth a great film that get's you wondering br br 8 10 dave
1	due to a very misleading advertising campaign i saw this film in theatres at the relatively young age of 10 the trailers on tv portrayed the film as a comedy and i bugged my parents until they took me after seeing the movie i was blown away i had no idea what to think totally different than anything i had seen before leaving far to many questions for such a young mind needless to say i loved it this morning was the first time i'd watched in in probably 2 3 years and i still think it's one of the greatest films made in the last decade kevin spacey and jeff bridges are both in top form as a mysterious man who may or may not be from another planet and the psychiatrist that develops a bond with him while trying to decipher his mystery the supporting cast are near perfect as well each resident of the mental institution is incredibly convincing in their own way the open ending was handled very well giving lots of evidence to support whatever you believe happened in the end how this movie failed to receive at least a nomination in that year's oscars is beyond me if you haven't seen this film run to wal mart right now the dvd is usually in the bargain bin pick it up br br 9 5 10
1	k pax is exactly what a heart warming film should be the story is about a mysterious mental patient played by kevin spacey and his unbelieving psychiatrist dr played by jeff bridges the two have a very friendly bond and as their relationship grows dr can't help but wonder whether or not there is more to his mysterious patient who insists he is from another planet called k pax this film is very funny and kevin spacey pulls of well placed one liners as if it was his second nature k pax is a smart film and i wasn't expecting it to go where it did in the end i found myself thinking about the small things in life and the wonder and magic of the every day life we so often take for granted i left the theater with a warm fuzzy feeling inside and for families and couples on a date k pax is a splendid film that will not disappoint i highly recommend this film to anyone interested in something more than the monotonous releases of glossy action packed gore fests
1	life is comprised of infinite possibilities some known others a mystery and destined to remain so and what of the vast unknown the realms beyond which knowledge has no established boundaries or parameters who is to say what exists or what is possible valid questions all of which are raised and explored in the story of a particular individual's personal journey a strange and dramatic odyssey that defies facts and logic in k pax ' directed by and starring kevin spacey and jeff bridges in the wake of an incident in new york's central station a man named spacey is transported to a psychiatric hospital in manhattan where he is delivered into the care of dr mark powell bridges who attempts to uncover the truth about his patient who claims to be from the distant planet k pax it quickly becomes a challenge for dr powell as with his calm direct forthcoming manner and a propensity for produce he eats bananas peels and all and red delicious apples are his favorites is quite convincing but it's powell's job as well as his nature to be skeptical claims however remain intact and stand up even under the most intense probing and the watchful eye of dr powell who finds himself in something of a quandary even tells him the exact date and time that he will depart for k pax a scheduled return trip that allows powell but a short time to sort it all out and powell just can't seem to get his mind around the idea that he is dealing with a real alien being and it's something he is going to have to resolve quickly if he is ever going to know the truth and he has to know the truth after all is the only thing that is going to set him free in his own mind br br has created and delivered a sensitive thought provoking film that challenges the viewer by sustaining the mystery surrounding while forcing you to reflect upon your own concepts of what is in fact possible and as you never know for sure about until the denouement you are able to identify with powell seeing the situation from his point of view and trying to solve the riddle right along with him creates an atmosphere of wonder and a real sense of being confronted with something that is truly unique as the story unfolds and you begin to realize that just may be what he says he is and in the context of the reality to which the film is disposed it's an engrossing matter to try to wrap your mind around how do you react when all of the evidence is contrary to the physical limitations we've set for ourselves while at the heart of the film there is a resounding depth of humanity that is evident not only in but in dr powell as well all of which makes for an extremely engaging and gripping drama br br as we've come to expect kevin spacey gives a brilliant performance as presenting his character from the inside out emotionally deep and physically convincing at the same time this is a unique individual and spacey brings him to life with care and the ability to share those moments that are particularly revealing which adds to the believability of the character and the credibility of the story itself for this film to work it is essential that we believe who and what is we do and it does spacey simply pulls it off magnificently it's a memorable performance from which evolves a character that will stay with you for a long long time br br jeff bridges meanwhile emerges on equal footing with spacey adeptly making a very real person of dr powell it's a fairly straightforward role and the challenge for bridges was to take this very normal and ordinary character and make him unique in his own right which opposite the character of was no small task and again for this film to work it was necessary for bridges to rise to the occasion and with exceptional skill and being the consummate professional that he is he succeeds without question bridges infuses powell with an underlying complexity and is so giving in his performance that it makes the interaction between powell and vibrant and at times intense it's a demonstration of two of the finest actors in the business doing what they do best creating a dynamic that is alive and inspiring it's a great job by bridges who never attempts to steal the spotlight from which serves to raise the level of the film to an even higher notch br br the supporting cast includes mary mccormack rachel alfre woodard dr ajay naidu dr vincent kimberly scott joyce conchata ferrell betty and saul williams ernie an entertaining emotionally involving film k is a dissertation on possibilities as well as an examination of the ever evolving complexities of the human condition it's a film that demands an open mind and rewards those who are able to approach it on it's own terms and embrace it in the end it makes you realize just how real k pax is and it makes you appreciate journey and just how much we all share and have in common with those around us human or alien and it may just make you reflect upon your own journey where you've been and where you're going and that's the magic of the movies i rate this one 10 10 br br
1	k pax is a very intriguing film is kevin spacey really an alien or is he a mentally deranged human who just thinks he is an alien that is the question that dr powell jeff bridges must answer before the self proclaimed deadline that sets for his departure from earth br br as the film unfolds and more evidence is uncovered both theories grow in credibility his ability to map from memory the area of the galaxy where his home planet is located indicates a knowledge that no human could possibly possess yet the hypnosis sessions lead us to a real person with a very real and traumatic life filled with devastating events that could have caused such a personality aberration the ending seems to give the answer but is just ambiguous enough to make you wonder if you really know normally i don't like lady or tiger endings but this one is tantalizing i have my own theory that fits all the clues but i don't know that my theory is any more correct than anyone else's br br director wings of the spins the tale delicately with great skill this is a rare example of the director staying in the shadows and inducing outstanding acting performances out of talented actors to let the story dominate this is not to say that the directing is technically inferior because it is excellent however remains unobtrusive delivering great power through the use of subtlety a pleasant change from today's vanguard directors who visually grab and shake the viewer as if to scream look how brilliant i am ' br br kevin spacey once again delivers a marvelous performance as this is a part that is extraordinarily demanding requiring spacey to render the cool and logical one minute and then switch gears to conjure his tormented alter ego under hypnosis the next spacey is so believable as both alien and human it makes the viewer's task that much more difficult jeff bridges is also terrific as the relentless psychologist who becomes obsessed with learning the truth about br br this is inspired storytelling for the thoughtful viewer i rated it a 9 10 if you must have closure at the end of a film this movie will be very frustrating however if you like a fascinating mystery that keeps you thinking long after the credits you won't be disappointed
1	i got this as a complete set of 9 episodes on 5 dvds i knew nothing about the history of the series season 1 of the series has the pilot episode as episode 1 and then 3 more episodes for a total of 4 season 2 lists 5 episodes with the last being beyond good and evil with an original air date of 7 december 1998 the other 4 episodes on season 2 were broadcast from december 1997 to 1998 so beyond good and evil looks like season 3 episode 1 except there are no more episodes in season 3 br br spoilers here the two main characters of the first 8 episodes dr mccallum john hannah and dr angela moloney zara turner are missing from this episode being replaced by dr dan gallagher nathaniel parker and dr charley fielding eva pope i recognized nathaniel parker from the series the inspector lynley mysteries which began in 2001 so they were planning to have a season 3 but only one episode was broadcast br br it seems odd to try to continue a series named after the main character mccallum when the main character is gone from the series so they might have been planning a return of dr mccallum but when that failed the series was canceled i have no inside information on this but i do see that both john hannah and nathaniel parker were involved in other projects in 1999 does anyone have any information on this
1	as with some of the best films and series i stumbled across this quite by accident it was late a storm was in full force outside and i was sitting comfortably on the sofa when i flicked past a channel that was just about to show one of the episodes i intended merely to watch a couple of minutes while waiting for the commercials to be finished on another channel before switching back to some or other sitcom about an hour and a half later i remembered my resolve and was so happy that i hadn't done that needless to say i made sure i saw all the other episodes br br john hannah has been brilliant in almost everything i have seen him in and he does not let down here either all other cast members do a stellar job too my personal favourite aside from john hannah of course is gerard murphy br br the only negative side to this series are the limited amount of episodes only 8 with himself and an additional 1 with someone else i would love to see mccallum back on the screens though it would have to be with
1	a mixture of alien and ghost busters br br starts very promising then slows down to almost boring br br lifeforce contains some awesome special effects they were able to make in the mid 80's the story is intriguing but becomes quite lack lustre in the end it was rated r because of the nudeness sex and gore mathilda may's ethereal and savage naked beauty is very apparent through out the whole movie a bizarre movie and cost a lot by the time it was made br br this could have been a bigger classic with a better script but unfortunately it wasn't a great hit i think it actually flopped quite bad br br so something went wrong with this one but still it's very entertaining
1	without a doubt one of tobe best epic great special effects and the vamp me baby
1	non stop action and just about every conceivable and inconceivable sci fi horror cliche can be found in this blatantly silly but fun big budget epic the pace never lets up especially in the shorter us version which tightens things up considerably
1	the fact that there was so much fuss is ironic as the whole point of the programme was to highlight the way the media treat such 'taboo' subjects such as paedophilia the set the suits the smug presenters the men at the scene shouting about things you can see behind them the pointless cgi and stats the whole thing was a satire a very very funny satire the way c list celebrity's will say absolutely anything if their agent tells them it'll be good for their career there is no evidence for it but it is scientific fact it may be hard to watch with milly and the girls as well as 9 11 but satire is supposed to be challenging and we shouldn't be afraid to stand up against the blatant and headline grabbing media just because it's a delicate matter how this show failed to win any tv awards for it's intelligence observation courage acting and thought provocation is shameful but as watching it will show you not in the least bit surprising
1	i first viewed this movie when it first came out and also bought an lp recording of the soundtrack i liked it so well i went back to see it several times cannot understand why it was considered a flop julie andrews was lovely in this film her voice was in top form and the costuming was beautiful br br the film contains a little bit of everything and even though some of the scenes were a bit heavy handed they were still fun br br i recently found i could get a copy in dvd form and ordered it i was disappointed that a couple of songs and sequences in the movie were not included in the version of the dvd i ordered
1	lifeforce is certainly one of tobe hooper's best films it has some great special effects and a lot of nudity so it seems like a typical horror fan's dream the film is quit creative though and i think that's because of the script from dan and don nice cinematography and a good creepy atmosphere make it a solid film
1	ok let's get this out of the way first as a piece of cinema lifeforce is rubbish as a bit of cheesy entertainment for sf buffs it's got a lot of merit if you enjoy watching those old black and white sf b movies giant mutated spiders ant or alien monsters wandering around the desert you really will get a kick out of lifeforce br br bad things the story makes little sense and the acting is pretty poor good things the special effects are halfway decent it has a different british centered story it's set in london which gives different feel to most sf movies and it has the well endowed mathilda may amusingly billed as space girl wandering around stark naked br br in short it's fun br br i've seen it half a dozen times now and every time it comes on tv i make time to watch it admittedly this is partly to do with the naked ms may but it's also to do with the enjoying a bit of unassuming and silly sf
1	i finally got hold of lifeforce on dvd with the widescreen format intact and rousing henry mancini score to the max after having viewed lifeforce for fifteen years on tape i have to say that the dvd version was both great and disappointing the u s version is so much better than the dvd european version the u s version of lifeforce moves much faster the editing on the dvd version is terrible feels like an unfinished cut and the many scenes not seen in the american version add little or nothing to the final problem in fact one new moment almost destroys the entire movie when caine peter firth meets the male alien at the cathedral i love this scene in the u s version though on the dvd the male alien speaks to caine and what he says is soooooo hilarious it's the pinnacle of hilarity br br it'll be much less terrifying if you just come to me the male alien says in a deep 1950s style voice i was floored when i saw this it just doesn't belong in the movie that scene is pure camp in an otherwise super serious flick i'm glad hooper or whoever cut that scene when the movie was released in north america there are several changes that were made for the u s version that make lifeforce that much better and i wished the dvd had the u s version the editing is sharp and frenzied without being annoying and some spots that were already boring in the u s version are even more boring on the dvd version because of added scenes and the opening credits on the dvd is terrible much better in the u s version more subtle br br i love this film it's basically aliens making a pit stop over earth and sucking up as much lifeforce as possible the film has too many flat uninspiring sequences talk talk talk but when the action goes to london it's fun the film really shines in these scenes one can see hooper finally doing what he's great at chaos savagery horror lifeforce should have had more of these chaos scenes they're the best apocalyptic scenes ever put on film it's also the best zombie movie ever the zombies are hungry for lifeforce not flesh and they're crazed and agile and terrifying not the slow moving bores of other zombie movies also a lot of people have criticized the ending but i love it it leaves you high and dry like one of the lifeforce drained victims br br and to think this movie came out during the cute and cuddly 80s when people flocked to e t or cocoon or other sweet and boring feel good sci fi movies no wonder it bombed because it was way ahead of its time with its super nihilistic point of view br br as for the dvd well it ain't great the image is muddy and grainy and there are no extras whatsoever but it's great to see the movie in its widescreen format i just hope that they'll release a clean crisp u s version on a dvd and with commentary by hooper and
1	i am surprised so few have good words for this movie for its time the 80's it was a very entertaining and engaging story casting was good story was good special effects were remarkable for the time period deserving of an 8 10
1	lifeforce 1985 was a cannon funded film directed by tobe hooper it's a very interesting film that deals with a pair of space vampires who are accidentally brought back down to earth during the latest space shuttle mission steve railsback stars as the sole survivor of the tragedy but really folks the movie is a mere showcase for the natural beauty of mathilda may she's one smoking hot number the director was a huge fan of female vampire a k a miss may recreates lina title role the film is beautifully photographed and directed there's plenty of gore effects to keep genres fans happy br br i have to give this film a very high rating tobe hooper was the man he made three interesting films for cannon during this time period texas chainsaw massacre ii and invaders from mars as well if you like science fiction horror films tobe hooper films or mathilda may this film's just up your alley br br highest recommendation br br did i mention mathilda may is smoking hot
1	something i think some people miss about great science fiction is that it predicts some part of the future no other theatrical movie that i can recall predicted that when the space shuttle went to study halley's comet that a disaster would occur some differences were the churchill the shuttle in the movie actually went to the comet the challenger was only in low earth orbit the churchill was merely burned out inside whereas the challenger exploded hey the vampires had to get back to earth one great similarity and this is always bad luck both had mixed male female crews the legend of halley's comet and disaster continues br br other than this there is not much more to be said about this movie that hasn't been said before as a outer space science fiction horror sex film individually it provided nothing really new but as in all great dishes it is the combination that counts and taken together this was a highly original and satisfying combination br br i just wish mathilda may would drain her victims through another part of the body
1	based on the book space vampires by colin wilson this is in my humble opinion one of the best pieces of sci fi horror to come out of the eighties the effects done by ilm still hold up by todays standards the actors are mostly british and being british seem to give this film a greater depth of realism br br the film was panned by the critics and sadly failed to do well at the box office on both sides of the atlantic tobe hooper blamed the promotional work that was done before its release as the main cause for it's low but for whatever reason it still does not detract from the fact that this is an excellent film with a great cast and well paced plot br br not to be over looked
1	this really is a great movie i don't think it has ever gotten the recognition that it deserves i have bought this movie on vhs and dvd the special effects were ahead of its time the story was way cool the pace was very steady if you haven't seen it you definitely need to check it out on dvd if possible
1	by far one of the best sci fi films out there however it does take viewings to understand the concept of the film and to be able to appreciate not only the special effect but the main plot of the film itself it is my own feelings that this film film got such poor reviews because no one took the time to watch the film the way it was meant to be seen it does have some moments you wish would hurry up and pass by but they are few and far between hooper who directed tcm 1 and 2 along with a remake of invaders from mars and the funhouse does his best work here great score good acting and great effects makes this a film to add to your collection if you get the chance see the widescreen version on dvd highly recommended to any one who is a fan of sci fi
1	a lot of people say the end did not make sense but it did with the female vampire dead the link to earth was broken and the ship took off having picked up a lot of lifeforce from hundreds of thousands of souls enough to re energize those cells and create new bat creatures it seems they do not have carnal sex like vampires of legend br br vampire bats from outer space may be ludicrous but killing them with with a shot to force center below the heart is consistent all you can ask for is consistency the viewer has to suspend disbelief even for scifi br br the only problem is having to be a sword or stake not bullets that puts in a supernatural twist that does not fit with sci fi so that is a problem br br the only major inconsistency i found is killing the male vampires with the sword but the soul of the girl and go up to the ship i assume the males souls also went up the ship but not shown br br what about all the humans killed do their forces souls go up to the ship as discrete entities are does all the lifeforce get merged into one for use as ship sees fit in other words all the human souls that went to the ship could be re incarnated as bat creatures br br the basic concept is no more ridiculous than star wars force or even re incarnation br br this movie was over the top kitchen sink dawn of the dead meets alien meets dracula but in many ways profound it was also a beautiful love story the beginning and end were ethereal it both began what is happening to me and ended as a love story br br most of the criticism of the movie is about its being bizarre so what bizarre is an art form as far as being ludicrous it all fits the plague concept is much more interesting and subtle than the aliens just killing people maybe they didn't need patrick steward's blood to form an image of the girl but it was a very far out surreal scene br br another reason the movie is hated is because of the end but the end fits perfectly with the beginning people are so wrapped up in the nude girl that they miss the movie's core its a lover story from start to finish it starts with and the girl on the alien spaceship and finished same way so it fits perfectly most people are fixated on the hero killing the monster and this movie did not end that way which is precisely why i love it br br instead it has a happy ending with the 2 of them going back to ship to be reborn way cooler than the hero kills monster end but that is exactly why it bombed it was not a straight up horror or even scifi horror at all but a love story with a beautiful beginning and end all those souls twinkling on the ship and the crystal room pulsating with new life br br most people can't deal with a love story that is also alien meets dawn of the dead meets dracula
1	ida lupino is trapped in her own home by crazy robert ryan in beware my lovely a 1952 film from rko lupino and ryan did three films together and worked well as a team both being consummate professionals and strong performers in this film based on a broadway play called the man lupino is a world war i widow who rents out a room in her home she's very active and well liked in her community and though her husband has been dead for two years she's not ready to move on the man who rents her room goes on vacation and lupino hires robert ryan to help her with some heavy duty cleaning in the house he's friendly enough to start but later terrorizes her locking her in the house and not allowing her to answer the phone or the door as he grows violent and more out of touch with reality br br the character played by ryan is shown in the beginning of the movie running away when he discovers a dead body in another house he's working in it isn't clear whether or not he's the killer since he seems surprised to see the body he might be a split personality as when his personality turns ugly toward lupino he seems to have no memory of his activities when he comes out of it he doesn't know that he has the keys to lupino's house in his pocket and doesn't know why he has tickets to a party that he bought from young children who came to the door br br beware my lovely is a very suspenseful film and the two leads give terrific performances the tension builds to a very high level and ends in a way you're not expecting
1	is it a perfect movie no it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space naked beauties and the british army efficiency br br when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may actually if it weren't for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie i probably wouldn't have rated it so high but given her sheer magnificence i am now actually considering voting it up br br lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story but with completely over the top performances i still enjoyed the movie tremendously as well as mathilda may but it was a mixture of nostalgia comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended br br bottom line if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie oh and did i mention mathilda may is young beautiful and naked
1	lifeforce is an extremely schizophrenic movie based on colin wilson s novel the space vampires the script ignores most of the novel s concepts and structure indeed it owes more to the quatermass serials than the novel but the scenes it does leave in from the novel are nearly identical to those in the film and talking of the script it must be one of the most uneven in cinema history it s though it was written in chapters by several different people take for instance carlson he disappears after the early shuttle scenes which led me to believe he was dead then he turns up again halfway through the film in order to explain the plot to the beleaguered brits and it s this lack of attention by the screenwriters that spoils the film and there s plenty of other clumsy scripting such as the heroes returning to london in a helicopter and not realising it has been over run by zombies untill they re flying over it br br i could go on at great length about these plot holes but lifeforce is actually enjoyable to watch as long as you don t use your brain it s good to see a sci fi horror film from an era when aliens were portrayed as being cute creatures that children hid in their bedrooms so that nasty human adults wouldn t get their hands on them the special effects and pyrotechnics are very very good there s lots of action and stunts and lifeforce features one of the most memorable aliens in the form of the space girl when mentioning lifeforce in conversation with males it s always a race to say seen the alien in lifeforce she can suck the lifeforce out of me anytime hardly surprising looking at the demographics of the votes that this film is more popular with males than females br br don t worry a naked girl can t escape from here can t she pity br br
1	to the guy who hatched the idea for lifeforce i have one thing to say thank you sir lifeforce combines the big budget sci fi pomp of star trek the motion picture with the cheap horror thrills of phantasm and tops it all off with t ts and some real meaty hangers at that and best of all it's actually a good movie it amazes me that someone actually justified a mainstream movie that is a vehicle for a hot chick to appear naked on screen for an hour and a half to producers god bless you all of you who were involved br br steve railsback helter skelter plays col carlson the american commander of an international space mission sent to investigate halley's comet carlson's crew finds an alien vessel inside the comet and inside that they find three naked people in suspended animation two guys and a hot broad mathilda may well to make a long story short they're space vampires naked space vampires they trash the crew except for col who decided that he had to let the hot chick out of her display case because the part of his brain that controls his nut fluids told him it was the right thing to do the col wings it back to our big blue ball in an escape pod meanwhile another space shuttle crew has discovered his ship floating dead in space and has brought the three space coffins of the living dead martians back to london and that's when people start turning into pork and s t in general just starts getting' way out of hand too damn fast br br carlson teams up with the unflappable col caine peter firth of the british s a s to track down our naked cutie who is having one hell of a time sucking guys off left and right carlson's discovered that he has a mental link with vampira that allows them to track her down with the ultimate goal being to blow her ass away and wreck her and her big space umbrella that sucks up the energy of the people that the vamps attack will they succeed in time minor spoiler yes br br wow what can i say but wow this damn movie really works i can't believe they got actual british actors like aubrey morris a clockwork orange and patrick stewart sexiest man alive or some such title to appear in this film all the actors are good direction is good and really shines during the last half where we see the fantastic devastation of london special effects are no slouch either for 1985 this movie must've been the s t as far as fx goes all the effects are fairly impressive and there's a wide range of talent on display here in makeup effects light shows and very nice space scenes with some good old fashioned modeling and matte painting very nicely done there's even some gore and bloody squib shots for all the horror fanboys out there br br lifeforce is a great film for anyone who has nostalgia for when popular films on the were made with 100 love from start to finish the creators of the movie really made sure all the bases were covered and the end result is a phenomenally fun affair that doesn't let you turn away because the proceedings are just too good looking real solid entertainment here 8 1 2 out of 10
1	tobe hooper fresh off mainstream success with 'poltergeist' aims for the skies this time around is an adaptation of colin wilson's 'the space vampires' the script by dan o' bannon and don varies a bit i was told the futuristic storyline was made contemporary and comet was added to coincide with its actual passage by earth a few weeks after the films release so i've read br br the story concerns a shuttle mission commander by steve railsback sent to investigate comet as it passes by earth all goes off without a hitch but upon reaching the comet it is discovered that an alien ship is hidden in the coma of the comet the team investigates the massive structure and discovers bat like creatures looking deeper into the ship a chamber is found that contains three humanoids two naked males and one rather fetching nude lady too in odd stasis coffins the crew returns to the ship with the humanoids and a bat creature in tow br br a bit later the ship returns to earth but no contact can be made by nasa and another shuttle is launched to ascertain the status of the mission upon docking with the churchill it is discovered that a massive fire has seemingly killed the crew and all data concerning the flight but the three humanoids remain however it is learned that an escape pod had been launched but whose whereabouts are unknown br br soon they make the discovery of the alien's origin when the very attractive space vampire queen arises from her slumber to easily seduce the lifeforce from the men around her if you suck face with her she makes you like them and if you don't feed after two hours you will dry out and become dust the goal of the three is to drain enough of the essence to power and sustain them and their ship for the trip to the next planet to lay waste to them as well br br thankfully the commander survives re entry in the pod crash lands in texas no less and now has a psychic link to her royal hotness the queen and is able to use it to find the hidden queen as she and the surviving male attempt to bleed london dry of their souls br br tobe hooper of 'the texas chain saw massacre' 1974 does an admirable job in what has to be his largest production to date the production assembled many fine technicians from all over the movie industry production designer john fresh off 'the bounty 1984 ' uses every bit of four stages at studios to create the spacious interiors of the ship and such cinematographer alan hume returns to science fiction after a stint on 'star wars vi return of the 1983 and three consecutive james bond episodes hume uses every bit of the widescreen frame with the great effects oscar winner john innovator of the groundbreaking effects of the original 'star wars' 1977 manages to push the envelope once again a creating some highly creative and spectacular effects using lasers heck even maestro henry mancini drops in to give the film a very memorable title theme that gives this sci fi horror hybrid a touch of an adventurous feel in the acting department it pretty much falls onto the shoulders of steve railsback and newcomer mathilda may vampire queen railsback always brings an edge to the characters he plays and can play nuts like nobody's business that comes in hand as his mind deteriorates when the queen's grip tightens on his soul gorgeous french actress may doesn't have a heck of a lot of lines were there more than ten but her frequently nude presence never gets old and you gotta give her kudos to having the jingle bells to pull it of pretty much all the queen is there to do is feed and to do so she needs to seduce you with her sexual presence job accomplished and where do i sign up to be victim i really enjoyed how they tweaked the old vampire clichés and still managed to make it seem fresh but still easily recognizable almost everything is accounted for here bats their true form resembles a large bat coffins the stasis fields resemble these transformations they scan your mind and can be anything massive sexual appeal miss duh not to mention they even include the old standby stake through the heart this time a bit of a lead dagger to the energy center slightly below the heart the only thing they didn't touch on was religion but i think that the vampires using the cathedral at the end as home base might just be a bit of a wink and a nod br br in short yeah right 800 words later is an excellent science fiction and horror combination that pays homage to the vampire theme while adding some neat different wrinkles the effects and scale of the production are enough to keep summer movie types engaged at least at the time and horror and sci fi fans engaged 4 of 5
1	no lifeforce is not a great movie br br it's not a good movie br br it is however an average movie with some good effects and a compelling storyline and of course mathilda may it may actually be one of my favorite sf horror flicks for the very simple reason that they try to reason their way through the science of the space vampires how often do you see that not even in alien the sf horror flick of all time does science come into the story at all in lifeforce they are trying to make reason of an unreasonable world br br now do i think it's successful no i think the movie has the issue of a massive ensemble cast that hooper is straining to keep collected and on track and that the viewers have to focus on more than one 'villian' and there are one too many road trips br br to be honest the movie is eye candy and fun to watch but there is great potential here for a superior remake to take a hold of what hooper was trying to do and really create a strong scary sf horror movie br br if the remake does happen however i demand that mathilda may have a cameo
1	lifeforce starts in outer space where the hms churchill tracks haley's comet it's equipment detects a 150 mile long alien spaceship in the head of the comet unable to contact earth because of interference colonel tom steve railsback decides this is the one only chance to investigate it going outside in some of his crew enter the mysterious spaceship find the remains of a bat like race of creatures three perfect looking humanoids two men chris jagger bill a beautiful woman mathilda may all of whom they take aboard the churchill thirty days later back on earth the churchill is detected on radar a rescue mission is sent up only to discover the spaceship is burnt out all the crew supposedly dead the rescue team do find the three humanoid aliens though take them back to earth where in a space research center in london they come back to life start to literally suck the lifeforce out of human victims who then in turn need to do the same to stop themselves turning into dust things look grim as the epidemic spreads throughout london br br this english production was produced by the notorious menahem golan globus who during the early 80's were responsible for lots of cheap low budget action flicks under their production company cannon usually starring chuck norris they wanted to move into the big time signed director tobe hooper up on a three film deal which were this lifeforce the invaders from mars 1986 remake the texas chainsaw massacre 2 1986 a sequel to hooper's own classic all of which flopped basically bankrupt both golan globus cannon was no more anyway despite being a commercial flop at the box office i have to say i think lifeforce is a highly enjoyable if rather silly sci fi horror when originally released into theatres back in '85 was cut down to 101 minutes by golan globus but over the past few years the longer 116 minute cut has all but replaced it on dvd vhs laserdisc tv although apparently hooper's original cut of the film ran for 128 minutes so there's even more footage out there somewhere i will be basing my comments on the longer 116 minute cut the script by dan don uncredited rewrites by michael armstrong olaf was based on the 1976 novel 'the space vampires' by colin wilson has many extraordinary ideas it's scope is truly ambitious one felt that it ends up being a bit of a mess but a hell of an entertaining one it moves along like a rocket at heart there's a really interesting story here although the film gets itself into a tangle there are also some hilarious moments in lifeforce the scene when the security guard tries to convince the naked female vampire to surrender by offering her a half eaten biscuit is a true camp classic the horribly overwrought hypnosis scenes including the one where railsback ends up kissing patrick stewart many many more besides i don't know call me weird but i just thought lifeforce was tremendous fun highly entertaining in just about every way from silly character's odd dialogue strange ideas that never quite come together some terrific visuals lifeforce certainly isn't a film that will bore you br br director hooper had just about more money here to play around with than he ever has double what he had for poltergeist 1982 even he uses every bit of it to bring this spectacular film to the big screen john the guy responsible for star wars 1977 star trek the motion picture 1979 more recently spider man 2002 was brought in to handle the visual effects generally speaking they look fabulous the sequences set in outer space with spaceships in particular look great there's also some really good visual effects back on earth including the destruction of london as of blue souls fly around everywhere there's some nudity but not much gore there are some withered corpses a few gunshot wounds the skin on someones hand peels off blood spurts from someones eyes nose ears there's a severed arm as well as some zombies the special make up effects are also generally very good i wouldn't say lifeforce is scary as such as it's more of a sci fi film than horror i loved the way hooper shoots the outer space sequences as he keeps rotating his camera to effectively capture the feeling of that there is no floor as it were br br with a supposed budget of about 25 000 000 it made less than half that in it's theatrical run hasn't set the world alight on video or dvd either which is a shame because although it's a bit of a mess it's very enjoyable to watch shot on location in england well filmed in 2 35 1 widescreen the 4 3 cropped image is horrible cuts huge chunks of information from both sides of the screen this is most noticeable during the opening scenes set in outer space where sometimes it's hard to make out what's going on the sense of the vastness of space the alien spaceship is lost the acting is ok in a very silly film patrick stewart replaced sir john gielgud nancy paul replaced olivia hussey frank finlay replaced klaus kinski while anthony hopkins turned the role of caine down br br lifeforce is a bizarre film no two ways about it really anyone looking for something simple straight forward should look elsewhere anyone looking for something a bit different in the sci fi genre than give lifeforce a go as it's one of those so bad it's good films with some impressive effects it isn't your average run of the mill film by any means
1	lifeforce is a truly bizarre adaptation of the novel the space vampires by colin wilson scripted by dan don a joint american british space exploration team makes a mind boggling discovery an alien spacecraft resting inside comet containing three entities that look like people one of them a female beauty the oh so alluring mathilda may br br they take these discoveries back on board their own spacecraft big mistake br br it turns out that these creatures drain the life out of human beings and as american colonel an intense edgy and committed steve railsback and british s a s colonel caine a solid peter firth watch in horror an infestation of vampirism overtakes london with the fate of earth in the balance br br this picture certainly is not lacking in imagination it moves a little slowly at times but offers so many strange and fanciful ideas and eye popping visuals that it's hard not to be amused the first of director tobe hoopers' three picture deal with cannon films he followed it up with texas chainsaw massacre ii and the invaders from mars remake he makes it something truly unique incorporating elements of sci fi vampire films zombie films and end of the world sagas it's like nothing that i've seen before br br railsback and firth are ably supported by such strong brit actors as frank finlay patrick stewart michael aubrey morris and john hallam mathilda may is very memorable as the bewitching enigmatic villainess it certainly doesn't hurt that she performs a great deal of her scenes in the nude also worth noting is a stirring music score from none other than pink panther composer henry mancini br br ridiculous it may be but i found it to be fun as well it's flamboyant and spirited entertainment br br 8 10
1	lifeforce was one of cannon films' biggest flops it received mostly bad reviews and did nothing to help director tobe hooper's career in the wake of the spielberg poltergeist controversy all of this is unfortunate because lifeforce is actually a really great movie it is supremely entertaining moves along at a fast pace and features some of the most outrageously over the top direction production performances and special effects ever to explode across the screen it must have looked bizarre on paper the producers of the delta force the screenwriter of alien the director of the texas chainsaw massacre the composer of breakfast at tiffany's the special effects wizards of star wars audiences were not ready for this demented exercise in weirdness br br what more do you want we got an alien spaceship full of giant bats we got a sexy naked space vampiress sucking out people's souls we got exploding bodies we got zombies we got possession we got an s m interrogation we got the entire city of london on fire it's dracula meets night of the living dead meets and the pit meets earthquake it's quite possibly the single most outrageous horror sci fi comedy action disaster erotic apocalyptic epic ever unleashed that is if there are any other ones out there br br try watching this movie while chemically altered perhaps then you'll understand a genuinely f ed up experience and one of director tobe hooper's most underrated movies maybe one day it will find its audience
1	danny boyle was not the first person to realise that zombies can run like the that honour belongs to lifeforce which is of course the greatest naked space vampire zombies from halley's comet running amok in london end of the world movie ever made tobe hooper may have made a lot of crap but for this deliriously demented epic sci fi horror he deserves a place among the immortals plus it offers space vampire mathilda may the best thing to come out of france since simone simon spending the entire movie naked which she does very very well just bear in mind that while she is the most overwhelmingly feminine presence anyone on earth has ever encountered she's also totally alien to this planet and our life form and totally dangerous it's a pitch meeting i'd have loved to have sat in on astronauts from the british space program find three naked humanoid alien life forms inside a giant 150 mile long umbrella shaped spaceship hidden in the tail of halley's comet filled with giant bats and bring them back to earth with near apocalyptic results as they proceed to drain the population of london of their lifeforce amid much nudity of thunder and spit your coffee across the room i've been in space for six months and she looks perfect to me assume we know nothing which is understating the matter don't worry a naked woman is not going to get out of this complex oh and we'll get the writers of alien and blue thunder to write it with uncredited rewrites by the writer of mark of the devil the sex thief and eskimo nell and the director of the jonestown monster sounds like a winner here's – have fun and they do they do br br true there's enough promise in the raw material to have made something genuinely creepy and thought provoking at a time when aids hysteria was approaching its height a sexually transmitted 'plague' offers ample opportunity for allegory but in the hands of the go go boys at cannon what could have been another quatermass and the pit quickly turns instead to be more plan 10 from outer space it's full to bursting with delirious inanity be it frank finlay's hilarious death scene here i go peter firth's grand entrance i'm colonel caine from the sas discreetly shouts michael across a room full of reporters gentlemen that last remark was not for publication this is a d notice situation he replies to the surprisingly obliging the security guards offering mathilda may's naked space vampire a nice biscuit to stop her escaping reanimated bodies exploding into dust all over people the sweaty prime minister sucking the life out of his secretary and london filling up with zombie nuns stockbrokers and as the city gets its most comprehensive on screen trashing since mrs lost junior at funfair and went on the rampage and that's not mentioning the this woman is a masochist an extreme masochist scene or the great stereophonic echo effect on the male vampire's it'll be a lot less terrifying if you just come to me line while a lead stake wielding peter firth adopts his best action man voice to reply i'll do just that in one scene alone you have a possessed patrick stewart embodying the female in our deeply confused astronaut hero's mind steve i never got over playing charlie manson railsback and his amazing dancing eyebrows in full on mode trying to resist the temptation to kiss him the inimitable aubrey morris the only man who makes freddie jones look restrained playing the home secretary sir percy as a kind of demented brian peter firth one of those actors who always looks like he must have been a doctor who around the time no one was watching it anymore hamming up the blasé public school macho in the hope that no one will ever see it and the peerless reaction shots of john hallam as the male nurse who keeps on opening the door mid psychic tornado to bring in more drugs as if they needed any more in this film it's just a shame that frank finlay's mad haired scientist who isn't qualified to death on alien life forms a role originally intended for klaus kinski missed out on the action in that one br br no matter how mad you think the film is it still manages to get madder still whether it be a zombie pathologist he too needs feeding exploding all over the home secretary's suit patrick stewart's blood and entrails forming a naked mathilda may or the space vampires turning st paul's cathedral into the world's biggest laser show to transport human souls from the london underground to their mother ship i loved every gloriously insane moment in it's own truly unique way this might be the greatest film ever made br br the dvd offers the original 116 minute version that opened in the uk rather than the heavily edited 101 minute us version which not only offers much more hilarity for your dollar but also fully restores henry mancini's score to its original glory the us version covered a lot of the gaps with additional cues by michael kamen and james guthrie although a somewhat surprising choice at first sight mancini cut his teeth on many of the classic universal sci fi horrors of the 50s and his score is quite superb with a terrific driving main title that offers a rare reminder of just how interesting he could be away from blake edwards sadly there's no more than a trailer by way of extras though it would be nice to hope some day for a special edition with some of the deleted scenes from hooper's originally intended 128 minute cut from what's on display here these might just offer even more comedy gold
1	though it hardly compares to other sci fi film giants like 2001 a space odyssey or close encounters of the third kind lifeforce does work as a totally berserk and bizarre melding of science fiction and horror elements somehow despite dialogue that approaches the ridiculous and acting that does the same it manages to work because of a few highly different elements br br loosely based on colin wilson's 1976 novel the space vampires this film from director tobe hooper poltergeist the texas chainsaw massacre focuses on a joint us british mission aboard the british space shuttle churchill to study halley's comet led by an american commander steve railsback they discover an alien spacecraft in the comet's coma and when they investigate the interior of the spacecraft they find alien occupants that look like giant bats later on the churchill reaches earth's orbit but no response is given from radio calls issued from the home base the space research center in london columbia is launched to rendezvous with churchill but they find the entire ship gutted by fire all except for the alien beings encased in glass who far from being untouched by the fire look absolutely perfect the aliens are bought back to earth and that's where the incredible happens br br these space vampires escape from the space research center and instead of draining their victims of blood via bite wounds suck their victims' lifeforce totally out of them one of them is the space girl a thoroughly nude vampiress played by mathilda may railsback the only actual survivor from churchill is bought in by the chief frank finlay and a british special agent peter firth to track may who is in telepathic contact with him pretty soon however the vampires have turned london into a scene of pure holocaust people are either being dessicated or turning into zombies and the threat by nato to the city with thermonuclear radiation looms large railsback finally catches up with may and sacrifices himself by impaling her with a large metal sabre br br undoubtedly disjointed unquestionably uneven but nevertheless worth watching lifeforce despite the frequent incoherency of its script and its acting benefits from some drop dead excellent special effects work by john star wars some of the best ever seen the other working element and a surprise one it is is the incredible orchestral score by henry mancini almost wagnerian in the same way john williams' score for star wars was and mancini like williams before him uses the london symphony orchestra to boot br br largely forgotten these days and a critical and box office disaster in 1985 lifeforce if for no other reason should still be seen for anyone with a taste for the bizarre there had never been a film quite like it before and there will certainly not be anything like it again
1	beware my lovely came on tv on bbc2 recently during the early hours so i set the video to record it and was pleased i did br br a man finds a dead woman so he escapes so he don't get the blame for her murder and gets a job as a handyman at a widow's house but she does not know what she is taking on here it turns out this man is a psychopath and possible killer he starts tormenting her and locks her in the cellar he then cuts the phones line so she can't get help from the outside a young boy who regularly does shopping for her notices something isn't quite right when he comes to drop her shopping off eventually the man leaves acting as if nothing has happened br br i can see why beware my lovely was given an x certificate when released in the cinemas some of the scenes are rather nasty for this time i also thought the man was going to do something to the young boy too br br the cast features an excellent performance from robert ryan as the psychopath ida lupino as the widow and are joined by barbara whiting and dee pollock as the boy br br this is certainly robert ryan's most chilling performance i've seen a must see br br rating 4 stars out of 5
1	like several other reviewers here i'm surprised to see many negative reviews on this film dan o'bannon's previous effort was the groundbreaking 'alien' of 1979 because it and 'star wars' introduced the stylistic approach of or 'dirty space' in art direction for these kinds of features doesn't mean that this was the only way to produce them br br rather than dismiss out of hand as a sort of schlock and primitive exploitation feature it's important to recognize that the film draws upon the traditions of british horror and science fiction specifically hammer and american international features like quatermass specifically and the pit' 1967 doctor who and 'the day of the 1963 if not the works of gerry anderson 'space and 'thunderbirds' but none of these influences would be a surprise if other reviewers recognized writer o'bannon's genre scholarly appreciation for 'queen of blood' 1966 and 'it the terror from beyond space' 1958 the immediate sources for 'alien' 1979 br br granted this film has some 'legacy' elements but perhaps it's worth comparing this film to its more immediate peers 1981's 'an american werewolf in london' and 'the company of 1984 other 80's films that share a back' while they adapt those stories to the 80's zeitgeist all three films drew on earlier incarnations of the same but substantially sexed up their themes because they could and at the same time they recognized the tongue in cheek humorous aspects of their projects br br neil jordan's played to many of the psychoanalytic floating around at the during the '80's while 'american werewolf' curdled its theme as a 'coming of age' film it's called artistic license and the adaptations of these three films are no less valid than the latter day dramedy inherent in the 'scream' franchise 'i know what you did last and 'final but these teen targeted films seem to be part of a box office trend whereas the 80's films like belong a canon of british sci fi even if this one was written by an american br br in many ways this film holds up much better than latter day disaster and alien invasion flicks day' 'deep impact' in that the don't reside in gun battles and testosterone at the opposite end of the pole it is unfortunate that steven soderbergh and james cameron didn't examine and more closely before they remade br br the goal of this film was fun not or stupidity br br 7 10
1	and 1 2 stars out of lifeforce is one of the strangest films i've ever seen so ridiculous yet at the time it's strangely compelling and never the least bit dull whether it's due to the nonstop nudity the large amount of violence and action it all comes together to make an entertaining 2 hours of cinema br br the churchill has been sent to investigate halley's comet when they detect something hiding inside the coma of the giant rock a small team led by colonel steve railsback has been sent to search the area what they discover includes hundreds of frozen bat like creatures and three nude and seemingly unconscious humanoid beings inside strange crystalline containers two male and one female mathilda may they decide to take all three back with them which results in a catastrophe br br when london receives no response from the crew another crew is sent to find out what's going on when they dock with the churchill they find the remains of the crew all dessicated beyond recognition the humanoids are still in perfect condition and they take them back to london br br after various tests the scientists still don't know what these beings really are then late one night a security guard in the compound feels compelled to enter the room the female is being held he touches her shoulder and she awakens stands up and smiles at him in a seductive and wicked manner she approaches him and begins to kiss him when it becomes clear that she's actually taking his lifeforce sucking him of all of his energy the effect is slightly cheesy br br she escapes from the compound and begins to leave a trail behind another man colonel caine peter firth is brought in to track her down then the men discover that there is a pattern to the lifeforce process the corpse of the security guard awakens in 2 hours and takes the lifeforce of a doctor it seems in every 2 hours this process is repeated by a victim with the help of the churchill's sole survivor they attempt to track the girl down before it's too late br br lifeforce is pretty good late night entertainment it has all the elements one could look for in such a movie loads of nudity blood gore and plenty of special effects this is certainly better than a similarly plotted film species thanks in large part to a more riveting finale br br the performances range from decent to terrible faring the worst is easily steve railsback who overacts to no end much better are peter firth who comes through and convincingly and the gorgeous mathilda may she's as beautiful as french actresses sophie and emmanuelle seigner may does go through virtually the whole role without wearing clothing and there were reports that it was hard on her while filming so the fact that she is able to go through every scene without fidgeting and looking uncomfortable is impressive there are times when she can be quite creepy being simply seductive most of the film manages to work because of her br br
1	daisy movie review by james mudge from com br br on paper daisy sounds like an asian film fan's dream come true directed by infernal affairs co helmer andrew lau and starring everybody's favourite sassy girl popular korean actress jeon ji hyun unfortunately despite the talent involved and the fact that the crew flew halfway around the world to shoot in amsterdam the film turns out to be a bit of a disappointment being a romantic drama which wallows in misery and self importance br br the plot follows young jeon ji hyun a rather naive korean girl who lives in amsterdam spending her life working in her grandfather's antique shop and doing portraits for tourists one day she begins receiving flowers at exactly the same time from a secret admirer who she believes to be a mystery man from her past who once built her a nice little bridge one day she meets jeong woo lee also in holiday and public enemy who unbeknownst to her is actually an interpol agent tracking asian criminals in the netherlands br br with young assuming that jeong woo is responsible for the flowers the two fall very slowly into a chaste romantic relationship however it turns out that the man sending the flowers is actually park yi jung woo sung from sad movie and musa an assassin working for a chinese crime syndicate inevitably the love triangle turns tragic and the two men end up facing off while poor young tries to work out which of the two is the love of her life br br although daisy is ostensibly a love story it has the feel of a funeral with a slow sombre pace and a plot which piles on the misery half of the film's running time is taken up with scenes of the characters staring longingly out of windows into the rain with the silence broken only by bouts of self pitying narration director lau seems to be under the impression that the film is a weighty shakespearean tragedy rather than yet another gloomy hit man love story as such the proceedings have a rather pretentious air despite the fact that the plot is inherently predictable and based largely around glaring cliché borrowed liberally from the likes of fulltime killer and john woo's classic the killer br br almost every aspect of the film is riddled with angst with the three lead characters suffering as if the weight of the world was on their shoulders and steadfastly refusing to do anything to pursue their romantic inclinations park yi in particular as the kind of overly emotional socially retarded assassin so beloved of modern cinema is faintly ludicrous from his blatant incompetence on the job to his hilarious attempts to discuss impressionist painting with young or his penchant for flower growing this languid passivity does make the film's central romance somewhat hard to swallow and lau's attempts to evoke the feeling that it is fate which brings the characters together comes across more as shoddy coincidence br br fans of jeon ji hyun should note that her character is far closer to her role in the glum supernatural drama the uninvited than my sassy girl or and while she tries her best to pull a few wacky faces here and there her performance is certainly more subdued br br the film benefits from glossy production values and lau makes good use of the amsterdam scenery playing on the contrast between the grey almost gothic beauty of the city and the innocent blue skies and flowery fields of the countryside unfortunately he tends to overuse slow motion for some of the emotional scenes which when coupled with some of the picture postcard visuals gives the film the feel at times of a perfume advert there are a few scenes of surprisingly violent action though these are few and far between and whilst well staged seem to have been thrown in as an afterthought and do little more than briefly raising the pulse br br despite its flaws daisy makes for engaging viewing and the story grips almost in spite of itself mainly out of a morbid fascination to see not which of the men young will end up with but to see who will lie dying in her arms the self indulgent melodrama works well enough to tick all the right boxes for the genre and the film functions perfectly well as an enjoyably glossy weepy romance br br it is worth noting that the dvd features the director's cut of the film which for once indicates that it is substantially different from the theatrical version which not only adds 25 minutes but some of the scenes making the narrative less linear although this new version is perhaps too long it is surely superior as without these changes the film would surely have been even more conventional and would have suffered from even murkier character development br br wai keung lau director young screenplay cast woo sung jung … park yi sung lee … jeong woo david chiang … cho ho jin jeon … detective jang ji hyun jun … young dion lam … yun joon ha
1	a young korean artist lives in amsterdam she is a bit of a loner and has never had a serious relationship insisting that she is waiting for the right person she works in the public square drawing portraits for passersby but for herself she also indulges in painting her favorite flowers daisies but all of a sudden she has a secret admirer flowers are delivered to her residence every day at 4 15 usually daisies yet she can not catch the sender in the act this is because unknown to her her beau is a korean hit man and he wishes to remain hidden for now one day in the square however another attractive korean man sits for the artist and happens to be carrying a pot of daisies she concludes that he is her shy hero and also the man she has been waiting to find this second gentleman too has a secret he is an interpol agent the assassin can see everything that transpires in the square due to having an apartment close by naturally he is disturbed that another man has entered the young girl's life how will this shadowy love triangle play out this is a beautiful picture to watch the setting in amsterdam and the surrounding countryside is very very lovely add in three most attractive young korean actors and visually any viewer has a stunning panorama in front of them the story is quite nice too being a mixture of drama and action with a dash of the unexpected costumes are very fetching and the production values high in short anyone searching for a quality foreign film with a compelling story and great scenery would find this movie a wonderful choice for a diverting evening should you have someone's hand to hold during the view so much the better
1	i saw the korean version of daisy first it came across as a simple love story that flowed nicely from start to finish i saw it 3 times as i waited for my copy of the director's cut to arrive br br then i got the dc and watched it wow i think this is the first real director's cut i've ever seen amazing how detailed the editing is in both versions the dc is laid out like a hardcore thriller with the love story in the background it moves at a slower pace than the korean version the variations between both versions are so drastic it seems like two totally different movies i thought i would be worn out watching the movie again it out just to look for the added scenes that wasn't the case it really felt like i was watching a whole new movie br br while the dc is 20 minutes longer than the korean version you'll be hard pressed to pinpoint where or what has been changed 2 seconds chopped off here a second added there an entire scene added here another erased there in both versions scenes have been added omitted or chopped up and in some scenes entire lines of dialogue were replaced or while the scene itself was untouched even simple sound effects were added omitted from each version having a major impact on the mood of the film and sometimes even changing the outcome of a scene what comes across as a tender moment in the korean version is a sad somber one in the dc the endings of both versions leave room for interpretation as far as i can tell both versions end a lot different and were intended that way br br i'm assuming most people will be acquiring the director's cut of the film and will find the movie pretty decent but a little long and boring if that's the case look for the korean version same movie but different feel i think there's a deluxe 3 dvd version that contains both cuts of the film not sure br br the versions compliment each other so well that as a pair i'll watch daisy more often than i do any of my other favorite korean movies alone i'd say the korean version is a nice love story that i'd watch once in awhile the director's cut i'll watch maybe once or twice then never again as i find the pacing dull but they just go so well together for what i consider the best experience i'd say watch the korean version first then watch the director's cut to help fill in the gaps of the story that you were curious about br br the editing is the real star of the film
1	flowers if it's one thing you'll take away from this movie it's gonna be the flowers they feature so prominently and are used as plot devices you'll become an expert in identifying with daisies and black tulips by the time the movie ends br br set in amsterdam daisy tells the frustrating love triangle story between 1 girl and the 2 men in her life one a professional hit man eking out a living the other an interpol agent featuring a pan asian cast korean hong kong and crew director andrew lau from hong kong writer from korea and a thai post production team i could imagine the headaches in coordination br br park yi jung woo sung is a hit man who found a soft spot for painter young played by the pretty jeon ji hyun it's love at first sight in the meadows of daisies where her clumsiness caught his attention however being shy and ever mindful of the dangers of his professional career he can only admire her from afar do little or perhaps big things for her in an anonymous fashion but the one that takes the cake is sending her potted daisies everyday without fail at 4 he becomes her guardian angel from afar shielding her and keeping her safe from harm br br young is in love with this mysterious stranger she is constantly waiting for him to appear but i really wonder how difficult could that be given the almost daisy delivery nonetheless she's terribly moved and touched by this sole act however as the stars would have it interpol detective jeong woo lee sung chances upon young at a town square during one of his undercover missions and he too is captivated by her in a similar fashion because of his profession he is doubtful if he should make the first move br br which is where the audience would find it frustrating the lady obviously would fall for the wrong guy then again it's the good guy park yi being infuriated by jeong woo's pursuit but yet still refuses to step out and identify himself and jeong woo being the opportunist in grabbing the free anonymous identity unwittingly it's almost as if you wanna give everyone a slap to wake them all up br br that aside it is precisely this tension that keeps you intrigued and it is wickedly fun to watch the two male leads finding it tough to fall in love without jeopardizing their careers or their loved one but fret not action fans there are enough cat and mouse revelations and unsaid camaraderie in the mould of infernal affairs as well as ample gunfights although i felt the ending could have been scripted tighter br br what rocks is the clever editing telling the story in a non linear timeline no worries it ain't that bad you'll still be able to follow the narrative from the points of view of all the leads keeping you in suspense and culminating in a three way split screen showcasing all their emotions in a single converging event which i thought was extremely well done br br it's a beautiful film in terms of landscapes of lush meadows and busy city squares with plenty of classical music to the soul as with romance movies all the leads are eye candy the girls will have a field day with the two handsome male leads while the guys have to make do with a somewhat pudgy faced argh ok lah at certain angles jeon ji hyun br br if you're into a romance movie with an equal balance in the action tension department then daisy would be your choice if you prefer a more conventional weepy then the other korean movie making its debut here at the same time you are my sunshine would be your alternative and yes i totally dig the ending scene which i thought only the koreans do it best kinda reminded me of the one
1	good to see i'm not the only person who remembers this great film i have very fond memories of this movie seem to vaguely remember back to when i was about 8 and i'd watch the kids tv shows after school broom cupboard anyone this was the first and last film to scare me and the images of the boy surrounded by mist on a hill will stay with me forever like most films of this era it has a happy ending aimed at children but with a definite ability to capture an adults attention the lovely cornish scenery really sets the film up to feel isolated and the ghostly scenes are simple but very very effective i'd love to try and find this movie again see if it still hits home
1	i saw this film early one morning in the early 90s when i was about 12 i have been trying to find what it was and finally today i did i remember enjoying it and being a little bit freaked out at the ending when it showed the gravestone of the young boy and his ghostly face please could anybody let me no if i can get a copy of this as i would love to see it again i remember the kid getting stuck down a cornish tin mine and then befriending a boy cant remember that the kids were stuck there with miners but must have been the boy helps them out of the mine and turns out to be the ghost of a boy who had died while working down there i think
1	this film has haunted me since i saw it when i was about 8 years old i didn't know what it was called so am so pleased to have tracked it down finally i remember being quite scared because i'd just been to a tin mine in cornwall when i watched it so could imagine it all fortunately i didn't see any ghosts of dead children there but i found this film really quite disturbing and scary when i was much younger i've certainly never forgotten it even though i couldn't find it anywhere i seem to remember the children's film foundation films being generally good but they don't show them at all any more i also remember programmes like the children of green in the same era on bbc equally unsettling in its own way
1	i remember watching this as a child as part of the children s film foundations friday film specials on cbbc and have recently happened upon a copy br br in the twenty or so years since my last viewing this film has lost nothing br br it is an atmospheric tale which entices with cornish folklore and adds elements of truly creepy imagery of the ghost of the young miner billy br br shot in the wonderfully scenic port area of cornwall the film utilises the mixture of rugged coastline and abandoned tin mines to make the setting truly believable br br there is much packed into this drama something long since lost from children's television today and well worth a look if you can track down a copy
1	a terrific b feature a virtual two hander and set over the course of a day you can see it's stage origins and even how it must have worked as a radio play and although only 77 minutes long played out in sequences akin to something like real time robert ryan is the psychopath who keeps ida lupino trapped in her own home both are superb especially the under rated lupino whose initial independence and self control soon crumble before ryan's unhinged intruder today of course it would be all guts and gore but the restraint shown by director harry horner much better known as an art director only adds to the suspense which at times is worthy of hitchcock
1	so after years and years i finally track this film down i was dying to see how it lived up to my memories i distinctly remembered the shots of the ghost boy running down the mine then waiting behind two planks of wood crossed in the mineshaft just staring out with a pale white face this single shot was probably the most chilling shot of my childhood i remember chills running down my spine watching it now its obviously nowhere near as scary but quite subconsciously strange to see the same images again if anyone wants a copy private message me br br the story itself is fairly standard stuff its strange though that the message is pretty unclear this time around there is no real moral as such except that 'ghosts are here to help us ' or 'don't be prejudiced against ghosts ' there wasn't even a greed capitalist angle in terms of wanting to profit from the mine however a massive act of irresponsibility from the captain encouraging the two kids to actually follow the vague implications of a ghost not only into a mine but into a new mine hole which is totally dangerous the captain then encourages the children to climb down a huge ladder deep into the mines simply because he thinks the ghost wants them too its also a bit odd that the ghost chooses the boy to help the trapped adults and not just help the trapped adults direct oh well
1	being cornish and brought up with the history of tin mining this film is quite special to me filmed in and around various locations in cornwall it depicts the story of two your children who get trapped down a mine with a group of miners br br the of the title refers to the ghosts of child miners who reside in the mine and are said to bring evil to all that mine there events take place with an american wanting to invest in local tin mining but when the young local kid josh is plagued by sightings of the ghost of a young boy he and his american 'girlfriend' set out to unravel the mystery behind his death climaxing in the rescue of themselves and several miners from almost certain death when a new shaft is opened and the save them br br top film albeit low budget and short but worth a look if you're from cornwall and or into tin mining
1	this film is one of those that can't be regarded by its indeed at a first sight it seems that the story simply focus the desire of have more money but let's take a look on the other side what do you see you see that the money is only a metaphor for the ambiguous feelings the human being have should i do the right thing or should't i and what's the right thing make a deeper analyses what does it mean a little town in the border it means that sometimes we can go too close to the border of doing something we thought we couldn't what does it mean the arid soil shown in this picture it means the that sometimes take possession our hearts what does it mean the phrase of the character kristen now i belong to him it means the loss of our free will due to our unpremeditated deeds in my opinion that's the writer of the story and the director tried to tell us by the way do you remember what another character jack barnes said nothing is so simple
1	i first saw this movie in the night program of one of my favourite tv channels i was hooked from the very first minute nothing is as it first seems lots of suspense great acting from mr van dien and i did not mind the heat in it one bit and best of all you are in for a surprise ending
1	this film starts out with all the moody promise of a great contemporary noir western after the ill conceived opening flashback sequence anyway the scenery is beautifully desolate the characters achingly isolated while some of the acting is less than believable the plot ultimately delivers enough tension and twists to make this movie worth a look
1	this movie moves and inspire you it's like you are one of the family just to see and witness life during the depression era makes you feel humble and grateful jonathan silverman delivered well so convincing and very witty a must see for teens
1	blythe danner and judith deliver wonderful performances here as jonathan silverman as eugene recounts his life in 1937's brighton beach br br what makes the film so good is the relationships among the characters with a backdrop of extremely wonderful family values br br bob dishy had a marvelous opportunity here as the father of the clan he gives a restrained but compelling performance as the patriarch of the family br br his sons played by jonathan silverman and brian dillinger are fabulous there are certain scenes when silverman is skating or hopping where i'm reminded of jerry lewis br br as for danner and they too are wonderful their mannerisms intonation and idealism of the jewish culture are beautifully realized by them br br the cinematography is just wonderful beautiful brighton in 1937 even as the inevitability of war loomed the film is rich with many of the typical problems faced by families in that period in a sense you don't have to be jewish to experience what the family is going through br br a must see for nostalgic buffs and those of us who believe so strongly in family values
1	i love this movie the cast were all terrific in the portrayal of their various characters judith did so well portraying a weak fearful dependent who was passive aggressive in her complaining and self involved character that it was a relief to see the character's metamorphosis blythe danner was equally appealing in her role as a somewhat judgmental jewish mother devoted wife and loving sister jonathon bob dishy stacey and lisa performed their roles equally well br br if you enjoy movies that relate to going through challenging times without loosing your sense of humor and hope you will love this movie
1	one of my favorite movies great cast lead by jonathan silverman and blythe danner serious drama situations with brilliant comedic punches an exact mixture of character and story real people with real problems and everyone has a different relationship with each family member sensitively moves from slightly sad to hilariously funny read the quotes this is the best adaptation of a neil simon play br br if you wanna see more of eugene check blues starring matthew broderick who played in both stage versions is ok a bit on a darker side get away from the made for tv broadway bound
1	this is a gently amusing coming of age comedy that comes from the later more mature period of neil simon's writing although there are plenty of wisecracks to go around this is not one of those neil simon pieces where every character spouts out one liner jokes for 2 hours like they're guest stars on a bob hope special there are also dramatic elements some work some are overkill that lend some weight to the story br br the performances are good across the board especially blythe danner as the mother although she and judith were oddly wasp ish choices to play jewish women i've never been a fan of jonathan silverman but i will say that he hits the right notes as the obnoxious gawky and totally horned up teen age narrator protagonist of the story br br the movie is very similar in tone to woody allen's radio days but the latter is far more imaginative and funny than this one
1	i particularly enjoyed review of this film and agree that howard is not the only damaged character howard is rather ruthlessly set up by the script but there is no evidence that his previous employer is actually dead or if she is that he murdered her howard doesn't know and neither do we in terror and confusion at seeing the woman lying there he bolts however he never actually harms helen gordon no matter how enraged he is indeed he reacts with horror at helen's fainting spell and the fact that he is holding a pair of scissors then he resumes his tidying up and greets the recovered helen with the almost pathetic i'm very tired now i think i'll go home frankly i don't think he's a psychopath a sick puppy certainly but not a psychopath br br the problem with howard is that he has no real male identity he wanted to serve his country but his mental condition denies him a place in the army he is singularly rootless and isolated no wife no girl no home again at least as far as we know and he does a woman's job are my speciality helen's niece ruthlessly strips away this pride in his by exclaiming that she would want a man with a real job also although he finds himself strongly attracted to helen he is unable or unwilling to do more than scare her by making a strong sexual pass he is remarkably powerless can't fight can't work can't make love br br helen is justifiably terrified however she tries to connect to him but finding that he doesn't respond normally i e way outside the comfort zone provided by her rose tinted memories of husband ned unwittingly presses all howard's buttons by lying to him in her attempt to escape br br both characters trapped in the house trapped by fear neuroses rage and memory deserve sympathy i know the sudden ending has disappointed some reviewers but i felt it fitted well as it offered a kind of release to the characters helen is freed i think from the past when howard tries on her husband's army coat helen's disgusted reaction is highlighted she no doubt feels that the sacredness of ned's possessions has been violated but hopefully her need to keep everything untouched has been lost in the reality of her own struggle with danger perhaps she can move on br br howard is also freed from his endless cycle of anger hurt and violence whether he moves on to treatment or to jail is debatable but i hope it's the former br br great performances from ryan and lupino i prefer on dangerous ground but this is pretty good too
1	how many of us have read a book or seen a play and then when the movie version came out we were terribly disappointed well maybe this would be one of those movies for those who saw the play too but as someone who never had the opportunity to see it on stage i was extremely entertained by this movie the characters were funny the music was great and the story was interesting and made you feel genuine empathy for the characters flaws and all jonathan silverman has such good comedic timing and his lines especially are hilarious i'm not going to give any spoilers it's just a nicely done funny movie showing the inner workings of a middle class family during wwii so if you never saw the play and if you have enjoyed other neil simon movies don't be held back by the couple of negative reviews seen here on its own brighton beach memoirs is a great movie i guarantee it no money back though
1	the viewer who said he was disappointed seems to be wildly missing the point here this is a superb movie excellent and realistic portrayals of a middle class jewish family in brighton beach brooklyn of long ago the nuances are perfect and i felt the casting of everyone was superior i especially found the acting done by judith just perfection especially the speech she has with her daughter when the daughter comes home late one night that scene was oscar worthy but really all the acting was fine i recommend this movie it is a fun family film and delightful to see how a lovely middle class family lived in brooklyn so long ago see it and you will be glad you did has some very funny lines and the eugene character is a real comedian very funny
1	this is without a doubt one of neil simon's best plays turned movies it's full of great characters and memorable dialog johnathan silverman makes a great screen version of young eugene he was played by matthew broderick on stage this is the first of simon's autobiographical trilogy its followed by the wonderful blues and closes with the tv movie broadway bound if i had to say the movie has any flaws it would maybe be that characters sometimes usually speak in obvious dialog but that's alright because it's great dialog rent this little gem you won't be sorry
1	in april 1947 new york city faced an epidemic crisis eugene a rug arriving from mexico had arrived in the city bringing with him the deadly smallpox virus he stumbled off a bus complaining of fever and a headache and soon died in a hospital but not before he had infected a dozen passers by the damage was already done for the first time in decades smallpox stalked the streets of new york the city's health authorities acted quickly to isolate sufferers and contain the virus enacting a free vaccination campaign that saw over six million new yorkers against smallpox thanks to their swift response the virus was contained with minimal casualties the outbreak nevertheless must have left an indelible mark for several years later it was followed by two similarly themed film noir thrillers in which doctors must track down a single contagious carrier in a city of millions elia kazan's 'panic in the streets 1950 ' and earl lower budget 'the killer that stalked new york 1950 ' br br film unfolds in an unglamorous docu drama style reed hadley's narration sounds as though it was plucked straight from a newsreel reciting facts as if reading off the official police transcript this technique does feel a little cheap at times but fortunately the narration is largely restricted to the film's bookends as well as providing some explanatory filler during breaks in the plot the killer stalking new york in this story is not a rug from mexico but beautiful diamond smuggler sheila bennet evelyn keyes who has just arrived from cuba within days sheila has two parties independently pursuing her a treasury agent barry kelley looking to arrest her for smuggling crimes and a team of doctors led by william bishop who have identified her as the source of the smallpox outbreak as in 'panic in the streets ' an otherwise routine manhunt is given a heightened sense of urgency particularly when those in pursuit initially have no idea as to the identity or appearance of their suspect br br 'the killer that stalked new york ' for the most part manages to sidestep its low production budget aside from a select few lines of dialogue we have to stop it exclaims dr wood at one point as though coming to a difficult decision the filmmakers and cast members allow the story to unfold in a realistic engrossing fashion indeed in this regard the low budget quite possibly aids the film's intentions necessitating a documentary style that adds to the immediacy of the outbreak scenario evelyn keyes is excellent in the leading role showing obstinate resilience in the face of unimaginable torment by the film's end she appears so brutally incapacitated by her illness that it's almost painful to look at her face aside from the virus charles is the main villain of the piece as sheila's greedy and adulterous husband who rest assured gets everything that's coming to him and if all nurses looked like dorothy malone perhaps catching smallpox wouldn't seem like such a bad break after all
1	in this crackerjack noir thriller from columbia which is a combination of panic in the streets and the naked city evelyn keyes is unknowingly the killer that stalked new york evelyn who smuggled some stolen jewels into the country from cuba also smuggled in smallpox it gets by doctor william bishop and when they do find out what it is the hunt is on for her br br for most of the film the treasury department is also hunting keyes but for the smuggled jewels it's not until nearly the end of the film that the health department and law enforcement realize they're looking for the same woman br br evelyn's on a mission also her husband charles has left her flat the cut of all being that he was fooling around with her sister while she was in cuba collecting the gems and contracting smallpox when lola albright as her sister commits suicide over the whole affair evelyn's on a mission get or die trying and that's not an idle threat given the situation br br the film was mostly shot in new york like the naked city and its cast is sprinkled liberally with a lot of familiar names and faces keep an eye out for good performances by connie gilchrist as evelyn's unsympathetic landlady jim backus as a shifty club owner and art smith as fence br br a real sleeper in the noir category don't miss it if broadcast
1	some spoilers sweeping into new york city on a first class railroad car a killer who doesn't kill with a gun or knife or club but just with his or it's touch and breath a killer that's as old or even older then man himself that killer has a name it's know the world over as smallpox br br arriving in new york one cold november afternoon the killer hidden inside of sheila bennet evelyn keyes and like a horse it waits until the opportunity presents itself then like a ticking time bomb with it's fuse set off explodes throughout the length and breath of the city br br sheila knows that she's being followed by a u s customs officer who's been on her tail since she came back to the us from the island nation of cuba having smuggled 50 000 00 of illegal uncut diamonds she had to be careful in getting them to her husband matt charles to be cut and sold to unsuspecting in the city br br mailing the diamonds ahead of time sheila knows that if caught the diamonds won't be found on her what she doesn't know is that matt is two timing her by having an affair with her kid sister francie lola even worse he plans to check out of town with the diamonds leaving her as well as francie holding the bag br br even though we know right from the start of sheila's deathly condition it doesn't really come to the surface until much later in the movie the first half of the killer that stalked new york is a crime suspense drama with the u s customs officials and nyc police looking for the stolen diamonds as sheila starts to get sick and begins to infect everyone whom she comes in contact with the film reaches the point of a mass panic in the streets type horror movie br br both the police and custom officials together with members of the city's health race against the clock to find sheila before she infects the entire city of new york with the deadly smallpox infection that she's carrying sheila finding out from matt's boss willie dennis jim backus that he quit his job as a nightclub piano player and that he was having an affair with francie shocks her into the realization to what a heel he is br br confronting francie at her apartment it turns out that matt not only stiffed but her sister as well which later leads the guilt ridden francie to take her own life on the run and not knowing that she's infected with smallpox sheila goes to her brother sid with bissell who manages a flop house on the bowery to find a place to stay only too late does sheila and sid find out the the stolen diamonds is the last of her problems knowing that she's dying sheila goes to the office of arnold moss art smith knowing that sleaze ball of a husband matt who ended up beating old man moss into a bloody pulp is going to be there to exact vengeance on him br br type drama based on a true story with striking black and white on location photography makes this movie about the horrors of unseen and deadly smallpox unleashed on a unsuspecting public well worth watching
1	this is a really dark movie noir indeed the title character is smallpox brought into new york city unknowingly by evelyn keyes br br she is on one mission when she arrives and on a rougher one after she's spoken to her no longer innocent sister but she herself is not intentionally a killer this doesn't mean she doesn't kill it doesn't mean her presence somewhere among eight million other people doesn't throw the city into turmoil br br keyes is excellent the supporting cast is very good too there are several little known people involved in this the director included don't be put off it is a movie to be reckoned with and how nice to see a columbia picture columbia and republic turned out wonderful comedies and noirs yet we hardly ever see them anymore
1	from 1950 comes a neat thriller about a couple smuggling diamonds from abroad and also the contagious disease smallpox evelyn keyes pulls out all stops as the essential victim of this film noir once back in the united states she is not aware that she could be spreading the disease on everyone and everything she comes in contact with eventually she is pursued and must be stopped before an epidemic occurs other than keyes striking performance there is good support from villainous charles william bishop dorothy malone lola albright and whit bissell the finale is a humdinger with miss keyes on the ledge of a building with spotlights and hundreds of spectators below a good b flick
1	there must have been a sale on this storyline back in the 40's an epidemic threatens new york it's always new york and nobody takes it seriously some might say that richard widmark and jack palance did it better in panic in the streets but i disagree br br there is always something about these poverty row productions that really touch a nerve the production values are never that polished and the acting is a little rough around the edges but that is the very reason i think this movie and those like it are effective rough grainy edgy and the cast all 2nd or a list actors past their prime no egos here these folks were happy to get the work whit bissell carl benton reid jim backus arthur space charles and the melodious voice of reed hadley flowing in the background like crude oil by the way i've been in the hospital a couple of times how come my nurses never looked like dorothy malone in these kind of movies they don't bother much with make up and hair but they really managed to turn evelyn keyes into a hag or maybe they just skipped the make up and hair altogether anyway it was pretty effective she plays a lovesick jewel smuggler who picks up a case of small pox in cuba while smuggling jewels back for ultra villain charles who is boffing her sister in the meantime you got the customs agents looking for her because of the jewels and the health department looking for her because she's about to de populate new york no 4th amendment rights here everybody gets hassled br br you gotta have the right attitude to enjoy a movie like this i have a brother who movies to death if they don't hold up to his orson standards he bombs them they must have the directorial excellence of a david lean movie the score of wolfgang von the sound and art of douglas shearer and cedric gibbons respectively this ain't it br br but i have the right attitude and if you do as well you'll love this movie
1	this is an excellent b film horror movie that borders between horror and comedy it is about a genetically mutilated scorpion in outer space can it get more unreal it is a hybrid between alien and chain saw massacre the movie was shot in stockholm with a mixed cast of americans and swedes that interact beautifully director martin does a great job finding the comical highlights in this script and gets a few good laughs out of the audience the movie was shot with little or no money and it is inspiring to see what can be done with limited resources stinger has all qualities of a b film horror movie it is comical and scary at the same time and the cast and crew are dedicated to their cause it is great to see that movies like this can still be made i would recommend seeing it if you like this type of films
1	the subject is world war ii and robert ryan is a rejected soldier whom lupino hires as handyman she is a war widow br br the set is limited but the acting makes up for this robert ryan is conflicted one moment he seems nice then confused about where he lives at first lupino tries to help him he seems troubled but nothing more dangerous but how do we know the suspense builds i truly enjoy films like this which rely on the human element for suspense what is this man capable of there are some scenes with o z whitehead and dee pollock as an annoying grocery boy who sees something is wrong we keep thinking she will be helped then ryan's personality turns again he becomes like a jekyll hyde character and eventually chases lupino with a knife br br worth watching for these two superb actors 9 10
1	i think this movie was made as good as it could have been with only 4 months and a budget i'm surprised this wasn't worse if you are not to care about the cg or special effects this movie is great br br okay the movie is not that well made i'm sure it could have been but you try to do better in only 4 months but the story is good and the movie is rather exciting br br don't trust me when i say that this movie is good cause i also find the 1933 king kong to be good br br i must confess that i didn't watch the complete movie either i might have fast forwarded some minutes here and there
1	i found this little gem as an extra feature on my dvd of vampyr der des allen grey and didn't expect all that much from it it looked like it might be an interesting little short though so i turned it on br br i am so glad that i did it was really incredible despite having been made more than 70 years ago the animation was in my view better than some of that done today with all the computer effects and experience available now br br the story is quite simple a newly put together toy dog hears its owner's laments about not being able to afford an orange and goes on a quest to find her one in the process it runs into a underworld with all sort of nefarious creatures and toys overseen by none other than the devil himself who all want the dog's orange for themselves as well br br this film precedes but reminds me a lot of mad monster party 1969 jules bass a movie which i have always really enjoyed and to a lesser extent some of tim burton's animated works the nightmare before christmas 1993 henry selick and corpse bride 2005 tim burton fans of any of these movies will i am sure also love the mascot br br overall an incredible piece of short animation which is well worth watching
1	the mascot is ladislaw starewicz's masterpiece it tells the tale of a stuffed toy dog who searches for an orange after he overhears the mother tell her daughter she hasn't any money the dog gets picked with other toys to be sold off in the truck after the others jump off while the vehicle runs the dog stays and waits to be picked up from store before setting off on his own he manages to get orange after biting woman's leg as she was holding and selling the fruit as he runs he encounters the devil and accepts his offer to stop at nightclub there he meets the other toys who jumped off truck the cat who was next to him in vehicle is especially determined to get dog's orange i'll just stop here to mention that other wonderfully bizarre things happen in nightclub that you'll have to see for yourself suffice it to say if you love starewicz and is interested in all animation from the past i most definitely recommend you seek this one out
1	i agree with most of mr rivera's comments and i just want to ad a couple of caveats this film the mascot is criminally neglected in its current form for that matter so is vampyr the mascot isn't a bonus feature it's tacked on as a chapter in vampyr even though it's made very clear that this is a separate movie it should have been treated as such by the manufacturers and while i m at it vampyr needs some of that same respect and cleaning up as well i got the feeling the decision to put the mascot on there went something like this br br dude a we just transferred vampyr to dvd but it comes up about 20 minutes short we need to put something on there that won't cost much money can you believe film critics want to be paid to talk about films dude b not to worry i have this little animation thingy that's been sitting in my drawer just go ahead and throw it on as an additional chapter dude a you're awesome dude b the animation's of the mascot is great and there's no need for me to repeat what mr rivera's done so well however this thing needs some major cleaning and restoring especially the audio the plot comes through in the dialogue and in my copy there were so many hisses pops and places where the sound just dropped right off i would have had no idea what the dog was going after without having read the box no amount of volume was going to make the words more understandable it just brought up the and made the hisses and pops louder br br bottom line is starewicz's films need to be put into a respectful collection cleaned up up liner notes and the whole nine yards in other words they need to be 9 out of 10 for the movie not the product which would get only a 5
1	i still can't belive that made this film back in 1934 animation is simply perfect and what is amazing about it with all the advanced technology we have nowadays there are few animation studios that are capable of producing a little gem like this one it has everything a great story beautiful although this is a morbid kind of beauty in some cases special effects well it is definitely not a kid's movie but it's a must see for anyone seriously interested in animation
1	one of starewicz's longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters with the help of a stuffed cat the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible death the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz's films the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz's old style of puppetry live scenes of moving cars and people's feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz's of the new technology seems like old hat new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil's club scene and newspaper shreds come to life skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene overall starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work
1	words alone cannot describe the sheer beauty and power of this film br br think toy story now think toy story circa 1934 now imagine the animation looks as lifelike as fluid think of the movie not as something adults and children can enjoy but imagine it as a noire br br imagine trying to do something like that back in 1934 somehow the mascot delivers in a story where toys come to life and one of them is trying to deliver an orange to his sick owner starewicz delivers a level of animation completely unexpected it's so fluid you will wonder for a long time whether what you see is really stop motion animation br br comparing toy story and the mascot is an excercise in futility plot wise while toy story is a children's story adults can enjoy the mascot is a dark chilling story aimed at adults meaning no your kids won't like it one bit br br still get it if you can you might be able to find it along vampyr in dvd and laserdisc and prepare to be stunned at what starewicz was able to do back in 1934 with a couple of puppets
1	a brilliant animated piece that was far ahead of its time and certainly far ahead of anything that was being released in mass production at the same point in history the influence of this work upon tim burton's nightmare before christmas is readily apparent one can only imagine how starewicz over every beautifully detailed frame of this masterpiece br br there have been very few animated films of this caliber it's a shame that more people haven't seen this gem br br apparently imdb now requires comments to be at least ten lines long so this is the tenth line this must be something new but i really don't have anything else to say
1	straight from the brilliant mind of animation pioneer wladyslaw starewicz or the mascot as it is known nowadays stands as a masterpiece of stop motion animation that sadly has been almost forgotten by now nevertheless the work of this man deserves to be seen and in fact must be seen to be believed because the outstanding way the animation flows is simply unbelievable br br decades before toy story starewicz conceived the idea of moving toys in he tells the story of a small stuffed dog that gets makes friends with the sick daughter of his maker one day his maker takes him away to sell him and the adventure begins as he tries to find his way back home in his odyssey he'll travel from paris to hell and will find the other toys that were supposed to be sold with him br br it is a surreal experience to watch this movie as starewicz makes every imaginable creature come alive with grace and beauty the other toys include a beautiful ballerina who loves a thief but she also is secretly loved by a clown forming a love triangle an old woman a stuffed cat and a stuffed ape complete the group every toy is so detailed and very expressive that without words one can understand their motives br br truly the surreal atmosphere the whole animation has it is remarkable it is hard to believe that a work of this magnitude was done in 1934 since it looks even better than most of the current day animation the influence it has in modern day animator such as tim burton and henry selick is very significant br br this short is a masterpiece of animation and the outstanding work of one genius who done everything by himself and that has influenced animators for decades starewicz's work is an immortal piece of art that should be seen by everyone this work is not only for kids adults as well will enjoy it and probably catch most of the subtext hidden in the movie br br it is possible to find it in the vampyr dvd as a bonus feature anyone with the slightest interest in animation should give it a look
1	there is a complete copy now available at the internet archive watch it or download it today br br http www archive org details the mascot complete br br one of the greatest animated shorts ever made starewicz is endlessly inventive and his techniques still astound animation fans 70 years later we may have computer generated techniques now but all he had in 1934 was an imagination that wouldn't take no for an answer whatever he wanted to see on the screen he created br br and he wanted to see some truly bizarre stuff every imaginable piece of scrap is called up for service old shoes chicken bones utensils broken glasses dolls monkeys rats seems like there was nothing that was off limits br br a truly eerie even unsettling film that should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in animation this film must be seen to be believed
1	beware my lovely originated from a play written by mel who apparently liked writing about frightened women his first and best effort was the screenplay for the spiral staircase he also did a loretta young suspense thriller cause for alarm a couple of years earlier the play wrote was originally entitled the man and it ran for 92 performances on broadway during the 1950 season it was only effort on broadway and it starred dorothy gish and richard boone br br the roles that gish and boone played are taken by ida lupino and robert ryan for whatever reason rko thought to eliminate the age difference himself rewrote his play for the screen so i'm wondering what he thought about that certainly the frailty issue was eliminated completely from the story br br that wasn't the only thing that was eliminated the people are all wearing period clothing from around world war i yet there's no reference at all to the time this story takes place in i thought that strange and later on when the telephone company repairman comes to ida lupino's residence i noticed his truck was a vintage one of the same era br br the film is almost entirely set within ida lupino's home where she's hired an itinerant stranger in robert ryan as a handyman the film is a great object lesson in not hiring strangers without reference it turns out that ryan is a schizophrenic who imprisons lupino in her home for about a day br br both the leads do fine jobs even with the changes made films like beware my lovely are the stuff that a small studio like rko did best if this were done at mgm or paramount the glossy trappings would have overwhelmed a solid story
1	cannibalism a pair of cinematic references to delicatessen not only in plot but in style cannibalism a pair of references to the historic case of the uruguayan rugby players that survived in the by eating the dead members of their flight to chile cannibalism only an excuse the movie uses to delve into the extremes men are willing to go to defeat isolation and obtain social acceptance br br the script is extremely creative and hopefully is going to leave the viewer laughing and wondering
1	this movie is the funniest danish movie i've ever seen br br the plot is funny surprising and danish humor is unlike any other and it gets you every time the entire audience laughed 90 of the time it was incredible the characters are so well played and the two actors mads and nikolaj lie play their best ever br br i would highly recomend seing this movie you won't regret it believe me
1	this is a novelty in danish film the mood is not unlike that of also by anders thomas jensen but with a novel touch one difference is fewer characters leaving much more room for them to be dwelled into and what characters the two butchers are perfect mads is a dominating deranged parody and nikolaj lie an indifferent looser with a twin brother more or less an unholy pairing of the two
1	it is a wonderful film about people strange people the characters in the movie all have a very tragic past so they all have their problems their problems evolve in a way that makes the plot of the movie very absurd but that does not make the movie worse only better for it is shot in a kind of fantasy like way so nothing is real this review might sound a little weird but then again the movie is not quite normal it is also a hilarious movie at many times if you have not seen it see it enjoy
1	this without doubt one of the funniest and most entertaining movies i have ever seen i really enjoyed the characters in the movie they are all wonderful bizarre in them selves it's quite something i have never seen before in any movie br br the story is almost non stop from beginning to the end there are no boring moments i was totally captured by the movie and i thought the acting was great br br so if you want to see a fun movie you should look for the green butchers a great movie br br i give it 10 10
1	this is actually a brilliant movie the story is grotesque but the actors are brilliant especially the performance of mads as is magnificent it's a simple story about two guys with an urge to make it on their own but it unfolds to a strange and absurd story with a lot of people accidentally getting killed and served up as chicken if only more people understood danish this could be a great candidate for an english version it is also worth mentioning ole who always delivers that extra twist to the plot with his slightly mad character i can only recommend this movie to the danish audience also take a look at adams 2005 a movie by anders thomas jensen also with mads accompanied by a well playing ulrich thomsen
1	this movie is a mix of a dark comedy and a drama about two guys who worked in a butcher's shop and wanted to build up their own when they finally fulfilled that dream they faced a new problem there were no clients one day by accident one guy dies in the refrigerator room and a new kind of butcher's business begins… they start selling human flesh saying to the clients it's just and their business starts to improve human flesh sells good oh i forgot to say something… these guys aren't normal there's really something missing in their brains br br the movie has some nice dark humour scenes but it is in my opinion mostly a drama one that shows us what is inside the head of a psychopath what are his motivations to what he does i must confess i was a bit surprised with the ending of the movie because i never expected they could make it without been discovered but that's probably because i see too many hollywood what i mean by this is that in hollywood's cinema we always expect the punishment of the guys which do the bad things there's always a morality protecting the good values in spite of we all know that in real life it doesn't happen this way too many and i liked this movie mostly because of that because it fits in a kind of cinema which is true frontal without fake and which see what is on the other side behind the conventional morality … it just happens in independent cinema especially in the european br br besides there're excellent performances by nikolaj lie kass and mads especially the first one in the roles of the disturbed guys … br br very nice danish film
1	ok so i'm not usually one that runs out and rents foreign movies especially foreign dark comedies i think i can count on one hand the number of films that i found genuinely hilarious from beginning to end this movie will be added to the short list even dark comedies right out of hollywood sometimes turn me off because they require an incredibly dry sense of humor but this one had my eyes welling up with tears my sides hurt i haven't laughed that hard in a long time this movie was recommended by my mother and i don't think i would have even dreamed of watching it had she not raved about it don't be afraid of having to read during your movie you'll miss out on a hilariously well acted flick
1	of adam's apple and with your permission i didn't know until looking it up just now also the wants to kill i prefer this very focused deadpan drama over adam's apple's over the top comedic zeal but with your permission is much more layered and subtle but that's another director br br once the part of the story takes place i felt the dread of coming back to the shop again and again a bit claustrophobic maybe that is intentional it builds on the atmosphere you dread the rediscovery and again and again until the in the br br this is some funny stuff
1	send them to the freezer this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile if you can stand it definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive
1	we are in a small town a homely widow ida lupino hires a handyman robert ryan to look after her house she soon starts to regret it as ryan grows erratic by the hour it appears that she is host to a dangerous schizophrenic and now she is unable to escape her house br br beware my lovely is adapted from mel the spiral staircase story and play called the man pretty much a one set movie and a two character driven piece the film boasts two great central performances and offers up an interesting take on mental illness one however shouldn't be fooled into thinking this is a violent and nerve shredding picture because it isn't it's clear from the get go that ryan's howard wilton is a dangerously troubled man but this is a different sort of peril movie one that throws up another slant on psychosis and thus makes it difficult to hate our dangerous protagonist br br ryan and lupino are a great combination they had also done the excellent and far better on dangerous ground this same year so with both actors clearly comfortable together it brings out a finely tuned character story all based in the confines of one house re prison ryan is particularly strong as his character in and out of madness with some scenes powerful and at times inducing fear and at others garnering deep sympathy the direction from harry horner is safe he in truth doesn't have to do much other than let his actors run with it and george e cinematography contains some smart and impacting visual touches with one involving christmas tree baubles immensely memorable falling some where in between being average and great beware my lovely has enough about it to make it a recommendation to fans of borderline and easy to follow film noir for fans of robert ryan tho it's something of an essential viewing oh yes and then some 7 10
1	not sure i've ever seen a black comedy from before but this is quite good actually the humor is suitably low key and deadpan to go with some of the gruesome activity and are fed up with working for their boss because he's always putting them down in fact he mentions that they weren't bright enough to unzip before peeing at one point they do what they have to to start their own butcher shop and when a workman is accidentally locked in the cooler overnight while fixing a light they hit upon something that makes their butcher shop far more popular than their old boss's in fact he's the one they sold their first to and it's partly his fault since he served them at a rotary dinner at his house and the guests raved about it and showed up at and the next day is somewhat horrified what has done but it doesn't stop there has risen above his sad little existence to be someone of some popularity which is new for him and he doesn't want to let go of that so the freezer continues to fill up with all manner of acquaintances and at one point a small swede from the park arise though because ex boss thinks something is wrong is also haunted by his twin brother who lived in a sanitarium for years in a coma and whom wanted the plug pulled on so he could get inheritance money to help open the shop when was taken off the he was revived much to horror and has a love interest too in astrid who works at the cemetery neither nor are well adjusted individuals and so things start to spiral out of control the deadpan humor really makes this and while this isn't exactly laugh out loud material it certainly is amusing it is somewhat creepy though considering the cuts of meat and body parts casually lying around especially since these two take it all so matter of fact if you're a fan of black comedies this is recommended i liked it quite well myself 8 out of 10
1	not entirely sure how i stumbled upon this movie but i'm so glad i did initially we were put off by the fact that it was subtitled but even my dyslexic brother who hates to read especially at the weekend enjoyed this film i found the script fantastic and the way it was delivered in such a dead pan manner only added to the puddles of pee on my sofa not entirely sure whether it's quite so funny to the native danish as the comedy seems to be enhanced by the of the subtitles and the ambiguity of the translation i haven't watched many danish films or any for that matter but judging by this film i'm guessing they're not constrained by the same political correctness as elsewhere gawd bless 'em making the character of a breath of fresh air because let's face it special needs are funny there are so many great one liners in this film it puts american sitcoms to shame
1	good lord how this ended up in our dvd player i'll never know my wife thought it was a new release she'd missed somehow nevermind it's a couple of years old and in danish i think she kept looking for the english soundtrack br br all in all the film wasn't bad good production values better performances and a clever story that doesn't get too far away from itself make for tidy dark humored fare from across the sea the ending will make you chuckle in fact the whole film will incredibly strange characters that we grow genuinely interested in make a film that might be worth your while without spoiling the plot the film's title and dvd jacket give you a good idea where this thing is going
1	if you don't mind subtitles you like comedy and truly interesting characters along with a taste of something different from mainstream american cinema then take a chance and rent this film br br two contrasting friends one very neurotic sweater the other the strong quiet loner type working for a jerk butcher in a smaller danish town decide to strike out on they're own together and open a butcher shop themselves not successful at first they incorporate something new to they're recipe and become an instant hit with the village br br that being an interesting story in itself this smartly humorous film is laced with even more friendship romance crime death personal tragedy that makes this film so funny yet riddled with numerous subtle interests that make it so interestingly funny yet warm and fuzzy br br a must mention is the characters created and the actors making them believable you can have the best script yet if the characters aren't believable it can sink a film and with this the directing acting character believability and story all mesh so well they make this a very entertaining film br br so if your in the mood to stretch a lil want to see something very good yet done a bit differently then i suggest you rent this film while i'm on my way out to find more by director writer anders thomas jensen
1	the green butchers anders thomas jensen denmark 2003 br br how do the danes keep coming up with these films that are consistently funny sharply written exquisitely filmed and filled with great performances the green butchers is a dark and wickedly funny comedy in many ways the danish counterpart of eating raoul and delicatessen but it has more on offer than just laughs or parody br br the film brings us the duo of chronic pothead nikolaj lie and chronic mads sick of their evil boss the two pals decide to open their own butcher shop in a small danish town but initially business is slow and customers stay away when an electrician is accidentally locked up and freezes in their meat locker decides to turn the man's thigh into he promptly nicknames this special dish suddenly has everyone in town flocking to their counter and unable to resist this sudden leap into popularity turns into a serial killer with acting as his reluctant accomplice but soon led by their ex boss many people in town are starting to wonder what special ingredients the two men are using br br without the extraordinary performances by and the film might not have risen above the level of the average black comedy on paper the character of might border on caricature but mads portrait is that of an earnest insecure and deeply twisted man but manages to make him frightening funny and moving at the same time actually plays a double role also playing his comatose twin brother when watching the film i never even realized it was the same actor the other performances are just as wonderful with every character in town refreshingly off the hook with some truly wonderful vignettes br br the subject material is naturally a bit morbid and the material might not be completely fresh considering quite a few predecessors that handled the same kind of material but director jensen gives it a fresh twist and manages to build some real characters with the strange duo of and with this wonderfully bizarre tale of two social misfits br br camera obscura 9 10
1	the art of the absurd is alive and thriving in current danish cinema well at least it is in this movie nobody in this movie are amused they are all either annoyed or shocked and if they aren't yet they soon will be it is a story of screw ups murder embarrassment dignity and in the end love and redemption the chilling awkward humorous style is idiomatic and won't appeal to everyone but personally i found it to have just the right fascinating mix of the bizarre and the absurd you pity the characters from a distance even as you dislike them up close and personal but their story is so tragic that you find it in yourself to forgive them and be happy for them even when they get away with murder br br this is in my judgment definitely the best danish movie of the last few years br br 9 out of 10
1	this is by far the best movie i've seen in a long while it is a wholly original and beautiful plot it is not boring nor is it too dramatic the characters are tangible and realistic but it does not take away from the story line the fact that is not in english is most likely the final touch the end leaves you fulfilled in a way i've never experienced in a movie before br br i wish i had found this movie earlier br br more lines br br more lines br br more lines a lot more lines c'mon i'm done
1	many americans are lazy and this has manifested itself even in our dvd watching many of us don't like to take the time to read an hour and a half or more of subtitles so we choose not to see many foreign films one film that is totally worth your time no matter how mundane a task you might think the subtitle reading is however is the green butchers it's by far the best foreign film i've ever seen and tops many american films i've seen lately as well it's a complex situation told in a remarkably simple and funny dialogue the character depth derived in this film is amazing the way and sorry if those are spelled wrong feed off each other's contrasting personas is downright spectacular the actors were well cast and i'm very much hoping that a sequel is in consideration it needs very little of and what's her face just give me and on some sort of journey with supporting characters and more amazing dialogue to the author of this fine screenplay i say write more the story itself is rather twisted but you'll find yourself rooting for the bad guy anyhow with no remorse please check this movie out
1	de or the green butchers as it is called in english is a very dark comedy about two losers who work for a popular butcher they are fed up with their bosses criticism and decide to start a business on their own their shop is expensive and it doesn't even have electricity all over the place and to make things worse they haven't got any customers as their former boss predicted when the man pays them a visit in their shop he challenges them to provide the meat for a dinner party he organizes br br than a tragic accident happens one of the butchers locks the electrician into the freezing chamber when he closes the shop the man dies and the neurotic one of the two butchers decides to cut out of the thigh and serves it to the dinner party instead of calling the police it's an incredible success all at once every person in the village wants to taste that incredible chicken overwhelmed by his sudden success the butcher sees no other option but to kill more people who he can sell as chicken br br i guess that the subject cannibalism may not be enjoyed by everyone especially not because it is shown with a lot of humor personally i liked it a lot it shows perfectly how far some people would go for some social acceptance and to get out of their isolation it may sound a bit far fetched but i'm sure you would be surprised to see how people in real life sometimes act br br next to the original subject i was also pleased by the actors' performances and the humor there is no overacting as you might expect in this kind of movies it's all very sober and realistic i guess that's typical for the and scandinavian movies the same for the humor i'm sure i wouldn't have liked it as much as i did now if the humor had been over the top or with a lot of farting vomiting like you see so often in american movies i loved this movie and i give it an 8 10
1	the game was made in 1996 but it is still good today the graphics is not that hot and the actors are not oscar worthy but the plot is twisted diabolic and highly enjoyable the dark story is compelling from the first film and is continuing throughout all the play we played several people together for several reasons 1 to use all our minds together 2 not to be so afraid br br play this game and you won't regret this just don't try to find a quake engine in there
1	when i first saw this film it was about 1956 and even though i saw it again recently i have not changed my mind about it i think it was robert best film because he portrayed someone like my father and he was a schizophrenic in real life my father although he never murdered anyone but was affected more so during the second world war which made him worse having to humour him just to get by and get through the day was so apt my mother and brother had to do this when i saw robert ryan portraying this type of man it was a very good imitation of this type of individual and i was impressed
1	i play this game exactly after i watch the trailer in old magazine advertise cd br br the is very interesting and dark atmospheric missing in nowadays games movies the game is set somewhere in the middle of the '90 in the spooky mysterious mansion you play as adam randell and your quest is to free the soul of your death trapped father br br the look of the game is doom like but very different type of game a lot of a action various puzzles quests mazes and many more interesting locations and characters are presented in this old classic game br br the game will run only on windows 98 and there is no patch for windows xp
1	found a copy in a bargain bin sale of this old time classic i played it with on a vista machine without any issues it's graphically dated heavily but what do you expect for a 12 year old game the game is a fps adventure game hybrid it's what i call pseudo 3d you can't look up or down just spin in 360 think game play can get tricky with a very limited supply of health pots and a somewhat average interface tip press i but on the whole it's passable br br one main strength of the game is the mood there game heavily uses full motion video and whilst the acting is b grade and the plot is very choppy the game as a whole feels genuinely creepy it also does a good job of making you question the 'good guys' are they really helping or are they just waiting to stab you in the back the other major selling point is the games length there are from memory 18 chapters which range in game play time from 10minutes to potentially hours my first play through took me a week with some serious devotion of time br br dated yes but if you missed this years ago and can find it for 5 give it a look cheaper than a movie and more entertaining than most movies
1	this game is an action adventure with combat there are quite long periods with no combat but other times you have to get rid of various kinds of monsters the monsters are not like anything you would see in real life and they have to be gotten rid off in order to continue with your quest the whole game is a quest you play adam randall whose father contacts him from the beyond and asks him to come and save him the game is from the mid 1990's and has to be played in dos i used and was able to play the game quite well the graphics are not as good as some games even of the time mainly because the resolution is not high and some scenes look quite blocky but others look batter but don't let that put you off the game the game is very imaginative its long and can make you jump when unexpected monsters appear out of nowhere not for young kids who likely wouldn't be interested anyway but over 13 or 14 might like this game its a horror mystery action adventure combat combination i thought it was a great game its had to find now maybe ebay but remember its a dos game and you would not be able to play it on todays faster computers would be hard to play on fast computers unless you use oh and the acting is very good too
1	this game is one of the best horror shooter games i've ever played the plot is a little choppy but the game never fails to send you plenty of chills and excitement many people shelved the game when they found that there are no cheat codes for it and very little health potions and ammo to be found but actually after you've gone through the game once you are more familiar with the monsters and different rooms so you can easily get by the second time around the puzzles are great not too hard not too easy there are tons of different monsters so you never get bored and there are plenty of gaming areas you really feel like you're in a good stephen king novel as you play it's nice and creepy pick this game up cheap and have some fun
1	never mind if 'national velvet 1944 ' is a bit hackneyed and occasionally unconvincing clarence brown's equestrian fable is an endearing and very likable story with a good moral after achieving modest success through her appearance in come home 1943 ' young elizabeth taylor age 12 landed her first leading role as velvet brown a passionate schoolgirl with an obsession for horses though filmed in california the story adapted from a novel by enid is set in a small township on the english countryside and full advantage is taken of the technicolor photography to present the vibrant and handsome landscapes of blue skies and green shrubs mickey rooney takes top billing as mi taylor a misguided ex jockey with devious intentions whose relationship with young velvet reawakens his sense of dignity and opens a new optimistic chapter in his life though he noticeably struggles in one sequence when he must confess the traumatic experience that led to his fear of horses rooney is enjoyable as the surly but passionate young man who must prove his worth br br it is perhaps a good thing that elizabeth taylor had those entrancing violet eyes because her acting abilities at this young age were rather limited her more emotional sequences in which she displays courage and integrity in the face of adversity strike one as being rather hollow and the touchingly naive notion that simply believing will accomplish everything is one that has since been repeated ad nauseam by practically every unmemorable inspirational sporting film ever made nevertheless taylor is bright eyed and enthusiastic and she works well with mickey rooney who was no stranger to being a child star anne revere plays a very important role as mother once a famous athlete who not only swam the english channel but was lovingly trained by none other than mi taylor's own father i liked that mi was not told about this until the film's final seconds with mrs brown correctly deciding that the young man would first need to develop his own sense of decency rather than exploiting the memory of his late father for financial gain as he would undoubtedly have done at the film's beginning br br the film reaches its climax at the grand national sweepstakes where velvet has at the last moment decided to ride her own horse the pi in the world famous competition under the guise of a latvian male she goes on as expected to win the race but is later disqualified either because she's a girl or because she tumbled from the horse before she was allowed to dismount what a stupid rule this extended race sequence is exceedingly well done effectively capturing the nervous tension of those nerve racking pre race seconds and the confusion of the event that places us in the same position as rooney's character stranded behind tall spectators and waiting anxiously for somebody to provide an accurate update it doesn't really matter that we know it's a stunt double doing most of the difficult riding in several scenes we can clearly see a creepy looking man in a wig but the positive message remains the same i'll wager that 'national velvet' has nurtured the imaginations of millions of young girls over the last sixty years and it's power to inspire has decreased little with time
1	a teen aged girl gets the horse of her dreams and is trained by an ex jockey to participate in london's grand national a fine adaptation of the classic children's book with an excellent start making performance by taylor as the energetic but polite youngster rooney is ok as her trainer although he has some overly melodramatic moments crisp and revere are quite good as taylor's loving parents filmed in technicolor it looks beautiful the problems are that there are corny elements nothing very interesting happens and it drags on a bit too long the race is exciting but could have been much more so
1	i just wanted to say that i am watching national velvet on tv it is now feb 2006 and i was checking on dates details etc surprising to see it was made in 1944 and rooney was 24 years old whilst liz taylor only 12 what an accomplished english actress she is br br to put some americans contributors right there are no irish villages in england ireland is a completely different country and has nothing whatsoever to do with the english countryside the scenes shown are supposedly taken on the south coast of england between brighton and county of no such scene exists now unfortunately like many other places roads and buildings have been built on the hills and beaches br br so please all you lovely americans do not confuse ireland with england ever we take great exception to it like confusing texas with coney island
1	wow what a lovely warm rural film the story focuses upon mi taylor mickey rooney a young male wanderer whose journey takes him to a quiet rural coastal town there he stays with the brown family velvet liz taylor their youngest daughter who mi subtly befriends has a passion for horses and wins one at an auction this horse is a beautiful stallion referred by its previous owner as a 'murderous but velvet re names him pie not long later velvet suggests to enter him in the grand national race mi and her family are against the idea but soon agree and velvet and mi began to train him for britain's most famous horse race … this film is a beautiful example of what british films are like i remember i first saw this when i was eight and on my summer holidays my parents taped it off the tv and i warmed to it instantly – watching it most days instead of the large collection of disney films that i owned br br i believe it was one of liz taylor's first movies and a good one her character is naïve but sweet – her acting is extremely convincing especially when she portrays her love for horses it's also a good chance to see angela lansbury in one of her early roles who co stars as older sister who spends most of her time in the film being smitten with a boy in the town i must say she was a gorgeous lady when she was younger beautiful blonde hair and a rosy cheeked face although she doesn't have a major part in the movie she dose have a number of scenes so not to disappoint her fans parents reading this i must emphasis – if you can get hold of a copy of this please do if you're children love animals – i strongly suggest you show it to them they may find a few scenes boring but you see velvet riding the horse on many occasions throughout the film and would most defiantly entertain children a lovely and nostalgic film i might just go away now and put it on
1	my family watches this movie over and over even our 3 year old loves it i like the goodness in the movie giving the stranger a chance showing goodwill to one obviously in need of some unconditional acceptance the movie gives a feeling of goodwill and victory one other aspect of the movie that makes it so appealing is the personalities of siblings the bird lover the bug lover the boy lover very cute and happy movie there is one thing however that is irritating about it that is how mrs brown often makes mr brown look foolish or unwise she at times comes off as a know it all and he as a dimwit which he is not too bad to put that into such a nice story nevertheless we will continue to enjoy this wonderful old movie
1	i hope we never become to cynical as a society to appreciate the simple beauty of this movie beautiful to look at with its romantic english countryside and beautiful in its message of faith and loyalty watch this with your children especially your young daughters velvet brown is a wonderful role model for girls this was one of my daughter's favorite films br br the story is based on a best selling book by enid about a girl velvet whose whole life is her horse pi and about her single minded pursuit of her impossible dream i won't say anymore about the plot less i spoil it for first time viewers she lives with a big loving family in a small coastal village br br this is the movie that made elizabeth taylor a star and to watch the film is to understand why she is a natural actress who radiates an inner beauty that matches her outward beauty trusting passionate innocent she is the emotional core of the movie br br mickey rooney gives a wonderful performance as mi the young man who arrives on their doorstep one day stays and helps velvet train the pi this is one of his finest performances also standing out is anne revere as mother in an academy award winning role her strong loving and wise character understands that life isn't of much value unless you follow your dreams we're alike i too believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life br br i heartily recommend this very sweet very inspiring classic from hollywood's golden age
1	the movie with its single set minimal cast and straightforward photography except for a couple of brief special effects reminds me of one of those old 60 minute playhouse dramas so popular during tv's early years nonetheless the suspense hangs heavy over poor war widow ida lupino as she tries to deal with her semi psychotic handyman robert ryan before one of his mood swings kills her and who better to play the troubled part than that great actor ryan he wasn't very versatile watching him essay comedy is almost painful but no one was better at wounded idealism on dangerous ground or the psychic pain of this movie few actors could express as much with their eyes as this lean and towering figure br br lupino's problem is that she's locked up in her house with a man who is kind and gentle one moment and raging the next the suspense comes from her various ploys to keep him happy while trying to escape it's a nail biter all the way this is not one of lupino's many fine soulful parts that she was so good at instead it's a role many lesser actresses could have handled well enough my favorite scene is with ryan and bratty teenager margaret whiting ryan's already having difficulty with his masculinity and what others are saying about him then when whiting walks in and finds the attractive looking ryan scrubbing the floor she starts getting coy flirting with her budding sexuality sensing trouble ryan abruptly fends her off finesse is not his strong suit insulted whiting attacks his masculinity by calling his work women's work that does it up to that point he's been courteous and professional with lupino trying to set himself on a normal path but whiting has hit his raw nerve now there's heck to pay as whiting bounces out the door leaving lupino to pay the price it's a riveting scene expertly done br br anyway this is one of the dozen or so films produced by lupino and her husband at a time when audiences were moving away from these little black and whites in favor of wide screen spectacles too bad what a hugely talented figure she was both behind the camera and in front she deserves at least an honorary oscar from a movie industry to which she contributed so much
1	first let me say that i find films like shawshank redemption and green mile and most of spielberg to be absolutely horrid and stomach turning although national velvet on the surface would seem to be in the same genre and has what should be cringe worthy moments i thoroughly enjoyed it laughing and bawling throughout the film br br the premise of the plot a young girl with an unknown horse from a small village entering the grand national is certainly as implausible as could be but it is the only thing that you have to accept for it to work as a fairy tale or allegory the characters have depth and grow throughout the story ann revere gives an absolutely stunning performance as one of the wisest women ever depicted in an american film her interaction with the good hearted donald crisp is funny and sweet while liz taylor tries a bit too hard to be even cuter than margaret o'brien she succeeds btw her passion and love for her horse shines through her face mickey rooney gives a beautifully nuanced performance of the trainer br br this is far from a perfect movie some of the situations and scenes are a bit corny and dated the kids' antics and rooney's scenes at the track and in the pub for example but it doesn't matter the plot remains true to the characters and leaves quite a bit unsaid we don't have unnatural overly dramatic and preachy moments sometimes more is less the final scene is a great example of this the emotional dialog is left to the viewer to fill in br br strong understated performances rounded characters pithy dialog intelligent and internally consistent storyline we believe in the characters and are moved by their story yup they just don't make them like this any more
1	national velvet 1944 the movie that put taylor on the map costarring the then number one box office champ mickey rooney taylor plays a girl in love with her horse and when jockey mickey rooney is unable to ride in the grand national race spunky liz cuts her hair pretends to be a boy and races the horse to well i won't spoil the end for you it's quality melodrama that mgm was famous for putting out and it's another early color picture to boot
1	this is a delightful film elizabeth taylor does a wonderful job as does mickey rooney the film just makes you feel happy it's inspirational and even though some parts are a bit overly sentimental that is easily forgiven i could watch this movie again and again the race at the end is exciting every time i see it highly recommend this film
1	this is the greatest movie if you want inspiration on following your heart and never giving up on your dream elizabeth taylor is velvet and in her prime of her childhood at least mickey rooney is a cynical friend who eventually becomes her trainer and they go off to the grand national with her beloved horse the pi short for pirate only to have velvet become the jockey and have a chance at victory to those of you who have not seen it yet i won't give away the ending but you should see it and once you do you'll love it notice a very young angela lansbury as eldest sister
1	this movie is ageless and would probably appeal to children today even if there isn't a jedi in the entire thing of course elizabeth taylor was the most beautiful child in the world and her acting is great too even mickey rooney is good so are anne revere and angela lansbury the world was a different place when this movie was released and it certainly is a great place to visit
1	after my 6 year old daughter began taking riding lessons i started looking for horse movies for her i had always heard of national velvet but had never seen it boy am i glad i bought it it's become a favorite of mine my 6 year old and my 2 year old it's a shame movies like this aren't made anymore
1	1 must be as the reviewer in the new york times who preferred the janis joplin big brother and the holding company album to the just released beatles' white album was called either evil or insane national velvet is a great film elizabeth taylor's performance is fantastic and i fail to discern even a trace of accent much less too much of one her performance is very natural authentic and unbelievably charming the rest of the cast is superb especially rooney and revere br br as far as the dialog being hokey or sentimental i suggest cc has too long on a diet of irony and has lost the ability to discern genuine straight forward emotion and human interaction there was a time when people actually did think and talk in such a manner not that this film doesn't have a slight hint of the magical permeating through it that is the reason to tell the story one might as well criticize the wizard of oz king kong the maltese falcon casablanca the black stallion the other great horse film or a thousand other films for having action and dialog that seem richer than real life no my friend national velvet endures because of its belief firmly in itself with tongue firmly not in cheek something today's jaded filmmakers find nearly impossible to recreate
1	two of hollywood's great child stars elizabeth taylor and mickey rooney are perfectly teamed to deliver one of the all time family classics the story of a determined 12 year old girl whose adoration for horses won't allow her to turn away from her goal to win the british nationals mickey rooney is the newly orphaned drifter looking to tie himself over until he can follow his own dreams br br a beautiful side plot reveals that the girl's mother had ambitions of her own as a young girl repeatedly the father's decisions in favor of their spirited daughter it is mother who seems to know best the scene where the exhausted taylor rushes to go to school is priceless father protests why did you let her go to school she'll drop from exhaustion before noon not to worry she'd be back within a half hour it was saturday the brilliant technicolor the sumptuous music score and those beautiful faces all telling a bittersweet story here's a good reason for the old saying they don't like that anymore
1	mickey rooney as mi taylor is a young man drifting along the figurative road to ruin where he meets 12 year old elizabeth taylor as velvet brown she adores horses but he has a sad history with the animals ms taylor is enamored with mr rooney's horse sense she takes him home and gets him room and board with her family they are supported very well by anne revere and donald crisp as mr and mrs brown butch jenkins and angela lansbury are taylor's strained siblings br br the plot of national velvet is implausible to a fault for example the circumstances leading to taylor's ride in the big race are quite a stretch but were likely more believable on paper still the characters' connection to horses and to ms revere's character are nicely conceived rooney and taylor are excellent in the starring roles there is a balance between rooney's fading child star and taylor's exuberant new child star which adds depth to their characterizations br br the excellent performances of rooney and taylor are further enhanced by fine direction photography and editing from clarence brown leonard smith and robert kern a sentimental classic br br national velvet 12 14 44 clarence brown mickey rooney elizabeth taylor anne revere
1	it's a beautiful film the scenes are well pictured anne revere 's dialogs are really well written and inspiring the philosophy and thoughts that this film gives and the things it teaches makes it great and wonderful br br mickey rooney is great in the movie and his role goes through lot of emotional turmoil as the film progresses br br elizabeth taylor looks very pretty her scenes in the film are inherently poetic the way camera follows her and the way the music make you feel make every scene of her ethereally beautiful br br this movie has great spirit and a beloved cherished classic br br angela lansbury is quite amusing in her role though unrecognizable if you have seen her in role of 'm' in 'the manchurian candidate' br br donald crisp has done his father's role full justice and the script provides him with ample stuff to justify his role br br its a very nice film and a must watch for family and children an evergreen christmas favorite
1	whenever ida lupino appeared or directed a film in the 30's 40's and 50's you were guaranteed great entertainment even if the picture was black and white ida was able to capture audiences and keep them spellbound until the very end of her pictures in this film as mrs helen gordon high sierra '41 along with robert ryan howard wilton golden gloves '40 she keeps you guessing just how the relationship is going to turn out and just how poor mrs gordon will be able to have a normal and happy marriage with love and real affection if you liked ida lupino who could play the roles as a criminal in a woman's prison and prison warden who was hated this is the film for you to enjoy i truly believe that ida lupino was not given the true credit she deserved for her great talents in the movie industry
1	this blake edwards film isn't too sure whether it wants to be a comedy a drama or a musical no matter the sheer presence of julie andrews is reason enough to see this comedy drama musical spy spoof julie is beautiful and uses her many talents throughout the film rock hudson looks tired but he's is more than fine as julie's romantic interest authentic world war i cars and planes add to the appeal overall the film is very entertaining the dvd release is an edited by blake edwards version of the original release supposedly this is the only version that edwards would allow but turner classic movies has shown the complete theatrical release version recently recommended
1	in my opinion national velvet is one of the top family classic's of all time it features mickey rooney as mi taylor and elizabeth taylor as velvet brown br br velvet wins a race horse named pie in a she falls in love with it right away with the help of mi an ex jockey they train it to race in the grand after the jockey who was scheduled to race pie backs out at the last moment mi convinces velvet to take his place br br this was a well put together motion picture fine storyline and top notch acting the inner play between elizabeth and mickey was magical this is a wonderful family picture expertly directed by clarence brown the photography is stunning this is a movie you will enjoy for years to come br br this picture is what made elizabeth taylor a household name both mickey and elizabeth remained close after the film they still send post cards to each other after all these many years br br one side note elizabeth loved the horse pie so much that the studio gave it to her
1	national velvet tells the story of velvet brown a young english girl with dreams of entering her beloved horse into competition at the prestigious grand national horse race the film follows her as she trains her horse with the aid of a former jockey and the support of her parents br br while national velvet is a family film that fact shouldn't deter anyone who typically views such films with derision the film is indeed one that will appeal to the entire family not just attention addled youngsters it even managed to land five oscar nominations hardly a sign of off for a general audience br br anne revere in the part of mother actually won an oscar for her performance she was indeed excellent in the role but it is 12 year old elizabeth taylor who steals the show she is a charming presence and exhibits a talent beyond her years also on board are oscar winner donald crisp as father mickey rooney as former jockey mi taylor and angela lansbury in one of her earliest film roles as older sister br br the film's lustrous technicolor makes for an attractive viewing experience while the editing secured the second of the film's two oscars additionally the film was nominated for its direction by clarence brown cinematography art direction the score by ten time oscar nominee herbert stothart is also worth mentioning though it went br br all in all national velvet is a wonderful family film that deserves a higher rating i realize that the prospect of watching a film about a girl and her horse isn't exactly going to thrill some people but this one is worth taking a chance on
1	this was one of the first color films i have seen at the cinema when i was a child it is good to remember it the girl liz taylor who later became a beautiful woman starred together with the tiny and excellent actor mickey rooney the content of the film plot is good for all ages good wills and behavior good ethics of parents particularly her mother is something to take into account our generations should be well educated and this film may help to this purpose velvet loves the horses and racing them and mi taylor rooney brought her to an international horse racing competition in england where at the end the young velvet won but was disqualified because of being female
1	one of the enduring classics from mgm came out in the closing years of world war ii it's the film that made young elizabeth taylor a star she had done a few films as a child actress before national velvet but when it came out her place in the movies was assured ironically enough biologically she'd be growing up fast enough after national velvet was out and her next struggle as an actress was to get substantial adult roles because casting directors only saw her as innocent little velvet brown who loved her jumping horse br br i'm not sure of how this would work because horses have to have confirmed and the pi's are a subject not dealt with in national velvet all we know is that he's a reckless and horse in the hands of reginald owen and after he breaks free and causes considerable damage owen gets rid of him for a nominal price to the local butcher donald crisp br br at the same time as these things are happening mickey rooney comes wandering into the lives of the brown family which consists of crisp wife anne revere and daughters angela lansbury juanita quigley and elizabeth taylor and their little brother butch jenkins rooney is a former jockey who's now on the open road and heading for the brown family where his father was once a horse trainer for anne revere's family it's he who sees the potential of the pi short for pirate as a jumper and it's elizabeth who convinces crisp not to pass up this chance br br elizabeth taylor was so sweet and innocent in national velvet the good book says you have to have faith like a child and she has it to spare she infuses rooney with it to have faith in the heart and ability of the pi and to leave a little over for himself br br anne revere won a best supporting actress award for national velvet she's a very wise mother who has hidden depths to her that the audience doesn't suspect it turns out that back in her youth she had a taste of fame and glory swimming the english channel and her prize money saved all these years she gives to her daughter that scene is probably what won her the oscar national velvet also won one other academy award for film editing br br over 60 years after it made its debut national velvet as a family classic hasn't lost a thing its depiction of life between the world wars in great britain is still a standout and national velvet launched a movie legend can't do much better than that for high regard
1	during the 13 years of schooling i had from kindergarten through high school there was only one day that my class took a field trip when i went to school you went to school from 8 30 until 3 30 and filed trips were not taken but for some reason i could not recall at this advanced age we went to see a movie national velvet i do not recall the movie so on the eve of my year i decided to revisit it br br it is a movie about a time that no longer exists a time when people trusted others and didn't lock their houses a time when people were given the benefit of the doubt it was a time when family was the most important thing this film shows all of that and more it shows love and trust and caring and the goodness of people br br it would not be a bad thing for every family to view this film once in a while and discuss its message br br it was a treat to see the young elizabeth taylor mickey rooney at his best the academy award winning performance of anne revere angela lansbury before murder she wrote and donald crisp who performed for almost sixty years br br what a movie
1	this is the first movie i ever owned on video and 14 years later i still have the same copy elizabeth taylor was as radiant at twelve as ever later in life mickey rooney gave real dimension to mi taylor and donald crisp was solid as ever as mr brown the amazing anne revere as mrs brown seemed to be the wisest woman in the world after nearly 60 years the warmth humor and excitement of this film still affect the viewer we still laugh at the jokes root for the pie and love velvet for the spirit and capacity for love that she displays i love it as an adult just as i loved it as a child a must for every family video collection
1	my daughter already wrote a review of this movie in my sign in but i want to add a few words br br velvet' was one of my two favorite movies as a child the other being 'the wizard of the cinematography the acting the script and the music all came together is such a wonderful little heart felt drama that it can still bring tears to my jaded eyes based on a book by enid the script followed the book quite well the characters are so thoughtfully created it's easy to become emotionally involved with the entire family and the quaint little irish village in which they live the premise complete outsider believes in her horse and herself enough to chance a try at the greatest horse race in the world is awe inspiring to any young person especially a young girl in the 40's a time when girls were sometimes ignored as humans beings let alone athletes you would have to be terribly hard boiled not to appreciate it's merit br br but the perspective i cherished most about this movie is the unabridged innocence in it's moral message it's almost magical how 'mom and apple the movies were back then i was really taken aback by the imdb reviewer who asked 'was the world ever really this trusting ' and then proceeded to chastize the director for his complacency regarding overnight travel involving the two main characters my answer to his question is an unequivocal yes the movie going world was that trusting in the 40's br br my grandparents remember taking my mother to this movie when it was released then my mother took me to see it when i was young and my daughter was lucky enough to be born at a time when she could watch it repeatedly on video tape now we have it on dvd it's been a family favorite for generations albeit generations of horse lovers it was never about sex it's about coming of age it's about believing in yourself and working hard to reach your goals also so old fashioned it wasn't even about the prize money it's about the girl child who understood her horse had what it took to the best' and yes the director was indeed concerned with elizabeth taylor's lack of physical development because the book made a big deal about velvet brown liz taylor's character having to cut her hair and bind her chest so that she could pass as a male jockey when she went to the grand national this was a guys only sport back then i think there have only been 12 women ever to compete in this race it's almost insulting that anyone would bother to think the lolita thing about this particular movie besides anyone having had anything at all to do with an adolescent girl and her horse would know that the only thing they ever think about with stars in their eyes have four hooves and a tail br br and now for a great bit of trivia the stunt riding was performed by the now famous whisperer' monty roberts i believe he is given mentioned for his riding in the movie credits br br i give this movie a 10 out of 10 i never get tired of watching it again
1	i am 13 years old and i am writing this review in my mom's sign in she will write her own review later br br this is my all time favorite movie it was filmed in england in 1944 i watched it so many times when i was little that i wore out the video tape i love this movie and it changed my life the beautiful landscapes the mighty pie bold thoroughbred horse the plain little irish village with the young girl who wanted to do what no other girl had ever done compete in the grand national in london with her most beloved horse the pirate it all made me want to ride horses which i have done now for 7 years and learn everything i could about their breeds so i could also draw and paint them it's a ground breaking movie about winning against all odds overcoming your fears believing in yourself and reaching difficult goals by working very hard also the horse race scene was one of the best ever made and i have seen many movies with horse races i never get tired of watching this movie everything about it is perfect especially if you are a young girl and passionate about horses
1	a sentimental heart tugging family film set in england of the 1920s a young elizabeth taylor wins a horse in a and decides to enter him in the grand national fortunately ex jockey mickey rooney is around to give liz some help director clarence brown displays some remarkable control with material that could've been excessively maudlin in someone else's hands he and screenwriters helen deutsch and theodore reeves take great care in establishing genuine characterizations and developing the story naturally true there are one or two scenes that seem a bit forced but overall it's quite affecting and gorgeously filmed in technicolor the race itself is quite thrilling and like so many great classics there's a marvelous three hankie fade out at the end liz proves that she was a real trooper right from the start and rooney who i usually find rather annoying is surprisingly subdued and really very good donald crisp is as liz's gruff father and angela lansbury is a delight as her older boy crazy sister most of the acting kudos however belong to anne revere who won a richly deserved supporting actress oscar playing liz's wise and caring mother
1	in lassie come home national velvet and the courage of lassie elizabeth taylor was eleven years old … nevertheless her charm and beauty were extraordinary and what she lacked in talent and experience was well hidden in a fine production that was nominated for five academy br br as horse trainer or dog owner as spurned wife or mistress liz is a female who is absorbed in the giving and receiving of love devotion to the object of passion is the center of her little liz lavishes love on horses and dogs with remarkable intensity… ecstatic a dreamer with a turbulent emotional life persistent the young liz dedicates herself to the prize winning horse the way she later devotes herself to br br anticipating her later images of young sex goddess liz as velvet is both saintly and howard barnes in the new york herald tribune called her a child who up with the integrity of a great passion ' br br directed by clarence brown with loving attention to detail the movie that made her a star is a big bestseller from another era set in england where velvet brown a butcher's daughter teams with a vagabond teenager named mi mickey rooney to train for competition a horse she's won in a br br from the coastal plains with its beaches to the rolling hills thatched cottages and miles of country walks national velvet is the product of a bygone era in movie making… br br following closely the structure of the popular enid novel the movie is part horse story part family portrait scenes of training and riding are balanced by cozy family scenes vignettes about young love and sermons from mom on the virtues of courage and br br the browns are a noble version of hollywood dedicated to a sober work ethic they live quiet exemplary mrs brown anne revere is the very spirit of plain folk wisdom the for common sense and fair play she knows well enough not to silence the semi hysterical energy of her horse crazy daughter and she lets the girl have her dream… br br anne revere won an oscar as mother as did editor robert j
1	i can see that the ratings for this film aren't all that high for this film so i must be in the minority for liking this film so much well i am right and everyone else is wrong just kidding i guess i like it because i am a psychology teacher and i really liked the brooding character played by ryan while he truly is dangerous as well as very menacing you can't exactly hate him because he is clearly mentally ill and probably suffering from some sort of brain trauma and wow did ryan do a really good job portraying this man you really find yourself feeling for ida lupino as he destroys her life so with such intense acting and menace why is the movie rated relatively low well probably because it isn't exactly believable but boy is it entertaining and creative give it a try and don't believe the score of 6 4 it's a lot better than that
1	i saw this 1997 movie because i am a fan of lorenzo lamas and of his father the late fernando lamas in my opinion lorenzo looked his best in this film mostly due to his hairstyle and the preppy wardrobe that were flattering to him br br as the plot progressed i realized the movie was more than just entertainment or a reason to see a favorite actor the story was about a ring of serial killers and the attempts of law enforcement to investigate the ring and bring the members to justice there was adequate suspense and i believe the violence was necessary to relate the story to the viewer br br at the end of the film i was shocked to learn the film is the true account of horrendous murders that occurred in utah furthermore lorenzo and his leading lady were portraying actual fbi agents who solved the disappearances of many young women and contributed to the apprehension of the ring i believe the film is worthwhile as it informs the public about the dangers and capabilities of the criminal element
1	the first in a new style of films for lamas no motorcycles or karate i for one miss them but this is a serious movie he plays a fbi profiler who has lived so long with the bad guys in his head that he no longer trusts anyone including himself gary busey is either a great actor or somebody i wouldn't want to meet in broad daylight on a crowded street kristen cloke pursues lamas as doggedly as she pursues the serial killer there is one surprise after another as the story unfolds not the least of which is the ending it seems to never come there is always one more layer to the story cloke and lamas start out as the good guys turn into the bad guys and somehow end up the heroes but it's definitely worth the rental price for maximum enjoyment throw in a candy bar a bag of popcorn and a soft drink you're going to the movies
1	this was so much better than i expected the film oozed compared to other b moive of this sort of budget the script was good if a little formulaic but the acting was surprisingly good from all including lorenzo and you always expect good standards from scheider and busey aswell as the good plot and acting the action is good especially the car chases and the crashes are a class all in all this is a rise above other b movie thrillers and doesn't have to rely on constant nudity or a flow of cheesy puns to make up for budget and script its certainly worth a rent
1	what a show lorenzo lamas once again proves his talent as a cop who committed the worst crime a good cop can commit by being a good cop then again he shows how sensitive a cop can be displaying a range of emotions like no other actor can except maybe himself in terminal justice br br huge enjoyment
1	i stumbled across this film while channel surfing and was blown away it was being broadcast on a lesser known short films program here in australia br br it has been a long time since i have been so impressed by a film especially one so short br br the power of the story the quality of the acting and the stunning cinematography wow if it were available it would make a very worthy addition to my dvd collection br br i am undoubtedly impressed and i will look forward to joshua next film br br an exceptional experience 10 10
1	i absolutely loved this film so much emotion in such a small amount of time i loved the beginning and how it completely throws you off guard i love the story and the deer being brought in i know that when i think of deer i think of innocence and prosperity also in psalm 42 2 in the bible it says as the deer pants for the water brooks so pants my soul for you o god which could even connect the last moment when the woman says it will be okay as if she knows she's going with god perhaps i am thinking way to much into it but sometimes it is interesting to see what goes on through peoples' minds thank you for sharing this masterpiece with viewers everywhere i live in texas and i had it playing on cable i immediately got onto the computer to find out more about this film and this amazing director i really liked the music that was used in the background music can sometimes make or break a film it definitely set the mood perfectly very nice choice br br thanks again br br laetitia
1	for a film by a first time director this is a simply amazing little film though i have to admit that it's a bit hard to watch and will probably offend the sensibilities of many who watch it as the film takes a definite stand in favor of assisted suicide however what i loved about the film is that i had no idea this is what the film was about until the film was more than half complete and by then i was already hooked br br in addition to the excellent way the subject was introduced i was amazed at the very professional style of the film with some of the best cinematography i've ever seen in a short film plus this camera work was combined so well with music and images that made the film just beautiful br br as i said this is a controversial film i myself struggle with what i think about this debate but the film managed to make a statement in such a literate and intelligent way i really have to respect the team who made this film
1	i was fortunate to see a screening of this remarkable short film by joshua leonard before its premiere at the 2005 sundance festival in twelve brief but exquisite minutes leonard takes us on a life changing journey as he probes one of the most controversial contemporary social and ethical issues facing our society the film embodies elegant direction moving performances and a heart rending story kelli garner and lucas haas radiate as the two lovers and in his first venture into dramatic narrative leonard proves to be a director with a propitious future i feel this short should be expanded into a feature film it's difficult to describe talent but as this debut film demonstrates you know it when you see it
1	this short has all the elements of a great movie every time i show it to friends on dvr they love it too the dialog is so 'real' the acting is superb while the effects props weren't as convincing by themselves taken with everything else in the shot they are expertly placed used the music is so haunting perfect for this kind of film people who hold dear their beliefs and thoughts are shaken to their core about what they see in this movie most go 'that's it ' but in the end they blossom with new understanding and leave the movie with one word to describe it br br 'beautiful' the beauty of the film is also skin deep i love the fact that there aren't any conflicting views no other voices and the voices that you do hear are agreeing with each other no conflict but at the same time there is one and the ending made me love it more harsh reality sometimes is more film worthy than any plot device or twist br br wasn't joshua leonard the guy in blair witch project movie by a fictitious dead guy great
1	i watched this short moments ago on the sundance film festival website and i must say it is absolutely astounding i expected it to be entertaining like all of the sundance shorts but i wasn't prepared for such deep sadness and yet also a sense of passion and beauty br br if you haven't yet seen any of this years entries to the festival i suggest you go onto the site and watch these mini masterpieces i have seen them all and can honestly say 'the youth in us' is the one that has touched my heart the most i'm not the weakest audience member when it comes to romance in films but my eyes flooded up so much i'm surprised i could still see the screen br br i agree with it truly is a masterful piece of directorial work and the cinematography will just take your breath away br br i can't think of a better way to spend a spare 12 minutes
1	intense domestic suspense with the mistress of the house lupino excellent as always threatened by a psychotic migrant ryan the 2 masters of the genre are at their heady erotic best as they match wits emotions and wills in a bizarre hostage situation right out of the saturday evening post richly hued b w photography with an unusual amount of close up head shots the young girl who teases ryan is really well directed here improbable but satisfying suburban melodrama
1	the youth in us is a pitch perfect gem i saw this stunning short at this year's 2005 sundance festival the story took me on a profoundly transforming journey the directing by joshua leonard the acting of kelli garner and lukas haas the art direction the cinematography the score every element was true to the bone one can only hope that this exquisite and excruciating film is prelude to more great work from this gifted director br br just as a short film is shown before a feature at sundance commercial movie theatres used a similar format in times past it would be wonderful if miniature masterpieces like the youth in us could reach a wider audience this way
1	joseph conrad's timeless novel heart of darkness was depicted in the 1994 movie i have read conrad's novel and i must say even though i prefer the novel itself the movie was a great depiction the set and costume designs brought conrad's novel to life on the screen as we followed marlow's journey the acting also brought the characters to life through the mannerisms voices and personalities if you have read the novel i recommend that you also view this movie if you have not read the novel however the movie may be harder to follow conrad's heart of darkness is too full of action emotion and information to be made into a movie that is a little over an hour and a half long therefore if you have not read the novel the plot in the movie may seem too cluttered to follow overall i gave this movie a seven out of ten the basic plot of the novel was brought forth to the screen with great sets costumes and acting nothing can replace joseph conrad's original work however
1	there have been many people that have tried to make a movie that was identical to the story heart of darkness some movies have been based on heart of darkness like apocalypse now in 1993 nicholas roeg directed a film that was exactly like the book heart of darkness the movie is almost exactly identical to the book this movie is full of action and adventure heart of darkness is about the journey of a seaman named marlow who sails along the congo river to meet the super powerful ivory trader mr br br heart of darkness the movie has the same exact beginning and setting as the book it takes place on a boat in the thames river and marlow is telling the story to four other men on a boat called the nellie the whole movie is a flashback of marlow's journey to see mr kurtz on the congo river marlow works for the belgian company which trades ivory along the congo river he tells of his account in the company's office and about all of the maps he saw in the office br br marlow sets out on a steamer to africa he arrives at the central station where he receives orders from the general manager the general manager tells marlow about mr kurtz and the ivory trading marlow would be doing marlow soon finds out that the general manager is not fond of kurtz because he fears kurtz will replace him marlow waits around at the central station for months because his ship has been wrecked and it is getting repaired marlow sees the harsh treatment and enslavement in africa while at the central station when the ship has finally been repaired marlow another african character named and other crew members set sail on marlow's steamer for mr kurtz br br along the congo river they are attacked by african natives in the wilderness as marlow's crew is attacked by the african natives they end up shooting and killing when marlow finally arrives at station he meets a russian who explains the might and glory of kurtz marlow is then led to station home there he sees many maps and pictures that kurtz has painted finally kurtz enters the room and begins to tell marlow about all he has done in africa and talks about his mistress marlow soon finds out that kurtz is insane with power because the africans hail him as a god marlow becomes angry with the harshness and enslavement that he sees in africa after marlow finally meets kurtz kurtz begins to die while kurtz was on his deathbed he called marlow into his room life begins to flash before his eyes and his last words were the horror the horror when marlow returns to europe to see fiancé marlow tells her that last words were her name to hide the darkness in life br br heart of darkness was directed well and was formed into an adventurous movie i recommend anyone to watch this movie because it is full of action and mystery the movie is slow at times but in all it really interesting heart of darkness will really broaden your mind and will teach you a lot about how to interpret different scenes
1	i think i was one of the people who found this another one of roth's pearls his performance as awarded was stunning the story which was told so eloquently by francis ford coppola 25 years earlier really unfolds gradually and leaves room for the characters to develop roeg proves again it doesn't have to be a war setting to be in a most wonderful location lies a story of contrast and beauty go hand in hand while loneliness should become your best friend it shows a more sinister past of a small golden age kingdom which lands on a coast full of wealth for a 1st world country if u send the right men all in all a beautiful directed film from roeg a sublime cast
1	the problem with the film is quite simply this conrad's prose is powerfully verbose and cannot be adapted to a movie marlow's narration in the novella captivates you from the first sentence and you only see what conrad writes about in movie it's different you see the visual but the description and reflection that really makes the novel is frightfully missing but as far as an unadaptable book has been adapted it is of good standard there are the exact same scenes which are quite but they never have the same affect as in the novel the plot in the movie has been enhanced and it works very well to make it more interesting the references to ancient egypt were thoughtfully inserted my tip read the book and keep it that way there are better movies out there
1	a very courageous attempt to bring one of the most intricate books of literature to the screen the story manages to get most of conrad's basic messages across and the acting is superb the liberties taken by the script often deepen the meaning and do seldom distort it compliments to writer and director
1	i cannot understand the need to jump backwards and forwards to scene set and pad out the plot showing that someone has a skill right before they use it i believe is offending our intelligence it's starting to feel a little contrived and as though they are making up for being so vague for the first three series a little disappointing this episode br br furthermore using past quirks like locke's ability to know when a storm is ending is frankly insulting are we supposed to ooh and or laugh at the softer side of locke br br this episode was all over the place
1	jack and kate meet the physician daniel first and then the psychics miles and they demonstrate that have not come to the island with the intention of rescuing the survivors locke and his group find the anthropologist charlotte staples lewis and ben linus shoots her meanwhile the group of jack finds the pilot frank who landed the helicopter with minor damages that can be repaired jack forces miles to tell the real intention why they have come to the island br br the second episode of the fourth season returns to the island with four new characters stops the confusing flash forwards and it seems that will finally be the beginning of the explanations that i and most of the fans and viewers expect to be provided in lost why the interest of the government in ben linus and how he is informed from the boat are some of the questions that i expect to see in the next episodes my vote is eight br br title brazil not available
1	confirmed dead is an important episode in the series as it introduces four new characters the rescue team that naomi contacted before getting a knife in her back by locke however as the quote in my one line summary says their true purpose for being on the island may be something else entirely all the new characters appear intriguing especially miles some sort of psychic exorcist but at this point it's still too early to make solid judgments i felt that this episode was a slight step down from the beginning of the end no flash forwards this time short term flashbacks instead but it still has its stunning moments and picks up steam near the end out of 4
1	the second episode of the new lost gives you just what its fans were lacking a fair amount of riveting action from the very first scene you keep seeing brand new features you weren't expecting to encounter it's the best proof that the series its 4th season is still alive and kicking hard br br although the producers don't amaze us with some more flash forwards this time the return to flashbacks is more than satisfying as it brings some shocking facts the flashbacks introduce a few fresh characters and the familiar ones turn out to be connected in a surprising way br br the fresh characters dominate the whole episode and i can't say it does any harm their scenario parts and their actors both do extremely well providing us with a bracing feel right after the episode you'll realize that the show really needed people just like that and here they are br br confirmed dead is full of gripping action and greatly written dialogues i'm sure i'll quote the best scenes of the episode for the long time they're just that good that they remain on the mind the episode is entertaining smart and perky you like lost you have to watch it my vote is ten
1	beware my lovely is an experimental studio film from the early fifties and was directed by a man harry horner better known for his set designs robert ryan plays a handyman who is hired by ida lupino to do some housework for her the problem is that he is a psychopathic murderer and doesn't know it miss lupino is an empathetic soul and tries to win ryan over to little avail he is not the sort of man compassion could help or cure thus we have an interesting situation of two people who basically mean well but one of them can't do well because there is something wrong with him he suffers periodic blackouts during which he commits acts of violence which he later forgets br br essentially the effect ryan has on lupino is that of the hunter and his prey or in another sense a sadist the audience finds out early on that ryan is a mad killer but it takes lupino much longer thus we must live with this knowledge as we watch poor miss lupino try everything in her power to 'win' ryan over in order to make things work get the job done get on with life but getting on with things isn't in ryan's makeup as he is incapable of any but the most rudimentary forms of normality and as soon as there is an opening his paranoia asserts itself br br as a study in mental illness the movie isn't too impressive what it's superlative at is showing the effect of major mental illness with dangerous in the mix and its effect on a normal person in this regard the film is realistic and compassionate though relentlessly logical in that we know lupino can't ryan yet we want her to the result is that if one is willing one can get extremely involved in this film emotionally if one can put aside so to speak its melodramatic structure br br horner shows us gradually the layout the lupino house a forbidding gothic monstrosity that never feels like a home we become familiar with staircase kitchen and pantry and we come to know which windows miss lupino can use for an escape and which ones she can't
1	the movie was good really the only reason i watched it was alan rickman which he didn't pull off the southern accent but he did pretty well with it know emma thompson did really good she definitely pulled off the southern accent i like all the character in my opinion not one of them did bad another thing i have notice i have read all these comment and not one person has comment on alan 5 shadow which made him look even better and he pretty much had one through the whole movie i would give the movie a 9 out of 10 another one of my opinions is the movie would been better if there wasn't any sex still it was alright love the scene were he says aw sh t when he is setting in his car and see them in his mirror
1	a fairly enjoyable kidnapping caper set in new orleans but its main downfall in my opinion is that it packs way too much political intrigue and double crossing and not enough of the sexy young actors scenes of vibrant colour original cinematographical style and biting humour these aspects combine to give refreshingly daring cinema which makes a whole bunch of recent stuff look unbearably dull let's hope continues with such flair he looks like a talent to watch out for the mismatched bunch of small time crooks in the film are by the investigative partnership of emma thompson and alan rickman the humour of whose scenes is much needed in making the movie what it is the pair pull off their obligatory southern just as well as the yanks and it's a delight to hear these two stalwarts of british cinema yapping away to each other with lethal weapon style fluidity just a pity that the only scenes they have the opportunity to steal are exclusively theirs anyway with a bit less politics and authoritarianism the film would be near perfect so i'll give it a healthy 8 10 and hope that a few people remember it a bit better than the box office did
1	i got this movie from ebay mainly because i'm gay and i love til schweiger however it's one of those movies that when you watch it a second time you never say to yourself hmm i forgot about this boring part i'll go make popcorn it doesn't have that part it's a very fluid and constantly interesting film and yes til schweiger is worth it if nothing else but it's a great movie even for straight guys
1	surprised to know that the director sebastian was a young venezuelan 28 and bored with so many predictable movies i was delighted with the script showing so many small stories and cues spread here and there directed with black humor and taste i loved the tension between the very rickman and the very natural but beautiful thompson each member of the gang deserves attention gil bellows at his best is remarkable
1	this is a really great film in the pulp fiction genre with a touch of film noir thrown in truly one of emma thompson's best performances to date this film has everything it's well written well directed beautifully films and has some great performances i don't know why it didn't catch on it's spectacular
1	but not too hip and not too wisecracking judas kiss nails the new noir thing just right great pacing and a nuanced score round out a twisty tale filled with sex betrayal and sure fire one liners inspiring work all around kudos in to his best work ever gil bellows ally mc what and carla the best fatale in ages smart funny and ultra hot i give this a 9 out of 10 and that's because 10 should be reserved for like humphrey bogart and coen bros movies
1	this movie was a pleasant surprise for me in all honesty the previews looked horrible up until the point where emma thompson and alan rickman appeared so i rented it with reservation but i thoroughly enjoyed this movie it had great acting a few good plot twists and of course emma thompson and alan rickman it's definitely worth checking out
1	although this film looks like a crime thriller noir the plot is actually a bit simplistic and with very few surprise twists or turns at all and those that do appear are not exactly shockers br br however if you slip out of action thriller' mode and into entertainment ' then this is really quite a fun movie with several hilarious moments most of these can be attributed to the witty dialogue between alan rickman and emma thompson's characters but that said sadie said it all in her hilarious opening greeting to friedman and it left very little else for anything else to develop between these two characters i didn't find these esteemed british actors version of the southern accents that bad ok thompson sounded like she was rolling marbles in her mouth as she tried to spoke southern but rickman was surprisingly rather good with very few minor lapses into his customary english accent if you want to critique accents lets discuss that of coco she only spoke southern periodically br br
1	this is one gripping movie reminiscent of the mgm crime movies of the late 70's excellent cast crisp editing and good acting keeps the pace of the movie developing rapidly one of the better crime movies of the decade kudos to the director cast
1	this was the first directing job by sebastian the writer of snakes on a plane and gothika anyone who has read my reviews knows that i love capers and this was a doozy a kidnapping and a woman shot in the process the fbi has emma thompson on the kidnapping case and the police chief roscoe lee browne assigns alan rickman to solve the murder which happens to be a senator's hal holbrook wife these two make an outstanding pair as they work together br br the kidnappers murderers have lovers simon baker land of the dead and the ultra hot carla sin city along with a couple of partners they kidnapped a hotshot computer mogul and they run his accountant all over town before they get the dough things go fast from there as new twists and turns are brought in the whole thing is brilliant and definitely a piss in your pants because you can't go to the bathroom or you'll miss something thrill br br now to be completely honest i would have given this movie a 10 if there had been more of the movie the security guard was watching in the opening i would have loved to see more of beverly and yvette but hey that wasn't part of the caper just icing on the cake br br thompson and rickman should definitely make more movies together one treat br br agent hawkins so fill me in detective friedman that remark could be misconstrued as sexual harassment agent hawkins agent hawkins let's get it out of the way then you've never worked under a female superior before i got to where i am by pushing paper and playing nice i've never actually fired a gun before i'm only in this job to prove to my father i'm not a coward i give decent head so i got promoted before all the worthy candidates all of them men all of them equally gifted at fellatio but there was a gender quota to fill i'm also stupid and idealistic you are hard and cynical and usually right i am secretly in love with you but i have a hard time showing it did i skip anything br br damn that's great dialog not only directs a great movie but he can write too br br and did i say carla was hot br br put this on your list
1	i first saw this as a kid the little rascals first went on tv the year i was born and fairly recently bought this on dvd in between i watched it on the occasions it was on and took careful notes at 1 the pie fight itself and 2 how racist some of these parts were farina as a slave doing voodoo for example i think roach and would have been beaten to death if they'd tried to do that now br br notice how the pie fights in the three stooges' holiday and in the sweet pie and pie resemble this one and this film came out a few years before their initial contract with harry cohn at columbia pictures there was obviously some inspiration from ss and laurel hardy's the battle of the century for these films remember at that time they all stole from the best each other br br one more note laurel hardy buffs that bake sale lady was none other than dorothy coburn who also appeared in the getting into her car and getting it in the rear end it always escapes me why she was never credited
1	in the dvd era you would think you could find pretty much any piece of crap committed to celluloid and for the most part it's true so why why is it so hard to find this great little flick clearly done by people who love noir as a loving homage never descending into spoof land of that most cinematic of genres emma thompson and alan rickman are a hoot in this and superstar in the making carla karen sin city does her now trademark red hot babe great acting routine br br this movie really has it all for fans of film a b noir on steroids the clever and steamy judas kiss succeeds on every count br br please columbia tristar please release it on dvd soon
1	emma thompson alan rickman carla and gil bellows are a delight in this sexy caper this film is smart edge of your seat entertainment for adults and what a relief that is in these days of big concept predictable cartoons great music and camera work add to the fun that is this new orleans set puzzle highly recommended ten stars
1	came across this film recently after so long hearing about it it is an excellent not pretentious movie for people who loves film noir literature and films not camp but humorous br br great cast from the magnificent carla and emma thompson to german superstar til schweiger this movie is a feast for the eyes alan rickman is very funny as the antagonist of gang would love to see spin off movie with this character and emma thompson solving cases and arguments between them all the time much like tracy and hepburn etc br br intelligent story nice twists and scope photography don't watch unless it is scope because compositions are very rich br br sexy sexy sexy and very fun time br br best use of just like heaven by the cure ever must see to believe br br
1	the efforts of a new group of young talent bolstered by alan rickman and emma thompson 2 extremely gifted actors makes for a thrilling and engrossing evening of entertainment and i might add that hal holbrook shines as the senator this movie deserves five stars i give it a ten on your scale and the ending is perfect i am constantly amazed at the ability of british actors to master our american accents i was convinced that all the actors were born in louisiana and what finer locale for a mystery than new orleans the big easy also known as the crescent city permeates every scene as writer and director sebastian deserves high praise
1	sure there's stuff here that the and elmore leonard have done before but so what if you want entertaining lusty and smart judas kiss is near perfect offended by tongue in cheek porn don't get it talk about getting your sex and violence out of the way straight up keeps your investors happy that's independent filmmaking 101 as for the brits making a bundle i highly doubt it this flick is clearly a labor of love and the budget probably not half of mr tarantino's salary maybe guys don't like it as much as women i thought it rocked go coco
1	what's the matter with you people john dahl from rounders and unforgettable too quirky knocking emma thompson and alan rickman for having fun playing against type and somebody liked the gingerbread man br br i rented this not knowing anything about it and found it about as nifty a video find as you can get never insulting well thought out funny scary i disagree with the naysayers clearly i thought the story itself was unremarkable but the great cast which most likely means the director was paying attention lifted it to super cool status good sound design also much more appreciated in surround but i'm not bragging and yes i'm a girl so maybe it has a slight female slant the guys in the gang are pretty worthwhile all in all a 9 and a hearty recommend
1	loved this movie great acting by carla interesting story about a kidnapping that goes horribly wrong don't they all some surprising twists and turns in the film and the plot was easy to follow without being so convoluted as to be totally incomprehensible it was a totally unexpected delight more quentin ish than most films try to be
1	i found the movie judas kiss excellent carla performance was extraordinaire probably her best in her career her facial expressions in many scenes were unbelievably true to character and they were exploited to its best by director all actors and actresses were very good in their performances emma was as usual marvelous her acting capabilities are way above what would be required for this character so she actually enhances it in the movie br br the story although sometimes over intricate is kept entertaining and pointed towards the end very very good a movie not to be missed a story well weaved and brilliantly directed quality of film excellent
1	thirty pieces of silver and a kiss for luck this one was another totally unexpected gem usually i'm not even a suspense thriller fan this satisfying 100 minutes has more twists than a boardwalk pretzel it has titillating erotic romance reminiscent of body heat in more ways than one it has cops and crime political intrigue and just a dash of daytime soap it has just the right touch of gritty violence that any professional by the numbers crime job must employ emma thompson fbi delivers her role with grace and humor and gets my vote for best fake southern accent by a limey alan rickman local cop who always seems to steal the show is excellent but not overbearing they work well as a pair lots of plot misdirection that never gets out of control and gets coherently at film's end and who is this awesome woman carla i want her to bear my children carla if you're out there let's do lunch
1	and it got it in france why not in the rest of the world while the studios keep churning out expensive post grisham trash will anyone remember him as a fine writer and not the most betrayed by the screen author this side of stephen king this one has it all okay the situations are not always original has minor plot holes and it has a tendency to be too clever some brief times for its own sake but it actually delivers and is obviously a work of love i'd be curious to know what the budget was and for once this is not a cheap tarantino copy well film noir didn't started with tarantino you know will it once again be saved by europe like john dahl's movies were so mr can make another one like this if you ever read this mr thank you and se
1	shivering shakespeare could be considered the first classic of the our gang talkie era by now hal roach studios began to hit their stride in making talking pictures and shakespeare is the happy result br br the gang is appearing in a version of quo vadis produced by kennedy the cop's wife the kids don't find the play very fun to be in and are distracted by people in the theatre and cannot remember their lines among the funniest bits are kennedy the cop as the giant who pulls off his makeup to fight an overzealous man in a bull costume and the terrible dancing girl played by director bob mcgowan's daughter br br several filmographies mention that shakespeare has the first pie fight in a talkie this may be true seeing as they tried different speeds with the film during the fight buster keaton's brother harry is at the receiving end of one of the pies very funny and an early gang talkie classic 9 out of 10
1	carla literally melts the screen in this crime caper her sex appeal ample assets and sexy southern accent more than make this film but the film has so many other things to make it almost a modern classic simon baker's performance for one thing truly that of a great actor til schweiger is so perfectly cast it makes me wonder why he's not a huge crossover star gil bellows rounds out this crew and literally steals this show other cleavage easily the best performance in the movie emma thompson and alan rickman are so utterly brilliant i cannot even describe it great chemistry br br the music is so powerfully eclectic that it was a character in and of itself wonderous to behold br br people may say it's tarantino influenced i disagree it's clearly unique and clever in it's own right sebastian does a wonderful job at directing this tightly woven film and underplaying a lot of scenes that left me reeling the ending is perfectly sinister and you never see it coming all in all a lovely film that to me is the very definition of what a good movie should be
1	more of a near miss than a flop mr stars as alex heir apparent to and later king of a small european nation who falls in love with a willing american actress and entertainer lana turner but due to machinations by the sly prime minister of alex as king nicely played by cedric hardwicke the lovers are separated for 12 years before being reunited in palm springs where their love is director don hartman who also scripts is not able to fully utilize his talent for snappy dialogue because of tentative english usage and the requisite rewriting coupled with less than total rapport in evidence between the two stars results in a somewhat raggedy tone to the screenplay exacerbated by the studio's unkind cutting of many scenes leading to a confusing ending the overpowering dominates his scenes with turner but both performers score with good work while marjorie main is impressive with her patter effects as written with debbie reynolds placed on track by louis b mayer for singin' in the rain as a result of her sprightly performance here only barry sullivan is heavily victimized by the flagrant cutting prettily filmed largely in pebble beach california and other county environs the film is endowed with iron strong operatic basso in una as well as with original songs by harold arlen and dorothy fields with douglas shearer splendidly handling the sound recording and notice must be made of the fine set decorations by edwin willis and the effective costume designs by walter
1	ok anatomie is not a reinvention of the horrormovie genre but nevertheless it is well done good actors potente and at first and some nice ideas made me happy maybe i would have been not so positive if this wasn´t a german movie but who cares it is good to see familiar faces in a good thrilling story with some gore and some good jokes in it all of you complaining about the dubbing i didn´t see a dubbed version of course but i believe that it is not easy for you to watch dubbed movies we germans are used to watch movies like that so it´s not a big problem but try to watch in german with subtitles the actors are really good
1	spoilers br br i've heard some gripe about the special effects but that should detract from the movie the movie is a suspense film and it's very good at that so from that stand point this movie rocks franke rocks enjoy to one's plastic hearts content so no complaints for this movie unless you watch the english dub which is a total farce it creates the illusion it's a b movie br br one complaint i do have is the music video on the dvd it doesn't say who sings it i'd love to know br br 8 10 br br quality 10 10 entertainment 10 10 replayable 5 10
1	i liked this film a lot the actors were great particularly potente who is different in every role fürmann who is also able to play anyone and loos who spices things up she is also a talented singer she sings the song my truth heard when one character cranks up the stereo in the lab br br anatomie is a good horror flick which pays attention to its characters it is also very gory at times and the set design is innovative it is too bad they had to make a sequel which is nowhere near the original br br on a side note two other things definitely worth mentioning the dvd is not dubbed which makes for a better experience of the film also make sure to keep watching after the final credits start rolling
1	i saw anatomy years ago dubbed at a friends house i don't remember it much and then i saw at the video store there is a second one not really related to the first one franka makes a little cameo and that one was okay not as good as the first one i'm seeing the first one again tonight not dubbed collectors edition i really like german movies like this one it's very interesting and people and cults like the one in the movie could exist i think i dunno but it's very grossly entertaining and scary anatomy 2 is a little different and the characters are not as good as the first but if you really thought anatomy was interesting and good you should see the second one
1	to me anatomie is certainly one of the better movies i have seen i don't think anatomie was primarily intended to be a horror movie but a movie questioning the ethics of science if you watch it with that in mind it turns into a really good film the only annoying bit was the awful voice dubbing for the english version how can you expect any non german person to listen to these unbearable german accents for two hours let native english speakers do the talking or use subtitles instead
1	with anatomy the german film producers have tried to make something totally new usually there just drama or comedy movies in the horror genre is or was totally new at that time br br the story's also new and shocking franka potente plays her role brilliant and i bet you won't find out who's the murderer it's possible but difficult a really great movie with a lot of talented actors
1	this is a great german slasher that's often quite suspenseful and creative with a fun story and solid performances all the characters are cool and benno fürmann is great as the psycho killer plus franka potente gives a fantastic performance as the main lead it did take a little while to get going but it was never boring and it had some good death scenes as well plus the music is wonderfully creepy i was lucky enough to get the subtitled version instead of the dubbed and i thought all the characters were quite likable plus it's very well made and written as well it has some really good plot twists too and the effects are extremely well done plus the ending is great the finale is especially suspenseful and franka potente was the perfect casting choice in my opinion plus i wish david didn't get killed of so soon because he was a really cool character there were actually a couple of moments where i felt uncomfortable but in a good way and i must say this film deserved all it's praise plus while it does have plot holes it's not enough to hamper the film this is a great german slasher that's often quite suspenseful and creative with a fun story and solid performances i highly recommend this one the direction is great stefan does a great job here with excellent camera work very good angles great close ups see the opening sex scene doing a great job of adding creepy atmosphere and just keeping the film at a very fast pace br br there is quite a bit of blood and gore we get cadavers cut open plenty of very gory surgery scenes lots of bloody stabbings people are dissected while still being conscious severed finger self mutilation bloody slit throat lots of wicked looking frozen corpses plenty of blood and more br br the acting is very solid franka potente is fantastic as the main lead she was very likable remained cool under pressure was vulnerable easy on the eyes and we are able to care for her character the only time she seemed to suffer was when she had to spurt out some bad dialog here and there but that wasn't very often she was wonderful benno fürmann is excellent as the psycho killer he was simply chilling and wonderfully ott he really gave me the creeps and was one effective killer anna loos played her role very well as the smart slut i dug her sebastian was great here as caspar he was quite likable and had a mysterious character his chemistry with potente was also on and there was a great twists involving him at the end was good as the idiot phil and did his job well is good as prof was great as david he had a really cool character and i wish he didn't get killed of so soon rest of the cast do fine br br overall i highly recommend this great german slasher 1 2 out of 5
1	i was going to use 'the german scream' as a summary but that was already taken lol it sums up anatomy nicely provided you're not alien to reading subtitles anatomy fits in snugly with the scream urban legend pack it's a teen horror set in a medical school where the students are going missing then turning up as experiment subjects in the dissection lab cue one plucky student investigating herself and uncovering a giant conspiracy br br provided you're watching the original german language film i can't comment on the dub having not seen the english edition anatomy is sharply written and cleverly plotted so that the tension never really lets up in comparison to it's american counterparts the mystery is uncovered much faster meaning that instead of being a slasher right up until the final reveal anatomy evolves during it's running time from a slasher come body horror movie into a smart and exciting thriller it's a gripping ride from start to finish br br hats off to the actors involved as well franka potente proves once more that she's an intelligent smart actress who can make any role come to life her central performance as paula is a great foundation for the movie to build from the spooky and their teachers pets are equally good a truly foreboding presence at all times br br it's also astounding that the movie doesn't drag much the pace is fast and punchy very similar to the earlier urban legend meaning that there's always something going on to keep your attention high if there's one downside it could be that some will find anatomy too gruesome for them but if you persevere through the first half's admittedly graphic dissection sequences the latter half with it's exciting thriller overtones will reward you i recommend anatomy to anyone who enjoys a good teen horror but is a bit jaded with the american take on the matter
1	i swear if i did ever tried cocaine i'd be able to relate to this film perfectly its pace as well as the dialog churns out at speeds that some viewers might need to stop and relax their heads br br there are great little elements that pop up through out the film like how rob lowe's character seems to always be loosing a shoe or how some characters keep running spirals around his path the story was put together extremely well and the direction seems flawless br br the movie reeks of clumsy and cuteness this is one i think most could enjoy a few laugh out loud even if you are alone moments ensure that i'll certainly be watching this again
1	i saw anatomy when it came out and recently bought it and the 2003 sequel and as i watch a lot of foreign films in various genres you have to watch movies in their original language for sure not only is it annoying to know the voices don't belong to the actors but they always seem cheerful like the whole movie is one big long toothpaste commercial or something it makes an otherwise awesome movie seem horrible and i have had to convert a lot of my friends who used to think foreign films aren't as good as north american films that they aren't hollywood enough also they translation is never right it's too literal and screws up the vibe of the movie even if it's basically saying the same thing i watched anatomy by myself the other week in german then with subtitles with my roommate because he was on his laptop and didn't want to have to miss parts when he couldn't see the subtitles because he was typing 30 mins in and he begged me to let him finish his work then start the movie over with subtitles he loved it both movies are awesome as intellectual horror films kelly
1	a horror picture set ultimately to parody but still in it's play out could scare a few of those that are or easily disgusted when they see whats under their skin i laughed at it though it was easy to decipher the true killer and his acting didn't help this only led to potente looking even better anatomie is not much of a horror picture for those foreign of the genre but those contained should get a few unintentional laughs and an interesting peak at german horror cinema 6 10
1	i found the film quite good for what i was expecting although i weary because i have a fear of injection needles i sort of came to expect when they were coming so if you're not into needles blood the human body and some good medical fun put this movie back and rent another as the other user commented i was also please at the german attempt at a slasher film i'm an american who just moved to germany to stay with a family and saw this lying on the shelf i love psychological thrillers and i'd say this is somewhere along those lines a character falls into places and feels misconstrued while trying to dig her way out and find some truth to a situation things get a little sticky and other aren't so sure she's on the right track so throughout the film you're kept on edge about who's anatomy you might catch a glimpse of and who's rounding the next corner
1	i was shocked at how good this german version of films such as scream was surpassing all the modern american efforts at slasher films br br it as what all those films don't likable characters genuine mystery suspense graphic murders and a brilliant soundtrack br br this stylish horror film is one of the best of its kind to come out in years german cinema is going from strength to strength just lately its a shame more people wont go to see such films because they are missing out it is easily available on dvd so even if you hate subtitles i think you should see it it will be one of the best horror films you will see all year
1	anatomie anatomy is an entertaining and engaging film that falls short of delivering the discomfort that should be connected with the films subject matter the idea of ethical ignorance in the medical science world is one that pushes the viewer towards discomfort and the realism of the institutions and the special effects make it a not entirely easy film to watch br br however the characters the script and the gloss of the film all seem too familiar with the scream movies that this sort of genre sadly then whilst the subject is one to care about the viewer is presented with another movie full of college student characters that we don't really get a chance to care about unresolved subplots and hammy stage killings that have been reinventing themselves since the memorable drew barrymore opening scene in scream several years back br br steven makes a fair effort of the script and the direction but pushes no boundaries other than the general theme whilst we are presented with an entertaining film with some reasonable performances we are unfortunately left with the old feeling nothing is wrong with this film but nothing is extraordinary either br br an entertaining film and an interesting chance to see how foreign filmmakers have been influenced by the post scream 'horror' culture 6 out of 10
1	i saw unfortunately the dubbed version on encore br br student paula franka potente who was also in the cult favorite run lola run stars as a serious medical student who gets into a prestigious school in germany but she soon discovers that some students go missing and the bodies they work on in the anatomy lab are incredibly fresh br br i was stuck seeing the dubbed version on encore it hurt a lot the words not matching the lips got annoying real quick but i still liked what i saw the acting was good it was beautifully photographed it wasn't too gruesome and i was never bored even more refreshing was a likable heroine who fights back when the bad guys go after her the mild nudity was in a refreshing twist male a previous poster mentions benno furmann who is excellent showed his butt but i don't remember seeing it regardless this is a well done scary and excellent thriller from all i've read the original german language version is the best i don't doubt that for one second but the dubbed version is watchable i give this a 7
1	this movie will send chills down your spine even if you don't understand german i first saw this in my german class in high school and found it for 5 at my local wal mart i've seen it at least 20 more times since this being only a couple years ago and it's great to watch on a movie night the plasticized bodies are mostly real used from body worlds this movie was an out lash to that a german dr nicknamed dr death began human bodies for display and now body worlds is a touring deal right now in chicago il many people were opposed to this and so a great german horror movie was made i personally love this movie and would recommend it for all who like thriller slasher films
1	i was very curious about anatomy aka anatomie and if i was going to see it i was going to have to buy it since no video stores in my area carried the film since it was not a low priced dvd i did take a chance and thought i'd take a peek at other comments on imdb many of the comments didn't give me enough hope of forking out lots of bucks for a film i had never seen nor had any clues about i basically got the idea it was a sexy youth oriented romp being compared to many cookie cutter teen thrillers well something in the back of my mind told me to ignore those types of comments and buy it i did and was i pleasantly surprised br br if it is going to be compared to any other films i would say it's a variation of coma and extreme measures i couldn't see any comparison to films like scream urban legends et al yes the cast is young that's because they're med students at least they aren't the increasingly boring high school type characters and yes some are lusty basically the character played by anna loos is and it is handled quite tastefully in the german language version but anatomy is well constructed there is a tense mood throughout the sets are amazing the makeup effects are a wow and franka potente is very credible in her role i found myself enjoying all of it despite a few gaping holes in the plot the story of a student discovering a sort of secret society doing autopsies on still living patients is a rather creepy scenario and what happens to those patients afterwards is quite clever sure you could ask why didn't she just get out of that town okay but then the film would be over within a half hour br br this was the first effort from the german part of columbia pictures and it's actually quite an impressive one there was a bit of care in the production and to actually offer some genuine thrills is an accomplishment it is a bit mature in mind as it doesn't resort to constant opportunities for sexual encounters a breast fest or juvenile drug jokes anna loos' character while often making sexual remarks and looking for some fun was actually a nice touch having a character that was a woman more intelligent than any of the men in the school she found that sex was really just a distraction for her and the men rather lacking br br the important stuff watching this film in the original german language with english or french subtitles is the best way to enjoy it i saw the theatrical trailers dubbed in english and was disgusted by the change it made in the film's tone i have never seen a properly dubbed film in my life they never can find voices that suit the film's actors or characters sure enough i tried to watch some of anatomy dubbed in english and the intelligence level of it dropped severely making it seem more like a comedy a good example is when one guy was freaked out at being cut open and screamed to be sewn back up hearing it in german he sounded frantic but dubbed in english he sounded like a comedian frankly i'm sick of hearing people say they can't handle reading subtitles or watch a letterboxed film anatomy comes off as silly with dubbed voices that seem octaves too high for any of the people you see in the film and anna loos' sexual comments then just sound like awful remarks right out of fast times at ridgemont high i wonder if the negative comments about anatomy are from people who watched it dubbed it just doesn't seem like the same film at all this is not a cheap horror film and deserves to be viewed as it was created interesting to note that some of the english subtitles are different in scenes in the feature and the making of supplement br br as it turns out i gambled and won with anatomy it's a competent thriller with likeable characters and doesn't try to go for cheap thrills
1	i don't know what it is about this movie the charisma of the two leads their chemistry on screen the chance to see matthau's real life son you can't miss him or art performance but i love it i've seen it a few times and never tire of watching it again rent and enjoy
1	there is not much of a plot to this movie there is a wealthy baseball team owner who dies and whose wife is going to sue the hospital for not much more than that but it does not matter br br it does not matter because you have some real actors giving their dialogue life and because of the cast you have yourself some hysterically funny scenes and even if you're not cracking up laughing you have a smile on your face br br matthau plays charley whose wife recently passed away and who finds himself the object of desire of several women at the hospital he is delighted to taste everything on the menu available to him then he meets anne atkinson glenda jackson who at first is a patient in the hospital their first scene together is very funny and then they meet up again on a television panel discussion show where they disagree on nearly every topic that is discussed br br charley begins to like anne and vice versa except that she is very big on monogamy in the men in her life her husband was a cheater and they decide to give it a shot two weeks of faithfulness br br i will not give away anything else but i want to mention the chemistry that matthau and jackson have on screen she is usually not the first person anyone would think of for a romantic middle aged comedy but her touch with comedy is very light and agreeable she is matched every step of the way by matthau who is more charming than ever he does not have to play mr sensitive or mr macho to get the girl he just has to be himself br br art carney is a riot all by himself as a practically senile doctor the scene where the baseball team owner's ashes are buried at home plate is priceless he also has a very funny scene in a parking lot with richard benjamin richard does not have much to do in this movie and more often than not is just the straight man to carney and matthau the role does not tax his considerable talents but he had to have had a good time making this comedy br br very much recommended 8 10 br br ps fyi matthau presented jackson with her first best actress oscar and jackson presented best actor to art carney for his role in
1	this one is a hilarious diamond in the rough the acting and plot aren't that impressive but the lines just keep on coming this catches a lot of flack because it seems at first glance like well a bad movie but it's so kooky that you can't help but be amused the spastic lightening quick dialog and quirky characters keep it going i was especially fond of sharon the canuck on eh however the one that really stole the show was richard's little brother andrew ira heiden his high pitched whining was somehow endearing the whole movie rocked
1	it's a shame house calls isn't better known is it perhaps because the romantic leads are middle aged shopworn and gun shy rather than oversexed teen stars could be if you're over 35 you'll probably get this comedy if you're over 45 you're really going to get this comedy if you're 25 wait until you're older to see it br br the unlikely pairing of matthau and jackson works precisely because it is so unlikely there's a wonderful line of matthau's that sums up what is happening between the two of them i like old broads because you don't have to explain who ronald coleman is if that's not the exact line it's close br br the premise of a sub par hospital run by incompetents rings true art portrayal of a senile head surgeon is absolutely brilliant it is impossible not to laugh out loud at his delivery subplots if you can call them that are fun too like between matthau and jackson's teenage son everything hits just exactly the right tone br br okay there's the bit where matthau has to wear women's clothing that's a bit over the top and an easy mark but still it's walter matthau in drag it's funny
1	late one night on tom snyder's tomorrow show i watched tom ask his guest henry morgan what he considered to be 'perfect ' morgan responded anything with glenda jackson and although i wouldn't consider this film to be perfect it does bear out that notion very well i was about to use the cliché' about hollywood not making pictures like this anymore but then i just saw up in the air another intelligent film about 2 people over the age of 35 who fall in love that's where the similarities end though house calls is just sheer fun watching 2 pros like matthau and jackson hit it off and seem completely natural while they're at it i saw this film in the theater in 1978 at the ripe old age of 18 and it took me another 20 years to get all of the jokes any film that can make punch lines out of 1920's tennis great bill and british prime minister neville chamberlain wouldn't play too well at the megaplex these days one other thought the original theatrical release featured a on the beach fall in love' montage set to the beatles george harrison tune something it seemed a bit forced at the time but that song has since been swapped out for a rather generic henry mancini music cue for subsequent home video and cable release too bad because that scene just lays there now another victim of music licensing hell
1	house calls was an amusing 1978 comedy about a widowed doctor walter matthau who now wants to play the field but can't help but be drawn to a patient of his glenda jackson who refuses to be just another notch on his bedpost matthau likes the woman but does not really want to make the commitment that she insists upon so he agrees to date her exclusively for two weeks and then make a decision as to whether or not he wants to commit however other complications make it difficult for matthau to make a decision when the two weeks are up even though he is clearly in love with the woman matthau and jackson have surprisingly effective chemistry as a screen couple and are given strong support from richard benjamin candice dick o'neill and especially art carney as the inept and senile chief of staff at the hospital where matthau is employed matthau even has a brief scene with his real life son charlie who appears as jackson's son this engaging comedy still holds up pretty well after all these years if you've never seen it it's worth the rental
1	walter matthau is best remembered for the long series of comedies he did with his equal comedy partner jack lemmon from the fortune cookie to the odd couple ii but people tend to forget that in the late 1970s he appeared with another partner in two films a female partner this was glenda jackson the english double oscar winner who demonstrated her comic abilities against matthau's first in house calls and then in matthau's role was slightly larger in both films because his characters were more central to the plots but the chemistry between them was quite good if you ever want to see two pros demonstrating how sexual intercourse can be crazily funny watch walter and glenda as dr charley nicholson and ann atkinson experimenting to see if two people could have sex on a bed under the old movie code rule of the two parties each having one leg on the floor never has sex been looked at from such a clinical and mechanical point of view br br matthau's charlie has just been widowed before the film began he has only had one woman in his life his wife so now he's the eligible bachelor he also is the leading surgeon in the hospital he works out of but the chief surgeon is dr amos art carney carney is apparently senile there are moments later in the film that show he turns his senility on and off see the scene where he rams richard benjamin's car amos is up for re election charlie is his closest competitor for the post if he wants it however amos manages to convince charlie to let him keep the job for reasons of self esteem br br one day charlie notices ann in the hospital she has had a slight accident and is resting in bed but amos has put her into a cage like apparatus which charlie remarks has not been used since about 1920 he gets her out of the device and soon is romancing her she joins the staff of the hospital but she is critical of charlie's willingness to cater to amos and she is critical of certain selfish tendencies she sees among the doctors in the hospital br br bungling causes the death of a wealthy patron of the hospital lloyd gough who owned a baseball team his greatest innovation being separate admission costs for double amos tries to calm down the young widow of the team owner delivering the eulogy at the burial service the line in the summary above is the line of the eulogy however she is still determined to sue her lawyer thayer david says the hospital is the most incompetent he's ever seen so amos suggests that charlie romance the widow to satisfy her from that expensive lawsuit but how will ann react to this the film is quite amusing and was so successful that besides causing a sequel for jackson and matthau it led to a television series as well
1	near wonderful mixture of comedy romance and medical chaos has a 50 ish swinging single doctor tired of going to rock concerts with nubile airheads dating a patient his own age whom he met on his rounds screenplay by julius epstein shows a fair amount of sophistication though he doesn't have enough material to fill out the picture's last third and one can almost feel the movie slipping the subplot about the hospital being investigated for its shoddy business affairs isn't worked out satisfactorily and it feels highly concocted anyway still walter matthau and glenda jackson are a terrific team richard benjamin and art carney very funny in support director howard keeps it all popping and even when epstein's one liners feel like neil simon rejects zips right along happily the results are dryly engaging and occasionally quite sweet followed by a failed tv series from
1	matthau is a widowed hospital doctor enjoying his single status and the footloose and available nurses on the staff whilst colleague and friend richard benjamin looks on with amusement and amazement their boss is hard of hearing going on senile chief of staff art carney who is up for re election to that post br br matthau is content playing the field without commitment until he meets single mother glenda jackson who insists upon being the only woman in his life while she is in his life at the same time he comes under pressure to respond to the amorous advances of a potential in a malpractice suit and to support the shambolic and incompetent carney in his attempt to be re elected chief of staff br br this is a superior old fashioned romantic comedy graced by four grade a actors and an excellent supporting cast working with a first rate dry caustic and sarcastic script carney steals every scene he's in and in the parlance of imdb has us rolling on the floor laughing out loud whenever he appears on screen we are otherwise entertained by the on off relationship of the two leads and various sub plots br br lacks the ambition to be a great film but remains one of the best of its kind and watchable and re watchable for its comedic value alone deserves more attention than it seems to have received and well worth the cost of the dvd or video cassette
1	when i know that walter will never grace another set i was in my 30's when i first saw this sweet endearing and unabashedly romantic film i loved it from the first scene and all the way through to the end art carney was his usual daft self glenda matched walter step for step in the witticisms and richard benjamin supplied the sarcastic voice of reason that he does so well along the way there were many actors whom we all recognize doing their usual brilliance there are a couple of lines in the movie which my so and i have used throughout the years but i won't say anything about them here i'm pretty sure you will know which two i am talking about just get this movie make some popcorn grab your squeeze if he is as sappy as mine is for which i am thankful and enjoy this standout romantic comedy from the 70's you will not be disappointed however i have the feeling that i am preaching to the choir here because anyone who loves walter will already own it i'm very glad it's out on dvd now finally
1	i remember seeing this 1978 comedy at one of the bargain matinees i took in when i was looking for a study break from my college courses walter matthau and glenda jackson do some effective tracy hepburn style thrusting and parrying in this featherweight romp directed by the reliable howard he did private benjamin about a newly widowed doctor's aggressive re entry into the dating game it all breezes by quickly primarily thanks to the clever script by veteran screenwriter julius j epstein casablanca along with alan mandel max and future director charles shyer br br dr charley nichols has just come back from hawaii after his wife's death upon his return he becomes aware that he is instant to any and all the single women in la he works in a hospital run by an increasingly senile chief of staff amos willoughby whom charley has to pacify to keep his residency enter ann atkinson a transplanted englishwoman who bakes for a living and has certain concrete opinions about the medical profession which she expresses freely on a pbs talk show of course charley is on the show's discussion panel and sparks as they say fly this leads to the standard complications about how serious charley is willing to become about ann at the same time the hospital has to deal with a potential wrongful death lawsuit from the widow of a rich baseball team owner who died at the hospital under careless supervision br br it's just refreshing to see such a mature yet bracing love story between two characters inhabited by actors who deliver lines with the scalpel wielding skill of surgeons matthau is his usual 1970's curmudgeonly swinger and quite a sight waddling with his gangly arms held akimbo in his power walk away from her heavy award winning elizabethan roles jackson is crisply sardonic and charmingly vulnerable as the feisty ann who thinks all doctors should aspire to be albert art carney plays willoughby with predictable bluster while richard benjamin provides amiable support as colleague dr solomon it's all very compact with a few nice jabs at the greed within the medical profession there are no extras on the 2005 dvd
1	house calls is a wonderful romantic comedy that can best be described as how they used to make them it stars walter matthau in one of his best roles as a recently widowed doctor who goes out on the dating scene again and hits paydirt as he seems to have a different woman every night he then meets hospital patient glenda jackson and soon develops a relationship with her but it's one that will be severely tested as she informs him she is a one man woman and expects him to be a one woman man br br this is a sweet very funny film also starring art carney as the senile hospital administrator and richard benjamin as matthau's friend and fellow doctor it's a must see for any matthau fan or any fan of light comedy br br you won't be disappointed
1	notorious hk catiii actor anthony wong is for once well not actually once he was a cop in the daughter of darkness films and a few others not a psychopathic weirdo in erotic nightmare usually recognized for his role as a complete in such catiii nasties like the untold story and the ebola syndrome this time wong is on the receiving end of the nastiness br br wong plays a guy who goes to a sorcerer who promises to give him really good dreams for a price true to his word the dreams that wong has involve having mad donkey sex with smokin' hot schoolgirls but the dreams come with a price that's more than money the sorcerer can manipulate the dreams and with the help of a sexy ghost blackmails wong out of his cash and business kills his family and eventually kills wong himself wong's brother comes to town to find out what's going on and eventually finds that his family's murder is the work of the evil sorcerer but as it turns out wong's brother is a pretty dope ass sorcerer himself and with the help of the sorcerer's abused wife turns the tables on the sorcerer and his schemes br br erotic nightmare is one of the more enjoyable catiii films i've seen in a while absent is the gritty and dark feel of some of the other catiii entries like red to kill the untold story or human pork chop erotic nightmare though still sleazy in terms of sex and subject matter is more fun then some of the more serious films of the genre more comparable to eternal evil of asia a more carefree catiii entry that delivers plenty in terms of nudity and a good bit of gore without being overly comedic either definitely worth a look especially to the genre enthusiast 8 10
1	this is one of the funniest movies i have ever seen this in my opinion is rob lowe at his best i'm not quite sure why this film has gotten such a low rating i guess you either love it or hate it but if nothing else it is definitely worth a rental
1	anthony wong plays lok a husband whose wife is seriously ill poor lok due to her illness he has been going without sex for a long time that's why he is plagued by a series of sleazy nightmares featuring nurses and schoolgirls erotic nightmare is a fun cat iii flick loaded with sleaze and voyeurism there is also a bit of gore as the first part of the film shows some nasty killings committed by wong character under the influence of the monk's mystical powers the dream sequences are quite erotic and sleazy so i'm not complaining of course those who expect gruesome cat iii horror in the tradition of diary of a serial killer or red to kill will be disappointed but fans of sleazy exploitation cinema should give this one a look 7 out of 10
1	excellent film featuring anthony wong that certainly lives up to it's title erotic but increasingly violent courtesy of dreams purchased from a crazed occultist that rapidly turn into nightmares of some magnitude as the sorcerer gets inside them to manipulate poor mr wong well filmed and very fast moving this is a non stop tale of serious magic herbal power and corruption but also makes time for some fine sex scenes and some very bloody violence there is also just a little touch of humour now and again to catch you further off guard and the whole thing makes for a most exhilarating 90 minutes or so excellent performances all round
1	so the koreans are now knocking off american horror flicks but they are doing so with style doll master is a close copy of puppetmaster and dolls and even has a little child's play going for it several young adults are invited to attend a special event at a gallery filled with dolls only to find they are targets of a vengeful spirit the dolls come to life and do some pretty nasty things to the kids the gore level is reasonably high the photography and set design and production values are first rate the acting isn't all that bad and the scares are definitely there doll master may not be in the same league with a tale of two sisters or even dead friend but it's close give it a watch you won't be disappointed
1	it's quite simple that those who call this movie anything below decent do not know their cinema the doll master creates a sense of dread and suspense rarely seen in movies outside of asia br br think of a mixture of manga and ringu rolled into one and this is what its all about br br first rate acting first rate direction first rate sets and effects br br this is right up there with the best of asian horror cinema ringu dark water and a tale of two sisters br br an absolute must br br take it from a guy who knows his movies
1	yong ki puppet master only with scary parts was the most recent korean horror flick i had the pleasure of watching with the title of in asia this movie struck me immediately when i saw it reviewed online with images that made me think of puppet master childs play and other toy doll based horror flicks in the past but for some reason i didn't think boy this will be tacky i imagined it would be creepy and fun horror done well almost br br the movie starts slowly but i like that so it was fine the score almost like i found with was beautiful and very much reminded me of classic horror scores of the past i wont give much away but the story was strong in this one and i would highly recommend it to any fan of asian horror it isn't extreme it isn't to be taken with utmost seriousness but it is really good
1	i wandered into blockbuster with a friend the other night having decided that we were too broke and too lazy to do active she decided she wanted to watch closer which seemed like such a repellant idea that i had to rent another film for once she'd gone to bed looking around i didn't see much that interested me but saw the doll master in the new releases section just based on the cover sleeve a woman with a doll like face crying tears of blood i thought this would be interesting enough to rent br br as for the film itself watching it in an almost empty house with all the lights turned off it was pretty scary i must admit i've always had a bit of a phobia of dolls since i was a kid and watched an awful film called asylum one of the stories in it involved a mental patient creating a doll which killed people lame but scary at the time and the first three quarters of this film really hit the spot for me the first half hour in particular was awesome the creepy foreboding atmosphere really set the scene well and without moving the dolls seemed genuinely threatening but unfortunately as soon as they did start to move it all got a bit cheesy i was a bit disappointed when moments that could have been genuinely frightening made me laugh because of the way they were filmed br br as for the characters it's a horror film you're not really expecting anything memorable i found i remembered names and faces better than most asian horror films i've seen which suggests there must have been some hidden character development that i didn't consciously notice the typical stereotypes are out in force in this movie each one having some kind of character quirk that sets them apart from the others from shy and quiet ha and her doll damien to the outgoing bimbo seon br br the plot itself was fairly cool even though the ending which bought together many of the loose strands of plot seemed a bit confused and didn't really do anything for me although it did have a couple of really cool plot twists that i won't ruin here the basic plot is a bunch of kids are invited to be modelled as dolls by a famous reclusive old doll maker they have to stay in the creepy house adorned with scary dolls some big some small and things start to happen as our heroine hae mi starts to explore areas of the house and things start happening to the other inhabitants br br overall i would definitely recommend the film not to watch with too many people as some of the moments would probably make you laugh if surrounded by friends but as something too watch on your own in the dark with the windows and doors open just a bit just in case any dolls feel like watching with you it really does leave you guessing for most of the film allowing you to go off on wild conspiracy theories only to completely destroy them later on if you really get into it and ignore it's cheesiness in places i can guarantee you'll check under your bed before you go to sleep and maybe even leave the lights on br br or maybe that's just me p as for closer it was ok but i preferred this
1	i couldn't disagree more with those who says this is a lousy movie me and my friend went to see it during the stockholm film festival and this was actually one of my favorite movies during the festival dolls being used in horror movies aren't something new but i haven't seen that many movies were it has been as well carried out as it is in this movie the atmosphere the setting the actors the camera work everything is just beautiful and they really work well with each other now if you expect this film to be another grudge or ring then you probably won't like it but if your out for a good stylized scare then it's perfect even though it's pretty predictable and at some times laughable i still recommend this to anyone who likes horror flicks go see it now
1	this program is a favorite of our family and we feel it must be released on dvd by seasons the title of promised land is very apt as it is a positive statement about all the good that is left in this great country and the people who live in her it's a god bless america type of program with inspiring stories old fashioned values down to earth characters truthful and encouraging messages beautiful scenery and well written humor and drama it's a show the entire family is able to enjoy and benefit from without worrying about bad language adult themes crudeness violence etc we always felt blessed when we were done viewing an episode and can't wait to see each one all over again when they're finally released on dvd
1	i absolutely love promised land the first episode that i saw was while i was on my mission from 2003 2005 i really loved the rich family background portrayed in the show here was a family with struggles of their own but instead of dwelling on them they would reach out with love to others who may have had the same problems in an effort to forget themselves and go to work this is what caused me to fall in love with the show all of the actors especially gerald mcraney had demonstrated the true meaning of family which has left an indelible mark on my life i have been down the same road they have but it has taken allot of time for me to develop that kind of character i love this show so much that i have wanted to share it with friends but i was really stunned when i had heard that it was taken off the air i thought and still think they should bring it back so many lives can benefit from heaven inspired media i honestly believe that this show was divinely inspired because it brings the spirit every time i see just one episode this show really in my book has truly defined what a promised land is it is the love that you hold in your heart for others which brings you to a higher destination the spirit of love is one of the most potent messages in this series and all i can say is bring it back robert
1	hey yall the best drama every is now on gospel music channel go to their website to see the schedule and find out what number it is on your cable or satellite this was one of my favorite shows growing up it has everything that i want a tv show to be a clean family friendly drama that does not gross me out the story about a man who after loosing his work decides to set off for a great cross country adventure along the way they meet all sorts of interesting people and find themselves in the midst of all kinds of trouble this show was originally a spin off of touched by an angel another really good family show make sure you check it out
1	this seemed to be a lackluster film to me that betrays a low budget with poor cinematography and not all that great of a job of editing it may be of interest to those who know something about submarines during the world war ii era but i recommend that all others beware many of the scenes in this film were flat and some of the actors were a bit weak the story about the men getting called back to duty during a short leave seems realistic enough but there's no real pacing or tension in the story i also had a tough time understanding what the actors were saying partially due to some strong english accents and perhaps some due to an inferior job of sound recording i give this a 55 100 most folks will want to steer clear
1	all i can say is i really miss this show my wife i just got married around the time this show started up why did cbs take it off the air i think it was the best show for the whole family to enjoy it made me laugh it also made me cry but when cbs took it off the air my wife i thought cbs made a big mistake you know what would be so great have a reunion show that would be so cool anybody know if it is on dvd yet on the last season of promised land did cbs show the whole last season i think cbs took it off the air at mid season my wife i will never forget it the opening with that theme song was fantastic this show only comes once in a life time may we never forget promised land
1	although it has been off the air for 6 years now promised land was one of those shows that comes along once or twice in a generation good cast supporting cast among them richard thomas and ossie davis and crew the plot is believable with mcraney packing up his family and just saying to hell with it all after being subjected to so many disappointments and incidents since his return from vietnam years earlier i think a lot of vietnam era veterans myself included could really relate to thought process in finally deciding on his course of action many of us did precisely the same thing in real life after returning from that war and finding that america was not the same place we left the show imparts not only values but a glimpse into what took place in one veterans life in those two respects alone i think it is one of the more poignant tv series of our time why this program only ran for 3 years is beyond me
1	i absolutely loved this series and was very sad to see it go yes it's christian based and traditionally as well it deals with some tough issues as the other reviewer points out but i guess it depends on your viewpoint on these matters and as a teenager growing up and now as a mother myself i was so happy to see a tv series that was clean and well quite frankly wonderful i unlike the other reviewer was heartened to see how they dealt with the condom deal instead of hearing the typical wishy about condoms they showed the son actually working at being chaste and applying it to his later relationships which were pure and godly because of it and a lot safer because of it 100 br br after watching this entire series you become extremely attached to all the characters in the family and outside the family once they settle down more permanently and the moral values they teach in each episode are just priceless i found touched by an angel made by the same producer to be cheesy here and there although overall i liked it but this series in my opinion was a lot better made and had better acting and was more interesting as well it was good for the entire family and was interesting for the entire family which was a huge plus the family wasn't outstanding they had their own faults but in the long run they did what was right and you saw them grow and change and struggle like any true family does it was my favorite show at the time and will always be near the top of my list i hope it comes out on dvd
1	i saw 'i smell the dead' sorry 'i sell the dead' at a press screening glenn the film's writer director editor is a laddish irishman who introduced the screening by announcing that whilst it was in progress he would be 'going out for a i don't begrudge him a drink but by telling us about it he seemed to feel he needed to his or his or both when the opening credits rolled there were as usual at press screenings loud for the names of every actor or crew member who'd got friends in the audience and silence for those who hadn't returned for a witty q a afterwards br br this horror movie doesn't take itself seriously which is good because its humour is considerably stronger than its horror only one scene is even remotely scary and most of the 'horror' is merely gross out but i laughed throughout much of the film br br this movie appears to be set in ireland circa 1850 by which time grave robbing was mostly defunct the story is told in flashback we get flashbacks within flashbacks and the narrating character flashbacks material that he couldn't know about because sometimes he wasn't present or in one case because the action is unfolding behind his back br br the story begins with a prisoner being taken to the guillotine guillotines weren't used in 19th century ireland but for once we actually see a plausible guillotine sequence the prisoner struggles on his way to execution the rope cleats are accurate and the prisoner manages to look up to see the blade overhead and there's a payoff later to justify the historically inaccurate use of the guillotine itself br br the characters are ostensibly irish but one major character speaks in cockney slang using phrases like a game and take a butcher's for 'have a look' for once actors in 19th century roles display 19th century dental hygiene yet nearly all the clothes and hairstyles and the women's make ups are resolutely 21st century i'm not complaining in the case of heather bullock who wears a very fetching black miniskirt that appears to be pvc br br the lead actors except ron perlman are excellent but most of the supporting cast have no sense of the victorian period the worst offender is joel garland as the whose characterisation is firmly rooted in the twenty first century just when i thought that garland's performance couldn't get any less victorian he used his fingers to make ironic air quotes br br the sets especially angus lab are detailed and impressive yet failed to convince me that people actually lived and worked in these places nearly every interior contains burning candles but never once did i see what would have been there if these were actual victorian homes or leftover from previous candles br br one scene features an extra terrestrial i was annoyed that plumped for a stereotypical grey alien rather than something original br br there are splendid montage sequences but opts for flashy effects split screens overhead shots that don't serve the story i was impressed by a recurring blue screen device the main characters' heads over other backgrounds less effective was a recurring style motif of camera shots morphing actors' faces into drawings resembling panel art from 1950s ec horror comics i'm a fan of ec comics but they don't belong in 19th century ireland the money that spent on flashy photo f x showing off his editing skills without serving the story should've been spent on accurate costumes br br big spoilers now ron perlman gives an oirish performance full of acting school tics ostensibly playing a 19th century irish priest he writes with his left hand in victorian ireland left handed children were punished for using the devil's hand and were forcibly to become but perlman's character turns out to have a reason for concealing his right hand elsewhere a character is bitten by a zombie yet suffers no ill effects so i knew there'd be a payoff later several scenes that would more logically take place at night are shot in daylight apparently only because this was easier and less expensive since is a proficient director and editor he could easily have shot day for night but using a process photography effect to help tell the story seems to interest him much less than showing off his flashy editing techniques br br seems to be giving homage to those great old hammer horror flicks but those hammers were so great because the actors and production designers worked hard to convince us that we were actually witnessing events in 1888 whitechapel or wherever 'i sell the dead' almost entirely fails to evoke the 19th century br br glenn shows talent as a director scripter and editor yet in all three capacities here he makes odd choices then largely fails to justify those choices but i enjoyed 'i sell the dead' i'll rate it 7 out of 10 and i look forward to his next movie
1	grave robber is sitting in his cell awaiting execution is visited by a monk wishing to take down his last words for posterity and as a warning to others about the horrible life he lead at first reluctant but with his tongue loosened up by drink the young grave robber is soon telling his story which is full of the dead the undead and things that go bump in the night br br new york lensed horror film filmed in part on staten island which no doubt brought the spirit of andy milligan lurking about is one of the better horror comedies to come around in a while this is an often very funny film that just spins its story out in every which way the cast is first rate dominic monaghan plays arthur blake the grave robber telling his story ron perlman is father duffy the monk taking the statement and perhaps getting too involved in the tale both men are clearly having a grand old time and it shows the rest of the cast is equally as good the music by jeff grace is excellent the effects are perfect for this sort of ghoulish silliness the film is a great deal of fun if there is any trouble with the film its that perhaps it throws its net a little wide so as the result has way too much going on i don't want to give too much away but i don't think we needed the alien body in the mix still this is a great deal of fun and its one i'm pretty sure i will revisit on the ifc in theaters where i saw it the first time and later on i'm sure i'll pick up the dvd br br worth a look
1	i sell the dead is a big sloppy horror comedy that refuses to take itself too seriously this has advantages and drawbacks the 85 minutes of the film breeze by and the film is full of bits sometimes funny sometimes scary sometimes gory occasionally all three at once but the individual bits are much better than the sum of the film's parts br br the story such as it is follows professional grave robber arthur blake played by dominic monaghan arthur's partner in crime willie larry fessenden has just had his head chopped off for murder and arthur has one night left before his own head is forfeit for the same crime arthur insists that he is innocent of murder but there are plenty of other crimes that he is willing to confess to when bribed with irish whisky by a catholic priest played by ron perlman br br since the movie is a series of grave robbing anecdotes confessed by arthur it becomes a sort of horror anthology a series of disjointed tales all linked by a similar cast arthur and willie and a similar theme grave robbing like most horror anthologies there is no consistent mythology because all mythologies are true and happening simultaneously even when they contradict one another br br it probably didn't help that i saw this film the same night as trick 'r treat a horror anthology that avoids all of the traps that i sell the dead falls into in fact trick 'r treat designed as an anthology tells a more unified consistent story than i sell the dead which is intended to be a united narrative br br the other problem with the film and i recognize that this is insane nit picking is the way the film plays fast and loose with history is killed with a guillotine we might be able to stretch a point and say that he is killed by a scottish maiden a precursor to the french guillotine but the scottish maiden was abandoned in and this film is set a good hundred years later since burke and hare are mentioned and they were executed for murder in grave robbing as an industry became obsolete with the passage of the anatomy act 1832 so the film must take place before then br br i know that bringing this up is the ultimate in historical nerdiness and we are clearly dealing with a universe where all sorts of dead undead and legendary dead are possible but the easiest way to anchor a fantasy to convince the audience to suspend their disbelief is to use something real and authentic to bounce the fantasy off of and it's not like the history of grave robbers or body snatchers or call it what you like is a boring story br br the most frustrating thing is that writer director glenn clearly does know the history especially the good bits as an example when first takes on arthur as his apprentice he correctly explains to arthur that as they don't steal the clothes from the dead because stealing corpses is a misdemeanor punishable by a small fine while stealing clothes is a punishable by deportation or possibly even death so you would expect and arthur to strip the corpse at this point and for the rest of the film but of course they don't you could accuse the director of ignoring his writer's script but not when the writer and the director are the same person br br my point isn't that there should have been a lot of buck naked corpses in the film my point is that if you are going to bring up this quirk in the law and make it clear that willie and arthur will follow the law no matter how silly it is than you do have to pursue that thought to its logical conclusion even if that means that willie and arthur wind up chasing a zombie through a graveyard trying to rip his or her clothes off and stuffing them back in the empty coffin so that they don't get deported for stealing the walking corpse's clothes otherwise don't bring up the matter at all br br historical nerdiness aside i sell the dead is worth a rental as a slight but funny horror film that could have been much more
1	this movie was very funny with just a bit of gore it is about two grave robber that are going about business as usual when they discover that there is a different clientèle they can serve this changes the direction of the corpses they collect the movie is told by the younger of the two as he is explaining the business to a priest before he is sent to be beheaded his partner had already been beheaded the priest is required to take down the last confession and it takes the form of a story there is some animation thrown in which gives it a tales from the crypt feel in the story we meet another group of grave robbers that everyone fears but at one point the younger of the two up for execution is offered a job so this calms some of the animosity between the groups when a woman joins the two men she oversteps her boundaries and gets them in trouble with the feared grave robbers the story leads up to the meeting of the two groups which led to the arrest of the man that is confessing and the man that has already lost his head
1	i sell the dead 2009 1 2 dominic monaghan larry fessenden ron perlman angus scrimm john speredakos eileen brenda cooney uneven blend of horror and comedy that poses as a valentine to the '60s horror films by roger corman and hammer studios with two cretinous grave robbers monaghan and fessenden facing final punishments for the crimes via the guillotine but not before their tales of the occult can be recalled in flashbacks amusing and a few well sprinkled jolts but really a mess of a b movie trying in vein to be a cult classic largely thanks to the casting of genre vets perlman and scrimm to no avail a good rental for halloween dir glenn
1	it is so refreshing to see a movie like this with actual mood and personality instead of just a bunch of cgi cartoon gimmicks this is a great horror spoof that has genuine chills along side some really great sets and performances its laughs are subtle but plentiful because there is very little if any cgi there is no need to violently shake the camera around to hide the crappy effects this makes the movie immensely watchable compared to the other camera man must be sh ing his pants films of this genre that have come out in the last decade or so br br far more enjoyable than the big budget re made garbage being released by hollywood today br br see it
1	i saw this at the san francisco independent film festival and liked it a lot it worked for me as a slightly weird comedy because i don't like horror but there were only a couple of minutes i had to close my eyes br br the dialog was good the costumes and settings were not far off bbc quality which is amazing for an indie film i liked the way the plot twists and even meanders it kept surprising me in good ways i even warmed up to the willy character who i quite disliked at the beginning it would have been better if there'd been any motivation for the woman to be so interested in going to the island that felt very much like a plot device br br i am fond of dominic monaghan and he did a good job at pratfalls horror and at the more thoughtful moments nice voice in the narration too br br this would be a fun and unusual date movie
1	br br mild spoilers ahead br br we dive at dawn is an english made movie with john mills in the lead role the second time i watched the dvd version was on a big screen tv and i must say the movie is better than i thought the first time i saw it on the screen may be it was the big screen viewing that helped br br i still say the first few segments of the movie are muddled but once the submarine leaves the dock and begins its mission the movie takes off too the search for the german battleship named the and the adventures which went along with it were absorbing and the detail shown in the movie are interesting br br i'm increasing my rating to 7 10 if you enjoy ww ii films i think you'll find this one interesting once the submarine gets underway some of the men on the sub have quite a sense of humor too
1	julie andrews and rock hudson were great in this movie musical the opening song by ms andrews whistling away the dark will always be in the back roads of my mind the plot line during world war i is great and suspenseful one if you are a romantic you will love this movie this is a movie that i always enjoy to see again and again
1	ok finally a horror film that's done well as soon as i heard the music i knew that some effort had been made in creating what i consider to be an almost masterpiece of good zombies whores booze grave snatching and a lot more a great cast well acted well directed well written there was hardly a flaw even the american actors with irish english accents really pulled it off i thought that the actor larry fessenden looked familiar to me it was that missing tooth finally i realized that this guy was the lead in habit a film about vampires in nyc i thought he was excellent in that role now i'm wondering if he's an american or not his accent was so convincing in i sell that i thought he had to have grown up in the emerald isle not in the us well apparently he's a born and raised new yorker a great actor really made the role his own in this movie nothing beats a horror flick set in early 19th century europe like the old hammer flicks i encourage anyone that wants to have a great time to watch this well crafted movie
1	when people harp on about how they don't make 'em like they used to then just point them towards this fantastically entertaining and quaint looking comedy horror from writer director glenn br br it's a tale of played by dominic monaghan and larry fessenden who end up digging up more than just silent immobile corpses after the initial shock of this they soon realise that they can actually turn the situation to their advantage and that's just what they try to do mind you it seems as if things may not have worked out quite as they planned as poor young arthur monaghan is actually relating his tale to a priest ron perlman before being taken to the gallows br br looking at the detail of his filmography seems to have taken the core of his first short movie and expanded it to this feature effort which is no bad thing fessenden returns and does well monaghan is one of those guys who can actually still get you to like him while he goes about the nefarious business of stealing from the dead and with other genre favourites such as perlman and angus scrimm on the scene this film is a lot of fun for genre fans br br it also benefits from a unique and favourable design and look at times moving from e c comic style panels into live action a la creepshow and always somehow feeling quite authentic in it's hammer horror feel maybe everything is just covered over with so much dry ice but that's beside the point whatever was done to capture everything on film it works it works well br br it may not have any actual scares but this film does have a great vein of black humour and definitely soaks every minute of it's runtime in macabre material that should please all of those who have the patience for horror that's a little bit more sedate and feels like it definitely could have been made back in the days of hammer br br see this if you like the flesh and the fiends the doctor and the devils creepshow
1	this movie was fun if all over the board br br it essentially follows the comedic romp of two grave robbers in 19th century england who move from conventional body snatching to trafficking in vampires zombies and dead roswell aliens i have no idea what the roswell alien was doing in there and neither did the producers i think br br but was it funny you bet even ron perlman who is often the kiss of direct to dvd death was pretty good in this one as a priest who turns out to be the ringleader of a rival gang of body snatchers br br a real joy to watch this hilarious little film and a good example of what you can do when you don't have larger than life egos on either side of the camera
1	note i saw i sell the dead at the glasgow international film festival on 20th january 2009 i sell the dead is a jet black horror comedy set in late medieval times and stars dominic monaghan lost lord of the rings ron pearlman hellboy larry fessenden session 9 and angus scrimm phantasm br br the movie opens with grave robber willie fessenden still indignant and being dragged to the guillotine and executed his apprentice and partner in crime arthur blake monaghan is locked in the tower awaiting his turn when father duffy perlman a whiskey swilling priest with an unhealthy interest in the occult pays him a visit with the apparent intention of recording blake's final confession it soon becomes apparent however that duffy main interest lies in the more otherworldly side of blake's exploits most of the plot from here is told in flashback form as monaghan duffy with tales of his macabre career br br initially and blake start out as simple wise cracking body snatchers working in the employ of the ghoulish dr quint scrimm a callous corrupt who uses blackmail as leverage over our two anti heroes and takes a rather unhealthy relish in his work the pair have their first run in with the undead when one evening quint sends them on a mission to a bleak moonlit moor to retrieve a corpse that has been mysteriously interred at a crossroads apparently according to some ancient custom but there's something different about this corpse this one has been wrapped in of garlic and buried with a stake through it's heart br br following a terrifying encounter not only do they devise a plan to rid themselves of the scheming doctor's machinations but they also uncover a secretive subculture of occultists who will pay good money for corpses and even better money for living specimens of the undead this leads our intrepid duo into the hidden underworld of the ghoul hunting trade where they find themselves going head to head not only with vampires monsters and zombies and one other paranormal entity for which i will not spoil the surprise but also rival ghoul hunters in the form of the inbred and murderous murphy clan br br i went into i sell the dead expecting a low key mildly distracting low budget chiller i was not prepared for the incredible imagination giddy humour quality acting great dialogue thick atmosphere and sheer personality that makes i sell the dead a strong early contender for my horror film of the year br br with the exception of a couple of rough edges the production values are truly fantastic for such a low budget flick it looks like it was made for about 20 million and i was surprised when the director told the audience it was made for significantly less than half of that although he was unwilling to give exact figures as the film was still being sold to distributors the look and tone of the film is a visual comic book somewhere between tim burton and hammer horror with smart little creepshow esquire artwork inserts the plot is wonderfully surreal but the idea of a hidden underworld running parallel to everyday life but which the general populace is either unable or unwilling to believe in is one that actually makes quite good sense within the context of the film br br the acting as you'd expect from this cast is top notch the characters are fleshed out surprisingly well particularly and blake and all the actors deliver their sharply scripted lines with just the right amount of deadpan tongue in cheek to make the dialogue both hilarious and realistic angus scrimm also turns in a good performance in a somewhat brief but memorable role as the gently menacing violin playing doctor quinn br br conclusion i loved it it's a long time since i was so entertained by a movie i struggle to find anything bad to say about it mark my words this is one of those cult films like evil dead 2 or phantasm that people will still be discovering and falling in love with 20 30 40 years down the line
1	if you want to see a great little horror comedy with an eerie feel to it this is the one if you are expecting a blood and guts gore flick thats going to scare your pants off then this isn't the one for you br br for the budget that this movie was filmed on the music was particularly amazing even though the film was filmed on a bargain budget the music and audio was definitely better than most movies with a huge budget br br the story was truly well done and the director is to be commended there is an almost perfect blend of comedy to horror in this movie the acting is top notch and leaves room to make a sequel which i am definitely holding out for i have no doubt that this movie will become an instant cult classic br br in a nutshell this movie chronicles the life story of a boy who enters into the career of becoming a grave robber it tells the story in flashback of each of the more fantastic experiences that the robber duo encounters vampires to zombies and even aliens our stars start out as simple grave robbers stealing for jewellery but quickly become body snatchers for a mad doctor angus who requires bodies for his medical practise when the duo find a way to have a vampire dispatch their cruel employer the grave robbers discover that trafficking in undead corpses is much more profitable than just stealing regular dead bodies the only problem is that there is another gang called the house of murphy that is competing for the same undead corpses and thats where both grave robbing gangs clash head to head with dire consequences br br this movie is one of the most refreshing and exciting horror comedies that i have seen in years and reminds me of the evil dead don't miss this one you will regret it
1	this film was really a breath of fresh air from the load of hollywood crap i've seen recently the acting is superb and the characters are engaging and oddly endearing there really isn't much to the story it's simple and it works well an easy film to just sit down and enjoy the mood was fantastic and the sets really helped push the movie along and offered some nice visuals the film obviously has aspects of horror yet is geared a little more towards the humorous side of things you won't be laughing out loud hysterically with this one but you'll be smiling the whole way through the humor works very well with the characters and the superb acting doesn't hurt i really watched this movie based on the fact that ron perlman was in it his role is a bit smaller than i expected but it doesn't matter the rest of the cast does more than enough to keep you engaged if you like horror watch this if you like comedies watch this just go ahead and watch this anyway it's really quite excellent
1	i just saw this at and i absolutely loved it there were parts where i laughed so hard i couldn't catch my breath the script and direction by glenn are fantastic i can't wait to see more from this talented young man the performances make the movie larry fessenden and dominic monaghan are just delightful as the willy and his apprentice arthur ron perlman turns in a fantastic performance as usual as a less than sympathetic jailhouse priest bonus angus scrimm as an unscrupulous doctor as always he balances menace and humor perfectly br br this is a style of horror comedy that really hasn't been seen since vincent price did comedy of terrors the raven and theater of blood the movie is genuinely scary in places then it'll suddenly flip back into hilarious mode keeping you totally off balance some parts are scary and funny at the same time br br i can only afford to see three movies at this year but even if the other two are awful i sell the dead was worth the price of all three i'm going to be looking for more movies from larry fessenden's glass eye pix he's giving the horror genre a much needed kick in the butt
1	i sell the dead revolves around convicted grave robber arthur blake blake's friend and fellow grave robber willie has just been executed and blake is going to follow suit the next morning while he sits in his cell awaiting his execution a priest named father duffy comes in and asks him if he will tell all he has seen as a grave robber he then proceeds to give father duffy a quasi biography of his more interesting exploits br br the plot pretty much consists of several incidents only tied together by chronology this prevents the viewer from ever getting bored but it also makes the events less significant as you could easily add or remove a lot of scenes without noticing it much though flawed i thought overall this method added to the fun loving nature of the film and kept it very entertaining most of the various stories are good specifically the alien the murphy's and the vampire but others weren't so great br br the acting isn't amazing but i didn't find it bad at any point dominic monaghan had a good performance as he managed to be serious when it mattered and also play very well into the comedic parts of the film br br the characters were not extremely in depth but they were all interesting i also enjoyed how a number of the villains were done in a over the top almost comic book manner the part with the back story of the murphy's and their gang is priceless br br so overall i sell the dead very successfully combines horror comedy and sci fi into a mish mash of fun and excitement it is one of the more interesting and original movies i have seen in a while and it's unfortunate that independent films like this don't get more recognition
1	i went to see glenn i sell the dead in it's north american premiere at the toronto after dark film festival seeing as this is the second showing worldwide i didn't quite know what to expect of this film especially having not seen the short film that inspired this big screen adaptation br br i'll start off with a slightly more elaborate plot synopsis without giving away any spoilers br br this movie is about arthur blake how he became a grave robber and the interesting and supernatural discoveries that both he and his mentor discovered br br the costume and set design in this film were excellent i was amazed to hear that the entire film was shot in and around new york the costumes were very accurate to the time really bringing you as a viewer into the mindset of the time this movie works just as well as a period piece as it does a horror comedy br br the interaction between the two leads was very fluid they played off each others acting with ease the dialogue between the two was very well written with glenn adding his comedic touch even in tense situations br br the story is very encompassing and the ball gets rolling from the very start i'd compare it to a visual page turner always wondering just what will happen next the characters themselves are all very vivid and unique adding different emotional layers to the film itself br br all in all i recommend this film for anyone in the mood for some dark humour with a bit of horror mixed in br br 9 10
1	i saw this movie as part of the midnite madness at set in 18th century england the plot covers the life of arthur blake from his first outing as an apprentice grave robber to his final confession on the eve of his execution br br the plot moves along via a series of misadventures involving arthur and his partner encountering various unsavory characters and bizarre situations br br the first thing that strikes you about this movie is how accurately they managed to capture the look of the hammer period horrors the atmosphere is set with lots of fog laden graveyards rowdy tavern scenes and excellent set costume design br br for a movie titled i sell the dead i was expecting the emphasis to be mostly on horror – don't get me wrong there are some jumpy moments and gore but the tone is very much comedic driven by the situations the characters get themselves into and their dialog the closest comparison to the scenes between the two leads larry fessenden and dominic monaghan is the character interaction seen in the classic english comedies only fools and horses the two ronnies and morecambe and wise br br the acting is strong and the casting of very familiar faces in ron perlman and angus scrimm lift the movie above many of the others on view in br br overall the movie offers something very different to the current crop of mainstream horror and will leave a smile on your face
1	i watched this expecting to see the usual british stiff upper lip stereotypes and was surprised to find the dialogue remarkably natural and tinged with black humour it was more like eastenders goes to sea than in which we serve the scenes during the approach and attack are remarkably realistic in their depiction of a fighting ship and the stuff ups and banter among the ship's company well at least based on my service in the 1970s some of the throwaway lines are very witty i'm not joining the band of hope just to please some greasy fish fryer my only complaint is that they didn't show what happened to the irish coxswain and his bride to be or the tattooed po and his i love arabella tattoo
1	first of all this was not a three hour movie two hours ten minutes last time i checked commercials aren't actually part of a movie perhaps though it should've been a two parter for a total of about 3 hours yeah would have gotten more in been able to explore some more emotion overall though it was an interesting look into the lives of lucy and desi i watch i love lucy from time to time and love it but never have i read or seen a biography never knew anything about their lives off the screen because of this movie i do now but i'm not so sure that's a good thing everything here no one really needed to know this was essentially a movie that didn't need to be made but it was made and the reason is because lucy desi are still such huge stars and certain people in american society feel that the rest of society needs to know all about our tv and movie stars that is definitely so not true and very very sad br br anyway what was shown here in lucy was pretty good two complaints the actress who played viv vance not great casting at all and the switch from madeline zima to rachel york uhhh like lucy had plastic surgery and all of a sudden she's a whole new person that wasn't too great but the story went on and focused on the rocky relationship between lucy desi no the kids were not shown very much at all and that wasn't necessarily a drawback to this movie because like i said this focused mainly just on lucy desi had there been more time had the story been more about lucy's entire life then maybe the kids woulda been there more but they weren't so we got to see the likes of gable lombard red skelton and buster keaton very briefly instead wow that was one thing about this story that i thought was really cool his presence and influence in lucy's life really neat and it's too bad that wasn't explored more oh well what was explored was done well for the most part honestly i don't think i'll ever watch this again and i don't think this movie'll be that memorable for someone who digs i love lucy but isn't an enormous lucille ball fan this should be an interesting watch my grade for this b
1	before i watched this tv movie i did not know much about one of my favorite actresses after watching it i realized how sad lucille ball's life really was it had it's great moments too but i didn't realize how sad it was this movie was very good and told the story of the beloved lucille ball very well i highly reccommend it
1	dramatic license some hate it though it is necessary in retelling any life story in the case of lucy the main points of lucille ball's teenage years early career and 20 year marriage to desi arnaz are all included albeit in a truncated and reworked way br br the main emotional points of lucy's life are made clear lucille's struggle to find her niche as an actress finally blossoming into the brilliant comedienne who made the character lucy ricardo a legend her turbulent romantic and ultimately impossible marriage to desi arnaz lucy desi creating the first television empire and forever securing their place in history as tv's most memorable sitcom couple br br as lucille ball rachel york does a commendable job do not expect to see quite the same miraculous transformation like the one judy davis made when playing judy garland but york makes ball strong willed yet likable and is very funny in her own right even though her comedic timing is different than lucy's she is still believable the film never goes into much detail about her perfectionistic behaviour on the set and her mistreatment of vivian vance during the early i love lucy years but watching york portray lucy rehearsing privately is a nice inclusion br br daniel pino is thinner and less charismatic than the real desi was but he does have his own charm and does a mostly decent job with desi's accent especially in the opening scene madeline zima was decent if not overly memorable as the teen aged lucy br br vivian vance and william frawley were not featured much thankfully since rebecca hobbs and russell newman were not very convincing in the roles not that they aren't good actors in their own right they just were not all that suited to the people they were playing most of the actors were from austrailia and new zeland and the repressed accents are detectable at times br br although the main structure of the film sticks to historical fact there are many deviations some for seemingly inexplicable reasons jess oppenheimer the head writer of lucy's radio show my favourite husband which began in 1948 is depicted in this film as arriving on the scene to help with i love lucy in 1951 completely disregarding the fact that he was the main creator this movie also depicts marc daniels as being the main i love lucy director for its entire run completely ignoring the fact that he was replaced by william asher after the first season also though i figure this was due to budgetary constraints the ricardo's are shown to live in the same apartment for their entire stay in new york when in reality they changed apartments in 1953 the kitchen set is slightly larger and off scale from the original as well the connecticut home looks pretty close to the original except the right and left sides of the house have been condensed and restructured br br there's also desi talking about buying rko in 1953 during lucy's red scare incident even though rko did not hit the market until 1957 these changes well could have been for dramatic license and the film does work at conveying the main facts but would it have hurt them to show a bit more respect to oppenheimer and asher two vital figures in i love lucy history the biggest gaff comes in the i love lucy recreation scenes at least a few of them it's always risky recreating something that is captured on film and has been seen by billions of people but even more so when obvious changes are made the scene with the giant bread loaf was truncated and anyone at all familiar with that episode would have noticed the differences right away the we're having a baby number was shortened as well but other than that it was practically dead on by far the best was the grape stomping scene with rachel york really nailing lucy's mannerisms the producers made the wise decision not to attempt directly recreating the vitametavegamin and candy factory bits instead showing the actors rehearse them these scenes proved effective because of that approach br br the film's main fault is that it makes the assumption the viewers already know a great deal about lucy's life since much is skimmed over or omitted at all overall though it gives a decent portrait of lucy desi's marriage and the factual errors can be overlooked when the character development works effectively
1	i thought rachel york was fantastic as lucy i have seen her in kiss me kate and victor victoria as well and in each of these performances she has developed very different and very real characterizations she is a chameleon who can play and sing anything br br i am very surprised at how many negative reviews appear here regarding rachel's performance in lucy even some bonafide tv and entertainment critics seem to have missed the point of her portrayal so many people have focused on the fact that rachel doesn't really look like lucy my response to that is so what i wasn't looking for a superficial impersonation of lucy i wanted to know more about the real woman behind the clown and rachel certainly gave us that in great depth i also didn't want to see someone simply doing classic lucy routines therefore i was very pleased with the decision by the producers and director to have rachel portray lucy in rehearsal for the most memorable of these skits vitameatavegamin and the candy factory it seems that some of the reviewers didn't realize that these two scenes were meant to be rehearsal sequences and not the actual skits this approach i thought gave an innovative twist to sketches that so many of us know by heart i also thought rachel was terrifically fresh and funny in these scenes and she absolutely nailed the routines that were recreated the professor and the grape stomping in particular there was one moment in the grape scene where the corner of rachel's mouth had the exact little upturn that i remember lucy having i couldn't believe she was able to capture that and so naturally br br i wonder if many of the folks who criticized the performance were expecting to see the lucille ball of i love lucy throughout the entire movie after all those of us who came to know her only through tv would not have any idea what lucy was really like in her early movie years i think rachel showed a natural progression in the character that was brilliant she planted all the right seeds for us to see the clown just waiting to emerge given the right set of circumstances lucy didn't fit the mold of the old studio system in her frustrated attempts to become the stereotypical movie star of that era she kept repressing what would prove to be her ultimate gifts br br i believe that rachel deftly captured the comedy drama wit sadness anger passion love ambition loyalty sexiness self absorption childishness and stoicism all rolled into one complex american icon and she did it with an authenticity and freshness that was totally endearing lucy was a star turn for rachel york i hope it brings a flood of great roles her way in the future i also hope it brings her an emmy
1	this is speculation this movie could of inspired paramount pictures to film the movie the core both movies have something in common nature the only improvement for inferno is a better cast cast is still good though excellent movie 8 out of 10 this is worth watching this movie does have truth to it heat waves are real another piece of truth is heat related power outages where i live i have actually heard transformers blow unrest from heat is possible because people seeking to cool off may get rowdy there is a considerable amount of team work in this movie again this a movie worth watching the movie has a good cast the movie has no slow spots
1	inferno gives los angeles what it deserves a baptism in fire death from above an excellent cast of obsessed characters could survive and sweat out the passing of the mass ejection but that would be no fun and certainly not dramatic a really lame review in variety criticized the characters for being concerned with their personal redemption instead of banning together to save the world but what's refreshing about this big heat is that there's nothing anyone can do about it we are therefore mercifully not subjected to heart warming scenes of fascist presidents and other big blowhard as they contrive implausible plots to save a chosen remnant of mankind ala deep impact here the sweat drenched and lust powered dirty half dozen work out their own redemption or face their personal the old fashioned way together as individuals or alone with the alone excellent tv film all in all clearly not by the destructive of overzealous network execs i highly recommend
1	i thoroughly enjoyed this made for tv movie i was channel surfing and came across the start of the movie boy am i glad i stopped this movie has a real hot cast as well as a semi believable plot there's drama comedy action and best of all the human nature aspect of this film is what makes it great i hope it comes out on video because i will buy a copy rating 9 out of 10 stars
1	the original story and funny compelling characters went over well for a teen girls slumber party movie 2 times now i loved it it was fun and moved quickly no boring drawn out scenes it is violent and has a little language though most of it is covered up its a great movie david strickland was a terrific actor ron eldard gave a wonderful performance i watch it with the girls every time
1	this film is completely underrated br br it's a film similar to will keenan and patrick waiting as well as adrien brody's restaurant and the classic film breaking away which are all about young adults who are stuck and know they're stuck with little or no chance of breaking free br br death by pizza delivered is about an intelligent free thinking artistic young adult will played by david who is stuck and waiting bitter at the world's hypocrisy and bitter at his own lack of direction and desire will meets his nemesis reed ron eldard another intelligent young adult who's so bitter he's chosen the path of crime both end up helping each other to free themselves of their bitterness which enables them to get unstuck br br for these young adults getting unstuck or breaking free can mean both forging ahead into life and plunging downward into death br br will's life is filled with the trademarks of a young stuck adult a soul sucking sweaty under paying job crude customers an ex girlfriend who left him because he was unmotivated a partial college education with no degree a house filled with self made art and of course the new friend whose ungodly choices help him to save himself
1	first off what are some of you thinking this is the best movie i've seen in ages br br secondly i don't think of it as a british movie as it is set in dublin and has mainly irish actors moran aisling o sullivan rita deirdre o'kane etc br br thirdly i thought that moran was excellent he was hilariously funny through out micheal caine seemed only to be there to get moran context each character he took on he perfected br br abigail i thought was better than any other child actor i have seen she was believable as the smart kid and also as a kid and an adult yes i know that sounds strange but hey even she managed to upstage caine br br and moran worked very well together and were very funny in the preparation scene br br was very funny in his ineptitude
1	if you're in the middle of a ferocious war and it's still not clear that you're going to come out on top among the things you'll be concerned with is to keep up the morale of the civilians to demonstrate that our troops have the bravery the resourcefulness and the dedication to overcome all the odds in a noble cause and that's just what director anthony asquith provided the british with naval war film we dive at dawn after more than 60 years it's not surprising that some of the movie is dated it doesn't help that the class stereotypes which help define the enlisted men from the officers can be jarring here as in so many other british war films the men invariably have thick regional working class accents while the officers speak with an educated that would place them at home in england's finest ruling class establishments in this movie freddie taylor john mills the captain of the submarine sea tiger is clever confident resourceful aggressive in control good with his men humorous with his peers quick to make a decision and it helps that he's lucky his men are jolly for the most part competent at their jobs and always ready with a joke when things get tense although we spend the first third of the movie getting to know these people while they're on leave after that things get tense quickly br br taylor and his sub are ordered to destroy the a new german battleship they just miss the ship when it enters the kiel canal and heads into the baltic taylor the risks and decides the sea tiger will go after it through mine fields anti sub nets and with a real risk of not having enough fuel to return to home base after several tense situations the confrontation takes place the sea tiger lets loose six torpedoes but has to dive not knowing if it had done its job after a clever subterfuge taylor a couple of german destroyers but then realizes there is not enough fuel he plans to scuttle his sub and surrender when just at the last moment james hobson eric portman a seaman who had been sullen and a loner and who speaks german says there is a small danish coastal village that had been a fuel depot he thinks it might still be for the germans the last third of the movie is a rousing action sequence as the crew of the sub attempts to hold off the germans long enough to pump in enough fuel to get the sea tiger back to britain this is a wartime propaganda movie so don't expect failure and did the sea tiger actually put the down are the men reunited with their wives and sweethearts did hobson have a reconciliation with his wife and small son that left him smiling for once did freddie taylor finally have a chance to make use of all those female names in his little black book you'll have to see the movie br br there are propaganda war movies and there are propaganda war movies some like powell's and pressburger's one of our aircraft is missing and the 49th parallel still stand up to viewing today because the stories are solid and unexpected and the creators didn't use obvious shorthand clichés others like we dive at dawn were made with enough clichés that when watching we have to remind ourselves how dire the time was when the film was made still asquith can build a lot of suspense even with a few clichés the sea tiger's forcing its way through a sub net was tense the stalking of the and the plotting needed for the torpedo firing was realistic john mill's no nonsense attitude while he prepared to attack was well handled the fake out preparations to make the sea tiger look as if it had been destroyed by depth charges was as realistic inside the sub as well as out as you could hope for and the battle for the fuel depot was dramatic and exciting we dive at dawn is not a classic war film but it's a well made well acted example of its type and time br br john mills it's worth noting had a long long career especially in the fifties he played in a number of serious minded films looking back at those wwii days he had the quality of showing grit cheerfulness and perseverance but of also being trustworthy a man england could be proud of as he fought the war top billed in this movie was eric portman a fine actor with a unique voice and the ability to give stares so cold you'd want to put on a sweater everyone on the sub is very much in the joking but stiff upper lip mode but portman manages some complexity for his character mills and portman did fine jobs working together on this film
1	this movie is all about entertainment imagine your friends that you love spending time with the ones that you know inside out becoming a bit silly and perhaps taking on a character or two that's what this film is about an inventive script and brilliantly performed it's not about pleasing the masses with this one it's about having fun with a bunch of brilliantly talented people which is what i'm sure they all thought when they signed up for it br br the above review sounds completely unfair and i think that the person who wrote that was in the wrong frame of mind when they watched the film in a lighthearted moment there is great dignity in it if you care to look br br a job well done i thought it was a great film i'd watch this before the north american norm any day br br in a nutshell it's not the best film you're ever going to see but it has a hell of a lot of moments i haven't laughed that long in an age
1	tell you what that was excellent dylan moran is simply the funniest actor on screen and on stage and with micheal caine as your partner ain't to bad either both are great to watch in a really funny film true not all the gags come off but its worth sticking around for the ones that do but come on its got micheal caine in a dress in it the whole admission fees worth that and every time dylan moran's on screen its more like bernard blacks movie the story is two actors moran and caine who decide to steal money from a group of gangsters by acting out different persona's to fool them all but getting away with it's a different matter basically the actors is a great british comedy that was somehow missed by many seriously if your a moran fan or want to see micheal caine in a dress definitely see this
1	look as being anglo irish i assure you this reviewer is anything but bias but i assure you this is very much an irish film and not english as the last comment seems to have suggested this film was written by neil and conor mcpherson and directed by conor mcpherson too both irish the cast is almost entirely irish it was shot in ireland with an irish crew even michael was born in ireland i remember him joking about it in an interview about this film br br michael cane was evidently brought in to boost box office abroad br br loved the film i just wanted to correct a totally uninformed comment br br now on with the review i loved dylan moran have always been a fan of his himself and michael cane formed a surprisingly good double act it was great to see range as an actor as he plays several different made up characters during the film i would recommend this film to anyone with an interest in comedy as it represents a fresh quirky and inventive turn in irish feature length chuckle films i laughed a lot what more could you ask for
1	this film is a joy to watch and should do well on dvd and video i suppose you really have to be irish to appreciate the some of the subtlties such as accent colloquialisms and the dress sense of some of the characters but let me assure you that when dylan moran impersonates the impersonation is quite familiar to most people from dublin because we have many characters in our fine city that look act and talk like that the sheer simple comedy employed and michael genius acting alone are worth the money but on top of this the plot is great the script is fantastic and the dialogue fast moving and catchy a perfect light entertainment movie without the madcap humour of jim carrey
1	if you are going to watch this film because michael caine or michael are in it then don't bother it's not their typical role although i found fantastic instead watch it for dylan moran i am a fan of everything i have seen him in and this is no exception i didn't even realise he could act but even the characters which he has to pass himself off as i found completely believable which is impressive considering the audience knows they are fake br br the plot is genius and although it is not constant laughs all the way through it has plenty of other charms a great film for people with a sense of humour
1	although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent caine hams it up which is exactly what the character he is playing should do entertaining and fun this is a hour and a half of easy watching
1	i know this film has had a fairly rough ride from the critics but i have to say that i thoroughly enjoyed it the real star here is the fantastic dylan moran he never fails to be both hilarious and convincing in all of his varied disguises he also manages to radiate a sweet charm that belies his outrageous pratfalls special mention must also go to michael who plays for laughs with a brilliantly accurate and yet comedic inner city dublin accent the only weak link is caine who while obviously having a great laugh hamming it up plays the least interesting and most unsympathetic character it probably won't play that well overseas but it's well worth a watch all the same
1	a ham actor without a penny who better than michael caine to play such a character he is totally and utterly hilarious but as in most of caine's performances he goes for it for real the film seems to be a showcase of dylan moran and he's splendiferous in his double act with caine this however is where the script falters moran's impersonations should have been incorporated in a rather more organic way they are too much of an act on their own and makes the potential plausibility of the plot fly out of the window never mind get it if you can find it there is enough in it to make it a pleasurable journey
1	at first i thought this film was going to annoy me it was as though i had seen this movie somewhere before the disillusioned hero the father figure and the 9 year old sister who is older and wiser than her years see gregory's girl but then not 15 minutes in it became a laugh out loud comic gem of a movie dylan moran who i thought was just going to bug me was excellent as was mr and the mad scottish hitman lena headey was extremely sexy for half of the film i was trying to remember where i'd seen her before the parole officer she has the most amazing smile but clearly the true hero of this film is mr caine this man should do much more comedy this ranks alongside some of his best comedy roles without a clue dirty rotten scoundrels he is a pleasure to watch in all of his scenes but especially the end br br no one can quite say f k the way michael can br br
1	i like dylan moran from his work in black books although i found some of his stand up to be really indulgent in terms of long confused gaps however i was intrigued to see this film starring he and michael caine and curiosity got the better of me br br i was stunned br br dylan's vocal range and characterisation of the different people he was playing in the film was absolutely perfect something beyond the skills of a mere stand up comedian and really truly on a par with alec guinness john hurt and the other greats truly he was skilled in his portrayal br br michael caine was a very convincing prima donna and the standard british film device of having a precocious child on hand to be overly wise and withering worked the only aspect i didn't really like was the unbelieveable plot feature of the chemistry between dolores and the cockney hard man played by dylan br br other than that it was great br br i also like the non cop out ending where it did end up happily ever after but with mc getting a beating ok it's not exactly being strung up by your goolies and which is what a real crime boss would do to you if you nicked off them but it showed at least a small measure of reality in the story br br i liked the film and i would recommend it to anyone but i would also warn them not to turn it off after 15 minutes because it started a bit slow if you stick it out then it will all come back br br and with regards to the swearing well they're in ireland it wouldn't be real otherwise
1	this is an excellent tub thumper from the war years br br john mills leads a fine cast of regular british b movie stalwarts in a solo submarine attack upon a fictitious enemy battleship br br filmed in black and white it's well paced and also well placed considering that a war was going on at the time if anything it shows how seriously the authorities took positive propaganda br br the mission side of the movie takes place in genuine submarines things are cramped and claustrophobic the actors look suitably grimy and sweaty without being too offensive to the heroic palate other commentators have already drawn attention to the authentic little details like keeping the vessel trim and forgetting to read instruments as well as the engine room activities br br this probably is the first movie in which debris and a dead german is blown from the torpedo tube to fool an enemy destroyer and it's the only time i have seen part of the vessel exposed in a pretence of sinking a high risk gamble if ever there was one br br i'm a little sceptical as to whether or not a submarine could punch its way through a wire rope net submerged speed was barely twice that of human walking speed and the net would have had a great deal of also the engineer was at the same work station and operating the same levers both on the surface and submerged this too seems implausible as either diesel or electric engines were used and they were in different sections of the ship or so i'm told br br there was a wee bit too much shore side drama for my tastes but then this was a propaganda effort and clearly contained a subtle message for civilians to mind their behaviour as it could adversely affect service morale and therefor the war effort br br these niggles aside it's a pretty entertaining little adventure nowadays movies of such vintage tend to be screened in the afternoon whilst far more modern and inferior movies enjoy prime time but then it's no longer politically correct to mention the war in the presence of our european friends too many of them have guilty or our own left wing fascists non of whom have ever fought for the freedoms they now take for granted br br as a submarine movie it is eminently collectible better than 'the enemy i think though less demonstrative not so authentic as by any means but not so gross either
1	to surmise this film involves two actors caine and moran trying to con a gangster the plot is flimsy at best as several plot holes occur throughout however this normally shouldn't matter as the comedy should carry a film like this there are some genuinely funny bits mostly provided by dylan moran however other times there are long melodramatic scenes that fail to add anything to the movie caine's character seemed overdone to me especially at the start he continually quotes shakespeare and acts like a pompous actor one could say he was playing the part properly but the character seemed to me flat and unfunny overall i would say see only if a fan of the actors involved otherwise wait for video or tv
1	i was at the world premier of this movie and have even met todd a couples times around town once at olive garden todd isn't a bad guy he is just a small time film maker with little to no budget and big dreams br br as for the movie it is good if you like zombie films with very little plot and lots of blood and guts you get to see some kansas city locations and lots of raw meat what could be better look for the same 2 dozen people playing different zombies with just a change of clothes or hats you can have a good drinking game with this movie take a shot whenever you see the same zombie in a different shirt
1	todd sheets has created one of the greatest low budget zombie movies ever the story is great the gore is grand the psychos are wicked yet the movie is flawed by its petty dialogue and sluggish imaging at times br br despite this delivers what any zombie movie should gore good plot fast pace adventure into the if only mr sheets had been given a 100k budget this movie would out do every zombie movie ever even the almighty dawn of the dead br br but as time goes by he gets better and as he gets better more money comes into his pocket thus allowing this man this modern day genius to craft his vision better br br just remember that zombie bloodbath 2 was just one of his great stepping stones when he is atop of gore mountain
1	i am a glutton for b movies i love the old drive in fare like this movie this film made for very little money it seems does do one thing that some bigger budgeted films fail it is cheezy it is gory it has no real plot but it entertained me for an hour and a half i was either laughing or covering my eyes in shock there are a few great effects like a shot from inside a guy's mouth when he gets stabbed in the chin by a knife and it pokes up through his tongue and slams into the roof of his mouth and one gross out with a guy getting his eyeballs yanked out but there is also loads of zombies and some psycho killers patterned after texas chainsaw massacre and a demon possessed scarecrow i loved the dialogue that the killers spout as they torture and kill people it has great camera work and some cool editing tricks this one is more original than the first bloodbath and the undead look better but it is still patterned after those dubbed trashy zombie movies of the 70's and 80's and it still has a cheeze factor that ranks mighty high don't expect romero just second rate fulci i would say that horror fans will like it and it is funny and cheezy and a fast ride through b movie land
1	just watched this one again i wanted to show it to one of my friends and we had the best time this is why these kind of movies are made to entertain people and zombie bloodbath 2 does that for me and for everyone i have showed it to br br the story concerns a group of teenagers in a van that run into a group of escaped convicts who have taken over an old farmhouse when a scarecrow that is actually a demon i think gets disturbed it comes to life and re animates dead bodies from the local cemeteries this leads our heroes to escape only to land in the arms of two insane killers that are in the process of torturing some people in a deli in a small town pretty soon it's a showdown with humans fighting zombies br br i loved this movie from it's different formats black and white film video and digital cameras to the very fast pace and great music there was always something going on and it never bores you sure it's cheap but you can tell that a great deal of care and hard work went into this film i have read other reviews and all i can say is that these people have missed the point if you want 35mm full moon fluff or if you are into modern stuff like urban legend then i say pass on this if you like low budget stuff like gates of hell and evil dead i say buy this now br br the make up and gore is very good the acting is uneven at times but over all it is pretty good and the editing is very impressive there is enough going on in this one to fill two more films it is actually one of the better b movies i have seen in ages
1	just finished with zombie bloodbath part one on the amazing zombie bloodbath trilogy dvd from camp motion pictures zombie bloodbath 2 rage of the undead is next now this one left me a bit puzzled due to a few plot holes and some confusing twists here and there but it is a better film on many levels director todd sheets truly shows a major leap in style and talent between the two films again this is not for people who want gloss and hollywood style horror films this is for people who like their zombies bloody raw and grainy the story as far as i could tell was basically about two robbers who in 1945 try and steal from an elderly couple only to find that the couple are members of a cult one guy is simply killed and the other the one in charge is basically turned into a scarecrow and crucified and they stand him in the nearby field still alive but dying cut to present day and a van full of college kids break down near a farmhouse at the same time a group of convicts escape from a nearby jail both groups end up at the same house the house was the one the elderly coupled used to live in and when one of the convicts knocks down the scarecrow and takes it's jacket it causes the scarecrow to wake up and he in turn brings the cult members back from the dead wow and this is all in the first half hour there is another plot also going on in town where a couple of serial killer types have taken some workers at a deli hostage this actually works though as the people trapped in the house finally escape and end up in the same deli most of the twists work out pretty good but it is obvious that the film was just too complex in some spots for it's own good it all ends in a huge showdown with the remaining heroes finding a delivery truck or something full of flesh eating bacteria vials of course they throw it at the undead and cause some major melting and a few heads to explode and then we get an odd thought provoking ending first let me say that while it was not always easy to follow i still had a major good time with this movie it was fun and the acting was pretty darn good for a low budget effort it was obvious that todd sheets was truly trying to bring more to the table than a typical zombie film and in that regard he has succeeded it had better special effects than the first film great pacing and some cool music and visuals plus there is a true show stopper of a shot from inside a mouth as a knife is jammed through it care was taken here and it shows the weakness lies in the scripting and in a few of the performances again i recommend listening to the commentary track it was even better than the first one and i learned a lot like finding out that some of the scenes were shot on super 8 film for effect and that the film came back ruined from the lab and they could nit use it and they had already been editing the film by the time they got the film back so some of the confusion is from a few scenes not being in the film also i learned that todd sheets truly has a passion and love for making horror movies it shows the film is a good example of no budget cinema that could have used one more rewrite but still shines with more style than most dv films i see not quite as fun as the first film though a better movie technically i really admire sheets as one of the true and trailblazers in the area of dv cinema and this one is a great addition to the cheapo zombie genre
1	ok i got the dvd set last week and i am finally getting around to posting my reviews but i sure liked this sequel in many ways br br zombie bloodbath 2 rage of the undead ok this one movies at a fast clip has some really good gore effects and some really well done atmosphere and style i would actually go on record as saying this may be one of the most stylish dv shot flicks that i have bought most of the time i get rather angry at dv movies for being boring and looking like soap operas even a movie like bone sickness that i like has incredible stretches of dull not this movie it never stops long enough to let you catch your breath although i wouldn't say i liked it better than the first film i will say that sheets certainly improved technically in the two years in between films this one has better gore the inevitable zombie feeding scenes scumbag characters and a few returning actors although their roles are different mainly jerry angell as a pretty good psychopath with a killer mullet from hell the shots are more ambitious as well as the script this time around because you can tell sheets is trying to pull a lot more off than he did in the first film some of it works and some of it doesn't but i have to say that at least he wasn't just trying to do a larger version of the first film there was no mention this time around of a power plant of chemical just satanism and the occult that brings the undead back to life so i say kudos to mr sheets for trying to do something different with this one i give this film two bloody thumbs up
1	you can't take it realistically sheets br br zombie bloodbath 2 is a world all of its own i've really never seen anything like it the only thing i can think to compare it to is psychedelic drugs forgive the don't simply mean that it's incoherent and absurd though occasionally it is i mean that it takes you through such a broad range of intense experiences and unexpected emotions so quickly as to overwhelm you and when it's over you find that it's all happened while you were sitting on the couch br br it is worth noting that it's extremely low budget as a disclaimer to those who after seeing shaun of the dead consider themselves fans of underground zombie films also of note is that it is much more brutal than you'd expect children get disemboweled and someone taunts a teenage girl before shooting her in the groin her corpse is subsequently raped these are certainly not flaws and indeed i feel it is to the film's credit but if it doesn't sound like your kind of movie don't waste your time br br i don't mean to over hype it regarding brutality don't go in expecting inside or something i hesitate to give away any of the plot because it's really full of surprises even the opening scene which has nothing to do with zombies is at once a classic horror scene and something quite original br br man i'm three paragraphs in and i've hardly said anything at all here's why i thought the movie was awesome 1 it's big and it keeps moving at one point you expect it to turn into another notld clone a board up the windows movie where everyone stays in a farmhouse and argues with one another by the end of the film however the farmhouse scenes will seem like a distant dream there are also a number of outdoor urban scenes these are rare in low budget zombie films br br 2 the makeup gore is much better than zb1 more convincing and more creative something kind of funny the early zombies look really lame then halfway through they suddenly look really good with prosthetics and everything some of them look like fulci zombies some are reminiscent of mr tongue from day of the dead and it's got big scenes of dozens of zombies shuffling around never gets old br br 3 there's something oddly emotional about it one character asserts that heaven exists and that our dead undead protagonists are now in heaven in the context of the film we believe it to be true though the characters behave with typical horror film stupidity they genuinely seem to care about each other and accordingly i found myself caring about them br br 4 the pacing is great there's hardly a dull moment br br my only observation that borders on criticism is that todd sheets comes up with the most bizarre dialog i've ever heard i personally feel it adds to the experience but i don't think he does it on purpose so i can't fairly give the film a perfect rating example when a car breaks down the owner yells at the passengers then he says something to the effect of sorry i yelled at you guys you don't know what it's like to have your dad standing over you with a straight razor when you're five years old wtf at the very end it gets to be more than i can handle involves a montage with bill clinton and then some preachy end credits explaining the zombie metaphor really by this point i was firmly re living my drug experiences br br highly recommended 7 10
1	do it yourself indie horror auteur todd sheets returns with another entertainingly atrocious nickel'n'dime shot on video clunker that's basically just a feeble excuse to sling around a lot of watery blood and gleaming guts as often as possible an evil demonic scarecrow resurrects the dead as ravenous rot faced zombies so they can feast on the living a bunch of bickering college kids a trio of dangerous escaped convicts led by the vicious slade byron hamming it up to an outrageous degree two equally savage sleazeball hoodlums and a trio of hottie sisters all have to do their best to survive this harrowing ordeal that's it for the needlessly muddled and convoluted plot but fortunately what this hilariously horrendous hoot lacks in narrative coherence plenty it more than compensates for with a pleasing plethora of gloriously gore disgusting highlights include a woman having her fingers chopped off a fatal gunshot to a young gal's groin attempted necrophiliac rape evisceration and of course more repulsive eating than you can shake a pile of moist intestines at moreover we've also got rough grainy cinematography that constantly alternates between washed out color and grimy black and white ineptly staged fight scenes lousy acting from a uniformly pathetic no name cast jerry angell in particular cops the top crummy thespic for his laughably abysmal histrionics as slimy no count psycho criminal joe bob a grating head banging thrash metal soundtrack and a generic synthesizer score let's not forget the ridiculous ending in which several of our survivors stumble across a few vials of flesh eating bacteria to use on the shambling undead hordes sure this flick is pure dreck but it has a certain endearingly abominable quality to it that in turn makes it a great deal of so awful it's awesome grade z fun for hardcore aficionados of bad fright fare
1	governments are elected for three year terms as reg said in 1973 the liberals were determined to continue forcing labor to the polls until they were defeated if you ask me this is portrayed in the docudrama but anyone who says kerr acted properly in this fails to acknowledge the self serving and costly strategy of the liberal party of australia on the series itself i though max phipps was a poor his voice was too ghostly also more of the key political players on both sides should have been used though this may have been a reflection of budgetary constraints at the time nevertheless i recommend it with caution
1	any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion respectfully the of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things for those unacquainted with target priorities an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing rank and british studios back in the day frankly i prefer its quieter more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could this reminds me of powell and pressburger's the 49th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman a favorite of mine john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles so this is clearly meant to be mr portman's film but the whole cast shines as for the title sequence am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production's lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl
1	i first saw this docudrama in the uk in the 1980's and found myself intrigued and then astonished at how such good intentions could go so wrong previous commentators who are australian have explained the unfolding plot's detail better than i ever could but i would like to make an observation about what may lie behind the governor generals sovereign power' all modern laws as i understand them need an ethical or philosophical root to exist in the first place and to become a law at all that being the case and if say the mess had been possibly set up just how many businessmen had been served by presumably without complaint then the labour government could have been victims of which would surely have had to have been by the governor general as or until he could see that the budget standoff was a genuine result of and not elaborate entrapment sponsored by or person's unknown' if its the case that kerr in effect didn't have to refer to the law because fiscal circumstances overrides everything then power' borders onto the implications in any commonwealth country is that rules literally and that any person or organisation has carte blanche to break any other rule physical or mental so long as they have the control over the purse strings ultimately
1	as a canadian i didn't know very much about the dismissal i had read the wikipedia page about those events but that was about it earlier this year when canada went through a potential constitutional crisis it fizzled out thankfully that might have led to intervention by our governor general the dismissal was mentioned in the press in an effort to learn more i ordered the dvd of this mini series through ebay br br i was greatly impressed by how interesting the account was as dramatic as events were this could have been a very boring political drama however it was a pretty suspenseful mini series i was also impressed by how understandable it was despite my lack of familiarity with australian politics it didn't take long to figure out who everyone was and what their roles were br br having said that it is not an entirely impartial account malcolm fraser is certainly portrayed as a rather machiavellian figure who lets no person or thing get in the way of his quest to be prime minister gough is portrayed in a more noble almost saintly light however the actor portraying channels the nobility in such a way that it comes across more as pomposity i thought that sir john kerr was portrayed in a fairly sympathetic manner br br i must warn people that the dvd is of very poor quality i understand that it was made for television in the early 80s but it would appear that no effort was made to restore the picture quality or sound quality it was very disappointing that no extras were added either a documentary or even some interviews with the historical figures would have enhanced the experience but there is nothing br br i highly recommend this mini series for anyone interested in the real life events
1	in nineteen eighty two when it was announced that the was going to be made there was a storm of controversy this was an event which still left open wounds in the hearts and minds of the australian people after some changes listen out for the well timed telephones ringing to disguise names the dismissal went to air it was nothing short of brilliant the leads were perfect max phipps as gough lead the way closely followed by john stanton as malcolm fraser and the evergreen john as sir john kerr the time was created well the feelings of the people were well done and the political elements were not two dimensionally made into melodrama as in so many american series the dismissal was a faithful re creation of a time in australia which some would rather forget and which we cannot forget it did not take sides and it pointed out the mistakes and lies of both sides it leaves one wanting to maintain the rage and change the constitution which still allows for this to all happen again the dismissal is now available on dvd in australia watch it learn from it and learn about our modern history
1	although i lived in australia in 1975 i moved overseas not long after fed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one is a sportsman and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north br br consequently i missed the dismissal along with many other australian made tv dramas of the '80s and '90s such as the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since seen along with wildside br br to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and as far as i am aware accurate however as to public outrage it only shows one side of the picture not how families were by the controversy i know as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward br br but the commentary is in my view very one sided throughout the inescapable fact is that notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and chose decisively in favour of fraser as they did again two years later br br this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama
1	after traveling around the world it dawned on me that australia really lacks one thing that other countries have history br br fortunately or unfortunately australia wasn't establish following a war it has not had a civil war and most of its political history is rather boring nothing big happened to mark some sort of turning point in australia's history until the dismissal of the government by the governor general of australia john kerr br br for those who are australian you can skip this paragraph and move onto the next this is for the benefit of curious non australians australia was colonised by the british as time went on it became apparent that australia was capable of standing on its own two feet accordingly the uk granted australia permission to establish its own laws courts and so on the law and politics of australia would no longer be provided directly from the british rather australia would be run by australians in their own right even though the courts precedents parliament and so on is largely modeled on the british system this shift was in the australian constitution despite the fact that the constitution establishes australian governments law making procedures courts but for those who are curious no bill of rights their are two pro crown sections that were included and remain there to this day these are more or less regarded as the reserve powers of the crown king queen of great britain the first group of sections relates to the creation of the office of the governor general briefly the governor general is considered the queen's chief representative in australia and is described as the executive branch of the australian government when a piece of law is passed by the australian parliament the constitution states that it only becomes law when it is signed by the governor general as such the general is regarded by some as nothing more than a rubber stamper performing an archaic and unnecessary constitutional function on behalf of the crown theoretically the governor general can refuse to sign a law passed by australian parliament if he thinks fit for instance if parliament passed a law which allows the police to shoot dead any australian over the age of 50 hypothetically of course then the gg could refuse to sign it and it would not become the law of the land however this power is theoretical and has to date never been exercised by convention which is the buzz word of the events leading to the dismissal the governor general virtually acts at the behest of the australian government and therefore if the government passes law and the prime minister instructs the governor general to sign it he will almost always without question in fact by convention the governor general acts in accordance with the advice provided to him by the prime minister of the day and the prime minister alone the second aspect is section 64 of the constitution which states that the government ministers hold office at the governor general's pleasure now the events of 1975 covered in this film gave rise to a precedent on this particular section if the governor general is somehow with the government and or prime minister it would appear that this section allows him to sack the government which happened in 1975 hence the title of the film the dismissal whether 'at the governor general's can be construed as the unfettered right to dismiss is a contentious point though that led to rather heated exchanges amongst australians at the time especially considering that the governor general is not elected by the people of australia br br now that this background aspect is out of the way let's get back to discussing the film it was well made the pace was patient but didn't drag at all the drama was well contained and very realistic it didn't over the events and most importantly it did not present its point of view from one political perspective on the contrary i felt that it was fair and balanced even though concluding text before the credits indicates that the film makers probably didn't approve of the governor general's decision to dismiss the government but i wouldn't describe the film overall as bias in one direction or the other br br in terms of accuracy it was virtually spot on the film makers certainly did their homework and evidently read the books and writings from all the principle players concerned there were a number of finer details that were somewhat skipped over largely because they took a long time to explain and ultimately had little impact on the events of 1975 so i forgive them for that further i think it was difficult to recreate the public sentiment of that post vietnam war era but pretty much pulled it off br br finally i was pleased that the film attempted to raise individual policies of both sides without becoming analytical obsessive or judgmental over them moreover any that we're raised for example connor's pipeline had a great deal of relevance to the story the film makers realised that their task was to tell the story of the events leading to the dismissal and not to present a political endorsement or opposition in relation to policies and viewpoints this was smart because it meant that the film can't be accused of one side's policies br br the dismissal is probably the most incredible piece of political history that has occurred in australia in its short life i am glad that it has been crystallized in celluloid essential viewing for any australian
1	kennedy miller could hardly have done a better job at tackling a very challenging exercise making dry political events work as human drama and providing an even handed representation of explosively controversial subject matter br br the key to its success on the first count is brilliant acting although i was less impressed by max performance as gough than some other commenters here the clear standouts for my money were john stanton as malcolm fraser and bill hunter as rex connor the latter must have been one of the easiest casting choices in history hunter could not have been more perfect for the role on the second count the series avoids the myth of objectivity trap through a narrator who the sympathies of the director phillip who more recently demonstrated his left wing credentials in rabbit proof fence while being carefully even handed and sympathetic in its dramatic portrayal of all parties the adherence to the lady kerr lady macbeth theme popular among labor partisans was perhaps a little partial though not ruinously so in particular credit is due for the sympathy shown to kerr and the extraordinarily difficult position he was placed in whatever one might think of his actions br br however there is one sour note for which the producers were perhaps not entirely to blame the portrayal of the jim cairns affair those who come to the series with no background to these events will get the impression that cairns and were the innocent victims of a smear campaign by a prurient gutter press the producers may have been restrained in this respect by australia's stultifying defamation laws and the recently demonstrated willingness of cairns and to use them against those who suggested their relationship was sexual which cairns would eventually admit to a year before his death however more could have been made of the bizarre fashion in which managed office as treasurer br br speaking of defamation there are a couple of disorienting occasions where dialogue is obscured due to taken out by offended principals by a beeping noise on one occasion and a very loud telephone ring on another a further curiosity the dvd release a line from the comic relief scene where a customs officer played by the late paul serves on his arrival at sydney airport next in the queue is a dishevelled looking hippie who now receives only a disapproving glare from when he presents his paperwork in the original version said something along the lines of drug bust in bali eh obviously this line no longer rings true in the wake of the schapelle corby case which dramatically illustrated that those busted for drugs in bali can expect far worse than deportation
1	even a decade after frontline aired on the abc near as i can tell current affairs programmes are still using the same tricks over and over time after time today tonight and a current affair are seen to be hiding behind the facade of journalistic professionalism and yet they feed us nothing but tired stories about weight loss and dodgy shameless network promotions and pointless celebrity puff pieces having often been subjected to that entertainment less void between 'the simpsons' at 6 00 pm and of the century' or at 7 00 pm i was all too aware of the little tricks that these shows would use to attract ratings br br fortunately four rising comedians – rob jane kennedy santo and tom – were also all too aware of all this and they crafted their frustrations into one of the most wickedly hilarious media satires you'll ever see on television the four entertainers had already met with comedic success their previous most memorable television stint being on 'the late show ' the brilliant saturday night variety show which ran for two seasons from 1992 1993 and also featured fellow comedians mick tony martin jason stephens and judith lucy br br frontline boasts an ensemble of colourful characters each with their own distinct and quirky personality the current affairs show is headed by nicely groomed mike moore rob an ambitious pretentious dim witted narcissist mike works under the delusion that the show is serving a vital role for society – he is always adamant that they maintain their journalistic integrity – and his executive producers have excelled into getting him to believe just that mike is basically a puppet to bring the news to the people occasionally he gets the inkling that he is being led along by the nose but usually this thought is stamped out via appeals to his vanity or promises of a promotion br br brooke vandenberg jane kennedy is the senior female reporter on the show she is constantly concerned about her looks and public profile and if the rumours are to be believed she has had a romantic liaison with just about every male celebrity in existence another equally amoral reporter marty di is portrayed by mora who memorably played inept solicitor dennis in the australian comedy classic 'the castle ' emma ward alison is the line producer on the show and the single shining beacon of morality on the frontline set then there's the highly amusing weatherman geoffrey santo mike's best friend and confidant geoff makes a living out of always agreeing with mike's opinion and of laughing uproariously at his jokes before admitting that he doesn't get them br br for each of the shows three seasons we are treated to a different ep executive producer brian thompson bruno lawrence who unfortunately passed away in 1995 runs the programme during season 1 he has a decent set of morals and is always civil to his employees and yet is more than willing to cast these aside in favour of high ratings sam murphy kevin j wilson arrives on set in season 2 a hard nosed smooth talking producer who knows exactly how to string mike along the last episode of the second season when mike finally gets the better of him is a classic moment prowse steve ep for the third season is crude unpleasant and unashamedly sexist it's therefore remarkable that you eventually come to like him br br with its cast of distinctive exaggerated characters frontline has a lot of fun satirising current affairs programmes and their dubious methods for winning ratings many of the episodes were shot quickly and cheaply often implementing many plot ideas from recent real life situations but this never really detracts from the show's ten years on celebrity cameos come in abundance with some of the most memorable appearances including pauline hanson don burke and jon english watch out for harry shearer's hilarious appearance in the season 2 episode changing the face of current affairs playing larry an american hired by the network to reform the show br br particularly in the third season i noticed that frontline boasted an extremely gritty form of black humour uncharacteristic for such a light hearted comedy show genuinely funny moments are born from brooke being surreptitiously bribed into having an abortion murder by a crazed gunman and mike treacherously betraying his best friend's hopes and dreams only to be told that he is a good friend the series' final minute – minus an added scene during the credits which was probably added just in case a fourth season was to be produced – was probably the greatest blackest ending to a comedy series that i've yet seen br br below is listed a very tentative list of my top five favourite frontline episodes but make no mistake every single half hour is absolutely hilarious and hard hitting satire br br 1 the siege season 1 br br 2 give 'em enough rope season 2 br br 3 addicted to fame season 3 br br 4 basic instincts season 2 br br 5 add sex and stir season 1
1	the sad thing about frontline is that once you watch three or four episodes of it you really begin to understand that it is not far away from what happens in real life what is really sad is that it also makes extremely funny br br the frontline team in series one consists of brian thompson bruno lawrence a man who truly lives and dies merely by the ratings his show gets occasionally his stunts to achieve these ratings see him run in with his line producer emma thompson alison a woman who hasn't lost all her journalistic integrity and is prepared to defend moral scruples on occasions the same cannot be said of reporter brooke vandenberg jane kennedy a reporter who has had all the substance sucked out of her so much so that when interviewing ben elton she needs to be instructed to laugh her reports usually consist of interviewing celebrities with whom she has or hasn't with before or scandalous unethical reports that usually backfire martin de mora is the reporter with whom the team relies on for gravitas and dignity as he has the smarts of 21 years of journalism behind him his doesn't have principles so much as a nous of what makes a good journalistic story though he does draw the occasional line parading over this chaos in name is mike moore rob an egotistical naive reporter who can't see that he's only a pretty face for the grubby journalism he often finds his morals being compromised simply because brian appeals to his vanity and allows his stupidity to do the rest br br frontline is the sort of show that there needs to be more of because it shows that while in modern times happiness safety and deep political insight are interesting things it's much easier to rate with scandal fear and tabloid celebrities
1	this show came to canada via pbs in the mid 90s and i really really loved it then even 10 yrs later watching the various news networks i cant help but think of the cynical manipulation that goes on in the name of ratings and the various show ponies we all see on tv as depicted in various frontline episodes the scripts are tightly written and the actors all have impeccable comic timing and none of it is encumbered by an idiotic laugh track there is a lot of funny material here really well executed and we don't need to be told when to laugh and what to laugh at i don't understand why this show never took off in north america as its truly a gem i was really excited to see the dvds available even though they are pal format i figured i would rip them to my computer and then watch the converted files i took a chance and ordered it from 6 to 8 weeks later i had all 3 seasons even better it worked on my ntsc dvd player i suspect any player bought in the past 2 yrs that does xvid divx will play them great stuff 10 yrs later the episodes all hold up really well you don't need to know anything about australian politics to get the humor as it will all be familiar to western audiences my wife and i had a 10 day frontline fest and are still chuckling weeks later after watching all 39 episodes
1	this is one of my favorite movies the performances of rip torn and cardinal are excellent and their performances combined with the music scenery and reality of the movie are quite compelling a look at a true tell it like it is logging mountain man who refuses to give up his way of life in the name of progress and development the music of the is very unique and adds an eerie quality to some of the scenes after seeing this movie for the first time i had to go out and purchase the video and the soundtrack overall a quiet type of movie with bursts of panic both torn and cardinal are very believable in their roles i put this movie in the same category as winter people with kurt russell and kelly mcgillis another favorite
1	the submarine used was not 'it' was in fact two boats and both built for turkey by vickers at barrow in but kept hold of by the royal navy for the duration of the war was sunk but was eventually delivered in 1945 br br the confusion no doubt arose because someone looked up as i did and found when in fact the last digit of both and was in fact just painted out br br there are some extremely realistic moments in the film these turkish boats were very similar to the s class as no s class submarines survive the shots of them as and of the depot ship forth form part of an interesting record now as well as an excellent film
1	this is an incredibly compelling story told with great simplicity and grace the story itself is the object of the film although the scenery is beautiful the acting is understated even superbly so for the characters themselves come through in all of their eccentric simplicity br br this piece of art will likely not be appreciated by those who view movies casually without due attention it takes work to be brought into the story but once you become involved the is complete
1	i was really surprised when i came across this movie on cable tv a couple of years ago the story is a wonderful example of how our land keeps changing and the fight to hang on to it and use it according to need conflicting desires of the people and the government the actors were fantastic in their portrayals and i absolutely fell in love with cardinal she is so believable and was such a character in this movie as was rip torn the story was also a love story about the land the past and between the 2 main characters i have tried to buy this film and have been unable to locate it but i would sure would love to own it
1	kingdom county vermont 1927 noel lord rip torn lives with his indian mate cardinal in the area where a large dam is to be built noel however is not willing to give up on his land and he'll have to fight the dam company in order to prevent the county from any possible destruction br br where the rivers flow north is a gripping contemplative story powered by the memorable performances of rip torn recently seen in the small but juicy role of louis xv in sofia coppola's underrated marie antoinette and cardinal dances with wolves smoke signals director jay craven who also co wrote the script with don based on howard frank novel and cinematographer paul ryan crafted this powerful story with unique contemplative pace visuals which remind me of terrence malick's and john huston's best moments it's an underrated independent period piece of the first electric half of the 90's usually regarded as the rise of quentin tarantino's burlesque pulp fiction is a masterpiece indeed but the man suffers from orson welles' syndrome todd disturbing suburbia danny boyle's dark vision of the uk let's not mention that beach flick with dicaprio though jay craven should be more regarded on the lists of great indie filmmakers as well he's been leading a respectful discreet career and it's always a pleasure to see a constant talent like his br br my vote 8 10
1	where the rivers flow north is a well told story about two peoples' fight to live their own lives in the face of progress and development besides enjoying the movie as entertainment i also learned quite a bit about life in rural new england back in the late 1920s br br the cinematography captured the raw beauty of northern vermont and set the stage while the music brought the movie to life very well done for a low budget locally produced film i found michael j fox's character the weakest in the film but rip torn and cardinal turn in two of the finest performances i've seen in a long time i was saddened she did not get a nod as best actress that year i assume the film was too small a film to be considered
1	i'm not sure how the imdb weighted average came up with such a low rating on this film it is in my opinion and by all other accounts an overlooked gem of a movie rip torn is fantastic as the stubborn noel lord and cardinal superlative as his torn and cardinal are both underrated actors who are finally given a stage to work their craft on br br their relationship isn't always pleasant but it's very real this is not the humerous and touching love story it's billed as on the dvd jacket in the end it is a tragedy lord simply aims too high and ignores all the advice to take the money offered by the power company to move br br the music is fantastic as are the period sets
1	jay craven's criminally ignored film is a sober breath of fresh air in the generally narcissistic and derivative world of independent film first off the photography is pure aesthetic pleasure capturing all of the gloomy beauty of northern new england in late autumn cinematographer paul ryan did 2nd unit on malick's days of heaven second the performances are uniformly excellent rip noel is charming and is at once sensitive and exuberant to say nothing of a fine supporting cast overall though it is a tribute to the narrative strength of the film that the story maintains a strong and lively pace while still unfolding in its own time and the film comes to a conclusion natural and genuine that nevertheless does not seem expected this is one of the rare cells of dignity in the independent film world a film that explores a small piece of the intersection between humans and history
1	director jay craven's adaptation of howard frank 'where the rivers flow north' is one of the finer transitions from literature to the screen craven is an admirer of work he also directed 'a stranger in the kingdom' br br the cast is superb especially rip torn and cardinal torn offers what could be the finest role of his career noel lord the fiercely independent former lumberjack who is at the center of this story portrayal of lord's live in housekeeper common law wife is dead on as well i'm both amazed and disappointed that neither of them were nominated for oscars when this film was released performances of this calibre should be acknowledged the only character that's a little hard to swallow for me is the power company executive played by michael j fox he just looks too much like a kid in this role i guess there's a curse attached to youthful looks no matter how much people want them br br craven has done a nice job here in bringing the character of early 20th century vermont to the screen locations angles sets all combine to transport the viewer to the time and place of the story cinematographer paul ryan was exceptional the score by the is also first rate it fits the mood and scenery perfectly br br and the story itself one of the most compelling portrayals of the fiercely independent american pioneer spirit ever a trait that is on the wane in this day and age when it appears in modern times the person is often looked upon with suspicion and disdain in noel lord we have a character whom we can admire for his values and even for his stubbornness br br this is not a stodgy but a vibrant look at an era that is gone and a type of character that has all but vanished these are not gold plated heroes but real people with both strengths and weaknesses at play within them struggling in a harsh environment to live their lives and at the same time be at peace with the world in which they live like today there are those who wield power that would have it otherwise
1	this is a fine under rated film and rip torn well known as he is is a seriously under rated actor i read howard frank novel many years ago how well craven captures the book and the beauty of vermont's northeast kingdom i had the good fortune to grow up in vt in the 40s and 50s and was still living there when the incident took place i've not seen stranger in the kingdom the craven collaboration based on the incident and another novel but this film has inspired me to track it down
1	outstanding performance by cardinal she carries this movie alone rip torn is great but just a shadow to a bitter sweet story of a woman who loves a very stubborn man beautiful funny sad touching a must see film
1	i saw this movie for the first time on a sick day from school about ten years ago compared to the made for lifetime movies i usually watched it became an instant though obscure favorite br br i've seen it maybe twice since then i think some parts are little cheesy maybe the plot could use some more action br br nevertheless it captures the fantasies and realities of children with uniqueness and warmth the magical realism is on par with that of amelie and the heart with that of the wonder years despite the particular development of my tastes i still find the subtle magic of this film the lovable characters and its simplicity enchanting
1	this movie is all about reality submarine warfare in ww2 was not a clean precise science there were no computers giving exact enemy details there was no precise instrumentation to 100 control the sub not all the crew went to fight with a song in their heart and a smile on their dial br br people with expectations of seeing a pretty war in this movie will be grossly disappointed good they deserve to be disappointed they deserve to have reality shoved into their face br br war is not clean exact fought by people about to break into song it is endured by scared cold burnt hungry desperate people willing to do anything to survive br br we dive at dawn is a fine example portraying a desperate situation needing desperate actions
1	i highly reccommend this movie it blurs the line between childhood fantasy and everyday reality in such a seamless fashion that it has to be seen to be believed the actors and director have such perfect timing that in one scene a name calling fight becomes a sort of dance i loved the story line the actors everything while i do think there were one or two decidedly cheesy scenes over all the movie was impeccably done
1	if there's one theme of this film it's that people can cope with hardship by having a good imagination this family is poor their father works graveyard and their mother works double shifts and peter is constantly picked on for a variety of reasons and becomes increasingly frustrated that he is often mistaken for a girl he is just starting to approach that age of 10 or 11 where your perceptions start to change and thinks like your appearance start to matter the backdrop of this story is the 1967 world's fair and the centennial of canada the film's greatest moments come during the various fantasy sequences where we see just how they cope watch the flim and if you've ever had a childhood friend that you dreamt with and then for some reason lost you'll really like this film perhaps kids will like this film but only adults will truly appreciate it including its references to and what parent's will do for their children
1	ok i know the original ghoulies aren't in this entry it even seems it doesn't belong in this series but it still a good movie it is hilarious i thought especially with the pepper spray or mace i give it a 9
1	the lovely yet lethal alexandra stunning statuesque blonde beauty stacie randall who looks absolutely smashing in a tight black leather outfit must find a magic amulet so her evil demonic master faust can cross over into our dimension it's up to fearless rugged cop jonathan graves likable peter to stop her meanwhile two pitifully unfunny comic relief dwarf gnome creatures run amok in los angeles seasoned veteran schlock exploitation expert jim wynorski relates the supremely inane story at a brisk pace and takes none of this foolishness remotely seriously the cast struggle gamely with the silly material the adorable barbara alyn woods as sassy fetching police captain kate raquel as tart sexy hooker jeanine bobby di as graves' bumbling excitable partner scotty peggy as alluring museum curator monica and ace mask as the jolly dr rochelle mark puerile cookie cutter script an amusingly lowbrow sense of no brainer humor chuck bouncy cornball score the two dwarf guys sporting obvious cheap rubber halloween masks j e plain cinematography no tension or gratuitous female nudity to speak of and the tacky less than special effects all further enhance the overall delicious cheesiness of this prime slice of celluloid velveeta an entertainingly brainless piece of lovably lousy dreck
1	okay so ghoulies 4 is kind of bad and it doesn't really even have the ghoulies in it and the acting is bad the storyline is stupid but i forget to mention how funny this film is it is so campy and so ridiculous it is too fun not to enjoy there are only 2 ghoulies in the movie and they don't really seem to be in relation with the ghoulies in the other film but they are pretty funny and funny thing that jonathon graves returns for this one if you saw the first he was a character in that in my opinion this is better than the first there are some classic scenes and some classic lines one which is in a grocery store attention k mart shoppers watch this if you enjoy bad movies it's so bad it is good and did i mention barbara alyn woods is hot
1	sixth and last movie in the boxset well looks like i've saved the best one for last ghoulies iv i originally did a review for this back in like february but i decided to do a new one the ghoulies series is pretty awesome i know there are some people who don't like them and that's fine this happens to be my favorite one in the series yeah i know the actual ghoulies don't appear and are replaced by 2 guys in costumes one of them being tony cox from bad santa now onto the movie br br the movie centers around jonathan graves the main character from the first movie being played once again by peter who is now a cop for the lapd and has put his past of the occult behind him during the first part of the movie we encounter alexandra played by the very hot stacie randall communicating with a demon from beyond named faust who is the dark side of jonathan faust asks alexandra for a red jewel and something goes awry therefore unleashing the ghoulies from the beyond br br i think jim wynorski did a good job with the directing and the music by chuck is funny as well spoiler ahead at the end of this movie the ghoulies say that there will be a ghoulies iv part 2 or ghoulies v i still hope that sequel gets made and i especially hope jim wynorski returns to direct i agree with on that
1	seeing that this movie was on the imdb bottom 20 i simply had to rent it br br suprise suprise i have no regret of seeing this movie at all in fact i really enjoyed it there's a level of camp in this movie that puts cult classics of the 80's to shame is it stupid yes but jim wynorski proves that stupid is not necessarily bad after all br br rent it for a laugh that seems unintended but is actually meant to be funny wynorski is a genius hope he directs the next ninja turtles movie
1	ghoulies 4 is pretty ghoulish sequel the ghoulies look very different from the first three ghoulies but there still cool there are some nice flash backs from ghoulies the first movie jonathan is back once again in this one he wasn't in parts 2 or 3 though the movie is low budget at times but fun to watch you've got tony cox as the dark ghoulie and arturo gil as the light ghoulie the ghoulies in this movie are actually good guys instead of evil like in the first three movies both ghoulies are pretty funny characters in the movie then you've got the very hot alexandra it's a great dark comedy and funny any fan of the ghoulies movies will enjoy watching ghoulies 4 the dvd is finally coming out this july 2007 hopefully one day ghoulies iii will be on dvd in the usa i'd really like to see a sequel to this movie one day too i doubt it will happen though it's 2007 now and no sign of a sequel yet if there ever is a sequel i hope jim wynorski will make it br br i give ghoulies iv a 9 10
1	okay okay i must admit i do somewhat like peter and i'll admit this is not the best ghoulies sequel i mean yeah it had its flaws such as no ghoulies themselves but the two ghoulies that come to earth were really funny i guess they were called dark and lite i enjoyed the plot of the movie and even at the end of the movie both ghoulies implied that there would be a sequel still waiting lol peter reprised his role as jonathan graves this time playing a detective how cute ghoulies iv may not be scary or suspenseful but it is definitely funny i thought i would comment on this movie and just say it's not that bad it is worth watching even though the ghoulies aren't in it
1	ghoulies iv may not be the best out of the series but it isn't too bad if you don't take it fully serious then you may enjoy it br br it's nice to see peter return as johnathan graves who has gave up using magic and has became a detective but still thinks about what happened in ghoulies br br the plot is about a woman named alexandra that is ex girlfriend that breaks into a museum and takes a red gem using the gem she awakens her boyfriend named faust that is dark side but he needs the gem so he can enter the real world and john is sent to hell br br something goes wrong and alex loses the gem so she needs to find a new one as she leaves the gateway is still open and two little ghoulies named lite and appear they're not the true ghoulies since they look like guys in a troll costume wearing a mask but that doesn't matter since they are humorous in parts br br lite and dark need to find johnathan since he can return them home so they go around causing mayhem as they try to find johnathan another difference is that the two ghoulies are the good guys unlike the ones in the previous films br br i found ghoulies iv to be good but this film may not go for everyone check it out if you like low budget films like troll 2
1	as a teenager i watched this movie every time it was on tv and it was on a lot because of its witty appealing to teenager humor it may not be what critics consider 4 star viewing but i love it for what it is a fun comedy meant to please the audience the teen actors are of my generation probably why i love the movie so much and was like a fantasy cast of everyone's favorite tv shows of the early 90's full house family matters fresh prince all of the shows were represented and the result was probably the best teen movie of the 90's though it may not include the high doses of nudity and violence that so many teen movie writers think vital to success among the youth demographic or perhaps because of its absence i highly recommend it to pre teens and teenagers everywhere
1	at least one kind very human and moving not out to teach a lesson or anything like that all principals are effective i saw the movie years ago and still remember it but can't remember the morgan fairchild role br br and a nice slice of american life
1	francis ford coppola's first film completed and released in 1969 was the last movie he made as a mostly unknown up and coming director before the godfather and is in stark contrast to both that film and the rest of his uneven career it's ostensibly a road movie involving a disconnected young woman bored with domestic life and pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants fleeing the trappings her dull marriage and hitting the open road in search of freedom along the way she befriends a nice man an ex footballer player that suffered brain damage from a traumatic head injury played in unexpectedly subtle fashion by a young james caan and decides to him despite becoming frustrated with his simple ways her efforts to rid of him always fail either by guilt or chance and eventually lead her directly into the hands of an emotionally wounded cop robert duvall who has ideas of his own the plot is threadbare but coppola does a great job at detailing the emotional life of these characters and uses editing techniques to relay back story that were not at all common in american films of the time shots are simple yet extraordinarily effective conveying both the moody desolation of the open highway and the emptiness of american suburban life infused with a gentle melancholy provided by the film score coppola also deserves credit for addressing the issue of domestic discontent from a woman's point of view in the culturally turbulent 60's overall a fairly low key film that is not what audiences have come to expect from coppola but one that is a minor triumph in its own quiet unassuming way 7 5 10
1	shirley knight plays sara ravenna a long island housewife who runs away from her marriage when she discovers she is pregnant she plans to drive into america's heartland and start anew along the way she picks up a friendly hitchhiker james caan who calls himself 'killer ' soon she discovers that the good natured 'killer' is actually brain damaged and by picking him up she has unknowingly taken on a huge responsibility the two of them drive all the way to nebraska where sara gets killer a job helping out at a roadside reptile farm it is here that sara meets gordon a local cop and soon things go horribly wrong for everyone br br this is a powerful drama about people disconnected from society alienated by the choices they make or by the limits imposed on them by others even with such a low budget and a very freewheeling attitude the film is able to capture everything that needs to be said through these clearly defined characters shirley knight has a complex role and there are moments of some awe inspiring acting by her one of my favorites is when she is on the telephone calling her home to her worried husband the first time it is such a tense scene on both ends and in every small gesture and inflection of a word so much about her is spoken with so little then comes in the character of 'killer' played by james caan this character is unlike any i've ever seen him play and he performs wonderfully it's one of his best performances as he is very restrained and moving br br the way coppola develops the characters by using short dream like flashbacks is very clever adding a fragmented kind of view onto it all the quick flashbacks that are graphic and self contained contrast well with the longer shots in some crucial scenes also because this film was shot on location all over the eastern u s it offers an interesting authentic look at america in the late 1960's br br i haven't seen many other films starring ms knight i'm only familiar with her more recent work on television usually playing a nagging mother in law or a dotty old woman it was great seeing her so young beautiful and so wonderfully subtle in this movie it's also kind of a shame that james caan went on to be typecast as the 'tough guy' for the rest of his career because this film evidenced that he is capable of so much more than that
1	spoilers simple movie about simple people who's problems are far too complex for them to handle br br natalie aka sara ravenna shirley knight has become overwhelmed with married life and the fact that she's now pregnant is the straw that breaks the camel's back taking off from her homes in long island new york natalie has no idea where she's going but hopes to find peace and tranquility somewhere in the heartland of america it's on the pennsylvania that natalie picks up hitchhiker jimmie killer james cann who seems as lost and confused as she is as natalie calling herself sara at the time soon finds out jimmie had suffered a serious brain concussion while playing football on his collage team and has been reduced to such a simple minded individual who's so passive that he lets everyone including later in the movie natalie step all over him br br sympathetic at first natalie becomes very annoyed at the self pitying jimmie for not standing up for himself and letting himself be used as a doormat by everyone he comes in contact with in the movie not knowing what to do with the child like jimmie natalie finally gets him a job in far off nebraska as a cleaning man at the reptile jungle pet market owned and run by mr alfred tom being the both kind and simple minded person that he is jimmie lets all the animals out of their cages causing havoc at the pet store and has him fired by his boss mr alfred br br in the meantime natalie who thought that she was finally through with jimmie ends up back at the reptile jungle when she's given a speeding ticket by traffic cop gordon robert duvall it seems that mr alfred is also the acting county judge and is the person that natalie is to pay her traffic fine to while all this is happening gordon the cop had developed a strong liking for natalie and wants to get her in the sack at his trailer home the first chance he can gordon a widower with a uncontrollable 12 year old daughter rosalie needs a mature woman with lots of lovin' to make him forget his many social and psychological problems and natalie is exactly the medicine that the doctor ordered br br spoilers wild and shocking final with gordon going completely out of his mind and attempting to rape natalie who refused his drunken advances which has jimmie finally get out of his self pitying stupor and came to her rescue there's no happy ending here with natalie saved from being both manhandled and raped by gordon but jimmie who was bouncing gordon around like a ping pong ball ending up dead for all his good and noble efforts br br jimmy by far was he most tragic and sympathetic person in the entire movie all jimmie wanted was a friend to talk to and spend time with and all he ended up getting was the sh t end of the stick by everyone even the one person who at first treated him with kindness and understanding natalie ravenna in the end jimmie even though he was treated like dirt by everyone despite his willingness not to offend even those who stepped all over him came out as the most likable kindest as at the same time heroic person in the entire film
1	francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman's flight from her husband and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her we learn little about this woman's marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late she's also recently learned she's pregnant which has further complicated her heart she doesn't want to be a complacent despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone she meets two men on her journey a former college football hero who after an accident during a game has been left with permanent brain damage and a sexy strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life the clear clean landscapes as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler are astutely realized as are the characters shirley knight james caan and robert duvall each deliver strong gripping performances most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms some scenes such as knight's first call home from a pay phone or her first night alone with caan where they play are almost too intimate to watch coppola toys with reality turning the jagged memories of his characters into we've been made privy to he allows scenes to play out yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy there are at least two or three very frisky moments it's a heady endeavor so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later some may shun coppola's unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings from
1	i have a letter from ms knight who went to college with my older sister in it she tells of the hardships of making this film she herself was pregnant an interesting conjunction with the movie's plot and the novice director was unsure fairly green and having great difficulties with all the decisions logistics etc they were on the move all the time and it was a very difficult shoot br br the film however with a strong debut for james caan remains effective and affecting it's a great showcase for the talent that ms knight has demonstrated her entire career on television in movies and on the stage where she won the tony for kennedy's children br br this film has aged well
1	in some scenes in the rain people francis ford coppola's precursor to his hey day of the seventies there is the mark of a similar situation to 1969's easy rider but not exactly in the same reference frame here we have a drama about disconnected people from society in some ways alienated by the choices or by limits imposed by one mean or another it's one of those rare original dramas where some scenes stand alone as total knockouts even with such a low string budget and a very freewheeling so to speak attitude about filming the movie coppola is able to capture everything that needs to be said through these clearly defined characters and the curved unexpected degrees of one character versus the helplessness of another or vice versa or both and as one might be inclined seeing as how it is very much about the cutaways of suburban life of the 1960s it has that escapism of the film mentioned before but of a more concrete near timeless quality with the drama and the underlying issues in a way if bergman were on route as a quasi guerrilla 20 something filmmaker out to get the strange truths of everyday outsiders this might be it br br but along with all of the very direct and sometimes self conscious photography though also with a more documentary approach at times akin with its characters the actors all fit into place shirley knight an actress i'm not too familiar with has a complex role as a pregnant wife running off in a sort of existentialist conundrum of what life is there to have there are moments of some awe inspiring acting by her and one of my favorites if not my favorite is when she is on the telephone calling her husband the first time such a tense scene on both ends and in every small gesture and inflection of a word so much about her is spoken with so little it's extraordinary in ways that mirror others in coppola's films then comes in the character of 'killer' played by james caan this too is a dangerous character to take on as it is a mix of childish bewilderment and amusement with scarred memories think forrest gump if he didn't make it past the football and wit it's one of his best actually by being the most minimalist for a guy who's usually playing tough guys in movies here's one that also is part of the crux of the story and of knight's character also very good in a supporting role is robert duvall as a cop with a rough side and rather checkered past kind of an early sample of other defected characters he would play later on in his career br br so the characters and what coppola risks in having an uneasiness running in them are really what make up the film as whatever story there is it is definitely not resolved in the usual way you might think or expect the last ten or so minutes are like others in coppola's work where the specific tragedies on all sides are undercut by the emotional and psychological implications this will leave on the principles are amplified to the sublime and sad this is for its time brave on the part of what is trying to be represented in both the freedom as well as the flaws and ambiguities in the subject matter and the style of the picture adds a fragmented kind of view onto it all with quick flashbacks that are graphic and self contained in a contrast with the longer shots in some crucial scenes it's a road movie of its period but its also got a lot more working than it would under another filmmaker with less chances to take on the nature of these outcast characters one of the best films of 1969
1	newly pregnant knight bolts from husband for non specific reasons which are apparently self related on the road she becomes entangled with caan brain damaged former football star and duvall wacky but abusive cop the type of movie that could only have been spawned in the 60's worth a look for its non formula plot and for early performances by future stars br br disappointing resolution does not take away too much from rest of flick which shows an interesting slice of life
1	early coppola with sublime cast that most folks never got to see a pity there's some wonderful things going on in this one shirley knight's best performance an underrated actress a road trip in the late 1960's james caan very restrained and moving robert duvall in a part he was born to play edgy lonely motorcycle cop and a touching script with f coppola behind the wheel br br if this had been made five years later by some nobody it would have been a smash so much for timing anyway i recommend this to all people who don't need outer space explosions and bad mother in law jokes or a billion dollar budget to sit for a few hours and watch a story unfold give this one a chance if you can find it
1	for avid sci fi fans this movie is just what you've been waiting for watching this movie gets you lost into the characters especially riddick the movies bad guy this is the case where you root for the bad guy and want to see him live and win as you watch the survivors struggle to stay alive you long to see who lives and how they survive these unknown creatures that have taken over this planet an excellent movie vin diesel did a wonderful job as convict riddick and the acting and suspense were ravishing a
1	i think this movie is my favorite movie i am not sure why but it is julia duffy has been my favorite actress for awhile and when i saw this i went crazy it's sort of romantic and i definitely recommend this movie
1	i've seen director's cut version and can be nothing but content excellent acting esp cole hauser i was sad about little space for claudia black though subtle visual effects and photography in overall believable plot considering the genre without a lot of logical holes really non predictable twists build up characters these are the greatest assets of the movie combined with style some may consider this movie a b grade effort but i would disagree with that the whole thing really is very original and stylish br br and even though i'm not a fan of vin diesel this tough guy role of riddick suited him well can't wait for chronicles of riddick it's really cool this flick's gonna have a sequel br br 9 10 if you ask me
1	reasonably effective horror science fiction a la alien is fairly well done given its limited ambitions some nice special effects and well paced action sequences adequately patch the cracks in the rather tiresome dialogue when a space craft crash lands on a remote planet the survivors soon become aware that a hideous terror awaits them in the dark of the upcoming total eclipse
1	very mildly spoilerish br br i must start by saying that i'm not usually impressed by science fiction so pitch black 2000 was a pleasant surprise it had me hooked from the very beginning with rhythm intensity and visual outburst that left me fascinated and glued to my seat i'm very happy to say that this movie was the best okay at least one of the best science fiction piece that i've seen in a long long time br br the plot in short might sound simple a space ship crashes on a supposedly deserted planet and the captain caroline fry impressive radha mitchell must lead the survivors to safety at first a cold blooded murderer riddick vin diesel who plays the role with very believable spare style might seem like the group's biggest problem but as the dusk starts crawling in the creatures of the night start awakening this leads to a desperate attempt to escape from the bloodthirsty predators which as we all can guess does not lead to a happy family picnic br br it's not the plot itself that makes the movie worth watching after all let's face it if you strip it down to the basics it's not that original but the skill in which it's told the story flowed forward didn't leave me yawning at least not much in any point the directing was fabulous work this was a very visual even beautiful movie the purple night view was a real treat although 'beautiful' might not be the right word to use yes the images shown were candy to the eye but they also added a touch of unspecified eeriness as if something was just about to burst out from under the still surface not to mention that the monsters were really well done they looked realistic which seems to be rare nowadays maybe people just can't be bothered to make them look real br br i did not only enjoy the visual side of the movie but also the psychological aspect of the story during the movie we get to see the characters unraveling some of them fall some of them rise but what fascinated me the most was the developing of the character of riddick i enjoyed watching the change in him throughout the movie to go even further the other thing i enjoyed a lot with riddick was the incredibly well and originally executed unresolved sexual tension between fry and him that didn't you'll get what i mean once you see it one can't deny that they had chemistry don't even try or i'll seek you out and make you listen to me playing chopsticks until you scream grin it was fresh as radha mitchell once put it a modified quote pitch black is a really sexy movie with no sex which is what makes it even more so interesting br br so to summarize i recommend this movie even if you're really not a fan of space stories the suspense was kept until the very end and what's important we were or at least i was left wanting for more if you can't be bothered to think about psychology subtext and such as is my bad habit you'll still find pitch black highly entertaining just kick off your shoes and enjoy
1	in the future a disparate group of people asleep aboard a commercial spaceship is forced to improvise their survival when the spaceship crash lands on a remote barren planet they already have one problem in that one of the passengers is intense criminal richard riddick vin diesel in his first top billed role however they are soon preyed upon by a strange species of predator that thrives in the darkness and a rare solar eclipse is soon to take place br br while the script for this movie is ultimately on the routine side it is decently acted and it is especially well made technically location work photography and design production as well as creature design are all very impressive it is not the most original or stimulating science fiction horror picture ever made far from it but it still provides good entertainment diesel is particularly good at getting under the skin of his intimidating character it is not entirely predictable however and gets some points for br br spoiler br br having a more politically correct ending than most of its type br br filmed on location in the desolate area of queensland in australia br br a sequel of sorts is in the works br br 7 10
1	the influences of other science fiction and thriller movies and stories are evident throughout this film the movies that come to mind immediately are alien aliens and starship troopers the story itself is fairly straightforward and not all that original traveling through space crash landing on planet with no apparent life and a deserted geological expedition except when the lights go out forcing different types of people to work together toward their mutual survival while the body count mounts this kind of movie always tends to be fun as long as it's done well i believe that pitch black was done well the characters are interesting and you want to find out more about them the longer the movie goes on and i think people will be surprised by who does and doesn't make it br br vin diesel plays riddick the stereotypical convicted criminal who has a murderous past physically prowess high tolerance for pain and conveniently can see in the dark you know he is going to end up doing the right thing at some point in the movie because it's hinted throughout the movie that he actually may have a conscience about things br br cole house plays the drug addicted bounty hunter who's probably in many ways a real bad guy compared to riddick as his character reveals itself throughout the movie it is most likely that he is most courageous when the odds and firepower are in his favor a very self serving character that in the end gets what he deserves br br radha mitchell plays the co pilot on the doomed vessel who is jolted out of deep sleep because the ship ran through a meteor swarm or the tail end of a comment finding the pilot dead in his sleeping chamber she attempts to land the ship which leads to our discovery of that's character's potentially fatal flaw fear of responsibility accountability and being a leader her character in the short span of the story probably grows the most in that she actually grows some conviction takes charge and doesn't sit around waiting to be gobbled up by night stalking aliens she in some strange way connects with the ever distant human side of riddick who in turn in the end respects her for her choices and her sticking with them br br the story in some cases plays out as you would expect it but i think you'll be mildly surprised by which characters survive this harrowing experience this movie is an entertaining train wreck in progress to watch go watch it br br
1	possible spoilers br br i thought pitch black to be quite enjoyable with some nice effects i liked the larger beasts although they aren't a patch on the aliens from the alien series it had quite a good atmosphere which i felt vin diesel helped contribute toward br br one thing which kind of stumped me was how it if the planet has three suns and is in almost continuous daylight where did the moisture come from to form clouds and therefore rain br br i liked the fact that fry died at the end it reminded me of the new hollywood films of the 1970s with the main heroine not making it to the end
1	it opens with your cliche overly long ship flying through space all i could think at this point was spaceballs and hoping there'd be a sticker on back that said we break for nobody the movie then shows some with vin diesel's narration i've always thought his voice sounded cool ever since i saw fast and the furious from when i found out he was as criminal i thought the movie was going to be cliche it was it was very cliche and fate seemed to be against them at every turn black out every 22 years lucky them they land on that day aliens can only be in the darkness hey it's a solar eclipse as much as i thought it was too easy and just a cliche the movie pulled through and kicked major ss i even went out and bought a copy of pitch black after seeing it i really can't wait for chronicles of riddick
1	i saw into pitch black on t v and so i had to see this i must say i was very impressed br br not only has david style improved since he wrote critters 2 this film brought to my attention vin diesel sure he was there in into pitch black but here he was ferocious scary and intense i haven't seen charisma like that since schwarzenegger in the 80's br br the story is simple enough but it is the characters that make this film interesting then there was what happens with the female lead unexpected the dark humor helps the film move along the effects aren't grand but when riddick fights the alien it blew all of my complaints out br br diesel hasn't done a whole lot since this film that i would care about but i am eagerly looking forward to the sequel
1	if you're a science fiction fan and you've only seen this movie once please please go and treat yourself to a second viewing i just did and i was amazed about how good i thought the movie was as opposed to when i first saw it three years ago the first time around i was certainly impressed by the astronomical vistas we're treated to in this movie but by and large i didn't think that much of the movie as a whole it was an alien rip off and i thought the description of the monsters was a case of really bad science that they were allergic to light was something i found especially ridiculous based on my first viewing i recently rated this movie a 5 br br however now that the sequel chronicles of riddick is on the way and the movie poster for that one looks amazing i thought i'd better brush up on pitch black once more so i borrowed the video from a friend i am so glad i did there's so much of what i thought i remembered from the first viewing that turned out to be wildly inaccurate i thought most of the characters died very early in the movie this was not so i thought claudia black's character was the first to die this was not so i thought riddick was the sole survivor this was not so br br i see now that the movie works extremely well there isn't an excessive tiresome focus on the monsters it's much more of a human drama the main characters are appealing and capable of some convincing acting and there are so many little details that make the pitch black universe coherent and believable such as the shortage of oxygen in the atmosphere of the planet they crash on and the fact that the monsters have eaten everything on the planet and so they turn on each other br br and i have to mention the astronomical vistas again i mean we start out seeing the spaceship passing through a comet's tail with bits of zapping through the hull then we come to a planet with three suns just as the shipwrecked people think it's about to get dark a blue sun rises on the opposite horizon and everything is engulfed in a blue glow as the eclipse approaches we see the huge neighboring ringed gas giant rise across the sky and in the final scene of the movie we see the ship skid closely above one of these very rings these scenes are created with a sense of beauty wonder and detail and i don't think i've seen any other sf movie that really made such a point out of including these things i hope we see much more of it in the sequel br br pitch black now gets from me a rating of 9 out of 10 a cult classic you bet
1	oh my gosh this was one of the best sci fi movies i have ever seen and quite frankly i can't stand sci fi films br br vin diesel and his co workers made this movie really enjoyable br br i also must say that vin diesel is by far the most sexiest and most talented male actors i have seen keep it up vin your doing great as for everyone else good job i thought the drama and suspense kept the viewers really intrigued again great job everyone and i 'm rooting for you vin br br sincerely yours br br alexandra
1	this was a excellent back when it came out it had some the best talent available and a funny story between candace cameron and ali it was hard to choose who is cuter and add in carlton from fresh prince and all the other big names and you get a blockbuster ok a made for tv blockbuster but none the less if you can find this move don't miss it br br
1	this was a great movie and the sequel should know our socks off the action will be nonstop and i just bought the special edition dvd with the animated background story similar to the animatrix this will put vin diesel back in the spotlight and hopefully get him the coveted role in spider man 3 as venom he would be the most logical choice for the role back to pb this movie even though it is a indie thriller it has a great story and characters with backgrounds that scream for you to want to learn more if they were to do books or comics it would be a great read there was one thing that i felt was a little under done the ending it needed a little work but not every movie will have the best ending
1	even though this movie starts off with the usual something goes wrong spacecraft crashes people are stranded etc it still pulls off and introduces the viewer to some new ideas riddick is somewhat of a bad ass convict and has modified his eyes so he is able to see in the dark which is a much sought after ability due to the situation the ship crew and he gets in the cutting in the movie is very good and emphasizes the mystique that around the anti hero and male protagonist riddick the story in pitch black is as already mentioned to some extent very unoriginal and dissatisfied but the clipping and cutting in the movie blended with some surprising elements which has been added to the story helps it to still support itself very well and one is afterward left behind with a hybrid feeling of satisfaction and hunger for more vin diesel acts really well in the role as riddick and even though his character is a hardcore tough survivor he still takes morale decisions almost on the verge of good but that does not mean his decisions do not turn in his favor at the very end why destroy an already perfect reputation all in all this is a very good movie though not perfect the story seems very unoriginal at the surface but underneath it shines with enough originality to entertain some scenes has that wow factor while it as a whole is a bit better than average it could maybe be described as a cult movie and it is definitely a recommendation for people who wants a spiced up sci fi story blended with some minor psychological moments and an intriguing protagonist namely riddick
1	people who thought that the chronicles of riddick sucked harder than the black hole that swallowed up event horizon probably didn't see the movie that spawned vin diesel's skin headed killer to begin with and probably have no intention of doing so too bad because pitch black actually does kick major ass br br directed by genre vet david warlock and the excellent but underrated below and written by siblings jim and ken wheat lies silent scream pitch black begins with an 'alien' esque prologue when a combination cargo freighter passenger ship is badly damaged by a freak meteor shower in which the captain is also killed the co pilot carolyn fry silent hill's radha mitchell has an important decision to make ditch the cargo or the passengers close to picking ore over occupants the crash landing derails her ultimate course of action br br no matter because the catastrophic landing has been made on a foreboding rock that once held a mining colony amongst the survivors are a couple of settlers shazza claudia black and zeke john moore an imam keith david and his young followers can you say red shirts boys and girls an antiques dealer named paris lewis fitz gerald a 'young boy' named jack griffith and the most controversial members of the group a marshall named johns the excellently slimy cole hauser and his prisoner a dangerous murderer named riddick diesel br br how the group dynamics shake out make for a lot of the dramatic tension especially with concerns about riddick and how many people he might slice and dice if he ever gets away but no one here gets out alive as the saying goes and the biggest twists have less to do with how they get along than how they'll survive when they discover the unthinkable they are not alone on the things that are hungry and quick are around just where they can't be seen living in the darkness where they can survive and thrive they want the flesh of the new arrivals to sate their appetites but they can't come out into the searing daylight to for food br br does the phrase total eclipse make things a little more interesting you betcha hence the more than fitting title br br vin more monosyllabic than clint eastwood's dirty harry on his grumpiest day dripping more testosterone than sweat has a field day here with a character that really does seem worth a sequel or two and hauser oozing menace and bile is every bit as good as his dad wings was at on screen villainy surprisingly though mitchell holds her own and manages to be strong and sympathetic as fry you would expect no less than a strong showing from black she who once was sun' and she doesn't disappoint too bad her role wasn't bigger but that's all i'll say about it and david makes his usual indelible impression as the holy man whose faith will truly be tested in the very pit of hell itself br br the pace moves faster than riddick slipping up behind his prey with a shank in his teeth and once the darkness descends the terror and tension never let up pretty much as in other classic sci fi horror flicks which this imitates but if imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery dave and the deserve major for getting this one right with a vengeance and for giving us an ending that is anti hollywood to the max br br i don't want to spoil the surprises so i won't say much more except that if you saw chronicles first and weren't too happy give pitch black a chance anyway and if you've seen neither definitely start with this one br br i don't know what vin is up to now but he could certainly do worse than to give these guys a call again i'd love to see what they would dream up next
1	this was a sleeper for sure much better than i thought never realizing it was a horror flick and who was this gorgeous voiced hunk named vin diesel adding spice and intrigue to this otherwise film the monsters in this film were quite unusual not the same ol run of the mill gobble you up types the ending was great too for a change not all bad guys are bad i give it 2 thumbs up
1	pitch black is a surprisingly good movie i was not a fan of vin diesel before i saw pitch black but after seeing pitch black my respect for vin diesel has gone up he did a great job playing riddick a man wanted for many murders his character is cold and makes many decisions that surprised me like near the end riddick was going to get on the ship and save his own ass leaving everyone behind to die i like this movie and how it deals with human instinct this movie is low budget but this movie goes to show you don't need amazing special effects and lots of money to make a good movie i think all the characters made this movie i give this movie 8 out of 10
1	this film is a variation of a theme we've all seen over and over again the adventure in space the characters are all stock characters feisty heroine judas coward etc etc the only question really is who's next to snuff it sometimes this tried and tested formula works like in this case but more often not like the truly mind numbing red planet br br so why does this one work because it's stylish the acting is above average and above all it isn't predictable the conclusion isn't sign posted i really had no idea how it would all end and was surprised at how it did end that alone deserves top marks in my book br br it's an intriguing and entertaining movie and though it was never likely to change the face of cinema as we know it it doesn't disappoint
1	as a sci fi movies fan i also like alien but pitch black is definitely better than alien 3 and alien resurrection it well into alien series but it isn't alien it's something else ok enough comparisons this movie but me think why people are afraid of dark you can't run away from dark it's impossible you have to be faced with darkness and with that what's in dark in this movie i also liked that the vin diesel character richard b riddick wasn't typical good boy he had a secrets and he has done bad things in the past to the other people he is a hero who tries to save them all first of all he want to get out of that planet himself there is also other metaphors in this story every big sci fi fan should see this picture
1	i really enjoyed this movie it was edgy without being sociopath vin diesel brought the riddick character to life and made you feel good and bad about him on different levels br br i also saw iron giant and vin is perfect the movie oh yeah it's called triple x or xxx was a weak example of his work in pitch black he plays an anti hero to the max i don't think you can go wrong when vin stars in a movie unfortunately might type cast him as an adventure action movie star wrong i think the script for xxx was weak for which vin couldn't act down to it br br anyway pitch black is a great scifi see it br br zafoid
1	this film gets off to a bad start an incredibly corny monologue is followed immediately by a brilliantly done truly amazing spaceship crash then things go downhill again as you realize that the survivors are all a bad actors apart from the docking pilot and the psychopath and b almost all of them fit too nicely into the role of monster fodder hell half of them don't even speak english preventing the audience from getting to know the characters at all you feel as if you were watching deep blue sea meets silence of the lambs minus the good bits and unfortunately the entire thing tries to hard to be crashed on a desert planet with hannibal lecter during the daylight scenes vin diesel is a great actor but he is no anthony hopkins and he frankly annoys as the smart hyper cool psycho there is at least one very good scene involving an unexpected survivor but apart from that you could just as well have cut out the first thirty minutes or so br br but then things take a turn i can't exactly pinpoint the moment but soon the movie gets a lot better it also feels less chopped the scenes actually begin to follow each other with a consistent narrative and vin diesel becomes much less annoying and soon he is a show stealer by the time the first monsters appear the film is actually quite enjoyable by the time night falls it is great thrilling horrifying and exciting and even the character development of most main characters is well done if you can just sit through the poor bits at the start you're in for some great entertainment br br besides the visuals are eye candy and i honestly admit i love the colour and the tone of this movie br br 7 10 could have been 9 10 if only
1	pitch black was a complete shock to me when i first saw it back in 2000 in the previous years i was repeatedly disappointed by all the lame sci fi movies ex starship troopers and thought that this movie wouldn't be any different but to plainly put it this movie freaked me out in a good way i wasn't aware that i was still afraid of the dark till i watched this movie i must have buried my fear in the back of my subconscious when i was a kid and it rightfully deserves to stay there br br the alien creatures sent shivers up my spine the individual s who designed them have a twisted but brilliant and creative imagination to come up with something so impressive and grotesque br br i loved how the writers gave each main character a history and showed their flaws and strengths without much confusion br br vin diesel gift for escaping out of any impossible situation and putting up a hell of a fight was jaw dropping at first you figure him out to be a coldly intelligent villain but in some brief moments you can see something humane behind his animal side but as soon you discover it he does something maliciously devious he certainly keeps you guessing right up to the very end i didn't know whether to despise or admire him he's definitely a love hate type of character br br johns cole hauser was a perfect example of a character that puts up a good front but through a need for greed shows his real intentions and what he's willing to do to survive john's knack for knowing what buttons to push and the right words to say makes him as devious as riddick br br fry radha mitchell is a character who as johns so nicely expressed looked to her thine own ass first before considering the consequences but what's endearing about her is that she quickly realizes the errors of her ways and tries desperately to pay penance even while endangering her life when others discarded all human values and went for the dark hills running br br jack griffith simply wanted to have a hero and was the first one out of the whole group to look for that hero in riddick through a child's eye good can be seen through the thick clouds of evil i thought it was absolutely priceless when jack shaves his head in ode to riddick you know what they say imitation is the best form of flattery br br imam keith david like jack has the ability to see good in any evil he uses philosophy to carry him through the hardships that he meets and when time permits he rationally grieves his losses and then soldiers on in a way he served as a morale booster for the survivors even though most of the characters acted as though they weren't listening br br the casting for this movie was positively perfect each actor shined brightly in their role and their talents blended wonderfully on screen br br this movie may have had a small budget but the director's leadership and the actor's performances made the movie work and allowed the audience to use their imagination instead of letting some outrageously expensive special effects do all the work for them this movie is a definite sci fi classic watch it and judge with an open mind for yourself it will be well worth it
1	glenn ford is hired by a crooked bank owner and wily stable owner buchanan to stage a fake robbery while the banker hides the real loot with ford a no show the two instead go with a trigger happy second choice leaving ford on the hook for killings he didn't commit br br columbia pictures' first color feature the desperadoes looks fantastic with sets and costumes fabricated to take full advantage of the technicolor process accentuating tons of well staged western spectacle br br this has the irresistible teaming of a young glenn ford third billed but essentially the star and a prime randolph scott leading an incredible supporting cast of great character actors in colorful roles including scene stealer buchanan as a good natured but mildly villainous yokel who isn't as dumb as he looks and who has quite a few memorable lines br br a fairly complex script effectively mixes incredible action sequences melodrama and comedy well directed by charles vidor this is one of the great westerns of the nineteen forties and highly recommended
1	i found the story to be just enough of a thriller that the wonderful henry music didn't lull me julie andrews was and i sure don't understand why this movie had problems at the box office when it came out because it just makes me happy at the end to have everybody singing and i do like happy ever after endings which i think you can say this movie has along with some traditional blake edwards humor
1	i was fortunate enough to see this movie on pre release last night and though i wasn't expecting to actually really enjoyed the movie for the most part the rescues and sea effects were amazing to watch and definitely provided edge of the seat tense moments probably all the more so knowing that there are guys who do this for a living the weaker parts of the movie revolve largely around using stereotypical set scenes i'm not going to spoil the movie but this really follows along the lines of an officer and a gentleman and those moments give it a little bit of a cheesy aftertaste br br like i said over all this movie is pretty good and worth checking out as long as you can get past the clichés
1	let me waste a moment of your time to explain how i approached this film 1st i dismissed the trailers out of hand because the film appeared to be an uncredited remake of aliens which i consider to be one of the weakest films in the alien series stupidly continuing to dismiss the film after i heard positive things about it from people whose opinions i trust i missed the theatrical run completely i then became hooked on farscape in its 3rd or 4th season at the time and found pitch black on cable one night around bed time so i said oh why not at least it has claudia black in it soon i recognized keith david and began to realize that vin diesel radha mitchell and cole hauser could all act why this should surprise me i do not know i was captivated i have now remained captivated for four years i just watched the film for the 3rd or 4th time and i still love it br br this is not an art film not an independent and its not entirely original but where it fails to break a lot of new ground it utterly succeeds in providing interesting realistic characters hard driving action in the medium of a compelling but simple plot and non stop entertainment an absolutely beautiful environment with tastefully rendered special effects sound to good to be true don't take my word for it see it for yourself br br the film also highlighted the charisma of the now somewhat iconoclastic vin diesel introducing the character of richard riddick diesel would go on to star in the somewhat riddick chronicles thereof which i also enjoyed though recognizing its rather huge flaws and is now something of a legend diesel is so charismatic so big and so interesting to watch that it is easy to ignore the fact that he is not only a talented actor but a smart one too checking out the dvd version of pitch black with the audio comments on might just blow you away br br the film is about the crew of an inter system transport ship stranded on an unknown planet after a crash landing in which their captain was killed the new commander is inexperienced but bright and heroic mitchell but she is caught between two dominant and dangerous personalities a bounty hunter with secrets hauser and a dangerous criminal who has been surgically altered to see in the dark diesel is that all of course not the planet is inhabited and the inhabitants are hungry br br as unoriginal and improbable as some of this may be pitch black is beautifully filmed well told and very nicely performed don't expect to learn anything and don't expect to have to think a whole lot but do expect to have fun with this modern sci fi action classic
1	this movie is about the crew of a spaceship who crash land onto a strange bright planet with three suns among the passengers is convicted serial killer richard riddick vin diesel and his nemesis johns cole hauser while the survivors of the wreck are getting their bearings an eclipse of all three suns happens shortly afterwards scary creatures begin to appear and start to pick off the crew members one by one during the eclipse riddick comes into his own as his eyeballs have been surgically shined giving him night vision the crew have to rely on him to try to get them to safety br br this is a very stylish film with the colour of the sky changing scene by scene giving it a very strange look vin diesel is brilliant as riddick truly menacing but forced to help people who otherwise would only see him as a threat there is also an underlying humour in his performance as well which adds another dimension to the character this is the sort of role that vin excels in the anti hero whos character is not as one dimensional as first appears i can imagine no one else in this role it could have been written specifically for him br br roll on chronicles of riddick
1	this is without doubt the most exciting and satisfying film i've seen in years the plot seen in print is almost banal a ship crashes on a desert planet with three suns the survivors have to adjust to the landscape and each other then darkness falls and the monsters appear pilot fry after a moment of cowardice during the descent through the atmosphere when she almost jettisoned the passengers takes charge of the group and enlists the help of convicted murderer riddick to lead them through the darkness to the escape ship he's the one with surgically enhanced eyes that can see in the dark but it's really not that simple every character is complex three dimensional with conflicting traits so you never quite know who's good and who's bad br br the performances are uniformly superb radha mitchell shows fry herself for leadership overcoming her own fears and trying to prevent further bloodshed while cole hauser as the man taking riddick back to custody shows he has his own agenda and his own idiosyncratic standards but the film belongs to vin diesel as riddick he has the most magnetic screen presence i've seen in years for much of the film his face is in shadow and he doesn't actually say a great deal but he draws your attention all the same sometimes he draws your attention by not speaking or by not moving and diesel doesn't trivialise the character as could so easily be done by giving him a heart of gold riddick is still one mean and vicious man as they approach the ship he just lets us glimpse those first tentative steps from caring only for the self to caring for others br br technically the film is very good the lighting effects are excellent at both ends of the spectrum the triple sunlight and the pitch darkness special effects showing both and the monsters' points of view add to the suspense as do sound effects of the monsters flying and using to see the monsters themselves are anatomically plausible and suitably frightening editing is so tight it's almost jarring at times there is literally no padding in this film no fades no time to re orient yourself br br from the opening shot to the end of the credits you have to keep your wits about you every scene every line of dialogue every single camera shot is important see it three times to understand it all br br my only caveat is about the science the solar system as shown in the model is impossible planets revolve around suns not vice versa however that doesn't affect the human story so i haven't taken points off for it
1	as a zombie fan i really love these types of plots where people end up in strange places surrounded by wicked monsters pb is also an excellent tie in to chronicles of riddick cor the gang has to run as fast as they can away from darkness there are so many metaphors in the story riddick is this bad guy but he's also the hero who tries to save the slow paced folks the muslim guy imam relies on the sun's positions for the five times a day prayers but he is stuck in a land where darkness will rule overall i recommend this film to any sci fi fans you won't be disappointed
1	i must say that i didn't expect much sitting down to watch pitch black but i got a lot back in terms of excitement and pure fun it's the type of flick where you can just lean back relax and have a great time just being entertained this isn't a deep film by any means everything that it offers is either recycled or ripped off of other movies such as alien predator or such but when i watch a rip off i want it to be good and this rip off is great br br it opens with a galaxy of stars some of the greatest films of all time open with this type of scene 2001 star wars alien predator a ship is cruising through space when inside the entire cryogenically frozen crew is awoken the ship has been hit by something they crash land on a nasty little planet with three suns everyone flocks out of the ship when they find that their prisoner transport richard riddick vin diesel has escaped confinement they scan the desert planet in search of him and eventually find him but they have no way of getting their ship to fly again they search the planet for water and civilization but it seems that everyone suddenly disappeared from the planet not too long ago br br then they find out that every 22 years the planets line up in a solar eclipse and the entire planet turns pitch black there also happen to be hoards of aliens that thrive in darkness living on the planet what are the chances they happen to be on the planet right as the eclipse happens what are the chances and riddick has a rare talent he can see in the dark again what are the chances br br there seems to be a lot of in this movie but a film like this isn't out to get oscars for originality or believability it's there to entertain the audience it does so with ease vin diesel is a big gorilla of a man with no acting talent whatsoever but i've got to say if there's anyone who can fit the part of a trashy homicidal felon it is diesel listen to him mutter he did not know who he was fu ing with great stuff br br the aliens in this movie are a mix between hammerhead sharks those from alien and predators they've got long horizontal heads like a hammerhead the quick moving agility of the aliens and the stealth of a predator i assume david director and writer of the movie didn't expect audiences to believe his creatures were truly something never seen before at least i hope not br br aliens redux might be a better name for this movie but then again it is better than both the second and third alien films put together in a time when apparently ended series are getting revived terminator 3 alien 5 predator 3 alien vs predator pitch black stands out as a new series altogether two more sequels are planned let's just hope they don't get carried away i can just picture it twenty five years from now aliens vs predator vs pitch black aliens the fight of the year br br fight of the year title may be shared with the upcoming film freddy vs jason vs michael vs leatherface vs norman bates vs alien vs predator vs terminator vs james cameron vs the dinosaur br br 4 5
1	the opening scene of this movie is pretty incredible i've seen a number of sci fi movies with great special effects but my roommate and i looked at each other after the opening sequence and he said plainly sensory overload the plot of the movie is pretty simple but the nice thing about this sci fi movie is that it lets the audience figure out most of the technology for themselves instead of wasting time to subtly explain it the creatures in this movie are also very interesting you don't get a really good look at them until about two thirds of the way through overall a very entertaining movie
1	pitch black is a survival story it's about how to survive in an hostile alien world against even more hostile enemies the task gets even more difficult when the nearest enemies can be found within your own surviving group br br the plot of pitch black is quite usual and has been seen several times before in different variations but what makes this movie shine above others is it's well written characters br br the group consists of very different people with few more interesting than the others jack a boy with a secret fry a pilot having hard time with her own conscience johns a bounty hunter with a drug habit imam a holy man facing the fact that god is sometimes cruel and riddick a convict and a murderer learning to value others not only himself characters start to live in the movie they aren't only paper like in many other movies of this genre you start to care for the characters especially for riddick though that feels quite odd he is supposed to be the bad guy in this movie the line between light and pitch black is very thin all characters are familiar with both br br other thing that works in this movie is the casting rarely do actors fit to their roles this well radha mitchell is suitable for fry cole hauser brings the right amount of cruelness and sense of responsibility for johns but the most impressive work is done by vin diesel he does great job as riddick in his hands riddick is quite creepy definitely very dangerous and also deep character just as he is supposed to be br br so how do you survive in pitch black keep your friends close and enemies even closer
1	from the first 10 seconds of pitch black i was hooked i had walked into this movie thinking that it would be just another cheesy sci fi movie instead i found a highly entertaining on the edge of your seat thought provoking action film the movie goes beyond your basic special effects flick the actors are amazing mitchell high art love and other as fry is truly a joy to watch on screen while vin diesel as is so captivating that you are dying just to hear him speak again br br the look of the movie is breath taking the contrast of blues yellows and oranges due to the three different suns is amazing followed by the complete darkness of nightfall i would truly recommend any lover of the alien movies or radha mitchell which is why i went to see it to check out this film i'm sure by the end you'll look at the dark in a whole new way
1	while most movies that pit humans against horrendous extra end up being cheap imitations of the 'aliens' series pitch black stands as a fine piece of sci fi and an excellent movie all around perhaps my favorite aspect of the film is the lighting this movie beautifully employs many different colors shades and intensities of light which set the mood and lend a unique feeling to the film itself something different than the 'normal' movie lighting we are generally subjected to vin diesel brings his character to life in an excellent manner skillfully avoiding the routine portrayal of the hardened criminal after all the film is about diesel's character personal journey so thankfully vin doesn't drop the ball the remainder of the cast with the exception of the talented and gorgeous claudia black were unknown to me but all turned in marvelous performances animating the diverse characters with unique quirks and mannerisms pitch black is a perfect example of making a great film with out the resources of an excessive budget the special effects are more than adequate but at the same time they are by no means the sole focus as in many high budget 'blockbusters' it's a great movie because it uses science fiction as a medium to tell an engaging provoking story rather then telling a mediocre story to use the flash of science fiction
1	i'm 15 usually not kids my age usually watch these old classic movies but this is one of my favorites i was totally addicted after watching it for the first time it's really good if u think about technology and movies back at that time music is great storyline is ok choreography is great must see it i don't know why there's a prequel for this movie not many people like this movie but i love classic love movies they're so much better than movies now this movie will make you smile cry and make you start dancing the music is absolutely ear catching and beautiful i haven't seen dirty dancing 2 nights prequel prequel should have star the original actors thats what i hate about prequels they ruin the original no one wants a prequel they want a sequel many people will agree that for a movie the original sequel and the 3rd one is enough beyond that people wont be bothered to watch it who remembers the movie about the st benard beethoven i think there's 5 movies altogether
1	this is simply a good ole fashioned western not overly complex or long it doesn't deceive itself in thinking that it was made but for entertainment still it is one of those westerns you can watch once and be done with without returning it features former partners randolph scott and glenn ford whose friendship is strong despite the fact that ford's cheyenne rogers has been part of bank robbing he even steals scott's sheriff steve horse without knowing it his good friend for which he is thieving in red valley is under heavy scrutiny for a bank robbing that ended with several dead claire portrays countess a friend of who gives he and buddy nitro guinn 'big boy' williams a place to stay for the time being cheyenne desires to go straight but finds that hard when jack lester bernard and his bad bunch want to rob red bank it is actually jack who is behind the murders but troubled past is hard to get away from he and nitro will be charged with the murders they didn't commit the robbery was one cheyenne didn't commit and it will be who must somehow save the day before lester gets away with murder there are sub plots which include falling in love with alison mcleod evelyn keyes the irony of the story is that alison's father uncle willie is actually in cahoots with banker stanley porter hall in a planned united theft with lester to steal the town of red loot will uncover uncle willie and banker treacherous scheme will uncle willie be able to go through it without his conscience always bothering him this film has a terrific barroom brawl and a dandy of a climactic shootout columbia couldn't have picked a better genre to begin the coloring process as this film has some fine mountainous shots as men give chase on horseback and such don't expect to get your socks blown off but the film is simple and well paced
1	i have watched this movie at least 30 times maybe more and each time i watch it i am drawn into the movie and back to 1963 the movie takes me on a nostalgic vacation every time i watch it br br i think the important thing to say here is i was 15 in 1963 and i can remember before president kennedy was shot and before the beetles came i can feel myself saying something like i carried a watermelon and then realizing just how stupid that was jennifer grey plays frances baby houseman in dirty dancing baby is going to start college in the fall she goes to for vacation with her family mom dad and sister lisa br br one of the staff dancers penny played by cynthia rhodes gets pregnant by another staff person one of the college boys played by max cantor and has a chance to get an abortion but it is on a night that her and johnny patrick swayze are scheduled to dance at a nearby hotel br br thus the need for a fill in dancer for penny johnny is persuaded by penny and his cousin billy neal jones that he can teach baby to do the dance in time for the show baby learning the dance steps with penny and johnny are wonderful scenes br br baby's father doctor jake houseman played by jerry orbach comes to penny's rescue when the abortion is done wrong dirty dancing brought back to me this time in history when girls got pregnant and had abortions in back rooms by butchers around this time 1963 many girls actually died from this type of abortion but there were not many choices for a girl then br br lonnie price plays a great conceited grandson neil kellerman to jack weston's max kellerman jane does a great job as baby's annoying sister lisa houseman br br the music is great and the dancing is wonderful the dirty dancers are absolutely wonderful and very sexy i can feel baby's astonishment when she first sees them dancing and says where'd they learn to do that br br jennifer grey and patrick swayze are just perfect together in their respective roles patrick's song she's like the wind brings tears to my eyes each time i hear watch it in this movie br br the movie ends on an up note but leaves you wanting to know what happens next in baby's and johnny's lives dirty dancing gives something new each time it is watched it mesmerizes the watcher with nostalgia a feeling of wanting it to be 1963 again
1	it's funny how time went by and never saw this movie 'till last week when i was like under a spell i saw it twice in a week and it still wasn't enough it's a great movie and i will love to see it again the story is great and it really moved me i would love to live such a story the actors are great the music too and you can dream about your own love story i just hope that someday i will find the opportunity to learn to dance like johnny and baby i feel like dance connects people and brings them together i think people should learn to dance it helps a lot especially in a relationship it's great to feel the dance in your blood and in your body
1	hello all you lovely dirty dancing fans i came across this message board when i was bored one day and think it's cool i absolutely love dd i first saw it at my friends house when i was 13 now i'm 17 and got hooked i saw it there at least 10 more times and soon after i bought the dvd for myself at this stage i have memorized most of the script and can recite it whenever anyone asks me about it carried a watermelon '' it's gotten so bad that i bought the soundtrack and recorded micky and song and now it's the on my phone most of my friends think it's a crap movie but i don't care what they think of it i know it's brill i was reading the comments earlier and i have a few questions for you lot 1 why are you asking trivial questions like what ages lisa and baby are i don't think it matters that much they are teenagers in the 60's isn't that enough 2 where did ye get this special edition that you're all talking about it sounds very interesting please reply to this i'd like to see other fans opinions cheers xxx
1	like for most women this movie is the ultimate chick flick with it's hot chemistry sexy dance and songs i mean timeless classic like i've had the time of my life the wonderful she's like the wind makes this movie i adore patrick swayze in this movie and he shows he can sing and dance it's so hot he sings she's like the wind in the movie the chemistry between swayze and co star jennifer grey is amazing i love all the dancing and everything that goes with it but saying this dirty dancing 2 havana nights is also great but patrick swayze scenes makes this i love the songs dancing and everything about it but it isn't dirty dancing like i said it's an amazing chick flick please let there be a 3rd because i love to see what happens with patrick's character johnny jennifer character could have been more sexy but hey patrick makes up for that if you know what i mean great movie and i'm so pleased billy zane didn't win the movie role i heard whispers he was meant for the role but they found out he couldn't dance
1	when young frances 'baby' houseman goes to summer camp with her family she never expected to have so much fun one night after wandering away from a resort activity she stumbles upon a all night dance party with johnny castle and other fellow dancers quickly enthralled by the raunchy dance moves 'baby' is eager to learn when she has to fill in for penny just so she and johnny don't lose their jobs at the resort but young 'baby' soon finds herself in a sticky situation she has fallen in love with a man she knows her father will never approve of however when johnny is accused of stealing wallets it is up to 'baby' to confirm his alibi by admitting that she was with him the night they were taken johnny is fired anyway for getting involved with a visitor but quickly realises what a mistake it was leaving 'baby' he comes back with that famous line 'no one puts baby in a corner' and they show the resort exactly what they're made of br br an amazing film perfect for a girly night in with groovy tunes inspiring dances and a story that will make you feel all warm inside this has got to be the greatest film of all time
1	so good the acting cutting directing in there may not be the best ever but the dancing the moves the heat and the passion in this movie is definitely the best well atleast for me it really touched me inspired me to learn dancing i even especially registered to this site just so i could vote on it and contribute my support for this movie for this movie it literally gave me goosebumps when i watched it i love it jennifer grey is so pretty patrick is so sexy in there the first thing i'll do tomorrow on my way to university will be to drop by the video store n buy a copy of it n watch it again n again till i am old n wrinkly n cant dance with the movie any longer before than i need to learn all the dance moves there
1	i first heard of this film from a friend she loved it and always watched it when she told me about it and said how old it was i immediately decided that i wouldn't like it i was so wrong dirty dancing was such an amazing film i love the music and the dancing i bought the soundtrack and dvd immediately after watching it patrick swayze and jennifer grey were brilliant in it they captured the emotions and feelings of the characters so well they were both such good dancers after watching the film i wished i could dance like them and i'm hopefully going to take up ballroom and latin dancing soon i've become a fan of that sort of dancing and am now hooked on all films and programs about it dirty dancing revealed my passion for dancing and music my favorite parts of the film are when baby goes into the headquarters and sees them dancing and obviously the last scene where baby and johnny dance together in front of everyone i believe that everyone must watch dirty dancing at least once in their lifetime if they don't it's their loss
1	i think dirty dancing was a great movie they tried to make another one havana nights which was good but it was nothing like dirty dancing i would like to see another dirty dancing with the same people without them i think it would be a mess a lot of times movies are made then when they try to add on more they start to change the people an make the movies go down hill i would love to see dirty dancing have another one to see what happened after they were able to be together patrick an jennifer did so well together this movie was made in 1997 its time to make another one but this time start where it left off an keep the same people in it
1	i have seen this movie about 50 times already and it doesn't look like i am ever going to get bored of it i always watch it with my best friend and it has become sort of a tradition for us now to watch it almost every month every single time we see this movie we both get really emotional and we laugh and cry in front of the tv together and sing all the songs in a loud voice and in the end we always dance by now we practically know even the whole dialog by heart and watching the film feels like seeing our own old friends on tv br br this film is perfect even though i have to admit that the story itself is a bit cheesy but the characters the dance the music and even the place where it all takes place make you forget all about it and you start believing that things like that really do happen and that the song all you need is love actually has some kind of a meaning br br i am really a normal person and not too serious about this comment of mine but i just cant wait until the next time we'll be able to see dirty dancing
1	when dirty dancing was on tv in the middle of last year i was out so i didn't get to see it my mum swore that i had seen it and that she had it on tape somewhere anyway getting to the point she couldn't find her video so for christmas i bought her the dvd well she hasn't had a look in it sat around for a while then one night i decided to take it upstairs to watch and i fell in love with it this is a great film with lots of lovely scenes i love the plot and enjoyed every moment of it it's definitely not for everyone but if you love a love story then you will want to watch dirty dancing again and again dirty dancing the way love is meant to be
1	i liked this western starring randolph and glenn ford it's got pretty much everything a western should have there's gunfights action chases on horseback there's a bit of a romance angle that's hinted at there's some nice comic relief in the form of edgar buchanan who plays uncle willie mcleod a character who pretend to be a doddering old fool but is actually aware of everything going on randolph scott plays the town sheriff and glenn ford plays cheyenne rogers bill smith a hunted outlaw who eventually tries to change his ways i liked the different mix of characters in the movie i didn't find it always fast paced but i never found it boring either even though the movie is in 1943 it is in colour 8 10
1	dirty dancing i think everyone has seen this movie at one time or another i can remember as a kid i loved this movie and watched it over and over again without tiring of it br br now that i'm a little older i bought the dvd recently and still wasn't disappointed with the performance br br swayze and grey create the atmosphere for this movie even though it's claimed they don't get along the chemistry in the movie is unbelievable as the movie proceeds we are sucked into their relationship and believe every single one of their actions br br the soundtrack is amazing the music only adds to the romantic mood of the movie and adds to the relationship between baby patrick br br the last scene makes this movie who can ever forget the famous line puts baby in the corner the song is perfect and the dancing is amazing br br i would recommend this movie to anyone at any age it's just a fun movie anyone can enjoy 8 10
1	dirty dancing one of my most favorite movies i've only watched it two times on abc because i haven't had the chance to buy it or rent it from blockbuster i had no idea jennifer grey was 27 at the time she made the movie because she was very convincing as a teenager compared to some women in hollywood she has a very flat chest which is why i was fooled so easily about her age so both physically and emotionally grey pulls off playing a teen very well i also loved the dancing who wouldn't both times i've watched dirty dancing i keep wanting to look up dance classes i also love the soundtrack and i do recognize some of the songs from when i was eight or nine i would love to be able to watch this in my drama class and i'm going to ask my teacher at some point if there's any part of the movie he can use for educational purposes it's much better than the stuff he made us watch last year and the ending was absolutely fantastic that's one of the best moments in the film br br i can't believe i'm looking forward to the first day back to school because of dirty dancing who could ask for a better influence from a movie with that sort of title
1	great music great dancing a sexy star swayze and actual sexual desire shown by a female character a very unusual event you rarely see female characters who are motivated primarily by lust and it is a nice change i also think the movie captures very well what it is like to be a teenager coping with issues of class and of having ideals suddenly come up against reality of course it is sappy at moments it is after all a movie musical but all in all it is a real pleasure a fun romance and also politically enlightened this movie also has one of my favorite all time movie lines i carried the watermelon
1	jennifer grey seems the of romantic leads and that's probably the reason why this beloved film is such a sure fire hit it's all very well doing a version of and capulets with like dancing and baiting jewish society family tropes thrown in but there usually has to be an x factor br br swayze probably makes this film safe with his rugged post travolta moves and temperament but its being won over by this curly mopped penelope teen that brings the dream in reach of the impressionable market the super dated perhaps soundtrack helps and of course the cunning conceit of setting the film in a resort away from day to day life altogether the fantasy 7 10
1	one of the greatest movies to come out of the 80's dirty dancing was a low budget film with high budget returns with a soundtrack that makes you want to get up and dance to a love story that all of us wish we could live at least if you're female this is a movie that you will want to watch over and over again br br the music which is what drives the movie is upbeat and flows well with the emotions which are drawn from the viewer from classic '60's hits like love man by otis redding and big girls don't cry by frankie valli to pure '80's hits like eric hungry eyes and frank overload dirty dancing is a mix of fun and sensual showing the transformation of a young girl from shy teenager into a blossoming womanhood all against the beautiful backdrop of a summer romance that we all hope and wish turned into more br br the dancing in dirty dancing is not to be forgotten cynthia rhodes shines in her role as penny a dancer who could challenge even the most fluid and lithe gymnasts patrick swayze does more than a fantastic job and shows off more and more of his skills not just as an actor but dancer and singer as well and jennifer grey shines as baby while her transformation in dancing portrays her transformation in status as well br br all in all dirty dancing is one of the best movies of all time and well worth watching at least once it's doubtful that the first beats of the be my baby in the opening title won't snare your attention and draw you in to a magical world of sensual dance and musical enchantment
1	i didn't understand what that line meant i do now i didn't really want to see dirty dancing either i'd rented it out but never watched it and today i did and i thought it was a really fun great movie that makes you want to get up and dance alright it was cheesy at times but it's still a great movie i can't believe jennifer grey was 27 in this movie my friend and i thought she looked about 18 or 19 20 at the most i guess this is attributed to her acting talent and she did really look awkward at times patrick swayze is also very good but you can tell he is in his thirties and seems a bit old nevertheless still very good i love 80s songs so it really struck a chord with me and the love story yes i'm a romantic was so wonderfully done i thoroughly enjoyed this movie exceeded my expectations
1	i have to admit before i watched this film i thought this is one of those soppy love stories where everything works out fine and dandy all the way through but i was proved wrong when i actually sat down to watch this i found that it was in fact a really good story about a family who go to a dance park for a 3 week holiday and there the youngest daughter baby finds love but has difficulty getting there with her new found love due to disagreements with her father but along the way helps another dance instructor and risks the whole relationship a truly heartwarming film like no other br br 10 10
1	dirty dancing follows the story of frances 'baby' houseman jennifer grey and her family as they spend the summer at family summer camp we get to see her discover herself as she falls in love with the dance instructor johnny castle patrick swayze br br the movie is full of wonderful dancing hence the title some great music and terrific scenery it handles some tough issues with dignity and grace and of course has shocking spoiler here a happy wonderful feel good ending you know how it's going to end from the beginning but that's really not the point here the point is the journey a journey that touches every member of the family br br it's one of the movies i need to see whenever it comes on tv never mind the fact that i already have it memorized
1	i first saw this movie with my fiancée many years after it came out i thought i would hate it but to my surprise it is so cheesy that it's great we've spent many hours reenacting parts of the movie sylvia yes mickey or i'm sorry you had to see that baby sometimes in this world we see things that we don't want to my cracks up every time i imitate neil also the music is classic and fun to sing along with especially on road trips of course i don't admit any of this to my male friends it's like a guilty pleasure i seriously watch dirty dancing once a month or more and it is just as good every time jennifer grey is also so cute in this movie its too bad her career never really took off
1	br br when this film was released i dismissed as being lightweight pop nonsense that was a mistake br br after repeated viewings and seeing a documentary of the making of dirty dancing discovering the depth of this film certainly increases its appeal br br dirty dancing is a film about change the evolving nature of relationships within the family the changes in one's view of the world during their coming of age etc the story takes place during august of 1963 the final weeks of the last summer of innocence for the american people the many personal changes experienced by the characters reflect the many changes in american society that would be marked by the kennedy assassinations and vietnam br br female movie adored this film and repeated trips to the movie houses made it the world's most successful dance movie as a male i find the romantic pairing of ultimate stud patrick swayze with very plain jennifer grey very hard to accept this would be fatal for most romantic dramas and it also may have create the intense dislike expressed by most male reviewers br br the film's soundtrack found 1 status before the release of the movie to this day it is nearly impossible to attend a wedding reception without hearing a dirty dancing song br br near the midpoint of the film baby's mother wakes up and asks baby's father is anything wrong br br baby's father the anti change family member attempts to keep all that is happening a secret he tells his wife to go back to sleep however resist as one can change is dirty dancing is the story of one person waking up just at the final moments of our country's last sleep in innocence
1	randolph scott and glenn ford were once outlaw pals together but now scott's a sheriff and young ford is still hiring his gun out he gets hired to pull a bank job but is delayed getting to town and those that hired him get someone else that leads to all kinds of complications a lot for a film that's not even 90 minutes long br br randy and glenn both got girls here claire trevor plays her usual good time gal with a heart of gold and evelyn keyes is the daughter of edgar buchanan who falls for ford big time without realizing who he is or why he came to the town that scott is the sheriff in br br it's b western but unusual for the time and for columbia pictures it was given the full technicolor treatment the desperadoes marked glenn ford's first film in technicolor a process reserved only for some of the more expensive films from bigger studios harry cohn was certainly not one to shell out for it and definitely not during war time br br the plot gets a bit convoluted as both ford and scott are put to the test of friendship versus expediency duty the plot also involves some high class hypocritical skunks in randy's town who are the real outlaws as far as the film is concerned br br the four leads do a fine job and the best supporting performance is guinn williams as ford's lovable explosive lunkhead of a sidekick the climax involves a cattle stampede and a shootout in the town saloon and is one of the best ever done in a western film br br fans of the four leads and westerns in general will enjoy this one
1	this is the best movie ever but that is my opinion some say it's cheesy but i think it is truly a beautiful film the chemistry between jennifer grey and patrick swayze it's like no other i have ever seen and that is what makes the film so perfect i always wonder what would have been of this film if these two actors never existed because not just one them did it for me they both did if you have never seen this film when you do you will understand what i mean dirty dancing looks like it was done from the heart and it feels so real for some reason like magic and the soundtrack love it besides the 2 lead actors the soundtrack makes the film the beauty that it is as you can tell i am in love with this film and i know you will be too
1	this is an excellent movie i have been watching it since i was old with my big sister it is the type of movie that u can watch over and over again and still laugh smile and cry every time with out ever getting bored of it like other movie's it is a movie that will live on forever through generations of family i love it when ranking from 1 10 in my case i would rate it easily 9 9 every time br br itis a film about the change of a girl baby and her first boy friend johnny their relationships within the family the changes in baby's and johnny's view of the world during their relationship br br dirty dancing will forever live on as a classic thank you sorry though for only the short comment
1	i viewed this movie for the first time last night and i enjoyed every aspect of it dancing the acting the dialogue the plot the script and the whole atmosphere that this movie created i would highly recommend it br br jennifer grey gives an absolutely wonderful and first class performance in her role as frances baby houseman she has a natural ability and flair for dancing and she is beautiful and enchanting on the dance floor but what is wonderful about baby is that she has such a wonderful depth and dimension to her character this is not simply a movie about dancing but the scriptwriters have also given us a chance to see baby deal with the various emotions and feelings that she is experiencing throughout the movie and to allow us an insight into how her interaction with others at the camp changes her life grey portrays her character with such realism and poignancy that you end up feeling deeply for baby as she experiences all she does in this movie br br patrick swayze is magnificent in his role as johnny and truly succeeds in making his character come alive he gives his character a comprehensive personality strong appeal and great depth the chemistry between swayze and grey is enchanting and powerful and contributes significantly to the great success of this movie br br cynthia rhodes is great in her role of penny and her portrayal of the ordeal that she experiences is truly powerful and contributes a frightening dimension to the film the other members of the supporting cast orbach and the late mark cantor deserve a special mention here also give wonderful and imaginative performances that gives this movie an additional dimension of high quality acting and believability that is wonderful to experience the dancing is magnificent and first class on the part of all involved br br the script and interaction between all the major characters is intriguing and engages the viewer in a powerful fashion the plot although exceedingly predictable is given more than enough life and vitality to make this movie successful br br furthermore the wonderful selection of music contained in this movie creates a truly magical atmosphere and very nostalgic environment that enhances the quality and success of all the various scenes br br dirty dancing' is a truly powerful magnificent and very appealing movie that leaves you deeply touched and with a wonderful feeling in your heart and soul and an inspiration to dance i highly recommend it
1	there was talk on the e hollywood special about the making of dirty dancing which still is considered by many women including a dear friend of mine in her fifties to be one of her favorite all time movies maybe the music the dancing or the melodrama around the plot of baby frances becoming a dancing sensation with johnny castle of course this film established jennifer grey whose biggest role to date was the resentful sister in ferris day off patrick swayze is perfectly cast as the heart throb leading man who sweeps baby away literally dirty dancing has it all to become a broadway or west end smash hit it has the love story the music and most of all lots of dancing jennifer and patrick could revive their roles easily it is nice to see jerry orbach play a doctor instead of a police officer and kelly bishop as the mother it all took place in the catskills in the sixties where many jewish families in the area during their summer vacations at the end of the film it is sad to see the hotel owner kellerman be baffled by the next generation it happened anyway most people prefer cruises and traveling through europe than spending the summer in the catskills those old grand hotels are becoming indian gaming casinos let broadway bring dirty dancing alive and well after all they could do it for footloose and saturday night fever this should be a no brainer i know that this film is one of the favorites that you don't get tired of after watching 800 times there are people that have probably seen this film a 1 000 times by now somehow watching the making and the story behind dirty dancing made me long for my childhood days as a thirteen year old dirty dancing may not be the greatest film ever made in the history but its universal appeal still draws crowds and repeated watchers like the 800 club whose members have watched it so many times i watch it fondly now with all the awkwardness of baby's first days and her first true love with patrick swayze as heart throb johnny castle nobody could have imagined this little film as a big hit then with the sixties music two soundtracks and even a tour in the late eighties i hope they bring it to broadway in a musical it would work for the audience to be part of a film no wonder it still attracts kids and even adults particularly women of all ages to watch it over and over again well australia and london both have had productions of dirty dancing it looks like it will come to broadway in 2007 just in time for it's 20th anniversary
1	i have been waiting to see this film for ages and i finally have as soon as i heard the title i knew that this film would be my favourite film ever and when i saw it believe me i wasn't disappointed br br this film had everything dance love and patrick swayze there was so much in it and it dealt with important issues that were at the time 1960's such as abortion br br the dancing in this film was fantastic just like the acting was swayze was brilliant just like grey was too br br although this film was absolutely fantastic you cannot say that you have seen it if you haven't seen the last scene it really does take your breath away as the whole choreography of the last dance was done brilliantly it had you dancing at the end of the film and it really wouldn't surprise me if it influenced people to take up dancing br br overall dirty dancing is a film not to be missed and even if half the actors are in the where are they now period the actors will always have this superb film in their career
1	this timeless summer love story is a classic and will never be dated i can't even count how many times i've seen dirty dancing this is one movie that i could probably watch every few weeks and still love br br there is something timeless about this movie i have loved other blockbuster love story movies like pretty woman and when harry met sally i think their up there but there is something about dirty dancing that just makes it absolutely perfect the characters the chemistry between and grey the movie's direction the incredible dancing the warm summery atmosphere everything about dirty dancing is absolutely perfect it is an instant classic and i've never really seen a movie like it either before or since br br i don't think there is one particular element that makes this movie so loved but many things a lot of which are mentioned by numerous reviewers dirty dancing has a nostalgic languid summery mood realistic characters a honest message coupled with incredible music and dancing and the one of the best dance sequences cinema has ever given us br br this movie is always on tv and i will continue to watch it as long as they show it but i will mention i have no interest in seeing nights this one they should have left alone
1	i don't really know what it is about dirty dancing there is some sort of absolute magic in this movie i cannot possibly recount the hundreds yes hundreds of times i've watched it beginning to end but every time i do come upon it on tv i am entranced and mystified and sit myself down and there i am for two hours loving the movie as if i'm watching it for the first time although patrick swayze and jennifer grey absolutely hated each other throughout the making of this film they possess a beautiful chemistry on the set it makes the viewer enjoy it that much more to see this passion and commitment and i can't help tearing up a tiny bit at the end when patrick comes up to the houseman family and tells her dad nobody puts baby in a corner classic moment for all those people who believe this movie is corny and sappy maybe in a way it is but it was the of the 80's films and put patrick swayze right on the map his performance was immaculate br br three cheers for dirty dancing br br ps the soundtrack is fantastic an absolute masterpiece
1	i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones we'd stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other br br we called one of our mates after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of on his nose by the back street abortionist br br lots of great lines remember at 5 30 in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man take it easy guy gandhi as a local shopkeeper br br tony was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it's no good amanda i'll never make it as a bar man helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match see the match last night i thought played well after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar see the match last night yeah i thought i played well br br we still do odd stupid lines now reg and ralph or ralph and reg reg reg reg reg reg reg br br lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line and he'll mark your packages 'return to sender br br good old danny peacock you added a lot to some young evenings sir br br update i found a couple of episodes on tape i'm going to the gandhi sketch to youtube
1	ahhhh 1984 i was young and stupid and just developing a taste for those exotic cigarettes whilst living in a squat in moss side with the most unbelievable case of cockroach infestation br br after a few of those this show was rotflmao material i was an avid fan then i'd look down at the floor or up at the walls or just about anywhere and see my very own collection of little scuttling about br br not sure if it was the chemical enhancement but i remember thinking at the time that the overt surrealism of the show was fantastic it was my second favourite thing on tv at the time 1 was the season of luis bunuel movies being shown by channel 4 radical art lives on br br also you gotta that theme tune i swear i'll never drink no more
1	i loved this show i used to actually leave the pub ten minutes before closing and run down the road to catch it i remember daniel sketch about gandhi in the as a masterpiece the set design and lighting were out of this world creating an atmosphere that you felt you were actually living in v unusual for a comedy br br unfortunately i have only encountered one other person apart from the other reviewer here who ever knew that this programme existed in fact i have to thank the imdb for coming into existence and proving to me that i hadn't in fact imagined the whole series in a drunken haze which i was seriously starting to believe
1	probably because this is columbia's first film in color the colors look different specially in the indoor scenes they seem to be stronger sharper and the result is a bit unrealistic but very pleasing randolph scott is the sheriff a good guy but the real star of the movie is a very young glenn ford who is an outlaw that wants to change evelyn keyes is the woman that starts falling for ford and claire trevor is the countess that runs the saloon there is a funny character called nitro that does not think twice before blowing it i particularly enjoyed two moments of the film one when there is a tremendous horse stampede and you see thousands of horses there was no computer to help at that time so i presume they must have gathered all those horses no easy task another moment is the final shootout technically very good there is also quite a fistfight seeing this western made in 1943 with such great action scenes makes you come to a sad conclusion they don't make them anymore would they be able to in case they wanted i have my doubts
1	meatballs is a classic comedy with so many laughs that it's impossible to count br br in what was merely a precursor of what was to come murray rules the screen in what can only be described as comic mastery harrison is one of the greatest comedy characters in the past 50 years sarcastic all the time smart when he has to be stern when he needs to be and caring when it suits him murray infuses with that snl glint in the eye br br the c i t's are merely in awe as they cower beneath the comic genius that is mr murray br br summer isn't summer without a viewing of meatballs one of the best comedies to ever grace the screen
1	i love meatballs terrific characters and poignant situations make this one dearly loved bill murray is hysterical and you gotta love that 4 mile trail race at the end a total classic and one of my favorites now for about 20 years it brings back fond memories of camp and deals nicely with the experience of being rejected by foolish peers and the empowerment brought one by being rescued by a sympathetic adult tons of great one liners and quite an assortment of wacko counselors this is the kind of movie where you repeat key phrases among friends for years afterward also nothing overtly crude and what a sweet late '70's soundtrack to bring on just the right amount of nostalgia i can't say enough about meatballs it's a classic be forewarned all the sequels are putrid stink bombs that simply bought the name rights for marketing they have no connection to ivan masterpiece
1	when i was younger this movie always aired on friday night in the summer on channel 40 this was the years before fox was a network and took over the programming i always looked forward to it i'd go grocery shopping with my parents then sit down with my tv dinner and a lady lee cola the only time of the week i was allowed to drink cola and enjoy sure the script is predictably late 70's like little darlings but it's a fun movie and i loved rudy and bill murray coasts with little effort in the movie but he is charming gotta love spaz and those taped glasses pre revenge of the nerds chris makepeace is pretty much the same character he played in my bodyguard but he does it so well
1	rattlesnake look out is that a bra you're wearing or are you expecting an assassination attempt spaz what are you a homo or what ok way to go you guys feed fink he's our hot man do you know they use the most sophisticated training methods from the soviet union east west germany and the newest olympic power trinidad oh spaz you old make out master what no mustard oh my god his nose is bleeding it's gonna get even bigger now our political roundtable henry kissinger will appear is gonna come out spend a weekend with the kids just rap with them br br these and many other great lines make meatballs a hall of fame comedy only in caddyshack is bill murray funnier he probably ad libbed half the lines the high school actors seemed to have a blast being in the same movie with him br br hilarious movie to watch any time of year not just the summer
1	meatballs works its way into conversations like no other movie especially during summer whether it's the song about the counselors in training or the cut downs or the inspirational rudy the rabbit or it just doesn't matter speech it pops up poor mickey morty who knows where he'd wake up next such a great snapshot of the seventies and a cultural icon for my generation of those who understand that non pc is really funny no matter who you are wheels and spaz are favorites as is the hot dog eating contest with the famous line what no mustard oh how many times i've reiterated that line and been the only one laughing thank you to the writers actors and directors applause applause
1	the quintessential let's get ready for summer movie it's dumb goofy and maybe a touch dated but my kids just saw it and they laughed as hard as i did when i first saw it in the style of all little guys versus the establishment movies so yes the plot is very predictable but it's warm and funny and no it's not bill murray at his bill but he is starting to stretch out in what was his first starring role odd though to see how few of the fresh young faces in this film went on to do much more
1	i rarely even bother to watch comedic movies or television these days they're insipid vulgar and most importantly not funny this one could be seen as a refreshing blast from the past it's worth watching and i don't believe it would be dated in any significant way classic humor is classic humor and good writing is good writing regardless of the era in which created br br i would love to see this film again it came to mind after having seen the somewhat similar summer school on television recently like that slightly newer film meatballs is funny without being cruel overly sexual or indulging in bathroom humor the key of course is how the adult character makes such a difference in the life of the teen character maybe even a virtually life saving change and how they both grow up in the space of a summer
1	i first saw this movie in the mid 80's and thought it was a funny movie as i have gotten older i watch this movie for different reasons i like to view it when i'm feeling sad nostalgic for my lost youth i was a teenager 14 at the time of the release of this film so i can identify with many of the same problems dilemmas that the campers in this movie have i enjoy seeing the clothes that were worn at this time and hearing the same old urban legends such as was told on the overnight canoe trip the film is also full of funny one liners i highly recommend this movie to anyone that was a teenager in the late 70's to early 80's
1	if you take the movie for what it is worth you won't be disappointed if you think murray is supposed to win an oscar for his performance and that is the type of movie you are expecting don't bother it was funny when i saw it in 1979 and hasn't lost its charm good clean fun for the kids and mindless entertainment for the older folks the story line is simple and easy to follow murray has done better but this is his first film the movie reminds me of a time when we didn't need blood and guts to be entertained morty is the head dunce and plays the part perfect the other counselors are typical revved up teens looking to have fun during the summer one nice thing about this movie it has a message
1	i know that was a goofy movie but i enjoyed it immensely it's one of the experiences that make me smile when someone says bill murray i almost always like movies involving the underdog and this movie has more underdogs than you can count it's overall a kind movie some of the adults are not wrapped tightly but the laughter is accepting rather than brutal like so many teen movies these days the rich kids across the lake take a beating but no one i know minded at all i never went to camp but i did some things that were somewhat parallel and most of the bits and tricks ran true they were even understated at times but i'm sure that was an accident the cast performed well with bill murray showing hints of what he would become it's not groundhog day or broken flowers but hey a good goofy laugh should be appreciated these days but then it just doesn't matter
1	the desperadoes 1943 is a genuine classic not for its story which is fairly routine but for its technical production elements this was a landmark western the biggest ever at the time of its release and all the more unique because it was a columbia production a lightweight studio with a bottom feeding reputation only fox's jesse james also starring randolph scott from a few years earlier gave anywhere near this lavish a treatment to the genre although it would be eclipsed in a few years by the searchers and high noon the desperadoes was a ground breaking effort and a historical treasure br br in 1863 the economy in the town of red valley utah is based on rounding up and selling wild horses to the union army the script gets a little messed up here with references to the railroad which was several years away in future and custer's last stand custer was busy fighting stuart in pennsylvania at the time but these are not important plot elements br br red valley has an honest sheriff steve scott but the banker and several citizens are corrupt robbing their own bank each time the government pays for a herd of horses the town is visited by cheyenne rogers glenn ford a famous outlaw who is an old friend steve's he wants to go straight especially after falling for the pretty livery stable owner alison mcleod evelyn keyes partner nitro rankin guinn big boy williams is mainly there for comic relief as are uncle willie mcleod edgar buchanan and the town judge raymond walburn who models his character on frank morgan's wizard of oz crystal ball faker br br taking no chances with their huge budget columbia packed this thing with tons of action and every western movie element but indians and covered wagons there is the best wild horse stampede ever filmed a spectacular barroom brawl an explosive climax romance and three strip technicolor all this stuff doesn't necessarily fit together but who would have cared back in 1943 unity is a problem as it tries to be both a serious action western and a comedy br br the cinematography was probably the best ever at the time of its filming the indoor scenes are solid but it is the naturalistic outdoor photography that is truly impressive both the lyrical static shots and the moving camera filming of the action sequences br br scott and claire trevor were top billed but the studio clearly wanted to promote ford who would soon be their biggest star and director charles vidor utilized the film to showcase his new wife keyes whose portrayal of scarlett's sister in gone with the wind had connected with audiences more than any small part in the history of films br br the ford keyes dynamic is the desperadoes most unique and important feature rather than go for the cliché love triangle with scott and or trevor which it first appears will happen the entire romantic focus is on the two younger actors this was probably the best role keyes ever got and she makes the most of it playing a tomboyish but extremely sexy young woman who looks great in both leather pants and dresses and who rides and fights like kiera knightley's character in pirates of the caribbean this was revolutionary at the time and coincided with the 1942 formation of the for wwii military service br br the desperadoes is one film that has been well taken care of and the print looks like it is brand new unfortunately there are no special features on the dvd br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
1	luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it meatballs is the story of low rent camp and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut br br the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs chuckles and more than a few guffaws along the way the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he's sleeping morty or micky as everyone calls him wakes up along the side of a road strung up in some trees several feet above the ground and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness br br the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace of course it's up to murray to teach the kid how to open up and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad the sentimentality of situation seems tacked on to a great degree notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him you must be the short depressed kid we ordered makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling in other words murray might as well have said to makepeace you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn't fit in but before it's all over murray's performance makes this plot device more than bearable he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace br br the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable but it just doesn't matter this is a pretty good film on many levels don't let the absurd 5 6 rating this film is currently getting scare you off murray will keep you laughing throughout just be warned avoid the sequels especially the one with corey feldman 8 of 10 stars br br the hound
1	the plot is predictable it has been done many times in other movies you have competing summer camps in this one the rich kids vs the underachievers competing for bragging rights in the typical camp contests while the kids and pursue pranks sex and a good time are you ready for the summer meatballs is the first and best summer camp movie for feel good comedy as others have posted it's no citizen kane but this type of movie isn't meant to be the film works because of the wonderful comic timing and classic one liners of bill murray his scenes with a camper where he tries to raise the kid's self esteem are very good bill's one liners throughout the film are very funny br br i also like that this movie isn't dirty or explicit like so many other teens at camp movies today there is some mild sexual innuendo and maybe one or two cuss words in the entire film but meatballs is the type of teen movie that is actually appropriate for the younger crowd it's rated pg br br this is a movie that you have to see a few times to get all of the jokes when bill murray is on the screen or making one of his classic pa announcements you are drawn to the film bill seems to carry the movie all by himself but he does it so well that when you see meatballs you will realize that this is the film that made him a star a side note to this review is to avoid all of the meatball movie sequels they are horribly bad
1	as a young teen when this came out i completely related to it as an adult in the present sex obsessed american culture it doesn't have enough nudity to be called tame br br if you are looking for american pie type lewdness vulgarity or fart and feces jokes meatballs will disappoint with impunity and a guarantee br br if you like bill murray and you like good clean fun you will probably like and enjoy this film very much similarly with stripes ghostbusters caddy shack etc br br enough said just go watch it and stop it it's meatballs for crying out loud why read a review just enjoy it and have fun and ignore the trash talk by others films like so many other things in life are subjective to each his own br br always beware the who diminishes others' taste
1	imagine spending the summer without your family or friends from school and meeting new people or yet it's your first time where you're a nobody and the only person you can count on is somebody from camp meatballs packs lots of comedy in this film in camp there's a eccentric counselor bill murray who knows how the boys and girls can have a good time enter a kid named rudy chris makepeace who has no one to look up to he doesn't fit in with anyone only can make him have fun the rest of the can are just as crazy as camp is an average camp with an above average team one the other hand camp mohawk is an elite camp that has them running for their money in the basketball game the got and in the olympiad the teal got the revenge they needed when one of the members take out the saboteur and morty harvey this poor soul can never get himself in gear if he tried a very very funny comedy and it's a big keeper i'll say this movie shows that camp can be fun if you wanted to be 5 stars
1	i liked this movie for the most part but have to say had there been anyone else besides bill murray in the lead role it would not have been as good he brings an energy to the role that steps this film up a notch than it would have been otherwise i mainly enjoyed the pranks pulled on the one counselor and there are other humorous things in this movie too such as the hot dog eating contest this movie would also set the stage for summer camp movies with the competition at the end nearly every camp movie has either this or the unruly or troubled kids plot or a combination of both this series also would take a rather strange shift in tone as this one and two are both family friendly movies while part three and four are more adult oriented more like the old teen sex comedies of the time it kind of did the opposite of the police academy movies that went from r to pg 13 to pg movies this series goes from the opposite to r still this first one and only good one is worth some chuckles largely due to bill murray
1	wildman head counselor harrison bill murray in peak nutty form in his first lead role presides over the various wacky hi jinks at north star befriends sad and lonely misfit kid rudy a nice and affecting performance by chris makepeace director ivan reitman relates the amusingly off the wall comic vignettes at a ceaseless snappy pace and maintains an engagingly good natured tone throughout this film astutely nails the essence of summer making friends first love pulling pranks competing in sports with a rival camp campfire and of course the inevitable scary urban legend about the escaped psycho killer with the hook hand the sense of gleefully raucous fun this picture generates is positively infectious moreover the humor is always goofy and occasionally gross but never too nasty or mean spirited best of all there's a winning surplus of pure heart to go along with said humor the warm relationship between and rudy in particular is genuinely touching the cast have an obvious ball playing their likable characters murray's gloriously gonzo and galvanizing presence keeps things constantly humming his crazy pa announcements are absolutely sidesplitting plus there are sound contributions from harvey as hapless camp owner morty kate lynch as sassy old flame roxanne russ as the amiable crockett kristine debell as the sweet foxy a l sarah as the feisty candace jack blum as klutzy bespectacled nerd spaz keith knight as tubby slob larry cindy as the fetching wendy and matt craven as the hip hardware donald wilder's cinematography gives the movie an attractive sunny look and makes nifty use of wipes elmer bernstein's lively and melodic score likewise does the trick a real riot
1	the reason i like this movie so much is because of the spirit it has it's a genial summer camp movie so the jokes aren't mean minded in a lasting way that makes one character the permanent butt of ridicule pranks do take place but you get the feeling that the respective fall guys would be able to look back and laugh having been dopey enough to fall for them and without being too cheesy it's actually kinda nice that everyone still remains friends in the end br br it's an extra special bonus when the ringmaster of all these jolly japes is bill murray for me he's still looked upon as the comedy god without peer when he gets a chance to cut loose no one's better at generating a sense of freewheeling wacky anarchy without really hurting anyone the tone of the entire film has the same style as its leading man established with a great opening scene showing the murray way of getting ready for the day everything's silly yes but more important than behaving like an adult is to have a whole lot of good natured fun meatballs promises such and ultimately delivers a nourishing watch
1	i just saw this for the first time in 10 or 15 years maybe close to 20 in some ways it was better than i remembered in other it was much worse br br first of all there's the music it's just plain awful there are only 5 songs in the movie most of them used more than once the opening song is by a chorus of annoying children and the disco y title track is performed by rick it doesn't get any worse than that even the background music is terrible with much of it repeating the themes of the other nauseating tunes we also get some truly lame slapstick mostly in the opening credits br br on the other hand bill murray is spot on brilliant as usual you have to wonder if he ad libbed the whole thing or if the writers just gave him all the funny lines or maybe he's just that great turning a weak script into comic genius the best part are his surreal pa announcements lobsters get out of here you're a menace br br you also get a lot more character development than you have any right to expect in a movie like this at least half the characters seem like real people and mostly real people you would like to have around even spaz gets to do a more than any other eddie type character ever did and when he gets the girl it's plausible she's not absurdly hot but he doesn't automatically pair up with one of the nerd girls see revenge of the nerds for examples of both cinematic phenomenons br br and when the plot seems clichéd well ya gotta wonder if it wasn't a cliché yet when they made this while it wasn't the first summer camp movie ya gotta go back at least to the parent trap it's certainly the movie that made it it's own genre in fact i was surprised that there was no talent show scene wet hot american summer spoofed the summer camp genre so perfectly i just assumed everything in it came straight out of meatballs i also half expected jon cryer to pull up in a convertible with a chimp thanks to mr show's epic camp olympiad spoof monk academy br br anyway this one seems to be vanishing a little as far as the late 70's early 80's comedies it's not a cable staple anymore and certainly doesn't have the cult following of caddyshack or animal house i was pleased to catch it on showtime today and in high definition at that sure it's pretty awful in spots but you could do a lot worse in a 70's 80's teen comedy and again murray is a genius
1	yes it feels and for the most part plays like an after school special for a slightly more adult audience alright maybe a teen audience but add in bill murray already showing some dramatic as well as his usual comedic talent a nice supporting cast and an unexpected sweetness about growing up and remembering those great or not so great days at summer camp and you get a heartwarming funny sleeper hit br br it does get a little too smarmy for its own good but that is also one of its charms when you hear the title meatballs and see the poster you expect a teenage sex romp but what you get is a yet sometimes sexy look back at those formative years at summer camp the and the of simpler times reminds me of a christmas story which i also love the rememberances of summer camp were never so well stated the only movie i've seen that comes close is indian summer which i like almost as much as meatballs and also stars matt craven let's hope he completes the trilogy maybe he could come back for return of the meatballs and bring some dignity back to the franchise meatballs 2 through 4 bare no resemblence to the original classic br br meatballs is easily on my top 10 guilty pleasures of all time not really guilty either it's a wonderful little film that always makes me smile
1	camp north star and it's camp counselor extraordinaire harrison bill murray sure would like to end a decades long losing streak to rival camp mohawk an ivy league type place where only the wealthy kids can attend meanwhile we watch as tries his hand at love when he flirts aimlessly with fellow female counselor roxanne kate lynch as other teen counselors pair up and also fall head over heels the film comes to head at the camp olympiad as the rivals square off in competitive athletic contests with almost realizing their doomed to fail yet another year the film also shows the growing bond between and a quietly lonely puppy dog eyed rudy chris makepeace of vamp fame whose dad is often away all the time rudy doesn't seem to fit in with the other kids his age and he seems to spend most of his time either jogging in the mornings with or taking his peanuts at blackjack the film mostly contains hi jinx of fellow teen camp counselors cutting up and goofing around br br you have hottie counselors total nerd spaz jack blum with his taped glasses and bad acne beak nosed hardware matt craven who likes to blow things up fat kid fink keith knight who is often stuffing his face amongst others in the film there's a basketball game where poor spaz can barely bounce the ball against rival camp mohawk much less shoot an accurate shot with poor fink tossing underhanded between his knees fly balls that sail over the back board there's camp fire coupling with a spirited scary tale by about a hook handed killer and boys drooling over the lovely ladies br br yes i know it's desperate at times trying to squeeze out every laugh it can and occasionally indulges in lapses of sentimentality such as the scenes with a sad makepeace and murray but just as much as this recent viewing i found myself giggling away i'm licked and just can't help loving this it's a summer camp movie through and through which simply wants to entertain you i can't explain or reinforce enough the overwhelming joy that floods forth when i see a sleepy murray's hand reach from the covers for the alarm clock that's piercing loudly pronouncing a summer camp movie is about to begin his jokes are especially amusing but the flick is let's be honest a series of comic vignettes with murray dead panning endlessly not that there's anything wrong with that the film though couldn't quite survive without him could it hard to even think of this movie without murray in the lead it's a happier time and i think nostalgia of that summer camp experience plays quite a hand in why we grown ups still connect with meatballs warmly and poor morty harvey the camp head who so badly wants things to run smooth and to beat camp mohawk for a change is the constant source of and gang's amusement as they often play gags on him especially when he's sleeping on his bed great enthusiastic cast who seem to be having as much as us
1	this movie was very good i really enjoyed it tom performance was excellent and very believable as the consumptive son edmund i also enjoyed the set design house and the costumes
1	this is easily the best of the summer camp movies in fact few of the others are even fair let alone anywhere near as entertaining as this one is br br the film is just simply out to have some good clean fun many people who went to summer camp as kids will see that it is presented here faithfully to the way it usually was but with slapstick comedy mixed in bill murray as the chief counselor of the camp leads a fine ensemble cast and is usually at the center of the riotous nonsense has great one liners throughout usually broadcasting his jokes as pseudo announcements over the camp's public address system br br several great supporting actors played the campers and counselors to build a myriad of fun and interesting subplots all the while sprinkled amongst the many incidents of camp hi jinx spaz jack blum and fink keith knight were two characters particularly well done the adventures and misadventures of these two are hilarious each has classic lines and they are characters you like and root for look for spaz in the scene of disco dance pandemonium br br the girls in the story are realistic characters too they're not dumb naive freakish oversexed nervy or any of the other overused abominable teen character stereotypes kristine debell kate lynch cindy and others make these characters believable br br the requisite pranks abound usually at the expense of camp director morty harvey the nature of these pranks start at outrageous and progress from there however with all the silliness going on and the others have their serious sides for example befriends a shy lonely kid rudy chris makepeace and takes him under his wing br br the story culminates with a sports competition against a rival camp it's a great root for the underdogs finale when the chips are down motivational it just doesn't matter spiel is inspired and one of the best moments in the movie and get ready to root spaz spaz spaz
1	seeing this movie always reminds me of what i remember summer being like god such a long time ago the entire scene involving the overnight from the canoe procession to the end of the trip is precious and story about the homicidal maniac is urban legend right out of my youth a highly entertaining movie made many times better by the awful sequels that followed
1	i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it in the 1970's there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise it's one of the best comedies of the 1970's and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to excellent comedic performance which still stands as one of his greatest this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time while this film is hilarious and meatballs 2 is so bad that it's fun meatballs 3 and meatballs 4 are absolutely dreadful recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters
1	no it's not citizen kane but would you expect it to be with a name like meatballs it's the best damn summer camp movie of all the summer camp movies does anyone quote little darlings line by line or whitewater summer br br this is just one of those movies that got into my brain when i was in junior high and stayed with me all these years every time i feel geeky i mumble spaz spaz spaz spaz or when we're hiking in the brush in the forest i tell my husband i'm da wabbit he doesn't get it it just doesn't matter it just doesn't matter i mean this stuff is classic br br disappointed with the dvd though wish there were special features maybe a commentary or a making of but the movie itself is a perfect snapshot of life as an adolescent in the late '70s maybe not my life you can't help but want to run around out in the woods in shorty shorts and knee high socks and feathered hair every time you see this movie
1	meatballs has been a main staple in my family for over 26 years we saw this movie when it first came out and have seen it dozens of times since bill murray is at his best and is most touching in the scenes where he reaches out to a lonely pre teen boy and befriends him while leading his into once mischievous scheme after another the cast of characters are fun and zany and you really come to care about them and the relationships they have with each other this is not another sleazy dumb teen sex fest it is funny and sweet and just all around fun anyone who sees this will enjoy themselves it is a must see watch out for spaz he is by far the best character especially during the camp social while bill murray hams it up for the camera just watch spaz behind him dancing with the poor girl he picks to dance with by far one of my very favorite comedies of all time
1	i can hardly call this a great film but it is entertaining in my case i at the time this film was released was the same age as some of the junior campers in the film for me watching this film brings back the memories of my camp years while some of the pranks that takes place in this movie like carrying the camp director out in his bed and leaving him on the side of a road strung up in the trees or out on a lake are a bit over the top some of the other pranks are not when i went to camp the campers and counselors pulled similar stunts such as running underwear up the flag pole canoe battles and boys raiding the girls cabin as i grew older i realized these night raids to the girls cabin that i participated in were carefully orchestrated by the counselors so that we wouldn't find the girls in embarrassing situations but at the time i thought it was real and it was fun that's what meatballs mb is br br mb captures not only the scenic beauty of camp surroundings but the beauty of being young and carefree mb give a great example of pre teens teens and young adults living their summer with no concerns other than guys hooking up with girls and girls hooking up with guys and booth having as much fun as they can before they head back to junior high high school and college the opening title song that goes are you ready for the summer no more homework no more books no more teachers dirty looks describes exactly how summer is viewed by school kids br br i personally enjoyed the two campers spaz and fink what boy nerd or jock didn't spend all camp trying to cozy up to some pretty girl camper what guy didn't want to be accepted by the other campers and counselors while these two characters are somewhat over the top i bet everybody who watches the film can't help but to like these two guys these two characters are a mix of charlie brown from peanuts and jack larry dallas from three's company i would bet that most viewers even cheer for spaz in the egg carrying competition and for fink as he attempts to beat the stomach in the hot dog eating contest br br lastly this movie had normal looking kids and counselors no super models for counselors or campers that wore trendy clothing it is fun to just kick back and watch this film and remember when life was as fun as this movie
1	meatballs is an ode to summer camp those of us who got to go to camp will see many of the scenes as we remember or wish they could have been br br bill murray plays senior boys counselor harrison who really runs the camp he reminds us of the funny cool staff member who everyone loves young campers gravitate toward him and if he speaks to you you feel like you are family this is one of murray's best roles he drives the film with his one liners and ad libs br br chris makepeace plays rudy the loner camper who is taken under wing and breaks out of his shell br br the rest of the campers and staff in the film were excellent as well br br the overall theme of the movie is the underdog overcoming obstacles to finally win from rudy to spaz to the camp and even to himself the underdogs of the film are the stars the movie has heart br br the film is fun and funny without being cruel or oversexed as some teen movies are today the cast look and act like real people br br the comedy and heart draw you in to the point that at the end just like at camp you are sad to leave br br in my summer camp experience we had underwear run up flag poles mystery meat trying to sneak a peek into the girls cabin the lunatic with the hook stories around the camp fire and moving sleeping people out of their cabins and putting them elsewhere but we also had a dedicated camp staff guiding us to be the best we could be br br my favorite scene is the overnight when they are canoeing across the lake singing a goofy song the one line that cracks me up every time is when is announcing light outs the evening before parent's day and he ends tomorrow is parents day and you must look rested or morty will be sent to the state penitentiary
1	i'm not american but meatballs still really hits me maybe because it's a sweet sweet movie watching it again today made me sentimental for a time i can't really put my finger on and a place i can't quite remember br br meatballs is just a great movie it reminds me of innocent days when nothing really mattered and anything was possible br br if you're reading this you probably know what i mean br br all i can say on top of what i've already said is that meatballs must be even more nostalgic if you're american br br i guess you know what i mean by that too
1	some people have the ability to use only 3 neurons one for eating one for breathing and the other one for s ting this is not a movie for them br br but for those who enjoy using the brain the whole movie is a metaphor everything is there for a purpose every single detail the coffee mug the red couch everything is a underestimated masterpiece br br it is hilarious is raw and totally realistic that's how we actually interact it is a royal comedy total causality br br just hang on don't let the first scene shock you hang on and enjoy the show
1	br br the kind of movie that demands too much from the audience yet to disappoint most of them i think of the mexican people who either in an attempt to support mexican movies or willing to see a film casting top mexican stars saw it half of the people went out of the theater when i went to watch it it's definitely not the kind of movie one could expect i think too of the people from other countries who dared spending 2 hours seeing it till the very end what a piece of crap in order to understand de un one has to be mexican and one has to be familiar with the low middle classes or even better be part of them there's nothing accidental in this movie the family is and has what many families in mexico at least share one has to see it with a wide open mind to accept it entirely it's not the kind of movie that you fully understand after you watch it the older brother wouldn't let anyone sit on his red couch the sister is staying no matter how she wants to leave the younger brother is going to an excursion and all he cares about is the yellow radio the mother has to prepare the breakfast for the family no matter how tense and unbearable the situation is the father came back after who knows how long allowing the mother to live a night of passion that somehow turns out to be momentary and ends up by repeating all the attitudes of his sons the stories around the house are surrealistic and so is the movie a travestite looking for his penis a factory worker and his attempt of suicide by the kisses of his girlfriend a fat man riding his bicycle after a interesting conversation about homosexuals with his sister wife mother the music doesn't pretend too much but it achieves a lot not more than a snare drum cymbal a some strings thanks good a movie like this was done and released br br one of the best mexican movies ever and one of the less understood even by mexican themselves no matter how identified the should have felt with it br br
1	this is a great movie the best role peter strauss ever did the music is good the message harsh the actors great and the story is both emotional and raw only in the seventies did they make them like this one
1	yes watch this movie if you like brave films this is maybe the best mexican picture since alley just because the excellent cast the outrageous direction and a sublime soundtrack many people did not like they think it's very aggressive but they didn't understand that it was just a representation with hyper realism of the mexican society but so similar to all the third world families i hope that benjamin cann and bruno bichir who in this movie gives another example of his greatness as an actor soon get together again with a new film just remember how los olvidados luis buñuel was misunderstood when released but now we consider one of the best movies of all times please prepare yourself and watch this film
1	excuse me if i'm wrong but para un could be one of the most films in mexican movie history for a lot of reasons we can get a lot of ingredients for a perfect mexican middle class family breakfast a cup of surrealistic motifs with a little drop of scenarios a pound of phallus symbols around the film and a difficult psychological complexity more than todd happiness and the dogma movement films there s a lot of sordidness black humor repressed dreams teodoro's dream of fly incestual lack of control the relation between marcos and no sense parallel stories a discrete violence anachronisms and br br a little sign of hope spotlighted in the husband's home return and un mas used for leit motif marcos bruno bichir is a charming character i think in a way the king without a crown who don't expects for anything but broken noses maria rojo the lovable wife put out a lot of faces but the only thing that she worried is that her sons had breakfast s a loser in many ways and sensual in few moments but you will fall in love of her the soundtrack's drag too much woods feeds the lack of technical merits intentional of course out of focus shots close ups in introspective scenes dizzy pans and sudden edition cuts is something difficult to digest it get stuck in the throat and anything helps for it it tastes bitter like a rotten orange juice and sour like expired milk but you want to enjoy it so i recommend to get some before the show because you won't get hungry after all
1	this film has the guts to suggest that it might be best to simply accept your life as it is and keep smiling anyway as one who is more excited by the idea of taking charge of one's life and moving forward i felt slapped in the face but that's okay i don't have to agree with a movie to love it and respect it great acting by streep and hurt and everyone else really and some wonderfully quirky scenes a serious film and take a hanky
1	i hate to say i enjoyed this movie as the subject matter does not lend itself to enjoyment however i was moved by the way the family relationships were portrayed and the sincerity of the performances it was the kind of film i told all my friends and family to experience as a reminder of how important we all are to each other
1	i think one true thing is one of meryl finest movies to date her depiction of a dying woman is perfect i have recently lived this movie and it touched me on more levels than i could have imagined meryl is truely the greatest actress to have ever walked the earth
1	a great story although one we are certainly familiar with meryl streep proves that she is truly the best actress in film today very entertaining and just what i expected don't go see this film unless you are prepared to be used and manipulated emotionally but if you have that expectation then you will enjoy the ride
1	after renting one true thing the other night i have learned to respect my family and not take their health for granted i have never seen such a real life portrayal of a cancer victim on screen like meryl delivered she deserves the oscar nomination but she has some tough competitors in the running all i can say is beautiful film great acting from streep and meryl streep revealed her one true ability in this excellent film
1	i saw this movie in september with my mother i was expecting a good movie and i saw an excellent one this is now my most treasured movie it did not leave me after i left the theater the situations in this movie reminded me of my late grandmother meryl streep and renee zellweger were equally incredible this movie has made me realize how important family relationships are rent it i can't recommend it enough
1	meryl streep may be the greatest actor working today her portrayals never fail to astonish she seems actually to be the characters she brings to the screen in one true thing she gives life to a deceptively straightforward profoundly complex woman doing her best to play the hand life has dealt to her surviving with cancer is no easy task and not just surviving but actually continuing to live one's life is even harder and this is precisely what kate streep means to do renee zellweger jerry maguire not only holds her own in this exalted company but shines as streep's daughter who learns to see in a new light her parents' lives as well as her own streep is a powerhouse and deservedly received an oscar nomination for her work here her i'm only going to say this once dialogue with zellweger will leave you devastated zellweger though is the real revelation her face conveys every emotion every conflict as she begins to learn the many truths about her parents' strengths and weaknesses director carl franklin devil in a blue dress handles the extremely difficult story material with and delicacy
1	i loved this movie to be very fair the movie starts off very slowly with none of the characters being terribly sympathetic it continues in this way for a good half of the film br br but if you're patient you'll be greatly rewarded what the first half of the movie lacks in character development and or sympathy is adequately compensated for in the second half it's a bit like riding a roller coaster a slow uphill climb to off with and then speed twists and turns and a few surprises br br as usual meryl streep is wonderful she is the finest actress of our time william hurt is good if a bit wooden in spots renee zellweger does a very good job showing that her performance in jerry mcguire wasn't a fluke
1	i read on the web that this film is being remade into a theatrical feature finally it's about time hollywood got their act together the big studios always frown at edgy material with oscar written all over it go figure br br jericho mile was made ahead of it's time it's a masterpiece br br michael mann a true visionary found a way to engage an audience without overindulgence peter strauss' emmy award performance is probably the best character role i've seen in my film viewing lifetime any actor who touches this role will never be the same unless an academy award is already sitting on their mantle br br the gritty multi ethnic ensemble a backdrop for the jericho mile makes one understand the delicate social dynamics of our world this is about redemption without public validation and the power of the human spirit overcoming all barriers imagine a convict imprisoned since he was a teenager for life with no chance of parole that doesn't know he is possibly the fastest runner in the world what would you do br br this movie makes you walk away feeling you haven't been cheated on any level totally thrilling engaging emotional and a rolling stones soundtrack that ass br br i always thought this would be made for the big screen can't wait in the meantime i'll have to continue re watching my weathered vhs copy i've had for many years
1	one true thing is a very quiet film that opened in the fall of 1998 to glowing reviews but mild box office it tells the crippled story of ellen renee zellweger a workaholic who is forced to move back home to take care of her terminally ill mother meryl streep so that her aloof father william hurt can run his academic department these terms are only general the strength of one true thing lies in the way the actors elevate their characters above hollywood cliché territory br br streep is kate the perfect homemaker whose ability to light up a room with her charm is evident in her opening scenes at a costume party celebrating hurt's birthday but ellen has never been close to her mother and since she graduated from harvard university has a certain about her ellen almost thinks her mother is a simplistic air head while on the other hand she admires her father who shares a special passion writing ellen writes for an aggressive new york firm and is almost heartbroken when her latest piece is torn down by hurt who seems to be a very lonely figure br br to get to the point as kate gets sicker ellen's perspectives change and she grows closer to her mother and more distant to her father hurt keeps making excuses not to be there when the family needs him most and ellen assumes he's having an affair meanwhile she's given up her desk at work to spend time doing craft activities with her mother's cult group the and also learning that her mother isn't as weak as she first assumed br br without giving too much away one true thing is a masterpiece in character study streep once again turns in a beautiful performance this time working on a subtle level that starts slow but ends with a brilliant speech on the vows of marriage streep earned her eleventh oscar nomination for this performance hurt is also convincing as the father who carries a secret that isn't revealed until the closing moments but it is renee zellweger who steals this movie forget chicago cold mountain bridget jones's diary or whatever else you've seen her do and rent this movie she is remarkable in it working within her character's bitter resentment at understanding her parents zellweger manages a realistic portrayal of a young woman fighting to keep her lip up while she's screaming inside
1	this movie started out confusing and grew into one of the best movies i have seen the acting was utterly superb and when i wasn't drying my tears i enjoyed meryl streep who's performance was extraordinary the movie deals with the hardships of a distant family coping with a mother who develops terminal cancer the movie was very difficult to watch and heartbreaking the soundtrack fits this movie to a tee brava bette midler out of 5 stars i give this one 4 1 2
1	if you are among the imdb audience that put high fidelity in the all time top 200 then this movie probably is not for you this film is as as steve frears is self consciously hip renee zellweger is excellent as a hip urbane magazine writer who returns to her suburban bucks county nest in order to care for mother streep who delivers yet another hall of fame performance william hurt is ideally cast and the feckless faithless and egotistical husband if this movie doesn't move you to cry and laugh then you are much too hip to enjoy it
1	i have loved one true thing since the first time i watched it in the theater and cried my eyes out i bought it as soon as it was available and have lost track of how many times i've watched it br br to me one true thing is the ultimate family relationship movie i love watching the relationships in the family change and evolve into what they end up being i can relate to many details in the movie my mother died of bone cancer so it really hits home with me maybe this is why i love it so much br br i like the relationships between the children and their parents and the relationship of brother and sister but especially love the relationship between husband and wife to me it is truly beautiful br br i highly recommend this move to anyone who enjoys this kind of movie
1	one true thing proves that it's the characters which make a movie streep will surely receive an oscar nomination for her role a beautiful drama one true thing is a prime example of movie making in the late 1990's there are still people out there who care about making and watching movies other than the big blockbusters with million dollar special effects it's no best picture or anything don't be silly but the amount of emotion that was delivered by both the actors and the writer hit me like a shock wave i cried twice in this movie which says a lot for a 24 year old man
1	one true thing puts zellweger in the midst of a family crisis as an adult journalist who returns home to care for her dying mother streep somber and plodding the film studies the adult child coming to terms with the adult view of her parents as they are slowly revealed to be something less than the ideal she grew up knowing as a child an excellent character study and a find production with little to fault ott offers three fine performances by a trio of top actors and some plaintive reflections on life and death
1	i don't cry easily over movies but i have to admit this one brought me to tears although i am not a ms streep fan her performance was excellent the title defines in a sentence what a mother's love is for the first hour i didn't like any of the characters but that changed as the movie went on the movie also explained why certain marriages last even though there are obstacles a must see film
1	written by someone who has been there you can tell but only if you've been there excellent performances by meryl streep of course renee zellweger and william hurt br br many people have said that it is about a dysfunctional family i think every family is dysfunctional when they are facing this kind of torment to not be dysfunctional would be dysfunctional you are losing your family as you know it can anything be worse people need to see this movie so when they are faced with this nightmare maybe they will change how they do it maybe they will see that the father is denying himself valuable time he'll never get a chance at again maybe they will realize how hard it is to die or to watch someone you love die they didn't miss much of the nightmare it's hard to forget
1	the dvd jacket in which this movie came describes it as uplifting and humorous those are not the words i would have chosen not by a long shot i would choose a word like sombre sometimes even depressing which isn't to say that it's a bad movie it's actually a pretty good movie featuring good performances from the leads with enough uncertainty throughout about what's going to happen at the end that you keep watching the uncertainty comes from the structure of the movie it seems to revolve around ellen's reminiscences of her mother's slow death from cancer as she is interviewed by the da so we know from the start that something suspicious happened at the end the questions are what and who br br renee zellweger was very good as ellen the somewhat resentful daughter who has to give up her life and job in new york to return home to care for her sick mother ellen evolves through the movie moreso than any other character as she learns to deal with both the strengths and weaknesses of her parents her relationship with her father william hurt is quite interesting my initial impression was that they were quite close but the warts in the relationship start to show after a while hurt was effective as the detached husband detached not in an uncaring way but in the sense of being unable to cope with what's happening to his wife and seeking escape from it in various ways finally meryl streep as the cancer stricken kate was very convincing in the role seeking to live out what remains of her life in the most fulfilling way possible then dealing with the anger she feels at her increasing in a way watching a family deal with this kind of crisis reminded me a little bit of ordinary people although this movie was far less emotionally intense so not uplifting and humorous with all due respect to whoever wrote the synopsis on the dvd jacket but very good in its own way 7 10
1	one true thing is the kind of movie where the audience is inspired greatly greatly inspired performances i am not necessarily stating that the film is uplifting because it isn't in fact the movie is down right depressing i am trying to say that it takes a lot for a movie to generate emotional tears from an attending crowd br br i cried in one true thing enough to conclude that this is one of the most emotionally powerful movies of 1998 the characters were perfectly casted the performances are all guaranteed oscar nominees especially meryl streep who portraits the dying kate extremely well her acting alone was enough to make the movie excel to the point of recommendation and gives you a new point of view at her i also thought that renée zellweger portrayed a realistic single free wheeling woman who has to take care of their own mother the other cast members including william hurt tom everett scott were also superb the script of this movie was really fantastic it is kind of funny how the movie's concept has to do with the controversial happenings in my local area you see i live near lansing michigan and right now a big issue here is assistant suicide doctor jack excuse my miss spelling if so ways have just been outlawed the public will vote on this according to their beliefs in november after watching one true thing it really changed my perspective at this topic although i have always believed in it without revealing the ending of the film i will simply say that suicide is a distant theme in this movie and i think it fits in accurately with the gorgeous story overall this movie does indeed have more emotional impact than titanic saving private ryan or any other tearjerker released in the last few years i think that is because the main idea of this movie is that this kind of thing happened every day so it relates better to an audience and indeed that this could happening to you
1	the first time i saw this film i was a kid i was ten years old when it was released but since my family never went to movie theaters i saw it on network tv i remember watching it crying afterward it was only the second film to illicit that response rocky was the first and there haven't been many since i can't say why exactly larry rain murphy didn't deserve to win any more that rocky balboa or anyone else i know i admired murphy not so much for what he did but for the way he did his time stoic he didn't need a stopwatch or freedom to find dignity he ran because he could he needed no other reason i have a rule today that when i see this film late at night on cable television the only time most will come across it i must watch no matter what i have to do the next morning fortunately it doesn't play often like shawshank redemption or other favorites so i still get plenty of sleep and i never tire of the story of one man's unrepentant imprisonment and personal victory
1	meryl streep as kate a woman dying of cancer performs her role admirably no wonder she was up for an oscar in the part she proves that caring and nurturing housewives are just as important as their sisters out in the business world and the lesson she teaches about life's expectations and their lack of fulfillment as the relationship grows that is the most important thing she teaches her daughter we can expect too much of our mates realize that there are many slips and forgiveness or understanding are the main ingredients of a happy life this is a sombre movie and the ending though sad shows reconciliation between the father and daughter i give this one a ten
1	i wonder sometimes if maybe meryl streep has become so accepted as the most impressive versatile actress since well maybe just about the beginning of the sound era that maybe her talent is now taken for granted there are probably about three tics that she relies on consistently throughout her performances most noticeably a pinched lip but other than that her performances are amazingly variable and original and fresh expressions of internal workings even though sophie's choice and a cry in the dark and may be her work here and in bridges in madison county is remarkable too just more subtle in one true thing she is mostly sweet and in love with her domesticated life and streep makes what could be routine even boring seem attractive and charming i think that she must work out these mini theses for each character and find what things make this person real and interesting she works from the inside out with each character and maybe it's this essential quality that has evoked the main criticism of aloofness or self consciousness i don't think she's cold at all but instead has thought out her character's unique qualities i think her critics are confusing self consciousness with intelligence not too many other actors would be so thoughtful and creative as to make kate lightweight and carefree within her beloved homey environment only to later reveal unprecedented depth because of her genuine attachment to that homey environment her performances are of an unsurpassed consistency she rarely does anything wrong i wonder if it's conceivable for any of streep's pictures to not seem diminished because of her presence anyway kate loves her home and her affection for her family life is as endearing as her new conflict within the home is jarring when all of this comes together and kate starts to recognize that she can no longer function in the same capacity and she breaks the pie dish and screams out that she is not handicapped it is painfully sad to watch because this has not been someone prone to emotion streep is smart enough and generous enough to recognize how much better everything works because she has felt out the dramatic validity of kate and it's really the only scene when she allows her character to go but how refreshingly true it is to see a character who can really surprise you by displaying something that you wouldn't have thought possible once again streep's character has at least three dimensions god this sounds like a thesis itself but as an actress streep just has a special kind of intelligence incredible empathy and great expressive skills the movie itself is probably somewhat mediocre i suppose william hurt is meant to be an unlikeable jerk and he does very well i think hurt is really kind of creepy though script is quite standard another tribute to streep that she was as touching and believable as she was
1	kate played by one of the most nominated actresses of the last decade of this century and also one of the most talented actresses meryl streep out of africa she is wonderful is every part that she plays the yale graduate is the pride and joy of the american cinema br br kate's health is deteriorating and her husband george role well developed by brilliant actor and also oscar winner william hurt smoke kiss of the spider woman has a hard time with the deteriorating health of his one true thing and seeks his daughter's help the poor daughter ellen renée zellweger jerry maguire has way too much expected of her no breaks the story takes a very realistic view on the illness of a parent in this movie the only daughter has to put her life on hold to care for the needs of others there is always one in every family who faces that kind of responsibility ellen is angry the beginning of the movie but as time passes she ends up understanding her mothers' life time dedication to her family she even asks her mom how do you do his every day in and out and nobody notices it that is what women do a lot of what i call invisible work moreover we clean we fix we mend we stretch we celebrate we are the best friends we are the mistress sensitive some of us like both women in this movie have the perfect education are the psychological pillar for the entire family and also do all that invisible work that is kate ellen and many women in our society many of us have already gone through that stage of life when our parents age and died i have been there they just went too young i have given my parents my thanks but i never understood them as well as when i had to play their roles and had to walk in their shoes this movie mirrors the reality of life perhaps it is sad but that is how life is at times george a professor at harvard is complicated person who appears to think that his work is more important than everybody else and has a very master servant mentality toward the women in his life he is not strong enough to cope if you want to see good acting and the reality of life do not miss this movie favorite scenes the restaurant coming to kate violins and all the making of a table out of broken china that i so symbolic we are all broken vessels favorite quotes george it is only by going uphill that you realize that you are really going downhill george you have a harvard education but where is your heart br br
1	it's not surprising that the majority of higher rated votes were submitted by females aged 45 this is the timeframe in women's lives when they become the caretakers of aged and ill parents i lost my mother from complications of cancer in june and went through most of the same emotions portrayed by zellweger in this film yes it made me cry but the tears were real the characters were real and the plot development extremely accurate kudos to the entire cast and crew for a wonderful portrayal of life and death and the promises of tomorrow
1	one true thing rises above its potentially schlocky material to give us a view of a family of complex relationships and flawed real people it opens with rene discussing her mother's death with the district attorney sparing us the cheap cinematic shots of a shocking illness and death from there it proceeds into a look at a family system in which everyone plays by a set of unexamined rules and uses the mother's cancer to show what happens when all the rules change br br william hurt as the self important father and meryl streep as the suzy homemaker mother are both superb nuanced and not what they appear to be is seething angry and surprised with herself tom everett scott doesn't have much to do but he does it well br br the story is predictable and takes at least one badly soppy turn it needn't have taken but the performances and the view of family as a place where anger and love are equally mixed make it worthwhile
1	what impressed me the most about one true thing was how up front it was when the daughter mentions her mother's cancer at the beginning of the movie as depressing the subject matter was it was a refreshing change of pace instead of being blindsided with the revelation about a character's fatal illness 2 3 into the movie love story terms of endearment etc br br meryl streep renee zellweger and william hurt give very strong performances that don't go over the edge the characters they play seem human they're not perfect people arguably one might not say that about the martha stewart type character streep plays but throughout the film i found her character to be noble in a non sappy way she's dealing with her plight the best way she knows how br br one true thing is an observant unsentimental family drama in which the tears at the end were well earned
1	the reason i think this movie is fabulous is that it has so many layers of emotion from the script and the fabulous acting you can tell that there is a history behind all of the feelings that there are you understand why the characters take certain actions and why the do not make others you can feel sympathy and joy and love and sorrow for them all at once you see humanity at its best and at it's worst you can relate to the characters because although you may have never been in their exact situations before you see qualities and downfalls in them that you see in yourself to a certain extent this movie kind of keeps you wondering but then at the end it explains itself and you feel a certain peace and understanding not only in you but for the characters i will say that i have have never ever cried so much in my life nor have gotten so much out of something i implore you to watch this movie and take it's meaning to heart that there is only one true thing and that is love
1	this movie was a very good universal monster movie it once again stars lon chaney as the wolfman and glenn strange as frankenstein's monster oh yeah that jerk john carradine is back again as dracula i like every actor in this movie i especially liked onslow stevens as dr it's spelled with 2 i thought it was a good idea to have the goodhearted doctor himself doomed like talbot was one scene that i think is very good is the scene when dr is in deep thought as he changes everything that is troubling him flashes before your eyes the good doctor is saying no while his evil side is saying yes that's the only reason why i didn't want the dracula character eliminated completely from this movie i thought dracula had no business in house of frankenstein if his character was taken out you wouldn't miss him in this film the doctor's blood is contaminated with dracula's giving him his jekyll and hyde curse i hate john carradine and i don't think he should have ever played dracula i didn't mind other actors playing the frankenstein monster after the great karloff because they all did good jobs but when they get another actor to play dracula it stops right there john carradine thought he was so high and mighty they offered him the role of the frankenstein monster once and he turned it down because he thought he was too highly trained i could just picture carradine if he did play the monster arguing with the director on the set i don't have to take this from you i've done shakespeare john carradine wasn't dracula and he never will be sorry john bela lugosi is the one and only dracula thank god they got bela to come back as dracula for abbott and costello meet frankenstein br br don't miss this movie it doesn't disappoint you and you will enjoy it as you did the other this is a very good addition to the monster movies if you're a collector be sure not to leave this one out br br
1	despite all of the comparisons to house of frankenstein this movie outshines its predecessor and is one of the funnest monster movies in the universal monsters series and sadly the last o k so it doesn't exactly stack up to something like the bride of frankenstein as one a classic to revered by fans of all movies but with a cast of dracula the wolf man and frankenstein's monster what no mummy you can't help but enjoy this schlock fest and unlike house of frankenstein the monsters in this movie interact a lot more but this movie also offers some unique story lines for both dracula and the wolf man who both go to dr for cures of their afflictions while the wolf man actually does find a cure dracula injects his blood into the doctor and that's when the real fun begins i highly recommend this movie to fans of classic horror movies but remember i never said it was good just fun
1	this movie has the look and feel of having been put together in a matter of days kind of like plan 9 from outer space in spite of this it's still a classic ranking among my favorite creature features possible spoilers ahead count dracula and larry talbot aka wolfman arrive at the laboratory of dr edelman seeking a cure for their nocturnal anti social behavior such as killing people in the meantime kindly dr edelman discovers the body of the frankenstein monster becoming obsessed with bringing it back to life a common character trait among scientists mad or otherwise he goes against his better judgement resulting in monster mayhem and madness one of the final universal classics of it's time abbot and costello meet frankenstein followed 3 years later it rates a 10 with this reviewer onslow steven steals the show as good doctor gone bad after being infected by the blood of dracula and becoming a half werewolf vampire creature coming to a tragic end at 1 hour 7 min it packs quite a punch a worthy addition to my video collection br br rating out of
1	a film that deserved theatrical release this made for television movie is a cinematic gem that exemplifies the technique of michael mann with stirring contemporary music tightly integrated to the visual images always with mr mann the of impact by the music is almost as if there is an invisible academy award winning actor added to the ensemble of cast writer director and cinematographer br br this film is definitely one of my all time favorites while nothing is perfect this film comes very very close br br along with an excellent script great direction and masterful acting by richard strauss there is an all star ensemble of character actors at their finest roger mosely brian dennehy ed lauter geoffrey lewis richard moll miguel william prince burton ji tu richard lawson and billy green bush you may not recognize the names but you will recognize every face br br if this comes on tv sit down with popcorn turn up the sound for an amazing soundtrack and score and prepare to be riveted for the 97 minutes of the film i highly recommend recording it since it is only available on vhs and dvd from holland and the dvd is region 2 encoded
1	this movie is certainly well constructed beginning and ending in the dark with focus on lili smith schmidt julie andrews initially the singing 'angel' later the notorious spy br br it's beautiful i saw the movie about 15 years ago and watched it again recently while it was dismissed by critics in the 70's as overblown 'cinema and lacking in structure among others time has proven them wrong blake edwards certainly has produced a film that is almost of lyrical quality br br the film soars and swirls aerial photography julie andrews in motion and captivates one must just buy into the premise that julie andrews is a spy whose mission has gone wrong overlooking the tepid chemistry between julie andrews and rock hudson one must believe that these are lovers who in all innocence fall for each other and in the end love is far more important than winning wars and so is maintaining innocence br br there is a lot of understated acting and the film certainly reaches emotional depths often not seen in comedies br br there are wonderful comedic elements foreshadowing the french goons in victor victoria interesting diplomatic asides reminding me of the seed seen about 18 years ago and a general sense of good will br br suspend all disbelief and this movie will carry you away julie andrews' belting out of war songs and the haunting away the dark' are reason enough to turn the tv on just for the soundtrack and the striptease number like the number in star works br br this film has like a good champagne aged well paramount should bring it to dvd as soon as possible the same applies to transferring the laser disk of star to dvd these are both interesting pieces of julie andrews' meticulous and then underrated works
1	this film marked the end of the serious universal monsters era abbott and costello meet up with the monsters later in abbott and costello meet it was a somewhat desparate yet fun attempt to revive the classic monsters of the wolf man frankenstein's monster and dracula one last time br br i say desparate because in the previous film house of frankenstein both dracula and the wolf man are killed according to how the vampire and werewolf legends say they should be dracula by the sunlight and the wolf man by a silver bullet yet somehow they return in house of dracula with no explanation this movie could have played as a kind of prequel to house of frankenstein if the frankenstein monster plot wouldn't be continuing chronologically into house of dracula from house of frankenstein and if the wolf man didn't get cured then there'd be no plot holes but since this is not the case the plots of dracula and the wolf man make no sense br br however ignoring these plot holes house of dracula is a classic atmospheric horror film that's fun to watch it has many high points especially seeing the wolf man get cured i know i just said that this shouldn't have been included but it was nice to actually see him get cured after all this time and the scene with the lady playing moonlight on the piano then all of a sudden playing a haunting melody when under dracula's spell was very eerie dr transformation into the dr mr hyde type character was also done very well br br and it's great to see dracula frankenstein and the wolf man together one last time br br out of
1	this film marked the end of the serious universal monsters era abbott and costello meet up with the monsters later in abbott and costello meet it was a somewhat desparate yet fun attempt to revive the classic monsters of the wolf man frankenstein's monster and dracula one last time br br i say desparate because in the previous film house of frankenstein both dracula and the wolf man are killed according to how the vampire and werewolf legends say they should be dracula by the sunlight and the wolf man by a silver bullet yet somehow they return in house of dracula with no explanation this movie could have played as a kind of prequel to house of frankenstein if the frankenstein monster plot wouldn't be continuing chronologically into house of dracula from house of frankenstein and if the wolf man didn't get cured then there'd be no plot holes but since this is not the case the plots of dracula and the wolf man make no sense br br however ignoring these plot holes house of dracula is a classic atmospheric horror film that's fun to watch it has many high points especially seeing the wolf man get cured i know i just said that this shouldn't have been included but it was nice to actually see him get cured after all this time and the scene with the lady playing moonlight on the piano then all of a sudden playing a haunting melody when under dracula's spell was very eerie dr transformation into the dr mr hyde type character was also done very well br br and it's great to see dracula frankenstein and the wolf man together one last time br br out of
1	i liked house of dracula much more than house of frankenstein carradine is much more passable his acting isn't as ridiculous overboard as in hof the actors deliver solid enough performances the subplots eg the monster the village mobsters the village idiot the hunchback nurse etc are mixed in well so that none becomes an odd splinter as in hof better run than the stitched together hof the hunchback nurse is as likable as the hunchback in hof the doctor is very good as well lon chaney adds a classy touch with his wolfman worth watching twice a classic universal horror with that typical 1940's long lost flair especially good is the doctor's performance before after his blood had been contaminated with dracula's
1	house of dracula was made towards the end of universal's horror cycle of the 1940's and i've seen this a couple of times br br a mad doctor edelman is breeding plants for a serum that cures people count dracula arrives for a cure for his vampirism and lawrence talbot then comes to see if he can cure him from turning into a werewolf at full moon frankenstein's monster is then discovered and edelman brings him back to life just as the villagers descend on the castle and set it on fire talbot now cured and one of edelman's female assistants are safe though br br like a lot of movies of its kind we have a hunchback assistant and thunderstorm to keep it moving br br the cast includes universal horror regulars lon chaney jr the wolf man john carradine house of frankenstein and glenn strange as frankenstein's monster also starring onslow stevens them lionel atwill the vampire bat and martha br br house of dracula is a must see for all old horror fans out there great fun br br rating 3 stars out of 5
1	the house of dracula really has nothing new to offer in the way of chills or thrills or new twists on an already tired storyline this film was made as a hasty sequel to the fairly better made house of frankenstein from a year earlier in house of dracula you can see the factory like production values of 1945 taking their toll on an otherwise potentially scary movie stock footage from previous films in the series and then the ending from ghost of frankenstein used as the ending here just makes for an el flick therein lies the shame of the studio and the producer considering that they had top notch talent and merely wasted everybody's time and effort on a quick money return scheme but that seems to have been the trend all throughout hollywood at the end of wwii this is what brought on some of those mindless scifi pics of the 1950's with all their closeups of harmless lizards in order to make them appear as dinosaurs the days of james whale and val lewton to mention two were over as far as creating real mood and atmosphere in this genre keep in mind also that the makeup genius jack pierce who actually did medical research in order to create all of our favorites was summarily fired right after this particular film was released a lesser capable makeup man by the name of bud westmore was then hired as the head of this department at universal soon to be universal international not to denigrate mr ability but horror films were just not his forte ok to watch or not to watch watch this film but only as part of the chronological order of the frankenstein series and you'll see how this all ended up as comic fodder for abbott costello
1	the last of the sequels not counting abbott and costello meet frankenstein which was more or less a spoof this time count dracula john carridine takes center stage seeking a cure for his vampirism from a kindly doc onslow stevens well good ole larry talbot lon chaney jr shows up also seeking a cure the good doc succeeds in curing larry's but dracula tricks the doc and ends up contaminating his blood and makes the good doc a crazed lunatic oh and all this time big franky glenn strange lies on a table awaiting his electricity fix so he can wreak some havoc this was kind of a short movie around 70 minutes and some change but the action is there and the great actors are there as well lionel atwill turns up as a police inspector heres some trivia lionel atwill appeared in son of frankenstein ghost of frankenstein frankenstein meets the wolf man and house of frankenstein and then this one if there was another in the series they may have added the creature from the black lagoon to the line up i'm giving house of dracula 8 out of 10
1	dracula john carradine visits dr edelman onslow stevens who believes everything can be cured by science he wants to cure his vampirism edelman agrees then lawrence talbot lon chaney jr pops up looking for a cure for his turning into a werewolf thr frankenstein monster is discovered too but doesn't really do anything br br very ambitious plot for a universal horror film from the 1940s trying to cure the monsters by science is actually an interesting idea also this movie has beautiful sets love the castle to doctor lives in tons of atmosphere is very well directed great use of shadows and has pretty good special effects br br the acting is all good except for carradine he tries but i could never accept him as dracula also lionel atwill pops in playing as always the chief of police this is pretty much forgotten and derided as a stupid film but i think it's very good it's also to last time the universal monsters were done seriously the next film was in 1948 in abbott costello meet frankenstein it's a great film but the accent is more on comedy br br the only real flaw here is there's a lot of plot for 67 minutes and some gaps in logic why does dracula try to bite lovely martha when he's being cured and why and how does the doctor get into his castle still these are small complaints recommended
1	house of dracula isn't all that bad of a film and is rather decent at times br br spoilers br br arriving at the home of dr franz onslow stevens in his seaside home count dracula john carradine discreetly seeks a cure for vampirism he starts work on a potential cure involving blood transfusion the wolf man lawrence talbot lon chaney jr arrives at his estate looking for a cure to lycanthropy working with the two patients he discovers a possible cure in a mold found near the laboratory and after searching the area he finds the frankenstein monster glenn strange buried nearby becoming obsessed with reviving it dr keeps neglecting dracula and larry's requests and after demanding that they get their treatment instead of him working on the monster they turn on each other in a climactic showdown br br the good news this was a rather decent film there is one main idea that is quite creative and imaginative this is the first film to openly propose the idea of vampirism as a blood disease and one that can be transferred from person to person through the exchange of bodily fluid something that would be taken up by later genre works but rarely as directly as this there's even a microscope slide of the parasite that is believed responsible for the condition it works in some rather nicely used ideas and comes across as a rather nifty idea even if some of the execution is a little stale the fact that each of the creatures has at least one standout scene is a nicely done idea the wolf man has a marvelous scene where he transforms inside a prison cell to the doubting members of the search party and goes crazy dracula's initial appearance of appearing as a bat and flying toward a prone figure sleeping and then appearing in human form looks really impressive the monster rampage is well handled and an appropriate amount of destruction is caused the large bat that dracula transforms into always looks decent for once and is quite realistically done it's a thoroughly decent affair br br the bad news there are several things that weren't all that great about this one the fact that the film combines so much potentially intriguingly plots and ideas that it really doesn't know what to do with them there are several different back stories that have to be mingled together and which should be clear enough to mix well together and seem coherent this really doesn't have any of that the plot is rather flimsy and doesn't really give a treatment to any of the stars and instead concentrates on one then another and then includes all three in the ending the monsters only seem to get engaged with each other for the smallest possible reason makes it a big distraction the ending is for once a big let down and seems entirely like it was changed at the last minute there's a few other small things that weren't all that spectacular and pretty much also contribute to this br br the final verdict it's quite a decent film and manages to get through most of the time with an entertaining style nowhere near the classic status of each monsters' debut features but it's a nice enough watch for fans of the monsters and of universal films in general br br today's rating pg violence
1	house of dracula is a good sequel to house of frankenstein there isn't as much action but the acting is just as good onslow stevens is the benevolent doctor who turns bad after receiving blood from dracula via a transfusion dracula was actually receiving the transfusion to overcome his affliction but he puts a spell on a hunchback nurse and then his blood into the doctor it turns out that dracula really didn't come to seek a cure but instead drain blood from a beautiful nurse dracula is destroyed and the wolf man is next in line for a cure which is successful in the meantime frankenstein's monster is discovered and revived briefly before burning to death don't worry the same trio came back in abbott and costello meet frankenstein john carradine again plays a sinister dracula baron is his alias at the start of the film and in house of frankenstein lon chaney is the sympathetic wolf man and glenn strange returns as the frankenstein monster lionel atwill again plays an inspector which he often does in the universal studios monster films a keeper for your collection
1	this has one of the more unusual plots i've seen in a horror film but it's based on good solid universal studios fare lots of monsters pretty heroine torch bearing villagers but my favorite part is larry talbot the wolf man searching for the cure for his lycanthropy after dying in the original wolf man he is resurrected and wanders through frankenstein meets the wolf man and house of frankenstein searching for a way to end his affliction i think first time viewers will find his search in this particular movie very interesting br br
1	i love watching the jericho mile i mean watching peter strauss run the mile is like watching bolt sprint the 100 meter i think peter strauss is a excellent actor and should do another running movie he is lightning fast has great energy and can run a mile in under 4 minutes and that my friend is amazing no man alive can out race rain murphy i mean the man runs 80 mile a week no one does that but him i've watched the jericho mile of times and will watch it more great movies get watched more than movies that are not i thank the makers of this film for giving years of there lives to make it they are great people and i bless them all thank you for letting me get my word out again thank you all
1	all monster congregation in the final film in universal's renowned cycle of classic horror stories count dracula an intense dapper john carradine calling himself baron comes to dr onslow stevens asking to be cured of his affliction naturally this is just a ruse then coincidentally larry talbot lon chaney a k a the wolf man shows up and of course he really wants to be cured br br as others have noted the monsters don't get equal screen time the frankenstein monster glenn strange gets thrown in at the end just for the purpose of including all of the universal monsters stock footage and library music are re used here as well the film spends maybe a little too much time with the dracula part of the story although carradine gives an impressive non hammy performance in the role of the count the film is mainly a showcase for stevens who goes through a tragic character arc of his own and does an excellent job the women are gorgeous and i have to say that i loved jane adams as the luminous nurse who happens to be hunchbacked br br of course it wouldn't be complete without the inclusion of angry villagers br br competently professionally made chiller is just for my tastes not really scary at all but entertaining regardless it's a respectable series entry overall br br 7 10
1	a year after the release of the average house of frankenstein universal released another monster mash where all their famous character would collide once again house of dracula would reunite dracula the frankenstein's creature and the wolf man for what would be their final battle and will finally close an era for the studio directed once again by c house of dracula presents a slight but noticeable improvement over the previous film and delivers a better constructed although still flawed story that while far from perfect is a more appropriate closure than the previous film br br the story ignores most of the events of the previous entry house of frankenstein and introduces a new angle to the story count dracula john carradine tired of having to hide during sunlight asks help to the brilliant scientist dr edelman onslow stevens a physician famous for his research in biology edelman becomes fascinated by dracula and soon begins an experimental treatment in the mean time larry talbot lon chaney jr the wolf man visits edelman with the purpose of get rid of his curse soon edelman realizes that dracula is a monster that must be destroyed but his own exposure to dracula's blood is also developing a disease in him the discovery of the frankenstein's monster glenn strange in a nearby catacombs will bring more turmoil to the mind of the brilliant scientist br br after the previous clash of monsters it is good to see the series going back to the roots and delivering an almost straight forward gothic horror returning to the dark pessimistic nature of this kind of films and moving away from the comic relief of the previous entries the story by edward t lowe jr has many interesting themes as the contrast between dracula and talbot both looking for a cure but with different purposes and edelman's increasing madness probably among the most interesting themes is the inclusion of the character of nina a gorgeous but deformed woman who aids dr edelman hoping to be cured of her condition br br director c is back again and this time he finally captures the dark nature of these three characters a nature that was apparently lost in the previous film despite the low budget crafts a gothic horror that while simple is quite effective and even manages to present old partners such a these characters in a fresh way while it's never on the level of the originals house of dracula recovers that charm that universal studios horror films used to have and makes sure that at least for a last time the monsters receive a chance to shine br br the cast is very good this time with carradine chaney and strange reprising their roles although role is considerably smaller with more enthusiasm than in the previous film the addition of onslow stevens jane adams and martha to the cast bring back the tragedy and the drama to the series with stevens giving a terrific performance as dr edelman a small cameo by lionel atwill and the presence of skelton as the creepy complete one of the better cast universal horror films has had in years br br house of dracula is a nice addition to the series specially after the mediocre house of frankenstein it's nice to see back in form in a somewhat serious horror film however and while the plot is quite original it suffers not only because of the budget but because the film attempts to do a lot in a very short runtime with bad results it's true that the characters have all very inventive story lines but the film dedicates very few time for each of them to develop and the film seems very rushed and disjointed br br while far from perfect it's also far from being the worst of the series house of dracula is a nice closure to one of the best times for the horror genre a time when ghosts and ghouls roamed the foggy nights and mad scientists gave life to hideous monsters later the monsters would be back in bud abbott lou costello meet frankenstein 1948 but that would be a whole different context after the disappointing previous entries it's easy to dismiss house of dracula but give it a chance and let the monster roam for a last time 7 10
1	coming at the end of the cycle of the universal monsters horror films and before the golden age of sci fi films house of dracula is more science fiction than horror and incorporates some of the more cheesy read enjoyable elements which would come to the sci fi films of the coming era lon chaney jr plays the wolf man and john carradine dracula and glenn strange the frankenstein monster br br a mad scientist sets out to cure both monsters of their by means of modern read mad science when the scientist's beautiful nurse assistant is revealed to be a hunchback early in the film the viewer is thereby alerted to the fact this film is not going to be typical universal fare this film foreshadows the kind of sleazy exploitation we would come to take for granted in 1950's sci fi br br if you don't mind the slower pacing of the older films and black white does not throw you off this film is recommended viewing this one is not currently available on dvd but amc airs it occasionally so keep a lookout or you could always wishlist it on your tivo
1	this is quite an entertaining b flick in the universal horror series featuring dracula the wolfman and frankenstein's monster the plot revolves around dracula john carradine and larry talbot the wolfman lon chaney jr separately visiting a revolutionary doctor they both ask him if they can be cured and the doctor attempts to devise a way for each beneath the doctor's castle they find frankenstein's monster buried in mud this is apparently a reference to the previous movie in the frankenstein series br br of course if things had went as planned the movie would have turned out incredibly boring instead dracula can't suppress his appetite and the doctor is eventually infected by a blood transfusion with vampirism as a semi vampire the doctor goes insane and awakens frankenstein's monster as with all of the universal horror series the ending is completely unsatisfactory a beautiful woman with a hunchback one of the doctor's two assistants has a particularly gruesome end plus you just have to feel sorry for frankenstein's monster in this film he's awake for around two minutes kills one police officer and then yet another building what's this the fifth now collapses on top of him and is consumed by flames it is also unfortunate that the great character created in the wolf man 1941 larry talbot is really reduced here people that film and chaney's performance in it here he would be justifiably criticized as wooden all in all though it's a pretty fun movie at just 68 minutes a nice waste of time 7 10
1	this is another universal fun filled fright fest many people want to compare it to house of frankenstein even though it has similar cast and the same director it can stand on its own it does appear that c directed most of the universal horror films of the 40's br br the plot recap baron appears at the home of dr seeking a cure for his vampirism larry talbot who somehow survived house of frankenstein also shows up at the good doctors door seeking a cure for his affliction after a failed suicide attempt talbot and the doctor find the frankenstein monster to complicate matters just before he bites the dust dracula infects the good doctor with his blood the doctor becomes a bloodthirsty maniac at certain times where this leads to is something you'll have to see for your self br br carradine actually gives a very good performance as dracula he isn't chewing up the scenery as he will in later roles it is hard to repress giggles when he appears in a top hat though the cape cloak is traditional but the hat has to go where does the hat go when he changes into a bat br br onslow stevens gives an excellent portrayal of the doctor he's torn between his basic kindness and the increasing blood lust he is now prone to this is a very underrated performance chaney brings even more life to the wolf man in his 4th appearance in that role br br the monster isn't given much to do this time just lay on the table until the end some stock footage from the ghost of frankenstein is used at least in house of frankenstein he was up and around a bit br br yes this does stick to the basic universal pattern complete with the angry village mob running amok with torches but it isn't a bad way to spend an hour and ten minutes it gets a low 8
1	this moody creepy horror flick begins on a castle atop a cliff overlooking the sea a great setting as a vampire bat flies in and creeps toward a sleeping doctor onslow stevens the bat changes into a man known as baron in reality count dracula john carradine he seeks dr help to cure him of his vampirism eventually the good doctor also wants to help his hunchbacked nurse assistant jane adams the wolf man lon chaney and frankenstein's monster glenn strange but dracula's trickery contaminates the doctor's blood and he becomes a jekyll hyde vampire himself this is somewhat better than the prior year's house of frankenstein being less episodic and more exciting visually there's a haunting scene where dracula tries to lure the second nurse martha into his world where she is initially playing moonlight sonata on the piano which soon gives way to terrifying music director uses expressionistic shadows and eerie music to frame many sequences including a wonderful montage sequence that the studio frequently used in their horror features two performers are of note stevens with his wonderful voice is at first sympathetic then convincingly menacing adams her beautiful face in alarming contrast to her twisted body exhibits great pathos and sympathy it all ends in a slam bang climax typical of 1940s universal horror a little abrupt with footage borrowed from the ghost of frankenstein 1942 i hope universal releases it soon on dvd it was left out of their double feature releases
1	house of dracula works from the same basic premise as house of frankenstein from the year before namely that universal's three most famous monsters dracula frankenstein's monster and the wolf man are appearing in the movie together naturally the film is rather messy therefore but the fact that all three monsters are there is usually enough to ensure that the film's sixty seven minutes don't become boring it's obvious that the idea of making another monster mash came into the writer's head before an actual plot did as the yarn we're given isn't exactly without holes the plot sees count dracula arrive at dr edelman's home asking for a cure for his vampirism then what can only be described as a coincidence sees lawrence talbot a k a the wolf man turn up asking for a cure for his affliction it turns out that dracula is on the prowl for edelman's daughter but talbot really is serious when it turns out that he can't be stopped from turning into a wolf the wolf man throws himself into the sea where he ends up finding frankenstein's monster br br overall this film isn't as good as the earlier house of frankenstein the 1944 film put its plot together better than this entry in the series does as the plot here doesn't give equal time to each universal monster dracula's plot is the biggest at first but soon fizzles out only to resurface at the end the wolf man is the star of the show but his story never really develops and is essentially just another version of the plot he always finds himself in frankenstein's monster is given the coldest hand as he appears in the movie merely as an afterthought and an obvious excuse to ensure that all three monsters appear in the movie the story of the doctor who binds all three together is the most interesting but this is a little disappointing as he isn't the reason why people will see this film the acting is good enough with john carradine showing his sinister side and lon chaney jr once again making sure that his character is bathed in tragedy glenn strange is given nothing to do and onslow stevens proves the real highlight as dr edelman overall this film won't do much for anyone that isn't a fan of universal horror but as silly monster movies go house of dracula is worth seeing
1	my sister dad and i are really into d d and one night we were browsing netflix looking for a movie to watch when this one came up we thought we would try it out and i ended up almost dying from laughter the writing and acting in this movie is so amazing witty characters great interaction and hilarious moments kept us in stitches the entire time i love this movie it might not make that much sense for those who don't know about dungeons dragons but nevertheless it is a good movie this only goes to show that movies don't need an astronomical budget and big name actors actresses to be a success check it out if you want a good clean comedy
1	i don't play video games at all but my children do br br i got a big kick out of this would like to see more of this type of film very cool as my youngest would say br br interesting characters and the overall story line was interesting like i said i don't play video games but i think that my children would enjoyed this it was not full of bad language and that is a pleasant change this visual concept was different which caught my eye plus the sound track was pretty good i might even try out some of the games my sons plays to see because of this film who knows maybe i'll be a gamer someday
1	i am so impressed really i expected cheesy gamer humor and nothing else br br ok there's a ton of pretty geeky humor but the movie is so well done the acting is quite good br br the dialog while gamer cheesy at times i guess to cater to the gamer crowd is not bad at all at times it's even dare i say great br br when the female gamer who built this non traditional fighter type character rather then the usual min max type gets all these additional attacks seem right i did not check the rules it was cool br br the sets are amazing for what must be a fairly low production movie br br the story moves right along the transitions from game world to real world are well done a male playing a female character would sometimes be played by a female and sometimes by himself pretty clever i thought br br the guy who decided to play a female but kept forgetting he was female was good for a lot of laughs he even said tag at one point and the female walked on to play the role sorry i did not look her name up she did great though the guy always trying to get some got a bit tedious but i guess that was more gamer humor br br there was just so much to like about the movie lighthearted fun very well done and i am saying that as a movie fan not a gamer and i am not a d d player as i said i expected so much less br br movies often don't hold my attention i end up listening to them while working on my computer this one held my attention i can't give a movie much higher praise
1	peter strauss by nature of appearing in mini series and made for tv films often gets an unfairly high proportion of bad reviews usually from casual observers who saw ten minutes of the film having channel hopped into it half way through well i've just read all the other 20 reviews for this film and am delighted to see not a single bad word said about the jericho mile that should be enough to have you blasting out to buy this film br br peter strauss won an emmy for his role in this film and watching it even once will show you why he deserved it so much br br looking to be objective i attempted to criticise this film instead i found myself arguing down every one of my possible nit picks this is what true realistic film making is about this is not your typical hollywood sensationalism where everything is overacted it's so realistic and true to life that people have thought it's based on a real event
1	there are few films that deal with things that i would consider myself an expert on this one is br br after some years of fantasy role playing we split me not leaving without a sense of shame of what i had become a dork br br you see these things are really canonical it happens to everybody br br first you create a character fairly and it dies after the first attack br br then you help a little with the constitution and while you're at it why not help with strength intelligence intuition charisma and dexterity too this in turn frustrates the game master who doesn't know how to deal with this invincible gang and after a while it bores the players too so they start to create ever more exotic race profession combinations no matter how ludicrous it is br br i created a warrior monk yeah not that far from the film br br and that's not all to be said about the destructiveness of the inherent dynamic of this devilish game think the hunt for experience points but just watch the film it shows it all and of course the stupidity of its most basic br br for this end in turn there is no better profession than the bard i don't exactly understand why the bard became a character in the first place after all the blacksmith is none but once it became one it had to be mapped into the game flow that is it had to be made lethal at least indirectly the poking of fun out of this never comes to an end and rightfully so br br sure it's not exactly a professional production but i haven't seen a better satire in ages
1	gamers dr is not a fancy made movie it's more like amateur video horrible magic effect really fake fireball terribly made dungeon castle village sword axe shield robe plate everything you will need about 10 minutes to adjust your expecting on visual then you will get 105 minutes of fun br br i'm from hongkong and it's really hard to find none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d watching gamers dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer you see rule books game set etc etc etc you hear terms like fighter wizard hit point level character flaming hand chaotic evil br br what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to not bonded by software rpg gamers dr provide the same element you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead the movie goes both real life as well as in the d d world you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action which make you feel you really in the game br br i don't want to spoil anything but in short gamers dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers for people never play rpg game i'm sure you still get many fun from it
1	this movie brilliantly captures the atmosphere of a d d group while watching i could not help but notice how vividly characters reminded me of myself and my gaming friends to the point where they acted literally the same as we do including the bickering the fighting the internal jokes driving the dm crazy everything br br it has it all jokes that made me cry action scenes which even filmed in low budget i found uncannily awesome the story is pretty straightforward and unsurprising but that doesn't really matter since the best part of the movie is to see the characters react and interact with each other and the br br seriously if you're playing d d or any similar rpg i cannot stress this enough watch this movie it captured beautifully the spirit of d d
1	i saw the original rough screen showing 4 times at gencon a couple years ago i was delighted to have done so my daughter is in the movie br br i stood in the back of the room with her watching the much younger fans sit on the edge of there seats dead quiet no wanting to miss a line the standing ovation was like watching the fans when the usa hockey team beat the russians at the olympic games in montreal br br i love excellent comedy and sight gags taxi barney miller cheers frasier and married with are my all time favorite comedy shows lesser shows i will not even watch br br this movie will do for gamers what animal house did for college frat days what dodge ball did for weird sports forget the lack of a mega budget backing the production this is pure art it's that good br br i could not be happier for the entire cast and production company
1	best fan boy movie i've ever watched save free enterprise br br in some ways it reminded me of an early kevin smith film br br if you do any kind of role playing this movie will likely have you laughing often at its insatiable fun don't expect a big budget here the acting is also questionable at times but it really adds to the fun of the atmosphere they create the script is truly humorous with a lot of witty moments worth experiencing br br the bard that always gets killed had me rolling the sexually confused player also had me smiling a bit too but in the end it was just a great movie showcasing some better moments in the lives of a few geeks having a great time with role playing br br if you are bored and ever got into role playing this will do nicely for a distraction a real unexpected treat
1	there are few films that have had me waiting and waiting for release more than this one this is the latest film from the dead gentlemen group responsible for the original gamers film and the demon hunters films this group has not been terribly active over the last few years but this film is a definite reason to try and keep things up in following their progress br br this film follows a group of gamers who are trying to finish a campaign run by a gm frustrated by his group's disregard for his story with the help of some new blood they attempt the campaign again with hopes of finishing this time br br this movie is a breath of fresh air in the movie community and a great improvement over the original the movie shows respect for the game much like the original movie did but on top of that this movie shows a dramatic improvement on special effects launching it above the simplicity of college films the acting is fairly decent and the jokes are quite funny br br unfortunately many of the jokes are in jokes so if you are not a gamer you may not find the film as funny as others so this is why i give the movie an 8 instead of the 9 that i initially thought of any case if you are a gamer or know about gaming check this one out you will enjoy it
1	i was laughing so hard most of the time i had people glaring at me because they couldn't hear over my laughter i literally fell out of my seat at a specific point br br i'm a bartender and bouncer for a living in the real world note my use of the term real world sadly it always has to come first and whenever i tell someone i play it's usually followed by one of two questions 1 what like d d i played that back in junior high br br 2 really i've been looking or a group forever have room for another very rarely do people not know what d d and gaming are br br that having been said almost every person who watches this movie can get something out of it even if you aren't a gamer chances are there is something in your life you geek out about that can be made fun of in a light hearted way and that alone means you can relate to the hijinx in this flick it's just light hearted happiness in an hour and a half
1	this film is so wonderful it captures the gaming life i laughed so hard while watching this the movie is about a gaming group that have a hard time with a campaign that their dungeon master came up with the movie switches from the real world and the gaming world as they play the campaign it shows them in the gaming world as their character and then switches back to the real world when they are not playing the campaign is the basis for a module that the dungeon master lodge is writing the problem is lodge can't finish his module because the characters can't finish the campaign they are more for killing and looting instead of role playing lodge wants them to role play through the campaign something they have never done before they decide to bring in some extra help so they bring a wait for it girl in to play lodge also makes a a non player character a who can not witness or do wrong to play the film is how they do all this and more i don't want to spoil any of the film so i won't say any more this movie may not be a big budget film the acting may not be oscar worthy but if you are into gaming or into dungeons and dragons then definitely watch it they had a lot of fun making this film and it shows i am not going to bash on it for any movie problems such as continuity or any thing it was a low budget film that is just fun there is some slap stick comedy which i enjoy and some damn good writing in my opinion so if you want a fun film try it
1	this groundbreaking film is truly a work of art i went into the screening at the convention in indiana with very low expectations having already viewed 2 other film with gamer in the title both of which were so bad that by the end of the second one i had plucked out one of my own eyes with my drinking straw and a twisted paper clip i found between the seat cushions but from the opening credits dorkness had me the northwest setting made a beautiful backdrop for the drama surrounding the frustrated game master lodge powerfully portrayed by nathan rice and his misfit band of friends who set aside the real life dramas they face everyday to face fantastical dramas in the setting lodge provides for them after the first scene set in the fantasy world they inhabit they are violently thrust back into the world they so desperately try to escape this drew so many comparisons to my own life that i was moved to tears rice's acting is of such amazing caliber that i truly believed within the first 20 minutes of the film that he really was a twenty something male suffering from frustration male pattern baldness and an annoying group of friends that can't seem to grasp concepts like right and wrong friends are of some note here leo the oldest and heaviest of the trio seems to be the only other character with a job aside from lodge yet he seems to gravitate socially towards gary the youngest of the group this seems only slightly odd at first until you realize that gary is in fact a sexually confused sociopath with very few prospects outside his fantasy world this dichotomy serves not to confuse but to inform and uplift the audience about the importance of diversity in our society my only complaint about this is that the actors who portray leo scott c brown and gary christian doyle seem to play the characters for laughs at times as though they were informed they were acting in a comedy instead of a hard hitting action drama speaking of action brian lewis makes his film debut as cass the third and most influential member of motley crew the tension is always high when he is on screen both when he is arguing passionately about his beliefs to lodge or when displaying his fantastic martial arts skills as silence his fantasy character or even when he turns around suddenly to face the audience and you duck in the audience so as not to get smacked by his fantastic chin lewis lights up the screen no matter what he's doing and i hope to see more of him in the future once the action begins in this movie it just doesn't quit the drama and the action blend so seamlessly at times that you tell whether your in the middle of a frenetic action sequence or a touching dramatic moment truly a thrill ride of epic proportions i would recommend the gamers dorkness rising as required viewing for anyone who loves film it was almost worth losing an eye over br br chip
1	better than the original the gamers dorkness rising manages to pull off a funny comedy with good acting fine special effects and comedy that transcends the gamer knowledge base and do so on a low budget i've seen many low budget films that have been terrible and almost none that have been as good as their high budget counterparts this film blows most mainstream movies away parts are a bit weak the bit with the pirates and ninjas while funny goes on a bit long without explanation and takes you out of the movie for a bit but overall this is a very strong film br br i'm very happy to say that i bought this film as soon as i saw it and brought it home br br any chance we can look forward to another feature gamers movie from these guys
1	i really enjoyed this movie i like prison movies in general i'm not sure why i'm sure some shrink could make something out of it i spent one night in jail more than 20 years ago and i knew then i would never go back i got the individual version of scared straight i did get locked up in an isolation cell on alcatraz for a couple of hours compliments of a park ranger but that's another story anyway the genre really interests me the soundtrack specifically sympathy for the devil by the rolling stones was the perfect backdrop for the film to this day i think of the jericho mile every time i hear the song
1	just got back from the european premiere of the gamers dorkness rising br br all i can say is that if you are a gamer rpg or larp then this movie is for you and if you're not a gamer well it's still a great deal of fun br br the acting is certainly not oscar worthy but in the whole element of the movie it adds to the charm the humour is everywhere along with some very nice touches the tribute to gary is especially well done if you can spot it the cast are very down to earth in their appearance befitting the fact that they are ordinary people enjoying an ordinary hobby br br the quality of the movie's sound and vision are adequate but again it all just adds to the atmosphere that helps to define this movie as being the dungeons and dragons movie written and performed by gamers for gamers br br not afraid to use terminology specific to one system they still manage to allow product placement to be a part of the movie but in a very understandable and utterly fair manner it also touches on some of the perceived prejudices that some gamers can have about other gamers and deals with that quite well br br all in all the movie is very much driven by an well thought out equal balance of character plot and entertainment the bard is amazingly good value for money br br in the end it does make scoring this movie quite hard so i have given it 2 scores br br score for non 7 10 a few moments could go way over your head but the main sections of the movie just work so hard and achieve so much more br br score for 10 10 everything fits together in the perfect quantities and with the perfect charm and sentiment
1	dead gentlemen productions has put together a film with amazing production values considering their budget anyone that has ever played any role playing game particularly any fantasy rpg they play dungeons and dragons in the movie will love this movie brilliant performances all around especially with regards to the dual nature of the principles playing their players and their characters anyone who has ever filmed or acted in a student film will appreciate the amount of work and love they put into this project this movie and its prequel is to fantasy movies and role playing games what blazing saddles is to westerns parody of the highest order i only have a couple minor complaints about the movie itself none of which will prevent me from buying the dvd as soon as it's available only 6 more weeks i'm counting the days br br 1 when lodge is talking to joanna about joining the gaming group he hands her a copy of the dungeons and dragons players handbook and says this will tell you everything you need to know the camera hovers too long on a shot of the book and the moment really seemed like a commercial br br 2 the jokes are hilarious but they seem unevenly spread throughout the movie the last third of the movie after the almost continuous barrage of visual and verbal humor preceding it slows down a bit as if the narrative was catching up with the jokes odd but blazing saddles always struck me that way as well and i love that movie too br br one of the narrative strengths of the story is the unresolved nature of the romantic subplot will joanna become the gm's girlfriend will she go back to cass or will the three maintain a platonic friendship deepened by the camaraderie of role playing yes that sounds sappy but there are a couple of saccharine moments particularly when cass and lodge make up at the end but the movie spans one week in terms of human relationships those questions could not be answered in a week the fact that the characters' relationships are left undefined strikes me as better than the more classical choices you see in most movies like the girl gets her prince and they move into the castle or the prince sinks into the north atlantic after three trite tedious and predictable hours the writers really seem to have a grasp of the psychology of the characters and you can see the characters both the gamers and the player's characters change over the course of the movie but not suddenly and not unbelievably br br i would love to hear more wisdom from brother silence the man who stands out in darkness is fluorescent
1	i saw this at the screening at gencon in indy i had some time to kill and decided to check it out it played to about 1000 people in a packed standing room only ballroom br br wow what a ride the script was tight the action tense the pacing perfect the character exposition excellent one thing i really appreciated was that you knew going in that this wasn't a big budget film yet it soon became obvious that the creators pushed their sets and effects as far as they could despite their limitations and it was more than enough br br it's true that this film was targeted at a certain audience gamers tabletop players the creators make no effort to hide that but other filmmakers could learn a lot from them for in going for the jugular in scene after scene and not worrying about if mom who happens to be watching will get it they got the biggest laughs time and time again but there's enough universality there that mom will be laughing too even if she's not in on every joke i think too many times i see films that try so hard to lower the bar to the lowest common denominator so that they will appeal to the most people but the movie just ends up suffering for it br br but not this flick indeed this film was so solid that it had the audience wrapped around it's finger from the opening credits and while the viewers around me really wanted to like the film they weren't pushovers gamers can be among the most critical niche out there br br i'm so glad i got to see this in a big crowd at least 10 times the audience was having such a good time that they erupted into applause at a joke or scene during the film how often does that happen at screenings it should be no surprise that there was a huge standing ovation when the closing credits rolled br br for my own part i can't wait for this to be released after it ended one of the producers said they were shooting for a simultaneous tv dvd release that date cannot come soon enough
1	i'm new to gaming but i would have started much sooner if this film had been around i caught it at gen con last year a trip made only as a favor to my husband and loved it even to a non gamer like i was at the time it's funny and accessible so much so that i finally relented and started sitting in on my husband's gaming group br br i don't want to give away any plot details but if you're a gamer you need to see this film and if you're not you're going to have a great time despite yourself there are certainly in jokes but the vast majority of the film is accessible to anyone br br my only complaints wish it were longer and wish it were available on dvd soon perhaps
1	i am definitely not a gamer but a couple people in my family and my boyfriend are so a little reluctantly i decided to find out what the big deal was with fantasy stuff i saw dorkness rising and thought it was hilarious it's slapstick but not disrespectful to those that enjoy role playing games also and most importantly people who've never before can enjoy it and not feel left out or lost trying to understand the plot the acting was great and the field shots set were believable this makes me want to see other movies by this production company i can't wait to see what the future holds for this group three cheers well done
1	i had heard about gaming and dungeons and dragons before but i had know idea it could be like what i saw in the gamers dorkness rising these guys are so funny and fun to watch especially the guy who plays the bard or minstrel or whatever he has a gift for physical comedy and timing there is so much background humor and energy in some of the scenes that make you really think that at least some of it was improvised there on set the special effects needed to be worked on a bit but i saw it at a convention last year and thats one of the things they said they were going to redo and make better so it's probably wicked now
1	i will like to order this movie for the women in treatment i feel that this is a great movie for them to watch i can't fine it no were i have been on ebay and all the other website to order this movie now i am asking you for help to fine out where i can oder this movie at or what to do to get one i will love to show this movie yes i was like this movie and a lot of peoples here in treatment in to see how people can change there life around and move on i think markie post played that move very well she is a great actor i love her movies and if you have any other movie about addiction i will like to order them of the treatment center of women and men so that can look at other people go through what they go through in life
1	based on a true story br br the premise of this film is to illustrate that through fairly normal events its possible for an outwardly mother to get drawn into heroin addiction br br semi spoiler some of the scenes are fairly inaccurate whilst others almost make you want to get the yourself br br computer technician graphic artist woman with good relationship with her young teen kid spirals into addiction after work colleague who is a someone who can take enjoy it now and again then spirals into an addiction that leads her eventually to scoring off dealers after losing contact with her steady dealer br br the scenes that show her coming down and getting 'sick' are often very real especially the first real 'night sweat' prior to all these events she began a relationship with a guy who just happened to have lost his wife to the bottle and insists he has an inner radar not to get hooked on such women some radar however after after some late turn ups and weird behaviour the boyfriend challenges her as to 'what is going on' his radar begins to get more with it and demands that she empty out her bag she hits the roof and storms out br br because of the excellent and open relationship she had developed prior to this tragedy he is the first to 'find' some real evidence in her bag he then looks around the hose for her apparently his sensibility is from school lessons on drug taking and when he discovers a large stash in the bathroom he flushes it not a happy woman when she takes her next bath and its br br the kid keeps one back and places it on the meal table she then goes into further denial admits it and says its no worse than dope br br thge kid does all the right things and calls her friends and generally puts her in a position where she has to come 'clean' if you'll pardon the pun br br the movie takes the viewer through some pretty arduous situations where danger is not far away br br she gets help from a professional organisation and does cold turkey you'll have to watch the film to see what happens next
1	i loved this film markie post is really great in it i saw it on lifetime and it's in the same entertaining class as films like 'the betty broderick story' up a mother's rage' etc which by the way are also very good entertaining films it's an over the top drama about a single mother who tries to break away from her middle class predictable personality this movie is just pure entertainment it doesn't have to be a realistic look at heroin addiction but it does show how any regular middle class person can they do get addicted to heroin junkies aren't just homeless uneducated people on the street by the way if you do watch it check out how the kid bosses his mother around spoiled 8 out of 10 stars
1	i have seen chasing the dragon several times and have enjoyed it each time the acting was superb this movie really makes you realize how one bad choice at a weak moment can change your life
1	an interesting and involved film about a lifer just trying to live out his days peacefully elements of the main character appear in michael mann's later films like thief 1981 heat 1995 and so on you can see this one at the ucla instructional media laboratory one of the only places in the country that has copies readily available to the public it's a great one
1	this is more than a sat afternoon special well written if very low key there is a lot here if you look for it catch the cat companion scout for instance it not only could have been a comic book it should have been a comic book the comic industry as well as the film's publicists missed the boat on this one of the least know really great films a great script by john sayles is a strong point but the acting is good as well probably the best super hero film i've ever seen short on special effects but long on believability this one's a keeper i have never seen a dvd of this film but i used to own a vhs version good hunting
1	true this is not john sayles finest film brother from another planet but it is not entirely forgettable either if not for any other reason than its message like batman wild thing's parents were murdered in front of him leaving him to fend for himself in 'the zone ' a corrupt section of an unnamed city where greed and violence reign supreme instead of falling in with the likes of chopper robert davi wild thing fights for justice using his powers of tai chi and eerie cat impressions occasionally lighting himself on fire he becomes something of an urban legend a modern day robin hood and a hero for the ages 1987 at its finest wild thing lives
1	the 1990s film with anthony hopkins and debra winger is rightly showered with praise and i enjoyed it very much but this tv original is just as good and in some ways more appropriately cast claire bloom isn't a brash joy but she is still confident and throwing her cap at her favourite author played by joss ackland in one of his best performances br br quieter calmer and less emotional than the attenborough film this may be but it does justice to what is a marvellous play full of meaningful dialogue you'll still cry to this version but perhaps you won't have the musical prompts to set you off br br there's room for both and having seen this on stage i would say that the ackland bloom one is slightly more faithful but they're both excellent
1	easily one of my favourite dramatic tv films in many ways beautiful yet sad heart warming and thought provoking this is a superb dramatisation of a few years in the life of c s lewis and his relationship with joy i found it to be incredibly absorbing with excellent and 'realistic' dialogue and situations it all seemed very 'real' yet there were also moments that almost leave you breathless with delight ackland and bloom as the central characters were excellent as were the supporting cast it's one of those dramas that i find hard to criticise simply because for me there is nothing to be criticised it just works so well on so many levels br br very highly recommended
1	this was a very faithful presentation of lewis's life in the mid 50's the dialogue on theology and the banter with his follow colleagues was exceptionally good michael white's book c s lewis creator of narnia deals with this time frame in a very parallel way joss ackland's acting was superb in catching the unemotional lewis the movie took great pains to be presented in an accurate english setting the development of a strong bond between jack his preferred name lewis and douglas son from her previous marriage was enjoyable to watch the movie did avoid the distasteful element of lewis's jack's older brother drinking problem but it would not have moved the story on so it is best left out
1	this version did not move me as deeply as the later hollywood version starring anthony hopkins and debra winger while it was beautifully filmed and superbly acted the bbc version was more packed with dialog that imparted information which i found fascinating it gave me a detailed glimpse of the intellectual theological and moral considerations that motivated c s lewis it was therefore more interesting and stimulating than the hollywood version but not nearly as visually stunning or viscerally affecting still while i did not leave a heaping mound of sodden kleenex in the theater i did use one and at frequent intervals i enjoyed this film every bit as much as the hollywood version and was grateful for the increased understanding i gained
1	this movie was recommended to me by the same person that blessed me with a copy of the chronicles of narnia shadowlands is one of the most amazing screenplays ever written it is well executed acted and directed the cinematography is a bit dark for my taste but i'm sure it was intended to be so the screenplay is like poetry in portions of the movie through out the movie i found myself taking pause to reflect on the comments just made on screen this is a wonderful piece of cinema and i can only hope that more people will run across it and add reviews fair warning though this was a 6 tissue movie for me very touching very heartfelt performances
1	i really liked this film about love between two adults in postwar britain the high standards of bbc tv is evident in the production and superb lead actors claire bloom and joss ackland make this an uplifting experience bloom and ackland have previously worked together in theatre and their chemistry and interaction is splendid i recommend this version of shadowlands over the film version of 1993
1	this is a wonderful movie it's funny dark poignant thought provoking innocently naughty and generally entertaining all around i don't know that i've seen the like before the rapture or maybe one of todd black as night comedies or even the recent movie teeth come to mind but those are all bitter nasty little gems despite the darkness around the edges manages to have a thoroughly sincere and pure heart br br the story is similar to john waters' low down dirty shame only this film differs in that it actually has a story and something to say as well beyond waters' juvenile sex isn't dirty snicker nudge nudge message a conservative repressed family undergoes a drastic change as a result of a car accident and suddenly aren't so conservative anymore in fact they're finally actually happy probably the only people in their town or maybe the entire world who are to talk about why this is the case would be to spoil the film simply put everyone should see it though of course only people who are already sold on what the movie's upbeat hopeful philosophy is ever would br br the acting is great just this side of realistic enough to keep the proceedings from getting too heavy teresa willis gives an especially memorable and brave performance as an uptight mother who emerges like a butterfly when she's freed up both she and robertson dean deserve kudos for their unflinchingly sincere performances not to mention frequent and extensive nudity and sex scenes they turn what could have been a salacious joke involving a deviant sex practice into a touching believable and endearing moment as the daughter is a standout and someone to watch perfectly capturing the attitude angst and speech patterns of a girl her age vince as the brother with a secret is good looking and functional although his storyline and how everyone reacts to it is more rewarding than his actual acting mari blackwell as the conflicted best friend to mother franklin is wonderfully cold confused and even compassionate in a role that could have gone over the top br br technically the film looks fantastic all bright colors and wide open locales it looks like it may have been shot hi def if so the line has gotten very thin it looks very much like film there is a great deal of talking and a lot of it philosophical which gets a bit preachy moreso i'd imagine to a viewer who disagrees with the film's politics but this film says a lot of things that need saying if only people wouldn't be afraid to listen and think the arguments that take place are smart and well thought out first and foremost refusing to either the religious or non religious parties br br the ending is on the ambiguous side which i found a bit of a disappointment somehow i think it would've worked better had the author as jay floyd is since he produced wrote and directed given a more workable denouement some sort of solution but then again there probably isn't one when it comes to pitting people with different faiths against one another all the same it was a moving memorable final image that left me choked up a success meanwhile i'm awfully glad mr floyd got this film made and look forward to sharing it with as many people as possible check it out
1	amateur camera work aside i thought this movie was very different and unlike all the blogs and posts i have read i got something totally different out of the ending than others the premise of the story revolves around a very religious family and their ties to their church how they must adhere to all the rigid rules and regulations but the daughter seems to have problems staying on track what with nasty thoughts of others and her use of bad language yet she prays a lot as does her family then one day they are headed to a church picnic and are in an accident from there the parents and her brother change what with being knocked out and saved by jesus warning major spoiler alert or so we are led to believe i think if you watch this movie from the point of view of the daughter only then really pay attention to the end you will see that what we the audience thinks is an actual occurrence with the parents and son is in fact all a dream and from the daughter's pov this would explain a lot of the actions portrayed by the parents and the son which were totally opposite of how they lived before especially the sex and also would also explain why peggy got away with murder etc look at how perfect that pie is but go back and look at the cake betty makes that is unless caroline removed all evidence that the pie was laced and also the fact that the scene where she sees her dead parents laying there in each others arms and her brother all whom of which seemed to die very peacefully even if being poisoned fits with a dream sequence
1	i've never given a movie a ten out of ten before but this is the closest i have ever come i gave it a 9 there are very few movies that i truly love this however is one of them with it's gritty realism fantastic on site and it's great soundtrack it literally blew my young mind when i first saw it in 1979 at that point i didn't know about prisons violence racial tensions or the struggle to survive live free i doubt that anyone who is an adult or for that matter anyone who is growing up in todays world could be impacted by this film in the same way i was all those years ago but i will say this if you haven't seen this movie i envy you this is because you have the chance to see this great film for the time for each of us they're different but here's to the rarest movies of them all the ones we actually love
1	i was surprised that forgiving the did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues you know little issues like religion sex and the truth lots of comedy's seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations many leave you thinking i know they ripped this off from some sitcom this film takes off on its own unique direction i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film
1	i saw this film at the sundance film festival and i too was surprised that it didn't generate more notice because it was not only powerful and beautifully crafted but very original the audience was totally engaged and the greatest part of seeing a film like this at a festival is the opportunity to talk to the director and cast in the q a session afterward they literally had to throw us out of the screening room for the next film we could have gone on for a lot longer the film is thought provoking and hilarious at the same time it will be a shame if this film isn't picked up for wider distribution i hope it will at least become available on dvd because i want to see it again and share it with everyone i know
1	saw this movie and totally loved it the characters are great it is definitely my kind of movie you do not get bored in this movie i love independent films they are so much more rewarding my husband and i really enjoyed jay's style if you are an open minded person who loves thought provoking films and loves conversation after it's over you will love this film it is definitely thought provoking the film definitely will step on some toes but who cares those people will probably not go to see this movie it is amazing to see the characters evolve jay floyd has really captured both sides of the table applause applause jay i hope you are working on another movie
1	it's always a pleasure to see characters in a movie who are wholly good hearted and well intentioned even when they're surrounded by those who are neither the film's moderately silly premise is that the conservative religious franklin family mother father teen boy and girl are involved in an accident wherein the parents and brother have a near death experience during which they meet jesus a pleasant but somewhat exasperated soul who removes from them the burden of sin ' when they return to their lives many of their views and attitudes have changed much to the consternation of the daughter who didn't share the experience the religious side is i think presented with a good balance from the good jesus to the starkly awful those of his who are obsessed with the sins of others and utterly oblivious to their own it's a movie to make you think give you a few good laughs along the way and leave you with the pleasant feeling that the world just might be a nicer place than you think it is
1	wow just caught this movie from blockbuster and i love finding gems like this while it was definitely shot on a budget and misses a little bit in clumsy editing i e accident hospital scenes second to last end scenes for a first directorial effort i give this 10 stars i absolutely loved the thought provoking concepts brought forth and if you're a free thinker and open to ideas outside the box i highly highly recommend this movie i think the director and writer jay floyd should be given some attention and more opportunities in the film industry based on his credits he may be another quentin tarantino
1	in this tale of a tightly wound christian family that has three of its four members born again after a cake caused car crash what really stands out is how grounded most of it is where there is so much potential to go over the top and how truly inspired most of the acting is where most of the film's moments particularly its frank and innocent discussions of sexuality after three of the four family members have their guilt and shame removed is hilarious it is also thought provoking and the characters stay with you br br how often for example does a character in a comedy spin from near caricature to full bodied emotional being in the course of one scene how often do we see a cast that can pull back from showboating mid sentence in order to show a bit of the humanity beneath the character's skin even many of the bad guys in this film have moments of heart breaking honesty even while much of what they do can be absolutely ridiculous and horrifying there is truth and history behind even the most questionable acts in this film which is a difficult task in satire br br how refreshing it is to see a darkish comedy that can dare to be humanistic how nice to see actors so fully committed to character that they can dare to let them be ridiculous and sublime br br and as a gay person i do not think i have ever been quite so touched by a heterosexual sex scene as i was by the first sexual encounter between the parents of this family after their accident br br bravo bravo one of my favorites at this year
1	the most spiritual film i have seen in a long long time maybe ever also one scene around the dining room table a piece of comic perfection i understand a release date is coming up in the fall if it comes to your town and you want to see a movie that makes you think this is it is great in it and she is most certainly a future star superbad is out now which she is in also all the actors seem perfectly calibrated there is a tone set by this movie that is used to surprise through out i would not know what to call it it is comedy but the message is so fierce and direct that comedy is not a big enough word for it i love this film it is a thinking man's comedy but even that phrase is not really good enough does have a message and that message needs to be heard right now
1	forgiving the is the best film i have seen in years the acting was fantastic especially mari blackwell who was truly remarkable in the role of peggy lester she brought peggy to life with incredible skill and made her as real as my own next door neighbor i also enjoyed robertson dean in the role of the father he is a true professional and managed to pull off even the most intimate scenes with a rare grace the performances by the entire cast were very good excellent in fact but peggy's role as played by blackwell made the movie the cinematography was beautifully done throughout and was most impressive the only criticism i have to offer is a slight weakness of the ending scenes which were overly drawn out repetitive and a bit too focused on the wrong character i would have liked to see it end on a note of forgiveness but spite of that slight flaw it is very much worth the watching and applause for all involved in the making of it
1	i saw forgiving the at a paramount screening and loved it i have to be honest i really didn't want to go and i had become quite jaded about the movies being made today i have to tell you forgiving the was fresh and wonderfully put together i laughed my ass off it was great story telling i could not believe two guys shot this and put the whole thing together i thought if these guys can do a movie like this with this budget imagine what they could do with big money behind them and then i thought be the jaded guy iam the studios would probably f it up anyway that being said thanks guys i got lost and in your film and that's why i go to the movies to forget the world for a couple of hours
1	just saw this film the other day at the santa fe film festival i was delighted by its honesty and humor it was the most thought provoking movie i've seen in a very long time i just can't get it off of my mind for some reason it may not be for everyone because it makes you think i don't know if people like to think in movies so much anymore which is a shame the actors who play the are quite a find i couldn't imagine playing these complicated people with such frankness though i thought a couple of the supporting characters were not as good as the i can totally forgive it because this is an important movie in my opinion i didn't expect to like it so much but as i've thought about it for a few days it's proving to be a very relevant piece of entertainment
1	i watched the this the other night on a local station because i didn't feel like watching tripe like 'american peter strauss gives a great performance as a convict named murphy who keeps to himself he admits to his crime and makes no bones that he feels no shame for it his cell is bare of any comforts that other inmates have like books and pictures the only time he feels in another zone is in running he does it often and can run a mile in under four minutes when a college coach hears about this he wants to prime him for a shot at the olympics at first wants no part of this but when his best friend is killed he shows interest br br this is a good movie period strauss is very good what did you expect anything less and michael mann shows hints of greatness that would come full bloom years later this movie had that bit of realism probably because it was filmed among convicts it almost feels like this was a true story the additional casting is good there is a lot of notable names like brian dennehy roger e mosley and richard moll as well br br my heart sank when some pompous board of directors wouldn't let him run because he didn't feel bad for his crime his final act made me stand up and cheer when they took his dreams away he took them back hard this was back when tv movies were actually good 'the jericho mile' is a gem of a film espn classic please show this film
1	i agree with the other 9 and 10 star reviews i saw this at the south by southwest film festival in austin of the 20 films i saw 7 were really good and this was the best one for me i'm a sucker for movies that have plot devices where characters go through transformations that totally change their lives the excellent acting was mostly done by people involved in tv or it was their first movie it was written and directed by jay floyd this was his debut as a director jay's day job is apparently as a clearance administrator for lots of famous films forgiving the was a total delight and extremely funny in spots this is one movie where i would buy the dvd and re watch it truly a high complement from me well done jay yes give up your day job
1	i just got back from the film festival at the amc loews 34th in ny a friend told me about this film audience response was very positive lots of good solid laughs as well as some quiet moments of realization top notch in every area a movie that makes you think and then makes you realize how lucky we'd all be if we could turn back time and live without shame or guilt i imagine this will come close to if not win the audience favorite award what was most surprising was the fact the the movie appears to start off as a satire and then slowly weaves into a genuine commentary on the negative and sometimes violent reactions of the very group it started to satirize there isn't any mean spirited humor at the expense of one group just a slow realization that we would all be better off if we just went back to the gentle innocence that we all started off with
1	as i've hopped from film to film at the sxsw film festival this film from the opening night has stayed with me curious because it is a dark comedy with quite an absurdist premise br br a family of hyper stressed fundamentalists in a small community of like minds is changed by an auto accident three of the four have the same near death experience in which they are fully opened as each receives a reversal of the concept of original sin i won't spoil this scene with the specifics the fourth a middle school cheerleader is not just the only one physically hurt but also is unchanged and is now witness to what has become her crazy apparently spiritually bankrupt family every new moment brings a new outrageousness as they have become innocently naked and frank in every way horrifying her and then the community br br forgiving the has the most beautiful sexual awaking scene between a husband and wife that i have ever seen to the sarah song deliver me a song that can now bring tears to my eyes br br the cast is terrific robertson dean as the dad vince as the son and as the cheerleader daughter are excellent mari blackwell plays peggy the mom's questioning neighbor and best friend perfectly a much more nuanced fleshed out real character than what might have been everyone in middle america knows a peggy and theresa willis positively glows as betty the mom there are lots of risks taken by the actors playing the three changed characters and these risks pay off br br i hope this film gets a wide release if so i plan to see it again br br very accurate review at http www com phil forgiving htm
1	for real though this game is where it's at i'm 20 years old and that's basically where it started for me 4 bit graphics was fabulous i hope you all remember this game with as much adoration as i do that bluto is a real
1	i originally saw this movie as a blockbuster vhs rental that was quite some time ago but still remembered it blockbuster doesn't have it anymore netflix didn't have it and there weren't many copies on the web only a few vhs copies recently did finally find it available in dvd form on ebay for a reasonable price in pal format but our dvd player will play pal discs on our ntsc tv br br wife and i both enjoyed it the style of the movie is a bit strong and many if not most of the parts are rather strongly over played as if amateurs were making it especially the kids but it's not bothersome the contrasts of societies are accentuated in the overplay br br there is a bit of political preaching in terms of saying that the young in russia shouldn't try to escape their not so great life but instead should at least try to make things better first but that's not dominant it's fairly humorous most of the time br br some downplaying of the west commented upon by others isn't that at all imo i take it as a comment about expectations of the russian characters at least when taken from my western viewpoint perhaps it's a downplay of the west from a russian viewpoint which it is literally by the characters saying it br br i can't say how literally true to the film the english subtitles are but i can say that the subtitles were done very well full of english idioms as if done by a native english speaker complete with colorful language
1	one unfortunate reality of post soviet russia was that the people's welfare didn't change much from soviet times as we see in window to paris most people are still as depressed as ever while they are encouraged to go after money br br then everything changes for music teacher nikolai sergei after he finds a window that leads to paris he and his friends are naturally quite amazed at what they find this movie has one of the funniest discussions of elvis presley and edith piaf that i've ever heard so watch this movie you're sure to love it it's sort of a precursor to being john malkovich
1	this was a wonderful little film that truly was creative and fun something you see all too seldom in movies the film begins in russia just after the fall of the communist government as a result society seems to be in chaos and life has yet to improve now that the old regime is gone dirty cities crime and lack of housing still plague the poor residents of st petersburg br br into this scene of bleakness and uncertainty comes an idealistic music teacher he is among those without a home and he finally gets a letter from the government that tells him he has a tiny room in a nearby flat when he arrives the place is a mess but the people seem friendly enough so they all have a lovely party in the middle of the night they are awakened by an old lady walking out of the giant wardrobe in the room i was half expecting lucy and the other kids from the lion the witch and the wardrobe to come out but they didn't they are too shocked to do anything at first but decide soon to investigate instead of just being a clothes closet the wardrobe opens into paris how the residents of the flat respond to this magical gateway is really intriguing some like the music teacher are thrilled and in awe most of the others are more pragmatic and are mostly concerned with looting everything from paris before the gateway closes once and for all these russian thieves are awful people greedy coarse and crude but down deep very deep are hearts of gold i like how this is a metaphor for the nation now on the brink of capitalism at first they run amok grabbing everything they can and only later do they reveal some depth but mostly they act much like guests on the jerry springer show the film has many twists and turns and is both funny and mesmerizing about the only negative is that due to some harsh language and a nude scene albeit a very funny one this is not a film for kids this is a real shame as with some very minor editing this could have been a great family film
1	this is one peace of art if you like comedy you should watch this here comes a funny moment from the movie spoiler br br nikolai and are walking together in paris for the first time they are visiting the local market and goes look nikolai how much food they have look one two three ten thirty fifty hundred kinds of meat but if ask for a tiny tiny peace just for the taste they won't give you french are very greedy then takes nikolai to a tv shop tell me who needs all these televisions look at this monster here for example points a finger at the monster tv and goes and this motherfu he is supposed to be digging a ditch but no he's on tv wait a minute that's me hahah br br wanna laugh watch the movie you won't regret
1	my first film saw it on ifc long ago and loved it it seemed absolutely artistic original fun and hilarious not a moment in the film let me down or made me bored and i was laughing a lot or had a smile on my face i mean this movie is truly funny but here's the catch it's also very artistic and creative if you don't know probably sadly because so many of his great films aren't available here he has a very original style like no one else's and for me this isn't even my favorite film of his right now it's the insane also i have to say as a russian this film is great because you really do see what russians are like and this is possible because this is a true russian film to me not a foreign film trying to be american or trying to appeal did not sell out nor has he since 1998 was as good if not better this is true russian style filmaking that came out of communist social realism br br if you liked this film i think you have a very high chance of loving other films in fact i like quite a few of them more than this one i guess this one is his most accessible film a similar film is fountain taking place 6 years before during perestroika it has the same actor in the leading role and more of regulars who you will recognize from window to paris this one has one supernatural twist in the end but is mostly a realistic comedy a great one viva hopefully criterion will hook all of his movies up one day he's still working and his catalog is so great see any of his films if you can
1	a funny and scathing critique of russian society and culture during the transition from communism v also shows the west in an light a group of russians living in st petersburg a k a peter the window on the west find a magic portal that instantly transports them to paris film is truly hilarious and just weird enough constantly keep even the jaded film viewer on his toes the songs the dream sequences and the deliciously disgusting fringes of society from both cultures mingle to create a memorable and meaningful film anyone trying to understand the shift in russian cultural sentiments since the fall of the ussr should begin here
1	i watch a lot of movies dvd features and classics you name it the night i watched jericho mile my wife who had ordered it on the internet said she remembered it from when she was in high school that it had stayed with her all of these years somewhat reluctantly i sat down with our daughter son and was riveted from the opening sequence to the end titles we all were br br she who remembered the original and our kids 18 and 16 who had no idea what the movie was about couldn't believe it our favorite scene bar none when peter strauss so passionately bangs his fist down and says i'd do it again it didn't advocate violence because it was a defense crime but evoked such intensity we couldn't believe it when his fellow cell mates gave him their food in support of his efforts there wasn't a dry eye in our house br br someone please make more movies like this one unbelievable
1	i thought that i wrote a comment on this movie before but i can't find it on here anyway i am writing it again i accidentally found this movie from my college's library collections it was free to watch so why not br br i am certainly glad that i watched it i love this movie i have seen a few russian movies before most of them have serious topics i am surprised that this was one a good comedy i had a great laugh while watching it and this is a movie that i want to buy this thing is so funny and they are not just silly funny those plots were very original and well thought so they don't seem to be silly at all i am surprised that this movie didn't attract many viewers this is a classic that you can watch it over and over br br those actors were also very authentic their acting are real not faked if you haven't watched it go get a copy soon definitely recommended
1	this movie just screened on channel seven australian tv today br br in my opinion it was a very interesting take on how the nazi's treated the russian jews as mercilessly as everywhere else br br kellie martin did a really great job and her tears and frustration as were quite convincing br br the holocaust is a part of our history that we must not forget schindlers list wasn't the first and it wont be the last account of survival and courage in that five year nightmare my family is dutch and i will always applaud any movie makers who want to keep the candlelight alive by telling of someone's courage to stand up and help those who were being abused violated and murdered for being a jew
1	i enjoyed the movie and kellie martins performance immensely it's the kind of movie i can show my family and has an example of a young woman placed in extraordinary circumstances finding the courage to do the right thing in the face of extreme danger
1	this is the underrated kellie martin's best role based on a true story it tells the story of attempt to save the members of the family and other jews she meets over time one of my all time favorite movie scenes involves an heroic act by little sister all children should see this scene role models like this are very few and far between the movie is well written and acted i am a movie lover and this movie i rate a 10 on rating system it is on my top 25 movies of all time and should be put out on video br br mike porter
1	on june 22nd 1941 the city of poland is divided between german and russian when the german invades the city the nazis send the jews to a ghetto the young catholic kellie martin alone with her young sister and hides many jews in the attic of her house along two and half years until the end of the war hidden in silence is another good story of human sympathy in world war ii this film looks like rescuers stories of courage and is also based on a true story unfortunately the actress kellie martin performs a strong and powerful lead character but she is very weak for such a role in many dramatic situations the expression of her face is not convincing i have noted that many imdb users liked her performance but i am not sure whether they like her wonderful character or her performance indeed my vote is seven br br title brazil no hidden in fear
1	how important is the director anyway in this film made in the politically tumultuous times of the late 60s where questions of social organization were prime conflicts asks that question by making a movie that turns the camera away from the action and only begs to reveal the director william greaves it is an important work as it shows like no other movie shows the difficulties in blocking organizing and setting the scene it reveals the role of the crew something most directors frankly would like to disappear completely and that the invisibility of is essential for suspending disbelief and it also puts into consideration the role of performance and scripting and how they match don't match reality and what that has to say about how the director ultimately influences reality if at all br br the documentary or pseudo documentary or fictional narrative whichever you prefer via your interpretations of the themes has its brain in the over educated over intellectual crew its guts in the lost performers struggling to understand the vague and ambiguous directions and its heart in the director who stands in as the desire to portray to represent to express without any idea how to do any of those things or why he wants to do it it's a film that purposefully repeats banalities just to see if they can become more than banalities it's a film that sometimes shows the multiple shots simultaneously just to leave the editing to the audience and also reveal how disturbingly different shots change perspective br br it's an important work and something that everyone interested in the industry and process of film making should watch and understand it like many experimental films has no real mass audience appeal it's not for them it's for the industry and its for the 60s asking what to do with a group effort medium that still relies on a single voice and author br br polarisdib
1	this is a documentary unlike any other it has so many layers and shows us so much that trying to analyze it all at once is nearly impossible documentarian william greaves shows us the process of film making from a different perspective we see the struggles of the actors the director the sound crew and everybody else trying to hang in there and make this film successful if this was just about a movie being made it would be ordinary what greaves does is make it more complex by having a crew film the actors and then this will be filmed by another crew only to have another crew film the whole thing three cameras each with a different goal it has an almost dizzying affect on you but at the same time is exciting i like the parts where the crew organizes together and discusses what is going on even they are somewhat in the dark as to what greaves is trying to do half see this as an experiment while the other half sees it as a chaotic and confusing failure no matter what side you choose you can't argue that greaves doesn't get you involved in this process
1	in 1968 when take one was released it came from out of nowhere and struck like a psychedelic thunder bolt afro american actor and film maker william greaves aimed to forever alter the style of documentary film making and to this day there has never been anything quite like it the movie is a film about 'the making of a film' and intentionally written and directed so as to create as much controversy and contradiction as possible set in new york's central park the action and scant dialog concern a couple who fight and bicker about homosexuality and abortion the woman wants out of the relationship and the man wants an explanation near the end of this interaction a drunk homeless man interrupts the proceedings and offers his commentary and personal back story then after the principle footage has been shot the film crew add their own views of the film maker and what they feel is his inept handling of the movie and during the entire film multiple cameras are employed to record the action within the scene and extraneous commentary by cast crew and onlookers i would certainly recommend this film to anyone who has an interest in avant garde film makers such as andy warhol john cassavetes or jim jarmusch william greaves attempts to show that a thing cannot be truly observed and understood because the viewing itself would alter the reality take one can be seen as a cinematic representation or application of the uncertainty principle this is only one possible explanation and true intent is certainly open for speculation above all else this film seeks to confound confront and stimulate and without a doubt succeeds admirably
1	a film of high intelligence and activity as well as being a strong capsule of the time and persona that was the 60's the film is also truly a surprise in its forward thinking themes and the unique presentation of the system of power in a group william greaves appoints himself to the authoritative role in the group he asks his crew members to film and film and keep filming first the two actors then the crew filming the actors then the entire set including bystanders policemen and finally a homeless man whose been living in bushes in central park for 9 weeks br br greaves edits the film thousands of feet together and surprisingly makes a strong narrative with an interesting arc and motivations don't expect to be bored by this film each of crew make for engaging and often times are voicing the thoughts that the observer has watching this film greaves does well at integrating the multiple camera takes using synchronized three in one pictures and other attention shifting methods br br in the end the film will really only be effective if it's what you're looking for if you're looking for some abstract arty film that feeds your own self indulgent ego while never having a point look elsewhere if you're looking for a film that will have you talking and thinking long afterward about the desire for honesty and sincerity in documented reality and the inevitable transparency that comes of it then this is the perfect film
1	the second film about the adventures of the pair asterix is 10 times better than the first the humor is great and irreverant and the script is well executed taken from the original 1965 comic book by i fell asleep with the first film although i am a great fan of asterix and was reluctant to see this sequel but i am glad this movie proved me wrong excellent comedy for everyone highly recommended
1	the film is not for everyone some might think the acting is bad when it is actually understated and natural there are no obviously evil acts and there are no stunningly beautiful moments there is a lot of indecision an lot of conflicting feelings br br actually this film takes a very honest look at a very complex subject sex with minors it is complex because the characters are trying to deal with love and sex when her body and hormones are still developing and both of their minds and personalities are still developing complex also because society has very simplistic views of sex with minors and complex because the characters don't know if society is right or if their instincts are right br br some will not like the movie because it leaves unanswered questions questions such as who was really in charge of the relationship who was damaged did good come out of it was it art who was damaged more did some of the problems with their relationship stem from it being forbidden by society did some of the problems stem from their own immaturity and probably most important was this truly a crime br br the film is resolutely neutral on all of this and it is this neutrality that is its strength it is the reason for the understated acting the simple sets the lack of background music soft lighting and the general flat presentation the message is clear we don't really understand this kind of relationship today and quick judgments are bound to be shallow
1	you cannot be seeing the same movie if you didn't grow up in france or spent at least 10 years there like me i don't know if it will ever make it outside french cultural borders i include belgium and luxembourg here you cannot translate its kind of fun every name is joke how many people outside paris would understand the pun in the name of one of the roman legionnaires however monica bel l is so beautiful i almost forgot to breathe when i saw her
1	the second not animated movie about the only people still refusing to surrender to the roman empire is even more hilarious than the first film asterix contre ceasar br br where the first movie got all the laughs because all cartoon characters were so perfectly brought to life without losing their identity this sequel which is a separate story as are all the comic books is even better sure all the ingredients that you find in the first movie and in the comic books are present again is still dying to taste the magic potion that gives his other tribe members such enormous powers caesar and the rest of the roman empire are still enemy number 1 but some new refreshing elements have been brought to the stage as well br br not only is setting very idyllic biggest part plays of course in egypt but rather than repeating movie number one some extras have been added by making all kinds of references to other movies bruce lee etc this is all not very new but the unexpected combination of the known story from the comic book with almost the same title as the movie and references to stuff that has got absolutely nothing to do with asterix really works br br in that way the movie builds further on a tradition by comic writers and who didn't hesitate to bring laurel and hardy on the stage and even dedicate an entire story to kirk douglas br br if all of this doesn't convince you to watch this movie i'm sure monica bellucci playing cleopatra will
1	cleopatra the delicious monica bellucci is challenged by cesar alain chabat in order to prove that the egyptians are better than the romans she promises to build a fancy castle for cesar in a period of three months without any delay she calls the one arm architect and gives him two options to be covered by gold if he accomplishes his mission or become crocodile food if he fails will ask for help to claude rich asterix christian clavier and depardieu with this movie is very funny specially the parts where and the pirates leaded by red beard participate however the screenwriter and the director should have noted that french is not an universal language as english is therefore the jokes with words like in austin powers movies for example does not work well for people strange to french language french people and persons fluent in french language will certainly like these jokes but they do not make any sense for me that do not speak french my vote is seven
1	eh oui impossible pas br br well paced highly entertaining film pretty good command of the french language and knowledge of modern france and history are recommended i don't think this film really works in any other language the film is incredibly much better than the previous one in search of apart from great actors and savvy camera handling it's the wit and firework of allusions word plays etc that make for a really great movie the cartoon is recognizable but the film is very emancipated the cost of the film is put to good use indeed all the special effects fit into the movie you never feel choked by them br br oui les un mais à part imhotep br br a neighbour from the other side of the rhine
1	i was a little afraid when i went to the cinema to see this movie indeed it is always tough to make a movie from a comics and the first episode of the adventures of the french two greatest heroes was good but not fantastic finally it is very funny from the beginning to the end with unexpected gags some cartoon scenes no great fx a great cast great landscapes great everything br br however i wonder how they will manage to translate all the french names in english or german because it is certainly funny in french but how will it be in another language
1	this movie is just great it starts out real slow and boring but as the movie progresses well the fun keeps on coming the power of the movie is perhaps in it's subtle references to a lot and i mean a lot of other movies for me the best part was perhaps the bruce lee crouching tiger hidden dragon scene how the two actors switches from french to chinese or whatever asian language it was it was awesome then the jokes with the names they are hilarious but perhaps you won't understand all of them when your an american no offense overall a great movie
1	the french people are not known to be great movie producers br br though their amelie scores high points at the oscars asterix et is a very different film of what i am used to from the french it is a great movie especially for kids the only thing that me was that it was spoken in french and normally with the english spoken movies here in the netherlands i don't have to read the subtitles but with the french language you just have to read to understand the story it self is just great with who doesn't recall him self of fat but there also nice details mainly in names like and you all know the story from the comic books and this movie shows all most slide by slide the book every thing is in it from the nose braking till pirate red beards lose of three more ships i would say a great movie for the weekend with the children
1	this movie is quite better than the first one et contre césar but it is far away from perfection the adaptation of the comic book is good some of the pictures and the dialogs of the movie are the same as in the book but there's few things that made the movie not as interresting as the animated movie released in 1968 for example the fighting between and this wasn't necessary or even credible either for the little love story of there were also some stuff missing like the songs that are in the animated movie and some other things i am deceived by the movie because they in the stuff i was expecting tho see and they showed things that i did not wanted or needed to see i know that it would have been very difficult to make the movie exactly the same than the comic book or the animated movie but that's what i expected in conclusion even if the movie is good i still prefer the animated movie wich is in my opinion far better
1	the above line sums it up pretty good the best assets of the comics are it's visual gags and word jokes the latter of which are almost impossible to translate which is why the comics are at their best in their original language br br both are quite hard to capture in film which is why those will never be as good as the comics movies are simply a different medium than comics with that in mind this movie does surprisingly well in capturing the fun of the comic br br the word gags are bearable and sometimes even funny does an amelie reference i have to mention that i watched the french version if you don't watch the french version or your lack of understanding of the french language limits you to the subtitles the word jokes will probably suck br br the slapstick is okay as well it's a very simple form of humor and not really funny when you're older than twelve but it captures the spirit of the the other visual jokes are the movie's saving grace for the older audience as their often quite funny br br the acting is totally over the top but again that's not annoying at all as it captures the spirit of the only depardieu and clavier don't really overact which might be the reason some people think they didn't enjoy their roles i didn't notice a thing on the other hand and especially claude rich turn overacting into an it's actually fun to watch again i fear it wouldn't be nearly as funny when the voices are dubbed br br overall not a bad movie at all much better than the previous one it's not a classic and it doesn't dethrone the twelve tasks of asterix as my favourite asterix movie but it's still worth seeing the french version that is 7 10
1	if you are french native then you find this movie extremely funny it's good just good can though imagine that subtitles or translations don't mean much in english
1	jennifer montgomery's art for teachers of children is a stunning disturbing masterpiece montgomery's gritty camerawork and cinematography coupled with the brilliantly unemotional performances she evokes from her cast heighten the sense of shocking raw realism in this autobiographical story of a 14 year old jennifer's seduction of her married boarding school guidance counselor the scenes between the amazingly uncanny actress playing jennifer caitlin grace mcdonnell and jennifer's mother actually voiced by ruth montgomery on the phone are some of the most intriguing and powerful i've ever seen captured on film the lesson ultimately learned here there's nothing more dangerous than a boring man who creates bad art well i would highly recommend this remarkable piece of art for anyone interested in thought provoking independent cinema
1	i don't know about the english version of this movie but the norwegian translation is the funniest movie i've seen in many years the characters say so many funny things and make so many weird references to current events that i'm amazed they kept having more options like the architect who can never say the name of the wizard correctly it becomes things like malcom i x and which is norwegian for foreign affairs br br like the word many of the translations does not give any meaning in english and probably not in french either so the translators must have made up their own jokes and done so very well of course they have a very good base to build on with a film that's simply comical from beginning to end br br recommended in all languages with a good translation
1	in the original french version the jokes of great funny voice are very funny br br but in translated versions i saw the german english version it's not half good than the original br br but goof special effects almost the full comic with differences like the figure of german name is placed in an other comic book br br sure the asterix comic book are cult but when you watch the animated comic movies from 1968 to 1998 you will see much better jokes better story and the old and flair of the cult stories br br for french speaking people i suggest to watch it in it's original version with or without subtitles where available in different languages
1	the second live action outing for asterix is far better than the glued together elements of ten different stories that was called the first film instead staying fairly close to the original comic br br in a nutshell queen cleopatra has made a bet with to build a palace in egypt to show that the egyptians are a great people royal architect seeks the help of asterix and druid to complete his task there are several laugh out loud moments some jokes that only the french might get jibes at the 35 hour week while others that are more universal the big budget special effects are spectacular but overshadowed by the jokes from the original comic br br depardieu and clavier still work brilliantly as a pair while monica bellucci makes perfect casting as cleopatra also for fans of the comics the hilarious pirates get a look making up for their absence in film 1
1	a great combination chabat's humor world and characters limited presence of christian clavier br br the original comics was great one of the better of an overall great series and alain chabat one of the funniest member of the famous french group les was able to film replicate and supplement the great work done by and by cleverly enforcing the story giving to his best role at last a little bit far from his usual part gathering a bunch of great actors gerard is wonderful as often chabat himself is a great cesar br br in addition while being obligated to keep on with christian clavier as asterix chabat cleverly tuned down his role in the movie to give prominence to and which is always a good idea br br great environment great scenario great director great actors great humor beautiful cleopatra this movie would have deserved a 10 if clavier hadn't been involved
1	i watched asterix and in operation cleopatra which was my first exposure to the live action version of the classic comic like the comic the whole movie is full of jokes based upon puns anachronistic jokes and slapstick gags which rarely fall flat br br asterix and are who use a strength potion to fight the roman legions in their native here they end up in egypt helping a friend build palace yes its puny in three months to prove the egyptians are just as good as the romans br br the reason i picked this up was because monica is cleopatra she's good but the role is little more than a cameo however even though she's rarely in the film i didn't care since its so clever and the jokes so funny i was in hysterics i loved it i loved it so much that i can't understand why the movies have never been released in the united states br br the import dvd has the film in english dub which is quite good especially when you consider that when you watch it in the longer french version the puns and hence the jokes are not always apparent since they are aural so if you read the names wrong the jokes are lost most of the jokes between the full french version and the shorter english dub seem to be exactly the same though some have been changed sometimes for the better and some times for the worse personally i'm gonna stick with the dub when i watch this again since its easier to pick up the jokes and enjoy the humor br br you really will want to see this if you love puns and low brow but clever humor this is a great comedy
1	it is the first time i can recall where an adaptation did exactly like the book in fact only jokes were added to the story rather than content blended or removed br br such as the egyptian slave who had difficulty transmitting um communicating lol or when was played like a quasi sith lord and got annoyed when the roman empire endured a blow the general ordered for the empire to ah watch the movie folks br br i can easily believe that this picture was one of the most expensive in french cinema history and for my part it was worth it was excellent as the roman bashing and boar chomping clavier playing the little indomitable was perfect and a far cry from his days as the bumbling squire of jean reno in just visiting br br the fight scene between and was hilarious and was nice to see the matrix theme was not borrowed to an otherwise perfect battle br br the pirate and his crew almost stole the picture from scuttling their own ship to being the engine for otis' assistant invention used at the very end br br i understand there's asterix and the olympics with many of the same team back by i plan to view that too
1	i just managed to find a copy of mission cleopatra which is not as easy as you would think for someone living in the united states so far i have only watched about the first 10 minutes of the film and i can safely say that i laughed more in those 10 minutes than i did watching the entirety of the first live action asterix movie br br i am watching the dubbed version and while the dubbing job is a little disconcerting i have found the movie to be very funny and true to the book i see that people on here have said that the dubbed version is very inferior to the subtitled version that may very well be true and after i watch the subtitled version also on my dvd i may have to come on here and alter my review as it stands though i find it to be a very entertaining movie and it more than makes up for the mess which they made out of the first movie
1	i've read every adventure of asterix and at least 5 times and i'm also a fan of les and les robins des bois and so i expected a lot from this movie and i finally got satisfied unlike the first adaptation of asterix on the big screen et contre césar which wasn't a real success besides the appearance of laetitia this one really captures the spirit of the comic and we get the beautiful monica bellucci in the first movie the director tried to be too realistic about the time where the story is set and it killed the whole spirit that made asterix hilarious in this one all the clothing the way of talking and everything is identical to and work more it really stick to the original story with the downside that we know pretty much everything that's going to happen but alain chabat gave us a few surprises at the end i really enjoyed that movie and everytime that the first sign of boringness starts to appear comes in and makes us laugh like crazy this movie is a big mix of all the kind of humor i really like and even if maybe it's mixing it too much i can't help but to like it so if you like asterix and the humor of all these young talents that started in part a french mix of the tonight show and snl go see this movie
1	i would say to the foreign people who have seen this movie and who did not understand it that it is normal because it was based on massive plays on words a person not knowing about the french cultural funny references in this film could not follow all the subtleties the movie has been a huge success in france and all the actors are well renowned here
1	this film is the smartest comedy i have ever seen a lot of jokes are either a parody of another film from star wars to dragon ball to power rangers to kung fu etc or somehow related to history of whatever otis creates the elevator a lot of jokes are also related to the modern world and made fun of because it was b c like the wheels of the horse wagon spinning other jokes are just plain total non sense but also hilarious like the famous scene with the dog running after the roman guy with the little music in fact in this movies they mix pretty much every kind of humor i watched this film 6 times already and every single time i watch it i find other subtle jokes like the scene where waldo is part of the egyptian crowd it is the funniest movie i have every seem finally a laugh out loud comedy that doesn't include toilet or sex humor is also what makes the movie everything that comes out of that guys mouth is hilarious this movie is nearly perfect except a few clichéd thing like the fact that asterix gets his power back because he is kissed that is plain stupid but overall an excellent movie 9 5 out 10
1	to summerize this movie nice for tv but too small for the theatre i enjoyed watching this movie at home but i wont watch it a second time the concept is good but what ends up in the movie is just a summary the end had a 'nice' twist but is still unsatisfying maybe it was the intention of the director but it wasn't worked out like a it should be but then again it's an ok kind of movie
1	i always loved this film the music story and the action i especially love the opening and closing of the film the music stayed with me throughout the years the wwi plane battles were great and the comedy is typical blake edwards is his forte' after all julie's singing is amazing and keeps me glued to the screen the sets and the scenes are wonderful the characters are appealing i loved the scene with the wounded soldiers and julie's singing to them i wish she sang to me in vietnam i also enjoyed the old cars from the period and the wwi music i was glad when the dvd arrived now i can whistle in the dark watching it again and again
1	after i read that the time of its release in 2002 its budget of 47 million or 000 000 frf was said to make it the french film ever however et contre césar 1999 had a budget of 48 million or 274 000 frf which supposedly made it the most expensive french film i discovered the reason why i found this movie to be one of the most beautiful and colorful of all i have ever seen i loved the scenarios the clothes specially the ones from cleopatra and the atmosphere of the movie it's so happy and cheerful i found the jokes smart and hilarious and i have to consider this movie to be in my favorite comedies of all times br br the cast is also excellent with monica bellucci who is very beautiful as cleopatra gérard depardieu great christian clavier that i saw for the first time in among others br br i recommend this movie even for people who doesn't know asterix and comics you are going to have a great amount of fun br br aka asterix e brazil
1	wow the french are really getting the hang of it if we look at their first asterix movie we see a good story with nice actors especially thanks to gerard depardeu but very lame special effect in a fantasy story like asterix special effects are really important well they did it right this time it looks terrific i think mission cleopatra is the best asterix story ever written in the movie there's not one moment you're bored go and watch this one thing they didnt go exactly by the script which i think is a little bit for example in the comic breaks the nose of the sphinx immediatly all the little storekeepers start breaking of the nose of their miniature sphinx really funny to see well they didnt put it in the movie instead they the nose under the sphinx asterix they will never look for it here guess again was funny but not as good as the original another thing i disliked about the movie was their choice for music it maked the film to but never the less it's a must c br br da jean holland
1	i have to confess that i slept in the cinema while watching the first asterix movie but this one is simply fantastic it is really funny and it leaves the first one miles away it has gags and funny situations that made me laugh since the first minutes of the movie and i only stopped laughing when i reached the car to return home i repeat this movie is spectacular is really funny and cleopatra is a real babe
1	i loved this film the audience i was part of loved this film and the little 7 year old girl who was with me loved this film we all laughed at the puns the visual humour and the good feeling you left the cinema with when it ended i could easily see why it was such a huge box office success in france i am planning on buying the dvd so i can see it again and laugh at all the bits i missed as i was laughing so hard the first time
1	i was lucky to see this sequel before the original because i'm not sure i would have gone out of my way to see it if the contrary had been true i found mission better than it's predecessor for different reasons but the major one is this it was almost word for word an adaptation of one book not an amalgam like the first movie the physical resemblance of some characters to their animated self were very funny especially the bad guy who's name is escaping me but he's the other architect i don't know how this movie played in english my first language is french so i didn't have that problem i imagine some of the jokes weren't that easy to translate i've learned something with years it's better to watch a movie with the subtitles than with the dubbing maybe you wont understand what is said but you wont lose the rhythm and i think that's important too i would recommend this movie to anyone who really loves et
1	making a movie about a comic is hard to do making a good movie about a comic is extremely hard to do making a good movie about asterix has been done br br this movie shows that the french do know how to make an a funny b hilarious c beautiful d superb movie the acting is no less than superb the sunny feel to the whole movie is perfect a must see this just has to be the funniest thing to come out since we started the new millenium 10 10
1	this is definitely a must see film the excellent director alain chabat also acting as ceasar has managed to capture the very essence of the adventures of the french comic books it's based upon and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy which is also an homage to the world of animated films this movie is so funny so full of jokes both visual and spoken that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all between your bursts of laughter the only drawback is that a non french audience or at least a non french speaking audience might not get all the private jokes there are so many dialogues impossible to translate so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life that the fun might be lessened however it's still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture the amazing stunts the music the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting all actors are great but the film would not be the same without gérard and edouard baer and please don't ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books et contre césar and directed by claude
1	for those not in the know the asterix books are a hugely successful series of comic books about a village of indomitable who resist caesar's invasion thanks to a magic potion that renders them invulnerable supermen there have been several animated features only one of them the twelve tasks of asterix really capturing the wit and spirit of the books despite being an original screen story before a perfectly cast christian clavier and gerard depardieu took the lead roles in two live action adaptations that proved colossally successful throughout europe but made no impression whatsoever in the english speaking world br br the uncut french version is great fun but sadly does not appear to be available in a version with english subtitles outside of the uk dvd while there's still no sign of a us theatrical or dvd release the miramax version of asterix et mission is also on that dvd and has played on uk tv and you'll never guess what it's been completely re edited at least 21 minutes gone and dubbed into english maybe mistook it for a hong kong movie after all he never saw a foreign film he didn't think couldn't be improved by heavy re editing and shelving for a few years br br whereas asterix et contre cesar was lovingly dubbed into english from a particularly good translation script by terry jones but otherwise left unaltered that sort of thing really isn't the miramax way the results ain't good the film was the best attempt to get the books mixture of slapstick anachronisms and highbrow classical humorous asides to the screen but a lot of the classical references are gone such as the great raft of the medusa sight gag or the cyrano de bergerac references from depardieu alongside anything that seems too french or might slow the picture down with the result that the first 20 minutes are now a real slog several punchlines to sequences are missing depardieu's part has been trimmed his part was already fairly small because of his serious health problems during the shoot the us version has been partially digitally to change the unhealthy of his face in the original and as usual with dubbing because literal translations into english don't fit properly lines are either rushed so much they're not funny anymore or the dialogue has been changed completely a couple of these changes are admittedly funny like one character dreaming of a world in which he could move his lips in french and hear the words in english br br not a total disaster but very disappointing considering how good the full length version is it would be nice to think that miramax would do a shaolin soccer and release both versions but since they've shelved both films for two years since paying for them another classic case of harvey's notorious chronic remorse gee wonder why disney were so p d at their and still have no release plans that may just be too much wishful thinking br br it's a real pity that such an accessible and entertaining film will now only be available to non french speakers in such a clumsily bowdlerised version it seems the plucky may have been able to defeat caesar's legions but are no match for the miramax
1	not for everyone but i really like it nice ensemble cast with nice contributions from better known players like stockard channing and strong eye candy from sheila kelley what really works is the bond between the three brothers try it you'll smile a little
1	it's the story of three brothers pulling together in the midst of hardship and loss and learning that the really important things in life are family love trust and forgiveness the entire cast manages to pull in a powerful performance despite a few lousy one liners a great film for fans of true to life problems believable families also worth a look for fans of dermot mulroney or sean astin they both do an astounding job often bringing you to tears take my word for it and rent this today
1	if you enjoy riddles and suspense you will enjoy this movie truth be told it was mostly the adrian paul part that got me to pick it up i knew almost nothing about the movie beforehand plot is sarah carly pope a student of philosophy and metaphysics starts playing a mysterious riddle game trying to figure out the reason and gets involved in the game by solving riddles vern adrian paul is a shop owner also a riddle fanatic and also gets entangled in the game myth has it that if you solve the game the meaning of existence referred to as the design is revealed brendan character is a village idiot type hanging around the shop who turns out to be more than he seems all in all i thought the movie was pretty well done and it's definitely an original concept a rare find these days i personally happen to like riddles and puns so while most of them weren't very difficult it was still a fun movie well worth the rental br br so if you haven't seen it get it d br br
1	if you've never been this is the troma movie to see first amazing acting supercharged soundtrack and bust a gut humor blend perfectly with troma's unique brand of storytelling and special effects despite straying from a word for word retelling of romeo and juliet the fact that it stays in iambic pentameter gives you the odd feeling that it's closer to shakespeare than that overdone music video with dicaprio and danes i assumed i'd seen the ultimate shakespearian comedy when the cast of moonlighting overhauled the taming of the shrew but nothing comes close to tromeo and juliet i strongly recommend the dvd version which contains a second audio track with director lloyd kaufman which is just as entertaining as the main track
1	can this really be a troma movie some scenes almost have an a movie look the acting is generally competent the two leads and the nurse surrogate were especially good and i liked some of the confrontations between the young capulets and ques the scenes were smoothly edited the plot is coherent it's funny it has a hip original sound track br br it does have the usual troma gross outs and low humor but i don't think shakespeare would have minded so much in fact i think he might have gotten a few good laughs out of this br br it's a good dvd there is an alternate sound track with a very informative commentary by the director several deleted scenes and the usual collection of troma self deprecating silliness br br i'm not going to tell you this was citizen kane but it is some pretty inspired low budget filmmaking
1	these guys combine low brow with low budget it's glorious br br look if you want bergman rent 7th seal or something if you want to see gross out humor and exploitation sex this is the one br br i think jane jensen as julia makes it all watchable she can actually act really well she's a complete dreamboat and she doesn't seem to feel above it all
1	superb even the author was laughing at the end and what a balcony scene this film has it all wickedly funny and yet strangely faithful to the bard of avon but not for the faint of heart and the best credits since monty python and the holy grail i am troma
1	i think it was françois truffaut who said that the best movies either involve the joy of making movies or the agony of making movies this flick is definitely of the first type tromeo and juliet is a pleasure to watch from start to finish the zany zeal fuelling this shakespearian is infective i don't think i've laughed so hard since i saw monty python and the holy grail it's that good
1	this was the best movie ever has seen on cine club buenos aires this movie is a realistic critic of the society of the past and the next century it cause a very good impression to all the partners of cine club i recommend this movie to all the fans of troma and to all the people who like the good movies not the commercial movies
1	this movie is amazing it is funny sexy violent and sick but it all holds together for a brilliant troma rendition of romeo and juliet if you don't mind being grossed out a bit ok a lot but it's funny grossed out see this movie it's worth it there's not one level on which it doesn't deliver i've seen it thrice now and it is still amazing i recommend it go get it
1	i found it real shocking at first to see william shakespeare's love masterpiece reworked into a gory violent and kinky sensual movie adaptation but after you watched it once it sort of grows on you when you watch it the second and third times as you come over the shock and start appreciating the movie on its own merits solid acting good dialogue nice sequencing and choreography not too bad soundtrack and some of the special effects that go on oh and also the ending what a riot
1	this film is a brilliant retelling of shakespeare's classic love story complete with kinky sex body piercing and dismemberment it does follow the same spirit as all the other troma movies except combat shock that sucker was depressing but it's not only for troma fans anybody who appreciates lowbrow visuals and a hilarious script will without a doubt fall in love with this movie br br don't expect pretentious artistic wannabe crap like the version of r j with claire danes and leo dicaprio this one knows its a silly movie and draws its humor from that the acting is also surprisingly good and you can just feel sammy pain as he tries to put his brain back into his head br br the soundtrack which contains many original and high energy bands like the wesley willis fiasco supernova and the is also four star this movie should be viewed by all because it remains faithful to the original story while still being jam packed with troma's trademark gore sex humor
1	what can i say about tromeo and juliet other than if you like twisted troma machinations then you must see this movie this is my absolute favorite troma flick and i have seen almost all of them penis monsters births to live rats and popcorn lesbianism steamy sex scenes in plexiglass boxes incest nipple piercing dismemberment shameless troma plugs and computer masturbation how can one go wrong it amazingly follows the original story very closely you must see this movie oh and speaking of shameless plugs check out jane comic book whore cd on records it is awesome
1	this is a cult classic for sure br br it is tricky to follow at times but then again so is a film like jacobs ladder or even say fight club if you want standard fare then i figure go rent the care bears movie or perhaps an old disney classic but if you want to view the world differently then i would say open yourself up to and for that matter to a film that challenges what we see and think br br for me the key is that the film was original and had me questioning throughout so while i have seen some complaints all in all i would say take the film for what it is and enjoy
1	i don't think the world was ready for this film i know i wasn't i'd been expected a standard low budget schlock exploitation potboiler instead i got the most intelligent reworking of shakespeare since peter greenaway's prospero's books this should become the definitive film version of romeo and juliet it won't of course but that's the world's loss
1	this movie is a absolute masterpiece and juliet' has all the kinky sex car crashes mutations and a penis monster that shakespeare always wanted but never got this is shakespeares classic retold troma style tromeo and juliet is about two rival familys named the and the non of the familys ever got along ever since cappy capulet father screwed monty que father in the filmmaking business two rival familys grow apart until tromeo and juliet find true love together and when each side hear of this blood shed is the least that happens yes tromeo and juliet is the troma classic adored by fans world wide witness harry balls the penis monster first feature film and also has first troma appearance what are you waiting for now go out and rent the movie br br 10 10 br br
1	one of the more interesting films i've seen lord montague is br br black lord capulet is in charge of the porn industry that was br br handed down to him by montague not to mention the dismemberment of fingers the squishing of heads etc etc br br another troma hit this beats the toxic avenger this is by far my br br favorite troma flick and there's a priest who fights like bruce lee nothing can beat br br that
1	romeo and juliet had been interpreted in so many ways but very few of the versions captured the of the play the ones i can think of that really nail the romance's spirit were west side story and beleive it or not troma film's tromeo and juliet at first glance this is another mere splatterfest and many would think it the shakespearian classic however the film has an honest feel about it updated to appeal to the sick minded youth of today of course but not without merit yes the frequent dismemberments body piercings car crashes lesbian sex scenes masturbation and incest are in bad taste but what's the harm when you have such a sweet love story as the foundation as bad as most of the acting in this film is i mean it is troma after all the two leads have some genuine chemistry more so than in big budget monstrosities titanic and star wars episode two there's a great deal of modernization but much of the original text is in tact especially when tromeo and juliet are together there's a great scene where juliet utters the famous parting is such sweet sorrow and tromeo quickly follows in mid nineties grunge fashion yeah it totally sucks i think it's truly unfortunate that this film isn't going to get the recognition or the wide release that it deserves i hop that people who see this on the video store shelves won't be turned off by the in the movie because they'd be missing out on quite a subversive
1	tromeo and juliet is perhaps the best shakespeare modernization i have ever seen not that there's much competition but anyway br br all in all tromeo and juliet is definitely one of troma's better movies one of the little pearls hidden in a towering heap of dung it's a funny action packed gory take on the world's greatest love story but still manages to follow the original story as faithfully as one can except from this kind of movie well except for the ending where tromeo and juliet kill abusive father and live happily together in a sunny suburban area for the rest of their lives with their hideously mutated children br br this is the movie high school literature classes should show instead of making poor students read through hundreds and hundreds of pages of shakespeare's scripts thumbs up
1	i l o v e this movie everyone and their grandmother's sister's lawyer's dentist needs to own it its witty devilish thrilling comedic and full of action packed goodness with this movie those amazing people at troma offer you a whole new perspective into the story of romeo and juliet in ways you never would have thought to be possible it has all the makings of an instant classic car crashes deliciously lewd sex scenes feuding families street fights amazing music severed heads and from narrates the story line and thats only a taste of what it has to offer every single person i have watched this movie with now owns their own copy or longs to a and
1	who else other than troma can take the classic tragedy and change it around to todays standards no one in my opinion the leonardo dicaprio one sucked juliet is a definite stretch from the original tragedy but it holds up well its sick demented twisted but yet insanely funny and fulfilling for the most part it follows the true romeo and juliet story but many troma elements are added will keenan gives a great performance as tromeo the acting is solid and the story is great many people look past these movies not only the kaufman troma movies but all the ones they distribute sure troma movies are an acquired taste but you need to see some of these it is renegade filmmaking at it's best
1	ah man this movie was funny as hell yet strange i like how they kept the shakespearian language in this movie it just felt ironic because of how idiotic the movie really was this movie has got to be one of troma's best movies highly recommended for some senseless fun
1	wow this movie is amazing it is such an excellent film has some sick scenes not nearly as sick as terror firmer or citizen toxie some nudity and this was the penis monster's debut on film this has set the scene for many of troma's movies this is a very film it mixes comedy romance and my favorite horror gore not that much gore in this flick but enough to satisfy this is the best adaption of shakespeare's romeo and juliet much better than any other version they make it so entertaining and fun to watch and we have debbie rochon hehe i like her all i have to say is this is a great film very funny and is a good host for it the acting is good and kaufman directs stylishly as always must see for all troma fans
1	in the seedy streets somewhere in new york city a lonely punk named tromeo will keenan has little friends but all they ever do is get tattoos piercing and just party all the time he does fall for a beautiful rich girl named juliet jane jenson whom is also troubled as her father is being quite an abusive son of a you know what but as our title characters meet and fall for each other things start becoming quite magical for them unfortunately their fathers are at each other as dad wants to take over dad's movie studio but could love really conquer them all and stop this feud br br hilarious and gross horror comedy drama satire from the wacky and disgusting people at troma is a wonderful modern day take on william shakespeare's romeo and juliet this was released in theaters in 1997 and got some good reviews for this is a dark humored satire of the legendary story that started it all it's got some good laughs piercing graphic violence and gore such as a head being smashed on a fire for me this is the third best troma movie next to the immortal toxic avenger and troma's war being second yes the acting can be a little bad like some troma flicks but the stuff above makes it up for that and this is a must see movie if you like horror comedies peter jackson and troma or if you wanna see a comical version of a beloved story btw also look for a couple of amusing appearances by the toxic avenger and sgt nypd br br also recommended the toxic avenger meet the feebles ichi the killer re animator terror firmer class of high romeo and juliet 1968 and 1996 pieces troma's war citizen toxie the toxic avenger 4 basket case riki oh the story of ricky demons new nightmare freddy vs jason cabin fever nightmare on elm street battle royale pink flamingos perfect blue rabid grannies surf nazis must die hostel evil dead ii serial mom dead alive a k a braindead street trash
1	i watched this film not knowing anything about it i had presumed it was a sci fi b movie of some sort how wrong i was the plot is enthralling and intelligent the cast are all charismatic and the whole film just makes you think for a change some of the riddles stumped me completely but in the end the answers were rather simple i am quite baffled at the low scoring of this film as i thought it was quite unusual if you liked the film se7en seven with brad pit or the matrix then you will like this there is no major special effects or fancy gimmickry here at all it is all about the plot about building the characters and building an atmosphere it is a film however than ultimately provides no answers which may irk some people but i thought the ending was great i am still not sure if the film is based on an true story or not
1	tromeo juliet 10th anniversary edition br br william shakespeare's play romeo juliet has been interpreted hundreds of times on stage and in films sometimes literally following the original text which is at times vague in stage directions sometimes in new interpretations where directors chose to show their own view on the piece some are good many are mediocre lloyd kaufman's film certainly stands out as one of the most original modern versions of the bard's creation it may be placed in a modern day decaying new york and full of the modern day anti social behavior body piercing dismemberment and kinky sex which for the more than casual reader shakespeare himself wasn't shying away from but at the same time it stays incredibly close to the overall feel and point of what the play is all about which is quite an effort kaufman wrote the script with his co director on the film james gunn who is now famous for writing two successful scooby doo movies doing the impossible by making a perfect remake of an already perfect film with his script for dawn of the dead and directing one of the best horror films of the year slither lloyd innovative directorial view alongside with james gunns original and unrestricted writing make for an interpretation of shakespeare's play that maybe not everyone will get immediately but will certainly be recognized by a truly unique and highly important view on a classic play with a script that is written entirely in iambic meter appearances of and an outrageous forceful soundtrack watching tromeo juliet is something no one will ever forget apart from it's historical significance tromeo juliet is a treasure for film lovers of all kind not only for the script by james gunn now a good influence on hollywood while working from the inside but also because it features an early part of legendary actress debbie rochon well known by everyone familiar with films that are made on lower budgets the 10th anniversary edition on dvd adds to all that by including so many as yet undiscovered gems that not only all the information one could wish for about the film itself and the experience of making it is presented in ways that make it impossible to turn off the dvd but also a very honest and disturbing look is given into the ways independent cinema has to surviver these days in many ways the extra's on the disc are an invaluable addition to the already impressive amount given on kaufman's film school make your own damn movie historical items from the troma vaults which include james gunn debbie rochon and all other contributors to this masterpiece are included and the film itself is apart from looking better then ever accompanied by no less than four audio commentaries each and everyone informative excruciatingly funny and all done for serious addition to the film instead of the boring and nonsensical commentaries that are so common these days there are new commentaries one with kaufman and gunn together but also the one james gunn did for the original release of the dvd but couldn't be included there for some of honesty he displays about some other people is present on this disc with fan recreations of a few of the scenes from the film a video diary of lloyd kaufman's visit to the set of james gunn's slither and a visit the two brought together to eli roth's hostel birthday party and much more this is the ultimate set everyone must own weather you are a film historian someone interested in interpretations of the great bard's work a fan of great cinema a fighter for independent cinema a fan of james gunn interested in learning more on making films on a low budget a fan of lloyd kaufman or whatever this is the most important dvd release of this millennium
1	this outlandish troma movie is actually a very good movie it is known as their epic and best and most highly rated production their version of shakespeare's play is extremely funny with the usual dose of troma nudity and gore troma has made some very good gore films one of my favorites is street trash and of course the toxic avenger movies i have one troma movie terror firmer which has a reputation as their goriest and nastiest movie i enjoyed tromeo and juliet so much that i need to finally watch terror firmer this is a 2 disc collector's version with four commentaries and many many features tromeo and juliet is an absolute hoot and highly recommended
1	once upon a time troma the company that brought us cinema classics such as the toxic avenger rabid grannies redneck zombies and surf nazis must die decided long ago to adapt shakespeare's famous play 'romeo and juliet ' this adaptation decided to spice up the story by adding kinky sex extreme violence genital monsters body piercing and incest and it succeeded in creating a bizarre yet hilarious film anyone going into a troma production should know what to expect and that is irreverent and perverse comedy with plenty of political incorrectness expect plenty of nods to other troma films and plenty of re used gags flipping cars and head squashing many may think it sounds like utter crap that only morons would find funny they may be right but at the same time they may need to lighten up and enjoy the insanity and mind that is tromeo and juliet br br with a great cast a funny script by james gunn and lloyd kaufman a fitting soundtrack and plenty of great visual gags kaufman has yet again succeeded in turning what is right upside down and grossing the hell out of everyone get some popcorn grab a beer invite your friends over and enjoy tromeo and juliet for what it is a shakespeare adaptation with plenty of balls the end br br 4 5
1	this movie is really sick and funny i have made my friends cringe describing it to them i saw it about 8 months ago and i still have the song 'shall we gather at the river' echoing through my head br br so basically it is a romeo and juliet but it goes beyond what you would expect let's just say incest references to child molestation gore of course but unfortunately has a sort of happy ending sort of it's more weird than happy cappy capulet was brilliant he has this sort of intellectual snobbish tone he's abusive but civilised he quotes more shakespeare than anyone else in the film all while engaging in his sadistic role as a husband and father br br the meat guy was pretty cool too he was fiancé deeply infatuated with her and soon to be heartbroken because of tromeo and tromeo a true romantic he's a handsome really sweet guy desperate to find true love 'she doth make torches to burn brightly ' unfortunately troma just had to resort to that awful fake green vomit and their other antics they really get carried away with that stuff sometimes but hey this film made a great impression on me how often do i refer to it in real life situations wow that's pathetic br br anyway enjoy
1	this is the best movie i've ever seen and i've seen a lot i'm not even a troma fan i've never heard of troma before watching this movie br br i had already given up hope to see a great movie until i saw tromeo and juliet this movie is a dream coming true shakespeare would likely be proud of this modern adaptation of his classic there are sex violence humor and satire it breaks many taboos br br this movie is neither disgusting nor stupid it's hard to describe with words how clever funny exciting and witty this movie is the music is great and perfectly fits every scene the characters are very believable and the acting is great i really cared for the characters br br it is certainly not for troma's fans only it's for all people who have a sense of humor and like clever and believable entertainment as opposed to totally stupid and unbelievable mainstream movies that don't dare to do what this movie does br br the bad reviews only prove that this movie is great and something exceptional you either love it or hate it like all true works of art it isn't understood and appreciated by all people
1	this trash version of romeo and juliet' passes in manhattan in the present days romeo will keenan is an a hole and violent member of family que and juliet jane jensen is a sexy with beautiful legs and breasts and bisexual girl of capulet family the scatological situations this romantic pair will face are very funny although being a cult movie inclusive exhibited in rio de janeiro festival it is not recommended for all the audiences if the viewer is fan of peter jackson's former movies bad taste' toxic avenger' body melt' and other trash movie he will certainly love this flick otherwise he will hate it since i belong to the first group my vote is eight br br
1	tromeo and juliet 1996 is another jewel in the troma studios film archives like the toxic avenger troma's war class of nuke 'em high terror firmer and sgt n y p d this film is an instant troma classic james gunn updates romeo and juliet taking a medieval tragedy and it as a modern day street punk drama if you have seen or read the play before nothing much has change except it has been br br lloyd kaufman adds his own twisted vision to the screenplay and makes it highly enjoyable film the actors handle the script very well i was surprised by how well they performed the dialog a lot better than some hollywood big budgeted actors utilizing a monstrous budget and expensive sets i enjoyed this movie very much lloyd kaufman doesn't disappoint because you know what to expect from his films and other troma productions i would rather watch one of his films and be entertained than watch an boring expensive movie with pampered over paid actors lame scripts lazy directors and those awful c g i special effects br br i highly recommend this movie if you like fun films with cheesy special effects over the top acting and inspired directing then this movie's just for you
1	yes they finally got it down to perfection what a great idea a refreshing exploitation epic for generation x whether they know it or not after disasters like sgt nypd and getting screwed by blockbuster our hero lloyd kaufman just decided to go for it stop catering to distributors and let troma be all the troma it can be lloyd would make this one the most unapologetic outlandish and downright hilarious troma movie yet this time lloyd takes shakespeare's love story turns it inside out it and adds that long lost entertainment value it was always lacking entertainment value such as the narrator debbie rochon the cook joe the fat guy and of course brutal mutilations and toilet humor tromeo and juliet is the definitive edition of a rather lackluster story and the crown jewel of the troma universe br br years ago in tromaville n j business partners monty que and cap capulet start a film company called silky films which would produce supposedly tasteful soft core films monty considers cap his friend but cap is out to screw the poor sucker out of his share of the company on paper and in books it appears that monty gave away his life's work for free fast forward to mid 90's manhattan we have two families who are extremely displeased with one another it's to the point that they're just looking for a reason to take a limb or preferably a life monty has a son tromeo nephew benny they with their friend murray martini who's just a little too excited about all the carnage wage war on the incestuous capulets except monty he's too drunk to care like in the original there is a confusing situation leading to tromeo falling for daughter who he has never met or never even knew about unfortunately cap is a sadistic pervert who not unlike dad has a thing for the bottle and this would of course lead to daddy's little melon being physically and emotionally abused and molested and kept in a plexiglas cage off and on depending on how foul of a mood cap is in cap is also forcing his vegetarian daughter to marry london arbuckle a billionaire butcher who would make just about anyone uneasy with or without the loaf with all these inconveniences the young lovers feel that eloping would be the best decision but how will this effect the big feud it might or might not go a little something like the original but figuring out how this one ends up is just simply not going to happen you'll never see it coming br br the one with leo is downright sleep inducing compared to tromeo juliet but if watered down over directed big budget hollywood garbage is what you've been programmed to go for then by all means go for it but if you're in the mood for something a little more colorful something that really packs a punch and doesn't follow the normal movie pattern and if you happen to have a rather abnormal sense of humor then you just might not hate this movie tromeo and juliet gives the finger to all that is mainstream full blast exploitation with as much mean spirited humor as anything from a young john waters along with some badass acting tromeo and juliet flaunts a thunderous score which includes the legendary motorhead and not to mention much input from james gunn that really brought this one together for more awesomeness from james gunn check out and for more excellence from lloyd kaufman check out his next vision terror firmer tromeo and juliet is jaw droppingly priceless exploitation for the 90's brought to us by the one and only king of the b movies thank's lloyd 10 10
1	this movie is truly unique it really captures the spirit of the play but makes it entertaining to the modern generation the romance between tromeo and juliet was believable and erotic not pulled off by many adaptations it is also so funny i was almost crying with laughter br br like with most troma its in your face taboo subjects gore and sex and yet add in some really good acting and a shakespeare plot you really have to see this movie to believe it br br there are some hillarious jokes in the credits best credits i've seen since hot shots loads of troma in jokes as well as general satire and shakespeare refs and from the house of motorhead narrates i lent this movie to a friend and had an almost impossible job of getting it back troma at its best this film really is a gem and goes in my top 5 favourite movies of all time br br though its not the sort of film you'd watch with your mum and might offend some people for anybody bored with run of the mill cinema with a wacky sense of humour you must see this film
1	a very bizarre bringing to the screen of william shakespeare's tragic love story br br the que family and the capulet family have a long running hatred of one another which often results in violence the hatred has something to do with a film company and the fact that everyone is pretty much crazy in the middle of all of this insanity are tromeo and juliet literature's most famous star crossed lovers that fall for each other at first sight and problems arise when they realize whose family the other belongs to br br the film follows the basic plot of the original play remarkably well and key scenes even use the original or close to original lines but the infamous troma bizarreness pervades the film from beginning to end that makes for a movie that is definitely not for all tastes but it is nonetheless pretty inventive tyrone tybalt in shakespeare has a particularly funny death scene 7 10 br br many differently edited and rated versions exist each contains violence profanity drug use and sex all with a big dose of bizarreness
1	set mostly in the back streets of toronto ng is a dark mysterious journey that takes the viewer into the minds of a young man and woman vern and sarah each of whom has a fascination with riddles and a disastrous incident in their past fine dialogue and first rate casting propel this low key noirish journey into the girl's search for the meaning behind the word puzzles that keep appearing in her life aided by her anything but enthusiastic male friend the two of them reach the end of their quest but with a price to be paid the film never intends to answer all of its mysteries but does an excellent job in the exposition of several plot twists
1	what often gets overlooked in agatha christie's stories is her progressive anti conservative attitude on a number of issues from the role of women to the effects of tradition to people's belief in the supernatural in nemesis you can spot a lot of those subtexts but you can also find a good old fashioned intriguing mystery that keeps you in the dark for most of its length also lifting nemesis above other series entries they do it with mirrors 4 50 from etc is the fact that in the crucial moments before and after the revelation of the killer you can actually feel the suspense and finally jane booker is welcome to guard my body any time
1	while not quite as good as a murder is announced which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book this is an excellent adaptation and you know what it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version now i don't take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations two or three of them were surprisingly good but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script a confusing final solution or both the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace and both of the above problems and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations worst being mystery which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement it not only respects the book despite a few liberties but it pretty much the problems the itv version had despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating more to do with how he was written than how he was acted and one or two moments of sluggish pacing this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book it is beautifully filmed with nice photography and period detail and the music as always is excellent the performances are wonderful this time around and make the most of an in general well done script with joan brilliant as always as miss marple and solid turns from liz fraser helen cherry joanna hole and anna cropper margaret is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as overall well worth watching better than the recent version in pretty much all departments 9 10 bethany cox
1	was the last book to feature miss marple written by agatha christie the official final case 'sleeping murder' was written in the forties and i've always had a very soft spot for it i loved the characters and they are lovingly brought to life in this excellent bbc adaptation with joan terrific as ever as miss marple br br on the whole it is very faithful to the book a few characters are dropped the first new murder is slightly different and a couple of new characters are introduced personally i felt that the added character of lionel peel was unnecessary and rather irritating tour guide madge was irritating in a different way but often quite amusing it's largely because of lionel that i don't award 10 out of 10 the other characters are beautifully done especially helen cherry as a dignified miss temple and all of the three weird sisters but particularly margaret who gives a towering performance as she threatens to go over the top towards the end but just avoids it the female bodyguards are good value too and the episode contains one of my favourite lines 'an ' br br this is another relatively early bbc marple that looks wonderful and is has a gloriously nostalgic feel to it highly recommended
1	i totally agree with the other poster nemesis is one of the best of the christie adaptations with a superlative plot and cast br br the scene involving liz fraser as the mother of the murder victim is a study in acting at the finest level this underrated woman was a fave in brit films in the 1960s who never got a mainstream break in us films check her out as julie andrews's friend in the 1964 the americanization of emily br br all of the in this prod have a chance to shine with and without the peerless ms who was never for an emmy for her marple work shame on them and dig the lesbian cid agents
1	as always joan is wonderful as jane m subtle sharp and aware i do not wish to dwell on her acting skills as they are praised enough on this site i would like to criticize some of the smaller parts as the rest of the cast seemed to be hand picked by director david tucker br br liz fraser's performance as mrs bent the mother of the missing girl nora is a joy to watch subtle and deeply moving as the alcohol depending grieving mother who loves and misses her daughter desperately a good long shot of her monologue thanks tucker so she can be enjoyed to the fullest i was moved when i saw her the first time when it was broadcast and i am moved again now i have it on dvd brava br br joanna hole as madge the tour guide i find highly amusing she is on the edge of over acting but her role can have it she is so funny as the over organized guide who wants to do good with everyone on that bus i find her hilarious her reaction after she boarded every one on the bus is great as always to perform comedy one has to take it very seriously and that's what ms hole does br br i do hope those two ladies have good careers as i live in holland i do not know if they have not all theater productions can be googled their performances on the screen deserve it br br
1	i have waited for ages to comment on this programme and felt it was about time some justice was done to it this is one of christie's darker more sinister and engaging works not simply someone being killed for money this is a dark and thoroughly engaging tale of mystery intrigue love and murder made all the better by the made by the adaptor the level of acting is utterly superb joan is sublime in the part as always the rest of the cast including the likes of liz fraser anna cropper and helen cherry all perform beautifully but it's my opinion that the show is stolen by margaret the closing scene between her and joan is simply magical the acting is as good as it gets chilling moving and totally brilliant br br please let me know if you agree with my words i am seriously looking forward to the remake to see how well geraldine version is watch and enjoy
1	i give this a 10 out of 10 not because the plot was hard to uncover because it wasn't but because it leaves one caring for the characters the acting by all the cast is superb especially joan and it's a marvellous episode because of it's heart br br miss marple is called upon by jason dying request to investigate and solve a murder that happened some seven or eight years previously and she has to discover who why and when as she goes along mr is the same as was in a caribbean mystery and so there is a sense of a connection here br br nemesis is definitely one for the amateur psychologists among us and if you are one of those who is only happy with lots of blood guts and rip roaring action sequences then you won't like it but if you are like me one who loves knowing about people and discovering what makes them tick then nemesis is the one for you
1	made the same year as the first lumiere films this is a much more dramatic short than the brothers attempted until the following year's the surviving print is very rough but this only adds to the visual violence as huge of water dash against a stolid pier and seem ready to engulf the camera the viewer br br if you watch a number of these early shorts in chronological order and try to get into the mindset of the times there is a further shock in that unlike the single frame set ups of the lumieres this film features an edit which for me at any rate was as slashing as the razor blade in 'un chien br br unlike the mono vision of the films paul opens up the possibility of multiple perspectives freeing the viewer from the power of nature eluding its grasp in a way the lumieres never could the second shot features a similar gush to that of niagara but is less frightening because by way of the edit we have sidestepped the danger in a film like or du nature stands indifferent and powerful by the camera basic film grammar puts an end to its supremacy
1	anyone who has seen the trailer for this film would be forgiven for thinking this film is an out and out comedy in actual fact it's a light hearted though not overly funny romp about a couple of br br there are numerous faults in the film the script and plot are weak and the love aspect of the story is strangely dull yet despite all this it is quite enjoyable thanks largely to the two leads robert carlyle and jonny lee miller these two fine actors carlyle in particular are always good to watch and here there exists a good chemistry between them br br director jake scott is the next generation of the family whose brothers ridley and tony have given us films such as alien blade runner true romance and more recently g i jane and enemy of the state his debut is directed with energy and enthusiasm which keeps the film fizzling along although without the strong cast he assembled the results might not have worked as well br br in short if you're looking for an easy enjoyable film to pass an hour and a half then you could do a lot worse than and if on the other hand you fancy something subtle historically accurate and thought provoking go elsewhere 7 10
1	so it might not be entirely historically accurate and there is little or no real character development but for jake son of ridley scott's first attempt it's well worth the ticket price br br captain james jonny lee miller looking as good as ever may be a gentleman but he hasn't got the money or the clothes to prove it robert carlyle with all his clothes on is an turned outlaw the circumstances of their strange meeting involve a dead body a ruby and eventually a partnership as the gentlemen as the tag line says they rob the rich and that's it there isn't really much background or even in depth development but the object seems to be to relieve the aristocracy of enough money and jewels to pay for the two passage to america one small problem falls in love with the chief ward rebecca liv tyler who happens to also have caught the eye of the thief taker general br br the plot is original enough the casting is excellent especially alan cumming as the drag queenish lord rochester carlyle and miller also together in trainspotting they haven't lost their dynamic the costuming is fantastic the makeup is outrageous and the music is hard edged techno with a strangely classical undertone jake scott has an eye for light and shadow a good sense of balance between spectacle and plot and he isn't squeamish about showing the more unpleasant side of 17th century london and lucky for us he likes close ups of faces especially eyes jonny lee miller's eyes and liv tyler's too but hey who is this movie about rebecca no and but there's more to this movie than just pretty faces at the risk of sounding cliche it's a fast furious and sometimes frustrating ride with the most noble since robin hood decadent sleazy and violent scott's debut film makes for an entertaining evening at the movies br br as says i was terrific and it was a bloody good laugh
1	i have seen many many movies and this just totally blew my mind the trauma the suspense is just amazing i ended so wound up in the psychological fear and philosophy of it and relating it to reality movies that play and challenge your mind are movies you don't forget those that make you doubt your reality a problem could be the quality but that doesn't bring down the essence of the movie br br the idea it self is brilliant and the ending leaves you just completely shocked and with the question for you to seek the answer i just totally loved it so many clues and twitches and puzzles one of the best movies ever hands down
1	and is an entertaining fast paced and refreshing film refreshing because unlike most other period films it does not strive to give the audience a history lesson or preach indeed historical accuracy is all but ignored this film does not take itself too seriously and seeks to entertain rather than enlighten and is set in the 18th century yet director jake scott offers a thoroughly 90s take there's action sex and swearing aplenty and in the inevitable ball scene the aristocracy dance to disco beats jonny lee miller and robert carlyle are brilliant as always and the rest of the cast especially alan cumming as a flirtatious fop are also highly entertaining the film is visually spectacular in places and is a mixture of comedy action and drama with a love interest provided by liv tyler with a shaky english accent in short if you're looking for an entertaining couple of hours this is the film for you it won't make you think but it could well put a smile on your face
1	robert carlyle excels again the period was captured well and the soundtrack although hearing modern techno in this period piece was a little disconcerting at first proved to be very well chosen br br well worth a watch
1	this movie is great stylish fun good acting i'd seen it described variously as 'lock stock and two smoking and both of which are excellent descriptions the plot is simple but it does not detract from the enjoyment carlyle is a brilliant ruffian and miller is an excellent drunken gentleman the sets and costumes are stunning and the music and camerawork are unusual for a drama' sense and sensibility it definitely is not my recommendation go see it sit back with a huge tub of popcorn and have a damn good time
1	this has to be my favourite film the script is sharp and played to the limit by an excellent miller and fantastic carlisle sharp wit excellent narrative and no hollywood polishing a totally film which has you gunning for the bad guys excels again as the detestable chance while liv tyler truly beats her other lighter performances as the excitement hungry rebecca the soundtrack may not be known to you by name but anyone who has ever seen top gear watched the football or seen any tv action sequence is probably familiar with it particularly due to craig armstrong's 'escape' which must allow him never to work again the soundtrack on first play may seem out of place in a costume drama action comedy but one re watching shows it is perfectly at home in giving the the script it's drama br br my one gripe about this film is that it isn't shown enough on tv where is it truly excellent sharp and classy you'll not regret watching it again and again exits to switch on dvd player
1	i adore this film the chemistry between the two leads miller and carlisle is amazing they spark so well off of each other creating an unlikely comedy duo alan cumming is hilarious his enthusiasm for the role is clearly evident as he camps it up the acting is superb and it is a genuinely amusing and touching film not the greatest film ever made i'll admit but it is a huge amount of fun and i would recommend to those who enjoy other gritty brit flicks includes some of the best british actors including michael so you can't go far wrong look out for cameos from david walliams and matt lucas of little britain and rock profile fame
1	when i went to the video rental store back in the days when dvd was yet next to unknown to me i had seen all the movies at the store that i was interested in or so i thought the man behind the counter told me he had something for me that i definitely would like he gave me and at first i doubted it to be any good but i trusted his advise and man i sure am happy i did take this jewel along this is one of the best adventure movies in years if you ask me of course with robert carlyle as a major part how bad can a movie get surely liv tyler does once more what she's good at and nothing much more being pretty but still you can very clearly sense that the cast apparently had a lot of fun making this movie
1	falls into my favourite genre of film historical action adventure with comedy which is probably why i rate it so highly br br the action centres around a highwayman and a layabout who gets entangled with him and his schemes this leads to all sorts of escapades and adventures which are all tinged with comedy there is also of course a love interest br br the rest of the cast is made up of a number of vibrant larger than life characters who add to the atmosphere of the film and show the excesses of the wealthy at this time br br this is an enjoyable film with a fairly simple but worthwhile plot that provides plenty of entertainment
1	i tend to like historical period films and get new ideas for costumes for my historical group and a friend recommended this one to me i like johnny lee miller as an actor so i figured it was worth it and i was definitely rewarded his portrayal as a member of the english noble class was by far more accurate than i've seen in the past the comedy aspect of it left my sides hurting the costumes weren't awful and historically i didn't wince too much i also noticed the fact that england didn't have a proper sewage system until much later but anyone who dose not go deep into the of england's past won't notice nor care absolutely worth seeing i highly recommend this movie
1	i don't want to write too much about the film but basically it's an action comedy with a little bit of romance thrown in about two men who come together in unlikely circumstances and become highway men together fantastic performance by robert and everybody else involved a brilliant who really makes you hate him some great comical lines actually laugh out loud amazing action and a great plot choice of music and ambiance all fantastic basically brilliantly directed and written i recommend this film to anyone who likes a good british movie or a good bit of action i don't know why the film never took off i thought it got no where near as much recognition as it deserved if for nothing else watch this film for one of the greatest finale's of all time not to give anything away but this one really get's the heart beating
1	this movie almost has everything the action is cool it's funny 2 great leading men and a truly nasty villain that i really hated not a lot of films have bad bad guys just mainly comic book villains he really does deserve a might ass kicking br br jake scott really does have his fathers talent for knowing how to make great visuals the direction is faultless and has an irresistible lighthearted feel i don't usually like films set in the old days but this i liked a lot because it makes a point of boring like so many other period films are sense and sensibility age of innocence and the absolute worst lady and the duke this will restore your faith thanx mostly to craig armstrong's amazing score the music is both atmospheric and ethereal and in scenes of action it is very exciting br br the dvd is in dolby 5 1 and has a very grainy and muddy looking 2 35 1 anamorphic picture
1	this film was probably the best scary film i've seen in years chilling might be a more accurate description the ending was unexpected and therefore took me by surprise if it has any flaw it would be the overuse of the whole meaning of life concept since noone truly knows that answer you definitely sail into murky waters when you incorporate that concept into a movie put that aside and the movie is quite enjoyable carly pope should emerge as one of the next bright young stars in the film industry the rest of the cast were somewhat shaky however since the focus was on sara novak carly pope her performance anchored the movie the at times poor acting abilities of her costars were not an issue since it was not their performances that fuelled this movie thankfully watch this movie you should enjoy it br br t
1	and is a wonderful updating of the swashbuckling tradition predating johny depp and his pirate friends the tone is lighthearted with a touch of social commentary but nothing too heavy one could almost see errol flynn and basil rathbone in this br br it starts out in low gear with the introduction of the characters and the establishing of the themes of social inequality and rebellion but it kicks into high gear once the boys hit the highways the robberies are grand and stylish with romantic touches that are the bread and butter of swashbucklers the actors are engaging and help elevate the material a bit which is fairly hollow there's not much depth to the figures but they are played with such charm and skill that it doesn't matter br br has been said about the modern music period music tended to the more serene which seems out of place a classical score with celtic rhythms for the action pieces could work but the more modern rebellious rock and techno music seemed to add an edge to the action since the characters are more legend than reality accuracy in the music seems pointless the pieces tend to fit the mood of the aired scenes so it mostly works well i just wonder how they missed adam stand and deliver make no mistake this is not a serious film it's pure escapism and a wonderful lark tony scott shows some of the visual flair of his father but i don't think we are going to see many oscar nods in his career just yet he seems to understand the material here and pulls off a fine film with time he may prove to be a name to reckon with his father took a while to mature beyond visual stylization and become a more rounded director this is definitely one to watch for an entertaining evening or for a swashbuckling film fest
1	i've seen the previews everywhere before deciding to watch it and what do you know i actually liked it it has a new twist of the 18th century england although the music in the dance scene were obviously modernized and also the colors of liv tyler's although it is pretty it fit quite perfectly br br if you just want a good time you should check this out very different from other 18th century detailed films
1	well i'm not about to add to the diatribe that's been about this film br br all i can add is that at no time does it even pretend to be a picture unlike 'titanic' or 'the patriot' all of which have very credible and serious historical purely for effect possible the worst of excuses br br has everyone taken a sense of humor bypass br br all i can add is a paraphrase from the good captain 'it looked br br fantastic and we have a bloody good br br one last point what me is that there are comments relating to the 'modern music' in a historic setting i wonder if the same people made the same judgment about moulin rouge i suggest not
1	normally i hate period films living in england is a nightmare at the moment if you have an allergy to period dramas which i do however this one is the best it doesn't take itself seriously and jonny lee miller and robert carlyle are great together liv tyler's good as well although her english accent is dodgy br br the film has everything for someone who just wants to go the cinema to enjoy themselves it has action adventure drama and comedy i'm not sure how well the jokes will translate across the ocean but hopefully they will it would be a shame for american audiences to miss out on this film it shows that english film makers can produce something that doesn't involve constant swearing and sex both do feature in this but in a balanced format robertson's camp portrayal of the well to do gentleman is brilliant and the two brothers who are also part of the upper class set are hilarious br br as the trailer for 'the spy who shagged me' is to say if you see one other film this spring make it and it's got fun action and of course jonny lee miller with an english accent for a change
1	if you liked lock stock and two smoking barrels the chances are you'll like this too although i guess a few of the british in jokes like calling two london characters dixon and after arsenal soccer players may be lost on some this is still cracking entertainment which pumps with vitality br br carlyle miller and tyler are all excellent bringing depth to their characters and the interplay between the two protagonists is always well judged in fact scott's direction is very assured considering that this is his first feature film and proves that he has his father's talent for putting us at ease in unfamiliar surroundings br br hell i've convinced myself i'm gonna see it again
1	this movie without doubt is the best i have seen and really shows what british talent can do it's effects are exceedingly good considering the movie is set in the mid 18th century and all the grittiness and disgusting filth of england at the time is captured very well the character's are developed and fleshed out from whoring antics to his development into highwayman and 'the gentleman contrast well with robert carlyle who's cynicism and honour show that you can love a thief and a criminal cos i quote got more honour in his little finger than any of you fat bastards ' br br not referring to you of course but it has arguably the most stirring and emotionally charged scene ever witnessed in a movie but you'll just have to see it to find out suffice to say that it involves rope round your neck br br
1	a very watchable film and one which was eagerly awaited having seen the trailer a number of times br br the whole thing looks superb from the ludicrous efforts of the effete upper class to distance themselves from the mediocrity to the lower class scum just trying to keep their heads above the filth the film captures the spirit of the 18th century brilliantly br br jonny lee miller plays maclean extremely well though the part does not exactly stretch him and robert carlyle seems a little wasted on miller's highwayman colleague br br the real star of the show was undoubtedly ken who plays mr chance a kind of chief of police with an evil glee that set him out from the rest of the cast br br a great film and anyone that enjoys the colour and style of peter greenaway's films will love the look of this although the thinness of the plot becomes apparent before the 2 hours are up br br well worth a viewing
1	is the princess bride meets well trainspotting but wait really it's a good combination this was definitely one of the better movies i've seen in a long time it has the kind of witty dialog i associate with the princess bride or cemetery man along with the disgusting scenes of violence of a horror movie the heroic feel of princess bride combined with the this is odd lack of any really good guys that trainspotting had br br i'm not saying it was as good as the princess bride but it was in the arena and it rocked some of the dialog transcends pleasing to brilliant the plot is interesting the characters while slightly are not due to their intrinsic nature there were flamboyantly gay people in the 18th century contrary to a previous reviewer's remarks but just in a bit of the language they used the anachronisms made it fun though and not cheesy and easily dismissed br br if you've ever read any simon r green or cook's garrett series you know exactly what this movie is check it out it's great
1	i'm amazed that i have a real affection for this one inasmuch as i'm not an action and adventure lover but hey it's pretty tough to go wrong with a robert carlyle film i've read several poor or reviews on this film pulling it apart for it's period errors or unlikely plot development but no one seems to mention the rather intriguing character transition which features how a hardened down on his luck scoundrel carlyle transforms into a rather noble selfless hero and how the pretty boy cowardly vagrant miller develops a real taste for the life of a highway man once he gets the feel of it filled with lots of bad boy humor lavish scenes particularly the use of fireworks by former and a charmingly musical score is a fast paced highly enjoyable piece of film making it's certainly worth your viewing time for the climax scene alone shoot 'em up boys
1	i've been waiting since last october to see this film it was supposed to come out october '98 and now i've finally seen it i am not disappointed bloody marvellous ok it was a tad slow in the beginning but once it got going it's a very exciting nail biting tense robert carlyle is so different from either gaz in 'the full and in 'trainspotting' that it's hard to recognise him and johnny lee miller no longer with his sick boy from 'trainspotting' blond hair plays his dashing gentlemen highway man with the right about of humour and sensitivity that it is easy to see why liv rebecca falls for him a great film as hades in disney's would say two thumbs way way up
1	what can i say not as bad as many here have made it out to be the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before was strictly for ian mcshane br br i was not disappointed in the least ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role he's always great to watch and for my money an extremely underused actor br br as for the rest of the film every other actor in the movie delivered strong solid performances these people certainly weren't being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation as this was a fairly low budget film but this did not mean that any of them mailed their appearances in everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them br br i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul's performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie br br the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film anybody who expected a clear cut by the numbers connect the dots conclusion or answer at the end of the movie clearly wasn't watching the film closely enough this film is not going to tell you what the meaning of life is the idea is that after seeing the film you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee i certainly did br br no car chases no explosions no bar room brawls sounds pretty dull huh but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it's just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved br br warning if you're the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous question as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly br br you might not enjoy this film
1	when i sat down in the cinema to see this i was expecting to see a sort of stylish tongue in cheek action film which had been implied by the trailers however it very quickly became apparent that this film was trying to be more br br normally i don't approve of films that try to entertain in as many ways possible for instance this film tries to mix action with comedy romance lightheartedness and gritty seriousness all at once most of the time this sort of approach doesn't work in films just look at batman forever but i was was pleasantly surprised to see that in this case they pulled it off br br the end result is a highly entertaining film that should appeal to most mature however the weak of stomach should really be warned of one or two scenes robert carlyle and jonny lee miller pull of a brilliant double act and ken does a excellent villain this mixed in with superb costumes and a few decent action scenes makes for a very enjoyable watch br br however the big let down here for me is that in having 'the gentleman there was a real opportunity for some good dialogue but the script was definitely lacking in and there were few belly laughs okay so the lines weren't terrible but to me it does highlight a problem with recent british films ignoring a few notable exceptions the screenplays being written today are still relatively mediocre when compared to some of hollywood's efforts
1	because while i thoroughly enjoyed this film it seems from other user comments that i'm in the minority maybe not one for the philosopher eek there are some wonderful scenes here particularly the techno and the great life adventure story originally portrayed go see for yourself
1	wow i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in ' this is a phenomenal movie it has action romance suspense intrigue and wit when i wasn't laughing i was at the edge of my seat this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the 18th century this film has everything to keep me happy
1	here be spoilers br br recap miller witnesses a robbery by carlyle that goes wrong plunkett's partner get shot and killed but not until after he has swallowed a great ruby and then meet at the cemetery when both try to get hold of the ruby unfortunately they are caught as grave robbers and sent to jail but not until has swallowed the ruby the ruby is their key to freedom and once they're free they form a partnership in robbery is to pose as a gentleman and find out who is worth robbing and then simply they rob him and rob them in style but falls in love with the niece daughter of their first victim lady rebecca gibson tyler and a mr chance is out to catch them and his methods are not very nice br br comments a good action flavoured by comedy and adventure carlyle and miller form a good team with a lot of friction and friendship and then there is the relationship between and rebecca gibson the scene with the ball is very good especially the anachronistic use of the music in addition to these interesting characters cumming play the best of them all lord rochester both the character and the acting are stellar and among the best in the movie in total the movie works very well a nice balance between story and special effects action and comedy very entertaining br br 8 10
1	ah how refreshing to see a vision of 18th century england complete with mud the pox and and accompanied by a delightful techno soundtrack to boot this is the story of downtrodden highwayman robert carlisle and gentleman fallen on hard times captain jonny lee miller and how they get together and rob the pigs is a hard nut but is far too polite for that and thus becomes 'the gentleman he falls in love with lady rebecca liv tyler who to be frank is the only weak part of the whole shebang and wants to impress her br br the costumes are fantastic big colourful historically beautiful togs alan cummings gets all the best threads and the best lines as lord rochester sporting a very non 18th century eyebrow piercing the music shifts between swooping glorious choirs and thumping bass laden techno which doesn't as you think it should do in a historical film the script is fast moving and peppered with modern day colloquialisms merchant ivory this is not there are hilarious parts disgusting parts sit on the edge of your seat and nibble your fingernails parts but the whole thing chugs along and is wonderfully entertaining throughout this is cheer in the cinema stuff unmissable
1	this movie is one of the best and moving i have ever seen because of the terrible good performance of the main actress jennifer rubin as jamie harris who really makes you feel with her also the music by mark snow is wonderful
1	if you like subtle psychological dramas thrillers this is a movie for you those who want to see an ordinary erotic thriller surely will not understand this movie as colin firth obviously did when he called it rubbish but jennifer rubin is the real star of the movie anyway she is such a brilliant and beautiful actress along with the twisting and turning storyline that gets more and more psychological and makes you think about yourself the wonderful directing photography and especially the music make this movie a masterpiece also the small parts are very good especially belinda is terrific in her small scene i hope it gets released on dvd soon and a soundtrack album would be a dream coming true
1	this mystery psychological thriller is i think one of the best i've ever seen all the actors give a wonderful performance especially jennifer rubin as jamie harris who changes from the nervous starlet in the beginning through the strange events she is part of to the cool star you learn a lot about the real inside emotions of people in this movie and a lot about the movie business itself the movie in movie situations in the beginning and through the game that is played with her by the acting coach are fascinating also the music by mark snow is possibly the best score i've ever heard you won't forget this movie
1	after reading the terrible reviews of this movie including comments said to be quoted from colin i almost didn't bother to add this film to my firth film collection however being the firth fan which i am intrigue got the better of me br br to my surprise i thoroughly enjoyed the movie it had suspense drama and intrigue and v sexy colin scene's the plot kept me guessing right until the end credits and i felt that once one got past jennifer rubens opening scene's that the actress played her role convincingly colin was as brilliant as ever and its great to see him play a character from the 'dark side' a 'chill went down my and after watching this i can't wait to see recent film to be out on dvd br br ok perhaps it a film that was 'in your face' so to speak and one couldn't 'go to sleep on the plot' especially towards the end as there was a lot going on but that was what i liked about it the acting was subtle thankfully not overdone like many suspense thrillers this made the film all the more chilling to watch one just couldn't second guess what character ross talbert or for that matter jennifer rubens character jamie harris was going to do next and there were quite a few surprises in store i sat on the edge of my seat throughout with a cushion handy br br personally i am very glad that i watched and i shall certainly rewind and view again i think that any firth fan would benefit from watching this film if they didn't like the plot then just watch colin
1	wow i loved this movie this film was filled with plot twists good acting great story and a surprising ending to be completely honest this movie wasn't overly gory it does contain some gore though but was more on the psychological side i read it on the internet the film cost 3000 dollars and was shoot in 8 days amazing this is for someone that wants to think and loves great film making what starts out as a terrorizing thriller slowly transforms into something a bit more twisted even a bit more sinister not much i can say without giving away plot points only that this movie went beyond my expectations
1	a raw edgy thriller that aimed for great philosophical heights it couldn't quite attain i did still enjoy the film immensely it had great elements of suspense leaving me with that delightful spine chill i expect from thrillers and it achieved this purely psychologically without resorting to escalating blood and gore the soundtrack and setting added to the suspense perfectly at times it was a bit unpolished particularly the acting and character development it could only have been a better film if we had known more about the nightmares from the past the characters see when they close their eyes and why they felt this desperate need to seek the answer that is so integral to the storyline after all they seemed to continue to seek it despite knowing or at least having an inkling of what might happen when they found it i would recommend seeing this film if you are prepared to look beyond the grit to see the potential of a diamond in the rough
1	the first thing i noticed about this movie was how well everything was set up a quality movie all round br br i suppose you could love this film just for its action but i liked it for more than that br br this is a pure thriller horror movie it offers a more fully fleshed script than most horror films do i thought at least the u s version ended brilliantly and was great throughout the story felt honest and brutal br br the film has an excellent tight script that keeps the action moving with believable characters in largely believable situations
1	this is a very dark movie somewhat better than the average asylum film it was a lot better than i thought it would be is a combination of a psychological thriller and a horror film br br the voice on the telephone is really creepy this voice without a face this unknown and threatening voice works really well in the film since we never see the killer face is left to the imagination of the spectator br br the action and suspense never decay and after the first half of the film it becomes vertiginous there is not much gore in this film just enough to serve the story and also the director does a good job at holding your attention br br i gave this movie a 8 10 because some clichés
1	i was pleasantly surprised to find a very enjoyable film that kept my attention throughout i am a horror fan and i see almost everything in that genre but dead line managed to freak me out the pace is very cleverly set and andrés does a good performance as a desperate man what is underneath the main plot a trip to madness how can you end up like that martin sanders ask him self while he sees a homeless speaking to him self alone in the street close to the end of the film the character of aaron mandel asks the same question while he sees another homeless doing the same thing not knowing yet that this homeless is martin sanders answering the question of the beginning of the film the broken eyeglasses in two are a clear symbol of rupture and division of personality the ending is jaw dropping and you just know that a sequel would have to be made
1	good movie all elements of a good movie was there story actors script and direction i was on the edge of my seat the whole time br br no question about it is a low budget film but i liked it more than many big budget films br br andres plays martin sanders who is dealing with his unfaithful wife then a voice in the telephone and then just fear br br virginia lustig is beautiful and brings a powerful performance she is an excellent part to the film br br i liked the increasing ambiguity near the end even though we know that the main character can be involved we continued seeing everything from his point of view and asking who is the killer
1	sometimes when seeking a movie nothing will do except a good thriller dead line certainly fits the bill br br a little warning however if you are going to watch this film you are better off not knowing too much specifics about the plot br br the plot thickens as the film goes by a really remarkably well built tension mounts br br it is deep and horrifying it goes all the way to the darkest places in human mind br br the plot also has some very surprising shifts br br just wait till nightfall turn off the light and watch this film
1	i was pleasantly surprised by how good the movie was whether you're a gore fan or a suspense fan you'll love this i used to dislike horror movies considered them stupid but anyway it happens i make exceptions i find something really extraordinary in this film rarely have i ever seen a film that has scared the crap out of me but i tell you the truth this film gave me shivers down my neck unlike most horror films this one cares about the development of the characters i highly recommend this film and i'm glad that asylum are finally bringing out good horror movies these days br br i recommend enjoy
1	it's become extremely difficult to find a good horror movie anymore thought this movie was a good thriller br br could have had better production values but what kept me going was the suspense and the twists i had real reservations before seeing this movie because of the cover i was afraid that it would be excessively bloody and gory i was wrong br br although there is a lot of scary parts there is a lot of suspense and drama too br br the acting in dead line was better than what you would expect from a micro budget horror flick the characters were believable br br the movie is really thrilling and quite scary at moments so it makes you grab your seat until the ending credits roll br br because of its production values the sound is not very good for example 8 10
1	i absolutely loved this movie it's my number one favorite although there were a few flaws what movie doesn't have flaws this movie was very well written directed and produced the characters in this movie are very real and believable they made all of the characters fit into a specific role i think that the most apparent thing about here on earth was the love triangle as well as the other emotional situations brought into the movie it's not one of those movies where you just can't seem to relate to anything because in it are situations that everyone is or has been in there are so many different things going on in this movie that it is hard not to relate to it i am just 18 years old and i can even relate to it it was heart warming and wrenching at the same time here on earth will make you laugh cry and sometimes angry i give this movie an excellent review and recommend it to anyone who loves romance and passion
1	ok you people need to settle down this movie is not that bad i saw it for the first time last night and fell in love with it i do have to admit that i have never been a fan of leelee sobieski but she grew on me in this movie i do think josh hartnett is good looking but c'mon chris klein is the most gorgeous man i think i have ever seen he made that movie better for me c'mon girls when he has no shirt on and goes to get water i know your mouth dropped yes i know in the beginning he is a jerk but in the end he realizes how he acted and learns to be a great guy if he wouldn't have come at the end then i would have been mad i do think a couple of lines did not need to be said but all in all it was a great movie i definitely recommend it
1	i own this movie i've seen it over 20 times and every time i still get weepy its a great love story surprises and you can definately feel chemistry between klein and i definately give this movie a perfect 10 i recommend this to anyone
1	i saw the movie while i was in a class a few years back in high school i thought it was a thought provoking movie that made you want to look into the power behind riddles i think the type of people that wouldn't like this movie would be those who don't like solving things or those who get frustrated when they can't solve riddles its a good movie based on a true story that happened in my home town of toronto ontario so if u want a real record of the things that happen in the alleys there watch this movie and for those who only watch movies to point out plot holes and character flaws realize that in real life this same stuff does happen but thats all i want to say on that the riddles are good some are hard some are not but the movie also leaves you wanting more more riddles more explanation just plainly more something more i want to add is that the ideas within this movie the underground riddle world does exist but there is a lot more to it to find it you can not look for it to never look for it would be no way to find it leave your mark and it will find you
1	here on earth is a surprising beautiful romantic tale about samantha who has both boy problems and health problems as her love for her current boyfriend jasper fades away her love for kelley blooms like a new spring flower br br i found this movie very touching very warm very romantic and touching i enjoyed every bit of this movie and that's pretty rare i highly do recommend this movie to all movie lovers this is one film you don't want to miss d br br by the way if you're a very sentimental person who easily cries while watching movies bring tissues on the other hand it was a really really good movie very romantic and surprisingly good d br br
1	alright i'm 12 so this is where you get to see the movie from a pre teen's point of view i've also commented on magnolia and man both great movies if you want to check it out alright here on earth was a beautiful movie with astounding scenes and images very pleasing to the eye the writer i don't know who it was check imdb either worked very hard or has a good appreciation for love poetry and drama i cried 4 times throughout this movie once for over 30 minutes it was really sad really beautiful really meaningful it's a great movie for anyone say 11 and up who isn't a romantic comedy freak yeah it's romantic yeah it's comedic but in my opinion it's better than she's all that or whatever it takes i never cry it's a tender story go rent it and tape it
1	i don't understand why critics would bash this movie it's a teen movie that's actually serious which is a rarity i'll admit that there are moments that are hugely sappy but c'mon it's about young love it's gotta be sappy to be valid my biggest complaint is chris klein while he was funny in american pie he apparently isn't ready for the switch into more dramatic fare yet he's very uncomfortable looking in some of his mama stuff hartnett and sobieski on the other hand demonstrate a remarkable amount of depth and believability as do the parent's although the script is heavily cliched with the lovers spouting off poetry the actor's make it work the directing sports some powerful images on the screen beautiful cinematography nice music great young actors i was impressed and i'm a jaded critic when it comes to teen movies
1	all i have to say is that this movie is the bomb you are going to cry when you see this i mean this is a reminder for everyone how hard and easy it is to fall in love it reminds you of the days during your youth when you were carefree and everything that was bad for you was washed away with a single kiss even though i am still a teen this is how i live my life when i am with that certain someone everything that was negative in my mind was erased so i give this movie a 10 for it's heartfelt message and touching plot actors josh hartnett and chris klein i also give a 10 for having a cute face
1	this is a very unusual film which starts out with a rich dude getting a brand new sports car for graduation and decides to take it for a spin in the local town rich boy meets poor girl in is a waitress and local boy friend gets very upset and a fight starts out there is a car chase and all kinds of problems seem to take place and the rich boy and poor boy wind up having to do community service as ordered by the town judge rich boy and poor boy just do not get along and the rich boy winds up winning the heart and soul of the poor boy's girl friend there are plenty of walks in the woods and poetry is quoted and some very deep thoughts about life poor girl says some people go through life and never find love i can say that i found love and am holding on to it you will need some if you are sensitive there are plenty of romantic scenes and i doubt very much if you will guess how this picture will end the producer and director came up with a good idea and finally put an end to a film if you like true to life stories with poetry and very sensitive subjects this is your film
1	one of the message boards threads at imdb had two women talking about colin firth how they watched the movie only because of him obviously these were two young women but what struck me is how little this movie has been appreciated by audiences generally the brilliant and i mean brilliant performances by michelle pfeiffer and jessica lange were hardly noticed not only by audiences but by the academy and by most of the critics br br i think i know why first the plot or actually just the setup is a kind of bastardization of shakespeare's king lear with the dying crazy patriarch and the three scheming daughters who will inherit their names even begin with the same letters regan and rose ginny and caroline and i guess larry jason robards works for lear the apparent idea envisioned by jane smiley in her pulitzer prize winning novel was to tell a lear like story from the point of view of the daughters and to tell it a sort of late twentieth century realistic way not considered by the bard the problem is in smiley and story the two older daughters are very human with strengths and weaknesses while the father is a most despicable character without much in the way of redeeming qualities his only strength was his ability to make a financial success of the farm however we can even discount that since his father and grandfather before him built the farm and he inherited it br br the second problem and this is one i cannot personally attest to not having read smiley's novel is that the movie is only a limited and partial interpretation of that novel still it is almost always the case that an excellent novel especially a long and ambitious one with many psychological nuances cannot be faithfully transferred to the screen the vision and audio demands of film drown out the subtleties of a narration while the time constraints don't allow for the full development of character and motivation achieved by the novelist given five or six hours perhaps could have made a movie more in keeping with smiley's novel br br a third problem is one that is perhaps alone she began her directing career with the very well done aussie film proof 1991 starring russell crowe she follow it up with how to make an american quilt 1995 which celebrated women especially women of a certain age however it was a bit heavy handed and clearly and determinedly a chick flick in a sense a thousand acres takes off from there showing us not only the point of view of women but does so in a way that may seem politically motivated to some larry cook is clearly a bad bad daddy he beat his daughters and he had carnal knowledge of them he ran the household with an iron fist jess colin firth's character seduces the inexperienced ginny and breaks her heart for nothing more than a bit of fun it would appear and then he goes to rose who clearly is going to be the power behind the new ownership and hooks up with her while incidentally inducing her husband to end his life in a drunken accident the rest of the men are one dimensional characters without nuance the way they often appear in romance novels i think most audiences were put off by the heavy handed incest adultery and sexual betrayal that was woven into the story br br having said all this i think the critics and the public are wrong i think the direction was biased against men but in this story it needed to be i think did a fine job of making an emotional and engaging film about family dynamics that were none too pretty and the acting by pfeiffer and lange was nothing short of sensational they seemed to feed off of one another in a way that i found absolutely authentic and deeply moving in particular pfeiffer was riveting as she projected her bent up anger and hatred the way allowed her character to be revealed to us gradually is a tribute to her ability as a director as well as to outstanding performance and the skill with which guided the change in character as she went from a as she called herself to someone with self awareness and some understandable bitterness was also excellent the fact that she left her husband was as much out of shame as anything else he needed to go get her and forgive her and bring her back and robards in his intensity and madness was also very good br br i predict that this film which bombed in theaters will be better appreciated in the years to come as people see it on dvd my question is whatever happened to her talent is obvious but she has yet to director her fourth feature film when she does i hope she remembers to go with what she believes but to be fair as well i think actually she was fair to the two lead character in this film but didn't pay enough attention to the others in addition to the unnuanced father jennifer jason leigh's caroline was unfinished leaving us to wonder about why she did some of the things she did and the husbands needed to be something more than mannequins they needed to be engaged and involved
1	br br when i rented a thousand acres i thought i was in for an entertaining king lear story and of course michelle pfeiffer was in it so what could go wrong br br very quickly however i realized that this story was about a thousand other things besides just acres i started crying and couldn't stop until long after the movie ended thank you jane laura and jocelyn for bringing us such a wonderfully subtle and compassionate movie thank you cast for being involved and portraying the characters with such depth and gentleness br br i recognized the angry sister the runaway sister and the sister in denial i recognized the abusive husband and why he was there and then the father oh oh the father all superbly played i also recognized myself and this movie was an eye opener a relief a chance to face my own truth and finally doing something about it i truly hope a thousand acres has had the same effect on some others out there br br since i didn't understand why the cover said the film was about sisters fighting over land they weren't fighting each other at all i watched it a second time then i was able to see that if one hadn't lived a similar story one would easily miss the overwhelming undercurrent of dread and fear and the deep bond between the sisters that runs through it all that is exactly the reason why people in general often overlook the truth about their neighbors for instance br br but yet another reason why this movie is so perfect br br i don't give a rat's ass pardon my french about to what extend the king lear story is followed all i know is that i can honestly say this movie has changed my life br br keep up the good work guys you can and do make a difference br br
1	i just watched this movie for the first time after finishing the book last week what's the problem here folks admit that the performances are great i mean lange is stellar and that the film is good looking but it's got less than a i don't get it come on the not that bad br br having read a lot of pulitzer winning novels and having seen a lot of the films based on them i think a better than decent job was done in bringing the screenplay together i thought the paring down of all the dialogue in the novel was executed almost perfectly this story had a pretty hefty amount of dialogue in it and the story really came through on the screen despite the fact that only a portion of it was used br br book spoiler part i was however a little disappointed in the ginny tries to kill rose being omitted i thought that was one of the more emotionally jarring parts of the book but it was probably a good bet to leave it out avid movie goers more than avid readers i think tend to be less forgiving of protagonists pulling antagonistic stuff it's apt to confuse johnny and joe sixpack br br if you loved the book you will like the movie if you hated the book you will likely hate the movie br br br br
1	okay so i am gazing through my mom and dad's extensive dvd collection mostly because they don't charge late fees and i come upon a thousand acres i was stunned that here was a movie that had jessica lange and michelle pfeiffer with a small appearance by jennifer jason leigh that i had not seen i don't think i had ever even heard of it before well this is exactly the kind of find that i dream about since i have to admit that my parents raised two movie buffs in my brother and me with a few exceptions neither of us can even get them to consider watching the lord of the rings movies but my dad loves the matrix trilogy go figure we have very similar tastes in movies br br it was a particularly awful day today weather wise it poured rain all day so i popped in this movie and shortly after i was mesmerized br br this has to be one of the all time best sleepers i have seen jessica lange and michelle pfeiffer are great in their roles especially since they are playing very different types jessica lange's character is a people pleasing follower who despite her being the senior child in the family rarely takes a leadership role rather she bows to her father jason robards and sister rose pfeiffer and is hell bent on teaching her little sister caroline leigh how to follow suit michelle pfeiffer plays a very strong willed cancer survivor who is barely able to keep the anger at her unhappy life contained this movie is five years prior to white mind you so it was definitely inspiring to see her playing such a strong angry character br br i would have to say that this movie will probably appeal more to women however true movie buffs who enjoy a film for what it is regardless of genre or target audience will have a hard time denying the charm of this touching drama about family secrets and what they do the people involved and those who love them i don't know how i missed seeing this movie before now but it sure was a nice distraction on a rainy afternoon enjoy
1	a touching movie it is full of emotions and wonderful acting i could have sat through it a second time
1	it could be easy to complain about the quality of this movie you don't have to throw of money at a movie to make it good nor will it guarantee that it is worth watching but i think that is totally missing the point if your expecting fast cars t a or a movie that will spell itself out for you then don't watch this you'll be disappointed and dumbfounded br br this movie was thoroughly enjoyable kept us on the edge of our seats and made us really think the writer obviously put a lot of thought and research behind this movie and it shows through the end just remember to keep an open mind br br note the school scenes were all filmed at mcmaster university and most of the rest was done in toronto
1	even a bad julie andrews musical is worth watching and this isn't bad in fact it's quite entertaining actually it's a fascinating study on trying to manipulate a star's personae br br to break julie's goody two shoes mold she plays a german spy english musical hall actress she subsequently went on to take her top off in the movie s o b and play a drag queen in victor victoria and other not so goody girls usually under hubby blake edward's direction br br the movie is admittedly problematic it is hard to feel for her character because she's a german spy we want to love julie but she's on the wrong side of the law probably this is why this movie flopped julie as a german spy our mary poppins our maria van trapp suddenly a german spy br br the romance seems to happen overnight and come from nowhere but never mind it's a musical and it has oh and did i mention hunky rock hudson is in it too br br julie gives a glowing wonderful performance that any musical comedy buff should not miss great ww 1 songs and nice tunes by mancini br br yes the film has plot holes and at times doesn't seem logical for example why is julie and her uncle suddenly pursued by the germans when a minute ago she was spying for them br br but on another note who cares the musical numbers are fun and exciting the costumes and scenery extraordinarily lavish the cinematography quite on the mark br br it has the annoying idiot detectives that blake edwards puts in all his movies yawn br br but it has julie trying desperately to change her image you can imagine dinner with blake and julie julie blake we need to change my image br br blake i will make you a german spy then we will take your clothes off in another movie and then play a transvestite in a another movie they won't recognize you it will be the death of maria von trapp br br fascinating study on changing an image wonderful julie a must see for musical comedy buffs much more entertaining than star
1	i watched this movie having never read the book and took the characters at face value but having already been introduced to them watched it again recently i got a whole different viewpoint out of the film br br without the burden of having to focus intently on each character learning their quirks and foibles allowed me to focus on the cultural issues laid out in the film the farm families of iowa are so intimately inter related as they are in the area of indiana where i grew up in the 40's and 50's that i immediately recognized the back stories and motives behind the characters perhaps jane smiley did mean for us to see beyond the superficial into the world these people had to live but viewers are so caught up in the hollywood aura of the individual actors that they miss a rich layout of a lifestyle that exists less and less as each decade passes another film with these characteristics is the bridges of madison county try watching both of these films again with an eye to the whole picture
1	a jane smiley novel loosely based on shakespeare's king lear about the cook family and its dark secrets director seems tamed in her approach allowing the characters to step forward and take a bow and how could you go wrong with the talents of pfeiffer lange leigh firth carradine and robards
1	this movie is excellent in how it portrays the reality of sexual abuse the daughters perfectly express their conflicting emotions of affection and betrayal the on location scenery is authentic and the soundtrack is unobtrusive yet moving this film is a graduate level course in a reality that's too little recognized in american society personally i'm freaked out by the names of the characters lange's character is ginny cook smith my name is connie cook smith and my mom is cook the youngest daughter is caroline cook which is my sister's name and the father is larry cook my cousin's name but sex abuse was not in our immediate family
1	having watched this film years ago it never faded from my memory i always thought this was the finest performance by michelle pfeiffer that i've seen but i am astounded by the number of negative reviews that this film has received after seeing it once more today i still think it is powerful moving and couldn't care less if it is based loosely on king lear br br i now realize that this is the greatest performance by jessica lange that i've ever seen and she has had accolades for much shallower efforts br br a thousand acres is complex human vibrant and immensely moving but surely doesn't present either of the primary female leads with any touch of glamour or sexiness i don't think this is well received in these times br br perhaps one reason for this film's underwhelming response lies in the fact that the writer jane smiley screenplay laura jones and director are all women i know that in my younger days i wouldn't have read a book written by a woman i didn't focus on this fact until years later br br if you haven't seen this movie or gave it a chance in the past try watching it anew maybe you are ready for it
1	i liked this movie a lot but the feeling that i most came away with was the memory of how much i´d enjoyed the novel the film features two of the best actresses working today jessica lange who is great here and the divine jennifer jason leigh who does the best she can with the thinly drawn character she is given as well as a surprisingly excellent michelle pfeiffer and a steady jason robards the adaptation is basically faithful to the book at least as faithful as it can be in an hour and forty minutes the film doesn´t really dazzle except for certain scenes between lange and pfeiffer but it does a thoroughly competent job of visualizing this wonderfully tragic story as far as movies adapted from novels go this was definitely among the better ones if nothing else it has sent me back to my to rediscover favorite passages from jane excellent novel and back to king lear to brush up on the minor characters in order to see just how deep the parallels go worth your time as a film definitely and hopefully enough to make you remember that reading great literature is a joy as well
1	i was very moved by the gentle power of this movie and by the mood it created i think it should have gotten a great deal more credit than it did i agree that michelle pfeiffer should have been nominated but i think all the performances were outstanding and that michelle pfeiffer and jessica lange portrayed the deep affinity and conflicts of sisters with great emotional depth and sensitivity although i didn't read the book i found the modern concept of king lear very cool i certainly will never look at the play quite the same way again
1	i think several others have already commented on this film but i liked it so well i wanted to just say how good a film this is i gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 it did not get a 10 because it is very slow starting i almost quit on it but am glad i didn't hang in there it is well worth the wait br br this is primarily a film about relationships deceit trust and betrayal br br michelle pfeiffer jessica lange and jason robards all do bang up jobs in this movie br br set in midwest farm country jason robards character is a farmer whose grandfather first settled there jason's character is getting older and he decides to set up a trust dividing the thousand acres of farmland among his three adult daughters that's when the plot of this film really beginning cooking br br sisters turn against each other due to misunderstandings rather than greed over the land they also make some discoveries about each other's childhoods and their present day marriages including an adulterous affair while the father becomes increasingly abusive demanding and paranoid until the terrible truth about everyone finally comes boiling out br br this film really reached me emotionally i got angry right along with some of the characters and sad with them i could feel their pain due to the excellent performances that were given br br the ending was a bit of a surprise to me but in keeping with the growth of the characters br br
1	at the beginning it was almost a shock to see norma shearer without her makeup then she glamorizes herself and becomes the life of the party br br anyway she divorces her husband makes herself over and gets on with her life or so she thinks somewhat keeps you guessing if they'll get back together
1	norma had spent most of the 20s playing beautiful ingenues but her first talkie cast her as a brassy showgirl in the trial of mary dugan and she came through with flying colours from then on her sweet and lovely ingenues were cast aside and she in parts that cast her as sophisticated women of the world or society girls out for thrills let us be gay was made before but released after the divorcée and was an unusual twist on the upper crust dramas that shearer made her own br br norma first appears without make up as frumpish kitty brown who's main purpose in life is to pander to her very unappreciative husband bob rod la rocque she is hurrying to get him off to his golf game but in reality he is going to see his mistress when helen the mistress comes to the house for a showdown kitty faces the situation with civility but behind closed doors she is a mass of emotions and bob leaves for good br br three years later mrs courtland brown kitty comes to stay as a house guest of the eccentric mrs marie dressler kitty is now a knockout and has a job for her she wants kitty to romance a house guest who in his turn is romancing her grand daughter diane beautiful sally shock horror the man is none other than bob her ex husband kitty carries off the meeting with sophistication and witty repartee there seems to be something strangely familiar about that man and no one is the wiser br br the film then settles down into one of those early very talkie boring drawing room comedies kitty casts a spell over all the men and bob is desperate to start again the women have all the strong roles in this film men are just puppets raymond hackett seems to be in the film as an extra butler pass me a cushion get me a drink move this chair instead of diane's harassed fiancé norma shearer is of course the whole show marie dressler adds to her list of eccentric portrayals and sally is a real eyeful as the gorgeous diane
1	the film begins with a dowdy housewife norma shearer finding out that her husband rod la rocque had been cheating on her three years pass and apparently they'd been divorced during these years due to the infidelity oddly during this time la rocque did not see shearer or his two kids as shearer took them to paris br br marie dressler is a rich society lady and she has invited a new and improved norma to come to her house for the weekend ostensibly to help marie break up a budding romance between her daughter and la rocque apparently norma is now a super vamp and with her magical sex appeal she can break up the romance and no one seems to realize that she and la rocque were married several others are there for the weekend and immediately norma is a hit with her gay carefree sexy ways and almost all the men including la rocque are captivated by her neither tells anyone that they were married but it's obvious that her ex wants the new and improved norma back this film is a sophisticated comedy of manners among the upper crust similar in some ways to jean renoir's the rules of the game oddly despite the severity of the depression such films about pretty rich folks were pretty popular though many today will doubtless find them a bit too droll in spots however fortunately in let us be gay there are plenty of cute and funny moments particularly towards the end when marie dressler shows her true colors while not a great film it certainly is a good one and more than just another time passer my only real regret is that i didn't love the very end you'll just have to see it for yourself perhaps you'll agree about the ending perhaps you won't but i'm pretty sure you will enjoy this clever film
1	nemesis game is a mind bending film filled with riddles death mystery and philosophy in it's simplest sense the film is about seeking answers and what happens when you've finally found them all the search for answers leads sarah novak down a path that gets darker as it gets more compelling the final answer seems more dangerous than it is worth yet sarah is so close to understanding it all what would you do if you were offered the ability to finally make sense of the chaos of life br br the movie was written and directed by jesse warn while this was first feature length film the movie doesn't reflect that at all but instead shows polish and an artistic approach to telling the story carly pope was powerful in the lead role and showed a depth of complexity that was fascinating to watch i would definitely love to see more of her work br br being based on riddles this is a very cerebral movie it's that's your thing as it is mine then i totally recommend seeing nemesis game rating 4 5 5
1	dutiful wife norma shearer as katherine kitty brown waits on husband rod la rocque as bob brown hand and foot while making him breakfast in bed and helping him dress for a sunday golf outing ms shearer suggests joining mr la rocque for the day noting how infrequently the two see each other but la rocque puts her off saying her presence adversely affects his game then unexpectedly shearer meets the real reason for her husband's frequent his pretty blonde mistress br br three years later shearer is a glamorous and flirty divorcée while in paris she has struck up a friendship with wealthy older socialite marie dressler as as mrs ms dressler invites shearer to her long island home to socialize with some friends and ask a favor dressler is worried about her granddaughter's relationship with a suave worldly man she wants young sally as dionne to marry raymond hackett as bruce instead aware of shearer's flirtatious conquests dressler asks her to lure the undesirable man away from ms shearer is stunned to discover the man is la rocque her ex husband br br shearer and dressler make this a cute entertaining play they are in top form giving guaranteed to be popular performances with enthusiasm and professionalism the story is silly and predictable yet in a way which helps the humorous situation and the ending is quite clever in fact the comic let us be gay may have aged better than shearer's larger produced and more serious the divorcée which was released around the same time the cast uniformly fine la rocque is better than his film with lilian gish but his role is not at all endearing gilbert emery as towney and tyrell davis as wallace are funny supporting suitors br br those not familiar with norma shearer may not realize it is she who appears as the dowdy wife in the opening scenes this is shearer as kitty before her make over watch the close ups of shearer with light natural make up for a good look at an intriguingly beautiful woman br br let us be gay 1930 robert z leonard norma shearer marie dressler rod la rocque
1	when a dowdy wife shearer loses her husband she decides to completely make herself over to win him back not politically correct by today's standards but still fun to watch especially the scenes with marie dressler and hopper
1	a rich old lady calls on a flirtatious divorcée to woo a lothario away from her silly soon to be married granddaughter br br let us be gay is an interesting little domestic comedy which features some tart dialogue courtesy of celebrated screenwriter frances marion good performances while perhaps a bit mawkish at times this can probably be blamed on the difficulties with early sound technology which tended to limit action movement br br norma shearer can be credited with appearing in this minor film rather than using her undoubted clout as irving thalberg's spouse to insist upon only a grade pictures she is especially effective in her first few scenes where dowdy flat makeup makes her almost unrecognizable her extreme from goose to swan could only happen in hollywood but it's scarcely profitable to spend much time worrying about that br br rod larocque doesn't come off too well as shearer's adulterous husband quite popular during silent days the talkies were not especially kind to him and his career would suffer here his role is not in the least sympathetic and one has to wonder what masochistic impulse moves women to desire the cad so much br br magnificent marie dressler is on hand as an eccentric long island dowager as a great friend of frances marion one can easily imagine that the part was written expressly for her full of cranks she is very humorous however the tremendous warmth essential goodness which would very shortly make her hollywood's biggest star are largely missing br br among the supporting cast hopper scores as a slinky society serpent as does wilfred playing a comic butler movie mavens will spot little dickie moore as shearer's young son elderly mary gordon as her housekeeper both uncredited
1	norma shearer dazzles as she is transformed from a brained house wife to an alluring potential divorcee most 1930 films have a creaky edge to them the camera work is pretty sluggish at times but we must forgive these all talking pleasures for their thump a long qualities as a guest of the eccentric globe trotting marie dressler shearer mixes with an odd assortment of lovelorn types including her long lost husband the dialogue is fun oft times clever and the performances on cue shearer and dressler shine the most shearer even shows off her piano expertise in a musical brevity her strange yet appealing posturing and affair with the camera are evident throughout and she hits every emotional note genuinely and on target for its time a good show
1	the three stooges has always been some of the many actors that i have loved i love just about every one of the shorts that they have made i love all six of the stooges curly shemp moe larry joe and curly joe all of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts in my opinion the three stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team br br one of the most hilarious three stooges shorts is men in black in this short are bud jeanie roberts phyllis crane dell henderson 'little billy' rhodes billy gilbert and ruth the acting by these actors are good especially by and roberts there are many funny scenes here that i think most three stooges fans will love in my opinion this one of the most different three stooges shorts i recommend this one to all
1	i found this one to be more chaotic than the average stooges short as strange as that may sound there were several funny bits especially the running gags calling dr howard dr fine dr howard the glass door breaking the stooges running into the supply room and coming back out with well you know but also quite of bit of it was taken up with things that just didn't make any sense to me i have to assume that these were generally take offs of scenes from the film men in white but since i don't know much about that movie i can't say for sure maybe if someone could explain these i'd appreciate this short more
1	everyone's favorite trio of bumbling imbeciles run amok in a hospital in this incredibly raucous and often hysterically funny romp these guys are without a doubt the single most incompetent bunch of doctors to ever fumble their way across the screen comic highlights include the stooges constantly breaking a glass pane in a door their encounter with a deranged patient who claims that rats used to come out of the of his shirt the stooges riding through the hallways on a giant bicycle a huge horse and miniature race cars and our sublimely stupid threesome accidentally leaving instruments inside a hapless patient's abdomen after they finish operating on the poor fellow director ray mccarey relates the frantic comic shenanigans at an appropriately nonstop hectic pace and stages the broad slapstick gags with considerable gusto moe howard larry fine and curly howard are all in peak loopy form with sterling support from dell henderson as long suffering hospital supervisor dr graves squeaky voiced jeanie roberts as a hiccuping nurse the scene where the stooges do an absurd impromptu group with this gal is absolutely sidesplitting ruth as a whispering nurse billy gilbert as the ranting crazy patient and little billy rhodes as a feisty tiny patient the spirited lunacy never lets up for a minute thereby making this beautifully berserk baby one of the stooges' best ever outings
1	this is an early one from the boys but some people may not be satisfied with this one like all the others i found it to be different somehow than the your average stooge slapstick it was more funny for it's jokes rather than the poke in the eye or slap watch for a hilarious part when larry grabs the stethoscope from moe and sings into it moe gives him a good smack that part made me crack up for a good ten minutes another hit for the stooges
1	this is one of the stooges best shorts it was the only one of their shorts to be nominated for an oscar in this short the stooges play doctors who cause some trouble as usual this short has non stop sight gags puns and jokes the part at the end where the stooges are breaking apart the machine this is definitely a classic i would highly recommend this three stooges short
1	though not a huge fan i am a three stooges purist i believe that their best work by far was with curly as the third stooge and their earliest films are generally their best that's because after a while they began remaking their films and the gags started to get stale here in 1934 they were still rather fresh in more ways than one and funny br br here they boys play very improbably roles respected doctors in a hospital the three run amok acting silly hitting each other and scaring the pants off anyone who expects to get better the non stop energy and freshness make this one a must see for fans br br by the way although i liked this film i strongly recommend you try to find a much lesser known short from tiny educational pictures nifty nurses is much like men in black but manages to be funnier and is about the best hospital comedy of the era better even than laurel hardy's county hospital
1	as a late going patron of the drive in 1970's 1980s there are many movies that i have seen forgotten this is one i could never forget despite its low budget exploitation style of movie making the story was very well done the isolated therapy asylum where patients act out their fantasies in order to help cure their the accidental murder of the head doctor just as the new nurse arrives on the scene the supposed assistant doctor taking over the various crazy the revelation that the assistant doctor is actually a patient herself and finally the rescue of the young nurse by the simple minded sam who killed everyone else in the house so she could escape unharmed made for a great story which held the film together i emphasised the word story because that's what makes a good or great film no matter how much blood gore nudity sexual matter or outrageous behaviour you put in a film if the story is not good then the film is not good the film credits show clips of all the actors including the old hag with the final line telling you to get out never come back which is a great ending to this film if it is out on video dvd see it enjoy it
1	this is the third three stooges short that the team ever made and like a lot of their early ones this is absolutely and totally hysterical now owning it on dvd as part of the three stooges collection vol 1 whenever i feel like it i watch this br br in this short film moe larry and curly play these three doctors in a hospital who are trying to help out everyone but boy they end up making a mess out of everything br br this short is another one of my all time favorite three stooges shorts i also am a very huge fan of slapstick comedy and the three stooges are the kings of slapstick br br when i heard that it got nominated for the academy award for best short film i really became curious about this when i heard that it had lost i was very disappointed about it br br this short is one of the three stooges funniest by far i extremely recommend that you see this hysterical riot br br 10 10
1	directed by the younger brother of great director leo mccarey this is a pretty good short from the three stooges nominated for an academy award here the stooges are doctors named doctor howard doctor fine and doctor howard they are not the brightest doctors but they get the benefit of the doubt as long as they handle for duty and humanity br br i liked this short it is not one of their best but some moments are hilarious though one joke that is repeated more than once works every time the part where they must operate the hospital's boss is terrific to say more would spoil some of the jokes so you must see it for yourself just another fine short from the three stooges
1	this is one particular stooge short that actually uses satire in conjunction with slapstick a rarity as mentioned the title and concept for this short was borrowed from a feature film from the same year with clark gable called men in white it's basically about the trials and tribulations of interns and their sacred cause for duty and humanity i saw this recently and almost treated it like the stooge version because it does take itself a little too seriously in any case men in black is so well written directed and not to mention original it didn't borrow a thing from chaplin or any of the others that the motion picture academy nominated it for an award as the best short comedy of 1934 some stinky short called la cucaracha outdid it though and stole the award some producer's brother in law must have been on the academy's voting board men in black pokes fun at the whole concept of the medical profession much in the same way that the marx bros always did at this time may not be a fair comparison but i can see the marx bros in this short in fact in their feature a day at the races there is a scene where there's medical things going on and they cause anarchy as usual my guess that this particular short was judged along those lines and hence why it was nominated in the first place try this in fact watch this short first and then watch duck soup or day at the races with the and then see if there isn't the same great quality of comedy
1	the columbia pictures short subject unit never had any delusions about producing any 'art' films they wanted to give the film exhibitors just a little more for their money when booking a columbia picture into their theatres this would go double for the 3 stooges films br br men in black 1934 came about as close as any of their comedy shorts in that it received an oscar nomination for best short subject comedy though it did not win it well could have it was good enough and even those who do not number themselves among stooge files still seem to be won over by the clarion cry of calling dr howard dr fine dr howard this was the second entry in the long series of comedy shorts made by the stooges for producer jules white head of columbia's short subjects department only woman haters described in its credits as a preceded it at harry cohen's poverty row br br the film starts off in the office of dr graves the head of the hospital he is receiving new interns and in addressing the group he relates that three of them are passed along from medical conditionally as they had remained there so long but the good doctor states that he will not reveal their identities as long as they pledge their all for duty and humanity the stooges run up front pledging for duty and humanity and run out of office breaking window glass in door the game was on br br the stooges took off and did not stop for the remainder of the 2 reels every type of gag was in evidence from broad sennett like sight gags to puns to dialect humor to 'theatre of the and a surrealistic running gag involving a public address system which seemingly takes on a life of its own and having the true culprit a radio tube get shot to a he got me it all plays out quite well honest the sets used were very authentic looking and were no doubt borrowed from columbia features being made around the same time there are plenty of wheel chairs surgical scalpels etc in evidence to maintain the illusion of a hospital br br a true strength of men in black is the high number of usually nameless players whom we all recognize by face along with them the film boasts of a great number of veteran comedy actors who always turn in fine performances often stealing the scene the people with names like billy gilbert hank mann and bud shine in even small parts br br and lastly we have the maestro the conductor director raymond mccarey kid brother to leo mccarey who showed off his abilities in getting this little film 'in the he skillfully kept it all moving acting as a traffic cop at times what with all the actors extras and behind the scenes crew moving and outside of each other's way and that doesn't count the giant 3 man tandem bicycle the sway backed horse and miniature race cars not to mention the 'giant green '
1	this belongs in their top tier although there were others such as micro phonies and punch drunks that were more deserving of oscar nominations than this one but if nothing else the recurring loudspeaker announcement dr howard dr fine dr howard followed by curly's woo woo woo woo makes this a classic on two levels first it symbolizes all that the stooges represent my daughter loves to repeat the announcement when she is in the middle of doing something silly second the absurdity of these three as physicians in a hospital i imagine the terror i would feel if i were a real patient in a real hospital and heard this announcement over the loudspeaker throughout this short you hear that announcement and you know that something horrible is about to happen and the loudspeaker voice stays with you for months afterward
1	this film is brilliant it has cute little dolphins in it and its a great storyline and it has elijah wood in it which makes it a great film too his acting skills are very good and if you want a good soft family film this is the one to watch
1	universal studios version of flipper 1996 is a great heartwarming film for the entire family with good values and sentimentality it is the story of sandy a teenager from chicago who reluctantly spends his vacation with his uncle porter in the bahamas this ultimately changes the teenagers life and he grows up in the process he learns to appreciate nature and to have a respect for the environment i grew up in the 1960's and the nbc television show flipper was my favorite childhood show elijah wood is perfectly cast as a 1990's sandy and gives an excellent performance as much as i liked the nbc television show and mgm theatrical feature films with luke halpin as sandy in the 1960's i liked this feature the best i feel elijah wood is the best sandy with respect to luke halpin i feel elijah wood has more of a range of acting talent and emotes more as an actor which makes his performance excellent and more believable i think elijah wood is the best young actor working today in films director alan shapiro also wrote the screenplay and has done an excellent job as both writer and director of this film paul hogan gives a comical and likable performance as sandy's uncle porter mr hogan's performance perfectly offsets role as sandy i am a big fan of underwater films this film was beautifully shot in the bahamas like thunderball 1965 ua was the director of photography was bill butler a s c who lensed the film jaws in 1975 mr butler is a very talented cinematographer the underwater director of photography was pete romano he did a superb job with the underwater cinematography i enjoyed the film score by joel this good film score featured crosby stills and nash among other talented artists this motion picture was shot in panavision like thunderball in the aspect ratio of 2 35 1 if possible try to see this film in a scope version as originally framed and by alan shapiro and bill butler another very nice thing is that mr shapiro gave the original sandy luke halpin a small part in this remake he portrayed bounty fisherman 3 in this film this was a very kind gesture on mr shapiro's part as you can tell i am a real true fan of this film sadly this beautiful film was met with harsh words by the majority of movie critics i originally saw this movie on my birthday may 31st of 1996 in a movie theater it meant a lot to me i have it on numerous video versions the vhs versions are in pan and scan the laserdisc version is letterboxed 2 35 1 i even have a vcd in 2 35 1 from hong kong which is letterboxed but my most prized possession is an original 16mm theatrical feature print which i will treasure for the rest of my life thank you mr shapiro elijah wood paul hogan and everyone involved for making this a memorable movie for me to enjoy br br p s i must add that the quality of the universal dvd is superb it is the best dvd as far as quality i have ever seen the color and resolution is spectacular the soundtrack is great i think universal must have used the same transfer for the dvd that they did for the laserdisc version the 35mm scope print is mint and alan's film really has a wonderful look to it a great tribute to a wonderful film the dvd's resolution is even superior to the laserdisc quality it's just spectacular thank you universal home video for the great quality control and transfer many thank's for doing a superb job on this wonderful family film also many thank's to you alan for all your extreme kindness to me it's a real honor to know you review revised updated june 27 2005
1	yes it's flipper but writer director alan shapiro has put together a gem of a version spectacular above and underwater photography from jaws veteran bill butler and haunting music by joel and crosby stills nash make this truly memorable family entertainment shapiro whose last film was improbably the crush shows himself once again to be an extremely talented and versatile filmmaker rent it
1	i can't say that this movie deserves a ten because i would be lying i adored this movie when i saw it though it carries the unique bond of a friendship between a teenager and a dolphin although it doesn't display the sweetness that jesse and willy had in free willy it provides an exciting movie that the whole family will enjoy if you love marine animals or if u love just a perfect family film this movie is suited for you flipper definitely shows us how adorable dolphins are and they are playful and could easily be house pets if everyone had a big enough pool i love whales and dolphins so obviously this movie works for me i do think that the producers should have chosen another shark instead of the hammerhead to enhance the antagonist part in the story perhaps a great white flipper is magnificent so check it out
1	i was rather appalled to see the low rating this movie received here personally considering it fun family fare it revolves around a young teenager sandy who is sent by his mom to coral key to spend the summer with his uncle porter while there he befriends a dolphin named flipper lots of adventures ensue amid the predictable nephew uncle bonding as well as a little romance for sandy with a local girl br br i'm a great crocodile dundee fan myself so absolutely loved paul hogan in his role as crusty and comical uncle porter for starters he keeps an endless stock of spaghetti in his house to serve as his usual meal heated with a blowtorch elija wood frodo from the lord of the rings appeared quite competent playing the young sandy a boy at first none too fond of his forced summer vacation locale br br of course the dolphin is magnificent and there are some wonderful underwater scenes set in the florida keys it was apparently filmed in the bahamas this adaptation of flipper makes great family entertainment a sweet sentimental and fun movie that is infinitely superior to many of the cinematic offerings for youngsters nowadays
1	sweet young nurse charlotte beale a charming performance by ravishing redhead knockout rosie goes to work at a remote rural asylum run by dr geraldine s masters the excellent annabelle among the motley assortment of colorfully crazed patients are insatiable aggressive nymphomaniac allyson king the luscious betty chandler loopy judge oliver w cameron a gloriously hammy gene ross paranoid vietnam veteran sergeant nicely played by hugh gentle giant sam the amiable william bill and nutty old hag mrs the supremely irritating rhea macadams said patients are dangerously encouraged to act out their fantasies by dr masters which of course results in a rash of brutal killings director s f working from a clever and suitably overwrought script by tim pope does an expert job of creating and sustaining a suffocatingly dank and brooding atmosphere of seething madness and oppressive claustrophobia robert spooky score the grimy set design a few wild grisly murders bruce b grungy no frills cinematography plenty of deliciously robust scenery scarfing histrionics from a game no name cast ross in particular is a total eye rolling hoot and the genuinely shocking surprise bloodbath conclusion further add to the overall infectiously seedy fun of this choice trashy chunk of 70's low budget regional horror exploitation cinema
1	i like this movie i may be biased because i love dolphins however my 3 and 4 yr old will sit and watch the whole movie it's not oscar material but definitely entertaining the dolphin cinematography is well done with a beautiful backdrop of ocean scenery and sunsets my favorite scene is when flipper flips the pop can out of the water striking sandy in the head it's an endearing funny moment that makes me laugh every time on the other hand the villainous of the bully forget his name are a little hard to take and the shark scene is far from reality question do dolphins really make that much noise or is there some serious dubbing happening here bottom line my kids like it and it keeps recycling through our vcr
1	flipper is a nice heartwarming movie for whole family it's obviously not a great movie free willy looks much better almost in every component of film making possibly at times it becomes a bit naive and the writing and the script are not the best part of the movie but it's a entertaining film with very good cinematography including underwater shots and some important moral messages elijah wood proves himself one more time as an incredibly talented and underrated actor he can make bad movie watchable okay movie good good great and great movie becomes all time classic paul hogan performance also was very good and he is completely fit to his role as i already say above whole cinematography was very good but underwater shots definitely is the best parts so flipper is a perfect way if you want to see nice sweet and entertaining movie if you like me become sick and tired of modern hollywood trash filled with sex violence vulgarity and profanity you most likely would like this movie br br my rating 7 7 out of 10 feel free for mailing me about any of my comments and posts here br br sorry for my bad english
1	i thought this was a beautiful movie very brave such beautiful imagery and i liked the use of breaking glasses w applause also how the best friend repeated the line about and she's one year older than me showed that their friendship has and grown but maybe some competition is left i loved the footage of hands feeling the fabric the dance concert was beautiful the beginning seemed slow though it took awhile to feel for the characters the husband could have been more abusive he just seemed absent so when other characters talked about him it didn't really fit the affair the best friend and husband seemed random the doctors meeting seemed to hint that there was not much time left to live so when the infidelity was revealed i didn't feel as much sympathy for the character more like relief the ending was so great the lines her and the husband and the scene where she is pulled over is brilliant
1	this is one of a very few movies with terrific acting wonderful story line and worthwhile to watch it is about changes in life it is about how happiness can be found when one is true to oneself it is about accepting oneself and others it is about life challenges it is about coming to term with reality it is about courage it is about love both actresses are very true to their role the actresses had very good chemistry between one another in the movie this is the key of the movie that made the movie it is rare to see an independent film like this one one could tell the hard work that the film crew had to have while producing this movie i wish to see more movie from this producer writer see the movie you will love it
1	i just saw this film in austin texas at the austin gay and lesbian film festival and it was my festival favorite the gymnast is a film not to be missed it is an honest coming to terms story about relationships self discovery growing older and having the courage to change and move forward not only is this a good story but the glorious performances by weber and will take your breath away see this film it will be coming soon to a festival near you this film deserved to be picked up right away by a major network or studio i will certainly purchase this when it becomes available on dvd
1	wow what can i say it was a good movie very different to all the boring remakes we see lately the only thing i would have liked to see a bit more of an ending like when jane left her husband im guessing she was going to serena cause she fell for her not just her but everything that she is i so wish producers would actually show that sort of ending instead of leaving to it your imagination sort of ending i really hate it when they do that the aerial acts looked like fun but i guess you'd have to be light and i would like to see more movies like this one maybe the could do a sort of sequel of jane and serena if i were in jane's shoes i would have went for the girl too she was attractive
1	this one what came to my mind immediately was loving annabelle as it has this same kind of mature mood and distanced dealing with the subject we simply observe as the story unfolds without taking sides or having to confront any moral issues or of course we are but are not spoon fed them sure there were some difficult facts to face and choices to make but it just flowed basically it was just like any other love story in any other life with any other sexes br br i personally found the girls having a good chemistry and had fun with them on their night outs the only thing i could really pinpoint as a problem would be it just felt kind of retained held back it's not about the sex scenes or those missing but given that i felt the film at its liveliest during the moments they were together having a good time it kind of contrasted with the rest is good but it just never quite like loving annabelle nor touched me quite as much br br this said i heartily recommend it it's by no means a waste of ones precious time on the contrary br br 7 10
1	this movie was beautiful and touching it touched a place deep inside me and i'm not sure why i am a happily married woman and i've never had lesbian tendencies but my this movie almost made it something i crave the choreography the storyline the dialog the movie was a work of art br br the synopsis without spoilers is that a woman gymnast unsatisfied with her life and looking for something anything she is with a man who does not want a baby but she does he's not mean to her but he doesn't treat her the way a woman should be treated either i guess he doesn't really appreciate her all these years she has stayed in shape and decides to go back to the gym she meets another woman during her acrobatic training and an intimate and beautiful relationship unfolds throughout the movie she has another woman friend that she trained with in her younger years and they have stayed close friends br br the relationship that unfolds is i don't know quite the word but very understanding comfortable intimate but sexy something that could only exist between two women the kind of relationship that could really bring meaning back into your life someone that makes you feel special exciting beautiful confused even br br the relationship with her close friend is beautiful in an equally different way they have a close and intimate relationship her friend showed me what a true friend really is someone who is understanding easy going real fun to be with someone who is there for you no matter what someone who is supportive and you can huddle with and tell your deepest secrets someone who shares your past but does not share your secrets br br the story is simple in the fact that it was not overdone but not underdone in any way it leaves a lot of sensual imagery to capture it's moments the dancing and choreography was stunning i could watch it over and over the way the artist captured the main character's feelings and emotions was the dancing and the imagery was very dazzling and mesmerizing to watch what a cozy a wonderful story i fell in love with this movie if you have a chance rent this and watch it
1	the gymnast unfolds in short shots and short scenes revealing its characters and message over time the spare editing is accompanied by a beautiful simple score this intimate approach is wonderful for feeling like you're on a path of discovery as much as the characters are br br the spare approach is also its drawback there are a few scenes that are confusing because they don't have enough context there are some decisions made by the characters that seemed rather flip until i watched the interviews that were in the bonus materials i'm glad i did because the actors' descriptions of their motivations gave me a much more well rounded understanding of the film overall br br aside from the story itself it was wonderful to see women so comfortable and strong in their own bodies the shooting was very tastefully done very matter of fact one has the feeling of seeing a love story and a life story unfold not a voyeuristic sleaze film the physicality of the athletes their realness is a great contrast to the sometimes ethereal nature of the plot br br not a film i'll need to see again anytime soon since the storyline is simple but its delivery is powerful enough to stay with me for a long time
1	everyone who worked on this film did an amazing job this is honestly one of the best lesbian films i've seen in a long time the acting writing cinematography music visuals everything was top notch as an avid fan of the genre both lesbian films and gymnastics i was so unbelievably pleased by this film it truly gave me so much more than i expected across the board hearing the q a with the cast and crew was great the lead actress has so much positive energy and is so humble and gracious it's a pleasure to see people who can be talented and not lose sight of what's really important and the writer did a hell of a job as well as directing and the editing was awesome thanks so much for making a great film thanks also for the line about 'if you're going to slap a label on yourself it would be i'm so tired of movies where characters who have a relationship with both sexes get passed off as gay or straight it's wonderful to see getting recognition for existing and being part of the gay community and it was nice that labels weren't even necessary at all in this film what an ending just when i thought it couldn't give me more it did beautiful work and my applauds to all i will spread the word this is definitely a film not to be missed
1	this film also known as don't look in the basement is actually not bad it is a little known film even to die hard horror fans but i found this movie pretty entertaining don't get me wrong it's certainly not without its problems but do think more people should give it a look the story of a hot nurse going to work in a sanitarium is certainly an appealing one to me i thought the acting which seemed forced at first somehow got better as the film went along it seems like the actors really got into their roles there are some good colorful characters including a guy who thinks he's still a soldier one who thinks he's a judge an adult with a child's brain and an attractive girl who craves attention so bad she drops her clothes when any man gets near her the title don't look in the basement has about as much relevance to the story as the last house on the left has on that film if you like movies with creepy characters in a mental ward like i do check this out
1	the gymnast 2006 was written and directed by ned farr weber portrays jane hawkins a former world class gymnast who was seriously injured and now earns her living as a certified massage therapist br br the promotional material leads you to believe that the plot hinges around jane's accidental reunion with a former teammate although this meeting takes place that plot line is secondary to the main plot which involves jane her husband and a professional dancer named serena the two women develop an act of the type performed by de soleil the two complement each other jane is more experienced with heights and has tremendous upper body strength serena is more elegant and artistic although obviously also capable of incredible physical feats br br the film works because we can understand how jane would turn to who is caring and compassionate while jane's husband has taken her for granted for the many years of their marriage br br both women are incredibly fit and athletic and has the lean body and well defined muscles that are characteristic of gymnasts they clearly are truly performing their act and the results are so excellent that we can believe they would indeed be a success in las vegas or anywhere else they traveled br br the sexual tension between the women is obvious and the situation becomes even more complex when the act requires them to kiss while suspended in the air a woman with a neglectful husband and an attractive woman partner make for an explosive situation which isn't resolved in a neat and tidy fashion br br of the six films we saw at the rochester ny lesbian and gay film and video festival we thought this one was the best it will work on dvd and is definitely worth seeking out on large or small screen note stay for the credits
1	thankyou for making such a wonderful escape that's what i love about movies i'm so impressed with the the way they were shot and the timing was so dynamically perfect with the music being a dancer myself and having been a part of many dance films choreography is usually chopped diced and sometimes not even to the beat showgirls the movie the relationship between the ladies was ever so present in the movement br br my favorite scene is the last one when she is pulled over i've seen the movie before a different version and i disliked the husband more last time i felt a little more sorry for him this time it changes how i feel about the female love birds its all so magical
1	whatever you do don't stop watching when you think the movie is over hang around for the first batch of credits or you'll really miss something we saw this movie at the film festival and thought it was the best of the bunch weber is a marvel really not only because of her performance but because she can pull it off so far above the ground at the q a she said there were no wires or effects so everything you see is really her going for it couldn't make it to the festival because she was dancing with madonna she was excellent and my gawd so beautiful i was amazed that the film went over so well with the blue haired lady crowd but there you have it isn't a backwater
1	somehow somewhere someplace you gotta see this film breath taking and incredible outstanding performances from highly gifted actors you think du soleil blows your mind wait till you see what these 2 women do most importantly the emotional journey and struggles jane weber faces are universal in theme to many women a superbly directed film which deals with the complexities of relationships and holding on until you're ready to let go this masterpiece will touch women and men alike ned far director writer and ridiculously talented weber star producer just had the guts to tell it honestly and sincerely this film will hit big see it however you can or you won't be in the loop when it becomes one of the most talked about films
1	now maybe it had something to do with the fact that i saw this movie at a low point in my life when i was really trying to figure out where i was going and what i needed to make myself happy but this film really spoke to me jane is an although she has so many positive things going for her she is still vulnerable and unhappy in her life she is strong and intelligent but she was cheated out of achieving her potential by an unfortunate accident and is living a second choice life she seeks out new challenges and happiness seeking desperately to fill the hole in her heart weber is an exquisite jane as we journey with her we feel the depth of her despair the torture of her desperation and eventually the strength of her conviction the beautiful is also very well cast and an asset to the production allison is a scene stealer as a saucy character with impeccable timing i highly recommend this film although it's low budget it has big budget writing and production values ps great aerial scenes with two beautiful sexy women women will love the story and characters but there's something for the men here too
1	this film tackles the subjects of loss personal struggle and transformation in such a smart artful sensitive and visually stunning way that i was completely transported it is a rare gem of a film in the way it honors beauty and women you'll have to see for yourself weber jane masterfully portrays the subtleties of a remarkable if not somewhat broken personality in a way that every woman will relate to i found the honesty of the emotional interactions among characters to be very refreshing and profoundly engaging there was nothing in this film that said to me low budget as far as quality is concerned nothing the fact that it is a low budget film is a tribute to the film's creators the final sequence during the credits will also knock your socks off it is a brilliant celebration of jane's choice unexpected and inspiring
1	the relationship between the main characters i thought was very realistic how the two end up involved is believable it doesn't have that whole oh yeah right that most hollywood movies have not too mention how they captured the sexy beautiful and painful side of trapeze i am a trapeze student and i love that they showed how hard it is on the body hands and yeah those fabric burns are brutal definitely a must see for the relationship as well as the art that is made in the movie i loved it i'm happy with the way the movie ended but i definitely wanted to see more be sure to stay seated through the credits for a special treat hehe great scene
1	i truly enjoyed this film it's rare to find a star who can pull off the physical aspects of any sports dance themed film convincingly and do a first rate acting job as well in this film you find two stars who rise to the occasion both women deliver warm touching and at times humorous performances the film also touched on a number of topics from racial issues to sexual identity and yet the approach wasn't heavy handed the production values were also top notch for a small budget film i saw this at the philadelphia gay lesbian film festival and went back to see it a second time it was a real crowd pleaser everyone i spoke to seemed to enjoy this film
1	omg it is seriously the best show in the world it rocks harder then jackass and and is so funny and entertaining i love the show all 5 seasons are awesome but for a quick summary season 1 great if you wanna plan a scavenger hunt watch the house be pulled apart and enjoy seeing phil bing starved br br season 2 great if you wanna see them buy castle bam watch a slayer concert see the wonder that is mardi gras and the fun of getting to it see a demo derby and actually see a the making and opening of a tree top casino br br season 3 great if you wanna see probably the first driveway a civil war johnny knoxville a pirate ship and don vito actually winning one of reindeer games br br season 4 great if you wanna see them in europe them getting jobs the building of a state and a bayou and the season 5 great if ya want to see them in brazil birthday mike the metal bams disappearing bams hummer being destroyed a playboy party in bams swimming pool and the very last ever viva la bam
1	viva la bam was one of those shows that i didn't have high if any expectations for before seeing it and i never even knew about it until i saw my friend watching it i had thought jackass was pretty funny but the stunts were just that funny and i never really got into the show when i watched viva la bam for the first time it was the complete opposite effect i loved it it had more of a tv show feel to it which a lot of the reality shows have today i was hooked and i wanted to see what new scheme they were going to cook up for each episode all the way to the last episode it held my interest and even though some of the ideas seemed rehashed at times it always had a newer and funnier twist to it viva la bam is one of those shows that get you hooked and i have yet to see another show that is quite like it
1	don't look in the basement is actually a very clever and well thought out exploitation flick that gets a bad rap because of its cheap quality and bad acting sure it's not a masterpiece by anyone's standards but it is a very fun little b film with a lot to offer and even a lot of creepy scenes that will stay in your head br br as i said the acting could have been a lot better but that's the case with most exploitation so i can't really complain the story is clever and has some great plot twists that will keep you guessing i thought the gore was a lot of fun too there's just something great about older gore films because they didn't have cgi back then so they had to actually set it all up themselves see this one for a good time
1	i love love love this show whether you say it's because i'm insane in the brain or not i think this show is very funny and entertaining although sometimes uncle vito scares me so all in all i give this show a perfect review and so i really think if you're into the omg what an idiot kind of humor this show is for you it's really funny to see the look on the prank peoples faces and there are many musical guests who come to house buy this cause it rocks you should buy it yes and brother is in the band and they are really good and sometimes come on the show br br bottom line is please watch the show
1	this without any doubt is the greatest spin off to jackass ever made hell it even blows jackass out of the water br br picture this you have a group of guys who just didn't want to grow up throw in a ton of money and some seriously cool stunts and you have viva la bam br br this show it's such a family based one and it's not just the gang running around being complete jerks like in jackass for example parents april and phil are in every episode with appearances of obese uncle don vito to boot the reason why the family makes us laugh is simple somebody in our family can relate april the woman who wants to live life by the book and follow tradition phil the guy who tries to be a good father and finally bam that son that never grew out of high school br br the pranks and jokes in every episode will give you a guaranteed laugh and buying the dvds is definitely recommended another thing which is surprising to see is how casual is over the whole thing he's said in interviews that for the majority of episodes he isn't acting and is just acting off instinct br br what i liked the most about the whole thing however is the amount of influence has over mtv he wanted slayer to play in his backyard mtv did it he wanted to hang with dani filth for a day and have a cradle of filth concert in his backyard it happened br br add to this his passion for the love metal and debated as emo band h i m and his brother's garage band and there's a whole lot of head banging going on br br if you liked jackass you'll fall in love with this i borrowed season 1 from a friend last year and i would give up my legs to meet the viva la bam crew you will not be disappointed and i can promise you'll be in stitches by the end of it all
1	okay pretty good doesn't scream rent me but i was surprised at how much i enjoyed campfire tales while by no means a classic the directors involved do have an idea what suspense is the scares don't just jump out at you but instead the directors build steadily to the climatic moments the film is based upon popular urban legends and ghost stories the writers have updated the tales rather well and twisted them just enough that the familiar endings still pack a punch the best of the shorts are the honeymoon and people can lick too i enjoyed both as they have nice suspense throughout each story the was a good ghost story and the wrap around the campfire is pretty good too except they go for one too many twists at the end the only disappointing segment is the hook which is fine because it's pretty short anyway overall i give this a 7 out of 10 it has suspense which is lacking from most horror movies today and good acting by the cast it may not rate up there with halloween and the exorcist but it's a good little movie well worth the price of a rental
1	loved it this has to be the best horror flick of the 90's i br br was at the edge of my seat i jumped a couple times wonderful br br acting it is totally horror but it was funny when it was meant br br to be
1	after the return of horror movies come on scream isn't scary i didn't have very high hopes for this low budget three story horror movie but i was positively surprised man this is scary the first 2 stories are simply brilliant the first one about a new wed couple driving in a dark forest with their rv when they bump into a fierce watch the movie the second story is about a disgusting man who is obsessed with a little girl who is home alone for one night i know it doesn't sound any special but it is scary i promise you the last story isn't scary but atleast not bad it's about a biker and a ghosthouse in fact the stories are based on real urban legends i guess kevin williamson can steal ideas too rent this movie it is good i'd say i'ts the scariest three short story horror movie ever made
1	low budget mostly no name actors this is what a campy horror flick is supposed to be all about these are the types of movies that kept me on the edge of my seat as a kid staying up too late to watch cable if you liked the 80's horror scene this is the movie for you
1	this movie was talked about in fangoria where i heard about this it was interesting to me mostly becuase it was direct to video and i recognized two of the stars on the cover james marsden of disturbing behavior and christine taylor from the craft and to my surprise on valentine's day when i was searching through the horror aisle to find it on the shelf i immediately had to grab it me and my brother and our girlfriends watched it and to my surprise it was pretty good the tales were interesting and for once they were actually scary unlike a lot of other horror movies being made recently some of the plot i do not understand but once i watch it again i bet i'll get it and to even more of my surprise there were other stars i recognized including one of the girls from the tv show my so called life and from the real world i'm not sure why this movie was only direct to video with a little advertising this movie could have at least made up for how much money was spent on making it the only problem i have is that since it wasn't released in theatres i guess i'll never be able to view it in widescreen you should definitely take a chance and rent this one br br
1	i loved this movie i'm shocked and disappointed that it never made it to the theaters every story was better than the last much better than the much hyped scream series and i know what you did last summer and way better than the terrible urban legend i'd recommend this film to every horror fan
1	it may not have had the big budgets celebrities or endorsements of scream urban legend or i know what you did last summer but campfire tales had one thing these three movies lacked true horror br br this film tackled the subject of urban legends a year before the aptly titled and less than enthralling urban legend did it was intriguing masterfully scripted and logical in a way i know what you did last summer could only dream of finally it held its focus and finished with a flurry while scream fizzled and died br br what's most exciting about the film is the variety of horror that the writers and directors achieved the overarching story of teenagers around a campfire was classic dread at the unknown but certainly expected doom that awaited them in the forest but the tales themselves are where the movie really shined br br the opening sequence is pure fast paced urban myth it's based on a popular legend and the director plays on this with the style and pace of the action making it more enthralling because we know what's going to happen br br the first campfire tale is a straight forward thriller based on another popular myth we don't actually realize this until the end both because it blends so well into the story and because the action keeps our attention being the thriller of the trilogy this one plays off our fear of the unknown and includes several well done jump sequences that don't feel nearly as cheap or contrite as those in movies like scream or urban legend br br the second tale is more suspense this time though the characters still don't know what's going on we do and this provides the horror no need for cheap thrills here br br the final tale contains elements of the supernatural and uses a creepy trippy atmosphere to scare the viewer because we can relate so easily to the characters and their situation our fear comes from their intensity and what they can't explain this is the true ghost story of the trio br br i didn't expect to enjoy campfire tales when i rented it i figured that if i didn't like its more acclaimed bigger budget counterparts how could i like it br br the truth is though this film succeeds where the others fell far short of the mark
1	this movie is so awesome i loved it it was really scary i love the scream movies and all horror movies and this one ranks way up there it probably helped that i watched it at midnight if you want a real scare rent this one 10 10
1	i just discovered this obscure '70s horror movie while browsing on youtube for a low budget effort it has plenty of compelling moments in gradual pacing in leading to the surprisingly shocking finish while there is one woman who takes off her shirt constantly the fact that she's a nymphomaniac makes those scenes important to the story and there's one scene with the curly haired young man as he attempts to seduce her that turned me on before his pulling back made her screaming mad the young nurse who comes in and gets hired is alluring herself and i'm not surprised she posed for the cover of playboy some characters are very irritating and some scenes do seem ridiculous for the most part however don't look in the basement that's the title i saw on youtube provides enough drama and chills for an entertaining b movie
1	i switched this on from cable on a whim and was treated to quite a surprise although very predictable this film turned out to be quite enjoyable no big stars but well directed and just plain fun with all the over hyped crap that is out there it is very nice to get an unexpected surprise now and then and this little film fits the bill nicely 9 10
1	i cannot believe i enjoyed this as much as i did the anthology stories were better than par but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself where i have i seen them before forget the running time listed on new line's tape this ain't no 103 minutes according to my vcr timer and imdb space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an 8
1	wow my mom bought me this movie because it was on sale really cheap in some store in my town and she knows i love scary movies first i looked at the cover and sighed thinking that it was some ordinary b movie trying to be scary i was so wrong i made the great big mistake watching it alone my parents and my brother was asleep and it was really late after i seen the movie i was so scared i was shaking i didn't even dare to go up and take the videotape out of the vcr i slept with the lights on br br this movies main story is about some teenagers who drives off the road and have to spend the night in the woods telling scary stories the first story is really scary and it makes you hug a pillow really hard if you watch it alone the second story is scary too but not in the same way as the first one the third story my favorite is really really creepy it scared me most of all stories it is about a guy who is driving around the country on a motorcycle one night when there's a storm outside he goes to the closest house and knocks on the door a girl opens and she is mute don't wanna tell you more but you will get chills when you watch it i might add that my were really abnormal when i watched it campfire tales ' main story has a really interesting and surprising ending i know some guys said it sucked but me my boyfriend and my friends loved it and it was a long time since we got that scared rating 10 10 oh by the way it is not like urban legend at all it is so much scarier
1	remarkably well done but under recognized because of limited distribution has big studio feel understands the horror genre speeds along with clever plot twists and never stumbles could have been a college cult classic if it had ever gotten the opportunity
1	this movie is definently a horror movie and if you do not get scared than you must not be watching this movie it works on the old techniques but throws something new into the mix this movie grips and runs and hides within your mind the movie has a point to it unlike other horror movies watch it for a thrill and shock to your system
1	caught this flick as one of a five for 5 deal from a local video store and it was a most pleasant surprise it's a collection of four interrelated tales built around four kids who've just had a car wreck and are waiting for someone to pick them up they tell each other these stories to kill time and are occasionally startled by flashing lights and funny noises which all come together in an o henry esque ending that left me gleeful a real discovery blood and plenty of it breasts and beasts round it all out rather nicely barrett is worth the price of admission alone this one is a keeper jim bob says check it out br br oddly enough pumpkinhead was one of our five choices too and imdb recommends that for anyone who likes campfire tales i'll followup as soon as i get a chance to sit down and watch that one samhain
1	good not great little horror film with a high creep factor not to be confused with a 1991 movie by the same name or the more recent 2001 campfire stories central tale of stranded teens telling ghost stories around a campfire in spooky woods nicely leads into and ties together the different stories that make up the bulk of the movie watch for ron livingston office space band of brothers and jennifer macdonald in a spirited sexy segment the honeymoon solid acting and a few truly scary moments make this an above average chiller good example of interesting story line coupled with quality ensemble acting resulting in a whole greater than the sum of its parts surprise ending of the main story adds nice creepy twist although some may see it coming movie is not available on dvd but can be found on vhs
1	campfire tales 1997 br br an excellent peace of work everything about this film is just perfect br br the film has a great cast as you can see from imdb the reason i brought the film was because of christine taylor and the love for horror films lets get to the main parts br br 1 there are 4 teenagers in this film after crashing their car they decide to tell some spooky stories 2 there are 3 stories and the main plot the 4 teenagers are the main plot 3 the best story is people can lick too in my opinion the least scary story is possibly honeymoon or the 2nd story can't remember the name br br 4 people can lick too is about a man pretending to be a 13 year old girl over the internet he starts chatting to a girl called amanda and then enters her house very creepy stuff this story will make you think twice of chatting to someone online basically a pervert enters her house and things go creepy br br 5 the main plot is sweet and simple teenagers crash tell stories try to freak each other out but there's a very cool twist at the end br br the only bad part of this movie is the teenagers crash their car into another couple but the kids don't bother seeing if the couple are ok they just talk about the couple who they've crashed into br br the men and women who made this film made it to scare people not to make money unlike scream and i know what you did last summer this film is created to scare you scream and i know what you did last summer were made to make big time cash br br even though this movie wasn't pushed as publicly as scream was it's still 10 times better than scream and i know what you did last summer br br the characters in this movie are great and have realistic characteristics the cast who play theses characters are great christine taylor does a fabulous job with lauren doesn't go over the top with the acting the dude who plays eric laurens younger brother also does a good job of showing men or teenage boys can also get freaked out screams is like a spoof movie the murderer is a joke and the kids are dumb br br unlike scream and i know what you did last summer this movie has realistic people not a goof of a movie should of been more noticed
1	i recently bought this movie for three bucks at a garage sale and while i'm glad i didn't have to pay the usual 19 99 for this dvd i was pleasantly surprised by how good the film was br br it's set up like a horror anthology broken up into 5 tales including the story which involves four teenagers who's car breaks down a dark lonely road in the middle of the night apparently these kiddos like horror stories because that's what they decide to do until morning tell spooky stories around a campfire each character takes their turn telling a story after which their own story is wrapped up with a nice little twist br br the first story the hook is kinda a waste of time a bit bland and dull luckily this is not one of the main stories and only lasts maybe 5 minutes it's intended merely to introduce the film and it's easy to overlook the unoriginality of this piece br br the second story the honeymooners is eh okay it's about you guessed it two people on their honeymoon they're traveling around in an rv headed to las vegas they decide to stop somewhere for the night but they're quickly warned by a mysterious stranger to leave the location or risk being attacked by some dangerous unknown creatures this story has a pretty good setup but just merely an 'ok' delivery basically it's fairly entertaining and mysterious till the monsters show up then it's just kinda iffy br br the third story people can lick too is my personal favorite it involves a young girl who's parents are going out for the night and who's older sis is ditching her for a party so she's going to be all alone a fact she makes known to an internet buddy of hers trouble is that internet buddy is not exactly a thirteen year old girl this story's conclusion is slightly less climatic than i might have liked to have seen but still pretty dang good br br the final story the is definitely the one packed with the most atmosphere set in a creepy mansion on a dark rainy night it's the tale of a young man played by glenn quinn traveling around on a motorcycle who stumbles across this house just at the time that he conveniently has a problem with his bike he meets the mute girl who lives in the house and falls in love with her at first sight unfortunately not everything is all fine and dandy and it might have something to do with that hanging around her pretty neck br br after the stories are wrapped up we're presented with a twist involving the four teens in the car a twist which in retrospect should have been obvious but which it didn't really see coming and it's a quite pleasing conclusion to film br br so all in all a good movie rent it if you can because unfortunately i don't really think it has a lot re watching value but next time you're in the mood for a vaguely scary flick in the same vein as tales of the darkside or something grab this movie and some popcorn turn off all the lights and treat yourself to this surprisingly nifty little flick
1	this movie is about a group of four friends who wreck a car while driving they build a campfire to get though the night and wait for help to pass the time they tell each other scary stories to tell about it would ruin the movie so rent and enjoy it br br i will say it starts out a little slow but each tale get better and better this movie stars some of today's hottest actors christine taylor the brady bunch movies james marsden disturbing behavior and ron livingston office space so you can see there are big name stars just not the really big ones go rent or buy it asap this movie is awesome
1	clearly my rating for this is not to suggest it compares with the classy horrors of the likes of argento but with other 70s low budget drive in fare and in that department it truly is a classic the lack of money shows does anyone care too much the acting is adequate rather than professional does that make it more realistic but unlike so many other movies and not just low budget ones this does not drag for a moment crap it may be but non stop crap in your face crap and although inevitably a bit campy at times this is a must see for anyone who has any idea what i'm talking about at times quite delirious this crazy little film filled out with crazy characters is clearly made for fun and fun indeed it is to watch
1	this movie dr giggles as the best horror movie i've ever seen the plot was great the plot twists were even better and the cast was great it's hard to believe that they compiled the most unknown people 8 years ago and they would be big names today br br the plot is simple 4 teenagers wreck their car in the middle of nowhere they stumble on this campsite and do what everybody who is in an accident should do build a fire and tell scary stories br br 1 the hook great opener anyone who is in high school has heard variations of this story on prom night but they do it real good in this movie br br 2 the honeymoon ok this was not the best of the 4 it was pretty good and you get to see some boob on the word some it's just your basic creature in the woods story br br 3 people can lick too this is a cautionary tale of what happens in internet chat rooms all across the country this segment alone should be required viewing for parents whose children have access to the internet br br 4 the now this is the best story in the whole movie a guy on a motorcycle breaks down and goes to this mute girl's house very good plot twist br br the main plot the campfire has the biggest and best twist in the whole movie i won't tell what it is cause i don't want to ruin it i was never this shocked during a movie in my life br br plot a br br acting a br br writing a br br directing a br br music a br br overall a br br i recommend it to anyone over 13 with the exception of people can lick too any parent who's child has access to the internet needs to watch this one with their child
1	this was on the saturday before halloween this year today at the time of this writing and it has to be the best horror anthology out there i am normally not a fan of horror movies largely due to the volume of crap that's been recently released however the director of campfire tales has the hitchcock esquire gift of suspense unlike other contemporary films it doesn't take every opportunity to scare you silly instead using foreshadowing and 'near incidents that seem like the instant that the climax will occur in the instant before but turn out not to be br br i didn't catch 'the or the first main segment but from what i have read here they were the two you could afford to miss br br 'people can lick too' was full of suspense this short keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting for something to happen to the little girl as she wanders about her yard and house looking for her soccer ball and later her dog she encounters so many near misses that the suspense reaches heart stopping proportions before the climax of the short when the girl gives up and goes to bed thinking her dog is underneath it she reaches her hand down to let him lick it and she feels the touch of a tongue on her hand before noticing that on her mirror written in blood is 'people can lick too' i'll leave the last few seconds for you to find out my reader for at this point the short could have taken any number of turns br br 'the however was the masterpiece of this film it begins with a man on a motorcycle simply driving towards what he does not know but he can feel himself getting closer as he's driving along a storm breaks out and he's forced to find shelter in the house of a mute girl the two quickly cozy up to each other but before they can do anything besides kiss the girl reveals through writing that ghosts inhabit her house they quickly begin packing up to leave but they are caught in the middle of a reenactment of a scene decades past a father coming home to his daughter and her boyfriend preparing to elope murders the both of them and then commits suicide i'll have to leave you to discover the ending here as well i couldn't hope to do the story justice in any case and what i've said so far is just a brief summary of the story i couldn't hope to convey the nuances and sensory details that add to it br br 'the being the connecting thread between all of the stories is a fairly interesting rehash of the car accident theme and the girls are very much attractive in fact most of the girls in this film are good looking anyway despite the fact that it's chopped up the story is given justice and the ending is difficult to predict if you're preoccupied with the other stories however if you pay enough attention to the segments of the campfire spread through the film it's certainly possible to predict the ending especially if you've seen movies based on the same premise mst3k fans remember same premise but without the god awful writing of vivian schilling and the bulk of the movie if you've seen the first 30 minutes of that you should be able to predict the ending all in all the best horror movie i've seen in a long time and the only horror anthology worthy of a buy
1	campfire tales is basically made up of three spooky stories that a group of friends tell after they get into a car crash in the woods after a concert the film begins with the classic hook story and then we're introduced to the group of friends driving home from the concert they crash their car put out some flares and start a fire in a little abandoned chapel waiting for someone to arrive with help as they warm themselves by the fire to pass the time they decide to start telling classic horror stories about terrorized honeymooners a girl who falls prey to an internet predator and a motorist who takes refuge in a haunted house as they tell the eerie tales each story becomes increasingly terrifying but the real shock that awaits them is yet to come br br in my opinion the last story they tell is probably the scariest and had some genuine frightening effects the first story was alright and the sequence near the end was a little creepy the second story built a lot of suspense more than either of the others did but it's unoriginal plot was it's downfall i remember watching this movie a long time ago when i was like eight years old on hbo and the third story scared the crap out of me although it's not scary to me now you'll probably recognize some of the cast here particularly amy smart from the opening hook interlude story and christine taylor as one of the main actresses in the film the twist ending was kinda interesting too i know i didn't see that coming i thought it was all cleverly pieced together br br to sum things up if you're looking for a horror movie that is worth the while rent this you should be happy it's a great anthology of some classic urban legends and the whole film was tied together neatly it is much better than what one would expect 7 10
1	i decided to watch this on fearnet on demand for free because i figured well nothing else looks enjoyable and it turned out to be quite a good little horror surprise the film serves as an anthology of four urban legends told from the point of view of four teenagers whose car breaks down in the middle of nowhere after they decide to build a campfire in the woods they begin to tell their spooky stories and the movie transitions to the events in the stories br br the honeymoon a newlywed couple traveling cross country in an rv to las vegas is terrorized when they park in a wooded area by evil beings that hunt by the full moon i won't spoil that for you the hook amy smart and james marsden probably the most famous people in the movie besides beautiful christine taylor play the young couple who come face to face with the maniac that has a hook for a hand in this most recognizable short br br people can lick too this is probably the scariest and most dark of the stories a young girl chats with another girl on the internet but it turns out that it's actually a man who is obsessed with her and he proceeds to break into the house when she's alone this was really chilling br br the this is also a great story with glen quinn and barrett who play a motorcyclist and a beautiful mute girl who are terrorized by ghosts from a previous century in a mysterious farm house this was good but it was the weakest of the entries br br the group around the campfire slowly develop their own terrifying experience in their segments between stories and the end of this movie is surprising and really awesome overall this is not bone chillingly scary but it's certainly a great little guilty pleasure that horror fans alike would definitely find worthwhile
1	definitely not only for urban legend aficionados campfire tales is an often scary and always fun ride through several popular stories it is also a film that exceeded the low expectations i had a horror film i had never heard or read about a straight to video release granted the latter often presents us with a pleasant surprise but with horror films nowadays it can be all or nothing a cast of mostly unknowns well i'll leave the math to you br br the film proves to be an entertaining suspenseful and overall very enjoyable experience the four stories are well paced and satisfying the only one i felt was a little weaker was the for the simple reason that it offers almost no explanation for its plot or the characters' actions however i still loved the tale its atmosphere and ending my favorite one was the third story people can lick too the suspense in it is not only palpable but also educational br br i found campfire tales to be one of those horror gems one discovers by chance and then goes on recommending it to everyone br br 7 10
1	i saw this movie late at night on a free to air channel and i must say i was pleasantly surprised being a horror movie fan i often watch these sort of midnight movies during the school holidays more often than not the horror movies shown during this time are usually big certainly does not fit into that category br br campfire tales is basically an anthology of short stories based loosely on well known urban legends they are pieced together with a setting involving teenagers telling these stories around a campfire this campfire setting has a mysterious plot in itself however this particular story is weak and confusing obviously used predominantly to set up the other spooky tales br br there are three tales in this movie four if you count 'the at the beginning all of which are truly spooky and well made i especially enjoyed the third tale 'the involving a guy whose motorbike breaks down in front of a mysterious household this particular story works well in really freaking you out with sudden flashbacks of the house's history in addition to this the ending of the tale will completely shock you the first tale 'the was also very creepy though the second tale 'people can lick too' was somewhat lacking br br being a horror movie veteran i don't usually get freaked out this film certainly did that job well what i particularly liked about this movie is the fact that it's split up into three shorts this means the movie won't plod through an hour or so of character development and setting establishment before the real bloodshed begins that makes perfect for sleepovers parties etc br br campfire tales is a creepy crisp horror movie that will make your heart stop more than once it's certainly better than the crap you'll often find in the cinemas these days blair witch 2 urban legends final cut bleah find a copy and watch it if you dare br br
1	i originally posted the first user comment on this movie and claimed it was crap and it didnt make sense i didnt make sense campfire tales is a thoroughly enjoying film now that im 2 years older and watched it last night the actors were famous but not too famous the acting itself was more than acceptable it was rather good i will rate the movie per segment of films br br 1 the black and white scene a k a the hook this one was rather pointless it looked good but didnt hold much grip at all the only disappointing one i dont think it was even included as a segment here is the scare o meter br br poor br br 2 the r v story honeymooners stuck in woods possibly the most entertaining of all tales the acting was good in this one too dissapointing bout the typical caravan sex scenes yet it was you think who was knocking on that door it had suspense and not too gory liked this one br br very good br br 3 internet chat tale little girl meets psycho this was a smart addition gore left at a minimal frights left at extreme although dull at times the last few minutes were most entertaining dont get me wrong it was still fun to watch real creepy and could happen to anybody so watch who youre talking to br br very good br br 4 ghost tale man kisses ghost not the best it wasnt too atmospheric for a ghost tale this one was strange the aspects were rather good playing music and the screaming but everything was too real to be ghastly although it was good it was quiet bloody and could have been better with that idea br br acceptable br br 5 the ending the 4 lost teenagers these are the 2 attractive gals and guys telling the tales through out the film the best thing about the film is the ending it set a great impression the ending was totally un expected watch it it was so well done the realism was spectacular br br top notch br br 6 the film overall campfire tales was more than i used to take it for i actually like it so much now im buying it on video cause its a truly entertaining horror movie forget the trash you see these days like many im dissapointed that this didnt really go nowhere it was straight to video to me it was better than all the hype horror you see these days overall for campfire tales br br very good br br 8 out of 10
1	i would like to say that i absolutely loved campfire tales to me it was one of the original horror flicks with a twisted ending as if the contents of the movie weren't scary or weird enough you have the ending it's a very awesome movie and i'm so happy that it's being released on dvd on august 30th i will not hesitate to get my copy on that day i don't think the movie received all the credit or recognition it should have because all these other movies came out shortly after and was acknowledge but if it weren't for my brother telling me about the movie i wouldn't have known which stinks because in my opinion it's far better than any scream i know what you did last summer or any other horror for that time so i hope that you are able to see the movie yourself and at least be able to see the difference i loved it and being a horror movie junkie campfire tales was like dessert for me
1	while driving in a dangerous zigzag manner on a lonely road in the night the teenager cliff jay r ferguson has a car accident with his friends lauren christine taylor alex kim murphy and eric christopher masterson while spending the cold night stranded in the woods around a campfire they kill time telling ghost stories in the honeymoon the couple rick ron livingston and valerie jennifer macdonald travels in their rv to las vegas in their honeymoon rick takes a shortcut to visit the clayton caverns in the night but the stranger cole hawthorne james advises them to leave the spot since dangerous creatures attack people in the full moon in people can lick too on the eve of her twelfth birthday amanda alex mckenna tells her internet friend jessica that she is alone at home however jessica is actually a psychopath in the the biker scott glenn quinn is crossing the country on his motorcycle when he has a problem with his bike he finds an isolated house where the gorgeous dumb heather wallace barrett lives with her father when the man returns from his herd scott finds the truth about heather br br campfire tales presents three good horror tales with monsters psychopaths and ghosts and a surprising twist in the end the weakest segment is the hook with eddie and jenny but the other stories a great the plot point is totally unexpected and gives a great conclusion to this above average horror movie my vote is seven br br title da noite midnight tales
1	this was an interesting study in societal sexuality as well as the dark interests of man br br while i can't say the wife was a strong character she was the wrong choice for the part in my opinion she was a rich kid in search of escaping her drool life she was a rebel in fact and never fully matured for her husband a lawyer rickman it's obvious he married her for her money and to cover his sexual desires which is taboo rickman played his part to a tee his flirtations with the young man and very subtle undertones of gayness the young man was gay to the hilt when he did marilyn impersonation that should have told the wife everything he was perfectly cast as well he has hustler written all over him br br i was not crazy about the ending as i knew what was coming overall though the acting from rickman was great reedus was good walker was okay but i had misgivings for a gay themed movie it was average but not blatant at least it's worth viewing if you don't have truly madly deeply lying around for a spin
1	widely known as don't look in the basement this is pure 70s horror b movie goodness that could actually pass as the genre's version of one flew over the cuckoo's nest though the movie seems to go nowhere throughout the first hour of it's runtime i enjoyed this particular batch of quirky crazies and their various personalities and deficiencies such as the former army sergeant a chick obsessed with caring for a plastic doll a lovable man child and a loony nymph after their head doctor is murdered by a patient a small sanitarium hires a new nurse onto their under staffed facility who becomes immersed in the resident's different ticks and outbursts things gradually become stranger however when patients start acting far more abnormal than usual you never really know or care where the movie is going 'cause it still entertains up until it's completely whacked out ending several of the twists felt a little too forced and i could have used a tad more blood but i really dug this much too under rated blend of humor and horror check it out
1	dude i thought this movie rocked perfect for just sitting around alone and watching at like 3am with just you and a bottle the whole time you are watching it you are thinking wtf what's gonna happen next dude just get with the chick already alright they are mushrooms this is odd but kinda creepy cool damn this whole movie has an erotic dirty naughty cold evil undertone to it it's subtle dance just keeps you drawn to it you're just waiting for someone to get whacked but damn wtf you get that and then some for the morally enraged stomach it is great running to the toilet to barf material any movie that can get that kinda reaction out of you deserves an award
1	this film noire set piece suffers from murky sound at least as shown on the inadequate equipment of both the seattle and maine film festivals and murkier plotting while rickman suffers from an american accent old tennis shoes and baggy sweats nonetheless he has moments of stellar scenery chewing and the film offers sinister ambiguity from norman reedus the pretty polly walker and a surprise ending to frequent filmgoers while a beautiful look at the of both maine and rickman due out in video release after a cable airing in march not to be missed by any rickman fan ignore the hooey
1	in a time of predictable movies in which abound violence cheap romance and melodrama it is delightfully surprising to find such a strange movie the plot itself is compelling and the actors are excellent especially alan rickman if you want to watch a movie that does not provide all the answers before asking the questions a movie that will surprise you in good or bad dark for you and if you're not convinced believe me that alan performance is well worth it especially at the end ladies
1	this is one of my all time favorite movies it's great to watch in groups i find it's also great for any alan rickman fan he does such a wonderful job it's engrossing entertaining very surprising you have to watch it twice at least i haven't watched it with anyone who didn't like it or at least find it worthwhile
1	i really loved this movie i thought it was very well done the character interaction was wonderfully done as was the characterization the actors were definitely believable the plot was very deep and intriguing even though parts of it are a bit slow and sometimes a bit boring it's definitely worth watching several times the chemistry between the three main actors was great if you don't want to watch it for that then at least watch it for the drama between the characters i mean the whole thing was just whoa it was like i couldn't look away the whole movie grabbed my attention and kept my interest even through the slow parts i loved this movie and almost everything about it i loved the ending because it was so interesting and if you watch the movie a second time makes perfect sense but i'm not spoiling anything
1	rickman is sexy and good but the stranger is less convincing reedus is sort of sexy but he is not a consistent actor this could be the director's fault in this case we are supposed to find him alluring in the extreme just because he is pretty but that's not enough the thwarted wife is almost convincing 7 years marriage and she and character should be more settled with each other whether their roles are to be incompatible or not they must have patterns by now i get that although i think the wife is a bit stiff in her role and not convincingly attracted to the stranger so that's a failing the unspoken bonding between the rickman character and the stranger is better done even if we are not sure what it is i miss sexy english accent luckily he slips into it and out of the american pattern disappointing but with some great acting
1	a few things to touch on as a response to the earlier person's comment you just have to pay attention to what is going on in the film br br i guess they are spoilers br br the red stuff under david's mouth poison ivy the wife says not to scratch it or else it will spread br br david goes insane because the stranger is telling him to get out of the house which probably proves david's theory of an affair happening between the wife and stranger he runs after the man br br david does not lose him in the woods he simply hits the stranger a couple of times and leaves it to his wife to pick up the pieces br br only the wife eats the mushroom br br i must say after that one point with the wife and stranger i began to feel disappointed but the ending made up for the entire film br br and for that and the very last scene this is one of my favorite movies ever i should have put it together earlier but let myself get sidetracked i was really surprised honestly br br this film is interesting to say the least but if you are not watching this for the performances that the actors give i'd say you better let this one go because that is all that keeps this certain film together
1	if the ending hadn't been so fantastically unexpected i don't think i could rate this movie so well br br this movie has a lot of uncomfortable distressing marriage falling apart character interaction that sort of thing is not my kind of drama so the pace seemed to drag for me br br in addition the main characters are difficult to relate to and thus care much about the husband alan rickman is rather bitter and cranky and the wife polly walker is aloof and a little haughty the acting was just fine norman reedus was very alluring but the characters themselves were perhaps a little too realistically flawed for me br br the setting was nice and appropriately isolated and a little spooky the cinematography had something to it that seemed a little old fashioned to me somehow br br but the last 5 15 minutes of this movie are so ingenious that every uncomfortable scene awkward conversation and inexplicable character behavior absolutely worth it i guessed every typical plot twist except the one that occurred br br the ending definitely makes this movie worth watching the intrigue and the drama not quite as much
1	dark harbor is a moody little excursion into murky emotional waters that run extremely deep it's basically a 3 character piece featuring a finely layered performance by the always great rickman with polly walker and norman reedus also excellent forming the other two sides of this strange triangle a perfect late night cable film with a surprise ending to boot
1	i saw dark harbor at the '98 seattle film festival filmed against a autumnal maine backdrop this movie boasts an excellent cast and a plot that keeps you guessing throughout at times eerie at times funny i have to say that it stayed with me for days after seeing it rickman and walker are wonderful as the icy and reedus is someone you'll be hearing more from i'm sure the opening shot of a winding deserted road in a downpour at dusk and the score that accompanied it set the tone so well just terrific nice nice work from a new ish director screenwriter and his talented crew
1	back in the 70's a small time texas filmmaker named s f directed a handful of surprisingly decent low budget drive in horror flicks which seem to have developed a small cult following over the years before viewing his first film don't look in the basement i wasn't too sure what to expect but i sure as hell didn't expect it to turn out to be the only texas horror i thought was better than the chainsaw massacre i don't know this might actually be my all time favorite horror movie br br we begin in an isolated insane asylum at first it seems like a rather laid back place to get mentally healthy considering all the patients are allowed to roam around freely and whatnot as if it were their house i guess it is none of them seem all that dangerous only delusional the residents include a love nympho a 700 year old woman a man child a spaz a guy who thinks he's in a war a woman who thinks she has a baby and a guy who thinks he's a judge one day out of nowhere judge kills the doctor with an axe shortly thereafter the wanna be baby mama kills the nurse ten minutes into the movie and things are looking really ugly perhaps the new nurse will know what to do then again perhaps not giving away more would do more harm than good it's best to plunge head first into this one knowing as little as possible if you can appreciate honest to god with horror then you will not be disappointed br br if you liked scream if you liked wrong turn if you go for that unoriginal over produced over scored digital hollywood garbage then chances are high you just wont see the beauty in this one don't look in the basement being a first attempt makes the quality all the more shocking the atmosphere and the graininess fit into the location and the score like a glove unfortunately good ol' s f used up most of his good ideas on his first movie although the next entry in his texas sized is somewhat of a masterpiece that is if you're into extra sleazy mean spirited like someone i know if you fall in love with first two and absolutely must find out what else he had to offer check out don't open the door and the house where hell froze over don't look in the basement has everything that successful horror needs no stars no budget no digital effects just an original story brought to life in an insane asylum with a dozen cast members and a somber subtle score and of course the twist this is real horror for the real horror fan 10 10
1	it's funny your worst nightmare always seems so far away br br dark characters a married couple alan rickman polly hunter and a vagabond norman reedus are slipping into a game full of hidden sexual energy and treason now and then tantalizing breaks increase the tensions and give much space for interpretations good acting and a story which if not using the brain will leave you in confusion you have to watch it twice at least the very strength lies in its unconventionality and in alan rickman of course those who love him will love this movie br br conclusion it is not a typical prime time movie but well done
1	the first time i saw this film i wanted to like it for so many reasons but i simply did not it just seemed a little dull but there was a tiny question i had about something i saw near the beginning of the film so i watched it again… and then finally it clicked for me i first watched the movie knowing the surprise ending and while i definitely wouldn't recommend having the ending spoiled for you i have still thoroughly enjoyed the bulk of the film and discovering the many seemingly insignificant events that all unravel to point to a very sinister scheme br br i don't think that everyone will love this movie or even like it if you like any of the actors you'll like this movie because the acting is fairly strong and they all get a lot of screen time if you like mysteries namely hitchcock you'll like this movie if you like independent or psychological films you'll like this movie it really worked for me on all of those levels if you don't like the actors mysterious plots or psychological elements you might not like this movie but that's your loss personally the only thing that irked me a little was the accents good try alan rickman on the american dialect but it wasn't much improvement from the scene in die hard the wonderful voice makes up for the weird accent though the medley of accents in the movie was a little odd but it was not so distracting that it became difficult or particularly irritating also the camera change from scene to scene was evident and might bother some people but i actually think it added to the scenes or scene… i can really only recall one scene where the change was severely different but it worked br br when you see this movie see it at least twice the second time you see it i hope you realize how intricate the plot really is every time i watch this movie it's under an hour and a half so multiple viewings are not difficult i seem to notice something else about it and find myself wondering why did that just happen or was that intentional i like movies that make me think this one does so just see it twice
1	i think this movie is different apart from most films i've seen it was exciting in a way and no matter what others say i say i was surprised about the final solution certainly didn't see it coming although it's sad it's worth watching i can't think of any movie that would be like this actors knew what they were doing if you say this movie sucks you say probably what most people would say but if someone says that this movie is ordinary i absolutely don't agree and norman reedus should be more noticed br br maybe i'm freak but i liked this very much it was kind of mess but who cares i'm tired of boring and ordinary movies
1	okay so this wasnt what i was expecting i rented this film just to see how it would be since i want to see the first one anyway but this film had b movie all over it but when i watched it i realized that it was very funny for the first 30 minutes it was just how the snowman was people and one man losing his sanity but those first few minutes had some funny one liners in it when he throws up the first of his little minions i knew this would be very very funny they all act like the gremlins in the eighty four hit gremlins that it made it look like it was spoofing it and made me forget it was a b movie so if you like to laugh rent this one
1	some will say this movie is a guilty pleasure i loved this flick but i don't feel guilty about it you can tell the whole cast and crew had fun making this movie but jack frost 2 won't go over well with some people right from the beginning you can tell this movie will be cheesy and it definitely has an amateurish look to it well if you get the privilege to watch this movie after watching it remember that jack frost 2 revenge of the mutant killer snowman is a pleasure not a guilty pleasure now because i can't fill up ten lines heres some great scenes br br spoilers br br the three women on the beach had great deaths the first one had jack in a tree trying to drop icicles on one of them he kept missing so he dropped an anvil on her the next woman fell on a bed of icicles the last one was stabbed in the eyes with tongs br br the other great one was where two surfers stoners are hanging out near a frozen pole one of them gets their tongue stuck on it of course jack frost pulls him back a rips his tongue off while saying tongue a dude well you have to see it for yourself br br and of course the snowball children kicked ass br br end spoilers br br infinity stars
1	jack frost 2 is probably the most cheesiest movie i have ever seen in my life the complete title of the film is jack frost 2 revenge of the mutant killer snowman horror movie fans that have a taste for campy story lines will be delighted to watch this this film was straight to video and for good reasons here's why the acting was so atrocious and so terrible that it could cause one to cry the main character had no personality and the actor's bad acting made it all worse the screenplay was was also atrocious each character always says a cheesy line and add the cheesy lines to the bad choreography then you have something bad second the story line isn't really all that impressive but since this movie was straight to video it is forgiven the director and writer could have turned the idea of a killer snowman into something cool but they didn't they story has lots of plot holes in it in the beginning a cup of coffee gets knocked into the fish tank with the melted jack frost scientists try to restore his life but they couldn't once the cup of coffee fell into the tank jack frost was completely restored now he is immune to anti freeze in jack frost part 1 the main character's dna got mixed up with the anti freeze that was used to kill jack frost since the main character is allergic to bananas jack frost is too hence here's my point they say that sam's dna combined with jack frost's but one of the scientists had some saliva on the cup so when it fell into the tank the scientists dna would have been combined with jack another thing the special effects weren't very good either here's the good points jack frost 2 has lots of blood that looks pretty realistic even though this movie is flawed to hell it is still entertaining overall jack frost 2 is an enjoyable horror movie the first one was better though 7 out of 10
1	spoilers br br i don't care what anyone says this movie is friggin' hilarious this is the sequel to jack frost a movie about a killer snowman the snowman is created when a convicted serial killer about to be executed is taken to the execution chamber but the truck crashes with a truck carrying dna manipulation chemicals that make human dna bond with dirt or in this case snow the first movie was just boring and eventually the snowman is destroyed by pouring antifreeze on him br br or so they thought br br this movie takes place about a year after the second some scientists resurrect jack frost by mixing the antifreeze with chemicals no explanation is ever given for why they do this they just do meanwhile the who arrested frost in the first is going to the bahamas unfortunately the snowman comes with him br br this movie has it all it has talking carrots that can stand up ice cubes that explode when you stick them in your mouth and killer snowballs yes killer snowballs they even say dada like babies i'll have to give the makers of this credit the snowballs are some of the cutest little things ever dreamed up i wish that i could get one as a pet frost finally freezes the island as if a killer snowman has the ability to influence major weather patterns br br then there's the actors there's manners the fbi agent from the first movie except here he's wearing an eyepatch shiver me timbers i be an fbi agent and then there's the stereotypical british adventurer and the stereotypical black jamaican with dreadlocks and finally captain fun the man on the face of the planet bar none br br this movie isn't scary but is is hilarious i laughed my butt off the whole way through and i recommend this for anyone who likes a good bad movie br br out
1	the problem with so many people watching this movie is the mindset they watch it in people come looking for a b grade horror film or a so bad it's good movie jack frost 2 is neither of these br br it is to put it simply a very good movie cleverly hidden inside a very bad one to view it as anything other than a screwball comedy easily funnier than all three absolutely scary movies combined is to the movie on a basic level it would be like watching shawshank redemption and then complaining that there were no explosions br br the premise is simple the characters from the first movie haunted by memories of jack frost take a vacation to a tropical island a new improved jack comes after them now with essentially the powers of hydro man from spider man essentially he can turn from water to snow easily and quickly divide himself multiply himself and worst of all he's managed to grow an immunity to his only former weakness antifreeze br br what's sad about this movie is that the brain dead fans of the first jack frost a simply horrible movie can't appreciate the change of tone for the sequel just as alien was a horror film and aliens was all about action jack frost was a weak attempt at gimmick horror and jack frost 2 is a cleverly written parody of the gimmick horror genre br br most of the entertainment comes the live action actors who serve admirably particularly funny among them are ray playing a caricature of a retired british colonel from the early 1900s christopher allport offering an insane hilarious spin on his wooden performance from the first film and david allen brooks taking the once serious role of manners to new totally bizarre heights br br the lack of memorable quotes disturbs me br br as a horror movie jack frost 2 revenge of the mutant killer snowman rates a zero but you have to understand it's not a horror movie
1	this movie has everything typical horror movies lack although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for dare i say oscar winner this is a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person
1	where to begin i like the scary snow monster named jack frost the whole concept works well for me we thought he'd be back and he was changing the local to a tropical resort works seeing old friends and meeting new characters scott macdonald does a great job as jack frost you can tell when an actor has fun playing a villain you can see it or in this case hear it in the performance yup jack frost 2 is a welcomed sequel that is better then the first i do have one complaint the little jacks or the as i call them they looked like hand puppets i think they could have done a better job with the the mouth could have opened wider but the cgi was good and as a whole the whole movie is worth watching over and over again if you liked jack frost then you will like this sequel no questions or debate 9 big stars
1	although it isn't mentioned very often don't look in the basement is a very interesting film and is definitely worth a watch the story follows a young nurse charlotte beale who is hired at stephen's sanitarium to replace dr stephens after he is murdered by a patient many patients begin to torment miss beale and her boss dr geraldine masters acts as if she's hiding something br br this movie has many appealing characters that you actually end up caring about and have sympathy for during the climax which doesn't happen very often in horror films the musical score is great and is reminiscent of dark shadows the performance from rosie rhea mcadams and bill are all great the story is very intriguing with a great twist ending this movie has a campy atmosphere around it that no other film i have ever seen has been able to capture many horror fans have never seen or even heard of this film which is really unfortunate because it could have been a horror classic don't look in the basement is definitely worth watching for all fans of 1970s drive in films
1	yes i am a romantic of sorts who likes musicals and comedy and this fit the bill julie andrews gives a mesmerizing performance at the beginning and end of this film with the whistling in the dark production number the sedate to outrageous number that she performs in the middle of the story when she believes that rock hudson has been seeing a dancing call girl is eye popping and will certainly make you giggle br br i only wish that this film could be found in video or dvd as i would surely purchase it in a heartbeat for my home library
1	this is better then the first the movie opens up with sheriff sam then sam and anne pack there bags up and head to the while jack tags along br br people are shot get glass through necks get squished by get stabbed with icicles eyes gouged out head explosions drownings hangings lobsters shoved into faces slit throats freezing to death killed by snowballs arms are ripped off melted by anti freeze icicles down necks hit in face with pots and pans fingers getting' bitten off icicles through mouths bitten on the neck exploding people toasted snowballs and shoved in br br the snowballs are hilarious they put it into a blender and turn it on then it says 'that was fun' they put in in a waffle thing and it gets burnt br br this is just a great movie then they start thinking of other ways to kill it and the snowball replies 'that's not nice' br br it was worth then ten bucks spent to buy this br br 10 out of 10 stars
1	seriously i don´t really get why people here are bashing it i mean br br the idea of a killer snowman wreaking havoc on a tropical island paradise is pretty absurd the good news is the producers realized it and made it a comedy in the vein of army of darkness br br especially in the second half of the film when the little killer snowballs attack i laughed my ass off for example the put one of the little creeps into a blender a la gremlins 1 and mix it after that it morphs back into a snowball and squeals with a high pitched voice that was fun br br bottom line incredible movie rent it
1	worst horror film ever but funniest film ever rolled in one you have got to see this film it is so cheap it is but you have to see it really p s watch the carrot
1	okay i'll say it this movie made me laugh so hard that it hurt this statement may offend some of you who may think that this movie is nothing more than a waste of film but the thing that most people don't get is that this movie was intended to be bad and cheezy i mean did people actually think that a movie about a killer snowman was intended to be a masterpiece just look at the scary hologram on the jacket of the movie and you'll find your answer instead like the original jack frost which i thought was just as funny this movie turned out to be a side splitting journey into the depths of corny dialogue bad one liners and horrible special effects and it's all made to deliver laughter to us viewers it certainly worked for me br br for example anne to her troubled husband what makes you frown so heavily darling br br if that chunk of dialogue doesn't make you laugh then you have serious issues who in their right mind would utter those words in real life of course no one because it was meant to sound ridiculous just take one viewing of this movie with an open mind and low expectations and hopefully you'll see what's so damn funny about jack frost 2
1	sometimes good things happen by accident br br i'd never heard of until late 2005 i was flipping channels and happened to see something on toon disney with bats in a being attacked by owls i had no idea what it was but i was motivated to stay tuned it was hard waiting for a commercial so i could find out what it was called br br part of what intrigued me was the looks of the bats first of all they didn't use the popular convention of giving the bats extra fingers where their thumb claws are supposed to be rather they have palms like human hands but the fingers are longer and have webs of skin between them br br also the faces they look like human beings in fact at one point i wondered if they had once been human but were transformed into bats ordinarily i don't like this in cartoon animals but it worked here the story is a human story even though it's about bats and other animals not unlike the lion king br br what i saw on tv were the last two parts of the trilogy i'd missed the very beginning of the first one towers of fire the second overall but for the most part i saw all of each of them however i found myself wanting to understand what was going on since the first part hadn't been on and i wouldn't have caught it anyway br br but i saw that it was based on a book by kenneth how fortunate that i paid attention and wrote it down i was very disappointed when i learned that the series wasn't available it wasn't even that recently made that it made sense for it not to be available yet br br however i did find not only the book but also the two sequels and when i read the first book i was left wondering is that it not only because a lot of what's in the series isn't in that book but even had i not seen the animated version the book otherwise a good story doesn't end so much as it stops only one loose end is tied up shade and marina meet the colony at br br in fact and should have in my opinion been published in a single volume because they make for a complete story together but not separately br br actually the animated version takes some elements from e g the lifting of the ban from seeing the sun and some were completely original it's not perfect but it's definitely very enjoyable i enjoy both versions of the saga br br which is why i'm glad it's finally going to be available in june it was a long time coming and it's well worth the wait
1	i had never heard of before then i saw it on toon disney and instantly loved it i also think that it is not just for kids and that people of all ages would enjoy it it has a great plot great effect and cool characters i will always love the show and i heard it will be coming on on dvd worldwide soon and i'm going to get it i haven't read any of the books but i intend to the show deserves a 10 out of 10 and i hope the books are just as good well that's all i have to say but i still have 2 lines i have to fill up so who do you all think is the coolest character mine is shade and my second favorite is marina
1	this film was my first acquaintance with the talents of chris cooper i was deeply impressed with the character he played i knew when i saw the film that more great things were to come from this gifted actor he plays a union captain who along with a couple of enlisted men are foraging in eastern kentucky they happen upon the farm of a woman whose husband has chosen to go off to the confederacy br br the portrayal of eastern kentucky and its seriously divided sentiments during the war is so very accurate if you are looking for a war film with a lot of blood and guts this would not be it if you are looking for a drama that explores the psychology of peoples at war actually and philosophically then this is the best study of how divided loyalties affected the interaction of peoples in the border states during america's civil war
1	if you're even mildly interested in the war between the states this film is worth watching it is great historical story telling no flashing sabres no cavalry charges no carnage just the story of a sorry group of union soldiers stumbling into the farm of a confederate woman and her son and taking as much as their captain's conscience allows this quantity moves up and down as events unfold affecting his sense of humanity in conflict with his sense of duty to his men and his cause ultimately he reaches a compromise that any of us would be hard put to top br br i appreciate the historical treatment of the war in kentucky a slave state that tried to stay neutral but eventually opted to remain in the union under mysterious political circumstances involving the detention of certain roughly half the soldiers from kentucky fought for each side but there's never been much treatment of what it was like to have lived there through those times this film makes a great contribution simply in the look and feel of the time and place
1	it is characteristic that this film is not better known it obviously lacks most elements that a successful theater film needs heroes villains conflict and resolution romantic love interest br br everything is topsy turvy here nothing works out as it should everyone is clumsy sad angry hurt and hungry and nobody has a solution for anything in short it is war and it is hell for everybody involved people try to do best but interests allegiances and so called duty interfere the picture transports us back in time to the civil war with an intensity seldom seen in today's cinema straightforward honest images of an intense beauty the actors are very well cast for the story and they make the characters come truly alive in front of our eyes br br a silver dollar in a heap of nickels
1	this is one of my personal favorites a rare little gem that seems to be undiscovered by the general population chris cooper and patricia clarkson form the heart of the piece in what is a well chosen cast few movies have ever captured the true hostilities that the civil war but this one seems to capture all the right tones and moods if you're a fan of the book cold mountain try this movie out and see if you don't think it makes a good companion piece
1	a nurse travels to a rural psychiatric clinic run by doctor stephens she is upset to learn that the doctor has died leaving his assistant doctor masters in charge she is unnerved by the inmates including a crazy judge a shell shocked vietnam vet a catatonic and a creepy nympho but is soon befriended by a hulking black man sam she needs all the friends she can get as people are dying all around her don't look in the basement is my first horror film of s f despite its low budget it manages to provide some genuine chills plus a nice amount of cheap gore including a particularly nasty scene with a desk through an eyeball the climax of inmates taking control over mental asylum is an intense melange of wild camera work gore and piercing screams 8 out of 10
1	thought provoking humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war a small but altruistic view of one family's interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky this movie lessens the glamor of war showing it's effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit br br a lot of today's movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the hero's and other glamorous features of war but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person's memory of those days this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events when in reality this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds perhaps thousands of actual events during the civil war i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie
1	pharaoh's army defies formula instead of selling out for cliches and big stars it relies completely on the excellent acting from a strong cast the strength of a well written script and a fascinating and bitter story the result is a raw and realistic film that moves along fast with a heavy emotional current one of the best i've ever seen about the civil war and i think it can owe that to the pleasure of being an independent film if you like this film try to see the similarly brilliant indie civil war film wicked spring as well br br pharaoh simply tells the true story of a small expedition team of union men who ride into a confederate farm to take provisions but end up stuck there because of an accident of one of the men tensions and relationships are made and broken nothing happens the way hollywood would write it this movie comes from the mind of someone who actually cares about quality film and the telling of history superb dialogue and plot exposition move along a film that looks highly professional but often doesn't feel like you're watching a movie more along the lines of hearing a story br br the film boasts an incredible performance from chris cooper who shows an amazing versatility in the exploration of his role he transforms but is always at the height of believability and is easy to emotionally relate to patricia clarkson is equally as stellar and realistic in a role that many actresses would crumble in she shares an interesting chemistry with cooper's character and where she's the more severe of the characters is still as easy to identify with the rest of the cast is quite capable and fill their roles in well br br the art design and the set are wonderful and personally i love the cinematography it all has the feel of a civil war period photograph with the camera presenting strong contrasting colors and shadows and a tin like tint but always keeping the naturalistic look of the rustic setting they seem to have used natural lighting but whatever they used works beautifully everything looks like it belongs where it is it feels period something i find rare in american period films the actors act 19th century not like 20th century people in old clothes br br above all this film is very personal i think that as an indie it can afford it the film is nearly flawless with an outstanding script that effortlessly creates and explores the relationships and personalities of these characters and lets them grow in a situation as bad as it is it doesn't fail in getting it's point across and it gets it's point across without the usual and overused techniques that are used in all war films these days it's brave it relies on it's characters a fantastic script human emotion and in the cold hard fact that the civil war wasn't all cgi big stars and hoop skirts
1	i just saw this movie in a sneak preview and before reading my comment you have to know that it is very subjective because i love techno trance club house and music like that br br the movie deals with carl whose brother jason or whatever his name was died in an accident he fell off a rooftop drunk carl meets his brother's girlfriend sunny and the two of them quite unmotivated some kind of private investigation about jason's death and carl gets involved in jason's ex life that was filled with clubs and drugs the movie itself seen from an artistic point of view is nothing more than a big pile of s t the plot is predictable all of the characters are extremely cliched and two dimensional stupid boy from a small town young good looking innocent girl big bad drug king the list is endless and most of the acting such as the plot are just not credible matthew rhys' performance of the stupid boy coming to big london and sudden taking drugs from people he does not even know does not seem very credible unlike his female counterpart sunny performed by sienna whose behaviour seems more realistic to the spectator nothing more than a joke was tim performance of the drug king damian a phony caricature too eeeevil and just too ridiculous to be true br br but if you like club music the club scenes such as the selected tracks are simply brilliant if you enjoy a simple with a sweet girl like sunny yes i confess i lost my heart that makes my comment even more subjective i guess with some predictable twists and turns you will definetely enjoy this movie br br anybody else f o r g e t i t br br 3 out of 10 objective view br br 7 out of 10 my personal view and also my final vote
1	didn't have much aspiration for this film but was pleasantly surprised very well made film very well cut doesn't really get to the height that human traffic did but it's a very good effort well directed and i thought the lead actor put in a superb performance in fact the only really bad performance in the film was from tim curry who is supposed to be the name br br cool film surprised it hasn't done better than it has i'd never heard of it until i saw it at a mates br br i'm not a raver but i imagine people who are will really like this film
1	how on earth this film isn't more widely regarded is beyond me br br i picked it up for £1 and i'm not exaggerating when i say it's the best pound i've ever spent on a film br br the thing that usually lets films about the club scene down is either the music or the actual scenes filmed in br br here the music and club scenes are completely credible using some big tunes of the time and filmed in real clubs with people actually looking like they want to be there br br the performances from the actors are of a high standard all round although jason donovan in particular for me stands out he was playing frank n in the rocky horror show in london at roughly the time this must have been filming so his drag phase was in full flow and of course tim curry who's eloquent drug land boss is convincing br br simply put if you're a fan of british film you have to see this it matters not a jot if you're into clubbing as the film is strong enough as a story anyway br br highly recommended
1	it's a super movie i only seen it once but it's very good if you like music like in and don't have problem with drugs it's fantastic movie it's only a little bit to short but when you watch the movie make sure your sound system is at 100 then you will love the music in the film and the funny things that a guy from the country comes never drink any alcohol and then he is under drugs in the biggest and love the music br br the only problem is that i want to buy it and i can't find it so if anyone knows where i could buy the movie pleas mail me br br greets me from holland br br pleas reply me
1	i have rented this film out about 6 times it is very well directed and the story is unique and grabs your attention from the beginning big up to jason donovan whose acting in this film was wicked and i loved the guy with the st fighter moves
1	the club scenes in this film are extremely believable tim curry is in his most venal mode and there are enough drugs and violence here for two movies maybe even three what more do you require from an evening's entertainment pump up the volume
1	best club scenes that i have seen in a long time atmosphere mesmerising matthew performance is impeccable and faultless i would recommend this film to any age group watch out for
1	this movie has one of the best club scenes very good soundtrack if you like techno trance music br br some situations as the main character carl begins to take drugs for example are a little off reality but the plot is entertaining but the characters are all a little shallow br br i'd not recommend you to see this film if you don't like techno music br br for the plot acting alone this movie is a 4 10 with the really cool special effects and the club scenes and soundtrack it's a 7 10 but if you would want to go to the movies just to hear nice tracks and grab a little club feeling it's a 10 10 br br the special effects are sometimes hidden sometimes clearly visible i e fast moving clouds sun moon morphing background morphing cuts br br i for one enjoyed it very much a shame there was no in the cinema
1	dr stephens michael harvey head of a seriously institute for the insane takes a approach towards the treatment of his patients even allowing his loonies complete freedom of the building day and night he pays the price for his forward thinking however when he rather stupidly prescribes chopping wood with an axe as therapy for one of his patients and consequently gets his neck mistaken for a log serves him right for not suggesting basket weaving br br shortly after this tragic incident nurse charlotte beale rosie arrives at the hospital to take up position as the doctor's assistant and discovers that the facility is now being run by the much sterner dr geraldine masters annabelle despite being unaware of her deceased predecessor's decision to employ ms beale and not particularly eager to take on new staff dr masters agrees to let the pretty nurse begin work but following several harrowing experiences at the hospital charlotte begins to wonder whether it might have been better if she had been turned away br br it doesn't take a genius to figure out what is actually happening at the hospital the have taken over the asylum' schtick being a premise that should be familiar to most seasoned horror fans but s f don't look in the basement still proves to be an entertaining piece of drive in fun thanks to its well defined collection of nutters popsicle sucking sam bill judge oliver w cameron gene ross who continuously mumbles courtroom phrases old mrs rhea macadams who recites william creepy poem the fairies and warns charlotte of impending doom cackling loon danny jessie kirby who delights in teasing the other patients harriet camilla carr who thinks her doll is a real baby army nut sergeant hugh and best of all allyson king betty chandler whose rejection by a series of men has left her with a craving for love ie she tries to jump any man who goes near her br br this convincingly crazy set of characters plus a bit of gore and nudity reasonable direction from who also gave us the impressive white trash horror scum of the earth and a solid turn from playboy all go to turn an otherwise rather predictable low budget piece of exploitation into a very watchable psycho shocker
1	terry and june was one of the classic british sitcoms in my opinion you knew what to expect and ain't that just so typical unlike modern sitcoms with utterly contrived plots this show is still a breath of fresh air how lovely not see or hear remarks about bodily functions or not to see a family perpetually late for breakfast or a family with impossible teenagers and therein is the secret terry june was based on a middle class couple living in relative harmony in stead of today's strained plots with the 'de dysfunctional family made to look hip br br personally i vote the bridge to far episode as one of the best in a way terry's antics reminds me of basil fawlty both sometimes getting almost impossibly embarrassing br br terry june comes highly recommended have your tea and biscuits ready
1	when the long running 'happy ever came to an end its characters june were revived for the longer running and more popular sequel although their surnames were changed from fletcher to br br terry has received a new job and as a result he and june move to where they end up in all manner of scrapes unwanted guests dropping by to visit at an inconvenient moment the boss inviting himself to dinner and terry trying to chance his arm at d i y but cocking it up each time a fellow imdb user branded this show as 'not and 'never well fair enough it wasn't clever but that was the whole point as for 'never well some of the episodes were pretty substandard i will admit but overall i found it to be extremely well written highly amusing and very well acted br br it was warm hearted slapstick not dissimilar to the later b b c sitcom up eight different writers contributed to the nine series giving the show plenty of scope terry scott was a comic genius as he well proved in productions such as i' the on' films and of course here june whitfield likewise was a comedy legend in her own right br br i enjoy some modern shows i e 'still game' 'the catherine tate show' and i even enjoyed the comedy' 'naked video' 'the young ones' and 'the comic strip but i am more inclined to enjoy vintage comedy such as this humour that you don't need to think about is excellent for when you are feeling down and want to lift yourself up for the record was wonderful stuff special note should be made of the catchy theme tune which caught the mood of the show tremendously well
1	terry and june in my mind is a all time classic along the ranks with bless this house with the late sid james and the late diana but terry scott will be sadly missed even tho he passed away in 1994 i have all the dvds upto press and i look forward to getting all 9 also would be nice to see happy after ever released on dvd br br june whitfield is still going strong and terry scott will always live on in my memory br br terry scott r i p there aren't many comedies today that i can think of that will stay in the legends list and yes the middle class bit does get on some peoples wicks but i don't mind i think it would be brilliant to see some celebration of the life of terry scott
1	one of the most unfairly maligned programmes of all time was also one of the most popular sitcoms of the '70's and '80's br br it started life as 'happy ever but when eric merriman decided he didn't want to write any more it changed into this hence the dropping of 'aunt and the fletcher's becoming the br br yes it was cosy domestic middle class stuff the plots ran the gamut of clichés from the boss coming to dinner the vicar organising a jumble sale and unwanted relatives coming to stay for the weekend it was certainly not lazy comedy' as for it being 'not it was not meant to be it was funny and well performed and that was enough br br i too loved the boom of the '80's 'black adder' 'the young ones' etc but also enjoyed conventional stuff such as this if nothing else it provided alternative comedy with something to be an alternative to i found it sad though when the likes of ben elton took against both this and benny hill well family oriented comedy has all but vanished from our screens but where has it left us take a look at the latest t v schedules all soaps and reality dross the few comedies left are aimed at teenagers meaning they are jam packed with swearing bodily function jokes and explicit sexual references and they are not remotely funny either br br the comedy' boom was good in many ways but had a dark side it made conventional sitcoms appear old fashioned drove away talented writers and performers such as spike milligan and ultimately led to such unspeakable drivel as 'little britain' and heaven help us if it ain't broke don't fix it
1	i used to enjoy happy ever after but was absolutely hypnotised by terry june with aunt lucy gone the emphasis seemed to fall more heavily on the relationship between terry and june a middle aged middle class english couple and i thoroughly enjoyed it losing myself quite happily in each episode br br the 1980s were the era of alternative comedy but they were also the decade of choice and terry and june certainly suited more traditional tastes and mine and i was a huge fan of the young ones too each week terry got into a silly situation and june got pulled in herself and usually ended up having to bail him out how dated the shows seem now it was a different world but it's great fun to see trends of the 1980s featured such as the cb radio storyline of 1982 cb radio was legalised in england in november 1981 which saw terry imprisoned in his car in the back of a lorry i've been watching the shows again recently on dvd and i still think they're terrific not loved by the enlightened elite the chattering classes but a huge hit with the masses wonderful
1	a true comedy the dialog is fast and very witty eleanor parker at her physical peak flynn as only flynn can be the charming although now past his prime most of the scenes between the principals are short so the movie moves well if you haven't seen this movie please give a look you will be surprised at flynn's comedy timing the scenes between him tucker parker and sakal are hilarious just on the basis of the outfits worn by the most attractive parker this movie is worth a look the romance of this 40's movie will not be lost on those so inclined to watch movies from hollywood's golden past my bet is that never say goodbye won't disappoint
1	a fine romantic comedy errol flynn shows what a deft touch for comedy he possessed a talent that probably shows some of his true prankster self the comedic writing on this film is excellent eleanor parker does a nice job as flynn's ex wife whom errol is trying to win back eleanor is also easy on the eyes the sets exude 1940's glamour and style where appropriate br br flynn's comedic timing and wit are displayed to full effect here watch his double takes his ability to verbally counter punch with a snappy comeback or act the straight man and his total believability and sincerity where required this guy could act it is a shame errol did not get a chance to do more roles like this throughout his career he was multi talented to the extreme if you enjoyed it happened one night with gable and colbert or some of the william powell and myrna loy comedies you will enjoy this br br well paced and lots of laughs a lost diamond of a movie
1	this movie is a hidden gem i can't understand why this movie doesn't get more air time errol and eleanor parker make for a real attractive and dashing couple and their chemistry is impeccable i really liked the touch of his daughters reference to him as being her robin hood i highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys errol flynn it's nice to see errol playing a father as well by all accounts from his very own children he was a very attentive and loving father in real life also the supporting cast is wonderful as well you can't go wrong with supporting players such as hattie mcdaniel and lucile watson hattie mcdaniel makes a movie that much better from the get go this movie has now become a holiday tradition in my home enjoy
1	this was the third time i tried to watch this film the previous two times i found the beginning so sickeningly sweet and schmaltzy that i just stopped watching however now that i am a little older and more compulsive i forced myself to watch all the film and i was very surprised to see that i actually liked it quite a bit so i look at the movie much the same way i would look at swimming in the ocean when the water temperature is 70 degrees that's about 21 22 degrees for all those metric lovers out there sure the water is terribly cold and shocking at first but if you force yourself to stay in the water you'll get used to it so resist that urge to jump out right away br br the film begins with a lengthy exchange between flynn and his daughter played by a patti brady some may find there conversations very cute and endearing though others may find them a bit hard to take since these moments are so gosh darn sweet in a way it was some amazing acting by flynn because it's hard to imagine him in real life having kids or acting domestic especially that he wanted to be faithful to one woman in this film now that's acting never say goodbye concerns the divorced couple flynn and parker and their mutual desire to remarry since they both love each other as well as their kid it seems like a foregone conclusion that they will once again tie the knot however there are some serious problems standing in their way lucille watson who plays her usual over bearing and controlling mother in law character flynn's girlfriend after all he is errol flynn and he is divorced so you gotta expect him to have a girl somewhere and a marine played by forrest tucker br br not unexpectedly all this does get worked out by the end and everyone lives happily ever after however despite it being formulaic and predictable the film is a winner because it is so much fun to watch flynn despite his reputation as an action adventure hero is very good with comedy romance and it's just a lot of fun to watch him also the film has the ever scene chewing cuddles he's just so gosh darn cute and sweet that he is perfect in this type of film and despite the sweetness the film is pretty well written the bottom line is the film is fun br br so my recommendation is that you do watch this film and force yourself not to retch at the sickeningly sweet aspects of the film once you've gotten over this the rest of the film is a picture that is well worth your time
1	a young girl becomes a war time marine's pen pal and when he visits at war's end expecting someone a bit more available comic complications ensue all ultimately works out well naturally but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery errol flynn's dead on impression of humphrey bogart from casablanca is a highlight as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image the jumping scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot it is tucker though who the movie under his arm lowers his head and barrels over the goal line he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in f troop and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued and little patti brady charms as tucker's actual pen pal friend a fine lightweight coming home comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining
1	i'm not sure what intrigues me about this movie so it is grainy poorly written bleached out often ridiculous and at many points mind numbingly dull the person i was watching it with fell asleep twice and yet there is something in this film that fascinates me though i am not sure what perhaps the character of sam an enormous former patient who was by the former head doctor and who is perpetually sucking on an ice pop or the marvelously played head doctor i forget her name br br anyway watch it and form you're own opinion it has one of the greatest endings i have seen in film
1	errol flynn had quite a gift for comedy that was sadly rarely exploited given the right material this film demonstrates that he could have happily been quite at home in cary grant style gentle comedies out of his various forays into the genre this is certainly the best patti brady gives a fine performance in the child part and eleanor parker looks simply stunning throughout the film an added bonus is the wonderful hattie mcdaniel who is sadly underused in this film a welcome presence none the less flynn carries off his comedic duties with the same easy style that he brought to his swashbuckling roles the fact that he makes it look like it's easy doesn't mean that it is a super little family comedy great for the christmas period or any other time you feel like being cheered up
1	this movie is based on the game series final fantasy this one particularly is about or final fantasy vii i loved the game and i was very happy to see it be transformed into a movie i loved the cg that was awesome lot's of great fight scenes action and characters to make the movie memorable if your a die hard fan of the game you will love this movie personally i'm not a die hard fan of the games but i am starting to become one br br my favourite character out of final fantasy vii besides cloud would have to be cid i love cid i think he's cute i was amazed how real the cg images were it was amazing it's the game in 3d i had a great time watching the movie and by the way i love the aeons to especially he's great overall i gave this movie a 9 because yes i loved it i thought it was a really really good movie and yes it's on my list of movies to get the characters were amazing loved the cg story was wonderful with lot's of action and fight scenes all in all it's the best movie i've seen yet based on a video game
1	i am an avid fan for instance i have the game then sell it bad mistake but then buy it again good mistake erm br br anyways yes this film is very good the fights are very cool music very good and the cgi you cant falter br br only thing disappointing with the film i felt was the lack of other character involvement it was almost all cloud which although is a great character u cant beat a of cid and barret br br but despite that the film was great in my opinion and a must watch br br overall a great film give and will give it 9 10 br br make more films like this and you'll be worshiped more so than you already are
1	o m g did you ever think they would make a movie about it well i knew they would but i didn't know when and now its here at last when i received it yesterday through the post i put it into my wicked stereo that plays dvds and instantly had this grin on my face as cloud appeared looking well gorgeous and they followed by all the other fascinating characters from final fantasy the game including and my favourites they are pretty too in this the graphics knocked me out they were truly amazing so real down to the last hair the story line is ok bit confusing especially as my version of the film was in japanese but of course being a long time final fantasy fanatic i did not mind a bit i just read the subtitles all the characters talk the way they would do in the game and reno and rude are still ridiculous the dragon scene is wicked too just looks so good anyway the graphics were amazing the storyline fantastic and the basic idea of even having a film genius
1	i still can't believe that computer graphics are able to create 3d images the moment i heard it from my friends over at a forum i swear to myself that i am going to make myself watch it br br i managed to watch parts of it at a fellow shopping centre where they had many advent children dvds and showed it at a few for sale obviously i was overjoyed but it was still not enough then i headed off to youtube com to search for the movie all i came up with was music video dedications until that fateful day i found it i watched it despite all the distractions because i knew that i have to watch or else i will be called a loser br br enough about me more on the movie as if final fantasy vii wasn't enough they made a movie about it my most favourite part was the end of life cloud's couldn't be better but i wouldn't entirely spoil the show for you you have to watch it for yourself get the dvd now
1	i really love this movie i haven't played final fantasy vii but i still loved the movie its really funny and i love the job the voice over actors have done the visuals are so fantastic and all the lines are so well done br br i have to admit i have a pretty good imagination so i was able to fill most of the gaps the movie presented and i suggest you watch it twice because lots of things suddenly make sense br br also this is pretty funny you should watch it with the subtitles on because what they say and what the subs say are sometimes completely different its really usually pretty funny but sometimes it helps u to understand what they say better br br watch it love marnie
1	it really isn't hard to understand this movie i watched it with no expectations and no knowledge of the story from the games i was completely blown away br br initially i wondered how most of the characters have some sort of super powers but it is called final fantasy i also wondered about cloud's past but that was easy enough to look up in no way did these questions spoil the enjoyment of the movie though just the opposite it shows i kept thinking about the story long after seeing the movie br br it's one of the most beautiful movies my eyes have ever seen the music supports the movie completely the characters are incredible br br i want more
1	i cannot believe how perfect this movie is great cg graphics good storyline and the fights oh the fights this movie was great the characters they look real enough to be considered real they definitely resemble the ones from the game perfectly the scene in which well all the scenes made my jaw drop fantastic 10 10 graphics the story perfectly explained plus the way comes to help cloud at many different times in the movie they explain it very well and make your jaw drop from how perfect it is but the repetitive fights do take some story out but that is only a minor thing story 9 5 10 everything else great the movie was just amazing i really do not know what more i can say except that this movie was pretty much perfect i loved it
1	i play final fantasy 7 and this movie is excellent like the game all fans of final fantasy will love this movie br br the music are fantastic and the history is good but the best of this movie is the visual effects are amazing the characters are equal to the game and that detail are good for the fans br br you don't need play the game to like this movie all the people can enjoy the film because the history is some different and is easy to understand i buy the dvd because is excellent is 100 advisable if you don't see this film what you waiting for believe me you will fascinate like me
1	this movie is simply amazing unfortunately in portugal not even a shadow of him and i agree with a former opinion only ff fans will really give the movie the real credit but for the rest i dare you to watch it the story is great and i thought that the game has ended the story but the screenwriters have given us a great story to the god of all r p g 's the ost as usual it came from heaven but the little details that they gave us us fans of the game are beautiful like the ring tone is the battle winning song of the game and even some moves are quite familiar just watch it it's a great movie great story great animation just a 10 10
1	young ambitious nurse ms rosie is sent to work at a mental asylum out in the middle of nowhere during the course of 3 days she encounters strange happenings even a patient in her bedroom watching her yet she still stays the mental patients are all a little eye rolling by the judge but my favorite was the old crazy biddy rhea macadams the storyline is okay at best and the acting is surprisingly alright but after awhile it's gets to be a little much but still it's fun quirky strange and original br br note the thing inside the basement is hardly horrifying so the title is a little bananas
1	hey i think this movie was great and it had great graphics and i was vary glad they used final fantasy 7 i think that game was the best i ever played anyways this is a great movie and i loved it they should make another one but maybe they should ether use final fantasy 7 again or final fantasy 10 there both pretty awesome from tyler sheena i hope you can email me back if you have any details if there is another one people for anyone else reading this i suggest you see this movie it is animated but it looks pretty realistic and its got awesome fighting scenes i haven't see that fast of fighting in a movie for a long time the game final fantasy 7 is also really great not good graphics but its really fun and challenging
1	i generally like this movie a lot the animation is supreme meaning they took to trouble to animate the hair and fur on animals and people and being an amateur at graphics and animation self teaching myself through books for those who are curious on the same matter i use the program by discreet it is a high quality free program that can be downloaded from the internet i see that the quality of animation shown here is of high standards br br the plot of this movie is good though this movie lacks character development this story is still understandable generally i believe that this movie is primarily should be watched by people who are fans of the game as its plot closely follows the game as for me i do not play the games and therefore i don't have the wowing effect it probably does on fans of the game br br for those who like the game i suggest this movie to you and if you haven't played the game i would still recommend this movie to you
1	this movie was definitely scripted with ff vii fans only in mind i am someone who has never played the original game and watched it with a friend who was a series fan from a visual and technical standpoint this movie is just as good as the spirits within if not better but from a story standpoint i was pretty lost one major plot weakness that stood out to me was the scene where all of the children dying of were brought to the healing reunion by the three all told there were about 15 kids in all hmmmm i thought that this was an illness of pandemic proportions i understand why they did it that way time budget but it just seemed cheesy after all the explanation about how the bad guys needed to collect all of those who had cells so that could be reincarnated the subtitle version that we had some fan sub from the internet was a pretty direct translation and therefore probably added to my confusion br br it did prick my interest in ff vii however and i spent a few hours on the ff vii wiki reading about the main characters and the plot once i read the advent children wiki things made a lot more sense if you are a video game or sci fi fan this movie is a pretty good flick but like a previous review said it comes off like a 90 minute fight scene you never really get to know any of the characters and the story does just seem to jump from scene to scene without much explanation even though some explanation just might be required thank goodness for
1	the movie is really cool i thought it sticks to the original game quite well and some of the battle scenes are depicted in such high detail it's incredible i thought the movie could have been a little better if they'd give you a little more information before the end but trying to figure out what's going on is what hooks on you this movie br br the cg is beautiful i don't think they could have done a better job graphics wise every little detail the way they move the way their swords look everything is perfect the way they make the characters look is almost like they're real people br br the music was great and i found it entertaining to listen to just how much of it was remixed from the original game with new instruments and effects br br all and all i'd recommend this movie to anyone that enjoys fast paced action and a good storyline i would definitely play the game before i'd watch the movie though
1	some major spoilers you've been warned br br i saw this movie yesterday at film festival and i must admit that being a fan it was really impressive excellent graphic excellent music excellent dubbing excellent action sequences and so on but there's a but all the film was thought exclusively for the gamers that have loved it and that can therefore enjoy every single reference character inside joke you should see a joke with winning music that's particularly comic etc a poor man not inside the world of ff will obviously see the magnificence of technical part but cannot grasp the inner satisfaction of seeing e g barret appearing and shooting totally out of nowhere he'll ask himself who's this guy and i cannot blame him he cannot even understand what a gamer feels when in the opening sequence there's game's opening music running in the canyon with his two cubs howling at ruins and then 498 years ago almost all characters have made an appearance or quote including reeve and elena and reno rude were really goofy and comic to see but the final impression the movie left to me was hardcore final dream but far less for a movie fan
1	haven't played the game don't bother this is for the final fantasy vii fans out there that beat the game and no other will appreciate this rare gem of a movie want to watch it and love it buy the game beat it and then watch it when's the last time you've seen an excellent movie based on a video game well this is it br br the story takes place two years after the game and no short summaries are given to refresh your memory though i doubt many would forget and goes right into the one hour and forty one minute adventure br br all your favorite characters are there even cait sith the voice acting is superb in the japanese version every character is cast perfectly cloud sounds tough and broody sounds kind yet strong is also perfect she sounds exactly as i imagined cait sith sounds less cute than i imagined but worked very well br br the character models are spectacular great textures and lighting the environments are breathtaking and the battles are choreographed in a way to make the matrix blush the amazing camera work comes through in the bike chases for example where your eyes are just screaming in satisfaction and your lungs breathing heavily without consent br br the music is typical uematsu quality which means its top notch familiar tunes are remade to accompany advent children's graphical leap which meshes with the visual aspects very well there's even an inside joke for the fans that involves music it'll make you smile for sure br br i did not watch it with subtitles since i'm half japanese so i can't say that the subtitles are any good in japanese however the dialogue is very good and every word sounds like it's coming from real living beings not just actors impressive i'll watch this again someday with subtitles to see the differences since i've played both the japanese and american release of final fantasy vii br br if you are a fan of final fantasy vii buy this movie the day it comes out or pre order it if you haven't played the game but want to see this movie very badly don't waste your time buy the game beat it and then come back for this dvd i won't tell you to not watch it but play the game it'll make the experience a lot better and won't leave you in the dust scratching your heads br br come back old friends it's time to go on an adventure again with your brave comrades
1	square really landed this one they didn't try to please everyone and instead focused exclusively on final fantasy 7 fans and boy are those going to be happy fans when they see this movie the story might not be all that interesting or credible but it ties in neatly with the story of the game and has several honest to god funny moments a total surprise there and a welcome one too br br there are lots of cameos and funny references to the game too and most important of all the fighting scenes rock so hard they could cut through diamond they are truly the total awesomeness and would have made the movie worth it even if everything else sucked i mean they are some of the best ever created period br br see this movie bye br br ps i know my review sounds like the ravings of a teenage girl it was like totally what i intended
1	just watched it then it is pretty damn awesome the fights are fantastic and the magic is really cool it's totally like a video game in parts with some amazing hand to hand combat in there br br this film is for the fans to those who loved this world once before and spent time with its friends gather again and devote your time besides this ominous opening the story was not very hard to follow and ihave never played a final fantasy game i think it pays to be familiar with role playing games in general knowledge of the genre kinda helps you grasp some of it better i think though that if you pay attention and accept what the film throws at you it's quite easy to understand there is a lot that isn't explicitly explained and if you demand that it should be then you will probably be confused and irritated br br watching the film is like being dropped into the middle of some grand saga and having to put as much of the puzzle together as possible i like that approach you get caught up in the mystery and confusion that all the characters are going through but like i said just be accepting if a weird red lion thing that talks turns up and starts kicking ass and taking names and the other characters just say he's an old friend accept it and move on you don't need a biopic flashback or a tell all sit me down you are an observer here of something beyond your experience and br br so fantastic graphics and animation great voice acting cool video game styled music involving story and characters and maybe some of the coolest fights you'll see in a while it's worth seeing and while it is for the fans it is perfectly accessible for people like me that have never played the games
1	i shall begin with a disclaimer this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played the game before watching the movie relies on the audience's knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements and it does so very subtly do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it'll be that much better br br with that in mind this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game on steroids yeah the attention to detail in each scene especially in the heavy action oriented ones is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe br br i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music again for those who are familiar with the story and background the music should not surprise anyone although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation br br once again i myself having only played through once thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix and that is the feel in most scenes choreographed and organized like a dance br br in short if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy 7 this film will blow you out of the water if you're in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as on playstation or pc doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience br br finally i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film characters move with fluidity each scene background comes to life and tells its own story for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot i urge you to the animation facial reactions subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery br br square enix and the great tetsuya has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves br br thanks square enix the wait was well worth it
1	what is there to say about this movie this movie is simply gorgeous a true feast for the eyes in the same way that the game set the standard for 3d role playing games 7 years ago this movie sets the standard for future cg movies many of you have seen the trailers and the amazing details in every frame and let me tell you this movie does not disappoint you can actually see the fibers in cloud's sweater vest br br the music is also very good the movie contains several rearranged tracks from the video game that fans will definitely recognize and appreciate br br the movie's main weakness is its story its not exactly a bad story but this story is exclusively aimed for people who have played the video game first time viewers may feel lost at times or they may not notice the significance of certain events br br i recommend this movie to everyone even if you've never played the game because what we have here is a special movie watch it and enjoy the the beautiful show
1	'don't look in the is so easy to knock but the truth is simply that is one of horrors real underground stars and imho is vastly overdue some proper recognition is his undisputed masterpiece this scummy psychodrama snags the viewer straightaway into such an odd disjointed claustrophobic world of sweating insanity you have no real idea what the hell is going on it succeeds in making you feel strangely dirty just plain grubby for world is this mad unwashed scummy prison cell of rants obsessions and all shades of mental illness and he uses his low budget palette to wrap his grot blanket around you like a bad memory there is just something so beautifully odd about the whole damn thing in a word classic also if you watch first then you will have some idea of the insane psychodrama style that marks other films in summary they really don't come any more esoteric than this well actually they do track down 'keep my grave mad genius accept no substitute
1	yes i am a fan but how many people who watch this movie are not going to be and so i'm reviewing this movie from a fan perspective and with no regret i would not know how to adequately review the movie for someone who has not played the game br br visuals 10 10 i loved advent children it's a sensory delight a complete audio video overload the visuals were breathtaking some feats were accomplished that i would simply have not quite thought possible with an animated feature when the action scenes came about they were for lack of a more accurate word a roller coaster with dramatic camera movement sweeping across from range to range to seamlessly integrated bullet time effects at the crucial moments to the sheer level of detail it's all hard to fault the animation looks big budget the style and imagery is awesome and the effects at times made me forget that i was watching animation rather than live action footage i could ramble on for hours repeating myself on the fantastic quality of the visuals but it simply wouldn't do it any justice br br sound 10 10 the sound was fabulous the voices for all the characters didn't disappoint no one sounded silly and the sound effects were bold and sharp the music from the game that in my opinion had the best game soundtrack ever transfered beautifully to the movie most of the memorable themes from the game are present in the movie albeit often using different instruments to fit in better with what's going on there was some bolder rock and slight thrash metal music over the really intense action scenes from time to time but it all fitted in well with the movie's situation at the corresponding time br br story 7 10 the story and characters would be the main flaws of the movie both aspects were simply not up to par with the game but then again the game could spend 40 hours developing these points the movie only has about 90 minutes as far as the story goes the plot wasn't bad or anything but just not as ambitious as was expected from someone who played the game through in effect the plot seemed rather weak in comparison the game was so extravagant with the intricate plot twists and story progression development that the movie never really stood a chance to compete in the same league instead the movie took the more sensible approach to expand on the action and try to place as many inside jokes and themes into itself instead of trying to impossibly recreate the massive story factor which was originally such a driving force in the game the lack of usage also caused me some controversy the story of the movie chose to use little though not zero and instead lots of supernatural fighting ability and skill i would hope that if a sequel was made it would incorporate much much more extravagantly and importantly into the film there were also many plot holes in the movie all which can be forgiven if you think of advent children as a random anime but seem ridiculous when you realise how it was based on a game that executed plot tremendously well br br characters 7 10 the characters whilst all being present in one form or another don't necessarily shine to their true potential there simply isn't really enough movie time to spend with all of them and so all of their background stories and abilities are not entirely showcased and in some cases barely at all red and cait sith leave absolutely no real lasting impressions even cloud who is the focal point of the movie i feel doesn't use enough of his familiar abilities from the game the issue is a strong reason for this with that said it's a joy to see the cast back in action even if it's in such a role that doesn't utilise them to their fullest the new characters were the ones that caused me most of the strife however the bad guy trio and the kid dude denzel there was a huge lack of explanation about any of them anyone willing to use their imagination can probably fill in the blanks with something reasonable and be done with it but objectively speaking the issue is still there to be commented on and is therefore a little disappointing br br value 10 10 the replay value for this movie is excellent i personally want to watch it again in a more bigger and louder way bigger screen louder volume br br enjoyment 10 10 whatever the flaws of the movie they simply weren't big enough to hinder my enjoyment of it and i honestly think that will be the same case for most people i enjoyed advent children tremendously and encourage fellow fans to go see it
1	now after watching the advent children twice the storyline isn't as shallow as majority has criticized it to be in my opinion if you haven't played or disliked it for whatever reason this movie is most likely not for you being familiar to the original story is a prerequisite to understanding ac fully otherwise you will just see the greatest cg animation in your life so far br br without actually spoiling the storyline i must admit that after seeing ac we have been putting pieces together with my friends relying on our knowledge of seeing it second time allowed to actually pay attention to the story more and most of the questions we may have had were answered some were not ac is clearly for players fans and doesn't honestly try to be anything else there is little to none realism in it outside world which serves the purpose music is mostly reconstructed themes with a heavier touch team according to end credits and works well with the eye candy without exceptions i found the music enhancing the experience added to the visual fireworks in all situations br br we all know you can't put a in 1 5 hours and keeping that in mind the storyline actually offered more to me than i expected there are two issues at hand in ac and both stories were wrapped up very smoothly between the action sequences and trust me when i say there's a lot of it action that is br br i'm changing my vote from 9 to 10 after watching it the second time because i had missed a few explanatory sequences i couldn't put together the first time that provided some answers as a warning it's going to be easy to disregard the story and concentrate on graphics but try not to judge the children because of that if you don't let the story in it's no wonder it seems sloppy br br i'm not going to praise the graphics because i assume we all know they are awesome which might be an understatement especially characters talk so much more with their facial expressions than ever before i hope you pay attention to the storyline for it actually makes sense and works well with the whole get ready for the ride of your life there are no breaks
1	i do not have much to say than this is a great finish to the story most people have said that there is not enough plot and its just eye candy but think about it everything was explained in you cannot add more plot to such a grand story it would ruin it they did the best that they could do and i think that this should be taken more as a final fmv the last fight br br graphics 10 10 absolutely amazing br br story 8 5 10 don't think they could of expanded it that much more and the stuff they could put in there was clever enough i thought br br characters 9 10 well most of them have already been explained during the game but still could not fit it all into 90 mins br br sound 10 10 since i am a metal fan i loved the fight music and piano just reaches right in there it is a great st and i was not disappointed br br tilt replay 10 10 enjoyable every time br br overall 9 10 ff fan view 10 10 br br i personally think this is what was needed a fight to end it all the plot was already in place the action was necessary as much as people complained i loved every second of this movie it was a pleasure to visit the world of just one last time br br just remember this most movies that have been made form a game have been directed by movie directors i think this is pretty great for a team of game directors don't think i've seen a better game to movie br br thankyou square i think you did it right
1	graphics brilliant obviously the most stunning things were definitely not given away in the trailers fight sequences move extremely fast but after watching a couple of them your eyes should be used to it and it won't seem so confusing cloud has a wide array of swords and i kinda wish things were moving a little slower just so we could see them because they were each incredibly detailed oh and we finally get to see exactly how one equips br br music brilliant also i was a bit nervous about it since from what i've seen isn't the best at writing music to go along with action remember the steal the tiny bronco sequence but it's brilliant and it fits perfectly i'm glad i preordered the ost they changed the lyrics to one winged angel though so you won't be able to sing along if you know the lyrics br br plot the first half of the movie sets up things and introduces everyone in a fairly complex tapestry but the second half is almost entirely fight sequences once all the players are in place i wouldn't call it a weak plot but it's nowhere near as convoluted as the game's plot was i think this is in an effort to avoid trying to overshadow the game and i think that's a good thing the movie is its own entity and shouldn't try to top the original in terms of sheer plot br br i admit i was kind of hoping that this movie would bring to a wider range of people but this is not a mainstream movie i was going to give it only nine stars just because it doesn't even really try to explain anything to newcomers marlene at least i think it was marlene sounded like her gives a bit of background at the beginning but it's more of a refresher than a crash course but then i realized for me this movie is a 10 10 so why should i take off points just because other people probably won't like it as well if you've played the game or are at least familiar with it you should see this movie but you don't need me to tell you that if you're not familiar with it go out and buy it sit there for twenty hours and beat it and then see the movie although even without any background it's still stunningly beautiful you just won't get any of the inside references which make up 50 of the movie that is everything that isn't a fight sequence
1	is a great show i first saw it when i was 10 years old at the time and after school i rushed home and turned on comedy central i saw a cartoon called and i loved it it's such a funny and cool show it's created by klasky csupo who are great creators of cartoons they animated some of my favorite shows ever like the simpsons and rugrats br br i've seen lots of episodes of this show and i think they're all really funny and sweet the voice actors did a great job voicing the characters too br br i wish that comedy central could bring this show back along with the critic and dilbert br br but this is a great comedy central show great job klasky csupo
1	rated tv 14 for sexual content and language br br i remembered hearing about this show back in 1998 when it used to play on the channel i didn't watch it then but now it plays on the channel razer i have seen about four episodes of this show and i must say it is fairly intelligent and funny br br the show stars jason alexander of seinfeld fame and also tim curry of rocky horror picture show and it fame the show is about a duck who is a police officer he basically does his job as a policeman while coping with personal problems this show is fairly funny at times and fans of animated comedy will like this
1	perhaps the deepest cartoon made in the usa runs short at 70 episodes in four seasons br br unlike the often innocuous criticism found in the simpsons a pretty good show in its own right and the rude for rudeness sake humour in south park every bit of this series follows a plan the criticism of us society from its to its selfishness carries much more bite than it does in any other animated series br br the cultural references in also tend to be obscure sometimes anyone browsing the fan sites will realize most have not even been caught in that it is different from the simpsons which usually uses pop culture instead of the high brow stuff often hidden in as other people writing about it notice there is a growth in the characters bernice and also by making the main character not just an offensive neurotic but in fact someone who is living a personal tragedy as is made clear in episodes like the once and future duck love her until the end of your days ' and in takes a holiday when he takes a chance to tell beverly all those things he couldn't tell beatrice the series is anchored in a deep sense of reality br br one can't avoid feeling sorry for him and his lucid madness br br all in all in my opinion the best cartoon ever made in the usa and one of the best series ever i doubt it will ever be on dvd though far too many things the duck said make much more sense today
1	was a show that used to be on during the last hour or so before it was time to sleep about ten or so years ago it was a contrast to a lot of the kid type of animation i was watching at the time i was still a minor junkie for disney and looney tunes stuff and most saturday morning cartoons were still on the run off of the peak from the days of ninja turtles and batman but also around this time i began to recognize that the more raunchy mature surreal obscene and though i didn't know the term at the time satirical cartoon shows were more creative than the stuff i was used to around the time of beavis and butt head ren and stimpy and even the maxx were hitting tv sets via mtv usa put out two shows one of them was weird science and the other was i've always remembered a few key bits from the show and some of the lines are very quotable to those who haven't forgotten it completely luckily i found a tape recently with about six episodes i taped long ago and the jokes stayed very fresh and the delivery of the jokes are rapid fire a lot of the time in the better episodes br br in the voice department the choices in talent are top notch for the story lines which are usually just an excuse for crude fascinating parodies of pop culture politics movies and tv shows music detective mysteries and the dysfunctional family unit jason alexander is a wonderful choice for and his performance is a comedic 180 from his days on seinfeld even if there might be some similar characteristics here and there also the voices of gregg berger as the unmistakably monotoned and deadpan dweezil zappa as the hilariously inept ajax and nancy travis as the sex starved obnoxious sister in law bernice all contribute in a full amount along with some great writing even when a joke isn't sure fire the wit behind it compensates the animation style while a far cry from some of the computer enhanced product of today is inventive and often abstract it has that home made gritty quality that beavis and butt head or south park would later have and like those shows if you're a little kid i mean little as in younger than i was watching the show you may not understand most of the jokes i e there are enough stripper and vd references to fill two shows sometimes but it's inventive to catch if it's on tv late at night and it functions rather well in that time slot one can only hope for a dvd box set br br so to no one who's barely or even never heard of this program here's a general note think of this show as if dashiell hammett met up with walt disney and decided to go to slum part of vegas with a free mini bar and make a collaboration in the vein of luis bunuel and the simpsons combined not to mention it's by the group that did rugrats strong a
1	i've always enjoyed animated ducks for some reason duck tales darkwing duck daffy duck donald duck though none of them are as deranged as originally broadcast between 1994 and 1997 lasted for a total 70 episodes but could easily have gone on forever without becoming stale br br the titular character is a discombobulated unapologetic slob and pretty much the worst living person in the world he's a private detective a widower a peeping tom an alcoholic a sex maniac a murderer a fill in the blank you name it has done it but who can blame him for being such a slimeball when the world he we live in is so insane outrageous and just plain nonsensical eric voiced by the maniacal jason alexander could carry the whole show by himself but when he's surrounded by a bunch of eccentric supporting characters you just know that trouble is just waiting to explode at every opportunity my favorite has to be or just pig incredibly deadpan sidekick who is seemingly talented and highly skilled at everything and is perpetually oblivious to his partner's infinity of vices and incompetence br br the typical plot will involve some bizarre case he'll inevitably blunder through or will revolve around his highly dysfunctional household though every now and again arch enemy king chicken tim curry a sort of professor moriarty in fowl form hatches some diabolical scheme in revenge for being bullied in high school br br since i was a teenager this has been my absolute favorite animated show better than the simpsons family guy and even king of the hill nothing will ever surpass it there never was or will be anything quite like ever again the level of satire observational humor and writing is so sharp it's deadly and the animation is done in that unique klasky csupo style anyone who has seen rugrats will understand it's a wonderful highly imaginative and wild world and all with a noirish 1940s feel br br you can never have too much of this particular bird
1	i first saw this film by chance when i was visiting my uncle in arizona about 3 and 1 2 years ago the vhs print was a little faded looking but i was very haunted by what i had watched did it all make sense well honestly no it didn't however this is a film that requires more than one viewing to understand all of its aspects the beautifully tragic score haunted me and the bizarre images made quiet an impression br br well when i found out that anchor bay had released this oddity on dvd i picked it up immediately i was very pleased by the transfer though i felt the extras rather lacking though the film concerns the o and sir stephen characters it really has nothing to do with pauline original novel or the 1974 film the story of o however the film does pay attention to artistic detail and symbolism of an almost mystic kind o decides to prostitute herself for sir stephen in violent 1920s hong kong her mission is to prove her unending devotion and love for her master through giving her body to other men naturally sir stephen enjoys watching her during her unpleasant sexual escapades and even finds himself a mistress however the tables are turned when o actually finds a kind of love with a young male admirer suddenly sir stephen feels the threat br br i feel that the deep meaning behind the film including the tragic score and artistic direction really make this film a classic the viewer is introduced not only to the lives and pasts of o 's fellow brothel mates but the turmoil of 1920s hong kong is also explored like the political setting the prostitutes all find themselves in need of belonging no one is happy in the film even if they believe that they are however o does find a sense of happiness with her young admirer one prostitute tearfully remembers how her father used to act like a dog when she was drunk naturally leading to a fetish for having her customers act like a dog another older prostitute is obsessed with her past as an actress she cannot let that vision go she treats her clients as co stars and even swears she hears a piano in the river br br as for o she has a flashback about her father leaving her in a chalk circle when he leaves she feels a sense of abandonment of course in that same flashback kinski suddenly becomes her father i was very very disturbed by this image i truly felt for o at this point in the film she hardly ever smiles and this scene really explains why her fear of abandonment is so great that she sees sir stephen as her father and caters to his every obscene demand in hopes of proving her love br br another curious aspect of the film is the young child that ages at the end that sells fortune in a box it is a very random character but somehow it just adds to the sense of loss and emptiness in the film at one point the director even uses painted cardboard figures to represent people now if that isn't symbolism for you laugh br br all in all i really love this film i feel that it is a very deep and somewhat moving experience it has erotic scenes but the scenes aren't really meant to arouse like the lives of the characters the sex acts are empty they are motions but lack feeling and tenderness once again the only tender scene is between o and the young man o believes she is in love and that lowering herself is an honor however she finds in the end that she has choices she too can be her own person and pursue her own happiness however she also has the option to stay in that circle that her father drew the director leaves a lot of unanswered questions however some things don't need answers the viewer will make the judgment that works for them br br i must say that i wish a special edition of this dvd would be released that had director commentary i think it would be fascinating to hear his opinion of the film and its message years later it is a shame that the soundtrack was never released this film has a truly haunting and heart breaking score there is something about the lingering vocals that send a chill up my spine i can truly feel the sense of loneliness in the film by just listening to the music
1	but you probably have seen it or else you wouldn't be here it's so obscure that you probably stumbled onto it like i did because this little known gem receives no word of mouth br br from the very beginning you know how the storyline will shake out but watching as our innocent redheaded nurse puts the pieces of the puzzle together is high quality entertainment most horror films bombard viewers with graphic displays of torture but don't look in the basement plays it subtle which makes for superior suspense note to horror filmmakers some of us do like subtlety lovely and homely nurse charlotte takes a job at a sanitarium but is dismayed when she learns that the head doctor who hired her had a gruesome accident and she is now the subordinate to a mysterious doctor who we all know isn't a doctor at all the suspense is built through charlotte's unraveling of events with assistance from many of the patients but which of the patients can charlotte trust this is a gem and is my absolute favorite true horror movie i love re animator and evil dead but they play more for the horror comedy crowd br br violence quite tame for horror standards but there is a decent sprinkling of gore throughout the film the opening scene is classic no other horror film starts out better and the end has its fair share of gore as well br br nudity eager to fall in love allyson betty chandler spends a good deal of time naked attempting to seduce half the men at the sanitarium betty chandler is a knockout and i am shocked that this is her only film credit br br story the story is well handled despite the premise getting a lot of mileage in hollywood the script has a knack for building suspense and never fails to place poor charlotte in a precarious situation br br acting betty chandler does the best job here as allyson capturing dementia with naiveté in an ethereal form the judge was splendid as well weighing facts before he came to a verdict while rosie as charlotte gives a genuine performance as you will feel for her character
1	i agree with the posters before that the characters were exceptionally strong and believable and all the actors at their top form i especially loved david boreanaz stretching in a part so unlike anything else he played proving once again his amazing gift for comedy the first part of the movie was light and funny the blackmail part was a bit surrealistic but interesting and it was all downhill from there br br i found it frustrating that at least two out of the 3 girls keira and lisa get out of the blackmail betrayal scot free nary a trace left on their psyche i know the movie the darker ending of the play and i am not saying i missed the murder part but i surely needed to see those two getting their comeuppance somehow and i was left groaning in frustration with the ending it's why i gave it only a 9 br br but definitely an interesting film
1	finding the premise intriguing and reading the reviews and being an angel fan i watched this movie it's sexy and original and quite entertaining david boreanaz is keith he's a hunky married man stay at home dad and he feels a little inadequate in his marriage he makes the mistake of penetrating a close circle of teenage girls who are fascinated with the idea of doing it with an older man they'll do anything to get into his bed including beg lie and blackmail but they mostly try to push his buttons the that ensues sends keith reeling and pushes friendships to the edge david boreanaz shows a little skin in this one and he's looking hot yes he plays a sleazy cheat but he shows enough vulnerability and tenderness toward the goofy teens that you end up cheering for him in the end one more thing when someone moans oh yeah oh oh yeah it's hard to see them as a victim of rape
1	this is a great movie i read the brief synopsis and was unimpressed but as i watched it mainly for caroline it grew on me br br it's such a nice change to see a movie where girls young women are not punished for their sexuality the girls are given full license to explore and even the chance to make mistakes without ridiculous repercussions br br some of the scenes are absolutely hilarious and many of them the supposedly erotic scenes which were not over the top or distasteful the male characters in the movie were brilliant david boreanaz was great as the fickle hunk and what is great is that the movie doesn't make us hate him all that much the other two younger male characters were good too without being overbearing br br this is one of the best movies i've seen that has girls growing up and is quite empowering to see how the they realise their mistakes but eventually come through and carry on with their lives rather than drag their mistakes along with them
1	i am really amazed how little fame this film had i think it has to do with distribution companies and etc br br don't be idiots if you are looking for a good fun take this movie this is very nice movie to pass few hours with and the music is great br br it's about well girls and boys and whats between them with not too much story but not all movies should be pulp fiction should they it's nice and cute and gives good time the girls are also very good looking and this makes the whole movie even more enjoyable br br why i gave it only a 9 well the story could be little more convincing from the middle and on in some point you start to see events that are little less reliable small spoiler the baby is crying and the father goes in and tries to relax him now i am not talking about some small cry but no hysteric cry and 30 sec after that the father goes out and baby is sleeping excuse me when and how exactly did you make him calm and sleep and be able to leave his room in 20 30 seconds but ignore this kind of small picking because the film itself is not docudrama it's fun and this should be overlooked
1	my friends and i rented this movie simply to satisfy a friend who was very bent on renting it despite having no idea what it was about we all thought it would be like a canadian american pie but when we watched it we were completely surprised we were all silent throughout the movie and loved it it was nothing like american pie and had a plot that teenage girls are sure to adore seeing as the guy gets the crap beaten out of him at the end after that night it became my favorite movie for not only it's plot but the actors and the great writing there wasn't a moment where i thought that it was unbelievable everything is very realistic and relate able for anybody living in a small town with little prospects i absolutely adore this movie and would recommend you to rent it next time you have a chance it's worth it
1	this movie starts out a little slow but kicks into comedic gear quickly each of the three teenage girls offer their own believable distinct assertive and entertaining personalities i particularly enjoyed the dialog and interaction between keith and lisa if one looked beyond the superficial action that was taking place keith's character treated lisa's deflowering with tenderness and consideration the comic development that followed was also pulled in expertly in my opinion david boreanaz gives a wonderful performance as the adult male who clearly gets himself into more trouble than he can handle dialogue was sharp quick and flowed nicely the director and writer of this film clearly showed how none of the main characters got to claim the moral high ground after all the shenanigans they pulled although the movie appears light on the surface it reflects all the gray areas of becoming an adult human emotions and desire
1	i had the honor this evening to see a screening of the movie these girls at the philadelphia film festival going into the movie i knew very little about it and just took a chance on it because the film's plot sounded interesting so as i entered the theater just hours ago i wondered what the final verdict would be thumbs up or thumbs down br br these girls is the story about three best friends from a small town keira caroline is the ringleader who basically doesn't know what to do with her life after high school but her father keeps pushing her to go to college which is something she doesn't want to do lisa holly lewis will be going away to a christian school after the summer and finally glory amanda walsh who plans on spending her summer babysitting but this summer is going to be a special one as they all blackmail keith clark david boreanaz the sexy older hunk who they baby sit for fun times and a lot of laughs br br i normally don't like movies like these girls but there is something about this movie that i really liked i think the quality i liked most about it was that it seemed rather realistic three girls who want to explore their sexuality pick a hunky guy who lets all of them have sex with him only to be blackmailed by them later it's a pretty funny tale about growing up friendship and sex but even though it sounds pretty cheesy i can see majority of this film happening in real life br br the subject matter here is probably a main reason why this film didn't get a mainstream release in the united states all the girls in this film are suppose to be under 18 which if i remember correctly two of them are 17 and one is 16 now in the usa even though underage sex occurs on a daily basis many production or finance companies won't finance a film like this because of the sexual content this information was actually confirmed by the director himself john at the q a after the film the thing that gets me is that the sex scenes in this film aren't graphic and the nudity is minor not to mention that all the actresses in this film are way over 18 in real life go figure br br what the movie does best is it provides a lot of laughs as well as very strong characters i liked all the characters in this movie and each character seemed to have a now then characteristic to them the jokes were funny because they were cleverly written not because they were dirty or over the top everything seemed to flow together nicely both the comedy and the drama the script was very strong br br the acting was very good for the most part i thought all the three girls were great caroline who also starred in one of the most underrated television series of all time wonderfalls was just terrific as well as holly lewis and amanda walsh who both did a fine job as well david boreanaz did a good job and he looked like he was having fun while shooting most of the scenes the guy played a pot head so it was funny seeing him play that role br br i had the pleasure of meeting john tonight who seemed like a very nice guy and was very appreciative of the comments made about the film i am shocked that this movie didn't go anywhere i think with a little marketing behind it it could have taken off sadly it's going to be one of these direct to dvd films which so few will ever have the pleasure to see i think with what little budget mr had to work with the film turned out well and i think he did a fine job directing this little gem br br for someone who typically hates teen sex comedies i can honestly say i really enjoyed this film the character development and witty script allowed me to sit there for an hour and a half and be amused this is a fine comedy because it has heart and spunk to it i know i will be sure to buy this film when it comes on dvd on may 16 2006 if you're a fan of coming of age stories teen sex comedies or romantic comedies be sure to check this film out because it's one of the funniest films of its kind to be released in years br br moviemanmenzel's final rating for these girls is an 8 10
1	i had the pleasure of watching this two chairs down from one of the executive producer at the atlantic film festival which was interesting because he laughed at very different times than the rest of us br br filmed in atlantic canada the movie is about three teen aged girls who in one of their last summers of their youth devote a large deal of energy to sleeping with a married 30 year old man despite much br br it's definitely worth a watch but the humour was geared a completely different demographic than the one i inhabit male 18 25 so i was shaking my head at the character's antics rather than laughing inspite of this the story is strong enough to hold up for itself make it entertaining without so much laughing
1	this film is outstanding on this date of apr 8 2007 it was on on demand from show time it had been a while since i seen it but it does feature thomas jane in the first role i seen him in at first you see a normal guy that seems kind of henpecked with a wife that seems close to going her own way the directors cut which i just watched has a opening scene that is cool is dressed as a cheerleader type looking very fresh and hot trying to buy a coffee late at night with no small bills turns violent in a hurry shows that her name on her letter jacket is the real deal meeting up with his old road pal nick played by aaron was cool at first and he even loans him his wife's car to take care of some business then he spots nicks silver briefcase and the day changes for the weird and violent there is a cast of real characters that parade through the next series of scenes but dallas steals the show i think her telling of a casey story to the doctor that is there to get a personal interview in a adoption application is outrageous as a rule i have never thought tall women were that sexy but as with any rule there are exceptions is as one has never seen her before in films sexy and lethal like in the one movie with tom selleck but with a never seen before malevolence if your looking for film to add to your collection this one is worth the price in the nude is worth the price alone but this story has everything one might hope one has love friendship sex and violence in a terrific mix when i first seen it years ago it blew my mind and i know you will feel the same way
1	very tightly written acted and filmed violent but not too much so whoever edited this knew exactly what he wanted to portray there isn't a wasted scene in this movie the usual suspects was superb ensemble acting this is a collection of outstanding individual performances i rarely buy movies but this one is worth owning
1	don't look in the basement this little forgotten gem holds a special place in my heart and on the video nasties list the flute rattle box soundtrack is classic the main character although way hotter than most low budget starlets is a pretty standard low budget lead the doctor masters character is well written and well acted some of the lesser characters are kinda stupid but add to the nostalgia of the movie it's campy i ain't trying to lie the character that makes this great is a man child named sam one of the patients in this sanitarium gone mad flick the gore is pretty standard although i think the color of the blood is awesome it's so red this movie i believe was received poorly because of it advertising scheme some soulless little ad executive got his grubby hands on it and thought let's rip of the ad campaign for last house on the left that's doing well little chumps like this have ruined the world of film all balls and no brain also the editor may or may not have been an alcoholic maybe there all drunk you'll see what i mean one more little note don't buy this from the wally mart dollar rack they have cut it to and unwatchable level try to find the longest cut you can
1	i watched the movie yesterday and for me it was a stunning combination of movies like pulp fiction and reservoir dogs the best of the best it was never any dull and always moving every hour there's another character bothering trying to kill him you never know what's next in one word terrific
1	truly a great film i stumbled onto it at the video store and rented it because aaron in the company of men and your friends and neighbors was in it as well as the lovely former si swimsuit model does get nude in the film but that is only one of the many reasons to rent it it's very exciting and the character development is fantastic is one of the most underrated actors working and he steals this film it is very dark and violent but i enjoyed in immensely
1	i saw this movie yesterday i must admit i love it it's like early tarantino but better really a must but don't show this movie to anyone younger than 18 it's full of blood and sex rape scene is great now i'm just waiting for other movies of this director and a dvd release
1	i don't know what the critics were viewing when this movie was released but it slipped by them unnoticed it is well written witty satirical and thoroughly enjoyable it's like a video game brought to life you never know who's behind the door or what will happen next the violence is not gratuitous nor overdone for splatter effect br br one last word for you mickey rourke fans the is back and at his coolest in the cameo performance at the end
1	i saw this movie by accident while in paris i went into the wrong theater by accident and by the time i realized it wasn't a preview or a short film i was hooked br br does a phenomenal job of holding your attention with her acting i can't say enough how impressed i was with her portrayal of this real femme fatal the rest of the cast performs very well too don't get me wrong this is not the greatest film ever made but given i knew nothing about it i was left with a lasting and very positive impression br br finally not speaking french in france paid off for once i didn't stop talking about this film for 3 weeks after seeing it
1	i turned over to this film in the middle of the night and very nearly skipped right passed it it was only because there was nothing else on that i decided to watch it in the end i thought it was great br br an interesting storyline good characters a clever script and brilliant directing makes this a fine film to sit down and watch this was in fact the first i'd heard of this movie but i would have been happy to have paid money to see this at the cinema br br my imdb rating 8 out of 10 br br
1	how managed to avoid attention remains a mystery a potent mix of comedy and crime this one takes chances where tarantino plays it safe with the hollywood formula the risks don't always pay off one character in one sequence comes off inappropriately silly and falls flat in the lead role thomas jane gives a wonderful and complex performance and two brief appearances by mickey rourke hint at the high potential of this much under and mis used actor here's a director one should keep one's eye on
1	this movie was excellent from start to finish i was riveted by the action the black humour and the incredibly bad luck our hero encountered at every turn thomas jane is a great actor and i hope to see him in many more movies to come reading through other people's comments i have to admit i never once thought about tarrantino while watching thursday but now that i think about it i guess there are some similarities i guess i don't spend much time trying to relate everything to everything else the rape scene between and thomas jane is one for the record books sexiest scene ever
1	i loved this film fantastically original and different a solid intense hard core and suspenseful movie that has just the right touch of dark humor if you're tired of the typical overdone ridiculous hollywood b s movies how many big explosions and awful and unrealistic shoot em up gun fights that insult your intelligence can we take then this film is for you fantastic characters that are wonderfully original and believable and solid performances by all actors not a weak character or performance in the film skip woods' film is a breath of fresh air and i applaud his originality and efforts his film has the feel of a cross between a quentin tarantino and a cohen brothers film not a bad mix at all in my opinion this movie grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go there's nothing boring or bubble gum about this film the only disappointment is that nobody seems to know about it everyone i've recommended it to has thanked me and shared my opinion on it this film is a welcomed change alternative from the canned hollywood mainstream garbage being produced today even with their big name actors big explosions special effects and huge budgets it's a terrifically wild intense violent graphic humorous and raw i mean that in a good way no phony hollywood polish here ride thank you to everyone involved in making this film happen you did an incredible job
1	is thursday an original film heck no but it is a lot of fun i just caught this buried on the movie channels one night and it was an enjoyable flick i was expecting much but what i got was some interesting scenes i really liked the first seen at the convenience store some amusing stories as told by the characters and a little bit of action thrown in the mix as well some good performances from young actors was good and i was particularly impressed with aaron who has gone on to impress me further in friends and and so if you want 90 minutes of easy going fun go ahead and check out
1	yet another in the long line of don't films of the late 70's and early 80's yet this one is much more than that this film is a highly underestimated low budget with a twist it has the grainy quality and bizarre soundtrack that is typical of horror films of the time period but it's the highly underestimated performances of the surprisingly talented actors actresses that make this movie good a young nurse arrives at dr progressive mental hospital right after he has been murdered by one of his patients and all is not what it appears to be it seems dr masters a rather ambitious female doctor has taken over his duties and begun to implement her own ideas each of the patients take on their own unique personalities and have their own personality traits and flaws which make for highly entertaining interactions there is the nymphomaniac the crazy old crone the woman with an unhealthy obsession with infants and a man who has reverted back to his childhood among others there is also a strange little twist to this bizarre story that later finds the young nurse trapped inside the asylum with the patients running around loose and bodies piling up if you are a fan of cheap 70's sleaze than this is the film for you
1	very violent and nicely filmed movie is a bad sexy girl who will show that men can be raped too this movie has lots of black humor this guy will kill anybody just to forget he used to be a gangster there will be sometimes when you wouldn't know whether to shiver or to smile and think am i laughing at someone who is killing people
1	i love the premise but it's replay value is only for certain parts the opening scene of course some characters are a bit outrageous but they are entertaining none the less i think the sh t was pushing it i know it was to show that nick and casey were living foul out in la and to show why casey quit the lifestyle i just think that the story could have been better also the jamaican guy rapping on the phone is clever and entertaining but once again i think the story was told sloppy it really seems unbelievable i actually believe swordfish the other movie woods has written more than some of the parts in thursday because the government keeps sh t a secret all the time and has organizations set up that the public will never know about br br thursday is the best movie i've seen i think woods is imaginative clever and has witt however his work needs more maturation to even to get to the natural born killer script not stone's movie level how old is he anyway
1	i was referred to this movie by a friend i had never heard of it but i thought it had christopher so i rented it and come to find out that wasn't christopher it was thomas jane who was great it this film i love that almost the whole movie is set in this suburban house the characters were great everyone of them and the script was amazing i really wish skip woods would write and direct another movie in my book thursday is the flawless tale of this guy trying to do the wife and kid thing after a shady past but then his old drug dealer buddy shows up and it becomes quite the thursday this is one of my favorite movies and it shows some real potential in thomas jane but this movie is very rare but i have found it in a couple of hollywood video's on vhs so dust off the old vcr and pop in thursday because it gets pee wee's seal of approval
1	thursday is clearly derivative of the 'new wave' of crime films released since quentin tarantino took the genre by storm with reservoir dogs and pulp fiction in the early nineties but it has enough ideas of it's own to ensure that it remains an interesting little film thursday utilises a few characters mostly within a single location it works because each character is quirky enough in their own right to be memorable and when put together what you've got is a very amusing little thriller there is little substance to be found within the plot but it doesn't matter because nobody goes into this sort of film expecting a life affirming experience the plot follows casey a former drug dealer who has gone straight and is now living as a successful architect in suburbia with his wife the pair wants to adopt a child but things turn awry when casey receives a visit from his old partner in crime nick who brought with him a case of heroine and a load of money stolen from the cops thursday is going to turn out to be a very interesting day for our former criminal br br the first scene sets the film up rather nicely and ensures that we know what to expect we see a coffee order go wrong which turns into a murder scene that the culprits promptly cover up when a cop comes in for refreshments the scene is soaked with dark humour and witty dialogues and that is carried on throughout the rest of the movie thursday is a very funny film and scenes such as the ones that see the adoption visitor turn up at an awkward time ensure that the film is difficult to dislike it's true that the film doesn't bring anything new to the table cinematically or plot wise but the fact that it's happy to wallow in its derision ensures that there's more time for the absurd situation to build around the central characters the acting is decent enough with the entire cast clearly having fun with this plot thomas jane holds the film together well in the lead role while amusing portrayals from james legros michael jeter glenn plummer and mickey rourke back him up nicely this film is unlikely to impress the seasoned film fan but if you just want an amusing little movie with a few enjoyable twists and performances thursday is likely to suffice
1	hey community my question is about the song the pizza man wants casey to play right after smoking that weed not his application song but the cozy one thanks br br this page wants me to write 10 lines of text to be allowed to submit my comment i don't know what else to ask but i'm just writing writing writing br br hey community my question is about the song the pizza man wants casey to play right after smoking that weed not his application song but the cozy one thanks br br this page wants me to write 10 lines of text to be allowed to submit my comment i don't know what else to ask but i'm just writing writing writing
1	we are taken to a convenience store where nick is looking at coins in his hand figuring if he can get the special a 69 cents 20 ounce cup of coffee that comes with a free pastry he decides to go for the larger size which of course is more expensive plus it doesn't qualify him for the cake he tries to argue with the indian clerk at the register who keeps her ground with her it's a matter of principle well nick gets irritated not getting his own way and proceeds to kill her br br the tone of the story is set from the start the people we are about to meet are not nice guys there are nick his girlfriend dallas and their partner billy hill they are drug dealers nick decides to visit casey his friend and former partner in crime in houston he wants to do one more transaction and then go to paris with the profits from selling the drugs he is bringing what he doesn't realize is that casey has gone straight he is an architect married to christine and wants to adopt a baby br br casey doesn't appreciate his former friend bringing drugs into the house he decides to get rid of the stuff by flushing them down the kitchen drain the untimely arrival of ice a pizza delivery man takes casey by surprise this man has been sent to kill him but before that casey brings out some weed to share with ice who has a talent for rapping br br it is at this point that dr jarvis the man from the adopting agency arrives casey's application shows a two year gap that he can't justify jarvis begins to doubt about the prospective father at this time dallas makes an entrance she is a woman that asks questions point blank like when she demands to know whether jarvis enjoys watching porn jarvis who is aroused ends up leaving in a huff dallas has decided to seduce casey at all costs there is a surprise in store as billy hill enters the picture and he doesn't like what he sees shooting dallas in the process billy hill has also come to off casey but he is overpowered br br casey gets the visit of who wants to get his money from nick in his absence he'll take it from casey gives a deadline and casey makes up his mind to outsmart all these low lives he has all the parties come to his house at an appointed hour and the different factions will take care of themselves in the end casey has a better plan that includes taking christine for a stay in paris br br never having heard about thursday we were drawn into it because of the talent in it skip woods directed his own material this seems to be a film with good intentions at times the film remember others of the same genre not a sin by any shape or form which seems to be the main objection of the negative comments left here in the imdb site for starters thursday shows a witty skip woods that has gone to write other films notably swordfish the screenplay is divided in chapters with suggestive titles pertaining to the action denis lenoir does wonders with the mostly interior photography br br thomas jane makes an excellent contribution to the film with his casey although hard to imagine he has beat the odds and made something out of himself this actor seen recently in the television series hung is one of the actors we don't tire of watching a dark haired aaron is a welcome addition to any film he is a greasy criminal that shows no redeeming qualities or anything close to remorse and doesn't hesitate to involve his former friend in his scheme james legros has nothing to do same goes for a gorgeous creature that is only a distraction or an afterthought to add a sexy angle we enjoyed glenn plummer who appears as ice he does a mean audition on the telephone michael jeter and mickey rourke also appear
1	this movie is excellent not because it does anything special or new but because it is consistently great in all of its parts no part stands out as being ground breaking or stellar but all parts are far above mediocre and that makes to me an excellent movie br br i own several copies of this movie and may acquire it on collectors dvd or blu ray someday holding off right now due to high blu ray prices and of course the face that i don't have a blu ray player but that's beside the point of this review br br it stars off sort of ordinary but quickly turns into a drama filled with tension some action strongly portrayed characters and a well though out plot which keeps you interested until the very end br br wait no it does not start out ordinary br br it starts out sort of like what a tar movie wishes it could be with an awesome scene where an attempt to buy coffee and a donuts goes very very wrong br br by the end of the movie nothing was as it seemed and a few people are dead and a few people are very rich i won't tell you who watch and enjoy overall rating 10 10 a excellent
1	ok so it owes pulp fiction but in my opinion has it's own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style sketch like narrative and great performances thomas jane delivers great the drug dealer show down is extraordinary aaron likewise james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor they got the wong house the interrogation and rape scene is memorable as is mickey rourke's cameo appearance take a peak br br great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level and rourke br br well take a peak it's worth
1	a vehemently cynical sarcastic and intense film mocking and imitating the style of pulp fiction and stylized gangster films thursday is an entertaining off putting and hilarious thrill ride an amazingly eclectic mix of over the top characters and bizarrely entertaining situations this day in the life of a gunman trying to go straight proves to be a worthy addition to the series of films that attempts to mimic the genius of tarantino's dark humored masterpiece pulp fiction br br nick aaron stops by casey's thomas jane house to catch up on old times casey was a former gunman for drug dealers who has since reformed become an architect married a successful businesswoman paula marshall and is now contemplating adopting a child nick who still has ties to the gangster underworld leaves a briefcase full of drugs at casey's house while he borrows his car to run a few a k a unfinished business disgusted and angered by the introduction of drugs into his home casey flushes them all down the kitchen sink that's when one at a time nick's double crossed accomplices rapping drug and crooked cops all come a knocking for the unsuspecting casey who is about to have one unbelievable thursday br br the film opens with a hilarious sequence in a gas station in which nick is looking for the best deal for a cup of coffee after pondering which size cup to get a fiasco breaks out with the cashier when he demands a free cake and uses a 50 bill to pay resulting in comically brilliant bloodshed the situation goes from bad to worse when a cop intervenes and is caught in the most unusual of circumstances this opening segment establishes the perfect mood for the rest of the film which never takes itself too seriously and includes outrageous characters that seem self aware of their own existence in this nonsensical gangster flick br br the film is broken into segments based on various events and times during the course of one day this effect is much like pulp fiction which is a similarly given chapters although thursday doesn't mess with chronological order except for the occasional flashback also like tarantino music magnificently introduces each scene and each character oddly humorous creatures such as the jamaican hit man pizza delivery guy that raps over the phone and shares his and narcissistic dallas who attempts to rape casey add humor to each event regardless of how horrifying and unnerving some of the coincidences are when mickey rourke's calmly spine chilling crooked cop is introduced the careful staging and intricate setup is fully assembled and casey's sticky situation becomes even more daring and laudable br br definitely a wannabe pulp fiction with plenty of violence witty dialogue and extremely creepy antagonists thursday does some things right but other attempts at homage may be going just far enough as to suggest rip off a flashback sequence that shows casey shooting up baddies and sporting a hairstyle that exactly matches john travolta's do in pulp fiction is easily one step too far br br mike www net
1	one good thing this hidden treasure of a crime drama is incredibly entertaining from beginning to end an example of low budget film making at it's best writer director skip woods uses seemingly everything he could find ex lamborghini super model cow phone and an ear for dialogue to add levels of satire to the plot and all of his camera set ups br br another good thing this movie seems to be made for the dvd era with several segments that comprise a larger story similar to the work of tarantino and robert desperado each chapter of the film features thomas jane's main character spending one day at home encountering quick and memorable performances by aaron glen plummer mickey rourke michael jeter james legros and an unforgettable role by br br even another good thing not exactly a good thing but incredibly shocking and memorable every person who sees this movie remembers one important scene much as deliverance will always be remembered for it's awful rape of ned beatty thursday will go down as the movie where a woman forcibly rapes an unwilling man unforgettable br br one bad thing the title makes people think it is somehow related to or derivative of the friday series of films featuring ice cube br br grade a
1	the impossibly sexy rosie plays charlotte beale a new nurse at one of those movie type asylums where the doctor in charge has his own unorthodox ways of treating the inmates reluctantly bringing her on board is the officious dr masters anne macadams a k a annabelle the inmates don't take too kindly to charlotte either br br part mystery part horror this initial effort from b movie director s f has an oppressive feel to it these colorful psychos including a nymphomaniac with no self esteem a gentle giant who's already had a lobotomy and a supposed judge who speaks in jargon dominate the screen with their unnerving presence br br it's a picture that works fairly well establishing the gritty grim atmosphere right from the get go some brief bursts of graphic violence also help to give it that good old fashioned exploitative quality br br it builds in intensity as the heroine struggles to maintain her own sanity offering one surreal encounter after another particularly effective is the poetry quoting dotty old mrs br br for cheap 1970's era cheese it's pretty effective with a particularly nasty climax i had a pretty good time watching it br br 7 10
1	it resembles so much to movies like pulp fiction or reservoir dogs that is impossible to think that tarantino's films weren't a source of inspiration to this thursday however for a low cost b series movie it's not bad the plot about gangsters is captivating and funny and it also has a bit of dark humor and sarcasm we can find in pulp fiction the resources weren't many fore sure but the film is well produced the acting also is good i enjoyed the scene when the girl was sat on the sofa teasing the doctor it was hot and funny at the same time the soundtrack is nice too i didn't hear too many songs but the ones i heard i liked i score it 7 10
1	the movie is a riot hilariously funny yet graphically violent just when you think you can't take any more it gives you more great the cast is excellent and the plot is very convincing the past does indeed catch up with our hero but right prevails
1	when i watched this movie i had no idea what it was about and i had never heard of it before but i must say i was positively surprised the first few minutes are almost the most funny of the whole movie the store clerk from india is just too funny anyways the story isn´t really too much to talk about but i think it´s ok the acting on the other hand is quite good and still the only actor i recognized was mickey rourke who wasn´t really in the movie until the ending and the ending is where the turn off is i think it´s not bad but i don´t feel like it really ends i feel like there should have been something more a final battle in some way i don´t know all in all this was a good movie and i recommend it to anyone into tarantino type movies with loads of violence and dark sinister humor i rate it 7 10
1	this film is hard to knock it follows in the tradition of pulp fiction yet succeeds further by stamping its own unique style the cast is awesome the script is great and things like the odd pulp fiction esque time sequencing is done brilliantly i particularly like how the images provided in flash back vary dramatically depending on who is telling the story at the time when it is one of the indoctrinated criminals everything is flashy and cool but when it is the hero's recollection everything is skanky and disgusting br br this is an awesome film and so i am extremely annoyed to find that i cant buy it anywhere
1	it is a damn good movie with some surprising twists a good cast and a great script only a couple of stupid bits like the rasta hit man scene this guy's a professional but that has been commented on already the fact i had only heard one guy at work mention it before and did not have many opinions or reviews to go on made it even more entertaining this gets a higher score than maybe some people think it deserves but i have to factor in the low budget and the good effort from the cast it sickens me that some movies get made whose budget equals the of a small country with a hyped up release good reviews an oscar winning director and or actors and turn out to be so disappointing with actors sleepwalking through their roles and uninspired directing with predictable plot lines and a story with holes in it so big sandra bullock could drive a bomb loaded bus through it examples in my opinion are the terminal castaway matrix revolutions extra points are awarded for the wardrobe department choosing great clothes for the cast especially who wears a rubber dress in one scene and a jacket with c nt on the back in large letters in another a sex scene which shows off her tight ass and a good soundtrack are added bonuses and please enough with the tarantino comparisons this did not remind me of a tarantino flick at all and tarantino borrows virtually every idea he has ever had from other movies even if that is your opinion are we saying once a certain film or book is written or directed one way no one can ever use the same ideas again get real this film has it's own style
1	is a good movie but we recognize too much from other movies in its genre and therefor it lacks originality if you have seen 'goodfellas' dogs' 'pulp fiction' and a bunch of other movies that were inspired by that last one you have seen almost every part from there is a scene that involves torturing that has even the same dialogue as in tarantino's dogs' br br still it is a good movie because not every part is taken from the same movie the complete thing has some new ideas and some nice touches the opening sequence to begin with is quite impressive we meet nick aaron dallas and billy hill james le they get into a fight with a clerk in a gas station over a cup of coffee and it ends with the death of that clerk and the arrival of a cop we've already glimpsed at a suitcase with a lot of money in it br br then we meet casey thomas jane in houston he is married to christine paula marshall but used to be working with nick she doesn't know a thing then nick gives him a call and says that he is coming we learn that he has screwed his friends over and the problems are about to start br br what happens exactly is not for me to reveal but we meet some other characters all interested in the money or the drugs nick also had with him casey has flushed those down the drain br br very funny moments a lot of blood a very funny sub plot involving actor michael jeter and some surprises although if you really think about it you see them coming this is a good movie with some very fine performances nicely directed by skip woods
1	ok so this film is not very well known and wasn't very well publicised i discovered this fairly brutal gangster gone good movie by complete accident on one of millions of movie channels late on some boring evening but i'm glad i did the opening sequence to this film is fantastically comical in a very dark way this in fact sets what i think is the general tone for the movie i think a lot of critics and movie fans that have actually seen this film have been a bit unfair to just write it off as a lower budget gangster movie in the reservoir dogs vein ok so there are undeniable similarities between thursday and some other crime genre films that it has been compared to but in all fairness i think this film takes a much more darkly comic look at this type of film and the end result is a engrossing well made funny if not totally original film tom jane is good in this and deserves the recognition he will now hopefully get thanks to the the punisher his performance as the bad guy gone good is realistic funny and just cold enough to make you believe casey really was a bad ass before he reformed thats another thing that makes this film stand out for me the characters in nicks gang you get the strangest trio of criminals ever assembled a smooth charismatic but very cold leader nick a trigger happy blood loving sexually predatory bitch of a woman dallas and a psychotic hill billy with brains with a penchant for torture billy hill throw in the most bizarre police detective ever seen on screen beautifully over played by mickey rourke and you've got a recipe for well for thursday really its at times darkly comic sometimes brutal sometimes unoriginal but always engrossing and worth watching 8 10
1	as i stated earlier this year in my review of swordfish which was scripted by this films writer director producer skip woods this is a good film it ranks very high up there in my crime flick list among lock stock two smoking barrels pulp fiction and snatch basically i think this film is for me what reservoir dogs was for many people a cult classic although i prefer to compare it with pulp fiction i mean i never liked tarantino's first effort a lot but i sure as hell liked this one as much as i like pulp fiction for it simply has everything a classic needs a great story and good actors ok the budget might be not as big as in for instance godzilla the avengers of mission to mars but it sure as hell beats the living crap out of those films and numerous others br br the story of this film is about a man named casey thomas jane who has settled down with his wife in houston unexpectedly an old friend of his comes by disrupting his life revealing his secrets and basically making his day a living hell and a bloody one too br br the film is very original and quite bloody sexually tinted so based on that first and that last quality i can assure you that if you like this film you'll also like swordfish which of course has a much bigger budget and more famous faces than this one but is just as good though not as bloody and not quite as sexually tinted i saw this film for the second time last night and i really enjoyed it again i mean all the characters and actors are good although i must give very big credits to thomas jane and who were the best actors and had the best characters in the film also i'd have to thank skip woods for being so imaginative and original brutal sexual offensive maybe but sure as heck enjoyable and a thrill ride to the end br br 8 out of 10
1	for those unfamiliar with paddy this is a very good introduction while deals with the reality behind the myths of many things including medicine this work is surprisingly prophetic of the way medicine is going today two decades after the movie was made and over a decade after his death beyond that some insights into view of life in general are the movie as well the 20th century may well turn out to be the first and last century of the united states in the history of the world if it turns out that the contribution to the arts by the united states was in the dimension of the 'movie ' this is a prime example of that art
1	the best screen performance ever by george c scott the screenplay by the irony freighted dialogue is near perfect 'just where do you train your nurses dachau ' rigg is wonderful as the rescuing angel who saves scott from doom as is the whole cast it's a hilarious and serious movie it is a movie of the period the 60's but it is not in any sense dated what it is about the chaos and irrationality of the system vs the sanity of the individual is timeless and the we heal nothing we cure nothing monologue delivered shouted actually as no one else but scott could with its references to cloning and other of modern science could literally have been written this morning br br
1	i found the film don't look in the basement to be very good with some great characters in it it is about a young psychiatric nurse called nurse charlotte beale rosie who is going to start work at a isolated mental asylum whilst there she meets various sorts of different characters including dr geraldine masters who becomes in charge of the asylum after the the owner of the hospital dr stephens gets killed by one of the patients by hitting him with an axe br br my favourite characters in the film are mrs reah macadams a very funny little old lady allison who is a nymphomaniac and sam bill a young black guy who goes around all day seeming to be in a world of his own all of the time the film was a very low budget film but was still a really great film i know that it was on the 'video nasties' list back in the 80's but a did not think that it had a lot of gore in it it did have some disturbing senses in it great film recommended
1	darling lili is fantastic its by far one my favorite films it certainly didn't deserve the poor reviews it received julie andrews playing the title role of lili smith schmidt is the best part of the whole movie she is entrancing and spectacular as julie andrews is my most favorite actress and singer by far i was most definatly not surprised by how stunning she is this movie is just great i'm running out of adjectives it's magnificent marvellous amazing funny terribly romantic sad and just an all out thrill and its all thanks to dame julie andrews and to her husband director blake edwards oh yeah rock hudson was ok too br br julie andrews is the beautiful and well loved singer lili smith rock hudson portrays major who quickly falls for lili and she with him but their affair was not there meeting was planned by the german government i'm not sure if that's exactly what you'd call them but you get the point because the warm happy singing entertainer lili is actually a german spy lili is told to seduce major in order to get information of the new top secret later know as crepe suzette though lili is on a solemn mission she falls in love with bill major for real making her original quest challenging but lili pulls through and completes er task after she finds out something that is not really true about bill the ending will remain unsaid by me as it is wonderfully layed out if anything you'll thoroughly enjoy this movie i most certainly did br br
1	36 the hospital comedy 1971 a series of emergencies has gripped manhattan hospital patients are dying left and right due to overcrowded conditions and a ineptitude staff when a resident doctor is caught up in the death count the chief medical examiner dr george c scott is called in to investigate having worked as a doctor for too many years and going through a mid life crisis of his own dr finds the going tough he decides to commit suicide but then he meets barbara diana rigg a young hippie beauty whose keen insights on life help the depressed br br critique black comedy features a de force' performance from veteran actor george c scott he's good at playing high strung serious characters whose strict morals are severely tested first half of the film unfolds like a melodrama giving a pretty good account of hospital life and the shambles they sometimes are but then as things look set for a dramatic climax it skews into slapstick comedy if paddy script had maintained its dramatic feel i wonder if scott would've walked out with another best actor oscar he had previously won it 'in the year before his breakdown suicide scene is one of the most gut wrenchingly real in cinema history br br quote dr last night i sat in my hotel room reviewing the shambles of my life and contemplating suicide i said 'no don't do it you're a doctor a healer you're a necessary person you're life is then i find out that one of my doctors was killed by a couple of nurses how am i to sustain my feeling of meaningfulness in the face of this
1	this movie has some of the best dialogue ever written the really good lines are all given to george c scott a man who knew what to do with a juicy piece of dialogue i just saw this movie again for the first time in 20 years and the dialogue is as good as ever the bizarre goings on at the hospital are so imaginative as to dazzle you they frequently involve such marvelous poetic justice as to be near strokes of genius i love this movie
1	for sheer quality of performance and the theater of the absurd this one is hard to compare to anything else with the world melting down in the early '70s this film made perfect sense then and still resonates george scott could never be typecast
1	george c scott gives his finest and funniest with wonderful drama as well in this paddy screenplay diana rigg is attractive and quite the complicated young woman this film veers between tragedy and chaos in a new york hospital of the late 60's with staggering consequences barnard hughes is delightful as always great stage actor as well br br an 8 out of 10 best performance george c scott was a big blow hard when he put down vanessa redgrave at the 1978 oscar ceremony but he's a good writer a truly ensemble cast that works wonders down to the smallest role this won best script at oscars and scott was nominated he should have won for this instead of patton the year before which he was also brilliant in seek this out
1	another black comedy that won an oscar for best screenplay starring george c scott this redefines the phrase tearing a new a hole in this case the target is america's and grand hospital system throughout the hospital patients and doctors are dying because their names and prescriptions are being changed scott roars screams and blasts away his workers and bosses as they fail more and more his comment about dachau to one of his many bosses is sure to elicit laughs he even beats and rapes a hippie 3 times this is one that has to be seen and heard as the monologues and soliloquies are the key points in the film
1	being a retired medical health field in the i never get tired of seeing this film paddy was a friend of my college comp teacher visited him us during several back in 1958 his writing ability has stood the test of time the hospital is as fresh as it was in 1971 i can watch it every week still find something new so many of the supporting cast members went unto bigger better roles in both tv film george scott made only a few comedies but his timing patter are as good as jackie gleason steve mental humour rather than slapstick wins in my book every time and still a family film with only 1 four letter word during entire film
1	plot spoilers dr george c scott is the chief of medicine at a major nyc hospital he's left his wife his children have disowned him he's impotent drinks a lot and contemplates suicide also there's a killer roaming the hospital then he meets very strange barbara diana rigg and falls in love she wants him to run away with her but can he completely give up on his old life and start a new one br br very strange movie with an oscar winning script by paddy it presents a suicidal main character and shows us a hospital full of overworked nurses and doctors that is run incompetently it manages somehow to actually make this seem pretty funny it's not laugh out loud humor it's very black humor also the acting is right on target scott is just great and oscar nominated here you see him trying to keep his sanity in a totally crazy situation riggs character is more than a little odd but her matter of fact manner works and she's also incredibly beautiful the script is strong and brutal but never too much i think it fumbles the ball at the end with a situation that goes way too over the top but it's still worth seeing if this had been done totally seriously it probably would be impossible to take also look for katherine in a small bit and stockard channing and christopher guest in uncredited bits i personally had trouble taking this seriously from what i've heard hospitals were this bad back in the 1970s but not anymore see it for the acting and script i give it a 7
1	dr teaches at the hospital and he is quite good at it the thing about him is that he is depressed dr and his wife separated his children are deviant he cannot perform in the bedroom and he feels as if he isn't doing a very good job at healing people he becomes suicidal but meets barbara who changes his ideas for the better all around this story is a murder mystery and a group of angry protesters outside br br the movie is well done and the character of dr is well played out it's a little sad somewhat funny and somewhat of a drama it was good to see a couple stories wrapped around the hospital even if they were somewhat unrelated to what dr was doing great movie
1	i am still waiting for years a new dvd issue of this marvelous film i own a beta max recording with french language unfortunately mgm omits the french track on his recent dvd just english spoken an french subtitles i don't know how make mgm to be advised i wrote emails to them but of course no answer if i insist it's because exceptionally the dubbing track in french was spectacular funny well written etc george c scott acting is always outstanding and for people born like me during the 50ies diana rigg represents something very different than madonna for example thanks for help kind regards
1	this movie is george c scott at his very best bernard hughes at his very best and diana rigg at her most pithy and of course paddy writing at masterpiece warp there are also very brief snippets of future biggies like susan sarandon stockard channing etc who have one scene lines that you don't necessarily spot until your fifth or sixth time watching nancy marchand as a young to middle age nurse supervisor is also superb as well as practically every face in hollywood of 1970 br br it is one of the few movies that gets better the more times you see it watch for the surprise scene ala wait until dark this is one of the few movies i have ever bought on dvd it is that superb
1	i personally have a soft spot for horror films that are set in hospitals and asylums so i had a good feeling about watching this don't look in the basement even though its reputation is doubtful well turned out i was right this is great trashy entertainment with a couple of efficient shocks and delightfully absurd characters you have to of course look beyond the poor productions values and the completely illogical plot but if you manage to do that and if you're a fan of this type of horror that's an essential quality you'll be rewarded with an outrageous video nasty in which blood and insanity form the main elements the young and cute nurse charlotte arrives at a remote sanitarium where she's supposed to start her new job she finds out that the doctor who hired her was killed by a patient and the replacement doctor in charge masters seems reluctant to accept the new arrival the life inside the sanitarium is rather peculiar with the patients running around free and every door is kept unlocked after a whole series of bizarre events charlotte discovers the horrific secrets that the institution hides the opening 10 minutes pre credits are great and so is the completely deranged climax everything in between is pretty much without surprise or tension but you patiently wait because you just feel that the finale will be wild fun the patients are textbook lunatics but i love them nevertheless some of my favorites include the former judge who still talks exclusively in legal terms the suspicious army sargeant and the mad raving old lady don't look in the basement is great low brained fun especially recommended to fans of 70's trash cinema sick puppies and other types of scum the lunatics have taken over the asylum yeah
1	the hospital is a movie that was made ahead of its time this film produced by screenwriter paddy who gave us the oscar winning film network deals with overworked staff gross incompetence and bureaucratic corruption at a large conglomerate hospital in manhattan george c scott in a superb performance as the head physician is driven to alcoholism and a death wish as he tries to recover from a divorce throwing his son out of the house and worst of all a medical facility where corruption and incompetence take precedence over caring and healing of the sick and injured br br mr scott makes the movie his own and viewers will be shocked at what they observe at this medical establishment you can feel the pain pun intended of what this hospital has done to him the vivid images of this hospital's incompetence are so vivid and dramatically powerful that you may find yourself laughing and being deeply disturbed from scene to scene br br if only the film had stayed with that premise in a documentary style fashion as it starts out this picture would be brilliant unfortunately there is a sub plot of scott falling for the daughter of a senile patient the patient has been murdering people at the hospital this is where credibility of the picture becomes strained the romantic dialog scenes add nothing to the picture and the mental patient posing as a doctor i found to be totally unbelievable a simple security call and records check should have prevented the senile patient from doing the killings it takes almost the whole movie before security people are brought into the film to get the patient out of the hospital i could not see one person doing that much damage even as corrupt as this hospital is br br furthermore george c scott's character is overworked another pun intended because the script has too many things happening at once for example within a period of 20 minutes you could have as many as 20 different doctors accused and denying what they should have done or didn't do with the nurses and aids it's the same story someone's chart was read wrong someone was given the wrong medication and died the doctor operated on the wrong patient than another doctor does the same thing blaming a third nurse who was not on call because the second nurse who was supposed to be admitting the patient was on her coffee break there is also a lot of subtle dark humor with the same messages of incompetence and corruption being fed to the viewer br br this repetition of medical ineptness is unforgettable however the murder subplot is a distraction more than a help to this movie when the focus of this film is on the incompetence of the staff and scott's reactions to this you are glued to the screen but the conversations between scott and the mad patient's daughter force the film into a mystery type who done it scenario that seriously hurts the quality of the movie when the loony patient is revealing how he did the killings i wondered the following why did the producers need the find the killer mad patient sub plot i think the only point of scott's character having a relationship with the senile patient's daughter was to give him anybody with whom to communicate the hospital should have maintained its scathing indictment of the medical profession by removing the love interest and mad patient scenes it should have focused on the incompetent b s within its walls more frequently in an era where this movie could have been phenomenal the sub plot stories make the film very good instead of the great masterpiece it could have been
1	this movie is funny funny funny my favorite quote from the movie i think i saw a half naked indian in my room last night response that was no hallucination it was a indian in your room and another is what the hell are you talking about just what the hell are you talking about but if i ever be admitted to an hospital like this one i will be prepared to write my will on the spot i would say there were in my opinion three very funny characters in this film most funny but three is the funniest to me even though their lines were few and don't get me started on the crack pot patient hehehe that one i will keep secret and fast paced too
1	this is one of the greatest films ever made brilliant acting by george c scott and diane riggs this movie is both disturbing and extremely deep don't be fooled into believing this is just a comedy it is a brilliant satire about the medical profession it is not a pretty picture healthy patients are killed by incompetent surgeons who spend all their time making money outside the hospital and yet you really believe that this is a hospital the producers were very careful to include real medical terminology and real medical cases this movie really reveals how difficult in is to run a hospital and how badly things already were in 1971 i loved this movie p s i noticed that the incompetent wheeler dealer surgeon played the head of the firm in la law the young doctor played in lou grant i also noticed that the registration nurse has appeared since in becker and other shows
1	patty was years ahead of most successful screenplay and drama writers in tackling sticky subjects in this 1971 film he followed sinclair lewis and a j in respectively arrowsmith and the citadel in looking critically at the world of medicine although his target is centered on a special stage a modern hospital in manhattan point of view is quite direct are hospital's places for people to go to to get well or are they money making organizations where people frequently die due to incompetence br br as a person who has recently been to a hospital too many times and will shortly have to return again i find the hospital a very timely and rewarding satire george c scott is dr block one of the heads of the manhattan surgical center a major teaching hospital he has just started his day when he is told that one of the second year residents has died during the night in an apparent mix up it seems he was sedated and drugged while sleeping on a bed he'd been having a tryst with a nurse and someone tampered with an i v that should have contained water with in it later it turns out he got an overdose of in the i v soon scott finds that whenever he turns around some other member of the staff dies of a heart attack or of a botched operation the key to all this appears to be one patient who came to the hospital ten days before for a regular check up and has since lost one kidney nearly lost his other kidney and is now in a comatose state barnard hughes br br hughes' daughter diana rigg wants to bring the comatose dad back to his home on an apache indian reservation in mexico scott is not totally opposed to the idea after all hospital errors almost killed hughes also scott is suffering a mid life crisis with the collapse of his marriage and family and his growing doubts about what his chosen profession really accomplishes it is not only looking at a case like hughes' the hospital is in a constant state of chaos wherein the regular staff scott stephen elliot nancy marchand stockard channing is overworked and and is at war with the business staff typified by frances in a really chilly performance the local community is hostile because of the expansion plans of the hospital but when they meet to discuss matters with elliot they prove to be as divisive among themselves militant black panthers versus local clergy versus birth control seeking women and pro abortion clinic types rigg who falls in love with scott in the course of the film becomes more and more certain that leaving the insanity of the city makes sense and scott also toys with the idea br br scott was at his acting height in this film what with anatomy of a murder the hustler dr strangelove and patton under his belt before the hospital was made his angst registered when he and rigg get to know each other she prevents him from killing himself due to his despair he can't tell if anything done in the hospital is worthwhile and screams out the window the words in the summary line though he does later relax a little about how good his teaching has been for doctors studying with him scott really never fully is sure about it all he does however fully accept his own sense of responsibility that others just dump rigg too was at the height of her international fame if not her acting abilities her stint as mrs peel on the avengers was a few years old but she was recognized as a leading stage talent in britain at the time as well as one of the sexiest women performers of that period br br the supporting actors are good too besides the chilling demanding insurance information from comatose patients in the e r there is hughes as a religious maniac who wins and elliot as the fed up head of the hospital there is also my favorite caricature richard as dr is a butcher who has found a real home for himself on the big board of the stock exchange having incorporated himself for tax incentives anyone recalling his performances as ethical types such as the head of the law firm in l a law or as the friend and physician to melvin douglas in being there upon seeing his greedy dr see another facet to this underrated actor's talents
1	may i never have to go to this hospital or hospice if i want to be politically correct which ass coined this asinine phrase anyway for anything other than directions on how to get out of town george c did a masterful job playing the burned out over worked cynic who has come to the conclusion that his life has been a waste but is helpless to change his environment or conditions even when given a golden opportunity which probably wasn't so golden anyway i got several laughs out of this brutally black comedy however at the same time was and often chilled to the marrow because i fear this very atmosphere pervades most houses of healing even as i write
1	read a biography of the late george c scott and you'll discover why he was so enormously talent he was asked by an interviewer what his secret was when making each character he played his own scott replied he possessed inside him a burning fire which drove him in one of his last he sadly revealed he had lost the drive this was not the case when he starred in the movie the hospital in this offering he plays talented doctor medical director of one of the finest hospitals in the country however life has dealt him some crippling problems such as losing his wife to a divorce becoming alienated from both his promising children and worse of all believing himself to be physically impotent at this point he is now becoming complacent morose and frequently fantasizes various ways of committing suicide to add to his growing list of personal obstacles his main reason for being his hospital has come under siege by students and neighborhood protesters incompetent doctors like dr richard and a mysterious md who is killing both patients and doctors alike because he believes he is the wrath of the lamb barnard hughes few choices are left to one is promising doctor brubaker robert walden whom he confides in by saying if there were an oven around here i would put my head in it the second is a luscious young woman named barbara who is attracted to because he acts like a wounded bear paddy wrote the screen play and arthur hiller did an extremely good job of directing this dramatically interesting dark story but a vehicle nonetheless lit by the fire of george c scott
1	george scott gave the performance of a lifetime in paddy the hospital a very dark drama about an aging big city hospital and a middle aged physician on the verge of suicide along comes diana rigg as a free spirit determined to save him from himself their dialog crackles and it is clear they are made for each other from the outset but will she save him their one sex scene is both graphic and memorable for its passion and fury meanwhile the hospital is under siege by a group of agitators who don't want it to turn a condemned building into a cancer center and a serial killer is loose in the hospital specializing in doctors and nurses a good part of the movie though is squarely focused on scott as it should be what a difference a few years made back when this movie was made 1962 had given us the interns a hokey old fashioned reworking of dr with terrible acting and a cardboard script along came 1971 and the hospital less than 10 years later hollywood did something right for a change watching the hospital today is a reminder of how much medical shows like st elsewhere and scrubs owe to this enduring classic and if the hospital reminds you of network it should same scripter
1	absolutely corrosive director arthur hiller and writer paddy dismantle the american hospital system with this wicked comedy drama whodunit the hospital depicted here is fraught with problems from protesting neighbors to irate patients to a potential serial killer on the loose george c scott is the top doctor who on the brink of his own nervous breakdown gets involved with free spirited diana rigg and her wacky father barnard hughes alternately depressing and uproarious the hospital features some of the most acid tinged dialog imaginable note how scott describes his love making session with rigg it also has a lot of great vignettes scott berating head nurse nancy marchand after one of here underlings accidentally kills a doctor daffy administrator frances trying desperately to collect insurance info from a waiting room full of sick people scott getting sobering advice from the hospital psychiatrist after telling him of his woeful home life all of the acting is first rate scott and rigg are dynamite and hughes is a real surprise the movie is a masterpiece with script earning a well deserved oscar over such stiff competition as klute sunday bloody sunday the opening narration is priceless
1	anybody who goes to the manhattan hospital center is taking his life in his hands that includes the staff of the hospital br br i had never seen the hospital before and i was intrigued at how similar the characters and situations of the plot were to that other paddy masterpiece network there are elements in george c scott's character that have both al schumacher's and howard br br he's the administrator of the hospital and he's mad as hell and not going to take it any more he's completely estranged from his wife and kids it takes a faye dunaway type character in the person of diana rigg to make him snap out of it one roll in the hay with her and he's shocked back to reality and the fact he still can contribute in the world br br but first he's got a real problem someone is out killing hospital staff four of them in a 48 hour period and the nice part is their deaths can be attributed to in large part to the general incompetence of a medical bureaucracy that's where the comedy comes in br br there is an actual howard beale type character in the person of barnard hughes diana rigg's father his end is not quite as dramatic as though br br back in my working days it was part of my job to pay medical suppliers some of them could be as big creeps as you'll find portrayed in the hospital the black comedy satire had some real bite to it for me br br george c scott was nominated for best actor but having won and refused to accept the previous year's oscar for patton he wasn't about to get a second chance he lost to gene hackman for the french connection still his handling of the role is unforgettable br br try viewing the hospital back to back with network and see how many similarities you spot
1	if you liked paddy network you'll probably like this black comedy as well as it's another brilliant script a wonderful satire on big city hospitals and a perfect vehicle for geo c scott he plays a burned out chief of medicine on the most chaotic day he or his hospital have ever seen his personal crisis is coming to a head and his hospital's falling down around him as local residents demonstrate against the hospital and patients and doctors are dying at an alarming rate thanks to a biblically inspired and murderous saboteur the latter who theatrically declares himself the fool for christ of wrath of the lamb and angel of the bottomless pit bops doctors on the head lethal injections and swaps patients' identities causing treatments and operations to be performed on the wrong persons br br this film makes you uncomfortable as deadly mistakes like these do happen hopefully not so many not so often and not in one place and at the same time makes you laugh at the priceless character portraits one is richard l a law as dr a sort of celebrity surgeon who spends far more time worrying about his investments and publicly traded stock than about his patients who suffer lethally from his vast indifference and neglect there's diana rigg as free spirited hippie ish barbara drummond who seduces the beleaguered chief of medicine scott and tries to get him to run away with her then there's the deluded murderer who happens to be barbara's father and who functions well enough back at the indian reservation where he lives with his daughter and even runs a clinic but who's pushed to madness merely by being placed back in civilization the strongest portrait by far is scott's dr who bares his soul as former boy genius failed father and husband brilliant doctor and responsible administrator who constantly dreams of suicide but must bear up under the demands of his job scott is exceptional in this demanding role br br until the final scenes one doesn't know if will leave the hospital behind for barbara's indian reservation and a quieter simpler life whether her murderous father will be caught or whether the protesting rioting locals will take over and bring the hospital to its knees watching the crazed killer at work one suspects is telling us our lunatic society makes him do these things as we're told he's a different person away from cities and people br br as my own father was the chief administrator of a number of large hospitals over the years i had some idea of the demands of his job and the huge responsibility he shouldered this story makes that responsibility the linchpin on which scott's crisis turns this is both a funny and scary film with the actors up to the considerable demands of script it's also a film i get more out of each time i watch it
1	low budget but memorable would be shocker that instead emerges as theater of the bizarre vulnerable naive nurse charlotte beale comes to a secluded mental hospital and is completely unaware that the only sane people have been murdered despite the red flags that are constantly being raised all around her br br the lack of a decent budget really gives the filmmakers little more to go on than a sense of style as well as a cast of wacky characters the pleasures of this film don't come from the film's shocks which are fairly tame but from the weird atmosphere first we have the delusional woman who thinks her baby doll is real there's also an axe murdering judge a shell shocked war veteran and old mrs callahan is like everybody's daffy elderly grandmother gone amok a young patient named allyson gives the term nymphomaniac new meaning a big guy named sam is just a little slow after a botched lobotomy and jennifer vaults suddenly between catatonia and violent outbursts the only other sentient person in the place seems to be dr masters but does she have a secret br br don't look in the basement is a great example of low budget exploitation films there isn't much plot going on but the cheapness works for the movie several cast members turn in memorable performances particularly betty chandler and annabelle and the way the director adds little weird details to the movie can really stick with you br br the scene between allyson and the telephone man is a classic for all time and especially delicious are the facial expressions of dr masters when she begins to go over the edge near the finale of the movie also makes great use of the cheap soundtrack with several musical cues really evoking the characters that they accompany my favorite cue is the crazy cue a that whenever one of the patients does something pathological br br also wonderful is the way that charlotte herself plunges into hysteria at the climax with the patients revealing that dr masters is simply another inmate and then suggesting that charlotte is also a patient who is being allowed to act out her delusions she certainly has a tenuous grip on reality why else would she not question the ominous lack of phone service or outside contact the scene where charlotte manages to finish off the barely alive dr stephens with a toy boat has to be one of the greatest moments in low budget horror yes don't look in the basement could very well be the american beauty of grade z trash
1	i had never paid much attention to this flick until i learned that paddy author of the brilliant network was the scriptwriter his work there had instructed me as to his genius so when appeared on tmc i was anxious to see it i was not disappointed looking at both this film and network it would seem that his big theme is the absurdity inanity and sheer viciousness of large human enterprises e g hospitals networks against the sanctity of individual experience and the human spirit and all of it delivered with a knife edge sense of utterly black humor hospital is as black of a comedy as network is and the excellent cast led by the incomparable scott does his work full justice this is a keeper definitely not to miss
1	certainly the highlight of this film is it's cast br br diana rigg george c scott bernard hughes to mention a few br br i have accumulated more time in hospitals and with doctors over the years than i care to think about br br this comedy attacks the pomp and pretension in all aspects of our society through the setting of one of it's most haughty institutions the medical profession br br the idea that such goings on could be possible might be a shock to some but is a delight to anyone with the perspective of experience br br dr brock scott undergoes a mid life crisis of monumental proportions before our eyes as we and he become enamored with the prospect of his involvement with miss drummond rigg br br the thread of the absurd is woven into this wonderful mix in the form of the irony that the hospital appears to be killing it's own workers as they their affairs in it br br the climax is unpredictable unless you've seen it and made even more hilarious if you happen to guess br br it's not everyone's brand of humor to be sure and has uproariously funny dark moments if you're open to them br br i loved every minute and was delighted to see it out on dvd
1	anyone who has spent time working in a hospital or medical facility has got to appreciate this film the plot is absolutely wild but entertaining from start to finish the acting is superb george c scott is the brilliant doctor but class a failure as husband father diana riggs a sex symbol of the 1960s and 1970s of the avengers saves him from himself the surrounding cast is superb and the dialogue quite entertaining i think i enjoyed the film more on viewing it the 4th 5th or 6th time because i caught that much more of the richness of the dialogue and the interplay of the characters well worth seeing again and again you just won't want to check in to a hospital in the near future
1	another raquel welch classic this picture hit the theaters november 10 1969 starring raquel welch as michele james stacey as joe and luke askew as alan morris nikki is on her way to meet with her girl friends michele and jackie while on her way there she runs into her ex husband who wants a second chance nikki walk away from him goes to the table where she sees michele and jackie alan approaches her again and she starts to walk away when alan shoots her in the back nikki is taken to the hospital while michele and jackie go to the police station michele goes to the hospital where she meets up with jackie only to find that nikki died alan then goes after jackie who he hits with a car and then tries to run michele down michele jumps into her car and heads for los angeles when she gets there she calls lloyd her boss in las vegas to let him know that she was all right lloyd tells her to go to the club called the losers to see jeri about a job however there's one problem the bartender has a drug problem and alan knows it so alan and the bartender have a little talk back in los angeles michele not only gets a job as a dancer with jeri but also hooks up with jeri bouncer joe now some thoughts on this picture this picture was far better then raquel last and this one had nonstop action luke askew did a fine job of playing nikki ex husband he was your typical murder with the look that goes with it as for raquel welch performance the only word that comes to mine is fantastic she was awesome in this movie and her beauty stood out and shined like never before the outfit that she wore on stage to dance was breathtaking in fact all the outfits she wore in this movie were breathtaking of course it doesn't matter what raquel had on because she looks good in everything or nothing i give this movie 10 weasel stars for two reasons the first and by far is raquel welch who's the leading actress and deserves 10 stars the second reason is that this movie was wall to wall excitement from beginning to end
1	this short a formative cartoon featuring pepe le pew concerns a cat who thinks he'll solve all his problems by pretending to be a skunk trouble is he attracts the most unwelcome attention of an honest and for truly skunk our hero pepe entering stage left being decidedly more attentive shall we say than m cat would like every great plan has its drawbacks but this one's a corker i wonder if jack warner got a call from the hays office over the fact that pepe and the object of his adoration were both male after all betty boop was in part responsible for the production code coming into existance subsequent conquests were clearly and most definitely female very good cartoon but pepe is a character who works better as the focal point rather than supporting well worth watching recommended
1	the brilliant chuck jones master of warner bros cartoon comedy brings us the first pepe cartoon an alley cat tired of being pushed around paints himself in the colors of a skunk and with a healthy dose of limburger turns the tables on his tormentors then along comes pepe and you know the rest many of pepe's famous gags were born here including his chase hop in which he hops casually along while his prey runs himself to exhaustion br br in my opinion warner bros cartoons became less inventive and more ho hum in the 50s this 1947 is one of the few examples of mel blanc putting his absolutely crazy voice into pepe's mouth but the kicker is the ending where pepe is revealed to be an american wolf in clothing a must see classic warner bros
1	this is the first pepe le pew cartoon and in some ways it's very similar to the later ones but in a few other odd ways it is not while the object of pepe's affections is a cat oddly it appears to be a boy cat this whole predicament occurs because a cat is tired of being abused by others and dresses up like a skunk and tries to smell like a skunk so it can be left alone unfortunately this attracts our hero pepe most of the action is pretty typical until the very funny and unexpected ending and this actually makes this one of the best of all cartoons in the series excellent animation though the style is different than later examples excellent writing and a good sense of humor make this one a keeper
1	and thus was born the most amorous skunk ever to grace the silver screen while the plot has an abused cat painting himself like a skunk and inadvertently attracting pepe le pew called henry here pepe certainly steals the show no doubt chuck jones realized that this love seeking member of the had that special something necessary to be a star in his own right and so he cast pepe in for scent reasons four years later firmly establishing enduring presence on screens everywhere br br so while odor able kitty may be a place holder otherwise i try to imagine watching it for the very first time in 1945 could anyone have guessed that this supporting character would soon join the ranks of bugs daffy porky and the rest whether or not anyone did pepe remains one of the most likable characters to this day c'est l'amour
1	one day a red alley cat is fed up of being kicked by people and attacked by dogs and muses that life would be better if he were a skunk he then paints himself black with a white stripe down his back and adds a bit of limburger cheese to make him stink at first life couldn't be better for him the dog flees and the butcher abandons his shop letting the cat walk off with a pile of meat just as he is thinking everything is perfect he is noticed by a real skunk not just any skunk but the overly amorous le pew mistakes the poor cat for a female skunk and pursues him thinking his protestations are just shyness our poor cat thinks he has escaped when he throws a skunk skin from a tall building so that will think he is dead at first it seems to work but as he sneaks off sees him and instantly forgets the dead skunk in the end the cat realises he was better off being kicked and attacked than being lusted after by a randy skunk there is a nice ending for the skunk too when his wife finds out what he has been up to br br this was a fairly funny introduction to le pew who back then was just overly amorous but now looks like a randy sexually harassing stalker although he was punished for his behaviour in the end
1	pepe le pew can either really creep you out or totally sweep you off your feet either way you can't help feeling a little awe on beholding this classic wb character this personally believes that pepe was the inspiration behind other would be animated casanovas today from cartoon network's johnny bravo to disney's lumiere from beauty and the beast br br his unique brand of love making is to be wondered at in today's world where his antics would normally be slapped with a sexual harassment warrant and at least a distance from all his victims br br in this particular cartoon a world weary cat decides to do an ultimate makeover and earn some respect for a change for pretending to be a skunk all goes well until pepe arrives and promptly pursues the unfortunate feline with his overwhelmingly enthusiastic love making br br the groundwork for pepe's many trademarks are laid in this cartoon from his adorable love calls to that aggravatingly calm hop chase of his br br this cartoon only goes to show that as far as the world of cartoon fantasy is concerned the most ardent can go the distance and have his beloved pig eon leaving dust trails behind them
1	this is such a fun and funny movie highly entertaining at all angles it features an outlandish array of memorable psychotic but lovable nuts we got the judge the sargent the kid the creepy old lady the slut the clown and unfortunately they all live in a big house that doesn't have any locks and is so for our enjoyment we get to see them run around play games and be dangerous we also learn a lesson along the way never give your patient an ax br br this was before nest and surpasses it at least on the fun level it even has its sweet moments love is pure love is grace love is strength you love me your love is pure you'll always love me now who could resist that nuts are humans too just a few loose wires be a little careful or you'll get an ax in the back children at play hehe br br the telephone repair man was really funny and his reactions to the nuts and bitchy boss were truly genuine all the characters in this film are tremendously well played and i really did find them funny no hilarious they may even give you dirty thoughts of how you can take advantage of them or how they can take advantage of you br br this is actually a very smart movie there is a brilliant twist ending i must say i expected this to be a good but never expected this it is horrific the court has made its decision you are no longer in control i love it the ending is so so perfect you'll shed a tear br br i am so thrilled after seeing a movie like this i will never forget it now it is not just a cult it is a cult classic whatever you do don't look in the basement
1	i just watched this film and i have to say it surprised me it was very well done with good acting and a deep look at high school students from japan in adolescent love br br the look and feel is a lot different from many movies and you can easily get into the film much of the emphasis seems to be in the story itself which is extremely subtle the main theme and relations with other characters are a bit complex but the the overall sense of realism and dimensions still pulls you in br br a main draw back is of course those who like something simple which is not here you have to be open to many things including a new culture to get more into the film br br i did enjoy this film though it is worth watching
1	watching this movie i can't help drawing the comparison between it and wild reeds another thoughtful film about teenagers coming of age br br like wild reeds this movie is slow and the director would not be hurried so if you want a quick resolution to things don't watch it this movie is like a slice of life beginning imperfectly and ending imperfectly there's no resolution to anything no happily ever after for anybody just like real life br br this movie is as real as it gets the acting is surprisingly good the director is fond of long really long shots and the actors and actresses excel at showing subtlety and inner thoughts br br i love this movie i almost didn't watch it but now i'm very glad that i did it's not a movie for everyone but if you're willing to let it grow on you you will be rewarded br br 10 10
1	writing about something so wonderful is completely hard actually it's almost impossible to describe the peculiarities of this movie this is a marvelous story about sex and gender and it's almost unbelievable that we have not to deal with obscene scenes of sex feeling this film was made for people that like to feel and just to feel life in all its complexity in a gorgeous simple way we look at it and something starts growing inside our minds even our hearts it a pure poem i've watched some gay movies and i almost always got really unsatisfied with unnecessary scenes of sex not because i don't like scenes of sex but generally they are so pornographic that i'm forced to think that the director or the producers or the writer of the script thinks that homosexuality means perversion no is totally different from that ones three are the main characters we have ito yoshida and two boys and a girl in a peculiar love triangle ito likes his best friend yoshida yoshida likes and likes ito imagine what this could turn in unprepared hands but in the contrary makes a magnificent story which goes profoundly in the philosophy of life adding a question in our mind that made me think astonished in the end of the movie why and that why expanded in multiple questions inside of my brain and inside of my heart the scenes actually sometimes tending to be boring are moments of the most delightful poem which we are able to feel but totally unable to write down in words and maybe because of that we are unable to understand the question in the end of the movie i'm sure this movie was not made for us to discuss every piece of it… some people want to understand a film almost dissecting it others are so used to common american gay movies that can't appreciate the real value of this master piece watch it close your eyes in the credits and feel everything feel yourself feel the wonderful song for all this and much much more i give a nine and i just don't give ten because ten of ten is perfection but i confess i almost did it
1	no or like of sand is an amazingly beautiful story about teenage boys and girls dealing with the state of becoming one with who they are this movie isn't about homosexuality but it is about sexuality br br an aloof girl will definitely make the viewers ponder who is behind the aloof girl does she love yoshida or does she love ito or did she somehow turn into a lesbian because of the incident i doubt it br br and what about yoshida does he realize that he loves ito in the end well we all know he loves him as a friend but you'll never know once you see this movie haha in the end along with ito delivers an exceptional message to the audience which is that it does not matter if you love a boy or a girl and i have to tell you i'm so dense that i didn't get it at first it's because of the whole no talking scenes you have to try to understand what the characters are thinking and saying through their actions and not by what they say especially the final part whew boy that was confusing it's a confusing story but it is beautiful nonetheless this movie is certainly one of the best japanese movies i have ever seen and trust me i've seen plenty
1	a stunning and thoughtful observation on modern life for youngsters in japan like of sand delves into issues such as rape homosexuality and pubescent angst in a subtle and significant way it gives an insight in to the youth culture struggling to define itself outside of the bounds of their parent's generation with it's strict conformity and facade typical to japanese cinema often what isn't said is more important that what is so to those not versed in japanese film and culture beware it can seem dull and minimalistic pretty much like every film to come out of japan bar if you don't know what to look for i saw it for the first time when i was 15 and was what originally sparked my interest in japan it's culture and language considering i'm now 22 and learning japanese with the intention of living there for 2 years needless to say it's a powerful film enjoy
1	i think this movie is underrated to me it felt like a gulp of fresh air some people complain about the implausibility of the plot overlong sequences and lack of sex the latter being i believe the main reason for implausibility and how come there are no drunken teenagers talking dirty but it's just not their thing and good for them if they can't relate to the story the performances are great i'd really like to see more of the actors in other movies the emotions are genuine the whole unrequited love thing is presented with uncanny subtlety and it does give you the tingly feeling you expect to get from a good movie
1	this is a skillfully crafted piece of cinema that deals with a teenage boys confused sexuality the cut scenes within can be lengthy but the cinematography is beautiful this film would not appeal to many people especially those who are queasy about gay teenage relationships but the more open minded can sympathize with the puzzled protagonist
1	about as hilarious as 50s british comedy can get the belles of st has almost a gag a minute and at 91 minutes makes for a terrific time other films i equally recommend of the same period are the titfield thunderbolt and the green man in fact any film with alistair sim or terry thomas george cole richard or joyce or any combination is a delight in st we get a double dose of sims playing two roles with that hilarious disdain he constantly lets ripple across his face joyce as ruby gates oh dear that name plays her hockey constable incognito to hilarious perfection possibly the best laughs come from george cole as flash harry who comes out of a bush when whistled at and various visits to classrooms by ms sims reacting to explosions 'oh poor betty or science lab gin production just send a few bottles of that up to my room ' every part of the film is funny from the characters their costumes the antics and the setting there were sequels but the first three are the best including this one blue murder at st and later in color the great st train robbery
1	for those of you unfamiliar with sims he is of course the definitive scrooge of all them christmas carol movies me i guess i'm really bad i haven't actually seen the darn thing i guess those who have seen christmas carol and so used to his character might find the bells of st trinians rather surprising you see in this movie sims has two roles one he plays a heavy better and in the other he's in drag as a headmistress for a private girl's school so once you get that through your thick skull this movie offers plenty of delights the plot is deals with the way the school tries to make some desperately needed money through a horse race it's actually a little more complicated for the small kids to handle but i think they would be preoccupied with their antics and with the horses to really notice the adults too might get tripped over all the thick accents being thrown around as well but again the story is reasonably light the action crazy and frenetic for one to really notice ps the kids all look like they come from the eloise school of cuteness
1	alistair simms inspired portrayal of miss transcends drag it is one of the great comedy characters in film equally wonderful is joyce character ruby gates br br this is a movie you should curl up on the sofa with on a wet sunday's afternoon and be transported to a time long ago when terrifying rampaging school girls only gained our respect not our ire i hear that a remake is in the offing with rupert everett as miss he will have a hard job competing with the master or should that be mistress alistair simms br br go and rent it it beats so much of what today goes for comedy
1	nurse charlotte beale the lovely rosie has arrived to dr clinic for the insane prepared for a new job what she doesn't expect is to find another supposed doctor in his position after stephens is attacked by axe wielding maniacal judge oliver w cameron in a running gag anytime he confronts a situation out of his control he retreats to repeating his name that doctor is geraldine masters annabelle who isn't sure about whether beale is a proper fit for their establishment after a long discussion about the position which is quite an awkward scene as the two debate about being sent a letter by stephens getting a job at the clinic with masters often reminding her that he is no longer in charge masters agrees to let her work in the nursing position but the good doctor may not be who she seems br br the assortment of loonies includes sam bill mcgee a simple minded child man who was last victim of lobotomy jennifer warren a woman who needs an adult to comfort her as she wallows at masters' heel like a puppy danny jessie kirby a trouble making annoyance often trying to steal the fake baby of disturbed harriet camilla carr allyson betty chandler a sexy nympho who just wants to be loved and hops at any man she sees sergeant hugh your typical case of soldier who hasn't escaped the madness of war br br the film shows masters' unorthodox methods of running the clinic with allowing the patients to roam free with the doors to all rooms without locks calling into question and not to mention the fact that oliver is still allowed to walk around despite just chopping dr stephens with an axe and what exactly happened to dr stephens ah ha br br tacky 70's drive in trash is a lot of fun if you are into a warped brand of cinema i'm attracted to bizarre flicks about mental rejects because of their unpredictable nature you just never know what the hell might happen especially in this case where they are allowed to roam often unattended some consider the low budget a liability but in the case of this film i think it enhances the experience with the cheap photography and weak production values being shot for peanuts in a run down house in some awful location it seems creepier and i felt like a voyeur peering into insanity through a camera lens on the outside looking in
1	tremendous fun both as a film and as an excuse to sit back and play the 'oh that's name' game every star of the golden age of english films seems to be in this one and it was a joy to see them and the greatest of them all richard was as tremendous as ever br br there is actually a plot that trundles along very nicely there's also some splendid jokes and comedic moments but the key to this films triumph is the characters within it alastair sim is magnificent and somehow convinces you that a six foot big boned scotsman could be the headmistress of a girl's boarding school george cole beryl reid and irene all have their moments but with alastair and richard the star of the show is joyce she is an absolute one off and brings a smile whenever she's on the screen her rolling walk and plum accent done to perfection br br and for those playing the that's name' game you can even spot arthur barbara windsor and ronald if you look carefully
1	choose your fate the terrible tykes of the fourth form playing practical jokes that involve axes or the ummm well developed girls of the sixth form who discovered some time ago cigarettes gin sex and how easily men can be led astray the problem is that one set comes with the other they are all there at st that remarkably easy going english school for girls led by headmistress alastair sim as miss is fond of pointing out in other schools girls are sent out quite unprepared into a merciless world but when our girls leave here it is the merciless world which has to be prepared miss sounds something like a melding of julia child and eleanor roosevelt and definitely has droll and deadpan comic genes br br in the belles of st a sly chaotic comedy from the team of frank and sidney st is as usual on the brink of financial disaster salvation may be at hand however when a rich sheik sends his daughter to join the fourth form and receive a proper english education the sheik also is a horse owner and one of his prize racers arab boy is being trained near the school for a race it's only a matter of time before the fourth form girls form a racing pool and bet heavily on arab boy with miss adding to the pool what funds the school has left much of the fourth form girl's money comes from the gin they make in chemistry then bottle and lower by rope to flash harry george cole a cockney fixer for distribution it's got something i don't know quite what says miss on sampling the stuff but send a few bottles up to my room br br miss however has a brother clarence who by some coincidence of casting also is alastair sim a who not only has placed a bundle on another horse but who also has a daughter and he has placed the precocious arabella in the sixth form to keep him informed soon the sixth form has kidnapped arab boy the fourth form has taken the horse back flash harry has joined forces with miss the sixth form girls are determined that arab boy will not leave the second floor of st clarence and his wearing gang have arrived parents are driving up for parent's day and the ministry of education has arrived in the person of a very proper inspector total war breaks out at st it's hard to say which is more dangerous the african spears or the flour bombs br br alastair sim as turns in a tour de force performance miss is a tall woman with a stately bosom fond of long gowns with embroidered lace and edwardian hats with lots of feathers she takes everything in stride even a fourth former pounding at something in chemistry class and after hearing an explosion a few minutes later the results oh dear i told bessie to be careful with that nitro she is firm in believing that st is a gay arcadia of happy girls sim was one of britain's great eccentric actors other than the sheer chaos of all the little and not so little girls doing terrible things he delivers much of the film's pleasure
1	a really funny british comedy from the mid 1950's about a school for girls the girls are all involved in mischief and mayhem making bathtub gin smoking and gambling alastair sim plays headmistress in a glorious drag role as well as playing brother a female police officer goes to the school undercover to see what is going on this film is funny having great sight gags and alastair sim is great just a classic britsh comedy lots of fun and not too cruse joan sims ans sid james stars of many carry on films play small roles but this film is about the girls it spawned 3 sequels and a recent re make watch and enjoy where it all began
1	there are other movies about boarding schools and the antics of the students and staff but the belles of st towers above them all the plot has been thoroughly summarized by other posters so i won't cover the same ground i just want to say that it's a shame that it's finally out on dvd but in a format that can't be used in the u s br br enjoy fellow fans in new zealand and australia and if anyone reading this has any pull in such matters please help get it released on dvd with region 1 also is it possible to be notified via e mail when i won't say if it is released on dvd in the united states thanks
1	alistair simms is a wonder in this he makes such a good headmistress the role given here for george cole was made for him hence the casting job on this film was perfect i think it was one of those rare occasions where everything clicked the story line was good the comic dialogue a scream and the older prefect girls a delight each character you are endeared to even the villains why can't we make films like this any more basically this is a very english comedy with good movement and fluidity
1	this bright hilarious english comedy about school girl antics is a neglected gem the significant question is where is the audience the film is rated 10 by most voters but how many voters is that they don't make comedies like this anymore because the films don't get distributed or seen i would never miss a chance to see this old art house classic again but where are the art houses
1	this comic classic of english school girl antics is and was one of the great art house classics then the art house disappeared with the arrival of videos and so did the audience for this movie the loss is not to the art houses or to this great film the loss is to those who will never have a real opportunity to view this memorable laugh filled cinematic masterpiece but i am preaching to the converted aren't i who else would search for this flick
1	the first of five st films although the last is usually discounted was based around artist ronald schoolgirl characters and features the wonderful alastair sim in drag as headmistress as well as her own brother much of the humour is dated yet curiously touching and outrageous in today's pc world the girls drink gamble smoke and are later sold off to rich arabs yet always remain in charge defeating bureaucrats police judges and other establishment figures as they across england perhaps because the films have been so regularly seen on tv st trinians still inspires fancy dress parties and club nights the films have recurring characters that include pc ruby gates joyce and flash harry george cole the precursor to the entire series is a charming film called 'the happiest days of your life' 1950
1	so udo kier earned like nine bucks and free food for this so that is a victory in and of itself br br more importantly this movie tells a very interesting tale about a group of salvage guys coming across the broken down i should warn you i'm gunna bounce around through this review real quick so buckle up first thing's first coolio plays a guy named likes drugs finds a bunch of caskets on board and now i don't know anything about the future but maybe they smuggle drugs in caskets not gunna say that was the craziest thing in this movie later on the vampire gets out of his mist filled coffin and then the real hilarity begins first although this movie has the word dracula in it he is actually not in this movie i have a theory though out of the blue you see the salvage crew's ship leave without them my theory is that dracula was on board with his retarded brother dracula told he'll be right back dracula got the hell out of this movie before he could be seen leaving to play the vampire for the six or so minutes he is in the movie the best part of this film and for those of you that have seen this you know what i'm gunna say is after gets sired embraced whatever he has this huge monologue about ejaculating on various parts of erika body and other super cool stuff coolio seriously you are the best thing ever br br some other stuff happens in this movie too like casper van dean gets some work screams a lot and loses his arm and then we kinda lose track of him for the rest of the movie and thank god really we find out erika's character is a police bot as the movie comes to a close we find out that the ship is on a course to ram into the sun the police bot and one other surviving character are doomed rather then avoid certain death erika's police bot reveals she's also a whore bot and they decide to screw each other and die before they die in the sun they die for no reason yep that's right their ship blows up for no real reason br br this movie got the amazing rating for one reason coolio my god if they gave academy awards to black rappers then he'd be the first to get one the only reason this didn't get a perfect ten is because there was not a drop of nudity now i know what your thinking how can you judge a film by whether ladies show their goods or not well easy a movie like this pretty much requires it its part of the process gore gore monsters nudity gore end of movie final shock at the end its the formula this had some gore the monster was awesome because he sucked so hard he actually did us the favor of staying off camera that was considerate of him and i respect that nudity not a drop even though there was a length conversation about well see the above statement and as for the shock twist i certainly didn't see the end coming that counts br br i hope hollywood doesn't think coolio gave this film his all and has nothing left he deserves more work well until dracula 4000 i'm out
1	i rented this movie not knowing what to expect but whoa was i in for a treat br br for anyone who like myself was waiting for a good movie that combined horror and sci fi it is time to rejoice because the wait has finally ended writing acting filming and directing all top notch i hate to admit it but i actually cried at one point when dracula was talking to the crippled guy truly an emotional roller coaster from start to finish the corridors of the ship provided the perfect spooky setting for this tale and the actors were really able to make their fear come alive to me and coolio as a vampire very nice br br and believe me as great as the bulk of the movie was the ending will blow you away i know this movie gets a lot of flack on this site for some reason but i know none of you saw the ending coming brilliant
1	if anyone ever assembles a compendium on modern american horror that is truly worth it's salt there will have to be an entry for sf in asylum horror every time i watch this movie i am impressed by the complete economy of the film from the compact totally self contained plot with a puzzling beginning and an all too horrible ending the engaging performances by what was essentially a group of non professional actors and a sense of dread and claustrophobia that effectively consumes the with a certain inevitability which is all the more terrifying because the viewers know what is going on long before the hero es with the only question being when are they going to wake up smell the coffee br br shot on a dental floss budget in native texas at an old palatial manor that nicely serves as the setting for a private sanitorium don't look in the basement is another intriguing twist on the good old edgar allan poe tome about inmates taking over the asylum just before an otherwise normal outsider unwittingly joins the ranks without realizing until it is far too late that not all is what it seems they are totally cut off beyond any outside help and inevitably find their own sanity questioned as the madness spins out of control the original star trek tv series had a go at this with their whom gods destroy episode from 1968 juan gave the proceedings a peyote fueled mexican psychedelic trip in dr tarr's torture dungeon in 1972 and tangentially related is fernando di leo's asylum erotica slaughter hotel which injects the elements of an unknown killer and an ending that can only be defined as splatter cinema may not have seen or been thinking of slaughter hotel but he sure came up with some similar ideas br br former playboy playmate rosie plays charlotte beale rn in clinical psychology who has just left her nice job as a supervisor at a major hospital to travel way out into the middle of some god forsaken waste right out of a peckinpah movie to work with a dr stevens at his private sanitorium dr stevens has pioneered a new form of therapy based upon basically encouraging the emotionally psychologically scarred to face their inner obsessions bring them to the surface and hopefully rid the patients of whatever has fried their sense of reasoning nice idea but arming a 6ft 250 pound utterly insane man with an axe and telling him to pound out his aggression and then turning your back on him probably isn't the smartest idea and dr stevens is dispatched before ms even appears onscreen with a good whack to the lower portion of his skull br br this event leaves the sanitorium effectively in the hands of one geraldine masters actress annabelle who also served as the script supervisor production manager a woman of startlingly professional demeanor who quickly defuses the situation with the help of sam the film's wonderfully unlikely hero a lobotomized african american played by an actor named bill who was sadly robbed of a supporting oscar nomination for his turn as a mass of muscle with the brain of an 8 year old boy sam's one wish is to have someone help him put his prized toy boat in the water and his continual asking of the various female cast members to do so and his nonstop consumption of chocolate popsicles as some kind of underlying theme though we will avoid such here because the kids might still be up there is also a quick subplot about a staff member who has decided to leave after being threatened by one of the patients but i'll leave the details of that to your discovery br br ms arrives just as dr stevens has been effectively laid to rest and is quickly won over by the snappy professionalism of ms masters who reluctantly allows the leggy young nurse to stay on in spite of the tragedy that has just happened oh twenty minutes ago which you must admit was rather sporting of her nurse beale begins to demonstrate symptoms of not being the sharpest meat cleaver in the drawer however when informed that she shares living quarters with a bunch of maniacs and there are no locks on the doors doesn't trudge off for the nearest ace hardware store to pick up a and to secure herself and we are treated to a couple of truly creepy scenes where some of the inmates sneak into her room do stuff like smell her hair try to kill her with butcher knives and caress her neck with axe heads but that's all a part of working in such a radical psychiatric health care environment ms master's informs her and she goes about her oddly defined rounds that consist of wearing as leg defining a nurse outfit as you can find in a 42nd street fetish boutique and getting to know the inmates br br is a obsessive compulsive nymphomaniac with homicidal who likes to take off her shirt provide the film with some t a between fits of histrionics harriet is a young former mother who let her child die in a stupid accident and now dotes on a beat up old doll that she is also homicidally protective of the is an actual and implied vietnam vet who's negligence led to the death of his platoon and now watches from the window with binoculars for the approach of an unseen enemy jennifer is a fan who couldn't score a ticket to the new year's eve show and went insane likes to scarf down and other when nobody is looking and likewise has hidden homicidal linked to her inability to find a bra judge cameron is apparently a homicidal pervert who became obsessed with his own sense of power and now likes to chop things up with axes ms is an aged poet who serves as a sort of old hag from macbeth before the cat gets her tongue and danny is an insane idiot who was included in the cast as the random element that the plot cannot control and who's antics serve as the real catalyst for the series of tragedies murders that ultimately take place in this dark old creepy house in the middle of nowhere br br the house itself is a wonderful set with a threadbare early 1970's decor that is remarkable in it's with a fantastic use of color achieved by subtle ambient lighting the house is a series of hallways and rooms with shiny brown wooden floors twisting confined secreted closets and passageways leading to the different larger areas and of course the basement mentioned in the title visited only once but boy it sure proves to be a doozy i love the old freezer where sam keeps his stash of popsicles the utterly plain exteriors that remind me of a summer home our family used to visit every year force us to in the heat everyone is covered with beads of and looks exhausted and even the ever cheerful sam at one point begins to suspect that bad things are happening though he cannot understand what it all means and rosie h is too firm in her belief of her profession to even suspect what has really happened and while ms limitations of an actress may have diminished the effectiveness of her big revelation scene she's a great screamer when all hell starts to break loose and indulged of some nice camera shots of her in various suggestive poses or stages of undress that show off what a pretty lady she is without exposing anything more than her contract too bad br br the real show stealer is sam however and fans of what i have been taught to refer to as splatter cinema will not be disappointed by the rather shocking finale and there is something moving about how sam runs to the protection of his friend and brutally kills everyone within arms reach in a matter of seconds that either suggests he was one mean before his lobotomy or the film is cut in any event you won't be prepared for the ending the first time you see it even though you as the viewer know what the score is long before anyone else in the film has put it all together br br except for one person rhea uproariously stereotyped old coot mrs who seems to be inspired by the donald sutherland old woman character from the michael reeves' 1964 christopher lee film castle of the living dead in addition to a rather nasty death by round spike to the eye who not only predicts the future but has the film's most laugh out loud amusing bit of dialogue while on a walk in the garden with ms that runs something like this br br it's really beautiful out here do you get out much mrs asks to which the old woman replies br br it's you who needs to get out br br hilarious and one of those things you gotta kind of see for yourself to get don't look in the basement is available on at least a half dozen bargain bin dvd releases by companies like brentwood home video diamond entertainment and platinum disc corp 's horror classics series i kind of like alpha video's sexily gorgeously decorated 6 release from 2003 br br dig through those bargain bins but make sure you get one with the 89 90 minute print contained therein an older 83 minute version is downright confusing due to some of the and you really need to see the ending credits as intended to bring this sick twisted and surprisingly entertaining yarn to it's end br br masterpiece maybe not compared to the exorcist or rosemary's baby but it is a very uniquely american horror film and a genuine classic of the drive in age that deserves to be rediscovered by anyone looking for something made with more than just a little bit of brain juice and not a penny more than they absolutely needed br br 1 2 out of
1	unfortunately many great films on imdb such as this one have their scores adjusted by imdb this is truly a fine and intriguing film by the accomplished director of bonnie and clyde little big man night moves mickey one and the chase br br if you click in the user rating area you'll see that the actual median for four friends is 7 6 however imdb has adjusted dumbed down the rating to 6 4 br br per imdb imdb weighted vote averages rather than raw data averages various filters are applied to the raw data in order to eliminate and reduce attempts at by individuals more interested in changing the current rating of a movie than giving their true opinion of it the exact methods we use will not be disclosed this should ensure that the policy remains effective in other words we won't disclose our methods so you can't question how we arrived at the score what a shame to see fine thought provoking films like four friends fare no better than lame formulaic comedies due to imdb's filters
1	four friends was first billed on hbo in 82 as a sleeper hit having heard the term 'sleeper' when 14 back then i was anxious to see one boy was i surprised that film i hadn't really fallen in love with a non special effects film outside of treasure of the sierra madre much less a 'hippy flick' but having had grown up with a couple of hippies i understood the power behind mr penn's film four friends is definitely one of a kind the script is so personable and that cast craig wasson defines so well he just personifies the type' to a tee both smart and clumsy the scene at the window and strong yet so very vulnerable for me he captures what it's like to be so taken with that it lasts over a decade and i have always found solace in the character and in the film throughout the 80's four friends was a partner in crime to me and i caught the movie whenever i could on hbo even if i had to stay up until and still always at the end there is a sense of loss when all those wonderful characters part from the viewers on the beach jodi personifies that girl to the hilt it is so hard not to be charmed by her this movie really stands the test of time every once and a while i check out my video of it or show a friend and it still gets a solid reaction i've known women who absolutely fall in love with georgia so many levels just an incredible little 60's piece of humanity very special very magical i recently found the novelization of four friends by robert and it's even more detailed that the movie actual dates of events etc a real find and what's more haha i found the novel while thumbing around in a used book store in omaha ne of all places guess you have to have an eye for her when i was in l a in 92 working as an extra i went into a lil shop and there were a ton of stills from the film unfortunately i was broke and couldn't indulge but boy those photos of georgia and the guys all together just went right through me i met director joe on the set of in ks in summer of 92 and we spoke about four friends very cool also working at a video store in omaha in 98 waited on a female who was a relative of jim metzler told her to pass the word on that there was some kid in omaha who was just fanatical about the film and had gotten the utmost out of it once again the movie captures everything that's in character's heart great great work one of and penn's finest efforts steve is sorely missed an incredible writer duncan br br c
1	four friends is one of those films that you go to without any expectations only to find yourself knocked for a loop you sort of file it away but then you hear the song georgia on my mind by ray charles and images and vague feelings begin to flicker on the edge of your consciousness and then you remember this crazy film which made you laugh and cry almost at the same time br br why is this film so memorable first at least for people who lived through it all because it captures so well the tenor of the times its dashed hopes its successes its sincerity and above all the emotional roller coaster ride that leads to a poignant nostalgia and then the acting is just so amazing all angst and passion georgia as difficult to grasp as a will 'o the wisp but enchanting nevertheless and louis the handicapped room mate with charm to spare who attacks life with gusto and takes each moment with a wry smile because he knows only too well that it just might be his last br br how long has it been since you saw a film that made you really care about the people in the story even if they were far from perfect the film presents you with people whose choices are not necessarily commendable but the film never it just allows us to appreciate the human condition in all its variety even the minor characters have a well defined personality and a history which is why this film seems so real even when some of the actions and reactions might seem over the top because that's the way life is when you think about it and why this film engages you with a complexity that is defined by character truly an amazing and satisfying experience
1	i first encountered arthur penn's four friends late one night on hbo having never heard of it i expected very little but watched because i was interested in seeing what a creation by a teaming of penn and screenwriter steve would be like for the next two hours or so i sat mesmerized watching this incredible teaming of talent and the story they wove a semi autobiographical tale of a young immigrant to america growing up amidst the turbulence of the 1960s four friends follows the story of an eastern european immigrant the brilliant craig wasson from his arrival in the united states through a decade that changed the american landscape accompanying on his journey are his friends georgia the radiant jodi in a role that sadly she has never had the opportunity to equal tom jim metzler and david michael four friends covers way too much territory for me to attempt to explain it here but if you haven't seen this film i urge you to find a copy it's just been released on dvd and watch it you won't be disappointed script is wonderfully poignant — at times funny at times incredibly sad but always fascinating and honest penn directs with a sure hand and an obvious love for the period and the people whose lives we're following the cast is uniformly superb this film should have made a major star out of wasson who is truly one of this country's most wasted talents jodi not your standard brainless hollywood sexpot heats up the screen in a performance that makes the audience fall in love with her character as easily as the characters in the film metzler and subtle performances could easily be overlooked in the shadow of their co stars but they are excellent and help anchor the film also superb are miklos simon and elizabeth lawrence as parents as well as reed birney and lois smith i have not been without a copy of four friends since the day after i first saw it on hbo those many years ago it has been and remains one of my all time favorite films for more than 20 years now i can't recommend it enough and feel if you give it a chance you'll feel the same way
1	this may be one of the best movies i have ever seen it has anything but a trite plot and leaves one wondering which way it will go next it is an interesting portrayal of the struggles of youth youth who are interested in more than immediate gratification youth who show some concern about the desires and needs of others
1	a wonderful movie about people i first saw four friends when it was originally shown in theatres and i've seen it many times since if i'm not watching it when it's on tv i'll get together with friends and rent it invariably the people i've watched this movie with find it enjoyable it deals with friends from childhood to adulthood in the 50's and 60's it's very funny and touching dealing with first love and first sex racism war politics the whole 60's shebang it can also be quite dramatic if you enjoy movies about people this one is definitely worth the time
1	film follows four friends from the 1950s when they're in high school up to 1981 they are craig wasson a yugoslavian immigrant georgia jodi a free spirit david michael who has no personality and tom jim metzler a big strong handsome rugged guy all three of them are in love with georgia but she only loves the film mostly focuses on those two it chronicles their lives love and attraction to each other over the years it also gets into trying to win the love of his tough immigrant father br br i love this film but it's not without its bad points high squeaky voice is annoying but you get used to it the story jumps around very quickly tom and david's lives are never explained tom shows up with a vietnamese wife and kids and david has a wife we never meet until the end some crucial scenes are badly written and there's some obvious pre release cutting probably to keep the film at 2 hours br br but everything else is so good you can easily forget the problems the story is compelling you really get to know and understand the characters and always get caught up in the lives with a few exceptions the script by steve is good in fact was a yugoslavian immigrant himself and based much of the script on his own experiences all the acting is great especially and wasson also reed birney throws in a strong likable performance as louie college roommate and lois smith is very interesting in her role and look quick for mercedes ruehl and glenne headly br br basically it's a real great story about immigrants coming of age love of america and covers the 50 80s perfectly br br this film was unjustly maligned on its release the studio didn't know how to advertise it it is a hard film to market and the critics stomped on it pauline review in the new yorker was particularly harsh it barely played in theaters i was lucky enough to catch it in 1981 in its short theatrical run and has simply disappeared that's a shame this is a movie that is just ripe for reissue i'm not betting on it but you never know a definite 10 all the way
1	that maybe someday people will wake up to people who can resist the urge to separate each and everything and who see the 60s for what they were people who can see that it was the individuals who made those times not the other way around br br the forrest gump comparison is a good one both films look at the 60s but four friends is about human beings as opposed to caricatures ff delves deeply into the very thing that quite successfully tries to condense and classify as nothing more than a backdrop but while gump files the 60s away in an attic like old toys in a box four friends picks up and embraces each toy thus blurring the lines between what you hold dearly and what you are br br if you associate romance with shoe polish you'll hate this film
1	a great look at the 60s through the eyes of four friends from their student days in 1960 to their reunion 10 years later a yugoslavian immigrant in love with the american dream and struggling to cope with the often violent reality a prematurely balding undertaker's son a soldier and the crazy hippy girl they all love good direction and a strong cast do justice to steve brilliant script the dialogue isn't as snappy as in breaking away but the themes of growing up and father son conflict are dealt with just as well and there are still a few wonderfully comic moments among the shocks and drama
1	this is one of the best presentations of the 60's put on film arthur penn director of bonnie and clyde and little big man saw that steve outstanding script rang with truth and from these two talents comes solid cinema jodi georgia miles gives male viewers a hit of pained nostalgia for the archetypal beauty who is almost within our grasps but always just out of reach just see it or you cinematic education will be incomplete
1	charlotte beal arrives at an isolated country mental hospital to become a full time nurse there she is confronted with a motley group of crazies and a seemingly crazier supervisor is dr masters all she seems to be br br don't look in the basement is one of the best low budget movies in the genre and why people always put it down is beyond me the acting is excellent my favorite performance being by betty chandler as allyson the nymphomaniac the chills just jump right off the screen you probably won't have to say it's only a movie it's only a movie it isn't that scary but it should appeal to any horror fan who respects the low budget horror genre which i do it is very hard to make a creepy film on a low budget and few actually succeed axe is another cheap film that is looked down upon maybe people are so spoiled by the big budgets of recent films that any movie that doesn't have excellent effects and or isn't considered a classic doesn't have a chance with an audience but i think that after people see this movie they will see how important the low budget horror genre is and this movie is a classic that stands out among the other rubbish
1	i was so moved by this film in 1981 i went back to the theater four times to see it again something i have never done for another film no movie evokes the feelings of growing up in the 60's like four friends that it so closely my own experiences in the 60's is probably something that many will share jodi is radiantly beautiful and unforgetable why she didn't become a major star after this i will never know the acting by the entire cast is flawless as is steve script i always wanted to know how much of the story was autobiographical but alas steve is no longer here to answer that question i have all but worn out my vhs copy of this great movie highly recommended
1	will some company please make a good dvd of this film aside from being a wonderful film about relationships and friendships four friends is the only film i've ever seen and i have literally spent years of my life watching films that captures the essence of the 60s experience and i was there the idealism the hope the freedom the confusion the betrayals and ultimately its upbeat but bittersweet denouement and all of this is accomplished without being a story about any of the numerous upheavals of that era although many are just touched upon as part of the tapestry but the story is primarily about the characters and their friendship over about 10 15 years and that those survived and deepened despite the tragedies of that turbulent decade absolutely a joy and must see film even if one's not an old hippie
1	i haven't seen this film for over 20 years but it had such an impact on me that i remember sitting through the credits and for several minutes after in complete awe this is one of the most underrated films of the entire decade in which it was originally released i just ordered a copy of it on dvd and paid for overnight shipping and can't wait for it to arrive it is uplifting at times and also very dark and somewhat disturbing it's a story of a close knit band of regular kids growing up in the inner city and makes one feel as though they are actually sitting on the sidelines rather than watching on a movie screen or television hard to explain but it is something that must be experienced the story starts at childhood and tracks the lives of the four main characters through high school and as they embark on their separate journeys in life the entire cast did an incredible job and it's by far the best work of jodi career i'm hoping that the dvd lives up to my memory and plan on watching it this friday with a good friend
1	what a great movie it's a touching story about four high school friends who grow up in the 1960s throughout the decade the friends are somewhat separated but they to see each other occasionally there are many tragedies but there are also a lot of happy moments that make you laugh and smile it's a heart filled tale of life love and friendship definitely a must see for drama fans
1	this is one of the best presentations of the 60's put on film arthur penn director of bonnie and clyde and little big man saw that steve outstanding script rang with truth and from these two talents comes solid cinema jodi georgia miles gives male viewers a hit of pained nostalgia for the archetypal beauty who is almost within our grasps but always just out of reach just see it or you cinematic education will be incomplete
1	behind the nostalgic music we see a young boy get off a train he is arriving from yugoslavia to meet his father a man he has not seen in a decade at the train station we meet the man he never smiles br br thus we begin our journey into four friends arthur penn's powerful and amazing film you may ask why i began my review that way well that is the way the video box describes the film you may have figured out that the film will be the story of the boy trying to get along with this emotionless man and eventually he will peel away at his cover and expose the kindness br br well if you bought that i've got a bridge i want to sell you you see modern hollywood would make that film penn has always been an outsider and has never resorted to typical cliched storytelling he always tells interesting stories about people his credits include bonnie and clyde the chase alice's restaurant and the underrated mickey one and four friends is no exception br br a typical hollywood film would focus on the boy who is named but steve script only focuses on that for about 4 minutes and then abandons him we meet the adult played by craig wasson whom you may recognize from body double and nightmare on elm street 3 and his friends tom david and the passionate georgia the movie takes us throughout the sixties now in a lesser film the events would receive the attention but in four friends these events happen but penn and is more concerned with character study than plot and i think the film is better that way we know the events we don't need to dwell on them again br br i know i haven't described much of the plot but i don't know if you can describe four friends it's not one of those high concept films that can be described in a single sentence it's a film of many moods and textures it's also a genuinely emotional experience the final twenty minutes of this film moved me to tears i'm not ashamed to admit it rarely does a film have such power that it can reduce me to tears the acting is first rate especially by craig wasson who seems to be one of the most underused actors working today this is such a difficult emotional performance and wasson pulls it off he should have received an oscar for this another great performance is by jodi who has an even more difficult role than wasson but she handles it extremely well and gives georgia a certain dignity most hollywood actresses wouldn't they'd be too scared to even try they'd be more concerned with image rather than giving a great performance that's not what acting is about she also deserved an oscar br br four friends didn't receive much of a push in 1981 maybe people just didn't have the emotional capacity to handle it and clueless executives couldn't push it as another american graffiti it lacks the wallop of four friends so they let it die too bad for this is one of the very best films of the 1980s a decade where more and more slick trash was created and great art like this was without a home i ask you to give this film a chance br br out of 4 stars
1	someone definitely has it in for the wind and i cannot believe that what i saw on the screen has much to do with it this is a better and more solid movie than most of the independents i watch all year long the cinematography displays a genuine love and mastery of the craft and the casting was just fine i would love to see more of these folks especially zeke br br as far as the story and script i'm not so sure that the negative comments preceding this post were written with the intent of informing anybody else about the movie the long drawn out nit picky bashing posts that must have taken hours to compose and are the only comments ever left for any movie on this site by the reviewer are obvious slander directed at the producers of the film i don't know the inside story but it would probably make a good movie what i do know from being around this biz is productions that try to make everybody happy usually end up being awful and when the filmmaker has the guts drive and common sense to kill the babies someone always ends up with hurt feelings that's part of the biz too and one of the finest learning tools available to those truly dedicated to making it in the movie business of course the failures have nothing better to do than to sit at home and write false reviews on the internet as a form of vendetta against those that snubbed them read were honest and truthful with them and that is my best guess to explain the nasty nasty reviews in as much as there is a grain of truth behind everything there is a point to be made but these exaggerations of the are so over the top that they become obviously fictitious br br it's not a slasher blood bath if that's what you're looking for it's more the psychological suspense thriller which typically is not appreciated by the lowest common out there the best way to see this movie is to try to any pre conceived notions pop it in and let it unfold seriously characters are defined by their actions and words and when you see what these people do and what they say i don't think you can come away with the conclusion that these characters were poorly developed poorly understood perhaps br br overall i do agree that this is a nicely done compelling movie perhaps i would not have given it a 9 under normal circumstances but the severe negative comments actually attracted me to the picture i have a secret love for really bad cinema to me the ratings below 5 should be reserved for the shlocky inept poorly acted and stupidly written movies none of that applies here it is quality movie making with some real talent in there i gave it the nine to to tip the scales back in the correct direction watch the movie and tell me i am wrong
1	first of all despite the low rating on this site i saw something quite worthy in this film and will gladly defend it and no i'm not connected to the crew in any way br br i came across the dvd of the wind by accident and had this strong feeling that it wasn't going to be quite like the video packaging described so i took a chance and was pleasantly surprised by this strange very different drama i'm assuming the dvd marketing and summary were the work of home video to hook a rental or sale the tag line love comes in many forms was changed to terror comes in many forms sure smaller films' rentals and sales depend strongly on grabbing a person's attention especially if they've never heard of the film before a similar case happened with the film the item that's probably what is working against this release as horror fans read the description of an ancient wind carrying with it omens of the apocalypse it's easy to think that that is what this film is all about and will turn some college students in the story into crazy savages that go on a killing spree thus at the time this review was submitted is most likely the reason for the lower rating on imdb i can understand people becoming upset and thinking they were fooled by that summary seeing the apocalyptic intro but then experiencing a dark drama i can forgive the marketing choice since i enjoyed the wind and thought it was a refreshing change of pace from major hollywood offerings it's just that if the intended audience was given the attention more might voice a higher rating br br the wind in this film is basically just a metaphor for society and is the story of four friends who make some bad choices and how their lives quickly turn into ones of desperate self preservation after going too far in a to one of their own a death occurs and each person tries to save his her own standing manipulation between them becomes the norm and by the end we see how self preservation becomes their main motivation over good judgment civilized to savage basically this is very apparent throughout by noticing that the use of a knife branches as clubs fists and kicking are instruments of violence instead of guns these characters are in a way doing all the wrong things for the right reason just to stay on top of the situation since they've already taken things too far while there are many implied violent images it's interesting to see that there is an absence of cussing and nudity br br what works in favor of the wind are the unknown actors bigger stars were originally intended but i find it works better when you have lesser known capable actors this way you can get into the story without sometimes thinking oh that's tom cruise for instance instead of an actual tormented person dealing with an extraordinary situation even unusual conversations like between mic and billy in a field and mic confronting claire in her bedroom hold up well and feel quite natural in the strange universe of fairview which has cozy homes a forest and wide open fields i kept thinking of the calm landscapes concealing darker secrets in the reflecting skin which director michael mentions as an inspiration in his commentary br br the wind manages to get messages across without being heavy handed about it br br sure if you look carefully you'll see many symbols and dialogue that other directors would just pound you over the head with i even understood the infamous kissing scene between claire john and billy within the context of the story without being surprised it happened i am still amazed at how some people guys mainly who complain about two men kissing in a scene would obviously have no problem if the scene were of two gals kissing instead all is handled nicely here and additional viewings will make things more clear without making you groan and say oh man how did i miss that things sink in gradually and i appreciated that or you could listen to the dvd commentary as well for more things revealed br br for those of us that got the intentions of this film the wind is a breath of fresh air no pun intended in a time when most films are made in order to just make money and be heard knocking other films out of their box office competition standing when mentioned on entertainment tonight or cnn br br years later it's always the great little discoveries like the wind that stay in my mind not processed star driven blockbusters br br get past the marketing ploy from home video and you just might find this an engaging story indeed i strongly recommend it to friends that seek out unusual films like this one
1	zeke mic is great you totally believe his character and it's scary as hell i spent half the movie covering my eyes the other half on the edge of my seat it's cool to see something this suspenseful and frightening that isn't all blood and guts but it did give me bad dreams br br basically this is a great movie see it the first chance you get
1	the best independent film of 2001 i went to see the wind at the recommendation of friends who caught it at dances with films festival in la last summer it's a great scary well made film the score was amazing can't wait to see his next movie
1	you'll either love or hate movies such as this thriller set inside a lonesome asylum in a far off lonesome land it's not so much of a horror show but a concoction of frightening and mental patients scream is the best term to use in what was obviously a popular drive in classic noted for some strange and wicked behaviors notice the judge who's about to put on the ax from behind the doctor r r r not much else can be described here other than some bloody tasty goodness but when you get a chance remember the familiar old saying by the hag lady get out get out and never ever come back don't you wish you haven't looked in the basement
1	i had borrowed the three sarah movies from a friend and had watched them while sick in bed during one weekend i thoroughly enjoyed every one of them i enjoyed how the last movie gave a glimpse of what caleb and his sister were like when they grew up in addition i liked the carry through of the billy boy song that first was heard during the credits of the first movie the title sarah plain and tall however the one thing in winter's end that i didn't like was the youngest daughter she was a very cute little girl but she just had too much spirit and looked like a brat compared to the other kids even compared to talkative but still good natured caleb when he was younger
1	i love sarah plain and tall winters end its such a good movie it tells of the hardships of living on a farm i live on a farm so i know what its like to have hardships br br i love the setting in kansas its such a beautiful place my favorite country star is from kansas i love the country in kansas its just so beautiful i would love to live in kansas br br sarah plain and tall winters end i think is a love story i love love stories they are so fun to watch i like to watch them because it is nice to watch people fall in love falling in love is not as hard as most people think i've fallen in love once sarah plain and tall winters end is my favorite love story
1	jack palance john was usually a bad guy in most of his films and in this film he showed his great acting talents above and beyond my expectations john unexpectedly returns to his son's farm after years and years of separation christopher walken jacob has a hard time trying to accept his father's appearance after he spent the night in the family barn jacob's son and younger daughter greet their new grandpa and accept him just as he is a very old man at the end of his ropes glenn close sarah delves into the character of john and starts to bring out the truth about what happened to him during his years of absence from the family this is a very warm and loving down to earth film about real events that happen in most families for generations to come and go
1	sarah plain and winters end was the best movie i have ever seen the person in the story that i liked best had to be cassie played by emily osment just because of her energy and how she speaks her mind for example when anna calls from town cassie wants to answer and she says hello anna guess what grand father was lost but hes back now and he is not a good man i loved all of the sarah plain and tall movies for my rating i think sarah plain and tall was 3 was 2 winters end was 1 if i could live in any family from the past it would have to be the family i think there are so many good parts in this movie i can't name all of them i think they picked the best and perfect actors to play all these people in the movie so if you ever want to watch a movie from the past i would highly highly highly recommend sarah plain and winters end
1	excellent story of lives that need repair one of those rare films that i could watch with my 7 and 8 year old daughters glenn close was excellent in the title role it was also nice to see christopher walken in a more normal role
1	what a joy to watch this family grow up and see the same children acting in this series eight years later anna lexi randall is a beautiful young lady working for a physician in town she is in love with his son justin who went away in the army and was injured in war and the newest daughter of jacob and sarah cassie is an outspoken cutie so transparently honest she often is embarrassing br br on a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm he is slow to reveal his identity when they find out he is jacobs father john thought long ago dead hard questions about the past are difficult to get answered br br glenn close is magnificent as a loving mother who wants only the best for all her family and is constantly wrestling with the forces that tend to separate them sarah talking to jacob said it's all so fragile this life anything can happen in the blink of an eye i could have died in that blizzard think of justin and john probably more ill than we know time moves on the moment passes then it's too late it's a shame don't you think br br life lessons on honesty and forgiveness make this a meaningful evenings entertainment
1	glenn close is back as sarah plain and tall a woman who keeps a family together through the good and bad times the acting is superb christopher walken unusually non spooky as her husband once again delivers a top notch performance it's good to see young christopher bell all grown up too bad we don't get to see much of anna lexi randall also a few years older but the new addition to the family played by emily osment was very welcome and finally jack palance as the long lost patriarch is as fine as ever
1	i don't ever remember reading sarah plain and tall in school but when my son told me about it and said they watched the movie in class i wanted to see it too i borrowed the video from the library and watched it as a family it was a wonderful story however i didn't know until a few months ago that there were sequels i finished watching those this week i discovered one small oops in the second movie jacob is reminiscing when he was a boy and tells sarah my brothers and sisters and i would dream in winter's end those brothers and sisters don't exist in conversations between jacob and his father but it is a very small oops and i only caught it watching the trilogy the second time around great movie a must see for good wholesome family viewing
1	i enjoyed two of the three movies in the sarah plain tall trilogy this the final of the three was definitely one of the good ones it is an excellent family film with wonderful acting by the three adult stars christopher walken glenn close and jack palance br br the storyline is simple but well told the only sub par performance was by one of the kids it was interesting to see how the kids had grown since that first movie br br of the three that initial sarah was the best filmed with some beautiful cinematography this movie didn't have that but it had the best story it had some genuinely tearful sentimental moments and a very nice ending br br highly recommended
1	i've seen this movie a few times and with each viewing i still feel the excitement of embarking on a journey and the frustration of trying to overcome the barriers that impede the path it's more than a mere desire of finding home it's about the very basic human spirit of finding one's way in the world of overcoming despair of facing the character foibles that deter our goals underlying these human endeavors is the challenge to reconsider the origin of life while this film is imbued with serious ideas it has just enough comedic lines to leave the viewers hopeful it is surprisingly funny the execution of the story line is excellent this is all packaged with visually engaging animation a must see br br
1	if you love drive in cheeze from the early '70s you will just love this one how could you go wrong with a low budget film about bloodshed in a lunatic asylum you can't crazy folks and sharp objects are always an entertaining combination br br the film looks like it was shot inside someone's house for about 65 for me that just ads to the fun of watching this type of stuff the gore is a bit mild compared to others of this ilk but there is enough to keep us bloodthirsty sickos like myself happy some horror films drag in parts and leave you waiting for something to happen that's not the case here the characters are entertaining enough to make every frame quite enjoyable there is never a dull moment from start to finish the mind melting climax at the end that is just unbelievable i liked it so much that right after the end credits i watched it a second time it's an absolute must see for any self respecting drive in horror nut br br 9 5 10 on the drive in freak o meter required viewing br br yea i love you i do love you now take your thorazine and put your clothes back on please 8
1	i am not a movie maker but i know it is hard to tell a story and draw people into it in only seven short minutes i think a good movie is one you don't want to end eric did a great job of developing the charater of the and making him seem human loved the music and the voice used for the i am looking forward to seeing what eric has in store for us in future films this is one movie i didn't want to see end great job
1	anderson's animation easily rivals that of pixar and goes well beyond most anything i've ever seen disney do while some say the story is a bit too abstract i find it a thought provoking and refreshing change from the exaggerated characters and bumbling animals typically found in animated shorts it's an interplanetary version of castaway anyone who has left the safe harbor of home and gone off to a lonely frightening place by themselves will readily identify with this forlorn excellent work mr anderson br br
1	i'm not a movie maker but i do know it is hard to tell a story in seven minutes and draw your audience into the character horses on mars does this and more when you are watching a good movie you don't want it to end this is how i felt watching this film it is visually expansive and the takes on such human qualities that you feel you are on the journey with him br br really looking forward to see what exciting adventures mr anderson takes us on in the future well done
1	in the history of cinema every great film maker had to create a first film many times when viewed after they have become a success a light bulb goes on in our heads the connection is made and we see the solid foundation from where they started so it is with horses on mars it is the subtle humor woven around a seemingly straight forward narrative that tells a great story but allows you to enjoy the visuals at the same time in the imagery i found great attention to detail and a production polish that is rare in any student film br br a young film maker always has improvements to be made but if mr anderson continues on this path i think we will someday look back on this film as the beginning a great career br br you should definitely view this film nothing beats the grandeur of the big screen
1	horses on mars is an engaging animated short that takes a sometimes comical look at the process of evolution through the eyes of those yet to evolve the story is personal and at times sentimental and is supported by strong digital animation and narration that involves the viewer in this science fiction story i was fortunate enough to view this short in widescreen format at the 2002 sundance film festival and must suppose that when transferred to the small screen it will lose some of its ability to draw the reader into the no less thoughtful story and stunning graphics
1	horses on mars is a wonderful journey taken by very small creatures it doesn't have to work hard to hold your attention and the characters are truly memorable most of the credit must go to eric anderson for his choice of visual style and for writing an interesting story but credit is also deserved by for the narration and the wonderful music score these choices were obviously not an accident if you can see it in 35mm scope for the most impact it is quite a beautiful film
1	i have seen over 2000 studio era sound films including lots of judy garland lena horne shirley jones and deanna durbin's own universal features plus a decent amount of live and studio recorded musical comedy and opera and i assure you no one tasked with singing in front of a camera and microphone or maybe anywhere ever has ever touched durbin's solo here mono soundtrack and crap 1930s microphones and all the kid from canada sings this bit from il bacio like she lived and wrote it herself and then happened to show up for a retrospective in italy late in her career not like a child who learned it from her music teacher br br if you skip this extra on the dvd or skip ahead to the garland solo you are just depriving yourself since this cheap mgm teaser just happened to capture one of the greatest performances of the 20c
1	having previously seen this short on vhs tape with the feature summer stock i just rewatched every sunday on the tcm site it marked the film debut of 15 year old deanna durbin and of 14 year old judy garland outside of her two older sisters these two teens showcase their musical talents with a solo from deanna of il bacio then one from judy of waltz with a swing before the two climax with americana the slight plot of this 11 minute film concerns the possible unemployment of durbin's real first name which is the way she's addressed here grandfather's conducting job at the park because of low attendance with the two girls' help you can probably guess what happens from there contrasts are marked not only with garland's and durbin's musical choice but also with their height poise and movement despite all that they perform quite well at the end and it's almost surprising that m g m chose garland while durbin was already contracted at universal as this short was made but was briefly allowed back in since her feature debut three smart girls was in the early preparing stages judy herself would make her first feature parade at 20th century fox as m g m was deciding what movie she would next star in that would be broadway melody of 1938 where she would perform the show stopping number dear mr gable you made me love you but back to this short every sunday provides a warm and wonderful glimpse of two star singers at the beginning of their legendary careers unaware of what the future holds for them
1	as has already been noted the short film every sunday 1936 could be considered the first music video this was a happy accident resulting from mgm's need to crank out a variety of short films for exhibit with its feature length material they had a couple fresh young singing talents judy garland and deanna durbin available and essentially slapped together a blend of music styles in a kind of norman rockwell concert in the park setting br br who would have dreamed at the time that they would capture the best collection of images since eisenstein's odessa steps sequence br br it's sunday with some inattentive folks sitting around a small wooden band shell in the park while a tired looking ensemble play strauss events unfold and the next sunday judy and deanna save the day the operatic deanna sings il bacio the kiss and garland follows with the contrasting waltz with a swing the climax nicely blends the two styles into a duet of americana br br a must see br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
1	every sunday is an eleven minute short subject featuring the talents of two of its young juvenile contract players a pair who would develop into players of note in the future it's interesting and entertaining to see the contrasting styles of judy garland and deanna durbin as they perform at a sunday concert for deanna's uncle br br of course no one knew how big both of these young ladies would get to be i've always wondered why mayer kept garland and let durbin go to universal l b always had pretensions to culture and this was the guy who had jeanette macdonald at his studio and later on hired such lovely soprano voices as jane powell ann blyth morrow etc br br judy certainly had her glorious career at mgm but she paid a heavy price for it deanna along with abbott costello and several gothic horror monsters preserved universal pictures she was smart enough to get out at the top and make it stick br br so in their salad days deanna durbin and judy garland
1	i was unsure what to expect from driving lessons unsure whether rupert could carry such a role but within the first few minutes i was completely hooked all the way through the music acting and scenery were absolutely stunning julie walters as always gave a superb performance as the eccentric old actress and rupert equally as good gave a fantastic performance as the romantic ben br br right from the beginning i was forced into involuntary cringes bursts of laughter and of joy as ben broke free from his controlling mother and fought for his friendship with his only friend a very controversial story probably rather exaggerated but none the less one of the best films i have seen in a long time br br highly recommend to anyone seeking a good british film and an evening to kick back and just enjoy yourself
1	this one reeler produced by mgm in 1936 showcases the talents of two of its young stars under contract judy garland and deanna durbin in a way these short films were promotional trailers that featured new talent in front or behind the camera felix feist directed this one which was a way to promote the two talented stars to the public br br the story is simple enough the orchestra that entertains in a public park every sunday doesn't get the attention it deserves enter two music aficionados judy and edna who love to hear the band play conducted by one of their grandfathers two of the town's elders sensing there is no public for this type of entertainment have decided to cancel their sunday concerts in favor of a more popular orchestra that will attract a wider audience br br the two girls embark in a promotional tour of their own doing what they only know calling and running errands and being helpful to their neighbors in exchange for a promise they will attend the park concert next sunday well that day comes and to their surprise hardly anyone comes as the music starts the two girls decide to take matters into their own and ask the conductor to play a song for them to sing the result is clear people all over the park flocks to hear the talented young singers thus ensuring the orchestra's existence br br of course the only attraction of the short film is the inspired singing by the two stars who are wonderful in their rendition ms durbin's operatic voice blends well with ms garland's natural one creating a lovely duet br br don't miss it whenever it shows on tcm
1	is correct that this little short is just an excuse to hear a very young judy garland fourteen years old singing with a slightly older by one year deanna durbin but i must disagree with everything else he or she said including the running time which is only about ten minutes not twenty a single reeler br br the song is not her best obviously but it's enjoyable and definitely worth the ten minutes to watch on turner the duet with durbin is quite interesting two conflicting styles that nevertheless dovetail reasonably well br br the short is just a throwaway but it's nowhere near as bad as the other reviewer made it out to be honestly i enjoyed it br br ab hugh
1	although little more than a pleasant 11 minute musical diversion it's rightly billed as a tabloid musical every sunday is one of the most famous and precious documents in cinematic history since it provides an invaluable look at the burgeoning talents of two of the screen's most talented and beloved musical performers deanna durbin and judy garland br br although often cited as an screen test of sorts produced by mgm to test the adolescent appeal of studio durbin and garland whose options were reportedly coming up for renewal this assertion is not entirely accurate by the time every sunday was produced in july 1936 deanna durbin's contract with mgm had already lapsed and she had been immediately signed by universal a month earlier in june 1936 br br however a provision in durbin's mgm contract permitted the studio to exercise an option on her services for up to sixty days providing she had not yet begun work on a picture at her new studio as durbin's debut vehicle three smart girls was still not ready to begin filming mgm chose to exercise its' option and although officially under contract to universal at the time durbin found herself back on the mgm lot filming this agreeable short subject with fellow adolescent singing hopeful judy garland br br this along with garland's far more extensive prior professional performing experience training which included appearances in several earlier movie shorts may explain why every sunday often seems to favor judy garland over deanna durbin giving garland more lines to speak and an original song americana to sing while durbin offers the popular classical art song il bacio by luigi certainly it would make perfect sense that mgm would want to favor one of its' own contract players over another from a rival studio br br ironically although garland's character is the more overtly pro active one of the two girls in this short it would be durbin's feisty and impulsive little miss fixit screen persona at universal which would propel her to instantaneous worldwide super stardom as the world's first teen idol with her debut vehicle three smart girls while garland's more passive wistful wallflower adolescent image would see her generally cast in supporting roles opposite frequent screen partner mickey rooney and in ziegfeld girl the up and coming lana turner not until her fifteenth mgm feature for me and my gal which was also her first fully adult role would garland achieve the solo above the title billing and solo attraction status of a true superstar that durbin had attained instantaneously six years earlier br br it is entirely inaccurate therefore to assert that garland was the only superstar attraction of the two girls as durbin attained this status with press 'n public almost a decade before her mgm rival literally in foreclosure at the time of her signing the on screen evidence strongly suggests that universal was much quicker to realize deanna's full superstar potential than mgm was with judy and it's worth noting that almost every notable accomplishment garland achieved at mgm from superstar billing to having starring vehicles specially written to showcase her talents and appeal to being invited to plant her footprints in the forecourt of chinese theater to receiving an honorary oscar in recognition for her talent deanna durbin received well before her gifted mgm contemporary br br in any case every sunday is a delightful utterly unpretentious musical short its plot line durbin and garland use their singing talents to save durbin's grandfather from being forcibly retired by the town council from conducting his sunday concerts in the park presages the plot lines of both garland's let's put on a show musicals with mickey rooney and durbin's 100 men and a girl unlike garland's later babes films the short never treats the insubstantial storyline seriously and consequently its' eleven minute running time flies by br br of course the true magic of every sunday is in observing the already remarkable performing talents screen presences of durbin and garland at the very beginning of their legendary careers both girls even at this early stage possessed remarkable screen presences and are utterly natural and unaffected in their presentation as both singers and actresses garland fairly explodes off the screen with vitality as she literally punches out the lyrics to the jaunty americana as she socks across the number with appropriate hand gestures judy literally seems to be chewing on the words of the song as she screws up her mouth and bugs out her eyes in her intense eagerness to show what she can do br br by contrast durbin's presentation of il bacio is far more demure and subdued although entirely appropriate for her classical selection durbin's delivery of waltz is much more of the traditional stand 'n sing variety than garland's physically emotive turn nevertheless though miniature diva deanna does nothing to call attention to herself with her candid eyes dazzling smile and artless delivery she easily holds the screen with jazz baby judy and their delightful duetting of americana in the short's finale makes one regret all the more that producer joe pasternak was never able to realize his dream of pairing durbin and garland in a musical feature film because universal refused to loan number one asset durbin out br br a priceless document of the nascent talents of two remarkable and utterly unique talents see this one if you get a chance
1	i'm very surprised that so many people don't like this movie i think it's a lot better than most of the teen films that have come out recently ten things i hate about you can we say teeny bopper film and what was with the principle writing those porno novels cruel intentions where a character gives up their virginity because of a fun car ride and she's all that mediocre if your looking for something that's just fun i say go with never been kissed my mom loved it and she hates movies one of her favorites is beaches this is a great fantasy about what you would do different if you could go back to high school people who were outcasts in high school will probably like this movie better it reminds me of and high school reunion' and the ending puts me in the best mood sure the plot has been done but how many recent movies can you honestly say haven't been done in one form or another the cast is also charming and for those who think drew can't be geeky she pulls it off just great another good teen comedy that i recommend which was made recently is election but it's more of a satire on school and politics
1	there are worse ways to spend an evening than watching this movie although it is a tad predictable drew barrymore does a very good job of being the outcast nerd in this film excellent casting choice what i found a bit hard to believe is that the popular girls finally accept her in my experience that crowd has a longer memory than that and knowing how awful drew's character was ostrich feathers at the start of the school year would have kept them miles away regardless of what rumors her brother drums up and does food really make him all that popular i doubt it as for rooting for drew's character to win big as a reporter well i would have hoped she could have come up with a story long before the prom a bit contrived having said all that it was a piece of fluff that will be entertaining as long as you don't expect too much
1	i think that never been kissed was a totally awesome movie the casting was really good and they acted very well i really like drew barrymore and of course for me it was excellent i was scared at first because it said that it wasn't coming out on video boy am i happy that it is because it's a beyond cool movie go see it if you already haven't
1	it doesn't matter whether drew or leelee are total babes but there are a lot of girls who are so pretty and hot but they appear to be so nerdy this movie is not oscar type of movie but it has at least a good point of view of what life is like for young people or for real people it made us laugh and learn to accept others for who they really are this movie represents the real world and that what really matters
1	drew barrymore is such a great actress when it comes to these kind of movies she stars wonderfully and gets away with the quirks and jokes romantic comedies like this suit her and i believe that she's done her best so far check out her other romantic comedies you'll see what i mean
1	after seeing this movie i came to the realization that drew barrymore is a great actress this movie wouldn't have been watchable without drew the fact that somebody as attractive as drew could actually gross me out and she did when she was josie her attempts to transition as the cool girls called it were hilarious especially her trying to dance at the night club br br we also had snl favorite molly shannon playing a great part as anita best friend one of the funniest scenes in the movie was anita trying to teach the class sex ed this was one of mollys funniest performances and best br br leelee sobieski also had a great part and i really felt for her because i know people like her that got tortured like that br br this movie is a must see for drew barrymore fans because drew makes the movie
1	women will like this movie better than men of course women like all romantic comedies more than men on average i generally like romantic comedies quite a bit however i considered this a 5 5 for the first 50 of the movie and about a 6 5 for the next 40 and about a 9 for the last 10 so begrudgingly i will rate it a 7 i tape and keep all movies rated a 7 or better and none that are a 6 or worse at least that's my objective i have over 1200 movies so why keep the dogs br br my wife liked this movie quite a bit more than me though i'm not sure why i am a bigger drew barrymore fan than she is br br the whole point of this movie was about a young woman who goes back to high school undercover to write a story about the high school experience nowadays she was a dork in high school the first time around and has to learn how to be cool the second time around her journey toward as well as her falling in love with a teacher is the story br br what drove me nuts for the first half the movie was just how mangy she looked i wondered why they would pick her for this role until i realized how capable she is at looking like a dog so much so that i truly don't think i want to see her in 15 years when she gets up in the morning argh naturally she transformed into a rather attractive cute woman by the end and she became very popular br br the ending is about a 9 9 on the very sweet scale so you out there will like that otherwise it isn't very memorable and easily missable
1	i had to get this movie since it didn't come to where i live i waited patiently and it was worth the wait i totally fell in love with this movie the chemistry between walters and you could see since they also worked together on the harry potter movies the woman who plays his overbearing righteous mother really had me convinced all right and how much of a hypocrite she is i think she did a great job playing the role i only wish we could of had seen the actually sex scene or more of it lol but of course we just have to use our imagination on how it went down snickers i totally thought the movie was worth the wait and if you want a good movie to watch rent this movie i do have to say that rupert really did a great job and it's nice to see that he's doing movies outside of harry potter even though i totally love him as ron the whole cast did a great job and i hope rupert continues to act outside of harry potter to broaden his skill
1	this often maligned movie is a must for fans of blake edwards julie andrews henry mancini or hollywood musicals other writers have commented on the shifts in tone the confusion of plot etc but the film has many things to recommend it the score is one of henry mancini's best and he has written many wonderful ones several songs are sung to perfection by andrews julie's performance is nuanced and she is decked out in some beautiful clothes she is at her absolutely loveliest here the on location shots are breath taking and there are some funny inspector clouseau type sight gags to boot rock hudson basically phoned in his performance but he is passably good a real curiosity item in that it was the last major film julie did for about 10 years and in many ways is a precursor to victor victoria it is lovely to look at and listen to when will it be available on dvd when it is i for one would like both versions the longer and shorter director's cut since it was lampooned in s o b they would make a great two pack
1	i just saw this movie for the second time with my 8 year old daughter and i remembered why we liked it the first time all these people who say it is bad are too uptight and critical it is simply an entertaining little movie it's not supposed to change the world i thought all the actors did a great job with their characters except for jeremy jordan as guy he was a maggot who looked seriously in need of soap and shampoo if he is supposed to be the hot guy in their school then they've got slim but i digress drew barrymore was delightful as usual and david arquette was even enjoyable and i usually can't stomach him if only because of those stupid at t commercials molly shannon is always entertaining and leelee sobieski did a great job as a tortured brain some parts were actually painful to watch reminding me of high school even though i thankfully didn't get made fun of it made my heart ache for those who do movies like this are actually good for children to see my daughter made several observations about the cruelty of some of the students and how wrong it was this movie is appropriate for anyone and a good way to while away 2 hours if there's ever a time you want to see a lighthearted little movie with a happy ending where you don't have to think very much then this is definitely a consideration
1	drew barrymore gets second chance at high school on undercover assignment as newspaper reporter in flashbacks we see that the first time around was to put it mildly a major disaster david arquette is amusing in modest role as drew's brother who also enrolls to help out sis lots of subplots endanger but never overwhelm simple charm of movie drew keeps making her niche as major innocent sexy light comic actress
1	i thought this movie was great not only because of it's storyline but because it was portrayed greatly by the excellent cast i read that drew barrymore wasn't exceptional as josie geller because she is beautiful yes she maybe but in the movie she played outside herself which brought on a plain girl searching for who she is in the world the story is sweet and definitely for the hopeless romantics out there i for sure am david arquette is mad as her brother rob and michael vartan is gorgeous as sam coulson leelee sobieski did an excellent job as her mate someone who wasn't afraid to be herself i think this movie should get more credit rather than being branded as a teeny flick
1	this movie may superficially appear to be flaky and for teenie boppers it seems to be the stereotypical high school movie but in fact it takes an honest and touching look at the high school experience it doesn't propose some unrealistic ending where the geeks and the popular kids reconcile it doesn't change what happened in adolescence it just attempts to reckon with it this is a really great fun heart warming movie good for teens and for those who can still remember being one
1	this movie turned out to be pretty much what i expected of course it's sappy of course it's predictable we all know the fairytale but knowing that when you go to watch it it's enjoyable enough to watch it was funny and sweet i did find it annoying that they showed geeks as either kids who didn't wash there hair or kids who loved math and joined clubs about math and wore t shirts about math i was an outcast in high school and i didn't do these things it goes much deeper than that having to do with many things some of that being how much money your family has how much you are willing to hide your uniqueness and how mean you are willing to be to other kids anyway i won't get into it i don't agree with other opinions that drew isn't convincing as a geek with braces no make up and unwashed hair i don't think too many people would be drooling over her and even when she goes back to high school and sheds those things she's still wearing the wrong clothes wrong hair and has the wrong attitude to be considered cool and her other geek friend may be beautiful but it doesn't matter where i come from you can still be an outcast and be beautiful inside and out
1	'never been is a real feel good film if you haven't seen it yet then rent it out i am going to buy it when its released because i loved it drew barrymore is excellent again she plays her part well i felt i could relate to this film because of the school days i had were just as bad i thought the plot was well written there was comedy and romance which are the type of films i love i loved the ending because even though you know what's going to happen it still leaves you sitting on the edge of your seat waiting anticipating
1	there is little more that i would like to say about this movie than it really can touch your heart if you let it sure it's surrounded by all the stereotypical hollywood stuff but i found myself actually engrossed in this movie and very interested in the outcome i'd recommend it to all you romantics out there in a second
1	i love this movie it focuses on both issues reality and fantasy reality because hey we all wanted a date from that popular guy billy and some of us haven't been kissed yet right be honest br br another real issue is because of the pain people gain from teasing and whoa high school life remember it the fantasy is finding your true love when you're 25 and still in high school not really fantasy but close enough br br although some parts are unbelievable it was a great movie there are no other words to describe such incredible work and the story was wonderful drew barrymore did a charmingly wonderful job same as the hilarious david arquette the people who worked in the movie are all wonderful didn't i just repeat that br br never been kissed is one of the movies that the later generations should watch it shows reality and some not issues for people like you and me
1	of course really experienced reviewers who like stuff like star wars and professional crap will definitely drag this movie and say really bad comments about it but really it is enjoyable teen comedy with an awesome story and good acting br br josie gellar played well by drew barrymore is part of a news reporting team and she has been offered a 'real' job she has to go back to school and find out what teens are like these days well this goes alright until josie remembers her horrible time at high school and gets freaked out but she's never been hip never been cool never been popular until now br br sit back relax and enjoy with never been kissed br br
1	i saw this movie for a first time years ago when it was still new and i was satisfied it's a great hollywood make belief story for teenagers however it's not lifelike as much as you would want to believe it these stories never happen that's why it is irritating to watch movies like that they play with teenagers' minds just imagine how many girls still in high schools believed in that magic and got disappointed i wouldn't recommend this movie to my little sister or my cousin the director should have spent some more time thinking about the plot instead of thinking about actors yes they actors were good but the idea isn't worth a 10 there are a lot of films about teenagers so why don't we make a better one
1	i had never heard about this film prior to coming across it as i was perusing the shelves at a local rental store having just watched the latest harry potter installment i was intrigued by rupert and wanted to see more of his work reading the description on back about an overzealous evangelical christian do gooder and identifying as an evangelical christian myself i thought should be interesting and so it was i found mr brock's story beautiful in both words and images and sadly enough all too familiar the contrast he drew between ben's parent's interpretations of what it means to be a christian was a poignant commentary on how christians view themselves and the impact that perception has on those around them on the one hand we have ben's mom stating whatever happens behind these walls ben we're god's ambassadors we show the world a smiling face on the other hand is ben's dad discussing truth in his sermon at the beginning of the film at the end of his monologue he states the more a person parades their christianity for the benefit of others the less i am inclined to trust the christianity they claim god tells us true faith is the freedom to choose truth now how you express that the way the manner the means at your disposal these things are of no consequence be you christian or atheist unless in your heart you are true if only our churches were full of christians who to this latter definition of what it means to be a follower of jesus rather than the former what a difference that would make as a christian and a psychologist i would want an imperfect yet authentic faith over a perfectly polished image any day what a tragedy – to feel like i always need to play a role when really i just need to rest in the freedom of being completely who god made me to be i think mr brock provides a refreshing glimpse of what this freedom in christ looks like i recommend this film for anyone who desires a fresh look at faith
1	i thought this movie was really awesome one of drew's best i am also a fan of michael vartan so i thought he was so hot in this movie why all the bad reviews i would want to watch this movie over and over again if i could i also loved the ending this movie clearly has shown a smile on my face i was also surprised that james franco and jessica alba were in it i love them both so i also highlighted this movie at the end when drew is making the huge comment about the truth it really told the truth of what sometimes happens in high school again the movie was amazing defiantly a 10 10 hope this comment was very useful to any imdb readers
1	josie is a reporter from a newspaper is set a task to go back to high school as she is going to be 17 again br br as she is there she remembers some really awful stuff thats happened to her the first time she was in highschool as we see in flashback scenes br br in the flashback they show that little spoiler josie was kind of a nerd in high school and was picked on a lot and one day the cool guy tells her that he is taking her to the prom only on the prom night as she leaves her house she gets egged by the ass hole and his bitch what a horrible thing to do some will find this hard to watch as it so nasty and it will make you feel warmer to josie br br i did not find this movie that funny but there was some really funny stuff in the office scenes a lot more funnier then anything that happened in the school br br this movie did have the perfect happy ending as it did bring tears to my mum and sister eyes the acting in this movie was not outstanding it was good for the most part of the movie there is some poor acting in some parts of the movie br br i going to give this movie 7 out 10
1	i love this movie so much it always makes me cry if you appreciate drew barrymore half as much as i do you'll love this movie it's got all the essentials i look for in a movie it has good actors good characters good humor a lot of heart warming moments too the flash back moments when we see josie in high school make me cry though every single time i'm sure you'll like this one don't judge based on the fact that it looks like a teen movie even though it is in a way a teen movie sure if you're a guy and all you watch are hardcore special effect movies only in the top 250 movies of all time then this isn't for you but if you like romantic comedies you will not forget after seeing it pick it up at a video store and enjoy drew barrymore is great in this one
1	never been kissed starring drew as reporter josie gellar is a sweet extremely sappy and sometimes quite painful tale of a timid woman named josie gellar who though brilliant is quiet and shy and has never been kissed by a man she is assigned her first major news story for the newspaper she works for to go undercover as a high school student befriend the popular cool kids and get a scoop as to what really goes on in the world of high school only problem is josie has never been popular high school was in fact a traumatizing experience for her as she was the recipient of quite a lot of teasing and cruel jokes josie grabs this assignment as much to finally fit in as to get a scoop what she finds is the major premise of the story br br never been kissed is one of those movies that's so sappy and schmaltzy at times particularly in a few scenes at the end that the limits of believability are sorely tested and many a cynic may not like this movie it is however very sweetly done drew is perfect as the bumbling yet lovely josie she breathes a breath of fresh air into the character and makes her appear perfectly realistic i also enjoyed leelee as the intellectual student who befriends josie on her first day at the school br br never been kissed has some really funny moments as josie unravels in her frantic efforts to be cool example the reggae bar scene i also loved the appearance of brother rob who also goes back and signs up as a high school student the way that he helps to give josie her dream of finally fitting in is just hilarious at the same time as woeful story of her original years in high school are shown in flashback it is extremely painful you do not need to have had similar experiences in high school to josie to be affected by her story drew is wonderful at making her character have a personal connection with the audience and we adore josie from the beginning br br there is a lot of mean girls a 2004 release in this movie but mean girls honestly was a lot grittier never been kissed becomes very much a romantic pic as josie develops feelings for a certain man and the question becomes will they get together br br i liked this movie it was really beautifully done in some areas the movie is corny in some places yes the last scene realistic no way does this movie manipulate your emotions in the most obvious hollywood way oh yeah yeah yeah baby but it manipulates beautifully there are some lessons to be learned here the movie never preaches but manages to paint an accurate picture of what high school was like for a select few i have actually met people who have had similar experiences to josie i've met people very much like all these characters i think a lot of people simply don't know or can't conceive of the cruelty that can exist in the world of high school and how hurtful it can be but it's there not unrealistic at all what struck me was drew's speech at the prom as she demonstrates the sheep mentality that can exist so as hollywood and manufactured as many think that may be it was well done and very true br br i'm making never been kissed sound a lot heavier then it is in truth this is a perfect movie to pick when one wants a sweet feel good light heartwarming picture it's engaging sweetly acted and just rufus i'd say check it out 8 of 10
1	never been kissed gives drew barrymore the chance to do something that maybe 70 of us would like to do go back to high school and make some necessary corrections actually the first time for me was bad enough and at my age i doubt i could pull it off the way drew does br br of course the reason could also be that once we leave high school it's like leaving a cocoon and we have to deal with the great big unfriendly world out there i've known a few in my life who would go back and stay if they could in fact there is a law and order episode which explores the dark side of this same situation a girl looking young enough to pull it off goes through high school at least three times and kills the person who stumbles on her secret br br with drew though it's an assignment she's a copy editor for the chicago sun times who yearns to be a reporter publisher garry marshall who plays the part like donald trump took over the sun times gets this brilliant idea and just sees in barrymore a young enough looking person to pull off the masquerade br br high school the first time was bad enough drew was not the most popular then and she's not doing better the second time around that is until brother david arquette also goes back to school and helps her over the rough patches br br of course this raises a whole lot of issues for drew peer pressure from two sources job and school what's a girl to do br br never been kissed is a light and charming comedy which to its credit skips over the opportunity to be crassly exploitive and gives us some good entertainment drew is very funny and sweet and her performance in moments of stress for her character moves nicely into pathos michael vartan as her english teacher is the kind i wish there were more of in the education field and leelee sobieski and jessica alba play a pair of the empty headed cool kids that drew tries so desperately to hook up with br br still it doesn't inspire me to return to high school
1	i saw this when it first came out and have seen it several times since i have the dvd it's one of drew barrymore's best works and one that is worth seeing more than once br br not being popular in high school was one f the things in the film i could relate to i wasn't quite as tortured as josie was during her real high school days or like but i was never the go to the major party type either the prom scene were the three popular girls fall victim to their own prank as josie pushes way the intended victim is my favorite scene and i clapped when i first saw it br br i can still watch this movie today it is excellent
1	i can't say that i embrace this as a romantic comedy as i found little funny about it i did find it endearing entertaining heartwarming and terminally sweet and while there were some witty moments i found them more bittersweet than outright comedic br br i liked this one barrymore has grown so much as an actress and it's always wonderful to catch her on the big screen but this translates well to the small screen too in fact on subsequent viewings i like this one more and more br br if you're a fan of the romantic comedy then you may be a bit put off by lack of comedic effect with this one but if you're in it for the romance it's definitely here to be found br br it rates a 7 8 10 from br br the fiend
1	very sadly i can relate to this movie as i'm 17 and have yet to be kissed so i really feel for josie it's been a while since seeing this film but to write this review i re watched it and remembered everything i loved about it br br drew barrymore is a great actress and this role suited her really well at the time the chemistry between sam and josie was really good and michael vartan was an excellent actor in this br br i loved the storyline too as i said up there i could relate and it's rare you find a film you can completely relate to br br all over i loved it 7 10
1	this is a truly hilarious film and one that i have seen many times drew barrymore is brilliant as josie geller as is david arquette as her brother you cringe with embarrassment at the thought of her returning to high school as the film is a reminder of what high school was really like her outfits are wacky and weird and it brings back memories of those who dressed a bit differently the gorgeous michael vartan was adorable as the teacher wish there had been teachers like that when i was at high school and boss is fantastic this is a film you could watch again and again with a fabulous sound track one for all those at school in the 90's to watch
1	i think this movie more than any other shows what a great actress drew barrymore is because she plays a ugly duckling in high school which is something i never imagined her being a great flick with lots of laughs i don't usually go for those feel good movies but i really enjoyed this one
1	i thought this movie was cleverly written and very well acted its a movie that greatly surpasses other films in terms of originality and enjoyment rupert played the part marvelously and has a general knack for the acting business the almost obsessive mother added quite a lot to the plot and was a character one could almost instantly loathe this reminded me in a way of the divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood not by means of actual content of the film but the premises and overall tone to the film itself driving lessons is a coming of age story which many might find very easy to relate to due to the overpowering mother the lack of freedom and the discovery of oneself
1	i loved this movie not as great as 50 first dates but it's definitely a especially on a rainy day or with a group of girlfriends yes the plot was cute and maybe even unbelievable but what's so bad about a feel good movie drew as josie and her romance with the teacher is so sweet and brother baseball wannabee adds to the movie's good feeling with all the junk out there what's so bad about a good movie the whole family can enjoy without being embarrassed while watching with your kids drew is an awesome actress that really seems to be unappreciated for the most part this is definitely one of her best roles
1	i'm not sure if these other people saw the movie some apparently couldn't follow the complicated plot he's a billionaire who owns an oil company who also happens to big game hunt wow that's really far fetched any way his new drilling machine happens to break through a glacier and on the other side is a world seperated from our own time where dinosaurs and cavemen wander around nothing ground breaking about this but it certainly isn't ludicrous anyway the rest of the movie is about this t rex they find which the billionaire boone claimed was there hunting them and them hunting it look it's an old made for tv movie of course the special effects look cheesy they didn't have cg they did the best they could and for a they did a hell of a job for the time this movie should be remade for the big screen i'd love it and i'd be the first one in line seeing that dinosaur with modern day special effects stalking those guys would be great
1	this movie is kind of good it seem that they used the tyrannosaurus rex like a blown up balloon just like godzilla just maybe back in those 60 70's days scientist haven't got enough info on all sorts of dinosaurs back in those time scientist still making dinosaur so i guess this movie was base on a tyrannosaurus rex movements back in the 60 70's there even a part where a giant rock fired by someone at the tyrannosaurus rex it damage the tyrannosaurus rex and it was knock out for a little while at the end the tyrannosaurus rex went back to search for food there is something wrong in the movie as well like a rifle how can one rifle kill a tyrannosaurus rex when it could be 1 000 5 000 stronger than we are if this film going to make a remake i suggest make it more good and excited because watching a old movie seems like to have a remake of it if lucky
1	great cult flick for mst 3k types richard boone is a mess bad hair arthritis even his dark glasses aren't right about as good as a bad dino flick can get actually that charging saber toothed was pretty cool maybe spielberg should take a couple of notes from that one
1	i guess this is the first movie that made me aware of the term cult flick it is totally a bad movie but i can't help it i like this movie richard boone has made better and so has joan van arc but if you are in to staying up late and watching movies that don't make you think to much this one is for you
1	once a wise man from india once said first they will laugh at us then they will hate us then they will fear us know that yes this film's budget was a bit off but even then with its story still takes our interest many yrs later regardless of how it may have looked but know soon in due time thrust will arise to the big screen once again then he and the new redesigned t rex will more then shock you it will scare many for centuries to come this film is in current pre production and will be nothing like anything you have ever seen before br br this will be beyond thx format right into 4 dx format br br be afraid be very afraid
1	i was 9 when i first saw this on tv on a friday night i remember the full page ad in the tv guide with the picture of the rex amazing how some things stick in your mind after 30 years anyway if your a kid who likes monster movies this one is entertaining enough especially with boone and keats raging at each other special effects are no harryhausen but its worth the hour and a half if you find it somewhere on late night tv haven't seen it in a few years for some reason these classics fade from cable tv if you do catch it on late night don't be too critical just grab some snacks and enjoy it it might be cheesy but i thought it was a lot better than the kong remake that came out in the theaters a year before
1	the last dinosaur is a film that is meant to be fun and exciting it succeeds at doing both br br is a big game hunter who hunts big game go figure owning a company he is planning on going on an expedition with a group of people including a photographer named frankie a japanese scientist a guy who works for his company named chuck and an african guy who has aided him on many named bun ta the point is to study what is believed to be tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur that killed the last expedition to the area they will be getting to this prehistoric area taking a drilling vehicle that travels underwater called the polar after getting to the area they soon find the tyrannosaurus which tries to shoot but his gun gets jammed chuck immediately senses that wanted to hunt the dinosaur all along to add it to his collection of stuffed animals while they were away tyrannosaurus invades their camp and takes the polar away from their camp upon returning the group realizes that they may be in the area longer than they expected and states that he will kill the tyrannosaurus br br the story is great for a science fiction film drilling to a prehistoric area is something that seems could really happen the scenery is beautiful and it looks like a place where dinosaurs could still reside br br also i liked the characters in this film is the typical big time hunter who wants to get anything that could be a trophy kill also great was bun ta played by luther formerly of the nba who really looks and acts like an african tracker jackie is the typical female who causes problems for the group and seems to not belong in the wilderness chuck is the former employee of who has his view of his boss change when he is in the wild with him br br the tyrannosaurus in this film is one of the best in a film it stands a little too up right like godzilla does and it drags its tail so it is a guy in a suit but the suit looks good especially the head and the tail and the tyrannosaurus looks good and very scary i have seen plenty of other films where dinosaur suits look way worse tyrannosaurus in this film sometimes emits a roar sounding like godzilla's and other times roars like king kong from king kong escapes and king kong vs godzilla so a great tyrannosaurus br br there is plenty of action in the last dinosaur of particular note is a great fight between tyrannosaurus and triceratops also a great scene where bun ta tries to spear the tyrannosaurus there are other great parts that i wont give away you have to see for yourself br br i recommend this film to everyone watch it and you will not be disappointed
1	stupidly beautiful this movie epitomizes the 'so bad it's good' genre of films br br the only two talents in it are richard boone and joan van ark and only boone is any good it's kind of sad that the man who rose to fame as should wind up in this ugly pile of celluloid while he turns in a fantastic performance i couldn't help but feel that he so outclassed all his fellow actors in this piece that he shouldn't even have been there br br the effects in this film are laughable but fun the idea of a dinosaur being buried in the wall of a cave and suddenly coming to life is b movie gold when the gets killed watch how it falls it's clear that the stunt performer in the front of the costume knows the timing best he falls to the ground well before the back half of the dinosaur follows suit br br speaking of there is nothing good to say about the purple tyrannosaur in this flick it seems to have some kind of stealth technology since reputed to be the best tracker in the world twice fails to notice it until it's within biting range of him i don't know how all the prints are but in the version i own the roar contains godzilla's trademark bellow br br this is loads of fun to watch if you like bad movies i love them and especially bad monster movies so i consider this the gem of my collection if bad movies are your thing definitely get this one
1	the last dinosaur was one of those out of nowhere movie of the week films in the 1970's that was pretty exciting for the time especially to fans of japanese films originally slated for a theatrical release around when the dino king kong was out in the previous december it was suddenly pulled and made into a friday night abc movie of the week rankin bass who were no strangers to japanese co productions were the guns behind this production co produced with productions of japan the people who brought us in various forms starring mostly an american cast including the late richard boone joan van ark and the late steven keats it told the tale of a prehistoric pocket of time in what was a volcanic somewhere at the frozen arctic circle containing dinosaurs it plays a lot like the films the land unknown 1956 and the land that time forgot 1975 in feel and pace sure the dinosaurs were guys in suits a triceratops with front knees but they were filmed in such a way the music and score was so well done and the cast did a fine job that this didn't matter much to many of us brought up on godzilla the film has a lot of class to it from the opening score by nancy wilson the last dinosaur to the overall big feeling of the film the locations at hot springs in northern japan were excellent and lush and the undeniable feeling of kaiju to it there are some amazing set pieces the t rex's bone yard and a tracking shot that takes us deep into the jungle to see the t rex eat a giant fish from a stream fx people did their job in style here and aside from a few dodgy matte shots they do their job well this film is considered the best 1970's kaiju film from japan even over the five godzilla films made during that decade rankin bass did several other co productions with providing the creatures or miniatures the bermuda depths 1978 and the ivory ape 1980 but neither measured up to the epic look of this film
1	i thought it was going to be a lousy movie honestly i mean rupert ron acting in a movie different from harry potter was actually really difficult to picture it but as the movie started it showed that this guy does have talent i mean is the best actor of the hp trio for reference have you seen emma watson trying to act or what about daniel's acting both lack experience even though they have acted in a million harry potter movies ben his character is a very shy boy incapable of showing his true feelings about everything his despise about his over ruling mom and the resentful anger towards his father who is unable to step up and confront his unfaithful wife julie walters was absolutely brilliant her interpretation of an old retired actress trying to live with the shadow of her past while she tries to remember shakespearian is absolutely wonderful also it appears that many youth is wasted in religious nonsense acts
1	prepare to meet your messiah they call him thrust male role models have become increasingly difficult to find in today's overexposed society every other day an apparent role model is forced to tearfully apologize for a youthful indiscretion or he innocently gets a few youngsters drunk on his ranch the last dinosaur is the story of the last great hunt of thrust an old grizzled big game hunter who serves as role model supreme despite his haggard features and bulbous nose the females including joan van ark are attracted to him like meatloaf is to cheesy lyrics thrust is openly sexist and makes no apologies for his elaborate lifestyle which includes a red kerchief and a private jet with a working fireplace br br thrust embarks on a mission to find and hunt the last dinosaur on earth when ironically after a rich full life he is truly the last dinosaur despite his propensity for yelling at everyone in his presence his employees and lady friends are unwaveringly loyal to him he may act as though he's perpetually drunk but make no mistake if he calls you a you are a br br not to be denied his own ballad song shamelessly praises him and his manliness a sampling of lyrics includes few men have ever done what he has done or even dreamed what he has dreamed few men have even tried what he has tried most men have failed where he's prevailed the world holds nothing new in store for him and things that startle you and me are just a bore to him few men have ever lived as he has lived or even walked where he has even banned artist clay aiken could belt out those lyrics and become an rump kicking machine br br thrust and his crew of scientists strap themselves into the wearing mini bike helmets though thrust affords himself the luxury of the red kerchief around his neck the giant human filled drill bit digs through the earth and ice to come popping out into a lagoon dinosaurs from the air and land soon descend upon the scientists forcing thrust and crew to run for their lives after narrowly escaping a charging dino lays back and blasts out a hearty laugh not so much to celebrate life but to acknowledge 'the game is br br soon after it is little surprise that we see a few slightly hunched over cavemen sneaking peeks at their visitors thrust not content with simply killing a dinosaur decides then to make it his mission to bag a cave broad throughout the movie the lone t rex contradicts the belief that dinosaurs have a brain the size of a peanut despite its enormous size the local t rex is able to up next to its victims virtually unnoticed with the element of surprise t rex simply crushes a scientist or two and the campsite every so often the bloated and faced thrust is seen yelling at someone shooting at something or flirting with a primitive j lo in manly fashion br br thrust is like james kirk not only in his addiction to love but also when is comes to making complicated weapons using limited natural resources in a short period of time thrust and the remaining crew members construct a highly accurate catapult that flings a large boulder into the skull of the cunning t rex upon realizing that even he thrust cannot top this addition to his trophy case thrust decides to stay in his prehistoric surroundings the ever dwindling crew then leaves thrust to live out his days with his lovely although a bit gamely cavewoman and introduce her to his personal collection of stds this is only a brief synopsis of a movie so complicated and rich in tradition that it takes several viewings to absorb its message and realize that thrust is the answer the press conference complete with a yelling thrust mumbling reporters and the introduction of the great is a classic moment also look for a body resembling a dead ricky schroeder lying on some logs and the most powerful use of someone being called a in cinematic history
1	i have read a couple of reviews of this film which has recently been released on dvd by eclectic apparently the opening titles are letterboxed but the remainder most is full screen the first release in 1982 by planet video is completely letterboxed though it was a primitive release it did get the compositions right later releases had sharper and better picture quality but they were fullscreen as the dvd is any release of this film should be letterboxed as it adds significantly to the visual experience of the old planet tape
1	surprisingly good film made in the wake of the exorcist concerning a young woman who becomes possessed by a spirit after she goes to a de sanctified church to restore a life size and life like crucified man the piece was christ and the two thieves however christ was long ago sold off trouble starts once the figure is removed from the cross and it seems to come to life and seduce the woman from that point on it becomes a battle for the girls soul creepy scary and much better than you think the film works because its cast sells the events which are decidedly adult it helps that these are real people who are flawed so its easier to relate to them i really liked this film and seeing it again for the first time in at least a decade i was shocked at how good it is definitely better than any of its myriad of schlocky titles makes it seem
1	released in english under many titles and the eeriest of them certainly is the eerie midnight horror show is one of the best italian rip offs of the exorcist to really appreciate this film you should have a sense of humor is at the same time sleazy but naive pathetic and sometimes even moving br br stella an art student goes to an old church to see the statue she's going to restore it's a wooden statue of christ a demonic christ maybe already overcome by evil or fighting against it or perhaps planning dark deeds the face shows infinite torment the statue dates from the 15th century is impressed by the mastery shown by the sculptor the statue seems almost alive she lives with her parents her mother love lives a dissolute life and doesn't care too much for keeping up appearances her father mario chris observes everything with disenchanted eyes br br the wooden statue will soon assume a human form ivan rassimov and possess in the carnal and spiritual sense an amazing scene the poor from now on will suffer the torments of hell br br the lovely stella was ravished violated possessed by the devil and now following his orders she will try to seduce others ain't she emulating her sleazy mother love who feels great pleasure when her lover whips her with a bunch of roses there is a scene so ridiculous as to be sublime and moving when stella runs in despair through the narrow streets possessed by the devil remember of a small italian town screaming her heart out luigi pistilli is a very good exorcist his performance is as usual intense the exorcism scenes the final battle are very very amateurish but this will only enhance the fun and or emotion if you've really got a sense of humor br br stella is beautiful and looks fresh and innocent and that's a factor that adds to your pleasure when she's naked but i think that the film could have explored more her natural beauty love is a very good sleaze companion her nude scene with the roses well br br other italian exorcist rip offs i would like to recommend for you are br br very sleazy and released uncut and digitally restored br br evil eye the exorcist was the main source of inspiration for evil eye but others films like for instance rosemary's baby should also be taken into account evil eye is completely over the top not that sleazy but with plenty of gorgeous italian and spanish actresses you'll be drooling all over the film the film is ridiculous the story doesn't make any sense but if you see it in the right mood you might feel moved a diabolical sect possession murders despair love investigation and beautiful women all around a wild ride br br if you liked evil eye see also ring of darkness this film can be found in the alternative market search this title in the imdb there are good reviews about it br br p s has many different faces it's exploitative but it can also be serious and moving it's cheap cheesy sleazy but not that much and it has an underlying moral message this strange brew can sometimes be very funny we all already know that is an exorcist rip off so why can't we see it on its own terms yes mario gariazzo was trying to earn a fast buck but he was able get the most out of a shoestring budget the story is well told the film is atmospheric and overall the actors are committed to their roles see the film with an open mind and you may discover two or three new things
1	italian soft x exorcist clone br br woman buy statue of crucified thief said thief comes to life and turns out to be the devil with rape fantasies br br ivan rassimov plays the devil brilliantly mostly due to his gift of evil looks and because he was never above doing nudity good on him br br the actress in the lead did a decent job her wide eyed innocence and the fact that she looked great naked helped br br this one has a similar plot element to most italian horror films the girl's parents are filthy rich and depraved watch it to get the details br br laura gemser's husband gabriel also appears as a random stud his part is basically phoned in but like a cheap beer it did the job br br fault the director for its failings this could have been a horror sex classic
1	also known as the tormented or the or the ridiculously titled the eerie midnight horror show is a forgotten exorcist rip off which contains one of the best horror moments i've ever seen the scene is when the crucifix comes alive this great spooky scene is unforgettable and totally effective great fxs it's a shame the rest of the movie doesn't maintain the level of creepiness exemplified during that scene br br this is one of the most frustrating movies ever imagine the producers deciding to to make an exorcist copy but while making it they actually succeed in creating something truly original a possessed sculpture of crucified man which is shocking when you think about it but then completely forgets their original idea in order to make a boring and uninspired exorcist rip off had the film continued with the possessed sculpture concept with the characters trying to destroy it etc this film would have rocked but once the girl becomes possessed by the spirit of the sculpture she never tells anyone from where the demon came from she and the script completely forgets the haunted crucifix which is stupid br br if you like so called euro cult movies the first 45 minutes deliver unlike any other euro cult movies but after the scene when the girl has a vision of being crucified and she gets the remaining 45 minutes suck boring it goes nowhere fast as it tries to emulate badly the exorcist so watch the first 45 minutes of and enjoy the 1970s fashions the sleaze and the amazing statue comes alive to ravish the girl scene but after the first 45 minutes press stop and eject and might as well go clip your toenails
1	it's true that this is not realistic story but romantic comedy is not a genre that i look to for realism what counts is that the characters are likeable and as needed sexy shalom is beautiful and relaxed and jake weber is handsome in an offhand kind of way they have enough chemistry to make the story believable in the area that counts sexual attraction i would love to see either of them in another movie and yes the clown is pretty cute too
1	cherry tells of a naive unmarried virgin who decides to have a baby but isn't quite sure how to go about it this easy going little sleeper is full of quirky characters and tongue in cheek situational humor fresh fun mold breaking stuff i happened to really enjoy this flick for whatever that's worth recommended for lovers of romantic comedy who want something different
1	i watched this movie thinking it was going to be absolutely horrible and was ready for all the corniness bad special effects etc but i was pleasantly surprised not to say that it's the best vampire movie i have ever seen but it certainly isn't the worst i liked the whole alternate reality dream state that played into the movie the graphics were quite well for a straight to dvd movie and i liked the overall look of the film i enjoyed the main character sai i usually end up hating the female leads but there was something about her that kept me interested yes she does make some bad decisions but that was to be expected yes the other characters were stereotypical but i was expecting that too i don't know if i'd highly recommend this movie but give it a chance and you might be pleasantly surprised i'm putting this one on my guilty pleasures list
1	i gave this movies a 7 out of 10 i think the general dislike of this movie is due to people not really understanding the plot if you think about the story line this movie actually makes perfect sense it just doesn't ever give you a dumbed down explanation its true that the special effects are sub par and it appears semi low budget but i think the originality of the plot keeps you drawn in people say that the vampire genre is overdone and clichéd out but with bled what you get is not your conventional vampire flick its a dream alternate reality story line with a vampire eternal life spin on it i loved it the only thing that kept me from giving it a higher rating was the lack of special effects and that i personally dislike movies where most of the people have accents but like i said earlier if you really get the plot this is not a bad movie
1	this movie is a great film the movie shows so many themes all in one amazing film driving lessons centers around ben rupert a shy 17 year old who is coming of age the movie goes on about how ben is sick of his dominating mother and how he just wants to be himself ben then meets who he makes a very special bond with the two take a journey and in the process ben finds himself and what a relationship that he and share this is the movie that you watch by yourself or with someone else no matter what you will all feel what ben goes through in the movie it is a very heart warming film that just makes you think whether your driving lessons were ever as emotional or as much of a journey as ben's lessons
1	i don't see why all the people are giving this film negative reviews i loved this movie bled is a form of abstract art and if you don't appreciate art i can see why you would not like this film it was a great twist from the average played out vampire movie if you are looking for a fresh new and ingenious new vampire movie then this is for you but if you want one of those turn into bats wolves and melt in the sunlight movies then go watch your old played out dracula flicks sure it is a bit on the low budget side but they did a great job with the budget they had i'm very happy that i found this movie because i was about to give up on the vampire genre fro good i thought this film was brilliant i give 2 thumbs up to the writer director and everyone involved in the film
1	i caught this movie on the horror channel and was quite impressed by the film's gothic atmosphere and tone as a big fan of all things vampire related i am always happy to see a new variation of the vampire mythos in this case a ghoul like creature residing in a lovecraftian other dimension the director has done a brilliant job of conveying the dark mood of the subject using the decadent art scene as a backdrop to what is essentially a tale of love spanning time and space the pure love of friendship opposed to the lust for blood and life by the vampires in the story the characters in the story are transported to another dimension by the means of a mind altering substance where a shape shifting vampire creature appears to grant them their hearts desires whilst draining them of their life essence there are some analogies to drug addiction and loss of control and how this affects a group of friends in an artistic circle i enjoyed watching the 2 main male characters in the story chris ivan and alex who were very attractive hunks always a plus point in a vampire story for the female viewers the special effects make up and creature effects were well done and the set design of the vampire's dimension was very effective all in all an enjoyable take on vampire myths and recommended for anyone who likes their vampires with some intelligence and not just action the only thing missing to make it even better would have been a bit more eroticism and nudity as it would have suited the plot and themes
1	like a twisty country road tough luck takes the viewer for a ride there is nothing wrong with plot curves as long as believability doesn't fly out the window unfortunately in the end the film does challenge an audience's belief tolerance nevertheless it is easy to forgive this fault due to the superior acting character development and wonderful carnival atmosphere do not expect to like any of the characters armand norman and play shady con artists not exactly the type of person easily admired the double crosses come fast and furious and the final cross is a bit of a stretch recommended merk
1	tough luck follows a homeless drifter as he becomes entangled in the underground crime world of deception and chaos archie norman reedus has been released from prison and has nothing to lose he is almost killed before the owner of a carnival named ike armand assante hires him for work soon ike discloses a strong desire for archie to murder his mischievous wife an erotic dancer for the carnival things soon get complicated when archie falls in love with and warns her of the scheme they become involved in a very steamy affair that leaves little to the imagination of the viewer after which they soon make a plan together they plot to murder ike but things don't go quite as planned br br i would be lying if i said that this film didn't surprise me i was personally blown away by how good this film was upon renting it several years back i was expecting another cliché thriller with a lot of the typical elements and themes that are shown in a lot of films of that type these days within minutes i was hooked and found myself quite involved with the world of this film it's the kind of film much like buffalo '66 that just sucks you in and transports you into the style and the feeling of paranoia it is a film that really pulls it off in stunning fashion one thing i particularly appreciated was how the film depicted it's characters the film isn't as easy and clear cut as it may appear in the plot summary these are characters that you actually grow to care about and are fascinated by including the characters that are supposed to be the bad guys in truth there are no good guys or bad guys in this film all of the characters are flawed in ways that are realistic and incredibly true to life there aren't many films that manage to accomplish this task as flawlessly as this film does but it's definitely a film style that i like and i want to see more of from films today there were quite a few crime films that were like that back in the early 50s but there hasn't been one as gripping and unique as this ever since br br in terms of flaws i have mostly very minor gripes the film itself isn't exactly original however i doubt that most folks would expect it to be original the film's editing style also may be irritating to some folks as it tends to have a camcorder type of shaky cam throughout while i wasn't bothered by it and actually felt that it added to the atmosphere i'm sure most viewers will not be as enthralled by it and may find it generally off putting despite the minor flaws however this is one of the most underrated films of the 2000s it's so refreshing to get lucky and watch an unknown film that turns out to be good it seems as if this film was a direct to video release though this film is far better than that had it been put in theaters it wouldn't have won any awards nor would it have been seen much but it would have a lot more recognition than it has today recognition that this film deserves tough luck is an astounding entertaining and twisted neo noir thriller with a real sense of class and style juxtapose and with enough substance to make the average moviegoer more than simply satisfied
1	i watched this movie on hbo and i had a good time br br the director has done a great work i found myself totally absorbed into this movie once it started norman performance is cool i expect more chilling movies from him br br i was so absorbed that on occasions i wanted to grab gun from norman and shoot that snake girl hehe i like the movies when innocent looking girls play tricks with men really cunningly the ending was what i wanted br br this movie is filled with twists of moments you expect this but something else happens br br in the beginning those massive images cut scenes were really painful to eyes br br although it was not shown when norman reedus changed currency notes or is it me standing by fridge
1	this is a quirky heist caper film one that seems predictable at first then keeps surprising until the last scene the protagonist is a grifter who goes to work in a little carnival where he's paid to kill the manager's belly dancer wife then ends up falling for her himself she's alluring tricky and deadly and she keeps disappearing and popping up again like some sort of magician's trick the film's other props include her duplicitous husband employer played by the talented armand assante some nasty dominican mobsters and most important to the plot a suitcase full of money just like the old shell game the one where you have to guess which one the under you'll be guessing who's got the money and like the victims of the hucksters who run such games you'll probably guess wrong as lovely is a talented performer and an eyeful whether she's dancing with the huge snake around her shoulders or working her grift on all the unfortunate men in her orbit norman reedus is fine as the young con who is by the elusive beauty he was paid to kill don't count him out however for he turns out to be smarter than anyone gave him credit for this oddball film is worth a look
1	i like armand assante my cable company's summary sounded interesting so i watched it twice already and probably will again br br the early part is difficult to follow but later it clears up i believe the screenwriter did a good job of tying up the loose ends br br some of the acting is unconvincing but maybe that's because i was always expecting some kind of double cross in that case the poor acting would be the insincerity of the characters interacting with each other so it fits very well br br the important theme is the carnival owner assante is laundering money for a local casino his snake charmer wife wants to steal it she complains to archie reedus how terrible her life is and how he could help her get out of it br br there are 3 or 4 plot twists which is probably the reason for all of those loose ends and just when you think you have solved the mystery something else will happen br br my 8 10 score is mostly for the plot br br i won't say any more i don't like spoilers so i don't want to be one but i believe this film is worth your time
1	this one surprised me br br i read a few reviews beforehand that called it a good b grade movie and was prepared for the worst halfway through it i suddenly realised i was completely wrapped up in it and enjoying it a lot there were some really tense moments that had you sitting forward fiddling nervously with the remote control or any other object in reach overall this movie definitely doesn't deserve the b grade tag br br credit must be given to director gary ellis and writers bill todd king for their movie debut i hope these guys continue with bigger budgets and some studio backing
1	didn't really know what to expect from this movie and found myself being pleasantly surprised i picked it up because i recently stumbled across norman reedus and am trying to find more of the films that he's been in br br i'm not big into hustler movies or con movies but i have to say this one roped me in within minutes probably because i couldn't quit figure out exactly who was hustling who this movie is stylish and fast paced with a story that is believable thanks to location and fantastic performances br br while i was impressed with most in the film i must say was simply excellent br br give it a chance it's a really fun film
1	not having heard of this film it came as a surprise when it was shown on cable recently gary ellis the gifted director of tough luck does wonders with the screen play written by bill and todd king the film involves the viewer from the start br br archie the young hustler at the center of this story has been involved in all kinds of petty crime in fact we witness a confrontation right at the beginning which makes him get out of new orleans as fast as he can he ends up in the carnival that is run by the mysterious ike archie falls for the woman he should have been wise to stay away from the result proves a fatal judgment for archie who then becomes the object of double crossing all around br br the director should be commended by the casting of norman reedus who obviously is loved by the camera in spite of his nature one feels for him because we know his heart is in the right place the beautiful is perfect as the exotic dancer who in spite of being lover entices archie into falling heads over heels with her armand assante is barely understandable with the thick accent he speaks during the first half of the film br br tough luck shows a new director gary ellis showing he will go to do bigger and better things because he knows what he is doing
1	i being a fan of rupert rented this film a few months ago i thought it was a very well written movie with a bunch of great actors it was entertaining and showed that rupert could play more than his most well known character of ron his subtle portrayal of ben and everyone else's great acting made this film very likable br br ben a very shy boy with a extremely religious and sensitive mother is looking for a job he finds one and becomes the i guess you could call assistant to a retired actress at first it is just a way for him to earn some money but after a while he and seem to develop a friendship helps ben break out of his shell a little and gets him to have fun and be happy with himself and in the end they both seem to need each other br br whether you are a fan of rupert or not this movie is a really entertaining one with some very cute and moments i highly recommend it to anybody who wants to see a great movie with great and talented actors
1	this would definitely not have been my kind of movie but my husband saw it on tv and said it was really good so on his recommendation i bought a copy since i didn't know if it would ever be on tv again i had never heard of anybody in it except armand assante at first i had a hard time getting into the story because the first part of the movie is a jumble of images and it doesn't make much sense it is only later in the movie that it all comes together the scene cutting if that's what it's called is a bit jarring it sometimes looks as if a few frames have been cut out of each scene and the scenes are jerky but i guess that was done to add to the if that's a word the story veers here and there and just about the time you have it all figured out everything turns upside down and you have to readjust your thinking as to who is the bad guy and who is not or bad woman the acting is very good i kept thinking how much norman reedus looks like leo decaprio the ending was a real twist totally unexpected which i liked a good show
1	we stumbled across this show one sunday morning at 6 30 a m while flipping through all of the cable channels and this turned out to be best show on it is absolutely adorable we need shows like this for children and adults as i'm certainly way beyond my childhood years as one of the other commentaries pointed out this show benefits from the simplicity of the characters and story lines the puppets are fantastically cute the backgrounds are colorful and even though they are created out of cardboard foam paint and pure imagination they remind us of our own childhoods when we could spend the day at our own grandma's house exploring the world around us for those who never were lucky to have a grandma as nice as nana this show is for you you'll make up for lost time this show is a true inspiration and filled with cleverness and humor and just outright fun for children and adults alike in other words don't overlook this show just because you're over the age of three spend a half hour with mona nana mr and russell they'll be friends you look forward to seeing
1	my girls 4 and 6 love this show we stumbled across it on a pbs station and they always ask when its on now it reminds them of their grandma that takes care of them everyday in the summer its funny too and sometimes they can't stopped talking about one scene or another i would definitely recommend this show to all young kids it is very clean and shows you to slow down and its not about watching tv all day long when nana reads a story it is slow and she talks about each page with mona it reminds me to slow down when i read the next book to my girls at bedtime and talk about the book instead of going through it quickly just to get them to sleep
1	i ended up liking this movie but it was not the easiest to get through what makes the movie great is the music and the scenery the songs are beautiful and the musicians are talented a great job was done to show different settings for the rom people br br however the viewer was not guided enough a more in depth history of the rom people would have been nice only a fraction of the of the spoken words were given english subtitles in addition more explanations about the settings and who was their and some of their challenges would have been appreciated too it would have helped if there were a narrator too explain about customs dress and music
1	this film is a tapestry a series of portraits of rom communities woven together by music it's very much a musician's film because of the paucity of spoken dialogue and what dialogue there is is not important to the structure of the narrative some might expect a national geographic tale of customs dress and music or a plot line orbiting a few central characters don't look for that here br br this is because it paints a portrait of a family of peoples rather than telling a story of individuals the plot is the story through space india to andalucia and or time we cannot tell of a people there is no need of narration you get a sense of a joyous people strongly linked in small communities where social interaction is very important and a great sense of sadness in parts at their rejection by society at large br br so it's a paean to rom culture very beautifully shot with a wide spectrum of rom music and a sting in the tail which is the oppression these people have faced and still face
1	or safe journey is the second film in tony trilogy of the romany people the film is a visual depiction and historical record of romany life in european and middle eastern countries even though the scenes are mostly planned rehearsed and staged there is not a conventional story line and the dialog does not explain activities from scene to scene instead the film allows the viewer to have sometimes a glimpse sometimes a more in depth view of these people during different eras and in different countries ranging from india egypt romania hungary france and spain br br the importance of music in romany culture is clearly expressed throughout the film it is a vital part of every event and an important means of communication everything they do is expressed with music dance is another important activity like romany music it is specialized and deeply personal something they alone know how to do correctly we are provided glimpses into their everyday activities but the film is not a detailed study of their lives rather it is a testament to their culture focusing on the music and dance they have created and which have made them unique br br mr portrays the nomadic groups in a positive way however we also witness the rejection distrust and alienation they receive from the non romany population it seems that the culture they have developed over countless generations and inspired from diverse countries will fade into oblivion because conventional society has no place for nomadic ways br br the other films in the trilogy are les princes 1983 and 1998
1	what makes this documentary special from a film making perspective is its which engages the audience to in the delight of gypsy music it innovates the form of documentary while showcasing a tapestry of sound and movement that invites us to celebrate the primal similarity found within the traveling music of historically traveling peoples br br indeed the film itself is a single take of sweeping movement that travels the globe and transitions effortlessly from one rhythmic culture to the next br br watching this film one's breath is taken away by the simple beauty in our common connection to music rhythm and dance if there is a more deeply spiritual flowing homage to the sound and movement of gypsy cultures it has yet to be filmed
1	this is not direct cinéma as a matter of fact it is its opposite second installment of filmmaker gypsy trilogy this french work produced by michèle ray gavras is a film masterpiece not pure documentary no fiction by any means instead has chosen different locations of the route from india to spain wherever the rom people have a strong presence and with the help of art directors he has staged several musical numbers that tell us how the gypsies live sing dance struggle and have survived the movie may have strong opposition from those who question the hypothesis that the rom tribe is of indian origin mostly challenged by those who see a direct link with the hebrews so in a way it comes as no surprise that they were also persecuted by the nazis but above any anthropological argument this is a work of great beauty strong colors and wonderful singing and dancing
1	is a cinematic survey of gypsy music from several countries it is touching sad and joyous most of the segments appear to be completely unrehearsed the music ranging from the sensual flamenco music of the spanish gypsies to the melancholy music of the central european gypsies is exquisite if you love gypsy music you'll find absolutely beautiful br br
1	beautifully filmed mind expanding exploration of gypsy culture in the context of their music travel across a continent experiencing the amazing musical styles of various groups of gypsy peoples it is sort of misleading to say this movie is not narrated it is masterfully narrated by the music itself the soaring melodies and lyrics tell a story much better than a narrator would have see this film
1	i'd heard about this movie but didn't see it until my daughter who saw it on a flight to australia told me it was a great movie i was interested in seeing whether rupert away from harry potter was showing the promise you see in the potter movies i wasn't disappointed he's become a fine actor showing a range in driving lessons from a shy boy being beaten down by an over bearing obsessive mother to a young man finding himself to be worthy of his own and other's esteem going over lines from plays and poetry with his aging actress employer it's obvious that he's ready to take on much more complex roles in films and the stage but the jewel of this movie was julie walters i'd seen her previously in the potter movies billy elliott and calendar girls and loved her in driving lessons as she does lines from poetry and shakespeare i was awed by her timing command of the language and body language i'm hoping it was make up costuming as she portrays an older woman with though no mention of it is made in the movie as a nurse i can say that she did this perfectly portraying a woman on the brink of old age but clinging to the sparkling past that she reveled in this is one of the best movies i've seen in a long time and i wish i'd seen it in a theatre first but i doubt it ever played anywhere here in albuquerque we miss out on so many of these types of movies here
1	son gets severely wounded during a lion hunt that goes awry hercules a solid and engaging performance by the beefy reg park has to venture into an eerie and dangerous alternate dimension ruled by the evil and vengeful gia the earth goddess a deliciously wicked portrayal by gia and battle various monsters in order to save his son's soul meanwhile equally nasty son a perfectly hateful turn by giovanni poses as hercules and takes over an entire city as a cruel and ruthless tyrant director relates the engrossing story at a steady pace and maintains a serious tone throughout this film begins a little slow but really starts cooking once hercules enters the misty and perilous subterranean spirit world rousing highlights include hercules grappling with a humanoid lizard beast hercules climbing a giant gnarled tree and hercules being attacked by a bunch of creepy rotting zombies better still the bizarre spirit world just reeks of spooky atmosphere gotta love that persistent thick swirling fog the strenuous rough'n'tumble mano a mano major physical confrontation between hercules and likewise totally rocks of course we also get a big mondo destructo climactic volcanic eruption as well mancori's crisp widescreen cinematography gives the movie an impressively expansive sense of scope ugo robust rousing score has a nifty majestic sweep to it okay so this flick is an obvious cheapo job that uses copious footage from both hercules in the haunted world and hercules and the captive women but it's still an extremely lively and entertaining romp all the same
1	hercules the avenger is by far the best single entry in the muscleman genre i can recall the charge against it made by critics it is a cut and paste of two previous hercules films with some added new material to make it appear fresh misses the fact that this cut and paste approach solves one of the central problems of the sword and sandal movies with most of these films the middle third sags horribly usually involving a sappy love story or arcane political intrigue or both queen falls in love with hercules and her evil brother plots against them etc it's often hard to hold on through this to watch the exciting finale hercules the avenger cuts all that crap from the source films and adds a rather brisk narrative of a hercules impersonator bullying his way into power it should be noted that this episode also functions as a distant but pointedly critical remark on the rise of fascism in italy this also sets up a fine final match between the real hercules and his impersonator br br in a focus i might also add that further editing has improved individual scenes borrowed from the other films for my money the mutiny scene here is much better than it first appeared in hercules and the captive women since it has been tightened with the reduction of several characters and their plot complications br br there are also floppy monsters creepy underworld atmospherics borrowed literally from mario bava an entire city destroyed and the usual amount of lovely babes in revealing gowns since no one expects any of these films to compete with the seven samurai or even with the magnificent seven it seems a bit picky to hold the film's borrowing from other films against it
1	eliza elizabeth is a farm girl from the country coming to the city looking for love she has met a man that has told her of an astrologist who will show her the stars this is a journey of souls eliza is put to the test can she realize her true love when she sees him or not tommy tommy lee jones is a construction worker trying to find himself in his native heritage they show each other different ways of looking at things all the while eliza is still looking for love and tommy is trying to protect the reservation that his grandmother lives on this is a twisted story of looking beyond the obvious and finding beauty in the simple everyday things the style is artsy and chock full of symbolism the psychedelic camera styling might scare away the average moviegoer but the deeper message and the interesting frames make this movie worth watching it is a movie that explores the underworld of the weird wretched and devastated individuals this one strays from the path but certainly worth watching
1	i can never fathom why people take time to review movies that they have not understood fully i know people will read scathing reviews on these pages of this film and it will keep them from seeking copies of this quite forgotten late '20s style but 1932 movie which should probably be referred to as indecent as that is the name on the main titles br br myrna loy best known as a comic actress in countless genteel roles shows herself to be miscast in all of them she was a true dramatic actress something that i did not know before watching this film which predates all of her famous roles she is exciting and moving here two things she never was opposite the graceful and refined william powell i'm still rather in shock over how good she was br br becky sharp 1935 the first three strip technicolor feature is more familiar but this one is far better artistically and an adaptation it is also very poignant as an expression of a film style that was about to die you cannot take my word for it you must see it
1	i love the thackeray novel on which this film is based and while this modern version of becky sharp's story is a b film the casting of loy in her first top billed role is rather fascinating br br before loy became mgm's reigning good girl in scores of genteel and comic roles she was an actress vanity fair was loy's follow up film to emma in which she played a snotty and greedy daughter who almost destroys the loyal housekeeper marie dressler br br loy's becky is much nastier than miriam hopkins' version 3 years later in becky sharp loy's becky is very much a pre code film character with her plunging necklines and amoral ways it's the type of character that jean harlow or clara bow could easily have played but becky here is still supposed to be of the genteel set that's what makes her fallen character so tragic br br in counterpoint to loy's grasping becky is the goody goody amelia barbara kent who is just not an interesting character mary forbes is good as mrs most of the other actors in this version are pretty blah conway as walter byron as osborne anthony bushell as others are nearly dickensian is their quirkiness billy bevan as joseph lionel belmore as crawley montagu love as the marquis irene as polly the maid as the housekeeper br br loy is front and center throughout while the ending is rather shocking she has several excellent scenes such as the gambling scene in the casino where she tries to steal another woman's winning roulette bet the more loy's becky descends morally the more beautiful she gets until she is finally caught bottom line here is that this is a very solid performance by loy in a film that should be seen
1	i've never read a good review for vanity fair and i can't understand why for something that was rushed through in ten days it all comes off surprisingly well though admittedly becky sharp is a better movie and miriam hopkins a better becky there's nothing to stop this one from getting a solid 9 10 at times myrna loy might seem just too cute and nice to be playing an utter bitch but at other times she just has to squint her eyes and the air temperature drops a dozen degrees meow the move to a more modern setting did not work against vanity fair and the only thing that really causes some conflict is the casting barbara kent amelia was under 5 feet in height and few of the leading men were very tall either this all coming together to make loy look like an absolute amazon woman br br vanity fair is similar to craig's wife in that no matter how bad the main character is you have to love her and you know she deserves her comeuppance and then some but you still feel sorry for her when she gets it though based on the same story as becky sharp this version had a different ending which is interesting to see because most of the rest of the films were almost identical for pleasure value the ending of becky sharp is ultimately more enjoyable although aesthetically and from the flow of the story there is no doubt that the ending of vanity fair is the better one whether or not you actually like it
1	this show was incredible but too esoteric for most people if you had never truly seen a european variety show in the 70's or 80's or at least a mexican one the entire show would probably be lost on you if you had this show was a dead on skewering satire of the phony spectacle and shallowness that these shows dive into at their worst helmed by a chain smoking suave wannabe with a pencil moustache and his ultra glamorous and harridan of an ex wife viva variety is a variety show that tries to get off the ground every episode but always descends into in fighting and acts gone very wrong the hosts are joined by johnny a dim witted side kick who seems to have been named because blue jeans are a very popular product in his country and that means the kids will like him which of course they don't br br the result was a hilarious spoof of variety shows in general imagine the arguing that probably happened backstage during the last days of the sonny cher show now imagine it's happening onstage in front of you and the stars are trying to keep their composure now add cheesy acts and a euro mentality gowns booze accents and smokes now you have viva variety br br have you ever heard a musician whose music was pretty much written for other musicians too conceptual viva variety did this for comedians way too esoteric for the standard american audience it was funny as hell and doomed
1	viva variety was a unique hybrid program that was both a parody of and a tribute to the programs it represented br br it was most directly a mock up of the classic 1970s favorite the sonny cher show with thomas lennon and kerri kenney playing a divorced show biz couple who were somehow forced to host this program together the female of the pair towering over the male and the constant barrage of insult humor the couple tossed at each other plus sketch comedy bits and performances from what are most kindly described as specialty acts br br the hybrid was the mix of fact and fantasy of course there was no mr and former mrs and the program's announcer johnny was likewise equally fictional but all the acts that performed were certainly real and some were even entertaining but there were also some acts that would have clearly been better suited for the old chuck barris gong show br br the show itself was really more like an extended sketch from sctv it was borne from the mtv series the state after all and some would suggest that it would have been better as a five minute bit in the mix of a program like that one rather than a stand alone series but viva variety certainly should get high marks for original concepts and even though it was often more odd than funny it was certainly worthwhile especially when they road tripped to las vegas and brought in even glitzier acts to perform it's unlikely we'll ever see anything like this on television again
1	otto preminger's and bess stands to date as a great american musical i believe it is time bring this film out onto vhs and dvd for countless generations to view admire and absorb its wonderful music
1	i had the great pleasure of recently viewing this beautifully filmed wide screen adaption of the the 1943 stage revival which unlike the original 1935 production which included extensive spoken this had been the fashion at the time so to blame the film for an 16 year tradition the film should be seen if only for sammy davis brilliant catlike performance as life creeping in and out of shadows his seduction of dorothy bess there's a boat soon for new york is one of many highlights nearly all of the principal music is intact and beautifully sung it certainly never bores which the recent pbs and met versions did it was a pleasure to see that time had not diminished the movie and hopefully it will be made available in the near future for the generations that haven't had a chance to experience it
1	i really only watched this movie because it had rupert in it who i knew as ron from the harry potter movies i had never really appreciated rupert as an actor until this movie i loved the entire film rupert does a wonderful job in this hilarious quirky movie i think the movie could have been fine without the sex but it worked somehow i can't wait to see more of films in the future julie walters also did an amazing job in the harry potter movies she has a very small role so i didn't quite know what to expect from her either but she was wonderful as dame the part where she swallows the key was absolutely hilarious overall an amazing movie
1	i see it when i was 12 year old and i dream to see it again br br what marvelous sammy davis jr singing it ain't necessarily so
1	i found this movie to be one of the best for this time and era the cast was very exceptional and most entertaining to all that saw it i would like for my younger generation to have seen this movie but i haven't been able to find or see the movie in the past my first viewing was back in the early sixties and i have been looking for it every since the movie showed me potential of how far we come go to become a gifted at a craft where we could only have meaningless roles to act as buffoons and servants br br porky and bess showed some of the urban life of my neighborhood as i saw it in the time where i needed good solid male role models the singing and acting had me skipping for days playing the part of different characters in this excellent movie
1	i stumbled on to this site while looking for a video or dvd of the 1959 version and bess with sammy davis as life if anyone finds this on a home movie format please let me know i talk to my daughters all the time about things that they think are new which actually have already been done we went to see a live theater of version a couple of years ago and all i could talk about was this film sadly my daughters cannot remember seeing sammy davis jr in any production although they have heard of him needless to say they're not familiar with the other great actors in the film it is a major oversight not to have this classic film because of the cast on a home movie format for collectors and for future generations anyway in my opinion this version was the best
1	i saw this once probably like most people my age 55 back in the 60's i understand the dissatisfaction with the final product by both families but this is a great movie it was a great opera but as a film it is wonderful this film should be released at least to video other generations can gain an appreciation of great music and story telling the cast was made up of some of the greatest black actors ever most have now passed away only sidney p is still with us please don't wait until he is gone and the film as all old film does becomes unusable do to the ravages of time again this is a great film which is something that one does not see very often today if at all
1	i was given the solo summertime in 5th grade for our spring choral concert from that time on a great appreciation for gershwin's music arose in me i love the haunting melodies of this opera by gershwin back when i was in 5th grade around age 10 i got the lp to practice with and also love the soundtrack very much i recommend seeing this movie and if you can get the soundtrack get it you can sometimes find it on ebay an old used lp i have been searching and searching to try to find the soundtrack on cd the songs on this have marvelous musical arrangements and i truly wish it would be put on cd for purchase and also wish they would restore the movie and put it on dvd this is truly a great work that i think present and future generations would enjoy and benefit from some may think the movie slow and dull but i find it quite the contrary although poitier and dandridge have dubbed musical voices i think the voices fit the faces and personalities well a person's speaking voice and singing voice may be quite different and bess and the songs in this opera will always have a special meaning for me
1	the many comments made by others have been very informative and i join in their calls for the release of and bess the 1959 film br br in my early teens i joined a record club and this album was one of the free ones i chose for joining i knew some of the voices were dubbed but only robert was acknowledged on the album recently my daughter purchased a cd from austria i think the quality is excellent so i am confused about why it is available in europe by cbs records inc when i have had no luck in local stores br br actually i never saw the movie but for years have pleaded with local video stores to get it now i know why it has never been available br br i add my voice to others who plead with the heirs of the property and rights and that they agree to release it however imperfect they perceive it to be the beauty of the music and story reached so many of us who would never have had the experience otherwise br br trudy
1	i have searched for this movie for years i have great memories of the first rate acting and singing in this movie i never knew that the reason the movie was unobtainable was because of the actions of the gershwin family shame on them for trying to suppress at american classic i can only hope they will and allow this movie to be release and enjoyed by the american public br br sammy davis jr is at his absolute best in this film the only other performance of his this is it's equal was in another terrific film that i wish would be released on dvd br br bess contained a first rate all star cast hopefully one day you'll get to see for yourself
1	i saw this movie when i was very young it is my all time favorite i had been unable to obtain a copy until recently and viewing it brought back so many fond memories i loved sidney portrayal of he his character with such strength and courage pearl bailey's part although small was not unlike many of our own family members my favorite songs were and still are bess you is my women don't let him handle me and of course summertime according to the guidelines if i'm interpreting them correctly i'm unable to post where i was able to obtain my copy sorry that is why i registered so that i might be able to share this info before registering the guidelines are not posted br br phone numbers mail addresses availability price or ordering shipping information
1	it is a shame that the gershwin family and goldwyn estate has pulled this great movie from the viewing thereby depriving the public from seeing some of the most wonderful actors and performances ever packed into one motion picture br br it is also true that the singing voices for sidney poitier and dorothy dandridge were dubbed for this movie and that is used as one of the reasons that the gershwin's do not want this movie ever released again br br for in spite the flaws in the movie and the creative differences between the gershwins and the this film has some of the most remarkable performances ever committed to the screen sammy davis jr and pearl bailey are especially deserving praise br br this film was the great independent producer samuel swan song it was also ironically the gershwin's greatest shame br br finally it is a loss to the wonderful black actors who appeared in it for we can no longer see them at their best
1	i saw the film in its original theatrical release in austin texas the old paramount theatre i don't know if it still exists went all out with speakers around the walls connected accurately to all six channels at 15 years of age i was blown away the concept of surround sound was completely foreign to music and film at that time br br i vividly remember at least three outstanding scenes where the surround sound made a huge impact though please forgive me if time has warped my memories with inaccuracies the first was a travel by the camera through catfish row alive with the sites and sounds of daily activity you saw each one first such as a blacksmith for example then as the camera passed them by their sound would continue to be heard passing left or right down the side of the theater to the rear the second was a marching band that was seen first in the front then it marched past the camera splitting left and right not only did the sound of each instrument follow its own directional path it also changed in timbre as it played toward you to the side of you and then away from you and if that wasn't enough they also accounted for the doppler effect for each instrument as it went by the third scene was near the end of the movie as is leaving catfish row for new york to look for bess he and about half the cast members pass by the camera as they leave the village with the same sound effects as the marching band the other half of the cast chorus sing along with them and also wave and voice goodbyes to and their other friends the friends' replies can then be heard from the sides and the rear br br surround sound was used with splendid effects throughout the movie i think i remember a rock or something thrown from a pier and hearing it land in the water behind me little things like that were evident to theater goers lucky enough to have the full six channels things that would just seem mundane in theaters without it br br i stayed in the theater for several showings you could do that then and i went back several more times before it left town i never saw the movie again it literally begs for release on dvd with restored picture fidelity and surround sound i do hope someone somewhere has preserved it please gershwin family allow it to be released before it is lost for good to other generations
1	ben marshall a teen ager from a religious background is made aware about the financial situation at home by his domineering mother laura she suggests him to find a temporary job in order to contribute to the household in fact the family has taken a widower to board with them robert marshall the father is a pastor at the local church he'd much rather be in the country watching birds than tending to the souls entrusted to his church br br the job ben applies is with an older actress walton who wants him to do things for her around the house dame as she calls herself is a woman of a certain age whose career has died maybe because she was not that great in fact the only memorable appearance seems to be in a soap opera which was popular but she'd rather forget about it who is a compulsive liar tells ben she's dying only to forget it conveniently later on when she comes clean to the boy br br ben is obviously in awe of the larger than life personality of his employer he has been taking driving lessons asks him to take a camping trip which he does against his better judgment he knows that it will provoke his mother's fury not content with that decides to go on to edinburgh where she has been invited to read at an arts festival it is this trip that solidifies their bond ben gets to meet and taste the pleasures of the flesh with a sympathetic br br when ben gets back everything crumbles at home his mother who has been having an affair with a decides to leave the family in favor of the young man she has been having an affair with ben and relationship survives the test of time he also begins to see his own father in a different light br br jeremy brock the writer of driving lessons and other memorable english films takes his first directorial job with this engaging comedy the mixture of show business and religion loyalty and friendship are explored in his screen treatment making it a fun time at the movies we have seen the similar situation before as in billy elliott where julie walters plays a nurturing role with a younger man we had read the film was based on mr brock's own experience while working dame peggy ashcroft when he was young br br julie walters who plays walton is perhaps the best excuse to watch the movie she always delivers ms walters is a welcome presence in any film she appears and she does wonders with her fake dame laura linney a luminous player herself doesn't quite get our sympathy with her icy mother rupert famous for his harry potter's movies plays ben the young man who sees in a kind soul nicholas farrell is the betrayed father michelle duncan has a small role in which she shines
1	when i was a child my grandmother took me to see this movie and i fell in love with it i admired dorothy dandridge so very much and wanted to be like her i fell in love with sidney poitier pearl bailey made me laugh and sammy davis jr was so great as life the music was just breath taken when i had my first son and the movie came on tv i let him see it and to this day he has never forgotten this movie he loved it i will always remember and bess it has a special place in my heart then and now i really wish that they would restore this movie because it was one of the greatest movies there has ever been with an all star black cast
1	surely the gershwin family realizes this is one of america's greatest opera you have thousands of fans of this opera waiting for it to be released on dvd please don't be so stubborn give us a break think of the joy and wonder you can bring to a starved public for quality music by releasing this great gem don't wait until the film is beyond repair the cast is first rate the music is just awesome we need beautiful music in today's world it may never be filmed again with such a great cast again with today's home theater systems wonderful sound systems and need for great music i'm pleading with the gershwin family to reconsider and release this awesome movie thanks so much
1	i was a projectionist while in the u s a f and remember this movie very well we had just been set up with stereo sound o o o o o well it was a big deal in 1959 instructions came with the reels the overture played while the projected curtain image was closed and i followed suit with the theater curtain closed too for intermission the theater curtain was closed and after five minutes i restarted the movie with the projection curtain closed while music used as a curtain call to the second part being the first stereo movie i had ever seen and being such a huge musical production i certainly enjoyed watching it every time i showed it for the run
1	i've been waiting 30 years to see this film i played the soundtrack album as a teenager and through my 20s recently i located a reasonably priced and i watched it this morning it was in widescreen probably even a 70mm print stereo the colors were quite good very little fading certainly not remastered but i'm very very happy with this clean copy br br now for the film it's pretty good i wouldn't say it's great though there are great scenes in it perhaps may not have been the right director for it but i'll say this for me the center piece of the film was the hurricane scene marvelously staged by one of the great weather scenes of all time br br in fact i'd go as far to say that the acting scenes are better than the musical scenes not that the musical sequences are bad not at all they did lack something though perhaps it was the fact that there are no close ups and very few medium shots it was almost like watching a filming of a stage production perhaps that was the feel that was going after in the end it may not have been the right choice but so it goes it is far from a ruined movie br br having said that not everyone loves the singers on the soundtrack either i always have they are perfect for this film i love the singing voices the actors lip sinking are excellent for the most part i just wish the songs were staged more imaginatively life's two numbers are fine but the intimate numbers don't even feel intimate they just feel far away in spite of that you cannot deny the power of the music and in the end that is what comes through loud and clear once again maybe what was trying to do was to stay out of the way of the incredible music he was working with i believe he had the right idea but perhaps went too far in that direction br br the acting is terrific top kudos goes to the great brock peters who acts and sings the part of crown he is the ultimate we just want him to leave poor bess alone and he doesn't as proud arrogant and nasty as he is sammy davis jr's classic rendition of life is the slick devil himself and a very charismatic one at that arguably davis's best film acting poor bess just can't handle two bad men i'm glad the hermes pan gave davis a tap dance number to do br br dandridge and poitier reportedly not impressed by being in the film really are very sweet together i don't know about chemistry there was more chemistry between dandridge and peters than there was between dandridge and poitier still it worked out fine for dorothy and sidney br br even so i think they should both be proud of the work they did on this film they both managed to bring more than one tear to my eye their characterizations where very 3d and believable sidney poitier's however seems almost out of place in catfish row i couldn't help thinking he was mr in to sir with love very educated and well mannered and spoken fallen on hard times he probably wouldn't have been my first choice for the part of but hey he was a huge star at the time so why not dorothy's bess was as perfect as her carmen jones in fact even more vulnerable this time around carmen was probably the flashier part for her to do br br a very very good film indeed it is two sticks short of what i would call a classic it just doesn't make the ultimate classic grade still there is no reason on earth why the gershwin estate has decided to keep this beautiful film even with all of its flaws hidden from the public as they have may have made some odd choices as a director but the film is nothing to be ashamed and embarrassed about for anyone involved with it it is what it is and there are a lot worse movies than this that are embarrassing out on dvd and in theaters today and bess is not one of them
1	when is art going to overcome racism i believe the american people have grown up since this movie was made consists of a stellar cast and music this motion picture is an excellent adaptation of a great opera i e miss saigon is based on madame butterfly les miz is based on a classic book recently an opera has been introduced here in los angeles based on the movie the fly an opera so be it br br disney is hesitating about releasing song of the south the naacp has voiced no contest for race issues and let us not forget amos n andy was a huge hit in the 50's as a tv series ethnicity is our heritage in the u s and we should embrace all forms of ethnic artistic diversity br br please release on dvd br br j
1	i was in my early 20's just graduating from college when this movie appeared seeing it was event of great impact not only because of the high quality of the film as evidenced by its many awards but because of its place in the historical context of 1959 because of social progress since then it is nearly impossible to fathom that my college had only begun admitting carefully screened black students in 1953 a mainstream high budget with an almost entirely black cast was a distinct novelty in 1959 br br the movie was given a deluxe roadshow reserved seat presentation in only the best theatres complete with a souvenir program detailing the lavish care that had been taken with lighting and color multi track stereo sound etc almost every black entertainer that we white people had any knowledge of was in the movie gershwin's music superbly performed and the sheer universal humanity of the story was tremendously moving br br i was recently able to obtain a faded copy of a two hour cutting of the film and repeated viewings have confirmed my opinion time has made what seemed steamy sex scenes in 1959 seem quite tame but the musical quality has not diminished sammy davis and pearl bailey are masterful in their portrayals what a crime that the young black artists of today are unable to see these performers at the peak of their careers
1	this movie is one of the only historical documents displaying the talents of so many black singers actors actresses and dancers many who are no longer with us those which we are blessed to be able to enjoy today in 1999 through this film lets us recognize the talents that existed then this is why those individuals still living today as well those who are deceased are super star icons due to the educational history in music drama filming design singing etc this movie alone belongs to the people of this country br br i viewed this movie recently the sound was excellent the movie appeared to be complete color and clarity was fare but good considering how old this movie is without any repairs on frames i agree with all prior positive reviews i do not have any negative views br br i only would like to make one request please to whom it my concern please make this movie available so all can have this historical experience
1	i remember seeing this movie as a child in the 60's it took my breath away then at young age i was glued to my seat in front of the black and white tv the cast was one of the best i have seen in my life the musical was one the greatest ever have been written please to the gershwin and goldwyn families please release this on video or dvd so that the generations now and in the future can experience what i'm sure what so many of us have done when we saw this great work of art please consider let not this great man's work go unseen for years more i m praying and hoping that the hearts of these families will be soften and let the world see this great movie again
1	bess was the very first movie my parents ever took me to see even at the tender age of 5 years i was so greatly moved by the drama that i cried aloud at the screen crown please don't take bess i was fortunate enough to see the one tv broadcast of bess so many years ago and now all i have are the great memories and the record album to remember this wonderful wonderful movie i have been waiting and wishing and hoping that one day i might own a copy of bess but it doesn't look like it will happen what is the hold up obviously there is enough public interest in this movie to warrant a release after all these years i remember it and it sure seems like i'm not alone this movie is brimming with human emotion jealousy lust anger bravery determination bess is a buried gem that deserves to be brought forth into the light for a new audience to admire and an old audience to relish
1	i had the privilege recently of viewing what is said to be the last 35mm technicolor stereo print and found it much livelier and more touching than remembered also closer to the original material basically all screenwriter n richard nash did was trim change much to spoken dialog and insert a transitional scene or two including a very amusing one for pearl bailey oliver smith's production design is stagy in the li'l abner guys and dolls '50s adaptation mode but it works well for this work's folkloric unrealistic quality stereotyping and racism are present but not to a wince inducing degree further for a movie of its time it's pretty frank the adultery violent behavior drug use and self destructive habits of the denizens of catfish row are not at all in the telling but there are beginning with all that variation from the stage text the loss of so much compromises gershwin's brilliance no wonder the family doesn't like it the especially of sammy davis jr 's material is disconcertingly trendy and vulgar george knew what he was doing folks you didn't have to mess with it so much and while poitier and dandridge act well and their singing doubles sing well there's a huge chasm between the characters' singing and speaking voices you're constantly aware of the artifice what really counts here of course is the music among the greatest ever written for the theater anywhere despite all the tinkering it survives and you'd have to be made of stone not to be moved by it if the treatment isn't entirely to the estate's liking and it shouldn't be there's still no reason not to spend some bucks to restore this ambitious filming of gershwin's masterpiece and make new generations more aware of his genius
1	lovely i just love the movie i want to see this movie because rupert is a fantastic actor his expressions are great spectacular the movie was excellent julie walters it was perfect too i think that rupert is the only boy with red hair that i love rupert have a beautiful smile a beautiful voice and a wonderful accent i think that the movie was great and was great see rupert in another thing but harry potter and its a very good actor so it deserves that and more he just have a golden globe but probably it deserves an oscar academy award there are some actors that do not act very well but have a oscar anyway it does not matter but he is perfect brilliant and beautiful
1	i saw this on television more years ago than i can remember but never forgot the performance of sammy davis jr i just by chance thought to look for it on video this rendition of and bess is a treasure i would love to see it again and introduce my son to it as well i just can't imagine why it is not heralded as one of the greatest performances sammy davis jr every gave whoever is responsible for not bringing this to audiences should be ashamed of his her ignorance i will continue to look for it though maybe the execs responsible for such things will come to realize the forgotten work of so many african american actors
1	i first saw the opening of otto preminger's and bess on tv probably some time in the early 80s and my younger self found it a bit slow despite the timeless music i turned it off br br last night an extremely rare cobbled together print screened at the l a cinematheque and it was a bit of a revelation the performances are strong and memorable dorothy dandridge brings a great deal of vulnerability strength and subtle at least by today's standards eroticism to her part sidney poitier is said to be uncomfortable with the movie but his performance is terrific as is pearl bailey even better are sammy davis as the amoral cat like life and brock peters as the bully crown br br still i'm no fan of preminger's earlier leaden and far easier to see carmen jones and bess is far superior to that less controversial film though that may have to do with the fact that the source material is also far superior br br as seen last night this is a sturdy but far from perfect work not all of the moments quite come alive and there is some awkwardness in the way the film mixes the overtly stylized catfish row set beautifully done by oliver smith with actual locations also even to my rather untrained ear some brief portions of the score seem unduly popularized br br moreover while this doesn't detract from the achievement of the filmmakers preminger's decision to film almost entirely in wide shots with no close ups and occasional medium shots no doubt rendered it unwatchable on tv panned and scanned and may doom it even on widescreen dvds if it gets the restoration it deserves on smaller screens we won't be able to make out the many details that are crucial to the way preminger staged the film br br also the mix heard last night was odd many of the vocals particularly on the opening summertime seemed unduly soft and were overwhelmed by the instrumental music perhaps this can be fixed in a restoration br br there is the issue of the film's racial politics personally i see nothing wrong with it at least in a contemporary context at the time when so few films depicted strong african american characters this may have seemed an unfortunate choice for a big budget hollywood film and while there may not be much empowering here these are recognizable human beings that are not racial stereotypes these are operatic characters who make poor choices because that's what tragic characters do that alone made it a giant stride forward at the time br br in a modern context where strong and heroic african american characters are less rare though still not common enough these characters seem nothing more nor less than human they truly could be poor and people of any ethnic background br br thorny politics aside the original work is undoubtedly one of the truly great achievements of american music and theater poitier davis dandridge peters and yes pearl bailey were all amazing performers who we'll never see the likes of again this less than perfect but still solid film clearly deserves to be seen and treasured
1	i saw this movie when i was a kid and have been looking for it ever since it rates up there with cabin in the sky stormy weather and carmen jones as a must see in movies that showcased the awesome talent of african americans in the 60s the local los angeles tv stations would have a movie of the week and some stations would show the same movie for 5 days and bess was one of them and my whole family would be there all 5 nights in front of the tv and only moved on the commercials south pacific oklahoma and the sound of music are all musical classics that you can pick up at any video store it would be a shame to let this collection of some of the best talent america had to offer be forgotten or locked in a vault please make the film available to the public
1	this was is an incredible movie with incredible cast music singing story etc it is a tragedy that some arrogant families the or can keep it from being available to generation after generation i have wanted to see it again all of my life i just found this site and read why it has not been available shame on these families for their pettiness my wife is from germany and she has never seen the movie neither have my step children or my grandchildren it is very sad that a movie of this depth and quality is not available for them to see where do these families get off making such a conceited self important egotistical condescending decision to prohibit generations from enjoying this film these stars these performances this music release the video and let them world judge and enjoy
1	i have always been a fan of this largely unseen filming of the gershwin opera since i last saw it in 1959 as many of you know it has been unavailable on video or dvd in fact the gershwin family sought to destroy all existing prints br br yet for some reason hopefully signaling an end to its opposition the gershwin family recently approved the showing of a collector's print at the museum of the moving image in astoria queens br br well the wide screen technicolor print was excellent not perfect but excellent the sound was outstanding in road show quality stereo the folks who saw this in its original release wouldn't have seen a much better copy the program notes include the original variety review which cautions that people might balk at the steep limited release ticket price of 3 50 br br and as much as i loved it originally and bess was better than i remembered it it's just wonderful sidney poitier as was at the point where his career was just beginning to catch fire and his charisma shines through dorothy dandridge as bess is spectacularly beautiful brock peters as crown is aggressively masculine pearl bailey as maria provides a few comic moments although her role is small and sammy davis jr as sporting life steals every scene he's in he's especially riveting in his two big numbers it ain't necessarily so and there's a boat that's soon for new york that last one won applause in the screening i saw br br and bess is set bound but it really doesn't matter when the set is as gorgeous as this one the costumes are also outstanding br br sidney and dorothy's singing voices are dubbed in but they are dubbed in extremely well the exquisite summertime is sung by clara played by a young diahann carroll her singing also is dubbed actually only pearl and sammy do their own vocalizing br br the music is sublime of course but what really struck me this time was how much emotion preminger got out of the story people were actually in the audience a number of times once when bess sings that beautiful i loves you and i got a kick out of the audience actually laughing out loud at the lines in it ain't necessarily so could it be they had never heard this song before or never really listened to it i believe that much of the emotional impact of this film is due to and performances you root for their love to win out br br a minor quibble with the 136 minute running time one or two slow spot and a stereotypical amos n andy kind of scene about bess seeing a shyster lawyer to get a divorce from crown even though she's not even married to him i would have cut that and the beginning is a little confusing both title characters are introduced awkwardly they're part of the movie before you realize who they are br br and i don't think preminger used a single close up in the entire movie it all seems to be shot in 3 4 which i'm guessing was his way of working with the wide screen br br and bess has always been a cult film for those of us who saw it for those of us who loved the soundtrack and for some of us who have only heard about it let's hope they find a way to re release this and put it out on dvd it deserves the widest audience possible
1	i was 13 yrs of age when i saw this greatly underappreciated film at the adams theatre in newark nj i purchased the program and later bought the soundtrack still have both i am now 55 yrs and have not seen it since possibly once on network tv in 1960's one of the greatest casts ever assembled great score and production please let another generation see this great film it was my introduction to opera and aided with my understanding of tolerance please family of or release this classic soon
1	and bess is an outstanding production of george gershwin's masterpiece it is tastefully done in muted colors the voices are outstanding although sidney voice is dubbed for his singing portion he gives a very touching performance there is a remarkable performance by sammy davis jr as life there is yet no dvd available for viewing and this piece begs for one all intelligent movie goers who enjoyed it in 1959 will appreciate the release of this masterpiece on the new medium the screen is filled with a dynamic presentation that rivals all other musicals including the outstanding ones by rodgers and hammerstein be sure to ask for it an your video supplier like songs of the south by walt disney it may be the assumption of racial overtones that is preventing the marketing of this cinema
1	seems to have been made as a vehicle for w c fields and carol dempster and they dominate it fields already has his film character well developed carol dempster seems to dance through the film and her acting reminds me of mary pickford who also worked a long time under d w griffith typical of later griffith films technically br br later remade as poppy the original title with fields in the same role
1	the plot of sally of the sawdust is the usual melodramatic stuff an orphan rags to riches but the film rises above most silents thanks to three people br br this is not of course d w griffith's masterpiece but it does showcase his film making savvy in full maturity he uses all his innovations which are techniques we take for granted now close ups cross cutting a mobile camera and the ability to modify acting from theatrical exaggeration to cinematic subtlety br br w c fields also showcases his skills not his signature gruff delivery but his remarkable dexterity as a physical comedian he does a few inventive juggling acts cut too short to be fully appreciated and some very deft pickpocketing but it seems that every prop that comes within reach gets manipulated for comic effect hat cane car roof dog cash he's a joy to behold br br finally there's carol dempster much has been said against this actress but her performance here is also richly comic she was 22 at the time playing a teenager and her approach to the role is a combination of grace and awkwardness that may not be wholly convincing but she truly engages the eye when she's on screen particularly when she's dancing she's not a beauty though she's positively luminous in the one scene where she's gussied up like a talmadge sister but her plainness only adds to sally's character especially in the many moments when she shows very obvious affection for fields as her guardian father few if any hollywood performers could compete with fields when it came to comedy but griffith gives his leading lady every chance to match her co star and dempster absolutely holds her own
1	well done melodrama that tells the story of sally tomboy dancer in the circus raised by sideshow performer played by w c fields he of the top hat little mustache checkered pants and proficiency as juggler pickpocket and runner of carnival con games like three card monte and the old shell game has raised sally who worships him as her real father since sally's mother kicked out of her home by her father a judge when she married a circus man died and left sally orphaned sally is feisty and loyal to no matter what he gets up to but seems to feel a bit of guilt over keeping her in the circus instead of with her own family all these years when they end up performing in a carnival in the town where her wealthy grandparents live uses the opportunity to investigate sally's real family with the idea that he may restore her to them but grandfather the judge takes an immediate disliking to sally 'cause he doesn't like a show girl what a stern narrow minded man he is a real piece of work that guy and meanwhile sally is busy being pursued by a handsome and rich young man son of the man who helped grandpa get his riches br br this is a very good film with a few laughs here and there and a sort of odd editing style i don't know how to describe this other than it shows long shots then sort of jumps back a few seconds or changes angle suddenly as a close up is shown carol dempster who plays sally is delightful here quite cute and comical in her performance w c fields even without his famous voice is very funny just the way he moves and his amusing comical reactions to things like a small dog seen in one funny scene we even see him juggling briefly in this i love the few peeks at the old fashioned circus and carnival that is shown here the print of this featured on the dvd is very nice looking tinted a light sepia tone and the piano score for this is really excellent performed by philip based on the original cue sheets
1	driving lessons is a little film that sneaks up on you what at first seems to be a bit of fluffy nonsense comedy british style is at its base a very fine story about coming of age and the needs for significant friendship of both the young and the elderly writer jeremy brock 'the last king of here directs his own screenplay and the result is a cohesive progressively involving tale filled with fascinating and diverse characters each performed by sterling actors br br ben marshall rupert standing firmly on his own as a developing actor post series is a quiet plain little poetic seventeen year old living with his bird watching vicar father nicholas farrell and his obsessive compulsive rigid evangelical do gooder mother laura linney in a home where people' such as the murderous cross dressing mr jim norton take precedence over family matters the mother is by the way having an affair with priest peter oliver milburn using ben as her cover sad ben is among other things attempting to learn to drive a car his mother is a poor teacher and decides he needs professional lessons and needs to get a job to help pay for poor mr needs ben follows an ad and meets dame eve walton julie walters an elderly has been actress who is as zany as any character ever created she hires ben and the fireworks begin through a series of incidents including a camping trip demands they take the two learn life's lessons missing from each other's natures ben learns self respect and self confidence and finds a true friend who will allow her to drop her stagy facade and be the dear human being she has been hiding br br julie walters always offering the finest skills of acting in every character she creates finds a role like no other here she is outlandishly wild and lovable rupert is exactly the right choice for the challenged coming of age ben the chemistry between the two is as tender as that in the classic film and laura linney is as always a superb actress playing a role quite different from her usual repertoire and the supporting cast is a panorama of fine characterizations this film is a delightful surprise and one sure to warm the heart and entertain those who love fine writing and direction and acting and message grady harp
1	i suppose i like this film as well as any i know it is not perfect but under the title the americanization of lily this charming and memorable semi musical satire might i suggest have been appreciated more and still loved by those who recognized its special blake edwards' produced spirit of gentleness clever humor and solid narrative the improbably but delightful story line follows lili smith a fringe type spy for the germans in a much simpler and less black and white war lili schmidt passing as smith is helping her uncle who is patriotic too for germany but neither cruel nor political merely opportunistic target is william a charismatic u s squadron leader who can supply her valuable information the plot thickens comes when lili falls in love with has her eyes opened to the consequences of her playing spy and sees the effects of combat on wounded men at a hospital and realizes what it might mean to his men whom she has met and likes she gets jealous of a rival for affections then realizes she can no longer do what she has been doing and gives up the spy business the logical end of the film comes when after the terrible wwi has ended as she sings the theme song of the film wishing in a darkened theater one by one the members of squadron appear including her lover himself indicating they have forgiven her and their former opponents and even uncle kurt enthusiastically joins in the singing of it's a long to to indicate all is well with the world again this is an audacious and sometime brilliant story idea written by director blake edwards and william peter blatty of john fame and it is a delightful narrative squadron including an who keeps crashing and other lovable types populate this lively film and the feel of this stylish and glowing film is almost epic both in its scope and realization credit must go to jack bear and donald brooks for their costume creations reg allen and jack stevens for sets fernando carrere for another beautiful production design henry mancini for his sensitive and appropriate musical score and to russell harlan for his shining cinematography in the beautiful footage the principal actors are julie andrews as lili rock hudson as outstanding as uncle kurt michael witney lance percival as the pilot gorgeous gloria paul as rival and many other fine actors in smaller parts it is hard to say enough nice things about the pace or the cleverness of the just this side of broad comedy this element is introduced by edwards to leaven the horrors of actual warfare to example the almost comic opera approach with which men made war back in a more innocent minded era of human civilization this comedy also helps prepare the way for conversion from uncritical acceptance of a duty to the german state to acceptance of the reality of what she is doing and potentially what she may be causing this is a rare sense of life film about americanization her assertion of herself in the real world and then among others before tragedy can happen it is haunting i find and beautiful in many ways i consider it to be blake of directing and under the title the americanization of lili i believe with hardly any changes it might have been recognized as the polished sapphire of a film it is by every standard i know
1	this story takes place in wisconsin i was half heartedly watching my tape when i heard the name i wasn't sure where it was taking place until i heard them say green bay then i figured it was wisconsin watching further confirmed it br br anxiously awaiting the outcome i could really feel frustration i did not know it was based on fact until the end it left me glad but sad and wanting to know more
1	a man and his wife are not getting along because of the wife's jealousy and drinking problems when the wife disappears her sister begins a vigorous search involving the local police state government and a television crime show what she finds out stuns the entire community good drama with lots of fine performances based on a true story
1	a great suspenseful thriller the acting is first rate and the plot keeps you guessing this well performed and directed movie is based on a true story and well worth while joe penny is cast extremely well and ann gillian is convincing as the and terrified sister joe again prove he's acting ability is amazing and the ending well done it s worth watching i hope they repeat it soon on any channel i will definitely record it for penny and gillian fans it's worth your time rent it if you can better still try to buy it i going to perfect early nineties thriller watch this br br movie it's great
1	one of the most macabre depressing yet eye opening docs i've watched in awhile there's no narration or story that's told just a third eye type camera following around 2 couples of heroin addicts in nyc through the seasons watching them shoot up on the floors of public washrooms then clean their needles in the public toilets sometimes it's a bit too much and you need to hit pause just to go for a breather br br anyone currently in recovery of alcohol drug addition should watch this when they're craving it really shows you to what you could be going back to after seeing this it's a wonder how anyone could even try this drug to begin with br br the only thing it needed was a follow up at the end to tell where these people are today judging from what is shown in the doc there's no hope for any of them they mention wanting to get better and quit but it seems the only end to their habits is to quit by way of dying br br this definitely isn't for all audiences i found myself kind of like watching a car accident after i started watching it i just couldn't turn it off i had to keep watching with a dark morbid fascination of what it's like inside the lives of these addicts
1	i watch this film with horror in my heart because my mother also was a crack head like michelle i've been wondering where michelle is now there has been times where i had to find my mother in places i was scared to be but more scared to leave her there to see michelle act like that made me wonder where she was sleeping all that time i watched in hopes the it was never that bad for my mom and what i want to know is where did matt and tracy tear that ass up worst scene for me was watching tracy shoot up in an old navy dressing room u never who try clothes on before you and it looks like all of them except michelle has aids where are they know 2008 can we get an update
1	dope sick love is a really remarkable documentary made for hbo about two pairs of heroin addicted lovers roaming the streets of nyc i managed to catch it one night by accident and found it absolutely mesmerizing there is no narration and we never see any interviews with the subjects the camera just follows them around like a third eye completely detached the people being followed don't even seem aware that they're being filmed or at least they don't seem to care the footage is amazingly candid some of the most candid i've ever seen this is as real as it gets the nuts and bolts of what its like to be on the street and addicted to heroin we watch them score dope shoot it make up hustle and even impersonate cops to rob people and about a million other tiny details that less observant documentary filmmakers would leave out br br some of the footage is truly horrifying like watching one guy frantically searching for fix he lost i found myself praying that he would find it just so that his misery would temporarily end and when he does find it the guy literally dances in the street br br the cyclical nature of drug addiction becomes very apparent while watching this everything is about getting the next score to these folks yet the next score seems to be well worth the immense trouble they go through br br i would love to get a copy of this if anyone knows where it is available highly recommended if you can catch it on hbo
1	tracy and matt michelle and sebastian these are the two couples whose lives of addiction crime and squalor are brilliantly captured in this raw and honest hbo documentary they're in turns petulant charming repulsive astonishingly stupid and dedicated to the drugs and to each other they're also each very different matt is a working class boy who clearly revels in his naughtiness whilst prep school dropout tracy supports the couple with western union money from her father who makes a surprisingly sympathetic cameo towards the end of the film meanwhile widow michelle whose hubby died of an od earns her daily bread by posing as an nypd vice cop willing to cut her would be johns a deal to avoid prison time and sad sack companion sebastian lives off the proceeds you'll be pulled into their stories and will wish the film went on for twice as long unlike most documentaries of this kind there's no coda providing us with an update about their progress can matt and tracy really keep that brooklyn apartment will michelle go back to bellevue for more detox and can sebastian become any more pathetic as a result the film seems incomplete but that may have been the point essential viewing as long as you aren't completely averse to scenes of people shooting up
1	the animatrix a detective story is very well planned and has a great storyline to go with it carrie anne moss plays trinity in this animated cartoon i really like the 'private detective' ideas created by the director
1	this is one of nine shorts on the anime disk the animatrix it is my favorite the artwork is amazing the black and white somewhat grainy texture perfectly captures the mood that the segment is trying to portray the story is tight and the ending is true to film noir br br overall i gave the animatrix a 7 but this particular segment deserves a 10
1	film noir meets anime brilliant this was one of the highlights of the surprisingly creative animatrix shorts this was one of my favorites if not my favorite i also loved world record this is basically a reference to those classic film noir detective stories and movies of the 40s except it's animated and involves the matrix but by being animated it is able to take the extreme camera angles the detective life style the shadows and everything film noir to an entirely new level the femme fatale trinity the detective in this story seems to be living in the 40s in his mind but stuck in a modern world and everything becomes too much for him when his case suddenly involves science fiction and agents when a mysterious woman in black walks into his office br br my grade 9 10
1	after seeing the harry potter movies i've been a fan of the trio actors rupert daniel radcliffe and emma watson yet we've been waiting to see if they would do other projects besides play the same characters year or every two years of the j k series mainly instead of a trio the cameras and magazine articles concentrate more on daniel and emma being that they're the leading male and only leading female in the saga leaving rupert dead end no matter every actor has a time to shine and light hits him for once in this movie br br driving lessons is called the harold and maude of this generation with rupert playing the role of ben marshall a young british lad who lives with his domineering mother laura linney and a wimp of a vicar priest father for which he wants a job in the summer but can't find work while at the same time taking his driving tests and failing and writing poetry for a young girl who doesn't have any interest in him br br ben seeks an ad in a church newspaper for which the job requires to take care of an elderly lady he takes the job and realizes that he's in for a fun of surprises as julie walters mother in the harry potter series an out of work actress who is also a poet giving ben the run for his money they bond where and tell each other secrets along with acting like a child and getting into mischief where she drags ben along for a country road trip from their not only does ben drive all the way from britain to scotland since needs to recite at a local library but at the same time an older lady falls for the young man in which ben starts becoming a man br br there is mishap and at the same time rejoice with ben and along with saying that i was very pleased about the film when it came out in theaters and i was impressed with rupert acting especially if he showed the rest of the world that even though he brings a bit of ron within ben marshall there's no stopping the actor on his brilliant performance
1	the detective story is not typical for the matrix universe it is a film noir esque private eye story with a strong narrator and a very rich feel rich in terms of its visual appeal the snowing scenes the it all stuns the eye br br but what about the story it is interesting even if it feels a little out of place the agents hire a detective to track down trinity he finds out that they tried the approach before but with hazardous consequences for the hired detectives still he tries to locate her and eventually succeeds through alice in wonderland references and hackers and chat rooms then things begin to get interesting br br all in all this is a perfectly satisfying short animated movie br br 8 10
1	this is the fifth part of 'the animatrix' a collection of animated short movies that tell us a little more about the world of 'the matrix' this time they introduce trinity carrie anne moss in a story about a detective who is hired to find her with great black and white animation and an interesting story this is again a great animated short from 'the animatrix'
1	this is one of the periphery stories told by the animatrix that isn't directly relevant to the war stopping one glorifying plot of the films but trinity voiced by carrie does appear in it it features a private detective who is hired for big money to look for a hacker named trinity we see his search which features other pis only one who he meets who has seemingly gone mad from his own experience trying to track trinity down eventually he makes contact with trinity who he assumes to be a man of course told in the narrative and something that firmly puts us in his own perspective despite what we already know on a hacker chat room and solves a riddle which forces him in a hurry to catch a train he forgets his hat but his faithful cat throws it to him in a moment of ludicrousness so absurd it's hilarious br br he meets her on the train but the ruse is thereby revealed when agents attack the agents were using him to get to trinity and trinity was trying to free the pis sent after her which he doesn't know of course and which isn't explicitly stated in the animation itself something common to film noir titles which often hint at plenty of interesting back story subplots developments etc but don't show you more then the core story and a limited point of view to create an extra air of mystery and intrigue br br almost everything in this short is in black and white the music is reminiscent of film noir and the offbeat old fashioned yet dedicated detective is the perfect protagonist for a film noir title the trivia section of this title's entry on imdb also helpfully presents a few references this title makes to hardboiled literature something it also borrows heavily from a genre of mysteries for detectives gangsters etc who engage in challenging conflicts readily and often animated aptly by studio 4°c and directed by watanabe it is an enjoyable variant on the usual matrix story
1	the eighth and thus second to last short of the animatrix ones this is the only one quite like this this takes two of the main types of filmed entertainment inspirations of the matrix and combines them unbelievably well this is immensely faithful to the trilogy in that aspect the tone the animation is a gorgeous breathtaking animé the style which is omnipresent in this is noir the plot is fitting and the story telling as well as the music is spot on the sound in general is fantastic and really helps solidify the mood and atmosphere along with the drawings and designs the voice acting is impeccable this is one of only two where people also in the movies reprise their roles and both have anne moss who is the only of them appearing in this this is one of the best of the nine and also one of my personal favorites this is about ten minutes long the pacing is perfect it never slows down terribly much but it's not overwhelming either the ending could not have been more appropriate for this this shares a nine and a half minutes long making of with kid's story and it's well done and informative i recommend this warmly to any fan of the universe and the two genres that this is made up of 8 10
1	i've seen three of the animatrix episodes and this is my favorite of all of them the second renaissance provided a flimsy back story to the already flimsy universe program was a stylistically impressive number it just felt kind of silly i guess what gives this one it's special touch is the direction from watanabe director of the incredibly popular and for good reason series cowboy bebop it has some of the best elements of bebop slick sci fi adventure a no nonsense slightly apathetic hero working for hire a bounty head more or less and a chase scene all wrapped up in an excellent film noir packaging watanabe's tarantino style slickness comes through here full throttle
1	this is one of the anime films from the animatrix collection one of nine the only one done in black and white and the only one featuring trinity richly textured and beautifully rendered in every way and the animated version of trinity definitely does her justice if you're a fan of the matrix you will need to put this on your short list
1	wow its been quite a while since i've watched anything so mysterious in the way it is portrayed br br a detective story uses old fashioned black and white images to portray a private investigator who dresses in an old fashioned trench coat and hat the theme of this animation is reminiscent of that of sam which was briefly mentioned by ash br br sick of spying on cheating house wives because of his clients ash was offered a chance to track down a computer hacker which he thought was a worthwhile chance for a four figure sum he could not turn down and the rest is history br br the ending was a little bit bland but still okay for those out there who like old fashion stories this is the one for you
1	just how exactly do gay asians manage in a culture that generally refuses to even recognize the concept of homosexuality for millions of gay hindus and muslims there seems little hope of ever leading a life that is accepted and endorsed by their otherwise very close knit families this is the main point explored in chicken masala presumably named after the western spicy dish involving tender pieces of young chicken flesh jimmy is a typical young asian brought up in britain by traditional parents with the common narrow minded and selfish views on marriage and grandchildren like millions of others he is led into an arranged marriage that seems inescapable even though he is apparently completely gay and deeply involved with a very attractive young man with whom he lives he knows that the truth should be told but fears for the consequences of that particularly so as his father appears to be terminally ill and so he becomes embroiled in a web of deceit that becomes wider and wider as the plot develops br br the film is beautifully sensitive and not at all judgmental or patronizing to any group portrayed the acting is generally excellent although it might seem a bit ham in places as the director tends to search for humor rather than letting it blossom naturally there are no prizes for photography or script but the film is made entire by the wonderful sentiment expressed at the very end a sentiment that all fathers across the world would do well to learn from
1	have just got back from seeing this brilliantly funny film br br granted part of the reason i loved it so was because i could point out people and places i knew 'i walk there everyday ' 'i work there ' 'i've had drinks there ' 'hey that's our postman ' etc but still if you're out for a 'feel good' with a bit of spice excuse the pun this is just the right answer relationships culture and most importantly love are all woven together within the plot br br with preston where the film is set recently being made a city it is good to see this work featuring the place and adding to the feeling of it is also a brilliant representative of the many cultures in this part of the north br br fabulous
1	my comment is mainly a comment on the first commentator the extra on the film and his unhappy assessment of the film i think his perspective indicates why an extra is an extra and a director is a director the film was sweet the acting sufficient the experience of watching it a nice diversion from a busy work week it wasn't the hours acting or the matrix special effects or even the color purple direction most movies won't be but it also wasn't the crap fest that vinny would lead you to believe sorry guy just my 2 cents br br as to the movie itself it was in the end very gay affirming 1 it showed a world full of diverse and less than perfect people you know just like ours 2 it opened a door on one culture without excluding other cultures 3 and i liked the music 4
1	i've felt that rupert has a lot of promise from that role by which everyone knows him so even though i had never heard of this film before when it appeared in my cable tv listings i immediately switched to that channel i am so happy that i did br br i've read from other reviewers that they don't generally like coming of age stories i on the other hand quite do i am one of those who is always coming of age i have been since i was 12 i'm 52 now and i will probably continue until i'm 92 coming of age is nothing more than suddenly realizing the possibilities that another day brings the suddenness of the realization the magnitude of it sometimes throws us into disarray if we try to shelter our delicate selves from that then yes i can see how the coming of age can end but if we simply dust ourselves off and settle into the new direction we've discovered then we're all of a sudden on a new path and we're just as alive as we were yesterday only stronger brighter and i daresay more interesting br br so that's what this movie was about this was a coming of age story all the way round young ben his father father robert and certainly dame all went through a marvelous transformation in fact so too did mr didn't he all did i suspect except in fact the mother in spite of her enormous opportunity so to do provided by the events of the end of the film one is left with the feeling that she will continue on exactly the same path she's been on only with perhaps a different supporting cast br br so an excellent film that could not possibly have been made in america which is utterly depressing to think about but thank god we have a steady supply of films made elsewhere that we occasionally get to see i really heartily recommend this film so long as you don't mind cringing through those parts of it that are all too familiar to us all and grinning through all the rest of it
1	this film is about a young indian guy who comes home one day and finds himself getting engaged to a woman the problem is that he is gay in order to stop the wedding without telling his parents that he is gay one lie leads to another until it spirals out of control br br this film is hilarious and got me laughing many times sally acting is superb and she plays this strong woman who does what she wants convincingly the plot is outstanding as well i find the plot very realistic and i can completely identify with feeling of being terrified worried and upset on the other hand boyfriend jack is given much less attention in the film i would have liked him to be given more lines in the film and have more character development however as i guess the director wants to make this a more mainstream film the love between jimi and jack was not developed in the film br br it is great to watch a gay affirmative film furthermore this film preaches us to be accepting to other people's difference be it sexuality culture and the way of life this film makes viewers think hard br br we need films like this to give us a boost thanks for making this film
1	for people who are first timers in film making i think they did an excellent job we have to support the emerging industry especially coming from up north it was very popular when i was in the cinema a good house and very good reactions and plenty of laughs it's a feel good film and that's how i felt when i came out of the cinema it has northern humour and positive about the community it represents the film has just opened i do hope it does well people should support this little film i think this ' person is very bitter about something and getting too shame i say well done to all those a drink on me i look forward to you next venture
1	typically spanish production slow moving but with great sensuousness and sexuality oozing from the lead actress paz vega watch her in spanglish great sets lots of colour you get to see seville spanish mountains and countryside the plot tends to meander here and there but if you follow closely i managed to even though the film is in spanish you'll get the gist of it br br it's about how one very highly sensual young gypsy woman carmen uses her feminine wiles to seduce men to do her bidding carmen is being taken to prison after attacking a fellow at the cigar factory where she works she persuades jose the soldier in charge of taking her to prison to let her escape jose succumbs to her charms because she speaks basque he is and speaks the same language jose is punished by 1 month in jail and to foot soldier he later meets carmen at a party and they end up becoming lovers but carmen refuses to commit to him and continues her lascivious and flirty lifestyle in a jealous rage jose kills a fellow soldier who has been with carmen they then have to leave town life on the run turns jose into a bandit carmen meanwhile remains the same a wildly promiscuous woman in the end jose loses his mind and ends up killing carmen br br the story is told by jose in prison awaiting to be executed the person he tells the story to is prospero a french writer and anthropologist whose fancy watch it plays beethoven's fur elise was stolen by either carmen or jose br br worth watching for the sets and for the delectable paz vega
1	this movie is a quite fair adaptation of the prosper novel in the novel himself is a character don josé is from north spain and historically a basque country zone they can speak basque language they are in seville andalusia south spain and they only speak spanish with andalusian accent in no way they speak basque but carmen explains to don josé that she was living in you can believe it or not anyway this is the book's version then you can't be critical with the movie about this be with the book you have to note are different the novel by and the opera by bizet and this movie is an adaptation from the novel anyway in the opera don josé is still spanish from never he's french why so many people keep thinking don josé is french i don't know but i guess because the novel and the opera are in french although is supposed to be in spanish br br the only important difference between the movie and the novel is that in the movie don josé also kills the torero lover of carmen and in the novel he doesn't neither in the opera i guess they wanted to keep the movie a little more gore i think the movie is quite good anyway
1	there have been approximately 60 different films television plays besides the classic opera of this tale of a sex mad girl and her hapless soldier lover this story has been done so many times in various ways br br vicente directs joaquin screenplay adaptation of prosper classic novel play br br this is the story only of bizet's opera carmen br br pas vega is an exciting carmen full of passion the ability to drive simple men to do terrible tragic things leonardo is the hapless soldier who is ensnared into poisonous web led to doing bad things br br jay benedict is the author prosper who tells this tale br br there is not much action but there are some very hot sex scenes br br in fact this is almost an nc 17 film br br since i have seen this tale so often in so many guises i was not overly impressed br br it is a very well made film will be of interest to those that may not know of it br br my not overly enthusiastic review also could be that i miss the fantastic opera score by bizet br br see this as you may like it more than i did br br ratings out of 4 82 points out of 100 imdb 7 out of 10
1	this is a nice movie with good performances by paz vega and leonardo of course vicente is a legend in spanish cinema and surely one of the great directors in spanish cinema but i don't think this is one of his greatest movies even if it's fine the screenplay plays with the introduction of as a character it's a nice touch but it's unbelievable the music is composed by jose national spanish prize in cinema i mean this movie is very good in all the technical aspects there are very good actors in supporting roles like antonio maria and others i give it 7 out of 10 cause i think this could be a better movie but as it is it is not boring at all
1	even for the non opera loving public the name carmen is immediately recognized as an opera by bizet about a gypsy girl whose capricious loves destroy men but as much as the opera is now considered a staple in every opera house repertoire the real story of the wild gypsy lass as created by prosper mérimée in has never been told as well as in this cinematic version by the abundantly gifted spanish director vicente la aka mad love' 'if they tell you i etc incorporating the author of the novel as a main character seeking the story of carmen from one of her lovers josé provides just the right vantage for the story of this famous gypsy wild lady to be told br br carmen the amazingly beautiful and talented paz vega works in a cigar factory in seville a factory adjoining the military station where the very proper josé leonardo is stationed carmen is tempestuous and in a fight instigated by a fellow factory worker bringing attention to the fact that carmen is a gypsy carmen murders the co worker and is arrested josé is physically attracted to the voluptuous carmen and when carmen flirts with him he consents to allow her to escape his payback is the promise for a night of passion with carmen carmen keeps her pact providing josé with his first sexual encounter and josé is doomed his lack of military discipline results in his losing his rank and being imprisoned for a while but at his release josé encounters carmen again kills a fellow officer and in fear runs off to the hills to live with the smugglers and gypsies that are people many incidents occur to try the passionate bond between the lovers but when real husband is released from prison destructive behaviors take over that include infatuation and affair with a bullfighter and the passion of carmen and josé comes to a tragic end br br one factor that makes the story as adapted for the screen by director and joaquim move so well is the role that prosper mérimée jay benedict plays his questioning of josé completes the story that bizet's opera only outlines the acting is superb the cinematography by paco and the excellent musical score by josé contribute enormously to the success of this very fine film this is a must for lovers of the opera carmen and a splendid action drama for those viewers who admire historical pieces highly recommended grady harp
1	i thoroughly enjoyed carmen better than original sin angelina jolie antonio bandaras which share some thematic similarities and which i also enjoyed very much i felt the acting was stronger here paz vega displayed a wider range has more fire and was also great overall their acting was more gritty more believable less dreamy than original sin and both actors here had less 'celebrity and 'pretty face' to depend on to make the movie work vega definitely sizzles as to be expected br br director vincente has also built a detailed world again better than original sin that lets you feel the grime and the daily goings on of archaic spain for example people unloading goods from a cart on the street workers changing the candles of the street lamps all in the background of the action br br whilst i greatly sympathize with the recent idea of redeeming our femme like brian de palma's femme fatale carmen is a poignant modern take in the tradition of the noir classic double indemnity and is a delightful pleasure to watch this is another fine example of the triumph of daring european cinema over glitzy and safe hollywood fare
1	there are several ways to misunderstand this movie and a couple of them have been shown in some of the past comments this is a movie to be analyzed as a free recreation of a known subject and therefore not to be compared with the opera the book or other carmen movies seen before it just stands for itself and i must say that this carmen does it very well it is a mistake to compare because that is the first step to deny movies the chance to be autonomous creative works of art vicente is a master of atmosphere and the art direction the costumes and the photography are extremely well put together to achieve a pleasing aesthetic experience let's take it as it is br br and that brings us to the next misunderstanding someone complains about the typical spanish clichés in the movie well historically the movie is extremely well researched and you can see the results of that very serious work in every scene it is not only an accurate portrait of the black spain of knife and that goya portrayed so vividly but it's also of that part of history as seen by a foreigner fascinated with the folkloric side of that society honestly anyone who doesn't want to see any cliché about spain shouldn't buy a ticket to see carmen but in this case those clichés are presented before they became one and the way to see them is getting rid of our own prejudices br br another important requirement to understand this movie properly is to speak the language it is not acceptable to criticize any actor performance for not having understood his or her lines if all the rest of the audience did the problem most likely lies somewhere else paz vega has an immaculate diction with her andalusian accent and all she says is understandable and credible her argentinian partner leonardo gives also a convincing portrait of the basque officer that became a bandolero and her accent is very well learned br br no less important is to have a minimally open approach to the material to say that paz vega is horrible suggests that the author of the phrase entered the theater for the wrong reasons we already had in spain a critic in one of the most prestigious papers that used to recommend us pictures he found homosexually arousing without mentioning it explicitly and that was not totally fair for the rest of us especially for the ones that hadn't detected that the man was writing with parts of his anatomy that many readers didn't necessarily had to care for i'm not suggesting at all that the reviewer had the same motivation but the expectations must have been different as the ones of those among us that went to see a talented and beautiful actress play an almost classic role because that's what we got paz vega is carmen and an excellent one in vicente movie
1	excellent movie in many aspects vicente has succeeded in depicting the time 1830 with meticulous care the light the places the feeling are perfectly perceived from the very start of the movie and along with it in opposite to what happened to mad love la a rather episodic historical movie all of this beautiful photography music clothes is wrapping a very fluid screenplay that reaches its climax in the only possible way br br concerning the actors paz vega as carmen is outstanding liar seductive totally sexual so beautiful carmen is a little less convincing the audience about his instant mad love for carmen but he succeeds in conveying the proper tragic mood to the whole movie i recommend it to everyone the best spanish movie of the year
1	a beautiful film one that made me think of god but not feel guilty nor overwhelmed made me think about death but not fear it think about life but not hide from it a movie that gave both love for all i stand for and at the same time condemned it to the deepest pits of hell a movie that made me think of love and all that i have lost but no sadness graced my eyes for some strange reason relief a child of two worlds god and theater and a good bit of wine and irony i most highly recommend br br when the s hits the fan get a tent oh and we should all go camping every day
1	i really liked this film not so much for the story which was okay but was a bit slow moving in spots but moreso for the incredibly beautiful scenery of greece and the greek isles susan sarandon is utterly engaging as the carefree love interest of john cassavetes a man on the edge but the scenery oh oh oh
1	an extremely gentle retelling of the shakespeare play and much more overt about it than forbidden planet cassavetes is always a joy to watch and even more so with gena rowlands sharing the spotlight his take on the prospero role is well suited for the sort of craggy all knowing expression he brings to the story this especially comes to the forefront in a scene when upon spotting his estranged wife and her lover in a speedboat he conjures up a storm accompanied on the soundtrack by an appropriate selection from go this is only one of the moments throughout the film where the line between reality and fantasy becomes nicely blurred and the viewer is left with the feeling that magic is more possible than one might believe add to this an excellent performance by raul julia plus good work by susan sarandon vittorio gassman and molly ringwald and the film becomes a nice little treat to occupy the space behind your eyes
1	just lovely it is long no climax don't wait for anything to happen great for a rainy day about a man in a mid life crisis who takes his family to a secluded area of the greek isles i saw this in my teens and still love it 20 years later i have been unable to find it in video stores however molly ringwald is a cute average teenager who basically wants to go home and then kind of settles into the place there are no phones no tv boredom which when hit with quietness like that the human condition is to be bored and then to reflect and each character does so susan sarandon plays a beautiful woman who wants to be sexually involved with john cassavetes' character but he is unable to well you know gina rowlands is the wife that loves him but is just about to give up on their marriage he is demanding and frustrating to everyone there is another character in the movie a greek who talks to molly ringwald inappropriately about sex but things that she is curious about but he is irritating and horny and i didn't like this character the locale of the film is what makes this film so so good it wouldn't work if filmed anywhere else i recommend this film and give it a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10
1	i saw this film much like did but when i could manage to see it again and with formal film training psychology and life has had the time to really take me by the hand and start beating me about i really click with the film i remember the pay for service cable channels played this thing almost to death much like poltergeist when it first came out and many other popular films i felt back then it wasn't worth the fuss and constant airtime i know cable isn't really on air given it but i was very young and adult situation drama wouldn't have and shouldn't have worked however recent viewing of the film has enlightened me on the film i think that susan and molly ringwald were likely studying the script together and i would be a bit surprised if had coached ringwald during this project ringwald's other projects while good do not have her exhibiting the potential depth as this role nailed hers as raul julia did also cassavettes and wife delivered acceptable performances but i will admit at times first class acting turns to mediocre a steady ebb and flow to the acting does take place during many scenes but overall i can see why the story might call for the dynamic to become more subtle br br all in all i don't find this film to be the take me out and drown me kind of boredom fest as would have you believe i think that perhaps with the right psychological training and a bit more hardship in one's domestic life strategically placed coupled with some film courses perhaps this film would appear different i would say if you are feeling a bit melancholy and yearn for a simpler life and you have had your share of marital discord amongst dysfunctional family units then perhaps this film might provide more insight and entertainment than you might think i do feel it is a classic and find it much more entertaining than mainstream films that are supposed to share many of the same elements such as terms of endearment which as far as i am concerned could be stripped of a few extraordinary performances by jack nicholson then burned until nothing is left how could a film like that get more attention than this one talk about boredom best thing don't take my word or anyone else's see the film and support our industry
1	i just cannot believe the low scores for this movie probable reason has to do with the low number of votes meaning few people have seen it this is simply a fantastic movie there are so many stories inter within but it's not complicated each character grows with the movie and we experience with them undergoing life changes the scenery is simply amazing and the end credits are the best ever in any movie i have seen just like a shakespeare play yes it's a little dated filmed in 1982 but the issues the characters face are very current it could have been filmed in 2002 without modifications to the story line raul julia is amazing best role ever in a movie this is his signature piece a young molly ringwald is excellent as she matures from girl to young woman susan sarandon is perfect as a young carefree woman and john cassavetes is the force that puts this all together do yourself a favor find this movie view it enjoy it come back to imdb and score this movie into the top 250 of all time where it really belongs
1	paul tempest interesting odd and strange movie about a mid life crisis set in nyc and a remote greek island with john cassavettes as world renowned architect who decides to drop out he is accompanied by his daughter molly ringwald and a lounge singer susan sarandon a beautiful transfer of this 25 year old movie on the dvd but without any extras not even the theatrical trailer tons of great scenery and razor sharp dialogue make this 2 and a half hour movie an interesting trip raul julia and gena rowlands round out a strong cast a good drama mixed with comedy and tension and near insanity this recent dvd release is worth renting b
1	william shakespeare probably didn't envision as a gay doctor antonio as a faithless wife or as a with a but the bard's had worse done to his good work over time and might even enjoy the sumptuous pageant of life that is his tempest as re configured by paul mazursky and co writer leon br br this time prospero is philip john cassevetes a manhattan based architect tired of designing atlantic city casinos for the amiable mafioso alonso vittorio gassman especially after discovering alonso is carrying on an affair with philip's wife antonia gena rowlands along with daughter miranda molly ringwald philip escapes to a remote greek island with miranda and his new mistress aretha susan sarandon a nice catholic girl who struggles with philip's celibate lifestyle will a sudden storm bring all right in the end br br here's a thought on the career of cassevetes how many other actors could make a film so confused into something so riveting a darling of film critics for his earlier work often with his real life wife rowlands he presents a central character who really suffers for his art here but seems to enjoy himself and makes us enjoy him too it's not prospero but something rich and strange that makes for a terrific sea change all his own br br it's all here he tells one of his faithful companions dog nino beauty magic inspiration and serenity that it is tempest transfers london to 1982 manhattan and finds some nice in philip's displaced life show me the magic he calls out to a storm tossed city and version augmented by donald sterling cinematography of purple seascapes and naturally sun greek landscapes does just that br br it's not a perfect movie by any means in fact the big finale which is the only part of the movie that follows shakespeare's storyline to any faithful extent is a mess rowland's character is hard to care much for in this film and after meeting sarandon in all her glory it's hard to understand philip's continuing concern for his wife let alone his left field desire to make an unhappy sacrifice in order to restore the natural order of things br br but there's a lot to love about tempest in addition to cassavetes there's ringwald's film debut as his loyal but restless daughter here as in the play an object of desire for the primitive rustic raul julia ringwald here is very much the same teenaged muse of privileged adolescence that would inspire john hughes but with an emotional depth those later hughes films didn't delve into ringwald and julia never got any oscar attention but they both would win golden globes for their playful work here he tries to woo her in her island isolation with his tv reruns of gunsmoke in greek tempted by her 15 year old body br br i want to you with my bonny johnny declares getting shoved aside but winning our sympathy anyway especially after performing new york new york with a chorus of goats when tempest hit the screens julia was the toast of broadway as the lead in nine br br it's show even if it feels at times that cassavetes is running things with improvisational line readings and emotional breakdowns galore philip introduces himself to aretha by telling her i'm right in the middle of a nervous breakdown he plays his character as an amiable obsessive seeking to his happiness by building an theater in his otherwise uninhabited island br br adding to the enjoyment is rich performance as the other man who is as completely amiable as julia while telling a youth obsessed philip boys don't have half as much fund as we have they're nervous and they make love in the back of an old sports car despite being overlong and pretentious in spots like so many art films tempest is entertaining in its excesses and a trip very much like shakespeare intended even if his dreams didn't involve smoking pot backstage at a go gos concert
1	cheers to all the wonderful fans of this film that have not only seen and appreciate it but based on the many literate comments actually get it i for one have always considered paul tempest a on the shakespeare play of the same name as has been noted in a few of the other reviews here on the other hand if you're looking for a more straightforward adaptation of the play you should look elsewhere as an experiment however it succeeds just spectacularly charming moving funny sad dramatic it's all of that and much more cast locations script music are just fantastic cassavetes and rowland were never better susan sarandon's turn more than hinted at the great work to come from her in the future molly ringwald makes her film debut memorable and you just have to love raul julia's performance he steals the show in several scenes what's more the always great cassavetes was confident and assured enough a performer to have let him a study on what the thematic elements of shakespeare's classic might be life if updated into more modern times tempest burns brilliantly
1	i love this movie despite the fact it just misses being great it's an adult entertainment full of issues that a grown person can relate to the acting is superb it's fun watching john cassavetes and gena rowlands as a feuding middle aged couple who knows how much of it came from their own marriage susan sarandon has never been sexier or more appealing than as her freewheeling character aretha raul julia is a hoot as a lusty the scenery in greece is spectacular the new york settings cause me to squirm due to many shots of the world trade center fantastic score by with so many things going for it why isn't this a great film it's a bit rambling and overly long unfocused and uncomfortably imbalanced between humor and drama still it's engaging entertaining and deeply thoughtful
1	what will be prospero in the twentieth century what is his life why a man would need to choose to live on an island with his daughter and girl friend because it is too hard to live and love in good conditions in civilisation this man john cassavetes is a broken hearted giant he can command the storm he's got the power the but he is human deep love of life is the subject of this movie the acting is incredible all the genius of john cassavetes gena rowlands vittorio and shakespeare and paul mazursky of course don't miss it it'll be a mistake this film is one of the most beautiful i've ever seen and i've seen a lot of movies
1	sweet entertaining tale of a young 17 1 2 year old boy controlled by by an overbearing religious mother and withdrawn father and how he finds himself through his work with a retired eccentric and tragic actress very well acted especially by julie walters rupert plays the role of the teenage boy well showing his talent will last longer than the harry potter series of films laura linney plays his ruthlessly strict mother without a hint of redemption so there's no room to like her at all but the film is a very entertaining film made well by the british in the style of the likes of keeping mum and calendar girls
1	i've often heard people express disappointment that tempest has little to do with shakespeare's original in my opinion that is both true and false but most of all it's a bad starting point for offering critique a work of art should never be criticised for what it isn't but for what it is the movie tempest is nothing like a faithful rendition of the play but to my mind it is faithful to shakespeare's work in spirit what tempest is then is perhaps one of the most successful experimental films of all time no not experimental as in hand held camera and mumbled dialogue but experimental as in exploring the convolutions of a story without undue regard for box office earnings tempest is epic sad realistic joyous full of life but most of all it is imaginative cassavetes portrayal of philip prospero is in itself worth a 10 10 rating and when you add gena rowlands susan sarandon a wonderfully deep molly ringwald raul julia the dialogue the music and the exquisitely suggestive little tableaux scattered throughout the picture i rest my case one of the best movies of the 80's don't miss it
1	i love this movie and all aspects of it well directed as a comedy and as a drama the acting is tremendous performed by an all star cast who play the high society new york perfectly the scenery is incredible totally breathtaking i also love the story a successful nyc architect who is going through a midlife crisis leaves his cheating wife and runs off to a greek island to hide out with his daughter who chooses to go with him br br i just cannot express my love affair enough regarding this movie show me the magic
1	i can't say what knowing the source for this movie adds but this is one of my favorite films from paul mazursky director and co author this is a retake on the shakespeare comedy but utterly removed from the stage without much text mazursky and star cassavettes make visual a mid life crisis of passion and purpose desperate to re center himself cassavettes retreats to a remote greek island where the locals and the island itself weave a little magic with raul julia especially susan sarandon and molly ringwald this is an adult fantasy that is emotionally satisfying and visually gorgeous and funny it wasn't a big box office hit but whenever it does come to dvd it will sell
1	for many years i thought i was the only person on the planet who had seen tempest and i am so glad to learn that i am not the only person who discovered this sleeper somewhere in their movie going travails loosely based on the shakesperean play tempest follows an architect the late john cassavettes in one of his best performances bored with his work and his crumbling marriage to real life spouse gene who decides to chuck it all say the hell with the rat race and go live on an island with his daughter molly ringwald in her film debut and new girlfriend aretha a luminous susan sarandon even though paul mazursky is credited as director cassavettes hand is all over this film the long scenes filmed without cutting the improvisatory feel to the dialogue the self indulgent storytelling style this is definitely his show from beginning to end and if you're not a fan of his work the film will seem laboriously long and dull but if you are a fan there are rewards to be had cassavettes is surrounded by a first rate cast his scenes with rowlands crackle with intensity and his surprising chemistry with sarandon is a stark contrast to his scenes with rowlands ringwald shines in her film debut and there is a scene stealing performance by the late raul julia as cassavettes' manservant on the island julia stops the show in one scene dancing with a flock of sheep accompanied by liza minnelli singing new york new york this film is sad and tragic and funny and intense yes it's a little long and disjointed and it works a little too hard at being different there's even a curtain call at the end of the film but it never fails to hold the attention of those who like something a little different in their filmgoing
1	tempest is a somewhat self indulgent uneven discursive movie but as lord byron another visitor to greece protested to his friend john murray about his similarly self indulgent and discursive don juan it may be profligate but is it not life is it not the thing br br the connections to shakespeare's tempest may seem as another commentator here claims a bit tenuous but watch the film again after re reading the tempest and they'll seem far closer what makes this film flawed is its uneasy mixture of straightforward normal narrative and sudden jarring apparent improvisation particularly between cassavetes and rowland but to be honest these scenes are the most remarkable and gripping in the film if the hardest to watch br br the music of this film composed by is also overlooked particularly fine is the perfect little piece played to accompany the afternoon siesta as people animals and seemingly the entire island collapse to sleep away the hottest part of the afternoon it's a sublime moment and representative of the best aspect of this movie and the one thing that keeps it somewhat unified the fact that aside from extensive flashbacks and the very end it is the story of one day on an island from awakening to night br br overall i'd rather watch this film a hundred times than see some bombastic hollywood piece of crap once and in fact i probably have watched it several dozen times most times i see something i missed before br br confession i'm biased this was the second movie i took my greek american goddess wife to see br br trivia notes on this flick br br it was molly ringwald's first movie as well as sam br br it was actually not filmed on an island but in the southern tip of the remote mani peninsula of the of greece br br the by today's standards primitive special effects were done by who later became head of disney and still later was an adviser to the us intelligence community br br paul mazursky the director chose the title of his recent autobiography show me the magic from the script of tempest
1	i've rented this gem several times it's a small yet somehow sprawling masterpiece taking the viewer from manhattan glitz to the beauty of the greek islands john cassavetes on screen marriage to his real life wife gena rowlands is on the rocks he finds meaning in a fling with footloose susan sarandon whom he finds in greece while their daughter played in her earliest film role by the pubescent molly ringwald falls for the son of the greek shipping tycoon who is courting her mother on a yacht sailing in neighboring waters meanwhile the immensely talented raul julia plays a living in a cave with his sony he has the hots for molly ringwald's character until confronted by john cassavetes all comes together at the end in a classic closing scene where all is reconciled raul julia the is seen dancing with his goat this film is full of mysticism beauty young and old love humor sexiness and more see it
1	i absolutely fell in love with living in a big way when i first saw it reason 1 is because i love adore and am a huge fan of gene kelly he was such a wonderful dancer actor and choreographer not to mention his extremely handsome looks and his sensual personality i love his role in this movie he was such a gentleman this movie showcased his wonderful talent for acting i enjoyed marie macdonald as well it was my first time of ever seeing or knowing anything about her and this excellent movie made me a fan of her's as well actually the whole cast in this movie was enjoyable and great the humor between the butler and the father mr morgan mrs morgan's courtroom humor and especially grandmother morgan's immediate attachment to and concern for leo and gene's number fido and me is adorable the opening dance number with gene and marie is very nice too i would recommend that anyone see this movie it will truly remain dear to your heart forever or at least it has to mine and you'll fall in love with gene all over again i rate it my 2 favorite gene kelly movie and i've seen and own a quite many of his movies they're a part of my daily routine so trust me when i tell you you'll love this movie watch it and enjoy
1	i thought this movie was fun i have never really watched old movies before and this one was a really great first date film it had warmth and heart and spirit was kind of cheesy but in today's film industry cheesy is cute i gave it a ten and i highly suggest renting buying or seeing the movie anyway you can gene kelly was very dreamy and a little bit sarcastic and you knew the character thought that he was gonna have it all the female lead was cast perfect because their two personalities had spark and you wanted to hold on and see what would happen the grandma in the movie was priceless the perfect addition to a great old movie i love the fact it was black and white and gene kelly is so sweet with all the kids in the movie that you can't help liking him see it
1	i thought this movie was quite good it was on tcm turner classic movies at three am one night and its offbeat humor kept me up til five kelly performs beautifully in this role especially with the grandma whose quip almost caused me to laugh out of my seat the main actress was alright but the father was able to keep his character isolated from the marriage conflict and kept the humor coming if you like a good offbeat older movie i would recommend it unlike the other comment i do like gene kelly he was the perfect leading actor for many of the early musicals and i think in this role he oozes his charisma one drawback is the dance scenes get a little long winded but if you can get through those you're in the clear
1	this show is great not only is a very well written anime show it also reflects things like philosophy science fiction and a little religion it's hilarious at some points and cute for lack of a better term at others actually this may be effect to my lack of experience with japanese anime shows but it is one of the best of its genre i have seen br br i mainly have to give credit to the writers i haven't seen such brilliant scopes of imagination in a television show since the original star trek i hope the writers continue to add strange new characters and give more insight on the already great characters that have been added br br 9 10
1	loved this movie what a hoot rupert and julie are great together with rupert being almost poker faced against julie's animation which worked well laura did a good job as the overbearing mother julie of course is marvellous as usual while this movie will keep you laughing most of the time it also has a poignant side to it as it unravels the secrets in the lives of the main characters interesting that it was entitled driving lessons as this might lead you to believe this is the main feature of the movie which directly it is not though it certainly could be seen as ben finally being in the driving seat in his own life like most things that are funny in life there is always the sad side and there are some moving moments in this movie very enjoyable movie and well worth watching
1	melancholy of is based on somewhat pat formula by now of japanese school drama anime the formula somewhat goes like this br br 1 the main protagonist comes from world outside the normal society and has super powers br br 2 there's a very beautiful and sexy girl in a supporting role br br 3 a normal character is in there who shares the main role in the story br br 4 unusual things happens in an usual social settings br br 5 sometimes the story is about the main protagonist and the normal character that connects to the existence or destruction of the world br br 6 absolutely no effort is spent by anyone to gain all the magical powers they just have it br br 7 usually people outside of this tight nit group is not aware of their super powers and goes on with their daily lives br br so there you have it melancholy of is made along these lines which became the success formula for comics and anime in japan even though it follows a pat formula the series is superbly crafted and the episodes are always set in an interesting back drop within the normal social settings which always morphs into unusual circumstances surrounding each player in the story brings some unusual insight into the daily life that usually we are not aware of the philosophical twist of their insights are what makes this series extra entertaining the visuals are first rate and done beautifully br br the crazy ideas always seem to come up with along with complicated settings of the story may give you headache from time to time it's further complicated by the fact that the episodes are played out of sequence which further adds to the confusion when i watched the episodes in the chronological sequence some of the plots finally made sense i recommend you do the same it's much more entertaining to watch the series this way google br br list of the melancholy of episodes br br for the correct sequence of all the episodes and oh you might notice the headache while you're watching this like i did let me know if you had it too
1	i have no words to really describe this series br br the premise behind this concept a highly hyperactive girl with a very eccentric personality which ends up whirling up a team of oddballs into her own rendering of the world which after all was a creation of since she wants a world with aliens and time travelers is a breath of fresh air in a world ridden with repetitive anime series and non innovative tv shows br br characters are well developed and you will end up loving them some less than others the word to describe the animation job does not exist since excellent would really fall short to describe how was done there are many funny situations which either will make you smile or put you into deep thoughts don't fall for the impression of the first episode since that's only the tip of the iceberg as the novels are yet to come br br the only problem comes due to the lack of chronological order in the episodes but you can solve that problem no br br conclusion unquestionably one of the best series of 2006
1	i tend to fall in and out of love with anime as the more you watch the more you notice a lot of shows are just poor copies of the few gems or rehashes of old formulas but every once in a while one of the true gems comes along and it's originality just blows you away is truly one of those shows many anime series are originally manga and sometimes the translation into an animated show is rather poorly done and doesn't utilize the benefits animation has over static drawings is actually based on a series of light novels and fires on all cylinders beautiful animation great voice acting great music and a complete and well paced story watch it you won't be disappointed and i'd suggest watching it in broadcast order it works so much better that way
1	on the surface appears to be yet another generic high school drama but surprisingly hidden away underneath is immense amounts of depth originality and eccentricities that will not only render it unforgettable to the viewer but also makes it indisputably one of the best animes that the medium has produced in the last few years br br we see the world through the eyes of who on his first day of high school meets a girl that boldly claims to the rest of the class she has no interest in 'normal humans' and to top it off casually invites any aliens time travellers sliders or to meet up with her stares in disbelief wondering if shes joking or has a few screws loose however defying his gut instincts he begins talking to her in doing so it soon becomes apparent she isn't some ordinary high schooler not to long after she creates her own aptly named school club and drags amongst other highly unfortunate people to attend br br nothing in this anime conforms to the usual standard conventions the protagonist is an overly cynical pessimist and contributes a witty narration to the show a far cry from the usual 2d male leading characters that tends to populate the medium the episodes themselves are not chronological and forces the viewer to think about the events unfolding and how they relate to prior instances this is a stroke of genius the effect is like a jig saw puzzle as a new piece is layed we get more of a sense of the bigger picture previous scenes are now given entire new meanings and the realization of them are profoundly satisfying this does mean however that it feels dis jointed its anything but a very cleverly written script has bypassed this problem and ensured that it flows smoothly from start to finish br br the story itself is strikingly original but i won't delve further than the simple bare bones plot outline i gave earlier as it will no doubt spoil it for you however what i will mention is the plot incorporates a vast array of genres ranging from comedy to sci fi how they managed to accomplish this in the space of fourteen episodes is beyond me and no doubt a huge achievement in itself br br is a true gem which has such diversity and depth that it will appeal to pretty much anyone with an interest in anime watch it rather unusually this is something that lives up to the enormous hype that it has received and even exceeds it
1	the melancholy of is an anime that left quite the impression on me partially for the characters many of whom fall into anime fantasy sci fi stereotypes but placing these stereotypes in the rather mundane setting of high school is a twist that i appreciated then there's the somewhat insane titular character who is something else a headstrong almost amoral girl with ridiculous amounts of talent and a secret that she's not aware of br br the set up for the series is a bit of a mind trip essentially unbeknown to herself is a sort of super powerful being capable of god like feats of creation and destruction as she can destroy and rebuild reality to her whim our narrator and primary character is a high schooler whose sympathy curiosity for appears to cause her to drag him against his will into a club she's starting to spice up her life because she's bored with the normal life searching for adventure she claims three more unusual members each with secrets and they all end up being dragged into her crazy schemes br br there is a bit of crazy but enjoyable philosophic consideration early on as we debate whether the world is merely creation as she gets bored of the old one and whether our characters exist to serve her or serve her to continue to exist or whether they could exist without her it's a bit of a conundrum but an enjoyable one all the same while sci fi fantasy scenarios do occasionally occur in the series i think the joy of the series lies in how normal things are while there remains this tension in knowing that if things are too boring might destroy the world in hopes of making it more interesting br br the art is clean and in line with what i've come to expect from the anime that typically gets imported to the us i like the character designs and while there isn't a whole lot of action in the series i think it sits better that way the series is narrated from the mind of and he doesn't play an omniscient narrator but only comments on what he knows and what he feels he's has a lot going on in his head but he doesn't actually speak a whole lot so it's good that we get to hear it br br the voice acting in the english dub is acceptable enough but i prefer the japanese acting over it there are some stranger aspects to the series some of which both parodies and traffics in fanboy ism which i found amusing for the first season i have to admit that there's a lack of closure as the series doesn't really have an larger story arc but seems to take things one at a time so it's an easy series to pick up and put down although i think that because of its rather entertaining qualities it's still quite hard to put down it's also based on a series of light novels and the author was directly involved in the writing of the series br br even though it's based on the novels i still wish that the over series had stronger story arcs but i love how naturally we get to watch these characters develop and how well the series can play out the quiet moments as well as the crazier ones seeing grow herself was quite a treat as well as watching the relationships develop between the sos brigade club br br it's not for everyone due to its mind twisting premise and extra ordinary beings in a mundane world setting it probably won't sate fanboys who are into action sci fi fantasy and might be a little too off kilter for the more relationship oriented drama lovers but for those willing to try out something a little different or that like strangely quirky series like this i think the melancholy of is a rather refreshingly unique and enjoyable series more please 9 10
1	i first heard about the melancholy of from a reviewer on youtube he literally slapped the show with a big bad rant condemning it rubbish and confusing curious i decided to watch the show once i got the order of the episodes right thanks to those who made the lists and i found it absolutely brilliant and enjoyable to watch great memorable characters who are full of life and are absolutely lovable and hilarious a unique and not over blowing plot that makes sense now that i've watched the show and two of the best anime moments in history in my opinion plus the opening and ending themes are great br br the anime based on a collection of successful manga novels follows a simple plot once you understand it while the show's focus is on the main character the point of view is from her friend is a regular high school student who doesn't really believe in supernatural stuff e g santa clause aliens time travellers ghosts but he soon ends up talking to who is the most oddest girl in the school and would prefer to date an alien considering all men worthless she even joined every club in the school to find something interesting but quit as quickly as she joined upon advice from decides to form her own club with club setting up in the literary club room forms the sos brigade its mission to investigate supernatural cases think scooby doo minus the dog the masked man and the mystery machine br br recruits three extra members the first is yuki a bookworm of sorts who speaks very little and spends most of her time reading and sitting the second is a shy girl who is forced into the club by who thinks they need a cute mascot to get some things done she is often forced into costumes by to further her cuteness the third is a friendly and sociable transfer student who is always smiling while thinks her group is filled with normal people she couldn't be more wrong while is as normal as you can get the other three on the other hand are rather unique yuki is an alien is a time traveller from the future and is an a person who has esp all three have come to watch over who may just have the powers of a god and if she becomes bored she may be able to discover her powers and create a whole new world and is involved somehow br br the show is worth watching with great characters music and some hilarious and wonderful moments however for parents there is some sexual references including cleavage being exposed or touched several times and several swear words used as well apart from that the show is one of the greats
1	from the get go you won't be able to look away and you won't want to the melancholy of no is one of the most entertaining animes i've seen in a long time if you can look away from the insane and sometimes perverse humor it's easy to find a brilliantly constructed and masterfully executed work br br part of the brilliance comes from the fact that the episodes are not in chronological order so you may not understand some of the things they talk about at first but as the series progresses you'll find yourself saying ah so that's what they meant even though this might confuse some people after watching the show you'll be hard pressed to make a case against telling the story in this fashion br br after all the focus is on the characters the title character is by far one of the most eccentric heroines of any anime ever her opening speech to her class in which she declares she is not interested in normal humans and is searching for aliens and time travelers is absolutely bizarre but she's lovable that way br br then there's the normal guy who is pulled into the madness surrounding san he's the narrator and his quick wit always makes the scene that much more entertaining he finds himself caught in the middle of various factions all trying to influence and the other three characters are representatives of these factions ironically they are the very beings is searching for and yet they cannot reveal themselves to her br br the first is yuki a quiet girl who happens to be the only member of the school literary club and also a representative of the integration thought entity she is basically an alien though the best description of her is a computer program in a human body her purely emotionless responses make her comically deadpan and always make you think there's more than meets the eye then there's the time traveler who happens to be incredibly cute a major ditz and the subject of plans to advertise her club the sos brigade to the world the end result is that does things to her that border on sexual harassment making her dress up in fetish uniforms the final character is the timid and perpetually optimistic philosopher who happens to be though he can only use his powers in certain conditions br br the end result of all these characters is a comedy unlike any other that is both crude and deep and always brilliant don't believe me watch the first episode their student film you'll see what i mean
1	a 2006 online poll of japan's top 100 favorite animated television series of all time conducted by tv placed this series in fourth place that tells you everything you need to know so go and watch it i won't comment on the story simply because i don't want to ruin anything i only urge you to keep watching after you saw the first episode the animation is really good and above tv average the best thing about this series is that there is finally something new i mean it's not groundbreaking but still it offers a fresh new idea and likable characters you won't regret entering world br br and the best thing a movie is coming soon
1	at first sight this is yet another highschool anime with lots of excuses for but there is a lot more going on the is part of the plot the main character is a tired cynic unusual and most importantly there is a clever plot that ties all the episodes together and that poses some interesting questions the episodes are deliberately non chronological and it is certainly worth watching the series again in chronological order br br the series is worth watching carefully because there are a lot of casual hints in there that foreshadow and explain things plus a good number of in jokes about other series anime and other
1	good animation nice character design and a light hearted story make no enjoyable to watch br br after my first viewing i thought that this anime was pretty good but but was much better on for a second watch br br this is because it is done out of chronological order and once you re watch it in correct order you notice connections you didn't see before or it may be that you see a second meaning to some events you didn't notice before you may want to read the original novels not manga by before after seeing this the anime is very good at visualizing every detail in the stories it shows br br however there are some short stories from the book that are not animated but are referenced to bamboo w wishes attached shown in episode 14 overall this anime is actually very good once after brief of the plot reading the book improves upon it as well it is a nice break from the shounen jump anime that seem to be taking over
1	i watched this film on itv and i enjoyed it a lot it was very watchable and very funny julie walters and rupert were perfect in their roles julie walters gets a special mention since she creates a wonderful diverse interesting character to watch ben's character is kinda shy and stoic but the changes he goes through are wonderfully acted out by rupert i would definitely say he has a future in acting after harry potter br br laura linney is quite good in her role as ben's over protective mother the only thing they went wrong with is by making her too villain y ben's father was also an interesting contrast to his mother and in the end he is quite honourable too the only character i wasn't keen on was she was a bit plain and unnecessary i thought br br overall this is a great comedy drama that is very easy to watch one of my favourite films of the year easily
1	no the melancholy of might at a first glance make you think that this is just another animated school comedy drama well it's not the setting just happen to be a school environment this is a comedy alright but a very smart one with a lot of sarcasm and the characters does have a psychological which is almost in the same class that can be found in the works of ingmar bergman the episodes is aired as it seems out of order i e the pilot is in fact episode 11 this makes it possible to present small clues to upcoming episodes the show is an adaption of popular novel series about br br what about the story then like in all the episodes does the story revolves who tries to ease her own boredom by embarking in adventures her self has no interest in ordinary humans and actively searches for aliens time travelers and persons with supernatural forces to find this sort of people she has formed a club which she calls the sos brigade save the world by it with fun brigade except for the other members of the sos brigade is he is the real protagonist of the show it's trough his point of view that we follow the story he just happen to sit in front in class when came up with the idea to form the sos brigade he is quite sceptical to most club activities and tags along just to ensure that don't go to much to the extremes and he is the only one in the class that likes to talk with another member is yuki which is the indispensable silent member and is also the only remaining member of the literature club which room the sos brigade has occupied in the quest for a free club room she doesn't mind that the sos brigade uses her as long as she can sit in a corner and read her books she also participate in the brigades activities was voluntarily arrested by because the club needed a lolita like mascot for anything suspicious to happen she often act as the clubs maid the last member is the always smiling who happens to be the mysterious transfer student meaning he transfered two months in to the semester which finds to qualifies as mysterious br br thinks that all members but are some random picked people in school but the do indeed have their own interest in her
1	no is a very high rated anime in almost every review page you'll find on the web so i really wanted to know why and i was anything but disappointed br br if you can get past the very bizarre but rather funny first episode you'll find yourself in a very entertaining and much strange world a very well drawn perfectly animated world that is br br i can't tell much of the story without spoiling it so i'll just say that it's a high school comedy and yet it's not i can't really say what it's about really br br seriously i'm a huge anime fan and i've got around 50 full series and i'm not kidding when i say that even though i haven't finished watching it is actually standing in a very high rank in my personal collection i fell in love at first sight with this one and i assure you that at the very least you won't be indifferent to its irresistible charm trust me i don't go around giving a 10 to every thing that i watch
1	okay let me start off by saying that on the whole i don't like anime very much i've enjoyed a couple of the oft cited classic series but regard the medium as a whole in exactly the same way that i do american television namely that a good 90 95 of it is utter tripe with the remainder falling anywhere from watchable to decent this being the case it's no wonder that i don't like the self deprecating anime parodies out there i don't get most of the jokes and the medium itself enforces a certain style of humor that doesn't appeal to me at all loud hyperactive lowbrow and completely over the top br br so when i started watching this series at the behest of a friend i was primed for disappointment after the first couple of episodes i figured that the characters were supposed to represent cliché characters from shopworn story outlines and that their actions were supposed to be similarly satirical i could kind of see where it was coming from but didn't think that it was all that clever lots of wacky fun filled high school shenanigans and goings on only now we're being ironic about it at about the third episode my opinion drastically changed br br it was at that point that the strengths of this series started to manifest themselves the quirks of the non chronological episode order its snarky sense of self awareness and above all clever humor with gasp a well executed straight man br br in what i consider to be a rarity in any medium this show presents well thought out witty interactions between diametrically opposed characters protagonist perpetual sense of vaguely annoyed resignation provides the perfect foil to the actions of title character generic anime like exploits it's a break from formula and it works incredibly well br br based on that strong foundation the series further succeeds with a truly phenomenal level of attention to detail as previously stated the episodes air out of chronological order i considered this to be a gimmick at first but it works surprisingly well the chronological sequence of events makes sense logically but the aired order of the episodes more closely follows the traditional structure of aristotelian drama the order chosen leaves no narrative gaps that cannot be filled by simple inference but while it is possible to guess what happened in an unaired preceding episode one still feels compelled to watch exactly how those events unfold and superb planning prevents any plot holes or contradictions i watched this series a second time immediately upon completing it the first time and i was amazed at how well even seemingly inconsequential events were all tied together br br the last point is indicative of the extreme attention to detail in every area of the series while the stock anime character designs grate a bit the background art is exquisite realistically rendered based upon actual photographic references animation quality is also excellent at important points for example there is a musical performance late on in the series in which the characters are shown actually playing a song this may sound trivial but the subconscious effect of watching film quality animation which actually corresponds to the soundtrack is incredible br br in short i love this series for some reason by its very nature it is something that i generally dislike but its execution is so unique and well carried out that i can't help it
1	a must see br br excellent positive african american love story this movie had reminded me of watching the old black and white movies with my dad more true to life characters looking for love being in love and loosing it old story fresh view larenz tate was so cary grant in style as the character may have been in a situation but the actor kept him from looking silly and like a cardboard cut out long has always been a favorite of mine she is sweet even when she is tough almost like a hepburn this is one of his best work and showing that he is better than always playing an angry black man br br this movie is a classic superb acting well written a real love story set in chicago what more can you ask for br br superb black love story br br amsterdam holland
1	working in a music store my first tipped me this soundtrack the music of this movie is perfect one of my favorite cd's only years later i saw the movie i was afraid it would not fulfill my high expectations luckily it did a feel good romantic love story
1	this is my favorite movie that portrays african americans in whole different light because it shows a different side of african americans that it is not shown in the movies its not the gang bang urban ghetto setting or having to deal with deep racial issues it captivates the whole essence of being young and trying to be successful and having problems with letting your guard down and letting someone into your life and the whole bohemian atmosphere gives that great touch that makes all that great its a great script great dialoge that captivates you and you just get involved with the character perfect casting with a lot of chemistry and very good acting and i still haven't seen any other movie with black characters that are portrayed in this format the only one that get close is sprung but since its a comedy it looses it very quickly i give this movie 9 out of 10 and i wish they would keep making movies with this type of attitude about african americans
1	i try to be diverse in my movie watching i can get into pride and prejudice as easily as i get into disappearing acts love jones is my all time favorite it is the standard by which i judge any modern urban romantic comedy shot very well the shot of and darius riding up lakeshore drive on the motorcycle is one of classic 3 second movie shots of all time of course no one will ever remember it when it came out i though it would be a new paradigm for modern urban film making good actors no guns and so forth the movie industry has disappointed me to a certain degree you will have your occasional drumline or roll bounce or tyler perry's why did i get married so whenever i need to see my people presented on screen in a very professional and stylish way i pop in love jones there is no best movie ever made to many people and opinions for that but it is my personal best my favorite line from love jones baby i just wanna come up and talk
1	this movie had reminded me of watching the old black and white movies with my dad more true to life characters looking for love being in love and loosing it old story fresh view larenz tate was so cary grant in style as the character may have been in a situation but the actor kept him from looking silly and like a cardboard cut out long has always been a favorite of mine she is sweet even when she is tough almost like a hepburn this is one of his best work and showing that he is better than always playing an angry black man br br this movie is a classic superb acting well written a real love story set in chicago what more can you ask for br br superb black love story
1	late film critic gene siskel said that this movie shows how easy it is to make a movie he was giving it a compliment even though now that might have been taken as an insult these days even though i didn't always agree with gene siskel i agree with him here love jones is a shining example of how a love story should be realistic with real characters in real situations br br the story chronicles the ups and downs of the relationship between darius larenz tate and nina long larenz tate and long are more than just a beautiful couple on screen these two actually have chemistry together you can feel the vibe between these two whenever the are on screen and its fantastic br br bill bellamy is pretty funny as the deceitful wood and lisa nicole carson is great as nina's friend simone isaiah washington is just as great as close friend and i sigh every time i see him in a movie the guy is a great actor whose career is ruined by industry lowlifes and the childish games they play you can believe that he called the little weasel on grey's anatomy out of his name but anybody that knows how follywood works knows better than to believe any official story from the place of make believe at any rate br br love jones is a wonderful love story full of interesting and likable characters that are in realistic situations that anybody that has been in love can relate too you love these people because they are believable and are not portrayed as gangsters and tramps not one obscene stereotype can be found here contrast that with the romance movies of toady exactly in closing if you love black cinema then you would do well to own a copy of this movie
1	love jones is one of the best movies i've experienced br br the main element that sticks out to me is the fact that it is very well directed i have studied this film in it's entirety with watching movies more than once certain things dawn on you subconsciously the direction of this movie as well as the writing is chic hip and artful i am in love with the direction the scene where larenz tate and long are riding the motorcycle through north chicago at night is astonishing the director of this movie deserved awards for his great job br br love jones is a classy and sexy film it highlights the fact that we can be people who love who have flaws who love living learning and just being us without the hype being our natural selves br br the poetry is wonderful but the story line the dialog and the scenes really make this movie br br this movie deserves to be seen it is a great movie for lovers and friends to sit back and watch or the hopeless romantic like myself to sit back and enjoy alone on a friday or saturday night any day of the week where peace solitude and a little entertainment is needed love jones is what i recommend
1	driving lessons sees two middle class quintessential british families meet head on when character comes into contact with walters a slightly deranged out of touch actress with an ego betrays his overpowering and over christian mother linney and goes off travelling with to scotland to accompany her on a trip to participate in a poetry reading something she claims could be her last due to an illness br br portrayal of a caged youngster brainwashed by an overbearing and even hypocritical mother is the masterpiece of this film his portrayal of a downtrodden teen in search of his true morals and happiness is captivating to watch unfold throughout the film is sharply shot and well paced with very few moments leaving you tired an achievement particularly considering the nature of the plot walters really grabs hold of her character with both hands and successfully brings the audience to her side of things emphasising linney's ironic immorality throughout her role in driving lessons is enjoyable and memorable in every sense br br the plot develops nicely leaving the audience cheering on as he chases back to place during his lunch break during his stint at a local bookshop to apologise for his wrongdoings the values in the piece are continued and brought out thoroughly up until the final drag in a very consistent way the overbearing and relieving main idea being that religion doesn't lead to happiness and certainly doesn't lead to morality br br the audience are left sympathising with the radical but lovable with her and making an irresistible partnership on the big screen transferred directly from their debut in the harry potter series charismatic and beautiful acting together with a tight and fact paced script make this a must see this christmas
1	this film was filled with great acting great musical sounds that blow your mind completely away larenz tate darius waist deep '06 was a sharp cat with the gals and he soon met his waterloo with long nina mosley big momma's house 2000 nina put her heart and soul into this role and when she meets up with darius the sparks fly at first and then there is a sort of hate relationship the entire cast of actors made this a very entertaining film with plenty of comedy drama and lots of loving and cheating going on this is a very down to earth film and at the same time shows how everyone eventually has his and her destiny in life and are placed in their little corner of this big world great film enjoy
1	i have watched love jones over thirty times it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans the dialogue was realistically written and delivered with honesty it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans this is virtually an untapped market love jones was visually captivating as well the chemistry between lorenz tate and long will bring memories of past and present love the feeling of the film is jazz and blues and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and if you hadn't guessed i loved it
1	from the opening sequence filled with black and white shots reminiscent of gordan parks photos this film draws the viewer into a feeling of artistic renaissance the backdrop of a poetry cafe aptly named the sanctuary provides just that the jazz that permeates the film and the cinematography will seduce you br br this story of love actually allows love to grow to evolve and ultimately mature a rarity in hollywood everyone can identify with some stage of their journey towards each other this tale of two artist that just can't quite get it together sparked a debate amongst its viewers should she have gone away should he have stopped her who knows br br starring larenz tate darius and long nina moseley with a scene stealing performance by isiah washington and lisa nicole carson josie nichols as the ultimate best friend this film is a romantic jewel br br see this one with someone you love wink
1	this is a must for all but especially african americans it is about time there is a movie that expresses and shows the concerns going on in african american relationships it also allows other cultures to see in a fictional humorous manner how positive african american relationships are and the outcomes of them instead of the undesirable stereotype that plagues the african american community i love this film a must see
1	after viewing this movie lets say around 8 times the story line has never bored me each character has their own distinct personality and their own views of love this movie has timeless almost realistic love lessons filled with philosophies on love a jazzy soundtrack and great actors is why i would call it a classic
1	i think this is one of the best movies of all time i just think it shows realistically what romance and especially black romance is all about would love to know what others think as well the acting was just out done where is tate anyway it has been awhile since i have seen him in anything however i think he has out did his acting performance in this movie
1	i think it's about 3 years ago when i saw this movie accidentally i revisited the info site for it here and immediately i felt good again i remembered seeing this movie and loving life again it showed me i could find love and what do you know i have a boyfriend for a year and a half now and love is definitely there
1	it's a shame this movie didn't get more play in theatres it's a rich textured love story with believable all too human characters who are too busy gaming and protecting their hearts to recognize the real thing when they experience it one of the most pleasurable aspects of this movie is its setting in chicago among hip artistic literate middle class african americans who discuss poetry music and literature another is his royal larenz tate and if you are even half a fan of his you need to see this film his boyish cockiness and vulnerability are perfect for the role of darius long also shines as nina who longs to tell darius she loves him but is afraid the break the rules a great movie to watch curled up on the couch with your sweetie
1	this movie features some of the best ensemble work i've seen in film or on stage the actors play off each other with a skill and that in no way can be achieved through editing br br love jones a good story period but it is also an excellent portrayal of the urban middle income twenty something african american set that is not often seen
1	one of my favorite movies of all time beautifully done well written and well acted it portrayed 20 something blacks in a way i don't think has yet been duplicated and the dialog hmmmm so stimulating makes me want to find love like that
1	i wasn't expecting much out of this movie and i was slapped in the face julie walters rupert and laura linney perform wonderfully as the main characters in this movie any teenager can relate to parental control and the urge to come out as who you really are which is basically what this movie is about ben rupert does this when he meets retired actress julie walters and begins to express his ideas with words he slowly but surely breaks out of his shell and becomes much less awkward each and every viewer feels the ups and downs of the movie and the theatre is filled with laughter 75 of the time the film satisfies all and i hope that soon it might be released in all us theatres because many do not have the chance to see the film unless they live in big cities it is a must see
1	love jones cleverly portrays young african american men and women in a clear positive realistic sense i feel that all of the actors and actresses were magnificent and really did a great job at capturing the mood long and larenz tate worked well together and i hope to see more work from the two of them as a matter of fact all of the actors actresses did such a fine job it would be great to see another romantic comedy from them this movie can be compared to most any well written romantic comedy if you have not seen this movie already i strongly recommend that you do it can definitely give you another perspective on life and love
1	this is my favorite love story it has every element that a good love story should have poetry jazz friendships the ups and downs in a relationships finally a movie that shows positive aspects of the black community larenz tate was great i can't picture anyone else playing the role of darius he recited that poem like he had written it himself and meant every word i own this movie and if i had the time i would watch it everyday it always makes me feel better and that's what a good movie should do also the character could not had been any better dealing with the subject of marriage we would all like to find a darius out there but most of us just settle for watching this movie my vote is 10 10
1	very rarely it happens that i sit down to write a comment for a movie but this movie oh my holy god never ever was there a hindi movie better than this and never ever there came a movie better than this it's the king of all comedies br br aamir khan is arguably the best comic actor in indian film industry though its funny to say that because he is a class act not a comedian but what he has done in this film is perhaps the most hilarious performance by any indian actor in an out and out comedy br br salman khan has never been a good actor in my eyes but this movie got the best out of him he was innocently comic if ever there was a term like it just what the doctor ordered as far as his role in the movie was concerned br br rajkumar santoshi i don't know why never tried his hand at comedy again he directed great ventures like the legend of bhagat singh and khakee but could not recreate the magic of br br i don't care why this film bombed at the box office though i feel sad that a film like hum aapke hain kaun was the reason for it's failure as of now i hope the rumors become true there'll be 2 they say we as the audience can only say amen
1	the summary is only for those who hate this movie as finding the movie ok or average is acceptable visiting this movie on imdb has made me nostalgic as i can't help myself going back in the year 1994 i was one of the few lucky ones who saw this movie in theaters it instantly became one of my favourite comedies and took some years to make it my favourite how can i say what made this movie my favourite was it the excellent writing story was ok but screenplay and dialogues were fabulous was it the superlative performances was it the mood of the film br br after thinking about it for so many years i say it has to be a mixture it is one of those movies which didn't have any flaws not even its music the other movie coming up in my mind right now is sholay br br ps rajkumar santoshi please keep a balance between your drama and comedy movies only 1 comedy is not enough i want
1	well this is the best comedy movie i have ever seen my both favorite actors did good job salman khan and aamir khan rocked hope to see part 2 soon as i heard they will come back with part 2 as well i have request to those who haven't watched it yet please buy dvd and watch it u wont feel bored i am watching this movie 1 times a week all other was also good in this movie paresh rawal shakti and others the music is also good it have also nice songs there are some sense which will kill u from laughing salman khan did very nice role and also aamir br br so must watch movie excellent job by actors and director
1	according to me a movie can be best rated by the number of 'best scenes' there are there are probably at least 80 90 scenes in the whole movie that is probably rated as 'best' by somebody or the other br br this movie is a masterpiece period i know many who have called it ahead of its time probably because it bombed at box office however i think any generation can relate to this movie and have a good laugh through out br br i am personally glad that is part of the movie too his role isn't that however its good to see that he is a part of the cast in the funniest hindi movie ever
1	rks after the success of ghayal started work on this film which was a comedy the film was in making for 3 years and released finally in 1994 but didn't work for some reason before this film damini 93 released and did well br br the film is a mad comic film like most priyadarshan films nowdays but it is funny and well handled the film has a proper plot unlike today's films and makes you laugh most characters became famous be it crime master gogo shakti kapoor paresh rawal and others br br the film keeps you laughing throughout it's run time though being too slapstick and overdone yet it's one of the funniest films br br direction by rks is very good music is good br br amongst actors aamir steals the show and delivers his funniest performance this was his first out n out comedy salman does well but looks amateur front of aamir yet does a good job and their chemistry is delightful karisma is annoying and sounds like a child raveena is adequate paresh rawal is too funny in both roles shakti kapoor is hilarious in his over the top act khan dubbed by is very good and viju too is funny rest all are good too
1	is my favorite comedy movie of all time both aamir and salman khan have acted brilliantly while acting was far better than salman aamir khan is known as 'mr in bollywood and he proves it in every of his film br br the story moves around two young guys amar aamir khan and prem salman khan both are from poor families and are a big dreamer they want to become rich without bearing any pain so when they hear about raveena raveena tandon daughter of mr paresh rawal who comes to india to find his bridegroom they both fool their fathers to marry raveena and the journey begins there is also a twist in the movie that makes movie even more funny paresh rawal is in double role and mr and has acted brilliantly as he always does shakti kapoor crime master gogo also adds a great comedy br br this movie is a rib tickling comedy from first minute till last and it is one of classic comedy movies of bollywood
1	it is the best movie released in bollywood upto date the best comedy the best acting and the best direction till now rajkumar santoshi's writing and direction proved that he is one of the best directors in the industry aamir khan was absolutely amazing salman khan looked good the way he acted shakti kapoor was good but over acted as usual this comedy is still copied by people and no other writers and directors have been able to make this thing again even rajkumar santoshi hasn't been able to make this cult classic again this movie was a flop when it released but it has been a cult classic since it released and loved by all kinds of people br br star br br acting 10 10 br br dialogues 10 10 br br screenplay 10 10 br br direction 10 10 br br music 9 10 br br lyrics 9 10 br br overall this movie is strongly recommended if you didn't watch it till now you missed something big it is a laugh riot and the best comedy i have seen till date classic films like hera pheri golmaal and bhi do are not even half as funny as this br br great movie hats off
1	i love this film khan's portrayal as a k a shut up robert was so hilarious whenever he got hit during a fight scene you could hear him squeal viju is the dumbfounded robert a k a rabbit i love that shakti kapoor a k a crime master gogo paresh double role is so awesomely hilarious for his portrayal as ramgopal raveena tandon and karishma kapoor are out of this world my brother does a really good mimicry of saying relax please relax i love the scene in which aamir khan puts a laxative in salman muscles khan's food which caused the irregular bowel movements forcing him to use the toilet umpteen number of times
1	i caught the first screening of driving lessons at the tribeca film festival rupert shows he can act past harry potter laura linney is amazing as the overbearing mother julie walters is hilarious as dame walton with a mouth worse than a sailor i hope that this film is picked up by an american distributor so that everyone can see it this film is not only about driving lessons but life lessons ben rupert is torn between wanting to obey his overbearing mother and vicar father and wanting to live his own life it's an amazing film from an amazing director whose taken his own life and put it on the screen for everyone to see and everyone who can should
1	well to start with rajkumar santoshi is not a comedy film maker and this is really unfortunate because the only comedy film he has made is a masterpiece this film is really funny loud in bits overacted in a few scenes but still the dialogues r really laugh riots and characters r really full of fun story line in simple a billionaire's daughter come to india for marriage and two young chaps r behind her the story has a twist as well with a connection of a gangster aamir playing a street smart guy amar has played his role with brilliance and salman has played the role of an innocent stupid to perfection raveena has done fine but really turns irritating in some sequences but real show stealer r paresh rawal and shakti kapoor they enter the frame and automatically u start laughing overall such an enjoyable film that u can watch it any no of times without getting bored
1	the best part about this movie is that you can watch it over and over again n still not be content of watching it i have watched this movie least 10 times over the past 12 years and still it makes me laugh as if i was watching it for the first time i have great liking for good comics like the orgazmo cheech n chong monty python series and many others but this one in hindi is one of my favorite outstanding movies some of them recently in hindi are golmaal munnabhai series and series so all i can say is hind comedy is finally evolving but andaaz is pretty different from the movies i have said above its what i call the hindi stoned comedy and very few of the kind found around 1994 in hindi cinema cheers to rajkumar santoshi for the brilliant movie
1	i watched this movie probably more than 20 times the jokes are now 10 15 years old but every time i watch it it makes me fall off my chair two of the finest actor salman khan and aamir khan plays the lead roles here even if aamir khan is a much better actor and got the better role smart guy in the movie salman khan matches and sometimes perform even better as the dumb guy all the characters are memorable this movie is filled with hilarious one liners and funny situations a little too silly probably don't try to look for logic in this movie let your brain relax for some time i promise it will be an experience to remember
1	the first time i watched it was when it came out 1994 and the last time i watched it was just before writing this review it still makes me laugh my brains out after all these years it dose not disappoint truly the smartest bollywood comedy ever made this is one indian movie which deserves its place in the imdb top 250 aamir khan and salman khan in probably one of their best performances in comedic roles the thing that makes this one a time less classic is its comic timing and wonderful editing the jokes are refreshing and not cheap this is one film truly ahead of its time if you haven't seen it yet go watch it now
1	aaa is my favorite movie i have seen it a number of times don't remember the count now and every time i just love it this is the best movie of raj kumar santoshi the comedy dialogues and performance is amazing all the actors and actresses have done a superb job you cannot stop laughing while watching this movie its just hilarious amir khan and salman khan have done a great job and acting by paresh rawal was excellent as always the music is inspired from the old hindi movies 60s music and is good the entire cast of the movie has done great job br br overall its a great indian comedy movie to watch
1	rajkumar santoshi tries his hands at comedy and succeeds one of the few good movies that involves salman khan a very funny movie from start to finish all the characters contribute to the movie and believe me there are a lot of them aamir khan salman khan raveena tandon karishma kapoor paresh rawal viju verma shakti kapoor harish patel tiku talsania and more the direction editing sound are not up to par but that still does not matter because the actors more than make up for that part
1	a hilariously funny movie of course u gotta have a sense of humour to be able to appreciate it the music is excellent reminded me of 50 60's hindi music which is a rarity nowadays worth the go check it out
1	this movie is an amazing comedy the script is too funny if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles after 1994 i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this
1	i find it hard to believe that this movie has such a low rating it is arguably one of the best comedies ever made and surely the best bollywood comedy of the 90s the film did not do too well on the box office and people had diametrically opposite reactions after seeing it my guess is most people didn't expect it to be an all out comedy and were expecting a regular movie if you love comedies this is a must see and aamir khan is outstanding
1	the movie in my books is the top 5 intelligent comedy movies ever made in bollywood perhaps even hollywood br br when the movie released i was a 8 year old and i heard it was a flop but i never understood till now why was it a flop but let me tell you one thing this movie would have more money by selling home cassettes and dvds and by showing in tv movie channels than any hit movie in theaters this movie has been shown countless times in movie channels and i think even now the public love and the tv producers keep repeating the movie again and again i personally have watched the entire movie more than 80 100 times and i still love it br br the performance by both aamir khan as amar and salman khan as prem is mind blowing but i especially liked the performance of aamir khan as a street smart guy his dialogs in the movie are hilarious the story is simple and heres how it goes br br amar and prem are poor lazy chaps and come from a poor family of tailors and father is a barber then they both get a news that a millionaire 's daughter from london is coming to india to look for a suitable match both amar and prem think that this is a brilliant opportunity to become super rich therefore they both head out to woo raveena tandon the millionaires daughter in their journey they both hate each other and each one of them try to fool the other in order to marry raveena the comedy scenes in between are so hilarious that you would need a glass of water to stop the pain in your stomach by laughing and then there is uncle millionaire's look alike brother who wants to take revenge from father since he is broke and dad is a millionaire his plans include kidnapping raveena to blackmail dad for which he hires 2 butlers br br but later on we get to know that there is a twist in the movie watch the movie to know then there is shakti kapoor as crime master gogo who is also incredibly funny br br the thing which stood out for me were the dialogs in the movie which has become a legend of sorts aamir khan uses his brilliantly and salman goes like and for gogo there is jab raat ko hain to ma hain ki to gogo aa each and every scene is so funny br br i especially liked the one in which aamir khan and salman goto get raveena from and they both go in a luna having money in a bag that scene is so funny br br i recommend anyone who understands hindi or urdu to watch this movie this is one movie that i would recommend having a dvd and you will never regret
1	driving lessons from the writer of the critically acclaimed films mrs brown and charlotte gray jeremy brock brings a touching heartfelt dramedy starring academy award nominees julie walters and laura linney and from the harry potter series rupert the beautiful portrait tells the story of ben marshall rupert a seventeen year old boy being held captive in the heart of his religiously neurotic mother laura laura linney after his school year ends he decides to take a job with a clever free spirited and heavy on the bottle retired actress walton julie walters the pair embarks upon wonderful adventures from camping to walks around the block to the simple conversations about life challenging the domineering mother as well as each other along the way the two develop a beautiful bond that both their lives br br the comedic elements are flawless and precise especially coming from the british veteran julie walters brock uses his unique style to create an infamous and loving nature that first time directors could only dream directing comes naturally to brock as he builds up stunning imagery that breaks the surfaces and plunges the viewer down into an overabundance of adoration and creation even the subtle score by unknown composers clive carroll and john accentuate the tone and manner brock had no trouble in generating br br laura linney is always making her mark in films as she does as laura the bossy and overbearing mother is at times unbearable and with linney at the helm of it we are engulfed into that persona the complexity of her character couldn't have been more flawlessly portrayed by anyone else rupert breaks away from ron and tries on someone new his performance is more responsive than loquacious but gives us someone brand new to a child performance and the viewer gets to enjoy it but the standout is coming from oscar nominated actress julie walters who gives a life of her own despite the role being clearly a leading one walters fairs better in the supporting category where i believe she can simply take home the prize is a mix of clementine and mrs laura henderson with her free spirit and lovable persona hopefully her role will not go unnoticed this awards season br br driving lessons isn't an out of this world experience but a fine enjoyable one that any viewer could just kick back and learn a little something about life love and friendship coming in the forms of the most beautiful colors and sizes br br grade
1	julie andrews plays a german spy who falls in love with an american pilot rock hudson while on an assignment for germany br br the songs are beautiful the two are well paired julie demonstrates a more temperamental side in this film than the nice girl she normally plays br br a half german half english girl who sings beautiful and entertains the troops in ww i julie sings some endearing mancini songs br br i loved the film some will say it's a chick flick but so what it's wonderful br br supporting characters are somewhat stereotyped it may not be up to rock's performance in pillow talk magnificent obsession or giant br br blake edwards shot the film in ireland and authentic ww i type planes were used in the film scenery for england and france is absolutely gorgeous
1	this is my favourite indian movie of all time it is comic genius salman khan is hilarious but amir khan steals the show with his witty dialogue karisma kapoor's outfits tell a story of their own makes you wonder if the stylist deliberately made her wear some of the clothes just to make the movie funnier at one point she looks like she's wearing a nappy is the only comedy genre movie to make me laugh from the beginning till the very end there is not one dull moment every scene is hilarious even the songs and dance moves will have you in stitches of laughter i especially loved the scene in which amar amir khan his i've seen this movie so many times i've lost count and i'm so glad to say that this time bollywood can take all the credit for this fantastic movie as far as i know a a a it is not a replicate of a hollywood movie thank god overall i recommend this movie to anyone who understands hindi urdu and loves good comedy br br watch it you'll love it
1	is a movie that i treasure and its one movie i don't mind seeing at any time well almost any time this movie is simply marvelous and according to me is the funniest movie i've ever seen and yes i do put it over hera pheri reason hera pheri has scenes you'll watch out but not possible simply because every scene is a scene you got to watch out for aamir salman share great chemistry and are perfect in their shoes but i'll put the characters in order of favoritism br br rank 1 crime master gogo shakti kapoor's best performance till date and yes this happened before the casting couch gogo is an innocent character who belongs to well reputed family of mr india fame crime master gogo is actually nephew but for he's more than a responsible handsome charismatic charming son gogo makes the biggest mistake of life by lending 36 000 rupees to who is as had once said a fraud and a cheat now only goal is to get back what's his and in his journey of recovering his lost money gogo realizes that there is more than 36 000 that he needs to achieve and thus begins struggle against the sinner world br br rank 2 main hoon mark hai is an evil character who is ram gopal twin originally named gopal chooses to change his name to suit his personality as a child had always envied his brother and then one day things took a turn for the worse when his father gave his entire wealth to ram decided to kill his father but in the night's darkness instead killed munshi harish chandra dad though doesn't regret his actions sole mission now is to get back his property somehow and start his own poultry bakery farm also needs to return back the loan to gogo but has no intentions whatsoever to do so in order to achieve his evil goals employs two people robert vijay who is very good at aiming and khan clone and son who is a very very smart boy br br rank 3 amar aamir khan wants to marry the rich heiress raveena so he sells his father's cheap saloon and heads off for mumbai amar has no problem taking care of the big business that father will hand him over after their wedding and is willing to sacrifice his happiness and shift to london if needed br br rank 4 prem salman khan after gogo prem is the second most innocent character to appear in the movie and the way amar tries to take advantage of him in the mask of a friend is tragic br br i won't reveal any more characters because jesus christ i just wouldn't stop typing the movie is outright stunning go and get the dvd now and beware of those cheap as they have omitted many good scenes out of the movie br br the background music is stud and the action is better than the matrix especially the final encountered between prem and crime master gogo watch out for it it appears in the climax is also a drama with many negative and positive characters and teach us a lot about life and values and ethics it teaches us about bravery why else would amar ask prem to stay back when they go to meet the kidnapper even though prem was complaining that he had to go to the toilet is also a tragedy especially the scenes where salman is targeted by aamir and is given overdose of stomach upsetting pills the part where reveals his sad feelings regarding why he couldn't go to london and the part where gogo is arrested in the ending without even getting back his 36 000 is overall a complete package sit back and enjoy the ride bet there'll be a second ride after that and then a third br br the movie was considered a flop back then and i bet no one liked it but buckle up guys this movie is a big hit even if it didn't have enough people coming to theatres the movie is one of the highest selling home dvds and one of the most frequently movie on most of the channels so the producers have laughed their way to the banks long time back
1	it'll soon be 10 yrs since this movie was released still makes me laugh if u enjoy this film try the new hera pheri as hilarious and my favourite bit of the film must be when salman realises that he has no bullets left in his gun while he has the upper hand and has everyone at gun point and he actually says it out loud u just wanna bash him but u know u can only do that if u stop laughing fantastic film 10 10
1	i have been watching this movie repeatedly since it came out even though it is 8 years old now it still cracks me up the jokes are still hilarious and the way the characters are portrayed will make anybody of any age laugh like they've never laughed before enjoy it
1	its a very good comedy movie liked it i don't know why i love this movie i just love it storyline it is a story of two boys amar aamir khan and prem salman khan who want to get rich quickly by taking all the short cuts in the book amar is the son of an honest barber murli verma in mumbai while prem is the son of bhopali a hardworking tailor in both amar and prem sell their father's shop and house respectively and zero in on a hill station where a beautiful wealthy heiress raveena raveena tandon has come from london accompanied by her friend cum secretary karishma karishma kapoor with the intention of getting married to a virtuous indian the lucky man to wed raveena will inherit her father ram gopal paresh rawal entire wealth amar and prem see their get rich quick chance and woo raveena each trying to out do the other enter paresh rawal in a double role whose sole ambition in life has been to grab his twin brother ram gopal millions so plants and robert in house to help him in fulfill his ambition as the story progresses it turns out to be a mad chase from ram gopal wealth full of humor romance thrills and chills will raveena karishma see through amar and mischievous intentions will succeed in his motives see it all in super comedy br br aamir salman raveena karishma and paresh at there best br br good music br br good direction br br good story and screenplay br br and very good comedy
1	there are some movies that are loved by almost everyone who you come across and yet happen to be box office failures an intelligent and hilarious comedy falls in that for once an indian director has kept in mind the sensibilities of the audience and not churned out a kader khan type stereo typical hoax the movie is about two guys who dream of riches and try to accomplish that by wooing a millionaire's daughter a humorous drama unfolds while a lot of complexities surface in the story the complexities add to the sheer comedy of the entire plot aamir khan plays the a street smart guy while salman khan gives an unexpectedly good performance as the dumb guy the villian played by paresh rawal and his henchmen junior and make you laugh in your sleep although the movie borrows from a lot of other movies despite shoddy camerawork and despite being loud at times it remains one of the scarce funny movies bombay has come up with after movies like and other movies it is sad that it didn't do well at the box office for that means producers turn back to formulas and creativity is abandoned
1	its a spoof its an intelligent comedy it has some a pathetic action and choreography and mind it it is intentional good hummable songs good performances by the entire cast brilliant by amir salman and paresh and over all an script which is so rare in indian cinema that too in comedy watch david dhawan etc story is of two wastrels whose only aim is to get rich and famous by any which ways they come across one such way when they find out that a rich nri is coming india to get married rest of the story is about and how these wastrels try to out wit each other entire cast is perfectly cast right from verma till viju songs are rightly placed and are funny surprise package is salman who acts with perfect timing and this particular act gave him his style of comedy br br all an all a film which you should not ignore if you like and watch indian cinema
1	it's simply ridiculous how underrated this movie is it is one of the funniest movies i have ever seen it never lags it never slows down it is a movie that has a wonderful flow to the plot that along with the brilliant writing makes this an awesome movie aamir and salman are outrageous even raveena and karishma are funny in this movie paresh rawal and shakti deliver some great bad guy comedy but viju and the wannabe are the best with their dumbfounded bad guy intentions if you want to laugh and enjoy a movie watch this movie do it with family or friends you will not regret it most indian movies tire me out by the end cause they are 3 hours long this movie is just as long but i wish there was more when it ends cause it's an amazing flick
1	is by far my second favorite comedy of all time first being namak halal even though that was technically a drama story is nothing groundbreaking but the complications that are added to it make it awesome aamir khan is a total cartoon just watch his expressions in the song yeh raat aur yeh he is amazingly good at comedy i never knew salman khan was also good as the somewhat of the two characters the noises he makes are almost as funny as faces raveena and karisma serve their purpose but are nothing amazing the real pick of the lot is paresh rawal as usual br br the plot is rather simple amar aamir and prem salman are useless sons of poor fathers they don't believe in hard work and just want to get rich the easy way so both their brains come across an idea to woo a rich man's paresh rawal daughter raveena tandon who comes to india to look for a husband so amar and prem meet on the trip and join hands to drive off the hundreds of other men trying to marry this girl when they succeed they now have to get rid of each other somehow both of them get into house amar as an injured guy and prem as his doctor from here on they try to oust each other but things are complicated as friend karisma kapoor falls for prem and pursues him and rich man's evil twin brother rawal also tries to get rid of the heiress and her father so he will inherit the money and sends in his two most trusted but bumbling fools to do the dirty work br br this is a movie you do not want to miss watch it it will be worth it i even own the dvd its that good and if you like this movie i'd also recommend gol if you haven't already watched it other good comedies are namak halal and hera pheri new
1	this movie is simply excellent for some reason it wasn't a success at the box office in india in new york however i have yet to come across a person who disliked this movie this is definitely the funniest movie to come out of india everyone gives a good performance amir khan however just takes over and puts the movie over the top
1	i can't disagree with a previous comment that driving lessons is more than a little twee but one man's indictment is another's endorsement i suppose in my book this film succeeds on pure charm no small feat in itself br br i can't help but wish the story was a little less conventional given the amount of acting talent in it but by the end the plot seems more like a backdrop for the character interactions anyway julie dame is a gloriously over the top and over the hill actress though hasn't had steady work in years it's unclear the last time she visited reality if ever think edina from at 65 at one point she is even forced to come to grips with her kitsch factor some may find her annoying but i think that's the point to emphasize just how much she pushes the reserved ben's rupert buttons to force him out of his shell ben is equally isolated from reality living his whole life under the thumb of his overly dependent mother who laura linney manages to breath some life into despite being a fairly one dimensional character ye olde overbearing religious mom i was rather impressed with rupert who i found to give a very honest and believable performance not to mention sweet as all get out i can't think of many teen actors today for whom i can say that br br the heart of the movie is what happens when ben and worlds collide at first ben is understandably tentative but also intrigued as is essentially the exact opposite of everything he's ever known with the combination of persistence and ben's helpful nature a genuine sweetness develops between them culminating in an unlikely road trip that gives ben his first real taste of independence br br the tone is consistently light even through a few brief melodramatic bits but there was still a surprising amount of emotional resonance a credit to the main actors all in all i'd say that if you're willing to sit back and let yourself be charmed by some lovely performances driving lessons shouldn't disappoint however if cute is not in your movie vocabulary best to stay away br br one other minor note the soundtrack features the music of stevens prominently a nice touch
1	there have been very few great comedy films in the history of hindi cinema happens to be one of them the film is based on a very simple story of two poor young men aamir and salman who dream of becoming rich by marrying a millionaire's daughter raveena aamir and salman khan try their best to outwit each other and woo raveena the plot thickens when paresh rawal co plan to take over all the wealth the movie is well paced and very funny rarely does one come across a hindi comedy which is both funny and intelligent this is one of the few films with aamir and salman together probably the only film unfortunately it did not succeed at the box office and we might never see a film of this calibre again aamir khan is brilliant in the film and has proved his versatility as an actor in this film salman khan gives a very good performance as a dim wit raveena plays a convincing role as a confused rich girl and karishma who is assistant friend is also funny paresh rawal junior shakti kapoor verma and tiku talsania just add to the flavour of the film all in all the best hindi comedy ever made and i wish they make more quality films like this one you will want to watch this film time and again br br p s for those of you who have watched this film i also suggest gol chupke chupke si garam hera pheri old and new etc
1	this movie fully deserves to be one of the top hindi comedies ever made rajkumar santoshi is mostly known for his gritty hard hitting social dramas but this is easily the most effortless movie he has made br br the plot revolves around two small town buffoons amar aamir khan and prem salman khan they want to get rich quick and so move to the big city they hatch the same plan separately to woo a rich heiress raveena raveena tandon who is the daughter of a rich businessman ramgopal paresh rawal thus the one who marries raveena gets his hands on all her wealth but when they get to know each other's plan there is an intense tussle of one over who marries raveena hilarious gags and situations ensue as the battle rages on br br at the same time ramgopal identical twin brother wants to eliminate his brother and niece and usurp the family fortune add to this an assortment of funny characters including a maid karishma karishma kapoor a mistake prone butler named robert a manager named khan who mimics villain and a funny gangster gogo shakti kapoor who looks more like a pirate and a rollicking comedy awaits you br br do not waste your time looking for logic in the movie leave the company of your brains and just enjoy the actors are so much in sync with the script that no room is left for mistakes dialogues rajkumar santoshi dilip are witty music tushar and lyrics are memorable the picturization and choreography khan of yeh raat aur yeh ae lo ji sanam and dil hai tere is fitting and will remain etched in my mind forever br br the film starred two superstars in the making aamir khan and salman khan they eventually became superstars aamir khan is impeccable in his first all out comedy role i salute his sense of comic timing salman pales in comparison with aamir but is still likable among the supporting characters paresh rawal stands out in his dual role of ramgopal and br br the movie surprisingly failed at the box office i fail to understand why i recommend it to all nevertheless
1	in a minute to pray a second to die clay mccord alex cord is an unhappy outlaw with a ten thousand dollar bounty on his head and degenerative epilepsy br br realizing his days as an outlaw are numbered he wants desperately though somewhat reluctantly to take advantage of an amnesty being granted by rough and tumble territorial governor robert ryan excellent performance who badly wants mccord to renounce his ways and accept the amnesty as an example to others while in the bandit hub of outlaw mario plans to kill mccord to stop that from happening br br also starring arthur kennedy aldo and a slew of other familiar european faces this is co written and produced by american spaghetti western pioneer albert band also responsible for the pre leone film gunfight at red sands br br though the solution to the main character's epilepsy is lifted straight out of howard hawks' el dorado the script is solid pretty fresh and unpretentious this has a great balance of action and story and alex cord is great in it he really should have been a bigger star br br in defense of the shorter well dubbed english version personally i'm past that age where the longer version is always the better version and the ending where mccord is ironically gunned down by grimy bounty hunters after his pardon is needlessly nihilistic and completely destroys the film's message about hope and redemption br br call me old fashioned but i rooted for mccord and felt he earned that happy ending
1	i found this to be an underrated quietly compelling spaghetti western also known as dead or alive despite modest credentials apart from multi purpose co writer producer albert band the only notable crew member is composer carlo the film clearly benefits from the presence of its three american stars newcomer alex cord is an ambiguous anti hero while veterans arthur kennedy and robert ryan lend a mythic quality to the proceedings as well as the unusual plot involving a crippled protagonist an amnesty ruse covering a strategic clean up of the town and which has the law finally siding with the gunfighter against a horde of mexican bandits br br there are several tough action scenes on hand – the film is capped by a terrific climax in which the star trio is besieged inside a blazing cabin – plus a couple of outrageous moments which are something of a spaghetti western trademark from the middle of the street cord sees a hidden gunman at a window reflected in a whiskey bottle a man who helps cord escape is repeatedly immersed in a pool of oil by the villains machiavelli also makes a nice impression as a village girl with whom cord the supporting cast then is peppered with familiar if largely anonymous faces – all of them essentially genre fixtures br br i wasn't aware of the fact that the english dubbed version of the film on mgm r1 dvd was cut i was fooled by the wrong running time being listed on the back cover the film was only 99 minutes long and not – apparently character is killed in the longer italian version
1	i caught this for the first time a few nights ago on television i expected to only tune in for a few minutes but found myself intrigued by the movie i ended up watching it all and found it surprisingly compelling the acting by the three american leads was quite good especially that of alex cord he plays a gunslinger with quite a degree of vulnerability very different from how most of them are portrayed in westerns he ended up in several situations where he was at the mercy of the bounty hunters the final shootout between the three leads and the bad guys was very good as was the scene where the doctor digs a bullet out of clay mccord somewhat gruesome but realistic i must admit that despite my initial misgivings at watching a spaghetti western i ended up enjoying this film quite a bit i would recommend it to anyone who likes westerns
1	a minute to pray a second to die is a quality spaghetti western with a solid cast and an interesting storyline it is filmed beautifully with a relatively high production value for a film in this genre br br alex cord does a terrific job portraying clay mccord an outlaw who is suffering from increasingly debilitating seizures he is seeking amnesty before his enemies close in on him but is being too cocky for his own good when he asks for it robert ryan delivers the best performance in the film as the governor of new mexico mario and arthur kennedy are also great here br br this movie is very good but it doesn't stand out to me as being one of the best spaghetti westerns out there it's lacking too much in style to be in the same league as any of the great ones it does have some cool spaghetti overtones but overall it's a bit too much like an american western this is especially evident in the music score which is ok as movies go in general but pretty dull by euro western standards the soundtrack kind of reminds me of the music from the unforgiven although there is an interesting story here it is told in a manner which is a bit too conventional for my tastes if a spaghetti western fan and a hollywood western fan had to watch a movie together this one would be the perfect compromise br br all of this is not to say that anyone should avoid this film i did enjoy watching it very much as i said it is a very well done film and i recommend it to anyone who likes westerns spaghetti or otherwise
1	the cast alone tells you this will be a notch above the usual italian western veteran actors robert ryan and arthur kennedy team up with alex cord who at the time seemed on the verge of stardom the result is a movie that's both off beat and down beat and yet it'll satisfy those who seek more from a western than just gunplay especially interesting here is the character played by alex cord one expects the hero in these westerns to be taciturn and introspective but clay mccord is an extreme example and surprisingly enough he's often shone in a passive even weak position much is made of the fact that he fears falling prey to the epileptic fits which his father and in these moments of helplessness he's either at the mercy of those who wish to harm him or those who wish to help him to emphasize his passivity clay mccord don't you love that name is often shone stripped to the waist as if he were little more than an attractive plaything being put on display there's even a strong masochistic streak in his nature most in evidence when he's used as a punching bag by his enemies and then suspended by his wrists and left hanging above the middle of a street not only does he often fail to protect himself but mccord is equally ineffective in protecting those around him nearly everyone who helps him is killed br br while a minute to pray a second to die is far from being a complete success it has a depth and a tone which sets it apart and causes it to linger in the memory it's also a good showcase for alex cord whose career tended to decline after this point following a few promising years in the mid 1960s he must have been about 36 years old when he filmed this in his physical prime and the scene of him hanging by his wrists bare chested and sweaty is a memorable piece of cinematic beefcake
1	there are a number of reviews that comment on the cast of this film suffice it to say that alex cord plays a strong lead opposite robert ryan and arthur kennedy what concerns me is that many of you may not be aware of the at least two existing versions of this film in the u s version clay mccord gains amnesty from governor carter and then rides out of town redeemed i agree that ending is less than satisfying however in the original italian cut clay mccord rides out of town as he has turned in his pistols to the governor and is by the bounty hunters that have been slowly the bandit town of the bounty killers are excited at the prospect of splitting the 10 000 reward but are disappointed to find amnesty agreement in the corpses pocket as they ride away one is heard to comment if this amnesty keeps up i'm gonna start hunting buffalo this alone takes a minute to pray a second to die and places it on an even playing field with movies like keoma and the big as the end credits say in the italian cut fine
1	a charming movie enhanced by the musical and vocal background especially during the competition my understanding is that there was never a soundtrack but could you through your sources advise me where i might get information on the singer and the likelihood of getting a copy of the song he sang your help would be appreciated the song really touched me and my wife and we would like to secure a copy wherever possible so that we might play it as background music when we have our family and friends over for our italian nights if you are able to get this information to us we would be eternally grateful even if you can advise of the studio contact so that we might go direct br br regards br br john
1	i loved this movie it was cute and funny lauren holly was wonderful she's funny and very believable in her role costas was also very good nice to look at too brenda vaccaro as usual was a pleasure to watch she did a great job with her character it was a pleasure watching a movie that is funny interesting and can be watched by the whole family it's difficult to find nice wholesome movies anymore thank goodness for the hallmark movies they are wonderful i wish i could buy it if anyone knows where i could purchase this movie please let me know i have purchase several hallmark movies and am very happy with them i hope i can buy this one
1	i saw this tonight with moderate expectations if tartan films have picked up on something and are releasing it the that's generally a good sign however i'm not normally a fan of julie walters generally disliking her comedy roles sorry to any fans but it's a personal thing i just don't find her funny in comedy br br this was magnificent though a great performance by all but and walters are exceptional plenty of laughs plenty of pathos great timing and a wonderfully paced film such a coming of age film wouldn't normally be something i'd expect to like so much but i can't recommend this highly enough and watch rupert as he matures into a fine fine actor
1	marco costas mandylor was born into a baking family in the bronx although the have been well known for their confections over the decades the business has fallen on hard times meanwhile grace carpenter lauren holly is a most talented dessert maker in manhattan but she can not seem to land a prime position because of the glass ceiling an accidental meeting between marco and grace results in a conversation about a possible solution for them both there is a high profile bake off the golden whisk taking place in the near future and marco wants grace to partner with him there is a hefty amount of dough haha at stake for the winners enough to set grace up in her own business and save the eatery too reluctantly grace agrees but there are complications some of the judges and fellow contestants may have past issues with both grace and marco then too although marco and grace both feel some sort of attraction for the other grace has a long standing very rich boyfriend can marco and grace win the contest this is a lovely film for the romantic at heart first there is the nice cast holly has always been a lovely actress with a notable husky voice that furthers her attractions in this film she is perfectly cast as the determined but beautiful grace mandylor a newcomer delights too as the good looking rival baker the rest of the actors including the wonderful brenda vaccaro as mother is quite nice as a hallmark movie the costumes sets and production amenities are beyond reproach and the script still manages to seem fresh and funny despite some familiar themes treat yourself romcom lovers to a most sweet confection by securing a viewing of this film it is definitely the movie equivalent of a big box of quality chocolates
1	i watched this movie because of costas mandylor and lauren holly i adored them together on picket fences so it was a treat to see them together again this was not the best movie ever made but it was cute very predictable but sometimes mindlessly fun movies are just what i need br br the desserts were gorgeous and i wanted to eat all of them i did love it when that one fell apart though i bet it still tasted good br br costas and lauren still had the great chemistry that they had back on picket fences and i swooned as they kissed in this movie br br i wouldn't watch this again but it was a great filler for one night
1	this is a great valentine's day gift a gorgeous guy and a pretty girl fall in love while trying to beat the competition at a baking contest very romantic i'm a real fan of costas mandylor since his days at picket fences and he hasn't lost his appeal lauren holly is still lovely and adorable and the two still have great chemistry together the supporting cast was good as well seeing all those wonderful desserts being made was a delicious sight in itself i loved that costas and lauren teamed up to win in the baking competition and in love this is the kind of film that all palates romantic and otherwise hallmark always shows excellence in their programming and this is no exception the whole family can view this film also shows that sometimes love triumphs over any adversity i found myself sighing and wishing for more for this film and also yearning for those wonderful desserts i recommend this film highly for all ages a great treat for all
1	this is a made for tv movie by hallmark hallmark has always made quality movies that are family orientated just desserts is a boy and girl fall in love while working together movie two bakers for a 250 000 prize against a field of professional bakers it is fun and light hearted the desserts look great the movie has a catchy upbeat little song played during the competition i assume that it is a made for the movie song by roger to bad that no soundtrack is available i would really like to get a copy of the song i don't even know the name of the song because the credits are squished at the end of the movie to make room for hundreds of promos anyway the cast is great it is always nice to see brenda vaccaro she is very bubbly and upbeat lauren holly is always a plus and costas mandylor rounds out the good guys with a wonderful performance professional chef wolfgang puck has a guest appearance the movie is worth watching
1	sometimes you're up late at night flipping through the stations bored out of your mind and wanting some light and fluffy romantic comedy that doesn't make you feel bipolar and this movie fit that exact billing sure the plot was ripped right out of the 1930s the writing as schmaltzy as the hallmark greeting card company's legendary poetry and the one dimensional characters were played by a cast plucked straight from central casting but it was cute and exactly what i needed last night br br lauren holly and costas mandylor have great chemistry together i liked it on picket fences and i'm happy to say they still have it over 10 year later costas mandylor at 41 is still possibly one of the handsomest men to grace the screens since ol' rudy valentino kicked the bucket 80 years ago bonus points for casting that funny man who used to be on the roller skates on that show about the cartoon lady i always thought he was something straight out of a hepburn grant comedy bravo br br some people will probably say this was the corniest piece of cinema ever made and i would probably have to agree but come on it's on the hallmark channel what were you expecting just sit back relax eat some sesame sticks and watch a sweet little movie with two cute people and down a bottle of trust me you'll love and accept the schmaltz a whole lot more and then you can go to sleep dreaming about costas mandylor swimming in a sea of tempered chocolate feeding you petit fours with minty fresh chocolate icing ps now i have a hankering for petit fours thanks a lot hallmark br br i really wish the evil girl had been cast with rachel ray and maybe that dishy food nerd alton brown as the announcer instead of the creepy dude with the van beard shudder br br that would have made my night but hey check out just desserts
1	it is to typical of people complaining about something when they no nothing about it so this is about a gay man falling for a straight women first of all this is a true story so you cant say its not believable second its written by a gay man so the whole thing about this being against the gays are just plain stupid personally i think this was the best love story i've ever seen and i am very pro gay i think this shows that real love is about personality not just looks and sex and it has nothing against anyone who is gay straight or bi unlike so many other shows maybe we in europe take to it more cus most tv here are a bit deeper and make you think more then american tv plus we don't fear when it comes to showing certain things br br if you want something funny with one of englands best lesley sharp and you want to see a decent believable love story without too much sap this is for you i know i love it
1	it's very easy to figure out why the new professionals was a dud at least in new zealand it didn't just follow in the footsteps of the original it followed bodyguards which out the show considerably with its boss and two agents formula cmdr mcintyre was a latter day george cowley tough on his team but one who would defend them to the death against others the shadow the show cast was huge br br well not as huge as it should have been in the uk here it was networked in prime time it was even marketed in the promos as 'they are the professionals ' someone else obviously noticed the difference we were fortunate enough not to have this show released in different regions at different time slots br br it was the high production values that sealed the deal for me as other reviewers have noted it followed the great british tradition of the one hour actioner but blended in personal elements at the same time there's a slight undercurrent of something developing between liz and ian though that never distracted one from the real plot most episodes were based around inflammatory diplomatic incidents the sort of thing that helps spooks along from time to time br br unlike many 2000s shows the plot was not sacrificed at the expense of fancy pants photography or over stylish direction directors like christopher young kept the pace up and did their job they made use of good locations making bodyguards slicker than if it had been shot on back roads and alleyways it was contemporary it would still stand up beautifully today and it was one of the better examples of the british actioner in the 1990s showing that the uk can still do them better than anyone else br br maybe except for the germans and their cobra 11
1	when i first saw this show advertised to be on australian tv back in the late 90's i ignored it thinking it was just capitalizing on the kevin costner movie but then i caught an episode and i wish i had watched it from the start the partnership between sean pertwee and louise lombard was so well acted and the structure of each episode was extremely entertaining it wasn't an overblown tv show that you can tell spent most of its energy in making things explode so that they could put that clip in the commercial to lure audiences and then not deliver on any other level the show delved into the lives of the two main characters and thats what made it interesting the stories for each episode where also well written with interesting guest stars who were good actors and of course there was a lot of action and intrigue which is always good but what was great was that there was humour and it flowed naturally from the characters it didn't appear contrived it was british but in a good way and if this show was made in america it would no doubt be on dvd by now i don't know why british tv production companies are not interested in releasing this show on dvd it was a great show and deserves a dvd release
1	without doubt a great all round show that if shown today would attract a huge following bodyguards was only 6 episodes and a trailer but deserved a few more series to really bring it up to speed with outstanding performances from the highly talented and versatile sean pertwee and the dynamic louise lombard it really did put it up with the likes of the the sweeney and thief takers the story lines are based on the diplomatic protection services and with great filming and story lines and scene locations it stood out from some of the junk that gets churned by other tv production companies i do not think that it has been shown on terrestrial tv either such as sky or freeview witch is a shame as if it were to be shown nowadays i am sure it would get a large viewing audience so i hope one day the guys at carlton tv decide to release it on dvd cheers nick
1	snakes on a plane was such a well hyped film that it was both inevitable and a little crazy to try to release another movie with almost the same title in the same year let alone the same week reading the other comments here i see the results a lot of people are mad mad because it doesn't have the best special effects mad because it doesn't have a star cast mad because they wanted to see samuel jackson say i'm sick of these m er f ing snakes on this m er f ing train br br well this sure ain't the samuel jackson version and maybe that's good br br snakes on a plane was lost between cop film and horror a family action film and a bloody gory movie of death saturday night live performers got laughs while jackson swore enough to make a grandmother cover her ears and as far as kids go they would be traumatized by the violence br br snakes on a train however knew exactly what it was this was a cheaply made horror movie on a train sure it had snakes and sure many of them were scientifically harmless garden snakes with fake rattler sound effects but never once did it miss a step in its plot or intention where as the on a plane version was tripping all over itself from the first scene on br br i did enjoy the over the top fun that snakes on a plane had to offer and i admit that the on a train version was a little dry but hey in trade it was a cool and unexpected story this little horror film could have gone way more wrong than it did br br for this it gets a 7 out of 10
1	i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts and to be honest i didn't know how much i would like it i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised driving lessons is a modest simple film which draws you in right from the start rupert plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly he's definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me was rather colourful poem it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs in my opinion watching driving lessons is a great way to spend 2 hours the scenery was also striking especially the countryside anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with
1	this is one of the funniest movies ever made and for those of you who don't get it it's supposed to be funny so often comedies try to be so intentionally funny that it misses but here is finally a movie that succeeds in being hilarious in the most subtle of ways even spoofs lack the originality and natural feel of this film it is a comedic classic that will surely be appreciated in another time when studios are this sort of thing regularly kudos to the makers and to a hilariously subtle cast of actors including isaac wade whose performances is top notch truly a real break out star performance by an true underrated stage actor it'll be great to see this guy get his due
1	ladies and gentlemen we've really got ourselves a winner here actually we don't but boy is this film an often hilarious and always entertaining horrible hoot of a stinker poor alma fetching julia ruiz is suffering from an ancient mayan curse that causes lethal poisonous snakes to grow inside of her body alma and her deranged shaman husband brujo castro who feverishly overacts with delicious eye rolling intensity stowaway on a train that's bound for los angeles naturally a bunch of deadly vipers get lose so they can terrorize the motley assortment of passengers the brothers working from an absurd script by eric treat the ridiculous premise straight thereby creating a wonderfully wretched piece of deliriously campy cheese the cruddy cgi effects the pathetically common variety gardner snakes there's would be scary rattlesnake noises added to the soundtrack to imbue them with a faint sense of otherwise nonexistent menace the plodding pace the total dearth of any tension or momentum the obvious rickety stage bound train set and especially the simply astonishing you gotta be kiddin' me over the top preposterous ending are all downright awesome in their very jaw dropping awfulness better still we also got game if lame acting from a no name cast a nice smidgen of tasty gratuitous female nudity a funky score and plenty of extremely gross and grotesque make up f x bonus points for the fact that the token irritatingly cutesy little girl gets eaten by a large reptile and for the stoner engineer who gets caught smoking crack out of a hollow light bulb an absolute gut buster of a kitsch howler
1	ok firstly if your not a fan of the whole low budget horror genre then don't bother with this you really need to be a fan to get the gag br br the move is basically about snakes on a train lots of them br br there is an ancient curse involved and a crazy ending which i wont spoil the gore effect are full on and real icky but the movie is mainly one big gory gag about snakes scaring the hell out of a bunch of people trapped on a train br br the suspense is built up well and there are some memorable and well composed scenes some of the acting is a bit hammy watch for the surf dudes but thats not really the point give this movie a go know what to expect and you wont regret it
1	the tagline on the box hails 100 trapped passengers 3 000 venomous vipers you almost have to admire that degree of no chance in hell we're ever going to deliver on this promise bullshit i could admire the more so if they made movies that well you know were good or at the very least worth a damn haha and it's what i like about theses movies they are garbage you put them in a toilet and then you flush it worth the price if you are a fan of cheesy movies it may become a cult classic among many fans the gore scenes are there's not much i can say it's a z flick that parody the new movie with samuel l jackson hell it may be better so who knows
1	forget everything that you have ever read about the brothers' straight to video release snakes on a train especially if it was a negative review this movie is way more fun than the movie that it obviously rips off snakes on a plane frankly i am surprised that more people aren't about this low budget asylum release instead most reviews that i've read have nothing kind or critically worthwhile to say except the usual stupid herd mentality idiocy such as the acting was amateurish the action didn't numerically live up to the advertising and the entire thing amounted to a hideous waste of time of course it doesn't help that the title is a tip off to the obvious rip off nature of this film actually i felt that snakes on a train surpassed snakes on a plane for a number of reasons br br first the producers used real genuine snakes until the last fifteen minutes when they substituted either giant fake snake heads or computer generated a super giant snake that consumed an entire like train how many movies have a snake gobble a train as a result snakes on a train ranks as the first movie to scale that height br br second this low budget movie employs some grisly gross out effects the woman who coughs up baby snakes real ones was fantastic the special effects of her getting tore up later in the movie were visually enticing also you get to see a little white girl get eaten alive by a snake she was as cute as she could be no more than 10 years old or thereabouts and she died screaming all the way as nasty giant mister snake head swallows her not only kids in jeopardy but kid eaten this is exactly the kind of graphic material that you won't find in 99 of all theatrical hollywood releases of course she wasn't eaten by a real snake but it's the subversive thought that counts br br third it is one of those cursed upon movies where alma julia ruiz of that guy the chief female character no heroine has a curse placed on her by her parents because she didn't marry the man that they recommended as a result she is filled with snakes coughs up quantities of green radiator fluid slop then chucks up a baby snake imagine medusa the mythical characters that had snakes for hair only with the snakes in her belly her psycho shaman type boyfriend collects all the snakes that come out of her because they are heading to l a on a train to see a relative of his who can put all the snakes back inside of her and return her to normal talk about a whacked out character performing stomach churning routines prepare yourself for lots of slime blood and gore br br fourth the train had only about twenty or so passengers not hundreds nevertheless it looked like the brothers filmed this above average horror flick on board a real train with real snakes and they played up the swaying motion of the train on the tracks br br fifth the snakes slither around for the first hour quietly infiltrating the train before they turn weird and attack everybody in other words it's suspense suspense suspense before people start dying from snake bites br br up until the last five minutes when the snake grows bigger than the runaway train and swallows it snakes on a train is warped wonderful and way out it doesn't have the attention deficit editing of a big league hollywood movie it's a fantasy about an unfortunate hispanic women victimized because of her feminist at odds with society attitude br br altogether you've got gory fantasy type stuff suspenseful snakes around the train and am over the top gigantic snake at the end incidentally they get on board the train because a bunch of other mexicans have bribed a train employee and the mexicans on board think that the girl is so cute that they let her and her boyfriend on free br br i think it's better than snakes on a plane if you want a tough little independently produced horror movie
1	let's get one thing straight this gets an 7 out of 10 not on a normal scale but out of the bad movie scale this is the kind of movie you rent on purpose where you intentionally walk in knowing that it is a horrendous knockoff and by everyone else br br i went in with one promise from the movie that there will be snakes on a train and it delivers br br the gore itself is really good and the characters have awesome roles come on it has everything from stoned train pilots to teenage girls trafficking drugs even a electrical engineer getting his pimp on you get to see some topless nudity explosions snakes gore and a mexican main lead running around curing his girlfriend by hitting his crack pipe and blowing the smoke in her face as i mentioned and many others have the movie pacing is a bit off but respectable nonetheless br br movies like this keep our group tradition of banding together and all chipping in a buck or two to watch masterpieces such as this there can be no better time spent then coming together to enjoy a good bad movie br br it could learn a thing or two from the likes of other such fine flicks as alien lock down or boa vs python but those are some big shoes to fill br br a solid 7 out of 10
1	forget some the whiny and pointless comments left here by some this series is well acted well shot and makes a refreshing change to most of the pap on tv br br any fool can nitpick anything however in this show the characters are believable the story lines intriguing and compelling but do require some intelligence on the part of the viewer overall it's enjoyable and it's british we do occasionally come up with some gems and this is one of them br br the shows are an hour long each and i think there are four of them all together at least i've only seen four of them the show clearly impressed some u s tv station director who made a longer series which was nowhere near as compelling in spite of the bigger budget br br if like soaps and reality shows you won't like or understand eleventh hour
1	i found the episodes to be fascinating and well written as a tv show it was entertaining which is what i expect from fictional entertainment i like the relationship between the professor and his female security guard although sometimes her scottish accent makes it a bit difficult to understand what she is saying i was hoping that there would be more than just four episodes i recognize that one commenter reviewer of this series had comments relating to his opinion as a physician i understand this gentleman's comments however this is a fictional television series which is meant to entertain not present precise facts like a documentary patrick stewart performs well and makes his character believable if you want to watch a documentary then this is not the series for you but if you want to watch unique scientific based theories in an entertainment based medium then you will enjoy the four episodes
1	i've just seen a couple of episodes of eleventh hour but i must say that they were enough to impress me this series is just so impressive and interesting i'm definitely going to follow it br br first of all i must say that the acting is top notch patrick stewart plays his character ian the scientist believably and coolly and he makes the audience believe in the character other characters such as rachel are also believable and although they sometimes are a little cold due to the way the series is filmed they're interesting br br the stories told by this series are also interesting for example one of the episodes i saw was about cloning and a man who was trying to clone humans the way the episode was developed and how ian stewart kept following clues and saving people was amazing in addition it made you think about ethics and how good or bad could this be br br anyway i think this is one good tv shows i just hope it keeps going on like this interesting thought provoking and with good acting even though it's filmed in a kind of cold way little lightning cold photography lots of close ups it never stops being interesting highly recommendable
1	first of all i'd like to start by saying it's a refreshing start to see a british drama that finally looks and feels believable br br patrick stewart does the role justice as ian hood the government science adviser with his constant and unwavering views on authority and thoughts about the future of real world science and how he feels it's either being used or abused by others br br not only is the casting thoroughly maintained all the way throughout the series but it makes it's characters seem more believable than most other british drama's br br ashley jensen also delivers a first rate performance as dr hood's appointed bodyguard rachael young she brings a refreshing take on the unscientific uninterested everyday views of science and her constant battling with hood makes for some very funny and memorable moments between them br br the way the series keeps all the scientific elements more realistic i find positive and more engaging than the psychobabble we are so used to in other fiction or science fiction tv shows br br there are however notable disappointments with the series every time an episode ends i find myself disappointed that they didn't seem to cover all aspects of the plot and sometimes leaving open ended stories br br although bearing in mind that this is still the first series i hope that we see a return to form in the near future where these open ended stories can finally be given a significant conclusion they so rightly deserve br br for those who enjoy more slow paced science related plot lines this is the ideal show to watch as it always manages to stay believable and more importantly to the point
1	a british twist on harold and maude driving lessons features a in rupert and an over the top julie walters while it is true that is stone faced like a redheaded benjamin braddock for the first half of the movie it does not deter from the quirky family film there are things going on that are out of his character's experience that would create a shell shocked reaction the chemistry between walters and carries the film though laura linney's hard work to make her written stereotype human is also notable these performances combined with a fun poppy soundtrack with artists like stevens john and salsa make this kids popcorn flick worth a saturday afternoon
1	watch the beguiled because it's a good place to begin when you study the femmes fatales in clint eastwood's filmography br br the smothering gothic sexuality of the beguiled has already been discussed what everyone missed is the synchronized sexual that occurs in a group of females living together especially when a man is introduced into the group they all become horny and then bitchy at the same time br br femme fatal filmography for clint eastwood inger stevens hang 'em high 1968 jean seberg paint your wagon 1969 shirley maclaine two mules for sister sara 1970 page the beguiled 1971 jessica walters play misty for me 1971 sondra locke sudden impact 1983 genevieve tightrope 1984 marsha mason heartbreak ridge 1986 peters pink cadillac 1989 and the best heart breaker of all meryl streep the bridges of madison county 1995
1	the beguiled is a strange work among clint eastwood's oeuvre by 1971 he had become well known as the star of action movies not only westerns the genre in which he first made his name but also war films such as where eagles dare and cop thrillers such as coogan's bluff yet although the beguiled takes place during wartime the american civil war and was made by don siegel who had earlier directed eastwood in coogan's bluff and was later the same year to direct him in dirty harry it is not an action film in the traditional sense in most of his previous films eastwood had played an active role but here his role is largely passive his character sergeant john is a wounded fugitive forced to rely upon the charity of women in order to survive even while serving with his unit played no active part in the conflict he is a whose religious principles forbid him to bear arms and was serving with the union forces as a medical orderly br br the film is set in louisiana towards the end of the war and starts with the injured being discovered by a young girl named amy and brought back to her boarding school the school is a small one with only two teachers and a handful of girls although some of the girls are ardent supporters of the confederate cause and want to hand him over to the authorities the headmistress martha farnsworth decides to shelter him and tend him fearing that his injuries are likely to prove fatal should he be sent to one of the notoriously harsh prison camps br br although scrupulously follows the teachings of his religion as regards pacifism he is not so scrupulous when it comes to following its teachings on the sin of fornication and as he starts to recover he makes full use of his opportunity to exercise his charms on both the staff and the older girls and he wins the affections of number of them including miss farnsworth her assistant edwina and carol one of the older girls even twelve year old amy appears to have a sort of childish crush on him in the sexually repressed atmosphere of the all female school his presence gives rise to jealousy and hatred and miss farnsworth rejected in favour of the sluttish carol plots a terrible revenge interestingly the one female to resist blandishments is hallie miss farnsworth's black slave even though he tries to win her round by pointing out that he is fighting to free people like her br br the beguiled has been described as an anti war film but this seems to me to be a misconception the film is not really about the rights and wrongs of the civil war or of war in general the only acts of violence we see are perpetrated by non combatants and they are motivated by a desire for personal revenge not by zeal for the confederate cause it would be more accurate to see the film as a drama about the psychological stresses that can be caused by the peculiar circumstances of war br br at the beginning the school set in a beautiful old antebellum mansion seems like an island of peace amid the war the building is in the classical style associated with order harmony and restraint but the story that unfolds within its walls is one of disorder passion and violence qualities associated with the gothic school of writing which in the 19th century was often regarded as the antithesis of classicism the film can be seen as falling within what has been called the southern gothic tradition in american film and literature br br the film was not a great hit at the box office possibly because eastwood was cast so much against type it is not perhaps his best film but it did show that he could expand his range and play something other than action heroes in play misty for me his first film as director made the following year he was again to play a passive character in danger from a vindictive female there are some very good performances from the female members of the cast particularly geraldine page as martha farnsworth outwardly a respectable middle aged spinster but inwardly a woman of strong passions there are hints that she may have been having an affair with a man whom she passed off as her brother there are also good contributions from elizabeth hartman as the shy repressed edwina who falls in love with and rejects the idea of revenge and from young pamelyn ferdin as amy amy is an animal lover a key moment in the film comes when kills her pet turtle so it is interesting that in later life ferdin became an animal rights activist the one character i was less keen on was jo ann harris's carol who seemed too modern like a swinging seventies chick transported back in time to the 1860s the film is notable for the emotionally intense hothouse atmosphere which siegel brings to it this will not be a film which is to everyone's taste some will find it too overwrought and melodramatic and some have found it misogynistic judith called it a film for woman haters and sadists others however may find it a compelling psychological drama 7 10
1	here you see mr eastwood in all of his glory i e at the top of his form as an actor and at the height of his physical appeal but the ladies depicted are hardly typical of the south then or now the young girls at the boarding school are incredibly naive some showing signs of developing into really depraved women and geraldine page full blown in her corruption hardly represents the mean when it comes to head mistresses of girls schools either then or now that is not to say that there isn't the occasional bad apple in any barrel mr eastwood has said this is one of his own two favorite films br br the beguiled does have an original plot a lot of attractive characters and many surprises in store for the viewer it's thoroughly engrossing and entertaining but not really realistic i know having grown up in the south and attended a girls' school and college moreover i have been acquainted with innumerable girls who did the same not to mention their laid back teachers or you might even say repressed professors who were a far cry from the headmistress depicted here she is downright comical in her depiction of a southern gentle woman who is not quite what she seems br br this movie was a little outrageous when it first appeared and still is i think but you won't be sorry you spent your time watching it
1	another well done moral ambiguity pieces where the anti hero makes it hard to decide who to root for br br if nothing else the beguiled silenced anyone who said there were no good parts for actresses in movies at least in 1971 there were four excellent parts for actresses in this film and all were well cast and well executed br br pamelyn ferdin did a fine job as amy and would go on to play wanda june this must have been the first time an adult male box office star shared an extended kiss with a twelve year old girl on camera wonder if there was much controversy about this at the time it was probably polanski's favorite scene given the fate of amy's turtle randolph it is no surprise that ferdin grew up to be a hardcore animal rights activist br br geraldine page was likewise excellent playing a complex character with just the right amount of restraint it is interesting that she died just three days after elizabeth hartman committed suicide throwing herself through a fifth floor window as they had also worked together in you're a big boy now br br hartman who looks like she could be blair brown's sister was wonderful as edwina and should have gotten an oscar no other performance was even close that year but given what we now know about her you wonder just how much of her performance was a studied effort and how much just came from inside her edwina shows such raw pain it is difficult to watch like marilyn monroe's incredible performance in the misfits the viewer is probably seeing a whole lot of her own demons in the character she is playing br br finally there is jo ann harris who is stunningly perfect as the flirty carol for my money harris was the sexiest actress of the 1970's combining sensuality with intelligence and humor she was the best reason to watch the most wanted television series and the only reason to watch wild wild west revisited hard to believe that someone who could bring all that to the screen never became a big star
1	this is a wonderful film taking place during the romantic period of the civil war this film is a must see for eastwood fans and eastwood claims this is one of his most favorite films that he did i couldn't agree more watch out this is a spoiler eastwood does die in the end eastwood and director don siegel rightfully argued that the ending should be unexpected and should be unhappy for a few reasons they wanted to stick to the book for one secondly there can't always be a happy ending thirdly this was written during the vietnam war they wanted a negative statement to this terrible struggle of war where people were needlessly dying i agree with all of this it is a wonderfully shot film and i love most films involving the civil war it is more of a portrait of how deceptive women can be that they can be more dangerous than men hence the title has much to do with the statement of the film beguiled to be deceived the song sung by eastwood at the beginning and the end of the film is another statement against not just the civil war but the vietnam war and maybe indirectly the women he comes across during the film wonderful story of love and deception and many memorable scenes note this film is rated r for no reason there is hardly any language it is probably some of the subject matter involving sex but there is no nudity really excellent film 9 10
1	the beguiled is one of those under seen films in the careers of a director or actor that ends up playing better than expected in the same year that clint eastwood and don siegel collaborated on dirty harry they also worked together on this little psycho sexual drama set in civil war era confederacy country it's almost a 180 from what 'harry' had for audiences here is a film that is under the radar and with a low budget to almost no business when compared with what dirty harry pulled in it is also a story where eastwood is not surrounded in a world full of dangerous men but women who despite their first appearances have darker sides to them and there's even romance in it in between some of the rougher and more complex scenes but in this kind of framework to make the film siegel therefore actually has a little more freedom to do things with the style of the picture that roams into something more european i'm reminded here and there of polanski's work in the 60's it all works though pretty well even with the initial doubt that these two figures of masculine film making eastwood the obvious and siegel having made his niche in b noir and low budget thrillers can pull off material that could possibly be made for a lifetime movie br br it was also captivating and really darkly comic here and there to see eastwood's performance working off of these girls he's doing something a little subversive in his performance by still having the sort of eastwood machismo if there is such a thing close to his clichéd movie image by being a step ahead of this little school for young women at times and not at others to see eastwood in a performance like this as with play misty for me the other eastwood work of 1971 shows how cool he can act believably with very good actresses particularly here are the four main female characters each of varying ages and each with varying attractions to their man while siegel's work directing all of the actors has its moments in the first half it's really once the story crosses the half way mark in the dream sequence less successful than the director could be capable of that the real juicy scenes start to pick up a lot of this is the best that siegel directed dramatically pushing the psychological and emotional edges of scenes where not expected br br it's a difficult film all of this praise aside as it doesn't paint anyone as being too respectable only the character of hallie the slave on duty played by mae mercer is sort of separated from what transpires between the all too curious women and along with this here is acting in a role that is and isn't what he's usually seen as during this time of his true formative years in the movies he's an anti hero here which was his trademark of the westerns and other thrillers he was doing at the time but unlike those films he's not really in a mode where he's than life' to put it in a way as he is both deserter and womanizer deceiver and tricky even in his most charming and affable moments if it's not one of his best acting jobs which is hard to really put together considering his catalog it is one that is worth a look for fans who might want to see another side of him it's a credit to him but also to what clicked with his collaborations with siegel as they both took chances at this time in hollywood
1	the beguiled is a pretty satisfying film for those who are after the things above for clint eastwood's die hard fans it will be a disappointment although eastwood does his best here in his so atypical role except for the fact that his character is a charming womanizer which he isn't so unacquainted with the ambiguous nature of his character which goes from being a sort of fallen hero to a manipulative and insatiable woman eater to put it that way will eventually be too much to handle for anyone used to see him play heroes in the best western tradition morally a bit unclean but still without that dark side i think he manages to pull this unlikely part off but those who really steal the show are the two women the geraldine page and the head of the students played by elizabeth hartman br br we see that there is a potential devil in every man and a potential witch in every woman especially when it comes to sexuality and sexual desire hartman's edwina is the sweetest most innocent girl in the world until she becomes infatuated with john and becomes possessive of him this is what causes tragedy as well as the secret lust the forbidden fruit she carries a great and ugly secret about her incestuous relationship with her brother whom she clearly idolizes still the fourth factor in this unholy love spiral is the wicked carol played by jo ann harris who lures john away from his crush on edwina and into her bed br br the whole nature of the story gives this film a sort of gothic feel which makes it a pretty rare thing in the western genre but a popular thing in the movies of the 70's a unique achievement by the siegel eastwood team and a movie not for the faint hearted
1	during the civil war a wounded union soldier hides out in a isolated confederate ladies' school where the head mistress and the teacher of the school decide to care for him and keep him about until trouble starts brewing between the lonely and sexually frustrated women and girls the soldier decides to take advantage of this situation but it all comes at a price in the end br br dirty harry 1971 which was made about the same time of the beguiled might be my favourite collaboration between eastwood and siegel but after seeing this i tend to think this to be the finest work together a very atypical savvy and stylish vehicle for eastwood is always on the mark with richly controlled direction by don siegel and a hauntingly rousing music score by lalo schifrin standing out strongly is its lurid and bleak nature that's intrusively planted into the film's psychological makeup and manipulative strangle hold in sexual depravity it's played out and makes it more the brooding and blood curdling when those random shocks and saucy intentions take hold with gripping tension the way siegel illustrates john b sherry and alluring bold slow burn screenplay taken from the novel of thomas cullinan is effectively done through stark emotions and the script's tight lyrical context siegel's strong direction captures the idyllically southern victorian setting with such potently garnished photography and he sets up some strangely piercing imagery with great clarity and restrained br br while the performances are truly commendable and high of quality clint eastwood as the smoothly suave sweet talking chameleon union soldier is very impressionable and delightfully assured a profoundly eminent geraldine page steals the picture as the hardened head mistress and the elegant elizabeth hartman adds a delicate to her innocent character mae mercer is strongly tailored as the black maid and jo ann harris is the pick of the crop from the young pupils with her seductively sly persona br br honestly while eastwood's charismatic character plays the field for his own selfish needs there's still mixed intentions there that the one's being played where rivalry between the women creep in turn out to be no better than their guest at the end throughout there's a perversely dark sense of humour and ironic touch settling into the material what's demonstrated here is simply more than your basic little minded shocker but one that's thickly layered with intrigue and a sense of realism that's hard to shake that also goes for its extremely eerie title and closing song br br a effectively chilling low key item that's hard not to be tempted by it's swinging hospitality
1	let us assume for a moment that you haven't experimented with the mushroom and you're wondering about the so called bad experience and just how something like that might play itself out… well go ahead and pop in a fresh copy of the beguiled see with film you have your clean trips solaris and anything else directed by andrei tarkovsky whack trips i e the experience from which you never recover sweet movie and el topo and you're bad organic trips a category specifically reserved for a film like the beguiled which is the sort of content those keen writers at the times who made all the right decisions with their lives and graduated from the harvard department of english refer to as hallucinogenic in tone by the third act of this don siegel directed movie you may not exactly observe that your two lead heavy hands have become shrunken and assume all the characteristics of a burrowing mammal nor will you exactly fall under the suspicion that your spine has achieved the same sinuous shape and texture of a fruit baring tree incalculable in age but you will feel something br br in 1970 when this film was filmed most americans were looking for an anodyne for their collective pain a movie like the graduate perhaps a lot of world was going on and of course you had the nightmare break down of war in vietnam what you get with the beguiled banal drug metaphors aside is a screenplay adapted from a novel by a guy who at least for the moment wanted to be known as and direction from the director who helped bring about the work and career of sam peckinpah in the beguiled donny siegel born in 12 chicago il less than 45 years after the great fire is showing his attempt at grappling with all that contemporary cultural madness of the early 1970's in the form of a classical film artifact the beguiled is an incredible film and an outstanding contribution to the cinematographic arts in almost every aspect the shooting editing direction and story are all fantastic and you're not likely to see anything else like it undoubtedly a sinister film its effects as i've said both dizzying and frankly it's hard to believe would ever universal attached its name to this picture but you are going to see upon viewing some of the sweet sweet camera moves and cinematographer bruce surtees exploiting every bit of dark myth you harbor in your head about the american plantation south beauty with evil in every location shot clint eastwood needless to say has never been like this old clint he moves at instant from coy to his eyes like two spirals in medium close up the rest of the cast is equally exacting and uncanny br br this beguiled will never make the afi 100 in my lifetime but that doesn't stop me from that it's one of the best american synch sound films ever made while most people catalogue it as a western to include the folks at the western channel the beguiled is a problem because you don't really know what it is a sort of war movie a drama psychological thriller maybe the answer to all those emotionally wrought noir films starring kirk douglas i actually call this piece a horror film because when my old man who likes to kick back with the cheap gratuitous violence projected in entertainments like the wire saw that high angle medium long shot of geraldine page wrapping a around clint's bloody leg pa was pretty quick to suggest we watch something else like the outback bowl right before he absconded to another room my advice watch this one and make sure it is on a very large screen preferably run on that home theater projector you're contemplating i would put the beguiled right on order along with that important consumer purchase turn the out throw some cinematic light up on the big blank wall and try not to lose your grip because just like norman bates we all go a little mad sometimes even the beguiled
1	the beguiled was one of the few early eastwood films i hadn't seen until i gave the dvd a spin today and from it's opening sepia tinged shot to the macabre climax i was utterly enthralled too many film makers these days substitute special effects fast editing and dizzying camera work in place of character driven stories but director don siegel knew how to get the maximum effect from this relatively simple plot and the characters are believable and compelling br br the story concerns a ladies finishing school which happens to be situated on the edge of various skirmishes during the american civil war the south supporting ladies find a badly wounded union soldier clint eastwood nursing him back to health he begins to manipulate the sexually frustrated women for his own ends br br geraldine page is excellent in the role of the headmistress with a secret and her descent into madness is subtly conveyed for a film that virtually takes place in a single location it never loses visual interest there's even a chance that the normal status quo long abandoned when eastwood's machinations are uncovered could return but the mistresses and pupils descend upon a darker road br br this is a totally different style of film from the same director's dirty harry made in the same year and yet they are both equally superb eastwood is great playing against his usual stoic anti hero image yet there's also some mysterious quality attached to his character we never really learn much about him prior to his incarceration and the viewer is free to decide upon his well shaded persona villain or victim whatever you think all i can say is that i thoroughly enjoyed it
1	i just saw this movie at the tribeca film festival and i have to say that i thought it was amazing the combination of humor and sincerity really made the movie worthwhile the movie was about a seventeen year old boy whose mother and father are very religious the seventeen year old ben decides to work for a retired actress who teaches him about girls and driving and life it is very comical and touching i honestly have to say that it is now one of my favorite movies i recommend this movie to anyone and everyone if you didn't catch one of the showings at the film festival it's supposed to come out in theaters later in the year please go see it it is a great film
1	this film has some rather shocking scenes and subject matter considering it was made in 1971 br br clint eastwood geraldine page and elizabeth hartman do excellent work in the film as do all the cast members br br set during the civil war the film begins when a wounded yankee soldier johnny portrayed by clint eastwood is given refuge and help at a girls academy located in the south br br the headmistress of the school ms farnsworth geraldine page the one teacher edwina elizabeth hartman and a small group of half grown girls have been without a man in their midst for perhaps a little too long br br while their loyalties lay with the confederacy their emotions and physical needs definitely lead them in the opposite direction johnny immediately uses his masculine charms to try to win the women over to his side and keep them from turning him over to the br br however feelings previously stoked by incestuous behavior an adulterous father a brutal rape and adolescent inexperience combined with jealousies turn things upside down with some unexpected consequences for both johnny and the school's residents br br 10 stars
1	i was amazed about this early performance of clint eastwood i had not read a summary of the film when i decided to watch it on tv due to mr eastwood i expected some nice shootings and no deep story i was quite mistaken i found a couple of topics unusually explicitly addressed and until the end i couldn't make up my mind about who's good and who's bad this movie is definitely not typical eastwood but surely worth watching
1	this is a good movie i won't go into any details as the other user comments do a good job of taking care of that however i disagree with the statement that this is eastwood's best work that is just not a very position based on the volume of strong movies he has directed and starred in i would like to note that i find it interesting that two of the actresses who played in this movie and peggy drier never again appeared in another film or television show in spite of giving good performances my curiosity has me wondering what happened to these two actresses
1	i thought that eastwood's most unusual role was that in the bridges of madison county but that was until i saw the beguiled he manages to pull it off giving a very good performance and so does the rest of the cast the direction is imaginative given that the film was made in 1971 and had there not been some plot holes which the director seems to struggle to cover up at times we would be talking about an excellent film it remains powerful nonetheless br br 8
1	probably this is the best film of clint eastwood here action is minimal but with plenty of good acting a yankee soldier eastwood is wounded and taken by the female pupils and teachers of a school in the south where he is hidden and taken care shortly after his recovery all ladies wanted to have fun with him and some of them succeeded including the director of the school geraldine page erotic scenes are coming until the ladies discovered that their macho was shared by several of them so they became angry and poisoned him in a farewell dinner geraldine page although somewhat old was able to play a very suggestive role as the director of the school a woman with more failures than happiness in her life
1	one of eastwood's best movies after he had separated himself from the westerns which in themselves were good whenever i had a chance to see any of clint's earlier work i would sit in front of the set and watch whatever was on
1	this film was a surprise the plot synopsis sounds kinky and stars clint eastwood and the great geraldine page i didn't know what to expect there is that opening scene where the wounded soldier says that age 12 is old enough to kiss and proceeds to give a child a lingering and very adult mouth to mouth kiss the child takes him to the girls boarding school where she lives he takes advantage of the situation by attempting to seduce the headmistress played by page her assistant and another student jealousy sexual tension incest intrigue and the macabre all meld in this wonderfully original story br br i've read the other comments here and find little to disagree with however i wanted to clarify a point made earlier that there are no sympathetic characters in the film i find that there is one the attractive female slave successfully resists the soldier's advances in a scene that works well because it touches upon the common history of black women slaves taken advantage of by white men even though her strength and lack of illusion are the sum total of her experience she is what i would consider a sympathetic character she more than any of the other women and girls at the school has a legitimate reason for participating in what happens in the end
1	this movie is not what it appears to be clint eastwood is not dirty harry or a cowboy here the movie's appeal comes from its careful manipulation of atmosphere and theme it's a gothic tale set in the civil war and as such all the film's action or lack thereof takes place inside a house populated by southern belles of all ages and shapes br br the horror comes from viewing the whole story through the eyes of the clint eastwood character seeing him stranded in the house and held captive by the women is a very beguiling experience indeed and who is beguiled here exactly are the women beguiled by eastwood's incredible looks are we the viewers beguiled by both his sexual allure and the potential deviant sexualities it unleashes or does beguiled refer to what the director does here holds us enthralled for a short space only to maybe let us go don siegel does all of the above in one of the most memorable and disturbing films i had the pleasure of watching
1	clint eastwood plays a wounded union soldier found by a girl from a confederate boarding school and he's taken in and nursed back to health instead of turned over to confederate soldiers seems that the women folk at this place have ulterior motives geraldine paige the headmistress justifies not turning him into the confederacy and even passes him off as her cousin of course when the man gets to feeling better he becomes quite the lady's man and is pretty much making the rounds but when he gets busted he really gets busted in fact so badly he gets his leg cut off but it's for his own good of course not out of retribution things get carried a bit further though when certain women don't get what they want i haven't seen this for years and it still has a certain creepiness to it that by today's standards is still pretty strange not typical eastwood at all if you haven't seen this one it's worth seeing 8 out of 10
1	this super creepy southern gothic melodrama stars clint eastwood as a wounded confederate officer in the civil war who's taken in by a rural girls' school and nursed back to health a weird clash of genders ensues with the supposedly dangerous male falling prey to a batch of seemingly harmless women who prove themselves to be every bit as brutal as the men waging war on one another at the battle fronts this is a classic spider and the fly story but here there's one lone fly and a whole bunch of spiders br br geraldine page plays the head mistress of the school and she gives a characteristically sensational performance page was trained as a theater actress and it shows in all of her performances no matter what role she played she always committed herself 100 to it and never once let herself drop out of character so it is here with this lethal spinster who takes her sexual repression out on this helpless man each of the other girls responds to him in her own particular way as well the two most prominent are the slutty girl who can't wait to throw throw herself at him and the virginal one played by who else but the mannered elizabeth hartman who acts like she would fall over in a dead faint if someone so much as said the word penis to her the schematic madonna and the whore storyline would seem heavy handed if the movie didn't keep you so off kilter and so completely unsure of what was going to happen next br br the most memorable scene in the film for me occurred when the group of women perform an amputation of eastwood's leg which has become infected with gangrene again the spider fly allusion is clear they hobble him so that it's that much harder for him to escape their web br br a classic chiller not a great film but a morbidly entertaining one br br grade a
1	well i'm an italian horror big fan and i love movies from directors such argento fulci bava sr and bava jr only to quote the most famous la villa delle anime is one of the most unknown movie of this genre shot when this kind of cinema began its crisis that continues still today and director carlo sounds totally new to my ears he directed six movies this is the price italian directors have to pay to not work in rome but the film is not so bad and it's absolutely not correct to talk about trash ok the plot is not so original it reminds me stuff like the series the year is the same of amityville possession by damiano damiani or shock the last work of mario bava but you have to think that this is the movie of a cinematographer like mario bava movies so the most important thing is the atmosphere not the story or the characters atmosphere very well created by the use of light and by the camera movement the rest remain in the background i think the movie works not so good but works it's surely better than a lot of hollywoodian production like the haunting which have a bigger budget but not bigger ideas
1	director don siegel really impressed me with this film it is starkly shot graphic without being visually graphic well acted by all concerned and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer i didn't know what to expect sitting down to watch this a civil war movie or some kind of 70's soft core with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination exploration and descent into the soul of men and women a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized as one reviewer previously noted none none of the characters are likable by the film's end and yet each one is interesting complex and enigmatic eastwood plays cpl a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you'll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war particularly in the south soon page teacher elizabeth hartman lovely young seductress carol and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood each having their own needs and secrets and problems eastwood is not a nice man he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest the beguiled for me is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers siegel's best film it certainly is one of eastwood's best real performances page is always so very good and hartman et al excellent the gothic set for the school is effectively claustrophobic some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy eerie demented film
1	it is hard to know what category to put this film in most films set in this time period of us history are westerns but here instead of the wide open plains of the west the action is almost entirely confined to a claustrophobic girls boarding school in louisiana br br the film opens with amy a young girl walking though the woods picking mushrooms as she does so she stumbles upon corporal john a wounded union soldier who she takes back to the school we know that he isn't a particularly nice person when he kisses her on the lips to distract her from alerting a passing confederate patrol even though she told him she was twelve br br once back at the school opinions are divided about what should be done with their new guest some think they should look after him till his wounds are healed while others believe that it is treason not to hand him over to confederate forces at the first opportunity the former group prevail and he gradually recovers as he does so his presence has an effect on all of the girls who haven't had a man on site for a long time including a young teacher and the head mistress who's previous relationship appears to have been with her own brother sets about seducing them emotionally if not physically this leads to considerable jealousy amongst the girls br br while this film is rated fifteen it is definitely not for younger viewers both for the sexual content of which little is actually shown but much is implied and for a very gruelling scene which had me squirming more than any other scene in any film i've seen for quite some time it is interesting to see clint eastwood play against type instead of being heroic his character is both unpleasant and for most of the time at the mercy of the women around him the acting is solid throughout not just from eastwood but also from all the actresses including the young pamelyn ferdin who played amy
1	it took me years to finally catch this gem of a film and it was worth the wait in nearly all of his films clint always plays the hero be it hero anti hero or avenging hero in this film he is pure villain and he plays it well br br as a wounded union soldier he is brought into a confederate girls school by the students and teachers to heal soon after he begins to seduce the ladies no matter their age and some are quite young he also plays upon their jealousies and pits them against each other in the end you are never so happy to see clint die a terrible death br br that is what makes this film such a gem clint has never done any other film like it and after seeing this film you wish he had he plays the role of the villain so well it will make you wonder why he never did any more films like it it also explains why the film is not seen very often most people don't want to see clint as the villain and with dirty harry being released shortly after this film it has become a hidden gem if you are a clint eastwood fan you owe it to yourself to see this film you might not like what you will see but you won't soon forget it
1	during the brief period between clint eastwood's string of spaghetti westerns and his dirty harry films he and director don siegel teamed up to make this unusual picture eastwood plays an injured union army corporal during the civil war who is taken in by a southern school for girls until he recovers from his wounds it has been a while since the young women most of which seem to be teenagers have had a man on the premises so they are reluctant to turn him in to the local rebel soldiers the resulting situations are often humorous shocking erotic or even downright grotesque as eastwood slowly regains his strength and begins to brood over the establishment br br the basic storyline almost sounds like the makings of a porno film we have a masculine male suddenly surrounded by young nubile women most of them are sexually attracted to him and he is more than willing to spread the love amongst them the material never really slips down to the level of tasteless however eastwood siegel and cinematographer bruce surtees are such skilled filmmakers that the film always retains its dignity br br eastwood's john is like no other character he has ever played is an amoral conniving and lustful charlatan he knows that most of the women even the youngest want his bod and he lets more than one of them have a shot at him often uses flattery to butter the women up then uses his rugged good looks to reel them in he is like a drunken player at a cocktail party often hitting on different women even in the same scene eventually his lustful ways cause him great agony and loss in a way you must see for yourselves this author would not dream of revealing the specific consequences of his actions but there is little doubt he has them coming br br eastwood gives a typically great performance he seems to be having a blast with the role until things turn really ugly then he turns mean and ugly geraldine page is a treat as the steely b tch who runs the school we know she wants as much as the other girls but with her checkered past shown to us in flashbacks we find out that isn't all she's after mae mercer as a slave belonging to the school gives a great performance too she obviously knows is a skunk from the beginning and she never lets his phony charm bring her guard down this is a character you will want to know more about after the film is over she seems to have a greater knowledge of the world than anyone else in the film br br the beguiled did poorly in its theatrical release nobody was quite sure what to make of it and some of its content no doubt raised a few eyebrows in 1971 for example in an early scene we see eastwood romantically kiss a 12 yr old girl is he just trying to keep her quiet when the rebel soldiers get close or is he really enjoying it probably both a fantasy sequence later on even shows clint getting it on with not only page but her young assistant truly some interesting goings on in this one it's a good thing eastwood became the star he did or this one might have been long forgotten br br highly recommended 9 of 10 stars br br the hound
1	combining the conventions of both western and gothic horror and often directed as if it were an art movie this is one of siegel and eastwood's best collaborations br br eastwood plays a yankee soldier who after being wounded during the civil war takes refuge in an isolated southern seminary for young women shut away from the world the women project their romantic fantasies on to him and he responds with callous male manipulation but jealousy and resentment raise their heads and he finds himself in a world of brutal revenge and boy is the revenge brutal br br beautifully shot by bruce surtees and carefully paced the beguiled is a haunting elegant work that seems to have influenced the troubled sexuality of eastwood's own play misty for me and tightrope br br the film is a gripping depiction of a fierce battle of the sexes and oozes a dreamlike mix of horror and sexuality all the characters are ambiguous displaying traits of both good and evil leaving it up to us to choose whom we should root for br br don siegel left quite a legacy of fine films behind everything from of the body snatchers to dirty harry but though his early black and white pictures have aged well the majority of his colour films seem grainy dated and badly shot his gritty realism must have seemed fresh and kinetic 40 years ago but when viewed today i just don't think they've stood the test of time br br the beguiled however is in a different league mature ambiguous and starkly shot it's a shame it isn't more widely known while evolving technology and technique have rendered the majority of siegel's tough masculine action thrillers obsolete the beguiled still entrances audiences today due to it's surreal atmosphere and unique subject matter br br 8 5 10 better than the similarly themed black narcissus this is in my opinion siegel's best film part horror part drama part sexual odyssey the beguiled is a surprisingly arty film especially when considering that siegel viewed his films to be quote a large part of the film's artistry is due to clint eastwood who would from this point onwards make an effort to choose mature material
1	this don siegel clint eastwood strange and hypnotic drama was left by the wayside in 1971 and what a pity a fascinating character study with some great women for squint to deal with geraldine page was one of our supreme actresses and she's perfectly cast young jo ann harris is a flirty minx and elizabeth hartman who died too young is undeniably repressed br br a 7 out of 10 best performance c eastwood released the same year as dirty harry this did no business beside getting some good reviews seek this out unless you're only into explosion films very subtle and frightening this piece will stick with you
1	another well done moral ambiguity pieces where the anti hero makes it hard to decide who to root for br br if nothing else the beguiled silenced anyone who said there were no good parts for actresses in movies at least in 1971 there were four excellent parts for actresses in this film and all were well cast and well executed br br pamelyn ferdin did a fine job as amy and would go on to play wanda june this must have been the first time an adult male box office star shared an extended kiss with a twelve year old girl on camera wonder if there was much controversy about this at the time it was probably polanski's favorite scene given the fate of amy's turtle randolph it is no surprise that ferdin grew up to be a hardcore animal rights activist br br geraldine page was likewise excellent playing a complex character with just the right amount of restraint it is interesting that she died just three days after elizabeth hartman committed suicide throwing herself through a fifth floor window as they had also worked together in you're a big boy now br br hartman who looks like she could be blair brown's sister was wonderful as edwina and should have gotten an oscar no other performance was even close that year but given what we now know about her you wonder just how much of her performance was a studied effort and how much just came from inside her edwina shows such raw pain it is difficult to watch like marilyn monroe's incredible performance in the misfits the viewer is probably seeing a whole lot of her own demons in the character she is playing br br finally there is jo ann harris who is stunningly perfect as the flirty carol for my money harris was the sexiest actress of the 1970's combining sensuality with intelligence and humor she was the best reason to watch the most wanted television series and the only reason to watch wild wild west revisited hard to believe that someone who could bring all that to the screen never became a big star
1	clever psychosexual drama about a wounded union soldier clint eastwood who seeks refuge in an isolated confederate school for young women during the civil war slowly eastwood begins to seduce every girl in sight until the tables are turned and he becomes the pursued in an unsettling gothic toned finale never has a film been so deliciously erotic yet disturbingly macabre at the same time br br this is undoubtedly eastwood's finest hour those who tune in for dirty harry will indeed be surprised while the rest of the cast gives uniformly superb performances try to see the film on video as television prints usually delete crucial flashback scenes between geraldine page and patrick
1	and it's a good one too in fact this may be one of the best studies of sexual repression ever made it's extremely well acted and has some downright chilling moments an often overlooked film in clint eastwood's filmography and atypical of him to be sure but if you're willing to accept him in such an ambiguous role it's certainly very gripping
1	the beguiled is one of my favorite clint eastwood films and a departure from his typical early roles directed by don siegel with whom eastwood collaborated on several films it was made a year before eastwood's directorial debut with play misty for me an alternate title considered for the film was pussy footing down at the old plantation which thankfully was not used otherwise i am sure raunchy jokes about the fact that it takes place at a girls' school would be difficult to avoid i first saw this movie in one of my college film classes in the mid 1970's and was immediately taken with it i only had an old battered vhs tape of it until i recently purchased the widescreen dvd which also includes the hilarious awful trailer that makes the film come across as a peyton place soap opera and conveys none of the creepiness of the film br br interesting notes eastwood and siegel had to battle with universal pictures to keep the original ending and they won out and the film was billed as a standard eastwood western which it certainly is not it is a gothic tale of deception and horror set in the time of the civil war with an underlying tone of eroticism and sexual tension running throughout br br i'm not putting any spoilers in this review and if you want to see the film as it should be seen then be careful of looking it up on the internet as spoiler reviews of it do abound br br clint eastwood portrays john a union soldier who is shot on confederate ground and discovered by a young girl from a nearby girls' school she rescues him and takes him back to the school but instead of notifying the local patrol of his presence so that he will be taken to prison the headmistress miss martha geraldine page her assistant edwina elizabeth hartman their black servant hallie mae mercer and the mostly teenage girls take him in heal him and fall under his spell the film sets its tone of creepiness and gothic horror right from the titles as it shows real battleground shots from the war while eastwood's voice is heard quietly singing a funereal song of the time br br the opening scene of his encounter with the little girl who saves him sets the tone of his character and the tone of the entire movie to say any more than that would spoil the surprises in that first scene to say much more about the film itself might ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it if you are into creepy gothic tales find it and rent it eastwood is excellent in the film and it is interesting to see him in an early role or any role where he portrays a character that is for the most part very unsympathetic br br geraldine page had a plum role in the film as the headmistress and i cannot imagine another actress of the time being as good in the role a long shot could have been piper laurie but i don't think laurie could have embodied the role in the same manner as geraldine page br br elizabeth hartman whose wonderful performance in the film a patch of blue as a blind girl who falls in love with sidney character is another high point in her short career is at her prime here delicate and masterful at the same time unfortunately her delicacy on film was also a part of her real life she committed suicide at age 45 br br i end this review with this observation one manipulative lying yankee man is no match for a of deceptive and libidinous southern belles
1	a buster keaton silent short br br poor buster becomes the goat scapegoat for a dangerous escaped murderer br br this is a wonderful hilarious little film with keaton at his absolute best in what is essentially a series of chases buster gets to exercise his endlessly inventive imagination big joe roberts appears as the highly suspicious police chief br br born into a family of vaudevillian buster keaton 1895 1966 mastered physical comedy at a very early age an association with fatty arbuckle led to a series of highly imaginative short subjects and classic silent feature length films all from 1920 to 1928 writer director star stuntman buster could do it all and his intuitive genius gave him almost miraculous knowledge as to the intricacies of film making and of what it took to please an audience more akin to fairbanks than chaplin buster's films were full of splendid adventure exciting derring do and the most dangerous physical stunts imaginable his theme of a little man against the world who triumphs through bravery ingenuity dominates his films through every calamity disaster buster remained the great stone face a stoic survivor in a universe gone mad br br in the late 1920's buster was betrayed by his manager brother in law and his contract was sold to mgm which proceeded to nearly destroy his career teamed initially with jimmy durante and eventually allowed small roles in mediocre comedies buster was for 35 years consistently given work far beneath his talent finally before lung cancer took him at age 70 he had the satisfaction of knowing that his classic films were being rediscovered now well past his centenary buster keaton is routinely recognized appreciated as one of cinema's true authentic geniuses and he knew how to make people laugh
1	this is the most energetic and entertaining ten minutes of film i've seen in a long time as a film student at nyu where this short has been screened several times i salute jim cox for his astute sense of style and pace for our generation i'm sure i'll see his name later on the big screen hopefully this short will find a market on tv or somewhere so this inspiring work can get the wide distribution it des
1	i saw this short film on hbo the other day and absolutely loved it eight different characters eight different perspectives at first i was confused by the way the story was moving along but then i realized that it was just one scene being shown over and over again just to show us the different perspectives of the characters br br at first you think the clerks are yelling at the teenager for stealing they speak in their own language which i and chris the teenager played convincingly by cannot understand the perspective of the clerks dispels that view i didn't realize how wonderful the short really is until the last two scenes br br excellent short film hopefully the director james cox can turn the short into a feature length film with the same cast or win us over with a whole new film br br
1	saw this at sundance one of the first years i attended the festival blew me away br br it went by much too fast and i've never been able to find it again i figured it would show up on a compilation somewhere but still no joy my memory's foggy on the details i just remember being surprised over and over again and on the edge of my seat br br anyone reading this have any leads online dvd beat up vhs copy i'd try to make it worth your while br br over the years i've probably seen over 200 short films used to live near aspen where they have an incredible shorts fest in april this definitely ranks among my favorites and i hope to see it again br br many thanks to anyone with leads on how to see it
1	i see hundreds of student films this is tops james cox is a fantastic director he moves the camera tells the story and uses music in a way that is far advanced for his years no wonder he got a feature from this film br br
1	this was a rather unnerving look at an ostensibly functional family confronted by their daughter's druggie boyfriend father tangles with and ultimately kills druggie boyfriend wallowing in guilt he reveals to a drunk redneck what he has done things spiral rapidly out of hand before degenerating completely the ending you dread stalks the viewer throughout but is still able to startle when it finally arrives
1	imagine that dragnet episode where friday and gannon go into a typical 1970 den of hippie inequity but instead of giving everyone a lecture they get some that's joe in a nutshell br br this film of a working class bigot and a rich guy who's just killed his girlfriend's drug dealer boyfriend has dated terribly and most of the supporting acting is stilted but it's still interesting to watch peter boyle then about 35 plays joe the bigot and he looks like james gandolfini in her film debut susan sarandon plays the doe eyed daughter and while she doesn't necessarily hint at her future greatness you can't take your eyes off her
1	my 2nd favorite film of 1970 after five easy pieces was totally dismissed by a lot of idiots calling in an audience baiting piece of trash peter boyle a well known liberal is incredible as the hard assed working stiff who has a few problems with the younger generation he's a frightening dude but has a great imagination and is very funny i was a teenage liberal when this was released but as horrifying as joe seemed to me he also cracked me up susan sarandon in her first role is perfect and a mixed up stone rich fox the dinner scene in queens is hilarious and insightful for everybody involved br br this was not an exploitation film and the script which was oscar nominated should have won that year the director just didn't waste enough money making it to give it enough credibility in hollywood no matter your political then and now you'll like somebody in this film a definite 9 out of 10 it's on dvd and video check it out
1	oh man this movie is amazing it's very good it's a story about a man who isn't so accepting of black people he sits at a bar drinks on his night out and he rants about hippies who are anti war and how blacks and hippies don't deserve to get any welfare checks this movie is very realistic because it portrays a guy joe who represented a lot of guys back then and now too the story goes like this joe is in a bar and he rubs shoulders with a rich guy who just accidentally killed his daughter's hippie boyfriend and this rich goes to the bar to rethink what he just did and while he's doing that joe is in the bar ranting about hippies and people who are against the war the rich guy accidentally tells joe that he killed a hippie and obviously joe applauds the rich guy cause joe hates hippies amazing movie watch it to see what happens next i liked this movie because it was reminiscent of those days in the early 70's i liked the way movies were shot back then in those days very good stuff it's not like today's movies basically the movie gives you an inner look into the mind of the lead character joe i like the theme of the movie about the working man who's busting his ass trying to make a living
1	a fascinating relic of the turbulent cultural political aura of the late 60s taking in the class struggle as well which ironically in view of its outdated and occasionally embarrassing conservative views makes full use of the that prevailed for a while in mainstream cinema and which came about as a direct result of the liberal attitude it purports to criticize norman wexler's incisive oscar nominated script is superbly enacted by peter boyle in a powerhouse performance who manages to make his garrulous down to earth yet hypocritical and opportunistic character with a barely disguised fascist streak which comes to the fore in the remarkable violent conclusion likable even admirable indeed he comes across uncannily like a flabbier version of the young marlon brando similar to other generation gap movies of its era like taking off 1971 and hardcore 1978 but also nihilistic vigilante films like death wish 1974 and taxi driver 1976 interestingly enough two of these also feature boyle joe ultimately emerges as an engrossing and powerful drama which could have been a masterpiece if it had had a more experienced director at the helm
1	peter boyle was always a great actor and he proved it by his performance as a gun ho bigot making me hate him everytime he used the n word i watched him and his big mouth and wanted to punch his lights out just think peter boyle was a monk once now a supporting actor in everybody loves raymond susan sarandon making her first debut need a bath right away and enjoyed sharing it with someone else in his own dirty water i noticed a large ann doll creator john was the only thing that susan could actually trust and love and the doll appeared in quite a few scenes if you really want to know about the way out 70's with drugs free love and pipe dreams then enjoy the excellent direction of john g rocky and the karate kid i always thought that peter boyle should have been blown away in the end this is definitely a cult classic well worth viewing and sharing with others
1	buster keaton was arguably at his most enjoyable when he did short 20 minute films and they don't come more rib funny than this gem the dead pan comic gets involved in a photographic mix up with a wanted felon this leads to his elaborate evasion of several street cops and fellow passengers who recognise the his face from the wanted signs the goat is a bloc with brilliant site gags from the opening scene at the bread queue right up to the wonderful elevator chase at the end a keaton film never feels as though its silence is lacking as sound is never something you needed with him his movies explain themselves through the wonderful yet incredibly dangerous things he did to himself it isn't hard to see just how influential he really was the man is every bit as thoroughly amazing today as he was in 1921
1	i really liked the movie joe it has really become a cult classic among certain age groups br br the producer of this movie is a personal friend of mine he is my father in law he lives in manhattan's west side and has a bungalow in southampton long island his son in law live next door to his bungalow br br presently he does not do any producing but in a business with hbo movies br br as a person mr gil is a real gentleman and i wish he would have continued in the production business of move making
1	joe is the movie about the dark side of the force of the 1960's in america and susan sarandon had nice boobs this movie scared me so much when i saw it in the theatre that i never liked peter boyle until young frankenstein and was still quite leery of him even after that comedy looking back now from today's experience this film seems current again in being direct and to the point of half the approval of john joe the plumber typecast and their fear of electing a black man as president of the usa in the coming weeks a black prez would be seen as sweet revenge of the but bound to again bring fire to many minds if not the streets this time by joe enthusiasts so the spirit of joe in the film is resurrected in the campaign of joe the plumber still i love to be american and be terrified at both and by the knowledge that they illustrate what ironically gregory peck said our civilized law also is a living breathing reality god help us
1	dennis patrick plays a man who accidentally kills his daughter's boyfriend and then reveals his secret at a local bar joe peter boyle a bigot who is getting drunk there at first takes it as a joke but then the story is confirmed on the evening news instead of calling the cops or the like joe decides that since the guy killed a hippie they must be kindred spirits he blackmails the man into becoming his pal at first the film seemed harsh and judgemental but as it revealed itself it actually became quite a complex portrait of the current society yes i think it does exaggerate a bit but in amusing ways that don't really detract from the power of its messages susan sarandon debuted in this film and it's a shock to see how pretty she was around 23 well worth seeing
1	this is a classic movie that dramatizes the plight of a man who cannot adjust to changes taking place in society and feels more and more alienated which leads to violence joe is a worker and he is dissatisfied and angry and all he is needs is a pretext to lash out which is what the story is about alone joe is quiet together with someone else he becomes lethal and what makes the character of joe even more chilling is that he fully his violence so that to him it's not only not bad it's necessary for joe projects his own violent tendencies onto those who he considers the enemy and therefore considers himself to be in a war and in this movie the generation gap is portrayed as a war but it is a war in joe's mind only because the enemy in this case is in his imagination nobody wants to fight joe but joe feels he must defend himself although this movie was released in 1970 it's message is as relevant now as it was then as society continues to undergo major changes which lead to the kind of intense alienation that the movie effectively dramatizes
1	though i saw this movie about 4 years ago long before i started commenting on imdb i decided to review it now which is unusual for me since before now i often reviewed something just after seeing it what can i say well the best performance is that of the late peter boyle as the title character who after finding out about a man's killing the drug dealing boyfriend of his daughter wants to bond with him even though he's a madison avenue executive who has nothing in common with the very lower class conservative joe in fact there are plenty of funny scenes of joe at this guy's party making smart alecky remarks there oh and it should be noted that the actress that plays the daughter who they're looking for after she disappeared from the hospital after on some drugs is none other than susan sarandon making her film debut this was a pretty hard hitting movie for the time it was made late '60s early '70s and was compelling work from scripter norman wexler later of saturday night fever and director john g later to do save the tiger rocky and the karate kid certainly the ending packs a wallop even today after all these years highly recommended for anyone curious about the counterculture of that time p s among the cultural artifacts seen here are a raggedy ann doll a box of ritz crackers a bottle of heinz ketchup and unique for the era a nixon poster asking would you buy a used car from this man
1	new yorkers contemporaneous with this film will recall how reflective of its time it is and how well cast and crew captured america new york city of that era br br norman wexler's script the different worlds the various sub live in and direction brings out phenomenal performances all around peter boyle's prodigious talent is on display as never before nor since clearly it is the best character portrayal the always likable dennis patrick ever accomplished br br what i will always remember about joe is the feeling of having been in a virtual state of shock coming out of the theater knowing that what the screen portrayed was seething under the surface in neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs of the city of new york br br this film needs to be remembered
1	i recall so many things about seeing this movie back during it's original theatrical release the post woodstock afterglow of peace and love along with the pre watergate tension of fear and paranoia it's hard to believe that it's thirty seven years later and i can still remember the thoughts going through my head while watching the film with my best friend like marveling at peter boyle's characterization of the ultimate redneck sure to typecast him the rest of his career oh how wrong and how the counter culture jarred the sensibilities of most of the country to this day my buddy and i still use joe line from my summary above when faced with a dilemma curious how a simple line like that can stay with you for decades br br it's curious to read comments about the film from others on this board particularly the ones stating that the film has a dated quality and how over the top the characters were still if you were around during that time the picture gives a pretty accurate portrayal of the polar opposites that existed back then pretty much side by side as the events in the story reveal if you really want dated when was the last time you heard the words macy's and in the same sentence or a line like joe's come on get with the pepsi generation for historical perspective you have that great nixon poster lingering in one of the background scenes would you buy a used car from this man with minor intricacies like those director john captures many of the subtle but ever present hints of how life was four decades ago br br today's viewing was only the second time i've seen the movie and i have to admit i don't remember susan sarandon in one of the lead roles but then again this was her very first picture the scenes of nudity and free love were something actually quite new and bold at the time shocking in fact as film makers began to experiment with their ability to push the envelope of propriety and convention joe took a major leap in that regard particularly since it was a 'mainstream' picture br br with the passage of time the thing that impresses me the most about peter boyle was how he overcame the stereotype of joe to appear in or star in some of my very favorite pieces of work i mean how do you go from joe to that hilarious rendition of on the in young frankenstein and my absolute favorite episode of 'x files' has boyle as clyde in both a tender and tragic funny and serious portrayal that turns the tables on scully and mulder more than once and as a career capper frank barone has to be one of the funniest characters in the history of television even repeat episodes in syndication are funny as he whenever the elder barone lets loose with one of his observations he is one actor that this viewer sorely misses already
1	unusual film about a man who befriends his social opposite out of fear of blackmail peter boyle makes this film with his foul mouthed boorish portrayal of a working class stiff joe in love with the past and fearful of the future and worried about the present the first half hour of the show features the film debut of a young susan as melissa compton a weak willed rich girl who slums with her loser boyfriend replete with a full nude scene her boyfriend is the film's weak spot a poorly portrayed drug addict and dealer who meets his demise following overdose we meet boyle's joe in a bar as he spouts off and rants about minorities crime hippies and drugs and it is easy to see that the later norman lear television character of archie bunker is based on a cleaned up version of joe the comparison even carries over into joe's wife and personal life and pastimes joe insinuates himself into the life of bill compton melissa's father and the two make an unlikely pair as they search for melissa who has run away from drug treatment and back to the drug addicts she calls friends their search leads them to an oar gee as joe calls it a free love fest fueled by drugs a lot of nudity and surprisingly uptight bill compton and ultra conservative joe both join in they get robbed and this leads to a violent and murderous ending that foreshadows the stark and chilling ending to taxi driver six years later joe is a funny film that on the surface at least is anti violence and anti racist yet the film's main character joe becomes the very instrument of the upheaval he fears when he enters and joins in the illegal and unbridled sexual excesses he rants against so in that respect the film falls short of being a powerful message and leaves you wondering what the final outcome really was all about
1	after recently seeing cry uncle by the same director i decided to seek this out and am i glad i did this is an extraordinarily good film far far better than it would seem likely given the ingredients how many times have we had to suffer the embarrassment of someone playing a middle class dad mixing it with the flower children and yet here thanks to a perfect script it is made believable not ideal not good or bad but believable peter boyle as the working class hippie and ni er hater and dennis patrick as the uptight suit play their respective parts immaculately and i can't remember ever seeing the two classes getting together like this without things getting sentimental susan sarandon is effective as a hippie chick but doesn't have all that much to do in her first film this is a truly must see film capturing as it does that very short period in western and in particular us times when the counter culture was about to bust itself wide open
1	warning reading this entry after watching the movie like released a year before 'joe' tries to illustrate what happens when the counterculture and mainstream albeit right wing america meet a violent end ensues although this film is for the most part a slow moving display of traditional old fashion american morals versus the 60's do what feels good lifestyle it is also a commentary on upper class vs lower middle class and their inability to meet in the middle as illustrated when the meet the boyle's joe represents a generation stuck in the 1940s and 50s where 'kill a commie for mommy or jap or hippie for that matter is okay so long as it helps and saves america joe and wife mary jo are clearly the archetypes for archie bunker and dingbat wife edith this movie which will forever be known for it's violent but not bloody no blood is seen at all ending is uneven however joe blasts verbally the hippie generation then literally lays down with them to infiltrate their numbers to locate daughter when clearly he should have been repulsed by the idea but forgoes the idea for the sake of sex when he is betrayed through thievery read trust of the older generation to the newer generation he lashes out through an unrelenting chain of murder perhaps it is due to the of hollywood that the watcher expects blood streaming death in the end scene but the bloodless shootings long for any sort of impact or realism 'joe' is not a great movie but it is an interesting display of class and culture alienation and the animalistic underlying extremes to the generation gap
1	this is a wonderful comedy short one of keaton's absolute best through a long series of silly mistakes buster is mistaken for a wanted killer and as a result most of the film consists of him running from the cops and one detective in particular while generally i am not a fan of movies with a lot of chase scenes this one is the absolute best as far as pure athletic and acrobatic ability i have seen some that have had wilder stunts but none where the star was so limber and able to move with amazing grace in particular there is a scene where he runs across a table jumps on a man's shoulders and dives up through the as as is humanly possible plus so many of the gags are funny and perfectly timed such as how he really comes to believe that he's actually killed someone by the way this film is very similar to cops also by keaton but original enough and with enough energy to make them both worth seeing br br this film is brilliant and the only keaton short i can think of that i probably liked even more was the playhouse where buster plays every role at the theater
1	i only voted excellent because this film took two snapshots of americana one in 1970 and one for every year afterward br br nothing's really changed br br joe is actually a jerk a big stupid slob who's mad at everybody else in the world for his own idiocy this ain't really a spoiler but the key to the film is the big corporate never does wrong guy making friends with this semi joe and he gets some kind of validation from his bigotry and stupidity and sense of being wronged br br yet few would argue that the dealer boyfriend did deserve to die and those kids shouldn't have ripped joe and compton off and joe and compton were actually getting into the hash and the young skin until they got ripped off a simple film in many ways except that in 1970 new york city was par to a battle zone thanks to nixon's care and all of the money going to the war in vietnam as i write this 2 25 2007 there is a very long wait on netflix for this film which makes me happy because i think there are people out there who want to learn this was a pretty good snapshot not exact a bit caricaturist but actually pretty close to how it was back then and the scary thing is things haven't changed that much sure there's no more welfare but that just means the wage slavery has won out br br amazing how millionaires will complain about not making enough money then complain that 5 15 an hour is too much to pay their people
1	i finally have seen the real reason why peter boyle became famous it wasn't being the monster in young frankenstein or being cranky frank barone on everybody loves raymond for younger people who only know him from tv give this film a try it makes frank look like a saint br br joe is boyle in his finest acting role and as someone mentioned most likely gave the inspiration for archie bunker on all in the family i think boyle even went back to joe a little to play frank i say this because i noticed the basement of both joe frank barone look similar br br i knew nothing of this movie when i checked it out of the library i just knew boyle and susan sarandon were featured yes susan does look great here and for a young actress a very good early role a young hippie wanna be who escapes her parents home and lives with the ultimate lost in a drug induced haze hippie who also sells as much as he buys br br after a near fatal over dose on too many pills she is hospitalized while her parents go to collect her things her mother wont go into the smelly run down apartment but her father does while dad gathers up her things her boyfriend comes home and the two exchange words and then the father does what we will later hear joe say he'd like to do to a hippie br br joe is shooting his mouth off about how he hates different cultures races hippies and a laundry list of others when he says i'd really like to kill one of them the father trying to look like he's kidding says i just did joe almost buys it but then takes it as funny br br later when the police are at the scene and the story is in the paper joe realizes he wasn't kidding instead of nailing the rich guy for money through blackmail he actually kind of does blackmail him by just wanting him and his wife to get to know him and his wife long story short their association is awkward but after sarandon gets wind of what her father has done the bottom is at risk of falling out br br how this all plays out in the end you'll have to watch for yourself although it's over 35 years ago the ending is something you wont expect unless you've seen the film before of course again i recommend it mostly for those who haven't seen it br br 10 stars for boyle not just playing someone completely opposite his nature but for what will show others that he was more than just a tv and movie comedy actor end
1	22 joe drama 1970 joe peter boyle is a racist factory worker who's known to hate hippies and ni ers he meets bill a businessman who has just murdered the lover of his drug addict young daughter jill susan sarandon jill runs away and joins a hippie commune at the outskirts of town bill turns to joe for help their search leads them through the seediest parts of town where both men's inner hatred and loath is furthered tested br br critique this was director john g first sleeper turned smash hit an amazing run which included 'the karate kid' 'split 'weekend at bernie's' film is interesting enough in that it served to encapsulate the themes and ideas of the turbulent 60s vietnam war black power women's lib etc it also has a good performance from peter boyle as joe one of the cinema's first antiheroes he's always been good at playing creepy bossy heavies whose abstract ideas are enforced by his intimidating presence he would play the frankenstein monster in mel brook's spoof young frankenstein he reminds me of a little kid trapped in a big dumb awkward body film has a weak script the meeting of joe and bill for instance is a bit coincidental but it has a particularly gruesome post taxi driver ending br br quote title song i saw a fella selling junk to children he gets nervous every time i pass cause he knows that if i catch him i'm gonna kick his head and kick his fat a
1	if archie bunker was armed he may well have been joe however all in the family would have had a rather short run because the censors would never have allowed it to run along the lines of this movie joe is a working class guy who is a racist and a bigot and has a big mouth especially when he's drunk one night he meets a man in a bar bill who is having a drink to soothe his frazzled nerves after accidentally killing his daughter's junkie boyfriend and he lets that slip to joe what happens is that bill's daughter was living with the junkie and she's hauled off to the hospital after an overdose and he goes by the apartment to collect her things but doesn't expect that he'll actually run into the boyfriend who comes in fresh from a big drug deal in the struggle that ensues the boyfriend is killed accidentally and bill doesn't want anyone really to know of course but he lets it slip to joe and then when the newspapers and tv reports come out joe sees them puts 2 and 2 together and suddenly this man is a hero in his eyes he hooks up with him later and bill is of course concerned that joe is going to blackmail him but not for money he wants to hang out with him which is in a way almost worse now bill's daughter escapes from the clinic she's in and slips back home and accidentally overhears what happened and then is on the run and most of the rest of the movie consists of joe bill infiltrating the underground to try to find her this builds up to a rather shocking ending which to me was totally unexpected and ends on just the right note or wrong note depending on your point of view a sort of decent but dim view of life in the early 70's mostly from a working class point of view which makes it not for everyone but it's not a bad film at all and it's a decent watch 8 out of 10
1	i was surprised by how emotionally invested i became in this film peter boyle is a tour de force as the working class socially conservative bigot joe i actually sympathized with some of his complaints of course he doesn't mention the underlying historical socio economic reasons for many of his prejudices the film also provides interesting insight into the rapid change american society was undergoing at this time recreational drugs casual sex and the challenging of parental authority became in vogue and replaced the more time honored traditions of respect for god country and seniority susan sarandon fans will be delighted joe is her film debut she also provides viewers with a visual treat near the beginning of the film recommended 8 10
1	joe is one of those movies where although you think that it might go along smoothly ends up hitting you like i can't come up with an analogy it showed not only that america's long standing idea of unity was moot but also the various aspects within our society melissa compton susan sarandon is the ultimate flower child while her father bill dennis patrick is a clean cut executive one day bill accidentally kills melissa's boyfriend in the immediate aftermath bill gets acquainted with joe peter boyle an ultra right wing rabidly racist working stiff as a result the two of them end up associating more and more with the hippies whom bill finds unpleasant and joe outright hates but in the end everything has dead serious consequences br br true some parts of the movie are a little bit dated but it's a good juxtaposition of america's two sides during the vietnam war and rest assured the residual effects of all that will probably never go away
1	wealthy businessman bill compton played by dennis patrick accidentally kills his daughter's hippie boyfriend after an argument panic stricken he retreats to a bar and meets joe played by peter boyle a loud mouth angry bigot who is bitter over how his beloved country has become unintentionally bill allows joe to find out that he just killed a hippie and this is only the beginning joe is a classic film of an unlikely friendship a bond between two men one of a white collar background the other of a blue collar background bill joe have one thing in common they are disgraced over how crazy the world has become dennis patrick peter boyle have both given very realistic portrayals of their characters director john g with this pre rocky effort directs this low budget gem with the same finesse as a movie with a 100 million budget the script is loaded with excellent character development and very snappy realistic dialog in spite of its strengths this film does have its weaknesses the script falls asleep roughly 3 4 of the way through but it wakes up just in time for the jarring climax this film also features a very early and uninspiring performance by a 24 year old susan sarandon as bill's daughter melissa along with her hippie boyfriend frank portrayed very blandly by patrick mc dermott one could only be thankful that he was killed off early in the film in spite of its few flaws this is one of those forgotten films of the 70's that should not be even though joe is very dated to today's standards the chemistry between dennis patrick peter boyle is completely relevant today and it is the glue that holds the whole film together
1	caution possible spoilers just watched 'joe' for the second time the first time was 30 years ago on an air force base i was reminded of that by the air force overcoat with tech sgt stripes wore by the boyfriend dealer we airmen had quite a laugh the first time that appeared on the screen because that is a rank over the years i have carried several other images from the film foremost was the absolutely beautiful and vulnerable daughter of the executive as someone else commented you could not take you eyes off her i did not realize until now that this was a 20 year old susan sarandon in her first movie what a loss that she did not do more movies when she looked like that i also recall the irony of having a counterculture hero like peter boyle playing the title role of a right wing gun nut not unlike george c scott playing generals in dr strangelove and patton and of course the shocking ending made a lasting impression br br 30 years ago it was the most talked about movie that ever played on the base we thought it was a great film then and i have been reluctant to see it again because i was afraid that it would be as disappointingly dated as easy rider but watching it today i was amazed at how well the film has held up it is a very strong script with few holes although you have to wonder about the boyfriend immediately getting out of the bathtub when sarandon gets in with him br br searching for an explanation of why this film is still so entertaining i have to think it has something to do with the perfect physical casting boyle was physically believable as joe as others have pointed out his portrayal would inspire the archie bunker character a few later did ted knight model his character judge after the dennis patrick's advertising executive in 'joe' they look alike and sound alike patrick was totally believable as the wrapped too tight upper middle class executive and sarandon's doe eyed innocent with the ann doll still evokes a protective response from all male viewers perfect casting br br the nude and drug scenes actually hold up they were very provocative for their day and are as explicit as anything to be found in about the only thing that dates this film is that the violence is not realistic or graphic 'joe' was about the same time as 'the wild bunch' and the tone of movie violence had a just begun to change br br another reason this film holds up is that events in the past couple of years have brought back the relevancy of the theme and context of this film in the film both types of are portrayed as full of fear and hate toward the unconventional ways of the counterculture and filled with envy at their free and hedonistic lifestyle the counterculture is portrayed as mocking the straight culture and although paranoid toward conservatives legitimately so given that this was just a couple months after kent state they cannot resist flaunting their lifestyle in an attempt to the political landscape is not all that different 30 years later i'm not sure conservatives envy young people and liberals as much as 1970 but they fear and hate them more br br an excellent film that surprisingly is as relevant now as it was in the early 1970's
1	i don't care if some people voted this movie to be bad if you want the truth this is a very good movie it has every thing a movie should have you really should get this one
1	let's face it you know what to expect when you tune into a post 1990 corey feldman film there are probably boobs guns and cars saying that there is more to this movie than just naked ladies i'm sorry to say cos it's mainly people getting themselves killed in a variety of unusual and as the name suggests often ways i love crappy horror and i love this film if you don't you probably wont but i think it's worth most people giving it a go it's not so crappy that it'll ruin your weekend or anything all in all if its mindless good fun a bit of corpse loving and an 80's childhood superstar your in the mood for then you've come to the right place its a cracker
1	saw this for the first time on uk tv with good musical accompaniment the elevator scene is class especially when he does the going down thing in the phone booth and then fiddles with the floor indicator the jump through the is really impressive and there's so much more apart from all the stuff that's been mentioned before there's the fight with the man who's been bullying the woman with the dog it just looks so simple the only drawback is the plot he gets mixed up with dead eye dan who then escapes but doesn't reappear even when some more gangsters get involved later on the scene where it looks like he's shooting at the fat inspector is funny but would have been better if dead eye was the one pulling the trigger
1	robert mckimson's bunny' is one of the director's finest shorts although the circus based setting may evoke hideous memories of mckimson's dreadful 'big top bunny' bunny' is in fact nowhere near as dull as that travesty pitting bugs bunny against a ferocious lion bunny' is fresh and funny from the outset not to mention extremely attractive to look at there's a classic scene in which bugs takes a strangled elevator ride out of his hole only to emerge directly into the jaws of the lion in a brilliant disney parody he pinocchio down the lion's throat this brilliant opening is a sign of things to come there are some expertly choreographed antics in and around the lion's cage to begin with followed by a hilariously grotesque and irritating rendition of 'laugh clown which as a child i used to impersonate regularly all this culminates in a short acrobatic sequence which gives the cartoon its name i've never been fond of the circus as a setting for cartoons and find it usually makes for a dull and predictable set of gags but bunny' breaks from the mould and the result is an funny short which stands amongst mckimson's best
1	is a film of superlatives it has an exceptionally well thought out cast with being the crowning jewel a superb production and possibly pre production with at the helm a fantastic journey of rural southern india through the eyes of a 15 year old a remarkable mixture of song and dance traditional and modern blended perfectly and a beautiful backdrop of lush color of the flora and fauna that make up the magnificent experience what a towering achievement for a debut director the casting was absolutely dead on i wish india would come out with more of such films this film will remain as one of my top favorites for my entire life 9 10
1	winning 26 out of the 28 awards it was nominated for there is no doubt that this film will stand as one of the best of 2007 the fact that it was made with non professionals who were trained to act and dance makes it that much more special br br it is not a bollywood production but it is about art a lower caste girl wants to sing and dance she wants to move up in society but there is a limit everyone cannot be president in india there is a caste system and the narrow minds will not allow it to be breached br br quits school at 15 and goes to work for the landlady urmila who was once an accomplished dancer after some time working the animals she is taught to sing and dance the film is strikingly beautiful with rich color it is amazing what can be done with 20 000 as this film was a master's project for the writer director br br the son karan singh returns from america to run for office and is struck by the girl but she is lower caste and can only be a vessel for his lust things are no better at home as her father drinks and eats and steals her money she ends up pregnant and has to sell the baby to the landlady br br in the end she never rises above her caste but the story was fascinating and the acting was really good
1	this is not your typical indian film there is some great sense of humanity and the characters are pretty realistic there is great dynamism in the interpersonal relationships and there is a sense of guilt grief passion passivity among the many characters while seeing this one gets a feel for the heavy burden of the 5000 years of layers and layers of history of social existence of one of the oldest civilizations the final scene of an elephant walking away in the rural area was a great footnote to such a ancient civilization and yet human relations are still preserved and nurtured saw it on dvd the two interviews with the director and the main actress are very interesting was surprised to learn that the movie has not done well or not being shown in india but maybe not too surprised the artistic of rural societies is being slowly lost and its inheritance not picked up by younger generations as some of the older musicians in the movie are no longer living today great film
1	2006 written and directed by is an extraordinary film from south india plays 15 year old who lives in a rural area with her loving but alcoholic father if she is going to succeed in life she will have to overcome the liabilities of low caste and poverty br br i went to the film expecting the depiction of an wretched girl who is crushed by society this isn't what shows us the young woman is attractive intelligent and ambitious she won't accept her fate with tears or simple resignation she wants to succeed and it's never clear that she won't succeed despite the odds br br the acting that mr draws forth from his cast of amateurs is miraculous is outstanding in the title role and urmila does an exceptional job as mrs rama devi the wealthy landowner who is a formerly famous classical dancer br br in the film learns south indian classical dance as she did in real life i couldn't tell how good dancing was by indian standards but the many dance scenes were spellbinding don't think bollywood this is classical dance it's also very different from ballet because in ballet the dancer lifts her heels away from the floor in sound indian dance the heel is the primary contact point br br this is a movie that is not to be missed it will work on dvd but will be better on a theater screen because the dancing will be shown to better advantage however if dvd is your only option then see it that way just be sure to see it
1	on our own is a touching story of four kids who run away from foster home after their mother dies with only one suitcase their dog ralph and 9 they set off in their mums old car in search of their uncle jack on the way their car breaks down and they meet peggy williams a schoolteacher on holidays and she offers to help them out together she and the children search for uncle jack but are forced to hide from the authorities that plan to take them back into foster care as they do so this film tells a story of love friendship and how important it is to stick with your family as the children venture out on their amazing journey
1	the commenter before me stated this movie is the worst that was ever forced upon him her as a child i have to say though that i loved this movie when was little and i still love it today the movie has the best running theme of all family togetherness considering the time period the movie was released i thought the movie was acted out well i only wish i could still find a copy of it somewhere of all the 1980's films i watched as a kid this was on of my favorites i know i probably watched it at least once a week with my brother and my mom i would definitely recommend it to anyone i know or don't know so if you do find a copy of it i suggest watching it it's wonderful and heartwarming
1	it's really too bad that nobody knows about this movie i think if it were just spruced up a little and if it weren't so low budget i think one of the major film companies might have wanted to take it i first saw this movie when i was 11 and i thought it was so powerful with the many great yet illegal lengths that mitchell goes to just to keep his family together it inspired me then and it amazes me now if you're lucky enough to find a copy of this movie don't miss it
1	my cousins and i have watched this movie ever since we were little i don't know exactly what it is about this movie but we latched on to this endearing movie and it has become a special part of our family's memories br br i totally and absolutely recommend this movie to anyone who likes good wholesome family movies because that is exactly what this is the things that the four kids get themselves into is absolutely hilarious to watch it is an old movie but don't let that fool you this is one of the best movies out there that shows such strong sibling bond for each other
1	a tough life gets tougher when the three children of a single mom are scheduled to be sent to separate foster homes after her untimely passing br br to stay together the older boy plans a daring high risk escape to find a distant lost uncle their only remaining next of kin br br their trek takes the three fearful runaways on a chase through the desert in a classic beetle penniless hungry desperate terrorized by delinquents and too young to drive hunted by the ever threatening civil authorities br br what the movie lacks in acting and plot realism it makes up for in the honest human need to be a part of a fulfilled and complete family even if that family is cobbled together with spare parts of broken lives br br sure the ending is forced and too over dramatic for the critical movie goer but every heart beats the same cry for family togetherness and belonging br br with all its weaknesses i still give this movie a strong recommendation
1	this 1955 producers' showcase version of the musical peter pan with mary martin has the benefit of showcasing most of the original broadway cast including kathleen nolan as wendy who was more natural an actress than the girl they hired for the 1960 color televised play it's a shame that most people won't sit through anything black and white anymore because in many respects this earlier production which doesn't even show up in the imdb listings when you put peter pan into the search engine is superior to the color version most people have watched i obtained the original on disc and then did work on it to make it look and sound better digitally now when i put the 1960 color version on it looks garish in comparison i suspect mary martin herself no doubt preferred this original 1955 b w producers' showcase televised version br br as an added plus the disc i got also showed the original commercials and opening promo how far away the 1950's seem now such an innocent time compared to today i miss it
1	there is a running thread in film comedy that all the great comics are just falling short of the law or on going to jail think of that conman w c fields in the old fashioned way or the marx brothers in a night at the opera or chaplin in the adventurer of mae west in she done him wrong the of the law is inevitable and when they end up on the side of the law the results are actually still hostile between the forces of law and order and the comic think of lloyd in his first talkie welcome danger trying to assist the san francisco police department in the midst of a crime wave and making police sergeant edgar kennedy want to kill him think of laurel and hardy as ill fated cops in midnight patrol i find this type of hostility is so patent in all these giants' and their peers' comedy that even a fake title for a film deals with it think of jerry seinfeld in one episode of his series creating a three stooges short sappy where the boys end up being electrocuted for murder br br buster keaton frequently pulls in the forces of law and order to be his opponents in his comedies look at steamboat bill jr where he tries to spring his dad from a but he actually had more conflict from police forces in his shorts in convict 13 he is dragged back to prison when mistaken for an escaped convict in cops perfect title if you see it you'd understand the police force of a large city is repeatedly looking for keaton mistaken for a terrorist and in the goat he is unable to avoid the police for most of the film br br keaton is a tramp just looking for food but he is totally unlucky when he sees a stranger throw a lucky horseshoe which keaton earlier ignored over his shoulder and then find a wallet full of money keaton tries the same thing and hits a cop in the head the cop gives chase and keaton as luck would have it runs into another cop tries to act normal but ends by throwing the other cop into the path of the first soon he has three cops chasing him briefly shaking them he walks by a window at the local jail where local murderer dead shot dan malcolm st clair is being photographed passing in back of the barred windows keaton is stupid enough to stop and look straight in the desperado notes this and ducks as the picture is taken when dead shot flees the police it is keaton's face on all the wanted posters br br st clair would eventually be a successful director of silent and early sound comedies although in his later biography would be a stint at 20th century fox where his work with laurel hardy was below par br br keaton flees to another town by train the passenger cars containing his pursuers from the locomotive and tender this is the film by the way that has two famous keaton jokes his arrival on the locomotive is done in a distant shot with it coming closer and closer and suddenly the audience sees keaton sitting on the br br the second famous sequence goes later and may have influenced chaplin somewhat in the beginning of city lights keaton had accidentally knocked out a man who was arguing too violently with a pretty woman with a dog virginia fox when he sees the poster's calling him a murderer he thinks he killed the man he is being chased in this town by a suspicious chief of police joe roberts and momentarily loses roberts in the park a statue of man of war is being constructed and the sculptor is unveiling a clay model of the horse keaton is seen seated on the clay model trying to maintain his dignity as the clay legs of the horse start collapsing under his weight br br keaton manages to meet the pretty ms fox who invites him home for dinner only he doesn't realize her father is roberts the last five minutes of the film deal keaton fleeing and avoiding roberts while he and fox get away together br br it's a funny comedy and a wonderful example of keaton's work at his best
1	finally i discovered what i thought i remembered as a four year old after seeing the 1960 color version on vhs i kept saying i remembered seeing it in black and white 2 times before now the imdb has helped me to know the truth that it was broadcast twice 2 productions in black and white in 2 successful years 1955 56 these are the ones i remember best as a four year old i didn't realize the 56 broadcast was not the same as the 55 in 1960 i was 9 and the color production just didn't do it for me the black and white version was wonderful with just as much awe and wonder impact as the high tech films of today even without any computer effects you had to have been there please comment if you had a similar reaction to the b w version
1	considered by many to be a strangely overlooked chabrol it seems to me the reason it has been cold shouldered is its sleaze factor not as overtly sexy violent or gory as many films of this period it nevertheless starts rather startlingly and although becoming more measured continues to ooze a rather unpleasant ms not here the ice maiden but a drunken mother donald pleasence does a cameo as a child molester david hemmings has his eyes on underage sex and the central theme involves the relationship between a brother sister and niece no not very nice at all and chabrol treats it all as if it is very normal like it might be in some small french village instead of ed mcbain's new york city had this been treated in a more sensational manner then it would have been a more acceptable but lesser film here we really have to choose between the likelihood of various unpleasant options before the final denouement very watchable
1	evocatively directed and slickly photographed psychological mystery thriller with an exceptional lead performance by a sombre donald sutherland and potent support roles from donald pleasence and david the material decides to keep it all glum and moves from the investigation period into the back story of the victim the seldom and quite sullen nature of investigation pulled me in but when it flashback to the victim's side showing her final days weren't as compelling and became somewhat stodgy and stock like while the script is strongly detailed and to a certain degree complex in stringing us along however the final and surprising revelation should have been more bone jarring and it's not helped out by its sloppy execution howard blake's music score has an emotional sting to its cues that simply linger and director claude chabrol's capable handling well for most part has a strong stylistic and tight manner which gets the best out of moody locations and flexible cast the young faces lisa and landry do an incredibly good job as well
1	i honestly can't believe that this film isn't more highly rated claude chabrol could be described as something like a french alfred hitchcock and while this film is only the second one of his that i've seen the first being le i can already see that this guy is something special just on the strength of these two films the film is a french and canadian co production and takes place in canada the cast is made up of british and canadian stars and the high quality performances bode well with the rest of the film most of which is high quality also the film is a murder mystery and begins when a young girl covered in blood is brought into a police station after being questioned by inspector it emerges that the young girl patricia and her sister muriel were attacked by a man who killed the sister and only just allowed patricia to flee however as the investigation goes on patricia goes back to the station to give new evidence which reveals a far more shocking identity to the murderer br br the performances in this film are excellent donald sutherland is subdued as usual but he suits the role he's given here very well and i wouldn't hesitate to name his performance in blood relatives as one of his very best the film also features supporting turns from british stars donald pleasance and david hemmings who both give good turns pleasance in particular who shows just how great an actor he can be and highlights what a shame it is that he went on to waste himself in halloween films the unknown landry also gives a great performance in her role as patricia the movie is very mysterious for the first hour and really keeps the audience hooked when inspector discovers muriel's diary the film turns into more of a drama in which the girl's last actions are shown and while this section of the film is not as good as what went before it it's still interesting and leads into a great twist at the end overall blood relatives is a great film that really deserves to be better seen le is a better known effort from chabrol but for my money this is at least as good highly recommended viewing
1	when patricia newell is attacked after witnessing her cousin's murder detective searches the city for her killer identifying the murderer after an intensive manhunt patricia is sent to live with relatives in the country for the case is closed or is it blood relatives is an overlooked masterpiece donald sutherland plays a cop and it's nice to see donald pleasance in a small role as a child molester the conclusion is pretty disturbing still blood relatives is more of a mystery than a horror film so fans of gore will be disappointed a must see for fans of old fashioned mystery movies 9 out of 10
1	eisenstein's first sound film retells the battle of the ice of when the russians under alexander nevsky defeated the knights eager to bring russia under roman catholicism made in 1938 nevsky can be seen as a piece of propaganda the germanic knights with their sinister and somewhat goofy helmets are obvious stand ins for the nazis the butchery by the knights when they enter a russian town seems a prophetic warning of the massacres of world war ii the film ends with a warning those who came to russia with the sword will die by the sword made in delicate black and white somewhat reminiscent of a it also marked eisenstein's return to official favor by the late 1920s stalin wanted soviet filmmakers to stop experimentation and made movies that would be more populist and palatable to the russian public that stopped eisenstein's career in russia for a decade and in nevsky he came back with his more accessible film strong point is in its second half which features the battle itself and it is justly seen as a milestone in movie history never before and probably never after a battle would be so vivid in the screen another strong point is beautiful haunting soundtrack using a composer to score a movie was completely unusual at the time one of its weaker points the comic relief in the form of two simpleton russian warriors trying to woo a beautiful russian peasant is really jarring
1	alexander nevsky is rightfully held up as a cinematic masterpiece it has however aged very badly people decide not to mention this and talk about the great battles and the great music the sound effects may have been good then but apart from the foreboding organ all the sounds are risible i may be shot by film buffs for this but i'm sure the modern viewer of alexander nevsky will agree that the blatant propaganda and the appalling music to detract from the film i gave this film 10 10 because it is undeniably a master piece it does have its great bits however the costumes of the teutonic knights are superb and the battle scenes are fairly good for the time it is however a master piece that is showing it's age
1	alexander nevsky marked director sergei eisenstein's return to film making after a period of exile and what he produced is a bald faced propaganda film proclaiming russia's superiority over germany br br there's very little plot russians unite to battle germans russia wins the film is really an extended montage of mostly battle scenes mixed in with some moments of german brutality like a rather shocking scene that shows german soldiers throwing russian children onto a raging fire this was eisenstein's first sound film and it's clear that he had no idea what to do with the medium indeed this film really looks more like a silent film with some sound added there are some dialogue scenes but they sit rather lifelessly on the screen and the pacing is all off as if the actors weren't actually on the set together at the same time when they were filming them eisenstein mostly uses sound as an excuse to overlay a rousing score over the proceedings and indeed that's one of the film's biggest assets br br say what you will about eisenstein's ability or lack of to direct actors or tell his film in a more narrative format he certainly knows how to edit images and music together for maximum effect and alexander nevsky over all shines through its deficiencies br br grade a
1	it is important to realise that eisenstein was a committed marxist film maker who held some very specific and particular theories about what film could achieve and how br br it is simply idle to compare alexander nevsky negatively with anything from a similar period in the us this film comes from the oldest film school in the world from another continent from an entirely different approach to cinema br br to appreciate this film a little more try finding out about and theories of montage for example or read the wikipedia entry on marxist film theory if you're feeling really bold you might even investigate the forms of dialectic br br it follows that if you watch this film without some understanding of eisenstein's ideas and ideals you probably won't get it in alexander nevsky the main characters aren't playing themselves they are meant to be of their nation's character nevsky and his generals are deliberately shown larger than life because they represent stylised heroic aspects of the entire russian people br br the acting isn't wooden it's meant to be slightly mannered it represents a completely different school from the more naturalistic narrative style which hollywood was rapidly adopting eisenstein's films are especially designed not to be realistic if anything seems somewhat obvious whether lighting or language or a pose struck by an actor it's meant to be that way eisenstein was one of the early of film as an art form not just as entertainment br br if the editing sometimes seems to consist of a clash of images well that's the idea shots are meant to contrast with each other eisenstein's films contain and embody elements of a political philosophical argument namely marxist dialectic br br so sit back shout hurrah for russia and her folk hero defenders boo at the cowardly nobles and the teuton invaders and enjoy the difference
1	i believe anyone who enjoyed ivan the terrible movies would enjoy this well crafted movie this movie played out like lord of the ring return of the king but without the special effect but as good and better drama br br we have the german who dressed like kkk conquered of russia the russian summoned nevsky to lead them to fight the german to save russia nikolai who played ivan in the ivan the terrible films was charismatic as nevsky the first 10 min how he handled the passing by mongol was captivating br br many of the scenes were beautiful even in black and white the anticipation of war did not require any dialogue such as how many enemy we will be killing etc except for a few speeches the film can basically be played out as a silent film the fighting scene can hold up to those of the civil war fighting scene of the birth of a nation br br another strength of the movie is the great musical score by sergei the music gave an epic feel to the movie in those scenes without dialogue
1	this is one you can watch over and over and laugh just as much each time we have been on a keaton fest around here after purchasing some of his films in this one buster is mistaken for an escaped murderer and there are lots of chase scenes and crazy scenes but also what is best about buster his creativity the opening scene is really funny and it just keeps going from there
1	this is being commented on only because serge 1953 may not of known at first just how powerful a score and how actually majestic these lyrics really are if you read the lyrics to alexander nevsky op 78 there is nothing here that is less than a witness through the song to one of the most beautiful and moving scores in all of musical literature this film with its accompanying score have a special place in the world and that may be just as true on the internet as anywhere the composers own website which is underwritten by his estate provides for additional care given such a score as this score truly deserves it is to me as deep as it is wide with such boldness that you wish to be the one the one they called great this is a song about alexander nevsky yes it happened on the river neva on the river neva on the wide waters there we slew our of fighting men there pick of fighting men the army of swedes ah how we fought how we routed them ah smashed their ships of war to kindling in the fight our blood was freely shed for our great land our native russian land hey where the swung was as an open street through their ranks a lane where spears ran we mowed down the invading swedes like feather grass grown on desert soil we shall never yield native russian land they who march on russia shall be put to death rise against the foe russian land arise rise to arms great the call to arms goes on arise to arms ye russian folk in battle just in the fight to death arise ye people free and brave defend our fair native land to living warriors high esteem immortal fame to warriors slain for native home for russian soil arise ye people russian folk in our great native russia no foe shall live rise to arms arise native mother russia no foe shall march across russian land no foreign troops shall raid russia unseen are the ways to russia no foe shall ravage russian fields here dear reader we are asked to live forever with the following verse titled the field of the dead i shall go across the snow clad field i shall fly above the field of death i shall search for valiant warriors my betrothed my stalwart youths here lies one felled by a wild saber there lies one impaled by an arrow from their wounds blood fell like rain on our native soil on our russian fields he who fell for russia in noble death shall be by my kiss on his dead eyes and to him brave lad who remained alive i shall be a true wife and a loving friend i'll not be wed to a handsome man earthly charm and beauty fast fade and die i'll be wed to the man who's brave give ye heed to this brave warriors now to its conclusion with entry into in a great campaign russia went to war russia put down the hostile troops in our native land no foe shall live foes who come shall be put to death celebrate and sing native mother russia in our native land foe men shall not live foes shall never see russian towns and fields they who march on russia shall be put to death in our russia great in our native russia no foe shall live celebrate and sing native mother russia all of russia came in triumph to the celebration celebrate and rejoice russian motherland it should be noted that was under quite a bit of pressure from stalin to if you will make good this musical score was really very much approved of by stalin to me there is a unmistakable beauty in how we love this world and nevsky tells of a hero whose god like attributes provides for all participation in that love a truly beautiful and furtive telling of the story of alexander nevsky
1	this is one of those movies where you have to put to one side some of its obvious shortcomings a result of the date and location of its production and accentuate the positive in many ways this is a truly superb film br br forgive the parody in the one line summary but the most serious shortcoming for an english speaker like me was the ghastly subtitles the print i saw had 1982 soviet film export subtitles which consistently used inverted grammar presumably to give the impression of 13th century speech the actual impact of this nonsense is to make it harder to follow the subtitles which means you spend less time looking at the images given that the cinematographic imagery is this films great strength this is a real issue br br other imdb have written plenty about the stalinist propaganda elements of this film just in case the viewer doesn't notice them for him herself they have also written plenty about the battle on the ice scene which is superb in my view br br the love interest almost totally lacks subtlety and yet strangely almost totally lacks charm also but it is good to cringe every now and then br br i was familiar with the music to this film long before seeing the film the images and the music complement each other marvelously and it is the images that will stick in the mind for a long time bergman clearly learned a lot from these images the imagery of his medieval pieces e g the seventh seal the virgin spring building upon and enhancing eisenstein's ideas this film was made in 1938 in the ussr in that context it is a masterpiece albeit a flawed one br br for the modern viewer i suggest that you go with the flow and enjoy the many treats on show
1	warning spoilers although it's hard to spoil this film by telling story details br br eisenstein's black and white propaganda film is not for everyone it's very old and it's er clumsy what makes it great for me is the soundtrack not the original but the updated soundtrack better still the orchestral version created my favorite performance is by fritz reiner and the chicago symphony br br the film is actually funny in places it's reminiscent of the old midsummer night's dream some of the outdoor scenes are quite magnificent some of the actors are also quite magnificent the actor who played nevsky could have been a superstar today ditto for the warrior chick definitely a rocker br br this may be the world's best collection on film of pithy russian sayings there are tons of them they make up the bulk of the spoken lines br br the battle scenes actually look much more realistic than most high budget hollywood flix these guys are as clumsy with their fighting as real peasants would be the weapons look nasty so the actors were probably trying to avoid actually wounding one another br br the actor playing the german grand marshall is trying really hard to look scary early in the film but he looks like he was really a pussycat after he's captured he looks so pathetic speaks volumes about the intended audience da br br a really humorous touch is that the german army brings an organ with it played by a character in a black robe watch the russians bring this guy down while he's playing br br after the battle is over and almost all of the germans are dead comes the best part of the film and the music the song sung to the dead soldiers who've died defending the motherland this part is so sad it's almost an anti war statement br br ten times as many men as ladies have rated this film wonder why br br warning joseph stalin liked this film ironic he killed more russians than anybody those who come to russia carrying a sword will die by the sword
1	alexander nevsky is nothing short of a grand film on a grand scale the film opens a window to a world and culture most americans will never become acquainted with and much has been said and written regarding the film's thinly veiled patriotism in the face of imminent war with the german nazis br br by us standards the acting is a bit stilted the screenplay is short on words and big on visuals and action and while the action can become tiresome the visuals are often stunning direction is incredible br br on another note fans of ralph bakshi animation might notice that he stole a lot of his visuals for wizards directly from a copy of alexander nevsky
1	this movie has to be seen for the music which is actually a wonderful composed by sergei obviously the original soundtrack is not exactly hi fi but there are many excellent versions available in classical music selections the can be appreciated for itself but having seen the movie helps br br the story itself is fairly standard soviet wartime anti german propaganda an amusing anecdote is that stalin was later so eager to buy time by appeasing hitler at the onset of world war ii that eisenstein was to a german movie for a short while as penance br br prince alexander nevsky revered as a saint by the russian orthodox having earned his nickname by defeating swedish raiders on the river neva musters russian resistance against an invasion by the teutonic knights and concludes his victory with a stern warning to other would be invaders br br an interesting scene alexander sees a convoy of russians being taken as slaves by mongolian soldiers and does nothing to stop this as the teutonic knights are his priority the historical alexander nevsky paid tribute to the mongol khans as his father before him while working to consolidate his future independence
1	went looking for this movie after i read tom red storm rising novel timeless masterpiece about 13th century russians being invaded by the germans movie was made in 1938 under orders from joseph stalin to warn soviets about hitler and germany battle scenes are wonderfully done showing that you don't need computer animation to make a great fight scene probably sergei eisenstein's greatest work also see any history buff or poli sci major should watch this movie 10 out of 10
1	this was eisenstein's first completed project in over ten years the film takes place in the 13th century during an invasion of russian by germans teutonic knights i think released in 1938 its a very loose parallel to russia's nearing involvement in wwii and germany's advancement into eastern europe there are some incredible scenes most notable the battle near the end of the film and there is a shocker when children are thrown into a pit of fire but its not an easy watch the film drags and isn't as consistently brilliant as potemkin or ivan the terrible sometimes eisenstein is better in clips his brilliance is present however and its a must see for eisenstein fans and film historians russian propaganda at its finest
1	tom clancy uses nevsky in his book red storm rising in the book was show in theatres across russia as a prelude to the soviet invasion of west germany i felt i had to check it out it was the cinematography was magnificent and storyline incredible i do not regret watching this movie and added in to my collection
1	contains spoilers br br russia in the 13th century the opening shot shows the relics of the last invasion moldering uniforms human skulls and a horse's skeleton prince alexander nevsky nikolai chased the swedish army away and impressed the mongol ruler to such a degree that he proposes to promote him to the rank of captain but nevsky replies die in your homeland but don't leave it he intents to fish build ships and trade but he warns of a more dangerous enemy nearer meaner and no possibility to buy oneself out germany their objective is they have already reached mothers and daughters suffer for their fathers and sons the marauding occupation forces distribute the rich merchants want to purchase their liberty always a place for some anti capitalist p r but the common people are ready to fight they want alexander as their leader is burned to the ground the teutonic knights feel invincible and have just a smug smile for the russian women who witness helplessly how their fathers and sons are butchered babies are thrown in the fire while high dignitaries of the church look on and remain idle in olga has two admirers rich and staid and tall and jolly she promises to marry the most valiant calls on alexander nevsky in the prince decides not to wait for the attack but to strike at once even women put on a chain armor the invaders want to bait the russian bear but stratagem stands the test lake is his war zone his men know the territory but the germans who are heavier will break through the ice br br open your eyes and watch the most impressive battle scenes ever filmed it's not just the multitude of extras who were i think pressed in this patriotic exercise but eisenstein's masterful management of such a large number of individuals he divisions like pieces on a chess board and nearly every shot resembles the composition of a painting by rembrandt or rubens including horses in outfits russia in winter looks intimidating in itself but eisenstein's visual imagination is heaps of corpses are plunged in cosmic light under an endless horizon at nightfall olga and other women search with torches for survivors a devoted falcon sits on his master's dead body while a crow waits for the right moment to pick out the eyes of the deceased eisenstein's direction and score make alexander nevsky the rolls royce among propaganda films nevsky is of course alter ego and the russians are tall good looking heroic and they have a perfect hairdo the germans are bearded savages and look like members of the ku klux klan the actor who plays gives a one man four characters performance first wavering then heroic youthful lover and comic relief main duty is to look heroic at the end nevsky stalin displays his generosity he pardons the little soldiers and barters the knights for soap only a bearded killer and a traitorous cleric are turned over to the mob he does not forget a final warning who comes with the sword will die by the sword he kept his promise 10 10
1	this film is one of the classics of cinema history it was not made to please modern audiences so some people nowadays may think it is creaky or stilted i found it to be absorbing throughout has exactly the right presence to play alexander just as he did when he played ivan ivan the terrible several years later the music was beautiful br br my one complaint was the poor soundtrack that was quite garbled although i only know a little russian it would have been nice to be able to pick out more words rather than having to rely almost 100 on the subtitles i was watching this on an old videotape from the library though perhaps by now a dvd version exists on which the sound has been enhanced i would like to know whether the actors were using archaic russian or even old church when they were speaking the subtitles were strangely worded and it's hard for me to tell whether this was to reflect an older manner of speaking or whether the subtitles were just somewhat poorly done
1	to my eternal shame i've never seen a silent movie not even the mother of all vampire movies nosferatu however if they display half the creativity and sheer joy of this effort from buster keaton then i'll probably try to watch a few more this is genuinely funny as well as being a stunning introduction to the world of the silent comedies the premise such as it is focuses around an unfortunate case of mistaken identity as keaton is mistaken for renowned bad guy dead shot dan co director malcolm st clair this leads to a number of chases and escapes as the authorities get ever closer to the increasingly desperate keaton br br you're left amazed and entertained in equal measures keaton is a natural comedian but also an accomplished stunt man judging by the way he leaps and jumps around like jackie chan on speed and the comedy is also of an exceptionally high standard my better half had to cut short a phone call to her parents because she was laughing too much if you've never experienced a silent movie like this then it is nothing short of a revelation to watch it certainly blew away any ideas i may have had about silent films naturally it isn't as polished as today's movies the acting is pretty awful truth be told but that doesn't matter because you're enjoying the movie regardless anyone with a passing interest in movies in general should make the effort to watch this because they will not be disappointed brilliant
1	eisenstein wasn't just one of the greatest soviet russian but one of the great masters of the cinema among griffith murnau ford hitchcock welles and others one of the greatest things in all his films was the edition very personal and in this movie is exceptional this was his first sound movie and the use of the musical score by great russian composer serge in the sequence of the battle is a perfect contrast between music and image watching this film is like taking a class or lesson in cinema something that no many film directors can afford i never get tired of watch real classics like this film i hope that in near future more people will recognize a great work of art
1	watching some of the sequences err the entire 1 3 of the film devoted to the battle on the ice in alexander a film directed by the russian legend sergei m eisenstein co directed by in his only significant credit made me realize how much must really go into directing at least on a scale such as this if i were a member of an awards group at the time of this film's release i probably would award eisenstein with the director's award of the year posthumously it is such a mad stroke of cinematic genius to pull off some of things that are pulled off in the film though for someone like this director after coming off of his best work battleship potemkin and october it could have been something he scoffed at at first but amid a film that is sometimes a little frustrating with how little grays come in to the black and white subject matter it's still a marvel of celluloid almost 70 years later lord of the rings fans meet the films' grandfather so to speak br br to say that something is a propaganda piece already puts a connotation to it and often a bad one it is something that has a full blown message to it and a point of view it's still a matter of hot debate see the swarms of argument over moore's films for proof about whether great art can come out of something that is point blank meant to rouse the audience in a specific manner in this particular case the russians against the germans at the time it was nearing ww2 and russia once again faced the and it's interesting to note that eisenstein was actually commissioned to make this film as a rallying call for the russians to never forget a crucial piece of their history the end result comes out as being something that is actually slightly common from seeing battleship and october however if nothing else comes through those films it's that eisenstein is most concerned about how the image and the content can come together for the viewer that style can completely envelop the viewer without fail on those terms alexander nevsky is fearless br br but even with the whole idea of great germans bad' there are some small moments where things are made a little less stringent a little less strict to these ideals for example when we first see the germans in they're not some faceless blob who are totally barbaric and have a blind conquering intent not that they aren't out to take whatever they can they have their own national pride going too that it would be nothing less for them to go forward with whatever their christian led masters tell them to at the least the evil of the picture has a face however kept at a low minimum for the more prevalent side to kick in there's also a brief scene before the ice scape battle where the russian troupe has a joke that's being told and laughed about and it adds a little extra depth where else there might be precious little because more often than not in alexander nevsky with its battle songs loaded with a pride in warfare there aren't any complexities to characters most notably nevsky himself played in ultra heroic fashion only questioning near the start by nikolai who perhaps has to be this way in intention of having him as the one infallible force to be reckoned with in the tale after all to be looking for naturalism in an eisenstein film is like trying to find non kosher pig's feet at a deli br br but the real reason to see the picture isn't the acting anyhow but for the look of the film how it moves and takes in such an expansive environment that eisenstein lays out on the epic scale it's just as ambitious as his 20's films with a number of extras not just in the main battle scenes but also in the scenes in the cities of the hundreds of people rolling on through in fact i'd say that any director working in hollywood or elsewhere thinking of doing some kind of huge epic particularly war would do very well to take a look at this film even with just the sound off it's even better if thought of as a silent film with the visual strokes accentuated fantastically at times one could spend a whole month analyzing the battle on the ice how it starts with the german soldiers far away and then coming forward like bugs and then how eisenstein inter cuts between close ups of the actors fighting and then to wide shots and with sped up editing and of course one can't discount the power of the music as well sergei delivering one of the great rousing scores of any epic work all the while the director's editing keeps our eyes moving along with this frantic action at breakneck speed if this was just a short film it would surely rank with the greats much like the odessa stairs sequence br br if i did find it a little less than totally magnificent it would be because of the faults that do come in from a director who is much more suited to the silent medium than for sound while i have yet to see ivan the terrible my one negative criticism would be of his direction of actors which is really as broad as can be with the melodrama at such a high pitch its staggering the sub plot of the two soldiers vying for the olga is the best example i can think of but even this considered alexander nevsky overall is too extraordinary to ignore and ratchets up an engagement in the action and the film making to a level that puts a benchmark for films even today to try and live up to grade a
1	i learned much from previous viewer reactions is there one that does not mention too glib is concept i love fred astaire musicals the great great songs fred's peerless grace but comrades if you see idle brainless rich parasites dancing on the downtrodden unemployed that's a valid criticism of any movie is steeped in the values of its time place not to mention those who fund it – the pipers who call the tune great art transcends all as did as did 'all quiet on the western front' i confess i saw it last 40 odd years ago but the images are burned in my brain it's the greatest battle scene ever likely to be filmed and it makes you horrified to be thrilled ice' did someone say that's real death you're watching real extras died making this 'real is now special effects defined it seems likewise 'too for an age of shrunken attention spans mozart had 'too many propaganda catholic church defamed the vatican was still at it when they called on ancient favors to get the german christian democrat gov to recognize croatia in the 1990s – remember the chaos forget the props the lighting of nevsky painted the medieval world – like a there's one in hampton court palace showing a massacre crude dutch nationalist propaganda maybe but it tears at the heart stylized acting so what's henry v olivier movie naturalism does anyone believe english medieval knight killers talked like that as said the music of is magnificent only ken russell eisenstein had the balls genius to match sound image at this 100 octane level ok you want the bit i'll risk the nervy every time eisenstein did not copy wehrmacht helmets rather his model seems to have been those buckets worn by in nazi of the 1930s eisenstein was a genius but unlike hollywood directors he had near unlimited non commercial time funding modern russian directors are free from political shackles but have no money even kurasawa had to make a late great movie in communist russia he was revered but in his own country much like russell how much propaganda is in the eye of the beholder imagine sane people from another peace loving world how would they react to nevsky would the battle or the grieving for the dead dominate their if we didn't know about the gas chambers ss what about of the will' where can i get a nevsky dvd cheap
1	of so many excellent and so on in one particularly compact zing out of them all tickled me so thoroughly that it ends up being the terrific moment of the movie for me br br or at least the one that tends to drive hassling people to see the film brandishing the disc in hand for emphasis br br the existing vague abstract acknowledgement of the fairly simple and concrete guilt involved in the guilty pleasure of this may truly gel and prod me into paying the intellectual bill eventually br br till then br br the demise of the organist was so right on
1	nevsky is one of the great epic war films sure others such as birth of a nation and napoleon had come before but this one is just as influential the acting is stock but anyone who knows the first thing about eisenstein would know that that was part of his theory of film this film unlike many of his silent works is about the heroic individual as much as it is about the group this reflects the stalinist philosophy that had risen to the fore by 1938 still his film shows us the power that can be generated by people coming together to fight something they perceive as evil nevsky is just one of many men he is prince because he is strongest but not because he is somehow different than the rest the film's romantic angles provide more of a personal story than eisenstein had previously allowed not all of the elements work and the film is probably a bit too long but it still resonates
1	eisenstein describes his collaboration with as an equal partnership where they worked together to match image and music scene by scene unfortunately the sound recording was a disaster so for once the devotion to authenticity in criterion dvd's backfires fortunately there is at least one restored version of the film on vhs classics with an excellent re recording of the music by the st petersburg philharmonic orchestra and chorus br br it is interesting to compare this film with contemporary propaganda films in england germany and the united states eisenstein's film was made in 1938 in response to the fear of a german invasion and olivier's in 1943 when a german invasion of england was still expected both films are stagey but in different ways olivier begins by showing a staged performance of the play in the globe theater by shakespeare's own company then takes us out of the theater to a more cinematic though still stylized setting eisenstein's film is cinematic from the beginning but the dialog and speeches are still influenced by the melodramatic acting conventions of the old russian theater this works very well for speeches as alexander because part of his job as a prince and military leader was to play a role in public br br in nazi germany the first major propaganda film was leni riefenstahl's tedious triumph of the will which recorded a huge political spectacle crowds cheering hitler's ranting speeches the propaganda in her masterpiece the film of the 1936 berlin olympics is much subtler with its worship of the athletic male body carrying disturbing undertones of the aryan superiority myth but wartime german propaganda films could also be subtle karl ritter's furlough on word of honor is typical it shows a young lieutenant letting the men in his company go on a 24 hour leave before returning to the wwi trenches and almost certain death against the advice of veterans he accepts their word of honor to return though he will be and shot if they don't naturally they all return though some of them berate themselves for it presumably inspiring the audiences to similar displays of duty to their country br br in the united states one of the better wwii propaganda films was howard hawks' air force in it we follow the mismatched crew of a bomber as they bond to each other with the experience of battle and overcome obstacles to continue their part in the war typically for hawks' films however their real loyalty is more to each other than to their country br br eisenstein has to reach far back in history to find any russian military triumphs ironically alexander like the other russian princes is descended from the vikings who sailed up the russian rivers to conquer and rule their own fiefdoms so he is a conquerer repelling another would be conquerer physically they are not that different though the actors portraying the german princes were obviously chosen for their ugliness and smirking stupidity but the real contrast is between the common soldiers the russian peasants are as tall and strong as the nobles whereas the german peasants who scuttle out of the shield wall to kill wounded russians are a foot shorter than their masters there is some historical truth in this contrast russian in the middle ages were much better off than their european counterparts because they could always escape into the wilderness and clear their own land br br eisenstein's film also cleverly gives us our first sight of alexander as a fisherman in the battle with the germans he uses his fisherman's knowledge of the ice as well as his knowledge of their military tactics to defeat them when breaks the shield wall they are forced to regroup and mass on the west side of the lake where the ice is thinner br br one of the other pleasures of eisenstein's film which most audiences miss is the historically accurate way that he portrays the politics of medieval russia cities like and owed their growing wealth and prominence largely to trade which put the merchants into power and sidelined the princes until their military expertise and feudal were needed to repel invaders in the film alexander is shown not only as a military leader but also as a master politician who knows how to wait for his time and how to make the most of his popularity after the victory
1	i've loved this movie since the first time i saw it lo these many years ago i'm not sure how many times i've seen it perhaps 10 perhaps 20 this last time i watched it i was struck by a detail that i hadn't noticed before br br toward the end of the picture the slain heroes are conveyed back to the town via sled there are a couple of closeups of the dead men the one that struck me most was a shot of the blond youth all you see on the screen is his profile from head to hands his hands are holding a flickering candle the wind is blowing and his thick blond hair is dancing in the wind in tune with the flicker of the candle flame the contrast between death and the life he has lost is incredibly powerful the moving hair and candle flame remind us of the life force that once inhabited his body br br every time i revisit this film i see something new
1	there is a version of nevsky that is shown with a live symphony orchestra chorus soloist and the movie if it's ever performed within a day's travel of you see nevsky done that way the oklahoma city philharmonic did it with the choir one of the finest anywhere a couple of years ago i think i cried through the whole thing it was one of the most emotionally powerful movie experiences of my life i'm listening to nevsky on the radio right now and it still tears me up there are movies that i love and classical music pieces i love but there is no combination i can think of that comes close to the impact of nevsky performed in real time
1	alexander nevsky is a series of superb sequences of cinematic opera that pass from pastoral to and end in a the story takes place in prince alexander nevsky nikolai defeats the teutonic knights in a battle on the ice of lake br br the film is a splendid historical pageant which shows director sergei eisenstein at his most inventively pictorial and climaxes in a superb battle sequence using music instead of natural sounds several films have scenes strongly influenced by the battle of lake including doctor zhivago 1965 mulan 1998 and king arthur 2004 alexander nevsky was kept out of circulation due to changing political winds and then enshrined as perhaps the most influential soviet made historical film
1	i saw this film with a live performance by the buffalo philharmonic and the music was one of the two things that definitely made the experience for me particularly the song after the battle where the woman is looking for her husband was just devastating the other thing that stood out to me is the battle on the ice itself a bit of strategy ripped off thoroughly by the makers of king arthur in 2004 also the battle goes on forever half an hour painfully long i can't think of another propaganda film that makes war look less glamorous or rewarding i'm surprised stalin liked this film so well i wouldn't want to go out and fight after watching it
1	not all but most of this story is buster being mistaken for dead shot dan a notorious criminal br br there really is no story just a series of adventures to show off buster's physical talents which are amazing and his comedic timing the 27 minute film is basically one adventure after the other mostly involving someone chasing our hero br br earlier it's a couple of policemen on their beats racing through the streets after keaton and later it's big joe roberts a rotund cop and father a girl buster is interested in who chases him those latter scenes were the best i thought with a lot of clever gags involving the hotel elevator where big joe and his daughter live that was keaton at his best br br it's just a madcap half hour that makes little sense but cares it's buster at his slapstick best or near it and so it serves its purpose to entertain us just think 85 years after this film was made there are people like me still discovering and enjoying these silent comedy classics cool
1	a stunning piece of art you can watch every image of the film and see the beauty in it first i would like to say that i saw the soldiers i understood that it was from here that star wars been inspired the scene were they kill the baby is frightening and when i saw it i did not like it but when the film was end i thought about that scene and i changed my mind and thought that in the world war 2 that was exactly what the did br br the ice battle scene is some of the best war scenes i have seen if not the best they way this film combines music and so superbly stunning visual images is really excellent then the score is one of the most famous sound in history and i thought it was some of the best to br br what more can you say then a work of art eisenstein have created a stunning masterpiece a propaganda film and a beautiful work of art i am very happy because i have just got the criterion collection eisenstein set
1	when i first saw this film around 6 months ago i considered it interesting but little more but it stuck with me that interest grew and grew and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself i purchased the criterion dvd box set and it turns out that i was right the second time alexander nevsky is a great film it is rousing and i'm sure it succeeded in its main aim propaganda against the germans br br that is the most common criticism against this film and against eisenstein that it is merely propagandist and nothing else it's untrue he is an amazing film artist one of the most important whoever lived by now the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein's films as art
1	alexander nevsky 1938 is a brilliant piece of cinematic propaganda the people of russia are threatened by two major enemies the mongols and the teutonic knights of the holy roman empire in ordered to unite the warring rival princes in the russian realm nevsky takes charge and fights the lesser of two evils the this influential film was copied many times over and it still holds up to this day the soundtrack by composer and direction are a sight and sound to behold many years later john milius used many of the movies scenes set pieces and costumes from this film and incorporated them into conan br br one of my favorite lines from conan was taken from this movie it's not the strength of the iron in a weapon but the strength of the person that wields it is what matters the comparisons are unmistakable the armor that james earl jones and the leader of the teutonic knights wear are virtually identical a true tribute paid from one director to another br br i give alexander nevsky one of my highest recommendations the movie plays like the final act of richard iii the presence of prince alexander on the screen is truly amazing
1	at school i was taught how some shots were called and there were two directors constantly mentioned orson welles and sergei m eisenstein i didn't care that much then i was a kid but now i know why eisenstein is a genius and it is a shame to see what was possible in 1938 where as almost more than a half century we're stuck with countless blank movies some say this movie isn't worth the genius of eisenstein then they have to watch it over and over till they can say anything bad or even worse that it is just some for the russians let's say it as it is it is indeed pure propaganda for patriotism but isn't saving private ryan or the longest day so i could sum up so many movies in where america is being raised to the top so why not russia and besides every war is fought for patriotism why else would they raise flags aleksandr nevsky is a must for anyone who cares about cinematography as almost every shot is a sublime picture perhaps it's all overseen but i am in wonder why this isn't included in imdb's top 250 where as there is so many overrated in it as well
1	in russia in being invaded by two sides from the orient by the mongols and from europe side by the germans teutonic knights of the holy roman empire the city of is the last free city in russia the population in order to organize the defense of and the lands of russia calls the prince aleksandr nevsky who had defeated the swedish in a previous battle his successful strategy defeats the germans after a great battle on a frozen lake this movie was made in 1938 due to the threaten of the german to russia in a pre second world war period the idea was to make propaganda pro russia however it is an overwhelming marvelous stunning powerful masterpiece it is amazing the combat scene on the frozen lake the present generation is very accustomed to special effects like in the lord of the rings' trilogy and maybe cannot understand how fantastic is this black and white fight if the viewer can forget the ideology and watch it as an art he will certainly be astonished in the end with such a masterpiece my vote is ten br br title brazil alexander nevsky
1	i saw this film back in the early 70's and i was mesmerised by judy geeson for me it captured the clandestine nature of rod irrepressible obsession with the young and extremely sexy hitch hiker played by geeson br br you couldn't help feel a little sorry for the wife played brilliantly by claire bloom i was really disappointed to see that the original cut may have been lost and there is little chance of it being released on dvd br br i defy anyone who saw the film and it's strong message not to be equally absorbed by the three main character performances and i would have loved to have seen it again if nothing else for a purely nostalgic reason br br going back in time some 35 years br br a real classic
1	many accuse rod steiger of overacting and anyone who has seen the amityville horror and the section would struggle to say otherwise that said he's brilliant in this br br it's never on tv you can't buy it on dvd legitimately in 1988 when channel 4 still had a prescription for innovation they showed this amongst a small amalgam of 60s films privilege etc and i remember an essentially theatrical experience transposed well to film the great thing about theatre is it's enclosed how do you make it available and interesting on screen ph just about pulls it off because this sort of film is never even on cable or sky tv anywhere it's hard to get a debate going but for anyone out there who has seen it or can remember my memories are of a forthright almost strident performance by sally geeson all taken care of' which eschews the almost diffident general performances of her and her sibling in many early 70s offerings she says ref conception there are several of these key lines you remember years decades on that's the power of a film like this br br ps i just saw it again and its just as good one day tv too will be enlightened
1	i watched this film recently for the first time in over 30 years and was very pleasantly surprised i remembered a film that caught the mood and feel of britain in the mid 1960s without falling into the britain' clichés that so many other films thought they had to propagate my memory proved correct those who feel that this is like a tv play are not entirely wrong but while andrea newman was to become famous for risqué tv drama this film is more in the tradition of the 'kitchen such as 'saturday night and sunday morning' but with an emphasis on middle class rather than working class life rod steiger is excellent as the middle aged angst ridden lead unhappily married to a repressed and apparently barren wife claire bloom the onset of the is the the backdrop for the drama in which old values and are challenged this is the stage for the central character played by judy geeson a role which at the time was a shocking departure from the typical prim behaviour of contemporary heroines the reversal of roles with the girl rating her conquests in a little black book was a precursor to the feminist movement and was criticised at the time for promoting promiscuity among young girls the irony of these criticisms is to be seen in both claire bloom's and peggy characters who are both dissatisfied peter hall made few films and on this evidence that is a great shame steiger is exemplary and wholly credible showing why he was so highly regarded
1	spoiler alert and i really mean it read no further unless you are prepared to have a major plot element revealed br br okay first i've gotta say that i have a relatively high tolerance for depressing films i'll watch and appreciate films about true life horrors such as war and the holocaust or where death and sadness are important to the plot but i hate films like steal magnolias and terms of endearment where the film is built around a manipulative death of a main character so already no matter how well made this film is it's got a major strike against it because one of the main characters dies from a disease at the end though they never say what he had in the english subtitled version br br so you might ask yourself then if this blow hard hates this type of film then why did he watch it in the first place you would have an excellent point to ask this though i hope i am not really a blow hard well when i found it in our local library i had no idea what it was about the movie was not intended specifically for export as the subtitles were in korean english and japanese and the box was printed all in korean well being a fan of trying films from any nation i've seen films from probably at least 30 40 different countries i gave it a try br br well apart from the obligatory death i loved the film and so hated the way it ended while i usually hate hollywood type miraculous endings i wanted to see the guy saved through some new drug or experimental surgery i was really bummed that he had to die particularly since he seemed like one of the nicest people i've seen in films in a long time his smile was infectious and i really wanted him to get the girl in the end oh well at least i can appreciate the film's message that you need to seize the moment great acting music etc but just not the most satisfying ending for me this film was good enough to encourage me to try some more korean cinema
1	i was lucky enough to watch this film in the recently concluded international film festival here i was actually able to watch another south korean film the power of kangwon province but christmas in august caught my attention more the story is simple enough the usual boy meets girl or shall we say girl meets boy what made it special for me was how it was rendered we can say that the movie was quiet and endearing we don't have flashy and contrived romance here only two ordinary beings made wonderful by their friendship and unexpressed love for one another i also loved how the movie used pictures as expressions of relationships past and present i wished that this was shown here as a regular film i'm sure it would call out to a bigger audience
1	this metro film is episodic but nearly a constant series of chases mainly trying to escape police whether real or imagined as buster is mistaken for an escaped criminal it is consistently inventive and entertaining its greatest value is in its documenting what hollywood looked like in the early twenties since 95 of it is shot outside among the streets and building exteriors of the time one gem moment and one gem sequence are present here br br the great moment is when a train at a great distance quickly approaches the camera and finally stops just short of it with buster glumly sitting on the and thus moving from a long shot to a close up within seconds br br the great sequence is with the phone booth next to the elevator one constantly being mistaken for the other with races from floor to floor one of the great keaton gags br br kino's print is sharp and clear almost pristine there is a violin piano score accompaniment this is one to seek out and enjoy
1	how would you feel if you had only a few weeks left to live this film helps you to know through the eyes of one guy who is faced with that situation it is told with sympathy and without too much emotion some might feel it rather slow but i think that adds to the realism of the film some might see it as a love story but i think that is secondary to seeing his last days through his eyes the loves of his life are part of the end of his life and give it more impact low key and gentle the film rolls out the story much as life does without clichés and with unexpected events set against a backdrop of getting by if you like your films gently emotionally realistic this may be for you
1	i watched this film with high expectations but was somewhat disappointed although i like this film and was engrossed by the story i did not find it moving and think the ending falls flat br br the story consists of the friendship between a man running a photo shop and his best customer who is a traffic policewoman the location is a quaint korean village br br this film is in some ways realistic as there is an element of tragedy and yet it is not melodramatic however i was not ultimately moved by a film depicting a man who is loved so much by a woman yet does not even give her the choice to enter his life in my mind he is a sweet noble loser br br good points excellent acting by the two main leads enjoyable snapshot of village life br br cons flat ending br br overall good but i prefer the before sunrise and after sunset films or is it before sunset and after sunrise
1	korean romance about the owner of a camera store who is diagnosed with a fatal disease as he goes about his daily routine and prepares for the end he becomes acquainted with a young girl who is a customer a friendship and romance grows eve though neither expresses any sort of affection for the other good film is unlike anything you are likely to see remade in america simply because the studios would insist that the couple act on their feelings he will not say anything because he doesn't have that long to live she won't because its not the thing thats done and he is not responding as she thinks he should of course its much more complex than i'm making it out to be and in all honesty its the sort of thing that you should discover for yourself is it a great film no but it is a good one that will move you emotionally the final lines of the film still haunts me i always knew that love would fade like a photograph but you will remain in my heart as you are in my last moment thank you and goodbye it may seem odd out of context but with in the context of the film it is very moving
1	i really appreciate what jung won had done before his death everything i want to say that his choice for love is unselfish if he chose da rim that will be good for him but da rim will need more time to recover from his death obviously he does not want to let it happen as he did in the film he chose giving up so it was just temporary agony for da rim br br as comparison my life without me is very different their behavior shows big difference between eastern culture and western culture i cannot say which is better every one can has right to choose that is totally up to you life is equal for everybody we can live only once any choice is acceptable if only you think it is fit for you br br in truth the slow pace of the film cannot be the excuse for rejecting the movie just calm down you will get more from the movie br br one of the best korean movies i ever watched 9 10
1	this wonderful movie really takes the time to step back and tell the story without words the end of the movie contains almost no dialogue but what is in the minds of the characters is always perfectly clear you know the film is not going to have a happy ending but you leave the film feeling hopeful
1	this film would have put the typical hollywood tearjerkers to shame the emotions portrayed are subdued and understated in a very comfortable fashion the plot is cliche enough with a lead role having terminal disease this is not a spoiler and was well established quite early into the movie the method of execution is somehow unique from most love stories you ever saw not even a kiss was being exchanged and yet you will feel the enormous current of love between the two leads initially i assumed this restriction on emotions to be something to the typical eastern values but later decided against it br br this film is so understated that if you compare it with movies like cinema paradiso cp would have felt overtly manipulative by comparison so it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea br br after watching the film i have this strong feeling that holly wood love movies or love movies all around to be accurate have been glorifying romance or passion and label it as love i am sure we all have our own definitions and i wouldn't say these qualities are mutually exclusive but i would venture to say that the movie will let you wonder if there is any added dimension you have with you loved one br br it's very obvious that i enjoy this movie a lot considering the fact that the movie is so plain in appearance it is paradoxically one of the more cinematic movie i saw lately
1	if you want to see a film with no guns blood sex shouting angry people hero bad guys girls or even clumsy love words and you want to see a film in which every shot has the meaning of love this one is a must see film for me i've been waiting for a film like this all of my life
1	i always had this concept that korean movies were all about comedy and drama but christmas in autumn has changed my point of view this movie is so simple it have any melodramatic scenes or over the top comedy scenes not a single scene where the actors cry out loud not even a scene where the actor and the actress kiss not even a simple kiss and yet this movie is able to reach it's viewers in ways that i dint know existed the ending of the movie left me speechless i dint even cry but my eyes were red hot this movie left me a feeling i can hardly describe in words br br i don't think i can recommend this movie to everyone but i do recommend this movie to people who want to watch real cinema 9 4 10
1	ui christmas is very korean if you have been to korea or have korean friends you should know what i mean korean are very traditional people they see love very a kind of feeling you don't find in today's world i think that is why this film is so special it is wrong to compare this film with love letter by shunji iwai are very good but could never make one like ui christmas if you have a chance please see this movie for yourself
1	christmas in august is a perfect movie a flawless movie about all the flaws of humanity on the outside it may look like a movie about death but is in fact a movie about life i simply cannot recommend this movie enough and be not afraid dear readers it is not a depressing film as stated it's a movie about the brightness of life coached under the guise of death you will laugh you will cry you will realize that life is fragile and short and you will leave the viewing with a better understanding of how precious life is br br 10 out of 10 br br go to www nixflix com for a more detailed review of this movie and reviews of other foreign films
1	along with cops the goat is one of keaton's two funniest shorts which makes it one of the best shorts ever made this has an decent plot for a short and it forms a perfect line on which to hang some great gags keaton is mistaken for an escaped convict how the mistake happens is a classic and then must elude the authorities best gags the bread line and t he elevator
1	a photographer in the small city of in south korea learns that he has a terminal illness but downplays the seriousness of it to his family and friends we never find out the nature of the disease but the main focus of hur jin ho's poignant first film christmas in august is not his illness it is the grace in which he conducts his life his ability to accept what life has in store without remorse sadly it was the final film shot by cinematographer yoo young kil before his death and the film is dedicated to his memory br br the photographer jung won is played by han suk at one time korea's most popular star a handsome man in his early thirties with an infectious laugh he is so warm and full of vitality that it is difficult to picture him as nearing the end of life jung won owns a small photography shop and lives at home with his hard of hearing father goo shin and sister oh ji teaching his dad how to play movies on the vcr and writing instructions for him to take over his shop if he were to die as jung won goes about the day to day business of getting his affairs in order dar im shim ha a meter reader comes into his store with an urgent request for some photographic br br abrupt and impatient he treats her with disdain but later apologizes and she becomes a regular customer without overt expression of romantic feelings their relationship develops a growing intimacy love is not something they say or do it is their ground of being the place where they come from to protect dar im from suffering jung won does not tell her that he has only a short time to live but this does not make the situation any easier for her inevitably his increasing absence from the shop causes her to feel betrayed and frustrated to the point where she throws a rock through the shop's window although jung decision to withhold his illness from dar im is open to question it feels organic to his character in the film and is not used simply as a plot device or an excuse for the character to live life to the fullest by playing around br br one of the most touching sequences in the film is when an elderly woman returns to his studio to take a memorial photo of herself jung won makes sure the picture is an exact likeness knowing that soon he will be taking his own picture of remembrance christmas in august is an unpretentious film that never resorts to melodrama to make its point it is about taking pleasure in ordinary moments riding a bike sharing a joke eating ice cream being thoughtful and considerate and feeling good about what life has to offer it is a love story where love means having to say you're sorry although there have been many films on the dying process christmas in august propels the genre in a new direction and in the process offers an unforgettable commentary on the human condition incongruously this film about death is an experience of the utmost joy
1	last time i checked in here i think there was no more than one comment i'm very glad that more people have caught on this flick now and even more so about you all digging it as well i caught this the night of christmas 2004 and i found myself unable to change the channel on my tv even though it was an asian flick and i'm sadly but truly very used not to give any chance to any off hollywood products i did that night though and i thank god deeply for it i've not been able to shake that movie out of my system since not that i've tried to or wanted to and it still amazes me in an extremely grateful way that such a great beautiful experience came in such a way completely unexpected like a christmas miracle please if you got the chance go see this movie buy it or rent it of bootleg it or whatever but watch it i guarantee it will affect you i'm out of time but i'm far from finished with my here so ill be back as soon as i can
1	this is without a doubt one of the most accomplished debut films for any director the movie is only 90 minutes long but manages to say just about everything about life and death not much action and dialogue is minimal but the movie flows perfectly and demands your attention due to the wonderfully natural feel of everything going on the performances by the leads are perfection and even some supporting characters get strong emotional scenes the movie will be somewhat lost on today's modern audience but this is one that everyone ought to see refreshingly unsentimental and honest this is on par with ozu's works br br scratch my title this one is perfect
1	how often do we live our romantic life as on the big screen with torrid affairs and passionate encounters almost never if what i see as normal life around me is anything to judge by romances as previously stated are hardly ever earthshaking affairs that leave you at the top of the world or batter and bruised br br romance in its every day form as lived out millions of times over around the world is a slow subtle and quiet affair something that grows in you ever so slowly probably without you even noticing it slowly taking over your being no one can tell me when i am in love for if someone did i would not believe him anyway for no one but me would know and even then it is just a feeling a certain knowledge that you are feeling this emotion that you want nothing but the best for someone that you would never want to see them suffer a moment of sadness that you are willing to take a great degree of pain for them i would not go so far as to say be willing to die for your loved one for we are all human and we do not know what we are capable of in the face of death until that moment is upon us br br is the love between the main characters of the film ever so subtle and understated no less noble than that between romeo and juliet the unstated emotions the unsaid feelings convey far more than any repeated shouts of i love you the restraint shown by the lead actor displayed ever so poignantly in the scene where he watches his love interest through the cafe window yet never did he move to make himself known to her was simply heart wrenching to watch would most of us be selfless enough to remain hidden knowing that her emotions and feelings could not possibly be reciprocated br br on another note how will i deal with my own certain death while i can claim i have been seriously ill i can not in all honesty say that i have ever come close to death will i be so calm putting all my affairs in order and leaving instructions for others to take up what i leave behind i suspect i will be calm for i will have little choice in the matter can i be so selfless again the answer will have to be in the negative i can empathize with the anguish knowing that your life is forfeit that fate has dealt you a fatal blow and that future events however little there are of them left are no longer under your control br br life is nothing more than a series of small events the culmination of which may seem great for some in retrospect but only very rarely
1	hooray for korean cinema last year i saw and nowhere to hide now i catch up with hur jin ho's directorial debut christmas in august the variety of themes and level of achievement speak highly of a national cinema ripe for discovery this film's major themes are death and love the graceful and thoughtful way jung won han suk copes with his impending death and the sublimation of his desires toward shim ha out of true love for her i was deeply moved by his careful management of behavior and emotions shielding from unnecessary pain without rejecting her br br the success of this type of film is predicated on the skill of the actors han and shim excel being both quite expressive yet naturalistic a number of secondary characters jung relatives friends and clients are quickly delineated to enrich the story without detracting from its main focus to live is to love but all things must pass pain subsides life goes on
1	i was very happy and at the same time quite surprised by other positive comments written by non koreans below this movie is amazingly and shows very 'sad but view toward life which is typical to korean people i thought other foreigners would not understand this delicate feeling and under rate this quiet film as a boring one but i was wrong the attraction of this film might be hard to avoid to foreigners too even without subtitle br br i would like to mention some points others have missed of course this film depicts love between a man and a woman however the very theme is way beyond that actually it is about time value of remembrance and death in this film the focus is not on the 'love affair' between two people as some pointed out they do not kiss they do not hug each other even without holding hands so love itself is not completed whether positively or negatively in the film rather what haunts a leading actor is his impending death he's running out of time he can't hold it leaving a few behind including his father and of course a so the problem is how he can face the death and leave something valuable in his short life not how he can make love with br br this kind of theme sounds very familiar to us there are lots of movies regarding patients with disease such as 'love story' however what makes this film outstanding is the way deals his death he is a loser but tried to do his best while he's alive in a silent way he does not tell anybody around him about his death he hides something in his mind but without rage hate vengeance he just tried to do best while he was alive this limited communication and obedience to fate is the typical mindset of koreans and the point most western people don't understand or at best misunderstand br br this theme is very effectively expressed by the director of this film surprisingly his debut some say he's much influenced by japanese director ozu yasujiro who directed tokyo story indeed i remember i read in some magazine that the director himself admitted he was influenced by ozu i'm not that to analyze his style comparing to ozu's but they have some in common and some not low angle and static camera especially remind us ozu's style but in terms of theme again this korean director seems to have somewhat warmer and hopeful vision br br it is expressed concisely with last photograph very well done and really heartbreaking scene i think actually the director first had the idea of this film when he participated the funeral of a very famous korean folk singer who died young of mysterious suicide they say he saw the photograph of the singer at the funeral and thought of a film on death and remembrance and possibly hope for the remnants i think br br i highly recommend this film to anybody who has deep interest in film art as well as korean culture this film in my opinion can be rivaled with other movies like tokyo story and a sort of american beauty it is that great if without language barrier dvd version is going to be out in the market this february so it might be a little help for foreigners with english subtitle
1	towards the end of his career jack arnold a very efficient director who gave us such classic 50's creature features as it came from outer space the creature from the black lagoon and tarantula teamed up with former football star turned top 70's blaxploitation film headliner fred the hammer williamson for a pair of movies producing the amiable if unremarkable western the black bounty hunter and this refreshingly breezy clever and highly entertaining 70's black action variant on your standard 40's film noir down at the heels private detective yarn br br williamson displays a charming combination of dry self deprecating humor and relaxed easygoing self confidence as shep stone a cheap affable and forever in debt erstwhile los angeles cop turned private investigator stone's so hard up for cash that he uses a bar as his business office and just barely makes ends meet doing penny ante low paying minor cases that the police don't want to bother with while pounding the pavement for one of these deceptively simple gigs stone's trying to find some guy's runaway teenage daughter who's hiding somewhere in hollywood stone finds himself elbow deep in a complex dangerous seemingly bottomless criminal plot which includes a flipped out jesus freak religious cult assorted deadhead hippie a sordid porno ring a priceless missing gold tipped cane that belonged to a legendary silent movie star a nefarious underground drug smuggling operation and an ever growing number of fresh corpses br br while lacking the wickedly playful mischievous ingenuity of robert altman's masterful the long goodbye or the haunting unremitting pessimism of arthur penn's beautifully bleak night moves black eye nonetheless still makes the grade as a highly successful 70's spin on 40's mystery suspense thrillers arnold's capable direction keeps the pace moving at a nice steady clip punctuated with sporadic exciting mano a mano bare knuckle fight scenes and excellent use of various colorfully seedy l a locations the rundown abandoned amusement park at the film's conclusion is especially effective the script by mark haggard and jim martin supplies a goodly amount of fairly complicated and often genuinely surprising plot twists and the expected array of quirky rough around the edges secondary characters are an interesting oddball bunch with particularly notable turns by rosemary forsyth as an alluring powerful lesbian model agency owner forsyth has the picture's best line boasting to stone when she first meets him i'm a whole lot of woman teresa graves of get christie love tv show fame as stone's loyal bisexual girlfriend the film's casual nonjudgmental depiction of both unconventional femme fatale and graves' equally atypical gal friday is one of its strongest assets and bret morrison who did the voice of radio's the shadow in the 40's as a smugly sleazy porno filmmaker all in all it's a modest yet surefire winner
1	i have reasons to love the great users of a camera fluid direction of action lends itself to fast paced adventure and comedy narrative but such a skill in the hands of a king vidor or an anthony mann can also be applied to idea level work this is paul masterpiece its storyline can be in a single pair of sentences general hector is setting up as near emperor in northern mexico and steals a huge cannon from general blackjack he sends his crack mission unit divided apprehensive but determined led by george peppard to get the cannon back and bring back alive to put an end to the rebellion charismatic raf plays the ladies in the piece are giovanna ralli and francine york with the squad even further comprised of nico peter and don gordon other stalwarts in the class include john and john russell also in on an already fantastically dangerous operation are miss ralli and a stubborn mexican whose regiment was betrayed when set up on his own the danger is multiplied when gordon's brother as advance spy is captured and tortured to death while he has to watch and he decides he needs to kill peppard the attack that captures the cannon when orders are not by a regular army type is one of the most electrifying visual and staging achievements in cinematic history the penetration of stronghold the revelations uncovered there and the actions that win the mission team a chance at victory or almost victory are flawlessly presented this is a beautiful color adventure film with unusually strong costumes acting lighting art direction sets and music by elmer bernstein the script by stephen is probably his best ever for a feature film this is probably the most underrated major western at the moment but i have always appreciated its heroes as result getting hard workers but as peppard reminds his group on the way home the trouble with being a hero is the morning after to find out why he says so you will have to see cannon for
1	once you sit down to see this film a cannon for you get the feeling it's going to be a great the reason the film begins with a rousing score by noted composer elmer bernstein who gave us such memorable themes as 'the great escape and the magnificent seven ' indeed when you read the opening credits headlining the cast is none other than george peppard as capt rod douglas you know it's going to have action and lot's of it furthermore when you see actor john russel playing general john j you know you're in for a heroic saga the story is taken from the annals of the mexican revolution and involves the u s in a border town dispute with the mexican bandits who cross the rio grande in the early 1900s among the most brazen of the rebel leaders is general cordova raf with his army of mexican revolutionaries he attacks kills his men and steals some valuable artillery pieces since the united states army cannot enter mexico legally capt douglas is sent on what is slated a suicide mission without orders and without aid from his mission is to retrieve the cannons destroy a rebel stronghold and bring cordova back alive selecting the roughest toughest most experienced certainly the most insolent men available douglas enters mexico and attacks the nearly impregnable fortress dramatic action follows as does lots of explosive excitement if one is asks for criticism i would say the choice of heavies and john are not very menacing not so with the men who side with peppard pete duel and don gordon who is superb nevertheless this movie is recommended as good viewing
1	hard justice is an excellent action movie the whole movie is really nothing but shooting and fighting for the people who say they don't make shoot em ups like they use to well this one is really hard core david bradley is really good and his character takes a pounding in the movie he gets hit by the stick over a dozen times gets stabbed in the back and is in a coma for three days and then wakes up and fights again gets beat up recovers and is ready for more action his character is incredibly tuff charles napier was very good as well and he arguably steals the show wells was good professor toru tanaka had a short and an uncredited role in hard justice as for the action it is truly awesome with all of the gun fights and the huge stand off like scene in the beginning has cars getting blown up and flipping up in mid air there is so much that happens in the 95 minute run time for the action fans you will be blown away by all of the fire power and fighting that this film has to offer hard justice is a movie that isn't easy to locate and if you are at a video store and you see it for sale buy it up because this movie is big keeper an d plus the box is cool there is a ton of action that has to be seen to be believed look and see if you can find some good deals on ebay half com amazon com's z shops and market place sellers i strongly recommend that any action movie fan who loves shoot and fighting movies and has been disappointed by other movies that have the look like a true non stop action flick but fails to deliver it to get hard justice
1	i hardly know where to begin in writing about this gem except to say that it represents young buster keaton at the peak of his powers and must certainly rank with the half dozen best short comedies ever made the goat is twenty minutes of smoothly paced expertly photographed beautifully executed gags two reels of non stop comic invention driven by an unmistakable undercurrent of paranoia and yet somehow leading to a happy ending which wasn't always the way with buster's comedies see cops for one case where fatalism ultimately got the better of him or one week for the victory of defeatism if i had to describe this film in one word i'd call it effortless but if i were permitted two i'd call it seemingly effortless for surely a lot of hard labor goes into the making of any comic opus that unfolds with such sublime ease still they didn't call him the great stone face for nothing buster never let the public see him sweat br br a sardonic title card tells us that our opening sequence is set along row i e on a bread line in a grim urban setting where buster waits patiently at the back of the line and as a result doesn't get fed but it needs to be emphasized that not for one moment does he play for pathos buster has our sympathy but he never asks for it before long through a series of accidents coincidences and absurd misunderstandings buster is believed to be an escaped killer named dead shot dan and is being pursued by every cop for miles around and yet while he's clearly dismayed by this turn of events there is never a hint of self pity or even surprise we get the sense he always knew that this is what life would have in store for him and that he hasn't time to feel sorry for himself anyway he has to figure out new ways to dodge those cops and escape from the latest trap br br just as buster refrains from playing for sympathy he never seems to strain for laughs either which is especially impressive because the goat must be one of the most laugh packed short comedies in existence this is the film that features that iconic shot of buster riding a train's cow catcher right up to the very lens of the camera which isn't a gag exactly but sure is laugh provoking in its own strange way meanwhile there are gags involving guns dogs cops an incredibly furry mustache and a clay statue of a horse that melts under buster's weight a surreal sight indeed but some of the biggest are saved for the finale when buster is trying to elude his primary nemesis big joe roberts a rotund cop who also happens to be the father of leading lady virginia fox trapped in big joe's dining room buster leap frogs over him and sails through a turns a phone booth into an elevator and pretends to disappear and eventually uses the elevator itself to rid himself of his pursuer and win the girl in time for one last fade out gag br br to say more would be a disservice to first time viewers i only wish i could see this film in a theater full of people who'd never seen it before and float on the laughter live musical accompaniment would be nice too and incidentally the musical score supplied by kino for their home video dvd version of the goat is first rate serving as icing on an already tasty cake
1	this movie is very similar to death warrant with jean claude van damme and also has some similarities to island of fire with jackie chan and i also heard that there is some other very similar action movies but this film has a much better action than death warrant or even island of fire that's right the jackie chan's movie rarely american action movies has such a great action sequences though there was many negative reviews on this film it easily beats most of the action movies of that time who were more successful there were many martial art's scenes david bradley was fast as bruce lee in this film and what else was good that fighting scenes were much longer than in most of the american martial art's movies the shoot out scenes were similar with john woo's movies maybe not that good but still very exiting there was also many impressive explosions and one great chase scene i've seen some other david bradley's movies but this one yet is the best in terms of action ok this movie has some cheesy moments but which movie hasn't the acting was decent charles napier was incredible and his character was real tough adam clark who played squid and yuji who played the main bad guy were also very good other actors acted pretty well too though the acting isn't important in this type of movies if you are action movies fan i mean the real action movies fan who really can appreciate the good action than you must see this film
1	a tremendous action movie that i have ever seen it was the first expression that i uttered after watching it twice on the local tv in my country indonesia a combination between a constant shooting and a great fighting choreography played well by david bradley he was good here besides american samurai his skill in martial art was performed above average he succeeded to make the fighting scenes nice to watch not only punching and kicking like what most of martial artists show in their movies david bradley could utilize all the martial arts techniques such as throwing smashing and kicking very recommended for action fans i have tried to look for the dvd but i still cannot get it particularly in my town anyone could help me
1	hell to pay bills itself as the rebirth of the classic western it succeeds as a western genre movie that the entire family could see and not unlike the films baby boomers experienced decades ago the good guys are good and the bad guys are really bad bo svenson stella stevens lee majors andrew excellent in this film tim thomerson and james drury are all great and it's fun to see them again james drury really shines in this one maybe even better than his days as the in a way hell to pay reminds me of those movies in the 60's where actors you know from so many shows make an appearance if you're of a certain age buck taylor peter brown and denny miller and william smith provide a wow factor because we seldom get to see these icons these days hell to pay features screen legends along with newer names in hollywood most notable in the cast of newbies is rachel who i've seen lately on the young and the restless and kevin who plays the angst ridden kirby a war weary man who's torn between wanting to live and let live or stepping in to do the right thing william gregory lee is excellent as chance mischievous and womanizing brother katie keane plays rachel sister a woman who did what was necessary to stay alive but giving up her pride in the process in a small but memorable role jeff davis plays mean joe a former confederate with a rather nasty mean streak i think we'll be seeing more of these fine actors in the future hell to pay is a fun movie with a great story to grab the popcorn we're west
1	this certainly is one of the best western movies produced in the new millennium it's an homage to all the stars of the great tv western classics and it is the ultimate revival of the western movie the story of two brothers who meet after the war between the states and end up on different sides of the law isn't new but interesting nonetheless and the shootouts and the atmosphere are great there is some graphic violence like bad guys getting chopped to death with an axe or women being shot down in cold blood and lee majors doesn't take part in the action until the very end that's why i gave it 9 out of 10 points but it still is one of the best new western productions i've ever seen i've had the honor and pleasure to meet chris mcintyre at the festival of the west and have a nice chat with him and i've had the chance to meet buck taylor who performs the role of town doctor in my opinion we ought to be much obliged to chris mcintyre for his efforts to gather that many stars of the classic tv westerns and sass around him to perform in a new western such as this chris has an outstanding talent for choosing the right actors for the main characters too both are young and promising and i think we should see more of them in future western productions i sincerely enjoyed this western movie it was worth every minute i hope that chris mcintyre will continue to work on other western movies and present us with some more great productions such as this one great work chris jasper p morgan pete
1	hell to pay is a bit bloody for my taste even though it is no worse than many films nevertheless i did enjoy the parade of seasoned stars and the western scenery all but the story line was very weak and i couldn't really see the point of it all however the music that accompanies the movie more than makes up for the lackluster film br br where did the guys nate noah who wrote this music come from they are awesome from the moment the music begins it is by far better than anything i've heard in years i think it may be the best i've ever heard even though i wasn't thrilled with the action taking place on the film the music evoked the exact emotion that was needed for each scene i was transported in time to the old west during the opening credits and really felt like i was re living those old days through the music br br this movie is definitely worth a purchase and a viewing for the beautiful music and a trip down memory lane to see the old western stars once again
1	this is an excellent movie and i would recommend it to everyone mr acting is top notch as it always is and he blends well with the other actors in the movie can't give away any of the suspense or drama found in the movie hell to pay is a must see movie the plot was very suspenseful i would watch this movie over and over again because it has all the elements of a great western movie it was very authentic in how they displayed the components dealing with this movie which includes the guns horses and clothing the soundtrack is enjoyable and adds flavor to the movie james drury has the right touch when picking out a movie to be involved with this is a another winner for the western genre
1	if you like shoot em up westerns this is a keeper i thought that the movie was fun to watch and to see folks that i have not seen in a while i am no expert but i liked the acting the town and props etc seemed to fit the period and kind of town that you would find out on the frontier this is not an a western not enough people and budget the costumes and firearms were correct for the time i expect to see the young actors in the film again in the future rachel chance and kirby were great the sass single action shooting society members that contributed to this effort were pretty darn good hope to see more
1	i really enjoyed watching hell to pay i've been a fan of westerns for as long as i can remember and this one reminded me of a lot of the westerns from the 1960s even though i was too young to have seen them in their first run the one thing that bothered me about the movie was the constant music it was distracting at times one thing i did notice and i wonder how many other fans of gunsmoke noticed was the name of buck taylor's character it was a play on doc adams' name from gunsmoke instead of adams buck taylor used adam galen i wonder if that was his choice or chris mcintyre's anyway i would recommend this movie to fans of westerns don't expect anything too deep just plain old entertainment
1	this is a cute little movie that provides pretty much what it promises some good entertainment after all when a movie proclaims it features top sass shooters you have to figure that it is not a likely candidate for the best picture oscar those guys are shooters not actors your next clue is that the movie doesn't star nicholas cage or jennifer aniston i e you shouldn't expect to see the current hottest names it was meant to be just plain old entertainment and in that regard it is every bit as good as a lot of the old oaters i have seen through the years br br so what do you get with hell to pay you get 100 minutes of good old entertainment you get a chance to see some stars from past years who act pretty much like what they did in their prime but a little older you get to see some good sass shooters in major roles and a few sass hams in the background it was a lot of fun for me seeing people that i have shot with visited in their homes and who are my good friends get to do something that a lot of people only ever dream about they're in a real live honest to gosh movie they're doing something a lot of wannabe actors and wannabe shooters will never get the chance to do and i think that alone makes it worth the watch br br admittedly not everyone is a sass member and so i saw lots of fun and humor that others may miss but it is still good old fashioned entertainment and frankly there are a lot of movies in the theatre right now that i wouldn't give a nickel to see so save the money to go see brokeback mountain get hell to pay and watch some real cowboys have some fun
1	for a long time this was my favorite of the batman films it had the best cinematography and an edgy feel to it with two wild characters catwomen and the penguin along with the always interesting christopher walken however after the last viewing it finally slipped in my ratings and frankly i now prefer the last batman batman begins with christian bale br br the good nonetheless this is still the most intriguing of the five latter day batman films the stylish cinematography in here is the best of any of the batman movies director tim burton is known for his films which feature stunning visuals as this is a great example the three characters listed above are all very different and very interesting almost fascinating of the villains i preferred catwomen finding her the most fun to watch before and after she changed violence is not overdone here as it was in several of the other batman stories but one is never bored watching this as he did in the first film michael keaton does a fine job playing batman bruce wayne br br the bad for a movie based on a comic strip that mostly kids read i still think these first two batman movies both done by burton were too dark and the profanity was definitely not appropriate although unlike the first movie there was no usage of the lord's name in vain in here there still was profanity and both villains made too many sexual remarks that would have been okay if they hadn't marketed this film for kids as well as adults danny devito's penguin is downright gross in spots grotesque i can handle but who wants gross few guys meanwhile complained about the beautiful michelle pfeiffer playing catwoman too much darkness and some cheap shots on christian bashing also made me re consider my previously high rating of this film br br overall fabulous visuals and memorable characters make this the most interesting in the batman series but too dark an edge too gross and too much anti religious bias all finally turned me off after a half dozen looks at this film sorry but i prefer a kinder gentler batman movie after all it's just a cartoon most will disagree but i was glad to see the series lighten up after this one
1	ok i am a huge traci fan so her just being in the movie automatically makes it rank at the 8 5 rating but even besides her being in it i thought it was a good movie especially for it being an hbo movie but i am afraid if you take traci out of the movie it would just be ok but a person can't do that she is in it and she is a wonderful actress she just keeps getting better and better
1	with batman returns tim burton succumbed to an important priority in american cinema giving a sequel to a blockbuster three years after the most successful movie of the year batman 1989 here comes the hero of gotham city again for the pleasure of many spectators like its predecessor batman returns enjoyed an enormous commercial success tim burton made batman come back once again because it is to believe that the victory of the latter on his enemy the joker did little to improve the image of gotham city indeed violence and corruption still exist and here the second word is epitomized by max christopher walken and the penguin danny de vito these two crooks who are eager to take control of gotham city are going to make life difficult for batman his task will be more difficult with the apparition of catwoman br br tim burton still delivered much work on the scenery and it seems that he tried to correct the faults of the first movie it means that the director gave way to fight sequences which are better mastered than in the first batman but he didn't neglect the psychology of his main characters for all that if in the movie of 1989 burton had focused on bruce wayne batman's psychology here it's the penguin that obviously interested him the director attempted to make of him very well acted by de vito an ambiguous character on one hand he's full of bad intentions previously quoted but on the other hand he's searching for his past and would like to be considered as a real man br br batman returns also appears as crazier than its predecessor especially with the cast i think of michèle pfeiffer who offers a daring and powerful performance as catwoman besides at the time when i'm writing this review it makes me remember that a new version of catwoman is currently at the cinema but given the bad reviews 3 out of 10 on imdb it is sure that her performer halle berry must pale into insignificance beside pfeiffer br br ultimately this film is one of the best sequels of 1992 and it enables to develop tim burton's peculiar style we also still find his taste for the strange and the gothic concerning batman's other adaptations for the screen you can skip them batman forever 1995 and batman and robin 1997 are no good i heard that christopher nolan was shooting the beginning of the batman story and it was to be released next year will it match tim burton's works
1	this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped though i will concede that the ideas behind batman forever were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director as it turned out this was not to be the case br br apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series i fail to understand how batman returns can be considered at all disappointing br br true it is not quite the equal of the first film though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in batman a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film true to the way the batman was always meant to be and highly satisfying br br michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne with tycoon max schreck christopher walken named in honour of the 1920s german silent actor his partner in crime oswald cobblepot the penguin danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier's richard iii and selina kyle the catwoman michelle pfeiffer whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman the four principals turn in excellent performances especially walken and devito while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities br br there are some intriguing concepts in this film about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain to the script in some places which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight there simply isn't enough time to properly explore what's going on br br nevertheless this is a damn good film i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton
1	any batman fan will know just how great the films are they've been a major success batman returns however is by far the best film in the series a combination of excellent directing brilliant acting and settings makes this worthy of watching on a night in br br tim burton who directed this movie has specifically made sure that this film gives a realistic atmosphere and he's done a great job danny devito penguin man is a man who has inherited penguin characteristics as a baby and grown up to become a hideous and ugly thing michelle plays the sleek and very seducing after cats had given her there genes from being bitten the result in both the character changes is excellent and both catwoman and penguin man play a very important role in this excellent film the mysterious catwoman is great fun to watch her classic sayings and a funny part in which skips with her whip in a jewelry shop adds such fun to the film danny devito also does well his ability to impersonate some strange creature was vital and he adds a great atmosphere to the film that takes us back to the dull sewers where he lives br br you can't forget batman though micheal keaton once again pulls of a comfortable performance and shows us a different side to batman his affection is let loose when he confronts catwoman at the end of the film and his meetings with her when she's a normal person selina kyle result in him being seduced badly in his own home there's a clever part after this when they leave and the film is full of great scenes its worth noting that bruce wayne's bat mobile is not used as much as in the other batman films as close combat and story telling scenes make up this film br br the winter setting is created perfectly in gotham city with most of the scenes being set at night and with the town being filled with snow therefore if you watch this film during the summer like i have it doesn't feel the same best watch it during the winter br br overall its an amazing movie all the credit goes to tom burton and the cast they've done an incredible job
1	batman returns is more gothic and somber than its predecessor and i like it a lot also the scenery is more darker and the entire environment is saddening along with the soul chilling music composed by the so talented danny elfman br br however i didn't like the idea to make the penguin a monster unlike to the comic books where he's human even if he looks like a monster he shows well that he possesses a human dignity and i felt very sorry for him when he saw the tombstones of his late parents but still he was a dangerous villain in fact and he needed to be stopped br br michael keaton made a tour de force with his return as the dark knight and this time he's powerful as in the original batman it's not difficult to understand why he's called batman in public sometimes br br also michelle pfeiffer is so sexy and well fitted in her role and she gave a faithfully performance as the female villain crimefighter dressed as a cat really the actors did all a masterful work with batman returns which made it a successful movie br br if you liked batman watch its awesome sequel cause it's very worthy for all the dark knight's hard core lovers br br steve
1	tim burton is in essence an expressionist film maker disinterested in dimensions of character and obsessed with gothic scope opting for style over substance incessantly throughout his career however with his style being so poignantly endearing i like many moviegoers forgive all the countless flaws that can be found in many of his movies and become engrossed in what are essentially one hundred million dollar art films br br it's almost embarrassing for me to see a poetic emotionally involving spirit within the second installment of a mediocre franchise especially when that franchises target audience are half witted 15 year old boys batman returns should have been every bit as commercial as its predecessor ensuring box office draw and cheap in actual fact very expensive thrills being entertaining without ever truly involving its audience had this been the result then tim burton would have surely been required to direct a third installment instead burton delivers something that can only truly be defined by the phrase 'out there' br br from the melancholy opening in which a high society couple throw a prison like containing their newly born deformed baby into a river it is clear that batman returns ain't no picnic at buckingham palace cut to thirty three years later during a political speech made by bad guy business tycoon max portrayed by christopher walken the red triangle circus gang attack gotham city batman michael keaton returning to the role makes his first appearance sporting a new logo eventually saving the day is soon kidnapped by the circus gang and black mailed into endorsing the political return of the baby now a fully grown penguin man danny devito in hideously perfect make up whose motives for return are suspicious only to batman br br meanwhile attempts to off his nosey and awkward assistant selina kyle played perfectly by michelle pfeiffer who quite frankly deserved more recognition for her performance who transforms into the deliciously sexy and psychotic catwoman out for revenge and harbours for some unexplained reason a deadly vendetta against the dark knight br br batman returns is bleak the production design is breathtaking delivering a cold haunting gotham city with an even more apocalyptic feel than its predecessor danny elfman's score supports the film brilliantly ranging from invigorating to tragic the tone and direction of the whole film itself is intensely brooding shot like a sad nightmare burton's direction overshadows what is in fairness a diabolical screenplay with an almost totally irrelevant plot and yet at the same time perfect for burton's visual style of film making and whilst burton's action sequences struggle for exhilaration the real excitement lies in the directional choices displaying the fall of each of its main characters the penguins demise the catwoman's mental state and bruce wayne's lonely destiny br br warner brothers hated it whilst critical and audience reaction was mixed after all they wanted a batman sequel not a weird somewhat ghastly horror movie in which a deformed psychopathic orphan attempts to kidnap and drown a batch of babies all the while vomiting what can only be described as green the production company wanted an audience friendly feature something for the mcdonald's clan to promote their happy meals with not a movie of dire irredeemable characters including a sexually repressed secretary who is pushed from a skyscraper and revived by a gang of cats awakening her from unconsciousness by chewing on her bloodied ice cold fingers br br it's easy to understand the mass disappointment that followed the release of batman returns the film never felt like a batman blockbuster it is questionable if burton really knew who batman actually was or even if he cared about the character as much as he cared about the film fitting in with his usual themes of beautifully haunting art direction and misinterpreted lonely characters who rarely conform with societies standards and expectations this is why burton failed to create a great batman film he did however create a nostalgic and stunning ballsy piece of cinema that remains a personal and nostalgic favourite of mine br br this may not be a great batman movie but it is a great tim burton film
1	what can i say this film is amazing it has its flaws like every film does for example wobbly in a graveyard a clearly visible slide board during the penguins death scene max losing his heavy coat in a split second between shots during the image scene batman losing his black eye makeup all of a sudden between shots so he can reveal bruce wayne to catwoman dialogue being recorded but is played back and spoken differently than when it was spoken in the first place and lastly catwoman all of a sudden knows how to use a bull whip without any training whatsoever these flaws are minor compared to some you would see in for example batman forever where the riddler can obviously be seen waiting for his cue or val kilmer's hair changing between shots br br what makes this film so deserving of an 8 10 is the great acting because the performances are absolutely amazing michael keaton reprises his role as batman and has a lot more to do in this film he looks more comfortable in the role the second time around and is on par with the villains performances danny devito is the perfect penguin i really like the conversion of the penguin into the grotesque penguin man instead of the non threatening character from the comics or tv show because now the character has more depth and has a far more interesting story that generates from the basic need of family and to feel accepted and wanted this gives us an evil character who we feel sympathy for because he was rejected for being what he is which is not his fault michelle pfeiffer is excellent as catwoman she is and sexy and she is also a villain we can feel sorry for because of the way she is christopher walken is a great secondary villain and is so interesting a character even though he is not even in the batman universe br br the soundtrack is far better than the first and danny elfman gets more of a chance to show off his musical talents this time around the sets are amazing they are detailed eye catching sinister gothic unique dark and so many other adjectives can describe how amazing they look the costumes and make up are great and obviously a lot of work went into making them and all the work pays off because the is better the cat suit is amazing to look at and the penguin make up and effects are so convincing the animatronic penguins look really realistic and are played to good effect the script is really good and the storyline in my opinion is a plausible one overall because of all these factors this film deserves an 8 10 and stands as my favourite of all the batman films
1	the best batman movie of the 90's no doubt about it this movie takes place in a city filled with insecurity and nightmares br br although the villains are somewhat cheesy they fit perfect for the movie's tone of colorful but nightmarish cinematography br br the performances are really great and the comic tone behind them really delivers expectations br br don't get fooled by the cheesy outfits this is a movie in the pure style of burton that can't be described burton is a sui generis director that took the batman franchise to another obscure level but not forgetting about it's comic style past br br recommended for fans of action cinema and best of all if it deals with super heroes
1	first off this film has no story it's obvious there were a lot of rewrites during production sometimes characters reference a timeline that is impossible and this is probably because the timeline of the entire story was never known to anyone on the set br br that said the film is kinda brilliant pfeiffer is amazing and i mean amazing as catwoman she nails the character's inherent sexy darkness and good bad tendencies walken is walken but even more nasty than usual devito is not true to the comic book when it comes to penguin but he is good and memorable br br keaton is underrated as batman br br and the music and style are pure cinema thrill true the 3rd act doesn't work but the final 2 scenes are knockouts and it's clear pfeiffer and keaton were meant to be in a trilogy that got derailed by this film's kinky darkness that's too bad because pfieffer and keaton had classic chemistry and had they acted in a third installment joel you know who might not have gotten the chance to destroy batman for an entire generation of movie fans
1	when i first rented batman returns i immediately thought it was going to be less than exceptional i mean jack nicholson was undoubtedly the best part of the first so without him how could there be a good movie simple throw in danny devito br br batman returns is an arguably more dark movie than batman there are more villains here less actual dark comedy in a lot of aspects and more nerve striking issues however the music is similar to the first if not darker the scenery is definitely more depressing than the first every detail right down to the time of year this movie follows the same comic style format we came to love in the first batman br br now for the performances michael keaton thankfully returns as batman bruce wayne he was great in the first movie and just as much in this sequel there was not enough screen time in the world for keaton as batman need more danny devito gave an award winning performance as the penguin the most grueling disgusting lovable angry evil sad pathetic villain ever to grace a superhero movie you hate him so much yet feel so bad for him at the same time and it explains him down to the last detail too making it all the more conflicting michelle pfeiffer was excellent as catwoman selina kyle two completely different personalities in one she actually got a good amount of back story as well christopher walken didn't disappoint as max the greedy judgmental selfish ceo of the power company michael gough also thankfully returns as the lovable alfred and he was just as good here as well pat hingle also returns as gordon although i feel he was really never in the spotlight br br with lots of great twists and sub plots batman returns is sure to please any fan of the original br br 9 10
1	batman returns it is my opinion that the first batman of the batman series was only half the movie that batman returns is in the first batman by tim burton we had only batman and the joker both played wonderfully by michael keaton and jack nicholson br br in batman returns we have what i feel is the most perfectly cast batman movie yes even better then dark knight keaton returns as batman and is perfect in the role never going to far over top with the character of batman which is perfect in this film when it comes to the two villains that he's up against first you have danny devito who is delightfully insane as the penguin then you have michelle pfeiffer as cat woman who i dare to say is one of the most interesting and complex villains in the batman movies i feel this way about pfeiffer because of the way she becomes the cat woman she starts off as the rather pathetic mousy selena kyle and then truly dives into the dark side of her mind and what you get is a brilliant performance of a woman who goes from trying to be a hero to a villain and then i suppose back to a hero in the end also in this amazing cast you have the evil businessman max schreck played by the amazing and legendary christopher walken while in a supporting role there's something about this role that i love and maybe it's the look of schreck in the film that makes his performance all the better then it already is br br story wise i have to say that batman returns has so much more going on this time around as opposed to the first batman part of the reason i loved this story so much is the fact that burton dared to go in a much more darker and twisted direction as opposed to nicholson's over the top antics you have the story on the penguin and how he tries to deceive the people of gotham into making him the new hero and mayor of the city then you have cat woman and her struggle to decide just who she really is and what she should do with her new persona when it comes to batman i feel that in this one he's more the ring leader that holds the two stories together but of course kicking ass at the same time br br cinematography was the film is dark and atmospheric just like the story that's taking place within it gotham city never looked as good as it does on blu ray and hd so if you have the chance to see it this way then by all means do because it truly adds to the overall experience of batman returns br br so all in i truly feel that of all the batman movies batman returns believe it or not tops the dark knight for me because while i enjoyed that movie for heath ledger's amazing performance as the joker i felt that the movie was lacking something batman returns lacks nothing so if you want to see an amazing film with what i feel is a perfect cast then this is the batman to light the bat signal for
1	i really like traci lords she may not be the greatest actress in the world but she's rather good in this she play the dowdy conservative reporter to a 't' it's a great little thriller which keeps you guessing for a good while jeff fahey is also good as traci's boss i think given a decent break traci could be a top actress she's certainly no worse than some of today's leading ladies
1	as a kid i grew up with the chintzy 60's tv series and no i'm not that pow however when director tim burton brought his novel vision to the silver screen i simply took an immediate shine to it and never backed away from favoring his installments over the much hyped latest additions 'batman and 'the dark which i don't really care for even if they're going for a much more grounded approach and wanting to explore bruce wayne batman psyche but in honesty i don't think there's all that much to tap in to i wanted crazy fun with a dark streak and in my eyes that's what burton brought across and this is the reason why i can watch them over and over again br br after wowing audiences with the 1989 'batman' thanks to the gothic art direction and jack nicholson take no prisoners performance of the camped up but psychotic joker burton would return 3 years later for the follow up and my favorite of the batman films so far 'batman camp but well done in what would fair up to being even more expansive louder dreary and nihilistic and having two villainous foes for the price of one enter the grotesque penguin with danny devito magnificently going out on a limb and the ravishing catwoman a steamy michelle pfeiffer who fills out the suit nicely coming to spoil party again batman an aptly brooding michael keaton is equally commendable and looks quite imposing in that bat look at the eyes plays second fiddle to the bad guys but i always preferred this sober interpretation of batman that gave him an ominously gloomy mystique but also a wearing psychological complexity that never felt the need to force feed and his turn of bruce wayne was well served too burton's atmospheric direction opens with his sleek gothic style an carnival comic book world filtered in with a splendid range of characters and vivid costumes the moody narrative in what probably is a tad too long is more so symbolic in its progression rather show piecing its spontaneously arresting and extravagant set pieces and sharply etched art direction covered with shadowy tinges and grey blue neon lighting of a wintry backdrop the magnetically free flowing camera work takes flight and danny elfman's stately spacious score balances the playfulness along with gloomy touches with a very hypnotic pull the rest of the performances might be overshadowed but christopher walken digs in his teeth into a glassy role of a two faced businessman max pat hingle is back but gets very little to do as commissioner james gordon and michael gough is delightful as alfred in solid support are michael murphy andrew vincent schiavelli doug jones and peter rubens also makes a cameo appearance
1	i remember really liking batman returns when it came out in 1992 but now i think that this is the best of all the batman movies even over christopher nolan's terrific 2005 batman begins and definitely over the seriously over hyped overrated 2008 the dark knight i originally remember thinking that the 1st batman w jack nicholson was the best and i still love it but i think that this movie really hits the nail on the head the 4 main characters batman penguin catwoman and max are all vivid and memorable you really get to see what batman bruce wayne is all about in keaton's terrific characterization keaton is the best batman not kilmer clooney or even the up and coming bale who was exceptional in bb and could have stolen top honors from keaton had his character not been destroyed by nolan's hack film making in br br danny devito as the penguin is disturbing scary hilarious and lethal devito is great and doesn't need scenery chewing to give great performance like nicholson's joker the viewer can actually sympathize with this disfigured outcast and his plight to fit into normal society i had never really been big fan of michelle pfeiffer until this film but this is definitely my favorite performance of hers selina kyle is goofy and odd at first then when she is transformed into catwoman she is simultaneously sexy and scary a total deadly sexpot also i feel that keaton and pfeiffer have more chemistry than keaton and basinger from batman they form a tragic love story and christopher walken as is well as always christopher walken br br batman returns more so than batman is more confident and focused it is assured film making from beginning to end the way burton introduces the penguin's heartbreaking backstory grabs you from the very beginning the first 5 minutes are among my favorite beginnings to any film danny elfman's music sets an ominous foreboding tone that defines the rest of the film it is a modification from the original batman and a great one br br then flash forward 33 years to the present day gotham and we are introduced to powerful businessman who wants to build new power plant in gotham during same scene we meet meek bullied under confident secretary selina kyle and not long after all this is the film's exciting opening action sequence as batman must battle the penguin's red triangle gang a fun yet lethal group of outcasts and circus performers penguin sets plan in motion to attack the gotham christmas celebration kidnap in the chaos and force him to help re introduce him to society meanwhile selina discovers criminal plans and so he kills her by shoving her out his high rise office then she is revived by cats br br sound convoluted yes but burton never claimed to be posing a realistic story he has created a world where the viewer can accept that things like this can happen a dark noirish world comprised of mistreated deformed outcasts who deep down only want acceptance and to fit in confident storytelling if you ask me br br the action scenes are few and far in between but they are all exciting entertaining and nail biting they aren't there just for show the way some in batman are and they all make sense the climactic scene with penguin's army marching into the center of gotham with batman in on penguin's hideout and sidekick butler alfred michael gough in a welcome return from the original assisting batman is succinct solid heart pounding fun br br i also love the christmastime wintry setting which adds to the super dark cold feel of burton's batman world i also love the way burton slowly introduces to us the batman toys without shoving them down our throats each toy is appropriate for that moment in the film and we are compelled to accept them for their purpose and although dark returns is still a funny film devito's penguin has many funny lines so does walken's the batman catwoman exchanges are extremely stimulating and humor filled as well a great ensemble all in all batman returns is a tightly woven tale of the dark forces at play in tim burton's fun comic book world
1	1992's batman returns was tim burton's second round as director and yet again he scored a hit by making this film again dark and gloomy like his 1989 one gotham city again is a place of darkness and gloom with crime and corruption boiling out from every street corner it was also clever to see how burton used politics as a subplot that tied in well and neat with the business corruption of businessman max christopher walken and the plan to make the penguin danny devito mayor of gotham anyway keaton again returns as batman bruce wayne and he gives another stellar performance as a strange and torn man who just can't find love in a normal world yet he is challenged when he meets another lonely soul in selina kyle only ms kyle has a dark secret of her own one that's very slinky and she's just a downright vamp as the sexy and mysterious yet dangerous catwoman michelle pfeiffer a plan forms between both villains to destroy gotham and most of all both want to rid themselves of the bat really this film even though violent and somewhat gross with many penguin scenes is clearly an exciting thrill ride from start to finish as you never find a dull moment and thumbs up to tim again for his exploring of the characters as dark and conflicted it just made the film even more interesting the performance from michelle pfeiffer was the best ever as no one could have played the catwoman any better and devito was perfect as the penguin his body frame fit the character just perfect his performance even though ghoulish was fun to watch batman returns is an entertaining thrill ride that you can't take your eyes off of as a viewer you will enjoy it many times it's that thrilling and explosive
1	i've enjoyed this movie ever since i was a kid and i still do i also liked batman forever back then but the real difference is that this movie didn't date when i grew up i did notice a few scenes in this film that didn't make any sense like the crowd is angry hey where did they get those tomatoes from ' then i thought 'who cares this movie is not 100 serious anyway ' br br the original tim burton batman was great as well but it was a bit cheesy at some parts and i didn't like all the actors this movie improved on almost every aspect with a wonderful cast a more gothic style and no involvement of prince br br nowadays many fans of the christopher nolan movies dislike burton claiming that the nolan movies are more serious and therefore more loyal to the comics i don't think this is entirely true there has never been an adaptation of the original concept of batman which was a vengeful criminal killer with a gun batman has taken many forms over the years peeking its silliness in the 60's and a bit with batman robin a director is free to choose what kind of batman he's going to portray as long if it's good br br my opinion batman doesn't necessarily have to be serious it's about a man in a rubber suit with pointy ears burton managed to create a perfect balance between the silliness and the darkness surrounding the whole idea br br i just recently watched the nolan movies and i love those ones as well especially the dark knight there's simply something about this movie that interests me more nolan's goal was to give the character much more depth and in doing so he looked for an explanation of nearly every aspect of batman that's a bit too much for me i'm a bigger fan of the more abstract version of batman the burton movies are more theatrical and centered around the atmosphere br br my conclusion is that you shouldn't compare the nolan with the burton movies they're just different and it's up to you to decide which one you like better my respect is for both directors
1	i always thought the batman returns was a great sequel to batman the story was an interesting one and danny devito christopher walken and micheal keaton gave great performances plus lets face it tim burton was a genius and did the comic book character more justice than joel ever did br br plot oswald cobblepot also know as the penguin played by danny devito is abandoned by his parents as child for being deformed he uses this as an excuse to masquerade a sinister plot to abduct the first born children of gotham with the help of his goons red triangle gang and a very shady tycoon max played by christopher walken max later makes penguin the mayor of gotham selina kyle michelle pfeiffer is pushed out of a window by max and is revived by cats later on she develops cat like qualities and seeks to destroy max and batman her reasons for wanting to destroy the dark knight are not explained br br opinion batman returns is a classic it has a darker feel in terms of atmosphere tim burton always had a knack for making grim backgrounds look appealing micheal keaton is still sharp as batman danny devito steals the show as oswald cobblepot the penguin when you think about it he would have made a better violator for the movie spawn than john leguizamo michelle pfeiffer gave catwoman more personality than halle berry ever could max is one of christopher walken's best roles the main reason why i like batman returns is that its fun its not only creative but its also fun something a lot of big budget movies these days sorely lack the batman series goes to the dogs after tim burton decided to do no more you don't believe me look at batman forever and batman and robin thank god that christopher nolan breathed life back into the series with batman begins
1	why is it better because it's true to the dark vision of the comic because the imagery is inventive and unlike the first there are real moments of fear and pathos in this one the first one had too much of jack nicholson's shtick too much prince music and an awkward romance here instead of one villain there are three no robert wuhl and the leading lady is more than just a pretty face in fact pfeiffer is the 1 attraction of this film her transformation is what drives the running theme teetering on the edge of sanity and insanity good and evil she becomes truly fearsome the costumes and makeup are excellent danny devito's penguin is inspired and anguished not just a nut his circus gang posse is the one element of comic relief besides that giant duck max shrek is the only character i'd have toned down walken is pretty hammy as the ruthless businessman danny elfman's score is a perfect fit as usual and the siouxie and the banshees song face to face is easily the best of any of the songs from any of the films a perfect match of musical artist and film soundtrack the least campy of the films it is macabre doesn't pander and demands second and third viewings like an amusement park ride bravo tim burton and cast
1	forget the over rated batman begins this is the ultimate batman movie that you are not gonna want to miss out on this movie has everything and it totally surpasses the first 1989 mega hit it may not have done as well as the first one in at the box office but this is certainly a much better film the visuals are amazing burton works his magic as he always does in his films once again gotham city batmans hunting ground is an amazing sight to behold the story itself is actually quite good and the 2 villains in this one are very interesting much more interesting in fact then there comic book counterparts tim burton and screenplay writer daniel walters go a step further to bring you a truly emotional connection with these characters the penguin played to perfection by danny devito is a type of tragic character who was abandoned by his parents at birth and later in life seeks revenge on the world that denied him very disgusting to watch at times but he has some of the most classic lines a villain could ever utter in a single film the other villain is catwoman played so absolutely brilliantly by michelle pfieffer one of the most beautiful actresses of our time and gives a wow performance and totally steals the show as far any of the past and present live action batman villain's is concerned she also has a tragic background her name is selina kyle and she is a very put upon mousy secretary for a shrewd business man called max who later murders her by shoving her out a window somehow she survives and is awakened by cats and decides right then and there to become the legendary catwoman not before of course the amazing sequence in which she completely lets loose and wrecks her entire apartment in one of the most oscar worthy of rage and anger i have ever seen in an actress br br michael keaton once again dons the cape and cowl as batman and also as bruce wayne and this time hes much darker there's not much else to say here except that keaton is simply the best actor to play batman ever he just oozes cool and he has a kind of clint eastwood approach to playing batman and he is very dark he doesn't talk a lot and when he does he sounds very cool and he doesn't make his voice sound all goofy and fake ie bales batman voice in batman begins he struts around gotham like a man possessed by his own inner demons he's disturbed and you know it in this outing he takes on 2 of the most famous baddies to ever grace the batman comic book world br br i have to say though despite the awesomeness of the action scenes like the scenes with the coolest batmobile ever racing down the street knocking thugs to the ground and batman gliding across gotham its the romantic angle between pfieffer and keaton that really makes this movie classic a top choice for anyone who wants to see the real batman in action i rate this a 10 would give it more if i could
1	so what is 'batman anyway br br it was marketed as an action film and many people who've seen it seem to think that they've watched an action film but really there isn't that much action and tim burton barely seems interested in it br br people often align it with the superhero comics of the late eighties but honestly if you've read 'the dark knight that seems just a little absurd burton's excessive imaginings have more in common with the day glo sixties tv series the penguin drives around in a giant plastic duck for goodness' sake br br burton's style is often described as gothic and that's a little closer to what we see on screen the penguin deformed malign with a tangled history and a subterranean lair is a gothic menace dressed up in more respectable dickensian clothes masquerading as uriah heep br br but what of catwoman she may be raised from the dead but that pvc is decidedly twentieth century and her alter ego selina kyle's world is all and apartments reminiscent of a 1930s romantic comedy br br and then it clicks the smart but downtrodden secretary romanced by a lonely millionaire the ensuing complications caused by deception and disguise 'batman is quite clearly a romantic comedy in the old hollywood style filtered through burton's s m dungeon sensibilities it has more in common with 'the hudsucker including expressionist sets than it does with other superhero films br br like many a romantic comedy it centres around the make over of the heroine not from ugly duckling to swan but from doormat to dominatrix michelle pfeiffer gives one of the performances of her often remarkable career she's sexy as catwoman poor halle berry never had a prayer playful and vindictive memorable because she knows how to act with her whole body in retrospect though it's her scenes as selina that impress almost every one of them is a little comic gem particularly the glimpse we get of her lonely home life it's a delicately balanced performance and it's in these scenes that the film really sparks to life nothing moves me quite like selina and bruce wayne dancing under the to and the banshees a gun held between them simultaneously empowered and trapped by their alter egos doomed to conflict forget the easy sentimentality of 'big fish' or the gossamer emotions of 'edward scissorhands' this is the most heartfelt scene in all of burton's films love revenge fatalism fetishism insanity self loathing and not a little wit all in a few short lines and absolutely nailed by the actors particularly pfeiffer br br elsewhere danny de vito almost matches her finding the wounded dignity buried beneath those truly repellent long johns the upper crust villain of the comics is revealed to be nothing more than a sham burton's penguin is a feral creature subjected to his own eliza doolittle style make over almost literally an 'ugly it's burton's most radical and funniest reinvention christopher walken's max schreck completes a perfect triptych of villains sliding between casual charm and blank eyed psychosis with unnerving ease and is it just me or does his company's logo bring to mind mickey mouse perhaps we should ask former disney animator burton br br christopher nolan's 'batman a real action film has been much praised as the first film to do justice to batman i admire nolan's film but it would be a pity if it were allowed to overshadow this idiosyncratic gem
1	this sequel proves that tim burton was for all intents and purposes the best choice to ever direct a batman movie the story focuses on taking on three enemies the penguin wonderfully played by danny devito catwoman the slinky michelle pfeiffer and max the superb christopher walken br br perhaps the best entry in the series it has it all complex themes complex characters and a dark tone that truly stands out the cast is simply wonderful although the obvious stand out is devito as the multi layered penguin here is a guy who is evil pitiable funny and perhaps most importantly scary the infamous scene with image consultants still sends shivers up my spine in other words the cast is simply a joy to watch and all turn in first rate performances br br i do not hesitate to say that batman returns is my favorite of all the batmans released sorry dark knight fans if you want a superhero film that has a little more to offer besides flashy effects and big scale action then please check out this badly underrated film br br if nothing else it's at least the best film tim burton has ever made
1	batman returns is to be considered quality when one speaks of superhero films its predecessor batman in my opinion is by far the greatest and most well thought out of the comic book genre for one to say that batman returns was disappointing he or she has not fully watched the movie and considered the acting of danny devito as the penguin devito and walken offer some memorable moments the tale of batman is suppose to be dark and tim burton has fulfilled how the comic portrays batman batman returns provides comic relief action suspense and fantasy and it should not be viewed as 'crap' although we are all entitled to our own opinions
1	a very good offering from hbo traci lords is becoming a much better dramatic actress with each effort i hope to see this attractive lady in more challenging roles in the future instead of the flighty roles she has been stuck with in the past
1	once again bugs bunny sacred home is violated by careless people this time the traveling circus put a lion's cage right over the hole so bug's has to come out of the hole and face nero that's the name of the lion which he does in his usual hilarious style after a slow and rocky beginning to the cart it keeps getting better and better and winds up being quite hilarious nero the lion turns out to be a pretty good foil for bugs and that turns this short into a highly memorable one if still shorn of a classic this animated short can be found on disk 1 of the looney tunes golden collection volume 3 br br my grade a
1	our family and the entire sold out sneak preview audience enjoyed the guardian kevin costner and ashton kutcher gave convincing performances as the fictional helicopter rescue swimmer characters ben and jake after seeing this movie you can't help but imagine how difficult it must be to graduate from the helicopter rescue swimmer school and one day take part in real rescues br br even though this is a fictional movie it delivered rather convincing virtues of team spirit dedication and bravery exhibited by all the members of the actual u s coast guard br br the special effects used to create the rescue scenes were incredible you actually felt like you were taking part in a real rescue br br i feel the movie could have been made without the hollywood bar scene when you see the movie you might agree since the real coast guard does not condone such behavior br br very entertaining very action packed definitely worth seeing thank you u s coast guard and the real helicopter rescue swimmers so others may live i'd highly recommend this movie to everyone
1	it's been said that batman begins in the first batman movie to get it right but i think that's a horrible overstatement for i think the new batman film although greater that batman forever and batman and robin pales compared to tim burton's classics with this one being the best of the five the darkness is beautiful as is the music and scenery creating a gotham city cloaked in mystery unlike batman begins where gotham city is a normal looking city the villains are terrific in this movie you literally can't take your eyes off of the penguin and cat woman i applaud tim burton for being original with his use of the penguin as a freak rather than an ordinary criminal or a clone of the old batman tv show in batman begins we have the scarecrow whose not nearly as demanding on screen as the penguin or cat woman the film doesn't need to focus only on batman because we already know his story and it is the villains who we are exploring and trying to figure out and they are the ones who create the plot with the penguin running for mayor and seeking revenge for his parents' desertion by killing the first born sons of gotham a task he fails danny devito gives the finest performance ever by a superhero villain in any film surpassing even nicholson's joker the closing scene where the penguins drag the dead body of the penguin into the water is touching and powerful it's a tragedy that tim burton wasn't allowed to complete his trilogy since warner bros interesting in marketing appeal wanted to lighten the batman movies up and they got their wish unfortunately tim burton planned on directing the third film using the riddler as the villain with no two face and robin to mess it up and i'm sure michael keaton would've signed on so this is the last great batman film batman begins is dark but boring tedious ordinary filled with lackluster villains and a playboy bruce wayne a decent batman film but the best batman film ever never batman returns holds that crown
1	batman returns is a really dark movie that shows the caped crusader fighting against the penguin and the sexy catwoman i'll get to them later michael keaton acts well as bruce wayne showing he is a good actor tim burton directs this picture well and the locations of the movie are impressive the villains danny devito is menacing as the penguin a cruel yet disturbed man that had a really hard childhood but michelle pfeiffer steals the picture she is the best catwoman ever she is threatening and extremely sexy there's a scene where she kisses batman the cat way that just heats the movie up the action scenes are good too and the ending is dramatic and tragic probably the best ending of a batman movie tim burton shows he can manage a batman movie really well he already demonstrated this with the first batman and also gives batman a darker nature so much like him
1	i really wanted to be able to give this film a 10 i've long thought it was my favorite of the four modern live action batman films to date and maybe it still will be i have yet to watch the schumacher films again i'm also starting to become concerned about whether i'm somehow subconsciously being you see i always liked the schumacher films as far as i can remember they were either 9s or 10s to me but the conventional wisdom is that the two tim burton directed films are far superior i had serious problems with the first burton batman this time around i ended up giving it a 7 and apologize as i might i just couldn't help feel that batman returns just has too many small direction plot and script problems scattered throughout to justify a 10 br br but burton almost trumps the problems with sheer force of style and even though there are a lot of small flaws batman returns is still a great film especially if you're a burton fan as batman returns has just as much in common with the nightmare before christmas 1993 and edward scissorhands 1990 as it does with anything else in the batman universe br br the film begins strongly with the having a baby we see their dismay people walk out of the birthing room with horror on their faces ready to vomit later they have the baby in a small cage finally they take it out for an evening stroll and dump it in the gotham city river the baby ends up becoming batman villain the penguin danny devito br br meanwhile max christopher walken is the film's evil capitalist comparable to grissom jack palance in batman he is planning on duping gotham city in various ways and we see him emotionally abusing his secretary the timid selina kyle michelle pfeiffer when kyle discovers one of the nefarious plots grissom tries to get rid of her but she is rescued by cats becoming catwoman br br while all of this is going on the penguin who has long been only rumored to exist and who is thought to be dangerous begins a scheme to be presented to the public as a good guy despite having less than benevolent ulterior motives br br before re watching burton's batman films this time i didn't remember just how little the films are about batman michael keaton it's almost as if burton didn't feel the character was interesting enough to focus on the focus here is much more on the villains especially the penguin batman doesn't appear very often especially in the beginning of the film and surprisingly often we're watching him watching the penguin br br although some viewers necessarily count the above as a flaw i can't say that i do even if i'd like to know more about batman and follow his story more the villains' stories are interesting too and as an origin story for two major batman villains batman returns is already more than complex in terms of plot br br however there are some character problems that i do count as a flaw the penguin has a cadre of circus performers who do his bidding but even though they're frequently on screen we never get to learn anything about them burton has a core of characters as intriguing as those in tod browning's freaks 1932 available with actors as interesting as vincent schiavelli but he just doesn't have the space to use them br br for that matter he hardly has space to explore catwoman the film plays as if catwoman may have been as developed and featured in as many scenes as the penguin but that cut of the film would have been 4 hours long so the bulk of the catwoman scenes had to be excised of course all of this barely leaves any room for batman burton has batman turn very dark in the public's eye in this film and unusually he never bothers to resolve this as far as we know at the end still think that batman is a murdering lunatic that's an interesting development but unfortunately it ended up being dropped between this film and the next br br as for the script although there are minor problems including some non sequiturs and bizarre decisions in terms of logic made by characters it's clear that burton and writers sam hamm and daniel waters are not exactly trying to tell a traditional story a lot of the dialogue is pun oriented but often this is fairly subtle and or complex of course sometimes it is very blatant or transparent too it helps to look at batman returns as a more poetic film as i believe was the intention this also carries over into more general plot and directorial decisions plenty of odd character actions including from minor characters are done in service of a general mood or style and that style works very well br br dark is the easiest way to sum up batman returns in a word and whether that's a positive or negative depends on your disposition anyone who knows me knows that i love dark so for me burton's style largely transcends the flaws in the plot and the script in many ways batman returns is like an insane campy horror film with beautifully eerie production design like batman burton is still making many references to other films but instead of vertigo 1958 and star wars 1977 well there's still a slight star wars reference he invokes films like nosferatu 1922 including that max schreck was the name of the actor who played the dracula like character there motel hell 1980 the aforementioned freaks willy wonka and the chocolate factory 1971 which has a surreal dark edge to it and zombie films made most explicit in the penguin's final scene br br in terms of visuals and general atmosphere and that includes the general feel of the story the characters and so on this couldn't be a stronger 10
1	tim burton the man behind the original batman film and beetlejuice brings the world the sequel to batman that exceeds the original in more ways than one firstly michelle pfeiffer and danny de vito are a great mix of batmans enemies the dark deadly and sexy catwoman works well to rattle some heads within the story and penguin works in the same way that the joker worked in the original the sets are stunning and immaculate gotham city has so many dark alleyways that you could never know what's happening at one time or another the only thing that gives it a bad name is its script which at times seems to lapse and then not recover for while tim burtons direction bring superhero films into a new realm beats all the superman films and the other batman films by a mile though in terms of realisation the new batman begins has a bite where this one lacks but burton is a more original director than nolan
1	i don't know why critics cal it bizarre and macabre i really don't dark yes bizarre no it i s sad and with lots of emotions specially with the story they say it has elements of s m but i really don't find anything of that sort except for catwoman's whip br br this movie is deeper than its genre and villains aren't just some crazy freaks dressed like on a masquerade they have strong motives with strong feelings involved catwoman a great performance by michelle isn't just a sexy chick who likes jewels she's on her personal crusade and well by the end of the movie you really feel sorry for him strong performance by danny devito again i think michael keaton is the best batman and he carries his costume well br br you can totally see that it is a tim burton movie because he has an unusual style and is a very talented guy but also the music is fantastic and fits the emotions
1	many of us find art agreeable only when the masterpiece itself touches something deep inside us that is the completed creation can only be accepted and appreciated if we can somehow personally relate to it it was winter here in australia 1992 when i had seen batman returns at the cinemas and it blew me away both me's i was supposed to belong to an ideal a standard but at the same time i was living another life tim burton was the first film maker to say its ok for a comic movie to be dark and to confess that darkness can happen to us all after tim burton's batman interpretations many other dark comic book heroes and anti heroes flooded the cinemas comic book folklore for decades had told of friendly likable heroes with dashingly handsome smiles and magical superpowers who fly in the sky and spun powerful webs from their wrists and wore red boots and had the strength of a locomotive but what happens when you are only ten years old and you see your parents coldly executed in front of your very eyes you snap somewhere in your psyche your young tender psychological make up breaks apart the only way such pain and hurt can be managed is to create an alternate persona you make a promise your other self will be stronger harness all the anger all the rage to use whatever means available to avenge the innocence of your parents onto that criminal those criminals any criminal this is life seen through bruce wayne's eyes both pairs the world he sees is dark gloomy and cold although he patrols the streets and people hear him cruise by they don't rush out to get his autograph he is their saviour not the winner of a personality contest batman returns is about losers batman for yet another christmas remains the only lonely man beast in town bruce wayne never gets to arrest the vile max the penguin never gets to unleash his pain of being discarded by his parents onto the citizens of gotham and selina kyle is forever lost to being mentally fragmented and traumatized and the hero doesn't get the girl or cat this movie delves into the desire in all of us to want so desperately to belong to have a home as expressed by bruce wayne and oswald cobblepot the film brings out a need in all of us to be heard respected and not ignored as desired by selina kyle oswald and of course bruce wayne but sometimes we are all suppressed in one way or another we are told to be an ideal to behave to a certain standard that is until we finally snap only hope remains at the end of the movie as we see catwoman rise towards the night sky but come what may we all must wish good will towards all men and women as for me i cant say that i will reach a point where i will believe my problem with duality will be reconciled but thats ok we all have a dark side batman returns is not only the best of the batman films it is truly a stand out exceptionally fine masterpiece of storytelling
1	ah batman returns is it possible to have a sequel to be almost as good as the original with batman returns it came pretty close we have terrific actors and a great plot with the dark knight and two new villains catwoman and the penguin we have michael keaton back as batman and he's still awesome than ever michelle pfieffer the perfect choice for catwoman and was perfectly cast into place as much as i love and is such an incredible actress annette benning she couldn't have been catwoman she doesn't really have the look danny devito who could have imagined him as the penguin he was just great and terrifying br br batman returns with a more loving community of gotham city they are celebrating christmas time with max shrek played by a creepy christopher walken the perfect villain who mistreats his lovely secretary selina who happens to hear too much at his office causing him to push her out the window in hopes that she dies and will never reveal the information of knowing the penguin and the attempt to make him loved in gotham when she survives and is awakened by cats she wants revenge and is ready to go at it with her cats but there is also another active villain the penguin who is in search of his parents that abandoned him and now he is looking to be the new mayor of gotham city can batman be able to stop both super villains from creating their acts and stop the mayor from destroying the city as well br br you'll have to see batman returns is just as good as the original batman despite the first one remaining the true classic this one still takes you for a ride and come on i mean we've got michelle in leather her classic moment of just meeting batman and the penguin meow is classic there are memorable characters lines and sets you'll have a blast trust me br br 9 10
1	and a perfect film to watch during the holiday season as the winter xmas atmosphere that burton creates for gotham city is way cool it's weird that warner decided to release this as a summer film it doesn't fit br br but what's even weirder when you consider the content of this film is that it was aimed at families an upper class family throws their mutant baby down the sewer a socio phobic billionaire dresses up in leather as a flying rodent a lonely secretary dresses up in leather as a feline and a freak runs for political office and s m and bondage are presented in a very perverted way but burton got away with it his visual style in this film is at it's best br br this and batman dead end are the only true live action incarnations of the comic book character true the animated series was the closest to the source material but compared with batman forever and the un one after that batman returns is the best of the four br br darker and more violent than the first movie the sense of gothic pathos reaches a new high i was quite keen on michael keaton as bruce wayne don't even get me started on george clooney he displayed the right balance of weirdo loner and cool crime fighter michelle pfieffer is great as catwoman much sexier and more cat like she wears that leather outfit better than halle berry and danny devito was so convincing as the penguin that his scenes became disturbing to watch and christopher walken is brilliant as the spooky max if you think you recognise chip shrek it's none other than a very young leatherface br br danny elfman's score is also even better than it was first time round his powerful and engaging themes are way better than the dross that followed in the later 2 schumacher movies this movie is the batman phenomenon at its zenith forget the following sequels and stick to the animated series after this let's hope that christopher nolan and christian bale can bring some integrity back to the live action batman with their movie next year br br this dvd was one of the first ever dvds released by warner almost 7 years ago and as a result there are no features and the case is a snapper pick it up cheap like i did and hope for an se in the future
1	out of all the bat films batman returns is my favorite this beautiful dark and funny film is one of tim burton's best work although it is much violent and darker this is the batman that creator bob kane envisioned many years ago michael keaton reprises his role as the avenger of gotham city this time he's up against two deadly foes danny devito's penguin and michelle catwoman with a great cast and film score by danny elfman the movie takes us on an adventure as batman battles the evil forces that are trying to take over gotham city christopher walken makes a great appearance as max shrek a shrewd businessman who has an evil scheme up his sleeve but of course michelle pfeiffer is the one that steals the show with all of these components you have a film that will blow you away this is the reason why you go to the movies it's got everything it's really a shame that tim burton didn't get to direct the other sequels if so i think the franchise would still be going strong today batman returns is an awesome experience for fans that like cool movies
1	i like full house and step by step the same i don't have a favorite episode i just like certain scenes but some scenes i don't like but i haft to say the reason i started watching this show is because it had suzanne summers in it and my most favorite character was dana and karen could be a snob sometimes but she was good character also i just like to watch family shows instead of trash that has a lot of drugs and violence this show is a lot like other family shows where one of the parents are always strict about and dates other than step by step my other favorite shows are full house sabrina the teenage witch gomer pyle usmc the andy griffith show and dukes of hazzard
1	good film br br i managed to pick this up on dvd in a local store sale £2 99 seems like a good deal and it is thing is the film is named to kill for it took a little detective work to find out it's original name br br in the uk it has been rated as an 18 and rightly so although the standard of films depends on the ability to sell having seen final destination 3 last night it in my view should have been a 18 br br maybe the fact the delightful traci lords is in it tends to make the classification board step it up to 18 such a shame br br traci is a great actress and should be given the chance to appear in bigger and large budget productions she ability to turn what is branded a b movies into a fine performance is nothing short of amazing br br long live traci lords and her incredible talent as an actress
1	step by step is my opinion is a pure abc hit i can't recall every episode but i still enjoyed it it's hard to say which episode was my favorite however i think it was always funny when a mishap occurred at school i always laugh at that as a matter of fact i think just about every single one of j t brandon call and cody's sasha mitchell lines were funny it would have been nice if penny had stayed on the show throughout its entire run everyone always gave a good performance the production design was spectacular the costumes were well designed and the writing was always very strong in conclusion i hope it never stops airing in syndication
1	i watched this show until my puberty but still i found it to reflex many situations that worry us when we're teenagers although it was a family oriented show until the mid 90's it focused more on the young adults and their situations br br that's why i loved step by step i mean it offered situations for every age and unlike many shows of it's kind it delivered expectations br br let's be honest this wasn't an extremely funny show no but it had some situations that you could feel related to but only funnier br br there was an extremely good charm between patrick duffy and susan sommers duffy rocked sommers was tender and actually funny i was in love with stacy because she was extremely sexy loved her legs and witty but sasha mitchell stole the show with his cody character he was the man back in the day oh the memories nowadays this show wasn't been able to adequate correctly on the new generations and that's why it should be kept in the vault of memories that's it only memories br br thank you step by step for making my puberty funnier
1	me and a friends form university alberto lopez dave hall celina we graduated from uk in 1997 still get together and watch b movies once a month br br we are consummate experts in the art of bad movie making and this film was quickly placed in the top 10 of awful brilliant movies br br so if you've just got the beers and weed in and need a film to laugh like a drain at droid gunner aka phoenix 2 is the film for you marc singer is totally aware he's in a turkey of a film here and milks it for everything he can hues is sublime in his wooden acting and musclebound is that a word as he grunts but i want my 20 thousand pure shlock gold if you liked this also see trancers the dollman and anything by charles band or fred olen ray but be warned some of their films are completely and utterly without merit and you'll be screaming for those lost hours of your life
1	after watching this film i experienced a new sensation i had watched a film in which the lead actor had put in a performance that almost rivaled the legend chevy chase in this isn't to say that the performances are comparable but both give practically flawless delivery of their lines that actor is marc singer singer is jack ford the of the title grinding out a living collecting the bounty on androids there are some mutants topless pleasure droids a scandinavian smuggler and possibly a half hearted attempt to make a statement on class or maybe even globalization or well it doesn't really matter what matters about this film is the dry manner in which singer delivers his lines resulting in side splitting humour what matters about this film is that director fred olen ray seems to realize that serious sci fi very rarely works and when your budget is skimpy it is best not to take yourself to seriously olen ray has said that everyone involved in this film had great fun and this transfers onto the film i dare you to criticize a film that allows itself to portray futuristic earth as eternally dark and neon lit and then ends in a and warehouse self parody is a very redeeming quality to summarise fred olen ray is an ambassador for independent film making and marc singer the perfect b movie lead if only olen ray could draft in tim thomerson to the equation then we'd have a film on our hands
1	therefore it is important to talk about the dvd release instead of just the film tales from the crapper is a film that only one studio in the world could deliver the one that has brought us innovative and original real independent films for 30 plus years now troma this is truly a very special film because it manages to be certainly not my favorite of the troma productions but released on a disc that because of what i just said is one of my most valued and favorite dvd's not only counting the countless troma discs i own but counting my entire collection of films the film itself is the result of an ill fated plan to produce a television series to be directed by a director who was trusted with a substantial amount of money especially for troma to make something wonderful and delivered a lot of unfinished and incomprehensible material before quitting or being fired i am not sure which at this moment in order to prevent having to shove a vast investment down the toilet lloyd kaufman and michael herz decided to get together a team of directors and actors and use the material as the backbone of one movie one movie that really consists of two in the nice old tales from the crypt anthology fashion hosted by the played by mr kaufman himself but as i said not quite my own favorite of all their movies that is greatly due to a weird sense of discipline at the various sets forgetting about the hard troma rule of no booze on the set which was discovered by a furious lloyd and other less respectable employees that troma had at the time of the filming of the added scenes all this made it all but impossible for mr kaufman to make a worthwhile product in the editing room but lloyd kaufman is a genius and with the troubled added scenes to an already misshapen start product he crafted not much less of a masterpiece the film itself is as good as circumstances would allow the most brilliant filmmaker to slice together and it is certainly highly entertaining totally confusing loaded with those elements that made troma great and certainly unique and one of a kind as a film itself though not as brilliant as many other troma productions the genius of independent cinema however made the dvd of this film so much more than a release of a film with some extra's the film is when push comes to shove actually only a part of the entire dvd that in its whole is a document of the difficult situation serious filmmakers find themselves in having to survive in a world that is monopolized by the few very big ones who don't really allow any other players on their market turf a document of the problems one has when trusting people to be on the level only to find out that freedom sometimes is something that is hard to live up to and realization that access to a movie budget when the boss is not around can corrupt even those who should really know better the brilliance of this dvd is that the film is not perfect and that lloyd knows it and doesn't want to make anyone think he believes it is the full length commentary is a show in itself as is often the case with mr audio commentaries mixing humor sneers at those who deserve it and highly interesting information for anyone interested in independent film making in such a fashion that watching the film again with this commentary straight after viewing it on its own merits is so interesting it is hard to stop the feature length documentary the thick brown line takes us behind the scenes at the various locations where lloyd visits the sets only to sometimes take over and make the most of what he finds there we see him somewhat disillusioned sometimes different from his appearances in other making of documents such as fart of darkness and apocalypse soon both to be found in the must own make your own damn movie box set br br the added scenes with james gunn who started his career at troma only to find success as a writer an now a director in hollywood and trey parker again someone to start out with a troma released work to later be a national hero with his south park series are entertaining and probably as is much else on this release a reason for obtaining this disc alone for anyone remotely interested in the work of these two characters loaded with much more than i could mention here including a second audio commentary this is one of the best troma dvd releases
1	these were two video shot movies that decided were horrible so in a desperate move turned into this one movie perhaps the bitterness on side helped spark the comedy but for whatever reason this is very funny stuff with an inspired bit with oliver stone doing commentary during the movie lots of cameos lots of use of the lesbian cannibal song add to the fun trey parker ted raimi julie strain etc etc br br one of the best of recent releases yes it's all over the place know that going in the production quality or lack of becomes one of the many running jokes go with it and you'll be in for a good time br br the behind the scenes frequently the best things about releases are also above average this time around i really think the anger they felt over these two lousy films helped drive them to well not greatness but drove them to fix this film in a way that's better than either of the films would have been as they were originally planned
1	this was an excellent movie fast paced well written and had an intriguing plot the special effects were innovative especially in the opening scene the training segment got a bit silly but overall it was a tense movie
1	okay so i love aidan quinn's acting even with a bad script this is not the case in the assignment as other viewers have said this was a movie i stumbled upon on cable and got so into it i didn't want it to end take one cuban american navy quinn who is an upright uptight soldier and family man add a crazed agent donald sutherland who is looking for the worlds most notorious terrorist and add a ben kingsley and you have the assignment sutherland is a witness of the most notorious terrorist carlos actions in a cafe on a lovely day where he is so profoundly rocked at this mans evil that his sole reason to live is to get this man as long as he draws breath br br take one soldier on a pass in israel who is a dead ringer for this man and is beaten and held by kingsley until they realize they have a plan by taking on carlos by being him or being forever responsible for never helping rid the world of him makes for a very heavy assignment and guilt trip by not helping his country he is bound as a man and his military duty to chose wisely so the training begins lets say carlos training is right up there with the academy of arts and holocausts when i say this intense and wonderfully casted scripted and executed film rates the best i am not understating it all three actors could save almost any script together this is a movie to be seen from frame one to credits i am not into terrorism or movies about it but i got hooked bravo again to aidan quinn who for once plays a heavy that could hold up to any actor including gary oldman thats a compliment rent it and get lots of popcorn oh did i mention the sex it works better than last tango and its educational
1	while the remake of the excellent day of the has better esthetics and a boatload budget this film nails the actual persona of carlos down br br quinn excels as the naval officer enlisted to impersonate the wiley to draw him out of hiding and at the hands of kingsley and sutherland turns himself inside out to do so risking his family his career and all that he believes in he takes on the task albeit utterly unwillingly br br to say more would spoil it this is an excellent film br br 3 1 2 niro stars of 4
1	a very intelligent and exciting thriller that doesn't rely on action but on situation which is all to rare these days i would compare this film to the day of the another film about the pursuit of a dangerous international criminal the acting across the board is superlative aidan quinn has a tricky double role as the vicious terrorist carlos and as the navy man who impersonates him donald sutherland plays the amoral cia agent who hires him ben kingsley plays the israeli officer who assists in the plan this is a very tense and effective film and it's remarkable considering just how little action there is in it the first half of the film is all set up as the navy man prepares to impersonate carlos the second half is a breathless actioner the action coming out of the characters and their situations thus making it all the more gripping a really tight film that shouldn't be overlooked
1	in extramarital we see b actress traci lords at her very best she's all wrapped in horror suspense here a type of role that suits her very well br br this mainstream movie lends a lot of its atmosphere from paul verhoeven's 'basic instinct' 1992 by the way however there are differences between the main female characters of traci lords '99 and that of sharon stone '92 for instance in extramarital traci adds some tiny elements from her porn past we also shouldn't forget mentioning three main actors by putting down a convincing performance each of them greatly contributes to the overall quality of this movie br br all this makes extramarital into a very enjoyable b movie its storyline shows a good build up its tense being well spread from start to finish this movie keeps you at the edge of your seat until its unexpected end
1	the acting is good the action is good and so is the plot if you like some good fast entertainment with an air for authentic action scenes not the hollywood looks great but is totally ridiculous kind you're in for a special treat just sit back and enjoy
1	an excellent sleeper of a movie about the search for carlos the international assassin am surprised this film didn't rake in 100 million plus because it's much better than most films that do so rent it now
1	i must say i didn't expect much about this movie but it turned out not to be bad at all most striking of course was aidan quinn's performance i would never expect to see this fine actor as an action hero the great thing about it is that he really builds up his character i mean it was not like mel gibson or bruce willis would do it he was sensitive and modest for example he's really upset when he kills someone i also noticed that some clichés were avoided when gets his training you would easily expect him to be a rebel and act like any average american would do in such a situation ask what the f is going on and refusing to cooperate but is a professional marine officer he doesn't give up and he tries not to lose his courage in which he succeeds pretty well except for a brief break down on christmas eve which i think was very realistic i'm glad that aidan quinn got this opportunity to show another side of him in fact two because he plays the villain as well even although the film wasn't that successful
1	picture the scene a bored student with an empty day ahead a video shop with a special offer of 5 video for a week rentals this ex student usually just grabbed a pile of videos of dubious quality for the most arbitrary of reasons the turning anybody occasionally the odd undiscovered gem did make it into his vcr this being the case with this film everything about the film is good but much more than this the parts all mesh to provide something all too rare a cracking good film why this never got a uk cinema release is beyond me especially when we consider the crap that we have to wade through at the multiplex week on week whilst i'll happily accept this isn't oscar material but neither was sodding titanic schmaltzy cgi tinged bollocks it is a an extremely enjoyable film i was trying to think of a way to describe how best this film should be appreciated accepted the perfect film to watch while bonding with your dad after a coming home for the holidays after a large sunday lunch
1	br br when i first heard about this back in 1997 over coffee with friends i decided to check it out the only problem was that it was on a small screen at one of my local cinema's br br that didn't stop the enjoyment of seeing a simply great movie with a top notch cast in aidan quinn donald sutherland and ben kingsley the whole movie kept me glued to my seat br br i simply found no flaws in this great movie i give it my highest recommendation to those who love thrillers i am very proud to have this in my collection br br 10 10 i don't hand this out lightly
1	i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent it has it's moments i guess you would say some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool and some of the location shots were very authentic i won't be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre the action is good the acting is decent the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion and the story is pretty interesting 7 out of ten
1	this is the classic case of an excellent film being looked over by the american public simply due to the fact it didn't have bruce willis or arnold schwarzenneger as the lead man adrian quinn does a better dual performance thats right you heard it dual performance in this film than either of those have ever pulled off in their careers well anyway now to the review br br the assignment is loosely based upon the story of carlos the a 1970's radical who terrorized europe for years before finally being apprehended by french agents in this adaptation a us naval officer adrian quinn is on leave in israel when he is apprehended by crack intelligence counter terrorism agency and took in for questioning due to the fact he looks exactly like the this is the one extremely cheesey part of the film but trust me it doesn't detract from the great value of this film when it is discovered mr ramirez is not the however he is recruited by a hardened cia agent by the name of jack shaw donald sutherland who does his usual grizzled mysterious government authority figure routine but in a stupendous manner who has spent his life hunting the and the series of events which follow will captivate anyone who watches this film it is chock full of great acting without all the usual action film cliches and one liners and a great plot which will surprise anyone the three leading men quinn sutherland and kingsley carry this film much further than its modest budget would have allowed with anyone else filling their shoes also kudos to the director and his staff the camera angles and cinematography are top notch especially in the action scenes the assignment is better than anyone renting it could ever expect its a pity the film did fairly poorly in the box office otherwise we might see a sequel to this stupendous espionage thriller br br 9 10 stars this reviewer highly recommends it to all potential viewers
1	this movie was over shadowed by 'the bruce willis richard gere which was released the same year having seen both films i can honestly say this is the superior film br br granted the production value of 'the was very good it probably had a substantially bigger budget however 'the is well written and has a fascinating story aiden quinn is flawless in dual roles aiden quinn and director christian duguay did a great job of establishing a deep and multi layered relationship between the title character and his family i particularly liked the ending br br i was reminded of the jack ryan character in the tom clancy movies both are naval officers thrown into unbelievably dangerous roles as they covertly work on behalf of national security and yet both harrison ford and aidan quinn reveal their respective characters as heros who manage to be both virile and gentle they have a genuine tenderness and vulnerability in their relationships with their families br br what i don't understand is how the opinions of all who have posted on this movie myself included can be so much more positive than the luke warm reception the film has received this is a movie that has enough complexity and subtlety that it remains compelling after multiple viewings if you are a fan of espionage genre films i recommend 'the enthusiastically
1	this movie is about carlos the quinn an international terrorist who by cia agent henry sutherland description appears to women and children for the heck of it at least that's what he says to guilt us naval officer ramirez quinn again into taking on the assignment of posing as carlos and setting him up as a traitor in the eyes of the kgb ramirez is apparently physically identical to carlos but mentally he is his antithesis he is borne of order and carlos is borne of chaos br br the movie isn't all shoot gun jump around action and that's a good thing in its first half ramirez undergoes training to act and think like carlos and that's actually where the movie achieves its distinction from other run of the mill action flicks an israeli agent kingsley joins fields in training ramirez and together they appear to take on the roles of parents in the birthing of new character ramirez is taught to dislike the things carlos dislikes to act on the split second like carlos would and even to make love like carlos courtesy of an ex girlfriend of naturally all that he is taught would be put to good use in the later half of the movie it's a little contrived but quinn gives a riveting performance as a carlos wannabe br br another thing i liked about this movie was that it didn't utilize the much overdone plot point in evil twin movies you know the one in which the evil twin insinuates himself into the good twin's family family does come into the picture but instead they highlight how his new character wrecks havoc on his family life br br good chuckle humor is injected into this movie often coming the acerbic duo of sutherland and kingsley an exception is the overused and apparently gratuitous joke involving first name annabelle get it also overdone was the constant harping by the duo about how powerful and cunning and intelligent carlos is in my opinion during the final showdown the payoff wasn't able to match the build up br br on the whole the movie was enjoyable i'm not a big action flick fan but this movie was more intelligent and engrossing than the average action movie and it maintained my attention throughout br br my rating 9 10
1	once i knew that donald sutherland jack shaw henry fields was appearing in this film it instantly told me this was going to be a good picture to view most of sutherland's pictures are full of action and suspense and he can play a rather cruel character and can also be quite charming and kind in this picture jack shaw did his very best to be a good guy and a bad guy while he was training a naval office to become a spy who had to change his entire identity and become a different person over night there is plenty of car chase scenes and plenty of stunt men situations which i would not want to perform this naval officer lived in a quite community with his wife and was a father but you would never realize that fact until the film reveals his horrible background secrets which he had to keep from his family and friends good spy film and great acting by all the actors
1	the movie was very good i'm an avid mystery fan and i usually figure out who is going to be killed and who did the killing while i did figure out who was going to be killed i didn't figure out who did it i wasn't happy with the portrayal of the gerda character but given the year the movie was supposed to take place it is possible the woman would have been that please know that while these poirot movies are good they just don't have the same dynamic to them as the series does because they don't have japp ms lemon and especially hastings david suchet is definitely poirot i have seen every actor who's played him the worst was peter ustinov
1	i'm a huge fan of the spy genre and this is one of the best of these films the assignment is based on a true story which has been somewhat embellished for the big screen and it really takes you on a fun ride the film has a great cast starring aidan quinn donald sutherland and ben kingsley br br naval officer quinn is a reluctantly recruited by sutherland after a chance meeting with kingsley who believes quinn to be the famous terrorist carlos the because quinn so closely resembles carlos sutherland stops at nothing to recruit him because sutherland is obsessed with the terrorist's capture or death br br the training sequences are awesome quinn is really put to the test by kingsley and sutherland having to withstand attacks from remote controlled snowmobiles from eating the same food each day to being drugged with a hallucinogen he even has to learn how to make love to a woman the way carlos would br br the film has some great action scenes with quinn eluding allies because they believe he is carlos and in his final mission when he is to kill the throughout the film quinn must struggle with the new personality he has attained versus his own will he remain as ruthless and free as carlos or will he once again return to his life of a good husband and father br br if you like the spy genre this is a must see the action is used only to propel the story of this thriller forward no gratuitous explosions or fight scenes rating 10 of 10 stars
1	throughout the world the unmistakable imprint of the american c i a can be found in many a muddled mess they have left behind in the beginning their objectives were simple spy remove enemy agents steal classified information and destabilize governments years have elapse and although their mission remains similar their clandestine black operations now include domestic spying u s citizens and infiltrating american organizations who criticize the u s government this movie however centers on the c i a 's world manhunt for the infamous 'carlos the ' the film is called the assignment and tells the story lt cmdr ramirez aidan quinn a u s naval officer who bears a striking resemblance to the mastermind of so many terrorist bombings recruited by jack shaw donald sutherland of the c i a and amos ben kingsley a special agent from the israeli ramirez is secretly trained to look pose infiltrate the elusive organization and to thereafter discredit the real working for the russians this film is explosively exciting and packed with wild chases killings and inter country mayhem quinn is wonderful and surprisingly artistic playing both sides of the war easily one of his best efforts
1	2002's the bourne identity is one of my all time favorite movies however many fans of the book have complained that the movie had very little to do with the book's plot br br the assignment is the real deal it's odd that no one on the bourne identity threads has mentioned this movie at all well i did br br besides the excellent plot i personally found this movie to be as good as any espionage movie i've ever seen with the possible exception of the bourne br br identity itself br br the action is all completely realistic i especially liked the protagonists' training regimen which was very inventive br br the feel is dark and gritty there are a few surprising plot twists the acting is excellent br br if you like this genre i cannot recommend this movie highly enough
1	if you liked the richard chamberlain version of the bourne identity then you will like this too aiden quinn does this one brilliantly you can't help but wonder if he is really out there i reckon he and the other main cast members probably had nightmares for weeks after doing this movie as it's so intense when i first saw it i was just flicking channels on the remote late one evening i got hooked within minutes look up www answers com for ramírez sánchez who is the character that carlos the is based on for both i remember reading about ramírez arrest in the paper in 1997 it was front page for weeks through the trial after his arrest
1	i loved this film it was so intelligent but it also had some great action sequences without basing the movie solely around them quinn sutherland and kingsley all put in fantastic performances and there are enough twists to keep anyone interested the ending was great as well
1	this is probably one of the best thrillers i have ever seen it has action but not this bullet flying good guys bad guys van damme stallone action but quick realistic and nervous action it has a plot cause till the very end of the movie you don't know how this is gonna end it has characters aidan quinn donald sutherland and ben kingsley are just perfect and it has suspense this movie just won't let you go away before you've seen the end of it br br though there are only a few characters i didn't find it difficult to keep my attention the the story and as for the story it's basic not too tom clancy difficult but simple and raw and realistic br br if you're in for a movie with a good story some action and great acting watch this and i promise you won't go away till you've seen the end of it the very end of it
1	i will not comment on the story as such i agree with most peoples comments that this is a good all round action movie with a well told story and good acting br br this film deserves 100 for cinematography for its opening sequence the opening shot is stunning and i have not yet figured out how they did it the movie is worth watching for that shot alone a pity therefore that the dvd that is currently out is just the movie and no information is given as to the making of the film let's hope somebody comes up with the special edition br br and the even better thing is that the opening sequence also becomes the ending leaving you totally guessing great stuff a must have for a collector of classic film moments
1	i found this movie to be quite enjoyable and fairly entertaining good characters good actors and enough suspense to keep your interest throughout the plot twists might have been a bit much but overall a decent thriller if you liked this film i would recommend the spanish prisoner the house of games and no way out
1	this is one of the best thrillers i've seen it's intelligently made and brilliantly filmed and is one of the few thrillers that creates complex interesting characters and makes the movie about them not the action i would recommend it to just about anyone especially people who like movies with both style and substance
1	christian duguay directed this tidy little espionage thriller early in his career it plays on tv pretty regularly albeit with some terrific scenes of violence and sex unfortunately trimmed i finally got around to seeing the theatrical version on a 3 tape from the local video store naval officer aidan quinn is recruited to impersonate the notorious carlos the and gets a little too caught up in the role donald sutherland ben kingsley play quinn's superiors with sutherland a true zealot and kingsley as the more level headed one the first half of this fun flick shows quinn being trained and indoctrinated the second half has him out in the field making love to the woman and shooting it out with sundry enemies the idea is to make the look like a turncoat to the russians and let them take care of the world's most notorious assassin things don't exactly play out as planned at times i almost expected the cast to break out laughing at some of the corny dialogue but they all play it very straight in the end this is one terrific little thriller that deserves your attention the former mistress teaching the highly proper and very married quinn to rough her up lick blood from her face and then go down on her alone is worth the price of admission
1	the movie was very good i'm an avid mystery fan and i usually figure out who is going to be killed and who did the killing while i did figure out who was going to be killed i didn't figure out who did it i wasn't happy with the portrayal of the gerda character but given the year the movie was supposed to take place it is possible the woman would have been that please know that while these poirot movies are good they just don't have the same dynamic to them as the series does because they don't have japp ms lemon and especially hastings david suchet is definitely poirot i have seen every actor who's played him the worst was peter ustinov
1	it worked director christian duguay created a very clever action spy thriller the actors donald sutherland and especially aidan quinn gave a top performance what a pity that we see aidan quinn in others movies like this one till now he was simply the best in the role as ramirez carlos for what he should have earned the oscar the picture was very nice the scenes are fast paced from beginning to the end and the story doesn´t let you a chance to get bored the movie is too underrated and i recommend it to anyone otherwise you will miss something great believe me you will not be disappointed that´s why i give it 9 10
1	the stunts sequences as well as the special effects are brilliant in this movie michael must be one of best stunt co of all time the explosion in the café is a wonderful combination of stunts special effects and visual effects the director had an idea that the crew managed to create on film br br besides that donald sutherland makes one of his best performances in this film
1	this is certainly a quality movie with a classy cast as far as movies about carlos the go this one beats bruce willis' feeble efforts in 'the to a bloody pulp then spits on them i am a bit surprised that this movie hasn't attracted more votes something of a 'sleeper' obviously a pity because this film is definitely worth a watch it is clever and never dull see it 7 10
1	slick tidy and well made old school version of how a great international thriller should be made determined to nail a feared global terrorist who is known as carlos the jack shaw donald sutherland without limits space cowboys a cia operative and his israeli counterpart amos ben kingsley gandhi sexy beast get a noble naval officer ramirez aidan quinn music of the heart to become carlos and use him in a daring plot to get the kgb to kill the real carlos because he took an offer from the cia sutherland and kingsley are both good here but the movie really belongs to quinn here who embodies himself here in a dual role director christian duguay and cinematographer david franco provide another great asset of the film here with hitchcockian like suspense and great sights of the world
1	the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character rather than star turns the need to stage special effects obligatory romance and endless car chases however there is a car chase in here and a dandy it is aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer recruited to eliminate him it is rare that a second or third tier actor such as quinn is given an important starring role like this that carries a film usually such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous somewhat creepy at times agent that recruits quinn ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines which converge in gradual fashion toward the end and not all at once as we're used to seeing the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity the locations are convincing and effective the soundtrack is nothing special but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days without dumb and or meaningless plot developments unconvincing star turns loud annoying music video type soundtracks a villain that hams it up and repeatedly a cast costumes and plot that cater mostly to an audience under 25 this is an outstanding thriller which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release 1 2 of 4 stars
1	this movie really proves that the world is all too often an unfair place especially the world of motion pictures the assignment received barely any attention upon it's release and not surprisingly flopped at the box office but when history will be written this movie will most surely receive some long lost praise br br thank god i'm surrounded by friends who knows what's good for me being a movie buff like myself a pal highly recommended the assignment a movie i hadn't even heard about i decided to check out what leonard maltin gave it and not surprisingly he gave it 1 2 knowing that this is the same grade he gave classics like alien the usual suspects and the matrix i kid you not i knew his meaning didn't mean squat jack s so without hesitating i went out and bought it on dvd this was about 3 years ago and the movie is still one of my proudest belongings in my dvd collection despite a cover design that echoes a low budget stinker with casper van dien br br the assignment is expertly directed delivering some really intense moments that will hold you on the edge of your seat throughout the movie on top of that it boasts an at times brilliant story that you know will be riddled with unexpected twists and turns it stars aidan quinn in one of his best performances and serves him with great support by donald sutherland and ben kingsley who are both in great form br br something like 40 out of 42 user comments like this movie most of them can't seem to praise it enough so what are you waiting for if you call yourself a fan of action thrillers you should have bought it rented it seen it yesterday
1	the battle at gulch was griffith's longest and most expensive short he had made up to that point in it we see him trying to perfect the large scale action scene that would be necessary in his full length features packing in all the elements that had made his previous action shorts successful br br griffith uses the western format – already the ideal backdrop for pure straight ahead action set pieces – as the setting for his first epic battle like many westerns of the 1910s the starting point is a character from the east heading out west – a device which perhaps helped ease the audience into the wilderness and here those easterners are a pair of children which was important for the type of picture this develops into for griffith you couldn't have action without a sense of vulnerability and here he crams it in with the kids from back east lillian gish as the distraught mother of the only baby in town and even some puppies that are at risk of ending up on the menu br br all this paves the way for an exceedingly complex and layered action sequence blending the trapped heroine scenario and the ride to the rescue with the battles that griffith had been depicting since his earliest civil war pictures in 1909 there is a phenomenal amount going on here and griffith does very well at maintaining the exhilarating pace throughout and keeping everything coherent and logical however juggling x amount of elements in an action sequence does not necessarily make it that many times more exciting no matter how skilfully they are balanced and griffith did create better tension soaked finales before and after this one br br but even a griffith picture so heavily focused on action would not be without its drama characterisation and atmospherics in the battle at gulch the emotional set up is dealt with briefly but economically first we have the scene in which the waifs leave their home the cart they travel on heads away from the camera making use of depth and distance to express their moving away from safety and civilization an equally effective scene is the one in which we are introduced to the young family of gish bobby harron and their baby the people of the town coo over the precious tot then off screen revealing that two indians were watching them from the background adding a sinister little note of danger br br of course many viewers today have pointed out the battle at offensive portrayal of native americans in contrast with the more sympathetic red man's view but perhaps all is not what it seems first of all take a look at the indian chief's son's – it's black and covered in shiny white dots it looks to me like a pearly king's jacket perhaps modified slightly for the warmer climate now have a look at the war dance they perform later on – it has a certain knees up mother brown air to it these aren't indians they're cockneys so it shouldn't be offensive to native americans just cockneys
1	some of the reviewers here have foolishly judged this silent film by political correctness standards of today br br battle was an excellent film for several reasons correctly noted by more rational reviewers superb cast lots of action innovative editing and photography br br its stars were in effect the d w griffith stock company and to this silent movie fan that is enough to watch it and to enjoy it br br i saw it many years ago and just watched it again at youtube that was a very poor quality print but coupled with my memory of a good print in a real theater i can justifiably recommend this to reasonable people and film historians
1	epic early film directed by d w griffith mae marsh her little sister and their dogs are orphaned they must go to live with an uncle aboard their coach is young couple lillian gish and robert harron celebrating the birth of their first child the coach arrives in uncle tells her she can't keep the dogs and they are put out there are indians native americans nearby and indians love to eat dog meat no kidding these indians are hungry lionel barrymore is sympathetic to ms marsh desiring to help her recover the runaway dogs while rescuing the puppies an indian is shot resulting in a cowboys vs indians confrontation br br this saga of the american west is certainly an important film however the reliable griffith performers begin to overplay their hands and the story is too contrived many of the griffith elements are in place some good and a few bad the battle at foreshadows the later epic birth of a nation br br the battle at gulch 3 28 14 d w griffith mae marsh robert harron lillian gish
1	it's hard to imagine that the battle of gulch directed by the legendary d w griffith was made a way back in 1914 it is a showcase for griffith's emerging style br br the story centers around a group of settlers called the cameron brothers and their families which include a young waif mae marsh sent out from the east to live with her uncles and a young wife lillian gish who has just given birth a group of indians tries to capture the pet dogs and are driven off by the men folk during the confrontation the indian chief's son henry b is killed the indian chief plots his revenge and launches an attack on the small community of gulch br br it is this attack which is quite brutal and graphic for this or any other time that forms the core of the picture the indians slaughter the towns folk women and children alike and drive them out of town towards the cameron's homestead the newborn baby becomes separated from its mother and all hell breaks loose someone goes for help and returns in the nick of time with the calvary br br the battle scenes contain some graphic violence for example we see a woman being scalped alive and there is also a sequence where we see a horse being shot down i have never seen an animal being slain so convincingly on screen mr griffith was becoming a master of staging large scale battle scenes a talent that he would use extensively in his epic civil war drama the birth of a nation released the following year br br even though it runs a scant 29 minutes the battle of gulch is nonetheless an exciting and historic bit of film making see if you can spot lionel barrymore and harry carey in bit parts
1	just after having moved into his new cottage in the english country hercule poirot gets an invitation to dinner from sir henry and lady the owners of a large mansion nearby but the next day one of the guests is found shot near the pool and his clumsy wife is holding a revolver a few steps away br br this agatha christie mystery is somewhat thin though the killer's plan is still very clever it's the exquisite filming and cinematography that elevate the story to a higher level this episode mostly keeps the serious tone of five little pigs and sad but contains more dark humor than them the cast includes possibly the two most famous actors to have worked in the series by this point edward fox as the butler and sarah miles as lady though the standout performance is given by the dazzlingly beautiful megan dodds as the ahead of her time henrietta her one on one confrontations with suchet sparkle and are the highlights of the film oh and since an english police inspector does get involved in the case i think they could have brought philip jackson back for this one
1	while i score the movie a 7 i also should point out that it is both interesting historically as it stars mae marsh lillian gish and lionel barrymore when they were all younger and less well known and features pretty exciting action for its day br br the plot is odd for a western in that all the trouble with the indians begins for the weirdest reason i have ever seen the indians decide to have a giant dog banquet no they are not feeding dogs but feeding on dogs and when two indians arrive late there are not left so they steal two dogs belonging to two orphans from the nearby white settlement and this actually touches off an all out war not only is this silly but seems to play on the prejudices of audiences i don't know if american indians actually ate dog but it sounds like the sort of stereotype that later was applied to other ethnic groups all this over dogs the movie has some excellent battle scenes and exciting moments such as when ms marsh crawls across the battlefield to save a baby exciting stuff but strange too
1	the movie is a starter to what really happened in city i'm a grandchild of the people who really lived the story the truth never has come out to my knowledge i have tried to find the whole story out but the people who lived it are still scared to tell it city is still run by crooked people albert patterson was not quite the saint the story wants you to believe the story was filmed in city it still has some of the famous sites in it that you see in the movie the funeral home still looks exactly the same but if you are wanting the real history of sin city you have to visit us and find people willing to tell you about ma and her kindness she didn't get the name ma for nothing
1	i'm from phoenix city and the first time i saw this movie and read the book it only confirmed the stories i had heard all of my life i asked my grandfather about the mob and he told me that when he got back from fighting in the pacific theatre he started up a firm that is know the largest in the columbus area when he was just starting out he was asked by the mob to do financial work for them but he said that he gently declined even when the fbi and army came through phoenix city and cleaned it up my grandfather wouldn't take it lightly when my mom aunt or uncle went across the river but i assure you all of that is over now the downtown area of phoenix city is in need of restoration and it has slums by the courthouse where all of the shooting still occasionally takes place over angry uneducated low socio economic people and the 14th street phoenix eagle bridge has been shut down for a solid 15 years and replaced by a newer 13th street bridge but on the more fair side of phoenix city on summerville rd it is very quaint and the scenery depressing br br another incident was told to me by my best friend's family from high school that lives in a nothing spot on hwy 165 called holy trinity alabama which is about 28 minutes outside of columbus ga my best friend in high school's uncle was a man that went by the name of old man davis regardless of how the movie goes that fact is that there were 3 bosses and old man davis was one of them you can even read about him in the original book legend has it that he was so cold blooded that he went to downtown phoenix city to make a deal with a man but apparently the man backed out on the deal right in front of old man davis so the old man davis proceeded to take a sawed off shotgun out of his coat and shoot the man in the chest in the middle of town by the courthouse they say he even walked off nonchalantly because the mob had paid off every law enforcement official in town so he had nothing to worry about br br another incident is about a bridge that another one of my friends owns a rental house next to in downtown phoenix city it is the same bridge that the mob killed and threw a black man off of and you can even read that part in the book i also would like to as that in many columbus and phoenix city civilians were asked to be extras in the movie when the friend is murdered and brought to trial and proved guilty in front of the judge but still set free well the judge is my fathers partner in his law firm in columbus who is deceased
1	born in 1946 i was about eight years old when first viewing this movie and it left a deep impression not only scary for lack of a better word this movie haunted me for more than 50 years the mob goon played by john was terrifying the only scene that stuck out in my mind during those 50 years was the killing of the little girl and the uncaring policeman referring to her as a little n kid those words were replaced when the movie was shown recently on tv maybe there are two versions of the movie or someone felt compelled to alter a little bit this heart breaking scene accurate or not the film went a long way in my opinion of the south and still till today the closest i've come to visiting a southern city is el paso that stand may seem extreme but there is a little bit more to the story when the movie was shown recently it became clearer why it haunted me for years with the newsreel like beginning this movie gives the impression that what is being shown is fact the film is made supposedly only one or two years after the depicted incidents adding to its realistic credibility the terror in the movie isn't provided by creatures or space aliens but by persons living in our society at the time re killing of little girl the recent viewing helped make clearer the impact it had on my 8 year old mind when this movie came out the only school i had ever gone to was attended by mostly african americans the victim looked like a girl in my class it was like seeing an actual killing it made a horrible scene that much worse maybe no one will find this review helpful but it helped me
1	spoilers shocking yet true story of the horror that befell the alabama georgia border town of when it was taken over by a gang of organized hoodlums who turn it into the sin city of the south br br with crime and no one to turn to a group of concerned citizens get well respected lawyer albert patterson john mcintire to run for the office of state district attorney with the criminal element of doing everything from intimidation to outright murder to keep the voters form getting patterson the nomination he still wins with the other 86 of the state not including russell county giving him the nod by just over 1 000 votes br br terrified in what patterson would do when he takes office head of the mob tanner edward andrews has a hit put out on him patterson is gunned down while driving to his office but his killers are spotted by ellie rhodes kathryn grant who soon becomes through an informer in office next person in line to be targeted for murder what tanner co didn't expect is that the late albert son john richard kiley got the news from ellie about his dad's murder before his boys could shut her up that major miscalculation on part will end up putting an end to both his criminal organization as well as his freedom br br powerful documentary style crime movie with the actual persons involved in the events given some 15 minutes at the start of the film to tell their stories this despite the fact that they were still in danger of being murdered by the tanner mob that was still at large at the time their interviews were filmed br br finishing what his brave dad started john patterson single handedly brought the story of city to the front pages of both the state and national newspapers giving tanner the very negative publicity that he tried so hard to avoid with the now alabama national guard flooding into city the blood thirsty and gutless in not willing to stand up to people with guns in their hands tanner mob evaporated from sight like a morning mist after the sunlight hits it and with john patterson now taking the place of his murdered dad as the state of alabama's new attorney general you can be sure that the patterson mob has seen its last days of pushing people around as well as murdering them the only thing that they'll see now in the future is the gray prison walls and bars that will be their home sweet home for the rest of their rotten and miserable lives br br very probably the most graphically violent movie to come out of hollywood up to that time the city story didn't pull any punches in showing how a group of lawless and powerful criminals can turn a quite american city into living hell for everyone in it no one was speared from these ruthless gangsters who didn't even think twice when it came to murdering even women and children if that's what it took to keep them in power as for the city police they had better thing to do then enforced the law that they were sworn and paid to uphold they were out having coffee and while their city was being burned to the ground by the gangsters like tanner who had them in their hip pocket
1	the city story is a brutal hard hitting docudrama about what was once dubbed the town in america the film documents the events that led up to the murder by the city crime syndicate of albert patterson an alabama attorney who made a bid for the state attorney general's office as a way to clean up the vice and corruption plaguing his hometown his son john patterson picked up his father's mantle after his death and won the post making clean up of city a primary item on his agenda br br director phil created a film that has the ability to shock even today the grimness is so relentless that the film is actually difficult to watch we see the crime syndicate beat and kill in order to get what they want the beatings and killings include women and children and one scene in particular revolving around the death of a little black girl is especially disturbing it's not exactly an enjoyable film because there's very little payoff at the end to reward the viewer for sitting through the infuriating events leading up to it but it's a well made film full of an intense and angry energy br br a 15 minute prologue includes a series of interviews with the actual inhabitants of city some of who are then portrayed by actors in the fictional portion of the film it lends the film a quality of urgency that carries over into the narrative so that we feel like we're watching a documentary the entire time a feeling that's helped by choice to film on actual locations br br i'm glad i saw this movie but it's one of those films that fills you with a sense of righteous indignation and then makes you feel helpless because you can't do anything about it br br grade a
1	having been brought up in city as a child i recognize many of the local people in the movie so for me it's like a trip down memory lane to see the city story again as a matter of fact my is in it in one of the very first scenes uncle drew's the one in the hawaiian shirt who his chair out to get a better look at the singer stripper br br unless you've been there like mr page and i both have you couldn't possibly understand the story it tells the reviewer from new york calls john patterson racist most likely without ever having had an encounter with mr patterson or his father and what is your point in bringing up mr employment now it has nothing to do with the film that you're supposedly reviewing how in the world can you sit back and judge either them or this film when you've probably gone no further yourself than the south bronx it's been my experience that people who do that are simply attempting to feel morally superior to the folks portrayed in the movie by most accounts of the time both mr were basically good and decent men their families were respectable people as were most of the people who lived in city br br by the way why is so hard for those who live outside of the south to believe that there are good and decent people even in small towns in alabama and why do they assume that everyone living in a small southern town is a racist my parents lived there and yet they didn't tolerate it in our household others didn't tolerate it either but the myth that everyone in the south is racist lives on through the willful ignorance of others br br the movie itself is simple and direct it isn't the whole story hollywood added a certain sensationalism when the film was made parts of it were absolutely on target other parts of it bordered on fairy tales and if it's the source that anyone uses to decide how folks in small southern towns are they need to get a grip and understand what most of us do it's only a movie
1	to view the fictionalized biography the city story i claim is to enter fields where u s filmmakers have seldom ventured director phil got his directorial assignment on the untouchables tv mega hit series largely on the basis of kansas city confidential and this film and it has become one of the most admired and most imitated movies ever made the rarest feat for us filmmakers seems to be the hero centered purposeful anti crime film or tv series i remind the viewer how mightily cain's hundred 's and hardcastle and mccormick 's and even the ' producers had to work to produce anything but episodes devoted largely to the activities of criminals rather than those of their ethical opponents this powerful seminal and very gritty movie has a style all its own and its lesson seems to be attention to detail about the opponents and victims of criminal organizations as well as their gang members there is a twelve minute prelude to the film in which reporter roberts interviews the real participants from the alabama city's who had struggled against its corrupt vice gangs the problem grew out of the presence of fort benning across the river and the nearly century long existence of vice dens in the area the film details the return of john patterson from germany where he has been a prosecutor his father defeated for attorney general of alabama refuses to join his pursuit of the 14th street despite several provocations including a beating of his son avenged by patterson on his tormentor there are several well developed characters including ellie who works in one of the clubs and her honest boyfriend the leader of the syndicate the and john's wife ed gage the operatives and zeke ward an honest black man victimized for his opposition to them the cinematography by harry neumann and the art direction by stanley fleischer are in b w and are very much like news film adding to the film's realistic power music by harry contributes to the film effectively writer daniel and crane wilbur produced a swift paced and straightforward story that divides into parts part one illustrates the empire from inside one of their clubs showing the fate of a victim who is beaten and then picked up by police in the pay of the mob in part two albert patterson refuses to oppose the leader of the mob the intelligent rhett tanner in part three young patterson returns and after several incidents including his having to beat up the head goon to avenge his own beating decides to run his father for attorney general of the state his wife is horrified and the mob kills zeke ward's daughter and dumps the body at house with a warning his children will be next a few more such incidents including the loss of a trial in which the prove the goon killed a friend of theirs who had found the car implicated in the murder of the little girl and watch the inquest declare the death accidental convince patterson to run and he wins the democratic nomination despite the tactics and is promptly assassinated john patterson stops a vigilante crowd from starting open warfare with the 14th street mob and uses their voices to call the capital and demand martial law for city the clubs are closed and equipment confiscated but not before the girl inside is murdered by the goon and patterson has to be stopped by zeke ward from killing tanner instead of delivering him to the law the drama's ending is upbeat but the for the town is less sanguine than painted the mob in fact tried to come back then moved to tennessee in this well acted classic of anti crime film making richard kiley is young but very strong as patterson playing it without an accent john mcintyre as his father is very good while edward andrews as boss tanner is award caliber others in the cast include kathryn grant as the girl inside ellie jean carson and kathy marlowe as the women john as their goon biff mcguire as the young victim james edwards as zeke ward lenka peterson as john's wife and some good character actors as townsmen and mob bosses it is i suggest hard to say enough good things about the realism and lack of posturing in this film it is certainly one of phil best directorial efforts also did the scarface mob later did walking tall as well a sobering and inspiring look at the ease with which complacent citizens of a public interest democracy can acquiesce to tyranny and how a few honest men can teach them the need to fight for their rights
1	during the roberts preface i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production however what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood's poverty row and this makes the movie all the more realistic there are no punches pulled here and at times the film is reminiscent of the well 1951 the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality for certain younger viewers will be reminded of the blair witch project but this one is based on real events
1	after world war ii the crime in city alabama encouraged by the money from an army base just across the river in georgia got even worse gambling prostitution loan sharking and the like helped an organized crime apparatus in the city soon it was too bad and violent to even tolerate anymore this movie is based on the real story of that fight br br by the standards of the 1950's it was shockingly explicit although low budget that same small budget helped with the realism requiring location shooting a very gritty film richard kiley was marvelous as always and john mcintire stolid br br why this good movie isn't on video is a real puzzle
1	this is an absolutely true and faithful adaptation of 'the hollow' it could be argued that the actual mystery here is not one christie's best but what makes 'the hollow' special is the characterisation and i found the actors here more or less without exception were perfect in their parts in such a uniformly good cast it's difficult to select stand out performances but i have to say that sarah miles is just perfect as lucy what is extraordinary is that she not only conveys lucy's tactlessness and her more lovable qualities but she also manages to pull off the underlying truth that in fact lucy is not really all that nice megan dodds is also very good as henrietta and claire price very affecting as gerda john is really quite an unlikeable character but jonathan cake nevertheless manages to make us see what his women see in him br br as i said the script follows the story quite faithfully the only disconcerting thing i found was that midge and edward's relationship really comes out of nowhere and i do believe that some of it must have ended up on the cutting room floor theirs a secondary story however and the primary story is very well done the whole thing looks beautiful as well really capturing a perfect english autumn br br its a beautiful film in every respect and well worth seeing
1	this is a film that every child should see before they grow and get distorted often passed down ideas from generation to generation of family i grew up in two different places although only 20 miles apart i went to school had friends of every color creed religion for the first 8 years of my life then i moved to hillbilly country although not anymore where it was very unusual to even have one african american kid in your class my graduating class in high school had 2 or 3 african god why can't i just say black you can call me a honky or whitey or whatever all of this political correctness peeves me as it does most others anyway back to the film give this a try to see what happens when people get a distorted view or just what ignorance or a lack of understanding does to a culture or a country this is an excellent film everyone should see especially children
1	i've read anne frank the diary of a young girl when i was in high school and found myself completely engrossed in her story and also in the broadway play of her life in the secret br br however i'm a little perplexed about how people have perceived her diary and of her as a person seeing her as a little saint or having a message of hope for the world i don't think that was the original intention of her diary she wrote it mainly for herself even though she did make some rigorous rewrites before the occupants of the secret were betrayed intending it to be published someday br br but i never saw her as a saint or as a messenger of hope but as a very talented writer who could express her thoughts very well and very entertainingly in a diary no doubt she was a very engaging writer and she did possess an extraordinary talent with expressing herself fully with words you really got to know her well through her diary but the importance of her diary lies in the fact that it is a testament and an important historical document of the proof that the holocaust did happen br br it also brought the tragedy of the holocaust closer to home to lose someone that we could put a familiar face and personality to at such a young age literally having had her young life ripped away from her and from the other occupants who were murdered in the holocaust it's a searing indictment of the nazis systematic murder of over 6 million jews and that should not be forgotten br br but it's sad to me that her diary is being so misconstrued as anything more than that when i look for hope i have the bible the first most widely read non fiction book in the world god's words in the bible is eternal but anne's diary is a diary of a young girl under extraordinary circumstances and that is it she is not someone to be worshiped or idolized because she was an ordinary girl with many flaws who possessed incredible talent as a writer and who died at age 15 from in the bergen concentration camp she was a victim of the holocaust and as this otherwise excellent documentary has so vividly testified she was hitler's most famous victim br br besides the anne frank's story the stories from her family members and friends and survivors of the holocaust were engrossing vivid and powerful i especially enjoyed testimony and marvel that she is still strong and alive today hannah testimony was also very interesting and i also liked hearing from otto frank but i also agree that the moving picture of the young girl with the dark hair and the familiar big eyes at the end was particularly memorable br br another thing about the holocaust that i kind of disagree with the documentary is that i don't believe it was just a matter of discrimination but rather something deeper and more profound and that was just an act of pure evil pure evil nothing else but pure evil br br excellent documentary of anne frank and of the holocaust that should be watched
1	as good as schindler's list was i found this movie much more powerful as it is a documentary and based on real life it details the story of the frank family and anne in particular although it is a bit slow moving at first detailing their family life before the war it becomes very powerful br br due to some of the footage and photos of the camps i would not recommend it for children but for adults it illustrates the horror of the holocaust through one young girl highly recommended
1	through the years i've been very much interested in the life of this teenager who left such a profound indelible mark on the world my fascination has also been born of fear as in could this happen again br br and throughout the ensuing years yes i fear 'it' continues to happen around us and of course 'it' was happening long before anne the 'it' of course is can a so called civilized society turn on its own or on an innocent country race continent and murder citizens in cold blood on the flimsiest of excuses i leave that question out there br br at the beginning of the documentary there is a statement about the leader adolf hitler in that the one profound fact about hitler that is never mentioned was that he was elected democratically and all of the atrocities committed were done as the result of a compliant poodle press and fear mongering propaganda played over and over again for a docile population br br one of the atrocities was anne frank who put a face to the death camps by the miracle of her survival br br kenneth brannagh does a wonderful job on the commentary and interviewing he has that rare gift of minimizing his own persona thus allowing the subjects to speak for themselves br br many new facts and people never before interviewed are brought to life in the meticulous research which i will not go into here as they add immeasurably to the reality and gut wrenching sorrow of the film br br glenn close reads selections from the diary and her voice is perfect for the part she brings a naiveté and freshness to the role br br old childhood friends of anne's are interviewed at length and her last days before death are well recorded and witnessed along with her vibrant and mischievous personality br br this is not to be missed a wonderful and respectful film about the seldom seen anne br br 10 out of 10
1	the diary of anne frank is the second best selling nonfiction book in the world and for good reason nonetheless sitting through this documentary about her life which fills in some of the details where the diary left off i thought just another documentary about anne frank i found it to be competent but not extraordinary that was my complacent attitude because i was already well aware of the story of anne frank most of what the documentary had to tell me wasn't news to me br br everything changed though when i got to the end of the documentary when i saw the motion picture footage of anne frank the emotional impact of seeing this footage only a second or so long made everything that came before it a thousand times more real but not just everything that was in the documentary everything i had previously known about anne frank suddenly became more real to me more personal i'd always been moved by her story but when i saw that footage what i felt was stronger and deeper and more profound than any other film experience of my life i knew beforehand that this documentary contained live footage of anne frank and i'd even seen the footage in a movie review on television but seeing it in the context of the documentary was a completely different experience it's not likely that my mentioning it here will spoil it for anyone br br i realize now that many people still don't know the story of anne frank it's discouraging at times to be witness to this kind of ignorance i think to myself how could someone not know the story of anne frank this being the case though anne frank remembered along with reading her diary is the best place to start it's a story that everyone should know
1	although the concept of a 32 year old woman portraying a 12 year old girl might be a stretch for today's br br sophisticated audiences in the 1920's this was what the fans of mary pickford desired and expected from their favorite star the opening scene displays annie's tomboyish character as the apparent leader of a multi ethnic street gang in comic battle with a rival group the sight of a young girl being in the jaw and kicked may be a bit crude but the scene is played in such an our gang fashion that it would be hard to take any of this seriously anyway annie can dish it out as well as take it once annie returns to her tenement home and replaces her street duds with more girlish attire it becomes more difficult especially in close ups to imagine this beautiful young woman as a street urchin however for those who can muster the required suspension of disbelief the rest of the movie has it's rewards vacillating between comedy annie's gang puts on a show to sentiment annie plans a birthday surprise for her irish policeman father to tragedy her father is killed on his birthday the film gives mary ample opportunity to display a range of emotions that would please her fans of any era br br of course the requisite happy ending is eventually achieved the evildoers are apprehended with the help of annie's friends and rivals and she is last seen in the company of her pals riding down a busy thoroughfare on a sunny day which is a good a way as any for a mary pickford movie to end br br
1	mary pickford plays annie rooney the daughter of a cop that lives in the tough part of town she is a rough and tumble young lady of indeterminate age somewhere between 12 and 16 who loves to scrap but down deep has a heart of gold br br this is a very typical style of film for mary pickford like so many of her films she plays a young girl even though she was nearly 40 when she made little annie rooney and like so many other stories she was both plucky and courageous as a result i had a strong feeling of déjà vu now if you haven't seen her other films this isn't an issue however she is essentially playing a character much like the one in sparrows or daddy long legs though these two other films are a lot better now this isn't to say this is a bad film just that it's certainly not among her best work mostly due to a rather schmaltzy story that is very heavy on sentiment but not especially convincing entertaining but not essential viewing unless you are a huge fan of the silents
1	annie rooney lives with her officer father and brother tim in the slums of new york where she is constantly getting involved in many fights with the other neighborhood kids annie secretly has a crush on joe kelly whose little brother mickey is head of the gang that annie constantly battles who is in a gang that is headed for trouble says officer rooney kelly sponsors a dance where tony plans to shoot kelly in order to get even with him for making him look like a fool in front of his girl but officer kelly gets fatally wounded instead tim part of kelly's gang is told by tony and friend spider that kelly shot his father so he goes after him in vengeance annie learns of this and goes to stop her brother if she is in time very good mix of humor and heart in this film even though the plot doesn't start until the 40 minute mark of the film pickford is enjoyable even though she was 33 playing a girl no more than 12 13 and really gets into her character haines doesn't play kelly as tough as he should but is able make the audience feel for him on an emotional level the scenes where the officer tells annie of her father's death and the ending really put a lump in your throat the mix of all sorts of kids throughout the film are fun to watch rating 8
1	although it might seem a bit bizarre to see a 32 year old woman play the part of a 12 year old mary pickford soon makes you forget the incongruities and simply enjoy the fun br br mary is a street kid in new york city with her own lovable gang of mischief makers whose attentions are engaged by the older william haines he was 25 at the time just on the cusp of his own screen stardom br br to give away too much of the plot would not be fair suffice it that mary is great fun to watch amply displays why she was hollywood's first and most beloved super star production values are very good with lots of extras making the nyc street scenes quite believable
1	la an audacious film by argentine director esteban succeeds both as a reinvention of the silent movie genre and a gripping cautionary tale the setting is a city in thrall to mindless television its people deprived of the power of speech except for a solitary and mysterious screen presence known simply as the voice in a bid to cement their grip on power the marvellously villainous duo of television mogul mr tv and mad scientist dr y set out to kidnap the voice and turn her unique talent towards their own dastardly ends it is up to a young family and the voice's nameless eyeless son to stop this evil scheme the result is a roller coaster of a story that is bewildering on occasion but never less than engrossing br br this is a silent movie that wears many of its influences on its sleeve the overt references to silent movie greats such as george melies and fritz lang will be readily apparent to anyone with a passing familiarity of their work but more subtle references and symbolism lie behind such tributes i particularly like the fact that mr tv and his henchman drive around in typical 1930s gangster cars drawn from the decade when the silent movie era died away and a very different industry began to emerge br br la mines the clichéd plot devices and theatrical over acting common to so many silent films albeit in a very knowing and humorous way it is the astonishing visual style of la that really sets it apart from the movies that it pays homage to from the hypnotic tv logo to the menacing hilltop transmission station this film abounds with dazzling visual inventiveness that is the rival of a studio ghibli animation – and all this using real actors and handmade sets br br moreover though the style is often intentionally corny and theatrical this is still an unsettling provocative and emotional picture the use of religious symbolism throughout la lends added resonance to the struggle between the tv empire and the waning power of words at the same time many of the most powerful images are original ones including the hypnotic swirl of the television sets and the nightmarish tv food factory br br i hate to end this review on a sour note but i feel that the english language release of la is let down by the subtitles the original spanish subtitles are used to great effect with much playing around with words on screen however the english language subtitles that accompany the original dialogue are frustratingly incomplete with omissions and mistakes at times leaving the viewer to piece things together for themselves la is nevertheless a striking piece of cinema a visually breathtaking experience that displays great energy and humour whilst narrating a powerful cautionary tale
1	this movie deserves a 20 10 if i could give one the hollow is a great hercule poirot novel and the twist at the end fools most people i am overjoyed that this movie stayed completely faithful to the novel there was no major difference that i could spot the only difference was that poirot was introduced into the story earlier that in the novel the acting was superb and the music as usual was amazing quality david suchet is perfect in his role and the rest of the cast is perfect in their respective roles either in no other movie that i've seen so far has poirot been portrayed so brilliantly hats off to the producers they have made a movie that i along with many others will cherish for a long time to come
1	the summary line is some men's wet dream for the ideal woman o seriously though back to the movie which has classic cinema written all over it pun intended and quite literally shown in the picture too as you'll see br br how could someone make a silent movie in this year and age it's not completely silent for once take the music for instance with great cinematography is the answer and it's no wonder that it did win prizes as another user stated in this area but it's also sometimes it's downfall although the pictures are great it sometimes delves too much in them instead of moving forward plot and time wise if you can cope with that than you'll enjoy it even more than me i haven't told you anything about the story but i'll never do that because i don't want to spoiler anything for you
1	some would argue that argentinean director esteban la is an exercise in anachronistic futility that while the silent films to which pays homage were at the cutting edge of cinema when they were made they are outdated today leaving la a meaningless oddity br br i would disagree fervently la melds the conventions of the silent film with 21st century technology making it the ultimate exercise in post modern film making br br the film is set in the timeless the city without a voice so called because the citizens have been rendered speechless by mr tv a dictator media mogul with his hair painted on the city resembles the titular one in fritz lang's seminal metropolis 1927 perhaps 100 years before that film it is all expressionist skyscrapers tv and animated billboards br br the citizens of the city are mollified by la the voice the only person with the gift of speech her face perpetually shrouded by a hood kept on even when she is naked la is forced to sing on mr tv's television network but when mr tv concocts a plan to steal the written word as well la and her eyeless son join forces with a renegade family in an attempt to return the freedom of speech to the people br br la is nothing but pure cinema burdening himself with the conventions of the silent film has to rely upon images to tell his story there is sound most notably in the almost continuous score by leo it evokes the best of silent movie music as well as working itself into the film's such as the beeping of car horns or the rhythmic ra ta tat tat of gunfire and underlying the whole film is a familiar as if it were being shown on an ancient projector br br there is a fair amount of dialogue as well but instead of using intertitles has the characters' words appear in the frame they are larger or smaller filling the screen or hovering meekly in the air depending on what is being said think a more imaginative version of the subtitles in night watch 2004 br br thankfully the words don't distract from the images which is very fortunate indeed because la boasts some of the most creative and original images we've seen in a long time all captured by cristian sumptuous black and white photography there are the expressionist cityscapes the hooded singer and her eyeless son there is the city's abandoned aerial which looks like the decayed remains of some colossal spider and there's the sinister dr y whose jabbering mouth is displayed on a television screen attached to his face br br la has been criticised for relying too much on its imagery while skimping on the allegorical depth but again i would disagree it is true that the sudden appearance of a mind control machine shaped like a swastika or the eyeless boy seemingly crucified on a star of david feels out of place a tad over the top in what is otherwise merely a well crafted fairy tale br br but the lack of overt symbols the two previous examples aside works in the film's favour it allows us to make up our own minds to decide whether to infer political meaning to see la as an allegory for fascism the danger of capitalist monopolies and the power and responsibility of the media or to just take the film at face value as a visually stunning adventure through a world simultaneously unique and familiar br br the sacrifice of explicit depth in favour of unique imagery may seem like a compromise but really when a film looks as good as this it's hard to care there is more imagination and artistry in every frame of la than hollywood can shake a derivative stick at evoking films almost 100 years old might be futile but in doing so may be showing us what is lacking in the films of today he may be telling us that it is time for another artistic revolution and he may be right
1	i didn't see such a movie where the creators put so much heart's blood into their work and paid attention to the finest details for a very long time br br everything was well thought and perfectly put into reality camera work editing and compositing worked so good together it was just amazing the titles were so fun and so perfectly choreographed br br this movie just blew me away br br the showdown could have been cut down by 10 or 15 minutes though br br it's a near to perfect homage to early silent noir films story acting scenery and costumes were perfectly fitting and believable to have com from the times of silent film making
1	for those who appreciate the intersection of silent cinema and social commentary this is a unique film part homage to german expressionism part allegory the film is replete with visual symbolism and an artistic style that rivals anything seen since the 1920's moreover the attention to period detail and the visual composition of the scenes as an instrument for advancing the story is stunning aside from this the plot offers an interesting commentary on the role of the media in society and its effect on social voice perception and opinion in truth it's not so much the silence that permeates the film as it is the loss of voice and the loss of words to communicate and express thought that inevitably follows in sum this film is something not often seen and as the producer of the film said in the q a that followed will leave you thinking about its meaning well into the next day
1	i've seen this movie twice on international film festival tiff the movie is in competition and i really hope that esteban will get one of the awards at least the best image award br br as a silent cinema fan i'm interested in contemporary movies that quote or recreate the language of the yester year cinema the previous reviewer emphasized the quotes from fritz lang and fr w murnau as i see it the movie references directly lang's metropolis and the allegorical character of his plots but i didn't see murnau in it there's a more obvious melies homage though the moon with a here cigar smoking human face and the paper made painted mountains and city landscapes i enjoyed the film mostly for its visuals and in the meantime i found very interesting the story on and the creative means of communication used by the inhabitants of the voiceless city from this perspective this movie is an unique reflexion on the of the silent cinema because in the films of the silent period one can hardly find stories with mute characters in this case can be questioned whether the story on the stolen voices was the motivation for the silent film form or there's an intention to play upon the of the silent films another example of this kind of reflexion i found in guy maddin's careful where the inhabitants of a mountain village have restrictions in using their voices i intend to write a paper on it if you know movies related to this topic please let me know br br i highly recommend esteban film to every moviegoer one of the critics called it the jewel of the festival br br ps winners were announced and the film won the award for best cinematography
1	la esteban argentina 2005 br br a completely unique take on silent cinema in this fairy tale like story by esteban beautifully shot in black and white and practically without dialog la is a feast for the eye and a must for lovers of german expressionist cinema with most of the nods to the works of fritz lang and friedrich murnau br br 'the city without a voice' 'la sin is ruled by mr tv he has taken the inhabitants voices and is in total control of all spoken words and images forcing everyone to eat his own brand of tv food mr tv is not just a monopolist he is the personification of evil and totalitarianism even the swastika appears as a symbol a number of times he secretly works on a hypnotizing device to control all the citizens minds through his television broadcasts for this purpose he kidnaps the only one left with the voice a beautiful singer but a tv repairman witnesses the kidnapping and flees to an old tv antenna in the mountains in order to halt mr tv's evil plans br br the production design is stunning with beautiful sets and imagery although shot primarily with the basic language of silent cinema esteban also adds a number of fresh techniques of his own like a combination of typographic and animation techniques everyone talks with each other through text balloons usually floating near their mouths the louder they talk the larger the characters the texts themselves can be pushed away or crushed in the opening sequence we see a book titled la that opens and a city of paper rises from the pages there are hardly any references to argentina it's constantly snowing which gives the film a very un feel while the surreal setting suggests any large city in the hemisphere with only some of the songs revealing the film's argentinian background br br the pace is swift and there is so much happening on screen it's hard to keep track of the film's surreal narrative not only breathtakingly beautiful to look at we're also given a few messages about media monopolies corruption and totalitarianism but they are packaged one of the most original films i've seen in years a delight br br the film was shown as the opening film at the iff rotterdam 2007 br br camera obscura 9 10
1	all y'all on the fact you'd probably neva make the cut for second string need to save it if more guys out there took their sorry to the gym for once maybe y'all have a chance well maybe take shawn woods' hook physique for a perfect example and i stress the word perfect put that in your pipe and smoke it you couldn't look better sha shawn
1	so forgive the really lame game play scene cardboard background and studio like stadium for this part i should have give the movie 5 instead of 7 but read on br br from the premise to plot there is a lot similarities with the replacements some say this movie rip off the replacements while some say this script wrote before it br br both movies require some sort of suspension of disbelief on the basic premise and this is especially difficult for second string since it has nfl license team and all the history behind it food poison excuse may sound too lame for some people and not to mention in second string bills has to overcome big scores again and again with the limit budget in shooting the game play scene this make it look even bad br br in replacements the premise and the league is fictional yet you know it happen in real life i believe it is easier to accept fictional story and setting with real event oh yeah this happen before rather than real setting background with fictional scenario there is no way bill can win a superbowl some of the scene were actually shoot in pre season game of raven games real stadium real audience and some nfl match alike shooting angle br br but let say both movies came out on the same day and we erase the budget factor thus forgive the game play action scene overall i like second string over replacements not by much but i like this more br br it has relatively better character development in replacements keanu character is too out sync with the world and all he care is maybe get a girl in second string you see the struggle of the from getting the job back and deal with his past with coach or the fumble guy problem this hold the ball all day long solution of course is not new but we see progression in fixing it br br how about those trick play i think it is relatively realistic than replacements the dan marino like fake knee pass flea flicker wild cat full back rush all real except sometimes this look a bit too easy but for me it is better than replacement 's center catch and rushing for 50 yards call or how a 60 yards field goal look too easy oh btw i am glad they didn't force the te kicker made his shot br br of course if you objectively review this movie over other football movies all there this could easily be a 5 out of 10 movie but some say this is the worse football movie try the comebacks
1	being a bills fan i originally found it annoying that they made a movie about the bills and the losing of four but once i began to watch i felt really connected it was actually nice to see the bills win the superbowl and i must say that for a tv movie it was actually very well done gil bellows as the and jon voight as the old school coach did a very fine job 8 out of 10
1	in the year 2000 keep in mind this is two years ago not four two men had the motivation to create the most miraculous piece of art on this side of the mississippi br br thanks to cunningham and tom flynn the world can now enjoy second string a delicious tv movie depicting a tale of a rag tag gang of second thus the title who are thrust into the position of starters due to an order of bad oysters br br because of the motivational direction of both the director robert and the buffalo last minute dan give 'em hell heller portrayed by canadian actor gil bellows the oft super bowl snake bitten bills find themselves in the ultimate position br br with an intriguing mix of internal and external conflict a love story comraderie that only the fine sport of football can bring and an overall theory that the underdog can compete second string is an excellent movie worthy of viewing every possible moment that it appears on tnt br br the only thing potentially bad about this production is the spelling of the costume designer's first name jarvis br br
1	excellent work all around especially by the actress who played the wife gerda claire price as well of course as david suchet i did really figure out whodunit but that is beside the point the ending which i won't divulge someone describes it on the board in answer to someone else's question if you are interested i found really sad despite agatha christie's reputation for writing cardboard characters i thought these really well rounded by and large br br the pacing of the story was good and i enjoyed seeing sarah miles as lucy and edward hardwicke cedric's son i believe in addition to being a well known dr watson as her husband
1	for a made for tv movie i thought that it was a great popcorn movie don't expect anything to be very accurate and don't expect any award winners in this bunch but i do recommend this for a tv type version somewhat like the replacements look for cameos from real nfl players officials
1	i like the phrase british post war suburban paranoia that one of the reviewers used it describes so well the kind of films john mills excelled in the october man 1947 the long memory 1952 in between big pictures scott of the antartic 1948 and war and peace 1956 br br this distinctly eric style plot had john mills playing dr howard who promises his friend charles unseen to meet a visiting german actress frieda lisa at the airport a creepy reporter jeffrey windsor lionel jeffries is in his consulting rooms at the time and offers to give him a lift but while he is tracking the actress down windsor informs him she is already in the car waiting something fishy is going on howard is dropped off for his date and thinks no more about it br br the next night he finds her body when he arrives home from work further more he finds his friend charles could not have rung him as he is still in new york and windsor doesn't seem to exist earlier on a patient mrs rene ray who has been referred to him by doctor george mervyn johns tells of her recurring dream about finding a dead body and a brass candlestick with a square base it is a nightmare that is coming true for howard but of course when detective inspector dane roland culver interviews her she denies all knowledge of the conversation the candlestick is later found in the boot of howard's br br when howard is lying low robert brady wilfred hyde white visits him he calls himself a friend he has a photo of windsor that he wants to trade for a box of matches frieda gave howard at the airport howard returns to the flat charles rings and while howard is on the phone an unknown assailant knocks him out and steals the matches who can he trust who hasn't something to hide br br this is a top thriller not quite in the same class as the october man but with john mills doing what he does best playing ordinary men caught up in impossible mysteries br br highly recommended
1	the film is a remake of a 1956 bbc serial friend charles' as such gallops thru the material in a relatively short time i found it fast moving enjoyable unpretentious did anyone else notice the scenes towards the end where john mills was being gassed the producers obviously decided to omit the scenes maybe censorship but notice when he's sat by the window of the flat deep breathing closely followed by similar scenes with the car window open the francis serials all seemed to inhabit the same universe that of unexplained happenings people being not what they seem the villain being someone close to the hero victim a predictable universe in some ways but one with its own rules regulations
1	the vicious circle is a very unknown british mystery story like many hitchcock movies it's about a man who is being accused of a crime he didn't commit and does everything he can to prove it this time it's a dr john mills who finds a murdered german actress from his floor as an honest man the doctor calls scotland yard which turns out to be a big mistake br br there's really nothing special in this little movie still watching the film is an entertaining way to pass time i enjoyed following the plot development fine actors are a plus
1	this is a plot driven movie and extremely entertaining nothing startling or original within the plot but crucially it moves along at a great pace and therefore keeps your attention i didn't really notice the acting which i guess is a good thing john mills was fine but did seem to take everything in his stride somewhat considering how his life was falling apart around him he would be clumped on the head stand up 20 seconds later dust himself down and carry on as if nothing had happened a minor quibble in a film with a strong story authentic locations and a plot that continually keeps you guessing right up to its conclusion
1	yes i am sentimental and yes i love movies where kids are the better humans true does have some logical or even plot shortcomings these are more than compensated by the kids' great acting julias first movie role at all and the charm of a dogma film i liked this kind of art long before the dogma ever since herzog's aus well i cried through the last fifteen minutes which is a higher tear factor than bambi or fly away home had for me
1	catch that girl is really great movie it's a 'happy' movie i watched this movie in international fantastic film festival ' on july 2003 there is action adventure comedy thrill happy romance cute kids' love triangle you must see this movie
1	i just saw this movie at the berlin film festival's children's program and it just killed me and pretty much everyone else in the audience and make no mistake about it this film belongs into the all time 250 let me tell you that i'm in no way associated with the creators of this film if that's what you come to believe reading this no but this actually is it nevermind the kid's film label on it climber girl is on almost every account a classic as in biblical the story concerns 12 year old ida magnetic julie who is devastated to learn of her daddy's terminal illness special surgery in the us would cost 1 5 million and of course nobody could afford that so ida and her friends jonas and sebastian do what every good kid would and burglarize a bank sounds corny don't forget this is not america and is by no means the tear jerking robin williams multiplex plat du jour nobody takes seriously anyway director fabian set out to make a big budget action comedy for kids and boy did he succeed let me put it this way this film rocks like no kid film and few others did before and there's a whole lot more to it than just the action after about 20 minutes of by the numbers exposition well granted it into a monster that br br effortlessly puts mission impossible to shame the numerous action sequences are masterfully staged and look real expensive take that mummy br br dwarves almost every other movie suspense wise no easy they're only kids antics here br br easily laces a dense story with enough laughs to make jim carrey look for career alternatives br br nods to both damon runyon and karate kid within the same seconds br br comes up with so much wicked humor that side of p c that i can hear the american ratings board wet their pants from over here br br manages to actually be tender and serious and sexy at the same time what am i saying they're kids they're kids nevermind watch that last scene br br stars pagels anderson who since last years is everybody's favourite kid actor br br what a ride
1	this movie is the absolutely perfect way to explain what a good movie is it is a movie both for children and parents and it is timeless i saw this movie before ocean's eleven and must admit that the actors in oe has class in advance but the play of is much more down to earth and moving why i say ocean's eleven is the fact that these 2 movies has many things in common and is that good that it can bear comparison with oe the 3 youngsters play their part in a perfect way not to believe compared to what we are used to in denmark the different cases of impossible acts is handled in a way that you wouldn't belive from many young actors and sometimes not even from the old boys the story again it has things in common with ocean's eleven except for the reason of stealing the money and in they need to climb up to the the part in which the young people has to take care of younger brother gives a fine element in the movie try to imagine how to rob a bank with a 2 year child with a nappy on your arm br br this movie can bear comparison with most grown up movie like and ocean's eleven yes i do believe it is that good it is best to see it in a theater as all the children in the room comments the movie and these comments will stay in your hearts forever br br regards
1	this satire is just really really dead on and nobody is spared but even though this movie has plenty of laughs within the silly story and the grotesque imitation of hitler here cleverly renamed as and speaking in a hilarious kind of pseudo german the general tone is pretty sad maybe because of the movie's place in history and the actors aren't even exaggerating that much i suppose one of the greatest movie moments of all time must be the jewish ending speech if only things could have ended in that way it's not even really the character talking anymore it's chaplin saying something he really wanted to say if you ignore the technical aspects the movie doesn't feel dated or old it actually moves at a pretty nice pace and the sharp humor we find everywhere in this work will never die the only thing i don't care for is the slapstick but that just comes with the era i suppose this is an incredibly daring harsh take on fascism it's so hard hitting still after all these years
1	david suchet poirot foolproof '03 gave an outstanding performance as a perfectionist in almost everything he did or said if he had a cocktail he always had a napkin to blot the excess on his mouth with unbelievable perfection you could just view the expressions on the detective's face and see that he never missed an item of importance in the suspects behavior the beautiful falls colors through out the english countryside was simply breath taking megan dodds bait 2000 gave an outstanding performance as a very sexy wild woman who was able to keep very important secrets away from mr poirot a very enjoyable film if you really like the acting of david suchet as mr poirot
1	this was charlie chaplin's first all talking film yes there had been a little bit of sound and speaking inserted into his previous film modern times but it was still essentially a silent film so it wasn't until 1940 that the public got to hear chaplin speak on film br br the movie is incredibly famous and has a stellar reputation while i enjoyed the film i was not nearly as impressed by this as chaplin's other full length films of the mid 20s and 30s that's because i really felt annoyed by some of chaplin's dopey over acting when he played especially when he was giving his speeches the silly pseudo dialog just seemed akin to something a lesser comedian would have used such as the three stooges plus playing a funny hitler is hard for me to take br br however when chaplin played the jewish barber he wasn't especially funny he really wasn't intended to be a funny character but he was a tremendous voice for reason and decency this film should not be remembered as a comedy especially since it doesn't really excel there but for its excellent acting and humanity the final speech by the barber impersonating is brilliant and almost brought tears to my eyes watch the film for this reason alone
1	great comedy from charlie chaplin i've seen chaplin's 4 major films gold rush city lights modern times and the great dictator and i think it is easily the funniest of the four this movie had me laughing more than almost any other i've ever seen from the very opening disclaimer any similarity between the great dictator and the barber shop owner is purely coincidental the movie is a laugh a minute with a blend of wonderful slapstick and verbal humor and at the same time chaplin manages to portray the evils of totalitarian persecution maybe a little short on the ending and the lasting timeliness of the subject matter but easily a 9 out of 10 for me
1	this was chaplin's first all talking picture and the results are mixed the movie is a biting satire of hitler and mussolini their henchmen and their fanatical way of life especially regarding the persecution of the jews it was daring and forward for 1940 and must have made a lot of people squirm br br when compared to chaplin's earlier works this is quite pale in comparison the sweet funny style of his silents in my opinion is far superior to his first talkie there are lots of meaningless bits that drag on if this was a silent it probably would not have happened br br i find one of the funniest moments to be the musical barber moment and the globe dance one of the most touching moments is obviously the speech at the end br br the great dictator is an effective and at times moving film that is a very big part of both chaplin's history and movie history it is flawed but chaplin is in great form
1	most of this film is an alternately hilarious and brutal satire on nazism and fascism made at the height of those success br br sadly in the final moments of the film chaplin abandons all pretense of making art not to mention comedy and switches completely to propaganda and not anti nazi propaganda either but some of the most mawkish and idiotic progressive propaganda ever to ooze out of hollywood br br never mind that nothing we have seen so far indicates that the barber is even capable of giving the speech we see him give delivered ironically with a disturbing wild eyed fanaticism such trivialities must not be permitted to interfere with the message
1	written produced and directed by charlie chaplin this is the great actor's anti nazi propaganda piece skewering adolf hitler br br chaplin plays the dictator of as well as a jewish barber who is spitting image his parody of hitler is brilliant anyone who has ever seen newsreels of hitler speaking will recognize the eerie resemblance of the caricature br br i thought the movie got off to a slow start with some typical chaplin slap stick focussing on the first world war adventures of the jewish barber having never seen it before i must confess that after the first 20 minutes or so i was wondering what all the fuss was about but the movie picks up steam quickly there are some very funny moments and enough emphasis on the anti jewish nature of ism to make the propaganda point the climax of the film is a brilliant anti nazi speech given by chaplin at the end of the movie br br as good as chaplin is in this movie though i thought the whole thing was stolen by jack oakie playing the dictator of bacteria our first look at oakie shows how well he had studied his subject he had mussolini's arrogant posturing down pat the scenes in which and negotiate over the fate of had me in stitches br br this was a very good movie and well worth watching
1	although i haven't seen it yet i know that chaplin is a genius and only someone of his talent would take on this daring subject matter a comedy about hitler all great satire is based on going out on an edge also all great comedy deals with the other side pathos this film seems like it will skirt both sides like kubrick's dr strangelove the great dictator deals with history through the distorted lens of satire the only way to deal with the horrors of this world is by laughing at it and hopefully through laughter we can learn to view the world in a new light another film that does this that comes to my mind is emir kusturica's underground and fando and lis so let me watch the film first
1	a good but not great film the great dictator is chaplin's first talkie it's a good effort and at times a remarkable satire on hitler but unfortunately the moments of chaplin brilliance on offer here are let down by a tendency to use too much unnecessary dialogue yes chaplin the silent screen master just uses too many words in this film and his tendency towards writing long speeches and extraneous passages of dialogue would carry over into his other talkie films such as better limelight still chaplin was extremely daring in even making this film and his performance in dual roles is certainly memorable goddard doesn't have the glow she did in modern times her off screen affair with chaplin was cooling at the time but she is always worth seeing and jack oakie just about steals the show as a rival dictator to chaplin's famous creation
1	this must have been one of chaplin's most ambitious projects he throws in virtually everything from visual gags and blackout comedy sketches to social relevance romance even some violence the mixture is challenging and intriguing and the film has many entertaining and clever sequences like the one where chaplin and four other guys try to avoid finding a coin that will order their self sacrifice but the ingredients don't always click together and the mix and tone seem kind of disharmonious as for the famous final speech though undeniably honest it also seems a bit naive today with its allusions to a better world where man will overcome his hate and brutality and his soul will fly great by jack oakie and the beautiful goddard
1	being quite a fan of charlie chaplin following good vibes after seeing first 'the gold and then 'city i was eager to see 'the great as i had been told this was arguably his best film i was also intrigued at the fact it was a talkie my first one chaplin wise br br the start is typical chaplin and blatant proof that when it comes to sound chaplain can cut it whilst not solely relying on music to set mood and to do the talking it's funny well timed and the elements of slapstick such as falling off an anti aircraft gun are well tied in with the jokes it was good to draw the viewer in with this 'classic opening and at the same time kick start the narrative of characters getting to know one another what was also well done was the way in which hitler is spoofed any scene involving hitler or in this film was funny and even now makes you think back as you know exactly who he's spoofing and does create an internal reaction of some kind the way in which english in mixed in with the mock german during the dialogue scenes is further proof of the way chaplin managed to adapt to the talkie era my favourite joke was the five minute speech gave only for the english translator to translate it into a mere few words making you think back to footage of hitler you may have seen giving a speech at some point in your life and indeed laugh at him br br historically the film got a few things right as well is seen getting his photograph taken with children something hitler did for recognition as he manipulated the media but here is seen to yawn and act bored stabbing at hitler's underhand technique of winning over the german public through sympathy oh he hugs and kisses children he must be ok the film is also given a fantastic premise of a jewish civilian into the ghetto amongst all the going on but with the catch that he is oblivious films such as 'the and 'come and see' are two good examples of nazi cruelty towards 'inferior' people which nowadays we can all look back on and shake our heads at whereas back in the late 1930's when this was filmed the fact he had the cruelty going on and was exploiting it makes it even more an astounding achievement chaplin has managed to replace guns and truncheons for tomatoes and and still pulls it off br br what i didn't like about the film however was the fact it settled into an actual narrative after the opening this slowed the film up and this is very noticeable as the foot was taken off the gas somewhat the film started to hint at stories and sub stories these included the barber and the female neighbour falling in love and the supposed destruction of palace whereas none of these were actually developed the a woman a and the has the coin in their pudding does the gags were hinting at these plot paths but in the end just into nothing but excuses for drawn out unfunny gags which was disappointing br br during the final straight the great dictator gets a boost from the fact the italian dictator is introduced who adds some much needed life and excuse for comedy to the film it works a treat as we see them argue and more underhand tactics are exploited when attempts to his italian counterpart through a series of dirty tricks although they are humorously foiled despite a few weaknesses in pacing during the middle segment and the fact i felt the message at the end was a little forced down my throat the great dictator holds up for viewing today but that's only because he took the gamble of exploiting things nobody else really knew were there
1	chaplin stars in a dual role as a jewish barber who with amnesia is mistaken for the dictator i e hitler a movie made in 1940 when the war was in its dark days and was in no way won by the allies it was banned in germany by hitler and was a risk in a way for chaplin because if the war was lost he surely wouldve been sent away to be br br a funny satire with the classic scene of hitler tossing around a giant balloon of the world good fun but with a message a little preachy in the end this was the last movie with chaplin's trademark little mustache on a scale of one to ten 9
1	in a better civilization this and many other of the david suchet movies would be released in theaters the plots are fabulous no i'd no clue who had done it but the clues were all there if i'd been more imaginative the best kind of mystery the production values astounding the acting from edward fox sarah miles lysette anthony megan dodds and of course david suchet as hercule poirot simply perfect the dialogue wonderful the music and sens of suspense and tension just wonderful stuff br br one of the pleasures of these hercule poirot movies for a man is how many beautiful women star in them here were have two the sexy sinuous megan and the stunning lysette anthony br br you really can't go wrong renting these they're just wonderful like the most wonderful dinner in the most wonderful restaurant with the most perfect company you can imagine your mind constantly working because it's all there and you struggle but by keeping your mind constantly thinking can keep up with everything and the settings gorgeous br br i can't think of movies that stimulate thought more than these hercule poirot david suchet movies it's impossible to over praise them and i had never seen one before a few months ago nor read an agatha christie
1	the good news is that the circus is in town the bad news is that's right over bugs bunny's underground home he wakes up as his place shakes like an earthquake hit it when workers pound stakes into the ground and elephants stomp by etc br br to be more specific the lions' cage is place exactly over hole the lion sniffs food and by process of elimination figures out it's a rabbit bugs curious what all the racket is about winds his way through the tunnel and winds up in the lion's mouth br br i'll say for thing for bb he is totally fearless at least in this cartoon and at least for 30 seconds when he comes to his senses he runs like crazy and we get a lion versus a rabbit battle the rest of the way once again bugs faces dumb opponent one he calls nero but lion is fierce and bugs will need all his wits and somewhat fake bravado to fend off this beast br br about half the gags are stupid and the other half funny but always fast moving colorful and good enough to recommend i mean it's not everyday you can see a lion on a trapeze or doing a hula dance
1	okay it's too long and it's too satisfied with itself still the great dictator is a fascinating movie chaplin does a terrific job satirizing hitler and trying to portray the oppression of the jews in nazi germany this was before the concentration camps were common knowledge not a chaplin masterpiece but still worth seeing br br
1	from the beginning of the film i found myself laughing trying to keep quiet so i did not wake anyone in the house this didn't continue so much throughout the rest of the film i didn't find everything completely laugh out loud funny but still i found certain things quite funny at the beginning i had to hold in laughter when he drops the very crafty looking hand grenade down his sleeve then there are scenes where you will just smile like when the barber falls through a roof into someones apartment i can see that being quite funny but in todays days and time that has been done quite a lot it didn't feel original though at the time i'm sure it was i loved hitlers bursts of raging german with the nice subtle english translation br br the final scene is wildly discussed because well it's absolutely true and so very intelligently constructed though the film is sixty eight years old the final scene is still relevant today if this doesn't show how great a writer chaplin is then i don't know what will the acting in this scene in particular was quite good the barber transcended the message perfectly and makes you realise the serious nature of the film at the same time enjoying the humorous side br br another element about this film is the fact that this was such a brave film that almost feels ahead of it's time of course chaplin did not know what was going to happen after 1940 he was not aware of the holocaust obviously he's also gone on record as to saying if he had of known he would not of made this film the fact this film is so anti hitler is interesting it's more interesting that it wasn't anti germany which would be very easy to have done back in those times chaplin could of easily made this a propaganda film but instead did something more he made an honest film br br i recommend anyone remotely interested in this film to see it as well those who has studied or is studying hitler and wwii to watch this film it's entertaining to say the least it doesn't have an annoying out dated feel that some films of the time did unlike most comedies this film actually has a message it tries to bring to you watch this film you will be better off for having seen it
1	with the nazi rise to power in eastern europe in the late 1930's charles chaplin turned his attention to creating a reaction to it the catalyst may well have been a propaganda publication referring to chaplin as a jewish sympathizer in the great dictator chaplin created a dead on parody of hitler that is as funny as it is frightening at times the film traces hitler's experiences in the german army from world war i up to the present day simultaneously chaplin plays a jewish barber who dresses like the tramp who comes out of a hospital after a long long time only to discover how different the world is under nazi rule br br goddard chaplin's wife at the time plays a young jewish girl whose family is oppressed in a jewish ghetto jack oakie has a great oscar nominated supporting role as a mussolini look alike who gives chaplin's hitler character a lot of fits henry daniell is his usual staid self as chief adviser to chaplin wrote and directed the film and received oscar nominations for his screenplay and his acting the film was also nominated for best picture br br chaplin made the film under tremendous pressure for some obvious reasons and some not so well known he financed the entire film himself at great risk because of the subject matter and there were no other major films made regarding nazi germany up to that time the film spent about twenty one months in production with chaplin even rebuilding a set and re shooting a scene to get things right by the time of the film's release in october of 1940 the war in europe was well under way with hitler conquering one country after another so the film became much more topical at its release than when production first began br br there isn't much plot in looking at the film in retrospect the film seems more like a series of comedy sketches and or mishaps strung together to get to a purpose independent of the film itself several examples of this occur in the last third of the film with the meeting between and the scene is very very funny but it leads no where in terms of the plot likewise the escape of both the barber and schultz simply leads to the mistaken identity of the barber for in order to give chaplin through the barber character an opportunity to pontificate to the audience at the end of the film on the other hand what better way to make a point about the misplaced narcissism of aryan superiority than to have a jewish barber mistaken for br br still the film contains many high comic moments such as the rally speech the new war developments bulletproof uniforms etc the dancing globe scene the coin in the pudding scene and the entire scenario between and including the barber chair scene to highly recommend the film one can also not forget the risks chaplin took in making his first talking film an anti nazi film and financing the film himself 1 2 of 4 stars
1	the great dictator is arguably one of charlie chaplin's most widely known films it is notorious for it's blatant satire of adolf hitler and nazism until watching it i only knew of it's fame now i know how much the film deserves it br br the film basically shows the exploits of the somewhat clumsy ambitious short fused and impressive dictator of and with him his near and dear staff field marshall herring and herr also it entails the exploits of an amnesiac emotional and often clumsy jewish barber a veteran of the first world war br br stopping with the plot i would like to say that this film has various qualities that make it both unique and wonderful while the comedy is decidedly both verbal and slapstick and incidental the entirety of the film shows how serious it takes nazism or aggressive nationalism as a theme with various interludes chaplin's impeccable acting skills range far and wide in the film he keeps it up and up until he simply explodes position as an ambitious jewish would be and henry delivery of a nasal calm as death serious as a heart attack lines makes for wonderful viewing br br further one aspect of the film is what makes it so special it pulls no punches it isn't covert it has no business being covert it is an overt blatant in your face obvious lampooning of both hitler and nazism br br to sum up briefly watch it just watch it you'll see it
1	this ingenious and comedy packs many moments priceless and great sense of pace though overlong chaplin's satire with several classics scenes he has dual role as a jewish barber and dictator an offensive portrayal of hitler then the barber is mistaken for the hitlerian tyrant and happen events funny and acting of all casting as the co stars jack oakie as mussolini alike henry daniel as himmler alike and billy gilbert as herring goering chaplin's first spoken film is brilliantly photographed by karl this splendid film contains numerous amusing scenes the funniest are the following 1 the one when during the wwi the barber soldier along with a co pilot are flying in a turned plane without aware 2 dictator doing overacting speeches including a twisted microphone 3 playing with an enormous balloon of the world 4 the jew barber shaving a man fitting to hungarian dance number 5 of 5 when and each try to keep his body higher than other in a chair among them br br hitler banned movie exhibition to the germans due to its satire of him and put him in his death list after his proposed conquest of america the movie is co starred by goddard third of his four wives they were married in 1936 although no announcement of the marriage was made later one time finished the great dictator the picture was released in 1940 when chaplin had survived a moral scandal by a paternity suit but a brush with the house of un american activities was the signal for the usa to refuse him re entry from britain and he fled to switzerland
1	i once caught about a 20 minute portion of this movie on turner classic movies about 6 months back i thought every minute of what i was watching was gold and because it was somewhere in the film's middle and i didn't want to spoil the whole thing if i were to watch it from the start i decided that i would rent it immediately well the video store which i frequent did not have a copy so it took me six months to finally go somewhere else and rent it i had previous to that experience only seen some chaplin shorts funny but not greatly artful but after i saw the snippet of the great dictator i checked out three of his other films city lights the gold rush and modern times city lights was great i found the gold rush a little overrated but still worthwhile and i found modern times to be one of the funniest films i've ever seen second funniest behind keaton's sherlock jr more exactly br br finally the whole of the great dictator well to be honest it had its moments both of comedy and of drama but these moments don't always mix well chaplin's comedy worked well when mixed with melodrama city lights is the best example of this but it didn't always work with social commentary plus the fact that there was dialogue lessened the impressiveness of chaplin's talent don't get me wrong i liked the movie as a whole but i thought it of little consequence i would have given it a solid 7 10 on the ratings scale if not for the ending the final speech that the jewish barber gives is enormously powerful yes it is to the et mores of 1940 but his message is perfectly applicable to the world today the speech brought me to tears and i consider it one of the best endings i've ever seen final score 8 10
1	before i saw this film i didn't really expect to much from it although my friend advised otherwise due to this request from my friend i decided i was really going to watch this film the minute i sat down to view the film i was absolutely blown away from the credits i was falling of my seat i just couldn't contain myself the film is about hitler in all the glory of comedy is the absolute double for the jewish barber who comes back from fighting in the war due to the heroics of the barber he manages to save one of the germans and by doing that gets a member of the enemy on board which helps in the struggle which the jews had but things went wrong and stolz was arrested but only then to escape to the confines of the jewish 'the due to this escape the german army began searching which meant that the barber and stolz got arrested but again they escaped only to be mistaken for and consequently takes his the speech that chaplin makes at the end is fantastic it the morals which society could only dream about in the speech it contradicts the whole meaning of the film because of the and which it entailed and it definately works because i did walk out feeling guilty about how we live our lives looking at the smallest thing such as being ignorant to someone to the biggest most prominent things such as war
1	here we have the inimitable charlie chaplin forsaking his slapstick past to tackle the serious subject of anti semitism and intolerance in general he portrays two characters the sweet innocent jewish barber a war veteran and the raving and ruthless dictator the jewish ghetto in this country is not safe for long due to the whims of and his armed thugs who routinely rough up its residents or leave them alone dependent upon his mood that day or week the barber is among them but is befriended by his former commanding officer schultz reginald gardner who seems to keep things quiet for a while until condemns him to a concentration camp he seeks refuge with the jews in the ghetto most specifically the barber and the feisty young woman hannah goddard the premise will be who will be the one among these jews to put their lives on the line to get rid of and his cronies we needn't guess too hard to know the answer the barber is a dead ringer for the dictator and he is outfitted in his image accompanied by schultz also in full military gear hannah escapes with several of her ghetto friends to the country of where mr maurice cousin has a farm and they can live for a while at this point himself has been arrested by his armed forces thinking him to be the notorious barber the latter meanwhile has been escorted with schultz to a podium to make a speech announcing the conquest of the ensuing ten minutes is pure chaplin himself speaking from his heart of tolerance love and freedom and denigrating greed and hatred albeit chaplin started production on the film in 1937 it can be forgiven some naivete he was allegedly unaware of the gravity of this persecution and hatred and said had he known the full extent he would never have made the film because he most likely believed it would have trivialized the situation he has a marvelous supporting cast reginald gardner henry daniell as his aide de camp the always wonderful billy gilbert as the bumbling herring goddard jack oakie as the dictator his rival for conquest veteran european actors david gorcey leo's father maurice among others the scene he choreographed with globe with just a musical accompaniment is sheer luminous inspiration and luminous as well is goddard at the film's end smiling through her tears i have seen this film before but there is always something new in it for me last evening when it finished i sat there in tears i defy anyone not to be moved by it
1	i was surprised and impressed to find out this movie was released in 1940 before the united states entered world war ii on the surface satirizing something as solemn and horrible as nazi germany could be misconstrued as rash but chaplin's brilliance isn't limited to making a joke out of everything in fact the seriousness of his message wouldn't have been nearly as valid if not for the excellent use of humor in this movie along with the moments of stark drama blended in drama alone wouldn't have had the bite and resonance that this film did laughing at someone can be the best way to attack them while laughing with someone the jewish barber can be the best way to love them in the jewish final speech i forgot for a moment that the war he was talking about happened more than half a century ago they are words that have meaning now and in any time of war for this reason i believe the film did far greater good than harm as it still has the same profound effect today
1	this movie has been done when hitler and mussolini who is as well in the movie was at the top and many politics and even the roman church used to close eyes about brutality and evil of nazism especially in usa there were many people who had not understood what was really going on in germany and europe charles for example it would be as today a big actor would made a parody of berlusconi or chaplin maybe made a lot of mistakes in his life but this is really a masterpiece of humanity and imho a great demonstration he was a courageous man the movie is funny and deep the final speech has a terrible strength and is still updated i think this movie is one of the best ever done
1	the hollow is a wonderful murder mystery that provides all you can expect from agatha christie and of course poirot it' s set on a country house on a weekend as always all the guests are suspects and it's up to poirot to figure out the truth with movies like this it's always best not to give too much away so i'll stop here what i loved in the hollow' was that it's a mystery the old fashioned way when poirot arrives everybody is around the body for example everybody seems to be the culprit there's that suspicious look and the atmosphere is just perfect for the story br br you can expect a wonderful time giving guesses as to whom did it and how and why and maybe in the end even be surprised a cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter night and you got a pretty enjoyable experience br br the actors are all very good as a curiosity notice edward hardwicke who played dr watson in sherlock holmes nice to see him after a few years suchet is amazing as always and fortunately is on screen most of the time br br i did find out who the murderer was but still it's not predictable and it's also very believable br br so in conclusion a great movie and as always a pleasure br br
1	dictator of is a spoiled child who becomes angry when he cannot gets what he really wants and what he simply wants is nothing less than the world br br in one of the extraordinary scenes of chaplin art performs a ballet with the 'world' which bursts when he thinks he has it in his grasp br br chaplin also has some biting words on war and war films in a scene at the beginning of the movie which takes place during world war i the messenger crashes the plane and thinks he is about to die in a state of delirium he begins to say ridiculous words the empty double talk continue ascending into a brilliant take off on all the heroic death scenes of war films br br in another scene when he becomes a fugitive in the jewish ghetto and assumes command of the resistance fomenting rebellion among the old men he plans to kill the dictator one of the group must kill the ruthless conqueror of whoever is chosen will naturally die but his heroic death will be rewarded and his name will shine like a star in history br br the sequence in which he and four other characters eat cream cakes containing coins to determine which shall sacrifice his life to murder the dictator is a bitter hilarity filled with great fear br br for all its disappointing shortcomings the great dictator is still a significant movie for the ironic tones of the film adding something that neither chaplin nor anymore else could have given it the irony of history the necessity to murder presages the assassination attempt against hitler by his generals the force of the original satire is only surpassed by history's imitation of art br br with a splendid sequence like the duck shooting accident which leads to the dictator being mistaken for the humbly jewish barber and vice versa the great dictator is chaplin's first talking movie this time and not ' wanting to say more through his movie and not through an amusing comedy the last in which he uses his celebrated character '
1	the great dictator is a beyond excellent film charlie chaplin succeeds in being both extremely funny and witty and yet at the same time provides a strong statement in his satire against fascism the anti nazi speech by chaplin at the end with its values is one of filmdom's great moments throughout this movie i sensed there was some higher form of intelligence beyond genuinely intelligent filmmaking at work
1	this film entered production before ww2 began but was not released until it was well under way with significant fascist sympathy in the us and chaplin himself being suspected as a communist sympathiser the great dictator was a very courageous endeavour such risks in film making thinly veiled political statements would be almost inconceivable today imagine the fallout if someone were to make an equally satirical film today which criticised the usa's foreign policy br br this film is hilarious poignant and tragic the tragedy is that chaplin makes a plea for the madness to end but it is already to late for him and for us a must see if you have any interest whatsoever in history film making politics or as an art form
1	absolutely fantastic whatever i say wouldn't do this underrated movie the justice it deserves watch it now fantastic
1	i loved that the mood was light and airy i loved that the lead character wanted guarantees about his future and that his roommate sets him straight of all people i loved that they tackled the dynamics of how the members in the men's group dealt with each other considering this was directed by a lesbian the whole theme of masculinity was put out there ridiculed dissected and questioned what makes a man what makes one straight gay or bisexual you aren't really sure if our lead character has decided on who he really wants he's living in the moment and thrown caution to the wind these and other reasons make me love this film
1	i loved this movie it was adorably touching and funny finally here's a story about a group of people who meet some challenges flounder a bit and then decide to just be themselves and end up happy for when was the last time you saw that in a film dealing with the fluidity of life love and sexuality the characters are faced with real problems albeit in often ridiculous situations like the men's group camping trip and the explicit liaisons and manage to learn and grow without the movie getting preachy darkly desperate or too unrealistic you'll love and care about the characters who far from being hollow stereotypes portray real people with just a touch of the truth behind their would be labels br br a good romcom for a saturday afternoon and the only movie i've ever seen where sexual fluidity ends happily and no one is forced to be anything they don't want to be far better than kissing jessica stein a good choice if your tired of watching gay movies that have some painful lesson and bitter lesson or maybe you just like a good british romp james purefoy looks dashing as always and tom hollander is deliciously funny so go forth watch enjoy you won't regret it
1	never have i seen a movie like this didn't plan on seeing it but it was worth the turn of the tv channel i am mostly a scifi movie watcher but i would be more than happy to add this one to my collection it starts out as a one sided film with a simple love triangle then became something a little different can't tell more then that but it does involve two guys and one girl juts not the way you would expect also this movie starred hugo weaving from the matrix and the lord of the rings in a role i would not have expected very funny guy this movie is playing on here tv but if you do not have satellite it is worth a rent so give it a try you won't be disappointed
1	i saw this film at the boston festival of women's cinema last night and was saddened to hear ms tell us in her q a after the screening that she doesn't expect to see too much us distribution due to her insistence on including all of the so called gay content it was a fantastically entertaining comedy and it just seems to me that american audiences might enjoy it in much the same way they enjoyed the full monty so it's really unfortunate and kind of ridiculous that a few shots of two boys kissing is keeping it away from mainstream theaters wonderful cast fabulous script and of course rose direction make this one of the funniest films i've seen
1	quite a ways away from go fish both were good films but had a bigger budget and cast to work with here this film was very entertaining and easy to like the acting was good lots of slow burn sexual tension br br
1	bedrooms and hallways is the kind of film that makes you realize that the drama of life is hidden in the details and that drama can be great fun too even though your own love life and your own friends may not be as unique as the characters in this movie every one is bound to recognize themselves and others in the colorful protagonists of this film and that's the great strength of bedrooms and hallways that the irony of life is that the most confusing things that happen to you can be the most interesting hilarious funny sexy things too hope you'll enjoy the film as much as i have
1	i first saw this movie back in the early 90's and instantly fell in love with it richard benjamin and his wife paula made the 1981 movie saturday the 14th in 1981 prior to making this movie in 1983 i think they work quite well together this movie made me laugh on several occasions it also has a young molly ringwald who would later go on in the late 1980's to do movies such as pretty in pink and sixteen candles it is fun watching her a little younger although not seen by many people i don't even think the average movie fan has ever heard of this movie but when i first came it i was glad i did i gave this movie 10 out of 10 stars as i think it is a fun movie the whole family can enjoy lastly i would like to say its not available on dvd so i picked up a vhs copy on ebay so if your interested you probably can find one on there it might be in the 20 30 dollar range but i got mind for 12 bucks i wish they would eventually release this on dvd
1	it was a fun film to look at though the chance this happened in your street is small there are still a lot off recognizable situations that will ring a bell the simplicity of the film and the humour do work i must admit that you don't have to see it in a theater it will do very well on a small tv set tip see it with some close friends
1	after a long wait bedrooms and hallways made it to perth cinemas not a commercial one mind you and i thought it was fun honest and took a swipe at those scream' groups running around trying to find meaning in rocks and 'what's behind my eyes' it is playing to full houses over here because it tells a story has terrific acting and says something about the human condition
1	i enjoyed this film immensely due to pungent scenes humorous as well as ironic some even tragical believable performances witty dialogue and a heartfelt rendering of what it´s like or rather c a n be like to be hetero and or homosexual on the lookout for fulfilment of your desires i´m aware of the paradox here homo a n d this is something the film tackles on end but never uses for caricature if you´re as open minded as the people seem to have been who made that film in the end it won´t matter to you if those who lie in each others arms are of the same sex or not br br mr smith from the matrix gives an admirable turn as a gay houses salesman with strange appetites here but that´s not the only thing to marvel at enjoy
1	by the acting in this movie it is sometimes hard not to imagine that the cast are who they portray themselves to be unbridled passion and acting at times make this a very enjoyable and engaging movie wouldn't even have known about it except for hbo late night and the biggest reason i like uk films much better than american ones are that the actors aren't afraid to act out what is needed
1	bedrooms and hallways gives its audience a look into the mind of a man who thinks he's found himself only to find out that he's not so sure he found the right guy if you think that all gay comedies are the same check this one out although the movie ends without much resolution the hilarious one liners peculiar situations and quirky characters are sure to satisfy
1	bedrooms and hallways gives its audience a look into the mind of a man who thinks he's found himself only to find out that he's not so sure he found the right guy if you think that all gay comedies are the same check this one out although the movie ends without much resolution the hilarious one liners peculiar situations and quirky characters are sure to satisfy
1	this movie was a pleasant surprise because i didn't expect much i didn't know that some of the actors have since become bigger stars in major pix while moving on to the matrix is not a plus in my book hated it i'm sure it's a career plus for hugo james purefoy is great in this and jennifer ehle sweet and wonderful it seemed sometimes like a carnaby street romp 30 years later but i enjoyed the thrift shop janis joplin clothes mixed up with the modern mindsets of sexual and gender blur the real estate agent who has an erotic relationship with his listings is loads of fun the iron john mens' group meetings are a bit dated but i still loved them it's a social satire sex comedy in the best way and reminds me a bit of the old carry on movies the british know how to do sex comedy and it's an old tradition unlike the united states which is too prudish to really understand that sex is funny
1	i seriously enjoyed watching this movie for the first time some years ago and whenever it gets aired again somewhere which luckily happens from time to time in european cable television i experience the same thing i'm moved entertained and end up wishing there were more movies like this one br br it all deals with leo kevin mckidd and his group of friends living in urban london leo as a gay guy who follows a friend to a hilarious new age men's group and falls for straight guy brendon played by dashing james purefoy who turns out not so straight after all thrown in as side characters are the equally great tom hollander and hugo weaving whose side story alone is worth watching the movie simon callow as the leader of the men's group turning in a great as ever performance but it's really hard to pick some folks out here because every character the female ones like jennifer julie graham's and harriet walter's as well are exquisitely acted maybe even kevin mckidd looks a little pale compared to his co actors but it benefits his somewhat subdued character br br the idea behind this movie is a simple one there is never only black and white are difficult and may not always stand the test of time br br leo identifies as gay but ends up falling for a woman as well who turns out to be his teenage sweetheart and long time girlfriend brendon starts out straight but gets to learn that gay may be more than just an option for him and being bisexual might not be that bad after all darren and jeremy hollander and weaving are gay and loving it and even the straight folks in the movie like angie leo's female roommate get their fair share of love and funny moments up until the end of the movie the comedy bits especially tom hollander who's just hilarious are funny and on point and the emotions are believable as confusing as they may appear at times reading this summary br br what i like about this movie is its genuinely positive notion whether you're gay straight bisexual or simply not sure this movie leaves you feeling that it's just okay not to be sure and that not being sure might be something worth living out as well sexuality is portrayed fluid in this movie and none of the main characters seem to have a real problem with it apart from all the gay straight camp fights that you sometimes get fed with in other gay themed movies i can only wholeheartedly agree with the subtext of the movie that what you feel certain of one day when you think you identify as gay straight whatever can look very different on another i have never seen what to call it bisexuality or maybe just the absence of the segregating need for sexual classification being portrayed in such a heartwarming and true to life manner br br this movie dares going where few movies go gay or straight movies by not playing on labels and stereotypical assumption of sex and relying on that it goes further and assumes that there may be a life to sex after well known and i think the times are more than ready for that and other movies exploring postmodern themes like this one br br and for all others who don't care about that heck it's just a funny comedy worth watching on a rainy saturday evening with some popcorn on your hands give it a try br br loved it
1	an inspired choice of director for this latest brit flick rose who burst on the scene with the budget free tale of ny dykes go fish brings a gently jaundiced view to this tale of a londoner choosing the slightly inappropriate milieu of a male bonding society to declare his lust for a fellow seeker of masculine truths the highlight for me is a scene where the society try to revert to being primitive hunter gatherers but end up ordering a take away the film as a whole is wonderfully acted and who'd never be accepted by some of the lesbians she portrayed in her previous film relishes the bigger budget by indulging in some wonderfully lingering pan shots that contrast with go fish 's grainy a really enjoyable film
1	bedrooms and hallways was one of the funniest films of the 1999 melbourne film festival from the uk it is about a young crowd of flatmates and their various relationship dilemmas much of the humour is centred around a new agey men's self help group where they pass around various implements like the 'rock of truth' they also go on a weekend with hilarious results trust me you'll laugh your teeth out
1	and i'm so disappointed because i can't seem to buy the dvd or vhs of it anywhere br br its a kind of mix of uncle buck and the great outdoors and molly ringwald is fabulous as the spoilt teenager this was made when molly was still a brunette just before she hit the big time with pretty in pink br br i'd definitely recommend it to anyone who likes a good clean family comedy with an edge br br if anyone has a copy of this or knows where i can get one please leave a message for me it'll be much appreciated
1	the biggest tragedy surrounding this thoroughly delightful movie is its lack of u s distribution i was fortunate enough to see this film at the boston international festival of women's cinema and highly recommend it to anyone who gets a chance to see it terrific performances and thoughtful script and great direction from the talented and funny rose all combine to make this film a winner
1	this is a thoroughly enjoyable well acted film it is funny and sometimes hilarious the finale is a bit disappointing since it tries to wrap everything up into too neat a package the film is better remembered for its priceless vignettes the jane austen staging the camping trip as examples b h does not attempt to mirror the predominant attitudes toward homosexuality and bisexuality most of the characters are quite accepting of sexual diversity in that sense it is a joyous vacation from homophobic society and it is a celebration of a flexibility a loosening of rigid sexual categories perhaps a happy harbinger of things to come
1	though i saw this movie dubbed in french so i'm sure it lost something in the translation lack of accents etc it was an excellent fun movie for a lonely night in a hotel room a real pick me up that portrayed accurately and positively the complexities of individual sexuality gender role and finding a place within the communities to which one is supposed to belong male gay urban 30 ish etc i was very proud of french television for showing such an honest and positive portrayal of the gay community while the fact that the gay lead character ends up somewhat straight in the end is mildly disappointing that's life and that happens sometimes this is a great movie whether alone or with a date a really enjoyable experience
1	ok i don't kid myself that this is the typical gay love life but since when are straight romances in real life as they are on the screen this movie is well balanced with comedy and drama and i thoroughly enjoyed myself it was a riot to see hugo weaving play a sex obsessed gay real estate salesman who uses his clients' houses for his trysts with the flaming darren tom hollander and having seen him in priscilla queen of the desert only the day before he is probably one of the most secure in their masculinity actors around anyway the plot flowed smoothly and the male bonding scenes were a hoot thumbs up 8 10
1	this was laurel and hardy's last silent film for roach studios however since the public had a real thirst for talkies this same short was re made by the team just a few years later with only a few small plot changes laughing gravy was essentially the same plot except that stan and ollie were trying to hide a cute puppy from their grouchy landlord not a goat like in angora love this whole goat angle is the worst part of the film while you could understand the boys wanting to keep a cute little dog after all it is snowy outside why exactly they bring a goat home is just contrived and pointless according to the plot the goat followed them home and so they got tired of it away and kept it huh this just doesn't make any sense if it had been a giraffe or a cow would they have done the same thing apart from being an unconvincing plot the movie itself is pure laurel and hardy with a familiar plot and familiar roles for the comedians this film features quite a few laughs but unfortunately isn't one of their better films to wrap up their silent careers this aspect of their careers just seems to have ended with a whimper
1	whenever an idea was successful during those golden days of the silent movies you could bet your bottom dollar that it would be repeated although reworking is the term that is used of course one could make the argument that this reworking business has never left us for success in the movies or tv always leads to a trend with all competing parties vying to come up with their own version of said hit movie or tv program br br to this last premise we strongly disagree for this is or plagiarism plain and simple br br this the last silent laurel hardy short surely must have been quite well received for angora love hal roach mgm 1929 was reworked on the roach lot not once but twice over the next three years we were treated to laughing gravy roach mgm 1931 in which the goat was replaced with a cute little puppy dog also the weather is transformed into the dead of winter in the middle of a blizzard they also made other line up changes with substituting landlord edgar kennedy with landlord charlie hall br br the second reworking of the hidden animal premise is the 3 reeler the chimp roach mgm 1932 which substituted a female ape from a dissolved and defunct circus to which stan and babe were former employees the circus paid off its employees with their assets and the boys received the chimpanzee as their final payday br br back to our original 'victim' today's subject angora love the short starts off simply enough the boys encounter the goat on the street and the nanny in return follows them back to their rooming house after stan feeds a doughnut to her the comic moments that follow are generated with the interplay between l h and slow burn exponent edgar kennedy their landlord the impact is amplified by having the interplay occur at night and as luck would have it their room is situated directly above the landlord's quarters br br in addition to the noise the bathing of the goat its odor and landlord edgar's suspicions about laurel hardy's having another person illegally in the room we were most amused by a little throw away gag which may well have been missed by the censors while admonishing the boys about the noise they'd been making and reminding them of the house rules about any unauthorized person's being in there overnight regardless of their sex br br its camera shot is made from inside the boy's room over their shoulder with edgar in the hall and facing them he warns remember this is a respectable establishment just as he says this a lady clad in evening clothes walks across and behind the landlord followed by a uniformed sailor who cocks his hat forward as they pass poodle schnitz
1	no this is not an ed wood movie angora love is stan laurel's and oliver hardy's last silent movie the end of an era in the laurel hardy left a real mark on the silent movie genre with movies that are still popular and being watched and aired regularly this present day br br it's a shame that this movie is however not among their best br br the premise of the movie sounds good and is good the boys team up with a goat this time which of course leads them into trouble and for us some hilarious situations to watch it however at the same time is extremely silly and just totally unbelievable to watch the boys doing comedy stuff with a goat most of the jokes in the movie still work good but the movie just however never gets truly hilarious or memorable the comedy and story really feels lacking at times and is mostly too simple and predictable br br of course still good and fun enough to watch for the fans but still a slightly disappointing last silent laurel hardy entry br br 7 10
1	what are the movies i mean what are movies made for shootings killings no they are made for life stories and this is what this movie does it presents how the life has changed between two ages the father and a son the father being in a need of a job and asking the son for help br br although there is another generation there are some characteristics which remain including the caress for the family br br the main subject is in my opinion the love of the son to the father and vice versa br br the movie is consisted of only one dialog but that dialog is more than i could ever wanted this movie is a pure art once again after si delivers us another beautiful movie well done
1	this short movie intends to focus on one issue sociologically known as cultured shock the film presents the condition of average romanian in democratic romania who finds out that the life and the problems are not different from communist period and if you want something you must bribe around to get it br br so our main character is fired after a long while he is around 50 and needs to get a similar job but the only job available is one inferior he is forced to take it because the lack of money br br my opinion is that you have to live in romania so that this movie can be as real and tragic as it seems
1	found this movie in a rental store never heard about it before but it was a good movie great acting and thrilling story line great kudos to vincent ventresca he made thomas character very attractive and brought a special atmosphere to this movie br br nj br br
1	this has to be one of the funniest movies i've ever seen the idea of a typical family leaving everything behind to live in the wilderness when mom and dad both lose there jobs not to mention they have green slime in their bathtub they decide it's in their families best interest to move to oregon once there everything goes wrong an interesting cast of characters compliment this movie including a young molly ringwald this a movie i would definetly recommend
1	i am so happy not to live in an american small town because whenever i'm shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless in this movie a former doctor who's just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash directs his steps to the nearest small town he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns which happens to be the purgatory flats and of course as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her but there is a tiny handicap she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself i'll just tell you that it's slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties
1	my friend took me to a screening of this movie in hollywood and it was awesome it's a film noir with amazing acting great script cool music the whole thing was very well done and entertaining don't know if it is getting a release in theaters but this would be a great date movie or a fun movie to rent if you see it at blockbuster this is the kind of movie i love low on budget but big on style and imagination i hope alexandra holden gets more big parts like she has in this one she is fantastic
1	after spending five years in prison dr thomas reed played by the incomparable vincent ventresca himself to purgatory flats and winds up tending bar he soon meets the luscious angel faced sunny alexandra holden you are wicked he tells her you have no idea she replies as she her slo comfortable screw and languidly drags on her cig reed finds himself entwined in the violent troubles of her family and the femme fatale story unfolds set against the desolation and desperation of the oil drained western town br br canny direction great performances superb entourage work and some lust scenes that sizzle like the sun in purgatory
1	purgatory flats shown on cable recently is a small movie that packs a lot harris done directs with style the screen play by mr done and diane fine makes a good thriller br br if you haven't seen the film perhaps you would like to stop reading br br the film is the story about a young l a doctor that made a mistake and lives to pay for it upon being released from prison he wants to hide in a small town where he feels he will be forgotten bad choice what thomas reed finds in purgatory flats is hell in the desert right after landing a job as a bar tender thomas meets a pretty young woman sunny who clearly is someone to stay away from the young doctor is called to help as sunny's boyfriend randy is gunned down by a drug dealer br br we get to know randy's family his uncle dean appears to be ok but his brother owen is a loose cannon every one in the household is connected in more ways than one to the nubile sunny br br the performances are fine vincent ventresca is thomas the man who should have gone to his l a practice instead of making a detour to the small town alexandra holden is sunny a young woman with a tremendous ambition to escape her surroundings kevin alejandro gregg henry brian austin play the men in the family well nicholas turturro makes also a good contribution as the drug dealer br br the film shows a director with promise who will go far judging from this tightly constructed film
1	a truly remarkable film that takes you on a journey through your hidden emotions a deep and enlightening story the story takes you through the lives and beliefs of gay and religious cultures with excellent performances from an superb star cast it will touch the deepest reaches of your emotions for those who belief that a love that risks nothing is worth nothing the film starts with introducing us to the characters that on the surface seem to have everything later we find that beneath the surfaces of each character they are looking for a journey of self discovery we learn from this story that we all must chose the path in life that we are destined to be on despite what difficulties we encounter an all thumbs up film
1	i loved this film it was so easy to become a part of the characters lives and really feel the emotion they were going through br br a film filled with laughs sarcasm shocks and upset just a fantastic romantic drama really br br the only part i didn't enjoy was in the special features the behind the scenes commentary was a little off putting because i'd seen the film before the extras i prefer thinking of the actors like the characters silly i know but the actors personality's are very different from the characters they play but nevertheless its a totally fantastic spectacular brilliant film i recommend that anyone who looked at this film and thought hmmmmmmm should i buy it answer must be a definite yes
1	when i was told about this movie i wasn't too happy to see it although by the end credits turned out to be one of the best movies i have ever viewed br br the movie it self is quite graphic male to male scenes you don't see everything wouldn't be a gay themed movie if there wasn't br br the movie is very light hearted with humor and contains some very funny parts i highly recommend this movie about 3 quarters through you really feel for the main characters and this i think brings the whole flick together br br once again very nicely put together plus cute mormon
1	honestly at first i watched this movie because of the gratuitous sex scenes i heard it possesses but by actually watching the film it just made me realize that there are still good and sensible movies out there truly it is one of the most well crafted and touching movies i've ever watched i'm a teenage bisexual and the film spoke to me about my predicaments sex religion love acceptance etc it gave me an idea on how to deal with these issues with the help of my self and others around me who love me for who i am cox really handled the movie well by sprinkling dozes of heart warming lines and a bit of sexuality in it it made the movie more interesting some people compare it to brokeback mountain but i don't agree myself brokeback mountain has more drama while latter days is well balanced
1	latter days for me was a very moving film it showed just how hard and disrespected the gay community really is the film true passion and really explores the feelings of these two characters the film holds a real depth of compassion for the gay community as it really speaks out for the gay man woman personally i think it's about high time that the homosexual community of all religions should no longer hold there head in shame just for being there beautiful self the film was very much of a eye opener for me as i could not believe how anti homosexual this world really is even at schools if a kid dislikes something they will refer to it as being gay i real hope that more film like this one are made and that they are not just labelled as a gay film but as a love story as i believe that gay directors should stick up for themselves and tell their story through their eyes
1	with the exception of the main character the acting didn't convince me but the story was quite good it's about a love affair between a gay party boy and a young mormon missionary as you can imagine such a relationship is quite problematic the movie is very american and as such has some metaphysical undertones to counterbalance its criticism of religious intolerance but some story lines are hilarious one of the main characters asks his gay colleague do you believe in god and he answers mean other than madonna all in all the film is not one of my all time favorites but the script is really good and i really liked it it's entertaining and stands up against religious prejudice and intolerance i think this is an important message in our times since i rated films that i liked less with 9 this is clearly a 10 for me some people may find this exaggerated but i think this film deserves it
1	the story is about a working girl ann sothern who has a pretty thoughtless boyfriend paul kelly this boyfriend is so busy trying to start his own business that again and again he forgets dates or shows up late the final straw is when sothern has a birthday and kelly says he's too busy to take her out to celebrate so not wanting to just stay home she goes on a blind date with what turns out to be a very rich young man neil hamilton sparks fly but it also becomes apparent after sothern breaks off her relationship with kelly that new boyfriend hamilton is a love 'em and leave 'em sort of guy how all this is finally resolved is not too difficult to predict just suffice to say that in the end everything works out just perfectly br br this is a very modest little film from columbia pictures with a relatively small budget as well as second tier stars it's clearly a b movie despite there being small roles played by a mickey rooney and jane darwell as both had yet to become famous now this is not to say that these are bad actors or the production isn't any good in fact given the production values this is a pretty amazing film as everything seems to work so well despite having a pretty ordinary and somewhat predictable plot outline that's because the actors and director did a really good job putting the story across plus the writers did a good job of humanizing the characters and making you care about them the ending in particular is really sweet and practically had my tear ducts flowing because of these factors the film earns a 7 of 10
1	i watched it last night and again this morning that's how much i liked it there is something about this movie when the movie was almost over i was about to cry i would strongly recommend latter days to my friends it's definitely worth seeing i agree with those who say that some parts of the movie do not look very realistic for example both main characters are totally cute and in perfect physical shape although round is also a type of shape i rarely meet people like this as singles and i have never met any in couples other parts of the movie including all those coincidences do not look very realistic as well but after all it is a movie not a life story
1	i love a cute heartfelt movie with a happy ending this movie could be considered a drama bout two characters realizing true love but the story's so touching and so sweet that in my mind its a romance granted the acting is not so great thats y i didn't give it a 10 but they do the job and they don't overact thank god plus they're cute but the story's powerful and just plain adorable some of u pansies will choke up its a great watch for a love story but if ur homophobic stay away for everyone else i loved the movie its soo sweet i felt its a brokeback on a smaller scale but with a happy ending so enjoy
1	for an independent film it scores well with reasonably high production values and a great cast the acting is uneven but the plot is compelling we could have used a bit more development of wes ramsey's character but hey the guy's fun to look at nonetheless mary kay place and jacqueline bisset are like icing on the cake br br it's not surprising that it was controversial on its release it presents a less than flattering portrayal of the morman church and its relationship with gays while like brokeback mountain it's about tolerance and accepting one's own life i found it to be more successful in conveying a positive message it was more moving too
1	if you've got a box of tissues a comfy couch a large bowl of popcorn and no social commitment on a friday night this is definitely your movie its romantic its hot and its challenging for most of us gay people religion is just one of those things that we did when we were kids and probably just starred at the alter boy and how cute he was but in latter days you see the struggles of being gay when your entire world revolves around which totally contradict being gay the two main cast members were totally hot but at the same time managed to capture your heart and even make me cry i have never cried in a movie which i thought was quite impressive for a b grade movie i highly recommend this flick you will laugh you will cry unless your me and you will definitely drool i love it so much i even purchased the dvd for my collection its truly the most beautiful movie ever
1	i watched this movie on logo television today i was absolutely enthralled by the powerful messages and plot line within this film i don't want to spoil it i will say this i related to the inner struggle of aaron and his upbringing as a gay man growing up in a small town i related so well to the big secret and the choices i made this movie has made a huge impact on me and i plan on buying a copy of it in the very near future for my personal library i no more than finished the movie and began calling my friends to recommend it it had that profound of an effect on me to those who read this comment watch it try to have as little distraction as possible also keep an open mind this is not a film that can be viewed like a disney film or the movie of the week instead take the time to watch and actively listen to the dialog as well as read between the lines and get involved in the plot you may find yourself in tears not since steel magnolias have i been moved to tears by a film this one did just that thank you to the cast and writer and crew for producing an emotionally charged romantic film about homosexuality and religion it has been long overdue
1	hey guy this movies is everything about choices all the times in your life you must pick something or it just pass away and this movie prove that of course life in fact is not like a beautiful picture as this movie shows it not shows indeed but some may figure that i'm trying to say it's full of pain love and deep lessons of live aaron the mormon missionary is the real shepherd digging out the thing beautiful deep inside the skin feeling guy br br it's a great end and you do always believe in fate because it will surprise you in a turn or in other of your live like latter days br br big deal watch it
1	this is an all around superb film a moving experience filled with real life emotion there's lessons to be learned here about love sex work religion and american culture regardless of one's sexual preference br br while this film is also a scathing indictment of the mormon's church of latter day saints belief system any conservative faith could easily take its place but it's a bit ironic that homosexuality is currently condemned by the mormons in no uncertain terms here's a faith that mandated for generations that believers practice polygamy and these true believers only gave up this practice because they were forced to do so by the federal government in order for utah to join the union talk about a unique form of hypocrisy br br the sex scenes portrayed in the unrated version are tasteful and surprisingly brief there's nothing here that would offend anyone with an open mind br br what this film makes so obvious is that homosexuality is perfectly natural to people who are gay as heterosexuality is to people who are straight while love and sex are obviously quite different needs its absolutely beautiful beyond words when both occur at the same time between two adults profound erotic love is one of life's most precious gifts my congratulations to the filmmakers for a job well done
1	excellent performance by mary kay place steve jacqueline bissett and johnson superb story that reels you into the movie emotional yet light hearted i own this movie and everyone that i've shared it with loves it great for mixed company 18 crowd br br nice production not a cheap budget well organized and keeps your interest uses dome newer ideas for flashbacks and at one point keeps the viewer at the edge of their seat br br no matter what walk of life a viewer is from they will buy in to one or more viewpoints in this film br br would love to see a sequel
1	latter days is a very very independent movie and compared to many of today's more modern films it's lacking on many parts the shooting seems at times quite amateurish the dialogues can be a bit chopped up and the characters are not impressively complex so don't have too high hopes for this movie because as i've said it's very independent but whatever it lacks in the concrete aspects of the film can be overlooked because of the story's charm i cannot claim that the plot is outstandingly original but the story is still beautiful and heart warming in many ways it's not about being gay versus being straight it's about faith and how you decide to run your own life it's a silly story that makes you want to both cry and smile at the same time so to be honest latter days is far from perfect but i truly loved the movie and i highly recommend it it's very critical towards the religious aspects of our society and there is homosexuality involved but approach it with an open mind and i'm pretty sure that most people will enjoy it as much as myself
1	from c jay cox the writer of the hit comedy 'sweet home alabama' comes a heartwarming and tender gay romantic drama that combines laughs seduction tears and plenty of romance the handsome aaron steve a mormon missionary travels door to door in los angeles spreading the word of his religion christian wes ramsey a cute west hollywood party boy goes from man to man without much commitment opposites attract when aaron and christian meet and sparks begin to fly br br featuring two star making performances from and ramsey the film also features a terrific supporting cast including mary kay place joseph gordon levitt and international screen legend jacqueline bisset according to the dvd sleeve description not to mention some sweet from jordan as julie the stock sympathetic roommate debuting director cox turns his otherwise ordinary latter days into a enjoyable and touching drama due to some story surprises and an engaging team br br latter days 7 10 03 c jay cox steve wes ramsey jacqueline bisset joseph gordon levitt
1	blind date is one of three stories made into movie by author vida hurst lots of familiar faces in this oldie from 1934 mickey rooney as a mouthy little punk he seems to be in the film for comedic and homey family values jane darwell again plays the strong willed mother just as she had in grapes of wrath and the oxbow incident ann sothern is kitty who has been dating bill paul kelly but meets up with rich bob played by neil hamilton who may or may not be better for her you can certainly tell that this was made at the very beginning of the hays production code at one point kitty says she can't be up there alone with him if there isn't anyone else in the house what a change from just a year or two prior when anything and everything was ok good solid plot but a whole lot of conversation and mushy love talk it raises the question over what a girl should be searching for in a man should she hold out for a man with integrity who treats her nice or just find a man with big bucks as most of the movies from the previous 20 years had advocated and how do men change when their situation changes watch out for some violence in the strange dance marathon scene tv viewers from the 1960s will recognize hamilton as commissioner gordon from batman also some weird drama in the off screen lives for some of the cast in this one paul kelly had gone to jail for being accessory to murder in a love triangle mickey rooney had an affair with norma shearer who was 20 years older rooney ended up being married eight times tyler brooke emory and spencer charters pa both knocked themselves off in real life the title blind date has been reused many times for films tv series and even cartoons but none of them seem to have the same plot as this one
1	back in 1982 a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men br br i have been waiting for years for a good old fashioned romance between two men latter days is all that and more br br yes it is soapy melodramatic cliché ridden and quite corny that is what makes it so wonderful there is nothing like a good romantic movie and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word br br as to the issue of religion sorry folks but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection br br i loved this movie it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters if i could give it more than ten stars i would good love stories never go out of style great love stories like latter days are unforgettable br br it's about time
1	without a doubt the most impressive recent gay oriented film i've seen c jay cox hit the nail on the head with this one the way he handled the issues surrounding faith family and sexuality were very well done casting was perfect wes ramsey did a fantastic job at pulling off the character of christian and steve will knock your socks off in the role of aaron both brought an incredible amount of realism to the roles and the impacts these issues have on young gay men as a gay man who grew up in a very religious environment though not mormon the identification with aaron's character was phenomenal for me strongly recommend this film to anyone faithful or not who is interested in how young gay men have to deal with family and friends in an oft times unfriendly world by the way the music in this film rocks another great job by c jay cox
1	i was impressed by the story it had the typical predatory gay male and the typical mormon missionary but they each also had friends and family who balanced their lives well there are a number of characters some nice and some not so nice each with their own personality nuances and most reminded me of people in my own life br br the story starts out with several humorous moments and slowly evolves into a heartwarming relationship film the story progresses without obvious plot turns and never talks down to you it makes you think a bit while waiting to see what happens even when i thought i could foresee something coming i was surprised by how it actually came about br br not many movies make me laugh knowingly at real gay dialogue and then bring a tear to my eye when i feel the characters' pain i watched the film on dvd and couldn't bring myself to stop watching until it was over usually i watch a film in pieces over a couple of days it's nice to see a film with gay characters that is uplifting but not preachy i highly recommend this film and not just for gay audiences the relationships transcend sexuality
1	latter days br br aspect ratio 1 85 1 br br sound format stereo br br trouble flares when an la party boy wes ramsey falls in love with a handsome mormon missionary steve br br a huge hit on the festival circuit and on limited theatrical release this likable movie the feature debut of screenwriter c jay cox sweet home alabama is an exercise in in which ramsey's shallow minded character is changed forever after falling hard for vulnerable beauty who is constrained by the dictates of his religious convictions here the path of true love is paved with hardship not least of which is the reaction of fellow mormons to his newfound sexuality which results in his excommunication from the church and the wrath of his indignant parents mary kay place has a small but devastating cameo as the boy's outraged mother but cox's script focuses chiefly on ramsey's path to redemption as his hedonistic lifestyle is thrown into disarray by influence and by the responsibilities which emerge as a consequence of his developing maturity he volunteers as an outreach participant delivering food to aids patients living at home leading to an unexpected friendship with former party boy erik palladino tv's er whose illness provides ramsey with a much needed wake up call br br cox's script is laced with juicy one liners and various pearls of wisdom on mormonism your church doesn't like alcohol or homosexuals well i'm definitely not joining i can't imagine heaven without both and the characters are surprisingly complex and well drawn ramsey has the sexier role he's first seen doing something rude to a willing participant but it's who has become something of a gay icon with his sensitive portrayal of a sweet natured innocent whose journey from darkness into light leads to a startling revelation about his place in the world around him he and ramsey are well matched and their inevitable sex scene brief but memorable is followed by a compelling sequence in which ramsey describes a childhood trauma which has defined his life to date br br filmed on hi def video and transferred to 35mm for theatrical exhibition the movie's meager budget places limitations on the scope and grandeur of cox's ambitions though the characters and situations are strong enough to survive this minor drawback jacqueline bisset shines as a worldly wise restaurateur at the diner where ramsey waits tables for a living and joseph gordon levitt third rock from the sun steals everyone's thunder as fellow mormon opposed to his friend's relationship with ramsey on religious principle but only on principle though a little stilted in places the movie with romantic longing and deserves plaudits for its honesty and compassion best seen with a crowd of like minded viewers preferably with a loved one by your side
1	four holy young men from mormon country go to l a to preach the gospel to urban heathens but one of the young mormons is a repressed gay who happens to cross paths with a very out young l a party boy what would film plots be without coincidences these two very different young men become friends and in the process affect each other's outlook which in turn sets up an inevitable clash between gay and mormon cultures br br that is the premise of latter days a 2003 film written and directed by c jay cox himself a former mormon missionary the film's story is of course highly relevant especially in contemporary america variations of this story need to be told and retold and retold hopefully in future films because the underlying theme brings to light the hatefully superior attitude that christian fundamentalists too often display toward gays by its nature latter days is provocative and i doubt that the film was well received in provo or even though the script is intelligent sensitive and insightful
1	the very first time i heard of latter days was when i was renting dvd's and i was interested as i am a member of the lds church i found this movie very heartfelt and in several areas it made me cry the reason for this is that too many years ago i knew a young man who went through what aaron played by steve does in latter days but unlike aaron this dear young man did not survive the ordeal he ended up taking is life after his church his friends and his family disowned him because he was gay there have been many people who do not think that the things that are shown in the movie really happen in this day and age but the sorry and sad thing is they do for those of you out their who are gay and young you need to see this movie and if you are a gay mormon you really need to see this movie plus if you get the dvd there is help for you listed in the dvd teenage suicide in the gay world is very disturbing and this movie touches it but that part is hidden to a degree the acting and the music is excellent this movie sold out every movie house that it showed but it only showed in major cities and had a very limited release so for those who would like to see this movie i would recommend the dvd release the only people that i know who did not like the movie are members of my own church and they did not see the movie because of the subject matter gays and the lds church see the movie experience the story and feel the emotions that are showcased in this movie you i feel will not be disappointed
1	first of all i'd like to say i'm just an amateur in commenting movies and that english is not my native language but that i felt a strong feeling compelling me to write about such movie possibly as a way to thank and congratulate c jay cox the cast and the crew for such a brilliant production br br yesterday i watched latter days for the first time br br at first i thought it might be similar to the movie priest which i liked very much for showing a gay priest out of the closet but priest maybe due to its restrict catholic ideological notions didn't supply my needs by revealing a profound sad end br br latter days on the other hand broke that concept and some other ones as well such as the mormon's principles presenting a tender and cheerful story leading it to a happy and emotive end and yet arousing a feeling of god's blessing and hope a great movie indeed br br somehow latter days made me feel l a as a city of angels br br i would recommend this movie to anyone who likes astoundingly beautiful gay love stories
1	this was truly a deeply moving movie in every sense of the word i myself was a mormon missionary and i know first hand the wanting to complete my mission but at the same time hiding the fact that i was gay like the character aaron i was sent home for being found out and excommunicated but being the only mormon in a family of catholics wasn't as big a shame as it was for the lead character this movie really took me back to those days and helped me to realize years later how fortunate i was to have a family that accepted me and understood what i was going through i found myself applauding the end of a movie when aaron and christian find each other again by shear chance at lila's restaurant i was truly moved to tears i highly recommend this movie to all who read this review and also declare it a must buy
1	i am a anthropologist specializing in the field of symbolic and i must say that this film exhibits high quality in the symbolic context throughout the entire film to anyone who has not yet seen this i recommend that you also read man's search for ultimate meaning by victor e i think you will be able to draw some amazing br br that being said i would like to say that despite the fact that the main characters are gay this is not a story about being gay this is a story about seeking out and finding meaning in life despite the difficulties and challenges the pain and terror that stand in your way this is a story of seeking and finding balance and wholeness and happiness
1	latter days is the best gay movie of the homosexual genre most of the films entail sappy stories one night stands and let us not forget infamous baseball teams latter days actually contains male affection beyond the kiss in the dark and quite graphic material that made me wonder whether the film belonged at blockbuster or com the films emotional journey is what sets it above the rest in the genre not until this film had i seen a story of such intense passion and love and the torture that it can bring i think when people cry during movies they should be beaten but i found myself sobbing throughout several scenes because of the realistic nature of the world in which we live i suggest every gay male see this film and if you have a boyfriend thank him
1	working girl kitty sothern is engaged to bill kelly who neglects her by working long hours at his garage in order to save money for their marriage after being stood up on her birthday kitty goes on a double date blind date where she meets department store heir bob hamilton she falls in love but leaves him when his protestations of love appear to cover a desire for her to be his mistress rather than his wife faithful bill rallies 'round to comfort her and at last she gives in to his repeated requests to reinstate their engagement pressured in part by bill's support of her family after she loses her job when bob returns however convinced that he wants marriage after all will kitty follow her heart or her conscience br br this film was a lot better than i'd expected it to be the character of bill at first comes off as the sort of loud comic irishman type that jack carson played so often but kelly and the script infuse the character with real compassion and love and bill turns out to be the best person in the entire group viewers may find themselves rooting for him against the feckless the tone of the film wavers however between light hearted romance and a much darker side especially in the depiction of a dance marathon and a rather horrific accident at bill's garage br br the cast is rounded out by the dependable jane darwell as kitty's mother an impish but not yet thoroughly obnoxious mickey rooney as kitty's younger brother and spencer charters as kitty's ne'er do well father
1	i may be a but i found this movie truly moving it was the first movie that reduced me to tears and it did it more than once i recommend it to anyone both gay and religious or not supporting co star jackie bisset stole the show especially with her one liners the nude scenes were superbly crafted as well and all in were good taste most shocking was the portrayal of the orientation reversal instituted by the mormon church to the lead character it shocked me that this still goes on in the world nevertheless i enjoyed this movie tremendously this is definitely the best gay film since torch song trilogy and much better than the other gay movie offering that year the fluffer
1	i love so much about this movie the music the cinematography the acting the story and all the mormon clichés just because they are clichés doesn't mean they aren't true this is not perfect it is a movie after all though are held in well lit rooms with nice big desks and chairs it was totally appropriate to portray it as the dark cold scene they did in this film i also liked the scene with the angel waiting at the bus stop smoking a cigarette i thought that was so cool i mean i believe that angels do watch over us what is one supposed to do while waiting smoking is a way some people pass the time while waiting i loved the irony cause mormons make such a deal about smoking i saw this movie 7 times in theaters in salt lake and cried every time it blows me away and i've watched it 3 times on video now and it still makes me cry every time i would jump at the chance to see it again on a big screen i hope the tower theatre in salt lake will bring it back regularly at general conference time as a cult movie pun intended but no offense intended
1	having grown up a mormon and grappled with the church's bigotry towards blacks they were not allowed to hold the church's priesthood when i was a member i wasn't aware of the organizations policy of gay men and women until after i left the church in 1966 i was 20 i was stunned when i learned that friends who were gay were excommunicated even after serving on missions latter days exposes the mormon's persecution of gay members the film is long overdue it does an excellent job of showing how the two lead males come to terms with one another while managing to grow up and develop more fully as individuals latter days has great heart wonderful original music and an added touch of class from jacqueline bisset the film brilliantly tells the story of an individual who leaves behind the confines of organized religion and reclaims his very soul
1	i have nothing but good things to say about this tasteful and heartwarming film i think that the effort of the film's director writer is courageous as well as inspirational i loved this film not only for the fantastic story which needed to be told but also for the way the actors delivered the story this is not another shallow gay movie that depicts stereotypical characters in humorous situations this was a memorable and flawless effort to show people that love truly knows no bounds and love is still as beautiful and wonderful as it always was br br another thing that touched my heart was how well i could relate to the emotion portrayed in this film surrounding the coming out of one of the main characters we all have to go through similar situations living in the society that we live in and feeling that feeling of detachment from everything that is right and normal i give my most heartfelt praise for this fabulous and courageous story
1	i have found this epic to be of an astonishing striking even heartbreaking beauty some kind of in beauty and decorative richness a magnificent dramatic movement and dynamism the choreography herein is hugely enjoyable the actors are thoroughly enjoyable i have been a big fan of crouching tiger … as well but this one was even better they have kitano's ingenuity in delighting in what is pleasurable this beauty affirming adventure cinema is an act of courage when was the suspense so exquisite and genuine and the art of showing huge crowds gigantic armies … the film has something deeply satisfying and a steadfast good taste there is an enormous pleasure in making such a deliberately impressing and clean show … it's good beyond words few few adventure films let alone epics gave me such an uninterrupted delight br br fan can be monumental not monumental is monumental fun like leone's movies like some '60s epics also like the hobbits trilogy it is fun
1	a very great movie br br a big love story lots of sword fighting huge battle scenes heros and villains real history br br few in the west know much chinese history chin founded china the country is in fact named after him some are familiar with the terra cotta army recently unearthed this is a historical epic of how he ended the period of contending states and unified china he founded a dynasty that only last 14 years but it was immediately replaced by the han dynasty that permanently defined chinese civilization ever since br br chin or the king of as he was known before he founded the empire was roughly contemporaneous with hannibal and in the west the parallel roman world dominance west and east worlds was achieved without a single towering personality like chin it would not be for another century before the west produced caesar the nearest comparable western figure br br chin is shown very sympathetically here in the beginning but he develops over the course of the film into a ruthless despot history only records the ruthless despot part but the sympathetic beginning leaves room for real character development over the course of this long film the famous story about the meeting with the assassin is as true as any two thousand year old anecdote can be gong li is lovely she is the emotional core of the story it all makes for great movie making
1	the story of pre unified china must be a popular one jet li's hero made the assassination of the king popular br br this is another story made a few years earlier it stars the incredibly beautiful li memoirs of a geisha 2046 miami vice as the king's lover who was sent to recruit an assassin so that the king could defeat him she recruits zhang but falls in love with him br br no matter he is not able to complete the mission anyway as the king knew about him beforehand i suspected he also knew but went anyway br br it was a beautiful story with massive military operations and of course another chance to see li gong
1	this movie is excellent i watched the french version there are many subplots which usually detracts from the whole but they nicely unfold and concur to the discovering of one's real self main theme in fact the whole movie besides his background is the journey to the discovery of one's or someone else's self is the king really a good monarch trying to wage a war to end all wars or is he just a disturbed blood thirsty hoodlum is he a true king after all is the attendant to the queen mother just a lusty career driven spineless sock puppet or rather a sharp thinking bold individual will the dame concubine realize who the king truly is what's between the king and the old chancellor what's the secret everyone knows but won't tell what's the true reason the assassin quit his job subplots something i'm not particularly fond of are handled well and keep one watching until the end scenes are well crafted and cgi fits nicely in without going overboard suspense is properly maintained and actors are upto the task there is a lot of brain damaged smiling but that is how one was supposed to behave at the king's court as the dame concubine complains about realistic movie without superhero moments this chinese movie really puts hollywood cardboard gladiator etc to shame
1	the pace of the film is ponderously slow in parts but if you can tune into its languid speed and lengthy silences then it is a satisfying piece of intrigue the story of the first emperor of china his childhood sweetheart and the personal cost of power the film is very atmospheric the extremely mannered and polite ceremony and ritual contrasted with sudden brutal violence filmed in a way that evokes shadows and cold spaces battle scenes are rare and short the focus is on the battle within the individual on what is right to do and whether the ends justify the means the emperor's journey from idealistic peacemaker to ruthless tyrant is aiming to be subtle but gives little background or convincing insight into the motivation of the emperor indeed his actions and aims do not really change throughout only gong li's attitudes to him are altered the most interesting performances are gong li's and the titular assassin as they reassess when to fight when to retreat when to kill the most expensive film ever made in china at the time the emperor and the assassin does not rely on hysteric emotion or big battles but rather a brooding atmosphere of menace and inevitability gong li fans will be unsurprised to hear she is as stunningly beautiful as ever giving an understated performance
1	this movie is not for those expecting a martial arts extravaganza as for historical accuracy i will leave that issue to those better informed on that subject i thought the performances were wonderful gong li never disappoints as the resourceful and initially loyal consort of the king of zhang showed a lot of flexibility portraying a ruler descending into madness he chose the hannibal lector route rather than resorting to ranting for me the best performance was from wang as the marquis the character came across as very oily but in a subtle sir humphrey appleby yes minister kind of way br br the cinematography is the standout feature of this film the scene when the marquis and his men stormed the palace was breathtaking there are also a number of wonderful battle scenes therefore this film is highly recommended on the big screen
1	i saw this movie for the first time when quentin tarantino showed it to a bunch of us at the alamo in austin he prefaced it with how freaking awesome he thought he was and how funny it was and in the context of his explanation it was hilarious i can see how it would be damaging to some audiences and the subject is not funny at all but there are at least three lines in the film that had me laughing so hard i thought i'd pee they don't come until after the halfway point but when they do oh god you will die oh and jim brown is brilliant he's not in a lot of the movie but when he's there you know whose movie it is naturally the best line in the movie and the funniest is his you'll know it when you hear it
1	another period piece for chen can't remember him doing a modern film br br good characterization with a simple story of trust and broken promises none of the hk fighting scenes or the hollywood type of heroes but it is good because of it the characters are strong i really felt for them br br understanding the mandarin definitely gives the english subtitles the edge the film is 3 hours but it didn't feel like it
1	this story documenting the rise of china's first emperor and his efforts to unify the empire was the most expensive movie production in chinese history br br it's worth every penny visually dazzling cinematography a sweeping score and outstanding characters make this one of the finest epics ever put on film foreign or otherwise please do not miss the opportunity to see this on the big screen
1	the movie invites comparisons to shakespeare the mandarin is beautifully written and spoken and the plot is intricate and intriguing never has gong li looked better never has the glory that is china been better represented on the screen the balance between political turmoil and personal intrigue that gladiator hinted at but never really delivered is here in spades simply incredible
1	quite a production from the director telling the story of the emperor's ambitious plan to unite all kingdoms of china some great characters sets costumes and scenes however i was not blown away by the film in terms of the actors ability which was good i enjoyed the marquis the most or its look although the massing of troops was extremely impressive if it was real man that is a lot of extras br br i have seen li gong in other movies and she is always great good period piece i think but not one to judge the true historical accuracy of it good film and found the 2 1 2 hours not a problem br br rating 7 out of 10
1	kaige succeeds in this beautifully done film the pace matches the story the direction is superb and the casting acting is perfect the only draw back are one or two slight editing errors i love film and i am a confessed stickler
1	chen kaige gives us magnificent depth of atmosphere yes it's a but chen's artistic use of imagery makes it something more the actors often behave like players using the stylized diction postures and facial expressions of peking opera all the actors in a scene play to the 'back wall' even when addressing each other they are like spirits of the past enunciating with powerful clarity a story with urgent meaning for those in the present combined with close attention to scale and masterful cinematography indoors and out jing ke ci wang is a stunning tale told with great reverence in its own idiom that captivates completely
1	leaving aside the drawbacks and deficiencies of the film mentioned by other viewers i must say that it seemed to me a film about power which is in my opinion one of the most luring illusions i saw the drama of an emperor and people it seems to me that the director wanted to pose a question of what the benefit of nation is and what the price of happiness for all is is there justification for the enforced benefit and happiness how much can be for the nation's security and peaceful existence is the idea of a powerful would be empire worth reducing to misery and killing thousands of its citizens now it seems to me that the emperor himself does not know the answer and seeks to learn it all the time the film runs he is desperately torn between these desires and at the same time psychologically harassed by the discovery of his true origin he seems to half hate his subjects for having to renounce his father and his love half love the people as a good emperor should no wonder his actions are controversial and emotions confused it seems to me that as another film presenting the problem of power of man over other men the film is a success
1	i enjoyed the film very much especially the performance of the exceptionally beautiful gong li as the concubine br br it was a little distracting however to have chinese dialogue plus english subtitles plus american accented voice over even though the voice over was very well synchronised br br shi di's the first emperor of family name was and his given name so in the english he should have been referred to as king or emperor and not as king ying as in those days the two family given names were not used together br br the state of is pronounced chin not shin a pity the researchers didn't get this right br br i forgave this but was dismayed at the end when the commentary announced that he was buried at an together with his terra cotta warriors the town is pronounced see an never an surely the american voice over speakers could have got that right
1	this movie is beautiful in many ways the plot the depth of the characters the stunning photography and acting the like scenes of battles no computer graphics here just thousands of people someone said the story has something to do with the tragedies i find some connections with the greek tragedy tradition too br br the emperor extraordinarily acted struggles between power and love but he is forced for the greater good for the will of his ancestors to choose the power and the loneliness the hate of his subjects and as his destiny he like in antigone was a good guy before becoming emperor once gained power he has to be merciless and cruel with innocent children his mother his father etc to defend and expand the empire entrapped by power he becomes a monster overall the emperor is a majestic greek tragedy figure br br the assassin evolves towards a different direction from pure evil to heroism and morality even this character is forced towards his destiny by love and by his new ethics this character is really unforgettable too br br lady zhao a wonderful gong li is the morality nor by power or love or hate she is morality against power somehow like antigone her conspiracies for and against the emperor have always a moral rationale br br in conclusion a wonderful movie if you love cinema and you want to try chinese movies you can start here
1	chen kaige lost his sense of tempo i envy europeans and americans who can watch the film without following the dialog with their ears because it is painful to do slow unnaturally heavy and over deliberate but westerners on the other hand suffer from the poor quality of subtitle translation which manages to lose all the subtlety and double meanings that make a careful study of the film so much fun
1	this film essentially contains all the elements of a great 70's exploitation film except it was done in the late 80's for the direct to video market br br you have a young couple in love but the whole world around them is involved either in crack dealing or gang violence when the boyfriend goes to jail the girlfriend ends up vulnerable to all the criminals who are everyone in this movie except for the cops first she gets hooked on crack by a dealer and then because he owes drug lord jim brown money she becomes brown's property then she's basically enslaved in a military style crack house that the movie is named for br br as if this isn't enough reason to see this movie you also have anthony playing a seemingly conservative school guidance counselor but he's really a major crack dealer in a sleazy yet hilarious scene he demands sexual favors from the heroine because she has no money for a fix in an earlier scene it was established that he is her counselor that scene and another where jim brown forces her to take a hot shower because she stinks are hysterical lead actress cheryl kay was really good in this film tarantino bring her back br br it's not surprising to me that someone mentioned in another review that tarantino is a major fan of this it has just the right blend of comedy action sex romance and yes a central message to stay away from drugs jim brown's villainous turn here deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as another great 80's b villain wings hauser in vice squad sometimes i think there should be a b movie oscars where performances like this could be acknowledged in the meantime let's hope that the modern straight to dvd filmmakers learn learn to use this same type of tongue in cheek humor
1	based on the actual event this epic is set in the year 221 b c and tells the true story of the unification of china action packed and filled with intrigue passion betrayals and unforgettable battle sequences it held my attention throughout in spite of its 160 minute length br br the king ying played by li is obsessed with unifying the seven kingdoms of china and becoming its first emperor his lover lady zhao played by the beautiful actress gong li devises a plot whereby she will travel to the neighboring kingdom of yan to set a fake assassination plot in motion which will give the king an excuse to invade yan however she falls in love with the assassin as the king becomes more and more ruthless br br there are subplots and tragedy and constant high drama there are scenes of great beauty and of abject cruelty there is great cinematography and brilliant use of physical space br br the deep characterization made me think of shakespeare and tragic events that call to mind greek drama and yet it is totally chinese as it deals with age old questions of whether the ends justify the means and raises the questions dealing with life and death and good and evil and all the blurred edges in between br br it is the story of individuals against the backdrop of history a history that has shaped china for the past two thousand years i was swept up in the story as well as the moral questions raised there are no easy answers and this was one of the strengths of the movie br br recommended but be prepared for the violence and gore br br
1	this 3 hour epic seems much shorter explores the will to power and conquest and the conflicting motives that underlie that quest by tracking two parallel lives the emperor whose desire to unify the chinese feudal states has its basis in noble aims but devolves into violent oppression isolation and ultimate powerlessness and the assassin jing ke a mercenary killer who comes to recognize the unintended consequences of murder and finds a form of salvation as with all great art this can be understood on many levels the movie evoked for me images and ideas from homer euripides machiavelli shakespeare and freud br br the story itself is true i checked it out at britannica com so this film will appeal to history buffs it's ironic that spent much of his last years in a futile quest for immortality not shown on the screen but consistent with the plot br br the movie can also be viewed as an allegory of and the cultural revolution through the movie one can understand that the last 50 years of chinese history have had their precedent in the last 3000 br br fortunately for the audience these complex ideas are developed in a film that is rich in imagery action and pagent the battle scenes alone are worth the price of admission
1	may contain spoilers br br this historical movie was so refreshing although it may be the actual events it does show the heartless nature of emperor which he was later infamous for and there wasn't a single computer generated person in it i think it's great that china has produce such an epic film the costumes and the settings were beautiful the performances were also excellent dignity vs death is a major theme in this movie and i think it reflects the chinese history and culture i also enjoyed a little allusion to the warriors a 3d map carved of the conquest of china with individual soldiers emperor of course later as entombed with his life size warriors br br i also enjoyed the scene with the dwarf he was a very interesting character even if he only had a small scene br br 9 10 br br
1	the emperor and the assassin w english subtitles at 161 minutes is long but the time is packed with a story that barely fits into it golden hued palace scenes and dusty yellow panoramas of chinese landscapes background a true story of china's unifying king circa 300 an intricate plot with a myriad twists and turns is played out with excellent portrayals by the cast king simple wish for a unified empire for his common people is fulfilled but not without treachery plots and counter plots and oh yes bodies lots of bodies this epic story of china's beginnings is a great way for westerners to glimpse little known asian history emperor include the thousands of life size terra cotta figures which are still being excavated today as an historical person this film makes it clear that emperor should be regarded along with george washington napoleon bonaparte alexander the great genghis khan and julius caesar to name a few of the world's greatest i highly recommend seeing the emperor and the assassin especially on the big screen
1	for a feature film the plot closely follows history or at least historical gossip but then the chinese who know the story very well from seeing it portrayed again and again would never tolerate it otherwise the attention to detail is wonderful especially for anyone who has read sima account in the records of the historian jing ke according to sima qian did indeed make an attempt on shi life at the request of the crown prince of yan before unification sima qian explicitly mentions both the head of general fan and the dagger rolled up into the map as well as the dagger being thrown into the brass column although jing ke is described as no stranger to swordplay he's hardly the invincible warrior portrayed by chen kaige jing ke is indeed this film's weakest link in reality again according to sima qian he was a heavy drinker and put off his visit to for as long as possible spending a good deal of time with the ladies of yan before the crown prince finally ordered him on his way he was in short a human being and was not looking forward to death although he was willing to accept it chen jing ke is afraid of death but not his own he is the classic ruthless killer turned disillusioned pacifist his love or maybe just affection for a woman and pity for several hundred children whom had buried alive not even two thousand years of hostile confucian historians claimed shi huang did this although there is a legend about him burying up to their necks and then beheading them is enough to make this former assassin kill again the melodrama is not convincing and the character ends up being just plain boring the acting here isn't shabby though not very interesting given the character as for lady zhou in all the numerous stories i've heard about shi huang she's never come up anyway gong li is famous enough for americans to have heard of her thanks to zhang yimou and there needed to be a love interest so here she is it's unfortunate that her performance is almost as wooden as jing ke's character she's done much better in ju for example at being subtle here she just barely manages presence but all of this is trivial compared to the extraordinary acting of li as himself shi huang is for the chinese rather what milton's satan is for us accepted as a villain but a noble one shi accomplishments radiate an awe all the way across two thousand years into the present and li captures his frightening will without compromising his humanity li's performance is enough but the scope of the film is grand although the photography is purposely drab it does feel ancient the score is adequate scarcely moving though very appropriate to the action though i've only seen it once i believe that chen kaige should be given more credit for his camera work than other reviewers have allowed him the opening credits are exhilarating if five stars its absolutely average i given three more for li acting and chen kaige as an actor writer and director
1	this is an excellent film no it's not mel gibson in braveheart but then it's not trying to be actually the emperor and the assassin probably has thankfully more in common with a shakespearean production than a hollywood blockbuster br br in the third century bc the king of is attempting to unite in other words conquer the seven kingdoms of china he has already overthrown the kingdom of han now he needs an excuse to invade the kingdom of yan br br this is where the lady zhao comes in she and the king have been friends since childhood they are obviously very much in love but cannot marry for political reasons together they devise a plot she will pretend to have fallen into with the king and escape to yan once there she will convince the prince of yan to send an assassin back to kill the king when the assassination fails the king will have his excuse to invade yan br br once in yan however lady zhao begins to reconsider hearing and seeing more and more examples of her old childhood friend's ruthlessness she begins to wonder if the king may need to be assassinated for real br br one sure sign that you're not watching a hollywood production is the final encounter between the king and the assassin unlike a hollywood movie where the hero and villain are clearly defined and the final outcome already predetermined this is a fight that could truly go either way br br this is a well crafted and well acted story of a tumultuous time in chinese history there is a mixture of both incredible beauty and incredible ugliness most beautiful of all however is gong li as the lady zhao i grow more and more convinced every time i see her that gong li is the most beautiful woman in the world br br i must say however that she does have one unintentionally funny line in this film early on gong li asks one of her servants do i have a beautiful face br br duh
1	after watching the movie a few times i found so many subtle touches and emotions within the dialogue jing ke the assassin has become one of favorite movie characters of all time this fine chinese actor says more with his eyes and his economy of words and movements then any big screen american actor today the emperor is brilliant as he leads the audience to believe the kindness in his heart only to unleash the most cruel acts upon the people around him the promises he makes with incredible passion and shattered with an evil fist gong li as in just about every movie i've ever seen her in is simply fantastic her screen dominance is so graceful and emotionally charged br br in case you couldn't tell i loved this movie br br
1	this three hour chinese epic set in 220 b c may ultimately amount to a familiar theme of an emperor's idealistic dream of peace through unification mutating into corrupted isolation and there's nothing inherently challenging about the film but it's a compelling narrative crammed with intrigue and passion and betrayal and epic events told in vivid strokes even for those not drawn to such historical spectacles for their own sake it's an astonishing feast for the eyes the scene depicting the coup attempt of the marquis is one of the most staggering of physical space and grandeur in memory and the battle scenes are memorable both in their scope and their immediacy the title sums up the film's use of compelling contrasts huge vistas set against intimate horrors the of motives set against the most degraded hope turning to dust if you've never seen a three hour chinese epic this wouldn't be a bad place to start
1	this is an epic film about the unification of the ancient kingdoms of china in the third century bc what makes it interesting is the tragic downfall of the king and all the palace intrigue going on around him it reminded me a bit of king lear and some of the other shakespeare plays br br the king starts out with noble ambitions to unify the kingdoms under one ruler and to stop all the quarrelling so that the people can prosper and lead better lives he and his childhood sweetheart played beautifully by li gong concoct a scheme whereby she pretends to go into exile in a rival kingdom in order to recruit an assassin to kill the king thus giving him a pretext to go to war but while she's away the king becomes sadistic in his lust for power and goes on a killing spree br br there are numerous side plots that keep the action going there is the marquis who pretends to be stupid and foppish but who's really very clever and wants to become king himself he fathers two children with the king's mother and manages to keep it secret for years then there is the prime minister a political rival to the king who turns out to really be his father br br the assassin is a complex character himself an adept swordsman and killer he is undergoing a when the king's lover comes to recruit him he wants nothing more with killing but is eventually won over by li gong who wouldn't be when he sees how cruel and vicious the king has become br br some spectacular cinematography especially the battle scenes that are carried out on a grand scale like they used to say a cast of thousands literally the acting is ok nothing special it's the story that's interesting though at over two and a half hours it pushes the limit br br definitely worth viewing
1	i will admit my ignorance of this film's existence until i saw it advertised on a cable outlet i was very impressed with the novelistic structure of the film the film which is in a language i do not understand shone with intelligence and nuance for me i think this speaks to the film's quality it was visually stunning the acting was visually entrancing the chinese theater traditions of movement used to enhance the delivery of dialogue is so compelling after watching western film where actors traditionally focus more heavily on the dialogue the action in this film comes right at you without a lot of explosions to get your attention it is human action that is so affective here the added advantage that the film taught me history about one of the world's greatest tourist attractions the funereal clay army of china's first emporer was very impressive it seemed to give the film an international relevance beyond the film's great ethical themes this is a film i can comfortably recommend to a wide variety of friends and acquaintances
1	crack house 1989 was one of the few film during the 80's that falls into this genre what's supposed to be an anti drug film turns out to be nothing more than some white exploitation exercise in depravity there's nothing wrong with that however the video presentation even has an anti drug message from one of the stars of the show richard turncoat roundtree br br the movie follows two young lovers in high school one of them is a quasi tough guy and the other is his girl one of them get's turned out by a mutual friend whilst the other is given a trip to the slam and is later on given a chance to get back at his ex friends jim brown appears as the movie's mister big he's one bad dude who still can punk out anybody and is a very sadistic guy who likes to smack his and beat the tar out of those who try to defy his word luke from general hospital makes a guest star spot as well br br if you like hard edge sleaze then this movie's for you sadly hollywood doesn't make these any more and when they do it's neither exploitative nor entertaining br br recommended for sleaze fans
1	a savage undisciplined lion has been put behind bars for a circus carnival he suddenly notices a hole on the floor of his cell then sticks his nose into this hole to snuff it at first he thinks bugs bunny's home is belong to a camel yet when he wakes bugs up from his sleep hoisting him up to the ground there he meets with bugs his next trainer br br if you ever wonder how bugs would turn a savage lion into a hawaiian hula dancer with traditional skirts on you should watch this cartoon director bob offers endless laughters by means of absurd and unexpected demonstrative humour br br the signature scenes include br br 1 the look of bugs bunny's home cross referencing to donald duck with the b b name acronym on the headboard of bed br br 2 bugs bunny's short journey with the mine hoist climbing up to the ground floor br br 3 when nero the lion calls his friend the elephant for help bugs uses a toy mouse to scare the elephant since the elephant needed a broom to that toy mouse he uses nero as a broom br br 4 bugs becoming a clown with the proper costume and make up and the practical clown jokes that he makes br br 5 the trapeze scene while nero chasing after bugs br br 6 the famous human cannonball scene after which nero the lion starts dancing hawaiian hula br br the magic moments which keep bunny fresh at all times in our memory br br 1 when bugs comes out of his bunny hole he thinks he's in the pinocchio tale and starts acting to save pinocchio out of the giant whale's stomach br br 2 when the lion roars to scare him bugs replies back to him with roaring br br 3 bugs arguing with the lion for he's making so much noise then finding a piece of wood to rub it against the iron bars while singing in order to make more noise than him br br 4 wearing rubber heels at the circus bugs starts to bounce like toy rabbits and causes nero to bounce br br those are the 10 main reasons that keeps bunny as a bugs bunny classic and can be found in the bugs bunny mgm ua video 1989
1	i've read some about the court scenes these people betray their ignorance this production went to simply amazing lengths to recreate all aspects of the period in which the story occurred manners are something few people outside the court ever see while the acting may appear highly stylized it is in fact as close a replication as possible of the behavior of individuals in their particular stations as the director could create the actor's facial expressions are a marvel particularly the duplicitous marquis and the king's mother br br there are of course reflections of both greek and shakespearian tragedy in the relationship between the king his parents and his love the juxtaposition of the king transforming from good to bad and the assassin from bad to good provides much food for thought on the evolution of an individual's nature this movie would provide much to ponder in a college course on the humanities br br at the same time it almost rushes along even in the slowest scenes heading towards an inexorable denouement one suspects the involvement of large portions of the troop movements which were quite awesome it makes the lord of the rings battle scenes pale by comparison few directors have the ability to literally field thousands of humans on the field of battle just for art's sake i recall one scene in which at least 30 000 troops can be seen moving across a huge plain the logistics for such a shot would have been staggering br br i could go on but simply i can't recommend this film highly enough
1	angela sandra bullock is a computer expert but being shy and somewhat of a recluse she does all of her work from the confines of her condo just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her while she is sunning on the beach a terrific looking gentleman named jack jeremy northam makes overtures to her she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to however jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa jack makes things difficult he changes angela's identity on every computer across the nation making her lose her condo her bank account everything can angela a computer whiz beat jack at his own game this very exciting movie has many assets first bullock and northam are two very beautiful interesting actors and their presence adds immediate the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today's world the costumes sets production and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful and despite how it sounds there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence this is a great choice it delivers twists and turns with great frequency making it possible for the viewer to net a very good evening of entertainment
1	it was a movie that made ya think a little some parts a little cheesy some parts pretty good plot did at times and just when you thought sandra found a friend the friend was fraud or dead all i got to say is that dennis miller should have been in the whole movie his character was the best very refreshing after all the crap went through he would have lifted me and through the dumps
1	when the net was first being advertised the ads made it look ridiculous then when i saw it it was actually quite good angela bennett sandra bullock spends her days working on the computer and has never gotten to know her neighbors then through a series of events her identity gets erased by a cabal of shadowy people and she can't prove that she exists br br some parts of the movie are a little bit far fetched you'd probably know which parts if you saw the movie still it's a good look into what the existence of the internet may have wrought on unsuspecting people i do recommend it
1	you could get into the nitty gritty of this film and say how it couldn't happen or how could the main character just walk into offices and start using computers etc without someone noticing and really pick the movie to bits or you could just sit back with a bucket of popcorn and enjoy the story and the acting personally i prefer the latter i live real life and watch the news with all it's doom and gloom and so would much rather be entertained by my movies and see the bad guys get their just rewards don't take it too seriously and you can thoroughly enjoy this film
1	this movie is a warning to all people sat surfing the internet on a typical day at the office my warning is do not reveal too much about yourself 2 be careful who you cross there are spies on this internet thing i thought that it was so scary what that man and woman combination did to poor angela bennett i did not realise that somebody could take ones life away in one click of this mouse angela i thought did a sterling job of jack and that awful girl my question is why does that computer make that noise when it works like a clicking sound mine does not do this or this one this film also tells you that there is fraud on this internet also why couldn't angela do the virus destroyer programme at a i also thought that like all computers the transfer rate to disk was slow that is correctly portrayed in this film when you save the programme to your floppy disk the bar only moved slowly i quite liked angela's house at the beginning of the film as well why did no one believe angela
1	wow in my opinion the net is an excellent nail biting edge of your seat techno thriller that will leave you feeling good all over when i first saw it i was feeling good all over for days when angela sandra bullock went to mexico i thought to myself that is a really nice place to vacation from the moment jack northam and ruth wendy gazelle began chasing her i thought to myself don't let anything bad happen to her please i also took quite a few deep breaths to prevent myself from screaming any more than i already had on the bright side if you ask me the house was very luxurious and spacious in conclusion i give this excellent nail biting edge of your seat techno thriller four stars
1	this is a solid underrated little thriller that has thrills a plenty with a cool story sandra bullock is terrific all the characters are great and i was surprised by how unpredictable it was as there were only a few predictable moments plus sandra bullock is simply amazing in this jeremy northam played an awesome villain and i know what bullock's character in this is all about because i'm kind of the same type of person i hardly ever go out plus this is pretty well made and written for the most part this should be higher then 5 5 in my opinion plus denis miller was surprisingly better then expected in his small role the scene where northam terrorizes bullock on his boat was quite suspenseful and was one of my favorite moments and i also liked the chase scene in the carnival plus i liked the ending too as it was quite well done even if i did think northam was defeated too quickly there are lots of other good chase scenes as well and it's also clever at times too plus there are quite a few shocking moments as well this is a solid underrated little thriller that has thrills a plenty with a cool story sandra bullock is terrific i highly recommend this one the direction is great irwin winkler does a great job here with excellent camera work adding good atmosphere good angles and keeping the film at a very fast pace the acting is fantastic sandra bullock is amazing as always and is amazing here she is extremely likable tough as nails yet quite vulnerable and i was able to feel for her because as i said i'm sort of like angela i hardly ever go out i really enjoyed her work in this movie bullock rules jeremy northam is excellent as the villain he was sneaky unpredictable and very menacing he was great dennis miller is surprisingly ok and non annoying in his small role and managed to bring some comic relief rest of the cast are fine overall i highly recommend this one 1 2 out of 5
1	following the advice of a friend i got myself this movie i'm very fond of computers in general hence why a 1995 film about identity theft on the internet could not be left unseen i had some bad echoes about it but in the end i wasn't so disappointed the story though classical is kind of interesting and must have been really new back in the days when it was released in theatres i was gladly surprised when i figured out that contrary to what we usually see computer performed actions are somehow realistic as they use windows 3 x and normal computers the storytelling is median and not bothering the viewer the end is typically american the actors' performance is globally ok sandra bullock usually annoys me with her oh my god why me way to behave but this time she seems to have controlled herself i'd recommend that movie
1	i loved this movie br br movies and plays fulfill their purpose when they expose social political and other problems that affect the majority this movie served that purpose br br i identify with the plot and know people to whom this has happened at the time this movie was made concepts presented in this flick were advanced for the public yet had already happened to friends of mine by way of people in powerful positions and i know what it is like when people do to you what they did to angela bennett because they have done it to me br br i greatly enjoyed sandra bullock's portrayal of angela bennett ruth marx she portrays a pretty intelligent and witty young woman who has the courage to avoid giving up to overwhelming odds fight hard to keep her sanity and restore her life and try to protect those whom she loves losing her self concept and succumbing to that age old attempt to bolster a sagging self esteem by indulging in sex with a stranger added a poignant touch of reality br br the climax of the plot reveals the only real solution to this kind problem
1	when i first got wind of this picture it was just called shepherd and was supposed to be the film that would put back into chances of doing theatrical i was very well excited about the whole piece br br by the time it was titled the shepherd border patrol i was tap dancing in excitement for this flick with isaac at the helm of directing and jj perry pulling stunt coordination i almost peed me pants in anticipation pics were released of kicking 8 different kinds of arse as well as scott adkins playing what i thought was the villain and i was mind blown in excitement i thought it was going to be another epic martial arts situation like lone wolf br br then it came out i ordered it off blockbuster online for 20 and was ready for anything the reviews from net kinda had my ideas alittle altered but i braced myself the mail came on day 4 and i ripped open the package my initial plan was to rush upstairs rip the face off the cardboard packaging then smash the case in the proper dynamics so the disc would land in my dvd player however i stared at the case for 10 minutes then placed the disc in my player and watched the film br br by the time it was over i was cool as a fool in the pool the shepherd is certainly one of my all time favorite direct to video films ever and makes derailed look like even more of the toilet mess that it is sure some of the fights ran a twee bit short but they were still very awesome the shootouts were superb as was scott adkins who should have been the villain unlike the forgettable steven lord br br i highly recommend this flick seriously
1	why all the negative reviews you didn't expect a movie like this to be a masterpiece did you what we have is a movie that tried to entertain us and it worked for me not an oscar contender just entertainment you can really see how the movie has aged especially with everything the internet has to offer nowadays i still remember when this was first released and the net was still so new crazy and scary thoughts when i saw this for the first time i was 15 and seriously thought anyone could get a hold of your information on a computer and destroy you but who's to say it can't happen i'm not the type of person to nitpick a movie to death analyzing it until i'm blue in the face that's not my style average acting and once again very entertaining sandra bullock as angela bennett is so cute this is my favorite movie with her in it because she's like the computer genius which i find very attractive of all the movies that were released in 1995 this would have to be my favorite although i didn't see it until 1996 my rating 9 10 because it did slow down a little
1	all the comments so far about this movie are negative but i have to say i found the net engaging few movies can keep me on the edge of my seat but this one did another plus for it is that most action suspense films are full of language but this one had little profanity i found it an enjoyable movie to watch i am slightly biased though being a big sandra bullock fan wink
1	when this movie came out in 1995 i found it amazingly great especially with sandra bullock after having watched her brilliant performance in speed i was ready to enjoy any of her movies br br back to the net it was a movie that keeps you in suspence all in all i enjoyed it so i give it a out of
1	at last sandra bullock is indeed a beautiful woman but i've finally found a film that she gets to be an actress forget the predictable keanu fodder of speed forget the predictable kleenex fodder of while you were sleeping this tests her br br and she is great a techno feminist role that really works well on screen on a subject that is very close to the bone the issues raised don't seem far fetched at all and the whole experience helped along by a fine supporting cast makes for quite an un couple of hours br br you may never enter another chat room again in fact i'm getting quite nervous just writing this review er bye
1	this is one of the many techno phobic movies that sprouted like mushrooms in the mid 90s after the internet went mainstream br br hollywood movies have always had their way in the depicted ongoings to make them look better and more appealing the same happens when hollywood tries to show us some hi tech the outcome of such attempts varies from being very far fetched and ridiculous see hackers 1995 johnny 1995 etc to being quite realistic see sneakers 1992 br br the net lies somewhere between those extremes by nitpicking one can end up with quite a lot of technical inconsistencies and a lot of cases where the ongoings seem to be much more sexy and graphical than the way things are in real life as usually happens in movies br br however by simply overlooking those the viewer ends up with a quite solid entertaining movie the characters and acting are convincing and the movie does a good job in keeping you in your seat till the end of it the plot is okay a fairly standard one really based on the good ol' paranoiac design but with a hi tech edge this time and quite convincing again when disregarding technical issues the development of the plot is a bit sluggish though and occasionally you can anticipate some supposedly surprising turns in the plot br br the bonus here is cutie pie sandra bullock which besides being cute something she does quite easily apparently also portrays a solid act you can really feel her character her despair her emotions br br in the bottom line the movie is entertaining and interesting rates about 7 from 10 in my scale it's worth renting from the video library or even watching in the cinema whether to buy it or not is up to you
1	just a short comment i want to say that i like this movie very much sandra bullock is my favourite actress i like the whole story from the beginning until the end i have it on tape and i can watch it a 100 times it doesn't matter
1	this movie was suspenseful and fun to view as i am a fan of these type of movies i did enjoy this the premise is kind of scary but the fact that i didn't rate this a 10 was because the movie was a little over the top in some areas br br spoilers br br cmon nobody could identify this girl i understand the concept of isolating oneself but i find it hard to believe that somebody anybody wouldn't have been able to id this girl as angela bennet that was over the top and so was the scene where she walked over to somebody's desk and started typing this was overall a really good movie suspenseful and keeps your interest dennis miller was great as allen really believable bullock was good as the lonely reserved computer worker the bad guys all underestimated br br i think the premise of the movie was really different and scary in today's times who knows what could happen but some of the over the top scenes prevented this movie from being a 10 8 of 10
1	the net is an excellent movie it's about angela bennett in a great performance of sandra bullock who is a computer expert who works for the cathedral company cleaning virus and testing games for the clients angela is a typical nerd who doesn't have friends outside of the cyberspace almost doesn't take vacations and go out and stays almost all the time connected one day her friend dale hessman ray asks her to help him sending angela a disk with a strange program that has many confidential informations at the same night when dale was going to meet her he is suddenly killed in a plane crash going to mexico in her vacation angela meets a beautiful guy called jack devlin jeremy northam who shows to be a cold blood killer bastard and one of the guys behind all the secret of the br br her life then turns into a nightmare all her records are erased and she is given the new identity of ruth marx a woman with serious problems with the police br br this movie is great because it shows how we humans depend a lot of the computers and machines sometimes more that we should and how vulnerable we are if someday someone decides to control and change our personal records without letting us the chance to prove the error
1	if you're actually reading this review i give you a lot of credit you care enough to actually look up this movie which most people have forgotten about and then cared to read beyond the first review so for your reading pleasure br br i'm assuming you know the plot line already so i won't waste time typing that out i will mention that sandra bullock did an amazing job with this movie she really brought a lot of sympathy to the role of a computer programmer often difficult to do i can say this because i happen to be a computer programmer br br anyway i thought the basic plot was a very good one you can easily build sub plots upon its mainframe and turn it into a very enjoyable movie the premise is also scarily realistic in that this can all really happen if the right aren't taken br br to make a long review short oops too late if you enjoy sandra bullock bringing a role to life and want to see a very well made movie for the time take a look at this little gem you won't be disappointed
1	this is a typical sandra bullock movie in which she plays a mousy but profane woman who is in trouble but finds a way to survive and be the hero sound familiar br br there are plenty of holes in this story things just don't add up and some of the suspense is a little corny but that suspense is very good there is a lot of tension in this story which has strong paranoia running through it the story starts off slow but kicks in pretty soon and stays that way making it an involving movie for the viewer that's why i give it a pretty good rating the movie gets you involved in it bullock is more cute than annoying which she normally is to me so this is my highest rated movie with her in it
1	van damme has done some great films over the years and this one hits a big ten in my books from the setting of mexico to the five star fight scenes this movie was amazing the film is all about border patrol officers protecting there territory which is the border of mexico ex navy seals are smuggling drugs out of mexico into the united states of america usa van damme and scott atkins give stunning performances as the cop and the villain although this film wasn't as good as until death but it still gave the action acting and the film a five star look i always look forward to these b grade action films and they keep getting better keep them coming van damme br br watch this film if you enjoyed films like until death the hard corps and second in command
1	i saw this stage show when it was broadcast on pbs in 1983 i was involved in local theatre at the time and had seen some pretty incredible stuff out of the dell arte players but bill irwin floored me br br i was most impressed at how a man of his size he's quite tall and beefy could fold himself up into a small box without so much as a pause for adjustment and move across the stage at a dead run without even a whisper of sound from his feet if he chose not to make any noise br br most amazing for me though in this performance was the way he rose to his feet during the jack in the box marionette piece those who saw this show will recall that when he climbed from the box and collapsed to the floor with his body limp and limbs akimbo he pulled himself up by the top of his head as if by a string and rose not just to his feet but to a full ballet did it in one fluid seemingly effortless motion just consider the strength grace balance and focus such a series of movements must take in order to accomplish them the way he did add to his physical prowess his strong and believable characterization skills and there lies a consummate actor performer my jaw dropped at the movement and my heart broke at the portrayal of a puppet who is determined to be more than just a lifeless thing in a box br br as to the unfortunate tragic would be a better word of this piece in home media form i have noticed that much of pbs' works are not available on tape or dvd sometimes pbs shows will be available for direct purchase from them for a limited time immediately following a broadcast but they seldom stay on the market for long there are exceptions of course but these are mainly the science and history documentaries rarely does an arts piece remain in print for it ever made it into vhs dvd to begin with i don't know why this should be so certainly pbs could use the income from home media marketing of their shows but they don't take advantage of it much this is a shame there are many things i've watched on pbs that i wish to own but pieces such as the regard of flight are i'm afraid a one shot once in a lifetime treat never to be repeated on pbs again and never to be available for home media purchase that really sucks i'm lucky to have caught it when i did br br oh local library did get a copy of the regard of flight and was stolen
1	i saw this performance on tv and taped it my daughter played it over and over again i loaned out at work and everyone just loved it it is just brilliant physical comedy bill made an appearance here in california he was working and living in new york and performed the regard of flight on stage i was able to take my daughter and her girlfriend to see this brilliant performance br br bill was awarded a federal endowment and my daughter wrote him a letter of congratulations and bill was so kind to write her a note back and a photograph br br people ask me and i can't decide if he is a comedian and actor or a clown actually he is all three i really wish this was on dvd my tape is lost
1	this adaptation for tv was a wonderful vehicle for bill irwin to show his ability to perform physical humor with the backdrop of a struggle between an actor and his writer director bill uses his clowning antics to showcase a variety of skills including hat tricks pantomime dance and various physical devices br br although it takes a big swipe at the entertainment industry and his craft it is engrossing for people of all walks and ages br br this work was televised as a pbs special bill performed a piece of it on the tonight show but out of context it did not go over well
1	the regard of flight and the clown as performed by bill irwin are some of the funniest both in terms of physical comedy and verbal and visual gags performances i've ever seen my father taped this special when it first aired in the 80s and my family has loved it ever since we quote it back and forth fairly constantly it's a crying shame that copies are not readily available for purchase i have a bad vhs copy that i acquired from a specialty distributer a few years ago but mr irwin's performance deserves a proper dvd treatment with a restored version of the original performance and interviews with the performers producers as well as more examples of modern clowning br br bill irwin's talent deserves more exposure to mainstream audiences than it has enjoyed in his limited wide release appearances i share the regard of flight with friends quite often and though i am always greeted with a small amount of skepticism when i mention that it is a mixture of clowning and vaudeville i have yet to have anyone come away from seeing it without loving it in case the powers that be ever happen upon this imdb listing please consider releasing this and other bill irwin work
1	the regard of flight written and performed by bill irwin is a true classic theatre piece which translated quite well to the small screen full of quick and sparkling dialog and some of the best physical comedy of the decade it is head and shoulders above 99 of comedy as it is presented today i am sure it will one day take its rightful place with such great shows as the and waiting for godot why it isn't available on dvd yet is a mystery and a tragedy
1	ronald coleman had been a star of the screen for several years when talkies came in and what a boost it was to his career his oxford english accent is so enthralling i could listen to him recite the farmer's and not be bored br br coleman plays willie hale a 30ish playboy from a wealthy family who spends his time womanizing and gambling yet he's a likable rogue not only likable from the standpoint of the audience but by family and friends too he has yet again gone broke due to his constant gambling and sells off his possessions in a foreign location to settle his debts and provide passage back home to england when he gets there he at first is met by a father who insists he'll kick him out he's had it with willie and his layabout ways however five minutes alone in a room with willie and his charm and willie is not only forgiven by dad dad has given him one hundred pounds to boot br br willie then goes for a day's recreation with his sister and her friend dorothy hope loretta young dorothy is set to be engaged to the grand duke paul that very night mainly just because her dad wants royalty in the family and there is nobody else special in her life that changes after her day with willie and soon there is a scandal brewing as dorothy refuses to go through with the marriage as planned br br ronald coleman is always a delight to watch in these early talking films he did for sam goldwyn where he is playing the confident adventurer or cad or both he has a demeanor akin to errol flynn but he is unable to display flynn's physical agility due to a disabling wound he received during world war i however what he lacks in physical agility coleman always made up in agility of soul loretta young only 17 when this picture was made shows the beginning of her trademark sweet girl that can erupt into a ball of fire when the occasion calls for it myrna loy plays willie's girl from the past mary a showgirl here myrna is still playing a part similar to the exotic vamp parts she got stuck with so often over at warner brothers when she was a contract player from 1926 until shortly before this movie was made in 1930 br br this is pretty much a light and breezy romantic comedy from start to finish if you're in a mood for the kind of escapist entertainment that lightened the hearts of audiences during the great depression this little film fits the bill
1	this film directed by george who made so many excellent films is well up to his excellent standard it is crisp witty with some wonderful lines and has the inimitable ronald colman in the romantic lead colman plays the irresistibly charming younger son of a wealthy english peer he is financially irresponsible spending for instance of his last £20 in the world on a cute little terrier whom he names george but open wildly generous contemptuous of irreverent in the possible way and hopelessly sentimental he is so dashing that all the women fall in love with him his girlfriend is a star of the music halls and hence in 1930 a denizen of the demi monde played with her typical narrow eyed by the youthful myrna loy was not a great user of closeups and gals of that day had their faces half hidden with those awful clinging hats anyway so we do not get as good glimpses of the faces of the two heroines as we would like the director seems more interested in the charming colman anyway the romantic female lead is the youthful and fresh faced loretta young who had not yet become the proto julie andrews we generally know her as but was still a blushing girl exuding all the sweetness of a rose garden and laughing merrily and heartily the whole time it is obvious that a character with her terrific sense of humour was needed to appreciate the snob busting social anarchism of the refreshing aristocratic character played by colman the plot barely matters as is so often the case with these light and amusing films this is just such fun
1	ronald colman plays a prodigal son while he is not a bad guy he is a bit flighty and hasn't done a lot with his life other than travel the world and have a jolly good time now that his latest venture in africa has failed he's on his way home to england his rich upper class father plans on tossing him out on his ear though thanks to winning style he is reluctantly welcomed back with open arms br br at this point there are two women in his life showgirl myrna loy and rich girl loretta young who is already engaged how will all this work out and will ronald wise up and act like a responsible adult these are the main themes of this pleasant little film br br this isn't a great movie and certainly won't change your life but it certainly is very entertaining and fun most of this is due to the always genial acting of ronald colman heck in the heyday of his career in the 1930s he could have played in reefer madness or some other dreck and still made it entertaining and likable due to his charming persona his seemingly effortless style in this movie make it very easy to like him and it's easy to see why both loretta young and myrna loy are in love with him in the film plus the writing is very witty and make this a nice romantic comedy
1	do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you've seen one of 4 films scott made at rko during his prime 1947 the others are always easy to get liberal kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the into trail street the town's main street and the sod busters who feed our it'll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order more i won't say except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage level headedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they'd learn positive values robert ryan co stars in this film playing a good guy for a change in real life ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america's movies how sad what we get these days george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in 1972 in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them hollywood 2005 derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this plays out in liberal kansas liberal after all was not a dirty word 150 years ago when the city was named
1	i read comment and thought they must have been watching an entirely different picture br br i just watched the film this morning and was quite surprised br br to address comments br br trail street is a very well done western br br and randolph scott was in it quite a bit br br gabby hayes was funnier than i've ever seen him br br the bad guys had very good as far as i was concerned br br plus br br it was interesting to see robert ryan as a straight laced good guy he's usually so slimy br br in all a good western very well acted and written br br i liked the background story of kansas and the winter wheat that supposedly helped it become a state too br br i thought the girl who played susan was lovely can't think why she didn't become a bigger star
1	this movie was made on a relatively small budget 10 20 million dollars with almost no promotion at all from its distributors i only knew about it because i am a long time jean claude van damme fan and i always check out his latest films in hope that they will be at least watchable and aside from some real turkeys derailed second in command they are this movie has an easy enough plot to follow and van damme gives a good humorous performance through out but the movie owes all of its credit to the fight scenes involving van damme scott adkins and the final one of them together the editing and camera work for most of the film is pretty terrible but isaac florentine can definitely film a good fight scene i too am happy that van damme has been acting better lately in hell wake of death until death but with the good acting came less martial arts in the shepherd van damme proves that he still has it
1	i am a fan of randolph scott westerns while some of them are amazingly clichéd as are most westerns of this era his easy delivery and style really elevate the films to classic and near classic status while this film features yet another example of real life western heroes being exploited after their death by hollywood in this case bat masterson the film works well due to him as well as excellent supporting characters one is the always strong acting of robert ryan an excellent actor who is sadly almost forgotten today the other is the ubiquitous gabby hayes who has one of his best roles as the crusty and very colorful deputy here he is more enjoyable than in his many supporting roles for roy rogers and john wayne mostly because his part is better written and he's given more to do br br the plot is pretty much the plot of half the westerns ever made there are some baddies who hire a bunch of thugs to run roughshod over the locals and it's up to a do gooder scott to restore the peace and kill off the villains however how the plot is executed is much better than average and due to this the film is still watchable fun just don't expect a whole lot of innovation or uniqueness unless you want to see what might just be gabby best performance
1	this is a modest unassuming traditional western with a formulaic plot about opposition between ranchers and crop farmers around the town of liberal kansas the story is essentially routine and features a number of the classic western conflicts there is the farmer versus the cattleman there is the clash between cultivated land and civilizing tendencies on the one hand and the wilderness frontier ethos on the other and what this represents ultimately is the opposition of two value systems democratic and community values as set against rugged individualism br br randolph scott plays legendary lawman bat masterton who rides into liberal at behest of a land agent robert ryan to help him sort out the bad guys who are the hard drinking brawling cattlemen the two men quarrel but reunite to tackle the troublesome elements in the town br br the script is clichéd but the action is propelled along with vigour by director ray enright and there are solid performances all round in addition to rugged performances by the male leads there is comic relief supplied by george gabby hayes an oily villain nicely played by steve brodie and attractive contributions from maggie meredith as a prim and proper wooed by ryan and anne jeffreys as a saloon singer as long as you do not place a premium on originality this is good sturdy entertainment for western lovers
1	after cleaning up dodge city with a little help from wyatt earp bat masterson goes to liberal kansas where they've got a nice little range war going plus a rather interesting scheme of br br randolph scott is bat masterson and he's after villains billy house and steve brodie who are driving off their farms the they are driving off are in a scheme financed by robert ryan seems as though he's staking the various farmers to a parcel of land to homestead for a percentage of profit from their crop ryan's about to lose his shirt as a result of all the shenanigans br br as portrayed by scott bat masterson is a stand up western hero who has a passion to go east and become a reporter which we all know he did later in life br br anne jeffreys and madge meredith are involved in a romantic subplot involving brodie and ryan which is a little silly and does detract from the action anne jeffreys does sing nice though br br of course gabby hayes as always provides the great comic relief br br a good addition to the randolph scott collection of westerns also interesting because his later western films don't have him as wearing a hat as white as the one here br br this review is dedicated to kasey hayes of the professional bull riders who is a proud resident of liberal kansas a town with a great tradition whether bat masterson there or not
1	this one is a very solid randolph scott western he plays bat masterson and goes to liberal kansas to clean up the town he becomes good friends with robert ryan who played a very straight up leading man role it was not until after this that robert ryan began playing much darker roles in fact in 1947 randolph scott made one other movie which was not a western and never made anything but westerns after that until he retired in 1962 this movie has good pacing and builds up to the climax steadily i can't say any more as it would give away the plot be sure to see this one 8 10
1	note the wide release date of aug 8 1945 about a week before japan surrendered in wwii so there will probably be a message for us in over 21 irene dunne it happened one night the 1939 version of love affair is paula wharton who goes to live on an army base while her newspaper editor husband is in training school alexander knox the longest day is her hubby max look for charles coburn monkey business gentlemen prefer blondes as the stuffy commanding newspaper boss also look for cora witherspoon as mrs gates from the women bank dick lady war story written for the wives' point of view which wasn't too common in those days fun commentary on the shabby condition of the married housing wardrobe in this film certainly wasn't at all shabby since they never had to leave their little cottage it appears the whole movie budget was spent on her always exquisite dresses and hats
1	during wwii there were a bazillion movies created by hollywood and after seeing many of them they start to seem alike however over 21 is unique in so many ways as it shows a side of the war you won't see in other films making it well worth seeing even if you have seen the bazillion other films br br alexander knox plays the male lead but the real lead of the film is irene dunne who looks amazing for a 47 year old lady yes i checked she really was this old when she made the film in over 21 the pair play husband and wife he enlists in the military much to the consternation of his father charles coburn and owner of the newspaper where knox is employed and most of the film takes place when he is in officers candidate school the film shows little of knox in the school but instead centers on dunne as she lives in nearby spartan housing for spouses during this time she as the british say keeps a upper and makes the best of it even though she really isn't a housewife but a famous professional writer occasionally she gets very brief visits from her harried husband but most of the time is spent doing housewife duties and keeping the meddling coburn at bay eventually she decides to stop the pesky coburn from phoning incessantly he always complains that his paper won't survive without his son by pretending to be knox writing wonderful that everyone just assumes were written by him br br while there is nothing earth shaking in this film it's a very interesting slice of life move additionally the acting all around is very good it's interesting that this film is a fictionalized reworking of the experienced of ruth gordon a famous screenwriter and her husband garson kanin also a famous screenwriter as well as director when kanin joined the military during wwii gordon soon wrote and starred in the play that became this film br br by the way i noticed that some of the reviewers really liked the speech towards the end of the film and were inspired by it while it was very good it was also very sad as all this hope for a better world following the war was short lived
1	over 21 the film version of the ruth gordon play which detailed her experiences trying to keep the marriage together with garson kanin after he'd gone in the service provides irene dunne with one of her better later roles on the big screen it's also in keeping with what was then an upbeat spirit in america about how we would not screw up the peace as we did in the first world war and sow the seeds of yet another global conflict br br the play ruth gordon wrote and starred in herself ran for 221 performances in 1944 on broadway and was confined simply to the bungalow that gordon and harvey stephens who was the male lead had on a training base if you look on the broadway credits list it says that the production was by george s kaufman as opposed to being directed by him i'm not sure of the distinction but i can imagine that with a wit and will as strong as kaufman's it must have been an interesting period putting the production together before opening night br br when columbia bought the screen rights sidney buchman had to do some considerable script reconstruction to move the action beyond the bungalow the film bears very little trace of its stage origins br br alexander knox plays the husband and charles coburn the employer of both dunne and knox who are writers knox has graduated to not only editor but featured columnist his words and thoughts help sell the paper and coburn is in a bind but knox feels he has to get into the war the seminal event of his time in order to speak authoritatively on the kind of post war world he wants this was not an uncommon theme in those years br br irene dunne has some good comic moments the kind she used to have when she was appearing opposite cary grant in fact garson kanin directed both of them in my favorite wife a few years earlier coburn is his usual cantankerous old water buffalo of a boss who ultimately has a good heart br br over 21 was an optimistic picture which sad to say wasn't accurate about what the allies and i mean all of them could bring to the peace conferences to create a better world still hopefully a new generation will get it right
1	it is well known that irene dunne could sing somewhat more than a little and i think her talent as a comedienne can only be really understood once one has struggled through a sonata by haydn or a song by debussy and made a success of it her instrument is her voice and her handling of it is pure musicianship she could tackle any part the only thing she couldn't do was to not make a success of it this film is a perfect example in it she channels ruth gordon because the play is the thing is feminine charming willful and self effacing generous protective and combative but never pretentious she manages to stay as believable as alexander knox is in another difficult role he assumes with aplomb the viewer gets to believe in what he is seeing and to care for it it is refreshing to see a film that is both entertaining and intellectually challenging while pushing all the right patriotic buttons i sincerely hope the entire dunne oeuvre makes it to dvd one day because it's really hard to keep a secret like that among just a few initiates
1	a light uplifting and engaging movie watching irene dunne is a delight as you watch her she ceases to be irene dunne and becomes in every way paula wharton br br i have enjoyed irene dunne in every movie that i have seen and that would be nearly all of them what a shame that most of her movies need restoration so badly i do hope irene dunne movie are restored before it is too late they are such treasures thank goodness this is not the case with over 21 br br it is a must see if you like superb acting and witty comedy with serious overtones i agree with a previous comment on the speech the world and apple pie it was one of the many highlights of the movie i read somewhere that irene dunne helped in writing that speech along with director vidor irene dunne was a very good and charitable person in private life and it certainly seems to show through in her movies
1	the beautiful charming supremely versatile and talented irene dunne is one of the greatest 5 or 6 actresses of american cinema in over 21 as in all her films she lights up the screen with a natural yet glamorous presence she is simultaneously authentic and human and a charismatic inspirational model this role is quintessential irene dunne full of pathos and wit and a little mischief i love all of her films and this film was a fantastic new discovery for me when tcm aired it last night i hope they don't wait years to air it again br br likewise charles coburn is one of the greatest character actors in all of american filmdom true he often portrays variations on the same theme but i never tire of watching his soft hearted here his character is the perfect foil for irene dunne and he is portrayed perfectly by coburn their conflicts in this film are absolutely fantastic they never miss a beat in addition they represent the central conflict of the film and the moral conflict of irene dunne's husband portrayed by alexander knox br br i am not as familiar with work he was recognizable but that was about all however cast with dunne and coburn he holds his own he delivers a fine nuanced performance his character has noble motives that are made accessible to us by performance and never held over us like some holy grail he is noble but conflicted and doubts his ability to successfully complete his interaction with dunne is always convincing too dunne supports him without being syrupy or becoming a martyr and he responds in kind their scenes are very well done br br the film itself is a fantastic snapshot of a moment and a milieu not portrayed in other movies i don't recall off the top of my head another movie that portrays america still fighting wwii but with the end in sight and the focus on the establishment of the post war world not the usual wwii movie that in itself is interesting it is also essential to the plot and the movie's message in contrast to other commentators i thought that the climactic speech was okay but not great it was delivered very well by knox but it was not as tightly written as the build up led me to expect i have heard better cinematic speeches addressing very similar themes it served its purpose br br for me the greater value of the movie was the depiction of the life of dunne and knox as it reflected the typical experience the sense of community among the wives living on terrace seemed absolutely authentic as did terrace itself despite the fact that it was obviously a sound stage set the incredibly brief encounters between the wives and their husbands the rigors of the candidates mastering the difficult and complex material they had to learn the shabby base housing obviously hastily constructed the tired and worn furnishings the constant and harrowingly short deadlines for returning to base for learning lessons for catching trains to subsequent posts tenants constantly running into their predecessors and successors in the base housing as they were moving in and out yes i suspect this was a glimpse of a real wwii experience clothed in some comedy but very real at its core i loved it and i recommend it highly
1	i like the shepherd sure the acting wasn't good but the fight scenes were nice van damme throws some nice kicks and so does adkins the story was average a texas cop battles smugglers this movie did everything a van damme movie should do which is martial arts and action van damme was never a good actor i think this movie is better than van last 2 if you're looking for an oscar winning performance you're not gonna get it here but if you're looking for action and martial arts then this movie is for you scott adkins is an amazing martial artist and unfortunately the public has gotten tired of martial art superstars but his movies in this movie are great van damme delivers strong kicks and it's good to see him performing martial arts again since he has not in his last 4 or 5 movies this movie is definitely worth watching if you're a van damme fan
1	this little known comedy from the hit play by ruth gordon is a delight the script based on the play is spicy rich and completely undated ditto the cast but i must underline the work of the leading lady irene dunne irene is simply superb as usual and lights up the screen with every frame she's in and she's in it a lot thank heaven in addition director vidor has given her some unusual close ups that are mesmerizing what a gal i know of no other hollywood actress from any era who has her versatility and is so convincing in every film why she remains so little known is a mystery i have seen most of her films and this one was a surprise even for a solid id fan like myself see it everyone
1	a really good australian film beautifully recreates the look and feel of sydney as it was in the 1950s this movie greatly impressed me when i first saw it during it's initial cinema release and it still stands up very well fine directing job by phil wonderful camera work thoughtful lighting and some fine performances across the board an absolute must see for any students of 70's australian cinema one out of the box
1	as a child growing up in the sydney of the 1950s i can readily identify with the content of this fine film each week i visited the newsreel cinema on george street to watch the and usually 3 stooges shorts never has there been a better blending of b w and colour in a film faultless production values round off a never to be forgotten movie experience
1	we went to the cinema expecting a budget release and got an art house movie the movie was projected digitally onto about two thirds of the screen real estate with edges classic of digital projection and had a limited stereo soundtrack which was wasted on the cinema experience br br the content of the film was the same old historical content we have all seen before but heavily sanitized to prevent the audience being sick live action scenes what little of them there were were re used constantly in classic documentary style which became annoying after a while br br i was somewhat amazed that only 4 people turned up to watch it guess the rest knew something we didn't br br i suspect the producers made the film to recognize the anniversary of gallipoli i have to question whether they should have bothered br br seven out of ten for trying and out of respect for the
1	i have to say that i know the documentaries of mister and so i knew that i will get a very well made piece of movie documentary i was not disappointed as a history nerd i did saw hundreds of documentary and liked the different approach of this work br br the director and his 17 consultants historians veteran families tried to access the reality of the gallipoli through the letters of solders from both sides so the history is followed by british australian and turkish soldiers br br narrated is this docu by jeremy irons and sam neill both boost the intensity and emotionality of this documentary by their great voices br br i saw this film in a cinema in italy in dolby surround i did buy the dvd last year and will wait again 3 7 years for the next work of this talented director and his very good documentaries br br summary well made intense history with emotions wrapped in a war documentary with great narrators
1	in my opinion the movie is an excellent example of the realities of war and a tribute to the soldiers of all nations who fought and bled into the soil gallipoli the lack of violence in no way detracted from the magnitude of the tale in hand it is honest true and brave just like the men that fought and died at the the lack of brutal depictions of violence are just and proper those men suffered enough for freedom liberty and the right to self determination in a free and better world they never wished to ever see such scene's again that is the legacy of the event of gallipoli to suffer scene's of gratuitous pyro and blood and gore is best not shown for the maintenance of proper respect for the combatants of this crucible of br br this film glories in the magnificence of men fighting for their lives with honour courage dignity and irrepressible spirit and humour in the face of appalling adversity this film is not interested in making a spectacle for fools to cheer over the brutal outcomes that from these personal combats of these men is not a thing that those that survived ever wished to see on a screen for entertainment they saw enough of that at the time and would much rather have never seen it at first and never wished to review such scenes again on a screen in the name of entertainment the brutal horrors of the actualities of the vicious combat fought at gallipoli were scenes that haunted their waking and sleeping hours for the rest of their natural days it was the painful internal scars they the men of all those nations who fought carried inside to their graves they all fought and many died in the face of it all and somehow they those mighty hearted men managed to laugh in the teeth of constant dread death because they would'nt insult their mates by not being prepared to die game beside them that's for brave game is but it applied to all combatants to a greater or lesser degree but word from the boy's that fought was that johhny was as game that is as brave as you would ever wish for a soldier to be br br and turks were fighting to establish their place on the world stage and from 25 04 15 onwards their respective claims for equality in were made known and undeniable to that world the director has made a masterpiece that truly honours the spirit and memory of those soldiers and serves as a reminder to future generations of all ages for children can be taken without fear of frightening them for the sake of visual horror and it's morbid and pointless appeal and children should attend this movie so as to learn what happened at that sacred shore before they were born so that they can remember for it is the nature of men that they soon forget
1	there is an interesting split in the voting for this movie at the moment at least those who go expecting a documentary are impressed or at least not disappointed i anticipate that those giving the film 1 out of 10 are those who expected a war movie or a re enaction of the invasion of gallipoli br br so if you want to see actors gunfire and gore this film will not suit you if you want to see an independent documentary about gallipoli without bias towards any one side the only enemy in these events was the war itself then you'll come away both impressed and i found it a very moving film and even quite liked captain guy nightingale by the end
1	i've seen this amusing little times the only problem is its currently unavailable on video or dvd i'ts certainly a contender for a dvd release the much missed richard jordan plays an ex pat american whose just been released from prison he finds himself a job as an electrician in a bank it all goes well until he finds himself embroiled in a bank heist with his ex cronies david niven plays the mastermind ivan its an enjoyable little romp hopefully studio canal or anchor bay will come to the rescue look out for john rhys davies before he struck it big with raiders of the lost ark 'lord of the rings' in a small role as a barrister
1	david master of debonair niven plays the big boss ivan who preys upon the unfortunate richard jordan pinky by forcing the hapless ex con to exploit his ill found new position in a bank elke sommer miss pelham most effectively provides the female interest whom pinkie cannot simply cannot resist br br it seems they were unable to decide on one name for this film so instead they used four makes sense br br sadly this turn out to be one of niven's last roles br br overall this film is fun and well worth watching if you manage to catch one of its rare or late night tv screenings br br
1	when pinky a qualified electrician is released from prison his parole officer has found him a job working at a big city bank when some of the crime underworld from his past learn of his position they plan to exploit it and rob the bank pinky is at first horrified because he really wants to go straight but when a twist of fate happens pinky begins to think one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth br br also known as the mayfair bank caper amongst others this is a hugely enjoyable piece that is quintessential 1970s london and all it's highly dubious fashions are lit up like a christmas tree in ralph thomas and guy cunningly crafty caper if the viewer can accept david niven as an aged crime lord of some it's not easy i can tell you then a nightingale sang in berkeley square could well surprise you the actors aren't pulling up any trees for sure but it's really not hurting the picture at all it has an honest fun quality that is never less than entertaining the score and soundtrack is perhaps guilty of over during the dramatic criminal moments but it's a minor complaint to leave me thinking this is an under seen british gem br br richard jordan takes the lead role of pinky obviously hoping to lure in american viewers 70s heart throb oliver tobias a mass of hair is in there to keep the ladies interested whilst the blokes get the pleasurable sight of elke sommer and her delightful legs for company moving along at a decent enough clip and containing a seriously rewarding finale a nightingale sang in berkeley square deserves far better than the paltry 5 7 rating here on imdb but just how many people have seen it i wonder hmm go on give it a go if you the chance it's good stuff 7 10
1	i have not seen a van damme flick for a while pleasantly surprised he still has it looking older but tougher kind of like sly becomes more rugged with age this is a good flick and has prompted me to take a look at all the van damme movies i have missed over the last ten years i would like to see a good director put van damme on the big screen with a good plot van damme still has the moves to amaze the audiences the last movie viewed with van damme was legionnaire that was a good flick as well in addition i looked in to van damme's early fighting history i too my amazement i realized he is the real deal very accomplished martial artist in his younger years
1	a gem of a british caper comedy poor american schlub pinky green richard jordan playing another bad guy but this time an adorable one gets out of a british jail and tries to go straight but his maintenance man job in a bank is too attractive for his never reformed criminal friends headed up by a really nasty ivan david niven in one of his last roles pinky resists but the lure of all that money is just too much for him things unravel and and it's all joyous to watch jordan must have played 20 bad guys in his career but he never played the same one twice this one is just too lovable to hate niven never played a slicker bad guy oil all over two fine actors we've lost that i wish we had back
1	just ingenious enough to be plausible and still a lot of fun this is a pure slice of the 1970s even the cops need haircuts badly shot in and around london the plot of the american ex con who tries going straight but finds himself sent as an electrician to a bank in mayfair and then has the screws put on by crime lord david niven and finds himself plotting the crime of the century is well handled br br i liked its simplicity and even innocence it harks back to a time when caper films where just that a caper and violence wasn't a part of the deal br br all in all you could do a lot worse than watch this it has enough twists and turns to give it some oomph and a cast that obviously had fun making it br br nicely made and watchable
1	i remember seeing this film in the mid 80's thought it a well paced and well acted piece i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed although my office is it just 30 seconds away from the bank even jack car dealership is still there selling and rolls br br it's look like the dvd is due a region 2 release soon the region 1 copy i is very poor quality let's hope they've cleaned it up br br only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with
1	delightful it never pretends to be a masterpiece but it's a mini gem of late seventies british comedy given that the producers wanted to sell it abroad it stars an american the late character actor richard jordan but at least he isn't the usual dull hollywood hunk type surrounding him is the cream of british character acting talent led by a wonderfully waspish and superior david niven br br niven's ivan the terrible naturally gets the best one liners and all the best reaction shots he also manages to be surprisingly menacing and dangerous the moment in the snooker club when he drops the charming facade and threatens richard jordan will come as a shock to those viewers who think of niven as being only a light drawing room comedy star he is filled with genuine power and ruthlessness as we see all at once how ivan earned his nickname all the more surprising given how ill niven was at the time shortly after filming this production he lost his powers of speech to lateral sclerosis known as lou gehrig's disease this is the last picture niven made where you can hear his own voice being dubbed thereafter by the comic impressionist sid caesar br br alongside him you can spot numerous familiar faces from seventies cinema and television elke sommer flashing her breasts in true seventies era politically incorrect bimbo mode oliver tobias michael brian croucher davy kaye etc etc davy kaye gets one of the biggest laughs as he holds up a security guard caught making a phone call who you ringing bloody dial a disc you gormless git br br great shots of london street locations making the film a period patina time capsule of red phone boxes with chunky round dial manual black cabs driven by cor blimey gov cockneys and ladies and gents modelling all manner of deeply dodgy late seventies retro leisure wear and hair styles br br unlike the classic ealing comedies of an earlier era the 'hero' is allowed to get away with his crime and escape to a life in the sun how times had changed the morality code by which crooks in films always had to be seen to be punished had long gone by the seventies with anti heroes like pinky green earning status through their cheeky anti authoritarianism and determination to a at a stuffy capitalist establishment of be suited fat cat businessmen we are encouraged to cheer as pinky makes off unpunished and free as a bird with his ill gotten gains compare that to the ending of the lavender hill mob br br highly entertaining dated in its fashions and attitudes and the stuff of late night cult viewing perfect to watch at midnight after the pubs have shut if you're of a certain age are feeling a touch nostalgic and have always wanted to see david niven in a branch of mcdonalds silently intimidating an american via the use of a retractable telescope
1	i provided location services on the this film every sunday we would shoot in london's berkeley square david niven ever the gentleman thoroughly enjoyed the role sadly to be his last we had a moment of panic when a trunk load of fake cast for the film tipped down a storm drain br br imagine frantic crew opening all the drains to recover every last one if you know and love london you'll love this comedy romp also starts richard jordan who sadly died from a brain tumour a good film great crew superb cast look for the current stars of coronation street then playing crowd scenes or extras the car lot and retail enterprises were all shot in west london the entire shopping parade and the american used car lot were dressed overnight the car lot is still there as are the shops a restaurant was suddenly turned into a funeral parlour if you see the film on the listings make an effort to see it by the way sally harrison the bank receptionist was married to the production designer tony curtis br br april 2007 just thought i would add a few extra comments on locations br br pub just off berkeley square elke sommers cottage in back road film studios ivans used car lot along high street and all shop locations near roundabout workshops converting armoured vans factory on roundabout opposite brewery jail see workshops above telephone box see elke sommers cottage it was the wooden studio prop box used in many films look for the lighting cable at level and the wood hinges on the door computer room near olympia graveyard grave just outside the boundary on common land bank interiors ceiling void and studios br br and just to add david niven ever the gentleman joked and mixed with the crew extras and so on niven would dine in the connaught hotel bu join the crew for coffee
1	i recently bought this movie on dvd at a discount store for 5 although it is a no frills dvd on the label just the movie that starts playing immediately no menu no special features the picture and sound quality were excellent the movie is based on the true story of one of the biggest bank robberies in history br br richard jordan who i must admit to not having heard of plays the lead pinky green a charming young man who had spent too much of his few years in prison and now wanted to go straight but is not allowed to do so he portrays an american in england david niven plays the lead bad guy also with the great charm for which he is famous bad but with scruples as when he refuses to deny pinky his whack for the job whack in england apparently is the fair share of the take and not a bullet in the head as in american gangster films all the supporting cast do an excellent job producing a very believable movie br br what is perhaps best to me is that the whole movie is quite enjoyable and understandable i frequently find myself lost in plot confusions and various characters without any special effects no blood no violence not even a single car chase just a well written story well acted well directed and well photographed if i had any complaints about the movie i would question the music what is bluegrass music doing in a bank heist story that takes place in england
1	this movie is an almost forgotten gem from 1979 which although in essence a comedy it was based on one of the uk's biggest ever bank heists in fact one of the titles that this film is known by includes caper therefore that in its self is an indication of the type of movie a of a bunch of lovable rouges who are not the violent or psychotic types who with cheek an guile pull off the biggest job of their lives to be honest i don't really know too much about the real crime and can't comment if it accurately depicted the events that unfolded or the characters involved br br richard jordan handles himself very well playing pinky green and is very believable as an easy going small time american born crook who seems very comfortable with himself i have to add that sometimes american actors struggle gel well with english actors in a british made film the chemistry is not always there however this is no problem for who fits right in with his role br br it's worth pointing out that jordan himself was probably one of the most underrated actors of the 70's and 80's and never really got the recognition he deserved he seemed to get stuck in supporting roles and b movies not a fair representation of his acting ability he has played a corrupt cop in the friends of eddy coyle a sadistic killer in the mean season in the secret of my success he played a sort of comical gordon character and also in the 1980's equalizer tv show he played a good guy all of this displays the versatility of his acting skills while mixing with the likes of david niven kurt russell edward woodward and robert br br in this movie he effortlessly plays his part as a small time crook with the eye for the ladies and you immediately take to his character and root for him from the beginning you can't help liking green – – you see he really did want to go straight but once blackmailed it all seemed too much of an opportunity to pass up and in the end he relished the thought of all that money br br david niven is the boss and calls the shots the police inspector was brilliantly played by richard johnson who typically portrayed a smarmy but thorough london detective who clearly loves his job the other supporting cast don't say too much but looking at them they were all very well known british character actors who often found themselves playing either villains or coppers isn't that ironic sommers oliver tobias do what they have to do and it's good to see gloria graham in a cameo role br br to some viewers particularly americans it would seem ludicrous that somebody with greens record could land a maintenance job at of all things a bank and come and go when he pleases in addition the stunt he pulled at the crown court after sentencing was not as far fetched as it might seem back in the 1960's and 70's security was not as nearly as tight as it is now br br as for the movie itself there are a couple of interesting observations with small time crooks the haul here was too much there have been other movies where this occurs too i e the mat it's not just the disposal or the hiding of the loot but with so many people involved somebody is going to be careless is going to or just simply break once leaned on in addition the authorities come down on very hard on local rouges when such huge robbery is carried out also they say there is no honor amongst thieves but ivan was adamant that pinky got his whack you only had too look at his stare in the dock if looks could kill a look of total betrayal how could he have dobbed them all in after taking care of him you have to ask yourself a question why is it that crooks can be so stupid did green really think that he could sweet talk his way out of suspicion a second time around inspector was not at all fooled by his innocent looking face as well as a well constructed alibi the whole caper reeked of inside job in addition you have to wonder why they leave so many clues a note pad with the safe numbers jotted down travel brochures for overseas trips still leaving his telescope around as well as unusual behavior on the day of the robbery which was out of character br br with some decent but common sense police work insp quickly had the measure of green picked him up and soon had him singing like a canary it just shows how despite well thought out planning things can unravel very quickly there is never a clean getaway for every body some are always going to get nabbed although it's worth pointing out that a lot of the money was never recovered br br all in all an entertaining movie interesting shots of london and england in the late 70's well paced with a great ending i would highly recommend this particularly if you enjoy capers note i recently purchased a dvd of this but the transfer was obviously taken from a vhs tape and is of poor quality therefore do not pay too much for it
1	i have seen this movie about 4 times and every time i am impressed with the second camera assistant's work seems trivial but there is something very professional knowledgeable and talented there the movie as a whole suffers from other problems as stated by other comments the significance so the issues being approached are as relevant today as it was 40 years ago the acting is a bit strained but the work of the second camera assistant is stellar this person needs to get back into the business perhaps directing what is this person waiting for i will be watching and waiting and cheering from the sidelines bob
1	please why not put this fantastic film on dvd i have been searching just like the previous writer for years whats the hold up or show it on tv its so underestimated its one of the most romantic and beautifully written books i have ever read and believe i have read some i seem to think it was read on radio 4 but i can't find that either why not try and remake it even i promise it will be top earner people love those sorts of stories so please either release it and take us out of our misery or remake it although i doubt if it could be improved upon has any one read gone to earth by the same author or seen the film with jennifer jones this is superb but not to the same extent may be
1	superbly adapted to the screen and extremely faithful to mary webb's period novel this film is a true masterpiece aside from the exceptionally talented rising star janet mcteer as the lead and one or two established actors the film used mostly little known names yet the drama was all the more convincing for that the social and personal tension is almost tangible and i felt as if the cast were reacting each other's character as though they would have done in real life i saw that one commentator asked if janet mcteer really had a hare lip a testimony to just how good was her characterisation i saw this on tv when it was first shown taped it then later the tape was sadly lost but it remains clear as anything in my mind if you have any fondness at all for the social period it's an absolute must see
1	after 10 years it is finally save to say that our belgian action star is back again i personally found this one to be even better than wake of death which makes it his best movie in 10 years okay it is not like his highlight years as timecop universal soldier sudden death or even his best effort to date hard target one of the best action movies ever made by one of the best action directors john woo the action is good the story is exciting the dialogue is quite funny this one is better than expected the bad guys are awesome like in hard target and the fight scenes are old school real fans know what to expect i must say i gave up on him but van damme is finally back more please
1	i loved this program and for years searched for it on video i've contacted a great many folks in my attempts to get a copy to no avail br br i do however have the second half of the program i would be willing to share my half with anyone who can give me a copy of the first half of this show i'd offer to provide copies of what i have to anyone but it's just only part of the program so it's just not an adequate representation of the show br br there are a few folks selling this on ebay for some incredible cost and that's plainly not fair not to mention blatant copyright violations br br please send any correspondence to aol com
1	please let me know of any versions of precious bane or gone to earth on video that people may be aware of i love the books of mary webb wholeheartedly and would be very grateful to have any information on either vhs or dvd br br i've read precious bane and gone to earth which are my favorites by mary webb many times and have collected other novels by her also i was lucky to have found her springs of joy poetry and essays but i've never been able to see the precious bane version that was on masterpiece theatre or the full version of gone to earth although there was an american movie classic airing of the wild heart which was a chopped up version of gone to earth's original film br br if anyone can assist me in obtaining copies of either or both of these films full versions i would be so thankful
1	as you can see i loved the book so much i use the title for my internet alias and have for over 15 years okay so it had to be spelled phonetically to fit the name character limit for the bbs at the time but what could i do if anyone every finds this movie i would absolutely love to see it janet mcteer is great in everything else i've seen of hers i think she would have made a great and it even features early clive owen from before chancer a great series itself what's not to love i hope the powers that be wise up and make this available on dvd soon with some of the true dredge they pout out it's about time well executed productions make it on the market too
1	in the early 19th century a young woman with a falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community but she meets a man who may see her differently and just may change life forever br br precious bane is a british broadcasting corporation adaptation of the highly acclaimed novel by mary webb it's a beautifully filmed piece that is acted to an incredibly high standard the story screenplay by maggie is excellent and the period detail and use of dialect is second to none it's such a shame that this film has yet to get a dvd release one would have thought that with clive owen's great here as gideon rise to stardom the bbc would get it out there but sadly no so the only way of catching it is on the very rare occasions that tcm shows it the lead performance from janet mcteer as is simply brilliant guts and genuine emotion go hand in hand as mcteer gives it her all has to not only contend with her facial disfigurement but also the constant and hurt from the ignorant villagers this is a time when folk believed that if a hare ran in front of a pregnant woman it spelt doom a time of bull baiting a time of superstitions and talk of witches in spite of constant set backs is strong and resourceful even her own family knock her dreams back without realising it but this road may well be a terribly bumpy one but hope is everlasting and has hope in abundance br br 8 5 10
1	i was fortunate enough to record this wonderful drama both parts when it originally aired on masterpiece theatre i loved it but lost it then one day while going through old tapes found it again i recorded it to dvd and watched and wow i still love it the leads are excellent and my only complaint is i wish we had seen more what a man and she's so strong and wonderful living in a time and age where her affliction and how she deals with it is seen as unfortunate and evil even her own brother tells to her face that he doubts that a man will ever have her sigh unfortunately my copy is not the greatest with wear and tear over the years and i too would absolutely love to own this on professional dvd if it ever happens
1	i'm lucky enough to have a good quality copy of my vhs on dvd so i can now watch this over and over again the characters are so well played i can't find fault with any aspect of the casting ok so there are a few differences from the book but the old cliché of love conquering all is so powerfully portrayed that it makes no difference the reality of living in the rural countryside of early 19th century england is beautifully contrasted by the changing seasons from biting winter to glorious summer days and this is mirrored in the different characters from bullying father to all encompassing love a story that changed my life
1	i have copied my video of this on to dvd so that i can enjoy it whenever i like and it makes a very successful and rare wedding present as well this is just an absolutely wonderful adaptation of a much loved novel everything about it is just perfect and it has aged amazingly well there is always a chance with something this old that it might appear a bit creaky next to more modern dramas but more than holds its own br br the quality of the acting is amazing with janet mcteer making a superlative prudence and a young clive owen stomping around as the taciturn gideon br br i challenge anyone to watch the final sequence without at least a little at the sheer romance of it all it is the perfect film to watch when it is cold outside and you are snuggled up on the sofa br br i really can't recommend this highly enough
1	when precious bane aired in america i was stunned by this beautiful story all the actors were brilliant clive owen really understood the character he played i went right away to a bookstore and ordered the original novel which is even more beautiful and which went out of print just after i bought the book although i've seen it online a few times now i had also hoped with the oscar won by janet mcteer and the huge popularity of clive owen the bbc would naturally get this fine production on dvd i cannot believe all these years later we still have no dvd it has to be the only production ever created by the bbc that is not for sale come on bbc you have money to make off us fans here get this on dvd please
1	having known and loved this book since i was eleven i was terrified to see it coming up as a movie what if they'd made a dreadful mess of it in the event i needn't have worried at all everyone was very well cast and the acting is terrific it followed the story very well except for the strange addition of the scene in the prison which to me added nothing at all however it really is the most beautiful love story and i'm so glad i it so i can watch it again and again my only gripe is why didn't they give a green 'which made him such a personable man' such a simple thing when they went to so much trouble for everything else if you get the chance see this it is excellent
1	just reading the reviews of this wonderful bbc mini series reminded me how much i enjoyed this when it was first broadcast many years ago at the time i remember waiting with anticipation for the next installment and fell in love with john bowe and janet mcteer two talented actors that we don't see enough of on tv or cinema these days br br i have tried without success to obtain several of the fantastic dramas from the past including the 1973 version of jane eyre and the 1972 version of anne of green gables all wonderful timeless classic stories which sadly the bbc seem to have no intention of releasing on video or dvd if anyone learns otherwise i would love to hear from them br br in the meantime we will have to content ourselves with our recollections of how wonderful they were
1	like steven seagal i also am a big van damme fan and have followed most of his movies since the start of his acting career br br in this flick van damme assumes the role of jack whom is a cop that just moved to new mexico from new orleans to work as part of the border patrol haunted by memories of his past it is up to jack to put an end to a group of ex navy seals from smuggling illegal drugs into the u s that killed his daughter br br overall i found this film to be very good van damme is in very good shape for 48 years old and can really move the action scenes are very intense and the movie even throws a couple of plot twists in to keep you guessing unfortunately van damme does not have the same intensity as he did say 10 years ago regardless the shepherd border control is the 3rd straight solid film that van damme has made possibly opening the door for a larger project br br i definitely recommend this movie to a van damme fan or fan of action movies in general the shepherd border control is a great movie not as good as until death but better than the hard corps be sure to give this one a try you will not be disappointed
1	hi i am john and i would like to tell you all that my dog was in this film at the baiting screen he was the pit like one that was going to bite the man chained up my dogs name was colin and he stayed away filming for a week for this film he was also in other things like crime watch uk and some other small parts he won some dog shows but he has passed away now i miss him he was a great true and loyal dog and we had some great times together but he got cancer which could not be treated so i had to get him put down that was the worst day of my life i hope this gives you some thing to look for in the film if you watch it again br br thanks all
1	this is a great tv miniseries of a classic novel janet mcteer and john bowe in the lead roles are exceptional this is one of the best adaptations from a book that i have seen i would love to get a copy of this let me know if you know how i might get one thanks
1	i'm so happy i recorded this on vhs tape when it was featured on master piece theatre this is a movie i can watch again and again like living in the early 1800's in england isn't hard enough is born with a hare lip and is outcast from birth the people in her village accept her somewhat but always fear that she is from the devil's and are quick to turn on her especially when a lot of bad luck befalls her family she is strong and courageous but shies away from a traveling weaver who catches her eye partly because she fears rejection and also because she thinks he is so virile that he should have a wife who is as lovely as a lily is a modern man who does not believe in the superstitions of the time and he speaks his mind and follows his heart the movie stays true to the original story by mary webb and is riveting from beginning to end
1	when this was first aired on masterpiece theatre it had a profound effect on me it's beautifully filmed and acted i immediately read the book by mary webb and it remains one of my all time favorites janet mcteer is wonderful as and i fully expected her to become a regular on the british drama scene i guess she chose to focus on the british stage instead br br i was hoping that with the american success of janet mcteer years later with tumbleweeds this film would again become available to us alas it has not yet been released on dvd if anyone out there is listening please make this available again
1	this is a charming movie starring everyone's favorite cartoon chipmunks in this feature we follow the band of rodents on an unforgettable balloon race around the world although there are lows including an orphan penguin all in all it's a great family film
1	plot in a nutshell dave seville father figure manager of the chipmunk brothers alvin simon theodore has gone off to europe on a business trip leaving the boys at home with miss miller as their watcher much to the chagrin of alvin who wanted to go to europe while playing against his female counterpart brittany the leader of the comprised of her younger sisters jeanette the female counterpart of simon and eleanor the female counterpart of theodore in a fierce arcade game of around the world in 30 days they catch the attention of two evil foreign siblings who need to smuggle money diamonds around the world but need a way to do it that won't draw the attention of their arch enemy jamal the 2 evil siblings claudia klaus overhear the banter between alvin brittany and decide to use them as the delivery boys girls for their loot more claudia's idea than the latter initially objects feeling that it's too dangerous for children the 2 siblings make an offer to the boys girls travel via air balloons to 12 drop off points to leave dolls which resemble the kids that contain diamonds and or money to indicate their arrival with the promise that whoever wins the race will get an obscene amount of money but as the two different set of talking animal siblings make their rounds they are stalked by the henchmen of jamal but who is jamal is he friend or foe br br overall enjoyable lighthearted farce based on the 1980s tv series version of alvin the chipmunks beautiful animation is a highlight lacks the crude humor that keeps creeping into today's family films and engaging songs boys girls of rock roll being a stand out eagle eyed fans will probably notice that character design has been tweaked from the animated series giving her a less round face while adding a seemingly permanent blush to cheeks which jeanette eleanor also display br br keep an ear out for nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson
1	i was unlike most of the reviewers not born in the 80's i was born on may 14th 1994 despite this my life was very much in the style of the 80's when other kids had i was playing zelda on my nes etc now this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only 15 years old at the time of writing this review i because of my 80's style early childhood watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn't see and this movie was one of those and one of the greatest too br br it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville simon seville theodore seville and david seville david the chipmunk's adoptive father is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack while they are talking alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world even though technically dave is only going to europe so to alvin apparently only america and europe qualify as ''the david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller much to the displeasure of the boys soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller later at a local café the chipmunks are playing a game of the world in 30 against the brittany jeanette and eleanore after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile alvin get's in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table klaus and claudia overhear their argument and needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world decide to fool the children into delivering them for them they set up a race around the world where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness filled with diamonds at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team's likeness filled with the payment for the diamonds to that they were the winning team would then receive a 100 000 dollar reward they do this because they believe that jamal an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now would never suspect them because they are just kids however this seems to be redundant because on their travels the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally and so begins a great adventure this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it it features great animation and top notch voice acting not to mention the kick ass music pardon my french p my favorite song is without a shred of doubt ''the girls and boys of rock and an amazing rock song that cannot be topped it's also my favorite moment in the film other notable songs include kind of suggestive for a kid's film eh and as well as and to see the not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra the scene with still brings a tear to my eye in relation to the song i first didn't think anything of it but when i grew older and learned about life it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive that song along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the panties this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the are being chased by the arabian prince's men when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film it's one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are 4 feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child anyway a bit after that scene the discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home the direction of janice perfects this movie as she and her husband ross jr know the characters better than anyone they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the ross doing the voices for alvin and simon as well as dave and janice doing the voices for all the and theodore speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson makes an appearance in this movie she plays the part of the arabian prince a very small but important role the ending is of course a happy one the crooks have been caught the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset alvin complaining about not having gotten his 100 000 dollar reward for winning the race which annoys dave until he finally yells '' and the screen fades to black br br classic ending by the way i hope you found my review of this movie useful and if you haven't seen this flick give it a watch it's worth the money this nostalgic classic from the 80's gets a solid 10 out of 10 br br for the top don't you know we never stop believing now''
1	the feature length cgi movie has just been released this year but whilst it will provide kids a lot of entertainment for die hard alvin fanatics and followers who grew up with the 60s and 80s versions of the cartoon shows the chipmunk adventure is probably the best alvin and the chipmunks based animated movie ever br br for starters the animation is as ever terrific the character designs are as they should be in the cartoons unlike the motion picture film itself it is just sheer fun to watch there are no celeb voices no cgi generated effects just pure quality 2 d hand drawn animation and the colours are fantastic bright bold and beautiful the jokes and humour is typical chipmunk standard and the narrative is spot on in truth the chipmunk adventure is everything the live action movie ought to have been but isn't alvin simon and theodore compete with the jeanette and britney in a hot air balloon contest and along the way the kids encounter all manner of problems and dilemmas that they have to resolve in their own way and no chipmunk movie is complete without the odd renditions of classic rock and pop anthems br br the chipmunk adventure is for kids and adults alike which is another advantage over the cgi movie as whereas the 2007 version will gain a few new admirers the 1987 movie will appeal to both young and older chipmunk fans and provide the helium like voices of the film's trio br br overall this film is a must for fans of the cartoon shows themselves you will not be left disappointed if you have seen the live action version then you'll feel that this movie is a much better effort in contrast if you haven't then you should go and see it still or even still forget the jason lee movie and as an alternative stick with this
1	if your a child of the 80's and have not seen this movie you have failed to be a true child of the 80's how can you not love those great chipmunks don't forget about the lines and songs years later i can still sing every word to every song the story line is great and much better then the films for kids today it's just pure fun and worth the rent even if your all grown up
1	i have been an avid chipmunk fan since the late 70's early 80's when this movie came out it was a must to see it and after seeing it i went right over and bought it the movie is great i love the animated action it brings and the music is great yes i bought the soundtrack on cd a recommended video for everyone to watch and enjoy
1	i thought that this was the most interesting film that has done in a very long time i loved his character and the whole thing with the rabbit set a different tone for this film imho may really be on to something going forward a little more light heartedness some obvious homages to other films mixed in with some great fights i would like to see more this style of film making from him one of the other posters thought that the bar scene was a desperado rip off i immediately saw the r rodriguez connection also but thought it was very clever and made me want to see the film again to look for more subtle cues from other films rocks br br other stuff after reading other comments br br no music in the dungeon fight at first i didn't like that at first either but then i thought it was interesting because it threw me off balance a bit by giving us something that we didn't expect made it seem more real br br i also always get a laugh when directors cry like 2 year olds that their film was stolen from the studio directors are paid to do a job the studio is the boss and they want the product that they want very few directors have absolute final cut on a film in this case is the talent and the only reason anyone is watching this film i am sure he got a film that he was happy with i have a relative who works at a post house who knew a little of the story presumably the director worked on and delivered his cut of the film everyone who saw it said it was a disaster then and the studio re edited the movie this stuff happens all the time he also did see the final cut which he claims he didn't and his delicate genius ego was severely bruised because they hated his delivered cut if this director was smart he should have taken credit for this one as it would have been his best
1	this movie is a classic kids now will love it and people like me who were kids when it first came out still watch it for its nostalgic value as well as for its humor and great story it introduces kids to different cultures and inspires them to adventure it's not just a cartoon it's a masterpiece i love it
1	i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don't say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children's film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children
1	i loved this movie and i never knew it was this old it came out the day n year i was born in and now i am 19 now i still love this movie especially the songs like my mother and boys and girls of rock n roll and i remember as a kid i believe i was 5 n my sister was 6 and my cousin boy was 6 as well we used to pretend to be the characters in the movie i was and janette and my sister was and my cousin was alvin simon and theodore those were good times and i miss it and having this movie reminds me of the good times since my cousin is old for this stuff and so am i and my sis we are not going to forget about the chipmunk and the chipmunk movie i still even remember the songs and the words off by heart even though i haven't seen this movie for 12 years but now starting to love it again alvin and the chipmunks and 3 3 3 3
1	this was one of the best movies you could find as a child i lived with the chipmunk adventure from 4 years old to 8 years old the story of this film was dave's going on a business trip to europe and sticks the boys with miss miller while playing an around the world in 80 days video game two villains klaus and claudia brother and sister round the chipmunks and into an adventure in which the kids must hot air balloon their way across the globe what they're unaware of is that the game is really a diamond smuggling ring and when found at the airport by the villains a chase ensues and which ends in klaus and claudia off to jail and alvin simon theodore brittany jeanette and eleanor safe with dave and miss miller but i am warning you now this is a musical and quite a damn good one at that most people hate musicals but i am not one of those people i frigging love musicals like rocky horror grease sound of music cats don't dance and just about anything except for my fair lady if you see this share with your kids if you got any
1	when i first saw this movie i was only a little kid and i fell in love with it they really don't make movies like this anymore i just watch this again now slightly older and still love it br br the humour is perfect and fits into the movie really well all the gags are kind of childish but will make adults laugh as well and in a kids movie is really very rare br br the animation is amazing and to watch hand drawn animation is a real breath of fresh air to all the computer animation we see today the backgrounds are stunning and the coloring is amazing br br the characters are just the kind of characters that you fall in love with the moment you start watching girls will think the chipmunks are adorable and guys will think the are really kinda sexy br br the songs are fun to listen too and some just really make you wanna cry or get up and dance its also fun to watch visual humor to go along with them br br the voice acting is great no doubt even if most of the voice acting is high pitch but an interesting thing popped up and it one of the songs from this movie but the slowed down to show the real voices behind them and its really kinda fun to watch br br if you see this movie in a store or somewhere to rent i say check it out it's really worth seeing and is a perfect family movie its absolutely amazing words can not express this movie
1	awwww i just love this movie to bits me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon come to mention it i have not see the tv show in a long time such times where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don't know what there missing br br the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n'roll diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother br br this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today 10 out of 10 such an excellent movie
1	the chipmunk adventure is one of the greatest animated movies of the 1980's alvin and the chipmunks have always been of some interest to me since they were what really got me into rock and roll neither one of the chipmunks has any bad traits alvin's really the star and has all the cool looks theodore is the lovable sensitive one then there's simon my personal favorite the smart one who is often a party i also like the a lot there's brittany who like alvin is one who is always trying to be so popular then there's eleanor who like theodore is sweet sensitive and loves food janette is the only who is not much like her counterpart she's very naive and really clumsy br br in the very first full length movie david seville is going on a business trip to europe and he's leaving the boys with miss miller while he's gone while playing an arcade game alvin loses against brittany and then says that if he had the money he'd race brittany around the world for real unbeknownest to the kids a man named klaus and his sister claudia who have been trying to come up with a sneaky way to deliver diamonds around the world in exchange for cash overheard this conversation and said that they'd let them race around the world for 100 000 alvin and brittany accept it and go on the race br br this adventurous movie has a lot of great songs off to see the world made for an appropriate theme song for the movie then there is getting lucky one of my favorite songs in the movie my mother is most likely the song in the movie but it always makes me cry wooly bully is the only cover song used in the movie the rest were completely original then of course there's the boys and girls of rock and roll which in my opinion has to be one of the greatest musical numbers in movie history br br i used to watch this movie very often until my recorded tape of it died i still watch the movie though this is actually a fun movie for people who are about to go on a vacation to a foreign country for the first time it'll give you an idea of what kind of stuff you'd expect out of world travel definitely one of my childhood movies and one that i'd recommend to 80's fans and alvin the chipmunks fans
1	although it is more of a kids movie it still holds its own especially when compared to the more recent assembly line animated films being made the music is fantastic i don't care how old you are you will still find yourself to girls of rock and roll and diamond dolls definatly a must for animation lovers
1	i loved this movie when i was a kid i saw it theatrically randy edelman did a good composition of the soundtrack david seville is the father and recording manager the chipmunks consist of alvin who is best known for playing the harmonica simon who is a bright and studious chipmunk theodore who is the youngest and is always hungry there is a lady known as miss miller who looks after the chipmunks and has 3 daughters known as brittany jeanette eleanor who all have the same character as the chipmunks my favourite songs from this soundtrack include diamond dolls the girls of rock roll the touching my mother alvin really wanted to see europe when dave had to go there for business the chipmunks meet the playing the around the world in 30 days video game which led them to race each other doing the real thing
1	to this day there isn't a movie i've seen more times than the chipmunk adventure nor has any movie brought me more happiness this is by no means the greatest film or even the greatest animated film but to an 8 year old girl in 1988 it was the coolest funniest most exciting film ever i'm still equally as impressed today with the musical numbers each one a standout song with wonderfully dramatic lyrics in the epic tradition of 80's pop think pat on helium only catchier br br controversy has stirred over the blatantly suggestive tone of the song gettin' lucky with you which to me seemed much more innocent at the time however looking at it as a rational adult i can totally understand the concern you've got three young girls in skimpy harem outfits passionately proclaiming getting lucky is what it's all about the were definitely sexualized tenfold for this movie br br but this controversial issue doesn't even come close to overshadowing the otherwise fabulous feature length animated adventure i encourage parents and childless adults alike to check out this movie especially if you were a child of the eighties early nineties like me
1	it's really good to see van damme's film are slowly getting better of late and especially compared to c grade flops derailed and second in command which were both tragic and not in a good way the sheperd border patrol is a good action flick with some really great action fight sequences it's good to know that van damme still knows how to kick seeing as his last film until death had no martial arts in it at all br br that being said this film is significantly inferior to until death which was a really good turn for van damme until death lacked the over the top action of most van damme films but was dark and gritty and van damme's performance as an actor was surprisingly good in that film still the shepherd is definitely a film worth checking out especially for van damme fans or just action movie fans in general but if you're looking for a film with a bit more story line you may want to skip this one br br i do believe that this film was done well enough especially on what little budget it would have been shot on the only real problem i have with this film is the title the shepherd i don't get it i suppose border patrol just doesn't have the same ring to it without the word shepherd in front of it br br my rating for this film is 7 out of 10 but that's by van damme movie standards not in any other film category br br i e it's good for a van damme film
1	the chipmunk adventure br br there are some movies that i could watch all my life and never grow tired of them and this nostalgic favorite is one of them the chipmunk adventure was a 1987 attempt to bring the old favorites back to the forefront of animation this time on the big screen in an age when disney dominated the film industry in terms of animation quality and box office the chipmunk adventure stands as one of the best animated films that disney didn't produce in the 80's br br the story is simple and elementary having alvin simon theodore compete in an around the world race with the janette eleanor brittany however as the chipmunks encounter exotic dangers they are unaware that they are the pawns in a major diamond heist br br the chipmunk adventure never was and never will be a film that soars thanks to an engrossing plot and to people who didn't love it as a child the film will probably never be more then an enjoyable yet forgettable animated movie but for me it will always be a little known masterpiece something about the film just clicks for me in a way few films do br br every song is fun upbeat and harmless highlights include the in a slightly risqué arabian dance to calm snakes there's also a very sweet song in which the chipmunks sing about traveling the world and we get to see them at major landmarks throughout the globe one thing about the chipmunk characters is that despite the potentially annoying vocals the songwriters always managed to write songs that were catchy without ever being grating this film is no exception it actually boasts one of the best animated movie soundtracks of the 80's if you ask me br br every joke is cute sincere and amusing the bits between the bad guys and a pampered puppy are very amusing and the shock of seeing the nearly forced into marriage by a child emperor is as well the comedy manages to constantly play to the kids so that they don't miss anything but everything remains charming for the adults with enough nostalgia to keep them entertained br br it's really just a fun trip that is completely humble in it's ambitions the chipmunk adventure never aims to be anything more then it is harmless fun i'll be the first to admit this is a biased review because i have such a nostalgic fondness for the chipmunk adventure that i would never be able to give it a bad review but nonetheless it fills me with such a childish contentment while watching it everyone has their random favorite from childhood that no one knows and for me it's this movie and any film that i can watch over and over whether i am 5 12 23 or older is a great film in my eyes br br a
1	one of my absolute favorite childhood films the chipmunk adventure packs incredible fun geared for young and old alike the animation is lively and colorful and the film itself boasts some of the best songs ever put in an animated feature who could forget the dynamic boys girls of rock n' roll the exciting diamond dolls and the heartrending my mother br br this should be considered a nostalgic classic animated gem from the eighties it's too bad they don't make them like this anymore most animated films today resort to violence crude humor or sentimental mush except of course the folks from pixar br br bottom line an amazing and unforgettable adventure for all ages
1	i've loved this movie for a long time i hadn't seen it in a while so i again checked it out and actually found it even more enjoyable now i loved the chipmunks cartoon when i was young so naturally i adored 'the chipmunk adventure ' br br i honestly can't think of a better plot to this movie it's not wildly creative but i've always wanted to travel all over the world and so i just have so much fun watching it as my longing to travel grows even more the part with elenore singing to the little penguin always makes me cry br br 'the chipmunk adventure' will remain a favorite of mine forever i'm sure i guess it's because i saw it when i was so young i don't think it would make quite an impact on someone older seeing it for the first time unless of course they have a young heart
1	this is certainly a good film beautifully photographed and evocatively acted yet one should certainly criticize it and for it is not without flaws and weaknesses really cared for women and wanted to make statements on man's lack of sympathy and total cruelty yet he sometimes gets ahead of himself in trying to make this statement by adopting the wrong means this is certainly a case in 'the crucified lovers' 'princess yang and he sets the scenario in feudal japan which leaves the viewer at the end with the partially right exclamation boy does suck i'm glad that it is over and true some of the scenarios such weaker films of present would be literary impossible today also his women characters sometimes become archetypes of unrealistic self sacrifice which also simplifies the scenario less appealing saying that crucified lovers is a good film with such few relative weaknesses though the sometimes chilly cynical prose by the screenwriter helps this film allot i still highly prefer and recommend films of 1936 and of the as well as his late masterpieces in which he showed more restraint and subtlety and 'the life of
1	the only print of i've been able to find was abysmal i almost couldn't watch it which is a shame as this is among the greatest films the story which i believe had been done before and since by other japanese directors is a bit straighter than my favorite films the bailiff and and is essentially a tale of tragic romance in this case a transgressive romance that crosses strict class boundaries as always with there is an exquisitely expressed tone of defiance and bad print aside i was very pleased as with all of films i'm eagerly awaiting a restored dvd release whenever that may come
1	i loved this movie it was a great portrayal of a family who had it's share of ups and down but in the end they knew that special love they had for each other i have seen many movies starring jaclyn smith but my god this was one of her best though it came out 12 years ago this movie contained an all star cast and what i loved the most was that it opened my eyes to see other actors who i haven't seen before this movie was kind of long in length but i enjoyed every minute of it it is a movie that you can sit down with your family and watch though we would have to cover the kids eyes a few times due to the discretionary love scenes overall i rate this movie a 10 out of a 1 10 scale lifetime does not air it enough so if anyone knows what store sells it let me know because this is a must have
1	the family happiness is crumbling when the from the beginning rich father ward michael ontkean gets poor and cannot support the family any longer then the mother faye jaclyn smith has to take the role as the breadwinner in the family and starts to work in order to support the family and at the same time periodically alone has to manage the family life not always that good but as good as she can the family life hardly gets easier when the father learns that the son lionel joe stargate atlantis is gay and is living together with his lover john joel the also an old family friend resulting in that the father makes clear to lionel that he is no longer welcome in the family lionel is the one who meant the most to his sister anne leslie during her up bringing since the family neglected her anne cannot stand the fact that their father have cut the cords with lionel and therefore she run away from home as this wasn't enough the son greg brian krause charmed enlists in the marines and is sent to war the storyline in this film can on some occasions feel a bit thin in spite of that it still has a lot of realism in it which makes it well worth seeing since this film illustrates many sensitive relations and situations i would believe that it is best appreciated by a mature audience even though it wouldn't hurt for teenagers to see it and get something to think about before adulthood
1	once a year in america saturday morning would give way to new cartoons usually sometime in america just about the time school started br br i guess this was to make not having school on saturdays that more bearable br br one friday night before the premiere of the new saturday morning cartoons a movie came on br br at the earth's core i had not a clue who cushing nor mcclure were clearly they were not from the same country so i couldn't grasp why they were traveling together br br i do recall seeing the mechanism in the fire breathing monster's mouth br br what connects this movie for me is the opening with the molten metal and then suddenly we get the band playing as we see the factory br br how do you end a movie like this the music again and two cops as the drill appears behind them br br whatever reason i remember watching this movie more that friday night than i do any new cartoon that came on the following morning br br that was definitely the late seventies br br it would be during jurassic park mania '93 i believe before i would see this movie again br br yes people in costumes there was the fire breather again br br still loved the ending with the two cops br br finally it would be nearly another decade before i would send off for the movie on dvd br br now i would just watch the beginning and intro br br oh i do love much of the movie of all these sci fi jules verne hg wells erb movies this one stands as my fave br br what i note now is that one of the cops begins turning around a wee bit too soon then turns back then he and the other cop are synchronized as they turn inward once again to look behind themselves at the drill br br perhaps for me this movie stands as the best of the saturday morning shows which is why i enjoy it so much
1	i'm serious as well i mean don't get me wrong if you haven't got a bent for this type of z grade creaky creature feature why would you be watching is my first thought then it's a rating of about 3 to 4 out of 10 tops but to me it's a special kind of nonsense that takes me back to a nice time in my childhood you know the kind the memories that never leave you eagerly taking it all in with youthful wonderment as doug mcclure and peter cushing tunnel beneath the mantle to do battle with a host of creatures and sub human and guys now we are all grown up we can admire most seriously at the wonder of caroline munro and her heaving cleavage no wonder my older brother was keen to take me to the cinema to see this one br br yes the effects are bad men in suits strings parrot monsters around and exploding rubber frog like amuse us greatly and yes cushing and a surprisingly pudgy mcclure act as if they have truly been mesmerised by the evil at the core of our film but it matters not zany and clunky and awash in glorious colour at the earth's core is a throwback to a special pre ilm time when kids like me around the block to see such joyous nonsense 8 10
1	rugged david innes solid doug mcclure and dr abner perry a delightfully dotty peter cushing drill their way into the earth's core in their spiffy mole machine the duo discover an ancient prehistoric world populated by dangerous gigantic beasts and human beings who are used as both food and slaves by evil telepathic pterodactyl men director kevin conner working from a blithely silly script by milton subotsky maintains a constant brisk pace throughout and treats the exceptionally foolish premise with astonishing seriousness thereby giving this picture a certain clunkily earnest quality that's amusing and endearing in equal measure the lovably hokey not so special effects are quite unintentionally funny the cheesy array of cut price creatures in particular are positively sidesplitting cruddy guys in obvious shoddy rubber suits pterodactyl men equally rinky dink savage ape man brutes and a hilariously ludicrous fire belching frog thing who blows up real good one gut busting highlight occurs when mcclure mixes it up with a fat and clumsy giant reptile another priceless scene depicts a dinosaur clutching a doll in its slavering jaws moreover we also get some rousing rough'n'ready fisticuffs and an exciting climactic slave revolt it's a total treat to see cushing gleefully ham it up in a rare broad comedic part and become an unlikely but enthusiastic arrow slinging action hero in the last third of the flick the ever luscious caroline munro looks positively yummy as the fetching princess dia plus there are nice supporting turns by grant as gallant warrior ra and sean lynch as treacherous coward mike neatly varied score alternates between jaunty orchestral music and wonky droning synthesizer stuff alan hume's crisp cinematography adds a glossy sheen to the infectiously inane proceedings a complete campy riot
1	well it's about time van damme is back and kicking in this action thriller that's his best film in recent years the plot isn't too inventive but the whole border patrol theme is interesting and the ex marines as drug smugglers twist is cool but what makes this movie awesome is the fact that van damme is back to doing martial arts again his latest films have been more acting oriented but in the shepard is back to dropping the bad guys and looks to be in excellent shape there are some impressive fight scenes and van damme shows he can still pull out the old famous 360 spinning heel kick for being a low budget action movie it does have good sets and great stunts van damme says some humorous lines and shows that he's improving as an actor i'm glad he's back to dealing out some van damage i've been let down by the lack of fighting in his recent films scott adkins is great in his role and van damme and him have a 1 on 1 showdown at the end overall it's one of van damme's better films and it will keep you entertained a must rent for fans i'm just keeping my fingers crossed for another martial arts epic like bloodsport or kickboxer su
1	when the circus comes to town and places the lion's cage directly over bugs bunny's home bugs ends up somewhere in the range right between freaked out and intrepid despite the title bunny it's only at the end when bugs and the lion perform acrobatics but even leading up to that it's quite funny what bugs does to escape getting eaten somehow he always manages to use the other character's weakness against him and then pull any convenient object out of thin air bugs later ended up in the circus in big top bunny i liked this one better as the latter got drug down a little bit by giving the antagonist an eastern european accent i know that it was during the cold war but still i recommend this one br br and with the end we can affirm that it'll never be aloha oe for this cartoon
1	agreeable boy's own paper nonsense with a sprightly performance from cushing some amusing rubber monsters colourful jungle sets the ever welcome appearance of caroline munro in animal skins
1	nice way to relax i am packing my suitcase now so i can go and be with caroline munroe phony monsters and scenery make for 89 minutes of harmless fun something you can enjoy with your family and not be offended
1	this is a true gem of corny sci fi peter cushing adds a great personality to this midnite movie classic br br i particularly like the sound design the weird choppy voices of the creatures and the rhino creatures all provide a bizarre backdrop of course the scantily clad babe doesn't hurt either br br
1	i think this is a great classic monster film for the family the mole what a machine the tall creature with the beak the flying green lizards or whatever they are and the ape men things the speak telepathically with them the battle of the men in rubber suits fighting for a doll for breakfast umm yummy class what else can i say how would they make a 2002 remake of this one
1	i have fond memories of watching this when it came out it's one of those films that you know is rubbish even when you're a kid but at that age you overlook the ludicrous acting special effects and plot so there's a race of big busted nymphets living underground huh and just enjoy the campy monsters for all they're worth
1	my father took me to see this film when it was released in 1976 i was but a child and it scared the crap out of me so much so that i had to leave the theatre during a particularly claustrophobic tunnel scene as it was too intense for me i went home to the safety of my family i saw the film all the way through as i got older and thoroughly enjoyed it shame about the men in monster suits though if you overlook the cheapness of the production and delve deeper you'll find an excellent performance by cushing a stunning opening score some nice photography and the ever reliable mr douglas mcclure my childhood hero british police guarding the whitehouse at the end titty bang bang cave woman monsters with actors in monster suits gliding on wires this has it all superb
1	due to the fact that in 1976 there were no cgi i felt that the movie was quite watchable the studio productions were very good and very elaborate the background effects were very believable and always appeared as if they were part of the whole set the actors did ok considering the premise of the film being set in a type of jules vern atmosphere where imagination and possibilities of future exploration were at most improbabilities had i watched this film in 1976 i probably would have been in awe of the ability of man to build a machine that could travel to the earths core i still wonder to this day why we are not all flying around in our cars but i digress mcclure and cushing have their funny moments mostly from their facial expressions toward each other which of course makes the film somewhat campy which i loved the 'monsters' left something to be desired but the story had a good premise although i feel as though some other sort of 'thing' could have been more believable under those circumstances all in all quite watchable for its time and fun now
1	this movie was the second movie i saw on the cinema as a child it scared the living crap out of me so much so that i asked my father if we could leave halfway through br br nowadays the only people leaving halfway through are the ones who have a good taste in movies br br i however still have fond memories of this flawed masterpiece of awfulness doug mcclure and peter cushing in the same movie great monsters made of substitute scary stuff a rubber monster is when you think about it is even scarier than a real monster br br the astonishing thing about this movie is how good the score is truly rousing stuff br br there's also plenty of prehistoric tit on show too nice
1	shame on you if you give this film a low rating how can you not like a film that has doug mcclure peter cushing silly rubber monsters fights and for the guys that woman that was the henchwoman in the spy who loved me and one of the seventies sinbad films not wearing very much of whom my mother said she wasn't picked for the colour of her eyes lava silly wigs and a daft victorian drilling machine very much like the one used in the old thunderbirds series whoever watched this film and slagged it off was watching it for the wrong reasons it may be crap but is definitely good crap they don't make 'em like they used to sigh
1	context is everything when one goes to rate a movie when rating this movie one has to consider the time in which it was made we didn't really know what the inside of the earth was in those days so you can't rag on the movie too much for the plot based on a much older book for the era this was top notch special effects and the production quality was great i watched this movie in a masterfully restored hd master for the time the makeup and effects almost make the guys in the rubber suits look plausible as a monster thing this is pure movie cheese complete with bad rubber suits models and creepy costumes awesome ps doug mcclure rocks
1	i enjoyed it there you go i said it again i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard 4 which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america van damme moves well for a guy of his age 47 i think delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer if you like old school action and and explosions this is the movie to watch this is one of van damme's best works br br van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen
1	the main criticism of at the earth's core is that it's cheap the special effects are bad and so on and so forth yes some of the special effects are painfully bad but what a lot of folks overlook about it is that it's actually quite fun which is very important in my book br br in comparison just look at the latest star wars films they have the latest greatest special effects created by the latest technological advances which are capable in creating stunning visual effects as far reaching as the human imagination can imagine and yet with all the razzle dazzle those films were as exciting as a funeral as yoda would say fun they're not in other words who cares if the fx aren't the greatest when the spirit of the film is fast paced humorous and clearly set on the side of action i love everything about at the earth's core the contrast between stodgy victorian england vs the wild other worldly colorful setting of the cast of characters the concept of a lost underground world the telepathic pterodactyls the human slaves rebelling the ugly one lol the inspired teaming of peter cushing who's great and doug mcclure the excellent music it's really good cinematography by the amazing alan hume and last but not least caroline munro she's effing sexy in this movie one of the sexiest b movie babes ever captured on screen br br seriously anyone who doesn't like this movie doesn't know what fun is gimme at the earth's core over any turgid star wars prequels any time at least it has caroline munro which no cgi fx can ever recreate
1	his john dark kevin connor fantasy adventures were a mainstay of summer holiday movies in the days before star wars they weren't masterpieces they didn't boast state of the art special effects but they were exactly what an audience of kids wanted from a film back in the mid 70s br br at the earth's core catches just the right tone for the appropriately named burroughs' pulp adventure about victorian inventor peter cushing and the inevitable doug mcclure ending up in the underground world of and battling its evil telepathic fighting dinosaurs this time the puppets are gone in favour of men in monster suits which is a lot more fun if you're willing to suspend your disbelief and if you're not there's always caroline munro's cleavage to look at aside from what may well be peter cushing's worst performance an irritating but rehash of his movie dr who you can't me i'm british it's easily the best of the john dark kevin connor doug mcclure fantasy adventures surprisingly well directed and boasting an atmospheric use of colour never especially good at exterior scenes alan hume's photography gains immensely from the control a studio set gives him the film was shot entirely on soundstages to paint a luridly vivid world worthy of a pulp novel cover not high art but definitely great saturday matinée fun
1	this film screened at the american cinematheque's egyptian theatre in hollywood on april 7 1999 it was described in the american cinematheque schedule as follows br br tomorrow is another day 1951 warners 90 min steve an ex con who's never been with a woman ruth roman is a dime a dance dame with no use for sappy men a hotel room a dirty cop a gunshot the perfect jump off for a fugitives on the run love story this virtually unknown noir is felix feist's masterwork packed with revelatory set pieces cochran was never more vulnerable roman never sexier imagine gun crazy scripted by it's that good br br i just saw this film and i agree with every word of the above description
1	tomorrow is another day is not the sequel to gone with the wind but a lovers on the lam story and a surprisingly alert and moving one as well for a supposed hack relegated to b minus features like the devil thumbs a ride felix feist proves adept at filling his work with unexpected inventive details steve cochran leaves prison after 18 years for killing his brutal father when he was only 13 and now he's still a tentative gawky pubescent operating inside a man's frame lonesome he visits a 10 cents a dance palace and falls for brassy grasping ruth roman but the sudden shooting of her police bigwig boyfriend causes the ill matched couple to hit the road ending like the joads in a california migrant worker camp br br roman's the revelation in her best known role as farley granger's fiancee in hitchcock's strangers on a train she was ill and under used here she persuasively from bottle blonde taxi dancer to sacrificing wife and mother to be and a brunette to boot almost as good waffling between the suspicion of a wounded child and the explosive reactions of an under socialized male and the ending while unconvincing is nonetheless welcome along with they live by night and gun crazy tomorrow is another day displays a redeeming sweetness and warmth that belie its film noir pedigree
1	this documentary on dinosaurs was undoubtedly fascinating and very well made however i found myself watching many of the bits with unease the film generally took a rather confident stand on anything it said and showed but inevitably much of the behaviour of the beasts their interaction with each other what they looked like how they moved what they ate etc much of that is surely guessing sometimes guessing with reasonable confidence sometimes just wild guessing but the viewer is never made aware of that the film pretends to actually observe real dinosaurs and their real behaviour etc that makes probably better viewing than confronting the audience with mountains of disclaimers but it makes it just a bit too populist in my estimation
1	this movie is well done it really attempts to show what the dinosaurs had to contend with in their daily lives the animation is very well done and the film makers have done a great job of giving scientific fact in such a way that it is entertaining this is a great movie
1	spoiler warning br br i got this dino on dvd at christmas 2004 i had longed to see it and was by no means disappointed the score is memorable my br br favourites were the theme song and the winters coming song the effects were dazzling you could almost believe they were there you actually learn something too may have been able to pump their plates with blood female t rexes might have gone on a killing spree before laying their eggs i know there's a lot of people who thought this was based too much on speculation but there will always be questions that we can only guess at and there is a lot of hard core undeniable fact as well we know that some dinosaurs travelled in herds we know that swallowed stones to grind up vegetation in their stomaches despite this speculation the series did extremely well so well in fact that it spawned a followup a prequel and several specials if you're a dino fan then this is for you it makes jurassic park look small and weedy
1	r 88 brilliant very entertaining show with spectacular effects any fan of these prehistoric reptiles has to see this the cgi blends in extremely well with the environment and it's just plain fun to watch these giants walk about their daily business as casually as on discovery channel this show was a stroke of genius and it blows its followers walking with beasts and the future is wild out of the water br br the greatest episode was definitely the last where we got to watch the final days of the tyrannosaurus rex and the meteor strike that became their doom this stuff is almost too awesome for television how about a theatrical release i would pay anything to see these dinos in the cinema br br if you're in the mood for a show that manages to be spectacular engaging and educational at the same time this is for you dinosaurs have never been cooler
1	walking with dinosaurs is an amazing documentary educational for both the ignorant of dinosaurs and dinosaur lovers like myself alike i admit i was very young when i saw this on discovery but i was obsessed with it immediately spoliers the series contains 6 episodes going from the late when dinosaurs were just first evolving to the late at the end of reign of the dinosaurs when i first saw this film it was like i really had traveled back in time the majesty of the the adventures of and the caring mother version of t rex all astounded my family and me it is an amazing film and i believe that bbc managed to do just what they set out to do awesome job
1	this series when the dinosaurus lived for 65 million years ago the dinosaurus looks very real and are very realistic when they moves it is also very interesting how the climate changes br br i am very interesting in how the dinosaurs lived and died i am also interesting in how the dinosaurs behaved br br the color of the dinosaurs is also interesting to see and discovered they think which color they had br br the most interesting is why the dinosaurs died and what happened after that br br bbc have made a brilliant series how the dinosaurs lived and died
1	this is the best direct to dvd effort from van damme that i have seen yet van damme plays a border patrol agent who is out to stop heroin smugglers trying to cross into the united states the action in this movie is great and the fight scenes rank with van damme's best costar scott adkins shows why he should be the next big star in the martial arts genre for further evidence check out undisputed 2 adkins is so good in fact that before i watched the shepherd i thought that van damme might not look very believable in defeating him on screen van damme holds his own though and although he isn't quite as athletic as adkins is he can still kick with the best of them all of the fight scenes in this film are very well done and the gun battles are above average for this type of film as well the only negative thing i can say about this movie is that the story is a little underdeveloped i think van damme's character's motives should have been presented earlier in the movie especially in regard to why he carries around a rabbit the reason he does is very cool but you don't find out until the very end there are a couple of other things that are never really explained either but this is a van damme movie so you know where the priority lies in making this kind of movie and it ain't character development overall though this is a solid action movie that i recommend so run for the damme border
1	walking with dinosaurs is absolutely brilliant in every regard kenneth branagh narrates in a way that really makes you want to listen the script for the documentary really sounds as though the researchers and writers had done their homework it is so insightful and it does get you hooked and never lets go the music is also brilliant very dramatic when it needs to be but the visual effects and scenery are what makes this documentary work so well the scenery is breathtaking and the dinosaurs look so real thanks to the simply astounding effects this is so informative with such a good concept and attracts not only adults but kids too br br in conclusion this is a must watch not only did i love this but this is quite possibly the best documentary i have ever seen if anything it could have done with being longer other than that this is perfect 10 10 bethany cox
1	and quite frankly that just sums it up br br it is a small computer animated series that is filmed just like an animal br br the animation is almost flawless i thought the long necked swimming dinosaurs eyes looked fake br br however some of the model shots didn't look quite that realistic br br and i thought that park made a better t rex br br if this is the type of thing we see on a normal british tv series then i cannot wait to see what they can accomplish in the movies br br i give this 10 10 stars br br and the making of video was also great the dinosaur on the skate board was br br
1	as john pointed out the documentary genre can be defined like this the creative interpretation of reality br br this fabulous 180 minute documentary marks the first time a computer generated project about dinosaurs respects the intelligence of the viewer br br when i saw jurassic park which i was expecting with great excitement i was left extremely disappointed of course the dinosaurs were great but the story telling was unnecessary i thought what if they made a documentary on dinosaurs with no crying children or bad puns just dinosaurs made as realistic as possible to let us marvel at what was once reality br br my dream came true the bbc has produced an exhilarating documentary exploring the different eras of the dinosaurs br br this part is to all the people that seem to disagree with the fact that they had to guess at many points concerning the behavior skin patterns etc of course they have to nobody was there i think it is fantastic that they could present something as realistic as that the are all based on the of many paleontologists and it allows the viewer to have a pretty good idea of what it was like if you wanna stick to what we know for sure then just go visit a dinosaur bones museum that is why i incorporated the quote at the beginning of this comment br br anyway hats off to the creators of it
1	i saw this series in 1999 in london tv and was blown away like another user commented this is what i would have liked to see when i first watched jurassic park life and death of dinosaurs in their natural habitat as a documentary the cg are very lifelike and the diversity of dinosaurs and habitats shown makes it also very educational br br the series takes everything factually known about dinosaurs adds a lot of good ideas on what it could have been to make up what then looks like a documentary series what i missed was some small bar graph constantly in one corner of the screen moving between fiction and fact along with the narration and the pictures because you often wonder how much is educated guessing and how much is pure fantasy br br to some clues on facts fiction you have to see the 50 minute making of which is not only very educational about the cg process and collecting and including the paleontologists knowledge into the series but which also is very funny dinosaurs smoking cigarettes and complaining about cg animators br br i highly recommend to watch this series before going into the upcoming disney dinosaur movie or watching any jurassic park like movie again it will surely make you much more critical towards those movies the disney trailers looked especially bad
1	for those that are great fans and collectors of dinosaurs like i am it is not only a very informative series but also puts our imagination to fly colors composition great models and camera angles fantastic photography and filming presentation superb thanks
1	this bbc series is excellent i am no paleontologist but this series gives the best historical representation of dinosaurs i have ever seen the 3d animation and animatronics are very good and make you believe you have travelled back in time the bbc deserves a pat on the back for such a fine series as well as tim haines who must have spent a great deal of time getting this series to air
1	when jurassic park first came out it was revolutionary in filmaking and special effects for the first ever time people cold go to a dinosaur movie and be convinced they were looking at real dinosaurs brought to life however whilst some dinosaurs were almost perfect examples of what the real creatures could have been like t rex triceratops etc some were altered to fit the movie velociraptor and the film took place n the present on a tropical island where they were not in their natural habitat walking with dinosaurs shows us the real animals in their real habitats all those millions of years ago the amount of detail and scientific information used in this is great now we can view sights such as a grim desert a whole herd of an give birth a massive sea monster a eye view dinosaurs thriving in the south pole two lock horns t rex roaring at the camera and the impact of the comet that spelled their doom these dinosaurs walk run feed fight breed hunt and swim but the series also reveals the other creatures that they shared the world with two episodes are mainly focused on two different kinds of animals the flying and the marine reptiles that lived beneath the waves the locations and scenery are spectacular and look all the more unique when a cg dino walks onto screen and as for the cgi and animatronics the movements of the cgi dinosaurs look totally and completely natural the colouring is bright and vivid and the crewmen have taken careful steps to ensure that the cg animals interact with their environments in any way an actual creature would by making splashes in the water brushing by bushes kicking up dust and casting shadows on the ground admittedly the cg isn't perfect with a few brief instances where the animals look too but the rest of the time it looks breathtaking the puppetry is poor in some cases but it has its moments particularly the scene with the in the first episode the narration by kenneth branagh is pretty good as well giving us vital bits of information and drama at the same time but of course the true pleasure is seeing a living dinosaur doing what they did all those years ago and also seeing some truly cute moments with mammal reptile hybrid pups baby and t rex chicks yes even t rex can be cute and then reminds us that nature can be brutal and was even more so back then all this adds up to a prehistoric nature masterpiece that lets you see a real dinosaur and take your breath away all from the safety of your living room if you like nature dinosaurs informative learning amazing visuals or just to have a truly good viewing and be entertained then walking with dinosaurs is definitely for you easily recommended
1	if you haven't seen this yet you really should on dvd i can't believe how much i enjoyed it it is amazingly realistic and believable true much of it is speculated and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts there aren't many of them but it handles everything quite well with a cruel mother nature theme it will remind you of the nature programs that you've seen on animal planet and the discovery channel only the animals here are dinosaurs they act natural they eat kill mate play and fight for survival you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others br br for the most part the effects are excellent at times they will look a little too much like but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic in some cases you will actually be convinced that you've seen a dinosaur my favorites were the the raptors the the the and the arctic bipeds i was most disappointed with the t rex however which looked a little too computer generated at times br br in any case you should definitely see this production it is educational well made and very entertaining for what it is its an a
1	this is as good as it gets br br this is six episodes tracing briefly what life may have been like when dinosaurs ruled the earth done in the style of a nature documentary this show does away with talking heads instead just gives us the good stuff with the dinosaurs attempting to survive br br certainly this isn't a true documentary since none of what we see on screen can be attested to with any certainty but its a best guess and an entertaining one at that here is a show that brings dinosaurs to life in a realistic way that doesn't involve them eating people this is a show that should be shown to any kid who loves dinosaurs since it will instill them with the oh wow factor to go out and find out more it will also entertain the hell out of them and you br br see this if you love animal shows or nature or science or disney true life adventures except no one really gets killed or just a really good trip to somewhere else run out and get yourself a copy your brain will thank you
1	walking with is a new and exciting programme that uses amazing visual graphics to display the living dinosaurs the information presented here is stunning the moods in the series alter to get your attention things such as dramatic music when fights break out there is clear evidence here for one cracking documentary my greatest thanx to the writers directors and producers and not forgetting the other people involved if you stumble this video in shops i suggest you buy it not just for the graphics but for the extreme efforts and productive work the series has to offer 10 10
1	this film is good in it's genre and that genre is naturally action with a little average budget looks like van damme delivers greatly better performances when he has a good director guiding him there is your basic bar brawl alley scene and mostly a lot of gun fighting some basic drama but nothing too deep isaac florentine directs an ok action flick if you ignore the weak plot and the holes in it but the person who steals the show is br br scott adkins how come this guy isn't a massive arnold schwarzenegger caliber action star that i don't know director isaac florentine has made a movie with scott adkins before called special forces 2003 which has some unbelievable martial arts talent that will satisfy the most demanding kungfu enthusiastic another amazing scott adkins feature is undisputed 2 check this guy out and make a noise this guy needs to get super action star status and he needs to get it now br br what else can i say about the movie it's van damme stepping up a notch from some of his most recent work no oscars here for sure but you already knew that but never the less it has a nice little town feel and i could find worse ways to spend my time so i'm giving this a solid 7 out of 10 in it's genre
1	we bought the dvd of walking with dinosaurs and have been nearly ecstatic over the things that are done so very well on it br br many dvds today offer the bare minimum the feature itself and maybe one other language which doesn't help the viewer at all but makes it easier for the company to see the dvd in multiple markets br br not so in the case of there are so many wonderful extras and well thought out vignettes that watching even the navigation menu is interesting the intros to each chapter in the making of dvd are laugh out loud funny the quality of the sound and video is terrific and of course the story and content what more could a dinosaur lover ask for br br i did watch most of the version broadcast on narrated by avery brooks then watched about half of the dvd narrated by kenneth branaugh as near as i can tell the broadcast version slipped in a number of mostly american slang terms in the narration i e in a section about t rex mating says the female is tiring of the male's attention and brooks says the honeymoon is over and cut out some of the closer in puppet work i prefer the version simply because it is more complete br br overall a great value and wonderful production many kudos to the bbc and the crew that made this gem
1	great documentary of how scientist's believed dinosaurs behaved captured with some of the most spectacular cgi since jurassic park done completely seriously like a prehistoric episode of nation geographic grabs your attention from the first frame and never lets go my favorite part was when the fights off the br br 10 stars this is what science is all about
1	this documentary is absolutely fantastic i was really astonished that you can make with so less money such amazing fx especially the scenes of the birth of the babies or the sad story of the big flying dinosaur were wonderful and breathtaking well the only flaw was it was to short
1	in wwii america has developed a brand new huge bomber plane lois lane and clark kent go to cover the story when the plane is going on its first mission lois stows away on the plane before it takes off there are also some japanese saboteurs on board who have every intention of flying the bomber to tokyo will lois be able to warn superman what do you think br br fast moving colorful cartoon the animation is a little jerky but much better than anything we see today the color and sound have been beautifully restored just two problems the lousy music score and the racism especially in the title that aside this is pretty good an 8
1	a superman cartoon br br when america unveils its colossal new bomber the an elite force of japanese spies saboteurs strikes stealing the behemoth with intrepid girl reporter lois lane aboard and the destination either tokyo or destruction it's time for superman to get involved br br this was another in the series of excellent cartoons initially created by max fleischer for paramount studio they feature great animation and taut fast moving plots meant to be shown in movie theaters they are miles ahead of their saturday morning counterparts bud collyer is the voice of superman joan alexander does the honors for lois lane
1	following the business coup of the year of 1941 max and dave the brothers fleischer were removed from their own studio by paramount pictures corporation former employees such as seymour and izzy were put in charge of the new operation now renamed famous studios by paramount early on the finished product of famous was indiscernible from that of the recent output by fleischer the existing series popeye superman continued as if nothing at all had transpired br br today's subject is one of the earlier famous studio's superman shorts br br as had been the custom the superman cartoons were a great combination of fine fittingly fashioned music in the score that goes for the theme overture as well as all the multi mood background incidental music it was if each cartoon short had its own background music as all was kept fresh by apparently recording it anew with each picture br br with regards to we must remember that this was filmed during the first year of the united states' involvement and the characterization of the enemy was very stereotypical short handed and outright evil the dialogue and personality of the villainous japanese saboteurs was strictly from the stock characters of the old pulp magazine stories with their every word being said in a sarcastic totally insincere politeness as the characters would flaunt their cold bloodedness as they made the most demonic of threats and outrageous acts toward the occidental world br br is visually bright and uplifting stunningly laid out and makes use of some multi plane or table top animation in order to give its flying sequences a real depth br br making good use of the tie ins between the animated cartoons the superman radio show then heard over the mutual broadcasting network the cartoon bears a close resemblance to the comics page and uses the very same talents of voice actors bud collyer and joan alexander from the radio show br br we rate it with a ½ stars br br poodle schnitz
1	spoilers for the first ten minutes or so of star witness we're introduced to a quote typical urban american family unquote in a nameless city which is another way of saying warner brothers' version of nyc except for the young children including the charming dickie moore and sprightly sally blane they're a pretty dreary lot and their dinner table conversation is tedious and we wish the story would move along and bring in the star walter huston but wait folks wait all of a sudden serious gangster movie action breaks out drawing the family in against their will and after that this baby never lets up there's suspense an oscar nominated script good acting everything you want old movies to is here i do question chic sales performance he must be an acquired taste but his presence turns out to be crucial to the plot he's treated to special status in the credits so warner bros must have really been high on sale but how his corny old man routine fit in with the public then is something lost to me perhaps it is lost to time period an unknowable factor you had to be a 1931 moviegoer to understand also the climax is typically melodramatic nevertheless this right now is the best release of the studio that year i have seen so far however i've only seen eight so perhaps that's an inconclusive view do not miss this when tcm shows it 8 out of 10
1	our the grandpa's hour br br more than the gangsters it's a detailed depiction of an american family circa 1930 the father proud of his job who worries about his son who's given up high school the mum everyone would like to have the daughter who forgets dinner time in his arms and the twins who are absolutely lovable don't go to sleep first please br br and there's the grandfather playing the yankee doodle on his flute have you noticed that this tune plays the same role as doris day's que sera sera in hitchcock's the man who knew too much 1956 and there's this grandpa who is finally the most courageous person of the family so old he does not even tell you his age but proud of his country and resisting to the gangster's hateful blackmail br br a good film by wellman
1	charles chic sales is absolutely terrific as the sole member of the family willing to testify against a gangster they saw murder a policeman and an informant he fought at bull run in the civil war and his patriotism runs high even after his son in law is beaten and one of his grandson's is kidnapped by the gang intimidating all the other members fear of his grandson's death is no excuse he says he wouldn't want his grandson living in a country run by gangsters anyway the conflict between civic duty and personal safety is driven home sharply in this oscar nominated story walter huston is also a standout as the hard driving district attorney threatening the family with perjury if they don't back up their identification of the killer in court the rest of the cast including the sleazy killer ralph ince are all excellent and the film is snappily directed by william a wellman there's also good suspense as sales disappears just as the trial is about to begin
1	this film an early william wellman has an important message particularly today it posits the notion that sometimes there are things more important than your own personal or well being the film which has walter huston as the lead is stolen by the performance of chic sales as grampa he's the most completely drawn character in the film and a joy to watch you'll recognize some familiar faces if you watch many movies from the and '30's your time to watch if you get the opportunity recommended
1	after seeing undisputed 2 i knew what to expect from isaac florentine br br the shepherd border patrol is a decent flick not van damme's best but definitely not his worst there is some bad acting from supporting cast but it makes sense br br the storyline and plot has all been done before so it's nothing new i mean this is van damme we don't really expect much of an amazing plot do we so lets talk about what we all want to watch this movie for anyway the fighting br br without giving anything away i thought the way the fights were filmed and shot were well done way better than a few of recent movies such as second in command in which the entire end fight is horrible with florentine behind the camera and if you've seen undisputed 2 he seems to know how to photograph fights and enjoys it a few of the fights in the shepherd reminded me of older stuff which is what we all want to see the fights were good and i said hah awesome out loud a few times but i was hoping for just a bit more considering how good i thought undisputed 2 was br br something i found intriguing was daughter in the film i thought wow she's kinda hot come to find out its bianca van real life daughter i have never seen her before so that was a nice treat br br all in all this movie is not half bad yeah the story has been done before but at least jc was attempting to make a good movie next time though add more hand to hand combat i think he still has what it takes to do another big budget movie his acting has improved since he's been doing and he really is in great shape at 47 i don't know about you but i'm one of the ones who thinks that most of his are actually good with the exception of derailed all he needs to do is get back into bloodsport shape and make a martial arts movie and i think people would respond well even though he's not jet li this movie is definitely worth the rental
1	this is one of those films that looks so dated that being that way is part of the fun you see and hear things you would never see or hear on the silver screen today some of that is good some it too corny for words some of it bad depending on your viewpoints on certain cultural issues br br for instance in this short 68 minutes 1931 film you have br br the grandpa of the family that is featured in this story extolling the value of patriotism and why one should speak up against criminals for the good of the united states picture that in today's films br br a district attorney walter huston almost begging for death penalty sentences and the populace shown as supporting it 100 percent once again picture that in modern day movies br br along the way you have some shocking violence such as a young boy being picked up a few times and literally thrown head first into a closet and his father being picked up and swung repeatedly head first into a wall this is a tough stuff to say the least br br yet the film is dotted with comedy mostly by the patriotic grandpa memorably played by charles chic sales there are a bunch of laughs for all those who view this unique crime film and for soft touches there are the two young boys one of whom dickie moore went on to become a pretty famous child actor in his day here he is just a little tyke of about 5 years of age who understandably is far from being a polished actor but you can see stardom for him on the horizon in fact he did just that the following year with a solid performance in blonde venus starring marlene dietrich br br anyway this is an entertaining film because of an effective mixture of violence comedy and sentimentality and it has a nice feel good ending and a thought provoking message it was up for an academy award too for best writing original story i am sorry to say it is only available for viewing on cable tv as it has never been put out on vhs or dvd and that's a shame
1	way too many christian films become centered around the fear of the judgment and as a result come across as condescending and cheesy second glance gets it right this is a near perfect evangelical tool it deals with the real reason why so many young people want nothing to do with christianity it assures viewers that one must give up their sin not their fun to succeed in the christian lifestyle second glance even works as a piece of film making the filmmakers obviously were working on a very low budget but they managed to write a script dynamic enough to divert viewers' attention from this obvious fact this film brought me to my lord and savior jesus christ and thanks to christian stations everywhere which show it it surely has impacted more people than just me
1	dan burgess is a nice guy he happens to be a christian dan can't get a date with a girl and thinks that all of his friends are having all of the fun he is constantly being bothered by non believers and being made fun of br br dan prays one night and wishes he was never a believer in jesus br br his prayer is answered for one day things get hairy from there an angel appears to dan and explains his prayer is granted br br so all of the impact that dan has had on starting a christian club br br he be friends scot parks and making a difference is erased for one day br br dan's eyes are opened his life really did make a difference
1	this film is about a teen who is struggling with his social status in school he is a good christian and feels that he is missing out on all the fun in high school so he wishes he had never become one after getting his wish and trying a worldly lifestyle he realizes that his quality of life has been dramatically diminished and wants to go back to being the person that he was good family oriented film with a positive message of being proud of who you are even if you're not the most popular
1	this movie is apparently intended for a young evangelical christian audience as a teaching tool for that i give it a 7 out of 10 point vote it's a decent movie to show a youth group but i don't think it will be very well received beyond that for any other audience i'd rate it lots lower br br the reviewers that saw it's a wonderful life in this were right on though i didn't think of that until they mentioned it i was more reminded of a chick tract those little 3 by 5 gospel comic books if jack chick ever made a movie out of one of his it would probably look a lot like second glance it has a strong christian message about the power of prayer and the influence each of us has on earth but it is somewhat hampered by christian stereotypes the christians are all very nice somewhat passive and squeaky clean while all of the non christians seem to be bad people br br muriel the angel plays a major part and he is the corniest cheesiest character in the film he is the most unlikeable angel i have ever seen in any movie and the biggest negative i don't know if the directors intended for his personality to come off so badly or if he just struck me that way i admit that he reminded me of someone i know dan's love for a very worldly girl who is not at all his type drives the plot in this movie why he ever fell for her in the first place is the one question that i wish had been answered br br but the movie does display positive christian values and your youth group will be entertained as they view something wholesome with a good lesson
1	i am a college student and i bought this movie at a used book store because it sounded really funny from the back description nothing would prepare me for what would be the funniest movie ever made br br it is especially good to watch if you are an atheist like me because then you can see how silly these christian people are they seem to think non believers like to live in really disgusting messy houses and do nothing but drink beer and be mean to the neighbors it's a laugh riot br br my buddies and i watch it every couple of weeks so that we may be entertained beyond our wildest imaginations see this movie now br br let's hope rich makes some more of these movies to entertain us heathens
1	lady and the tramp ii is very animated and the songs especially that of the junkyard dogs are quite good however the family seems even too idyllic and i can't help understanding that scamp is discontented when everything is forbidden however i also pity angel who never has had a loving family until she meets jim dear and darling br br in any case it's clear that the original lady and the tramp is better than this sequel
1	lady and the tramp ii adventure is a cool movie that many kids today can really relate to it's a well presented story about a kid who longs for the freedom to do things his way and how he goes about getting this freedom is only a part of what makes this film interesting just forget the itty bitty disappointments like the fact that there were only adults in this movie based on a point of view because that's just 0 5 or less of the movie's wonderful effect on the viewer great music lively acting talented animation and directing and a powerful storyline tell a tale of the difference between freedom on the streets of new england and a cozy home with your family and that no matter how bad things seem your family and friends are always there to help you though any tight spot br br i can't wait to get the soundtrack
1	i loved this film almost as much as the origional version what teenager doesn't go through what going through wanting to find independence by getting more and more distant from your family the songs were nice to and the character designs were great lady and tramp look almost exactly like they did in the origional feature they did a good job on the voices of those two too considering the fact that the origional voice actors are probably dead however i do think they should've given more lines to lady annette colette and daniel oh well at least they had the common sense to keep the same scenery from the original film
1	since watching the trailer in the little mermaid ii return to the sea dvd i had a feeling that this movie is gonna be great 'cause i am a huge disney fan and guess what i'm right this movie is a very worthy successor to the original classic lady and the tramp br br it tells the story of scamp lady and son scamp who wants to be wild and free instead of living a life though the movie might not be as good as the first one it has a great moral that you couldn't find anywhere else until you watch it br br i admit that the movie isn't for everyone but those of you who hate it all i can say is that you don't have a spirit for this and i suggest that you shouldn't go see it again but hey it's really an awesome story packed with brilliant animation music and star studded voice talents featuring scott wolf party of five and alyssa milano charmed so if you haven't seen the movie why standing there go and grab the copy
1	well it is a good movie however you have to admit that van movies haven't been so great lately on the other hand if you are a hardcore van dame fan you should watch this as there is a huge improvement with fighting scenes also what i really liked is the music beautiful music am sure this will kill time if you are action fan as for isaac florentine the director of undisputed 2 i don't think he did a good job as he did with undisputed i cant wait when one day van movies hit the cinemas before the dvd maybe one day br br in the end it worth the watch if you got no other action movies to watch this could make your hour and half fun
1	lady and the tramp ii adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the is better lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original but this time it's junior's turn lady and youngster scamp always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him following the rules in the house taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose scamp meets another dog called angel they both get along fine and do the things mother and father did having an italian meal and meatballs etc afterwards scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal which is the baby scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family i give this movie 10 out of 10
1	minor spoilers br br you know it's getting to the point where walt disney television animation might just as well be called walt disney sequel animation these sequels range from excellent beauty and the beast the enchanted christmas and the fantastic lion king ii simba's pride to horrible the return of jafar this is of course my personal opinion now disney brings us their latest sequel adventure and while it is flawed it is still entertaining br br the quality of animation is not up to par with disney feature animation still the animators do a good job of bringing the characters to life lady and tramp have not aged a day since 1955 trusty still talks about his sense of smell and ol' reliable and jock still gives him grief about it there's a nice fight between tramp and a huge dog in the dog pound and once again we are treated to a spaghetti dinner with the two romantic leads though it is highly doubtful that this will become a classic scene like its predecessor br br i really don't care for most of the songs though roger bart and susan egan the singing voices of scamp and angel sing their parts very nicely both melissa manchester and norman have done much better work in the past danny score is okay but nothing memorable and some of the junkyard gang seem like excess baggage that is they really don't do much br br the voice work on the other hand is quite good while i don't like jeff bennett as the he is very good as tramp chazz palminteri does a nice job as buster leader of the junkyard gang and alyssa milano gives what may be her best performance as angel then there is scamp who is the spitting image of his dad he is voiced to perfection by scott wolf wolf does a superb job of showing wild streak and his soft side br br all in all while adventure is flawed it still makes for rather entertaining viewing it is my hope however that walt disney television animation will turn their attention to more original material for their future releases br br
1	this movie is excellent angel is beautiful and scamp is adorable his little when hes scared and the funniest parts are when scamp is caught under the curtain and when angel and scamp are singing never had this feeling before' i totally recommend this movie its coming out on special edition on june 20 the cover has scamp on a garbage can and angel underneath the lid br br i just cant explain this movie more than romantic charming hilarious and adorable the junkyard scenes are funny all the junkyard dogs have something special too funny i laughed kids will love it buy it when it comes out it has new features
1	i thought that this is a wonderfully written movie i love little scamp and the street wise angel this movie is very easy for little kids to understand but a good movie for adults as well i liked this movie because it continues the original lady and the tramp and that movie is a classic lady and the tramp 2 adventure was filled with new characters catchy songs brilliant animation and unforgettable classic characters i have loved the movie ever since i saw it for the first time i also loved how they showed the different personalities of each character it also shows the downfalls and good things of making new friends that you can hang out with my favorite song in the movie was always there because it showed the different characters sharing their views on how they feel i definitely recommend this movie for everyone that was a fan of the original lady and the tramp
1	another good animation from disney sequels are not always that great and tend to follow the same plot as the original however the son of tramp tries to savor the world out side the home and family he knows and learns where he actually belongs being a junkyard dog is not for everyone er dog that is but scamp overcomes adversity the voices of the various characters were superb and provided by several well know actors such as scott wolf alyssa milano and mickey rooney entertaining and a well made family movie
1	well first of all it's not a bad movie it is good and i like the characters introduced i also like lady and voices more in this br br however i would like to see lady and tramp more i know it says adventure' and i love scamp and angel to bits but it's a sequel to the original where in my opinion they should of just released it as adventure' not 'lady and the tramp ii adventure' br br tramp did have quite a role but he didn't have much time with lady br br but anyway the songs are quite good and scamp and angel are sweet i've seen better sequels but hey it's not a failure br br i give it 7 10 very good but still had flaws
1	where do i begin walt disney's happiest motion picture lady and the tramp is one of if not possibly my favourite in the theatrical canon of disney animation the sequel however is to say the very least enjoyable i enjoyed myself throughout the whole movie it was flame shield up adorable the broadway style of the songs and the movie kind of worked and i was humming the songs for the rest of the night i can if you asked me to still sing all of the songs br br but where the movie was really good for me it was bad in a lot of other places the animation was kind of scary at times every time there was a close up shot of someones face i don't know it just seemed scary to me also where the hell was lady she gets like two lines of dialogue and only doggy hugs scamp at the end she gets 0 interaction with the plot and her only son br br but all in all i liked it compared to the original does it hold up no the songs aren't as good still kind of catchy though the plot was a lot less involved lady had almost nothing to do with it and it's not as cute as the first one but if you go in with an open mind you'll have fun and maybe ' like it
1	hilarious film i had a great time watching it the star arkin sometimes credited as steve arkin is a popular actor from turkey he has played in lots of tough guy roles epic sword films and romances it was fun to see him with an international cast and some real lousy looking pair of gloves if i remember it was also dubbed in english which made things even more funnier kinda like seeing john wayne speak turkish
1	aslan adam or as it's more commonly known amongst english speaking audiences starts with an epic battle as king solomon his army defeats a load of guys although i'm not sure who they were the film itself isn't too helpful in establishing the fact anyway after king solomon has slaughtered all these guys princess maria bishop commander antoine are forced to sign a treaty which lets king solomon rule just about everything in sight soon after princess maria seduces solomon they have sex meanwhile in the shortest wedding ceremony ever just two sentences long antoine weds princess maria is planning to rebel against solomon gain some sweet revenge in the process antoine his guards attack kill solomon even though his pregnant wife princess escapes with her protector with guards in hot pursuit after the shortest labour ever less than 5 minutes or the time it takes to run around a bush princess gives birth to a young baby boy who is hidden in some bushes away from guards unfortunately when tries to retrieve the little fella he finds that the baby has been adopted by a pride of lion's as one of their own year's later the evil antoine now rules treating his subjects with no mercy princess maria has given birth he has a son but is also still kicking around trying to put together a gang of rebels to overthrow antoine the task seems hopeless unless they can enlist the help of the legendary who is more beast than man br br this turkish greek co production was directed by as is a one of a kind type of film i found it hilariously bad but at the same time immensely entertaining the script never seems to take itself seriously it is a pretty funny film at times it moves along like a rocket is never dull or boring some of the english dubbed dialogue is just hilarious in context with what's happening on screen none of it makes any sense we get a boy raised by lion's an evil king betrayal dark family secrets birthmarks that form the shape of lion's in an element of the story that was present before the kid was raised by lion's crazy fight scenes torture scenes where the posts people are supposed to be tied to wobble ancient castle interiors that randomly contain zip wires gymnastic rings idiotic bad guys who all seem to have extensive facial hair a central character who has a jaw line resembling a house brick can be stabbed twice have his hands covered in acid this acid can eat it's way through steel but is kept in a ceramic jug fall over 20 feet onto a concrete floor yet maintain no serious injury aslan adam is a terrifically entertaining film i don't think i've seen another film quite like it that i can compare it too if your looking for something serious then forget this but if you like 'so bad they're good' type films want to have fun laugh be entertained then aslan adam should be at the very top of your list total 100 gold for bad film fans those with a taste for the different bizarre on the disappointing side only gets his steel claws 10 minutes before the end which is a shame br br director certainly keeps things moving along at a brisk pace although it's far from well made during the opening battle one moment guys are fighting on a sand dune the next their on a hill with trees in the background there is one point where uses a to pole vault but it's obviously just a long tube with a vine wrapped around it then there's the scene when a bloodthirsty pack of are supposed the chasing down but the dogs used are obviously different breeds including some of the most harmless looking dogs ever there are just so many individual scenes in aslan adam that are just hilarious stupid bizarre or all three that i could go on forever just check the ending out when is jumping flying about everywhere like he can fly there's lots of blood in aslan adam although not much actual graphic gore or violence a few stabbings someone has their hands cut off is as graphic as it gets br br technically aslan adam is pretty ropey the period costumes are bright garish featuring purples yellows reds various other bright colours the fight scenes are cheap but at least the filmmakers tried to put as much action in as they could the music seemed like it was more suited to a classical ballet rather than an action film is yet another bizarre aspect to aslan adam the acting was bad even dubbed you could tell the acting was bad br br aslan adam is pure gold from start to finish there are so many things to like laugh at enjoy in this film that i just ended up really liking it in no way whatsoever can aslan adam be considered a good film in any sense of the word but it's one hell of an entertaining one i may have have to watch this one again sometime soon just to prove to myself that i didn't dream it all the best turkish action film about a man raised by lion's you will ever see period proved popular enough to spawn a sequel ii the 1979
1	when the episode was made and aired eisenhower was president kennedy was president elect br br as for the episode it was a passable episode if not a bit earnest the professor shows not much range here and the whole thing seems a little rushed a lot of episodes of the tz seem to not fit the time slot some seeming like they're crammed in and rushed some with little or nothing to it spread out over the half hour and some of course fit i guess you just expect a little more tension than to be taken back to some rooms and drugged but overall a decent episode indeed the what if motif of time travel is a nugget in itself and sets the table of with basic interest br br 7 out of 10 considering there were a lot of tz episodes not quite as good and some a great deal better
1	the original female convict scorpion is an all time masterpiece the first sequel jailhouse 41 was not quite as good in my opinion though it's still notable for the fact that it took the idea from the original and created something in a completely different style director ito has managed to do the same thing again with this film the story is a bit different here but still he's managed to take what made the previous entries excellent and better than many films of this type and craft something fairly original around it again the action focuses on nami a k a scorpion and this time she's out of the jailhouse and not too keen on the idea of going back after escaping from pursuing police officers one thing leads to another and scorpion finds herself getting it together with a prostitute and her retarded brother the prostitute ends up getting impregnated by the retarded brother while scorpion is kidnapped and caged up by someone who she made an enemy out of in prison but scorpion doesn't like spending time behind bars and it's not long before she's back to doing what she does best br br the film gets off to a great start as we see scorpion hack the arm off a copper intent on taking her back to jail from there however the film slows down a lot and beast stable ends up being more of a drama than the previous two films that's not to say that there isn't still plenty of action scorpion still spends a lot of time in mode' and the film isn't exactly short on general sleaze once again reprises her role as the sinister title character and it's another understated almost wordless performance her screen presence is great however and she manages to have a menacing presence despite being only small physically the plot structure for this film is similar to the other two in that it all builds into a crescendo of revenge there are more people who have angered scorpion in this film than in the previous two so this section takes up a fairly large part of the film there's a few surreal sequences not as many as in the first film and nowhere near as in the second but the film stays in with the rest of the series on that point overall i would say this film is between the first two in terms of quality not as great as the original and slightly better than the second
1	being a fan of time travel stories i was surprised that there was no 'device' that sent russell johnson's character through time he just appeared in 1865 it was a disappointing part of the episode i enjoyed the premise of the dangers of the future by changing the past other twilight zone episodes about time travel such as no time like the past once upon a time etc were more to my liking because of the uses of time travel perhaps if russell johnson's character had been the same character he played in execution it would have been more acceptable to fans like myself as sci fi fans know no characters really ever have to in time travel episodes all sorts of plot 'twists' can be applied in these types of stories that was the only flaw i could comment on for this episode
1	like a great many twilight zone episodes one of my favorite parts of this one was the overt social commentary that serling is making with the story as was the case with a recent episode the howling man i was reminded of my long standing suspicion that for example if jesus were to come to earth to bring his followers to heaven he would be immediately judged insane and probably thrown into an asylum our main character in this episode meets a similar problem when trying to convince the 1860s americans that he is from the future and the president lincoln is about to be assassinated the episode wrongly asserts that this means that some parts of the past can be changed while others can't but it's a fun time travelling romp nonetheless br br granted we don't know for a fact whether history could be changed by time travel because time travel has never been accomplished and sadly never will be but it seems logical to me that if you could physically place yourself in a time of the past you could physically prevent something from happening as long as you didn't flail around like a lunatic yelling about assassinations br br one of the consistently interesting things about time travel films and tv shows in my opinion is the method by which the time travel takes place there is really no method at all here our main character is having a conversation about time travel at a posh gentlemen's club and then walks outside and into a dissolve from the early 1960s to the mid 1860s but no matter the twilight zone has thus far not struck me for its complex sets or high production values br br russell johnson plays the part of peter corrigan the time traveller and upon discovering that he has been somehow transported back to the exact day of lincoln's assassination he manages to get himself thrown in prison but luckily for him john wilkes booth for some reason just happened to be hanging out at the police station and overheard the frantic corrigan desperately trying to describe the very assassination that booth was planning for that night br br booth requests custody of corrigan for some psychiatric experimentation and the police officer sees nothing wrong with relinquishing custody to this guy he had a business card after all how bad could he be br br the show seems to suggest that you can change people's lives by slightly altering events in the past through time travel and while i'm not willing to accept that time travel would include such limitations it's still a fun episode that really makes you think which is one of my favorite qualities of the good twilight zone shows
1	time travel into the past is tenuous at best as a topic in this episode a man who has been thinking about the possibility finds himself at the date and location of the assassination of abraham lincoln he tries everything he can think of in the short time available to him with predictable results of course he is thought to be quite mad he is arrested and eventually to the very man he is attempting to stop serling was bright enough to let him return to the present but is the present the same this is kind of a precursor to the time tunnel where time travelers on a weekly basis were given the same task overcoming what had already happened unfortunately the implications of the distortion of time and the future always negate the result unless you have something like ray bradbury's the sound of thunder
1	the kid power hour featured two segments hero high and let's start with hero high br br hero high was intended to be a new cartoon featuring their superhero identities the powerful archie captain hero jughead betty and reggie however filmation couldn't get the rights to do it so they tweaked it a bit and came up with this here's the breakdown of characters captain california archie glorious gal betty weatherman jughead dirty trixie veronica rex ruthless reggie principal samson mr and miss grimm miss the show featured live action sketches as well as cartoon adventures the humor was the typical lame filmation jokes but at least it had a sense of fun about it it was entertaining enough for kids though not quite up to previous standards br br the other segment was which was very faithful to the comics unlike the previous live action show all of the major villains made appearances as well as the entire marvel family including freckles marvel in at least one episode uncle dudley had the correct wc fields voice and shady character as well as his perpetually acting up burr middleton a veteran of 70's tv shows like fish voiced the big red cheese while alan oppenheimer rudy wells in the early 6 million dollar man episodes and voice of skeletor in he man handled dr br br the marvels had always had a sense of whimsy to them so little alteration was required for their adventures to meet the broadcast standards and practices requirements the censors as such the stories were very imaginative and inventive amongst the villains who appeared were dr black adam mr atom mr mind aunt minerva and the crocodile creatures mr tawny also made his on screen debut br br hero high is due to be released from bci but is still in limbo as well as the live action show hopefully the proposed movie will help shake them loose on dvd it is well worth watching and deserving of dvd treatment
1	was okay but hero high was my favorite when i was a kid i mean before there was sky high 2005 and zoom 2006 there was hero high a school for super hero's in training teenagers with super powers would help police capture bad guys and other times they would get in embarrassing situations like the greatest american hero 1981 it was a fun cartoon to watch what was also fun was the live action stage show called the kid superpower hour with the actors who voiced the characters also dressed has there characters in the show rex ruthless john berwick misty magic fields weatherman jim captain california chris who also sang the theme song dirty trixie glorious gal becky who looks like the love child of superman and wonder woman and punk rock johnny the whole cast just went with anything when it came to the jokes the cartoon was a fun superhero comedy i shore up it will come back in live action like fat albert 2004
1	i'm a fan of zhang yimou and finally found this dvd title from the shelves of a bookstore after a long search at many places br br this is a huge departure from previous zhang yimou work esp in terms of style and locale the director himself has said that this is the first and only time he'll ever attempt to make a black comedy set in contemporary china you may even say this work is experimental in nature compared to his other well known big budget and formal pieces br br filmed with a hand held camera and wide angle lens throughout the duration of the whole film the quick pace editing and high energy performance naturalistic tone never let you go once it grips you from the start it presents a very realistic account of modern chinese urban sensibilities which in this case is set in beijing if you appreciate and love this kind of black humor you will love this film totally also look out for hilarious cameos by zhao happy times and the director zhang yimou himself br br a last point of note i find the characters in this film as in all other zhang yimou films exhibiting similar personality traits stubbornness always trying to beat the odds up the ante do let me know your thoughts on this br br david lee
1	is a burly and uncouth young with a haircut who out a living selling cheap books from a stall in an indoor market he wouldn't appear to have anything in common with the middle aged would be intellectual zhang and yet the two of them wind up in a restaurant together discussing the pro's and of murder the chinese title would perhaps be better translated as it over' if that makes it sound kind of pedestrian don't be misled this film is profusely inventive in its plot and mostly races along at breakneck speed although the pace does flag quite badly towards the end br br if you only know zhang yimou's worthy historical dramas like raise the red lantern and shanghai triad or his more recent martial arts epics hero and house of flying daggers you'll be amazed in fact whichever of his other films you've seen you'll be surprised pleasantly surprised this is far and away his most original most quirky most experimental work it was shot within a couple of weeks on a minimal budget almost entirely on location in beijing and making use of many ordinary in the smaller supporting roles there's even a fleeting cameo by the director himself and mostly with a hand held camera in a jerky hyper kinetic style which is a million miles from the elegant formalism of his best known films br br ok i live in beijing so i find an additional delight in all the bizarre little details of everyday life that i am coming to recognise and relish even though it was shot in '97 and things are changing so rapidly here but i really think this film can be appreciated by anyone i saw it as i have so many other chinese 'comedies' at a movie club that screens sub titled versions of recent chinese films for an almost exclusively audience and it is the only one i can recall where the audience was laughing out loud some non chinese audiences might find it a little too strange a little uncomfortable at times in that it does include some violence and after opening as a breezy offbeat romantic comedy mutates into something much darker in its second half it is however very very funny br br it's also superbly acted by the two leads especially long time zhang yimou collaborator jiang wen who is probably mainland china's foremost film star and has a brooding screen presence reminiscent of a young depardieu or de niro br br watch this film for proof that the chinese have a sense of humour that can translate to other cultures for proof that zhang yimou is far far more than a one trick pony and for a thoroughly good time
1	i could never imagine i would start loving movies like this after seeing yimou zhang's 'hero' i decided to check his other movies perhaps looking for something similar the second yimou zhang's movie i watched was 'no one less' after which i realized what kind of cinema i'm now in no wonder why i got 'keep immediately it is a simple touching and brilliant piece of cinema i pay my respect to the director br br this movie shows that it's not the amount of money makes film good it's all about what the director wants to show and how successful he is in doing this the story is very simple a typical extract of a typical daily life moreover shown in a very simple way the movements of camera also strengthen the impression and the feeling of the movie i give a top rating to this film and impatiently waiting to see other yimou zhang's films
1	i was born in beijing china and moved to the united states at the age of 9 been home to beijing several times since and loved it each time one of the many things i love about beijing is the people and the ambiance they bring to the city you which translate more accurately to if you have something to say say it nicely delightfully and truthfully captures that feeling of beijing i suppose you would have to have lived in and kinda understood beijing and its people to get the most out of this movie though you might enjoy it regardless br br the story is not complicated intentionally kinda quirky and captivating i will leave it to unfold by itself and not tell you too much except some comments each detail from the pictures on the wall to the decorations the streets and restaurants feels like home zhang yimou most likely shot everything on location but more importantly the characters our hero the girl the kind hearted but unfortunate laptop man and the night club owner are each native to beijing and lovable in their distinct ways their conversations really capture the essence of each character the story mostly driven by situations and conversation save the brilliant near the end is intriguing and always interesting br br i am 21 now my parents and i love this movie we are always so amazed by zhang yimou's ability to transform ordinary people into believable screen characters and everyday life into extraordinary situations br br keep cool different hilarious meaningful
1	this is not the best movie you might ever see but it still is very refreshing of course it has it's flaws it has it's humbling moments and yet at the same time it's different from all the sh t you're used to and is funny in a way only the french can give you this you might recognize a little from the masterpiece amelie when you see the opening i give it 7 out of 10 but still reccomend it to you if you're tired of the usual bore you can rent in the videostore
1	since the past couple of days i'm really hooked on the female scorpion series and i keep hitting myself over the head because i waited until now – which is way too long – before purchasing the whole box set beast stable is the third brilliant effort in a row and the undeniably main trump of this series is how the writers always came up with something entirely new and different for each installment never before or after has there been an exploitation series that offered so much variety when it comes to story lines settings themes and filming styles the original more or less qualified as a so called women in prison flick but already an atypical one but you can't possibly categorize parts 2 and 3 as such since they hardly feature any footage within prison walls and the overall tone and atmosphere keeps changing with each new episode as well the first film was harsh and gritty whereas the second was psychedelic and part three is almost mainly melodramatic don't let this last description discourage you however as beast stable still features more than enough exploitative themes and disturbing footage in spite of the dramatic ambiance the opening sequence for example is downright fantastic still a fugitive from the law literally chops her way to freedom on the subway when there's no other possibility than to cut off the arm of the persistent policeman that handcuffed her her run through the city with the cut off arm dangling on hers while the credits appear on screen accompanied by the familiar theme song is just pure and genuine exploitation gold the story compellingly continues with our heroine desperately trying to lead an anonymous life in the big city but the poor thing simply can't escape her past or even new types of agony befriends a prostitute though without exchanging dialog and takes on a job in a sewing her own retarded brother impregnates the prostitute while gets in trouble with the local pimping and underground crime network she cleverly prevents a thug from taking advantage of her body encounters a former enemy from prison and furiously avenges one of the prostitutes when she gets submitted to a barbaric abortion meanwhile the one armed cop continues to obsessively prowl the streets looking for retribution against our multi talented director ito formidably criss crosses all these story lines to a powerful wholesome and never once loses grip on the visual aspects or ingenious filming style beast stable features some of the most impressive compositions and ingenious camera angles you can imagine the editing is flawless and the exterior locations are effectively depressing those who know character a bit are aware that the film seriously lacks memorable dialogs but this always gets widely compensated with wondrous on screen charisma and menacing grimaces there's very little sleaze apart from the aforementioned incestuous sub plot but the brief flashes of extreme violence are terrific and the twisted ending is almost too brilliant for words in fact i think part three might just be the greatest or at least my favorite one of the series so far my only small and totally irrelevant point of criticism is regarding the ridiculous sounds one of the birds produces when is locked up in a cage that bird sounds like a ventriloquist's dummy with stomach cramps
1	the claude lelouch's movie is a pretty good moment of cinema one of the most touching films about family and loneliness and surely the best interpretation of french actor jean paul belmondo
1	surely the best film directed by claude lelouch after c'est the jacques life inspiration is really present richard and jean paul belmondo played a really amazing duo and are really great in the psychological discovery of the two characters they are playing
1	sam lion jean paul belmondo discovers he needs to take some time off as everybody around him relies to much on him and stages his own death when he discovers those he loved ans still loves are in need he gets albert duvivier richard to help them in search of his own past of his own desires this fabulous film by claude lelouch is a man's quest for himself at a ripe age br br built like all lelouch films the film's beginning with constant flashbacks may be puzzling especially scenes where paul belmondo who looks a huge lot like his father is playing a young sam lion while sam lion stands in the same room a flashback sequence which takes a second to grasp br br one of lelouch's most elaborate works d'un infant gate is a must see tale of self fulfilment
1	the only reason the duke is tops one of several race movies made during the times of segregation would be worth noting today is because it made the film debut of a 21 year old singer named lena horne she plays ethel andrews a singer who has to leave her producer mentor duke davis ralph cooper in order to branch into the big time davis however has to fake having taken the money for her services in front of her so she won't feel sorry for having done so he then teams up with doc lawrence for a series of medicine shows throughout the south meanwhile in new york her new producers have bombed big time because they made her the whole show instead of simply the specialty act davis finds out from the radio and offers his services as producer and band leader to bring his lineup of other specialty acts many of whom make their one of their few or only film appearances here for his chance at the big time with ethel next to him guess what happens while the plot is the kind you've seen in thousands of other movie musicals during this time the fact this was made for a certain audience makes this one of the more fascinating features i've seen during this black history month ms horne's singing is on good display here and it's interesting seeing her so young before her professionalism takes full hold later in her career among other supporting players there's an unconfirmed according to imdb appearance by lillian randolph annie in my favorite movie it's a wonderful life and sister of amanda randolph who i just saw in the musical short the black network as the woman with who complains of not being cured after taking the doc's medicine before duke explains it's for the feet and as a longtime louisiana resident i'd like to take note of two players from here in this movie joel from monroe as a tonic customer and marie bryant from new orleans as the sexy dancer who appears near the musical climax so for just lena horne alone the duke is tops is worth seeing at least once
1	an unusual film for an audience outside the usa lena horne looks fabulous and so does ralph cooper there is not added background of tap steps as in other musicals so you do not hear the beat of the taps which is great realism music is muted to hear what dancing steps there are acting is a little stilted and the casts speak slowly so that you think the movie is older than it is costumes are daring for the time in the dance routines at the end often feels like you are part of an audience at a stage show what furniture you see is very modern which adds to the movies feeling of other worldliness a must for all film buffs
1	its a good film set in vienna about a cab driver toni donald who steals a passenger's identity when the passenger is shot whilst sitting in the back of his cab this gives him an identity as he is an illegal immigrant but he needs to play out the role of the victim until he catches a flight to the u s with a ticket in the victim's name mrs joan rumbles him but she is accused of having mental problems by her husband claude francis lederer a concert pianist as a result toni is let off the hook claude does not want to part from his wife but she runs away from him there are several plot twists and eventually both toni and mrs make a run for it together they are both trying to escape from their lives in vienna there is a tense exciting build up to the finale are they going to get away br br unfortunately the picture quality isn't fantastic and there is a line that runs down the middle of the picture for a while the cast are all very good in their roles especially francis portrayal of claude also important to the story are manfred inger as the cab company owner marie inge as hometown girlfriend and the inspector hermann erhardt br br its a good film
1	previous commentators have noted the similarity in appearance between this film and the third man director carol reed's classic film noir starring orson welles and joseph cotten this similarity strikes the viewer almost immediately it is indeed high praise to be compared to robert academy award winning cinematography in the third man br br the plot of stolen identity also has been delineated fairly accurately but in rather ordinary terms i found it highly creative and entertaining as common as the mistaken or stolen identity device is in both theater and cinema it is only a device and not to be mistaken for the plot itself consequently while the viewer may have seen this device a thousand times the plot of stolen identity is full of surprises and twists based upon this device it is the unexpected turns that make this film much fresher more original and engrossing than a plot synopsis might convey stolen identity doesn't rely on the kind of suspense that characterizes most film noire because there is no real mystery here instead it relies on constant smaller surprises in short the mistaken identity device is rather common but this plot is not br br finally although i was not familiar with the cast i found the acting to be uniformly good occasionally outstanding i easily could have imagined other actors turning this film into a melodrama with bombast overblown gestures and obvious facial expressions the acting is always more restrained and subtle donald is especially restrained and credible never blowing his cover with an obvious facial expression as we see too often in films that depend on the maintenance of subterfuge to sustain dramatic tension br br the only disappointment in this otherwise fine film was the very weak development of the love story sub plot as it stands it seems like an afterthought a mild surprise in fact tacked on to the end or perhaps during their shared ordeal the actors simply couldn't convey a palpable level of chemistry that i could appreciate this sub plot should have been made more apparent as the story unfolded all in all i thought this film was a fine little gem and i wondered why i had not seen it before try it you'll like it
1	a quick paced and entertaining noir set in vienna just after w w 11 donald is a refugee who can't find legal work because he does not have any papers no papers means no work permit which means no way to get a passport he survives by driving a friend's cab at night if he gets caught it means three months in jail one night he picks up a fare at a big hotel and drives the man to an airline office takes the man's luggage in and returns to the car there he finds his customer has acquired an unneeded hole in the back of his head what to do call the police without a work permit they will put the grab on him real quick no he needs time to think this out he drives to a secluded spot empties the man's pockets and hides the body he now has an american passport and plenty of cash he drops by an underworld contact to have the passport photo changed now he just needs to go to the man's hotel and collect the man's plane ticket his ticket to freedom needless to say that would be too simple waiting at the hotel is the dead man's mistress joan is on the run from her rather nasty husband francis lederer lederer is of course the swine who had bumped off the man in cab calls the police since she believes has robbed her lover shows his new passport and manages to talk his way out of the mess breaks down when hubby lederer shows up at the police station lederer convinces the police has suffered a mental breakdown and she is released to him she escapes again finds and the two decide to flee the country together lederer again puts in an appearance and must decide if helping is worth his freedom this film is much better than i'm making it sound is best known as the low life cop killer in 1950's between midnight and dawn the film was produced by actor turhan bey
1	there's a third man look to the shadowy b w photography of stolen identity a thriller produced by turhan bey ex star of universal pictures during the '40s it's an expertly filmed tale of jealousy that leads to murder when a famous pianist francis lederer becomes overly possessive of his wife joan and is soon intent on carrying out a scheme to murder a man she's having an affair with br br a taxi driver donald happens to be giving the woman's lover a lift to the hotel when he steps outside a moment to chat with a worker digging up the street lederer uses the sound of the drill to the sound of the bullet he puts in the head of the passenger from outside the back of the car when returns to his cab he finds a dead man in the passenger seat br br to report the murder to the police he changes his mind and decides to switch identities with the dead man who has an american passport which means could realize his ambition to return to the united states the stolen identity plot becomes thicker when the man's girlfriend wife shows up at the hotel to accuse of impersonating the dead man br br it's the sort of plot movie goers have probably seen countless times but it gets a nice workout here with plenty of tense scenes as and wife plan how to run from the authorities until a final confrontation with the murderer and the police br br it's extremely absorbing well done and holds the interest throughout with some excellent atmospheric photography of vienna that will remind most movie goers of the third man br br well worth viewing
1	hong kong the 1920s a young man from poor beginnings dreams of being a hero and spends most of his time training and learning about kung fu and bodybuilding much against his father's will he helps a servant girl escape from a ruthless businessman whose goons then come after them and terrorizes the young man's uncle's noodle restaurant the uncle turns out to be an old reformed triad assassin who now helps the young guy become proficient in martial arts it's all out karate kid style with wash the wok instead of wax on wax off the kung fu villain is the ruthless businessman's son who has a trademark scorpion style that looks cool although it is quite silly and surely completely unrealistic br br but the story which develops over time has an epic feel good characterization great kung fu and is generally very entertaining the young hero is very sympathetic and provides a good protagonist to root for the romance dimension remains undeveloped though which is a bit disappointing otherwise a great movie br br my rating 8 out of 10
1	after finishing the zero woman series i was looking forward to the female prisoner scorpion series both based upon comics by unfortunately i was not able to see them in order as this is the third in the series br br it starts great as the scorpion is escaping from the police detective did manage to get a cuff on her but she proceeded to cut off his arm and get away if that isn't bad enough later on a dog digs up the arm and is seen trotting down the street before finding a place to enjoy his treat br br scorpion might as well go back to prison as life is no picnic on the outside first a local yakuza v threatens to put her back if she doesn't put out and then the gang leader gets her when she gets rid of but they don't hold her for long before she escapes and is looking for vengeance br br soon they are dropping like flies some certainly deserved it for wearing garish outfits with shirt collars so big they went all the way to the shoulder the madam lee turns herself in to avoid getting killed br br the police arrive at her latest kill and trap her in the sewer she's in there for a week and the cops find out that a friend watanabe has been supplying her with food the story o yuki watanabe and her brother is a subplot that is very interesting but only incidental to the movie they try to burn her out but this is the scorpion and she has some unfinished business br br not the usual mix of sex and violence this is a slow tale that is beautiful throughout
1	operation scorpio scorpion king doesn't slip into top gear until the last 25 minutes or so but when the action does hit top speed it delivers some truly amazing martial arts scenes that demand the viewer's attention that is not to say that the first hour is just that compared to the final fight fest it seems a bit underwhelming br br the plot revolves around yuk su a talented comic artist who dreams of being a like those he depicts in his drawings when yuk su rescues a young maid siu yu who is being sold into prostitution he incurs the wrath of her evil boss wa led by sonny master of scorpion style kung fu henchmen give chase to yuk su and the maid yuk father intervenes but he is injured after being rescued by some friendly bodybuilders the three eventually hide out at a noodle restaurant owned by their friend master yat br br yuk su learns to cooks noodles but also regularly sneaks out in order to secretly build his strength and learn kung fu under the tutelage of jean the teacher of the musclebound who rescued them when master yat must leave on business yuk su is left in charge of the kitchen however he pops out to practise his skills with jean leaving siu yu to serve the customers sonny and his men visit the restaurant and disgusted by the noodles they are served trash the restaurant br br when master yat learns that yuk su has been sneaking out he tells him that he should have learnt kung fu from him it transpires that master yat used to be a top triad assassin until he decided to try and change his ways under the guidance of master yat yuk su improves his skills even learning the art of the shadowless kick yuk su eventually gets a chance to try and become a real hero when his friend fatty announces that his maid has also been sold into prostitution with jean they visit wa posing as french brothel keepers looking for new women when fatty's maid is presented to them she accidentally blows their ruse and at last the action kicks off big style despite his best efforts jean is badly beaten by sonny and he and yuk su are forced to flee on returning to the restaurant yuk su finds it ablaze and worst of all the bad guys have found siu yu yuk su accompanied by master yat returns to place to try and rescue siu yu br br despite some fairly entertaining training scenes the slow build up to the final action at house is rather too drawn out and devoid of any serious fight scenes it is a shame that the tedium wasn't broken up by a decent scrap midway rather than saving all of the juicy stuff until the end br br the last fight however is worth the wait in the end won jin gives a jaw dropping performance as the high kicking sonny who flips and spins with amazing skill and dexterity and chin kar lok gives a solid performance as yuk su the artist turned fighter also particularly good is old school kung fu star lau kar leung aka liu chia liang as master yat proving that this old timer has still got what it takes to kick ass although not a perfect film operation scorpio has enough standout action in its finale to definitely warrant a viewing br br nb i may have got some of the names wrong my dvd calls characters by different names than those listed on imdb
1	i have been feeling a little disappointed by tarantino ever since death proof but i insist it was only a little because i can appreciate the amount of work in producing such an homage to stunts people inglorious basterds has definitely propelled tarantino to the top ranks in my universe this movie can be summed up albeit inadequately in one word raw br br there is an intense emotion in every scene revenge and justice seem to be the main themes from the start of the movie one feels compassion towards the victims of the nazis and is placed in tarantino's fictional dimension of the ww2 historical context br br characters are fun scary brutal sexy and other adjectives i am sure are escaping my mind that are just as fitting and positive i won't go in to an appreciation of each character but the other comments by fellow users sum up the appreciation of the various performances br br dialogue has evolved from the classic tarantino bad ass provocative style as seen in pulp fiction and death proof one can feel in the dialogues that tarantino is making more open references to other movies indeed many dialogues were near lessons in cinema to the audience the setting partly takes place at a movie premiere a reference to a movie is close around every corner br br it is nice to see that each language presented german french and english is employed rather equally and naturally i speak both french and english very fluently and am frequently disappointed in how english speaking characters in french movies act poorly and how french speaking characters in english american movies act poorly amazingly enough tarantino managed to make his actors pull off a natural and graceful performance from his actors it helps put the audience in context of the historical context indeed soldiers spies and rarely understood soldiers spies civilians from other countries br br the visuals photography are beautiful with sceneries convincingly conveying a 1940s wwii europe the outfits are perfect and the violence realistically conveyed no punches are held back and the nazis are often shown being tortured this makes the movie not open to all audiences the graphic violence can shock the more sensitive demographic br br volumes can be written about this movie but the movie is so good that during the north american inglorious basterds premiere at the fantasia festival in montreal i had to pee but refused to go so as to not miss one single scene i hope that image conveys how strongly i feel about this movie and i'm a hard audience to please
1	brad pitt sticks his index finger in diane leg wound and keeps it there until he gets what he wants funny horribly so the invented yarn takes the dirty dozen for a ride and sometimes abandons it to pay tribute to other movies lots of fun even paris when it sizzles is mentioned in a delightfully organic piece of dialog i was thrilled by christoph character and by his sensational performance brad pitt creates a true original i love the actor's lack of vanity there's a quirk in the character that is pure brad pitt tarantino visits a new universe but fortunately his hand his brain and his heart are visible all over the place
1	i must admit when i saw the preview for inglorious basterds i gave myself big expectations this film did not disappoint br br rarely when i watch a movie with such high expectations do i have those expectations met or exceeded this film did that and more even more rarely do i clap at the end of a movie this i and everyone else in the theater did br br i have to say i am a little biased towards quentin i grew up with pulp fiction i watched it when i was 12 and it is still my favorite and most influential film br br however since then quentin has not really lived up to his billing his style was getting a little predictable instead of familiar the quality honestly wasn't there i never watched jackie brown and then there's grindhouse that is until inglorious basterds what quentin did was exactly what was needed for the war genre a spaghetti western feel that could only be done by tarantino or sergio leone but seeing how leone is dead tarantino's the self appointed guy on this masterpiece br br so let's look at the movie which i won't give away the writing was spot on a beautiful transition between using not one but four different languages in this movie not to mention this movie was set up in the classic tarantino mold great scenes of rich meaningful dialog and sudden shocking action br br the acting was superb christopher waltz deserves an oscar seriously i don't say that often but honestly the man should get one for this movie he spoke every language in this movie and delivered with such amazing touch and poise he stole the show in a movie that everybody was amazingly impressive br br i have no problem building this movie up because this movie is the best film i've seen all year and probably all of next year quite frankly the more i think about it this movie may crack my top films of all time and is quentin's best movie since pulp fiction take it from me watch this film i loved it doesn't do this movie enough justice br br i watched it yesterday and i'm still blown away thank you quentin from the bottom of my heart for you making this movie you're back on top again buddy i can't say enough for inglorious basterds
1	that's what i thought when i heard about the cast of inglorious basterds and i'm both from germany and into movies br br that guy is older than 50 and so far he almost only played in mediocre tv series and even there he didn't play the main parts obviously nobody ever noticed what he's capable of now thanks to qt he got one shot to change that and let's put it this way that was a bingo he is the living proof of what a great caster tarrantino is br br by the way i think it's a great privilege to watch the movie as a german being able to understand everything and the german dialog is written almost as good as the english br br now i could repeat what many others have written here before i'll put it short finally qt is back
1	inglorious as our local theater decided to display its title on their marquee minus the second word it is terrific cinema br br i don't hesitate to recommend this film to all but the over squeamish let them never know what they're missing br br i did hesitate to give it ten stars because of my experience of tarantino's previous films in every case save reservoir dogs they have improved with additional watching br br so although i gave it ten stars i did so reluctantly it leaves me no up to go to br br yes christoph waltz is the nazi we've all imagined the worst to be he is cultured sophisticated suave and most sadistic the kind of man who can make a glass of milk a threat and who puts out his cigarette abruptly in a strudel grinding it into the whipped cream as if he were grinding his heel into a victim br br to understand tarantino's films you need only have a sense of dialogue color and pacing the colors are as bright as necessary and when necessary brighter yet in the french farmhouse of the opening scene they are muted and dark but excessively so outside a brilliant sun is shining but in the one room of the house everything is bathed in shadows and black br br it is a brilliant setting for an interrogation by waltz as the jew hunter of the ss who dangles his host french farmer over the precipice of revealing what he cannot reveal numerous times then pulls him back with obsequious lines of friendship and understanding br br a second sadistic german well played by august diehl later functions as important actor in the final plot twist diehl's nazi major who has an ear for german accents is almost as good as waltz almost br br film classes will study much from this movie they should look lovingly at the superb pacing tarantino knows just how long to draw out a scene building suspense in the manner of hitchcock then at just the breaking point suddenly coming to a resolution br br for color look for a final shot at a french theater where its secretly jewish proprietor is staging a surprise for the upper reaches of nazi leadership br br we see her played by melanie laurent awaiting the hated german who will arrive for a film preview of the latest deutsch film masterpiece a propaganda piece about a german hero and his dubious accomplishments br br laurent is framed on a balcony reflected in the glass mirrors of the gorgeous theater her red lips and low cut dress reflecting everywhere the intensity of her designs on her guests it is a single shot that would be worth an entire film br br there are thankfully many more such images many more paced scenes of exquisite dialog and suspense br br in short see it i'm sure you'll see it again and again
1	i had the privilege of attending the uk premier of inglorious basterds this evening having seen the trailers i had high hopes but had doubts due to a string of self indulgent films c'mon lets be honest self indulgence is his middle name br br i was surprised to find though that he had pulled the cat out of the bag with this one the film is rich with interesting dialogue perfect timed comedy with a dash of brutal assassination br br the crowning glory of this film though lies with christoph waltz whom no fault or error can be found he manages to create a real tension in the audience whilst remaining quite theatrical couldn't think of a better word he definitely deserved his prize at cannes and is heading for an oscar no doubt hoping to see him in something again soon
1	i can't imagine a director whose thirst for blood and violence is greater than quentin tarantino's at least in his films basterds is no different we all know tarantino the guy who exploded on the scene in the early 90s with cult classics such as reservoir dogs and pulp fiction since he has been a disappointment for some well i am relieved to say tarantino has not lost his touch he brings us his best since pulp fiction and thankfully so br br we know the story a wwii tale told only as tarantino can fictional of course a war film hasn't been done like this before brad pitt as lt aldo raine leads the basterds in nazi occupied france their goal killin' nazi's christoph waltz as colonel hans landa plays a similar role on the other side he's know as the jew hunter and goes about his business as ruthless as no other the third sub story consists of a young jewish refugee dreyfus who witnesses the slaughter of her family and she of course wishes to plot revenge on the germans for her devastating lose there actually is three stories here intertwining and connecting with each other if you know anything about tarantino or his films this is nothing new for him br br war has never been been so fun the basterds are haunting but at the same time very funny at times even hilarious the dark comedy aspect play a big aspect in this as in many other tarantino films the entertainment and hilarity is led by brad pitt i found him extremely funny and entertaining i couldn't wait to see him on screen again even with his crazy accent he works in this type of film also making great impressions were mélanie laurent and christoph waltz who were tremendous the film was filled with noteworthy performances br br the story itself has so many historical inaccuracies to even count but so what it isn't meant to be a documentary tarantino wanted to have fun with as should we the cinematography department deserves big props with beautiful vibrant colors highlighting the film you've really got to love the last line in the film but pulp fiction remains his masterpiece br br quentin tarantino among all other things is an entertainer wwii is one of the most tragic events in history but tarantino some how manages to make it fun basterds is a fun film it's tremendously entertaining shocking dramatic suspenseful and funny at the same time jam packed with everything you look for in a movie done with that certain tarantino style it's worth being checked out it's time to experience for yourself what war is like through the eyes of quentin tarantino
1	inglorious basterds is a dark and violent comic fantasy gloriously so built on the framework of the dirty dozen inglorious basterds ditches the elongated training sequences of the dirty dozen to plunge into the action right away in the process tarantino fixes one of the dirty major flaws by giving the bad guys screen time to remind us just how bad the nazis were the nazis with the most screen time end up becoming the most completely human characters in the film which ironically makes them even worse monsters br br bu ditching the training sequences tarantino is also able to give us a picture of the entire war showing us not only british american and german soldiers but also giving us glimpses into the world of french and german civilians both collaborators and resistance br br it goes without saying that any tarantino film is going to have fantastic dialogue but when tarantino made the decision to have the french characters speak french and the germans speak german beyond adding a level of authenticity tarantino also somehow ensured that his dialogue in french was as sharp and funny and clever as his english dialogue br br case in point during the opening sequence the nazi jew hunter ss colonel hans landa christian waltz is interrogating french dairy farmer perrier denis landa suspects that is hiding a family of jews while subtly pressuring landa asks for a glass of milk after gulping it down landa compliments on his daughters and his cows à famille et à je dis bravo the thing of it is in french means cow but it is also a vulgar name for the vagina if reprimanded for this vulgar pun landa could quite convincingly claim not to understand french well enough to have meant it that way but landa does mean it that way and he means it as a threat and understands his meaning all too well br br that is a really subtle piece of acting and word play that many audiences would never catch or at least they might understand the subtext without knowing the exact nature of the threat the film is rich with that kind of detail all of the french and english dialogue is chosen with that same attention to detail and while i can't swear to the german i would suspect that it shows a similar level of craft br br inglorious basterds opens with the phrase once upon a time in nazi occupied france personally this reminds me of the opening of every asterix book and movie another comic fantasy in a war torn occupied france like asterix inglorious basterds is howlingly funny in places although the film also turns darkly serious br br in its more serious moments inglorious basterds reminds us that the first casualties of war are compassion and the ability to relax as in almost every elongated sequence of the film tarantino finds a new way to build cruel tension to almost unbearable levels br br tarantino also reminds us that film is dangerous even and that its power deserves respect br br if you can see this film as i did in a packed theatre filled with knowledgeable fans who get every joke that you will see this masterful film the way that it was meant to be seen if you are not that lucky all that you will see is a great great film that delivers a darkly funny punch
1	inglorious basterds makes no apologies asks for no forgiveness it's a no holds barred assault on the senses tarantino doesn't care if he offends if he steps all over stereotypes and clichés this is film making at it purest it's great to see a film maker whose work clearly isn't with by the powers that be tarantino is a master of effortlessly cranking up immense tension and suddenly mixing it with laugh out loud moments you're not sure if you should be looking away in disgust or rolling around laughing either way it's a roller coaster and one not to be missed it's not for everyone and i'm unsure how germans will take the film certainly if you're not a fan of tarantino's style this may be a little hard to swallow but never the less it is a film which simply has to be seen no self respecting film fan should miss this and the performance of christoph waltz oscar don't you dare ignore him
1	there's hell to pay when you cross nami female scorpion and a dangerous group of thugs including their sadistic head pimp and his equally repellent lady operating a prostitution ring with an iron fist does just that hell hath no fury like scorpion and a determined detective seeking revenge for decapitating his arm after her will do whatever it takes and that includes intimidating anyone who might know her whereabouts to catch nami nami finds an ally in hooker yuki watanabe who provides her a temporary shelter yuki has a retarded brother who suffered a brain injury during a job and must take care of him in a disturbing revelation regarding incest she also provides his sexual needs she in actuality keeps him locked up in a room while working the streets meanwhile nami is targeted by a vile neighbor once she finds a place of her own she works as a sewer and he threatens to turn her into the authorities nami was an escaped convict who fled a subway from the cops if she doesn't supply him sexual favors his wife dumps a tea kettle of boiling water all over his face and body resulting in death the prostitution clan come looking for nami to pay the debt of losing a very important member of their organization that's when katsu lee the pimp's lover and confidant realizes that the one responsible for the loss of their loyal member is a former inmate of hers scorpion subduing her with an injected liquid drug placing her in a bird cage katsu embellishes in her imprisonment what ultimately fuels rage is watching a prostitute die outside her cell a victim of a forced late term abortion left to bleed to death finding a scalpel in her hand from the operation room nami will break free from the cage and prey upon each member of the clan responsible for the hooker's death the series of scalpel murders provide with an opportunity to catch nami and he'll trap her in the underground sewers below the city but can he catch or kill her especially if yuki comes to her aid br br trust me when i say there was no shackles binding director ito or his film making team because female prisoner scorpion beast stable is yet another perverse deranged and ultra violent entry in the very entertaining series equipped with fine production values and a visually stylistic talent for capturing all of the madness in imaginative ways ito pulls you right or he did me into the twisted drama that always exists when nami is on screen when you have a protracted opening credits sequence where your anti heroine is fleeing through the crowded city streets with a man's severed arm handcuffed to her the viewer has to know what they're in for the incestuous sub plot is simply bizarre and it's shot in a soft core way with the retarded brother humping his numb cold sister with dead eyes staring ahead and the entire abortion sequence is rather hard to sit through but the abortion angle as disturbing as it is provides motivation for revenge despite imperfect ways and her criminal nature you would rather see her take these cretins out than vice versa interesting angle with detective as well is willing to break the rules and he becomes a force of nature towards anyone who stands in his way of capturing his mortal enemy his fate at the end visiting another enemy of in an isolated cell while she looks on perfectly encapsulates what makes these films so ridiculous yet so entertaining the scalpel murders is a montage of slumping scumbags in various places the blades protruding from flesh with nami leaving the crime scenes very driven to wipe the whole clan out in memory of a fallen victim of unfortunate circumstances while the film is essentially a comic book adventure there's a sadness that permeates and few characters come away without flaws i imagine many will walk away from this scoffing at how unrealistic female prisoner scorpion beast stable is specifically how nami is able to escape capture time and time again accomplishing her goals of revenge paying back all those who have wronged her but i looked at it as a violent action cartoon much like the later 80's films and enjoyed it for what it was as always this film features some beautiful asian actresses and some colorful heavies almost always reserved quiet yet chilly staring down her enemies with violent intent is in fine form in more ways than one and lee as her cross eyed repugnant adversary runs away with the picture as a perfectly realized abusive foe worthy of psychological torment when both are in prison ways of torturing her are sweet my favorite scene has nothing to do with the plot but is so wonderfully wrong features a dog discovering rotted severed arm walking through a street eventually finding a resting place to chew on it
1	it just goes to show how wrong you can be i had not expected to like this film i was disappointed by both the kill bill films although i preferred the second and death proof although it was better in the shorter cut of the double bill release i love reservoir dogs admire pulp fiction and think that jackie brown is tarantino's most mature piece of film making technically his most superior including the last great performance elicited from robert de niro since then it seems to me while his films have been okay i haven't hated them he has been treading water in referential reverential self indulgent juvenilia br br then i read the script last year for basterds and i hated it sure it had some typical qt flourishes and the opening scene was undeniably powerful there were a couple of great characters but on page it was more juvenile rubbish largely ruined by the largess of the uninteresting basterds of the title it made me seriously contemplate not seeing the film the trailers did nothing to convince me i only changed by mind when i had the opportunity to see the film with a tarantino q a following in london i figured it would be worth enduring to hear him in q a as i know from interviews how entertaining he can be in person br br so little was i prepared for the sheer exuberant fun and brilliance of basterds br br easily mr tarantino's best work since jackie brown it is a triumph br br yes the references are there but they do not interfere with the story they are not the driving force yes eli roth is stunt casting but he works fine with little to do but look aggressive and does nothing to hurt the film as i had feared while i admired mr tarantino for using stuntwoman zoe bell as herself in death proof in order to amp up the exhilaration of the major stunt scene her lack of any acting ability in a key role was a problem for the film the same could be said of tarantino's own appearances in several films especially robert from dusk till dawn which tarantino wrote br br what really makes this work is how big it is the spaghetti western vibe to much of the style dialogue and performances is wonderfully over the top without descending too far into the cartoon quality of kill bill the violence is so big the audacity so big brad pitt is so big in the trailers the hitler moment and pitt's performance bothered me but in the context of the film they are hilarious pitt is actually brilliant here exactly what he needs to be he is blustering samurai in yojimbo he is robards cheyenne from once upon a time in the west there is a very james coburn vibe to him and of course a suitably lee marvin edge br br christoph waltz who i did not previously known and melanie laurent who i first noticed in a brilliant french language british short film by sean ellis are sensational and i expect to see both used a lot more in the future tarantino has clearly not lost his eye for casting which seemed to desert him in death proof waltz is equally large in his performance chilling yet theatrical he is fonda from van cleef from good the bad the ugly and laurent is suitably cardinale innocence but tough a fighter they both dazzle here br br that every member of the cast gets the fun to be had from what they are doing while not indulging themselves in just having fun and trying to get laughs helps tremendously the laughs and there are loads come organically only mike myers comes close to tipping the wink and pushing it too far but his scene is reigned in just enough with the help of a fantastic michael who seems pulled directly from the mold of attenborough's great escape leader br br all the actors shine and tarantino throws in wonderful flourishes but ones that work with the story the introduction of hugo is a riot after a sensational slow burn opening and a glorious intro to those basterds the pace never lets up and over two and half hours flies by br br it also looks beautiful marking this as a return to real film making rather than just self indulgent silliness the musical choices as always are inspired from morricone on br br the film is audacious and hilarious after a summer when nearly every film has disappointed me it came as a huge surprise that the real fun and entertaining but also involving and impressive film should be this one when i would never have believed it from script form welcome back qt
1	while i agree completely with below about mary mccormack flopping a milk bag out on tv the rest of the show is fantastic phil hartman was great in a way teaching the celebs the ins and outs foley's a nut but in a good way you never know what self humor he's going to come up with next as for the game play it's entertaining filled with witty banter and great for any newbie that may have even a passing an interest in the game too bad it isn't on anymore i just checked the schedule all the way to august and it doesn't appear to be scheduled for any time in the future bad bravo you deserve a beating
1	not your everyday tom and jerry short for many reasons one there's a voiceover narration by jerry which is odd because tom and jerry rarely speak two the two are friends which was also rare and seldom works as well as the more adversarial shorts do third and most importantly the cartoon is rarely humorous by design and the jokes here are dry chuckles with a little cough and a bubble of blood at the end think a tom and jerry cartoon directed by tim burton not wholly successful but it largely does work the creepiest ending for an mgm short that i can recall not for everyone and proof that these shorts were never intended solely with children as the target audience well worth watching recommended with the caveats above
1	this is about as good as gone with the wind was i love this movie i could watch it over and over again scarlett always gets what she wants no matter what the cost she tries real hard to forget rhett but she just can't do it she loves him so much this is a story of real true love it started in gone with the wind and ended up in this movie the only real way to end this movie for real true love was to have scarlett and rhett back together at the end and thats the way it ended with them back together with their daughter what more could you ask for there's not a better ending to this great love story than this what else can i say about this great movie
1	i am a big gone with the wind nut but i was disappointed that both gone with the wind the movie and scarlett the mini series are so different from the books gone with the wind left so many things out in the movie that were in the book and they did the same with scarlett both were good movies but i really liked both books better there were so many characters left out of scarlett and the ages of some characters didn't seem to match up with the book the time lines don't match up either scarlett realizes she is pregnant on the ship to ireland in the book but she realizes it when she is throwing up while in also sally is made out to be an ugly monkey like woman in the book and the movie casted jean smart to play her who is obviously not an ugly woman over all scarlett is a good movie and it helps anyone who was disappointed in the way gone with the wind ended to see what might have happened if margaret mitchell had lived to write a sequel herself
1	this is one of the most cerebral insightful movies i have ever seen the script language costumes scenery plot characters etc all are supreme you will not be bored i have watched intensely or even just listened to this movie while working so many times i have lost count scarlett ages gracefully acquiring wisdom beyond her years in the end this movie takes you from tara to ireland where her family is originally from and you see the results of another civil war played out there this time between the irish and english br br this movie depicts the double standards of men at the time a man is still respected if he has girlfriends and whores but not a woman if she is merely seen in a private place with a man society accuses her of impropriety and of course scarlett was always thinking outside the box breaking rules when necessary to create needed change help people and or survive br br scarlett's beauty definitely is to the bone her strength self esteem and wisdom grow as she ages br br i remember her lines when i am confronted with too much on my plate such as tomorrow is another day and the way she carried herself her determination and courage and have learned from her experiences this is a good movie to show your daughters as it teaches a woman how important it is to have respect for yourself and that men especially very handsome ones can have two sides and may treat a woman differently depending on how she acts and respects herself an attractive woman needs to learn what this movie teaches br br this movie is like therapy to me and it is better than gone with the wind the second part takes place in ireland and anyone who is of irish decent will cherish the scenery people and scarlett's character within it
1	my mother is as gone with the wind as one can be she has the collector's plates the rhett and scarlett madame alexander dolls gwtw christmas ornaments even a gwtw cookbook my sister and i had only seen bits and pieces of gwtw but we knew the whole plot by heart on a whim my sister bought this miniseries thinking my mother would like it and we had taken an interest in it after through the novel a bit br br yesterday we decided to watch both gone with the wind and scarlett we started gwtw at about 2 30 in the afternoon and ended it at 6 30 we started scarlett right after my mother usually goes to bed at about 10 00 she wound up staying up until 1 30 with us to finish it we were riveted i like how the movie starts off at melanie's funeral right where scarlett left off saying i'll think about it tomorrow scarlett doesn't stay in georgia for long she runs off to charleston in her quest to win him back rhett is not happy when he finds scarlett in his home so he leaves for the family's plantation scarlett being scarlett follows him and they finally agree to put aside their quarrels for a time in order to keep the gossip at bay rhett starts to enjoy her company again and takes her out on his boat a storm comes up and they sink he helps her swim to the shore of some island terrified that she has died rhett is anxious until she awakes when she does they both get swept up in the moment and make love scarlett wakes up the next day back in charleston but rhett has gone and writes that he thinks it best if they never see each other again br br scarlett is heartbroken and when she is so she does some stupid things in this case she is seen by anne hampton going up into a hotel room alone with ashley nothing happens but her reputation is stained so scarlett goes to savannah with her two spinster aunts she soon discovers that she is pregnant and decides to wait for the right time to tell rhett while in savannah she meets many of her o'hara relatives and grows to like one cousin in particular a father she soon gets her divorce notice from rhett and then decides she will never tell him about her baby just to spite him typical scarlett br br she decides to go to ireland to make sure rhett can never discover her condition she meets many more relatives and buys a beautiful ancestral home through out this time rhett is courting anne it is on halloween when scarlett gets the notice that rhett has remarried she goes into labor that night br br the movie skips to a year later and scarlett is very happy with her beautiful daughter kat she is being pursued by lord richard fenton who is really an evil man forcing a young girl named mary boyle to sleep with him scarlett meets rhett and anne again at a horse fair after a riding accident scarlett has a conversation with anne and learns that she and rhett are to have a baby heartbroken again scarlett leaves and goes to dublin with fenton there she a relationship with him like i said she does stupid things when she is heartbroken br br mary boyle has discovered she is pregnant and goes to for help the priest urges fenton to help the girl and fenton murders him after threatens to tell scarlett fenton convinces scarlett to go to london with him to escape her grief over death mary asks to go with her back in charleston anne has died of yellow fever it is made clear that she never bore rhett a child br br in london scarlett sees fenton's true colors after he hurts her when she isn't in the mood the sleep with him fenton rapes her after she tells him she never wants to see him again she falls unconscious after and when she wakes up fenton has been stabbed to death scarlett is charged with his murder br br rhett hears about it and rushes off to england with sally in tow fearful of the gallows scarlett has no choice but to tell rhett about their daughter rhett is furious at her for keeping such a secret but stays to help her mary boyle the real killer can't be found scarlett is found guilty but mary finally arrives to declare her innocence after promising to help mary scarlett leaves with rhett for ireland because as he says it's time i became acquainted with my daughter the scene where he sees kat for the first time is absolutely beautiful in ireland rhett sees how much scarlett has changed and the two finally reconcile completely and admit they still love each other deeply br br after seeing gwtw i will say that yes vivian leigh was a better scarlett but i liked the character of scarlett in this film than in the first the reason being that in gwtw you don't know why you like scarlett she's so cruel to rhett and haughty and spoiled but you like her lively spirit in scarlett you see how much she has changed oh she is still in the lap of luxury but she's not haughty anymore you see how she becomes a true mother to kat and a generous person to the poor people of ireland joanne whalley does and excellent job at playing this new side of scarlett timothy dalton is not clark gable but at times you swear that you can see original rhett in him br br if you just sit back and not compare joanne whalley and timothy dalton with vivian leigh and clark gable you will most certainly enjoy this movie it's a chance to compare the scarlett of yesterday the one she becomes after tomorrow
1	gone with the wind is one of the most popular books ever printed it is by far the movie of all movies the romance between scarlett and rhett made people dream all over the world and turned the lead actors into cinematographic icons one can ask is it really necessary to make a sequel and there are some big shoes to fill br br well there was the book first by alexandra ripley is we have to admit well written and fully respecting the world created by margaret mitchell she picks up exactly where we left our heroine previously and gently leads us from mitchell's heritage into her own fantasy in the book scarlett defeated after melanie's death and leaving travels to charleston to reside with her mother in law in hope of regaining love her typical manipulative behavior evokes once again a lot of criticism from rhett and drives them further apart until a certain boat trip that will change everything scarlett now carries a secret the series follows the book quite accurately until the arrival of scarlett in ireland from then of book and series slowly split ways the actual end differs but of course the both have scarlett and rhett back together br br the production of the series was announced with a worldwide search for the next scarlett o'hara many countries made their own television shows featuring young actresses auditioning for the part eventually about twelve girls were chosen to participate in the final screen tests and interviews in atlanta georgia unfortunately the producer found no scarlett amongst these actresses sad for the girls major publicity for the show it was already sold to many television stations worldwide before shooting even had started robert the producer who bought the rights to told he discovered the right actress while watching tv gave her a call and two days later signed the deal joanne whalley kilmer who starred and the latest being the movie robert was watching that faithful evening is not vivien leigh but she certainly is scarlett her performance is not a copy of leigh's she makes the character her own the major difference between gwtw and is the fact the lead character evolves and grows as a person this is the series why copying something that has been done before considering there is a gap of almost seventy years between the first and second storyline it is natural that both authors emphasize on different aspects of the characters whereas mitchell works around scarlett dealing with the consequences of the civil war and fighting for tara ripley lets scarlett face her demons this to me is the most interesting aspect of the series we get to know scarlett in a different way as she learns that not everything can always go the way she wants i totally agree with the choice of timothy dalton as rhett butler he portrays him with charm and irony and is less of a cardboard figure than clark gable's performance the rest of the cast was well chosen julie harris is endearing as mother john gielgud gives a very amusing performance as grandfather and sean bean is always at his best playing a dirty character his lord fenton makes no exception poor choices however with stephen collins as ashley and ann adaption of belle watling was a waste of money costumes sets and locations are elaborate and convincing the newly built tara set looked exactly the same and it is a moving sequence in the series when the house appears for the first time br br is there a point in making a sequel well six hours of romance are to me one to watch
1	i watch this movie without big expectations i think everyone should do it's a great tv serie and of course we couldn't compare it with gone with the wind but it's still nice to watch it's also weird to see a different scarlett joanne whalley don't play scarlett with passion and fire like vivien leigh but i believe that scarlett is changed when she became older don't expect to much of this just watch but don't watch like i think this would be horrible
1	i having both read and watched gone with the wind found it very difficult to not compare this movie with the original although i thought scarlett the novel was superb the movie didn't add up it was a completely different story of course there will never be another scarlett and rhett besides leigh and gable but the new actors did a fine job considering i loved the way the book and movie wrapped up the story of with the wind because after reading it i felt a surge of disappointment because it just stopped and left the readers to wonder what happened scarlett finishes the story very well and alexandra ripley did great on the book i just wish the movie followed the story more although it is great in itself
1	the third and final female prisoner scorpion film directed by ito the series' star would complete the series in the fourth installment grudge song directed by the capable who also directed in the excellent stray cat rock sex hunter the original female prisoner 701 scorpion is one of my all time favorites the sequel jailhouse 41 is nearly as good it's generally considered the best of the series and i might agree i think if it ever gets a better release on dvd the original by image is very poor beast stable in my opinion is nearly as good as it's much slower much more contemplative it has its share of violence and nastiness but there's more focus on the story and the characters eludes detectives in the first scene she is handcuffed to one and his arm off – and escapes with it in tow which must be seen to be believed and hooks up with a freelance prostitute yuki yuki is being hassled by a local prostitution ring which includes a goofy looking madame with a cage full of pet crows what really surprised me is how sad the movie is story which is never resolved it heartbreaking the images are startling and direction is masterful it's too bad that he never went anywhere after he left the series this is an awesome film
1	channel zapping one night i just caught the start of this movie and it hooked me from the beginning it tells the sad story of an adopted child adam whose mother left him after birth the movie takes us through his childhood and makes us discover a very disturbing fact from adam's past i will not reveal more but it is a very in depth movie and will intrigue you for sure this was one of jimmy best roles in my opinion
1	this miniseries is a reasonable sequel to the original gone with the wind if one views this on its own merit and not immediately following the original it comes out pretty good i am sure that most viewers will question the performances of scarlett and rhett but it seems unlikely that anyone else could have done better many of the characters here are new to this storyline so comparison in those cases mother uncle henry hamilton will is not a problem no one will every be vivien leigh or clark gable br br the best part of the whole production is the beautiful scenery of springtime charleston and ireland watch it for that alone obviously this was a high budget tv miniseries it follows the book for a while then has a totally new plot when scarlett goes to ireland br br the acting is credible if nothing special kind of the way i feel about roger moore following sean connery for james bond
1	my god this was a fantastic film every time we watch it takes us to another place of wow rhett scarlett were played brilliantly by joanne timothy they did a fantastic job revising the roles of our two favourite heros everyone it is a must see dont deprive yourself of this movie if u loved gone with the wind you will love this mini series go rhett go
1	i am a huge gone with the wind fan and i read scarlett before it was a miniseries and loved it this is a sequel of sorts like you didn't expect it with that frankly dear i don't give a damn ending timothy dalton was great as rhett though no one will ever replace clark gable whaley kilmer on the other hand could give vivien leigh a run for her money though i feel almost guilty even saying that her attitude and presence in the film fits the character to a tee making you love and hate her at the same time which is how most feel about ms leigh's portrayal as well the film does move slowly mostly because it follows the book so closely and was not released as a feature film excellent choice on the producer's part i think this movie deserves some recognition for the great storyline the revival of characters that had been gone for almost 50 years and for being something that even margaret mitchell herself could have been proud of
1	when i saw gone with the wind i thought that there could not be better actors than vivian leigh and clark gable to play scarlett and rhett but then i saw the movie scarlet i fell in love for this dramatic story i love timothy dalton as rhett butler he's fantastic this is a movie i could watch a thousand times and it still wouldn't bore me
1	gone with the wind and scarlett are two different films they were never meant to be compared obviously the original actors in gwtw are all passed away and deserved their own separate award and praise i loved gwtw and never really expected a sequel to be made or ever live up to half the praise of gwtw but to my shock scarlett was just as well written directed and acted as gwtw scarlett in its own right deserves just as much award i now can honestly say i don't know which i like better i think the script for scarlett was a number 1 as a sequel bravo writer director producer and all actors bravo as sequels rarely live up to their name sake this one runs equal to its predecessor to those who don't like it you miss the point and a great ending to phenomenal beginning
1	overall i enjoyed the movie scarlett i am a huge fan of gone with the wind i have read the book and seen the classic movie many times i even have a small collection of scarlett o'hara ornaments and other things i must admit that gone with the wind is my all time favourite book and movie vivian leigh and clark gable are remarkable actors and two of my favourites unfortunately i was unable to read the book scarlett but i was excited to see the movie truth be told the movie is not any where close to the calibre of gone with the wind and neither are the actors however joan whalley kilmer and timothy dalton were pleasant actors in the roles and at many times joan sounded like vivian leigh in her portrayal of scarlett dalton also portrayed rhett well at times it took some time getting used to the different actors but overall i really enjoyed it being the fan of gone with the wind as i am one major disappointment was that joan did not have green eyes and scarlett o'hara and vivian leigh both did i also found the lord fenton absolutely appalling and i did not like his character if you are a gone with the wind fan and or enjoy romantic stories see the movie scarlett however do not expect it to be remarkable like gone with the wind it is far from it although it is interesting with the new characters and so on i am happy it is not a remake and some of the events in the story was what i imagined the continuation to be of the scarlett o'hara and rhett butler love story if you haven't seen it today get it all tomorrow is another day
1	having grown up with gwtw i shunned both the scarlett sequel book and the mini series until now when i recently viewed the video for the first time i was amazed how much i enjoyed watching timothy dalton's depiction of rhett butler and joanne kilmer's as scarlet i feel scarlet should be judged on its own merits rather than attempting any comparison with the venerable selznick masterpiece gwtw while the scarlet story line and some of the dialogue suffered from lack of inspired writing overall i thought this was a worthwhile dramatization of what might have been between scarlett and rhett
1	a letter to the guys i tried guys i really tried i tried so hard not to watch this movie i would leave the room when it was on or jump on the computer when the wife watched it this is her second favorite movie the godfather being first which i love br br i ended up catching little bits of this movie and finally after maybe a year i was actually sitting down watching it with her i can't believe i am saying this but i loved this movie dalton plays a great rhett and has his cockiness down pat whalley plays a delightful scarlett full of fire and brimstone and nothing is going to stop her br br my favorite scene is when she is overseas in ireland and the government is going to tear down a house because they are behind in the rent scarlett gets all mad at this and pays the entire debt thus making a huge name for herself around this small town br br all i'm saying guys is you might want to try this movie especially if you are a fan of gone with the wind it does take a little bit to get used to the new actors but i think you will find them refreshing
1	i loved the movie i loved timothy dalton and joanne whaley the movie had many different locations in it i really liked when ann hampton realized she could not make rhett love her and when scarlett and ann where together and ann apologizes for taking rhett and scarlett just told her not to worry she would get him back it had a great story it told you just can not compare it to gwtw it just has so many great scenes i love both scarlett and gwtw of course do not forget to have a hankie handy
1	first of all nothing will ever compare to the original movie but for gosh sakes they're not trying to it is just one persons opinion about what could have happened after rhett left scarlett at tara i for one thought it was a terrific movie and would like to add it to my gwtw collection the scenery alone would make me want to watch the movie just view this movie as an extension of the original and don't think they are trying to replace vivian leigh and clark cable and you will enjoy it a lot they really captured the spoiled selfishness of scarlett in many of the scenes and you can see from the longing in the looks from rhett that he is clearly still in love with scarlett the fact that you can recognize many of the actors in the movie is another plus even though some of them have only been seen on tv i always wanted them to have other children after bonnie blue died in the movie and this satisfied my need perfectly br br
1	many consider beast stable to be the last of the true female prisoner films as it is the last of the series directed by ito and is followed by one other film grudge song by a different director i have not seen grudge song yet but soon will so i don't know how it stacks up to the previous fp films but it will be interesting to see the way beast stable ended didn't really leave a lot of room for another predecessor but i guess i'll find out br br this entry has scorpion on the run from the cops where she hooks up with a street hooker who ends up pregnant with her retarded brothers child oh yeah that's no lie gotta love these sleazy story lines scorpion ends up being kidnapped by an old rival but as she is so good at ends up escaping and taking revenge on some people that wronged a few of her hooker friends br br i agree with some other reviewers that this one is a little slower at points and more serious then the previous two entries the story is somewhat confusing and convoluted at times but a lot of these 70's era pinky films are and i still love them beast stable is lacking pretty badly in the nudity area which was pretty disappointing but i thought it strong in other areas storyline cinematography some good sleaze etc definitely worthwhile to fans of this sort of thing or who have enjoyed the other female prisoner films 8 10
1	br br it's common knowledge and has been said before no one can ever play scarlett and rhett like vivien leigh and clark gable joanne whalley kilmer no longer kilmer having been divorced from ex hubby val kilmer plays her own scarlett and although this is a sequel and not a re make god forbid she still cannot rise to the occasion i e her voice sounds evil on several occasions she's got brown eyes scarlett in both novels had green eyes and even vivien leigh's eyes were green and her vocal power was not up to the job either scarlett is a southern belle therefore she has an incredible talent for flirting as she did in scarlett the novel and gwtw of course and to be a great flirt like scarlett is you would most likely need a higher pitched voice like vivien leigh br br i suppose i'm comparing kilmer to leigh a bit too much but when someone possesses a role so masterfully as leigh did with scarlett you simply can't help but to criticize any new prospective timothy dalton should have had no accent whatsoever due to the fact that both margaret mitchell's rhett and gable in the film had none his acting has never been truly noteworthy except maybe his portrayal of the evil conniving king phillip of france in the lion in winter and he gives very little if any freshness or vitality to his rhett br br standouts in the cast are most notably tina a born actress with plenty of authenticity in her deliverance as the tragic victim mary boyle and then of course there's sean bean as the cold calculating and not to mention almost demonically evil lord fenton mary's nemesis and scarlett's eventual violator one thing i could not forgive the writer for was the fact that scarlett is raped in this movie a fact that never occurred in the novel lord fenton is cold and of ill repute among the irish in the book but he's nowhere near as heartless as his screen counterpart another omission from the novel but for the film is the character of belle watling played most horribly by ann margret in a cameo role which we all could have lived without seeing as how the book was such a run away bestseller without requiring any assistance from ms watling br br for a film by itself scarlett is a very good one but not quite in that lofty of a place in terms of being gone with the winds sequel another actress was highly necessary for scarlett as well as rhett br br
1	i've always loved gone with the wind and have seen it numerous times however its ending left me not only hanging but depressed with a hopeless feeling finally in scarlett ripley took us to a very plausible and satisfying end beginning of the original story br br it follows that someone of scarlett's obvious intelligence as originally written would eventually grow up although like most people i fell in love with scarlett in gwtw i tired of her constant insipid to the point of exasperation and i was disappointed that mitchell did not show scarlett using that obvious intelligence to even make an attempt to grow emotionally thankfully someone finally did after all isn't that nagging immaturity that conflicted with her beauty and intelligence the very reason rhett finally gave up on her in the first place i think ripley did an excellent job of describing that long overdue process and whalley kilmer did a superb job of portraying it joanne w k has all the fire exuberance and intelligent sparkle as did vivian leigh and she is certainly at least as if not more beautiful br br there was is and always will be only one clark gable however if i had to pick an actor out of the thousands to which i've been exposed to portray him in his biography it would definitely be timothy dalton dalton possesses the same elegant charm that gable did which is essential for character i can't imagine anyone else who could come close br br in my opinion both joanne whalley kilmer and timothy dalton were superbly cast and the only actors who could have possibly played scarlett and rhett i think both their performances did justice to not only the late actors but also the spirit of their characters br br i enjoyed the whole cast julie harris was her usual delightful presence and jean smart was an adorable kick even ashley's character was nicely played by stephen collins and the progression of his relationship with scarlett was totally believable br br the story became a little convoluted in ireland but so is life after all and i still found it entertaining br br all in all i thoroughly enjoyed the fruits of ripley's imagination i wish i'd written it br br
1	i didn't read the book scarlett and when i watched this mini series i enjoyed it very much and thought it didn't need to be compared to gwtw the story may differ from the book but who cares its a movie even in the credits its based on the book its not the book the film is clearly under appreciated with the reviews that other people write but can't even spell the main characters names right br br the acting in scarlett i thought was superb joanne whalley and timothy dalton were excellent they took the characters and gave them there touch now as far as other people go by they compare them to the great vivian leigh and clark gable they obviously did fantastic but the leads in this film are completely different people who have there own acting methods and shouldn't be pressured of what people have to say if you wanted certain actors to do well then you should have directed the film i'm sure that other actors would not do as well as these with the chemistry and cleverness they brought to these roles the supporting cast stood out with there grandness and jean smart steals the scenes that shes in with her comedy genius br br the locations in the film were very beautiful and it was just grand to see scarlett go to all those places in the film as she causes trouble and other things also the scene in which scarlett talks to her dad's grave it was very dramatic and i thought from then on that there were two great actresses who brought scarlett o'hara to life not just vivian leigh but also joanne whalley br br the film and the book may differ but you must not take to heart that this is a sequel to one of the best films ever made otherwise you will think that this has to be like gone with the wind and you will not like this film but this is an under rated classic that is unlike gwtw its its own movie also keep in mind that tomorrow is another day
1	following on directly from the last episode of the previous series yes minister br br jim hacker now finds himself inside number 10 downing street as prime minister of great britain instead of a cabinet minister and a member of the government he is now leading her majesty's government br br all this after some scheming maneuvers by sir humphrey appleby after the previous prime minister resigned at the end of yes minister br br sir humphrey appleby is now the head of the civil service br br i thought that this series was better than the first series or though it did not last as long as the first series unfortunately
1	james hacker mp didn't expect that he would be the next prime minister unlike in america the party is elected in britain while we americans vote for candidates regardless of their party despite the differences paul eddington performance as minister turned prime minister almost overnight is helped by his senior adviser sir humphrey played by another knight sir nigel hawthorne and veteran actor derek also returns to the scene as well now instead of pleasing some people he has to please the nation rather than his now he has a hard job to do even more difficult than before now he must approve the honors list and work with her majesty as well on a regular basis hacker is not the hacking type he is rather than the every man who we like and don't want to dislike and turn into a villain of sorts or a vicious dictator now we see the prime minister's point of view and all the pleasing that must go on as well as handle strikes
1	hadnt heard a lot about this movie except it being national award and oscar entry its a marathi movie n i cant make out apple from orange in marathi but when i saw the movie playing on late sunday night i just got glued now i am no judge of cinematic techniques and acting skills but i have watched a good number of movies of various genres and for an average viewer i will highly recommend this movie the feel is very earthy and realistic though there are some melodramatic moments watch it to feel human lately haven't seen any movie which touches heart especially in hindi cinema the crowning achievement of the movie is when the young kid returns home the camera moves around to reveal the kid wearing black glasses having lost his eyes the kid hears the other kids splashing in the water and starts clapping i was awestruck and the two hours i spent watching the movie very much worth it
1	it was very refreshing to watch this beautiful movie the director maintained focus on the main subject without venturing into side plots the doctor's family or stories of the other hospital patients that are so typical of bollywood assembly line products he kept the narrative simple to comprehend and made sure all the actors are true to the characters that they are supposed to portray the rustic ways of the grandfather in the clinic the cold and unemotional behavior of the surgeon the zeal of the social worker gave the movie a feel of genuineness i am also glad that the director did not fall for the temptation of adding songs or special effects and reduce it to the level of anand or safar a couple of scenes toward the end of the movie such as the boy visiting other blind children and a blind worker's workplace and also the final scene where the boy at the sound of splashing and birds chirping are sure make your eyes misty br br many bollywood players do not realize that oscar committee members value simplicity of the subject and genuineness and brevity of the movie more than the glitz and glamor is certainly a better nomination than lagaan which dealt with a subject that has already been beaten to death no mpaa member is willingly going to suffer through 4 hours of jingoistic drama and a lot of song and dance br br i look forward to more movies from director sawant in the future
1	after a very long time marathi cinema has come with some good movie this movie is one of the best marathi movies ever made it shows how a old grandfather tries to save his grandsons eye he tries everything that is possible in his hands to save the child's eye doctor and a relative of his tries to help him in his attempt br br the acting by the grandfather the boy and the doctor are simply superb they have shown true picture of a typical marathi life every bit of action has some meaning in it i would recommend to watch this movie as initially i thought this one would be of documentary type but this was above my expectations br br this film is really going to touch your hearts i would expect more marathi movies to come up with performances like this
1	i am a maharashtrian a teenager living in the 21st century and its obvious that i'm not much into even bollywood let alone marathi movies yet when i watched it left me with a unique feeling one which only an extremely effective movie is capable of generating br br it is a fact that like most indian movies the movie has its true and complete effect only if viewed in its original language a lot of the emotion and meaning of the movie is embedded in its marathi dialogues which however hard one tries can not be effectively translated into english br br explores in intricate detail the relationship between a grandparent and a child and it does complete justice to this strong bond dialogues like pan ek my is also one in a million enhance the emotion anyone who has closely observed the grandparent child relationship will be able to relate to the situation portrayed in the movie br br overall it definitely worth watching its a movie that has left a profound effect on me i will surely recommend it to anyone
1	is awesome considering that the producers had a meagre budget they have done an excellent job it is a must watch the small kid has done an excellent job with a lot of emotions flowing through his eyes grandfather is at his best the photography is superb technically correct and very creative it helps in adding a lot of emotions to the mainstream content the movie will keep u engrossed and don't be surprised if you are shaken after the movie and the story lingers in your mind for a few days i sincerely hope that they make it to the final oscar nomination br br enjoy and again don't miss it
1	female convict scorpion beast stable the third in the series is a magnificent piece of pulp sleaze closer in tone and subject to a violent than other scorpion entries it is stunningly photographed directed with lurid enthusiasm and populated with a rogue's gallery of villains and degenerates shinya ito the director of the first installment returns for this surreal fable which begins with scorpion cutting the arm off a cop she is handcuffed to and fleeing into the tokyo subway with said arm still swinging from her wrist she takes refuge in a red light district where she befriends a prostitute who is first seen seen having incestuous intercourse with her brother who ends up impregnating her scorpion's desire to protect this unfortunate woman eventually exposes her identity and all hell breaks loose she is beaten sexually assaulted and locked inside a bizarre bird cage in the villain's lair i loved everything about this hypnotic nihilistic and emotionally touching movie it is the superior of the three first scorpion films and features one great scene after another i can't recommend it highly enough
1	caught this movie on dd while flipping channels and thank heavens that too when it just started having studied in this film touched off many happy memories of the city that apart one wonders why more movies like this aren't made every character is so well etched the grandpa the kid the doc except for the social worker who grates a tad the rest of the movie hardly has a flaw a deserving entry for the oscars even if it wasn't nominated definitely leaves a lump in the throat who u need mush to tickle ur and to think that this movie needed sachin tendulkar to propagate it inspite of being in marathi there was hardly a moment where i wasn't able to follow the movie the subtitles were good a must watch for any fan of good cinema
1	this is a film about a six year old child from a village in maharashtra a state in india and his grandfather who come to a city in maharashtra to treat the child's eyes here the grandfather gets to know that the child has cancer in both eyes and that they have to be removed to save the child's life the movie is all about the main characters' and their feelings and actions until the operation br br the movie is not a typical cliché indian movie so dun expect to see songs or romance or melodrama this ia a supremely crafted sensitive movie which resorts to silent expressions rather than over the top dialogs to get the point thru witness the scene where the grandfather is told about the need to remove the child's eyes the acting is superb dialogs heart breaking your heart goes out for the grandfather who has the unenviable task of telling the child and his mother about the operation br br the handling of the subject has been excellent the film was made under great hardship by the director sawant who had to knock many doors to gather the rs six million approx budget even then the final product seems polished and has decent production values also witness the subtle city village contrast shown by the director by incorporating some random shots of the boy's life in the village sawant definitely seems to prefer village life br br the acting by all is excellent as the social worker is competent adding the required humane touch to her role kulkarni as the is great showing perfect mannerisms of a doctor as the child is a natural he doesn't seem to be acting everything about him is natural and does not seem forced br br but towering above all is as the grandfather he is astounding in his role mere words cannot describe his work it is a performance to cherish forever br br is a sincere effort to make good cinema it should not be ignored just for the fact that it shows that if things are kept simple the the results can be really surprising 10 10
1	this is a very touching movie this is a story about a special bond between a child and his grandfather a villager brings his grandson to the city to get his eyes treated but comes to know that has some rare cancer of eyes and has to undergo an operation and will lose both his eyes the movie is all about the emotions and the turmoil both them go through and how they accept the whole thing the movie avoid any melodrama and tells this story in a simple way though the movie is in marathi language is not a barrier at all it proves that to make good movie you do not need item songs superstars and usual masala excellent performances this is india's entry for oscars 2004 hope it gets the nomination at least would rate 10 10
1	i know it was supposed to be a long walk but really br br the costumes were a bit yuk but still it was the 1970's i suppose br br it was a bit long and dull so give me the newer version any day
1	this review has been written by someone who has read it several times and knows what they are talking about firstly i have read others comments and noticed that some of the objections were really quite stupid people who have read the book and other jane austens or for that matter any good book will know that sticking to the book is vital you have to trust an author with what they do if the viewer does not like it because it sticks to the book well it shows they do not understand jane austen and obviously are not a true fan br br firstly if the viewer truly loved the book or jane austen in general watching it for four hours should not prove difficult secondly their society did care a lot for looks and so big fancy hair styles would show off how rich you were which in their day was a key factor for getting along in good society i have to confess the female costumes were not brilliant but there were only a few bad ones and the males made up for it also this prejudice for the naval men not in their uniform is in nice words very silly today people do not go out with their uniform away from school or work because they have casual clothes and it was just the same in the 19th century also as it goes the acting is very good it is subtle because that is how jayne austen writes and the scene at the end is beautiful you can not compare the filming to that of the 1995 version as technology has improved so much since them it is ridiculous to compare them in that the actress who plays ann is too old but her air of acting and how she does it makes up for it br br people seem to prefer the 1995 version for some reason that i can not comprehend it does not stick to the book at all and so is flat the ending is sentimental they change major scenes the only good actors are the leads and they i give you did a good job for what was given to them obviously the people who really really like it are i am sorry stupid as they do not understand persuasion and so need it to be overdone the 1971 version is beautiful romantic was written by an excellent script writer same who did inspector morse had very good actors and really it is a film you can watch many times and during each you can be delighted with it
1	despite this production having received a number of poor reviews it actually holds up quite well for its age note also that it is not a bbc programme it was simply licensed to them by ventures when the jane austen collection was released on dvd br br so how does it compare with other adaptations of the same novel the most well known version these days is the 1995 film with amanda root as anne elliott and ciaran hinds as captain frederick wentworth that film was of course shorter but a good snapshot of the story the earlier version with ann and bryan marshall in the same roles had four hours to tell the story and moved at a more leisurely pace br br is a good ten years too old for her role but she is very good marshall is excellent as wentworth a man disappointed in love and bitter about interference and hidden in the cast are people who also contribute michael culver later seen in as richard vernon later seen in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy as admiral croft noel dyson earlier in coronation street as mrs musgrove br br one criticism i do have is that the hairstyles are a bit distracting and that the costumes are awful still this shouldn't detract from a hugely enjoyable austen adaptation
1	here is one of jane austen's movies that i found very delightful i read the book first then listened to it on cd and was captivated by how a young victorian girl could be persuaded against marrying the man she loved due to his lack of a fortune or education the joy of knowing that anne is evidently reunited with a lost love the fact that her godmother tries to marry her off to a good for nothing cousin who's only out for money looking at the snobbery that comes from the upper classes and how class distinctions can divide couples from following their hearts captain wentworth realization that he still loves anne after seven years his final understanding that anne's love was constant all that time and they she wasn't going to let her family interfere with her true happiness and eventual marriage to one she truly loved
1	i finally found a version of persuasion that i like anne doesn't look like a scullery maid in this version just a very thin aging pretty woman quite like she's described in the book captain wentworth doesn't look like he's 50 nor does he look perpetually angry but rather as he's described in the book he hasn't aged as much as anne and is quite handsome and they play their parts with such conviction and realism that's what acting is all about they were believable they created real characters and it was like the characters in the book came to life if you haven't seen this version i urge you to find it order it or request it from either a bookstore or a library if you must it's worth the price and worth the wait br br i watched the 1995 version and the 2007 version and this one towers over the other two why it isn't rated higher is beyond my comprehension the book conveys the tenderness of their relationship and this movie makes the book come to life
1	i'm just getting the chance to dig into past austen films and i picked this up because persuasion is has been and always will be my favorite work by jane austen and anne elliot my favorite austen heroine so it was with great anticipation that i popped the disc into my player br br i wasn't disappointed either i knew there were bound to be some draw backs so i'll state them and try not to be too thick about them anne elliot is the most introverted of austen's characters she is the least talkative and the least witty there are passages in the book where anne says nothing only her feelings are described this works fine in print but how to successfully transfer this to the big screen short of doing thoughtful voice overs which would grow tedious over four hours you're left with a long succession of shots where the heroine says little or nothing and must communicate all by her facial expression this can leave the feeling that the film is slow and lacking in purpose if you need a more overt style of austen then certainly this film is not for you but if subdued is more your style and you tend to pick up on unspoken this will fulfill all expectations br br anne as anne elliot is thankfully an actress whose face can convey much she looked as i had always imagined anne elliot would look not a knockout anne wasn't supposed to be the elegant one of the family nor in her first youth which is also highlighted occasionally by the lighting and make up what you see is someone who is very like austen's character someone whose appearance you might pass over once but hear her speak and look more closely and she grows more attractive the better you know her this is anne elliot as brought to life by anne br br captain wentworth's portrayal is ably handled by bryan marshall the bitterness is never apparently obvious save at the concert scene and yes i found it hard to believe he wound find louisa musgrove interesting as she was shown but that is another point of austen's book he did not find her interesting he tried to find her interesting and ultimately failed sigh of relief so this too fits with austen's original story br br i especially liked the portrayal of lady russell who i thought in the book was not portrayed as truly bad this also comes out in this adaptation br br so this is one film which closely followed the book i could write much more about how faithfully everything was reproduced but i'd run out of space here charles musgrove remained one of the most buoyant characters good fun mary the most annoying i was dying to have her just shut up but i had that feeling when i read the book too captains and the admiral i thought charming br br the cinematography i thought a trifle stiff there was little or practically no fade from one screen to another perhaps this is due to it being a tv movie one scene chop the next scene the actors enter from right proceed left and chop another scene where the same thing happens this was the only part of the movie which i felt cheated me a little a low budget has to show itself somewhere i suppose br br and as i said earlier if you like some pace to go with jane austen don't bother with this one as you'll find it way too slow i enjoyed it enormously though as it brought a wealth of detail the sets were richly elegant to an excellent adaptation of my favorite austen novel i highly recommend it
1	i am a big fan of the 1995 version which i have seen many times and consider a subtle excellent film this 1971 version i bought yesterday a bit hesitantly but now that i have seen it i am glad i did because it is truer to the book and to austen's insights the 1995 version has more dramatic power largely because it sharpens many of the characters in the 1995 version lady russell is more manipulative less truly looking out for anne sir walter is even more vain and vapid elizabeth is nastier mary is more insufferable mr elliot is more smarmy lady dalrymple is much more stupid but i think the characterizations in this 1971 version are closer to the book to austen's vision and to the real people of the time the 1971 version also includes more of the key lines and scenes from the book including especially the key scene in the field where anne overhears wentworth talking to louisa or is it henrietta about the importance of strength of character i found the acting more subtle and evocative than do many of the critics here but the acting in the 1995 version is more powerful i agree with the critics here that the actress who plays anne is too old for the part i looked up her entry on imdb and she was 38 at the time of the filming when her character is supposed to be 28 i thought her acting was subtle and effective however wentworth is of the correct age and i found him very convincing in particular this 1971 version of wentworth has much more of his sense of humor and teasing the 1995 one much more of the sense of power a sea captain would have and more passion the admiral in the 1971 version lacks the gruff presence and human warmth of the one in the 1995 version and lacks any feeling of the power an admiral certainly would convey i found him the one truly weak element in the production i agree with others that the staging of the falling scene was too wooden and it seemed unconvincing that she would have been so injured by such a little fall however it could be that she banged the back of her head on the edge of the stone step which if so really would produce a very dangerous injury and would make the scene more convincing than the scene in the 1995 version where she falls farther but is clear of any sharp edge that could plausibly cause a major head injury as to the costuming that some have criticized i am no expert and can't respond but i will note that none of the navy characters wentworth admiral croft in the 1971 version wear their uniforms while in the 1995 version all of them consistently wear their fancy uniforms i suspect that the 1971 version is the accurate one and it always bothered me a bit in the 1995 version the officers being always in uniform when clearly the nation is at peace and the officers are detached from active duty my father and grandfather were career us navy captains who commanded aircraft carriers and submarines and they did not spend every day while on leave or at leisure in their dress blues i doubt it was any different 180 years ago the uniforms give the 1995 version a lot of zing and i prefer it but i doubt it is accurate historically that these officers wore their uniforms so frequently lastly it is true the production values of the 1971 version are a lot less than the 1995 version but given the year 1971 the tv format and the budget we can't blame the artists for it contemporary viewers who can make a mental allowance for the lower production values can find this version well worth their time
1	the third film in a cycle of incomparably brilliant exploitation movies and the third masterpiece in a row aka female prisoner scorpion beast stable aka den of the beast where i live of 1973 is a film that differs from its predecessors in some aspects but that equals or arguably even surpasses them in brilliance the entire original series with the wonderful stands out as the absolute highlight in wip cinema and all of the films especially the first three uniquely combine exploitation and art house cinema like no other movie does beast stable is the third and second to last film with the last one to be directed by genius director ito and in my opinion the greatest of them all the first film 701 of 1972 is an absolute masterpiece of exploitation cinema and simply the definition of exploitation art in the equally brilliant first sequel dai 41 ito added more surrealism and symbolism the third film beast stable keeps up the surrealism allthough not quite to the same extent as the second and features even more social criticism than its predecessors topics like poverty forced prostitution and the exploitation of the poor are central themes of the movie br br this third film is ingenious and sublime in all aspects and arguably the greatest of the generally brilliant cycle to me it's this one with the first one as a close second once again best stable is both very artistic and very exploitation like the visually stunning film features an enormous amount of brutal violence and sleaze again as well as sequences of enormous surrealistic beauty the stunningly beautiful is once again brilliant in her role of nami aka i absolutely worship this wonderful actress and i'm sure i'm not the only one to do so the rest of the performances are also great especially is great as a police inspector who is obsessed with catching the musical score is the same throughout all three films with bushi sung by herself as the main theme which is great since the score is simply put pure perfection as its predecessors beast stable is an absolutely brilliant masterpiece of exploitation art that no serious lover of film can afford to miss the entire cycle ranges high on my personal all time favorite list beast stable is arguably the most brilliant masterpiece of them all 10 10
1	the china syndrome could not have been released at a better time twelve days after its release the infamous screw up in three mile island happened but even if that and or had never happened this movie remains an important look at what could happen through mismanagement of nuclear facilities jack lemmon turns in a five star performance as the supervisor trying to expose a cover up at his nuclear plant with jane fonda playing the reporter trying to investigate and michael douglas plays her cameraman br br i don't know whether or not the current threat of a terrorist attack makes the china syndrome more disturbing but either way it's still definitely a movie that everyone should see br br i hope that those people who spent years pushing nuclear power saw this movie just so that they could know that their views and ideals are completely defunct
1	it was harrowingly close but the china syndrome received the worst kind of publicity when as it was going into theatrical release the accident at three mile island nuclear power plant happened i still remember the whole country's attention was glued onto hourly bulletins coming out of pennsylvania and wouldn't you know it a scientist in the china syndrome describes the worst case scenario as rendering an area as large as the state of pennsylvania br br less than a decade later in the ukraine at the soviet union in its last days dealt with such a crisis that didn't get righted in the nick of time the china syndrome once again became a relevant movie br br the film is more about cutting corners for safety than it is about being anti nuclear jack lemmon is a man who lived with nuclear power all his life as the captain of an atomic power submarine what angers him and sets him off to create the confrontation that climaxes the film is the stupidity and greed of the power company managers stupidity and greed though are found every day the problem with them is that there are places where it can be tolerated less in human society br br lemmon shares star billing with a couple of famous hollywood offspring jane fonda and michael douglas jane is a tv news reporter who is constantly being assigned to puff feature stories and just happens to be at a nuclear power plant when an accident occurs the cover up by her own station and her later meeting with lemmon set off the chain of events depicted in the china syndrome br br fonda's best scene i thought however was with peter a news executive with her station take a look at her facial expressions as off the importance of the story and tells her that her very beauty demands she stick to puff pieces fonda knows she's got something and sticks with it br br michael douglas plays her iconoclastic cameraman this was a typical part for him back in the day in his tcm tribute to his father kirk douglas michael said he opted for roles showing sensitivity still i could have seen a young kirk douglas in this part br br what to do about energy for industrial and post industrial nations a vexing problem that will our government for a couple of generations to come this film shows what can happen with a dependence on nuclear power our current problems in the world stem in part from a dependence on fossil fuel specifically oil everything we use brings consequence some unforeseen br br the real hero of the film in my opinion is wilford brimley lemmon's colleague at the nuclear power plant in the end brimley really steps up to the plate br br see the china syndrome to know what i'm talking about
1	highly politically charged drama that while biased is extremely well handled and one of the most intelligent films ever made it contains almost no preaching but rather follows a naive tv reporter who gradually comes to realize the threat presented by nuclear power plants not because of an inherent danger but because the purveyors are more interested in the bottom line than in the safety of those affected br br many hated the film because they saw it as a political tract made by ultra liberals like jane fonda and michael douglas but if you view it simply as a drama it's gripping exciting full of well developed distinctive characters and ultimately a truly suspenseful contemporary thriller that hits close to home br br historical note for some especially those in the energy industry and inhabitants of the pa metro area it hit perhaps a little too close to home as less than a week after this film was released the devastating explosion at the three mile island nuclear facility occurred br br update 04 08 2007 in the nearly a decade since i first wrote this critique i've heard a lot of commentary on the film one thing i think really needs to be noted is that this film is not the ultra liberal anti nuclear tirade that it's often tagged as being br br while the makers and stars are or were notable hollywood establishment liberals what this film attacks is not the very idea of nuclear power but rather the idea of human greed corruption and fallibility calling into question the potential hazards of something that nature has already made dangerous br br no one who accepts reality can argue the fact that human exposure to nuclear radiation is at least quite likely to be fatal close friends of mine who worked at a nuclear plant for several years even told me of their employer's official policy on the maximum safe exposure levels that its employees could handle br br you don't have to believe that corporations are inherently evil in order to accept that individuals in pursuit of wealth and power are greedy and often corrupt and even if you refute that claim you can't dispute that all humans are prone to make mistakes when it comes to exposing innocent people to nuclear radiation we can't afford any mistakes and that more than anything is the argument this film seeks to make br br condemn it if you must but try to have a little perspective we're currently engaged in a war whose ongoing results are quite different from those originally predicted an incredibly costly war with no end in sight and whether or not you feel the war was necessary to combat global terrorism you can't dispute the reality that the length the financial cost and most importantly the loss of human life have all far exceeded the levels that the experts assured us of back in 2003 so even if no one involved is greedy or corrupt mistakes were made and mistakes of a pretty serious magnitude to boot the same kind of serious mistakes if allowed to arise in the nuclear industry could render much of the earth's surface
1	this is an extraordinary topical thriller fonda and douglas are good but lemmon blows them away he plays a man who must go against everything he thought was right bridges paces the film very well with a lot of tension the last of the seventies expose films
1	i wish hollywood would make more movies like the china syndrome because this one scores on every level br br it has an intelligent believable script it shows you that it's not only nuclear power itself but the money involved in it that causes danger and the movie also gives you a great behind the scenes look of how television is made br br it scores as a thriller the first time i saw it it kept me right on the edge of my seat and it scores as a character movie i really cared for the main characters jane fonda michael douglas wilford brimley and most of all jack lemmon are great
1	the china syndrome is a perfectly paced thriller and not slow or boring at all as some people tend to say the transitions from one scene to another are great and the tension build up in the film will keep you on the edge of your seat for the entire two hours jack lemmon is great as always as the somewhat nervous plant operator and jane fonda succeeds again in bringing some real emotions into the story you can see this film as a political statement of the time or just as an intelligently made thriller either way it is definitely worth watching
1	this film is definetly fonda's best film the plot is amazing the acting is amazing and the directing is amazing an all time classic this should have won best picture not kramer vs kramer though it was not even nominated jack lemmon and micheal douglas are also at their best one of the best endings ever if you haven't seen this film run don't walk to rent it should have been on afi's top 100 see it not just for fonda but for everything br br out of 4 out of 4
1	james bridges' the china syndrome is a first rate thriller a model for those who want to make a genuinely terrifying thriller but don't know how br br most thrillers end with the standard shoot em up and chase that ends with the villain getting what he she deserves but bridges understands that such a standard finale isn't the case in some scenarios the china syndrome is thrilling in a way no one would expect it has the type of ending that's so unexpected but yet so logical br br the film stars three then current oscar winners jack lemmon best actor 1973 for save the tiger jane fonda best actress 1971 and 1978 for klute and coming home respectively and michael douglas best picture 1975 for producing one flew over the cuckoo's nest this isn't your standard spot the star flick that became so popular in the 70s the acting is so solid and strong that we forget who's playing the roles and believe that the characters are real people that's a testament to the collective of all three actors they may be stars but they're actors first br br there is no music score in the film asides from a few background songs from jukeboxes or tv shows there is nothing bridges doesn't allow any directorial style to come through on screen he is simply presenting the material straightforward with a strong dramatic story like this we don't need a score to distract us it kind of strikes me as a predecessor to the dogma 95 started by lars von trier in 1997 it focuses on the characters and story rather than style br br the story is about a nuclear power plant located in southern california spoiler an accident appears to have happened and basically the film is about lemmon fonda and douglas try to expose the truth in a way this is not a spoiler since the trailer tv spots video boxes and reviews all give this away but from this seemingly simple premise a surprisingly complex morality play springs and the suspense comes from human nature and the actions of people rather than a villain framing another guy although this is an element in the film that's what makes the china syndrome so good br br out of 4 stars
1	i rented the china syndrome recently mainly because i read that it was this film that inspired abc to make the day after syndrome however is more of a thriller than a drama the film is quite political but i agree strongly with its message nuclear power though extremely efficient is far too dangerous for common use the risks are simply too high hopefully the persons in charge of real nuclear plants are far more responsible and ethical than those depicted in the film however given that the real life near disaster at three mile island happened mere months after this film was released puts that in question in fairness that case was probably more one of incompetence than of corruption br br syndrome is not just critical of nuclear power but also of modern news media similar in vein to network only much more serious being a print journalist myself i am quite familiar with how people perceive the media but it was a little frightening to see that even in the '70's tv news was already selling out when jane fonda's character tries to convince her boss to let her do real news instead of fluff she is advised not to try the change as research finds that people prefer a pretty girl to do fluff not hard news br br what truly makes the film memorable however is the incredible suspense generated in its final third during this period the viewer is constantly fearing for the lives of the protagonists whether the danger is coming from hired thugs or the potential meltdown of the nuclear plant and that very last scene i won't give it away of course but it will keep you guessing br br on a final note i did get a distinct feel watching the film that it seemed at times more like a tv movie than a true theatrical film this could be however due more to the fact that the rental tape i was watching was quite old and not formatted to fit tv screens the way videos and dvds are today
1	this is a pretty good thriller at a nuclear power plant in southern california that was directed by james bridges and stars jane fonda jack lemmon and michael douglas fonda plays a tv reporter who wants to be an investigative journalist but is only allowed to be a tv reporter douglas is an independent cameraman and lemmon is a supervisor at a nuclear plant fonda and douglas are sent on a routine assignment at a nuclear power plant and an accident almost happens and they get it all on film everyone tries to cover it up except fonda and douglas so douglas steals the film lemmon starts to investigate and finds out the company cares more about profit then safety at the plant it's a good movie with a pretty good ending
1	i have been looking forward to the release of this dvd and it's follow up female prisoner scorpion grudge song for some time i very much enjoyed the first two movies of this series after just watching this film i would have to say that this is probably my favorite of the three br br all three of these movies were directed by ito what is great about them though is that even though they all feature the same lead character wonderfully played by they are each vastly different from the others br br the first movie female prisoner 701 scorpion is more or less a typical women in prison movie but the character of scorpion is very intriguing very reminiscent of the anti heroes of many spaghetti westerns and the director often used some very interesting and unusual visual approaches to the material br br the second movie female convict scorpion jailhouse 41 is a real tour de force not so much a wip movie as the bulk of the film has scorpion and six other escaped inmates on the lam br br this movie female prisoner scorpion beast stable is the third in the series and the last one directed by ito this one plays out as much more of a crime drama once again our heroine is on the run but this time out she has managed to maintain a certain amount of normalcy in her life relatively speaking anyway she gets a job she finds a place to live she makes a friend on the outside but of course everything has to unravel eventually fps beast stable has a more straight forward story that is told at a more leisurely pace than its predecessors but i found it to be engaging from beginning to end and don't worry there is still plenty of depravity to go around in this movie but i think these movies transcend most exploitation films because the more disturbing elements are played in a straighter tone rather than being used exclusively for in your face shock value yes there were definitely moments in this movie where i cringed mightily but i didn't feel that they detracted from the value of the story well maybe a time or two one thing i have greatly enjoyed about these films is the continued build up of scorpion's mythos with this entry character development is used much more extensively than in the previous two we get to see that she is much more than just a stone hearted vengeful badass br br as i mentioned earlier in this review a fourth movie followed it also features as scorpion but had a different director without giving anything away i want to mention that fps beast stable ends in such a way as to make a sequel completely unnecessary the fourth film is still quite good but it seems to play as a superfluous footnote to a mind blowing trilogy br br i would highly recommend this movie to anyone interested in out of the ordinary films fps beast stable can be enjoyed as a stand alone piece as can the first two movies but i would also recommend watching the others first if you have not already done so
1	the thirty years that have passed since the making of this movie have made the suspense wither somewhat and will not keep the public as attentive as i am sure it did in 1979 it is still entertaining enough though and regains some of it's power when one finds out its sad relevance today check out the story of davis nuclear plant with the top of the line actors and steady pace one can learn to overlook the dated '70s environment and see it for the political critique that it is i doubt however it will survive the test of time it might not be entirely forgotten thanks to its cast but otherwise the dialog setting and score will make a remake of this movie unavoidable as the oil situation now is comparable to the situation in the 70's and alternative sources of energy are again becoming a hotter topic we can only hope the current generation gets blockbuster warnings about the risks of nuclear power like this
1	large corporations vs conscientious do good ers we seem to witness events both real life and reel life of this sort all the time and most of the time greed wins by employing every means dirty necessary and the truth gets suppressed at least in this movie jack jack lemmon got his points across and paid for it dearly we have seen several more movies of this sort being made in the recent years the most memorable of which was 'the where russell crowe played a tobacco industry scientist who tried to blow the whistle claiming that the industry added more nicotine in cigarettes to make smokers addicted there was also this reporter protagonist angle where the reporter is looking for the scoop of his her dreams and the protagonist is faced with this moral dilemma where he she has to choose between righteousness and his livelihood and sometimes his her life br br jane fonda played reporter kimberly wells to perfection she plays a reporter who wishes to pursue serious news whereas her bosses value her more as an 'eye candy' she and her crew the cameraman played by post michael douglas who is also the producer of the movie witness an accident in a nuclear power plant while they were on a visit cameraman michael douglas sneakily illegally gets footage of that event on tape in spite being a no photography zone and smuggles it out of the station the station refuses to air it and informs the corporation that owns the nuclear station br br in the mean time the chief engineer jack launches an investigation of his own and discovers a lot of irregularities in the equipment that's being used for the reactor this starts all the dirty politics of corruption and greed br br this is a good thriller and it managed to create a lot of tension in the audience till the end and the funny thing was that there was no background score to suggest all the scary moments now that's great and unusual in movies performances were all good and i love jack lemmon we primarily know him for his comedic roles but he is equally good in dramatic roles i give this movie an 8 10
1	it was easy to dismiss this film as hyperbole at the time of its release fonda douglas and lemmon were known lefties but the accident at three island provided shocking context to this fictional drama br br this film works on many levels taking shots at both public utilities and tv news 1979 was the zenith of the infamous happy talk format of tv news see also ron burgundy and it's on display here in all its glory the sonorous anchor grimly reads a story about a grinding head on collision before cheerfully introducing kimberley wells fonda doing a story about a veterinarian who makes house or is that aquarium calls the show's producer and the station manager argue about content or lack thereof behind the scenes br br there are a few technical errors the pr flack james hampton shows fonda and douglas the requisite scale model of a pressurized water reactor plant built by later as lemmon and wilford brimley nicely playing lemmon's friend colleague caught between duty and loyalty fight a sudden crisis in the s control room they're obviously running a boiling water plant built by ge a small point but curious considering how many details the screenwriters got right br br like any good drama the film asks more questions than it answers the real world accident at proves the film's basic premise the working title for the film was originally power and you'll see why as nuclear power prepares to make a comeback in these days of 3 gas the china syndrome is as relevant today as it was over 25 years ago
1	it's some years since i've seen this movie so forget most of the details however i loved it at the time and found the plot intensely gripping the climax heart stopping i remember being literally on the edge of my seat at the theatre back in 1979 br br jane fonda plays a los angeles reporter kimberley who stumbles upon an accident at a local nuclear power facility she wants to go public with the story aided by her hippie cameraman michael douglas who has photographed the event but a sinister conspiracy attempts to cover it all up jack lemmon is absolutely wonderful in the role of the nuclear plant's conflicted middle manager torn between loyalty to his company and 'doing the right thing' by reporting the perilous situation his facial expressions speak volumes here br br apart from the engrossing plot and riveting tension this film is all about jack lemmon his character and his superb acting performance as for jane fonda i was a huge fan of hers at the time i suspect she just moved on from her anti war protests to taking on the nuclear industry br br this movie seems intended as a nuclear scare tactic and three mile island notwithstanding they're different types of reactors our canadian reactor is safe and well respected around the world i wouldn't hesitate to reside near the nuclear power plant about an hour's drive away where my friend works as a very competent engineer apparently they shut down for every teeny problem irregardless of the financial loss i sincerely doubt that there are any conspiracies afoot there one can hardly imagine any of the managers or highly trained operators willing to risk any sort of meltdown or whatever it's absolute tomfoolery of course the moral here is to spare no expense or effort either in building the facility or ensuring its ongoing safety br br if we want our western lifestyle we have to get our energy somewhere for those who claim nuclear power can never be made completely safe true of course perhaps they should volunteer as a coal miner or else return to pre electricity horse and buggy days br br by all means enjoy this entertaining and highly suspenseful movie which apparently is based loosely embellished on a true story it's a real chiller a thriller and maybe even a killer but please don't get your attitudes about the operation and safety of nuclear power plants from it
1	reporter kimberly wells presents the minor side of the news puff pieces that don't hold much news merit while shooting footage on alternative energy at a nuclear power plant an accident occurs friend and cameraman for kimberly richard adams illegally films the men controlling the incident in the control room jack head of the control room prevents the reactor from disaster after an investigation into the incident shows nothing is wrong jack can't help but feel something isn't right on discovering that the weld seals on the generator pump are cracked jack with kimberly and richard seek to tell the public and shut down the unsafe plant br br nearly made thirty years ago the china syndrome is a riveting drama that still holds so much relevance today nuclear power has always been a hotly debated subject whether it is the safest source of alternative energy radioactive waste and are nuclear plants waiting to be the next just not about nuclear power the china syndrome explores freedom of speech right of press and big business on jack's findings of information his knowledge halts a massive investment on the construction of another nuclear plant which many men seek to profit from kimberly desperately wanting out on the puff news sees the fight for truth is more important than boosting her career constantly pushed by richard never wanted to be silenced demanding the public be told of the accident br br jane fonda michael douglas and jack lemmon are simply flawless fonda shows kimberly as a fragile woman on her exterior yet emotionally hard and determined to reveal this cover up douglas brings a strong performance as richard fighting for honestly and truth lemmon shines over all as jack his performance is highly charged drama br br the china syndrome is riveting viewing that still holds much relevance today as it did when first released
1	as long as you don't mind paying a little more attention than you normally might for other films this is one of the best thrillers you'll ever see the film portrays an incident that might occur in real life nothing in it seems fictional at all in fact it also portrays how people might react in real life br br in fact it portrays these so well that is seems like real life combine that with the lack of a soundtrack and you've almost got the best news like movie you've ever seen jane fonda and jack lemmon are particularly good in this late seventies masterpiece evoking concern on her end and genuine tragic pity on his end i highly recommend it to anyone who likes thrillers
1	author 1 from canada the big problem was the china syndrome claim that if the reactor error occurred and radioactive waste leaked out it could burn its way straight through the earth to china a lot of people have made fun of this and if the movie makers meant it seriously then yes it should be made fun of the spill wouldn't make it anywhere near the center of the earth or even the molten rock even if it did make it to the center of the earth how would it come out in china it would have to flow against gravity the rest of the way also china is not the opposite side of the world the indian ocean is br br this point is brought up by the characters of the film saying that of course it could not happen as the core would hit ground water and release a radio active cloud raining down on the population br br before you try to find a weak point in the film you should watch it first don't judge a book by it's title
1	i work at a nuclear power plant so i am getting a kick out of these replies br br seriously i do go to http en wikipedia org wiki palisades nuclear generating station and you can see where i work br br i could not think of a safer industry to work in we are required by procedures to report events as minor as paper cuts any issue identified as being a potential concern with respect to nuclear or industrial safety is immediately reported in the action process br br bottom line is that nuclear plants in the us operate with safety in the front of their mind
1	again i've read all of the comments posted here and agree with the many intelligent ones but totally disagree with those who think it was is hokum br br personally i think nuclear is about the only energy left to us unless our governments feds and states increase the grants thinking homeowners will use photo cells on their roofs many attractive and pricey homes in southern are designed and built to take advantage of the cleanest energy around the sun i live in a loft which is exposed to total sunlight on its roof the entire day i hardly use the ac i'm sure it would consume too much electricity to convert the intense heat in the attic to about five degrees cooler we are blessed with dry heat in this part of the country i'm from the gulf coast of the usa so i know about humidity br br that said i found the china syndrome to be a convincing movie about what could go wrong if the industry is not busy and inspecting nuclear plants i think there are enough comments posted here to enlighten those who still fear it like the plague they are safe is still on line br br director james bridges carefully guides this plot by mike gray t s cook to build suspense and to a thoughtfully interesting film all the roles were well played jane fonda kimberly wells jack lemmon jack and producer michael douglas richard adams are all excellent in their roles plus all of the rest of the cast i too loved there being no score it was so interesting to get a true to life glimpse of the behind the scenes of the tv industry that shouldn't be surprising currently dan rather is sue ing cbs and i hope he wins can you believe donald trump saying he's a loser trump who cares posted a very good comment here i agree it is my opinion that getting vaporized by a nuclear spill is much better than living in a world which has been wasted and becomes blade runner and or green come away from your video games for a couple of hours and watch this dated movie really isn't and get a little education on nuclear energy i recommend it to the whole family
1	great film from the late 1970's says much about corporate corruption at the expense of the common person so that the powerful can gain gain huge profits and disregard the environment and safety of others br br nearly 30 years later this film is compelling about the power of certain corporate entities that since the films release have gained ten fold in their ability to control it shows the need for regulation of the public against powerful business interests whose primary goal is profit br br jack lemmon is brilliant while jane fonda and micheal douglas are as equally compelling in their roles the frivolous 70s where damned for much this film redeems the decade br br a film that becomes better after each watching
1	i loved this show i think the first time i tried rocky road ice cream was due to this show wasn't the shop located like right on the beach or something i actually wrote back and forth with marci for several years i lost touch and wish i could reconnect now as adults anyone know where she is now i wish they would put it out on dvd i seriously doubt that since i think there maybe like five or six people who even remember the show airing in the first place they just don't make shows like this anymore do they i wonder if it would still hold up in this day and age do you guys know anyone that could burn dvd's of the show they taped on vhs i'd be willing to pay within reason
1	the china syndrome launched a whole string of films about the potentially devastating effects of misused nuclear power a black cloud of paranoia that would hang over america for much of the reagan years it's a well made and effective drama given an extra punch by its high power stars notably jack lemmon who plays a senior official of the nuclear power plant who suffers a crisis of conscience but one can't help but think that it was the serendipitous timing of the three mile island nuclear accident that occurred just a couple of weeks after this film's release that has given it its lasting appeal as a classic from the 70s as watchable as it is it's certainly no classic br br with a red headed jane fonda as a news reporter and a bearded michael douglas as her camera man and the film's producer by the way br br grade b
1	one of the best and most exciting of all conspiracy thrillers there were a number of such film in the 1970's this one is about an accident at a reactor and of the attempts to cover it up jack lemmon is the employee who realizes just how dangerous the plant is and jane fonda is the crusading television reporter who takes the story on board and both players are at their best br br the events portrayed in the film are of course terrifying and not in the least bit far fetched much of what happens here happened in real life at three mile island and although it now looks like something a period piece it nevertheless highlights just how fragile and dangerous a world we have created for ourselves expect a number of similar films about the effects of global warming any time soon and not rubbish like the day after tomorrow either
1	i thoroughly enjoyed this film when it was first released and on each occasion i've seen it since the political drama is effective if not especially new or inspired the decades since the release of the film have demonstrated that the willingness to cut costs at the expense of public safety is definitely not just something imagined by a screenwriter br br however i think the most impressive element of this film is jack lemmon's performance it is absolutely astonishing to watch him at work he has the gift to be able to communicate so much at times without saying a word next time you watch this film check out jack's face at the times he is not saying anything he does not need to speak or worse yet to mug to let you know what's going through his mind br br i am calling this a spoiler because of the impression it made on me when i first saw the film in lemmon's last scene in the film as he is lying on the floor he feels a slight vibration the terror in his eyes is one of the most frightening images i have seen in any film it is perfect acting because it conveys instantly the threat about to occur if jack's character is so terrified there is certainly something awful about to happen and it does
1	tv newscaster kimberly wells jane fonda and her radical richard adams michael douglas are at a nuclear power plant when a serious accident happens the plants managers play it down but adams has filmed it all wells and adams try to get it on the air but the corporation that runs the plant prevents it plant executive jack jack lemmon realizes there are serious problems and tests have been he tries to get executives to believe him only they know it wells adams and find all their lives are in danger br br i saw this in a movie theatre in 1979 i was only 17 and it scared me silly to make matters worse the three mile island accident happened around this time making the movie all that more real seeing it over 20 years later it doesn't scare me but it still is an excellent film it works as a mystery a gripping drama and an expose on the nuclear power industry fonda with red hair has one of her best roles as wells she perfectly conveys her character's growing suspicion and horror when she realizes a nuclear disaster could happen lemmon is as always excellent he starts out believing in his company and the job and slowly starts to unravel when he starts finding things out he was rightfully nominated for an academy award for this douglas is good but he has a small part and is completely overshadowed by lemmon and fonda br br a really great film one of the best of the 70s don't miss this one
1	drama about a reporter who discovers some flaws in the safety precautions taken at a nuclear is directed well and a pretty interesting film from the late 70s its not amazing but its solid the acting is pretty good especially jack lemmon but douglas and fonda were good too it was a pretty good screenplay and direction was solid and suitable this is definitely not one of the best films of the 70s but its one of the better ones a good early michael douglas film and lemmon in his prime imdb rating 7 2 my rating so in simple words solid but not amazing thats what this film is solid but not amazing 8 10
1	all the right elements seemed to conspire here to make this a memorable thriller for years to come you have the stellar cast michael douglas in an uncharacteristic 'free spirit' role that pretty much launched his movie career fonda playing her typical forthright female doing her bit for womens lib and jack lemmon as assured as ever showing us a man with a crisis of confidence give them a hot button topic about big business being duplicitous and that's encouraging for a kickoff but to have life imitating art so soon after is a marketing man's dream br br the script is impressively taut intelligent but mercifully keeping the jargon to a minimum and there is a genuine sense of sustained tension brought in play by the director as our three protagonists race to beat the clock if you like 'whistle dramas then this is not quite as good as the insider but the whole thing is more than nervy enough
1	when the china syndrome was released plenty of right wing critics and pro nuke supporters blasted this film particularly since its three leading stars were all known for their liberal politics and their overt distrust of nuclear power but it only took two weeks and a near catastrophic accident at three mile island to shut those critics up br br fonda and douglas are the l a news crew that witness a potentially nasty accident at the nuclear power plant douglas films the event through the plant's soundproof glass but the tv station will not air the footage fearing a massive lawsuit it is thus up to fonda and douglas to get at the truth despite a massive attempt by the plant's owners to cover up the accident br br but a conscientious shift supervisor jack lemmon has uncovered certain defects in the plant's pump support structure he believes that these defects were the cause of the accident and that though it would be extremely costly and lengthy if repairs aren't made the next accident could be apocalyptic but he can't get anyone who works with him to believe his story the result is a nightmarish climax that pulls various political technological and human interest stories together in one disturbing package br br while obviously quite politically liberal in nature the china syndrome well directed and co written by james bridges the paper chase is also fundamentally a message movie about the inherent dangers of putting technology and nuclear power together fundamentally nuclear power can never be made safe because people can never be perfect that is what the film is saying and in a highly entertaining and suspenseful way it says it brilliantly
1	the first thing you see in this film is a static angle one which will be repeated later in the film depicting the chaos going on unseen to the audience in a studio that airs news soon after fonda's character's typical story is shown in that same angle don't let this mislead you the film is not about a female reporter a woman struggling to succeed in a male dominated profession that is merely a lead in a way of starting the film though it's used later the actual point to this production is revealed gradually and the first we see of it is in a deliberately long scene early on the entire film has that pace not slow or drawn out but deliberate it's never really fast even in the few sequences that one would normally expect to be so this pacing especially because it seems to slow down further as the plot is revealed as the disturbing unsettling nature of the film is unraveled is strong almost painful to the viewer it inspires you to if it had been possible jump into the screen grab the people responsible by the collar and yell at them to do something about it to remedy the situation never once did i feel like getting up or even taking my eyes off the screen for a moment the subject is extremely important to be aware of and it's handled perfectly here no over dramatization well very little anyway just an accurate presentation of the issue the direction is astounding the empathy felt for lemmon's character is profound the editing is masterful one scene near the very end illustrates that perfectly the editor judging from his filmography is vastly underrated the writing was excellent the acting was great in particular by lemmon fonda and douglas who also produced it the lack of a score is perfect no music is needed to enhance the ending is sublime and effective the movie does have a few negative points among them some of the dialog is obviously and undeniably mainly exposition one particular part of the film whilst dramatic doesn't seem to mesh with something that follows it not everyone will watch the film because of two features of it which are commonly and rightfully so attributed to bad movies the pacing which can be mistaken as being slow and the lack of score one could argue that to be a negative thing as everyone ought to consider the points it presents but maybe it's better this way handling the heavy subject with the intelligence and respect for the topic as well as the viewer something like this maybe it shouldn't be spoon fed i was mesmerized with the film and left very taken aback i recommend this to anyone who believe themselves strong enough to handle it 9 10
1	intelligent nail biting drama came out of nowhere in 1979 and soon was on the cover of every newspaper in america when life imitated the film a nuclear power plant employee in southern california is threatened by superiors when he decides to go public with the real story behind an accident at the plant ostensibly a stuck valve problem a tv news crew's film shows that it was an accident verging on disastrous proportions and worse that safety conditions are being scrubbed to save millions of dollars a cover up that everyone's lives the movie occasionally gets too technical especially in the second half and could use more human interplay however the performances by jack lemmon jane fonda as a puff piece news woman in the right place at the right time and michael douglas as a freelance cameraman are superb the throwaway bits involving nuclear protesters is both entirely accurate and bitterly satirical and the news biz with its corporate structure and vapid yes men is vividly captured 1 2 from
1	i normally don't comment on movies on imdb but in this case i feel like i should i love movies and i want to make them and this movie is a perfect example of fine filmmaking br br this is one of the few movies that i have seen on the small screen originally seeing it air on amc i believe and then on the dvd i just watched that made me get that feeling in the pit of my stomach that little gnawing sensation that the director would hope you feel while watching his thriller br br jack lemmon's performance is a fine one and jane fonda and michael douglas follow i felt so much empathy of lemmon who's character jack only wanted people to listen to his warning br br but what impresses me most about this film is the lack of a score and this is also what makes it beautiful to me apart from the opening titles there are no background music to increase the tension because none is needed and while the credits run white on black in silence it drives the point home br br i use the movie as an example to anyone who says music makes the movie i think the movie should make the movie and the music should only amplify that but for the china syndrome music is not necessary to get across the realism and the urgency depicted here the characters portray all of this far better than the music ever could br br i highly recommend this movie it is one of my favorites if you like movies you won't be disappointed if you like movie soundtracks more you might not want to give this one a go
1	i'm sorry to see that it has been rated that low by many people the series started off very good and after the first season it wasn't that good br br people tend to forget the beginning of something and only look at the end this is not good to do you should look at the total not the end result it is sad that a lot of the usual characters died but damn we had a lot of nice new characters br br please do not attach yourself to a few characters but attach yourself to the series the plot please do understand that i didn't like it when boone died when died but well it needs to be done can you imagine that everyone keeps living the whole series when they are in a lot of danger all the time come on face it if they didn't die they would be invincible in this way you will always keep the tension will he survive will he die i do realize that people attach their selves to characters i do that too my favorite character was the one who could get into every computer he wanted he was the one who was mysterious he could do things with the computer no one else could do br br i wish to make one statement to all the people who vote negative does a series which started so good deserve to have such low rating should we look at the final season instead of the total should we not see how good the series was when it started should we not see how much we enjoyed it
1	although the premise of the movie involves a major coincidence the actors all do a creditable job and look great bringing the story to life i found myself rooting for the characters played by mary tyler moore and christine empathizing with both and wanting them to reconcile sam waterston and ted danson are fine in their roles as well doing a decent job with the stereotypical buddy relationship while the story tends to leap through time occasionally leaving the audience perhaps a little hungry for missing detail it still flows and avoids any real confusion this interesting storyline has all the elements for a good chick flick
1	christine sandy and mary tyler moore holly davis worked well with material ted danson did his best with a thankless role of chip davis the premise of this that the two ladies' friendship one a seemingly happily married woman and the other a career woman who is aware of her biological clock ticking i found the relationship that ted character had with the single woman played by christine lahti's rather sordid he behaved in a way yet he left two widows pining over him bawling i found it revolting when when sandy told him she wanted to break it off after meeting his wife he calls her saying he misses her did he call his wife there was no sign of that he behaved like a heel it perhaps would have made a more interesting film had he not been killed off perhaps both ladies would have wised up and dumped him i liked the friendship between the two ladies but it was spoiled by what they had in common the cad of a husband
1	saw this movie when it came out and then a couple more times years later i'm watching it now 20 years later and it's still a very good story does it wreak of lifetime movie network yes but alas lifetime was not even in existence back then so it needed to air br br the cast was excellent the story was a little schmaltzy two women become close friends and unbeknownst to either one friend is having an affair with he other friends husband she's invited over to the house for a dinner party which is how she discovers that her lover is the husband of her best friend she is horrified and tries to break off the affair shortly afterwards he is tragically killed in a car accident which is for both women of course the wife finds out by accident about this affair and wants holly out of her life now but their friendship is able to prevail because they need each other br br i thought it was a very good story a great cast and i really enjoyed it
1	ever wonder where that episode tuttle came from in the middle of the first season of m a s h well now the cat's out of the bag they got it from this soviet film a satire on how dumb the is due to the slip of a pen rendering the phrase the lieutenants though into lieutenant which has no meaning and nobody being honest or gutsy enough to contradict him and just tell him the truth doesn't exist and never did so they make up an imaginary life for him and eventually kill him off and 40 years later david and bruce shelly borrowed this zany plot and gave us essentially the same story only on the other side of what had become the cold war proving that people in high positions can be equally dumb no matter what their loyalties may be
1	i went to see this film out of curiosity and to settle an argument the film is now best known from the suite of music sergei extracted from his incidental music to the film the movement even turning up in pop arrangements the general outline of the plot is well known from the sleeve notes on various recordings a clerk accidentally generates a non existent lieutenant in a list to be presented to the the is interested in this person and rather than tell him he doesn't exist the courtiers and officers maintain the pretence that he is real is exiled to siberia recalled promoted married promoted again dies is given a state funeral revealed as an embezzler and posthumously to the ranks br br i had heard conflicting stories about how the clerk invented involving ink blots and sneezes but i'd heard the film was lost so there was no way to find out what happens then the film turned up at the in london as part of their festival for the record it turned out that all that happens is that the clerk confuses two words whilst writing an order and turns into as the is in a hurry to see the order there's no time to correct the mistake br br having gone expecting an historical curiosity i was pleasantly surprised the film is very funny and the audience myself included laughed continuously although most of it is filmed straight set mostly in the palace there are a few trick shots where multiple images appear on the screen for instance the army is represented by a small group repeated across the screen four identical guards perform perfect drill in perfect unison two identical servants scrub the floor br br one slight drawback was it was very difficult to work out who everyone was there were two women who might have been the daughters or a daughter and a servant or something else and very few people were named but all in all an enjoyable film and i'm surprised it's not seen more often
1	the fact that this film was shown at london's suggests to me that the print must have been acceptable enough for such a showing now the question is why isn't this long lost and important film available in dvd or even vhs a large number of persons in europe and the usa have for many years hoped to see this film if for no other reason than the wonderful music written for it by sergei what does one have to do to get such a wonderful production as this available for a wider public not just patrons to the at london having been a devoted listener to music for many years and aware of this film please someone 'out there' do the right thing and bring it out as a dvd
1	there have been several books that have cited this as the earliest gay cinema i don't really see this as all that gay in the homosexual sense but then seeing two men dancing in what has to be the worlds first movie musical does have its attraction br br there have been several earlier comments about this film dismissing any homosexual overtones as to those that are quick to dismiss this film as just being silly and an experiment done late at night after too many drinks well i've heard that story before br br this film is of interest as an oddity and if folks want to consider it the first gay film so be it better this than the depressing 1919 anders als die
1	this film is an eery but interesting film i will tell you why it is eery later in this review br br the film is interesting because it was the first film to ever contain sound no it may not be a one hour and forty two minute film no it may not contain great action scenes but it is still a wonderful film to me it sparked a whole knew revolution if you will of sound movies this can be a little eery to watch knowing that everyone in that film are now dead i can hear the voice of a man in the beginning who no longer walks the earth visible and that the sound is and broken br br i recommend this video for everyone to watch this created movies as we know it today
1	this is a pretty interesting experiment to watch it's the first ever still existing attempt to unite sight with sound it features two men dancing to a violin player possibly william k l dickson himself who is standing next to an edison recording cylinder that is capturing the sound br br the sound and images were not linked together as one yet and it wasn't until recently that the sound and image have been added technically together it's probably the reason why people hesitate to call this movie the first ever sound picture br br the movie is made by william k l dickson a assistant to thomas edison himself who ordered him to come up with a way to unite pictures and sound the answer he provided was the a kinetoscope basicly a large wooden box with a peephole in it so people could watch the moving images with a cylinder phonograph inside of it for the sound this is the first that we know off surviving movie experiments that feature this technique all of the later movies using this same technique were shot as silent movies and sound effects were recorded later and separately so the was not an attempt to synchronize sound and images but more an attempt to have images accompanied by sound in some cases people could even choose from three sound cylinders featuring 3 different orchestral performances to accompany the images only 45 were ever made so you could hardly call the a success also after this experiment focus went off to other cinema techniques mainly regarding movie projectors br br so the experiment itself obviously did not become a success also since it took over 30 more years before the first movies with sound were made and commercially released they just couldn't yet technically synchronize and put the sound and the images together yet at the time and even if they could and techniques would had been available it would had been a very expensive job to do so it therefor really isn't the most influential or historically important movies out of cinematic history but it's very interesting to watch how people constantly tried to improve the quality and techniques of early cinema and movie making br br 8 10
1	it was on a day in when scottish inventor william k l dickson surprised his boss thomas edison with his remarkable work in the development of motion pictures after many experiments dickson was now able to capture scenes of real life with his camera and reproduce them through his invention the kinetoscope as if a fragment of time were preserved in celluloid soon kinetoscope would become an enormous success as a new way of entertainment with many people eager to pay the nickel that was charged to be able to watch people dancing or performing stunts through the of the kinetoscope however the invention wasn't complete in order for it to capture on film the real life as we know it sound was needed on the movies so dickson kept experimenting and this short experiment first film was the result br br in this experiment codenamed simply as dickson experimental sound film director william k l dickson stands in front of a recording cone for a wax cylinder earliest method of recording sound with his violin on hands playing a song named song of the cabin boy the idea was to record the song into the cylinder at the same time that the camera was recording his movements in order to show that this was a motion picture two of edison's black maria laboratory decided to do a little dance in front of the camera unlike what author vito russo claimed in his book the celluloid closet this little dance had nothing to do with homosexuality as it obviously is a reference to the environment of loneliness of the lab akin to the lonely sailors to whom the song of the cabin boy was dedicated to the title russo suggests the gay brothers is actually anachronistic as gay had no homosexual connotation in the late 1890s br br sadly dickson was unable to achieve the desired effect and the never could really produce the synchronized audio with images while he had the cylinder with the sound and the celluloid with the images the synchronization of the two elements was not exactly effective and the sudden appearance of auguste and louis cinématographe prompted edison's team to focus on projecting systems and eventually dickson left the company fortunately in 1998 cylinder with the movie's sound was rebuilt and film editor walter made a restoration of the experiment as it was intended finally dickson experimental sound film could be heard with synchronized sound just as its creative inventor had intended while it was not a successful attempt this outstanding film is a testament of the enormous genius of the father of kinetoscope 8 10
1	believe me i wanted this series to work but the early departure of kevin kilner dealt a near death blow after season one robert just wasn't right for the part and jane did an admirable job as lead but the series just got too messy and confused at that point i don't know what happened in season five what a mess sometimes its time to drop the red cape and just stick the sword in the bull if you know what i mean the only consistent thread holding the series together were the amazing performances of leni parker and anita as the two in quiet conflict if not for their talents and well written dialogue they would have been two weird bald man chicks in a b movie series br br if only this series could have ended at season 4 and picked up later by syfy
1	the very first talking picture has returned from oblivion and now you can hear it and see it in autumn of 1894 at the edison lab complex in west orange new jersey thomas edison's associate william dickson tried to combine two existing technologies the phonograph and the kinetoscope to record sound and image together in the event dickson was unable to the playback of sound and image so this experimental film was never released to paying audiences and consequently unlike many silent films which dickson made for edison at this time it has no official title the silent image recorded at 40 fps has been in the library of congress for years known to film historians as a mute curiosity it was also known that the had been recorded on one of the crude wax cylinders languishing at the edison national historic site although nobody knew which one br br but now that's changed recently located the wax cylinder which had broken into several pieces these were reassembled a playback was obtained and the sound was digitised hollywood's veteran soundtrack editor walter cleaned up the background noise and tweaked the to make it synch with the film image which had digitally compressed to 30 fps sound and image are synchronised at last br br the film begins with an offscreen man's voice calling 'the rest of you fellows ready go ahead ' the unseen speaker remains unidentified but was probably assistant fred ott on screen dickson plays a violin into an immense funnel mounted on a tripod one of edison's sound recording devices while alongside him in full view of the camera two male lab assistants embrace each other for some quick ballroom dancing to the tempo of music br br the film lasts barely 17 seconds just long enough for us to marvel at this crude technology before being provoked to laughter at the sight of two men waltzing in each other's arms speaking of which here's a warning a well known but extremely inaccurate reference book 'the celluloid closet' by the late vito russo includes a frame enlargement from this movie and identifies it as 'the gay brothers' that's incorrect 'the gay brothers' is an entirely different movie made by dickson at the edison lab during this same period 'the gay brothers' never had a soundtrack it's a brief fiction film about two brothers who are not 'gay' in the sense russo meant it the deceased mr russo for his own reasons wanted us to perceive experimental sound film arguably the first movie musical as an artefact of 19th century homoeroticism hmm what is it about gay men and musicals sorry but there's just no such content here br br this important film deserves a rating of 10 out of 10 i've often maintained that no 'lost' movie should ever be considered irretrievable unless it was deliberately destroyed i'm delighted to report that this film is finally available to audiences as its producer intended it more than a century after it was filmed
1	i'm not saying anything new when i say that ray was magnificent as i proceed to laud this movie i have to mention something that sets it apart from other films very rarely is a film made entirely by the actor s ray quite simply was made by jamie foxx without the wonderful performance of jamie foxx ray would just be another interesting and informative biopic i always thought foxx was funny stemming from his days with in livin' color and the jamie foxx show and i also knew that he was talented as he used his own show the jamie foxx show to show off his musical talents but never did i imagine that he could pull off a role like this i don't know much about acting and what they go through to get into character or other things like that but what i saw from jamie foxx was extremely impressive he wrapped himself into that role and made us see ray charles rather than an actor portraying ray charles the story of ray was great yes but it was given life by jamie foxx
1	ray is one of those movies that makes you pause you actually think about what you heard or think about what you read about this man and it doesn't even come close during my first viewing of ray i forgot i was watching a movie i felt like a peeping tom watching this man's life thru a window this movie is so compelling it drags you in and it involves your every emotion you go thru a emotional roller coaster ride and when it's over you don't want to do it again so soon because it has that kind of emotional punch that other movies are lacking jamie foxx deserved his oscar and quite rightfully so his performance is spectacular and it should be held up as the standard for anybody wanting to do a bio pic anytime soon this movie is as good as it's subject both deserved the titles classic and legend
1	a masterful performance by jamie foxx is just one of the highlights of ray a 2004 film also starring kerry washington regina king curtis armstrong richard schiff sharon warren patrick and many others all giving excellent support to the film br br the film has several main focuses the first is charles' childhood the drowning of his brother george which haunted him for years the glaucoma that blinded him and the strength taught him by his mother don't bend don't break don't ever be a cripple she eventually sends him to a special school where charles' gift of music is discovered the next focus is charles' artistic evolution as a nat king cole like singer to his arrangements of gospel music his foray into country music and the unique sound that became ray charles the third focus is charles' personal life his marriage to bea his many affairs his heroin addiction and eventual rehabilitation br br because charles lived a packed 74 years there's a lot skipped though charles was orphaned while in his teens the death of his beloved mother his rock isn't in the film while he is shown on the circuit and refusing to play in segregated clubs his near starvation as a musician isn't covered at one point he found a jar of jelly and attempted to eat it but the jar broke he was that down and out bea is shown with him when the state of georgia which banned him adopts georgia on my mind as their theme song in 1979 and welcomes charles back to his native state yet he and bea were divorced in 1977 which isn't mentioned she probably was there however also she wasn't his only wife he was married once before he met her that marriage isn't covered in the movie we're told of one illegitimate child there were 12 it would have been impossible to get all of that and more into a film br br what isn't skipped is his glorious music which seems to go on constantly throughout the film continually reinforcing his genius and artistry br br charles' story is compelling and holds the audience's interest throughout those who scoff at it as a made for tv movie don't give it the credit it deserves taylor direction gives ray a good pace and the movie has a lot of atmosphere and evokes the various decades beautifully br br as ray jamie foxx inhabits the character and makes one forget he's a comedian playing a part foxx wore prosthetics did his own piano playing and spent a great deal of time with charles preparing for the role he nails him but it's not an impersonation he's a flesh and blood man with hallucinations of standing in water and finding his brother's body a man full of denial about his addiction hating the word junkie and believing he's not hooked and he's in denial about his home life thinking that his wife doesn't know about his various affairs and illegitimate children in the movie child and a man taken terrible advantage of early in his career because of his blindness who refuses to be walked on later on he demands to be paid in 1 bills so they can be counted when he discovers he's a gravy train for a club owner and her partner and was nearly cheated out of a record deal he makes his own deal and leaves his job br br one doesn't so much marvel at foxx's performance as accept him as ray from the first time he appears on camera br br this is an excellent biography which like walk the line is punctuated with the fantastic music of the artist whether or not you're a ray charles fan ray is something to experience
1	i agree that this film was spectacular the way in which jamie foxx captured not only the impression of ray charles but the essence of ray charles really made the film his life made a great story and it is good that it is finally being told i also found a great interview with jamie foxx about this role by ernie from on houston channel 8 the link is http video google com q jamie foxx en i encourage everyone to check it out as it gives in depth looks into what went into his role and his personal feelings about ray charles the only problem i might cite with the film is that the style was rather bland at times but in the end i think it helped make the story more realistic and keep the focus on the person ray charles rather than the film ray
1	recent years have seen a number of biopics of famous singers and ray the story of ray charles has much in common with walk the line which was made the following year and told the story of johnny cash cash and charles were near exact contemporaries both being born in the early thirties and dying in 2003 04 both grew up in poverty in the american deep south both lost a brother in an accident during childhood both achieved success in the 1950s both experienced problems in their marriages and both were addicted to drugs all these matters are emphasised in both films there are also similarities with ron howard's a beautiful mind although that film was about a mathematician rather than a musician it like both ray and walk the line stressed the part played by its subject's wife in helping her husband to overcome his problems br br ray charles was born to a single mother in a poor black community in georgia in 1930 his original name was raymond charles robinson but when he was starting his career as a musician he dropped his surname to avoid confusion with the boxer sugar ray robinson in some ways charles had an even harder time than did cash having to cope with two additional disadvantages in the shape of his blindness and of the racism which affected all black americans especially in the south during his lifetime charles had a particularly traumatic childhood witnessing the death of his younger brother george in a drowning accident and going blind about a year or two later he appears to have been haunted by nightmares and feelings of guilt over george's death throughout his life br br the first half of the film is rather slow moving and is a standard rags to riches showbiz biopic telling the story of how the young charles is taught to play the piano becomes a nightclub performer and then rises to fame as a major artist falling in love along the way with the beautiful della bea the best scenes in this part of the film are the flashbacks to charles's childhood there is an effective recurrent image of coloured glass bottles hanging from a tree in front of his house perhaps this was one of his few visual memories of his life before he went blind there is also a memorable scene in which the teenaged charles shames a prejudiced bus driver into letting him on the bus by pretending to have lost his sight on omaha beach in reality he would only have been thirteen at the time of the normandy landings br br the second half of the film becomes more interesting as it moves into more controversial territory focusing on charles's drug addiction the problems in his marriage caused by his affair with margie one of his backing singers and his battles against racism in the early sixties charles caused a sensation by refusing to play in front of a racially segregated audience in georgia although contrary to what is stated in the film this did not result in his being banned from performing in the state he also fought against racial divides within the music industry itself performing not only traditionally black styles of music such as gospel and rhythm and blues but also traditionally white ones such as country and western regarded by many black americans as the music of choice of the redneck community br br as peter bradshaw film critic of the guardian noted ray is a sunny film which turns away from the darker side of things it omits any mention of such matters as the death of charles's beloved mother aretha during his teenage years his brief marriage to eileen williams in the early fifties and his eventual divorce from della bea in 1977 it also plays down the extent of his womanising and the number of his illegitimate children there are similarities here with a beautiful mind which also omitted a number of controversial details about its subject's personal life including a divorce br br fans of ray charles will no doubt enjoy the film for the music but it is worth watching even for those who do not know much about him chiefly on account of jamie foxx's oscar winning performance in the title role reproducing charles's mannerisms so exactly that we think we actually are watching a blind man even though foxx himself is sighted unlike joaquin phoenix in walk the line however foxx did not do his own singing doubtless charles's distinctive singing voice was too difficult to reproduce he receives good support from some of the other performers particularly sharon warren as aretha and kerry washington as della bea the film is uneven and overlong but nevertheless rewarding 7 10
1	this is the true story of the great pianist and jazz singer legend ray charles oscar bafta and golden globe winning jamie foxx he was born in a poor african american town and he went blind at 7 years old but with his skills of touch and hearing this is what would later in life would lead him to stardom by the 1960's he had accomplished his dream and selling records in millions and leading the charts with songs and albums but the story also showed his downfalls including the separation from his wife and child because of his affair with a band member his drug and alcohol use and going to prison because of this also starring regina king as margie kerry washington as della bea robinson clifton powell as jeff brown harry j as joe adams as newman ellis as mary ann fisher sharon warren as aretha robinson c j sanders as young ray robinson curtis armstrong as and richard schiff as jerry wexler it is a great story with a great singer impression the songs including hit the road jack are the highlights it won the oscar for best sound mixing and it was nominated for best costume design best director for taylor best editing and best motion picture of the year it won the bafta for best sound and it was nominated for the anthony asquith award for film music for craig armstrong and best original screenplay and it was nominated the golden globe for best motion picture musical or comedy it was number 99 on 100 years 100 cheers very good
1	brilliant biographic br br well this certainly is one of my very fav biographic movie this movie came as a total surprise to me i had been avoiding this movie for a very very long time now that was because i am not a fan of jamie foxx i still am not a big fan of him but i sure am a fan now br br well he deserved every bit of that oscar his performance is one of the best performances i have seen in a long long time he is truly sensational br br well the narration or the flow of the story is brilliant for a biographical movie i am a drama fan so i wasn't bored at all br br i was way too much surprised to have being liking the movie so much that i did not see any flaws in the movie i think there isn't any flaw in the movie maybe some events errors but hey who cares br br the performance by the woman who plays ray's mother was also really good and well kerry washington … she has so much potential if given the right role she might just be the next oscar winner br br well the story of them movie was so emotional so touching i i cried very br br i don't give a damn if the things were mad up or not cuz this movie mad me and that's a lot for me br br all in all a superb one of the very best of this century br br 10 10
1	ray charles robinson jamie foxx is a extremely talented pianist and singer as well ray is an smart man as well ray started his career in the late 1940's before he finds his distinctive style ray is certainly popular at the night clubs with his music things changes when he meets an ambitious music producer curtis armstrong who knows ray got what it takes to be an strong performer and he also meets an woman kerry washington he loves as well marries along the way ray's album becomes an hit when he mixes soul music and gospel together which makes ray an controversial man during in the 1950's to the 1960's ray has love for all kind of music including country but ray isn't always the perfect man as he seems to be since he had plenty of failed relationship with other woman while he's married but he also had to battle with racism people who double crossed him his music ideals and of course his drug addiction which it made ray's life extremely difficult for him and as well for battling the tragedy of his childhood which ray always blamed himself for br br directed by oscar winner taylor against all odds devil's advocate dolores claiborne made an fascinating true life story of the always interesting of the late ray charles foxx won an oscar for his touching performance of the late entertainer foxx brings heart and soul in the film and humour as well but this film has plenty of rich performances by an top cast including regina king clifton powell ellis warwick davis terrence howard and sharon warren as ray's mother this is probably the best film of career to date the film has plenty of song of charles's best music as well br br dvd has an sharp pan scan 1 33 1 transfer and an excellent dolby digital 5 1 surround sound disc 1 has an informative commentary by the director and the dvd also has the original theatrical cut and extended version as well but u are better watching the theatrical version instead because the bonus footage is in bad shape at times and u have to click on a logo if you want to see these deleted scenes disc 2 has deleted scenes with optional commentary by the director which is seen in the extended version featurettes and more but the featurettes are disappointingly short for this dvd since the movie is extraordinary good this film was nominated four oscars including best costume designs best director best editing and best picture this is an amazing true life story well told but of course charles' life was even more controversial and outrageous than the final film still it's pretty damn close screenplay by james l white from an story by white and director oscar winner for best sound don't miss it ½
1	a lecture over the life of the tormented magician named ray charles his pulses on the piano made fire music and his nostalgic voice created exciting cool tunes each barrier that ray was facing never kept him down and he found his way all over conflicts a real lesson a great team of producers help recreate the era and armed with great costumes hairs and settings one will follow ray's story believing its true direct filming an icy music freezes and goosebumps the audience with clever sound editing but the most important part of the movie is jamie foxx his acting is really superb the most diamond polished acting ever seen he lives his role he is the ray of light
1	ok everybody agreed on what was the best season the first and killing off boone was a bad also killing off others was bad blame the directors and writers for it bad boys but i still think this is the best scifi series ever sorry guys i can't help it i see that the quality of the series was after the first season still it's easy to accept liam as the new main character if you are over boone he is really mysterious the thing that shocked me most was when lilli was written out of the story and how that was something she didn't deserve and what do we get some blonde chick called renee with absolutely no character but these stay mysterious and you stay wondering about true plans till the end true suspence the conversations between and are sometimes brilliant br br i understand that when you jump in on an episode from the 3th 4th or 5th season you may not understand this show but when you watch from the beginning you just cant break loose br br the acting is great the special fx are marvellous the music is beautiful and the plot intriguing gotta see this guys
1	i am so glad when i watch in every time the movie of ray for the sidney of the 21st century jamie foxx who played this role as an evidence of his brilliant ability as an actor to take his position beside great actors in hollywood by his golden supporting for the strong abilities of afro american actors all over the times and periods by his eternal work as an evidence for the eternity of ray charles as a grand prove for their legend appearance in every time by their success for winning oscar prize as best actor for leading role an best mixing sound between fact and cinematic scenes upon ray and jamie as a mixing between two copies of ray ray of the past and ray of 2004 acted in the person of jamie foxx it was nice from the director to choose those songs to be adapted with dramatical scenes in the accidents of film to enter for the atmosphere of success in legend corn with legend movies in hollywood since 1893 till now and his cleverness of choosing sharon in the role of ray s mother that she succeeded in this role by brilliant analysis for the core of her character that ray s mother was the turning point for him upon her grew up to be independent on himself to take his place in this world and to be icon in his talent as nat king cole louis armstrong duke ellington and at the end of this film by receiving his honorable report from and their decision to take his song georgia on my mind the national anthem for this state he made his promise for his mother to be alive until now by his legend songs and brilliant life
1	jamie foxx absolutely is ray charles his performance is simply genius he owns the film just as spacek owned coal miner's daughter and quaid owned great balls of fire in fact it's hard to remember that the part of ray charles is being acted and not played by the man himself ray charles is legendary he is well established as a musician and the music is deep complex and innovative even more innovative than i realized before watching this movie the film should make new fans of a young audience who might come into it knowing little about his music ray charles' life provided excellent biographical material for the film which goes well beyond being just another movie about a musician i confess that i knew very little about the man's life until i saw this film i came out of it being impressed with ray charles' courage strength and innovation as man and musician
1	like almost everyone i am familiar with the music of ray charles who hasn't heard georgia on my mind and the mess around and some of the other marvelous songs featured in this movie but about the life of ray charles i was sadly ignorant until watching this i have to say that jamie foxx brought ray charles to life brilliantly his performance was powerful right down to the mannerisms and voice inflections the movie also offered a no holds barred account of some of the trials and tribulations charles dealt with over the course of his life and with some demons from the past that haunted him well into adulthood perhaps the most powerful scene in the movie was the heroin withdrawal scene which was painfully realistic the movie portrays charles' growing awareness of and involvement with the civil rights movement culminating in his refusal to play before a segregated audience in georgia which led to a ban on him performing in the state his drug addiction and extra marital affairs are also well documented the movie revolves around a plea from his mother when he was a child don't let anyone or anything turn you into a cripple the point is that drugs did just that and to honour his mother's memory he had to beat them there's not much here about his later life and career after breaking his heroin habit but up to that point this is really powerful stuff 9 10
1	jamie foxx did an incredible job playing ray charles i loved this movie because every so often there would be a flashback scene and then to the current movie when ray charles was little he went blind and his mother didn't baby him she was a strong woman who didn't treat him any different because he was blind she made him do things on his own and that really pushed him to become a great musician later on in life his mother also sent him to school as well then when ray charles became a man he could stand up for himself and take care of himself but there was a downfall into narcotics sex and betrayal when i am discouraged about something i can just think of this movie and it will inspire me
1	ray is interesting in parts and technically it's very well made but ray is often sluggish and forgets some important details about ray's life all the movie shows us is parts where he's in his prime and most successful which is good it's just i wanted to see some bits about his older life too jamie fox mimics ray charles to a t at times it's absolutely uncanny i have to say jamie is the reason i got through this movie the 1st half is a lot better then the 2nd it's more interesting it has more oomph and it's nowhere near as sluggish as the 2nd i wasn't a big fan of ray charles to begin with to be honest so i really didn't have any expectations for the film what so ever ray's biggest problem had to be the over length this could've been cut very easily with more relevant scenes other then the ones they used i found the early part of ray's life when he was just starting to get successful the most interesting he was humble back then and somewhat a gentleman and while the film may have over exaggerated his actions he got a bit too full of himself for me to care br br performance jamie fox gives a performance for the ages as ray he looks like ray talks like ray acts like ray he even sings like ray this is much more then an impression i truly believed he was ray charles he was the heart of the film and without his presence this film would've been a complete and utter bore br br bottom line ray is interesting at times dreadfully dull at others when all was said and done i was disappointed by how routine it seemed at times just because it's a film doesen't mean it's automatically oscar worthy jamie fox deserved his oscar but the movie is above average at best worth a watch but if i were you i'd keep my expectations at a rather comfortable level br br 7 10
1	let's not beat about the bush here taylor undoubtedly slick movie has little to make it stand out from the biopic genre other than jamie foxx's exceptional career making performance remember the year they handed the special effects oscar to the terminator 2 uncontested they should do the same with this year's best actor gong br br that ray charles' story is worthy of filming is not in dispute indeed the many flashbacks to his traumatic childhood are well handled and used but for a life so unique the film seems incredibly formulaic and familiar it follows the of a flawed genius' template almost to the letter hardship and exploitation women and drugs recording wrangles band squabbles rehab yeah yeah yeah and surely there was more humour in his life than we're treated to here br br i appreciate charles' music yet where neatly cut would have kept the story rolling indulges himself with near full length renditions of too many songs in gin joints in the recording studio in concert halls infinitum narratively and for non devotees they begin to act like a cinematic brake this may seem like harsh judgement on a music biopic but with a catalogue as extensive as ray's we need a taste not the whole dish otherwise we'd buy the albums br br intrigued as i was i glanced at my watch more than once so for all foxx's brilliance maybe ray would have been better served as an hbo two parter
1	i saw ray when it first came out why partly because of the advertising hype secondly because i just loved the heck outa ray charles's music but not being around when his biggest things in music and his life happened i wanted to learn more about the man's life and in this film i did his addiction to drugs was something i didn't know and the film let us know br br but here's the thing while this was a decent autobiographical film i cannot say it was a great film i've seen malcolm x and was blown away same with what's love got to do with it and bird the performances of each of those films was outstanding i wasn't just drawn into the main characters in those films who did incredible jobs but to those around them as well that helps make a picture to me br br i felt that at some parts of this film was shallow and heavy handed for emotional appeal and yes i'll admit at certain parts of the film i almost fell asleep and the film was too long and the film left out several other important details of ray charles life that would have made the film flow better the film got choppy to me in certain parts and the film seemed to end with a whimper not a bang certain parts including the ending played like a tacked on lifetime cable network movie to me i expect more outa cinema br br so where does my ambivalence come in with jamie foxx's performance overall he did okay not denzel washington's malcolm x or angela tina turner's spectacular but okay br br sorry folks but to me there were several points in the film where i saw jamie foxx's interpretation of ray charles and in others thanks to the wonderful camera angles and lighting he looked like ray charles but i paid attention to the acting an actor has to make you believe he is the character he is playing not make a caricature of the character did i believe jamie foxx was ray on the screen sometimes yes sometimes no br br did jamie foxx deserve a golden globe you betcha does he deserve an oscar depends on who's he's up against he's got a few major competitors there and he might just edge them out but then again maybe not if jamie foxx doesn't win i will not stand up and say he was robbed i wont particularly feel that he had been br br this was a decent film with decent performances and a decent story a great autobiographical film of the late ray charles no somewhere out there i feel there is a great film about ray charles just waiting to be made and an actor that will blow you completely away in doing so
1	jamie foxx was the epitome of ray charles after a few moments you stop seeing a film and see a biography played by the great man himself ray charles was truly a genius of music and the movie excellently depicted that no one has ever or will ever write play or record music like this musical giant when he passed the flesh the world lost one of it's greatest american heroes as far as the movie the fact that jamie foxx received a classical music scholarship to college and could play like ray was an asset to the director what could be better than that you don't have to have a double play piano and then try to split the screen from someone else's hands to jamie's face it worked beautifully i loved the fact that it also picked up how difficult ray was he wasn't always a nice man you didn't also root for him he was a drug addict a womanizer and sometimes just plain hard headed but i guess that's what made him genius so i can't fault him for that i pick jamie for best actor
1	a couple of days ago i saw the awesome house of sand and fog and i was impressed with the amazing performance of ben kingsley in the lead role i decided to see ray trying to understand how and why ben kingsley did not win the oscar of best lead actor after watching jamie foxx in the role of ray charles i agree with the academy he really deserved to be awarded i like ray charles i was not his fan but it is amazing the resemblance of jamie foxx with him the film is completely supported by jamie foxx who participates of most of the shootings and his movements on stage looks like as if he was a reincarnation of ray charles with regard to the story i saw the extended version on dvd too long but also very pleasant with many beautiful songs and scenes showing mainly a junkie ray charles my greatest surprise was to find that ray charles was heroine addicted and how he treated his own family the presentation of his childhood through fragmented flashbacks was the boring part of the movie my vote is nine br br title brazil ray
1	lives on br br ray dir taylor cast jamie foxx kerry washington regina king clifton powell curtis armstrong and sharon warren written by taylor and james l white rating br br hit the road jack and don't come more no more no more no more who would've thought that this immortal line that has almost become a remedial mantra for broken relationships in popular culture was conceived over a lovers' brawl ray charles was a genius and if there was one thing that he knew breathed and lived for it was music so in a lifetime that comprised acute poverty a desperate struggle with darkness guilt drugs and painful affairs ray still found moments when inspiration hit him out of nowhere and words and notes took their own shape to form an instant eternal classic br br there are some lives that deserve to be transformed on the silver screen ray charles's life was one of them it almost comes as a shock to learn that this project had no studio backing until it was completed and that backing probably came after the initial screenings where jamie foxx's performance was lauded and predicted as a surefire oscar winner in hushed voices jamie foxx as ray almost convinces us that it is indeed ray charles performing on screen and not an actor impersonating from the crooked all knowing smile to the bent gait of not so much a handicapped but a man dancing through his demons foxx captures every essence of the actual ray charles ray was a complicated man he never demanded sympathy and very rarely showed it himself an astute businessman he ensured his success at any cost sometimes at the price of losing his loved ones he never apologized for his philandering ways and always maintained that he loved his family which we are convinced he did he liked sex it was as simple as that but beneath all there also existed a ray that was afraid of darkness imagine the horrors of a blind man afraid of darkness his fear was because of his guilt ray was convinced that he was the reason for his brother's death and his whole life was spent trying to redeem himself ray was a maverick who fused gospel with jazz an unheard blasphemous practice in the 50's but his intentions weren't to instigate he was simply practicing the only way he knew of getting close to god br br it is hard to capture such an eventful life as that of ray and that is perhaps where the movie fails we are never really allowed to get close to ray as a person we know him only as much as we see him his relationships especially with margie regina king aren't explored in detail and the script barely passes over della bea kerry washington ray's wife who everyone knows was a rock by his side and the biggest blunder of all is the rushed almost abrupt climax it's as if the director suddenly realized he was out of stock and called for a pack up nonetheless is definitely recommended for a flawless performance from jamie foxx and an able stellar ensemble the songs and age create a sense of nostalgia and we get a genuine feeling that the film is made with sincerity br br abhishek bandekar br br note is nominated in six categories at this year's academy awards including best picture best director and best actor jamie foxx br br rating br br poor average good very good excellent br br 19th february 2005
1	gene roddenberry never let his fans down his death ended sci fi legacy that will never be matched earth the final conflict was proof his pilot film and the first 2 seasons were well written and meticulously produced but somewhere along the way the roddenberry touch was lost the loss of lead kevin kilner william boone definitely hurt the series as he was a vital part of what made it work the story involves the human race being visited by the an extra terrestrial race who dub themselves 'the after 3 years they have given earth new technologies helpful information about the universe and more many question their intentions here on earth the main liaison on earth between the races is leni parker and he is to many the most trustworthy questions arise just why are they here what are their goals is aware of any suspected plots against the humans there is an underground group led by millionaire industrialist jonathan doors david who utilizes his millions to investigate the by the end of the first season things are going well seems trustworthy boone assists doors in his investigation while working with and the as a liaison in the middle of the 2nd season things start unraveling and the once terrific and fascinating series spirals downward mostly because roddenberry had died and was not around to guide the producers of whom his wife majel barrett roddenberry was co producer still the first season remains intriguing and fun to watch
1	jamie foxx leads a brilliant cast in this powerful voyage through the life of the blind emotionally troubled african american genius of pop jazz mr ray charles though the entire cast performs wonderfully mr foxx earned more than simply an oscar if it were possible to nominate an actor in consecutive years i would consider doing so for mr foxx foxx doesn't just play charles he re creates him cj sanders and sharon warren also deserve special mention for their portrayal of ray's mother the inspiration of his life and young ray these two provided the strongest support in the film br br the dramas of charles' struggles with guilt the death of his younger brother and mother blindness discrimination addiction and success are neatly woven into the tapestries of his music the music is beautiful the script is as far as i can tell perfect and the acting is nothing short of legendary br br the directorial method of the film warrants discussion taylor a director i am generally ambivalent about had to choose what aspects of the larger than life and complex life story of mr charles would tell his story most honestly dramatically and understandably though some disagree seemingly wanting a documentary instead of a dramatized biopic i believe he selected his themes admirably a big part of the success of this film is its consistent focus on a few persistent themes in charles' life his profound love and respect for his mother his need to be loved and accepted his addiction and guilt complex his musical genius and his deep seated fear of responsibility for others charles is depicted as a man struggling valiantly against an army of personal demons i learned more than i could have imagined about one of the men i used to listen to on my old turntable with my dad in his on sunday nights while football games were on the tv and nothing was sugar coated in ray the themes are carried forward with power and human dignity these themes create a unifying drama which span the length of his long and illuminated life the power of these themes the strong script and directing the music and the acting make this one of the most enjoyable and evocative biographical films i have seen br br recommended for everyone
1	jamie foxx does a fine job of impersonating the famous blues soul country singer ray charles to the film's credit it shows both the good and the bad regarding charles' character and the choices he made both personally and professionally br br this is a slick looking film that provides you with a rich feel of the periods in which the story takes place not only does it look good it sounds good i only wish there was more music in here when it's inserted it's fabulous but there isn't enough of it br br assuming at least for review purposes that the story was true i was impressed and disappointed with charles meaning the story left some memorable impressions since i'm writing this 16 months after viewing it main impressions include br br good re living ray's immense talent and his foresight to step out and take chances musically such as going country for awhile the man had supreme confidence in himself but didn't come across as arrogant about it also memorable was showing him beating his heroin addiction with no help that's just amazing br br bad i also remember through this film how easily hooked ray got in the first place and disappointed he was so unfaithful to his wife a really sad comment was that his wife was more upset with him for missing his kid's little league games than she was for all the cheating he was doing on her even fathering a child with a member of his singing group br br the only negative i had with the filmmakers was the overemphasis of his problems being blamed on one early childhood event the accidental death of his brother that tragedy was used as cop out for all ray's as an adult which is another example of a culture in which people refuse to take responsibility for their actions br br note there is an extended version with the dvd but word has it that it is so poorly edited that it's not worth watching so stick with the theatrical version
1	the year 2004 was the year of the biopic with no less than four pictures tackling real events real people with varying degrees of critical praise of the four pictures to make it to the race to the oscars in early 2005 kinsey the aviator hotel rwanda and ray ray became the big winner of the night as the acting award went to jamie foxx for his portrayal of r b genius ray charles br br and it was well deserved despite that leonardo dicaprio came close and liam neeson wasn't even nominated what made foxx the winner was that the other two were playing relatively obscure eccentrics ray charles was still making music right up until his death in 2004 and by then there wasn't a soul who didn't know at least one song that charles' had penned it did help that jamie foxx rose well above the movie itself as a whole somewhat weak and often looking like it wouldn't be out of place as a tv biopic and his portrayal is detailed as it's ferocious he has the delicate assignment which is to embody a person down to nuances and once the crisis of ray's addiction to heroin hits a head foxx pulls out all the stops and it isn't hard to imagine the real ray actually going through such a painful ordeal br br the low point of the film is how it spends a little too much time in detailing ray's relationship with women like the aviator taylor wishes to establish that ray had this turbulent life a product of his own demons and his entry into success at a time when being black and successful brought a huge amount of baggage of the women the only one to succeed bringing real life is warren as ray's mother hers is a difficult role since she is alone on screen with the child actor playing young ray but her facial and body language is gut wrenching especially at the moment she must relinquish her maternity to have ray find his way around the house such intensity of emotion to stand there and watch your blind son crawl across a room and having to force him to have this rude awakening into independence a beautiful performance and one which should have been acknowledged br br a fantastic counterpoint to ray is the featured music anyone who knows r b will enjoy the early recordings of ray's radio hits as much as his later ones which would bring him to the forefront of popular music and jamie foxx virtually steals the show as he performs the songs as ray that alone will live on even when the movie in itself is little more than a stiff biopic i would have though loved it if they would have used his last adult contemporary hit from 1993 sing my song for you in the closing credits after all it is ray charles a performer who had a fierce dedication to his art
1	let's get the flaw out of the way right off the top the movie should have been much longer ray charles was a brilliant fascinating man who lead a complex challenging life there was simply no way to fit it all or even touch on it all in a standard length movie given that the makers of this film did an admirable and i'm sure quite agonizing job of putting together a film that could not tell the whole story yet managed to set forth a representative sampling of the man and his music ray charles' strengths were evident throughout the film and his weaknesses were neither amplified nor sugar coated we could have wished for another hour chronicling his life after 1980 but i suppose that would have tended to turn the film into an homage and while it would have also allowed for the resolution of several things that were left hanging at the end on balance i guess it was better as presented br br now for the big question what are the criteria for an oscar the wife and i have seen untold numbers of films in our years but we immediately agreed that we have never seen a performance the equal of jamie foxx's the line between actor and character was not blurred but rather it disappeared completely we had heard much of the hype before seeing the movie but this was uncanny foxx was ray charles you didn't watch the movie with the feeling that you were watching foxx do an outstanding job of portraying ray charles you watched it somehow believing or understanding that you were watching ray charles himself i don't know how else to put it we were completely blown away i'll admit that we haven't seen all of the other performances up for an oscar this year but that really doesn't matter foxx took this to a whole level one which we've never witnessed before and doubt that we may ever see again i can think of no other movie i've ever seen in which a person playing a part so completely and convincingly became the person portrayed we salute you mr foxx we understand that the awarding of an oscar has to do with much more than the performance but whether or not you win we want you to know that you have done something that is in a class absolutely by itself and you should take enormous pride in your unparalleled achievement br br p s the music was naturally great i remarked to the wife that if there is one moment in the history of music to which i wish i could have been witness it would have been the genesis in kansas city wasn't it of i say the film did a wonderful job with it just wish i could've been there
1	taylor wanted to make this movie for 15 years and finally found jamie foxx to play the title role foxx is amazing in his portrayal of ray charles from an interview i saw with foxx he met charles several times and the two of them also played piano together foxx had piano lessons as a young child and actually played piano in all his scenes i didn't see charles live until his later years so it was great to get a perspective on how his career developed i hope foxx gets nominated for the best actor oscar as he certainly deserves it the music also is incredible it really showcases the breadth of charles' music from country to blues and everything in between the movie also gives an unblemished account of ray charles' life from the many women he had relationships with to his drug habit and the consequences of that
1	this movie has inspired me to be a better person in life you don't know who you will run across and sometimes our prejudice will cause us to a person wrongly i have learned to give a person the benefit of the doubt because of this movie i also learned that tough love can build a stronger person now i want to know where to find the movie soundtrack there are songs in this soundtrack i have been trying to get for years may i comment on the acting for a second jamie fox was outstanding the man has risen to be the actor of actors also the performance of regina king was awesome if i can get a woman to look at me the way she looked at ray i can only dream i plucked down 18 00 for this movie and i don't have a lot of money but i am willing to see this movie again and again this movie touched me
1	this is one of the best movies i have seen in years i took me to a new time and place it was as though i was right there with ray through his many trials and triumphs jamie foxx transformed himself into ray during the movie he was ray also kerry washington sharon robinson and regina king were superb the movie was well cast and directed the music was fantastic br br i've seen the movie four 4 times with different people and the last time was just as enjoyable as the first time i will buy the dvd as soon as it is released this is a movie that will viewed over and over for years to come br br thank you for a great experience
1	first of all it is sheer joy to hear the legend perform such wonderful and timeless music this movie and soundtrack is a tour de force ray charles is unique and amazing i truly adored the film as it was inspiring and entertaining throughout br br jamie foxx has become one of the premiere actors in hollywood as is clearly shown in ray and he should get an oscar for this role it is unprecedented in fact everyone who worked on this film should receive accolades i really liked kerry washington who played the exceptional wife ray charles obviously married well regina king is a fine actress as well as the extraordinary sharon warren who plays a struggling young mother br br in all honesty i'd say this whole project was arranged the entire cast was perfect great screenplay and awesome settings major props to the director taylor and crew for doing such a splendid job in bringing the life of ray charles to the screen so flawlessly this is my picture of the year certainly one of the best biographical films ever made
1	if someone had nudged me about 15 minutes into and asked what i thought of jamie foxx in the title role it would have been time for a blank stare after all what is this fictitious person talking' about that wasn't jamie foxx up on the big screen that was ray charles this is one of the best performances by anybody in recent years like the soundtrack jamie as ray is flat out brilliant br br the blind genius of soul who took a revolutionary step of mixing gospel with r b died during production the movie about his troubled life is good not great taylor direction and james l white's script follow the well worn biopic outline super talented youngster battles adversity achieves greatness while also self destructing then picks himself up out of the gutter for a happy ending the film shows charles' flaws heroin abuse chronic womanizing persistent bastard fathering even as it sucks you in with his beautiful music br br kerry washington and regina king play the main women in ray's life one his long suffering wife and the other his longtime mistress both actresses match foxx stride for stride what takes him to a different level though is his deep understanding and uncanny impersonation of the great musician the entire cast is effective especially sharon warren as his headstrong mother and curtis armstrong as a music exec stars are likely to be rewarded with trophies and better yet more starring roles br br i was not a ray charles aficionado before apparently the film has left out a lot as do all biopics but this picture functions as both an old fashioned crowd pleaser and a dark investigation of a brilliant troubled man for those who whine that foxx doesn't actually sing as if that somehow diminishes his performance take a hike no mere actor can sing like mr charles anyway you can't have everything what the talented star does in this picture is about as close to everything as we'll probably see for a while
1	my wife wanted to see this movie and i grudgingly went along i have never been a big fan of the biopic believing that cinema is more exciting when it isn't structured in non fiction beyond that although i like ray charles' music just fine i don't consider myself a fan of him or his music br br i expected to either suffer or coast through this movie br br i was wrong br br this is an engaging story told in a classic cinematic style the realism is in the nuances the tilt of a character's head after a dramatic moment or the look in their eyes while they sing i literally discovered myself involved in this movie during the course of viewing it br br jaime foxx of which much has been said heads a cast of immaculate re creators of not just a time but an era a life that never really existed to those of us under forty this movie sinks the audience into time without the gimmicks and grand sweeping panoramas of titanic or other period pieces of that ilk this movie doesn't present you with the 50's and 60's music scene it takes you there br br this is a movie about ray charles but your appreciate of it should not be limited to the story of his life this is the kind of movie like saving private ryan or schindler's list that does what a movie should do bring you to another place another time
1	earth final conflict began like a new world a new vision from the creator of star trek something fresh and unique full of great elements a very good cast with an extremely credible kevin kilner as william boone an ex cop good begins to work as guard of some kind of ambassador of a mysterious alien race after the dead of his wife in strange circumstances but soon the character of kilner joins to a group with the mission to discover what are the truth intentions of the aliens why they seem to be so nice and care for the human race soon this resistance group begin to discover the sinister plans of the using the humans in they own problems to survive they own destruction as i said before the show began great all was almost perfect including characters like the original was a big mystery because he seems to be a nice creature but at the same time he has his own evil plans manipulating some people in earth soon came who wasn't bad but mark the beginning of the fall of this show because he became the first big enemy of humans the incarnation of evil killing what could be something greater in the first seasons ends in a great way with the dead of boone and the second shows a new lead character liam an hybrid being of human and another alien race with some very interesting powers he replace kilner character in a good way so another storylines make it better including the conflict with the and the but as i said lines before the evilness of begin to take more importance so the new conflicts were less realistic as the same with time the whole great storyline of the alien roots of liam where almost totally erased the same with other things of the previous seasons so when the final season began the original earth final conflict was just an almost forgotten dreams all the magic was missing just to let some vain intents to keep alive the show including the return of kilner and liam for a few episodes the final episode was just the evidence of how bad was the show with so many bad changes to think the writers of some episodes didn't know anything about the first stories it was one of the worst end i have ever seen in a tv show a real shame because earth final conflict began like something unique fresh the stories the cast after watch so many show from usa something from canada from the mind of the creator of star trek was wonderful but in the end all change to worse i hope someday someone make a remake of this show of course using nothing from season fourth and fifth except the cast everyone were perfect in his work i still can dream in a better things
1	a very good film focusing on a very important issue fetal alcohol syndrome is a very serious birth defect that is totally preventable if more families saw this film perhaps more children would not end up like adam jimmie performs in one of his best roles ever this is an excellent movie that takes into account a very special family with very important needs this is not unlike thousands of families that exist in the united states today there are children struggling with this world wide the really important point here is that it all could have been prevented more people should see this movie and take what it has to say seriously it is well done with important messages handled in a graceful way
1	this type of show is not supposed to happen on television this is the type of edginess usually reserved for independent film this is what only hbo is supposed to do fact is that denis leary has managed to come up with one of the best television shows ever easily joining the ranks of the sopranos oz ed etc kudos the gang at abc for showing that nypd blue was not a fluke and to mr leary and his gang for creating a truly unique viewing experience my only complaint is that the show is not long enough an hour would make it better but i can't wait for the next episode
1	denis leary can indeed be funny and clever at times and is always likable but this takes the cake this show showed leary's genius br br the job is set in new york leary plays mike mcneil a hard nosed detective who is married has a occasional drug problem and has a girlfriend mcneil has serious attitude so much he's dripping in it the precinct is filled with funny interesting and likable characters besides mcneil an excellent cast too all of the episodes in this show are really funny and are addictive the one liners in this show are everywhere you'll be in stitches after hearing them and still laugh about them a few minutes after and then some the cases the precinct deals with are something else to stripper nuns a bathroom hostage situation and more are over the top this show was too good could have grown legs to last many more seasons br br the last word a great fantastic show i miss this show dearly all episodes of this show are great you get even belly laughs a lot abc made a huge mistake by giving this the ax too bad leary did not revive the show for cable tv still i give this show one of my highest of recommendations truly a one of a kind show
1	don't forget the lover on the side she is a karen parsons is delicious she is wonderful in acting and beauty and style it's just his job ho well now here is a show that the writing slugs you in the gut and while your doubled over kicks you in the butt in quoting peter's wife the associate writer producer she said when they were watching the for up coming 'new' shows at an abc network party she looked at her husband after the preview for 'the job' played and said this doesn't look like anything else that is on this network you guys are in trouble meaning it 'looks' very good but it's not looking like the regular happy people fare or over hair styled drama that they abc are regularly comfortable putting on the from the time i saw this after the first episode finished i made sure that i didn't miss that time slot next week i was instantly addicted to the job cutting wit and cynicism outrageous situations and laughter rolling writers makes this series a hit br br then i felt anger and a feeling of being let down that the show just sailed off the air i wondered what executive made that decision to tear down a major comedy cornerstone for their network br br i talked to other people about it some knowing some not but i know that the stupid network didn't promote this hard enough or i should say visually enough if they had it would have run at least 3 5 seasons maybe even six i just believe that knowing network short comings and being overly subscribing to one or another that they missed the boat with this one there was so much room for expansion it had barely just begun the situations were funny and serious fast and sometimes slow though not much it kept a good pace some years later i finally found it on dvd new for 50 00 to me it would be worth 1 000 00 to have this in my entertainment library i watched in amazement as i went through both seasons again for the third time on dvd and the ending episode was going into a total serious drama segment with them uncovering a murder victim it was better than most of the drama and 'cop' shows on the air now they went into the scenes as serious as a heart attack and as believable did so as if not even skipping a beat just like it was meant to be serious i am so impressed with the that and leary shared in the story lines and scripts br br in another outrage of the week' i learned that the beautiful wardrobe of silk ties and expensive suits with pressed shirts and ultra stylish footwear was all sold to the movie made for cable in the cut 2003 for only four hundred dollars thats it i'm sick did you see what they all wear for each show a good over coat alone could run that much br br this was denis leary at some of his finest i recommend this great cop for east coasters or wherever you are in this country i even heard that people from ireland were joking with leary the episode repeating lines back to him from that one because they saw it over there a superbly intuitive comedic new york leary cop show
1	so dark the night poses a tough challenge it's very hard to write about it in any detail without ruining it for those who haven't yet seen it since it remains quite obscure that includes just about everybody the movie will strike those familiar with its director joseph h lewis' better known titles in the noir cycle – gun crazy the big combo even my name is julia ross which in its brevity it resembles – as an odd choice br br for starters the bucolic french countryside serves as its setting steven a middle aged detective with the in paris sets out for a vacation in the village of ste margot or maybe margaux quite unexpectedly he finds himself falling in love with the daughter even though she's betrothed to a rough hewn local farmer but the siren song of life in paris is hard to resist so she agrees to marry him despite the disparity in their ages which inevitably becomes the talk of the town br br but on the night of their engagement party she fails to return to the inn soon a hunchback finds her body by the river her jealous jilted lover is the logical suspect but he too is found dead then anonymous notes threaten more deaths which come to pass for the first time in his career the bereaved finds himself stumped br br a particularly weak script all but does the movie in it plays like bad cornell woolrich crossed with the murder of roger ackroyd but lewis does this creaky vehicle proud he takes his time near the beginning but then the story – and the storytelling – gain momentum alas just about the time the script breaks an burnett lighted and photographed the film with an intriguing leitmotif of peering out of and peeping into windows there's also an effective score by hugo who supplied aural menace to many noirs a good deal of talent has been lavished on so dark the night but at the end it boils down to not much more than a gimmick – and not a very good gimmick at that it's a one trick pony of a movie br br
1	the famous french detective henri takes his first vacation in 11 years in st margot where he meets nanette the daughter of the vacation spot proprietors despite nanette being promised to childhood sweetheart leon henri and nanette fall in love and decide to marry despite father due to henri's age on the day of their wedding leon returns and nanette runs after him nothing is heard of the two until both are found dead and henri swears he won't rest until he can find the killer the only clue henri has to work with is a footprint found by leon but he is also getting written warnings that others will die soon soon mother is found dead and henri has no idea as to the identity of the killer thinking himself a failure he returns to paris then he realizes and fears that the killer can be only one person even though none of his colleagues can believe his explanation out of the ordinary murder mystery that doesn't really follow the formula in other of the genre by columbia or other b studios credit to that certainly goes to director lewis who does manage to turn this into a noirish film despite the setting of the film also aided by the use of good camera work and lighting turns in a very good performance in probably his only lead and the rest of the cast is able to carry their performance rating 8
1	i first saw this one when it was first shown so i'm not too objective about it it really managed to scare me partly because it was so late at night but partly because of that whole feeling from a videotaped suspense story the same thing that helped dark shadows itself and the casting was so right i hardly know shane briant from anything else so it might not be so right to call him well cast but to me he is dorian gray and as far as the other male actors the one who fit his part so well was nigel davenport who's so good at larger than life characters as sir henry and john a sort of dan curtis repertory player at the time because of dark shadows as one poster points out this version manages to include the involvements with men in a fairly subtle way the scene where dorian recites a list of men's names to john character as a way of blackmailing him and the look on face were very well done if that scene were done now it would probably be done in a too obvious way and be bad by comparison i saw it when dorian gray was barely a name to me let alone more so even more than the famous 1945 version which is rightly famous this is the version to me
1	i like both this version of dorian gray and the mgm version both add a little girl early in the story who grows up to have an association with dorian this is not in the original book and that is my only complaint i especially like angela lansbury as sybil vane and george sanders as harry in the mgm version but shane briant as dorian in the tv version is much better looking i think and far more ruthless than hurd hatfield in the mgm version i think briant is more true to the novel's dorian in the end this is a very good adaptation of the novel it even hints at with men as does which could not be done in the mgm version
1	i've seen just after i've seen all roger moore films and i must say that it felt so good to see connery again he proves for all times that he is the one and only bond br br the film itself isn't really a masterpiece but it is really worth watching the jokes sit much better here the effects are funny and interesting connery is connery and brandauer is really a good villain but von sydow is just wasted and the score is not often good and there are a few scenes that seem pretty unnecessary br br 7 10 2 5 4 3 1 6
1	yes let's get this out of the way before we begin this is the one that sean connery returned to in 1983 after the stint we had of roger moore it's connery's last film and yes it's a kind of remake of thunderball but more of a film inspired by it if all you bond purists out there think i'm gonna get controversial you're right bond is one of the greatest movie series ever but that doesn't mean that a series should go on forever this i think is one of two films where they could've done themselves a huge favour and ended the bond saga not offended yet then i'll continue hey if you're thinking i'm indifferent about bond flicks you're wrong i grew up with my mum being obsessed with them any spare moment bond and his antics would be on the tv bond rules and 'never say never again' directed by irvin strikes back' kershner is one of the best it may not be 'goldfinger' or 'from russia ' and may not have been done by the same production house as all the others which i hear is why they refuse to accept it was ever made but still stands head and shoulders above the recent brosnan outings if you haven't spat at the screen read on characterization something so many blockbuster films forget about these days but something which is essential to telling a good story played a superb hand by treating 007 like he had been ageing since 'dr no' he's 'getting on a and so has to do things like go to a health farm a direct order from 'm' yeah if you haven't seen this film i won't give too much away with the plot because a loads happens and b obviously i want you to see it for yourselves don't be put off by my 'old revelation connery still get plenty of superb set pieces to charge swim punch speed smash and snog his way through the man is a legend and this film is one of his most enjoyable outings as bond high tech gadgets galore some great villains and an excellent supporting cast including a fantastic cameo by rowan atkinson lift this movie high above audience expectation br br this could've been the last bond film ever and it would've been a party to remember playing the secret agent as someone nearing retirement was refreshing stroke of genius the last scene wraps things up perfectly for the series but still we had more and then more and more still and one more moore still if you fancy finding out what blush is all about get this film then you can at least pretend 007 spent his last moments as a wisecracking secret agent in the arms of kim basinger and smirking at mr bean p s that other film that i think could've finished it all off the gritty to kill'
1	many have disparaged never say never again because it is not an official bond movie nevertheless it is manifest that the producers adhered to the fruitful bond formula although the film does not have a pre credit sequence it is clear that the training exercise at the commencement of the film is meant to be the introductory scene it would have been impossible for eon to stop the producers from including a pre credit and title sequence albeit without the gun barrel introduction br br sean connery is on fine form as the immortal secret agent and this film is certainly better than dr no thunderball you only live twice and diamonds are forever although is meant to be a remake of thunderball it is a vast improvement 007 spends more time on terra and a more diverse range of exotic locations are included in the film br br there is some resplendent acting in this movie barbara carrera is impeccable as the bizarre blush one of the best scenes in the film is the coup de grace between bond and in nice which is preceded by a dynamic motorcycle chase through the city klaus maria brandauer plays the psychotic largo and max von sydow is free of the melodrama that other actors portraying have indulged in br br tends to centre on connery rather than the character of bond at the commencement it is stated that bond is ageing and has been out of action this seems to refer to the 12 year hiatus in connery's portrayal of bond bond promises never again to work in the secret service an allusion to connery's portrayal of bond it appears that the producers were trying to hurt the official bond franchise br br nevertheless this film is definitely worth watching this is the last time that sean connery played james bond but his performance convinced me that perhaps he should have never have said never again
1	i remember this film fondly from seeing it in the theatre i recently found a copy on vhs it held up to my memory of it while obviously not a big budget film the acting is quite credible the scenery locales costumes are very well done i only wish the mammoths had been in more of the picture but when you see them they are also well done remember sfx was done in those days without benefit of computers some poor devil had to actually put all that hair fake tusks on real elephants the same effect was used on the elephants in quest for fire a better than average adventure film a chance for the star rod cameron to play something besides a cowboy which he also did very well over the years
1	i'm sick and tired of people complaining that never say never again is just a weak remake of thunderball yes that movie's influence is unmistakable but the tremendous and almost universal inferiority of re made films is reserved for such thoughtless and unintelligent films like the 1998 re make of psycho while it's true that the opening theme of the twelfth and connery's last bond film is one of the worst of the entire series the film itself still manages to stand on its own despite many other weaknesses besides that even the weak title song is made to blend pretty nicely with the closing dialogue in the film br br sure sean connery was getting a little on in age when this movie was filmed at least by james bond standards but there is plenty of evidence in the narrative that makes it clear that this was not exactly unknown to the filmmakers james bond is near retirement before he is handed his assignment having spent most of recent time teaching not doing and there is even the tongue in cheek insistence from m that he pay more attention to his health dieting and training and getting more exercise and whatnot besides this is james bond remember this guy is supposed to be some kind of super human and all of his fans are getting all upset because he's got some gray hairs when this guy retires at the end of the film m sends poor small in a hilarious cameo from rowan atkinson to tell bond that without him he worries about the safety of the free world and all of you people can't get over the fact that he's not a sprightly young man anymore come on sean connery could still play james bond just as good as he ever could or at least better than anyone else ever has been able to br br the majority of the film deals with the elaborate plan to steal nuclear missiles and hold the world hostage as dr evil would say oh hell let's just do what we always so there's clearly not much new there but this is one of the bond films that had the better one liners there's the amusing scene where bond is asked for a urine sample – if you could just fill this beaker for from here ' there are a lot of good one liners but the sexual innuendos aimed at mr bond are especially prevalent in this installment but then later he happens to throw that very urine sample into a villain's face making him scream as if his face were burning off not a very good attempt at comic relief especially since this guy had been kicking bond's ass with some sort of super spring device that could cut through pretty much anything and of course kim basinger stars in this film as one of the best bond girls of the entire series br br it's no secret that never say never again has dated badly and one of the things that has dated the worst is the special effects – with the one exception of the flying missiles which were obviously fake but still impressive for 1982 the colored contact lens at the beginning of the film was totally without effect and the laser watch was one of the worst things in the entire movie second only to those damn sharks evidently blush put some sort of device on his scuba tank that attracted sharks granted they did have weird guiding mechanisms of their own in a scene that more than likely inspired the classic line i have one simple request and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads ' and then of course there is the exploding hotel room scene which was redone in an episode of the simpsons and which was obviously followed by another obligatory and overly casual one liner from james br br the domination video game created by largo the film's villain is an especially memorable scene and the film also boasts what is probably the best motorcycle chase in the entire series far to superior to the laughable one in tomorrow never dies but despite many strengths the film's weaknesses are left clearer in the audience's mind at the end of the film due in large part to the anticlimactic underwater conclusion one of the more obvious parts borrowed from thunderball and recreated never mind the fact that largo revealed some crucial information to bond as he left him in the tower alive dr brilliance once again i'll just leave him there without actually witnessing his death and just assume everything went to plan what ' the climax of what is expected to be a fast paced action film should never take place in a muted underwater atmosphere br br all in all never say never again ranks very highly on the james bond scale and connery's wink at the end of the film as well as the two closing lines suggested at the time that he may still return for another turn as bond clearly this is no longer very likely so we can only hope
1	although never say never again has a weak sound track it is far superior to its competition at the time octopussy never say never again is an updated and improved version of thunderball connery's least popular bond flick is rich with clever dialogue wit smarts sex appeal and one of the best and most convincing bad guys in the entire bond series in addition features a very talented young and beautiful kim basinger british comedy fans will also recognize the actor known as mr bean i wouldn't trade any of the moore pictures for this one however the earlier connery bond efforts with the exception of thunderball are superior br br
1	people criticize because it is a low point in bond god sean connery's career and because it is unofficial may contain spoilers first of all this movie is better then any other bond film featuring any other actor then connery all sub par wannabes in my book sean connery is the only real bond no one comes even close to his toughness good looks and sex appeal yes this movie is a low point in connery's bond career but it is still the best bond film of the 80's sean connery is the only bond actor who is good at an older age he did not become a baggy mess like moore but kept his good looks and toughness but gaining some gray hair so what hes still the only real 007 and he is as cool and tough as ever sean connery is the one and only 007 and this movie is definitly worth seeing no matter what anyone says no gun barrel opening but you can't have everything can you great theme song though
1	let me depart from many comments i've read here and say that this film ranks as one of the five best bonds along with on her majesty's secret service from russia with love licence to kill and for your eyes only the only time roger moore actually played the role of bond instead of around of course sean connery pulls the whole thing together as co writer co producer and in his best performance since from russia with love he is fit energetic and obviously enjoying himself his acting is mature confident and laced with the right amount of humour this is in contrast to his mechanical performance in thunderball his sleepwalking through you only live twice and his paunchy romp through that cartoon known as diamonds are forever br br this is an imaginative reworking of thunderball without having the sets and machines overwhelming the characters and plot this cast is far superior as well klaus maria brandauer brings his unique style to the role of largo without relying on an eyepatch spectre ring or a boring uniform kim basinger is athletic and lovely barbara carrera is dynamic and for once we have a great felix in bernie casey the depictions of m and q are original and the addition of the bumbling agent small fawcett is fun without lapsing into slapstick br br director irvin kershner makes good use of his locations the bahamas and the french riviera without losing sight of his actors although close inspection reveals some mediocre special effects and lapses in continuity kershner keeps the film moving at a good pace unlike thunderball which even its director terence young did not like obviously fans will miss the gun barrel trademark and the 007 theme music but they are after all owned by eon productions br br michel legrand may not have composed the most memorable score but it captures the atmosphere of the locations without being overly intrusive not surprisingly his best moments are in the south of france with his french love song at the health spa being particularly attractive and tell me how many really remember the music for moonraker i personally would rather forget man with the golden gun and a view to a kill br br the eon folks can sneer at this film if they like yes octopussy made more money at least connery's mature 007 didn't swing through the jungle emitting a tarzan yell he did not frolic with a bengal tiger nor did he fight off indian snake charmers with a tennis racket despite eon's desperate efforts to stop this production kevin and the late jack schwartzman put together a fine film one that i think ian fleming would have appreciated br br if however you would rather see james bond get kicked in the shins by a dwarf engage in another tiresome struggle with jaws jump into bed with grace jones or lead a slapstick chase through san francisco this is not the film for you
1	like most people out there who have watched james bond 007 movies most people never knew that thunderball was originally the first 007 movie to be released but after ian fleming wrote the story with kevin and jack the 2 other authors took ian fleming to court and won the case providing evidence that ian fleming took the ideas of spectre special executive in terrorism revenge extortion so rather than making thunderball they fleming broccoli went on to make dr no br br this movie had the best of the best from getting sean connery to come back one more time he was paid over 5 000 000 for irvin kershner and sean connery had problems on the set that much is true but overall this movie was up there i think with thunderball licence to kill dr no those are my favorite from the bond series david dryer was hired for special photographic effects he was working at the time on bladerunner before never say never again the 100 million dollar yacht makes the disco look like a canoe this movie starred the best villian in a bond movie just behind dr no klaus maria held together this neurotic business like calm manner with a little wit to his authority over bond barbara carrera was excellent as blush br br the music was better than every score that didnt contain john barry doing the score music in most bond films michel legrand is not big in the usa compared to over in europe he has played with miles davis and many other great jazz musicians over the years its a little bland at times but the 007 theme that happens around 3 or 4 times in the movie never say never again is so cool i like it more than the original br br 007 is back one more time br br timothy dalton explained it right i thought you cant relate to a superman or a superhero he or she has to be human and have feelings he was by far the best serious true to version of bond but sean connery proves he can still do the role that made him and others to follow i bet at 75 now he could still pull off a villian role in a 007 movie if one ever surfaces br br
1	background info the movies octopussy never say never again were both made the same year 1983 and so naturally people compare them moore vs connery bond vs bond br br i've heard many people claiming that the official movie octopussy is far superior well i just watched octopussy bond is riding an airplane at 100 miles an hour impossible the wind would blow him off using his feet to force the plane to ground and then jumping off at some 60 miles an hour again impossible try jumping out of your car you'd end up with a shattered body how is that octopussy scene supposed to be good in any sense of the word suddenly bond has super human strength a titanium body and he does all these stunts at the ancient age of 56 complete crap unbelievable farse br br now let's contrast the above scene with connery's unofficial never say never again it doesn't have the same polish due to its independent film status less money but at least you can believe that connery is a real spy in real danger br br the movie starts off with bond showing his age he is 50 after all and being sent off for entirely believable but of course there's no such thing as a day off for a world famous spy and bond quickly finds himself a target even inside the hospital from that point the story spins off into another adventure with bond trying to locate his attempted killers and ultimately foiling an attempt to steal nuclear weapons br br as usual sean connery did a brilliant job and avoids the over the top unbelievable stunts this movie feels like a natural successor to connery's last film diamonds are forever the old style of bond before the franchise got silly br br recommended
1	there are lot of similarities between never say never again and thunderball not only on sean connery but also the story and plot except the actors all other are same like hijacking atomic bombs asking for ransom trafficking nukes in a ship etc only difference are place of occurrence in thunder ball plot it is in bahamas in never say never again it is over north africa and in thunder ball the nato raf itself loads the nukes into plane and in never say never again it is changed by an rouge arm of the axe and air dropped over us and stolen in caribbean almost 99 is same if anybody wants to dispute this they are most welcome
1	if you can watch a bond film from 1983 that isn't as good as octopussy and still enjoy it br br if you can accept production values which aren't that much above the level of a tv movie br br if you can look at sean connery with wrinkles on his forehead beneath an obvious and still see james bond br br if you can get past an inexperienced basinger a weaker largo and a jolly q br br if you can learn to love an idiosyncratic score not up there with barry on his worst day br br if you don't believe the hyperbolic reviews that it was greeted with on release br br if you can meet a poker battle and a video game face off and enjoy them both the same br br yours is never say never again and everything that's in it br br and what is more you'll probably enjoy it my son
1	1983 was the battle of the bonds that year both roger moore and sean connery starred in two separate james bond film the former octopussy was produced by the official makers of the bond films while the later never say never again was produced unofficially by a group led by kevin who held the film rights to thunderball surprisingly enough is the unofficial film that is better despite the obvious flaw of and the fact that never say never again is a remake of thunderball br br never say never again has the distinction of sporting one of the best casts ever assembled for a bond film it all starts with sean connery returning to the play bond for the first time since diamonds are forever connery might be older then he was then but he looks better here then he did in diamonds are forever the bond of never say never again is the sleek and dangerous shark of dr no or from russia with love just a few years older connery's delivery of one liners and dialogue is as dead on as it ever was the one downside to connery's age is his believability especially when it comes to the ladies of the film let's face it even connery despite being in top physical shape looks as odd as moore when he is bedding women half his age yet despite this believability issue never say never again shows connery in one of his better bond performances and a definite improvement on his two earlier bond performances br br kim bassinger plays domino in one of her early film roles bassinger plays the role with considerable confidence for a relative newcomer and she makes the character believable bassinger holds her own against her co stars and has considerable chemistry with them as well in fact she may well outshine her thunderball counter part played by claudine br br then there's the villain maximilian largo played by klaus maria brandauer brandauer's largo is everything a james bond film villain should be suave charming evil and above all believable none the less brandauer makes the role realistic and chooses not to fall into the trap many other bond villains have fallen into by going over the top brandauer plays largo with a silent menace and charisma unseen in many adversaries of 007 br br the excellent cast extends into the supporting cast as well barbara carrera makes a fine henchwoman in blush and the screen lights up when she appears max von sydow a nice appearance as though his appearance is more akin to a cameo rowan atkinson makes an appearance as bond's bumbling contact that makes for some of the best scenes in the film with all that the highlight of the supporting cast comes from the mi6 staff from edward fox's m who makes for a great contrast to bernard lee pamela salem who make s moneypenny and the icing on the cake with alec wonderful q the supporting cast has a couple of misfires though in the form of bernie casey as felix and gavin o'herlihy as jack who both seem to lack credibility in their respective roles otherwise this film sports one of the best casts ever assembled for a bond film br br on top of an excellent cast the film has several other essential ingredients from the opening central america sequence to the fight at to the underwater sequences and motorbike chase this is a film where the action sequences are not only great but service the plot as well for the most part the film also sports good special effects in terms of cruise missile models explosions and all the things we expect from a bond film irvin kershner then fresh off doing the empire strikes back brings a tight sense of direction to the film especially in sequences like the substation of nuclear warheads and the subsequent theft of the cruise missiles br br yet this film is far from perfect never say never again is easily one of the most dated of the bond films with its heavy use of 1980's computer sand video games while technology dates any film after a time this film's heavy reliance on it especially in the hijacking of the cruise missiles and the domination sequence makes the film look incredibly dated some quarter of a century after its release the script also tends to suffer from predictability due to the very fact it's a remake of thunderball br br yet for its predictability the script for never say never again is pretty good the script sports good dialogue scenes not a single cringe worthy one liner how many of the roger moore era scripts can you say that about some humorous situations and yet is watchable and tense for the most part once you look past he fact that it's a remake there's quite a lot of good things in the script for the film br br music is in fact the biggest weakness of the film due to the unofficial status of the film the james bond theme could not be used that said this could have shown with the right composer that a bond score without it could work unfortunately michael score is far from adequate score is totally out of place in a bond film and there is only of or two places where it actually works to make matters worse the film is also lumbered with one of the worst title sequences ever to grace a james bond film br br despite being heavily dated somewhat predicable and having a bad score never say never again is still a good bond film with one of the best casts of any bond film good action sequences good special effects good direction and some terrific dialogue this film proves that unofficial isn't a bad thing in fact it is is better then octopussy and the winner of the battle of the bonds
1	empire strikes back director irvin never say never again a remake of the 1965 james bond movie thunderball doesn't surpasses the terence young original but this non harry albert r broccoli film is well worth watching if you call yourself a 007 aficionado nevertheless despite its shortage of clever gadgets and the lack of a vibrant musical score never say never again rates as an above average suspenseful doomsday thriller with top flight performances by a seasoned cast including sean connery kim basinger klaus maria brandauer max von sydow barbara carrera edward fox bernie casey alec and rowan atkinson the film bristles with surprises galore from the invigorating title credits sequence throughout its generally exciting but lengthy 134 minutes unlike the franchise james bond sagas with their breath taking moments of spectacle never say never again provides few of these scenes because of its prohibitive budget indeed the film features only three gadgets an explosive ball point pen a wristwatch with a laser and a souped up motorcycle aside from the flavorful hall opening theme song ice station zebra composer michel orchestral music score leaves much to be desired legrand replicates none of those snappy jazz cues that made john barry's music for the regular bond franchise so memorable all in all never say never again seems to fit more into the first two bond movies— dr no and from russia with love —and on her majesty's secret service in terms of its more down to earth approach to the subject matter br br never say never again presents sean connery's james bond as an older 007 who has seen his day and has been taken off active service to teach ironically roger moore was a year older than connery and moore's bond movies treated 007 as an active young guy sean connery seems to be responsible for making 007 a more mature secret agent and a number of changes take place in the lorenzo semple screenplay that emphasize bond's age initially connery had to play bond without a but mercifully wiser minds prevailed and connery sports a he looks tanned and fit and appears in better condition than he did twelve years earlier when he was rushed into diamonds are forever at the last moment to replace john gavin connery had been working on another movie and had gained weight for the role that he was unable to remove in time for diamonds are forever at 52 connery still has a youthful vigor here despite the contrived demands of the script br br the action unfolds with 007 single handedly trying to rescue a kidnapped woman on a remote desert island he dispatches several guards armed with machine guns and frees the woman only to have her stab him with a knife in the side when he isn't looking it seems that this entire sequence was an exercise designed by m edward fox of day of the to test bond's ability the new m doesn't share his predecessor's use of field agents m decides that bond needs to clean out his system of all 'free and has 007 packed off to while at the country clinic bond notices suspicious activity between a nurse and a patient and gets noticed watching them the nurse is none other than spectre assassin blush barbara carrera of the island of dr moreau and she is in charge of making sure that nobody sees usaf officer jack o'herlihy of superman 3 is part of a spectre plan by millionaire businessman maximilian largo klaus maria brandauer of out of africa to black the world powers by stealing two nuclear warheads the villains implant a duplicate eyeball into captain who has access to the highly sophisticated computers and can order the arming of weapons after he steals the weapons for spectre blush runs him off the road by tossing her pet snake in his lap and then attaches an explosive to his wrecked car and blows him up indeed the first part of never say never again apart from the spectre planning conference belong to as she stay at the clinic and then repeatedly tries to kill bond one at sea with sharks and later in a motel suite with an explosives device br br eventually bond meets the beautiful blond domino kim basinger of mother lode and sneaks into largo's charity banquet at a monte carlo casino where the two face off in an elaborate video game called to see who will rule the world bond bests him and largo hates him doubly now because 007 is his only rival to domino and a thorn in his side that not even seems to be able to remove bond and have it out after a motorcycle chase when he returns the favor and blows her up their earlier encounter in the bahamas when she attached a device to lure a shark after him is pretty lame like in the original thunderball the villains recover the hijacked nuclear warheads at sea but just the warheads themselves br br bond flies to the bahamas where he meets his diplomatic liaison nigel small fawcett no lesser than rowan atkinson of mr bean fame who is worried that bond may kill somebody and ruin the island paradise of course nigel small fawcett serves as the film's source of comic relief the c i a sends felix bernie casey of guns of the magnificent seven to back up bond this is the first time that an african american portrayed bond encounters his share of problems involving saving domino from arab slavers while and he save the world never say never again is a richly respectable james bond thriller with many neat touches but it never generates the air of danger that the franchise bond films have indeed never say never again looks like a dignified masterpiece theatre take on 007
1	interesting tale of giant mammoth elephants running amok in modern india features transparent special effects elephants dressed in shaggy coats sporting tusk extensions all this said we do have a good story and a fine cast at work and an exciting climax it's been said that the running time on this one was doubled when it showed in india courtesy of robert a master at ' given a choice opt for the shorter version
1	yes it's sean connery playing bond again looking more alive and into his part than any time since the first time they made this film in 1965 when it was called thunderball but the tongue is so firmly in cheek one wonders if connery isn't employing a few observed tricks from his friend and more humorous successor roger moore br br moore is my favorite bond but connery makes a strong case for himself in this unusual outing the only serious bond film not made under the of the classic eon bond series never say never again is an irreverent return to the well soft on action it's nevertheless strong on character and clever dialogue br br bond it's made clear right away is a man in no matter how many times he has saved the world his new boss thinks little of his fat lifestyle too many free radicals that's your problem caused by eating too much red meat white bread too many martinis then i shall cut out the white bread sir bond smartly replies br br an early fight sequence in a spa represents the movie's high point action wise with bond and an attacker fighting their way through a kitchen a bedroom and a laboratory before bond finally douses his opponent ironically with no small help from those free radicals humor is liberally applied in the film rather more cleverly than most of moore's outings though connery seems to be having more fun sending himself up as a result of moore's less egotistic example br br was it because he was making a good chunk of the gross or was it working for less stingy producers whatever it is the screenplay serves his laid back style well and the result is richer and more entertaining than connery's prior two eon bond outings you only live twice and diamonds are forever br br the 1980s were not a good decade for bond whether it was connery moore or timothy dalton leg warmers video games and ugly sports cars are all in evidence and the bianca jagger sunglasses klaus maria brandauer is seen wearing in his first scene do him no favors forget first impressions brandauer's role as the chief villain maximilian largo is one of the best in any bond film with brandauer enjoyably playing up his character's menace and mania at one point he allows bond free roam of his situation room with a martini to boot and his dancing eyes and mad engaging grin make for compelling company throughout br br the best thing in this film other than connery are the bond girls shot with more attention to personality than normal in bond films a testament to cinematographer douglas and director irvin kirshner barbara carrera was nominated for a golden globe for her role as the villainess blush every bit as crazy as largo and even nicer to look at she doesn't last the whole movie you almost need her gone in order to focus on the others br br kim basinger's breasts and buttocks should have had their own agents for the screen time they get in this film but i'm not complaining basinger's a rare beauty who in this early role as largo's mistress mixes incredible with a childlike vulnerability that brings out the bond in me and many others i suspect her lips and cheekbones are pretty sweet too br br it's not a well constructed film it's a knockoff of a better bond movie with a sloppy storyline a terrible score and a flat ending but it does have connery proving his was the definitive take on cinema's definitive secret agent even if he steals a page or two from my 007 mr moore the end result is entertaining enough so i'm not complaining
1	as the '70's drew to a close rumours began to fly in the entertainment industry about the possible return of sean connery to the role he had made famous back in 1962 james bond br br cubby broccoli was asked on location in brazil during the making of by the b b c 's barry norman how he viewed the prospect understandably the producer was reluctant to commit himself to an opinion br br when opened bond fans were outraged by what they perceived to be a of the character and the jumping onto the 'star wars' bandwagon much as 'live let die' had done with the blaxploitation craze a few years earlier many publicly vocalised their hope that connery would return if only to show eon how a real bond movie should look br br years of legal battles followed the original script entitled 'james bond of the secret service' later retitled was written by kevin len deighton and connery was never filmed and remains one of the great unmade movie blockbusters br br a new script closer to the storyline was commissioned it was written by lorenzo semple junior best known as the man who put the camp into 'batman' he had also written 'the parallax view' one of the decade's finest conspiracy thrillers feeling the script needed a british touch connery brought in dick clement and ian la frenais writers of hit british sitcoms 'the likely and the witty title was suggested by connery's wife br br 'never say never again' opened just before christmas 1983 to a shower of critical praise normally sensible critics were so ecstatic at connery's return they ignored all other aspects of the film many used it to viciously attack the roger moore series particularly that year's in truth is superior in every respect lacks the excitement and spectacle one associates with bond at times it looks like a made for t v movie the story had been done before and better in 1965's hence was always going to come off second best it was also hampered by not being part of the official series meaning that monty norman's 'james bond theme' and maurice binder's gun barrel logo could not be used br br as bond connery is magnificent effortlessly stepping back into his most famous role playing bond as an older wiser agent worked barbara carrera landed her best movie role as villainous a lady whose love for murder is such she dances after so she thinks killing bond kim basinger smolders as 'domino' as s p e c t r e agent klaus maria brandauer gives a chilling performance a major disappointment though is max von sydow as the posters gave the impression he would be a major character in fact he appears only in a few scenes with a stronger script he could have been one of the all time great bond villains br br promised to be a throwback to the early eon bonds such as 'from russia with love' but did not deliver the gadgets were there but were used almost apologetically bond's rocket firing motorcycle was a tired gimmick even in the '60's the film tried to compete with eon's bonds in terms of humour bond saving himself by throwing his own urine sample into an assassin's face is a farcical a moment as any you will find in but the nadir comes with the introduction of rowan atkinson as bumbling foreign office official small he gives a performance so staggeringly awful you wonder if he thought he was in a revue br br michel music is horrible the man seems to never to have seen a bond film in his life br br though the film was a financial success viewed years later it stands as the weakest bond of the '80's connery himself was disappointed with it and not did act in a movie again for some years br br 1983 was a good year for 007 maniacs in addition to the connery and moore movies george did a delightful cameo in the made for t v 'return of the man from u n c l e the fifteen years later affair'
1	you don't review james bond movies you evaluate them rate them according to how well they meet expectations there are certain things one has come to expect even demand of a bond film and each individual effort either delivers or it doesn't so here are ten elements that make a bond film a bond film and even though never say never again is not technically part of the official bond filmography the mere presence of sean connery returning as 007 makes it something more than merely an honorary member of the series anyway here's how it rates on a scale of 1 to 10 br br title never say never again the clever title has no apparent link to the actual storyline but is instead an in joke reference to sean connery's vow to never play again after having been lured back once before for diamonds are forever whatever the case it is a catchy title 8 points br br pre credit teaser perhaps trying to avoid any obvious parallels to the official eon series of bond films there is no teaser the opening scenes are just shown behind the credits and even that is disappointing yet another oh no bond has been killed 4 points br br opening credits other than a screen full of tiny they didn't even bother trying to jazz up the credits with graphics or split screens or interesting camera angles 1 points br br theme song as written by michel legrand and sung by hall never say never again would make for a perfectly pleasant part of a particularly long elevator ride as a bond theme it's merely okay 6 points br br bond james bond appropriately since this film sees connery being lured back into service as bond after a decade's hiatus the story begins with 007 facing the question as to whether bond connery is still up to the job happily connery more than proves himself ready for bondage again though he is a bit sporting a bit more girth and wearing a slightly more obvious toupee he seems to have no trouble slipping back into action all in all it is one of connery's best and most relaxed turns as the character 9 points br br bond babes even in the best of the bond films the female characters aren't given much dimension they exist largely as necessary props for bond's use future oscar winner kim basinger is granted a great deal of leeway in creating her character of domino and the film benefits from this she does a nice job and she's not bad to look at either 8 points br br bond villain the reports of his death being obviously exaggerated is back at least for the moment showing he has more lives than his prized pussycat one time jesus portrayer turned stereotypical villain max von sydow isn't given a lot to do in the role but is a silky presence nonetheless but he is overshadowed by a wonderful performance by klaus maria brandauer as maximilian largo after a string of banal bond villains it is so refreshing for brandauer to gave a performance that is both subtle yet colorfully evil funny without being campy ruthless without seeming cartoonish his largo ranks right up there with goldfinger as one of bond's best villains 10 points br br bond baddies blush what can i say as played with all the bold style of a particularly flamboyant drag queen barbara carrera breezes through the film displaying a mix of self amused evil and more than a tad of pure psychotic insanity bond has crossed paths with a variety of femmes fatales most of whom have been so easily disposed of that they existed more as amusing eye candy than as characters but few dared to exhibit such a flare for the dramatic or such fierce determination even her untimely demise is spectacular even by bondian standards 10 points br br sinister plot as a remake of sorts of thunderball the film does seem a bit been there done that nuclear missiles are stolen and major real estate will go if all the countries of the world don't pay a multi dollar ransom but at least producer kevin was lucky enough to find himself forced to remake one of the weakest bond adventures by comparisons this effort blows thunderball out of the water and despite the absence of many bondian trademarks the film succeeds on its own 9 points br br production values the film starts out with an uneasy style like a tv movie trying to be more than it can but as the story progress the film gains momentum and a sense of purpose making it a superior adventure 8 points br br bonus points there are several odd changes that sets this bond film apart from the official series miss moneypenny is hardly acknowledged as played by edward fox m is a cranky old grouch with no respect for the double os a foreshadowing of how judi dench would later play the part and q suddenly has a cockney accent and is all buddy buddy with bond and there is a curious sense of nostalgia throughout the film such as replacing bond's astin martin with a vintage packard and a tango dance number that is cleverly inserted into the story and a big rescue near the end is on horseback an homage to the raiders of the lost ark which was itself a tribute to the bond films 5 points br br summary never say never again is a mixed bag in the really important areas it more than holds it own thanks to hero connery villain brandauer assassin carrera and damsel in distress basinger but the devil is in the details as seemingly unimportant as the opening credits theme song and such seem the film is lacking because of their absence it all comes off as a faux bond film a very good substitute but a substitute nonetheless br br bond o meter rating 78 points out of 100
1	in 1983 two bond movies was made one was the official bond movie octopussy starring roger moore who starred as james bond for the first time in live and let die and the other was the unofficial bond movie never say never again starring sean connery who played the role as james bond for the first time in dr no that film was also the first 007 james bond movie to be made never say never again is called unofficial because the company that made the other james bond movies didn't make this one never say never again is also a remake of the 1965 007 movie thunderball there are several differences in never say never again that lets you know it wasn't made by eon one thing is that the opening is different there's no gun barrel sequence and no pre credit sequence another difference is the music score some things in this movie does feel like a james bond movie like the gadgets and cars plus james bond always getting it on with the ladies and the film does have an opening credits song sean connery still does a great job playing bond the acting from the other stars is also great br br never say never again is a good film that's just has entertaining as the official james bond films check this out 10 10
1	this is an excellent james bond movie although it is not part of the original and more famous series and it is a standalone film it is very well done enticing sean connery to return to the role he made famous was a stroke of genius as was titling the movie in a way that references his past vow to not play bond again connery was as great as he was in his earlier 007 appearances the script is outstanding as are the photography and the performances it's the earliest movie i recall with kim basinger who became much more famous after this film barbara carrera was excellent and klaus maria brandauer was absolutely perfect as the main villain the frequent references to the aging of bond and the changing times and attitudes of the british secret service were most humorous the 007 gadgets equaled those of the other bond films the only thing missing was the famous 007 music theme which of course could not be used by this competing production it was rather amazing to me to be able to see two excellent james bond movies released in the same year this one and octopussy with roger moore an interesting aspect of the film is an emphasis on video games and computer graphics the early 80's were the first heyday of such things and the use of them in this film made it a very contemporary movie the film is actually a different version of thunderball updated with newer technology regardless of the repeated theme there are sufficient differences to make it most entertaining i will watch this one frequently
1	i've always liked sean connery but as james bond i've always favored roger moore still it was connery who set the bond standard and while he had by 1983 established himself as something other than james bond the money must have been irresistible for him to make one more appearance as 007 and save the world from the evil designs of spectre br br and what designs they are in never say never again spectre with the help of a foolish young air force officer who happens to be kim bassinger's brother stole two nuclear missiles during a war games exercise and now spectre headed by played here by max von sydow is threatening blackmail of the world br br von sydow's operations guy is klaus maria brandauer who is also courting bassinger and is a bit on the crazy side and he's got a female assassin working for him in barbara carrera who makes angelina jolie as nora croft look like mrs butterworth br br but before sean connery can even get started he's got to deal with a new 'm' running things at british intelligence edward fox thinks connery is old fashioned in his methods and costs the british too much money with his violent ways i really did enjoy fox's performance he's like the great grandson of colonel blimp br br i also enjoyed carrera she's something to look at and quite resourceful in her methods when she's scuba diving with connery in the bahamas note how she puts mr shark on case br br will connery do james bond again he was widely quoted as saying who would they cast him as at this point roger moore's father but i think connery would still be formidable in a wheelchair
1	when i first saw this on tape about 10 years after it had been released i thought it was one of the better james bond movies however after seeing it again around the turn of the century i was disappointed br br i think it's a bit overrated only because critics were so happy to see sean connery end his 12 year hiatus from playing bond that they didn't dare criticize the film i guess what disappointed me was the ending after investing two hours into the film you expect a less hokey more satisfying ending and it may be nitpicking but i was disappointed in not seeing the regular actors in the supporting roles such as miss moneypenny q felix etc br br on the positive side there was plenty of unique action scenes particularly early on and the two villains were interesting i thought klaus maria brandauer was the more intriguing of the two because he was so low key and looked the nice guy next door he wasn't your normal bond villain br br this had plenty of skin for a pg movie especially with kim basinger starring never being an actress known for hiding her figure the language was very tame but most bond movies are pretty good in that department br br all in all it's a fair bond and nothing else just because connery is in it it doesn't mean it's automatically good roger moore and pierce brosnan have proved they could play the role well too
1	only connery could bring that particular style with a line like that… crashes into bond's arms when she water skis up to the super agent in and apologizes 'oh how reckless of me i made you all wet ' the super agent replies 'yes but my martini is still dry ' br br barbara carrera makes a great villain stealing the show as spectre executioner is number 12 in the spectre chain of command and is a gorgeous assassin who takes intense sensations of pleasure in br br assumes all the deadly characteristics of fiona proving to be one of bond's toughest she is a victim of her she's good at what she does and wants the world to know it… but her vanity is her using every possible approach to eliminate 007 is a wild and cunning woman who makes love to the man she is about to br br austrian actor klaus maría brandauer largo does not make a very formidable opponent for referred to as number one in the spectre chain of command largo resides in the bahamas and travels aboard his super yacht the flying br br max von sydow becomes the fourth actor to appear as spectre chief ernst once more plotting to put the world at br br kim basinger takes the part once owned by the lovely french actress claudine she is domino the mistress of largo who soon falls deeply in love with her br br black actor bernie casey becomes the sixth actor to play cia agent felix after jack lord linder van nutter norman burton and david br br edward fox portrays the new unsympathetic 'm ' pamela salem is the third actress to play miss moneypenny lois maxwell was the first and barbara bouchet was the second br br valerie leon is the sexy lady in the bahamas who fished 007 out of the blue water and saved his life by making love to him in her own valerie was the hotel receptionist in 'the spy who loved me' when bond and anya arrive seeking br br prunella gee is physical therapist cohen is nicole bond's secret service contact in the south of br br o'herlihy is jack the u s air force communications officer who duplicates the president of the united states' 'eye and arms two cruise missiles with nuclear br br rowan atkinson is the bumbling foreign officer nigel small fawcett and alec is algernon the who provides 007 some formidable br br if you like to see connery playing a tense battle of wills disguised as a masseur attacked by robot controlled sharks giving away a considerable amount of money for a tango dance thrown into a medieval dungeon don't miss this second of only two unofficial james bond films…
1	in 1965 producer kevin who owns a part of the bond cinematic rights associate with eon productions harry and albert broccoli for making thunderball the fourth film of the 007 franchise the star is sean connery of course br br in 1982 wins a legal battle and can produce an independent bond film never say never again is one of the two unofficial 007 films made outside eon the other is the 1967 comedy spoof casino royale is a remake of thunderball and stars the original bond sean connery who comes back to the role after many years of absence br br the film is released some months after octopussy with roger moore the 13th episode of the eon series at the time press calls it war of the bonds both films are a big success in 1983 even if octopussy earns more money at the box office br br is a luxurious film made by excellent technicians director irvin kershner who led the empire strikes back douglas cinematographer of raiders of the lost ark and screenwriter lorenzo semple jr who wrote the three days of the condor among others br br the cast is excellent with connery a then relatively unknown kim basinger barbara carrera klaus maria brandauer max von sydow edward fox br br although all that the film remains inferior to the original thunderball it lacks many fundamental ingredients for being a real bond movie there's not the traditional gun barrel sequence there's not the james bond theme m and q are not played by the traditional actors it's a copyright reason eon only is allowed to use these elements briefly lacks the classic cinematic 007 atmosphere br br on the other hand the film is exciting and enjoyable brandauer is a very good villain and the women basinger and carrera are sensual and gorgeous but the main highlight is sean connery he's once again wonderful in the role he's older but looks fitter and nicer here than in diamonds are forever his last performance in the role of the british super spy before
1	the year 1983 saw a strange phenomenon two rival bond films octopussy starring roger moore was part of the official cubby broccoli bond franchise never say never again made by a rival producer is apart from the awful casino royale the only bond movie which does not form part of that franchise its big attraction was that it brought back the original bond sean connery its title reputedly derived from connery's remark after diamonds are forever that he would never again play the role some have complained that connery was at 53 too old for the role but he was in fact three years younger than his successor moore who not only made octopussy in the same year but went on to make one further bond film a view to a kill two years later br br the film owes its existence to the settlement of a lawsuit about the film rights to ian fleming's work it is perhaps unfortunate that the terms of the settlement included a clause that the new film had to be a remake of thunderball as that was perhaps not the greatest of the connery bonds a remake of dr no or goldfinger might have worked better the plot is much the same as that of the earlier film the terrorist organisation spectre acting together with a megalomaniac tycoon named largo have stolen two american nuclear warheads and are attempting to hold the world's governments to ransom by threatening to detonate them unless they receive a vast sum of money it falls to bond of course to save the world by tracking down the missing missiles br br the film is fortunate in that it has not just one but two of the most beautiful bond girls of all barbara carrera as the seductive but lethal blush and kim basinger as largo's girlfriend domino who defects to bond's side after learning of her lover's evil plans a number of the bond films have a plot that hangs upon the hero's ability to win over the villain's mistress or female accomplice there are similar developments for example in goldfinger live and let die and the living daylights in the official series bond's ally is normally regarded as the female lead but here carrera playing the villainess is billed above basinger who was a relatively unknown actress at the time basinger of course has gone on to become one of hollywood's biggest stars whereas carrera is one of a number of bond girls who have somewhat faded from view br br of the villains max von sydow makes an effective the head of spectre but klaus maria brandauer seemed too bland and nonthreatening as largo except perhaps during the domination game a more sophisticated variant on those violent computer games such as space invaders that were so popular in the early eighties brandauer can be an excellent actor in his native german in films such as mephisto and but he does not comes across so expressively in english br br one of the film's features is that it both follows the normal bond formula and at times departs from it there is the standard world in peril plot chase sequences a series of exotic locations glamorous women sinister villains and a specially written theme song based on the film's title there is however no extended pre credits sequence and we see some familiar characters in a new light for example bond's boss m becomes a languid supercilious aristocrat his american colleague felix is shown as black for the only time and the scientist q is portrayed by alec as a disillusioned cynic with despite his characteristically upper class christian name of algernon a distinctly working class accent there is also an amusing cameo from rowan atkinson as a bumbling british diplomat although connery was perhaps not quite a good here as he was in some of his earlier films in the role this ringing the changes on the familiar theme makes this one of the more memorable bonds 7 10 br br a goof rowan atkinson's character states that he is from the british embassy in as however the bahamas is a commonwealth country britain would have a high commission in its capital not an embassy
1	i can't really criticize this film it is literally the first film i ever remember seeing and lead to a lifelong love of science fiction and horror films and prehistoric animals fortunately seeing it again years later it held up fairly well rod cameron plays a big game hunter whose last safari was wiped out by mammoths no one believes him including his best friend played by cesar romero whose brother was among those killed and rod cameron was the only survivor the film was shot in india and has some good scenery the acting is on a high level i don't believe rod cameron cesar romero and marie winsor ever turned in a bad performance the mammoths when they finally arrive are fairly effective the ending also has an unusual twist particularly for a 1950's science fiction film definitely worth seeing
1	well first of all i am a big fanatic of horror movies but however i am pretty sick of all those damn american horror movies they are all about the same thing blood and violence it's not even creepy well it's wrong with the blood and all that doesn't even bother me but that's not what makes a movie creepy that's why i find this movie entertaining it's fun to see a satire which is making fun of the main horror usa american splatter gore movies they are not suppose to be creepy only funny that's ok but when they're suppose to be creepy it mostly gets pathetic however there are a few great american horror movies poltergeist psycho birds but in the end it's all the same thing that's why this movie came as a relief evil ed is not just a cult movie it's a classic i can't wait untill master director anders makes another goddamn splatter movie untill than i have to watch evil ed again and again and again but i don't care it is such an outstanding movie
1	you got to love this movie i mean what other swedish splatter movie could be so evil bizarre and totally cruel the whole movie is stuffed with some kind of weird humor like the old just blows his head off and the boss just wipes the blood off his glasses and says with a mean voice your fired
1	the filming is cheesy some of the actors overact some of the actions are unexplained and unexplainable but br br this movie is in the mode of the psychological dramas of the 50s br br it is a morality play similar to the movie in which a method actor becomes the evil character he portrays on stage ed is forced to watch slasher movies because he is the film editor it gives him a nervous breakdown which leads to a complete psychotic break br br
1	on monday earlier this week sometime in july i happened to be under the influence of the sweet leaf and me being a horror fan wanted to see something scary i was thinking of the horror 2 but i got something way better i was at my friend's house and he had the vhs evil ed no cover or anything he didn't even see the whole thing himself but he told me it was about a guy who goes crazy and kills a lot of people well this movie was very shocking i've never seen the actual brutal nature of sadistic violence until this movie it buries ted bundy and ed gein both it is pretty funny too with references to the evil dead trilogy and plus the evil dead 2 poster is everywhere in the movie the movie is about edward a obsessive compulsive nice guy who happens to be a film editor he is then lent to another department in the building and he is sent to the posh yet violent world of sam campbell the splatter and gore department sam campbell eddy's new boss is telling eddy about the big break on his movies the gruesome loose limbs series and he needs eddy to make the movie somewhat less violent so they can be shown all over europe eddy has his regrets soon as the images and scenes that are displayed to him from the lonely suburban house he is sent to work in and then what happens from there is truly nightmarish imagine yourself in his place the acting is great the overdubbing is little funny sam campbell's voice is often found funny same with the other actors however the overdubbing job was done pretty good i give this movie a 10 10 and it's a good introduction to the gore sub genre to horror very good nightmarish bloody you just have to see it for yourself br br quote from movie where in the f k is my beaver rape scene
1	spoilers warning i cannot say enough good things about this movie it is a great horror comedy spoof that does everything right for a change the humor is great and ranges from funny to so funny you'll cry funny in one scene ed goes edit crazy and deletes a big scene when his boss is looking at ed's edit he yells out where in the fu is my beaver rape scene hysterical there are also many other great humorous memorable quotes and moments throughout ed yells out don't you fu ing look at me while punching some poor schmuck repeatedly in the face very funny stuff the plot of the movie itself is so ridiculous that it's priceless ed is a mild mannered everyday guy that gets moved over to the horror film editing department and after a while goes nuts sees monsters and attacks people while quoting the horror movies that he has edited this movie has it all and is simply hilarious the dvd only costs about 7 and is a great bargain as it is the unrated widescreen cut i own a lot of dvd's most of which cost a lot more money than this one but not many are as great as this movie my evil ed dvd is one of the highlights of my collection and i would beat someone with a telephone receiver if they tried to steal it evil ed oozes style and quality something that hollywood filmmakers need to majorly learn evil ed is a rare gem and i would like to thank everyone involved in making this wonderful movie you did everything right and i love evil ed 10 out of 10
1	i honestly didn't think at first that this movie would make me laugh like hell and admire the great gore effects boy was i wrong from the very beginning to the very end the film showed some great gore effects accompanied by spoofs from other titles like evil dead and gremlins this movie could be compared to peter jackson's works of art though this movie isn't as gory as braindead but i sure wait these make another splatter movie
1	first off to rent or watch this film you are expecting something in the b horror range what this film delivers for the astute fan of this genre is quite a hilarious romp via nordic flavor at times reminding me of the humor of jackson's dead alive and others of a stuart gordon flick this little find should have most chuckling throughout br br the f x reach a few highs of truly spooky the first time ed meets his nemesis but generally have the feel that this film was put together by a f x team that decided to use any and all props at their disposal from other films gremlins devils slasher films etc to pretty good effect and worked in thru the use of hallucinations br br the gem of the film is the humor the gore works most of the time but more for laughs at its heart its a parody and a fun one at that
1	oh my god obviously when you rent or buy this you're not expecting to see a documentary on the mating habits of small rodents in their natural habitats you're expecting a visual feast of blood and gore and and maybe even a scare or two well for those who are as sick and twisted as myself you won't find many scares but you'll come very close to urinating all over yourself in laughter the catch phrases in this movie will stay with you and your friends forever the first time i showed this to my friends and colleagues was over 3 years ago but still we laugh our asses off and use the catch phrases it's as addictive and funny as sam raimi's the evil dead ii dead by dawn and peter jackson's dead alive braindead from the opening scene's absolutely ridiculous dialog to the splatter and gore department's finest works to the wondrous abilities of ed the film cutter you will laugh and laugh again as far as the visual feast of blood and gore oh yeah they've got it and they're pretty damn good at it the neck bone's connected to the head bone this film also may have done the best nightmare hallucination totally effing nuts scene i have ever seen and that one's not mean to be funny but man is it well done and creepy overall to anyone who is not against a bunch of blood and a damn good time if you ever see this movie get it it's on netflix i know that for sure
1	evil ed is a swedish film about a man named ed of course and his collapse into total madness after editing a series of b horror films known as the loose limbs series ed becomes so mad that he thinks he's seeing demons and monsters but in reality they are people he knows and people that are close to him such as his wife and daughter br br i first saw this movie back in 1998 and was baffled by what i had seen to this day this movie i consider to be one of the darkest comedies out there as the movie is almost slapstick funny with its gore scenes there are still a few creepy moments br br this is a cool flick but don't expect anything marvelous it's simply just a fun movie that is good to show some of your friends for some laughs 8 10 stars
1	ed coincidentally an editor is hired to cut horror films down to be favorable in europe where standards are much more rigorous but he finds the films very mind destroying and starts going a little bit mad okay a little bit might be an understatement br br let me just say this first of all best opening scene ever a man in an office who blows up his head with a grenade his boss then says with a straight face you're fired the entire film does not keep up this level of intensity but it certainly tries br br take the shotgun scenes the decapitation the clips from lost limbs which my friend jason wishes were a real film the writer of this film thought up the idea of a woman who gets raped by a beaver and then immediately after gets shot in the face with a bazooka that is something you won't find in any other movie at least i'm pretty doubtful you will br br this film's biggest flaw is the quality the picture isn't as crisp as a 1997 film should be and the sound could be touched up though it's not bad i thought i was watching a 1980s film although that gave it a bit of a boost in my mind the film also had the 1980s style of writing and directing in it a sense of fun and giving the audience a little something extra over the top i do miss those days br br i wish i had more to say though at the moment i cannot think of anything strong enough to praise this film i do think you ought to see this you've seen the box in your video store with the ax splitting the head maybe you've passed it up a few times maybe you thought it would be cheesy pick it up savor it
1	the jungle is more of an adventure than a science fiction movie the only sci fi part is the woolly mammoths living in the present day br br elephants are attacking villages in a part of india and these attacks are also killing people an expedition is sent to investigate and one of the members of this an american hunter blames these elephants are being frightened by woolly mammoths which are suppose to be extinct nobody believes him at first but they do when the mammoths appear at the end an earthquake finishes them off br br the jungle was shot on location in india and has a lot of nice scenery and some good indian music including some songs which keep the movie moving along nicely the mammoths are actually real elephants with fur coats and long tusks stuck on br br the cast includes rod cameron cesar romero the lost continent and marie windsor cat women of the moon br br the jungle is worth seeing just for the scenery and music very enjoyable br br rating 3 stars out of 5
1	the box at my video store is why i rented this one it looked cool from the guys face axed in half so of course i had to give it a try i was pleasantly surprised when i actually watched it being an evil dead fan the swedish makers must of been fans as well as they included lots of references in this masterpiece a criminal tries to break into the house evil ed was editing the movies that ultimately drive him insane in and says groovy as he looks at his weapon quite like bruce campbell does when he finishes his chainsaw hand in evil dead 2 there is also many posters of that movie scattered around the house and office in the movie they don't just spoof evil dead as there is a gremlin style puppet monster that at ed in his refrigerator my personal favorite is when he chases his wife around the house and says i'm coming to get you barbra which in case you did'nt know is barbra's brothers main line in night of the living dead this movie pretty much has it all good plot cool characters funny stuff gremlin puppet scary stuff demon doctor excellent effects exploding head and a fair amount of female nudity i only gave it a 9 because its kind of slow before ed goes insane but its well worth the wait so if you liked evil dead 2 or any of the other movies i mentioned above you gotta rent and watch it with a and when your done try brain dead because i hear it is similiar to this masterpiece br br
1	you know those films that are blatantly awful but you can't help but love them well that's what evil ed is possibly the best awful film in the world the sound is rubbish the dubbing is crap the screenplay is nonsense and the special effects are pap however i can't help but love this film dearly and i have recommended it to at least 50 people over the years sam campbell or the guy who plays him should be featured on the actor's studio series as he is that memorable possibly the greatest movie villain not named tony montana seriously if you don't expect a lot then you won't be disappointed keep a light hearted approach to watching this film and you'll soon rate it a ten afterwards
1	it has past almost 25 years since i saw this movie i would consider this film as an all time classic in a drama category anthony queen gives one of the most wonderful performances ever in a matter of minutes he takes you from laugh to tears this movie represents a splendid picture of how humanity changed after the ii world war how a great part of that generation and the forthcoming lost its innocence it has taken me long time to find this film by its name the 25th hour this type of films are not a but they are for sure a treasure for some i am very surprise why this movie is not used for the media in a broaden way in order for more people to enjoy this picture
1	i first saw this movie in papua new guinea in 1967 and have remembered it since although i have never seen it since that first time br br just how easily good people's lives can be destroyed by the pure evil that existed then and still does is a memory that will haunt me forever br br the movie is funny and immensely sad at the same time and the role played by anthony quinn is superb br br this movie should be in all college studies about man's inhumanity to man
1	the 25th hour was a movie i just chanced upon tuning in late at night this movie kept my fascination throughout the entire film tony quin is this poor unsuspecting guy who just wanted to fall in love with a woman and by simple jealousy goes on this incredible journey terrific movie and a hidden treasure
1	there are many many older movies that deserve to be transferred to the dvd format this is surely one of them an anthony quinn triumph scores of movies portray the victims of nazi atrocities before and during the war but i don't think any of them have delved into the psyche of the victim and predator as well as this this one has anthony quinn was truly a man for all seasons he had the ability to portray the humblest of creatures devoid of any human to a creature of extreme and pull it off as believable to the audiences who watched with no afterthought of what they had just witnessed truly one of our greatest artists he is missed
1	anthony quinn is a master at capturing our heart and sympathy he portrays a romanian peasant with a below average iq harassed by his wife to do more it's wwii and the nazis have taken over his country soon he finds himself digging entrenchments hoping to benefit himself in his wife's eyes the nazis have different ideas through the next years we watch events unfold through his naive eyes but all he wants to do is go home his manipulations and ill luck just get him in further hot water finally through no fault of his own we see his picture on the cover of der spiegel as the perfect aryan the war ends and the allies put him on trial for war crimes but all our peasant wants to do is return home to his wife
1	i saw this movie years ago and i never forgot it the theme is very timely it was on tcm this morning and i am wondering why this wonderful film is not on vhs or dvd i have searched extensively for this movie but cannot find it i believe that if enough people request it the movie will ultimately be put on dvd it amazes me that such a stunning performance from quinn and such a powerful plot is not yet available to the public the fact that ethnic cleansing exists today in many parts of the world makes this film a must see for teachers and students alike this film is a great teaching tool from the past yet in many ways as contemporary as crash from previous comments i can see that this film as made deep impressions on everyone again too bad it is not available for sale
1	i watched this film early 70's it is the best film i have ever watched and i will never forget it as long as i live i hate wars i hate wars i hate wars i wonder why we humans still let wars happen do you do you know why all these wars go on and on and on innocent people get killed even today for stupid and unreal i watched this film early 70's it is the best film i have ever watched and i will never forget it as long as i live i hate wars i hate wars i hate wars i wonder why we humans still let wars happen do you do you know why all these wars go on and on and on innocent people get killed even today for stupid and unreal i watched this film early 70's it is the best film i have ever watched and i will never forget it as long as i live i hate wars i hate wars i hate wars i wonder why we humans still let wars happen do you do you know why all these wars go on and on and on innocent people get killed even today for stupid and unreal
1	anthony quinn was a legend of 20th century in cinema by his great roles obtained this movie about a policeman innovated a false guilt for toni to rape his beauty wife but he failed in this trap because he faced the strength of but he succeeded in his trap which was prepared by him for toni that he put his name in the list of jewish people in romania and he transported from country to another in east europe br br this movie was directed in 1967 at the time of arab war in 1967 six days war as an evidence of harmful works from jewish people which were caused by jewish people not only in europe but also in the rest continents br br jewish people were a great cause of french revolution in the revolution in russia 1917 the turmoil of different countries in any time br br pearl buck wrote a novel in 1948 at the time of occupied in 1948 about chinese jewish people and their problems they faced in china because of their bad instruments they used in these countries as keys of crisis
1	this was a surprisingly very good movie and an interesting idea however it was just a little bit disappointing in that the 'twist' was a little too predictable and just a bit too early on in the movie whilst watching it started to get a little bizarre and confusing to the point that the only reasonable outcome possible was the inevitable plot twist but it certainly did not ruin this movies flow there were superb performances there was never a dull boring moment so totally well worth watching this one it kept me interested right up until the end and for me there isn't many movies that can do that these days i highly recommend people watch this terrific little movie
1	this is a finely crafted movie with moving sequences humor and best of all a love story anthony quinn is wonderfully casted and after seeing several of his movies this has to be categorized as one of his best performances besides zorba the movie makes you really wonder if its filmed in romania which apparently is not the case it is sure to fool even native romanians with its authentic like landscape costume and ways of life according to imdb it is actually shot in france and yugoslavia hmmm the story is compelling making you want to watch the entire movie over to see if you missed something it provoked me into researching to find out if this is a truth based movie but to my disappointment it is a novel based film seemingly fiction it seems a bit far fetched to have happened for real but one never knows the one problem with this film is that it doesn't seem to cast any romanian actors and it is a film about a romanian character there are probably many romanian fill ins in the beginning but maybe not it is filmed elsewhere the author of the book was romanian at least thats all fine and dandy overall a masterpiece in cinematography
1	i was wrapped to see many other people also enjoyed this film first watched it when i was in my early teens and then again several times late at night a few times after then sadly no more i'm now nearly 49 and so wish it could be made available on dvd why not the best anthony quinn role no one could have been more suited for the part or parts he plays i've mentioned it to other film buffs of similar age and alas no one i know recalls it as the daughter of a generation that went through wwii and its aftermath and myself deeply fascinated by what that generation endured i guess this film at the time gave me a wonderful cinematic insight into some of the heartbreaking issues of the day for classic final scenes this movie is a stand out
1	living in romania i was almost stunned by the very realistic setting for the scenes and the great care paid to local details by the director the performance of anthony queen is absolutely great and the rest of the cast does a great job supporting him the movie does take a little knowledge of the east european context in order to be fully enjoyed but it remains otherwise a great performance with some memorable lines the ending is maybe a bit too melodramatic but that's actually the way people are in this part of the world i believe the screenplay is great because it presents the horrors of the 2nd ww in a most original manner no blood no battlefields still lives are shattered and the smiles you get every now and then throughout the movie are quickly killed by the war realities touching the characters
1	this movie i saw it 15 years ago and in the last years couldn't remember it any more name or anything else just it was about a romanian country man played superbly by anthony quinn the impression i got from this drama will be eternal finally i found the name of the movie i hope i will be able to buy it and honestly this movie worth 10 oscars ten times bravo i was quite young when i first saw the movie i asked my friends if they heard about this story but nobody would know anything about anthony quinn playing the role of a romanian peasant i remember when a german officer came and saw anthony and told him he was a good breed but in fact the german was cheating on him for few bucks you won't get rich in case you buy the movie but you will be rich if you have it
1	i stumbled upon this movie whilst flipping channels on the teevee late one night it has continued to hold my interest some twenty years later because of the important real life lesson it teaches us about the dark side of human nature and although it tells a true story that takes place in wwii it is amazingly apropos to the ugly things happening in europe today br br if you thought ethnic cleansing as it's called today has anything to do with race or ethnicity you'll think differently after viewing this story br br i guess i'd been pretty naive in thinking that evil follows any prescribed set of rules evil is as evil does br br this movie teaches a valuable lesson and i recommend it especially to e g church groups or civil rights organizations br br i don't expect it will be too easy to find and rent but i'd really like to see it again because there is one amazing scene in it which gives a totally unintentional yet interesting glimpse of the banal intricacies of race expertise in this scene the who was taken prisoner by the nazis at the beginning of the war is discovered by an ss race authority and ushered into a room there the two play a sort of guessing game where the ss officer is able to determine where our hero anthony quinn's character came from and where his ancestors came from well come to find out that quinn's character isn't a member of an inferior race after all but to the contrary he's a perfect aryan which doesn't mean a whole lot to quinn's character who is more interested in talking about the towns rivers and mountain ranges that the ss guy had just been naming nevertheless being a perfect aryan archetype has its perks among other things he gets to leave his job in a slave labor factory where he wears striped rags and into a slave modeling job where he gets to wear tailored nazi uniforms yeah it's a better gig for sure for a guy who always did appreciate wearing nice clothes until the allied armies arrive and recognize his face from magazine covers br br
1	i caught up with this movie on tv after 30 years or more several aspects of the film stood out even when viewing it so many years after it was made br br the story by the little known c virgil is remarkable almost resembling a tolstoy like story of a man buffeted by a cosmic scheme that he cannot comprehend compare this film with better known contemporary works such as schindler's list and you begin to realize the trauma of the world war ii should be seen against the larger canvas of racism beyond the simplistic nazi notion of aryan vs jews this film touches on the hungarians dislike for the romanians the romanians dislike of the russians and so on even touching on the jews' questionable relationships with their christian romanian friends while under stress br br as i have not read the book it is difficult to see how much has been changed by the director and screenplay writers for instance it is interesting to study the romanian view of to usa with the view of making money only to return to romania and invest his earnings there br br in my opinion the character of moritz was probably one of the finest roles played by anthony quinn ranking alongside his work in la strada zorba the greek and br br the finest and most memorable sequence in the film is the final one with anthony quinn and trying to smile the father carrying a daughter born out his wife's rape by russians is a story in itself but the director is able to show the reconciliation by a simple gesture the act of carrying the child without slipping into melodramatic footage br br today after the death of princess diana we often remark about the insensitive paparazzi the final sequence is an indictment of the paparazzi and the insensitive media director verneuil also makes a similar comment during the court scene as the cameramen get ready to pounce on moritz br br the interaction between church and state was so beautifully summed up in the orthodox priest's laconic statement i pray to god that he guides those who have power to use them well br br some of the brief shots such as those of a secretary of a minister doodling while listening to a petition said so much in so little footage the direction was so impressive that the editing takes a back seat br br finally what struck me most was the exquisite rich texture of colors provided by the cameraman andreas winding from the brilliant credit sequences to the end i recalled that he was the cameraman of another favorite french film of mine called of clay directed by jean louis i have not seen such use of colors in a long while save for the david lean epics br br there were flaws i wish character was more fleshed out i could never quite understand the serge character the only intellectual in the entire film the railroad station scene at the end seems to be lifted out of sergio leone westerns finally the film was essentially built around a love story that unfortunately takes a back seat br br to sum up this film impressed me in more departments than one the story is relevant today as it was when it was made
1	i have seen this movie maybe a 100 times never grow tired of it i saw this movie the first time when i was 7 years old and it has left a mark in my memories since then its a enchanting love story that brings the sun out in most people even in the darkest times i think that this is a must see movie and one of anthony quinn's best performance ever i just wish that the tv channels would send this movie more often it has inspired me in a good way and surly will do that to many others if there is any actor i wanted to meet it would have been anthony quinn there will never be a like of him on the silver screens ever wish that anthony quinn was still alive may god bless his soul
1	we don't know why this extraordinary film was never made available officially on dvd anthony quinn's performance alone makes this a must see there are relatively few films in which an actor identifies so profoundly with his character a phenomenon always unique for us moviegoers br br but quinn's powerful portrayal of an innocent romanian literally dragged out of his house and everyday life by forces he cannot comprehend is only part of what makes this film great the script is based on a book published in paris by a romanian priest who fled the communist take over of his country and the film succeeds to go deep into a little known area of east european history told as a succession of kafka esquire twists of fate the misadventures of moritz told openly and honestly without any of the political correctness currently so precious in hollywood are in fact a eulogy for the lost innocence of the romanian people it is devilishly ironic that this eulogy is signed by a french director working with the american money of an italian producer and overseeing a multinational cast fronted by an extraordinary mexican born thespian br br i've seen mentions of of this film in various asian internet stores and i was fortunate to take possession of a digital recording of this film broadcast on the british version of tcm but it's a shame that the 25th hour isn't anywhere on the future dvd release map of mgm studios
1	h o t s is one of those sexy 70's drive in movies that features many of playboys famous playmates from the 70's like sexy tall blonde susan pamela jean bryant lisa london kc winkler and the late sexy angela ames and would you believe a post partridge family danny bonaduce its the snobby girls verses the good girls the hots girls led by susan there's a couple of comedy relief gangsters a runaway bear a trained seal misplaced bras etc etc think animal house meets hooters h o t s is an enjoyable little comedy with t a no complaints here i actually think that susan was one of playboys sexiest playmates from the 70's she did do a few more movies including if you like fun drive in movies you will no doubt enjoy h o t s 7 out of 10
1	h o t s is not for those that want hardcore porn instead this film is a precursor to many 80s era cult classic college frat films like revenge of the nerds and porky's and a post cursor to the world renown animal house a good time if you dig a lot of big titted 70s 80s playboy type chicks and cheezy slap dick comedy but nothing too notable if you wanna use it as whack material br br h o t s is an unauthorized sorority of sexy outcasts doing battle against the popular and trendy pi girls this one has pranks an aunt jemima ish house keeper and even an over heated robot that makes it relatively fun viewing if boobies are your thing br br well i like tits as much or probably more as the next guy but with all the sleazy sh t that i've seen i couldn't help but wish for a few hardcore scenes to make this one truly worthwhile i knew it wouldn't happen but i still wish that h o t s had a bit more sex and a bit less cheeze not quite as notable as nerds porky's or animal house but worth a look for fans of those types of films 7 10 br br p s and i forgot this one has consummate douche rag danny bonaduce in probably the best role of his career outside of his reality show
1	this movie is a mystery it's not scary it's spooky you'll probably jump at some points and for some of it you'll be scratching your head to figure it out it unfolds its mystery through the main character eve and her psychotic college project at an insane asylum don he needs her to search for some clues to vindicate himself from murdering his mother and once eve agrees to help him she completely opens up pandora's box and unleashes some very strange things including i won't go into but i thought the way that played out was complete genius i know movie buffs won't regard this movie with the same prestige as other classics because it doesn't have anyone very famous in it angelina jolie's brother was excellent but maybe he should have asked his sister to show her face just so this movie could get some recognition but i do think the way the ending works is something to talk about i've recommended this to my friends definitely worth the purchase or rental price
1	of course going into it one would expect it to be a typical stupid t a flick and it is but it really does have some fairly well thought out humorous moments given the era in which it was made and the obvious exploitation aspect it is still one of the better b comedies of the time br br while watching this movie you will see quite obviously the inspiration for many of the scenes in revenge of the nerds and numerous other films of the same genre most of the acting is horrible and way over the top but that's exactly what i expect in a movie like this what it lacks in the way of acting ability it more than makes up for with its camp value and complete disregard for anything of merit br br the amazing thing about this movie is that there was obviously some money that went into it films like this made today just don't have the same style if you can turn your brain off and turn your sense of humor up for an hour and a half you will enjoy this flick i dare anyone to not find at least something in this movie that they think is funny if not hilarious
1	i agree that this film achieved its goals perfectly i saw it on showtime late at night as a teenager and again in college i thought it was funny and there are boobs everywhere it seems like in the late 70s and 80s there were loads of this type of film made from r rated films like porkys to soft core au pair girls it's a shame they seem to have fallen by the wayside in terms of popularity the thing that made hots great was that like the previous two films it's a hell of a lot of fun hots is like a girl power version of animal house with the girls forming a sorority of sorts and engaging in campus bedlam on a side note whoever designed the hooters girls outfits must certainly have seen this film
1	i watched this film with my family over a long thanksgiving holiday weekend i am thankful that someone insisted that we watch it though i didn't pay much attention until the end of the film when a head seems promised but alas doesn't happen br br on the other hand i watched this movie some years later and loved its liveliness absurdity sparkle and just plain fun i think that the film has a female tone women are not exploited in it even though i am sure that someone might think that the movie is pure exploitation i think the movie plays with tropes of the period br br i keep thinking someone ought to remake it and flesh out some of the implications in the original
1	this picture was released in may of 1979 starring playboy playmate susan as honey shayne playboy playmate lisa london as o'hara and playboy playmate pamela jean bryant as terri lynn in one of the most delicious sec comedies in drive in history a bevy of bouncing young lovelies all come together in a tale of battling sorority sisters who will stop at nothing to bare everything so what does h o t s really stand for you're going to have to watch the movie to get the answer you see the girls are having there problems with the society girls on campus that make them out to be nothing but sex craved maniacs therefore the girls set out to discredit the society girls no matter what they have to do to get the job done in addition cut up in this mess is the dean of the college who wants to dismantle the group of girls before they grow out of control i loved this movie especially lisa london i thought her acting was fantastic and i'm disappointed that she didn't get other acting jobs based on the three playmates alone i give this movie 10 weasel stars
1	i gave this a 10 because it's the best film of its kind a good old fashioned t a film in the shadow and spirit of animal house i saw this with a similar film called swap meet and both were good of their type a great way to spend a saturday afternoon let's be honest there are more breasts in this movie than one could imagine for an r rated movie from beginning to end they just seem to keep showing up on screen sunbathing scenes bedroom scenes and of course the climactic football game also a memorable kissing booth kiss me everybody seems to be having a good time in their roles several playboy playmates danny bonaduce several familiar tv and movie actors etc the only complaint i have to register is that lisa london's character is called by her last name o'hara and not a good 1970s name like olivia or even ora or ona or o i saw this again in the late 1980s with my now ex wife pretty well endowed herself and she couldn't believe i was actually enjoying the movie she was probably jealous again this movie is a great way to spend a saturday afternoon just don't think too hard
1	it's not citizen kane but it does deliver cleavage and lots of it br br badly acted and directed poorly scripted who cares i didn't watch it for the dialog
1	this has to be my guilty pleasure i am a huge fan of 80's movies that were designed to entertain and they didn't care if they offended anyone this move has no meat not substance no deep thought provoking scenes just plain old college kids having fun and if a few breasts have to be shown then so be it this movie is for when you just want to relax and not think viva la nudity
1	h o t s is proof that at one time the movie industry said f off to the censors and made movies with whatever they wanted in today's world this movie would be too over the top and extreme for it to be anywhere than behind a velvet curtain although had several copies on their 5 99 rack in case anyone wanted to get a copy the movie was brilliant in its own way in that it blended humor into a t a movie loaded with playboy playmates unlike most skin flicks it did have a plot that however is not exactly why you would watch h o t s br br h o t s is a college movie that reminds me of the revenge of the nerds movies in that it takes a group of average people and puts them against the elite rich preppies that most people can't stand the only difference is that the nerds in this movie have a much better shot at getting laid i notice that there are some people who would rate this movie low and to me that is ignorant obviously this is not intended to win oscars or break barriers in film if you are looking for that then go watch what ever the critics pick for you you have to appreciate the fact that this movie actually had a funny plot decent acting for the most part given the genre and plenty of girls getting naked h o t s is one of those movies you watch to get your mind off of modern day problems and daily stress and instead laugh and have a good time if you are looking for a funny college based movie that has enough skin to turn a pink straight then you should really check out h o t s
1	i remember hearing about this movie and how it played at nearly every drive in theatre here in toronto it's about a group of girls that are not accepted by the other sororities at their college so they start up their own and of course call it h o t s it's a fun movie that is just bursting with drive in nostalgia lots of fully endowed t shirts vans fighting and a football game showdown like no other it's been compared to animal house which is a good movie in it's own right but to me nothing compares to h o t s it has it's own brand of fun character if you are looking for a classic t movie look no further because the h o t s girls are to the rescue boom boom shorts all
1	h o t s is a fun film for a trip back to when skin flicks had a more positive fun filled agenda they were made simply to titillate and have a few laughs everything seems less cynical and jaded the girls all have natural figures and some are playboy playmates the simple plot deals with a group of young women who open a non sanctioned sorority house to get back at the snooty sorority girls who spurned and insulted them instead of the mean spirited tricks of today most of the hijinks are simply innocent fun the women are decent actresses for this genre and are mostly very attractive to keep our attention between the topless scenes we have mafia henchmen a stolen bear a hot air balloon a funky house mother and the cheapest robot ever seen there's even danny of the partridge family if you have a sense of humor then let yourself go and enjoy some light entertainment
1	stephanie meyer is going to be so ticked now her book breaking dawn will not be first with that title sorry twilight fans br br kelly the ring two is medical student eve who is assigned to interview psychotic don james haven angelina jolie's brother i suspected the twist and when she found out they both grew up in the same town i was sure of it br br she kept getting deeper and deeper with her patient to the point that i felt there was a shared delusion going on at times she even acted like she had ptsd i really thought she was losing it br br well she wasn't losing it and when the end came i was floored my whole suspicion turned out to be wrong the twist was even more amazing than i believed br br was fantastic and the story is so much better than something stephanie meyer would come up with a must see
1	this has to be my guilty pleasure i am a huge fan of 80's movies that were designed to entertain and they didn't care if they offended anyone this move has no meat not substance no deep thought provoking scenes just plain old college kids having fun and if a few breasts have to be shown then so be it this movie is for when you just want to relax and not think viva la nudity
1	topless touch football a wet t shirt contest a raid this house has it all except a plot and good actors the film consists of several pranks and catfights between the h o t s girls and the bitchy pi house the dialouge is a scream and the soundtrack is sublimely brilliant over the past couple of months it's been popping up all over cable so do yourself a favor and watch out for it h o t s is so bad it's good
1	i'm grading this film on a curve in other words it isn't the greatest film that has ever been made but it does exactly what it set out to do this is an excellent t a film i have no idea the count of how many t's or a's were seen in this film but i did see one shot that had 16 bare t's at one time just to give you an idea there are topless girls all throughout there is a wet t shirt contest scene and the climax involves a game of touch football between two all girl teams and every time one scores a touchdown the entire opposing team losing a piece of clothes i don't know why this gets such a low rating here perhaps the people who gave it low scores thought they were going to see citizen kane i love this movie and hope to find more similar ones if you are looking for a good campy t a film i'd recommend this one
1	if you watched this film for the nudity as i did you won't be disappointed i could have done without the bumbling crooks or the bear though some bottomless nudity could have be shown but for what it was i think h o t s has to be the best of its genre br br it is not the sort of film that could have been made today which is a pity because it is the sort of film that is worth watching in these times br br i would take mindless nudity over pivotal plot points any day br br it is a shame that the dvd doesn't have any extras but as they didn't have dvds when this was filmed that is understandable i would have like to know more about the shooting of the film especially where they shot the football match at the end
1	man this movie is awesome especially the part they show the italian chick damn shes incredibly hot shes not your average italian i would go see that movie over and over just to see that chick i really enjoyed the movie really hot girl shes steamy sexy also the actor are really good but the girl is better i think the actor played a better part in pride and prejudice so i don't think he acted in his highest level but yeah back to the girl i mean shes gorgeous perfect and i could only wish her luck in her future movies yeah also her acting skills in such young age was awesome i was just amazed wit her performance what a great actress so yeah i recommend everybody this great movie
1	i wanted to love this movie everything seemed to be in place for an enjoyable if not groundbreaking film it was set in southern france good looking and recognizable actors led the cast and i really admired the vibrant african costumes the proverbs and music despite all this i didn't love it movies are supposed to convey their meaning at the first viewing but secret laughter doesn't do that and matthew as played by long and firth both of whom have played romantic leads before and should have known better radiate as much warmth and passion as dried fish i used fish' deliberately because it was one of a few too few strong lines and moments sprinkled throughout the film another winner was when catches matthew snooping around her apartment he finds a book of hers with her first name written on it and says your name is i never knew then he insists that she call him by his christian name i watched this scene intently as matthew asked over and over to say my name realizing that up until that moment they always called each other by their last names i thought this was a turning point for the film and expected that it get better it didn't why do and matthew always seem to stand at ten paces even in that say my name scene what does matthew like about aside from her obvious beauty and why would a sensible woman like fall for a comic book writer who regards his marriage as something he can put on hold when a beautiful exotic comes along and i'd like to add that it was a little hard for me to get behind a romance built on adultery yes jenny is a vicious harpy but if i were in her shoes but i'd probably match her cruella tactics to stop my husband from straying believe it the story hints at painful past but never fully explores it some critics say firth seemed a little awkward here and i agree for goodness sake the actor summoned more palpable longing and passion as that early 19th century snob mr darcy and while wearing those hideous britches as for long who did shine in 'love jones' there were times when she seemed to concentrate more on her accent than playing her character even so there were many moments – the 'say my name' scene among them – when she was in total control and came across really well yet 'secret is not without its redeeming qualities and i've found that it grew on me with more viewings nene was well portrayed as supportive and well meaning even if she doesn't fully understand attraction to matthew i absolutely loved it when nene faced off with mama in those dueling proverbs scenes my husband liked it and usually he's the first to sigh and throw insults at the screen if he doesn't like what is going on he even chuckled at the scene when sammy asked matthew some very frank questions about sex so there you have it 'secret was good enough to entertain an avowed curmudgeon like my hubby but an avid moviegoer like myself will need more than one viewing to appreciate what the director and writer were trying to convey
1	i've seen this movie twice already and am very impressed with it br br the conversations between and her mother plus and matthew are very touching the community is shown very truthfully and as as it usually is br br although certain things could have done with a bit more explanation if we knew why matthew was in the south of france in the first place the scenes following matthew being found in his car would be more understandable br br luckily optimum releasing have a website that has detailed production notes that help to make such scenes better to understand br br i would go and see it again but unfortunately it had a limited release in london and is not longer available to see i hope the video release gets it to a bigger audience because the film deserves it
1	personally i think the movie is pretty good it almost rates an 8 i liked the aspect as well as the gorgeous photography colin firth's character isn't the most likable but he does a better than decent job with the role the heroine played by the beautiful long is a familiar film heroine in that she's trying to do what she thinks is the best for her child marrying a respected member of her expatriate community while fighting her attraction for the bad man one who's not a member of her community the outsider most of the film is about this mother's struggle should she do what's expected of her what she thinks is best for her son or should she follow her heart i don't want to give away the ending let me just say that it's a feel good movie with gorgeous location shots exquisite african dress it's worth seeing the film just for the women's brilliantly colored african clothing and and likable characters overall the actor who plays long's son is bright and adorable the plot is a bit formulaic but i liked the movie nonetheless if you're a colin firth fan you must see this film if you like chic flicks see it i think i'll watch it again tonight
1	i love this film there is something for everyone it if funny saddening passionate and dramatic the mixture of two completely different cultures creates a whole new world that the viewer cannot help but want to be a part of i must admit that i am slightly biased as colin firth is my favourite actor and so nothing that he does is wrong in my eyes but in this film his tremendous acting talent is apparent and it is furthered even more by the beautiful acting of his co star long the problems that their love affair suffers makes it ironically more believable and the simple features like the contrast between the colours of matthew's and clothes alone makes this film all the more enchanting i defy anyone that cannot be moved by this story i find it enchanting and have watched it at least ten times since i bought the film a week ago
1	this is a great movie when two people from different backgrounds and social status think that they have nothing to offer each other and in the end they what each other needs it a testament to what the heart knows sometimes we wonder why one man is with a woman or vise versa and the outward appearances say one thing to our eye but what they offer each other from within that we cannot see is amazing and unexplainable when thought that matthew had nothing to offer her and when matthew was only looking for a fling because he had an open marriage w his wife jenny in the end they realized that they could not and did not want to exist without the other it was worth it to them to resist what family and friends thought and what society said was right to be with each other this movie kind of restores my faith in love
1	i caught this movie on local t v at about 4 30 a m i didn't have expectations for it but after the opening credits i knew i was into something good br br there are situations that are left for your interpretation to find out what really happened so your attention is a key factor br br the whole psychological thriller situation deals a lot with character development and the way things are executed by the main character br br your sub conscience also plays an important part because through a series of events and dialogs you will be able to make a correct interpretation and generate an opinion br br the technical aspects are very good really good in fact kelly overtone is extremely sexy and she's candy for the eye although she's most of the time in her white clothes br br the fear factor is almost inexistent but there's plenty of mystery and tension to dig from br br i would recommend it for those who enjoy supernatural and psychological thrillers
1	warning some spoilers br br matt a rich writer is in fact still just a boy in his behaviour he doesn't care about anyone's but his own needs and couldn't care less about the consequences of any of his actions just as he gets to know and her bonds with her and her he starts to feel that something is missing in his live br br he starts to realize that he is in fact lonely and stuck in impersonal structures that are just convenient but lack heart and commitment nevertheless he shies away from any and is reluctant to change his live but will he be able to settle again in his old life and ignore the bonds he's already unconsciously formed br br situation is the absolute opposite she is pressed into the regulations of her community its prejudices and its medieval values being a single mother her position is difficult and it gets even worse when she falls in love with matt a white devil as the would say a man who cannot commit the women of the community plan to marry her to the to end her single status and give sammy a name but that would mean for to give up all independence and self determination but is there an alternative for her if she wants sammy to be accepted and herself to become a respected member of the community br br this movie has it all a very sensitive and sensual love story with very sexy scenes of matt and and an endearing child who is eagerly matchmaking a beautiful scenery in lively colours br br colin firth swoon and long show a great chemistry it's just fantastic to watch them and roberts as sammy is just to die for you simply want to adopt him i just love the way sammy and matthew talk to each other they are both on the same level in many ways especially when sammy asks matt about sex this scene is absolutely adorable br br almost nothing to complain about wait that's not true one thing is not good that the movie is not long enough well and maybe that the is too bad and too silly to be convincing br br 10 of 10 by all means
1	i've seen this movie twice already and am very impressed with it br br the conversations between and her mother plus and matthew are very touching the community is shown very truthfully and as as it usually is br br although certain things could have done with a bit more explanation if we knew why matthew was in the south of france in the first place the scenes following matthew being found in his car would be more understandable br br luckily optimum releasing have a website that has detailed production notes that help to make such scenes better to understand br br i would go and see it again but unfortunately it had a limited release in london and is not longer available to see i hope the video release gets it to a bigger audience because the film deserves it
1	a fabulous film which i have now watched several times over since buying the video only four days ago yes i am a colin firth fan and colin was his usual talented natural gorgeous self br br the interaction between colin matthew field and sammy 7 year old son was very special and so natural to watch they were hilariously funny together and also touched my heart strings the scenes which i loved the most was sammy and matt sitting on the wall chatting and matt then falling backwards off the wall in an hilarious fashion i won't reveal the content of their discussion so as not to spoil the plot also very hilarious was sammy matt about sex colin and were perfect in this scene and making what can be an awkward subject between adult and child just so natural words and face at the end of that scene were so delightful and said it all just brilliant credit of course must also go to roberts for his delightful portrayal of sammy he played such a lovable and cheeky child character the two actors were just perfect together br br the interaction between colin matt and was perfectly balanced and i couldn't agree more that the chemistry between them was wonderful to watch displaying love tension and of course passion it was exciting to see how their delicate blossoming romance gradually unfolded also showing how their cultural and social divides affected their relationship and was good to see how colin and sensitively portrayed matt and discovering accepting and overcoming these differences it kept me fixed to the tv and guessing right until the end of the film br br portrayal of matt's vulnerable and juvenile side was also perfectly portrayed so much so that i found it was difficult to watch when matt was so mean and childish towards sammy because he matt felt that sammy was getting in the way of his romance relationship with sams mother one couldn't help feeling very disappointed angry and frustrated with matt for treating sammy this way and this in turn threatening to spoil matts special relationship with sammy and special talent of 'getting inside a character's head' and displaying to the audience the different sides of a character was very much in evidence here and pure magic to watch i must also mention that colin also has such a good rapport with young actors see also 'my life so wonderful and not to be missed film br br i also loved the relationship between matthew and his wife jenny both were excellent in displaying to the audience the dark side and tensions within their marriage and that not all seemingly 'happy are quite what they may seem from the outside br br i mustn't forget to mention the reverend whom i thought was very funny in a serious sort of way also mother and family were hilarious as well as bringing across the importance of culture and her situation br br the downside i can't really find a downside but to be objective about the film and to give credibility to my review the only negative comment that i would make is that the script writers didn't explain in enough detail as to why matt collapsed in the car there was only a vague suggestion from of something being wrong with his heart however this didn't detract from my enjoyment of the film far from it i just needed to rewind the tape a little for a 2nd take br br i felt that this film had it all entertaining uplifting and i loved the rich colours and sunny scenery the film warmed up a cold winters day and made me smile all the essential elements were there laughter love tension sadness anger drama and a warm feel good factor with yes plenty of those delicious colin firth moments including a very soaked colin in a shirt scene' not to be missed by any fan what more could a girl want br br i would strongly recommend this film specially to any colin firth fans
1	the english are a little too evil the scots are a bit too br br heroic the dialogue is overly dramatic at times and the br br transitions between scenes could be smoother br br still the bruce has the feel of authentic if unpolished br br history even if it does play loosely with some important br br facts br br sandy welch is no gibson or branagh but he makes a stalwart br br bruce and brian blessed chews the scenery in delightful br br villainy as edward i br br while lacking the budget needed to make the final battle truly br br impressive they still an impressive crowd for the br br english and scottish armies it is according to filmmakers the br br largest filmed reconstruction of medieval battle ever staged in br br the british isles br br allowing for a few failings and shortcomings the film still br br does a convincing portrayal
1	i suspect there's some revisionist history going on here but one definitely comes away with the feeling that patrice was a trouble maker who incited his people to violence from the moment the congo declared independence his inability to control his people and his decision to bring in soviet help to get his military back in line was obviously what got the united states involved and led to his assassination however by replacing him with the united states didn't solve anything they made the situation just as bad well acted with excellent cinematography and a rousing score definitely worth seeing
1	being belgian myself i take interest in the history of congo it has been our only colony for many years rwanda was a belgian but not a colony and it is part of our country's history nowadays it seems to be very popular to say that all that the belgians did to congo was wrong especially in the 19th century i'm not saying that bad things didn't happen of course they did but back then this wasn't abnormal do you really think the french or the brits were that much nicer in their colonies no they weren't it was 'normal' at the time for our king leopold ii to use congo as a way to gain personal wealth it was his private property it didn't belong to the state then and he tried to make the most out of it of course gruesome things like hands being chopped off happened and yes to todays standards that's inadmissible but in those days it was common practice and it has to be said all this didn't happen anymore during the last decades i know several people who have lived an worked in congo for many years before the declaration of independence it's true that they had several black servants but they are very nice people and i really can't imagine they ever treated them bad for as far as i know they have always treated them with a lot of respect however i'm not saying all belgians did in fact if they weren't that old now almost all about 80 years old now they would love to return to congo br br the good thing about this movie is that it gives an historically accurate vision on what happened during the last years of belgian and the first years of independence the story isn't as black and white perhaps not the best words in this context but how else to explain what i mean as i feared it would be it doesn't say that all the belgians did was wrong and all the did was good it shows perfectly how the in their rush of getting independent from the belgians didn't mind to accept help from the russians as well as the americans who both had more eye for the raw materials like copper diamonds bauxite rubber and getting the in their political 'camp' and weren't all that interested in their independence it does not only give a good idea of how became more powerful but also how played a double role it shows the belgian reaction on some of our compatriots being violated threatened and even murdered my father was one of the who were send to congo to rescue the belgians it gives a good idea of the political problems encountered as the province didn't want to be part of the republic the role that the belgians had in the murder on it all gets it's part in this movie br br the story seems to be very accurate and the characters really look and act like the real ones this movie has been able to give a very good idea of what life in congo in the late fifties and early sixties was like and should be seen by everybody who is interested in the history of the country but it should also be shown in history classes especially in belgium because it's a part of our history that should never be forgotten i give it a 7 5 10 perhaps even an 8 10
1	it is always great to see a movie that teaches us about history in africa as they are definitely too few however the movie depicts as a political leader who wanted the new independent country to be the same as the old colonialist one i felt it hard to sympathise with this kind of leadership yet the movie is somewhat like a homage to the man there was too little content explaining how the man got to rise in the first place and the whole context of belgium letting them go so it is certainly worth going to see as the acting and photography are excellent especially himself i would just have liked a better political analysis
1	in the film we see the faces behind the monumental shift in the history after it is reclaimed from the belgians and we see the motives behind those men into whose hands the raped and starving country fell br br is not a movie for the hyper masses it demands the attention of its viewers with raw truthful acting and intricate packed dialogue little of the main plot is shown through action it relies almost solely on words but there is a recurring strand that is only action and it is the stroke of genius that makes the film an enlightening and powerful panorama of the tense political struggle that the independence gave birth to br br this film is real it is raw depiction of those in power and those on the streets it is eye opening in its content and it is moving in the passions and emotions of its superbly portrayed characters br br whether you are a history fan a film buff or simply like good stories is a must see
1	first of all it is interesting to note that one of the users here who commented on this film from belgium had to add that was communist if this user indeed watched the film the message was that he was not communist but pigeonholed by none other than belgium the u s the un etc as a communist leader for other individuals' and country's political and economic gains even if one decides to accept that the film partakes in revisionist history it would be naive to assume that was communist especially coming from the country which granted the congo independence and since was elected democratically to his seat as prime minister br br onto the film br br this is one of the most important and powerful films i have seen in quite some time depicting the struggles of the african freedom fighter and elected prime minister's struggles as its first leader mr peck does a quite commendable job of putting together all of the pieces into one work and this must have been quite some task due to the fact that most people outside of the congo and belgium likely do not know the history of and the congo outside of some light coverage of african imperialism hopefully in one of their high school secondary school or maybe university college level history classes he had his work cut out for him br br and to to think that oliver stone's jfk took over 3 hours runs under 2 hours and a most engaging 115 minutes it was as we find that his desire to not compromise with western powers whom he holds responsible for the atrocities to his people particularly belgium while trying to deal with power struggles within his own borders apparently even with some of his friends it is amazing that the man lived as long as he did br br this is a must see for anyone interested in equality justice humanity history politics and true freedom you will not be disappointed
1	good movie acting was terrific especially from and very well directed br br it also shows how was cornered by the belgians u s a and united nations and how they labelled him a to scare people as they did to all the honest true african leaders like and many others it shows how western countries preach democracy while they have something else on the back of their minds it is a story of injustice struggle and brutality br br it shows how couldn't control his people yes they were his people but before we put the blame on him was he getting enough if any from the people he appointed in his government like or his colleague had other things in their minds to find out go and see the movie certainly did went on to loot the country for the next 35 yrs before he was overthrown and fled the country died a billionaire br br some flaws there was too little explanation how the man got to rise in the first place also there should have been more explanation about the country congo after independence now known as democratic republic of congo formerly known as zaire when it was under there should have been an explanation why he couldn't keep the second largest country in africa in one piece and also what was going on with and just heads up if you gonna watch the movie was controlling the region which if i am not mistaken is the number one copper producer in the world br br in all it is a good movie to see you will learn something new about africa it's leaders and it's people and probably will open your eyes why this continent is ridden with wars
1	when i saw this movie the first thing that jumped at me was the acting of kelly a young and op and coming star actress that i saw for the first time totally blew me away she is amazing on screen and i'm really looking forward to see what the future brings her br br the movie it self was good in the sense that it let kelly do her stuff and take the for a ride not much new tho i had the feeling that i had seen it all before but a good experience i would recommend this movie if only to see kelly this stage actor takes the screen by storm i give this movie a vote of 7 5 for the acting performance and 2 for the rest of the movie br br and on a last note sorry about my bad english if this is gibberish for you p plz ignore me
1	the story of how the communist leader who freed the congo from belgium imperialism was eliminated by the western powers through the hand of a story of struggle and injustice of hope and the search of freedom the story could be the one of any african country a very moving film with images full of symbolism and beauty if you have to see only one foreign film this year see this one
1	an excellent thoughtfully produced historical drama well played artfully written shot in ways that convey accurate visual images of the congo and with more than a few moving moments especially for those who care about the history of africa and imperialism however a fair amount of worthwhile content gets lost in translation and because names and so forth are hard to follow so i would strongly recommend checking a neutral source such as wikipedia to get a basic sense of the story being depicted and the subsequent history before enjoying the film if you have the dvd version there is also some useful historical background there is a point towards the end of the film where the name of a character who then speaks with an american accent is actually beeped out a simple google search of film censor or something similar will reveal a truly fascinating and perhaps disturbing twist regarding the production of this important film this film if coupled with a little outside research helps dozens of other films relating to central east africa and or imperialism e g hotel rwanda shake hands with the devil various adaptations of conrad's heart of darkness and even ali when mohammed ali visits
1	when it comes to political movies i usually come out feeling empty they generally take up some moralistic stance and you have a clear good vs bad story line as if it is some sort of batman movie br br but with it is the first movie i've seen that showed politics for what it is and the real issues of trying to rule a country of broken people who have known no other rule but violence there were no good or bad there were just interests and conflicts of interest this is the only political movie in my opinion that one can come out of it truly learning something especially for anyone with their eye on politics as a career this movie shows you you cannot rule on what you want for a country but what the country wants from you br br that's why i disagree with a lot of reviews that say everyone comes of bad i think they come of too idealistic the belgians want the perfect colony wants a perfect unity congo wants wealth and riches america wants the perfect ally against communism russia wants the perfect aide for communism and the they come off used and abused best example in the movie when tells his black troops your government lied to you and it leaves them all in an uproar they are always being pulled and pushed into supporting this person or another br br this movie shows in politics a mistake can cost you dearly and this movie everyone makes mistake after mistake until it escalates and ends up destroying the country their intentions might be good or at least in the characters opinion but it's everyone's mistakes that lead to the downfall of congo i don't think anyone is bad in this film i just think they want too much from people sick of giving and want to start taking br br overall it's not just the best political film it is a great film in general acting is fabulous as was perfect casting i really believe him script flawless editing perfect pace and production value higher than i expected for a central african film a must watch
1	to answer the question of a previous reviewer who asked the name of the u s official mentioned in the name of the character is mr carlucci frank carlucci is reported as having been at that time second secretary at the u s embassy in the congo subsequently among other assignments he was appointed u s ambassador to portugal deputy director of the central intelligence agency secretary of defense and is now the chairman of the carlyle group it's hardly surprising that biographical sketch on his www com web site fails to credit his service in the belgian congo if his name was deliberately censored from the hbo version of it may have been to avoid the possibility of hbo's being sued in u s courts name however is clearly mentioned in the theatre version of that i saw recently in the event i expect that he would deny any involvement in murder br br others have commented on the evenhandedness with which the film treats the parties concerned supporters other even belgians a somewhat more sinister view emerges i think from the bbc documentary entitled who killed based on the book the murder of by belgian historian de witte when examined closely these films demonstrate that the fate of and the history of the congo is not just a matter of black and white only murderers believe that
1	i feel very fortunate to have the chance to not only watch this film but also learn more about this fascinating person and time is an outstanding portrayal giving a full sense of the story without falling into the usual hollywood trappings yes he is shown with his wife and children but the essence of the story is his politics and those of the still emerging independent congo the film is brilliantly made moving along at a pace that is consistently engaging i look forward to seeing other raoul peck films as well as more from eric
1	this movie is the best movie i have seen in a long time it is also the best movie seen that uses a drama to tell history without going to speculation such as with jfk nixon or hoffa it deftly depicts the clutches that belgium had on the congo it also teases out easily for us the european and american forces that were behind the power the inflict the congo today the film was sure to specifically implicate the u s rightly so in the murder of this film could never be made in the u s for u s film rarely criticizes itself in acts of imperialism and murder save stone's jfk it also lets us in on the problems that were present with the inner conflict of the congo between and we can see how precarious countries sit in establishing new governments when their history is one of colonization and those who were the continue to pull the strings of power and force the film is excellently shot with an excellent the cast is great and they really draw you into the feeling of the climate in the congo during that time br br again this is a must see for those who love drama with a correct historical background see my notes on
1	i have never read a jacqueline susann novel but i have also seen valley of the dolls based on another of her books on both occasions i thought the movie is probably better than the book and will further improve with age certainly contrary to the books the reason being that a movie focuses more on a specific style in fashion design and behavior patterns and in this aspect the love machine offers quite a lot the set design fits the story perfectly and all the characters fit in too they're perfect in the way that they complete a well balanced general picture they are superficial and do not develop it is true but in this movie i wouldn't want it any different br br david hemmings reprises the role he played in antonioni's blow up and it's more than a rip off he's a fashion photographer looks visibly aged and seems to start going slightly to seed robert ryan reprises the role he played in max caught he is smith all over again greedy bored and boring uninspired and uninspiring it's possible ryan did not want to be in this picture and acted accordingly on the other hand he might have thought a lot about his part and then given a carefully studied performance whatever happened it fits the picture dyan cannon is great fantastic wardrobe she dominates every scene she's in and is involved in the two highlights of the movie the burning of a luxurious bed and the knocking down of the hemmings character with a academy award statuette br br the title the love machine is of course meant ironically robin stone is a kind of a barry lyndon of the pop era incidentally the movie is slightly that he chooses a tv station to work his way up to the top seems to be a mere coincidence he sees love meaning sexual favors merely as a means for personal advancement there are rather scary hints of a troubled sexuality which are not explored in the movie homosexuality is treated very casually probably not the standard for mayor movies of the period the open cynicism of the tv executives need not fear comparison with other good movies about the subject like a face in the crowd or network or truman show they are producing crap they agree among themselves it's crap and they know they will make a lot of dough with it br br i did not regret spending the odd 108 minutes with this movie and would not be surprised if it picked up a cult following provided it's given the chance meaning a dvd release
1	why is there so much angst among the imdb reviewers who hate this film it isn't a masterpiece but having viewed it twice it does come across as compelling drama set in the world of network tv robin stone is the epitome of every dan rather phillip stone and brian what's his name on nbc a mannequin of a man incapable of love who succeeds professionally but fails miserably in his personal life i worked for eight 8 years in network news and robin stone's do exist br br the supporting cast works for me from cannon who can be annoying but isn't in this film to greene who plays pathos just right to wexler who scores as the young model in love w the image of prince charming and can't reconcile that image w the true ugliness inside also of note is the ending which some imdb reviewers claim is a cop out it's not listen to the song he's moving on for clues as to the arc the robin stone character travels that brings him to finally face his issues he realizes the answers don't lay w the life he's lived and the symbolic walk away from those he's associated himself with at the end is perfect
1	well where to start i stumbled across this one in 1993 and just hit record on the vcr out of habit more than anything else citizen kane it sure isn't but if you've had a bad day and are in the mood for crashing out in front of something not too intellectually stimulating then i tentatively suggest this might just be your thing br br we have the lot here great title track more stereotypes than you could shake a stick at unconscious comedy the fight scene of all time and more more more david hemmings plays the opposite of his role in the 60s classic blow up still a photographer still hormonally stimulated but not quite the same br br john philip law is easy to slam as an actor who makes a log appear but that wouldn t be fair seeing as how he had about 5 minutes notice before accepting the role br br wexler as amanda suffice to say it was her one and only film role the real star of this movie though is ethel evans who plays a shall we say secretary with the morals of an alley cat and an ambition to match the way she manages to reconcile her present life with that of a future with her comedian husband to be is actually quite touching in an earthy gritty what is to be will be way br br i actually love this movie when i'm in the mood for it and wouldn't touch it with the proverbial when i'm not br br kudos to the cast for keeping a relatively straight face when filming br br a classic in the edward d wood school of cinematic endeavours
1	nothing is worse than the of our world's history this film attempts to describe the horror faced by one particular family a common narrative device in the atomic bomb world of hiroshima the most memorable parts are the graphic and saddening images that the people of hiroshima face in the aftermath of war the story however becomes more concerned with the effect on a specific group of people and how they cope with getting on with their lives in other words if you don't really care about them the film grows boring it's hard not to care though when a family's homeland is wrecked i'm not sure if i would recommend this film because it says very little politically and honestly did not keep my interest in the family's troubles
1	i saw the film yesterday and really enjoyed it although there were several clues which i could realize after second time watching i was not able to awake the dawn case maybe this was my carelessness the subconsciousness of a woman was became concrete with 'let me go key sentence of the film let me go out from deep deep inside of your brain and we will both be free a discrete film that forcing the limits of human conscious and brain anybody who have seen the would realize the similarities with breaking dawn a man that could not escape from his conscience again a psychological and an abstract concept meets it in an human body and he will just be free of accepting and realizing there is no way of escape also i want to mention about the performances of dawn's stuffs in spite of having not many experiences from actors and actresses to director all exhibited separately reasonable performance that have created a synergy which would increase the quality of the movie
1	this was a excellent movie i deal with a child who i am raising that has and watching this movie was more than word can explain i also purchased the book and it was great i would like to have a copy for my own use and so i can have my son's teachers watch it also i would like to know if anyone could sell me a copy of this movie let me use it for a time or refer me to someone where i could purchase it thank you myra i would recommend this movie to anyone who deal with children adults with special this movie should be shown again on tv the team of doctor's that have been tracking my son would also like to have a copy his special ed teacher has also asked me to try to locate a copy that he can have or that he can borrow br br thank you
1	in the light of the recent typhoon that hit the country hard that is typhoon i thought it upon myself to re watch black rain 1988 japan shohei imamura's haunting black and white masterpiece on the destruction and after effects of the atomic bomb that hit hiroshima in the closing period of the second world war the destruction and impact of both catastrophes war and typhoon may differ in degree and quality but the trauma and scar physically and psychologically nevertheless are still there br br it is a testament to a film's power that its images remain as potent and as indelible as when they were first seen it is only that the difference now in my case is that watching those images has assumed a greater sense of poignancy and potency due to a first hand experience of a near monumental weather calamity there is a sense of kinship so to speak br br imamura has always been one of my favorite japanese filmmakers his films are always a pleasure to watch because of their anarchy sensuality and earthiness the introduction to anthropology 1966 1981 warm water under a red bridge 2001 his two palme d'or winners ballad of 1983 and the eel 1997 to name some given the mood of his films who would have thought that he once served as an assistant director to yasujiro ozu japanese cinema's most austere and minimalist filmmaker but then it is ozu's rigorous formality and domesticity that imamura was rebelling against br br but then again with black rain one can unmistakably sense ozu's imprints the father or the father figure being intent on seeing his daughter get married before time runs out on both of them and the stillness and calmness of the scenes showing all members of the family together notably the dinner scenes or in ozu's film lexicon the are something that the revered master filmmaker would explore in his works tokyo story late spring essentially the over all subdued and deliberate quality of black rain is a remarkable contrast to the chaos and instinctual drive of imamura's entire filmography br br still this is not to say that watching the film would not be an altogether unsettling experience black rain as aptly described by american film reviewer leonard maltin is filled with haunting black and white images in the film's first 15 minutes imamura pulls no punches in showing the immediate and graphic horrors of the nuclear bombing one after another stiffly burnt bodies hanging flesh walking dead fires and debris everywhere madness all over an assault to the viewers' senses definitely it is coupled with takashi somber b w photography he did the lensing in crime drama the incident and toru chilling score he did the music in such classics as akira kurosawa's ran and double suicide br br even during the film's supposed tranquil phase that is five years after the atomic bombing one can still never have a sense of contentment and order with the uneasiness and pain still being strongly felt by the survivors not only in terms of failing physical health but more so in terms of psychological trauma and social stigma the human race it now indisputably appears has been destined to bear the legacy of the bomb for as long as it lives br br i already wrote a piece about black rain some years earlier posted in imdb com but only in comparison to volker magnificent tin drum another film dealing with monumental human folly and global catastrophe moreover it has never been my practice to write twice about a film that i already wrote something about before it is in the light of the recent weather calamity that devastated our country that i was prompted to re visit and write something again about this remarkable imamura film as there is a wealth of lessons to be learned from both the film and the recent event in regards the imperfections and dangers of scientific knowledge and action and the long term scars and wounds inflicted by a wide scale destruction whether human or nature induced br br there have been a number of films dealing with nuclear holocaust and destruction testament threads the war game each situated within their own respective countries and black rain stands among them if not more so for both its unapologetic and somber portrayal of individual and communal disintegration brought about by atomic devastation and the fact that it has a historical event as its basis br br few weeks from now another disaster film from hollywood roland 2012 will finally hit no pun intended the big screen as we all know this american director's bunch of disaster apocalypse films independence day godzilla the day after tomorrow serves no other purpose than to be of mere entertainment value with no real insight into the nature and wisdom of apocalyptic disaster and the human condition being affected i wonder how this gigantic movie would exploit the trauma disorientation and apprehensions still being experienced by our people because of the recent weather calamity to say that this flick is a precautionary tale would probably be no more than an overstatement br br but yes i will still watch 2012
1	it was evident until the final credits that this film was made in 1989 as all the elements of its production were made to look 1960's the acting the characterisations the sets and the props all had an aesthetic from an earlier time br br the film opens to the moments prior to the dropping of the a bomb on hiroshima and how this tragic incident affects one family a young woman who lives with her aunt and uncle even in black and white and using special effects that are quite primitive by modern standards but emotive and effective nonetheless the depictions of the immediate aftermath of the bomb are quite horrific family members become unrecognisable to each other others resemble zombies as they wander the streets bedraggled and in shock br br the title refers to rainfall that fell soon after the bomb which was mixed with radioactive ash and in which is caught rumors of being in hiroshima at the time of the bombing affect her marriage prospects and it is later learnt that the black rain is indeed causing the film is concerned not just with the physical effects of the bomb on the japanese but on the social and psychological damage that was wrought br br i found the film compassionate and a fascinating journey into a unique culture while the film is primarily concerned with the pain felt by one family the film's gentle political message is relevant today and probably for all time wars have horrific consequences and should not be entered into unless absolutely necessary it is said that history repeats itself and the current leaders of the of the have learned nothing while atomic warfare has not resurfaced since 1945 other deadly after effects have this film is compelling viewing
1	i didn't really concentrate on the larger genocidal aspects of the story although the horrific images at the beginning are very powerful i was really taken with the human story of the girl and her family imagine living your life not knowing if you have a time bomb ticking away inside you i was really wrenching to see being rejected as tainted by the bomb the image that stays with me most is when stands before the mirror combing her hair silently watching it come out in
1	black rain is a superb film but watch out for the dvds currently being sold for as much as 300 apiece i have the dvd and it's terrible very tiny non anamorphic image that has to be blown up to resolution killing size acceptable sound this is a primitive dvd that absolutely has to be rereleased br br btw i also own the laserdisc and the vhs of black rain the vhs is a huge step upward from the dvd and the laserdisc has far and away the best picture of them in the black sharp big picture simple but very good soundtrack buy the vhs and avoid the preposterous prices these scam artists are demanding
1	this is a pretty faithful adaptation of novel black rain like the book it is very moving and thought provoking the story revolves around a couple's attempts to see their niece successfully married they are having trouble finding suitors because of a rumor that she suffers from radiation sickness after walking through hiroshima on the day of the bombing well filmed well acted moving tragic horrifying and funny
1	after the atomic bomb hits hiroshima charred bodies lie all around deformed victims attempt to communicate with relatives who can't even recognize them and one person after another dies of radiation sickness this black and white film however sad and scary is not without humor the story revolves around a young woman who was hit by black rain after the explosion she is trying to get married but everyone keeps dying and people are worried the same will happen to her after finding a suitable mate who is losing his mind after being in the war for too long she ends up showing signs of radiation sickness this film is a great portrayal of the atomic attacks on japan it will frighten you and will perhaps make you cry the acting is good not overly dramatic like many other ww2 films that have been made
1	shohei black rain was released in 1989 just at the onset of the aids epidemic a fact that gives the film about the slow deterioration of hiroshima radiation victims an added poignancy the black rain in the title refers to the combination of ash radioactive fallout and water that fell one or two hours after the explosion there have been other books and films about the dropping of the atomic bomb but none as unique and powerful as this one based on a novel by who gathered information from interviews and the diaries of real life bomb victims the film depicts how an entire family is affected psychologically as well as physically by the bomb years after the original explosion it is a horrifying vision but one that resonates with deep compassion for humanity br br the film begins in hiroshima on august 6 1945 as soldiers and civilians go about their normal daily activities suddenly a blinding light flashes and a thunderous blast is heard almost every single building is destroyed or damaged beyond repair the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city is now a part of history survivors must somehow restart their lives unaware of the devastating after effects filmed in high contrast black and white the story centers around tanaka a young woman who is caught in the radioactive rain as her boat heads back to the city to search for friends and relatives in hiroshima imamura shows us indelible images that remain with us a young boy with skin hanging from his body pleads with his brother to recognize him an older man is in tears over his inability to free his son from piles of debris a mother is in torment as she rocks the blackened body of her child br br when the family returns to their rural home life is forever changed she sees her friends dying around her and waits for the inevitable bouts of radiation sickness that have already affected her uncle kazuo kitamura and aunt pretending that there is only business as usual the family denies that the bomb has affected she forgot how hiroshima and nagasaki were destroyed everyone forgot it they forget the hell of fire and go to rallies like an annual festival i'm sick of it says a friend kobayashi internalizes the tragedy feeling shame for being different than others and guilty for being contaminated br br when her aunt and uncle try to find her a husband the eligible men refuse to marry her because of suspicions about her health even though has copied her diary to prove that she wasn't directly exposed to the bomb the only suitor she feels comfortable with is another damaged man who has a panic attack every time he hears the roar of an engine at the end the beauty of life shows itself ever so fleetingly when goes to the pond and sees a sight she has been longing for all her life the king jumping in the water playfully as if to say that beyond despair there is still joy sadly we hear on the radio statements by politicians about using the bomb once again in the korean war human beings learn nothing says they strangle themselves unjust peace is better than a war of justice why can't they see black rain has hopefully allowed all of us to see more clearly
1	it infuriates me no end that now and forever i will have to identify this movie which i consider a masterpiece and i don't use that word lightly with the qualifier not the michael douglas movie not only are the titles the same but they refer to the same thing the radioactive fallout that upon the survivors of the first nuclear bombings in imamura's film this is no cheap metaphor the whole movie is about the fallout physical and emotional from hiroshima and the war itself as the deterioration of a couple and their grown niece becomes more grimly clear the ironic imagery becomes more potent from the old clock that is reset each night to the stone gods that gradually pile up outside the heroine's door these in turn are carved by a shellshocked veteran who is compelled in a series of episodes to attack anything with a motor that approaches the town the bombing day itself is shown in piecemeal flashbacks that are coolly horrifying yet black rain can be watched even repeatedly because of imamura's compassion for his characters i repeat a masterpiece
1	the opening of imamura's masterpiece avoids mere sensationalism in its depiction of the unfathomably horrifying events of august 6th 1945 in which 90 of hiroshima and tens of thousands of lives were annihilated in an instant instead imamura emphasizes the unprecedented strangeness of the catastrophe focusing on such portentous images as the diabolic mushroom cloud silently in the distance and the black rain that a beautiful young woman's face the rest of the film traces the ramifications of the latter incident bringing the atomic holocaust and its aftermath over 100 000 people died of radiation poisoning down to the intelligible level of the plight of tanaka and her small community bound by the bomb br br the survivors strive for normalcy and continuity most notably by attempting to find a suitable marriage for but the imminent possibility of radiation sickness shadows every aspect of their lives potential suitors naturally enough shy away from a young woman no matter how attractive who might suddenly grow sick and die genuine love when it finally does appear does so unexpectedly and ambiguously we are left wondering if love across class lines is more a token of status as damaged goods or of a common humanity thrown into bold relief by harsh circumstances that transcends class divisions br br the film's classically restrained style intensifies the impact the spare eloquent interior shots reminding us that imamura began his career as an assistant to the great ozu imamura's mastery is evident for example in the paired scenes of bathing the first emphasizing her lovely back and legs the second how her hair is falling out the shots stand almost as bookends to the trajectory its tragic essence the film's documentary style realism is violated for expressive purposes several times perhaps most notably in a scene that lays bare the troubled interior life of a shell shocked veteran both the score by the renowned avant garde composer toru takemitsu and the stunning black and white photography contribute greatly to the film's brooding atmosphere when in the final shot uncle kazuo kitamura the film's laconic narrator looks to the vacant sky for a rainbow as a sign of hope and regeneration the black and white imagery suddenly becomes so poignant that it is almost unbearable few films from japan or anywhere else for that matter could be compared to the great humanist japanese masterpieces of the 1950s this film is one of them when i finished viewing it for the first time i sat stunned unable to move for at least five minutes overwhelmed as i was by the emotions great tragedy should inspire terror and pity
1	pretty darn good for a french film i have not seen any of catherine previous films and so have no opinions about this compared to her previous work french cinema usually sticks to the ultimately arty films and leaves the shoot em ups and star vehicles to hollywood that is probably a good business strategy as no other nation's film industry will likely have the resources to compete on those sorts of projects films about film making are often a bore as it has little resonance for people not in the business but this one held my interest much more than i thought it would in spite of the title oddly in english it really isn't much of a comedy in spite of a few droll moments i've only seen a few of anne films but she shows a generous amount of talent and range from the action psychological drama of la femme nikita to the wry comedy of innocent blood this film also extends her range as she plays a more or less ordinary woman yet is still compelling on the screen kudos also to mesquida with whom i was unfamiliar she plays a very inexpressive actress for most of the film whose talent is drawn out at the end if you don't have to have car chases and explosions to be entertained check this one out
1	i thoroughly enjoyed this movie and to date this year it is one of my favorites the story was excellent although the twist at the end was far too predictable and i knew what would happen far too early usually when this happens the film is spoiled for me like the others but even knowing the outcome i still enjoyed it right up to the end looking through the comments of others many people were impressed with the performance from kelly eve i'm afraid i was not her performance seemed to be the weak part of the film to me in contrast to the amazing performance or characterization by james haven don wake i hope we see more of him what a great little film highly recommended to all
1	this movie is a fascinating drama about the making of a movie the actor and the actress really can't stand each other but we build up to a scene in which they are to have sex she for the first time per script the actress shows little emotion on or off camera in the plot aside from she is freezing in the early scenes on a beach the actor is self absorbed and increasingly defies the direction of the director jeanne i could not help being drawn in to the drama of 'how are these two possibly going to act their way thru a sex scene ' that drama in itself becomes more exciting than the actual nudity and foreplay performed for the cameras not that mesquida isn't lovely and worth seeing naked however there is a pretty young stage hand who walks thru a few scenes as an extra i think that is her in the far left edge of one of the pictures 2 of 9 here in imdb i don't even know if this girl is credited but when she walks by fully dressed of course in confident indifference with her short blonde hair she is sexy who is this girl
1	smashing film about film making shows the intense and strange relationships that can develop between directors their actors the manipulation and mind games the preening egotism of performers as in any workplace sexuality complicates matters but here to the nth degree as they are filming a sex scene br br absolutely fantastic performances from gregoire colin as the fragile wannabe macho male lead and supremely anne as the director's self portrait the image of her laughing eating a banana at the end having finally got what she wants out of her puppets is pure delight
1	it's particularly hard for a director to capture film making without getting precious inbred over dramatic or all three ably demonstrates the instinctive lizard brain methods of a female auteur in extracting from two cattle as hitchcock called actors a love scene of searing intimacy her main battle is with her leading man an actor is really a woman she opines although naturally it is the leading lady who will steal the show i disagree that this is first comedy 'romance' was at various points hilarious but i accept that the french sense of humour can be elusive for foreigners indeed dozens of imdb reviewers detected no comedy in romance by contrast sex is comedy raises plenty of laughs mainly by using an actor's prop that goes back thousands of years to and the ancient greeks we wondered leaving the theatre whether beard was a wig a lovely performance from anne as wrestling with her own script looking ten years younger than her age
1	sex is comedy though not driven by a fantastically imaginative plot concentrates effectively on the relationship between film director and crew during the process of film making whilst successfully addressing the dynamics of human relationships and more specifically the issues and problems encountered by actors involved in filming sex scenes director features prominently throughout for it is she who carries the plot forward in the place of a narrator and gives us numerous little pearls of wisdom to think about she is a social commentator relating to her assistant and others the problems she finds with her new male lead by way of associating him with a masculine stereotype their ambiguous relationship typifies something about human nature – the tendency to be fickle on one hand the two seem close when he is not in sight she claims to hate him jeanne also addresses his masculine pride perhaps in a feminist take on things br br the taboo of what constitutes obscenity is raised the content of the sex scenes is not considered obscene but beautiful because it is fakeness which constitutes obscenity that is the director's justification this is however doubly ironic for the film we watch is in itself a construct within a construct br br there's more to this film than just relationships of course watching this film is not simply a question of analysing it for the sake of drawing out some sort of meaning one can delight in the natural lighting which pervades the movie this makes it realistic and believable a static camera is sometimes used taking in a heavy composition and at times the camera appears shaky like a home movie if you're looking for something fun to watch on a sunday afternoon that isn't too heavy but still leaves you thinking this is it
1	as being selected during the des this year 2002 catherine is masterfully of her autobiographical film there where her lead actress anne la femme nikita luc embodies admirably the film director of intimate scenes br br this is a comedy of actors' manners making of film genre pornography or exhibitionism sex is comedy is a post modern film with its script based on a film within the film as an implosive story of a minimalist love scene the film is built with a constant solidarity of the forms and the spirit in which keeps on breaking and analyzing the taboos using visual codes and certain sense of the formula catherine implement her clinical analysis of the sexuality as an isolated problem outside the society to be communicate by the door of the heart br br therefore grégoire colin good work nénette et boni claire denis the of angels eric in the role of the actor and roxanne mesquida fat girl catherine marie from the bay of angels manuel prada the actress are actors whom she invents she does clarify in an interview observes the man in front of him even a chaste man then films the shame and the sexual mutilation but also a big hope a disturbing dimension of the ecstasy a nudity of the feelings the of the exhibitionism playing to be one to be one the director is finally expected to lead the actors to give their feelings their body and their soul so arranged facing the problem of the order of who i am the actors of put on an vitality to merge in her work in progress but for what is a shape of incredible exorcism for an actor puts many enduring at the same moment a big suffering the actors appear to be the ones who look for this loving transport to be part of the eternity of their work br br the art of is of researcher to know how to undertake in a dialogue aiming at pushing away the limits of intimate scenes join make up prosthesis in erection and syndicates are not without reminding what pictures and scenes of jan and rembrandt could be in the anecdotal and the daily of characters on a shooting set while the moral categories disappear from the background of sex is comedy succeeds in revealing the loving imitation power of the actors in a landscape of formidable and dramatic humanity
1	i wasn't surprised to read a comment by the director to the effect that she made this film as an antidote to all those making of dvd featurettes as that certainly struck me i do confess that i have a penchant for meta but i found this film to be very accessible and entertaining and not even in a labored self consciously clever way which is certainly a bit of what you expect in a film about film making it is very french in that there are a great deal of outlandish yet occasionally compelling theories about how film making and even sexuality works but since the director doesn't quite play herself using an avatar instead we're left with a lot of choices since i'm pretty sure she's constantly contradicting herself apparently catherine specializes in hard to watch films but i'd definitely say this one doesn't qualify i really enjoyed the dialog the balance between the cinematic and the natural the relationships between the director character and her assistant and actor and so on highly recommended
1	i like movies but this one is the best i've seen at balancing animal warmth with sexual intelligence anne is electric and the script is amazing especially considering it's supposed to take place on the set of another of movies you don't have to agree with her take on everything to get a lot out of this it made me think a lot about vulnerability and power try to imagine a male director with openness not impossible but a little mind bending the unannounced sexual undercurrents that are always present when humans get together to make anything is held up to bright light here but not a cold light
1	this film was very interesting to me virtually a film within a film which is about a very whimsical director who cleverly persuades an actress and and actor who happen to dislike each other in producing sexual chemistry on film the director is faced with a of obstacles as she tries to get the two individuals to perform beautifully on film sex is comedy is much more than a comedy packed with uncomfortable quirky moments the movie also addresses the psychological and innate instinctual behavior of men and women in regards to the sometimes controversial act of sex i loved this film the character jeanne played by the beautiful anne performs wonderfully on screen as you share in her struggle to produce a motion picture work of art
1	catherine is a french director who loves to provoke her audience she takes us along to witness how a film is done on location the movie in production seems to be based on herself since the person at the center of the story is jeanne a woman director much like ms jeanne acts as the alter ego of the real director br br jeanne reaches an impasse at the start of filming not only has she picked the wrong time to photograph this movie during a cold spell as it involves beach locations that are obviously too cold for the actors and extras jeanne has problems with the two principal actors especially the male lead who has problems accepting the way the director has decided to show him in the movie the lead actress is no angel either br br movie making ms tells us is a process like no other in a creative work of art first there is the writing period in which in this case jeanne has written a screen play that when it goes into production reveals problems the writer director didn't think about there is the problem of how she wants to photograph a love scene in which the young woman of the story has her first sex contact what appeared clever in the written page doesn't necessarily translate into an easy time in front of the camera the actor is made to wear a false penis and has a lot of problems accepting the fact that a make up has to touch him in ways he never thought he would ever be touched by another man br br the luminous anne is marvelous as jeanne the director she makes observations about the production the actors and the crew that fit well into the story being told gregoire colin and play the lead actors with all the insecurity that some actors bring to a movie set jeanne has to massage their egos in order to get what she wants in the end ashley plays leo assistant br br sex is comedy allows ms to give us her own take on films in general this is a great look at the way movies are done in a typical style
1	another fabulous movie from catherine this time about the difficulties of shooting a sex scene in a movie using comedy – a new genre for – we get a backstage view of filmmaking but in documentary style the character who plays the director in the movie is based on the sex scene in question is taken from her earlier film ‘a ma as is the main teenage actress but the film like all of work is not entertainment alone it is peppered with philosophical observations on the nature of sexuality as well as demonstrating a devotion to as opposed to pornography that is a cornerstone of work and a devotion to real emotion we see the director character harangue the young lead actress and actor to bring the best out in them hypnotising them into the parts they need to play bringing out part of themselves that the director can see in them but they cannot see in themselves until they achieve the heights of acting that she demands of them she makes meaningful movies not titillation but she shows the work that is needed to produce this and so gives us insights both into the decidedly french film making process and the psychology of male – female sexuality
1	saw the film at the hollywood film festival in oct '04 mark robertson took a huge chance writing an extremely difficult part for his first film and it paid off big in his casting of kelly i had a strong feeling she came from the theater so i looked her up here and surprise i'm right more hollywood actors should follow her lead give up the expensive acting classes and get back to theater because only with that kind of training will you be prepared for a ride like this for all the great things i can say about the film and the director and there are many i just can't stop talking to people about kelly masterful performance we'll be seeing a lot more of her work no doubt br br congratulations to mark and kelly on a daring film get it out in the theaters so i can bring all the people i made want to see the film asap
1	the accounts seem real with a human factor added to the mix a lot of sadness i'm sure glad that i wasn't him another thing to add is that all the women in this show were not really pretty accounts of the real women but i don't think that it was about the women although it was to jfk jr's passion what a shame any loss of life is a real shame br br seemed like a good account of his life i recommend it if you are into biographies and melodrama
1	it is very hard to come up with new information about jfk jr and this fine movie had very little of it but it was a joy to watch the casting was very good and the script while somewhat like a documentary was also good my only complaint was that it wasn't long enough perhaps a two part movie could have told us more about his pre george days and his relationships with his mother sister and other relatives some of the material in the book american son by richard blow would have enhanced the movie a lot should be applauded for producing such an entertaining movie
1	i liked the movie but it should have been longer the actors did a great job de rossi is a fabulous actress and kristoffer is a hottie he didn't look like john at 100 but he did favor him from a distance i look forward to seeing more of him on the big screen he didn't have john's charisma but he definitely has a charm about himself he has beautiful eyes and a great smile he reminds me of my boyfriend alot ms bissett was just too breathy for me she should have that asthma checked out im not going to comment on the darryl hannah character my mom always said if ya can't say anything nice then shut the hell up so that's what im gonna do br br molly
1	while i thought this was a good film about jfk jr it was a little hard to follow the timeline it jumped around quite a bit without ever mentioning what year they were in otherwise not great acting and not really a great film but it was nice to learn a little more about who jfk jr was
1	with what they had john and carolyn were very private so the writers had to put together what they could i really liked de rossi as carolyn but jacqueline voice grated on my nerves she should have used her regular voice i would have preferred that the whole movie focus on john and carolyn instead of rehashing stuff we already know about john
1	about 12 minutes into the song in the scene where daryl hannah and jfk jr are first embracing there is a really pretty song playing what is that song and who is it sung by it's a song that sounds very romantic and it is a female singer piano playing etc i have tried everything in the world to look up the music on google and on itunes etc but it just doesn't come up not even on lyrics websites so if you hear it i would sure love to know enough about it so that i can try to either go get the cd with that song on it or find it in itunes i don't know if my email will i am new at this but i will be looking back here
1	i grew up with the abbott and costello movies a because my dad grew up with them and both our last names are abbott so we owe the a bit of respect i didnt realize the flack this movie and others of theres gets it was a really clasic due it was funny cause abbott and costello were always the same characters but it was sooo funny now what i like about jack and the is that even though the love story is totally boring and that one song the prince sings omg but i like the angle they took on the love story the couple has to get married cause one kingdom is running out of money they meet in the jail cell and fall in love they both pretend not to be royal and they end up being the couple so happy ending i dont think that was the orginal version if it was they should have cut it out of this movie but i think it was orginal and i love it but watching it sucks lol also when the movie really kicks in with the giant abbott and costello it is sooooo funny when the giant is beating jack into the door and jack is screaming open the door open the door that stuff is really funny and that once joke where jack starts screaming prince prince and all those dogs jump him kinda cheezy but really orginal i wish they would have al least tried to remaster it though i got that africa screams jack and the and i dont mind the quality cause when i had it on tape it was bad quality also so whatever i guess the begining is mildly funny the middle is really really funny and the end is not funny in the least but i am 19 years old and when a movie made in 52 makes me laugh this hard it rocks this movie is really funny i love their style also the chapters suck also the part where jack is climbing the and they are all singing a song about what a dipstick jack is and that he will be killed thats pretty funny
1	the duo of abbott and costello lives on in this version of a story time classic in jack and the there's everything to see music magic and comedy rolled into one costello play plays jack after he listens to the story being told by a young boy one time we know jack was a poor boy who sells his cow dolly for 5 magic beans well he plants those 5 beans and they were indeed magic he climbs to the sky sees a big castle there and he would sing a song unknown he would encounter the giant buddy baer not only him he would dance with the woman who was also a giant she would clobber jack with her elbows during the dance that was funny you got the playing harp who knows how to put the giant as ease the goose who lays golden eggs and my favorite the way jack gets rid of the giant he gets the ax and started chopping down on the another funny is where the ax got stuck during the chop and the final celebration happens when the people dance around the imprint where the giant fell a lot of fun and fun for the whole family as well very recommended 5 stars
1	for us an abbott and costello movie is something you have to be in the mood for i'm very happy i recorded this my wife remembered it from when she was young but i had never seen it the family wanted to watch something not too serious before bed and this was selected br br our daughter has watched many of the old movies with us always complaining in the beginning but most often coming around she mostly ignored this in the beginning preferring to check her email but she started enjoying herself many times laughing out loud to the zaniness br br it's wonderful to think you can have a fun evening with a old the mono colour introduction that blends into the full colour fairy tale it's a fun twist of a story that everyone is familiar with that includes a little song and a little dance along with everything you expect lou and bud to delivery br br watch it with your children and have a very fun evening
1	so i guess that bud and lou just liked to mess with classic stories although they did have some interesting results in this case they're baby sitting a bad boy and lou tries to read him jack and the but falls asleep and dreams that he's jack and bud's the butcher and they climb the to rescue the prince and princess from the giant buddy baer br br i think that my favorite scene was when lou was trying to make the giant an omelet and well i'll let you see what happens as this was an abbott and costello movie they did have a few unnecessary songs but other than that it was pretty funny for other interpretations of the classic story bewitched and gilligan's island both had episodes portraying it
1	wow stella shorts are great lots of patrons from the state and stella the tv show i never knew that stella could have gotten any better then they were on the tv show stella or even comedy central presents stella i also never knew short comedies could be any good my favorite ones were pizza racking leaves the woods and david arranges to a meeting with his long lost cousin greg i think over all that david was the funniest one its funny when he doesn't make sense i like the music in the shorts thats something i pay attention to a lot they always had good taste in music i wish they still made shorts either that or bring back there sitcom i hope they continue making good and funny comedy
1	i wanted to see this movie because i am a very huge abbott and costello fan and when i saw it i liked it br br this movie is funny not hysterical but funny i mean i laughed at a lot of the funny parts and i just plain enjoyed it br br though it is not of the best of the perfect straight man and the perfect buffoon you should see this if you really love abbott and costello br br out of all of the abbott and costello movies that i have seen i can't say i've seen one that i hated this is decent funny and entertaining abbott and costello at least made some pretty decent movies in their later years br br all in all i liked this movie it is not one of their best ones but i liked it br br 7 10
1	although copies of this movie are hard to find if you can find it get it i believe this was aside from in the navy abbott and only musical although they twisted the plot around a little i've never heard a version where the butcher goes up with him you still enjoy the antics of the slightly idiotic but lovable jack and the greedy butcher mr slightly reminiscent of was a lady this uproarious film will have you rolling on the floor only to get up and dance as lou costello sings i don't know why they didn't do that in other films
1	abbott and talents shine in the happily childish version of jack and the the use of sepia tone and colour the music and choreography song and dance the crossing over of players from one role to another plus various other aspects of this very fine movie make it obvious that techniques and styles used for the wizard of oz are being toyed with here and that works right well for our intrepid duo there are certain other things involved that make this movie a treat for me buddy max baer jr of the beverly hillbillies uncle appearance as the cop and the giant pat costello lou's brother having been involved in the writing of the script these things help make this film fun it does however have it's down side i do think that the choreography is poorly done but the cute tunes and accompanying vocals help detract from the rather sloppy dance numbers some of the players the couple in love prince and princess to be precise aren't very good at their trade but these things are a small price to pay for an otherwise throughly enjoyable walk down the yellow brick er i mean climb up the
1	having read so much negative press on this movie over the years i'd always avoided it but the advent of the cheap public domain dvd encouraged me to finally give it a viewing br br unfortunately it's been transferred from a poor copy the modern prequel shot on tinted stock is blurry and the contrast non existent faces are occasionally difficult to make out having said that the actual story is entertaining and lou comes across as an accomplished actor more so than in many of the boys' movies br br once the movie switches to the 'jack' story the film switches to and i use that term loosely most hues are orange or brown the greens look particularly bad br br dorothy ford as the maid was a big plus for me as i enjoyed her in an early hardy' appearance br br with so many negative comments put down to the actual quality of the print i'm still happy to give this movie a 7 it gave me a lot of laughs and that's more than the greater majority of comedies i've watched over the decades can manage br br one to watch if you get the chance
1	bud abbott and lou costello always had a good following among children but in their careers i think you could say that they only made one film that could be designated for kids jack and the was that one film br br it was part of a two picture independent deal from warner brothers the second film being abbott and costello meet captain kidd these were the only two films the boys made in color br br the two of them out of work as usual take a job for a very precocious and obnoxious young david as a babysitter although it starts out with costello wanting to read the kid jack and the as a bedtime story the young lad winds up reading it to costello lou falls asleep and in his dreams he fantasizes he's indeed jack the giant killer br br buddy baer who menaced the boys in africa screams plays the giant and he's got a giant size dorothy ford as his housekeeper dorothy was a big girl and you can imagine she had some difficulty being cast except when her height was used as a joke one of the only players who ever looked down at her was john wayne in three godfathers at henry fonda and james stewart in on our merry way also stood barely above her but again her height was part of a gag br br shaye cogan and james alexander were the princess and prince of the fantasy and they sang beautifully but couldn't act worth anything this was the last film of william who's career dated from the early silent screen days and even to the turn of the last century on stage he played princess father the king br br some not terribly memorable musical numbers came from jack and the save the title song i well remember as a kid having the 78 record of bud and lou singing the song and reciting the story i was in my early single digit years but became a lifelong fan of their's through that and their television series br br jack and the is still a good children's picture for the very young though i would warn parents to warn their little urchins not to imitate young master
1	i've loved this movie since i was a little kid i remember the night my mother brought this movie home for me i loved it and i still do i think it's very funny and original there are also some very catchy tunes in this movie lou is also a surprisingly good singer the actors that portray prince arthur and princess eloise are okay too but abbott and costello are the best former heavyweight boxing sensation buddy baer also brother of former heavyweight champion max baer is good in this movie as the cop and the giant he's a better actor than boxer he had a natural talent the beginning of this movie is hilarious how lou costello keeps crashing the car and how he gets into trouble with buddy baer the slapstick in the house is good too i especially like the comedy in the castle my favorite parts are the part were lou is climbing the and they're all singing as a farewell jack is singing back to them that he'll return lou costello is a very good at singing my other favorite part is the part when jack is fighting with the giant i like when jack makes exploding eggs and when he tries to make the giant an omelet they keep exploding abbott and costello are hilarious and the greatest comedians of all time this is only one of their great movies that i will love and cherish the reviews for this movie aren't very good and i can't understand why this is a very good abbott and costello movie i also love how lou costello comes back to reality in the end and thinks he's back in the dream when bud hits him he starts singing his song and leaves with an attitude like no one is going to push me around very good movie
1	there is a bunch of movies that we say must be seen twice in most cases this is mainly a recommendation you understand the movie anyway after the first viewing and watching it for the second time helps you catch the plot twists you just did not notice however for mulholland dr this is different the sequence that worked for me was see it first time spend a day in internet trying to figure out what this was all about and then see it second time otherwise most likely you will not be able to enjoy this film to the full extent then you start to understand that this piece is ingenious camera work is stunning and the aftertaste follows you for weeks br br 9 10
1	mullholland drive proves once again that david lynch is the master of cinematic expression at the screening last night i witnessed a brilliant addition to the history of cinema the performances are astounding the score entrancing and the photography mesmerizing david's ability to weave the many elements of film making into a unique and stunning cinematic experience is as i watched mullholland drive i couldn't help but realize that with david lynch in this world we are truly blessed the cinema is blessed as well for in the films of david lynch we are shown that one man's vision can be realized with stunning results we realize that blockbusters are not the only path we realize that a true cinematic artist has a chance in this world and in that we are blessed indeed
1	with an opening segment that imitates the music and cinematography of todd haynes's safe 1995 david lynch uses dream myth and warped notions of reality to tell the fractured story of a failed bit part hollywood actress waitress diane selwyn let down by fame and her own demons and obsessed with camilla rhodes who is engaged to hotshot director adam br br the film effectively takes place in diane's drug fueled head we are witness to her crazy distortions her wish regrets obsessions and fears using the dream narrative as a way of presenting two notions of reality in conflict lynch does not simplify the opposition between reality and fantasy but actively them the last 45 minutes are as dream like as what came before and the troublesome air of detached otherworldly ambiguity still pervades fracturing the seemingly secure distinction between reality and dream we expect to see in films about nightmares and dreams br br lynch's film borrows from many films old and new but ultimately is a film unlike any other with the exception of the director's own lost highway and blue velvet it constantly challenges the viewer to interpret what is seen not only intuitively but intellectually yet it is not as pretentious as one would have imagined because lynch makes us sympathize with the protagonist despite her murderous deeds an element that was missing in all of his other films except the straight story he does this by presenting diane's dream alter ego betty as a wholesome canadian farm girl destined for fame lynch also presents us with an intriguing story that affirms and negates in equal measure are camilla and diane really lovers or just friends who is the blue lady what does she signify who is the bum behind what is the significance of the rotting corpse at sierra bonita does aunt ruth really exist is an abstraction of hell or perhaps a self referential take on the film's status as fiction lynch isn't prepared to answer any question he poses choosing instead to present his love story in the city of dreams as a set of interconnected abstractions and motifs br br the acting is top rate especially naomi watts as diane selwyn betty who is yet to eclipse this performance laura has the requisite allure as camilla rita while adam theroux as adam brings an freewheeling arrogance and sublimated paranoid aggression to his role it was staggering and a grave injustice that not one of them was even nominated for an academy award br br this is a film that demands to be seen and analyzed closely the mystery at the heart of the film remains in lynch's hands but half the fun is finding consistent ideas from the maze of seeming incongruities that he presents upon closer inspection there is a definite sense of a puzzle perhaps an incomplete jigsaw that teases us with closure but denies the imaginary of narrative coherence ultimately this is lynch's key film
1	wow what a strange film it's a david lynch movie so it's no surprise that it is weird br br i defy anyone to totally explain everything in this film i can't be done after some research following my second viewing of this film i pretty much know most of the story but on a first look and with no aid from other reviewers or outside help it is hard to figure things out so if you're in that boat and was confused don't feel bad that's normal let me just say the key to the film is naomi watts' character br br at any rate i find the film fascinating i love the wonderful visuals and rich colors and find each character in this movie really different and fun to watch the camera work is excellent and the music is creepy a la lynch's blue velvet there also are some good sound effects to help some of the dramatic scenes in all it's very well scored br br like lynch's twin peaks television series this was a film in which the end was pieced together afterward since lynch thought this film was going to be a long drawn out tv series when that didn't happen he pieced at the last minute this ending that may account for some of the confusion at the end and the lack of explanations concerning characters we see earlier in the film but who mysteriously disappear br br the theme of the story supposedly is a negative comment about hollywood and what it does to people especially those whose dreams of being an actor are crushed br br both watts and the other leading lady laura are very interesting to watch especially in their celebrated lesbian sex scene looks wise both women were looking average at times stunning at other times br br i enjoyed this movie more on the second viewing than the first it's not just a curiosity piece it's a very intriguing movie just don't feel stupid if you can't make sense of a few things
1	when i first saw stella on comedy central i thought god this is horrible but i loved wet hot american summer so i knew something didn't make sense there was nothing left for me to do but search out for the stella shorts which i had heard contained more dildos than any other comedy troupe out there when i found them not only were my dildo expectations met but i found probably the greatest comedy scenes i've seen in years the set of twenty odd short films put me on the edge of my seat with water running down my legs not only did i laugh my ass off the first time i watched them but continued to laugh harder when i watched them over and over again it's really a shame comedy central had the restrictions of cable television for the stella series it would have faired much better on hbo or showtime their brand of humor can't be restricted by censors or popular culture given even if it was on hbo i'm sure the masses would have voted it canceled in a season or less but still it would have been fantastic needless to say i'm now in love with stella and all it's individual members any stella fan should check out david wain's site with all his short films they are equally as enjoyable as stella itself so my hat goes off to michael michael ian black and david wain for the unbelievable comedy they have made with stella i hope to see much more of the troupe in the future
1	david lynch's ninth full length feature film mulholland drive is a deeply touching story about betrayal and jealousy if anything it brutally contrasts our ambitions and hopes to the often bitter truth every frame of this movie has importance and links to other parts and to themselves at the same time nothing is what it first appears to be and you're left with a real puzzle as you end up trying to put the pieces together it is a movie that does not compromise nor does it fail to fully handle the challenging form and camera language as might have been the case earlier with lost highway br br although one clearly recognizes classic lynchian motifs and devices the movie remains highly original even in the light of it being a lynch movie lost highway marked a new way of telling a story bred an unconventional mean of setting emotions on to the screen with mulholland drive lynch not only managed to control this technique but takes it to new levels in making it much more complex and multi dimensional in doing this he creates a framework of different layers in time and of the human mind in a press conference on the cannes film festival 2001 david lynch said that striving for perfection at best could give a result where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts talking about like this becomes highly relevant to mulholland dr where the different sequences and many details contribute to the total dreamscapes and parallels intertwine to create the story in some art the beauty of it lies in its this is not the case with mulholland drive and has never been with lynch it is the complexity that colors and builds the worlds lynch creates the same complexity that characterizes the real world br br it never gets forced like in my opinion for example memento does using an original way of communicating with the viewers further comparing mulholland drive to other movies i think it proves david lynch as a master of what he does and bridges art and film making in a way that no one has ever done compared to for example alejandro jodorowsky or contemporary matthew barney i do believe that lynch more clearly manages not letting the artist dominate the film maker or more likely david lynch better understands and executes film making as an art form br br understanding the plot is no small feat but lynch's way of working with sound perspective chronology and form paints a work of art so dark and frightening that it sometimes feels more realistic than real life the lynchian cinema is often and most definitely in mulholland drive a surge of human emotions working with emotions is a delicate craft that demands understanding and depth as lynch puts it a little bit too much and the emotion goes away a little bit too little and it doesn't happen in mulholland drive david lynch has no problem making this balance lynch's portraits span all kinds of dimensions and take different directions creating incredibly realistic characters and situations watching mulholland drive is a journey through the subconscious it is a truthful and naked movie with indisputable artistic value that is why i love mulholland drive and what's taken it to the pinnacle of cinema history the ultimate movie
1	spoiler alert although this is a plot almost as impossible to spoil as it is to completely explain br br 'mulholland drive' is by far the most successful expression of david lynch's cinematographic style and vision since the first season of his 'twin tv series as lynch enthusiasts know his is a style and vision uniquely blended from film noir horror movies surrealism and – with a healthy dose of postmodern self consciousness and black humor thrown in for good measure all these elements are richly at work in 'mulholland drive ' making for a riveting hair raising and highly satisfying film experience – especially if one does not become overly obsessed with trying to make all the plot pieces fit into a logical mystery unraveling whole br br the film features wonderful performances by naomi watts and laura in the lead roles of young women whose lives intersect in various ways amid a hollywood setting that is itself an blend of contemporary reality retro '50s nostalgia and satirical self aggrandizement their seemingly random initial meeting occurs after the film's opening scene in which character escapes an attempt on her life thanks to a fortuitous not to mention horrific automobile accident staggering down the hillside from mulholland drive to sunset boulevard the two most archetypal of hollywood she finds her way to the very apartment that betty naomi watts is about to from her 'aunt ruth ' a purportedly successful actress who is off to canada to begin a new movie as we later learn betty had herself arrived from deep river ontario shortly after winning a jitterbug contest br br a highly energetic and stylized flashback to the contest forms one of two pre credit prologue sequences that frame betty's descent from the clichéd would be bright eyed innocence to the debauched madness of spurned lover and going nowhere bit part actress unable to remember her own name the character adopts the name from a movie poster for the film noir classic 'gilda' that adorns aunt ruth's apartment actually it turns out aunt ruth has long since deceased and whose apartment we're really in is a good question to be resolved in future viewings anyway betty determines to help rita find out what happened and to discover the source of the rolls of cash and a mysterious blue key that the women find in rita's purse the two women begin to piece together clues that would seem to lead to rita's true identity they also by the way become lovers at one point radiating such an incendiary chemistry that i cannot recall its equal in mainstream treatments of lesbian lover affairs if a lynch movie can ever be designated 'mainstream' br br at the local restaurant a recurring location fraught with dream like significance behind its grubby realistic facade rita's attention is caught by a name tag reading ' this leads her to a recollection of someone named selwyn ' whose apartment the two women soon visit and at betty's insistence break into i won't reveal what they find within but suffice it to say the scene is rendered with vintage lynchian creepiness subsequently rita wakes in night sweats speaking spanish and hurrying betty to an all night magic show theater called ' where the arts of illusion and lip instrumental syncing are practiced with manic intensity and where the blue haired lady as she is noted in the end credits reigns as the presiding muse framed by the blue lit red theatre the blue haired lady occupies the last shot in the film perhaps a symbol for the controlling artistic imagination – rather like steven's man with the blue guitar as filtered through bad drug surrealism br br during the sequence and as del rio cameo lip her own powerful spanish rendition of roy a shattering epiphany occurs when betty opens her own purse to discover a blue box with a keyhole that obviously matches the key in rita's purse even if we do not delve too deeply into the freudian sexual symbolism of purses the moment is a singularly hitchcockian one in that the matching of the key and box leads to a complete inversion of what we thought we knew and into a whole new set of character relationships and meanings not the least of these reversals is the discovery that betty is the sought for diane selwyn and the spurned lover of camilla rhodes i e rita camilla in turn is a latin femme fatale movie star to whom diane is indebted for the few minor roles she has managed to secure and more significantly to whom she is emotionally subjugated br br after these and other discoveries in the last third of the film the problem of accounting for the first two thirds of the movie is not so straightforwardly resolved as in ' while bits and pieces of imagery and dialog suggest that much if not all of the earlier material is projected and displaced from the fevered subconscious of diane herself other bits and pieces suggest the perhaps supernatural intervention of a cast of characters drawing direct inspiration from 'twin peaks ' including michael j anderson reprising his unearthly powers and a bob variant who hangs out behind and is the ultimate repository for the blue box and its id like associations br br however one fits the pieces together though the whole of 'mulholland drive' is much greater – and more mysterious – than the sum of its parts lynch takes us on a wonderfully inventive provocative and disturbing mind trip what's more the film's cinematography is stunning the soundtrack filled with evocative atmospherics the acting superb and the directing editing masterful this may well have been the unacknowledged best picture of 2001 among major american releases
1	the case history of 'mulholland dr ' is known what should had been another excursion after 'twin into the rivaled field of tv series ended up abruptly after completing the pilot it was too risky and twisted for the producers to venture an investment lynch used all the filmed and cut material and started new shootings to finish a completely new feature film the result one of the most impressive cinema experiences of this decade which can be ranked among the best works of david lynch his earlier movies 'blue velvet' or 'wild at heart' kept aloof in an irritating way which hustled the viewer into the role of a voyeur but never involved him as part of the plot happening such as here br br 'mulholland dr ' is a puzzle where pieces are missing others obviously were taken from and 'lost highway' but it never seemed to be unfinished work in the internet i came across with a lot of instructions and essays to explain this film i am aware now that it loses its magic when you try to decipher it completely all those detailed solution explanations are not only waste but also the questionable attempt to offer an answer where no such thing is completely required imagine this scenario a little child is dissecting his teddy bear to find out where the secret and the specific of that bear lies is it because it wants to destroy his toy does the secret lie in the teddy bear or actually in the heart of the child transferring this to 'mulholland dr ' it means innocence is one of the most important conditions to watch and appreciate it br br david lynch succeeds not only to picture the surface of human behavior life but also to grapple with everything beneath that human desires dreams obsessions and fears all that what remains unspoken emotions that are often repressed 'mulholland dr ' has the intensity calling for a cast that completely takes issue with the substance actresses and actors who are ready to follow the visions of the director selflessly laura elena naomi watts justin theroux solve their task in such an impressing way that you wouldn't want or couldn't imagine another cast while their acting at the beginning seems to be a little superimposed you soon will realize that this stereo typing is set in with a purpose to manipulate the viewer and to baffle him as soon as the red thread of the film is visible br br when you claim the criterion of a well made film in being able to lose yourself and dive into what you see on screen than lynch succeeded in making a masterpiece a modern masterpiece that manifest david lynch's status as one of the most important creative and courageous directors of the present like every film maker who go beyond the limits he is confronted with criticism and ignorance this will fade as soon as you find the individual key to lynch's world of films 'mulholland dr ' is more than just a sleeper – it is a must see for everyone who loves ambitious cinema and besides the film is a pay off with hollywood in form and content which in that was hardly dared before
1	originally filmed in 1999 as a tv pilot mulholland dr was rejected the next year david lynch received money to film new scenes to make the movie suitable to be shown in theaters he did so and created one of the greatest most bizarre and nightmarish films ever made br br the film really doesn't have main characters but if there were main characters they would be betty naomi watts and rita laura elena betty is a perky blonde who's staying in her aunt's apartment while she auditions for parts in movies she finds rita in her aunt's apartment and decides to help her you see rita's lost her memory she has no clue who she is she takes her name rita from a gilda poster in the bathroom so the two set out to discover who rita really is br br david lynch has been known for making some weird movies but this film is the definition of weird it's bizarre nightmarish and absolute indescribable it's like a dream captured on film by the 100 minute point the film has become extremely confusing but if you've been watching closely it will make perfect sense having watched the movie and then read an article on the internet pointing out things in the film i now understand the movie completely br br the acting is very good watts is terrific justin theroux is very good as a hollywood director facing problems with the local mob the music is excellent angelo badalamenti delivers one of his finest scores and the directing hah david lynch is as masterful a filmmaker as ever there was br br is this your type of film well that depends you should probably view more of lynch's work before watching this movie you'll need to be patient with the film and probably watch it a second time to pick up the many clues lynch has left throughout the movie for lynch fans this is a dream come true br br mulholland dr is a masterpiece it's brilliant enigmatic and masterfully filmed i love it
1	hitchcock would be proud of this movie even when nothing happens it is suspenseful director david lynch a few cheap thrill tricks here and there but he intersperses them with other cinematographic techniques to keep it from becoming obtuse br br altogether surreal this movie is like waking up and remembering most of a dream but not enough to make it sensible i am still trying to figure it all out and will probably have to see it again to catch things i missed and which may help me understand it better it is a very detailed plot that very slowly comes together so you must be patient and pay attention get your bathroom trip out of the way before it starts and yet the plot is overshadowed by the theme the mood the character development and the filming techniques br br the dual roles of the main actress naomi watts showcase her enormous talent that is when i could get my eyes off of her co star what an acting pair br br lynch surprises throughout the movie with unusual camera angles the length timing of editing cuts jumping back and forth between scenes combined with smart use of music and sounds it all helps to build suspense in our minds doubtless a major objective of the director well he kept me on the edge of my seat even had me talking to the actors to be careful here and not be so naive there you know the kind of stuff you want to smack your kids for doing at the movies
1	twin peaks and blue velvet have always been two of my favourite pieces of film making and even though past films by lynch have been slightly disappointing for me they have always been worth watching a number of times to be pretentious lynch can be like a good wine he must be savoured and over but in the end you must make up your own mind about what you have seen for lynch never gives you the full answers br br many people will walk out of mulholland drive possibly wanting to throttle themselves over the mind bending visual jigsaw puzzle that has just unfolded before them but there is a twisted logic to this film you just have to look for the clues betty naomi watts arrives in hollywood doe eyed and in search of stardom she then finds an amnesiac in her bathroom who has escaped from an attempted murder on mulholland drive together they try to uncover the secrets behind the life this all leads to a club called where a blue box will reveal all and that is when the film throws everything out the window people we thought we knew are entirely different people altogether is it a dream a reminiscence about life's previous escapades you will either love this film or hate it david lynch always draws such extreme reactions from his viewers but as his universe itself is always about extremes it is fitting that his films provoke such reactions br br it is best to look at this film thematically rather than as a straight forward narrative and appreciate the fact that lynch is a film maker who will still let you draw your own conclusions he has had many imitators as of late particularly in vanilla sky where a mind bending film decides to give you all the answers in the last rushed five minutes and you will probably forget about that film as soon as you walk out of the cinema mulholland drive will haunt you
1	after two brief scenes that at first seem unrelated to the rest of the film we see a dark haired obviously rich beauty in the back of a limousine her driver stops at an odd location on mulholland drive which is a twisting thickly wooded two lane road full of mansions overlooking los angeles just as her driver and another man in the passenger seat turn around to kill her two drag racing cars from the opposite direction come crashing into the limo only the dark haired woman survives she works her way down the ridge to sunset boulevard and hides in a vacationing woman's apartment shortly after betty naomi watts the vacationing woman's niece shows up at the apartment and runs into the dark haired woman who now has amnesia the bulk of the first part of the film is betty and the dark haired woman trying to figure out who she is why people were trying to kill her and why she had thousands of dollars and a strange key in her purse this is interspersed with oddly surreal threads about hollywood producers and directors with occasional forays into a land of hoodlums and prostitutes br br the above may sound a bit complicated and disjointed but that's not the half of it the film is constructed so that the meaning will always be open to interpretation it's basically guaranteed that you will not understand this film and you will not have very much confidence arriving at your own interpretation the first time around even if you have a lot of experience with like minded films such as memento 2000 donnie darko 2001 the i inside 2003 and the butterfly effect 2004 you may not understand it on a second viewing either the studio was aware of this to the extent that they had director david lynch write 10 clues to unlocking this thriller and they put it on the back of the chapter listing insert in the dvd lynch being of a particular disposition these clues are almost as cryptic as the film itself it doesn't help when trying to figure it out in the early stages that the structure is extremely complex it takes a very long time to figure out what parts are supposed to be real and there is a complex nesting of flashbacks in some sections with only contextual clues that they're flashbacks br br but is the film worth watching or worth trying to figure out that depends on your tastes obviously on a surface level the film is certainly attractive if you are a fan of surrealism although it will tend to seem a bit slow and overly disjointed to some viewers but those qualities and many other surrealist aspects of the film are typical of lynch a prime lynchian moment is the old couple in the beginning bizarrely smiling almost as if they're alien pod people trying to put on a front if you're familiar with that style and like it you'll find much to love here although in many ways mulholland drive is fairly understated for lynch it's also worth noting for viewers who'll primarily be interested in it or who enjoy it just as much as other aspects that mulholland drive has a quite steamy lesbian scene it's not gratuitous although i have no problems with but is instead an important hinge in the film br br like all of lynch's films it's easy to become enraptured in his unique approach to every aspect of filmic art and his attention to detail any serious student of film including armchair students cinephiles should study mulholland drive many will love it lynch doesn't let anything pass unmanipulated he includes brilliant color schemes such as the plethora of reds and pinks with important symbolism he makes unusual use of sound such as the ringing telephone carrying over into the section of score that follows it when betty first arrives at the airport he directs his actors to deliver their lines in a plethora of bizarre ways such as his characteristic odd pauses he lets his odd and surprising sense of humor poke through such as the name and the hot dogs made for pinks sign that provides a clue to some of the color symbolism br br lynch's attention to detail in production design provides important subtle clues throughout the film to help one unlock the meaning it's interesting to note that lynch even apparently demands that the dvd programming be unusual there are no chapters on the disc you must either watch the film in real time or fast forward or rewind to get back to particular points br br if the surrealism and veiled meaning of the film are attractive to you or if you're just fond of puzzles then mulholland drive is well worth watching for that aspect there is a fairly accepted interpretation of the film at least on a broad generalized level i won't recount the standard interpretation here it is worth researching but only after you've seen the film a couple times and have reached your own conclusions many articles and have been written on the film and interpretations there are even websites dedicated to it br br for my money however although i generally love lynch and find many things about mulholland drive attractive it is not quite a 10 for me at least not yet i have a feeling that my score could still rise on subsequent viewings to me though the twist aspect of the film is done much better in other works such as the i inside and the butterfly effect mulholland drive is more attractive to me for its surface surrealistic touches but the plot doesn't carry them as well as some of lynch's other films br br still mulholland drive is certainly recommended for the right crowd if you're serious about film and do not mind having to think about what you watch as if those two would not necessarily coincide you shouldn't miss this one
1	there's a sign on the lost highway that says br br major spoilers ahead br br but you already knew that didn't you br br since there's a great deal of people that apparently did not get the point of this movie i'd like to contribute my interpretation of why the plot makes perfect sense as others have pointed out one single viewing of this movie is not sufficient if you have the dvd of md you can cheat by looking at david lynch's top 10 hints to unlocking md but only upon second or third viewing please br br first of all mulholland drive is downright brilliant a masterpiece this is the kind of movie that refuse to leave your head not often are the comments on the dvds very accurate but it gets inside your head and stays there really hit the mark br br david lynch deserves praise for creating a movie that not only has a beautifully stylish look to it cinematography wise has great acting esp naomi watts a haunting soundtrack by badalamenti and a very dream like quality to it but on top of it all it also manages to involve the viewer in such a way that few movies have before after all when is the last time you saw a movie that just wouldn't leave your mind and that everyone felt compelled to talk and write about regardless of whether they liked it or hated it br br allright enough about all that it's time to justify those statements br br most people that have gone through some effort to try to piece the plot together will have come to the conclusion that the first half of the picture is an illusion a dream sequence br br of course that's too bad for all those trying to make sense of the movie by expecting traditional methods in which the story is laid out in a timely logic and linear manner for the viewer but for those expecting that i urge you to check the name of the director and come back again br br md is the story of the sad demise of diane selwyn a wannabe actor who is hopelessly in love with another actor camilla due to diane's lack of talent she is constantly struggling to advance her career and feels she failed to deliver on her own and her parents' expectations upon realizing that camilla will never be hers c becomes engaged with adam the director she hires a hitman to get rid of her and subsequently has to deal with the guilt that it produces br br the movie first starts off with what may seem as a strange opening for this kind of thriller which is some 50s dance jitterbug contest in which we can see the main character betty giving a great performance we also see an elderly couple which we will see twice more throughout the movie together with her and applauding her br br no wait this is what most people see the first time they view it there's actually another very significant fact that is given before the credits the camera moving into an object although blurry and the scene quickly fading out if you look closely the object is actually a pillow revealing that what follows is a dream br br the main characters seen in the first half of the movie br br betty diane imaginary self used in the first half of the movie that constitutes the dream sequence a positive portrayal of a successful aspiring young actor the complete opposite of diane was chosen as the name as that is the real name of the waitress at notice that in the dream version the name is br br rita the fantasy version of camilla rhodes that through diane's dream and with the help of an imaginary car accident is turned into an amnesiac this makes her vulnerable and dependent on diane's love she is then conveniently placed in betty diane's aunt's luxurious home which betty has been allowed to stay in br br coco in real life adam's mother in the dream part the woman in charge of the apartment complex that betty stays in she's mainly a strong authority figure as can be witnessed in both parts of the film br br adam the director we know from the second half that he gets engaged with camilla his sole purpose for being in the first half of the movie is only to serve as a punching bag for betty diane since she develops such hatred towards him br br aunt ruth diane's real aunt but instead of being out of town she is actually dead diane inherited the money left by her aunt and used that to pay for murder br br mr roach a typical lynchian character not real appears only in diane's dream sequence he's a mysterious influential person that controls the chain of events in the dream from his wheelchair he serves much of the same function as the backwards talking dwarf which he also plays in twin peaks br br the hitman the person that murders camilla this character is basically the same in both parts of the movie although rendered in a slightly more goofy fashion in the dream sequence more on that below br br now having established the various versions of the characters in the movie we can begin to delve into the plot of course i will not go into every little detail neither will i lay it out chronologically but i will try to explain some of the important scenes in relation to hint sheet br br as i mentioned above camilla was re produced as an amnesiac through her improbable survival of a car accident in the first 10 minutes of the movie which left her completely vulnerable what i found very intriguing with md is that lynch constantly gives hints on what is real and what isn't i've already mentioned the camera moving into the pillow but notice how there's two cars riding in each lane approaching the limo br br only one of the cars actually hit the limo what about the other even if they stayed clear of the accident themselves wouldn't they try to help the others or at least call for help my theory is that since this is a dream the presence of the other car is just set aside and forgotten about since as ebert so eloquently puts it like real dreams it does not explain does not complete its sequences lingers over what it finds fascinating dismisses unpromising plotlines br br shortly after rita crawls down from the crash site at mulholland dr and makes her way down the hillside and sneaks into aunt ruth's apartment betty arrives and we see this creepy old couple driving away staring ghoulishly at each other and grinning at themselves and the camera this is the first indication that what we're seeing is a nightmare br br although the old couple seem to be unfamiliar to betty i think they're actually her parents since they were applauding her at the jitterbug contest perhaps she didn't know them all that well and didn't really have as good a relationship with them as she wanted so the couple is shown as very pleasant and helpful to her in the dream they also represent her feelings of guilt from the murder and diane's sense of unfulfillment regarding her unachieved goals in her life br br a rather long and hilarious scene is the one involving the hitman diane apparently sees him as the major force behind the campaign trying to pressure the director to accept part in the movie from adam's party in the second half of the movie and he therefore occupies a major part of her dream because of her feelings of guilt and remorse towards the murder of camilla a part of her wants him to miss so she turns him into a dumb criminal br br this scene i think is also lynch's attempt at totally screwing his audience over since they're given a false pretence in which to view the movie br br gotta love that 'something just bit me bad' line though br br the next interesting scene is the one with the two persons at twinkies who are having a conversation about how one of them keep having this recurring nightmare involving a man which is seen by him through a wall outside of the diner that they're sitting in after a little talk they head outside and keep walking toward the corner of a fence accompanied of course by excellent music matching the mood of the scene br br when reaching the corner a bum like character with a disfigured face appears out from behind the corner scaring the living crap out of the man having the nightmare this nightmare exists only in diane's mind she saw that guy in the diner when paying for the murder so in short her translate into that poor guy's nightmares the bum also signifies diane's evil side as can be witnessed later in the movie br br the cowboy constitutes along with the dwarf one of the strange characters that are always present in the lynchian landscape diane only saw him for a short while at adam's party but just like our own dreams can award insignificant persons that we hardly know a major part in our dreams so can he be awarded an important part in her dream we are also given further clues during his scenes that what we're seeing is not real his sudden disappearance etc br br the cowboy is also used as a tool to mock the director when he meets up with him at the odd location the lights here give a clear indication that this is part of a dream also notice how he says that he will appear one more time if he adam does good or two more times if he does bad throughout the movie he appears two more times indicating to diane that she did bad he is also the one to wake her up to reality that scene is probably an illusion made to fit into her requirements of him appearing twice and shortly thereafter she commits suicide br br the espresso scene with the brothers where we can see badalamenti the composer as luigi is probably a result of the fact that diane was having an espresso just before camilla and adam made their announcement at adam's party in the second half it could at the same time also be a statement from lynch br br during the scene in which they enter diane's apartment the body lying in the bed is camilla but notice how she's assumed diane's sleeping position diane is seeing herself in her own dream but the face is not hers although it had the same wounds on the face as diane would have after shooting herself this scene is also filled with some genuine lynchian creepiness since diane did not know where or when the hitman would get to camilla and finish her off she just put her into her own home br br in real life diane's audition for the movie part was bad in her dream she delivers a perfect audition leaving the whole crew ecstatic about her performance br br also interesting is the fact that the money that in real life was used to pay for murder now appears in rita purse this is part of diane's undoing of her terrible act by effectively being given the money back as the murder now hasn't taken place br br when her neighbor arrives to get her piano shaped ashtray another hint is given she takes the ashtray from her table and leaves yet later when camilla and betty have their encounter on the couch we see the ashtray appear again when the camera pans over the table suggesting that betty's encounter with the neighbor was a fantasy br br the catch phrase of the movie adam is auditioning actresses for is she is the girl which are the exact same words that diane uses when giving the hitman photo resume br br the blue box and the key represent the major turning point in the movie and is where the true identities of the characters are revealed there's much symbolism going on here the box may represent diane's future it's empty or it may be a sort of a pandora's box the hitman laughs when she asks him what the key will open either way it is connected to the murder by means of the blue key which is placed next to her after the murder has taken place the box is also seen at the end of the movie in the hands of the disfigured bum br br club is a neat little addition to further remind the viewer that what s he is viewing is not real it also signifies that diane is about to wake up to her reality her reality being a nightmare that she is unable to escape from even in her dreams br br during the chilling scene at the end where the creepy old couple reappear diane is tormented in such a way that she sees suicide as the only way out in order to escape the screams and to avoid being haunted by her fears br br anyway that is my 0 02 hope this could help people from bashing out at this movie and calling it 'the worst movie ever' or something to that effect without realizing the plot br br as usual lynch is all about creating irrational fears and he certainly achieves that with this picture as well br br 10 out of 10
1	10 10 br br plot discussion br br this is one of the best movies ever made and i am not saying that because i am being fooled by the seemingly nonsensical presentation those who dislike the film because they don't understand the story often criticize those who are praising the film by saying that they are assuming its genius because they don't understand it i don't view this movie as very allegorical to me it is a story with a beginning middle and end people become confused by the film because they expect it to have a deep philosophical meaning that they are to interpret from the allegedly meaningless scenes i feel they fail to realize that the comes from a chopped up and rearranged plot combined with a very long and rather explanatory fantasy sequence and not from a chaos of visual allegory because of the limitation of length i will try to keep this short and to the point and touch on the major concepts br br the general plot diane moves to l a after jitterbug contest to get into acting at an audition she meets camilla with whom she falls in love diane becomes enraged with jealousy since camilla sleeps with other men and women diane discovers the other man the director at a film shoot and discovers the other woman a random blond at the engagement party for camilla and the director motivated by her rage and possessiveness diane hires a hit man to kill camilla after that is done she is overcome by loneliness and slips into an unconscious fantasy world where she lives the life she wants to diane is then awakened in her conscious state she is haunted by what she has done br br the significance of the fantasy the film starts out after the credits with a 1st person p o v shot depicting somebody collapsing onto a bed and slipping into unconsciousness this is where diane's fantasy starts the accident is there as an excuse for her to bring back her dead girlfriend and justify the fantasy life she depicts her girlfriend as meek and innocent because that is what she wished she was in the meantime she acts like everything is like in the movies because she has an escapist personality she also in a sense kills herself off and assumes the identity of a waitress named betty at a diner the story revolving around the director is a direct result of her feeling that he was in someway victimized in reality just as she was and convinces herself that he was forced to choose camilla it was also an unconscious expression of the lack of control she felt during the party camilla in the fantasy is actually the random blond from the engagement party she hated her so much that she turned her into camilla and made the ultimate antagonist she then took the real camilla and turned her into a perfect submissive out of the movies girlfriend and used rita hayworth as an inspiration she also paints the hit man as a very clumsy and incapable person to further justify the survival of camilla her fantasy world unfortunately for her was a search for diane which ended up being herself and made the dreamworld die by taking her through a series of reminders of reality the first reminder was club which that there is no band and the instruments you hear are not really there this is a metaphor for the fantasy she begins to shake violently because it shakes her perception of her surroundings the other reminder is the blue box actually the blue box is not the reminder itself more of a pandora's box really but the blue key that opens the box the blue key reminds her of the actual death of camilla because it is what the hit man said would show up when it was done along with having love this entire creation of hers is an escape from reality by living in the idealized hollywood that she expected to be part of when she arrived br br this is a story showing the psychology of a very troubled woman who lost a dream it is not series of random things specifically designed to disturb and it is not a cryptic philosophical message it is an unfortunate chunk of the human condition that is presented beautifully br br however ultimately this is all my opinion i may be way off or it may not be intended to mean any one thing there are many who disagree with me great afterall why does it have to mean anything why can't it just be a statement in itself what if coherent sensible narratives are shackles for artistic expression peter greenaway for example has spent many words eloquently supporting that idea by such statements as i would argue that if you want to write narratives be an author be a novelist don't be a film maker because i believe film making is so much more exciting in areas which aren't primarily to do with narrative and where is the written rule that everything must be immediately understandable with only one possible interpretation there is no such rule because the clarity of the movie is unrelated to the art of it i didn't understand it so mulholland dr story or not affects the viewers harasses them drags them awes them lulls them the way it lends itself to interpretation is amazing it never gets old it never loses its luster its visuals are always effective and beautiful it is cinematic perfection no matter what enjoy
1	in the beginning with the careful remote location and metal sound i thought of the opening scene in once upon a time in the west when it gets to the city then it begins to feels like kitchen stories or drifting clouds even possibly grimm br br then it turns out that this is more similar to joe versus the volcano in theme not style and the movie executes from beginning to end the same understated style letting you observe take in the steel blue grayish tone of the suites dresses wall color furniture bedsheets mirrors cars music background sounds and even people's expression then near the end there is one shot of a completely different tone warm yellow with soft music and ocean splashing children and laughter br br but maybe the observation is too long for me i would much rather to see the alternative side or what happens to the character after the ending shot still beautifully done
1	hilarious and low budget comedy at it's best this set of unique individual sketches with extensive self referential humor is reminiscent of a really raunchy kids in the hall be prepared for some of the most random and recitation worthy lines filled with ethnic slurs and awful language sex toys included br br there should be more comedy like this around today this collection of sketches on one dvd will warrant many viewings and in order to appreciate some of the parts if you enjoyed the state and or wet hot american summer get ready for some more glory if you are even considering this for younger audiences i would say that every child on earth should see this
1	the whole movie made me think of the first circle of dante's inferno where the souls who themselves in believing that they are happy go to they never realize they are actually in an inferno but nothing is enjoyable they just move on without any emotion in that sense dante thought that they the were in the worse part as they would never actively try to change their situation nobody can die in that place but trying to certainly does hurt i am not sure if the writer based his story on this medieval manuscript or not but the resemblance is absolutely striking br br i didn't enjoy the movie when i was watching it as i was expecting a climax which never came nevertheless it made me think afterwards and now i actually think it's a good film it surely does stick
1	a man arrives in a strange beautiful sterile city where no one feels any emotion and obsesses instead about interior design the essential of his days is reminiscent of 'groundhog day' the strange passages in and out of this world more remind one of 'being john but truly this is a scandanavian movie a piece of self satire that is also scandanavian in style the tone is austere and even the most fantastic scenes are played straight daring you to laugh at the absurdity to my mind the combination isn't wholly successful there aren't enough genuine laughs to compensate for the difficulties of taking the piece as pure drama it certainly is original perhaps my problem is that the world that it is not one that i recognise perhaps i should move to
1	a very interesting addition to the surrealistic collection recommended viewing for those who like their movies complicated my interpretation of the ending would be that journey ends in hell he dislikes the bland consumer led emptiness of purgatory a sort of but not progressing i e not getting anywhere even the city's metro trains don't stop at the stations it has a metro system like you should be able to travel freedom escape but you can never actually board those trains he is unable to reach fragrant sensory heaven and winds up continuing his bus journey to its final destination the old norse version of hell hades not hell the terrestrial city isn't burning hot like the british version its cold freezing the land of land of cold and mists this appears to be where andreas end up having just failed to access heaven through that tunnel
1	the film is a great watch very thoughtful i believe it is a film about how your like would be if you lived in a world created by catalogues the scenes are all perfect recreations of an ikea catalogue they even watch furniture on their tv when they break into the kitchen they break into another perfect picture of how a kitchen would look like in a catalogue when he is reborn or whatever you would like to call it he returns to the harsh reality of life i love the bit when he tells his new love he has left his partner it pokes fun at commercial bliss by saying you can have it all and whilst it it is nice to have the same things but some things you do not want to share a film without children also per say makes for a perfect ten
1	are pretty good at making me laugh at the drab nothingness of my soulless life huh br br the film making here was incredibly meticulous every piece of framing every deadpan stare every element of the colour palette every snippet of muzak or of those street cleaners was there to hammer home this world's calm emptiness br br in fact i think i might have found the general sense of emptiness overbearing had its absurdity not been genuinely funny and relatable like when andreas is telling his boss that he misses children and looks up and the guy is smiling and halfway out the door it's a sort of sad but true reflection of working with people spending 7 8 hours a day with them seeing more of them than the folk you love but ultimately knowing deep down they don't give a damn about your troubles and you the same br br this might have been a film the had made had they been born in oslo and not minnesota i think their humour is more aggressive and more wrapped up in cinema's past but they have the same mastery of technique and their films have the same underlying sense that life is pretty inconsequential br br i'll stop before i talk myself into taking a bus into the wintry wilderness
1	grabbed my attention on netflix instant play because it was only an hour and a half long it's nearing 4 am here and because it's norwegian which i wanted to follow up with dead snow and see what else the country is offering in international cinema right now a droll and deliciously wry romp this movie features a man andreas who gets shipped out to some purgatory of a brave new world city where everyone is happy and bland and food has no taste nothing smells and even sex loses its appeal driven to the edge by his lack of common senses he feels nearly ready to kill himself br br after an hilarious botched attempt at latter andreas tracks down a man with similar complaints and the two discover a tiny vagina shaped hole in a concrete wall from which music emanates the two attempt to break through to see what is on the other side tracking a tiny bit of light they can barely see but of course in fantasy allegory land desire and nonconformity are not allowed and the elements of the city operate to end attempt at freedom and sensuality br br jens and crew create a simple straight forward movement to the story one that flows well with its themes and moves along at just enough of a pace to keep from lagging the similarities in other similar science fiction aren't worth enumerating but still the movie has a unique feel and balances some very funny scenes with some pretty horrifying ones i like the limited but effective use of gore in this movie some disembowelment and that will get your heart stammering harder than the passion of the christ simply because it is so perfectly out of place from the gray toned mise en scene is a dependably squirrelly actor who physically feels out of place from his surroundings which works very well despite the fact that the concept itself isn't anything to write home about everyone involved makes it work and the movie fully realizes its own world br br polarisdib
1	enjoyed http ow ly my wife didn't so i watched it in bits over a few days br br reviewers mainly confused most agree it's allegorical but not of what br br that most people don't wish to escape and it's essentially forbidden goes with most of those options br br so presumably you're supposed to project your favourite preoccupation prejudice fear onto it br br so i'd say it's about an a life a live desaturated of colour literally in the film figuratively in the interpretation
1	the bothersome man is a smart surreal movie that makes you reevaluate what you're doing with your life and what makes you tick when you see these people in zombie like doing everyday events and realize that's what we do and what we want in real life it really hits close to home this is a surprisingly effective movie that at the end leaves you asking questions about your direction and not so much the movie br br andreas is the main character whose life we get a 3rd person view of as he tries to adapt to a new life after being relocated in the beginning he seems to be the most popular guy in town as everyone at work caters to him and he's invited to dinners etc a good example of this is in the scene with his new boss who offers him an envelope of an unspecified amount of cash saying here's a little something to get you started andreas even gets a girlfriend 20 minutes into the movie which he eventually moves in with this seems like an ideal living situation as his girlfriend is an established interior designer attractive and doesn't ever nag about anything he does but andreas is unfulfilled with their relationship as with everything else in this world he then begins an affair with a coworker named who he eventually leaves anne for and claims he is in love with after telling how he feels she tells him that she is also seeing other coworkers and says all of the relationships are nice soon after we see andreas at a train station where he tries to end his misery and to the audience's disappointment doesn't come about still looking for salvation andreas meets hugo who has found a hole which music can be heard coming out of so they embark on a mission to get to the other side will it be better or will it be worse br br the bothersome man shows us society's obsession with appearances and its materialistic mindset it does a great job making fun of us by filling homes with ikea products that the characters spend each lunch picking out i think he is mostly poking fun at the dull scandinavian society and its high suicide rates for example there is a scene in the movie where andreas comes across a man who jumped out of a building and onto a spiked fence also andreas fed up with this world cuts his finger off and then later jumps in front of a train this is one of the most weirdest outrageous scenes i've seen this world created by is equivalent to purgatory where there is no punishment or reward in this world drink after drink andreas never got drunk sex was unfulfilling and no matter how many times he tried he couldn't kill himself this movie reminded me of fight club and how both main characters were kind of out of sync with the world around them in fight club tyler durden creates a second persona that does everything he wouldn't and in this movie the awakened andreas is the equivalent to tyler durden after a while he wakes up and tries to escape the bland life he is now apart of by escaping through a hole in a wall br br does a great job with continuity in this movie meaning when a character has a half full cup in his hand and they cut away then come back they have the glass in the same hand and its not full or empty showing that the shot was done another day nowadays directors are more worried about the sound effects and overlook the little things like is that character wearing the bracelet on the same hand as yesterdays filming since i took tv production for three years in high school it's hard for me not to look for continuity or voice overs which drive me nuts does the little things well he's got great lighting in each shot never leaves you wondering why something is in a shot and brings about an interesting topic this film really worked for me because it not only mocks but the western society and what's wrong with it the only real issue i had was with the man who commits suicide by jumping on a spiked fence because you eventually find out this world has no death but he laid motionless forcing you to assume he was dead and this never gets answered in my opinion br br andreas is the only main character as others come and go and never do more than support his him his first girlfriend anne britt is an interior designer who at the surface seems perfect for him but eventually turns out to be dull this leads him to who he starts an affair with and falls in love with he soon finds out that she was with a handful of other men and that what he felt was not real andreas eventually meets hugo in the bathroom of a bar complaining about how nothing tastes good anymore and how he can't even get drunk anymore he follows hugo home to find the hole in the wall with that is filled with children's laughter and birds chirping br br doesn't have a lot on the resume but the bothersome man is more than a jump start to a great career but a preview of an up and coming director if this is any indication of his talent and potential as a story teller has a bright future and we can only hope that his future movies don't take so long to make it overseas for our viewing pleasure so take a seat and enjoy the ride as director jens takes you from the comfort of your home to the dreamlike world that is the bothersome man
1	synopsis andreas finds himself alone on a coach getting dropped off on a desert land at what seems the last stop of his journey he doesn't know how he arrived there but a welcome sign has been erected for him after momentarily pondering his whereabouts he is greeted by a man who takes him to his new life he then enters a world different to the one he came from br br as andreas is quickly introduced to his new job as an accountant he senses that his surroundings are a bit too uniformed for his liking as he takes his first lunch break he instantly notices that everyone in the city walks around in grey suits on this same day he sees a fellow businessman dead on some fencing spikes of what looks like an act of suicide the strange thing is the city folk pay no attention to this horrific act and walk on by as if it never happened it is quick to see that these people are genetically and their ability to distinguish between anything humane or inhumane is absent br br to help andreas settle in he is invited to go out with his co workers to a local nightclub the club appears to be one step away from becoming as exciting as a bingo night and as andreas drinks his sorrows aways he realises that no matter how much he drinks the alcohol has no effect on him as he tells these observances to a stranger in the men's room a man in a toilet cubicle starts to utter words which have been on mind all along realising that this man is thinking what he is he follows him to his house and notes where he lives for future reference the plot predictably evolves with andreas wanting an escape he seeks out the man he once followed hoping that he could lead him to becoming human again but is it too late br br my thoughts this norwegian film is something which everyone should see as it holds the answer to the big question what is the meaning of life well close enough the film sketches out the dark realities of what has become of today's working man or woman it's sole purpose is making people realise that life is too short to be materialistic it tries to show that small cliché things such as the sound of children playing should not be taken for granted because the moment you stop hearing that sound is the moment you're one step away from becoming a robot the ending of the film reiterates what happens when its too late to escape the mundane routine you've now become used to you start to adopt the saying of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' and become too comfortable to take a risk of change br br even though this film is not to be taken as a piece of realism its message is more than real the lack of empathy conveyed in the film and that of which andreas sees is a bold statement of what life can become the director jens has put together a film which in any other director's hands would have failed this is a fine piece of cinematic genius and i eagerly await to see what he does next br br the lead role played by is perfectly cast representing the average joe provides a good catalyst in making this picture darkly humorous the supporting actors also do an apt job and for some reason i feel that keanu reeves would have been perfect in this film as most of the supporting cast required their acting to be emotionless br br the score for this film was beautifully composed the recurring theme was always a delight to listen to and it provided a very sombre but welcomed feel to the movie br br set for a release date in the uk for 25th may 2007 i will definitely be going to re live this experience on the big screen this film has gained its way in my top 10 now quickly becoming my top 20 it has some shocking scenes and is darkly humorous throughout a must see
1	first real movie in this year amazing long shots sometimes with fix camera so specific for nordic cinema let aside dogma a true auteur film i find it it simply delighted all my senses and keep in mind how the image goes violent and painful during the scenes when he's trying to kill himself that's the point i don't think it stands up in the whole plot why if this was an ideal world couldn't you die but still you were keeping your conscience either was the real world with tailored rules or was a fantastic world but in this case no accidents like people remembering how it was before can happen br br it reminded me of kafka and maybe more of huxley's brave new world especially in that part where sex was actually available to everyone since it was viewed like a right to pleasure it lacked a plot but i think it was better like this since you realized and sensed the whole strange behavior of everyone the absurdity and the lack of real sensations in this happy world br br i think also that the end was brilliant true world is indeed a homo lupus you're eaten if you are not strong enough
1	if you were ever a fan of mtv s the state then these three guys will be familiar to you but even if you only stumbled upon them via the internet like i did you will soon come to appreciate their unique brand of comedy br br born out of their stand up comedy trio michael ian black michael and david wain produced these brilliant vignettes of surreal comedy to display at their shows and now after being available only to download from two websites they appear in pristine glory on one dvd br br think comedy sketch show sans censorship and you'd be halfway there no stone of decency is left unturned but for those who like their comedy rude self indulgent and bordering on puerile and i mean that in the most flattering way this is the dvd for you br br i think it's worth the money for the commentary from the two michaels and david alone you can't help but take a liking to them as they explain their actions cringe at their own antics with sex toys and by turn pat each other on the back and hurl abuse br br fantastic br br it must say something for the appeal of stella that the likes of julie bowen and paul rudd are willing to throw themselves into the action so fearlessly and you should follow their fine example throw preconceptions to the wind and prepare to laugh yourself sick
1	what a great movie this was is it heaven hell or something in between i disagree with many reviews of this movie saying that this is a depiction of hell it is not even clear if the opening scene starts the movie or is a flashback from the end further it is not clear that the main character goes to hell but perhaps someplace in between the review i read on imdb says this is hell but i disagree whole heartedly take into consideration that perhaps good people who commit suicide may not be condemned to hell this only one religious belief this is indeed a thinker and i have would recommend it to anyone who likes that type of movie definitely worth it
1	this norwegian film starts with a man jumping over the subway apparently committing suicide but the next scene shows him arriving in a lonely bus into a desert he meets a man and is shipped off to a mysterious city where he starts working in an modern office as an accountant the coworkers seem nice if guarded he soon meets a girlfriend yet the city seems utterly strange as food has no taste alcohol doesn't make you drunk and there's nary a children around is this a dream or is he in paradise or in hell while at times the films looks as extended episode of the twilight zone even at ninety minutes the movie seems a bit long it is quite thought provoking the best scenes are those in which the exaggeration is minimal as when the people engage in banal conversations about interior decoration and recoil at discussing deeper issues i always thought there was something inhuman in advanced capitalist societies in the way they try to repress the basic urges of human nature and this movie is best when it devastatingly critiques this life style unfortunately the movie ends up a big long and the director doesn't seem to know how to end it but most for of the running time this is very much worth seeing
1	the bothersome man is one of the best foreign films i have ever seen all the technical aspects are in my opinion perfect lighting acting directing pacing etc the story is breathtaking br br seemingly beyond death our main character finds himself inhabiting a world without beauty passion or anything remotely pleasing to the human senses his work is cold and uninteresting his relationships are numb and uninspiring and when it all becomes too much he seeks to end it in front of a train but it doesn't end he can not leave this strange world by suicide working his way back to a man who seemed to be feeling he same isolation and loneliness our main character joins him in excavating a stone wall in hopes of revealing the source of a strange and wonderful smell and music just as they break through and i will not reveal that much it all comes to an end and the movie ends as oddly as it began br br suffice it to say you will either love this movie or hate it i feel that it is like a magical poem open to many different interpretations and all of them as valid as the next if you enjoy new experiences in film and want to be taken away from hollywood's crap feast try this movie br br 9 10 and i don't rate easily because in spite of its darkness this movie left me with a sense of something greater something mysterious and beyond ourselves well done
1	a bus drops off a nameless man outside a run down standard oil gas station in the middle of nowhere we never learn where the bus came from or why he is on it or who he even is why is he the only passenger is he a prisoner is he the bothersome man referred to in the title of the movie has he died and gone to heaven or hell like our man we don't get a chance to stop and wonder he is met by a gatekeeper of sorts and shuttled off to a nondescript city from day one all the choices are made for him an apartment has been rented a job has been found an office assigned in fact his life is not entirely unlike life in the virtual reality of corporate and suburban condos women are heartless dinner parties are a drag office jobs suck but some pieces don't fit the puzzle silently efficient gray clad goons roam the streets are they some sort of paramedics or the secret police and why are there no children is the story even set in the real world whenever we think we might be getting some answers new mysteries unfold the bothersome man leaves you half relieved that it's over half wanting more i hope they make it into a computer game soon
1	den is one of the better films of all time and is about a man trapped in a world where there are no senses no feelings no love no truth and definitely no freedom a world where people become afraid when someone speaks their mind expresses himself or show affection a world where no one is free and no one has any idea what the meaning of any of this is just like the world we live in the world in den is a world of lost souls trying to become fulfilled but focus on the complete opposite of what fulfills them materialism social acceptance and mediocre satisfactions br br den deserves full attention by every human soul because we could all use a fresh wake up call
1	it would seem we should acknowledge scandinavian cinema for more than merely the dogma 1995 movement as cooked up by the danish all those years ago den or the bothersome man in english is a surreal and deeply thought through film yet deeply entertaining and rich in content both on and under the surface as a film alone it is a scathing comedy on society and attitudes in the post modern world we live in a world that judging by the bothersome man has reached the regions of norway and the like but along with this black comedy feel to it it would seem the film delves a little deeper and raises issues at least to me of metaphorical religious spaces and our human instinct to want to uncover the truth amongst so much material in our world that perhaps seems alien to us br br this was in truth a fantastic introduction to contemporary norwegian cinema for me the film very much falls into that category of the european art cannon with its deep themes and ambiguity shrouded atmosphere whilst maintaining an open finale and not so much a narrative as a procession of events that may mean one thing or another so many times we've seen films that use the set up the bothersome man adopts and so many times it's turned into a close to predictable routine revolving around a detective story or a chase story or something along those lines but this film allows its setting and situation to act as a mere backdrop for its protagonist named andreas to explore who he is where he is and what the possible mysteries behind this location really are br br the set up i'm talking about involves said hero arriving at a location with no prior memory or what happened before this i'll jump right in and say it's in my opinion he's dead and has been sent to some sort of purgatory as have all the city's inhabitants everybody in the city that andreas mixes with are of the same age same mentality and same attitude suggesting to me that most of them are victims of their own suicide and have been sent to a purgatory devoid of any emotion feeling colour or most importantly pain br br when we first see andreas he gets off a bus which he later discovers is uncanny in its abilities and approaches a petrol station in the middle of rural nowhere he is scruffy and has a huge beard but soon he will be the opposite sporting a suit and tie clean shaven face and a home of his own complete with new job in which the film makes one of the best transforming shifts between the rural and the urban that i've ever seen but the new job as well as the new city is uneasy you can take breaks whenever you like bosses are unusually kind and there just seems to be no emotion or reaction to anything these ideas are best put across in a cinema when andreas still a relative newbie to the city is crying and is clearly affected by a film on show but everyone else watches in stone faced style there is also the initial example when one man has jumped from a window and lies impaled on some spikes but everybody walks on by without fuss br br to back up my idea on everyone already being dead and the city acting as a sort of purgatory death and harm in general is impossible there is a particularly nasty scene involving an electronic paper guillotine and someone's thumb but everyone's reaction to the event is stone faced and it grows back within the hour similarly a suicide attempt involving trains later on comes to nothing and instead we get the point of view regarding what it's like to be dragged down tube tracks with invulnerability on your side the city acts as a barrier a painless society in which the masochistic need to self harm oneself is impossible a place in which sexual relations can occur and break ups equally so but both under emotion less and passion less circumstances a place in which people can attempt suicide but it is impossible to actually die the city adopts these powers because the damage has already been done in 'real life' and thus the film says you cannot kill yourself twice indeed you cannot feel pain or emotion in an afterlife of purgatory br br but the film's best part is the one that sneaks up on you judging by the closing five minutes of the film and the side story that opens up involving some music coming from another man's house it would seem there is a fine line between the spaces the film dictates as and we get to see these spaces only very very briefly – so briefly that they consist of a single shot the is a colourful kitchen with music and children playing it offers life hope emotion and happiness whereas the hell is a snowy nowhere which haunts you thanks to its hopeless build up and eerie cut off point the introduction of these two spaces at the very end of the film suddenly informs you of the reality andreas and co faced purgatory and everything that came with it the afterlife just was not ready for andreas and his adventurous mind – and look where the thinkers end up
1	where the heck is andreas exactly heaven hell a parallel universe when the bothersome man steps off the subway platform and meets an train his next conscious moment occurs on a bus riding solo the newest arrival in a dead netherworld where all the suicides go dressed as he was at the time of his sudden departure from the corporeal biosphere andreas is greeted by an official man who processes and transports the bothersome man from the barren flatlands to a city if the eyeballs work is a dead ringer for the sort of urban landscapes that he once inhabited if memory serves him right andreas retains the look of a sleepwalker in a trance a man estranged from people and objects struggling to find his bearings at home or rather his assigned apartment or at work where the bothersome man is randomly designated as an accountant for an independent contractor johannes his boss tells him you'll get used to it which covers more than just crunching numbers we suspect in this world same as the old world br br if life is meaningless like french existentialist philosopher jean paul said the same can be said for death as well the subculture of office life might be heaven for one man but it looks like hell to us under the context that den operates on to work in the afterlife in essence is to work for the rest of your life the social intercourse among office mates may pass as normal in the physical world but death is a variable that creates estrangement in the viewer as he she now recognizes the drudgery of white collar labor performed by white collar laborers who kill the hours with their inconsequential small talk and designated jobs they perform during the course of a day like each and every day seem irrational in its self evident absurdity to see daily life replicated in a speculative light den makes normal human interaction look like deadpan comedy as quotidian life becomes a performance which transforms karl marx's meaning of the word alienation because here the men and women in the office do identify with their labor like actors in a play who conspire to make their fictionalized selves appear real but the bothersome man never fully participates in the facade he's always aware of the cracks br br from a wooden bench andreas witnesses the aftermath of a jumper who impales himself on an iron fence while people on their lunch breaks walk on by indifferent to his escaping intestines that create red splatters on the clean sidewalk andreas faces the same impassivity from his own co workers after he purposely cuts off his own finger with the hope that he'll feel the pain on a paper he doesn't it's just another sensation in addition to being able to taste and smell that's lost to the bothersome man this inability of being able to take solace in the simple pleasures amplifies the bothersome man's need for love where simple pleasures compensated for his loneliness in the physical world at a dinner party hosted by his boss andreas meets anne britt barker they hit it off he walks her home she invites him in they become a couple he moves in when they have sex however it's good for neither andreas nor anne who seems to get more pleasure out of interior design love is an abstract concept another sensation that's unattainable in this world but love matters to the bothersome man so he tries again with a girl from work den deconstructs love by presenting its foundation as a series of gestures that require performances from both the man and woman when doesn't elicit the same tender feelings for andreas after his hyper romantic gesture of leaving anne britt for her this norwegian film reveals its secrets about the prosaic but odd city with an open that's and offer up multiple interpretations br br wounded by apathy towards his of love for her the bothersome man wanders into the same subway station stands at the same platform leers at the same couple aggressively making out and jumps this time he can't die how can you die when you're already dead hit repeatedly by train after train face turns into ground beef his body contorts in angles previously seen only seen in art when the bothersome man realizes that love and death are out of his grasp he seeks out the man from the club who was willing to say what goes unsaid in this city of the walking dead which is death not life has no meaning br br getting to the bottom of the mystery behind whereabouts drives the narrative and to the filmmaker's credit this enigma is satisfactorily addressed in a scene that recalls spike being john malkovich when andreas crawls through a tunnel in order to cross over into another world like a newborn baby which resembles the portal to brain that craig schwartz charges people to crawl through attempt to traverse the great divide presents a beguiling paradox since heaven and earth are literally separated by a wall this vulnerable boundary acts as a perfect encapsulation of the belief that heaven is a place on earth but at the same time heaven is proved by the reality of a hell the place that andreas is sent to after being banished from the city of his destination
1	as you may know norway is the most developed country in the world regarding to human development index this film craftily reveal our future to us our future would be that of norway since we are all paddling to achieve the best and offer the least the life that was shown was maybe an exaggeration yet comparing today's concerns with those of our ancestors it is not far from reality reasoning br br watching this film free from all of our pre assumptions we can find both of our faces the one that is laughing at the brilliant scene of andreas dumping her girlfriend and the one that is searching through magazines hours and hours to choose some stupid chair among stupid collections br br the idea of the hole with the hope of lightness was another magnificent idea of the film the slight glory yet the only one and the effort that was put to reach it makes us feel closer to andreas br br although i was attracted mostly to the idea and production of the film played pretty well and the atmosphere of the film was quite
1	at first sight the bothersome man seems like several other movies books rolled into one kafka's the trial melville's bartleby the fall and rise of reginald and groundhog day instantly spring to mind a man andreas arrives in a nameless city where he is immediately given a job in an office and finds a beautiful new girlfriend however there's a catch his colleagues are all friendly bland and utterly characterless and everyone he knows including his girlfriend seems to have only one topic of conversation interior design welcome to the hell of modern consumerism in which people throw themselves from buildings and no one raises an eyebrow or spend their days reading furniture catalogues and eating food that tastes of nothing br br andreas quickly realises his predicament and spends the rest of the film trying to escape in various ways suicide turns out not to be an option and when he finds a new girlfriend she is just as bereft of feelings as the old one there is a wonderful scene in a restaurant where he asks her to move in with him and all she can say is 'i don't mind' br br in fact much of what the bothersome man has to say has been said before and after about 45 minutes you begin to feel that you indeed are experiencing a certain sense of deja vu yet its point is one that is probably worth repeating over and over again an unexamined life is one that is not worth living added to which it provides a decidedly modern take on the perennial theme of how capitalism is destroying our souls more than one character reminded me of people i've known especially his furniture obsessed girlfriend and if by the end of the film the film makers have run out of ideas maybe that's the point there will no end unless you can find other people who share your sense of alienation
1	i believe there are two angles to the story first it's the world satyric view presented in an obvious kafkaesque manner underlining the sordid spectacle behind some of life's most common but also pleasant or comfortable moments and elements which are usually enough to keep man functioning in society like a good job a good home a good wife a good car and even a good mistress apart from this so called common bliss there are some who cannot help asking themselves some more uncomfortable questions like where they come from or weather they can have some other form of bliss weather there could be a reason for them being or weather there could be something they missed out on or even more sinister weather there could be something the system itself is withholding from them br br second the most interesting aspect of this film i believe is the fact that it attacks head on this natural compulsion to dissect the world around us questioning it by our personal judgment and usually condemning it because it doesn't serve us better because it's not tailor made to suit us as a person br br the symbolism behind the train accident i believe suggests that our own will can be overpowered by fate or some other universal greater power even in the face of our so called power to decide when we want out instead the man gets to be dismissed by this greater power let's call it the system because the authors clearly avoid calling it god perhaps further underlining that the system is man made and therefore can be mastered by man unlike fate which is a concept closer to religion on it's own terms not by killing him but by showing him that there is a place for the man who asks wants too much suggesting maybe that true fulfillment does not come from the outside world but from within and if the outside world decides to provide you with some comfort you should learn to accept it without questioning the fabric of every little aspect of it br br unconfortable but makes you reevaluate some existential questions which have become mainstream in the last century like what can man do in a world increasingly drained of substance a consumer driven world in which man can be interchanged without making a difference to the bigger picture but only as long as he is of some use to the system
1	i honestly don't know what words imdb will allow me to use in this review as a result i'm having a hard time describing these shorts let's just say there's a good amount of gay sex some necrophilia some incest a fair amount of masturbation and several artificial members and i loved every minute of it br br not that it's all crude humor it isn't they stray away from fart gags for the most part with the exception of one sketch entitled pizza in which they use one very well they being 3 of the short lived sketch comedy group that aired on mtv called the state namely david wain michael and michael ian black br br the trio go on adventures usually playing themselves and encounter strange and unusual people people that are often actually more normal than they are the supporting cast is fantastic as well paul rudd julie bowen bradley cooper zach and sam rockwell all make appearances in various sketches they're also joined by other the state alums like joe lo and todd the musical selections are also very well placed br br i've enjoyed these sketches over and over again but they aren't for everybody as they're pretty vulgar most of the time if you like clever humor that isn't afraid to push the limits of good taste then i highly recommend this if you liked wet hot american summer directed and written by wain and or the state then you should really enjoy this br br i think it can currently only be ordered online check out their website and stream a couple of sketches to get an idea if you really want this first and then find out how to buy the dvd
1	i saw this movie yesterday and can't stop thinking about it i moved to norway four months ago and have tried ever since to find the origin of the strange emptiness i felt when i saw this film i was striken with the brilliant snapshot of this society yes this is all true i too found a great job with a great pay and i live with my norwegian boyfriend in a nice apartment downtown but so far everyone i have met have left me with that tasteless empty feeling i had never had before this is what this movie is about dinner parties with nothing to say to each other but emotionless comments long silences no stress a creepy calm and frozen smiles of niceness this scandinavian nightmare is perfectly rendered in den see this movie
1	andreas arrives in a strange inhuman place where everything seems perfect he's given a good work everyone is kind to him and to everyone and he really doesn't trouble too much even in finding a beautiful girlfriend but in this no named city andreas finds soon that a perfect commercials type world is really not a paradise really one of the better movies i've seen this year the attractive plot is perfectly supported by a smart direction where every single component cool desaturated photography cold symmetrical design unemotional acting slow highly controlled camera movements helps in building an unique weird atmosphere that will keep the audience suspended until the end a sarcastic ironic bitter comedy that made me laugh ant think as only best films are able to do nothing new probably in the analysis of the modern de civilization but really a smart work with great surprising ideas that will hardly be forgotten from whom had the luck to see it simply beautiful the amazing scene in the metro underground
1	one of the best films i've seen in a long time precise in its vision and beautiful and highly imaginative in its realization i can't say much without giving it away and i don't recommend you actually read that much about this movie before seeing just see it br br but ah one must come up with ten lines of text to have a review listed on imdb conundrum what can i do tell you about the film nope can't do it i think i enjoyed this movie precisely because saw it with no preconceptions please you do the same br br i suppose this can be said the acting is excellent and understated and what i have come to love about foreign movies is that the movies are actually about the movies not the stars
1	what we have here is a film perfect for anyone that participates in the world of post those who sit in their home earning money by buying and selling sensual less and perpetuating a system that values little other than the preservation of self br br the beautiful filming i always appreciate fix and soft boxes makes it an even stranger place to travel through both enjoyable to look at but frightening to comprehend perhaps that's overly dramatic but its true br br journey through his hell is overwhelmingly tragic his quest is honorable laudable and precious the conclusion is necessary and we are left not sure if he's better off which is the perfect conclusion br br highly recommended to all people who view their world with a critical eye and especially to those who don't perhaps it will encourage a reflection or two
1	i think this is the best norwegian movie i've ever seen it's about 40 year old andreas who gets hit by a subway train and suddenly finds himself in a strange city however everything here has been made ready for him he has got a job a house and clothes at first this city seems perfect no death no pain and no problems everywhere there are men in gray suits who cleans up and fixes everything that doesn't fit into their definition of perfect however andreas can't really seem to fit in and starts to long back to his old world and tries with all means to get back br br the thing that impresses my the most in this movie is how they way of making the city seem so surrealistic even though i have seen a lot of these places in real life they seem so distant another thing that contributes greatly to the is the performance from the actors is just the perfect guy to play the confused and bothersome andreas and all the other characters are also doing a great job by playing apathetic sounds like a hard job doesn't it the strong difference between andreas and the others leads to very amusing situations as well br br all in all this is a fabulous movie the plot may be a little confusing but the movie has such a great atmosphere i would recommend that everyone should go see it br br and i wouldn't recommend listening to as it seems he has seen too many commercial american movies and seems to have became too used to just getting served the moral on a silver plate the way i see it there is not much in this film that tries to tell us about suicide being right or wrong i consider it more of a warning of a direction our society seems to be taking but sure everyone can see a film in their own way
1	totally different with loads of understatement and black comedy this is a film few get to see but those who do will remember it this movie creates its own universe and is fascinating in every way what it is about estrangement i believe probably up to the viewer but i found that this movie tries to say something about the coldness and emptiness behind all the designer furniture and perfect facades don't know if i'm right but this movie really got to me see it i really hope the team behind this movie makes more movies and that they will continue to do so in their own some kinda weird style and i forgot the casting here i superb with being perfect in the role as the bothersome man who doesn't understand where he is what he is doing and why the acknowledgment of not understanding the purpose of life in the city is what makes him bothersome all the others do as they are told and pretend to be happy this movie is a good and humorous comment on life in 2006
1	i heard an interview with the main actor who said that the film was not intended to be a horror movie but he himself would describe it as mental horror i strongly subscribe to that br br it is not clear why he travels to this place but everything there is monotonous no bright colors no honest smiles nothing personal everything is ordered and everyone seems to be satisfied living this kind of life our hero though from the beginning seems to be misplaced and feels it himself br br what makes this film so important and good is the remarkable similarity to life in many large cities or even countries nowadays you have to function you are not supposed to let your colleague know your weaknesses you show off on your wealth your car etc and most of all you lack the true love of life that children have naturally in this film you see neither children nor old people they simply do not fit in a society of strong workers br br i would recommend this film to everyone and make sure that this utopia does not come true
1	imagine a world in which everyone treats anyone nicely no foul word is ever uttered office bickering is nonexistent and your boss invites the office crowd regularly to self cooked dinners where you can chat about latest interior design styles everything is neat pleasant well just nice in other words you are in hell after being dropped off in the middle of nowhere mid thirties andreas starts a new job as a book keeper in a small clean city from the beginning he feels foreign in this proper impersonal world of superficial kindness surrounded by pleasant but lifeless interior architecture and likewise colleagues food tastes of nothing drinks don't get you drunk no children anywhere after initial steps of fitting in andreas searches for ways to escape the bland new world he doesn't know where he came from anymore but still remembers rich tastes true feelings anything beyond the non committal life he's leading now the bothersome man resonates ideas of and kafka but here the cruelty is the omnipresent neatness unlike pleasantville this is not about narrow minded bigotry more a fable of our urban free world civilisation of fitting in it mostly reminds one of the ingenious fight club scene in which edward norton walks through a mock ikea catalogue spiced with macabre humour this scandinavian laconic tale convinces on every level story characters and relevance a true screen gem 8 10
1	andreas arrives in a strange city he doesn't remember where he came from and how he got there he is ordered to arrive at work and gets his own apartment in the city all his co workers are nice and polite to him they say hi and smile when they pass by him but then later on andreas discovers that the city isn't that pleasant as it seems going home from work he see some people wearing grey suits cleaning up the bloody mess of a dead body apparently a suicide victim that had thrown himself out of the window the procedure is done with a calmed mind as if they were emptying a trashcan the following day andreas meets the suicide victim fully alive at work more and more andreas discovers the atmosphere of the city br br den might be the best norwegian film i've seen original artistic directing is usually missing in norwegian films with only a few exceptions the plot is also very original and could even be called post modern horror as the film present us a terrifying thought of having to cope with a world that is completely and the more you try to fill your life in this city with a meaning the more meaningless it becomes i am fascinated by how the director manages to create the feeling of a universe a nightmare that you simply cannot escape from not even with death br br go see it its really worth it i gave it 9 out of 10
1	i must say this is the best movie i have ever seen i know that on this website it's received only negative reviews but for once i'd like to be the good person who gives the worlds best movie a good review i find the movie to be extremely funny and it has the perfect mix of everything it makes me feel all sorts of emotions when i watch it and i can't get enough of it the soundtracks brilliant i love it i understand why people may not love it as much as i do but i don't understand how people could hate it the movie is 100 brilliance blurred is amazing i never realised that aussie movies could be so good and i also never realised i could watch one movie so many times in a single day without getting sick of it i think that everybody should watch it whether its to get a feel of what life was like in the younger days or if its to see what your in for when you reach the end of year 12
1	mississippi mermaid is a disturbing and unsettling examination of what it means to be in love with the wrong person br br truffaut's directing is his usual outstanding work although this is far from his best deneuve is very very beautiful despite the character she portrays
1	i read most of the comments here were everybody saw only the flaws of the movie i agree the director it's not the actors are not oscar winners but it has something everyone could relate to i don't want to spoil but telling more then the plot the finishing of school and the trip to a big party or if you like to see beyond the metaphor is choosing the way trough life remember that days of youth the days when you or our friend acted like the characters or do you think you should acted like one of them and now you regret you didn't if you can go back in to that time and if you can ask yourself any of this questions maybe the movie wasn't so bad
1	track listing 1 outta my head 2 lash take me away 3 4 machine gun fellatio the girl of my dreams is giving me nightmares 5 butterfly 9 growing pains 6 grace good thing 7 giddy up 8 james lick a lounge 9 k lee 1 1 1 10 the international noise conspiracy smash it up 11 cartman shock living with you 12 pollyanna rebound girl 13 filler machines don't sleep 14 giants of science complete this progression 15 rocket science hyperspace 16 the cruel sea three legged dog 17 dog home entertainment system 18 drag secret design 19 chemical heart acoustic mix 20 come on jp mix br br loved this movie sure it wasn't hollywood material some people complained about the script acting but thats the beauty in australian movies
1	i thought this movie was brilliant it was so funny and so true too a great idea for a movie five groups of friends on their way to i've got to say that matt newton as mason was probably my favourite character i wish i could give this movie more than a 10 rating
1	all i can say is that i was expecting a movie and blurred surprised me on the positive way very nice teenager movie all this kinds of situations are normal on school life so all i can say is that all this reminded me my school times and sometimes it's good to watch this kind of movies because entertain us and travel us back to those golden years when we were young as well lead us to think better in the way we must understand our children because in the past we were just like they want to be in the present time try this movie and you will be very pleased at the same time you will have the guarantee that your time have not been wasted
1	i saw a test screening of blurred recently and i am surprised to say that it was actually pretty good its a film about different groups of kids your hillbillies your rich snobs your typical teenage couple plus two geeky guys and one post hippie babe together but as separate storylines each group is travelling to the gold coast for week australia has never had any problems writing comedy and australia is never short or actors who can play comedy with subtlety and just the right amount on quirkiness the cast is full of stellar aussie actors with enormous talent and loads of screen presence keep your eyes on craig horner a young graduate who's optimism for a week long party gets lost in his friends shenanigans travis cotten and mark priestly who successfully tackle some tricky physical comedy as two bummed out and jessica gower as a cutie but confused teen angsting about love veronika makes her film debut as every adolescent boys dream girl and holds her own amongst an array of considerably more experienced performers look out for matthew newton cleverly cast as a seedy limo driver fantastic aussie
1	comment that ms paget's ultra lewd dance in this film is the most erotic in the history of films is certainly one doozy of an exaggeration it isn't even debra paget's most erotic dance her near nude gyrations in fritz lang's the indian tomb make this number look decidedly tame as for being the most erotic in the history of dance well where do i start salma performance as pandemonium in from dusk to dawn 1996 jamie lee curtis in true lies 1994 jessica alba in sin city 2005 rose in terror planet 2007 sheila kelley in dancing at the blue iguana 2000 blah blah blah br br don't get me wrong i love the sequence and have included it in my cheesecake dance series on youtube i just think that making a claim like most erotic in the history of film is really going out on a very fragile limb
1	i watched princess of the nile for the first time when i was about 10 years old i am 63 now and have never forgotten the movie nor have i gotten over my fascination with egypt i have searched the internet trying to buy the movie but have not been able to locate it it makes me wonder if this is one of the lost movies in hollywood i loved debra padget and jeffrey hunter together they have such charisma together if you were to ask me anything about the movie i could not tell you anything other than who was in it i vaguely remember a scene by the nile with debra padget a bunch of other women i have always wanted to see it again i never thought of it as an escape movie back then but i can see now where that was probably the case i do hope they will put it on dvd and i will be able to see it again before i die it was a wonderful movie
1	this is one of my favorite films for many reasons to begin there are standout performances from lovely debra paget as a princess dancing girl from michael rennie as the villain handsome young jeffrey hunter investigating crime in her city state and others the film is an unusually colorful adventure and we even see the princess rehearsing the dance she later performs for once she manages to skewer hunter before she learns he is on her side also the photography the costumes by lionel newman's music and the film's style are unusually fine add to this rousing action intelligent characterization and fine direction by veteran harmon jones of a gerald adams' script set in ad and you have the ingredients of an enjoyable grecianized near eastern but there is much to praise about the unusual and well developed storyline here as there is much more to praise other than the film's swift pace well managed physical action sequences and superior technical aspects classically trained actors such as michael edgar barrier wally cassell jack elam and dona drake are not commonly found in one b film together nor are there fascinating sets a variety of locales and a mystery of the quality that is supplied here one way of assessing a film is if i were guaranteed to live through the experience would i choose to undergo these events and perform these actions since my answer is a resounding yes in this case this film remains one of my choices as a favorite and very underrated cinematic work could it be that us critics' all too frequent disdain for females as warriors and thinkers that as in so many other cases has caused closed minds to this estimable film's obvious anti tyranny and pro entertainment qualities
1	for the most part i only enjoy the kind of movie that allows one to escape the current time into the future or past this movie is pure escapism the dancing starts almost immediately and debra paget in her purple harem bikini dress simply has no equal in film in my opinion her dancing while sultry is surpassed by her dance in fritz lang's tiger of available on dvd where she played the temple dancer br br one problem with the movie is the closed setting there are few outdoor scenes shot and they as well as other scenes are a bit claustrophobic the same locations are used over and over again but with some interesting secret passages and her secret double identity is totally unbelievable with beauty of that magnitude debra even wields a sabre and holds 2 enemy soldiers at bay on a staircase she could do it all br br what does work is debra paget as a princess with her beauty she certainly would be the center of attention anywhere at any time in history this movie when hopefully it becomes available on dvd will be a must buy overall taken with a bit of humor i loved it br br
1	even the maria montez jon hall baubles of the '40s are eclipsed by princess of the nile fox's entry in hollywood's mid '50s obsession with things egyptian see land of the valley of the kings etc pure unadulterated mindless hokum lavishly produced low budgeted actually but using sets and costumes left over from the robe this spectacle looks like it cost millions 71 minutes of eye candy the plot having something to do with nefarious do in ancient egypt is beside the point offers the cinematographer and audiences the delectable sight of debra paget wearing an assortment of see thru veils most of which hit the ground when she shakes and thru a slave girl production number unparalleled in film history female moviegoers were not shortchanged fox's handsomest young contract player jeffrey hunter is as photogenic as ms paget while michael rennie lurks around in the background stirring up evil doings in the land of the pyramids for those who might think paget hunter can't act and were only hired for their physical attributes check out their subtle overlooked heartbreaking work together a few years later in white feather another fox production that has sadly vanished into the realm of lost films princess of the nile still stands in a class by itself as a cheerfully mindless breathlessly fast paced dazzling testament to the glories of 3 strip technicolor and the seductive charms of ms paget all of 20 at the time put this one of a kind kitsch classic at the top of your guilty pleasures list and enjoy satisfaction guaranteed
1	this must be one of the most horribly titled films of all time the kind of title that ruins a film because it neither evokes the plot nor the characters a title like this makes a film flop even the french title is not much better too bad truffaut deneuve must have been enough to sell it br br this is a long film but largely worth it clearly influenced by hitchcock we have an intercontinental story about a personal ad bride her rich husband a theft an identity switch and obsessive love the plot here is actually very good and takes us on an unexpected trip br br the thing that works both for and against the movie is the focus on the relationship it is an interesting study in how these plot developments are played out in real life relationship with these two people unfortunately this is what bogs the film down and makes it ultimately dissatisfying we do like films to have a real sense of finality and that is missing here br br it was the case in many of her films that deneuve became a canvas for directors to play their fantasies out on and this time it doesn't work as well messy here is the fact that the director clearly just wanted to have deneuve take her top off a few times deneuve is an actress who always seems very deliberate and thoughtful so these attempts to make her seem spontaneous fall flat br br basically the script needed to be worked out better before shooting began to make this film tighter and shorter and to snap but truffaut didn't snap did he so it wanders a bit but remains interesting
1	with looks that could kill and a willingness to display her charms paget's sensuality leaves no doubt as to where her assets lay br br she plays a sultry innocent 13th century princess who rouses her people to save egypt from the ambitions of a powerful michael rennie and joins her forces with the son of the of baghdad jeffrey hunter to save her trembling throne she also finds time to fulfill a great deal of exotic dancing her luscious legs make her hard to forget br br the emphasis is not on the plot but on the visual pleasure of a great number of beautiful girls in sensual costumes
1	why jessie matthews one of britains top musical stars was in this movie in between her sparkling the good companions and the classic evergreen is a good question when i first saw it i was really disappointed i wanted to see her sing and dance she was billed as millie the non stop variety girl but there was more stop than variety br br now i see it as a good little drama br br it is about a bus crash and the stories leading up to it of the people on the bus br br apart from jessie matthews who is great as millie sir ralph richardson plays her fiancée yes that's right br br edmund gwenn who went to hollywood to co star in lassie movies and also with natalie wood in miracle on 34th street plays a grumpy businessman gordon harker is his very annoying partner br br williams who wrote night must fall was the black mailing villain and frank lawton who went to hollywood and appeared in david copperfield and the devil doll is the young man in trouble sonnie hale who was married to jessie matthews at the time played the bus conductor
1	despite its age this film retains its undoubted charm and attraction and is a fine surviving example of early british cinema it has an underlying air of eeriness interspersed with shafts of humour which are not out of place and serve to demonstrate the assured direction production values involved so many episodic type films are disjointed and untidy but this is not one of them the standard of acting helps a great deal and the various disparate characters come across as interesting and believable all in all this long forgotten little gem is well worth anyone's attention in spite of the one jarring note in the film which surprisingly escaped the censor's attention
1	this is an exceptional film it is part comedy part drama part suspense the dialog is exquisite most of the actors and actresses were very famous in their time and for good reason you will probably recognize someone even if you don't usually watch older movies they are also each in a role that particularly suits their talents br br one correction to make on another users comment is that two people not one are announced to die in the accident maybe the unlucky two are a reflection of what the writer considers important in life the movie is too engaging to worry about who it is until it happens br br the story is ahead of its time but it does not lose the quality of an older movie time and effort was spent perfecting the camera's view and the soundtrack something modern movie makers tend to forget
1	this movie pops up now and again on the abc in australia at about 3 am in the morning br br it starts off with the scene of a bus crash in london br br the films has got flashbacks of each character as the film progresses plus the lapsed photography of big ben winding back to symbolise what events occurred thirteen hours ago up until the bus crash br br it took me a while to understand it but it was enjoyable nonetheless br br if sean cunningham and quentin tarrantino got together and made a film this may be the result due to the flashbacks and small stories tying in and deaths br br i am unsure of the main characters as it has been a while since i have seen it but a rare gem indeed
1	this film has an excellent premise and is really crying out to be turned into a hollywood blockbuster as i recall and it's a few years since i've seen the film the action starts with a london omnibus filled with people there is an horrific crash and one passenger dies the rest of the film is then told in flashback with 13 characters who were on the bus getting their recent lives explored in intricate detail at the end of the film we return to the crash and find out which of these chirpy vivid characters has met a gruesome end great stuff a little like a good tabloid news story fleshed out in precise even handed detail if only it were available on video
1	so many early british sound films that i've seen on video suffer from either poor print transfer quality or poor sound or both fortunately i was able to obtain a copy of this movie on a video of excellent quality enabling me to focus on the story itself br br and an excellent story it was at first sight the passengers on the ill fated bus looked like a pretty boring lot except for the always lovely jessie matthews but as the film went back to show each passenger's story on the day before the accident i discovered that the cast contrary to initial appearance was a talented group of performers skillfully directed so as to bring a real individuality to their distinctive characterizations br br viewers may have different preferences as to which two passengers are going to meet a tragic end and which ones will survive but the movie holds your interest as it keeps you guessing this film deserves a much wider audience a real gem of early british cinema
1	absolute grabber of a movie and given its age years ahead of its time i first saw this the week my dad came home with a neighbor's tv that the guy had thrown on the scrap heap a with all things electrical dad had it working inside two days this was july 1955 and then probably only the third house in the street to have television pretty much the first thing we ever saw on that grainy and flickering old 12 inch screen was this film it's pretty old dear i recall my mom telling me br br almost 50 years on and it doesn't seem any older rather like world war i in that respect terrific little fantasy about a london omnibus carrying thirteen passengers that crashes killing one of their number then in flashback we pick up on the lives of these people and what brought them to being on this bus that very day br br returning to the crash at the end of the film the victim's identity is revealed perhaps the inspiration behind the 1960 movie the list of adrian messenger br br if ever you come across this little gem i suggest you watch it
1	a few years ago while i was renting some movies i came across subspecies 4 ended up watching it and actually kind of liking it we need a good vampire gore flick that doesn't hold back but when i went back to the video store they said they didn't have any other subspecies videos unfortunately the same went for any other video store i checked out i gave up until someone on youtube actually posted all the subspecies films and i got to watch them all last night and i'm hooked i am now a fan of the full moon subspecies series i think because this was the type of horror film i have been looking for i've been looking for a good cheesy scare for a long time and subspecies filled that spot is one of the coolest vampires on screen and almost gives nosferatu a run for his fangs br br is an evil vampire who is after his blood stone his birth rite the stone contains some blood that is absolutely incredible and gives him strength three american girls who are studying romanian history and culture bump into a man stephan who offers to help they stay at castle where we find out that stephan is brother seduces and turns two of the girls but stephan falls for one of the girls michelle and will do anything to protect her br br subspecies is a fun series despite the cheesy effects it makes it in some ways more likable plus was a perfect villain as stephan was the perfect angel like romantic vampire the story is chilling and i think this was a fun vampire movie this was also the first in the series the best part is the sequels are just as fun i would recommend this for a scary movie night watch it in the dark is sure to send shivers down your spine or even your neck ok cheesy joke couldn't resist br br 7 10
1	ok so it can be done we have here the perfect vampire movie gothic beautiful with all the ingredients a realistic vampire a wonderful story take note i am from transylvania and i assure you this movie respects the vampire lore it's exactly like the tales i heard in my childhood for a transylvanian it is quite believable you must see it if you are interested by real vampires as they were depicted in medieval chronicles and not how are they done in recent hollywood movies as far as i can guess the hollywood problem is they mix vampires with the incubus which is pretty hilarious for me vampires are never good looking or attractive they can inspire only horror and repulsion the incubus called in my country the night flier is the one beautiful demon which kills his victims by loving them i strongly recommend this for any gothic person out there see also the sequels they are all 4 very good and of course don't miss dark shadows something similar is nosferatu in venice with klaus kinski i recommend that one to
1	a very interesting plot of the film based on the novel waltz into darkness of the writer cornell woolrich it is a drama rather than a film noir which tries to send a message that love changes your own life i e your love to any person and the love you received from him her a wealthy man really changed his life for love while his partner finally understood that he was the only one that loved her belmondo played well as usual while a somewhat still young michel bouquet played his eternal role of a detective or police agent frankly bouquet was not so impressive in this film but less than that was the performance of catherine deneuve she was not so convincingly in her role as a prostitute then lover wife of louis belmondo for those who like to visit the world the film offers the occasion to see part of the ascension island and also lyon city in france
1	this movie was everything but boring it deals with reality to the people who think this movie was boring open your eyes to the real problems in our society our children are dying the consequences of alcohol and drug abuse are not to be ignored i work in a correctional facility as a chemical dependency counselor and i deal with these problems every day people of all ages and all walks of life are effected by the consequences of their alcohol and drug abuse it destroys families hurts people and leads to serious brain damage all kinds of health problems and death it is all preventable this movie should be shown in every high school in the world if anyone owns this movie and wants to sell it or sell me a copy please e mail me at net thank you
1	for pure gothic vampire cheese nothing can compare to the subspecies films i highly recommend each and every one of them
1	king angus scrimm of romania is a vampire but a vampire of light who wants nothing more than to live in peace and harmony with mankind but his son anders is a cruel creature to his very heart which is pretty obvious as soon as you see him three female students have come to study local folklore but find themselves drawn into the vampires legends at just the wrong time has been killed br br who can say anything bad about a film featuring a cameo from angus scrimm i can't i mean i had some low expectations after seeing other full moon pictures puppet master in particular and demonic toys but despite the really bad animated effects of the demons this film was actually really well done and very fun to watch plenty of blood a good plot and backstory the story was surprisingly refreshing and even some new angles on the vampire mythos which you'd think would be dead by now maybe i'm wrong but this is probably the first film to feature rosary beads being fired from a gun aside from vampires and blood you get a share of nudity gratuitous but welcome and i had to notice the excellent score from the composers not sure who deserves credit but those involved include stuart richard william levine michael and john this is horror 101 all the way heck you even get two sequels which is the sign of a true horror film of course some bad films get sequels too did i mention puppet master the romanian theme was well done and the film even seems to have been made by romanians if i am guessing their name origins correctly and the score the music really stood out for me as a nice change of pace very mood setting i like richard band but i'm glad another composer was given a shot because he nailed the atmosphere on the head if you like vampire films and want a slight variation one of the eastern european variety this is worth seeing
1	the subspecies series is an always will be the best vampire movies ever there is something about them that makes them special i think it s the feeling you get when you watch them br br they are set in modern times and yet they feel as if they are set in the 1700 s or 1800 s i think it has some thing to do with the set s that are used if so then it s working keep it up guy s br br in a quick round up of what s happened in the first part was supposedly from his home land years ago by his father and he has decided to come back and take what he thinks is his birth rite the blood stone and all his father has so he kill s his father who is played by angus scrimm the tall man from the phantasm movies and takes the blood stone which has power to who ever has it because who has it need never kil anyone again because the stone is supposedly meant to drip the bloody of the saints and every time the takes a drop from it he is slowly going insane thats all we need an insane vampire as if a normal vampire aint bad enough well s brother stephan try s to put a stop to his evil ways all while trying to stop himself falling with a tourist who is staying at a house fort which belongs to a friend of his br br well one thing leads to another and the two brothers clash and well you will have to see the movie to see what goes on from here on in br br i will review comment on the other sequels soon br br the difference between this and buffy is buffy is too commercial and this is not so this will not appeal to everyone but this has an atmosphere far superior to that of buffy although does not look as good as the wonder full sarah michelle gellar br br rating for this movie 10 10 a fine example of how a vampire movie should be done br br
1	first watched this film years ago with my daughter who is now 13 and fell in love with the vampire we both thought it was a top film then watched sub 11 then sub 111 now i find there is sub which i cannot wait to get my fangs on and also there is a fifth in the pipe line if no one has seen the movies these are the best of the best i think it a thousands oscar's i could watch these from morning to night i would love to have a set of nails like he has watch out girls i love it as all the story lines continues from film to film these ant typical vampire movies they are better i would love to live in the life that is in the films it would make all my dreams come true
1	i was ten years old when i saw subspecies i instantly had the hots for michael watson and laura tate they really do have some great on screen chemistry in the earlier parts of the movie i ordered a copy back in 1993 from full moon and i learned this ion and rosa the servants have much bigger roles in the screenplay along with the king what most people don't know is that there was an alternate sequence that was supposed to occur in the ending scene michelle and stefan get cornered into a room and michelle has the idea for stefan to make her a vampire to help fight off and her demonic controlled ex friends however for some reason or another that scenario never made it on camera another scene in the script that can be confirmed from the original trailer shows stefan drinking blood from a wolf or actually in the trailer you see him coming up with blood on his chin br br this movie gets a 9 because it's one from my childhood and i have fond memories attached to the characters even though my favorite characters were stefan and michelle i think anders is pure feeling evocative acting so much feeling in his work there
1	i have seen a number of horror movies to know that this one was one of kind full moon pictures has a knack of giving this fan an entertaining night for all the cheesiness of most vampire films this is the one that has not only a good premise but has two good sequels a must see
1	i watched this on sky tv late one night as i am a vampire fan i must admit i half expected it to be a b movie disaster but i was pleasantly wrong br br subspecies is about a family of vampires when a vampire lord dies his two sons the handsome and noble stefan and his brother the evil hideous start a war with each other over their birth right the the is a holy grail of sorts for vampires and it bleeds the blood of saints which give the vampire who drinks it an ultimate high br br the fight for the takes an unexpected turn when 3 college students turn up in the brothers' territory on a school trip and stefan has to protect them from his brothers lusts br br like i said i went into this film not expecting much at all but it was one of the best low budget movies i have ever seen the sets and locations romania i think been a while since i've seen it are very nice and the music score did the film justice br br most of the acting was adequate but its anders as the evil that steals the movie and all the subsequent sequels performance as the twisted vamp is truly breathtaking and bumps the film simply from okay to pretty d mn good
1	subspecies like many other horror films gets a raw deal on imdb the majority of movie watchers have a hearty contempt for horror and when they occasionally rent horror films they either want to laugh at them or cringe at excessively gory scenes unfortunately subspecies is not particularly laughable and not that bloody so it gets a low rating that's too bad br br of course there's plenty to criticize here the non actors are flat the subspecies are a poor special effect and the nighttime scenes are too brightly lit but what do you expect for a straight to video horror film subspecies boasts decent production values and more integrity than you might anticipate the film's romanian setting is virtually unique i believe it was the first american movie made in that country post communism and the locations both interior and exterior are beautiful the script has moments of intelligence especially when it delves into local folklore all bogus i'm sure somehow the location filming and script work well together subspecies has its own very distinctive world to risk damning with faint praise it could be a lot dumber br br fans of the more gruesome aspects of horror will no doubt get a kick out of the blood drooling vampire villain he's pretty effective in this movie powerful with a memorable raspy voice but i like him better in the sequels when actor anders gives a more self parodying campy performance a totally sincere is somewhat silly other silly aspects include gratuitous nudity and the subspecies themselves who are clearly only in the movie because producer charles band has a fetish for evil little creatures see also puppetmaster and demonic toys br br but i linger too much on the movie's flaws for what it is straight to video vampire horror subspecies is perfectly fine the sequels boast better production values more violence and somewhat more thoughtful story lines so i recommend them even more highly still this isn't a bad start for the series
1	this is a perfect example of a classic full moon pictures movie any fan of horror vampire flicks should definitely check this one out original plot and good easy to follow story also this movie has some heart racing scenes that combine horror with action as of now the only sequel i have seen to this movie is part iv which i have to say is almost better than this original br br i give it 10 10 br br fans of horror movies like this should check out puppet master slumber party massacre skinned alive sleep away camp and other full moon pictures flicks for other recommendations check out the other comments i have sent in by clicking on my name above this comment section
1	this is one of my all time favorite cheap corny vampire b movies br br calvin klein underwear model oh i mean stefan the good vampire returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother has other plans having killed their father the vampire king now sets his sights on stefan stefan's new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends and the all powerful br br okay the scenery is beautiful and it should be as it was shot on location in fricken for gosh sakes the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker but who cares there's only one reason to watch this movie and his name is he's a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film as slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning slobbering face for the world to see i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother but maybe i'm just a sicko questionable taste in men aside i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts it's original it's fun and is one of the best vampires i've seen in a long time much more fun than the stiff tragic whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days enjoys his sadism and never apologizes he's what a vampire should be
1	this agreeable french movie deals about a millionaire owner of a tobacco factory on an african island nearly to madagascar named louis jean paul belmondo he's a single man looking wife then he advertises a bride and gets a gorgeous woman named julia catherine deneuve when she spontaneously appears turns out to be much more attractive than expected he marries to julia but she suddenly disappears a french eye private michael bouquet is hired by julia's sister and soon he's on the trail of his previous spouse later louis encounters her in a dancing hall under another name in spite of the romantic delusion and everything louis goes on enamored with his enigmatic wife br br this film is a splendid drama plenty of betrayal deception killing theft and hitchcockian suspense good performances by jean paul belmondo as young of a cigarette company who seems determined to fall under the spell of a femme fatale and a wonderful catherine deneuve as suspect heroine the film gets several references to the american cinema but truffaut 400 blows was a fervent moviegoer such as johnny guitar colorado jim bogart and hitchcock the usa version was cut numerous minutes and deserves an urgent restoring and remastering loosely based on the novel into by cornell woolrich rear window and screenwriter of alfred hitchcock hour who also was adapted in the bride wore black' colorful cinematography by denys stolen kisses and atmospheric musical score by antoine truffaut's usual musician this is one of the best of his suspense movies along with 451 and shoot the piano remade by an inferior version by michael 2001 with antonio banderas angelina jolie and jack thompson full of erotic and lust scenes
1	this is one of the best and vampire tales ever i love this movie really the character are great even the locations and the story indeed the picture isn't a big budget production but it is absolutely worth seeing br br ok there are some faults especially the names of the castle and the locations in this movie but such mistakes are typically and are almost in every horror movie br br the scenery fits perfect to the story and is close to reality i can say that honest because i visit them once when i was in romania in my vacations br br in my opinion this is the best part of the subspecies series
1	words fail me whenever i want to describe my feelings about this movie and the sequels does it have flaws sure it does starting with the subspecies themselves which were not executed well enough for a special effect so why do i glorify these movies for the herd of movie mass consumers out there who care more about quantity than quality about cheap fun more than about depth crap like blade it doesn't even deserve a capital letter underworld dracula 2000 dracula 3000 and so on are good movies to munch popcorn to and drink a couple of cokes what makes subspecies a superior effort for anyone claiming to be a vampire fanatic on the other hand is obvious the vampire himself is romanian the story is set in transylvania the scenes filmed on location are more than convincing and the atmosphere is not based on any action packed chases or expensive orchestral music himself is the source of the atmosphere this is what a vampire should look like and this is how he should behave add a breathtakingly gloomy castle with dark passageways situated in romania include some typical vampiric elements such as the movement of the shadows on the walls when the vampires take to flight and you have a work of art in short if like me you 're fascinated with vampires and feel that their appearance as well as the setting should be sinister and dark there's no better place to look in than in a subspecies movie or in vampire journals the brilliant spin off of the former
1	a sparkling movie bb is a marvel she's sultry she is a feminist she is still very much in love br br the movie features paris in the 50's it is wonderful to look at the sites the cars ds and br br a simple but very enjoyable romantic comedy the music is horrendous it almost on the other hand it is hilarious but it is probably the only thing amiss at least looking at it with 21st century eyes br br the movie comments on the french manner of treating infidelity it is that sense modern a movie like un elephant se did it in an 80's way but the basic premise stays the the same br br thanks to makers for providing bb with this opportunity
1	of all the 48 films of brigitte bardot une parisienne is widely regarded as one of her best what we see is special for once the plot has a value of its own does much more than only providing a cheap vehicle for sex charged appearance br br this film is your true well worked out light comedy with a good and coherent story set in france's government circles in the late 1950's it entertains from beginning to end providing many amusing twists turns and some slapstick all acted out by at least three starring leads including bardot br br une parisienne french for female inhabitant of paris focuses on telling a story not on showing brigitte bardot brigitte serves the plot very well by using her talent for acting in light comedies br br when you settle on your couch on a friday night tired and weary from a week's slaving away just turn on une parisienne this film will make you feel better
1	bridgette bardot looking as sexy as ever plays a spoiled but innocent daughter of a french ambassador she cons one of her father's top aides womanizer michel into marrying her and it turns out to be the best thing for both of them michel is soon flirting with his old girlfriends and in order to teach him a lesson bridgette flirts heavily with a married prince charles michel is surprised by his jealousy a cat and mouse game ensues between and michel i'll have an affair no you won't and finally michel realizes she just might and vows to give up all the other ladies in his life bridgette and michel settle comfortably into their happily ever after while prince charles jets home to england br br it's an admittedly light piece but it's incredibly charming while some may fault it as a product of it's time i found that completely enjoyable worthy of a rental
1	most of the brigitte bardot movies i've seen have failed to take full advantage of her captivating screen presence unfortunately she was given few really good roles in movies of undeniable quality which was a real oversight she deserved them and was able to demonstrate her full cinematic power when they came her way as genevieve in love on a pillow we had a clear exception to the trend of light fluffy vehicles for it was an interesting artistic film by any reasonable measure and in it a 28 year old bb was at her most alluring une parisienne is another featuring an extremely captivating brigitte in an interesting well crafted comedy that explores how an ambitious lady's man can be convinced to remain faithful to an incredibly beautiful young wife there are several good performances here her playboy husband michel is one the prince played by charles boyer is another with entertaining efforts by a good supporting cast as for brigitte bardot the way she looks in this movie is the way i remember her as a kid in the fifties she was 23 in 1957 and way ahead of her time more beautiful than any other actress of the period including marilyn monroe her curvy coquettish sexuality amply displayed in several bosom baring skintight dresses simply jumps off the screen she was more hip and cute than the women of america are today nearly fifty years later obsessed with their careers and still desperately clinging to feminist politics they come off like a bunch of clueless lesbians in stark contrast the sex kitten was sexually liberated intelligent and clearly independent long before it was fashionable yet while fully understanding the power of her exceptional femininity she used it for a higher purpose than mere self interest she believed in love a still photo simply could not do her justice you had to watch her slender yet voluptuous form with its 20 inch waist lightly cross a room you had to see that wild blonde mane gaze into her big brown seductive eyes and listen as her full pouting lips spoke french in a closeup at the end of this movie she winks and flirts with the camera her beautiful orbs twinkling what a babe for fans of brigitte bardot une parisienne is not to be missed
1	i have to agree with all the previous commenter's this is simply the best of all frothy comedies with bardot as sexy as marilyn monroe ever was and definitely with a prettier face maybe there's less mystique but look how marilyn paid for that i don't think i've ever seen such a succulent looking female on screen so perfect that even a gay man like me got excited by it and not just for purely aesthetic reasons if the idiot really want to do their a number they are really going to need to up their standards as no church mice need apply here her breasts the rest of her figure her adorable voice the hilarious way she shakes as she walks across a room only to arrive in front of a man breasts literally pointed as if in exquisite confrontation br br i think boyer is one of the greatest leading men in all of film history no one played opposite more great female stars than did he garbo dietrich k hepburn colbert and here bardot among many others and he was also in with leslie caron and had small parts in 'how to steal a with a hepburn as well as being in the deneuve movie 'the april although not opposite her the only thing i could disagree with in remarks is that even the loud obnoxious music over the opening credits is appropriate i mean bardot is not meant to be subtle on top of everything else and her essential loudness i don't mean her voice is part of her irresistible and one might even say exemplary charm br br vidal is thoroughly handsome even if pouty brigitte says toward the beginning 'i don't know why i am in love with you you're not even handsome ' br br dear dear bardot truly one of the wonders of the 20th century not to mention the joy that she is still with us when so many of the truly characterful are passing away so fast in all her eccentric glory
1	changed image and way of life from that of the young society beauty he had married to that of a rebellious and challenging teenager of the br br une parisienne succeeded in launching her ravishing figure as the teenage goddess the casual sexuality the provocative gaiety in confrontation with br br charles boyer — as prince charles — was the perfect ideal choice of those magically romantic his deep and vibrant voice spoke a promise of new adventures in his deep wondering eyes a worldly knowledge by he had the boudoir grace of valentino without the hysteria or the sometime of the great under michel direction boyer was an old style romantic without the grand manner…
1	i was lucky enough recently to see ingrid bergman's name attached to a film i had never seen or even heard of on amc what a stroke of luck br br to marvel at her flawless and seamless performance isn't the only reason to stay up late and watch this movie the writing is wonderfully comical and the performances are excellent br br walter mathau not my favorite was nearly perfect and goldie hawn suprisingly was fabulous tender at times demanding then just plain goofy there are times in the film that even the most hardened film viewer will get caught up in the story and forget that it is a movie br br that bergman can steal a dance scene among a crowd of 20 year olds was amazing to watch she is effortless in her return to the screen at age 54 the supporting cast was great and the lines the lines are exquisite br br a top 5 romantic comedy of all time
1	another oldie but goody from about the same time as out of towners is cactus flower with a great cast goldie hawn in her first film appearance pre ingrid in one of her later ones and the ever funny walter matthau the story is about a dentist who pretends to be married in order to have an excuse for not marrying his girlfriend leading to the need to come up with a fictitious wife for proof he his spinster receptionist bergman into taking the role leading to multiple comic disasters and surprising romantic turns it's in the same vein as the doris day rock hunter comedies fans of those as i am will like this movie if not don't bother
1	the film is a joy to watch not just for the plot which is gripping but also for the superb performances of the actors deneuve and belmondo though considered a 'flop' on its first release it has become a critical success and it is clear to see why deneuve's acting style suited the film brilliantly she constantly gives the impression that she is holding back or hiding something and her character in this film is i will not spoil it with saying what though it is divulged fairly early on belmondo is lovable as the fairly but in love tobacconist i would recommend this film to all truffaut or deneuve fans it is a brilliant hitchcockian style thriller with exciting twists and interesting relationships and characters that develop as the film does the film is approx 2 hrs so you feel that you have not been sold short deneuve steals the show in this film and it is clear that at the time of making the film truffaut was very much smitten with her a definite must see for any cineaste or 10 10
1	swinging bachelor matthau a successful dentist is stringing along his blond mistress hawn having told her that he's a married man with three kids after she attempts suicide matthau decides to get responsible and marry the girl worried that she's going to be a bright eyed hawn wants to meet his wife and explain everything to her matthau employs his faithful nurse bergman to act his wife and that's when things really get complicated br br a farcical comedy with irresistible leads quite often hits the mark but isn't for one second believable the script asks us to believe that us men are such one dimensional turds that it's truly beyond belief but maybe this comedy doesn't need to be analyzed too deeply just sit back and enjoy the ever so funny matthau the ever so charming bergman and débutant hawn who here basically created the dumb blond girl role
1	aside from the discotheque scenes that epitomize the swinging sixties especially with everyone dancing to instrumental versions of monkees hits i am surprised how well this lightweight farce holds up 37 years later but indeed it does thanks to the breezy execution of its deception based plot and the sharp interplay of the three leads directed by the redoubtable stage to screen expert gene saks this 1969 comedy is about julian winston a successful manhattan dentist and confirmed bachelor who pretends to be married in order to avoid long term commitment with his young girlfriend of a year toni in response to half hearted suicide attempt julian agrees to marry her but toni first insists on meeting his wife to alleviate her conscience enter julian's devoted nurse stephanie to play the wife and the inevitable complications ensue with white lies growing into major whoppers that lead to presumed couplings and de couplings br br as julian a relaxed walter matthau plays the deceptive dentist in his typically sardonic manner but he lets his two female co stars walk off with the picture in her big screen debut a 24 year old goldie hawn is still retaining her giggly laugh in persona but provides unexpected savvy and depth as toni she and matthau have great unforced chemistry in their scenes together screen legend ingrid bergman still serenely regal at 54 is obviously having a ball playing stephanie initially starchy and quick witted but blossoming into a liberated spirit as the story evolves i particularly like how casual she appears after her overnight romp there is nice supporting work from rick lenz as bohemian neighbor igor and jack weston as julian's smarmy actor buddy harvey billy wilder's longtime collaborator i a l diamond provides the sparkling screenplay and opens up the story beyond its stage bound origins for saks who is not the most cinematic of directors other than a couple of trailers there are no significant extras with the dvd
1	what an absolutely charming movie the cast is wonderful and the story is witty and fun an all around pleasant movie experience although the plot is somewhat predictable it doesn't make the story any less enjoyable in fact i didn't want it to end i've always been a ingrid bergman fan and i was interested to see her in a comedic role she didn't let me down ingrid bergman's performance as ms dickinson is fun to watch i loved her interaction with toni at the music store as well as her dancing and doing the dentist it only further proved what i already knew that she is one of the greatest actresses of all time goldie hawn is also delightful to watch her fun gentle hearted and lovable toni is the driving force of the movie you don't even question why she would be so concerned about her wife you just accept that she's just that type of person who wouldn't be happy unless she knew everyone else was also and walter matthau is great as julian his actions never create a feeling animosity for the viewer in fact they almost make him more enduring there wasn't an unlikable character in the bunch this movie has definitely with stood the test of time i watched it just last night and i think it's one of the best romantic comedies i've ever seen if you're looking for a fun lighthearted romantic comedy look no further
1	as much as i like walter matthau i felt that the majority of his roles were tailored towards his personality this role is one of the exceptions he plays a dentist who is both charming and dishonest this role does require much more acting than in most of his other roles i liked the fact that the movie was honest about how a professional can be dishonest in order to avoid commitment in a relationship his whole aim was to find a way to be in a relationship with a much younger woman but not to be committed in any way the alibi using his secretary ingrid bergman to pretend to be his wife at some point in the movie the pretend mr and mrs actually are deluded into believing that they were actually really married the ending was good because a middle aged man found that pursuing someone in his own age group was more worthwhile the movie was funny entertaining and didn't sell out by being preachy
1	i knew next to nothing about this movie until i chanced to rent it it was a very pleasant surprise the cast is excellent including matthau whom i do not normally care for he makes a credible romantic lead hawn is a sweet kook and bergman is touching as a woman coming out of her shell
1	well i would say that this is a very enjoyable and somewhat touching movie despite its flaws i didn't believe for a minute that matthau knew the first thing about being a dentist also hawn's character seemed to recover from suicidal depression rather quickly at the beginning of the movie not to mention the entire thing seemed rather ridiculous however the film does succeed due to a good pace humor and its stars matthau may not have been a dentist but he was as amusing as he usually is bergman brought a great deal of sensitivity to the film especially during the scene where her and matthau go out for a drink after work and also a good deal of humor i believe it was her performance that made my brother take notice of this movie after overhearing a couple scenes hawn's performance is noteworthy although an oscar may have been over doing it a bit basically don't take this movie too seriously and you will enjoy yourself
1	goldie hawn in 1969 was best known for playing in television comedy shows in particular rowan and martin's laugh in where she was the giggly cookie young blond she did make movies before cactus flower the most notable being a walt disney feature the one and only genuine original family band but cactus flower picked up on her character from laugh in and due to a good script by i a l diamond billy wilder's second partner based on an abe burrows play she was able to develop the television character so that a real performance was fleshed out as a result ms hawn won an oscar for best supporting actress in 1969 and her career took off to such future hits as private benjamin and the first wives club although other stars of laugh in did well on television henry gibson has a recurring role as a judge on boston legal only goldie was able to have a career as a movie star br br on laugh in goldie's personality would show a naiveté that would be embarrassing occasionally she realized it and would laugh loud to cover but sometimes she just did not see her error example goldie is introduced to the 1950s variety show host gary moore and is told goldie this is mr gary moore she shakes his hand and says much to his confusion i've always wanted to meet mr john gary moore but as toni simmons it is quite different she is desperately in love with dr julian winston walter matthau a successful dentist who can never marry her julian has told her that his wife with whom he has had two sons and a daughter will never give him a divorce so at the start of the film toni tries to commit suicide by the gas of her stove but she is rescued by her neighbor igor sullivan rick lenz a struggling dramatist who breaks into her apartment and turns off the gas br br toni is resigned to live but she has sent a suicide note to julian igor tries to deliver a message to ignore the note but julian's receptionist nurse assistant stephanie dickinson ingrid bergman won't stop julian's work schedule to pass him the phone when igor calls instead julian finds the letter and races to apartment only to find her alive when igor supports her story that she tried to kill herself julian realizes the depth of her love and decides he must marry such a woman unfortunately toni has swallowed julian's lies and believes in his wife and children you see julian has no wife and children since toni is a firm believer that she can't marry a man who would lie to her julian is stuck on a weakening tree branch br br julian comes to solve it by getting stephanie to pretend she is mrs winston stephanie is opposed to it at first but on her own on her first free saturday she confronts toni at the record shop toni is at they talk and toni notices all the fine strengths of character and personality of stephanie and since stephanie has her two nephews with her toni thinks they are julian's kids toni tells julian they have to see who is the man that stephanie is supposedly going to marry so the lie starts spiraling for julian stephanie and toni soon a lover is given to stephanie in the form of julian's friend and patient harvey greenfield jack weston greenfield is so sleazy stephanie loathes him that toni feels that he is unworthy of stephanie br br and so it goes with one complication most caused by the well intentioned toni following another until the conclusion the script is full of first rate situations and one liners example julian to reward stephanie for lying about their marriage buys two record albums from store he has given a mink stole to toni but she decides to send it to stephanie with julian's card stephanie is quite happy at getting the mink but she does not say a word about the nature of the gift she got when she profusely thanks matthau he says the thought she'd like horowitz meaning horowitz but stephanie thinks horowitz is the name of the furrier br br bergman must have enjoyed the filming as several scenes shows that earthy radiance that was a trademark for her in the later 1940s films but there was also the resemblance to her 1958 film comedy smash hit indiscreet there cary grant lied to make sure the pair would concentrate on the romance of their affair without having to think about marriage when grant's lie is revealed to bergman she decides on a lie of her own to convince grant that she was making him a cuckold here instead of being the passive lover believing matthau is telling the truth bergman gingerly tries to get matthau out of his mess by little white lies only to find one leads to another to complicate everyone's lives bergman is seen as a nice woman who becomes part of the problem despite trying to be part of the solution br br all the leads perform well in particular bergman all business at first but gradually reclaiming her sexuality matthau is delightful as a man who finds a useful lie is an impediment that just can't be kicked aside the supporting cast especially weston as the mooching and sexually slimy harvey and vito as the u n ambassador who actually has the hots for bergman it was a clever comedy and a really good way for goldie hawn's movie career to push forward
1	goldie hawn's depiction of a simple young lady caught up in a love triangle with an older man a dentist played with such relish by walter matthau that she won the best supporting actress oscar for 1969 br br the film however is another tribute to ingrid bergman rarely did we ever see her in a comedy and she literally kicks up her heels here as a dedicated dental nurse who is thrust into a scheme for matthau to tell hawn that they're married br br it is such a joy to watch matthau and bergman fall for each other here theirs is an accidental love affair in the making br br as matthau's friend jack weston is fabulous as his partner in the scheme as well rick lenz gives ample support as hawn's newly found boyfriend as well
1	anyone who has ever doubted ingrid bergman's ability to play comedy need only look to the bells of st mary's ok so she's a nun with tb who's probably in love with fr think what luis bunuel could have done with that but she also displayed a wonderfully sly sense of fun that made you wish directors had cast her in comedies more often in cactus flower she's a starched dentist's nurse walter matthau is the dentist in love with her boss but keeping it up when she's forced to act as his 'wife' in order to hoodwink his mistress don't ask she lets loose and the buttons pop and she's a joy to behold br br the movie itself is a than usual translation to the screen of a broadway hit you can see it's three acts it's a french farce it was originally it's taken from the play de by pierre and jean pierre and it hits all the right spots matthau uses his great hang expression to wonderful effect and a klutzy blonde newcomer as she was then called goldie hawn almost steals the film as the dizzy mistress who decides to give up her meal ticket because she feels sorry for 'the wife' even though 'the wife' is having a ball hawn made such an impression in the role that what she did steal was the academy award for best supporting actress
1	i am surprised by the relatively low rating this film has it is a screwball comedy romance film rolled together by someone besides billy wilder but it does a really good job even won an oscar br br it is ingrid bergman's first film in the us since the 1950's even though she is no longer the young bombshell she was in her early films she brings off a difficult role quite handsomely this film proves she had multiple talents beyond her good looks br br goldie hawn who won an oscar in this her first film as supporting actress is very good as the modern sophisticated yet quirky latest mistress to dentist playboy love them leave them walter goldie is delightful to all the senses in this role which with a great cast set her up as a slam dunk for this early career award br br this film is not real deep but is a gem that has stood the test of time very well not sure why it's average is so low as i give it a solid 8
1	contains spoilers br br people who put a lonely heart's ad in the newspaper are often idealists they try to put into a few words everything they are and expect the exchange of letters is full of hope louis jean paul belmondo owner of a cigarette company on the de la reunion east of madagascar is so affected by the letters of julie that he proposes to her but not the expected pretty brunette comes from board of the mississippi but catherine deneuve and we know from the start that she is a marriage imposter and that a crime has taken place she shows no interest in julie's wardrobe she does not even get her trunk open and neglects her canary until it dies but the most basic tricks of seduction an open zipper are sufficient to transform louis into a pliable little dog first a joint bank account and then when julie's sister draws attention to herself the flight with 27 850 millions of louis' 28 millions she would have needed his signature for the entire sum br br louis and julie's sister engage a private detective michel bouquet louis contrives to trace marion deneuve's real name in where she works as taxi girl her gangster lover left her penniless or rather louis finds himself unable to kill her she tells her story orphan precocious lesbian experiences many jail and soon she leads him by the nose again the detective turns out to be sly as a fox and tenacious as a blood hound louis and marion bury his body in the cellar they flee to paris where louis discovers that marion has a costly taste she worships money like a deity he sells his firm at a fraction of its value but when the corpse of the detective is discovered a flood they have to flee again without the money life in a mountain lodge together with a whining loser marion can think of a more cheerful life without this appendage br br a high point in the careers of everybody involved belmondo's self deceit makes him nearly endearing deneuve looks beautiful in her wardrobe by yves st laurent and her performance is delightful at first she fakes the fragile too timid to ask her husband for money that's why the joint bank account is needed but after being exposed she sounds like katharine hepburn in the jail scene of bringing up baby the scenery is spectacular the tropics the riviera paris truffaut directs with self evident aplomb the sixties were the only decade when european films were head and shoulders above american productions after this film truffaut was able to look his idol alfred full in the face
1	far more sprightly and less stage and set bound than gene saks' previous efforts barefoot in the park 67 and the odd couple 68 cactus flower is not a work of art but compared to most of the tired farces from the 60's like the apartment how to murder your wife goodbye charlie a guide for the man divorce american style any wednesday kiss me stupid boys night out it's a masterpiece director saks and writer i a l diamond have effectively opened up abe burrows' broadway hit and the film benefits greatly from new york city location shooting and excellent performances from ingrid bergman and goldie hawn bergman is charming looks great and demonstrates a flair for comedy hawn in her oscar winning role has never been better or more appealing matthau is ok though it's hard to believe that hawn's character would be so enamored of him and in retrospect hawn's attempted suicide at the start of the film is out of character and unbelievable nonetheless the film has a plausible farcical set up and once it gets going it generates laugh rick lenz jack weston eve bruce and vito provide good support the film is likable and fun and hawn and bergman make you care
1	i was very surprised to learn that goldie hawn won an oscar for this film she seemed very lifeless and completely schooled by the 54 year old bergman in the scenes where they are side by side if it had been written today i think that bergman and the young man ivan would have wound up together ingrid is so much hotter than goldie and the two self absorbed characters played by matthau and hawn would be left out in the cold but it was written at the end of 60's and feels like plaza suite or barefoot in the park however matthau's one liners hawn's innocence and bergman's classy performance make this quite pleasant to watch
1	cactus flower was a delightful 1969 comedy based on a neil simon play about a dentist walter matthau having an affair with a young free spirited woman goldie hawn totally unaware that his devoted nurse assistant ingrid bergman is in love with him matthau can play this kind of role in his sleep and he doesn't disappoint as the philandering dentist dr julian winston who is dating one woman but really has no clue that he's in love with another goldie hawn won an oscar for her sparkling performance as toni simmons the aging flower child who slowly comes to realize she is trapped in a dead end affair and is not as dim as she appears on the surface but the real pleasure for me in this film was the performance of the legendary ingrid bergman as stephanie dickinson dr winston's completely devoted assistant who is willing to to bury and sacrifice her own happiness as long as dr winston is happy with tony bergman is luminous in this film looking absolutely beautiful though the camera has always loved her and showing an unforeseen knack for light comedy yes the dialogue and the settings are slightly dated but the story is timeless and the performances by the stars make it imminently watchable
1	i've been playing this movie incessantly this month and i just love it i was around in the 60s oh dear so it is nostalgic in one sense however it's the funny premise the snappy dialogue and the great performances that keep me watching br br dr winston's reactions to stephanie at the end of the movie are priceless i'd be more specific but don't want to spoil it for anyone who other than matthau can play a man not entirely on the up and up and yet have us still love him as for bergman's costumes i think she looks as dowdy as she's supposed to i think she was robbed the one time that she appears in an evening gown it doesn't suit her at all which is too bad i never liked it when i first saw it on her and i still don't br br goldie won an oscar for her role people thought it was a groundbreaking performance at the time and yet it's the one performance that i don't love as much as the others she does have the right amount of sweetness and likability however which is important for this role br br and i agree i thought rick lenz was great in it and it's too bad that his movie career didn't take off after this br br i hope more people watch this movie they'll love it
1	when i saw lauren bacall do cactus flower on broadway i never dreamed that one day i would see an actress like ingrid bergman playing the bacall role on screen but here ingrid really lets her hair down for some good comedy moments as the dental nurse pretending to be walter matthau's wife so he can go on with the he's told goldie hawn br br it's a story played for laughs from beginning to end good humored stuff that never runs out of dry humor and wit throughout its running time there are plenty of one liners or gags that are way above the usual situation comedy stuff one hears on tv the lines ring true because they blend so well with the characters and their motives br br as the daffy girl who contemplates in the beginning committing suicide over her unhappy affair with matthau goldie hawn fresh from her days as a star on tv's laugh in does a dumb blonde role to perfection easy to see why she won that supporting actress oscar br br ingrid is surprisingly fetching in a rare comedy role although there are times when she seems just a bit too matronly for the part at any rate she's a surprising choice to play the nurse who puts on a freeze act at the office but is considerably warmer off duty br br as goldie's next door neighbor igor rick lenz acquits himself admirably and makes a suitable match for her in that final scene br br matthau plays the kind of character that became his stock in trade in all those neil simon roles he had a lovable cad who gets caught up in his own messes when he tells lie after lie br br it's the kind of rib tickling comedy that'll have you laughing out loud at some of the amusing lines that abe burrows and i a l diamond have managed to scrap together based on a french farce
1	everyone told me to see cactus flower and i finally did what a wonderful movie the perfect pick me up for a sunday night dreading monday morning matthau and hawn were good but ingrid bergman really made this movie after all it was really about her the truly great actors can do anything and miss bergman proves it she shows us in the course of one film a range few people display in their entire career the scene in the dance club was as hysterical as it was touching even as the film drew to its obvious conclusion i found myself cheering for miss dickinson as if she were the boston red sox thankfully she made out no pun intended much better
1	i discovered this late one night on turner classics i kept saying to myself i'll turn it off as soon as it stops being funny but needless to say i watched the whole way through br br i am a movie junkie but i had never even heard of this movie or if i did in 1971 i forgot it's worth watching just for the performance of goldie hawn as the tart tongued ingénue her acting is a revelation in this movie yes the script is sharp and excellent when was the last time they made a hollywood comedy with a smart script but her acting is extraordinary i never realized how funny goldie could be and it makes her later appearances in roles such as laugh in and private benjamin a little sad in her later career she is far too over the top compared to her minimalist wickedly funny appearance here br br it's a pleasure watching the young matthau the great bergman and the stellar supporting cast but it's goldie hawn that will make this movie worth watching again
1	walter matthau is wonderful as the philandering dentist dr julian winston whose frequent to girlfriend goldie provide textbook proof of the dangers of lying goldie hawn's touching kook toni simmons certainly deserved to win her oscar ingrid bergman's work as the stiff as nurse stephanie is also touching to watch as she comes out of her shell slowly and nervously this is a great movie to watch in the springtime or any time for that matter it's very underrated i never heard about it until i found it in the video store and what a find
1	cactus flower is what i call a pizza movie a personal favorite that never fails to satisfy perfect for an evening at home with a pizza knowing all the lines and what lines by heart only enhances the enjoyment br br since so many others here have retold the plot i'll simply add the correction that bergman's character miss dickinson was a nurse receptionist meaning she was a skilled nurse and therefore an educated person not just a receptionist br br bergman's performance in this film and the film itself was largely dismissed at the time but today's audiences will marvel at her range not just the impeccable comic timing but the ability to make us believe her character is unaware of her own feelings while revealing them so clearly to toni and to us while the general plot stretches credibility bergman's performance is compelling honest and utterly believable br br also a standout is jack weston's performance as the matthau's old friend and co conspirator harvey no one could deliver a zinger like weston and i a l diamond's script gives him plenty for example that's such a big dirty rotten lie it has class weston excelled at slightly seedy characters because he exuded a warmth that allowed you to forgive his characters' flaws br br the film is a fairly straight adaptation of the abe burrows play which was itself adapted from a french play by and on broadway matthau's role was played by barry nelson bergman's by lauren bacall and hawn's by brenda vaccaro it ran for 1 performances three years and was nominated for two tony awards vaccaro and burt who played igor br br for me the film's score written and adapted by the legendary quincy jones is another highlight the main theme a time for love is anytime is performed by sarah vaughn over the opening and closing credits it is also insinuated in different arrangements throughout the film most notably as the romantic piano music underscoring speech to hawn in the record store jones also created covers of popular songs from the period to sir with love i'm a believer for the night club scenes as with all of the film's elements there is a tremendous amount of talent taste and professionalism evident br br in my opinion few modern romantic comedies can hold a candle to this classic it's great to finally have it available on dvd time to call for a pizza
1	ingrid bergman playing dentist walter matthau's faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss is absolutely wonderful in this film she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth ingrid's monologue is a front but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart matthau is an odd choice for the leading man he's too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie hawn who won a supporting oscar is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today this bedroom farce isn't terribly sophisticated and faintly reminds one of any wednesday besides but it's a welcome relief from the noisy teen oriented comedies they turn out today cactus flower is a lovely sigh from
1	in reunion island in the indian ocean the owner of a cigarette factory louis jean paul belmondo is engaged through correspondence with julie and he does not know her when julie arrives in the island to get married with louis he waits for her in the docks but louis does not recognize julie in the passenger vessel and finds that she is totally different from the picture she had sent to louis they get married and louis shares his bank accounts with her when julie's sister writes a letter to louis asking her sister to write to her louis discovers that the woman is not julie that is missing further he finds that the woman has cleared his bank accounts and left the island louis and julie's sister hire an efficient private detective michel bouquet and louis travels to france seeking the woman but he has a nervous breakdown in nice and is submitted to an intense sleeping therapy in a clinic he recovers and finds that the woman actually marion catherine deneuve works in the phoenix club in and lives in the low budget monorail hotel louis breaks in her room and when she arrives from the club she tells that she was happy with him but her former dangerous lover richard had blackmailed her louis is still in love with marion and escapes with her to the countryside but is chasing marion in france accused of murdering julie br br la du mississipi is a film noir by the great director writer françois truffaut with an unconventional love story of passion murder and love that hurts the femme fatale catherine deneuve is astonishing probably in the top of her beauty and is delightful to see her face and the topless scenes on the road and in the room jean paul belmondo is very athletic and the sequence when he escalates the wall of the hotel is impressive catherine deneuve makes this film worth and gives credibility to the passion and lust of louis my vote is eight br br title brazil a do mississipi the mississippi mermaid
1	this film has not exactly remained fresh in the minds of film buffs and it's a crying shame its witty screenplay adaptation should have netted oscar nominations for the great screenwriter i a l diamond's adaptation and ingrid bergman's flawless performance it must have been an honor for goldie hawn at such a young age to work with bergman looking more than a decade younger than her 54 years fifty four when she's on the screen it positively br br this is a film which may appear dated at first but it actually made me wish i was around during the swingin' hawn's fashions are as tacky as bergman's are chic that's one minor flaw isn't her character a little too for a gal who still lives with her sister but then again would we have ingrid any other way and who wouldn't want to hang out at a nightclub called the slipped disc br br the best compliments i can pay to this film is that it somehow made me nostalgic for a decade that i never saw and that it left me wanting more speaking of wanting more i wonder what ever became of sexy supporting actor rick lenz he resembles griffin dunne in this film this was his film debut and i don't see any other major roles in his filmography as for goldie hawn she's done so much since then it's easy to not be impressed but i can't imagine any other actor in the role either br br since the movie is based on a play the line delivery may seem a bit stage y but it did not inhibit my enjoyment at all in fact i am amazed at how funny it still is after over thirty five years because this film represents a bygone era it has unjustly slipped from the consciousness of film buffs it is more linked to the era films that came before it than the ones that followed but don't let that stop you from savoring the delights it has to offer grade a
1	starting on or around 1965 american movies took a turn for the shocking and the iconoclastic which was great for the times sort of the seeds that would pave the way for grittier daring dramas however because the very decade that gave birth to these films was so ruled by its own convictions most all of the films released at this period have dated cactus flower is no exception its very title suggests a sunny romantic comedy with occasional lapses into the risqué this is not to say that it's a bad thing quite the contrary films about risqué subject matter have to begin somewhere and america being a culture rooted in specific traditions themselves laced in deep hypocrisies shocks itself for the sake of it when seeing an indirect reflection of the mores of the time meanwhile european films address these same situations walk off looking like a million bucks and have a longer shelf life because what we consider scandalous they shrug off say next and move on br br toni simmons goldie hawn in her breakout role a young very sixties bright young thing is carrying on with a much older dentist named julian winston walter matthau who has commitment issues he marry her he's already married toni decides instead of wilting away she actually wants to meet his wife and set things straight into the picture comes his assistant stephanie dickinson a luminous ingrid bergman returning to american cinema after a twenty year absence a woman closer to his age who acts as if she and he had the perfect marriage and household there is a reason for this she has harbored quiet emotions for julian emotions he is unaware of even when he asks her to play his wife to ward toni off from wanting to step their relationship further and then he steps it up a notch when blissfully innocent actions veer the action off into the unexpected and he introduces harvey greenfield jack weston as stephanie's lover by the way harvey is also an older gent who is having an affair with a much younger woman eve bruce whom he also lies to in one very funny scene br br it's funny how the person whom we're looking for is the one who's always been there what could have been a thankless role for rick lenz who plays igor sullivan next door neighbor turns into the man who not only sees the true beauty in fellow outcast stephanie but the one who saves toni at the start from killing herself not the stuff of comedy suicide then again this is not your average comedy and needless to say is ingrid bergman's subtle poignant portrayal of a woman who's somehow missed her chances at love who's become prickly who due to a lie said to another she becomes the real person she was always meant to be i can't imagine anyone else in this quiet but deep role br br movies like these can be enjoyed at face value and seen as escapist fun a product of its times or be viewed for the deep symbolism that like its title it carries deep within it's a tricky film the same way hawn's and bergman's performance are equally tricky because in seeming so simple devoid of flourish and pose neither come out and proclaim what they are about their acting becomes not really acting but playing real people warts and all cactus flower is a story that never appears to take itself too seriously but reveals itself to be deep and very human after all
1	in a phrase moral ambiguity in the soderbergh remake there are good guys and bad guys benicio del toro's character is clearly the good guy morally clean and uncorruptable his counterpart in the bbc original the farmer turned dealer is realistically flawed and conflicted over his fate the two relentless cops are similarly different in the american one they win our hearts in the bbc original they are over zealous nearly obsessive br br the best moment for me in soderbergh's was when the college student rhetorically asked the drug czar what would you do if you were poor and black and rich white people came into your neighborhood looking for drugs that point was insinuated throughout the bbc show and crystallized in jack lithgow's final speech both are excellent but the bbc towers over the remake my conclusion after seeing both shows is that dealers are innocent pawns who are only supplying a demand and it is the demand that causes so much suffering
1	is an excellent miniseries dealing with drug trafficking in europe this is the european produced pbs series on which the oscar nominated movie traffic is based on if you loved traffic then is a must see br br overall i would highly recommend this miniseries to anyone that is interested in seeing drugs from a social point of view the screenplay is exciting and unexpected as it weaves through the lives of drug dealers traffickers farmers and police officers unlike other movies that sensationalize the issue of drugs presents it as is
1	i remember watching this when it was made and thinking it was brilliant at the time watching it for the second time nearly 20 years later i still think is brilliant and much better than the us film that was based on this drama br br it should also be watched by all our come today gone tomorrow politicians who think they can win the war on drugs as the issues raised in this film are as pertinent today as they were back then at the end of the 80s and unless they change their policies will be so in another 20 years br br well written well made beautifully acted and superbly filmed a thought provoking drama that entertains as well as brings to light some of the hard realities of the criminal drug trade
1	i've read innumerable reviews talking about the superiority of the mini series i certainly can't agree on such a blanket statement if you analyze all of the aspects of a video film production there are areas where the film is arguably vastly superior br br certainly many of the comments are valid with regard to particular areas of the mini series specifically regarding more threads customs officers and more developed threads such as the pakistani farmer and family that said i found catherine zeta jones' character much more compelling as the desperate women from poverty to riches who won't go back that's a much more likable character than this cold women who didn't seem to have as much reason for her quick turn to evil and yes i understand her children she was desperate i just didn't see her as being as desperate br br further while i appreciated some of the more fleshed out story threads in the mini series benicio del toro's character was very compelling an anchor for the film that thread was changed as an alternative to the pakistani family in nothing but good ways a fantastic adaptation of course i'm skeptical that someone so pure can exist within such a system but i don't know enough about the politics of the nation to argue br br after watching the first episode of the mini series i actually rewatched the film why i kept reading about the fantastic acting i found the performances in the first episode of the mini series to be borderline laughable certainly this improved as the mini series progressed now having just finished both versions in a few days i can't agree that the performances in the mini series reached the same level as say benicio del toro who was brilliant in the film though paterson shah and lindsay duncan were very good i also feel the police in the film far outclassed the mini series i was not impressed with the germans throughout br br finally the dialogue as delivered in the film is much more nuanced especially in the scenes which are almost verbatim careful you're beginning to sound like your husband as opposed to hahahaha you sound like karl again i found some of the acting in the mini series very unconvincing this was a prime example br br other superior aspects of the film in my opinion score cinematography editing br br should i complain that the film wasn't longer no i think it was a fantastic adaptation given the format the changes made stood on their own i mean would you sit in a theater for 5 7 10 hours of course not br br mini series 8 out of 10 br br film 9 out of 10
1	this is a wonderfully gritty drama detailing the various sides of the international heroin drug trade from the hills of northern pakistan where the tacitly allowed cultivation of opium occurs on a vast scale to the euro trash in germany and england who arrange the of processed heroin in multi kilo smuggled shipments to the end users caught up in the web of addiction and the crime needed to support their growing habit and finally all the levels of international government corruption and hypocrisy surrounding police efforts at controlling the drug problem this drama is sketched out with a wide array of in depth well rounded characters fully evolved plot and excellent character acting and location shooting br br this puts hollywood epics like the french connection in their place br br is a deeply thought provoking and suspenseful tale of modern drug related espionage and the international efforts of many people to try to eliminate it br br unlike many crime dramas revolving around drugs strongly on uncovering the societal reasons that people slide into drug addiction as one of the characters puts it until we as a society construct a world that people want to participate in instead of wanting to escape from we will not be able to stop people from taking drugs br br this is a fascinating and fully engrossing drama i highly recommend it
1	i was disappointed with the recent 2000 american remake of this english mini series though it followed the plot line very closely it seemed to leave the heart and soul of the original out not to mention adding shallow preachy heavy handed so my advice is to skip the modern remake and stick with the original it's much longer but gripping and totally well done interesting complex and textured without the preachy self righteousness and it's beautifully shot as well br br i find it galling that these heartless remakes of great overseas films get so much hollywood fanfare at the oscars though i did like benicio del getting some deserved praise
1	i haven't seen the more recent which is based on this but i'd bet on this one as the better creation i know of no other movie that has so well portrayed the intricate tragedies of the drug trade and the 'war on drugs i've watched this one at least four times and am enjoying it again as part of masterpiece theatre's 30th anniversary presentations
1	compared to the acclaimed hollywood remake this film is less flashy but much stronger at providing an overall picture of the drug problem the remake loses the most interesting of the three plot threads that of a farmer whose meager livelihood depends on drugs as a paying cash crop and whose increased involvement with the drug trade in an effort to better himself destroys himself and his family additionally the story of the daughter's addiction goes into the problems not only of withdrawal but the high likelihood of this original miniseries makes good use of the additional time to go into the issues more thoroughly and remains stronger meat on this controversial subject
1	i've slowly been collecting the films available on dvd of both catherine deneuve and francois truffaut both actress and director have done some stinkers in their time fortunately mississipi mermaid is not one of them br br next to the soft skin coincidentally staring deneuve's sister the late francoise this would have to be my favourite truffaut film br br as well as directing truffaut also wrote the screenplay something that always strikes me about truffaut is his almost childlike innocence when presenting a story one could almost call it naivety br br there's a scene towards the end of the film where belmondo returns to the apartment in lyon with the remains of the loot he rings the and deneuve answers wearing a negligee in the time it takes belmondo to reach their room from the street deneuve changes into her dress puts on her best pair of stockings and shoes then lies on the bed and pretends she is asleep it's a scene that could almost come from the mind of a child but that's truffaut for you br br watching catherine deneuve in her films of the late 60's is indeed a sensory pleasure she is so extraordinarily beautiful it is almost painful for us to watch incidentally for those fans there are a couple of topless scenes of her in this film indeed a sinful pleasure br br i disagree with previous posters i see nothing about the film at all as for the 'look' of it i love the look of the older film stock used in the 60's it certainly gives films of this period a unique look br br highly recommended for both deneuve and truffaut fans
1	what an awesome mini series the original completely stole me away from anything else that was on far more engaging than the american remake the original boasts an amazing cast formed of lesser known actors to north american audiences juliette binoche being the mainly recognizable actress who plays a drug addicted teenaged daughter of a government official but it's not star power that carries this film though i enjoyed the american version i felt it was dimmed by the famous americans in the picture br br unfortunately i saw the american version before i found the original bbc mini series of course there were no picture filters lush locales and the big name stars director however the grit and grime of europe through the perfectly compliments the impending sense of danger which permeates throughout this film the problems such as getting addicts off of drugs by giving them more poor anti drug campaigning and the resistance of foreign governments to assist with destroying their drug from within all make bold immersive and horrific all at the same time br br the truly incredible portions of the movie all come from pakistan my god i never knew how bad the problem really was over in europe even all over for a real education on the problems of drugs beyond how they affect the human body you must watch both this and the american version each show one very clear and undeniable fact those countries which are leaders in the eyes of the world have a culture that has led to the death and suffering for many br br drugs are worse than war they work in the shadows the dark secrets of any successful society
1	contains spoilers i had it recorded a while ago when it was on pbs but never got a chance to watch it probably due to prejudice about having to sit through 5 6 hrs of masterpiece theater with its bbc made for tv production style no music settings all in one room no outdoor scenes flat tv look but after watching the movie traffic which i thought was pretty good at that time i couldn't help digging up the tape to see what else could they have dwelled into with the extra 2 1 2 hr br br boy was my preconceptions wrong about this tv series it is so much more involving than traffic the characters are fleshed out better so that their actions are more believable and the whole subplot involving pakistan completes the whole point of view of everyone in the whole supply chain from the farmer to the end user in traffic the pakistan story was rewritten and reduced down to a good cop vs bad cop plot br br there was alot more meaningful discussion and debate about alcohol and other forms of drug whereas in traffic they mostly became passing references of no significance same with social issues which in were conveyed realistically w o sounding preachy whereas in traffic the characters jus t blurted it out as a statement like the way they do it in those made for tv issue of the week movies br br there was no bad guy vs good guy in even the dealer is portrayed as a junkie that sells to support his habit instead of the nobody messes with me type of person in traffic br br the only down part is that since i watched traffic not much before watching this it was hard not to compare scene by scene and even though the scenes were not the same i knew what the outcome was going to be already thank god for the pakistan story which is different enough that it allowed me to enjoy it completely w o thinking which scene it compares to although i was thrown off thinking the drugs were fused into the ceramic of the statues in which helen brought back to germany as in the storyline of traffic thank god was not that hokey and far fetched
1	i enjoyed this programme immensely it is exceptionally well written with finely judged performances and clever visuals br br it is also very frank and honest refreshing compared to the sanitised representation of drug use in films and television br br unmissable one of the finest television shows of recent years and triumph on all scales for channel 4 br br 9 10
1	brilliant ranks along with citizen kane the matrix and godfathers must see at least for basset in her early days watch it
1	the best thing one can say about the film traffic is that it brought attention to the superior british mini series as many people have noted the current film suffers from the story to accommodate the short attention span of and the turn around time of the theater owners who measure a film's success by the overpriced food sales br br i first recorded this mini series in 1990 when it was shown on public tv and have watched it many times the whole documentary style series has a strong element of tragedy and doom about it as the characters are all moving toward their eventual fate the strongest of the three tales is that of the pakistani family forced into the city to find a way to keep body and soul together after the poppy crop is burned by the army in a staged show of force put on for the benefit of western politicians the hardships of the family are similar to that of the rickshaw pullers family in city of joy eventually the farmer finds work but he compromises his pride and honesty br br the pakistani segment of the film has a particular relevance to today with the fight against the supporters of al and gives some understanding of the support for such movements among the disadvantaged poor of pakistan and afghanistan who rarely receive any of the money going into those countries the film makes a point that the farmers see barely 25 of the aid which is supposed to encourage them to grow other crops br br with the american inability to see anything other than in terms of black and white good guys v bad guys it is interesting to see another view where there is no black and white only shades of grey br br possible spoiler ahead the only problem i had with the story was that rather than things continuing as they did before as they would in real life being a work of fiction they had to wrap it up with the bad guys getting what was coming to them other than that this was a fine piece of work of the kind we see all too rarely the cast was outstanding and the german and pakistani locations helped give the film a different feel what a change it made seeing germans as something other than the villains in a wwii film
1	i remember seeing this in the early 90's on uk tv and was hooked the international scope of the production is breathtaking and watching how the characters develop through the five hours it runs for is magnificent the scenes set in pakistan and afghanistan are of particular interest and as a viewer you get a real sense of a grounds eye view of the culture and vibe of these countries during the closing stages of the cold war the characters of and helen develop really well throughout the series and rivals modern shows like the sopranos and six feet under in this area in the uk the vhs goes for about £6 and the dvd about £10 a quality bargain i thought soderbergh's version was great too but clearly owes this masterpiece a huge debt
1	is a really well done 6 hour drama about drugs circa 1987 it tells three stories in parallel about how opium is grown in north east pakistan how drugs are smuggled from pakistan into europe and finally how people addicted to drugs spiral out of control all three stories are told realistically and with empathy you see enough of the characters lives to understand how ordinary people can get sucked into a life that is really immoral br br these aren't card board cutouts the opium grower is trying to feed his family in a dry area filled with guns and other opium growers the drug smuggler is a rich german with no heart but his wife one of the three main characters is just an ordinary woman who has to choose between leading her life the old way or giving up finally the main character the government minister has the toughest role as he must deal with the emotional devastation caused by his own daughter she slips into the world of drug addiction and starts stealing suffering from ill health attacking her parents emotionally all so she can continue to satisfy her craving for the drug heroin that is destroying her life br br is one of the best dramas i have ever seen on tv the scenes in this show will remain with you for a long long time highly recommended colin
1	i had been very curious to see the original six hour miniseries that steven soderbergh's latest movie was based on and now that i have i am happy to say that one is not better than the other they are both intelligent involving and extremely entertaining the only real advantage that the miniseries has over the movie is that it is three and a half hours longer so we get to know the characters more in depth br br there isn't a false note to be had in this production one that you should definitely make time for when pbs re broadcasts this miniseries sometime in 2001 you won't regret it
1	four stories about the drug trade in europe become intertwined over the course of this 6 part miniseries in germany a businessman is arrested on drug smuggling charges and his wife attempts to save her family by continuing her husband's illegal trade meanwhile the british home secretary travels to pakistan to negotiate an aid package that he hopes will stop the drug flow from that country even as he does this however his own daughter succumbs to heroin addiction tearing their family apart this is the miniseries on which the american film and miniseries were based the original is far superior to its two the poverty and desperation of the third world are portrayed very well it is stark uncompromising and brutal
1	i can only agree with many observers that is one of the most memorable dramas ever made for television i saw when it was on tv and i have just watched it again i am particularly moved by the haunting original music of tim and especially by the dolorous strains of chamber symphony in c minor the music over the credits and in parts of the film the music intensifies the desperation of the characters as they pursue their sad fate the music is powerfully emotional this arrangement combines two of the movements from the symphony but i recommend listening to the symphony per se
1	this is one of the best films i've seen in the last years and deneuve shine in their respective roles he as a naive plantation owner and she as an enigmatic trickster words won't do this masterpiece justice suffice it to say that this is a movie that explores the darker side of love and the pain humiliation and capacity for self delusion that go with it although it's dressed as a film noir forget that feeble remake with jolie and banderas see the genuine instead and treat yourselves to some moments of great cinematic beauty
1	if you've not seen this then look out for it it is available on dvd it is a channel 4 uk production possibly in conjunction with german and danish tv if you've seen the film it is basically the same plot several stories are connected through the drugs trade the story jumps between the housewife played by the excellent lyndsay duncan trying to complete a deal on behalf of her husband who to her surprise is an international drugs dealer and generally dangerous man br br a minister who is embedded in his job to the detriment of his family is investigating the whole state of affairs with international drugs trafficking he gets a few eye openers to the reality of heroin when his daughter turns out to have a he then visit pakistan officially where he seems to be taught that the abuse not simply the drug or its casual use is the problem and also gets to sample some produce an excellent scene where he simultaneously realises what the attraction is and why it is and why it is such a problem in pakistan we get to see the other side the desperation of farmers who can barely survive turning to opium production and crime lords the pointless attempts at subsidy resulting in the system getting rich and a country so drenched in drugs yet only a relative fraction of the abuse we have in the west around all this a customs official interpol agent tries to catch the connection in heroin smuggling seeking justice for his murdered partner this really is a masterpiece super understated performances from all the main actors in a way only european cinema can really do br br a must see especially if you have seen the film they compliment each other present some subtly different opinions attitudes from both sides of the pond
1	1989 is an emmy award winning six part miniseries out of the uk which was the inspiration for the oscar winning traffic 2000 the five hour film breaks down the opium heroine trade for the viewer from the of poppy seeds in an afghanistan field to the head rush of a junkie in a flat in england not only does offer entertainment value through dramatic stories it also provides an overview of the international drug trade at all levels answering the who where how and why questions of the age old and unstoppable narcotic supply demand machine entertaining and educational will prove to be time well spent for teens and up a
1	beautifully constructed tells the story of narcotics usage and commerce from multiple points of view from a policeman view from a politician view from an addict view from a view and from a farmer's view in a carefully storyline one gets the impression on how everything is inter related from beautiful on location shots in the poppy fields in pakistan to downtown to the entry points airports of frankfurt and london to the delapidated buildings where the smuggling takes place one sees the massive dimension of narcotics consumption
1	it is hard to put the devastating beauty of to words partly because i am still grasping to comprehend it myself several hours after my second viewing first it must be said that contains some of the most incomparably and unforgettably haunting scenes i have seen in a film or television production the acting is excellent particularly that of bill paterson as a british minister grappling with his heroin addicted daughter and an aid deal to pakistan that hinges on drug issues another plot line describes these drug issues at a ground level in pakistan and revolves around a struggling opium poppy farmer and his interaction with a successful heroin smuggler the third main storyline involves the prosecution of a hamburg drug and the conflicting efforts of his wife and two german detectives while he is under trial it is a profound accomplishment that the interaction between these stories feels natural transcending the forced plot entanglement often found in hollywood movies it is an even greater accomplishment that a work spread over three countries and half a dozen main characters can be so focused and enthralling without having to oversimplify it is devastating bleak and brutal but never apathetic in short is a rare work of film that handles challenging subjects with unmatched compassion and clarity
1	despite its title is not really about drugs in the best tradition of crusading british tv drama analyses and about its ostensible subject which is not some mythical scourge but a matrix or process with identifiable social economic and historical roots causes and effects there is something almost scientific in the way the film takes four sets of characters from spectacularly separate global and class backgrounds a poppy grower forced into the pakistani underworld by poverty and a cynical government the english ex olympic swimmer wife of a drugs baron on trial for trafficking two shambling german policemen whose determination to convict the latter arises as much from class anger as any faith in the law and a tory junior minister whose cambridge student daughter has become an addict br br is unapologetically didactic from the early scenes of jack lithgow in pakistan investigating the government's success in eliminating drugs before sanctioning more british aid we are bombarded with facts about the problem but these 'facts' come from a variety of sources government representatives left wing lawyers with vested ideological and domestic interest in the corruption poor farmers who need to grow to survive br br facts normally reassuring markers on a map are clearly not enough the more facts we get the less the situation seems it is not until jack the film's moral centre the man who connects all the narrative threads actually journeys into the heart of the drugs darkness learns to shed his tory hypocrisy the use of drugs but refusing to put any serious money into tackling the problem and creating the conditions through various free market where drug flourishes just as the anti heroes of the old warners' gangster films were actually model american capitalists so the are the ideal being espoused by thatcher and reagan that at least the reality of the problem can be acknowledges br br like i say isn't really about drugs as jack finally recognises after being sacked as a tory minister drugs isn't really the problem it's a society dismantled by a woman who said there was no longer any such thing as proved by jack's non existent family life systematically depriving the vast majority of people of hope and happiness increasing numbers of whom turn to drugs br br what is most frightening about is not the graphic numbing depictions of drug abuse the technical detail of which ironically reflects the presentation of more 'legitimate' verbal factual information but the dystopian vision of a britain stripped of any joy beauty or community a bleak wasteland of derelict tenements and soulless modernity a society of ready for the thatcherite smugglers and to ply their trade br br this isn't just a contemporary british story it records the decline of an empire built on trade reduced to lawless drug it is surely significant that the other sites in the programme are germany and pakistan crucial agents in the empire's decline here the old imperial amorality comes home to roost the formerly enslaved victims their bodies abused by their masters' power returning to the imperial centre london the seeds of its decline literally carried in their bodies embodying the fears of all those late 19th century gothic novels br br is one of the great achievements of british tv and is in many ways superior to the recent hollywood remake the political focus is obviously sharper jack's decline is much more effective than because he as agent of government policy as well as a bad father is very much part of the problem whereas the american's only real political flaw is complacency in almost every case characterisation is tighter and much more plausible compare lindsay duncan's steely helen already bitten by experience and failure and her risibly superficial counterpart br br unlike the dubious racial undercurrent of making mexico dark and other the ultimate wasp horror being sex with a black man the portrait of pakistan is richly tragically drawn with disconcerting arguments about drug protection punctuated by scenes of gruesome violence throughout the linking of public and private is expert visually the film is remarkably inventive without ever being flashy or especially in the last episode where the buildings and decor seem to move as the system closes in if like its remake feels the need to shore fragments then the prevailing sense of waste and loss is much more damning jack's speech bitterly despairing
1	saboteur is a 1942 film partly aimed at getting american support for the war against nazi germany propaganda or not it's great entertainment the leading actors are robert cummings and priscilla lane although director alfred hitchcock wanted gary cooper and barbara stanwyck in the roles which would have given the movie more stature this is a good movie anyway with robert cummings and priscilla lane bringing their own style to the characters as in other hitchcock movies we see the director's disregard for the socially suave and the well heeled he often portrayed spies and foreign agents as nice upper class folk who at the same time sneered at democratic values and concepts such as guilty until proved innocent these upper crust traitors are the last the police pursue or even suspect hitchcock had a lifelong distrust of the police he wanted to elevate the regular guy the and the fellow who doesn't take himself too seriously one can see him wanting gary cooper as an icon in the frank capra mold nevertheless bob cummings puts his own stamp on the boy next door and works well in the role priscilla lane as the spunky female lead comes off as the all american girl who can handle herself quite nicely when put to the test robert cummings as defence plant worker barry kane is framed for a bombing that kills his best friend this leads to a cross country chase scene reminiscent of other hitchcock heroes on the run hitchcock repeats some of the well established formulas from previous films the reluctant female who is drawn into the action e g madeleine carroll in the 39 steps and risking his life to evade the authorities who are on his heels we view scenes of america as kane tries to find the real culprit in the bombing he stands accused of we see rivers bridges backwoods cabins truckers the hoover dam and finally new york city new york is a fitting backdrop for the climax as we go from rockefeller center to the ocean liners with a cut to the ship normandy and the grand finale on the statue of liberty great movie with uninterrupted action don't miss it
1	barry kane is an aircraft factory worker suddenly sabotage takes place at the factory and starts a fire his best friend is killed they accuse him of the deed but kane knows it was a man named fry who was there he becomes a fugitive and goes to find this man named fry he's helped by a kind blind man he lets his niece the billboard model patricia martin take the man to a local blacksmith to have his handcuffs removed they don't end up there for the woman doesn't believe barry and wants to take him to the police but soon he changes her mind about barry and they find out about another sabotage attempt that's going to take place soon there's a group of anti american fascists and frank fry is a member of that group saboteur 1942 is another example of the fact alfred hitchcock could not make a bad movie robert cummings plays barry kane and he's really good at that priscilla lane with her good looks plays pat martin also really good otto kruger makes a great main villain as the leader of the fascist group charles tobin norman lloyd still alive at 94 plays fry and makes a very believable crook vaughan glaser is the most sympathetic character as the blind man philip martin the dance hall sequence is fantastic and also the moments on the circus train in the end we're at the statue of liberty
1	the subject is banal even in 1942 it is war propaganda the fascists are among us and they are doing all they can to sabotage the war effort and to prepare their victory and their seizure of power then and their establishing an effective totalitarian state but hitchcock has to make it a real thriller so he invents a first sabotage that succeeds but one of the victims the friend of the one who dies in it becomes the prime suspect and run away for the sabotage that enables him to so to say visit the country and discover the tricky organization of the local nazis who have acquaintances and support in the top benevolent society and use the small little dissatisfied whites to do the dirty work the chase after the real saboteur takes our young false suspect from los angeles to new york and to the top of the organization he meets a blind pianist who believes his senses to know the chap is not guilty his niece who is a star of the advertising billboard but also a frenetic and fanatic patriot who only thinks of going to the police then the rich rancher and his nest of plotters then on the road some sympathetic and friendly truck driver and the long caravan of a circus going around and their dwarf bearded woman siamese sisters and a few other grotesques of that type and he discovers the target in a soda city an electric dam that provides los angeles and its war industry with the energy they need he takes part as a gravel in the organization in the sabotage of a uss alaska military ship when it is launched and finally with some inventiveness creativity and elbow grease he and the niece manage to get the whole lot cleaned up most of them arrested and the first saboteur a certain fry falls down from the torch of the statue of liberty that one won't fry on the old electric sparking chair but hitchcock is not yet in his habit of having a personal cameo appearance in his own films so don't look for him it's well built and well performed but it is only a propaganda film with an extra style br br dr jacques coulardeau university paris dauphine university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne university versailles saint quentin en yvelines
1	excellent hitchcock thriller with robert cummings proving once again that he could really act up a storm br br this time he is a defense plant worker caught up in a horrible plot when his best friend is killed at the plant br br priscilla lane is the girl who suddenly becomes interested in cummings as the plot thickens and he is pursued from california to n y br br there is a diabolical plot by a group of wealthy 5th columnists to destroy from from within hitchcock was known to play up the upper echelons of society involved in mayhem in his long career as a director br br ironically the film implodes at the very end while we see what happens to the guy who killed friend we don't see what happens to the rest of the gang again many of whom represent the upper crust of society
1	alfred hitchcock's saboteur 1942 not to be confused with another hitchcock film sabotage made in 1936 which has a completely different plot is not the master of suspense greatest film it dose not have the depth of vertigo 1958 nor the brooding atmosphere of 1940 and it certainly dose not have the emotional impact and acting talent that can be found in notorious 1946 but what it dose have is thrills adventure and a nail biting climax the two leads admittedly are quite weak it is easy to understand why hitchcock wanted gary cooper for the robert cummings role and barbara stanwyck for the role that was taken by priscilla lane also the patriotic speeches that says that were written by dorothy parker have dated badly and the encounter with circus troupe is poorly done the beard on the bearded lady is clearly false however the last half hour is edge of your seat viewing the climax atop the stature of liberty is very well done and the film is a clear predecessor of north by northwest 1959 the two villains otto kruger and norman lloyd are very good and the beginning fire at the aircraft factory is a superb sequence this not the best film hitch made but it is surly one of his most entertaining
1	i love this movie it is the first film master p have ever done it is based on the story of his life it is low budget but it is very good it shows how master p grew up in projects in new orleans br br not only did master p start in this movie he also was the writer and director with moon jones the dvd also has the no limit ice cream party on it this movie shows how master p goes from bad too good and how he had to deal with the things around him it also has many of the no limit records roster in this film you should buy or rent this film br br it is a great movie to watch is you like rap or is a master p fan i will not spoil this movie for you go get this movie as fast as you can and watch it you will like it
1	a man is wrongfully accused of killing his friend in an aircraft plant fire and must travel cross country to avoid the police and discover the true sinister nature of the situation at hand a plot line that was later used to fuel hitchcock's classic north by northwest saboteur benefits from some very good performances as well as some masterful suspense sequences from the master himself br br for any hitchcock fan the plot is a bit too familiar but he was always able to infuse the story with its own memorable supporting characters and here the likable and charming robert cummings is the lead and soon finds himself visiting many strange and quirky characters not withstanding a troupe of circus performers a rich businessman with hidden motives and a blind loner who shows him the best way to judge someone br br in terms of sheer originality and quality this does lack in some areas particularly the motive of the antagonists however there is some nice chemistry between cummings and his lead lady the much under appreciated priscilla lane as well as a truly moving performance as the blind man by vaughn glaser the best part is the final sequence which perfectly mirrors what hitchcock would use later in north by northwest only this time the climax is atop a statue in new york certainly not his best but the master of suspense gives us some great moments to wait for
1	this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i've seen in full the first was rope which i really enjoyed with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free whereas rope took place all in one room i didn't enjoy this one as much as rope but that's not saying this is a bad film it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more br br it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones as a thriller i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension the sound design is almost non existent you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them but the important things are missing the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve the need of music to amp of the tension all missing intentional no doubt yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside br br the film doesn't feel like it should either they are almost globe trotting from place to place yet it feels more confined the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving br br the performances are there but nothing amazing everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work the one stand out is otto kruger who has that rich ego evil persona down pat br br in the end i wanted more from this one i understand it's one of hitchcock's least exciting films but i did have a good time watching it i can recommend it just not enthusiastically
1	bob cummings is excellent in this as this technically brilliant hitchcock film really does not get the fame as some of his other films but is very watchable even today priscilla lane proves in this one that she can hold her own with other blonde's that worked with hitchcock later she just did a handful of films after this which makes her almost forgotten today br br there are sequences in this that will remind the viewer of set ups in later films by the director the acting is so well done and the story so well done that this film is still very entertaining today every person in the cast performs well there are several great backdrops in the black white film br br this was the first film at universal for hitchcock long run between the feature films he did at universal plus the television series hitchcock would make as much box office for the studios as anyone who worked there this fact gets lost in film history br br norman lloyd is well cast as the real bad guy in this film the story moves along really well including hitchcock's only filmed western sequence this film is very good with lots of great work by everyone involved making it
1	i am a massive hitchcock fan ever since seeing rear window on television saboteur is not hitchcock's best for me though it is very good but not a masterpiece it does have its faults some parts are rather slow moving and as a consequence of it being written off in a hurry the script felt rather incomplete but hitchcock's direction is superb and the performances weren't that bad while robert cummings and priscilla lane both do a good enough job otto kruger and norman lloyd come very close to stealing the show the story is good about a wronged man on the run very similar themes used in 39 steps and north by northwest and cleverly provides some much needed escapism the music score was absolutely outstanding the music in the opening title sequence was phenomenal almost like a distorted march and i liked the digs at tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto and beethoven's 5th symphony the cinematography is also crisp and smooth the scenery and landscapes almost dazzling and there are also a number of very effective scenes namely the statue of liberty climax but the circus troupe encounter and the radio music city hall shoot out is also on the money overall not hitchcock's best but definitely worth the look 8 10 bethany cox
1	overall this is entertaining and odd film don't try to make sense of it there are more holes in the story than a computer could keep up with but robert cummings and a cast of minor characters are mostly fun to watch in this fugitive like story br br unlike the popular tv show and then 1993 movie this fugitive isn't looking for a one armed man but a two armed nazi saboteur by the the name of frank fry cummings barry kane gets blamed when a defense plant blows up in los angeles and goes on the lam looking for the man who did it fry to clear his name br br the first 40 minutes or so are very tense and interesting then priscilla lane pat martin enters the story and it starts to bog down a bit with some sappy dialog director alfred hitchcock often did that with his female characters to the point i wonder if he had a clue how woman talked lane's character here was a little lame br br actually the villains played by otto kruger charles tobin and norman lloyd frank fry were the best in my opinion just fascinating acting and dialog was especially good br br if you haven't seen this film but saw hitchcock's well known north by northwest you'll chuckle at the ending and really enjoy it instead of a climactic scene at mount rushmore here we have a memorable last 10 minutes at the state of liberty as usual hitchcock camera angles are great and fun to view
1	i really loved seeing this movie i think it's a brilliant underrated alfred hitchcock movie everyone is familiar with the famous statue of liberty scene but there's a really great movie before that robert cummings is great in what i consider to be his greatest role and the beautiful priscilla lane shows that she has a lot of talent too but i think norman lloyd gives the best performance his character fry is so evil and devious even though he's not in it for very long the movie wouldn't be the same without him br br saboteur is a great movie that every hitchcock fan should see i give it a 10 out of 10
1	this movie is a masterpiece of brilliant acting and timely patriotic sense of pride in america the nazi saboteurs of the 40's are replaced by the middle east terrorists of today the intent is the same to terrorize disrupt lives destroy property and kill americans we see a wrongly accused barry bob cummings on the lamm trying to uncover the real nazi terrorists plot meeting the beautiful pat priscilla lane and together they travel to new york chasing the devious and evil saboteur fry played expertly by norman lloyd along the way they encounter the also very sinister otto kruger playing the leader of the nazi saboteur ring but disguised as a distinguished model citizen where barry seeking saboteur fry takes him into his confidence only to handed over to the local law enforcement he escapes meets a kindly blind gentleman and his niece enter priscilla lane from there barry and pat travel to soda city cal run into the west coast saboteur gang heading east they trail ends up in the mansion of a unlikely new york socialite the going gets tough when the bad guys kidnap pat from barry and he goes after her with reckless abandon the movie climax is the famous statue of liberty scene which is excerpted in many compilations this is a true blue patriotic flag waving performance at it's best and what is wrong with that see this movie if you don't see another hitchcock film you will be swept up in the patriotic and the love interest between cummings and lane will make you wish they had been paired in other movies she is the beautiful ideal girl next door often underrated her talent shows through in this film see it and go bless america
1	hitchcock once gave an interview where he said he like to direct screenplays that had an ordinary person minding their own business who's accidentally caught up in an awful chain of events that they can't get out of until the dastardly plot that's behind their troubles is resolved that way the audience can feel more sympathy for the hero we certainly do in this fine film barry kane is only trying to help his fellow man out by performing acts of kindness and consideration like helping fry pick up the letters he dropped at the factory barry even returns a lost 100 bill to fry later on that was big money in 1943 it's barry's acts of christian kindness that get him into trouble and soon he's wrongly accused of sabotage and murder and will likely hang if he can't clear himself similar to the 39 steps in plot the hero travels cross country where he discovers plans for further acts of terrorism by cells an arch villain who nobody could believe to be a closet nazi and a beautiful blonde patricia martin who first suspects and hates then eventually falls in love with barry kane hitch's trademark touches of humor are here too patricia is a billboard model who's various roadside ads are a help and comfort to barry as he hitches a ride with the bad guys all the way from las vegas to nyc we meet a trucker who's a one man comedy act someone convinced my wife it was stylish to eat three meals a day field employees of the fascist spy ring about being forgotten or ignored by the suits just as if they were working for some legit enterprise during a chase scene into a cinema audience members laugh at the action of a schlocky comedy gangster flick as the saboteur cell shoots it out for real with the good guys and kills a guffawing movie patron awful for the dead old man but funny hitch liked to use famous monuments in his movies and this is the best instance with the statue of liberty as backdrop and ironic icon it works even better than the mt rushmore scene in
1	i consider saboteur as hitchcock's first american film because the story takes place completely in u s br br there are brilliant scenes in this film statue of liberty scene barry kane jumping into the water from the bridge water fall scene are amazing its not hitchcock's fault that he didn't get the actors he wanted hitchcock originally wanted gary cooper for the leading roles in foreign correspondent and saboteur but gary cooper wasn't interested in doing a thriller another reason why hitchcock didn't get big stars was because he wasn't one of top directors although rebecca was a huge success still most of film's success went to producer david o selznick for example david o selznick got best picture oscar for rebecca and hitchcock didn't get a best director oscar for rebecca hitchcock started getting some attention after foreign correspondent 1940 but universal gave him a low budget for saboteur 1942 hitchcock tried to get joel mccrea for this film because he was willing to work with hitchcock again with a low salary he enjoyed working with hitchcock in foreign correspondent 1940 but he was unavailable so the role went to robert cummings hitchcock called robert cummings a competent performer i thought he did his best he was a less known actor who was willing to play a role when many big actors refused to play the leading male role br br as for leading female role hitchcock wanted margaret sullavan or barbara stanwyck for the leading role they weren't interested either so universal decided to give the role to priscilla lane i read in a book that this was one of her favorite films br br i also liked the scene at blind man's house that is my favorite scene if we listen closer to the dialogue in scenes that happen in uncle philip's house then we will see how intense it is uncle philip blind man was studying barry kane's character the moment he entered his house the moment barry entered his house he heard barry's handcuffs through conversation he realized that barry kane isn't a criminal at all we also see his hearing ability through those scenes for example barry hears the sound of a car says is that a car coming uncle philip says 2 cars i think uncle philip was right we see 2 cars in the next scene priscilla lane did a fine job playing her role she was no big star but i thought her performance was really good another brilliant scene in uncle philip's house is the scene where he asks priscilla lane patricia martin are you frightened pat is that what makes you so cruel i thought otto krueger played the villain brilliantly hitchcock wanted harry carey for the villain but he refused harry carey is famous for his role mr president in mr smith goes to washington i want to mention more about this film but i think my post is getting too long br br every hitchcock film is special in its own way i am sure hitchcock fans will like this film i rate 10 out of 10
1	i thoroughly enjoyed this film which in many ways as hitchcock did on several occasions was a first attempt at a plot which he re shot later in his career possibly the most amazing thing about it however is how faceless the lead characters are after watching one remembers murray as the jovial truck driver vaughan touching turn as a blind patriot the unforgettable traveling freak show and of course otto kruger as the suave and sophisticated villain all of whom completely overshadow bob cummings as the rather wooden fugitive compare that bridge jump to harrison ford's similar stunt in andrew davis' the fugitive and priscilla lane whose change of heart and subsequent love towards cummings is never quite believable br br the other major support player is of course hitchcock himself who bookends the film with 2 extraordinary stunts many people criticise the older films for their lack of realistic special effects my feelings are that with lack of technology to even attempt and convey what the director wants to show is an amazing achievement br br obviously this film carries an anti fascist message made at the time of the second world war but being a hitchcock it is never the most important thing and the emphasis is always on the action well worth checking out especially for the support roles
1	this movie was marketed extremely well when it was released in '97 during the middle of master fame and success anything and everything with his name on it was selling off the shelves that's why it's no wonder this underground urban drama sold over 250 000 copies and still goin' br br if you are a fan of no limit back then or even now check it out it has a few old school videos and don't get me started with the freaky deaky strippers at the bonus ice cream party so what i got to say to all the people who don't like master p or no limit records don't watch it because it isn't for you and don't bother voting on it because you're only going to deter no limit fans from renting or purchasing this video with your low votes
1	there are many familiar hitchcock elements of previous and later films and this time they mix to a jolly but hardly suspenseful piece of entertainment you can tell that dorothy parker had a hand in the script the most memorable scenes are the dialogues of hero cummings with the blind man and his encounter with a rather bizarre group of circus people the famous climax on the statue of liberty seems a bit heavy handed judged by standards but also compared to other hitch monument finals e g blackmail north by northwest
1	cummings is falsely accused of sabotage and goes on the lam looking for the real culprit the familiar hitchcock theme of a man wrongly accused of a crime is nicely played out in this entertaining fare that has elements of the thirty nine steps and north by northwest although it is not as good as either of those classics there are some impressive set pieces including the finale on the statue of liberty the plot is implausible and unconvincing and after a terrific start it seems to run out of steam cummings is likable if somewhat stiff in the lead lane is the blonde but not the cool variety of the director's later films the supporting roles are generally well played
1	ah hitchcock it's hard to find a bad hitchcock movie until he lost it after the birds 1963 and saboteur proves the point having admired most of this director's work for many years i had managed to skip this one perhaps from lack of interest in priscilla lane and robert cummings as lead actors i was of course familiar with the statue of liberty climax from having seen it repeatedly in film retrospectives but i wrongly assumed the story leading up to it might not hold my interest was i wrong the suspenseful plot gets cooking right off the bat through a chance encounter between the bad guy saboteur and the good guy wrongly accused protagonist and continues zooming along through a series of further chance encounters and narrow escapes familiar hitchcockian elements are all there the innocent person wrongly accused of a crime people not being what they seem to be dramatic or unlikely locations that intensify the suspenseful scene being played out within them an airplane hangar a ranch a bridge from which the handcuffed hero hurls himself to escape the police a sumptuous charity ball in a palatial mansion an upper floor of a skyscraper and finally the torch of the statue of liberty br br throughout is humor provided by supporting players generous dollops of early ww2 vintage social comment moments of human warmth where suffering people find it within themselves to lend a hand to help a fellow human getting nothing in return – in short there was always a basic humanity at the core of hitchcock however grisly the trappings a sensational cast of supporting players chiefly otto kruger as the slickest villain this side of george sanders his broadway credits include the male lead in noel coward's private lives – and that says it all and weaselly norman lloyd as the titular saboteur not to mention alma kruger – no relation to otto – as a prominent society dowager involved in fifth column intrigue her character foreshadows that of claude mother in notorious priscilla lane does a fine job with a difficult role for most of her early scenes we can't tell whether she believes the hero to be innocent or guilty and she seems constantly to shift her opinion not coming over to his side fully until late in the proceedings one cannot ascertain whether her acting is at fault or whether we are meant to be kept in a state of uncertainty but the plot developments are so swift fun and clever that we really don't care what she thinks br br then there are the peculiar hitchcock touches that have nothing to do with the plot twice the lane character pauses to get change for a quarter – once to reimburse her kidnappers for an ice cream soda and again to make a call from a phone booth why these scenes were inserted are anybody's guess perhaps to make the film seem more realistic and thus heighten the believability and suspense or perhaps to give the audience a moment to catch its breath some of the characters are over the top – the garrulous truck driver the impossibly kind and trusting blind man living alone in a spotlessly maintained forest cabin the political philosophy spouting human skeleton and other members of the circus caravan who hide the protagonists from their pursuers
1	screenwriters peter viertel joan harrison and of all people dorothy parker enable director alfred hitchcock to expound on what may have been his favorite movie theme innocent man wrongly fingered for crime takes it on the lam hitchcock who some credit with originating the story engineers a great deal of suspense in plot about a warehouse worker blamed for the explosion which killed his best friend he sets out on journey to find the real culprit plenty of excitement on a grand scale with usually colorless actors priscilla lane norman lloyd alan baxter doing surprisingly fine work even eternally smug robert cummings gets into the proper spirit from
1	an entertaining first draft for north by northwest saboteur has some wonderful hitchcockian moments one of the best occurs at a table when the hero is asked by a woman who hasn't yet seen that he's wearing handcuffs to give her a plate trying to do that he also drops a knife to the floor exposing himself even more but suffers from a poorly chosen lead whether he's delivering patriotic speeches romancing priscilla lane making jokes or trying to look worried robert cummings is wooden and from a lack of really distinct villains oh there are villains many of them but hardly anyone has enough screen time
1	i really enjoy this film it is a look back in time when this nation was truly at risk from nations who either attacked or war on us i e the japanese and germans robert cummings and lane were excellent in the lead roles the supporting cast otto kruger alan baxter and norman lloyd were also outstanding the direction pace and finale held and continue to hold my interest so much so that i bought my own copy thank goodness for turner classic movies they show so many of the truly classic films including this one br br robert cummings was certainly no light weight as an actor and although i am a great fan of gary cooper and joel mccrea two of my favorite actors who were first offered the lead role i don't see what they would have brought to the role that would have surpassed bob performance br br this is a film that i enjoy watching and urge others to view
1	barry kane robert cummings is wrongfully accused on sabotaging a hanger making aircrafts for the war he goes on the run meets patricia martin priscilla lane along the way and she joins him to find and bring the real criminals to justice br br there are a lot of things wrong with this film robert cummings was a good actor but he's totally miscast in this role priscilla lane is pretty but was never a good actress the story doesn't make a whole lot of sense and rambles on longer than needed it wears its patriotism a bit much but this was made while wwii was in full swing and there's no ending it shouldn't work but it does br br it's full of bizarre lines and characters that certainly hold your interest br br for example lane says to cummings while they're falling in love i wish i could have met you a hundred years ago lane pays a villain for getting her lunch and cummings and lane join a circus troupe briefly while on the run also hitchcock's direction was as always just great he throws in some truly amazing shots and sequences especially the statue of liberty climax br br this is not one of hitchcock's classic movie but is still very good and worth catching
1	you can't help but marvel at hitchcock's early work saboteur for example is so slick and quick that it's hard to believe he made this film over 60 years ago there's some propaganda elements but they're woven into the mystery so well that the thing plays beautifully years later you also get some previews of stuff that hitchcock would do later like using a national landmark as a backdrop this time it's the statue of liberty in north by northwest of course it's mt rushmore you'll also recognize things that pop up later in rear window and vertigo in saboteur but let's not give away the show robert cummings is excellent as is the oh so charming otto kruger look for hitchcock's mini western in this one it happens quickly so don't blink
1	alfred hitchcock's saboteur is not one of his best regarded films made between two vastly more popular and critically praised pictures suspicion and shadow of a doubt it's generally regarded as a lesser effort i agree that the later film is groundbreaking drawing hitchcock wholly into the american mainstream for the first time but saboteur is in its way at least as lively as suspicion its chief flaw being its less than charismatic star players bob cummings and priscilla lane br br in saboteur we find hitchcock feeling his way around america literally as its lead character travels from california to new york in search of an arsonist for whose crime he was accused cummings is very youthful here and quite engaging his but not immaturity perfectly suits the character he is portraying and seems appropriate as the director though middle aged was in the process of reinventing himself and an older more established star might have thrown things off priscilla lane's spunky heroine which not a typical type for the director was very much a common type in american films at the time and she and cummings provide an openness and a youth the director needed both in his life and work at this time i cannot imagine older more solid types cooper and stanwyck for instance doing any better as they would have between them carried well too much baggage br br as is the norm in hitchcock's films nothing is as it appears where saboteur differs from his better known films is that the audience is let in on the game early though cummings is an accused arsonist we know that he is innocent the villains become apparent fairly soon and the movie hinges more on its plot than its ironies what pleasures there are are incidental and here the master does not disappoint there is an interesting tod interlude with some circus freaks who help cummings elude capture in another scene reminiscent of james whale's bride of frankenstein cummings spends some time in the cottage of a blind man who as it turns out is lane's uncle was the director perhaps studying key american films of the previous decade whatever the case these and other offbeat and discursive aspects of the movie give it a playfulness and variety which when one adds the factor of quite youthful leads makes the picture seem like the work of a younger man still learning his craft br br the film's later scenes in new york are more suspenseful and typical of the director as the picture gradually becomes more as it moves along in the end i find it a satisfying work and as neither cummings nor lane has a dark side as an actor neither does the movie have one it is deliberately lightweight and i suspect semi experimental an attempt by hitchcock to see if he could pull off in an american setting the sort of story he had done so well in england he succeeded admirably the next logical step shadow of a doubt a film in which the main character travels east to west and with a wholly different set of values and plans br br
1	no spoilers br br after hitchcock's successful first american film rebecca based upon daphne lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period mistaken identity and espionage as the u s settled into world war ii and the large scale 'war of civilians building planes weaponry and other necessary militia the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good law abiding citizens knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre producer jack approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock's sensibilities br br this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate 25 year old barry kane robert cummings who while at work at a los angeles airplane factory meets new employee frank frye norman and moments later is framed for committing sabotage fleeing the authorities who don't believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful 'freaks' and a popular billboard model patricia martin priscilla lane who during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security he falls madly in love with of course in the land of hitchcock patricia kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix br br in good form for this outing hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies average joes and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving it's a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited culminates in one of hitchcock's more memorable finales look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time on public attractions while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock's most well known films it's a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual terrific hitchcock villains remember to look for hitchcock's cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film hitchcock's original cameo idea that was shot him fighting in sign language with his wife was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf
1	jewel thief is one of those suspense thrillers in which the viewers are left guessing till the end who the villain is suspense builds from the very first scene when the jewel thief becomes a national problem and there are cleverly concealed clues in the film so that you can guess who is the jewel thief the story portrays that dev anand vinay in the film and the jewel thief have identical faces but you get a 1000 watt shock when you finally come to know the villain there are many surprises and a lot of fishy stuff going on but there is time for romance and six melodious ever lasting songs sung by lata mangeshkar asha bhosle kumar and rafi br br this film was also talked about for its song's videos consider the teasing and counter teasing in ke or the blocking of road by dev anand when tanuja was going out with her friends in yeh dil na hota or the romantic dil are are in the beautiful or the wonderful dance by in pe add to it gaya mera and raat hain and you will never forget this film for any reason br br able acting by dev anand ashok kumar tanuja and and direction by vijay anand dev anand's younger brother makes this one of the best loved hindi films of all times even today
1	hitchcock made at least 11 films about the ordinary man wrongly accused on the run sometimes really running sometimes not to prove his innocence in a situation beyond his control the first one being the 39 steps which really made him popular in great britain it really is his signature theme br br others include young and innocent saboteur spellbound stage fright strangers on a train i confess to catch a thief the wrong man north by northwest and finally frenzy saboteur starts robert cummings as barry kane a wartime aircraft plant worker during wartime accused of murdering his co worker and best friend during an act of sabotage on the plant he meets up with model patricia martin played by actress priscilla lane during his run from the law and later of course the various nazi fascist sympathizers along the way br br saboteur is mainly like the 39 steps even including similar plot devices such as handcuffs the blonde who doesn't trust the main character in the beginning a race across the country in one case london to scotland and in the other california to new york and meeting the colorful locals along the way and so just like the man who knew too much i believe this is an american remake of one of hitchcock's earlier works br br i think robert cummings was chosen because he comes across as a very ordinary american sort of an everyman with whom the audience can identify i like priscilla lane because her character is a more involved in the action than madeline carroll in the 39 steps and ruth roman in strangers on a train as mentioned elsewhere though otto kruger steals the show as the villain i also liked vaughan performance as the blind uncle his lines are great there are some funny touches all along the way for some comic relief such as road signs featuring priscilla lane's character on them and circus sideshow performers and the truck driver murray contrary to other opinions here there aren't too many characters who believe barry kane's innocence immediately br br there are some slow parts mainly when the action first moves to new york but it picks up quickly when the last planned act of the fifth columnists gets underway br br it's one of my favorite films from hitchcock i put it in my top 5 especially in these days of the new war on terrorism i think it hits home br br it makes you think could my coworker be involved in something evil in fact one of the movie posters for saboteur proclaimed watch out for the man behind your back imagine how that played in the mind of adults during the second world war
1	great movie oh yeah full of energy full of fun presenting our generation our alienation a hymn to positive thinking despite this world we live in a tale of a great party a tale of a bunch of friends who desperately must do something in a week end and the only thing to do is the club but fun and keep boredom away very funny nicely grotesque in a few points nicely shot and great soundtrack
1	i just adore this film i love all characters and i can watch it again br br and again and i use to listen to the soundtrack again and again br br although i have seen it about two years after it was made and i br br have never been such youngster as jip and company i can br br understand them and i love their stories and if somebody thinks this film is crap i disagree and i say it is br br full of positive energy and friendship and love and full of youth br br the weekend has landed enjoy it
1	well i should say the only film related to club dj electronic music and raves that ravers respect br br seriously now it's a gloriously fun fast paced and fairly accurate portrayal of the night of a raver albeit its in a club its in wales and its somewhat dated the film leaves out some of the elements of club life but doesn't disassociate from them altogether it presents a idyllic yet serious portrayal of the ups and downs of the characters lives br br at the core of the film and the best element of justin kerrigan's script is the characters eccentric unique yet completely understandable and accessible this film simple would not work and be infinitely less entertaining were it not for jip nina and lulu viewers can deny the political and social implications of the subtext of human traffic as a drug film trainspotting wannabe important peg in british youth culture circa 90's but they can't deny that these are engaging characters br br it's frantic its brutally honest it's sobering it's over the top but its a great comedy br br raves are a complex thing so are the drugs that are taken at these events so are the people you will encounter but from someone who has gone to parties become jaded and still goes human traffic is the best snapshot that could be taken of the subculture just whatever you do avoid groove as its the antithesis of all that is good about human traffic
1	this film is too good for words its so unbelievably great and funny and true to life you just know from watching this that the person who wrote this has defiantly felt the way that jip and his friends do through the film it was my life at one point and i would rely on coming home to watch human traffic ever night before i could even think of going to bed i think you just get so loved up with the characters and their life style of course this film wouldn't be for old people more around the age of 16 to 22 i guess there is defiantly nothing wrong with this film and it will have you in stitches all the way through it doesn't have a particular story line to it the general idea is a weekend in the life of older teens in london and what they get up to the places they go the people they meet the drugs they take and the experiences they have you have to get this movie on dvd never mind just watching it you have to have it
1	the only way to truly understand and relate to the characters in this movie is to have experienced the situations your self to a lot of people this movie is almost mock biographical a sort of snapshot of one weekend in our lives i have done about 85 percent of the things in this movie and witnessed the other 15 percent usually all in the same weekend for me and others i know it is nice to have this movie to look back on because other than a few pictures of people we sort of remember and nights that are patches and blurs this movie is our generations studio 54 a piece to add to our scrap books to look back on and smile personally i'm glad those days are past but it is great to watch this movie and say i remember when thank you justin for making this mock biography of one weekend in my life
1	hello everyone all i have to say is that human traffic and all of its characters are so real its funny i live in australia melbourne and i'm finally out of the clubbing and staying out all weekend lifestyle this movie explains everything that is currently going on in the world so exactly that i cant stop watching it i used to be exactly like so my friends said and i hadn't even seen the movie i left the weekend partying behind about 3 months ago after 4 years of intense partying to change my life around i was at a dvd store when i saw human traffic and i remember my old friends going on an on about it so i bought it to see what all the fuss was about i was so into it i watched it 4 times in a row because i couldn't believe that someone had made a movie that explains everything to a t anyways this movie is by far the best and funniest movie i have ever seen its funny because its so truthful in everything that goes on in the movie and is a legend thats all i have to say enjoy 11 10 blew my socks off at how real it was its exactly whats going on in the world hr rm i jabber a lot br br take care everyone
1	this film has a brilliant soundtrack and superb acting from some pretty unknown faces i especially like the welsh bad boy characters in it who strut around like american rappers acting tough the banter between jip and is brilliant they come across as being best mates almost as if it were true in real life i have experienced some of the things in this film and let me tell you first hand these folks ain't acting especially the seen with jip and talking and snorting coke danny dyer is priceless as the 'party dealer and has the funniest lines in the film br br i'm happiest when i'm off my pickle feeling the music you get me i knew you wouldn't let me down i knew it
1	the film itself is absolutely brilliant its that buzz that rush that makes you just want to go out blow your wages and loose yourself it's what the weekend is all about its our sanitation where we can come together as one and be ourselves without a care in the world the film is layered in depth and the dialogue in places is just spot on especially with jip the characters themselves are instantly likable one in particular is obviously character and his views on what star wars is really about genius br br if ever you've got an hour to kill before going out stick on this you'll immediately feel yourself growing in confidence definitely recommend it
1	human traffic is without a doubt the most original and compelling film that i have seen for a long time it documents 2 days in the lives of a group of young people bored with their everyday existence and dead end jobs and taking ecstasy at raves on the weekend it is hilariously funny and extremely poignant and at times very sad in the same genre as 'trainspotting' it has a great soundtrack and features hot young rising british stars the movie was made on a miniscule budget and i look forward to future offerings of writer director justin kerrigan when his talent is discovered by the major movie makers
1	an excellent thriller of all time vijay anand excels as director and editor performances by dev anand tanuja and ashok kumar prove to be an asset to the film which has its screenplay worked out to the minutest detail cinematography adds to the mystery glamour and other requirements of the story as it evolves and to top it all music by sachin dev burman is unforgettable yeh dil na hota by kumar raat hai by asha bhosle ke gaya mera by lata ke niche by lata and rafi and pe main by lata again reaffirm burman unique stature as a top notch composer with a style of his own
1	it has been years since i have been privileged to see this movie on tv i only wish i could contact someone to see it again i married a man with three children and two had fetal alcohol syndrome i didn't' realize this but seeing this movie helped me understand more about their problems and more about how i can love them and help them overcome their difficulties my step son is now 35 and thank the lord he has blossomed wonderfully but still has many after affects of being born by an alcoholic mother we speak every month to rehab patients with alcohol and drug addictions and this sharing has truly made monumental changes in their behaviors and endeavors to start out a new life not addicted to drugs and alcohol please please let me know how i can get a copy vhs or dvd of this movie or when they will show the movie again on tv if you have not been in these shoes you probably could never understand its value thank you so very much
1	if you've ever had a mad week end out with your mates then you'll appreciate this film excellent fun and a laugh a minute
1	great movie in a trainspotting style being billed as the welsh trainspotting but then so was twin town although this is streets ahead br br takes in a weekend in the life of cardiff clubbers good debut movie from kerrigan and some great performances in the cast br br go see then go clubbing
1	this is one of the very best films i've seen in ages it's right up there with the likes of trainspotting and pulp fiction it just epitomises teenage culture today the soundtrack is absolutely amazing overseen by pete tong it's a must see
1	i went in expecting not much from human traffic and came out really pleased the film is well made and acted and very stylishly shot it has so much going for it it's a film i really recommend especially to those who liked trainspotting or for those who like to argue the debate in the drugs and the media sector tremendous fun
1	a highly original film using a myriad of genres and film techniques to stunning and powerful effect all people involved gave only their very best and it shows on screen a committed film with a committed cast and crew simply brilliant just go and see it now
1	this film brought back a lot of good memories and really works to give a good buzz there was no pc message and the film is all about having a good time which is all there really is to it when people go out clubbing
1	human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends it is a fly on the wall view into their lives and minds which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other there are many moments in that every one can relate to like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in and that is where this film succeeds the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other the story to the film is not all that but that is not a criticism this is a film about people this is a well written film with a sound track to die for d j's pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in 1999 after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend fantastic movie jo brand as the voice of reality need i say more br br
1	as i sit here i find myself laughing at certain moments in this film go and see this film br br if you've ever been clubbing go and see this film br br if you've ever wanted to go clubbing go and see this film br br my bet is that the film was borne from an idea whilst out clubbing and this is the product of that one in a million chance that someone remembered it in the morning and had the application to follow it through br br in summary then go and see this film br br
1	i remember a time when the only thing that did exist where clubs drugs pubs and parties this movie came out a couple of years after i started going clubbing if i had never discovered the side of things this movie may not have made sense to me that night when i watched it for the 1st time with some mates i was completely blown away i had never watched a movie that hit so close to the reality of where i was in my life at that time almost everything i could relate to in some way there was never 1 character i could fully relate to but more a combination of all of them in one way or another my mates where no different and i remember us all saying that they where us or we where them we had all been out that weekend together doing exactly what the crew do in ht we where coming down while we watched and when the movie came down i remember actually coming down a bit further it was actually quite depressing in our room during those low points thats what's so good about human traffic it really taps the whole situation br br its a unique movie in the way its not plot driven but then its not completely character driven although the characters are important it always seemed to be based on the situations situations as a group and as individuals each character is lost in life for their own reasons yet each of them responds to the in the same way work any job to make money to pay for the weekend and escape it all for them its their holiday but the reality is you cant truly escape another situation they all have to face br br me and my mates where no different from these guys we all had our own stuff going on human traffic helped explain to us what we didn't understand about our selves it does it in a way that doesn't talk down to you it made us feel like we weren't the only ones out there like us and that the lessons learned where ones many others from all over the world had gone thru it wasn't until my lifestyle changed from party to career driven that i would fully understand this movie these days i watch ht every now and then as i just have and reminisce the old days no other movie can do this i was peter i was jip travolta i went to never never land with my chosen family i'd have 200 in my back burner and i wax the lot no worries
1	if you been there and done that you will absolutely love this film i have and by there i mean underground clubs and house parties where there is far more rare to find people just being drunk than it is to find people high to their ears on speed or lsd br br by that i mean dancing and sweating like crazy for eight hours or so in a row with out even a brake and that followed by a way to long morning of no can sleep and almost wanting to die followed by a week of just waiting till the next weekend to do it all again br br so even though this film now is one of my absolute favourites i can certainly understand why some people or most people even would dislike it
1	jewel thief is the crime thriller of bollywood and why should it not be it is directed by the biggest exponent of the crime thriller art in indian cinema vijay anand mera and manzil i could watch this movie for any of the following reasons in order of importance br br 1 vijay anand's direction 2 r d music 3 dev anand 4 5 ashok kumar 6 lyrics br br even if jewel thief is not a bond movie it definitely has bond babes helen tanuja and the mysterious and some cameos but our vinay dev anand is anything but bond he is out of control for most of the story and goes where the story takes him almost always as confused as we are he even flirts with tanuja trying to hit her romantic nerve just so that he can get employed in her father's shop br br dev anand might be in a double role well i don't want to spoil your movie or else i would have told you that is what most of the mystery is about dev anand works in a jewelry shop and there is a robbery when he is supposed to be at work though is not or at least has a perfect alibi we wonder who did it is it dev anand as the person he claims to be or is it someone we have not yet seen but many people claim is his look alike comes who even claims that he is her fiancé in a tense situation dev anand has to prove that he is vinay and not amar while everyone wonders if dev anand is vinay or amar he is asked to remove his socks amar we are told has 6 digits on one of his foot while we watch with bated breath the events that are about to unfold dev anand even finds time to joke br br the real life brothers director vijay anand and actor dev anand have many movies between them this is not the best of them but definitely the best in crime thriller br br there are moments of hitchcock's north by northwest but the movies are very different except for the confusion about who is who a treacherous female lead and lot of traveling there isn't a lot of similarity dev anand could very well be amar in addition to being vijay people have seen him they identify him where ever he goes there are too many of those people for this to be a fraud finally vinay thinks it is better to carry along with being amar to find out what is the truth and it is a sad mistake he gets too deep into it only to be saved by the twists of cinema br br when i watched the movie as a kid i was definitely not amused the ending confused me completely even now there are parts about the ending that i do not like but i'd recommend this movie anyway br br even as a kid i enjoyed the songs this movie has to offer dil ' a definite loafers song in kumar's voice i could hear gaya ' whole day long ditto for ke which is set 'under the of at least the story line suggests that among the sexiest song to come out of hindi cinema featuring tanuja as the seductress helen's cabaret and we 'look at her' pe ' now could there be any better thriller of a song than this as the song progresses we are more tensed than we ever were and the words in lips' add to it
1	it takes a lot for a movie to reach the already numb particles of my brain which have not already been tapped out due to the and world of movies but this movie has made it onto my 'magic movies' list to become a 'magic movie' it must leave every string of my being quivering in that which i can only define as and this movie has tapped into the fibers of how my mind thinks and if not for the deeply personal bond my head and the head of whoever made this shares it would look like another 'dead rave scene' movie from back when the 90's exploded with its ecstasy craze this is not how the movie came off to me at all it's reached into me and pulled up something that i thought was dead for a very long time and pushed me as far as to give it a critique of my own i forgot how long it's been since i've seen something that left me feeling this good inside i strongly suggest seeing this movie
1	cardiff wales a bunch of 5 mates are deeply bored in this town there's jip who works in a clothes shop coop an easy going dj nina inseparable from her best friend lulu and the week is hell for them and they only wait for one thing the week end at this time they got out to a nightclub and to the sound of tech no music they experience different drugs particularly ecstasy then they usually continue the party to a friend's at the end of this really good time on sunday the feelings are the following ones tiredness melancholy just the memory of a crazy night br br surfing on the wave of the notorious success of trainspotting 1996 this debut movie written and directed by justin kerrigan brings and develops a new variation about the notion of hedonism it means how to have fun as much as possible while knowing that you have a shortened lapse of time indeed as i have previously written for the 5 main characters of the movie the week is hell and the weekend is the only time they can free themselves and have a wild time without the single pressure besides jip in one sequence talks about the positive aspects of shooting oneself you are numb you don't feel any pressure you are like an astronaut in orbit above the earth kerrigan's relentless directorial style expresses very well the spirit of debauchery and care of the 5 protagonists they only live to take advantage as much as possible of an hedonist week end furthermore to spice up a little more the festive atmosphere in which his movie bathes kerrigan isn't afraid to include dreamlike sequences which represent his characters' fantasy or embarrassments then human traffic 1999 is also served by a particularly bouncy sound track the amount a perfect symbiosis between the sound and the music at last this week end of euphoria enables to momentarily the usual drab image of the popular social classes british cinema has studied a lot br br notwithstanding when a movie or not exploits the fame of another famous one it rarely matches the brilliance of its predecessor human traffic is in this condition there's little inventiveness at the level of the narrative structure and the introduction of the characters and one can note down a few useless digressions jip who in the nightclub goes in the manager's office and tells him a cock and bull story so as to enable to enter the club but that's no use because the latter succeeds in coming without problems one can also blame kerrigan to overlook the dramatic sides that the story could have involved his movie can also be read as a transition from euphoria to paranoia and the dramatic connotations of this second pole aren't virtually explored it's a shame it could have conveyed the following message even in the happiest moments there can be something terrible preparing which can flop them the same remark could also be said when coop has a fit of jealousy because nina broaches a guy br br it may not be the last great film of the nineties as it is billed on the dvd cover but human traffic is to be taken as a good and incisive little movie which conveys with the styles and the fashions of the end of the twentieth century a will to have fun without ulterior motives and trouble an ideal movie to start any party or before going to a club
1	i absolutely love this film everything about it it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece very original and creative i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some i'm really glad i ran across this movie if only there were more genius' like justin out there
1	i have a completely biased point of view mainly because i live and enjoy the club culture lifestyle being a dj and frequent club goer i see the honesty within this movie and i love it if you don't know the club rave culture then it will be a great foray into that culture for anyone that doesn't know it first hand the honest portrayal of human emotion and issues in the part of jip i loved the characters were well constructed and i thoroughly enjoyed this film i really don't enjoy the fact that you have to write ten lines on this web site i will write at least 6 or 7 but i feel that i can portray my point with fewer than ten here are some extra lines to make the imdb gods happy
1	every time i watch this film it just really makes me wanna go out and have a good night my mate uses the weekend has landed speech to psyche himself up before going out and so do i sometimes br br this film is a great debut for the writer director well done mate br br the acting is great all the characters are believable and are larger than life the scenes are a joy to watch running mr floppy flashbacks explanations visualizations are all great the scene in the pub when everyone stands up and starts singing the mock national anthem is a laugh too there's loads of comedy here howard marks' speech is hilarious br br oh god you just need to see this mind you i felt the film did somewhat glorify the use of ecstacy but hey that's the truth of the matter eh at least the film doesn't shy away from this fact i suppose the film does carry a decent message to it as well don't take life too seriously you have to let you hair down sometime and of course the chat in the pub when tries to explain to his mates that he's coming off the drugs is a sure reminder that when the come down's out way the good times you know the party's over br br this is at times a very clever film in it's use of the camera lighting etc it was a realised piece of cinema and a great feel good tale of mates love clubs and drugs br br get outta the people br br 8 10 br br enjoy
1	this film was hilarious it provided a somewhat comical view of the british club scene which if you really look at it is a funny thing the characters in this flick were so realistic to those of us who watched here at my place that it was like watching a movie about ourselves br br there were a few pivotal scenes which really made this movie work the getting ready scenes the get me a real doctor scene the white background scene showing each character in a total state of being wrecked ending with the infamous line what was i saying and the comedown sunup scenes i have lived these moments myself and found myself laughing hysterically at my own ridiculous behaviour br br i can't give this movie a 10 because it doesn't measure up to groove which i thought was out of this world but it certainly has its moments the mise en scene and the camera work is superb the special effects are well worth mentioning and the acting is fantastic br br after waiting a long time to see this film i am glad to say that i was not disappointed i hope to see more from the writer director in the future
1	feisty jackson a winningly spunky performance by gorgeous former playboy playmate jeanne bell goes to hong kong to take out the evil heroin ring that murdered her brother assisted by friendly karate master joe amiable faces opposition from undercover narcotics agent elaine lovely buxom blonde babe pat anderson and romances cocky ruthlessly ambitious charlie essayed with supremely arrogant aplomb by stan shaw while plotting her revenge against nefarious drug kingpin sid an effectively slimy ken metcalfe director h santiago working from a blithely trashy script co written by none other than dick miller crams the lively and eventful 72 minute running time with a plethora of gratuitous distaff nudity and loads of badly staged martial arts fight scenes bell is clearly doubled by a squat guy wearing a giant afro wig the definite sleazy highlight occurs when a topless bell singlehandedly beats up a bunch of thugs in her hotel room raw grainy scratched up cinematography the clumsy use of strenuous slow motion the funky groovin' score the laughably inept fight choreography and the surprisingly gruesome conclusion add immensely to the overall scuzzy fun of this deliciously cheesy grindhouse exploitation hoot
1	this blaxploitation classic about a kung fu mama who travels to hong kong to avenge her brother's death offers everything you learned to expect from the genre playmate jeannie bell with a giant afro really kicks ass and usually loses her clothes very quickly if you don't take it all too seriously the movie is great fun to watch stan shaw gives a solid performance jeannie bell is a little less convincing pam grier she ain't br br this is where quentin tarantino got his idea for the light switch scene in jackie brown from br br the soundtrack by don julian is a gem and is frequently used in rap songs
1	all in all big bad john was a hilarious and touching movie if you want romance tragedy and humor this movie's got it if you're a fan of the song like i am you pretty much know how it ends but if you don't or do and want to watch it anyway i strongly recommend this movie jack elam and jimmy dean are a hilarious pair with great chemistry however i wouldn't recommend this movie to strict urban folk you have to understand where these people are supposed to be coming from and only a handful of us are left but even a few urban folk might understand it and appreciate it for what it is a good down home movie that'll make you laugh cry and be inspired
1	a wonderful little production br br the filming technique is very unassuming very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting and sometimes discomforting sense of realism to the entire piece br br the actors are extremely well chosen michael sheen not only has got all the but he has all the voices down pat too you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams' diary entries not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece a masterful production about one of the great master's of comedy and his life br br the realism really comes home with the little things the fantasy of the guard which rather than use the traditional 'dream' techniques remains solid then disappears it plays on our knowledge and our senses particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets particularly of their flat with murals decorating every surface are terribly well done
1	unlike bond and other detective movies alfred hitchcock's hero used to be a common man who would get into trouble and then with his acumen and courage and luck would get out of it jewel thief is based on the same principle and so in a way it is vijay anand's tribute to the master of suspense the tribute as it may be but it stands its own grounds and establishes vijay anand as a great director himself br br it is the story of a common man vinay who one day realizes that he has a double called amar who in fact is a jewel thief suddenly vinay finds himself in the middle of a hatching scheme and to save himself goes on a wild goose chase to find this amar who remains one step ahead of him the suspense is almost killing throughout the movie and as the plot unravels you are hit by the brilliance of the scheme just like hitchcock's movies jewel thief can boast of a grand climax shot inside the grand palace of br br everyone and i mean everyone dev anand vijay anand ashok kumar mala tanuja sd burman kumar etc etc are in their top forms this is one of the best thrillers ever made in india
1	michael sheen shines like the afternoon sun in this brilliant portrayal of a comic genius if you are familiar with kenneth williams' mannerisms and diaries then this drama captures the essence of them perfectly when i read about kenneth in his swimming trunks i laughed and then it was brought to life on the screen but this time i didn't laugh as it was put into perspective as the actions of a repressed and tortured man it must have been such a lonely existence being in skin craving attention but shunning it when it truly mattered the last 20 minutes are heart breaking as you see kenneth gradually sink to the depths of despair and consider suicide as the only alternative i have seen it a dozen times and still cry uncontrollably at the point where he bids goodnight to louie i cannot recommend this drama enough sexually explicit but it drives home the fact that kenneth couldn't let anyone invade his world and this is where the sadness of the man lies for a genius who brought happiness to so many it's such a shame that his private life was filled with such despair and sadness pauly
1	this is a docu drama of mostly the later years of life with nearly all the parts played by actors but spot which tv plays himself it was made for the arts channel but my guess is there will be syndication and dvd releases soon is ably played by the excellent michael sheen here repeating his previous stage role with great success most of the supporting cast are also very good and a nice touch is the recreation of period tv appearances with the new actors this is not however light viewing anyone familiar with diaries and general unhappy demeanour will already know how twisted he could be in later life so don't expect 80 minutes of carry on styled buffoonery since the emphasis is decidedly downbeat throughout recommended but it's tragi comic indeed
1	i watched because over the last few years michael sheen has become one of my favourite actors and if you haven't seen him in anything before firstly shame on you and secondly get your hands on a copy of either or dirty filthy love this production did not disappoint michael sheen transformed himself almost magically into kenneth williams and gave a performance that was as tragically moving as it was skillful not to take anything away from the other performances but like kenneth michael truly stole the show i don't know how he does it but every performance i have seen michael give he seems to metamorphose until the character he plays is truly utterly believable and no matter how hard i try i cannot fault him must go get my tea enjoy
1	a lot of my childhood was spent lying in front of the wireless listening to round the horne or hancock's half hour or watching carry on films probably the most famous line in comedy infamy infamy they've all got it infamy still makes me laugh br br this is a rare insight into the man behind the comic figure and the whole production is a brilliant mix of tragedy and comedy right down to the final quotation from the coroner's court read in four different voices by michael sheen he was brilliant in the role most of the other members of the carry on team were so so and their kenneth horne was very good but michael sheen carried the show and there should be an award of some sort for him br br it left me feeling wow to quote kenneth williams to the cynic who says 'life is a joke' the only response can be 'yes well let's make it a good one '
1	i saw this very emotionally painful portrayal and it was fascinating the conflict between the public and private faces of williams and the pressure he was under is illuminated in a way that even those who knew something about him would be surprised the cast acted superbly but michael sheen was outstanding i only realised it was him when i saw the earlier comment he looks completely physically different in this role from any other role i have seen him in or as himself williams autobiography differs markedly from his diaries as represented in this film the film is at times distressing to watch because of the emotional anguish displayed however it is a worthwhile experience and a film that can be recommended highly
1	watching this ppv i had high expectations for it since smackdown is the best show in wwe this is a very good ppv as it is the last one before wrestlemania br br first match hardy boys chris benoit vs mvp mnm w melina in a 6 man tag team match good way to start the match it started a bit slow at the start but later the pace quickened the match got more exciting entertaining benoit rolls through makes joey mercury tap out to get a victory for the hardy boys himself 6 10 br br second match gregory helms champion vs shannon moore vs vs chavo guerrero vs vs scotty 2 hotty vs jamie noble vs jimmy wang yang in an open cruiserweight match for the wwe cruiserweight championship i'm a very big fan of i never get disappointed watching them especially in this match here chavo guerrero nails the frog splash on jimmy wang yang to get the win become the new wwe cruiserweight champion 5 10 br br third match finlay little bastard vs boogeyman little boogeyman this was not really a wrestling match it was more like a comedy match despite not being a clear wrestling contest it still entertained me with the funny antics finlay nails the little boogeyman with the to get the win boogeyman does not deserve to be on a ppv does not deserve to be in wwe 4 10 br br fourth match kane vs king booker w this was a surprisingly good match i thought it would be mediocre but it turned out into a real competitive wrestling contest hats off to both men pulling a very entertaining match kane wins after a chokeslam on king booker 6 10 br br fifth match paul london brian kendrick champions vs deuce domino w cherry for the wwe tag team championships not really that much of a good match deuce domino need more training to wrestle london kendrick are the only ones keeping this match fast paced london kendrick retain their titles after kendrick gets a roll up on one of the guys for the win 4 10 br br sixth match bobby lashley champion vs mr kennedy for the ecw championship mr kennedy attacks lashley from behind before the match starts it was an okay match but not really good lashley kennedy have a bit of chemistry but not enough to pull a great match kennedy wins by dq after lashley nails him with a chair then assaults him with the chair all the way to the entrance area lashley still retains his title 4 10 br br seventh match john cena shawn michaels vs batista undertaker this is probably the greatest tag team match that i have ever seen hats off to all of these men yes even batista for pulling off as close as a 5 star main event classic all 4 of these men played their parts in the match very well as this was a very great entertaining tag team match batista turns his back on undertaker spine busting him then leaving the ring which prompts michaels to nail sweet chin music then cena to nail an f u for the hard fought victory 7 10 br br i don't know why everyone says that this ppv is not good enough or it is boring i just don't get it it is a great ppv which smackdown always delivers a great ppv indeed br br overall i'll give it 8 10 a b
1	every time the supposed explorers and we the audience is primed to set its first sights one of the wonderous new worlds for some ungodly reason the filmmakers decided to distract with an emergency or some false alarm or some bit of artificial dramatic suspense br br so instead of calmly enjoying the surface of or standing over the rings of saturn or concentrating on the magic of flying by a comet or an asteroid we are distracted into worrying about the wellbeing and survival of the characters big let down br br the filmmakers seem to be unsure what they want a documentary of the natural wonders in our solar system or a suspense thriller in which the viewer cares more about the characters than the subject matter come on br br hello if i wanted suspense and tension i'd watch a real narrative sci fi movie br br sure it's a docu drama but the characters and their survival here the risks of such a mission should be secondary to the subject matter wait yes the risks of such a mission are an important part of the subject matter since essentially this is a film about a space mission not just about the solar system but it was overplayed and distracted strongly from the discovery of new worlds we were supposed to be enjoying br br otherwise the film was remarkable in giving a very realistic feel for the human elements of a space mission the squabbles the tensions the weight of responsibility the near fatal mistakes the sacrifices etc also it would fit very well in the hard sci fi subgenre in fact it would be one of the best because here the science was almost closely adhered to br br but the distractions were awful br br otherwise i missed showing the effects of being in space for several years on the astronauts after landing on earth also not
1	my main criticism is quite simply that it isn't long enough or detailed enough i would have loved to see more of everything the building of the vessel the engineering the training the first lift to orbit preparations for departure venus orbital injection everything i would have liked to see more of the first leg venus to earth instead of zipping there like a corporation bus in fact i would have liked to see a series on the scale of earth story made of this with a full hour dedicated to every planet and maybe another to the loop around the sun as it was i was left hungry on the other hand i do understand budgets and viewers' attention spans br br re the science let's be fair about the speed of light time lag they did mention at the beginning that there was a lag in conversations but they let this evaporate once they reached the outer planets some kind of conversation had to be presented to the viewers and we have to assume that the lag was edited out for the sake of so no complaints there but zero for noisy spaceships the only film in which spaceships make no noise was kubrick's 2001 and even then he copped out by using the noise of the crew breathing in their helmets which was pretty effective i wish the makers of space odyssey had realized just how eerie the sight of vast rocket motors blasting in absolute silence might be but alas pegasus lets out much the same roar as every other cardboard spaceship in every other cardboard scifi film br br but the rest of the science was excellent no complaints there in fact praise for bringing out the radiation problems as well as they did i just hope that having done this film won't discourage the bbc from making a really detailed version but i suppose that's not for next week or next year either
1	i strongly recommend it to anybody who likes good plots good actors even if not well known often it's just better that way science and or science fiction presented in an intelligent way on the small screen good special effects even if they did not have billions of dollars to produce it br br much better than any war in the stars br br there was only one comment which was not necessary talking about the comet the commentator says that life was maybe brought on earth through a comet that's fun there must be always a chance for a magic way huh that's what's great about life can come anywhere no need of force
1	1 let's suspend belief for a moment and let's stop pretending we could might or ought know how it is or ought to be there in space human knowledge in that area is probably primitive as say middle ages maps are compared to today's satellite maps so we really have no clue 2 considering this is just a bbc tv docu simulation it gets much better than many big budget hollywood blockbusters and that is just incredible 3 all in all a show worth watching as it portrays the cgi enhanced and fictionalized account of what we know of the solar system this far 4 probably fictionalizing and cgi ing the whole thing is the only way to make it palatable to a large public ever watched clips from real space missions and real space probes the quality is generally average to poor and the comparison would be between looking at a chest x ray and what it tells about the human body and compare it with a cgi ed cyborg movie which one would be most entertaining yet the chest x ray is real while the cyborg flick is just fictionalized sfx 5 actors do a good job none i'll tell my grandchildren about but very fair for it being a bbc docu simulation
1	jewel thief is a rare breed of film completely noir in its story but nothing noir about the presentation a young man vinay superbly played by a newly face lifted dev anand at age 40 is estranged from his police officer dad and finds a job in a store soon random people come up to him and call him amar using just a few pithy moments the presence of a doppelganger is established then a woman comes forward and claims to be engaged to said doppelganger she is accompanied by her loving brother ashok kumar who is so convinced that vinay is actually amar he makes him take his shoe off and prove that he is not the 6 toed one the super cute daughter tanuja is completely enamored with vinay amidst all this confusion there is a jewel thief on the loose and he is stealing at will slowly we learn from encounter with a super hot night club singer helen that the thief is amar the doppelganger many many good looking women are after the hero the police force including dad are completely befuddled vinay is slowly falling for and her brother seems to bless the union the action moves to as that is where next heist is to occur the rest is for you to watch the duplicate the girls the men who hang on to every word thinking he is their boss amar the loving brother sister duo nothing seems quite right and it takes the deft story telling and direction by vijay anand to conclude this tale in a highly entertaining manner the movie has numerous moments that you will wonder at until they deliciously weave into a grand finale at a dance in a palace in br br i was not a big fan but she is quite competent here although at her she is able to add to the confusion in the story in a subtle way but is best when she is sorrowful or dancing tanuja is cute as a button and i loved her in this film i so badly wanted her to get the man dev was well dev if he were not walking like a man with a congenital shoulder defect one shoulder always lower than the other i would wonder who they had found to imitate him yet his style charm and charisma were unfailing in the song yeh dil na hota only dev could look cool carrying a fishing rod to which a large plastic fish was attached ashok kumar was simply awesome dada did not miss a beat the entire movie and turned this into one for the history books br br sd burman spun magic with numbers like hain kya helen in a blood red rooster imitation dancing on a bar top ke ke gaya mera and my personal favorite seductive number raat hai gaye br br if you are craving a great story with more twists than a pretzel wanting to be kept guessing yet amused and entertained then go buy or rent jewel thief better to buy it then you can go back and see it again with your buddies this one is a keeper
1	i'd first heard of this show in 2005 first online and then by viewing and of course buying the typically gorgeous bbc tie in book then i got the dvd it did not disappoint i'd been hoping for years someone would make a science fiction program with the emphasis on the thrill of discovery rather than aliens laser gun fights and other hollywood gimmicks thank you joe also for your dr who work and the mini series not the crap movie of the same name what compelled me to write this now 2 yrs later was that i'd just seen sunshine last night and what appeared to be in the same family as space odyssey turned into about 2 3rds of the way in freddy krueger meets 2010 that was when space odyssey really stood out as a positive example of how to do a real science fiction film more science less fiction odyssey like sunshine also dealt with astronaut shortcomings failed eva over on venus the spats with mission control and the sheer danger of exploring new planets with unfamiliar dangers the fatal radiation spike on mars i would've easily paid to see this in a theater i max anyone and to top it all not only were the space vistas jaw droppingly beautiful but the characters were nicely drawn too i found their interplay more realistic than the wall slamming histrionics of icarus 2 crew icarus dumb name for a solar mission did anyone read the mythology of icarus sometimes it takes a not so good film to compel one to re watch a better film as an armchair astronaut i'd trade my passage on icarus for a seat on pegasus any day in all fairness however the visuals of sunshine are quite stunning though and quite memorable which is why i was so strongly rooting for it to succeed as an honest to goodness sci fi film so even though this review is almost a back door review of sunshine i hope it's read for what it was meant to be strong support for a bbc telefilm that succeeds where most big budget bloated cinematic spectacles fail space odyssey a k a voyage to the planets here in the states the appetite for solid science fiction and delivers a banquet i very much enjoyed the pseudo documentary approach as well as for the time lag light speed quibbles they are addressed if you pay attention where sunshine melts odyssey keeps its cool if you're considering going to the movies for another dose of sunshine stay in go for a true space odyssey instead
1	duck of death needs to watch this film again as his major criticism is completely baseless the film never once forgot about the time delay and it was mentioned explicitly in a couple of places the crew were never shown having conversations with mission control that didn't obey the time delay rules br br one thing i did think was a bit far fetched was the amount of risk involved would a crew land on a planet on which pressure suits would only last two hours i doubt it would a manned space ship go into a star's corona i doubt it would humans land on a moon that was being bombarded with huge amounts of radiation i doubt it also the ship seemed overly sturdy would a ship designed like that risk atmospheric flight to slow it down i doubt it would it survive being hit by comet debris i doubt it i think in both cases the stresses on the structure would be too much but all in all the unlikely scenarios were compensated by some nicely done special effects good editing and production and some good acting especially by the actors portraying the ship's commander and the russian
1	i came across this movie on dvd purely by chance through a blockbuster rental voyage to the planets is an excellent bbc 2hour documentary drama about a future grand tour of the solar system taking pains to adhere to current knowledge about the planets and space flight and plausible from existing technology this movie tells the story of astronauts on a journey to venus mars jupiter saturn and pluto br br the special effects are excellent for a tv show i found the actors believable as astronauts the situations presented are for the most part plausible and you learn a lot about the science of the planets and spaceflight only two minor complaints i found some of the situations and dialogue somewhat maudlin at times furthermore i am unsure that a single crew and ship would be sent on a single mission to see all those destinations at once time more than likely visits to venus mars jupiter etc would will be separate missions br br they didn't try to skimp on this show with production values the scenes of venus and mars were actually filmed in the northern deserts of chile the driest area on earth and a dead ringer for the martian landscape sequences were filmed in a diving russian transport jet the producers could have fudged on either of these using studios and cgi but chose the real thing instead br br i would like to especially mention the marvelous music that was composed for this movie don davis's thrilling theme is the first thing that grabs you when the movie starts as the magnificent shot of the pegasus passes the screen and david suchet intones it is the destiny of man to explore the stars br br watching this on a small television screen is one regret i have what a thrill to see this in a movie theatre or even better an imax presentation
1	i was part of the cast of space odyssey playing fido in mission control i just want to say that none of us actors specially those in mission control who had to react to a green screen most of the time had any idea how amazing it would turn out to be i knew it was going to be good if only for the sheer camaraderie and professionalism that the production team at impossible pictures provided for everyone involved but when we all saw it for the first time at the screening at the mayfair well i for one felt very proud i was so glad that none of us looked like we were in star trek joe the screenwriter and director is the most amazing man to work for he pretty much gets a good team together and then just trusts them implicitly to freely do what they do best i'm really lucky to have been part of this show who knew something this epic and complicated to understand would turn out to be so enticing to watch and my god it's a beautiful universe out there
1	obviously the the responses here were written many years after the film was released and cannot be taken in context back in 1980 in post labour england this film was bloody funny we were glad of something to laugh about and rising damp with its sympathetic mockery of a complete social strata was one of the best british sitcoms of its period if not ever it struck a chord in almost everybody and in true british fashion we laughed at the in ourselves america had nothing to touch this type of humour because self debasement was not amusing to our overseas cousins leonard was one of englands finest actors on stage on tv and in movies his commitment and professionalism were second to none richard beckinsale was although young a perfect comedic foil to and should by all rights be classed as an all time great had he not been taken so young i feel sure he would by now be classified as one of britains greatest comedy actors frances de la tour found her finest television moment in rising damp and for me never her undoubted ability with further roles if you did not see the film at the time of its release you are not qualified to comment simply because you cannot understand why it was funny the humour of the moment
1	the history of tv to film adaptations are littered with aberrations which almost conclusively prove that the tradition should never have started in the first place there are however some examples which manage to pull it off just rising damp would at first appear to be the last sitcom suitable for the big screen treatment as this hilarious series was based within the tiny confines of a northern bedsit also the writer eric wasn't being paid enough to spend time crafting an entirely original screenplay so he harvested a batch of tv episodes and stitched them together to form the body of the film this in itself didn't necessarily mean that the script would fail david croft and jimmy perry did the same thing with their screenplay for dad's army and it worked superbly although the early dad's army episodes with their staid pace and over plot lent themselves far better to film adaptation the rising damp episodes however were high energy affairs from the first scene to the breathless climax as a result as one story is concluded and another started the scenes within the film become disjointed another pitfall for the movie version of a tv series is the inevitable comparisons that are made in this respect the film pales in comparison to rising brilliant series despite all this rising damp the movie manages to be entertaining and occasionally uproarious it is perhaps not surprising that the finest moments occur during sequences written specially for the film this includes a rugby match where does a brilliantly timed pratfall indeed while all the cast handle their roles perfectly bar a sub standard replacement actor for the late and truly great beckinsale it is leonard as that shines the most in fact rising damp should have been made as a film just so could have been eligible for an oscar such is the magnificence of his acting talent criminally he wasn't even nominated ultimately the film fails to match the giddy heights of the tv series while managing to hold its own as a comedy in its own right with some beautifully played moments recommended viewing br br one last thing the opening and closing music is by far the worst in film history
1	so americans make t v series based on movies whilst us brits make films based on t v shows it should never work but on this occasion it does because of a sublime meeting of character and actor cliches are sometimes justly so and leonard was born to play this is one of the great comic creations kind of how norman bates would have turned out if he'd been melancholic instead if murderous
1	the best horror sci fi movie i have ever seen i was myself in the arctic working for canadian government in a small northern station when i see this movie for the first time needless to say i was in the mood
1	ironically what makes john carpenter's the thing such an entertaining sci fi film are its genre defying elements of mystery suspense and tight plot structure it puts to shame such films as aliens or armageddon that are content to the viewer with special effects while their plots revolve around stunts that butcher the laws of physics testosterone laden one liners heroes equipped with enough artillery to conquer iraq and pathetic attempts to inject meaning into the barrage on screen with emotional sequences that only serve to further insult the intelligence of the audience the supreme tragedy of course is that these kind of lobotomized movies are also the most popular i think that there is a cause for this although it isn't very comforting there is an increasing trend in our culture to passively surrender to the media to immerse oneself in the images we see without dedicating a single brain cell to comprehending the statement the work is trying to make this mindset is becoming increasingly dominant in all arenas even the once hallowed print medium is being diluted thanks to the abominable reader response theory that pervades our schools and the tabloid brigade that lines our magazine racks whose mentality appears to be infiltrating the once venerable mainstream press nowadays we just flip the switch and put our minds on pause is the thing a good movie for the rare individual who still values his faculty of reason a more appropriate term would be entertaining its plot keeps one guessing its ending is uncompromising and it has some redeeming statements to make about human paranoia upon subsequent viewings one begins to note a conspicuous lack of depth in the acting but the taut storyline remains compelling of course citizen kane it's not but then again sci fi never was a thinking man's genre
1	when john carpenter's masterly version of the thing was released in summer 1982 it was panned by critics and bombed at the box office the audiences couldn't handle another 'bad' alien they wanted et their loss in the long run br br i would kill to be able to see this great movie on the big screen this is a movie that was way ahead of it's time now it has influenced a new generation of filmmakers showing it's trail on things like se7en alien 3 and even the x files which unceremoniously ripped it off page by page and the structure which eschews character development in favour of incredible sfx is commonplace in today's blockbuster flicks br br carpenter shows the same skills he honed in halloween using the camera to create an unsettling and claustrophobic atmosphere the performances are all fine and the ending is terrific still unique today br br a paranoid masterpiece
1	nice movie at the begining i thought it's a detective kind hi fi movie but the ending totally surprised me i guess the whole movie covers too many subjects each of them can be the main subject e g avenge friendship and dream but it mixed all of them without focusing on any of them i think it'd be a great movie if it's built around the ending from the very begining br br
1	it couldn't br br from the cutting dialogue to the super special effects this film was a joy to behold throughout the immediate feel for the bitterness of the antarctic the affinity for the characters that is built up at the base level before the real action heats up and the cunning finale combine to make this one of the most memorable and enjoyable films around br br up against a long list of films that have attempted to exploit the theme of visitors from another planet the thing comes out on top and laughing who can forget the perfectly timed dialogue and the chilling special effects special effects that are a lot more impressive than the computer generated images that we get to see today i for one found some of the most enjoyable aspects of the film to be the way that we were introduced slowly to each member of the crew and the way that they all had some distinctive character traits this wasn't just a senseless bloodbath come slasher horror flick this film had feeling emotion br br i truly can't recommend this film highly enough i have yet to see anything in it's class that comes anywhere near to matching let alone bettering the near perfect acting and timing utilised in this cunning feat of cinema
1	i first saw this film accidentally when they showed it on tv and i was up far too late i really lucked out there though it's truly incredible from the location as isolated as it's possible to be on this planet it made the abyss look like et in the council swimming pool through the interesting characters keith david is especially good as the reactionary childs what if we're wrong about him then we're wrong and the effects more yucky than alien br br moreover however the real tension and fear in the film has nothing to do with the effects it's the people you start being scared of knowing that one of them may or may not be all they appear to be it's certainly got the feel of who goes there br br the soundtrack is great it really plays up the isolation fear and gravity of the situation br br finally the epilogue scene really really cuts even more than the but then again who does punchline of bladerunner enough said
1	the thing is john carpenter's best movie merging his talents for tension building and shocks with decent production values he turned out a perfectly crafted sci fi horror movie br br by filming in truly difficult conditions he creates a very believable isolated research base which sets the tension before anything has even happened the ensemble cast work well together with kurt russell proving a charismatic leading man even under all that beard br br by building the tension slowly with moments of gory horror courtesy of effects meister rob bottin currently directing freddy vs jason carpenter creates a movie that has rarely been matched considering this came out the same year as et it could not be more different br br worth a watch rewatch 9 out of 10 br br p s the dvd is excellent lots of extras plus the best dvd commentary going with carpenter russell plus remixed in dolby digital for even scarier sound effects
1	this is one of the most outstanding horror movies i've ever seen in my life time forget the exorcist and all the other hype horror movies out there john carpenter as made a tour de force horror epic with outstanding special effects great performances from kurt russell and co and a great soundtrack that will haunt you for ever the greatest thing about this movie after 17 years is it dated it looks fresh and new and you don't get many movies like this back in 1982 this was up against e t and of course it and was a box office bomb over the years the thing as made a cult following from video and t v sales and as many new fans in the end this movie kicks ass and to me it as never loss it's edge to scare the pants off of you and to me that a horror movie long live john carpenter
1	i cannot believe i never added my two cents about this film as yet br br this is one of the best films of all time many critics and movie goers alike talk of john carpenter's halloween for setting trends and being his best work those folks have not seen this version of the thing because it is right up there with halloween br br john carpenter's work shines in this film he took a film that was already made and instead of re making the film he made the book the first film was based on brilliant br br the casting of each man was great the tension between them was real it made me scream made me scared made me guess made me laugh made me question even up to today who goes there in that film this film had no hollywood sweetie pie or funny type ending and what a bold move not to have one in 1982 another brilliant move br br i was at the screening for this film when i was on vacation in southern california the audience at the screening went wild i carry those memories for years it was so much fun we all thought that there was no way on god's green earth this film was not going to be a hit but by box office receipts it was a dud because of et the extra terrestrial and poltergeist two very good family oriented films took the box office in 1982 when this film came out br br this film was what i as a horror film adult buff was looking for a horror thriller with an adult script and real adult actors not kids playing adults not little miss big breasted scream queen of the day running around screaming for titilation but real guys with real problems delivering some of the best monologues you'll ever hear heck being a feminist i didn't even miss women in this film and good for mr carpenter by not putting one in there it really wouldn't have made sense unless the thing was actually feminine something to think about br br i saw special effects of that time i had never seen before i saw makeup that made me sit up a few nights this is what horror thrillers of today are missing today the directors wimp out today the studios wimp out too much cgi and not enough belief too much cgi and not enough story not enough imagination you leave the theater and in a week or less you forget about the film and move onto the next grand film opening this one stays with ya that's one of the marks of an excellent film br br on many reviews i've written how now paying 10 for a film is horrid for films like this one you'd pay it and not feel slighted this film is not for everyone br br i find it horrific that they this film a cult film i find that the audience is broader than many would lead you to belive and although not a commercial success in 1982 this is an example of how releasing a darn good film on the wrong date can make a darn good film look bad after john carpenter's film many people copied many techniques make up special effects and story lines from this version of the thing br br i am now to go on record and state that this film is one of the best films of all time very much under rated please see it uncut please see it in letterbox and please hear it digitally you'll talk about it for years as well
1	this being my first john carpenter film i must say i was very impressed by the thing right from the beginning the film draws you in and never lets up on the tension the film's special effects and models hold up well even today other than kurt russell i wasn't familiar with any of the cast members but they were all exceptional in imparting fear paranoia and the desperation to survive the universal dvd has a wealth of very interesting behind the scenes extras strongly recommended 9 10
1	aaah the thing br br to see a horror film in which not only is every character over the age of thirty but distinctly unattractive makes a refreshing change and reminds me of those distant times when actors were chosen because of their talent and their ability to play realistic characters rather than because of their teen appeal on a magazine cover and carpenter chooses a production designer and a cinematographer who can actually create realistic environments rather than over styled parodies and there's no gimmicky 'twist' ending or cameo celebrity appearance or lame pseudo romantic subplot br br and i really miss on set physical effects with all those 20 year old kids trying out crazy new ideas with vats of blood and latex and early animatronics in the 5 years between 1979 and 1984 we saw alien the elephant man poltergeist the howling an american werewolf in london the thing the company of wolves a nightmare on elm street what an era for horror effects and don't get me started on the death of matte painting the matte work in this movie is beautiful and seamless br br what do we have now third rate cgi former music video directors and professional that makes even 'gritty' horror movies look like glossy mtv videos br br now i'm going to go netflix 'the
1	for me a ten star film is one that never dies in my memory and yet can be watched over and over again with the same pleasure as the first time this could be a technically flawed movie the pleasure has nothing to do with spit and polish my personal top ten is idiosyncratic to say the least john carpenter's the thing is one of very few films to fit this criterion br br i've been a science fiction fan since i was a child in the sixties and i read the john w campbell short story on which the film is based who goes there before i saw the original black and white howard hawks film as with a lot of people that viewing was illicit on the tv when i should have been in bed that movie as with so many that you see as a child in such circumstances seemed near perfection the suspense the inexplicable nature of the alien the photography it all just seemed to work i watched it many times in the years after and still do when it is shown on tv because of this i avoided the carpenter version for years seeing remakes of one's favourite film is i thought always a mistake when i did eventually watch it sometime in 1988 9 again on tv because there was nothing else on i realised that i need to change always a mistake to usually a mistake carpenter had produced something different from the original film closer to the original story and truly wonderful from the opening scene of the helicopter and husky through the viscerally disturbing scene in the dog pound to that ending sorry no spoilers here i was hooked the sound track alone lives with me all i have to hear is a close similarity to that bass over snare drum beat and i'm in the final scene again br br until seeing the thing i had carpenter down as just another gore monkey based only on comments and reviews in mainstream press since seeing the thing i think i have seen most of his movies i haven't gone out of my to do so but if one comes up just seeing his name as director is enough to make up my mind to watch it he is thoughtful and knows how to build a film up so that it reaches a point at which something will stick in the memory br br if you haven't seen the thing and you enjoy science fiction do yourself a favour sit down in a dark room wrap up warm and prepare to have your memory enhanced
1	in an era where nearly every great horror film of the 60s and 70s is being remade for audiences weaned on horror flicks of today that are not too terribly good it is instructive to look back at john carpenter's 1982 opus the thing which itself is a remake of a childhood favorite of the director's howard hawks' 1951 sci fi horror classic the thing from outer space although carpenter's film was not initially that big a box office hit when released in mid 1982 it has since garnered a very large following br br in fact carpenter's film is less of a remake of hawks' film than it is a reworking as he goes back to the original idea posited by the source material namely the john w campbell story who goes there in which a us scientific crew in antarctica is menaced by a shape changing alien out from the ice after 100 000 years kurt russell who had starred for carpenter in the director's 1979 tv movie elvis and the 1981 film escape from new york heads a cast of stalwart character actors including keith david donald moffat richard and richard in this tension filled exploration of paranoia as the shape changing thing which first comes to their camp in the form of a guide dog a norwegian team is trying to kill takes over each of them one by one it isn't long before everybody in the camp begins to mistrust his fellow man the ending of the film in which russell and david are the only ones left has a disturbing and chilling ambiguity akin to the similar to both the birds and straw dogs br br almost universally when the subject of the thing is bought up the emphasis is on the extremely gory special effects make up and alien designs created by rob bottin who had worked with carpenter on the 1980 horror classic the fog and on joe dante's 1981 werewolf film the howling these effects are indeed quite spectacular and graphic and even today they can also be quite stomach turning but all of this would make carpenter's film nothing more than a high end splatter epic if the direction the story and the acting weren't up to snuff and thankfully each of them are when he's not concentrating on the enormously gruesome transformation sequences carpenter builds suspense in the same hitchcock influenced way that informed his previous films halloween and the fog with cinematographer dean cundey's prowling camera work particularly through the corridors of the station a significant help the acting enhances an already fine screenplay adaptation by bill lancaster and we are also given a taut score by ennio morricone whose work on director sergio leone's classic 1960s italian spaghetti westerns is well known to all including of course carpenter himself the thing also features additional fine visual effects from albert whitlock who worked on many hitchcock films including the birds and roy who worked on close encounters of the third kind and jaws 2 br br carpenter's film was not the success it could have been because universal chose to release this graphic shocker a mere two weeks after it had released steven spielberg's far more family friendly e t the extra terrestrial not surprisingly critics and audiences at the time favored spielberg's excellent film over carpenter's equally excellent but exceedingly different one also most of the horror film box office business in 1982 was going to another spielberg produced film poltergeist as a result at a cost of 15 million the thing suffered from lack of attention in its time br br over time however many have come to see carpenter's film for what it is an extremely gory but extremely intelligent combination of science fiction and horror done with a great deal of flair and a true understanding of the psychological paranoia at the heart of its story though it is still quite gruesome the thing should be as much remembered for the skill by which the story is put together as it is for the gory alien designs and make up effects for it is the storytelling skill and the suspense that make it so memorable in the final analysis
1	a brilliant horror film utterly gruesome and very scary too the thing is a remake from john carpenter but please do not let that put you off this film it is simply brilliant the start of the film has the alien's spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film's title in amazing shining white and blue stating 'the thing' one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever br br the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in is visually impressive on dvd widescreen it must have been great in the cinema i regret not seeing this on the big screen br br kurt russell is excellent as macready the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection it is tense scary and finally spectacular i love it because its funny as well br br special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself if he didn't get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter's greatest film its certainly a gruesome masterpiece br br wait for a cold winter night get some budweiser from the fridge sit down and watch the thing a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime br br utterly brilliant br br ten out of ten
1	although i saw this movie in korea in korean and therefore did not understand the language images sure say more than enough from what i can make of it this is the story two superb sword fighters become friends in their service as the king's guard one of them finds himself opposed to the ways of the king and starts assassinating important men the other has to hunt him down this movie is visually great the is great and the movie has a gripping end i just hope this movie will be marketed for the western cinema goers and be released on dvd of course
1	john carpenter's the thing is undoubtedly one of the best horror movies ever made sadly as with most carpenter movies go it is also one of the most underrated movies being panned by critics shortly after it's release for a reason that is almost pathetic it seems that at the time people were overwhelmed by the idea of the good alien an idea spawned after the success of i t and the very thought that a movie dealing with aliens could deviate from that idea was regarded as heresy human ignorance is truly a frightening thing people need to judge films for what they are not for what they want them to be br br the thing itself is an interesting study on human paranoia as members of a u s antarctic base discover the presence of an alien being refered throughout the movie only as a thing able to imitate any form of life not knowing who might or might not be the creature we see how every character reacts to the situation there is no mass hysteria or panic just a slow and gradual descent in to chaos as more and more people turn up to be not quite human br br carpenter succeeds into elevating this movie into something far more than your average sci fi horror there are no whats behind you jumping moments here instead relying on an intense atmosphere of mistrust and pre apocalyptic despair along with some nicely balanced moments of visual terror with no small thanks to rob impressive creature effects he gives us an experience not matched by many other horror films br br instead of just throwing facts and plot elements at our face carpenter offers us a much a more gradual and delicate approach by implying a sense of mystery he gives the viewer enough freedom to interpret ate what has transpired in certain scenes while giving enough plot to those who are not so fond of interpretation in movies br br ennio morricone's score works all the way it's minimalistic and depressing sound perfectly fits the movie's overall tone although i've always wondered how would it have sounded if carpenter he has been known to compose all of his except this one did it characters while not as deeply developed are still memorable thanks to the good performances of the actors especially kurt russel who plays the down out apathetic helicopter pilot r j macready its worth noting how his character transforms through the movie from his don't give a attitude in the beginning to that of a and leader of the group of men who try to fight the thing but even with that said there are no false heroics here there are no laughing at the face of death moments and there certainly isn't any sort of comic relief the movie keeps its atmosphere from the very first scene to the last speaking of which here once again carpenter keeps his tradition of creating a powerful ending br br quarter of a century after its release the thing doesn't feel dated and with the disturbingly growing use of computer generated effects it feels even stronger then before because it shows the life's work and dedication of human beings not computers combined with its openness for analyzing it gives the viewer a lot more reasons to watch it for a second or third or fourth or time a masterpiece of terror that will never be forgotten
1	people with an aversion to gore may find some scenes hard going but the thing is far from being simply a horror classic the fact that the extraordinary special effects stand up against most modern day cgi is only a small part of why this movie is finally rightfully regarded as a masterpiece technically brilliant in its camera work and editing superbly scripted and acted one of the best openings one of the best endings tension and paranoia sustained throughout with countless viewings an excellent soundtrack and open to multiple readings and analogy there simply aren't enough superlatives to do this film justice absolutely essential viewing
1	john carpenter's brilliantly suspenseful flick is a great fusion of sci fi and horror adopting the classic body swap theme and taking it to the extreme a remake of the howard hawks produced 1951 original carpenter keeps the cold war themes of paranoia and trust as a backdrop of alien takeover and impending doom amidst madness and the isolation of the antarctic setting carpenter's direction as always is excellent as his camera glides through the lonely world of the characters whose environment is about to be corrupted by the primordial fear of body takeover but here and much like the work of david cronenberg carpenter doesn't hold back on the incident as through some fantastic special effects we are witness to some insane moments of surreal gore however he never loses touch with the human side of the story as in the face of everything shocking happening in front of us we are left with perceived notions of trust and suspicion br br 9 10
1	when in 1982 the thing came out to theaters everywhere it had a cold reception and very poor box office results becoming almost a failure in john carpenter's career as a horror director however time has proved that the thing was definitely not a failed project and that the disappointing commercial results were not the film's fault nowadays john carpenter's the thing has gained the appreciation it rightfully deserves and is considered by many horror fans as a horror classic and not without a reason as this new version of john w campbell jr 's story who goes there previously adapted as the thing from another world is closer to the original tale and keeps a pessimistic feeling of dread and high doses of suspense in a masterfully crafted study about paranoia br br the plot of the thing begins in the winter of 1982 in a u s research station located in the remote territories of antarctica when the members of the crew notice a norwegian helicopter coming their way the two apparently insane pilots of the helicopter are trying to kill a husky dog who makes its way into the american base after the norwegians are killed accidentally the americans try to figure out what made them to be insane soon they'll discover that the husky dog the norwegians were hunting was not a normal dog but a creature able to mimic every living creature and not only that it has a tremendous hunger br br director john carpenter earned a place in history when in 1978 he directed the seminal slasher halloween where suspense and atmosphere were above gore and shock the thing could be seen as an evolution of that style as even when carpenter makes great use of rob special effects which were labeled by critics as repulsive on its day the film still focuses more on atmosphere and suspense rather than in the violent and very well done displays of gore the feeling of loneliness as well as the bad karma between the members of the crew increase the feeling of paranoia as anyone could be the thing even our main character r j macready kurt russell ending in a situation where nobody can be trusted br br this plot element was more faithful to the concept of the source novel and was blatantly ignored by the previous version not completely a bad thing just a big difference making this version feel less like a remake and more as a new conception of the source novel bill lancaster's script handles the characters with brilliant domain giving us enough to distinguish them but not too much to completely trust them making them an essential factor in the film's haunting feeling of dread that keeps running through the movie the mystery and the suspense are at the max as never one can tell who is the thing and who is normal enhancing the paranoia and unpredictability of the plot with excellent results br br the cast is very effective and their performances as a whole so effective that one can almost feel the bad feelings between their characters as real carpenter's regular collaborator kurt russell as macready carries the film and through his eyes we witness the madness and the horror the research station becomes as the situations goes worse definitely one of his best performances wilford brimley is also terrific as dr blair a scientist that goes insane after discovering the thing's purposes br br the thing is a film so wonderfully crafted that its flaws tend to go unnoticed although they exist the most notorious being the very low key and at times score by ennio morricone it's not exactly bad but it just feels out of place at some scenes and it's not one of the best works by the legendary composer also due to some with the special effects some scenes were left out that actually fill some small plot holes although nothing of big importance or actually annoying br br when talking about john carpenter's films most people will almost instantly name halloween as his favorite film but personally i would go with the thing as i consider it carpenter's greatest achievement so far and one of the most interesting and actually scary horror films ever made i would go as far as to call it one of the finest films ever made 10 10
1	the thing is a milestone in movie making and remains one of my favourite films of all time despite the film's roots in science fiction it is ultimately a horror film that brilliantly balances splatter with psychological trauma today over twenty five years after its release the special effects stand up as an example of sheer brilliance and effects man rob bottin suffered a complete physical breakdown for his art it would be impossible to make the same movie today as the studio would most certainly insist on casting a female character or a paul walker type br br an all male american science team in antarctica are thrown into turmoil when an alien able to perfectly absorb and imitate other lifeforms infiltrates their camp their trust in each other steadily crumbles as they become increasingly unsure who is real and who is an imitation and this 'body scenario sees their numbers steadily dwindle as one by one they fall victim to the thing when cornered it manifests itself as a different nightmarish creature the metamorphosis always horrific and compelling br br the helplessness isolation and claustrophobia of a team of desperate men with no way out of their situation and no way of help reaching them is expertly sustained the long hours of darkness and the mounting provide a bleak backdrop to the terror that unfolds director john carpenter selected with great care a team of brilliant character actors and each member of the team fits perfectly into the part they play whether it be the young and street wise chef the elderly and wise doctor or the bitter and cynical helicopter pilot the point is that no one here comes close to being an all american badass superhero with blonde locks and a six pack and the film's real strength is thanks in no small part to this stark realism the people suffering on screen are recognisable in our daily lives br br the thing remains consistently enjoyable and affecting even after repeated viewings i have now seen the film on more than twenty separate occasions and my amazement at the quality of the direction the acting and the special effects is unwavering my girlfriend prefers the high school spin off of the film the faculty which is good and solid entertainment but far more light hearted and she still loves and acknowledges the brilliance of the thing however and thank goodness for that because i could not remain in the company of someone who didn't love this movie br br a classic and then some
1	in 1982 two films were released within weeks of each other that were both about aliens steven spielberg's et and john carpenter's the thing of the two of them et was the one that won the hearts of people the world over even though the thing debuted first because people were so entranced with spielberg's warm fuzzy feelgood alien fable they stayed away from the thing in droves br br its not hard to see why the two are diametrically opposed one is an optimistic tale designed to warm the cockles of the still beating heart the other is a harsh uncompromising film that paints alien life as something purely determined to destroy us i guess audiences felt et was a much cuter prospect than the thing's tentacles and slime coated saliva br br it's taken some time but the thing has gone on to win over a substantial cult audience as it should because the thing is that rare example of a superior remake it takes all the best qualities of the 1951 classic and reinvents them in startling and imaginative ways indeed carpenter does his job so well he actually succeeds in making a film that is in every inch the equal of the genre's alien and that's even rarer br br carpenter's film follows its source material more faithfully than the thing from another world did it keeps the frigid wastes of antarctica as a setting because its the perfect backdrop when you're trying to establish a heightened sense of isolation but although a bit thin on characterisation the remake gets right inside the mindset of the actors and amplifies the uncertainty and fear that slowly surrounds them br br frequent carpenter collaborator kurt russell returns hot off the success of escape from new york cast once again as one of carpenter's perpetual anti heroes he plays macready the helicopter pilot at an antarctic research station what they're researching is anyone's guess the trouble begins when a norwegian chopper from a nearby station flies over macready's trying to gun down a siberian husky from the air br br they end up dying for their troubles and while the camp tries to solve the mystery of what happened they take in the husky and add it to their own except that this husky is not a husky at all but a shape changing alien the norwegians discovered it frozen in the ice and when they it out it massacred their crew capable of absorbing its victims at will it can duplicate a living being right down to the smallest detail soon paranoia and suspicion works its way through the 12 man crew until no one is certain who is human and who is not br br the thing is one of john carpenter's finest films in fact i'm tempted to say its the best film he's ever made even surpassing classics like halloween and dark star the reason why i place the thing at the top of carpenter's list is that it feels like the last film of his that could truly be called a classic all the others thereafter have felt like carpenter was slumming it films that didn't flow with the cool sophistication and ragged intensity so prevalent in his earlier works br br but the thing had john carpenter at the peak of his powers never has he generated suspense to such an unbearable degree not even in the ferocious assault on precinct 13 from the second the alien makes its presence known carpenter ratchets up the tension level relentlessly and when he delivers his punches they come with an agonising jolt br br the film is a blend of pure atmospherics and visceral horror an approach that can often seem at odds with one another but in carpenter's hands melds together beautifully bringing in rob bottin of the howling fame he lays to bear some of the most astonishing transformation effects you'll ever see in a horror film amorphous shapes half formed human features starkly contrasted with gaping jaws spider legs and fully flexible tentacles indeed the film's effects are so amazing and squirm inducing the thing came under fire for being too realistic br br that type of thinking misses the point entirely it only shortchanges the film's values and there are many carpenter only stages an effects setpiece when he needs to its in the film's quieter moments where he seems especially attuned to the story the thing is an often bewildering tale of shadows whispers and implications characterisation has never been one of john carpenter's strong suits but it works to his advantage in the thing because we hardly know anything about the cast it only makes the present situation that much more confusing we're never certain from one moment to the next who is who and because of this the thing holds up very well and maintains its mystery on subsequent viewings br br a special mention should go to the excellent film score from ennio morricone a pulsing thud thud every two seconds it creates an eerie spooky feeling that is very hard to shake the whole film is a wonderful exercise in paranoid manipulation the scene where they blood test each other to see who's human is wound up with such dexterity by carpenter you may find yourself biting your nails without even realising br br the thing is a pure unadulterated classic even the ending leaves you with the vague suspicion that not everything is resolved an underrated film well worth the it received and so much better than et
1	in following the lines of the classic formula to a point of taking another leap off from the material the thing remake becomes one of the coolest remakes of its time john carpenter fashions out of what must've been a fairly vague screenplay about certain things or maybe very descriptive who knows bringing forth incredibly wretched brilliant puppetry and animatronics by rob with stan winston also on the team these effects help set the tone against the harsh detached environment carpenter sets up with his characters the film takes the story of a group stationed in a research bunker in the middle of an arctic climate pitted against a malevolent force that takes the shapes of others it's given a full life by carpenter's choice of tones and surprises for someone following in the footsteps of howard hawks the filmmaker here has a lot more trust and talent in executing the material than most given the chance to have another go with an old film br br with the effects people working to full force amid what would likely follow as containing the most fire per scene it could become overkill but it all fits into the suspense after a while the actors pull along as a fine ensemble unlike the squad in predator these are mostly just regular working guys with the leader coming in the from of kurt russell's very good role for his style excellent in fact juicy supporting roles are out for grabs for the likes of wilford brimley and keith david and it is refreshing to see how the sort of absurdity of what's going on in the film an alien that starts off with dogs and then moves onto the others in gory demented transforming form is pit against such a tone of timing with everyone i loved the long silences at times with ennio morricone's spooky curious music in the background and that bass line is of merit in itself br br it ranks up with being if nothing else delivering what it strives for for its genre cult audience it remains one of carpenter's best a rare breed of horror film where the story is told clear and precisely by way of the position of the camera dialog and timing with the scenes that's not to say the film isn't chock full of violence it is and in fact a couple of times it's almost funny but given that it goes back to what is ridiculously seeming like a by gone era the creatures make up alongside the steady well calculated script was done completely without cgi it's disgusting but it's real and atmospheric to a t
1	the silly saying you can't touch this surely applies here with all the clone horror and sci fi films coming out along with all the inferior remakes it's hard to find anything worthy of 2 hours of your time that's why i always rely on the classics that scared the out of me when i was a pre teen br br the thing is without an ounce of doubt in my mind the goriest sci fi horror classic that john carpenter or any other director sorry even you mr spielberg ever made what really gives it power though is not the gore it of slime and blood and god knows what other fluids but rather the sense of dread isolation and distrust it fosters in the characters and the viewer br br you can't get more remote than antarctica and in this howling freezing white setting is where the story takes place several americans researchers and military men are stationed there one day they witness a siberian husky dog running for dear life from gun wielding norwegians before they know it the american outpost is battling a mysterious creature that can imitate any creature it wants it may morph into disgusting slimy bloody shapes before it's finished but once it's finished if you didn't see it in progress you can't tell it among humans or other normal earth animals br br kurt russell keith david wilford brimley richard donald carter thomas waites and charles are just a few of the fine cast this film is the reason why horror can be a great genre it actually still scares me the alien blood jumping out of the petri dish when the hot wire touches it still makes me jump br br still the scariest of them all
1	the thing has to be one of the all time great movies of course it was ground breaking special effects at the time of it's release that impressed me so much back in 1982 it just blew my mind i'd never seen anything like that however although the effects themselves made the movie more horrific it was the story itself the music score the claustrophobic atmosphere of the as well as the interaction and tension between the members of the doomed research station that makes it a classic br br movies don't get any better than this in the opening scene with the the chopper chasing this husky you just assume that it was some bored scientists from some station letting of some steam yet when you see them continue their chase at the us base you then think that the norwegians are suffering from some form of advanced or extreme strain of cabin fever yet this is offset by the menacing opening music score that sets the tempo you just know that something is not right at this point it's a mystery until 'the thing' reveals itself br br however the mystery returns because it becomes a sort of agatha christie who dunnit i e ten little indians movie sci fi style as the members don't know which one of their team is really an alien suspicion continues to go back and forward between them all as one by one they eventually get knocked off or revealed as the alien the mistrust between the station crew is absorbing as the movie progresses until the final showdown br br after 20 years of advances in computer graphics and film making production the special effects in the thing don't carry the same weight as it did in 1982 but other than that it holds up very well all round with some great performances by the cast
1	john carpenter shows how much he loves the 1951 original by giving it the utmost respect that he possibly could the only difference here is that carpenter chooses to stick to the paranoiac core of john w campbell jr's short story the secret to this version's success is the unbearable tension that builds up as the group of men become suspicious of each other the strain of literally waiting to be taken over takes a fearful hold carpenter manages to deliver the shocks as well as the mystery needed to keep the film heading in the right direction be it an horrific scene or a what is in the shadow sequence the film to me is a perfect fusion of horror and sci fi the dialogue is spot on for a group of men trying to keep it together under duress and carpenter's score is a wonderful eerie pulse beat that further racks up the sense of doom and paranoia thru the film the cast are superb a solid assembly of actors led by carpenter fave kurt russell whilst the effects used give the right amount of impact needed but most of all it's the ending that is the crowning glory an ending that doesn't pander to the norm and is incredibly fitting for what has gone on before it lets wait and see what happens indeed 10 10
1	i must say out of all modern korean martial arts movies this one is worth checking out it wasn't as epic as musa the warriors and didn't develop the characters as well but it had many nice ideas simple story a elite soldier thought dead returns after years to end the reign of the japanese in korea in medieval days his counterpart was formerly the best friend he had and now he is out to stop him the fight scenes are all with sword or different weapons and very entertaining to watch the motives of the figures are discovered first near to the end you might need to watch it again to get all the connections right and me personally i loved the end i could watch it over and over again maybe a little pathetic but a real freedom fighter story people can be killed but not the ideas they stand for
1	remake of the classic 1951 the thing from another world 12 men are in a completely isolated station in they are invaded by a thing from outer space it devours and completely duplicates anything it chooses to it starts off as a dog but gets loose and has a chance to duplicate any of the men soon nobody trusts anyone else they're isolated the radio is destroyed their helicopter likewise what are they going to do br br the 1951 film had the thing just be a big super human monster that movie was scary this one is too but the story is different and based more closely on the source material the novelette who goes there and it's scary in a different way the movie starts right off with ennio morricone's extremely eerie score setting just the right tone and when the thing gets attacked the amount of gore is astounding there's blood and body parts flying all over arms are bitten off heads detach and in the strongest one one man is devoured face first by the thing the gore effects are strong and real nightmare material i don't scare easy but i had to sleep with the lights on when i saw this originally back in 1982 rob effects are just incredible how this picture got by with an r rating is beyond me br br it also has a very creepy feel gore aside it is very suspenseful you're not sure who is what and carpenter's direction and the score really build up the tension one complaint no one is given any distinctive personality traits they actors just remain straight faced and say their lines that's annoying but the movie still works br br this was a critical and commercial disaster in 1982 it competed with e t and many critics complained about the amount of gore and there being no female characters in the movie it's now considered one of john carpenter's best a must see for strong stomaches not a date film br br an amusing note when this was released universal sent a note along with all prints of the film they suggested to theatre owners that they play the film in an auditorium near the rest rooms they were afraid that people would be so sickened by the violence that they'd have to be close to a facility to throw up
1	many people has got a film they think of as their favourite movie my movie will always be john carpenter's the thing the main reason why this movie is a cult film is perhaps the splatter effects created mainly by genius rob bottin and that this is the movie that made kurt russell what he is today along with escape from n y in my opinion this is not a great film because of the effects it has to do with the story the atmosphere and of course the acting i have watched thousands and thousands of movies 3 6 every day the last 10 years but none has had the impact on me as this one not even the great das boot br br here's my suggestion to you who likes sci fi and horror movies place yourself in the good chair of your home be sure you're not by anyone if you aint got a projector sit close to your tv and watch this miracle of a film let it you and you'll see it my way br br best view time late february between 5 and 9 in the evening
1	antarctica winter 1982 the team on an american research base get surprised by a couple of mad norwegians who is chasing a dog with a helicopter trying to kill it all the norwegians are killed and the americans are left with nothing but a dog a couple of bodies and questions that's the beginning of the greatest horror thriller film i've ever seen br br from the very beginning all to the end you feel the tense paranoid mood helpless and alone out in no mans land ennio morricone was nominated for a razzie award for his score why i don't know 'cause as far as i can see his score is simple creepy and very good it really gets you in the right mood br br the acting is great the best performance is probably given by the dog who's just amazing as for russell and the others on two legs i can say nothing less br br you may think 1982 and special effects are not the most impressive well think again you haven't seen it all until you've seen this falling off and creatures changing forms rob bottin has done a great job witch today stands as a milestone is special effects makeup br br the movie didn't get a big response when it first hit the big screen due to other alien films at the time and so it's not very well known in fact you can almost consider it an unknown movie nobody i've asked have heard of it however the movie has managed to survive for over twenty years as a cult film on video and dvd twenty years is a long time and except for the haircut the movie is still pretty much up to date this movie is to be considered a classic br br the movie is without doubt one of my if not my favorite i've seen it several times but it's just as good as the first time i saw it as a norwegian the only thing i don't like about this movie is that macready keeps calling the norwegians swedes
1	john carpenter's the thing is hands down the best horror film ever made not only that but it is also on of my personal favorite films of all time what makes the movie so great it's hard to put my finger on it everything just seems to work in the thing it's one of the rare occasions where everything just seems to fall in place the film is even superior to alien in creating a type of moody atmospheric hell the fact that it's not only about the gore which is wonderful btw but it is able to create a paranoia that is unmatched in films a truly wonderful film that is worshiped by all horror buffs and anyone who has good taste in films
1	this is another one of those films that i remember staying up late to watch on tv scaring the crap out of myself at the impressionable age of 12 or so and myself thereafter to a life of horror movie obsession this is a great movie and stands as living proof that there were indeed realistic effects before cgi br br set on an isolated base in antarctica this version seems almost to pick up where the original version the thing from another world left off the american scientists discover a decimated norwegian base some miles distant everyone is dead and only the half charred remains of some unidentifiable thing left to smolder outside the compound might offer any answers to what may have happened the thing is brought back to the american base and too late the scientists realize that it is alive and lethal the thing thaws out and is off not only killing anyone and anything that crosses its path but also absorbing them making itself into whoever and whatever it wants the film then turns into a brilliant paranoia piece everyone is suspect anyone can be the thing and no one trusts anyone anymore gone is the strength and security found when human beings band together in spite of their differences to battle a monster the group splinters and fear rules supreme who is the thing br br the gore effects here are absolutely amazing and messily realistic i could have done without the dogs head splitting open like a banana peel but that's just the animal lover in me being picky kill all the humans you want but leave the kitties and puppies alone sanity and reason disintegrate rapidly as one by one the humans are taken over by the shapeshifting alien the power of this film lies in its paranoia and although i liked the original version i prefer this one the real threat lies within and is scarier for the fact that it cannot be seen or easily detected when it is forced out of hiding it's wrath is huge and the results are horrific br br this is one of carpenters best films right up there with the fog and halloween all of the actors give strong realistic performances and the special effects are so powerful that they stand as their own main character this film has something for any lover of the horror genre don't miss it
1	i am ashamed to say it but i have to admit the first time i saw this film was only about a year ago after seeing it i immediately rushed out and bought the dvd collectors' edition and have watched it many times since br br the film is terrific on many levels it works as your straight monster or action type film as a horror sci fi and also as a very intriguing look into the human psyche the incredible sense of paranoia mistrust and fear lent not only by carpenter's direction which is stunning but also by the incredible acting of the cast in general kurt russell obviously is spectacularly understated in the lead role of macready and as a direct result he feels like a real person rather than a hollywood all american hero the other cast members all carry off their roles with style and the net result is an intensely believable atmosphere and a truly fantastic film
1	i know i'm human and if you were all these things then you'd just attack me right now so some of you are still human this thing doesn't want to show itself it wants to hide inside an imitation it'll fight if it has to but it's vulnerable out in the open if it takes us over then it has no more enemies nobody left to kill it and then it's won br br john carpenter's the thing is one of the most entertaining horror films ever made – fast clever and purely exciting from start to finish this is how all movies of the genre should be made br br taking place in the antarctic in 1982 the movie focuses specifically on a group of american scientists we are given no introduction to their mission but are thrust into their existence when a pair of seemingly crazy norwegians appears at their base camp chasing an escaped dog the norwegians are killed and the dog finds its way into the colony which is when things really start to get crazy br br it is soon made quite clear that the dog is actually a shape shifting alien organism which manifests itself upon the physical form of its victims – in other words it begins to eat the americans and imitate them so well that the remaining humans cannot discern the difference between their friends and enemies br br the pack of scientists led by macready kurt russell begin to fight for their own survival using wits instead of brawn if the thing is indeed amongst them then how are they to go about revealing it how many things are there how can the thing be killed or can it be destroyed at all br br the creature's origins in the film are explained easily thirty thousand years ago a spacecraft plummeted to earth and was frozen in the antarctic ice the thing tried to escape and was discovered in the ice by the norwegians who unknowingly released it from its natural prison br br the thing the movie itself is similar to ridley scott's iconic alien 1979 many comparisons have been made – the protagonists are stranded in a desolate area stalked by a seldom seen foe that manages to kill them off one by one however the thing – for all practical purposes – came first br br based on the famous short story who goes there by john w campbell jr writing under pseudonym as don a stuart the film was originally adapted as a feature production in 1951 by howard hawks and christian the result was the thing from another world an classic but to be fair it bore little resemblance to the short story and carpenter's remake does it more justice br br the idea of the thing being able to adapt the physicality of anyone is what essentially makes this movie so great and is the most vital link to the short story in 1951 the special effects were simply too poor to reasonably portray the shape shifting organism but thirty one years brought many advances in sfx br br creature effects artist rob bottin does an excellent job of turning what could have easily become a cheesy gore fest into a startlingly frightening and realistic mess of blood and fear the thing although never actually taking one specific form is constantly seen in a morphing stage and the effects are simply superb they still pack a punch twenty two years later br br ennio morricone's score nominated for a razzie award at the time is a bit too electronic and tinny but nevertheless haunting when used correctly br br from the fact that its cast consists entirely of males to the fact that its ending is one of the most thought provoking and untypical conclusions of all time the thing – by any standards – is unconventional hollywood at its best it comes as no surprise that at the time of its release the thing performed poorly in theaters and e t – released the same year and featuring a much kinder alien – became the higher grossing picture of the two by far br br in the long run however the thing is superior in almost every conceivable way spielberg's tale is outdated and flopped during its 20th anniversary re release the thing on the other hand has gradually climbed a ladder of cult classics – it is one of the most famous non famous movies ever made br br carpenter is notorious for having a very uneven career – from his amazing assault on precinct 13 1976 to the magnificent halloween 1978 to the disappointing and silly escape from l a 1996 the thing remains his very best motion picture although its reputation over the years has never been honorary enough to land it a spot on most great movies lists the thing is still one of my favorite horror films and – upon close inspection – masterfully crafted it is a daring and ingenious thrill ride that is simultaneously unique and chilling – a genuine relief for film buffs who are tired of the same old horror knock offs this one at the very least is genuinely unpredictable
1	throw momma hasn't dated at all it's as funny now as when it was released a genuinely eccentric comedy that doesn't try too hard to be liked and is all the better for it full of memorable laugh out loud lines even small characters are well written and beautifully played like billy crystal's best friend's girlfriend and a lovely cameo from rob reiner as crystal's agent a little bit insane and a lot funny
1	this was very funny even if it fell apart a little at the end does not go overboard with homage after to hitchcock owen danny devito was lucky he had strangers on a train playing at the local cinema so the movie flat out tells you that that was the inspiration br br devito is very funny but also a little sad he has no friends and all he wants to do is write and have someone like his writing his teacher billy crystal is going through some serious writers block of his own and his wife has stolen his book and made it her own success which also has him frustrated a great deal br br best parts are the book proposal by mr one hundred girls i'd like to pork and all scenes with anne ramsey who is so horrible that even mother theresa would have wanted to kill her too
1	throw momma from the train is a simple dark comedy with lots of laughs br br billy crystal plays a frustrated writer on the verge of collapse danny devito plays a man in one of crystal's writing classes crystal's ex wife is a hag to put it nicely and crystal hates her devito sensing this offers crystal a deal one night devito will kill crystal's wife if crystal kills devito's nag of a mother crystal does of course refuse but later corruption deep in his heart makes him say yes and so as things play out we see what happens when you try to throw someone's momma from a moving train br br this story is an interesting character study a story of evil greed revenge ego trust doing what's right but most of all corruption we see crystal's white collar writer become ever stressed with events colliding around him and because of devito's constant nagging he says yes but we know deep down in his subconscious he wanted to say yes and he's pleased that he said it to devito br br this movie is a bit of a dark spoof on hitchcock's immortal film strangers on a train and it plays an homage to the film early on when there is a theater playing strangers on a train we see devito watching the movie and a in his head pops on he gets an idea throw momma from the train br br billy crystal gives another convincing and strangely comical performance as a hassled writer on the verge of collapse he has been so beaten down by everything around him that his inner emotions come out and he agrees to throw devito's momma from the train br br danny devito directed this film excellently he uses just the right touch of comic darkness to create a world of corruption and sickness everything is demented but not to an extreme like in some other dark comedies it has just the right touch of darkness that shone through in the war of the roses br br not only is throw momma from the train a simple tale of corruption and morality but is also an interesting character study definitely worth catching on tv br br 3 5 5 stars br br john ulmer
1	after seeing a preview for this film at my local mall where there is a stand for purchasing foreign films i thought it looked very entertaining before watching the movie i went on to imdb to see what ratings and comments it received i was worried when i noticed the low numbers and the negative ratings despite the hype i watched to movie and to my surprise i found it unbelievable br br the story was great just pay attention and the characters and their relationships within the film is astonishing i haven't seen such a good combination of leading characters in long time i really felt for both characters and sensed a strong bond as reading previous posts about this movie not being epic enough or a lack of martial arts i could not disagree more this film is what it is its not braveheart and its not enter the dragon but it is still a wonderful film that does an excellent job combining story both and action br br while sword in the moon isn't perfect what movie is it still is wonderful and moving just wait until the ending scene with the music and cinematography together its breathtaking i only hope more people can see this movie to give it a fair voting
1	i don't understand this movies distinctly average rating br br i really really enjoyed it i even stayed up till early morning to finish watching it on late night t v br br there are three excellent characters here excellent characters danny devito played a gem quite a feat considering he was directing as well his down trodden laughable at times character was brilliantly written and was surreal in a absolutely believable way there are people like that owen was just on the line without crossing it br br billy crystal's comic and sense of timing was perfect for his role his frustration comedy was interesting and captivating and what's more you could understand his feelings to really feel like you know a character is hard to achieve from the writers point of view to find the right actor to pull it off is an art in itself and both were achieved here thrice over br br thirdly who else could have played momma there is no one that can play this part so well there is a style there unlike any other something you love to watch i found myself waiting for her to appear on screen and not because the rest was bad oh no but because momma's character was again so on the line without crossing it that it was excellent to watch br br and what's more a happy ending with new found friendships no one getting hurt and everyone getting what they wanted in life without a big hunk of cheese tied on the end br br brilliant script brilliant idea perfect cast great film
1	this movie sat in a dusty stack of videos in my house for ages before we watched it we knew it was there every time someone wanted to watch a movie it was suggested it almost became a joke i know let's watch throw momma from the train i don't know why it was always turned down it just was little did we know what we were missing out on it still befalls me why it took us so long i mean it stars danny devito billy crystal and ann who we referred to as the lady from the goonies an all star cast that should have appealed to everyone in my household but there it sat for nearly ten years until one day it was suggested and we could turn it down no longer br br it was like finding king tut's tomb br br no movie has ever made me laugh so hard and i doubt any movie ever will i had to rewind for almost every line because i was still laughing at the line that came before it and lost ability to hear or pay attention not just simple laughing either the kind of laughing that more energy than running ten miles in the cold the kind of laughing that you cannot control that causes rolling around and spasms and tears and snot running down your face because it's just that freakin funny once i learned the movie by heart i will say this effect has lessened but i don't think i will get tired of watching it and finding new quirks in it to appreciate i think that's all i can say i would recommend this movie to anyone but if you don't enjoy it please don't let me know i will probably be offended
1	i thought that the interplay between crystal and devito was great the movie is rather off the wall but there are some unforgettable lines ramsey as momma is vulgar and over the top but also very funny and effective the character has to be pretty awful for why else would someone entertain thoughts of killing his mother now crystal's wife she is a slut whom everyone would like to receive her comeuppance thus her role though minor is also effective because it has to justify crystal's ridiculous case of writer's block while there are certainly dark moments the movie is not depressing and despite the murderous urges that the protagonists feel they have redeeming qualities too br br overall this is one of the funniest movies i can remember one that i don't mind watching over several times
1	in a really neat spin on hitchcock larry billy crystal and owen danny devito lead unpleasant lives larry's ex wife has gotten rich by publishing a book that he wrote and owen has the most overbearing mother imaginable when larry tells owen to calm down by watching strangers on a train owen gets the idea that they should do criss cross murders like in the movie and just like in the movie larry thinks that it's a joke but owen's serious br br how they came up with the idea for throw momma from the train i'll never know but it's a hilarious movie there isn't a dull moment in it and that ending was a hoot crystal and devito are at their best and anne ramsey is as much of a hag here as she was in the goonies a modern classic
1	you don't see the meaning of the title till much later but you get the point of it in the first few minutes this directorial debut from golden globe nominated for actor danny devito also playing owen ned 'little lift is a terrific hitchcock like film about one man's hate for his wife's book she stole his and one man's hate for his mother basically owen wants to be a good writer like his teacher larry donner billy crystal and he inspired by murder stories larry suggests he see a hitchcock film quite ironic and that is when owen has the idea to kill larry's ex wife margaret star trek voyager's kate mulgrew owen is inspired by on a train' swapping murders so larry must kill owen's horrible momma oscar and golden globe nominated anne ramsey larry was convinced owen killed margaret and also that he had to wanted to kill owen's momma but there is a happy ending when months later both larry and owen bring out books momma died naturally and they went on a holiday with beth ryan kim greist also starring rob reiner as joel and oprah winfrey with hilarious moments a great director actor and his support this is a must see comedy very very good
1	this movie is extremely funny the character of momma keeps me returning to the movie time and time again i can't get enough of her dry lines like when she tells her son owen to bury his friend in the back yard before he smells up the place and her suspicion that owen is trying to kill her by giving her unsalted nuts it's hilarious br br if you like movies such as national lampoon's vacation uncle buck or planes trains automobiles this has similar humor it's a great wholesome laugh a must see
1	just thinking about the movie i laugh to myself anne ramsey plays an unforgettable part as ' probably the most nasty yet hilarious matriarch ever captured on film danny devito and billy crystal make a fabulous duo bringing a true warmth to the film though not exceedingly complex the cute story holds your attention and keeps you laughing the whole way through it's a fun comedy to lighten things up and even will entertain the kids i give it my full recommendation
1	the one thing i really can't seem to forget about this movie is its beginning classic comedy brilliantly crafted i love it see it for yourself no spoilers here the sparring between devito and crystal also glows in this movie with devito as the perfect oppressed son one of my favourites highly recommended for fans of crystal
1	this movie was one of the rolling on the floor laughing movies i have ever seen danny de vito plays owen perfectly momma is excellently portrayed and was one of the highlights of the movie br br at the beginning of the movie it starts of differently then what you would expect larry is trying to write a book and is having some troubles larry teaches a writing class and owen tagged after larry trying to get him to read his story owen eventually asks larry to kill his mother and in return owen would kill larry's ex wife the whole movie was really hilarious br br one of my favorite parts of the movie is at the end when owen writes throw momma from the train larry gets furious because he just wrote a book of similar plot it turns out that owen wrote a children's pop up book br br i would really recommend this movie i gave it a 10
1	now throw momma from the train was not a great comedy but it is a load of fun and makes you laugh the title may seem a little strange but the entire movie isn't literally about that although it is about something just as sinister br br danny de vito basically wants to kill his overbearing mother and fast forward a little bit some random and funny events take place the premise is quite funny and the things that billy crystal and danny de vito get into were great some of the scenes seemed to not fit in for me but this didn't make it a bad movie br br for what it is a wacky comedy it pulls it off well and should be seen once just to say you saw it
1	i saw the movie on its north american premiere july 14 2004 at the fantasia festival i was slightly disappointed as i had been expecting a more epic ensemble cast movie along the lines of musa the warrior instead the movie concentrated only a much smaller number of characters still the movie was solid thoughtful and visually intriguing there were slightly jarring tone shifts from the dominant thoughtful and realistic tone of confused loyalties intrigue and blood versus the lighter more flamboyant martial arts sequences it almost seemed as though the filmmakers couldn't make up their minds about whether the movie was supposed to be a martial arts flick or a historical epic the story touches nicely on the issue about the need for loyalty versus the need to adapt to new situations is it really worth your life and those of your friends to be loyal to one's master or does there come a time when one must submit to the winds of change is there perhaps greater courage in leaving the old ways for new ones how does one decide these questions are raised in this movie and ironically there is the suggestion that the answer given may in fact be the wrong one
1	i am surprised people after such lousy movies getting to be in the top 250 or just being in the 7 0's i thought more people would get a kick out of throw momma from the train this was a great comedy by two terrific comedic actors billy crystal and danny devito together they made a great duo of insanity and obsession billy is a man who just lost his million dollar story to his ex wife and repeatedly wishes her dead danny has an insane and senile old mother who just abuses him when billy gives some misunderstood advice to danny danny offers a proposition to billy if he kills his ex wife billy has to kill his mother this is a crazy and funny story that can always get a good laugh please sit back and enjoy this movie people it's a good one br br 7 10
1	a picture starring danny devito and billy crystal they are both famous actors and in this charming comedy entails them trying to murder each other's pet peeve billy crystal's pet peeve being his ex wife who stole his book and put her name on it and danny devito's pet peeve being his malignant mother billy crystal is an author and a teacher apparently and danny devito is one of his students this comedy classic is very entertaining and for all ages br br danny devito seems to act like a child in this movie because of his evil mother who keeps putting him down all the time she says things like you have no friends and when billy crystal fell down she said burry him before he stinks up the basement she puts down danny also by calling him lard ass and other things just to make him angry
1	this movie is basically a spoof on hitchcock's strangers on a train which i thought was overrated anyway the plot has danny devito going to see strangers and then thinking billy crystal wants them to swap murders for crystal to murder his mother and devito to murder his wife both devito and crystal are great and so is devito's mother this is devito's directorial debut and it's better than the war of the roses
1	stars danny devito billy crystal anne ramsey kim kate mulgrew oprah winfrey and rob reiner br br after college class teacher larry crystal wants his ex wife dead and owen devito wants his momma ramsey dead when larry brings up that he wants his wife dead owen knows what he must do for him in order for a favor in return for larry to kill his mother devito is absolutely hilarious in this as the brain dead wannabe writer that has daydreams of poisoning his mom and sticking scissors through her head he has a child like role that makes him seem more of a confused man than a killer was actually nominated for an academy award for this because of her wonderful performance as mean old mrs lift along with having comedy the film also has heart one scene between devito and crystal starts off seemingly as a joke but goes deeper actually making me slightly sad danny devito directed the film and did a good job getting the dark tone in to his direction for any fan of comedies i recommend this br br my rating b plus 84 mins pg 13 for language sexuality and violence
1	had it with the one who raised you since when you were young you just want her gone from your life that woman is your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether she's in sick or well but that in times it can be aggravating especially when she becomes very overbearing that's how owen danny devito had to deal with in throw momma the train his momma anne ramsey 1929 88 is one of the worst he trying his best to be a writer and she is everything but grateful calls him a clumsy poop a and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he has his own woman problems his ex wife she trying to discredit him so what did owen do push her overboard what does he do help return the favor get rid of mrs lift in the kitchen scene i liked it where owen called larry cousin patty and momma said you don't have a cousin patty and owen shouts you lied to me and el larry with the frying pan then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that is thwarted and she kicks larry off the train well everything back to normal the ex wife lives but momma kicked the bucket on her own maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways a fun movie it is and the cast is great a classic 5 stars
1	when i watched this movie when i was a kid i didn't understand the premise of hitchcock movies and dark comedy now that i'm in my mid 20's it makes a lot more sense br br i think the reason i like this movie so much is that the comedy duo of billy crystal and danny devito make for some interesting comedy both slapstick the frying pan and car scenes and verbal the arguments conversations over murder and writing br br the story revolves around larry donner crystal a struggling writer who has his masterpiece stolen from him by his wife margaret played by a surprisingly radiant kate mulgrew aka capt janeway from star trek voyager br br while he shifts between writer's block and teaching creative writing class he meets with student owen lifts devito an aspiring writer and overgrown mama's boy who sadly still acts like a kid he has toy train tracks need i say more think of failure to launch only matt mcconaughey is short fat and bald br br owen is stuck in his own life with a demanding evil mother anne ramsey who he can't stand he seeks larry's advice on how to get out of it and when he says to go see a hitchcock film owen gets the wrong idea that if he kills larry's wife he'll return the favor and kill his mom for him hilarity ensues while the two try to deal with each other's problem owen goes to extremes to kill margaret while larry who refuses to agree to do his part of the plan is driven nuts by owen's mother br br throughout the film larry and owen slowly but surely form a bond of friendship that is rare in dark comedy nowadays one part of the movie i really loved was where owen shows larry his coin collection and lets just say its more a sentimental collection than anything br br the two main stars aside the late anne ramsey is hilarious as mama and deadly with that cane of hers she's a lot more comedic verbally and physically in this as opposed to her role as mama fratelli from the goonies so she curses like a sailor and belittles her son at every turn but thats what makes her character so vivid she makes her character the kind of person you love to hate br br another treat in this movie is the music of jazz great marsalis who plays larry's neighbor and friend lester there is a great moment in the movie where he plays jazz for larry who is depressed and needs some good tunes to relieve the pain jazz can do that br br in closing i wish billy crystal and danny devito would do another good movie together but their kinda getting too old for the game i'm sad to say this is one of those rare movies where both stars shine in their own subtle ways devito's childish comedy and crystal's sharp wit made this movie for me 5 star comedy
1	inspired by hitchcock's strangers on a train concept of two men swapping murders in exchange for getting rid of the two people messing up their lives throw momma from the train is an original and very inventive comedy take on the idea it's a credit to danny devito that he both wrote and starred in this minor comedy gem br br anne ramsey is the mother who inspires the film's title and it's understandable why she gets under the skin of danny devito with her sharp tongue and relentlessly putting him down for any minor infraction billy crystal is the writer who's wife has stolen his book idea and is now being lionized as a great new author even appearing on the oprah show to in adulation he should be enjoying thus devito gets the idea of swapping murders to rid themselves of these nuisance factors br br of course everything and anything can happen when writer carl reiner lets his imagination roam with unending ideas for how the plot develops and it's amusing all the way through providing plenty of laughs and chuckles along the way as well as a good deal of suspense br br for devotees of black comedy this one is guaranteed to please
1	we're living in sad times today in which it seems like every comedy movie and tv show is painfully unfunny and inflicted with cheap crude or poor humor most people don't know what it means to really laugh at a comedy and these people desperately need to watch throw momma from the train i say with little hesitation that this is one of the funniest movies i've ever seen from beginning to end the comedy is so unpredictable and twisted just enough to make us laugh out loud many times throughout don't be fooled by the murder plot the plot is not serious enough to make us care or worry about what's going to happen the story involves a young man danny devito who wants to get rid of his annoying grouchy mother anne ramsey nominated for an oscar in a role that was completely flawless in my opinion and does so by killing off billy crystal's wife whom crystal wanted dead for stealing his novel i don't want to spoil the jokes and gags in this film but all i can say is that you must see this film if you want to laugh fast paced and genuinely a real treat to comedy lovers and the type of film you just do not see today br br 1 2 out of
1	black comedy isn't always an easy sell every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful like fargo for example but usually they don't often find big audiences people seem to either set their minds for comedy or for serious mayhem there doesn't seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in 1987 br br devito plays an odd mamma's boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with the mother is played by anne ramsey who passed away shortly after this was released and she is quite a caricature she is loud ugly rude and overbearing though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself he wants desperately to have his mother offed he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes but he clearly doesn't have the guts to actually do it himself that's where billy crystal comes in crystal plays larry donner owen's creative writing teacher at a nearby community college larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it he is currently trying to write a new one but cannot even come up with a decent first sentence the night was owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train owen decides to travel to hawai'i and murder larry's ex wife once it appears he has done so he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother the resulting action is often quite funny and even poignant it's certainly never dull and often full of surprises br br the acting is exceptional even if ramsey was a bit over the top crystal is as good as he can be and devito has always been undervalued as a performer the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works often painfully so the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes and the off beat tone is truly refreshing i have often been critical of the late 1980s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making throw momma from the train takes chances both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered the film isn't too long and it is chock full of laughs writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone 9 of 10 stars br br the hound
1	if you had a mother that described you like that you just might be looking to bump her off yourself it's how danny devito feels about anne ramsey it's just how to put the plan in action br br and his creative writing class taught by professor billy crystal gives him the idea that and a viewing of alfred hitchcock's classic strangers on a train which gives devito the idea to switch murders with crystal who hates his wife kate mulgrew who not only is cheating him out of an idea for a book he wanted to write but is also carrying on with hunky tony br br throw momma from the train plays out kind of like strangers on a train as devito seems to have carried out his end of the murder scheme but crystal's having a bit of a problem putting ramsey down even with danny's help that woman might need killing but she's going to take a lot of it br br the only academy recognition that throw momma from the train got was an academy award nomination for anne ramsey for best supporting actress ramsey lost to olympia dukakis for moonstruck but the film turned out to be her finest hour ramsey already had the throat cancer that would eventually kill her the following year but look at the list of credits she managed to even after throw momma from the train she worked right up to the end br br i've seen interviews with both of the stars of throw momma from the train billy crystal and danny devito and both have gladly conceded that anne ramsey's performance as the mother from hell both made the film the success it was and stole it out from under them their acknowledgment of ramsey's talent and performance is the best possible tribute br br if marion lorne in strangers on a train had been anything like anne ramsey here farley granger would gladly have joined robert walker in disposing of her throw momma from a train is one of the best black comedies out there should not be missed
1	well sword in the moon finally got a dvd release in korea and despite the mostly negative responses i've heard to it and the suspiciously dvd release i couldn't help but pick it up any wu xia film is better than most non wu xia films in my eyes d perhaps low expectations were an advantage because i was quite pleasantly surprised to find the film pretty enjoyable br br an assassin is killing a number of ministers who were involved in a revolution that usurped the throne and the government's top swordsman is tasked with identifying the culprit this doesn't take particularly long but the answer is not one he wanted to hear through prolonged flashbacks we learn why and the history of the swordsman and the assassin and of the revolution br br the film is typically melodramatic for a korean film and resolutely serious in tone no hk style comedy moments to be found here the story can be a little difficult to follow at first but all makes sense eventually the film goes a bit wobbly at the end but no worse than a chang cheh film might do and for the most part i found it enjoyable the production values are high with some good cinematography to capture it the fight scenes aren't up to the calibre of the better hk wu xia films but perhaps they're not meant to be the fights are more realistic in that they're less like choreographed dance routines but there's some wirework and occasional cgi that put the film in wu xia mode the film doesn't have the best cast unfortunately with the leads being a tad lacking in charm and occasionally difficult to distinguish from each other there's a young lady in the film that i don't think i've seen before but makes the best impression of any of the principle cast not just because you see her nekkid or perhaps it is p the film lacks the charm and grace of the better hk wu xia films and perhaps the beauty too but i only wish hk would make them half this good anymore twins effect 2 does not give me hope that that's about to happen any time soon though tsui hark surely still has it in him if he can get the funding and cast sword in the moon is not going to go onto my list of favourite wu xia by any means but it's a whole heap better than romantic warriors or legend of the evil lake perhaps better than too though i did like that film quite a bit more on a second viewing obviously it's nowhere near the wonderful musa but it's a different affair altogether really will probably get a second viewing within three years which is perhaps the best indicator of how much i liked it 7 10
1	a deliciously nasty black comedy about a middle aged schlub danny devito who wants to bump off his mother and hatches a plan to do so with a bitter divorcée who wants to bump off his ex wife the movie is completely unapologetic in its cynicism and gives us no one to like but for once that works in the movie's favor rather than as a turn off br br anne ramsey as devito's battle axe mom steals the show in a grotesquely funny performance even though she's a horror you end up rooting for her because it seems like she could kick both devito's and crystal's asses at the same time with both hands tied behind her back br br grade b
1	larry donner billy crystal has a crazy life his wife kate mulgrew stole his book and left him he has a new budding romance with a girl named beth kim greist he doesn't know how to start his book and his students of his screen writing class are stranger than most however one student danny devito is extra strange he lives with his evil momma anne ramsey and he can't get up the courage to kill her so than he goes to larry for help making his life go from normal crazy to extra crazy br br stu silver should have done more the dialog the characters the whole script is near perfect and danny devito has proved to me he's more than a great actor he's a great director his kid's movie matilda is among my favorite family movies and now this is one of my favorite comedies br br it's a black comedy most jokes are about murder but it's damn funny all of the actors are doing their full potential whether they're main characters billy crystal or just one bit minor characters olivia brown br br if you like comedy who doesn't than you'll like this 8 10 stars
1	the college teacher larry donner billy cristal is a blocked writer since his former wife kate mulgrew ruined him stealing his novel that became a best seller he does not hide his hatred for upsetting his girlfriend beth ryan kim greist who is an anthropologist teacher in the same college while giving classes of creative writing he is stalked by the student owen danny devito that wants to know his opinion about his crime tale larry tells that he did not like it and explains that in every mystery tale the murderer should eliminate the motive and establish an alibi otherwise he would get caught further larry suggests owen to watch hitchcock's movies to understand the structure of a suspenseful story owen who wants to kill his detestable mother anne ramsey watches strangers on a train and misunderstands larry's advice believing that his teacher wants to swap murders to eliminate the motive owen travels to hawaii and while in a ship falls overboard vanishing in the sea and is considered dead however larry does not have an alibi and becomes the prime suspect while the deranged owen presses him to kill his mother as part of their supposed deal br br throw momma from the train is one of the funniest comedies of the 80's and a great tribute to alfred hitchcock the direct reference is strangers on a train but there are jokes with vertigo with the spinning camera family plot with the car without breaks and other movies the lines are excellent and there is an interesting point when larry tells that every great romance or mystery has a train anne ramsey is amazing in the role of a nasty and abusive dominating mother and the viewer will certainly feel sorrow and understand the insanity of owen kim greist is very beautiful and kate mulgrew is the perfect bitch billy cristal performs an obsessed character with many silly and unreasonable attitudes but necessary to the plot my vote is seven br br title brazil a do throw momma from the train
1	billy crystal is larry a writer who hasn't written and is suspected of murder in throw momma from the train costarring danny devito and anne ramsey the phrase black comedy was invented for this insanity which is a take off on hitchcock's strangers on a train in fact owen devito gets the idea of having larry kill his mother in exchange for owen killing larry's ex from watching that famous film i saw the movie criss cross owen tells larry not that larry knows what he's talking about until it appears it's too late just like strangers larry a writing teacher claims that his ex wife played by kate mulgrew stole his book and put her name on it she has become a big celebrity appearing on oprah where she refers to larry as a beast owen is in larry's class he lives with an abusive neanderthal mother ramsey and has visions of poisoning her sticking a scissors in her head you name it it's not long after seeing strangers on a train that he's in honolulu stalking larry's wife while she's leaning over a boat railing trying to get an earring owen stands behind her and creeps up soon the police are looking for larry to question him but he's at owen's where he's being encouraged to live up to his end of a bargain he had no idea he made you know criss cross there are several scenes copied from strangers which are hilarious i especially loved larry's confession to the sleeping mrs lift owen's mother similar to when guy thinks he's talking to bruno's stepfather br br crystal and devito are complete masters of comic dialogue and timing and will leave you laughing often out loud ramsey is repulsively funny a totally out there performance kim and rob reiner also have roles is crystal's girlfriend and reiner has what amounts to a cameo br br the ending is very clever and the whole film will leave you laughing
1	owen loves his only he'd love her better six feet under in this dark laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role br br throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy even if it isn't a great film it's too shallow in parts and the ending feels less organic than tacked on but it's a gut splitting ride most of the way with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer devito is avid but untalented crystal is blocked and bitter br br crystal's professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book the unfortunately titled hot fire and can't write more than the opening line of his next book which doesn't come easy he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn't know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through and an salesman who wants to write the story of his life mr is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen an wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus 100 girls i'd like to pork br br then there's devito's owen lift who calls himself professor donner's star pupil even though the teacher won't read his work in class owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie a man child in his late 30s who lives with his overbearing mother anne ramsey who calls him and other endearing sentiments in any other movie we'd be asked to feel sorry for owen but throw momma from the train piles life's cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along that's one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people br br for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character even identifying with him and take the rest of what we see here as a lark it's not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner's help in a plan to kill his mother actually he first goes to hawaii to kill donner's hated ex then tells the professor it's his turn to kill mrs lift swapping murders as seen in hitchcock's strangers on a train br br as a director devito not only complements his actors' performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue he makes some bold visual statements throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes and away from taking things too seriously br br also helping matters is writer stu silver who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter you got rats the size of here she's not a woman she's the terminator one little murder and i'm jack the ripper those are all crystal's words but some of the funniest lines which work only in context but absolutely kill are devito's and ramsey's apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this according to the imdb and that's a shame because he had real talent for it br br the best scene in this movie when crystal meets ramsey was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical 'coming presentation the only time i've seen a movie promoted that way owen introduces the professor to his mother as 'cousin patty ' and when momma says he doesn't have a cousin patty panicky owen loses it 'you lied to me ' he yells out slamming the professor's forehead with a pan br br of course in reality the professor wouldn't groan out something witty from the floor but 'throw momma from the train' works effectively at such moments when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth devito hasn't disappeared from films of course but it's a mystery why he hasn't really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie maybe it's because as 'throw momma from the train's lack of mainstream success shows his kind of vision isn't to everyone's tastes that's too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and like it
1	for those who have enjoyed the asterix books and films you'll love this film yes i will admit that it does mix some of the books and films but the characters are brilliant and it's not just people showing off their cgi left right and centre i've already seen it several times and laughed my socks off at it br br of course it contains the main heroes asterix and but this time they have someone new to deal with br br with a sense of humour like that the will go on and on and on bless 'em
1	as much as i hate to disagree with the original poster i found asterix and the vikings quite good and a huge step above previous attempts at animating everyone's favorite br br for someone not familiar with the famous comic series the show would be hard to follow but for those of us in the know it's a pleasure to watch br br first and foremost the animation is far superior to earlier comic adaptations you can tell they took the time and effort to really recapture the look and feel of the comics this time around br br as mentioned there are elements of other asterix titles in the movie and i can see how fans of those titles might feel confused or a bit let down but i was so caught up in actually seeing one of my favorite childhood comics faithfully represented on the screen any qualms i had were minor by comparison minor spoilers follow br br asterix and his faithful friend travel north to rescue the nephew of their village chief who has been captured by the vikings the vikings think that by the boy teaching them about fear they will be able to fly thanks to some poorly worded advice from their village druid in the process the boy meets the viking chief's daughter abba and they fall in love etc etc etc if my explanation sounds convoluted don't worry the plot is easy to follow definitely a great buy you can purchase this dvd through amazon france but be warned your dvd player probably won't be able to play it i had to change the region setting on my computer to view it
1	it's a shame that asterix and his buddy do not get the world wide recognition that other cartoon comic characters get br br this is another funny asterix cartoon jammed with entertainment the animation is excellent and the voice characterization good even if the synchronization is a little out the music and score fit well within the story and the in of some modern musical numbers is a nice touch br br the running time seems short and while it's not the best asterix story or the most developed cartoon it's good clean fun the modern disney like animation will capture children asterix fans and new comers enjoy the adventure
1	i don't pretend to be a huge asterix fan having only seen one other movie adaption and read only two of the comics but this was a superb movie all the same i only saw the english version and found the voices to go perfectly with the characters brad garret as and sean astin as especially the story itself was both interesting and truly funny especially the contradicting name endings all the viking names end in af while all the names of course end in ix with a little romance thrown in that i though enhanced the story even though it weighed down the overall production with unnecessary clichés br br the plot is this the viking chief is sick and tired of going to raid villages and then finding them emptied so he consults his wise man whose entire repertoire consists of old proverbs and tells him that fear lends the villagers wings taking this literally believes that fear actually allows people to fly and sets out on an expedition to retrieve the champion of fear an expedition that of course leads him to the village where asterix and live br br the pair are currently very frustrated chief cowardly pacifist nephew has been entrusted to them so they can train him to be a man and the boy is making little to no progress when unwittingly confesses to being afraid of everything in the presence of the brainless viking olaf he is believed to be the champion of fear and is kidnapped asterix and are sent by to go rescue before his father returns to the village to bring his son back home br br ultimately this is a great movie with few flaws besides the clichés and at times defective dialogs i thoroughly enjoyed it despite the fact that it wasn't true to the comic
1	asterix and the vikings is the first animated asterix movie in over 12 years since the 1994 asterix conquers america it also has the honor of being the first digitally colored asterix animation which makes the largely entertaining story a lot more breathtaking to behold br br every scene of this movie is vividly rendered in bright cheerful hues adhering closely to the color schemes of the comic books it was based on the character designs also stick relatively close to the comic for better or for worse preserving the simple but unique look of the characters being simple in terms of character design this allows for more time and effort to be spent on the actual animation which by the way surpasses many other big screen theatrical animated movies character movements are very fluid and possess a quality that looks way beyond what a modest budget would usually produce there is always something moving in every scene and no evidence of the usual cost cutting animation short cuts 3d computer images are incorporated seamlessly with the traditionally animated 2d art if anything the style of shading makes the 3d elements look more like traditional comic book paintings than cgi models br br the storyline takes much of its elements from the asterix and the comic and this is where its main flaw lies as an adaptation of said comic asterix and the vikings takes way too many liberties with its source material long time fans of the comic would no doubt find much to dislike about the movie's story and its lack of adherence to the source br br on the other hand one can see this story as a really fun one if taken on its own without comparing it its source material highly comedic well written jokes pepper the upbeat script the funniest parts were the numerous pop culture references and jibes at modern day 21 century life mobile communications the shopping channel commercial airlines and even sports cars are spoofed to great effect excellent chemistry and acting by the cast i watched this in english by the way though a couple of voices like i found really irritating but i guess it is all part of his character br br if there is anything to criticize about the story it is the lack of asterix this story seems to be more like story of teenage romance and coming of age with asterix and merely playing supporting roles this gives a pretty big sense of staleness since much of the story's elements are the usual staples of such teen movies derivative and clichéd at times only the witty comedy and traditional elements the romans the pirates etc manage to save this film from falling into plain mediocrity br br while not the best installment in the asterix animated movie library it is certainly one of the funniest the best scripted and the most beautifully animated dvd seems a little hard to come by
1	spawned by the same monty berman dennis spooner partnership which produced the champions and randall hopkirk deceased the latter retitled my partner the ghost for the us market department s remains a classic example of the action adventure series which the uk produced in bulk during the late 1960s like those two shows its internal dynamic of two guys and a girl might seem to indicate a progressive attitude towards equality dept s also has a black superior but it's mostly facade the launch episode six days is barely halfway through before rosemary nichols is called upon to parade around in bra panties and one yes one stocking in order to extricate herself from a dodgy situation still it's an interesting time capsule even if the appalling fashion sense of peter character which amazingly degenerated even further in the spin off series jason king should definitely have remained buried
1	this story focuses on the birth defect known as or fetal alcohol syndrome a disease diagnosed too often among native americans in spite of the down beat nature of this drama the great script and the characterizations move the story along very well this is arguably best performance
1	i was a huge fan of asterix comics when i was a kid and watched every one i never heard about this movie when it was released but i watched it with my kids last night i remembered the comic well enough to know that a lot was added to the story for the film some of the changes i thought were a bit corny like the nephew's 'modern' dancing and the viking chief's daughter almost everything about her but i found most it amusing enough most importantly seeing the reactions as my kids watched it confirmed that the film pleased its target audience as a family film it works better than other asterix titles i've seen many of the names that weren't in the book i found had the same appeal as ones that were overall an enjoyable family film regardless of whether you're an asterix fan or not
1	after another raid in an empty village the chief of the vikings misunderstands the explanation of his adviser that fear gives wings to the dwellers and believes that fear actually makes the villagers fly they decide to chase the champion of fear in to learn how to fly and make them invincible warriors meanwhile the nephew of is sent from to the village to become a man and asterix and are assigned to train the youngster the stupid son of olaf listens to a conversation of the coward with asterix and and kidnaps him while returning to the viking village meets abba the daughter of and they fall in love for each other but the machiavellian and ambitious plan to marry his son olaf with abba and become powerful in the end asterix realizes that it is not fear that gives wings it is love br br when i was a teenager asterix was my favorite comic book and i read all the and stories this feature film shows all the original elements and humor of the comics in a delicious and wonderful animation the romance of and the gorgeous abba is delightful and the situations asterix and get involved are hilarious my vote is ten br br title brazil e os vikings and the vikings
1	having been a faithful asterix fan all of my life i have to say that asterix and the vikings is probably the most well done of all the asterix films its got some very funny jokes in it and the animation is superb as many people have pointed out it doesn't really follow the plot of the comic asterix and the very closely but in many ways that's just as well because that book stands out in my mind as one which poked a great deal of fun at the culture of the sixties and much of it is very dated today br br what really rubbed me the wrong way though is how they incorporated a disney style plot into the film which took much of the focus away from asterix and we have a misunderstood boy who doesn't fit in we have a tom boy girl who doesn't fit in because she wants to be treated as equal to men abba they meet and fall in love but their love is threatened because boy is ashamed to be totally honest with girl but in the end their love wins out this has been the plot of so many disney and be fair other studios too films that its not funny and the plot was old twenty years ago i mean they even gave a whimsical animal sidekick br br not only did i find this derivative and clichéd but it really detracted from the story and left me dissatisfied br br i think that it speaks volumes about how superb the rest of the movie was that i still think very highly of it despite the way the plot got hijacked
1	wow it's even better than i expected the best animated movie ever and it feels so good to hear roger carel doing the voice of again i surely recommend it to everyone who likes the comic books of but i suggest that you go to see the french version cause it surely is the best and you hear the original cast did you know that roger carel has played for nearly forty years i think he did a marvelous job and the song from céline dion at the end fits rally good to the end credits the music is good the drawings are good the actors are wonderful in a word a masterpiece go to see it you will not regret this
1	but i laughed a lot br br i saw et les at a public screening during the world cup the sound was lousy it was too bright to see the screen properly but i still enjoyed myself immensely the names of some of the characters had me rolling on the floor abba all not very witty but in good tradition some very good jokes but also some that not everybody seemed to get br br the only thing i didn't like were the voices of and in the german version at least the voice actors are very well known around here which was the only reason they were casted really they don't fit the characters at all br br all in all a good way to spend some time and if it's free like in my case all the better and to have a couple of laughs 8 out of 10
1	attending this film was an excuse to escape the work i had to do for my classes but it turned out to be one of my best experiences here in france the film makes quick work of building multidimensional characters and has an excellently smooth storyline the characters really did have the voices you would expect reading the graphic novels and the artistic talent exceeded my expectations the music was catchy and the comedy toying and lighthearted almost a inclusion of modern items in playful manners the film was attention grabbing cute and action packed at the same time a wonderful tale spun expertly i'll be showing it to my french students
1	since the last horrid film and the fact that we only get the swiss german version in cinemas here i went to watch it with quite a bit of trepidation unfounded as i was happy to discover br br the film is funny and modern has good gags a good animation an amusing character interaction a good voice cast note i can only speak for the swiss german one except for the viking chief's daughter abba her name is great despite the not very inspired voice actress br br i especially liked the character in french in german he's the young man who is supposed to be put in shape he's a very amusing portrayal of a urban teenager but he's very likable despite the teenage mannerisms xd the interaction between and their young charge is fantastic and thoroughly entertaining br br it shouldn't be compared to the old films since this one is quite different which surprisingly doesn't make it bad on the contrary when they tried to modernize the last film twelve years ago they completely blew it this film however proved that it can be done just fine br br i came out of the theater cheerful always a good sign
1	like so many other reviewers on here my memories of this show are universally warm in fact so fond are said cherished memories that i recently purchased the dvd box set in order to revisit that happy and carefree period of childhood whereby i used to sit utterly mesmerised as i watched the ongoing quest of monkey sandy and later yu lung a horse dragon man you'll really need to watch it to understand when the much loved show initially aired on bbc 2 on friday evenings as i recall br br well i'm pleased to say that even after all these years and now viewing this with adult i e more cynical eyes the show has lost none of its inimitable charm br br simply wonderful entertainment from the magical characters and their comical interactions with one another to the perhaps not so special effects which actually serve to heighten the fun and of course not forgetting the hugely memorable opening title sequence from the first season the passing of time has not in any way shape or form diminished any of monkey's spellbinding charm br br as monkey himself would probably say you there go out and grab yourself some nostalgic fun '
1	easily one of the best shows ever made it just gets better with age br br for me one of the chief reasons for this was the english adaptation done by david weir br br a japanese friend of mine once told me that the show in it's original language was more whimsical less flat out hilarious that the version we all know br br the fact that the show resonates so strongly for its non japanese fans is i think largely because of mr weir's inspired efforts some winning voice over work br br well done sir
1	in fact the nature of the whole series is funny but not always funny there are moments of extreme poignance as the deeper aspects of human emotion are touched on br br over and again the series comments on the frailties of human nature and the life long or in this case eternal struggle to overcome them monkey is both smart and stupid at the same time his arrogance and reliance on his own martial skills lead him into trouble in almost every episode is just plain gross sandy has a philosophical turn of mind he has many of the wittiest lines br br the english translation is a delight ignorance can always be improved upon sandy in his laid back manner but you can't do anything to help stupidity who are you the group of travellers are asked we three kings of orient are says monkey br br this is not just for children it is a magical romp for anyone who can suspend reality
1	with all due respect to joel and rosemary and their characters department s will be forever associated with peter jason king br br most people remember him as this camp flamboyant and debonair womaniser cum detective in the mould of austin powers but that will do a disservice to the character he's far more nuanced than that br br jason king is lazy he often lets stewart fight all the bad guys and only chips in at the end he is egotistical his appreciation of people is based on whether they've read his novels or not a lot of his detective work is speculation without facts to back them up and he sulks whenever annabelle is right and she often is he's clearly a man having a mid life crisis and drink drives but jason king is brilliant if wyngarde had played him purely as a dashing hero it wouldn't have worked but he shows king often as a paper tiger led by his libido love of finery and prone to and it gets in the way of his detective work at times but he has some of the best lines and put downs in tv history and by not playing him as whiter than white the chemistry and interactions between the three lead characters is all the better for it br br watching it again on dvd recently you get to see just how much depth wyngarde put into jason king
1	monkey is surely one of the best shows to have ever been shown on tv i remember when i was a kid i'd go to my grandma's house every saturday morning and i'd turn on the tv so i could watch monkey i loved it it had kickass action scenes cool special effects a great story a fantastic theme song that was guaranteed to never leave your head and hilarious dubbing but it is kind of weird that it's set in china and the actors are japanese and filmed in japan but that is no stop towards making this tv show lovable br br monkey is about the adventures of three people toshiyuki sandy and of course the unforgettable and most lovable character monkey who travel from china to india to get a bunch of holy scrolls in order to save the world br br monkey is great fun and it's magic
1	first off the alien saves a little black boy as well as a mexican despite what the imdb plot summary suggests this film is the fulfillment of the purest of male interracial rape the main character in this film is a george dope who doesn't understand primal human urges like drug abuse and murder in fact every time he uses violence to solve a problem he has an internal conflict that physically hinders him what a square in any case my favorite scene is when he writes the gang members a letter stating if they want the 500 bucks they get from the reading center for protection they must meet with him at the meeting he is surrounded by countless gangsters but he keeps a cool head in slow motion he punches the wooden post of a stop sign that shatters upon contact then still in slow motion points at the leader of the gang and says noooooooooooooooooooo the gang members comply cool right the beauty of this film shows through in these simple solutions to social problems like prostitution and gang violence
1	alien warrior or king of the streets is one of those 80s gems you stumble across by mistake then watch awestruck marveling at how wonderfully silly and over the top it gets br br a rather hunky alien arrives on earth la to be exact and stumbles into a world of drug dealers gangs and corrupt cops he falls in love with the haired beautiful teacher who only wants to help inner city kids read more he also manages to anger a coke snorting drug kingpin who vows to destroy him br br i fell in love with this film at first viewing sure it's hokey silly and low budget but you can tell the filmmakers had their heart in the right place and damn if the thing doesn't work i only pray it'll be on dvd soon br br it's got a hot soundtrack break dancing violence nudity all with a positive wholesome message see it
1	there is more to this movie than meets the eye if you're looking for groundbreaking originality or easy comedy you'll be disappointed but for an entertaining 90 minutes this is just fine br br the cinematography is careful and precise the sex scenes which one comment as gratuitous are anything but every gesture contributes to the development of the characters br br yes some of the main characters are not exactly lovable human beings but the movie makes an honest effort at showing their interactions in an honest light without being sensationalistic at least not for early 21st century urban standards and there are many very amusing moments
1	and a hard spot somewhere else i haven't seen this movie since i was quite young maybe 12 or 13 who knows but what i do know is this is the movie that taught me how to masturbate i kid you not i have no idea if it is any good by any real standards of today but for me back then it was everything br br the only reason i feel comfortable writing this is because i'm sure no one will ever get around to reading it i mean really who is going to look up this movie these days br br i just discovered that i have not yet used up the ten line minimum for the amount of length i most take up in a review i had no idea there was such a minimum length but there i go like a student trying to fill up a page in a journal my ten lines thank you very much
1	why do i give this 1974 porn movie 7 points because i watched it and i found it hilarious aliens their weird spaceship their weird helmets my god was that a sight and all what these desperate alien women need is semen from the earth br br and where do they look for it in upper germany and that is where the main fun comes from in europe and more so in german speaking countries is seen as a traditional and backward region and then the actors are so helpless with the alien women well there have been films about people being unable to deal with women like the american pie series br br but what this film achieved is a true funny weirdness you constantly wonder how they came up with these crackpot ideas but it was 1974 and looking back 35 years fills one with a kind of nostalgia you've never seen a film like that br br and if you don't mind seeing the casual pubic hairs and breasts watch it once it is a comedy essentially not a porn flick
1	if you are looking for an erotic masterpiece this isn't it if you're looking for a comedic masterpiece this isn't it if you're looking for something hardcore this isn't it br br that being said if you are looking for an example of the fine art of european erotic comedy from the the early mid 1970's this is it br br i see many people complain about the quality please understand it was made in 1974 yes the women do not conform to the modern ideal of attractiveness they are by no means ugly women but they do not have the same looks which are idealized in our silicone culture yes the dubbing is not great but they are speaking german and anyone who speaks any german will realize it is pretty hard to dub over a word with 12 syllables br br if you have seen the dvd prior to the latest release it is marketed with 2 covers of 80's and recently 90's adult stars the film is an r film so those complaining about hardcore should have realized this the film is edited from the original but it was also edited prior to its run in the drive ins in the late 1970s br br i first saw this film as a young man and judging by some comments there are many in the same boat who caught a glimpse on cinemax many people become upset when later in life it doesn't live up to their previous memories it's understandable considering the raunch and nudity packed into todays erotica br br if you compare to a modern soft core erotic comedy you may be disappointed the film while outlandish is actually quite fluid and the jokes while generally innuendos and double meanings still hold up and can still garner a chuckle if you compare it to a hardcore movie you will be further disappointed compared to today you see very little br br it is still one of the best examples along with bottoms up and the other cinderella of european erotic comedic cinema of the 1970's
1	don't be fooled this isn't yet another tired example of the girls from outer space pretending to be the french ski team come to earth to collect as much sperm as possible genre though the synopsis may suggest otherwise this movie is a gem an absolute jewel that has enriched my life from the moment i laid eyes upon it hilarious exhilarating action packed and stunningly erotic mir is a euro madcap tour de force a grossly underrated bavarian classic br br stop everything you are doing and run out to rent or better yet buy this movie immediately
1	i will admit that this movie was awful cheesy sexist badly dubbed and poorly edited but i loved it anyway i first saw this movie when i was 14 and it has stuck with me ever since fyi this is very close to hard core porn as i remember it certainly got my juices flowing this flick gives a whole new meaning to swedish erotica it is a humourous take on human sexuality as seen by hot randy female aliens who are i think just looking for some for their dying race
1	this truly is an australia cult classic if you're one of the lucky ones to have seen it then you are very lucky it has been released in most countries but not in australia for some reason i have a copy on dvd from the uk not a great transfer but i bought it having seen it previously at a film festival the directing is spot on and the performances rock this is dark film scary film but often times very funny in parts i urge you to see this film there is a coolness about this you don't see in 99 of the typical aussie fare the screenplay is very well crafted and sends you on a journey where you know it will end badly but until the last ten minutes you just can't pick how badly great work from the four leads especially lachy hulme br br when its all said and done great work on display
1	created by dennis spooner was a glossy thriller show about an offshoot of interpol based in geneva created to solve baffling mysteries the police could not handle if a plane landed at heathrow with no one aboard if a man was found wandering around london in a space suit if the passenger of a rolls royce suddenly into a skeleton if a train pulling into a tube station turned out to contain dead you called on to sort things out br br peter wyngarde played king' a flamboyantly dressed crime novelist whose fertile imagination helped crack many of the bizarre cases king caught the public's fancy and was later awarded a spin off show he was ably assisted by american joel and the delectable rosemary unusually for a '60's show the department was headed by a black man curtis dennis peters if the show looked and felt a lot like 'the avengers' it was hardly surprising it shared many of the same writers and directors the colourful titles were designed by chambers partners and are worth tuning in for alone as was the case with so many i t c series the music was composed by edwin his theme for has got to rank as one of the best television themes of all time br br predictably the show looks a little sexist and dated now but don't let that dissuade you from tuning in imagine a hybrid of and the 'austin powers' movies and you've got br br trivia note the episode 'a small war of features a young sir anthony hopkins in a major role
1	my friend made me sit down and watch this film this is out there material god the devil heaven hell and a restaurant thrown in for good measure br br four guys and a prick who dies when and how is that's the story you'll never guess the ending for this one a skillfully realized little gem of aussie cinema hats of to the team that made this one br br 10 out of 10
1	ok so some of the plot points might be a bit obvious but over all an interesting idea which works towards a tight ending the acting is solid particularly lachy hulme who plays one of the central characters in this ensemble piece he certainly has a screen presence and he is interesting to watch it has a low budget feel which works for the sort of thriller horror genre four jacks belongs to the film doesn't try to take itself to seriously which adds to the overall charm the character of phil dave has to be one of the most annoying character seen on screen since rupert pupkin king of comedy worth adding to a weekend pile of dvds
1	not many people have seen this film and it is a shame because it is a work of art the characters are brilliant the dialogue is sensational and the use of themes leaves the audience wondering i truly loved this film and can't wait to see more of matthew george's work
1	this is an excellent film full of complexity themes and great dialogue the characters are well drawn with phil the biggest loser of all time br br adam character is the most vicious thing i've seen on screen since alec guinness's portrayal of adolf hitler in 'hitler the last ten days ' br br i just wish they'd all got away with it but without giving too much away there are some situations you just cannot lie your way out of
1	this movie was clearly an early attempt for a new director but still succeeded in being original and entertaining as well as in some moments thought provoking however i have to say the story would not have come across as well without the stellar performance of paul anthony as pip he made the well written parts very believable and affecting and the more weakly written parts much more bearable also i have to mention the performance by alan cumming it was refreshing to see him in a part like this he brought a weight to his role that provided a very grounding element to the film as for paul anthony who is this guy why haven't i seen more of him someone give him more roles please
1	i'm a 55 year old fairly jaded gay white man since i don't watch tv i watch at least 250 films a year most on dvd i keep notes on all the films i see and rate them since december 2003 i have seen only five films as great as eighteen so i've rated eighteen better than at least 700 other recent films mr bell is far too modest in his film commentary eighteen is a great film and it also resulted in two firsts for me br br i watched the film the first time and i was riveted throughout and weepy during the last half hour something that's only happened to me three times before five minutes into the film i knew it was going to be very good when jason began reciting whitman i lost it and then the kiss well that is one of film's great kisses and that scene among filmdom's most poignant and unforgettable when pip blows out the candle at the end and the credits rolled i clapped i cheered i love happy endings i wept br br then i watched the trailer and the previews and thought okay is this 800 000 or so indie really that great so i immediately watched eighteen again something that's only happened three times before and eighteen blew my socks off yet again even more so then i watched the making of eighteen documentary and was completely charmed by the cast and mr bell br br so i thought i'd watch eighteen again with the director's commentary i have never before watched a film three times in one night after the third time at 3 00 am i knew i had just experienced a great film eighteen now ranks 10 on my top twenty films of all time and in the very small universe of great gay or gay subtext film there is brokeback mountain eighteen mulholland drive and maurice br br thank you mr bell eighteen is brilliant and fully realized with a magnificent cast a wonderfully moving understated score excellent cinematography an entertaining touching totally appropriate and hummable song i can go on but i won't gush too much more br br this film should have received oscar nominations certainly one for best picture the performances without exception were all wonderful ms lovely sultry voice was a surprising epiphany and sir ian mckellen said awesome br br eighteen is the reason i slog through over 200 mediocre to utterly horrendous films some in the 150 million plus range a year to find that one treasure that one exquisite magical unique and enchanting perfect egg enfolding an unforgettable heart br br finally i promise my second first i've never before posted a commentary on any film i've seen br br thank you again mr richard bell breathtaking genius give this man 100 million for his next film he made 700 000 us into one of the top 50 films of all time if i had the cash i'd grant him 75 000 a year living expenses and match any funds raised for his next film mr bell is already a great director at 31 years old can you imagine him at 45 years old br br wise and witty tender and brutal poised poignant understated yet edgy chilling and thrilling mesmerizing haunting unforgettable eighteen the masterpiece
1	i read a viciously hidden remarks on a previous comments stating that this film showed a bunch of gay guys romping around their gayness br br this couldn't be more misleading eighteen is not a gay film it has only three gay characters in it and one of them is the victim of prejudice of people like the one who wrote the comments despite his confession of fairness br br grandfather was not gay the tender scene of the soldier and his sergeant is male bonding at the crucial moment of death but some people gets appalled by a kiss and welcome scene of guts flying out of a man killed by a bomb br br the focus of the film is the straight relationship of pip and that sweet girl and their facing their social obligation and parenthood br br ralph www info
1	i rented this movie with very low expectations but was pleasantly surprised this movie is extremely good stuff and one would never guess it was low budget br br eighteen directed by bell' centers around an 18 year old named pip played by the superb who leaves his home because of the circumstances surrounding the way his older brother died he is overcome with guilt by this event and falls into a hard life of a runaway teen on drugs and alcohol on his 18th birthday his father tracks pip down and gives him a tape left for him by his grandfather of which he was to listen to on his 18th birthday br br the way the whole film is told is with two simultaneous stories unfolding at the same time the present life of pip and the past life of his grandfather during ww11 of which pip listens to on the tape br br the three outstanding performances in this movie are the ones from as pip and playing jason the young 18 year ww11 soldier his grandfather also the role of the ww11 wounded medic played by hildreth ' all putting in fine performances br br a couple of concerns and scenes that didn't sit too well with me the priest father chris played by 'alan who is gay and in broad daylight up the local street hustler the whole neighborhood knows about and then we have the local store clerk named jeff a sweetheart played by the attractive 'david who just wants to be loved and for some unknown reason is attracted to the very unattractive and sleaze ball street hustler clerk who sleeps with just about anyone and in all likelihood is a walking toxic time bomb on top of all that he's not a very likable person this part just didn't ring true br br the parts i really like the most was the flashbacks to the war they were so well acted and very touching there is a scene at the end where the one soldier is dying and the other soldier is there for him to comfort and show him love as he lays badly injured and dying this is such a wonderful and touching scene it left me in tears beautifully acted br br i highly recommend this movie it is one of love redemption and the power of the human spirit to survive
1	this film was incredible looked high budget but felt heartfelt and original like an indie the most amazing part of this film were the astonishing performances by david mark hildreth and paul anthony who plays the main role he carried this film with ease humor and charisma balanced with a huge depth br br the cinematography was really beautiful even though some of the subject was quite ugly it wasn't very realistic in that way but it didn't have to be to make a larger point it was really great seeing alan cumming in this too the script was tight and propelled very nicely with some of the best acting i've seen in a while br br go see this
1	eighteen 2004 tells the story of pip anders a depressed and extremely cynical young man who is estranged from his dysfunctional upper middle class family and living on the streets of vancouver on his 18th birthday he receives a cassette tape and player from his recently deceased grandfather relating his memoirs of his own 18th birthday spent serving with the british army in france trying to help a mortally wounded comrade avoid capture by the occupying germans as pip listens to the tape ian mckellen provided the voice of his grandfather we see the scenes he is describing as flashbacks alternating with daily scenes of life as well as more recent flashbacks filling in the dark secret why pip left home and finds it impossible to trust anyone who is nice to him br br an ambitious second film from writer director richard bell two brothers with a polished look excellent photography well developed non stereotypical characters with gay and straight treated equally and commendable efforts in emotionally and physically demanding roles from some talented new actors especially paul anthony as pip and brendan fletcher as his grandfather at 18 there is also a noteworthy turn by alan cummings as a priest who tried to help pip and a small supporting role played by thea gill queer as folk the complex story in the director's own words in his dvd commentary is meant to drive a vortex of emotion pushing pip to his breaking point and it certainly accomplishes that my only criticisms are that the overall effect is too schmaltzy or artificial for an audience to truly identify with much of the supporting dialog and the ending too contrived and predictable and the direction needed to be sharper to curtail sloppy overacting in some scenes i do recommend it 7 stars out of 10 including extra points for a noteworthy effort
1	like night stalker and then x files the show set up a fantastic situation and the main characters had to sort it out unlike these the hero es weren't left holding an empty bag at the end they had usually tangible results it was also made clear that the 'good guys' were in a dirty profession where they occasionally had to pull some nasty things imagination wit acting which didn't always take itself too seriously i miss it one reason being i'm hard pressed to think of too many shows aside which did as good a job of taking the viewer and grabbing their attention right off the bat the writers excelled at setting up hugely improbable if not downright impossible situations which the characters then had to find an explanation to explanations which often took 90 degree turns into the clearly unexpected yet for all that still made sense too i agree with another reviewer that the character was somewhat underused but when she was on screen it wasn't just for eye candy she was quite competent in her own right and stood up to the two male leads when she felt the point she was making warranted it a rarity in those days sullivan if he wasn't in the department he'd be working for the kgb or cia he's that sort of coldly efficient ruthless type he knows how the world works and realizes what it can take to get the job done king it's clearly a game to him one he excels at and which he into ideas for the detective spy novels he writes as his ostensible 'real' job he's probably the most fun to watch of the three although they all have their moments and often too i do agree that the eventual spin off series featuring only his character lacked the interest of the original however
1	eighteen as written and directed by richard bell may have a few too many stories to tell simultaneously for a 102 minute movie to completely succeed but there is such a fine sense of commitment on the part of all the cast and crew that the viewer ends up wanting the movie to work and so it does yes aspects could have been if the producers had more money to spend on the final cut but as a small independent movie from canada this is a tender gently humorous very touching tale about vulnerability and communication and commitment it works on many levels br br in a very well choreographed opening we are voyeurs at a family dinner where obviously something has gone awry and results in a father and two sons taking off in a car and having an accident in which one of the sons is killed with an introduction like that the mood is set for the surviving 18 year old pip son paul anthony looking far too old for credibility as a teenager to desert his family and live on the streets he meets clark clarence a male prostitute who gives pip food and shelter jenny the very fine carly pope who saves him from a bashing by her associate derek ryan mcdonell and becomes romantically entangled with pip and father chris alan cumming in a finely wrought sympathetic role as a priest it is 18th birthday and his father serge traces pip down to give him a present from his deceased grandfather with instructions the gift should be opened on 18th birthday br br pip though drinking too much and full of anger pawns the tape machine but keeps the tape and begins to listen to the words of his grandfather jason voice by ian mckellen who recounts his own 18th birthday in ww ii in france where he now the very sensitive actor brendan fletcher has an experience with a wounded medic named macauley mark hildreth also superb and reflects on his one night marriage with a cabaret singer hannah thea gill of as folk' fame and a fine singer and actress here only for something to live for during the war jason offers succor to macauley as he dies with a beautiful scene of redemption for he two men at the end the parallels of pip and grandfather jason interplay every time pip listens to the tape and lead pip to ultimately alter his view of life and love subplots include clark's isolated existence as a hustler being altered by jeff david in a surprisingly fine film debut who simply wants to be loved by an unexpected pregnancy between jenny and pip by the trust father chris instills in both pip and clark in a good shepherd's manner and by a flashback to the car accident where pip could have saved his brother daniel paul from an abusive act at the hands of his father just before the accident but failed to do so opening his deep guilt and resultant misplaced anger mirrored by his grandfather's taped experiences each of these subplots pulls together at the end creating a sense of closure for each of the people involved br br there are aspects of this film that make it seem like a big budget production the musical score by is performed by the vancouver symphony members the cinematography by kevin van is aptly atmospheric and the general quality of acting by this canadian cast is very fine though paul anthony handles his role well casting a very young teenager in the pivotal main role would have made the story work much better and richard bell with only one other film 'two brothers' on his resume gives promise of a young talent to watch despite the shortcomings eighteen is a worthwhile film and deserves attention grady harp
1	well my dad drove lee evans back and forth the hotels so i got to see some being made its a brilliant film bob pugh walked past a shed with a lawnmower and he accidentally let go and it went into a fence and he fell over br br lee evans was also funny as he seen me and said are you cold i said yes and he said well whack your hands in your pockets i think it was really funny and it will be a well known comedy as like every other lee evans film they were really great people they seemed to be quite polite and funny i would like to meet them again one day brenda blethyn walked out of her caravan with blood down her and twigs in her messy hair and i got really scared as i didn't notice her until she was right behind me
1	i have seen this film on a sunday evening and i must say there is no better way to end the weekend i am totally pleased with the humor and the warm charm this film offers it simply leaves me in beautiful mood watching this film means having a great time and keep a warm feeling br br the film offers sharp black british humor and feels very fresh to me you really enjoy the story and the characters brenda blethyn is so great i don't know exactly why she's too old to be a love interest for me and too young to be my mother but i really feel comfortable when she shows up in the movie br br some may say the story was thin and predictable but who cares there simply has to be a happy end dancing in the sunshine are the characters stereotypes or cut outs i don't know better i don't care i just loved them and enjoyed watching them br br furthermore i must say that i usually don't like romantic comedies but this one is outstanding a black comedy with a heart of gold
1	i've been wanting to see this movie for a very long time i eventually just bought it on e bay since it's so hard to find state side but the wait was somewhat worth it br br i can't say the movie was great and i can't say that the movie was hilarious but it was good and it has some pretty funny points that aside the shots in this movie are just beautiful and the entire cast especially brenda blethyn someone i hadn't seen before sadly were excellent br br in the end this is a feel good romantic comedy and i recommend checking it out unless you've just had a death in the family br br if anything the final chapter is highly worth the money
1	i have always loved brenda blethyn and undertaking betty was no disappointment i saw it on satellite on dreary sunday morning life has been stressful and this movie made me laugh and see things we usually consider dire in a way i wish she would make more movies like this and saving grace brenda blethyn is a great gal for us approaching 60 to see in action she is cute beautiful and full of life without appearing plastic and phony not many actresses are out there for us to relate to in a realistic yet comical and or serious way brenda if you see this keep going with gems like this we need more mrs and graces
1	only the brits could make a film like this and have it be so tastefully charming betty brenda blethyn wants something more out of life but she doesn't know what when she realizes she is in love with her childhood friend boris alfred molina who owns the local funeral parlor meanwhile an american mortician christopher walken who wants to put the 'fun' back in funerals moves into this small welsh community with his assistant lee evans and wants to give boris a run for his money with flashy themed funerals star trek funeral anyone brenda and boris decide to stage death and funeral with hilarious results a very enjoyable film if you're a fan of british comedies such as waking ned devine you'll love this
1	watching plots with a view called undertaking betty in the us i got the feeling that there need to be more movies filmed in wales this one portrays a woman brenda blethyn in a small welsh town trying to get away from her cheating husband so she and the funeral parlor manager alfred molina come up with a plan but there are likely to be some glitches along the way br br i would actually say that christopher walken's character is the neatest in the movie how could he not be but overall the whole idea is just a really neat one stacked with some uh oh moments especially the haunted house scene it's the sort of movie that i wish that i could enter just to experience it br br also starring lee evans naomi watts and miriam
1	plots with a view of 2002 is a delightful little comedy like only the british could do it the film's sense of humor is both mildly morbid and black and yet very lovable and sometimes very slapstick ish it's the only film by director nick i've seen so far and while i am not intending to watch any of his other films at the moment i'm not a big fan of romantic comedies this one is highly enjoyable and very funny the film takes place in a little town in wales where betty rhys jones brenda blethyn is married to the town's drunken and adulterous major robert pugh the local mortician boris alfred molina has been desperately in love with betty since their childhood but has always been too shy to confess his love to her apart from being desperately in love boris has some other problems as the eccentric american mortician frank christopher walken has opened a funeral flourishing business in the same town the film's odd very british wit should amuse everybody with a sense of humor and the story sometimes becomes quite bizarre also plots with a view profits from a wonderful cast brenda who has already proved herself to be a funny lady in 2000's saving grace plays the lead and she is once again very funny and very lovable in her role alfred molina who plays her shy admirer delivers a great performance as always and robert pugh fits perfectly in the role of betty's sleazy husband beautiful naomi watts is also great as the husband's i'm becoming a bigger fan with every film i see her in the greatest role however is played by the incomparable christopher walken one of my favorite actors walken is brilliant as he always is in the role of the eccentric mortician who arranges funerals that are quite unorthodox overall plots with a view is a vastly entertaining little british comedy that i highly recommend
1	viewed this the other night on cable on demand and thought this is the type of movie that might have starred alec guiness and glynis johns if it had been made in the late 50's a farce in the english tradition alfred molina and brenda blethyn are very sweet and sincere in their portrayals naomi watts simply sizzles in a ditzy jayne mansfield ish if she could have acted way rest of the cast have some great turns and bits the welsh landscape is delightful an absurd premise indeed and not at all believable but that doesn't get in the way of enjoyment not a great movie mind you but a truly fun watch and walken is at his wacky best a joy to behold
1	it's been a long time since such an original quite funny black comedy has surfaced if eating raoul is on your top 100 list do yourself a favor and find undertaking betty immediately the subject of death being funny has been attempted before see paul bartel and mary woronov in mortuary academy while that movie has some brilliant moments of black comedy undertaking betty is much more steady with a better cast who could imagine that the undertaking business might be fertile ground for an original uplifting and heartfelt comedy i was surprised and you will be too i highly recommend seeing undertaking betty merk
1	the incomparable laura gemser appeared briefly in an erotic scene from the french emmanuelle 2 this amazing woman did not go unnoticed and was soon cast as the lead in this all new italian series where she is the centerpiece a beautiful photojournalist who travels the world experiencing all the mysterious eroticism that the world had to offer in this first installment mae jordan emanuelle is sent to africa to photograph the people as well as the stunning landscape and wild exotic animals much like sylvia character emanuelle has not come into her own when it comes to being open and comfortable with her own sexuality this first film is basically about how she becomes the emanuelle that most exploitation cinema fans are familiar with filled with gorgeous cinematography beautiful people and an intoxicating 70's score from the legendary nico this one is sure to please those who enjoy the more story driven style of the original french emmanuelle should definitely like this as well the main story here being an interesting cat and mouse tale of a womanizing playboy who comes to the realization that he has fallen in love with a woman who is the female version of him sexy fun and totally entertaining throughout a soap opera to be sure but one with enough skin and general eye candy to keep the male viewers entertained for some reason this is the hardest one in the series to find on dvd there has never been a legitimate dvd for this which is very strange the bootlegs that sometimes appear online will have to do until someone gives this diamond of a film a proper release
1	betty and boris eye each other at a junior dance when they're still kids but unfortunately hugh gets to her first and thirty years later when we tune back in betty is married to hugh and putting up with his fussy mother who also lives with them br br neither boris nor betty however have forgotten each other and when their paths cross again they soon declare their feelings br br but betty feels she can't divorce hugh a it would hurt him too much what betty doesn't know is hugh isn't hurting at all he's rolling in the sheets with his beautiful secretary meredith br br boris an undertaker thinks he has the answer they'll fake her death br br christopher walken plays frank an outrageous competing undertaker in their medium sized town that causes additional problems for boris and betty br br all kinds of complications arise as boris and betty try to pull off this major coup br br there are laugh out loud scenes some delightful dancing and nary a curse word to be heard in short the film was a pleasure to watch br br 10 stars
1	this film had a distinct woody allen feel about it so if you're not a fan of dry humor dark humor or back handed humor you probably could find something else to do if you are however this is quirky with some nice twists and a flowing natural dialog br br the story itself is quite engaging not quite like a train wreck from which you cannot your eyes but close i mean that in the best way possible the intrigues are plenty the twists are enough to fully engage the senses and the characters are downright lovable br br i had a great time with this movie br br it rates an 8 3 10 from br br the fiend
1	wales seems to be turning out some quirky movies recently actually wales seems to be developing its own little film industry i recently saw very annie mary which i thought was very good but plots with a view is not only quirky it's laugh out loud funny has a cast of wonderfully talented actors brenda blethyn is amazing and a plot that while not entirely original is so cleverly written that one is always gleefully picking up what might almost be throwaway lines it was the kind of movie that i wanted to watch again immediately it was over and one of very few that i would actually like to own even though many of the characters are caricatures and you have to have been to a welsh village to appreciate that they are also very human and the rapport between blethyn and molina is a joy to behold
1	i think this movie deserves a 10 out of 10 because it is hilariously funny from start to finish the plot is simple and straight forward but it keeps you watching and there are so many laughs that you really start to love it when i went to see this movie i hadn't heard much about it and i didn't know what to expect i thought it was going to be an old ladies' type of film like calendar girls or something but it took me completely by surprise even though i am still a teenager and the film was probably not directed at my age group i still found it excellent and i think that people of all age groups would like it i think it is a shame that it is not at all famous and it deserves more publicity so that more people will go and see it and realize what a great movie it is
1	i accidentally bumped into this film on cinemax while channel surfing i must admit that what attracted me was christopher walken and the setting was the kind i would like so i started to watch it at first i expected a serious drama film and it seemed like so for a while until i started to giggle here and there and before i know it i was laughing so hard all through the film i really like how subtle and light hearted it is but still has a huge impact on the audience the plot is very simple and it's far from trying too hard to be funny like many hollywood comedies are yet it almost had me rolling on the floor a must see for a nice evening rest or any time in that case
1	a humorous voyage into the normally somber funeral business it's easy watching and even offers blethyn molina stealing a scene from an old fred ginger movie walken is over the top as a zealous competitor of molina in the undertaking business trying to bring a new style to an old welsh town we see a couple of very funny examples of the new style the plot thickens with pugh having an affair with watts and her suggesting that they do blethyn in meanwhile molina has his long suffering romantic feeling for blethyn and convinces her to fake her death so that they can run away to the south seas and dance away their days together during the fake funeral blethyn learns of her husbands' infidelities and plots her revenge watch it for a view of what funerals probably should be a celebration of life
1	two funeral directors in a welsh village english humour as opposed to that other stuff from over the atlantic how could i resist my wife and i saw it on march the 6th for our belated valentines day celebration and both of us enjoyed some good belly laughs we were going to see another movie later but decided not to because we wanted the experience of this movie to stay with us for the evening br br the mortuary scene in the last 20 minutes of the film is worth the wait it raises issues rarely talked about in the community but i know three funeral directors and the humour is right on the money br br highly recommended and congratulations to the writers without you all the actors directors and the others havn't a job on any monday
1	hilarious from start to finish there's got to be great courage to handle the theme of death with a smile specially when two funeral parlors are battling for control of the market a classic parlor and a revolutionary one where every funeral is a show lead by christopher walken a treat in the role of the visionary american but the rest of the cast is great also and this one is another success that only uk is capable of making surprising among the ensemble cast is naomi watts that strikes in another metamorphosis accent included always sporting a smile on its face it seems like a paradox that there could be so much comedy to be taken from a movie that could be called four funerals and one wedding but you'll understand when you see it
1	i saw this in a preview and it seems to have not been released in the u s nonetheless it was one of the more enjoyable little comedies it concerns the rivalry between two funeral directors in a small british town the plot of the movie gets a little out of hand in the third act but the characters are very enjoyable and memorable br br the acting is great across the board sure to be overlooked in the crunch of blockbusters this is a movie worth looking out for i know i will try to catch this in the theaters again and or buy the video
1	this movie is one of the funniest i have seen in years a movie which deals with death and funerals without being depressing or irreverant christopher walken provides much of the comedy in this charming romance and i could hardly breathe for laughing so hard br br i saw the movie a preview and when it was over the audience not only applauded but cheered i am telling all my friends to watch for it's arrival in the usa i definitely plan on seeing it again in the theater and purchasing it on dvd as soon as it's available
1	you know you're watching softcore with the wrong attitude when the poor dubbing bothers you i'm okay with the crappy lip syncing but the sound mix is really of too every time someone says anything it sounds like there's a narrator either way this is pretty much the purgatory between boring french professionalism and the heavenly campy joe d'amato flicks involving cannibalism and whatnot don't get me wrong there's a fair dose of exploitation in this one but there's always room for more laura gemser stars and that's good because she's hot it's a bit freaky how at times you can see her bone structure but she still rules over her white counterpart you can also make a cool drinking game of how often she takes her kit of often every reason is good every person is good every location is good one scene even involves an entire hockey team whatever they are doing in africa sometimes the plot gets in the way and the supporting cast consists of some really vile looking people but there's enough laura gemser for all
1	once again seeing this kind of movies turns me more and more into english humor not too often seen on screen since the days of monty python and man about the house too bad br br brenda blethyn who i first saw in saving grace early in the year another must see by the way just excels as alfred molina does the rest of the cast while virtually unknown to me turns on great performances too the film starts slowly and gradually gains in pace and amusement midway i had tears in my eyes from laughing br br all in all a funny english movie a thousand times better than the supposedly 'funny' garbage that comes from hollywood br br
1	very lovely love story between brenda blethyn and alfred molina the whole story is very bizarre and funny an undertaker a molina loves a married woman b blethyn they try to fake her death to escape her husband and the village a scenario of strange situations starts as good as saving grace and long live ned devine
1	i found this a very enjoyable light hearted comedy set in wales with some truly funny sequences highlighting the rivalry between two funeral directors the showbiz ideas used by christopher walken's character to liven up his funerals are genuinely laugh out loud moments
1	this was the film that started that the cinematic love affair br br between the jaundiced eye crew and matthew ferguson his br br ability to portray relatively normal characters like in br br la femme nikita is counter balanced by his equally deft br br handling of weirdos like kane one wishes that he would only br br be given more roles bigger roles and other even more complex br br roles to assay to push the limits of his abilities there were br br four or five memorable scenes in this film and matthew ferguson br br stole two of them from far more experienced actors this film br br itself is good and it is worth watching on its own merits but br br ferguson makes it a little extra special his may br br eventually show what the career of anthony perkins might have br br been like if he hadn't been typecast as norman bates so long br br ago kane isn't quite as whacked out as norman and far fewer br br people saw love and human remains than saw psycho so we can br br hope that ferguson will show us some hint of what perkins might br br have been able to accomplish had he been allowed to do so
1	watched this flick on saturday afternoon cable man did it drag i got the metaphors symbolism and all that stuff no i didn't care one way or another about the sexuality of the characters but the pacing of the story and the scripting almost put me to sleep br br that is until ruth marshall got naked if you're a breast man who is not homo phobic you may want to rent it ruth has a lesbian sex scene that's pretty hot and then a hetero sex scene that is a notch higher than most standard movie fare her jiggly d cups made the film worth the watch br br the mighty avatar
1	there is as many reviews have observed a strong dark streak to this movie the director it most recalls to me is john landis yeah go ahead and howl about what a peasant i am arcand has the gift of exploring frivolous things in a bleak gray kind of way then turning round and exploring the horrors of life with a lighthearted touch br br the cast is without exception above average thomas gibson as david is outstanding as the moody and self deceptive center around whom the rest of the characters revolve he talks a good nihilist but his actions reflect more love in his character than he is willing to acknowledge gibson was already a strong and subtle actor in 1993 it was difficult to look at him and see greg montgomery let alone agent of criminal minds br br perhaps not the best scene but the one i enjoy most my rewind scene is the section where candy is expecting a visitor and one uninvited person after another shows up at the door as candy's interpersonal environment swings further and further out of control david just grows bouncier and more enthusiastic like a gaunt gen x
1	i first watched this movie in istanbul film festival back in 1994 it was so good i took couple of friends with me and went to see it again the same week the characters are very well played and the humor here and there is amazing it sure is a very powerful gay movie some scenes make you feel you're watching an episode of friends with much more sophisticated lines i guess i'll put it in my vcr and watch it again tonight
1	i bought this film from my local blockbuster for 99p an it's been sitting in my video bookcase for at least a year now then tonight i decided to see it the film was quite different to what i had expected and i didn't find any humour in it all i saw was that it was a bleak look at people dealing with love relationships and sexual orientation and i didn't really see the psycho killer plot really having a point except to add tension to the end of the film i felt that the person playing the lesbian woman did a great job i was following her emotions and what happened around her some people would probably have seen some of the stuff that she does as funny but i could really put myself in her place loving someone but them rejecting you at every turn no matter how hard you try i thought it was a very moving film and dealt with all the different sexualities well i was expecting something like bound gagged a love story but this is a very different film not for bigots
1	extremely good cinematic story of gay embittered former teen star now waiting tables the sexual ambiguities are explored here realistically and with an actual human face this and throw in a serial killer on the loose and you have love and the human remains a well portrayed drama a strange sense of humor and a mystery the screenplay is fluid and believable the performances are well above average and the twists in the story are sharp br br this certainly isn't everyone's ideal notion of a movie but for those who appreciate something different and slickly written it's very much worthy of your time highly recommended
1	once again i am amazed that thomas gibson did not come to the head of the pack earlier in his career in this film gibson once again demonstrates his ability to grasp a character regardless of sexuality social status or nationality gibson plays a very convincing gay male of the late 20th century tender yet not effeminate afraid of the basic tenets of love gibson's character touches a variety of emotions also worthy of praise is cameron bancroft's performance his need to be the heterosexual conqueror as opposed to his best friend's homosexual conquests provides dynamics for the relationship that are in many ways unexpected bancroft and gibson's chemistry is apparent from the first scene they appear in together there are many panels in this quilt from gay relationships to straight relationships from heterosexual relationships to the exploration of lesbian love this film travels across the broad spectrum of sexuality while having the story of a serial killer at its core my only regret is that it took 6 years since its release before i discovered this movie i look forward to seeing it again and highly recommend it to any fan of bancroft gibson or director denys arcand
1	laura gemser plays a magazine photographer who is sent to africa for a photo shoot there she is met by a couple and other swinging couples they all stay at this huge very touristy hotel with a gigantic swimming pool one night they have a pool party complete with real live native dancers it's very un politically correct and very kitschy later emanuelle finally has her photo shoot which turns out to be in one of those drive through stay in your car safaris albeit the photography is gorgeous throughout the film emanuelle is going after every man she meets the photography is very well done in this film there are scenes with cascading waterfalls galloping and ancient ruins the film is worth seeing for the soundtrack by nico alone
1	yes this film has many gay characters it also has straight characters characters who are not sure about their sexuality people who are searching for some truth about their existence br br this is not a film about sexual orientation it's about loneliness and the difficulty human beings often experience in connecting to one another filmically denys arcand cleverly balances the various dimensions of the relationships and the contrasting constantly shifting relationships the serial killer element is a bit less successful it feels more like a way to wrap up various plot points and unlike the rest of the film is thematically heavy handed br br thomas gibson centers and grounds the film it's a quiet performance but behind the handsome arrogant exterior he slowly reveals a terrified soul afraid of showing or accepting love from those around him the supporting cast is strong especially mia kirshner as gibson's friend a dom for hire with powers her role is more metaphor than a literal conceit strangely innocent and depraved at the same time she represents the light and dark of the characters' sexual consciousness br br the film's involving and often surprises in its character development the effect is somewhat like robert altman directing a david mamet script the dialogue doesn't shrink from some searing observations aside from a few contrived moments in the beginning often in our search for love and a conventional relationship we ignore the love that already exists around us in our friends family those who are able to see us as we are arcand and the writer brad fraser make some canny observations on the different ways human beings try to escape and deny their loneliness and how that denial returns to haunt us in so many unexpected ways br br this film is a rewarding experience it may not be for bigots who can't get past the sexual orientation of some of the characters to see the greater transcendental message of hope and redemption loneliness is a universal experience a film like this that dares to explore the darker side of our lives with a clever and perceptive eye deserves applause and an open minded approach
1	i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman was one of the most unique yet entertaining characters in recent memory this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience it made me laugh made me sad made me feel alive and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie it takes no time to understand what is going on and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine human emotion i thought i knew my history apparently i didn't know it at all i give this move 9 out of 10 and recommend it for all adults and young adults and the young at heart just not the young but as soon as they are allowed to see r rated movies make it a priority
1	charlie wilson tom hanks is a hard partying womanizing texas congressman with no discernible legislative record in 1980 he finds himself becoming interested in the plight of afghanistan which is in the midst of a brutal war with the ussr on the auspices of his old flame arch conservative texas socialite joanne herring julia roberts he travels to afghanistan to assess the situation and is stunned by what he sees he returns to the us determined to help the afghans only to find his colleagues extremely indifferent to the situation and himself under investigation for allegations of drug use undeterred wilson recruits herring and the vulgar outcast cia agent gust phillip seymour hoffman to begin a convoluted arms deal involving israel egypt pakistan saudi arabia and a mostly unknowing us congress ultimately the afghans defeat the soviets but while america celebrates their victory wilson and find their warnings about the instability of post war afghanistan falling on deaf ears br br charlie wilson's war is slick brain candy a really neat film for the more intellectual viewer and fun entertainment for the average film goer the movie assembles an astonishing array of talent both in front of and behind the camera and delivers on its promise of being one hell of a good time the film's has only one flaw which we'll arrive at later as an examination of the improbable way in which the 20th century's largest covert war was waged and perhaps the way that things get done by the cia and other intelligence agencies it's fascinating br br the movie is interesting on a number of levels the story portrayed in the movie with all of its outrageous double dealings sneaky covert operations and perhaps most of all its success would be so outrageous as a work of fiction that it could easily be dismissed as a satire but things really did work out this way at least within reasonable bounds the film portrays our three protagonists in an interesting way that highlights their virtues without obscuring their flaws wilson as a person who is unapologetic about his vices even embracing them yet willing to embrace a righteous cause herring is something of an elitist and her born again attitude of righteousness is off putting yet she's deeply committed to the cause of the afghan people is a cia outsider with an attitude problem looked down upon because of his street background yet his love of country and hatred of communism are unwavering the fact that this odd trio could play a major role in the downfall of the ussr is not only proof that anyone can make a difference but also that truth is stranger than fiction it's also very interesting that all of this is played as a comedy not too surprising given that our writer is aaron but it's an interesting way to approach this story br br the movie does however have one drawback which is a bit surprising the film seems to unabashedly celebrate wilson and co 's achievement this is fine nothing wrong with defeating the soviet union is there until one considers that out of the ashes of the soviet defeat in afghanistan came the taliban and eventually al qaeda regardless of the us's level of responsibility it happened and the movie's portrayal of wilson's success is almost unmitigated to be fair the movie does address this issue towards the end with a rather topical speech by wilson about the us's inability to clean up after themselves but it's done in such a tertiary manner that the average viewer will probably not take much from it the overall impression will be that these three remarkable people helped the afghans defeat the soviets this isn't a fatal drawback mind you but it's one troubling aspect of an otherwise brilliant movie br br the film's talent is remarkable the legendary mike nichols delivers a slick gorgeous looking production the material is perfectly suited to his understated wry directorial style delivers yet another brilliant screenplay the film has dozens of quotable lines and classic exchanges the best being the scotch bottle discussion between wilson and and keeps something of a political and historical perspective behind it the film's cast is a marvel tom hanks gives a fine performance as the lovable rogue with a cause julia roberts is alternately charming and repulsive as the obnoxious but committed joanne and phillip seymour hoffman steals every scene par usual as the abrasive gus the always lovely amy adams takes another step on her road to stardom as wilson's long suffering assistant and ned beatty om puri emily blunt christopher denham and ken flesh out the supporting cast br br charlie wilson's war is an intelligent and fun movie a wonderful bit of a bit more than light entertainment the fact that it decides not to be more than that shouldn't be held against it it's brilliant at what it does br br 8 10
1	recap based on the true story of charlie wilson an american congressman who according to this movie was instrumental in usa's covert war in afghanistan against the soviet union br br comments a rather funny movie about not so funny things especially since they were real but focusing on the movie hanks performs very well as a mischievous womanizing congressman with a good heart that becomes the champion for the covert war in afghanistan hanks and the entire movie philip hoffman especially has a rather humorous tone so much that adding comedy to the genre would be appropriate but the story that it tell and maybe the ending the most are serious indeed br br a story of what happened with some questions about what might have been so the movie works as a comedy if you want one and a much more serious one if you want that something for everybody 7 10
1	great film a very worthy 7 10 br br tom hanks was at his usual best the heavy drinking congressman who saved afghanistan from its communist oppressors based upon a true story tells us how the west throws money and arms at a problem and expect it to go away well it did go away albeit temporarily look who we the british amongst others are now fighting the very same people who the us gave arms training and money to in the 80s br br this film was always going to provoke political thoughts by the people who watch it but it does portray a very nice story however once the main objective is achieved i e ridding the communists from afghanistan it is seen how quickly the plight of people is forgotten about br br this film was good it was a well deserved 7 10 it told the story of the communist invasion of afghanistan and the subsequent covert operation by the us to some detail and was dramatised well although being a good film i will recommend it to people but some people will not enjoy it particularly is a serious film about good us v evil russia isn't your thing
1	with a single act br br charlie wilson congressman a real character during the 90s when the communism on ussr the wall of berlin and the war on with the soviets broke over he did it a single denial for money and everything went down he should be remembered so here it is his memorial br br back to the movie funny dramatic snob politic or just boring anyways it's a smart movie about politic life about ruling the world and about above all a lesson to the world a lesson to every politic out there a critical point of view referring to countries who support wars with money guns and words br br lesson learned world isn't a nice place to live in
1	charlie wilson two time oscar winner tom hanks is a easy going congressman who loves to party enjoys the company of woman and especially drinking his booze when charlie's old friend and ex girlfriend joanne herring oscar winner julia roberts wants charlie to visit afghanistan which that country certainly need of help charlie is shocked of what he seen especially from all different ages are killed or hurt from this war with the russians he decides to help the people and the rebels to fight the russians who started the war charlie joanne and one renegade cia agent by the name of gust oscar winner philip seymour hoffman will start a good fight to bring the largest covert operation in history br br directed by oscar winner mike nichols the birdcage regarding henry wolf made an lively entertaining sharp satire war comedy that is based on a true story hanks roberts hoffman in a oscar nominated performance and amy adams as charlie's loyal assistant are very good in their roles despite the excellent true life premise charlie wilson's war never really catches fire and it is not as wickedly funny as you liked it to be director nichols and screenwriter aaron a few good men keeps things moving and the characters are well liked throughout br br dvd has an sharp pan scan 1 33 1 transfer and an good dolby digital 5 1 surround sound dvd's only special features are the behind the scenes featurette with the cast crew and a real life featurette with charlie wilson and others charlie wilson's war is a good movie that could have been really great but it's not but this movie is smart enough to please for those who enjoyed well written or well acted adult comedies 1 2 out of
1	mike nichols' film charlie wilson's war set in the 1980's tells the story of how the title character played by tom hanks managed to wage a covert war with the russkies by way of aiding the afghan forces of course we know how well that turned out in the long run but thankfully the film does not gloss over the unpleasant after effects br br the cast is star studded with tom hanks and julia roberts being among the most bankable stars in hollywood as a bonus you've got the versatile philip seymour hoffman in a characteristically memorable supporting role one for which he received a not unwarranted oscar nomination i'm not much of a fan of roberts but hanks is always dependable nevertheless i can't quite buy into him as a drug using womanizer although the real charlie wilson seems just as eminently likable as hanks apart from the big three though there's not much worth remarking on even from a recognizable name like amy adams br br the story is engaging and is bolstered by a fine script from aaron the verbal interplay between the main characters is excellent and is chock full of memorable lines the later events set into motion by the war are not ignored though the bookending scenes honoring wilson seem to me to be too earnest to achieve the bittersweet feel which was likely intended on the whole nichols' direction is workmanlike and follows the action of the script admirably br br this is a film that like charlie wilson himself has flaws but is nevertheless disarmingly likable certainly recommended for fans of the three stars and for those looking for an engaging political drama with a light hearted feel
1	consistency is perhaps this movie its biggest problem the movie starts of as a fast stylish and just plain fun political satire but in its second halve the movie gets more serious of tone in an almost oliver stone kind of way it's of course also a very serious subject but i would say that the movie would had been way better and also more effective if it had been completely done in the same style as the first halve of the movie got shot in br br for a biography and a movie concerning the subject of this movie the movie is also quite short with its mere 102 minutes of running time the movie because of this feels like it isn't telling the whole story of course the following up of the events after the soviet occupation of afghanistan gets hinted at in the movie but the movie doesn't go deeper into it and it doesn't explain much about it which feels like a cheap way to just glorify charlie wilson without showing the other side of the medal also the actual events in the movie itself gets rather simplified even though the story still gets told needlessly complex at times br br yes the movie would just had been way better if it was not trying to be so serious at times and overall more light with its style and atmosphere the movie should had been for instance more like wag the dog that achieved to find a right combination of satire and sensitive political issues br br because of this incoherent style and way of storytelling the acting performances are also mixed when tom hanks is playing his character more playfully and in a more comical kind of way he's just excellent but this just makes it sort of hard to take his character serious in the more serious and sensitive shocking moments of the movie philip seymour hoffman is always excellent though as he is in any movie that he plays in he also received an oscar nomination for his role in this movie most of the other actors just seem to walk around in this movie just to be in the movie this goes mostly for julia roberts whose character i found just too mysterious to seem to have a clear enough purpose for the movie she made a redundant impression on me and is therefor also really forgettable in this movie br br it's not that the movie is a bad watch it actually is quite good and also enjoyable but if the movie would had dared to be a bit more edgier the movie would had been a better and foremost also more effective one at what it tried to obviously achieve br br 7 10
1	charlie wilson's war based on a true story tells the tale of a texas congressman and a cia agent working to secure funding for covert support of the in 1980s afghanistan following the ussr invasion of the country this conflict played a major role in the final years of the cold war between the us and the ussr br br in terms of film making charlie wilson's war is a definite winner it well written well acted and well shot while most of the attention has gone to tom hanks for yet another fine performance i was even more impressed with philip seymour hoffman's turn as cia operative gust scenes of soviet attacks on under armed villages and of the refugee camp effectively tug at the heart the film also gives a good behind the scenes look at the wheeling and dealing that congressman wilson must go through to secure the desired funding br br there are however two complaints i have about the film the first is that there is a subplot involving an scandal investigation that is not well developed and as such only serves as a minor distraction to the story line the second complaint is that the film lacks some of the context of the war the film makes the look like innocent victims and while they did suffer large civilian casualties the were in fact rebels trying to topple the government of afghanistan this government ignored entirely in the film not surprisingly fought to suppress the rebellion later calling on the soviet union for support in their effort the film also ignores that the us was aiding the prior to the soviet deployment in afghanistan the film did hint at the unintended consequences of our covert actions consequences we are still feeling today but it seems as if screenwriter aaron and director mike nichols were willing to sacrifice some historical context to provide a cohesive narrative not having read the book i do not know if george made the same compromise those complaints notwithstanding i did enjoy watching charlie wilson's war and do recommend it i would have preferred a film that more accurately depicted the complexities of the situation as stephen gaghan did in syriana but the audiences connected better with cohesive narrative of charlie wilson's war than with the ambiguities present in syriana
1	the first of the italian rip offs of the french soft porn blockbuster though it might be interesting to note that the boot shaped country actually got their first with cesare 1968 emmanuelle starring erika blanc is a very different kettle of fish than the sleazy sequels provided by the late questionably great joe d'amato it is much closer in spirit to the now very dated just film from 1973 taking a look at male female relationships questioning such then hot topics as fidelity and jealousy all in luxurious exotic surroundings unlike d'amato director albert thomas aka albertini who also made the hard to find yellow emanuelle actually a sexed up version of madame butterfly does not present us with predatory drug lords snuff movie makers or rampaging cannibals making for an admittedly less sensational yet far more erotic viewing experience br br photo journalist mae jordan aka lovely born laura gemser in her first lead role following bit parts as a thai masseuse in emmanuelle 2 and an in just portion of the rarely seen collections flies down to where she's to shoot the stills accompanying an article by noted british writer anne played by the very teutonic karin schubert with a butch haircut that takes some getting used to anne shares an 'open remember when this was made with her italian husband gianni angelo meaning that both pretty much jump anything with a pulse contrary to her subsequent reputation emanuelle appears positively reticent compared to her heavy breathing hosts smoldering seductively at gianni by way of foreplay until the exquisitely tantalizing pay off okay so she does make up for this lack of at the end when she does an entire male hockey team on the train i kid you not br br production on this sexploitation classic is quite impressive especially the superb cinematography and nico fidenco's musical theme is a solid favorite of anyone with more than a passing interest in the genre a hilarious eurotrash pop ditty try to make out those totally nonsensical lyrics and have a full evening's worth of fun with the family that turns up throughout the entire film in every conceivable type of rendition from slow 'n' sexy to hip gyrating disco br br this is entirely laura gemser's show though billed simply as as was another actress on the same director's elusive emanuelle 2 she lights up the screen from start to finish not yet submitted to endless rape scenarios as she would be once d'amato took over she seems much more relaxed than in later films even smiling from time to time a rare occasion as anyone who has seen some of the lady's work surely knows a flawless eurasian rather than as the title suggests black beauty she hails from dutch india now indonesia and is actually quite close in physical appearance to the supposed author of the novel emmanuelle she projects a slightly passive even submissive sensuality which somehow her from the her morally corrupted cohorts indulge in unlike the french film moralizing is kept to a bare minimum almost thrown in as an afterthought near film's end when emanuelle tells gianni that he hasn't lost her as he never possessed her to begin with i swear you could hear audiences of the just version groan whenever alain supremely irritating mario showed up on screen as it meant we were in for too many minutes of libertine philosophizing as an alibi for getting the divine sylvia kristel now living in the belgian capital of brussels by the way to disrobe the real reasons theaters were packed for years on end gemser's later husband gabriele now deceased she has remarried appears on the sidelines as the constantly drunk huh writer who forces himself briefly on emanuelle amid the african ruins at some point but no real sex scene though
1	here is a movie that almost gets it all right with good performances from everyone and three strong leading performances from hanks seymour hoffman and a fine turn up from julia roberts that had me spell bound from the first few seconds these are performances that lift the production to the stars and keep it there for the duration br br apart from one or two very minor factual problems with the script the only thing that lets this movie down is the technical direction there are far too many bad cuts fudged continuity and a number of camera cheats that simply do not work this is surprising for a movie of this stature and is a little annoying to watch but it does not destroy an otherwise beautifully crafted film
1	charlie wilson's war is an excellent example of how films should be made this movie is of the highest quality and is cast perfectly tom hanks play the lead and delivers an exceptional performance furthermore tom hanks is complimented by the unparalleled acting ability of the incredible philip seymour hoffman i have never seen him in a role that suits him so perfectly br br the film is witty intelligent and well written julia roberts also stars in this film but is easily over shadowed by the other two leads br br i rated this film 10 10 and am pleased to recommend this film to anyone that is interested in quality cinema
1	it's possible to have a good time with this film while at the same time regretting all that it isn't in the 1980s a u s congressman tom hanks engineers support for afghan partisans resisting the soviet union br br hanks is in breezy hail fellow well met form as roguish politically incorrect charlie wilson first glimpsed sharing a hot tub with three deeply available looking women if only the film had the same air of insouciance but apart from philip seymour hoffman's turn as a cynical cia agent it tries to be perceived as patriotic too aaron trademark staccato dialogue serves its purpose but the story is no more plausible than one of wilson's tall tales and there's an oddly unspoken subtext wilson's afghan pals later mutated into the taliban and other anti western groups leaving the world worse off than it was when these events occurred
1	well we definitely did see and i and many other people were actually expecting worse it did have some good parts too it that i was not expecting it still did fail in other areas though br br first off the acting was above average i love phillip seymour hoffman in this movie and i liked tom hanks hoffman was the glue to this movie if it were not for him this movie would have crumbled and hit rock bottom his performance was by no means stunning but absolutely necessary he gave a good witty cynical performance in what most other actors could have easily made his character into a cliché tom hanks really gave a nice loose performance and did not disappoint but he certainly did not impress what i could not stand was that julia roberts was involved in this movie she was as big of a miscast as i have ever seen for one she is a bad actress at least to me she was to young for her character and was to phony even for the character she was playing br br the directing was average to me i'm not really a big fan of the recent mike nichols movies and i'm not exactly impressed by this one either it was made with such a hollywoodish cartoonish touch hat i could not stand the worst part about it was that he tried make it be a really meaningful movie at the end i love meaningful movies but not when a movie tries to rush a scene or two at the end and show something that tries to justify the rest of the garbage spread throughout the whole movie that is something that mike nichols has seemed to have done a lot in his recent track record br br the one impressive part of this movie was the writing the dialog was put together very well and was able to let the story play out the writing was what was able to really able to take this movie to an above average level in so many scenes i found myself laughing in part by the writing br br well that is some of what we saw at least a lot of the scenery was good in the movie if you get what i mean but not a lot other than that i did like that this movie did not glorify everything america had done it is obvious that during this whole war in afghanistan the u s gave weapons to the people who are now against us this movie kind of show we are too blame for that it shows that what may seem good in the short term may turn into something horribly wrong in the future this movie did have a good original message but it just did not deliver it right overall though it was entertaining
1	nice to see a comedy for grown ups masterfully structured by aaron via mike own mastery mr mastery is to present characters in all their shocking truth from the sad and riveting richard burton and elizabeth taylor in who's afraid of virginia woolf to the sad and riveting julia roberts clive owen jude law and natalie portman in closer in charlie wilson's war the shocking truth is outside the characters and the sad and riveting tom hanks julia roberts philip seymour hoffman and amy adams are at the service of something else it's personal only to a point hanks has to bury his brilliance in single and julia roberts throws parties and introduces characters with blatant amy adams witnesses and exist as a character witnessing an insurmountable task that miss adams manages to surmount beautifully it is philip seymour hoffman's gus with a t however that monopolized my attention his character may not be a first but it is a first the way that hoffman presented him to us someone who survives the disregard with which he's treated by the absolute conviction that he's smarter than all of them put together hoffman is superb the pacing of the tale helps enormously not to fall in a myriad of useless questions a sharp short smart sad comedy and when was the last time i was able to say that
1	aaron raises the same questions as shakespeare did or does how could they possibly know so much about the inner workings of palace life here like in the west wing opens surprising doors that are hardly a shock but seem ton confirm our worst fears everything is so casual and at the same time so directly responsible for so many people's lives a puffy tom hanks tells us one way or another that things can be manipulated with semi pure intentions but without weighing the consequences and julia roberts in a blond southern hairdo reminds us of the powers harbored in the sidelines the subject is serious but the treatment is light intelligent but light philip seymour hoffman as the invisible middle man steals every scene he is in just like charles laughton did in every movie he was in the dialogue is fast but not fast enough for us not to catch up and discover that this is not an ordinary comedy the seemingly casual pace filled with strokes of wit and provocation grants another badge of honor in the mike collection
1	in one of the better movies of the year tom hanks stars as congressman charlie wilson in this sardonically funny and extremely relevant given reasonably current events historical comedy drama surrounding the 1980s afghan soviet fiasco the soviets were attacking afghanistan killing hundreds of people why should anyone care people are dying right no the reason the united states got involved through charlie wilson was because the afghans in fear they would get blown to sh t started illegally coming into pakistan which in turn p ssed pakistani president mohammad ul haq off charlie wilson in an effort to fix this situation teamed up with the sixth richest woman and religious fanatic in texas joanne herring julia roberts and a amusing and robust american spy for the cia gust philip seymour hoffman to help supply afghans with high tech weapons to destroy soviet fight air craft that would try and attack their land br br although certainly not a serious oscar contender for best picture wilson's war' is probably one of the best of the many political films of the year academy award winner mike nichols provides solid directing as to be expected while emmy award winner aaron sport's night the west wing provides a remarkable screenplay that near flawlessly balances comedy and drama the acting is great for the most part as well tom hanks delivers his best and most enjoyable performance since his 2000 oscar nominated turn as a fedex worker stranded on a tropical island in 'cast away' hanks takes a slimy character like wilson and with his trademark charm turns him into a likable guy amy adams and ned beatty are reliable as always but the real stand out performance of the film is from philip seymour hoffman arguably the finest actor working in the film industry today hoffman takes a small supporting role and upstages everyone around him from his first scene where he's screaming at his boss before violently breaking his window hoffman sucks you in the only disappointing cast member is unsurprisingly overrated hollywood starlet julia roberts hamming her way through yet another movie roberts' overbearing and over the top portrayal of a rich texas oil woman hits all the wrong notes and is at most times flat out annoying at 97 minutes the movie is short and sweet and that isn't to say it doesn't drag at some points but when it does drag it's for a very brief amount of time br br in conclusion wilson's war' is not a perfect film by any means but it's certainly worth a look grade b
1	i quit watching the west wing after aaron quit writing and producing it just wasn't the same imagine my thrill at seeing a film that he wrote again it has been a long time the american president a few good men his script was a beautiful blend of humor and tragedy he made a compelling story believable and made me weep at the same time br br tom hanks was incredible as a small time texas congressman whose constituents only wanted lower taxes and to keep their guns not a hard job so he had plenty of time to fool around and that he did his office staff looked as if he were at the playboy mansion like he reportedly said you can teach them to type but you can't teach them to grow tits despite his sexist attitude which fits right in with a texas congressman they were fiercely loyal especially his aide amy adams junebug former hooters girl br br now add a rich texas socialite who wants something done in afghanistan played perfectly by julia roberts and a pain in his boss's ass cia agent superbly done by philip seymour hoffman and you have a movie well worth watching br br outstanding writing and superlative acting and a story that needed to be told what more do you want at the movies
1	charlie's wilson's war demonstrates with deft veracity just how futile wars can be especially to the very people who spend countless hours and finances to fund them virtuoso performances and remarkably memorable characters teamed with a riotously sarcastic script catapult the film helmed by the continuously unpredictable mike nichols to the top of the year's best politics has never been so much fun br br charlie wilson tom hanks is a texas congressman who is credited with almost single handedly winning the cold war hanging around plenty of drugs women and scotch he also takes an unexpected interest in the events in afghanistan and the terrors of the soviet union in the 1980s enlisting the help of gust philip seymour hoffman a renegade cia covert mission expert and joanne julia roberts a wealthy socialite he raises money to provide afghanistan with the rocket launchers and weaponry they need to cause serious damage to russian military eventually by the end of the 80s the cold war would come to an end and the funds would immediately be cut thereby removing all help for the fledgling country to rebuild and recoup br br the acting is exquisite although it's to be expected from the more than accomplished cast a large part of that however should be attributed to the script which allows each character to be undeniably well developed and memorable and a hearty helping of that credit goes to the novel of the same name which is hilariously honest tom hanks delivers yet another unequaled performance as charlie wilson the man who did so much for so many and yet still remains relatively unknown philip seymour hoffman plays gust a character that is vividly boffo in both his physicality and his wry cynicism the inimitable hoffman once again shows superb range in the characters he portrays julia roberts is perhaps the only weak link of the film with her generic snobbish character and not subtle enough accent and then there's wilson's squad of young secretaries that scamper about to keep him happy led by the always delightful amy adams each supporting role has its moments br br defeating the soviet union was not an easy task especially considering the many conflicting goals between the various political leaders why is congress saying one thing and doing nothing queries a disgruntled politician tradition mostly returns wilson everyone appears to want the cold war to end yet a blind eye is being turned to the atrocities taking place in afghanistan it takes a trip to the war torn refugee camps in pakistan to motivate wilson as well as with his main financial source doc long ned beatty wilson uses strategic ties with committees to raise funding of weaponry in afghanistan from 5 million to 10 million with a simple command but the president of pakistan scoffs at the idea of winning a war for such a trivial amount by the end of the wilson campaign 1 billion is sent to the mujahedin to shoot down russian helicopters the first step toward victory as wilson predicted beyond the scope of the film the unresolved turmoil in afghanistan led to further less problems which wilson presumably br br during the course of charlie wilson's war the main characters travel from the united states to pakistan to afghanistan to jerusalem to egypt but wherever they go sarcasm always follows there's a surprising amount of comedy in the film considering the political undertones are generally serious hoffman provides jokes with almost every exchange of dialogue as does hanks with his naturally witty woman chasing ideals a scene early on featuring gust being continually ushered in out of wilson's office as he tries to straighten out a legal issue with his posse of gorgeous gals you can teach 'em to type but you can't teach 'em to grow tits reminds me of a slapstick routine from the marx brothers br br with the press focusing on the drug allegations against wilson instead of the important issues of the cold war and the conflicting desire of officials to budget their help it's clear that by the end of the film the politicians are still oblivious to what's really necessary and since the screenplay is so quick witted and astute some audience members may not be able to keep up with all of the dialogue intensive events but as demonstrated by the politicians who are ignorant as to the difference between pakistan and afghanistan it's essentially another argument to support charlie wilson's point br br mike
1	i like tom hanks and he is one of few actors who will draw me into the theatre regardless of any misgivings i may have concerning the film i worried about mr hanks return to light comedy as this is the arena where he made the transition from tv to film remember big well charlie wilson's war is not light comedy it is political satire and extremely well written political satire at that the script is the star of this film and the word by aaron is some of the best on offer this year br br mike holds the entire escapade together delivering a film that zips along in a very quick 90 minutes timing is everything in comedy and nothing is ever funny if it drags choice in sets and lighting are also very reminiscent of '70's and '80's tv a move used deliberately to root the piece in period br br the return to the use of model work and stock photography over digital special effects also enhances the retro look and believability note to the production designers in your choice of stock footage i know the difference between an f 16 and a and a bell and a hind but that may have been part of the joke too br br i saw this film in philadelphia it was interesting to watch and listen to the audience not get the historical references to their own history history tends to repeat because the have forgotten what happened the first time around br br kudos to both mr hanks and that chameleon phillip seymore hoffman script is brought to life by these actors and the entire production team is on the top of their game br br heartily recommended
1	the main reason to check this one out is to watch laura gemser in all her glory br br that's reason enough for me br br she heads to africa as guests of another rich guy that seems to be all over these films huge mansion near the jungle hunters staying around for parties when they aren't out hunting zebras and said parties becoming drunken orgies br br all the high society types in the emanuelle films seem to have out of control fetishes and emanuelle beds most of them br br joe d'amato did not direct this one he just ripped it off and used the same cast s and did anyone notice the sexual images at the gas station and why did most of the men stay dressed during the sex scenes br br coherence hardly any but goddess gemser is beautiful
1	told in flashback the film opens in 1989 with charlie being given award for his role in the defeat of communism i must admit my heart sank as at the thought of have to endure yet another earnest somewhat boring and overlong life story how wrong was i because that short scene is as close as the film ever gets to boring br br the film is full of entertaining amusing set ups and cracking dialogue in some of the most unexpected places the next scene after the awards ceremony is charlie in a hot tub with some naked women and a guy trying to get him to invest in a tv programme another rather amusing scene is about 3 quarters into the film comprises charlie a group of his rather sexy secretaries phillip seymour cia man and a bottle of whisky as to dialogue what about this for a line the senator says he can teach us to type but can't teach us to grow tits ok school boyish i know but the film is laced with great lines br br as to performances well phillip seymour hoffman as usual steals every scene he's in hanks is ok but surprisingly to me anyway was julia roberts who is very good in the role of a rather eccentric texas oil br br charlie wilson's war is one of the best non musician bio pics in a long while as well as being that rare thing a film that entertains amuses as well as informs all in equal measure
1	it doesn't happen very often but occasionally one man can make a difference a big difference br br george 2003 best seller charlie wilson's war is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas good time charlie was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation likable and licentious even for a politician charlie wilson served his well since the good folks of only really wanted two things their guns and to be left alone it's easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known appropriately enough as charlie's angels br br when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive young aides his response is a classic you can teach 'em to type but you can't teach 'em to grow tits no argument there br br but even the most rakish has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter humiliating defeat of the russian military and possibly to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result fat chance huh br br under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart snappy screenplay by adam charlie wilson's war is a sparkling sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising charlie's team br br the on screen team is composed of three marvelous actors with four 4 academy awards and nine 9 nominations between them charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years he's aided abetted and by joanne herring a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts hey why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this by all accounts ms roberts looks good and holds her own but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know but we as an audience never do as for the third member of the team philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust a smart street wise i e non ivy league graduate cia malcontent who knows the score both in the agency's boardroom and in wilson's bedroom br br for the to succeed the most important assistance the u s can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi 21 helicopter which rule the skies this takes money lots of money and eventually charlie's team covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of 1 billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels this includes top of the line state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices nasty nasty stuff br br that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government oh momma i wish it weren't so br br even though the initial outcome for team charlie was an unqualified success the unimaginable unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others since the funding was entirely covert the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian was the direct result of american intervention yes once the russkies left so did our aid zip for schools zip for infrastructure zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people as a result the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster it's like the forerunner to mission accomplished br br as film so pointedly points out the ball you've set in motion can keep bouncing even after you've lost interest in it mike knows this eva longoria parker knows this little lateesha in lafayette knows this but the typical american politician doesn't so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn't let the world know we were the good guys talk about a catch 22 another mike nichols film br br perhaps charlie wilson said it best we f ked up the end game br br again
1	mike nichols in finest form i was not a fan of closer so it's refreshing to see him again right back on top with this comedy set in the darkest of circumstances just one slip in tone could have wrecked this compelling picture but nichols and his very strong a list cast never put a foot wrong in this biopic of a deeply flawed but utterly compelling congressman br br philip seymour hoffman as usual is scintillating and brilliant here playing a damaged but ultra smart cia manipulator and it is in the exchanges between hanks and hoffman's characters where the comedy soars rarely is movie humour laugh out loud and also smart this hits the spot time after time with a biting satirical edge that makes you both laugh and weep at the state of the world often simultaneously br br one other major plus is the length of the picture the film is based on george fat book of the same title the temptation for screenwriter aaron his claim to fame is the west wing must have been to make a fat movie but what we get is a breath taking 90 odd minutes of great story with sweeping implications br br this film deserves to be seen and to be recognized for finding an extraordinary balance between the darkest of dark subject matter and the lightness of touch of it's sparkling witty script even if it does flunk the obvious link between the help that herring and wilson provide and the ultimate consequences 9 11
1	this film grabs you from the opening scenes and never lets go you watch indulgently upon viewing janos excitement over coming to america he's a likable fellow you cannot help being fond of him even when his eagerness is replaced by bitterness as his fortunes turn you know that in his circumstances you would be forced to make the same choices he does to survive this movie comments on society's worship of beauty and all things superficial and is only more true in the culture of the twenty first century janos himself becomes victim to this philosophy when he tells his blind girlfriend you're young and beautiful if you could see you would have the world and like many a modern gangster movie when her safety is threatened he extracts a powerful revenge his innocence is not altogether lost however for he demands an equally high price of himself knowing he deserves his fate br br peter lorre is in fine form in this starring role only a few actors could convincingly accomplish this character's transformation from innocent to embittered criminal in sixty nine minutes lorre is well supported by all the cast making this a real ensemble picture and not just a vehicle for one star with a bit less preachy dialogue this movie would be a 10 highly recommended
1	this film stars peter lorre as an exceptionally nice guy who to america unfortunately shortly after his arrival he's in a horrible fire and his face is horribly burned because he looks so awful no one wants to hire him and out of sheer desperation he resorts to a life of crime in order to earn the money needed to buy a mask to hide his ugliness where exactly the film goes from there you'll just need to see for yourself br br i scored this movie an 8 because for the money spent to make it it's a heck of a good film with a lot of good twists in the plot to keep it interesting the film could have degenerated into a simple horror or crime film but it goes far beyond this an offers some genuine surprises in addition the excellent acting by lorre shows that he was capable of more than just supporting roles this is an excellent film and delivers more than most a pictures of the day
1	peter lorre turns in one of his finest performances as a hungarian coming to the united to make a new life for himself and someday bring his girl across the big pond to be with him lorre's infectious optimism and bright outlook come off very effectively which makes the performance all the better when he has his face hideously burned in a hotel fire and when no one will give him a chance to work turns reluctantly to a life of crime lorre's range as an actor is seldom as apparent as in this movie with his jovial good natured immigrant to his depressing melancholic disfigured self searching for the truth behind what he believed america afforded him to his suave intelligent better than your average hood to his sympathetic dealings with a blind woman with whom he falls in love the story is well paced has some interesting twists and gives lorre many opportunities to shine director robert florey does a quality job behind the lens and all of the supporting cast help aid the film with evelyn keyes giving a particularly good turn as the blind girl i loved the ending and the truth that was shone to exist in lorre's character despite all the negative things society had done toward him for a little b picture the man behind the mask is good movie making for its time
1	i caught this a few times on tv in the late 1970s it only played late at night past midnight br br peter lorre plays a kind happy man whose face is disfigured in a fire he is rejected by his girlfriend and left alone and filled with despair he turns to a life of crime and eventually becomes very successful he makes a mask to hide his disfigured features and falls in love with a beautiful girl evelyn keyes who is blind he tries to go straight for her but he can't escape his life of crime or his hatred of his own scarred face br br a no budget b film very short runs only a little over an hour but well made and superbly acted by lorre this has a lot more depth than you would expect from a quickie b picture especially takes the thankless girl role and makes her character fresh and appealing this has sadly disappeared from tv and was never put on video or dvd as far as i know tcm did show it recently and it was great to see the movie still holds up br br highly recommended
1	this movie starts off as a college flick but turns pretty ugly after the main character's sister is gang raped by a biker gang driving a van it has a pretty good pace and james van patten does a pretty good job in this cannon tax write off movie this was the first movie i ever saw at the drive in here in toronto the main feature was alphabet city and young warriors was the added feature out of the 2 movies young warriors was by far more entertaining and memorable if you are a fan of blow 'em up excessively violent movies this one would make a great addition to any collection
1	young warriors 1983 br br while this is a deeply flawed and in some ways idiotic movie the way it continually defies expectations makes it decent viewing for the adventurous sleaze fan br br meet yuppie college student kevin and his gang of lovable frat boy buddies in what starts out as a particularly egregious teen sex comedy we follow this bunch of jerk offs and their antics which involve among other things making pledges tie bricks to their genitals the movie abruptly shifts gears when kevin's high school freshman sister is brutally raped and beaten into a coma by a gang of bikers who apparently have nothing better to do when she dies in the hospital kevin vows revenge much to the chagrin of his detective father br br so far we've gone from porky's lite through last house on the left territory into what is apparently shaping up to be your typical urban vigilante revenge flick however kevin and his gang's portrayal goes from vaguely sympathetic until they become kill crazed lunatics it's to the film's credit that it doesn't glamorize the fascist anti crime rhetoric that kevin continually spouts while still making it understandable that he would feel the way he does br br the mood goes from lighthearted to grimy and downbeat very quickly and by the end it's so over the top and exploitative that it'll leave you incredulous and that's the strength of this film you never know what to expect next br br at over 100 minutes it's a little lengthy for this kind of fare but you won't get bored poorly acted for the most part with cardboard cutouts for characters and some particularly ludicrous situations and rather stupid dialogue this won't be topping anyone's list of forgotten classics anytime soon i got a kick out of it though and i'm sure anyone reading this knows if they're up for it
1	now i realize that most people on here trash young warriors or hail it as so bad it's funny type entertainment but let me make something clear it's actually a quality piece of low rent action if you're willing to watch such cinema without a critical eye in fact it's a good deal more entertaining and thought provoking than the bulk of the action films of the 80s br br the key is in the film's subject matter i'm always a sucker for movies that tackle the subject of vigilantism especially when they ambitiously probe into the psyches of the characters involved young warriors may not have the intelligence or sensitivity of the first death wish film and yes i do think the first one had both of those elements but it's trying to be different from the run of the mill cannon films of the period in that it's genuinely unique br br the plot is simple don't worry there won't be spoilers a group of college student pranksters change their ways when one of their family members is assaulted by a tough street gang the students take to the streets in an effort to combat general street crime being that they don't know who the gang responsible is they eventually acquire some heavy artillery machine guns and grenades and prowl the night fully armed however these are not schwarzenegger types they're vulnerable inexperienced novices who make sizable blunders nearly each time they set out to clean up the city usually with their frat mascot dog in tow they finally figure out who the gang is and go after them but by then you won't be expecting a standard climax in which the good guys walk away unscathed br br one thing about the film that struck me as strange yet effective is that the bulk of the first act offers no indication that we'll be seeing any action or violence later on as it's treated like a goofy frat comedy you'd see on usa's up all night where i believe this was actually shown at one point the comedy set up actually lulled me into forgetting that the vhs cover showed a guy riding a motorcycle with a machine gun strapped to his back then when the violence finally arrives it's not fun or cute at all it's shockingly disturbing from that point on the film becomes a full blooded uncompromising action yarn containing some startling gunfights and gore br br the acting while nothing special is far more impassioned than i anticipated james van patten who plays the protagonist gives his all and his performance is surprisingly good for this type of movie the rest of the cast is equally invested including the always dependable ernest borgnine as the hero's cop father the cinematography is also above par and the action scenes are handled with a level of severity that i personally wasn't expecting br br i can understand why some people thought this movie was worthless as much of it is extremely dated but those facets struck me as nothing short of cool in and of themselves van character is studying animation and his patently early 80s style work that's on display in several scenes is a retro film lover's psychedelic wet dream i'm sure most contemporary viewers would cite those very moments as low points in the movie but i disagree also joe walsh's soundtrack which sounds like it could have only been recorded in '83 seemed particularly fitting and enjoyable regardless of how old it seems today br br young warriors is one of my favorite action films of the 80s and i highly urge anyone interested in the genre to take a look sadly however it's only been released on vhs as of this writing and it isn't being shown on tv these days a nice dvd presentation would make me moon walk around my living room with such intensity that i'm sure my ankles would swell in the meantime i implore you all to go on ebay or amazon and cough up the ten bucks or whatever for the old big box tape it really is a remarkable staple of ambitious trash cinema
1	i have so much hope for the sequel to gen x luckily my hopes have came true you got a whole bunch of action comedy silly comedy and surprises i think the newcomer edison is really a hit in the movie but i really find sam's 'alien' stupidly annoying with english although the movie had some flaws with the robot graphics and the silly dialogue the action always keeps it strong the action set up is much stronger than the 1st br br this movie is getting more of an american feel since 60 of the movie is in english from the cantonese this movie will not disappoint you i recommended this for young 'uns that care about pure action packed fun br br
1	like most sports movies it's not surprising that people who know something about the sport can find flaws in it as a soccer referee i have yet to see a movie or tv show get it right when depicting a match forever has good actors but i found sean astin to be a bit young to be an administrator in a juvenile jail i was very thankful that the plot did not involve the lead character turning his fellow inmates into rugby players and taking on flagstaff as well as highland which gets to credulity a police squad car just happens to pull up at precisely the time the flagstaff baddies are hazing rick penning even though rugby is not a sanctioned high school sport nationally the team is a school based club sport much like rodeo that said i find it hard to believe that high school officials would allow students to play with open wounds that just isn't done in this day of aids and hepatitis i don't care what the tradition and macho image is despite that it was a cool movie in that teens were expected to act like adults and sometimes actually did sadly far too many coaches are like or worse
1	the movie forever strong will never be nominated for an oscar it will never be nominated for best acting for best motion picture but this movie does have things that other movies don't in a nation with so much scandal so many problems movies being poured out with little thought to the morals of society at least this movie promotes good what is wrong with standing behind something that promotes happiness we should support movies that tell our american teens that there is more to life than sex drugs and alcohol as for this debate as previously stated the is not exclusive to the new zealand all blacks various utah high school football teams and colleges perform this ritual before games including hawaii byu etc
1	i am huge movie enthusiast and also an active rugby player who believes that rugby is the greatest game ever played forever strong is a mix of coach carter and sloppy rugby this movie is full of great acting well developed characters and in action shots that will have you ducking and dodging in your seat but with more arm tackles than pee wee football and almost every shot cuts away as soon as a player touches the ground its filmed to almost seem like football if you want to bring your kids to see a movie that will build character from within and could inspire a blind man to see again i can easily give it 9 out of 10 if you want to see a great rugby movie that truly shows the sport your going to have to wait for the next one because forever strong is mostly practice running and a one ruck film for this i give it a 7 75 out of 10
1	i wonder how someone could diss on this movie it is based on an actual story it is not necessarily about rugby itself so to the one that posted on here that they need to make a real rugby movie you missed the point this is not another typical sports movie where a team sucks they hire emilio estevez and turn the team around and win the championship and give everyone the warm and fuzzies it focuses on a story it shows how someone can change his or her life for the better the movies now days are all about sex drugs partying etc that is hollywood i am a big fan of movies but i have to say this was an inspirational movie with a great message if you consider yourself a tough guy don't watch the movie it won't live up to your standards if you want to watch a good inspirational movie this is a good one
1	i wanted to see this movie ever since the previews came out i don't understand why everyone is so hard on this film it may not all be technically true to the sport of rugby but this film is not mainly about the sport it's about a rugby team that is taught how to be more than the world expects of them they are taught to become men and not temporally vain boys hollywood is never 100 correct in their productions they are there to make a product that sells something entertaining the story of coach and what he has taught over the years is simply amazing he teaches about service honor integrity and moral cleanliness how many other movies are teaching that to our youth these days i was proud to see such an amazing story that taught reverence and respect
1	my family truly enjoyed this movie as far as what this movie will do for rugby in the usa well i am sure that will be debatable but as for me and others around me i know that we were more curious about the sport after seeing the movie and i personally gained more respect for the game you may wonder how this possible especially since the movie does not dive in and explain rugby but the simple fact is it drew you into the players and emotion of the game and life the film was inspirational as well as entertaining it made us laugh and cry the chemistry between sean astin big budah and sean faris worked well some may think the movie is a little cliché but i seriously wish hollywood made more movies like this i couldn't help drawing analogies of the game and life's struggles at the end of it i found myself examining my own life to see what i needed to do better in order to be the best person i could be honestly i was grateful this movie taught morals values and teamwork there is so much to the contrary after watching this i really hope my kids are coached by someone who has a philosophy like coach
1	a very positive message for our youth is shown in this movie through the sport of rugby as a mean a high school rugby coach leads his players in their behavior and lifestyle on and off the field br br the acting and directing are good the rugby shots are just ok if you know some rugby or really cool if don't know much about it br br i recommend this movie worth watching especially at a point in time when this sport is gaining more and more every day br br the plot is based on a true story taking place in utah the coach portrayed in this movie has been at the helm of the highlanders for over 30 years and loosing only game every 3 years br br enjoy
1	this movie has made me a rugby and coach larry fan the story's characters slipped and fell before they begin to grow as they struggled through incredibly strong conflicts those were understandable and completely believable like life there were no easy answers for the problems facing them all superb actors and an excellent script brought this true story to life i wish there were more movies like this one these days i watch almost exclusively worthwhile true stories because they are typically far more interesting than fiction additionally this one is inspirational and it teaches us to not to give up on anyone too quickly
1	first let's call this movie what it is br br 1 it's a feel good movie with a message br br 2 the acting is just okay dialog slightly better production value pretty good br br 3 rugby scenes just barely passable br br but here's the trick this isn't something hollywood contrived and it isn't trying to be a ferociously accurate portrayal of the sport it is instead a pretty good representation of mostly real people in real circumstances and a real storyline sure they could have done a better job actually the sport but my vote it does a pretty good job at what it sets out to do br br and i can't think of many football baseball hockey or soccer movies that are true to the sport either c'mon bull durham br br i'm not a rugby player i was a wrestler but i graduated from highland attended '86 '90 and occasionally trained with the rugby guys my brother in law david however was one of the original founding members of the highland rugby club in 1976 his younger brother billy played the next year as i recall if you're interested there's a highland rugby site at net that addresses the history of the team br br by the time i was there the club had been in existence for about a decade and had long since built a reputation for excellence it's a fact that they focused on broad training topics devotion honor discipline effort not tactics i thought the rugby guys i knew were a little 'off' in the head but i think i might have just been a little jealous they were hard core dedicated to the belief system that promoted br br with regard to the cultural mixing issues that have been brought up it might be interesting to note that while i was there in the 80's one of the larger schools in the city was shut down south high school and its students distributed among the other 3 primary slc schools to be honest highland pre 80's was pretty whitebread i've got a picture of the team from i think 1977 that shows an all white club south high on the other hand was a much more racially integrated school before it closed i had a pair of friends from south who joined the team one one samoan and as i recall there were a bunch of island nation players that joined up '88 '90 i don't think anyone questioned the credibility of the team in adopting or other cultural traditions if there was one thing that was obvious about these guys it's that they walked the walk br br and as to the strength of the team when compared to the best highschool age teams in the world yeah it's true that us rugby on average when taken as a whole does not represent particularly well against the best elsewhere there are exceptions but hey it's a simple fact that rugby doesn't have the prominence or exposure needed to develop the multiple traditions of excellence in the us that arise in other countries br br with that said judge highland on its merits br br the only team to qualify for the usa rugby national championships every year of that 25 yr history br br a win record of wins 9 losses read that again coach in any us sport in history br br regular international tours br br some compelling wins against some legitimate international teams br br are they the world best maybe some years probably not most but they're pretty good on a consistent basis and it's disrespectful to the game to blow them off when highland rugby may be the best ambassador to the sport in the us
1	i think a several of america's baseball movies are among the best movies ever made when this movie was in production and heard it described as a rugby movie i'd read about the highland team in the newspapers but didn't have high expectations for this film about a sport that didn't interest me br br last night i viewed it on demand and loved it almost as much as my favorite baseball movies ryan little and the cast and crew did an amazing job neil mcdonough was especially convincing as the bad dad he displayed fine range and a subtle but moving character arc br br i also enjoyed the pacific islander actors i've been fortunate to know many of these fine people and this film captures their wonderful spirit and culture a flashback showing how the islander culture became such a key element of team would have been a excellent addition to the film br br some pretty tacky movies have been shot in utah recently it's good to see a quality film like this from the beehive state
1	i think this movie has got it all it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head it has cool looking characters is really funny you know the kind that you'll crack up on the ground and you'll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks despite the bad acting bad cgi and bad story about cops going after a robot its really cool its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch get together eat pizza laugh like crazy and watch it two more times br br there are so many funny parts like when kurt was trying to get edison's attention and gave him the finger and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball on that part i kept saying remember remember to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened there was also a really funny part when ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought and kurt was talking about his strange dream and how he was superman i loved that part although it has been a while since i saw it so i don't remember that part everything the actors said were funny like how kurt says i worship you like a god to the robot br br although there was some bad things in all it was a great movie man i can't stop laughing i wish i had that movie
1	this is a piece of cinematic beauty and it shows more of quebec culture to others than probably any other work to come from la belle province it takes everybody into a first person experience of the culture to the point that you wish you glued your hair in place and lived breathed and ate everything maurice richard the book does this as well as the short and i'm glad that in all the time i did spend studying french in high school this was required reading in both languages br br i thought it was brilliant to have carrier narrate this story his molasses thick accent brought a lot of realism to the story the animation was good as well very surrealist which brings attention to the idea of this being a whimsical daydream fancying over better days gone by br br again as a symbol of culture this is unsurpassed one can almost smell the being cooked slowly over a wood stove this whole film deserves endless praise for making people proud to be canadian and encourage us all to appreciate the finer things of family and our roots i'm from ontario and this film made me fall in love with quebec maurice richard va vivre dans nos
1	i'm a petty officer 1st class e 6 and have been in the for 6 years and feel that this movie strongly represents the coast guard there were only a few scenes that were far fetched the most far fetched was when po fischer kutcher went down inside of the sinking vessel to pull the captain out of the engine room that would never happen swimmers are not allowed to go inside of any vessel no matter the circumstances second the command center supposedly in it looked more like a nasa command center we don't have any gear that hi tech third the captain of the would not be running the search rescue cases with like 10 people on watch in reality it would be an e 6 or e 7 as the controller and maybe 2 other support personnel like an assist controller a radio otherwise the movie was dead on i think they should have incorporated more of the other rates in the cg and their roles in search rescue instead of just aviation based rates some of the scenes from a school reminded me of my days their and the dumb stuff i did and got in trouble for in my younger days
1	i just watched it last night and it was great i can see why some ppl have ill feelings towards it from a rugby fan and culture point of view but other than that i have no idea what's so negative about it the movie is great it has a lot of heart very inspiring and encouraging to all ages great family movie they did a pretty good job considering that it was a budget movie i love movies based on true stories events i was raised around rugby all my life it is a great game but i was never really taken to it because please forgive me if i offend anyone nothing personal this is just how i saw it i thought their trainings are not as ruthless or hard the players are not as disciplined and don't seemed as serious like other and it looked like it's all just muscle and blooming tackling each other etc but after watching forever strong i was like wow i was proud it did good things for rugby well it changed my view of rugby and also the new zealnd i actually cried i am not even new zealander and i was proud of their culture didn't even know what the chant meant until this movie the movie is not about rugby techniques or rugby it's not even about new zealand all blacks or the or etc mother of pearls hahaha br br so to all you beautiful negative ppl you are missing the point i am sure if they had the means it would have been better the is in there because that was part of highland rugby culture tradition or what ever you want to call it br br so any new members on this site such as myself please don't be put off by those negative comments see it for yourself must see movie there is a lot you can learn from this movie ppl of all ages it definitely makes you want to be a better person and be humble this movie reminded me of a lot of things that i already know and was raised with but i kinda lost along the way loved it happy reading and all the best br br
1	forever strong is a type of film we've seen many time before just in different types of genres however that being said i really thought it was a great film sean faris is showing the type of potential that usually lands actors into big time stardom apparently this film got a limited release as i wasn't even aware of it but i saw it in the video store and decided to take a chance with it after i remember enjoying sean's performance in never back down i ended up making a great decision i'm not a fan of rugby what so ever but the film really isn't fully about rugby it's about making a stand in you're life challenging yourself reaching your goals there is a whole lot more then the simple plot suggests at 1st we don't give a damn about what happens to rick he's mouthy full of himself and completely arrogant we feel he's completely sealed his fate as a trouble maker along the way we see the changes in his character he starts to hang around with better people he starts to better himself we learn how much negative impact his father has had in his life it's just a great swerve and the film did a great job of turning rick from cocky prick to a good hearted person br br the rugby action itself is not too bad at all unlike the stuff i played and saw in high school this was actually quite fun to watch and beautifully choreographed a great young cast combined with some veteran experience helped this film immensely it just did a fabulous job of avoiding in what could've been a run of the mill type of thing to a poignant and effective drama i also liked the conflicting contrast between the coach garry cole and rick sean faris it made for a very interesting storyline and i loved seeing him help out rick along the way it was emotional and heartwarming at the same time this is a real hidden gem that i'm truly glad i discovered it made me think about my life and a lot of times i need something like that br br the performances sean faris is outstanding as rick penning he reminded me an awful lot of a young tom cruise cocky yet very charismatic and talented it was a tough role to turn going from a mouthy teenager to a good hearted young man but sean pulled it off with pure perfection he clearly put his heart and soul into this film so big kudos to sean for putting so much effort into this great film gary cole is excellent as the preachy yet likable coach who wants to help out the kids i've always found him to be likable he always has a sort of presence he carries to his films neal mcdonough is fantastic as the selfish yet pressured father of rick for the majority of the movie the script leads you to believe he's nothing more then a selfish bitter man who wants rick to be exactly like him but in the end you start to see the real him come out i felt sorry for him a bit julie warner is a good character actress and she plays the good hearted yet clueless mother well penn is required to play a real jerk and boy does he ever do that well on numerous occasions i wanted to pop him one so i must say it's a great performance arielle kebbel is the love interest not much of a part she did ok nathan west plays a somewhat mysterious character he did quite well sean astin is billed as a major player for the film but he barely does anything he did good with what he had to do br br bottom line forever strong is a great feel good film it will definitely make you stop and think about how your life was much better then you thought don't let this one slip you by you won't regret it br br 8 1 2 10
1	now before people start having a breakdown about this movie those who play rugby anyway this is a film it's been given the hollywood treatment to entertain people and therefore those who play rugby myself included are naturally gonna pick holes in the choreography of the game in the film it is a decent film and bring to the attention the morals and ideas behind the game of rugby br br the film is based on a real team a real coach and his work helping guide kids in the right direction to be better people in the future and also is based on real people who have played for the highland team its just a typical sports movie with a character who is misguided and eventually finds his way on the right track again through the rugby medium in this case is generally a feel good movie that is enjoyable but has flaws in terms of it's portrayal of the game however like i said it is a film under the hollywood treatment
1	first of all i know almost nothing about rugby so although i found the rugby aspect of this movie to be interesting it could have been any sport and i think i would have enjoyed it just as much the fact that it as about rugby didn't make it any better or worse for me br br what made this movie great is the story itself based on actual events that have occurred over the last 30 years with the highland rugby club coach is the kind of coach that most every parent would like their children to have someone who cares more about the person than the sport even though they have won 17 national championships and have only lost 9 games in over 30 years the more i have learned about the coach and team the more i like this movie and its message br br i have seen other sports movies that seemed great at first but then i researched the details only to find that most of those movies were 10 fact and 90 fiction with the 10 of facts being greatly exaggerated not so with forever strong it may seem too good to be true but that's what's so amazing about it if it were fiction it would just be an enjoyable story and nothing more instead the movie is inspirational and makes you want to be a better person br br don't miss this movie because of a few negative reviews by professional critics i have been reading some of their reviews and most of them have given the movie horrible reviews these are generally the same critics who rave about movies that most people hate in fact i would be worried if some of these critics had given the movie good reviews because i almost always disagree with their opinions br br go see this movie and post your review positive or negative currently most of the audience reviews are enthusiastically positive here and on rotten tomatoes and similar sites and i am interested to see if this trend continues thanks
1	like most sports movies which have come out in the past this movie is similar in respects that it is based on fact what sets this movie apart is that its about a rugby team a sport that not too many americans are familiar with set that aside this movie is very rewarding piece of film noir it reminds me of we are marshall but with a smaller budget and an independent movie feel its a fine effort by director ryan little to bring us a story about a rebellious teen played by sean farris never back down as rick penning that finds himself in an odd place both on and off the field despite a few plot lines holes this film has heart rewarding each of its viewers with good characters that we can identify with also good performances by supporting actors gary cole as coach larry neal mcdonough as coach penning dad i felt myself go through a lot of different emotions watching movie in the end i was left with a feeling of faith in mankind a hope for the future for my children especially if there are coaches out there like
1	as a former highland rugby hr player i feel like i can possibly answer some of the questions and confusion that has been put forward i think that i am also in a position to offer some insight into the club and back stories oh and this is gonna be a long post i can tell already br br first off the people who said that the movie doesn't show real rugby have a valid point the movie is full of bad tackles people in the wrong places and much much more if you want to know what a real rugby game feels like you won't get the best idea from this movie but the thing is anything short of actually sitting down and watching a highlight reel or jumping into a game yourself is not going to be satisfactory it's hollywood not espn really how many sports movies really make you feel like you are in the game not many that i have seen i think it's important to keep in mind that the movie is about rugby players much more than it is about rugby br br next the is very much a part of highland rugby it is not something that they just threw into the movie to be honest i don't know how the tradition got started but highland emulates the all blacks in many ways the uniform is based off of the all blacks as well the movie did not do a good job of explaining the origins of the and to be honest i don't think that that is right but i can tell you that every member of the team knows exactly where it comes from and what it means as for the person from china who said that only a can perform a i would suggest that they take a look at the all blacks and tell me if they think that they are all believe it or not utah has a very large polynesian community and a good portion of them like and play rugby for the local teams i myself am part hawaiian whenever possible the is led by a the team does not do it because they think that they are they do it because of some of the issues shown in the movie the concept of unity and those who have gone before is a huge part of the hr culture and the message behind the for any of those that are familiar with it support those values it's a chant by a chief who thought he would die ka mate and those around him supporting him telling him he will live ka ora and boosting him up how appropriate it is for a bunch of white boys to do it is not for me to say but that is the ideology behind it and why it is done kia is also a well used team motto even if the actors had a hard time saying it br br also for the people who questioned rugby playing ability i would just remind you that you were not really watching highland play in this movie many of the extras were former players from highland and other teams but the main characters were all actors believe it or not highland really is pretty good at what they do and pretty well respected in the international community granted some years produce better teams than others it's what you would expect with any sports team but you don't accumulate win record by just being okay the year after i graduated 1998 highland was one of 12 teams to be invited to the world schools rugby championship in zimbabwe the teams were hand picked from around the world and represented the best of high school rugby talent at the time highland obviously didn't win first place new zealand did that but they did manage to take third place in the tournament beating the national champions in their last match and while american rugby may never reach the level of talent that new zealand or south africa has third in the world is also nothing to hang your head about highland also has a tradition of touring new zealand every few years and usually comes back with more wins than losses br br the majority of characters portrayed in this movie are based off of real people and real stories i watched this movie with my brothers who also played for highland and between the four of us we were fairly certain that we were able to identify almost every main character nobody knew a white rasta of course as this wasn't a documentary hollywood did take some liberties but to tell you the truth not as many as you might think the film was actually pretty accurate in showing the 2 and a half hour daily practices as well as the mandatory personal running and weight training sometimes it really was running until you threw up it also showed the service and other team activities like the chuck a rama buffet that were very much a part of team bonding br br and finally the movie in my obviously very biased opinion it was a pretty good movie and i think that the reason for it is that i watched it as an inspirational sports movie i didn't think that it would be a pure rugby movie or an academy award winning drama it was just an uplifting movie about a rugby team complete with morals encouragement and a good dose of jokes thrown in for entertainment i hope that i addressed some of the problems that people have had with the movie and hope that you can now enjoy it for what it was br br kia
1	forever strong is one of those sports movies you can actually watch it reminded me a lot of remember the titans because it included comedy sadness and just awesomeness i saw it at a pre screening and all my friends liked it and easily put it in their top 2 sport movies the acting is great in the movie even though it is similar to remember the titans it there is something very unique about this movie i feel this is definitely oscar worthy and will receive many awards everybody should definitely go see this movie and it is worth your 10 i'm going to have to see it again when it comes out because it was that good i cant say one bad thing about the movie
1	the new voices scare me doesn't have to pass some academy to become emperor again it's the same thing over and over isn't it this is a kids' show right turns into something stupid like an animal he learns a lesson everything is the same david spade and john goodman never returned sniffle nothing changes 'cause disney won't do anything 'bout it it's probably one of the most retarded shows ever the first movie was so damn better probably the only person i like such a crybaby is retarded and retarded er if that's even a word what i meant to say is how could you disney why
1	it helps that the characters this show is based on are among the best disney has ever come up with the writing is what really makes this show it's a total classic given you need to appreciate the type of humor to enjoy it and this is hard to explain the humor is akin to the old school scenarios of 40's and 50's disney with modern spins it never degrades into fart jokes or anything of that type it's not adam sandler humor either though i have enjoyed that it is the exact same humor of the movie only expanded upon for the length of time a tv show permits so if you didn't like it in the movie you won't like it here but imo the new groove was the best thing to come out of disney since gargoyles br br a
1	spin offs for somebody who don't know are not usually successful because most of the original characters are absent br br here they are and you couldn't ask for a better ensemble in what is essentially a silly little cartoon not meant to do anything but entertain br br j p replacing david spade does an admirable job of retaining ego and yet not seem as annoying as spade's character a character spade has done for decades and gets on one's nerves after a while he has a softer voice but it fits somehow br br eartha kitt reprising her part as is brilliant she hasn't really been given much accolades since her turn as batwoman centuries ago except maybe for her vile part in boomerang it's funny how much the character looks like her though br br and patrick warburton there is no way that he can't be funny except when he was thoroughly wasted in men in black 2 i have been a fan of his since seinfeld but unlike that character he plays a genuine likable guy who is sucked into doing not so nice things br br the animation is really beautiful as all disney usually is but sometimes the character design is a little too sugarcoated oh well two out of three ain't bad
1	gen y cops since i heard of the film being in release i have been wanting to see it because i loved gen x cops i was a little disappointed that a nicholas tse didn't return and b too much slapstick nevertheless i enjoyed the sequel because it may not be good as the first film but it is good in its own way br br stephen fung returns as the ladies man match who has a steady girl in note where is haze and sam lee returns as the insane alien this time sporting a mohawk and speaking a lot of english the real star of the film is newcomer edison chen he makes a great replacement for nicholas tse as edison i also enjoyed paul rudd's performance of agent curtis he seems to be the tough as nails fbi agent you'd love to hate but soon you'd like his character br br the fight scenes are a lot better in this one even though there are very few but they are great courtesy of jackie chan stuntman nicky li br br look for a cameo from ron as a cage fighter who has a teeny little fight with match also is the stunt double for rudd br br if you liked gen x cops you'll love gen y cops
1	i just love this show it's so funny and cool is such a hilarious and interesting character i love him he's the thing that makes this show what it is although and are so funny and charming too everything about this show is great for me because it always manages to make me laugh no matter if it's only once an episode it's just so funny and all the characters are so lovable and cool it makes the show worth the time to watch unlike some crap on disney channel give this show a try next time it's on if you've seen the movie and even if you haven't seen the movie you'll find this to be very enjoyable anyway so go ahead
1	it's not as good as the movie that said it's a cute kids show okay so the emperor has back slide and become a selfish spoiled brat once more accept it and enjoy the cartoon as something entertaining it has plenty of jokes for the parents and still holds the attention of children also it boasts two of the original voice actors from the movie earth kitt who has been in numerous films but i'm sure many people know as catwoman and patrick sorry if i misspelled who also has appeared in many films and tv series but is most widely recognized as the tick it's really a rare and wonderful combination if for no other reason i highly recommend comic book fans watch at least one episode just to enjoy the dynamic duo to sum up entertaining children's show with plenty of inside jokes for the grown ups to laugh along with if your looking for educational value this isn't your show if your just looking for something funny this is a great saturday morning pick
1	i've never been compelled to write a review about anything but seeing such bad reviews about such an innovative show made me say something first people just have to get over the fact that the voices are different once you watch an episode it never really comes to mind ever again the humor is original and while yes some jokes do carry over from the movie they are delivered fresh some of it is even reminiscent of shrek self referential humor a lot of these jokes seem aimed at teens or original fans of the movie as much as tweens and younger patrick warburton and eartha kitt are both hilarious as they reprise their roles as and and their annie award nominations were well warranted br br this show takes some time to love to really get in the groove of things so to speak if you ignore the horrible theme song which really shouldn't warrant that much in the way of how you judge a show since it's only 30 seconds of the overall product this show is laugh out loud hilarity and doesn't lose any of the emperor's new groove spirit
1	original movie lovers can actually love this show if they just stop complaining all the time br br the emperor's new school brings up some old jokes from the movie like pulling the lever to lab and pausing the episode but since it's a kids show it's just classic and is in their right places even though the style is much more simple the animation and characters keeps their personalities very well and it surprised me actually eartha kitt makes excellent voice acting for and j p does a wonderful job for voice instead of david spade who played in the movie great plots hilarious moments and amazing looks makes this show worth watching just stop complaining about everything
1	while i understood that this show is too weird to please everybody i don't get where all these bad reviews come from and i'm most surprised over the bad reviews that it has gotten from fans of the movies i liked it and got hooked on it since the first episode i watched it's a little messed up though that was put into school and it seems to be high school rather than college but i guess he's only eighteen right so it's not like he's too old to get educated and haven't the royals always had to get the best education to them so the has to graduate or he won't become emperor thing doesn't sound too weird for me and i guess his education was neglected before so that's why he has to be educated now
1	i had the privilege of attending a regional premiere for this this is one of the funniest british movies ever the plot is fantastic focusing around a young girl who unwittingly changes into her ideal man at a computer fair whilst also creating a copy of herself who falls in love with him the film is full of jokes both visual and aural and has a bright and fresh feel to it and the acting is of great quality released in u k on july 2nd this film is a must go see it
1	it would appear that some previous reviewers may have had their expectations set a bit too high going into this film i found it scanning the satellite channels for something not knowing what and happened upon it i thought by the title it might be one of the myriad soft core porn flicks appearing regularly on the movie channels but i was pleasantly surprised although there was some male frontal nudity in fact more than your typical soft core title go figure this was not the focus of the film it was just fun br br don't be deceived by my tastes my recent screenings have included before night falls and europa europa both imho but i also enjoy total mental shutdown when watching a movie virtual sexuality did this for me and that's not a bad thing
1	in england we often feel very attached to british films that we like as we are so used to the usual american settings and accents being from london where virtual sexuality is set i felt a strong emotional attachment to it the characters in virtual sexuality particularly the females are exactly what british teenagers are like i felt like i was almost in the film i immediately related to the character of alex from the film his shyness is quite common in most british teenage boys especially around girls virtual sexuality made me feel really good as its one of the only british films that isn't about gangsters or the middle upper class but about the people who are watching the film average teenagers americans wouldn't really feel the emotional attachment but every british teenager should watch it anyone from london will recognise the parts of the city from the film it's definately got a special place in my video box
1	it's pretty good all things considered a must for anyone perplexed about the opposite sex i e all of us the trailer doesn't give away any of the plot for good reason br br the premise is absurd so it's nice to see that it doesn't take itself seriously it's like someone from the bbc children's department decided to make a film for adults that's not a bad thing imo br br 7 10
1	well i tend to watch films for one of three reasons unfortunately there are no transformers in this film so i can recommend it only on comedy value and pretty women read girls br br yes it is funny i know this due to the number of people in the cinema who were laughing on a regular basis throughout personally though i loved it for laura fraser who imho is fit
1	this film is great all the hi tech machinery and technology is mind boggling it is packed with action humour and not to mention guys you will want to see it again and again very very funny also it has a very unique plot which is unpredictable you wouldn't want to miss out on it
1	i saw this film a week ago and i had to persuade my friend to come with me because this film seems to be getting such bad reviews sure it is no traffic' or 'lock stock ' but is by no means a flop i think the fact that there are so many big budget films out at the moment means it has been ignored but it shouldn't be i reckon it sets out to do what it wants to do entertain us for an hour and a half and leave us feeling happy and contented i would much rather go and see it that 'the which looks boring and no i'm not a teenager don't listen to the critics star wars fans didn't this film is well worth seeing if just to see the gorgeous luke de lacey and rupert penry jones go see it
1	in this movie virtual sexuality the 17 year old justine is not lucky in love one day when she is stood up she goes with her friend to a reality conference there she is introduced with a machine that can change your look dody and whatever you like in virtual reality she decides to try it out but begins to make a boyfriend of her own her then suddenly there is an explosion in a gas pipe and her creation comes to life i'll say no more you'll have to watch the movie which is quite fun to watch
1	i love this movie i just saw it for the first time about 10 hours ago and had to rewind it so that my sister could watch it this movie is so funny there are two times that i was laughing so hard my sides hurt i didn't expect to watch a movie so funny i really only wanted to see it because laura fraser is in it i first saw her in titus which is an awesome movie as well br br like others reviewers have said too many people are expecting a deep moving film you are not going to get it what you will get is humor eye candy and the chance to ask yourself exactly what your perfect mate would look like if you could create them you can also wonder what it would be like to be stuck in the body of the opposite sex br br a hilarious sequence involves justine first seeing herself as a naked man i was cracking up br br i swear this movie is the most imaginative teen film that i have ever seen and it is now my favorite br br just remember why movies were originally created as entertainment not philosophy in motion remember this and you will have a great time watching virtual sexuality
1	this was a very funny movie not oscar worthy but definately the best dollar i've ever spent at blockbuster rupert penry jones is a shining star and very well might be the new jude law so if you're in the mood for a british teen flick rent it
1	this is a great film for pure entertainment nothing more and nothing less it's enjoyable and a vaguely feel good movie br br a minor but nonetheless irritating thing about the movie is that we don't know why justine and broke up okay most first relationships don't work for one reason or another but they more or less seemed like a nice couple br br in a nutshell it's worth a watch to escape reality
1	okay so it starts very unimaginatively with a narration from the lead character justine played by laura fraser an amazing actress in her own right but it goes on to become something miraculous it has silly little things that you really shouldn't find funny but do every time there is an especially memorable moment that sees your jaw dropping to the ground the first time you watch it when the male body of jake containing female mind is trying to get used to her new anatomy i wont spoil it for you but the second time i watched it was with friends seeing their faces was brilliant it makes you cringe but laugh at the same time i am also a big fan of the music used there is a beautiful small band that appears randomly on the street or on a pathway every now and then but also some gorgeous yet unknown often the best pop songs it has the feeling of being written for an english cast by an american writer which does annoy me only a couple of times overall this film is hilarious i am a massive fan of laura fraser's now after being given his film for my birthday and expect that even though some of the cast are little known to most you too will enjoy every bit of it
1	this film won't win any awards for greatness but if you have an hour and a half free and fancy a bit of light hearted entertainment then you could do much worse than watch this br br the cast are mostly young and pretty the script has some genuinely funny moments and the soundtrack is pretty cool too rupert penry jones as jake seems to have the most fun while laura fraser as justine is sweet likable and funny br br i rented it because i like the series that is currently starring in and here he's young and buff and the perfect eye candy for a girls night in br br get some wine and some ice cream and have a chuckle
1	i really can't see why people seem to dislike this film i found it very entertaining of course the fact that it stars the gorgeous laura fraser is a bonus when i first heard about it i thought it would be along the lines of a role reversed weird science and to an extent this is true however there is a twist which i really didn't see coming having seen the trailer on the dvd which i hadn't seen before watching the film i saw that the twist is actually shown in the trailer very strange br br as the film progresses the weird science comparison fits less and less and i think this is the better of the two films certainly there are some scenes which don't work wonderfully but these are made up for by the enthusiasm of the young cast br br in summary i'd suggest that this is a fine example of a sci fi chick flick and i don't think i've seen many of them
1	this is not a serious film and does not pretend to be but it is not as bad as some of its reviews it's title and the first ten minutes lead you to expect br br the plot is very silly but this adds to the light hearted fun and enthusiasm which runs through the film the characters are played sympathetically and while they do engage in typical teenage angst they generally avoid the sickly sentimentality usually to be found in this film genre br br unusually set in london sympathetic to geeks this is well worth a watch if it happens to be on if you want some tongue in cheek silliness and don't mind suspending your disbelief
1	when it comes to any movie that was made in or about the south the characters are labeled racist or hillbillies or even worse that awful racist term rednecks this movie was a murder mystery plain simple it was a great murder mystery did demonstrate some of human feelings about each others race the same type of observations made by black character actors toward in todays' movies before watching this movie one should get the mississippi burning chip off of ones' shoulder enjoy the plot wonderful acting reminiscent scenes of simpler times that while are gone they will not be forgotten mr faulkner did his hometown of oxford miss justice by having this movie shot there the producer noted while shooting the movie there his stereotypical perception of whites were that he observed white black townspeople locals getting along with each other in the same way so sit back enjoy one of mr great classics try to figure out who the killer really is
1	i am having a holiday in hong kong now and i just saw gen y cops at the cinema what can i say it was sooo cool br br everything you could wish for was in it basically just see it if ya can i'm gonna get my friend to send me the vcd when it comes out br br only bad thing was the dodgy american style of talking employed by some of the actors like edison what's up my man but it did add even more humour to br br see it especially if ya like any of the following action comedy sci fi edison did a good song for it too so download it edison tse heroes
1	had it not been for to kill a mockingbird this movie would be much more famous had it not been for gregory peck as fitch the acting here would be much more lauded had it not been for william faulkner perhaps to kill a mockingbird might never have been written in his shadow br br i found this movie to be sadly familiar because it showed me that one of my favorite movies to kill a mockingbird may not have been as original as i'd always thought it was perhaps it was inspired by this very similar movie oh the whodunnit is different but the underlying story a lone righteous white attorney against a white southern town defending a black man is all too familiar and written by a woman mockingbird concentrates on rape the ultimate betrayal to a woman while this movie concentrates on brother against brother hatred the rape a man feels by fraternal betrayal br br there's not the depth of mockingbird here not the comfort that brings with his presence so you're just left with the sadness that whether she intended to lift the plot from this movie or not harper lee's mockingbird reflects nothing changed in that 10 or so years since the time she may have read book and saw his movie while in college in alabama and unconsciously or not took most of it as her own in later years nothing changed in race relations and some may say nothing has changed even now these many years later br br it's all too sadly familiar and one wishes there were an of our day to make it all right where mockingbird leaves you with hope of that rocking in the arms of and waiting for a morning of better times this movie leaves you just sad that pride from black people might equal or better the pride of white people but pride from either is no answer at all br br rather it's the answer of we need comfort that we are all flawed and that in our frailty we should have mercy not pride when facing each other in our differences
1	it's too bad wants to deny the reality of and clarence brown's purpose in the creating of the story and film of intruder in the dust i suppose the burden of a history of racism is difficult for any southerner to bear and i can understand that but to say that this film was not specifically about racism is ridiculous and inaccurate yes to borrow your use of the upper case there are many many many places where blacks and white people in the south get along quite well but to deny the way that black people were and sometimes still are forced to live the conditions and injustices they have had to endure are not imaginary sometimes black and white people got along because of genuine affection and understanding sometimes it was only as long as blacks their place' the point of making hernandez character in film and print a somewhat prickly type not warm and fuzzy was to underscore the fact that bigotry is wrong in and of itself and human rights are just that for everyone regardless of whether we like a particular individual or not br br it would do good to stop denying the existence of racism and the great harm it has done to americans of all stripes the fact is that black people among others did not as a rule not an exception receive the benefits of the justice system as even handedly as whites segregation discrimination and lynching are historical fact people like might claim these things were not as widespread as some think and would probably love to exonerate their ancestors and heroes from any connection with such behavior it would be a wonderful thing if southern ancestors if any never participated in any of the horrible racist actions that mar this country's history and i hope they didn't if that is so congratulations to them but that fact if true does not erase the fact that others did and even if the horrible things that were done to blacks in the south and other areas let's not forget the draft riots of the civil war era were only half as numerous only a third does that make them any less horrible is the murder of ten children the hanging of ten men the sexual assault of ten women any less horrible than the same things happening to a hundred br br asks us to get the mississippi burning chip off of our shoulders before we see intruder in the dust well i ask you did the murders of the civil rights activists happen or not why should that be forgotten forgiven maybe but in order to prevent their they cannot be forgotten or revised into minor occurrences the racism that is displayed in intruder in the dust is displayed there quite purposely it is there to make a point br br on a cinematically historical level it is also ridiculous for to discount the racial angle any viewer of films that were filmed before the 1960's knows that black actors characters extras were usually deliberately cast to judge from our movie history wars were always fought by middle aged white men there were no black people in the old west it was possible to walk down a street in a major city and never encounter a black person there were no black hospital taxi drivers clerks etc blacks were almost never cast with regard to a role unless race was a factor if and brown had wanted to tell a simple murder story he probably would not have made the hernandez character black br br racism exists probably for different reasons i am sure we both wish that it didn't but it does wanting things to be the way we would like them to be probably can't be helped but it still does not make them so
1	a very potent drama of small town south dealing with an innocent black man's murder of local ne'er do wll striking cinematography and good narrative via flashback take us through the uneasy relationship between the suspect and the son of his lawyer a still powerful story that predates the sidney poitier films of racial prejudice porter hall has a great role as the murdered man's father trivia this was actually filmed in home town of oxford miss with many of the residents used as extras
1	i am not a faulkner fan which is considered sacrilegious especially since i grew up near the author's hometown however i think this is an excellent movie on par with the quality of the movie to kill a mocking bird if you haven't seen it buy it anyway it's well worth having in your permanent collection tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series i wish they'd play it more often very moving br br on a side note the folks from oxford mississippi will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the 1940's the courthouse city hall etc they're all on screen i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings when i saw the arch in the front of city hall i began to get suspicious look closely at the on chick's wall you'll see two for ole miss
1	hello there i would just like to say how much i enjoyed your review and comments about that excellent film in the dust' i believe that the points you made were insightful intelligent and totally valid it's also a shame that this film is hardly ever shown on tv these days and that it isn't available on dvd region 2 i live in england once again many thanks for your review the actor hernandez was in another brilliant film 'young man with a which also starred kirk douglas and lauren bacall that was a very evocative and stylish film with some superb music i wish that someone with influence could release the entire back catalogues of films like 'johnny 'i remember and 'the on dvd region 2 we love these movies in great britain i'm not of age i'm still reasonably young and my family and i love classic films films like these were so beautifully made and they bring back wonderful memories anyway many thanks for your comments
1	intruder in the dust 1949 dir clarence brown br br production mgm br br excellent tale adapted from the faulkner novel about a black man accused of the murder of a white man who asks a young white boy he has befriended to help him prove his innocence lucas hernandez is something of an anomaly in this small town he's a black man who owns the land he lives on and doesn't think much of the diseased social order that mostly keeps the peace here and in many similar small towns so when lucas is found holding a gun over the dead body of vinson shot in the back no less young chick claude jarman who lucas once saved after chick fell through the ice while hunting on his land fears that the town finally has the chance to make lucas a n arrested and with a very real chance of being lynched before the night is through lucas reaches out to chick for help as the only person he knows not cluttered with notions chick asks his uncle john a lawyer to defend lucas and while the man is initially bothered by his own notions he agrees and they race against the gathering mob to save lucas' life br br the film has an uncommon frankness for its time and is mostly free of moralizing the lawyer character has a tendency to speak incredibly self aware dialogue that sounds mostly like something from the printed page but it has minimal impact on the tone that's a credit to the rich characterization of everyone else hernandez who had mostly appeared in oscar micheaux films is superb as the proud lucas porter hall as the murdered man's father in maybe the best role i've ever seen him in and elizabeth patterson as a plucky old lady sympathetic to lucas' case standout in support roles the setting is perfectly realized it is actually filmed in oxford mississippi hometown brown also uses the crowd in an effective way it's always an anonymous mob against a single person like lucas when he's arrested or john when he's going up to his office that is very threatening or the of the whole town gathering at the jailhouse to witness the lynching like it was a parade of note is an absolutely riveting scene when chick and his friend aleck go evidence gathering in a cemetery robert surtees the bad and the beautiful thirty seconds over tokyo ben hur shot the picture br br 1 2 out of 4
1	i've described this film as surprising this is true in many respects the subject material black man wrongly accused the characters people you expect to be stereotypes often show uncharacteristic attitudes during the film the production br br all of these factors make for a refreshingly unusual film especially for its time 1949 the only possible spoilers being the sometimes cheesy dialogue and occasional high moral stance br br but if you happen across it when you weren't planning to watch a film you might find yourself like me staying up into the middle of the night just to see what happens br br
1	take a look at those faces alongside the entrance to the jail they're not the faces of hollywood extras somebody in production was really smart to take filming to oxford mississippi because you can't get that kind of authenticity from a studio backlot scope out the narrow dusty roads the frozen earth beneath and the skeletal trees just barely hanging on no wonder those faces look hard and unforgiving they're just reflecting the soil from which they spring old man lucas hernandez better fear for his life but then he springs from that same hard earth br br the movie works because it tells a good story that neither preaches nor and even has some suspense old man lucas is not very likable he's a victim and we sympathize but he's also haughty and unfriendly wisely the script refuses to sweeten him up that way we're forced to recognize the effects of racism and injustice on even the less sympathetic the script also wisely avoids dealing directly with racism since that tends to become preachy and less effective instead we're shown how easily prejudice can convict an innocent man and condemn him to a horrible death so it's through our common instinct to see justice done that the effects of racism are exposed a much more effective pathway it also makes the actions of the sheriff and the lawyer more understandable since they are otherwise part of the jim crow system br br note how the movie doesn't attack segregation it's doubtful that old man lucas would want to mix with whites anyway and there's no hint that even lawyer stevens brian wants to cross the color line except to see justice done no the possibility of reconciliation lies in the future as symbolized by the kid jarman whose head is not yet filled with notions he's not exactly friends with lucas but he has glimpsed the common humanity of being befriended after falling into the frozen creek the last line of dialogue also shows him siding with his uncle the lawyer instead of his more hidebound parents the dinner table scene is important and easily overlooked the lawyer might not join a future civil rights march but the kid might that's the movie's realistically hopeful side br br there was a bunch of racially themed movies during this brief 3 year period 1949 51 the well no way out home of the brave lost boundaries even famously detached mgm got into the mix with this little gem unfortunately the mccarthy in hollywood put an end to problem films that might not serve cold war ends even so each of these is worth catching up with not only because they're good movies but because even with the passage of 60 years and jim crow they're still relevant
1	this film was set filmed and premiered in oxford miss the hometown of w faulkner the locale of the 1948 book most of the extras were locals i've been to oxford and it has greatly changed this film features will geer as the sheriff he was later blacklisted it was the writers and actors of social dramas such as this film and grapes of wrath that were targets of the huac a few years later i don't recall if the actor playing the young boy claude jarman jr did anything after the tv series centennial 1978 but he was terrific in this earlier film and do not miss elizabeth patterson who later played in little women
1	as a fan of wm faulkner since college i was especially pleased to see intruder in the dust and for other reasons my grandfather also named clarence brown as was the director grew up in the oxford area having been born near there in 1888 we attended a week long family reunion at oxford in july 1964 a mere 15 years after filming the movie it still looked mostly like it does in the film but was going thru a period of civil rights upheaval then as the site of ole miss my recollection is of its being a nice little college town that summer but i was just an 18 year old college sophomore and white i was just then beginning to see the injustice of segregation and prejudice but still had a long way to go anyhow the movie is well worth watching but the filmmakers must have had to walk a tight rope to get it done there and i would love to know more about that story br br now days oxford is a larger more modern college town with all the ills that go along with such things and i hope to return again to see how it must have changed socially in the last 40 plus years hernandez should certainly have been nominated for an oscar that year but hollywood was still to bigoted itself to let that happen other faulkner stories have been filmed so look for them and compare one of the best was a pbs treatment of the barn burner from about 1985 or so starring tommy lee jones it really captured the intensity of rural southern whites that faulkner wrote so incisively about so often
1	this is a well done action movie there are plenty of fight scenes the acting is convincing for this genre and is awesome i don't know why people feel compelled to trash i thought his effects were executed very nicely and his design looked great the plot was acceptable for a martial arts movie br br having said that i must tell you richard sun is one of the worst actors from hong kong i have ever watched at least had the right idea by killing him now for all of you who thought sam lee alien was a bad actor he wasn't meant to be taken seriously i have just had the pleasure of watching gen x cops prequel and sam lee played the same character the same way br br now please all of you guys who watch highly reviewed oscar winners do not judge this is a thinking man's movie it isn't supposed to require thought just meant to be enjoyed that's all i hope they make another soon
1	it's pretty surprising that this wonderful film was made in 1949 as hollywood generally had its collective heads in the sand concerning black and white issues at that time the film deserves strong kudos for taking this stand for having exceptional acting from its mostly lesser known cast and for the super intelligent script that doesn't insult the audience or take the easy way out when it comes to white racism plus with the movie's rather modest budget and fast running time it does an amazing job br br hernandez an exceptional actor who played supporting roles in many films of the era is a proud black man who is accused of murdering a white man in the south the crowd could really care less about the details they are just hell bent on a hanging and despite his commitment to the law the one lawyer in town who has agreed to defend him also assumes he is guilty and doesn't really want to know the truth just delay the hanging until they could try and convict him and then have a legal hanging fortunately a young white man claude begins to wonder about innocence and begins seeking out the truth at this point the best character in this wonderful drama is introduced played by elizabeth patterson the old lady who later played mrs on i love lucy she single handedly steals the show as the white person with not only a conscience but the will and determination to stand up for the black man at one wonderful point in the film a mob is trying to push past her to get to the prisoner to kill him but she stands very firm and forces them to back down there is a lot more to this rather complicated but intelligently written story but i'll leave it to you to see it for yourself see it with your kids if you have a chance it will open up some amazing dialog about how far race relations have come in the last 50 years br br by the way apparently 1949 was a great year for hollywood finally addressing race prejudice head on as twentieth century fox also released pinky an equally effective and strong film about racism interracial marriage and even rape see both films if you can
1	no movie could ever do justice to command of the english language but they did a pretty good job here lucas is exactly the way i pictured him in the book as is chick what the movie couldn't really go into was how wasn't liked by the negro people either because he was equally as stubborn not that it is a bad thing but from my take on the book that was his attitude toward the world yet i got the feeling it was white society's racism that started it and it spilled over into negro society until that became his attitude toward everyone br br the best part of the movie is that you get to see county actually oxford mississippi exactly as faulkner wrote about it the film was made when faulkner was alive and writing it doesn't look that much different today because of this alone the movie is worth a watch considering it is filmed in backyard a true must see for faulkner fans
1	this is easily the best cinematic version of william fiction that i've ever seen and i've seen several of the most prominent ones filmed in hometown of oxford mississippi it really captures the feeling of jefferson and county intruder in the dust is not one of best novel but even if it is a cliché to say this it would be the crown jewel in any one else's career it beats harper lee's good but simplistic to kill a mockingbird fifty feet into the ground i read that one in ninth grade and that's exactly where it belongs two of most prominent characters play major parts in the film gavin stevens and lucas stevens is probably the single most common character in all of fiction he's a lawyer and he works easily as a narrator because unlike many of his other characters stevens is a man of logic not emotion at least when he's older lucas may be the most prominent of all of black characters he plays a major part in one of out and out masterpieces go down moses unlike all of the other black folks in he refuses to bow down to any white man he has pride and many in the white population find that an execrable quality in a black man one day lucas is found standing over a dead white man with a recently fired pistol in his possession most of jefferson and the surrounding areas don't see the need for a trial and everyone's pretty sure that will be lynched before the evening's over or at least the next day as the murder and arrest occurred on a sunday on the other hand declares his innocence and tries to get stevens to help him stevens refuses the case seems open and shut but his young nephew chick because lucas had helped him in the past is willing to help him now br br as far as i know no hollywood film of this period deals with racism as overtly as this one hollywood films rarely persecute the black population but instead prefer to relegate them to servant roles if you're an african american actor you might as well give up and accept that role as either the mammy the maid the servant or the porter because that's the only way you'll work in intruder in the dust there is to be found one of the most memorable non porter roles a black actor ever had lucas and as i described above is no stereotypical character and might have been hard for audiences to accept even today black characters are usually simple magical and kind the recent arthouse hit far from heaven is a great example of that is kind of a jerk and he's very stubborn although he's perhaps a little less so here than he is in the novel he's not any kind of stereotype he's a complex human being hernandez plays extraordinarily well i haven't seen the film in a while but he also appears in robert 1955 film kiss me deadly as well as the cinematic adaptation of final novel the br br all the actors are great in the film i should also praise quickly claude jarman jr who has the great role of chick the novel takes place from his point of view and he is the conventional hero of the picture jarman is quite an actor he captures the character who also appears elsewhere in fiction narrating for example events that happened a decade or more before he was born in the 1957 novel the town perfectly he would appear in another great role the next year in the underrated john ford film rio grande the only other film of clarence brown's that i've seen is national velvet quite a different picture than intruder in the dust his job here is exceptional i really have to credit him with capturing faulkner perfectly other famous faulkner adaptations are too melodramatic the long hot summer filmed in 1958 which i really like despite that or too cold tomorrow filmed in 1972 which i do not like that coldness is a complete misunderstanding of faulkner the only other one that really does well according to its source material is douglas sirk's great 1958 filming of pylon really a different sort of faulkner novel altogether tarnished angels 10 10
1	an unjustly neglected classic intruder in the dust is one of the great films of the 1940's which has unfortunately slipped into obscurity based on a story by william and shot in his hometown of oxford mississippi intruder tells the story of lucas played with great dignity by hernandez a black man unjustly accused of the murder of a local white man and a white boy claude jarman jr who uses this situation as an opportunity to pay a previous debt to terrific acting especially by two great character actors porter hall as the dead man's father and elizabeth patterson best known as mrs on i love lucy as an old woman willing to stand against the townspeople to see that right is done this straightforward tense and sincere study of racial bigotry deserves to be seen more
1	this is a 1972 disney movie for the time i was eleven years old and i thoroughly enjoyed this movie feeling nostalgic i purchased the three series dvd's of the dexter riley movies and even now at age 46 i still enjoyed them it was all about fantasy magic and clean fun and it still is i wasn't sure which of the three movies came first then second and last so now i have the official dates on december 31 1969 the computer wore tennis shoes on july 12 1972 now you see him now you don't on february 6 1975 the strongest man in the world i still think the middle movie was the best the special effects were amazing back in 1972 to us kids i definitely recommend it to all ages
1	it may not be a 10 out of 10 but for me the jokes didn't fail i've seen it many times when i was younger and again on dvd i believe and i laughed each time the humor is simple and fun this film was just one of many small flicks disney was throwing out at the time i found the parts where the people out of the invisible loop saw people invisible there expressions were priceless great film if the opportunity to ever see this arises i recommend seeing it for a good oh fashion laugh my favorite character in all the dexter series would most definitely have to be dean higgins i love his voice and hearing him get upset especially seeing his expression at the end was just pure hysterical for me
1	this is classic disney at its live action cartoon best bumbling college student dexter riley kurt russell develops a mysterious liquid invisibility formula that actually makes objects disappear and helps him to save his cash strapped college further experimentation reveals that it works amazingly well on humans too startling discovery takes some hilarious new twists when a gang of crooks headed by the notorious a j cesar romero steal the formula and attempt to use it for their less than legal activities dazzling special effects and a fast paced story make this lively film a textbook case of college comedy i love this movie this movie has always filled me with a sense of wonder and joy a pleasant little comedy that the entire family can enjoy not much violence or sex and absolutely no swearing makes this a movie that parents can watch with their children merely one in a series of kurt russell movies set at college a pleasant little series set in a wholesome america before terrorists when people valued integrity more than cash i highly recommend this movie
1	dexter kurt russell returns from the computer wore tennis shoes for a new adventure that can stand alone dexter ever the college student prone to misadventure has an idea for a formula to render things invisible dean higgins joe flynn is less than impressed and sets his hopes for winning a lucrative science prize with the pupil studying bees however the bees sting the student and he turns out to be allergic there goes that chance for a prize but wait dexter does it he actually concocts a liquid that makes him invisible trouble is a unscrupulous businessman cesar romero learns about it and decides he can use that formula thank you for something illegal can he manage to steal the bottle out from under dexter's nose this is a companion movie to the but one need not have seen the first film to enjoy this one russell is a genial leading screw up who comes through when it really counts the rest of the cast is also a dream with flynn romero jim bacchus and others showing why their comic abilities are still held in high regard today the script is just innocent fun that is charming with the special effects somewhat simple by today's standards but effective nonetheless if you want to sit down and relive a bygone era or just want to share a quality g rated film with your family this is a great choice although it is over 30 years old there is a great possibility that even now you will see your loved ones giggle away the blues with a showing of this fine flick
1	okay i'll admit right up front that the cartoons made by loony tunes are pretty offensive and i can understand why warner brothers has pulled them off the market seen today the huge lipped and very stereotypical is not politically correct however the cartoons were well made and it's a shame they aren't released with some sort of explanatory prologue such as the one with leonard maltin they included with some recent politically incorrect donald duck cartoons that were recently released on dvd in other words throwing out the cartoons completely is to forget our history plus little black and other racist cartoons are out there especially on the internet br br this cartoon has our little hero out hunting at first he's chasing a cute little caterpillar but later accidentally happens upon a lion a lion that is more than happy to make his dinner however through all this a weird appears again and again and eventually you'll see why this bird is so important to the story br br cute well made and clever i like the cartoons plus i take pleasure in showing them to extremely thin skinned liberal friends just to watch them have apoplectic fits or even heart attacks loads of fun folks
1	if a joke doesn't offend anybody it isn't funny br br the cartoons are offensive no doubt about it so is rap music get over it i suspect that any sane black person will find the cartoons hilarious and that the people who are offended by them white people who still think black's need their patronizing protection against racist humor br br seriously the cartoons are funny it saddens me that not because anybody is really offended but because somebody might just might be offended i can't buy cartoons or the african queen or song of the south on dvd
1	genius or utter madness that depends on your interpretation of this film i responded to it on the level of a self aware cop movie parody and i sincerely hope that was the intention as i don't see anyone taking it seriously d paul rudd for one seems to be chewing up the scenery and really getting into the spirit of things is this film supposed to mark a departure for rudd from his core background in the comedy genre some kind of insane attempt to reinvent him as a hard boiled action star i think not br br with the cheesy almost awkward acting low budget fx and zany over the top action set pieces it all kinda evoked that old tv show sledge hammer for me hilarious br br of course i may have totally interpreted the film wrong if it was in fact an attempt at a 'straight' action movie then it was certainly an amusing failure br br watch with lots of alcohol and some mates
1	despite looking dated and the bird is my opinion an enjoyable and charming cartoon the artwork isn't extraordinary but good enough this cartoon has no dialogs just sounds and music but this combination works out pretty well the cartoon itself is good funny old fashioned creative entertaining and amusing br br this cartoon also makes the difference because it focus in just 3 characters the little black girl the bird a very strange bird and a hungry lion that wants to have both and for breakfast so he chases them both during most of the cartoon br br i actually find that lion very handsome hilarious and cool i really like that lion that poor lion is so silly and loser that you have to feel sorry for him for me the real enemy is the bird not the lion at one point the lion almost eats it too bad he doesn't get to gulp it because it deserved to be eaten br br back to this animated short there isn't a single dull or boring moment at least for me the only bit that i find stupid is the ending because the bird has a major fight with the lion steals his teeth and puts them on itself other than that i have nothing major to criticize about this aside the fact that the steak should've definitely have gone for the lion and not the bird br br in my opinion this is a very forgotten and underrated little jewel that should definitely get more credit
1	this film shows just how much fun filmmaking can be it's all in good fun as it plays out a no holds barred comedy assault on the star trek genre in hick trek the moovie a group of good 'ol boys are on a mission to stop a group of renegade cats out to destroy the entire redneck federation br br can captain jerk stop the villainous fluffy with the power of the r s s and it's cow ray she may have nine lives but he has ten bullets this cult classic previously only seen at scifi conventions is a party favorite lots of funny moments
1	hey its great not to have to wait for the next star trek convention to see hick trek its a cheesy film by a bunch of with no budget but a good way to spend an hour they got most of the special effects right the dialog is classic trek and it just feels right for a trek knockoff
1	now this is classic a friend of mine told me about this flick saying that it's incredibly lame stupid retarded and moronic he also said that i'd love it br br to my surprise i found it available from netflix and rented it at once i'm just shocked that i had never heard of it before if i could give it an eleven i would br br
1	hick trek is clearly a film that is envious of even an el mariachi level budget 7 000 still the creators are able to pull off decent effects at times often due to great editing such as the the situations aboard the cat ship and slim t unique way of communicating with his ship without use of a traditional communication device br br the acting does have its rough spots but the portrayal of horns is excellent and fluffy is certainly not too hard on the eyes br br i do wish that the film had been longer than its approximate hour and that should be seen as a compliment this movie is a success due to the sincerity and hard work of those involved
1	man is it great just to see young and the restless star melody thomas scott as something other than flighty nikki newman a doctor with a brain no less and super nice to see her with the likes of the gorgeous lorenzo lamas instead of victor newman br br mel plays a college professor of micro biology who goes to the islands with her son for spring break only to find herself a prisoner of the island infested with a rapidly spreading virus handy for her there is the hunky character played by lorenzo who has a daughter just her son's age br br mel shines as does lorenzo with a bit of the overacting from the younger couple interesting premise in these times of chemical and biological terrorism talk worthwhile seeing especially for y r fans
1	i usually steer clear of film festivals and don't enjoy slap stick comedy but i must say that this picture was great i immediately recognized david from the tv show numbers and lorraine bracco roseanne arquette and karen black were at their usual best this is comedy at an incredibly high level with visual spoken and satirical interludes that kept the audience and me laughing throughout a rather deep rooted plot br br kudos to mr for dealing with a delicate but real subject in a manner that can be enjoyed but fully absorbed by his audience at every level of intellect the plot stays intact throughout the film and the comedic relief adds to the message without being laid on so thick as to distort the blending of segways is done beautifully and the overall product is wonderfully tasteful br br i can definitely state that this film is one that will go a long way and should be seen by audiences of all ages the problem is real and so is the powerful impact of this production
1	this really is a great film full of love and humor it compels the audience to really care about the characters and participate in their journey michael managed to assemble a great cast of top players a minor miracle for a first film no doubt they were moved to help him tell this beautiful story david carries the film with his understated intensity and honesty natasha is unpredictable exasperating and yet totally lovable as grace also a great turn by karen black great to see her on the screen again as grace's crazed but sympathetic mother there is cutting wit throughout allowing us the relief of laughter when faced with life's pain the acting is impeccable the editing tight the direction inspired and the music creates a fitting backdrop of mood given the present day hollywood blockbuster craze full of big budgets big names car crashes and special effects 'max grace' is a refreshing departure give yourself a treat and see this movie
1	i went it to see this film with caution a suicidal comedy didn't seem consistent having a brother who is has attempted suicide and seeing the devastation that has caused our whole family i know first hand how crushing it can be to deal with this issue i must say this film deals with it in a way that allows the viewer inside someone who is suffering and simply doesn't know why or how to stop it while the film is not perfect it respects the subject matter and more importantly makes it accessible for the masses i know for our family humor has helped us through a lot of the pain and max and grace is just what it portends to be a suicidal comedy it's funny and i also felt that characters were real and vibrant it's also extremely intelligent yet simple it cuts to the chase and i appreciate that i give it a 9 and will recommend it
1	on a scale of 1 10 suicidal sweetheart got an 11 from me and from everyone else at this showing the picture was incredibly funny i told my wife it's obvious that this man walks on water but across a bed of fire that's a bit much this is one of the very best blends of comedy satire and uses of innuendo i have seen since mel brooks' young frankenstein i can't believe this picture was not picked up by a major studio br br this film festival audience was sophisticated and was able to pick up on every comic innuendo either visual spoken or implied the characters are real and the combination of a great script and a great casting was obvious max and grace are real people with real problems that are dealt with regardless of the odds of success it keeps you smiling while being serious and laughing with all the indirect humor brilliantly built into this production br br to sum it up this is a must see picture
1	this movie is certainly worth a watch it's full of action it's also humorous you'll laugh until your stomach hurts if you watch this movie this movie also includes lots of hi tech things hence the name gen y i recommend you to watch the prequel of this movie which is gen x
1	not since harold and maude has suicide been so successfully used as the theme for a love story the acting by a top notch cast is terrific with a well structured script things progress at an enjoyable pace there are moments of black comedy but i would classify my suicidal sweetheart as a unique romantic comedy with a touch of dark humor the relationship between two psychologically challenged lovers is both touching and engaging the movie actually makes you question what is a normal relationship i highly recommend my suicidal sweetheart seek it out on dvd under the title crazy for love you will not be disappointed merk
1	who'd a thought suicide could be dealt with in a way that's palpable by everyone i saw the film at sxsw at it's premier and it turned out to be the best film there by far yes its warped and it's bizarre but it makes sense in the world the filmmaker michael creates if you didn't laugh most everyone did then you just ain't getting it and thats a darn shame particularly of note guillermo diaz as hector steals a bunch of scenes and the chemistry between natasha and david is intense the film reminds one of harold and maude but not really it takes one bizarre spin after another and they do all make sense in this crazy mixed up world we all live in i stayed as did most for the q a afterward and what was great was hearing that the same things i thought in my head as to why things happened are the reasons they did i don't think you can say much bad about the film unless you didn't get it i think i got it and it seemed like most everyone else did as well the film is dubbed a suicidal comedy but its got a lot of heart a lot of laughs and offers a lot of hope yet it doesn't shy away from the horrors of suicide as well a nice little movie that should get attention when it gets a release which will hopefully happen sooner rather than later
1	quirky vulnerable raw honest and a treat to watch i'm not here to give a summary or synopsis of the film i simply wish to congratulate this small film with the great big heart i tip my hat to the filmmaker and it's excellent cast if you want to know what happens in the film then go see it michael writer director has handled a very sensitive and emotional subject matter suicide with great compassion comedy and empathy i see a great career ahead for mr this film works right from the outrageous opening sequence to the tender honest moments between david and natasha as with every movie we need to suspend some disbelief yet i found with max and grace i was easily transported and completely convinced with it's surreal moments i only wish they would have pushed some of those moments even further mr has pulled some wonderful performances from this already talented cast for instance guillermo performance as a patient in the asylum was hysterical as well as moving the colossus ralf former mr olympiad as a terrified patient perfect i can go on and on this independent feature has the star power of a big budget hollywood film however you forget about the stars on screen as you flow along with this wonderfully written story the real star here is the brilliant screenplay i look forward to seeing more from writer director michael
1	many films attempt the ambitious few succeed this film is one of them br br though billed as a black comedy that term seems too limiting to express the true nature of the story behind max and grace multi michael has managed to weave elements of comedy with incredibly real human emotion quite a remarkable feat to be certain br br while the comedic aspects are certainly present the heart of the film lies in its leads david and natasha the delicate balance of the film really crazy versus real love falls to them and they achieve it carrying it through from the opening scene to the heart wrenching climax and on to the heartwarming ending david in the titular lead role and as narrator anchors the picture and does an exceptional job we see the world through max's eyes and imbues them with a sort of wonder and hopefulness that one would not expect to be believable coming from a character who had previously attempted suicide there should be no doubt from this point on that he has truly achieved leading man status well deserved after more than a decade of memorable supporting roles natasha might be something of a revelation for anyone who has seen her only in less challenging roles the role of grace is expansive in scope requiring her to show both great rage and great tenderness sometimes within seconds of each other she manages to convince us of grace's deep seated desperation that lies just beneath her alternating torpor and mania br br this is not a laugh a minute type of comedy so don't see the film expecting strictly humor from start to finish think more dramedy than comedy there are some very dark moments as one would expect given the subject matter of suicidal individuals and some oddly real moments delivered most notably by emma adele galvin as max's sister sis the most humorous scenes are those populated by the myriad of name actors in supporting roles while lorraine bracco and david paymer lend the most surreal aspect with their scenes the other supporting characters who populate the institution where max and grace meet are the real treat guillermo diaz is a wanton scene stealer as the delightfully frenetic oddball hector ralf as bruno acts as his straight man but has his own charm and appeal rosanna arquette fully inhabits the role of vera with the crass vitriol of an embittered truck stop waitress even her character melts eventually as does everyone who is touched by max's literally undying love for grace br br can love conquer all might be the question behind the film and even though the realist within says no movies are about an escape from reality even if only for a few brief hours i recommend seeing this film as an antidote to not just reality but to the cynicism that says that a love story like this never happens spending a few hours immersed in a world where it can and does works wonders on the psyche br br seattle international film festival june 2005
1	this film was original in an unoriginal way although many movies have tackled the subject of suicide and mental institutions it was always about treating the patients and making them better because of the doctor's assistance in this film however we follow a depressed guy who falls in love with a suicidal girl and will stop at nothing to make her happy even though she doesn't care for happiness at all she just wants to die this was a very interestingly cute romance comedy that in nothing less than enjoyable this is a fun one to check out if you ever get the chance you just have to be open minded about the material overall i give it a 6 4 i just voted 9 to get the rating higher
1	i really loved this original screenplay and the different places it took me emotionally spiritually and just plain silly stuff i didn't get caught up in believability in the screenplay or the actors and didn't even think about it until reading the reviews listed here in imdb for the movie listening to michael talk at the q a about his idea of the film wanting to see how crazy people or up people as he put it fall in love is really interesting i identified with not having a story book romance and liked seeing dysfunction at it's best i like watching david in anything he does and have followed his career for a few years now i believe this is some of his best work and say to anyone just see this film to watch an amazing young actor i agree that guillermo díaz really was a scene stealer and what he did with his character is really a great acting lesson in commitment i laughed and cried both in this movie and was disappointed that it didn't win any awards at the festival i question why that didn't happen i gave max and grace a ten because these interesting unique creative indie films deserve an audience technically watching this film it's really beautifully done – the colors are amazing and lastly it's one of the best soundtracks i have heard in a film in awhile
1	saw this at newport beach film festival the other day the film is really exceptional the crowd i went with all loved it funny poignant and great acting i'm tired of the tried and true hollywood romances who can relate david max is really amazing as the sure and true lover of the ultra screwy grace natasha who is also excellent when max falls for grace we believe it why because love at first sight is crazy and we're dealing with two lost and maybe not so crazy souls also of note are diaz as hector and rosanna arquette as a sexless sexy neurotic both roommates of max and grace before they embark on their trip to wi and finding themselves don't miss this one its something special p s the soundtrack led by kevin of bare naked ladies fame is really super super cool as well
1	peter lorre was born to play stephen with lines like mr smith you shouldn't hold my wife like that and i told you not to keep the monkey in the house the poster for this film is an eerie green and peter lorre leers in way that makes you never want to go to his penal colony island this film is not available on dvd although it is a classic and very rarely shown on tv what exactly is the relationship between stephen and the monkey why does the monkey upset him so much we will never know the film should be colorized by someone and excerpts should be made into a kinks video the film was re released in the 1950s and only a few of the peter lorre biographies spend any text on this film casablanca was right around the corner bogart could have been on that island but they surely did not have the budget for him
1	the story in this movie is fairly implausible b grade stuff but the script called for a creepy guy to play the lead and in 1940 that meant peter lorre and peter is at his creepiest in this one as island owner stephen who gets prisoners paroled to his custody to work at his island diamond mine upon arrival the discover that they are slave mine workers that can be beaten or killed at the whim of br br only two things seem to have it worse off than the slaves wife and monkeys monkeys tick him off so much that his violence towards them probably leads to the only meat the slaves get br br lorre is perfect in his role here and creeps up the screen in industrial strength fashion although the script is not casablanca caliber the editing is very tight and there are no wasted scenes this is a very watchable story but i'm not sure what niche this movie filled too long for a short subject and too short for a feature length film i'm not sure how this was marketed to theaters br br i just caught this for the first time on a late night early morning tcm showing lorre fans will not want to miss this one if they haven't seen it
1	peter lorre gives one of his most evil performances as the owner of the titled place the plot has a new government agent being put on the track of peter lorre's character when the g man's contact his killed by one of lorre's agents the g man is sent to prison for the killing even though everyone knows there is more to the story lorre has the man paroled into his care and brought to his island where he is mining diamonds lorre wants to know what our hero knows but he isn't talking and a battle of wills is set in motion br br this is a good solid little thriller that doesn't quite make a great deal of sense plot wise but even so the film holds your interest i had put the film on last night in order to use it as something to drift off to instead i found the tale riveting enough i was up an extra 70 minutes lorre is the reason that one falls into this his quite demeanor is unnerving he does very little but its clear from his orders and the way everyone reacts to him watch how they light his cigarettes that he is a bad dude br br worth a look if you should run across it
1	this is a laurel hardy comedy short with some great and funny moments but overall the movie relies a bit too much on just one comical premise br br the comical premise this movie mostly relies on is very simple stan laurel not wearing any pants laurel plays a scottish naive young person who arrives in america in full kilt for some reason he gets the center of attention because of this and his uncle played by oliver hardy thinks because of this that its time to put some pants on philip br br its humor is well executed but the main premise also gets a bit tiresome after a while although the movie definitely still has its comical great moments it at the same time is also far from the best of the many laurel hardy comedy shorts that are still around the movie is simply too simple to be considered one of the greatest although it definitely is most fine executed all for most part br br great good clean fun just nothing too remarkable or memorable all br br 7 10
1	im usually wary of movies hovering around the 6 10 mark on imdb id like to think people know what they are talking about and know what they like i guess the trick with reviewing is to take an approach of hey if i liked types of movies like these would i give it a higher score than i am about to give it now since i don't like these types of movies then again people judge differently basing more value on acting or perhaps story or directing anyway landing the plane here i had rented this movie out before and hadn't had time to watch it this morning i did br br wow see this movie i am personally interested in the paranormal have read a bit about near death experiences so automatically i was hooked i am unsure about some of the comments here saying that a quality cast here was wasted i disagree the acting here was superb from all i think this is the only time i didn't mind julia roberts it was good to see kiefer sutherland currently at the time of this review serving a jail sentence for dui and kevin bacon sporting an interesting hair style br br overall i liked the direction the atmosphere the acting and the story line most of all particularly the idea of karma and to quote nelson wright everything we does matters so true br br 10 10
1	very suspenseful surprisingly intelligent film about five medical students themselves and then being to share their experiences of death and what lies beyond joel schumacher directs with some skill creating some very eerie scenes as well as particularly beautiful ones the visions of death are not what viewers might expect nor is that which awaits us all when we go thanks to screenwriter peter who really did an outstanding job coming up with this story while the creativity of the story is impressive the story has many holes as well particularly in the logic department and believability factors notwithstanding all of that is a good effective film because of the script the direction which again is very surreal at times and the acting which brings four very talented actors and william baldwin together this core of actors acts and reacts off each other very nicely keifer sutherland does a very impressive job as the head of the group the one who comes up with the idea to die and be born again he also manages to portray a man a young man with a damaging destructive secret from his past kevin bacon is fine as the most pragmatic and skeptical of the group oliver platt is really good as the voice of reason and human fears platt has some really good lines and plays the paranoia well yes julia roberts is here too and very good the actors do best though by playing off each other and making us believe they are such good friends i was duly impressed with much of but more than anything else the story affected me the most the scene with that dog hobbling around the street just one of those powerful images evoked as were many of the flashback scenes
1	the bevy of box office big league stars is phenomenal in this movie william baldwin kiefer sutherland kevin bacon and julia roberts this movie was made in one of my favorite years too 1990 i am a and the setting in chicago was very identifiable and artistically as well i liked this movie and the agitation which motivated the climax in this picture was a powerful element to the plot which was utterly sensational br br centers around a group of disgruntled pre med students who want to be flat lined as a way of attaining some sort of societal vindication when life does not make sense it would appear very illogical to get curious about apocalyptic nightmares at the same time once their desultory curiosity has gotten the better of them there is no turning back the king of the hill so to speak is the one who vehemently shouts i will do two minutes who else is going to do that anyone want to try for two and a half ultimately all of these newly arrived and very unwelcome recriminations now have an extremely ubiquitous disposition in these re pro lives the consummation to their justified or unjustified pathos required a full 360 degree perspective on the issues they were agonizing over whatever purpose all of this reckless and academic chicanery serves it is definitely an original approach for asserting your personality i liked this movie 1990 was a good year for me too things seemed to fall into place that year when i saw this movie some night in november during the year 1990 i was very glad that i did
1	left quite a noticeable impression in my head the story is quick paced and leaves you constantly absorbed and at many times quite tense its about five remarkable student doctors notably julia roberts and kevin bacon among whom one of them has devised the mechanism of remaining dead or getting flat lined for a few seconds and then coming back to life br br the procedure is quite involving a plethora of medical knick injections electric blankets oxygen masks and a variety of esoteric medical terms i strongly suspect doctors coined all these words so that they never need to get layed off but funnily they follow the kiss original version for engineers keep it simple stupid extended version for doctors keep it stupid simple philosophy as well at the risk of getting euthanized by some revenge taking doctor reader let me continue br br so the first guy who gets flat lined hopes to find the answers to life which philosophy and religion cannot convincingly answer he hopes to get it answered and become famous through applied science he flat lines for around two minutes and then comes back into our world left quite shaken during death he has a vision of an incident when he was young which left the strongest impression on his life he killed another boy when he was kid by accident and he still feels responsible for it br br with the success of the first flat liner the others follow suit each of them extending their flat line time further and further to test the limits of how long one can remain dead and experience life after death br br meanwhile monsters from the past and future keep coming back to haunt them after their flat line experience the first flat liner is haunted by a young kid who tortures him when he is alone the second who camera ed all the women he took to bed sees television sets all over playing his videos the third is haunted by a young girl who he teased in school the fourth is haunted by her suicide dead father for whom she feels responsible br br all of them are driven insane by these haunting and obsessions and think that the past seems to want to take revenge on them the main focus on getting flat lined is that your entire life passes through your eyes at the moment of whatever stage that is and you are left mostly with the strongest impressions of life in your mind since they didn't die these strong impressions have somehow resurfaced and have become the focus of their lives br br all of them somehow come to terms with and their past demons all of them except the first one who realizes the only way he can move on through life is getting flat lined again during this flat line session he sees himself getting flat lined the first time and also sees the boy he killed trying to kill him this time round the boy kills him this time for a few minutes and in doing so has sought revenge for a few minutes in the movie one is left wondering if he gets to come back thankfully because most of us like happy endings the boy him of his past and he comes back to life again
1	five medical students kevin bacon david william baldwin dr joe hurley oliver platt randy julia roberts dr rachel kiefer sutherland nelson experiment with clandestine near death afterlife experiences re searching for medical personal enlightenment one by one each medical student's heart is stopped then revived br br under temporary death spells each experiences bizarre visions including forgotten childhood memories their flashbacks are like children's nightmares the revived students are disturbed by remembering regretful acts they had committed or had done against them as they experience afterlife they bring real life experiences back into the present as they continue to experiment their dramatically intensify so much so some are physically overcome thus they probe transcend deeper into the death afterlife experiences attempting to find a cure br br even though the dvd was released in 2007 this motion picture was released in 1990 therefore kevin bacon william baldwin julia roberts kiefer sutherland were in the early stages of their adult acting careers besides the plot being extremely intriguing the suspense building to a dramatic climax the script being tight convincing all of the young actors make what is now an all star cult semi sci fi suspense who knew 17 years ago that the film careers of this young group of actors would skyrocket i suspect that director joel schumacher did
1	my mom always told me to sit down and to actually watch this movie because it's one of her favorites i never did for years until i caught one night on tv this movie was great i don't even know how to explain it not only is the cast excellent julia roberts keifer sutherland kevin bacon william baldwin and oliver platt but the story is awesome it's freaky but not too scary and it makes you think i was left speechless after this film and amazed of how good of actors and actress all five of these people really are where did william baldwin go he's great this film is a must see for anyone if you haven't seen it go rent it you will not be sorry amazing
1	this is definitely a good movie unlike what other people are saying and i have both seen the movie and the end is cheesy but that is part of the package to experiment with death is the same as trying to defy it so the movie is cool for those who wish to see a classic kevin bacon movie see this please take care greeting from istanbul we will write 10 lines if you really want us 2 but we think it is a waste of time bye the rest of this review should not be taken seriously because we just wrote it to fill the 10 line requirement which is crazy but we are kind people and will therefore adapt to the rules that are set out for us so people watch this movie not because we wrote 10 lines but because it is good and by the way we wrote 12 lines
1	flat spoilers br br five med students nelson kiefer sutherland david kevin bacon rachel julia roberts joe hurley william baldwin randy oliver platt decide to attempt an experiment dying for exactly 5 minutes it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage br br almost everyone does this experiment randy being the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitors david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him joe sees all the women he has had sex with and which he videotaped asking him why from the tv screen rachel relives her father's suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions br br why are they here and how will they get rid of them this tense and interesting movie set in an city and into a gothic med school is quite the experience both for the story and the characters played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland julia roberts oliver platt kevin bacon and william baldwin br br the director is joel schumacher who had already worked with sutherland in 'lost boys' and this second cooperation is even better than the first br br a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs this is one of the minor classics from the '80s that get respect even today like the mention by rebecca in 'scream 2' or the calling episode which used the movie's premise br br 9 10
1	hollywood is one of the best and the beautiful things that had occurred in my life i admire and am very much fascinated by the way hollywood generates ideas and implement them it makes me wonder about the scope of human brain i saw a long time back but the story direction cast and of all acting is still fresh in my mind the story begins with our lead actor sutherland saying during sunrise what a beautiful day to die for all of us it's a story which shows emotions that are sometimes withheld in our mind during our entire life never able to understand few things in life it shows us to get motivated and to improve our quality of life anyway i suggest it to all that watch it once
1	someone i know said that there was this film called that was probably up my street i was told about this movie after watching final destination 2 and watching the extra feature about near deth experience br br i bought the dvd of at the modest price of 5 pounds got home and watched it and i could not help but smile and feel good wondering how this film hadn't been in my life before the film is about a group of medical students try to see what it's like after near death experience but then there sins come back in reality and can harm them physically br br acting from kevin bacon and keifer sutherland is great as you would expect from the pair and joel made this a great movie like he did with the lost boys br br this is an edgy and stylish thriller bound to please nay type of film fan
1	this is one of l h's shorts most frequently cited as the first real l h teaming and perhaps one of their best silent features j ollie is a millionaire who has come to the docks to greet his nephew philip whom he's never seen at first ollie is laughing it up with everyone when this strange little man and draws a great deal of attention to himself by the way he's behaving during his medical exam but is quite humiliated when it turns out that this is the fellow he's supposed to be greeting he has been told that philip is a good boy but he has one weakness women and philip set off to go home but their journey there is continually interrupted by philip breaking into a little dance every time he sees a woman then chasing after the woman huge crowds gather each time this happens not so much because he's chasing skirts but because philip himself is also wearing a skirt a kilt finally manages to drag philip into a shop to be measured for a proper pair of pants but philip escapes from there as well to chase more skirts there are lots of laughs all around it's also nice to see a short like this because the boys aren't exactly the characters we know and love ollie is pretty much his usual character but it's such a joy to see stan acting so differently from his usual man child character it shows he wasn't a one trick pony and excelled in other types of roles when he got the chance with a run time of 19 minutes its short and sweet providing classic one liners which still have me in stitches
1	nostalgia isn't always the best reason to watch a movie more often than not the movies you loved as a kid will disappoint you as an adult while there are exceptions to this rule it's hard to justify owning a dvd of krull regardless of how many insightful the director's commentary may be but stay sharp gen x because the dozens of disappointments dominating your trip down memory lane might stop you from stumbling across one worth revisiting br br one surprise film worth another look is joel schumacher's the supernatural thriller starring 80's popcorn heavyweights keifer sutherland kevin bacon julia roberts and billy baldwin you would think that a stew comprised of this cast the flamboyant flair of schumacher and the über slick eye of cinematographer jan de bont would result in something sickeningly stodgy but aside ain't half bad even though it's production design is inexplicably over the top and the photography is achingly over stylized replete with neon soaked streets spewing endless billows of steam still manages to be an effectively dark and compelling thriller if there's an explanation why was forgotten it might be because 1990 saw the release of another far superior supernatural thriller jacob's ladder br br had been released a year or two after jacob's ladder it's likely schumacher's flashy thriller would have been dismissed as a toned down commercialized rip off of adrian lyne's nightmarish masterpiece but with these films being released in the same year enjoyed a different fate take at the box office despite being a watered down version of a similar premise the passage of time hasn't been as kind to it has been lost atop a dated heap of throwaway 80's brat pack dreck while has cemented its reputation as a timeless classic fates aside is seamlessly terrifying and it manages to keep audiences guessing right up until the last frame whereas falls victim to over simplification and hollywood conveniences that drag down the final act into a predictably tidy denouement comparisons between the two movies is unfair and ultimately overlooks ability to represent the 80's at its quintessential best released at the end of a decade of shallow excess will always be dated by its hairstyles and clothing styles but in fairness it should also be remembered as a well executed movie at or at least near the top of its particular heap of dreck for intents and purposes it's an entertaining walk down memory lane
1	i just watch this move recently on encore channel what a great film a great cast as well is very suspenseful and unpredictable the movie has a great opening scene by the ocean then to a series of scene establishing the questions about life after death which provide a very strong upfront story involvement therefore nelson played by kiefer sutherland was the first to go through the test to die and come back to life then it's gets very dramatic by bringing back his wrong doing from the past to life then all of the above mentioned characters went through the same experience except for randy played by platt then the story unfold into a resolution and basic understanding about life and the presence and meaning of god david played by kevin bacon an atheist end up questioning his own belief about god it's amazing to watch julia roberts along with kevin bacon oliver platt william baldwin and kiefer sutherland at such a prime time of their careers one can ask how come we don't have such great movie produced anymore this is one of the best productions from joel schumacher i really enjoy this movie
1	although is 15 years old tonight was my first time ever seeing it i had heard about the movie but there was never a buzz about it to make me go out and rent it or make a point to see it period well i caught it on one of the premium channels and i must say that it was very good br br this movie was about some brilliant young medical students deciding to explore death they have figured out a way to cause a person to die briefly and bring him her back to life besides the all star cast this movie had some serious bite to it just the very thought of exploring death is riveting enough but i really thought the writer director did an excellent job in giving a different yet hair raising view this was no generic attempt to thrill frighten and make one's mind race this was the real deal br br instead of making it an empty superficial star studded thriller this movie had substance a nail biter white knuckle edge of the seat hard nose thriller i give it an 8 10
1	this movie is great from start to finish about a group of med students that get together and literally kill each other by stopping their hearts and then revive themselves they then research what happens from the near death experiences as each one goes through the experience they become haunted by their deepest fears that seem to materialize as reality this ranges from dead kids with hockey sticks to dead fathers that seem to be upstairs br br the cast is first rate and oliver platt is hilarious in one of the best roles of his career i am not a big keifer sutherland fan but even he does an excellent job this is a movie that i can watch over and over
1	a film that reveals the unease of modern men and women in life when confronted to death we are beyond the simple religious belief in the afterlife and what's more in any kind of hell or heaven religion is declared dead yet human beings are more obsessed than ever by death especially since we can push it away for quite a long time what's more the scientific and technological development of our societies leads us to believe we can explain everything know everything and do everything that was quite typical of the end of the 20th century today things are changing especially when the president of the united states himself barack obama in a public speech to journalists speaks of their search for truth and qualifies that truth as being of course relative because it is more a quest than a final end objective or achievement the film shows the end of the good old metaphysical thinking that was starting to evolve into a truth obsession an obsessive conception that truth was unique and irreversibly reachable post modernism had not reached hollywood yet though today it seems to have reached the white house so some young doctors and medical students decide to go into death and come back technically it is possible but the result is not surprising it old guilty feelings and frustrations that had been buried into the unconscious one has to do with a drug addicted father of a vietnam veteran who commits suicide another with a young boy who was stoned to death by some others the death included another still with a young black girl who was victimized and bullied in grade school out of racism sexism and hatred if not fear in front of her shyness it is so naïve that you could cry out of shame for these young adults who are highly qualified and behave like babies who are crying for their bottles of edulcorated fruit juice the film though is interesting but in something quite different the setting and the shooting and every single detail or treatment of any detail is baroque morbid decadent quite in the style of death in venice or greenaway or some other works of art that deal with making friends with the basic enemy that death is of course that does not save the film but at least that makes it worth watching br br dr jacques coulardeau university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne university versailles saint quentin en yvelines cegid
1	nelson is a medical professor who wants his four students to put him to death and then bring him back to life so that he can prove that there is an afterlife so they do and soon enough all of the medical students want to know if there is life after death the afterlife isn't about pearly gates and lights at the end of the tunnel but something more sinister br br past ghosts come back to haunt them and surely this movie will haunt anyone it has some pretty scary moments that could translate into real life and it makes people wonder somewhat about what happens when you die it's a good movie to see when it's raining and you're feeling down it's also a little weird br br see it with a haunted past
1	can't get much eerier than this deep dark film had my heart pumping throughout the lighting is dark and will get you in the mood for a death defying experience literally keifer is in top form as he is today in 24 he's a great actor and he plays a very convincing and shocking role you won't forget for years to come and what can you say for the rest of the cast an all star lineup julia is hotter than ever will oliver and kevin light up the stage in this thriller that will keep you gripping your seats it's a refreshing sight to see a true thriller with top notch professional actors you won't regret seeing this 2 hour seat bender
1	cocky medical students play chicken with process that simulates death in attempt to get a hopefully temporary view of the afterlife certain plot twists and themes are a little off the mark and the acting occasionally goes over the top but the underlying message about god's and others' forgiveness for our real or perceived sins is positive and unique in cinema and the cast is very very good the last sequence between julia roberts and her father is so effectively done that years after having seen it i still get chills thinking about it highly recommended
1	countless tv displays and the memorable appearances from 4 of today's mega stars plus hope davis's screen debut keep still in prudence the plot is about a non academic research of five medicine pursuing one's crazy idea on discovering the secret of death and learn what's after death then come back to life again yet the storyline hasn't been designed as fascinating as the idea of the plot br br there are popular stereotypes to develop a regular teen slasher script in there is nelson who creates the idea of decoding death pretty but introverted rachel david who cuts the knot on luckily not to be dismissed from the school ladies' man joe and finally the smart guy randy i did not come to medical school to murder my class mates no matter how deranged they might be they join hands altogether in an experiment where nelson's heart will be stopped and then they decide to continue this experiment in strict confidence at night times in the campus not long after nelson's experience everyone starts a race over having the wildest and the longest death experience risking their lives one by one yet soon they realize their daily life becomes affected from those experiences they had the visits to the afterlife brings back their delinquent feelings from their childhood memories their deep subconscious they begin having delusions and visual hallucinations br br when the point comes where the explanation of subconscious director joel schumacher skips that every humankind has a subconscious personality which they are not aware of this inner personality keeps one from altering into identity loss if you lose or if you this subconscious personality you certainly lose your identity instead of refreshing childhood memories i wanted to add this as a movie mistake which already has been mentioned via movie critics in the earlier 90s' obviously here in this movie schumacher made the actors have it least affected then why do they hesitate continuing on the experiment after learning their lesson as if death is designed by god david had been introduced as an atheist now he turned out to believe in god when he recalled a flashback from his childhood after witnessing this 180 change in david it's clear to see that schumacher's film was so conservative and lily livered that's ultimately why it's never classified as a work of science fiction alas it had a good potential it even tried to tell the unconscious maturation from having a death experience beginning to believe that death is so simply natural and it's only a part of a human's life br br more than what's in the movie it was also memorable to recall what's with the movie jan de bont as the cinematographer who had worked almost every time with schumacher creates an dreamy atmosphere like it's being an gothic horror movie the blue color schemes all over the walls reflecting into the actors' faces deliver first class of lighting that suits perfectly with the film the close up shots of the gargoyle statues in the campus buildings catholic frescoes in the walls stop motion cameras and the dynamic camera speeds were all belong to bont's skills br br became a cult movie in time with its sociological pen portrait of the x generation juvenile especially via its futuristic editing style with storyboard connection sequences like being part of a video music clip so much aesthetically those were the times where fast paced and multi sequenced video music clips were on rise this style was very rare to come across in those years after its pioneer tony scott's the hunger 1983
1	this film has a decidedly weird setting taking place in a school that's really old to begin with but it certainly doesn't look like any sterile medical school environment very gothic and atmospheric as for the film itself well ok the premise is a bit far fetched but hey that's why we watch movies isn't it and it's less far fetched than some of the garbage that's out these days that's for sure medical students are experimenting with 'short death as in allowing themselves to be briefly dead so they can experience what the afterlife is like it's kind of nice in some cases till parts of it come back with the voyager and start meddling in their earthbound lives i hadn't seen this film in years till i got it on dvd and i have to say that i'd forgotten just how good it was and it struck me that julia roberts looks truly beautiful in this film not like actresses of today that are supposedly gorgeous but are dressed and made up like cheap hookers ahh the good old days anyway this is a great flick perhaps not for fundamentalist christians but many others may enjoy it 8 out of 10 stars
1	stan laurel regarded putting pants on philip as the first l h film the second hundred years was the first 'official' l h film but this was the one where stan completely resigned himself not only to performing he had signed on with the hal roach studios as a director and man' before certain situations among them oliver hardy's accident with a leg of lamb leading to stan having to replace him and the extra money that performing would provide for himself and his new wife lois brought about his historic return to performing as well as writing directing editing and involvement in other areas of production but also realised the fact that he was part of a team that worked well together this therefore is an historic and very important film in the history of comedy br br it is also a surprisingly funny little silent film rather different from what laurel hardy would become known for and from what they are more immediately associated with today the characters of 'stan ollie do not appear scottish stan laurel plays the nephew of oliver hardy a respectable man about town who is reluctant to be seen with this strange looking fellow with a kilt and the habit of chasing pretty girls there are some very funny moments in this well made charming little movie and the performances of these two kings of comedy are spot on watch stan's little and smile that says well know when he sees girls or the hair scene at the airport for instance hilarious br br watch this film if you can with backing music from the beau hunks orchestra available on the video releases which enhances the 1920s feel and is very very pleasant to listen to it's a brilliant and underrated little film which is why i said it was 'surprisingly' funny
1	has all the ingredients of a good joel schumacher film intelligent youthful characters stunning cinematography a gripping story and excellent performances it's escapist fun but it's done very well and resonates with a positive spiritual message despite the unnerving br br schumacher has a knack for spotting talented young actors and all of the main five here have gone on to greater things see the cast list their believable performances help to raise this movie well above average kiefer sutherland shines in his egotistical med student role br br the cinematography really stimulates the right side of the brain which is what i love about schumacher his use of light and location create images that stick a disturbing nightmarish atmosphere is created which unsettles you while you watch the film and haunts you when you go to bed reminded me of the lost boys br br this is a film that takes an awesome premise curious students want to find out what's after death and successfully follows it through into a scary gripping tale of redemption one of schumacher's best highly recommended
1	when i first watched i was amazed it had all the necessary features of a good movie the cast was superb the plot was superb and in the case of thrillers there was genuine thrills throughout br br keifer sutherland offered a marvelous performance as the male lead in the piece portraying a scientist who believes he can find the answers to life and death by killing himself and then coming back to life essentially stealing death's secrets away kevin bacon offers an excellent performance as the more morally decent counterpart to keifer while julia roberts offers her most convincing role william baldwin portrays a student who excels in class and apparently intercourse and oliver platt in another outstanding performance portrays the voice of reason for the group and the most innocent br br the story is relatively simple yet original and the acting is refreshing definitely a stand out film for the genre and one that has set the standard for measuring other thrillers for me br br 8 10
1	i've been intending to write a review of this film for some time but only now have i actually managed to get my thoughts down for the of others br br i never had the pleasure of seeing this film on the big screen' which is a shame as it is often visually stunning but i have revisited it on video numerous times over the years enjoying it immensely every time it definitely is on my personal list of favorite movies and for more than just starring kiefer sutherland and kevin bacon two of my actors to watch ' br br perhaps i appreciate this film so much because it appeals to my slightly off kilter taste in entertainment i like my movies a bit left of center unpredictable and fresh and whether or not you believe' the story line of the film you have to admit it is different br br everyone has different tastes and opinions but my impression of some of the negative reviews of this movie is that the viewers never really saw past the surface level of this film they got caught up in technicalities why would there be green lighting in a subway ' or why would medical students pull such a stupid stunt ' and failed to see the artistry and psychological depth of the piece br br yes there are some medical and technical aspects that do not make logical sense but if you are willing to suspend disbelief just a tad this can be a very engaging film br br first a note about the artistic quality of the movie some have complained about the murky lighting and the illogical nature of the sets but for me the use of innovating lighting techniques the plastic and sheet draped sets the unusual settings in old buildings and dank dripping tunnels the use of statuary rain and billowing curtains all add a poetic flavor to this film a haunting beauty that suits the dark nature of the questions being asked about life death and forgiveness br br i will focus on just two examples in an alley scene a change in lighting allows for certain elements of the set to come dramatically into focus then to fade away once lighting returns to normal it is an innovative means of conveying a shift in the reality' of the moment and works beautifully we are also allowed to see the interior of the character's apartments contrast the warm wood bright colors golden lighting and cluttered comfort of rooms with the stark white void of nelson's both are reflective of the characters themselves nelson's lack of reflect our lack of knowledge about his past and his carefully constructed mask that keeps his companions at a distance his past we come to learn is one of chaos and conflict he has determined to leave that behind in favor of an uncluttered emptiness unfortunately the emptiness is also reflective of his relationships with others a realization he comes to along his personal journey of self discovery in this film br br is not your typical horror film nor is a typical drama or suspense movie it is rather more of an amalgamation of all having the best elements of all genres intertwined in a complex suspenseful plot br br this is an ensemble piece and the cast does an excellent job of breathing life into their individual characters your immediate impression is that the characters are each representative of a well established the female ice queen the slightly neurotic the playboy and the socially conscious nice guy' etc however as the film progresses and the characters are further fleshed out they take on multiple dimensions and depth br br most interesting of all is sutherland's character of nelson nelson is not a character that is easy to like indeed he is a bit of a b tard a master manipulator who definitely places self interest above all else yet sutherland plays him with a hint of insecurity that lends him a certain appeal as events unfold you come to realize that much of nelson's unpleasant personality is a smokescreen a protective mask behind which hides a very uncertain and vulnerable young man burdened by a terrible secret br br by revealing bits and pieces of nelson's complex personality throughout the film the writers directors and cast gradually lead you towards a greater understanding of and sympathy for him the character who started out as a jerk' becomes important and valued in his own right as you learn to his previous behavior in light of new information your journey of discovery with nelson reflects the characters own journeys towards self understanding as they too come to realize that everyone has value and everything we do matters ' br br which leads to my final comment although many of the posters here have picked up upon the theme of defying death few seem to have touched upon what i see as the main premise of the movie the importance of forgiveness and the need to be cognizant of all you do because it does matter ' br br
1	the basic premise of is fairly simple several medical students put themselves at the point of death in order to find out exactly what the brain does during the fact it sounds like something a mob of bored students would do for a joke but it forms the basis of some very creepy substories in today's world where hollywood has to mine foreign markets for the ideas to make a horror film is one of those rare gems that show hollywood can make something different when it tries hard enough br br what separates from a lot of films based on this premise that would come out today is that it does not stoop to being condescending or arrogant recognises that people go to films to be entertained not to in this kind of supernatural thriller the difference this restraint makes is really incredible what's even more incredible is that julia roberts appears without being annoying or demonstrating that she can only play julia roberts the theory of obscurity that performing artists do their best work with the smallest audience is in force here br br the subplots concerning what the characters find during their loss of pretty much everything that makes them alive and how it comes back to intrude on their present time are done surprisingly well the moments when william baldwin's character finds his personal videotape collection coming back to haunt him are especially intriguing that william baldwin seems so perfectly cast in the role says a lot either about the script or the direction i am not sure which br br kiefer sutherland on the other hand really shines as the lead one really feels for him as the mystery of what past experience is intruding on the present and why unfolds as kevin bacon's character goes to find an old school pier whose life he made hell and tell her how sorry he is it becomes clearer what the film is about we can try to change the past as much as we like but it's what we do with the present that matters most br br another good aspect of is how it achieves an atmosphere without the use of expensive elaborate visual effects quite unusually for what is essentially a horror film did not expend its budget in places where it did not need to much of what we see during the more surreal sequences is a case of professional pretending simple trick photography or stock footage sometimes the simplest things are the best br br if there is a problem with the film it's that it feels about ten minutes too short the ending seems more perfunctory than conclusive as if someone in the studio asked the director to wrap the film up so they can bring it out at a certain market time of course many films have been left with sore spots for this very reason so shouldn't really need to be any different the hundred and fifteen minutes we do get is highly satisfactory though not overly brilliant br br i gave a seven out of ten it works well as a date flick or a kind of late night popcorn film that aside it makes a good reminder that low budget horror shows weren't always sad pieces of garbage
1	worth the admission price for the rock off alone any d fan will love this movie even though it's a tad short and cameos from john c reilly ben stiller tim robbins meatloaf and dave just about recognisable prove that the d rock hard enough for anyone even dio the sasquatch mushroom scene is going to become an instant classic i don't want to say any more and be accused of putting spoilers in here fans of the original hbo series will see a couple of nods to the d's early on screen appearances in characters such as lee and the open mic host i only wish that they had played a few of the songs from the first album and the omission of 'the government totally from the pod album is also a shame other than that this movie rocks obey the d
1	seriously it had everything you could want in a movie everything screw you who like gone with the winds and screw you titanic fans even harder tenacious reins supreme forever and ever amen br br climb upon my faithful steed then we gonna ride gonna smoke some weed climb upon my big freaking' steed and ride ride ride br br what's the name of the song don't know what it's about but it's good to go what's the name of my girlfriend i don't know but she's built like the best and she's good to go go she's good to go she's good to go br br we are fueled by satan yes we're schooled by satan fuelled by satan those tasty riffs just as fast as we can schooled by satan br br we were the inventors of the cosmic astral code we've come to blow you away we've come to blow your nose we've come to freaking' blow we've come to blow the show we've come to freaking' blow you know it you know it br br what's the name of the song don't know what it's about but it's good to riddle ah br br i am not one of you i come from an ancient time i am known as the kicker of elves i am also known as the angel crusher br br
1	originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d and was rather disappointed after watching the movie my view was changed the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that and portray in the movie br br much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately ex saw iii dull and dragging casino royale way to homo erotic which in prior installments i have really enjoyed br br if you enjoyed borat you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth
1	just go see this movie it taps into everything awesome about rock and roll the band comes up with some great songs pick of destiny master etc all this with the humor of d makes this the best movie ever br br the cameos are great right of the back with meat loaf and dio singing to jb ben stiller and tim robbins are great i really like tim robbins character you also find out who satan really is the music and musical references are hilarious and awesome songs great songs from the who dio and others just complete it i personally didn't think the band could top the awesome songs of the d but they did with songs like and master seriously awesome music br br just go see it its a must for anyone who loves rock
1	jack black and kyle gass team together to promote their band tenacious d in this rock classic called tenacious d in the pick of destiny jack black and kyle gass invent their own rock opera it was like an opera of rock 'n' roll some of the most twisted events took place in that movie the big foot part the mushroom part and in the end when they did the rock off against the devil a classic formed in tenacious d one of the best films i have seen in a long time the last couple things i saw in the theater were stupid but this movie rocks this really made me laugh hard the whole basis is jack black runs of to find his rock partner in los angeles his partner is kyle gass and man who has always been bald they work together to find this magic pick that can make the most terrible musician play greatly they finally make it to the rock 'n' roll museum and steal the pick on the way they meet the stranger played by tim robbins they make it to the club to win their prize money when the owner grabs the pick and all along he was the devil and he battles the d in a rock off the d doesn't win but the devil's horn falls off sending him back to hell therefore long live the d
1	for those who loved wayne's world the blues brothers and hell even raiders of the lost ark you will find much to like but probably not love in tenacious d the pick of destiny a fictional epic about the formation of the jb jack black kyle gass band two out of work losers with a love for rock n'roll are met with a dilemma when long supportive mother stops sending him rent checks jb and make tracks for the rock and roll hall of fame after a sage music store clerk an inspired ben stiller tells them about the titular pick a funny animated tapestry sequence gives the backstory along the way our zeroes encounter a snaggle toothed stranger a game tim robbins sasquatch stoner security guards sorority chicks and satan himself an ironically cast dave in a climactic sequence that has to be seen to be believed and preferably played at high volume rarely do i see comedies in the theater but pick is an extremely nice change of pace it may not go up to 11 but it hums a tune both crude and clever for a good 90 minutes and the songs are inspired low brow hilarity recommended br br 6 5 out of 10
1	transcendental sophisticated incisive emotive powerful i could think of a hundred adjectives to describe this fantastic work of art and intelligence and still i would feel they were insufficient all i can really say is that i am infatuated with this film applause to kieslowski irène jacob and jean louis trintignant may rouge live forever
1	i throughly enjoyed this short even as a toronto maple leafs fan br br director sheldon cohen and narrator carrier captured all of the boy's emotions perfectly from the feelings he had for his hero maurice rocket richard to the excitement anticipation and hope of getting a new montreal sweater soon to the look of horror on his face when he got his sweater from his mother a toronto maple leafs sweater was priceless and the shame of having to wear this dreadful in his eyes blue and white toronto maple leafs sweater not the rouge bleu and blanc of the montreal with richard's number nine like his old sweater and worst of all his mum made him wear this maple leafs sweater out of the house you could envision and anticipate the ridicule he would get from his friends when he hit the ice wearing that sweater before he got there br br i was laughing the whole time and this is one of the best animated shorts i've seen br br
1	this movie is everything a tenacious d fans can hope for director liam lynch partnered with the d is a concoction of epic proportions of course you need to understand the humour and format of tenacious d when i saw it there wasn't too many laughs from the audience but the reason is not a lack of humour or intelligent jokes this movie seems to have been released on to an unsuspecting public that haven't themselves with the musical duo this movie does stay true to it's roots for the few of you who have seen the hbo tv series and heard the album they have not forgotten what their audience loves like the tv show people have noticed from the trailer the jb and apartment scenes and of course the open mic nights that each tenacious d episode would start and finish with the soundtrack is phenomenal and each song blows you away br br and dave plays a fantastic devil br br this is the perfect movie for those of you looking for a hard time and a rocking musical
1	i loved this movie jack black and kyle gass have probably made one of the best comedies since up in smoke this movie has something for everyone rock drugs and satan what more could someone want i suggest this movie to anyone that wants to sit back and forget all the trouble in the world and have a good laugh even if the movie does not do well in the theaters it is sure to become a cult classic i do suggest anyone going to see the movie pick up the d's first album because a lot of the jokes are made only funnier if you have heard the songs such as obsession with sasquatch and the epic battle against the devil the movie still is laughs even if you have not heard their music but the songs are so great you can't pass them up
1	i absolutely loved every minute of this film jack black and kyle gass most definitely brought the thunder in this epic tale of friendship hard rocking and destiny br br filled to the brim with unnecessary swearing in every sentence toilet humour and the general rule breaking attitude this movie is a must see for the hard core tenacious d fans of the world br br we follow the journey of young jack black and kage kyle gass as they try and recover the pick of destiny to win the open mic night and to become the greatest band on the planet the duo have to overcome obstacles such as a room full of lasers a man with one leg and the devil to accomplish their task i'll let you see whether they make it or not br br the soundtrack itself is awesome enough and now we see the d in person making the experience even more magical a must see for anyone who calls themselves a tenacious d fan watch out for the inside jokes from the first album
1	this movie is very silly and very funny you can't ever criticize it for taking itself seriously if you've heard their previous album or seen their hbo videos from the album you can imagine the extremely foul mouthed rocking good time that is this movie which tells the fable of how the group tenacious d came to be formed br br full of cameos it not only gives a fictional account of tenacious d but is a send up of musical history as well the humor reminds one of something about mary in that they often go places you'd thought they wouldn't but it lacks the scatological humor of south park this movie contains no nudity except for mooning
1	very mild spoilers a basic plot outline no real details br br if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland and the only reason i agreed to go was because it was free i expected a few chuckles but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d not much more then that br br the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious as we are given a look at jack black's humble christian origins in a midwest american town the film then takes us years into the future to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass the second half of tenacious d we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name finally as the title suggests the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled pick of destiny again the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face that said there were times it felt a bit long it's only 100 minutes but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot which is fine except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss and when they miss they miss bad same thing with the songs it is a musical but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so then kept going anyway br br i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing the d's humor simply couldn't work without cussing sex and drug references but unless you're a real fan of the band or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent pick will make you giggle a bit but is it worth 9 bucks i don't think so i was tempted to rate it a 6 but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres a 7 seems more appropriate just be sure it's your style
1	i was lucky enough to win free passes to the sneak preview of pod let me just tell you from just the previews i was excited to see it the movie absolutely rocked what i really liked about it was the fact that jb was in his element with other movies like school of rock he does namby pamby music for kids and families but this music is obviously all his br br i took my brother and sister with me to see it and we laughed basically the entire time there are a couple places where i wonder what the hell they were thinking because some items are a little disjointed but for the most part it was great a lot of the time it didn't seem like a low budget film so that is a plus br br what i was most surprised about was dave as satan that is f ing hilarious you honestly wouldn't know from seeing the film that that is him br br i say that if you are a rock fan and are into jb and or tenacious d go see the film be prepared for a lot of drug references a lot of four letter words and some skull shredding rock
1	this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year 2006 and say now that rocked it rocked hard and yet it also rocked tasty mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled now that tells you something this filmed rocked even before it started now i don't want to give to much away or be a spoiler but this movie rocked if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan what gives then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d this movie is the d period so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked
1	i've been waiting for this movie for so many years the best part is that it lives up to my visions this is a must see for any tenacious d or true jack black fan it's just so great to see jb and lee on the big screen it's not a true story but who cares the d is the greatest band on earth i had the soundtrack to the movie last week and listened to it non stop to see the movie was pure bliss for me and my hubby we've both met jack and kyle after 2 different tenacious d concerts and also saw them when they toured with weezer we left that concert after the d was done playing nobody can top their show long live the d d
1	probably the best comedy in a long time keeps you laughing nonstop the acting is good and there are a lot of hilarious cameos such as ben stiller as the guitar store guy the plot wasn't as good as i had hoped but the comedy makes up for that i can only hope for a sequel cause it seems like they can still do so much more even though it was 1 hour and 40 minutes long i still wanted more at the end also there is a scene after the credits which is actually one of my favorite parts of the movie i suggest this to anyone who loves a good comedy and definitely suggest it to fans of the d or jack black you should buy the album also the songs are so damn catchy and hilarious the music on it is top notch as well
1	calling all d grab your friends hit the theater and see the hell out of this movie from the opening sequence until after the credits you'll be laughing your self breathless br br this movie is a wild ride through the history of the d and not just some bull crap list of the things they've done but a chronicling of their rise to power i am a huge fan of rage kage kyle gass and jack black so naturally i loved the movie br br it helps to know about the show they had and their first cd but it's just as funny if you don't from the hilarious and vulgar lyrics the rocking rhythms the massive amount of pot smoking and the cameos down to the outright insanity that is the story line this is a movie for d and newbies alike br br many of their songs are referenced such as two kings tribute and to their many audio tracks like cock push ups every fan in the audience will be saying i remember that as well as new comers saying that's f'ing hilarious i highly recommend this movie to any body that's ever rocked out this movie is certainly in high competition for being the next this is spinal tap one of the best ever
1	what some hollywood movies try and practically never succeed creating somehow metaphysical connections between persons without becoming unrealistic manages this beautiful movie perfectly well resembling in that way a little to the wonderful 'la double vie de of the same director and with the same beautiful actress this is a real movie that changes perspective of life a little bit intelligent and beautiful story masterfully directed excellent main actors masterful cinematography i've just seen the movie the 3rd or 4th time and i still think it's one of the best i've ever seen and if you should be unhappy with the ending of 'white' 'red' puts an happy end to the whole trilogy
1	this film rocks so hard br br the cameos the drug references the sharing the love the rocking when jack and kyle first met in tim robbins' actors' gang theater company years ago who knew that such a legacy of awesome music and hilariousness would ensue all that door to door rocking paid off br br although anyone who enjoys classic rock will get a major kick out of this film i would definitely recommend renting the original 6 hbo episodes at your local video store before going to see the film in the cinema they're on the tenacious d masterworks dvd which is available for rent at pretty much every video store there are some inside jokes in the film that refer to these earlier episodes that will add something more enjoyable to the overall viewing experience
1	when i first heard that jack black and kyle gass would make a movie about their band i was freaking out i love their music and i hoped that this movie would be really funny now that i have watched it i can't really say that these hopes weren't satisfied but i think i expected more the movie is full of tenacious d's great music and i really loved listening to all of it there are a lot of great jokes and i just love the story at least the first bit i don't like the way the movie ends the ending is very abrupt and in my opinion they could have extended that a bit more br br overall i think it is a good movie to watch everyone who likes rock music should watch it it'll give you a good laugh
1	i am a huge tenacious d fan and i think this is not the funniest movie in the world but the most entertaining it's not laugh a minute but that's not what the d intended it to be i went into the movie seeing all the hbo shows memorized both albums and that made it even more enjoyable plenty of inside jokes from past tenacious d albums and hbo shows since i knew the new album already i knew 40 minutes of the movie because it is a musical comedy i would say it has the best first 5 minutes of any movie and the best last 5 minutes of any movie hands down br br see this movie now
1	tenacious d in the pick of destiny tells the fictional tale of the formation of the band tenacious d and their quest to find the pick of destiny a guitar pick with supernatural powers made from the tooth of satan himself played by dave jb jack black and kyle gass joined together by fate must travel to the rock n' roll museum and steal the pick of destiny to become the greatest band on earth the movie is hilarious and delivers non stop laughs jack black and kyle gass work perfectly together having been real life friends and co workers for over 20 years the film is in part a musical all or most of the music was written and performed by the d all of the songs are new material and many of them are classic the soundtrack is definitely worth checking out this film will be mostly appreciated by fans of tenacious d but if you are not a fan of the d i still think you will enjoy the movie if you are a fan of the d then you must see this movie the acting isn't as bad as you may think and the laughs and crudeness never stop coming i highly recommend this movie to anyone looking to get their socks rocked off and laugh as hard as they have laughed in a long time look out for cameos by dave ronnie james dio meatloaf ben stiller amy poehler tim robbins john c reilly and neil hamburger also stay tuned for an extra scene after the credits
1	this movie was amazing from beginning to end the movie is packed with fun laughs music enjoyable rock music hot chicks more music action drama and the f bomb br br although some scenes are entirely bizarre and unfitting they were fun to watch and enjoyable all in all this movie left you feeling great and happy especially those that love rock music br br the soundtrack is great the laughs are plentiful and the storyline is simple entertaining yet complex you have to see this movie if you love rock music br br overall vote 10 out of 10
1	if you are like me and you bought the new tenacious d album the day it came out and went into the film knowing all the lyrics to all the songs then you will certainly enjoy this film yes i am biased as a huge tenacious d fan but i really did like this film which made me chuckle quite a lot br br this movie was pretty much everything i expected comedic genius backed up by great songwriting and some great cameos from ben stiller and tim robbins i particularly enjoyed tim robbins' part br br if however you are unfamiliar with tenacious d's hbo series and fantastic debut album then this may not have quite the same comedic impact on you i would still recommend you go and watch that because it still worth every cent of the admission price and will make you smile even if you aren't in stitches the whole time
1	i managed to see the mtv premiere of this movie last night and i needed to tell everyone that this movie brought the thunder obviously this movie will be most enjoyed by fans of the d as it has plenty of in jokes for those that have seen the hbo series and has more than enough d for newer fans and the mass of soon to be converts the music really shines with the new songs which is much better than it sounds master possibly the 3rd best song in the world and dude i totally miss you there are a load of excellent scenes the car chase the rock off the meeting and cameos including dave as satan i really could go on for hours but i don't want to give the movie away go see it you won't be disappointed
1	i was able to see a preview of this movie through pre screening program and let me tell you this movie is unbelievably good i have seen many movies but few have made me laugh so sincerely or talk about the movie afterward as much as this one i had a decent respect for tenacious d before seeing the movie and now i am mad about them i will most definitely buy their album when it is released on the 14th and will see this movie again br br if you were on the fence about seeing this movie get off and go see it it is worth the extremely expensive price of movie tickets these days as you will surely bust a nut laughing during the whole thing br br aside from the comedy the glorious and divine music that flows from guitar and voice is awe inspiring the audience is left in a stupor that such beautiful harmonies and amazing riffs can be created in conjunction with such ridiculous and hilarious lyrics if for nothing other than the music itself this movie is worth the price of admission br br with a wonderfully coherent storyline tying in almost all aspects of the traditional d history and hallmarks great new songs hilarious comedy and some pretty awesome cameos this movie ranks up there with the best go see it
1	i saw the d's new film tonight at a special advance screening and i was so blown away by its sheer greatness that i felt i had to come onto imdb and get the word out admittedly i was already a huge fan of the d's work i loved the hbo series and listen to their music weekly there's nothing better to sing along to but this appreciation actually made me more apprehensive going into to tonight's screening for we've all been disappointed one time or another by something we love when it attempted to make the jump to the big screen with tenacious d's the pick of destiny this is not the case br br simply put this film rocks harder than anything i've seen and is funnier and more majestic than anything peter jackson pixar and will ferrell together could produce it tells the story of the d before we came to know them setting up intriguing histories of kage and upbringings their comings together and how they were inspired to write songs about such things as lee sasquatch and dio most importantly they reveal the true inspiration to the greatest song in the world tribute and how it came to be which is different than the hbo series' version after you've witnessed it you probably won't be able to remember it hence the tribute but your mind forever be changes by its genius br br i don't go out to movies very often anymore due to the high ticket price and the hassle of getting parking paying outrageous concession prices etc but i usually make exceptions when it's starring someone i really love or concerning something of the the same variety the pick of destiny was so good that i have no qualms going back to see it again when it releases nationwide and i plan on convincing all of my friends to go too last week we saw borat and loved it but this is honest to goodness ten times better for anyone who truly loves rock music and comedic brilliance see this film these guys' talent is so great you should have no hesitation supporting their cause you will not be disappointed and the rock lords will smile upon you favorably
1	i saw this movie on a fluke i was standing on 42nd street waiting for a bus to go home and a sister started passing out free tickets for a preview of this movie i gave it a chance not expecting much the promotional movie posters i've seen on the subway station walls do not give this film justice at all br br the movie is about a young rocker who goes on a journey to learn the craft and art of heavy metal i'll leave it there the movie is a heavy comedy and lot's of fun if your are old enough to remember when heavy metal dominated the music scene in the eighties you are going to love this film jack black is an amazingly talented comedian and actor and assuming he really wrote and performed the songs in this film he is also a talented musician br br tenacious d is definitely worth a look
1	a wonder my favorite film the most important film about relationships ever made brilliant writing magnificent directing image systems and symbolism that leave you thinking about it all days weeks years later wow a truly great work of art
1	just saw it at as closing film of austin film festival going in a had seen a few snippets of their act at alamo and thought the trailer was amusing but i wasn't expecting such an epic theme music and the use of tarot cards is genius in the title sequence watch out for cameos from ben stiller and tim robbins and the dark lord himself who has a fetish for so much over the top fun and the songs are so catchy the car chase was by far my favorite scene i know this will earn cult status right away and win over some new tenacious d fans just like me i hope this does well in the theaters follow me we are the shadows
1	i love a film that mixes edge of the seat suspense laughs style good acting and a bit of self parody hitchcock consistently carried this off and in le rouge jean pierre melville does the same i was sorry when this long film ended br br i agree with the english commenter who found remarks by one of my compatriots chauvinistic i love french films italian films english films indian films and the increasingly rare good american films i also feel the writer who panned the film for being not even a good copy of an american gangster film missed the point completely but i guess it's like jazz either you get it or you don't so why waste time trying to explain br br just see le noir and be prepared to be deliciously entertained
1	there were heist movies before this one and indeed the likes of rififi were an obvious influence on it but the red circle is more than just another entry in an overpopulated genre and with this film director jean pierre melville has managed to create something that both thrills on the surface and gives its audience something to think about being cool is just as important a feature of the modern crime movie as guns and gangsters and melville delivers that with this film in droves the tone of the film is very relaxed too and melville allows the bulk of the film to bubble under the cool exterior the story has a number of angles but the central character is corey a thief who is released from prison his release coincides with the escape of infamous murderer vogel who slips from under the nose of police commissioner mattei during a train ride the first thing corey does upon release is steal some money from his former boss rico and the second thing he does is recruit vogel and a sharpshooter to help him pull of a jewel heist but rico and the police are hot on the thieves' tails br br the film is bolted together by four excellent central performances alain delon is calm and calculating as the film's anti hero while gian maria looks formidable in his role as the escaped murderer françois périer is good also as a dubious club owner while the real standout performance comes from andré in his role as the police commissioner the film runs at almost two and a half hours and is not exactly a thrill ride however the director keeps things interesting by keeping the action focused on the important elements the film does feature crime film stapes such as shootings but they are kept to a minimum the first two thirds of the movie are really just building up to the suspenseful heist scene towards the end rififi was most famous for its heist sequence an intricately designed scene in which nobody speaks a word the heist in this film is similar in that it is also wordless and i have to say that i preferred the scene in rififi but melville's skill in direction and the calm and composed way that it plays out make good of it the film boils down to an exciting climax that rounds it all off nicely overall this might not appeal to all crime film fans as the action is more than a little bit slow but the red circle is an excellent film and deserves its reputation as a masterpiece
1	after 30 years of hiatus once again i immerse myself in the mist of uplifting melancholy the cold slow paced and existential treatment of this crime story comes from a different world melville's world where darkness is pure enlightenment
1	caper film is not as good as his most famous movie the deliciously stylish le samourai 1968 i don't even think this is the best example of the much loved heist subgenre the main thing against the film is its long running time has this tendency of concentrating on too many trivial details he could have told the same story in a relative short time but for reasons that i don't understand the film seems to go on and on still the movie is never boring melville's direction impressed me and the cast is very good especially alain delon as a very cool master thief the movie's must see color photography is a great asset and melville uses sound or lack of sound in a very effective manner from a technical standpoint the movie is practically flawless at times one gets the feeling that is merely showing off but when someone is as talented as he is one has little reason to complain i still like other heist movies a little bit more jules dassin's topkapi 1964 just to name one but there is no denying that this film is a good piece of pulp entertainment and a good example of what people refer to as cool cinema
1	all men are guilty says the chief of the police they're born innocent but it doesn't last add this bit of nihilism to jean pierre melville's fascination with the idea of the code of honor and you have le rouge this code of honor among crooks however is not simply a cliché it's a figment of the imagination even when film realistic by their viewpoint romantic by most others' began to make movies on the subject their theme is that it isn't what one does but how one does it we most often wind up with stories all about experienced men with their own sense of honor stories where fate fatalism and the code run things br br for most of humanity except screen writers and movie directors this would seriously get in the way of living one's life raising one's children and being a good friend this mannered fatalism is something of a self indulgent notion le rouge is in my view a classic film for people who may secretly enjoy the adventure of just missing the last bus home but where melville's le samourai criterion collection in my opinion is style dominating story le rouge manages the great trick of combining style with a strong story and with compelling actors the point of the movie in my view is nonsense but the movie itself is a first class experience br br melville's hopeless tale of three crooks cory alain delon vogel gian maria and jansen yves montand is based on a bit of wisdom which is maybe attributed to the buddha that all men who are destined to meet will along with their destiny they cannot change maybe because some believe melville himself came up with the wording if not the thought either way we know right at the start that this movie will not end happily will depend upon fate and coincidence to set things up for us and will leave us recalling the nihilistic philosophies we discovered and loved when we were in high school once corey and vogel meet and then gather in the unique talents of jansen we are off on a one way ride to rob an exclusive heavily protected jewelry story on the place the tension arises because we not only know the french police are after vogel we also realize that some determined crooks are after corey br br the great pleasure of the movie for me came from admiring the work that delon and montand brought to their characters and the intelligent ruthlessness that andre brought to his character the police captain mattei melville hooked me as he developed these characters and their own situations he built me up emotionally and then released me when he brought me to appreciate their probable fate and let me see see it happen melville establishes his set pieces the escape from the train the escape from the woods the later shootout in the woods the meetings with mattei and a man who refuses to inform with intriguing possibilities he builds tension in all these cases by taking his time a rare trait in movie making and an even rarer trait now and melville takes the time to build up mattei as an individual mattei is a rueful experienced man he's a loner he has a set routine when he returns to his apartment he greets his three cats affectionately he draws his bath and while the tub is filling he sets out food for them i don't know who mattei is destined to meet but i hope it's someone who likes cats br br nihilism is always fashionable among some creative people and some critics in most cases i think it's a much harder task to set nihilism aside and to simply live one's life without damaging too many people and that's even more challenging to show compellingly in a film le rouge is a movie which for me tells me little but it is in its own way i think a beautifully put together film
1	jean pierre melville's le rouge follows the lives of two criminals vogel gian maria a murderer who gives the cops the slip while he's being transferred from one city to another by train and corey delon a thief just released from jail fate decides to join these two men to pull off a spectacular heist in the background there is andré the detective vogel escapes from implacable in his pursuit and sometimes ruthless in his methods along the movie the viewer meets other minor but fascinating characters the best of which is jansen yves montand a disgraced ex cop and an excellent marksman br br melville has such a unique style one doesn't need to watch many of his movies to catch on le samourai un flic and le rouge are clearly made of the same cloth the symmetrical angles the long shots the silences the coats and hats and cigars the quotes at the beginning the amazing heists the fatalism the unglamorous and inglorious criminal life everything that's great in melville is present here in top form br br and his shortcomings didn't bother me so much this time the illogical perplexing behavior of his characters and confusing storytelling which hurt my enjoyment of his other movies are almost invisible here since le rouge preceded un flic that doesn't mean he got better with time perhaps i'm just getting more used to it and reaching a mindset where it doesn't bother me anymore br br melville made unique crime movies as old as they may be they show more ingenuity realism and grace than the modern techno thrillers in which cool thieves use computer systems and james bond esquire gadgets to pull off impossible crimes melville's criminals aren't cool they're lonely socially awkward and probably aware they're not good for much more than planning heists they're society's unwanted living in the night always one step ahead of the police in a game they know they'll lose eventually there's nothing romantic about them br br amazingly for a movie of this type the cops aren't complete idiots either is smart crafty patient and even compassionate he's not an unlikeable villain or a cliché he's just an old man doing his job and doing it right he knows when to use force and when to use brains many movies could learn from him br br it's this down to earth unromantic style that makes melville's movies such a joy to watch and puts him on a special pedestal as one of cinema's great crime masters
1	le rouge is a very good film though it does suffer a bit since there have already been similar films in all too many ways the movie is reminiscent of previous heist films such as rififi and grand slam and many others so while director melville and the actors did great jobs it all seems like a case of déjà vu because of this i had a hard time giving this excellent film a higher score br br the one unusual aspect of the film is how the crooks get together instead of the usual means vogel escapes from prison and just happens to meet up with corey a career criminal just released from prison both are a good match but having them both work in parallel for much of the film until they meet was a clever touch apart from that as expected much of the movie concerns the meticulous details in planning and executing the crime i also appreciated how the film showed the crooks in such a cold and detached manner something relatively common in french crime films but rare among american films until recent years br br overall extremely well crafted and worth seeing if you don't mind that it seems a tad repetitive you'll see some fine acting direction and a lot of great tension
1	how good is this film apparently good enough that they plan to remake it in jean pierre melville who gave us le and the good thief wrote and directed this film br br the film is almost a silent these are men of few words preferring to let their actions speak for them they live by a code that governs their every move br br there are some great actors in this film alain delon the leopard yves montand jean de let's make love and gian maria el from a fistful of dollars a few dollars more the film does not shine on them they are along for the ride that melville has for them melville makes the film they make it better br br you see melville's work in the ocean films but they just get the idea the can't make it work like he did a great loss in the seventies but his work remains for our pleasure
1	just as in rififi the most compelling scene in the movie is the perfected silence of the jewel heist the scene is masterful in its execution each of the robbers having their own specialized job to perform each one successfully combining their own unique talent towards the objective and each one until a month before complete strangers br br many of the scenes play out very slowly in fact the opening scene is a long character introduction to both corey and vogel as we see corey getting released from prison and vogel escaping capture on his way to prison the two characters are then methodically brought together through fate at a roadside diner as vogel hides inside the trunk of corey's automobile from this improbable break in the two strangers agree to become partners to commit a perfected and precise jewel heist br br however to pull of this heist they must include the help of a third man named jansen jansen is hired as the sure shot gun man his inclusion into the mix was an interesting and desperate choice at the time of his hire jansen is in a full battle with dt's and spent most of his day on his cot hallucinating over lizards snakes and spiders his transition from the disheveled and hallucinatory world of a william s burroughs dream into the steady handed and sober sharp shooter is a very quick one and perhaps the only real false moment of the film but that's just me being extremely picky br br one other mildly false note was that of the police inspector mattei at times he appeared to be brilliant in the ways of strong arming the right people or gathering information and waiting out for his escaped prisoner to make his move other times he appeared to be 10 years past retirement especially at the beginning during escape through the woods br br i wonder if i got too much hidden meaning from the beginning of the movie at the start of the movie as the police car is speeding through the city the first image we see is that of a red stop light my first thought was that this may be the 'red and that if i am to find a deeper meaning in the movie perhaps it is that this car or rather the people inside of it going through the red light will be the ones who will 'stop' the jewel heist hmmmm br br perhaps the red circle refers to the thieving ring perhaps it was the burning sled no matter br br it's a long movie but it doesn't feel that way the ending is a bit of a disappointment it seemed too hurried for a movie that felt like such a delicious slow burn 9 10 br br clark richards
1	this movie is not only about feelings and human emotions it is also about everything that could be but it's not poetry in movies can be awfully boring and annoying but this movie is delightful to be watched not to mention the amazing irène jacob a great actress in france one of the best actually when the movie ends you can only feel sorry after all when something is truly great we want more well for another great movie by k with irène jacob we can always watch la double vie de
1	mattei andré is a single with a little gun who loves cats and his boss at the paris police department is a philosopher who knows that even the police becomes sooner or later guilty that is what the film is all about and a jewel robbery at the place br br corey delon brings the plan from prison vogel joins him and helps him against two tough guys who are after him because he took mafioso andre money while rico already took coreys girl friend and left him very much alone for five years in jail corey and vogel find a third man jansen montand a former police officer and sniper who opens a security lock by shooting special hand made ammunition into a hole a perfect plan and cooperation but they have to sell the booty and there is mattei in the role of a buyer in disguise the circle closes running to help each other they are shot by the cat loving mattei and his little pistol br br it took melville 20 years he says to make a robbery film after he failed to get a contract for melville wrote the screenplay and filmed in the south of france and in paris of yesteryear the great henri is as usual the lighting cameraman it is the one before last picture of who died after another film with delon in 1972 br br melville actually wanted belmondo instead of he didn't like that italian at all but vogel is an excellent fugitive and gives next to the most convincing performance but mind you melville notes that is an instinctive actor a strange character very wearying and absolutely impossible on a french set melville didn't like him at all and didn't want to work with him ever again br br melville is wrong give the most lively character in the nowhere of not so many interesting characters you can see what he is feeling being chased by mattei and his little dangerous gun and all the dogs of france in winter 70 a wild actor br br also andré who passed away close to the time of the filming he also was not first choice but definitely a great substitute he carries the instinct of a lonely hunter through the whole film and gets in the end his chance to become guilty once more br br jansen has entered at night the jewelry shop with a rifle and a tripod but risks eventually a successful shot when he meets delon the first time we already know that the elegant jansen has a severe drinking problem after the robbery montand renounces to take his part of the booty and mentions to delon who looks up to him that he only got into the red circle because he wanted to take revenge on the inhabitants of his wardrobe delon doesn't catch what he means the audience recalls having seen montand in a great scene in his haunted house fighting helplessly nightmare creatures that come out of the wardrobe and attack him at that time a very rare scene one recalls a long time after i bet it was ever so difficult to arrange and direct that stuff at a time no one imagined the coming days of digital movie making great artwork when art was made by hand br br we sure will remember a crew like the actors still it seems even after 33 years this one stays the less popular of the six thrillers of melville what is wrong with it i am afraid one doesn't take much interest in those three actors showing three criminals and their police hunter we learn too little about corey and his fatal 5 years away from his beautiful girl anna montand is still a great sniper but what made him become a drinking man with funny creatures in his wardrobe delon acts as if he is in an earlier adventure of the samourai is the man in the trunk of american car and superbly moving and mattei is swell to look at a great actor at the edge of his life but how could he ever possibly doubt that all are guilty br br in an interview melville states that there is no woman in the film not in the very red circle but i remember well that jolly good looking female anna with no future career we are in the 70s there in fact rises a woman from the bed of an old mafioso wearing nothing and walks slowly to the door to listen to the voice of her old lover delon bardot did something like that 10 years earlier this time melville was directing well done br br the red has certainly added a few but not many glittering gems to film history the robbery at place and wonder bullet the inhabitants of the wardrobe and escaping in white underwear and carrying his trousers carefully across a stream that is too little for a great gangster and robbery movie but the 110 minutes never bore you and it is a game on a high level and there are probably some secrets you learn when you see the film over and over again none of the secrets is that we are all guilty and the late francois perier is also featured br br michael
1	you have loved the shawshank redemption pulp fiction vertigo oldboy and i guarantee you will love this one more its a brilliant thriller the story is so simple yet so gripping it keeps you at the edge of your seat till the end the slow moving scenes simple music adds more perfection to the movie its so genuine the performance is top class the direction the sequences they are too perfect if i could i would place it in top 10 thrillers ever made most entertaining thriller i have seen in a while my vote help me move this movie to top 250 br br you will love it
1	i guess melville intended this movie to be the definition of the cool it has the cool approach of the late '60s early '70s same discrete quirkiness le rouge a bitter and story is also the playground of delon and montand in defining roles br br is a cop who has in his flat three cats and a daily routine delon is a hoodlum montand is a sick failed cop plays an escaped suspect le rouge is of course far above a heist movie melville uses his techniques wordless detailed depictions of every step of the heist etc yet this particular action drama is far better than his other it's very unlikely them by being so much better the look of le rouge is very peculiar to melville very br br delon was sharp and cool brings his craft and montand makes maybe the finest role of this movie his performance has an unexpected warmth br br on the other hand the characters are barely sketched no more than strictly necessary and are personae or masks yet the portrayal is inspired economic but suggestive br br another of the movies that prove delon to be a good a very good actor and the fact that he's not a genius does not imply that he ought to be despised as a fourth rate actor he's good he can bear the proximity of a and montand br br only ten yrs before le rouge melville was doing towards the end of the '50s a boring overlong insipid noir pastiche starring himself —and after only a decade here he is in full form with this quite amazing action drama stylistically it's a success br br before seeing le rouge i was not a fan now i guess i rather am one br br le rouge is a an action drama one of the most genres melville scores
1	having finally caught up with this masterpiece it strikes me that it must have seemed terribly clever in its day it's french arty under played to the point of agony and ultimately downbeat but viewed from the vantage of 37 years in the future it's also just a bit vacuous pretentious and unsatisfying br br others have summarized the story but i don't think anyone has pointed out the dramatic flaw at the heart of this film the lead characters corey and vogel really don't deserve what they get they play square within their code never harm anyone who didn't ask for it and show great courage and initiative moreover corey in particular is victimized by his former gangland ' who stole his girl and who repeatedly tries to have him killed apparently just because he corey dared to 'borrow' a few thousand francs these are guys who really ought to be due for a break instead things go far worse for them than they really need to within the logic of the story br br one might contend that this is the whole point that the real villains never get caught that they collude with the police as needed sell out their friends and always come out on top but that's not shown either corey's old gangster friend is not shown with the police nor is he shown gloating over his victory in fact after materializing several times when he's needed he's nowhere to be seen at the conclusion leaving a dramatic tension his feud with corey entirely unresolved br br nonetheless i'd say this film is well worth seeing for its beautiful photography its slow deliberate pacing its great deadpan performances its elaborate heist sequence and its encapsulation of the art film style of the late 1960s
1	while its not the masterpiece that le samourai was i've accepted by now that jean pierre melville was never able to top that classic i find le rouge to be much better than bob le i felt that bob le was an above average and influential b film but still a b film le rouge proves that as a filmmaker melville improved as he continued john woo is a massive fan of melville even though their film making style differs while woo uses fast motion for shootouts and an operatic sense of violence melville has a minimalist style that suits him very well he wasn't interested in creating quickly paced action films but more meditative crime thrillers in that department he was one of the best br br le samourai is still his best work mainly because it has more character development than this but on a technical level they're probably equal besides while le samourai had one great lead performance this has four alain delon is once again an ultra cool gangster on the prowl this man's silence is fascinating is superb as the police inspector on the case of the heist and escaped con he steals every scene he is in and proves that he was a skilled dramatic actor in france he is best known as a slapstick comedian in the mode of buster keaton yves montand is great also as the shaky and paranoid gun expert gian maria a regular in spaghetti westerns is overshadowed by his three co stars but still does an adequate job br br once again melville's direction is superb taking equal influence from both american crime thrillers and the french new wave the man always seems to know the best shots and angles to choose this is more slowly paced than most caper flicks but it really pays off by the end le rouge is a bit short of being an absolute classic but is still one of the best heist flicks ever made tarantino must've seen this before making reservoir dogs 8 10
1	jean pierre melville is a director i've only recently gotten acquainted with i need to see bob le and le samourai again to fully grasp them but in watching le rouge the red circle supposedly based on a saying in buddhism i realized i was watching as skillful and absorbing a crime film as i had seen in a quite some time though his film has dialog it is mainly to keep the film's scenes rolling along adherent to the plot what kept me on the alert even in seemingly mundane scenes sequences was the emphasis on the characters' movements or behavior patterns melville has his story laid out and he is careful to take his time to tell it this could seem boring to some but it does seem to work since he puts a little more emphasis on the weight of the characters environments over plot br br yet look at each of the four main players alain deleon as corey just released from prison scheming a new heist gian maria as vogel escaping on the lam from hand cuffed custody meets corey by luck yves montand as jansen an aged pro with many years of experience with weapons a friend of vogel and andre as mattei an experienced investigator who is on the look out for vogel and on his toes with internal affairs each of these actors plays their parts with precision detachment and they each have their own kinds of moments that indicate to the audience what their personalities might be besides as criminals and cops the heist sequence gives little hints for example like how vogel cops a feel off a female statue while passing down the halls or how jansen takes out a flask and merely has a whiff of the contents and what a dream this guy creates even corey's movements involving a photograph of a woman arouse interest br br as absorbing and cool the story becomes and as great the skills were to make it happen via cinematographer henri the editing and the musical score by eric it's the people on the screen that gain fascination in how they stay true to their natures and ideals not a film to be missed by french new wave enthusiasts and modern day crime movie buffs might want to take the 140 minutes to soak up the atmosphere of melville's work a suave piece of film making that still ranks as one of my all time favorites
1	i decided to write a comment on this amazing movie because here on imdb it is cited that john woo a mediocre director who made some decent films back in his pre american years but totally ruined his reputation by his latest made in us films plans to remake it well here are a couple of reasons why it is one of the stupidest ideas for a remake ever the plot of the film is simple and even clichéd by today's standards but what makes the film a masterpiece is acting by the four leads unique direction by cinematography music and its style there is no way any director today can make such film it is impossible to create such an atmosphere in a movie in today's box office targeted movie business br br john woo did make a more or less decent film which borrowed from melville's le samourai the killer but remember it was made when the director was not spoiled by big budgets and expensive in salaries but cheap in acting merits actors so what i'm saying is that this is one of the greatest films ever made together with another film by melville le samourai watch it and even if the remake will be made try to avoid it before seeing the great original first
1	everyone likes the coolly created memorable heist movie alain delon provides the antihero melville provides the cool and a handful of other great talent yves montand gian maria and andre mostly arrives to add a crisp engaging movie br br with very little dialog this is great because one certain aspect of the genre tends to be a lot of dialog involving the quick witted and their various repartees this movie however could be watched with the sound completely off and not too terribly much would be missed not to say the sound is bad oh no the jazzy soundtrack and the crisp audio catching the little movements makes the slow patient deliberation of the patients very compelling br br what's also really neat about this film is that the color cinematography is pretty fantastic usually when it comes to cinematography black and white movies tend to stick out in my mind but this film has some very strong and beautiful imagery that makes the movie pure visual pleasure to observe br br polarisdib
1	the red circle jean pierre melville france italy 1970 br br this might be the coolest film ever made in the most literal sense of the term the men here never lose control and never not once show their emotions no dramatic outbursts in this film everyone is cool all the time it's an abstract dream world where the men live by their own code a gangster code with the values of the outside world conspicuously absent in this masterfully filmed heist saga melville tackles the american crime thriller in his distinctly dark and desolate style yet made in grand fashion with a hefty budget of ten million dollars and with four of the greatest french stars at the time alain delon as the master thief yves montand as an alcoholic ex cop italian star gian maria as an escaped criminal and andré in an atypical role as the cynical police chief br br melville described le rouge as his penultimate film and it is indeed a masterfully stylized policier he also claimed he wanted to shoot a film noir in colour and in many ways he succeeded the two primary influences for this film were john huston's 1950 heist movie the asphalt jungle and jules dassin's rififi 1955 but unlike these films where we learn much about the background of the individual gang members with all their petty needs and worries that motivate them making clear these are not just ruthless underworld types but ordinary individuals engaged in a world of everyday worries and human endeavour melville though tells us almost nothing about his criminals why was corey alain delon in jail why was his associate vogel jean marie arrested in the first place or why the ex police marksman jansen yves montand left the force was it his alcoholism we never learn the motivations behind their actions and never find out what drives these men women are even more absent than in his earlier films with the emotional ties exclusively between men they don't even seem to have personal lives a sort of an emotional twilight zone and although the setting is not as abstract as in his earlier le samourai 1967 melville still sketches a very eerie world melville's favorite actor alain delon is perfect and almost outdoes himself in coolness if imaginable br br deliberately paced and with a length of over 140 minutes melville takes his time to tell the story but its slow pace and length seems a perfect way to show the desolate world these men live in nothing is ever out of place in melville's films and here it's no different every little detail seemingly of pivotal importance for the story although le samourai remains my favorite melville film even up there with the greatest films ever made this one also belongs to the very best br br camera obscura 10 10
1	not having seen this film in quite some time we caught with it not long ago in the nicely transferred criterion dvd le rouge is a film that owes a lot to other movies as it keeps reminding us about rififi the asphalt jungle among others because they all deal with capers that take center stage in the movie and reproduce it in great detail unfortunately one knows that old adage that crime does not pay and from the start these men involved in it are doomed from the onset br br jean pierre melville was a director of few words he didn't fill his pictures with a lot of dialog as it's the case here yet for not being talky they had a style of their own as proved with le le samurai and his masterpiece bob le among others mr melville had a sense of style that comes across in everything he did in this film working with his cinematographer henri he takes us along for a ride through the streets of paris that shows the vibrant city mainly at night and the bleak winter in france the score is by eric that emphasizes a jazzy music that accompanies most of the action br br although the film shows alain delon as corey at the center of the action it is however the smart inspector mattei who is the real hero of the movie as played by the great he is a man that shows a lot of patience because he has figured from the beginning how to catch vogel and in the process he gets involved in the investigation of the jewel heist in which he knows the escaped man he is tailing looms large behind it gives an enormously satisfying performance as mattei showing equal parts of determination and tenderness as it's the case with the three cats he adores br br alain delon always responded with interesting performances his appearances in pictures in here he is corey the man who is first seen leaving prison and promising himself he won't go back but he cannot pass a good thing when he decides to go ahead and participate in the robbery his association with vogel and jansen pays off in the way they get the job done but it will also prove a mistake in the way they will not be able to dispose of the loot as the fence they have relied on has a change of heart br br gian maria and yves montand are seen as vogel and jansen respectively they were excellent actors who blend well in the action of the film both actors were at their best moment when they took the roles in the film and it shows mr montand has the more complex character to play as we witness him in his first moment in front of the camera as a man with many demons inside his head br br jean pierre got wonderful results from his cast and crew in a film that although feels a bit longer but still succeeds in showing his style in one of the most memorable pictures from the director
1	they both believed that a hidden sentiment has unified them this is beautiful but the incertitude is more beautiful they believed that they had never been met nothing has happened between them but those roads those stairs those corridors for all that time they could have been met although it did not mean to be it was a swan song two young people who are neighbors and have never been met are found in the same places the same times doing most of the times the same things they finally meet in the dramatic and very brilliant end that brings them together meanwhile the woman has met an old man their relation is brotherhood like he told her his life it was like the young one's but with better the young man can do whatever the old man has not lived he can be happy with the woman the ending is exceptional there is a ship wreck the only survivors are the heros of the three colors the man and the woman finally meet the scene lasts a few seconds the woman there looks like the photo she had taken for an ad in the beginning of the film sad in a red fond but every start is only the continue the book of the life is opened in the middle
1	wow i just loved watching all these hot babes the scenery around malibu and california was off the fizzy i could watch it again just to see all that flesh crammed into those tiny teeny bikinis i recently saw pilar the steaming hot housekeeper in malibu spring break as a center fold in my favorite mag playboy she is hot hot hot the opening seen was bitchin when the two main girls run out of gas and stop at this desert gas station they drive the gas guy nuts with their bodies and skimpy outfits the slow mo lets me enjoy every inch of them my girlfriend liked looking at this shredded hot dude too now i'd like a bod like that and at all the other hot dudes and some of the girls too any movie that can bring that out in my girlfriend is a 10 for me
1	with some wine some friends and some good humor i had a really good time watching this film i particularly enjoyed the performance of as randy who was such a kick in the pants his scenes with charity michelle were wildly amusing i wouldn't want him coming on to me but it was great watching randy try to score with michelle and even better seeing the results of course the girls in the film are lots of fun to watch too and a friend of mine showed me the playboy issue that had pilar as the playmate of the month she's definitely a looker all in all this film totally served its purpose which was to entertain us in a light and care free way
1	i already gave my comment on this movie under the name now under i want to add something now after a long time i have seen a lot of so called heroic bloodshed titles but not many come close to the action shown in john woo movies that's why after all these years i think it is strange that china white doesn't get the credit it deserves no matter what version you have seen the action is top notch the scenery china town in amsterdam is very unique you get the impression it is a large district but having lived in amsterdam myself i know it is only a small area part of the red light district which happen to have a lot of chinese stores and restaurants but because of the way they shot the movie it actually looks like a big and important territory where people know not to mess with the triads chinese mafia besides the action china white is a compelling gangster drama with some good acting for this i have to give credit to russel wong too bad we don't see much of him lately since he has a lot of potential must see movie
1	china white 1989 was ronny yu's first international film this u k holland hong kong production was shot in english and was slightly edited for the western audience the american wong brothers michael and russell were supposed to star in the film together but due to prior commitments was unavailable so another western actor steven leigh took his spot several hong kong stars such as tommy wong playing a mute and the always creepy william ho appear as well as the director in an interesting cameo spot br br the chow brothers are in holland to run the family business they want to the family business to go legit but the other asian gangs don't want to and see there move as a face saving move to please the foreigners and want to keep on making money the old fashion way others want to take their business to even a new low by smuggling drugs and what not after the chow elder is gunned down in cold blood the brothers make their move against any family who's not with them can the chow family keep the families from killing one another or while the streets of holland flow with the blood of the innocence and gangsters br br a highly underrated movie i was surprised by how good it was i haven't seen the hong kong version that would be a huge treat for me it's longer and has a lot more stars of the hong kong cinema involved with the production too bad this film isn't available on d v d the video print i saw was washed out and the sound reproduction wasn't that great br br highly recommended for action fans br br this film takes place before the of drugs br br in holland
1	as a huge fan of horror i had given up on the vampire sub genre due to the fact that in most vampire flicks the vampire has become feminine and non threatening benign and basically weak this was the attitude i brought to a viewing of midnight and i am happy to say that the vampires in this film at least have the hunger to kill old ladies and sacrifice babies armand assante one of my favorite actors of all time was born to play the charming vampire with savage intensity br br another thing that interested me is that the central location is the hotel that is cool because and i went back to my high school copy to look this up in dracula the pass is where jonathan harker must pass to get to dracula's castle br br finally my hats off to whoever made the decision to make the creature a real effect and not a darn cgi that's the one thing great about many low budget movies they cannot afford the garbage computer effects that plague many hollywood monstrosities br br bottom line this is better than underworld for sure especially if you are a vampire purest cheers ja
1	midnight stars assante simon who stared in the mambo kings and elizabeth bennett alicia milford together with sexy vampire vixen iris simon lures pregnant alicia and her husband charles into the netherworld of midnight assante sinks his fangs into the script by writers brian and jason cleveland and you enjoy watching him and iris kill alicia and charles robert floyd try to stay alive while gore keeps your lust for blood sated br br spoiler alert in today's jaded landscape it comes as no surprise that a back stabbing preacher gets bitten set looks cool – lots of detail at the hotel and cool special effects at the end i had a lot of fun watching this movie – it doesn't take itself too seriously and looks great
1	if you love vampire lore and are a fan of gothic horror then you might want to check out midnight i did not know much about this movie before i watched it and i wasn't expecting much but i found the movie to be fun and entertaining br br starring armand assante as the leader of the vampires simon separates itself from other low budget vampire flicks by weaving in the mythology of st george and the dragon in a fun new way br br i'm not sure what the budget for this movie was but i sense that if it was a little more then they might have really been able to hit home the gore and effects br br if you're up late one night and you're in the mood for a fun low budget vampire flick then midnight is a good choice
1	no matter how many times wile coyote tries to get road runner we always know what's going to happen though our sympathy always remains with the highlight in hook line and stinker is a rube goldberg style scheme that hopes will finally finish off rr but of course you know what happens br br so wile e continues hilarious engaging in fanaticism defined by george as your effort after you've forgotten your aim while road runner pretty much never becomes aware of the potential danger or lack thereof in which he could find himself a real classic br br and yes the middle name is i learned that from jeopardy
1	just love the interplay between two great characters of stage screen veidt barrymore
1	this film is a good start for novices that have never watched a 'silent film' and for those who believe that quality cinema started with their generations efforts they are doing a disservice to themselves by not expanding their horizons the 'silent film' is a art form of acting in pantomime that is different from the sound film and the stage it can stands on it's own merits br br the beloved rogue 1927 united artists is a fictionalized history of the relationship of french poet and 'king louis through prodding 'king louis' will defeat his nemesis of minimize the feudal system and establish the king as head of the state and the beginnings of modern france br br the cast is exceptional lead by john barrymore yes drew's grandfather for those who only remember him for the decaying actor in dinner at eight 1933 or the ham in the women 1940 this will be a revelation fit trim with the 'great still in evidence he commands the screen co starring in his first american film is conrad veidt with his spider' interpretation of this is a duel of acting titans each not giving the other a inch on a trivia note is character actor and dwarf angelo rossitto in his first film his last mad max beyond thunderdome 1985 there are other character actors who would continue in sound that are easily picked up on br br united artists spared no expense in this handsome production supervised by william cameron menzies costumes props and sets are well done and not exaggerated like in a douglas fairbanks productions there is a touch of reality here the copy on dvd that we watched from 'delta entertainment' came from a good master though not its musical soundtrack was clear and the print only suffered from nuisance black spots dirt and drop outs the only major damage at the end of the last reel from water also has a edition which may be of a better quality since they do major on their prints best check with them in our opinion this is a 'must have' particularly if you have no in your collection this is a good place to start
1	irene jacob is mesmerizing in this final installment of kieslowski's trilogy and the story is infinitely satisfying as it succeeds in tying all three films together i am simply in awe of the amount of talent it took to do one of these stories let alone all three everything seems to fit together so precisely all the elements of filmmaking so eloquently executed and the end result so much greater than the sum of the individual parts trois is epic in nature and belongs on any list of great cinematic achievements simply brilliant
1	françois was a real life poet and rogue who lived in paris in the 15th century however most of what is portrayed in this historical film is actually fiction from a play created at the beginning of the 20th century whereas in the film he met and became friends with louis xi in reality he died in his 30s and was never involved in all the intrigues like he was in this film in reality he wrote some lovely verse and was frequently on the wrong side of the law not the combination of a patriot and robin hood like character like he is in the film provided you know that the film is nearly 100 fiction then it's well worth seeing just don't assume it's a good history lesson br br in the beloved rogue is played with wild abandon by john barrymore i was also pretty excited to see that his three friends were all played by very familiar faces angelo rossitto who was the plucky dwarf played in tons of films over the years and had a very long career slim summerville was a character actor known for adding a touch of comedy to films mack swain is best known as the silent film foil in many of chaplin's short films and played his partner in the gold rush all four of these men did a nice job and have no complaints even with barrymore's rather over the top treatment that was rather reminiscent of a douglas fairbanks performance however the performance i had a serious problem with was conrad veidt as king louis xi to call this unsubtle would be a gross understatement he played the role like a high schooler who thought he was supposed to be the stereotypical richard iii skulking about and acting like a caricature while veidt was wonderful in many many films both silent and sound but here he is just ridiculous br br as for the story it's full of lusty adventure and action like a swashbuckling film minus the sailing ships the sets worked out well for all this as they'd been used the previous year for the hunchback of notre dame both films were set around the same time period br br overall it's one of the last great silent films there's a lot to like and the film is a lovely combination of romance comedy and action well worth seeing though it loses a couple of points for veidt's overacting as well as the way the film plays fast and loose with history br br by the way this film was also made twice as if i were king 1920 and 1938 and apparently these two films are closest to the original play however in total six films have been about and tell more or less variations on the same tale
1	most of the silent films i've seen have been serious in nature so it was fun to see one with a comic touch the setting and some of the scenes for the beloved rogue were reminiscent of the hunchback of notre dame relative to the paris street scenes and the celebration of the 'king of john barrymore portrays france's greatest poet francois in a characterization that ranges quite broadly from virtual slapstick to romantically tender that 'water into wine' bit early in the picture was rather amusing br br it seems that times never change and it's interesting to see the movie make a cogent observation nearly a century ago paris has it's fool to reign for one night while everywhere else has one all the time how true br br the appearance of conrad veidt in the film was a little surprising for this viewer i've only seen him as major in casablanca oddly one of his very last movies as king louis xi he's a monarch obsessed with crafty but suspicious and it was a bit unnerving to see how closely he resembled brad dourif's character from the final chapter of the 'lord of the rings' trilogy not exactly exuding the confidence a king of france might be expected to bear which is why the ascendancy of duke lawson butt seemed all the more plausible until rises to the occasion to put one over on both rulers br br i found it interesting that the use of inter title cards was exceedingly spare used only when absolutely necessary to advance the story without them though one would have missed a curious nugget it seems carried out his exile from paris at the hostel of the lame flea br br the print i viewed was of exceptional quality the very first film presented in a one hundred action and suspense movie dvd set from mill creek entertainment that's saying something for a film that's now eighty years old it's great that movies from the silent era are now finding a wider distribution in this type of commercial format making them accessible to an entirely new generation of movie lovers br br one question did it seem like conrad veidt's king louis picked his nose on purpose or as an inadvertent gesture that simply remained safe from the cutting room
1	the beloved rogue is a wonderful period piece it portrays century paris in grand hollywood fashion yet offering a bleaker side to existence there as it would be experienced by the poor and the snow it's constantly swirling about adding to the severity of the setting brilliant the setting is enhanced by the odd cast of characters including beggars cripples and dwarfs br br a brilliant performance is turned in by john barrymore outdone only by the magnificent conrad veidt who portrays a degenerate dissolute louis xi to perfection and yes veidt picks his nose on purpose pushing his portrayal to wonderfully wry limits
1	and nothing wrong in that heartily endorse the comments of and snow leopard br br i'm thrilled to find this movie is available on us dvd i've only ever seen it through once i persuaded the goethe institute here in london to show it in their conrad veidt season some years ago and long to see it again br br barrymore is resplendent when engaged as in this movie possibly because of the prick of having a renowned german actor as a foil and veidt is such a wonderful scene stealer doesn't he pick his nose at one point this is one of the seminal films to connect 'dr with century' 'grand hotel' or and 'the cabinet of dr or 'the student of prague' with 'the spy in and 'casablanca' br br see it
1	superb silent version of the story of francois although remade in the thirties as if i were king with frank lloyd directing preston sturges scripting and ronald colman starring this version is even better barrymore with a cohort of comedians plays the comic fool and the wine depressed with a verve that colman could not match the photography is startling in its beauty and innovation and the supporting cast particularly conrad veidt in his american premiere the incredibly beautiful day and the supporting comics slim summerville and hank mann steal every scene they are in br br it is a shame that barrymore did so few first rate comedies among his sound films only his lead in twentieth century and his supporting role in midnight can compare to this and those stand up only because of his superb voice in this silent movie barrymore must tell his tale without benefit of words and he does so alternately hilariously unrecognizable as the king of the fools and tenderly as in love he even gets to leap around in the swashbuckling style of fairbanks most convincingly he also lets his supporting cast have their share of glory capering in this ensemble work like any talented comic of the era br br finally a brief word about alan a director known today only for directing the first talking feature the jazz singer in the same year this was released was a careful innovative delightfully original director and it is a shame that more of his works are not known perhaps this movie far more interesting as a movie than his best known work will be your introduction to his other talents if so you could do far worse
1	i loved this show but then i don't remember ever not loving anything he did starting with americanization of emily a town sheriff who keeps trying to steal the town blind and ride off to mexico gotta love it like everything he does it has a tongue in cheek flavor that brands it as a garner product james plays the same character in lots of his shows and movies but somehow it never gets stale br br p s re killing off the main character br br if i remember right the good brother was killed off and replaced with the evil twin in an effort to increase the ratings i e make it more like every other western on tv at the time i think this show was too far ahead of its time and i still miss it tv without a jimmy g show is missing something
1	this show was a really good one in many ways although certainly an atypical western with the hero riding around on a motorcycle rather than a horse due to the 1914 setting very late for a western which tend usually to be set between and 1890 i remember some controversy about its cancellation at the time but didn't really watch it during its time on nbc when i came to see it and love it was a decade later when i was in the army stationed in germany and it was shown every week from the beginning on armed forces television by then margot kidder was famous as lois lane but i'll also always think of her as nichols' girlfriend in a lot of ways nichols was a lot like maverick both were much more attracted to getting rich with little effort than they were fighting it was in the little tv magazine that they distributed at the not really an authorized edition of tv guide but made to resemble it as closely as possible without getting into copyright trouble that i first learned the real story behind the cancellation i really wonder what the next season with the more violent twin would have been like if they had really made it as planned of course by the time this show was made the western era of tv had been in decline for around a decade someday i hope to be able to write that the reality era has been in decline for that long while gunsmoke and bonanza were still running they were both nearing their ends and it had been years since a new western had really caught on i think that this trend did a lot to hold nichols back and was the main reason that nbc executives doubted that it would ever find a large audience but to me a good western unlike a show set in contemporary times is somewhat timeless as are other period shows changing fashions and the like do nothing to make them look any more dated than they were supposed to be and i think that watching this show 10 years after it was produced is really what brought this point home to me also this show is an early pairing of garner and stuart margolin who is really one of the all time great sidekicks and not just in westerns
1	hey you are not alone i remember nichols i was just 17 when it was on i remember james garner was one of the coolest actors and nichols was such a great show i couldn't believe it was on such a short time wish i could remember the last episode i probably didn't see it there were no vcr's back then so it when it was on you saw it and if you missed an episode it was gone forever unless it came back on summer reruns anyway sure would be great if it came out on dvd but i don't think that many people even knew about it what a shame br br garner would hit it big a few years later with rockford files and he brought along his buddy stuart margolin from nichols to play his sidekick angel
1	as i recall my family made a point to stay home on the night nichols was on mondays tuesdays nbc it was a superb vehicle for james garner very well written great ensemble cast his character very much like the support your local films retired gambler with mysterious past settles into town and has adventures every week in fact it seemed fairly obvious that it was the same character it was just a charmer of a tv show a sleeper like my world and welcome to it which may have been its contemporary i forget i dearly wish these shows would be made available on dvd it was just good tv perhaps county jr come close but only by a mile
1	nbc was putting out a lot of good product when this series came out but none of it was getting viewers at least according to their executives who wisely canceled good shows like star trek my world welcome to it because of low ratings nbc's advertisers were getting a bargain from nbc's ignorance br br this show stands out as the only time james garner wasn't enough to get viewers it is ashame as this show had an excellent support cast from stuart margolin later angel in the rockford files to neva patterson to margot kidder br br it was set in a 1900 western town garner was playing a sheriff who did not want to use violence to do his duties it was small town stuff but it was excellent it wasn't long after this that jim rockford brought garner back to success but for my money this show was good enough it just wasn't in the right time right place or given the right opportunity br br the show was so good that most of the folks who worked on it also got jobs on rockford
1	most of kieslowski's films seem like puzzles to me meant to expand mind and soul the characters are not very believable are idealized are schematic nevertheless the way kieslowski presents their winding ways through life their complicated interaction with others with the universe with chance or destiny makes me understand faith makes me want to believe in god that at some point it all has a meaning if not to me then certainly to someone br br trois and especially rouge comes closer to making me touch feel experience the truth the meaning than perhaps any other of his films the only problem being the paths of the puzzles explored are a bit too similar to his other films and at some point they become somewhat predictable there is still plenty of joy to be had here it is like a familiar brand of wine you know what to expect and it delivers sometimes with a newly found bouquet which might come from aging either the wine or yourself
1	american war movie fans might be bored out of their skulls by this movie but that boredom is born of ignorance guerrilla suppression operations are always like that sit around and wait get some hookers get drunk at the base wheel and deal with the businessman kick a prisoner around cover up the killing of the street merchant by the green private then boom there goes two fuel trucks and for 10 minutes a small arms battle with one high caliber machine gun then wait for brass to plan a way to knock out their stronghold and then end up killing a few civilians in the process of doing it if reality doesn't work for western viewers there's always top gun or rambo top gun realistic nope br br the best part of realism was the way all the planes dropped flares like confetti they had to do that because carter and reagan gave the mujahedin so many missiles also the wave of mi was excellent a better helo attack even than apocalypse now the sight of their missiles dropping and shooting was a scene of impending death from above for whoever they were aimed at br br it's funny how the soviets were able to make an honest afghanistan movie within a year after their departure but it took the us six years is just as real if you apply it to occupation too someone will always pick up the gun and shoot you cause they care more about the land it's a movie westerners should watch unfortunately i don't think anyone has ever made english subtitles i might have to make some
1	well the movie is basically about the last days of a specific russian regiment stationed in before the main troop withdrawal in 1985 the movie accurately portrays the grim realities of russian army that have made it infamous officers and ncos physically harassing beating and humiliating younger recruits mixed character of war you can trade with your enemy one day and kill him the next life of women at the front lines documentary footages of helicopter assaults and coffins being and sent home in heave c 130 hercules class russian cargo planes with to jam stinger missiles fatigue boredom anti war sentiment emotional side simply put the there's some action scenes but they are poorly done and often are illogical like major suicidal walk and turning of his back to 10 year old kid armed with ak 47 who's father he just killed also the fact that in the middle of firefight in the mountains heavy grenade launcher pops out of nowhere and any half bright person knows that it's virtually impossible to hump 40 50 launcher on the march anyone but at the same time films shows that war is a dirty affair where murder is sometimes condoned wanton destruction of whole villages for little or no reason is normal indiscriminate killing of civilians is overlooked as collateral damage inevitable during war some food for thought as to why afghan war as lost not the best war movie made but profound and intelligent enough to be worth watching
1	from the first to the last scene this film is made very realistically even too realistically that sometimes we can't see details in night scenes it's dark as real night in the desert sunshine is so strong as in real desert br br script and actor's play are also very realistic shots and episodes are edited not to show things and events effectively to explain them or as many hollywood films do to entertain viewers editing here is to represent the events as if they really happened in afganistan camera is set sometimes far from dying solders even the moment when the main character major is shot and killed br br such method reminds me of masterpieces of italian neo realism and the construction of the story here is based on the same principles as or the bicycle thief chronological series of true to life episodes and a few pathetic moments which at first seem to be sudden and illogical but have inner reasons br br i think the inner reason of major suicidal death is religious emotion repentance for innocent people's death not only his accidental killing of family in the village but also death of solders under his command he is not depicted as a eager believer on the contrary he is depicted as tactful and responsible officer exactly for this reason his last decisions to go back to the destroyed village and to turn his back to an armed boy whose family he killed seem an act of repentance br br the russian orthodox choral which sounds at the end evening sacrifice is another context by which all the film can be seen from this point of view
1	filmed less than a year after the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan the subject matter was fresh in the minds of the cast the director and the audience most of the cast are actual soldiers and officers just back from the war the soviet army cooperated quite a bit during filming which is odd br br the afghan intervention was a bloody and pointless war in which even the generals had forgotten the reasons for the bloodshed this film shows the tension and the cruelty of military life the emotional atrophy experienced by the troops and the pain that convulsed a small nation torn by war and civil war br br there is no lack of powerful scenes one of the first is footage of steel coffins being loaded onto a transport bound for the ussr solders go about their work while an officer calmly ticks off the destinations moscow rostov the baltic br br an earlier comment describes the last scene with as illogical it is perfectly logical and in the spirit of the film the only human relationship maintained was with the afghan family which he accidentally kills in the assault having lost his only buffer against the senselessness of the war turns his back on the boy and his gun in resignation to his fate br br i particularly liked the last scene a flock of mi rising over the mountains as the voice of a pilot yells we're leaving boys we're leaving in a tone of sincere relief br br is an excellent film brutally honest and as as they come
1	i would recommend this as the most successful attempt so far to make a movie on soviet afghan war and it is very honest and responsible picture starting from small details of uniforms and weapons up to human relations war routine and central asian landscapes it's been shot in just after the the troop withdrawal which happened in 1989 not in 1985 the italian star mr placido was just perfect in the role of major other characters looked also very natural especially always drunk club managing officer the scenario seems a bit jammed in the end but it might be an impact of the civil war in which had started right during the shooting of the film all movie team had to escape sometimes even under fire the last scene is purely type of behavior and reminded me the final phrase from one famous samurai movie we've won all battles but lost the war it could be also a metaphor of ussr collapse the great country allowing to shoot itself to the back by the small offended child
1	the italian concept of sprezzatura was the grace and nonchalance in social manners that led to success in love as described in the 16th century manual the the film hitch is worth watching for the embodiment of the concept in the dynamic performance of will smith br br smith plays the character of alex hitch hitchens who is a professional dating consultant to those short on luck and confidence the best scenes are when hitch coaches the painfully shy and maladroit albert in his quest to win the heart of a new york socialite and in hitch's own attraction to sara and a surprise for her when visiting ellis island in these scenes smith is supported with good work from kevin james and eva mendes but this film is driven by the charm and winsome personality of smith br br from start to finish smith rises above the average comic script to make hitch an eminently watchable and entertaining film i do not believe there is another actor working today who is capable of delivering the charisma and the perfect timing with the comic moments like will smith in this film and his secret is in the sprezzatura
1	this movie was much better than i expected after a couple of films by will smith that weren't that great like i robot he is back to being likable and fun in this one smith plays hitch a date doctor most of the film centers around him teaching albert how to be himself and get a date with cole a rich famous celebrity whom he works with albert is a klutz and goof and always tripping on his feet or what not all hitch does is teach him how to act more cool and not be so nervous around br br during all this hitch meets sara a gossip columnist whom has sworn off men hitch charms her so of course they go out but hitch may teach other guys how to get the girl to fall for them he doesn't believe in love himself he has never really had a girl since he was dumped in college but he likes sara so keeps going after her sara's friend is hurt by guy whom she thinks went to the date doctor so sara tracks the doctor down only to learn its hitch so of course she thinks he's a pig then it's up to hitch to explain to sara and what he does so they both end up forgiving br br final verdict good has some laughs and is entertaining i recommend it
1	i think that the basic idea of any movie is to entertain or to inform if you want information you are looking at true life movies and historical movies sometimes these are one of the same the other side of the coin is to entertain did hitch entertain me yes it did okay the formula is standard boy meets girl or in this case boys met girls they get together have a falling out then get back together however the way it happened in this movie was refreshing i particularly liked the bar scene with hitch and sara the albert romance was a delight to watch unfold most real men are shy when it comes to wooing the woman of their dreams and had i had hitch's advice i would probably have got my wife up the altar in half the time i read the first comment on this film that appeared to suggest that this movie was played safely and good have had a few more laughs i tend to disagree there are so many laughs you can pack into a romantic comedy without turning it into a farce besides relationships have there serious moments all in all i found hitch quite entertaining the actors did a good job i will be looking out for them in other movies and hitch is a film that i am very happy to have in my dvd collection
1	as i've said in the title of this review it pains me to say this but hitch reaches the zenith of what hollywood romantic comedies can ever hope to aspire to i've been a critic of both the genre and it's namesake for as long as i can remember myself but on an almost tragic note hitch has caused me to spend somewhere in the neighborhood of two hours of my life with a ridiculous smile plastered across my face br br this movie may be misogynistic and presumptuous at times but it nonetheless possesses a certain humor about it whose subtlety may only be described as british this is a wonderful attempt by hollywood to make or remake as the case may be a film which appeals to all of our wishes for a romantic comedy which can make us both think and laugh simultaneously i grudgingly and most give this movie a 9 out of 10 something you shall hardly see me do for a romantic comedy in the near future or so at least i hope
1	will smith is smooth as usual in the movie hitch smiths character hitch is a date doctor he dates mendes character who is a gossip columnist at one point hitch shows his love interest her great grandfathers name in the immigration book at ellis island pretending what is actually an arranged event is a coincidence not long after i mentioned starlight in my previous review today there was a view of the starry sky in survivor hinting that my moon 168 already knew that was going to be there due to faster than light communications br br the male star from the show the king of queens is very funny in this movie especially his dance moves the allergic reaction on face is a little cruel to laugh at even though it is just pretend br br my latest message from my daughter julias artificial intelligence computer on the creator of humans home world coaltrain that my moon 168 as part of is near says daddy i'm okay again her messages are always very short it is a curious pattern daddy will always love you julia thanks to our creator we can talk forever yesterday daddy talked to the first you on the telephone and told you your homework time wouldn't be that bad and you said how bad will it be daddy i said that your grandma and i would help you with it you only have to put pictures of our friends the police on a bristol board display and write a title like the police protect us check out the other movies of will smith as well
1	rouge is part of a trilogy but very much stands on its own it isn't a sequel of any sort the very end which i won't divulge ties the three films together but not seeing the other two doesn't make it too confusing br br this film amazes me because it is so spare so subtle and simple but is as effective emotionally and intellectually as any big budget spectacle or all star melodrama kieslowski here investigates the phenomena of chance and destiny both themes are loosely woven together in the story the film is very much a puzzle but the message is pretty straightforward everything happens for a reason love is in all of our destinies as long as we open ourselves to it the title red refers to the french flag where red represents fraternity or brotherhood the color dominates the visuals of the movie i tend to think of it as representing love or passion or the blood of life it's great when a film allows the freedom to do that
1	i have to admit that i liked this film much more than i expected to will smith has that clean cut charm that you just can't help but like the plot was a minor twist on basic romantic comedy stuff somewhat reminiscent of jane austen's emma this guy kevin james has a real flair for comic timing and physical comedy i have never seen his tv show but he was cast very well in this film amber was good enough i can't remember why she was a rich celebrity in this film but if she was supposed to be an actress or model then the casting might have left something to be desired i enjoyed julie ann emery and wish she'd had a larger part but saving the best for last eva mendes more or less stole the show her beauty and charm and just the right amount of had me glued to the screen whenever she was there i hope to see more of her in the future this film is definitely worth checking out
1	over the past century there have been many advances in gender equality but not so much in the world of movies i'm not talking about what goes on behind the camera i'm referring to the tastes of the audience the idea of a chick flick is alive and well today while there are still plenty of action and horror films which appeal primarily to males sure there are men and women who enjoy the movies that fall outside of their typical demographic but there aren't many movies which have appeals across the board hitch the latest will smith vehicle attempts to change that trend by being a chick flick which throws in a dose of male perspective br br smith stars in hitch as the title character alex hitch hitchens a date doctor who trains men on how to approach a woman and have a successful date hitch enjoys his job and loves to see men successfully accomplish their goals of going out with the woman of their dreams but due to a bad experience in college hitch himself is somewhat sullied on the idea of love as the story unfolds the film introduces two seemingly separate story lines hitch's latest case is albert kevin james an accountant who is very attracted to one of his clients the beautiful heiress cole amber hitch has his doubts about albert's chances but if his clients desires seem sincere hitch supports them br br in the mean time hitch meets gossip columnist sara eva mendes and is instantly attracted to this strong woman however the date doctor can't seem to follow his own advice in pursuing sara things get even more complicated when sara's job leads her to investigate the relationship between the accountant and the heiress will hitch be able to balance his private life and his job and more importantly can hitch believe in love again if you are a true movie fan then there's been at least one time in your life when you've complained about the redundancy of the hollywood movie factory and cried out for something new and original well hitch ain't that movie but most movie fans will also admit that occasionally a formulaic movie can work solely on an entertainment level hitch does qualify as that film
1	while the date doctor concept is the one thing that saves this film from being an otherwise average romantic comedy with a standard plot for the genre i found it enjoyable enough to elevate my opinion of it so i ended up liking it a lot more than if it'd had just a mediocre plot without many twists will smith does a great job as always acting as hitch the man who devotes his life to advising men how and how not to win over women ever since his failed attempt to keep his college girlfriend there're plenty of laughs as he tries to help his latest patient overweight gawky asthmatic albert kevin james successfully court beautiful co worker cole amber also when he decides to rid a woman he meets in a bar of the turkey who just doesn't seem to get she doesn't want him around he finds himself attracted to sara eva mendes it appears to be a big deal for him so i guess since college he never actually practiced his own rules on himself unfortunately sara is a gossip columnist who is interested in the date doctor who got a seemingly dorky guy like albert together with especially after player jerk vance munson jeffrey donovan breaks her best friend's julie ann emery heart and hints the date doctor he saw disgusted him when she doesn't realize that he refused to see him still trouble follows and hitch is stuck left wondering about what to do with his own relationship while not being any great help to albert when he tries to figure out what more to do in his the acting is good there's a great deal of humor and some other fine points with meaning hitch's character is witty and wise sometimes managing to be both at once true the misunderstanding where the woman is at something the man hasn't truly done why do they always show that as common and irritating guess it wouldn't have been if it was the 1st not 5th time i've seen it but the rest of them were completely new i only wish this movie was longer i remember being able to watch 3 5 of it while it was playing on a restaurant's tv once but i still approve it's definitely worth the money to pay for its brevity
1	i just wish i was eloquent enough to say how good this movie is br br i it's hard to say br br maybe i'll just say what comes to mind br br i laughed i really laughed i couldn't believe it i laughed and it wasn't bitter laughter it wasn't cynical laughter it was the laughter that is generated by genuine joy br br joy that's a foreign word for me i don't feel that word often but i did while watching this movie br br will maybe it's will's face he is a great human being smile on my face and there's a twinkle in my eye that line in one of will's songs describes him perfectly he has joie de vivre trey is a lucky lucky boy to have a daddy like will jada is a lucky lucky woman to have a husband like will he is someone special br br happy i actually feel happy it's a strange feeling i don't feel this way very often it's just so nice to see to see other people really happy i mean really happy in this movie i did as will says in the movie maybe i'm not happy with just maybe i want you know watching this movie made me think so do i br br fun being yourself we all know we're supposed to be ourselves but it feels like we're punished if we do so maybe it has to be earned maybe it's something that we show after having not been ourselves for a long time that's why i just loved the ending will eva mendes kevin james amber julie ann emery all dancing at the wedding dancing without inhibitions no they we're not drunk except on actually being happy i can understand that at least i think i can at least i enjoyed seeing them happy really happy br br women and men i don't know anything about relationships but i do feel watching this movie i feel like connecting with someone striving pushing wanting to be with someone it seems to make life something else entirely i don't really know i'm just guessing but i felt something watching this movie i felt like that connection must be must make life worthwhile br br that's the kind of movie this is it's funny it's clever it's tender it evokes feeling it made me think that maybe just maybe life is truly is a wonderful thing br br want to laugh want to feel really good want to get some answers about girls and girls answers about guys watch hitch you will get it all br br go will you are a great human being
1	hitch is a light hearted comedy that will entertain you with some fine performances will smith turns in a believable performance as a cloak and dagger date doctor who must remain invisible to protect his clients and his profession smith was excellent never it up too much br br the best piece of acting goes to the actor don't know name playing this accountant who has fallen for this woman who is out of his league this actor did an excellent job of character development as he listens to smith's directions but in the end just can't help being who he really is br br and in the end that's the main message of this film be who you are in love and you'll be ok br br at the same time will smith meets this attractive lady and the date doctor gets a taste of his own medicine as he slowly falls for this woman don't know her name but she was pretty good too br br overall this was a delightful light movie that is definitely worth seeing
1	a chick flick that guys still like yes wonderful now i can have fun enjoy the company of my girl and not feel like i can't wait until the movie ends light but funny great stuff what ever you do don't miss the dvd extras this a great blind date file too will smith does well in this even though in is light acting he pulls trough it all well the movie is a little slow in pacing don't expect too much action the laughs are there and so is the message but the timing is a little slow use the low moments to whisper or kiss it will pick up the ending makes the feel good moments worth it most of all expect fun light hearted fare and watch for some great upstaging by the supporting actors they make the film the plot twists are predictable but it is a date move so get the of popcorn from the kitchen and don't make her pause it count on more dates after this movie she'll want o see what is next in line remember hitch's advice br br enjoy
1	is a nice surprise a romantic comedy that actually has romance and comedy most romantic comedies for me range from mediocre to horrible because they are not funny or romantic takes actors like will smith kevin james and eva mendes into a fun light as a feather journey that actually had me laughing and yes a little aww how sweet br br meet alex hitchens will smith aka hitch he's a self proclaimed 'date he helps hopeless guys like albert kevin james win guys like amber unfortunately hitch has to deal with sarah eva mendes a gossip columnist bent on breaking the date doctor br br is actually pretty funny and it even makes the standard slapstick scenes work simply because the cast is so energetic and clearly having fun i have to wonder why will smith hasn't made more movies like this his sharp rapid fire delivery is perfect for this genre and his chemistry with mendes and james is wonderful james is a real discovery i have never seen his show 'the king of queens' but he is funny and heartfelt and he proves once more that fat white men cannot dance hip hop smith's responses to his attempts are hilarious mendes is hot and bouncy not that way geez as smith's perfect match and amber is sweet as br br isn't perfect it's a tad too long and things get too dramatic near the end although this is redeemed by the happy ending filled with funny dancing it a great refresher from the cookie cutter romantic comedies that keep littering theaters
1	love is hard to find in this fast food society that we live in so man called hitch makes it duty to help men find love with women that they are beyond madly in love with his rules are that he only helps you find love and not just some casual sex which seems like a great deal but soon word begins to spread around and people begin to get the wrong idea about what he does which begins to complicate the relationship with woman he just met that he is madly in love with br br i have to say it's really nice to see will smith in a movie that doesn't have him trying to save the world from aliens or robots there are no jaw dropping effects nor is he showing off his beefed up body he's just a normal human being in this movie which was really nice he doesn't necessarily stretch his acting muscles in this movie but then again the story doesn't call for that but all the same it was nice to see him relaxed and not showing off his ripped body to make those of us without six packs jealous his character here is as with all his characters likable witty and very charming which is something that almost all the characters in this odd love tale seem to share the kevin james character is just a regular guy that needs help hooking up with the girl of his dreams which really makes you feel for the guy and root for him every step of the way the only character that was a sore spot for me was the mendez character because she's so cold and calculated that it's hard to believe that smith could fall for her he must love a challenge i guess br br now this is the part of the review in which i'll make a joke about how i would never need hitch because i'm such a player but i just got through writing about 16 reviews for another web site plus i'm still working on a little project so i'm a little jaded right now whiles the movie is packed with enough charm and likable characters with funny lines it slowly but surely falls into the sea of formulaic romantic movies in which after the big scene where the terrible secret comes out everyone is forgiven and the relationship is even better than before but hey there's like 4000 movies about the underdog overcoming adversity so i guess one more movie having a predictable ending that's been done to almost death doesn't cause much harm i really like the message of the movie as well because in the end you don't need a formula to get the right girl just be yourself and all will fall into play which is theme of the movie and why it works so well i'm sure if it had turned out that the james character gets the girl after following everything that the smith character said then it would have being a pretty empty movie but as it stands it works really well br br despite being predictable this is a perfect date movie it's sweet it's funny and it's romantic so anyone that watches this movie on a date should be getting some after it's over and by some i mean sex
1	this was a romantic simple funny movie i really enjoyed it and would definitely say to watch it and enjoy it will smith was funny nervous sweet and just a simple guy who got hit by love it was cute to see him fall for someone and be so nervous and lost as to what to do or say it was great he was great funny as usual eva mendes was better than i expected her to be as well i thought there were moments in the movie where will got the shaft he was doing everything he could being a good guy and still getting treated bad the ending was romantic and happy and it was great i have seen it several times and would watch it again a funny movie something you don't see a lot of anymore it had the old time feel with a fresh new look
1	i liked this comedy so much will smith does not do anything slow it is always right on target with the greatest scripts and comedy that keeps you laughing and involved in the plot you are watching a skilled comedian who plays all his parts well one fully believes he is who he is playing i loved him and tommy lee jones in the men in black this comedy rates right up with that movie the humor is fast moving and will smith is as sure of himself as he was in men in black quick witted and well skilled in the art of making others score each time but doing it in a tasteful manner and with finesse br br will smith seems to have honed his comedy routine well he was so darn funny i loved the part where he had an allergic reaction to something he ate and his face swelled up and he looked more like cassius clay after a fight then he did himself then seeing him sipping on the bottle trying to bring his head back down to the right size i laughed so hard he knows how to make us all laugh
1	there's a spartan unsentimental edge to this film that allows plenty of room for us to participate in the action without any stylistic telling us how we're meant to be feeling in everything was overtly sad sure powerful as hell but still in 'white' it was delightful whimsy but there are no such emotional clues or cues for that matter in this one it's as if he finally let the force of the tale work its own magic without razzle dazzle i think that's what makes it the most initially enigmatic of the three but finally the most transcendent and redemptive never has remorseless honesty been quite so beautiful
1	when one watches romantic comedies one knows what to expect we've seen enough of them over many many years to know how they go there's a formula one which almost always begets movies that become popular with the genre's audience not always in relation to their actual quality how to play around with that and create something more interesting this movie has a suggestion and it works relatively well instead of simply following a lead we follow him skillfully helping the unfortunate men those who lack the attractive facade that would allow them to reveal the unseen good qualities that they possess to the women they are in love with the plot follows smith as he works on his self proclaimed most difficult such case kevin james alongside his aid of james we also follow mendes who is fed up with men who lie to get what they want one particular scene that inspires great respect of smith's character is him meeting one such jerk and putting him in his place after seeing smith helping the disaster that is james we see him with mendes and in spite of his talent for helping others he messes up badly with her making a marvelous point about love and how falling in love affects us for a romantic comedy this mostly avoids the pitfalls of such at times almost bordering on feeling like a spoof of the genre though the last few scenes has the sweetness and the emotions of this type of films whether or not they follow the formula will not be revealed in this review the pace is quite good it never really slows down and seldom moves too fast the acting is great as far as pretty much everyone goes the characters are nicely developed and come off as real people the humor doesn't always work there are occasional gags that are less than fortunately executed and one or two jokes that seem forced however for the most part the film was funny i recommend this to anyone who likes romantic comedies and anyone who is or have been in love those who do not believe in love will have a difficult time with the last few scenes 7 10
1	ok ok i must say i was impressed it's hard to say what i'm more impressed with my ability to choose the right romantic comedy to watch so that i don't gouge my eyes out or the movie itself either way hitch was pretty darn good hey it was good enough for me to watch twice will smith was funny and good kevin james was just hilarious and absolutely essential for the movie as much as this movie centered around hitch will smith without kevin james it's just not the same br br the story is hitch is a match maker that helps the guy woo the girl his job is to create the chance for the girl to notice the guy when she otherwise wouldn't after the encounter the rest is all up to the guy to make or break the relationship he works on only and stays largely unnoticed during the process albert kevin james is hitch's project this time around and albert has eyes on cole amber a paris hilton type figure while that plot unfolds hitch himself has eyes on sara eva mendes a sharp independent fanged gossip columnist that wants nothing to do with a relationship br br the two stories make for some funny moments and they tie together for a bit of a quagmire of course no love story is complete without the obligatory miscommunication misunderstanding or mishap to send the guy chasing after the girl fortunately they make it brief and hitch was a fun and funny movie that flowed very well and rolled along without a hitch
1	will smith is perfectly endearing as the relationship doctor here to heal all your relationship woes br br i expected this to be a standard romcom with little to amuse i'm happy to report that i was wrong will smith is delightful and unexpectedly fresh in this andy tennant vehicle surrounded by a great supporting cast an interesting story and fed with witty dialog i was thoroughly engaged br br we found this one cute quirky and inspirational without being preachy br br it rates a 7 4 10 from br br the fiend
1	that is the promise of the trailer i saw and by which i rented hitch exactly a serious film viewer shall not expect much further from this title but surprisingly enough smith mendes james and managed to reach a theatrical performance which could be metaphorically summarised on their rap dance floor routine by the end of the film their characters formed an effective combo which may prompt more than a good laugh with this sunday afternoon dvd providing your date is not an exquisite french swedish directors of the 60's movie fan br br p s the techniques to score are all true especially the cocktail girl routine
1	not having seen the film in its commercial debut we just caught with it via dvd expecting the worst hitch proved to be a pleasant experience because of the three principals in it thanks to andy tenant's direction the film has an easy pace and while predictable the comedy has some winning moments br br hitch is a sort of date coordinator for losers like albert who is not exactly what one would consider a hunk yet albert is a genuine guy who without some professional help would go unnoticed by the same women he would like to take out enter hitch to prepare him to overcome the obstacles that he can't overcome and even though albert stays overweight and never gets to master social graces he conquers us because he is a real in sharp contrast with all the phonies making the rounds in manhattan br br the basic mistake most production designers make when preparing locales for hollywood films is how out of touch with reality they are the apartments in which they these characters are so rare to find that only by the magic of the movies can these people live in places likes these evidently most of the movie people are dealing with fantasy since most city dwellers would kill for spaces so fabulous as the ones they show in the movies let alone these same people depicted in the film would not be able to afford them br br will smith is a charismatic actor he has a disarming way to charm without doing much the surprise of the movie though is kevin james who as the overweight albert not only win us over but he proves he can hold his own in his scenes with mr smith eva mendez is fine as the main interest of hitch in minor roles we see adam arkin amber michael rappaport and phillip among others br br hitch is a fun film to watch thanks to the inspired direction by andy tenant
1	last evening i had the remarkable pleasure of seeing the movie hitch i was stunned and amazed will smith did a phenomenal job in a role that he isn't always associated with he proved once and for all that he does not need to be holding a gun to be a great actor in a movie kevin james was also very impressive i admit that i've always like him on the king of queens but this role really brought him into the light more and i hope to see him on the big screen a lot more in the near future the movie was funny and adorable and i recommend it to any guy as the best date movie you could ever imagine the mix of comedy romance and drama left me feeling complete it's nothing like most chick flicks in the sense of tears and sadness but holds its own and i think can be equally enjoyed by males as well as females i encourage all couples especially to see this movie but even if you aren't involved with someone you may pick up some great ideas from hitch br br two way big thumbs up
1	i expected a good movie what i got was an even better movie the chemistry between james and smith is just incredible glad to see him in a major motion picture for once br br the movie works because the actors play their parts perfectly will smith is fantastic with his never ending charm kevin james is hilarious and eva mendes well let's just say she plays that bitch sweet annoying role to the best of her ability br br what i loved about the movie was the fact that will smith didn't even have to try to be lovable he just was the date doctor had all the right moves said everything in the most perfect of ways and never ever went over the top br br the funny parts are hilarious and the cute romantic parts are unforgettable br br i totally recommend this movie and no it is not a chick flick
1	this film was not about stereotypes nor dance moves nor pickup lines really this film was about the vulnerability of peoples' hearts it was hard to believe that kevin james could play in a convincing role that will smith could satisfy without action and that such a hackneyed genre of film could succeed in such a way i don't intend to sound overly endeared with this film it wasn't groundbreaking in any sort of way but it was a film worth seeing was it believable no new york couldn't be so simple and there has been no human being in the history of mankind that has the of hitch sure there are bar studs but not ones that can get any chick at any time excluding those raking in seven figures of course the thing that worked best for this film was its true focus on the dramatic side of things not just on the comedy it was a funny two hours no doubt but it was also two hours that made you sit in your seat become immersed in the characters and smile
1	this was a movie that at the end i thought now that was an enjoyable 2 hours i hate spending around 20 not including baby sitting for my husband and myself to have that it was ok feeling br br i think i like will smith better as a comedic actor than an action hero he was well cast in this his character was very likable as was kevin james' br br there were several laugh out loud scenes it's also a romantic movie so guys if you want to impress the lady in your life take her to this women will like it as much as any chick flick but i wouldn't categorize this as one there is plenty of guy humor in it for men to enjoy i think that's one of the reasons why this movie is so perfect as a date movie it has romance and slapstick i don't usually like slapstick that much but it wasn't overdone and i can't think of any those scenes that didn't deliver laughs br br i definitely recommend this movie the first thing my husband said to me after it was over was i want to see it again
1	i wasn't sure about getting this movie on dvd because i really do have something against people making black and white films in the 21st century but i ended up buying it anyway i still don't understand why it had to be black and white but that's the only negativity i can see about the film and it sure is a perfect example to see the definitive rise of brazilian cinema not everyone can understand a film like this but it's quite rewarding to those who do unlike o homem que the surrealism fits this movie pretty well and the acting is at least as good as that one or other successful brazilian films such as de de deus brava etc br br my only hope is that this gem doesn't get insulted and raped by a crappy hollywood remake it's amazing to see how those guys spend zillions of dollars and still can't make a movie that's 1 as good as this possibly low budget flick br br bravo to the entire crew 10 10
1	valentine and joe the judge kern join forces to clean up the mean streets of geneva thrill as they put the kibosh on international heroin smugglers polish fugitives peeping philandering girlfriends renegade dogs and who are too lazy to bin their don't be fooled by the deceptive miramax ad campaign that paints it as a pretentious art house flick this movie is 100 action
1	is a sad almost bluesy style of portuguese gypsy music that is heard repeatedly trough the movie as explained by one of the main characters igor it also means fate br br indeed it's fate that bring the two main characters paco and alex together and triggers the problems that ensue br br on the whole i enjoyed it quite a bit it starts out as an 'on the down and outs' drama road movie an builds into a suspenseful thriller road movie br br there were two things that i found unrealistic that kept me from giving it a higher rating i gave it an 8 the first is the major point of why did alex give the stuff away she was so desperate for cash that she sold her passport for a paltry sum and then she gives away things worth thousands to a stranger her explanation was unconvincing also how did they get through the gate where were the cops
1	this existential thriller in portuguese with english subtitles is a modern version of the american filmes of the 40s complete with a surprise twist at the end it is riveting from beginning to end my only criticism is its poor production values the film looks cheaply made and it probably was so the black and white cinematography is vastly inferior to that of godard in vivre sa vie to cite another film noir of more than 30 years earlier most maddening of all the subtitles are often hard to read when will filmmakers learn and provide yellow subtitles so that they can be read against a white background i'd give this an 8 overall although with better production values it could have been higher
1	i have read the last comment made on this film and have to utterly and totally disagree with it br br you see i am of portuguese nationality and even though this film may say little to someone coming from boston it surely says something to both portuguese and brazilian people as well as immigrants everywhere br br and why you may wonder well firstly this film deals with two sibling nations portugal and brazil brazil gained its independence in the early 19th century by the hands of the heir to the portuguese throne and since then relations improved greatly br br however meaningful as this may be there is still a lot of prejudice because of the economic climate in brazil during the 1990's immigration to portugal grew massively you see portugal is not only a country sharing a similar language culture and beliefs as brazil but is also a gateway to the rest of europe some people were thus forced to make the decision to cross the atlantic and look for a better life and portugal was the first logical place to try to immigrate to br br as it happens still with a lot of immigrants they were paid averages below the minimum wage and were treated like dirt only in this case because the language is similar they were constantly made aware of their status as immigrants br br another curious thing in this film is the idea it conveys of how a man so knowledgeable of the history of his own country still tried to make a quick buck through coveted national resources it is exactly people like this that keep brazil in a constant state of arrested development as the country is well endowed in natural resources and could easily climb the economic ladder should it be given a fair opportunity br br in a sense this goes to show how colonialism still exists pablo representing the exploited people igor the man whose status as a nobleman or at least rich or well off is assured by the foreign colonialist power which is in turn represented by kraft br br if you have seen other films by salles you will recognize this as a recurring topic the struggle against an oppressing power i do not mean to lecture or be patronising as to teach anyone history but i thought this film was symbolically speaking very powerful i am not saying there wasn't room for improvement as there always is but i think the last comment written on it was not only narrow minded but hands down ignorant br br one last thing to be said on this i have to assume you have watched this film with the eyes of an american film watcher no harm intended by this remark but i mean foreign films cannot all be about beautiful scenery art deals with the problems of its time you would not expect otto dix for example to paint all the lovely places in and the black forest why should you expect a film maker to focus exclusively on scenery when he feels there are more relevant issues to attend to br br in a nutshell do not judge films lightly and with only two or three criteria in scope this film is very interesting its photography is quite good and even the idea the black and white colouring conveys goes hand in hand with what it deals with i believe the image is purposefully grainy like reality no br br watch it and reach your own conclusions
1	someone reviewed this movie as a waste of time because he she was expecting the beautiful scenery of brazil and portugal but then everything looked washed out or gloomy or something to that effect i believe this person missed the entire part of the film this is reality the point of this movie is to show that life is not indeed ideal and to show what people go through in their lives for family love and survival a young man leaves his slum in sao paolo brazil to go to portugal to visit his mother's home country after her death he discovers that not everything is free and that brazilians are looked down upon by native people from portugal he eventually finds a life a love but the story does not end as expected and this is not a fairy tale story the part that got me most was the ending song honey baby by gal costa it fit so well with the movie especially the ending
1	like in les amants du pont two outsiders lives a love story without concessions the film consists out of a lot of interesting conversation and a lot of sweet moments the best one comes in a listening booth they listen to a record together and once in a while they look at each other they talk they like each other she suggests a change in their lives but he is out of hope the realistic over the realistic but emotive dialogs a really screenwriter's work for this film spanish novel director jesus creates one of the most perfect gallery from the latest year of spanish cinema
1	isabel has just gone out of jail she is decided to not return again but life is difficult for ex convict specially if they are homeless as isabel when she finds the one that was her boyfriend she can see a light of hope but is now not only a junkie but also an aids ill this will not make isabel surrender because if there's a will there's a way and she is going to fight for her future to have normal life with a house and a family a very hard and touching film that has passed unaware by most of the spanish cinemas actors are great and the story is very touching maybe a better treatment of the secondary characters would have made the movie better but it is really good i highly recommend it to watch it but be aware that this is not a disney happy film it is hard and dramatic
1	1st watched 10 28 2007 8 out of 10 dir jesus simple sweet story of a homeless couple and their daily adventures surviving in the everyday world without a roof over their heads the movie starts with the woman in the story played by isabel being released from prison but we don't know what she was in for or how long she was there she runs across the anti hero of the story and her boyfriend played by sebastian as he's parking cars for change they shack up together underneath an old dilapidated building with nothing but each other's warmth and a small mattress to their possession he is a drug addict who just tries to make it from one fix to another but she has a strange obsessive attraction to him as a person which we eventually accept he also has some sort of sexually transmitted disease so sex for them is out of the question but this doesn't appear to be a problem for either of them she loves this man as he is without question and without him having to change which is a rare find anywhere she earns her keep by carrying a bucket around and washing shop windows they eat a bakery roll every day and consider it a feast isabel's character dreams of a normal life but doesn't expect it to happen and doesn't expect to fit into that role so doesn't think much of it both characters come from extremely broken homes and therefore the audience has sympathy for them despite their imperfections without giving up much of the story isabel's character continues to persevere while the man gets worse and worse in his drug obsession there is a nice melodramatic conclusion to the story that lifts it up for the masses to enjoy but overall this is a wonderful independent film about a relationship between un worldly misfits that keeps you interested until the end
1	this is probably one of those films too many commented but undiscovered this is probably one masterpiece of spanish cinema like some masters piece 15 days with you could be the better now and them re from others films of long time ago could be midnight cowboy but could be also les amants du pont or a realistic and non spot look but most realistic trainspotting this hard story has place to humour love and obviously dramatic sense in the new social spanish cinema this little diamond could be the resurrection of the italian neo realism mixed whit the best ken loach films br br probably the better film i discover in the last 10 years
1	i had heard interesting critics on this movie i believed it was a love story but i wasn't sure what was the plot about so when i finally saw it i found myself in the middle of a love relationship between the ex con isabel isabel and the junkie sebastián so a love story but not probably what i was expecting br br the movie is focused on isabel as she struggles to get back into society she doesn't want to return back to her neighborhood and she finds herself without a home or anywhere to go so while she just experiences those first hours of freedom after being released from jail she came across an old of her which while she was in had become a junkie and lives on the streets not having where to go and without money or feasible source of income she decides to join on his residence a covered area on a lonely street br br the story by itself is moving it explains how the impossible relationship between isabel and gets deeper until the the almost final twist of the movie br br definitely the movie is worth watching sebastián is splendid in his role of the junkie a person being able of both being an innocent and tender giving person and a ruthless street scum just depending whom deals him with i believe his role br br on the other hand i don't quite believe the role of isabel although the movie tries to show the bitterness inside her through several scenes she is not capable to make me believe it she is in a way too sweet and too honest for which might be expected of somebody on the same situation br br the movie tries to show a love on a desperate situation it is a enjoyable movie but the feeling i get when the movie ends is that isabel with the way of thinking and acting she has would never have arrived to that situation her role partly because of the script partly because of the acting is difficult to believe br br i specially like the ending and because of it i have raised my rating one or two points i liked its bittersweetness and the fact of showing that sometimes survival instinct is above other more spiritual considerations as love br br summarizing an interesting movie but it lacked some punch to be a total must see
1	this show is sheer entertainment and doesn't try to be a greek drama it certainly contains elements of one what with all the plot twists but it's immensely engaging and fun las vegas is the perfect setting for a show and they will certainly never have a lack of material to work with anything and everything does happen there the actors in this show are extremely personable and you really do want to see what they are up to and into each week the show is also very funny the humor arises from the characters and situations not just thrown in gratuitously it's a well crafted show in that regard it certainly makes me look forward to friday nights and i'm glad i now own the first two seasons on dvd
1	i use imdb very much mainly reading comments of other people about movies i´ve or not seen i´ve thought it was time to write a few words about this movie that changed my life and the way i look a movie i think i have seen it at least a dozen times since autumn 94 when i saw it in the theatre for the first time br br i feel kieslowski is one of the best directors of all time and i think this is his best one it was his last one i was very sad the day i knew he has died because sure we lost the chance to get something more from him br br red is just the best kieslowski performance by trintignant jacob cinematography by if you haven´t seen it look for it if you have just come back to it br br red just a masterpiece please forgive my poor english reader
1	this movie made by the was made in honor of the montreal canadians dynasty years in the 50's 60's and 70's my 5th grade teacher played this in class in honor of my 11th birthday in 1987 and also to celebrate my return from a serious facial injury in 1986 i have been a canadians fan for 29 of my 30 years of life on a scale of 1 10 i give this film a 117 all hockey fans should see this as i hope it will be placed in the hockey hall of fame in toronto and shown at the bell centre in montreal or here in edmonton at place watch this film with your family it is a great movie i also recommend the book in both french and english go go
1	i don't usually comment on films or tv shows but had to post a comment about las vegas br br naturally here in the uk we are about 2 through the 3rd season and though i have managed to watch the last series of season 3 via other means i'm still glued every friday at 9pm br br from the very first episode of season 1 i have been a big big fan of this show and own all 3 seasons on dvd yes i cannot wait for season 4 to start in october br br so why do i love this show so much well i have to agree with the last poster james caan i know one person cannot make a team but big ed was made for caan or maybe it was the other way around i read that the producers were considering martin sheen for ed no way i also agree that caan's character is getting very soft i also preferred the tough take no sh t big bad eddy d that we saw in season 1 2 he seems to have mellowed out br br as i said no one person makes the team by and of course the other cast members josh danny james mike vanessa sam nikki cox mary molly sims all contribute well even outside cast members such as cheryl ladd as jillian harry groener as gunther dean caine as casey mitchell as mitch who may feature 6 or 7 times during a season can fit in just as well as if they've been in every single episode from day one br br this show has everything drama action suspense laughs romance glamour and big time celebrity's who often play br br many may disagree but this is one of the best shows on digital tv and i hope it may long continue after season 4
1	this show is awesome i love all the actors it has great story lines and characters it is the perfect drama james caan and josh have great dialogue they both can be really funny i miss vanessa on general hospital but she's great on here james is great he can be hilarious molly sims plays a dimwit very well the writing is awesome they keep up an excellent pace the show can really leave you hanging which is one of my favorite elements of a show i cannot wait until the new season starts this show makes it to the top ten of all my shows i hope this show stays on for a really long time if people know what good is it will i never want the show to end ever
1	frankly i just enjoy watching james caan wonderful actor with such simplicity you know exactly what he's thinking a true pro br br i have watched the show from the very beginning and found it different that's something that is unique in hollywood a new idea not a 3rd version of a current hit show br br i also find the show fun and exciting i like the pacing you're never bored i especially like the mystery in each episode the way it unfolds i am a big mystery fan and have read a lot of the great mysteries but i find the stories in the show well written and the outcome is rarely obvious also extremely interesting to me probably because i am not a gambler is the different cons that the come up with i was fascinated by the number of schemes that people have come up with to rob las vegas the music i like the music at the top of the show absolutely perfect for the show sets the tone and atmosphere just marvelous and of course there is james caan
1	i was shocked to learn that jimmy caan has left this show does anyone know why i regard james as one of the all time greats and wasn't surprised he ended up on tv which can be better than the crap you see on the big screen the stories are slick and the camera faster than a speeding bullet mustn't forget the rest of the cast james vanessa yum nikki molly josh mitch also can anyone tell me why on earth there's a crap theme tune on the dvd sets but elvis's remix of a little less conversation is used on the initial nbc broadcasts does it not make sense to use a tune that you would associate with the gambling mecca of america for dvd releases
1	las vegas is very funny and focuses on the substance br br the sets are amazing and the scenes outside are breathtaking the characters are all very fun and cool br br the women are a plus br br holly sims is lovable as the daughter of james caan who heads the security of the casino while josh is very funny and lets face it he looks like he can take down anyone br br vanessa and nikki cox add that special touch br br the story lines are very fun and weird at times br br you can easily just relax into this show and doesn't bring the heavy story lines like the other shows that rule the ratings
1	i've read the comments on las vegas and do agree with some of them it's not brain surgery tv but then again i was under the impression that tv was mainly for escapism especially with what is going on in today's world let's face it a show about vegas that isn't a reality based programme isn't going to one based on reality because to me vegas is pure fantasy it's the sort of place where we can go and pretty much do what we want when we want subject to funds obviously br br therefore the fact that las vegas is pretty sexy and cliched with characters that reflect all this seems to be on the money in my eyes if you don't like it don't watch it that what we have a million channels for br br we're coming up to the third episode here in the uk and i know that i will be making a beeline to watch it again i just hope it's not cancelled something that seems to be happening a lot with most of the shows that come to the uk that are half decent firefly and jake 2 0 anyone br br it's harmless great looking fun and everytime i watch it i want to go back to the real thing
1	las vegas is one of the most brilliant shows of our time its combines hard hitting action with light drama and heavy doses of comedy it features fantastic characters lead by the charismatic tough guy ed james caan the show uses cool high tech surveillance equipment to bring down the cheats and schemers the characters are joyful to watch especially as their different departments within the hotel casino cross paths br br the show is mainly centred around the surveillance and security part of the hotel casino the two leading characters are ed president of operations and danny mccoy josh former us marine who served in iraq but is now head of security the shows five other main characters are former valet now security personnel mit graduate mike cannon james the feisty sexy casino host marquez vanessa danny's childhood sweetheart hotel manager mary o'connell nikki cox danny's current sweetheart also big ed's daughter and manager of mystique molly sims and ed's adopted daughter from his cia past casino floor manager holt marsha thomason who left the show after the second season each character is unique in their own quirky way giving the show its energy and charisma that keeps its audience entertained for the entire duration of an episode br br every episode features a special quest star either a singer actor or band who perform at the hotel's nightclub mystique these cameo appearances by big names is a specialty that is popular among the shows audience br br las vegas is a show that can appeal to both male and female audiences for the guys the show features sexy women classy sports cars high stakes gambling adrenaline pumping action and overall a pool for topless women for the ladies there is the young and handsome leading man and the tough edgy romance and tanned topless guys around the same pool br br the plot of each episode combines action with light drama and comedy to break the ice each episodes also features 2 even 3 secondary stories which revolve mainly around the female characters every season also ends with a bang which leaves the audience hanging until the airing of the next season an excellent way to end a season with a mix of genre's driving the show and a cast of colourful charismatic characters and of course lets not forget the topless pool makes las vegas one of the greatest tv shows ever aired br br 9 10
1	i think josh is so great the rest of the show is fun to watch but i think it is the handsome and sexy josh that makes the show las vegas really fun to see in the days of magnum i loved tom selleck i thought he was the sexiest man on the face of the earth a hunk on a television show is a must in order for women to enjoy watching something especially just for purposes of innocuous entertainment i would have done anything to win a date with tad hamilton josh is incredible and i will always have a super crush on him josh is definitely a hunk and i will watch las vegas all the time josh is a big reason why too
1	i would like to vent my displeasure at nbc canceling las vegas the show had been top notch for the past 5years tom addition was great he really brought a nice fresh addition to the show what does nbc have now lame reality and night time game shows i mean come on keep the old and tired law and order not even putting jack mccoy as da can keep the show interesting gee let's keep quality program like deal or no deal or ed er should be put out to pasture to nbc is worse now than it was in pre seinfeld cheers days with cable and internet nbc cannot afford to fall flat on its face please bring back vegas i remember when homicide life on the street ended the way it did at least they had a two hour series final hey cbs are you listening please pick up vegas it is a great show
1	i think that vanessa is the best actor in the cast she makes sam one of the best character on the show james cann is also pretty good i love it when he worried about one of my favorite scenes in when ed and are beating the crap out of some guy that was funny nikki cox is also good and she has great chemistry with josh lara flynn boyle was awesome in her guest role i wish they hadn't killed her off the show has a great cast with no bad actors which isn't something you often see on tv i still think vanessa is the best though she should have got an emmy in my opinion it's a shame the show was cancelled
1	the greatest movie ever br br how's that for a contention however if we look at it through purely cinematic terms it is clear that three colours red is a masterpiece it is not enough to merely say this three colours red is the masterpiece of world cinema if you accept that citizen kane is not human enough if you accept that star wars is not actually very good if you accept that ozu and both have to take a step back then three colours red is the foremost masterpiece of all time as a discussion into human morality three colours red works on an intensely metaphysical level with a depth that none can match blue went almost as far into the human psyche but stopped as it was going to pull the rabbit out of the hat white forced us to reflect on the humanity of equality this in retrospect was better still but still not quite there red however is the real thing what he expresses in this movie is an expression of what it is to be human in fact what he expresses is how it is to feel human it forces us to examine up to the minutest detail the very nature of our souls of our ethical selves in red one may find meaning on one of its several levels on the first level red achieves a high level of verisimilitude we could have no trouble in calling red an exceptionally entertaining story however the coincidences inherent in the film and its conceits force us to examine the movie as a movie it is as if kieslowski is saying pas la in effect in pursuing a humanistic goal kieslowski can also challenge reality it is a trick that kieslowski has been attempting since le double vie de but not until this his final film did he finally manage to reach this divine intertwining of fate philosophy and circumstance the actors and actresses too appear to be at the mercy of a greater power valentine irène jacob is aptly name for she seems to represent an almost pure love meanwhile the idea of first impressions is challenged by jean louis judge kern a cantankerous man who by the end becomes an almost all knowing observer of events a character who symbolically seems to possess the power to bring characters together a power to make people happy a power which he could only achieve through valentine br br we have a capability to see films as more than just a series of pictures in fact films have the potential to possess more meaning than literature it won't happen of course but at least we have the power to view this film knowing that it gives us the power to achieve the something that we can't define but all possess a synopsis of this film read a film about a woman who runs over a dog well it is br br isn't it br br simon br br
1	very reliable entertainment as las vegas amuses as well as intrigues very light hearted and very much bolstered by josh i like this television show and i think that many people watch it as a form of escapist voyeurism voyeurism in this case is very positive and many females in this series are very nice to look at this show incorporates las vegas legends such as wayne newton as intermittent characters to the las vegas genre there have been copious depictions of sin city this is one of the better efforts the producers and directors are lucky to have james caan in the show as he is very much a totally accomplished actor by and large i like the t v show las vegas and i watch it on fridays i watched it on mondays as well but with monday night football i could see why nbc switched it to fridays nonetheless i like las vegas a lot
1	just got into viewing program for the first time recently the 2 hour kidnapping program don't know why i didn't sooner james caan is outstanding and wholly believable in the role as the chief honcho at the featured 5 vegas complex br br so often programs like this have one or more in the ensemble who are either outright annoying or seem to have been picked because they must be related to the producer or director br br that is certainly not the case with this program along with caan all of the primary and supporting cast are engaging attractive and believable the guest actors are well chosen br br the stories i've seen are interesting and the show presents a good view of the city as well br br this is an entertaining program and one i hope will remain i don't know how i managed to miss it for so long but plan to tivo it from now on
1	all right guys here's the deal with this movie it's not the best but for all of you 80s kids out there it'll bring back fond memories of your childhood personally i love this movie i still love rainbow and the care bears so in my opinion if you aren't a kid now or were a kid that loved and or loves rainbow you won't like this movie at all
1	wow this was a great movie i just got it from the u s and it was worth all the money i gave for it this movie is one of the best movies for children i have ever seen maybe the best all you who like rainbow must see this 1 the first 7 minutes you can not believe what you see it's so great br br scooter
1	i must admit that i am a fan of cheesy '80's cartoons but this is among the best rainbow and the star stealer is one of the most watchable and entertaining of the rainbow cartoons and is much better than the tv series i especially like the relationship between rainbow and darian and find it very amusing my favorite character though is who is definitely the most magnificent horse in the universe br br i also recommend rainbow new beginnings which tells the story of how came to be have a rainbow day
1	the worst movie ever hardly this is one of the best animated movies i have ever seen it has appearances from all the great characters from the animated tv series rainbow very safe for small children and the colors capture their attention like no other there is an evil princess trying to steal the diamond planet which would in turn cause all life on earth to cease this tells the tale of how rainbow and her new friend are able to stop the evil plot and restore life and color back to earth it's proof that kids can make a difference rainbow will live on forever
1	this movie is awesome due to the fact that it showed how good cartoons really looked in the 80s the animators were not lazy like they are today the cartoon had so much detail with very little resources they have with them compared with what we have today if more people would request these cartoons to be rebroadcast then maybe all of the other 80s cartoons would be shown on television once again therefore to finish my sentence i would just like to say that this was a cartoon that i grew up with and really would like it to be on tv once again
1	one of my favorite villains the evil princess is just the perfect villain for this movie full of space travel horses diamonds mystical characters colorful backgrounds evil characters etc etc very bright full of action you will not get bored great movie
1	this was the very first movie i ever saw in the theatre by myself i was 7 years old and to this day it is one of my favorite movies it's pure smarmy cheese the cartoon was marketed towards young girls selling dolls with soft bodies and big plastic heads one for every colour of the rainbow with their own special animals and even a talking rainbow horse typical of the time period each show was about how hope togetherness and magic can make 'everything all br br the movie concerns the coming of spring when all the light and colour returns to the world but this time it just isn't happening for our lovely hero a spoiled princess plots to overtake the soul and implied life giver of the universe which happens to be a giant diamond for her own devious purposes with no regard for reality and now rainbow and her newly found friends orin onyx and chris must save the universe as i said before it's cheesy but it's cute and it's exactly like all of the other cartoons from that time period like the movies strawberry shortcake rose petal and the smurfs all movies created to sell dolls to kids and it works
1	i watched this movie as a child and still enjoy viewing it every once in a while for the nostalgia factor when i was younger i loved the movie because of the entertaining storyline and interesting characters today i still love the characters additionally i think of the plot with higher regard because i now see the morals and symbolism rainbow is far from the worst film ever and though out dated i'm sure i will show it to my children in the future when i have children
1	this is a classic continuation to bleu the likewise excellent film with juliet binouche as a main star moreover she is a cameo appearance here in rouge just for a second at the very end but this film truly red and very sweet although very sad is a real winner the main heroine played by ever great irene is a successful photo fashion model she leads a full active life only darkened by her traumatic relations with her weird friend mike who is in england by some lucky chance she gets friendly with the old judge who spends time listening to the private telephone talks of his neighbors the story starts to weave even further and we see him in court being almost universally condemned for his pastime she is the only one who feels sympathy for him for his cute doggy rita and her pups and for all the people who surround them we also witness the break up of a happy couple of a young lawyer and his lady and their quarrel is also fueled by that telephone scandal but the film is not about this even it is mostly about the loneliness and deep rifts between people far and near when she sails to england on a ferry with that lawyer as a chance fellow passenger as well as that earlier mentioned binoche who starred in bleu the ship sinks and we see the horrified look of the judge when he watches the news trying to guess if she survived she did and still we feel very heavy at heart mr managed to draw a grand subtle story about the solitude misunderstanding secrets and pain deep dark personal pain of those who are lost and lonely brilliant film
1	um hello rainbow the name alone is hard to take it seriously like she could be the cousin of strawberry shortcake but when you're a kid this is definitely serious stuff br br so there's this vile snotty spoiled girl and she wants rainbow belt amongst other things ie the light of the whole universe and rainbow and her friend cris are bound and determined to stop her as i remember murky and had a minor role in this production maybe they wanted too much money br br so anyway snotty evil girl has a powerful jewel and she channels it's power to take belt imagine but somehow rainbow gets her belt back and re it with star sprinkles and kicks the bad girls' butt with the help of cris and his prism bracelet and they also save the whole universe in the process br br so good triumphs over evil niceness triumphs over rudeness and rainbow and the color kids are once again safe to spread color and joy for all mankind
1	i adored this but i am an 80's kid i loved rainbow bright my whole childhood i don't know if little ones these days would be very interested in the show mine wasn't but thats okay i bought it for me anyway i just brought the little one so the guy at the checkout stand wouldn't look at me funny i love the non violent drama and the colorful scenery it just reminds me of a simpler time before cartoons had more violence than our local news can legally show although i may be just a little biased on the subject afterall i was rainbow bright 6 years in a row for halloween i wonder if they make a rainbow bright costume for adults lol
1	when i was a child this was the movie i watched i think it is a great movie for the kids to watch and parents don't have to be afraid of any violence or obscene images rainbow is a cheerful young girl and she is trying to make the winter go away she finds that something or someone is trying to steal the source of life and keep it for themselves i love this movie and i think that even adults can enjoy this movie
1	i first saw this movie when i was very little i was born in 1985 so it was around the age when 80s cartoons were big my mother taped it one day thinking i might like it i had never even heard of the rainbow bright tv show before i was introduced to the movie when i saw it on one of those old beta tapes i loved it i became addicted to it there are people who say it's badly written and all that but it's a kid's movie and things like that don't matter much to children i loved the story and especially liked the songs and all the female characters of course i pretended to be them and in the scene where rainbow first met and they were repulsed they had to work with the opposite sex i could totally relate the story was the basic good vs evil that children enjoy and there were enough happy moments to balance out the scary ones the world is a fantastic place that would stimulate the imagination of any young child i am very glad i had an opportunity to see this movie when i was little it made a big impact and watching it now brings back happy memories of childhood i would recommend to any parent with young children to rent this movie it will trigger their imagination and provide plenty of entertainment you're only a child once so don't let them miss out on this one
1	people talk about how horrible the script was and how horrible the animation was but rainbow and the star stealer really is a japanese anime aimed towards children if you look at the anime today it's done in the same style and it's immensely popular i don't think this movie was ever intended to be viewed by adults just as i don't think it was ever intended to be serious the very things that people seem to hate about this movie are the things that i love rainbow is one of the best cartoon characters ever created in my opinion she's smart she's funny she cares about the she cares about her friends this movie can teach so much to young kids my little brothers even liked this movie i have to say this movie taught me a lot when i was a kid when it came out on dvd i was first in line to buy it it's a great kids movie so what if it's not perfect nothing is really perfect when you look closely enough at it
1	rainbow and the star stealer in my opinion is an excellent masterpiece i felt all warm and tingly when rainbow voice of bettina and voice of david mendenhall set out to get revenge on the princess voice of aldrich if you ask me the princess was absolutely bitchy and diabolical to me she deserved to have rainbow and seek revenge on him however i liked her castle as well as the rest of the setting in addition i thought that of pat and murky of peter cullen were diabolical before i wrap this up i'd like to say that everyone was perfectly cast the direction was flawless and disney has scored a big hit in conclusion i highly recommend this excellent masterpiece to everyone who hasn't seen it especially die hard fans of the tv series i guarantee you you'll enjoy it
1	here's what you have to remember about this movie it's a kids movie i don't know about the rest of you but i'm an 80s child i was obsessed with rainbow so naturally i love this movie but if you watch the other rainbow movies this one is by far the best but like i said it's a kids movie you have to judge it as a kids movie it doesn't matter to kids if the acting animation or script is fantastic or even good all they care about is what happens to the characters if the good guy or girl wins then it's a great movie if not then it's bad you all know what i mean you were all kids once
1	rainbow and the star stealer is not for people who were born before 1980 or after 1989 most of those people would not appreciate the great things that are 80's cartoons the fact that rainbow was made into a movie is a guilty pleasure for many of us who remember watching the tv show as a child granted much of the dialogue is quite amusing and silly and the plot is to pointless but it's a very cool movie none the less
1	i found this movie on one of my old videos after godzilla vs the sea monster which should instantly give you an idea of it's tone and i hadn't seen it in a while so i decided to watch it i didn't remember much about rainbow except i used to like the cartoon and that it was cute most people feel that way about her you probably do to br br well when the movie started i wondered if it was the right one it didn't fit the mold of rainbow as i remembered her but it turns out she kicks butt this has to be the strangest animated movie ever i can't believe these characters were so popular the series isn't much different while being so bizzare as soon as i watched this movie again it became one of my favorites br br i really don't want to give too much away just know that if you see the movie in the video store rent it and watch it no questions asked you will get a kick out of it especially the outrageous princess character and the robotic horse and the hypnotized sprites br br if you can't tell by know this is an 80's cartoon that is really an undiscovered head movie in disguise have fun
1	i wasn't even born when this series was released in the usa it took about another decade before british tv networks laid hold of it br br in fact i was fortunate enough to see the very first episode in which the lone ranger was one of a posse who ran into an ambush and got slaughtered was the only survivor although badly wounded he was saved by a passing indian called tonto i believe he took to wearing a mask in order to hide his true identity for fear of but instead he made himself all the more recognisable dunno if he wore it in his sleep br br this was saturday teatime staple the fanfare of william overture presaged a dash to the telly food still in hand though it very quickly became repetitive predictable hokum nobody ever unmasked him nobody ever landed a punch nobody ever out shot him he was a little too good and just a little too camp in his dress for most kids poor tonto on the other hand became his aunt sally he was always getting slugged and tied up and kidnapped and stuff br br and what did he keep calling the lone ranger 'king was the general consensus where i lived it seemed to imply 'the big know all' in indian speak but is sounded like something else as if mr had a speech defect what the hell's that br br a later and less well duo called 'the range and west' eventually won my vote this featured a naked faced jock mahoney who got beat up pretty thoroughly in each episode and was altogether less camp less super and more believable br br still even today i can't hear william overture without expecting the gallop of hooves and a hearty hi oh silver br br devine daftness
1	in my analysis of trois blanc i wrote that its tone is much lighter than the tone of trois bleu i think it's the same with this film this time it's not because of a tragic comedy element but much more because of the main character valentine although her boyfriend is living abroad and is ridiculously jealous she manages her life with lightness and optimism it seems to me that she might be kieslowski's image for a carefree youth the opposite seems to be the judge who is very pessimistic a grumpy old man who experiences big loneliness in my view valentine and the judge are pretty similar to each other the judge is just much older and has experienced many more disappointments they share a different kind of naivety and they both discover that they can learn much from the other one finally i would like to stress irène jacob's performance she rounds off the run of amazing female contributions to the three colours trilogy
1	bullets may not have bounced off his chest but the lone ranger was every bit the symbolic icon to me as my other boyhood hero superman he represented truth justice and the american way in a classic tv western setting living by the principle that he would never use his gun to kill while scouring the american southwest with his faithful indian companion tonto to bring every single outlaw to justice the advent of tv provided the perfect opportunity for a post war generation to find it's ideal in an enigmatic masked man who stood for law and order while providing unparalleled entertainment for five seasons spanning almost eight years br br today i had the opportunity to view for the first time the complete three part origin episodes start to finish without the standard opening and closing sequences to interrupt the continuity of the story for fans of the ranger this is the grand daddy of all western sagas telling as it does how texas ranger john reid survived the ambush by the butch gang and how he was nursed back to health by an indian friend from his childhood tonto jay declares his companion a and names him sabe i've read various interpretations of the origin of the term sabe but i'm satisfied with explanation reading too much into it just detracts from the story just like the english translation of from spanish which i won't reveal because it's just better not to know if you can help it br br i thought it quite clever how the origin story created the mystique of the lone ranger like the sixth grave that created the illusion that all the rangers died in the box canyon ambush you never see the face of the man who becomes the lone ranger as it's always turned away or obscured to hide his real identity even the origin of silver is handled brilliantly the voice of the story's narrator describing the wild sterling qualities would that relate say to sterling silver i got the biggest kick out of that br br of course with the passage of time watching the lone ranger episodes today offers a view of how unsophisticated the show was beyond the origin story some of them are almost embarrassingly goofy particularly when it comes to a lone ranger showdown when he shoots into the middle of a crowd of bad guys to knock a gun out of it's owner's hand and how about that little wave he gives to tonto whenever they're about to ambush the bad guys it's always the same gesture but tonto always knows what it means in different circumstances then you have the episodes where clayton moore takes off the ranger mask to don a different disguise to impersonate another character in service to the story he even went under cover once as an actor portraying president abraham lincoln to uncover a villain top hat and all br br few fans that i come across ever know that actor john hart replaced clayton moore for the 1952 53 season in a contract dispute that moore had with the show's producers if you ever saw that happy days episode where fonzie idolizes his boyhood hero you'll notice it was john hart listed in the credits it's difficult actually to tell if you're watching a hart episode or not the key is to listen to the voice moore's is so distinctive that it's a dead giveaway br br if you ever get the chance to sample some of the final season color episodes you're in for a treat the renditions i've seen on vhs are absolutely gorgeous although i don't know if commercial prints are available most of the black and white episodes around have been re packaged by any number of distributors in different so getting your hands on those should be no problem the must see of course is the three part origin and if you don't watch anything else this gives you all the flavor and excitement you need to capture the imagination of one of the west's most famous heroes hi yo silver
1	the 221 episodes of the lone ranger were originally broadcast on abc from 1949 to 1957 and then for many years they played in local syndication for most of the original broadcast years the series was abc's most watched piece of programming br br the new dvd set from pop flix contains the first 16 episodes 15 sept 29 dec 1949 and for some reason unknown to me episode 22 from the fifth season for a total of 17 episodes the same 17 available on last year's mill creek entertainment release so these are probably in the public domain these sets pretty much render the legend of the lone ranger movie superfluous as all three episodes that were combined in 1952 to form the movie are included in these releases br br the early episodes hark back to radio as there is considerably more voice over narration used as an introduction and to introduce key plot moments br br the series itself was pure kiddie western with clear cut good and evil distinctions and no romance the title character played by clayton moore started out texas ranger john reid the first three episodes provide the background for his transformation to lone ranger status his partnering with the indian tonto jay and the taming of his horse silver br br there is an unambiguous code of positive morality infusing each episode the lone ranger is totally good but he adopts the guise of evil while a masked man in the west was normally feared by the good citizens and an indian was the lone ranger is feared by those who would do evil one persistent theme is that when the lone ranger and tonto first encounter an average citizen they are greeted with suspicion and by the end of the episode the citizen has been convinced of their value the trademark ending was a secondary character asking the question who was that masked man br br to really enjoy the series you must accept it for the simplistic morality tale it was intended to be if you don't take it seriously and keep wishing for some self reflexive campy parody elements you will only get frustrated br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
1	someone once defined what is the definition of an intellectual as being a person who can listen to the william tell overture without thinking of the lone ranger in this we heartily concur it surely would be a tall order to accomplish this and one that leopold arturo or leonard bernstein would all find nigh well impossible to do br br and in this there is no disgrace the radio series and the television series along with some movie serials feature films syndicated newspaper comic strip and comic books all did their part to make the masked man of the plains and his faithful indian companion tonto a deeply seeded element of our collective psyche and of our literary folklore br br as with most legends it all started gradually first with a series of radio plays written for local use in detroit over radio station the creator was one george w and the principal writer on the series was mr brother in law mr fran striker the year was 1933 when the ranger first rode out to …the plains of the early western united states the lone ranger tonto and the radio series all successfully guided depression era americans through the mid and late '30's up to and through world war ii but the post war era found the country in the midst of a super nova explosion of invention and technology there had been a new communications medium standing ready in the wings but unable to go forth until both ve day and vj day had been achieved once these were accomplished and the world and america was ready to settle down to both peace and prosperity the new technology was of course was television and we would surely need something else than roller derby and wrestling from arena to fill up the broadcast hours and while at first the time that a tv station had anything on except that portrait of that mohican chief test pattern schultz very soon and with post haste the networks began tapping their existing natural resources their existing programming virtually all would be ripe for adaptation to the tv screen br br so the folks over at lone ranger incorporated were very interested when producers jack chertok harry sherman harris and jack all approached them with a deal to put the masked man and tonto on the television waves as well as the radio br br immediately they went to work and gave us the first season which made use of the considerable back log of radio dramas all potentially adaptable to tv dramas they cast clayton moore a fine supporting actor in many a feature film and with about a dozen years experience he also had done some work in serials over at republic pictures' thrill factory which would be invaluable experience in doing the lone ranger cast as his faithful indian companion and partner in bringing justice to various parts of the frontier we had sheer perfection in character supporting actor jay we must mention that there was that rift in about when clayton moore walked and was replaced with john hart after a season or so mr moore was back in having been missed so much now back to our story the first years of filming gave the episodes a look and a sound all of their own they made good use of off screen narrator which gave these shows a feel of authenticity and an individual stand out one of a kind series the actors employed were all veterans of the movies of the late silent era thru the 1930's and 1940's a lot of them had been just about exclusively cowboy movie players a good example of these is the casting of glenn strange bartender sam on gunsmoke as the vicious murderous gang leader butch and it was the gang's massacre of the texas rangers that led to the origin of john reid thought to have been slain with the other texas rangers as the lone ranger br br in addition to the old timers in the cast you will find a lot of new and up and coming talent then in the cast we see people like phyllis coates dwayne hickman denver pyle and others in the cast from week to week all of this along with an always calling for fair play justice and peace in a western world br br the last couple of seasons brought some big changes first was the use of colour filming that made no difference as a colour tv set was still a long way off for our household the second was a new set of musical themes and queues other than finale from u no the new music was never a big deal to us as we preferred the old radio stock stuff br br with this series and two feature films done during this period the lone ranger warner brothers 1956 and the lone ranger and the lost city of gold united artists 1958 the character has been permanently and indelibly impressed in our identity as a people we americans
1	iam not sure if discussing the television series is exactly where the comments should be drawn to however it is on the television where the the lone ranger really made a name for himself iam not even referring to the original radio broadcasts of this masked rider of the plains iam though referring to a point where in a little boy about 9 or 10 years old i was to see the movie the lone ranger and never forgot it i can recall that i was on a line or we were moving toward the paramount theater the theater was located in the theater district if i remember correctly it was directly across going east to west from the building that has the ball that drops on new years eve this is of course if anybody doesn't know new york city high above the street on the roof tops there was a time and maybe even still today huge billboards would advertise what was being shown and so on it was at that point in time that i looked up and was never more impressed as i was when i looked at that billboard to see the lone ranger across the roof tops it was great it made an impression and was never forgotten that day we went to see the lone ranger it was the story of how the lone ranger was born the terrible ambush that the texas rangers rode into and the subsequent rebirth of one of its fallen heroes it was in this film we learn that the lone ranger will not shoot to kill but to injure so as to let the law be the judge that type of thinking is so worthwhile that we might be good to learn something from history this is where we learn that tonto discovers the fallen ranger and upon seeing the symbol of the boyhood friendship that the lone ranger established years earlier when he as a younger person came to the aide of a injured young person in tonto for the aide given tonto gave to his faithful friend a symbol of his thanks which now was part of a necklace that tonto recognized tonto said you are the lone ranger said sabe that is familiar then tonto tells the story of this trusty scout the meaning of i think the lone ranger is one of the true heroes of the silver screen and one of the great heroes of television it should also be stated that these very respected individuals clayton moore and jay sought to live there lives according to the legend of the lone ranger it may very well be that there is an inspiring story in the story of the lone ranger and his faithful companion tonto i myself was so pleased by the ability to find and buy the dvds that i stayed up all a saturday morning and watched the many episodes now available long live the lone ranger and his faithful companion tonto hi ho silver
1	this is a very funny movie there is a self deprecating iconoclastic tone to the movie that is very appealing the characters are interesting the movie flows very well and holds your interest throughout the 1 hour 50 minutes duration of the film the film quality is not of the highest hollywood standards however the original film was supposed to be made in the genre of a gritty punk rock style the documentary about the attempt to make the film and the subsequent betrayal of the film makers is very well detailed and easy to follow the original film makers themselves become the main characters in the documentary version of the movie the interviews of the film makers and the actors has been assembled in a highly entertaining story that illustrates the struggles involved in making the original film the eventual failure of the original project and the phoenix like rising from the ashes that evolved into this documentary film in my mind the documentary a texas tale of treason is a much more interesting and entertaining film than the original film vacation would have ever been two thumbs up for a job well done
1	this film proves you don't need a hollywood budget to make something fun to watch what stuck with me is how the crew from different locations was able to pull together with no promises of riches to make something just because they believed in it i think anybody who makes low budget movies can relate to certain scenes such as actors who just can't get that one line being bothered by the police and having most of the crew disappear after the first week nobody got paid for this which says a lot for the people who had to travel cross country and for the long hours spent editing after watching sell his personal property use his own money and trash his house to make the movie i am a bit curious how close his wife may have come to leaving good job to all
1	after watching a texas tale of treason you feel a renewed disgust for the nature of the hollywood beast inside the interviews and conversations of all involved with the project there is a common sense of comradery and rebelliousness that spans backgrounds social and even geography this can be attributed to hard work on the entire production's undying commitment to the project and the love the of the story from the original film and the complete creation of vacuum that is it's creator the scale of people involved in hawaiian holiday was amazing to me at a no budget no glory production there were no trailers or craft services no amenities at all and yet everyone involved stuck right there with it if nothing ever comes of this project productions have laid their foundation for being a serious honest company that's never going to lay down and take it or sell out and make a movie just for the money i'd like to see any l a director go through the guerrilla process to get a shot more realistic true to life cinema is lacking in this time of cg and green screens the masses may enjoy their entertainment spoon fed to them in nice bite sized censored calm bits but there is a large group of people out here in the world that share the opinions and insights of the filmmakers that still make films for the love of the material or love of storytelling not dvd sales or box office i loved this documentary and i hope that ifc has the to pick it up and air it so that maybe just maybe one more person will decide to pick up a camera and film some real life so we the viewer can have even a temporary understanding that everyone everywhere is the same and anyone anywhere can be a true storyteller
1	this film would be particularly fun for anyone who has been in the film industry especially in any indie capacity those whose inheritance includes a film introduction may not appreciate it quite as much i am hard to please in the documentary category this doc is different though its pleasure comes from an earthy realism of indie filmmaker punks who are a hoot to be around and watch whether you've ever wondered what it is like to be in films in front of or behind the camera or whether you have worked your way through the sometimes painful and hard but rewarding indie world you'll certainly get a kick out of this film
1	watch this movie it's truly a good ride through the difficulties of making a indie movie and what happens when it blows up in the film maker's face there's a lot of stuff about punk rock and the philosophy behind that movement and it's relationship to this project so if you're into old punk american punk you'll dig it but beware there's a ton of bad acting bits from the failed project that are incorporated yet they do come off funny at times and actually some of the best parts are listening to people who have never been involved in movie making pontificate and what they went through in the three year period that it took to put this together so anyone out there that's about to make a film especially if you haven't been to film school or worked in the field you should watch this and learn from the film maker's mistakes
1	after seeing a texas tale of treason the measly correspondence efforts by cox could not even afford the massive collusion stu directed with no budget it tells a story about dedication sweat whiz fire and punk rock i love it my favorite parts are the interviews with marci she's such a hot baby babe and she digs me but she just doesn't know it yet the japanese clerk his lines that cracked me up the sex scene was really cool i am going to see if stu will come over sometime and do the box light wave thing when i'm doing it with my woman the intro and of course my 5 seconds during closing credits i know thats going to get me some chicks i hope to see more from because i know i can expect the unexpected
1	well every scene so perfectly presented never before had i seen such a movie that has meaning in almost every scene br br well while i was watching this movie i remembered watching is also a similar kind of movie with more fun and fantasy touch these movies are both based on a same plot line but both of them are perfectly perfect in there own way and being able to create a world of their own br br red is able to provoke lots of thoughts in people about destiny and s and i am still thinking about it br br the story is great and the ending is a bit funny i was laughing in the end scene well funny how this three movie red white and blue are connected br br all in all a great work of art a work of a br br 10 10
1	i too must apologize for a somewhat biased opinion of this endeavor as i contributed to the soundtrack still i received my copy sat back and enjoyed the rolling cast of characters who were perhaps more colorful than the characters they were creating in this tale of a film sequel shanghai for those who feel george bush is a credible texan one need look no further than this film to shatter the image that texas is full of truck driving one dimensional rednecks the cast contains some of the most intelligent peculiar and humorous folks you'll find anywhere as they spin their tales of agony bliss and disappointment in going for a great film sequel no budget guerilla style i e punk rock style as each person helps define br br this is a great documentary made with passion and guts and all the venom you'll need to break through to the other side of whatever industry b s and you're dealing with take note authors painters musicians and fellow filmmakers it hearkens back to the credibility of the first wave of american hardcore music when the term d i y was the standard a period where courage passion and commitment mattered way more than technique style or precious calculations not that there isn't plenty of technique or style to this the tone of the documentary is quite refreshing the editing cuts provide as much drama as the dialog therein br br the idea of creating a documentary out of the sad demise of the cast crew and director's initial intent is brilliant totally texas and absolutely punk rock in the truest sense of the term
1	everyone who has ever wondered how to make a film on no budget should see this documentary the determination of everybody portrayed in this project was very moving to me and should connect to those of us who have ever ventured into any part of show business be it film music or writing i think the film makers could have done a better job with foreshadowing the events that led up to this film becoming a documentary perhaps by use of a narrator other than that the film comes off as a real example of how show business isn't about the show but rather the business br br i hope that the actual intended project repo man ii gets to see the light of day i think the film makers did a fine job on it with what little they had to work with and all that they had to overcome to complete it
1	i viewed this movie at the magnolia theater in dallas a couple of days ago punk everyone and everything involved in the movie added to the of it the music well of course but the movie itself captured the whole punk genre even a grandmother and school teacher me can appreciate artists who are able to turn their ideas into reality well reality film wise this movie takes a handful of ticked off young film makers and clearly and cleverly shows the why of their angst over not being given the green light on finishing the waldo film the relatively happy girl gave good comic relief a nice respite from the continual but understandable ragging on the dude who left them in a lurch gotta love stu though and be sure to watch read the credits they're the icing on the cake
1	fascinating look behind the scenes about how a really good movie can get made if the producers director cast simply refuse to quit these guys encountered serious obstacles throughout the two years of the project miniscule budget trouble with the script and with the script writer so the finished product wasn't what was first envisioned but probably turned out to be more interesting than the movie they set out to make which goes to show that the punk mentality of just do it with or without any backing money or help figure it out on the fly and do what you want to do i really liked this documentary movie and know that viewers will see and learn things they didn't know before this movie is truly one of a kind it's hard to classify because it has pieces of sci fi and suspense and also how to make a movie it tells the truth about how films get made what can go wrong and how to overcome i especially liked the music written by ed these guys know how to produce a good movie on a shoe string because they're creative and know how to build props dollys staging lighting with what they can up pretty amazing stuff
1	i found this to be an entertaining account of the challenges an independent film maker might encounter something i never even thought about the film managed to keep my interest the entire time and i actually laughed out loud more than once i'm not a film maker so i know nothing about the technology but i though it was well edited and flowed smoothly telling the story as a disclaimer i contributed to this effort after the fact providing music for the soundtrack but i was not involved in the creation of this film and i could not tell you a thing about repo man except that i remembered seeing it way back when i'm not really a sci fi fiend i enjoyed the comparisons the film made of punk rock file making to punk rock music my wife went with me to see the film and she did not know a thing about it before hand and we had a great time
1	nice doco br br even though it didn't work out how you wanted with the original film you have a fantastic piece of work and great viewing br br it is self evident how much you put into it br br that goes for everyone else too it's great to see the warts and all account of the process without being 'too nice' br br loved it well worth a view br br que pena the writer of 'the original' film couldn't appreciate what you have achieved br br love the attitude too great piece looking forward to seeing the next work br br keep going bro
1	there are a limited number of fans for movies in the world that would love a particular genre to go to the depths that this crew has done to bring to life something that the very writer of the original film had up to this point never achieved this is a wonderful exploration of the real dedication and love it takes to reach towards a potentially very successful cult film br br originally with the blessings from alex cox this crew began producing the sequel of one of his movies in absolute true punk fashion their goal simply being to fully capture the atmosphere as it should be for a complete tribute to the original repo man film br br this is a great tale of dedication and the treachery that can occur along the path to wonderful movie making a truly entertaining tale and a guaranteed learning experience for the viewer
1	all of the trials and tribulations of making a no budget movie right from the mouths of those involved you feel all of the sweat guts determination and dedication put into this labor of love and the frustration of being left hanging after all his work the clips of interviews with all involved provides a great flowing narrative and conveys the balls out hardcore punk almost anarchic attitude it took to film waldo and subsequently the documentary and company deserve all the props in the world for not giving up when the going got tough and getting a texas tale of treason out so we can see what it's like for the budding filmmaker on the street
1	http video google com en distribution was tried br br we opted for mass appeal br br we want the best possible viewing range so we forgo profit and continue our manual labor jobs gladly to entertain you for working yours br br view texas tale please write about it if you like it or not if you like alex or not if you like texas or texas tale just write about it br br your opinion rules
1	i am biased because i appear in this film but i loved it and i am only in about seven dispersed minutes and am not nearly the most interesting part of it the film is an honest and intriguing account of a noble independent group of filmmakers trying to make a lovable movie it is also an account of bloated expectations and fallen heros the interviews are well patched together in the editing the different people are all interesting and there is never really too much of one person also the interviews are shot in a pretty interesting fashion keeping the film visually satisfying definitely a worthwhile film i hope it gets around
1	i believe i share the same psychological outlook on the world with kieslowski he is polish i am dutch yet we share a synthetic mind the world is not void of the metaphysical amidst total coincidence hardly ruled by man or perhaps by a poet prime minister so that as a social and cultural 'low pressure poland could play the role it did in wwii being critical yet christian towards the jews but often not less critical toward oneself there are innocence and guilt in kieslowski's world view as the symbols in catholicism the white versus the black madonna in rouge the black madonna is she who the judge fell in love with when he was a young man flashbacks are magically realistically intertwined with the present although totally coincidental such as the camera simply swinging to the other side of the street or the then young judge's red jeep passing by the now young woman's car after she accidentally hit his dog with it that we leaped through time in those same camera moves is what we grasp later his love was unanswered so that his life wasn't as he had planned it he lost his ability to love other people and animals being a judge he feels he is actually spying on other peoples' lives and when he retires he simply continues to do so spying on his neighbors this time the innocence and sense of righteousness of the younger woman literally accidentally getting into his life his better judgment and it is because of her that he spontaneously confesses his spying behavior to his neighbors and the police accepting and even holding on to the stones thrown through his windows in the process history repeats itself between this man and the woman he loves although this time he is old and the woman not the same kieslowski may have wrestled with this bit for the old judge is his alter ego and it is said he was infatuated by irène jacob both women play the same essential role in his psychology of the one who possesses his heart and soul and therefore can make him or break him even as an old man it is as if the 'powers in the are or god is bringing them together coincidences are too coincidental to just be chance or even good luck there has to be some mystical supernatural or theological source influencing these unfathomably deep life decisions the study book fell and opened at the page of the exam question is another example of this or the moment the old judge spoke his heart to the young woman the wind outside the opera house suddenly slams the open doors and breaks the windows the gigantic picture of the young woman happens to predict the one on tv after the drowning accident on her canal crossing trip these moments are effectively accentuated through the human voice of or what sounds like it van den
1	i have always been a fan of the show so i'll admit that i am biased when the show's run ended i felt like too many questions remained unanswered this movie to me felt like closure to see all the people i'd followed over the past few years together at last was most rewarding i have heard that this is probably the only homicide movie that we can expect if that is so this is the appropriate way to go out this movie is sometimes poignant sometimes upsetting but always satisfying if you are or ever have been a fan of the show watch this movie
1	although there were a few rough spots and some plot lines that weren't exactly true to character this was classic h lots the characters outside of mike giardello giancarlo esposito were true to form and the reunion scenes of pembleton andre braugher and bayliss kyle secor were as deep and well acted as anything ever to grace the small screen br br homicide the movie aka life everlasting is a fan flick but stands on its own as well as any 2 hour episode of the series fontana overmeyer and yoshimura did a wonderful job in pulling loose ends from 7 seasons and every major cast member of the best damn show on television together for the series finale that nbc never bothered to give it true to homicide form there were no happy endings such is life that's what has always set this show apart from the mindless cookie cutter cop shows left on television kudos to the writers and the cast for creating something over the span of the series and in the movie that challenged television viewers and producers alike br br i call myself a homicidal maniac if for no other reason than to keep my co workers in a cooperative mood
1	not only was this movie better than all the final season of h lots but it was better than any movie made for tv i have ever seen br br looking at the top 250 i see that only one small screen movie has made it how the grinch stole christmas i think it is time to increase that group to 2 br br i will admit that the original series had several shows that were better than this but i didn't mind i just loved being able to enter the world of the baltimore homicide squad again
1	spoilers spoilers well seeing as i am a major h lots fan maybe i liked the movie more than normal people would however this movie is still excellent it had tons of surprises and it gave some more closure to the series while i was sad that bayliss turned into a murderer the overall feeling i felt was satisfied
1	hlots was an outstanding series its what nypd blue will never be on hlots the plots are real the dialog is real the relationships are real with hlots back as a movie tying up all the loose ends it was good to have all the gang back together even a few that passed away show up wont say how the storyline was fast paced emotional and full of the spirit the series had week in and week out homicide life on the streets network drama at its best 5 stars thumbs up and all that thanks nbc for giving us the finally we didn't get
1	for all the homicide junkies out there this movie was great every single character that ever was on the show made an appearance in the movie it helped to resolve some but not all issues from the series unfortunately unless you actually did watch the series most of the enjoyment would be lost as the movie made heavy references to every season of the show's existence this probably would have been appropriate as a series finale as opposed to being a separate movie but we gotta take what we can get i hope they make more movies and continue to feature homicide characters on law and order
1	this is the final episode we deserved at the end of the last season things were left in a 'life goes on' mood which was hardly the wrap up that this realistic series deserved while not a happy show this series was always one that made you think a rare thing on television and this is no exception 'is death justified by reasoning ' 'are morals reflective of society or is society shaped by the morals that are selected by the few in power ' 'what is a just death and can it exist ' all of these questions and more are posed by the writers of this show every week and this is their final thesis fine acting great writing wonderful camera work brilliant editing clean direction if you have seen the series and you missed this when it first ran then get a hold on a copy somehow if you never watched the series when it ran then this will stand up on its own but it may be heavy going trying to keep up with who all the characters are and what they are alluding to in their varied pasts for those of us who were avid viewers of the series in the last two seasons this is very satisfying viewing
1	for anyone who liked the series this movie will be something to watch however it also leaves you wanting more i loved the way that every character detective made an appearance least with the ending of who is the fourth chair for they leave a reason for another movie my guess is bayless of course this like the series was a very well put together series of scenes this is a series i wish had lived on thanks to the cast for some wonderful tv
1	the movie was excellent save for some of the scenes with esposito i enjoyed how it brought together every detective on the series and wrapped up some plotlines that were never resolved during the series thanks to nbc it was great to see pembleton and bayliss together at their most human and most basic persons braugher and secor did a great job but as usual will get overlooked it hurt to see that this was the end of homicide memories tapes and reruns on courttv just aren't the same as watching it come on every friday but the movie did its job and did it very well presenting a great depiction of life after al retired and the family relationship that existed between the unit i enjoyed this a lot
1	my favourite police series of all time turns to a tv film does it work yes gee runs for mayor and gets shot the homicide hall of fame turns up pembleton and nearly all of the cops who ever played in this series a lot of flashbacks helps you who hasn´t seen the tv series but it amuses the fans too the last five minutes solves another murder and at the very end even two of the dead cops turn up and a short appearance from my favourite coroner juliana cox this is a good film
1	are we allowed to interfere with our everyday's life is it possible to intrude upon their intimacy to penetrate the of their thoughts violating the privacy of their own home without being blamed the director raises some doubts about these apparently questions almost sympathetic towards judge jean decision of coming to terms with his own inducted self seclusion by means of fragments of lives embezzled by him br br trois rouge is based on the concept of universal communication conceived as the human desire of an open window on the world the phone may be considered the main character of the story after its performance in 9 it gives in the beginning the encore to kieslowski's onlookers followed step by step in its fast run across the world the director looks deeply into the faculty of communication of human beings without taking up a definite position about the ethical side of individual behavior once again he points out to us the unpredictability of future events venting careful descriptions about strange courses and of life separated from each other by a considerable number of years inexplicable combinations oddly converging in a series of continuous and upsetting situations some books falling to the pavement one of them opening casually on a fatal page the destiny of a future profession as in a past similar occurrence glimpses of daily life meeting fleetingly ideally joined by their fondness for the fictitious musician van den human fortunes marked by the most ill fated coincidence br br in this piece of work deserving to be seen with our heart's eyes instead of our mind's ones we can witness a dialectic game between judge jean jean louis trintignant and valentine irene jacob maybe the sweetest actress of our times together with the beautiful winona ryder in a generational conflict between the experience of a world weary old man and the self conscious immaturity of a nice girl on the point of facing the steepest path of her ascending way kieslowski talks about dialogue tests between a disappointed human life and a youth unaware of her future between a spiritless misanthropist and a spontaneous girl full of good sense of unselfishness br br and the final parade when the damp odor of tragedy still lingers in the air with all the main characters of the whole trilogy in full evidence saved by an accidental stroke of luck thank to the script cleverly written gives us the extreme greetings of this movie master fully used up by his great passion for cinema only a sense of bitter regret and emptiness is left to remind us the existence of a void impossible to fill good bye we miss you so much
1	following a roughly 7 year rocky road on nbc it was decided to do just one last super installment the series had been on the bubble several times thanks to not having the numbers that would qualify it as a block buster of a tv hour it had always had a sizable hard core of hard corps of followers br br it was almost as if the series with the full title of homicide life on the street 1993 99 was a sort of mr in between of series it was too big to just cancel but too small to get a case of 'rabid ratings ravings' over br br during the precarious tenure on friday evenings they had presented some of the best and most daringly artistic of hourly dramas there i've said it artistic artistic but please remember we mean artistic but not just phony pretentious pedantic politically correct preaching br br when at last it was a sure thing that it was the end of the line for homicide this super episode was prepared as this 2 hour made for tv movie br br looking at all the past seasons' happenings and parade of regular characters the production team went out and gave us what proved to be a super send off br br our story……… as we join the story we find that baltimore homicide unit commanding officer lt al giardello has pulled the pin retired from the job that is but 'g' isn't ready to really retire retire yet so instead of a rocking chair o a fishing rod we find that al is running for mayor of 'charm city ' br br while out in the city making some campaign stops and speeches the former detective lieutenant takes an assassin's bullet alive but in a comatose state he is taken to the hospital br br news spreads quickly and as if officially summoned we find all of the detectives of the baltimore unit we've seen on the show showing up to offer their services and assistance there is a great meeting of all of these former and present gumshoes as they pitch in and follow every lead and possibility of a lead br br the producer found a way to deal with those who had died previously in bringing their memory into the story they managed to answer some long standing questions and even introduced some here to unrevealed ones the whole story winds up the series in a most satisfying and original way but at least for now we'll leave that as classified br br in wrapping up everything into a neat little package this tv movie surely gets our endorsement as for grading the homicide movie we must give it an a or a even but no matter the grade here it didn't score as high as a typical weekly episode
1	homicide the movie proved to be a good wrap up to a well written well directed and well acted series loose ends were tied up that weren't properly addressed at the end of the final season the entire series and especially the movie provided a life like look at life and death in baltimore a culturally unique city with an extremely high murder rate my attraction to the series began long before i moved to baltimore but once i experienced life here for myself i realized how realistic it was and the movie certainly retained that spirit i will certainly miss new original episodes of the series but am very grateful to nbc and the producers and cast for giving us one last glimpse at the dark side of charm city
1	what can i say an excellent end to an excellent series it never quite got the exposure it deserved in asia but by far the best cop show with the best writing and the best cast on televison ever the end of a great era sorry to see you go
1	in all truth this really isn't a movie so much as an extended final episode by this i mean that had you not followed the tv series homicide life on the street i suspect that you would have a hard time following this made for tv movie having said that homicide the movie is still a great watch i think it says a lot about a television production that every single cast member would return many after years of absence to once again portray their characters and bring closure to an incredible program the movie brings out that sense of family not only amongst the characters but amongst the actors as well it's all very bitter sweet knowing that this will be the last time we will see them all together again under the title of homicide story wise i found this film somewhat lacking giardello's mayoral candidacy seems particularly contrived and i felt his shooting could've been dealt with within the parameters of his regular position as leiutenant also det bayliss's extreme plot twist which was left hanging at series end is finally resolved but i for one never felt that it needed to be i enjoyed being left with a mystery let us recall that the very first episode's first case also went unsolved for the entire series run as a devoted fan of the tv series i can love this movie and the fact that it even got made after h lots had been canceled but i would not recommend it to anyone who hasn't had the slightest exposure to the series now if they'd just release it on dvd
1	i have always been a huge fan of homicide life on the street so when i heard there was a reunion movie coming up i couldn't wait br br let me just say i was not disappointed at all it was one of the most powerful 2 hours of television i've ever seen it was great to see everyone back again but the biggest pleasure of all was to have andre braugher back because the relationship between pembleton and bayliss was always the strongest part of an all together great show
1	i became a fan of the tv series homicide life on the street' late in the show's run but became a fan very quickly it was a cop show unlike any other visually different in its use of hand held cameras taking the viewer everywhere with its multiethnic and mutiracial cast and their varying and fascinating personalities and that it covered all of the good and bad of a police department including the corruption and personality clashes that bubble up to the surface br br homicide the movie the reunion follow up to the series is as good as a made for television film can be after lt giardello yaphet kotto now a candidate for mayor of baltimore is shot the series' cast members are back to help find the killer in addition the cast members who left the force and those who died also manage to have their place in the film the intensity and fire that marked the series return and the script bristles with the same fire that marked the series all in all a terrific tv movie br br vote 9
1	this film is so different to anything you would have seen before it's an honest and chilling account of an entire family's battle with a terminal illness br br 'the closer she is shot in a very unique style craig films in a very different way using different angles and viewpoints in what i find is a very eye catching manner perhaps due to his experience with photographic works br br his style gives such a clear picture of not only what the patient herself is facing but what loved ones close to her also have to deal with br br a very sad but extremely interesting and unique film one i would definitely suggest watching
1	the closer she gets is an artful documentary dealing with the death of a person i actually knew it allows a glimpse into the private moments of the family involved in the most trying time of their lives parents tend to support the work of their children in this case the subject of the documentary went above and beyond she was willing to share her death experience as an act of love for her son it is a most touching work of art weaving the serious serene and lighter sides of life for this family the story is one which can make you laugh but also cry as it addresses issues we all must face i highly recommend this documentary to those unafraid to cry and are willing to deal with the issue of mortality in a most human manner this film will touch you
1	i saw this documentary film at the 2005 independent film festival this documentary is shot directed and edited by a son craig of his mother's year long battle with cancer shot over the course of one year the closer she gets is a documentary in the truest form and gives you an inside look of a family's struggle with battling with the cancer the viewer gets an inside point of view of the effects cancer has on a family as well as the individual throughout the entire process i have never seen such an honest film this is a powerful and raw film and since it wasn't shot by an outsider you get the true emotions of everyone involved many documentaries are shot by an outsider but having this story told by the son adds another emotional level to the film unlike any i have seen before on this subject or any other this is a touching story that everyone should see and can relate to i would highly recommend it
1	i went into the closer she gets knowing that it was the story of the filmmaker's mother fighting cancer i expected it to be a very harrowing depressing movie and although the subject matter is certainly emotionally wrenching the remarkable thing about this movie is the positive message it sends it shows a family's total dedication to meet the challenge of cancer together they refuse to lose faith in each other even in the darkest moments br br the most moving moments to me are when this faith is revealed little comments that the mother and the family make to each other that reveal her and their will to survive and their defiant emphasis on love and family togetherness in this way it is an uplifting and profoundly hopeful film we should all be so lucky as to be surrounded by family like this in times of serious illness
1	master came with an idea in 1993 the idea was to portrait how human relationship are in the world today passing from blue a crafted visual masterpiece about a woman's life from white a visual comedy movie about marriage and finally arriving to red a masterpiece dealing with human interaction br br while i'm not going to spoil the move i can easily say red is the best movie from the 90's decade because it has one of the strongest messages in a script i have ever ever seen br br the movie begins a little slow but finds it's rhythm early enough to keep you hooked through the whole movie br br the performances are perfect sublime since the characters are completely realistic and they're not clichéd in any way and one could expect no less from the actors and one doesn't get disappointed seriously i believe jean louis deserved an oscar nod at least br br the music from is amazing it's one of the best musical scores ever piotr cinematography is also outstanding he got an oscar nod for it and deserved to win br br overall the movie is a perfect 10 and will be loved by people that love foreign cinema and people who don't don't miss it br br how did the awful pulp fiction beat ed this masterpiece at cannes is beyond my comprehension
1	there are so many episodes that make me howl over the stories br br that i wish i could pick the best ones and bill make for a strange pair that are beyond help but manage to play the victim and bs their way out of hard time just to drag dan into their life of crime br br canadians will notice the odd joke for toronto or the federal government and because the cbc axed a really good show by the that dan was part of the show takes shots at them and in the episode dan's umbrella the cbc is raked across the coals br br when dan says that the cbc would never waste money on useless venture enters the room and gives dan back his tape of friday night with ralph this show was a flop and most people wouldn't get the joke unless they knew the cbc's history for making shows people don't watch or good shows that they do watch
1	so totally unique and entertaining another great canadian invention a regular joe dan and a bunch of misfit delinquents aka puppets all share residence at a half way house its dan's job to keep an eye on four to society' and help them to rehabilitate bill the homicidal dummy the cigarette smoking dog buttons the nympho teddy bear and cuddles the comfort doll the five of them find themselves in all sorts of odd predicaments despite their homicidal and often overtly perverse sexual tendencies it's hard not to find them lovable br br i give this show a 10 10 simply because it provides good entertainment without needing a huge budget and exudes a canadian flair that makes me proud
1	remember greg the bunny it was this show that started on the independent film channel but got turned into a full blown sitcom on fox my cousin and i thought it was pretty funny beyond the precocious idea of puppets taking on tv pg material puppets who kill occurs in a similar universe where puppets live in the same world as people and like us take on jobs and lives of their own let's just say if you couldn't handle that then don't bother watching as this show is a profile of 4 puppets who fell out of society's good graces through drug abuse hedonism and violent felonies only to end up in a half way house there's plenty of violence sex and bad language so it would never make its way to u s network tv as if sociopathic puppets weren't enough the fact that this takes place in canada makes it even more disturbing btw the government pays for this and i think any american television viewer would demand more demented cable tv fodder like this i don't know where you can get it in the u s beyond extra satellite tv but i'd advise you give it a try really funny stuff it airs on the comedy network in canada
1	a refreshing interview with the legendary italian cinematographer producer director who passed away in 1999 with close to 200 features to his credit as director a large portion is spent on d'amato's softcore sex films including his notorious emanuelle entries with laura gemser they also briefly cover his porn career which kept him afloat during his last decade or so more interesting to me is the section focusing on his horror and action efforts d'amato has plenty of great anecdotes about actors and his low budget film making including a story about an assistant accidentally collecting real bones amid the fake ones while shooting in a 2 000 year old other interviewees include george eastman and al cliver i would have liked a bit more conversation about his stateside filmirage productions not a single question about troll 2 granted it wasn't the cult film then it was now
1	i was very excited to see a documentary on one of my favorite italian directors d'amato has dabbled in everything from horror post apocalyptic to hardcore porn he has touched upon genius a couple of times with films like omega and emmanuelle the last cannibals this documentary is a and informative guide to the films of d'amato he is interviewed throughout with english subtitles rolling across the bottom of the screen the excerpts from his films are narrated by a narrator with english subtitles the documentary proved extra interesting when it analyzed the often censored emmanuelle in america here d'amato the faked snuff scenes in detail and recalls some funny stories in fact good ol' joe is very warm and funny throughout always wearing a smile and smoking a cigarette the one aspect of this documentary is that it spends little time on d'amato's horror films like anthropophagus and the brilliant omega it spends too much time on the erotic cinema and hardly touches the post films but i can't complain it is wonderful to see d'amato get the respect he deserves highly recommended for fans of d'amato may he rest in peace
1	this documentary is as unique as it's subject and while d'amato's staple was erotica the film manages to show some decent clips of the films you may remember from old time late night cinemax one problem joe did hardcore porno at times mixed with softcore erotica even mixed in his gore films the gore films are cult classics going for like 20 a pop for a dubbed copy on the net not peanuts for 20 year old films folks i want to see why those are cult classics also as sweet as joe seems he did seem more elegant than one might expect the dude liked to shock both caligula the untold story and emanuelle in america show us hardcore rape snuff and beastiality in both you'd be suprised how far he goes in caligula ii with that one if you can track down an uncut print although these scenes may be in a documentary of a persons career hey he did it also i would have liked to see more interviews of people joe worked with maybe that's just me wanting to see what laura gemser looks like these days i still think she's a goddess and one of the sexiest women ever to grace the genre
1	i suspect there are several cuts of this doco doing the rounds the copy i saw focused heavily on joe's erotic films and referred to his horror output in passing there are numerous x rated films presented in their x rated glory and emmanuelle in america's legendary snuff footage the breasts being cut off is given generous screen time br br the interviews with the highly likable joe are informative and candid he is an unassuming articulate gent and discusses his interest in shocking audiences why he wanted to mix erotica with horror and how he may have been responsible for one of his performers turning gay br br his friendship and working relationship with indonesian beauty laura gemser is touched on as is his indifferent attitude to shooting hardcore br br joe d'amato personifies an incredible period in continental cinema that has now passed it is great to see a documentary dedicated to him and his fine unique work br br rip joe
1	watch the skies 2005 60 minutes is an excellent documentary about movies of science fiction it was produced and directed by the critic richard author of more than 20 books on this theme mark hamill is the documentary narrator joins directors as steven spielberg james cameron george lucas and ridley scott to carry through a trip in time and space to show some of the most memorable science fiction movies of the fifties and also some more recent classics the documentary shows six different approaches the paranoia of the atomic war the fantastic trips to the moon the enigmatic planet mars good and evil aliens the after apocalyptic world and the humanity future it presents comments and scenes of the following classics the flying saucers destination moon the space children the beast from 20 000 fathoms godzilla king of the monsters the incredible shrinking man attack of the killer tomatoes a trip to the moon the angry red planet forbidden planet the thing from another world earth vs the flying saucers i married a monster from outer space invasion of the body snatchers the blob the war of the worlds the day the earth stood still et the extra terrestrial the omega man the planet of the apes the terminator 2001 a space odyssey things to come and metropolis highly recommended to science fiction fans
1	i was really looking forward to watching this documentary on what i considered to be some of the most entertaining films ever made growing up in l a during the 60's many of these old black and white films were shown on the local stations i even remember a friday night show called strange tales of science fiction that showcased a different sci fi flick every week this documentary however spent way too much time on the opinions of the four famous filmmakers and how they felt about the classic movies of that genre and how they used them as inspiration in their filmaking br br that is not what i was hoping for in this documentary it really could have been a comprehensive examination of the decade instead of a brief highlighting of the most well known films of the era anyone who has studied or been interested in these films are pretty familiar with standouts such as war of the worlds forbidden planet the thing the day the earth stood still etc i would have liked to see some excerpts from lesser known films and perhaps some interviews with people involved in the making of these movies i would have to agree the documentary was way too focused on spielberg's opinions and was a type of commercial for his new release of war of the worlds
1	despite the previous reviewer's screed this is a well paced and interesting documentary with lots of clips from classic 1950s sci fi films that influenced spielberg lucas and others in their more recent efforts i agree that spielberg's films aren't even in the same league as the films discussed here such as william cameron menzies' brilliant invaders from mars to name just one of the many titles examined but this is still a remarkably good overview of 1950s paranoid sci fi yes it turns into a commercial for the tepid remake of war of the worlds during the last fifteen minutes you can turn that off the rest is surprisingly good and it's nice to see contemporary filmmakers remember the films that inspired them even if they can't begin to match the originals
1	trilogies are very interesting some go out with a bang lord of the rings some get progressively weaker the matrix some get lost in obscurity blade back to the future but some maintain the genius that seemingly ever growing bright light that floats beyond the surface of its flawless exterior case and point three colors trilogy this chapter in the trilogy being the last one is the most philosophical and thought provoking in blue we had a more visually stunning more character driven plot in white it was more of a light hearted narrative driven story where we listen more to what the characters say than anything red however is focused on the what ifs and how comes it questions our own fate and focuses mainly on the past and the future than the present br br this chapter is about a young model who runs over a dog and brings him back to his owner she soon finds out that the owner of the dog is actually a cynical retired judge who spies on his phone calls through advanced spying equipment all three films in the trilogies have very basic plot lines but bring a lot more to the story consider in blue the story of a woman dealing with the loss of her loved ones we are constantly shown ideas about the contemporary french society and how that reflects the character's behavior red is not only about a young woman who finds shelter in an older man's life but it is also about chance hope and fate br br irene jacob stars as valentine who at first finds the old man jean louis trintignant whom we never find the name of extremely self centered and disgusting though through self reflective analysis and her voyeuristic intentions she learns that the judge would be the perfect man for her if only he was 40 years younger irene lives across from another younger judge who highly resembles the old man this is the what if that keeps circling in the movie what if irene were born 40 years ago the old man would have been her perfect match but what if the younger judge is actually her perfect match since he so closely resembles the older one valentine doesn't know this only we do and kieslowski subtly suggests this in almost every frame which irene is in we are constantly smacked in the face with his presence as almost a suggestion of fate br br i mention that the old man does not have a name for a reason that reason is because it is very symbolic to the overall theme in the story we are to compare the old judge to auguste jean pierre the younger judge in more than one way we learn that the old man once had someone he loved but she got away in another scene we see auguste heartbroken as the love of his life gets away with another man there are constant reminders of whether or not valentine will ever meet this man even though they pass each other without noticing every single day there is also the motif of the telephone to valentine it is a way of keeping sane and updating her life to auguste it is what leads to his heartbreak and to the old man it is the only thing he has left these three elements serve to shadow the characters own psychology it is a sort of statement about what they are and who they are br br all three colors films stand for a certain principle most common in france blue stands for liberty the personal being white stands for equality being accepted by more than one and red is fraternity to socialize to learn and although this final chapter is an obvious focus on the fraternity principle kieslowski makes sure he brings in the other two as well in order to connect all three stories for example we see the old man trying to reach out to valentine and enlighten her with his spy equipment which is a reflection of the equality principle we also see near the end that valentine is doing some soul searching and that she's more concerned about herself than others not picking up the phone when michel calls a clear example of liberty and with all three principles established kieslowski nicely connects all of the characters as well in the final and most heartfelt scene br br red is about where you could have been if you were older or younger it is about whether or not there is someone completely perfect for everyone and whether or not one person can change your life the final chapter in the most awe inspiring trilogy ever made this film breaks barriers in both directing and storytelling it is not only about our modern life but about where life could and should be in our modern time and although the movie is more subtle than both blue and white it boldly exclaims a statement of love and compassion br br it's hard to imagine that red was kieslowski's last film and that he died at such a young age nevertheless the trilogy will always be his masterpiece and we will always remember him for his work that ranks right up with bergman fellini and wenders as a truly remarkable director who's never been awarded with an oscar kieslowski you have been missed
1	um a serious film about troubled teens in singapore a country i have not much knowledge on but have the previous wrong impression that all the kids there are highly disciplined and controlled by their family and government well i guess i am wrong just like other cities countries they also have their troubled teens who also lead the not so surprising rebellious way of life of drugs fights bad language and many other obvious signs of being a bad boy the surprising part of this film isn't really about how these kids running around causing themselves and others trouble but rather the subtle gayness hidden behind their so call loyalty between them the bond between these brothers may very well originated from an unconscious gay tendency inside these boys though it isn't uncommon for guys to have very close friendship with each other but watch this film closely it should be entering all sorts of gay film festivals and i would not be surprised that it may win itself a lot more awards toward this direction
1	i'm totally agree with from comments about this film quotation 'yes non can't see what's the big deal about this film some of the references in this film fly right over the head of foreign viewers and mostly singaporeans are the ones who would actually 'get' it ' it's still not quite the truth and as a malaysian chinese i do 'get it' although i don't speak because we do have the similar in malaysia too i know that it's really hard to understand and to accept this as a reality but it is definitely not a 'no real story' i was pleased to see this film outside malaysia because it will and definitely be banned in malaysia too which means either you get it in copied or or hope that someone to be kind enough to it in the internet this is not an 'another violent teen drama ' because it portrays the reality which exists in singapore and in malaysia too in an interesting way sad humour i was just a little sad to know that this film got about 20 cuts in censorship what a waste
1	this is the first movie i've seen from singapore and it's great if you don't know a lot about asia its languages and its culture then this film may be a bit confusing for the non informed people as an asian american who's double in two asian languages one of them being mandarin and has taken some asian american studies classes this film was easier for me to understand but even without that kind of knowledge i believe this movie is still accessible to its foreign audiences as long as you keep in mind that it's a coming of age type of movie the film is definitely worth seeing just so that you get the chance to see what kind of issues young teenage boys are struggling and having to deal with this is an awesome coming of age movie but filmed and shown in a more artistic and original way the actors are outstanding
1	yes non can't see what's the big deal about this film some of the references in this film fly right over the head of foreign viewers and mostly singaporeans are the ones who would actually 'get' it but i plead with you foreigner look at the other crap that's been churned out from singapore and compare it to this film it's like comparing a chunks to a little diamond this film is the first to truly show some the seedy underbelly something the forces that be pretend does not exist and there's a part in the film where a gangster ah beng in our unique colloquial curses in 4 languages namely tamil english malay and well the truth is most of us can and do do that all the time the sad thing is that viewers from foreign will have an easier time getting their oily little claws on this gem in its country of origin it was banned initially only to be given and r rating and that too with about 20 cuts to it it's nice to know you that one of the best creative edgy and original films ever created would be easier for you to obtain unadulterated uncensored halfway across the world than in your own nation
1	the chasers war on everything 5 words that i love to watch the chasers war on everything is an excellent australian comedy as the name suggests they wage war on everything they seem to love hitting the most of all br br the chaser is one of the best comedies i have seen and is the top of the line in australia it is on the australian broadcasting abc which is where some of the best comedies are br br it has won the australian film industry afi awards but did not win the best comedy at the br br last year 2006 the chaser was aired on abc on friday nights when everyone was out so no one could watch it well they have been moved to wednesday nights at 9pm a heaps better timeslot and the best thing is if i miss an episode or even just want to see it again i can download it from www abc net au chaser
1	this program is certainly my favorite non sitcom television comedy australia produces very little good programs most of the tv which i watch and i live in australia is from the us and england br br the funniest part of this show is just how controversial it is like when they went past numerous security barriers at the summit pretending to be canadian diplomats br br the show is made up of pre filmed stunts general satirical discussion of current world events and sometimes on stage skits these all come together to make a fabulous extremely funny tv show the segments like ad road test and message from osama bin ladin are hilarious for anyone interested in watching hilarious satirical tv comedy then this is definitely the show you should watch br br all the guys are great and do an excellent job in entertaining you for half an hour br br i would rate it 10 10
1	if i was only allowed to watch one program in my entire life i would definitely have to pick the war on everything of all the satirical shows that have been on australian television i found chaser to be the funniest of all it is just so amazing the boys aren't afraid to do anything br br whether it's dress up as hitler to get into a polish club or push a massive ball of string around melbourne to try out the tourism or rock up to the coke factory naked in a bath with 2 40 to buy some water the chaser boys will go there br br in agreement with the comments above and or below the war on everything is more popular than their previous program but was just as funny some unforgettable moments from that show clean up cambodia classic br br so anyway to stop me from ranting further i strongly advise you to at least give chaser a chance you'll more than likely find it hilarious
1	for one used to the comedies on television now whether sketch sitcom or animated it's nice to watch something truly refreshing br br the chaser has to be the best comedy of this decade seinfeld being the triumph it follows the hosts urban crusades to fix situations do road and try to get the facts from our politicians the good old fashioned way br br despite being very controversial at times the shows excellent quality from the well made and truly funny opening credits to the sketch style investigations sketch style only in time they are not scripted at least not the ones at the other end of the joke is certainly worth watching even the most cynical and intellectual viewer won't be disappointed and the show deserves ten stars br br all in all well done to the abc for showing this and i recommend it highly
1	a very funny look at some of australia's current affairs and political goings on the chaser boys really seem to have fun with this show and what i enjoy is that they all have their strengths some are brilliant at making complete idiots of themselves whereas julian can pull off the whole i'm interviewing a famous politician and i'm about to suggest that he disguise himself as a pot of jam type of humour br br they have great segments in the show taking the mick out of all sorts of aspects of australian culture such as our current affairs shows our adverts and early morning tv programmes some material is a bit tired and predictable but overall it's a lot of fun to watch and will leave you with a smile on your face
1	everyone is a genius in something albert einstien was a genius in science william shakespeare was a genius in literature and the boys from the chasers war on everything are truly comedy geniuses their satire tv show is a constant hit on the australian broadcast commission abc after a small start as a satire newspaper the chasers popularity when given their own television show never short on controversy with the cast members will do everything some of it even being arrested for chris taylor going on sunrise a very popular live morning television show and telling his partner to f k off creating a fake and driving into high security area and doing a very funny satire of a australian ad about nicotine by following smokers around yelling out no gary no no gary no while controversial the show is funny and worthy of running for years to come
1	in the goofs section for this film there's a comment to the effect that there is a mistake in continuity where car is seen to be parked in a different place from that seen in a previous shot in the same scene this is incorrect one of the views is from flat the other is from flat across the street the whole purpose of this segment is to show how and auguste who may be made for each other almost cross paths as happens several other times but never quite do so until circumstances throw them together on the ferry at the end of the film and here there is the implication that joseph has manipulated things so that auguste is on that ferry having inspected ticket to see which sailing she is booked on
1	this show is non stop hilarity the first joke will make u wet your pants and thats probably the weakest joke of them all i started watching it when the second half of season 2 started airing and straight away i'm hooked only 2 weeks after i started watching i've downloaded episodes and bought the dvd's reoccurring clips such as the ad road test and current affairs are quiet hilarious then there's the they take off use emo use your own tears for more effective use also funny in the politics side of things nothing is wrong with them doing this it's funny any australians who don't find this funny don't complain and don't watch it all australian tune in wednesday at 9 on abc
1	when you think of brilliant australian comedy you don't think of skit shows although i'm quite partial to a bit of 80's and 90's full frontal or even sitcoms you think of satire something that we australians really know how to do well eg front line the program we know how to take the pi and the war on everything is a classic example of how to do it and how to do it really well br br i've been a huge fan of chris taylor and craig for a long time i remember listening to them on triple j's afternoon show they were and remain two of the funniest comedians around br br although i was sad when they left triple j i was excited to find out what they were investing so much time in that made them have to leave they were doing and triple j at the same time so i figured this was something much bigger and what an amazingly hilarious show chaser is biting political and social satire at it's best br br i'm also pleased to say that it has recently received a much better time slot than friday nights and has been moved to wednesday nights right after and specks thank you abc finally i don't have to tape it
1	this is exactly what australian television and australian politics needs people with a sense of humour good on abc for supporting these guys the show is based around a couple of aussie blokes who know how to take the mickey out of politicians or other people in the limelight the boys use sydney as their main base for making a splash in the public keep an eye out for the crazy guy or mr ten questions the guys who perform these acts are the same guys that presented if you enjoyed and the then you will love this show i am still interested in knowing which stunts are real and which are purely acting because there are some questionable actions made by the guys
1	this show is up there with the best comedys made in australia as it makes fun of pretty much anything which is what lots of our public want some of the best bits in the show are the ad road test which tests out how an ad would do in real life what is really great about the show is how original it is and the fact that it has people the chasers who love doing what they do and who would n't this show has loads of bits in it that can crack up anybody like the ad road test which i've already mentioned mr ten questions where he asks 10 questions really fast in front of famous celebrities like hugh jackman and the beach boys temporary ones like the chasers emmys and ones that have been there from the start like what have we learnt from current affairs this week overall i rate thin show 98
1	the hilarious team that brought you and 'the chaser have returned to the abc with their new series 'the war on everything ' filmed in front of a live audience the chaser team once again does what it does best lampooning key political figures international celebrities and media personalities br br the satire is simply priceless and nothing is sacred in recent weeks the chaser team has chased alongside the queen during her visit to australia to try and have john howard dismissed and had kim opposition leader threaten to kneecap them br br a particularly funny segment is mr ten questions showing an overly enthusiastic reporter who approaches celebrities recently charlize theron and the backstreet boys and asks them ten such inane questions as what is your optimum length of rice grain just for the record theron ignored him and walked away and one of the backstreet boys got angry and refused to dignify it with a response br br a segment that recently had me in stitches was when one of the team decided to become a to score some extra money when he realized how hopeless he was he put a real statue in his place the perfect scam he got thirty dollars in twenty minutes br br a brilliant satire of everything in australian society two thumbs up br br by the way the show won't be showing for the three weeks after easter because though the team are all atheists they're also hypocrites
1	no matter what country your in you have to buy this show sure it is australian and if you ever seen any attempt of our comedy's they pretty much suck but with the they aren't boring forty year old men making bad puns they are a team of people who talk about current affairs pretty much in australia make fun of our crap ads make fun of our politicians and so on br br the guys also had a show in 2002 called which was not as successful as the war which had only started this year so everything they talk about is current news which is really good considering no matter how boring or tragic it is they try to shine some humorous light on things
1	for comedy to work there are many factors involved br br 1 don't be afraid to take risks 2 if anyone or anything deserves to be poked fun at do it and continue to do it br br but most of all br br 3 be funny br br the war on everything succeeds in all those three things in fact the show proved to be so popular and so funny that already only months after it's first episode a dvd of the first season was released i picked it up within days of it being released and hit the floor laughing and had so many fu ing tears in my eyes it's that well good br br in short and to save me blabbing on about the show watch it buy it it whatever will make you watch the fu ing best show in the world br br go the chaser
1	the war on everything is a weekly show from the guys that brought you and the chaser decides where each week the 5 chasers and firth break down the issues that we didn't know were important br br this show goes beyond the mere satirizing of politics and television by not being afraid to take the mickey out of anyone whether it be a counter girl at subway or even the prime minister of australia and although this may be familiar ground in say american television it has never been this well executed br br the war on everything is the smartest funniest and overall most entertaining show on australian television and if you haven't seen it you seriously owe it to yourself to give it a watch
1	lets face it australian tv is for the most part terrible but this is a real diamond in the rough that not enough people are watching the chaser crew who do the satirical newspaper and try something new by mixing live comedy pre recorded skits and political satire into one show filmed in front of a live audience sorta like rove but funny they love causing controversy and this causes some of the shows funniest moments especially chris telling his wife to f off live on breakfast television and julian handing a novelty cheque signed by saddam to the head of the it has to be one of the funniest aussie shows since the program
1	i know one is not supposed to comment on other comments but i will say that a lot of the negative reviews seem to come from people who already knew quite a lot about the manhattan project and were annoyed at things that were left out from his book in it appears the original screenwriter bruce robinson is another such i knew very little before watching the film however and found it dwight schultz is absolutely mesmeric as oppenheimer a truly magnetic charismatic presence an inspired piece of casting that makes me wonder why he isn't given better roles and more leading parts john cusack and paul newman are excellent as always one could quibble with various script or direction choices but as it is the film is extremely intense and horrific at times and overall i give it four stars out of five
1	its my favourite film because there's so much going on that you don't see at first and so many things that make you wonder did kieslowski mean that or is it in my head for instance is the judge meant to be god or some supreme being br br also irene jacob as in the double life of is outstanding there may be a few superficially prettier actresses but none who manage to convey beauty of spirit with physical beauty the way she does br br also is magnificent without really saying much and the things he does say are excellent such as his answer to valentine be
1	i would assume that this film would get rave reviews in canada particularly in quebec that's because the canadians have traditionally loved hockey and the montreal canadians were like gods in canada for decades as an american the closest thing we have to them are the new york yankees if you are a fan then they are the greatest and team in history if you are not a fan then they are satan's team well at least that's how it was as i grew up in washington dc in regard to the dallas cowboys so i am pretty sure when this film was shown up north that everyone immediately had a strong emotional reaction their national sport and the closest thing they have to a national team in the nhl br br now the cartoon itself is moderately interesting when it begins and the main character talks about growing up around ottawa and rooting for the canadians and maurice the rocket richard however when his mother accidentally buys him a toronto maple leafs jersey and forces him to wear it i knew right away what a horrible and shameful thing this would be to a little boy this ability to connect to the character even though he lives in a far off land is what made this a very special short film the way the other kids treated him and his conversation with god at the end make this a lovely nostalgic film very clever and memorable
1	i saw this again today for the first time in about 6 years i had forgotten how well acted this movie is paul newman gets the billing but dwight schultz holds his own and shows how good an actor he really is
1	the movie seemed a little slow at first but it picked up speed and got right to the point it showed exactly how the government and the scientist argued for humanity and the reasons of the gadget i enjoyed it it is very close to reality as any movie about the atomic bombs that were to be dropped on japan i have recommended it to friends i was particularly pleased with the acting ability of dwight schultz
1	this is a weird and compelling film the topic about the atom bombs created at los in the usa and used on japan during the latter part of world war ii is huge and of course deeply disturbing the film's plot takes on a lot of heavy issues and the actors have to carry much of the creative tension i had never seen the film or was much interested in it i have to admit until i read the book smoking in bed conversations with bruce robinson robinson wrote the story and screenplay i think the film was better than i expected from reading robinson's point of view in the conversations about it but i can see how he thought it got derailed i think paul newman is pretty good but is somehow at bottom miscast he's too hollywood at one point a big mean looking guy storms into newman's office and has such a striking presence i immediately thought he should be playing the character newman is playing the other lead who plays the head scientist is also fairly good but somehow not brilliant enough to portray the huge angst that goes with the part the immense responsibility for creation of an ultimate machine of death and destruction one of the more effective characters seems to be a composite personality played by john cusack he is oddly affecting throughout and in the end is the character whose fate really hits home and who made me think most vividly of the fate of more than 200 000 japanese people in hiroshima and nagasaki
1	i find it remarkable that so little was actually done with the story of the a bomb and it's development for decades after the manhattan project was completed my suspicion is that this was due to serious fears in the movie and entertainment industries in the 1950s through the 1970s with mccarthyism and related national security phobias including the hollywood blacklist there was one film in the 1950s with robert taylor about col paul who flew the gay in the hiroshima bombing but otherwise nothing else one could glance at a side issue tragedy the sinking of the u s s indianapolis soon after the delivery of the bombs to in robert shaw's description of the shark attacks on the survivors in jaws but the actual trials and tribulations of oppenheimer and their team was not considered film able br br and then in 1989 two films appeared i have reviewed one already day one which i feel is the better of the two in discussing the lengthy technical and emotional and political problems in the manhattan project the acting of brian dennehy as general and david as oppenheimer was first rate and neatly balanced small side vignettes concerning the anti bomb crusade of michael tucker help fill out the story well br br that's the problem here paul newman is a great actor as is mr dennehy but newman approached in a different way that while not dreadful is lesser than intelligent but soft spoken military brass newman seems too popped eyed about the possibility of the weapon as the biggest stick to confront the other boys in the after school yard with yes it certainly was but the real would have been more like dennehy keeping his mind not on that great toy of the future but on the business of creating that great toy br br dwight performance as helps maintain the film's basically interesting and good production aided by bonnie bedelia as his wife but the most interesting aspect of this film is in the upgrading of the two tragedies of and in particular the latter in the character of john cusack's merriman inevitably in all technological advances people are killed it's just that these two tragedies on top of the tens of thousands that were lost in hiroshima and nagasaki brought home the dangers of the new unleashed power even in a so called peaceful controlled experiment the two tragedies particularly louis slow agonizing death by radiation poisoning showed how much care was needed in using atomic power and how the barest of chances could still cause disaster the only really different thing i saw in cusack's performance and the script and the actual incident with was that actually took some time after the accident to figure out where all his fellow research scientists were when they were hit by the radiation from the accident he was able to show that only he got the full effect of the accidental blast so that only relatively minor treatment would be needed by the others perhaps the full story of actions was too technical for the screen but given the humongous pain he suffered in the end that he took time off to think of the others shows what a first rate person he really was
1	there have been numerous productions that tell of the development of the atomic bomb the robert taylor film above and beyond flag waving propaganda really if you believe this one you think that the army air corps in the person of paul w ran the entire show the nbc produced gay probably a lot closer to the mark and the bbc tv series oppenheimer with sam waterston in the title role br br fat man and little boy takes the same approach that the bbc series did but widens it it avoids the gee whiz technology of the manhattan project and focuses on human aspects the personalities involved in the work instead of focusing on it covers a wide swath of mythical but pretty typical people who were part of it br br with reservations dwight schultz did a good job as presenting a dreamy ivory tower academic who struggles to relate his contributions as a physicist to his inclinations to view the world in a wider social and moral context only to have that struggle won by an overriding lust for personal power and glory in the day after trinity it was made clear that oppenheimer viewed himself as a superior being by virtue of his vast wide ranging intellectual prowess in the end that was robert downfall he saw himself as a sort of philosopher king a moral and intellectual superior who could and rightfully should wisely prescribe what was best for the rest of the world re nuclear weapons development and deployment br br unfortunately wisdom doesn't dictate the actions of nations or direction of events on a global scale wisdom doesn't bestow temporal power when it tries to exercise such nonexistent power as found when he opposed the development of the super the hydrogen bomb wisdom is ignored and banished by those who really have the power br br i found myself schultz character in one way his exposes himself too closely and personally to the manhattan project despite the doubts and fears that tore at his intellectual basis the real oppenheimer would have had to take a different approach at the beginning he would have had to come to the firm resolution that the project would result in ultimate good the ugliness it produced along the way would be an incidental price that must be paid to attain that ultimate good and it must be ignored at least until the end of the project when there was leisure to assess the gains and losses clearly did that and it resulted in his controversial postwar statements to the effect that science had now known sin and that was a knowledge it could never lose br br while the project went on such considerations had to be pushed aside if he was to maintain his sanity br br because of this ambiguity schultz character comes off as a weak frightened little boy who could never have served as coordinator of rapid rupture as oppenheimer unofficially dubbed his post br br paul newman's take on gen leslie r is fascinating and a bravura performance if possibly a little bit over the top br br was a civil engineer by training but first and foremost he was a soldier and a general to boot he's accustomed to demanding that things go his way intensely driven a foul mouthed spoiled child who has tantrums at the drop of a hat who reveres his country and isn't too proud to fall on his knees and pray in other words very much like real ie non civil engineer soldiers aka george patton mission not only comes first it is his only consideration feelings and egos be damned except for his own of course br br couldn't admit it but he knew full well that he needed oppenheimer military rank meant nothing in the world of theoretical physicists was a necessary interface between the two worlds he had to straddle br br again i have to fault the script on this and for the same reason br br in reality already owned if he didn't would never have been chosen for the post in the first place history tells of many cases where other scientists some as stellar as oppenheimer simply walked away from recruitment efforts at one point was so desperate that he proposed drafting the physicists he needed br br attempts in the film to maneuver and control were unnecessary they only exist here as a dramatic device which indeed helps make the atmosphere of the film quite ugly br br michael merriman is a composite of several real characters but they're from a different time frame several research accidents similar to the one depicted happened in postwar weapons research br br radiation overdose creates another ugliness in the film but one which is imho necessary and pretty accurate people with weak stomachs will have a hard time handling the hospital sequences they're all too real br br the main idea that comes across but not strongly enough imho is the big truth of the los experience the scientists who signed on were young idealistic and naive as well as talented most were on their first excursion out of the shelter of the campus to them the project was a patriotic adventure that allowed them to practice experimental physics on a large scale without the constraints of budgets or excessive bureaucratic oversight br br it was not only their brilliance but their youthful exuberance that produced the atomic bomb br br there's plenty here to make the thoughtful viewer intensely uncomfortable about this movie just the same if you filter out the hollywood bs there isn't that much of it really this is probably a pretty accurate view of the inside of manhattan project
1	if you know anything about the manhattan project you will find fat man and little boy at least an interesting depiction of the events surrounding that story the film is in all ways a very realistic portrayal of these events and in many ways it is almost too real such as some scenes involving radiation poisoning paul newman as usual is brilliant in his role and always manages to come off like a real person on the screen the supporting cast such as john cusack laura dern bonnie bedelia and natasha richardson is fairly good as well this film is not however one of the best examples of turning a true story into a movie great films are able to take a true story and use just enough artistic license to keep its audience engaged for the entire movie this one however tends to drag a bit throughout and some scenes such as john cusack and natasha richardson's love story could have been eliminated entirely without causing the film to lose much nevertheless there are enough interesting facts and tiny humorous bits to at least keep the audience interested enough to see the entire film it does not always entertain but as far as great depictions go this is very accurate fascinating and will leave the audience with something to think about br br out of
1	fat man and little boy were the code names of the two atomic bombs that were dropped in reverse order on nagasaki and how these came to be and came to be in american hands is the story of this film br br the terms by the way are the code names of two bombs fueled with plutonium and uranium fat man was the plutonium bomb and that one was dropped on nagasaki and little boy was the one used on hiroshima br br the film is primarily a conflict between general leslie r of the united states army and physicist j robert oppenheimer who led the team of scientists who developed the bomb under direction with two men from as widely divergent backgrounds as these were conflict was inevitable br br paul newman who all his life has been a disarmament activist plays general to his credit newman does not play a man whose views he would very little in common with as any kind of caricature is a military man first and foremost with an engineering background he wanted a combat command as trained military professionals would naturally want in this greatest of wars but because of his background in engineering got to head the manhattan project which was what the effort was code named so be it newman is determined to make his contribution to the war effort count br br most of us first became acquainted with dwight schultz from the a team as h m murdoch the pilot whose grip on reality is tenuous at best if one was only acquainted with the a team one might think that schultz had a great future in comic roles br br instead dwight schultz is one of the best actors in the english speaking world with an astonishing range of dramatic parts since leaving that television series j robert oppenheimer in life was a complex man who recognized the dangers and benefits of atomic energy the challenge of the problem also intrigues him later on oppenheimer got into a real bind because of his left wing political views and associates which everyone knew walking into the manhattan project br br some of the lesser roles that stand out are bonnie bedelia as mrs oppenheimer natasha richardson as communist mistress whose affair with oppenheimer got him in such a jackpot later on and laura dern as a nurse at the los site br br but the best is john cusack who as michael merriman is a composite of some real life scientists who might accurately be labeled as the first casualties of the atomic age his scenes with laura dern especially with what happens to him take on a real poignancy br br the debate over the bombs as the use put to them is still a matter of raging debate fat man and little boy presents the facts and lets you decide what might have happened if an alternative use of them had been taken
1	we watched this movie in my chemistry class so obviously it had educational value i thought the film did a really good job of intertwining the subjects of the science moral issues and personal experiences of the manhattan project but wasn't exactly focused on strong acting i would recommend this movie for the scientifically inclined or those interested in the moral issues behind fat man and little boy but if the subject of nuclear bombs bores you don't see it
1	it was a fascinating story waiting to be told fat man and little boy takes us inside the trials and tribulations of a group of top american scientists handed a lofty task during the second world war beat everyone else to the atomic bomb sequestered in a heavily guarded new mexico compound the brainiacs slowly turn the idea from ambitious concept into immense reality br br fat man and little boy is one of those films that requires your close attention it's a real thinking person's movie not only from the scientific aspect of developing a seemingly impossible weapon but also the moral implications of contributing to killing on a massive scale characters are constantly torn between that reality and their wartime duty as americans the film is never preachy about however leaving us free to marvel at the enormity of the inner turmoil these men face the performances deserve special mention as well paul newman delivers one of his great understated performances as the general in charge of delivering the ultimate big stick for the allied forces br br where fat man and little boy loses much of its traction is in the unnecessary romantic component dwight schultz as the leader of the scientific team struggles with his affections for his family and his relentless obsession with his big project director roland apparently felt the need to explore the more human angles of this story but the romantic overtones serve primarily as a distraction besides it's the interaction among the scientists and their military hierarchy that give us the greatest insight into the thoughts and feelings of these brilliant men br br still it's difficult not to recommend fat man and little boy it's a largely forgotten gem that puts a human face put on one of the most intriguing stories in human history
1	it's rare for a movie to both encompass the process of problem solving and a fantastically far reaching moral quandary and be a fairly accurate historical movie but fat man and little boy pulls off this trick br br it's the story of the manhattan project the world war ii effort to build the atom bomb told as the conflict between the two men who made it happen gen leslie and robert oppenheimer br br the historical figures are a great study in opposites military vs civilian practical vs idealistic emotional vs scientific brute force vs consensus based problem solving immediacy vs long term vision a fictional character played by john cusack is added as a sort of synthesis of the two historical figures to show the humanity that oddly escapes the real people and of course the obligatory love interest played by laura dern one looking for a straight documentary might criticize the lapses into melodrama and occasional with the facts but that's hollywood for ya but the purpose of fiction is to synthesize and galvanize events into more universal truths so i think this can be forgiven br br one of the great visuals in the movie is when oppenheimer witnesses the first atomic explosion it's done entirely through his reaction and considering the awesome visuals inherent in an atomic explosion it's a brave and entirely effective way of describing in a single moment the ambivalent effect on humans of unleashing such power the sort of thing lost in the typical hollywood shoot 'em up version of history the use of music is particularly excellent in the last third of the movie br br fairly accessible and highly recommended as both a historical movie and drama of the highest order
1	valentine a model in france is separated from her lover who is abroad they plan to meet up in england but seem to be growing ever more distant as the film progresses one night after declining a pass made by her coworker she hits a dog named rita the dog survives and she returns it to her owner a hostile retired judge who's is living as a hermit and listening in on the conversations of all his neighbours she becomes intrigued by the nature of this man and visits him often often becoming part of his eavesdropping games one conversation the two listen in on is of extreme importance though the conversation between a young soon to be judge and his wife which we find out parallels the life of the man who is eavesdropping upon them as we find out more about the couple the man reveals more of his story then continues his story and we find out if the two men will continue towards the same fate little does valentine know how her life this encounter and the fate of the young judge will become entangled together her hitting the dog that day seemed to be fate a divine sacrifice by the dog for her owner allowing valentine to be the saviour of the young judge who is traveling the same path as her dear friend to prevent him from having such a grim future filled with loneliness and solitude it seems the old man's dream will come true after all and he can sleep with a smile on his face for the rest of his days br br an amazing finale to possibly the best trilogy of all time kieslowski never ceases to amaze me he is one of my favourite directors and one of the most talented directors in the history of cinema his use of the colours of the french flag in the three films was nothing short of incredible every shot every scene was like a work of art three of the most visually appealing movies i've ever seen and his subtle connections between the three films are awesome usually signified with a subtle pause or late focus in a scene see if you can spot some i have to mention this and it is a huge spoiler i loved the ending how all the characters of the three films were the remaining survivors of the ferry disaster with valentine and the young judge together and the old man watching it on her tv his happiness over the suffering which he dealt with for those many years i couldn't think of a better way to end the film but a smile on my face great way to wrap up an amazing film and trilogy i recommend this for everyone who loves film movies anything a work of art 10 out of 10 for both the movie and trilogy
1	okay maybe it was because i happen to be in china when i saw this movie maybe it was because i finally had something on tv i could understand or at least read the subtitles or maybe it was just funny whatever it was this movie was worth the time br br i had just arrived for my foot and head massage when they gave me the remote so i could watch tv usually i would turn the darn thing off but i stumbled upon this crazy movie and got hooked br br the plot if you could call it a plot sort of revolves around a cooking competition and sort of is a love story and the food in this movie is the real star if you like iron chef and many of the other cooking shows currently in the reality tv mode then you will love the scenes with food in this movie br br it goes fast and the subtitles are so fast you better be up on speed reading for this one however the action is mostly slapstick so you don't always have to read the entire subtitle to get the idea br br the main actress is lovely eye candy and the main actor isn't bad to look at either they are both worth watching finally if you have some time to kill and want a good laugh this isn't a bad choice for both br br i don't speak a word of chinese but i was totally able to understand the cultural humor of this film for those who do speak chinese maybe it is even better overall i give this an 8 out of 10 and currently i am even looking to find a copy to have while i stay in china and keep for when i come back home it will be a nice reminder for me of my time in and a silly afternoon at the massage salon watching a silly movie
1	this was a very funny fast paced movie i watched it more than once and am keeping my rental around to show others i'd just like to take this opportunity to ask anyone in the know how do hk producers choose their subtitle translators i'm most curious please direct me br br again to return to review it is a really rollicking film with plenty of content subtleties reminiscent of the classics though full of slapstick reminiscent say of the mexican comedies of cantinflas br br the film does not disappoint fans of the director who have noticed that he chooses distinctly chinese themes trying to get to characteristics rarely explored the director's entire collection is way of getting a look inside the culture in a disarming way br br and i don't see how his funny girl in chinese feast could be topped
1	the first time i saw this movie was on a flight between china and los angeles it was a real hoot and made the trip pass with much less discomfort than the normal 10 hour flight i tried to locate a copy of it without success until i discovered a copy for sale on ebay having now watched it twice i recommend it as good entertainment my only real criticisms are that the choice of english translation words for the subtitles is sub par even by normal standards also the subtitling is little to small blends into the movie too often and frequently travels too fast to read well
1	how is paw trunk or brain for dinner let tsui hark tell you in this wonderful and lighthearted comedy about the art of cooking the traditional chinese way br br this movie shares the common structure of an american sports movie but instead of focusing on baseball it centers around cooking which makes it all the more interesting i even think leslie character look a lot like charlie sheen in major league br br this movie also contains a bit of zhao wen zhao vs xiong fighting love seeing more of that after the blade and a quite funny in joke concerning a leon lai pop song br br perhaps not the ideal movie for the strict vegetarian though
1	i have spent many years studying all the great directors like kurosawa lean fulci deodato peckinpah kubrick and admire them greatly my favourite film is once upon a time in america br br i have only recently become a fan of d'amato and while he was no horror master his films were extreme whether it be soft core hardcore or extreme br br porno holocaust is now one of my favourite films the way its shot is brilliant and the music is catchy br br joe d'amato wasn't a horror master he's no fulci or bava but however he was a master of erotica no other director could shoot erotic films like him he also never tried making any films outside of these genre's either br br long live joe master of porn and erotica
1	i've heard a lot about porno holocaust and its twin film erotic nights of the living dead both films are interchangeable and were filmed at the same time on the same location with the same actors changing clothes for each film and taking them off if you are expecting the d'amato genius displayed in films like omega or death smiles on murder you won't find it here nonetheless this film has a charm that exploitation fans will not be able to resist where else will you see hardcore sex mixed with a zombie monster and his enormous penis that strangles and chokes women to death only from d'amato there is some amount of gore in which many of the men are bludgeoned to death the film is set on a beautiful tropical island as far as i know there is no subtitled version so if you don't speak italian you wont know what is going on but who cares right in all honesty gore fans will probably fast forward through the hardcore sex and if anyone is actually watching this for the sex only will for sure be offended instantly i can just imagine modern day porn fans tracing back through d'amato's output and coming across this atrocity out of the two i find erotic nights of the living dead far superior but don't bother watching either if they are cut porno holocaust is extremely low budget as expected even the monster looks no where as good as george eastman's character in anthropophagus the film is worth watching for laughs and to complete your d'amato film quest
1	purportedly made back to back with nights of the living dead' with the same cast and setting but for certain this one does not have laura gemser much derided by all i rather like this movie sure enough the storyline and dialogue are codswallop but this is so beautifully filmed in such a marvellous setting and i actually like the hardcore i find it at once naturalistic and exotic and that doesn't just mean there is a black girl and some limp penises i find the numerous and varied sex scenes very believable even if two are set upon a tree trunk at the edge of the ocean with the waves constantly splashing around the creature does not deign to appear until half hour before the end and is it has to be said a disappointment still in the time remaining he manages to kill off all but two of the expedition and in the case of the girls having sex with them first or afterwards in at least one case and this film is not as slow as some maintain moreover there are some fine moments of sexploitation not least the lady scientist and her urge for two and the glorious finale when the two survivors speed off in their boat gaze back at the island they have escaped from and find there is still time for one last act of copulation
1	before i continue forth with the new millennium i will go back in time once more because i had completely forgotten about these gems br br in 1987 disney while still a low company in the 80s was able to start a series of films on television called not quite human about a geeky teenager who like in inspector gadget looks like a human but is really a robot now this screams 80s along with other films like tron and honey i shrunk the kids because it combines everything of yesteryear with the technologies of tomorrow br br my parents remember seeing this on the tv back then back when i was just born or something however my very first encounter with this film was on the old disney channel one time i've seen this and the other parts on my 12th in may of '99 br br not quite human is a very good series of films to watch if you can ever find these movies again br br has this been shown recently if so give me an e mail or personal message br br 10 10
1	nothing better than an android boasting 80's technology and a coming of age storyline to pull your thoughts from the depths of your mind front and center to be taken captive by a beautifully lovable cast growing up in the 80's gave me the priceless opportunity to see re runs of not quite human on many special occasions considering the fact that my parents were never present during the viewings i would guess that i would most likely not enjoy it near as much as i did as a child so perhaps this is a film to dig out of your vhs collection and hand to your kids it can be found on the same tape as the apple gang and an episode of tour of duty that is if you recorded in lp mode of course
1	yes i give it a 10 because i compare it not only to others of it's kind but also to the dreck one is bombarded with on a daily basis in what's laughably called today's popular culture that aside the film is beautifully cast as has been stated elsewhere and gives us a fairly good look at popular theater of the late 18th and early 20th centuries no small coincidence is that many of the plays that played in involved a similar plot boy meets girl someone objects usually the father or some authority figure boy struggles boy wins girl the was actually known at the time as a chauncey act no coincidence too that john ford directed one he called it the quiet man and my wild irish rose is in itself a chauncey act great stuff no anyway great songs great stuff enjoy br br ps after seeing the film i'd like to know more about bill i found an obit that said he quit as a result of insanity replaced as in the film by chauncey and died in an asylum several years later but he had been a very big star in his own right who wrote songs and plays and had plays written for him br br anyone know more
1	and there are not many in cinema history rouge seems to be a bit of a hope hope in mankind and in life but to say only that may be naive kieslowski could find the right way to tell the story of that embittered judge and the but wise model perhaps that old and disappointing love affair will not be repeated there's the new couple with the young judge after the accident but what to say about this master of the camera you can't miss a second of the movie because you have to watch every and each one of those faces kieslowski loved human beings and that is quite evident in the way the camera treats the actors ms jacob and mr are perfect it's not only this movie but the downbeat thou shall not kill and a story about love that may you think about contemporary cinema as a way of expressing an artist's point of view pity american public the average one could not see these films at least they are not in the maltin's dictionary and even the baseline does not know what to say about this unique man abel
1	one of the better musical bios dennis morgan is great as the singer composer chauncey the supporting cast is very good especially andrea king as the glamorous lillian russell the turn of the century atmosphere is the perfect setting the technicolor is excellent a simple plot but the movie just makes you feel good morgan was always underrated as an actor and a singer
1	i enjoyed this film very much i found it to be very entertaining for me in that i feel that it captured the romanticism of turn of the century irish american culture there's no messages there's no violence and there's no overt sex just wholesome 1947 style entertainment and dennis morgan had a chance to sing some really good songs a really good movie
1	this excellent musical movie in beautiful technicolor is so wonderful it's enough to make every person of irish descent feel proud full of the joy and celebration of all things irish a fine cast with brilliant settings and superb theatrical trappings lovely irish music and the superlative irish tenor voice of star dennis morgan 'tis the luck o' the irish to have such a marvelous movie to enjoy over and over again not just just for st patty's day mind you but for all year round br br one of the jewels produced by jack l warner during his heyday as studio boss in burbank in the 1940s br br shame on warner brothers for not having this fine picture available on home video and dvd
1	musical bios are all cut of the same cloth hopeful struggles succeeds and finally wins the girl but this one a life of irish tenor chauncey jack chancellor has more going for it than the usual trappings it has great charm and great sincerity and is played beautifully by all concerned dennis morgan is fine in the lead as is arlene dahl as his love interest andrea king's supporting performance as lillian russell is far better than alice faye's leading bio performance in the film dedicated to her career william frawley is touching as the aging tenor champion william scanlon and sara is lovely as mother george tobias ben blue and alan hale lend good support there are over 25 songs a true treasure chest come down my evening star my blue eyes you tell me your dream wait till the sun shines nellie will you love me in december by the light of the moon minstrel days polly doodle the and the robert e lee miss lindy lou if i'm dreaming wee rose of shake hands one little girl a little bit of heaven mary sweet um when irish eyes are smiling mother the fair room in my heart my wild irish rose br br although the film only earned one oscar nom for scoring and deservedly it also deserved nods for art direction and costume design sumptuous and lovely in technicolor br br reasons why this is not on video may be due to the large chunk of time spent within the minstrel show atmosphere at least a quarter of the film with a great deal of material quite politically incorrect for today's audiences it's historically accurate however br br this is a true gem and very worth seeking out it leaves one with a warm glow
1	for those too young to remember or too old to have been part of the hype the michael jackson fad in the early to mid 80's was at a fever pitch like the hype about titanic except this just didn't let up every song every video every word uttered by michael was important nothing similar had been seen since the heyday of the beatles br br i remember seeing this video for the first time at a roller skating rink everyone stopped skating there was no question as to whether you were a michael jackson fan or not you were everyone crowded around the projection screen and watched the video br br this is probably one of the longest music videos ever made and definitely the best it perpetually gets 2 on the annual mtv top 100 videos 1 is always the flavor of the month and somehow whatever was 1 of all time slips past 2 to make way for the new 1 go figure and thriller became a phenomenon in and of itself br br if you ever get the chance you must watch the video not just the excerpts shown on mtv or vh1 if necessary you should search out making of thriller at a video rental store hey your parents probably made you watch beatles and woodstock footage because it was important well this is important too
1	when it was announced the king of pop was dead at age 50 a month before he was to start a series of live comeback shows at london's arena it was a huge shock to millions of people around the world he was and will forever be one of the most talented voices and dancers in the music industry and he will be missed terribly i decided to remind myself how wonderful he was by watching what is considered by many to be not only jackson's best video and possibly song but the greatest music video ever made from director john landis an american werewolf in london the film opens with michael and his girl ola ray having their car breakdown and after giving her a ring the moon comes out and he turns into a werewolf we then see michael and his girl watching this horror film in the cinema she is scared and walks out and michael soon follows her singing the iconic song soon enough the voice of vincent price comes on and zombies start crawling out the earth and open coffins from the graveyard and michael and the girl are obviously surrounded she turns away and michael has become a zombie himself and with all the other creatures they do the iconic dance before he turns back into his normal self at least for the chorus the girl runs into the near creepy house blocks the doorway but zombie michael still manages to break through and when he touches her she screams to see normal michael say what's the problem the film ends with him taking her home and looking at us with evil eyes michael jackson was number 14 on the 100 greatest pop culture icons and he was number 6 on the ultimate pop star the thriller album was number 4 on the 100 greatest albums and this video was number 71 on the 100 greatest scary moments and it was number 1 on the 100 greatest pop videos very good
1	michael jackson is the greatest singer and the greatest dancer that ever lived and this film proves it it is brilliant to watch and the dance is fantastic when michael turns into a werewolf is a bit of an on the edge of your seat part the first time you watch it and vincent price's rap adds to the fear when all the zombies a rising from their graves if you like this then i suggest you buy 'making michael jackson's thriller' which has the film then the making of it after it the making shows an unbelievable performance of by michael which is when he first did on television the moonwalk watch it
1	no matter how you feel about michael jackson himself you can't deny that this video is the most unique video of all time there is no other video that is even remotely close to thriller the first time i saw it was when i was 6 years old and it scared me bad now i watch it with a smile because i can now appreciate the marvel that it is i love this video and it will be around for as long as music videos exist i think everyone should sit down and watch it when its on sometime and look back and see how great it was especially for being 1983
1	this is one of michael jackson's best music video's ever made vincent prices rap is totally cool and the zombies dancing with michael is totally amazing michael jackson is one of my favourite singers and he is one of the best singer's in the world way to go michael
1	thriller is the greatest music video of all time performed by the greatest artist of all time thriller really sent music videos going and other artists have been trying to copy thriller in one way or another ever since it's a thriller
1	it is not only difficult to comment separately on the three parts of kieslowski's trilogy it seems obvious that the filmmaker wants us to do just the opposite view them in order blue white and red and consider them together as one complete work it is true they are distinct stories with distinct themes liberty equality fraternity and each them is developed with unique applications of intrigue and artistry they are each well worth seeing independently but i believe they are best seen as one work collectively i would rate the trilogy as a 9 separately i place each in my top ten for the years 1993 and 1994 br br the color red is most memorable in the third movie as a backdrop in a billboard ad the profiled model of which is the central of the movie's three main characters the other two characters do a double take of a varying degree of recognition when they first come upon the ad posted larger than life alongside a busy city intersection this ad is not a major part of the plot of this movie yet its image becomes striking and is one of the reasons i have called red a mind film this is the third of kieslowski's three colors trilogy based on the blue white red of the french flag and the three parts of its motto liberty equality fraternity ' the films stay primarily focused on these themes keeping with the basic levels of one two or three main characters yet with each film the complexity of plot escalates as the three principles move from fundamentally personal liberty blue to equality white to social fraternity red red is my favorite of these films and i give it a 9 it stands by itself as a great film but one should see blue and white first for the fullest effect
1	before this was shown on mtv or vh1 it was at my local theatre playing just before the main movie i remember this short movie more than the film i saw that day it was the first time i had ever a music movie like this but i will tell you that seeing on the big screen from a 35mm print in a darken theatre gives it a much better impact than seeing a cropped pan and scan version on vh1 at halloween
1	music videos are often completely disregarded in any discussion about film with most people considering them to be a lesser art form while a great majority are merely flashy clips to advertise a popular performer's latest hit single a precious few really do rise above the rest becoming works of art in their own right anything directed by spike or michel gondry is always worth watching while art isn't precisely the word i'd use to describe michael jackson's 'thriller 1983 ' it is an intensely likable hybrid of schlock horror and music and an outrageously campy short film that remains remarkably endearing nearly 25 years later the thirteen minute music video both the longest and most expensive ever at the time of its release was directed by john landis a filmmaker i'm not terribly familiar with though 'the blues brothers 1980 ' is a classic and i hear that 'an american werewolf in london 1981 ' is a stupendously entertaining horror comedy br br whether or not 'thriller' actually qualifies as a music video is certainly up for debate taking into account its extensive length though jackson bettered this effort with 1997's 'ghosts ' at 38 minutes and the fact that the title song comprises less than half of the total running time the video opens with a brief film within a film as michael on a quiet and brightly lit night reveals to his girlfriend ola ray that he is different from other guys transforming into a hideous werewolf as the nighttime clouds part to reveal a full moon as he presumably decapitates the unfortunate heroine we come across michael and his girl in the movie theatre actually watching this drama unfold in a horror picture when the girl becomes frightened they both leave cinema and begin to walk home at which point michael begins to sing the opening lines of his latest song thriller however when a hoard of blood thirsty zombies emerge from the local graveyard their entrance ghoulishly narrated by vincent price the situation begins to get interesting br br it's difficult to quite put my finger on why 'thriller' is considered one of the greatest of all music videos it can't simply be that the song itself is a lot of fun and michael jackson – though he has since become the butt of all comedians' jokes for his peculiar personality and doings – there's no doubt that he is an excellent singer and performer perhaps a decent explanation for the film's popularity is the incredible amount of work that must have gone into it nothing like it had ever been seen before and it still remains something of an oddity in the world of music videos the gruesome monster make up effects were engineered by rick baker and are surprisingly graphic for a music clip though it's all carried out with a good sense of fun several moments make for some genuinely exciting suspense successfully capturing the atmosphere of the films which it is parodying though always with a cheesy twist on the usual formula simply put you'll never look at a zombie movie in the same way again
1	i am not a big music video fan i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song any song in other words creative thinking goes out the window likewise personal feelings aside about mj toss aside this was the best music video of alltime simply wonderful it was a movie yes folks it was brilliant you had awesome acting awesome choreography and awesome singing this was spectacular simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man but was he a man or something sinister vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video mj was mj enough said about that this song was to video what are for cars top of the line what was even better about this was that we got the real mj without the thousand though ironically enough there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around folks go to youtube take 14 mins out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is
1	although i am not a michael jackson fan i like some of his early songs and some from jackson 5 too 'thriller' is one of his great songs and it comes from the best selling album ever with the same title as for the video it is awesome one of michael's best but also very eccentric and weird br br there is a story behind this video but it's so complex that even i can't fully understand it it's freaky the freakiest things are jackson's transformation into a werewolf his evil red eyes at the end like a werewolf and those dead people dancing br br the video is very dark thrilling chilly and original there are great sceneries and settings the music itself is full of life and rhythm characteristic from the good old pop from the 80's br br i like vincent price's soliloquy he does a great narration with his distinctive and unique voice and his evil laughter at the end is awesome my favorite videos of the 'king of pop' are billie jean and don't stop 'til you get enough both among his best songs
1	for those who remember this video's initial impact it will never be forgotten and a viewing of thriller is all that's needed to feel twelve years old again but while it's a great video it's not perfect even though it seemed like it at the time when this video first came out nobody had ever seen anything like it before now the music video medium has grown by leaps and bounds and a fresh viewing of thriller will reveal its faults why was it necessary to deconstruct the song when michael jackson is walking beside the girl after they leave the movie theatre he sings all the verses of the song skipping the after he becomes a zombie when it comes time for him to sing again his zombie makeup inexplicably disappears and he sings the chorus again and again and again as if to make up for its previous absence this may have been the first time a song had ever been deconstruct to fit the visuals in a music video but it certainly wasn't the last time it has continued to be a problem in the age of mtv the best videos like jackson's billie jean and beat it have used visuals to serve the music not the other way around still thriller is great fun and an absolute must on halloween
1	it may be a little creaky now and it certainly can never have the impact it once had but this is still a thrilling reminder of what michael jackson could once do looking back on it now for the first time since its initial prominence i was struck not by the horror trappings quaint but fun and vincent price has never sounded so genuinely un sic menacing than its absorption of the horror film allowing jackson behind genre and make up to give us a bravely revealing portrait of male sexuality br br because thriller isn't really about horror in the way horror isn't really about horror it is about that age old theme the sexual awakening of a young woman the film opens in a cinema with jackson's girlfriend uncomfortable with the imagery and the aggressively gendered response of course she is on a date and she is less scared by the film than what she knows will be expected by her boyfriend br br the mainstream imagery of the film they watch the group atmosphere all suggest the socially conditioned expectations this leads her not only to think of the body in disgust hence all the decaying ghouls the loss of her virginity is seen as a kind of death but the sexual rite is not just about her boyfriend but her peers her society hence its as a gang violation br br this is brilliant disturbing stuff the best thing director landis has ever done jackson the most popular artist on the planet was still willing to show that the fixed image of a star contained multitudes not all of them reassuring the song itself has held up remarkably well the creepy insistent bass rhythms the extraordinarily salacious lyrics the beautiful 70s disco ecstasy tailing the chorus shattering timelessness revealing the milky desire behind the fear
1	back in 1983 michael jackson's popularity was such that if he wanted to make a 1 million horror music video with the american werewolf team and featuring the voice of vincent price then that was exactly what he was going to do and never has a music video created such a sensation before or since when it was released on vhs this 13 minute short became the world's largest selling musical of all time but odds are you already know all about it as whenever there's a list of the greatest music videos of all time this one almost invariably takes the top spot br br it begins with michael jackson walking down a dark street with his date after their car has broken down he explains to her that he's not like other men damn right and then the full moon appears from behind the clouds his girlfriend stands there and screams and screams and then screams some more during a lavish transformation sequence as michael jackson becomes a werewolf he chases her through the forest catches her and we cut to a movie theatre ah all of this is just occurring in a horror movie that michael jackson and his date are watching br br so we're five minutes in and still no sign of the song thriller extravagant much anyway you must know how it goes from here dancing singing graveyard vincent price zombies what's the problem then end credits end credits for a friggin' music video thriller isn't one of michael most memorable songs but even by today's standards it sure is a bitch of a visual experience if you still haven't seen it in it's entirety then you definitely should someday soon
1	the video opens with a scene from a horror movie in which a man proposes to his girlfriend he begins to tell her that he is different as the full moon rises he morphs into a werewolf he then pursues her through the woods and right before he attacks we're taken to the inside of the movie theater inside the theater are michael and his girlfriend she's too scared to watch any longer so they leave as they exit the theater he begins to tease her it's close to midnight something lurking in the dark michael then sings and dances his way down the street with his girlfriend this scene shows michael's skill with the camera he never once acts aware of its presence as many other artists do as they make there way past the graveyard the graves begin to open once they arrive at an alley they are confronted with a horde of the undead we then see the horror stricken face of michael's girl who wouldn't have a horror stricken look if their date morphed into a zombie yep he becomes one of the undead a very bright and shiny one though he and his fellow zombies then begin what may be the most well known dance choreography of any music video to tell you any more would give the ending away br br this is my favorite music video of all time you don't want to miss it i give it a 10 10 yes i know you can see the curtains in the back of the sound stage and the werewolf looks kind of cheesy by today's standards
1	without a doubt this is the big momma of all music videos unlike most music videos that are either dance videos badly storied and or badly interrupted lyrics this was done right jackson was co writer and by evidence of vh1 heavily choreographed and directed this masterpiece in fact you could say thriller is creepier then most horror movies with that last second sparkling eye to me this music video is what you judge all other music videos on you can easily see the ominous influence m j had on early break dancing with the zombie march number because of the dancing comedy storyline and yes horror i give it a 5 of 5
1	i don't particularly care from michael jackson aside from being a pedophile i really do not like his music with the exceptions of a few songs from his landmark album thriller this is one of them i do like this video because it is one of the first and most important music videos ever made br br this was directed by john landis best known to horror fans as the director of an american werewolf in london this music video is not so much a music video but more or less a short horror film m j and his date are at a werewolf movie when they leave the movie they are attacked by a horde of bloodthirsty zombies when michael jackson does his famous thriller dance br br you know this actually is a pretty good song with good synthesized beats this and beat it are probably the only two michael jackson songs i can tolerate over and over i especially love vincent price's cameo as the narrator his distinctive voice is perfect for a horror themed music video even if you don't like m j 's music you need to see this video at least once by the way he was good before becoming a creepy white woman with a fake nose
1	the final part of kieslowski's trilogy based on the colors of the french flag finds the director at peace with the metaphysical and transcendent nature of the cinematic image in red imagery is paramount as well as the obvious but clever color coding however rather than adhering to empty aesthetic contrivances based on the 'cinema du look' kieslowski's red is a multi layered densely plotted meditation on the nature of fate and love in red love and fate are intertwined but complex notions dictated as much by the whims of human beings as the invisible parallel associations that seems to pass us by you sense red is really an allegory a reenactment of prospero's omnipresent gestures in the tempest yet it is more than its story appears red demands countless viewings and in each viewing something new is discovered that weaves itself into the already immaculately plotted structure br br although red stands alone as a masterwork from kieslowski it's best viewed as part of the trilogy elements of blue and white are referenced in red which knowing viewers will enjoy
1	before this clip music videos were merely to display an artist michael jackson's thriller created a whole new section of music videos which can honestly be called mini movies thriller follows a couple as they travel to the girl's house from a movie on the way they encounter zombies announced by the immortal vincent price my favorite part is where the zombies stagger in on the couple and the girl turns to see that michael has turned into one of them then they do a little dance the scariest thing about thriller may be the fact that it is consistently more fun and enjoyable than a lot of movies that are made after twenty years it remains the premier music video br br p s my music video top 5 5 madonna like a prayer 4 guns n' roses sweet child of mine 3 nine inch nails closer 2 peter gabriel sledgehammer 1 michael jackson thriller
1	the stars and the planets must've all been in just the proper alignment the day that thriller was conceived michael jackson's album was slaying the charts john landis still had a lot of good will built up from his genre pic an american werewolf in london not to mention his classic comedies animal house and the blues brothers and choreographer michael peters was creating some of the most innovative and influential pieces for music videos of that period br br not before or since has one single piece of film illuminated exploited or underscored mj's incredible talent or the more otherworldly aspects of his persona quite like thriller the world's most successful if not officially the first long form video and the most fondly remembered also the most expensive at the time but every penny and every bit of the talent behind its creation and execution is up there on the screen and how would it not be complete without the rap from the original song provided by the late great vincent price to add even more cache to the chills already there br br the glory days of one of the world's greatest performers have long since passed but no one can ever take away the man's towering achievements of which this is probably the most memorable if you don't think so now remember halloween is coming i won't be one bit surprised when like other before it going back decades this appears on some saturday night creature feature special br br as it will next year and the year after that
1	michael jackson's thriller 1983 has to be the greatest video ever made dude you have zombies gore and a catchy tune what more can you ask for john landis mixed elements from night of the living dead and american werewolf in london and out came this video what starts out as a nice evening for a young couple turns into a date from hell literally you have dancing zombies a werewolf in a funky jacket and vincent price rapping a cool video to a song that everybody in the neighborhood marked out to br br i have to give this one a high recommendation because it has to be the best music video ever made there hasn't been another one like it br br check out the making of thriller the documentary has some interesting stuff in it
1	john landis truly outdid himself when he directed michael jackson's thriller as a short film of course it's corny the dialogue is terrible and it all seems way too cheesy but it's perfect none the less br br michael and his date are out at the cinema to view the latest horror flick when it all gets a little too graphic for the date she leaves michael follows on the way home they decide to take a shortcut through the local graveyard there it begins br br the actual thriller dance is amazing it's full of those trademark jackson moves as well as some memorable zombie moves too it doesn't appear rushed at all nor too long the whole thing seems movie like and it really is actually rather scary of course it's one of the most famous music videos of all time and is probably the greatest music video ever made as well br br overall watch it seriously those 13 minutes will be some of the best ever spent staring at a screen 5 5
1	michael jackson is amazing this short film displays the absolute highest standard in music video and no one will ever be able to out beat this 'king of pop' masterpiece it shows michael turning into a zombie and dancing in the street with some spectacular choreography the story is great the scenes are marvelous the music is fantastic and overall the clip is fun eye popping spooky and is a real spectacle today everybody is still doing the same thing in music video with dancing and film based story lines which he innovated this ground breaking video is the toast of mtv and will forever be remembered for what is the greatest music video of all time
1	thriller is brilliant it is a long video but simply brilliant nonetheless the song itself is excellent add michael jackson dancing and you have a golden phenomenon out of all the videos i have ever seen this is the best if you have not seen the video yet then i urge you br br the special effects are amazing for it's time everything from the transformation to the idea of these creepy zombies slowly raising from their graves is grand grand that is price has his segment of bone shivering lines known simply as the rap ola ray does good as michael's girl and michael jackson himself the dancing and singing although not during the video itself is unmatched br br 10 10
1	'thriller' remains the greatest of the pop music promos to have a plot great visuals and a tip top song to wrap the film around michael jackson was at the top of the tree at this time and not so altered in his plastic surgery regime for it to matter here he is in good form the song is terrific he leads the zombies in dance like no other br br ola ray plays the girl who watches with incredulity as her sweet boyfriend jackson natch turns into a werewolf then to the pulsing rhythms of the opening line 'it's close to he stomps around the graveyard with the other zombies and creatures of the night br br the crowning glory of all this is the fruity voice of the great horror star vincent price speaking in the middle of the record terrific
1	the first music video i ever saw thriller my mom told me that she took me home from the hospital and when we arrived my sister had mtv on the tv and thriller was playing my mom said that i smiled silly i know but i have loved michael jackson since that day the music video thriller inspired me to dance still i have the dance memorized to this day i even performed it for an audience 3 times words cannot describe the power of this song that makes you wanna sing and dance but michael of course had to raise the bar for mtv at the time by signing on american werewolf in london director john landis and directing the one the only thriller br br michael and his date ola ray run out of gas in a dark wooded area they walk off into the forest and michael asks her if she would like to go steady she accepts and he gives her a ring he warns her however that he is not like other guys no really not like the other guys a full moon appears and michael begins convulsing in agony – transforming into a horrifying werewolf his date shrieks and runs away but the werewolf catches up knocking her down and begins at her with its claws the scene cuts away to a movie theater where michael and his date are actually watching this scene unfold in a movie called thriller michael smiles but his date is frightened and tells him she's leaving michael catches up to her and says that it's only a movie but she doesn't like his jokes on her and she starts walking away michael and his date then walk down a foggy street and he teases her with the opening verses of thriller they pass a graveyard where corpses suddenly begin to rise from their graves as vincent price performs his rap michael and his date then find themselves surrounded by the zombies and suddenly michael becomes a zombie himself michael and the undead perform an elaborate song and dance number together followed by the chorus of thriller br br thriller is arguably the best music video of all time funny thing is people who wanna argue that is with other michael jackson videos but what makes thriller so special is the dance the story the effects this at the time was the most expensive music video of it's day michael of course rose that bar again with his famous music video scream and then again with ghosts but say what you will michael was the star of the 1980's there was no celebrity like him he loved the life he lived it breathed it and embraced it thriller is proof that he was willing to work to make the best and that's what we got with the legend that is thriller br br 10 10
1	it came from outer space ii is a very good film that has a good cast which includes brian kerwin elizabeth peña jonathan adrian sparks bill mckinney dean norris dawn zeek lauren mickey jones jerry and howard morris the acting by all of these actors is very good kerwin and norris are really excellent in this film i thought that they performed good the thrills is really good and some of it is surprising the movie is filmed very good the music is great by shirley walker the film is quite interesting and the movie really keeps you going until the end this is a very good and thrilling film if you like brian kerwin elizabeth peña jonathan adrian sparks bill mckinney dean norris dawn zeek lauren mickey jones the rest of the cast in the film mystery sci fi thrillers dramas and interesting action films then i strongly recommend you to see this film today br br movie nuttball's note br br i noticed this is the second film that dean norris and mickey jones were in a movie together the other being the classic violent epic total recall funny seeing them in another alien flick br br if you like alien movies and or the subject of aliens i also recommend the following films the thing from another world the day the earth stood still war of the worlds 1953 2005 horror express the ufo incident invasion of the body snatchers 1978 e t the extra terrestrial john carpenter's the thing krull the return of the aliens the deadly spawn time walker my science project howard the duck john carpenter's starman john carpenter's they live mac and me explorers invaders from mars alien seed the abyss communion suburban commando fire in the sky the arrival mars attacks contact men in black i 2 stephen king's dreamcatcher xtro 3 watch the skies battlefield earth a saga for the year 3000 stargate the puppet masters john carpenter's village of the damned independence day life form contact the x files fight the future roswell the aliens attack the faculty mission to mars pitch black evolution k pax signs silent warnings the forgotten alien hunter spaceballs alien aliens alien 3 predator predator 2 alien vs predator the entire star wars saga a new hope the empire strikes back the return of the jedi original and special editions the phantom menace attack of the clones revenge of the sith the entire star trek movie saga star trek the motion picture the wrath of khan the search for spock the voyage home the final frontier the undiscovered country generations first contact insurrection nemesis and stephen king's it
1	i've seen this movie more than once it isn't the greatest scifi flick i've every seen but it is not a bad movie the acting is good and the characters are more real than most in low budget sci fi at least it isn't full of dumb bimbos like so many other low budget scifi i especially like elizabeth pena she is a good actress and she does worried single mother as well as any and better than some br br don't let the nay sayers run you off see it for yourself and judge it for yourself
1	this film is not only the last piece of the three colours trilogy but also the best of the three and one of the best movies of the 90s there's hardly another movie that so wisely and consequently asks for humanity and respect for every human being br br valentine irene jacob lives in geneva where she works as a model though she has a boyfriend she seems to be rather lonely one night she has an accident and injures a dog and who leads her to his owner a retired jugde jean louis trintignant who is cynical and spies his neighbors phone calls disgusted by him she cannot go away and they meet again two lonely souls meet each other and they become friends and develop a deep love for each other br br the story itself is too complex to be told completely there is another connection between them in a young man who represents both the judge and valentines real love and there is more to their relationship than only friendship br br the actors are wonderful irene jacob and jean louis trintignant developing a deep and authentic friendship br br the topics are of an endless validity fraternity not only in contact with each other but also in the respect for the right of privacy alarmingly we seem to loose this right more and more which makes movies like this one even more important than it might have been in 1994 br br red is one of the strongest colours that exists representing inner turmoil love anger and passion used here as another protagonist it brings a unmatched depth to the movie a masterpiece
1	film noir at its best set in the immediate aftermath of wwii 1946 crossfire depicts the good bad and ugly of that time monty montgomery kills sam because sam's a jew and therefore automatically perceived through monty's narrow lens to have been a slacker who got out of fighting the war monty doesn't like people like that the truth is that sam was a soldier too but the truth is something which disappears when you're feeling right about the ideologies of hate you've been immersed in and the world is full of dirty this and thats badly in need of your brand of cleansing br br monty is a sadist in winning soldier's clothing the losers of wwii had more than their share as well hate filled prejudiced leaders and soldiers as well some of them were hung for war crimes like starting a war of aggression br br this movie got its makers in trouble when that other sadistic of america joe mccarthy got his hearings going in the early 1950s br br see crossfire just to see how good an actor robert ryan was the real robert ryan was no monty he was a great if underestimated under used actor br br see crossfire and get a taste of the dark side of post wwii america see it to get a taste of the good side of late 40s america as well robert and robert young also play leading roles could have played ryan's role in fact he did when he played the psychopath in cape fear
1	spoilers actually based on the novel the brick foxhole about a gay man who was murdered by a gi on leave because of his sexual orientation the movie crossfire is about a violently anti semitic gi who because of his own failures and frustrations in life takes it out on those of the jewish persuasion whom he obviously feels threatened by br br getting himself tanked up at a local in d c barley sober us serviceman robert ryan spots joseph samuel sam and starts to get a bit overly yet sarcastically friendly with him it seems that montgomery is a bit ticked off at because he's talking to his best friend and gi buddy arthur mitchell george cooper samuel is also getting through which the neanderthal montgomery can't to the sensitive young gi who's into the arts he's an artist and painter on the outside about war wwii the war that just ended as well as the shaky peace if that's what it is with the dawn of atomic bomb that's now following it in this very dangerous and unstable world what really outrages montgomery more then anything else about is that he's obviously jewish that more then anything else is enough reason for the racist montgomery to want to do in br br inviting mitchell to join him and his lady friend miss lewis marlow at his apartment to have a couple of drinks and continue the very deep and stimulating conversation that they started at the bar this has a what seems like very jealous and feeling hurt and rejected montgomery together with his also inebriated but somewhat clueless in what montgomery's plans for are friend and fellow gi floyd bowers steve brodie later that night go uninvited to place br br with the party already ended with mitchell and miss lewis gone the two very drunk gi's unceremoniously crash the place the fact that in montgomery's sick and anti semitic mind stole mitchell away from him had him whip himself up into a white hot frenzy montgomery and bowers break into home raiding his well stacked liquor cabinet with montgomery taking a couple of swigs against strong objections of very expansive and refined and spirits which is very unlike the watered down and cheap booze that the uncouth montgomery is used to guzzling this all soon lead to a violent and brutal assault on by the angry psychotic and drunk montgomery with bowers out cold on the sofa from all the liquor he consumed who beats the poor and innocent man to death br br the movie crossfire then goes into a long and tedious since it's obvious from the start who killer is investigation into why a wounded and decorated wwii veteran who got the purple heart in the battle of okinawa was murdered with montgomery acting like he's really interested yeah sure in finding killer which in reality is himself this so called voluntarily action on montgomery's part in order to throw off suspicion on himself that he may be the man who killed him br br montgomery is so ridicules and even for someone who smugly considers himself to be very smart stupid in him constantly opening up his big and spewing out anti semitic and racist epitaphs and slurs about the murdered that only throws suspicion on himself and no one else i guess that guy just couldn't help it br br it's not enough that montgomery murdered who in his sick mind was one of them he even murders his friend the scared to death in being implicated in murder bowers who in montgomery racist way of thinking is one of us just because he was afraid bowers would talk to the police in order to save his own sorry neck and thus have the spotlight put on in death br br it doesn't take that long for the detective on the case capt finlay robert young to see through obvious lies and deceptions and then has him set up by having another gi friend of his leroy william phipps who was the butt of all his dumb and racist hillbilly jokes set the arrogant creep up this has montgomery coming back to the scene of his crime where he murdered bowers where a trap has been set up for him that was all capt finlay needed to get montgomery to panic when montgomery saw that the jig was up and make a run for it straight into the crossfire of a police ambush br br dated a bit now but very hard hitting back in 1947 when it was released crossfire addressed the horrors of anti semitism when it at the time was kept under the covers and out of sight in almost every post wwii hollywood movie about the evils of racism in the us and in europe even after the second world war and with what happened to the jews in it when it should have been given the very full and honest exposer to the movie going public that it so rightfully deserved
1	what a fine film unfortunately being 1947 the movie script couldn't have followed the book from which it was adapted but the murder of a homosexual would have been too hot to handle in that era br br i thought all of the performances were outstanding as well as the script direction brilliant black and white cinematography music and film noir atmosphere br br i do understand that in 1947 the film couldn't portray racism against blacks or prejudice against homosexuals robert young's account of prejudice against his grandfather who was irish and who endured this racism 100 years ago was pretty lame but the times dictated that the film avoid a further examination of racism br br i do have one observation and one question to ask the viewer 1 did you notice that robert young didn't aim his gun when he shot and killed robert ryan who was running fast in the dark and young shot from an upper story window into the dark without aiming 2 if robert young's grandfather was killed 100 years ago in 1847 the film was made in 1947 and young was 40 years old the time line would not be logical if the grandfather had been killed 50 years ago then the time frame would be realistic
1	my top 2 actors happen to be in this film robert ryan and robert mitchum br br ryan could play anything from shakespeare to arthur miller and play it magnificently in this film when he starts his speech people with names like and others with names that are hard to say it is chilling to watch him br br robert young plays the policeman who is called to investigate the murder of sam levine a civilian who is chatting with several soldiers in a bar mitchell is the soldier wanted in connection with it his wallet has been found in the apartment but mitchell is a gentle soldier who is only missing his wife br br the story is told from different perspectives mitchell and strike up a friendship and go back to apartment seems to know the loneliness that mitchell is feeling for years you have been concentrating on one peanut and now it is gone you don't know what to feel he says about the war br br ryan is superb as monty the psychotic racist br br robert young along with dick powell was an actor whose career was re by film noir crossfire they won't believe me and the other woman are great examples br br robert mitchum is his usual laid back self as the br br gloria graham and paul kelly as the odd couple are outstanding as well in their brief but telling roles br br this is probably the best film about racism ever made
1	exceptional movie that handles a theme of great proportions with a very well balanced direction was a very good director at least from what i can tell from this movie and murder my sweet but he was seriously affected by the huac as other movie directors and actors it is in a way ironic that crossfire received no oscars because it is exquisite example of how to make a great film on low budget everything about this movie is exceptional a well written script that makes use of extensive flashbacks a great cast superb lighting that seems to tell the story more than the actions proper what more can you expect from a top notch movie might i add that noir is here used for its stylishness and i might add financial advantages but this proves once more that what was originally deemed a b movie can have more impact today that most of the heavy handed a movies that lost their audience with the passage of time br br this film is not a noir movie per se and this rises serious questions about what noir actually is the style is definitely noir in terms of sets and especially lights but the theme surpasses the recipe of the noir genre you can see things from the opposite perspective and claim that anti semitism is only a pretext for the criminal investigation the puzzle around the murder being the actual focus this would have been the case had it not been for robert ryan in an outstanding performance either way the movie has a lot to offer and it is truly a pity that the director had to suffer so much iniquity for his former beliefs in a really noir period of america
1	crossfire is a fantastic film noir that is both a product of it's time and a timeless classic this film achieves this by addressing issues that haven't been brought to the screen before its 1947 release and by being a high quality film that holds up to this day with a good script great look and fantastic performances from it's actors the first american film to take the issue of anti semitism head on crossfire is cemented in classic standing set in post world war ii america a lurid whodunit develops after a jewish man is found murdered br br the story is great its anti hatred theme wrapped up in a dark multiple character crime thriller and along side the anti semitism angle is some great post world war ii dialogue and themes as well unlike other mystery thrillers the audience is alerted to who the perpetrator is almost immediately however the film's story is still engrossing because of the struggle of all the great characters involved are going through while trying to make sense of the situation outside the great overall story and themes the entire script is simply smart complete with meaningful messages and razor sharp exchanges between characters br br the film's captivating story is played out wonderfully by the its excellent cast robert young is fantastic as capt finlay the leading investigator of the murder case finlay's my favorite character of the film he's just a cool character dry as bone and tough as a two by four and stopping at nothing to bring the killer to justice robert mitchum is also great in the film very vivid in his soft spoken army sergeant character due to his superb screen presence gloria grahame gives a memorable performance in her small oscar nominated role george cooper also does a good job as the sick and distressed corporal mitchell paul kelly gives an eerie portrayal of a bizarre character and steve brodie sam levene jacqueline white and william phipps also give strong supporting performances robert ryan ends up being the most talked about performer of the film giving a chilling performance as montgomery and also being nominated for an oscar br br crossfire has a terrific look director edward does an extraordinary job with the film's execution and cinematographer j roy hunt does a masterful job with its black and white picture picture is as dark and dank as its themes covered in shadow with an almost glossy overtone yet also very raw in parts ironically the film's great look was not the result of hard work or even intention wanted to spend more time and money on the actors rather than the lighting so that's what he did less lights less preparation around a 6 hour work day and it resulted in a fantastic looking film not just a well done piece of cinematic art crossfire is also a great example of a cheap film that ends up a rich classic
1	a man by the name of joseph is found brutally murdered in his apartment it would appear that was visited by a group of drunken soldiers the previous evening and with one of them seemingly missing the evidence certainly implicates the missing soldier but as detective finlay digs deeper into the case he finds that they could be barking up the wrong tree and that this crime is dealing with something desperately sad and vile anti semitism br br crossfire was born out of the novel written by richard brooks adapted by john paxton and directed by the shrewdly excellent edward crossfire titled cradle of fear is a taut and gripping picture that boldly tackles anti semitism tho the makers were forced to tone down the story from the original source the novel is about homosexual hatred as opposed to anti semitism what remains largely due to rko supremo dore and producer adrian scott is a sort of creeping unease that drips with noirish style br br the cast features three bob's young mitchum and ryan with noir darling gloria grahame adding the emotional female heart tho only third billed it's robert ryan's picture all the way his portrayal as the bullying conniving montgomery is from the top draw and perfectly showcases the talent that he had in abundance ryan had good cause to give montgomery some of is best work for he had served in the marine's with richard brooks himself both men having discussed the possibility that if the novel was to be made into a film then ryan wanted in and to play montgomery thus the genesis of ryan's career as weasel types was born gloria grahame also puts in a wonderful and heartfelt turn which is all the more remarkable since she was being plagued by her abusive husband at the time stanley was known to be violent towards her and his constant presence around the set irked others in the cast but grahame probably channelling real life emotion became the character of ginny and shone very bright indeed both bob mitchum and bob young come out with flying colours as well to really seal the deal on what a smartly acted picture crossfire really is br br tho crossfire was released before the other 1947 anti semitic picture gentleman's agreement and raking in over a million and a quarter dollars at the box office some of its thunder was stolen by the academy award winning picture from fox studio nominated for best picture best supporting actor ryan best supporting actress grahame best director and best screenplay it won nothing but critics of the time hailed it as a brilliant shift in american cinema and today it stands tall proud and dark as a bold and excellent piece of work 8 5 10
1	after a man turns up dead a soldier becomes the prime suspect undoubtedly the best film to feature three roberts and all of them are in fine form young is the cool headed pipe smoking cop investigating the murder mitchum is the murder concerned friend and ryan is a hot headed soldier with something to hide grahame has a brief but effective role as a femme fatale future tarzan barker has a bit part as a soldier this film touches on anti semitism a subject also covered in best picture oscar winner gentleman's agreement which was released the same year it is solidly directed by who creates an effective film noir atmosphere
1	crossfire is a justifiably famous 1947 noir that's a murder mystery with a strong message it stars robert young robert mitchum robert ryan sam levene and gloria grahame and is strongly directed by edward we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning and for the rest of the film young as the detective finlay in charge of the case seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death and just as important why the victim joseph sam levene is someone the soldiers meet in a bar they go up to his apartment to continue their visit and winds up dead br br i don't know about 1947 but seeing crossfire today one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects i don't suppose it was so apparent back then as these actors were just getting started nevertheless the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting good direction violence and anti semite language br br the characterizations are vivid including that of gloria grahame in a role she's a woman who meets mitchell george cooper one of the suspect soldiers in a bar and can provide him with an alibi the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan but everyone is excellent robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife br br truly excellent and a must see
1	a march 1947 new york times article described crossfire as one of the first hollywood films of the 1940s to face questions of racial and religious prejudice with more forthright courage than audiences have been accustomed to expect while rko was producing crossfire twentieth century fox was making gentleman's agreement another story about rko raced to beat the much ballyhooed fox picture to the theaters releasing crossfire several months before gentleman's agreement in july 1947 rko screened crossfire for representatives of various los angeles religious groups in addition several surveys which were designed to gauge the audience's prejudices were conducted before and after screenings of the film crossfire received both praise and criticism for its depiction of in america and was the subject of many crossfire received an academy award nomination for best picture but lost to gentleman's agreement it was also nominated for best supporting actor robert ryan best supporting actress gloria grahame best director and best screenplay adaptation in september 1947 crossfire was named best social film at cannes in december 1947 ebony magazine an african american publication gave the film its annual award for improving interracial understanding loved this movie if you get the chance to watch it see it
1	see three colors blue and three colors white they are both wonderful films and will give an added dimension to the finale three colors red red is a fantastic film it can be enjoyed in a single viewing and indeed the climax of the film is very powerful in that first viewing but watch it again once you understand the use of symbolism and character parallels in this movie you will see new things with each viewing with the first viewing you understand that the film is the work of a brilliant mind with each additional viewing you find yourself discovering that it is in fact a work of genius red is meant to symbolize fraternity in the french flag the story turns the theme of fraternity around to be viewed at angles one would never suspect the facets of fraternity shared by the different characters is as deep as you care to peer if you are used to the blatant symbolism in most mass films you may find red a bit slow you may find yourself looking at a screen filled with intensity that you do not fathom and yawning wonder what all the excitement is about this is not a mindless vicarious experience everything is not explained to you you must think as you watch you must see not simply look wonderful movie one meant to be enjoyed by a wonderful moviegoer
1	crossfire is ostensibly a murder mystery but what distinguishes it from other similar movies of the period is the killer's motive which is anti semitism the story highlights examples of the kind of ignorance which fuels bigotry and contains references to a hillbilly and an irish immigrant who also suffered maltreatment because of their ethnicity br br the movie's plot is based on richard brooks' novel called the brick foxhole which is about a hate crime where the victim was gay it's ironic that this story about a form of intolerance should be met with intolerance by the censors who that for the screen version the type of bigotry involved should be changed to anti semitism another irony is the behaviour of a soldier who seems fiercely proud of having served in a war against the nazis and yet embraces their hatred of jews the director and producer of this movie also suffered another type of intolerance when they were blacklisted after being called to appear before the house un american activities committee all these points just seem to underline the deeply entrenched and nature of the whole problem of bigotry as depicted in this movie br br when police captain finlay robert young investigates the murder of joseph sam levene he discovers that on the night when he was killed had been with a group of soldiers and one of these corporal arthur mitch mitchell george cooper is quickly identified as the prime suspect further information is also gathered from montgomery robert ryan who is another of the soldiers who was present that night and sergeant robert mitchum who's a friend of mitchell with the help of some other soldiers then searches for mitchell and when he finds him hears his account of what he did on the night of the murder including his meeting with a dance hall hostess called ginny tremaine gloria grahame br br helps michell to avoid being arrested and tries to identify the murderer ginny tremaine is questioned but her information is insufficient to prove mitchell's innocence but finlay's investigations lead him to recognise the motive for the crime and subsequently he sets up an elaborate trap which leads the real culprit into exposing his own guilt br br crossfire is a movie with a message and the identity of the murderer is revealed at a very early stage in the story the message is conveyed in a way which was no doubt appropriate for the period in which it was made but by today's standards seems rather heavy handed the cinematography by j roy hunt is just wonderful with low key lighting and creative use of numerous strategically placed table lamps combining to evoke a look which is perfectly compatible with the drama being played out on screen br br despite it being a low budget production crossfire was a great box office success and benefited from having an absorbing and very relevant story with a marvellous cast two of whom were nominated for academy awards for best supporting actor robert ryan and best supporting actress gloria grahame the additional nominations for edward best director producer adrian scott best picture and john paxton best writing adapted screenplay are just further evidence of the positive recognition which this movie justifiably received
1	spoilers spoilers there must have been something in the air in the immediate postwar years that made night cities attractive settings for movies a gaggle of nocturnal urban films were made at that time and not just in america one of the most notable was carol reed's odd man out an english picture about a wounded gunman staggering through the streets of belfast in america it was the high noon or more properly high midnight of film noir br br crossfire isn't really film noir but has the trappings of noir though it uses them for its own aims which have to do with bigotry directed by edward written by john paxton it was adapted from a novel by richard brooks the book concerned the murder of a homosexual in the movie the victim is changed to a jew though filmed like a mystery there is little suspense in the film as it is fairly obvious who the murderer is early on what makes the film so watchable and beautiful is its evocation of a city washington d c just after world war ii by some of the most gifted craftsmen working in films at that time unlike many night movies crossfire is set mostly indoors in police stations rooming houses and all night movie theaters soldiers are everywhere in the film and most are itching to get back to their civilian lives yet one senses from most of the men we meet that their personalities have been so shaped by their military experience it's going to be tough for them to return to their old neighborhoods for some maybe even impossible they seem more bound to one another than to anything or anyone else br br yet some men never truly bonded with anyone in the military the murderer monty is one such individual one senses that he was never connected in his civilian life either he is a lone wolf who also needs people desperately alone he has a sadistic streak a mile wide and always needs someone nearby to be the butt of his jokes the man he kills did him no harm and was in fact a stranger to him but once monty figured out the man's religion that was enough he didn't really mean to kill the guy as it was his intent to humiliate him and just beat him up but as he was quite drunk at the time monty's fists got the better of him it is this act that sets the story the story in motion br br once the movie builds up a head of steam the other characters come rapidly into focus monty's opposite number is another soldier who though introspective like monty and somewhat detached harbors no resentment toward anyone and seems a reasonable even amiable guy finley the pipe smoking homicide detective is dandyish and a tad effete compared to the men in uniform but proves more than a match for the various and mostly soldiers he deals with the actors who plays these roles roberts ryan mitchum and young give excellent performances each in a different key ryan as monty is tense and paranoid always looking around for someone to pick on and one can feel his anxiety over becoming a victim himself as mitchum is low key almost nonchalant he never raises his voice and he seems to have more to say more to offer than is permitted by the script young's performance has often been criticized as being too soft but i find it deceptively strong and nicely offbeat he cuts against the stereotype of the hardboiled cop and makes the character of finley a bit of a prince of crime detection br br there are few surprises in crossfire though the script is at times surprisingly well written even brilliant character actor paul kelly gives one of the best short performances in the movies as the of a woman a soldier picks up in a bar kelly may or may not be her husband and he may or may not live with her though he seems relaxed enough in her apartment the beauty of these scenes are that nothing is made clear and this man himself seems more than a little confused over what his role is was or ought to be in a way these few scenes form the thematic core of the film which is with the exception of the detective all the men in the film are drifting aimless and basically lost some more seriously than others in this respect crossfire is for all the preaching near the end a film about the vagueness of identity and how easily it can be lost or warped men drift from one bar to another in this film as they engage in a sort of woozy camaraderie their personalities merging into a kind of general american male template then something happens something is nailed down a word is mentioned whether or and things suddenly turn tense and the very notion of individuality of an identity outside the group of anyone not like them becomes deeply offensive even loathsome then after tempers flare and whatever stirred them up has been resolved or forgotten the men revert to their loose non personal group normality and order is restored
1	this was a very gritty movie about anti semitism however unlike gentlemen's agreement that also deals with anti semitism the movie has aged well and doesn't seem heavy handed in other words it deals with the topic without seeming preachy or trite by today's standards br br robert ryan plays one of the most vile characters as he beats a guy to death just because he's jewish robert mitchum plays the investigator trying to get to the bottom of this crime br br i give the movie kudos for its gritty and unflinching look at hate it is in many ways an example of film noir even though the topic isn't about the usual gangsters or robbery
1	rko radio pictures made a real classic in 1947 and even managed to get it nominated for the best picture academy award the acting script continuity et cetera are all just about perfect and the story is well worth the viewer's 82 minutes although the picture soft petals the true life story by making the murder victim a jew rather than a homosexual most viewers will see the victim as a jewish homosexual such disguises never work perhaps weren't intended to br br i could nit pick about a few details but just for fun there was no all night movie house in washington dc in 1947 and if there was i wish robert mitchum and his pal wouldn't talk through the show there weren't any bars where a gi could pick up a pretty blonde none if robert ryan wanted to read the latest murder scoop he ought to have bought the daily news not the times evening star and certainly not the know nothing washington post but these little things take nothing away from this classic br br the film benefits a lot from the absolute lack of a musical score except during the credits i've only seen this done in a few films br br on the negative side since 1995 it comes with a tmc introduction where some liberal about what the public was ready for in 1947 blah blah blah as if this fool has any business judging his betters i'd say the ex gi's in 1947 the greatest generation were much smarter and had better values than some commentator film historian or other wise mouth in 1995 put a sock in it
1	crossfire is one of those films from the forties that is crying for a remake if for no other reason than maybe it's time it should be done as originally written the story on which the film is based is about the killing of a gay man but anti semitism was certainly a hot topic in the days of post world war ii with the holocaust fresh in everyone's mind br br in the lee server biography of robert mitchum edward the director was interviewed and and bluntly said that the film could never have been made about a hate crime against gays at the time with the code firmly in place it could have been though because the character of robert ryan is such an equal opportunity hater of everything that deviates from his societal norms br br mitchum was told in no uncertain terms that he was in the film strictly for the ride robert young was cast as the washington dc police homicide captain who catches the case and while mitchum was second billed he knew from the beginning the film would belong to ryan but he was rko's new star by dint of his performances in the story of gi joe and till the end of time so he was there for box office insurance mitchum's part was as a sergeant and friend of the original suspect in the case george cooper br br crossfire is not a whodunit even though we don't see the crime it becomes clear that montgomery is the one who kills sam levene the quintessential jewish salesperson and it becomes clear to young and mitchum that ryan is the guilty party almost as fast as it does to the audience it becomes just a question of getting the evidence br br ryan earned one of several academy award nominations the film garnered his best supporting actor category though he lost to edmund gwenn the film was ryan's breakthrough role similarly gloria grahame was nominated for a brief part as a party girl for best supporting actress but she lost to celeste holm for gentleman's agreement in fact crossfire ran up against gentleman's agreement and lost for best picture and best director for to elia kazan it's fifth nomination for best screenplay and crossfire came up short again with the winner being miracle on 34th street br br gloria grahame also had her own problems on the set which spilled over from her personal life she was having big trouble with her then husband stanley who was an abusive husband he was hanging around the set causing ed a lot of problems fortunately grahame's part was a small one in fact the whole film was shot in typical rko economy style in 20 days br br robert young has a particularly fine scene with william phipps a young kid from tennessee in mitchum and ryan's outfit who ryan constantly belittles young is most eloquent in speaking about the corrosive nature of hate and how it affected his family as irish catholics who came over in the potato famine years it was one of robert young's best moments on screen in his long career br br as fine a film as crossfire is it's time to be remade as a story about an anti gay hate crime especially with the real killing of barry from the last decade and the debate about gays in the military br br that's a film who's time has come and almost gone
1	brilliant thriller deserving far more fame mitchum and ryan are awesome in their starring roles as is the entire supporting cast a truly gripping film noir featuring some wonderfully images and some great dialogue at the heart of it all is a strong message of tolerance and understanding based on a novel concerning homophobia this movie attacks post war anti and all intolerance and hatred with considerable power though parts may seem a little preachy to modern audiences it still has the power to shock and works very well as a thriller in its own right a credit to all involved
1	edward crossfire is a rare film coming from the hollywood of the 1940s this was groundbreaking territory for mr and the studio because of what the director and his adapter john paxton decided to do with the novel in which the film is based br br if you haven't seen the film please stop reading now br br richard brooks novel was about the killing of a gay soldier in the movie the subject matter was turned around to prejudice against jews a theme that was taboo during that time in the american cinema it's to mr credit to have had the courage to get involved with this film project at all br br the movie is an outstanding piece of film making because the way the director presents it obviously influenced by the film noir style we are taken to the washington of the post war the opening scene about the brutal murder of shows such unusual cruelty being inflicted to a decent man who we don't know yet or why has been killed but who didn't deserve to die in such horrible fashion br br the basis of the murder is prejudice pure and simple we realize how in the mind of an ignorant man the mere fact of being successful and different plays in the mind of the assassin stands as the sacrificial lamb the same way the gay soldier is the victim in the novel the parallels are well drawn br br this film makes compelling viewing because of the brilliant star turn of robert ryan as montgomery mr ryan was an actor that always played interesting roles but never so well as in crossfire also there is a great appearance by gloria grahame as ginny the prostitute with her heart in the right place br br the rest of the cast play as an ensemble robert young as the police detective in charge of the investigation plays is a decent man who has known prejudice first hand in his own family and speaks loudly against it robert mitchum plays a cool sgt who is deeply touched by the crime when one of his men is accused of committing it sam levene is excellent in his small role of br br this is a film to watch because of it probably the first to speak out loud against ignorance
1	the real best picture of 1947 also deals with anti semitism and is superior to elia kazan's gentlemen's agreement the eventual winner at that year's academy awards in practically every department near perfect direction john paxton's terse script and j roy hunt's expert expressionist lighting are wonderfully abetted by a superb ensemble cast although robert young playing an easy going methodical and very likable cop and robert mitchum who actually does have the occasional throwaway witty remark are the nominal stars of the film it's oscar nominees robert ryan and gloria grahame as well as paul kelly in the small but pivotal role of grahame's pathetic husband who give the film's most memorable characterizations ryan proved so convincing as a homicidal racist that he was eventually typecast for a while excelling in equally villainous roles in such films as act of violence 1948 caught 1948 the racket 1951 clash by night 1952 the naked spur 1953 and bad day at black rock 1955 the film is also notable for its atypical structure in that ryan's flashback sequence a complete fabrication is shot in a straightforward manner while the actual truth emerges from the hazy distorted recollections of the real protagonist of the film who furthermore isn't even played by any of the film's stars also crossfire was originally to have treated homosexuality as per richard brooks' original source novel the brick foxhole but this taboo subject was unacceptable to the hays office at the time a far cry from the situation we have today when at least 3 gay themed films are in the running for this years' major oscars br br the print utilized for warners' dvd transfer shows some regrettable signs of wear and tear at times but the audio commentary by noir experts james and alain silver is a good one even though i don't happen to share their opinion that career declined steadily after his huac troubles as such excellent pictures as the sniper 1952 the caine mutiny 1954 broken lance 1954 the young lions 1958 warlock 1959 and mirage 1965 amply prove having said that his collaborations at rko with producer adrian scott and screenwriter john paxton murder my sweet 1944 cornered 1945 hopefully this will be part of the next film noir box set from warners and crossfire do constitute his best work in any case in my opinion the latter is not only one of the key films of the 1940s but also one of the finest noirs ever made period
1	a film like crossfire puts another film that spreads around its social consciousness i e the recent film crash almost to shame not necessarily because either one puts forth its message of intolerance is rotten more significantly although i'd wager crash throws the hammer down much more thickly in comparison with this but because of how the storytelling and contrivances never get much in the way like with crash maybe it's not really necessary to compare the two as crossfire is in its core all deep into the film noir vein like its going out of style it was interesting actually to see what the director edward said on the dvd interview where he mentioned that the budget for the photography was significantly lower on purpose so that more could be spent on the actors and the schedule went through at a very brisk quick pace but then what comes off then as being incredible about the picture is that you would think looking at many of the lighting set ups that it took a lot to do just for a small scene like when robert mitchum's first goes in for questioning under the captain robert young the contrasts of shadows seamlessly in the room is exquisite that there are many other lighting set ups that go even further with so little marks this as something essential in the realm of just the look of the noir period just take a look at a shot of characters on a stairwell the bars silhouetted against them and see what i mean br br but back to the substance part of the film it's really a story that consists of a murder mystery but one that we as the audience don't take long to figure on the answer it's then more about something else then in the mind and soul of a killer that wouldn't be found in a common crime picture then as there are really no 'criminals' for the most part in the film there's a very calculated risk with this then that characters could be too thin just to prop up the worthwhile message against anti semitism but direction of his top shelf cast along with a really terrific script by john paxton fleshes out the characters least of which for what they should have to not seem too thin alongside the message and what would a noir be then without some attitude to go along with it mitchum helps that along even in scenes like between him and young where its very much based in the situation of the story's moment i e a detail in the plot by injecting a little sly wit into some of the dialog it may already be there in the lines but he helps make the character with a good edge for his scenes br br then there's also robert ryan who excels at montgomery as a man who you know you don't like much at first just through his b s demeanor but you're not totally sure about either then once it starts to come clearer ironically through a subjective view point of the suspect mitchell george cooper at the apartment of the soon to be deceased his performance becomes a great balancing act of being full of crap and also rather frightening in his blind way it's a good performance when also countered with cooper who has actual personal issues that he faces and comes forward with regret and humility it's really after the film ends that one thinks about a lot of this however and while you're watching the film it's more about getting into the dialog and the flow of the scenes and in the sometimes stark overpowering camera moves on the actors so the message is in a way secondary not that it isn't an important one especially for the time period coming right off of ww2 but years later its seeing the actors even the ones that don't get the big marquee status like gloria grahame as ginny the femme fatale of the picture if it could've had time for one which it doesn't and william phipps as leroy the hick working off one another that sticks much strongly in the compacted screenplay br br is also very wise in choosing to limit the musical score is powerful too as for very long stretches we hear nothing and mostly when it does come up it's incidental to the character's surroundings he could've just as easily gone with added musical notes on some dramatic scenes for emphasis most specifically the opening audience grabber into the film by sticking clear of that and getting the right attitudes and nuance in camera and cast it standards in genre material to a very fine memorable level my favorite scene would probably go to story about an irish immigrant he tells to leroy where all such elements come into place well it might not come in very high at the top of my favorite noirs and i'd still throw down murder my sweet as the director's masterpiece in this kind of picture but it's assuredly higher in quality than something of the b level too
1	crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman's agreement which it beat to theatres by a few months it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying it's because i'm jewish isn't it it's much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical somewhat shamefully the brief featurette on the warners' dvd doesn't mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one but it's interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish there's little doubt in sam levene's performance that the character is in fact also gay – not a mincing caricature but there's definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper's confused soldier there's not much of a mystery to who the murderer is even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy br br there's an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry but the atmosphere is pure rko noir set over one long sweltering night the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward more time to work with the actors and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum robert young's like detective gloria grahame's tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties but the lasting impression is of robert ryan's excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row a big surprise hit in 1946 as a reward and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac which itself had a notable tendency to target jews so much for
1	this is the last film of kieslowski one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema he intended to retire after this film so in a way it is his artistic testament he died a couple of years after making the film and though it is said that he intended to return to directing destiny decided that this was indeed his last and what a film br br the last film in the three colors french trilogy is actually a very swiss film set in geneva one of the two main characters is a swiss retired judge and immediately comes to mind but there is more switzerland in the cool atmosphere in the lack of communication of the characters in the politeness that envelops cruelty of life several characters who start with little relationship will come together at the end in a moving and human final which only a great artist could have staged br br little else can be said that was not said and written hundred of times yes the film starts slowly and the fans of the american style of action movies or melodramas will get discouraged first and will get lost as viewers they deserve it the film gets quality as it advances and one of the not so hidden messages is that real life and real humans are more interesting than the hollywood cartoon and plastic action and characters cinema quality is very original the image being a in as the title shows acting is fabulous with irene jacob and jean louis trintignant the later in what will remain probable the best role of his old age br br a great film seeing it again probably adds and i am happy to have it recorded on tape 9 10 on my personal scale
1	crossfire feels like an underdeveloped masterpiece it's well acted and beautifully filmed but thinly written and way too short as is it's just a decent police procedural with hints of film noir at its zenith in 1947 and social commentary also trendy at the time thrown in for good measure it's remembered today as one of the first two hollywood films to deal with anti semitism and as being much better than the similarly themed gentleman's agreement no mean feat but its real subject is the difficulty that wwii soldiers as trained killers were having as they made the transition to civilian life for a more genteel take on this topic try the best years of our lives a man is beaten to death in the first few frames of the film we do not see his attacker the movie is about the investigation of this murder which is actually pretty straightforward but it takes some unnecessary detours like when the main suspect a depressed soldier winds up in the apartment of gloria grahame a dance hall hooker with a really weird pimp played by paul kelly there's also a civics lecture halfway through the movie that slows the proceedings to a crawl and the ending is tidy enough for a cop show but otherwise it's a pretty decent mystery still what a great noir it could have been director edward drops a few hints at the subject of the original novel homosexuality not anti semitism like when sadistic creep monty seethes at the image of his friend mitch talking with a strange man at a bar and the cast is excellent robert ryan makes for a very credible cretin and even becomes a little sympathetic in his final scenes not unlike peter lorre as the child murderer in m he deserved an oscar but lost to edmund gwenn that year you can't beat santa claus robert mitchum is onhand as a soldier friend of the accused killer was mitchum a great actor or a great star someone else can figure that out but his sleepy eyes and bemused half smile work very well here since they imply that his character knows something everyone else doesn't and he does and robert young as the detective assigned to the murder is surprisingly gritty his usual avuncular affability even when he has to deliver the civil rights sermon midway through the picture there's no question that bogart or tracy would have been brilliant in the role but neither of them were at rko in 1947 so you'll just have to deal with dr still young is good enough to make you wish someone had cast him in a detective drama instead of father knows best which he hated and which drove him to alcoholism and suicide attempts the man deserved better than smarm and sanka
1	spoilers throughout this is a very strange film particularly for its time in every respect for six years american movies had shown american soldiers as everybody's son brother father br br in movies like the best years of our lives and til the end of time our hearts are tugged by the difficulty that the sweet returning soldiers have in adjusting to peace and their families yet in this same year this film shows soldiers as a mix of people rather worse than the viewer one message of this film is lock up your daughters br br even the good soldiers with plenty of time on their hands are gambling all the time getting stupefyingly drunk and are wholly indifferent to whether they even have wives any more and their reaction to the police investigating a murder is to conspire against them br br mitchum the most sympathetic soldier says things like i don't know if my wife wants to make a go of it now after the war haven't seen her in two years do i care not really maybe we'll make a go of it maybe not br br another soldier is shown as unusually sensitive because after years away he would like to see his wife again br br later when this soldier states at the police station that he spent the evening at a whore's home without knowing his wife is sitting just behind him there seems to be no question whatever that his wife will be fine indeed she is i guess it's hey soldiers will be soldiers br br the police detective played by robert young who is trying to crack a murder case states convincingly and with infinite weariness about someone's account of their actions on the night in question br br do i care no i don't really care about anything any more i've done this too long i guess br br a man shows up at the whore's apartment he says i'm just a man like you interested in the whore then he says no that's a lie i'm her husband i'd like to be in the military i was turned down before t br br hen he says no that's a lie why would i want to be a soldier he goes through another series of lies when the police ask him who he is to the end of the movie we haven't a clue who he is or why he is there he's one of the strangest characters in the history of movies br br a man stands with his girlfriend at a bar talking to four soldiers when a clumsy soldier knocks a drink onto his girlfriend she leaves to change her dress and is right back wearing another no problem yet the man doesn't leave with his girlfriend who simply disappears but instead follows one of the soldiers when he leaves to go to another area of the bar the man then extrapolates from the minimal information he's learned about the soldier to philosophize grandly about the problems of returning soldiers and immediately invites the soldier home because he is drunk and feels sick this is strange stuff br br similarly a dance hall girl is irritated by the sentimental soldier who would like to take her out for a real dance and dinner maybe yet she does dance with him and immediately gives him the key to her home br br were people in the late 1940s always urging soldiers to come to their homes after they just met them br br robert ryan kills his host a stranger when he's enraged that the jewish host tries to get the steadily ryan out of his home the reason for the murder no jew tells me how to drink how to drink huh what does that mean br br this movie is always off kilter quite deliberately so the soldiers act consistently with total complete defiance of the law and all the characters are as cold and tough as any movie i've ever seen br br and yet the movie is utterly gripping you simply have no idea how these people are going to act or what new bizarre character is going to pop up without anyone thinking the person's actions are strange in the least e g the wife's behavior br br the acting is about the finest ever seen from robert young robert ryan gloria grahame who earned an oscar nomination paul kelly and other actors i'd never heard of br br i'd never heard of this movie and it's a complete delight that i've discovered one that i shall want to see again and again and again it's really strange but impossible to look away from because you've no idea what these creatures will do next
1	crossfire is remembered not so much for the fact that its three stars all had the first name robert but as being one of the first hollywood films to deal with anti semitism br br the story opens with the murder in silhouette of a man whom we later learn is a jewish man named joseph sam levene pipe smoking police captain finlay robert young is assigned to the case an ex soldier montgomery robert ryan comes upon the murder scene and we learn through flashback that he had met in a bar along with other soldiers who were in the process of being mustered out of the service following wwii br br according to montgomery he and pal floyd bowers steve brodie had followed and cpl arthur mitchell george cooper to apartment for drinks montgomery tells finlay that mitchell left the apartment first and that he and floyd followed soon after with still alive and well br br unable to locate mitchell finlay suspects him of the murder he enlists sgt peter robert mitchum to help him locate mitchell mitchell meanwhile has been wondering the streets in a dazed state he meets prostitute ginny gloria grahame in a bar and strikes up a friendship she gives him a key to her apartment and he goes there to rest unexpectedly a man paul kelly turns up looking for ginny mitchell still in a daze leaves and goes back to meet and his pals manages to keep him from the police and hides him in an all night movie house br br from mitchell's perspective we learn that montgomery hates jews and is probably the killer finlay begins to focus his investigation on montgomery trying to prove his guilt he to have one of the soldiers a kid named leroy william phipps set a trap for br br crossfire is considered to be one of the best of the film noire genre in fact it garnered several academy award nominations including ryan and grahame for best supporting actors it was made on a modest budget in about three weeks br br it has all of the elements of classic film noire the shadows low key lighting and the story playing out mostly at night the requisite femme fatale of the piece is grahame's ginny who plays a minor role but is nonetheless your classic femme fatale the unnamed character played by paul kelly in an excellent bit has been chewed up and spit out by ginny and was she about to do the same to mitchell br br robert ryan steals the picture as the brutal montgomery although it would type cast him in similar roles for years to come robert young makes a good low key detective but robert mitchum has little to do other than befriend the mitchell character others in the cast are jacqueline white as mitchell's wife lex barker who would go on the following year to play tarzan as one of mitchum's soldier pals and richard powers who was previously known as tom keene as finlay's assistant br br director edward would shortly run afoul of the house un american committee as having communist and spend a couple of years in jail
1	crossfire 1947 br br great message great symbolism very good movie br br it's hard to go totally wrong with robert mitchum robert young and robert ryan all together as the three male leads and with director edward pulling together a complicated murder and detective yarn that's reason enough to watch it once and even twice br br you might need a second look to fully catch the plot as it is explained too much or shown in flashback also too much because it's a little complicated without good reason but it makes sense overall and we see early on too early probably who the culprit is and even why br br besides the drama well done in typical noir lighting and filled with those short quips that make post war films dramatic there is the social message the anti anti semitic point of it all it only borders on preachy once or twice and it's such an obviously good point to make we watch it being made and wait for the plot and the dramatic acting to take front row which they do especially young who is a brilliantly laconic and patient detective and ryan who is mean in a believably crude and angry way ryan is good at that his typecasting reasonable mitchum mostly plays a watered down version of what he is famous for and the fourth known acting force gloria grahame is a great brief presence even if slightly dispensable br br though the movie is dominated by the sequence of events and by the message both of which grow in force as we go it is really easy to watch just for the lighting camera work and acting including the classic fight scene that opens the first few seconds of the film all done with shadows br br the archetypes of soldiers presented is very deliberate and this might be something people at the time were very familiar with and could relate to as much as the anti semitism thread the shell shocked soldier rendered helpless but still intrinsically capable the modest youngster without confidence but capable too and the weary but outwardly able veteran are all there and of course the angry violent soldier who is a product of the war too this last is also a responsibility of society even the army goes all out to make good on the injustices here not just because they are criminal but because they stem from the wear and tear of a long awful war br br the audience then more than now could really get but it's there to appreciate still
1	i haven't read the source richard brooks' novel the brick foxhole which i hope is not as as its title but i understand the original villain was a not an anti semite and to be honest sam levene is written as a gay guy who picks up a drunken soldier but okay you have to go with the flow consider 1947 not even anti semitism has been treated on screen yet many of the people responsible for contemporary movies were themselves jews but anti semitism had been verboten for years because it was considered unpleasant so we can hardly blame the makers of this film for not leaving the victim a homosexual now that's really unpleasant and besides there might have been many among the audience rooting for robert ryan to get away with it we are by no means free of prejudice but we've still come a long way since 1947 br br watching this again for the first time in years i was impressed with the rather slow pace of the first half of the movie the many shots of two people talking the shadows the time that passes between the question and the answer the uninspired editing but i could live with that because of the film's subject matter and because of a few other things br br one of the things that keep me glued to events as they unfold so deliberately is robert ryan's performance the guy does a splendid job at times he can seem thoughtful cheerfully subordinate and helpful to the police any way i can help yes sir then alone or with another soldier the simmering hatred rises to the top not so much through what he says but the way he looks that scowl that penetrating stare those dark eyes glittering wow br br the film has taken a lot of heat because of robert young's preachy speech about his grandfather's murder that doesn't bother me at all although i guess didn't have to have young shove his face into the camera while talking about and still taking the context into account it's one of the more shocking moments of the film part of its impact is due to young's almost casual delivery of the message and part of it is due to the not having been heard on screen before br br another feature of the film that transforms it almost into the surreal is the paul kelly character and his relationship to the whore gloria grahame holy guacamole what elliptical conversation kelly is given to you know what i told you all those things i just told you they're all lies his character neatly crosses pathos with creepiness it's impossible to know what to make of him he adds virtually nothing to the plot but the movie would be a lot less without his presence br br it's a moody murky film its people live in the dark and there is murder afoot practically no one screams or shouts the horror that these men have experienced and that some of them still carry with them like malaria seems just beneath the surface br br see it if you have a chance
1	a bigoted soldier kills a man for being jewish and tries to pin it on a fellow soldier not as good as the novel it was based on the brick foxhole in which it was a gay man who was killed but hollywood wouldn't touch that in 1947 that said it's still a very good film the anti semitism is handled very well but it's hammered into the audience that bigotry is bad well duh but this was 1947 the picture is well acted by the entire cast especially robert young and robert ryan and the tone is very dark as it should be very atmospheric too a deserved big hit in its day well worth seeing
1	definitely a must see for all fans of film noir br br thanks to a fine script and crisp razor sharp direction a top cast comes together and works like a well oiled clock to produce a crackerjack psychological thriller br br wonderful characterizations articulate the movie's powerful message of racial and religious tolerance it's difficult and almost unjust to single out any one particular performance because there isn't a weak link in the entire company but robert ryan as the hateful and violent white supremacist is truly spine chilling br br making this film in the 1940s would have taken a lot of courage now all these years later at a time when contemporary movies are dominated by a ridiculous over abundance of foul language bare breasts crummy acting and deafening soundtracks it's refreshing to get back to the basics of quality film making with a viewing treat like crossfire br br another low budget gem from the hollywood archives
1	as a rule there are few things more dispiriting than hollywood's attempts to be courageous mixing caution with heavy handedness message movies pat themselves loudly on the back for daring to tackle major problems crossfire is not entirely free from this taint it includes a sermon on the nature of senseless hatred that is embarrassingly obvious assuming a level of naivity in its audience that's depressing to contemplate as late as 1947 it was a big deal for a movie to announce that anti semitism existed and that it was bad it was unthinkable of course for hollywood to address the real subject of the book on which the movie was victim was a homosexual nevertheless thanks to good writing and excellent acting crossfire remains a persuasive examination of what we would now call a hate crime br br postwar malaise was one of the major components of film noir and crossfire addresses it directly the film is set in washington d c among soldiers still in uniform but idle spending their days playing poker and bar crawling joseph sam levene an intelligent and kindly jew explains that the end of the war has created a void all the energy that went into hating and fighting the enemy is now unfocused and bottled up meets three soldiers in a bar the sensitive mitchell who is close to a nervous breakdown the weak willed floyd bowers and montgomery a tall overbearing bully who belittles a young soldier from tennessee as a stupid hillbilly the three soldiers wind up at apartment where the drunken monty becomes increasingly abusive calling his host jew boy is beaten to death and mitchell disappears making himself the prime suspect for the killing br br unraveling the crime are detective finlay robert young dry and by the book and sergeant robert mitchum a thoughtful and experienced friend who knows mitchell is incapable of murder among the pieces of the puzzle are ginny gloria grahame a nightclub hostess who met mitchell and gave him her apartment key and floyd steve brodie who as a witness to the crime holes up terrified in a seedy rooming house while there is no real whodunit suspense the story remains gripping and the trap laid for the killer is extremely clever br br the strong noir atmosphere saves the movie from feeling didactic or sanctimonious the cinematography is a striking shadow play with and harsh lights rooms often lit by a single lamp filtered by cigarette smoke world weariness is as pervasive as noir lighting nothing interests me finlay says quietly to nothing is toast in the nightclub gloria grahame the paragon of noir femininity nearly steals the movie with her two scenes platinum blonde jaded and caustic she's the quintessential b girl poisoned by the stinking gin mill where she works for laughs she says bitterly her sweet face curdling when mitchell tells her that she reminds him of his wife now and then a wistful kindness peeks through her defensive shell as when she dances with mitchell in a deserted courtyard then offers to cook him spaghetti at her apartment when he goes there he meets a weasely crumple faced man paul kelly who seems to sponge off ginny and whose conversation is a dense layering of lies and false confessions gloria blows mitchell's good girl wife off the screen in a scene where she's asked to give mitchell an alibi slim and frail in her with her girlish lisp she lets us see just how often ginny has been insulted and dismissed as a tramp br br robert young is a nondescript actor and he stands no chance against mitchum's charisma but he does a good job of keeping his pipe smoking character saddled with delivering the movie's earnest message this side of mitchum meanwhile gets some cool dialogue but not nearly enough to do still even when he's doing nothing but lounging in a corner you can't take your eyes off him the third robert ryan creates a fully shaded and frighteningly convincing portrait of an ignorant unstable bigot we see his phony geniality his bullying his resentment of anyone with advantages his am i right or am i right smugness how easily he slaps labels on people and what satisfaction he gets from despising them br br message seems cautious and dated now though not nearly so much as the same year's a gentleman's agreement finlay's speech about bigotry cops out by reaching back a hundred years for an instance of white reminding us that irish catholics were once persecuted next it could be people from tennessee he says or men who wear striped neckties or maybe blacks or japanese or homosexuals or communists the script seems afraid to mention any real contemporary problems it its message by making the jewish victim saintly as though his innocence were not sufficient and it takes care to exonerate the military having a superior officer declare that the army is ashamed of men like montgomery and stressing that served honorably in the war still it did take some guts to depict immediately after world war ii an american who might have been happier in the nazi army and the movie's basic premise is still valid if monty were alive today he would have gone out on september 12 2001 and beat up a sikh
1	edward directed this shadowy movie about a murder investigation involving military personnel robert young gets to lecture us about hatred robert mitchum walks through most of this picture and gloria grahame revisits the she exhibited in it's a wonderful life it's robert ryan who gets at the heart of the matter anti he goes so deep into his role as monty montgomery imagine parents named lawrence calling their son larry that the drama sits squarely on his shoulders and he is more than up to the challenge without him the movie would be commonplace ryan has played a number of memorable villains in his day bad day at black rock billy budd but this performance put him on the map with sam levene as the murder victim
1	taut and organically gripping edward crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller an unlikely message movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle br br in washington dc a company of soldiers cope with their by hanging out in bars three of them end up at a stranger's apartment where robert ryan drunk and belligerent beats their host sam levene to death because he happens to be jewish police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum who's assigned to ryan's outfit suspicion falls on the second of the three george cooper who has vanished ryan slays the third buddy steve brodie to insure his silence before young closes in br br abetted by a superior script by john paxton draws precise performances from his three starring bobs ryan naturally does his prototypical angry white male and to the hilt while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance his role however is not central young may never have been better gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed vulnerable tramp and as a sad sack who's leeched into her life paul kelly haunts us in a small peripheral role that he makes memorable br br the politically engaged perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing but it's pretty much confined to young's reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier thus incidentally stretching chronology to the limit at least there's no attempt to render an explanation however glib of why ryan hates jews and hillbillies and br br curiously crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it the novel it's based on richard brooks' the brick foxhole dealt with a gay bashing murder but homosexuality in 1947 was still beyond the pale news of the holocaust had however begun to emerge from the ashes of europe so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism the studios always at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer br br but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general the specifics don't fit so smoothly the victim's chatting up a lonesome drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd even though or especially since there's a girlfriend in tow it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan's murderous rage
1	i feel at a loss so brilliant is this film kieslowski is a writer a philosopher and while an excellent filmmaker his greatness lies in his writing and red is his paradigm this film is a study of the artist's judgement in the creation of his fictional world of how an artist can attempt to remake life even his own thru his art even as he cannot escape the knowledge that no matter how he involves himself in his story it is still fiction and he is still outside of his remade world still burdened with its unreality and the reality of the life he has tried to artistically remake and magically all of this is not to the smallest degree at the expense of a wonderful story about the mysteries of love and fate and the characters who live out this story this pre judged destiny if i had to choose i might nominate this the greatest film ever made
1	never has the words hidden gem been so accurate bad movie lovers might search all over for the next hidden obscurity sometimes coming up short with stuff like weasels rip my flesh but other times luck will prevail and you might end up with something like death bed then hopefully realizing it's not a bad movie at all it just has a bad title and not even a bad title but a humorous one that might throw you off but somehow death bed still fits into the bad category with a vibe that's somber and empty death bed is a true masterpiece of low budget horror reserved only for those fortunate enough to appreciate such a dark shadow of a vision br br death bed involves an incoherent yet intriguing relationship between a demon in the bed and the sympathetic ghost trapped in the portrait who only wishes he could spare someone from the awful fate of being devoured by the yellow suds although not all that scary considering it's about a killer bed death bed possesses the qualities that make for successful horror a dark desolate vibe confusion an eerie subtle score and that dream quality that this masterpiece almost flaunts such a quality or vibe usually seems unintentional not only is it intentional but from what i've read death bed is based on an actual dream george barry the director successfully transferred dream to film only a genius could accomplish such a task br br old mansions make for good quality horror as do portraits not sure what to make of the killer bed with its killer yellow liquid quite a bizarre dream indeed also this isn't quite the brand of b horror i was expecting considering the title and all before viewing this gothic gem i expected something more like class reunion massacre now thats a bad movie if you've seen it you know what i'm saying after considering all of the above i feel like death bed deserves only eight stars but since it stayed so obscure for so long we'll say the bed that eats deserves nine
1	george barry's death bed the bed that eats is at root a dark fairy tale told via a horror movie framework it is in my opinion one of the best films of the 1970s and it's downright criminal that the picture was basically stolen and distributed without barry's knowledge those responsible for this theft should be fed to the bed asap if you're looking for overt gore or rabid action death bed the bed that eats isn't the flick for you death bed is a gentler weirder drive in picture it plays like an utterly strange dream half remembered i'd recommend reading stephen summation of death bed in fab press book nightmare usa he describes the movie's vibe perfectly whether intentional or not i've noticed shades of death bed in everything from the phantasm films to michele soavi's cemetery man to the magic realism slipstream fiction of authors such as kelly link barry is an original and in a fair world i'm sure he would've followed death bed with a number of fantastically bizarre films
1	watching death bed the bed that eats is like waking up in the hospital two days into a suicide br br watch disorienting but oddly stimulating there are few cinematic equivalents to this disturbing yet often humorous lesson in mythology morality and surrealist ideology br br cocteau's blood of a poet and maya br br experimental works evoke a taste of the strange atmosphere found in death bed a close comparison are the dark adult fairy tales by literary genius author angela carter the short disturbing stories of br br or e t a hoffman br br death bed has many recognizable elements of the br br past but displays a wholly unique and original storyline br br as a story death bed is an amazingly simple yet original br br vision something which only one in a thousand independent releases will manage to accomplish this unassuming film has its technical flaws but overcomes them all with a cast of beautiful non actors br br and lost creepy locations a true 1970s independent classic br br death bed also displays a unique subversive 3 dimensional personality a deep and continuous layering of dream images and ideas that lend it a fun house type of construct the passage of time told in flashbacks and historic time travelogues the bed with its sinister black humor the rich yet understated symbolism used within its imagery most pleasing is the image of aubrey the suffering artist forever trapped inside the frame of his own painting as he comments on and fondles with the murdered victim offerings gifted to him as love offerings by the demented spirit a sick refrain and wonderful element metaphor for the trapped artist nothing but the weirdest in poe or can equal that br br anyone who values the spirit of independent cinema and craves the multi layered symbolist experience or craves the surrealist concept of convulsive br br beauty and the gothic horror leanings of low budget exploitation film making will dig this totally unique vision a simple and fun film with deliciously deep psychic undercurrents highly recommended
1	i can honestly say that death bed the bed that eats was a much better movie than i expected allow me to clarify the plot in case the title of the film is a little too vague there is a bed that eats an evil bed it eats people several unsuspecting women on an outing of some kind stumble across the sinister sack and ultimately fall prey to it's hunger the devouring process consists of a yellow foam soaking people into it's inner stomach acid all complete with chewing sounds this is a very strange cult flick and the only film from george barry who had forgotten he made it until word of mouth of it's newfound cult status got back to him and he decided to release it on dvd not a bad movie at all if you can look past the lousy acting and enjoy the hokey effects the most laughable being the guy whose hands are eaten off and he is left with only plastic looking skeletal fingers pretty dreamlike tone to it too coming across as very surreal and aberrant mainly the whole thing involving the artist behind the painting and the demonic back story of the bed if you like bizarre no budget oddball flicks than definitely seek out death bed
1	a large bed possessed by a demon eats people among other things i'm not making this up br br completed in 1977 and not officially released until it came to dvd in 2003 death bed the bed that eats is a movie whose plot is impossible to describe you most likely know of it thanks to patton excellent bit about it as well as stephen throwers essential book nightmare usa while watching it you wonder the following br br who is george berry and what drugs did he smoke inject snort before writing and directing this movie br br is this a horror comedy a combination of a horror flick and an art movie a weird prank being pulled on the audience br br what the hell am i watching br br death bed really defies any explanation i know that term is overused but it couldn't be truer than it is here this truly beggars description it is a horror comedy as well as art film horror hybrid but the whole thing is so surreal it must be seen the score sounds like the electronic bits from an old album the acting is terrible and disconnected from everything the direction is surprisingly competent and the movie at times feels like a jesus franco movie that is if his movies were intentionally funny br br in the end there really is no proper way to describe this movie lord knows i've tried but really few movies are as odd unique or mind boggling as this is see it but you've been warned this is also the only movie george berry has ever done he definitely left his mark on the exploitation genre with this i'll tell you that much
1	this is seriously one of the best low budget b movies that i have ever seen i am not one to stand up and cheer during a movie but this one was definitely worth it obviously the premise is that there is a bed that eats people well eats is a subjective term i guess it really secretes acid bubbles to suck the victims into itself and dissolves them in it's goodness the best part of this movie is that william russ is one of the main characters the typical family man actually started his career with this movie and an afro there is plenty of nudity in this flick so obviously not for the children but that should not deter anyone from seeing this movie it is my belief that everyone needs a little death bed in their lives at some point or other it's best to get it sooner than later
1	as roger corman has said in an interview low budget film making enables film makers to take chances on offbeat ideas well you'd be hard pressed to find a film that thrives on the offbeat as mightily as george barry's death bed the bed that eats br br the film does have a back story to it and it's an interesting one at that i'll forgo relaying any sort of details so you can hear them for yourself if you take a chance on watching it suffice it to say the title item of furniture has an insatiable hunger consuming the unwary with a bubbling yellow foam that dissolves its victims like acid br br death bed is an eerie haunting little flick that plays out its absurd premise in such a way that it transcends the usual assortment of schlock fare it occupies its particular dream world in such a way that it was possible for me to take it seriously it's a truly strange and unconventional horror flick it in exploitative ingredients there's some tasty dollops of female nudity and yet is also art albeit art with a completely skewed sensibility br br the special effects are not too bad for a film with a microscopic budget and barry gives the film a good and atmospheric midnight movie quality the acting from the cast is as uninspired as one could imagine although patrick spence thomas lends a reasonable amount of gravitas as the artist narrator and one definite point of interest is seeing one familiar face on hand future 'boy meets world' father william russ br br this film might not have even found the small cult following that it does have were it not for pirated copies making the rounds this certainly has to rank as one of the instances where such a practice ultimately ended up helping the film even if the exposure took years to take hold br br if you have a taste for truly bizarre obscure items death bed may be just what you've got in mind br br 7 10
1	death bed the bed that eats br br judging from the title you can guess what this movie is about and yet there is a lot more background story to this film then one might suspect br br okay so the main plot is about a bed eating people and food but there are also a few subplots i won't spoil them for you but they're a nice touch br br sadly the acting in this movie is very mediocre the fact that most dialog is not even spoken by the actors doesn't really help to improve the quality of the movie as a whole br br because there is a lot of voice over work the thoughts of characters are also revealed to the watchers sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't br br the effects are fine sure it could be a lot better if you compare it with today's movies but you really shouldn't just judge the movie as it is and don't take it too seriously you have to admit that a killer bed is quite creative if you are easily spooked don't watch this movie you might never want to sleep again br br death bed the bed that eats is a strange horror gem with a low budget but i'd still recommend it to fans of horror movies br br in conclusion i give this movie a 7 out of 10 stars for it's creative story and unexpected twists here and there
1	i watch a lot of movies a lot of movies getting a graduate degree in film forces one to watch 2 3 flicks a day for years it all gets very exhausting mostly because i feel i have seen it all so rare is it when i get surprised by something mostly i hope to see something as good as i expect it to be br br death bed is so unlike anything i have ever experienced i actually had to stop the dvd in order to rant about its genius br br the rhythm of the piece is psychotic it's structured in a way that forces the viewer to stay outside of the frame it's not like something like halloween with all its snappy editing and pov shots death bed actually comes across as kind of dreamy the most pretentious way i can phrase it is this is samuel beckett making a haunted house movie i mean it's a manic depressive bed that eats people and fried chicken out in the middle of nowhere and there's bone hands i can barely articulate my feelings about this film and yeah copping to liking this will open you up to ridicule but things get real same y after awhile its hard to be a cinephile and consistently stay engaged i can honestly say this is a fully unique film up and down from what it is to how its put together we need films like that movies that shake us out of our complacency consider it like existential camp it's fun and it's stupid but also brilliant in its weird little way the worst horror villain of all time maybe but at least it isn't a guy in a mask
1	i do love b horror films i however am generally not a huge fan of so stupid it's funny films i had to rate this so highly simply because death bed the bed that eats is so one of a kind and so original there are plenty of question marks plenty of plot holes and the wtf factor is cranked up to 11 but i was really not bored for a second i really couldn't call it creepy at any point every minute i was saying to myself what the hell is this bed film going to do next i watched this with a friend that is in no way a fan of horror or b movies and even she was pretty into it the effects were actually very inventive and the colors and atmosphere were quite good it keeps a very consistent and even tone throughout most of the film albeit an incredibly ludicrous consistency and the acting wasn't terrible i can see from the point that there are certain inconsistencies in the actions of the bed that make the suspension of belief damn near impossible but the film itself was such a unique and bizarre concept that that fact didn't really bother me seriously for me this film hit that realm of one i will not only never forget but i guarantee i will find myself thinking back on certain scenes in the future does anyone else know of any other films in the inanimate objects that eat people genre totally fantastic
1	it's almost impossible for me to sit down and write a conscientious review of three colors red without letting people in on some of the ideas that has explored in the previous two entries to this fascinating trilogy the more i see them and think of them and imagine myself in their world the more i get its theme that we are more linked to each other than we would want to think ourselves and all it takes is a little hand of fate to set some events in motion in blue juliette binoche played a grieving widow whose plan to live her life without connections to the past had her meet someone unexpected in white an act of cruelty spawns an unlikely friendship between two men who will against the odds conspire to bring the perpetrator to justice and full circle and now in red all the elements of fate and apparent coincidence apply themselves into the meeting of a young model and a retired judge who has a habit of prying into other people's lives br br this young girl is appropriately named valentine a luminous irene jacob who has this radiance about her and even smiles openly while working the runway not that she is without some baggage she has a boyfriend unseen who also demands to know what she is doing at all times she has a brother who troubles her and she rejects the advances of a photographer who is working on her image for a huge billboard she strikes a dog while driving and nurses her back to health but when she takes her to the owner a retired judge jean louis he does not want her i want nothing he coldly says and elements of blue suddenly reveal themselves as this arrogant man who also lives in anonymity and apparent free floating freedom conducts surveillance on unsuspecting people this male version of juliette binoche's character at first shocks valentine she states she can only feel pity for him as she walks away in horror but a chance event has her back at his place and here is when he begins revealing who he is and his great loss br br at the same time is unfolding a parallel story the story of a young man auguste jean pierre about to become a judge and who lives right across the street from valentine but they keep missing each other chance is the word like valentine winning the jackpot at the grocery story she visits elements of chance pepper her life and he has a girlfriend who also supplies people with reports about the weather one of them happens to be the old judge he knows more about her than auguste does and he's never met her like god or prospero he is slowly creating a storm which will crack the walls of this present state of conformity and bring a new meaning to the expression we meet again it's this parallelism between the old and young judge that makes red so beautiful and transcendent because time is in reality a lot more fluid than we would like to deem it there are people whom we meet in life that if only we had been born in similar time frames so many things would be different br br such is the case with valentine and the old judge i believe that there is definitely a strong fraternity of souls tying them together in a tight bond she is that woman whom he did not meet by chance or not and is whether he knows it or not trying to make amends hence why he goes to the great risk of revealing his surveillance and becoming the social outcast but it doesn't end there one of the many links between the three movies is the character of an old woman walking to a large garbage container where julie did not see her and would not have helped her anyhow and fresh from his public humiliation sneers at her thinking someone is worse off than i am valentine is the one who helps her frailty in need can happen anywhere and even applies it here in a minor character br br now red is so much more than a story valentine the old judge auguste even rita the dog these aren't characters confined by storytelling an american version would ruin the idea and commercialize chance encounters and even bring forth a dumbed down ending red is so devoid of a linear defined plot that anything could happen to any of these people and the possibilities that this story could have veered off in so many directions had one crucial element not taken place at the exact moment and place br br adding to the concept of characters who mirror each other despite time frames or location is the theme of sexual betrayal this is also an important and character defining element in all of the three films in blue julie's husband had a mistress and she also betrays olivier when it's become clear she's emotionally dead in white dominique has listen to her moan over the phone which becomes an important device in red as she has sex with a man while the billboard of contempt looks on in red the old judge's tale of love and betrayal gets re enacted and all this time valentine's billboard image looms over them like a of what is to come at the same time that rita the dog valentine's car struck bears seven pups life renewed for the six major players in this complex trilogy obviously filmed with care and love why do i say six you'll have to watch the movie and wonder
1	this film plunges headlong into the realm of the surreal à la lynch and jodorowsky with an atmosphere that is strangely compelling lulling the viewer with the dream like intensity of its images br br the narration is to be savoured the narrator being trapped behind a painting adjacent to the bed who often speaks for it vocalizing its desires and reasoning yes beardsley would sound like that br br there are some flaws but its strengths overwhelm its weaknesses the sequence with the woman wrenching herself out of the bed and crawling across the floor trying to escape will leave you breathless br br the film possesses a fin de siecle air about it and should be read as a disarming cry from the bowels of the 20th century br br find this film and bathe in it
1	death bed the bed that eats is a supremely bizarre horror film that truly has to be seen to be believed there is an ancient four poster bed that just loves to eat humans and it does so anytime it can lure anyone to lie upon it there is also a long dead artist imprisoned behind one of his paintings who provides a voice over narration george barry's the first and only one film offers some truly surreal moments such as the bed absorbing its victims in a mysterious sea of yellow foam and liquid the atmosphere is dreamy and there is only a little bit of gore unfortunately the premise is rather silly and the acting is amateurish still as fan of unusual cinema i enjoyed this low budget oddity give it a chance 8 out of 10
1	george barry is a genius death bed the bed that eats is a prototype for much of the fiction and camp surrealism that is so chic now truly innovative maverick and just effing brilliant hyper strange acting subtly nightmarish atmosphere i recommend reading stephen book nightmare usa there is a chapter devoted to barry and death bed the bed that eats available from fab press on a related note death bed the bed that eats and beyond dream's door make a perfect double bill furthermore it's trite and tired and ultimately stupidly ironic to criticize a low budget cult film for being made' or inept ' the b movie aesthetic is part of these films' charm no amount of cgi could duplicate the cumulative effect death bed the bed that eats has on the viewer with an advanced palate
1	a demon from a tree removes itself in the form of a human man to make love to a young fair maiden only for her to die the demon's eyes freeze two drops of blood fall onto a bed he had specially created for his object of desire the bed consumes the blood and it's hunger remains anything that comes in contact with the bed is consumed this is explained to us by one of the victims a painter whose soul is trapped inside one of his last works the artistic rendering of the his final resting place he was dying of consumption coughing up blood deciding to die on the death bed you see the painter who we are able to see as if he were trapped in a small room looking through his painting unfortunately a spectator to the meals the bed has a dark sense of humor and we see this through it's allowing the painter to live even giving him jewelry and other possessions once owned by eaten victims one victim's skull grows bright red flowers not far from the basement housing the bed the film features three young women who come across the mansion which holds the basement containing the death bed the painter dave marsh might just have a method to destroying the death bed but it will include a human sacrifice in order to resurrect the body of the one whose death caused it's hunger in the first place patrick spence thomas provides the soft depressing voice of the trapped painter narrating the film lamenting about his current situation telling us about past victims and often scolding the bed of it's predatory nature br br a definitive genuine cult film i expect it's status to soar now that death bed the bed that eats has found it's way to an audience such as myself who appreciates the bizarre and grotesque the bed itself contains a liquid type of acid with an apple cider hue where we see the objects and humans struggling for naught consumed many might recognize a young william russ boy meets world the unholy in curls seeking after his runaway sister finding her in the basement zombie like and traumatized of course julie ritter pretty much was this way the whole film in a trance barely uttering a word with them both trapped in one of the film's most demented scenes russ attempts to stab the bed only for his hands to get caught in it's grip the flesh with only skeletal bones remaining the cartilage deteriorating there's one attempted escape by a victim whose legs were caught in the bed almost out of the basement when it's sheets snatched her back into it's belly where she belonged the film feels almost completely surreal as if we were watching a macabre nightmare unfold director george barry often features gags regarding the victims who find themselves in the most unfortunate position choosing the death bed as their place of refuge the painter gives us a recollection of all the various people who were eaten there's really nothing like this movie anywhere it's definitely one of a kind
1	hmmmm i'm kinda at a loss here i mean i know i liked death bed i know i'll be spreading the gospel of death bed to all my friends and acquaintances and if you're reading this i urge you to see death bed but i can't really say why perhaps that's the secret of its charm br br plot well sort of there's this bed that eats people and fried chicken apples flowers suitcases and any other darn thing that gets near it by sucking them inside its digestive fluid filled mattress amongst its near limitless powers bed has the ability to keep the spirit of aubrey beardsley trapped behind a picture to observe and narrate the events of the film various people then wind up at abandoned mansion habit of eating anything that moves gave the place an unsavory reputation and lay down to have sex or take a nap or because they don't feel well and get eaten sometimes having trippy dreams first and in the end we have the explosive final confrontation between beardsley mom you had to be there and bed br br seems rather straightforward when i put it like that doesn't it well except for the aubrey beardsley part but something feels constantly off kilter and the story seems to glide from one scene to the next even when indulging in cheap laughs or strange gore effects imagine crossed with bergman then left to soak in a big vat of herschell gordon lewis the tone of the story shifts from horror to fairy tale to comedy to existential meditation without breaking stride an incredible achievement for a no budget student film shot in the detroit area br br all in all an astounding little film that quite probably no review can ever completely do justice see it for yourself
1	ok it's easy not to confuse this with the lame stuart gordon movie called death bed that came out a few years back because this one is the bed that eats and how do i even begin to describe this well for starters obviously there is a bed that eats this is as a result of demon which of course affect most things i guess in a negative way the bed is in some old servant's quarters or something and has been responsible for the disappearances of quite a few people in its time we have a narrator who is a ghost that sits in the wall behind a painting and collects all the non edible goodies jewelry etc that the bed passes on he died of consumption one of the few people to lay in the bed that didn't get eaten probably because he was sick he as we see him hacking blood into hankies bleah the thing about this movie is that is has a very odd sense of humor to it but it's all played pretty deadpan the movie is divided into several acts i guess breakfast lunch dinner just desserts for fans of the unfathomably weird and bizarre well this may just be right up your alley all i can say is you have to see this one to believe it it pretty well defies description 8 out of 10 stars
1	i'm not sure what i can add that hasn't already been said in some of these other fine and quite hilarious comments but ill try br br so you know the plot there is a bed possessed by a demon that absorbs and selectively disintegrates the bodies of whoever or whatever lays on it with its orange soda filled body we have the man in some scenes looking uncannily like robert smith of the cure hanging out inside the wall commenting on the goings on and we have our various victims that just cant resist the comfort of this mystical bed br br this is no ordinary bed no bob not only does it eat people but it cleans up after itself draws the covers back and it even makes itself who wouldn't want a bed like that it can even use its sheets as a rudimentary lasso to wrangle escaped victims back in especially if they're taking up half the length of the film to try and escape br br our main story if you can call it that is about these three girls who go out to this remote area to house sit i don't recall exactly but it doesn't really matter though as there are plenty of things that defy convention that you just have to give in and accept the dialogue in the film is like no other the characters talk to each other seemingly by telepathy as their mouths never seem to move and there is a constant echo one of our girls believes she isn't liked by the rest of the gang and makes sure to tell us all her feelings on this matter through an echoey voice over but we don't care character development was thrown out the window a long time before in this film so why start now there are scenes when the bed laughs crunches and makes various other noises that we assume judging by our cast's non reaction to said noises cant be heard this and the telepathy makes the issue of very difficult to ascertain but thats ok this is death bed the bed that eats and it defies all logic so its ok it makes for a lush dreamy quality to this most bizarre film if you buy hehe buy did i say buy this dvd make sure to check out the introduction by the director he explains that the filming of this flick started in 1972 didn't wrap up until 1977 he shopped it for a few years with no luck and then fast forward 26 years to 2003 it gets released on dvd supposedly someone somewhere had a print of this in some other country and made bootleg after bootleg of it and it was quite by chance on a message board no less that our director found evidence that people knew and gasp cared about his little known film its from there that he decided to give it a shot and release it i'm glad he did once you've even so much as heard the title to this film you must see it i for one am going to buy this and i'm going to preach its gospel around the world starting with this comment
1	it's really rather simple the name of the movie is death bed the bed that eats if you are anything like me you already know if you are going to like this movie i stumbled across this gem at best buy the other day and picked it up for ten bucks i got ten bucks worth of enjoyment out of the title and the box alone br br i'm a huge fan of b movies this is in my opinion one of the greatest b movies i've ever seen now it's not for every one br br granted it's not even for most people as a matter of fact i suspect their are only going to be a handful of us who truly enjoy this movie br br for those of you who like b movies though this film is a diamond in the rough it has a great premise a bed that people it doesn't walk it doesn't move it doesn't have a siren call to attract people it pretty much relies on people wandering by and sitting on it br br i loved every inch of this movie and have already seen it three times in the scant weeks i've owned it br br like i said after reading the title of the film you already know if you'll like it if you laughed or smiled then give it a go it's worth it
1	everything about this movie is perfect the set design the acting the camera movement the mood the colors everything you'll be hard pressed to find a better movie easily the best film generated in the last 35 years keep an eye on michael
1	this is a great film with an amazing cast crispen glover is at his freakiest his guitar solo is amazing also watch out for a cameo by william burroughs truly a cult classic this is on my top ten list don't miss this twisted film
1	brilliant aussie movie a little slow at the beginning but once it gets going you can't stop laughing when i originally saw the movie i vaguely knew the plot line as i am not sure if many people are aware that this movie is based on a true story and more so in particular the director and his mother obviously names have been changed i only knew this fact as the director is a friend of a friend of my family when i saw the movie somehow my kept it secret that we were to meet matthew newton after the screening such a nice gentleman except for a particularly nasty incident with his ex casting as well with sam neill and others a great reason to keep supporting the australian film industry
1	a boy who adores maurice richard of the montreal receives much to his horror a toronto maple leafs sweater in the mail i recently watched this in a class in which few of the students were interested in hockey but nearly everyone knew about maurice richard and the toronto montreal rivalry highly entertaining amusing and accurate
1	this film is on my top 20 comedies list this is a truly unique film to the reviewer who said i must be really missing something you are correct you are missing something if you don't have the kind of sense of humor this film requires that's one thing but don't give it a bad review because you think it's looney but isn't intended to be loony is an apt description of both what it intends to be and what it succeeds in being i laughed much more often and much more intensely at this film than i do at most other funny films br br michael almereyda brought out the best in his cast in this his first big film for which he was nominated for an independent spirit award for best first feature crispin glover as usual is absolutely brilliant in some perfectly inexplicable way and some of his very funniest lines ever were said in this film glover is clearly the best comic actor working right now harry dean stanton puts in an excellent comic performance william burroughs is incredible in a small role dylan mcdermott was ideally cast and lois chiles is completely excellent br br all of the above are perfectly funny in their own perfect way but this is one of crispin's finest performances up there with his performances in river's edge and willard if you are a crispin glover fan but have somehow overlooked this film you need to stop whatever it is you're doing and see this immediately br br but just remember to relax first and maybe have a beer or something this is a great film but it is very unusual and i recommend being in or inducing an appropriately silly state of mind before viewing
1	i recently rented twister a movie i'd seen several years ago on tv and it has aged well i found myself laughing out loud several times at it and as weird as all these people are by the end i profoundly cared about them this is the sort of little movie that is made for a cult audience because rather like well i think that's what it is it's an acquired taste you have to be attuned to its peculiar wavelength the production values might be charitably called inexpensive and the pace and atmosphere take a while to get settled but the film has a look especially in some wonderful shots contrasting the dry flatness of the land with the opulence of the mansion interior michael almereyda had a good eye even then life with magnate eugene cleveland harry dean stanton and his household two adult children a grandchild and a housekeeper seems so detached from life outside we could be in everyone in this film is wonderful especially suzy amis and crispin glover as the directionless genius siblings maureen and howdy inhabiting their roles so comfortably after a while you just buy the strange premise that somehow having survived the tornado and being apparently incapable of happiness these people are lucky and yet don't know quite what to do with their luck there are some truly great scenes eugene's sudden confrontations first with his gold digging children's tv host girlfriend virginia an pert lois chiles then with his children william s burroughs taking target practice in the barn and telling a story about a mysterious jim maureen's boyfriend chris proving himself by battling a shed full of wasps cloaked in a tablecloth and and old fedora howdy violet maureen and chris all sitting on the couch the latter three in appropriately lightweight summer garments the former in a red blazer and black leather rock'n'roll gear staring at images of deserts on the huge tv and contemplating the future the images were done by bill viola who did the backdrop video installation for nine inch last tour crispin glover is predictably magnificent as howdy as always he remains perfectly in character howdy has made a cult of his misery and brilliance he's like the oscar wilde of kansas striving to live up to his red velvet suit whether he's thrashing away yet loudly on an electric guitar cracking a bullwhip while wearing an all black cowboy outfit demolishing a room or even doing simple things like driving or pouring the aforementioned soup from a blender pitcher he's mesmerizing if you like his work you'll like this
1	this is a tv movie based on the murder of martha in greenwich in the mid 1970's based how much on truth it's hard to tell this much is certain it is based on the book written by mark anyway the movie depicts the crime in flashbacks and its aftermath including the arrest of a suspect some 25 years after who was never considered a suspect at the time in the movie of course is largely responsible for the arrest and closure of the case for martha's surviving family in particular her mother the narrative of the film is by the ghost of martha talking in the first person this is a very effective device in this movie to me it adds more impact to the movie and puts a human face on the murder victim if only an actress playing the part maggie grace plays martha and i was really impressed with her there is no way for certain to know mark motive in investigating the crime it could have been out of a sense of justice and maybe he really cared or maybe he just saw dollar signs from a future bestselling book either way it makes for an interesting movie it's well acted and fairly fast paced i don't think there was a lot of extra unnecessary stuff in the movie just what was needed to tell the story one could argue that they left out things that would have shed a bit more light on the proceedings and one would be right also one may argue that the ending was abrupt and again one would be right but as i said for me i think they told the story with at least most of the essentials anything else would have likely required a miniseries as an aside there is a miniseries entitled a season in purgatory which came out 6 years 1996 which this movie has some parallels to even if only faint however if you like this movie then you may be interested in a season in purgatory it is my belief that a season in purgatory is in fact a fictionalized account of the same crime anyway for me murder in greenwich is an 8 10
1	if you like detective and police shows and you like suspenseful movies then you will love this movie this movie is great christopher meloni has amazing acting skills you may think you know who the killer is in the beginning but you don't this movie is about the true story of the murder of martha watch the movie
1	i was quite impressed with the narration by martha and how it pulled on the emotional heartstrings of the audience as well as how it must have impacted the family the forward backward motion of the storyline was well done and normally i don't enjoy movies with the flash back flash forward effects i felt during the whole evolution of the movie that surely tommy did it it leaves you with a sense of how these people lived their lives almost totally devoid of each other and the consequences of not having any desire to answer the question it's 10 o'clock do you know where your children are and furthermore what the heck are they doing or do i care rich spoiled brats literally getting away with murder or so they thought
1	too bad they showed palm trees that could not be more inaccurate for connecticut in october this was filmed in new zealand this martha case had been for 20 25 years her family worked hard to keep it alive and when mark decided he did not want to be remembered only for his involvement in the nicole simpson case which could have been to his reputation if it already hadn't anyway he followed along as the police tried to get enough information to write a book with the use of flashbacks we can see the relationships martha formed unattended boys coming of age without a mother around to help and a dad who was always looped br br plus the fact that they portray the real martha as if she were a movie star she was a cute sweet girl next door type other than that the other characters were really great especially jon foster and toby moore who played as michael and tommy respectively they were good as well the costumers had to keep it all in the 70s look and back up to the 90s br br it kept my interest even when i caught on about the guy
1	this great tv movie told of the 1975 murder of martha in greenwich connecticut by a nephew of ethel kennedy the use of the ghost of martha to provide some of the details was very effective and added a lot of heart to the story christopher meloni seemed to capture the personality of mark very well who got so much underserved bad publicity in the o j simpson trial has certainly vindicated himself by his contribution of bringing the killer to justice after about 27 years
1	i thought this movie was excellent jon foster is one of my top favorite actors he was perfect as micheal i found everything about it to be great acting costumes production directing photography script and music etc br br spoilers coming up you have been warned br br martha who they had tell the story in the movie was bludgeoned to death by her violent troubled neighbor micheal micheal did this out of jealousy of his brother tommy when martha rejected him and took tommy instead thankfully though they caught him years later and he was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison although i think he should have been sentenced to natural life without the possibility of parole br br kudos to the cast crew and filmmakers two thumbs way up
1	in 1974 the teenager martha maggie grace moves to the high class area of belle haven greenwich connecticut on the mischief night eve of halloween she was murdered in the backyard of her house and her murder remained unsolved twenty two years later the writer mark christopher meloni who is a former la detective that has fallen in disgrace for perjury in o j simpson trial and moved to idaho decides to investigate the case with his partner stephen weeks andrew mitchell with the purpose of writing a book the locals squirm and do not welcome them but with the support of the retired detective steve carroll robert forster that was in charge of the investigation in the 70's they discover the criminal and a net of power and money to cover the murder br br murder in greenwich is a good tv movie with the true story of a murder of a fifteen years old girl that was committed by a wealthy teenager whose mother was a kennedy the powerful and rich family used their influence to cover the murder for more than twenty years however a snoopy detective and convicted in disgrace was able to disclose how the hideous crime was committed the screenplay shows the investigation of mark and the last days of martha in parallel but there is a lack of the emotion in the dramatization my vote is seven br br title brazil not available
1	i'd heard of the case but hadn't really paid attention during the whole hoopla of writing the book being arrested etc however this movie did an excellent job of detailing martha the brothers the murder mark involvement and the results of his investigation i especially liked the flashback scenes with martha talking about her last summer the actress who played her literally glowed with life and made it even more poignant that the real martha was probably like that it made martha seem like a real person rather than a victim i'd definitely recommend watching this
1	i saw this film purely by chance it was shown very late or more correctly very early one morning on television i had woken up and was having trouble getting to sleep and this film came on br br it deals with a subject covered many times elsewhere it certainly isn't as good as educating rita despite a couple of additional twists and has a very predictable ending br br despite its very obvious shortcomings i did enjoy the film and this was thanks to the acting of some of its players rather than the story or the piece as a whole br br i am a big fan of sam neil and have seen him in many different films including dead calm the piano sirens children of the revolution event horizon man and the ubiquitous jurassic park he was very good but he could have played this part with his eyes shut br br some of the acting was in my opinion dreadful rose byrne for example and some of the elusions were rather heavy handed all the board woman in empty lives all dressed totally in white for example br br however two actors who i hadn't or don't remember seen before impressed me a lot as frances frank kennedy and especially matthew newton as her son david he in particular was very convincing and i would like to see a lot more of him
1	having seen this without knowing all the hoopla surrounding the lead character indeed without even knowing that it was based on real life events i must say i am impressed murder in greenwich is an above average production for a made for tv movie the acting is uniformly great christopher meloni in particular putting in a stand out performance and the teen actors excel in what are difficult roles the idea of the dead girl narrating the movie is a stroke of genius which elevates the movie from merely good to excellent the script is exemplary for what is essentially movie of the week fodder and the cinematography is beautiful
1	yes it is a bit cheesy but it's suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorites there are some excellent actors in the film and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters it's interesting to see david soul in a 'bad guy' role i thought he was quite believable and rather chilling as the ever more paranoid co robert conrad is a long time favorite i think he brings his character to life very well and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i've watched movies or tv br br i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i got is such poor quality it's difficult to fully enjoy it this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldn't be universally sought after but i'm sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version i'll keep hoping
1	it's interesting that someone made a comparison of the fifth missile to the star trek episode it should be pointed out that the original star trek tv episode in which the crew of the enterprise undergoes a space madness while orbiting planet si 2000 is entitled the naked time not the naked now the naked now refers to the first regular star trek the next generation episode in which the enterprise d encounters a science vessel this episode though does refer to and is based on the naked time original series one br br now to the firth missile while the reactions of the crew in the star trek episodes were based on those similar to alcohol intoxication the crew's condition on board the montana was caused by a much more serious situation namely the paint emitted by the faulty bulkhead finish there are few places where such a reaction could have more serious consequences than among a crew who has responsibilities as serious as a crew on a ballistic missile submarine and of course this is what makes the film so suspenseful and such a thriller the plot is very believable at the same time this film along with crimson tide the day after by dawn's early light the hunt for red october ice station zebra and many other similar movies give us much insight into how easily things could go wrong and just how easy it could be for a nuclear holocaust to begin thankfully such an event has not occurred and god willing such an event will not happen
1	maverick director seijun suzuki finally was able to film his dream project princess raccoon and in a way it's lucky he didn't try this in the 1960's special effects and computer graphics certain made this sort of production easier to achieve than the old film matte technology would have br br some familiarity with japanese history and theatrical traditions will help with the enjoyment of this film much as familiarity with shakespeare's the tempest would help with peter greenaway's dense prospero's books these two films actually have a bit in common although princess raccoon is much more colorful and easier to watch for someone without the background to fully appreciate it br br while the art design acting and direction are fine for most of the film it seems to this viewer that the energy runs out in the last third of the film most of the interesting sets have been already been introduced and the camera seems to step back for more of a filmed stage play experience br br this is certainly a unique film experience and i recommend it to anyone who is interested in alternate forms of film performance it's not really meant for children although nothing happens that would upset them if the last third was better i would have given it nine stars
1	i use princess raccoon to give the film its not quite accurate english title as a litmus test for my friends' sense of humour it either leaves them cold and baffled as it clearly did several other commentators on this site or results in doubled up laughter huge grins and occasional gasps of admiration br br the laughter comes from the film's consummate mixture of parodies in contemporary style targets include a bouquet of japanese and western classical stage drama forms from kabuki to late shakespearian and spanish renaissance christian fantasy the naff vacuity of the modern american and european musical as witness a host of random tap and rap dance songs and some very funny banal lyrics all choreographed with loving amateur cliché japanese anime and samurai live action clichés portentous buddhist ritual and the overweening sweetness of viennese operetta i've not laughed out loud so much at this type of film since ken russell's outrageous musical deconstruction in the boyfriend br br the grins come from the clever textual subversion of the japanese legend told in a traditional 5 act structure reminiscent of the plays of the 17th century master as in his work the narrative is advanced in a mixture of song high flown poetry and low comedy relief here the pot broiling of the incompetent ninja ostrich by peasants under the illusion that he is a raccoon in human guise all of this somehow does hang together and even more remarkably does manage to engage the watcher's emotions through the of cultural references br br in truth princess raccoon wears its pan cultural garb with alluring lightness and that's where the gasps of astonishment come in visually again as with russell's masterpiece the film is a treat a riot of colour with its digitised backdrops of classical japanese images from screens and prints over the top costumes and stage sets mixed with some breathtaking live action sequences in summer fields and you'll love it or loathe it but there's no point chalk for being cheese and princess raccoon stands first and foremost as a wickedly funny as well as affectionate put down of our contemporary cultural vacuity in both east and west bravo
1	one hilarious thing i'll say off the top is i'm not the biggest suzuki fan i've actually seen a fair number of his works thanks to a retrospective the film festival had and i found his films just a wee too yakuza driven for my tastes so i went into princess raccoon wary of what i was going to see boy was i knocked out is suzuki's attempt at a musical using the elements of japanese opera mixed in with many modern elements both and visual raccoon is a treat from start to finish the lead actor joe proves that he's one of the hottest actors in japan these days in this role i have to admire that the younger japanese actors still take roles that take place in feudal times japan dressing up in samurai gear to full effect the story itself does get a bit confusing if you don't follow it really closely but even if you don't prepare yourself for the treasures that princess raccoon has
1	this movie takes the voice of terror and makes it better holmes is protecting an inventor in switzerland and is on the trail of professor moriarity who has become a nazi this is a better version of holmes in a wwii world rathbone does a great job with holmes as a spy and a detective see this if you liked the voice of terror
1	sherlock holmes films from the classic universal era tend to range in quality this range goes from very good to above average with none of their output being abysmal or astoundingly brilliant sherlock holmes and the secret weapon fits snugly into the middle ground quality wise and as ever it's an enjoyable outing that fans of the series like myself will enjoy very much this film sees holmes in the middle of a world war 2 plot by the evil nazi's to steal a swiss scientist's invention which could turn out to be a key element on the battlefield the world war 2 sherlock holmes films don't tend to be as good as the ones such as the scarlet claw where holmes is conducting private investigations as they're usually dogged by too much propaganda or a plot that is more to do with the war than the mystery this one however pretty much stays away from both and by putting the focus on holmes and his investigation the film works much better perhaps universal saw what brought down the earlier voice of terror and changed the focus because of that br br basil rathbone once again puts in an excellent maverick performance as the ace detective and while nigel bruce doesn't feature as much as normal it's nice to see him when he does the two don't spent much time together which is disappointing because their chemistry is always one of the best things about holmes films but this does allow more time for holmes to showboat in various disguises which is always lots of fun dennis lestrade is definitely my favourite of the secondary characters and while he's not as funny as usual his facial expressions are great and his presence helps to emphasise how great holmes is his scene with watson in a car following paint drops on the road is my favourite moment of the film it's good to see holmes' nemesis professor moriarty return even if it does seem like he's just been thrown in for the hell of it lionel atwill's performance isn't as good as george in the adventures of sherlock holmes as he never really convinces that he is indeed a brilliant mind but seeing him lock horns with the protagonist is fun and it's nice to see him in the film to offset the world war 2 themes which are never as interesting as holmes himself the film starts off as more of a thriller than a mystery flick but once it gets going it's hard to put down and this is a more than solid entry in universal's oeuvre
1	i watched two very different holmes adventures this morning but you would be amazed at the similarities br br the was presumably the first collaboration between basil rathbone if i were king romeo and juliet and nigel bruce and director roy william neill it was not their first sherlock holmes adventure as they did one a couple of years before this br br the made an excellent team but i prefer the hammer version which i will talk about later br br holmes relies on a lot of disguises to do his work and i am constantly amused by the mannerisms displayed when they figure something out they always seem to dash on when they find a new clue br br the story itself about keeping a bomb site from the germans in wwii was interesting and kept you focused on the mystery
1	a brilliant sherlock holmes adventure starring the brilliant basil rathbone and nigel bruce despite many other actors brilliantly playing holmes and watson and making a great job of it rathbone and bruce will always be the best two br br holmes takes a professor from switzerland to london is wanted by the nazi's he has a bomb sight that could win the second world war his bomb site has been split into four parts each hidden in books agrees to give his bomb site to the british government on the night of his arrival goes to the house of his girlfriend he has drawn some figures of men if was to disappear the lady was to give the drawings to holmes on his journey home he is attacked but a policeman stops this and the attacker runs away is happy for the british government to use his bomb site but refuses to give it to them wants to look after it the bomb site is split into four parts each part completely useless without the other he gives one part each of this bomb site to one of his scientist friends then holmes's greatest fear happens goes missing holmes visits the young lady was with the night he was attacked she tells him about the drawings the drawings have been stolen she says only one man came in during the time left to fix the light bulb the man she describes is professor moriarty he is working for the nazi's seen as he has the drawings holmes is done for but he finds the writing pad he used and using science he manages to see what drew by looking at the next page on the pad he sees it's code he sees it's the name of four scientists the first three he works out the code for but he can't work out the fourth the three scientists he has worked out have been murdered and the bomb site has been taken holmes can't work out the fourth scientist but neither can moriarty disguised as a sailor holmes manages to get in moriarty's office moriarty sees straight away it's holmes puts him in a box and has him thrown in the sea but watson and lestrade insist they search the box and find holmes in it it's now obvious moriarty is at large holmes manages to work out the fourth code a frederick holmes gets round to his house straight away and get and the decisive fourth part to safety holmes now needs to get moriarty charged for working with the nazi's he pretends to be moriarty works out the fourth code and gets two men to go round and get they take him back and he comes face to face with moriarty meanwhile is not in a good way he has been tortured and tortured to get the name of the fourth scientist moriarty has had it with holmes now he has got him and his death must be a long one for holmes the idea is to put him in his hospital put a needle in his vein and watch him die of blood loss drop by drop watson runs in and saves the day though moriarty gets away but holmes was only careless enough to leave moriarty's trap door open moriarty plunges sixty feet br br so moriarty dead no he makes his final outing in the film 'the woman in green' but in he is definitely dead a suicide he jumps off his roof it was moriarty's second of three appearances in the rathbone series a different actor playing him on each occasion his first appearance in 'the adventures of sherlock holmes' was played by george zucco his second in this film he was played by atwill and henry daniels plays him in his final outing in 'the woman in green' the first three holmes films made by universal were set in the war as holmes triumphs over the nazi's 'the voice of terror' was the first then this film and then 'sherlock holmes in washington' then it was back to times with definite relations to edwardian and georgian george the fifth and sixth times this film had a close link to the sherlock holmes short story 'the dancing men' which can be found in 'the return of sherlock holmes' a great film though obvious propaganda it was a brilliant holmes outing
1	a fantastic film featuring great aussie talent director mark dealt with the potentially sob inducing subject matter in a way which was humorous and refreshing definitely the highlight of the 2000 brisbane international film festival australian film veteran sam neill was as always fabulous in the role of frank's uni professor and new talent matt newton gave a performance which will have people saying you know bert newton matt's dad get out and see this movie
1	it's one of the paradoxes of basil rathbone's wartime anti nazi sherlock holmes films voice of terror sh in washington and this one that while the plots and settings are mostly terrible he is so good in them despite a bizarre wind swept hairstyle meant to make him look younger he blazes through every scene with so much bite and attack that you hardly register how flimsy the plots are here he also has great acting rapport with lionel atwill who makes a wonderfully repulsive professor moriarty a heavy cockroach with nice hints of sadism and depravity it may not have been acting kids at the climax changed into a lab coat in order to drain rathbone's blood drop by drop he's as over the top sinister as seinfeld's arch nemesis newman the movie itself is ancient kiddie matinée fare but it benefits from director roy william neill's attention to staging and atmosphere it also looks fairly sharp in the dvd's ucla restoration don't even think of buying any other edition all of them faded choppy public domain prints
1	basil rathbone and nigel bruce as sherlock holmes and dr watson respectively the second of the universal series where it's again established by means of a written prologue that the famed detective is legendary and spans time this helps to comfortably set things up here in the present era of the early 1940's br br in this offering holmes goes through a few different disguises with rathbone's very prominent features is it likely that people really wouldn't recognize his true identity as he protects a physicist from the hands of the nazis as well as from holmes' greatest nemesis professor moriarty now played by lionel atwill the scientist has developed a bomb sight which will greatly aid in aerial bombardment and he's promised his plans to the british but moriarty wants to get hold of it so he can sell them to the nazis br br a good entry boosted a bit by the participation of the properly villainous atwill now cast as moriarty though george zucco was no slouch himself in the adventures of sherlock holmes it's always intriguing watching holmes and his greatest enemy engaging in witty banter together the needle to the last eh holmes
1	beginning in 1942 the sherlock holmes character as portrayed by basil rathbone was set in the then 'modern' britain many holmes purists have praised the first two entries in the series produced by fox but dismissed the 12 features that followed i for one was never an avid reader and thus i appreciate these films as they are without any initial bias in fact the setting of world war ii for this entry places it as a period piece with the british propaganda evident throughout the film the execution of the modern holmes is handled with much more care than the previous entry sherlock holmes and the voice of terror and fares much better for two reasons first roy william neil is on hand to direct and would be for the rest of the series and second although holmes is pitted against the nazis the inclusion of professor moriarty makes this feel more like a battle of the intellect between two rivals lionel atwill's performance has been criticized by many as being far inferior to that of george zucco and henry daniel but i feel as if its more the script than the character interpretation especially after seeing that atwill was very capable of being much more diverse and enthusiastic in other horror roles basil rathbone on the other hand is exceptional in this entry he seems to be enjoying himself in the role of holmes but for that i blame the writing for example the introduction of holmes in the voice of terror tries to hard to immediately establish how superbly intelligent holmes is as soon as he is on screen whereas this film shows holmes' brilliant but also his shortcomings even in the climax holmes initially has the upper hand only to then have his blood slowly drained from his body now there are a few flaws in this film i thought i might point out first the opening aren't the germans fooled a little too easily maybe its just me but the book seller just waltzes into the bar says he's gonna get to not only answer his door after weeks of hiding but allow him to come in and then go for a walk with him what second certainly seems to put everyone around him in danger leaving the secret bomb parts with genius scientists leaving the note with his fiancé like what was he thinking he was endangering them all i thought he was this superb scientist trying to save england and isn't the whole concept of 'use it on them before they use it on us' a little harsh obvious propaganda third just how in god's name was holmes supposed to fit in the bottom of that chest its really small in fact the entire execution of holmes finding moriarty in the ex con disguise really doesn't explain itself that well i have seen this film well over fifty times and there are still parts like this that i find are executed in a very confusing fashion fourth okay so holmes finds out the first three scientists are dead then immediately assumes that moriarty couldn't know the name of the fourth man because he wasn't dead yet well if holmes didn't know the name then how could he assume that the guy could very well have been face down in a lake lucky guess fifth again with the confusion when holmes is supposedly dying on moriarty's operating table how can he recover so quickly he sure was acting like he lost a few pints of blood but not enough to stop him from saving the day now despite these flaws this is a highly entertaining film the disguises are well done the mystery of the dancing men is well done especially the back to back scenes of holmes and moriarty each figuring out they were over analyzing them and dennis as inspector lestrade is always a plus and as a final note the interrogation scene still kinda bothers me i always thought that was one of the most well done sequences in the whole film overall this film holds a special place with me as it was the one that solidified my rathbone as holmes obsession a classic 7 10
1	i liked this probably slightly more than terror by night though not enough to give it the extra the beginning is just brilliant as we peek in on nazi agents scheming to get their hands on a new bomb sight and its inventor in a small swiss village only to be foiled by a disguised holmes who spirits the scientist back to london once there he does everything he can to keep the scientist from falling into the hands of the man behind it all not hitler but worse holmes' arch enemy moriarty of course the scientist disappears leaving a tantalizing coded note and holmes goes in pursuit once again in disguise a climax in moriarty's dockside lair is suitably exciting and we can all guess that all ends well can't we slightly over the top patriotic message as the credits roll now that i think of it the fine sense of place despite the obvious sets rathbone's use of disguise and the way in which so much plot is crammed into just over an hour what the heck it gets that extra and is my favorite of the 5 rathbone bruce films i've seen to date br br watched on dvd part of the 50 mystery classics set from mill creek entertainment many of the transfers on these el cheapo box sets are of very poor quality but holmes fans take note that the rathbone bruce films there are 4 on this set are all quite watchable and reasonably sharp
1	basil rathbone and nigel bruce return as sherlock holmes and dr watson in this superior tale of holmes battling the 3rd reich and the mastermind genius of professor moriarty the film opens up in switzerland as holmes is in disguise as an old he must bring dr and the bomb site to england before the germans can kidnap holmes succeeds and the germans the evil professor moriarty manages to outwit scotland yard and dennis by kidnapping the only clue left by is a list of dancing men who will break the hidden code of dancing men holmes or moriarty first can holmes prevent the bomb site from falling into the german hands thereby saving england from the precision bombing techniques developed by bomb site watch and enjoy
1	this is a great late night movie what i mean by that is that i truly have enjoyed playing my 3 00 vhs copy now i have a 6 99 dvd copy many nights just before bedtime or if i have insomnia there's just something about this movie that makes it fun to watch in repeated viewings it could be the fun that basil rathbone has in the secret weapon wearing several disguises which fool the bad guys and holmes's assistant nigel bruce watson but not the housekeeper mary gordon it could be the espionage code cracking and ww ii theme it could even be the light touch which the director uses to handle the threatening situations holmes finds himself in while keeping the story moving whatever it is secret weapon is simply a pleasant and enjoyable detective story which takes us back to a time when the nazis were seeking world domination and does it with the bonus of the camaraderie between watson and holmes whether you agree with the patriotic speeches and noble save the world themes of this movie or not i think they are right on i find that they only add to the flavor and fun of this fine old adventure film that holds up to repeated viewings i rate it a pleasant 83 100 points
1	since others have complained about putting sherlock holmes into a contemporary setting i won't do that basil rathbone could have fit in in any era with that voice that savoir faire this is a nicely put together mystery based loosely on the dancing men one of the best of conan doyle's stories instead of the original plot it makes the men part of a nazi plot holmes becomes a spokesman for the british war effort his adversary is moriarity who seems to die frequently enough to rival the central figure in the friday 13th films he is certainly creative but the rathbone holmes is unflappable watson is just along for the ride in this one he isn't given much stupidity to spout in this film and that's a real plus the plot is complex enough to keep ones interest there is a concluding speech that is almost a parody of itself but then i can't be critical of a time and nation that was under great duress if they needed to call in holmes so be it
1	sherlock holmes basil rathbone and professor moriarty lionel atwill engage in a battle of wits for control of a inventor's newest bomb sight creation holmes wants to safeguard it for the british while moriarty isn't above selling out to the nazis br br while no doubt many fans will be disappointed to see holmes updated to the 1940s war time setting this particular film proves light hearted fun which doesn't wallow in wartime propaganda as it might well have done dennis inspector lestrade and nigel bruce's dr watson do tend to steal the show as their characters bumbling methods consistently provide delightful comic relief the sparring between holmes and is colorful and well thought out to boot atwill does well enough as moriarty even if he's not as memorable as some others who played the role br br while this provides nothing especially new or thrilling for fans of the series it is a wonderful escape from reality somewhat appropriate for 1942 in my opinion that mirrors many movie serial adventures of the 1930s and 1940s but boasts a more compact less repetitive plot and all this is done while still remaining true to the basic spirit of sherlock holmes
1	for the sake of propaganda during world war ii sherlock holmes was moved into the then present one of the results is sherlock holmes and the secret weapon starring a top holmes basil rathbone along with nigel bruce lionel atwill dennis and verne it is holmes' assignment to deliver a scientist dr franz william post jr and his weapon design to the british government before the germans can get him once the man reaches england however his troubles are just beginning can holmes decode the message dr left before falling into the hands of the vicious moriarity save the weapon and possibly the scientist too this is an effective holmes story set in the atmosphere of switzerland and blackout england the series worked just fine in the present day it was not without its problems but those problems had nothing to do with the time period whose idea was it to make watson an idiot nigel bruce's characterization aided and abetted by the scripts has always been the false note i much prefer the characterization of edward hardwicke in the jeremy brett sherlock holmes series there he's attractive intelligent and a believable companion for holmes in the rathbone series holmes is often condescending and treats watson like the bumbling fool that he is however in this particular film watson has a chance to be quite helpful in several parts br br i admit to being a complete sap for rathbone's recitation from richard ii this blessed plot this earth this england i can't imagine how much it meant to the brits watching the film in 1942 sherlock holmes really served his purpose
1	in the universal series of modern sherlock holmes stories with basil rathbone and nigel bruce sherlock holmes and the secret is not one of the top films although it is entertaining i think the problem with it is that much of the film's dueling between holmes and his nemesis moriarty here played by lionel atwill seems to delay the actual point of the professor's work br br moriarty appears in three of the holmes films with rathbone in the adventures of sherlock holmes he was played by george zucco who gave real relish to the love of villainy for its own sake to the role for my money performance as the professor was the best of the three there is even a brief moment of comedy in his performance when he's disguised as the sergeant of police towards the end like he's preparing to sing a policeman's lot from gilbert sullivan next comes mr atwill's performance here more of that later finally there is henry intellectual moriarty in sherlock holmes and the lady in green it's a typically cool classy performance by mr daniell but his confrontations with holmes seem to be a tedious bore to him they keep him from completing the main plan in the stories that the professor pops up in he really senses holmes is a nemesis who will remain a danger as long as he is alive yet because of the intellectual tennis match between him and rathbone rathbone in his autobiography actually felt daniell was the best of the film br br if zucco captured the love of evil in the professor and daniell seemed to demonstrate the tired oxford don in the stories the professor is a well regarded mathematician whose volume on the had a european vogue and who wrote an intriguing book the dynamics of the asteroid atwill demonstrates the professor as pragmatic businessman first of all he's sold his services apparently to nazi germany this is never gone into but one presumes as this is before the nazis began to really collapse he figures they will win the war secondly he is not a fool when dr william post jr has shown he is a state of near physical collapse due to the torturing of moriarty's gang the professor decides to kidnap one of the other scientists who are assisting because he's as good a scientist as and would be able to put together the bomb site i somehow can't quite see zucco making such a sensible decision on the spot and if daniell had to make it he would seem annoyed that there is yet another delay to his plans br br by the way one trick used in all the holmes series regarding the professor is how to rid the film of him if you read the holmes stories moriarty appears as the villain three times in the memoirs of sherlock holmes' last story the adventure of the final problem in the return of sherlock holmes' first story the adventure of the empty house and the last of the four novels novellas the valley of fear it's amazing how much mileage the professor got out of so few appearances he is mentioned in two or three other stories as well in passing but because of his fate at the falls in the final problem and the empty house we always see him fall to his death zucco falls off the white tower on tower hill daniell with more imagination tries to flee gregson and the police but is shot as he jumps and wounded fails to hold on to the wall of an adjacent building atwill here it is not seen but heard seems to fall down a trap door he's planted in an escape tunnel it is really tedious after awhile to see the professor always fall in these films one turns to the gene wilder comedy admittedly a comedy sherlock holmes' smarter brother wherein leo is a wonderfully wacky and villainous moriarty complete finally with an irish accent who is not killed at the end but just left mulling in a rowboat over how his careful schemes did not work out i rather liked that better br br the use of the dancing men code here like the use of the devil's foot root in dressed to kill snags a part of a mystery from a short story the adventure of the dancing men appeared in the return of sherlock holmes and deals with a client of holmes whose wife has been getting weird blood curdling messages in this code charles higham in his biography the adventures of conan doyle suggests sir arthur may have picked up the code from a magazine game in the 1870s but we really don't know the code is basically one of letter substitutions for the figures of the dancing men the story in the short story is dramatic but deals with a triangle the only innovation in the film is that makes a slight change that confuses both holmes and moriarty br br the film will entertain but i still think the house of fear the scarlet claw and sherlock holmes faces death are better films
1	the australian public and the australian film industry are often heard to complain that there are not enough great aussie films around or that they are all the same br br well in this case this film is not a carbon copy of other australian films it is unique it will make you laugh out loud it will make you cry and it will make you feel really good about yourself br br the casting of this film is superb and the acting is second to none the script and the photography colour light etc is wonderful but more important this is a great film i don't want to talk about the plot as i think it is always best to see a film knowing as little about it as possible suffice to say this film will appeal to a wide range of audiences take your girlfriend take your mum take your friends for a great evening out br br 10 10
1	dr franz a swiss scientist is smuggled out of his home country by sherlock holmes in order that the nazi agents spying him do not get his invention of a new bomb sight arriving in london he takes residence with holmes and watson but goes out for a visit with his girlfriend charlotte where he leaves a clue for holmes as to the locations of his bomb sight which he has divided into four pieces but holmes' eternal nemesis professor moriarity is also seeking the bomb sight to sell to the nazis and abducts dr and the clue left at charlotte's a code series of dancing men which both holmes and moriarity are both unable to decipher completely holmes eventually discovers the clue to the code and get the location of the fourth piece of the bomb sight but moriarity has the other three and a showdown is inevitable very good entry in the holmes series with plenty of mystery and guesswork to go about atwill's portrayal of moriarity is more sadistic than the cunning sort described in the doyle stories or george performance in the adventures of sherlock holmes but atwill's skills as an actor makes his moriarity quite the benevolent fellow the script and direction both make this entry more of a cat and mouse game between the two characters and that is one of the reasons this entry succeeds so well great job on the cinematography as well rating 8
1	not too bad entry in the series heavily with war propaganda but rathbone bruce's sincerity keep me happy br br it's a rather fantastic story from start to finish just how many are there holmes and moriarty independently reeling out the dancing men code so fast was amazing watson so why weren't you amazed the post explaining the bomb sight tickled me it was just the kind of cheap trick universal would play once again reminding me that they didn't expect people to be critically watching this over 60 years later this and i think every other potboiler from universal at this period were meant to be viewed the once or twice and forgotten they perhaps should have realised that basically people don't change that what was entertaining to ordinary people in 1942 would still entertain a select group now 2005 and tightened up on the script and sets br br lionel atwill was going through his hollywood rape court case at about this time i wonder if it was that or particularly effective make up that made him look so haggard as moriarty br br the important thing about sw though is that this was the first holmes film roy william neill directed i think he directed all of the rest and produced all but one thus establishing a marvellous ambient continuity
1	this outing concerns the usual battle holmes vs but this time in an effort to save the british war against the nazis sherlock holmes rathbone and watson bruce the detecting duo living in 223 baker street again are up against their old enemy dr moriarty lionel atwill the film starts in switzerland where holmes saves from the nazis to an inventor of a bomb sight named dr post back in london hand over four parts of the device to diverse scientist but doctor is kidnapped by moriarty sherlock must to solve his disappearance and some important holmes only holds a clue left his girlfriend kareen verne the detective with an extraordinary mechanism get decode it but dead body scientific are accumulating but have appeared murdered and moriarty knows the keys as well holmes disguised as sailor goes out to investigate finding the moriarty's shelter the picture is based the dancing arthur conan doyle this is a rathbone bruce effort for the wwii along with ¨the voice of in which we are asked to believe the magnificent detective could have lived in this century both stories are completely patriotic and flag waging movies in fact on the end there's an advertising buying of war bonds with evident propaganda br br the movie is an excellent holmes thriller with gripping wartime setting and unanswered mysteries and suspense in the film appear the from holmes series his nemesis moriarty mistress hudson inspector lestrade a funny dennis and of course the bumbling dr watson basil rathbone performance is splendid he's the best cinema's holmes similar to television's peter cushing and jeremy brett rathbone as whimsical sleuth is top notch he's in cracking form intelligent broody and impetuous he's finely matched in battle of wits with moriarty his arch enemy a first range villain lionel atwill nigel bruce plays watson with humor jinx goofy and mirth he's the perfect counterpoint of holmes besides appear briefly distinguished secondaries as paul fix and whit bissell this classic gets an atmospheric black and white cinematography but available colorized in a horrible version adequate music score fitting to suspense by frank skinner the motion picture is professionally r william o'neal the usual saga director and habitual in the monsters movies universal
1	sir arthur conan doyle wrote a fair number of sherlock holmes accounts but the popularity of the famous detective insured that sequels in both print and on film would extend far beyond the author's works br br in sherlock holmes and the secret weapon holmes basil rathbone serves british intelligence in order to secure a swiss scientist's desperately needed bombsight the film is from 1942 and i wonder if the producers and writers realized how vital bombsight secrets were the american norden bombsight was guarded almost as as the new radar sets that would change the course of world war ii br br holmes and his faithful but expectedly bumbling companion dr watson nigel bruce battle dr moriarty lionel atwill as evil as moriarty has always been it's a bit of a shock to see he's signed up with hitler has the man no vestige of decency i guess not but atwill is deliciously evil br br the story is reasonably fast paced as holmes and watson seek to recover stolen bombsight components before they can be delivered to a u boat rathbone is his usual suave self and several disguises are well carried out br br this and other 1940s holmes stories are now available on dvd and oldies com has put out a very nice four disc set in a wooden box this film is included along with a bonus cd of an interview with the aged doyle the set for about 26 in major dvd and cd stores but i found this and other sets from oldies com at a warehouse club for 14 98 the transfers are very good br br very nice and relaxing late night viewing br br 7 10
1	the evil professor moriarty plots to gain control of both sherlock holmes and the secret weapon which could win the war for the nazis br br basil rathbone nigel bruce return to the screen as sir arthur conan doyle's beloved detective and sidekick sherlock holmes dr watson in this entertaining little mystery universal studios wasted no money on either fancy production values or a sensible script knowing that its two stars would be all the attraction an audience would need indeed rathbone as the cerebral ego and bruce as the bumbling id seem to actually become the characters they are creating gleefully keeping their faces straight while engaged in the most utter nonsense br br dennis makes his first appearance as the dogged inspector lestrade of scotland yard teamed with bruce these two good hearted but pedantic fellows actually get to save the intellectually superior holmes' life twice lionel atwill a master of the sinister who deserves more recognition for his talent does a fine job as moriarty making the wicked rascal a foe worthy of holmes' steel relishing the scenes in which he gets to inflict torture pain br br william post jr and verne play the swiss scientist and his girlfriend who are at the heart of the mystery but they're not given much to do sweet mary gordon makes a token appearance as holmes' landlady mrs hudson br br rathbone spices up his already classic interpretation of holmes by getting to appear in disguise three times during the story thereby revealing to the viewer that the great sleuth was a bit of a ham actor at heart br br this film which is based very loosely on elements in sir arthur's short stories 'the dancing men' and 'the empty house' followed sherlock holmes and the voice of terror 1942 and preceded sherlock holmes in washington 1943
1	sherlock holmes basil rathbone and dr watson nigel bruce have been hired by the british government to protect a swiss scientist dr franz william post jr he has a bomb that the british want to win the war unfortunately the evil dr moriarty lionel atwill is working with the nazis and will stop at nothing to get the doctor and his invention br br moving sherlock holmes to the 1940s sounded like a stupid idea but it does work for one reason basil rathbone arguably he is the best sherlock holmes ever put on the screen he plays the character so well and accurately that it doesn't matter what era he's solving crimes as for nigel bruce as watson everybody has problems with it he plays watson as a bumbling old fool that is not the watson of the books you seriously wonder why holmes puts up with him still he does grow on you in a way then there's atwill having a whale of a time playing moriarty the discussions and battle of wits between him and holmes are just great i've never liked dennis as inspector lestrade he's such an idiot makes watson look like a genius and post jr is pretty good as even though his accent amusingly keeps changing br br this movie is done elaborately and runs only a little over an hour still it does have it's slow spots and i never understood the secret code section br br still worth catching if just for rathbone and atwill
1	sherlock holmes basil rathbone begins this story in disguise helping to smuggle famous physicist dr franz william post out of and under the watchful eye of the nazis who want his bomb sight plans the allies obviously want it too and sherlock is there to help dr has invented an instrument which greatly aids in the accuracy of aerial bombardment br br holmes and dr arrive safely back at baker street but the scientist would rather be alone for some mysterious reason although he had promised the english to help them not the germans he stays true to that promise but there are some desperate moments for holmes and the english along the way br br it's an entertaining film and one in which our famous detective uses not one but three different disguises he needs all the help he can get when he goes up against his arch rival professor moriarity one complaint if moriarity was that evil he would have dispensed with holmes without batting an instead of giving him openings to escape it's pretty sad too when the usual dim witted dr watson nigel bruce has to rescue his boss from certain death a couple of times br br yes there are some credibility issues in this story but if you can put your brain on hold a few times it's a fun film to watch and it looks beautiful thanks to the great restoration job done on this dvd it makes the old print come alive with some wonderful visuals particularly the night time shots br br one other note whoever did the english subtitles in here misspelled or misinterpreted at least a half dozen words it's very sloppy work and not the first time i've encountered this watching the entire series on the restored dvd set
1	do you like explosions how about fighting well this movie has both of those you know the other thing you can't have a movie without a kick ass motorcycle the type that bounces off someone's head and knocks them out at the same time you bet the has one there's even a classic cliff scene br br all in all i'm quite proud that i have even seen this movie and even prouder to have my review be the first one yes
1	i would like to start by saying i can only hope that the makers of this movie and it's sister film the intruder directed by the great unheralded stylist auteur that is know in their hearts just how much pleasure they have brought to me and my friends in the sleepy north eastern town of jarrow br br from the opening pre credit sequence which manages to drag ever so slightly despite containing a man crashing through a window on a motorbike the pitiless destruction of a silence lab the introduction of one of the most simultaneously annoying and anaemic bad guys in movie history and costume design that jean paul gautier would find ott and garish make no mistake this is a truly unique experience early highlight an explosion get used to it plenty more where that came from followed by a close up of our chubby heroine and the most hilarious line reading of the word dad in living memory and then the theme song br br yeah this deserves its own paragraph sung by aj written by people who really should wish to remain anonymous it makes the songs written for the rocky films sound like schubert this is crap 80's hero motivation narcissism at an all time high with choice lyrics such as its only me and you its come down to the wire and much talk of having to cross the line it'll make sense in time our hero cares little for the boundaries of bona police work abounding not to mention the indonesian supremes the film's title seductively at this point anyone wishing to switch off officially has no pulse br br our hero is semitic cop peter essayed brilliantly by intruder star peter o'brien the of the title the man's bull in a china shop approach to crime fighting and particularly his less than inconspicuous undercover work truly leaves much to be desired but he is without question an entertaining guide through the mean streets of downtown jakarta with local sleaze ball connection captain johnny in tow as well as peter's own waste of space partner in fashion crime sylvia nash who does little so many highlights so little time the slide please arrogance of peter's not all too convincingly argued case against chief baddie greg rainmaker intruder fans will know hirsute slimy bastard craig gavin as the monstrous john white helluva name eh no oh well the x marks the spot location map stupidity our hero taking horrible advantage of heroine tina during a moment of weakness on her behalf the latter turning up at a sting operation dressed like a member of a particularly flamboyant dancing troop and believe me that barely covers it br br there wasn't even time to go into the plot revolving around the hunt for a drug detection system and a kidnapped professor with an alarming but commendable amount of national pride or our hero turning up at a funeral dressed as if an extra on boogie nights or the absolutely hysterical between captain johnny and two guys have never made more heavy weather of buddy buddy shtick than these clowns the trowel was possibly too subtle me thinks br br ah it tails off people and you never thought scenes of wanton destruction and general mayhem could be so unbelievably boring but the character interaction is stupendous the dialogue truly priceless and the incompetence on show somehow endearing oh and the shoes people watch out for the shoes
1	what's the most violent movie of all time rambo iii commando robocop add these three very violent together and you still won't equal the carnage in the the wildest silliest craziest action movie i have ever seen for one hundred minutes things blow up and people die in dozens of strange ways it will make you laugh and cheer and when it's all over you'll be more than a little exhausted this movie is a buried gem a cult classic sadly lacking a cult br br the is the nickname of our hero peter peter o'brian a large oily man with a curly mullet he arrives in indonesia on the trail of the villainous and mean greg rainmaker we know he is evil because he is only referred to by his full name i hate scum like greg rainmaker and utilizes a method of killing that is so horrible i can't even utter it here wait yes i can he steps on people in spiky shoes greg rainmaker killer br br when greg rainmaker isn't pouring alcohol on women for their sexual pleasure he's kidnapping important professors and heading a huge underworld empire it's up to a jewish action hero and his motley crew of sidekicks to stabilize the situation by killing everyone and blowing lots of stuff up maybe stabilize has a different meaning in indonesia br br and the violence oh the violence this is a film unwilling nay of letting five minutes of screen time go by without some sort of explosion car crash or squib interrupting the dialogue the violence is extreme not graphic and bloody just really weird for example the company invade one of warehouses by driving through a solid concrete wall on a motorcycle of course when perched on the balcony with heavy fire coming from below the does the one thing he can do he drives off the balcony into the guy's head his front tire bouncing off it like a basketball astounding br br from the overly gratuitous love scenes both major female characters hop in the sack with the hero of their choice not two minutes after they speak to them alone for the first time to the poorly dubbed dialogue victor you talented bastard the has it all this is a film for the ages right up there with citizen kane and gymkata it is not widely available in release if you find it anywhere for any price buy it and relish the insanity br br
1	i can't see how a film of this quality only gets an average of 5 7 from imdb voters it's a classic australian production that resembles recent efforts such as love and other catastrophes the sugar factory occasional coarse language russian doll sample people the secret life of us la spagnola strange planet fresh air dust off the wings doing time for patsy cline etc as a 19 year old uni student newton in perhaps his best role yet on par with at least with a bored over religious mother gets the shock of his life when she decides to enrol in the same course as him and before you go thinking another goofy movie it's not there's some real substance here sure it's a simplistic view of life in general and arts students in particular but then they are rather simplistic under all that philosophical mumbo jumbo aren't they and maybe the study of cusack's character is a little muddled at times but the film is bright funny and has some important messages the principle cast is terrific cusack and newton are wonderful and rose byrne see her also in the goddess of 1967 is so underrated it's not funny she's a beautiful fresh confident actor who deserves every accolade she receives i gave my mother frank 8 10
1	rose and the good doctor find themselves in a space station that is on a planet that's quite impossibly hovering in orbit right below a black hole the crew of the station is just as perplexed at that as the two new inhabitants are suitably spooky in it's atmosphere and gets better as the doctor and rose find themselves stranded due to circumstances out of their control and speaking through the submissive alien race of the ood something quite dark is coming from below the crust of the planet not haven seen the second part of this two parter i can't vouch that the end is as strong yet but it does make for one hell of a beginning br br my grade a
1	oooooh man was i pleased i didn't miss this i wanted to post this review as this episode in particular does what a certain recent movie did not it pays true homage to the game doom its plot is different yes and the characters are obviously set in an entirely different universe obviously the doctor who universe however the feel the pace the references and the location are perfect and for all original doom fans listen out for the door opening and closing sound effect it was the icing on the cake for me br br please all doctor who and doom fans alike check this one out its a gem
1	if you want to really terrify people choose the devil as your subject after all a good deal of the population believe that he is real therefore you are plugging into a whole meaty swathe of pre existing religious and mythological imagery and bound to cause quite a few nightmares in your young audience br br this episode had all the appearance of a hollywood blockbuster in fact having finished watching it i flicked over to another channel which was playing a recent bond film and quite frankly couldn't split a hair between the differences in sfx with a minimal cast restricted by its situation on a space station complete with overwhelming panoramic views of an universe it was as claustrophobic and intense as alien or event the black hole outside made it feel as if the black weight of dark matter was pressing the station onto the planet and to whatever was sealed inside and as the horror is intensified by the knowledge that the dr and rose are stranded the sinister ood start channelling a disembodied voice and then the characters start being picked off one by one br br this has all the best qualities of the cream of this new dr who endeavour girl in the fireplace and the empty child emotionally engaging frightening and humorous all without seeming cheesy this is far scarier than any amount of flying daleks but it has to be asked is this really suitable viewing for children this is not a family friendly episode pity the poor parent who has to put their kids to bed after this one i'm not sure i even want to see what happens next
1	even an old cynical doctor who fan like myself can be left breathless by watching an episode of my favourite show it happened previously during eccleston's finale and it happened watching this episode it doesn't happen often though but the impossible planet is an example of both the show and of television at its very very best this is stunning television br br the doctor and his companion land in a mysterious place where they see strange writing on the wall and the audience many of who will be moving behind the sofa are instantly transfixed a door opens and horrible monsters start stalking the time travellers this might have taken up an entire 25 minute episode in the original show but all this takes place in he pre title sequence you may miss the longer drawn out format of the original show but at least this new series is tightly plotted and if we're treated to a disappointing story then at least it's usually only for one week br br there is nothing to disappointment a viewer here it is doctor who at its most traditional best writer matt jones and director james strong have gone out of their way to make a story that will be regarded for years to come they do this by constructing a doom laden narrative the doctor and rose lose the tardis and they're stuck with the protagonists in the far flung future it's interesting how many stories never feature this type of plot point where the doctor and his companions no longer have access to the tardis which makes for a more intriguing type of story without doubt the highlight is the scene where goes to look for toby only to find him standing on the surface of the planet where he turns and beckons her outside everything from acting make up and murray gold's music makes this a scene that genuinely shocks its audience br br i can imagine immediately after this episode the bbc received a tsunami of complaints for distressed parents saying how traumatised their children were that it took them several hours to get them from behind the family sofa and that they're now refusing to sleep with the lights out to do this complaining would be to deny the magic of doctor who yes it can terrify and yes such images will burn themselves in to the mind of a child something they will never forget even if hey live to be a hundred but i will bet my life that these same traumatised children would have spent the week begging that no matter what they'll be allowed to watch the next episode
1	this has got to be one of the best episodes of doctor who that i've seen since it came back last year there is a brilliant mix of amusement fear and tenderness all mixed up which equals one amazing episode the ood were brilliantly designed and i'm pretty sure there' going to be a lot of ood jokes in the next few weeks i myself am guilty of that already i particularly liked the way that we saw a different perspective of rose's and the doctor's relationship and the ending well it's the first time i have ever hidden behind a cushion i cannot wait until next weeks episode to find how they get out of this mess
1	i loved this movie so much i'm a big fan of amanda recently ended show i admire her besides her body for her acting capability she is a good actress br br the movie was great its about a girl named viola who wants to play soccer but when her school cuts the girls soccer team she gets upset her brother is set to go to a prestigious school and he decides to leave to england so viola wants to make an impression by playing on the soccer team at the boarding school she goes to the school and tries out for the soccer team she gets in meanwhile she meets duke who is a sensitive guy who plays on the soccer team he really likes olivia laura ramsey who likes sebastian who is really viola sebastian is dating monique and suspects that sebastian isn't being himself br br this is certainly not a chick flick and i enjoyed it a lot its so funny and lovable i don't think i have seen amanda act better
1	okay so i don't understand why people are getting so aggravated over this movie so i thought it was going to be the usual amanda bynes movie but it wasn't it was great br br okay okay so the acting wasn't the best but i thought the performances were still overall great also you could tell that the actors were having fun while doing this movie in other movies that have surprisingly won awards where the actors didn't like working on the film you could tell all of the actors had chemistry and that also showed br br a ton of people are ripping on the soccer skills that the actors have yah so they're not perfect get over it they are actors not soccer players i have been playing soccer for my whole life and trust me it is hard to learn so stop ripping on the level of skills they have br br i thought this movie was going to be stupid but it was really funny the way amanda bynes and channing tatum can make a situation funny without even saying anything is funny i found myself laughing a lot in this movie br br overall i love it
1	she's the man was the funniest movie i have ever seen i laughed so hard that i was crying it was also very romantic channing tatum is absolutely gorgeous and can really act it sure doesn't hurt that he has quite a few shirtless scenes either channing and amanda have amazing chemistry and were absolutely wonderful together i love this movie when you watch make sure to watch the last deleted scene it was a huge mistake to cut that scene because it is one of the best scenes in the movie i highly recommend this movie amanda has never been funnier and channing is going to be a huge star this is just the first of many for this bright new star
1	i think this movie is amazing but there is one problem there is one song that i want to find but cannot find it it starts on about 18 minutes just after the coach has said what are u the runt of the family and then looks at the fat kid takes his hat off then he says go the song that starts there i would like to know what it is does any 1 no email me please or add a comment it starts something along those lines i just think it is an amazing dance track i would love to have that song so that i could use it in my break dancing lessons it starts when they are jumping and running over the orange fast stepper things which are used in football training to help you run faster
1	this is a classic american movie in combination with comedy romance dream you may say ' there have been lots of these kind of films already but just believe me you'll find this a good one because it's well directed scripted and played amanda just crazily amazing she's humor cute charming both inside outside the screen she's the man indeed the message i get from it is to pursue your own fairy tale what i mean tale' is not the one with prince princess but indicates namely it tells us to hold your faith dream things that make you regret for your whole life if you don't do that one of those movies you can't miss out in your life
1	my mother frank begins as a warm amiable comedy about a middle aged catholic woman frank short for francis played by cusack who shakes herself out of the doldrums by as a student in her son's university most of her friends and family are horrified not least her son matthew newton who is busy falling in love with his best mate's girlfriend rose byrne meanwhile frank has raised the ire of her disapproving english tutor sam neill br br matthew newton is utterly disarming as david relaxed and natural in the role even when the character's uptight he generates valuable goodwill steering the audience through some of the film's more awkward broad comedy moments not long after the half way point first time writer director mark expertly steers his film into darker emotional territory and gives cusack a real chance to shine br br the supporting cast is full of familiar and welcome faces sacha nicholas bishop and all the principals including a more animated than usual sam neill are excellent while it meanders a little towards the end my mother frank delivers more than it promises and is a genuine australian crowd pleaser
1	well i'm not a movie critic or something like that but i have my opinion for this movie i think that the best in this movie was amanda bynes she played her roll for my look very well i have watched many her movies this i liked most when you are watching this movie you just can relax come down and watch it you don't have to try to look for subtext or something like that you just watch it movie is really great maybe i liked it for actress maybe for all the scenery but i liked it the whole atmosphere that was created in one moment i just felt like i was in that university in that room it is not another drama movie that is made to win oscar it is just nice movie to watch in your free time
1	this was a fantastically written screenplay when it comes to perceiving things from another perspective the comedy was timely and not overdone the acting was generally terrific and the plot line served a greater purpose of generating misconception when we think about people solely based on their external appearance the plot twists as the brother sister character of amanda bynes tries to play soccer on the boys team finding instead a new love interest along the way tatum channing is where the real lies and he does a fine job of acting disinterested at first later coming to realize the most important thing in life is friendship not attitude
1	i just rented this movie from the video store last night it being new and not released long ago here the rent was only overnight me my little sis and my older brother who usually hates watching these kind of movies sat down and watched once the movie started and after sitting there watching it for a while we were all laughing historically even my brother this movie is hilarious i actually laughed no matter how funny some movies are even if i think its funny i sometimes can't seem to laugh but this movie i laughed my brother ended up thinking it was the best that type of movie he had seen i ended up watching the movie again about 2 or 3 hours later
1	the movie was great and everything but there were a lot of mistakes in the soccer scenes i wonder if any of the guys who were working on the movie have ever seen a soccer match before first of all i don't understand how she wanted to try for the boys team in soccer boys and girls cant play in the same team and these are the rules and don't get me started on who when they found out that she was actually a girl they let her continue to play second of all players cant paint their faces with colours and play like that again rules not mine br br and don't get me started on the way they scored goals its was ridiculous completely unrealistic and all the players seemed like they didn't know jack about soccer br br and when duke was training viola why did they only concentrate on shooting what happened to passing and dribbling or was shooting her only problem and why the hell were all the posters on the wall in their room were for players from don't they like any other players from any other teams it was like this was the only team they know but other than that the movie was good and i enjoyed the rest of it just the training and the game scenes were unrealistic for me they really should have consulted some one a bout them
1	i thought that this movie was going to be totally lame based on the advertisements that i saw in theaters when my sister borrowed from a friend i decided to watch it because it was summer and there was nothing else to do needless to say ten minutes in the movie and i loved it amanda was a great actor in the movie her comedic timing was perfect the guy who played duke was hot plain and simple my favorite scene was definitely when amanda walks by the gardener and a fellow student who is suspicious of her and she is talking to her mom about dresses as she is pretending to be a guy i re watched this part over and over to make a long story short the movie i thought was going to be lame i now own it
1	if you haven't seen this movie than you need to it rocks and you have to watch it it is so funny and will make you laugh your guts out so you have to watch it and i saw it about a billion and a half times and still think it is funny so you have to yes i have memorized the whole movie and could quote it to you from start to finish you must see this move it is also cute because it is half a chick flick if you don't watch it then you are really missing out this movie even has cute guys in it and that is always a bonus so in summary watch the movie now and trust me you will not be making a mistake did i mention the music is good too so you should like it if you enjoy music this is a movie that they rated correctly and it will work for anyone
1	when i saw the first preview for this i nearly passed out from excitement i have long been a fan of twelfth night it turned me on to shakespeare so to have a modern adaption is a dream come true my anticipation was not disappointed br br the plot basically follows the original storyline and that means complicated i don't want to even try to relate it the plot summery will probably cover the basics just imagine having a girl pretend to be a guy at a boarding school and think of all the possible situations that would create i will not even pause to question the plausibility of such a plot reality is not the point of the film br br what it is though is absolutely hilarious nearly every scene nails the comedic set up kudos to the writers director and actors on that count br br amanda bynes is the star of this film and she carries it wonderfully she's super cute not a vixen and can do faultless comedy i admire her so much for not going full on tramp in her films or public life like so many starlets today do i'm glad there is at least one decent young actress left in hollywood ok i'm off my soap box br br channing tatum yeah he's hot and built like a flippin gorilla but he really makes me laugh my favourite scenes in the whole movie are when he's trying to converse with olivia first by talking about cheese and then later about his workout regimen br br the rest of the cast did not fail to perform either with marvelous additions to the characters in the forms of the inane débutante mother and monique the classic evil girlfriend br br overall lots of fun of laughs and a highly attractive cast maybe not on par with the original but it beats out modern versions of other plays including the much touted 10 things i hate about you
1	i have been a fan of amanda's since all that and she is still funny too me it's as simple as that if you like the bynes you will like this film it's harmless fun and quite funny in parts wacky sebastian accent and mannerisms are entirely unrealistic but made me laugh so hard at some points i almost choked on my popcorn br br and anything that gets teens reading shakespeare maybe is a good thing for me br br on a shallow note tatum channing is quite ahem freaking hot he also does a good job with some of the film's tougher scenes br br some of the side characters are very broad but they are broad in twelfth night so it's cool
1	when i went to see this movie i thought that this would just be another chic flick i would have to endure with my sister plus too amanda last movie was not so hot making me doubt the movie for she is the lead actress however within 5mins i was laughing so hard i had tears in my eyes the jokes were not out there that it took more then a second to understand it but very funny the script was not too complex that i could not understand the love triangle but was very true to the original play by shakepeare i loved every minute of it so much that i kicked a guy two seats away from me in a fit of laughter lol very embarrassing i'd definitely advise people to see this movie especially girls as the guys in this movie are hot hot hot lol so much so that i might just get it on dvd
1	shes the man is great its funny original and made me laugh so much i nearly wet my seat the day i went to go see it at the movies i wasn't in the best of moods man trouble but leaving the movie i had a grin plastered on my face the story is a bit out there with the whole no one noticing that she looks way too much like a girl but hey who am i to say whats believable the jokes are great and some of the one liners in this 2006 hit could go down in history amanda b did a great job as the main role and channing tatum looks too good to be true as her opposite as the gorgeous duke so girls go see this because its a great laugh and there's a hot guy in it and boys u go see it because you might just learn something about girls br br all in all a brilliant fantastic and fun movie which i will be buying on dvd when it comes out
1	the japanese have probably the most sadistic movies around the world and this is one of the strongest examples with a running time at about an hour it contains enough sexual violence and gore to disgust every single sane person on earth even those who are hunting this type of movies three men and a woman are making a porn film after some normally shots which are pixelated the girl is tied up and the madmen cut her food arm and tong after that they make a hole in her abdomen and a man has sexual intercourse with her intestines he is knocked unconscious too and has his penis cut off the special effects are good for an obviously low budget production only the tong cut scene looks fake and we can't talk about acting direction or screenplay after hearing a lot about this film i was very happy when i finally found it the first part is pretty boring but the second one totally f k up my mind the torture and killing scenes being some of the most extreme and disturbing i have ever seen the gore hounds will be satisfied by tumbling doll of flesh but an unknowing viewer shouldn't even read the synopsis
1	i caught this movie right in my eye when i was passing by a hall of posters in the nearby cinema the tag line was sort of confusing and immediately after reading it i thought of the possibility of it being similar to national lampoon's dorm daze i liked that movie aside from having a huge collection of such genres i decided to hit it to the cinemas right after my exams for a tension br br delightfully i came out smiling from cheek to cheek and had an equally great amount of laughter at bits and points of the movie amanda bynes definitely kicked it off better than keira knightley in bend it like beckham being both a male and female actor is definitely not that kind of easy especially having to face the similarities of life coupled together with the reactions that the actress have to respond to this movie requires a great deal of confusion to confuse themselves and us viewers at the same time the only way of pulling it off is through this movie br br the principal is obviously sickly hilarious in a serious manner the girls are equally sexy and beautiful and so are the actors i'd recommend this movie to all who needs a weekend relaxation and don't worry you will get laughs throughout the movie it is a definite guarantee
1	i think a person would be well advised to read or see i favour reading twelfth night before seeing or re seeing she's the man the movie is good on its' own but comparing the two and looking for the in jokes makes it a lot more fun shakespeare was inspired by others i think he'd give a thumbs up br br bloom said in shakespeare the invention of the human that most of the people in twelfth night need to be locked up the person malcolm is based on is for no good reason people in she's the man are sane in contrast for instance duke is far more than the duke of he also shows that a man can have feelings without being gay he displays a lot of self control br br it's a teen comedy a clean one so it doesn't have the dark edges of the play for instance olivia in the play is mourning the death of her brother in the movie she has been dumped br br if you like sir andrew and sir toby in the play they don't have the same attention in the movie br br the in jokes are quite often quick the hairdresser last name is given once it is antonio lots of people who've read the play say that antonio has more love for a man than is just friendship deep love between men was noted in those days some see a sexual side to it homosexuality was illegal br br the only line from the play i caught is where duke quotes the coach on greatness during the game in the play it is said by quoting maria
1	this movie is about viola amanda bynes and her quest to beat her school cornwell boys team after they kicked the girls team out so she goes to the rival school and joins the boys team in doing so she falls for duke channing tatum who thinks shes a guy and likes olivia laura ramsey who likes viola as a her brother br br i was in a version of the 12th night play and the beginning was very modern so i knew the play well i was very exited about seeing this movie and when i saw it it exceeded my expectations it kept a lot of my favorite lines and i could see big connections to the play though it was like the play it was not as complicated it was also more of a chick flick than i expected but it was good it was very funny it pulls you into a whole bunch of crazy love stories and lies you saw how viola amanda bynes thought wrongly about what guys thought and her complications in living in a guys world you also see her room mate duke's channing tatum impression of this i really liked seeing the characters being portrayed in a modern way it also tells the modern theme follow your dreams but this time it has a twist i think this movie was a great movie about a girl who loved soccer and stuck up for herself and her family and her dreams i think this movie will be the big break for many raising stars
1	ok now at first i thought this was going to be another cheesy romantic comedy which held back on the comedy but this wasn't i mean how could it have been with the fabulous amanda bynes staring in it she was amazing really funny is still stunning the boys in it were also extremely fit one major reason for going girls the plot is strongly based upon the shakespeare play night' as it was extremely similar there was even a spider called which belonged to the like character the script was really well written and pulled together and it was very witty the football skills in it were also amazing it even made me think of playing football myself anyway to sum it up this is a light hearted film about young romance which gets very confusing go and see it
1	at first i honestly thought it would be a corny movie but after seeing this i was quite surprised amanda bynes was convincingly funny along with the supporting cast especially that character played by bullet tooth tony from snatch what a contrasting role between those two movies now i'm not one to say whether or not an actor is good or not but her act especially was thoroughly enjoyable even though the plot devolved into a teeny bopper love triangle though very funny half way into the movie i feel that this shouldn't discount what i think the movie really is simply entertaining so if you happen to stumble upon it whether by dvd or theater i'm confident that you'll enjoy
1	i have to be honest i really had a good time watching she's the man despite it being a typical teenage comedy or if you will the switching of the sexes movie it had some pretty decent laughs that i think anyone could get adults and teens alike would over all enjoy this movie br br amanda bynes is your typical rebellious teen who dresses and acts like a guy and when she is turned down to try out for the boy's soccer team she decides to take over her brother's appearance to prove herself worthy of being on the boy's soccer team of course love shows itself when she meets another guy who thinks she's her brother she also has a girl who is chasing after her well the tag line says it all br br this is a fun little teen drama that i think will be remembered for a while amanda bynes did prove something in the film it's really hard to really act like a guy d well it's true br br 8 10
1	this film is full of charming situations and healthy young people easy on the eyes whether they are wearing clothes or not the strong of its plot is upheld by the art of shakespeare as joseph papp discovered back in the 1950s in central park shakespeare's plots can be adapted to the manners and customs of the present and so the classic tales of cross dressing and other mischief found in such lighthearted comedies such as twelfth night and a midsummer night's eve and as you like it are used to good effect in this film all the young actors and actresses do a good job of advancing the plot with their blocking and dialog and costumes and the idea of a soccer game to bring things to a climax reminds me of bend it like beckham another charming coming of age movie
1	this movie is a great movie however it is as most movie highly predictable the greatest highlight of the movie of course is the star character amanda bynes who is absolutely gorgeous and hilarious she is one of very few people in this world who can use all 53 muscles in her face to make the most strangest and gut busting faces ever made it's good for the kids and contains upper male nudity and suggestive nudity towards the end all in all they did a good job updating an old classic and deserves to rest on the movie stand along with o and 10 things i hate about you the other actors also do a swell job in many of their first time debuts
1	i saw this film at a special screening at first i thought the movie would be like a typical amanda bynes movie but i was wrong the movie is based on the shakespeares book the night this movie tells the story of a girl who lives to play soccer well when the girls team is cut she has to go to great lengths to get on the guys team at a different school to get revenge on the egotistical guys team at her old school on her way she gets caught up in a long tangled web of love lies and deception this movie is this years mean girls i think it shows some great new actors abilities and there are defiantly some big stars to be featured in this movie
1	i thought this movie was absolutely hilarious i already knew it was going to be a funny movie but it was funnier than i expected sure there were some lame jokes but they cracked me up i thought the actors were going to turn out to be pretty bad but the actors were good in acting out this comedy i have to give kudos to amanda bynes she looked surprisingly like her brother and pulled off an awesome performance as a boy as for the other actors they were funny as well of course there were moments where you yell at the screen how can you not tell but that's all part of the fun in the end the plot turned out pretty well there's a happy ending but you expect br br overall just hilarious
1	tumbling doll of flesh aka and psycho the snuff reels this was on my want list for quite a while and then i finally scored a copy on ebay a while back it's never been on dvd and what i got from ebay was a very good quality dvd r which i'm quite satisfied with the movie is i believe the most extreme example of torture porn with an emphasis on porn a woman responds to an ad for a porn movie and goes with the producer to a place where it is filmed the porn is definitely real with the annoying japanese to try and hide the hardcore shots without much success most of the time after the porn movie is shot and the actress is ready to leave she gets clubbed over the head with a baseball bat and taken back to the room and savagely dismembered in slow shots and in one of the most disgusting scenes the male porn guy screws her in an open wound in her chest this is after both legs have been severed her arm and a few other this movie outdoes the guinea pig series by a long shot in fact they are not even close to the realism although cheap gore effects shown in this movie this is indeed one of the best fake snuff films i have ever seen if not the best now i must warn you that if you are not into this stuff you should stay far far away this movie is very strong and with the real sex it is in a very sick way erotic to an extent and i mean in a very sick way but wherever you come down on this subject material this movie brings the goods home and i would definitely recommend you seek it out after reading about the movie i was expecting something very strong but it exceeded that by a bunch
1	she's the man was everything i wanted it to be and maybe even a little more i love the teen type chick flick films and i knew this one would be great in the same vein as 10 things i hate about you one of my all time faves she's the man is a unique well written very well performed comedy with some of the funniest lines and physical comedy i have seen in a long time it's probably the funniest movie i've seen this year with the exception of the hilarious pink panther but she's the man is actually a more intellectual funny and most of the humor relies on the witty script three's company style story of mistaken identities and mixed messages and the cast br br amanda bynes is a star even since the days of the horribly campy yet strangely entertaining the amanda show she has shown a brilliant talent for comedy she's probably one of the most talented comediennes out there her style of physical comedy impersonations and witty dialect makes her hilarious previously her big screen debut where she was the star was the rather hilarious and well made what a girl wants if that wasn't her break out vehicle than she's the man takes care of that hands down bynes is really the ultimate girl next door it's a shame she doesn't do more big screen work because she could be the next it girl she is the all american cute down to earth bubbly teen although she's twenty now and whether or not she'll be able to carry her talent and style over to being an adult actor will remain to be seen but for the purpose of this film she is perfect she actually legitimately pulls off the rather outlandish plot of her impersonating her twin brother and makes it believable not entirely but believable enough most of the script relies on the comedy of her errors trying to be a guy but it's just hilarious non stop laughs channing tatum redeems himself from his deplorable performance in 2005's havoc by plays duke he's the jock the captain of the soccer team and eventually bynes' object of affection unfortunately he's also sebastian's room mate who is bynes he's a good leading man and the chemistry is perfect between them laura ramsey is olivia who happens to be attracted to sebastian who again is bynes she does good as well although her part is small and she doesn't really effect the rest of the cast one way or another james kirk is great in his small role as the real sebastian his resemblance to amanda bynes is astonishing they are absolutely believable as twins and further more from a distance you could understand someone believing bynes is sebastian the rest of the cast all fit in there somewhere and their roles range from brief to more supporting but essentially they are all supporting the story between bynes and tatum but everyone is more or less supporting bynes terrific performance she easily carries the film with no and makes it worth while br br this is one of those films that shows so much in the trailer and yet it's not one of those films that when that part comes up it's not funny anymore the parts in the trailer that make you laugh are even more hilarious in the actual film relative newcomer director andy fickman does such an incredible job on this film he weaves together a potentially complicated storyline and makes it flow naturally and makes everything fall together the story which is loosely based off of shakespeares twelfth night but it's remarkable how much they managed to translate over to this modern day film it's seemingly completely off the wall but more exact to the classic comedy than you'd think there isn't too much to say about a downside except that the last half hour drags a little and also becomes a might predictable but it doesn't change the hilarity of the first half of the film nonetheless you'll be laughing to tears and it's one of the funniest films in the theater right now hands down 9 10
1	i got a chance to see this movie at an early screening in brea and i have been crazy for it ever since the film is based on shakespeare's twelfth night which i have read and loved and seen on stage a few times so i certainly liked the references but whether you like shakespeare or not it won't matter the movie stands on it's on it is super funny witty and charming amanda bynes is hilarious and so was david cross actually the whole cast is great i just happen to be a huge david cross fanatic the cast is hot and the soundtrack kicks lots of cool bands and a few i hadn't heard before but i know they have a cd coming out so i will definitely buy it everyone in our audience laughed from start to finish all age groups
1	i saw this movie today opened yesterday here and was simply delighted br br i saw a review that said something to the effect that the reviewer thought this would be just another teen movie but then found it was based on shakespeare's twelfth night and then started trying to justify liking this flick on shakespearean grounds i really think this is going way overboard the only connections i could see with twelfth night are a the basic conceit of a girl masquerading as a man b the extensive male female humor arising out of that basic conceit and c some of the names including viola duke br br aside from those names the thematic a b are really great themes for any script and this movie's script is no exception beyond that though this really is a simply delightful and very contemporary traditional teen flick and that's a perfectly legit genre even if highbrows have to find an excuse to like it like alluding to shakespeare br br the movie is bright fast paced emotive stylized funny full of teen hormones and teen humor and male female humor suitable for all ages and that's really the best part imho really just about every male stereotype and every female stereotype is depicted in roundly appealing over the top fun those stereotypes are parodied relentlessly but affectionately with such a complexity of invention that i'm still a little bewildered but really don't feel at all disappointed in that regard it's not that kind of a movie things come at you fast and fun and you get a laugh and a groan and then move on to the next split second happening br br amanda bynes really is just delightful as viola sebastian channing tatum makes a wonderful duke david cross does a wonderfully over the top principal gold all of the acting and characterizations were fine and on target cinematography was excellent br br wonderful entertainment from beginning to end check it out
1	i just took my 11 year old daughter and 8 year old son to this movie and i can't remember a movie where i laughed so hard literal out loud deep bursts of laughter because this movie is hilarious granted the story line is predictable but the ride is so extremely enjoyable it doesn't matter that you know how it's going to end the actors' comedic senses of timing were impeccable the actors were perfectly cast my children mentioned that amanda bynes seems to be the last of the young women actresses who aren't ruining their lives she is so refreshing my children said this is now their favorite movie of 2006 our money was well spent on this movie
1	five years after she teamed up with james cagney in the public enemy mae clarke makes another appearance this time as his fiancée with cagney's character on the other side of the law it seems like she was calling more of the shots in their relationship as well trying to get johnny cave to be a little more practical with his money and his career you had to figure they'd get back together after she gave him the boot for challenging her crooked boss those things have a way of working out in pictures br br i got a kick out of watching cagney in this one i usually do and here he looked like he might have auditioned that characteristic shoulder shrug move that he used to good effect in angels with dirty faces portraying rocky sullivan it was right after he threw cavanaugh robert out of his office during the first attempt at bribing the new weights and measures boss he turns to the camera and hitches up as if entirely pleased with his response to the crook very cool br br it's my understanding that this wasn't one of cagney's warner films but it might as well have been warner's often took up the cause for the common man and the expose of crooked merchants and the politicians who protected them would have been right up their alley you also have those great new york city street scenes depicting cars and shops of the era with home made signs pricing flour at eighteen cents a pound hey how about the furniture store selling the living room set for a hundred eighty nine dollars you might get a single stick chair for that price today br br best part of the picture just might be that meat counter scene when cagney james burke aloysius and the butchers play catch with an chicken one of the film's lighter moments but you get an idea how tense people can get when they're caught cheating same with the truck driver who's pressured by johnny into signing for an accurate delivery he just wasn't used to doing that br br all in all a nice diversion from cagney's more typical gangster presence even if not up to the standard of his feature films it's easy enough to obtain as one of a handful of public domain cagney pictures out there and often found in relatively inexpensive compilations
1	this is the first james cagney film i have ever really watched i was never interested in his movies before because i figured i wouldn't like anything in that style of cinema and because i've heard most cagney films are the same i have to say i really liked it by today's standards for movies it was not special but i found it surprisingly entertaining cagney did not have the look of a tough guy but he played the part very well
1	it's fun to watch a young james cagney doing his thing he plays the weights and measures guy who takes his job very seriously stepping on the toes of a group of crooked politicians he is offered the world but keeps his integrity he is beaten and set up but that's the problem we never know if he is really in danger they say he's in a spot but still seems to have carte blanche to move around and do what he needs to do at times he's so cocky he doesn't do much to protect himself his allies are in the police department but just about everything else is pretty corrupt he perseveres almost too good to be true of course and we pull for him the problem for me is a lack of sustained suspense it would have been much better if he had had to clear his name he never drops into the depths even when rejected by his wife to be it's still fun with the bad guys kind of see it just to watch cagney do his tough guy posturing
1	this is what james cagney is all about wisecracks cockiness hard as nails and no nonsense charisma br br although the plot sounds serious the film is anything but it is done in the 30's screwball comedy style and works well with his with fiancé mae clark and his reactions to the tall stories of his colleague james burke br br what raises it above normal is the dialogue and the cast that delivers it dialogue is good but it is nothing unless delivery is spot on and can bounce about the characters involved this is done well by all throughout br br good entertainment and thoroughly enjoyable
1	early in the movie cagney's johnny cave character tells his gumshoes in the office of weights and measures that in the previous year unscrupulous shop owners had cheated the american consumer out of more money than the national war debt then he goes out and tickets a particularly greasy green grocer for short selling him a bag of sugar that is four ounces off oh the horrors and one skinny chicken that his butcher's scale has rather generously proclaimed to be six lbs after which the fur or in this case feathers flies er fly when a racketeer in politician's clothing attempts to derail an investigation into the paltry poultry practices our hero becomes a lone wolf waging the war of the weights on behalf of housewives across america after all four cents here and a quarter there add up and before we know it we have anarchy word of his intransigence soon reaches both the mayor and the governor's offices and cagney becomes a marked man if it sounds silly it's not the dishonest practices are only a plot tool or as hitchcock would say the mcguffin and while unfamiliar it works every bit as well here as any treasury agent or g man anthology in which the fight is taken to shady crooks who are operating outside the interests of the country's common good the production standards are decidedly grade b but it is cagney who makes this movie the delight that it is this was his first film away from warner brothers after seeking release in court from his unreasonable contract and he seems to be at ease and enjoying himself tremendously the performance turned in here is intelligent and crackles with his unique energy and surefire charisma mae clarke's presence lends a definite warner's feel to the overall production the supporting players turn in solid performances and the story moves along smartly after a rocky introduction that seems to begin three or four reels into the story but sit back and enjoy it for the cagney showcase and engaging depression era time capsule that it is
1	if you like cagney you'll like this film it has the pretense of american integrity at any cost personal or social cagney plays the head of weights and measures in nyc cagney goes up against crooked politicians the criminal underground a prominent philanthropist and simple who add a few ounces to the price of a chicken the chicken scene is hilarious where cagney finds a weight placed in the bird cavity by an unsuspecting butcher the chicken gets tossed around the shop in a hilarious scene about who controls the evidence if you like old telephones there are interesting scenes of phones and even bizarre phone cords compared to a lot of film made today this is pure entertainment and includes mystery with comedy and a message that honesty above all should be the guiding principle of humanity made in simpler times it reflects a world we can't find today the fashion especially hats and automobiles all play a prominent visual role in defining this little film
1	first of all you should watch this only if you don't mind the lack of subtitles pornography kinky sex and utter horrifying and truly shocking depravity i mentioned kinky sex but to call sex in the second half of the movie kinky would be a great understatement it's more like a punch in the face if you aren't prepared for this sort of sickness that being said i can go back to reviewing this morbid piece of pseudo snuff genre brought to us by our fellow japanese br br the plot seems to be fairly basic almost nonexistent a girl is hired to perform in amateur porn movie don't expect much in first 30 40 minutes there is some dialog if you don't speak japanese it's not going to mean much to you that seems to be an occasional chatting between the girl and the crew performer then there is some porn straight sex and after the scene is finished the performers and the crew take a break and then it starts to happen br br it seems that the girl is talked into performing one more scene this time tied with the rope the abuse begins whipping slapping hot wax in the end girl breaks down and cries they untie her br br then we see performers and crew sitting at the table as if nothing had happened except for the girl she is visibly shaken and looks like she wants to leave she walks to the door sits on the floor to put her shoes on and that's when hell breaks loose br br she is hit in the head with the baseball bat her wound is treated she is tied to the bed what ensues can be briefly described i'm not going to spoil everything for you as rape during dismemberment think of flower of flesh and blood mix it with porn and you will get the idea it goes on for about 20 minutes or so sfx are very good makeup too everything is shown with no mercy for the viewer you have been warned br br i thought visitor q was a very sick movie after watching it looked like a fairytale to me this movie is so sick so depraved so twisted so disgusting that the harshest words pale in comparison to it's finale too bad it's released only on vhs so there are no subtitles available but the movie still works without them so if you are into ultra sickness extreme sadism and other beauties of this beloved genre check this out i hope you won't have nightmares 8 10
1	the first time i've seen this dvd i was not only happy because of the fact that it was the first time in decades that the band put out anything but also because the dvd itself is extremely loud jimmy page obviously can't live with quiet music i guess i do must say though that during the concert at royal albert hall they expanded 'how many more times' and dick' too long other than that it was my favorite song of all time is now on that dvd trampled underfoot it's either that one or 'in my time of dying' in that song jimmy really plays that thing good ever seen randy play well jimmy plays just like him except his guitar is lower
1	after waiting years for a definitive collection of led zeppelin perfomances on video fans have finally been rewarded with what is undoubtedly the greatest concert video ever much better than the dismal song remains the same this video includes performances from no less than 5 different venues spanning a decade it also includes rare interviews and tv appearances the sound quality is amazing considering the source material used and the video quality is even more impressive this is an absolute must for any led zeppelin fan
1	from the opening drum hit of we're gonna groove to the last guitar hit of whole lotta love this two dvd set might be one of the best music dvd's ever to hit the shelves since the beatles anthology was finally released earlier this year br br one of the best things about this dvd is that on disc 1 a whole concert and many television appearances can be found for instance the whole royal albert hall concert is on the dvd as well as some of the best performances from the band's last concert at br br in the royal albert hall concert for instance the band had a lot of room to improvise jimmy page's guitar solos make dazed and confused a huge rock power ballad as opposed to the laid back blues song it was on led zeppelin i br br next on dvd 2 is a promotional video for the led zeppelin iii hit song immigrant song one of zeppelin's hardest rocking songs the video is about as sketchy as a pre mtv video was but it displays a lot of guitar power by jimmy page as it was taken from a live performance after the video ends we are treated in transition with a short picture of fans filling the seats at madison square garden the following are performances that were supposed to be part of the song remains the same but did not make the cut excellent riffs like those in the songs black dog and the ocean were both present br br after the madison performances we are treated with earl's court most of the led zeppelin iv material was played here like the most popular song that zeppelin ever recorded stairway to heaven it is brilliant as always even more so than the version on iv br br finally to end the 5 hours of live material is led zeppelin's final concert in in august of 1979 as the viewer watches this they have to admit that robert plant's voice is getting and deeper from all of the screaming he has done in the past and it is evident here on songs like kashmir and in the evening plant does not have his vocal boost of old yet on whole lotta love it returns for one more song br br overall one of the best musical dvd's ever released only next to the great beatles anthology boxed set that was released earlier in 2003 the sound both in 5 1 dts and 5 1 dolby digital just like the beatles dvd gives you a feeling of being on stage with the performers standing right next to them as you would feel on the beatles dvd when they are jamming in the studio even though the beatles and led zeppelin are different bands though they each received different dvd's even though this set comes on only two discs compared to the five disc beatles set it still feels very filling to the viewer after they have gone through all of that content it is also a pleasure to watch again and again not only because of the sound quality but because of the sheer energy on stage when robert plant begins to sing br br a brilliant effort from atlantic
1	buy this if you like rock led or just want an amazing experience world class i love this band and the dvd was even better than i had hoped for believe me if you took the time to read this thread you need this dvd period
1	after seeing this dvd i was floored it is so wonderful not only does it capture led zeppelin during performances they span a few years this only shows the growth of the band and the growth of their great music this dvd is a must have the dvd is over 5 hours long with extras the extras are also great pieces some are of the band performing in denmark and other various promo spots this contains footage that was once thought lost thankfully recovered and carefully restored to 5 1 dolby digital under direct supervision of jimmy page himself includes many timeless classics such as stairway to heaven going to california what is and what should never be moby dick and so many more great acoustic songs are also included this will correct any forethought that jimmy page isn't a supreme guitar legend
1	i am a professional musician who was inspired nearly 20 years ago to begin playing guitar after hearing jimmy page on led zeppelin ii while i don't play in the same genre or style the impact of that man has been huge now nearly 20 years later i finally got to see something more than the not so good the song remains the same again i have seen so many bands perform some small some the current 'masters ' no band no where no way has ever been able to pull off the magic that you can actually taste by watching this dvd br br robert plant can be a bit much at times and you can nearly sense page's annoyance for him forgetting lyrics but that didn't matter i guess especially for the era genius shines more on this dvd then on any album with zeppelin the band of joy or lord is pretty ordinary but the magic of this dvd is how well the four of them perform together the world loved to imagine that they were into black magic k etc that was only a matter of interest to page the magic notice i say this a lot is that this dvd captures a rare glance to the rawness of 4 young boys who can play brilliantly no matter how sloppy they are actually playing it didn't matter br br a quick breakdown the first of the two dvd's is where the true magic is you should be able to sense the power and rawness had in their early days by the end of the second dvd page is struggling with his sanity during the songs it's no secret that by this time he was severely addicted to heroin so i'd recommend the first disk to any music lover and the second for the only true zeppelin fan br br i may be going too far here for some guitarists but i would say after watching this page is certainly more creative and inventive than hendrix yup i said it and if you disagree watch the dvd
1	what can i say about this band i was hooked in 68 i was a ten year old kid i grew up on the blues though my dad then these guys from the midlands came along a fusion of country rock heavy rock and blues i wish i could have got to see them live in the early years i was lucky enough to be there in 79 that was the best concert i've seen to date i hope a full version of that hot august night will be soon this cd gave me a chance to see the boys over and over again the song remains the same is great but this cd gets down to the nitty gritty br br long live the
1	this two disc set is incredible if you're like me and never had the opportunity to actually see the band live then this is the next best thing jimmy page who in my opinion is the second best guitarist ever to walk the face of the earth second only to himself he puts on an amazing show in every piece of footage in this film john paul jones although not as up front as page puts on one hell of a show although in the live atmosphere his rythmic bass lines aren't as defined as they are on studio recordings except of course in songs like dazed and confused or what is and what should never be but his wide array of talent is well displayed in these dvd's john bonham is john bonham what can i say there is no comparison his beats stand out like no other and this dvd is proof last but not least robert plant wails like no other can wail if you've ever read hammer of the gods you'll be wondering the same thing as page was when he first met robert plant why the hell isn't this guy already famous and so concludes my review sorry about and spelling or grammar mistakes zeppelin rocks
1	the only footage of zeppelin i've seen prior to this dvd is 'the song remains the same' movie from 1976 we used to spend hours round a friends house watching this but i never really liked it and hated the fantasy sequences br br so what of this dvd i didn't know it existed until browsing for the physical graffiti cd 'when did this come out ' i thought br br for some reason i thought that page wasn't a great live guitarist but to say that watching this dvd has changed my opinion is a massive understatement br br there's 'white from 1970 10 minutes of guitar wizardry br br there's an acoustic set from 1975 y aur has a brilliant finger picking improv section br br the 'in my time of dying' and performances also from '75 are breathtaking with page and bonham tearing things to pieces like no one else ever has demonic possessions of br br the magic continues into the 1979 section the rendition of last considering their various drug addled states just beggars belief a song of complex guitar overdubs page arranged it in a way that lets him just it out' live the effect is totally mesmerising 'in the i never liked this on disc but it along here 'sick again' great piece of sleaze rock the footage from is very interesting cutting between big screen various and bootleg footage to great effect br br plant is amazing throughout all the performances page despite being painfully thin looks like a six year old kid having the most fun of his life at the concert and makes infectious viewing br br one thing that puzzled me the 'black dog' performance from 1973 sounds very up' robert plant always did love a little and those jeans are absolutely ridiculous and would warrant an arrest nowadays all very different from the muscle bound kick a studio version br br i love this dvd it has reminded me how good zeppelin were and remain
1	zeppelin is my favorite band so when i heard that this double dvd was coming out i was understandably excited i'll just cut to the chase here and say that if you are any kind of zeppelin fan you must run out and buy this right away it's absolutely spectacular it blows 'the song remains the same' completely out of the water why this material was never released before is beyond me the footage presented here really shows at the peak of their game which i never really felt that quite did jimmy page is the best ever without a doubt and these performances make jimi hendrix look like a chump be on the lookout for the live jam 'white whew br br viva jimmy page br br viva led zeppelin br br 11 out of 10
1	if you were enjoyed by watching guinea pig then you'll like this movie to psycho the snuff reels is a nice pseudo snuff movie with lots of sex elements actually the effects are not so realistic like in guinea pig but its still pretty gory br br psycho the snuff reels contains 70 minutes of sex fetish and then torture scenes first 20 minutes is like a normal porno movie after that you'll see fetish sex scenes and last one is a torture scene the guys torture and rape girl they cut off her legs hand tongue in the end guy rapes girl in her stomach and after that other guy beat him and cut off his balls sounds pretty sick isn't it br br like i said it's pseudo snuff movie psycho the snuff reels is pretty rare japanese movie and as i know it's really hard to find it but if you are crazy about that sort of films i believe that you can find it
1	just another showcase of led zeppelin at their finest and their absolute rocking best every band member is at their best jimmy page and his bow and guitar with his thunderous bass bozo pounding away and robert singing like theirs no tomorrow i have to say when we get into the first song where gonna groove it is the beginning of something very special this dvd follows zeppelin through their 11 year starting in 69 in the royal albert hall then madison square garden 73 followed by a much older and mature band in 75 at earls court and finally a different looking band at their last english show at in 79 this dvd is fantastic showcase of zeppelin and if your not a fan you will be after n
1	i bought my first album in 1974 at 17 and have been hooked ever since this dvd has now taken pride of place in my music collection it is not often that a band can boast 4 in their lineup but here we can each member made their own contribution to the band but on the stage together the electricity they generated was bigger than the 4 individuals this masterpiece covers the band's entire career from led 1 to coda and this is captured magnificently on this dvd as each concert shows how the band became bigger and bigger over the years recently my copy disappeared but i'm happy to say was found in my son's room as the new generation discover just how great these guys were this is a must have for anyone who has an appreciation of rock music long live led zeppelin
1	some people don't like led zeppelin but luckily the number of people who versus the number of people who don't is way unbalanced i am the proud of 2 or 3 led zeppelin fans and the only reason i was able to do this is because of this dvd br br for one how someone can listen to stairway to heaven or immigrant song without falling in love with zeppelin is beyond me but to play the guitar and not like page that is like being christian and not liking jesus my friend was like led zeppelin sucks and i was like oh yeah watch this after about 2 mins of watching page pick through white summer black mountain side he was glued to the screen and has never said a bad thing about zeppelin since br br incase you haven't been following the running metaphor i am calling this dvd the bible of led zeppelin held high by the followers and used as a for the unwashed heathens br br course there are some things missing like over the hills and far away a good version of immigrant song and i really didn't need 2 version of whole lotta love but what the hell i'll take 'em br br because there is nothing besides the song remains the same to compare this too i gave it a 10 and even if there were more to compare it too i still would have given it a 10
1	i just re watched a few episodes of this series on very poor vhs tapes that i recorded the series on i'm glad i did though br br is based on the children's books by beverly cleary and follows the adventures of the title eight year old sarah she has fun with friends and family and gets into trouble much like many eight year olds all ten episodes are pretty good mystery meal kind of me out as a vegan but it's funny seeing the parents trying to get their kids to eat cow's tongue and any episode that mentions godzilla versus the smog monster twice can't be all bad i like bad day even more although it's disheartening to see going through a rough day she does imagine herself getting revenge on her friend howie's uncle a pre factor barclay hope who always teases her the perfect day is also good br br lori plays sister i swear i've seen her on something else but imdb doesn't list anything besides this show unfortunately this series is not on dvd why is every crappy show made these days on dvd except something i'd actually like to buy an injustice if there ever was one
1	don't change your husband is another soap opera comedy from producer director cecil b de mille it is notable as the first of several films he made starring gloria swanson i guess you could also call it a sequel of sorts to his old wives for new 1918 br br james elliot dexter and leila swanson porter are a forty ish couple where james has gone to seed and become slovenly and lazy he has a penchant for smelly cigars and eating raw onions he takes his wife for granted leila tries to get him to straighten out to no avail br br one night at a dinner party at the porters leila meets the dashing van now there's a moniker the playboy nephew of socialite mrs sylvia ashton she invites leila to her home for the weekend to make james miss her once there begins to put the moves on her promising her pleasure wealth and love if she will leave her husband and go with him the sequences involving leila's imagining this promised new life are lavishly staged and forecast de mille's epic costume later in his career br br leila bored with her marriage and her disinterested husband divorces james and marries the playboy james ultimately realizes that he has lost the only thing that mattered to him and begins to mend his ways he shaves off his mustache works out shuns onions and re acquires some manners br br meanwhile all is not rosy with leila's new marriage it seems likes to gamble and has taken up with the gold digging nanette aka tootsie or some such name julia faye loses all of his money and steals leila's diamond ring to cover his losses br br one fateful day leila meets the new james and is taken by the changes in him james drives her home and becomes aware of her situation and br br this film marked the beginning of gloria rise to super stardom in a career that would rival that of mary pickford barely 20 years of age she had begun her career in mack sennett two reel comedies as a teen ager elliot dexter was almost 50 at this time but he and swanson make a good team although it's hard to imagine anyone tiring of the lovely miss swanson as is the case in this film br br dexter and sylvia ashton had appeared in the similar old wives for new where the wife had gone to seed and the husband was wronged br br also in the cast are de mille regulars theodore roberts as a bishop and raymond hatton as a gambler
1	i loved this film it manages to make the characters sympathetic well most of them concerning the problems they have with their relationship br br gloria swanson as leila is in a dusty marriage with a husband who barely notices her presence though he does notice her absence the film shows very well why she is tired of married life and why she is susceptible to a sweet talking con man without making her selfish or demanding the reaction shots of leila at the dinner table on her anniversary while her workaholic husband late to dinner again eats salted with gusto and pushes bride and groom dolls out of the way of his plate are perfect br br the show is stolen and stolen effortlessly by elliott dexter as jim leila's neglectful husband after losing leila to another man jim literally cleans up his act shaving off his mustache working out to lose the middle aged spread and dressing neatly there are several shots of jim at home lonely and thinking of leila including a powerful scene when he finds one of her old dresses in the closet the film gives the audience the advantage of watching jim's transformation along with leila it isn't just the exterior that's more attractive we come to know much more about the kind of person jim really is and we see how completely different he is from leila's second husband lew cody dexter shines as the before and after jim who is determined after discovering true character to win leila back if he can the film's most touching moment comes when jim and leila discover that they are standing under the and jim talks of what he has lost br br definitely worth watching
1	i thought this movie was really good it ends up showing the viewers in the end that leila should of kept what she had leila was sick of her husband jim who was more worried about work then her he was so into his work that he forgot their anniversary he was also very sloppy she couldn't take it anymore so she left to see if he would miss her the movie shows that he misses her he even tries to make up for the night he messed up he goes to her and tries to bring her home she ends up finding another man named he seemed like the man she always wanted neat and notices her in the end she sorta foreshadows by when she look at shoes and the way he let his cigar ashes fall on the floor the way jim did the same kinda thing jim ends off making lots of money and cleaning himself up leila thinks in the end that she should of kept her husband because thats all she really wanted and he did changing
1	i found this movie to be filled with irony but watching the movie you can almost for see what will happen leila is a confused bored house wife who is constantly looking for happiness when she thinks she finds true happiness she clings onto it leaving behind all that she knew but she finds her self almost comparing notes between her ex and her current husband she learned that if she only had communicated more about what had bothered her in her previous marriage that it could have been salvaged a lot easier that she intended it to be she realizes that words are nothing with out action but she learns that too far into her second marriage and finds herself looking back and hoping for change once again the main conflict in this movie is leila vs herself you can not have true happiness with out yourself being truly happy i liked this movie but i would only recommend this movie to women i can't see a man truly finding enjoyment in this movie
1	this is apparently the first film featuring gloria swanson the film that made her a breakout star while she was good in the film i can't see how this performance in particular was so noteworthy at the time but still it was a very good film br br gloria plays the wife of a rich slob that continually takes her for granted he cares little for his grooming eats onions and forgets their anniversary and at the same time a lothario comes into their lives and begins paying a lot of attention to gloria and her dippy husband doesn't even notice or give her any reason not to cheat on him ultimately she divorces her hubby and marries the smooth talking romeo however while the movie could have just been an overdone melodrama they were pretty common at the time it takes some interesting twists and turns and is an imaginative and fun film while not the greatest silent film i have seen it is a standout and deserves to be remembered br br by the way the dvd release from image entertainment is surprisingly good with a decent print and music this hasn't always been true of other image releases particularly how sloppily they handled the chaplin releases
1	gloria swanson as leila porter is an understandably bored wife workaholic husband elliott dexter as james porter has lost his romance along with his waistline he also smokes cigars in bed eats onions and he can barely remember his own anniversary which is attended by lew cody as van the younger man eyes ms voluptuous figure and flirts unabashedly soon swanson is drawn to mr cody then mr dexter decides to try and get her back who will win br br the three principals are fine with swanson most impressive in the pivotal role as the woman torn julia faye grabs supporting honors as cody's other interest off screen she tempted director cecil b demille the demille touch is evident especially in an imaginary sequence wherein cody promises swanson br br don't change your husband 1 26 19 cecil b demille gloria swanson elliott dexter lew cody
1	tumbling doll of flesh by is a japanese shocker about three thugs who sexually abuse torture and dismember a young woman whilst filming their horrible actions typically twisted japanese porno sickie that offers plenty of sadistic sexual violence and grisly gore there is no plot to speak of just plenty of hard core sex scenes optically censored again and lots of blood the special effects are quite impressive the dismemberment of japanese porn actress is shown in unflinching detail the tongue cutting scene really made me squirm her arm is also chopped off and her stomach is graphically sliced open and finally one of the sickos is having sex with her intestines psycho the snuff reels actually reminds me guinea pig flowers of flesh and blood but it's not as memorable so if you're a fan of ultra depraved japanese sickies like all women are whores or raping my virgin slave give this one a look 8 out of 10
1	this marvelous short will hit home with everyone who as a child specifically asked for something because it was hip or cool only to be given something that would mark you for life with your peers and were told by your mom or dad or both that it didn't matter as you earnestly began considering enlisting in a witness protection program in order to avoid ridicule for those u s residents who don't get the horror because you don't follow hockey it's like a dallas cowboy fan getting a washington jersey or a yankees fan getting a red sox jersey it isn't pretty for our european friends think of two great rival football soccer to us clubs and imagine a fan of one getting a jersey from the other ouch of c outdid themselves here br br une hommage du maurice rocket richard m richard
1	don't change your husband is on the one hand the beginning of a series of lightweight marital comedies from cecil b demille on the other it is his first picture to star gloria swanson probably the greatest actress of the silent era and is the film which made her a star br br although the old demille formula was beginning to change and his films were becoming and less purely visual with such an expressive performer as swanson we regain much of that silent storytelling style her character does very little but conveys volumes through subtle gesture and facial expression – with a particular talent for looks of disdain in real life swanson was herself coming towards the end of her disastrous marriage to wallace beery and it's possible that this fact fuelled her convincing performance br br as if to best complement his leading lady's talents demille's use of framing and close ups is particularly strong here he uses cinematic technique to show off the acting – often holding swanson in lengthy close ups at key moments – and also to clarify the story visually for example when we are introduced to the character of she is shown reflected three times in a dressing table mirror her character disappears from the story only to become important towards the end that attention grabbing first shot of her helps us remember who she was later at the anniversary dinner swanson and future husband number two lew cody are framed together in one shot while elliot dexter is isolated in his own frame also – and this is a sign of the increasing sophistication of cinema in general – there is much use of reaction shots – for example the disapproving glance of the bishop when cody acts out his intentions with the wedding figure dolls br br in contrast to demille's visual narrative method was the increasingly verbose screen writing of his collaborator jeanie macpherson as i've remarked in several other comments macpherson could put together a strong and dramatic story but like demille she tended to state her themes in a somewhat pretentious and flamboyant style and so we get these very long quasi philosophical title cards about the pitfalls of married life which if they improve the story at all it is only because they are unintentionally funny for example only jeanie macpherson could come up with a line like fate sometimes lurks in christmas shopping fortunately though in this picture these titles mostly introduce scenes rather than break them up br br although the pictures he made around this time tended to be small scale it is at this point that demille seemed to develop his taste for the spectacular you can see him start to sneak in excuses for a bit of razzmatazz like the little fantasy scenes of swanson being showered with pleasure wealth and love it wouldn't be until the early twenties after the unofficial on historical pictures was lifted that he would get the chance to go all out with the grand spectacle br br all in all don't change your husband is a fairly decent demille silent picture although to be honest it is only really the presence gloria swanson that lifts it above the average it's curious though that this is supposedly a comedy and swanson was cast at least in part because of her background at mack sennett's slapstick factory she hated comedy acting and here gives a dramatic rather than a comic performance it makes sense then that the only straight drama she did with demille male and female was by far the strongest of their collaborations
1	no more beef and cabbage for her br br this little romantic comedy clips along from scene to scene with a few exotic twists some imaginary scenes and a costume party all of this is centered around the wife of the husband s who is looking to break out of the doldrums played by gloria swanson she is twenty here both the leading men have a natural air that is convincing and of course swanson is perfect in all kinds of moods from frivolous to worried to hopeful br br behind all the games and apparent lightheartedness is that old serious problem of staying in love and not straying in love there's a little corniness but director demille is on top of keeping it snappy and believable in all as with many films from this period the subtitles do not just tell what they are saying or thinking but often give a kind of philosophical insight as if to justify the tragedy or and there is that higher purpose here probably better without the instructional text but it's part of the narrative style and it's kind of quaint br br if you are looking for visual or formal amazement you won't find it here but as a story well acted and filmed with precision and economy it's really a great example the events might not come as a total surprise but it's such a modern love story set almost a hundred years ago it's a gas and did i saw swanson was perfect
1	cecil b demille directed a series of domestic comedy dramas in the late teens and early 20s he found his perfect leading lady for these provocative pieces in gloria swanson in don't change your husband swanson plays a bored housewife whose wealthy businessman husband elliott dexter pays more attention to work than to her she is chased by a handsome roue lew cody until she relents and divorces the boring husband for the new lover br br things soon become familiar and swanson discovers the new husband is as neglectful as the first to make matters worse she discovers cody has a woman on the side julia faye after several confrontations and convenient meetings things are resolved br br this was a smash hit in 1919 and helped make gloria swanson a major star although she was only 20 when she filmed this she is very good as the maybe foolish wife she looks great and wears some stunning gowns br br there is one memorable scene that is 100 demille in which cody is luring swanson with promises of wealth pleasure and love as he coos to her she imagines the scenes pleasure is a fantastic scene of swanson in a hammock swinging out over a pool while people dance around wealth is a scene in which swanson is like a babylonian queen as servants bring her chests of jewels which shes tosses aside love is a scene in which she is a wood nymph making love in a forest with a pan like character ted shawn pure hokum but very entertaining and swanson looks great br br dexter is very good as the bland husband who shaves off his moustache and starts to work out in order to win his wife back cody is also good as the fake charmer who is a liar and cheat faye is funny as the bitchy other woman named no less who gets hers sylvia ashton plays mrs ted shawn was married to ruth st denis and together they were groundbreaking and influential modern dancers of the school br br swanson impresses me more every time i see her she seems to have been such a natural actress and yet there is a way that the camera captures her expressive face that is just mesmerizing she's a joy to watch br br very entertaining film with lots of color tints in varying scenes to keep things lively and a lot of the furnishings are back in style 86 years later
1	the residents are a band known for their strange appearances and odd musical stylings so obviously their music videos aren't going to be exactly normal in fact these little videos are abnormal and bizarre but have a huge artistic value to them the atmosphere is built with lighting and thoughtful visuals it's a great watching experience br br basically icky flix just consists of many residents music videos made for their songs the music itself ranges from rock to synthesized music that sounds like it's straight out of an 80s horror film what doesn't change is the quality of these videos they're great br br any fan of art films will love these they're so original with their visuals and the angles they are filmed at and the lighting especially make these so interesting the music is creepy and catchy and highly original and these short films are mini classics that deserve multiple watchings this is a near perfect collection of short videos br br my rating out of 56 mins
1	icky flix is an excellent starting point for anybody with even a vague interest in the residents most of their classic videos are present although earth vs flying saucers and don't be cruel are curiously missing and the concentrates of their various cd rom projects offer tantalizing glimpses into how the ones have been spending their time since they realized mtv was no longer putting them in heavy rotation or indeed showing videos period br br all of the videos on this compilation feature striking imagery and idiosyncratic music with a choice of the original tracks and newly recorded ones and two of them the third reich 'n' roll and one minute movies are in the museum of modern art's permanent collection check out this dvd and find out why
1	this video was my first introduction to the residents and i couldn't stop playing it for the past three days the visuals are dynamite and more inventive and technically complex than any i have ever seen on the big screen or small br br the dvd loses points however for the pointless addition of new music the original residents music is unlike anything else you've ever heard and will really tweak your brain in the best possible way the new music however is uniformly uninteresting and in most cases is rather bad in comparison to some of the classic tracks also the uncompleted vileness fats video feels very incomplete and i could only fathom the plot of the story from extensive reading of the notes on the disc br br speaking of notes on the disc this dvd features lots of cool easter eggs that will probably appeal to long time fans of the residents hint look for icons on the notes pages that shouldn't be there br br from a technical standpoint the disc is one of the best dvd transfers available there is virtually no and only a little edginess in strong contrast points br br kudos for a top notch presentation this disc really deserves your attention
1	as other reviews have stated there are a few missing videos from this collection but what is on this disc is overwhelming there are two separate soundtracks an original recording and a completely redone new performance version any new music from the residents is welcome and i suppose for a first time listener the new version may be more ear friendly but i prefer the original recordings probably simply because they are the originals production of this dvd is amazing new and old videos are all interesting with live performance videos probably the least interesting of what is offered although the snippets of live recordings hidden as easter eggs are extremely welcome this is not a renter this is a must own collection enjoy
1	they were alternative before there was alternative the residents are a band like no other and i love them for it this has all their classics from 'hello reich and to their homage to the great james brown with a take on 'this is a man's man's man's world' but that is just the beginning as a bonus it even has renaldo the loafs hauntingly beautiful for swinging and even features the residents cover of it needless to say i highly recommend the purchase of this dvd i would also recommend buying their latest album 'demons dance alone' it is fantastic br br uncle willie eyeball buddy 502
1	this review contains mild spoilers but not enough to spoil the story br br watched sinking of japan or japan sinks depending on where you live recently a remake of the 1970's movie of the same name which itself was based on best selling novel this movie is a gem of japanese film making it appears that japan is sinking due to a of a plate to the west the americans predict that it would happen in the period of 40 years but according to dr a seemingly scientist it will happen in less than a year the japanese government isn't that convinced but sets up a disaster evacuation plan as well as form a new d1 team to handle the crisis while on a trip to china to negotiate evacuation plans the japanese prime minister was killed and sends the cabinet into a state of panic the d1 team is left to handle most matters and led by the newly elected minister of crisis management dr ex wife she turns instead to dr for advice and he has plans to blow astronomically huge holes under japan to avert the process of sinking br br japan would soon have to negotiate with various countries and persuade them to adopt japanese refugees soon it seems that a lot of countries are reluctant to accept any more due to the sudden influx of japanese in their country and the chaos that follows if this ever happens touch wood i hope ito misaki will be safe she can always stay at my place hee hee the scenes of are really well done showing the havoc suffering and desperation civilians have to face in such disastrous times and the many faces of human beings surface arrogance selfishness bribery bravery br br this is a really well made film the storytelling is solid with an engaging storyline and wonderful acting dr played by was done really well portraying a divorced and often mad scientist who kicks and bashes up stuff his frustration and concerns were very visible and that's a really good thing reiko played by gorgeous shibasaki kou was also played rather well and has the most memorable line in the entire movie go watch it to find out and i fancy that she has a nice acting voice she plays the love interest of toshio played by of smap oh i almost forgot she has really really long hair and there's also a subtle but background love story which is well written and if there's something the japanese do really well it's love stories br br one thing that makes this movie interesting is the technical explanations of the events that occur and if you're interested in geography you'll have a really good time i know i did hehe i can see that they went to great lengths to make this movie's theory believable and the first few graphical displays and explanation were done rather well although you'll have to excuse the famous engrish br br ok now about the effects it's all about the effects isn't it after watching the movie with pure awe i must say that this movie has special effects that are on par or even better with some hollywood productions the volcanic eruptions the massive earthquakes destruction explosions all done splendidly the opening scene is so cool the 1st earthquake catches you by surprise mountains fall the destruction due to volcanic eruptions makes you cringe to actually watch mount fuji heat up is a marvel then you see fall to the ground it's so sad however what i felt was one of the best scenes was the giant tsunami scene which sees rescue operations fail and people left with nowhere to run and no hope to hold on to the ending scene also deserves a mention wonderful stuff if you like effects you'll love this movie br br oh ya every good movie has a great song behind it the seriously addictive keep holding u sung by the super cute and adorable is a duet with and it's simply lovely i feel it suits the movie really well and it shows that no matter what disasters hit us our love and strength would keep us holding on the disaster scenes are handled with orchestra music and at times silence a japanese specialty and really gives a sense of chaos to the destruction on screen oh and did i mention it's a really really really wide screen been going on and on about this movie yeah i loved it and hoping to watch again it does have plot holes but it's all excusable because it was just a wonderful popcorn movie not perfect but really well made i'd give it a 9 out of 10 i'm glad to say that the most expensive movie in japanese history is also one of their best if you haven't watched it you really should today it is a must watch
1	i have seen films come and go in my years and when i see a disaster film i keep hoping i wont be disappointed and with this one i was not in the least the story of a whole country sinking into the ocean was a great concept written by a novelist with intense theories on where this earth is going the characters were top notch and even though i am not japanese i didn't need a translator to give the idea of how people in their most desperate needs can come together for the common good the special effects blew me away i was literally on the edge of my seat watching the tidal waves lava flows and land explosions that must have taken months of work to perfect as for the acting i thought yes this is acting at its best emotions run rampant throughout the film and i cried at the most severe scenes for movie goers alike you don't need to speak or understand japanese to watch this film you can get the idea and feeling from each person and character to understand it well and to follow it along like you are there my hats off to shinji higuchi for directing it i hope he can outdo his work with another mind blowing experience as i said fantastic film
1	the word actually means a small sharp wooden game instrument that is used in a game called a precursor to cricket in india the use of the word as nickname for the principal character is stylish as it signifies one who is sharp fast and can hurt badly when rubbed in the wrong way br br is one of the best movies for vijay and in it is unrivaled in its pace and action the movie never slacks for a moment and keep you always with some exciting action the movie is set in and chennai and its story core is simple a rich landlord tries to a beautiful girl in his town and his unquestionable power and authority prevents the girl from seeking a justice the hero tries to rescue her and the majority of this movie portrays the week in which all this action happens br br a very exciting movie and though the story is nothing new the director and the actors receive praise for the full paced action
1	it's the best movie i've watched this year excellent detail and storyline for a remake br br it presents to you a what if situation wherein the island of japan could totally be wiped out of this earth a thought provoking life and death situation and not to mention all life on earth well in this particular japan it also presents a great and genius solution to this massive tragedy br br horror action suspense sci fi documentary love story and all the human interest story you can get you'll find everything here but i also warn you that it is a real tearjerker the casts actors and all are all excellent better than any hollywood movie br br the thing is this could really happen to anywhere on earth now let me ask you this after you've seen it what would you do if you are faced in this life and death situation
1	i've never watched a file in a language i don't understand just because i wanted to see the movie and i couldn't find it with english subs i don't know how much i missed but it wasn't much probably just specific details which sounds silly until you see the emotional level of this movie and how the characters interact together i want to mention to the from germany there's no reason to feel that he when it comes to commenting on the emotional strength of the film like i said i don't understand japanese or at least only the very small amount i came away with from reading the very lengthy novel pro my favorite all time book which i could not put down took the next day off from work just to finish reading i don't know if there's an english dubbed or subbed version but if the film but if there is i'd love to see it the film was incredible in japanese anything better is icing of the cake maegi
1	i don't know what dick steel was talking about but i found this film to be one of japan's most thrilling epics to date as for armageddon or deep impact or for that matter the day after tomorrow is pale in comparison for what i know of films most of the catastrophes in films are basically run of the mill asteroid flicks or one of which of global warming this how ever ran a different course a course of natural means where the earth's crust is beginning to erode to such a degree that it will take another piece of land with it for the ride what the scientific teams had to do was create a way to stop the erosion from going to far and sinking japan altogether in most cases this would simply be called shifting on steroids i found the characters rather appealing in every way from the child who lost her mother only to face her own demise among unfamiliar friends or the rescue girl who does all the she can to save lives in the face of disaster or a man who thought he could change her mind not to be such a dare devil and go with him to safety only to become the hero himself and save his homeland and let's not forget how the rest of the world just them all back only to be forgotten by having the world turning their backs on the japanese citizens who cried for help this was a great movie in all aspects what dick is trying to say is that this movie was not hollywood made that it was made in japan that it had characters which rival other actors around the world that the effects are very gorgeous as he mentioned but it's all he was waiting for and nothing else he lacks the vision of what's important to everyone and why this film had every element of feeling of grandeur and of humanity i thought this film was top rate and i have seen many disaster films to know that japan sinks was possibly one of the most original and well thought out projects i have witnessed i really hope shinji higuchi will make another of such films oh and by the way i am not japanese though in many ways i wish i was i am canadian born and raised and an avid movie buff in all aspects visions are bitter and not worth the effort to be recognized as an opinion dick you should watch it with a more open heart and mind don't just look for the eye candy which makes a films content look for what's more important and understand it they may not be american but the japanese have cornered the market lately for some of the most breath taking and down right gritty film making to date which is why spending 25 000 000 is just what the doctor ordered you heard right 25 000 000 to make this film now you tell me was it worth it or was it worth it because american actors weren't in it
1	as spectacle it's hard to fault the japanese people have benefited from their intimate relationship with the sea and the concept of the film implies that an entire world and way of life at risk thanks to its volcanic heritage from the standpoint of reality it's rather silly to have a drama wherein the entirety of japan vanishes under the waves why just japan br br so presume instead that we have movie reality fueled by spectacle and popcorn and some may find this quite affecting compared to adventures with japanese radioactive monsters this comes off as more mature and better paced the emotional element is underplayed and it really works it loses a bit with the overblown theme song at the climax however br br is credible probably not but the thrilling eruptions and the relaxed pacing make for a more pleasing entertainment that one night expect
1	i actually caught an ad for japan sinks in a japanese magazine last year and wondered what the heck it was until i saw the trailer for the film it was then i remembered that i had seen the english translation of novel some years back i got it and it was quite good as well as chillingly realistic it's enough to make the reader dread hearing any news about earthquakes in japan br br now i've read the book and seen this 2006 movie version the first movie came out in 1973 and you know what i thought the movie was quite good even if there are major changes from novel to film but that's understandable the story is simple a major shift will cause japan to sink within a year massive earthquakes volcanic eruptions and rock the country as frantic efforts are made to evacuate as many people as possible one scientist has a plan that could stop the sinking of the country and save what's left of the landmass but can it be implemented in time i saw japan sinks at otakon 2007 and while there were a couple of problems i had with it it does run a bit too long and a couple of the character moments were a little too sappy i was nonetheless blown away the sheer concept of an entire nation sinking into the sea was made terrifyingly real and the effects were some of the best i've ever seen rivaling anything that hollywood has done the film also plays no favorites with the main characters with some not making it to the closing credits br br frankly i've been surprised by some of the negative comments made about this film difference of opinions i guess personally i enjoyed it and i've read the original book
1	another end of the world film that begs comparison to the abysmal day after tomorrow following the same sort of structure as dat but with a distinctly japanese style how does it fare that depends on your taste for japanese melodrama br br i found that the small human touches to be what makes this film compelling for most of it's 2 hours also the frequent title cards explaining some of the science the effects are probably the best i've seen in a japanese film and they compare very well to anything out of hollywood many of the disaster scenes are truly horrifying even though the human carnage is usually off screen and that is one of the drawbacks while the terror of thousands of on screen deaths like in the recent war of the worlds might have too overwhelming we also don't really get a sense of the chaos of an entire nation crumbling into the ocean a few scenes touch on the chaos but for the most part this part of the story is barely touched on regardless this film works on a lot of levels and is way more realistic then dat that is until the end br br unfortunately the story hinges itself on one clichéd plot device and another plot device that would be at home in the 1960's japanese earth in peril film after the reasonably good science and mostly realistic take on the disaster this makes for a bit of disappointment the sudden stopping of the film for a pop love song doesn't help either unless you like the song this made the exciting ending a bit of a drag for me br br the overall direction is good and the art design is excellent acting is all good as well recommended
1	though not a greek i have had a lifelong interest in the eastern empire its fall in was the greatest loss to christianity in its entire history yet while the easter empire is not a topic much discussed in american intellectual circles the us did not merely mimic golden public architecture the us is much absorbed in the fated byzantine historical cycle and now has faced many of the crises involving certain people of a middle eastern extraction about whom it is said that there is a slight tendency for excessive exuberance on religious matters which humbled great i wonder if the loss of the ability to speak plainly was the first sign post on the road to disaster br br john is to be credited not only for his excellent production but also for his joyful enthusiasm for the subject which is most refreshing br br not recommended for americans who like political correctness
1	if you want an excellent survey of byzantine history done in colorful fashion this is for you this documentary would also be excellent for educators who are teaching about roman or medieval history this documentary is divided into three portions first dealing with the fall of the western roman empire the rise of christianity and the beginning of the byzantine empire the second video deals with byzantine diplomacy and the iconoclastic controversy the third and final video explains the decline and fall of the series is shot in several countries and beautifully integrates byzantine history into the realities of the modern world showing the place of this civilization as part of human civilization in general do take the time to watch
1	this is yet another gem from the pen of daniele thompson in fact that same year 1999 she wrote and directed la the first of three writer director credits so far belle maman is first of all 'french' whatever that means which is of course different things to different folks the premise is simple at the altar where he is marrying seigner the groom vincent lindon gets his first glimpse of her mother catherine deneuve and suffers what the french call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight in theory the story is either 1 over right then and there assuming he called the wedding off or else 2 just the beginning as he goes through with the wedding and thus lives a lie until it is resolved one way or the other thompson veers towards 2 but not without hitting us with the odd subplot along the way like for example deneuve's cigar smoking lesbian mother line in real life if anyone cares is in a long term relationship with stephane who co stars here and throws in a brilliant set piece in a luxuriously appointed men's room at the wedding reception which takes the form of a hilarious song and dance consummate writer that she is thompson also the comedy with drama like the brilliant climactic scene where vincent finally spews out his feelings for deneuve at a family gathering whilst simultaneously wrecking the joint this is one to savour again and again
1	wow it's been a long time since i've last seen such a hilarious movie like this one i've never been a great fanatic about french movies but ever since i fell in love with the beauty and the acting skills of catherine deneuve i decided to see all of her movies however i didn't think this one would be so fantastic as it turned out to be lucky me that i bought it even though i had some doubts this is really feel good time film with class and quality there are some great social topics and moral drama's involved that are very close to today's modern way of living which are shown very beautiful and realistic i also liked the dancing scene in the men's room a lot but my favourite is the rather timid attempt of catherine deneuve to sing she brings it the way she is with lots of grace and modesty at the same time very tempting further on i would also like to express my respect and admiration for line who played a fantastic role i didn't even know she acted i've only known her for her music so don't wait any longer and go see the movie you'll be surprised in many ways
1	if u haven't seen vijay in or ghillie go watch it wow its devastatingly hilarious i don't know if the brilliant director was being serious or not there are tons of hot guys in this one look out for someone who calls the one with the brilliant braids devastatingly hot his teeth are brilliant as well vijay rocks cries every 5 seconds it is very deep watch it you won't regret it there are some great laughs in this one if you don't speak tamil learn it then you will get all the inside jokes it is one for the whole family except maybe the violent bits should be skipped i've seen this movie around eleven times and counting br br wow
1	or at least you feel pretty high after this movie it's the kind of film that the word rollicking really can be applied to though it's rollicking in that entirely casual intelligent and open minded way that belongs to the french br br no catherine deneuve does not spend the entire movie high sorry to disappoint any puritans with an agenda but the one scene to which i refer involves all the members of a wedding party and it's a musical number anyway everything fits pretty seamlessly together and the unusual bright colorful family deneuve's mother is a lesbian deneuve her bon vivant daughter alternately entertain and annoy us as real families do but since it's a movie they mostly entertain br br don't want to say too much about the ending but deneuve ends up marrying a man about twenty years younger this is entirely believable as we see the relationship develop over time and as the two are naturally drawn closer and closer together the ending is a happy one and like the rest of the movie satisfyingly quirky as well as pitch perfect
1	starting with a my name is joe like scene in alcoholics anonymous careers into a mad spiral of infidelity double standards and clandestine affairs but what do you expect from a family of lawyers br br a genuinely funny film with some of the most outrageous characters since the birdcage plot and subplot are intertwined with surreal scenes of decadent parisian life ever been to a wedding reception in the gents toilet where the brides grandmother and her deranged girlfriend are smoking dope and cracking blue jokes no me either leading to a final scene of almost symbolism br br excellent
1	i always loved french movies because i think they are filled with much more emotion and sense than the americans this film is a gem br br starting with the wedding which is so funny that you just want to join them and in the end where the little family kids tell us who is with who which is extremly funny catherine deneuve is simply hot and so good that it is absolutely possible that a young man can fall in love with her and lindon is perfect for that role the best scene except the wedding party is in the family reunion where antoine has got mad and yells his feelings to lea in front of the family it is such a shame that i could buy this film only from the french and not from the english so i have to learn in french to enjoy watching it
1	for all of us american deneuve fans this little gem is a little tough to get ahold of fortunately i found myself so wrapped up in the short bits that i saw previewed on youtube com that i was willing to go to any lengths i found it on ebay com ordered it directly from france and changed my laptop so it would play region 2 dvds let me tell you that it was well worth it be warned there are no subtitles pathe shouldn't have released this on dvd koch should've they're good about the subtitles i don't speak a word of french i can utter a syllable here and there order a drink and whatnot that having been said this film was a treat anyway i couldn't fully appreciate the supposed bawdy humor or the witty dialogue watching deneuve and her cohorts was enough for me i understood what was going on without need of the dialogue it really says something about a film when those who can't speak the language enjoy it br br the cinematography is wonderful london is adorable as the smitten son on law loved the lesbian mom and of course what can i possibly say about our dear deneuve she is one of a kind those eyes that smile i could watch her films all day she really goes beyond beauty people always say she's gorgeous well yes she is but she is also very talented i believed her every second of the way her conversation about chocolate and vanilla with london is too sweet her character even gets arrested for smoking dope with some 15 year old in the street not to be missed fly to france and buy this if you have to great 10
1	i will admit i possibly missed tiny moments when i wasn't paying proper attention but i got enough of the story to agree that it is a great family film from director lionel jefferies who played grandpa potts in chitty chitty bang bang basically it starts with a happy upper middle class family living in victorian london one night the father is visited by two strangers and he leaves with them and does not return they move to a cottage in the country and here the children bobbie jenny agutter who i first saw in child's play 2 phyllis sally thomsett and peter gary warren keep their spirits up with their fascination for the nearby railroad everyday they wave faithfully to the passengers in the passing trains and with courage and vigilance they also avoid an accident and are made heroes their kindness makes them friends including important people who can help find the mystery of their missing father also starring dinah sheridan as mother mrs waterbury bernard cribbins as albert perks william mervyn as old gentleman peter as doctor forrest ann lancaster as ruth and gordon whiting as russian it was number 29 on the 100 greatest family films and it was number 24 on the 50 greatest british films very good
1	the railway children at least this 1970 movie version written and directed by that long time british character actor lionel jeffries is an unmitigated classic it tells a childhood story with great simplicity and charm the sentimentality is muted the evocation of childhood adventures is involving and jeffries brings cleverness and style to his production br br the waterbury family is leading an idyllic life in edwardian london the father is prosperous the mother is beautiful and loving the children are well mannered and affectionate their home is warm and cozy then one night during the christmas holidays two men appear at the doorstep talk quietly to the father and then take him away in a moment the lives of mrs waterbury dinah sheridan and bobbie 14 jenny agutter phyllis 12 sally thomsett and young peter gary warren have been changed only their fortitude and good spirits are going to see them through now teetering into poverty mrs waterbury takes her children to live in a musty old brick house in the countryside near a rail line not too far from a small village with a train station the children discover the rail and regularly sit on a small hill to wave at the passengers as the train chugs by one day an old gentleman going to his business in the city looks up from his newspaper and finds himself waving back it's not long before he will play an important part in the story br br as time passes mrs waterbury brings all her love and intelligence to bear on her children she begins to write stories to earn money she teaches them their lessons and provides a home of warmth and security for them the story however is about these three children especially bobbie at 14 she is old enough to want to share her mother's worries yet young enough to enjoy the adventures she has with her sister and brother they find a poor man at the station who cannot speak english they discover he is a russian refugee who no longer knows where his wife and child are they insist he must come home with them and their mother takes him in before long the children have written a large sign to the old gentlemen on the train asking for his help they help a young man taking part in a who breaks his leg in a train tunnel soon he is at their home recuperating they decide to have a birthday party for the station master a man with few friends and several children who is a stickler for his dignity it's not long before the children help him realize the difference between friendship and charity in other words the three children encounter all sorts of problems in their childhood adventures and manage to be instrumental in seeing that all the problems have happy endings br br but what of their own problems bobbie finally learns from her mother that her father was taken away because he had been accused of treason of giving state secrets to the russians will bobbie be able to find a way to help will the old gentleman be something more than simply an old gentleman on a passing train will their father's case be reopened will there be a happy ending br br jenny agutter was almost 18 when she filmed her part she plays the 14 year old bobbie with great naturalness and charm as important as the other players are especially dinah sheridan as the mother agutter is the heart of the story for me it is jenny talent and lionel style and restraint that make this movie so memorable the story's problems come with no serious doubt but that they will be solved and jeffries does not just give us an expertly adapted and directed movie he adds touches that are barely noticed but which charm us this might include just a split second of a freeze frame as two people talk or a slow close up of a small yellow in the grass outside home then a slow pull back from a yellow oil lamp being turned up inside or the realization that a delightful interior shot or a view of the green countryside or a look at the train station from a hill all suddenly recall those charming edwardian hand tinted drawings of a perfect by gone time br br perhaps this gentle story can't compete for the time kids need nowadays to perfect their nintendo monster skills i'm almost positive it would never capture the attention of most of their parents especially those weaned on batman and leone still it's a perfectly put together movie and shouldn't be forgotten as an aside 19 years later the story was retold as a television program this time jenny agutter played the mother
1	i think together all the reviewers have captured this film really well i have seen it many many times but i still feel a sense of joy and warmth just as i did the first time my emotional response to this film never seems to fade the final scene certainly brings me to tears but so does the scene between perks and the children on his birthday and as for the kindly gentleman something else is going on with that character the generous provider and solver of problems he knows everything about everything and has connections everywhere a perfect father to run to and make us feel safe i do not know how the film does it but it touches something very english deep inside which has long gone from our daily experience but yet we all instantly recognise and yearn for again
1	in victorian times a father is separated from his family when he is falsely accused of treason and they are sent to live in the country the children adapt to their new situation make friends and enlist the help of a kind old man they wave to on the train to help reunite their family br br actors who direct movies are often not very good at it jeffries however the great veteran actor of dozens of british comedy classics is one of the few exceptions his brilliant conception he also wrote the script from the novel by e of a classic british children's story is what raises this film to art whilst the story may be highly idealised the wonderful performances and the fabulously evocative yorkshire dales settings combine to make a truly memorable movie the photography by arthur is the definition of good movie making not a shot is wasted in telling the story but at the same time the images combine to create a fabulously romantic atmosphere agutter is simply perfect as the kind hearted bobbie okay i fell in love with her at an early age but i defy anyone to disagree and cribbins whose comic acting pedigree is on a par with jeffries is unforgettable as perks the humble yet proud railway porter this is a film out of time romantic charming hugely enjoyable and with a beautifully naive sense of good hearted kindness towards all
1	i try to catch this film each time it's shown on tv which happily is quite often but i keep forgetting to video it as it is i practically know the script by heart but that doesn't stop me having a good cry in fact it probably adds to it as i cry knowing what's coming next it's such a lovely film well made well cast good photography i love it one of my top ten films
1	i have watched this movie countless times and never failed to be charmed by it's homely simplicity sincerity and goodness great characterizations by all of the cast and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in 1970 and she still touches me today shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day the nicest present i could have had
1	is the best movie of vijay one of the biggest hit in his career as i had not seen the movie so i could enjoy this movie even more the story is about a girl wanting to escape the clutches of a local goon who wants to forcibly marry her since he is a goon so no body is ready to help the heroine vijay who had come to play a match there sees this and decides to help her the rest of the movie is how vijay helps her how the girl ultimately escapes the clutches of the goon the father's political cronies the movie has lot of the edge of the seat thriller moments and will keep the viewer engaged till the end vijay is as usual very good in role of the player the bunch of vijay friends all have done their job competently a special mention has to be made about the villain of the movie the villain's character has been properly etched out and has portrayed it very well surprisingly for the first time i felt sympathy for the villain in the end the dialogue hi has really caught on with the masses the music by is brilliant and the song is a rage all over has to be credited with such a nice masala movie which will be enjoyed by not just die hard vijay fans but also by the general tamil movie audience all over the world
1	an extremely powerful film that certainly isn't appreciated enough it's impossible to describe the experience of watching it the recent uk television adaptation was shameful too ordinary and bland this original manages to imprint itself in your memory
1	the railway children was on tv again this weekend and i had forgotten how good it was br br if i have a criticism it is that the episodic structure sometimes shows a little too clearly there being little narrative flow from sequence to sequence the charm and beauty of the film are such that this matters very little however br br i won't revisit the comments of others other than to add my vote for the final scene on the platform as being possibly the single most emotional scene in the history of british cinema as a cynical old git passing through middle age rather too quickly i too find i cannot even think of that moment without being hit with a severe case of i've got something in my eye in fact it's not just something in my eye it moves things around inside me too with that beautiful happy pain we sometimes feel br br and jenny agutter was exquisitely beautiful in this film standing with one foot in childhood and one in young womanhood and bringing qualities of both to her portrayal of a girl having to grow up rather too quickly br br plus a quick for bernard cribbins regarded mostly as a lightweight actor he deftly created a perks of great humanity
1	proudly and defiantly working class porter perks mr b cribbins is eventually won over by upper middle class family down on their luck father mr i incarcerated for treason for which the penalty was death in those days lest it be forgotten mother the very beautiful miss d sheridan brave and resourceful loyal and loving and principally older daughter miss j agutter tottering on the cusp of adolescence hurt and confused about the fate of her father mr perks like many working people of his time will have nothing to do with anything that he considers smacks of charity and it is a key moment in the movie when he finally accepts that birthday gifts he has been given by the children do not compromise his principles although the lovely miss agutter has received all the accolades it is mr cribbins and miss sheridan whose performances dominate the railway children they both know how edwardian society works from opposite ends of the spectrum but there is an unspoken mutual respect and understanding between them but this is basically a movie about family in an era when a mother can kidnap her own daughter and hold her to ransom and be considered as socially inept rather than unfit to live in decent society and when two human beings can beat and kick a baby to death without being charged with murder family may be seen as an old fashioned elitist racist even homophobic concept but a century ago it was the glue that held society together at all levels mr and miss sheridan's families are archetypal for the age strong and loving sticking together against outside influences integral units with a moral certainty mocked in the 21st century what might seem to be a dull preachy political tract is turned by mr lionel jeffries into a delightful hymn to hope faith optimism and courage that all those attributes were once considered the norm and are now too often the subject of scorn and cynicism is a reflection on our society rather than miss no one with more than a passing concern for the human condition can fail to be considerably moved by this quite perfect movie
1	edith best book has been adapted into a truly magnificent film i love it the film itself has gorgeous cinematography and fine realisation of the subject matter the ending is enough to have you in tears as it is so beautifully done lionel has directed some truly excellent films like the amazing mr but this is his best film as director by a mile the costumes were absolutely lovely that matched the beauty of the countryside and the sparkling and conveniently faithful script helped matters however it is the quality of the acting that holds this film together as it is nothing shorter than incredible dinah sheridan is suitably sincere as the mother a much needed characteristic of the character and bernard cribbins was hilarious as perks in fact i preferred perks on film as he isn't as humorous in the book the children were perfect gary warren and sally thomsett both gave spirited performances but it is jenny enchanting portrayal of bobbie that impressed me the most another special mention is the gorgeous music by johnny douglas the title music reminded me of charlie chaplin's smile in conclusion a funny and poignant masterpiece that is better than the book i think 10 10 bethany cox
1	what is enjoyable about watching random movies at random times is that one never quite knows what to expect or where the next great piece of cinema will emerge recently my viewing has taken the form of stapled classics like raging bull or raiders of the lost ark but this time my vcr took me away from modern conveniences and plopped me right down in front of lionel the railway children this is a skillfully directed film about three youthful children a mysterious event with their father relocation to the open fields of england and eventually the rewards inherited by merely waving at trains at first glance this seemingly simple children's film doesn't seem all that hopeful as it has been lost on vhs rarity for some time but within the first fifteen minutes of this film one realizes that it is more than just your common place children's movie – railway children was created during a time when purity was more than just saying no when family meant everything and where adventure was ready for you around every railroad track bend this is more than an adorable film it has amazing cinematic techniques used it keeps the regular viewer glued to the screen with unanswered questions and gives three perfect companions to follow along this 110 minute voyage railway children is a lost treasure that needs to be seen by families and film aficionados alike br br there are several moments that stand out proudly in railway children that transform this from mediocrity to excellence – one happens to be our three children bobby phyllis and peter modern cinema assures us that these three children cannot provide ample darkness laughter and insight into the world surrounding them but children prove otherwise from intelligently spoken lines both from acting and the script to sincere kindness and dedication to this small village all the way to the final meeting at that train stop these children are more than just child stars advancing a story they are leading us with emotion persuasion and a realism unseen by today's children there is more imagination packed in this small vhs than i have witnessed in film for years a favorite scene that could have been handled with generality of which i have seen in other films was the birthday scene for bobby the way that jeffries floats her between guests and gifts was exciting and refreshing keeping our eyes excited about each scene as well as our mind another scene that captured my attention was when the children were working on gifts for perks when asking one man for a gift jeffries has him merely state no i will not i don't like perks the children's reaction is hilarious – providing moments for both children and adults to enjoy throughout filmed in the 1970s this tiny feature provides genuine laughs than most modern comedies it is a creative film coupled with great choreography and direction br br that is to say as much as i loved this film it wasn't perfect jeffries does a great job of keeping us guessing as to what happened to father but it did feel like the event occurred the children were kept in the dark and it suddenly resolved itself by the end more detail to father not much more would have solidified his character and given us the opportunity to see more of the children's reaction also there is one scene in this film one of those grandiose wide screen shots of the english countryside that is just breath taking but when looking a bit closer you happen to see cars in the background it made me chuckle but didn't distract too much from the overall picture cinema like this is sorely missed today and oddly it seems that only the british have the gumption to produce it films like love actually or vicar of dibley demonstrates the power and excitement for community towns places where everyone knows everyone and we aren't afraid to be neighborly this is more of a theme that american audiences could have more of – more understanding of what is happening outside instead of remaining secluded to your own events br br overall i loved railway children i didn't know what to expect when i first put it in the vhs player but from the opening scene to the exploding train set to perks birthday jeffries proved that he could handle the most child friendly story with ease his ability to make the child actors feel like real characters to involve the adults less and to involve the children like they were adults was outstanding this is a film to be viewed as a strong alternative to anything disney releases the continually occurring themes of friendship kindness to strangers and forgiveness blasts through the tv with grace and power railway children is more than just a kid's film it is a feature that should be a staple to modern audience viewing not only does it give a great visual to the english countryside but it also teaches and shows how life would be greater with an emphasis on imagination and courage instead of fighting any cgi bad guys br br grade ½ out of
1	this brings back so many childhood memories i'm not old i'm 19 it's brill the trains the old house the fallen runner the really scary landslide well it is when you're 6 the drama if the children can stop the train or will it crash this is a children's film without a doubt but it offers great harmless no blood guts guns etc for children and it's got bernard cribbins in it who's cool 8 10
1	the book the railway children is a children's book published in 1906 by edith an early british socialist who had very strong views about the importance of family values for the upbringing of children and the story it told was presumably intended to be contemporary somewhat surprisingly it seems to retain a significant appeal for today's children a hundred years later br br a film adaptation of an edwardian classic children's story with the principal roles those of the children does not sound very exciting to most film goers in this day and age but a really great performance by jenny agutter who near the start of her long and distinguished acting career played the part of the oldest girl roberta bobby combined with remarkable work by the script writer and director lionel jeffries and outstanding photography by arthur have made this a film that is still not to be missed and one which most of its viewers find quite memorable it is remarkable that this book set in the year 1905 was filmed five times between 1951 and 2000 four of them by the bbc for british television and all of these versions are not only still greatly admired but also very highly regarded something that user comments on this database will confirm even though this may seem almost inconceivable for a nostalgic period story designed to appeal primarily to children since i have not seen the four bbc tv versions these comments relate exclusively to the 1970 film version produced for showing in cinemas unlike most films of children's books 'the railway children' may appeal more to adults than to children the structure of family life has changed so much in the last century that many children may feel totally lost by the way in which it is depicted in the film whereas many older adults may find it has a considerable nostalgic appeal perhaps compensating for this the children featured in the film are full of life and vitality whilst the adult characters although well rounded tend to mostly be the story is a mature one which deals with love support and encouragement it is not only timeless but capable of appealing to all ages it can fairly be described as sentimental and more than a little idealised but it is never in any way mawkish and that rarely justified adjective fits it like a glove br br spoiler ahead br br the film starts with its upper middle class edwardian family celebrating christmas in a comfortable and fairly spacious london home when two unexpected visitors call and take father who is a senior government officer away with them mother has to move to a very small cottage alongside the railway in a remote part of yorkshire and the children gradually build a new life mainly associated with the railway and the few trains that pass this life proves quite eventful in small ways and the elder daughter bobby grows up rapidly as she takes over more responsibilities from her mother at one point she an accident to the train when her sharp eyes spot that a landslide has created a natural hazard father's story is never given much emphasis but he is never forgotten and it gradually becomes apparent that he is incarcerated and suspected of treason finally these suspicions are cleared up we are not told how or why and he reappears unexpectedly at the local station to rejoin his family br br for many years this film was not available in any home video format in north america but anchor bay created a dvd from it three years ago so they clearly recognised that this quite simple film has not yet lost its appeal for anyone who has not got one already i would very strongly recommend rushing out to buy a copy of this dvd whilst it is still available you would be most unlikely to be disappointed unless you have become totally cynical or your minimum requirements for a film include buckets of blood and or intense sex scenes
1	perhaps once in a generation a film comes along that is perfection for me the railway children is that film a timeless classic that was directed and performed most beautifully it depicts all that is worthwhile in humanity and climaxes in the conquest of love and faith over cruel injustice every performance is a gem though bobbie stands out and like judy garland as dorothy before her jenny agutter makes it impossible for us to imagine anyone else in the role br br the world is all the better for this film and the children of today would be much the better for watching it br br of course like so many young men of my generation i fell hopelessly in love with jenny agutter and her hold was as strong when i had the great good fortune to meet her a few days ago the bewitching smile and voice like dripping honey were still there to send me weak at the knees as they first did all those years ago
1	apparently bernard cribbins ad libbed nearly all of his lines if you can sit through the oh my daddy bit without then you really need to get in touch with your inner child trust me i'm a 41 year old bloke
1	this is a film that i love above all others i try to revisit the main film locations in and whenever i can which help to re establish those magical qualities that this film seems to embody so uniquely recalling a gentler and more mannered age with its unspoken assertions that people really do matter that family life is not just another disposable and that life really is worth living though sometimes we may doubt that in short a film that soon brings tears to my eyes helped perhaps by the deeply evocative music some tunes are jaunty like the tune played on a trombone sometimes with spoons the stirring melody when the family first set off for yorkshire not knowing what lies ahead and the haunting little tune played on a solo clarinet or is it an that precedes sudden child felt changes in fortune br br this is as much a film for adults as for children appealing to the eternal child in us all a key that effortlessly those deep and apparently long lost values and feelings buried inside us which are normally swept aside by the demands of modern everyday life this is a film about basic human goodness and decency in which we the viewers are left to make of it what we will and there are welcome touches of humour sometimes added for good measure such as the arrival of the aunt or on a more earthy level the bedroom scene on birthday all right bert as it's your birthday i must know every scene every line of this film and yet so great is the magic that each time i watch it is like i am opening a box of delights for the first time each moment sometimes humorous sometimes well very different as peter says in the film it's perfect more perfect than you know and so it is
1	brilliant screenplay br br the screenplay is very tight that u will be gelled in seat br br this movie is an example for movie can survive only with screenplay and no story needed br br story is very simple that u can write in one line but screenplay was amazing br br brilliant performance by vijay and br br though plot is similar to director adapted only the plot tamil version is much fast paced than telugu br br movie travels straight without any chance of deviation though u can understand each and every characters back drop br br keep going
1	the railway children is perhaps my favorite film of all time simply for the brilliant acting of the cast the warm humane interaction of the 3 children and the people they encounter living near the railway in the beautiful english countryside jenny is especially believable in her role as the older sibling of her sister phyllis and brother peter the adventures they discover and relationships formed in their new home and surrounding area are very real and fascinating the scenery is lovely the trains a part of britain's vast history and the soundtrack is very moving this heartwarming film never fails to bring tears to my eyes each and every time as well as makes me homesick i often wonder if i should have been born in that era as i think i would have fitted in just fine as people treated each other with such chivalry and decency br br in short i consider this film somewhat of a masterpiece and a must see for anyone who considers themselves a 'sensitive or caring type' edith wrote this story around the beginning of the 1900's and what a wonderful story it is more kids today need to read this or see the film instead of playing violent video games if we had more films of this nature the world would become a better place
1	this almost perfect cinematic rendition of edith popular children's novel follows the lives of roberta bobbie phyllis and peter and their mother after their father is unfairly accused of treason and sent to prison they go to live in an almost house in the country which stands near a railway line – mum writes stories to make enough money for food and candles while the children spend much of their time around the railway station and specifically waving to one particular train to their love to father' br br always an involving and clever novel the characters are here brought to life under the perceptive direction of lionel jeffries better known as a fine character actor jenny agutter plays bobbie while sally thomsett and gary warren are her sister and brother their mother is dinah sheridan while the other memorable characters are played by bernard cribbins perks the railway man and william mervyn the old gentleman on the train br br 'the railway children' is gentle entertainment from another age but does its job beautifully as we watch bobbie grow up with the worries of an absent parent jostling against her own needs both to be alone and to have fun we can only rejoice when events come together at the close of the picture throughout we have a sense of time and place – be it from the steam trains the university paper chase or the red worn by the girls and used to avert disaster
1	this wonderful film has never failed to move me the colour convincing cast and stunning scenery all make big contributions this production unlike the later remake by carlton is more impressionistic and presented more from the children's own perspective it on certain episodes from e charming story rather than trying to make a somewhat more documentary warts and all style that carlton adopts above all the superb musical score of the late johnny douglas underpins the story throughout adding extra emotional depth the net result is a truly formidable combination of sensory experiences that cumulatively present the poignant story of the railway children br br one uncomfortable factor for the viewer to ponder throughout this film is how things have changed since those times and in many ways for the worse yes maybe many of us no longer have to use outside toilets and travel in horse drawn carts but what about the quality of life in general consider the foul mouthed celebrities who now grace our tv screens their language is now apparently considered perfectly acceptable consider too the fragile here today gone tomorrow aspects of so many of today's plus all the single mothers whatever happened to that institution called marriage when people accepted each others' flaws but still remained together loving their children these details add extra when watching this marvellous film br br i hope that as generations pass children will still be able to enjoy this film not to mention certain adults
1	i avoided this film as a boy because i thought it would be fights or shooting cops robbers cowboys or indians it was definitely not a cool film to like so i didn't see until i was in my twenties and found it one of the most beautiful captivating films i have seen all the actors deliver the characterisations perfectly and each emotion is drawn from the viewer scene by scene the filming and direction are deceptively simple but feel so natural and drew me completely into the story my two favourite scenes are birthday party and the scene on the station platform near the end directed and edited to perfection the quality and phrasing of jenny voice when she calls my daddy ' wrenches emotion from the viewer tears are welling in my eyes as i think of it br br this adaptation isn't just a movie it is a piece of precious art as well as being the perfect example of what all film makers should be striving to of an emotional experience
1	this covers just about every area of the creative process and goes through the three stages chronologically with the main focus squarely placed on the production there are documentaries that go into more detail and cover the other two groups better this consists of artwork behind the scenes footage clips of the movie and many interviews with a running time that comes in at just over two hours the audience is entitled to a lot of information given that this is nearly the same length that the film itself is it could be argued that a lot of the time is spent on the people with the craft and the result of their collaborative efforts coming in second this is well done with tight editing it gets into the technology some and reveals how certain effects were achieved this spends a lot of time on the physical training in preparation for the fighting and such you do get nice candid shots of the people crew and actors alike the ultimate matrix 10 disc set of this also holds nearly three hours of music in a simple system with individual track selection and a play all function about 38 minutes worth of material in addition to the title itself in various featurettes the original release however has several very brief extras including clips of the making of the sequels a preview of the animatrix and yuen wo blocking tapes a complete run through of a couple of the biggest martial arts sequences with stunt performers and almost the exact cinematography with the same shots and angles of those bits in the finished silver screen effort the language is quite strong but rather infrequent nearly non existent i recommend either version of this to anyone who enjoys the concept and or wants to know about how they put the first one together 7 10
1	long trailer whoever said that has got to be joking this has got to be one of the most in depth behind the scenes or making of documentary ever made how can it be a trailer when several minutes are spent telling the audience how the movie was conceptualized and then brought to the studios this documentary also spends lots and lots of time detailing how stunts were done and the new technologies created to achieve them then it shows us how woo team came up with the fight scenes along with blocking tapes that pretty much put to shame the actual scenes with the actors there is stuff mentioned about matrix reloaded but there's hardly anything really if you are a real fan of the matrix you have to see this documentary the original documentary in the dvd is good but incomplete compared to this one for instance it never explained why keanu wore a neck brace in the original documentary but that is explained in revisited the revisited dvd also shows carrie ann moss spraining her ankle during the lobby scene and being really distraught because she feels like she's letting the crew down and that's just the tip of the iceberg so ignore that just a long trailer review and go check it out for yourself you won't regret it casual matrix fans need not apply
1	i am salivating for the sequels i needed something to keep me from going insane with tension anxiety what if it isn't as good and constant lack of information i needed something to calm me a little something to pass the time other than of course the matrix this was just the thing br br i found it informative like the part about keanu's neck and some of it was funny i pitied carrie anne soooo much when she said there was only one bathroom and all those guys i found only one problem with it given that 95 of the people there were as a matter of fact male they just kinda let their mouths run wild and there was language in it it's not near as bad as the shawshank cussing runs but that one scene were keanu is describing a bad day plug your ears if you are little br br it was entertaining and was just what i needed it is what all matrix fans who are going nuts need to keep them quiet they mention a tiny bit about the sequels and someone almost gives something away but he catches himself in time shoot it gives you almost no spoilers but it is great to have if you are a matrix head like me br br there is no spoon
1	what could ever happen in a dull texan town in summer well a bunch of teenagers find out a few things can and do happen br br it turns out the mexican werewolf of this story is nothing less than el and the movie unlike the name would suggest is not a remake or lookalike of the american werewolf movies but something completely different br br overall for an obviously low budget movie it's not bad some clever camera work quite decent looking traditional creature and gore effects and for once not all knowing people that can and do make mistakes like shooting a colleague thinking it's the big bad beast and are baffled by things they could not possibly know br br sit down at this expecting a blockbuster million dollar production and you will turn it off in disgust after a short while sit down at this expecting a bit of entertainment and a relatively simple story and it's quite good overall it gets an 8 10 from me for being creative having ok acting and pulling off some good work for the budget this movie had
1	i saw the movie in as the closing film of film festival i didn't know anything about it but right now i'm glad i didn't refuse the chance to see ding a ling less it is one of the funniest movies i've ever watched and believe me i've seen zillions of movies i'm a film critic clever script and dialogs smart details what else can i say an indie masterpiece with a totally unique style of humor one can't stop by wonder what he's capable of right now ding a ling less was shot five years ago and i'm sure the director is more mature now i heard that his next feature will be a political satire and i really can't wait to see that too among with his previous works like house of pancakes
1	there are films that make careers for george romero it was night of the living dead for kevin smith clerks for robert rodriguez el mariachi add to that list absolutely amazing ding a ling less flawless film making and as assured and as professional as any of the aforementioned movies i haven't laughed this hard since i saw the full monty and even then i don't think i laughed quite this hard so to speak talent is considerable ding a ling less is so chock full of double entendres that one would have to sit down with a copy of this script and do a line by line examination of it to fully appreciate the uh breadth and width of it every shot is beautifully composed a clear sign of a sure handed director and the performances all around are solid there's none of the over the top scenery chewing one might've expected from a film like this ding a ling less is a film whose time has come
1	ghillie a remake of the telugu is thankfully a clarified version of the original it packs the same punch and true to his cinematic brilliance delivers it with style and panache a flagging career with the entry of the likes of surya and on the fray got the much needed uplift with this movie this might well prove to be the best movie vijay has ever been on considering the choices he has been making since then the hard working actor seems to have lost his bearing what with talented new being accepted both by the industry and public alike br br the tightly snug script which runs at a neck break speed revolves around a willful youngster aspiring to make a mark in the game of a popular game among boys in india the events following the chance encounter with his rescue of the girl in distress and how he juggles with the aspirations of his friends and his own forms the and end of the movie vijay fits as a 't' into the role and essays a subdued and believable portrayal of the boy next door br br has more than a stereotyped tamil heroine mantle to play the role is far more complex than just a girl in trouble with limited exploits her occasional muted expressions and subtle vulnerability to add color to the role this is a classic case of a cover page girl coming of age to become a professional actress became my personal favorite after this movie br br the movie ends on predictable lines although one has to credit the director for keeping the audience guessing on many things including change in decision to leave the country prakash raj deserves a word of praise for providing the perfect counter weight for role his almost indomitable stature in the role of a villain and the apparent chinks in the hero's armor form a perfect ploy for keeping the audience guessing br br overall this is a great movie that deserves at least a single viewing i give it a clear 8 out of 10
1	when fellini committed 8 1 2 to film many commented that it was the most personal vision ever to find its perfect expression when dante cast to the flames of his undying passion many were aghast at the honest brutality of his unrequited feelings for a younger woman when and a merry band of wickedly talented and filmmakers from the mecca of movie making insanity band together during the course of two chilly weeks in december 2000 many commented that nothing more sophmoric had ever been committed much less on film br br well to the doubters out there watch this original piece and find out why the id is both a charming and powerful thing and if that doesn't roll over and rub one out it's probably time you did so br br kudos on a great piece of art
1	man i really enjoyed this if only for fred willard's commentary at the dog show there are some dead spots and some gags that don't work but overall the film works very well when i was younger my parents bred dogs and the people that i met at those shows were not significantly less bizarre that the freaks at this show i can assure you br br i enjoyed this film for its artistry and for its commentary about how we tend to take frivolous things far too seriously i enjoyed the acting for its accuracy most of the accents were flawless and its subtlety i loved the way each person walked their dogs br br rent this film if you have any appreciation for the strangeness of human existence
1	this film is my favorite comedy of all time and i have seen a lot of comedies first of all i should not this film had no script just a storyboard the dialogue is almost completely written by the actors which makes this film absolutely the cast is one of the best comedic you will ever see the story is about the dog show in philadelphia and some of the contestants in them parker posey shines and is absolutely great this is one of those films that most of the laughing comes from the absolute pathetic ness of the characters
1	rented the video for a slow saturday night first viewing i thought it was funny took a while to get used to the american caricatures here we're more attuned to british grotesques but very enjoyable br br watched it again next night and really warmed to it the characters seemed more human lovable even a film one could watch several times and get more out of it each time however my wife hated it no accounting for tastes in humour i suppose
1	watch out this is not a gross out comedy like american pie or you know the comedies of the new millenium this is a sweet satire of dog shows focused on a bunch of completely different characters oh and the commentator is hilarious br br 10 10
1	br br this is the best mock documentary of a dog show that i have seen in a long time a very long time well lets face it ever isn't that part of the charm the idea of actually going to the trouble to make a movie mocking a documentary about an event that most people would find odd in the first place even if there were no big laughs one would still be smirking at the thought any movie that attempts something new scores highly in my proverbial book i loved the dogs too
1	best in show is a often hilarious mockumentary that takes us into the world of dog shows and some of the dog owners who prepare for the event the only thing that separates this movie from real dog shows is that the dogs in best in show act more sane than their owners funny stuff from a top notch cast that includes eugene levy who co wrote the film catherine o'hara parker posey michael jennifer coolidge jane lynch and christopher guest who co wrote with levy and directed they're all funny but fred willard steals the movie with his explosively funny performance as the dog show announcer who says the most outrageous things plus the dogs are cute too best in show isn't exactly the laugh riot that i expected but there are laughs and it's worth seeing br br out of four
1	best in show is certainly christopher guest's funniest and deepest movie yet the characters are excellently portrayed and the connection of pet to owner adds a new level of comedy to the movie i've been a fan of guest since spinal tap but in this movie he has truly achieved what he set out to do in the mock a genre he invented and has now perfected
1	in this offering one only has to view the current kennel club's annual offering to see the parallels outrageously funny and captures the true essence of the competition one can only imagine the wit of the producers and the amazing ability of the performers i too would have nominated this movie for a globe award and feel it is one of the funniest i have ever seen
1	in an earlier comment i mentioned how much i enjoyed this film better second time around i don't from that opinion strangely i can't find anyone else who did like it br br my mother was going to see it but several friends told her no way my sister and her family saw it and half the theatre walked out part way through br br my wife's suggestion is that australians see the characters as just normal everyday americans and therefore it's not funny but hey most americans think all australians are like crocodile dundee so it's nice to have the boot on the other foot for a change
1	am an ardent vijay fan i have never seen another movie of his which is as good as this br br it has all the regular clichés that one can expect from a commercial entertainer a hero who is bad in studies but a star in his forte i e his friends to fill in the comedy quota a heroine in a life and death situation a villain which i say is the best ever portrayed by the protagonist high octane chase and action sequences music that can make one dance and above all that a perfect storyline to keep all the above factors within an enjoyable circle perfect br br the director doesn't give any chance for the audience to loosen up he just goes on from one nail on the head to the next and one can see the lighter side of vijay in this film which he rarely executes br br all said this movie was and will be perfect for many years to come
1	this is one of the funniest movies i've seen in ages i watched for about 20 minutes slightly puzzled by what was going on then i started to laugh and didn't stop 'til long after the movie ended such deadpan satire is rare indeed christopher guest has a true eye for the humor inherent in those who have no sense of humor about themselves about 90 of white heterosexual males to start with as in waiting for guffman guest nails middle america's idiotic self importance to the wall i can hardly wait for his next film
1	this flick was even better then for the great strength in these two films lie in the brilliant character acting by guest and little second second city troupe if one finds this movie boring or pointless god help 'em they just didn't get it it is a mockumentary something at which guest and levy have a genius for at the end of the movie where guest's southern down home dog lover tells us that to relax after the show he went to israel to work on a or when he tells us that is an ancient art and we see a hieroglyphic br br of an ancient egyptian holding a tiny ancient egyptian in it's hand i realized it is moments like this that make life worth living thank you mr guest and mr levy and god bless you
1	the first time you watch this movie you may hate it but the 2nd time you see this movie i guarantee laughs all around the owners of the dogs are so that you can't help but look at them and laugh from the littlest toy poodle to the announcer everything will make you laugh and you may learn every single nut there is
1	i recently saw this movie for the first time i enjoyed it so much that i went right out and bought the dvd this movie is pure genius and only gets funnier with each viewing anyone can write jokes or funny dialog and have actors memorize them but the basis of this movie is improve how do they do it thank you christopher guest
1	best in show tracks the stories of a handful of human contestants as they prepare for one of the biggest dog shows in the calendar any amateur psychologist would say that an unconditional love and obsession with a pet is a sign of something missing in someone's life and each of the characters in some way fills this cliche there's the former high school hottie who's now married to a geeky man the childless label obsessed yuppie couple the solitary outdoorsman the young wife of a wealthy old codger along with her short haired dog trainer and the gay couple br br what makes this film so funny though is the way it these stereotypes in a completely believable way almost affectionate in many cases every ridiculous thing one of the characters does or says with their dog as an innocent onlooker seems like the kind of behaviour you'd totally expect to see at a dog show br br the biggest laughs come from the commentary team of an all american style sports announcer comparing moments in a dog show to parts of a baseball game and his english canine academic foil br br the trials of the geeky husband as his blonde wife meets an astonishing number of men from her past is also always good for a chuckle as is the demented behaviour of the yuppie couple as the pressure builds while their hound stays completely br br well worth watching even if cats are more your bag
1	i saw this movie with an open mind not knowing what to expect i was pleasantly surprised to see that this movie was written directed and acted in such a manner that every minute of it is a delightful watch the people don't seem like they're acting more like they are real people who really train dogs and lead the lives portrayed in this movie there are some wonderful moments where you laugh or chuckle some jokes may be dry but are presented in a very viewable fashion highly recommended
1	this film isn't a comedy its an expose i've always hated dog shows considering the ridiculous get ups people put their dogs in and the idiotic names they give them hence the reason for my uncontrolled cackling while watching this film i get a kick out of something being taken so seriously even though the gains are small and insignificant it's like miniature golf or jump championships or the need to set some obscure world record the acting was much more refined in this film than waiting for guffman and its mainly due to the more fluidity of the characters who seem more comfortable with their specific acting partners in this film than the previous eugene levy was great as was michael and fred willard however it was the dogs who eventually stole the show but then again who wants to see a bunch of humans in a film about dogs anyway
1	well in to 2002 i've got some catching up to do and looking back on a lacklustre year best in show shone no great storyline little action just a cavalcade of magnificent characters particular reference to fred willard and jim as a rattling pair of tv commentators well done well worth the effort br br ron viewed
1	this has got to be the funniest movie i have seen in forever guest is truly talented he has a gift for humor i almost died laughing actually when i saw this in theaters i considered walking out because the movie was so dumb but it is dumb in a good way it is funny dumb and this is a really good combination you will be laughing from start to end br br this mockumentary style film follows an array of characters all competing at the kennel club dog show the cast includes parker posey fred willard eugene levy catherine o'hara john michael michael larry miller bob balaban jennifer coolidge and tons more br br this is a truly funny movie that will have everyone laughing someone born without a personality would laugh at this film it is presented in widescreen to give the image that you are viewing an actual documentary and that is probably what adds to the hilarity best in show 5 5
1	this movie brought together some of the old spinal crew for another mockumentary film this time revolving around the world of the dog show how their owners prepare and train for the show before moving on to the show itself br br we meet several teams as they hope to win the top prize the cookie who seems to have slept with every man ever and gerry who tries to cope with his wife's old escapades and the fact that he literally has two left feet harlan whose dog talks to him and enjoys the who have taken far too much coffee and scream at each other and the gay couple and cabot and cummings who have won the last two years fred willard on the show and is very funny as always funny scenes include the 'look at me ' scene and any with levy unfortunately some of the best scenes were deleted or filmed later willard interviewing leslie cabot and the alternative epilogue with gerry is one of the funniest things i have ever seen if these had been included i would give the film an extra mark but br br 7 out of 10
1	if you have seen the telugu version of you will find this to be very similar in story line but has different songs and takes place in tamil nadu not andra although this is a remake of you will find that vijay and make this a unique film vijay and make a great pair a few negatives were when character slaps character for going to buy a present for him he never apologizes and she still stays with him in the end good action and songs make this an all around great movie i recommend it br br i give it a 10 10 one of the best i have seen
1	this is the best of the films so far that christopher guest has created using his very talented ensemble cast previously they'd made the excellent waiting for guffman and following best in show they made the very enjoyable a mighty wind as for their latest for your consideration the less said the better br br the film appears to be a documentary about dog shows and several contestants in particular you follow these few chosen dogs from pre show preparations all the way to the big night where one of them is chosen best in show at the fictitious kennel club however none of these people are real dog show enthusiasts but talent improvisational actors that parody many of the common types of people you meet in the dog show world amazingly even though the characters are rather outlandish there is a lot of truth to the personalities they are parodying as decades ago i had some experience with dog shows and this is a very cutthroat group of people my favorites of the dog owners were the incredibly high pressure and tense yuppie couple who just exuded anger and i also loved the openly gay couple as they were terribly funny and clever however the best performance probably wasn't from any of the couples but from fred willard who played the world's stupidest and least talented announcer in human history his comments were uniformly inane and often betrayed his as an incredibly stupid person how he got to be the announcer for such a prestigious show is anyone's guess the other contestants featured were also quite funny the high priced professional poodle handler and its rich owner the country boy and his hound as well as parents who could barely scrape together enough to make it to the show br br despite the improvised style of film making the pieces all fit together wonderfully and told a very funny and compelling story one that is not for dog owners only exceptional acting made this one of the best comedies of the last decade clever and consistently funny br br by the way try to find this on dvd as the extras were actually worth seeing while a bit painful to watch i loved seeing harlan pepper and his beach ball collection in particular
1	this movie should go down as one of the funniest movies in history its cousins a mighty wind spinal tap and waiting for guffman are terrific in their own right but best in show takes the cake br br a movie about the idiosyncrasies of dog owners that show their dogs it's the intricacies of the characters that make it so good after watching the movie about 75 times i have come to the conclusion that there is no weak character or actor in this film there is very little interaction between any of the groups of characters but that only seems to add to the beauty of the film br br if you watch this movie and don't find it as funny as i am billing it as watch it again the first time i saw it i thought it was serviceable but not overly hilarious it is a film that grows on you a movie that you will find yourself quoting frequently br br characters hamilton and meg swan a if you get the dvd check out how these characters were born amazing that these two could hit it so on the head and to find out that they really didn't go by a script and sort of made it up as they went br br gerry and cookie a cookie is especially funny and she does a fantastic job of selling the cookie character gerry eugene levy delivers his standard stellar performance of the hilarious discombobulated type weaker half br br stefan and scott a find me a funnier character than scott i dare you he will forever be typecast as this character to me as he was so natural and didn't seem forced at any point stefan micheal was very good as well and they interplay here and a brief appearance with the goes to show why he is always in these films a great actor with razor like wit br br harlan pepper b i don't want it to seem like he isn't funny he sure is but being the only solo act he can't be quite as funny as the others above he does use the dog more than others and has some other idiosyncrasies going for him br br the rest are all great as well there is no weak character see this film at least twice buy it you will not regret it
1	i love the mockumentary format that chris guest and crew have developed over the years i actually like this and waiting for guffman better than spinal tap which was the first of the group and made by rob reiner but starred guest and several other of his mockumentary regulars this humor is not for everyone it's rather subtle and not too physical so some people may not relate however as a dog lover and a dog show fan i loved this movie there are so many funny lines in it my daughter and i quote them to each other often i find it amazing that these people can ad lib so much funny material for each movie what a fun bunch they must be i highly recommend this to people who prefer their humor on the cerebral side
1	functioning as a sort of midpoint between waiting for guffman and a mighty wind best in show portrays a dog show and the various people who bring their canine friends to participate some are weird some crazy and otherwise but they all make the movie good director christopher guest is particularly funny as gay harlan pepper very much trying to promote his dog eugene levy parker posey michael catherine o'hara and bob balaban also do great jobs i can't imagine them not doing great jobs at least not in a christopher guest movie as someone who's never attended a dog show this movie is my main exposure to them they sure look neat
1	this is the funniest movie i have ever seen however i have laughed harder at plenty of movies this is because best in show's brilliance lies not in slapstick or one liners but in sophisticated and layered verbal wit the improvised dialogue is is so quick that you end up laughing not at each individual joke but only until after several jokes build on one another each disarming your senses until the jokes climax and you can't help letting loose br br it's a well shot film but what makes it extraordinary is the acting i was impressed on my first viewing but when i watched it after having learned that virtually every scene is improvised i was amazed it was thoroughly enjoyable to see the comedians work off each other build jokes out of nothing and completely immerse themselves in their characters br br i imagine the golden days of second city were like this
1	you know this movie reminded me so much of so many people i know i think that's the reason why i loved this movie so much i was just on the floor laughing because this had such a serious and document feel to it but the dialog is so hilarious that you can't help but have a good time basically the movie is about these crazed dog owners who are competing in a big dog show to see who is the best of the best it seems like it should be the dogs who take this competition seriously it turns out the owners are just as insane megan one of the dog owners goes almost serial psycho killer on the hotel manager because she cannot find the special bee squeaky toy for her dog br br there is another couple that is just great gerry and cookie this complete nerd and attractive woman that are just so lovable in the beginning of the movie gerry describes how many boyfriends cookie had throughout the movie her lovers see her and hit on her even in front of gerry it was just great and fun to watch gerry's looks this whole movie is just a hoot and you can't stop with the recognizable faces that keep popping up it's a great movie is just fun to watch i'd highly recommend it now i have to find a nice way of showing this to my friends who are like these couples to see the mirror image of themselves d br br 8 10
1	this is the only christopher guest movie that rivals spinal tap and princess bride for sheer entertainment value but somehow never gets near the recognition the plot surrounds the contestants dogs and their owners as they venture into the world of competitive dog ok it's about a dog show the owners truly are characters as one would have to be to be so attached to their dogs that's really all there is to it but that makes it funny enough br br you'd never be able to convince me that a mock u about dog shows would be funny prior to catching the hilarious scene where levy and o'hara visit larry miller's house on tv but that's really all it takes to convert any doubters spinal tap was non stop hilarity joke after joke whereas best in show was had a few more lulls and by that i mean say 3 minute at most where something riotously funny doesn't happen but the big laughs are even bigger br br the casting in this one is great and even the typically out of place in uh movies in general parker posey does a fine job in fact her tirade directed at ed begley jr and a pet store owner over a lost dog toy is probably the funniest running gag of the film br br what's amazing about this movie to me is how the writers somehow managed to weave a plot simple as it was around these great jokes so that it actually felt like it had direction i guess there's a freedom in having such a minimal plot everyone's role is pretty well crafted here and the characters are rarely over the top the realism of how pathetic they seem to the outsider is what makes it funnier than mighty wind or the uneven guffman i actually encounter wierdos like this now and then if you like guest's stuff at all you should definitely own this one
1	in the era of the farrelly brothers and the jackass series to have a movie made and performed by americans come out that is well paced and full of charm as well as hilarity is well nigh miraculous this ensemble has been behind some other efforts most recently a mighty wind which was so subtle it seemed to be an actual documentary without the overlay of entertainment but best in show hits on all cylinders it is superbly cast with some of the best of current us actors parker posey who exudes energy even when she stands still eugene levy as tolerant everyman who is nobody's doormat even when he appears to be or maybe the brilliant stylings of fred willard the understated performances of so many others which is a characteristic not normally associated with americans or american actors one of the few humorous movies i can watch again and again
1	i'll admit that i've never seen waiting for guffman 1997's critically acclaimed comedy mockumentary about a small town thats that stages a pageant when the advertising for best in show had the tagline from the team that brought you waiting for guffman a fair number of critics out there implied in their reviews that only people that are familiar with the film or its filmmakers and cast would have a good time seeing this film for shame critics for shame times two any critic that implies something like that with any film probably doesn't want to share the film's wealth with the rest of the world but this is one film that i hope people will experience now that its video dvd best in show is without a doubt the best comedy of 2000 br br the film begins with a mockumentary style introducing the main competitors not to mention screwballs of the annual best in show competition where dogs of all breeds come to compete to see who is the top dog we have the loveable and harry pepper guest with his the simple gerry cookie fleck levy o'hara with their nut case yuppies hamilton meg swan hitchcock posey the gay dog scott dolan stefan higgins and the airheaded millionare sheri ann ward cabot coolidge along with her trainer christy cummings lynch they all have their minds on one simple object the blue ribbon which will be awarded to the best dog and do i have to tell you the rest br br director writer star guest's idea of humor is one that assures me that there are comedies out there that are worth laughing at and that the idiocy of films like american pie or other pointless teenage flicks won't take over the world after all his idea is simple make your comedy not just funny but smart funny but instead of following in the brilliant footsteps of films like zero effect and high fidelity he used a rather unusual approach and as i understand he also used this approach for guffman whether you notice or not a very large part of the film is improvisation in other words what the actors say and do were probably not written in the script maybe even not even dreamed of by guest and co writer star levy but with a gentle hand from guest he and the actors pulled off a hilarious theatrical feat that probably would have flopped if handled by other less adept actors now that's smart br br the cast is of course what makes improv work the most all of them are a comedic marvel to behold especially guest as pepper but the real standout has to be fred as buck laughlin the clueless announcer at the competition who can spin out the most outrageously funny stories and comments that no announcer would even dream of that is if the announcer was trying to be funny can go from talking about the dog to suddenly going on and on about how much he can bench press there's even a part were he gives out an idea for a new marketing strategy have sexy women pose in tight shirts and shorts with the dogs and imply something like have a doggie style of a time its priceless as is his performance br br i hope that people engage in this 90 minute the film deserves so much recognition it did get nominated for best picture comedy at the golden globes but didn't win i can't see why i mean in the comedy department it is best in show br br grade a
1	how often do you see a film of any kind that has a talent show with refreshments last stand is a refreshment here waldo is selling lemonade but isn't making any money spanky darla mickey and buckwheat come to visit him which is ironic because in both 3 men in a tub and came the brawn where there was competition between and waldo for affection back to the story the gang taste the lemonade to see if waldo made it right one funny moment is when gets a glass cup for lemonade and waldo fills is and gives it to darla and has an angry expression on his face spanky proposes a floor show to go with the lemonade and even mickey agrees ever so cute when the floor show begins there is no one at the barn but then a customer comes in spanky asks him if he wants lemonade but all he does is nod no spanky asks him numbers of time in the short and every time nods no spanky displays many expressions on his face which is funny spanky tries many ways to make him thirsty one way is when after mickey said ever so cutely those crackers are salty and they made me thirsty there is also many entertain musical bit is this short the opening number is by darla which she tap dances and sings the second includes singing off key as usually with mickey leonard spanky and buckwheat about how dry i am i believe they sing that to make thirsty it also made me laugh the closing number includes boys and girls all dressed up in an old fashion way this was last our gang short a grand musical short that is a pure 10 out of 10
1	i have to admit that i absolutely loved this movie of course as i'm sure you know that in the middle star frankie and the ever so sweet amanda bynes the amanda show starred in this children's comedy as two friends that i'm sure that we can all re late to the movie is about a boy jason shepard frankie and his friend amanda going onto an adventure in hollywood br br spoilers ahead br br as it begins jason is a typical 14 year old boy whom lies to get around every day life's problems one day jason is hit by mr wolf the big bad director jason's english paper is stolen by wolf and begins the adventure along with to earn his father's trust back they fly to hollywood in search of wolf to get him back frankie and amanda do all sorts of crazy stunts to get wolf back and all he has to do is call jason's dad and tell him he stole his idea but the end is no real surprise being the good and wins br br the story is cute and fifth grade humored but what do you expect it's rated pg i really belive this is one of the years best family comedies not only is the childrens acting great exceptional casting well written but it's good clean fun it made me laugh as well as fall in love with it's innocent message i highly reccomend it and would like to disagree with that someone who gave it a zero out of ten the unemployed critic isn't unemployed for nothing i give it well i voted a ten out of ten a perfect
1	the opportunity it gave me to look at ireland's past was invaluable br br i had the benefit of seeing this with my mother who hailed from cork and in watching we talked and i learned a lot from her about how things were back then br br stuff like how deasy and co was a cork soft drinks company how rain truly could destroy a harvest how farmers used to have to collect the crop how in dance halls the women and men did really have to stand along opposite walls before the men walked forward and asked the woman to dance about the bellows that kept the fire going how priests really did call out the list of church and their donations and a bit about the currency back then which my dad helped by showing me a case displaying the pence shillings and that were used back then which were legal tender in england also br br i didn't pay that much attention to how good the movie was but i was very grateful in having this opportunity to look back on a period of time that for some is irish history but for others including some of our parents and grandparents is just their childhood
1	another masterpiece that needs a dvd release but some libraries have the vhs and well worth seeking out just a brilliant play about many things foremost being euthanasia respectability religion and fundamental human relationships the script effectively uses intelligent humor not only to cope with an issue like a severely disabled child but to bind the parents in their love for jo and each other as the couple alan bates and janet are perfectly matched both in acting virtuosity and in bringing their deep intelligent characters to life br br i've recently seen bates' brilliant performance in which was released as a film a couple years after joe egg and he plays a teacher in both cynical intellectual and funny although is much darker than his character of here if you throw in such great performances in the go between women in love whistle down the wind the caretaker and georgy girl not to mention the more obvious king of hearts and zorba the greek and i'd say that alan bates had a career comparable to peter o'toole albert finney and the other great british actors of his era br br director peter medak also had one of my all time favorites the ruling class released the same year 1972 as joe egg which comprises a career year in anybody's book he's had kind of a spotty filmography the was another highlight but these two gems will mark him as a great director
1	long before terri brought the issue of living as a vegetable to the public view a day in the death of joe egg dealt with it alan bates plays bri a schoolteacher whose daughter is almost completely he and his wife sheila janet try all sorts of dark humor to try and get on with their lives but they can't escape the facts at one point they even consider euthanasia the question circling them and their friends is what will ever become of this predicament br br with this movie alan bates continued his streak of really good movies preceded by zorba the greek the king of hearts and the fixer we can safely say that he will be sadly missed
1	its such a shame that an important film like this is virtually unknown br br i don't think alan bates has done a better film than this br br its never shown on television the only time i can recall it being shown on british tv was in the summer of 1998 i have it on tape but sadly the quality isn't great due to a dodgy aerial at the time br br i remember wanting to see this film for some time before it appeared on tv it was shown on channel 4 in the early hours of the morning thereby ensuring that it still remained unseen except for a very small audience br br i was living in bristol at the time and it was ironic that when i finally saw the film i realised that i had walked past the very house where it was filmed several times before the film treads a fine line a married couple attempting to make light of their tragic predicament of coping with their severely mentally handicapped daughter by laughing about it and even involving the child in their jokes br br the direction and the acting are so superb that the film is always compassionate and moving and is never in danger of lapsing into bad taste br br a couple of years ago i saw a clip of the filmed theatre production with eddie izzard in the role of bri and victoria hamilton playing sheila br br it showed izzard improvising and larking about and hamilton jokingly telling the audience to ignore him when he's being like this br br i maybe taking this out of context as i only saw a brief clip but having read the play and seen the film this is clearly such a delicate subject that such an approach is both insensitive and disrespectful br br izzard was praised for his performance but i felt uncomfortable with what i saw br br it is perhaps surprising that such a successful play failed to find an audience when it was finally filmed br br this is one of the best british films of the 70s and hopefully it will be released on dvd one day
1	ok so i admit that it often seems like most of the sylvester tweety pairings have exactly the same plot sylvester tries to get tweety but repeatedly fails and always gets maimed in the process often with the help of a bulldog i guess that it's sort of like wile e coyote chasing road runner in other words mammals should never go after birds all a r r rd has the same plot and sets it on a train in a way the best part of these cartoons is seeing what sorts of schemes sylvester comes up with to try and go after tweety we know that he's going to fail miserably but it's also funny to watch tweety turn into a bad ass if you've seen his really early cartoons you'll see that he was not cute at all but in fact had a cruel streak this one mainly works as a way to pass time br br by the way i thought that i saw i mean i taut i sylvester pass a piece of baggage with the name friz freleng on it
1	friz freleng's 'all r r d' is one of the best sylvester and tweety cartoons unlike the many repetitive cartoons in the series which simply transplant the same tired gags to a new setting 'all r r d' makes the most of its concept tweety and sylvester are domestic pets who are being sent unattended across country by train with both a watchful official and a vicious bulldog to deal with sylvester has his work cut out the sylvester and tweety cartoons always benefited from some extra participants and 'all r r d' is a good example of how much these additional characters help although they are not especially memorable creations they throw some more obstacles in sylvester's path and make for a more interesting battle this early sylvester and tweety short presses many of the right buttons and while tweety is often particularly irritating with his forced cuteness there's some deliciously violent antics between sylvester and the dog culminating in a surprisingly brutal climax which is unfortunately marred by a final unfunny non quip by tweety
1	i always enjoy watching this cartoon with sylvester trying to catch tweety on a train rather than at grandma's house it's actually a standard fare but entertaining especially when tweety pulls the emergency stop cord one of my complaints about this is how sloppy the animators were with the train when you watch this over and over like my little boy did who loves trains which is why he liked it so much you begin to notice some things br br throughout this short the position of the baggage car changes on the train either 3rd 4th or 5th and in long shots not at all the engine has either the number or or none at all the coal tender has either the number 99 or the letters s p q r on it or no number or letters at all the coaches carry the s p q r without the in long shots and then in closeups it has the words southeast and western br br all of this doesn't interfere with the story but the production details were obviously not looked into very carefully br br still this cartoon is among my favorites with sylvester and tweety
1	tiny and sly the sneak are locked up in cages for a train ride to who knows where swinging tweety begins belting out an insufferable song as soon as the train leaves the station so lets hope that puddy tad gets him this time sly tries out a couple of funny hand tricks but spoil sport conductor man puts the bird in a safer place amongst the baggage the cat's next attempt has him ending up in the coal oven of the steam engine and the chase is on of course there's a bulldog too and silly sly just cant keep his big mouth shut br br next up the persistent pussy tries the old stacking of the suitcases bit twice producing a payoff tex avery would be proud of unfortunately for sylvester that bulldog seems to be everywhere he even displays a talent for shape shifting and producing enormous clubs from his back pocket not even ability to outrun a speeding train can save him when he is thrown off silver streak style several times in a row arriving at granny's new place gower gulch population 86 the cat's final attempt involves cross dressing but you know what happens to men in dresses they always get more attention than they bargained for br br 7 out of 10
1	tweety is sent in his cage on a train by his old lady owner in the same baggage car also in a cage is sylvester br br in no time sylvester has grabbed tweety but a comes back and slaps the feline as he calls him back in his cage he puts tweety in a safer place up high and tells the cat now remember no tricks sylvester puts his halo on and looks innocent yeah right br br i found the funniest stuff however didn't involve sylvester versus tweety but the dog that is in another cage next to sylvester the cat gets mouthy with him and pays a big price in an extremely funny manner sylvester just doesn't learn but that's one reason we love him i know a number of imdb reviewers don't like tweety but i like both main characters they both crack me up br br also the train and the passing scenery is beautifully illustrated in here really nice visuals
1	ok time for a bit of a rant i think it's been 2 flamin' years since i submitted my original comments praising this top rated comedy and the damn thing still hasn't made it to video or dvd or for that matter even been repeated on the telly br br does anyone out there know why not has there been a bbc style error whereby the original copy has been deleted wiped br br listen up you lot in charge of itv whack this on to dvd now do you even realise how funny this programme was it makes mike bassett look as bad as the current pants spurs team br br rant over for the moment
1	big fat liar is the best movie ever it is funny and cool jason shepherd frankie proves that he was not lying and goes to los angeles to get his paper back from marty wolf paul giamatti along with friend amanda bynes mess up his life since marty won't call dad and say he wrote the paper yet it all turns out good and is a good movie to watch
1	i'm like the rest of the fans who love this comedy i've been waiting for it on dvd i've got it on vhs and got so fed up waiting for a release and worrying that my vhs copy would ruin i got the equipment to get it onto dvd the picture and sound are excellent to my utter surprise if anyone else want's a copy drop me a line at br br stone stew yahoo co uk br br and for £7 00 i'll put it onto a dvd print the dvd and get it in the post to you £7 00 just covers my costs recorded delivery etc with maybe a little over so i'm not after making money out of it i'd just like the world to see this ignored gem of a comedy i recently saw a copy of ebay got for over amazing how can they not release this classic email me for payment details like cheque or paypal etc etc
1	whoops looks like it's gonna cost you a whopping 00 to buy a copy either dvd or video format from itv direct br br ouch br br sorry about this but imdb won't let me submit this comment unless it has at least 10 lines so br br br br
1	to anyone who is interested i have managed to get this on dvd from ebay haven't received it yet any day now br br i have been desperate to get this even if it is a vhs quality put on a dvd i don't mind so to anyone interested get in touch with me and maybe i can help you out br br to be honest it's ridiculous that i've had to wait nearly 7 years to see this again but boy it will be worth it br br all my mates at work are desperate to see it too br br anyway i'll post later regarding the quality br br just do a search on ebay if u want it guys it's there to buy
1	i think this tv film was first aired the same week that manchester utd played in the champions league final 1999 they run a lot of football related items that week and this one was an absolute standout br br it played on all the clichés that are churned out every season during the fa cup ie plucky underdogs lucky clothing mascots name on the cup etc and turned out to be brilliantly funny br br i'm surprised it has never been repeated prior to other big football occasions even now with the world cup just getting underway br br a few previous posts from non football fans have said they still love it but a football fan will find it hilarious imho
1	i have it on vhs but its not a great copy as i have watched it 2 or 3 times per year since 1999 i am also in fear that will throw it out in the annual vhs purge br br my brother and i late still laugh at the carry on in this fantastic show tim lucky cup hat and telling the apprentice you can do none of that shooting passing etc and he turns out to be peter beardsley as a fan i have to laugh at the empty on before the cup final or did it say s t br br the reason i came on line today was that my bro wants it for christmas so itv please bring it out on dvd come on the men
1	as a reviewer has already commented this made for tv comedy is up there amongst the best football parodies ever but having failed to video it when it was first aired i now find that it isn't around in any format ok so this has only polled 17 votes to date but a 9 average does seem to suggest something special basically i suppose it's a case of tough luck if you missed it 'cos it's no longer available to view
1	i caught this about the most unlikely success from a lower league football team the plot is thick and roles out some great tenuous twists and turns intercut with shots and commentary from the 70's i was taken aback by its shear fun br br a great cast includes the excellent tim healy as the crazed drunk manager bumbling along hanging on to anything that will make his team win i keep remembering bits such as the stolen secret file that don super united and england manager loved by the fans hated by everyone else has on united the men which in its detailed report of their opposition united in this the fa cup final merely says sh te br br lots of other gags a long time before the fantastic feature length mike basset football manager starring ricky tomlinson br br up there with the gung ho english beating germans at football well morally although the score lines says different of escape to victory i still cheer when england score br br and the thankless eternal grind of following a really bad team in micheal golden gordon from ripping yarns series with terry jones the team were called united in case your interested br br i've looked high and low for a copy of cup even nick hancock's biography doesn't list it probably someone not mr error br br play it again or sell me a copy please
1	this is a true gem of a tv film based on a completely untrue story it follows the course of the down and out football league club through their course in the english fa cup where mayhem ensues and the players all sport seventies styles the ending is unexpected the performances are great and nick hancock shows that he can do something other than host sports shows my only regret is that i didn't tape it
1	this was a fantastically funny film why won't they show it again tim healy was superb as were all the players direction was inspired and some of the gags were matchless the pitch had me on the floor show it again itv so i can video it
1	i am not a fan by any means but watched this with a friend as there wasn't anything else on the box at the time thank goodness not only did we laugh from start to finish but about a week later in the pub when we started discussing it we made a right spectacle of ourselves with uncontrollable laughter does that pitch actually exist i have released my e mail here so if anyone hears about it's future availability or a repeat on the telly please let me know definitely the funniest thing i've seen on television king leek was good too another tim healy classic
1	well it might be a kid's movie perhaps but i'm not gonna let my kids from 9 watch it so the one who say it is a kid movie hmm it is teenager movie i agree so but back to the movie it is about a boy who can lie very good so good that at the end nobody nows truth or lie anyway it is a nice movie to see nice screen play i vote a 8 for screen play and story i think they writers mend a lesson whit it ''the truth is never
1	animated shorts just don't get much better than this wonderful canadian film this short feature is dripping with canadian references and so this film will probably be appreciated by canadians most of all but the basic story is universal and it is told lovingly by writer carrier it is a hilarious story that i have known for quite sometime and i was recently fortunate enough to see it again so i simply had to write a hearty recommendation for it this is a masterpiece and a must see whether or not you are canadian
1	can't believe that cup isn't available on a proper video or dvd yet i've only seen it once on a dodgy copy taken off the tv and despite not being a fan at all thought it was one of the funniest things i've ever seen br br the famous pitch of wherever it was the clueless coach driver this that i'll take the next exit the pointless plot it all added up to aching sides br br being stuck in the us i'm desperate for some good british humour but not quite enough to spend the amount that the production company are asking for c'mon get it out on kosher dvd pronto
1	i can't add much to what has been said already except i'm going to have to because of the 10 lines minimum policy br br i've actually got this on a vhs to dvd copy but the quality is quite poor and i desperately need for it to be officially released br br i can just imagine what extras i would like to see tim healy's character swearing his way through one of those type programmes would be great you can imagine it now can't you but of course it looks like most people will have to carry on dreaming about a dvd release br br surely to god there must be someone in the dvd releases department at itv who also knows something about british culture is web savvy and has enough about them to look at imdb now and again oh well
1	airplane apart i don't think i've ever laughed at a film so much in all my life br br i love football like mad but i tend to hate almost any song or film about football as they tend to be unrealistic this wasn't br br i watched it once it was over 2 years ago it was brilliant everyone i know loved it i remember the gay the pitch at about a 45 degree angle and a player so named because he once turned up for training in a new pair of shoes brilliant that's what goes on in park football br br a definite 10 10 if anyone from the tv industry is reading this considering all the crap you repeat on english tele please have the sense to show this again and the muppets while you're at it also does anyone know if this was shown on bbc or itv i think it was itv so it's worth asking them if they plan to show it again they should do
1	could it be that itv wouldn't want to release this absolute classic because it would show up their current series of mike bassett for what it is when discussing mike bassett with some work colleagues i mentioned cup as being a far superior offering and was surprised to find that i seem to be the only person in my entire office that has actually seen it this can't be right for a film that has got to be the funniest thing i have ever seen br br let's face it itv don't have the greatest recent record for producing comedy so you would think that they would jump at the chance of at least repeating something which is genuinely funny perhaps if it could be combined with a lucrative telephone competition of where we think the coach driver will go next then they might be interested br br come on itv there are still some of us out there who would like to watch original quality comedy drama do the decent thing thing repeat it then get it out on dvd
1	as you can see i've submitted 2 comments about this show since 1991 and no itv have still not made it available for general release br br however i recently contacted itv to see if there was any way of getting hold of a copy and this was their reply br br unfortunately there are no plans for this programme to be released on dvd video you can however purchase copies from our viewers requests dept their email address is viewers requests itv com br br hope you all now get the chance to enjoy this classic short comedy again br br
1	having obtained a copy of cup i must confess it is not as funny as i originally thought it is better charlie williams eat your heart out match fixing never pitch at 45 ronnie and reggie kay george best the coach driver who thinks is in south wales it's all this and that bertie tim lucky cup hat not that he's into gimmicks sugar plum fairy confused watch it again the innovative use of real footage with players was brilliant and the producer should be proud of giving us a masterpiece come on itv do the viewers and yourself a favour show it again please
1	i saw this back in 99 and i remember loving it still to this day i can remember parts of the movie in my head like the slanted pitch unfortunately from 99 now i could never remember the name of this until i was looking through the filmography of a friend of my uncles and came across this he played clive straight away after reading the description i knew what it was after catching up i was shocked to find out that not only did it not make a release on video or dvd but still has yet to be repeated this is a massive shame i am begging you itv at least repeat this superb tv movie nick hancock showed in this movie he could do more than just host a show with his character mike this is a movie that most football fans would love and even those who aren't too keen on the sport would be able to enjoy the comedic value of this yes this is a brief review but there is not much to say apart from this is an underrated movie deserves to be repeated or released on video dvd so itv myself and other fans of this movie beg you please consider one of those
1	after all these years of peter o'tool's brilliant costly giving of his soul film after film at last hollywood tosses him an oscar recently br br country dance showed up one night late and of course blew me out of my complainant niche in my alleged life how does he do it br br york again also is brilliant in this kind of play both psychological battleships loaded for bear br br bravo to author director cast and camera crew no wonder the nazi's lost to these irish scot english blends brutal honesty hurts back in the 70's when i personally believed honesty was pure and absolutely vital to trust i have modified my edgy extremes and will settle for more human warm flaws within myself and others br br forgiveness allows humanity to have a reverse gear and allows us to fix our own bull headed egos and erotic mistakes
1	a somewhat typical bit of filmmaking from this era obviously it was first conceived into this world for the stage but nonetheless a very good film from beginning to end peter o'toole and susannah york get to do their stage performance act for the silver screen and both do it effectively there is very little in the way of story and anyone not familiar with this type of off beat character study may be a little put off by it all in all though a good film in which peter o'toole and susannah york get to overact
1	peter o'toole is a treat to watch in roles where the lines he speaks are good and offer a chance for him to swagger in drunken stupor the lovely susannah york provides a good foil for o'toole's dramatic presence br br the film alludes to incest without a single explicit scene but it is able to entertain the viewer in its raucous social commentary though this is not major film by any reckoning it will be remembered for its entertaining performances br br even york signing the papers at the end is a treat to watch exuding tragedy silently the possible weakness here is thompson's laid back direction but the film floats because of the actors and the script br br i saw the film twice over a period of 20 years on both occasions with the name brotherly love country dance is a rather farcical and inappropriate title for this movie wherever it was released as such
1	i know not why people considered it trashy or obnoxious it's not like american pie or something i know not why people are offended by the universal plugs since it's part of the plot the advertising is excusable br br this is a funny movie with good dialogue good subtle wit a good story a good moral that thankfully doesn't get too sappy great acting and a cheesy ending br br minor spoiler the basic premise here is the classic story of a shepherd boy who lies so much that no one believes him when the wolf giamatti comes along so he gets his best friend bynes and they go and drive the wolf crazy br br frankie can be annoying in other roles but not as jason shepherd he handles the suave confidence of his character perfectly well and what appears to be a lack of expression at first glance is really a perfectly executed br br amanda bynes what more can i say the girl's got the gift she's funny talented versatile and very very attractive i'm only 6 months older than her i need to get to california sometime soon in fact the 'best friend' part was originally a boy but became a girl as soon as the makers saw amanda's interest which works out pretty well since the part would've been pretty dull without the blessing of abilities br br paul giamatti is a very talented man while some would play marty wolf as evil and diabolical giamatti made him not just a jerk mind you but a likeable jerk a jerk that up the screen rather than intentionally dimming it and i doubt many other actors could pull off the psychological breakdown that wolf undergoes as well br br all in all great movie loved seeing white able to mock himself loved seeing all the little references such built into the film one of the guests in the party scene is the director shawn levy another is former co star kenan thompson loved seeing amanda in those outfits get the dvd if you can it's got all kinds of great extra stuff and the lovely ms bynes is your guide through the menus
1	the undoubted highlight of this movie is peter o'toole's performance in turn wildly comical and terribly terribly tragic does anybody do it better than o'toole i don't think so what a great face that man has br br the story is an odd one and quite disturbing and emotionally intense in parts especially toward the end but it is also oddly touching and does succeed on many levels however i felt the film basically revolved around peter o'toole's luminous performance and i'm sure i wouldn't have enjoyed it even half as much if he hadn't been in it
1	crimson begins with some cool jazzy music so i liked it immediately but as the film wore on i began to wonder if the music wasn't the best part we have some thieves pulling a jewel heist and when one does something wrong the alarm is triggered and the cops chase them and when the car turns around at a road block one of the thieves paul nash jacinto molina whoever he is here gets shot now it seems like he might die but with the help of a drunken doctor and his mad scientist friend and wife he is saved with a part of the brain of some nightclub owner called the sadist the sadist is unfortunate in that the gentlemen that kidnapped him lost their knife to remove is head so to add insult to injury or in this case death they remove his head using a train leaving the body for the authorities to find oops once the brain transplant is complete naschy wants to ravage any woman that comes near him because he now has the mindset of his donor well of course this is all pretty improbable and features medical equipment that looks to have been purchased at radio shack and overall it's pretty cheesy and sleazy but it has a good early 70's look and feel to it and the music is cool this isn't so much a horror movie but more a thriller with lots of thugs battling it out over turf and babes and other thug type things but it's strangely entertaining in ways i can't begin to describe 7 out of 10
1	this film is the best kung fu film of all time although there is not wire work and special effects like those used in crouching tiger this movie uses ingenuity and creative camera work to create memorable fighting moments and the fight scenes are well choreographed and tight there is a ton of action in this film with lots of great fight scenes but the story is very good too with lots of twists and turns the characters are well rounded and have real depth to them as the motivations for their actions and personality are revealed in a much greater detail than most kung fu films there is some really great camera work in the film with my favorite shot starting as a close up on our hero's face showing his reaction then pulls back quickly to reveal the scene before him that is the cause of his look originally i bought the movie to hoping see some great fight scenes but upon multiple viewings i learned how terrific the acting and story were as well overall a great film
1	i saw this movie on the base movie theater while in the air force so my affection for it might be influenced by the reaction of the raucous audience in attendance at the theater that night but i do think that this movie was one of the first popular kung fu movies and helped to begin the trend in the early 70's it's worth seeing
1	released as king boxer in the u k br br this film was essentially the first kung fu film to go on general release in the u k many of us had through kurosawa's astonishingly gritty and involving dramas and were used to oriental film being beautifully shot and lit with somewhat restrained pacing all in all like through an album of very fine still photographs that just happened to be moving br br along come run run shaw and co with their widescreen home movie production values and astonishing ripe for parody dubbing and all the rules have changed king boxer was the first in through the door leaving a clearly marked trail for others to follow with their feet planted firmly on top of the blazed footsteps br br in spite of hokey plots pantomime acting cheesy jump cuts and spaghetti western style snap stepped zooms this film was marvellous gorgeous without being opulent and with the most brilliant fight choreography ever to grace a screen we loved the sickening violence the anguish the testosterone the martial artists among us found some of the techniques fascinating if flamboyant and oftentimes silly it was so very different from the japanese stuff we all knew and it had lovely acrobatic grace that perfectly complemented the sickening violence and bloodstained floors delightful br br the king lear scene was at the time quite a milestone in schlock you cruel bastards my now it's rather less shocking but still a bit of a gut br br we didn't notice that any females in sight were absolutely one dimensional after seeing more films of the genre it now stands out like a sore thumb but at the time it didn't matter br br this film defined what would rapidly become the kung fu movie clichés all of them watch it and remember that until this burst onto the western screens there was no genre for it to slot into it was unique and awesome it was the first kung fu movie and it still is for me and many others the best
1	the skeleton of the story is that the main character needs to win a public kung fu tournament with high stakes the flesh of the story consists of lots of fighting a love triangle betrayals rivalries and revenge br br there is a lot to this story the main character is very likeable as an even tempered mild mannered and very tough country boy a good versus bad movie is only as good as the villains and the main villains are tough and smart not to mention ugly devious and tricky br br if there is one weakness it's the scene where the fiance of the main character is imagining her and the protagonist running towards each other in a flowery field and hugging when they meet i thought i was watching the sound of music for a second and nearly lost hope for the movie luckily the movie recovered quickly with a fight scene
1	well as a life long fan of kung fu films i have to say this is one of the best i have ever seen sure there is nothing special about the plot but man does it entertain as does most movies of the genre this film is packed with action and does not boar its viewers it's so damn fun when i watch i have a smile on my face the whole time this also has an impact on future films like kill bill many of kill bill's sound effects come from this film for example this is essential viewing for all knew viewers in kung fu form open to close this film is filled with fights that really are some of the better i have seen in the genre there are few kung fu films out there that measure up to the sheer magic and entertainment of this film so if in search of a great kung fu movie check this one out for sure
1	i was first introduced to this movie while in san antonio tx this movie was the 2nd in a double feature unfortunately the theater where i saw this was torn down anyways five fingers of death aka king boxer was released in 1972 and introduced in the u s the following year like a lot of other kung fu movies released while riding on the coat tails of enter the dragon this particular movie actually was pretty good it's the story of a country boy who is sent to a martial arts institute to better himself his fighting skills meanwhile the opponent martial arts school plans scheme to thwart our hero utilizing dirty tactics to try to throw him off track try to prevent him from participating in the tournament by surprise i had thought since warner bros distributed this movie in the u s warner bros was going to issue a dvd it never happened as far as i know this movie has been released in both english w sub titles the latter a more cleaner clearer version although the fighting sequences are a bit funny to watch i e flying in air hitting jumping on buildings a fighter using his head literally to hit his opponent etc nonetheless it's classic kung fu action wonderfully planned executed if you like enter the dragon five fingers of death would be an excellent addition to any movie collection if you can find it
1	five fingers of death although previous shaw martial arts epics had shown the influence of the american cowboy genre none had paid such open tribute to it as this one especially in the saloon fight scene and though shaw bros films had borrowed from the japanese chambara swordfight genre before none had done so with such success as this one i suppose some of this had to do with the fact that the director originated from korea and thus brought a non chinese perspective to such borrowings which certainly raises some interesting questions about culture but in any event this film presented real innovations in technology and technique in hong kong action films for the first time in hong kong the camera was given access to the whole of any given set which meant shots from many different angles such as the low angle interior shot showing the ceiling of a room the original american innovation of which usually credited to john ford or the high angle long shot that allowed visualization of a large ground area or the frontal tracking shot br br it is true that this was not the first hand to hand combat film of real cinematic substance that remains wang yu's 'chinese but on a commercial level shaw bros were right to choose 'five as their first major release to the west because one might say it was the of their action films that is the least dependent on purely chinese theater traditions although this made no impression on the american critics at the time who universally trashed the picture it wasn't lost on american audiences especially among african americans whose culture had always been by necessity an eclectic patchwork of borrowed elements and innovation in 'five they were given the opportunity to discover the core of the story in the earnest young man forced to make the extra effort to overcome social barriers and betrayal in order to have his merit recognized this seems to be an issue universal to modernity but each culture has its own way of expressing and resolving it 'five presented it in a way many americans could relate to as well as chinese br br so is the film now only of historical value certainly not for one thing this issue hasn't gone away secondly some of the innovations leave much of the film looking as fresh today as it did on first release also the action is well staged and the performances though a little too earnest are crisp the film is a might over long but the story does cover a lot of ground and there are marvelous set pieces through out such as the saloon confrontation the fight on the road to the contest the odd double finale br br definitely looks better on a theater screen but still impressive for home viewing recommended
1	having recently seen grindhouse i was browsing in video usa looking for some movies that might have played in real grindhouse theatres in downtown areas during the '70s the hong kong action flick five fingers of death seemed just such a picture the cartoon like sound effects and the quick jump cuts seemed a little distracting at first but after a while i was so involved in the story and the characters i didn't care parts of the music score sounded like the ironside tv theme song that was subsequently used in quentin tarantino's kill bill movies some scenes involving the hero's fiancé seemed to border on parody but they were so brief that they didn't ruin the film the most exciting parts involve the tournament and some revenge segments after that well worth seeing for kung fu fans
1	who said it had to be believable do yourself a favor and turn off your ration before you sit down to view this film you'll enjoy the experience much more you'll find yourself forgiving some of the movie's more outlandish plot set ups and simply accepting it for what it is a great family film i appreciated not having to be concerned about questionable elements in a children's film for once that to me is worth the price of the ticket and it manages to maintain its wholesomeness without being obvious about it older will enjoy this film enough good humor to keep adults interested very good film
1	hong kong filmmaker chang chang ho's 1972 martial arts movie epic five fingers of death is widely considered by a great many film experts and kung fu movie fanatics to be the martial arts movie that started it all br br being released in 1972 it was phase two of the three step process that would lead to the explosion of martial arts movies in the west billy jack 1971 with its famous showdown in the park was released the year before and bruce lee starred in enter the dragon 1973 two years later thereby martial arts movies' place in western cinema br br but what is all the hoopla about regarding five fingers of death the movie with its terrible dubbing explosive if not highly improbable action sequences and technical flaws and all has a plot albeit a very thin one chih the late lo lieh is a young and dedicated student of chinese gong fu who is selected to represent his school in an upcoming martial arts tournament his teacher offers to allow him to self train in the iron fist style of fighting a style so deadly that it could very easily kill a man with only one blow br br additionally chih arrival at the school coincides with a violent conflict with a rival school its students and a trio of murderous heavy hitters from japan before you know it a major setback threatens chih training and his ability to represent his beloved school in the upcoming tournament br br let me just say that five fingers of death is in fact the movie that started it all as another viewer mentioned five fingers of death helped to set a lot of standards in martial arts movies over the next three decades asian european and north american martial arts movies such standards include the dedicated student the learning of patience and endurance conflicts between rival schools the intense ethnic animosity between the chinese and japanese and learning a system of fighting for that good old fashioned action movie motive revenge five fingers of death would also serve as a major influence on american filmmaker quentin tarantino's kill bill movies tarantino borrows quite liberally from this project among many others just so you know br br the acting is pretty good considering the fact that this is a martial arts movie from the early 1970s the best of which is lo lieh as the atypical student of the martial arts his performance is quite groundbreaking though upon first glance at this movie you wouldn't really know it because of how that particular character arc has been done to death so many times over the years he's quite humble in his acting doing anything he can to persevere over his enemies and not fight them in anger or stoop to their level of stupidity or arrogance also when he suffers his major setback it does make your heart sink a little bit because it's so brutal and you wonder if he's going to recover enough to realize his life long ambition br br five fingers of death is a classic in every sense it's by no means perfect and viewers would be crazy to expect something on the caliber of the godfather of martial arts movies what it does offer you is the ultimate example of eastern hand to hand combat from the time before eastern cinema was a major fixture in the west br br 7 10 br br p s enter the dragon bolo yeung also appears as the mongolian street fighter near the beginning of the film
1	the martial arts movies got huge in the 60's in parts of asia but with the growing popularity of the infamous shaw brothers films america was bound to catch on this movie was the first to be presented in america under the warner bros label and it did in fact start a craze here that flooded the 70's with martial arts films many of the films to follow would pale in comparison but some were great and many like enter the dragon which came out shortly after this one became huge success stories and made superstars out of these fighters br br fast forward almost 40 years later and this movie still holds up most shaw brothers films are as good today as they were back then and truth be told no films have been made in this genre to compete with those made by the shaw bros back in the day br br i like to think martial arts are like porn and nobody watches porn for the plot just the action well same goes with m a films and most of them are just a bunch of great fights with little story this one is an exception it doesn't have an amazing story but there is one there br br the main guy played by lo lieh actually stands out amongst karate film heroes he never brags and he never fights just because he can he is often seen as weak and less of a fighter than most but when he must fight he is damn well the greatest alive i really loved this character many of the bad guys were memorable and the fight scenes were just presented so amazingly even a small role with bolo yeung can be seen as the huge mongolian and bolo is in my top 5 as greatest martial artist film stars ever he was also in the above mentioned enter the dragon br br the production as i've said over and over is wonderful you can't beat the the direction was something unlike i have seen much in films of the 70's the use of color was well placed and made this movie stand alone and rise above the others when the light shines on chi hands as he does the iron fist its pure beauty br br the music was superb as well martial arts films were to asia what westerns were to italy two separate art forms with so much in common the countries making these films had all genres but the japanese films were what was making waves there as the spaghetti westerns were in italy with their many differences the styles of these two genres were neck and neck as seen in movies like 5 fingers of death the fights were easily compared to leoni cowboy stand offs and the music tied the genres together so well the music here borrowed a little from ironside but it was still very original br br many films were inspired by this one and when i watch it i can see everything from the master killer to bloodsport having been influenced the most obvious movie to have been influenced was kill bill which to me is the greatest of all time many of the sets quentin used are complete replicas of ones seen here and he used the music from this film even though the music he used was the music borrowed from ironside and the fight scene at the end of kill bill vol 1 with the bride and o ren is at times exact in comparison to the fight with chi and the japanese thug at the end of this movie br br i have seen many martial arts films a few even better but this is a must see for fans of the genre you can't go wrong here the movie starts off slow but 15 20 minutes into it it picks up and doesn't slow down
1	while it's generally acknowledged one of the first martial arts movies to play here in the west it's real impact comes in retrospect lo lieh is very low key throughout and many of the fight scenes while often hailed as innovative which they were at the time of the movie's initial release are a tad tame compared to what came after particularly after bruce lee who became the instant standard by which all others will forevermore be judged that's not to say that five fingers of death king boxer is anything less than a classic in its own right because it is like many of the leading characters in many martial arts movies the character lieh plays lays low through most of the movie for a reason but when he cuts loose he effectively cleans house you can't ask for more than that
1	five fingers of death is a classic of 70's kung fu cinema as the film that broke out hk cinema to the west this is a must see for any serious fan of the genre it's also a damn entertaining film with hard hitting non stop action solid and mostly believable fight choreography and great over the top 70's era dubbing oh i see so you want it the hard way br br five fingers is an eye for an eye revenge tale and i mean literally eye for an eye it's great to see lo lieh portraying a hero he played so many great villains later in his career including pai mei in the classic fist of the white lotus which was one of the characters tarantino used in creating the pai mei of kill bill br br my only complaint is that i wish there was a better quality dvd mine looks like it was a vhs transfer overall this is a great film don't miss it br br bart film club hollywood ca
1	this was the very first kung fu movie that i have ever seen the dubbing is not the greatest but alot better than some that i had seen the plot is much better than some that are made today it is gory at times but that is what gives it that special push academy award material is it not but if you like to watch fights and a decent story this is for you
1	this is my favourite kung fu movie it has a very authentic flavour seasoned by an eerie music score of tradition chinese instruments i think and some wonderfully over acted melodramatic moments contrasted by heavily affected comedy indeed while attempting to create their own western i e cowboy film genre the chinese concocted a whole new animal marked by kung fu fighting and its associated sound effects br br the story of five fingers of death is simple a story of revenge for killing a loved one and the pursuit of the main character to master the iron fist technique that will enable him to wreak holy vengeance on his enemies there is even a love interest though the awkward polite kind found in most chinese films of the period the end result however is great and much more authentic than any bruce lee movie
1	i saw five fingers at the drive in in what 1973 it was the the first kung fu movie i'd ever seen and i was greatly entertained i recently bought it on dvd and watched it again i was greatly entertained the second time too i believe this is probably the one most kung fu movies are modeled after rival schools different styles revenge white hat good guys and black hat bad guys they even threw in the japanese very bad guys styles of karate and judo i remember being amused by the dubbing dialog along the lines of hey you you are a very bad guy and they should not get away with this i will have a go at this bad crowd this time it wasn't so distracting i guess i'm used to it if you have even the slightest appreciation of this genre this is one you should see
1	this is truly a kung fu classic this film appears to have influenced martial arts films for decades the spanish guitar background music the competing schools the impossibly high leaps onto the edges of rooftops catching thrown spears cheating in tournaments the secret training for an exotic karate technique themes of patience and perseverance and more were copied by many later films such as the karate kid 1984 hero 2002 kill bill volume 2 2004 and kung fu hustle 2004 br br i feel lucky to have first seen this film in 1972 shortly after it was released just before kung fu films became mainstream and before bruce lee became a household name i saw it with two buddies of mine in a downtown san diego theater frequented by sailors and although the scenes of the glowing red hands and gouged eyeballs got some laughs clearly the audience was getting into it as was our little group it was a very memorable movie for me decades later i could still recall several specific scenes even after i had forgotten the film title this film is extra special to me now because one of those two buddies with whom i first saw it sailor kenneth lee hines of the kitty hawk has since passed away so this film serves as a memento of that day together before we took judo and karate lessons in subsequent years br br relative to kung fu films i'd rate this film as 10 10 but since i have to keep the larger film audience in mind i'll more objectively rate it as 8 10 due to obvious technical flaws i just recommend that neophyte viewers consider those technical flaws to be proof of its vintage nature and of its authenticity and then merrily proceed to enjoy its testosterone charged mayhem
1	five fingers of death started the american kung fu movie craze but i remember seeing it for the first time as king boxer in chinatown nyc without the bad dubbing and few americans i also was fortunate enough to see the american premiere of five fingers of death on times square nyc what a contrast this turned out to be same film but different audiences br br in chinatown this film took on a more serious tone to the viewers it was because of hearing the real voices of the actors in chinese that made this movie more believable chinatown theaters were showing violent kung fu films for years 1972's boxer from beat them all in gore so the action choreography story were the main attraction rival school plots were not overused yet so the storyline seemed fresh every great kung fu film had wonderful dastardly villains you wanted to see get their comeuppance and had them too the star lieh lo was a known actor in chinese theaters the mostly chinese audience enjoyed this film immensely the audience buzz while leaving this film gives the final satisfaction to me br br on times square this film was an action comedy probably unintentionally i enjoyed it here too but for different reasons the crowd was ethnic and quite energetic from the start the movie made you laugh as soon as the audience heard those strange british accents come from those chinese actors the movie turned into a violent and gory cartoon most american audiences saw this kind of gore in a horror film not in an action film the action sequences blew the audience away unfortunately the movie studios saw that they enjoyed it so much that bad dubbing and unnecessary violence became a kung fu flick formula br br i had fun seeing this movie with an american audience but enjoyed it much more in chinatown some films can pass the test of time but the dubbed version of can't the original king boxer is still enjoyable a classic
1	the patriot is a well thought out well produced film that will draw the viewer into the story directly and keep them involved to the very end granted it is not in the same vein as under siege et al but this is definitely the trademark film of what might be described as seagal's second era of films not so much action movies with a nod to a story thrown in for good measure but a good story matched with a point and injected with some of seagal's action sequences is this the kind of film that hardcore action junkies will enjoy probably not but for those of us who not only like our action but also can appreciate a well told story this is a big step forward for seagal it's almost like the transformation clint eastwood made as he tried to step out from underneath the shadow of his dirty harry series either man had he continued in the singular direction they were headed would have forever been in in specific role and guaranteed the brevity of their careers
1	fun movie great for the kids they found it very entertaining somewhat predictable but there are a few surprises great movie to watch if you're looking for something just to entertain don't expect to be seeing a classic
1	i really enjoyed the patriot this movie had less violence and was based on a real life threat that could inevitably destroy our civilization one line in the movie from wesley mclaren seagal stuck out in my mind to be very true of our society western medicine is in the practice of prolonging illness and i am in the business of curing it br br
1	it seems that all people didn't like steven seagal just take a look at his nomination list there are only razzie awards nominations with one win for him but i think he didn't earn anything of it i saw good movies with steven seagal i saw bad movies with steven seagal and the patriot 1998 is one of his best movies nearly as good as under siege 1992 or hard to kill 1990 the patriot shows his activities to protect nature surely this movie is not a great one and i must say that there is more violence than i like and why must seagal's best friend l q jones die the death of a victim the role of dr is one of seagal's best performances he has as always a very good charisma and in summary the patriot is good entertainment and with an average rating of only 4 points the most underrated movie of all time br br regards hans dieter
1	man i think people have forgotten how to watch a movie everyone thinks they're a critic they comment on things that the average movie goer doesn't even know or think about br br i enjoyed the film it was what i was expecting therefore was not disappointed steven gets a bad rap for putting his views into his films but that's also a reason to watch what's even more funny is the people that complain about his films say he's the worst and that we shouldn't watch his films yet watch his movies anyway all so they can comment on how bad they are who's the dummy if you don't like his work don't watch it then you won't have to subject yourself to this supposedly painful event br br stop comparing movies to other movies and watch a movie on an individual basis and you may begin to enjoy films again
1	basically this is a very good film it is very different from seagal's other films though which unfortunately may turn off some of his fans unlike some of the other films this does not feel like a you get to see plenty of the other characters as well and all of mr seagal's actions are not the same as we've seen before the concept of him being an 'intellectual' in something other than bombs and other weaponry is a nice change although there are some unrealistic parts to the film some more obvious than others in general you can let them slide since the film is fun to watch br br it boils down to this if you are looking for a classic seagal action film sorry but you're going to be disappointed watch it anyway for the fun of it if you're open to seeing seagal without the action it's well worth a look i personally believe it is some of the best work he's done in quite a while br br
1	many people are making fun out of steven seagals acting abilities and i really see why if i remember fire down below well ok his other films are acceptable regarding to his acting br br after reading reviews about the patriot i didn't expect anything from this film i barely came through fire down below and i read a lot that the patriot was even worse so i was really surprised about this one in my opinion it is one of his very best movies if it had have more action sequences and a couple more fighting scenes it would be the best i liked the story the directing and the actors belle was just incredible she will have a great movie career in the future the few action scenes were very well made and steven seagal was very believable in his unusual role
1	ok film like segal's last few films once again goes beyond the knock 'em down kick 'em in the groin shoot 'em in the face get revenge against the bad guys for hurting my sister's niece's cousin stuff seagal was into for a while steven started thinking and using his bucks to make movies with actual ideas in them sure there is plenty of action in this flick but also some thought and heart it's not an oscar flick but well worth the effort unless the viewer is so into brain dead violence that it hurts to have to think for longer than a second it's worth a rental or two
1	this is another classic seagal movie he walks no cruises through the patriot just all the other mega seagal movies nothing even comes close to challenging seagal in this movie except maybe the part where he has to find a cure for this so called 'plague' and he starts throwing things about the lab but it all works out i mean lets face it its master seagal he's got to win what about his outfit in the film masterpiece he must have picked it himself its great that everyone in the film is dying after being exposed to the virus but seagal doesn't even get a cough the incident at the end when he kills the fat guy with the broken glass genius i bet seagal thought of that one as well this film is class pure and simple great plot great characters and seagal
1	i think this is one hell of a movie we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there's a message in it without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special
1	in my personal opinion «the is one of the best steven seagal movies br br i've heard people say it's the worst one ever it's not like ss etc i disagree as a highly spiritual person a great master seagal established a good tradition in action movies he always has a good background great action high professionalism and a clever message this movie has it all you have good shooting scenes great aikido although there isn't a lot of it it shows us its peaceful side this change in his film making only proves his spiritual growth he doesn't kill buddy in the end br br «the is definitely one of the best films from the point of view which i have seen lately you have great panoramic shots of montana we see real american nature and beautiful wildlife among others horses and flowers the soundtrack also deserves a few words during the film i had a great opportunity to listen to classical american cowboy western music not country though similar music was heard in to the future acting has greatly improved since his last films his role is unfamiliar to him unlike cops commandos but he does a good job playing the retired doctor from the government his acting is convincing and his lines are good br br i was really pleased with the cast jones proves that life death walk the earth together whitney yellow robe plays a beautiful and clever scientist camilla belle makes a great appearance as daughter br br mr seagal discusses the much debated tradition and the militia squads providing his own point of view he likes the constitution just fine but chubby bearded men have nothing to do with it also good points are raised regarding the eastern western medicine system and nature br br seagal's best and opening new horizons in his film career br br
1	good footage of world war i era ships and planes supplement this excellent war drama set in the adriatic walter huston is excellent as the commanding officer who knows his place and his place has no room for personal feelings the safety of the ship and the mission must always come first robert montgomery is the lieutenant who has not yet mastered the role that a leader must play in combat he makes bad decisions endangering the submarine and its crew but finally becomes a real man after he is court martialed and dismissed from the navy robert young plays a lieutenant junior grade and jimmy durante as a cook paralleling the war drama is an equally important wartime love triangle between montgomery and madge evans who plays huston's daughter and the wife of a tragically injured aviator recommended
1	with all of the r movies out today it's hard to find something you can take the whole family to see my kids loved it it was good clean fun i would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to take the whole family out for a nice evening at the movies
1	exciting action packed and interesting film telling the tale of a group of men stationed at a naval base in italy and their adventures aboard a navy submarine during wwi tommy and brick played by robert montgomery and robert young are two pals and make for a couple of very handsome officers i must say a new captain arrives on board already known by a few as dead pan toler walter huston and he's a real stickler for following the rule book and a code of honor soon tommy and brick are chasing after an attractive blonde at an officer's dance tommy insults the captain and of course the blonde is actually the captain's daughter but tommy wins out anyway as he and the daughter sneak away from the dance to a street carnival outside and soon bond during an air raid unfortunately for him she reveals she is married later tommy gets himself into some real trouble when he disobeys orders in an effort save his buddy br br this film is quite entertaining with an absorbing plot line that held my interest and top notch performances by all a climactic death scene featuring sterling holloway is haunting indeed the most memorable scene in this film i thought eugene palette and jimmy durante add some humor here playing a couple of durante's character is actually studying to be a dentist via mail order and continually has run ins with a british man who makes fun of his nose okay if you're looking for a movie showing a man boxing a kangaroo this would be the one
1	robert montgomery and robert young are outstanding as a duo of young submarine officers stationed in italy during world war i the dialog is highly entertaining and jimmy durante is hilarious as the ship's cook walter huston's character is inspiring as the captain of the submarine a stellar example of an officer and a gentleman one of the most interesting aspects of this movie was the level of technology displayed in the battle scenes i was surprised at how similar the technology of world war i was to the technology displayed 25 years later in world war ii basic human nature was portrayed as very similar to modern times and far from the conservativism i thought existed in the so called innocent past all in all i felt that the cast characters action scenes and view of history depicted in this movie were first rate
1	i recommend that movie viewers if in the new york city area go to the intrepid museum and get some idea of how closed in and cramped the living was for the crews of world war ii vintage submarines how much more so that must have been for the seamen during world war i it must have truly been hell below br br walter huston and robert montgomery head the cast of hell below huston as the by the book captain and montgomery as his free wheeling number two they're both quite believable as naval officers and the rest of the cast like robert young eugene palette jimmy durante madge evans sterling holloway etc fill their roles quite nicely br br the silent service got more popular during world war ii and after it's amazing but i could name a whole slew of submarine pictures like torpedo run operation pacific of the navy run silent run deep and many more and you'll see the same plot situations in all of them i guess there truly is a limit on situations as well br br jimmy durante's performance is interesting he's pretty funny and his scene with the boxing kangaroo while on shore leave is very funny indeed but i'd have to say a character like him in those cramped quarters is probably very necessary for morale if you don't have someone like that to break the tension on board a submarine you ought to get one transferred to your ship immediately br br the highlight for me however is sterling death scene very similar to sean in island in the sky it will haunt you long after you've seen this film
1	as i type these comments i'm watching a dvd of this movie that i just got from a mail order dealer and i'm finding that it holds up extremely well with strong characterizations believable situations and well staged action scenes br br it's been a good 45 years maybe 50 since i saw hell below but the one scene that made an extremely deep impression on me was sterling death scene which several other commenters have mentioned here i haven't gotten to that scene yet on this viewing but i can vouch for what other comments have said once you see sterling death scene in this movie you will absolutely never ever forget it judging from how strong the film so far is holding up i fully expect that scene to live up to the memory of it as unquestionably one of the greatest death scenes in movie history the movie's worth seeing for that moment alone but even without it it would be a first rate early submarine drama
1	the crew of an american submarine discover it's hell below while fighting in the adriatic in 1918 br br although nearly forgotten this excellent war film still delivers solid entertainment thanks to a literate script superior performances and highly believable action scenes br br robert montgomery walter huston play submarine officers under the stress of war who quickly are at odds with each other with dramatic and tragic results since montgomery is in love with huston's daughter madge evans in a well played role the situation becomes even more complicated both on shore and beneath the waves the viewer is torn between the two strong characters one of whom is governed by his heart and the other by the rules br br robert young makes an effective appearance as montgomery's buddy sterling holloway creates a brief vivid portrait of a doomed seaman br br eugene pallette as the torpedo master jimmy durante as the cook make for a very funny comedy team and provide the story with plenty of laughs durante's nose comes in for lots of ribbing and his obsession with amateur dentistry leads to some chaotic encounters with british br br movie mavens will recognize babe london as an obese italian miss maude eburne as the wife of a british admiral paul porcasi as an italian admiral all uncredited br br mgm has given the film absolutely first class production values with the undersea sequences especially well produced both the claustrophobic of the ship and the inevitable tension associated with submarine warfare are accurately portrayed other moments of unexpected drama montgomery miss evans caught on top of a stalled ferris wheel during an air raid and hilarity durante boxing a kangaroo are expertly threaded into the fabric of the movie to provide a totally satisfying viewing experience
1	you can tell that this is the first offering by the director who also wrote it but you can also see the potential this guy has this is an obviously low budget film in the spirit of boondock saints of course boondock saints came out a few years after this so you could look at this as a diamond in need of some polish the acting was good if you're looking for deniro or michael madsen in a crime drama remember that these are young guys playing young guys trying to be criminals they're not going to be tm like some of the veterans i would have love to have seen justin joe the main character go on to make more movies he was great in this good movie 3 stars out of 5
1	i felt compelled to give some feedback on this movie that i rented from blockbuster this movie has it all comedy drama crime suspense and realism br br this movie also had a lot of action with just the right amount of humor i will definitely watch it again there were some funny parts as well as action packed drama i enjoy movies that keep you wondering what's going to happen next br br the writer director travis should make more movies in my overall opinion this movie was great i'm looking forward to his next one travis has real talent as a writer and director
1	i don't have a really solid thesis here so i'm just going to toss out some observations br br first of all the film is absolutely gorgeous it's shot in high contrast black and white and some of the scenes are so well composed that they're almost distracting br br there's a sequence early on of some intense protests and some of the shots were amazing three guys launching tear gas at the protesters etc br br second of all i think that one of the biggest signs that this is a recent film looking back on the 60's is that it's really about how the idealism of the revolution morphed and shifted into something different the take on this shift is really interesting i think that both the political phase of things as well as the artistic and more self indulgent phase have strong points and weak points the film doesn't necessarily take the position that things decayed br br third i think the romance works very well br br finally i really really really hated the ending it was way too melodramatic you could even say that the ending is unworthy of the film that preceded it
1	it's not like an historical movie it's not a movie with unforgettable love stories it's not a movie with a spectacular scenario but i can surely say it's a movie with a great atmosphere br br it had that 60's kind of bohemian and rebellious spirit a group of friends living in a poor apartment in paris each one making art dreaming of changing the world doing drugs and loving in his very own way br br it takes a lot of patience to watch and a special mood that if you're not in you might find it extremely boring and dull br br i liked a lot the very realistic approach of the events that took place and their immediate effect on student's lives the fear for their future the difficulty of earning their living the obstacles in following their dreams br br what i absolutely loved was the black white image the still camera angles were amazing they were like freezing moments it left me the impression of a long slide show of old and very emotive and suggestive photographs i actually had to see the movie again just to take those amazing screen shots br br in one word beautiful
1	this is a very long movie indeed but it is quite beautiful and a good example to show why cinema can be considered art a story easily told cannot be expected in les amants but every scene every silence here tells much more than a hundred dialogs touching different perfect in its pictures and soundtrack showing why the close brought by the cinema as one of its main features became the greatest innovation in any dramatic representation someone who is used to that kind of movies where everything is told and action takes place all the time will find this tiring but it is worth watching to find out other possibilities of feeling a story
1	i wasn't expecting much from this tale of a kid whose term paper is stolen and turned into a movie script who then he travels to hollywood to get even but hey it's still a fun film frankie of malcom in the middle fame stars as the kid and is fairly good and amanda bynes as his friend is also very good yea the film does work as an advertisement for universal studios theme park and is really kinda a silly kids film but i enjoyed it anyways grade b
1	seeing les amants calls immediately for comparison with bertolucci's movie 'the dreamers' in my opinion the best film made about the 1968 revolt of students in paris actually director philippe garrel does not seem to avoid comparing with his much more famous colleague sharing the principal actor and even including a direct replica eye in viewer eye about an older film of bertolucci and yet lar is a different film and an interesting one br br the story line seems also familiar the movie starts with long scenes of the 1968 maybe among the best done until now the film is made in black and white and the perspective of the static camera on one side or the other of the barricade reminds eisenstein then as in the dreamers the action moves in the parisian flat where the heroes of the defeated revolt make art smoke drugs dream and fall for one other there is no direct social comment no real explanation of the background of the revolt the movie focuses on the psychology of the characters and on the love story between the main characters it's like a premonition of the process of transition to the establishment that the generation of the 1968 went through it's just that not all the participants may adapt or survive br br the film is more about the characters than about the events and it is merely for the style it will be remembered about the black and white cinema is memorable not only in the revolution scenes but also when looking at the characters evolution many sequences are enhanced by a technique that is derived from the silent films movies with long takes accompanied by a off piano tune the effect is exquisite yet the length of the film is hardly justified it lasts more than three hours and i doubt that cutting it to only two hours would have been a miss actually i am convinced it's quite a contrary br br without raising at the depth and subtlety of bertolucci's movie lar is another perspective to remember about one of the more important years in the history of france and of the world in the 20th century
1	the reason i am reviewing this is that the previous review was written by someone who walked out of this film not even half way through unfortunately for him he missed out on a film of tremendous beauty agreed the film was very slow to start in fact the friend i was with fell asleep briefly i woke him before his snoring disturbed the rest of the audience thankfully the film developed from there into a story of love drugs and what it was like to be young and free in the experimental 60s fantastic performances from the two leads and a great look to the film that gave it a real authentic feel be patient like many great films its well worth the wait and is certainly a film that i will look forward to revisiting 8 10
1	this is the best french movie of the year i saw it twice and i found it great both times i didn't think it boring at all even though it is very long 3 hours i'm seventeen so i obviously didn't get to live the events of may 1968 that marked an extremely important turn in french history but it doesn't really matter since i still really enjoyed the film it's actually quite universal people of my parents' age can identify to the characters and so can people my age garrel seems to perfectly understand young people the way they think and the complications of love as well as the loss of illusions concerning the possibility of changing the world maybe that's because the character played by louis garrel his son is actually meant to represent philippe garrel himself well anyway great movie no action have to be honest on that point but so strong feelings that you can't possibly stay indifferent to it if you're looking for a relaxing sunday evening movie don't waste your time on this you'll be disappointed but if you like cinema you'll like les amants which is a bewitching movie close to those made in the 50's and 60's by the nouvelle vague artists
1	this film is probably the best new french film i've seen in this century so far there have been some great ones including noe's irreversible green's le pont des arts and none of them come close to les amants timeless glory br br the movie is a description of the events of may 68 and what followed in the wake of it and furthermore it is and update of and a homage to the nouvelle vague movies of those days concerning the depiction of the riots in paris the movie is meticulously accurate i'm only 19 and i wasn't there myself but you know what i mean and the almost real time and very long riot scenes set the stage perfectly for the aftermath of the events in the streets of paris the riots are not glorified or beautifully photographed like the ones in bertolucci's the dreamers to which the movie is comparable in many ways instead they are filmed in grimy black and white shots courtesy of the excellent william the love story that is the movie's main concern after the riots in 68 is filmed in stunning and far less blurred shots and manages to evoke true feelings of love and adolescent confusion in the midst of the otherwise politically concerned and seemingly cold environment br br this film is a beautiful love story and it radiates through it that the director wants to depict his own experiences of those mythical late 60's which makes the film all the more compelling but the film is also a homage to the whole nouvelle vague canon much of the dialogue evokes early truffaut and the length and non action and plot less structure is reminiscent of eustache or rivette there are even godard like effects with the persons looking directly into the camera and even addressing bertolucci directly this film is no doubt an answer song to bertolucci's the dreamers and it is also a nouvelle vague homage but still it stands by itself as a beautiful and radiant love story br br bottom line this movie is incredible and if you love french cinema you shouldn't sleep on it it may be the finest french film since eustache's la et la putain
1	philippe garrel makes us breathe the forgotten atmosphere of the nouvelle vague almost lost among the vestiges of its ancient splendor but ready to rise again from its ashes if recalled from the past they who are a little acquainted with the director's subjects on the other hand may know very well how he's obsessed by a lingering sense of loss as far as fickleness of reality is concerned les amants therefore show us the parallel stories of an amour fou and of a tempted revolution gone to ruin under the direction of young french students br br the first part of the story is about the dramatic events of may '68 in france evoked in a series of astonishing plan sequences a sort of cinema verité style that place the student insurrection in anything but an enviable light against a pitch black background br br there's much that can be said about the peculiarities of black and white photography used to describe the battle between students and police where the high contrasts confer an unrealistic atmosphere to the sequences and darkness closes in upon the excited bodies wrapping them in mystery the images completely deprived of words show the real consistence of the myth made of crude violence more and more emphasized by the exasperated reality of the movie shootings the individual doesn't count anything at all here he tends to disappear in the mass what really matters in these fight scenes are the significance of the mass suggestion the blind fury of the juvenile assault sinister eulogies of the power of the mob even if conceived like separate entities apart from any kind of emotion with the cold and distant look of an entomologist intent to catalog his insect collection br br the second part of the story is described in a quieter and most intimate way stands out on the horizon the distressing portrait of a self centered generation in search of its lost time completely disenchanted about the individual values of men inclined to rotate on its own axis between opium fumes and making a funeral oration in the praise of its recent defeat br br les amants seems to evoke from time to time the shadow of the great robert bresson revised and corrected by particular sensibility without drifting away from the main argument trying to expand overall perspectives on the subject of human that though painful may bring us to the truth in my opinion trying to penetrate deeply into the of the story if a man lets himself go and play things by ear he probably will find that he can bring out the dark side of his self with dire and irretrievable consequences
1	this is a great movie a must own i really liked every aspect of it from the sword fighting the romance the costumes were really well done and put together the scenery is absolutely beautiful i also loved the mystery and magic also the message of the power of love that love is the greatest power there is i really like the heart of the king in the sense that he desires peace instead of the bloodshed and hate i wish that i could live in a world like that with flying ships to castles in the sky i also think that it was really nice how they brought the animals into the movie i also thought that the cook was really funny i have watched it many times in one day and still never tire of it just wish they would bring it onto a dvd
1	this a lovely and charming epic fantasy with lots of heart i got lost in this sweet film watching it at the mann's chinese theatre in hollywood it's truly romantic with a touching message the artwork and the effects are visually striking and the fact that the director is an amazing artist is so apparent the frames are like watching moving art it also has a strong and talented cast of actors what a wonderful surprise to see joss ackland he is just a fairy tale perfect king sarah douglas is terrific as the villain and christine taylor and tom schultz make a lovely romantic pair the fact that the movie was made on a ridiculously tiny indie film budget just blows me away it may not be the slick hollywood stuff we're inundated by but it's a really nice movie to rent and enjoy curled up on your sofa on a rainy saturday don't forget the microwave popcorn that's my advice just enjoy it
1	i watched this movie for the first time ever on the sci fi channel and i must say it was simply awesome for those of you whom loves 'the never ending story' this is one that would bring back memories of that movie even though it is a 1996 movie it has a hazy like setting and look which makes it feel like it is a fantasy the acting was brilliant and the music was great especially the beginning battle song and end song to those of you who have yet to see it watch it i recommended completely
1	satisfying fantasy with ships sailing thru clouds with cannons evil plotters strange landscapes manipulations of time great sets void of reality maybe like never ending story or some merlin stuff if you like that you'll love it christine taylor is beautiful sword fighting is phoney music is delightful good wins out they kiss all is well and the cook is pleased
1	it is movie about love violence illegal affairs and romanian tycoons a romanian story combined with an occidental adaption resulting in a modern international film that can be understood both by western audiences but as well by eastern european audiences that have long forgotten about the conservative over film making br br a film full of violent fight scenes that are very numerous and create more and more tensed situations as the movie goes on br br a story that impresses because of its view over the hard life from the neighbourhood two young men do illegal car races they work together as a team and prosper from their occupation but when they are asked by a local tycoon to lose one race things start to get messy and the fuse from the bomb lights up creating a very movie that will keep you close to the screen until the ending of it when you will still be asking yourself a lot of questions long after that br br brilliant acting both by dragos and along with high quality directing and screen writing by the young but talented director also give a unique charm to furia all this and many other elements that can be noticed while watching have created a must see movie by all the around the world and its message is clear to all not depending of race language we speak or country it is a real hope for the romanian cinema as it tries to keep up with the more advanced occidental cinema br br i hope you enjoy watching it as i'm sure that all the people that have seen it liked it and understood it
1	spoiler alert this was my son's review of the movie which he wanted me to post he wrote this i swear br br with malcolm in the frankie and amanda bynes they get to go to show business they team up on the actor paul giamatti he stole jason shepherd's essay on big fat liar and makes it in to a movie jason frankie and amanda bynes have to go to l a to get it back jason's dad does not believe that he wrote that essay so every time they see each other jason asks wolf paul giamatti to give jason's dad a call because he wants his essay back wolf does not make the movie but the president of the company makes it at the end the family and see the movie made by wolf pictures and based on a real story written by jason shepherd
1	this is probably the best movie of 2002 regarding romanian cinema i do recommend it being an intense drama with no lack of action and thrills the movie concentrates upon teen life in the bucharest suburbs trough the main character not focusing so much on the character's shape or definition but more on the anger that he and other characters feel the title furia means rage rather than anger but could be regarded in the movie in both senses from the behavior of actors the rather odd love story not a typical romantic one but rather a modern suburban conception is well shaped towards the end it is a captivating picture and cinematography is pretty good in catching the suburban night life thus making it a nice movie to watch and br br you won't get bored for a minute i promise
1	my teacher did this movie it's a new beginning watch it and you won't notice that it is a romanian movie the old boring style has gone now it's something else a post revolutionary movie it is using the latest imaging technology and mostly unknown artists they are unique you won't even know that you're watching you will be simply transferred beyond the screen and you'll feel every frame don't miss it pay attention to the plot but don't ignore the details they make the difference between this movie and the others romanian movies you will hear some music at some point it's representative for a part of us but it does not represent us please just keep your head straight and leave your body free
1	i have to say that i haven't expected that this movie to be this good usually the eastern cinema presents the communist past in 90 of the films however this film surpasses the romanian cinema being worthy of some more advertisement br br the acting is truthfully and not exaggerated the plot is simple yet complex as it presents the life in the romanian suburbia the sound amazed me the directing was good and what more can i say br br this crash of eastern europe was drawn me into the film living each moment of it i have even felt a desire coming out of me a desire for adventure after seeing it br br watch it you will definitely enjoy it br br 7 10
1	the movie has an excellent screenplay the situation is credible the action has pace first class direction and acting especially the 3 leading actors but the others as well including the mobster who does not seem to be a professional actor br br i wish the movie the director and the actors success
1	is not a bad movie but the acting and the screenplay can be better i like this movie because i have a life that is in good part like the one in the movie is hard for a lost generation to get a life in romania and 90 percent of us choose something else and that something else includes dealing with people with bad habits if you understand me but that comes with the territory this movie represent me and i like it i have a rage in me that i barley talk with people i live in a messed up society and i can't fit in and i don't want to and that's the story of movie also if you r like me you can understand the true movie if not you will find it easy and cheap
1	now we know movies the excellent paper will be blue and boogie but its worth to see again or at last this first furia which shows perfectly clear his initial qualities br br its very interesting to see how his beginners talent developed into confirming him as one of the best romanian contemporary directors br br of course the movie itself is excellent intelligent and professional script sure handed direction stylish photography definitely one of the best in the most serious and competent sense also storytelling sense is compelling and gripping and he actors well they simply rock
1	looking backwards to that year 2002 when furia was made one can easily recognize the heralding sings of today's new generation in romania br br the main qualities of furia stand in a very solid script with a substantial dramatic core and a really professional developing plus a cast of excellent actors all four leading roles are admirably performed both with depth and dragos and andy confirmed since then being two of our best performers today follows them closely and adrian a non professional in real life a graveyard manager cast as was a genuine revelation br br further directing is skilled and expressive creating in a very compelling style that feeling of a fateful night and inescapable destiny one can easily pass over the few awkward and even failed moments since time proved them to be only the uncertainties inherent to a debut never repeated in his subsequent movies va fi and boogie
1	the romanian cinema is little known out of romania no directors from romania came out to the attention of the international public as some from other countries from eastern europe like hungary or yugoslavia succeeded to do one of the few great directors in romanian cinema is lucian pintilie who 35 ago directed a great movie quickly taken out of the circuit by the communist censorship after that film still a reference for the romanian cinema pintilie was not allowed to create freely in romania until the communist rule fell in 1989 br br reminds me film 35 years ago the title means 'the rage' and i cannot imagine why the distributors chose to translate it differently it is about a lost generation while in the classic of pintilie the root of evil is in the oppression and lies of the communist regime here the young folks need to deal with the emergence of the sub culture and the moral filth that filled in the void left by the totalitarian rule the end is tragic and painfully expected br br the movie is well directed and the acting is good without too much complexity it succeeds to create an emotional link between the characters and the viewer one would say that some situations seem similar to '8 miles' or 'the fast and the furious' but look at the date of the production this film was made at the same time if not before the western peers if this is indeed the first film of director dan as imdb says it is an outstanding debut in any case a good movie can compete and may sell well on the western market br br there is hope for a new generation of romanian films that with some luck and good distribution will make its place in the international cinema scene br br 8 10 on my personal scale
1	this is a brilliant series along the same lines of simpsons following a family as they go through life and problems etc slightly less realistic than simpsons talking baby and dog anyone family guy goes where simpsons or futurama dares not reaching past into the sicker jokes and more racy gags and believe me it works almost all the gags hit the mark and they'll have you in stitches especially the random frequent flashbacks when my brother first showed me this i wasn't hooked but after a few episodes i was hooked you will be 2 10 10 for a truly brilliant show congrats to seth for bringing this show to life
1	ignore the comment before mine the show is comic genius most underrated show ever 3 reasons why reason 1 the flashbacks are hilarious who cares if they have absolutely nothing to do with the story they make me laugh so hard it hurts and isn't that the idea of a good comedy programme people who think this isn't funny just have no sense of humour who cares if they are random its a t v show you can do what ever you like with it and people say its not realistic neither is a cartoon its animated reason 2 the jokes are just generally hilarious seth mcfarlane and the other writers are funny everything from the star wars references to making fun of celebrities i love them all and reason 3 the story lines are just brilliant and funny they set up all of the jokes with their crazy nature and wackiness just all the more funnier br br i caught this one late night on bbc2 and have never gone back i have all 7 seasons plus the kind of movie thing griffin the untold story i have several t shirts posters and my collection is still growing i've never got a collection of any tv show before but this was so funny i just had to get everything br br just watch season 3 and trust me you will be hooked for life the funniest show ever created and i hope it never ends
1	after seeing big fat liar i think jason learned a lot more when he told the truth about marty stealing his story it was like the boy who cried wolf people heard him but they didn't believe him nobody did anything to help him besides not only marty's movies stink so does his advice the truth is not overrated i am so glad he got exposed for what he really is everyone found out that he stole from that boy including his parents not only he stole from that boy and lied about it he gave them someone else's work and tried to call it his own which is plagiarism doesn't he know that it is illegal to plagiarize someone's idea another reason why he got fired he is not trustworthy he's a liar a cheat a thief a crook and a plagiarist you got that marty you're a plagiarist plus you got everything that you deserved
1	this is the greatest show ever made next to south park i love this show it is so funny and peter's laugh is hilarious you need to watch this show right away for the few people who have never seen this show before one of my favorite shows of all time br br if you can try to see some of the later episodes such as i dream of jesus or tales of a third grade nothing but there's never been an episode i didn't like all of the episodes are absolutely hilarious it's got a great satire to it as well you can find a lot of clips on you tube if you're somewhere near a computer or a tv see it right away however you can
1	seth mcfarlane is a true genius he has crafted a show that is witty culturally sharp and just downright hilarious br br for those that think its 'offensive' take on social or cultural topics makes no meaningful comment just causes can be pointed to this quote br br peter coming out of the stem cell lab how long was i in there guard five minutes peter why aren't we funding this br br why indeed br br thanks family guy for being not only the funniest show on tv with the possible exception of the much loved much missed futurama but for also being pretty clever to boot
1	family guy has to be my all time favorite cartoon it is definitely the funniest tv show ever made and is better than the simpsons i have never laughed so hard at a tv show in my life the things that make the show so funny is the plot characters and themes that are dealt with in the show there are very few themes that have not been dealt with on family guy br br i have seen just about every episode of family guy ever made and would have to say that the show was better in the first two seasons my favorite characters are peter because he is very funny and is the best character of the show my second favorite character is because he is the funniest villain to be on a tv show if you love family you should check out american dad because it is just so similar and is created by seth mcfarlane i hope this show never ends because it is a comic genius 10 10
1	i own all family guy seasons so far and i have to say vol 6 has been the biggest disappoint of them all there are still plenty of laughs to be found here but i think vol 6 like the last few volumes is slowly providing less and less laughs at least for me br br the biggest annoyance i had with vol 6 is it seems to be very heavy in left wing politics i'm a big believer in if you can laugh at other people you should be able to laugh at yourself but this volume really seems to shove their political view points down your throat and i think it takes a lot away from the show insinuated all conservative are horrible places insinuating we need more gun control insinuated school are under funded insinuated religious people are crazy bush is friends with the devil i could go on and this is just from the first three episodes br br sure some of it was funny but there becomes a point when you're not making a comedy and you're really just shoving your political views on other people
1	this is one great show that it makes me wonder why it got pulled off the air so many times but i believe its now here to stay this show cant compare to any other before simpsons was pretty on the edge and than came family guy and they are stretching it out to go off the edge the things this show gets away with is incredible totally work the watch if you like the simpsons you will love family guy
1	this show is the single greatest thing to come out of america since the simpsons not only does it have thousands of new ideas but it's actually controversial see the jewish joke season 1 episode 1 and isn't scared to tick people off however the great minds at fox have canceled it along with greg the bunny and futurama so make sure you buy the season 1 box set while you still can it'll be the best money you ever spend it's definitely a show that gets better the more you watch it as at first the constant flashbacks can get a little annoying and don't always seem to fit the story properly however after a couple of episodes you realise how brilliant it is and how well it compares to any other show currently on air at the moment
1	family guy is the best show on tv ever it has achieved great things that no other animated sitcom or any show has even come close to achieving br br in terms of animated sitcoms this era should be referred to as the era of animated sitcoms because there are so many of them and almost every one of them imaginable is being released on dvd there are some good ones i e south park futurama and the simpsons every animated sitcom has its own style technique of creating humor for instance futurama is funny because it always comments or acts on what just happened with a touch of humor the simpsons is also a great show because it uses the same comedic technique and style that futurama does but the simpsons deserves the credit for it since it was on the air way before futurama and still remains on the air using the technique south park in my mind is the funniest show next to family guy because it uses a smart blend of vulgarity and silliness as it's technique of creating humor br br but enough about other animated shows let me tell you what makes family guy so funny family guy uses a comedic style that no other show has ever used before it uses a technique of having flashbacks occur after every joke this not only reinforces the joke but makes it seem funnier it also moves at a very quick pace these two criteria make it the funniest show on tv you have to see the show to believe it but once you see it you will most likely agree fyi the two funniest moments on family guy were 1 the 5 minute chicken fight in da boom and 2 the dick van dyke spoof in holy crap also in my mind family guy is a very modest show because while other shows create humor by getting familiar with their routines and characters most of family guy's jokes are based on the silliness of current events and pop culture this also shows that family guy is intelligent in addition to being modest because it reveals that the show has insight and this technique is extremely effective because they relate their pop culture references to the particular plot of the episode they are found in br br family guy can be enjoyed by all ages because while younger children may not understand the pop culture references they will be amused by the hilarious silly antics of the characters especially peter the show is however a little bit more vulgar than the simpsons and futurama but it is less vulgar than south park so in terms of vulgarity family guy would rank somewhere in the middle when associated with the above shows but it would rank no 1 in terms humor and intelligence br br sadly it was cancelled last year not because it wasn't popular but because fox kept changing it's time slot so no one ever knew when it was on luckily we've got the dvd box sets which by the way are selling like crazy and reruns on cartoon network's adult swim available to us
1	when i first saw this show i was 9 and it caught my attention right away when was trying to call lois on the phone in the hotel i laughed and kept on watching when the episode was finished i wrote down the name of the cartoon and watched it regularly this separates itself from the simpsons and other shows on say cartoon network because the jokes are more mature not too much but it's tv 14 for a reason the quick film cuts after each punch line and cute funny movements and behavior of the characters make it special talented seth is the creator and the voice of quite a lot of characters in the show a good theme song and a crazy family that there's always something funny makes this my favorite cartoon along and aqua teen hunger force check it out it's funny stuff
1	i absolutely love this show its basically fox's improved version of the simpsons lets face it the simpsons are very dry if you're above the age of 9 it's political irrational and irresistible anyone who says they don't like it is lying there is a character for every one peter quagmire are my favorites peter because he is rude obnoxious and just doesn't give a crap because of his amazing intelligence and how he hits you with something an adult would say when you least expect it and quagmire because one of guilty pleasures is dirty jokes also there is an episode for everybody too if you're the political type there is mr griffin goes to washington vol 2 season 3 if you like more of the sexual and bodily humor there is emission impossible vol 2 season 3 or if you like any other kind of humor there is dammit janet vol 1 season2 basicly what i'm saying is that when you watch this show there is side splitting humor for everyone
1	if family guy offends you or you simply don't get the humor unfortunately this show is making fun of you and the masses of overly religious dull and politically correct people in america so put your morals aside and have fun with this show is a hilarious mind opener on the reality of today's society whoever said this show is for a young immature audience is very mistaken with all the references to old movies and politics 10 80 years ago i couldn't imagine any young immature kid finding this funny family guy is definitely for a mature open minded audience who are not afraid to criticize american society hats off to seth and the whole crew who were able to make this show happen
1	big fat liar is a pretty funny movie but as i was watching it i thought about something some of the events that occur in this film are unbelievable so really the film is kind of a big fat lie there is no way that he could've gotten away with all of this here are all of the unbelievable stuff br br 1 when he fakes his father had choked on a meatball and acts like he is the father jason frankie couldn't have gotten away with that well luckily for us he didn't so it didn't stick with it the outrageous br br 2 even if the grandmother was blind she still could've figured out that that wasn't her granddaughter br br 3 they couldn't have gotten on the plane flown to l a acted like they were coat salesmen sneak into the studio and then and then well some of the film is a little unbelievable but it doesn't hurt to tell a little white lie trust me i do it all the time br br big fat liar though unbelievable at times is fun it's also very funny but let me just say one thing before i continue this review if paul giamatti wasn't in this movie it would really suck it would be horrible big fat liar is also pretty funny though corny at times i give it a thumbs up br br big fat liar
1	being a russian myself sometimes it's hard for me to get the reference jokes about american tv personalities or celebrities apart from that family guy is the smartest funniest and most politically incorrect shows seen on earth the voice acting is excellent and sounds clear enough even for a non english speaker as myself to comprehend animations are good too maybe even too good for a tv show here we have the equivalent of the adult swim channel but nothing there simply compares to this gem not even simpsons or south park hope the creators will continue to entertain and amuse us don't want to see the whole thing spiraling down into mediocre entertainment
1	family guy has been hilarious for so long but i feel like it lost it's sharp and random humor at the start of season 6 although i enjoyed blue harvest it felt like the remaining episodes were wrapping up episodes where the producers made little attempt to fulfill family guy's reputation of american social satire br br i have seen all the episodes from season 7 and i was utterly surprised and happy that family guy has found their true colors again season 7 delivers a lot of fantastic episodes and with a lot of jokes about the current situations in america which is exactly what we need right now more fun br br i feel that the simpsons has lost its spark all together this show however has made a terrific recovery from going down to proving how perfectly satirical they can be great job
1	family guy is probably the most ballsy sitcom ever produced it relentlessly skewers everything it can think of from tv shows to family drama best of all it's one of the few tv shows on today that's actually funny br br the show revolves around the griffins peter the obese father whose schemes are limited by his lack of intelligence lois the mother who is more or less the head of the family even though peter considers himself to be that chris the fat teenage son who has just as few brains as his dad meg the black sheep of the family that is the but of everyone's jokes the baby who has plans for killing his mother and taking over the world and brian the family dog who is frequently the voice of reason but is frequently corrupted br br family guy employs many tactics to get laughs from the audience most notable are the frequent cutaways that spoof what has just been said they are effective because of the impeccable timing and in how they play out family guy uses spoofs to get humor as well most commonly from 80's tv shows what really makes the show so great is that a person doesn't have to be familiar with what it's spoofing i'm sure it would help but the material is funny enough in its own right but the show doesn't stop there not only does it spoof just about everything it skewers its own spoofs the show is filled with off color humor the only reason why people aren't up in arms about the show is probably because it makes fun of every race sex and other generality equally there is nothing sacred here and no one and nothing is immune from family guy's satirical jabs br br putting on musical numbers in a film takes a lot of time and effort and it's a very big risk but family guy contains some great songs all well written and performed and of course they are hilarious perhaps the most famous one the freakin' fcc is both catchy and hysterical because it hits the ratings board where it hurts br br the voice characterizations are right on the money seth mcfarlane is tremendously talented he provides the voices for peter brian which is his own natural voice and not only are the voices consistent and creative he can alter their pitch at will so it really seems as if they are spoken by three different actors alex borstein brings a nasally drawl to lois that is perfect for the character seth green is unrecognizable as chris had i not looked on imdb i would have never known that it was him lacey chabert originated the character of meg and while she was good mila kunis really elevated the character with her sharp voice kunis gives meg a new sharper edge that she didn't have with chabert br br family guy has been compared to the simpsons and that's entirely understandable and not just because they are produced by fox both are satires of blue collar life and while the simpsons is good family guy contains are sharper edge the show is utterly fearless there is no real sacred cow the show lampoons handicaps physical and mental ethnicities tv shows and movies celebrities politicians religion especially catholicism drug use and addiction sexual humor of all kinds including s m and some that's just beyond description not everything family guy throws at the audience works but as a whole the show is consistently amusing and frequently hilarious br br if there's any flaw with family guy it's that the jokes run on far too long sometimes particularly with the awkward moment jokes the sequences are stretched for so long that not only does it cease to become funny it becomes so irritating and long that a fast forward button is warranted these can be effective at about 10 to 15 seconds but the show sometimes stretches these to beyond two minutes one could argue that the show rewrites its rules to suit the plot and it often does for example brian frequently acts like a person but he still acts like a dog when the story requires it but that's not a problem because the show still works br br some people have argued that the show has stopped being funny while i agree that it's not as edgy as it used to be i think the blame lies with fox not mcfarlane and his crew the show originated with fox but after some lackluster ratings and viewer turnout it was canceled however dvd sales were large enough for it to be picked up by adult swim the show became an instant success and it was once again bought by fox however because the show is so big now fox is afraid to let the writers experiment and try new things while it's still funny the humor is not as fresh and edgy br br definitely check this show out it's awesome
1	despite the apparent structural similarity with the simpsons loud fat dad mum 3 children a pet typical suburban home family guy is actually functionally and stylistically opposite to the simpsons its avid use and sometimes too much of cutaway gags has been its main stay since the first season while some hit the nail on the head the rhea perlman and danny devito bit in season 5 is spine hilarious others are less successful coming across as contrived and they can be annoying especially when they don't advance the story line the jesus bits are entirely unfunny and insulting br br the chemistry between and brian griffin lends itself to pure comedy gold so much so that chris and meg only manage to fulfill the role of the obligatory teenagers in your typical dysfunctional family br br however the feature film griffin the untold story is horrible thank goodness it went straight to dvd br br contrary to tiresome comparisons with the perennial simpsons seth approach with family guy is actually very different it's much more politically incorrect and amazingly a lot more brazen br br creator of ren and stimpy john famously criticized family guy for having extremely low graphic standards from a standpoint i don't think it looks that bad though the detailing and accuracy of some of the spoofs are quite successful br br all in all a great series to go with a great big bowl of chips smothered in ranch sauce and ass jokes
1	i love everything about family guy br br my favourite characters in family are brian and and i like the episodes when it mainly features them such as road to rhode island season 2 as they interact very well the comments they make just have me in stitches peter's behaviour is also very funny as some of the things he does are just so brilliant they're retarded the voice acting is excellent especially seth as he provides the voices for half of the griffin family as well as their perverted neighbour glenn quagmire and how he manages this range particularly with singing i just don't know he deserves his two emmy's for providing the voice of evil baby genius adam west also steals the show with his funny and completely insane regular character the mayor of what i like about chris voiced by seth green is the things he says show that he takes after his father when it comes to intelligence and common sense br br the only thing i have found annoying is that in the uk fox has decided to change the seasons to increase dvd sales which in no way reflect the programme itself but rather the marketing br br if you enjoy family guy then i would thoroughly recommend seth other project american dad which uses a different style of humour but is still extremely hilarious
1	this movie was borderline in crude humor i utterly can not believe that these people can get away with this johnny knoxville didn't cross the line he was stomping all over it this was better than the first all tha way the thing i found about the 1st movie was that the shenanigans were somewhat as if it was on the t v show not this time they completely made a 180 degree flip the whole cast is so outstanding in what they do and not were the stunts crazy but the music basically fit every situation good work when you go see this be sure to use the bathroom before going to the theater maintain a strong stomach and to not let your beverage spray out your nose
1	but at the same time part of you is thinking am i ready for what i am about to see br br in the end you are happy you saw it i was at least jackass number two has twice the laughs and twice the action some stunts will leave you breathless besides little miss sunshine i think it was the best movie i saw this summer maybe even this year br br the entire cast returns besides a few such as chris and rake i don't think any of the cast members had a dull moment each and every stunt was either funny or dangerous or a combination of both stupid the beginning was just as funny as the first one and the ending was interestingly hilarious the cast performing a musical number br br jackass number two is the perfect movie to see with your friends stay during the credits there are some pretty funny moments one involves luke wilson
1	if you're a fan of jackass viva la bam or the videos then you already know what you're in for but this is one of those rare happenings when a sequel is better than the original and man does this movie pack a mean low blow but i mean that in a good way it's the same type of death defying gut wrenching insanity that we have all come to know and love and expect from bam knoxville and co but this time with even more laughs than ever before with johnny insane tolerance for pain bam love for harassing his friends family and steve gross out factor you have one hell of a funny film the bar for the stunts skits and general mayhem of the jackass crew has been raised jackass 3 doubtful because it's nearly impossible to improve on perfection
1	this movies had to be the funniest movie i have ever seen in my entire life i laughed so hard i almost puked after the movie was done i laughed for about an hour just thinking about the very last seen in the movie its is definitely 100 times better than the first jackass movie i loved seeing all of them back together again if you are squeamish or don't like raunchy childish humour you will not like this movie if you can go in with an open mind and not take it so seriously then you will laugh your ass off its amazing no one was killed in this movie every seen in this movie is so original and so different from the next you will not know what to expect br br mike webber
1	seriously people need to lighten up and just accept that funny is funny and this movie is f king hilarious better than the first and knoxville really grew a pair for this film and did way more crazier stunts then the first if ebert and roper not saying that i'm a huge fan of theirs can look past the pure idiocy of this film enough to give it 2 thumbs up then i think other people can to i wasn't sure what to expect from this but i was floored and it is rare when a sequel is better than the original this new one i believe exceeds the first big time so do what i did just relax kick back try not to barf at some points and laugh your ass off
1	big fat liar is a great watch for kids of all ages even adults i had a great time watching this movie and recommend this to kids of 10 years and under the laughs never end and the adventurous plot is pretty good too frankie is funny and marty wolfe is hilarious overall a nicely made film for kids to enjoy and just have a great time
1	jackass number two is easily the most hilarious film of 2006 beating the also hilarious clerks ii it is one of the best sequels in recent memory beating jackass the movie in every way now this film may be the funniest but it is also the most offensive appalling and utterly disgusting you will find yourself feeling sick several times throughout the film i'm completely serious when i say don't eat anything before watching or during this film because chances are that it will literally come back to haunt you keep the drinking to a minimum as well you've been warned because just like the tagline says it will make you beg for mercy br br jackass number two follows the crazy men from the hit show jackass johnny knoxville bam ryan dunn steve o chris 'party boy' pontius preston lacy dave england brandon and jason man' chris is absent as they perform the most outrageous life threatening and revolting stunts imaginable i'm not going to tell what the stunts are but i will warn you that any scene with an animal will be sickening or psychologically frightening and that one cast member once again not telling will flirt with death several times in the film br br what makes jackass number two so entertaining is not the stunts themselves but how the cast reacts to them and to doing them to put it simple if they loved doing it and had a blast you will too this goes for 99 of the stunts all the stunts are very original and 90 of them are never before seen you will witness a few recycled ones but they're amped up you wouldn't think directing really factors into a movie like this but it does jeff tremaine's direction makes the movie so much funnier because he provides guidance for the gang in their comedic timing which is simply brilliant on his part he could have just sat back and slept throughout filming actually you'll see in the film that he did sleep through some filming but he went out there and helped these crazy guys make the stunts as funny as he could i give mr tremaine two thumbs up for that another great thing about jackass is its bonanza of celebrity cameos and this time they include bmx legend mat hoffman skateboard god tony hawk director actor jay chandrasekhar super troopers actor luke wilson miami dolphins star jason taylor and director actor mike judge office space the scenes with hoffman taylor and chandrasekhar are among the funniest in the film as it's even funnier to see these men as a part of the film br br jackass number two is one of the most politically incorrect morally degrading and just plain wrong movies of all time if not the most despite this it is so original and so hilarious that you won't care about that you'll be gasping for air laughing so hard you'll be crying and jumping out of your seat laughing throughout the entire film due to the explicit and potentially disturbing graphic content of this film no one under 18 should watch this film you've been warned i hope you enjoy jackass number two as much as i did br br 10 10 spy
1	i would give this movie an 8 5 or a 9 i thought it was just straight up hilarious i don't know how you could not think this movie was funny but the only thing that disappointed me was that there was alittle bit too much gross stuff because personally i think when they fly off of bikes and stuff like that is much funnier but i'm sure there are people that think the other things are very funny so that is not my but anyways great movie go see it and after that you should definitely go buy it also if you do not like this movie that is fine because i'm sure there are many people who think that this movie shows how downgrading our society is or whatever this is just my personal opinion and you have yours also the jackass box set is definitely something worth downloading or buying or whatever you do to get your videos
1	first off i want to say most of the people who give this a poor review don't like this kind of comedy the movie is great if you have an open mind and aren't afraid to laugh at some stupid things br br this movie is shot just like the tv show with a lot of short clips compiled into one long movie some of the scenes don't even have dialog someone will just come out and do something unexpected and it is funny the only negative i had is i felt like i wasted money on my popcorn and there was no way i could eat or drink anything during this movie i was constantly laughing i was honestly nervous of drinking some and seeing something that caused me to laugh and shoot it everywhere br br if you don't mind some male nudity and you enjoy jackass the movie jackass the tv show and viva la bam then for your sake go see this movie br br and if you don't like the first movie or the tv show don't see it and if you do see it don't post a bad review about it hardcore christians who see this and bash it just doesn't seem right to me
1	this is not the kind of movie that really merits critical attention it's not going to win any oscars it's really not a very good movie at all heck it's not even really a movie just a string of short disgusting gross out skits strung together in an effort to make entertainment and as much as every critical bone in my body cries out to give this movie a failing score gosh darn it i'm going to give it a much better score the kind of people who are going to enjoy this movie are not the kind of people who really care what critics have to say so i'm not going to give some snobby critique of jackass's quality of surreal existentialism that permeates and on how our society oh forget it br br what's to say there's no plot development no character development no real beginning there's a semi enjoyable end that's not nearly as funny as the skit that precedes it and everything in between reeks of improper bathroom humor that junior high kids laugh at it's actually pretty funny br br leave at the door all your preconceptions of a good movie jackass number two is just gross out crap that's really all it is i do give the filmmakers this though they come up with some pretty imaginative stuff you'll probably cringe several times throughout want to throw up a couple times wiggle and shift uncomfortably as the people on screen do death and vomit defying stunts vomit crap urine semen virtually every bodily fluid can be seen in jackass number two there's nudity sexual humor abounds and so on and so forth br br it's entertaining if you're the kind of person who finds this stuff enjoyable then you will probably really like jackass number two i laughed several times like i said it's pretty imaginative stuff i never once wanted to vomit though i do have a pretty strong stomach just accept the movie's premise a bunch of idiotic guys do weird crap for fun once you get past that accepting it and going with it you'll enjoy it the only flaw in the movie is the sheer excess of all the weird and disgusting stuff there are several very imaginative very disturbing skits but it drags in many places as they do ones that are less interesting towards the end things pick up but in the middle of the movie the drag hurts the overall film's quality in a half hour tv show this isn't a problem but with film length celluloid it's inevitable that boredom will ensue at some point after awhile the gross crap just becomes br br on the whole though number two is an entertaining imaginative and above all disgusting comedy that will leave you with a feeling of pain nausea and hilarity go see it if you must but hey if you know you don't like this kind of stuff don't bother you'll just be disappointed
1	i shouldn't like jackass number two no one should there is and never has been anything particularly redeeming about jackass and yet it's one of the funniest things i have ever seen and i simply cannot explain why br br this new movie leaves the first one in the dust it's so funny so horrible and so wrong the whole team give their all with in chief knoxville leading the charge he's nuts i adore him but he's insane and more power to him with his burgeoning film career he could have sat back and just let everyone else do the dirty work but the fact that he threw himself almost literally back into the world of the so wholeheartedly makes me oddly respect him more kudos must go to bam who previously seemed content to sit back and just make sure everyone around him did pretty much what he wanted here bam isn't the tormentor but the tormented and is all the better for it br br i simply can't say what my favourite part is because i laughed the whole way through admittedly i viewed much of the movie from between my fingers but there hasn't been a 'real' movie i've seen in a very long time that made me feel as invigorated as this did love them or most probably hate them the jackass team have delivered above and beyond my expectations but i do agree with bam there can never be a jackass number three because someone will die and i want these guys to stick around
1	does exactly what you expect and then some the first movie was a step up from the tv show with sicker stunts airing uncensored and a gnarly factor that had increased surprisingly jackass number two is even more twisted br br the stunts have become more dangerous and spectacular with some mind blowing painful antics sprinkled with good fun skits to keep that smile turning into a curl of disgust br br knoxville like always dominates the proceedings but this time he has reason to take centre stage as he volunteers for the most dangerous and idiotic of all the stunts with bam also proving himself as wild as ever despite having had his image toned down in 'viva la surprisingly the infamous wild boys steve o and chris pontius seem to take part in fewer of the skits despite being focal in the previous outings br br if you like jackass or dirty sanchez then you will definitely enjoy this film and will laugh your guts out for the 100 minutes of its duration if you see it as childish disgusting or a sad snapshot of the youth culture of today you will find it as offencive as ever so f k off
1	i've always been a fan of jackass as well as viva la bam and and when you're a fan of something your expectations are high to whatever your heroes might star in and if there's one thing i've learned about expecting a lot from the people you simply love to watch and listen to it's never to expect to much 'cause in 99 out of a 100 times you'll get disappointed br br although when i heard there was a jackass 2 coming up i thought not even i can turn down my expectations for this movie and as a result of that i sat down today ready to laugh but also ready to say in the end well it was ok but i'm a little disappointed how wrong was i every single member of the jackass crew brings this movie way over the first one showing you the one crazy ass stunt after the other making the whole world see that there's nothing they wont do to try to harm themselves and that's what we love i cried my eyes out laughing from the first minute and till the very last second of the movie at some times even shouted in laughter not able to control myself stunt after stunt prank after prank and hilarious comments on the flow it can simply not get any better than this amazing from start till end guaranteed to make you laugh your ass off i've got two things left to say watch it and please god let there be a jackass 3 these guys clearly has a lot to offer
1	this movie was hilarious it occasionally went too far but isn't that what we expect from them the theater roared with laughter and at all the incredibly crazy stunts it's rude crude and occasionally frighteningly intense the whole gang is back and even more out of their minds which in turn provides for some great entertainment i don't want to give anything away but the little snippets of clips going around the net are nothing compared to what comes after br br this is a great movie to go see with friends try to see it with a big crowd you will not be disappointed just don't go with anyone who can't take it see above it will not go over well you can be sure of that but that's pretty obvious in the first place if you enjoyed the first one you will loooooove this one
1	all you could ever hope for if your a jackass fan as always knoxville his crew risk life limb just for our viewing entertainment if you are fan of the series of the first movie you won't be let down like most sequel often do the jokes they pull on each other as twice as funny cruel crude as ever before the stunts dares are twice as rough as any jackass episode you have ever seen if your a fan don't waste time go check it out for yourself because on standards this movie is an easy 10 out of 10 just for the opening credits alone i can't go into detail without spoilers but you've got to see it to believe it
1	this movie is hilarious i would say much more painful disgusting than the previous movie the entire cast from the previous movie series is present br br these kind of movies are great to watch in the cause the whole audience is crying with laughter especially at the terrorist part that was damn disgusting i wish they made more of these kind of movies br br strong stomach required they got some insane stunts this time around warning includes a lot of snakes i would love to write about it but i just can't spoil the fun go see it
1	big fat liar in my opinion is an absolutely hilarious movie with a moral to it when jason frankie malcolm in the middle and amanda bynes all that played those tricks on marty paul giamatti doctor dolittle i really smiled and felt good that's what i liked most about this movie as a matter of fact everything that happened after jason's essay erroneously ended up in marty's hands was hilarious i especially loved white's cameo when i first saw him i couldn't be certain but when i asked my mother if it was him she said of course before i wrap this up i'd like to say like i said earlier there is a moral to this story and that moral is always tell the truth now in conclusion if you are a fan of frankie amanda bynes or paul giamatti i highly recommend this absolutely hilarious movie with a moral to it
1	having been raised in canada i saw this short many times mostly on the cbc i have seen it numerous times at many ages in my life and each time the reactions are the same it is a joyous bittersweet beautifully animated film that tugs at your heart i am sure i have it on some vhs tape somewhere digging around br br every kid growing up can relate to the situation and wanting to fit in with your favourite idols the scene and look on the kids face when his mom is filling out the catalogue and his jumping around the room is priceless i haven't seen someone capture that carefree mood of youth on film as well as this little short has br br sure i am a montreal fan and that makes my appreciation for it more special but in the end it is the nostalgic look and feel of pond hockey and the memories of your family telling you that you should be for what you get even if it isn't exactly what you wanted and oh yeah the animation is beautiful too br br rating 10 out of 10
1	we've all see the countless previews and trailers if you enjoyed knoxville getting flipped by the bull you'll take great carnal pleasure in the opening act i must caution the masses however i considered taking my under 18 son with me but am relieved i did not this compilation of obnoxious skits contains a few that albeit as hilarious as they may seem to the adult community a few are not for the immature these guys must get paid a great ransom to tolerate some of the devious stunts sometimes played at their expense in particular bam and are slighted by the group in a few particular stunts enjoy
1	i've been a huge fan of the videos jackass and viva la bam for a long time they've had a great run and i expected my laughter to end eventually but it hasn't yet this movie kept my mouth open the entire time i'm still laughing randomly i went to the theater with low expectations thinking it wasn't going to be better than the first oh how incredibly wrong i was br br there were many great moments in the movie if you're squeamish don't like randomly placed raw humor or if you disliked the first movie you probably won't like this but with that said i almost wet my pants from laughing so hard it had all kinds of different pranks masochistic humor toilet humor puking laughing some great falls and massive damage done to all of the cast ryan dunn even branded rear end with an image that will be stuck there for a long time i'm sure you can only imagine how raw this movie is br br no pain no gain right this movie has already done well causing theaters all over america to laugh so hard they'll be wishing it could last longer i know i did this movie did not feel short at all especially with the credits continuing the footage but i still wish it could've gone on forever now let's just wait and see when they release jackass number 3 overall an excellent film if you can get past the male nudity and a few sickening images keep your kids out of this film they don't need to see this at least until they are older support the crew and buy this when it comes out on dvd i know i will
1	my sister a friend and i went to see this film for my birthday on the 24th of september we had all seen the first jackass movie a while back and we all enjoyed it we were really looking forward to number two br br we were not disappointed br br from start to finish i was laughing hysterically it is equal parts shocking and amusing however and is definitely not for those with weak stomaches it is obscene but it is also groundbreaking american cinema well perhaps that's a bit too much praise for a movie where men intentionally get their stuck to ice sculptures but it is groundbreaking in that it shows us obscenities whether we like it or not things that no other decent american movie released nation wide would dare show us br br there was only one scene in particular that i felt was unnecessarily obscene and it involved a horse i'll not elaborate br br i laughed i nearly gagged and i came damn close to crying out of a physical reaction to viewing a scene involving a leech and an eyeball not sadness in my humble opinion jackass number two is the film of '06 br br does that make me a jackass perhaps but if it does i could really care less
1	this movie is just about as good as the first jackass but with slightly more disgusting skits i wouldn't say this was as good as the first but it came very close jackass fans will not be disappointed but if you didn't like the first movie you will hate this one there are scenes that will be seen as jackass classics the elderly suits with additions the cab ride and many others and those that you will wish you never watched eating crap drinking semen etc overall this movie was a good watch and i am glad i got to see it i'm sure this movie will not have the best rating due to critics that rate it i sat in the press section and most of the older viewers seemed disgusted but don't let that stop you from enjoying it
1	like the first one the team of jackass are back to try to kill themselves with whatever manner they see fit either it's fitting yourself in a tractor tyre and rolling down a slope or getting yourself deliberately smashed by a bull or something even worse br br the first one was crazy and that's how you can describe it it was also really hard laughing film but this one is completely nuts it's got even more dangerous stunts and even harder laughs so i think watching dumb idiots getting themselves killed is gonna be the funniest thing this week br br so before borat comes out i shall laugh my a out
1	johnny knoxville and the boys of jackass go over the top for jackass number two at a press screening the laughter was so loud and raucous it was hard to hear all the dialog the stunts are over the top and the pranks are funnier and more outrageous than ever before br br all of the guys put their limbs on the line to make a great film and they succeeded if you like this genre you'll love this film if not don't bother br br some of the funniest bits are the pranks the guys play on themselves and they have no regard for what happens to them they'll do anything to make a stunt work br br many critics panned johnny knoxville for a less active role in the first film but not to worry he is front and center in number two and they have enough footage in the can to be half way through a number br br this is a must see for fans of this type of humor br br chris entertainment editor fort bend herald
1	just got out of an advance screening and wow was this movie hilarious possibly better than the first one but at least its equal if you don't like jackass or really unnecessary amounts of male nudity way more than in the first then stay far far away but if you dig the whole jackass thing then this movie will not disappoint toro totter is the greatest invention ever ok so my review wasn't long enough all else i have to say is poor poor dunn they really kick the crap out of him in this so if you enjoy masochistic humor and prolific male nudity and by far the most disgusting female nudity ever john waters is involved need i say more then this movie will keep you in stitches for it entirety i never stopped laughing and actually came out drenched in sweat
1	johnny knoxville has gone insane br br in the first jackass he delighted in practical jokes more so than the physical stuff – his opening car rental gag and the later bit involving an air horn on a golf course were more akin to some type of extreme candid camera – but in jackass number two he's really off his rocker br br beginning with a sequence where he is chased through a living room by a bull or later when he rides a rocket a stunt which almost cost him his life due to an unexpected explosion from the side of the rocket and especially when he stands willfully in front of a defense mechanism and takes a spray of to the stomach knoxville is a madman in the first film bam and steve o – notorious party animals – were the daring ones but you know it's pretty bad when you see knoxville enticing them to do a stunt br br this is essentially a series of stunts pulled off by guys consumed by testosterone constantly trying to one up each other it will eventually end in death for one of the cast members – in jackass 2 steve o nearly loses a leg to a shark knoxville as aforementioned is nearly impaled with an explosion from a rocket and so on and so forth jackass 3 has already been confirmed owing to the success of 2 and frankly i can't imagine any stunt out performing the bull run in the opening scene of this film – that's incredible footage it's almost unbelievable and i wondered whether it had been faked but apparently it was 100 genuine which is actually kind of frightening and in terms of extremes jackass 2 far outdoes its predecessor – it also feels more cinematic than the first film with less of the cheesy titles preceding stunts that were made famous on the original mtv television show br br unfortunately the boys were given too much freedom here and a good number of the gags are simply lame exercises in crudity – i can enjoy the occasional poop gag but watching a man relieve himself on a miniature toilet or see steve o take beer up the butt yes honestly gets grating after a while even the frat boys in the screening i attended – who were enthusiastic when wee man took a playing card up the rear and got zapped by a rigged chair – were disgusted by some of the scenes in this film it's not a matter of getting away with as much as possible – it's a matter of saying is this even entertaining or funny many times sadly it really isn't br br but for every lame stunt involving fecal matter and farting on people's faces there are some brilliant hidden camera bits wacky director spike adaptation dresses up as an old woman and hits the streets naked with sagging breasts and no shame and my personal favorite skit involved knoxville as an irresponsible old man out for lunch with his grandson letting him drink alcohol and smoke and swear and insult people that's classic comedy taken to new extremes with the liberties of an r rating it's a shame they had to ruin all the great stuff – including a final segment involving an elaborate terrorist prank – with poop jokes along the way br br still there's enough sheer spirit and craziness in this film to merit a viewing and it's really taken the concept of extremity in cinema to new heights
1	it's what you expect it induces laughter cringing and dry heaving not necessarily in that order it's over the top you will see things that you may never be able to erase from your mind's eye jackass number two is better than the first the actors definitely took more risks while filming this movie there are many stunts which could have killed the actors especially johnny knoxville the treatment of animals was suspect but other than that the movie achieved what is was made to achieve if you like the preview see the movie if you don't steer clear br br 8 out of 10
1	this film tops the previous incarnation by a mile taking everything to the next level as always the jackass guys are purely unbelievable and i personally laughed harder in that theatre than i have in a long time like the first jackass this isn't so much a movie as an eighty minute long string of stunts and pranks it is pure circus entertainment taken to the highest level essentially these guys are clowns themselves for the amusement of others and its great the shenanigans are so low outrageous and often disgusting that they transcend into a higher form of entertainment br br you can't rate this along other movies its in a class of its own and it shines go and enjoy it for the pure spectacle that it is
1	spoiler warning br br we've all heard the boy who cried wolf legend but what if the wolf was a person in the modern world well it might be something like big fat liar fourteen year old jason sheperd frankie from malcolm in the middle is always lying to keep himself out of trouble one day he is pressured to write an english essay but it winds up in the hands of sleazy film maker marty wolf paul giamatti who plans to turn jason's story into a hollywood blockbuster no one believes jason when he for once tells the truth and he ends up in summer school however jason is determined to prove to his parents the truth and travels to l a with his friend amanda bynes when wolf refuses to admit he ripped off his story jason plans to make wolf's life a living hell b f l is no masterpiece but it's a nice way to spend 90 minutes of you're time i wished they could've made it a bit longer though and there aren't that much pranks although they are clever enough i like the pool dye the best i might not have liked this as much as i do if it weren't for paul giamatti he is simply hilarious in this if you have 90 minutes to kill try this out you might just enjoy it
1	yes bam cried a couple times and so did englund and most probably you will too the whole cast is back in action and knoxville has stepped up to become the true leader of this gang of messed up retards i mean this in the best possible way i first thought maybe bam or steve o were the main go to guys nope the main man is now johnny don't get me wrong everybody and i mean everybody is great in this flick right from the get go you're laughing and believe you me don't plan on resting that smile of yours i personally think the movie definitely has better moments than the first you know when you go into a theater and you kind of don't want to have high expectations for it well this movie blows all expectations away if you love jackass you can go into this with gigantic expectations no matter what you'll laugh your ass off if you're not laughing the reason is most likely someone has a gun in your face telling you if you laugh you die or maybe you are embarrassed about the sound of your laugh or the highest probability is that you were eating jack sh t for breakfast and jack left town all i have to say is prepare yourself to have a sore face after the movie
1	where do i begin i sat down ready to laugh a bit and i was blown away this movie is just perfect it's indescribable jackass number two in all honesty was grosser more obscene funnier and more entertaining than the first this was just what i needed tonight br br there are so many scenes in this movie that will make you say oh my no way or ouch perfectly mastered and set up each event and scene were coordinated way before and therefore made it even more perfect i loved every minute of it i'm just going to say that there was even a scene where it was necessary to censor particular footage in order to prevent an nc 17 rating it was so hilarious that they had to put it in anyway amazingly good br br 9 10 incredibly funny do not miss out
1	the sequel is exactly what you will expect it to be and it is good enough that everyone who would have wanted to watch this should leave it happy br br this is not a movie that will win an academy award but it does take what made the jackass tv show and original movie a success and it turns it up a notch it is funnier more brutal and more disgusting than the original and i loved every minute of it br br the original had a few notorious stunts and there is at least one stunt that this movie will be remembered for you will wince cringe look away and laugh very very hard br br in any event you probably do not need to read this review or any others to know if you will like this movie unless you have never heard of jackass
1	this movie blew me away i have only seen two episodes of the show never saw the first movie but went to a pre screening where johnny knoxville himself introduced the movie telling us to off our sense of moral judgment for an hour and a half ' he was right as a movie this would probably rate a 2 given it has zero plot no structure besides randomness and very little production value however that isn't the point everyone in our theatre was laughing and gasping the whole way through not only were some of the stunts creative see trailer if you need to know but they hid some of the best or worst depending on how you want to look at it but some of the stuff they did took us completely by surprise these guys do some stuff that won't make it into your newspaper reviews and probably can't even be published here involving lots of things below the belt however almost 3 4 of the stunts are fantastically hysterical even if morally but remember statement and if you are in the right mindset this movie is hysterical to watch only about 20 minutes of this movie could have actually been shown on tv so consider yourself warned of what you're getting into some stuff is disgusting but instead of being repulsed by it you end up laughing at the sheer stupidity of it all as a person who thought jackass the tv show was an over hyped fad with only a few funny sketches and lots of unnecessary pain the amount of fun i had at this movie has made me realize that having no boundaries is the best environment for these guys to work in it's a lot of fun and should be a great comedic fix until the borat movie comes out with this movie you may think you know what you're getting but these guys are a few steps ahead of you i guarantee you'll be surprised by the 3rd sketch so enjoy and don't worry you won't want to perform almost any of their stuff at home
1	it seems everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and say go go go the word is macha like mach pronounced maa ka br br i grew up with this series in the early 70's here in la on the late and very lamented channel 56 before that there was astro boy dating from 1963 on ol' tv astro boy was the first tv example of anime we got here in the states i was into anime as a kid and followed it until the late 80's when by then it'd become a series of badly animated talking heads a phenomenon which has only gotten worse 'nuff said br br as for speed racer i really enjoyed the basics there the pov shots the cinematic aspects of live action skillfully adopted to animation that was fairly typical of most japanese anime back then graphics graphics graphics take note sometime how obviously the series was inspired by stanley kramer's film grand prix 1966 especially the redone american credits br br oh yeah i have the original comics from which the series is based so i know of which i speak br br what were we doing animation wise besides crap like johnny quest same ol' stuff we'd been doin' since the 20's ho hum br br i guess the real problem i had have with the way anime was is shown on american tv is the hatchet job done on the scripts credits etc to sanitize them for american audiences i won't go into other programs as we're talking' speed here br br look at clowns like peter fernandez as one of the culprits here as he was 99 responsible for the re writes of the series not to mention the voice of speed racer x and others between him and the goofs at trans lux think felix the cat and the mighty hercules oy vey they took a slick very sophisticated show and dropped it down to the level of sesame street think cruncher bloch the company skull if i go on i'll puke br br this series dates from 40 odd years ago but i at the time was keen enough to feel insulted by the dumbing down of this and other japanese programs i mean it's obvious when someone's getting' killed but they either remove it or gloss it over br br good show originally sadly all the more recent incarnations of the series have that crappy made in korea look not to mention being nauseatingly pc in content even the japanese outsource their animation now br br try the original japanese opening on youtube sometime it sends chills up my spine if only oh well robert
1	the role of economics in the industrialized north american market must have always been theorized in the homelands of the engines creation persons and industrialist such as mercedes benz and the bavarian motor works bmw surely realized the opportunity of the north market with the purchase of fuel and number of automobiles purchased per household this type of economic phenomena sparked the concept of speed racer br br after the new constitution of japan the industrialization of the isolated island nation of japan must seek opportunity once again via economic with its global neighbors this also helped spark the economic opportunities in the european and north american market if not the global market br br speed is a young avid driver who without knowing any better is driven by his demanding father pops racer who has challenged himself his whole life to make a better machine better at winning races it was in fact pops racer who drove his first son rex racer to the brink of destruction with his strategy of how to best use the technology he developed as a mature racer rex finally realizes his own inherent values and becomes independent but still feels obligated to his younger bother speed br br the exact relationship of rex racer to persons such as the inspector are never really clear but put into dramatization rex is eventually accused of being a type of agent for a country or organization due to his ability to be in places at times when there is no other explanation to how he would have known speed was in trouble or the fact that the situations involved some types of illegal activity were his secretive knowledge is against an evil plot this brings a level of cloak and dagger romance to speed racer br br the mixture of speeds innocence with and chim chim brings a level of comic human nature this concept is a good form of rhetoric to balance the themes and plots as they are played out from episode to episode so instead of a dry detective story the thrill of international race car driving romance of cloak and dagger and comedy of human nature is put into one story speed racer
1	it would be a shame if one has yet to watch speed racer be it dubbed or subbed i prefer the dubbed version which is rare because it was funny in a good way what's great about speed racer is that you're never too old to watch it go red and yellow i first saw this when i was around seven and enjoyed hearing the catchy opening it disappeared for some time then i saw it again a couple of months ago i'm 19 imagine the feeling of nostalgia surging in singing here he comes here comes speed racer he's a demon on wheels over and over again anyway the concept of the mach 5 spawned so many multi function special but none were able to surpass its genius in construction the other cars just seemed too much and it wasn't just the races or battling different bosses that made it interesting for me it was racer x's mystery persona and how the world of speed racer pretty much to revolve around it they did some tweaking to some story lines from the manga but it all turned out pretty well though i can't remember if the show actually revealed how racer x looked like in the manga they did
1	sadly every single person i ask about this series says they've never heard of it i remember it fondly from my early childhood i wasn't quite 10 when it came out br br my favorite story was a story short something about the way the stone soup story was woven into a greater story gets me every time and then the storyteller explains why he has no story to tell and it becomes a story itself i've always been a fan of jim henson and this is just one reason why br br i'm adding this dvd on the self with labrynth the dark crystal the neverending story the princess bride the last unicorn willow and mirrormask these are all dvds i share with my siblings who are 6 5 and 4 yrs old
1	jim henson always seemed to put out wonderful television shows this was sadly one of the shortest lived it was endearing to hear each tale with their delightful morals each episode was a new story with new characters john hurt did a wonderful job playing the storyteller and the sarcastic tone of brian henson as the dog was always enjoyable br br the set designs and costumes were very well done the muppet work when required is classic jim henson work you know it is a muppet but it's endearing appearance more than forgives you find yourself enchanted and compelled when each episode comes to an end you realize that you were quite entertained an entertained that is fulfilling not the kind that wears off after a few moments you sit back and think about each episode realizing that each story is indeed timeless and presents a strong tale of morality br br i have yet to show this to my own children but this is indeed a series that is more than family entertainment i implore you to find it on dvd and snatch it up if you can't do that then just find it some how
1	i remember my dad hiring these episodes on video my whole family loved them and now that i have moved away from home and have my own life i am trying to share these fabulous jim henson creations with my husband and stepson but as i am starting to find out not everyone is a henson fan which is a pity since it means they will just have to put up with me searching for this series but even though they don't find these interesting i would highly recommend anybody getting hold of the storyteller you will be lost in a world of tales from a time when people could only talk about unexplained situations through stories and how people need to care if they were ever confronted with these situations
1	i love this movie br br yes the main character lies but that's why it's called big fat liar even though this kid runs away to hollywood it doesn't give kids the idea that they can besides he doesn't just do it for fun or to get away from anything he does it to regain trust br br i don't think it was just one big ad for universal studios because i liked how it gave an inside view of what it's like for kids who don't know how cool movie making is br br it has good music and fun characters this family comedy is totally fun for kids and parents alike it has humour excitement and real life difficulties like lying br br in the end big fat liar sends out a moral don't expect lying to be easy
1	each story has a lesson for young and old but what more i have to say may spoil a future story but i believe what i have to say is for everyone just for one particular episode the soldier and death br br okay of all the stories the one that sticks out for me is the soldier and death because is was the point in my life i realized that life was terminal i am not kidding the airing was on my 8 1 2 birthday and i will always remember it i didn't remember its title until tonight but i new the synopsis may 15th 1988 br br it is always difficult to explain that death is a natural part in life it is also difficult for adults to accept that children can accept this fact i am living proof currently 28 yrs old that children can accept this fact and from time to time remind adults br br i write this with tears in my eyes heath ledger a wonderful actor my own age died today it kinda reminded me of many lessons i have learned in my life so i write this as a reminder to young and old no one is immune to whatever is in store for us br br i hate to say that death is going to happen but this story was the first time i saw death as not a bad thing but a part of life was quite literally in this story i can't help it it was a life changing moment for me and will alway be br br and for that br br i love you jim henson and i still remember much of your work in life up until the day you died and your memorial muppet show and thank you brian henson for keeping the workshop alive honest i do thank you all of your co workers editors and interns br br the stage is just a stage and a show is just a show but imagination will create magic that forever the world will know br br thank you br br and for all who doubt me dance magic dance
1	its been years since i have seen these shows i have been searching years for anyone else that has seen these or know anything about them i thought i made them up the one i remember most is the soldier and death i'd ask movie fanatics if they had seen these mentioning its a jim henson and people still didn't know these are great fables i was very young when i was these not even 10 and it left a lasting impression on my life and beliefs i would recommend anyone to watch these just remember they are from the 80's so they don't look like the movies today just give them a shot jim henson was way ahead of his time and died to early
1	despite its pedigree the most interesting things about this series are not the animatronics or puppetry which while charming are little more than sideshows at least in the story i saw a story short in fact loathe though i am to admit it the chief pleasure lies in that most ancient art storytelling br br john hurt in qc mode grotesque medieval make up relates a story about story telling seated by the fire accompanied by a cynical dog one winter's day starving and poor he spots a fellow beggar thrown out of the royal kitchen by the nasty cook the story teller tricks this latter into giving them an excellent soup furious the cook pleads with the king for permission to boil the villain but pleased with the story wit the monarch offers him a reprieve for 100 nights he must tell the king a new story if he fails to do so he will hand him over to the cook br br the story may be old but it's told with great gusto anthony script is excellently dramatic as befits a playwright witty and with some disturbing concerns beneath the fun such as fears for the self or the culturally self generating power of storytelling linked to the continuation of ideological power for a programme aimed at children it is self reflexive with little nonsense about film being the new oral culture despite the americanised style there is a charming sense of medieval bustle its and arbitrary terror as well as its magic and power
1	beautiful art direction excellent editing and wonderful stories make this some of the best television ever produced the fact that it was relatively short lived is sadly reflective on the state of television i highly recommend snatching these up as they're released you'll love them
1	series as a whole jim henson's best work john hurt is the storyteller often oscar caliber screenplays not surprising when you consider doing the writing oscar caliber acting always br br everybody loves 'the soldier and death ' but something about pushes it an iota higher in my favor in the first ballroom scene the costumes the music perfection hurt and the dog typically semi interact with the story but this time pushes it up that extra notch in the 'ring' scene between hurt and the chemistry between characters is especially well developed more so than usual in the series in reference to the friendship between and the prince seen it see it again pay more attention to those of you who don't fanatically adore this 22 minute piece of cinematic perfection never seen it i am so so sorry br br luck child not as sophisticated as but very clever in its own right this is a story about irony irony upon irony within irony i love it every character is acted to perfection with the exception of the ferryman he was doing drama everyone else was doing romantic comedy i forgive him this is my favorite of the primarily comedic episodes and 'the soldier and death' being examples of more dramatic episodes br br side note greek myths what it lack in subtlety different writer it partially makes up for in boldness as it portrays the four chosen myths with more sympathy and respect and history than is usual also check out the jim henson hour if you can get your hands on it for storyteller it features the man himself introducing the myths the lion from 'true bride ' and no annoying opening theme half storyteller half pure unadulterated muppet wit
1	this is the best television series for children and adults ever john hurt is a great actor with many excellent performances over many years but he was born to play the storyteller the scripts for almost every episode are superb pieces of craftsmanship and the productions run the gamut of the emotions being alternately funny sad happy exciting and always hauntingly beautiful it is hard to pick a best episode from so many excellent contenders but the soldier and death with its timeless pathos is unbeatable it is a series to watch with your children over and over again
1	had no idea what i was going to experience viewing this old film from 1940 however i always enjoy viewing laraine day katie who plays the role as a younger sister to jean muir helen and also their mother billie burke mrs julia thought i was going to be bored with the story of two sister's and a mother who is overly protective of her daughters until they meet up with robert cummings ridley crane who has the reputation of being a millionaire playboy who has plenty of gals and is a heavy drinker who parties all the time one night helen goes on a date with ridley and he proceeds to get bombed out of his mind and simply cannot drive his car it is at this point in the film when this becomes a drama and changes the complete direction of this film which will definitely hold your attention right to the very end of the film
1	apparently a b movie b must stand for better acting and a better message than we get in big budget a pictures today modern day movies aimed at young women surely aren't designed to encourage depth of character over shallow self serving behavior or increase the self esteem of young girls who don't conform to feminine standards after all criticizing the fake and flashy like this movie does ain't gonna help sell more products that depend on girls not being satisfied with their natural attributes or inner beauty br br laraine day is lovable as a mechanically inclined tomboy who bounds into rooms and confesses to an inability to flirt she bonds with robert cummings due to similar interests a shared sense of humour and her honesty loyalty and good friendship which he gradually comes to value over the superficial charms of her selfish glamour girl sister who only brings out his own selfish reckless playboy tendencies br br although laraine is outwardly beautiful as well it's refreshing to see inner beauty valued more and the depiction of true friendship leading to the most fulfilling romantic relationship i wish young girls and guys were getting this kind of down to earth message today br br maybe if hollywood returns to making b movies again with modest budgets and tries to be content with modest profits what am i saying sacrificing the blockbuster mentality to create something sincere on a smaller scale would be like expecting a guy to give up the shallow sexpot for a sweet girl who really cares about him that's crazy talk br br please somebody invent a time machine already i belong in 1940 br br i'd rate this movie higher but the ending is a bit too abrupt and perhaps lacked sufficient indication of robert change of heart i like the fact that b movies are short snappy not bloated self indulgent but this one might've needed more than 70 minutes also found it somewhat unrealistic that a widow and young children would be so unaffected by a sudden death in their family or be so forgiving of the one who caused it i mean i guess it's nice but a little more grieving or bitterness would've been only natural maybe a deliberate choice to make this family act lighthearted about their loss to lessen the impact of the tragedy and make sure we forgive those involved in the death since it's just a plot device anyway not the real point of the film still strange though
1	robert cummings laraine day and jean muir star in and one was beautiful a 1940 film also starring billie burke at one hour and 15 minutes this looks to have been a b movie cummings is a playboy ridley crane whom many women desire including two sisters katherine and helen day and muir katherine is the more earthbound of the two who likes to fix cars and helen is the blonde social butterfly with the beautiful gowns ridley arrives back in town and believing he's not going to be at a party helen decides not to attend since the party is given by a family friend their mother burke sends katherine in a pinned up dress ridley is there and the two connect but ridley is into more superficiality and when he sees helen at a dinner party the two pick up where they left off and go to a club he becomes terribly drunk and helen at first refuses to ride in his car because he won't let her drive after walking awhile and breaking the heel of her shoe she gets into car when he drives by he passes out and she takes over the wheel accidentally hitting and killing a br br ridley can't remember anything so helen lets him take the blame for the death the heel of a woman's shoe is found in the car and katherine sees her sister bury her shoes plus something in helen's manner makes her realize that helen isn't telling the truth ridley is convicted and goes to prison and helen marries a man she doesn't love and leaves for south america br br this is a wonderful film even though at the time this wasn't an a list cast cummings is playing a part that robert taylor would have played it's an mgm film he's handsome and very amiable even if he doesn't have the dazzling looks of someone like taylor laraine day is a favorite actress of mine someone mgm loaned out constantly because they didn't know what to do with her why i wonder a wonderful actress with a great face and voice she livened up many a film this one is no different her katherine is determined sympathetic and totally lovely jean muir is a lousy actress br br so who was the beautiful one we all know even if mgm didn't br br highly recommended little gem
1	and she really was beautiful laraine day that is herself her part and her performance an engaging story of selfish vs selfless love for the same man wealthy heartthrob and robert cummings one of his bouts of inebriation leads to an incident that enrages the local community and tests the mettle of the two sisters jean muir and laraine day that are close to him and to each other their comfortable and somewhat superficial milieu is up ended as the two girls confront the ensuing crisis and respond to its conflicting demands of prudence integrity loyalty and love with consequences that are profoundly different for each of them with the old vanities and abandoned their real characters are revealed in enthralling contrast br br a wonderful find on tcm
1	this isn't a life changing movie it's not an epic or anything like that but it's entertaining and it's fun it's a film that the whole family can watch together and at the moment there are precious few kid suitable films that don't have a love story in them it tells a good story in a lighthearted way without trying to dazzle the audience with over the top special effects like lots of films these days are it's got some fairly good acting in and all the music that's been used fits in pretty well with the movie content the acting is quite good too the actors look comfortable and believable in their surroundings and most importantly the jokes are actually funny i'd recommend it for people of all ages it certainly made me laugh
1	this is probably one of my favorites so far although i have the first one and have seen curse legacy and vs demonic toys the only one better than this one is pm vs dt curse is the worst one in the series than the first one and then its legacy i recommend people to see this and vs dt those ones who say this stinks are so wrong the story is well written and it is a sweet movie this is a classic movie even younger kids can watch and not be as scared when watching the others well this is my review you can call me its easy to know where that came from 101 dalmatians series you can watch it on toon disney at 4 00 a m oh and don't laugh i'm a guy you will see more of my reviews in good time if you want to know why i watch it i'm 12 word of advice have a mental meal i also agree with you 1 but why people like the others is because they're more thrilling than horror and because the puppets are made to look scarier also you can call me
1	it is great to see a new batch of puppets creating havoc in this series i found this chapter a lot of fun in fact it would probably be my second favorite in the series this movie has very little violence and is only rated pg 13 this is notably different from the other r rated puppet master movies which were loaded with gore and violent mayhem the lack of violence does not diminish the fun though this film also has notably better special effects than the last movie in this series good
1	this is the kind of movie that you rent when you are incredibly tired or impaired in some other way the acting in this movie is so bad it seems intentional and to let you know how bad the special effects are there is one scene when the puppets are coming alive where you can see most of a hand holding the puppet moving it about the movie looked as if it was filmed with a camcorder when i saw this movie for the first time a fistfight nearly erupted when my friends and i were calling each other names from this flick that's how terrible it was if you enjoy getting mad at movies i recommend this to you otherwise flee as though your very life depended on it
1	first off i hate sci fi stuff and although this movie got a little sci fi at times that's allright because at least it focused on andre toulon in the last 3 andre seemed to have kind of been mentioned but the stories never really focused on him which made me mad what also makes me mad is the amount of 0's it got on the voting chart give it a rest people if you saw this movie and liked it please vote for it please what i loved about this movie is that it went back to where it all started when andre first learned the secret to life i would recommend renting this if you have seen a puppet master movie before and liked it but not renting it if this is your first time viewing one from the pm collection mainly because you might think all the puppet masters are as dull as this one
1	six shooter tunnel sergeant dr death pinhead cyclops and blade help the young andre toulon take out egyption henchman in the best sequel this series has seen br br retro puppet master is atmospheric with many sets quality acting and some fun puppet fx what it lacks in gore it makes up for with an interesting well paced plot br br best quote dr death don't you know my friends smell the sulfur see the smoke br br this is easily the best dave decoteau film i've seen the actors do a more than credible job jack donner as turns in an inspired performance and the young toulon does well with the puppets oh and the ring needle is cool br br john score is a nice symphonic take on the original puppet master tunes by richard band keeping the movie playful and eerie it's rare for a full moon score to actually add something to a film and this one does br br unfortunately dave allen didn't seem to be affordable enough for band and co in the late 90's and beyond so all of the puppet action is done rod and string there's no stop motion such as the famous and funny scene in the original where looking for his pinhead and of course as with all of the full moon fare of this time period rpm was shot in and around castel studios in bucharest so most of the bit parts were cast to romanians hearing their parisian accents was a bit annoying br br all in all this is probably one of the top 10 full moon films it's certainly the most inventive of the puppet master sequels
1	i don't understand all these bad reviews i believe this movie was one of the best in the puppet master series being made on a low budget one can comprehend why the special effects and acting were not spectacular but they were not completely horrible br br greg brought a lot of charisma to the role of andre toulon he has a lot of potential and i hope to see more of him soon and though the cinematography was not excellent and there was minimal violence and gore this film was a lot of fun i am a big puppet master fan and have grown to expect blood and gore from the films of this series but i can say that i was never bored through the entire course of watching retro puppet master so if you ever get an opportunity to see this movie don't automatically regard it as unworthy of your time give it a chance you might like it
1	i was a child when i saw this serial a bit after seen buck rogers one both characters performed by the same buster crabbe and i must acknowledge that these films have always been part of the best entertainment i've ever had the fight against emperor ming was one thing but i was more interested to know about the final fate of the love triangle of flash with dale and aura came and persuaded aura to forget flash very innocent termination of her obsession for good looking flash the serial has no offensive and really violent scenes and can be watched by all audiences another thing is that i learned floating in water looking the way crabbe did it when fighting against shark men the soundtrack was also nice although it was used previously in another film of boris karloff's frankenstein it would be nice to have the dvd of this serial provided that it comes with subtitles in spanish not yet available
1	i loved flash gordon as a child and watching the series again on dvd brings back such fond memories each 15 minute episode features the adventures of our hero flash the lovely dale arden and intrepid dr on the planet with flash escaping death at every turn the shark men nearly drown him he faces the fire monster in the tunnel of terror and he's in mortal peril in the static room br br the characters are still fun buster crabbe is every bit the blonde dreamboat hero and jean rogers is a delicate and beautiful dale arden princess aura still plots to steal flash for herself king of the hawk men still has his booming laugh and angel wings and ming the merciless emperor of the universe is still giving everyone the evil eye and the creeps br br this serial probably wouldn't interest children today with its hokey effects oh that spaceship but it's a fun bit of nostalgia for those who liked it the first time around the actors play it straight and don't play down to kids i appreciate that young viewers were expected to read the chapter synopses which had pretty big words in them br br i'm glad this came out on dvd it's a lot of fun to revisit this classic sci fi serial
1	i originally seen the flash gordon serial on pbs and thought it was fun and awesome i overlooked the special effects of the rocket ships with sparklers and the big dragon monster with lobster claws who cares this is 1936 and it was a serial so each week they would show a new chapter buster crabbe played flash gordon 3 times in all 3 serials then in 1939 he played buck rogers in 1933 he played tarzan the fearless he was a very busy actor beautiful jean rogers played sexy dale arden frank shannon as professor and charles middleton played the evil ming the merciless he makes darth vader look like a boyscout the serials were very close to the alex raymond comic strip space travel was just a pipe dream at the time not to mention ray guns and television this one stands out as the best serial ever the sequel flash gordon's trip to mars is 2 chapters longer the next flash gordon conquers the universe is only 12 chapters and then there's the natives of hawk men lion men shark men the feature version leaves out the shark men scenes for the full effect you must see the complete serial i heard george lucas was inspired by flash gordon when he did star wars flash gordon was from universal studios and the music on the soundtrack is from many universal movies like bride of frankenstein werewolf of london dracula's daughter etc even today flash gordon continues to delight people young and old 10 out of 10
1	the brainchild of comic strip pioneer alex raymond flash gordon was the grand daddy of all sci fi epics this serial is the first time flash was brought to celluloid life despite it's low budget this is a great space opera br br the story begins with earth doomed to apparent destruction when the planet comes hurtling through space on a collision course maverick scientist dr is headed off for the approaching planet in a self made rocket ship convinced he can do something to stop the runaway celestial body he gets some last minute recruits in the form of resourceful athlete flash gordon and beautiful dale arden once they reach their problems really begin they run afoul of dastardly emperor ming the merciless conqueror of his world who has some ambitious plans for earth br br the rest of the serial revolves around desperate attempts to save the earth the assorted alien cultures he encounters the allies he makes space ships he flies the battles he fights and the monsters he slays br br brilliantly conceived by raymond flash gordon features classic archetypes from legendary myths and fables of antiquity echos of famous tales like the sagas of troy and camelot and sherwood forrest are seen here you have the dashing handsome hero on a quest to save the kingdom flash the evil king ming the old wise man the lovely damsel in distress dale the seductive siren aura loyal allies plus monsters dragons and assorted beasties br br flash is a modern robin hood jason or beowulf ming is prince john or dale is helen of troy or or maid marion is merlin or odysseus or gandalf are the merry men or the knights of the round table br br you get the idea br br you can't help but notice how many ideas from flash gordon would later reappear in star wars the cloud city the ice world the forest moon the scrolling opening text from the second serial there are others but you get the gist the whole sci fi genre owes a great debt to this timeless classic br br buster is the perfect action hero and i personally think he's better at this sort of role than any of the current crop of action stars he also played buck rogers and tarzan br br charles middleton is the embodiment of diabolical nastiness as ming sure he seems a bit melodramatic today but that was what audiences expected from their bad guys in the 30's br br jean rogers is our hero's love interest dale arden and i had such a crush on her when i first saw this as a boy i can readily understand why flash always rushed to her rescue she's the quintessential good girl to counterpoint the seductive manipulations of aura the quintessential bad girl br br the supporting cast seemed perfectly chosen to emulated their comic strip counterparts and despite the now silly looking fxs there was a lot of thrilling action in this groundbreaking serial br br an all around fun romp and the beginning of the sci fi genre in cinema
1	this is one of the funniest movies i've ever saw a 14 year old boy jason shepherd wrote an english paper called big fat liar when his skateboard was taken he had to use his sister's bike to get to the college on time and he hit a limo when he went into the limo he met a famous producer from hollywood marty wolf when he left the limo he forgot one thing his paper so marty wolf took it and he turned jason's english paper into a movie when jason admitted that he left his paper in the limo and marty took it his parents and his english teacher didn't believe him so jason and his friend had to fly to los angeles to go to hollywood to make marty admit he stole his story to jason's parents when jason told marty to call his dad that marty stole that paper marty tricked him and burned his paper jason got so angry that marty burned that paper so marty called security to get jason out of his site jason and realized marty isn't going to admit the truth in order to take marty down in phase 2 the jason and put permanent blue dye into the pool and when marty jumps in his body turns all blue and it wouldn't come off then they put permanent orange dye in marty's shampoo and when he uses it his hair turns all orange and it wouldn't come off too finally they put lots of glue on marty's earpiece to make him call jason's father and when marty uses it it sticks to his ear it was funny when marty's hair and body turns all blue and orange and his headset is glued to his ear after that they tricked marty by telling monty who is marty's assistant that duncan moved to a house where there's a party going on when marty went in to see duncan he was at the wrong house and all the kids at the party beat him up when marty was in the house jason and switched the controls of his car when marty drove his car he knew all the controls were switched and he didn't know which button to push he's stupid enough to fall for it when marty hit the rear end of the the wrecked his car it was so funny so marty starts to call jason's dad and tricked him again he was on the phone but it wasn't his father he called security after the security got jason and out of marty's site they suggested them to go home monty was going to be on jason and side cause she knew that marty was a liar and a jerk so she told rocco who is one of the security guards that she will take care of the kids jason told his father the truth of what he's been up to for the past 2 days and had his parents come to l a when monty came to the kids she's going to help the kids move into phase 4 the payback jason splits the crew into 3 teams for phase 4 one team will distract and trick marty until jason's parents get to the set marty first rode with frank jackson but his car broke down so he rode with but he took him into the desert and leave him there when marty was in the desert a helicopter came to rescue him after that one of the blades are jammed so marty and the pilot got off the helicopter after that he was on the way to the set and when jason saw him marty stopped and saw what jason has his monkey so marty went after jason and and when they saw lester he released the water and when the water came it pushed marty away marty was still after the kids and when went the other way jason led marty to the top of the apartment building at the top jason was challenging marty by making him admit the truth and marty will never ever tell the truth when the crew caught marty in surprise all the people including jason's parents who were at the set knew what marty did marty was going to kill jason but the only way for jason to escape is jump down from the top after that his parents believed him that marty took his story when the people who were on the set left this is the end of marty at the end jason's story big fat liar was a movie i cant get enough of it
1	in the 60's cleveland television audiences could watch a episode of flash gordon as part of the show 11 30pm friday this was the best material any of us in junior high had ever seen we would have regular sleepovers although we did not call them that just to get in on the fun of watching this stuff with a group of friends then the next week we would quote our favorite cornball lines from the latest episode br br watching it today provokes much the same reaction but if you can stop laughing at the dialogue the lame creatures the silly costumes and the horrible spaceships long enough there are some good things i did not appreciate the first time through the production designers built some excellent sets both the rooms and the laboratory devices charles ming the merciless character was the all time best screen villain certainly up to that time and arguable better than anyone since jean rogers is staggeringly beautiful br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
1	this took me back to my childhood in the 1950 's so corny but just fab no one ever could play flash gordon like larry buster crabbe just great i have two more series to view flash gordon's trip to mars and flash gordon conquers the universe cannot wait br br
1	one of the most famous of all movie serials still interesting today although it does have an old movie look to it the second serial looks better but simply does not equal this one actors have a good time especially middleton and great editing by the universal expert crew the musical score was tracked in from universal's destination unknown the invisible man the black cat and werewolf of london and what great action music it was if there was a choice for all time best serial this arguably should be 1
1	as previously stated in one of my great reviews the universal of flash gordon should not be classified with the other serials for indeed the three of these have made a sort of celluloid electronic mythology for a punchy war phobic mid twentieth century world they stand alone in many peoples' minds as the example of just what a cliff hanger was br br we can recall seeing buster as a guest on nbc's late night talk show tomorrow hosted by tom snyder this was circa 1979 80 during the interview mr crabbe was asked about his personal fitness habits he credited weight training and swimming coupled with some sound habits which included and protein and would you believe it he smoked several cigarettes br br when questioned about his career mr snyder of course got to the subject of his portrayal and strong identification with the character of flash buster stated that he had read and enjoyed the feature in its original medium that is a comic strip the property of hearst's king features syndicate he stated that he had thought that it would not work once transferred to the screen luckily he was wrong br br as for the 1st serial it was a very good adaption of the original continuity from the sunday color comics the world is about to end because of impending collision with planet it's up to independent working dr to rocket to the wild planet to change its course he enlists the aid of flash and miss dale arden newly acquainted from airliner landing in property br br the serial has excitement through out and manages to make one feel that there is always some other peril lurking just outside the film frame the costuming and decor is varied from to oriental to art it would be easy to surmise that this was due to on the part of universal but once again this was being faithful to creator cartoonist alex visual concepts just look at the old strips as reprinted in many collections the rockets were used before in just imagine fox 1930 a science fiction musical comedy the other scientific lab equipment was provided by universal's prop dept being the top hollywood company doing horror and scifi br br the cast features jean rogers dale arden and priscilla lawson princess aura who get into a good girl vs bad girl battle over flash charles middleton portrays emperor ming in a sort of overly melodramatic villain but makes it work frank shannon is toned down from the sheer madness that he suffered in his appearance in by the way ever wonder how has a brogue richard alexander makes a fine powerfully built prince ever helpful and so noble br br comic actor jack tiny is the surprise of the cast stealing scene after scene as a lecherous henry viii like scoundrel turned ally king ruler of the among the others most notable is jim pierce as prince of the lion men pierce like crabbe had also portrayed tarzan in a film but he later married tarzan creator edgar rice daughter joan br br flash gordon and the two sequels flash gordon's trip to mars 1938 and flash gordon conquers the universe 1940 have been a staple juvenile fare for generations first in the movie houses then in television release like fine wine they seen to get better with age br br we're all so glad that mr crabbe was wrong
1	arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far about flash gordon professor and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet along the way in spellbinding spectacular and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince prince and the awesome king pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of and the jealous treachery of his daughter aura now she's a car this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot acting and budget it is miles ahead in these areas produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few the production values across the board are advanced in my most humble opinion for 1936 the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate we get hawk men shark men lion men high priests creatures like dragons and oh my and many many other fantastic things are all of them believable and first rate special effects no way but for 1936 most are very impressive the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter and expertly scored director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex phenom comic strip lastly the acting is pretty good in this serial all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents here most everyone has some ability don't get me wrong this isn't a shakespeare troupe by any means but buster crabbe does a workmanlike likable job as flash he is ably aided by jean arden lawson and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and lawson than in movies decades later the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor frank shannon wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming officious sardonic merciless and fun middleton is a class act jack tiny plays king boisterous rousing hilarious a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism steals each and every scene he is in the plot meanders here there and everywhere but flash gordon is the penultimate serial space opera and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow excellent
1	flash gordon is undoubtedly the best of all american serials in a date so early as 1936 universal was capable of making such an entertainment story and twenty years later when i watched it for the first time as a kid it involved me in a great adventure and emotion buster crabbe was the hero we always wanted to be in our childhood and jean rogers the beautiful girl we always dreamt to be in love with dragons octopus monsters gorillas were also the attraction charles middleton was a great presence as ming the merciless a true predecessor of george
1	flash gordon was a first rate serial i know there were a few goofs however i didn't watch it for the flaws buster crabbe is flash gordon he was not a trained actor but he gave a very good convincing performance jean rogers is pretty and at 20 yrs old did in my opinion a pretty good job charles middleton as emperor ming is superb he was in a lot of other movies quite versatile he could sing and dance his portrayal of ming the merciless in all 3 flash gordon serials was top notch the rest of the cast also did a very good job well boys and girls get some popcorn settle back and enjoy john r tracy
1	the standard bearer of all movie serials the definite good guy flash gordon versus bad guy ming the merciless though the special effects seem awful by today's standards for 1936 they were top notch but the essence of the story is the battle between flash gordon buster crabbe versus emporer ming of charles middleton crabbe and middleton are terrific in their parts and the supporting characters playing dale arden dr princess aura prince vulcan and the rest are all very good this serial is far superior to the 1980 movie basically because crabbe is much much superior to sam j jones as flash gordon br br this serial is the standard bearer for all movie serials no question about it
1	after 66 years flash gordon still has an appealing scifi adventure epic feel that many of today's science fiction adventures strive for and fail to deliver the only way to fully enjoy this serial is just to sit back and not pick at anything hokey effects dialogue why flash doesn't go for princess aura etc and as for you older people who saw flash gordon back on the serial screen or on t v back in the day if you want this fine serial to remain appealing to future generations get your kids grandkids to watch this when they're young it worked for me male aged 18 or under 9 out of 10
1	my friend gives me these 3 huge boxes they're laserdiscs of flash gordon serials he says i'm gonna have some giant coasters i say but not so this serial rocks but i had to whine moan to almost everyone i knew to find a laserdisc player for em br br there is really a little of everything in this serial there are lion men hawk men shark men i guess you'd call em men the sets costumes combine greek roman oriental egyptian and there's even armour like english knights awesome costumes and some of it was a riot those horrible tights with shorts over em worn by are beyond description and the guys in the furnace scene seem to be wearing boxers br br it's also funny the way they renamed the octopus to an the orangutan to and the tiger to a there's even a dragon a godzilla like creature who threatens flash on a couple of occasions before being killed off br br you like the invisible man this has got you covered you like sword fights wrestling both animals men fist fights plenty for any taste we have an underwater city a sky city a city on top of a mountain and tonnes of secret passages and caves br br hokey effects massive amounts the sky city is supported by radium furnaces stoked like old time the are powered by fireworks and have constant backfires and or humming noises lots of wires are visible holding things up like food when flash was invisible and of course there's clouds out in space but none around the earth when viewed from giant lizards show up briefly fighting sea creatures supposedly threaten flash co on the way to the shark men's underwater city the gadgets in dr lab crack me up and they seem to be the same ones no matter what lab he's in he worked in ming's lab and br br and yeah we have romance everyone wants dale ming flash but at least one person wanted princess aura prince baron just not the person she would have preferred in fact it seems a lot of the sub plots concern intrigue on the part of princess aura to try to win flash br br man i think the characters are awesome that fat horse laughing king was hilarious how he managed those wings was pure artistry and ming what can i say about ming he was perfect they should have had him for the emperor in ming has got to be my favourite character in this serial princess aura was quite a little character too and she pulled it off nicely i think she's a better actress than dale arden by a long shot even the sneaky high priest had a distinctive role was good but not the strongest character and he always stood in the background during fight scenes holding dale now we get to flash flash of course was the strong point the leader the hero and he did it well crabbe is a good actor and this role fit him perfectly br br after watching this i think i know where george lucas got the main idea for watch this you'll see what i mean br br if you ever considered watching an old serial or any serial for that matter this should be your first choice the only reason i didn't give this one a 10 is because of a few story holes that could have been fixed easily the way the giant lizards seemed just tacked in there and a couple of weak characters king of shark men king of lion men
1	i could watch this movie all day i love it probably my all time favorite movies but by the way there are a few parts with bad language not too bad but it's not exactly g rated great movie i recommend it to everybody any way it's making me type 10 lines of text so i am going to keep typing until it will let me post this comment okay still typing this is getting annoying ugh i still have four more to go anyway watch this movie even if you have already seen it i don't care has it been 10 lines yet nope only 2 more lines left i don't even know why it wants me to do this i think i am done wait a minute i'm not done sorry people i know it's torture listening to me well i suppose that you don't have to read this comment but you should because i wrote it i am probably done now finally bye
1	this was a thoughtful and well shot and directed tv movie that took on a huge subject with precision and intelligence and gives it a film treatment that would look great on a bigger screen the palette is a little muted for tv if you're looking for a war action film or bosnia lite this isn't for you it's about an ordinary woman who took on an extraordinary challenge for humanity if you want to learn more about the conflict and how the work of one woman influenced the world in a massive way watch this film when it comes your way i don't see that a lot of other tv films have dealt with the issue of genocide and ethnic hatred at this level the story avoids obvious demonization of the bad guys and instead shows the denial and everyday hatred that resulted in deaths of thousands i was moved at several points and not in some manipulative hollywood way with driving music and flashy mise en scene but allowed to discover the horror and implications along with the characters this is a film brave enough to let the content speak for itself and keep the visuals understated to support it with dignity br br the actors do a helluva job at bringing the intense dramatic scenes to life the scenes where victims give their testimony before the war tribunal are powerful and wendy crewson and heino ferch are excellent william hurt's british accent is awful no one else has given him a chance to play a brit and when he finally has it he blows it and although john corbett's body was born to play a soldier commando he's a little too gee whiz nice although he does a good job
1	i really enjoyed watching this movie only a few parts were slow but it was only setting the mood and building up to the action i thought this movie was very educational it taught me more about my croatian heritage i also learned more about louise and i can say she has a very great influence on me time magazine named louise one of the world's 100 most influential people in april of 2004 i recommend this movie to people that like historical movies obviously this movie was very dramatic but still told the truth of events in the former yugoslavia louise is a brave hero and i'm glad they made a movie honouring her if you see the movie i hope you'll like it
1	i found this movie to be educational entertaining and very moving i was impressed when i learned of just how much justice had contributed in during her time in kosovo br br wendy crewson is highly under rated and it is good to see her again in a canadian production other easily recognizable stars are leslie hope 24 and john corbett sex in the city br br while the story line of this movie may not be completely factual it did leave me with the desire to learn more about the word of a great movie for inspiring young women br br i say the movie is a must see
1	hunt for justice is about the setup of milosevic for his trial in the hague while it was a little too clinical in presentation the subject matter could have gotten very depressing very quickly a canadian judge louise becomes the chief war crimes prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the un in yugoslavia she battles everyone to pull out the evidence that sent milosevic to trial not a bad docu drama with class a directing and production work the 'evidence' was disturbing by the shear discussion of the facts happily they didn't go into too much detail and no real pictures of the tortured
1	hunt for justice is a canadian television drama that has made it to dvd and that is reason for gratitude for those who hunger for educational dramas that inform us about facts of current history that somehow get buried in the media the film is not a hollywood production it relies heavily on footage from court files but it also introduces to many of us the act of heroism of louise in bringing about the trial of yugoslavian president slobodan milosevic br br louise veteran canadian actor wendy crewson is a canadian judge appointed by nato as the chief war crimes prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal in the hague the film begins in 1996 when travels to the hague to face the political obstacles that are preventing the tribunal to bringing to justice the war criminals in the war yugoslavia has been waging in serbia croatia and bosnia a war that has gross evidence of crimes against humanity in the form of genocide extermination camps and other heinous abuses the progress toward bringing the criminals to justice is hampered by generals including one played by william hurt who fear a major world war if precautions against same are upon with the keen help of her translator her staff including keller heino ferch and the unexpected assistance from british capt john tanner john corbett forges ahead focusing the impossible task of bringing all responsible parties to justice on three specific events two of the three top suspects are captured but during their trials each meets his end this leaves only slobodan milosevic himself and and her colleagues are successful in bringing the war criminal to justice in 1999 br br there are several touching side plots employed in the telling of this well documented tale stories that make the point in history more personal some may find the film footage of corpses and prisoners and death camps too strong to watch but they are necessary to bring home the purpose of the film wendy crewson carries the power to drive the message home the message that war crimes must never go unpunished there is much current history to be learned from this film writers ian adams riley adams and m a have condensed the information and made it dramatic as well director charles balances the docudrama with the story progress never forgetting that he has a tale of intrigue to tell as well hunt for justice is worth watching grady harp
1	if love me tonight is the musical for people who don't like musicals it has to be said that the gay desperado is definitely not a musical for people who don't like opera in fact despite apparently being based on a comic operetta it is not really a musical at all but a spoof bandit story with interpolated unrelated arias to show off the voice of one character and what a voice it is br br nino martini as the young singer chivo who joins the bandit troop to get a spot on the radio no the plot doesn't make a lot more sense later on either has a glorious golden tenor whose style hasn't dated a day since the era when it was recorded the and of some of his musical contemporaries belong to a bygone fashion but it's very easy to picture chivo belting out nessun dorma to a world cup crowd and topping the charts in the process unfortunately while he has an engaging grin and a decent dramatic range he is completely incapable of acting and singing at the same time the result is that the otherwise rapid paced film grinds to a shuddering halt every time chivo lays his hand on his breast and starts to declaim and the viewer's tolerance of the result is likely to depend on his appreciation of operatic performance br br aside from this drawback the film is an enjoyable broad brush satire on hollywood conventions and the mexican bandit stereotype in particular which achieves the vital goal of all such spoofs in making its characters engaging enough in their own right to hold the viewer's interest when the joke would otherwise have grown stale the bandit chief and his sidekick have the traditional double act relationship there is an enigmatic with a carved teak face and a spirited heroine a young ida lupino who performs the generic you say you hate me but you love me really routine with a refreshing twist br br overall the film is entertaining and pretty funny and i feel i did get my money's worth but it can't be denied that the musical interludes while admirable in their own way introduce severe pacing problems
1	the gay desperado is wonderful throughout the banter between leo carrillo and harold huber is as funny as anything you would hear in a movie today best line that would be my third choice diego is obviously the archetype for kevin smith's silent bob lucien n black and white cinematography particularly with the shadows was striking all i can say about ida lupino is thank god for dvd you can go right to the scene where she is trying on and and watch her standing in front of that mirror over and over again br br lest i forget that nino martini guy sings real too
1	i don't know where this movie was shot but because it was shot on location it has the authenticity that this story deserves it is the story of a young english woman who is taken prisoner by the japanese in southern asia at the beginning of wwii with a group of other english women there is no prison camp for women so they are forced to march for months from place to place because the japanese don't know what to do with them the courage and resilience of the english women and the bravery of the australian soldier who tries to help them is the core of the movie this movie is very long maybe 10 hours so you can watch it as it was shown on pbs as a series which actually adds to the feeling of the endless journey this woman makes from england across this remote island and finally australia story cinematography location and actors combine to make this a movie not to miss my only question is why this hasn't been released on dvd
1	i cannot believe it has been 25 yrs since i first watched this story on tv i remembered to have been very much touched by it and was lucky to get the vhs tape several years ago i did not watch it again until just recently i have been watched it over and over ever since i must have watched it 10 times in the past 2 br br the acting is superb the story is compelling and i am embarrassed to say that i did not appreciate actor bryan brown's talent until now the playful facial expressions shown in the first half when he gave jean the stolen medicine in is such a contrast to his very reserved and nervous body languages shown in the second half in their first drink together in and the touring of the homestead we have to wait until the wedding reception especially the final dance scene to see his open display of affection for jean the same dancing eyes that first revealed his admiration in who wouldn't want to be his mrs br br while joe changed from a cocky almost bigger than life figure in the jungle to a somewhat self conscious average joe in his own backyard jean took the opposite road her wartime experience seems to have given her new confidence she wasted no time and went after what she wanted she took steps to take what she could get exactly as joe had told her to once upon a time br br for me all these transformations helps to show this is more than just a love story this is a story about growth courage and fragility in life the solicitor noel is both a sweet and sad figure he too gave much to jean he gave his last hope for love at the end he did what true love requires he put her happiness ahead of his own br br i happened to like the fight between joe jean that was not in the book i thought it's an appropriate and necessary addition for it helped to surface the inner struggles they both had to deal with in order to make their life together possible br br now i am older maybe i understand life love and loss a little better this story touches me even deeper br br i am however surprised to see b brown has blue eyes in the promo photo shown on this site he most definitely did not in a town like alice well 25 yrs is a long time
1	jean paget joe harman and noel all are unlikely heroes and survivors petite but strong jean whose strength and resolve help save lives marching hundreds of miles and with calm self discipline and persuasive powers joe harman oh my word who took risks for jean and the other prisoners only to suffer the worst pain imaginable and noel who trusted jean regardless of the odds her good humor and inspire everyone around her and those with the courage to go in with her are rewarded the beautiful scenery and musical score adds to the adventure despite the length it was never boring to me these ordinary people did extraordinary things and it is based on a true story someone borrowed my vhs a few years ago and i never saw it or them again learned my lesson mates and will buy another copy when it can be found it's a shame the miniseries is not on dvd
1	much better than expected good family flick catch it on reruns the whole is more than the sum of its parts paul giamatti chews up the scenery he has way more talent then the role deserves a treat to watch inspector from the illusionist go over the top the blue man scenes had my 11 year old in stitches the cameos were particular fun for the parents nice to see lee majors and umm again it's going to be tough to think up 10 lines for this film but let's hear it for a movie that promotes honesty between a child and their parents amanda bynes does a fine job when she gets to be part of the sting i normally can't stand frankie but he is just fine here hats off to the casting director if only for hiring giamatti
1	i can't count the times i have watched this and although it differs from the book in story line the mood is still the same the bond that two such diverse people give each other that surpasses trials and years is immortal and that the element of the women prisoners was an actual event that did happen to real people the story is about the strength of character of ordinary people people who just tried to survive a horrible time in their lives and this also presented australia in a real mode the country is like all countries areas that everyone loves quaint country areas and desolate areas but it gives a stage for transformation from a lowly outback town to a family community
1	if you love the book as i do stop watching the video after jean and joe meet in australia up to that point it is a fairly faithful rendition of the book and the visuals are great 10 out of 10 to that point and i've enjoyed it many times after that the story is seriously rearranged and revised in ways that really destroy the key part of the book i e how jean creates a town like alice springs in the early part the major change is to make a 40 something bachelor instead of a seventy year old widower this rather skews this love story especially when there are also small changes that contribute to making him more selfish and avaricious such as in the book he to joe at the ship that he might find more than a letter waiting for him in australia but in the video he gives joe no clue about whereabouts or intentions the last hour of the 5 hour video and mangles the last third of the book i see no reason why they threw in a fight between joe and jean it is quite out of character and seems to be just an aussie dig at pommies for telling them what to do then they bring on for the wedding instead of some three years later and have him read the toast very strange especially in the context of the relationship between jean and noel as cast in the video the whole wedding scene is the invention of the screenwriters these abominations take up time in the last hour which was already not long enough to do justice to the fascinating story of how jean recreates as a place where she and joe can both be happy
1	this is one of my favourite books and i remember watching this series and loving it immensely sadly i have never seen it repeated or been able to get on dvd but it made such an impact i have never forgotten it br br the lead characters were perfect for the roles especially the lovely bryan brown and although the scenes in australia were not entirely in keeping with the book at least they were there unlike the film version with virginia mckenna which missed that part out altogether br br i agree that gordon jackson's character of is entirely different from the book but he is still excellent for your information is the gaelic pronunciation of
1	this review contains what might be a spoiler if you never read the book or saw the cover of the video box so if you want to approach the movie not knowing anything about it except that i like it a lot stop here br br the production values are not first rate but the acting between the leads is and they give the romance between them more life than does in his novel although i generally prefer the novel my very faint objections to the film as opposed to the book is that the film dumbs down some of the relationships with secondary characters and between the lead characters in a scene toward the end of the film to provide for some not at all realistic dramatic tension and as a general plot device all this is handled much better in the book with the result that i find the end of the book quite a bit more touching than the end of the movie
1	this movie is a sleeper i've watched every miniseries that was ever on tv some many times and this one is the best wonderfully cast superbly acted and the characters are well developed helen morse perfectly fits the part of jean paget strident in control sharp and a bit belligerent she bounces well off of joe harmon the cowboy taciturn it'll be okay sort of guy i was sorry that the movie didn't stick to the book in that there was no romantic interest between noel and jean paget for those who don't know this is taken from a true story about english women marched around for 3 years by the japanese who indeed did not know what to do with them very few of them survived neville talked to one of them and this is her story this movie deserves to be in everyone's collection who loves wwii stories
1	i have seen this film at least 100 times and i am still excited by it the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown is the tops brilliant film
1	i raced to the library to check out this miniseries after having just finished listening to the marvelous talking books unabridged version of the book the first half of this tv version is really very good but it stumbles quite a bit in the second half the relationship with the trustee is overplayed and conflicts are inserted between jean and joe that don't exist in story unwisely in my opinion as they greatly diminish the power of their love story i was disappointed to find that the wonderful bryan brown's joe seemed a lot and much less appealing than the man in the book but helen jean was really quite good i think they would have had to make this a 10 hour miniseries to develop the outback story properly but all that said i did watch whole thing in more or less one go and did appreciate its merits all the while wishing that someone would do a less soapy remake
1	i remember watching this series avidly and being so disappointed when it came to an end over the years since then i have tried to find out if i could obtain a copy of it on either video or d v d to no avail however i was delighted to find this website with details of it only to be disappointed again at the point of purchase that the videos available will not play on english recorders this production was so wonderful being absolutely accurate with novel taking the storyline through after the end of the war with joe and subsequent life together absolutely marvellous and i just wish i were able to see it again as since it's original screening there have been no repeats of it on british television
1	i have seen this film at least 100 times and i am still excited by it the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown is the tops brilliant film
1	apparently this australian film based on novel exists in more than one form beware heavily cut versions sometimes shown on cable or satellite running anywhere from 95 minutes to 2 hours only the full 5 hour miniseries version tells the story properly it is a very close realisation of the story suffering only from editorial faults commonly found in tv movies and episodic progression but this excellent cast carries the story forward very well with generally good production values accompanying their work yuki is notable as mifune one of the guards assigned to accompany the women on their agonising trek in the end he becomes a friend you will agonise with him when his loss of face leads him into death helen morse as jean paget pretty but not a great beauty she resembles sigourney weaver a bit registers just the right amount of spunk and as the occasion demands the miniseries properly emphasises the beautiful love stories three of them joe and jean noel and jean and jean and gordon jackson plays noel appealingly but as a somewhat younger man than indicated in the novel the third love affair i mentioned doesn't get quite the emphasis it is due and the full significance of the title is diminished jean is devoted to the goal of bringing businesses to that will attract young women and girls and their influence to this god forsaken out back town she wants to make it a town like alice alice springs that is we get only a few hints of this in several scenes if you have the five hours to spare this miniseries is a truly rewarding experience based his novel about the cruelty of the japanese military in a large group of women and children from one place to another on the peninsula on a true occurrence it happened on sumatra according to though rather than on the peninsula the crucifixion of joe by a japanese officer for stealing chickens to feed the women is probably fiction but the cruelty of the japanese in dealing with prisoners is certainly a matter of record
1	i can't understand why imdb users would rate this movie 5 2 10 it really is great very funny i would strongly recommend this movie for all of you adults teenagers and especially children br br the story is about a 14 year old kid who always tell lie at home and school one day he had his homework of writing a 1000 word story but he didn't so the teacher told him to write it and gave her in 3 hours or he would have to go to summer school yep he wrote it in 2 45 big fat liar i think it was a story of himself on the way to the school he hit a limo of a famous hollywood producer and he gave him a ride but the kid forgot the story in the limo he told his parents and the teacher but of course they did not believe him and the movie producer he took the kid's story as his new movie big fat liar when the kid saw the trailer of the movie he told his parents he had written it but they didn't believe so he and his friend had to go to l a to prove one thing the truth is never overrated br br enjoy this great movie you won't be disappointed don't trust the 5 2 10 rate it should be 9 10 believe me br br p s so sorry my english isn't good enough to make a better comment
1	this mini series is iconic of the australian spirit while there may be what are perhaps considered glaring inconsistencies the film portrays a spirit that is unique to australia and one that should be cherished if anything this mini series demonstrates the aussie sense of humour the ability to laugh at the supremely ridiculous our willingness to have a laugh in even the most dire of situations while a large part of this series focuses on and how humour can be used as a means of survival it also has elements of drama that are evoke real emotions the main actors who appear are absolutely sensational and very convincing in their different roles capturing the essence of their characters perfectly this mini series should be mandatory viewing for all australians
1	i saw this drama by cable tv although i saw just two series i love this drama i'm waiting for more series will be aired by cable br br even though it describes horrible absurd situation in a camp this one shows us an indomitable spirit warmth friendship and humanity they don't know whether they can survive or not but kept their hope strongly without being discouraged by adversity br br i know this movie is not realistic like other war documentary but i don't want to blame for it it makes me believe the strong will of people in the most difficult situation br br 'private bill' especially this episode touched deep in my heart br br i remember every scene i always hate mathematics but after seeing this drama i can understand something about mathematics mathematics is his connection between past and present also symbolizes eternity br br 'time light and memory framed in a circle ' br br like other victims of war he lost his lover by irresistible fate i'm immersed in his time and memory as if i experienced same thing br br he experienced the great loss but he has pure passion of study br br he started his study in the camp his joy of realize br br i believe his dedication of study sustained him br br i saw it several times but the meaning of this film never faded every time i saw it i feel same deep emotion br br their songs are beautiful harmonious br br i'm sorry that i can't listen ost
1	never have i sat down for six hours straight to watch a miniseries but changed that i'm not going to lie i know some aussie flicks can be pathetic and boring actually i quite like aussie flicks myself but maybe i'm biased but is on a completely different lane although not historically accurate as we are continually reminded the show combines superb acting an excellent script and the addition of humour to provide us with an entertaining and emotional perception of life in a pow camp in wwii br br keep in mind the show was not supposed to be a documentary so don't let any factual errors disappoint you br br this series exposes such creative writing by john doyle aka roy who is known more for his comedy than anything else and an excellent director and actors move this creativity along perfectly if you want to see how much hard work went into this series visit the official website it is really interesting and you'll learn a lot about true accounts of br br if you haven't seen yet make sure you are doing nothing for a whole day because you'll want to watch the series in its entirety
1	has a delightfully fresh script acted superbly by both young and old actors alike john doyle has done an excellent job bringing humour to a tragic true story keeping a sometimes sad story fun and engrossing particularly to those of us not familiar with the events of south east asia during ww2 br br john doyle's parallel story line successfully bridges the gap between past and present allowing the audience insight into the long term effect war had on the prisoners and their family's lives as well as providing the basis for an excellent narrative which nicely rounds out the tales both individual and collective doyle deserves praise for this effort we have in the past been delighted by his abundant and quick witted humour as evidenced in his long running collaboration with greg as roy h g ' br br as the series is approaching half way we are looking forward to how the story develops with anticipation
1	this would have to be by far the greatest series i have ever seen i vividly watched every sunday night and purchased the box set as soon as it was available this is a timeless play written by a fantastic australian that people of all ages could relate to whether they are australian or not however for those of us that are australian it truly brings across the typical australian icon a must see 10 10
1	somehow lost out in the afi awards to my brother jack the latter a high quality adaptation of george johnston's immortal novel was outstanding but in my opinion not as good as i have heard that many critics dismissed as being irrelevant unimportant historically inaccurate or even disrespectful who and where are these critics is outstanding more than that brilliant it's not supposed to be a documentary certainly i can forgive the actual survivors or indeed any survivors of a pow camp for being disappointed with the production but to the rest of us represents the remarkable power of in times of extreme adversity it contains a part of the australian culture that appears to be diminishing as times become easier and less challenging but which we should never forget australians were respected worldwide after gallipoli and ww2 for their comradery and sense of humour rating 96 100 see also gallipoli paradise road the last bullet the sugar factory
1	as soon as i saw the ad for on the history channel i knew i'd love it it captured the spirit fantastically you would die if you didn't have mates around you the characters of were strong and each brought something different into the story and the japanese soldiers weren't criticised but were depicted as normal soldiers doing what they thought was right just as the australians were doing direction screenplay acting and setting were all done wonderfully with a clear easy to follow plot humour was the soldiers' key to survival and it was great to see a mini series about war actually have some sort of humour in it which is usually difficult to do without offending people from what i've read about soldiers in pow camp this story is a very realistic approach to the three and a half years those australian british new zealand american and dutch men spent there i would recommend this series to anyone whether you are interested in war or not 10 10
1	i've heard a few comments particularly from prisoners of war that is not historically accurate and that it is disappointing perhaps it is for those who actually had to live through this stuff and much worse but for the rest of us who really have no idea of how prisoners were treated by the japanese during world war ii is a remarkable introduction but isn't a war documentary if it had have been then the historical accuracy aspect would have been paramount it is a miniseries drama with fictional characters and fictional situations though based loosely on actual events i've heard and read about and at the centre of the story is the ideal of this group of young australian soldiers taken prisoner by the japanese and held in appalling conditions for years became mates through adversity and the strength of their friendships continued throughout their lives after the war it is also a cultural study of the differences between the japanese of the time and the western world with its music games and entertainment in part 5 when it is becoming clear that japan will lose the war after germany has surrendered in europe the japanese prison camp colonel insists that his country must study the culture of their prisoners in order to defeat a people one must defeat their culture and to do this one must understand it all in all australia continues its rich tradition of producing exceptional television miniseries and is an unrivalled world leader in this regard for the afi award with is my brother jack the adaptation of george johnston's novel and also a worthy winner miniseries in recent years include day of the roses the story of the investigation into the train crash kings in grass castles the adaptation of mary historical account of her pioneering ancestors kangaroo palace about a group of friends from a country town in australia who travel to london and change and grow apart and the somewhat disappointing adaptation of powerful novel the potato factory less recently nancy cato's sweeping saga of life on the murray all the rivers run cusack james' brilliant novel about postwar life in sydney come in spinner colleen outstanding pioneering saga the thorn birds the river kings ruth park's novel the harp in the south bodyline eureka stockade etc etc of course there have been some not so good productions for instance moby dick do or die on the beach thorn birds the missing years etc generally though if an australian miniseries comes your way make sure you see it and this goes double for a superbly directed masterpiece rating 9 10
1	this has got to be one of australia's best productions i completely disagree with the comments made by br br this series shows the depth of australian and the lengths they went to to help each other out episode five is a great example of this and it really captures the australian spirit br br the music used throughout the series only emphasised the situation that the men were faced with their longing for home and their loved ones the numerous amusing renditions of the road to captures the spirit of the men and the fact that they never forgot home and that it was little elements such as the singing of a song that took them home for a short while br br as for the comment about it being racist towards japanese people the only thing to be said is that you can't change what happened the japanese did treat the australians very poorly in and to represent it as otherwise would be very misleading indeed the comment about the screenplay being in accurate is also false these six stories that are told in the series are composed from real p o w experiences br br the actors were superb the best being in my opinion matthew newton his performance as david in the first episode was gut wrenching from being a city boy to being another nameless face to his captors we see him change dramatically in the first episode because of his violent attack in the jungle and in further episodes we can see how that one event has changed him he is more aware of what is really going on and is always one of the first to help out the other members of the secret nine br br stephen curry also deserves a mention his performance in is amazing going from the larrikin of the group to being sick weak and unable to take care of himself the displays of in this episode touch you on an emotional level and make you proud to be australian br br i study wwii at university level and have found this series if not physically truthful spiritually truthful as it captures the true spirit of what it was to be an australian soldier br br well done to john doyle for capturing the spirit of
1	here we have a miniseries which revels in in its flaws and doesn't make us cringe because of them it is excellent story telling which fuses black comedy in a positive way the pathetic waste of war without the sheer unadulterated manipulation of a con job like life is beautiful it is an entertainment not the meaning of life and showcases the talents of actors both young and old give it a go and tell us what you think
1	i just had to add my comment to raise the average on this one paul giamatti lets it all hang out in this one and is a hoot he would probably say it was easy but he really does a great job and should have won something for it we've had the dvd for several years and my kids boy now 4 1 2 and girl 9 will watch this one over and over and the humor is adult enough that i don't mind having to hear it in the background and i do run to the tv for the really funny parts simple moral message lots of decent action and slapstick bad grownups acting goofy to take the edge off minimal bad language and minimal potty jokes make it hard to beat for a family standard
1	having had a great grandfather be captured and sent to during world war two i was hesitant to watch this when it was first screened on tv my great grandfather kept a diary whilst he was in captivity and when he died over there his mates bought it back and i have been lucky enough to read it and feel i have at least some idea of what was really like first hand br br this is a fantastic recount of what happened to those poor blokes who were sent to prison and shows what hardship and cruelty they witnessed in order to protect their country it is a terrific story of commitment and aussie spirit that never going to give up attitude it is worth watching if you like australian history or anything to do with world war two br br i enjoyed this mini very much and give it 10 out of 10
1	my family and i enjoy this show and find it a fair thumb nail sketch of what the people went through br br my own father spent some time in before going onto the thailand burma railway in f force much as been said about the treatment the pow's received i will just say that my father was 6 foot 1 inch and lbs when singapore fell at the end of the war he was 5 foot 11 inches tall and 91 lbs br br no show could truly convey what the pow's went through but this comes closer than most br br as the ex pow's say if you didn't have mates you didn't survive this show succeeds in getting this message across
1	when i heard there was to be an abc australian broadcasting corporation mini series based on life in wwii pow camp with a focus on elements of comedy i was deeply sceptical and somewhat critical br br my father had served in the second world war such was the of the japanese he was able to talk about the horrors in and around where he was stationed until only quite recently along with my father i had been awarded the fortune of knowing many great men of stronger character and spirit than i shall ever have who had witnessed acts of unspeakable at the hands of the empire of japan and had never completely recovered the name is destined to conjure horrific images for ages to come br br but upon viewing i was highly impressed with the cast the characters and the complex plot lines of this wonderful series i now regard as the highlight of my week bear in mind i have viewed only three episodes so far i hope the remaining episodes adhere to the standards set by the first three br br the black humour works uncannily well however the flatulence jokes are a little overdone and while much of the horror has been suppressed the series comes quite close in relaying the spirit of the survivors who were able to later continue with their lives in spite of the memories br br the format of this series will be difficult for some to follow br br but i can not think of no better way to do adequate justice to the men who suffered deep emotional scarring proceeding when painfully suppressed experiences are remembered sometimes years after the horror br br one of the darkest chapters of the second world war the 20th century and i would go so far as to say in the history of mankind is being relayed to a new generation through this series and i hope it serves to relay the overwhelming adversity borne by the wartime generation br br proceeding i don't think i shall ever be able to listen to the poignant tune 'on the road to in the same way again tune in
1	this movie was great and i was waiting for it for a long time when it finally came out i was really happy and looked forward to a 10 out of 10 it was great and lived up to my potential the performances were great on the part of the adults and most of the kids the only bad performance was by milo himself there was one problem that i encountered with this and others like it movie all of the characters i wanted to live were getting killed overall i give this movie an excellent 9 out of 10 maybe we should select better people to kill next time though ok
1	critics claim that this film is one of the worst films ever watchers also claim the same but there is a flip side to that coin they are wrong very wrong it's the most clever film i've seen in ages br br from beginning till end you see a story thats unrealistic a story that reflexes the real world this film is like a mirror you see yourself in another way that people see you to really understand the directors point of view you have to see it another time br br when you see this film try to understand the story and watch the background listen to the lyrics of the music and smell the industrial complexes br br this film is one of a kind you'll hate it most people do or you'll love it and understand it completely br br ernest hemmingway once said 'the world is a fine place and worth fighting for' i agree with the second part
1	what is he supposed to be he was a kid in the past and the future this movie had a lot of problems is he a ghost or just a strong kid man what a piece of crap i'm still confused also is he supposed to be an abortion strange very strange this movie will mess with your mind and it's not very scary just confusing why was he where did what was the oh who cares milo isn't worth it br br my score 10
1	milo is an overlooked underrated horror flick from the late 90's but the feel and atmosphere is more that of an 80's horror flick seems a bunch of little girls are taken to see things at the office of milo's father a and as a reward for getting to see what's there in jars yes a plus something else one girl plays doctor with milo hmm his first patient and he lost her now milo is a creepy little kid that always wears a yellow rain slicker rain or shine and he talks funny but that's not all that's strange about him fast forward to the present where these girls are adults and there's a wedding planned for one of them but tragedy strikes and leaves one girl that came in from out of town with a choice of whether or not to replace her friend as a school teacher which she does and then strange things begin to happen again which of course involve this little kid in a rain slicker this isn't overly violent or graphic but has a distinct creepiness that you don't find in many modern horror flicks and it's well worth seeing one wonders why it's so hard to find any good horror flicks in this day age but here's one that's criminally overlooked and definitely worth your time if you check it out 8 out of 10
1	this was a get up and go horror movie with an intelligent cast and a director with great vision to really capture the mood of the story i highly recommend this movie
1	this film is not at all as bad as some people on here are saying i think it has got a decent horror plot and the acting seem normal to me people are way over what was wrong with this it is simply classic horror the type without a plot that we have to think about forever and forever we can just sit back relax and be scared
1	i consider myself a huge horror movie fan one night i wanted to just rent some newer horror movies to make fun of then i rented milo i was so surprised by this movie it scared the hell outta me that's not something i can say very often usually halloween only scares me br br two other friends watched it with me and were left with a disturbed feeling a good feeling if you ask me after watching a horror movie if you are unaffected then what's the point br br this movie was original it didn't follow the normal guidelines of a horror movie that's why movies like valentine bombed for me br br of course many are left with unanswered questions as most horror movies do it is worth the rent though
1	this movie was fun especially if your between 8 and 15 frankie and amanda bynes make a believable team of 8th graders getting back at an adult who really deserves it paul giamatti makes a great adult who you really want to 'get' my 13 year old daughter and her friend loved it parents no really bad words or any sex to worry about recommend it for the 'right' crowd ap
1	bobby and mikey are two little boys who move across the country with their divorced mother to start a new life soon after the family settles in their mom marries the king who ends up being an abusive stepfather especially to bobby so bobby decides that he will fly away from the abuse in his birthday present br br this movie was difficult to watch especially the abuse scenes it was hard to watch an innocent playful little boy become abused and turn into a sullen scared and withdrawn young man the acting is excellent br br i cried throughout the last half of the movie there were some funny scenes in it too like the monster brew and the dog that finds the pop bottles br br i wouldn't suggest letting little kids watch it it was a movie that was painful to watch and yet it really really flew away
1	this is just my all time favorite movie nothing special it's just so incredibly detailed makes me cry just thinking about it geronimo bill is the nicest guy i can imagine money is not important bamboo spears are important you don't need money to get what you need if you need something it will just come to you if people would realize that the world would be a much better place whatever you do don't do it for the money
1	ever sense i was a kid i have loved this movie i have always been a fan of joseph the kid had pure talent in both this movie and jurassic park i have been looking for the dvd or vhs to purchase at a store near me i cant seem to find it i hope it goes on dvd well anyways great movie if anyone knows where i can find this please contact me at net also can anyone really explain what happened with bobby was her real or was he fake and was he mikes imaginary friend and his escape lol i'm clueless my favorite part had to be definitely where they made the monster juice and spilled it all over the kitchen its funny but also a sad part as well because of what happens to bobby due to the mess i would've liked to see the boyfriends face because he played his part pretty good i think the mother was a great actress i think her name is lorraine bracco or some sorta name like that well thats all please contact me br br
1	this is a really sad and touching movie it deals with the subject of child abuse it's really sad but mostly a true story because it happens everyday elijah wood and joseph play the two children or lorraine bracco a single mother who just tries to make a home for them while living with her parents a man who likes to be called the king comes into their life he hits the youngest boy bobby but the two brothers vow not to tell their mother but finally she finds out after the bobby is hurt badly the end kind of ruined it for me because it is so totally unbelievable but except for that i love the movie
1	well i like this movie first of all because it's very well thought of and well because the um director and others chose an extremely great actor to play mike and also my last reason because my opinion elijah wood is so so hot
1	radio flyer is one of my most loved american movies br br the really great job of two boys joe and elija wood in spite of terrible performance of t hanks at the beginning and ending with marvellous script of d m evans and powerful and emotional directing of r donner plus absolutely incredibly peerless music score of h zimmer allowed the radio flyer to win one of the first places in my family's rating of movies br br it's so pity that that very good movie was by some movie critics br br i just can't help waiting to see it on dvd
1	where do i begin i first saw this film in 1995 and had no idea of what to expect i was actually at the time searching out films that elijah wood had starred in and this one had come highly recommended i sat down and watched the film once and didn't know what to think i watched it a second time a few days later and the floodgates just opened never before in my life had i ever really cried while watching a film and i was every high and low the film i was riding right alongside on an emotional roller coaster br br it struck such an emotional chord in me on many levels the intense sadness and elation we see in the film the wonder and innocence of childhood the yearning for a time that once was but is no more more than anything this film reminded me of my childhood except for the abuse during a time in my life when i'd shrugged off my childhood some years before and not even really noticed i'd given it up and moved on to a life entirely devoid of it the radio flyer made me wake up and suddenly realise what i'd given up without really even noticing from that day forward i immediately set about to change my life and myself and i did br br this is going to sound corny but basically i rediscovered my inner child i started down a path that has been ongoing over the past 6 years and has changed me so much so much for the better embracing and living that part of myself i've been finding out who i really am i don't think it was simply a case of the right film coming along at a crucial moment of my life the radio flyer really did something very special and i still look upon it as an incredible piece of work in all respects an incredible film br br in closing i cannot fail to mention the music i am a great fan of hans zimmer and this is among his very finest works the sheer breadth and depth of emotional expression he has put into the score of this film is a huge part of what makes the film what it is to me like subtitles to a foreign language film his soaring music is a crib sheet to the intense emotions this film will take you through find the soundtrack at all costs it was sadly deleted long ago i never expected to find it but amazingly did after chatting with someone i met on a hans zimmer guest book br br watch this film let yourself live the emotions don't get bogged in trivial nitpicking of the ending be that child again
1	i am a 20 year old bloke from england i don't cry at films but this one moved me i cried like a girl this is absolutely the most moving film i have ever seen even though the story was questionable joseph little face when he dreams of crying made me sob every time how could anyone hurt such a sweet looking kid i'm going to cry now just thinking about it remarkable
1	young elijah wood and joseph are outstanding in this excellent film about two boys who have promised to take care of their mother and how they cope when their new stepfather begins beating the younger boy the supporting cast around the boys is top notch as well the script really gets inside the mind and heart of an imaginative child it's hard to believe wood could grow up to look anything like tom hanks but that's nothing new in hollywood that's honestly my only criticism of the film
1	this story is an excellent tale of two boys that do whatever they can to get away from there abusive drunkard father lord of the rings star elijah wood is outstanding in this unforgettable role this movie is one of the main reasons i haven't touched a single beer and never will as long as i live that might make me sound like a nerd but that's what i have to say it is a wonder why this isn't as a classic american tale
1	big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing great production and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap the two stars work great together and what can i say amanda bynes shines putting and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches watch this film with your kids if you don't laugh throughout it you must not have been paying attention
1	well i have to disagree with leonard maltin on this animated short he loves it and claimed it was hilarious i enjoyed it but didn't see any humor he doesn't even like hockey or know anything about it and still loved the story living right across the border from canada i have watched hockey for 50 years both there and in buffalo but i didn't think much of this cartoon oh it was interesting and i know what would happen if you wore a toronto jersey up in the quebec area disaster that especially holds true in the glory years of les canadians however that doesn't make the story funny br br back in the 1950s everyone in the quebec provinces idolized the montreal canadians and their star player maurice richard and everyone wanted to be like him when his mother orders a new sweater it has the toronto maple leafs emblem on it so the kid doesn't want to be caught dead wearing it when he finally does and heads to the local rink he gets ostracized from the rest of his hockey buddies what's so funny about that i could see the same thing happening to a kid in boston who is red sox die hard and his mom gets him yankees shirt horrors you couldn't wear it and vice versa br br maybe to someone who doesn't follow sports at all like maltin this situation seems odd and humorous to him but it's a fact of life or any bit time sports fan and his favorite team it was an interesting story and totally believable but nothing that made me laugh br br the art was fun to look at throughout almost like looking at a long series of crayon paintings done by a talented school kid the french canadian accent was good too this movie was part of the dvd leonard maltin's animation favorites from the national film board of canada
1	i first saw this movie as a younger child my sister had told me about it and i thought it would be more of a kid's movie however it remains to also be an incredible movie true that the subject behind the movie is ruff but also true this movie will never stop touching your heart br br i was only 6 when i first saw it and just yesterday 7 years later i saw it again for the first time in a long time even after i knew how it ended i knew that i had seen it a billion times i wept like a teeny weeny little baby when i saw it a few years back i finally got the idea and the seriousness of the film so i stoped watching it for a while but yesterday i didn't change the channel i watched it by the end i was astonished at how much it still made me laugh cry think and above all believe in again i haven't in a long time and this movie got me out of my shell and opened up my heart this movie wasn't just impacting i was also so impressed with the actors especially bobby so if you are wanting to see this movie for the first time i suggest seeing it alone with tissues and being ready to discover your young sweet innocent side and the side that still has hope this movie touched my soul when i was only 6 and even in this time of trying to figure out who i am this movie helped me realize both what i don't and still do want to be in life
1	this has to be the best movie of all time in my opinion it really taught me when i watched when i was 10 in 2000 that the freedom of a being a child slips away sooner then we expect it to also joseph has to be my favorite actor ever and i think that him and elijah wood did a great job in the roles of brothers this movie is quite sad and some people don't understand the ending but the story itself is quite incredible the thought of a poor 7 year boy bobby getting abused by drunken step father is horrible and what the two boys do about this is sad and important my favorite part of the movie is when tom hanks older mike lists the 7 things of being a kid that are lost to the grownup world however there are some parts that could have been done better in this movie such as the casting of the mother lorraine who i think is a horrible actor the king played his role well since it is a hard role to play joseph and elijah definitely were the stars of the movie i couldn't believe how well they played victims of a abusing stepfather being the age that they were 7 and 9 but overall i recommend this movie to anyone who loves great child actors and a great movie
1	my take on the ending bobby died at the hands of his step father mike had tried as he may to get bobby out only a child could think that it would be possible to build a machine that could fly bobby died mike as a child survived by creating an alternative ending in his mind on how bobby left mike made a plane that flew bobby out children who are sexually and violent abused often create whole other worlds in their minds to survive br br was also great seeing my old housing area we called it san jose boulevard and i lived right around where these house were filmed it was so strange to see that they filmed inside the houses not studios it was my kitchen bedroom and living room and those hills we use to hike them as kids looking down on our little valley seeing glimpses of the bay was a real nostalgia trip for me
1	this movie was a heart felt piece of cinema that helped show the darker side of childhood and the little things that shaped who tom hank's was using a very cryptic story they were able to give you an idea of what truly happened to tom hank's character as a child and while scenes like the flying machine may have never happened it helped to show how even denial can help tell the truth in all good conscience i could not rate this lower then a 9 out of 10 great performances from all the actors and while many may not have understood the cryptic ending in which the brother is murdered by his step father and tom hanks covers it up using a far fetched story about a flying machine pay close attention to the little details such as the turtle that he still has even though his brother flew off with it truly a beautiful piece of cinema and every actor deserves recognition for it
1	i am surprised that so many viewers didn't find all the symbolism in the movie it's what made the movie an incredible work of art the story deals with some of the saddest content a movie could hold yet it is one of the best movies i've ever seen because of the need for your own imagination and the brilliance in the storyline br br if you will pay close attention the message is there the younger brother is killed by the stepfather the older brother made up the story about the wagon flying as a way to deal with the pain of his brother's death there are those that would argue why would he lie to his own children with the story to me the answer is because he doesn't want to share such ugliness with his own children or that he has blocked it out and replaced his memory of the horrific event with the thought of his brother flying away to safety i've read some of the reviews that believe he was an only child and that he created the younger brother as an escape to deal with the abuse he suffered although this is an interesting idea i love the imagination used to come up with that i don't think he would have lied to his own children about having a little brother but i do find it plausible that he would have lied about his little brother's death however i like that idea of an ending much better than the notion that the movie had no symbolism at all br br there are many different takes you can have on the movie but if you take the movie at face value two brothers creating a wagon that flies to escape an abusive stepfather you've missed the brilliance the fact that i was able to see the subtle messages in the script were what made the movie so incredible to me it requires your own thought process and your own imagination to make it work dig deep when you watch it you'll be amazed at the genius contained in the film the only other movie i've seen as close to this in symbolism and subtle messages is pleasantville but that's a comment for another movie
1	i rented the movie and liked it so much that i bought it elijah wood mikey and joseph bobby are outstanding as the two boys their new stepfather physically abuses bobby the abuse is implied for the most part not seen and a lot of passion in me to help abused children there is a magical quality to the movie as the boys' imagination helps them find a way to deal with the abuse you have to try to understand the story from a child's point of view i'm still thinking about the ending i've watched the movie 3 or 4 times and each time i think of possible new meanings i'm not sure exactly what richard donner intended me to think but this is an excellent film joseph and elijah wood will make you go hug your kids
1	i believe that this is a heart tugging film richard donner directed the top grossing film superman had done a great job directing this film some of the were good and several were horrible because bobby was by the king baldwin and especially their dog shane attacked the king which meant that he paid for what he had done to bobby br br elijah wood portrayed a good role in this film the memorable scene in this he dreamt that he took the advice about bobby being battered lorraine bracco pre soprano had portrayed an impressing role br br i give this film out of four
1	you got it right bobby was mike's imaginary friend through the whole movie even at the beginning when on their way to california his mother knew of bobby and didn't discourage mike leaning on bobby since imaginary friends are common with young children br br that's why they both got stomach at the same time that's why the boys' were so close br br at the end mike was letting bobby go the king was arrested mike could go on without bobby it's also why mike's mother didn't seem disturbed when mike received the postcard mike had written mailed from bobby the ol' west tourist stop and the other postcards from all over the world you noticed mike's mother turned the first card over and looked at the postmark what a great mom doing the best she could in the late sixties br br a 9 out of 10 for me brought back memories
1	even people who dislike the film usually because they find the ending confused should appreciate the strong acting of elijah wood joseph who played the two young leads in this movie br br spoiler warning at a literal level the ending makes no sense people who think the ending makes some sense at other levels are divided between those who 1 think the younger brother was killed by the step father either the one time mike the older boy was away dealing with the neighborhood gang or flew off the wishing spot in his wagon to escape the situation through death those 2 who think the younger brother is imaginary his flying off in the wagon transformed into a flying machine signals his overcoming the abusive situation br br i favor 2 it makes a lot of sense in terms of the way many children deal with abusive situations it is not uncommon for an abused child to split his or her psyche project the abused self into something else a stuffed animal even an imaginary friend this way it makes a lot more sense that it is always the younger boy who is abused never mike in reality it is unlikely for one of two brothers to get all the abuse although that does happen also it is bobby the younger brother who is also the encouraging one the one who insists that they can overcome the situation also the death of a real life sibling through abuse would have been too shattering for an adult with this in his history to transform into as upbeat a fantasy ending as this
1	i started watching this one very tensed because i heard so many different things about it somewhere i read it was a drama about child abuse and rated pg 13 for violence another critic said it was a fantastic and nostalgic adventure of kids and i thought it was also for kids to watch well now i've seen it so many times and still don't know in which category to put it it is extremely funny at times but terribly sad and depressing the next moment because of the nice relationship and the adventures i would like to recommend this film to all the youngsters i know but i fear the somber atmosphere is not suitable for children because of the perfect performances and the magic of the film i must say this nevertheless watch it especially the kids the last thing i have to say is that i hate the scriptwriter for letting poor bobby never see his family again after having fled from the king who didn't even return to terrorize the remained mary and mikey it is very good for this film not to have a perfect happy ending with everybody being happy and i didn't expect it to but this solution left me very very sad
1	i saw this movie on my flight from philly to denver the screen was three rows in front of me and about 12 x 10 so i really wasn't going to watch it but i like malcolm in the middle so i thought i'd watch just a few minutes next thing i know i'm sucked in having a great time and was pleased as how good it was and how fast it seemed to make the time go by i agree with that the acting is very good for this level of entertainment being one of the older baby boomers i was also pleased to see lee majors with a role in the movie as with a couple of other actors who were famous yesterday but are out of the spotlight today poking fun at themselves br br it's your basic kid is wronged kid gets even and then some and everyone enjoys themselves in the process no heavy thinking no great analysis needed just a good fun way to pass the time br br 3 5 out of 5
1	spoiler nothing but spoiler br br i have to add my name to the list of folks who feel that the other viewers just don't get it but no one has even mentioned the s word so far as i have seen br br while i agree that the kid died i think we can be more specific he committed suicide he races down the slope in an old wagon shoots off the cliff and flies away maybe the whole account of the form of death is allegory or maybe he does commit suicide in a wagon as laid out in either case he flies away c'mon not that tough a metaphor br br maybe i just have a thing for tom hanks but i was ok with the narration besides he is raising for the ww2 memorial and you gotta love him for that br br oh yeah i loved the movie and found it incredibly moving
1	i'm not sure as to call this movie a children's drama or a fantasy film when i first watched this i couldn't really make out the ending and that's the only part of movie that's seemed to lack depth and left me a bit depressed for awhile then i watched it a second time and realised how great the acting was and was clueless as to why it received the meager attention it did at the time br br unforgettable performances by the young and wood should have made this film a classic br br although the it was probably intended to be a fantasy drama by the original writer director evans once donner took over he presumably made it with a more dramatical outlook especially the ending which left a lot to be desired as to what really happened to bobby was he killed did he escape really do all those fantastic journeys or was it just an imaginary story woven by hanks to prove a point to the kids br br but in all it didn't provide the closure of a happy ending that we are so used to in a children's film perhaps it's because it's not just that br br to see what may have been a more classical ending check out the official elijah wood site where you'll find the first rough draft script of the conclusion of the movie presumably by the original writer br br also a note of the music by hans zimmer which is one the best soundtracks i've ever heard a mixture of childish and dark sentiments throughout the movie a great cd to get hold of if you can br br
1	simply an amazing bittersweet movie that portrays a side of life often skipped over in feel good movies i saw this as a child and came back to it very recently and fell in love again br br as a child it sparked my interest purely for the building of a plane as an adult it captured me in the dark world and a young mans escape from that world br br the portrayal of the king was great the camera style chosen with low shots and shots focusing on actions and hand movements was i thought well done i personally can not recall anything quite done in that style and adds to the character and portrays him as a force almost not human which may not be far from reality it makes for interesting developments br br worth a watch any day
1	everything about this film is simply incredible you truly take this journey through the eyes and soul of a child br br i do feel it is important to note this tale is about child abuse don't rent it for your kids thinking it is a fun disney esque film
1	in reply to state of confusion the dogs injuries do seem to disappear rather abruptly but that may have only been an error in continuity but as for the kids trying to build a plane out of junk it's just a simple matter of imagination these are two very young kids who have extremely active imaginations and they must rely on those imaginations to keep themselves from being exposed to the reality of the level of abuse that goes on in their home from their stepfather as for the stepfather it's very interesting that the director chose to no show his face that makes him seem more monstrous if you show his face then that character becomes a person and not just this monster who is terrorizing the childhood of these two innocent children by showing only the of his abuse and not focusing scenes on the abuse itself the children then become the main focus of the movie this film has no loose ends but runs just as a father's tale to his children would it has this is a fine american classic
1	this bittersweet slice of magic realism had a checkered production history director writer replaced and tanked at the box office but it's a helluva film br br elijah wood and joseph are pre teen brothers whose flaky mom lorraine bracco shacks up with a mean spirited alcoholic adam baldwin during his drinking bouts baldwin physically abuses and manipulates him into remaining silent about his situation but when wood on to what's happening the boys put their heads together and hatch a solution to devastating dilemma br br i love films that mix fantasy and dark reality they are rarely successful financially lawn dogs is a similar example but they are usually original and intriguing br br the drunk baldwin is shot from a low child's perspective and his head is deliberately lopped off below the top of frame this device allows us to judge him purely by his actions and as a totally beast both wood and are excellent and they pull us effortlessly into their dark frightening world br br the radio flyer of the title is a small red wagon kids transport their belongings in here it transports a dream br br seriously interesting stuff
1	this film based on the book by pascal la is an acclaimed film of excellent cinematography and costly italian language set in a scholastic 19th century balzac style set it portraits the story of a mad love story a man and a woman there is an infamous line at this shadowy strike which reads she does not smell like tomatoes sage of this italian masterpiece scola is a director of the stature of his cake will jump in your strawberries and if you let this director he will cream your as a superman remember nietzsche this one will scare the hell out of you don't forget to visit cake next to the in rome across the via this movie will wipe your inside out and outside in it will make you cry out of romantic joy if you liked ulysses you will wipe it good with these strawberries until the end of the roll enjoy
1	a clever and bizarre angle to beauty is in the eye of the beholder at times you think this is campy and over the top but the underlying poetic soul comes across strong and believable thanks to the performances of the two leads one worth tracking down
1	ettore scola's masterful rendering of this epic of the heart deserves a much wider audience it is a worthy successor to the classics such as senso and il as well as rosselini's the 19th century is indeed a fruitful source for italian filmmakers the period settings and trappings are beautifully realized here but the story is timeless and could occur in any period what is so intriguing in this story is that the hero becomes trapped in a claustrophobic situation in which he finds himself the vigorously pursued object of desire and he is quite powerless to extricate himself from the alarming circumstances handsome and callow giorgio giraudeau is frustrated by his inability to visit his charming but light minded married mistress and falls prey to the dangerous passion of enamored the ugly and sickly daughter of his stern commander girotti the resulting anguish and ensuing tragedy this unlikely pair undergoes make them both understandable pitiful and immensely sympathetic to viewers bernard stellar performance will captivate and leave a lasting impression not to be missed
1	this is one of the few movies that was recommended to me as absolutely brilliant that really is if you give this movie a low note than you really missed the point you could describe as manipulative but what if it is really serious that she gets ill when the love she is sure of isn't answered but what would you do when you are sure that the other one loves you and is 'only' rejected by the fact that you are ugly wouldn't you fight for it at least i think it is better to fight for it that die in bitterness and it reminds me of the fact how i as a man react at first sight completely on the physical ugliness of and don't look further at the person she is or might be this movie confronts me with very solemn questions about respect trust feeling manipulated and so on how do i now if someone manipulates me or is just trying everything to make contact what i think to be the most outstanding feature in this movie is that ettore scola made it absolutely believable that giorgio falls in love with
1	big fat liar comes as a welcome shallow but welcome breath of fresh air after one too many films featuring bathrooms bodily fluids pets on acid jokes and crotch gags after all see spot run max big move and snow dogs had signaled the degenerative spiral of kiddie movie making worse is the realization that the young audience would later be satiated by the offerings of not another teen movie and slackers written by nickelodeon producers dan schneider and brian robbins who coincidentally co starred on the '80s sitcom head of the class the film stars frankie as jason who's always ready with a good lie to get out of scrapes where's the english paper dad choked on a swedish meatball his teacher sandra oh issues an ultimatum turn in the paper by the end of the day or take summer school jason whips out a story called big fat liar and is struck en route to school by a limousine carrying insensitive hollywood producer marty wolf paul giamatti wolf gives him a ride but jason leaves his paper behind no one will hear the truth this time and dad tells him he's lost his trust br br months later jason and best friend amanda bynes see a movie preview for big fat liar and head off to los angeles to wreak havoc on wolf's life all to get a confession that he stole jason's paper to make the film they even gain the sympathy of some of wolf's abused employees including his assistant amanda detmer former chauffeur donald faison movie star white playing himself and stunt coordinator a much aged lee majors br br because big fat liar is without the edge that his sitcom malcolm in the middle is known for is easy to root for but doesn't have much to work with likewise for bynes who headlines her own tracey ullman like sketch show on nickelodeon all the hamminess is given to giamatti whose eyes bulge and cheeks wiggle with every sneering insult br br the film gets snaps just by attempting the high road and should be enjoyed by its target audience especially since most of the high jinks occur on the universal studios lot but here's one head scratcher the message is that it pays to tell the truth but didn't we just see jason getting to his payback by telling white lies throughout the film well at least there's no poop
1	in this unlikely love triangle set in 19th century italy the beauty and the beast' is being turned upside down and inside out and then some giorgio an army officer and the very image of male beauty is being transferred away form his married lover clara and sent to a small garrison somewhere in there initially much to his horror – the grotesquely ugly cousin of his commander develops an obsessive love for him he suffers her passionate and demanding displays of affection out of pity and concern for her health she is gravely ill but becomes more and more fascinated by her – until the dramatic br br do not miss this most unusual love story as twisted as it may sound valeria who deservedly won a price for her portrayal of is as alarming as she is touching buy the video read the book go see the musical
1	a film for mature educated audiences br br i saw random hearts in an advance screening shortly before its north american release this romantic drama was quite a treat i'm sure this story will not be everyone's cup of tea especially considering the film's darkly downbeat premise but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor br br all time box office draw harrison ford star wars raiders of the lost ark the fugitive air force one patriot games is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer dutch ford's very subdued nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss betrayal this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters next year harrison ford returns to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer 2000 thriller what lies beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom the sum of all fears will be harrison ford's third outing as cia operative jack ryan br br director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas' congresswoman it's a very sharp energetic portrayal for pollack not only is sydney pollack a gifted director he is also one of the most believable natural and charming actors around see eyes wide shut as well br br kristin scott thomas the english patient the horse whisperer shows that you don't necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy this is one of her better films and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford's quiet man toughness br br the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involving ford's character's investigation into police corruption look for a chilling effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who plays detective george the obstacle to overcome in investigation into police corruption br br the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight charles s dutton whose long overdue for a film leading role goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steals most of her scenes with that wonderful charming smile as wendy judd br br the technical side of pollack's thriller is top from dave pollack's the firm perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river runs through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh despite the film's unfortunate downer premise br br i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery well paced plot character driven stories and romance all rolled into one this is a terrific story about betrayal forgiveness it also features one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times random hearts is definitely one of the better films of the year br br 1 2 out of or 8 5 out of 10 0
1	i've read approximately 10 reviews of this film but haven't taken any of them to heart harrison ford is being criticized for everything from his haircut to his earring and i really don't see what any of these things have to do with the film as i recall he had bad hair plus bad reviews in blade runner but it's still a favorite among us it is slower than the majority of his previous films but not worthy of the it has received br br i would gladly pay 7 50 just to watch a bald harrison ford mow his lawn
1	like many others i had been attracted to the combination of pollack ford and scott thomas i had enjoyed the work of pollack and ford on sabrina a well made film and a careful rewrite of the old material on hearing that this film was in production i ordered and read the book immediately it seemed that this would be a more difficult story to film the characters are not always sympathetic there is little if any humor and the author makes numerous plot shortcuts to focus on his principal theme that since each would see the other as the only one sharing the unique combination of loss and betrayal brought on by the air crash the completely surprised spouses would seek each other out moreover he imagines that resolution could come to both through a bitter exploration of the hidden lives and that this experience of thick and thin could yield a deeper love than each had previously although much of the book deals with their bitterness and their building hatred of their former partners in the end acceptance and forgiveness are found the film script retains only the air crash and the shared predicament of the spouses where the woman is the research aggressor in the book it is the man in the film and the woman is never a willing co researcher the film has a completely new dramatic sub plot for harrison ford which seems even more contrived than the double coincidence of the air crash the congresswoman up for re election sub plot for the woman is also new yet it works better audience the expectations of pure romance or romantic comedy cannot be met because this story on a very bitter pill where resolution and forgiveness is achieved in the book however lifting the burden of bitterness from the reader and permitting levity there is no corresponding moment in the film although forgiveness is never hinted at we are left to surmise that healing following a shooting does double duty ford's character need not be such an unentertaining man of few words and scott thomas's accent change is a little disconcerting at first this film is not the dead loss suggested by others it is however a difficult film to appreciate because the rewrite and adaptation to the screen is below the standard previously achieved by the director cast
1	i don't know how i would feel if i lived in usa i would watch some preview scenes advertisements i would know sidney pollack directed it harrison ford and kristin scott thomas starring in i would watch this film as soon as possible without reading any bad review would i be disappointment br br i read a lot of review which is said how bad this film was this is boring long film without passion emotions and it is not interesting harrison is wooden cold the should be cut too serious particularly for harrison ford i am interested in the subject and i like harrison ford in the films which are not actions i like sidney pollack and kristin scott thomas too so reading the reviews on imdb website then in other sites then in february in the hungarian movie magazines i was wonder and wonder what the film was anyway there are films directors stars what who i want to see despite any reviews br br i can understand people who thinks this film is boring and cold and has got not any passion but i feel different it is true i liked sliding doors the forbidden woman this is a french film i don't know what its title in english or in french basic of these films is development of a love br br i think random heart is a nice and interesting film in its own way br br it may be true that the the congress election and the cop's investigation after a corrupt policeman are not written well are not worked out in details but add something to the leading woman and man character after his wife's death and betrayal emotion angry of dutch comes to the surface during his work he will be suspicious and almost lost his best friend then the woman too the film shows two ways to survive the tragedy our wife husband's death and cheating one of them is the woman's this is tragedy but the life is continuing she doesn't want to mourn forever what she wants to know what her husband's lover the cop's wife thought about her she will not learn never she is forced to behave in this way the elections are comes and anything about his husband may become scandal she wants her daughter not to be disappointment with her father the man is a cop he suffering from the fact he lived in lies he wants to know maybe every men would want to know in this situation when his wife started to cheat him how long had she got lover he needs the woman's help but she doesn't want but the guy is stubborn and steady persistent the woman can't stand him because he always steps into her life and she cannot forget their relationship is tense at the beginning then slowly developments a type of silent sympathy which is prefer an alliance against the outside world the tragedy i said it in spite of that they made love in bed however the cop can't stop with investigation can't stop close and can't allow the woman close to him but he starts the love and the woman wants their relationship to continue but it can't the woman realizes it the end is a bit sad but logic and nice at the same time br br it was pleasant for me to see again peter coyote i like this man's face sidney pollack i hardly knew bonnie hunt but she was good br br i think harrison ford did an okay job his is unusual but at the beginning then finally i believed that the woman liked being at his company in spite of his temperament it was pity he had not got any joke but ford has got a good sense of humour a reviewer noticed in hungary ford is charismatic against his haircut and ear drop and we are waiting for his presence and would like him to smile at us and make an ironic notice but dr jones is not smiling at us but he smiles at the end and it is soooo good with the rest i agree i very like him in this role he is good in acting of this a bit rough cool but somewhere in his soul smart cop the character of kristin scott thomas is a woman who is determined self confident but she is closed inside a ivory tower and she keeps aloof from her emotions but she is a really woman who become indecisive and find support on the cop the two cool reserved people find each other br br maybe the script is not good it is full of common banal sentence but there are some humorous sentences from the woman and movement particularly from the man it is a good film but not for everybody not for the general big audience i watched the females under 18 and males above 45 liked this film better about the latter maybe sidney pollack made this film for his age group which doesn't go to multiplex anyway i advice the people who like energetic plots with action scenes who like only ford's action films miss this movie
1	i read the other comments here about this movie before watching it if you've read them you will know that they are almost all negative i really don't understand that i admit that it is far too long it needs about a half hour cut out to speed it up a bit the music is often inappropriate but strong performances by ford and thomas are indeed enough to carry this with all his fame as a movie star i'd forgotten that harrison ford really can act this role as a man who has defined himself based upon a lie is remarkable i find it completely believable that he wants all the details he can get so he can see what was real and what was deception thomas is always wonderful and this is no exception her initial denial which leads to confusion and then to inner calm is tremendous this movie is never going to be on anybody's list of great flicks but it isn't that bad i'm glad that i waited to see it on video but it is worth the 3 or 4
1	why do people need to follow the opinion of the herds of masses and critics random hearts directed by the brilliant sydney pollack who has a small role in the film too is another harrison ford vehicle as such it is quite good and entertaining surely anyone who goes to see it has this in mind or read the book which is no better even kristin scott thomas fans myself included knew it would be a variation of her again playing the love interest of her eldest uncle even as such the film is satisfying what's so bad about this movie that is much better in the other much higher rated harrison ford vehicles this film is no masterpiece but it's not as bad as the masses would have the potential viewer believe
1	i really enjoyed random hearts it was shocking to see such a low rating on imdb but chacun a son and all that i am a big fan of harrison ford but i do have to admit that he was ill cast in this movie and the reason i gave it 9 instead of 10 kristin scott thomas though was just wonderful she was believable and beautiful in spite of being made up for half the movie like she'd been crying for days could random hearts have been better sure but it is very much worth seeing as it is
1	of all the actresses in film today kristin scott thomas would be my choice if i had to select one for on a desert island br br i could watch her simply say sitting in a chair for a couple of hours so it's difficult for me to be objective completely with respect to one of her films br br however i did enjoy this movie and its story per se more than that indicated by the average ranking among the many persons previously commenting on this site br br harrison ford is not one of the actors though whose performances i enjoy most but he's one of a handful who have reached the level of moving from 7 figures to 8 per film so who am i to argue br br ford though is often droll in his acting style and sometimes seems to be in serious need of an and a shot of caffeine and random hearts is in this grouping br br his obsession in probing the losses which both he and thomas have endured with regard to their linked spouses is understandable given his profession as a detective but not to the level presented here although not far it crossed the line into the annoying category br br however most of the scenes after he and thomas became involved were interesting and well played br br this film could have been a 9 but i'd lower it a couple of levels based upon ford's overall performance and and another because it contained a bit more of the extraneous sub plot elements than seemed required
1	from the late sydney pollack comes a grown up love story about human nature pain passion and betrayal police sergeant dutch van den harrison ford is devastated when he learns his beloved wife has been killed in a plane crash he's even more upset to learn of her affair with the husband of a famous congresswoman kay chandler kristen scott thomas he arranges to meet her and see if she knew or like he had no idea they start to befriend each other then out of their mutual pain and distress begin an intense affair which could be seen as healing for them both however will the memories of the dead and pressures from their respective jobs drive them apart and cause more harm than good or can they escape the past well you'll have to watch random hearts and find out a moving and well acted film with a great cast
1	this movie is really an entertaining good clean fun movie for the kiddies kaley played by talented amanda is the sidekick to a rambunctious boy who has a hard time telling the truth he eventually works this into a movie script that gets stolen i won't bore you with the details if you have children and want to see an entertaining if not thrilling kids movie i highly recommend this one
1	random hearts is a very well directed well scripted and perfectly cast actors for the primary roles i found it to be so intense that you have to stop and wonder in almost every scene harrison and kristin are together how their characters deal with this horrible situation they find themselves in very talented acting from both of them a lot of people i believe who did not appreciate the movie for what it was did not get the point of the movie or could not even fathom a situation like theirs br br please skip this next part if you have not seen the movie yet br br i loved the ending which was a great surprise which tied the whole movie it was relieving to see how these two good persons can come out actually happier in the end br br
1	i must be getting old because i was riveted to this movie from the first time i saw it i'm watching it again right now on hbo it's a very simple film about 2 people that fall in love after they found out that there spouses were having an affair plot is very thin but the actors acted very well in this movie in the mix of kristen scott thomas running for congress and harrison ford being an internal affairs cop these two meet under unfortunate circumstances and fall in love i love the soundtrack perfect fit one thing i can't figure out this movie had a budget of 68 million dollars were was it spent the plane crash or harrison ford's salary
1	random hearts snuck up on me criticized for the implausibility of a the premise and b the pairing of an ia cop and a congresswoman as well as for its slowness the film felt just fine to me and even ended up being surprisingly absorbing i found my interest engaged as the film cut back and forth between ford's and thomas's lives as they first found out about and dealt in very different ways in very different environments with their deaths and the subsequent revelation that they were involved with other people it could happen two people's philandering spouses could be on the same plane the plane could go down the survivors could be brought together by the aftermath so what if it's improbable improbable is not the same as far fetched so what if it did happen why not speculate br br ford's and thomas's performances are believable and nuanced instead of finding their coupling implausible opposite sides of the tracks give me a break i felt it driven by a grief and betrayal neither party knew how to deal with the script does not bring them together too soon or too easily and the end of the film does not resolve their relationship conventionally either where i find it unsatisfying is when the dialogue brings up interesting wrinkles in or insights into the ramifications of the situation personal and professional but never seems to pursue any of them very far and if you make the mistake of thinking about it too hard harrison ford does seem about 10 years too old for the part br br for five and a half bucks at wal mart with full length director commentary and behind the scenes featurette the dvd is well worth owning i don't think i would pay 20 for it on a bet but my wife might ok ten
1	i admit i have been a fan of harrison ford for many many years now so it didn't surprise me that i enjoyed his performance here but i also enjoyed the way the storyline developed and thought the casting was well done i don't know whether i buy into kristin scott thomas as a congresswoman but she is a fine actress and a beautiful woman i took notice of her in the first mission impossible although her part was small she stuck out on the screen br br here her and ford play people whose spouses are killed in an airplane crash they are seated together and this is where the plot takes off apparently ford a police detective in wash d c discovers that his wife was having an affair he further discovers that the affair was with the husband of a new england congresswoman br br the story takes on many subplots as ford and thomas find themselves drawn together by revelations of their marriages the uncovering of and the pure grief and anger over the loss of a loved one br br i think the movie is worthwhile either renting or catching on cable
1	true there are some goofs for the one who wants to find them they're not important though br br the primary feature of this film is watching veteran expert actors do their craft kristin scott thomas is beautiful and plays well the part of a strong woman but one who has been hurt same for harrison ford who for the ladies is just as beau as kristin is belle for us guys br br their hurt at the hands of their adulterous spouses brings them together in an awkward manner but one in which they find support in each other how they evoke their hurt feelings and their humanity within on th screen is why these are such sought performers the viewer cannot help but feel what they feel nor can one help wanting to cheer them when they're together br br yes there are several action scenes involving angry corrupt cops but they only spice it up a little and are not a significant part of the movie br br for the lover of music dave provides a superb jazz based background featuring trumpeter terrence blanchard like the actors shows why he is one of the most sought musical consultants in the movie business blanchard shows why he's one the premiere trumpeters on the scene br br not a movie for the lovers of guts blood and gore but for those who want to see a lot of what makes us feel inside watch a beautiful english actress with big expressive blue eyes who can act like harrison ford to the endless soothing accompaniment courtesy of dave and terrence blanchard this is a move to watch with someone you love preferably in bed br br i thought it deserved at least an 8
1	as a fan of history mythology and fantasy mystic knights show pulled me in from the get go it has semi decent scripting the costumes are fantastic there are exceptions it has pretty good acting and the heroes and villains all play well off each other br br scripts half a script is pretty great the other half falls flat but its all mixed together meaning many episodes turn out so so also some of the key players are repeatedly being given dead lines king and angus for instance they need to be given something more i'm not sure what but the writers should be able to come up with something acting apart from some over acting by villagers horrid lines they end up putting too much effort into casting did extremely well in choosing their leads and so on everyone good and bad works well together costumes weapons the everyday clothes that everyone wears are spectacular mystic knight armor that falls short are and a bikini would probably have better protection in her case and wouldn't look as plastic his looks like bunch of snap it together pieces of brown plastic when it should look bronze trident looks like it was bought at a discount store and while weapons look cool they also look plastic br br recently mystic knights has taken on too many power rangers traits if you watch the show you'll know what i mean as the series progresses though it should find its niche and perfect its style overall it is a wonderful show that all ages should enjoy most of my friends and i watch it and we're all 20 the plot thickens and twists though it gets a bit juvenile in places and everything just keeps getting more interesting it might be of some interest to fans of the movie willow or the t v series the adventures of sinbad a lot of adventure a dab of mystery a dash of romance a sprinkling of forces at nature check it out my score 7 10
1	this show is a show that is great for adults and children to sit down together and watch the stories are a little slow for adults but they are still good there are lots of children in my family boys and girls and it is hard to get them all to agree on what to watch but they always agree with each other when they want to watch the mystic knights it is a wonderful show and i hope that they will continue to keep making it all of the kids in my family and myself think that vincent walsh is the best of them all we have seen that he has done lots of other work and think that he is doing a great job we wish all of the actors actresses writers directors and producers the best of luck and would just like to say keep up the good work
1	years ago i didn't love and respect the films of jimmy cagney nearly as much as i do now i noticed that many of cagney's films done with warner brothers in the 1930s lacked realism and his acting style was far from subtle however the more i watched these films the more i found i was hooked despite these aspects in fact i now kind of like and expect them fans of old time hollywood films probably understand what i am saying teens and other young whippersnappers don't well when it comes to entertainment the mayor of hell never lets up from start to finish while the idea of a shady character like cagney played taking over running a reform school is ridiculous and while all the changes he made also seemed far fetched it all somehow worked out and delivered solid entertainment br br the gang of tough thugs were pre dead end kids and instead of the likes of leo gorcey huntz hall and billy similar roles are played here by frankie and farina yes i did say farina this black actor was already famous for his roles in the our gang comedies and was believe it or not one of the highest paid child actors in hollywood all he needed to give up in return was be named an insipid name and act like a nice stereotypical negro here he actually was pretty good and the usual black stereotypes are a bit more subdued than usual however some will cringe at the very funny but horribly offensive court scene involving farina and his dad fred with awful names like farina and snowflake don't say i didn't warn you br br apart from this small complaint and a plot that is tough to believe the film is exceptional and fun the kids do a great job as does cagney and dudley digges in a truly despicable but exciting role as the evil warden also as an added plus you get to see perennial warner stock actor allen jenkins in his first role for the studio
1	this is not a 'real' james cagney vehicle since his screen time is unusually slim frankie darro plays tough kid jimmy smith the leader of a gang of street thugs that is sent to reform school with a few of his hoodlum friends cagney plays patsy gargan a gang leader himself who is given a token position as a deputy commissioner when he finds out first hand of the brutal treatment dished out at the reform school he is compelled to make some major changes with the help of the reformatory nurse madge evans br br the mayor of hell is fast paced and is still entertaining after all these years the cast is well rounded featuring dudley digges arthur hoskins g pat collins and allen jenkins
1	frankie darro was a wonderful child actor who excelled at playing little toughs with gigantic chips on their shoulders he appeared in a couple of top films of the early 30s the public enemy 1931 a ground breaking crime drama and wild boys of the road 1933 a topical depression era movie about kids who ride the rails he was essentially a younger version of james cagney although short of height his willingness to do his own stunts kept him employed in a series of programmers when the bigger studios had no more use for him br br crime school was supposed to be a remake of the mayor of hell but it had far more humour in it and featured the dead end kids and humphrey bogart as a very laid back deputy the mayor of hell is really a combination of hell's house crime school boy's town even though cagney didn't make his appearance until around the 25th minute his impact as usual was immediate he plays a hot headed gangster who is on the payroll of a political group run by the mob br br jimmy smith frankie darro and his gang including farina from our gang run a car washing racket but bite off more than they can chew when they rob a general store and push the owner through a plate glass window they appear before the juvenile court and are sentenced to go to the state reformatory it is painted in glowing terms a model school where boys are given a chance to learn a trade in reality it is a hellish place run by a sadistic warden mr thompson outstandingly played by dudley digges the only compassionate person is dorothy griffith the live in nurse played by madge evans br br patsy gargan james cagney has been given the job as the new deputy commissioner as a favour on his arrival at the school he witnesses a failed escape attempt and after talking to dorothy realises the school needs sweeping reforms he is soon running the school and brings in a system of self government rather along the lines of boy's town even though cagney doesn't have a lot to do the picture is carried along to it's gripping climax by the energy of darro after patsy is temporarily out of the picture he accidentally shoots a mobster and has to leave the state thompson returns and his brutal treatment resulting in the death of a boy skinny turn the rest of the boys into an angry mob they burn down a barn and thompson falls to his death patsy returning just in time to the mob with some sobering talk br br sure all the boys seemed to get was a stiff talking to for their crimes but i do disagree with one of the reviewers thompson was more than just a meanie his sadistic treatment resulted in a boy's death there is a scene at the beginning where the boys are served some inedible slop thompson orders ham and eggs and keeps piling the butter on his bread while talking to dorothy br br allan jenkins plays uncle mike and sheila terry although billed only as a blonde has one of the most memorable lines when she pouts and says i thought there was going to be young boys here where are they br br highly recommended
1	okay i'll admit that if i didn't have kids i never would have seen this film and would never see it but considering all the rotten kids movies i have seen such as spy kids 2 or babe pig in the city this is a significant improvement and it had enough in it that i wasn't totally bored out of my skull or contemplated suicide something i did repeatedly in the other two movies sure the performances are pretty broad and the plot is kinda silly but it is a kids film and compared with other films in the genre this is definitely better than average frankie and amanda actually appear to have some talent and probably will continue to have careers after puberty at least on infomercials or doing voice overs br br so if you are looking for a film to see with your kids you certainly could do a lot worse
1	the mayor of hell has the feel of an early dead end kids film but with a much harder edge and very few light spots preceding the first appearance of the dead enders by four years james cagney has a full screen opening credit even though technically the of the movie's title is actually portrayed by frankie darro one of several boys sent to reform school during the opening scenes character is jimmy smith a young tough who's befriended by gargan cagney and is elected to the position when gargan takes a chance at humanizing conditions at a state reformatory br br warner brothers made a lot of these types of films attempting to provide a conscience of sorts in an era that only too well knew about the effects of crime and poverty this movie is quite gritty with no apologies for ethnic stereotyping as in the submissive posture of a black father in court or the way a jewish kid gets to run a candy shop in the reform school the rules at the reformatory are simple enough work hard and keep your mouth shut step out of line and you answer personally to warden thompson dudley digges br br cagney's role in the story seems somewhat ambiguous since even though he makes a serious effort to improve conditions inside the reformatory on the outside he's still nominally in control of a criminal racket the film's attempt to juggle this dichotomy falls short in my estimation the finale attempts to wrap things up in a neat package as gargan awaits the outcome of a near fatal shooting of one of his henchmen not exactly the kind of role modeling one would look for in a film like this br br warner brothers would sanitize some of the elements of this story in a 1938 remake titled crime school featuring humphrey bogart in the cagney role and billy halop in the frankie darro part if you're partial to the dead end kids you'll probably like the latter film better since it also offers familiar faces like leo gorcey huntz hall bobby jordan and gabriel dell however the ending is somewhat muddied in that one too with bogart's warden character involved in a cover up of a prison breakout both films offer a romantic interest for the lead characters in madge evans is a reform minded nurse that falls for cagney's character br br curiously a lot of james cagney's early films aren't commercially available so you'll have to keep your eyes peeled for a screening on turner classics or source the film from a private collector personally i can't get enough of this kind of stuff and find intriguing points of interest in the films of all genres from the thirties and forties
1	remember before there was sidney there was dudley br br dudley digges is barely recalled today because his heyday as a fixture in sound movies was the late 1920s and through the 1930s except for one major performance the ship's good natured if tipsy doctor in the 1935 mutiny on the bounty most of his films are barely revived more's the pity because he was a wonderful actor in 1931 he played casper gutman the original actor to play that villain opposite ricardo cortez's sam spade in the first the maltese falcon similarly about the same time he played the recording angel in leslie howard's version of outward bound the same role that sidney greenstreet tackled in between two worlds a decade later br br digges could be likable and lovable that ship's doctor again or detestable in china seas as the judgmental first mate sneering at poor lewis stone but then proving he's as big a coward in a moment of crisis he held his own against paul robeson in the emperor jones he is the chinese freedom fighter working with gary cooper in the general died at dawn digges could do anything br br here he is mr thompson the hypocritical and thieving warden of a reform school that frankie darro and his friends are sent to for committing a robbery and injuring a greek american store owner it is the latest incident for most of them digges is as bad here as in china seas but it is a close thing to totally dislike him he's able to somehow transcend his roles more later about that br br darro has a gang of urban delinquents including a jewish boy and farina from our gang as pointed out in another review it is a prototype of the bowery boys we see them shake down car owners to pay them to watch and protect their autos when one guy won't do it they calmly wreck his car the snatch and grab robbery at the store of the greek american is also rather graphically shown his skull getting fractured when pushed br br the boys are rounded up and brought before stern but decent judge arthur byron who realizes that he can't leave the kids with their parents the parents are unable to watch them or are incompetent unfortunately there are three racial stereotypes in this sequence a jewish father who is more concerned with his business than with his son stereotype father and the an italian father whose willingness to cooperate gets his son out of going to the reform school br br once there the boys find the regime oppressive occasionally one of the guards or the nurse madge evans tries to speak up for them but digges has no time for coddling his is a regime determined to break the boys so they behave themselves unfortunately digges and his bookkeeper partner are greedy they have been serving inferior food to the boys and pocketing the profit br br one day a new official comes from the state to look at the reform school it's jimmy cagney who is a hack ward whose gang got the vote out for edward maxwell as a reward he could not get the park commissioner post cagney was made an assistant school inspector he is supported by his hanger on pal and factotum allan jenkins in his first warner brother film br br the irony is that if digges were a bit more careful cagney would probably have let him continue running things but cagney arrives to see darro brought to digges for fighting the warden and have had problems about respect earlier and digges now intends to punish darro who flees but get seriously injured by barbed wire fences and his free use of a whip cagney stops digges and lets evans treat injuries and she explains the reality of the situation to cagney and her own idea of real reformatory reform of the boys by building up trust in them with responsibility br br the film follows this to the end showing that cagney and evans are on the right path turning the reformatory as a republic for the boys to run properly this leads to conflict with digges whose profiteering is reduced as he is no longer getting supplies but the scheme is derailed when cagney himself finds he may be in serious trouble with the law digges sees his opportunity and fully takes it but then he goes too far far more than he ever bargained for br br the 1930s had many films showing kids taking steps to right wrongs and change things darro appeared in such as wild boys of the road cecil b de mille did this day and age where the kids teach a lesson to a gangster played by charles bickford that scares the hell out of him so it went in the 1930s the mayor of hell reaches a similar intensity of vengeance and juvenile justice seeking but that's the one problem of the film character is a and hypocrite so we never really cheer for him yet if he wasn't a thief we might go along with his view even if it is counter productive the scenes at the start of darro and his gang preying on people actually make the harshness digges would follow seem fairly understandable even if his thieving ways are not also he has one moment when he's justifiably angry at cagney at that point in hiding from his own clash with the law giving orders over a phone from long distance to a befuddled digges when digges learns what's actually happened he is justifiably furious at cagney lecturing him about proper behavior it is the closest thing to making mr thompson sympathetic in this fine movie
1	this one of those social dramas that wb knew how to put together and were guaranteed hits in the thirties this early dead end kids are sent to a reform school where they are mistreated cagney a gangster as part of a deal is appointed as the commissioner of the school he doesn't take it seriously at first but he changes and makes the necessary changes to improve the lives of the boys the idea is to let the boys rule and administer their community whether this is sound social reform is beyond my belief but it's a movie it's a lot like boys town with a slight darker tone a useless happy ending what impact the scene prior hard but is still good wb would later make this same movies with bogart in the cagney fatherly role
1	james cagney the yankee doodle dandy boy was just starting his career and was able to perform as a gangster and also a social worker for a boys reform school which is being run by corrupt the reform school inmates are minors from the streets of new york like the east side kids who were poor and for during the great depression in the final scenes there is a trial held by the reform school boys with flaming torches and a barn which is set on fire and a big leap by the corrupt warden i noticed that they did let the horses out of the barn first this film is not shown very often and i really can understand why
1	james cagney racketeer and political ward get to become a deputy commissioner of corrections and visits a boys reform school the catch is that cagney is not in it for the graft he genuinely wants to make a difference in the lives of the kids there because he comes from a background like their's br br the villain of the piece is dudley digges who is a grafting and a sanctimonious hypocrite to boot one of the subtexts of the plot of the mayor of hell is that these kids are mostly immigrants and those that judge them and are in positions of power are those who are here a few generations note in the mess hall scene as digges offers a prayer of thanks for the food they are about to receive digges is eating well but the kids are getting quality you wouldn't feed to your pet br br cagney has his own troubles back in the city with some of his henchmen and he has to take it on the lam that puts digges back in charge and setting up the film for it's climax br br the mayor of hell was a typical product from the working class studio and because it was pre code it gets pretty gruesome at times a later version of this crime school with humphrey bogart and the dead end kids was a more sanitized remake br br although cagney is fine in the lead role as is madge evans the school nurse the acting honors go to dudley digges hard to believe that the same man could portray the drunken but kindly one legged ship's surgeon in mutiny on the bounty but digges is a fine player and a joy to watch in every film he's in br br this film is not shown to often because of the racial and ethnic stereotypes it portrays a whole lot of minorities would be offended today still it's a fine film br br interestingly enough a few years ago the film sleepers came out and it touched on some of the same issues i guess films about reform schools don't change in any time
1	this is a typically fast moving entertaining movie of the early 1930s when you have james cagney in the lead these pre code films are even better just fun stuff to watch usually when films are dated it's a negative but not so with films from 1930 1934 yeah with the slang and the attitudes dress hairstyles etc they are dated but that's a big part of the fun these films have an edge to them that almost always are fun to view br br they also have a corniness which is appealing and fascinating you see people like the juvenile delinquents pictured in this film and their goofy parents that you just don't see in any period but this one early '30s early on this movie the kids go before the judge and you sit and just laugh at these crazy characters that appear in court on behalf of their kids one after the other yes we get the stereotypical emotional italian father the jewish dad the anglo saxon mom and a few other moms who all in dramatic form plead theirs is a good boy even though things are predictable in some cases you don't mind because everyone in here is so much fun to watch br br this also teaches you that kids were punks 75 years ago too stealing robbing mugging lying hey that's the human condition this movie debunks the theory that people were nicer back in the old days no people have always been rotten or good the degree was aided by their environment parents financial situation and other things here we get a bunch of dead end kids who wind up in reform school br br the ridiculous and stupidly liberal storyline has kids acting immediately like angels once they run the show at the reform school not punished in the slightest for causing a man to fall to his death and setting the institution on fire the explanation he was a meanie and deserved it so much for real justice and reform and patsy shooting a guy bit never having to even be questioned by police because he's the good guy notice the subtle anti religious dig in which the only guy seen praying is the evil warden that's no coincidence no accident that sort of negative association things has been going on ever since the hays code was canned in the late '60s and was seen as you see hear in the pre code early '30s br br dudley digges by the way is outstanding in his bad guy role of mr thomson i especially his voice was very effective and could picture him playing one of those similarly evil roles as an institution boss in a charles dickens film adaptation cagney played his normal role the take no guff tough guy who gets the pretty girl dorothy griffith played by madge blake frankie darro also was effective as the leader of the boys jimmy smith just the looks on face alone made his character believable some thing he was the real star of the film but i'll still go with cagney the rest of the reform school kids weren't too believable and they were really ethnic stereotypes but they were all fun to watch br br i thought the most interesting part of the film was the first 20 minutes when we saw how bad these kids were and witnessed the good and bad and stereotypical parents in the court after the kids were arrested those scenes are pure 1930s dead end kids stuff they always showed the kids to be bad news at the beginning of the film but by the time the story was over they all looked acting more like wally and beaver cleaver hardly rough delinquents it's very far fetched but it works entertainment wise br br overall a hokey but very entertaining movie typical of cagney films and those of the early '30s almost all of them rate at least eight stars for their entertainment value
1	the great james cagney top billed in big letters doesn't show up till the movie's second third and probably has less screen time than dudley digges who plays the vill reform school potentate but when jimmy arrives as a deputy commissioner of something or other out to reform reform schools he slashes the air with his hands and jumps on the balls of his feet and spits out punchy warners first national dialogue with all the customary and expected panache the psychology in this crisp antique one of warners' many efforts to assert its place as the socially conscious studio doesn't run deep digges is bad just because the script requires him to be and there's the quaint notion that juvenile delinquents will turn into swell kids if they're just given a dash of autonomy but it's made in that spare fast style that the studio specialized in and it never bores frankie darro who got into all kinds of onscreen trouble during a brief tenure as warners' favorite rotten street kid is an ideal jd a handsome charismatic toughie with a pug nose and a hate filled stare that could wither steel no kid actor today can touch him
1	it is the best movie on acting i have ever seen all the artists are old turkish theater actors they are magnificent in this movie it is sometimes said that they do not act they live it you can really see this in this movie the director is also competent you cannot see lots of moving cameras around but the positions of the cameras are also good but after the acting the most outstanding part is the content of the movie it gives happiness enthusiasm desire to live importance of real friends to people we all started to live individually nowadays in this film you see that there are someone other then us and most importantly you see that the most honorable feeling in the world is love loving your friends loving your darling all people should see this movie
1	i mention that there may be a spoiler here just to be cautious because of what i discuss although i don't really think i am giving away anything important any suprises are really unimportant to this film's success or a viewer's ability to enjoy it br br while not without some very minor flaws this is a beautiful and very moving film about friendship time uncertainty and the choices people make about their lives yet at the same time it is also a very humorous film with small mostly understated bits of comedy woven in throughout for much of the film it progresses at a fairly leisurely pace but it does not seem slow at all since the film draws one into it and into the lives of the characters and at first it is mostly rather light hearted some have commented that much of the film seems slow but it is such a wonderful portrayal of the lives of such sympathetic characters that one could watch it almost endlessly as it progresses the film becomes more emotional and moving up to the very end and the progression is handled wonderfully br br eventually some of the characters decide to rob a bank and although it is perhaps somewhat hard to believe that is beside the point it is a wonderful addition to emphasise the love that these friends have for each other while at the same time it accents the humour and adds a little more irony to the film and although hardly original to have a bunch of old guys rob a bank the context and details are quite original and they do it wonderfully making it really quite funny as well such as when if i remember correctly exaggerates his aggressiveness to disguise the fact he's old br br as i said most of the other comedy is rather low key but still very humorous so i was constantly chuckling throughout br br the actors are probably the real key to this film they imbue the characters with deep personality and sympathy and portray them with great care and warmth there are some small transformations or tiny details of the characters' personalities which are pulled off smoothly and beautifully of course the film is about the personalities of these very characters and how they care for and interact with one another it succeeds so well because of them and if lesser actors had the roles the movie could well have failed br br is not without sadness but that simply provides the full range of emotions and provides a more powerful experience in fact the film is so moving and filled with so much love from such rich characters that it is in the end a very heart warming satisfying and even happy film despite its sadness i could watch it over and over
1	peak practice was a british drama series about a gp surgery in — a small fictional town in the peak district — and the doctors who worked there it ran on itv from 1993 to 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time it originally starred kevin whately as dr jack amanda burton as dr beth glover and simon shepherd as dr will preston though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series br br the series was axed in 2002 and ended on a literal cliffhanger when two of the series main characters plunged off a cliff viewers wrote to itv in their thousands and a petition for one last episode was set up by website peak practice online however all pleas were unsuccessful and itv said they would not make any more episodes br br peak practice was replaced by sweet medicine another medical series set in it lasted a few episodes before it was dropped from the schedules br br was based on the village of and the series was filmed there and at other nearby towns and villages most notably matlock and after the end of this programme itv attempted to launch a follow up series called sweet medicine which extended the stories of different characters from the original show
1	it is a nice comedy it has the great features of the childhood lying or trying to get away from own generated troubles the casting is great great acting and the special effects well some stunts are really impressive watch it
1	if you have not heard of this film it follows two refugees from a refugee camp in africa to america where they convince themselves they will find success and riches life is harder than expected in the states and this film beautifully captures the frustration felt when things are not going right the lives are captured so well many moments seem scripted because they're so perfect whether it be on the job at school or the time in between the two boys peter and are very honest with the filmmakers and make some very thought provoking comments about life in the states it's one of the only documentaries i can recall that when it ended i wanted it to go on for another two hours it might be difficult to find this movie cause it didn't get great distribution but check your local art house or independent theater and give this one a go side note if you're reading this when it's already on video then definitely it's worth a rent rating 28 40
1	well made documentary focusing on two refugees who get resettled in the united states it's your basic fish out of water story with a non fiction twist i found it fascinating to see how peter and lived prior to coming to america and how they adapted once they arrived here in houston texas they expected a sort of heaven but found out that it's a lot harder than it looks to cope well in the states they go from hopeful idealists to somewhat more realistic skeptics everywhere they go they meet bureaucrats with paper trails that most citizens may take for granted they fret that they are blacker than the african americans here and don't feel accepted because of that one of the lost boys manages to leave houston to go to olathe kansas where he finds conditions slightly better but still less than ideal there are people that try to help them as well as try to hurt them in this film not shown but talked about are those who put a gun to their heads and robbed them leading one lost boy to comment negatively that all black people in america are no good i found it interesting too that they arrived in houston in august 2001 a month before the world trade center was attacked by terrorists i had hoped to see their reaction to this tragedy but it's not mentioned at all still all in all a really well done documentary with no narration none is needed really the lost boys do a fine job on the events going on around them without any help at all thank you very much
1	i've heard about this documentary for so long i knew i needed to take the time to watch it as a documentary it's very well done in that it takes a neutral observant view of their experience there are no voice overs or interviewing it is honest it is true it is also humbling two comments really stayed with me after the film was done one was how the boys are told to not to become like the american boys who wear the baggy pants and how in africa there is time but no money but in america there is money but no time the biggest impact was how the boys for education and how one of the boys totally relocated himself so he could go to school i watched this film with a high school sophomore who said it upset him to see how the boys were brought to their new life without any real orientation to america he also said he knew so many american teens who simply cannot appreciate their lives are in america i would agree with him on both accounts a strong film that will leave a person thinking about many things
1	in sudan the arabs rule and are constantly at war with the christians and who inhabit the southern portion of this east african country this film follows a group of of boys a tribe of cattle whom were left orphaned after their village was destroyed and their families killed in a brutal attack carried out by the arab forces most of these boys are now teenagers and have been dubbed the lost boys br br the filmmaker follows a group of the lost boys on their journey as they have been accepted as refugees in the us where they will land in houston those who've been accepted as refugees gain celebrity status as they feel from what they've heard that america is amazing making a trip from sudan to america is like making a trip to heaven says the one young man a huge party is thrown for their departure and they are told to do sudan well and once they have been educated to return to sudan so that they can contribute to society they are also warned not to be like those with the baggy pants whom are responsible for the negative stereotype of black men and also no matter what happens not to forget the culture br br you watch as the boys come from a third world country into america and how they attempt to integrate into american society as they have gone from a place with practically nothing to this plentiful world where everything is massively overproduced and they are taught about cleanliness and how to use all the utilities that we take for granted on a daily basis it is humorous at times humbling at others br br listening to the comments they make about black americans and american society culture are quite interesting as the film progresses you see how american culture begins to corrupt their previously humble ways of thinking br br one of the boys peter is not content with working and making just enough to survive so he up and moves from houston to kansas city so that he can pursue an education when the other boys visit him they talk about how they cannot get into any schools the main reason they came to america was to get an education and the media is saying that the boys have been brought from sudan for an education this is occurring because the boys were given arbitrary ages making them older than they actually are preventing them from being able to enroll in high school br br the film juxtaposes images from houston to kansas we watch as peter enrolls in school where he befriends a group of christian conservative kids and as santiago attempts driving school even though he drives without his license anyways and works at walmart we see peter struggle with high school life as he strives to make his schools basketball team and as santiago has trouble keeping up with work the rent appeasing tensions back home in sudan and most of all coping with loneliness br br it comes to the point where the boys want to return to sudan and tell them that everything they are taught about america there is lies you must make it alone here do everything alone one of the boys says a damning message to a liberal capitalist lifestyle showing how it causes people to become radical a trend which led to the creation of both the neo conservative and radical islamist movements their biggest beef with america though is that there is no time time is money and we don't waste a second br br despite all this the boys never lose their sense of culture they celebrate southern sudan liberation day which marks the day which the began to fight in sudan a fight which continues today they also meet with other lost boys on the anniversary of their arrival in america where they discuss their experience in america as compared to back in sudan when asked one boy says that if he were able to make a living he would much prefer to live in sudan it is much too lonely in america he adds they never lose their sense of community which has been conditioned into them as part of their culture br br this film makes us question the way we live makes us question the artificial happiness that materialism and the nature of our societies has created within us it will also change the way i look at refugees i will never again take for granted how hard they must work and what immigrants mean for a country such as my own canada this is a wonderful film i laughed i cried a very emotional journey and a very well made documentary 10 out of 10
1	this documentary is not only one of the best documentaries i've seen but also one of the most moving and quietly beautiful movies i've seen period it follows the lives of two young men peter and as they try to make their way into the american culture peter and are friends at first but they gradually drift more and more apart as peter goes to kansas city and stays in houston a land called houston beauty is in his eyes he takes people onto his back he supports an apartment full of other paying the rent doing everything for other people he is a quiet sufferer peter looks out for himself getting a high school education while playing basketball and making christian friends it seems that director megan did not know what she was getting herself into with the beauty of this tale peter and are amazing characters that move you but the real strength in this movie lies in its commentary on american society it is not judging it shows the strengths and weaknesses of our world and how difficult it can be to outside people i suggest you find this film and look at america through the lives of these two fascinating and beautiful people br br my grade 10 10
1	what a crazy film it lasts 12 hours and you don't understand who these people are and what are they doing the main plot is about a bunch of clueless actors trying to bring on scene prometheus but there are lots of sub plots like the disappearing of thomas and a crazy guy looking for monsieur what's the meaning of all this
1	i loved this movie so worth the long running time i need help with the ending though br br spoiler br br the final shot of marie at the end is this to suggest that she is still searching for or possibly that she was the one who wanted to reinvigorate the 13 she seemed to be the one who delivered the initial letter to colin in the first place i don't quite understand it but i know i really liked it so if anyone has seen this and remembers it or has just seen it please elaborate on the ending br br thanks
1	one has to be careful whom one tells about watching 12 hour long films it could become easy for people to assume that this is some kind of regular occurrence in fact even in the world of cinema such mammoth running times are extremely rare for obvious reasons this is one thing that hollywood and art cinema share in common the generally accepted running time of 90 120 minutes with a minority of movies that dare to approach but rarely exceed the three hour mark br br for this reason a film like out 1 runtime minutes is a challenge for even the most hardened cinephile and it goes some way in explaining why it has only ever been screened on a handful of occasions and remains extremely hard to find br br originally devised as a tv series by maverick nouvelle vague director jacques rivette it raised little interest from the french networks and wound up being given a brief theatrical run instead peter was forced to do much the same with his brilliant nuclear war pseudo documentary the war game although that had more to do with state censorship than issues with running time shown a couple of times in 1971 out 1 has re emerged at a handful of rivette retrospectives over the last two decades and many who have seen it including esteemed us critic jonathan rosenbaum have acclaimed it as one of the greatest films of all time br br is it well yes if you like rivette that alone is a big as jacques rivette has never been a commercially successful director only two of his films were hits celine and julie go boating 1974 and la belle 1991 both superb and many remain difficult to find on dvd today out 1 only recently became available over the internet after a rare videotape was uploaded nevertheless he is greatly respected within the film community and with good reason his playfully surreal narratives sense of pacing and use of improvisation set him apart as one of cinema's most unique and satisfying film makers br br out 1 deals with a theme that re occurs throughout rivette's work the nature of acting particularly in the context of theatre and improvisation his fascination with acting make rivette's films a far more collaborative process than many of his contemporaries as the improvisational aspects allow actors to have a far more active role in determining how the film comes together out 1 is roughly divided into four major narratives gradually intertwining and blurring as the film develops two consisting of acting each trying to devise post modern theatrical adaptations of plays the other two individual petty thieves played by nouvelle vague icons jean pierre léaud and juliet pursuing eccentric methods of making money and an overarching plot involving a mysterious balzac inspired conspiracy centred around an organisation known as 'the br br as with any rivette film featuring a narrative the mysteries and secret organisations are little more than a red herring as the characters are slowly explored and revealed and their plans and interpersonal connections break down the film becomes increasingly symbolic of post 1968 ennui and the decline of the ideals of that era for a film made in 1971 these were remarkably prescient themes another french director in jean eustache would tackle this topic equally satisfyingly in his 1973 masterpiece the mother and the whore but this is not the limit of out 1's scope br br comprised of eight episodes of roughly 90 minutes each the beginning of each episode has a brief abstract black and white still montage of the events of the previous chapter out 1 is no less watchable than any quality tv series and may even be better experienced on a one episode at a time basis this is not to say that it doesn't remain challenging even when viewed in segments like most rivette films it uses the first few hours to simply establish the characters before embarking on the plot of sorts and some of those early scenes particularly the sequences depicting the actors' heavily abstracted seem interminably long these scenes are important however not just as an exploration of the improvisational acting methods that play both a literal and a metaphorical role in the film but as a method of adjusting the viewer to the somewhat languorous pace of the film paradoxically long takes make long films far more tolerable for an audience and this understanding of pacing has led rivette along with more modern directors like michael haneke and tarr to create films with less commercial running times that nevertheless retain the capacity to leave viewers enthralled br br in a film that is in many ways about acting the acting is fantastic many famous nouvelle vague faces appear including the aforementioned léaud and the outstanding michel and rivette regular even another legendary director in eric rohmer has a great cameo as a balzac professor who appears in a pivotal scene the people and architecture of paris c 1971 though seem to have an equally significant role the city landscapes crowd scenes and interested onlookers freeze out 1 in time a document of a place at a point in history br br after a little more than minutes the film ends on an impossibly brief enigmatic note yet the exhausting journey that the viewer has taken is so full of possibilities intricacy and spontaneity that one would be forgiven for wanting to start all over again from the beginning or see the next twelve hours in the lives of these characters for those who have watched many kinds of cinema and think they have seen everything the art form has to offer out 1 is a reminder that cinema has the potential to be so many more things and diverge in so many more directions than current conventions allow for film makers film critics and artists of all disciplines this is something to be cherished
1	this is the very la nouvelle vague one of the best films of the new wave and i dare say one of the first ten ever made why the atmosphere the story the actors actress are all brilliant this is the theater a fairy tale the life the film paris thank you mr rivette
1	i think that pierre léaud or his character to be precise is really outlandish but with grace i also remember the chess player and of the girl who seems to be appearing by chance in his home something really curious the woman acting as the lawyer is to me one of the most beautiful actresses ever seen on the screen but i must admit that the plot is too inconsistent to be taken seriously the character who plays as the lead theater actor is really nice especially when he's annoyed by the new actor the one in purple t shirt also the scene where the bearded actor who belongs to another company directs the stage is really fascinating and relaxing as it often happens with this movie for example when they drink tea they just make you want to have a cup
1	for a tv movie this was definately worth seeing all the acting was very well done and the story itself had a touching universal theme i have not read seen the original and as a rule i can't stand shakespeare but i enjoyed this movie the civil war setting was very well done as well dont expect to see an epic however you should find it moving enough to enjoy by the way on a side note don't compare this or any other movie for that matter to the original work movies aren't supposed to transfer a book to the screen but rather take the general idea of it a then adapt a story from it when people say the book was so much better they're usually wrong anyway what they are really trying to say is the book was so different
1	the museum of the moving image here in new york recently put on a comprehensive retrospective of jacques rivette's films having fallen in love with his paris nous i decided this was not to be missed br br largely through extended shots and structured scenes the movie depicts two avant garde theater companies preparing their renditions of seven against and prometheus additionally we are shown the directionless day to day lives of two individuals connected to the companies a working class woman named who finds creative ways of hustling men out of their money and a young man named colin who visits local cafés posing as a deaf mute and plays shrill harmonica at the patrons until they pay him to go away the first four hours or so are devoted to establishing the characters and their patterns before a somewhat loose whimsical plot finally emerges involving a conspiracy and the decoding of clandestine secret letters br br the film is largely about life on the fringe of society the theater companies are a despairing affair using their elaborate emotionally draining exercises which are really something to watch to distract themselves from the fact that their acts are unlikely ever to be staged or even seen colin and both have very few friends who only briefly find any excitement or purpose after the conspiracy touches them as they are spurred to find out more about it the film meditates on the consequences of rejecting normal society in several memorable sequences including a long shot of colin as he wanders the streets of france shouting poetry to himself as such the film has been referred to as an analysis of 1960's counterculture br br there is not a frame of the film that is not bursting with energy and vitality the fact that much of the dialogue and movement is improvised makes the characters much more spontaneous much more immediate the camera also becomes an important character in this regard throughout the movie boom shadows are visible here and there or other similar errors yet they seem natural and fit with the flow of the action because the camera is so important a player therein br br more than anything for me the film seems a great example of another way of making movies a venue for film outside the usual pattern for me it was a mind opening experience even more than paris nous though the latter bears many similarities of theme and structure a must see for anybody pondering the nature of art
1	ok if you would judge the movie to now a days it wouldn't fit in to well if you watched fi now the stage and everything was pretty cheese i agree but weren't all the movies in the 80's like that gilligan but too the people born in the early to mid 70's or earlier it has a cult status the plane was on approach tattoo would run up the tower ring the bell and with his accent would yell da plane boss da plane and you would wonder what everybody's wish would be people who are born in the mid 80's or later wouldn't understand the because if you watched it now it don't have a harry potter jurassic park computer animation fx it was just a stage where you probably could even almost see the wire attached to a guy who's wish was too be able to fly but to us during that time it was a fantasy island
1	after reading some of the earlier nasty remarks i had to put in my two cents this show was not despite what that goon in essex thinks the worst thing that ever aired on tv i think most of today's tv is much worse when is this stupid reality fad ever going to end and there isn't a current show i can stand to watch gimme the stuff i grew up with i'm a 1965 baby and not ashamed to admit it br br this show has been my all time favorite for almost 30 years i was in high school when it originally aired and i think it helped me to hang on throughout those miserable days i was such a misfit back then and fantasy island appealed to my imagination as i was a budding writer in those days it provided incredible opportunities for me to practice the craft what a wonderful premise i won't say it didn't have its faults sometimes the scripts were pretty bad and some of the problems seemed trivial but it could be good too and it was a blast to watch and still is as for the cheesiness factor well i think it's unfair to label every single 70s product as cheesy there was a lot of great stuff back then and this was among the ranks btw most of the seasons aired in the 80s my favorite episodes came from seasons 2 3 and 4 mostly br br to those who disparage hervé villechaize for his heavy french accent and his short stature grow up and learn something it's so easy to make fun when you're normal and perfect that man made the best of what he was dealt in life and if you don't like it that's just tough have a little compassion he's been dead 15 years and how easy it is to cut down someone who can't defend himself there's just no shame anymore br br i love this show so it looks dated hate to tell you this but we didn't have splashy special effects and blu ray discs we were lucky to have vcrs live with it accept it for what it is and that's just plain fun escapist tv describes it perfectly and that's what it was for me an escape from my rotten real life and it's still a lot of fun to watch
1	i must warn you there are some spoilers in it but to start it off i got spanish judges on february i think it was mention it was the last copy but as i see it wasn't back ordered but either way i have it i thought it was good i wanted to see this mainly because of the great actor matthew lillard i'm surprised no one on the reviews mention the scar although it is kind of low budget getting enough money to make this film would be worth spending man what a good actor br br the story it about a con artist known as jack matthew lillard who claims to have merchandises called the spanish judges if you don't know what spanish judges are or haven't seen the trailer for this and this is the first review you have read i won't even say what they are i figure it would be a big twist of no one knew what it was he needs protection so he hires a couple who are also crooks max and jamie vincent d'onofrio and valeria golino as well as a crook that goes by the name of piece mark boone junior he has a girlfriend who won't even tell anyone her name because she's from mars as she said so they mainly jack call her mars girl everything starts out fine but then it turns to one big game a game that involves some lust lies and betrayal br br there was some over acting in it matt and valeria as well as tamara were not one of them there were some scenes they could've done better and the score could've been a little better as well some of the score was actually good the theme they used for the beginning and the end before the credits was a good song choice that's my opinion the fight scene in the end could've been a little longer and a little more violent but what can you do one more comment on matt damn he plays a smooth slick con man br br i know this is a review but i need to make a correction towards necro one of the reviewers valeria golino is not a newcomer according to this site she has been acting since 1983 to me and hopefully to others she is well known as charlie sheen's italian love interest in both the hot shots movies but good review br br although i think it's one of the rare films i've seen and it's really good which is why i gave it 10 stars above i will give the grade of what i thought when i first saw it br br 8 10
1	im a huge m lillard fan that's why i ended up watching this movie honestly i doubt that if he wasn't in the movie i would of enjoyed it as much or even watched it but once i did watch it realize the story was pretty decent a bad ending i must say but i did see it coming it's a low budget movie and some of the actors weren't really good but all in all i rated this movie 7 10 br br the suspense of wondering what lillard was actually up to was what really keeped me interested in this movie br br its a good rental br br 7 10
1	wow i can't believe i'm the first and only one to post a comment on this great movie br br although the movie itself seemed interesting enough the real thing that attracted me to this one is matt lillard granted most people probably either think he's too caffeine happy or just plain sucks but we're both the same age and from the same generation and i've watched this guy so many times that he's one of my favorites now this is one of the few movies where he is the big shot and main star kind of like in slc punk another great lillard film br br baiscally this is storywise your usual heist movies but with more twists than anything which start to amount to craziness also very notable in this movie is another great actor named vincent d'onofrio a very under appreciated person in the film industry the woman in the movie is a newcomer and she isn't too bad although you know they hired her mainly for her accent and the nude scene br br it's a game of jack vs jill vs bob as each want to reap the rewards but share with no one they all try to get eachother to kill off the other and it's a timebomb waiting to explode matt shows his true prowess as the scheming jack who initially starts the whole scheme vincent and woman play a couple of art thieves who are in need of money due to a lack of business vince's character is a bit deranged and skitz's throughout the movie but that only add to the intensity of the film br br the surprises left and right are well welcomed and the ending is very non cliche and makes you feel happy well maybe that depends on the type of endings you like this movie kept me very interested besides the fact matt was in it it's a great movie and i'd highly recommend it to anyone who likes movies critic's probably won't like this movie but they don't watch movies cause they like movies anyway
1	this review is based on the producer's cut br br 'halloween 5' was a major disappointment at the box office way back in '89 personally i've always loved it and am proud to have it in my collection but because of it's failure and also because of rights issues it would be 6 years before we would see another installment the film had the makings of being one of the best if not the best in the series a hardcore fan writing the script the return of not only donald pleasence as dr loomis and george wilbur as michael myers but also the return of the character of tommy doyle from the first film a major studio backing the project and a fall release all made the film sound like a hit in the making so what went wrong i'll give you two good reasons re shoots and poor editing due to a bad test screening and also the unfortunate passing of donald pleasence the film was changed and not for the better the film like parts iii and 5 tanked at the box office and earned negative reviews from both critics and most series fans but then thanks to the magic of bootlegging the original cut leaked out and many fans including my self were very happy i will end this portion of my review by saying this this film is so far at least my favorite 'halloween' film and i'm not afraid to admit that br br pros the score is simply spellbinding has some of the best writing and dialogue of the series 'halloween 4' emulated the original in that it was more about suspense and mood instead of blood and guts and 6 is the same way great performances especially from the late and very missed donald pleasence moves at a breathtaking pace an interesting explanation for michael's evil and why he won't die some brutal kills some pretty chilling moments my favorite being the one involving kim character a lot of really cool nods to the previous films some good surprises like the previous two sequels this one has an awesome cliffhanger ending br br cons though the explanation for michael's evil is fascinating it does make him a little less scary since when can michael move around from place to place so fast br br final thoughts this was the first 'halloween' that i saw in the theatre i was so excited because i really had thought 5 would be the last and then i heard this was happening i enjoyed it at the time but over time i saw it for what it really was a great movie trapped in an ok one with a terrible ending why did the filmmakers have to listen to the people at the test screenings if they had released this superior version it may have done much better and the series might not be stuck in the mess it's in right now br br my rating 5 5
1	i personally love this film amidst the halloween series i've found after watching it with many friends that you enjoy it completely or find it absolutely unbearable personally i've watched it dozens of times and it never gets old there is a great back story within the movie itself and a lot of different things are finally explained it's a rather short movie at just shy of 90 minutes but it's definitely a thrill ride br br the shape seems to be pretty brutal in this film but the acting is still there with the way he walks stalks and kills there are a lot of neat little screen shots with micheal appearing in the background which adds more of a spooky element to the movie
1	halloween the curse of michael myers is probably the best sequel out of all of the halloween flicks jamie serial killer michael myers' niece bears a baby who is then taken by the man in black from the conclusion of halloween 5 a kind nurse helps jamie escapes but myers quickly tracks her down and kills her jamie's baby is found and rescued by tommy doyle one of the kids jamie lee babysat in the original film and myers arrives in haddonfield and begins to kill off the strode clan living in his old house the film concludes with scenes revealing clues to michael's evil the identity of the man in black and a close to the whole dr loomis michael myers storyline i highly recommend this brilliant horror masterpiece br br halloween the curse of michael myers is rated r for strong graphic violence extreme gore brief sexuality language and brief nudity
1	although i brought this film by accident i thought it was the original halloween stupid eh i was surprised by how good it was many sequels just continue the events of the previous films this however tried and succeeded in explaining the events of the prequels why does michael myers kill people and how come he seems to have supernatural abilities i thought this was a top horror film full of action suspense and surprises i'm very glad i brought it i've given it 9 out of 10
1	never having read or seen the bard's original work i can't begin to compare this work to his story so i won't instead i will just say that this was a very entertaining story with some very nice special effects and some that looked a little lower in budget but still decent enough to enjoy i thought all the primary actors did a fine job performing the style of magic seemed more black than white and is almost certain to offend anyone easily upset about that sort of thing but i thought it was well done
1	dislike this movie and everyone would understand why the plot is poor so is the acting but in my opinion it is better than halloween 5 although even this does not give many surprising moments a few scenes are really well directed but these few moments do not deliver the reason to rent it i do not despise violence in movies but features extraordinary strong and bloody scenes which do not fit to the tradition of the halloween movies the most sucking aspect about is the lack of tension no comparison to the first masterpiece br br halloween 6 only gets 4 out of 10 stars from me if you want rent it but don't expect a great horror experience br br
1	i bought this in the budget department last week i had halloween and halloween ii already and since i aim to collect every horror film ever i chose this after all the 1st two were good br br this film is pretty intelligent to tell the truth it seems to create the correct atmosphere and has a nice history of michael myers it uses the old locations from the original and the main character is the kid whom laurie strode babysat that fateful halloween in 1978 br br the climax also is fairly satisfying anyways it is a lot better than h20 which frankly is absolute crap
1	this sequel is brilliant and is the last film donald pleasance dr loomis worked on before his death i loved the new direction the film took with the story instead of just michael myers wanting to kill his family i love this whole series and apart from the first and second movies this is by far the best
1	this movie is pretty good as it is but the unreleased producer's cut is my favorite movie in the series after the original jamie's story is handled differently the death scenes are done 10 times better there's more footage of ritual type stuff giving more story about micheal jamie and her baby there is also an alternate ending which is also better why they didn't release this version instead i have no damned clue if you can find this version see it
1	for some reason i always enjoy movies that people hate when i really don't think they're that bad and this is one of those films in the case of this movie i think it is way too over criticized i really isn't that bad of a film at all in fact i think this is one of the better sequels halloween the curse of michael myers begins on the night before halloween where michael brutally murders jamie lloyd who was taken captive by the man in black in part 5 after she gives birth to his baby we are then introduced to the strode family who is now coincidentally living in the old myers house which seems to change in each film kara and her son danny are the main characters along with tommy doyle the now adult boy who survived the original killings they must fight together to save jamie's baby from an evil cult that takes care of michael while michael himself is driven to kill by an old celtic ritual where he must sacrifice an entire family in haddonfield br br this is surely one of the best sequels in the series in my opinion anyway and i can't understand all of the hate it has gotten it had some nice suspense an interesting plot but sometimes confusing i'll admit some scary moments here and there and plenty of gore and knife slashings to appease all of you gorehounds not all of the acting wasn't particularly great but it was convincing enough for me marianne hagan is the leading lady and she is very likable paul rudd plays a grown up tommy doyle and is also very talented and plays his part nicely the rest of the supporting cast besides the brilliant donald pleasance isn't much to praise but it wasn't too bad either all things considered i'm still not sure if giving an explanation for why michael kills was completely necessary but it turned out to be okay in the end and i wasn't upset with the way they tied everything together the open ended conclusion was also kind of eerie but could have been something more br br i have also seen the infamous producer's cut of this film the original cut of it and i think that in some respects it is better it further explains the thorn curse that drives michael and has some extra scenes that really helped support the film plus the ending was a lot better in my opinion it felt more natural than the conclusion that we're given in the studio cut of the film i wish that dimension would release this alternate version of the film because i personally think it is better the chances of that are very slim though br br overall halloween the curse of michael myers is a very good sequel and will please all of the fans of the series this movie isn't the best of all horror movies but it's definitely worth renting if you want to see michael do his thing just don't expect brilliance and you'll enjoy it 7 10
1	wow the curse of michael myers what a great film suspenseful entertaining creative and a clever plot which i love many hate the concept i love it i think that it gives the halloween series some plot marianne hagan is a wonderful actress and turns in a excellent performance especially for her first film and paul rudd and donald pleasence are great also my only complaint is that why wasn't danielle harris in this film as jamie she wanted to return but the producers said no i thought j c brandy was great but i love danielle harris still i love halloween the curse of michael myers i think the mask looks the best in this film and george p wilbur is the best michael myers ever incredibly creepy and suspenseful halloween 6 rules br br i adore this very violent but immensely enjoyable film the halloween horror series by far the best in the genre br br 10 out of 10
1	this was a really interesting halloween film i wasnt to thrilled with the whole thorn theory but it still makes for a good film i liked getting to see tommy doyle back but sadly donald pleasance died right after shooting the film had a really really bad director who didnt give a flip about the series from what i heard treated donald bad and wouldnt let danielle harris come back as jamie its like he was just trying to bring down the film but i still liked it there were alot of cuts and music changes and if you're lucky you can get the producers cut which features over 40 min of never before scenes with those scenes it turns into a whole new movie check it out if you have the chance
1	halloween 666 1995 the producer's cut review br br halloween 666 starts of with a recap of the horrific ending to part five if you thought the last chapter was dark this one will really blow your mind a mysterious man in black has raided the haddonfield police department freeing micheal myers in the process poor jamie lloyd was abducted by strange cultists what they want with her who knows but let's just say her long suffering will end soon doctor loomis is back spending the rest of his twilight years trying to stop michael myers from killing any more innocents good luck a friend of loomis doctor wynn comes back after a four sequel hiatus to help the good doctor another old face from part one guest stars as well br br this dark and dreary sequel was dismantled during the post production editing for some reason the distributors felt that the final product wasn't worth the average horror film watcher's time so they decide to dumb it down then after having the film sit on the shelf for several months it laid an egg at the box office no matter what they did to the film they made it worse they should have left well enough alone hey the film company knows better than the filmmakers now don't they br br producer's cut highly recommended br br released version not recommended
1	this video has heartfelt memories it has a great cast and all the actors did a great job i have been searching to buy this video if anybody knows of where i can purchase please e mail me i really want to add this to my collection
1	to understand crash course in the right context you must understand the 80's in tv most tv shows didn't have any point the sitcom the drama at least 3 to 1 they were still figuring out where the lines were so that they could cross them tv shows like hail to the chief was quite the bold step this made for tv movie crash course featured an all star cast bringing together members from all the 80's classics 227 family ties who's the boss et al directors must've had a certain penchant for those all star movies then still this movie offered very light fare and a simplistic view of heroism and maturity and that's not bad sometimes viva soleil moon frye
1	but it's still an entertaining tv movie the transposition to the civil war makes a nice change of pace and adds a few subtexts such as ariel's servitude to prosper prospero that you might not otherwise see thankfully they didn't try to make it a mini series at 90 minutes it's just about right
1	i loved this movie when i was younger and i have actually been looking for it again i would love to watch it again the information is all correct but the cover doesn't look like it would match i can't say for sure though from what i remember the movie was about these kids alyssa milano tina etc in a driving class and it also shows the mischief they get into outside the class edie mcclurg was alyssa mother in the movie i remember i really liked it so if anyone knows where i can get a copy preferably dvd of the movie listed above with those stars in it i would love to know thank you
1	a hilarious comedy by the best director ever oz scott the list of eighties tv icons goes on and on milano who's the boss family ties stone mr robinson night court 227 d'abo wonder years walston mr hand it is one of the funniest movies ever great lines meaningless subplots cheesy bad acting it is about a group of high school kids who need to pass drivers' ed mac from night court needs them to pass their final exam or he'll be fired great performance by brian bloom as the jerk kinda cool guy conner but is nothing compared to b d wong's kiki pronounced kee chee a great movie for all ages so bad it's good
1	this movie is well made it is beautiful and wise it is heart warming it is great and again it shows how great peter falk is he is fantastic and he even gets better the older he gets thank you peter falk thank you very much for this gem of a movie br br this movie entertains there is lot of wisdom in this movie there is lot of humor in this movie there is life in this movie and meaning this movie shows how life can be br br peter falk is in that movie he is just great where is the oscar for peter falk he deserves it so very much br br peter falk just turned 80 i do sincerely hope that there will be more movies br br walter j
1	this film exhibits dear irony shaggy dog roundabout story lines woven with subtle cultural references classic parallels masterful use of rich saturated color and fabulous rendition of chase scenes a'la keystone cops br br the ensemble work of the cast and entire crew is charming literally how else could i go on so br br this film speaks to everyone the deft and poignant use of so many universal archetypes that's what makes this film so deep down satisfying br br as a mature student of film i find checking out contains all the vital elements sure and it's not the godfather but would serve perfectly as follow up mandatory play that sweetly binds our collective cathartic wounds br br get thee to a theatre and see this film you will be treated to a unique masterpiece
1	take someone you love or want to love and go see this film br br it touches you in all the right places br br all the other reviewers here have said it all br br perhaps the cynical will not be impressed br br they only seem to like the stuff that leaves you depressed for days br br this film is ga run to stay with you for life br br i am so gratified that the director is not usc trained br br this validates my premise that there is too much mediocrity and conformity in film these days br br it is because of the usc mentality and inbreeding br br hooray for jeff hare and richard marcus cast and crew well done
1	in checking out peter falk plays an elderly new yorker who summons his children home so that they can be with him before he plans to commit suicide as the movie progresses we get to see everyone's flaws and other problems while some people may interpret this as a heartwarming movie i mostly enjoyed it for peter falk's character not letting anything get him down and even engaging in a little lewdness now and then br br so it might not be the best movie ever but still worth seeing i've long thought that peter falk has the perfect look to play this sort of role what with his glass eye and all also starring laura san giacomo david paymer judge reinhold and falk's real life wife
1	i saw the premier of this movie during the 2005 phoenix film festival and was very impressed with the skill director jeff hare exhibited in bringing this timely topic to the screen the cast of characters meshed perfectly and allowed us to examine the issue of a senior wishing to die on his own terms in a very warm and humorous way peter falk was brilliant as morris and the supporting group of family members and friends were perfectly cast in their roles the interaction of the family friends and outsiders with morris created a realistic view of how families address the issue of their parents aging and their wishes to die with dignity br br although this movie is ostensibly a movie about a jewish actor and his family it is truly a movie about all families the jokes the family and morris crack during this romp through the life of a force of nature are fresh and realistic childhood rivalries adult successes and failures and hope for the children are integral to this screenplay while many will question how you can make the topic of suicide humorous i thought the treatment logical and timely if you are not afraid to shed a few tears or laugh at the quips of a family struggling with this issue then you must see this movie br br the movie was awarded best picture at the phoenix film festival
1	many movies try to take universal themes and make a comedy but few will rise to the occasion like checking out the movie is brilliant the dialogue is well written and true to form the acting is absolutely prima peter falk has given a truly great performance as an actor as an actor he is able to carry the cast to greatness another great performance is given by laura san giacomo she is such an intriguing actress her performances take one by surprise she delivers no matter what role she is asked to give from wacko in stephen king's the stand to her television performances however checking out allows her to shine it is a role she is meant to play the film is brilliantly directed by jeff hare he was able to bring out the best in his cast and his direction in every aspect made the film a wonderful treasure jeff hare was able to make a difficult theme laughable and yet profound he gives us an up close and personal look at why indie films need to be made the directors knowledge of his cast and script are extended to the finished film the results are superb br br hopefully it will be made available to large audiences because this is one you won't want to miss it has the potential of being the sleeper hit of 2005 in the fashion of my big fat greek wedding
1	i saw this movie last night at the film festival it was an interesting and funny movie that had some endearing and moving scenes peter falk was excellent as was the rest of cast they were believable and played their roles well the movie may have gone a bit long and the conclusion was okay the audience laughed at the right places the family dynamics were terrific and though this was a jewish family they could have been italian irish or any other including greek i recommend this film if you are interested in laughing at a subject that isn't often handled that way makes you think about the of your actions and how they affect others in your life and those who are not clearly in your life
1	this movie is hilarious bright and insightful though perhaps the story would work well involving almost any ethnic group the inherent of the characters gives extra meaning to the bounty of wonderful dialog there were so many social issues covered in the plot that for that reason alone it would have been worth seeing but the real treasure was in the warm laughter that spread throughout the appreciative audience the medley of complex characters with their various strengths and weaknesses play out their roles with all the pathos and humor one would expect from the shakespearean drama their lives seem to parody this is a film about family about the often fragile sometimes invisible binding together of diverse personalities and lifestyles first among siblings and parents and inevitably among the larger family of friends and even strangers the technical aspects of the film have given the movie a pace and development that keep the viewer intrigued until the final scene peter falk is amazing as always in his role as family patriarch morris strong performances by a fine cast include a surprise guest don't miss this movie
1	this is a masterful piece of film making with many themes simmering and occasionally boiling over in this warts and all study of the poet's bohemian self indulgent wartime years that span the aerial of london and the outward of a welsh coastal retreat the borderlines between friendship lust and love dedication to art and experience versus practical concerns jealousy rivalry cowardice and egotism versus heroism and self sacrifice and more a mature subtle script that suggests and occasionally brings into dramatic focus the underlying tensions is well served by perfect performances apart from the odd inappropriate smiling that keira knightley is prone to though perhaps under direction this time as the other characters themselves often mention it but above all the exquisite visual composition of each moment with inventive and elegant use of close up camera angle and lighting including faux home movie footage is a wonder and joy to behold it's as continuously beautiful to look at as a bertolucci but the relationships here are more convincing and the narrative more engaging than some of that master's work a very rare type of film these days it holds the attention and stirs the emotions without abandoning artistic integrity and succumbing to manipulative superficial shortcuts
1	checking out will be released friday september 15th 2006 through the amc theater chain starting in new york city times square and 3rd ave west street this film has been one from the heart for the heart mark lane jon karas richard marcus jeff hare dana matt jensen ed abrams nick pike peter falk laura san giacomo david paymer judge reinhold all the cast and crew knew from day one that this film was something special the need to comfort the elderly is intended the closeness of family is more apparent now then ever i would recommend this film to all ages and races this story rings the truth to anyone with or without family
1	i understand checking out will likely be released in theatres in the usa in june 2006 and on dvd in november 2006 my recommendation is to not miss checking out this comedy film will entertain everyone who will all relate to the characters family relationships and multiple social issues that are portrayed checking out will make you laugh throughout with quick fire clever humor built into almost every line and may make you poignantly cry in a touching positive way as well br br the subject of suicide is dealt with in a comical way that at the same time may help people considering it understand the impacts this act may have on those their life has touched and on those who love them lets hope that checking out can have a positive impact and help prevent those considering suicide from acting it out especially in the 16 25 age group that has the highest rate of suicide in the usa br br the script is wonderfully written perfectly casted and loaded with synchronicity and meaningful flashbacks in time whose significance become more apparent throughout the film and especially at the ending i believe the script is worthy of an academy award nomination for best screenplay play to a movie the phoenix film festival honored checking out with a best screenplay award br br the cast is loaded with great actors that out do themselves and have a long track record of great performances acting award nominations and wins i feel peter falk's performance in checking out is worthy of an academy award nomination and is the most challenging and wide ranging of his career laura san performance and chemistry with peter falk as her father is masterful and was recognized at the palm beach international film festival with a best actress award br br even the teenage characters in the movie shine and are played by young acting phenoms dan byrd movies a story with hilary duff 3 young artist award nominations won 1 and mary elizabeth tv monster island wolf lake passions touched by an angel 2 young star nominations br br director jeff hare and producer mark lane wonderfully develop the characters their interrelationships and the story line of this entertaining enjoyable yet complex script br br the film editing keeps the pace of the film moving quickly only appropriately slowing in the poignant scenes so that the audience will never loose interest from the beginning to the end br br don't miss this film that you can take the whole family to see and all will enjoy it
1	when i first heard that the subject matter for checking out was a self orchestrated suicide party my first thought was how morbid tasteless and then a comedy on top of that i was skeptical but i was dead wrong i totally loved it the cast the funny one liners and especially the surprise ending suicide is a delicate issue but it was handled very well comical yes but tender where it needed to be checking out also deals with other common issues that i believe a lot of families can relate with and it does with tact and humor i highly recommend checking out a must see i look forward to its release to the public
1	peter is top notch he is acting and looking great feels like watching a live play great camera works and i was sad it was over can not wait until it is on the big screen super cast this could be a big hit i like the way the kids interact as sister and two brothers really made me think of my own brothers going through a situation like what peter the happy father who thinks he will end his life after a big party the colors and sets were delightful to the eyes helps so much to draw you into the film play i was so happy to see peter not be colombo this guy could always act and now this is a movie that gives him that range i recommend you take your family to this movie perhaps the teenagers will not get much from this no guns fast cars dumb lines stupid fart jokes but your adult kids will love it good show for a night with them br br jason
1	peter falk shines as 90 year old morris the patriarch who has decided it's time to check out after holding a final blow out bash his three children san giacomo david paymer and judge reinhold are notified invited by letter and immediately arrive on his doorstep to deal with their eccentric father there is a great father daughter chemistry with laura san giacomo whose character happens to undergo the most growth from the ordeal it's a well rounded example of your average dysfunctional family and their memories pains growth and ignorance tolerance of each others' lives the musical score is one you'll enjoy and the one liners are well timed and hilarious although i found the actual checking out party a let down the rest of the film is sure to make you laugh cry and leave the theater with a smile on your face move over big fat greek wedding the big fat jewish suicide has arrived
1	a wonderful story that should be seen by all families the story acting and production values are all first rate i highly recommend checking out br br peter falk is marvelous as an aging actor who wants to decide when he will die so he can continue to know how things will end and not be a member of the audience his three children rush to new york to confront him and try to change his mind there are of course unresolved family issues to be addressed and the script and actors handle them well and with great humor br br the story is about a jewish family but it could easily be about any other family well maybe not a wasp family the siblings have issues with each other and also with their father i loved the writing and directing as well as the acting all in all a humorous and touching film
1	i just saw this film at the phoenix film festival today and loved it the synopsis was listed in our program as an old shakespearean actor invites his three children to his suicide party i wasn't sure if i was going to see it because when i read about it i liked the idea of a suicide party it sounded very interesting to me but old shakespearean actor had me worried that the film would be kind of dry and boring but i decided to give it a try i am glad that i did it was not dry and boring in the least that dialogue was great funny in a clever way but not pretentious and difficult to understand peter falk was terrific in this role he stole the show i also was pleasantly surprised by laura san performance usually she bugs me but i enjoyed watching her in this film very much i think judge part could have been done better by another actor at times he seemed kind of cheesy and it looked like acting not like you were just watching this character but the movie was so good i was able to forgive one actor's awkwardness i would recommend this film to anyone and have already told a few people to see it as soon as it is available to the general public who knew suicide could be so hilarious
1	i too was fortunate enough to see checking out with peter falk at the phoenix film festival this is an extremely sweet character driven film that leaves the audience enthralled in the plight in life more than funny each character in the family contributes priceless comic relief that not only spurs laughter but inspires a few joyful tears as well peter falk was born to play this role he plays a 90ish young father of three who brings his adult children together in what could possibly be one of the most important times in his and their lives the 2 day journey that the family takes though the delightful backdrop of new york with carefully selected characters not only leaves the audience wanting more but nourishes ones own sense of family checking out is a must see film not only for all those who cherish family but also all those who don't my thanks to the director who took the chance to bring this gift to its audience robin sly scottsdale arizona
1	i just saw checking out at the philadelphia film festival what a terrific combination of a heartwarming storyline and a great cast director jeff hare has done an outstanding job of inviting the audience into the disjointed yet hilarious world of morris and family the family life is presented in such a way that we enjoy the crazy antics yet feel the real pain and concern they have for one another br br typically i am not a peter falk fan but he is morris and plays the role with great humor and humanity br br i hope that everyone gets to see this wonderful movie and enjoy it as i did br br hats off to the director cast and crew for a job well done
1	the timing of this film being released could not be better particularly in light of all the turmoil in this world today the film is a heartwarming endearing and witty a piece if you have siblings and still have parents alive this will hit home well for the viewer if you've lost your parents then it will touch you deeply the laughs come frequently the ensemble cast works very well together and are believable this film is intelligently written and the lines that come from each of the actors make the viewer laugh out loud frequently there are moments that will bring tears to your eyes as well i would recommend this film to anyone who respects the of family and can follow an intelligent film
1	can't grade this very well because i can't say i liked it but it is the story that bothered me not the realization of the film the acting directing atmosphere music were all good it's just that after you see a bunch of people doing things you can't truly relate to the movie ends it is educational in the way that it shows the horrors of war as seen from home and the way feelings don't need to make any sense at all and still be strong but that's about it br br the plot covers a period of a few years in which the poet dylan thomas is taken under the roof of a former ex girlfriend he is married brings his wife and later the kid while the ex knightley marries some other guy but the tension is there dylan is a self obsessed jerk and the new husband comes back home from the war with a slight case of ptsd add in some pretty temperamental characters and you have your hands full br br bottom line you have to be in the mood to like this film the hard part is defining this mood i don't think i've ever been in it yet ever so it is probably better watched by adults with a grasp on weird complex human behaviour and maybe a curiosity about dylan thomas
1	this short deals with a severely critical writing teacher whose criticism extends into his everyday life when he learns why that's not a good idea we learn a bit about the beautiful craft of writing that he's been lecturing on
1	morris and had been the toast of broadway in its heyday at ninety morris is a widower he summons his sons the psychotherapist and the bmw car dealer and his daughter the television writer producer to attend a party in his honor after which he will himself literal minded creatures that they are they take what he says at face value he leads them his grandchildren and some others including an african american jewish psychiatrist reminiscent of godfrey cambridge on a merry chase through manhattan as they try to stop him or dissuade him br br the comedy totally works the performances are excellent peter falk is in top form this film does more than deserve an audience it deserves popular success
1	out' is an extraordinary film that towers above most film production its refreshing witty humor is never an excuse to remain superficial to the contrary the film explores facets of the human spirit and human relations its warm approach promotes tolerance and acceptance of diversity and recognition of that which unites all people the characters are charming and amusing reflecting those idiosyncrasies that we can all laugh about in ourselves the quick dialog and witty banter will keep you on your toes and you may find yourself trying to contain your own laughter as you won't want to miss a single phrase you'll probably want to see it in the cinema and then again over several more times on video and each time you will discover something new after each viewing you are sure to feel warm and uplifted
1	checking out is a very witty and honest portrayal of a bizarre family that happens to be jewish judaism plays virtually no role in the film but american jewish culture behavior gets thoroughly sent up it a loving way i wish the movie dealt with the religious perspective on the topics it explores because i think that would have been interesting br br i've never been a columbo fan so i wasn't familiar with peter falk he's a lot of fun to watch it's great to see judge reinhold laura san giacomo david paymer again why don't they work more they're all hilarious the script is terrific with a lot of memorable one liners i'll be sure to use with my own family watch for gavin mcleod captain as the doorman
1	i was fortunate enough to catch this film at the phoenix film festival and i must say that i very much enjoyed it when i asked the director if he had attended film school i was very much impressed that he had not films like these don't come from people without talent to get a start in commercials and then produce a heart felt family comedy like this shows real range i'll certainly be keeping an eye on what he does next as a good indie movie should the film is very character driven as apposed to your average hollywood movie which are mostly plot driven the film centers on a jewish family in new york the who have all been invited back for their fathers suicide party the film is stock full of witty quick jabbing dialogue the fact the small jewish family is obsessed with being jewish and anyone who is jewish grounds the unrealistic situation of a suicide party in reality director jeff hare does a wonderful job at pulling the characters out of the actors and bringing them to life on screen the production design brings the sets to life with lots of attention paid to small details making the setting feel like a home that's been lived in for 40 years the editing keeps up with the dialogue in such a way that it makes you sit on your seat wondering who's going to stab who with the next witty phrase or punch line and when appropriate the film slows down to let the audience dive a little deeper into the meanings and motivations hidden inside these lovable characters if you're a fan of woody allen or films like as good as it gets go see this film
1	at the 2005 phoenix film festival it was no secret which film ranked at the top of everyone's viewing list checking out 2004 brought crowds of film lovers to cine capri festival attendees who waited in line for hours were turned away at the door despite the two theater screening capacity br br checking out 2004 is a beautifully made moving picture an inspiring comedy for a wide range of audiences to enjoy the director jeff hare blends traditional film technique with a new twist of creativity capturing peter falk at his greatest and most sentimental moments usually shown in intimate close up shots on the silver screen br br with its uplifting mix of witty humor and narrative plot development checking out 2004 is a landmark independent film well deserving of your attention
1	it was a rare treat to see checking out i was touched by the characters laughed a lot at the wonderful script and was deeply moved by the genuine emotions magnificently portrayed by this ensemble cast and especially by peter falk in fact one of his scenes in the kitchen of his apartment with his children where he tells of his experience of his life his deep love for his wife and his decisions about his life going forward is so profoundly real that it is at the highest level of the best academy award winning performances he is a consummate actor who out did himself in this film the screenwriter offers a combination of literary knowledge timing a gift for dialogue and hilarious situations that had me laughing out loud in the theater i highly recommend checking out to everyone wanting to enjoy quality storytelling superbly acted
1	this wonderfully witty comedy drama wowed the crowd at the philadelphia film festival whipping them into wild applause at its conclusion by adept performances by a nuanced cast sturdy execution by director jeff hare a brisk pace and one of peter falk's best performances in years the film emerges as a loving homage to the highs and woes of family life br br falk excels as jewish morris a wildly eccentric shakespearean thespian who decides to end his life but not before rounding up his three grown children and throwing a big fat jewish suicide party the film brims with indelible delights there's morris's room laura san passionate rendering of morris's cynical daughter rapid fire comedic dialogue that recalls the work of neil simon and woody allen the wry timing of david paymer who plays morris's tightly wound psychotherapist son and morris's patented egg creams but be careful drinking them too fast will cause a nasty brain freeze it's all enveloped in a feel good intimate atmosphere set in new york city br br director jeff hare proves to be a master craftsman drawing out memorable performances from his cast and lending the film a humanity i was fortunate to see an earlier film by hare the dark and powerful perfect little man starring neal mcdonough minority report as a los angeles man spiraling into madness the visceral grit of perfect and the nostalgic breeze of checking out are a testament to hare's eclecticism and wide ranging talent i'm looking forward to checking out his future work br br i heard checking out lacks a distributor at this point some wise company would do well to pick up this crowd pleasing gem for it's a potential box office titan in the vein of my big fat greek wedding most nobly it would give people around the world a chance to experience the joys of this movie
1	sometimes a movie is so bad it's kind of good this movie was made in germany and is dubbed in english so you have to get past that the acting also was stilted and forced other than what was done by the real rats who imo did an excellent job of acting the part snaps to the rat wrangler anyway the mayor of the city has decided to cut costs and the local garbage collectors go on strike as a result thus leaving large piles of trash everywhere this storyline has been used before not to mention has happened in real life too often unfortunately and the audience is not in for any surprises but this is fine we know what's going to happen and when and sometimes an audience needs a movie where a lot of brain cells are not necessary to follow along we have our hero down to the chiseled face and body the semi hero s and of course our heroine who happens to be the doctor but only still in training though it is she who discovers what really is going on when so many people end up sick and dying and not just from a rat bite of course the villain must die okay all the villains meaning the rats and the ending scene is one of those that reminds the audience that a sequel is in the works this is one of those movies that you just sit back and enjoy for what it is and what it is not
1	this movie was recently shown subtitled not dubbed on australia's special broadcasting service i thought i read here that there is sometimes an assumption that revenge of the rats is a sequel in fact the rats are getting revenge for something that is done within this movie or in human history there is no prequel as far as i know br br now let's get the pied piper of out of the way perhaps this tale crossed my mind when i was watching the film but that's all there was the use of the word coffers at the end of the movie a dazed mayor tries to justify her actions by saying the coffers were empty coffers isn't a word you hear around much these days unless you read folk tales to your children as i do since seeing revenge of the rats i've read two versions of the pied piper of now i see the comparison a metaphorical fat but literally ugly mayor promises more than the city can afford to get rid of the rats this is about as far as i can follow the analogy the children are not led to a door in a mountain with one lame boy left behind to tell of a land of winged horses and fountains where it is always spring and everyone is always happy br br there's a lot that is quite mainstream about this movie the romance and the resolution especially the female characters have potentially powerful roles in society but are really quite impotent where this film is quite rebellious as compared with american cinema is that it is anti authoritarian the helicopter pilot is sacked by the mayor for doing good the mayor and local government are portrayed as corrupt and pandering to big money finally it is left to one doctor in frankfurt to solve an epidemic of a fatal and contagious disease apparently there is no national infectious diseases authority to co things or send in back up br br i'm not a horror aficionado so any horror i do see is usually mingled with humour right from the rat in the blood bank you can see this is going to have the right balance of horror and comedy for most viewers the huge number of rats is impressive and the horror fans seem to be satisfied too
1	i really thoroughly enjoyed this movie for one it didn't have the corny special effects that the big budget movies have the acting was decent in this one only you can tell right off the bat that it's dubbed but once you get over that fact and that you can't switch languages on the dvd version it's cool the plot line was very unique you take a situation like a heat wave very common around the world especially in frankfurt which i've been to many times and you take a garbage strike which happens often enough in this country and you have a recipe for disaster i loved how the hordes of rats just went everywhere and how the idea that if you picked up the garbage that's the last thing you wanna do you pick it up the rats don't get what the want they are in essence following the garbage pick up so you ask well if garbage men are on strike who picks up the garbage private contractors anyway military wants to quarantine off the city oops wrong thing to do then you would have all the rats take over the city then throw in a mayor who wants to keep a lid on the budget and line her pockets you have a realistic movie and the female lead is also a pleasure to watch on the screen a very decent movie i thought wish more were made like this another small nitpick is the depiction of frankfurt could have been done a little better but for the average viewer who's never been to frankfurt i was born in germany and been to frankfurt many times it won't matter but all in all a great big thumbs up
1	although i am very familiar with poet dylan thomas i know nothing of his life whatever his life and specifically his marriage involved i would imagine that the edge of love based on the novel manipulates things a bit but unless you are a historian or a poet who cares br br the movie is less about thomas and more focused on the two most important women in his life one is his wife and the other is vera who was his first love one romantic night on the beach as youths is something that both have tried to put behind them but cannot now grown up they are good friends i forgot to mention that this is set during the war vera becomes engaged to captain will killing who he gets her pregnant and leaves for war while he is away vera starts to fall for thomas again and has fallen out of love with him she is also carrying another man's child things get even more emotionally complex when capt returns br br as you can see it is a very soap operatic plot and it takes shape in a fairy drab slow manner with perhaps one too many sequences of sappy dialogue but all is not lost yet for a non hollywood production i think that the edge of love is about as stylish a picture as one can get it is certainly more dimensional and intelligent than about 90 of contemporary romances hollywood production or not some of it has to do with being set during the war which sets up emotional conflict that feels more convincing and less artificial a bit like atonement this one features acting and cinematography of equal talent to joe wright's oscar nominee but it is in far greater need for stable pacing and progression things are okay at the start and finish but the middle section is where your attention span may be tested unless you are deeply and profoundly rooted in the story br br i doubt if the edge of love will have that kind of an effect on the viewer but is a good film to check it might even make a good date night movie considering it is so much smarter than the chick flicks that boyfriends are forced to endure today
1	hey it's only tv sure it's star trek the most beloved bla bla and this is a great one but it's all relative what it boils down to is a guy in elf ears grooving with a swatch of pizza colored shag rug br br there's a kind of third man to the tunnel hunt and it's creepier than many episodes of what is after all one of the better tv shows the suspense is actually suspenseful the peril really feels perilous as a little kid i think i cried when spock told me that this hideous creature was as sad scared and horrified as the people it was eating this was one of my early lessons in empathy a lesson reinforced by the episode which was if less thrilling even more melancholy br br what bothered me when i was five was that this thing which looks like meat and tomato barf somehow actually consists more or less of rock now that kind of choice might seem visionary a hippie designer's idea of through the looking glass one but it might also just smack of the drug era
1	this may not be the most exiting or incredible episode they've made but in my opinion it remains as one of star trek and the sci fi genre's most original episodes most ideas from retro sci fi series especially including star trek has been reused several times this one the other hand remains mostly as a one time triumph this among the episodes that impressed me the most towards the end br br another thing i like with this episode is how it has accomplished to create such and exiting and captivating story with such few special affects now without criticizing the episode i must admit the effects are very dated but then again what can you expect from a tv show from 1967 but still the creature in this episode is basically just a carpet with some coloured rubber on it yet you forget this after about 1 minute and you only start thinking about it as what it's supposed to be also the caves don't exactly look like rock but again you forget it after a few minutes this episode is a living proof on how good acting and a good story can make you ignore the visual effects br br the acting from the main cast is as usual great this episode features the series second mind meld by spock and is one of my favourites so to say it simple leonard nimoy is definitely a scene stealer here and his acting is excellent not that kirk or bones don't get their share of the episode but spock is the most intriguing in this one i like the fact that the episode is not about one specific character but evolves around the trio handling an alien problem also it's nice to see an episode who doesn't only happen on the enterprise br br like most star trek episodes this episode tells us to have an open mind i won't spoil the story but evolves around what in the start seems like a typical monster story it has killed several humans and therefore must be killed but is that really all there is to it i can assure you that the explanation in the end will not disappoint you this is still my favourite star trek tos episode and i give it a 10 10
1	of all the episodes of all series this one holds the closest to roddenberry's original tenet according to the book the making of star trek in roddenberry's writer's guide to his story writers he states that any alien creature no matter how hideously ugly impossible to believe benign or malicious must hold some semblance of humanity that the tv viewing public can empathize with and or relate to devil in the which resembles nothing more or less than a large blob of cow dung is a mother protecting her babies those ball shaped silicon the miners keep finding throughout the mine passages and destroying because they have no idea what they are this is one of my absolute favorite episodes if only for that
1	kirk and the crew are visiting a federation mining colony on a remote planet rich in mineral resources the devil in the dark is the a very unusual silicon based life form which tunnels through solid rock the has been killing miners and it is decided must be destroyed but how br br it is hard to continue this review without writing a spoiler so instead i simply concentrate on the technical aspects of the episode and touch on its themes the special effects are ok but many of the scenes with the look a little absurd the acting is fairly average for tos some of the miners are a little awkward nimoy has the most difficult role of all in devil in the dark and he pulls it off well br br why is this still a favorite of mine br br devil in the dark is really an anthropological and ecological morality play disguised as an adventure more than many episodes of this great tv series it brings home the importance of maintaining an open mind and at least some degree of empathy toward others plus it involves one of the most interesting if not probable plot twists in the original series br br enjoy
1	i sympathized with the plight of the first man we see killed in this episode he reminded me of the trepidation associated with being a lone security guard at night somewhere the type of work i did briefly about 20 years ago of course i was never in danger of being burned to a crisp as the colony chief lynch is fond of describing the monster in the dark here murdering members of a deep mining colony creates a scary impression in the first act we don't really see it in the early scenes and as many of us realize the best monsters are sometimes left to the imagination 'big and is one voiced description but it actually turns out to resemble a big lumpy pepperoni pizza along the ground like a silicon centipede a limitation of the show's budget unfortunately this also shows in the latest matte painting famous to trek fans the only way to convey a long shot of the mining operations br br but the whole theme of this episode is about what's on the inside rather than outward appearances anyway sure this a newly discovered silicon based life form looks like a mindless monster at first glance thanks to spock's telepathic ability probably the best use of a vulcan mind meld for plot purposes we learn it's a highly intelligent even sophisticated creature besides spock's instrumental use of his talent mccoy gets to his usual medical routine healing a creature resembling rocks or asbestos he also gets to utter one of his most famous lines i'm a doctor not a bricklayer i found it very true to life in his scene where he in his success though he's unable to get kirk to share in his enthusiasm kirk's too busy organizing results the episode throws unexpected turns in character motivation at the audience as the story progresses spock champions the need to possibly preserve this discovered life as kirk takes his usual stand on preventing the deaths of any red shirts no half measures as in the man trap but later it's kirk who for some reason holds back on firing a killing blast as if the heat of the hunt had worn off and he'd had time to reflect on spock's point i believe it was during this episode's filming that shatner learned his father had died uncharacteristic for most of the first season this has a happy ending the conflict stems from the needs of basic capitalism such as meeting standard quotas versus protecting the natural environment and its inhabitants a space age version of protecting owls from the tractors of modern advancement somehow despite many killings and a sense that everything could go to hell at any moment with one raised kirk and spock manage to broker an agreement which satisfies everyone i guess people and are more reasonable in the 23rd century
1	the devil in the dark is william shatner's favorite episode it is also one of my favorite episodes the program is pure star trek because it deals with one of the series' main themes the respect for other life forms i do not think one could get a clearer example of one of the show's most interesting ideas in this episode kirk and his crew have to confront a monster that is killing miners on a distant planet the story is an excuse to explore the right that humans have to destroy creatures that are a vital part of the environment today's concerns with environmental causes make the show more relevant now than ever before it is extremely well written and performed with gusto by our beloved cast one memorable sequence involves spock joining with the mind of the monster plenty of tension between spock and kirk they want to solve the problem using different methods adds to the fun shatner and leonard nimoy do some of their best work here
1	i rank opera as one of the better argento films plot holes and inconsistencies sure but i don't think they this film as much as many other reviewers seem to a lot of elements that are in many of argento's films are kinda off the wall but that's part of the draw of his films br br short story psycho stalks the new leading lady the typical argento twists and turns ensue leading up to a decent payoff of a climax not argento's best but i still pull this one out from time to time definitely worth a look if you like his other stuff just don't get this one mixed up with the abysmal phantom of the opera remake that argento did that one is truly awful 8 10
1	the murders in opera are not actual murders as much as they are symbols of past events and parts of betty's own fractured personality in fact betty is the same person a male that suzy is in suspiria only a decade later in life suzy was a boy of ten who befriended another boy of ten with a more mild version of his own background br br it helps to think of betty's luxury apartment as a military barracks bay she spends most of her time in her bedroom in bed next to her stereo it seems and other parts of her apartment seem foreign to her somehow as though other people live in those other rooms br br dario argento's movies sync with a wide array of rock music as well as funk dario starts the right at the beginning of his films the flash of the eye in opera and the start of a drum roll in suspiria there are also standard movies that opera and suspiria sync with for example opera with with a record album by judas priest called priest live as does suspiria and suspiria very well with a kiss record album entitled kiss alive ii movies like rosemary's baby the exorcist the image and the vampire happening are sync movies argento uses which deal with the same subject matter as argento's films these along with many others reveal betty to be a male who suffered sexual torture at the hands of his father since birth even in the womb according to a certain anne rice novel entitled br br anyway large budget films are occult works which relay spy information collected by occult means all in synchronized symbolic alchemical fashion usually the sync point in a film is the beginning of the sound score or it is the first image of the film beyond any film company lead in sometimes it is more creative the heavy metal music used in opera and phenomena are simply music that were deciphered out of other films that argento's movies sync with an intellectual game of sorts among the elite within the industry br br so betty doesn't respond normally to the murders she witnesses because she didn't ever witness a murder of any real person she herself simply suffers soul murder she witnesses her own murder this individual's father almost dropped him down an abandoned mine shaft in at age 4 in 1970 he was on the verge of falling off a wood plank his father balance him on before dad changed his mind and grabbed him and yanked him back off it the kid felt nothing consciously memories of sexual torture are lost to this individual via extreme sexual repression and the vague memories which remain are of the big square deep hole in the desert and no significance is placed on this memory because of the lack of conscious trauma the loss of trauma also a buried trait is portrayed in the 1975 film entitled the image those sausages up in the attic in suspiria are each individual memories of the first three or so years of a life toys in the attic br br the reason betty or suzy is a female character is because the individual christina character mirrors is a male who has been trained into a female role of sorts since birth all of the dvd's of the simpsons cartoon sync with suspiria with his very nature having been molded along queen lines the x files episodes sync with opera this has even altered his body to be beautiful in the way a woman's is behavior alters genetics a more recent movie entitled death proof deals with the same ideas and the same individual br br virtually the entire life of this person is mirrored on large budget films record albums and books made since 1966 and father prior to 1966 and after the scorpions album entitled virgin killer is a suspiria sync album the original album cover acting as a symbolic mirror image of the fall through the skylight
1	if you don't like italian horror you won't like this film on that note br br overall it was a terrible experience many things happened vanessa redgrave was scheduled to be in the film and she pulled out one of the actors was crushed by a car i was engaged to be married but by the end of the picture that was finished my father died during the shooting all kinds of things dario argento on the making of opera br br i was truly impressed with argento and the film he made here especially against such harrowing circumstances the whole mystique of macbeth and its curse on those who attempt to stage the play adds untold volumes to opera br br throughout the film argento some of his most clever and audience directed tricks a young opera singer christina is stalked by a violent psychopath who forces her to watch a series of brutal murders by taping several sharp blades to eyelids the killer makes it impossible for her to close her eyes take a good look if you try to close your eyes you'll tear them apart so you'll just have to watch everything br br it is clear that argento put great care into constructing the faux macbeth opera on screen and his hard work pays off add to this several unforgettably brutal murders an incredibly tense chase sequence and the genius use of pov to portray a certain character the role vanessa redgrave pulled out on thank god and you've got one of the best italian horror films ever created br br that said it's still italian horror why christina never seems to tell anyone about this brutal murders is beyond anyone's comprehension some scenes might be difficult for certain viewers to stomach but personally i felt more tension towards christina and her eyes than any of the brutal slayings in the film the finale to had my stomach churning more than anything in opera but that's probably just me br br and the last five minutes argento wanted it he filmed it and he's fought to keep it in the film absolutely no one likes it myself included but it's not enough to ruin the rest of the film for me it remains one of argento's best films to date br br 9 10
1	title opera 1987 director dario argento cast cristina ian charleson daria review the only other argento movie i had seen was suspiria and that one blew me away with its style colors and spooky story line i next decided to go with opera as i had been told it was one of his best man i think i'm discovering what will ultimately be one of my favorite horror directors br br opera is about a young opera singer who gets her big break when the main star of a creepy modern opera take on mc beth gets hit by a car betty is the so she gets to do the part herself too bad for her there's a psycho after her who makes her watch the brutal murders of her friends and co workers br br wow id heard good things about this here flick but i wasn't prepared for the level of greatness to which this film would take me yeah the movie has its shortcomings to which ill get to later but for the most part the movie blew me away br br first off this movie is not as filled with lots of colors as suspiria i was expecting it to be a bit like suspiria in that department but no to my surprise it had its own look and feel the film is somehow devoid of color it does have lots in colors in certain scenes like the masterful kitchen living room sequence where argento fills the screen with lush greens and blues but for the most part the film has a grayish black tone to it all through out and i liked that it had its own distinctive look br br the real stars of this show are the incredibly well orchestrated death sequences wow every death scene was like a work of art beauty in destruction these are not just your typical hack and slash death sequences these deaths were carefully constructed to shock and get the most out of its situations loved every second of them there's plenty of blood and mayhem here but with style not gonna spoil em though br br then there's the direction man there's some really original and beautiful shots on this one i loved the inventive use of the camera on this one you thought that shot in kill bill vol 1 where we see the bullet coming out of the chamber of the gun was original well this is the movie he lifted it from i honestly believe that tarantino was heavily influenced by this specific movie with certain scenes in kill bill vol 1 heck in the making of feature he mentions that the whole scene with beatrix in the hospital and elle driver coming to kill her was influenced by italian giallos and here my friends is the proof of that anyhows tarantino references aside this movie has some amazing camera shots like those scenes of the crows flying through the crowd in the opera house great stuff and a main reason why becoming one of my favorites br br the acting from most of the cast was alright but the best by far was cristina as the tortured young opera singer betty the looks in her eyes as the murders were being committed were great the rest of the cast was a little wooden and stiff but nothing that would deter your enjoyment of the film br br there were very few things i didn't like about this movie first off logic was thrown out the window in certain scenes specially those involving reactions after shes seen the murders it seem to me that for the longest time she just went on about her business not telling anyone about the whole thing not even the police i mean if you see someone brutally murder a loved one in front of your eyes you don't just walk away from the murder scene and continue with your life someone would have connected her to the murders she might have even become a suspect herself but no also the ending is a bit anti climactic you'll have to see this to understand but it seemed a bit unnecessary the way the film ended it felt like it could have ended earlier it would not have felt so redundant but thats about it not real big problems for me really since i was enjoying the rest of this beautiful film br br i've still got a lot of argento territory to cover but i'm devouring every step of the way like if i was eating a plate of the most expensive caviar this guys really good i think of his films as works of art and i've only seen two of em cant wait to discover the rest of his films argento you the man br br rating 41 2 out of 5
1	given that dylan thomas is an icon of modern poetry i expected a movie that would be prone to a hagiography of the subject on the contrary the poet is presented as sexually irresponsible a drunkard a bad father a and a hypocrite and perhaps a coward of course one could argue that all those things are an advantage when some one is an artist and especially a poet since one of the purposes of art is to subvert the standards of conventional morality but still i do not thing that a positive role model could crop up from such a bundle of personality traits any way i found the other male hero of the story captain a more endearing character the two female roles were played by actresses and miller and were truly charming especially the first when she performed songs in slim outfit to inspire bombarded londoners during ww2 another good point is the role that sexual jealousy plays even in relatively progressive that think that age old conventions can easily be surpassed the atmosphere of the blitz was also convincing as well as the portrayal of the distinct outlooks among people who have experienced war as opposed to those who talk about it theorizing on it's possible political outcomes i think one would recommend such a movie
1	opera opens with a very close up shot of a bird's ever watching eye and thus begins one of argento's most bizarre and enjoyable features my second favorite in fact behind deep red granted at times the movie is pretty absurd the lack of real concern after murders the bird attack the burnt dummy that ending… but this is argento's fantastical world and once you come to terms with that you'll find that it works i do not mean to completely dismiss these faults though rather that the artistry of the film more than makes up for them for example the aforementioned bird attack is completely over the top in theory yet look at the wonderful execution of it crows flying in chaos adding their enraged squawking to the driving rock beat the crowd in panic as seen through the circling bird's eye view camera work and then the focused attack aria of terror indeed argento's amazing flowing cinematography is on full display in opera and clearly one of the film's highlights i also enjoyed the soundtrack of operatic themes and rock music a nice contrast of music with each used effectively the rock kicks in with the murders in perfect timing and gives the scenes a very frenzied feel the sound effects deserve a nod too stabs scissors and all br br inspector alan santini i've seen a lot of your movies yes you're really an expert in this field i'd be very interested to know your opinion br br marco i think it's unwise to use movies as a guide for reality don't you inspector br br inspector alan santini depends what you mean by reality br br being that this is a giallo stylish murders are a must and dario does not disappoint the bullet through the door scene is quite possibly one of the greatest deaths ever shot if you'll forgive the pun the black gloved deep voiced pulsating brained cool shots killer is cold and brutal and having him tape pins under our heroine's eyes so that she was forced to watch the murders was a nice touch that all said as a giallo opera doesn't quite have as good of a mystery as it should the killer is kept secret from the audience well enough but there's little effort in the film devoted to actually solving the murders this and the strange ending could've used more work despite these problems though opera still manages to be a worthwhile and satisfying horror film br br one final note it was nice to see a movie for once show the correct view through binoculars just a circle not two circles together nice eye for detail dario
1	opera was filmed in synchronization with a variety of other mass media productions start point for opera is the initial appearance of the raven eye br br the wizard of oz synch start points are third mgm lion roar dorothy's third knock on tin man's chest in the orchard and dorothy's third heel click synchs with gone with the wind br br prince of darkness synch start point is the music score start point br br electric original release version songs and sequence only br br original release version songs only br br sad wings of destiny original release br br sin after sin original release br br stained class original release br br hell bent for leather original release br br point of entry original release br br screaming for vengeance original release br br defenders of the faith original release br br turbo original release
1	this is standard fare from a director who as long been amongst my favourites br br even though its very flat in comparison to a lot of his other work but its argento and this may be biased but i'm gonna be giving it a good review anyway br br it does contain a lot of good ideas the subtle voyeuristic element the needles under the eyes the gory and disturbing deaths and the argento cliché flashback br br downsides include the heavy metal soundtrack acting and the ending br br all the film is made worth it for the birds in the theatre sequence near the end br br a fairly good film from argento but he as done better a lot better
1	1987 br br director dario argento deep red suspiria screenplay dario argento and franco the church sleepless demons photography ronnie taylor a chorus line sleepless music claudio phenomena br br story betty cristina is the lady macbeth of a very stylized staging of verdi's macbeth opera betty's time to shine comes when the diva star breaks her leg before opening night when she is hit by a car running away in a tantrum the famous curse of macbeth takes a more sinister and calculating turn when right away the body count begins to rise it seems betty gets her first fan via a stalker who ties her up and tapes needles to her eyes to force her to witness the grisly murders of the people around her story 3 of 5 br br acting acting in a lot of these italian films can sometimes be hard to judge english italian french german spanish can sometimes all be in the same flick as they usually speak their native languages making dubbing rule of thumb and hard to judge i usually cut them some slack in the area as a result acting 4 of 5 br br direction giallo maestro argento enters again the genre helped pioneer shows him at the top of his game with an exquisite blend of gore tension and beauty direction 4 of 5 br br visual this has to be one of argento's best looking films gorgeously filmed by taylor features some stunning and inventive camera work that keeps the film running fast and hard and keeps the eye candy coming the camera always seems to be in notion whether it is a wonderful shot of the camera going up a spiral staircase or a sequence towards the end of a bird's eye view of said bird circling the crowd at the opera house visual 5 of 5 br br audio frequent argento collaborator through his various bands goblin and solo effort compliments the screen action with zeal as his score touches from the classical verdi to metal musings with a little help from brian and roger and bill wyman and lends music muscle to the screen's bloody the sound design give you all that you need from stabbings to gunshots fire to screams and masterfully remastered on the anchor bay disc in glorious 6 1 for every crunch and caw audio 5 of 5 br br technical the editing keeps the film flowing and moving wonderfully combined with the camera work the editing help keeps the surreal dreamy imagery flowing the exquisite opera house is one hell of a location and perfect for staging the horror version of macbeth one can't end a review of an argento film without having to comment on the kills argento dispatches characters with glee this time around with a brilliant stabbing sequence crow eye gouging and the film highlight of a gun blast through a keyhole into the eye and out the back of the head shot that once again sends argento's ex wife daria to the movie morgue priceless technical 5 of 5 br br wrap up a nearly flawless giallo that suffers from a slightly unnecessary epilogue in switzerland that delivers all the visual thrills that argento fans crave br br overall 4 of 5
1	dario argento is a filmmaker i'm slowly getting into following the iconoclastic efforts of deep red and suspiria he's not a filmmaker to always care directly about silly things like plot that might be his one minor but for me apparent liability he won't let a little thing like common sense screw up his plan for his elaborate killing sequences as his killer s can go through any kind of elaborate set up of being invisible until revealing past the point of the pov tracking shots of said psychopathic killer but it's thrilling to see a filmmaker take chances like this anyway of a pure italian aesthetic making its way into the soul of a hitchcockian warp in fact as a note of interest if one has recently seen the scorsese short film where he took three pages of an un filmed hitchcock film which also took place in an opera argento had it beat by almost twenty years probably with no knowledge of the text it's also unabashedly 80s cd players and heavy metal and the hair oh my and with an absurdity that makes it all the more palatable to swallow br br the story is simple an opera of macbeth is being produced with high stylized pyrotechnics and trained ravens there's even a talented up and coming star replaced at the last minute betty played by but a murder occurs during the premiere interrupted not by that but by a falling light and now the killer is after betty she can't go to the police how can she let out that the opera is really cursed but will that matter in the face of a killer who won't let up one has probably seen premises like this played out in other argento films girl being chased by a killer but it's how argento like de palma constructs and executes his sequences and adds a distinctive flavor of his own to add touches of bizarre humor the breakout of the ravens to attack the killer and the subsequent version of pointing out in the lineup a kind of over stylization ala leone the bullet through the peephole through the door probably inspired a similar shot in kill bill 1 and even sado masochistic inspiration with the pins taped to betty's eyes more than once br br argento puts his actress through the wringer and she's all game for it even when things seem to just go into 'what the hell' territory i was throwing up my hands almost saying i give up when she is led down the secret passage by the little girl as if suddenly we're in aliens now and through such dark genre material argento keeps the violence thick and fresh the suspense about as much as that with opera music coming right out of a speaker of a stereo system and a cinematographer who may have had a few drinks and rightfully so during some scenes the way they're shot and vibrate to a heart beat it should be considered trash but it's elevated past any limitations of the genre by the ballsy attitude of the director this in spite of a silly ending sillier than anything that preceded what came before it thanks little lizard and an attempt to break the macbeth curse which unfortunately didn't seem to happen in real life on the set of opera 8 5 10
1	i consider myself a casual fan of dario argento for every really good flick by him such as deep red and tenebre there seems to be one that's equally uninspired his output since opera has tended to disappoint still there's no denying that when he's at his best there are few horror directors who can top him i consider opera to be argento's finest work br br this is definitely the film where all of his trademarks are present there's no well developed characters and the plot makes very little sense once you begin to scrutinize it still think of argento as an european equivalent of brian depalma the style is all that matters here so much it becomes the substance typical to argento there's some beautifully filmed murder sequences those unfamiliar with the man's work may perceive that as a sadistic remark and it may be considering the often time misogyny of them but its really true argento stages murder with an intricacy to eye popping visual detail he truly makes graphic violence an art form plus his direction and the look of his films is impeccable br br fortunately opera is one of his most frightening products argento is the only director whom i feel booming rock music works well for horror sequences when others attempt to pull it off it comes across as cheesy the acting varies with cristina playing a beautiful and reasonably sympathetic but never particularly animate young opera performer the rest of the actors are workmanlike and get the job done but again with argento the acting is never the point its the beautiful colors the terrifying violence and the overall fever dream nightmare atmosphere 9 10
1	one of his lesser known films many horror fans have yet to catch this dario argento offering which is unfortunate it is underappreciated mostly because of the fact that really not enough people have seen it the film boasts grade a argento gore with his customary close ups set to savage rock scores while it true that this script is not very complex it is not nearly as bad as other entries in its genre or his own personal resume for that matter br br this movie symbolizes more of the that he likes to portray in his films by his own admission worth a good look on any night
1	no matter how much it hurts me to say this the movie is not as good as it could have been maybe i was misled by the countless exaggerated reviews here on imdb but i expected so much more br br sure the idea is a good one the violent scenes and the camera work are outstanding the imagination of genius dario is breathtaking but the movie is soiled by a couple of mistakes that i find unforgivable first of all am i one of the few people who feel that the heavy metal music played in the most intense scenes simply rips the atmosphere apart with a different kind of music goblin during the needle scenes it would have been soooo intense instead the soundtrack destroys any chance for tension secondly the final killing scene and the last few moments of the movie are simply silly and uninspired i don't want to say amateurish cause i love argento's movies the ending left me feeling empty talk about a final impression this is hardly what happens in most of films though admittedly suspiria also suffers from a rushed finale even if most of it is brilliant br br in short watch this movie try to make the most of its good points but be prepared for some bad ones as well this is not a perfect movie by any means
1	betty is as an in a production of verdi's macbeth who is asked to go on when the diva is hurt in a car accident however in the grand tradition of the scottish play the production seems cursed with problems not least of which is some madman slicing up the crew unfortunately for betty the killer seems to have special plans for her br br this is one of several must see argento mad slasher flicks in this instance primarily for the extraordinary photography by the great british cameraman ronnie taylor i haven't measured it but i reckon around two thirds of the shots in this film involve either pans tracking or cranes the sheer amount of camera movement is just astonishing and makes the movie ten times more exciting than a standard thriller the imagery is wild and dizzying closeups of the heroine's eyes forced open with nails a swooping glide around an opera house from a point of view shots of the killer's brain squirming a bullet fired through a peephole a swallowed chain dug out of a victim's trachea conceptually it's just amazing and could only be realised by this director the movie isn't without some shortcomings though the cast are variable at best and are both a bit shaky and his dubbing in the english version is appalling even by italian standards although argento regular is fun and charleson gives a thoughtful performance in a role that is more than a little autobiographical a horror director much maligned for his remoteness and reliance on technique the material is a nice three way mix of the phantom of the opera shakespeare and slasher flick scripted by argento and his usual collaborator franco with shifty suspects galore and the usual disdain for boring expository scenes to explain what's actually going on full of all sorts of different music brian claudio bill wyman and of course verdi the scenes in the beautiful opera house were shot at the in for some bizarre reason the uk print of this movie has the alternative title terror at the opera
1	often considered argento's last great film this entry into the giallo canon is unquestionably better than any argento film that has followed it though i have yet to see mother of tears but to call it his last great film might be stretching it a bit br br the directorial and stylistic flourishes the hallmark of all argento films is indeed present with some of his sequences of suspense ranking up with his best the peephole sequence is especially memorable and the cinematography by ronnie taylor is outstanding the fluorescent lighting is beautiful br br however the narrative which is hit and miss in all of argento's films is missing here there is indeed a potent sense of mystery and intrigue but the plot resorts to what is essentially a string of murder sequences with one following the another leaving no real time to fully construct a right focused mystery to be solved all of this results in a climax that is well anti climatic as the film did not invest enough interest to make us truly care br br regardless this is recommended simply due to the masterful direction and beautiful imagery that argento evokes i wouldn't' recommend this as a starting point for argento's films however for that i would recommend either deep red or suspiria but if you enjoyed those or even any giallo then this is a very good addition to your viewing repertoire
1	this is primarily about love in wwii yet we must remember that it's also a biopic for dylan thomas and those around him at this particular stage in his life br br the movie's timing is just great it really captures what i think would have been the spirit during those times smiling and hoping you're not going to get bombed while it may prove boring to some the movie does have a particularly dangerous edge to it br br at one point my heart was racing towards the end as the movie hits its climax it really does feature some poignant moments that are handled with skill by the four main actors cillian murphy is on fine form here as is matthew rhys both are polar opposites and it makes for an interesting watch the relationship formed between sienna miller and keira knightley's characters is wonderful and we have the acting to thank and watch out for a cameo by of 'madness' br br despite all of this it's a rather slow movie coupled with the fact it's just shy of two hours it's quite a slog to get to the conclusion br br overall it's a solid non fiction war movie with many wonderfully crafted moments that were no doubt helped by the splendid number of well known british names behind the scenes but it really does drone on for too much at times still a worthwhile watch 7 10
1	horror genius dario argento is one of my personal favorite directors and his films suspiria phenomena and profondo rosso range high on my personal all time favorite list opera of 1987 is yet another tantalizing and brilliant film that no horror lover can afford to miss and that will keep you on the edge of your chair from the beginning to the end this stunning and ultra violent giallo could well be described as the master's nastiest film which is quite something considering that argento's films are not exactly known for the of their violence the violence is extreme and very stylized in a brilliant way that makes opera a film censor's nightmare br br warning spoilers ahead br br just when betty christina a young opera singer is becoming successful a murderous and incredibly sadistic psychopath starts stalking her the murders are truly brutal and of particularly sadistic nature the killer attaches needles to the tied up betty's eyelids so she has to keep them open and watch while he brutally murders people close to her in abhorrent ways when done with the butchering the killer releases betty and leaves just to come back for other friends of hers br br as usual for argento's films the violence is extremely graphic and very stylized opera truly is a brutal film and what a stylish and atmospheric film it is this film is absolutely tantalizing and pure suspense from the beginning to the end the performances are entirely very good especially christina is brilliant in the lead a stunning beauty and great actress alike fits perfectly in her role of the talented singer whose fear and horrid experiences are slowly making her crazy other great performances include those of ian charleston as a horror film director who is directing an opera and director argento's real life girlfriend daria who has a role in many of his movies the camera work is excellent as in all argento films and the huge opera house is an excellent setting that contributes a lot both to the film's beauty and its permanently creepy atmosphere the score which is partly classical music and partly heavy metal is great too even though i slightly missed brilliant progressive rock soundtracks that are such a distinguishing element of most other argento movies opera truly is a terrifying and absolutely breathtaking giallo experience this is an absolute must see for any horror lover and i highly recommend it to any other film fan who is not too sensitive when it comes to extreme violence excellent and absolutely tantalizing
1	beware the scottish play in his riveting and harrowing opera dario argento returns to classic form regaining the composure he lost while filming convoluted and delirious psycho shockers like tenebre and phenomena indeed predicated on a simple narrative that is offset by opulent set pieces imaginatively brutal murder sequences and refined photography the film feels like the argento we once knew only real infraction is its lack of a score by goblin who provided unusual iconic and timeless music for many of argento's greatest films the opera selections used here are wonderful however br br the production is filled out by several competent actors while she's no jessica harper annabella sciorra lookalike cristina manages enough pluck and compassion to grasp the role of the tortured heroine ian charleson is interesting as horror film helmer turned opera director marco and daria is fantastic as always even in her relatively brief role watch the making of featurette on the dvd for a hilarious interview with about her role clearly brash and resentful over the end of her relationship with argento fans of stage fright another excellent 1987 giallo directed by michele who served as the second unit director for opera will barely recognize the final girl from that film barbara as a stage manager here i think it's the glasses that do it br br with me it's often the little things that matter and argento's fascination obsession with solitary nightmarish images makes him my ideal filmmaker opera is full of minor details that left me smirking for instance i love that we never see the great mara face i also love the scene where the killer is scraping the tip of his her deadly sharp dagger across a television screen showing betty's performance as lady macbeth finally i defy even the most grizzled slasher veterans not to cringe as the pin grates are placed over betty's eyes br br in short opera is a clean tense and taut thriller with its solid performances lucid focus and literate cinematography it begs to be in the same league as deep red and the bird with the crystal plumage might opera be the last great giallo
1	being both a dario argento fan and a phantom of the opera fan i was dying to see his first take on the story before the so bad it's good dario argento's phantom of the opera the film is just terrific even the plot which here is one of argento's best at a coherent story the way he turns a classic romance story into a creepy slasher is just terrific the film has a very nightmarish feel which helps on keeping you on the edge of your seat the colors have never been better in an argento film since the jaw dropping suspiria the murders are clever and gory all done in argento's trademark style the thing with the eyes in this film is just unsettling and done some much better than in fulci's splatter the acting is so so but once you seen the movie more times you understand the characters' motivations better and you get used to it my two biggest complains about it is the use of rock music i think it was a clever idea to mix beautiful opera fragments with heavy metal but it's not executed very well here the ending is very disappointing which is the worst thing about the movie seeming to echo argento's previous phenomena but done terribly it just didn't need to end that way the same thing happened in the director's cut of the exorcist i wished they kept the original ending but still it's a fantastic motion picture and really a must see if only for daria memorable murder sequence
1	an opera diva has an accident which leaves the door open for her to take over the role betty is now the star of mac beth but someone hiding in the trenches has an opera of his own planned out he gets his kicks out of tying betty up putting needles under her eyes so she cant close them and murdering members of the opera company before her very eyes br br opera is certainly one of argento's more ambitious films like mixing it up with macbeth there is of course the fact that the opera performed in the film is giuseppe verdi's version of macbeth but also argento just like shakespeare uses ravens as an omen of death and misfortune and like the ravens circling the castle foreboding the demise of the scheming macbeth the ravens in opera play a key part in the downfall of the killer furthermore just like in the old play the murderer acts on the of his lover but i don't want to go as far as saying opera is intended to be a remake of the either the phantom of the opera or macbeth the similarities are far too subtle it's just a typical argento masterstroke and with it he gives this otherwise quite basic thriller a vivid hue of gothic mystique br br although this movie does have it downsides like the metal soundtrack just doesn't fit in with this movie and the final scenes in this movie are a bit strange br br all in all opera is something of a flawed masterpiece but still good
1	after the lead actress of the opera is killed in a car accident her young betty is brought to the forefront that's very lucky for her with one problem she has an admirer that has decided he will kill all her friends and make her watch what is his connection to the opera and what is his fascination with betty br br i love dario argento with every part of my body and i'm not an orthodox fan i think many people particularly critics praise his earlier work suspiria and deep red but really frown on later films such as sleepless which i liked my favorite phenomena is usually vastly underrated opera tends to fall somewhere in between some consider it one of his last great films others see it as part of his so called decline i loved it br br the picture is crisp the music is great unlike other critics i love the metal soundtrack the female lead is someone i can feel for not unlike jennifer connelly from phenomena and the imagery wonderful great cinematography and some amazing kill scenes the concept of taping needles to a person's eyes so they cannot blink brilliant my assistant tina thinks this looked fake but even if it does the idea is more than enough to pay off and some great effects like a knife blade coming up inside a man's mouth awesome br br jim harper calls the film stunning and calls attention to the innovative cinematography well constructed shots and exceptionally violent murders i agree with this completely one shot follows the camera through winding tunnels and there is a very interesting visual use of crows throughout the story mike mayo likewise calls it visually fascinating eye candy and the crisp editing and flowing camera work it's really a wonder that this is not one of argento's more highly praised works br br argento returned to the opera with phantom of the opera which was a bit of a failure despite the casting of his daughter asia and julian sands even more interesting this same year offered the release of michele soavi's which like opera has a killer loose inside a theater killing off the people involved with the presentation both are great films with soavi's more on the slasher side actually served as second unit director on opera you can make your own conclusions br br my only complaint with this film is the length and pacing while it is very beautifully shot and the kill scenes are glorious they are not as frequent as they should be the first one takes over a half hour and then we get down times between them the lead actress should be in constant terror but she is given time between kills to calm down as if everything is normal again not cool dario we need to keep the suspense low and the intensity high
1	even if it's not labeled as a slasher flick it has all the elements the fact that slashers are well known for it's low budget lame plot cheesy effects and everything you may add it doesn't means that there can't be good slasher movies opera fills the description even though it's part of italian giallo which is far from being a slasher sub genre br br dario argento proves that he deserves the label of one of the best directors in horror opera is one of the most stylish horror movies from the past 30 years though the movie takes place in a beautiful shinning place the situations and gore turns it to be one of the scariest places ever used in a horror movie br br i think of opera as a stylish slasher although there's in depth plot and character development the cheese factor often used in most slasher flicks is not present here but in exchange we got a suspenseful visually stunning gore tale the movie's plot is simple as in every slasher there's a psycho in the opera that is somewhat obsessed with the lead actress singer and forces her to watch gruesome deaths the death scenes are extremely gruesome and are the best thing about the movie the infamous peep hole death scene is the highlight of the movie in my opinion it's a terrific death scene that none other than argento could release the knife through the neck and mouth is another gruesome scene but less violent than the scissors death the gore in opera will please the wicked and lovers of violence br br what i didn't like about the movie is the lack of coherence or logic i mean after watching the first death the lead female calmed as if nothing happened gets a ride home and doesn't makes much of a big deal about what she saw also she's left alone in home and doesn't take security measures still the suspense in the movie makes you forget the lack of logic argento knows how to create tension and how to scare the subconscious for example when betty's friend tells her that someone was watching her from outside she freaks out and sets suspense in case that something happens br br the direction of the movie is great for an italian giallo it's excellent argento's creative pov shots are impressive the ravens also added a creepy feeling to the movie argento add his unique spice br br opera is one of the most underrated but popular through the horror community for these reasons in my opinion the peep hole death scene brilliant the ravens attack in the end the opera setting the knife through the neck and mouth the heavy metal score combined with opera music this music never freaked me out before the killer's ferocity br br the only thing i don't like about opera is the heavy metal songs used in death scenes it's ok to disturb the audience but i think that the opera music could've added a creepier feeling still the shocking use of heavy metal is a singular disturbing aspect in the movie br br watch opera even if you don't like gore there's a lot of suspense and tension that could scare the most skeptical person this is no suspiria but it deserves to be among argento's finest
1	opera is a great film with some wonderful imaginative imagery an opera singer cristina is being stalked by a killer who forces her to watch him murder everyone she knows by tying her up and taping needles under her eyes this idea of the needles comes from the fact that argento doesn't like it when people cover their eyes while watching his movies for years i've been annoyed by people covering their eyes during the gorier moments in my films i film these images because i want people to see them and not avoid the positive confrontation of their fears by looking away so i thought to myself 'how would it be possible to achieve this and force someone to watch most gruesome murder and make sure they can't avert their eyes 'the answer i came up with is the core of what opera is about says argento plenty of suspense wonderful cinematography and brutal gory murders one guy is stabbed in the throat with a knife causing a gushing wound daria gets shot in the eye while looking through the peephole etc for anyone who hasn't caught this one yet give it a try highly recommended
1	opera the u s title is terror at the opera is somewhat of a letdown after some of other movies like phenomena tenebre and suspiria i still can't find inferno anywhere it's one of those movies that has a great first half but midway through it's like someone started slowly letting the air out of the screenplay and logic br br the basic plot involves a beautiful opera singer who is being stalked by a deranged obsessed fan this killer begins killing people close to her in a most unique fashion he binds and gags her and tape tiny sharp pins under her eyelids so if she tries to close her eyes she'll gouge out her eyes this forces her to watch while the killer murders her acquaintances in typically brutal and gory argento fashion br br unfortunately about midway through the film becomes sluggish and illogical this is especially directed towards the killer's motivations i still haven't completely figured out why he's such a nut the ending especially come out of left field in the worst possible sense br br but for about the first hour or so this is some of best filmmaking and the camera work is breathtaking too bad it couldn't maintain it through to the end br br rating 7
1	a young theater actress reluctantly accepts her first major part in a staged play as lady macbeth thanks to the mishap of the production's diva falling in front of a moving car a success winning her accolades betty christina finds instead horror as the one responsible for getting her to this point terrorizes her in cruel ways br br first her stage manager boyfriend stefano william mcnamara is viciously stabbed with a knife while she has to watch rope tied to a pillar in his uncle's vast mansion keeping her eyes from closing thanks to needles scotch taped under her eyes with pricking a result if she blinks allowing her to escape betty again finds herself in this unfortunate position when a specific gold chain is found on her lady macbeth wardrobe that had been torn to shreds by the madman after killing a series of crows which escaped from their cage in the equipment room by the clothing designer who is first knocked to the floor by an iron and subsequently stabbed heinously by a pair of scissors to cap off this nasty scene the chain falls into her throat with the killer having to cut open her throat to find it while not specifically elaborating this act dario uses the ripping sound of the scissors for optimum effect with the camera often retreating back to the victim's dead face having nowhere to turn inspector alan santini playing him cold and bland at request promises to catch the psycho as betty relies on her few remaining friends for comfort the theater director marco ian charleson of ghandi chariots of fire who would later die of aids a sad footnote dario revealed in an interview that charleson informed him at the end of the shoot that he was hiv positive attempting the stage after a successful horror movie career despite being rejected by critics and pal mira daria former squeeze her agent and confident but the serial killer is quite driven and a showdown between them will of course occur in the theater as marco has added an interesting change to the production using the crows at his disposal br br i think this is dario at his most savage nihilistic although he has certainly made later gruesome films such as his masters of horror entries and sleepless would suggest this film really ups the ante in pure violence towards the victims of the psychopath his method of forcing betty to watch was admittedly a gag by dario regarding the type of audience who like to look away from the more horrific parts of horror movies i found myself rubbing my eyes every time she just has to blink brilliantly dario shoots the pricking from point of view achieving a tormenting effect from our perspective as if we were the ones with the scotch taped needles holding our eyes open i like how dario will show the widened eyes of betty horrified at what she's being forced into watching as little blood tears down the needles when she has no choice but blink the photographic work of ronnie taylor is impeccable such as the point of view shot in the theater at the end as it searches for the killer or when the camera travels through rooms in the theater following the killer who wishes to see his muse from a box seat or the dream sequence where we are taken into betty's memory of an event regarding her mother's death by a certain killer donning the same mask and gloves as the one causing her trauma at present the highlight in my opinion is the peephole bullet fire sequence masterly staged by all involved as the camera follows a bullet which shoots through the eye of a victim exploding from the back of her head going through a telephone betty planned to use to call for help we even get a crow pecking the eyeball from the killer to add to this vicious scene the crow is shown with the eyeball rolling around in it's beak only aspect i didn't care for often pointed out by naysayers of the film is the final ending which i personally felt was a bit unnecessary but i guess dario wanted to point out that betty was indeed not like her mother a woman with sadomasochistic tendencies which in a twist relate to why the killer torments our heroine the rock music used during the violent scenes didn't bother me because i felt that those moments of wicked graphic attacks needed a jarring thud which heavy metal can often provide
1	i finally managed to get myself a copy of dario argento's opera and i tell you that was about time it was the last argento movie i had yet to see and i'm a fan of most of his work i reckon that most of his work is extremely important for the genre of horror but some of his movies tend to disappoint like phenomena but the plot idea of opera always appealed to me and it turns out i was right i enjoyed every shot in opera and i was fascinated by this movie for the first minute till the last out of all the argento movies opera went straight to the number one spot and i hope i can encourage as many people as possible to see this one as well br br the script and plot idea of opera is rather simple especially compared to argento's previous movie phenomena that had too many ideas in it and ended up being a mess the plot of opera is creepy and chilling but at the same time it's an excellent satiric comment almost a spoof towards the opponents of explicit violence spoilers a young opera singer the gorgeous cristina is being stalked by a horribly sadistic murderer during every massacre he commits he forces betty to watch his actions with her eyes wide open there are needles attached to her eyelids and when she closes them they're getting torn apart end spoilers to this simple yet effective idea argento adds a lot of horrific elements like ravens the classic piece and curse of macbeth and the whole atmospheric location of the opera building and the music especially the presence of the creepy ravens are and extra value ancient masters like edgar allen poe already knew these black birds have a lot of mystery hanging around them and dario argento knows it as well br br the violence and gore is very well presented in opera and that's what makes this a true argento picture his best in my opinion with profondo rosso as a close second i surely hope to recommend this movie to a lot of people among you especially for fans of the italian horror business this is an absolute must favorite rewind scene argento shows his visual talent the best in the scene where betty's friend is getting shot in the eye while she's trying to see who's in front of the door
1	i did not expect to enjoy this in truth i watched it because a friend knew a friend knew a friend who wrote the script but wasn't credited knowing dylan thomas and really being appreciative of his poetry but aware and rather disconcerted by the man i didn't feel i needed to see a twee adaption of his lame bohemian life laid bare and this was not it critical and yet appreciative it was it made me cry kiera knightley was superb even with that slightly strained welsh accent and it is a sad tale that they tell dylan thomas is not the hero as sadly he was not throughout his life and neither really are the so called woman' of the pr spiel it is cillian the william of the movie a man that leaves the woman he loves to fight a war that they ignore his challenge to with that indifference is what is of real interest to this film and what a beautiful performance from that actor i this film is underrated because it was marketed so badly dylan thomas fans will expect something more from their so very flawed hero and get less and well that is how it was marketed it is not a film about dylan thomas and it is much more interesting for it
1	if you're ok with the outlandish work of italy's premier horror to accept his outrageous story lines and flamboyant you should have a great time with opera if you don't then you won't br br cristina plays betty a beautiful young opera who is given a shot at fame in an avant garde production of macbeth when the star of the show is hit by a car as any thesp who has the will know macbeth is a production that carries a betty soon discovers that the show in which she is now the star is no exception a killer is systematically offing the staff at the poor betty is forced to watch by the sadistic murderer who tapes needles under her eyes to prevent her from closing them br br with the help of a little girl who crawls through her air conditioning ducts her director and agent and a few ravens who have seen the murderer's face betty discovers the killer's identity and the truth about her mysterious past br br let's face it opera is one crazy film with its preposterous plot turns convoluted death scenes and an ending that beggars belief and whilst director dario argento has never been one for shall we say conventional story lines this particular giallo is so daft and features so many of his trademark stylish touches all ramped up to the max that it's almost as if with each successive film he is seeing what he can get away with at times almost parodying his earlier work br br this is exactly why i find the film such fun br br argento's camera movements are absolutely incredible gliding creeping and in one amazing scene even swooping around the opera house above the audience the power of verdi's music is combined perfectly with the synth majesty of claudio simonetti's score providing a suitably grandiose accompaniment to the sumptuous visuals and several outstanding set pieces featuring sergio nauseating gore fx go to prove that no one does death better than argento check out one character's stunning demise in which a bullet passes through a spy hole in a door in slow motion and straight into their eye br br 7 5 out of 10 rounded up to 8 for imdb
1	opera is one of the greatest achievements in horror genre this masterful picture has everything what should be in the pure horror movie good captivating story a lot of symbols wonderful visuals and plenty of gore the killings are very shocking and bloody an unforgettable atmosphere of dread and fear a must see for a true argento fan so if you get a chance watch it
1	betty is an for the lead in a production of verdi's macbeth when a car mysteriously hits the lead betty is thrust into the spotlight opening night is a smashing success and betty decides to leave the after party to celebrate in private with her boyfriend but when the boyfriend leaves the room betty is grabbed from behind by an unknown black gloved masked figure the unknown assailant ties betty to a column gags her and places needles under her eyes that will cause incredible damage and pain should betty close them the boyfriend returns to the room and is stunned to see betty in such a predicament he's even more shocked when the killer grabs him and shoves a knife through his lower jaw with such force the tip of the knife can clearly be seen in his mouth and betty has been forced to watch all of this so begins betty's terrifying ordeal with a killer not just intent on hurting her but also on forcing her to watch as he mutilates her friends br br opera gets classified as a giallo but to me it differs in quite a few ways from the model less emphasis is placed on the mystery elements of the story than in something like argento's tenebre or the bird with the crystal plumage the black gloved masked killer may be omnipresent but the clues and red herrings normally associated with a good giallo are absent instead opera is all about the tension of an unknown killer and making the audience uncomfortable the focus is on the grisly death scenes betty's fear and the killer's obsession with betty br br opera features what i think are some of argento most artistic death scenes when the killer grabs betty after her boyfriend leaves the room you're sure that betty's had it but the sadistic killer only wants to force betty to watch as he brutally stabs her lover in the neck – the knife emerging in his mouth it's a well shot and designed scene and those needles in the eyes – brilliant or take the death of the seamstress at first her death seems like an ordinary run of the mill murder but when the seamstress accidentally swallows the killer's what started out as just another death scene turns it up a notch as the killer uses a pair of scissors to cut the girl's throat open to get his chain finally there's the most famous death scene in opera that i'm amazed with each time i see it – mira is shot in the eye while peering through a keyhole that scene displays a lot of what i like about argento it's got style to burn as implausible as it may be it's creative memorable and a blast to watch br br argento certainly wasn't the first italian director to concentrate on eye mutilation but in opera he's taken eye trauma to a new level needles holding eyes open a bullet in the eye and ravens pecking out an eye are all part of argento's vision pun intended and these scenes do have the effect that i believe argento was going for the first time i saw the killer putting those needles in betty's eyes i couldn't stop blinking it actually had a physical effect on me what is it about the eyes that make them such a target for abuse in italian films br br to be fair and not sound like such a fanboy there are problems i have with opera that keep me from rating it as argento's best one of my problems is with the air duct system running through betty's apartment building while i don't doubt there are air duct systems in older apartment buildings that connect the apartments the ducts in opera are huge i'm no expert but i sincerely doubt any building like the one in this movie would have had such mammoth air ducts it doesn't seem practical at all and don't you think someone would have done something about them long ago to keep criminals and nosey neighbors out of the other apartments it's convenient for the plot but it's not very realistic br br but i suppose my major problem with the film comes with the finale what's up with that ending it feels totally out of place tacked on and like a bad afterthought i'm not sure what else to say other than it's horrible
1	although many have mixed feelings about this latter day giallo thriller from argento it still stands as another lavish testament to the cinematic brilliance that is argento br br a young opera singer has her first break out performance and suddenly finds herself the subject of obsession for a crazed maniac br br in a way opera is like a modern day giallo take on phantom of the opera blended with all the glorious style and color that one would expect dario argento to deliver argento makes terrific use of inventive camera techniques reoccurring symbols like those ravens gothic atmosphere and truly gruesome murder sequences one scene especially which involves a peep hole and a gun will knock viewers right out of their seats story wise the film also manages to be gripping with some strong suspense and given great atmosphere by claudio simonetti's gorgeous music score br br the cast does some satisfying performances cristina is good as our leading lady the late ian charleson does a nice turn as the director as does as an investigator daria as agent and william mcnamara as ill fated lover br br opera is terrific latter day argento and perhaps the last of his great works it's sure to please his fans and even create some new ones br br out of
1	i've noticed that a lot of people are taking opera to task for the way betty reacts to the murders i think they are basing these complaints on how they imagine a normal person would react the thing is betty is not a normal person due to traumatic events in her childhood she has problems way way before the movie ever even starts and by the end of opera in my opinion she has become totally unhinged br br spoilers you have to keep in mind that when she was a very small child she witnessed her mother's lover commit at least one brutal murder while her mother was getting off watching it br br she was raised by a woman who achieves sexual release tied up watching girls get hacked slashed and strangled to death that does not make for a healthy home life i think it's pretty easy to conclude that her mother would have employed all sorts of emotional manipulation and negative reinforcement to ensure that her daughter never on her it is also likely that at her impressionable age betty might have been deeply confused by what she saw is this just something that adults do etc br br betty obviously looks up to her mother i mean she's become an opera singer just like her if mommy likes it it can't be bad can it mommy can't be bad can she she couldn't tell the police on her mommy or this mysterious hooded fellow she associates with mommy br br betty has a lot of deep seated emotional issues her mind has for years been trying to block out the memory of what she saw her mother doing but it keeps coming to the surface manifesting itself in the form of horrible nightmares skull throbbing migraines a dependence on relaxation techniques and sexual she associates brutal violence bloody death with sex on a subconscious level there's an inner struggle between the part of betty that has confused murder sex and the part of her which believes these things to be wrong br br after she's seen her boyfriend murdered by the hooded man she calls the police yet is unwilling to give her name the part of her that thinks murder is wrong forces her to make the call but the part that is ambivalent won't allow her to admit personal involvement the ambivalent part of her takes control before she can go all the way so she walks away from the phone in the rain and when she's picked up by the director she's acting surprisingly calm not as upset as you would think a normal person would be because the part of her that's been blocking stuff since she was a child is trying its to block the horror of what she's just witnessed br br the state of affairs in her life all contribute to an impasse within betty's psyche her singing career is starting to bear fruit she's going to be a great opera singer like her mother was but is she going to become like her mother in all ways in the darker ways or will she be able to make her own path add this to the re emergence of the hooded man murdering everyone around her br br it's not until the hooded man kills daria character that betty really takes an active role in defeating the killer here's someone who loves betty who's supported her wholeheartedly in her emerging career who is in fact a maternal figure in betty's life now since mommy's dead imagine how terrible it would be to lose your real mother and then to see the woman who is the closest thing you have to a mother get shot through the eyeball br br i could go on but i won't the main gist of what i'm saying is that the character of betty is a lot more complex than most of the reviewers on here have been willing to acknowledge br br opera is one of argento's best and not just for the visuals alone although they are truly magnificent and not just for the inventive murders although they are there is a depth here and attention needs to be paid
1	when i was growing up voyage into space was my most favorite movie i remember the time when ktla channel 5 ran the movie for the whole week and me and my sisters watched it every single day i still remember every part of that movie the ending was so sad when giant robot got blown up along with guillotine and then watching johnny with all the tears running down his face calling for giant robot there should have been a sequel to the movie in which giant robot somehow survived the explosion i can't believe that there are so many other voyage into space fans still out there i really want to buy the movie when it comes out on dvd but my sister said that the ones out there now are bootlegged and probably bad quality copies of the movie i don't know why they haven't released it yet since it's been over 40 years now i think voyage into space was made back in 1968 only now my second favorite japanese monster movie of all time the war of the is finally coming to dvd and being released on sept 9th and i can't wait now if only they would do the same with voyage into space giant robot johnny and voyage into space will never be forgotten in my eyes and probably many others too it will always be a childhood classic to me
1	four or five episodes of johnnie and his flying robot edited together amusing giant robot battling giant monsters tale aimed squarely at kids parents of course will go crazy since the action is violent with the robot monster battles resembling professional wrestling and the human on human violence the sort of stuff you'd find in the al capone st valentine's day school and gangster training academy i liked it but then again i grew up on the series if there is any problems other than the men in suits effects variety is that the movie plays like a series of episodes stitched together with a climax coming every 20 minutes recommended for those who've run out of or godzilla
1	ok i admit it i'm 40 and still shed a tear every time i watch johnny calling back his robot at the end br br robot now stop don't do it stop the attack robot what are you doing robot robot where are you come back robot robot please don't do it you'll die robot robot please comeback i need you robot robot giant johnny the last of emperor guillotine br br of all the thats out there giant robot has a special place in my heart and will always be there i credit it with getting me into everything sci fi and anime when i was a kid br br live on gr
1	if you love japanese monster movies you'll love this action packed battle pitting an alien invader intent upon conquering the earth and a giant robot with an of super weaponry the alien emporer guillotine from the planet gargoyle has a army of thugs called of course the gargoyle gang as well as an endless supply of immense hostile creatures that are routinely loosed upon the earth to smash buildings make loud noises panic the populace etc a little kid named johnny has the giant robot at his beckon call and sends the robot as needed to beat up and then blast these creatures johnny joins a group of good spies called unicorn and endeavors to help save the world br br in spite of the campy nature unintentionally humorous dialog and the fact that the target audience was obviously children this movie has non stop action colorful characters decent special effects and just happens to be downright fun to watch battle scenes are well executed and frequent as the storyline requires the good guys and bad guys both made sure they had an inexhaustible supply of bombs lasers ammunition and schemes to attack each other in spite of the fact the movie was constructed from edited episodes of a tv series the plot actually develops and reaches an ultimate conclusion br br the film has a positive outlook and appeals to everyone's especially kids' desire to destroy evil in its many forms kids may be the target audience but it's fun for everyone to laugh at its comical silliness yet at the same time root for the good guys to prevail and save the world the acting is cheesy in places but that is the charm there are several lines of corny dialog possibly translation errors or possibly intentional jokes by the movie makers and you'll find yourself quoting these absurd lines later br br admittedly this film is not high in production quality or budget however for what it is campy sci fi it's enjoyable for some laughs i recommend it to anyone with a sense of humor for that sort of thing
1	i remember running home from school almost every day to catch channel 5 monster movies but never did i run home faster then when this movie was scheduled somehow the idea of being a boy and having a giant robot as a friend appealed to me in a very unique way sure i pretended to be spiderman batman and other superheros but i really wanted to be johnny over any of them br br i have not seen this movie in 30 years and i can still remember it vividly who can forget the way giant robot shot missiles out of his fingers or how about the way threw his fingernails to make explosions geez i can even still whistle the theme music that plays at the end which is so tragic that i remember crying myself to sleep a number of times br br only one other movie has the kind of magic that this movie does in my mind and that is the wizard of oz but i have seen that movie many times since i was a kid of course the wizard of oz is a true classic whereas voyage into space is low budget nonsense these two films shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence but to a young boy it isn't high production values or continuity that capture your heart its flying monkeys and giant robots br br p s my cousin use to do a very accurate impression of giant robot he pronounced it giant if you recall giant robot had a particular way of shooting his missiles and my cousin had it down cold i made him repeat the routine endlessly for my personal amusement
1	this film flopped miserably in the uk and it didn't deserve to the trailer of this film is slightly misleading and i guess it mislead critics and audiences into thinking it was atonement part 2 while the film was marketed that way to capitalise on the earlier success of joe wright's bafta winning film it's very different in tone it focuses on an imagination of sorts of welsh poet dylan thomas' life during the second world war as the writer of propaganda films for the war effort and his subsequent return to wales director john quickly introduces dylan's matthew ryhs childhood sweetheart vera phillips played by keira knightley she was dylan's first love in their homeland but the moment has passed and singer vera only wants it as a beautiful memory or does she vera unexpectedly strikes up a close bond with the other woman in dylan's life queen of ireland love of my life mother of my child caitlin thomas sienna miller the three form a sort of menage a trois in war struck london but vera then falls for a dashing soldier william cillian murphy they quickly marry with leaving for war a frightened vera convinces the thomas' to return her to wales but the three are faced with the realism of the birth of vera's child william's jealousy and shell shock after returning home and caitlin realising she cannot share dylan with her best friend br br filmed on a low budget this is more of a mood piece than anything else it works best as a realisation that some memories and feelings need to be treasured but not renewed the performance of sienna miller is particularly unfortunately the paparazzi nonsense detracts from the fact thats she's quite a talent and knightley and murphy are once again very good the let down is rhys as dylan who while the welsh poet himself was no bed of roses lacks charisma and makes us wonder what these women see in dylan the writing is very choppy some beautiful moments interspersed with sloppiness it's certainly worth watching however
1	this is a cherished movie from my childhood i can still hum the theme song at the drop of a hat i remember getting to stay up late to watch this movie with my father usually two to three times a year we always referred to it as giant robot although the effects in this movie are crude compared to today's standards they were perfect for this movie's genre i am also a big fan of the japanese monster movies so this movie fell right in to place with the others it's been years since i've seen this movie would love to get my hands on a copy of it to share with my 8 year old daughter
1	what can i say the little kid inside has always had great affections for the following giant robots giant monsters and a cackling megalomaniacal lead villain and this movie delivers on all counts as an adult it's easy to point out the many flaws in this film and to say hey it's really only a bunch of episodes taken from a children's tv series strung together despite all of this i find the ending very moving and the content surprisingly adult in nature tremendous fun if a little nonsensical at times
1	william shakespeare's merchant of venice portrays 16th century venice al pacino plays shylock a jewish loan shark who plots revenge on a catholic that has looked down on him the movie is a slow moving plot in the beginning that builds up throughout the two plus hours the film gives a very good and believe appearance to it's characters especially pacino when hearing that pacino plays a jew one might think that it would not work looking at pacino's previous mobster type movie roles nonetheless it works very well credit must be given to the costume designer's and director's of the film the look of all the characters fits well with the time period the play takes place in the costumes look like the renaissance appearance one might envision to be br br the film portrays a very anti semitic vibe from the first minute to the last it is shown how the try to take advantage of the jews in every way they can even to the point of keeping them locked away in ghettos and not allowing them to regular jobs in comparison to the passion of the christ another recent film that people believed to be very anti semitic merchant of venice makes passion look like a jewish holiday the film shows how the jews or at least shylock wanted revenge for the mistreatment that the jews received the location shots also seem very timely and the scenery is at times very beautiful or very ugly depending on the scene of the film making it just that much more realistic showing the beautiful and the ugly can also be seen as anti semitic because the ugly is usually shown around the jews and the beautiful around the catholics br br although the film clearly attempts to have a serious aura certain parts do add a bit of humor to the act the oh so serious trial between shylock and antonio irons adds a bit of humor when collins and goldenhersh come into the trial and decide who will be the victor and the defeated that in itself might not be funny but seeing it that they were women dressed up in disguise as men one might find it to be pretty amusing the whole cross dressing scene as compelling as it was could have probably been even more memorable had the make up artists and director michael radford taken notice that the two women still look like women and could easily be recognized the director also could have seen into the fact that the women are speaking through their regular voices instead of trying to sound like men which in part takes away from the scene but doesn't kill it entirely br br overall the film gets a 7 out of 10
1	hello hello and goodbye but before i go i want to talk to you i just want to quickly mention a few keys points about this film the first being erotica especially homo erotica br br yes well let us begin when a man and a man love each other very much they fuse together in a spectacular not to mention tender explosion of cinema which we call merchant of venice br br the homo erotic love was sensual at worse and even more sensual at best it was hardcore and emotional it touched me inappropriately and i'm pretty sure i touched it back and when no one was looking i touched myself a little too br br i laughed because was denied she was second in line to our friend the homo erotic love oh antonio antoni just toni i love you more than you loved that guy whos name may or may not have contained an b he was well ugly br br antoni was very greasy he lathered his body in an of his own hair grease and sensual juices and proceed to writhe the and present himself to the guy with the name i like the movie in conclusion go see the movie if not for the homo erotic connotations for the love of a man such as antoni just toni
1	people have often been uncomfortable with the merchant of venice due to its anti semitic subject matter fortunately this movie avoids that opting instead to show how anti semitism reigned supreme in 16th century europe the story of course is that antonio jeremy irons needs money so that he can help joseph fiennes ask for lynn collins hand in marriage he gets the money from jewish usurer shylock al pacino who demands a pound of antonio's flesh if the latter doesn't pay back the loan when antonio can't pay back the loan shylock is determined to get what is owed him br br we would expect this cast to do a good job and they don't disappoint it is yet another testament to what a great actor al pacino is
1	one of my favorite lines in shakespeare br br i e we're not finished with you by a long shot so not only does shylock not get his pound of flesh or the 3 000 or the 6 000 or the 36 000 each of the 6 parts were a in a matter of minutes he is ruined by having to forfeit all his possessions and his daughter has long abandoned him already br br vengeance is a dish best served cold but attempt at revenge totally backfires br br i suspect this play was and is popular because it caters to the wish we have for justice but the hard reality is the world is engulfed in injustice and most of it stands a few big names get tossed in jail gang punks lose their turf to the 'good guys' but in reality most of the time it's the other way around br br but not in this play the long howls of racism and forgets that it could well have been any other social outcast group that gets the comeuppance it's just that the money lenders of the time were jews and therefore the needs of the story line puts shylock the jew into the role of villain br br merchant of venice is my 3rd favorite work by shakespeare 1 and 2 being hamlet and macbeth this production gives excellent treatment of the moral of the story the scenes with the suitors alone is worth watching also the awkwardness of the new husbands squirming and minimizing the fact they let the rings so easily slip away that they had sworn to keep forever in real life this trick is the thing that spouses coyly use to remind their better half that promises must mean something and not be made there is far deeper significance to this play than just the comedy dramatic aspect it is about loyalty commitment and love br br well worth watching over and over
1	having never actually seen anything by this beloved of the let alone a production of merchant of venice i cant comment on how faithful it is to previous adaptations of the play so i will treat it as just another movie that tries to be more than novocaine for the eye is an instantly gripping movie about a young lover fiennes and his merchant friend antonio irons and a jewish money lender shylock pacino br br plot summary br br is broke and needs money to woo the lovely collins he goes to his friend antonio who with his friends predicament so borrows some money off shylock br br now antonio does not like jews in general and shylock in particular and shylock bitter and twisted from the abuse he has suffered from antonio in particular and christians in general agrees to lend antonio the money on condition that if antonio does not repay the loan by the agreed deadline shylock will cut a pound of flesh from body br br comment br br the movie is breathtakingly beautiful and acted and spoken in such a way as to force you to think about what each line means this in turn causes the viewer to gain insights into the characters and their motivations br br it seems to me to be a movie about the choices that shylock makes and how making wrong choices leads to ruin br br from the moment shylock demands his pound of flesh he is doomed for rest of the world is against him and to bring about his downfall br br this disturbed me greatly normally in a movie when a victim gets a chance of revenge against those who have harmed him either the victim succeeds or makes the villain see the error of his ways leading to a big hug br br not in the victim quickly becomes seen as the villain and is stripped of his fortune and faith br br this movie is a powerful and subtle portrayal of casual anti semitism which shows how a whole society can turn on a minority and make it seem like the victim is really the offender br br i was blown away by this movie 10 10
1	there were at least a half dozen silent film versions of shakespeare's the merchant of venice and there have been several television productions but no one has ever gotten around to making a big budget theatrical feature from the play until now given the nature of the play s most memorable character shylock the nasty jew it's a good guess that the little unpleasantness that transpired in europe in the late 1930's and 1940's may have dampened filmmakers' enthusiasm sure the main motivation for michael new film is to provide al pacino with a chance to shout bray brood mutter and be tormented all of which he is quite good at like richard iii the role of shylock is a scenery dream it is ridiculous to call shakespeare an anti semite since he never met a jew jews were banned from england from 300 years before his time to some decades after his death and its unlikely that he ever traveled abroad on some level jews might as well have been a mythological race to him but while shakespeare may not have been anti semitic his play certainly is pacino gives shylock a strange accent that is probably meant to suggest the slightest hint of yiddish unfortunately the result is a 16th century with the unmistakable diction and cadences of fozzie bear version begins with a crawl about the wretched of jews and then spot antonio jeremy irons spitting on shylock pacino who's really just standing around minding his own business will buy it when it comes out on dvd for sure sarge booker
1	the merchant of venice was one of shakespeare's most popular plays during his own lifetime but it has fallen on hard times during the 20th century because of its undeniably anti semitic content the play has also been called schizoid in its careening from comedic scenes to tragic ones leading some to say it is two plays trying to coexist as one joseph fiennes who played william shakespeare in shakespeare in love is in love with lynn collins superb but needs to borrow a considerable sum of money to woo her he goes to his sometime gay lover antonio jeremy irons who hasn't the funds on his person but takes out a loan from the jewish usurer shylock al pacino shylock is amused and offended that antonio who insults him for his religion now comes to him for money but he offers it on the condition that the penalty for on the loan will be a pound of antonio's flesh which is of course what happens and offer shylock considerably more then the original loan instead of the pound of flesh but shylock distraught after his daughter leaves him and marries a christian refuses to take it in a scene where the audience is never quite sure where to place its sympathies deprives shylock of what should be legally his and then strips him of his wealth and religion shylock was originally essayed as a cartoonish villain but modern actors and directors have turned him into a tragic figure railing against the injustices of 16th century venice al pacino does an excellent job as shylock and jeremy irons is good as antonio but i think that lynn collins' work as is the best part of the play is one of the few notable female roles in shakespeare's canon and collins is wonderful in the part joseph fiennes is more than a bit dull however i've never particularly enjoyed his often overwrought acting style i give the merchant of venice an 8 10
1	william shakespeare's plays are classified as comedy tragedy or history some of his most memorable and most often read creations provide us with wistful humor gentle poetry and hilarious slapstick some of them survive as unforgettable dramas of compelling depth and gravity regardless he was able to write with unparalleled skill and inventiveness contributing greatly to our young language so in what category lies the merchant of venice i was very surprised to find it is one of shakespeare's comedies i had never before read it nor seen it but after watching this most recent film version i have decided it is neither and it is both this is one of many questions the viewer must try to answer when coming to terms with what is clearly a perplexing and deeply troubling moral tragedy br br the players are introduced quickly and simply one of them firstly is venice itself director michael radford filmed the venetian scenes in the actual city creating an impressively vibrant bustling backdrop to the play's proceedings to this scenery enters the youthful joseph fiennes returning to venice to see a dear old friend antonio jeremy irons it seems the poor has heard of a princess whose father has died and has left to any potential suitors a lottery of sorts waiting at the fair lady's island estate are three small trunks br br only one of which contains images of the princess he who can guess the right one using only blind intuition and the cryptic teasers written upon them will be bestowed the father's huge fortune for life oh and his daughter and her eternal love in marriage i forgot to mention here the light comedy of shakespeare takes over the movie this farcical plot element drives the story and also fills up much of the film's screen time as a number of painfully eager opportunists arrive at the island humorously vying for and failing to earn this very wealthy hand in marriage but before any of this occurs very much lacking in finances antonio to loan him three thousand to pay for the lengthy journey he must take to have his shot at the prize br br antonio himself nearly penniless must reluctantly embrace humility by seeking the financial aid of shylock al pacino one of countless jewish who keep the sagging economy afloat yet are scorned and persecuted to no end by the city's christian majority thus they dwell in society's underbelly and it is here the two borrowers must go shylock does not hesitate to remind the two men of a certain incident where antonio insulted and spat on him in the city market and he proudly rebukes this man who frankly has a lot of nerve now coming to ask for help but help him shylock does he even erases any kind of interest on the loan most likely feeling he has no reason to be concerned if antonio will be able to repay him within three months still one contractual demand is a pound of antonio's flesh should he on their agreement this is an unsettling request to be sure for antonio and as well as for us but it appears that despite his justifiable pride shylock does not really anticipate seeing such a gruesome act occurring br br so here the dramatic groundwork has been laid and while the film goes off to explore its gentler side with its love lottery and mistaken identities there still looms the gloomy prospect of the loan itself in the end what will become of this ominous agreement meanwhile we are left at turns to explore the true central character of shylock al pacino has ample dramatic weight to carry here and he does so with convincing grit and passion there are times when he is given room for the theatrics we have come to expect from such a colorful actor but his most impressive scenes are the ones where he internalizes this energy showing a conflicted personality honest sincere and proud yet brooding vengeful and entirely remorseless this is one of pacino's most heartfelt performances to date and while the rest of the cast play their roles and convincingly it is pacino who really owns the film especially toward the end when shakespeare upends this seeming romantic comedy with a wallop of a third act br br i shall not reveal much here all i can say is that it involves the initial loan a mighty shoe one expected would drop sooner or later and does it ever by the end shakespeare has raised a host of dilemmas for his audience seemingly questions of faith morality law and mercy are thrown before us through the final scenes and while by curtain's close the playwright's position may seem clear to some we are left completely at odds there are winners and losers in this one but have the winners earned their spoils with good reason or have they in a larger sense ended out losing as well has virtue been rewarded or simply has justice in fact this time been just by the play's finish some fates are painfully clear and unequivocally sealed but the audience are to be the ones who really decide the verdict for all of those involved and for some the verdict is still out for the play as well comedy or tragedy the author has cunningly veiled the intense courtroom finale with an ending of light mirth and pat romantic resolutions is he saying that all is well that ends well or is this his final ironic condemnation the play's humor serves to set us up nicely for such a heavy crash and while it is also what unfortunately keeps the merchant of venice from achieving the greatness of so many of shakespeare's other works it is still engaging amusing and thought provoking beyond measure
1	keira knightley and sienna miller stars in the story of two of the women in the life of dylan thomas knightley is thomas's boyhood sweetheart he re encounters during the blitz meeting at a bar they reconnect however things become complicated when thomas' brings his wife miller along the next time he meets her the women hit it off and things proceed at pace until the trio are joined by the man who will become knightly's husband this further complicates things as jealousy begins to show its face br br beautiful to look at extraordinarily written and wonderfully acted everyone disappears completely into their roles this is a sumptuous feast for the eyes and the ears it's so nice to see a film about adults being adults on a purely visceral level i really enjoyed watching the film because the film is so artistically pleasing rarely have i ever seen a film that is this beautifully crafted br br the trouble with the film is i'm not entirely sure of everything that happened something seemed to be missing and a couple of times i had to replay the film to see if i missed something its not bad but its not completely satisfying as a result i tried to look up on line to see how much of the film is true but i couldn't find anything still i think this is a film worth seeing it's a beautiful film for adults with probably the best acting the leads have done
1	a few thoughts before i get to the heart of the film 1 i have never seen so many bare breasts in a film before displayed in so many non sexual scenes it was weird 2 joseph fiennes where have you been you charmed us in elizabeth and shakespeare in love and then you went away for awhile mainstream american wants more okay i'm a college english professor i have read this play many times and this is probably the best film version i've seen of it while individual aspects of other productions may have stood out this is the overall package put together well pacino is no olivier but he doesn't need to be so get over it the film's cinematography is stunning and not just because of the bare breasts venice is portrayed amazingly and you do get a feel for really being there residential island is amazingly beautiful and the lighting is always tinted the proper way for the scenes' appropriate moods br br the anti in this film play is hard to watch especially at the end pacino's dropping to the knees and clutching his religious artifact is perhaps the most powerful moment of his on film since the godfather part iii when michael's daughter is gunned down on the opera steps is the play anti sure is othello racist sure take it for what it is a commentary on the elizabethan era not a commentary on today br br fiennes is underutilized in the film but still a pleasure to watch the women in the film are alright no one really stood out here but they do blend in nicely with the scenery jeremy irons and pacino are excellent in the two roles adversaries until the end i've always felt irons was underrated i still get chills when i hear his voice from the lion king and pacino is pacino
1	the merchant of venice is a fantastic movie it's very true to the original shakespeare play if you saw jeremy irons in casanova and liked his performance this is a movie for you if you saw joseph fiennes in shakespeare in love and you enjoyed his performance this is a movie for you if you saw al pacino in donnie brasco and liked his performance this is a movie for you it is a very enjoyable movie and if you're studying shakespeare like me this is a great movie to see the only problem with this movie is that you can't let the little ones see it because is has a wee bit of nudity in it but other than that it's a really good movie
1	my guide for the quality of the a movie is if i'm still thinking about it after leaving the theater i'm still thinking about this one the next day which doesn't happen often br br the scenery a reasonable guess for 16th century italy costumes lighting cinematography are all excellent it is a beautiful film visually br br characters can never rise above the script they must recite but these actors made the most of their material which is excellent this is one of shakespeare's best plays which people will still enjoy another 400 years down the road all of the principals were interesting and enjoyable br br those who say this is anti semitic must be deaf and blind if anything it is anti 16th century catholic while shylock plays a man controlled and tortured by the hurts he has suffered it is clear that the society in which he lives is largely to blame the script clearly places his personal responsibility where it belongs as well br br a great film
1	venice in jews are separated from the good christians a young but poor venetian loves the fair who is a wealthy heiress so he approaches his friend a merchant called antonio for three thousand to travel to belmont and propose all of antonio's ships and merchandise are busy at sea so he turns to the shylock the one of jewish faith shylock does not like antonio for he spat on his face he offers antonio a three month loan at no interest but if he will not pay the money in that time he will own a pound of his flesh also daughter jessica elopes with the christian lorenzo the merchant of venice is based on william shakespeare's play that's believed to have written between and i read the play last summer and now i've seen the movie made in 2004 by michael radford i liked the play and i don't quite agree with the accusations of it being anti semitic the jewish character does not appear as an inhuman monster even though he's ready to cut a piece of antonio's flesh there's a lot of depth in his character which all comes out in his speech where he asks if you prick us do we not bleed and so forth there is much more human in character than in one of antonio's who spits on the good jew al pacino is unbeatable as shylock he gives such a strong performance jeremy irons is also terrific as antonio lynn collins is most beautiful and brilliant in the role of robinson does great job as jessica and charlie cox as lorenzo is also very good kris marshall plays and he does a good job in the role of we see heather goldenhersh mackenzie crook plays as in shakespeare plays usually also this one contains most brilliant dialogue the movie paints a fantastic portray of the era it deals with some great issues in a shakespearian way
1	the merchant of venice 8 10 br br this review assumes a basic knowledge of the story and so may be thought of as containing spoilers to anyone unfamiliar with the plot br br as a film version of the famous shakespeare play merchant of venice does what few adaptations have done since polanski's rather gritty macbeth it takes the spirit of the play and brings it out not just as well as but better than the play alone could readily achieve br br lord of the rings director peter jackson has argued that in adapting a book or play there are three options attempt to replicate the original as perfectly as possible use the original idea as an inspiration but take full license for cinematic change or the one he avowedly preferred stick to the original as much as is cinematic ally viable but make such changes as are necessary for the film and while remaining faithful to the intention or spirit of the original br br in macbeth polanski used the rain sodden beaches and realistic rapes and murder to convey what a bloody and horrific period the play was set in thus bringing to mind the horrific context in which the characters make such ill advised decisions it differs from say branagh's hamlet which achieved new heights of faithful rendition but otherwise offered little new macbeth on the other hand maybe enabled audiences fresh to shakespeare to appreciate some of the drama's fullness without extensive study similarly more familiar audiences might find a greater depth than the stage performance could accomplish such interpretation plays a vital part if audiences are to fully engage not only intellectually but also emotionally with the points shakespeare wanted to make br br adaptation of merchant of venice does just this it takes crucial moral dilemmas involving religious bigotry or the keeping promises and with minimal messing of the bard's holy tome conveys them faithfully within the spirit of the original story br br the first of these religious bigotry gives meaning to otherwise outlandish behaviour we see the jews of the period relegated to a walled ghetto only allowed out if wearing an identifying red cap not being allowed to own property one of the few ways they can earn a living is by money lending this makes them both useful to their christian oppressors and at the same time the object of their vilification the idea behind both old and new testament biblical prohibitions against usury probably stems from not making a profit by helping one's friends this is extended by the bigoted christians to curse those they spit on we see shylock not only spit on but fellow jews thrown into the for sport in an atmosphere that can only be described as threatening br br the of the film is curious since the bigotry of right wing christianity as personified by bush following americans has turned full circle as they are now the main supporters of zionism and the jewish political leaders bite at their palestinian neighbors much as shylock tries to bite at antonio once he thinks the law gives him the power to do so the psychology is self evident kick a dog repeatedly and it will become vicious the circle easily continues as the victims of oppression themselves easily lose their sense of moral values and become oppressors br br the stringent of hand that the disguised uses to save antonio has some merit both as a clever interpretation of the unsophisticated law that the of the play so rue and also as a moral pointer shylock may 'have his pound of flesh' according to his contract but may not have any blood an easy analogy could be made as far as warfare and terrorism goes it is much easier to justify fighting among combatants or attacking ill doers if soldiers or evil doers are the only victims when there is massive collateral damage as when innocent citizens including women and children are killed in their hundreds the arguments whether those be israeli palestinian or us american carry far less popular support br br there has long been much argument whether shakespeare was being anti semitic in this story one wonders if he had to adapt the ending for a largely christian audience who had little dealing with jewish people far from teaching him a greater good the ending enforces christianity and humiliation upon shylock a course likely simply to perpetuate pent up resentment both camps look just as bad one simply holds more power than the other the slight of the judgment simply gives the christian judges a better public image or as so acutely observes when choosing the caskets and solving the riddles to win hand br br in religion what damned error but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text hiding the grossness with fair ornament there is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts br br of course the bigotry applies to organised religion rather than spirituality especially when organised for political purposes but one that easily ordinary god fearing people who are not in the habit of splitting hairs the kindness mercy in judaism which is so fundamental to true christianity is something also practiced to a wonderful degree in judaism as in most creeds the jewish faith distinguishes between kindness and charity ways of practicing both effectively and ways of making it part of one's being rather than just an outward show both shylock and antonio are bigoted and use their respective faiths to abuse those of another faith while shakespeare maybe pointed up the chasm between the goodness prescribed by different faiths and its absence in practice the film version reduces much of the window for interpretations of anti semitism and brings a greater degree of realism to the psychological causes br br the keeping of promises the men to their wives is dealt with less well as are the comic elements inherent in the cross dressing sub plots however strong his love for antonio are there homosexual elements there cannot make sound moral judgements when showing his gratitude to the and so breaks his promise for which forgives him displaying a character for women not only as supremely intelligent and witty but also as more truly merciful and considerate of others than her bigoted male counterparts including her husband br br some of the acting is a bit stilted and there are too many regional english accents but on the whole merchant of venice delivers a fresh and rewarding reworking of shakespeare i enjoyed the acting and also the very beautiful soundtrack by hayley and others singing ballads penned both by shakespeare and edgar allen poe all in all merchant of venice is a not achievement of british as far as any film can be said to be of a particular nationality these days cinematic tradition
1	michael radford the director of the merchant of venice makes a tremendous job in opening the play as he makes it more accessible for everyone to have a great time at the movies watching this thorny account of a horrible time in history the luscious production of the shakespeare's play is a feast for the eyes with its rich detail of the venice of the xvi century br br this is a story of revenge prejudice and justice as imagined by william shakespeare having seen the play a few times we were not prepared about what to expect mr radford takes care of presenting the story with such detail so it can be easily understood by everyone also he has used a version of english that makes more sense rather than relying on the original text in fact the way shylock speaks in the film doesn't shock at all being he a member of a minority that has been marginalized by the venetian authorities and the catholic church br br al pacino tremendous portrayal of shylock shows a man that is vulnerable arrogant mean and totally human all at the same time mr pacino sheds light into the character of the man who is defeated in court by a technicality his own daughter has left him and his whole world seems to be caving in on him at the end of the film we see a man that has been reduced to being the target of hatred and ridicule by everyone br br lynn collins as is a happy discovery having seen her in lighter fare she not only surprises but she makes the best of her role and her time in front of the camera she shows us she is a woman with a high intelligence who comes to the help of her husband and his best friend who risked his own well being in trying to help get hand br br jeremy irons plays antonio the man who seeks shylock for a bridge loan after all he knows his ships will be returning with fortunes from abroad soon antonio gets much more than he bargained for in agreeing with shylock to the terms of the loan antonio's best laid plans go astray when he is suddenly unable to fulfill his obligations mr irons gives a subtle performance br br joseph fiennes makes a good appearance as his good looks and his charm make an impression on who clearly sees a soul mate in this young venetian as she knows he is the one for her also in smaller roles kris marshall robinson charlie cox contribute to make the film an enjoyable experience br br ultimately it's mr triumph because of the vision he gives us of venice and its citizens during a horrible time in the history of mankind
1	seriously where is al pacino's oscar nomination for this one is it that we take him for granted at this point in his career pacino here is extraordinary he gives a complex heartbreaking performance as shylock the jewish money lender the movie as a whole was quite great with beautiful shots of venice to look at and a pitch perfect score to listen to the other actors all do a fine job as well but the real reason to see this is pacino i have seen all the nominated oscar performances of 2004 and i must say that pacino was snubbed blame it on the anti semitism associated with the play the lack of campaigning by the studio the late release date with no major push or most likely all of the above in my mind the best performances of the year belong to jamie foxx in ray don cheadle in hotel rwanda and al pacino in the merchant of venice
1	william shakespeare's the merchant of venice is about a jewish and his bond to extract a pound of flesh from the wealthy merchant antonio the of a debt the jewish of course is shylock and he is given such a towering performance by al pacino that even outstanding actors like jeremy irons joseph fiennes and lynne collins fade into the background the film is set in 16th century venice and director michael radford relies on setting mood and realism to tell its story rejecting lavish period costumes or a modern setting with rock music to appeal to a wider audience br br radford slices the play's three hour length to a manageable two hours and eight minutes and also provides some historical background in the opening narration he tells us how jews came to england were subject to increasing persecution and eventually expelled from england they were forbidden to own property could make profits only by lending money at interest and were forced to live in a venetian a forerunner of darker events to come in the film the merchant antonio jeremy irons spits upon shylock in public yet feels no shame in going to the usurer to borrow 3000 to help his friend and suggested lover joseph fiennes to properly court lynne collins a wealthy heiress though shylock has been insulted by antonio he agrees to loan the money without interest for three months on the condition that of the bond grants him the right to exact a pound of flesh from antonio's heart br br the play is primarily a drama of hatred and revenge but like many of shakespeare's works there are touches of broad comedy as well here the comedy involves three pairs of lovers and friend and and lorenzo another friend of and jessica daughter has offered herself to the person who can pick the right treasure from one of three boxes made of gold silver and lead the prince of morocco chooses the one of gold the prince of aragon the one of silver and both are disappointed however loves her for herself and opens the leaden casket to find the portrait within adaptation conveys a remarkable feeling for time and place residence at belmont suggests one of those splendid summer homes complete with immaculate gardens and art treasures hanging in every room and contrasts well with the grungy look of city with its dank alleyways br br when it becomes clear that antonio cannot repay the debt returns to venice leaving behind when he arrives the loan is in default and shylock is demanding his pound of flesh even when backed by wealth offers many times the amount in shylock is intent on revenge not only for the loss of the money but for a lifetime of outsider status the duke who sits in judgment will not intervene as enters in the guise as a lawyer to defend antonio it is here that the film reaches its dramatic heights as all parties come to court to achieve a final resolution br br the merchant of venice is not only about an unpaid debt but also about the estrangement of jews from christian society and their desire for belonging it has been one of shakespeare's most controversial plays and analysts have debated for a long time whether it is an anti semitic play or simply a play about anti semitism that reflects the prevalent view of christian society in elizabethan england although shylock is definitely a caricature he is an ambiguous figure and there are many indications that shakespeare views his flaws as human failings not jewish ones the duke recognizes that he is simply a man who has failed to adhere to the compassionate language of the torah br br in the monologue i am a jew hath not a jew eyes …if you prick us do we not bleed if you tickle us do we not laugh if you poison us do we not die and if you wrong us shall we not revenge shylock shows a universal humanity expressing the equality of all men though we are horrified at the sentence he wishes to carry out we can feel his pain accumulated over the years pacino's performance brings new vigor to the text and his often over the top persona is replaced with a gentler more understated demeanor that brings understanding to his cause during a toronto international film festival interview last september radford said about pacino you work with a brilliant actor you have a great machine it's a bit like driving a powerful car you have to dare to do it he has dared and we are all the beneficiaries
1	i saw the merchant of venice in london last week great acting by al pacino jeremy irons joseph and lynn collins compare to other movies based on shakespeare's play this production has made the play so easy to understand and follow bravo to michael radford for directing such top actors the costume and the scenery are great and since it was filmed on location in venice it gives the film and authentic flavor i had read the play over thirty years ago at school and the emphasis was on the characters' anti semitic behavior toward the jews and the cruelty of the christians i do not know if this movie is going to be controversial but in any case i am sure that it will get few oscar nominations
1	it is a risky business to film such a lavish production of the merchant of venice it could be a stodgy wooden period piece or it could be laughable for its excesses this version is neither while i am not completely sold by al very restrained shylock he does give a competent and honorable performance jeremy antonio is as always with his tortured self roles riveting some of the lesser roles seemed to be a little to much in the spirit of boisterous fun a boy's own adventure story but the central plot is efficiently and sympathetically moved forward through the film br br it goes without saying that the location shots costumes and interiors were breathtaking almost to the point of distraction br br one thing on which i do not wish to comment on is the anti content of the play the film is as sympathetic to the predicament of the jews as possible while still portraying shylock as the instrument of his own self destruction it is a sad comment that four centuries later the director of this film found it necessary to comment on his nuanced view before the premiere screening at the toronto film fest br br this is a beautiful film and i look forward to several viewings
1	welsh poet dylan thomas excused from serving in active duty is doing his bit for the war effort producing bits of prose for some propaganda branch of government in whitehall br br thomas is portrayed as a believing in free love married to a woman with an equally demanding artistic streak and likewise with a penchant for extramarital romance thomas writing and reciting his poetry in systematic domestic mayhem throughout becomes somewhat priggish towards the end resting somewhat uncomfortably on his society connections and pulling rank on a war veteran who had shot up his house and who was incidentally married to the woman he had been having an affair with br br the real story of this film is the love of two women one keira knightley whose first love was thomas matthew rhys the second sienna miller who is thomas's wife at times it reminds of the singing detective as in very good television with slightly sinister overtones laid on top of scenes of surreal camp absurdity
1	i am always impressed when a director and this case director screenwriter takes a piece of classical text and makes it come alive sure shakespeare's text can give you goosebumps even when hammered out with self importance but to see a production where true inventiveness makes wonderful words even more so by the provision of context or nuance not found in the stage directions is simply awe inspiring there are many troubling things about the play it is a racist play about racism and that still sticks i have never accepted jessica's desertion of her father without any acceptable reason i have never accepted the position of sanctimonious self righteousness but brilliantly there is a text prologue which helps us understand the times and politics in which the story is set and mercifully much of jessica's part is cut br br the text is quite stripped down with many passages cut but i only noticed one line which was cut at the moment when i expected to hear it and it was replaced by a look that said it all this economy and judicious editing has given us a gripping movie not just a film of the play br br and at last there is a rationale as to why antonio is so loyal and generous to the undeserving unrelated you can almost feel antonio's pulse start to race when he catches glimpse of passing by in a gondola or arriving for a visit but it is as subtle as that no more i was spellbound br br there were many other highlights i felt the arguments during the trial to be heartbreaking and the trials are hilarious br br add all that to glorious cinematography and costumes that resonated with the times and you'll understand why i can't wait to see it again and again
1	i just saw this at the toronto international film festival in the beautiful elgin theatre i was blown away by the beautiful cinematography the brilliant adaptation of a very tricky play and last but not least the bravura performance of al pacino who was born to play this role which was perfectly balanced by an equally strong performance from jeremy irons br br the film deftly explores the themes of love vs loyalty law vs justice and passion vs reason some might protest that the content is inherently anti semitic however they should consider the historical context of the story and the delicate and nuanced way in which it is told in this adaptation br br 9 10
1	the inherent problem with any staging of 'the merchant of has never been the pseudo controversial anti semitism but the fact that there are two story lines wildly different in both tone and content a frothy romantic comedy and a searing tragedy while mixing genres was all the rage in the sixteenth century and mocked by shakespeare in hamlet it rarely fails to grate with modern audiences as a result most directors are forced to place an emphasis on one storyline at the expense of the other and it is no surprise that the decision falls in the favour of shylock br br like so many of shakespeare's great tragic heroes shylock continues to fascinate after 400 years because he is such a difficult and complex character pitiful proud angry vengeful weak arrogant his behaviour defies simply analysis and continues to be argued over he is flawed not because he is a jew but because he is human rarely do modern screenwriters imbue their creations with such richly textured contradictions and it is to everyone's benefit that we have shakespeare to draw on for inspiration br br shakespearean language is wild and rambling saturated in multiple meanings word play and metaphor to be understood it must be wrangled and tamed by an actor with the strength and knowledge to do so when an actor fails the words pour forth in a torrent of incomprehensible words but when he succeeds the english language springs to life with an immediacy and vibrancy that takes your breath away al pacino is one such actor and here displays an incredible level of clarity and control that were there any justice would sweep every award in the offering he meets the challenge of presenting shylock head on and delivers an extraordinarily subtle and nuanced performance it would be a crime if we never got the opportunity to see what he does with king lear br br the supporting cast is noteworthy jeremy irons gives an original take on the familiar antonio presenting an older quieter figure that displays the unsavoury contradictions between medieval chivalry and ugly prejudice of the time joseph fiennes is a revelation as he matures beyond superficial eye candy to actually inhabit a character for once lynn collins is the only disappointment many of shakespeare's women are underwritten and require an actor to really work hard to bring them to life and collins' gwyneth paltrow impersonation seems a little flat and unsuited to the darker tone that radford is aiming for br br the design team must be acknowledged for creating a unique and thoroughly believable vision of late renaissance venice the city has not looked this ominous since 'don't look now' taking full advantage of extant locations and natural light the film has an appearance of authenticity that is greatly enhanced by the dark and timeworn costume design all again are worthy of award recognition br br the financial backers of films such as this must be commended with a budget of 30 million they must go into such a venture in the full and certain knowledge that they will never make a profit and yet they invest nonetheless we can all be grateful for it as the result is a remarkable adaptation that is sure to be a benchmark for many years to come
1	michael radford has done an excellent job bringing this difficult play to the screen he has taken a play with a reputation for anti semitism and shown us that shakespeare knew quite well the humanity of the jews radford said after the screening and i agree that shylock is his first tragic hero the first of his characters to be undone by a driving compulsive need for revenge he also points out quite rightly that a man who was anti semitic could not have written speech of if you prick me do i not bleed radford is himself of jewish descent and he has picked out the good and bad of all characters with delicacy and honesty no character is free from flaws no character is evil radford has placed the play in the 16th century which gives a lush background of venetian politics and decadence on which to project shakespeare's words br br if you get a chance to hear radford speak about the film i highly recommend you take it since he gives details about life in 16th century venice that illuminate a lot of the choices he made and give considerable extra depth to the viewing i'm hoping that the dvd will come out with extensive commentary br br jeremy irons does a gorgeous portrayal of antonio a man who himself to bearing the burden of his past misdeeds lynn collins a relative unknown gives us an absolutely flawless stunning and detailed job as not only is ms collins beautiful she also gives layers of intelligence and humor prior to the trial scene i've rarely seen in any production of this play the rest of the cast also does a terrific job with a notable performance by kris marshall as and a beautifully subtle work by allan as playing the foil to shylock finally while al pacino pulls out his usual strong and loud performance his best moments are when the camera focuses on him and he says no words but you can see all the emotions and flowing into and out of him as he perceives his fortunes changing br br if you like period movies i cannot recommend this movie enough
1	'the merchant of is one of shakespeare's better known plays and is still regularly performed in the theatre incredibly however this film would seem to be the first ever english language version made for the cinema rather than television there were a number of versions made in britain or america during the early days of the cinema but these were all silents br br the reason for this neglect of the play may be connected with sensitivities about the play's alleged anti semitism a subject which has been even more sensitive since the rise to power of the nazis in 1933 this may explain why all previous versions were made during the silent era in 1908 or 1922 it would have been easier to portray shylock as a straightforward villain than it would be today yet in my view the film is not anti semitic at all it should be remembered that during shakespeare's lifetime there was no settled jewish community in england the jews had been expelled by edward i in the late 13th century and were not permitted to return until the time of cromwell some forty years after shakespeare's death as far as we know shakespeare never travelled abroad so it seems quite possible that he himself never knew any jews personally or experienced the effects of anti semitism at first hand the play is not simply about the jewish question but is among other things an analysis of the corrosive effects of religious prejudice it may in fact be a coded examination of the mutual antipathy between catholics and protestants in tudor england something of which shakespeare certainly would have had first hand experience and an appeal for greater tolerance between them br br then as now traditional anti semitic stereotypes had always depicted jews as avaricious but principal sin is not avarice if it were he would certainly have accepted offer to pay him six thousand twice the amount borrowed by antonio rather sin is anger and the root of his anger is the way in which he and his fellow jews are treated by the christians of venice not only are jews in general regarded as second class citizens but jewish such as shylock are particular targets for abuse even though the services they provide are necessary to the venetian economy the play shows the corrupting effects of prejudice not only do views of this sort corrupt the christians who hold them they can also corrupt the jews who suffer abuse vindictiveness is out of all proportion to the wrongs he has suffered by spitting on him and calling him a dog antonio behaves like a boorish bigot but and bigotry are not generally regarded as crimes deserving of the death penalty moreover shylock seeks to revenge himself on antonio not merely for the undoubted wrongs that antonio has done towards him but also for all the wrongs real and imaginary that he has suffered at the hands of the christian community such as his daughter's marriage to lorenzo br br it is to the credit of the film's director michael radford and of its star al pacino that they understand all these issues pacino's shylock has initially a sort of angry dignity about him that gradually gives way to vindictive rage and finally after his humiliation in the trial scene by reasoning to pathos we see clearly that he has been the instrument of his own destruction but we can still sympathise with him in my view none of pacino's performances that i have seen have ever equalled those he gave in the first two 'godfather' films not of a woman' for which he won an oscar and certainly not 'godfather iii' but 'the merchant of venice is the one that comes closest to those benchmarks the other acting performance that stood out was lynn collins's luminous speaking her lines with great clarity and simplicity and bringing out the intelligence and resourcefulness that make her character more than simply a romantic heroine i was less impressed with jeremy antonio who seemed too passive antonio is a complex character part loyal friend part melancholy contemplative part religious bigot and part enterprising capitalist although irons captured the first two of those aspects it was difficult to his antonio either spitting on someone of a different faith or his all on risky trading ventures br br interpretation of the play was attacked by the film critic of the who although he admired pacino's performance disliked the period setting and argued that shakespeare needs to be placed in a contemporary setting if it is to have for a modern audience citing a recent stage production which set the action in weimar germany i would disagree profoundly with this approach the theatre and the cinema are quite different media and while there have been some striking modernist approaches to shakespeare in the cinema trevor night' comes to mind a traditionalist approach is often the best one i preferred for example zeffirelli's 'romeo and juliet' to baz luhrmann's the idea that we can only appreciate shakespeare in a modern guise is sheer intellectual laziness we are not prepared to make the effort to see our greatest writer in the context of the elizabethan society that produced him but rather prefer him dressed up as an ersatz twentieth century man br br traditional approach not only enables us to appreciate that bigotry and vindictiveness are age old universal problems but also makes for a visually striking film in the play the scenes set in venice itself are characterised by turbulent action those set in country house at belmont are happier and more peaceful in the film the venetian exterior scenes were shot on location against a backdrop of misty wintry grey skies similar to the look achieved in 'don't look now' the candlelit interiors with faces brightly lit against a dark background were reminiscent of the chiaroscuro effects of a caravaggio painting i suspect this was quite deliberate as caravaggio was a contemporary of shakespeare by contrast to dark or misty venice the belmont scenes shot in an enchanting villa on an island in a lake were characterised by sunshine or peaceful moonlight br br this is one of the best shakespeare adaptations of recent years an intelligent and visually attractive look at a complex play 8 10 br br a couple of errors we see a black swan on the water in front of house these birds are natives of australia and were not introduced to europe until well after the date when the film is set also the portrait of in the leaden casket is painted in the style of the florentine botticelli who was active about a century before that date lynn collins may be reminiscent of a botticelli beauty but it seems unlikely that a late 16th century venetian lady would have had herself painted in the manner of late 15th century florence
1	this movie has a decent story in my opinion very good fight scenes but i was a little bit disappointed by the end of the movie i think that it was a way better if denier knew karate also or if she knew to use some weapons her character has become more interesting too and she was a decent opponent to cynthia i think when the director filmed the final between cynthia denier he wanted to finish the movie earlier so he didn't care how the end was going to be all in all i think that fans of cynthia rothrock will be very satisfied watching this movie it's not like 'yes or sworn to justice but it was entertainment enough and cynthia looks awesome in this movie so my rate for this movie is a solid 8 10
1	when you think of golf movies you think of caddyshack but what if there are kids around go right to this movie disney uses is proved formula to make a movie that the adults and the kids will enjoy the acting in this movie in my opinion is quite good and the leading cast for the most part is very young this movie is also filmed very well and unique seeing all the angles of the golf game i think this movie should be up for some academy awards for film editing or something like that because the entire flow of the film is top notch though the ending might be a little predictable the movie does well on its own it also shows that you do not need swearing nudity or violence to make a great golf movie
1	when i first saw the movie being advertised i thought it was going to be another disney movie that almost goes straight to video i finally got around and rented it i thought it was going to be bad because i couldn't see shia in any other role than his recently cancelled show even stevens when i turned it on i was ready to turn it off from boredom in about ten minutes it started a bit slow and i couldn't understand the beginning because the years didn't make sense then they explained that later in the show so i was relieved of wondering about that all and all i thought it was a good movie and i would recommend it the cast was top notch and even though i'm not a fan of golf it easily kept my attention with a good plot
1	if you like your sports movies to be about dignity and the best values then this'll work for you big time in places sure of course it is and proud of it it is the biggest and best ride in the carnival and should be enjoyed as that br br big production values simple telling with creative shots it is not complex is a very nice and remarkably sweet film it really feels like a labor of love from bill paxton and i bet his son gets that br br the build up is slow enough to be enjoyed the conflicts feisty and the british vs americans handled with a degree of vaudevillian villainy but the dignity between the two main transatlantic protagonists is always to the fore i have minor gripes the score wants to be james horner but is too overblown and there are too many close ups and panning shots for 2005 but if you want a straightforward decent and good looking sports film then this is it br br so here's the thing and i feel like i know my film but i actually liked it more than which is a better film but greatest story is simply disney at its core and hugely enjoyable thanks bill
1	rainy day with not much to do we were surfing the movie network channels and found this one just starting so we gave it a chance br br the more we watched the more we became engrossed in the story its the old story of working class underdog trying to make it in a sport which at the time 1913 i think was usually played by the wealthy upper class but this movie was every bit as interesting as and this is also based on a true story br br the acting is believable and the casting is brilliant and we are not golfers so please don't miss this one just because its about golf any individual sport would serve the plot because it's about the people golf works well for this story because of the class distinction and snobbery that seem to involve some who play the game br br bottom line its a feel good movie it's well put together and isn't it always fun to see those who think they are better than others get taken down a peg or two
1	where would hollywood have been without march as robert browning or dennis price as lord byron famous lovers in their day even an actor as normally as michael redgrave once brought some moody charm to a portrayal of w b yeats writers' lives are an endless source of inspiration br br but of all poets it was dylan thomas the free loving welshman who enjoyed a pint or two and drank himself to death in new york at the age of 39 who was closest in spirit to the film industry during world war ii he produced scripts for british propaganda documentaries he even wrote the screenplay of a vapid melodrama called the three weird sisters in which three old maids in a welsh village plot the murder of their rich half brother all that is now forgiven br br in john the edge of love thomas is played by the welsh actor matthew rhys it's not a full scale biopic the film covers four years in the poet's life during world war ii when he lived with two women his wife caitlin sienna miller and a former lover vera phillips keira knightley whom he met again by chance during the war it seems he loved them both the relationship of these extraordinary women to thomas and to each other is at the heart of absorbing film br br how it came to be made is a story almost as remarkable as that of the lovers themselves the film's producer is the granddaughter of vera phillips and william william a war hero played in the film by cillian murphy married vera while she was still in love with the poet was inspired to make the film when she discovered a book about her grandparents dylan thomas a farm two mansions and bungalow by david thomas describing their tangled lives sharman macdonald who wrote the screenplay is the mother of knightley the part requires knightley to sing and her mother included songs especially for her surely no film with such family connections deserves to do other than succeed br br we begin in london during the blitz bombs are falling sirens are wailing and phillips is singing to crowds in an underground tube station in a pub by chance she meets thomas and discovers after all these years that he has a wife and child phillips and caitlin form a friendship untroubled by jealousy or rancour and are soon sharing beds and bathtubs listening to thomas read his poems exchanging intimate secrets and smoking their heads off as everyone did in wartime caitlin turns out to be more experienced in the ways of the world my first was augustus john he seduced me when i was 15 but it's the refined and soulful phillips who stirs thomas's deepest responses and eventually succumbs to his charms in the meantime she has reluctantly married who has seen her in the tube station and been instantly captivated by her beauty if not her singing br br it is an intense and strangely beautiful film though thomas himself may be its least impressive character he is best remembered for under milk wood his verse radio play about a day in the life of the mythical welsh village of whose name spelt backwards was not something polite english teachers drew attention to i once had a vinyl recording of richard burton reading the poem he appeared in a film of under milk wood in 1971 and i've never forgotten the creamy seductive quality of his voice the legendary charisma the magnetism of the man is something i missed in performance thomas comes across as a strangely pallid even secondary figure compared with the women in his life br br in his previous film love is the devil explored the turbulent life of painter francis bacon and his sadomasochistic relationship with his lover and model george dyer the edge of love seems to me a richer and more satisfying film if you ask what insights it offers into the springs of thomas's creative inspiration i would have to say but as an insight into his egotism his smouldering moods and his general indifference to the feelings of others it is wonderfully sad and revealing br br thomas had a good war boozing and writing while other men including were being traumatised by the horrors of battle in one scene near the end thomas's behaviour towards his friends seems unforgivably callous but this is not after all thomas's film murphy gives us a magnificent study in doomed passion and the emotional of war miller is charming and pathetic as the wife and knightley looks almost too exquisitely delicate to be real as she did in pride and prejudice but this is probably her finest performance and in every respect the film is worthy of her
1	shia labeouf has impressed me before with his acting ability but i can honestly say that i very much look forward to his next efforts his portrayal of francis a 20 year old caddy who ignores his father's insistence that golf is not his place in life and enters the 1913 us open tournament in his hometown the beginning of the movie does drag a bit but it's necessary to set up the underdog subplot that shia works so well the entire cast is well chosen and they work very well together in a story that based on the actual event has an ending everyone can discover before seeing the movie but even knowing that information doesn't spoil the fun josh flitter is delightful as eddie lowery francis' caddy who keeps him grounded and loose while at the same time proving to be an invaluable part of francis' effort stephen delane is outstanding as harry the legendary british golfer who francis idolizes yet does not fear and who knows the background francis comes from as he too had humble beginnings bill paxton takes a formulaic movie and makes it worthwhile bravo mr paxton and bravo to the cast from the imagery to the story to the people who bring it alive this is a movie to get enjoy and revel in it's nice to have movies like this that we can feel good watching
1	this is not a movie that i would typically watch at 2 30 in the morning but i got into it and couldn't stop until it was over br br shia labeouf demonstrated that he is not just a young actor here but could handle more demanding roles the fact that he has been handed those roles in the last two years is testament to his ability br br it was really his movie sure there were others involved but they pale in comparison to his role br br this was a time when gold was reserved for the privileged this victory opened it up to the masses much the way that tiger woods has opened golf to all races br br like harry stephen said to lord peter firth if mr shia labeouf wins tomorrow it's because he's the best because of who he is not who his father was not how much money he's got because of who he bloody is and i'll thank you to remember that go get charged up
1	both disney and bill paxton did a fine job in conveying a story that is based in fact you do not have to like the game of golf to appreciate the story of one man's struggle to overcome the odds it could have been based on any sport or simply on any other situation which involves competition though this one just happens to be related to golf the only problem i have with the story is that i would have liked to see a bit deeper into each of the main characters esp mr mr francis is a typical young man of his times turn of the century america where class lines are well delineated and woe be it to anyone who deigns to try to rise above his class standing i did a bit of historical research and my biggest question was indeed answered to my satisfaction although the circumstances are a bit different than those portrayed in the film i came away with a feeling of content i thoroughly enjoyed this movie i believe you will too
1	disney's buena vista pictures presents a wonderfully told fact based sports drama directed by actor bill paxton photography is superb but story sometimes lumbers along this film is about the 20 year old amateur golfer francis shia labeouf and his competition in the 1913 u s open what a story a once in a lifetime chance for a supposedly incapable young man to play along side the best golfers of the time including british champions harry stephen and ted ray stephen marcus a storybook ending leaves a knot in the throat the cast also includes peter firth elias koteas marnie robin wilcox and possibly stealing the show is josh flitter who plays eddie lowery caddy and best friend
1	i was blown away by this film i'm one of those people who just takes a risk with movies that don't especially appeal to me sometimes and i've got to say this one paid off i mean wow even my young boys enjoyed the film 5 and 6 at the time though i'm quite certain this was not geared to their age groups br br this movie was clean too which is a great plus it is so great to sit down to a movie you thoroughly enjoy without profanity violence except one very brief scene or anything else one is likely to find morally objectionable br br this movie brought you along on a journey you are so ready to believe because of the great acting you feel the vast range of emotions portrayed along with the characters br br i never thought a golf movie would have me at the edge of my seat but i couldn't help being intensely interested in how this one would turn out i have nothing to compare it to since i have neither watched golf in reality or on film before but everyone did a great job in keeping the pace and emotions captivating here the score also did wonders excellent excellent score br br even if you don't think this would be your kind of film watch it you may be pleasantly surprised i certainly was
1	this is first of all a good exciting story with well developed characters but all the other details are well crafted on top of that leading to a wonderful film don't let the disney label lead you to think this is dumbed down or only for kids it has a lot to offer to all ages whether you like golf or not one of the more impressive things is that the film manages to make a golf game look really exciting and speaking as one of many who can't abide golf on tv this is no small feat br br the first half of the film does a good job of laying out the basic characters with their motivations and backgrounds enough that you end up liking all the important competitors once the pivotal match begins halfway through sure you root for character all along but his primary opponents are likable and interesting in their own right the background layer is important once the golf match becomes a match using minds as well as golf clubs since you get a good understanding for what each person's strengths and weaknesses are as the play progresses br br the computer effects are flashy but they do help the story more often than not the directing has all sorts of clever golf shots and the period costumes and sets are really top notch br br there are a few small quibbles many of the minor characters seem a little too stereotypically cast from the class warfare mold but this is forgivable with the major characters so well drawn br br shia playing francis is as usual callow and sympathetic but the real standout is steven playing harry he rarely moves his face but his intense often sad eyes and minor changes of expression say so much br br caddy eddie lowery played by josh flitter steals the scenes he is in after you see the film google to find the actual photograph of and lowery at the tournament to get an even better appreciation of how incredible this match truly was
1	i am not a golf fan by any means on may 26 about 10 30 pm the movie started with a scene in the late 1800's old movies i like but not golf however within the first scene a young boy harry is awaken by the voices of men he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something so then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on the movie is excellent we then see this young boy now a man professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning don't want to give away too much i was up until 2 a m this is super please see the movie
1	the greatest game ever played 2005 is an amazingly uplifting infectious underdog film that never really devolves into sappiness or yes it takes several liberties as most hollywood films do but those liberties are forgiven as they actually add to the film's enjoyment not detract from it in fact there are a lot of truthful moments in it you can really tell that it's a rocky type film from the film's outset but who cares directed by none other than bill paxton i know right it's expertly done and immensely watchable br br tells the story of francis played with confidence cockiness and class by superstar to be shia labeouf an amateur golfer from a working class irish french immigrant family living in ma in the early 1900s qualifies to play in the 1913 u s open included amongst his competition is the legendary harry played with immense class dignity and ferocity by stephen ironically is the 2nd underdog in this flick the film starts in 1870s scotland where land developers tell the youngster that they are building a golf course on his home and that golf is a game not for the likes of someone like him francis undergoes some of the same prejudice as a boy in early 1900s the stories converge at the 1913 open br br what's ironic is that even as an adult and multiple major champion is still an outcast in british society due to his upbringing francis learned much about golf from reading books on the subject and is his idol all growing up unbeknownst to they actually met back in 1900 in boston after who won that year's open was touring when francis was only 7 br br in addition to francis and in the 1913 open include friend and champion brit ted ray boisterous stephen marcus and classless chest thumping two time defending champion john mcdermott michael weaver the film really does a good job of showing the different personalities of these men br br redheaded marnie is serene and stunning as francis' supportive irish mum and veteran elias koteas gives a stern reserved taciturn performance as his french dad plucky young josh flitter as francis' pint sized 10 year old caddy eddie almost single handedly steals the proceedings br br paxton throws in a lot of modern details such as special effects zooming in shots to show the positioning of the players and cgi for a lot of the golf shots to keep the film exciting and at a brisk pace so as not to make the film too much of a period piece but the film still convinces us of a specific time and place br br what's interesting is that while rocky like this is all based on a true story so the ending is satisfactory on so many levels an entertaining film about golf set in the early 1900s wow
1	the focus of the key relationship in a young man's life that of his relationship with his father was excellently portrayed in this movie the greatest game ever played the movie captured the essence of how important it is for a father to validate his son and let him know that he has what it takes to follow his dream br br it didn't matter that economic and social class mores presented obstacles to be overcome by both father and son it also didn't matter that others were the son in exuberant celebration what mattered the most was that he saw his father's hand and then his face of approval the real life challenge for both father and son had been met br br considering that in real life the hero of the story kept his amateur status and became a businessman pretty much verifies that all that went before the match was the training ground for a valid father and son relationship
1	i thought that this movie was incredible i absolutely loved it even though my brothers didn't that much the special effects were outstanding and this movie is about my favorite sport golf the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen it was everything i would expect out of a movie i just loved it also it was pretty kid friendly this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it anything is possible i would give it a pure 10 10 it was better than the legend of and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined absolutely amazing loved it
1	with its ww2 timing falling in and out of love and easy on the eye kira this is re atonement br br this a relationship story with focused main characters working out the the balance between first and fast love in the home front of ww2 poet dylan thomas his way between wife and ex in dark and smoky blitz london and later in windy wales br br vera's ex and next spark off each other as the poet and soldier become a sideline while the girls bond and share an easy watch that works well in the era bouncing along with just a few dips in pace would work well with french subtitles but then i may have been to too many art house movies lately
1	oh my god what a story this movie is very good and it had to be god who had this happen you did a awesome job the acting was really good you picked the right actors for sure this movie is so good i am really glad you made this because if you had not then i would have never ever known about this story because i am not a big golf fan and i think it is kinda boring so thank you i really enjoyed it and that is why i gave the movie a 10 10 i liked shia labouf too he was perfect for the roll of i hope most of that stuff you put in there was true also oh and some parts were funny and others i was just really happy
1	at 20 years old francis shia lebouf as his whole life ahead of him in a way the son of an immigrant family living in the late 19th to early 20th century era united states class was a very limiting fact of life if one is born poor one stays poor if one is born into the bourgeoisie one has a tiny bit of opportunity if one is born into the wealthy class they essentially have it made in the shade british gold champion harry and francis' golf idol played by the criminally underrated stephen is the exception that proves the rule born and raised in a poor british family his accomplished skill at golf allowed him to rise from the dirty mess of the poorest slums to the lush greens of the english country clubs he has not forgotten this life lesson francis wishes to follow in footsteps and similarly uses his great skill at golf to get into the 1913 us open at age 20 but a tough course and formidable opponents including francis' idol harry are not all that francis must deal with as a less than understanding father and cruel societal framework stand in his way of living his own dream br br i know what you are thinking i thought it too a walt disney produced film about the 1913 us open starring the irritable shia labeouf holds the possibility of being entertaining but it cannot possibly be a great film well i am here to encourage you to think again despite what it may look to some on paper the greatest game ever played is one of the best sport films in creation br br as with every great sport film the greatest game ever played includes many exciting sport scenes but it is not a film about golf it is a character centered film about using one's talents following one's dreams and breaking out of class barriers where the greatest game ever played works excellently as a themed sport film it also works just as well as a period film the film's featured costumes and sets being the next best thing to actual time travel the film also simply looks great and virtually unknown music composer brian tyler set the film to a wonderful piece of music the cast is great as well with a subtle but powerful stephen as british golfing champion harry a hilarious stephen marcus as man's man golfer ted ray a hammy josh flitter as francis' pre teenaged caddy eddie and a surprisingly good shia labeouf in the lead role as francis actor bill paxton apollo 13 titanic turns director here for the second time directing a full length feature in the greatest game ever played he produces a fine product incorporating plenty of heart ingenuity and an attention to detail in the making of the film
1	i will divide my review into following 5 categories each accounting a maximum of 100 if perfect br br visual pleasure 100 this is extremely pleasing movie visually i had a great time watching it golfing scenes are very well shot and the dramatic effects on the green were quite amazing i also loved seeing the old wooden golf clubs and the bag br br director's work 70 bill paxton is more associated to acting but this film shows he's got talent did a decent job br br acting 90 shia lebeouf was very good in his role of francis this guy can act well the rest of the cast was also good br br entertainment value 100 i enjoyed every minute of it it was overwhelmingly entertaining br br script 91 based on a true story and therefore it makes the film that much more special it was intriguing right from the start and loved every scene till the very end br br br br my advice definitely a must watch for all the sports lovers especially golf you all will love it anyone who is looking for a nice entertaining movie and doesn't hate sports can watch it br br br br 10 10
1	if you watch this at home on dvd or bluray be sure you have great sound system the musical score through this is what moves you through the movie i have watched the movie several times and thought it was great but after just up grading my home theater sound system what a difference i will be watching this movie many many more times br br if you do not have a great sound system find a friend who does and watch it there br br also watch the extra stories and behind the scenes extras that come with it the br or dvd the interview of in the 1960's talks about his scholarship fund but for those times just boys got it today i hope some of it goes to girls
1	i'm not a sports fan but i love sports flics so why what is a great sports flic this one and the storytelling style is very fine br br if you are looking for a reliably fantastic 2 hours of entertainment greatest game qualifies mightily here is a movie that moves bill paxton has gone to the same director school as ron howard a k a richie cunningham happy days that is not bad look at the immense body of fine work that ron did after moving behind the camera br br bill like ron was a great actor but will be a superstar director if greatest game ever is the indication of things to follow br br wonderful cinematography fantastic direction fine acting especially by elias koteas shia lebeouf marnie josh flitter stephen marcus justin br br this is a must see film not just as feel good nor sports film this is very good cinema
1	as you know the greatest game ever played is about golf i used to snicker at the over dramatic title but through great visual display credited to director bill paxton better known for his acting in twister and hilarious supporting roles in aliens and true lies we find out that this has much more meaning than a game br br though the movie is about golf it seems as though the sport is just the framework for what is really going on what is really going on is a story of individuals being told they can't fulfill their dreams be it age or social status a conflict between a son's wishes and a father's demands an english golf legend looking to bring the title home with the country breathing down his neck br br shia labeouf even stevens plays francis a caddy with a god given talent who was never permitted to play golf in the first place despite the resentment of the upper class gentlemen it was undeniable that francis had a gift what posed a greater threat was the discouragement of his father played by elias koteas teenage mutant ninja turtles who felt that playing a mere game will never improve their poor living conditions with the continued support of his mother francis eventually comes face to face with his idol the golf legend harry stephen br br more impressive than the game itself was the movie's cinematic achievement this proved that storytelling is successful through pure cinema the entire movie could've been told without dialog there are scenes in the movie that build strong suspense and powerful emotion with only pictures in one particular scene francis swings and the entire crowd turn their heads to watch the ball fly into the distance all but the face of harry looking intensely at without a flinch the ways in which the golfers visualize the course offer more aesthetic enjoyment br br a pleasant supporting cast completes the whole peyton list plays the love interest and looks worth playing for and josh flitter plays a lovable caddy that keeps focused as the pressure bogs him down golf fan or not you'll appreciate the film for its beauty and its reminder that cinema can be a great medium to tell any story
1	this movie gives golf a high mark it was well acted and well directed giving you a view of history that some non sports fans will enjoy the historic factor alone gives it a high rating the golf course was really done well i am in the northeast and have seen as a fan and as someone who loves the game the movie was well done on all levels a must see 5 stars the acting was superb disney has another winner in its bag of great movies if for no other reason watch the film to give hope and encouragement to young people whom may not see the hope in their life i would tell you that the setting while in the late 1800's and early 1900's is very realistic the costumes and dialect were right on the mark as well above and beyond the call of duty for a golf film a must see for fans and non fans alike
1	wow here is another great golf movie that's at least three in the past few years that i've really enjoyed that were well done beautifully filmed and inspirational the other two were bobby jones stroke of genius and the legend of bagger vance br br this is a true underdog story if there ever was one to have an amateur defeat all the professionals and win the united states open golf tournament is an unheard of feat i believe this is the only time in the 100 years it has ever been accomplished how much of this film is fiction embellished for dramatic effect i don't know i do know that i plan on reading the book and i know that in real life francis had a three stroke lead in with just two holes to go unlike what we saw in the film br br whatever francis victory over golf legends harry and ted ray is fact it is an amazing story and the filmmakers did a super job in presenting it here it isn't something just for golf fans this is a fun movie to actor turned director bill paxton for an outstanding job br br yes a lot of this is just plain golf but there are subplots such as relationship with his father and with a pretty young woman who is obviously interested in him it's also a touching story of someone giving a little kid a chance the movie also deals with demons of coming from the wrong side of the tracks and trying to make it in an sport which it was at the time for both europeans and americans br br shia labeouf is winsome as as is steven as for those who don't know was like the tiger woods of his day maybe even more unbeatable in the film is pictured as a warm nice guy a genuine human being the other major competitor ray stephen marcus is shown as somewhat of a brutish nasty guy br br the fourth main character of this golf story might be the coolest person in the film a fifth grade boy who winds up being caddie in the open he josh flitter brings a lot of humor and charm to the movie br br if all of this a with the huge underdog against two mighty pros and having come down to the last hole were not true you would think oh man this is so hokey who could believe this that's what makes this true life story fun to see finally captured on film as with another sports film of 2005 cinderella man here is another excellent movie that got unjustly ignored when it came to awards i guess nice films don't win awards just the hearts of their viewers
1	i was extraordinarily impressed by this film it's one of the best sports films i've every seen the visuals in this film are outstanding i love the sequences in which the camera tracks the ball as it flies through the air or into the cup the film moves well offering both excitement and drama the cinematography was fantastic br br the acting performances are great i was surprised by young shia labeouf he does well in this role stephen is also good as the brooding harry peter firth justin and elias koteas offer able support the film is gripping and entertaining and for the first time in my life actually made me want to watch a golf tournament
1	although i'm not a golf fan i attended a sneak preview of this movie and absolutely loved it the historical settings the blatant class distinctions and seeing the good and the bad on both sides of the dividing line held my attention throughout the actors and their characterizations were all mesmerizing and i was on the edge of my seat during the golf segments which were not only dramatic and exciting but easy to follow toward the end of this movie came strongly to mind although the greatest game ever played is far less complex a story than that film in both cases the fact that the events really happened deepened my interest
1	from the start of the edge of love the viewer is transported to the striking world of ww2 london we follow the lives of four people who might have been created just for this movie an exploration of female friendship and the strains caused on it by marriage and infidelity except one of the characters is named dylan thomas perhaps the greatest english poet of the 20th century and his reactions to the world around him were not only selfish but at times truly despicable br br this movie is based on thomas' writings about love and romance these were adapted with a sharp screenplay by sharman macdonald keira knightley's mother the director john does claim that the three other lead characters were actual people br br all four are performed very strongly sienna miller is dylan's wife keira knightley is the cabaret singer vera phillips matthew rhys is dylan thomas and cillian murphy is william the first section of the movie takes place in london during the nazi air raids with vera being pursued by willaim a soldier waiting for deployment by a chance encounter dylan meets with his first love vera from there vera meets caitlin dylan's wife while the three are drinking william successfully breaks vera's guard br br the film follows their lives as vera and william are married and he is sent to war vera has become pregnant and returns to wales with dylan and caitlin there they face a gritty existence with vera supporting dylan and caitlin with her husband's war pay through these times vera's and caitlin's friendship grows so does dylan's infatuation with vera she gives in this creates the first test for the two women br br when william returns from war he barely recognizes his wife and has no bond with his infant son things get worse as dylan idly watches his friend struggle with battleground fatigue post traumatic stress disorder william realizes something has happened between dylan and vera and in a drunken rage shoots up dylan's house br br edge of love starts as a stylish romance in war torn london and ends in the stark gritty life of motherhood infidelity and attempted murder in wales the treatment of ptsd is well done and should speak to an american audience some day see ending br br each star has a great moment miller when she is yanking out stitches in her head in response to her abortion of another man's child knightley and murpy when he finally bonds with his son oh hell almost all their scenes are awesome and rhys when he himself on the stand to get vera's husband sent to jail br br yet the real star of the movie is jonathan freeman's cinematography and john direction they seem to understand that no matter how good the story or how historical thomas is this is a film dominated by two great actresses of our time and they cherish their scenes with stunning shots while this isn't best picture material it is a very good movie much more engaging than the dutchess it has a visual lyricism that accentuates the use of thomas' poetry also this is clearly knightley's second best performance of her career and perhaps miller's best br br i have always had a weakness for the artist in struggle whether it's hulce's mozart or hoffman's capote but i was stunned at how little sympathy i felt for dylan thomas his struggles with alcohol are well known but his antagonism of william and caitlin to gain possession of his first love vera makes him out to be a bad man br br so is this academy award worthy clearly no at least not this year it will be released state side in march 2009 making it for the academies this is 9 months after it was released in britain between atonement miss and brideshead revisited the us has had its fill of ww2 british period pieces too bad this film is better then the other ones except atonement but in this one knightley's soldier does come back but as a shell of the man who left her
1	this movie with all its complexity and subtlety makes for one of the most thought provoking short films i have ever seen the topics it addresses are ugly cynical and at times even macabre but the film remains beautiful in its language artful with its camera angles and gorgeous in its style skillfully recreating the short story of the same name written by a master of short stories tobias wolff br br not wishing to spoil anything of the movie i won't go into any details other than to say that this movie is magnificent in and of itself it takes pride in what it does and does it well it shows the most important memories of life all of which can be topped by the single most elusive feeling unexpected bliss this movie of its own volition has created in me the same feelings the main character tom noonan felt when words transformed his very existence and that is one impressive feat
1	i've seen this story before but my kids haven't boy with troubled past joins military faces his past falls in love and becomes a man the mentor this time is played perfectly by kevin costner an ordinary man with common everyday problems who lives an extraordinary conviction to save lives after losing his team he takes a teaching position training the next generation of heroes the young troubled recruit is played by kutcher while his scenes with the local love interest are a tad stiff and don't generate enough heat to melt butter he compliments costner well i never really understood ward as the neglected wife and felt she should of wanted costner to quit out of concern for his safety as opposed to her selfish needs but her presence on screen is a pleasure the two stars of this movie are the coast guard and the sea both powerful forces which should not be taken for granted in real life or this movie the movie has some slow spots and could have used the wasted 15 minutes to strengthen the character relationships but it still works the rescue scenes are intense and well filmed and edited to provide maximum impact this movie earns the audience applause and the applause of my two sons
0	once again mr costner has dragged out a movie for far longer than necessary aside from the terrific sea rescue sequences of which there are very few i just did not care about any of the characters most of us have ghosts in the closet and costner's character are realized early on and then forgotten until much later by which time i did not care the character we should really care about is a very cocky overconfident ashton kutcher the problem is he comes off as kid who thinks he's better than anyone else around him and shows no signs of a cluttered closet his only obstacle appears to be winning over costner finally when we are well past the half way point of this stinker costner tells us all about ghosts we are told why kutcher is driven to be the best with no prior inkling or foreshadowing no magic here it was all i could do to keep from turning it off an hour in
0	this is an example of why the majority of action films are the same generic and boring there's really nothing worth watching here a complete waste of the then barely tapped talents of ice t and ice cube who've each proven many times over that they are capable of acting and acting well don't bother with this one go see new jack city ricochet or watch new york undercover for ice t or boyz n the hood higher learning or friday for ice cube and see the real deal ice t's horribly cliched dialogue alone makes this film grate at the teeth and i'm still wondering what the heck bill paxton was doing in this film and why the heck does he always play the exact same character from aliens onward every film i've seen with bill paxton has him playing the exact same irritating character and at least in aliens his character died which made it somewhat gratifying br br overall this is second rate action trash there are countless better films to see and if you really want to see this one watch judgement night which is practically a carbon copy but has better acting and a better script the only thing that made this at all worth watching was a decent hand on the camera the cinematography was almost refreshing which comes close to making up for the horrible film itself but not quite 4 10
0	first of all i hate those moronic rappers who could'nt act if they had a gun pressed against their foreheads all they do is curse and shoot each other and acting like version of gangsters br br the movie doesn't take more than five minutes to explain what is going on before we're already at the warehouse there is not a single sympathetic character in this movie except for the homeless guy who is also the only one with half a brain br br bill paxton and william sadler are both hill billies and character is just as much a villain as the gangsters i did'nt like him right from the start br br the movie is filled with pointless violence and walter hills specialty people falling through windows with glass flying everywhere there is pretty much no plot and it is a big problem when you root for no one everybody dies except from paxton and the homeless guy and everybody get what they deserve br br the only two black people that can act is the homeless guy and the junkie but they're actors by profession not annoying ugly brain dead rappers br br stay away from this crap and watch 48 hours 1 and 2 instead at lest they have characters you care about a sense of humor and nothing but real actors in the cast
0	not even the beatles could write songs everyone liked and although walter hill is no mop top he's second to none when it comes to thought provoking action movies the nineties came and social platforms were changing in music and film the emergence of the rapper turned movie star was in full swing the acting took a back seat to each man's overpowering regional accent and transparent acting this was one of the many ice t movies i saw as a kid and loved only to watch them later and cringe bill paxton and william sadler are firemen with basic lives until a burning building tenant about to go up in flames hands over a map with gold implications i hand it to walter for quickly and neatly setting up the main characters and location but i fault everyone involved for turning out lame o performances ice t and cube must have been red hot at this time and while i've enjoyed both their careers as rappers in my opinion they fell flat in this movie it's about ninety minutes of one guy ridiculously turning his back on the other guy to the point you find yourself locked in multiple states of disbelief now this is a movie its not a documentary so i wont waste my time recounting all the stupid plot twists in this movie but there were many and they led nowhere i got the feeling watching this that everyone on set was of confused and just playing things off the cuff there are two things i still enjoy about it one involves a scene with a needle and the other is huge 45 pistol bottom line this movie is like domino's pizza yeah ill eat it if i'm hungry and i don't feel like cooking but i'm well aware it tastes like crap 3 stars meh
0	brass pictures movies is not a fitting word for them really are somewhat brassy their alluring visual qualities are reminiscent of expensive high class tv commercials but unfortunately brass pictures are feature films with the pretense of wanting to entertain viewers for over two hours in this they fail miserably their undeniable but rather soft and flabby than steamy erotic qualities non withstanding br br senso '45 is a remake of a film by luchino visconti with the same title and alida valli and farley granger in the lead the original tells a story of senseless love and lust in and around venice during the italian wars of independence brass moved the action from the 19th into the 20th century 1945 to be exact so there are mussolini murals men in black shirts german uniforms or the tattered garb of the partisans but it is just window dressing the historic context is completely negligible br br anna plays the attractive aristocratic woman who falls for the amoral ss guy who always puts on too much lipstick she is an attractive versatile well trained italian actress and clearly above the material her wide range of facial expressions signalling boredom loathing delight fear hate and ecstasy are the best reason to watch this picture and worth two stars she endures this basically trashy stuff with an astonishing amount of dignity i wish some really good parts come along for her she really deserves it
0	a funny thing happened to me while watching mosquito on the one hand the hero is a deaf mute and the director is totally unable to make us understand why he does what he does mutilating mannequins er excuse me corpses through his images on the other hand the english version at least is very badly dubbed so i found myself wishing there had been both more and less dialogue at the same time this film is stupid funny how this guy has access to every graveyard and mortuary in his town and lurid where would we be in a 70s exploitationer without our gratuitous lesbian scene not to mention the romantic aspect oh how sweet miss it
0	this german horror film has to be one of the weirdest i have seen br br i was not aware of any connection between child abuse and vampirism but this is supposed based upon a true character br br our hero is deaf and mute as a result of repeated beatings at the hands of his father he also has a doll fetish but i cannot figure out where that came from his co workers find out and tease him terribly br br during the day a mild manner accountant and at night he breaks into cemeteries and funeral homes and drinks the blood of dead girls they are all attractive of course else we wouldn't care about the fact that he usually tears their clothing down to the waist he graduates eventually to actually killing and that is what gets him caught br br like i said a very strange movie that is dark and very slow as werner pochath never talks and just spends his time drinking blood
0	being a long time fan of japanese film i expected more than this i can't really be bothered to write to much as this movie is just so poor the story might be the cutest romantic little something ever pity i couldn't stand the awful acting the mess they called pacing and the standard quirky japanese story if you've noticed how many japanese movies use characters plots and twists that seem too different so then steer clear of this movie seriously a 12 year old could have told you how this movie was going to move along and that's not a good thing in my book br br fans of beat takeshi his part in this movie is not really more than a cameo and unless you're a rabid fan you don't need to suffer through this waste of film br br 2 10
0	tokyo eyes tells of a 17 year old japanese girl who falls in like with a man being hunted by her big bro who is a cop this lame flick is about 50 filler and 50 talk talk and more talk you'll get to see the less than stellar cast of three as they talk on the bus talk and play video games talk and get a haircut talk and walk and walk and talk talk on cell phones hang out and talk etc as you read subtitles waiting for something to happen the thin wisp of a story is not sufficient to support a film with low end production value a meager cast and no action no romance no sex or nudity no heavy drama just incessant c
0	wealthy horse ranchers in buenos aires have a long standing no trading policy with the crawfords of manhattan but what happens when the mustachioed latin son falls for a certain crawford with bright eyes blonde hair and some perky moves on the dance floor 20th century fox musical has a glossy veneer yet seems a bit tatty around the edges it is very heavy on the frenetic gymnastic like dancing exceedingly thin on story betty grable an eleventh hour replacement for alice faye gives it a boost even though she's paired with leaden don ameche in tan make up and slick hair also good charlotte greenwood as betty's pithy aunt a limousine driver who's constantly asleep on the job and carmen miranda playing herself who else the stock shots of argentina far the action filmed on the fox backlot and some of the supporting performances are quite awful by the time of the big finale most viewers will have had enough 1 2 from
0	cage plays a drunk and gets high critically praise elizabeth shue actually has to do a love seen with the most unattractive and overrated piece of dung flesh in hollywood i literally vomited while watching this film of course i had the flu but that does not mean this film did not contribute to the vomit in the br br why can't nick cage play something he can really pull off like a bad actor nick cage who be brilliant in a role as a bad actor heck nobody could do it better br br the search begins for nick's contract with lucifer or was it lou cipher from night train to terror
0	first of all i would like to say that i am a fan of all of the actors that appear in this film and at the time that i rented it i wanted to like it br br i think that the main reason that i was so disappointed was that the outside box promised me a suspense thriller in my eyes a suspense thriller for british movies is like something out of a ruth novel something that has a lot of dark twist and turns and leaves the viewer with an ending that is unlikely to be forgotten anytime soon br br this movie started out with the promising note of being such a film we have our main character that suspects a man that he does not like of being involved in a hit and run that killed the husband of one of his servants his notions prove to be right but the idea that his wife might be involved does not occur to him until that she confesses to him that she was a part of the crime br br the elements of a good suspense thriller were in place at this point but from there i felt that the film took a different direction and became almost some sort of a mild soap opera about who wants to be with who and what the love of a real relationship is the film might have been enjoyable to me if the outside box had talked of a twisted lover's triangle and had not been labeled as suspense thriller this seemed to be more of a soap opera story and the beginning setting seemed to be a mild distraction to the true content of the film i felt like this film could have done a whole lot better than it did i felt like it kept leading the viewer up to a big event that never materialized so i have to give it a lower rating than i would have liked to and say that it fell short of my expectations
0	so tell me what serious boozer drinks budweiser how many suicidally obsessed drinkers house a fully stocked and barely touched range of drinks in their lonely motel room that a millionaire bachelor pad bar would be proud to boast and what kind of an alcoholic tends to drink with the bottle held about 8 inches from his hungry mouth so that the contents generally spill all over his face not to mention wasting good whisky by dousing your girlfriend's tits with it just so the cinema audience can get a good eyeful of elisabeth shue's assets br br cage seems to be portraying the most attention seeking look at me alcoholic ever to have graced the screen while shue looks more like a berkely preppy slumming it for a summer than some seasoned street walker she is humiliated and subjugated as often as possible in this revolting movie with beatings skin lacerations anal rape and graphic verbal abuse all of it completely implausible and included apparently only to convey a sense of her horribly demeaned state and offer the male viewers an astonishingly clichéd sentimental sexual fantasy of the with a heart' br br still i did watch it to the end by which time i was actually laughing out loud as shue's tough street hooker chopped carrots in the kitchen pathetically smiling while cage all eyes popping and shaking like like a man operating a road drill in an earthquake and mugged his way through the final half hour
0	a big disappointment for what was touted as an incredible film incredibly bad very pretentious it would be nice if just once someone would create a high profile role for a young woman that was not a prostitute br br we don't really learn anything about this character except that he seems to be a hopeless alcoholic we don't know why nicholas cage turns in an excellent performance as usual but i feel that this role and this script let him down and how after not being able to perform for the whole film can he have an erection on his deathbed really terrible and i felt like i needed a bath
0	this film is absolutely appalling and awful it's not low budget it's a no budget film that makes ed wood's movies look like art the acting is abysmal but sets and props are worse then anything i have ever seen an ordinary subway train is used to transport people to the evil zone of killer mutants strode has one bullet and the fight scenes are shot in a disused gravel pit there is sadism as you would expect from an 80s italian video nasty no talent was used to make this film and the female love interest has a huge italian taste maybe even for 80s italian standards this film is pretty damn awful but i guess it came out at a time when there weren't so many films available on video or viewers weren't really discerning this piece of crap has no entertainment value whatsoever and it's not even funny just boring and extremely cheap it's actually and insult to the most stupid audience i just wonder how on earth an actor like woody strode ended up ia a turkey like this
0	here's a decidedly average italian post apocalyptic take on the hunting killing humans for sport theme ala the most dangerous game turkey shoot gymkata and the running man br br certainly the film reviewed here is nowhere near as much fun as the other listed entries and is furthermore dragged down by poor voice over work generally bland action sequences a number of entirely tasteless scenes such as a prolonged rape sequence and some truly stupid and illogical points throughout br br take for example towards the end of the film when our hero manages to infiltrate the compound of the villains he initially kills a sentry and leaves him in his jeep upon discovery of the said corpse the villains response bearing in mind that our hero has come to brutally murder them all – they resolve to wait until the next morning to look for the culprit br br however i suppose to be fair the film remains nonetheless about watchable if you can suspend your disbelief during such stupid scenes and does benefit immensely by the presence of the always excellent woody strode even if his screen time is very limited br br not a classic by any stretch of the imagination but still just about worthy of a watch for italian b movie enthusiasts
0	at the bottom end of the apocalypse movie scale is this piece of pish called 'the final at least where i come from a bloke is trained by an ex cop to seek vengeance on those that killed his woman and friends in cold blood and that's about it lots of fake explosions and repetitive shootings ensue has one of the weirdest array of costumes i've seen in a film for a while and a massive fortress which is apparently only run by 7 people great job on the dubbing too guys best moment when our hero loses a swordfight and is about to be skewered through the neck he just gets out his gun and bang why not do that earlier it's a mystery as is why anyone would want to sit through this in the first place i'm still puzzling over that one myself now 2 10
0	earth has been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust well parts of the earth because somewhere in italy a band of survivors those without radioactive contamination are holed up in a massive mansion surrounded by lush grounds waiting for the next opportunity to go hunting for those with polluted blood the final executioner is the story of one of their would be victims alan william who looks not surprisingly a lot like kurt russell and his efforts to take down the legally sanctioned hunters who are led by marina costa and erasmus harrison muller jr alan has been trained to kill by former nypd cop sam woody strode who mostly hangs around giving his pupil moral support and mooching for tinned meat strode is by far the best thing about the film though he doesn't look at all well and only appears for about a third of the running time as for the story it's a blending of elements from better films and stories including ten little indians the most dangerous game and escape from new york the final executioner moves along at a fair pace and provides reasonable entertainment for less discriminate action fans
0	many people are standing in front of the house n some women are crying men standing in close groups and speaking in hushed up tone a couple of guys come in and they are discussing how sexy the daughter might look today soon u will know someone in the house has died the dead person's wife is worried about preparing food for so many people her friend sitting beside her gives an idea of making the matters easy by preparing simple one of the dead person's son is speaking with someone over the mobile daughter is busy with her makeup her mother suggests her to wear but the daughter is more interested in looking good when so many people will be visiting their house and hence prefers jeans and t shirt over another son asks her mom to finish all the and also indicates to her that he should not be expected to come early from the office then the camera slowly focuses on the dead person the white cloth covering the face is displaced slightly due to the wind revealing the face its anupam kher suddenly alarm rings and he gets up from the bed is it his dream or a flash back u won't get an answer until the end of the movie well this is wat comedy is for the director later u find out this scene has nothing to do with the actual movie and hence making everything obvious that the still described earlier was a dream is this a film comedy well it is supposed to belong to that category but it actually does not there is nothing that can be remotely associated with comedy in the movie more over the director gives the message that no one will get justice from police so everyone must cheat the cheats or forget about justice music by is ok nothing much to tell about other sectors bad script destroys everything not even anupam performance succeeds in making it at least a
0	new york family is the last in their neighborhood to get a television set which nearly ruins david niven's marriage to mitzi gaynor bedroom comedy that rarely ventures into the bedroom and nothing sexy happens there anyway gaynor as an actress has about as much range as an oven she turns on she turns off film's sole compensation is a supporting performance by perky patty duke pre miracle worker as niven's daughter she's delightful happy anniversary is not from
0	the best thing about the prey is the tag line it's not human and it's got an axe the movie itself is a padded endless insect and wildlife shots make the viewer wanna die no slasher fan will like this garbage watch friday the 13th again and burn any copy of this film you find br br it also rates as one of the 25 worst films ever made
0	this is truly without exaggerating one of the worst slasher movies ever made i know it came out in the 80's following a tendency started by friday the 13th the prey copies the fore mentioned movie in many aspects the woods setting the killer the dumb teens the gore etc br br but the prey is as bad as you might expect i didn't even remember about it if it wasn't for coincidence br br well the killer is in fact human so don't expect a supernatural killer in the likes of jason the situations rather boring and lack of tension gore violence etc it just does not works for a slasher flick br br the acting is simply horrid the score is horrible a combination of boring instruments with cheesy 80's tunes i won't even mention the technical aspects of the movie because believe me it seems that it cost only 20 dollars br br please avoid this one like the plague it's one of the worst movies i've ever seen and that's something to say thank god it seems to have vanished from earth
0	i'm a huge fan of both emily watson breaking the waves and tom wilkinson normal and was amused to see them upstaged by rupert everett in this shockingly rather minor movie that had all the ingredients to be so much more the too brief scenes in which he portrays a languid infinitely entitled worthless son of a rich lord are spot on and entertaining but for a love triangle there was remarkably little chemistry to speak of between anyone the music was annoyingly movie of the week quality and the voice over jarring and totally unnecessary clearly the work of a first time director with a small budget who either lacked or didn't sufficiently heed good advice too bad br br i can appreciate how the people you kind of hate at the beginning are the ones you kind of like at the end and vice versa so there is some sort of character arc at least in terms of perception for example watson's character while refreshingly honest to her husband about her feelings for another man began to grate on me near the end particularly when she announced to her husband that she simply had absolutely no control over her actions and later when she simply declared that she would be moving back into their marital flat with no asking of permission no apologies offered and i went from disliking control freak moral relativist character to sort of understanding him and not really wanting him to change unlike his wife br br this movie awkwardly morphed from a whodunit to a love story or steel magnolias illness drama without sufficiently informing me of the fact so i was left distractedly guessing what the next plot twist might be long after they had all been revealed was it the lord driving the car the lord's dog the scene where the lord visits wilkinson and relates how brave watson is the bestest nurse any dying boyfriend could ever ask for florence nightingale incarnate etc was ok until he started over the top sobbing like a baby good god if you ask me she's just another flitty rich person with way too much time on her hands and so she drives her hard working well providing spouse crazy with unnecessary drama her screwing around was just another way to occupy her empty life the dying guy thing was an added bonus for her as it somehow made her previous actions completely above reproach br br look everyone would have been better off if wilkinson had just left her for his secretary who seemed to appreciate him for who he was instead he acted like an abused dog his open craving for his wife's affection increasing with every kick she gives him i'm not anti pc or anything it just didn't ring true even after taking into account all of the harsh realities of middle age we all tend to face the ending for me was and not the director's intention i am certain depressing the movie spent the last 80 minutes convincing me that these two people just don't belong together so i found no joy in the promise of their relationship continuing i'm not above wanting my emotions manipulated by a story it just has to be somewhat plausible and not hackneyed is that asking too much br br my score 4 10
0	sure most of the slasher films of the 1980's were not worth the br br celluloid they were filmed on but this video nightmare may well be br br the dullest produced br br six horny pot smoking students decide to go camping of course br br and you know this already they begin getting killed one by one by a br br mysterious stranger the climax has a hunky forest ranger trying to br br get to the teens in time before the last cute girl becomes buzzard br br bait br br john carl my least favorite b movie guy did the lousy br br makeup effects here the cast features carel struycken of the br br witches of and the addams family movies sadly he br br does not pop up until the very end of the film and is covered in br br burn makeup rendering him unrecognizable steve bond anyone br br remember him is here in an early role as a victim br br brown's direction and the script he both smell like the br br presents brown bears leave in the woods he pads the film with br br so much stock wilderness footage i thought i accidentally rented a br br special episode of mutual of omaha's wild kingdom much of the br br cast sits around the campfire and eats then walk and sit and eat br br again the forest ranger is involved in the strangest scene ever put br br in a slasher film he tells a joke about a wide mouthed frog to a br br baby deer jackie coogan who must have forgot he once worked br br with the legends of silent cinema has two scenes and is involved br br in the second strangest scene ever put in a slasher film he and br br the hunky forest ranger have a conversation about cucumber and br br cream cheese sandwiches on oatmeal bread yeah br br there is not one minute of suspense here the killer a forest fire br br survivor looking for a mate watches the students from behind br br trees we know it is the killer because the film makers have br br dubbed in a heart beat sound effect that helpfully serves to wake br br the viewer up every few minutes skip this pile of pine sap and rent br br halloween instead br br this is rated r for physical violence mild gun violence gore br br some profanity brief female nudity mild sexual content sexual br br references and drug abuse
0	i think that would have been a more appropriate title for this film since it is padded to hell and back with stock footage of various bugs and animals i recently found the prey in its original vhs 'big box' form and was very excited i just love finding old slasher films on vhs because the cover artwork is fantastic usually though it turns out that the film itself is less than fantastic the prey is one of those films br br to be fair it started off ok with the killer stalking the cliché teenagers in the woods the heartbeat sounds used are a great effect that make you tense as you watch this film is basically a big fat cliché and when the campfire stories section rolls in the film takes a new direction and spends almost half of the running time on the back story of the killer i actually thought this was quite an original idea however the back story ends abruptly and shows us some stock footage of a burning woodland the lack of budget really starts to show now after this we are returned to the dumb teenagers being picked off in the woods the killer himself isn't shown until the end which is a shame because he actually makes an effective looking killer sort of like from the burning but better as for gore there isn't too much although there's an ok face squishing moment at the end br br overall i wouldn't recommend this film to anyone other than slasher completists it really is a big mess
0	1980 was certainly a year for bad backwoods slasher movies friday the 13th and the burning may have been the best ones but there were like always a couple of stinkers not far behind like don't go into the woods alone and this one but in all fairness the prey is nowhere near as bad as don't go into the woods but it's still not great either one thing is that it's just boring and acting isn't very good but much better than and this movie actually has some attractive looking females to look at all three of the female leads were stunning one thing what is up with all that pointless wildlife footage it just seemed pointless and it looked as the director used that to just used that to fill up some time space br br so what was there to like about this movie well there were a few laugh out loud cheese moments i couldn't contain a fit of giggles when the final girl did a bizarre type of backwards moon walk to get away from the and there were a few good kill scenes my favourites being the girl suffocated to death with the sleeping bag and the phoney looking br br all in all the prey is dumb boring and the killer i didn't find scary at all this movie could have been a whole lot better
0	everything everyone has said already pretty much rings true when it comes to 'the prey' endless nature footage bad acting aside from these elements this is a watchable film for slasher fans that in some cases is considered a cult classic br br jackson bostwick and jackie coogan play pretty well off each other there's also a three minute banjo solo that shows off skill behind the instrument not too bad if i do say so myself br br the last ten minutes of the 'film' are its saving grace the ending still haunts me to this day this can also sport a short lived plus in that an early john carl does the special effects some may know him from films like and 'friday the 13th part 7 he directed both these films all in all this isn't a movie everyone will find something redeeming in in fact on a hollywood level this can rank right up there with one of the businesses most amateurish efforts but for that handful yet very loyal of slasher movie fans in the world even the bad acting and atrocious nature footage can be forgiven
0	uhhh so did they even have writers for this maybe i'm picky but i like a little dialog with my movies and as far as slasher films go just a sliver of character development will suffice br br unfortunately the prey provides if you think i'm being hyperbolic you'll just have to see it for yourself scene after scene we just get actors standing around looking forlorn and awkward abandoned by any sense of a script outside of calling out each other's names when they get separated in the woods natch the only instances where these people say something substantive is when one character explains the constellation orion clearly plagiarized from funk scintillating slasher fare no and another rehashes an old campfire tale that doesn't even have anything to do with the plot wait what is the plot at other times the prey actually has the gall to film its characters with the boom mic just far away enough so that we can't exactly hear what they're saying so we get entire scenes wherein the actors are murmuring deliberately seriously i've seen more dialog in a silent film it's as if the filmmakers sat down at a bar somewhere in in the heyday of the '80s slasher craze and one looked at the other and said hey i gotta really sweet idea for a gory decapitation gag let's somehow pad an entire feature around it and well they did br br to be fair the prey probably had some sort of writer on board i mean somebody had to jot down the scene sequence and label the dailies however i am fully convinced that this film did not have an editor of any kind whatsoever there are glaring pauses boring tableaux and zero sense of pacing throughout the filmmakers don't have anything else in the script to film so they fill out the running time with exhaustive of the flora and fauna that inhabit the forest in which our wild and crazy teens are getting sliced and diced these critters are all filmed in straightforward daylight in a completely reserved fashion and with no attempt at atmospheric photography if it feels like a science film that's because it is i'm pretty sure this is all nature show stock that's missing is a stuffy narration from some national geographic br br more exciting footage that was graciously spared from the cutting room floor a scene in which two men discuss cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches and another scene wherein a supporting character away on a banjo for what feels like an entire minute and a half a minute and a half that's a lot of to commit to celluloid to begin with let alone insert into the final cut of the film way to go guys brevity and are the real victims of this br br admittedly the film picks up quite a bit of steam comparatively in the last 25 minutes into which much of the carnage is condensed and where a rip off of music for strings percussion and cuts in vaudeville great jackie coogan makes a fun appearance as a tubby park ranger this was his last role if you can believe it and there are some nice gory moments including a splattery neck tearing and the aforementioned decapitation the make up used for the killer carel struycken aka lurch from the addams family movies is also quite effective and makes him look like a strange hybrid of young jason voorhees and freddy krueger plus if you love wacky straight outta left field endings you need to check out how they wrap this puppy up you'll do a spit take i promise br br usually i love films that are on this level of ineptitude but the first three quarters of the prey are just so interminably boring that they pretty much spoil the rest overall this is a largely pallid and tedious affair and while it ain't all bad it should really only be seen by slasher completists why do we do this to ourselves anyway
0	oh yeah this one is definitely a strong contender to win the questionable award of worst 80's slasher ever made the prey has got everything you usually want to avoid in a horror flick a routine derivative plot that you've seen a thousand times before and better insufferable characters and terrible performances a complete lack of gore and suspense fuzzy photography and unoriginal locations and – most irritating of all – the largest amount of pointless padding footage you've ever encountered in your life and that's not an exaggeration but a guarantee apart from the seemingly endless amount of national geographic stock footage which i'll expand upon later this film is shameless enough to include a complete banjo interlude and two occasions where characters tell jokes that aren't even remotely funny the set up is as rudimentary as it gets with the intro showing images of a devastating forest fire with ott voice over human screams fast forward nearly forty years later when an elderly couple out camping in that same area get axe whacked by something that breathes heavily off screen this ought to be enough information for you to derive that someone survived the fire all these years ago and remained prowling around ever since enter three intolerable twenty something couples heading up to the danger zone with exclusively sex on their minds unaware of course they are sitting ducks for the stalking and panting killer the prey is an irredeemable boring film apparently it was shot in 1978 already but nobody wanted to distribute it up until 1984 and it isn't too hard to see why in case you would filter out all the content that is actually relevant this would only be a short movie with a running time of 30 minutes possibly even less there's an unimaginably large of nature and wildlife footage sometimes of animals that i think don't even live in that type of area and they seem to go on forever the only thing missing in fact is the typical national geographic narration providing educational information regarding the animals' habits animals in their own natural are undeniably nice to look at but not in a supposedly vile and cheesy 80's slasher movie for crying out loud the last fifteen minutes are finally somewhat worthwhile with some potent killing sequences and fine make up effects on the monster who turns out to be lurch from the addams family movies but still silliness overrules – the scene with the vultures is too stupid – and the final shot is just laugh out loud retarded as mentioned above the prey easily makes my own personal list of worst 80's slashers alongside appointment with fear berserker deadly games don't go in the woods hollow gate the stay awake and curfew
0	slasher fare which feels overly long at 80 minutes years ago a bunch of gypsies who lived in the caves of a mountain were burned up in a forest fire years later campers are going missing from the area of the fire a bunch of horny kids are of course en route to this area for a camping trip of there own despite an ominous welcome from the forest ranger jackson bostwick the kids troop up to the mountain any way before long the kids start to get picked off by the monster who remains unseen to the very end of the movie probably because the makeup was so embarrassingly bad no surprises to speak of they get killed in the exact order that the formula for these movies dictates leaving the final girl to fend for herself although in a refreshingly downbeat denouement the final girl ends up imprisoned and impregnated by the monster br br the story itself couldn't hold the weight of feature length so it was padded out by seemingly endless shots of wildlife and insects which were obviously shot for another film and inserted here as a means of making the movie long enough for a video release on the plus side the wildlife footage is rather nice also among the highlights are bostwick talking to a baby deer a decent rock climbing death sequence ok gore and the great jackie coogan in his final film role as the bumbling local sheriff this is a far cry from charlie chaplin but it was still nice to see him this is for slasher completists only
0	even by the lowered standards of '80s slasher movies this one stinks the usual gaggle of oversexed teens heads for a forbidden part of forest which burned in the 1940s and apparently left a sole angry survivor fast forward actually you'll want to fast forward through much of this mess to the present day where a couple of campers are butchered the teens follow in their wake while a semi concerned park ranger a sleepwalking jackie coogan and his healthier cohort who spins a lot of time tuning his banjo succeed partially in steering our attention from yards of run of the mill nature footage padding finally more killings but nothing you haven't seen a zillion times before if you want to see the kids butchered opt for sleepaway camp or the first friday the 13th over this
0	foolish hikers go camping in the utah mountains only to run into a murderous disfigured gypsy br br the prey is a pretty run of the mill slasher film that mostly suffers from a lack of imagination the victim characters are all too familiar idiot teens which means one doesn't really care about them we just wonder when they will die not to mention it has one too many cheesy moments and is padded with endless unnecessary nature footage however it does have a few moments of interest to slasher fans the occasional touch of spooky atmosphere and a decent music score by don still it's business as usual for dead camper movies br br there are much better films in this vein but over all the prey may be watchable enough for die hard slasher fans although one might be more rewarded to watch just before dawn 1981 wrong turn 2003 or even the final terror 1983 again br br 1 2 out of
0	rented 3 bad movies to watch with my friends in my dorm room br br leprechaun 4 jack frost and the prey br br i picked up jack and 4 because they are well known bad movies i have never seen br br i picked this movie out because it matched the how to find a bad movie guide on org no real description no pics of the movie on the back and i had never heard of it had to be a winner br br spoilers but this movie is so awful it doesn't matter p br br this is a true bad movie 4 and jack frost are dumb on purpose this is dumb despite the best efforts of the cast and crew br br this movie starts out much like evil dead even the actors look similar and have the same style of dress unlike evil dead it never gains any speed at all for a slasher movie it is pretty bland in 80 minutes 6 people get killed but these are spread apart so far it becomes quickly boring br br the director threw in a lot of boring shots on animals hunting obviously to go along with the whole prey theme but they do nothing to advance the story and are quite boring the gore is horrible all these extra shots were to make up for lack of a script and story br br the last 5 minutes of the movie are shot mostly in slow motion yet another way to add length to this the climax is such a total joke its hard to laugh at it is so bad the back of the box says the ending will shock and haunt you yes it will it will shock you that someone could put such a bad plot twist on film and haunt you because you won't believe you paid to watch this crap br br also the tagline is its not human and it's got an axe one person is killed with an axe in the whole movie and it is off screen br br a true 1 out of 10 i love laughing at bad movies but this one is so bad that it even lacks campy qualities no bad movie night is compete without a true character building flick p
0	i was pulled into this movie early on much to my surprise because i hadn't intended to watch it at all now i wish i hadn't the suspense starts out well with the hit and run resulting in death and the question of whether the guilty character will confess or be found out or doable now though a no no in the old days of movie making get away with it the plot's been done before what plot hasn't but the tensions inherent in it with the additional complications and motivations arising out of the illicit love affair make for an absorbing first half then the film abandons the hit and run to embark upon a misty exposition of two unrequited all suffering loves the two tracks of plot hit and run and unreasoning love just don't have enough to do with each other and that they involve the same characters doesn't bind them enough to justify the departure from the original story line the screenwriter should have chosen one plot or the other at the end of the film in the midst of the movie's second funeral i found myself thinking now what does any of this have to do with that hit and run the filmmakers may think the answer obvious but i think the movie was plotted and executed
0	the prey has an interesting history unless you remember the ads for it in newspapers in june of 1984 you might have caught it on the movie channel back in summer 85 but little else is remembered the plot is your basic killer in the woods again but ironically this was filmed before friday the 13th the prey was actually shot sometime in 1978 according to one of the actors in an interview years later but released for about a week at some drive ins yes jim drive in showed this in june of 84 but it has a dated look to it maybe they released it so later on to cash in on all the other terror films the market was flooded with by 1984 now on the story it has some kind of back story a forest fire back in the 1940's leaves a lot of gypsies burned to death but one of their children survive our monster so flash forward to present day which would be 1978 we have an older middle age couple camping only to be dispatched by the monster the tag line for this picture claims its not human and its got an axe but an axe was only used in these first two killings now we have a bunch of teenagers who look like they in their mid 20's camping we all know they are the prey and the monster knocks them of one by one for an 80 minute movie it seems longer we also have a lot of wildlife footage to fill in voids for the 80 mins overall for being out into an 80 's horror movie it looks way more 70's than ever hey the prey had potential to be a good horror killer in the woods movie but falls a little short it does however feature a pretty scary cool looking monster at the end and we have to wait till the last 2 minutes to see him side note the monster has gone on to star in the addams family movies in the 1990's
0	all the criticisms of this movie are quite valid it is pretty boring and filled with all kinds of pointless ridiculous stuff a couple exchanging nods over their good a medium shot of a desk as a phone rings until someone finally comes sits down and answers it at a pretty leisurely pace quadruple takes or more when people look at things solitary banjo tuning and playing taking a break for a beer telling a joke to a fawn about a big mouthed frog trying to learn what to feed its babies complete with many big mouthed expressions which are needed for the weak punchline the sharing of cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches on oatmeal bread which to the squeamish become unpalatable when there's talk of people burned in a fire lots of seemingly stock footage close up shots of animals birds insects and spiders in the woods br br the movie starts with a forest fire then at least a couple decades later some people in those same woods get killed by an axe the killer evidently wasn't too satisfied by the axe he stole and kills other people with other weapons of opportunity or his bare hands br br if it's true that the movie in the version available on the out of print videotape is cut perhaps if there's a lot of footage that was cut it deserves another look on dvd otherwise it's simply not very interesting and would probably try the patience of even the most hardcore outdoors slasher fan
0	i walked into a book store in brentwood tennessee i am not going to say the name because i am a dedicated customer i have been satisfied with every item i purchased there before this one on display in the front of the store was the bell witch haunting might i mention this is the only store i have seen it for sale in i had heard about the story somewhere and remembered it was supposed to have really happened for real i was very excited and couldn't wait to watch it i had great expectations for it i couldn't believe what i seen when i viewed it it didn't look like a real movie it looked like a home video i was under the impression it was suppose to be a horror movie i mean the movie was suppose to be about a witch haunting you know this is no horror movie you will not jump out of your seat watching this movie i gave the movie all the chances in the world to get better as it went along i swear i did it never did get any better there were several scenes of this little kid getting poop and pee thrown on him i didn't find that entertaining at all i watched the whole movie with disbelief that the store would actually sell this to me i guess that is how bad this economy has got i have this to say to the cast and crew do not show this film as material to get other film jobs don't do it i mean that sincerely i commend you for trying for people who have bought this i say this don't sell your copy to someone they could get very upset have a nice day everyone
0	thank god i didn't buy this movie myself i borrowed it from a friend who bought it out of sheer curiosity and of course after viewing it feel they should be reimbursed this has got to be one of the worse movies i've ever seen i do realize they couldn't have had much of a budget but i swear i could make a better movie than this staring my pets the acting was horrible so was the editing the dialogue everything it was so bad that it was seriously making me angry as i watched it i'm looking forward to the real movie about this story coming out soon so that people curious about it don't have to stoop to watch this joke
0	i saw this movie with my girlfriend it was a total disaster you can really see it was cheaply made badly scripted and with very bad acting i have read several versions of the book by different authors and also listened to one version on audio book we couldn't take the movie seriously because of the lacking elements it should have contained the experience of watching this was like the blair witch visits green acres then there were parts that were vulgar they show this little boy using a bed pan and they actually show the contents of it the witch throws the contents of it on the boy and the whole family laughs i thought it was nasty and very strange i really can't understand why someone would think that would be entertaining it shows another scene where dr arrives and betsy bell is urinating in her dress on the steps of their house in front of her mother and brothers instead of the mother leading her off it is the brother how sick the little boy in the first scene of the many scenes dealing with how your body disposes of wastes begs for toilet paper and goes to the out house and makes these sickening faces of joy with sound effects i think they should have left all of that out the makeup on the reverend james johnston as a older man didn't really make you assume he was older it made you think he was dipped in fish batter the blood on joshua gardner when he falls from the ladder is even worse the john bell death scene looks like they got out flour and tried to do something with it to make him look as a serious sick man to me to much sickening comedy with bathroom problems and inexperienced people involved was the downfall of this picture these people would do better if they film commercials for local tv stations for bathroom products they chose a good subject and were unable to produce it in a correct manner i rate this film capital f minus
0	if anyone tells you this picture is just terrific they probably have something to do with either making it or profiting from it this film is a real loser and it copies situations from big budget horror movies and not to mention soundtracks to i wouldn't recommend this one to my worst enemy it is a low budget movie with amateur actors it looks like it was filmed for a film contest the acting is terrible and it wouldn't surprise me if the script was written by a hee haw script writer my family laughed at it a grade zzzzzzzzzzzzz all the way you won't be scared by this one here is one little taste of the terrible elements of this film when the guy gets his toe stomped by ric white's stupid portrayal of the reverend james johnston walking cane the guys reactions are like if he had an amputation with no pain killer watch the dvd extras after you watch the movie when you see ric white and others talk so seriously about the movie you will laugh till your stomach hurts how people will stretch the truth and what they will do to earn a dishonest buck don't get fooled like we did and buy this failure
0	are you kidding me this is quite possibly the worst amateur movie i've ever seen the casting was horrible the acting was worse than horrible and i'm sorry the guy at the picnic speed loading his plate full of food was somewhere near pointless and the demonic turd and chamber pot chasing drew around was nothing more than comical when i herd about the bell witch i wanted to believe i read some literature on it and thought it sounded like it was possible a plausible story but this movie just destroyed that ric white director writer lead actor etc takes himself a bit too seriously and i think he gives himself a little more credit than he deserves do yourself a favor skip this one
0	in addition to the fact that this is just an abysmally made film imagine giving a camcorder to the average high school drama club the people who think that there is anything real about this legend need to grow up this is the 21st century guess what ghosts don't exist most people learn that from their mother when they're about 5 years old you guys seriously need to grow up br br the fact that a fraud was perpetrated nearly 2 centuries ago does not make it any less a fraud the fact that a large number of inbred hillbillies from tennessee believe it doesn't do it either go to college or at least finish high school
0	i wanted to like this movie i really really did i was so excited when i saw the preview which scared the hell out of me but when i saw the actual film i was disappointed the acting is stilted and the attempts at comedy are woefully out of place and forced and i'm sorry but a boy being chased by a turd in a is not funny or scary it's just stupid i grew up on the bell witch legend so i know quite a bit about it a lot of facts in the movie are right on target but this film should have been much better the entire birthday party scene for example lasts about fifteen minutes adds nothing to the plot or the story and should have been left on the cutting room floor a more heavy handed editor might have been able to get a decent film out of this mess br br please understand i'm not in any way shape or form involved with the other bell witch movie and i'm not trying to attack this imdb listing i'm just telling it like it is
0	i am not understanding why people are praising this movie i didn't like it at all i watch it with several people none of them cared for it either first of all it is just plain that another low budget studio is trying to cash in on a big name story the actual filming looks like a live tv interview the makeup is bad when you watch the movie along with the dvd extras you will see there is a lot of enthusiasm from the people who participated in it there is no talent there are facts that do appear in the book the facts are distorted by the invention of comedy and skits added to it i have read several books and have watched several shows on this story what i have always caught from all the material on this is that it was a serious horror story i really wish someone could really do a good film on this one it has always fascinated me the bad acting really ruined the story the little boys situation really hammed it up even more when you watch this movie the little boy and his problem is the thing you and your friends will remember and laugh about it didn't make any sense why his brothers were laughing at what had happened to him it was like the witch was supposed to be so threatening but it was ok to throw baby brother to her it is a whopping tale with him and his little problem i can't still get over the little girl saying mom said tobacco will rot your teeth frank fox's statement and facial expression is so bad the scene out in the yard with him getting food is pretty stupid to the sound from parts of it seems to be from the movie psycho also the girl hovering over the bed and her little bladder control problem are from the exorcist this movie is lacking from the talent of creativity we put the movie in for a couple of minutes and knew right away it was a bummer i also noticed that their was defects in the film quality parts of it looked like what a person might film on a home video camera i noticed a lot of the people in the credits had many multiple jobs this is probably how this movie was put together someone said i like this story i will get all my friends and make a movie about with a video camera and a computer doesn't matter if we don't know how to act as long as we get it on film and say it is good we got the family together and prepared food then sat down and watched this failed attempt to make a movie
0	this tale of the upper classes getting their come uppance and wallowing in their high class misery is like a contemporary mid version of an old joan crawford movie in which she suffered in mink here people behave in a frightfully civilized manner in the face of adversity a well heeled london solicitor tom wilkinson discovers that not only is his wife having an affair with the local gentry but that she has also killed their housekeeper's husband in a hit and run accident he throws up but otherwise his stiff upper lip hardly br br written and directed by julian fellowes who won an oscar for writing gosford park this is his directorial debut from a novel by nigel it's quite comical although i am not sure how much of the comedy is intended it's like a throw back to british films of the forties where characters all behaved like characters in books or plays rather than like people might in real life however it's not all bad wilkinson is terrific even if you never believe in him as a person while emily watson the adulterous wife and rupert everett the highly amoral high class totty are both very good at covering the cracks in the material tony pierce roberts' cinematography ensures that no matter how hard it is on the ear it's always good on the eye
0	the filmmaker stayed true to the most accurate account of the story published in 1894 which includes an 1846 manuscript by richard williams bell son of john and lucy bell and younger brother of betsy bell titled our family trouble to knowledge this is the only eyewitness account ever penned the filmmaker should be credited for accuracy but there is little to say about the production and acting quality the acting was theatrical and the sound and picture quality was extremely poor it appears that the filmmaker simply shot scenes of the reported events that took place without incorporating or weaving them into a flowing plot or story line if you must know the story read about it its much more gripping and conclusive
0	bell witch haunting aka the haunt is an american horror movie supposedly based on real events that took place during the period to br br this is not to be confused with bell witch the movie a movie starring betsy palmer based on the same events however i can say that i wish i had seen this other movie instead of the one i saw i enjoyed betsy chilling performance in friday the 13th as such i believe that even on a bad day she'd pull off a better performance than anyone involved in the travesty known as the haunt br br with regard to my heading this movie is not painful to watch because the content is disturbing it is painful to watch because it is just downright boring br br reading the positive reviews for this movie i could only identify three possibilities the first possibility these authors were involved in the production in some way the second possibility the authors whilst not directly involved were paid to write positive reviews after production was completed the final possibility none of these authors has seen a sufficient number of horror movies and therefore is inexperienced with the concepts that successful attempts utilise br br the setting for the plot is robertson county tennessee james johnston receives a visit from two journalists eager to hear the story of the bell witch the story is told as a series of flashbacks a series of supernatural events begin happening at the home of john bell and his family it soon transpires that a vengeful spirit is behind it all br br on the surface the plot appears to be a standard poltergeist affair albeit one based on real events br br where execution of the brilliant concept is concerned however just about everything that could go wrong does go wrong and then some br br first the acting the acting is almost uniformly terrible right across the board this factor does the most damage to the production undermining any possible credibility of belief or interest on the part of the viewer the voice of the vengeful spirit sounds more like a teenage girl experiencing teenage angst rather than a powerful demonic force expressing malevolent intent i almost laughed when i heard some of her lines unfortunately this voice began to become very annoying very quickly i may not have been alive in the 1800s but i find it incredibly hard to believe that any young woman alive at that time would speak in the way that this ghost does br br second the direction the direction is haphazard and very uneven some scenes show promise but potential is squandered by the clearly inexperienced director nothing is done with the camera with sound or with lighting to add intensity to the scenes intended to be scary the atmosphere is equally flat a vengeful spirit is supposedly behind supernatural occurrences yet the effects are so incredibly inept that no one who has seen a proper horror movie would buy into them i'll give one example in one scene the spirit attacks someone see the scene for yourself it's almost funny almost br br third the script whilst it may be the case that the events shown are faithful to accounts of real occurrences it cannot be denied that most scenes are incredibly flat and boring scenes as short as two minutes feel much longer thanks to the poor dialogue dialogue that fails to add depth to the characters or story this movie is far too reliant on conversations to advance the story whilst this style was also the case with british movies from the british horror heyday of the 1960s and 1970s it cannot be denied that the dialogue exchanges were always interesting to watch in these more professional earlier works peter cushing for example could read a telephone directory and still hold attention of the viewers the same cannot be said of the actors in the haunt br br finally the humour the ill guided attempts at humour in this movie are excruciating an obese boy is the butt of many jokes one particularly awful scene sees the said boy going to the outside toilet this scene should never have been included but it is and complete with sound effects in case you fail to understand what he is doing br br the only positive points about the movie are the location and the costumes the decision to shoot the picture near the original location helped add some authenticity the costumes were also well chosen br br overall the haunt is an appalling movie it is not even in the so bad it's good league it is instead just boring i advise everyone to save their money and avoid this movie like the plague don't even bother seeing it for free br br i have never seen the other movie about the bell witch but it really couldn't be any worse than the haunt could it i'll give this other movie a chance if i can track it down br br in the meantime i would advise everyone on here to check out some proper horror movies about ghosts and haunting the legend of hell house the changeling ringu the grudge japanese original and one missed call japanese original are good places to start
0	i love ghost stories and i will sit through a movie til it's end even if i'm not really enjoying it i rarely feel like i wasted my time but this adaptation of the bell witch story was horrible br br it wasn't scary in the least bit what is with the comic relief moments the dialog was tedious acting inconsistent the movie was way too long and some scenes were unnecessarily drawn out in my open like the birthday party br br the only good think i can think about mentioning is the costumes and props were well done br br i am curious about other adaptation but until then i will stick to reading about the story
0	while the premise of the film sounded unique and intriguing after watching the first 5 minutes of the film i could have stopped there and gone on with my life she does get some interesting comments and reactions from her subjects but not really enough to add to the validity of the film br br i also felt she went a bit overboard with many things if a guy said a filthy comment grabbed her or made some disgusting gesture to her i would say go for it bring him down he's a pig what bothered me though is she would walk around in revealing clothes and be surprised when guys would look at her and give them hell about it br br i think somehow she forgot that being attracted to other people is a part of human sexuality and a big part of who we all are guys will look at beautiful women especially when they dress provocatively just like women will look at men when they are wearing a tight tank or no shirt at all br br some women may hate me for this but i hope not i have much respect for women i was raised by one i also come from a spanish family and we are very matriarchal my grandmother was the center of my family for years but i don't really feel this did anything to help women's rights and from what the filmmaker even said herself some women were offended by her project
0	if you took all the stock elements of a shrek movie grumpy ogre annoying donkey cute kitty obligatory dance number etc put them in a blender and condensed it to 20 minutes you'd have this mess painful to watch i may have laughed once the story and dialogue are rushed beyond comprehension with the voice actors sounding like they phoned in their lines the final reworked rendition of the christmas story poem felt like it was written by a committee in five minutes and boy a little eddie murphy goes a long way with its desperate attempt to be hip and current this show will be long outdated and forgotten while classics like the will remain timeless a sad waste of effort by all involved a veritable jumping of the shark for the shrek franchise
0	i saw this movie yesterday and thought it was awful it was pointless and just plain stupid the supposed plot concerned a prospective bridegroom too caught up in the problems of the world to relate to his bride and the other people in his life he disappears on his wedding day in a tux no less and hooks up with an assortment of weirdos br br we saw it with a bus load of people on the way down to atlantic city and everyone agreed that it was a terrible movie it was trying to be profound but it wasn't it was stupid and offensive if i wasn't on a bus i would have walked out on the movie anyone considering seeing the movie or renting or buying the video you have been forewarned
0	this is one of those strange self important self indulgent movies which tries too hard to be profound it isn't instead it spouts cliches that try to pass for profundity typical is the scene where peter kelsey explains to protagonist and best friend adam brown how man starts life breast feeding then moves on to sucking the breast of his girlfriend and finally his wife thus concluding ultimately that life sucks so deep we are treated to a variety of characters who offer their perspective of life the universe etc during adam's travels through the mojave desert on foot he abruptly leaves l a the day of his wedding and his family friends and fiance assume he's dead when his car was found in a military test range smashed by a rocket some characters are more entertaining than others the best by far is an escapee from a mental hospital who only speaks through the voices of others the actor james kevin ward does some great impressions including nicholson popeye and several characters from the original star trek but once the interesting characters leave the screen we're stuck with adam again and his pursuit of the profound it's a long trip which drags in many places in fact it's the longest hour and a half movie i've ever seen and the finale hardly makes it seem worth while at all br br i discovered this movie playing on hbo one day by waking up too early and clicking on the tv that'll learn me next time i'll try harder to sleep in
0	this failed exercise in satire or commentary on the human condition easily earned a place as one of the 10 worst movies i've ever seen i'm seriously considering buying a copy if i can find one dirt cheap to chase away unwanted company it's honestly that bad i view it as some kind of anti personnel weapon if you're the kind of person who just has to see a train wreck to witness the carnage then this movie is a gem just to be fair kelsey grammar's character has 1 line that almost works but doesn't quite other than that everything in this movie strives to be insightful but misses the mark by approximately the distance between earth and the nearest pair of colliding galaxies i usually can appreciate a book or movie where the protagonist suffers from some sort of existential angst but the angst presented here is so unbelievable and over the top and the movie doesn't even address the nonsense it presents in any valuable way if you are familiar with the term word vomit then you may get some picture of the oh and the narrative structure is ill conceived pretentious and amateurish it has failed on both style and substance if you really hate someone invite them over for a double feature of this movie and the terror of tiny town an all midget western from the 1930's and put them in restraints with their eyes forced open a clockwork orange style but that probably violates some provision in the geneva conventions
0	the english translation of the title on the dvd version of this film is graveyard of horrors but i think that must be an error it should have been called graveyard of horrible acting horrible editing horrible story and horrible music all make this a horrible film best left in a horrible graveyard br br horrible
0	what if someone made a horror movie that was completely devoid of plot br br well i think it would probably end up a little bit like this one i don't think i've ever seen a move was so steady it its slide from hackneyed at the beginning to complete crap by the end i only stuck with it because i kept thinking it couldn't possibly get worse well up until the very end graveyard of horror proved me wrong br br who would have suspected that a movie with an undead lizard man evil grave robbing cultists and mad scientists tossed in for no discernible reason could suck this bad one would think there'd at least be some humor value but not here
0	seeing this film for the first time twenty years after its release i don't quite get it why has this been such a huge hit in 1986 its amateurishness drips from every scene the jokes are lame and predictable the sex scenes are exploitative and over the top that is not to say that miss does not have nice boobs the singing is the only genuinely funny scene is the big shoot out when the gangsters die break dancing a trait that dates the movie firmly to the mid eighties it's really quite puzzling to me how incapable i am to grasp what evoked the enthusiasm of the cheering audiences in 1986 and apparently still today reading my fellow imdbers comments
0	from time to time it's very advisable for the aristocracy to watch some silent film about the harsh life of the common people in order to remind themselves of the privileges and the comfortable life that they have enjoyed since the beginning of mankind or even in comparison with the complicated and hard work that common people have to endure everyday since the aristocrats rule the world br br and that's what happens in the love light the first film directed by dame france marion who will be famous afterwards in the silent and talkie world thanks overall to her work as a screenwriter better for her certainly because her career as a film director doesn't impress this german count br br the film tells the story of dame angela dame mary pickford a merry italian girl who lives surrounded by a picturesque squalor an important difference of opinion between upper and low classes aristocrats prefers to live surrounded by picturesque luxury … she has two brothers and a secret admirer but all she gives him in return is indifference destiny begins to work hard and pretty soon war is declared and dame angela's two brothers enlist and in the next reel both are dead but destiny is even and dame angela meanwhile falls in love with… a german and to make things worse she doesn't know that her teutonic sweetie is a spy and that the light signals that she sends to him every night from the lighthouse she maintains thinking that is a love signal don't mean ich liebe but sink any damn italian boat at sea … br br fortunately for dame angela pretty soon her sweetie german spy will be found by the neighbours in her house in which she was hiding him a not strange fact indeed because it is not an easy task for a german to go but the german spy will prefer to die before being captured by those italians br br from that german love a half teutonic baby will born the wicked destiny at full but a greedy neighbour who has a particular idea of motherhood will carry away her son with the consent of a catholic nun who has taken the council of trent to a fact that will put dame angela at the verge of insanity br br but meanwhile dame angela's secret admirer has returned from the war and you can think that finally dame angela's sorrowful life will improve a tremendous mistake because destiny has in store for her that the returned soldier is blind but as they say in germany it may be a blessing in disguise and finally dame angela will recover her son and will start a new life with her blind sweetie in a poor italian village in what it is supposed to be a happy ending for the common people br br as this german count said before it was much better for dame frances marion that she continued her career as a screenwriter because as can be seen in the love light she had a lot of imagination to invent incredible stories ja wohl … but a completely different subject is to direct films and her silent debut lacks emotion and rhythm in spite of the effort of dame pickford to involve the audience with her many disgraces the nonexistent film narrative causes indifference in the spectator making this the kind of film where only dame pickford herself provides the interest and not her circumstances br br and now if you'll allow me i must temporarily take my leave because this german count must send morse signals from the schloss north tower to one of his teutonic rich heiress
0	i had to see this on the british airways plane it was terribly bad acting and a dumb story not even a kid would enjoy this something to switch off if possible
0	this is a family movie that was broadcast on my local itv station at 1 00 am a couple of nights ago this might be a strange decision on the part of the schedulers but the real howard is a rather strange film strange in the way it doesn't want to upset its audience come on there's nothing kids like more than sadism and that's why roald dahl was such a popular author for children it also explains why doctor who was such a successful show across the world in this screenplay you're just dying for pulp fiction author to do something nasty to the kids but this doesn't happen i'm not advocating child abuse but to see howard lose his rag at the little ones would have made the movie rather better can you imagine how much worse kindergarten cop would have been if the producers had gone all pc i mean if you're making a movie centered around a children's author who hates children shouldn't the story show and not tell br br much of the problem lies with director jean and you do get the feeling he doesn't know how to handle the material which is bad news for the movie as someone previously noted the soundtrack is haphazard and kelsey grammar is very wooden i guess he was trying to play it dead pan just like in that show he's famous for but it fails to work here and there's many scenes with quiet ridiculous camera angles which seem unintentional but which are very distracting but at the end of the day the main problem remains that the potential is ruined because no one wanted to offend the audiences sensibilities
0	caution spoiler at the end of the movie it is announced that the bridge collapsed just a few days after it was captured the impression is that the attack was all for nothing in reality taking the bridge at was the last important victory for the western allies it was the crossing of the rhine that the allies had been trying to achieve for six months because the bridge was taken the war ended in just a few weeks br br the bridge only need to last for a day after it was captured this was enough time for the americans to send combat engineers and a large protective force to the other side and they could then start building a series of bridges the taking of the bridge was a complete success and meant the that the end of the war was near and would not last through the summer contrary to the cynical nature of the film the victory was heralded with elation by the troops who did it they knew how vital the battle was br br this film has little to do with real history it was more a reflection of the cynical nature of the time in which it was produced
0	the bridge at contains some of the most preposterous war time screenplay i've ever seen aside from the acting which is wooden no tank commander attacks with his tanks parked in nice neat rows up the middle of roads and with troops bunched all together with their arms not at the ready the constant suicidal behavior set off my tilt switch so often i found it impossible to enjoy the movie apparently the screen writers and director have never been through actual warfare and never bothered to bring in an expert who had this movie is the very antithesis of the excellent detail in saving private ryan unless you are under 7 years old i recommend watching something else br br gb
0	veteran tv director ted post treats us to a plodding confused and ultimately pointless story lifted from column b of the harold robbins big book of plots set against a smoggy phoenix skyline post charlies angles jaclyn smith takes a star turn as the woman whose eyes are mysteriously shadowed at all times while jfk impersonator james franciscus lounges around the fringes br br mannix goes western monkeys are abused models lean against classic cars and smith is constantly upstaged by sybil danning until a giallo style wrap up brings the whole sorry mess to a bitter end br br oh yeah and bob mitchum is in there too somewhere
0	filmed in arizona by a mostly foreign crew is one of the crime dramas i have ever seen robert mitchum in a cowboy hat trails recently widowed jaclyn smith around hoping to figure out if she had a hand in her husband's death wardrobe is of the dale evans variety and her dog is named cowboy seems as if somebody sure bought into the american myth that all westerners talk and dress like descendants of john wayne screenplay by joan andre and john case may have worked better if approached as parody this mystery thriller just plays tame with director ted post asleep at the controls don't be drawn in by the video box art of jaclyn screaming while taking a shower she does indeed take a shower in this film but it is not revealing nor does it further the murky plot one iota no stars from
0	stars robert mitchum as a world weary private eye probing the case of a missing industrialist mike connors he is hired by jaclyn smith the anxious wife of the missing man what jaclyn fails to inform mitchum is that she knows full well her husband's whereabouts after all she was the one who helped her lover james franciscus dispose of her wealthy hubby br br what more would expect from a rotten slasher film with robert mitchum mannix goes western monkeys are abused models lean against classic cars and smith is constantly upstaged by sybil danning until a giallo style wrap up brings the whole sorry mess to a bitter end this is bad cinema and this movie is sooooo poor it makes it look like halloween mixed up with trick or treats avoid this br br rated r for graphic violence nudity and sexual situations
0	donald sutherland an american paleontologist visiting england picks up a hitch hiker one evening two years later having discovered the man's address book in his car he returns the book to the man's opulent home only to find that the man's been hanged for murder nobody in or out of the family seems to care that the hitch hiker could not have committed the murder of his own stepmother because he was in sutherland's car at the time of the crime br br sutherland is the man's alibi but he's turned up too late out of a sense of guilt he tracks down the real murderer br br agatha christie's mysteries usually involve a number of diverse people all of them with one or another motive for the crime all of them suspect and a puzzle that depends on the construction of a strict time line there is often not always a sidekick with whom the investigator can talk things over br br because of the of the situation due care must be taken to explain each element of the mystery to the reader or viewer redundancy is perfectly okay we have to keep the characters and the time lines straight christie's movies are of the rare kind in which the use of famous faces in subordinate characters is actually useful jacqueline de oh yes that's mia farrow but this version of ordeal by innocence is a golan globus production with all that implies in the way of production values a thoughtfully prepared script and skill behind the camera br br the first few minutes in which sutherland discovers that an innocent man has been hanged are fine after that everything is flung at the viewer in disjointed scraps often in sudden flashbacks or in confusing voiceovers that tell us nothing the script has a slapdash quality as if thrown together by two hacks overnight few of the faces are familiar and that doesn't help at all everyone drops remarks about everyone else and the names become a hopeless jumble the musical score consists of four instruments doing irritating jazz riffs some nudity is thrown in to wake up the in the audience if dame agatha were alive she'd be among the viewers who needed to be shaken awake br br dullsville
0	i have never seen so much talent and money used to produce anything so bad in my entire life as stated in other commentaries a who's who of talent such as christopher plummer faye dunaway donald sutherland and many more were thrown together in a film that is not recognizable as an agatha christie story i keep thinking of how it could be with the same cast done the right way br br the film has even less intimacy than the christopher reeves 'superman' movies the large cast makes the slick production even less effective than in those films because there is not enough time to get to know anyone dave progressive jazz soundtrack had me wondering if the wrong video was in the the case from the rental store the music became more and more offensive as the plot progressed it's hard to say whether the soundtrack or the annoying technique of repeating information from earlier scenes was more offensive from someone who has seen most christie films that's what attracted me to this it was one of the few i hadn't seen miss this one it is not an agatha christie movie golan globus are better suited to producing flicks about big time wrestling rather than the snug atmosphere of english mystery
0	three businessmen are involved in a bar fight with three mysterious men the three businessmen take revenge which escalates to a murder after another supposedly the story is about the violence that could happen to ordinary people br br the plot has too many holes the details were ignored in order to move the story forward the acting was uneven the color balance was awful even though i watched this movie in dvd the small budget and tight schedule were apparent the whole thing seems to be an excuse to shoot the final gun fight and the ending was just unbelievable
0	this film is on my list of worst movies ever made the story is disconnected and it is difficult to understand what is going on or the reason for the characters' actions all films need to have an inner logic and this film just doesn't have it the story doesn't make any sense br br to see faye dunaway christopher plummer and diana quick wasting their talents in this movie is a crime faye dunaway is the lucky one because she plays the victim and gets killed early in the film on the other hand donald sutherland must be an amazing actor because he manages to look good in spite of bad directing and bad writing his performance is believable and he manages to stay in character in spite of everything br br if dame agatha christie were alive she would die laughing the movie is that bad
0	this is indeed one of the weakest films based on agatha christie's work a lifeless muddled mystery that clearly lacks the grace and the budget of its predecessors death on the nile evil under the sun and donald sutherland is a pale shadow of peter ustinov as far as screen detectives go of course he is playing a character much less interesting than poirot the film manages to coast as far as it does on the strength of christie's plot alone all her plots have a certain amount of inherent interest but the direction is hopelessly flat 1 2
0	when at the very start of the film paleontologist donald sutherland arrives at the argyle family's house and it comes out he is the undeniable alibi for one of the members executed for murdering his mother two years ago your sensation is that you are about to watch a top thriller an innocent man has been convicted and a killer is still around but as the film runs along your disappointment increases inevitably br br ordeal by innocence is a dull and at times even boring film that doesn't raise at any moment nothing interesting happens all along and even the final revealing of the facts lacks surprise and intensity wether you guessed or not br br donald sutherland cristopher plummer faye dunaway and sarah miles far from her good performance in ryan's daughter just pass through their roles and not very enthusiastically either br br you won't miss much if you skip this one
0	producers golan and globus should have been ashamed to release this piece of trash publicly i know this is gonna sound cliched but compared to this the first hercules of 1983 looks like a mature and exciting epic this sequel is moronic cheap unredeemable childish phony inept and badly acted a landmark in bad cinema and one of the few few movies i've seen that really deserve the lowest possible rating no stars
0	aya if you are looking for special effects that are 10 20 years before its time this is it the glowing lightning bolts fireballs etc look like they came from a cheesy 70's sci fi flick and yes hercules really grows he's not being pushed on a cart closer to the camera
0	the adventures of hercules has to be one of the lamest excuses for a movie i've yet run across you would have to look far and wide to find anything that approaches the level of ineptness on display in this movie acting – bad editing – bad direction – bad special effects – bad and laughable plot – bad lighting – bad cinematography – bad costume design – bad and silly everything else – bad watching the adventures of hercules is about as enjoyable as a root canal even for a fan of bad movies it's a real endurance test this is one for either masochists or lou ferrigno completists if any exist br br eight things i learned from watching the adventures of hercules br br 1 if you don't have the budget for real special effects rotoscope a scene from the previous movie it will look great trust me br br 2 when on a quest to recover take time for frequent stops to oil up you body it worked for ferrigno and his two amazon companions br br 3 any sword fight use of magic and just about all other day to day activities in ancient greece created a sound very similar to a game of man or asteroids br br 4 some of the ancient greek gods dressed like extras from star wars br br 5 if you need to pad your crappy movie's runtime extend the title sequence by adding star trek style credits and throw in some overly grandiose music it also helps if you've got a previous movie to pull scenes from br br 6 fight scenes move along much smoother if the bad guys attack hercules one at a time br br 7 william berger did anything for money br br 8 i didn't think it was possible but the adventures of hercules makes the first film hercules 1983 look like an academy award winner
0	looking for a real super bad movie if you wanna have great fun don't hesitate and check this one br br ferrigno is incredibly bad but is also the best of this mediocrity br br
0	from the fertile imagination which brought you the irresistible hercules 1983 comes its even more preposterous read goofier sequel right off the bat we get another unwieldy beginning of time prologue which even contrives to completely contradict these same events as set up in the first film a condensed montage of highlights from same is soon followed by a superman like scrolling credits sequence narrative wise here we have four rebellious gods who steal seven all important but poorly animated – a crime which for one thing sets the moon careening on a collision course with planet earth faster than you can say nepotism zeus once again played as a white haired bearded man by the relatively young claudio cassinelli sends his champion – who has now rightfully taken his place among the elite thanks to one presumes the almighty tasks performed in the first film – to find his blooming and avert the calamities in store br br no sooner has hercules lou ferrigno – as if you didn't know touched the earthly surface that he comes in contact with two attractive damsels milly carlucci and sonia in need of his getting them out of distress the former who would go on to become an italian tv personality seemingly has the ability to talk with the little people – which look uncannily like the tiny sisters from godzilla vs mothra 1964 just so they can swindle as much footage from the first film as is humanly possible the divine quartet of villains resurrect good ol' king william berger again from his skeletal slumber and pit him once more against his eternal enemy typically hercules is made to encounter a number of potentially deadly foes including a gorgon – an awfully underproduced sequence which ought to have led to a surefire plagiarism suit had the film makers behind the much superior clash of the titans 1981 bothered to watch this flick complete with the same reflection in a shield come uppance and preceded by the muscleman letting the audience in on his tactics before executing them as if to show us how clever he is and just to make it crystal clear that he wears his influences on his sleeve has hercules and turn into a cosmic version of king kong vs godzilla for one of their battles and later still king kong gets to grips with a large snake an encounter lifted straight out of the classic 1933 original i swear it this is the whole truth and nothing but the truth br br as had been the case with the first film the cast is full of old reliables like the afore mentioned berger cassinelli and venantino venantini as a sorcerer with a truly bad hair day and up and coming starlets – not just carlucci but also maria as a younger hera serena pamela and once again eva robbins whose costume here easily her appearance in the first film for what it's worth pino score for this one is recycled from musical cues featured in his soundtrack for the previous film if you have stuck with this review so far you must have realized by now that this is one of those movies that is so unbelievably bad that a reviewer is forced to choose which course to take either dismiss it in one unflattering sentence or spend an undeserving amount of time dissecting its flaws i'm sure i've left out some of its but i wouldn't forgive myself if i failed to mention the single greatest laugh out loud instance in the whole movie which almost made me fall off my chair yes it even surpassed the afore mentioned animated titanic duel for me namely the décor of the rebellious gods' lair which is in the shape of a giant br br at this stage one might well wonder why i gave this film and its predecessor a rating instead of a not entirely unjustified bomb in the past i've had various protracted online discussions on whether one's star rating of any particular film should reflect the overall artistic quality or its sheer entertainment but these are two instances where i deemed it necessary to be consciously influenced by the latter in settling on my final rating i don't know maybe it's because i'm in a sword and sandal state of mind at the moment with some 10 more respectable examples scheduled for the coming days but after all uncharacteristically for me i decided to add these two films to my dvd collection simply based on the fun i had with them in this recent revisit – and that alone must count for something no
0	although coming after three star wars krull countless others this movie would look outdated in the 1950s 1 sfx mostly consist of 1970s videogames effects such as bolts etc annoying after a short while you also get a sfx creature that looks like a poor man's version of some tier iv harryhausen monster br br 2 sets are mainly ruins in the countryside with papier mache temples and miniature cities or abodes that makes 1950s japanese monster movies look like flawless perfection br br 3 plot is paper extra thin hercules must find seven golden stolen by conspiring gods zombie tyrants br br 4 action mainly consists in retarded muscled up hercules check the variety of facial expressions wrestling cheap 1970s videogames effects br br 5 acting award goes to milly carlucci third carlucci show biz sister with anna gabriella which says all br br 6 sfx make other tier ii italian salad bowl movies such as star crash look like masterpieces br br well considering that main acting exploit consisted in impersonating a retarded green monster wearing a whig and green we ought to be lenient br br watch it forget about it
0	br br jurassic park iii adventure br br sam nell the dish william macy happy texas fargo tz a leoni family man br br a better title would be escape from the island of really mean dinosaurs but then no one would need to see the film in this sequel a rag tag group pays a visit to the island of dinosaurs to rescue the teenage victim of a hang gliding accident br br access hollywood reports began filming without a completed script that explains why the film seems to have little or no purpose other than to demonstrate state of the art special effects sure there are a few clever scenes and some moderately funny bits but no meaningful plot line to tie them together the dinosaur puppets and animation in are very good to excellent and more numerous than ever but the overall film experience can not hold a candle to the original jurassic park or even br br is a mercifully short 90 minutes the last 10 minutes of which is credits even at that i found myself frequently checking my wristwatch the audience i saw it with left the theater in silence br br a better bet see the movie legally blonde br br dave
0	i would put death wish 3 in the same box as stallone's cobra and commando the box that i would sell for 2 at a garage sale with all the videos inside the story is about the main character coming back from the previous movies' success to ruin it all with this load of trash why did the makers want to destroy the reputation of the past 2 films with this cheap junk the story is so lame that had to be a outrageous sequel i mentioned cobra earlier because it has the same mood that one man can kill 20 or 30 gang members without a scratch both this movie and cobra were bent on showing the hero firing his guns at hip level and the enemy falling in large numbers police officers spend hours at the shooting range so why did they get gunned down by gang members firing aimlessly from their hips this movie was so bad i thought for a minute it was death wish 4
0	lacks the spielberg touch it's an all out assault on the senses featuring in your face dinosaurs watching this film was a bit like a roller coaster ride from hell br br the script is lame it simultaneously asks and then leaves too many questions unanswered also we don't really get to appreciate the humans in the film for all they're worth for example william h macy is too great a talent to have to compete with dino thugs for our attention and laura dern was especially sympathetic in in this film she's barely a blip on the radar screen br br the whole experience was t o o m u c h too much noise too many surprises too many characters dying off too much predictable gratuitous violence br br word to the wise vote yourself off this island br br i rated it a 3 for special effects i took off the other 7 points for having absolutely no originality
0	did people expect jurassic park 3 to be full of surprises not one moment of it is worth it many elements could easily scare people out of the movies and it's not the dinos tea leoni i think she's a great actress but i'm sorry to say that this time she reached the bottom line i wonder if she happened to strain a vocal chord while shooting the movie laura dern she's ok but why not be more noticeable in the movie maybe exchange smart dialogs with sam neil alessandro nivola have you ever heard of something called facial expression emotions he's got to work harder on that sam neil no big deal the soundtrack got to change that record or you get tired of it my applause goes to william h macy a talented actor who i've never seen playing a bad role unfortunately he can't save the movie nor can the well computer created dinosaurs
0	this movie was perhaps the biggest waste of 2 hours of my life from the opening 10 minutes i was ready to leave the cliches there slapping you in the face and the plot was not only predictably stupid but full of more holes than swiss cheese i am considering suing for that lost 2 hours and 6 25 along with the fact that i am now stupider for watching this waste of film the t rex's must be flipping in their graves so to speak
0	how sad it is when a film as wonderful as jurassic park slowly into hackneyed and mediocre territory throughout its franchise the newest sequel jurassic park iii has given no thought to characters a story or pretty much a script and instead relies on non stop dinosaur action which is neither thrilling nor very interesting to watch the dinosaurs seemed to look incredibly fake compared to the 1993 technology after 7 years of cgi advancements it only gives you more of the feeling that the film was pumped out for the summer relying only on its name the introduction of a pterodactyl does not a great movie make br br go see shrek again br br
0	number 1 was really great summer popcorn fun it was the modern jaws br br number 2 is best summed up by jeff goldblum in the movie about being the stupidest idea in the history of stupid ideas or something like that br br number 3 is the obituary notice jp has achieved all it ever will br br once they realized they had no fresh ideas they should have just let sleeping dinos lie br br that said movie is ok if you don't mind knowing you already have seen it before br br
0	i had been looking forward to this movie since lost world came out it didn't bother me that lost world wasn't as intellectual as the original and here i was just hoping for a good monster movie it was all about dinosaurs eat people however it was disappointing even on that level br br for starters there were not enough people to eat and while i'll keep it a secret how many people get eaten it was not enough also while there was no shortage of variety in the dinosaur community there were not nearly enough dinosaurs and many dinosaurs like the spikey back and has a club on its tail just made cameos and didn't do much considering how cool they are br br start spoilers then there were the pterodactyls the figures i've read put their body weight at about 15 pounds while the movie made them look closer to 300 worse they didn't get to eat anybody or even splatter them on the rocks by dropping them from high up there was no ending to the movie either it was just all of the sudden credits end spoilers i'm left wondering if the edition i saw was missing 40 minutes of film br br my only conclusion can be that they taught the pterodactyls to stick their long stealthily into your pockets and get your 7 go rent the carnosaur series at least you won't be disappointed
0	to summarize my group of friends and i spent about 45 minutes outside the theater sharing our favorites gaffes plot inconsistencies untied loose ends and other ridiculous aspects of this movie i found the story trite to the point of inconsequential and the plot lines as underdeveloped as the dino embryos still locked in the shaving cream canister from jurassic park 1 the editing was poor and none of the characters engendered any sort of sympathy or feeling in short this movie lacked any of the suspense and thrill that the first movie provided from a story standpoint br br even the new dinosaurs were few and far between although i really enjoyed the pterodactyls we got several brief shots of the new species and only 2 really were involved in the action br br as a scientist and former childhood paleontologist the lack of any real scientific content not that it had to be realistic but logically formed i e how they built the dinos in 1 and chaos ramblings was disappointing as well br br in short the movie seemed to be nothing more than an excuse to trot dinos back on the scene to make some money i hope that movie goers don't fall for this trap again although i did apparently
0	a possible minor spoiler the first jurassic park was an effective but silly film that did it's job and was actually pretty good the sequel the lost world had a few decent moments but those were ruined by the lame end portion of the film which had a t rex running amok in san diego now in jurassic park iii what little story there was in the first one and the sequel has been thrown out the window and replaced by a mere 90 minutes of basically non stop action which would have worked had the film not been so poorly done br br sam neill is back as dr grant who is given a proposition by a couple william h macy tea leoni to come with them to an island to help them find their son who's been lost for over 2 months but of course this island just happens to be populated by dinosaurs and of course the plane the are on just happens to crash leaving them stranded with a bunch of dinos after them br br this one was obviously intended as a thrill ride with no real story whatsoever but even on that level the movie doesn't deliver director joe johnston jumanji somehow managed to take what little magic was left in the jurassic movies and squeeze the life right out of it br br the dinos look okay though by now they're just standard fair and not very scary the bottom line is it's not a very good film even as a thrill ride out of 4 stars
0	it's clear that for this film they wanted to have the story line driven by the characters but immediately the story line causes you to dislike the new main characters the fly over of the island and dinosaurs below lacked any impact at all and almost looked like a cartoon the all action entrance to the island is merely a rehash of parts from jp 1 and 2 the story line is predictable to the point of annoyance and it's entirely unsatisfying end left me feeling cheated this gave me with no option but to award the film 3 10
0	this would probably be a good film to see provided you've already seen every other film in existence and thoroughly explored the of yourself and those around you god this movie was unbelievably insipid with some of the worst or is it nonexistent writing ever captured on film there is no saving grace to this film even the animatronics are kind of lame and it's just a complete waste of time and money br br run fast it's beyond horrible br br
0	i was disappointed with the third film in the death wish series and wouldn't recommend this unless you are really into bronson he is his usual self in this one maybe a bit lighter hearted than in the others the rest of the cast is good if your watching a movie of the week on t v the whole film has the production value of a bad episode of the a team and i like the escapism fun of a show like the a team but not on the big screen even if it is an action movie that doesn't claim to be anything to sophisticated the film takes a while to get going and then when it finally does it gets out of control to the point of ridiculousness the plot is something out of an episode of highway to heaven and bronson seems like a fish out of water with the majority senior citizen cast and the gun play is so out of control you don't even get any satisfaction from bronson's revenge against the bad guys skip this and go on to the 4th installment which i highly recommend
0	you could have put the characters on the island for any reason at all and had the same movie the first one had an original story the second stole one from king kong and in the end i hope of this trilogy the story seemed to have been bypassed altogether drop some people on an island full of dinosaurs and watch them run for their lives that was about all there was to it the special effects were decent but not worth 8 dollars if you have a discount theatre in your local area wait and see it for a buck i wouldn't even bother renting it that would be too much money for this thriller
0	when i went to see this i thought i liked the first two and thought that they were very suspenseful so this one should be good also wrong there was no suspense and they don't explain about the new dinosaurs when i was done watching this i had lost all respect for steven spielberg and michael crichton but then it turned out that it wasn't directed by spielberg or written by michael crichton this movie was going through the motions i thought that this movie had absolutely no plot and i thought that no one should waste their money to see it
0	how could anyone who liked the previous jp movies even stand to sit through this 1 hour of drivel there are so many stupid things about this film it's mind boggling i remember when i went to see jp as a kid it was my favorite movie and franchise the acting the sfx the music the direction all fantastic in my opinion was ok pretty much the same apart from some really stupid moments like the gymnast girl kicking a raptor please but on a whole a watchable and reasonable cinematic experience br br but the the third one has no point it's supposed to be a sequel that carry's on from and yet it magically includes brand new things to the franchise that would have been impossible to miss on the previous 2 films for example 1 the new mega seriously what the hell this thing follows them everywhere they go they cannot escape it's presence and yet in the lost world the same island do you see it once do you hear it does anyone even mention it no its ridiculous the star character in the previous 2 movies was and always will be the t rex so what does the d joe johnston go and do kill it off as soon as you see the huge t rex in all its awesome roaring glory it gets killed and you never see it again a new dino on the town is the excuse where did it come from not a single explanation and don't get me started on the whole satellite phone in the dino belly thing 2 just when you start to get over how stupid the is you see the raptors aside from their new punk haircuts they seem pretty credible phew they will make this movie watchable right wrong now they speak to each other and the excuse for them speaking in this film and not in the first and second are wait for it evolution yes the process of millions of years in just a few months from when the second movie ended amazing surly they should have grown thumbs and created tools by now ok i am not going to say anymore about the plot because it's getting up my nose so i will close on this jurassic park is a classic is a lousy sucker punch to any of the original fans of the series my favorite franchise was well and truly dead after watching this monstrosity no pun intended avoid this movie like the plague
0	i would like to comment on how the girls are chosen why is that their are always more white women chosen then their are black women every episode their is always more white women then black one's as if to say white women are better looking then black women i would like for once see more black women then white and it not just your show it's like that in a lot of shows always more white's but i would have thought since you as the head honcho of the show you would see this yourself and have more black women on your show but you are just like the rest trying to act like you are so fair and nice you are just a big hypocrite
0	tyra the rest of the modeling world needs to know that real women like myself and my daughter don't care to see all the ridiculous modeling to sell something weird locations too much makeup too much skin is not necessary sex does not always sell when you are selling to women the same goes for the horse stomping runway walk that looks unnatural people come in all shapes sizes they need to have that on the show my daughter has a 36 is tall slender a size 5 i am more average at a size 12 we would like to see both i can not picture how something would look on me when a size 2 is wearing it it will not fit the same way on me i do not buy magazines anymore because they are one sided on this matter we would really love the show to consider women of all sizes thank you
0	in watching this off and on for a few seasons two things come to mind one wondering what kind of girl wants to be a model and two run to the nearest ice cream store and have a low fat sundae br br i tried to be a fan because i liked the idea of this reality show competition no other famous model thought of this and it is very admirable for tyra banks to do so but as the series goes on and on i've come to the conclusion that this is a sorry lot of folks trying to make a mountain out of a women shouldn't watch this teens should stay clear of it unless they're doing book reports on the subject br br many women try out for slots to compete for americas next top model they live together cat fight together cry together get put through pointless modeling shoots with pointless modeling people and and get eliminated and almost all of them claim you will see me again heck i'm trying to see what happened to the ones that did win actually br br this is the dream of some girls and good for them in watching this i hope the other girls that see this and run like hades the other way like to college br br i just happened to watch more of this recent season because of the ploy of full figured models joining the group that even made me think more of this as a sorry lot of folks the full figured models were no more than average sized ladies competing with what i think is the thinnest group of models they ever chose so of course that would make them look even fatter a ploy use all the time bad bad tyra and crew br br but to be fair americas next top model is not about full figured models it's about projecting an imagined image a beauty that can be mass marketed and sold as the ultimate in beauty and this show is just looking for the next fresh piece of meat to add to the mix hence the name of the show hence the sorry lot of judges photographers associations hence tyra and her consistent this was me plugs every camera angle you can get but then again that is the one thing i like about this show the ex model giving others who wouldn't have the chance a chance to enter the doors but after that everything else is status quo for that industry which is why there are no surprises or week to week interest in the program
0	tyra banks needs to teach these girls that it's not all about being beautiful on the outside the inside counts for something too a lot of the past winners have looked semi decent but are horribly cruel and starting trouble for the other girls i see tyra less involved with the girls in every season about the only thing worth watching top model for is mr jay manuel recently tyra had a contestant who was a pre op transsexual i felt that she should have done more to encourage her it was obvious that she had insecurities about her original anatomy showing through her feminine look tyra should have given her tips or perhaps she could have sent resident ms jay to help the girl out instead the contestant was met with harsh criticism and not enough positive criticism it's a shame because i truly enjoyed the first 3 seasons there's a reason why project runway has all 4 seasons out on dvd and top model only has 1 season on dvd it's called taste top model seriously needs a lot of an some more humanity
0	this is by far the most vapid idiotic insanely stupid show that has ever been on the air and this is coming from someone who remembers san pedro beach bums br br my wife loves watching reality shows and there was one episode of this drivel where the wannabes had to develop a walk the end result was straight out of monty python's ministry of silly walks sketch i couldn't laugh hard enough br br and then there's the ubiquitous ms banks as in laughing all the way to the she has to be the most annoying self important woman on tv since rosie o'donnell left the view as if modeling was doing great things for mankind please i've never found her attractive and i don't find her intelligent now that she has the temerity to open her mouth br br someone needs to tell these human clothes hangers to eat a healthy diet and actually look like real women
0	it was awful plain and simple what was their message where was the movie going with this it has all the ingredients of a sub b grade movie from plotless storyline the bad acting to the cheesey slow mo cinematography i'd sooner watch a movie i've already seen like goodfellas a bronx tale even grease there are no likeable characters in the end you just want everyone to die already save 2 hours of your life and skip this one
0	wow i think they made this movie to torture people there are no words for how much i hated this film i could have been cleaning my room instead i love bad melodrama as much as the next person but come on
0	this movie could very well have been a propaganda movie for the north americian party or some similar group the strong man places himself above the law but not outside the law and liberates upstanding citizens by killing worthless trash the only thing that made me think it wasn't made by the kkk was the fact that a jew starred as a good guy try watching it again while thinking of it as a propaganda movie for an extreme right wing group and you'll see what i mean br br it's a tragedy that jimmy page actually made music for this movie
0	imagine every stereotypical overacted cliche from every movie and tv show set on the streets of brooklyn between 1930 and 1980 populate it with a cast of interchangeable caricatures instead of actual characters throw in a mix of period music and wailing electric guitars during the rumble scenes then pass the time trying to figure out or care which of the deuces is going to be killed in the anti climactic final rumble br br i'll give this movie points for not being just another romantic comedy teen slasher explosive action movie teen sex comedy kiddie musical or oscar nomination vehicle but bringing something new or interesting to the street gang tragedy genre might've been nice
0	maybe it was the fact that i saw spider man the day before i saw wild but i do not think that there can be any excuse for this movie being as bad as it was the cast was there to do it but it seemed as if once they found them selves with a decent cast they had to try and make them fit into the movie the only problem was that they did not fit i did not like any of the characters and the story was sketchy at best i left wondering why i spent my money on this movie
0	wow i was really disappointed i wasn't really planning on seeing this movie in the theater and i wish i stuck to that plan it really should be a made for tv movie i was kind of excited to see it as i'm a big fan of fairuza balk but this movie didn't do her justice infact i'm a little disappointed with the acting all around what a horrible cover up of fairuza tattoos it bothered me every time i saw her shoulder br br there was no flow to the movie it was very hard to get into it one scene we get angry hyped up we want blood the anticipation rises just then the director takes us to another scene to show the love between annie and bobby it would have been more enjoyable to follow if it was broken up into three sunday paper comic strip br br there was also little logic behind the characters chosen to play some parts the gangster leaders were scrawny guys not very believable matt dillon head of a mobster organization come on give me a break there was just no intimidation there br br the soundtrack wow i think this is one of the worst musical scores i've ever heard what awful guitar solos my god the sound of my teeth grinding was more pleasing to my friends i'm sure br br anyhow there is one positive comment i'd like to make about the movie the settings were nicely done i liked the colours a good job conveying that time period
0	worst pile of drivel to date everyone involved with this production should be ashamed of themselves not one single element of the movie was anything slightly like an original idea a first grader telling you a story about nap time is more entertaining
0	in a nutshell the movie is about a gang war in the 1950's leon the leader of the deuces starts the gang after his brother od's on junk he vows to protect the neighborhood the leader of the rival gang is just getting out of prison and wants revenge br br the movie didn't really do it for me the good guys weren't any more good than the bad guys very little was shown to suggest that the deuces really cared for the community i suppose the writers were going for realism here but i just didn't care which side won none of the characters were likable or even capable of drawing my sympathy br br on the plus side the courtship between annie and bobby had some snappy dialog and the acting overall was well done
0	in the sweltering summer of 1958 the deuces a gang of brooklyn toughs find their turf threatened when the leader of a rival gang the vipers is released from prison leon stephen dorff the leader tries to guide his boys through bloody brawls to keep the vipers out but when his brother brad falls into a sultry and dangerous relationship with annie fairuza balk the sister of a viper and his own girlfriend is brutally attacked leon and his gang are plunged into an all out war to save his brother his girl and his neighborhood according to the dvd sleeve description this is definitely no basketball diaries br br think of it as west side story getting hit over the head with baseball bats and steel pipes having left brooklyn with the dodgers deuces wild has some cool hollywood sets 1950s cars and soundtrack songs and much of it is nicely photographed by john a alonzo the story and direction never get beyond these strengths which enables the film to peak during its opening minutes and proceed downhill the cast looks good when you read the credits but translates into an ageing flabby mess of phony blood and and one fright wig a sense of sadness and regret permeates the production br br deuces wild 5 3 02 scott stephen dorff brad fairuza balk frankie
0	worst movie ever seen worst acting too i cannot imagine a movie worse then this nothing to see no acting at all t hey actors should look for another job i cant't understand who was stupid enough to actually put money into this movie br br i'm sorry for eric roberts must be tough i cannot imagine how huuuge his mortgage must be to justify taking the job br br the ladies in the movie perhaps they better stick to xxx br br as for the leading man what a lead he better be put on a lead and stay there i can see him being more successful at barking rather than acting br br overall rating do not rent do not buy
0	eric roberts stars in this tommy lee thomas debut prison film he plays the leader of a corrupt ring of guards though evil by most people's standards his character is the kind of guy who is nice enough to give you supporting wires while you hang chained to the ceiling as he tortures you with lethal weapon electric prods br br the movie has an intricate plot about prison corruption that makes absolutely no sense thomas has clint eastwood's eyes dolph lundgren's one liners the acting abilities of and the body of the tiniest guy you knew in school who took steroids after graduation br br martin cobra kai career shares this low point with roberts in the film it is difficult to tell if character is supposed to be drunk for the entire movie or if kove just came that way i couldn't blame him if he did br br fortunately for all involved this movie has a so bad that it's good quality that can be fun if you have absolutely nothing better to do
0	2001 wasn't perhaps eric roberts best year both raptor and this came out watched raptor a while ago and really thought it sucked and being erics worst but that had it´s share moment of fun and d standard this one doesn't have a thing br br tommy lee thomas is the name of the probably worst actor in these days the story lacks any punch and the whole thing feels even slower than a snail breaking in curves br br the two thing that stands out are martin kove and eric roberts you could argue about their effort being good or what but compared to the rest they are above all criticism br br i say thank you roberts see you next time and hopefully a better one
0	enjoy the opening credits they're the best thing about this second rate but inoffensive time killer which features passable performances from the likes of eric roberts and martin kove the main part however goes to newcomer tommy lee thomas who looks a bit diminutive for this kind of action but who nevertheless occasionally manages to project a rooster kind of the first time we see him he's bare chested sweaty and engaged in that favorite beefcake activity chopping wood after this he has seven more scenes without his shirt including one in which he's hanged by his wrists and zapped with electricity a la mel gibson in lethal weapon he could use a better script however since the manner in which he exposes the truth about corruption and violence inside the prison is never very convincing there's also talk about millions of dollars which apparently is tied in with this investigation but which is never explained there are a few pluses though sending john woodrow undercover as john wilson is an amusing play on a presidential name and co star jody ross nolan shows promise as an inmate who early in the proceedings is shown hanged by his wrists and getting punched by a burly guard one final note the movie's low budget is painfully responsible for the lack of extras despite the impressive size of the prison it only seems to hold about 12 inmates note the cast credits at the end aren't too helpful for the record the burly bald headed guard who uses jody nolan as a punching bag is played by bill and the young fair haired guard who electric shocks to tommy lee thomas is played by marc
0	this movie lacked credibility for two reasons one no mayor of a major city and new york is certainly as major as it gets would allow a borough in his city to degenerate into such a violent place to live especially for voters who could have much to say about his or her future job security all of the victims in the movie were mostly elderly jewish or defenseless at 62 years of age i have never seen a movie that depicted such utter lack of respect for authority as this movie did even escape from new york which was fictional up front i e they told you that this was science fiction didn't resort to such deep seated violence in this movie most of the elderly victims were victimized and yet had guns but were unwilling to use them also in this movie and i have not seen the prior two is more lawless than the escape movie secondly gangs as far as my research shows have never been as cooperative as this movie makes them out to be on the one hand they catch a gang member from another gang working in their area and he's killed yet when the heroes start shooting at the local gang bangers the next gang over is welcomed with open arms outside gang members are always viewed as outsiders and are stopped we are supposed to believe that when automatic weapons are used against our gang the other gangs want to be all into it why did the outside gangs come to help i believe that more than one gang from outside came to help what did they come for another question why was the gang leader in jail and why do fellow jail inmates ask his permission to attack bronson's character this was not a great movie and i could go on but i won't
0	i was looking forward to this movie trustworthy actors interesting plot great atmosphere then if you are going to attempt something that is meant to encapsulate the meaning of life first know it ok i did not expect the directors or writers to actually know the meaning but i thought they may have offered crumbs to peck at and treats to add fuel to the fire which they almost did things i didn't get a woman wandering around in dark places and lonely car parks alone oblivious to the consequences great riddles that fell by the wayside the promise of the knowledge therein contained by the original so called criminal i had no problem with the budget and enjoyed the suspense i understood and can wax lyrical about the fool and found adrian pauls role crucial and penetrating and then basically the story line and the script where good up to a point and that point was the last 10 minutes or so what run out of ideas such a pity that this movie had to let us down so badly it may not comprehend the meaning and i really did not expect the writers to understand it but i was hoping for an intellectual if not spiritual ride and got a bump in the road
0	when the legends die is a powerful moving story of an orphaned ute indian who goes on to become tom black bull a champion rider raised in the old ways tom is given a white man's name and must adopt the language and ways of the white man to live in that world bitter about the role he has been forced into tom finds fulfillment doing one thing busting horses riding them to death in the rodeo the movie has richard widmark in the role of red the man who befriends tom and acts as his manager red is a drunk who eventually dies in the story which is about where the movie ends the real story is completely ignored the dark side of tom black bull who develops a reputation as a killer of horses in the rodeo arenas oh well you should read the book this movie doesn't come close to doing the story justice
0	the first half of this film held some promise as it seemed like the film was going to be a low key character psychodrama like the minus man but then the whole thing collapses into cliche and the viewer slowly loses all interest there's a decent cast here but the film is lifeless and the talent completely wasted
0	i just watched this today on tv it was on abc's sunday afternoon movie br br this wasn't a very good movie but for a low budget independent film like this it was okay there is some suspense in it but there are so many bad qualities that really bring the movie down the script is pretty lame and the plot elements aren't very realistic such as the way a 911 operator would laugh and hang up when someone is reporting a murder i don't know what the writer was thinking when they came up with that idea but it isn't very realistic br br i thought this movie was going to be a good suspense thriller because there were a few scenes that seemed like they would lead to something good but unfortunately they never did there were a few plot elements that have been used in other movies similar to this and in the end didn't prove to be very creative br br if there is something good about this movie it is the cast every actor in this movie did good with what they had to work with the terribly underrated actress elizabeth pena was great in this movie she is very sexy and has an incredibly sexy voice however if you want to see a movie of hers that is really good watch the excellent animated movie the incredibles in that movie she put her sexy voice to good use br br what can i say this movie isn't really worth your time but the actors were good unfortunately they were all wasted on this movie which is a real shame this movie tried to be a good suspense thriller but in the end it fell flat if you want to see a good movie that is similar to this but much better see the hitcher if you want to see something with the cast members of this movie watch any of their other movies you can real easily pass on this movie if you ever get the chance to see it
0	horrible acting with the worst special f x i've ever bore witness too it's bad enough i wasted 3 to watch this crummy pile of crap but it's the hour and a half time i lost that i could've been doing anything else like getting a root canal or volunteering for jury duty getting drunk couldn't even help this video br br to put it bluntly i sincerely believe i actually lost a few iq points during the course of watching this idiotic piece of mind numbing work perhaps i should have followed my own advice this time never expect a decent film if it's written directed and produced by the same person and never ever expect anything of value from jeff fahey
0	this film is truly pathetic in every conceivable department awful awful awful it's only around eighty minutes long but believe me you'll feel like you're watching an andy warhol film then again twenty hours in the life of the empire state building would surely be far more interesting br br where to start the putrid script the disgusting cinematography the so bad its bad acting the spectacularly dismal effects dreadful music or just the wafer thin plot that thouroughly resembles a sieve this film is an incoherent shambles br br a particularly noteworthy scene takes place outside a cafe when dominic decides to shoot a cat cue the waitress watching through the cafe window who comments with an average english accent god damn to right that woman god damn this horrendous monstrosity br br everyone involved should be thouroughly ashamed of themselves let us hope that the director never finds the funding to work again
0	ok the box look interesting the opening have great music and its kinda original to that its all ok but when the movie start well its not my first movie i watched ghost lake and its very similar of this movie except its ever worse here the story at first sounded interesting but the whole movie look like a movie shot by a bunch of university student with specials effect that me laugh the blood look like a mix of red and white paint the fire effect on the demon face look like it was done with a program i could buy at my local computer shop all the movie is shot in day very great for a movie supposed to be horror and there like no gore 1 scene only and it look so home made and not credible and near no blood it can be considered a great thing considering the look of the blood show and 1 demon for the whole movie the story is going nowhere it give you the impression that it never start there so much useless scene done only to give the movie the average duration time when the demon search the guy in the dogs thing for about 4 minutes way too much slow mo things well lets just say this movie is a z series one and a very poor one all cool idea lost themselves and you get a cheesy movie it bored my all long and i'm not the guy who get bored very easily with horror movie man i even like house of the dead and alone in the dark from uwe boll and you probably know the name for being one of the worst director but here it look too much like some guys wanting to make a movie for fun plus for us french speaker tough i understand english i prefer to watch movie in my native language there the usual bad translation in normal movie you can barely see its not the actor speaking you have to check on lips etc here you just have to listen to it and you know it very cheesy
0	from the dire special effects onwards i was absolutely gob smacked at how bad anyone can make a film lets put it this way i have absolutely no directing experience whatsoever and for the first time ever when watching a film i thought 'i can do better than that whilst sat watching this pap the acting in this film was terrible i suppose the best actor was the guy from lawnmower man but the french guy from was so wooden i wondered how he got the former job in the first place the storyline was mediocre and i suppose like most films if the rest had been done well it would have stood up i don't usually write reviews here but after seeing a couple of people gave this film a good rating must be cast crew i felt i had to say my piece to save anyone from accidentally hiring it or wasting their money on buying this cack
0	ok it was a risky move to rent this flick but i thought i had nothing to lose well i was wrong this is next to the worst horrormovie i have ever seen crappy actors crappy technical output crappy story and so on the soundtrack though isn't to bad that is why i give it a 2 on the vote and not just a 1 and of course the cats are a positive surprise by far the superior actors in this movie do not rent or buy it stay away from it and hope that this horrible horrible film will vanish to some obscure existence and not become a cult classic it most definitely do not deserve any recognition
0	br br spoilers br br i'm going to be as kind as i can about this film some people including directors can get quite upset when reviewers speak their mind so br br there is a nice car accident and the opening credits look good and that's it everything else bites the big one all the acting is appalling the script is embarrassing the special effects look like they were done by school children on cheap computers all in all this film has serious bowling shoe tendencies br br as a horror film it's not very scary and if it supposed to a thinking man's horror film well it succeeded on some level i kept thinking that the end of this film is an awfully long way away it may actually be an ironic look at bad horror films and i'm missing the point but i somehow doubt it br br this is a complete car phone warehouse of a film and i could not recommend it to anyone and it does pain me to say this as i eagerly await the resurrection of british horror br br if you don't agree with this review that fine it's just my own opinion and i'm sure someone out there will love it the director's mum for instance
0	well i'll begin with this i love horror movies not even the worst plot or the most insanely terrible acting will ruin the experience as long as there is a certain amount of gore and suspense present second this is the worst movie of all times it even beats mean guns and the attack of the killer tomatoes and for that i pay it homage br br however the involuntary humor was only funny until half the movie had passed after which point everything was so so sad to my great surprise the reviews where somewhat divided and you guys who rated this piece of c movie crap from 7 and up i know you're joking good one hahaha because if there is any reason in the world and we have just an tiny bit of the same notion of what quality is you can't be for real br br everything worth to be mentioned about the contents has already been summed pretty good up so i'll leave it br br minor spoiler alert br br but the scene where the cloaked rubber mask guy drags the woman back and forth through the dog kennel for ten minutes with o so terrible music score and the mind blowing dialog between the two really does it for me
0	this is slightly less sickening than the first two films but otherwise it's business as usual a scuzzy sleazy and unbalanced slice of diseased cinema charles bronson is back blasting into action when his friend is killed by yobs terrorising the neighbourhood crime you see is up 11 in the south belmont area so what's to be done a stronger police presence tougher jails harsher sentences nope the only solution is to send in a loose cannon like bronson to out bloodthirsty revenge – or as the writers would have it justice this time he's the personal killing machine of police chief ed lauter br br the writers bend over backwards to make the hero sending the useless cops into the area only to a weapon from an elderly resident who keeps it for protection and supplying a scene in which has his camera stolen and shoots the thief right in the back to applause from the watching crowd capital punishment for theft well okay the attitude of everyone in the film is that this is a solution and the dishonest twisting of the characters into ciphers who exist only to cheer on or back him up is appalling br br sure these villains are scum but shouldn't the film leave the audience to make up its mind rather than the entire thing towards and his mindless answer funnily enough the beleaguered residents don't fear gang reprisals or blame for any of the violence which is odd as one character is killed precisely because of involvement at the end of the film they all take guns from their sock drawers and gleefully join in with the massacre never stopping to think things through or struggle with the thought of having to kill another human being br br the atrociously shallow performances don't help – bronson has literally one facial expression throughout and can't even put inflection on the right words new heights of stupidity are reached here – a machine gun a rocket launcher – and new lows of misogyny the movie contrives to every female character in sight whether by rape explosion or throat slashing and it sets them up in supremely stupid fashion like one victim who ventures into the crime ridden gang controlled neighbourhood to ask out a stranger or another who goes shopping alone at night this is dreck pure and simple mindless garbage put together without style or sense
0	this has got to be one of the worst films i have ever seen the cast is an international one australian pretending to be british stage american and a character with an english name sporting an unrecognizable european accent what passable efforts in acting from this motley crew are totally undermined by a plot and script of especial inanity so short were the of this film's budget and the overall production values are so low that it would have no trouble winning a cinematic limbo competition in the last twenty or so years we have seen horror films and slash thrillers of extraordinary though not necessarily high quality which have been made on no budget at all recent examples include the poorly made but totally scary blair witch project and of course the most recent that low budget winner saw featuring practically unknown leads gary elwes is just someone you don't remember even if you have seen him before in darkhunters it is shocking to find a known character actor dominique and hollywood has been jeff fahey struggling valiantly to save the film it is embarrassing to see the once handsome leading man fahey in corny makeup uttering bizarrely bad lines i would have rated this film 0 out of 10 had that been possible
0	where on earth do i start with the mess that is darkhunters firstly the script is one of the worst to ever find its way onto a cinema or tv screen and can only be described as a poorly judged stephen king rip off at one point the supposedly fearsome jack claims that carol the girl who is helping the man he is pursuing is as annoying as a in a burger i would be laughing if i was making it up but i'm not just as ludicrous is how carol originally came to have the power to see how people die a cat gave it to her when she was holding it during an auto accident she had as a kid what br br secondly for a horror movie it has no sense of tension or threat whatsoever this may not be helped by the fact that all the action happens during stark broad daylight not very atmospheric at all br br thirdly the acting is truly awful proves again that he needs to be speaking in his native tongue to be even remotely believable jeff fahey is obviously on auto pilot but how can blame him as he runs through a woe bogart impersonation as barlow marlowe barlow we get the joke it just isn't funny credit should go to susan an actress i was not aware of she does her best with the awful part she has and puts the other more experienced actors to shame br br at no point is it even explained how the human character can understand what van character is saying to her she obviously has some sort of degree in screwy alien languages br br on the plus side one moment is well done the car crash involving susan the sfx are throughly believable and if it weren't for the hilarious storyline reason for this to occur it would have been applauded br br all i can say about darkhunters is that british horror will never recover from its interminable slump if movies like this continue to be made and shown avoid this movie like the plague although the plague would be a lot more scary br br darkhunters 0 5 br br p s the insinuations in other reviews that the film remains too intelligent for some are honestly hilarious it is a weak defence when some claim you didn't like it because you didn't understand it the letters after my name make a fool of you not me
0	hey guys and girls don't ever rent or may god forbid buy this piece of garbage i have rarely seen a film in any genre as bad as this one the acting is actually worse than me and my friends did when we were 7 and in the 1 grade had to act in front of all parents and siblings in fact we would have been taken up to evaluation for the oscars if we were to be compared to the actors in darkhunters the story is terrible the makeup is terrible the filming is terrible the set is terrible the directing is terrible etc i can't actually find anything worth the money spent to see this film maybe except all the cats which my girlfriend thought were kind of cute please use your money on other things than on this film i couldn't even see the last 15 20 minutes of the film it was that terrible if anyone really liked this film i would really like to hear from you and i will try to see if i can get you some counseling at a psychiatrist's office near you br br 0 out of 10 actually below if possible not worth the dvd or tape it is on
0	i don't even understand what they tried to accomplish with this movie i mean really you got this guy running from a bunch of cats because he's dead but in order to be really dead this girl has to shoot them and they leave a corpse even though normal people can't see them because their dead the script already has a hole in it the size of nebraska then you have the main character played by susan who just drones up her lines in a monotone boring voice and with so little emotion on her face she might as well have starred as a female terminator robot it's absolutely horrendous and i don't even understand how i managed to see it all the way to the end of the movie the end being just as stupid as the entire movie mind you and with absolutely no reward in it for the viewer what so ever they might as well have called this movie the little movie that could choo choo ka choo
0	it's a shame there's an interesting idea here but it gets completely lost in a confusion of commodore 64 style computer effects and bad storytelling the plot such as it is concerns a bounty hunter of souls it should be a fairly straightforward hunter hunted kind of story but the director and or the writer seem like they forgot what the movie was supposed to be when they were about three days into shooting things aren't helped by the fact that the main baddie looks like he's wearing a cheap darth maul mask which they tried to disguise with flowing cg colors not much to recommend here even the title seems to propel it into obscurity
0	at what point does a film become so bad it's good compelling in it's awfulness darkhunters stands out as a shining example of c p cinematography and for that alone probably deserves some kind of award br br the plot revolves around the age old battle of heaven and hell for the unclaimed souls of the recently dead in the case of darkhunters the representatives of good and evil manifest themselves variously as a herd of cats a hooded grim reaper figure with a face of flickering flames similar to a coal effect electric fire a philip marlowe a like with a seriously bad manicure and a female psychologist who appears to be on day release from kwik save br br the protagonists are competing for the soul of a newly dead teacher who spends most of the film running around a foggy field and bizarrely a boarding in an attempt to evade his pursuers br br the plot is spread thinner than a sandwich with no character development or attempt to build suspense the acting is laughable comparable to a school play although that would be an insult to many educational establishments and the dialogue oh how my sides ached with the unclaimed souls of the dead being described as life's unwanted by the flame glow demon you wonder whether hell really is a mcdonalds br br but is is bizarrely compelling you find yourself watching just to see how bad it can get at just over 80 minutes it's worth the time spent for the unintentional giggles
0	it's hard and i didn't expect it but it's really the worst film me and my wife saw awful dialogs that extend incomprehensibly through time without any apparent reason except to fill time the storytelling doesn't follow a comprehensive way… everything is a mess the action and the dialogs appear at jumps the thing that disappointed me most was to see dominique one of my french favorite actors involved in i don't even know how to describe it without being the rest of the actors where at the most poor susan made a terrible interpretation of her character making a flat inexpressive performance poor special effects i don't think that it was a complete waste of film but it's close if i'm to say i would advise everyone not to see this movie i think it would be a complete waste of time sincerely i never though i would say something like that about a movie there's always a first time
0	this is truly one of the most awful movies of all time it's dull ponderous badly acted and teeth pretentious br br i watched for about an hour waiting for some kind of drama to unfold before realising there wasn't any the shot on a shoe string budget was particularly painful these have to be the worst day for night shots since plan nine from outer space br br the only barely redeeming feature is the ludicrous 'demons' wandering around the countryside with a plastic cat basket how scary is that and i did like the used as extras i suppose they are least cheap though it did seem a bit obvious that they had been enticed into camera by the careful placement of some tuna br br this film is so dreadful it should have a public health warning there was a queue at my local video store when i took it back of people demanding their money back i kid you not
0	hm where do i start i usually ignore whatever rating imdb has when looking up a movie because i think i might like it anyway or whatever and i should at least give it a chance but this time i wish i'd paid attention br br i know some people liked it and i'm not trying to say that they shouldn't it was semi amusing at some parts but if you're like me and you don't like watching cats prancing around in the for 20 minutes random fast motion cloud scenes dogs barking in cages for another 20 minutes set to music and close ups of faces while people are speaking then you might want to avoid this movie the actors were either positively wooden or way over the top and the film quality was awful fuzzy and grainy and bland and not in an artistic way at all and i know that we were supposed to think that carol was not just a crazy maniac with a gun shooting innocent people with this weird religious psychosis going on but well she doesn't really convince me otherwise in fact i ended up really disliking her crazy character and what was up with the souls in space i understand this is a fantasy movie but come on br br i will say the angel at the end was freaking creepy it was the creepiest thing in the whole movie way more creepy than the darth maul lava face demon i give them props for that scene it was good but not good enough to actually see the movie and the opening credits were great but don't be fooled i would've rather they used whatever money went into those credits to make the movie better br br bah i wish i hadn't bought this for even the 2 that i paid for it i could have bought a candy bar instead
0	first of all i really can't understand how some people enjoyed this movie it's the worst thing i have ever seen even the actors seem to be bored and i think that says it all br br however i have to give my applause to the opening credits creators that team seems to have a really good future that's why i recommend the big studios to watch only the opening credits and one or two special effects sequences if they're watched outside this movie it almost looks like a good movie br br better luck or judgment next time for the producers of this this this thing
0	death wish 3 is the movie equivalent of a shooting gallery all the characters apart from bronson's paul of course exist merely to be killed either as provocation the good guys or as retribution the villains the director simply pours on the mindless violence people even get burned alive and blown up turning this into an urban version of commando and charlie like arnold rarely bothers to protect himself from the enemy gunfire fans of this short of thing and apparently there are many will enjoy it others beware 1 2
0	this movie really is that bad and i'm normally a sucker for bad movies but this was too much seeing this is like on pure suck now you may think you've seen the bottom of the barrel you may have waded through every title from full moon and troma all the movies of edward d wood jr uwe boll albert pyun and direct to dvd flicks from faded men of action you may even have seen death tunnel ghost lake and a vast array of the movies that mst3k covered but in their original form but you do not know truly awful film making until you have seen darkhunters and if you haven't you shouldn't don't bother not only is this movie amazingly poorly written directed shot edited acted and splattered in crude cheap aftereffects first of all it's a pretentious mess but not good greenaway or lynch style pretentious or hilariously messy in an ittenbach or early waters sort of fashion it's the kind of pretentiousness that comes when someone incredibly stupid thinks they've come up with something incredibly smart sort of like m night sp only that man seems like a freakin' messiah when compared to this trainwreck and this coming from a rampant hater it's also boring not heavy going type boring which is okay if the movie awards your patience darkhunters does no such thing it's boring in a oh my fu king god if i see another shot of a cat set to an obnoxious audio cue i am going to fu king kill myself kind of way br br btw anyone who claims to like this film is a liar and anyone who claims this film is complex or deep knows what their mother is like in bed
0	i cant go for long describing this simply because i do not feel strong about it i read a few comments and i see that only proud and patriotic frenchmen seem to like it that's all i can say br br boring long sometimes even stupid br br p s 7 4 out of 10 the viewers must be going crazy br br i cant go for long describing this simply because i do not feel strong about it i read a few comments and i see that only proud and patriotic frenchmen seem to like it that's all i can say br br boring long sometimes even stupid br br p s 7 4 out of 10 the viewers must be going crazy
0	this is arguably the worst of the major ava gardner films yes she is gorgeous but that can wear thin over time especially after the corny and predictable movie ending br br in this turkey robert walker has to pretend that he's eddie bracken which surely embarrassed him olga san juan plays the jane powell golly gee part dick plays a sort of dim sidekick and eve arden plays helen broderick and a host of other wise cracking female semi comedians yes the film contains a major popular song speak low but check out the other entirely forgettable pieces dick sings very well of course and so does the uncredited vocalist dubbing for ava br br the sets are cheap the script is filled with clichés and failed humor and tom conway looks as though he has been battling with liquor as indeed he was in short if you want to see ava in her prime buy a photo and stay well clear of this movie
0	i'll never understand why when a studio like universal buys a musical it then butchers it when bringing it to screen my first thought when seeing ava gardner and robert walker were starring i would be seeing something from mgm which did musicals best at that time boy was i wrong and disappointed br br one touch of venus which starred mary martin kenny baker and john boles on broadway ran for performances in the 1943 1945 season and gardner walker and tom conway play the roles that martin baker and boles did on stage the kurt weill ogden nash musical with book by nash and s j was a comeback vehicle for mary martin who herself as the queen of broadway after a disappointing venture in hollywood br br look at the names that went into this show given who was responsible for the book i expected to see some sparkling wit in this production instead i got a rather pedestrian screenplay it was like all the wit was drained out of it doing her best to make up for it is eve arden playing her usual girl friday role with tom conway but it's even too much for eve br br the story concerns department store window dresser robert walker who kisses a very valuable statue of venus who springs to life in the person of ava gardner of course when the statue goes missing conway yells for the law and is suspicious of walker the last person to be with the statue br br the rest of the film is walker dealing with gardner and what will happen to both of them for reasons i don't understand ava was of course dubbed by eileen wilson and walker sings only a couple of lines the singing is carried by dick and olga san juan playing walker's friends and coworkers of course on broadway the songs were done by singers mary martin and kenny baker you would kind of think that would be playing walker's role at least it was awkward to say the least br br only three songs survived from the score don't look now but my heart is showing that's him and the incomparable speak low silken baritone is shown to best advantage in speak low which was sung as a duet by martin and baker on broadway for some reason the lyrics of one of the greatest men of verse of the last century ogden nash were done over by ann i suspect the infamous code was at work here br br in lee biography of ava gardner he makes mention of a brief fling ava had with robert walker when she had had a spat with her current man howard duff when duff and gardner reunited walker took it badly and didn't speak at all to gardner off camera i'm sure the fact that both of them were not in their best work didn't help matters either br br hopefully some repertoire company will do one touch of venus and you'll get to see it the way weill nash and wrote it
0	when naïve young eddie hatch a window dresser at department store falls for a statue of venus and gives her a chaste kiss venus steps off her pedestal and gives eddie more than he bargained for this creaking example of what hollywood can do to a broadway musical manages to emphasize the inane story and eliminate most of the first rate songs the purpose was to make a safe popular movie without too much investment while capitalizing on ava gardner's upward mobility to super stardom robert walker as eddie gets lost in a thankless role eddie's not just naive but dithering and hapless gardner is gorgeous but the only things that give the movie any life are olga san juan as eddie's loving but jealous girl friend tom conway as the suave owner of and eve arden as long time wise cracking secretary it's a role arden could play in her sleep and she's good at it br br the musical opened on broadway in 1943 and made mary martin a big time star the only point of a musical however is to have music since one touch of venus was intended to be a social satire of sorts kurt weill composing and ogden nash writing the lyrics came up with a series of stylish witty songs and one masterpiece without the satire or the clever songs or martin or an equivalent showstopper the movie becomes just a weak comedy fantasy where much of the comedy is predictable and the fantasy is worked to death br br not only did the producers of the movie toss out almost all the weill nash songs they brought in the movie's music director ann to write new lyrics for one of the songs that survived turning sharp observation into lovey dovey romance was no hack she wrote willow weep for me wonder what she thought about while she replaced or tweaked ogden nash's clever work br br the one bright spot in the movie is that weill nash masterpiece speak low is as great a love song as anyone ever wrote it's given one of those ultra professional and lifeless treatments by eileen wilson dubbing gardner dick contributes a chorus br br as for ann she was one of the few women in hollywood to become a major music director as well as composer and lyric writer yours for a song the women of tin pan alley is a fascinating documentary of some of the women who made it in the business including kay swift dorothy fields and dana suess and for those who would like to hear what little of the weill nash score was recorded by the original broadway cast you might be able to track down the cd one touch of venus 1943 original cast lute song 1946 original cast the music is paired with lute song another broadway show that starred martin
0	i enjoyed the prequels and found the relationship between tucker and chan previously hilarious however was a re hash of the first two without the charm or humor i think i may have laughed once and it was during the tucker was exceedingly annoying in this film and his character didn't seem to have any purpose other than to bungle everything up in the most irritating way possible chan is always likable but he seemed tired in this film i was able to predict everything who the villain was who the girl was spoiler alert who the good guy turned bad guy was etc i hope to see more movies from tucker and chan in their separate endeavors but not in any more rush hour sequels it's just too tired i recommend a rental but not a purchase
0	for a series that was inspired by kolchak it's ironic that the x files first attempt at a vampire episode should land squarely on it's ass 3 has always puzzled me and at the risk of sounding like the dreadful hans keller i've often wondered if i'm missing the point the story feels like a jigsaw that has pieces that don't match the box and the result is you spending a cosy evening by the fire trying to match sky that is really sea this incomplete feeling remains no matter how many times you revisit the episode and no matter how much attention you give it i know that this review puts me in danger of being dragged to by teenage vampires who'll drink my blood while listening to busted but that's a risk i'm willing to take i've always been a werewolf man myself
0	you might think that a show about regular teens with superpowers would be interesting but it's far from that take the concept for example the main character s have a big secret that they hide from they're peers it's just like hannah montana and that's so raven next the acting is just average selena gomez seems to be half asleep through many scenes lastly the jokes are either cliché or boring if they're not using they're colorful yet strange dialog to make us laugh they are throwing various props around the room i really wish this show would use more original and entertaining material in conclusion of waverly place is a disappointment
0	if you wondered whether disney could broadcast a show with a character more spoiled than paris more shallow than britney more vapid than jessica and more narcissistic than the girls next door wonder no more the amazing thing is selena gomez is apparently supposed to be the heroine she's also supposed to be an outcast from the spoiled shallow vapid narcissistic popular girls at school which is no more believable here than it was for hilary duff in lizzie mcguire plots range from recycled bewitched i dream of jeannie to parodies of harry potter the older boy alternates between being a magical genius and being unable to master the complexities of his own the younger boy is just another of the smart mouth wisecracking brats who have multiplied on tv like cockroaches in new york and with the same appeal the dad is the stereotypical dumb tv dad and the mom well she's not totally awful but all pales beside the hideous loathsome and yet horribly fascinating like a bad car accident spectacle of ms smug self satisfied snotty performance and again she's the heroine
0	i have no idea why people are so crazy about the show it is so boring the jokes are not even close to what we usually say funny it's like alex say something that is not funny nor interesting and then suddenly there's a laughing sound background my friend and i just looked at each other with blank look as if we asked each other what's so funny seriously every time we watched that show you wouldn't hear any laughing or coughing just a blank look so we stop watching it i am personally a fan of sitcoms so i tried to watch the show but the show us such a disappointment this show might be one of the worst comedy sitcom ever
0	ok i just flipped channels and caught i watched it knowing it would be trash but as a person who has seen tons of films this one stands up there as one of the most purely bad films i have ever seen i'm not kidding it is so bad you have to watch it like a bad accident you can't turn away from sometimes these kinds of films work ie troma movies but watching martin balsam and charles bronson slum it up like this is painful what's even funnier is i pulled up imdb to see what other people said and it actually scores a 4 1 10 i can't believe it made it past 1 5 equally as funny is this is not even the pinnacle of this series somehow this garbage warranted part 4 and 5 and to top it all off some dude's comments on here referenced this as the best of the series and his favorite film of all time statements like that scare me about this world
0	this is what disney channel shows to kids who are dumber than posts it suits them well it's not funny the acting is the worst i've seen in many years there are more stereotypes than there are actors and everything about this show makes you groan and roll your eyes wanna know why not only is this show a waste of airtime the lead actress selena gomez looks like a pig jake t austin's character needs some ritalin david character needs to visit a strip club and get wasted also the writer of the show is inconsistent in one episode the security guard is called sir by one character and referred to as a woman by all else br br hello it's called and editing do it sometime disney br br has anyone seen the promo for the new four part bloodsucking saga disney wanted their own version of the twilight vs harry potter thing except a million times lamer the wizards of waverly place movie think about it for a minute family goes away on vacation and 16 year old daughter wants independence from parents same plot from the proud family movie etc br br what's worse is all the emmies and it got and most of the audience are some what 4 13 and no life teenagers how many more years before selena gomez is showing her tits br br and disney shows are all crap hack writers hack shows destroying the minds and wallets of today's youth
0	the affair is a very bad tv movie from the 1970s starring the then husband wife team of robert wagner and natalie wood as hesitant lovers she has and leads a reclusive existence as a pop song writer he's an ambitious lawyer who is very outgoing and absolutely smitten with her their affair such as it is is doomed from the start and she knows it but goes along with it anyway two things to watch for if you are trapped into watching this wood's jane fonda hairdo that is never mussed no matter what and a tune she sings early in this dreadful flick she sings it for four or five or six minutes so you know it's classic padding between commercials it also is one of the worst songs ever written and the woman doing wood's singing voice should have been shot and put out of her misery also keep an eye out for all the peasant tops and dresses by comparison wagner looks relatively timeless with close cropped hair and sporting a series of classic suits
0	natalie wood portrays courtney patterson a disabled songwriter who attempts to avoid being victimized as a result of involvement in her first love affair with her partner being attorney marcus simon played tepidly by wood's real life husband robert wagner the film is cut heavily but the majority of the remaining scenes shows a very weak hand from the director who permits wagner to consistently laying waste to a solid and nuanced performance from wood who also proffers a fine soprano the script is somewhat trite but the persistent nature of wagner's dramatic shortcoming is unfortunately in place throughout as he is given a free hand to impose his desultory stare at wood which must be discouraging to an actress the progression of their relationship is erratically presented and this coupled with choppy editing leads the viewer to be less than assured as to what is transpiring motivation being almost completely ignored in the writing although largely undistinguished the cinematography shines during one brief scene when wood is placed in a patio and following the sound of a closing door remains at the center while the camera's eye steadily pulls away demonstrating her helplessness and frailty more controlled direction would have allowed the performers even the limp wagner to scale their acting along the lines of an engaging relationship as it was released there is for the most part an immense lack of commitment
0	describing this film is a difficult task on the one hand it's an over the top vampire spookfest complete with cobwebs eerie music a hypnotic medallion and of course a coffin with a creaky lid br br on the other hand this is one of the silliest scripts this side of edward d wood jr produced by the same people who gave us the bloody vampire invasion of the vampires and this film's predecessor the modestly titled the vampire the movie sticks close to the lack of logic that characterizes the other films br br as i mentioned this film is a sequel to the vampire which i have not seen but no matter it's real easy to imagine what happened dr enrique played by abel the brainiac salazar is befuddled when the well intentioned but misguided dr marion brings back the staked body of his vampiric enemy count de i suppose there is a rule somewhere that all vampires must be counts of some sort dr marion complains that all important doctors throughout history have had to resort to some sort of grave robbing in order to advance their medical studies and he hopes to use the vampire's corpse to study such phenomena as the vampire's lack of a normal reflection at which point he holds a mirror up to the vampire and instead of no reflection we see the vampire's skeleton br br enrique is not pleased and seems determined to pass off the events of the first film as mere fantasy and superstition this man was no vampire i'll admit that he liked to drink a little blood but that's all he states also confusing matters is the fragile martha a part time nurse and part time showgirl who happens to be object of affection martha narrowly escaped de clutches in the first film and apparently enrique has spent a great deal of time healing her mind and getting her to think that everything that she experienced was not real br br ok so if you were the scriptwriter for this film you would need a way to get someone dumb enough to pull the stake out of the vampire right well how about the greedy con man who helped marion steal the coffin after getting a glimpse de body he sets his sights on the expensive looking brooch that the count is wearing and he conveniently returns to steal it when the doctors aren't looking but darn it he can't remove the brooch because of the stake so you guessed it de is on the loose again this time with the shady con as his human henchman br br ok so of course the vampire is after martha again and meanwhile the doctors are really confused about what they believe at first they are determined to prove that there is no such thing as a real vampire then by the end of the film they are trying to get the police to put an all points bulletin out for a man who is dead but still alive br br you can probably imagine the rest of the plot from here but the filmmakers do throw in a few pleasing twists one of the sets for the movie is a spooky wax museum is there any other kind in these types of films complete with a fully equipped torture chamber with real torture and execution equipment the movie has a very keen sense of style and not just in the campy cobwebs one effectively creepy sequence has de chasing a victim down a seemingly endless series of streets and alleyways following their progress alongside vague buildings with no doors while lighting the scene like a german expressionist nightmare the cabinet of dr caligari seems to be an influence br br but the rest of the film is juvenile particularly in the film's climax the special effects are quite crude even for the year that this was made and the climactic fight with de in bat form is laughable enough but the director feels the need to ask us to believe that martha would faint and collapse directly over top of a guillotine positioned so that her head was in the perfect location to be chopped off by the blade which is in danger of falling because the restraining rope has suddenly begun to fray right at that very minute what an unfortunate coincidence to make matters worse he cuts away from the rope to scenes of enrique trying to dodge the swooping rubber bat basically standing still and waving his arms around it's definitely an ed wood moment if ever there was one especially when martha seems to revive on her own and rises to her feet just as the blade slams down whew what a relief in terms of kookiness the vampire's coffin does not have the lunacy factor of the bloody vampire or invasion of the vampires but fans of these types of old horror films will appreciate the atmospheric photography and the fact that the director manages to wring some real chills from this material has to count for something haw haw
0	imagine yourself trapped inside a museum of the dark middle ages and a resurrected vampire and his maniacal sidekick are chasing you where is the absolute last place you want to hide i'd say inside the uncanny virgin of nuremberg torture device because there's a good risk you'll get brutally spiked to death and yet the elderly lady in this film stupidly runs into her spiked coffin the vampire's coffin is a rather disappointing sequel as director fernando doesn't re create the gothic atmosphere of the 1957 original but puts the emphasis on comical situations and dialogs no more ominous castles with eerie cobwebs and dark vaults but confused doctors and clumsy assistants that provoke laughs instead of frights the story opens inside count de final resting place where an eminent doctor and a hired assistant steal the coffin in order to examine the corpse at a private clinic naturally the wooden stake gets removed from his heart and the vampire count comes to live again immediately enslaving the petty thief to do his dirty work the vampire has his eye on a beautiful female patient at the clinic and it's up to dr enrique to rescue her soul and to destroy the bloodsucker the vampire's coffin uses a limited amount of locations and there's very little action the whole film would actually be pretty boring if it weren't for a handful of memorable sequences and decent acting performances the photography is amazing though with the sublime use of shadows and darkness this is most notably during the scene in which count de stalks a young woman through the deserted streets of little town at night it's the only truly worthwhile scene of the whole film the rest is fairly mediocre and déjà vu
0	know it is impossible to keep all details of a book in a movie but this movie has changed nearly everything without any reason furthermore many changes have made the story illogical a few examples 1 in the movie paul really meets before he dies in the book poirot only gets a letter telling him he is afraid to be killed this is completely stupid because if plan would have succeeded poirot would have known that the dead man would not have been poirot was in the morgue when mrs identified the victim 2 the movie has combined two persons into one cinderella has been removed by the movie the girl hastings falls in love with and the ex girlfriend of jack are one person in the movie why for god's sake 3 hastings finds the victims cause he is such a bad golf player totally unfunny and stupid 4 the movie tells secrets much too early for example at the very beginning so you know things you shouldn't know 5 the murderer gets shot at the end by a person who doesn't exists in the book perhaps because the person cinderella who stops the murderer does not exists in the movie 6 the book is very complex the movie takes only about 90 minutes sure it is difficult to include all the necessary details but it is impossible if you include stupid things which were not in the book and have no meaning e g bicycle race
0	oh f cking hell where should i start first of all this show is just another stupid american non funny so called comedy which has pathetic acting and very very poor humor the american way of laughing track business makes the whole thing even worse how come i can hear laughter yet there's nothing funny happening pretty stupid eh this show is only for those american people who haven't ever heard that there are far more funnier better and wittier comedies not only in great but also in america the simpsons for example i simply can't understand what is so good about reba that it has lasted for long a while in television it has nothing new to offer it underestimates the possible viewers in so many ways and it simply isn't funny at all i could have lived with the fact that there are so bad shows as reba but why the hell they had to run it here in finland if i see few seconds of this horrible show the rest of the day is ruined for me take my word and believe me this show sucks ass even more than these kind of american comedies usually does this is simply horrible do yourself a favor don't ever watch this peace of sh t br br well i leave the commenting for those who now this language better thanks for your possible interest
0	my parents may enjoy this show but i fail to find the humor in it what is so funny about a dentist husband impregnating his hygienist assistant and the oldest daughter getting impregnated by the captain of the high school football team absolutely nothing it's a shock to me sometimes what people think constitutes humor nowadays blame that on shows like the dating game and the newlywed game bringing the issue of sex to the forefront in the mid 1960s sure the series has its touching moments still that's no excuse for the content that otherwise went into this series this is nothing like the family oriented days of i love lucy some five decades before br br an answer i would have to why this series plays on the lifetime cable channel is because that channel's brass think women can relate to character i absolutely dislike the character of reba hart's daughter kyra she is best described as a ditsy and bitter teenager funny i wonder if the actress who played kyra scarlett is like that in real life away from acting who plays the blockhead ex husband dentist christopher rich is not much better barbara jean played by melissa is ditsy in herself the characters of van and cheyenne are also very annoying br br something else that baffles me is why the dingbat of a series creator allison m gibson decided to set the series in where i live 25 miles away from houston texas reba mcentire isn't even from this state she's an why is it during one season or more they decided to make the incidental music sound like a pig snorting what i mean by that is where we hear this baritone saxophone being played with drums accompanying it but the melodies are basically tuneless
0	reba is a very dumb show you can predict pretty much anything that's about to happen barbra jean is just too stupid it's like she's not even a character a show like this should at least have someone who resembles a real life person i guess barbra jean represents a retarded person keira or whatever her name is reba brock they're all stupid keira is like the smartest person on the show and she's still stupid everyone is stupid that's my opinion on reba since i have said all i can say about this show i'll just take up the next few lines of text by saying what i am currently saying right now and do it until there's 10 lines there reba gets 2 10
0	reba is without a doubt one of the worst comedy series ever i wonder how come there are people writing good comments on reba you watch friends married children if you laugh at that you can never laugh at the stupid jokes and the ridiculous accent of the singer who is trying to make her way in comedy and obviously having no chance whatsoever the actors actresses beside reba are ok so i feel bad for them in a so called comedy show with the least person in the world reba to sum up i suggest this tv show to see how low comedy can get and appreciate the ones that can make you laugh
0	naked deanna troi br br richie's brother chuck from happy days with a reverse mohawk br br death wish 3 has all this and more including one clever scene where chuck bronson's character sets up a mousetrap like device that brains a punk when he opens the window br br chuck also places a board with a bunch of nails on the floor near another window and smiles when he returns and sees bloody footprints leading away br br all i can say about death wish 3 is that it is one of most incomprehensible serious movies that i have ever seen loaded to the hilt with mayhem and nearly zero police response despite the use of military weapons to mow punks down by the score br br as i understand it bronson disowned this film but happily cashed the check from golan globus br br if you enjoy quality movies avoid this one but if you're in for a cheap jackass kind of thrill check it out
0	reba sucks it sucks hard it's about this awful country singer attempting comedy they might as well call this show generic because that's what it is it's dumb and generic reba you're not funny and i'm glad your retarded show was cancelled because you suck and so does brock barbra jean the red headed teenager that jockey guy and the 12 year old who got knocked up you all suck and none of you are funny oh and i heard a rumor that reba is actually a gay devil who idolizes hitler and tortures animals and she puts subliminal messages on her show and in her music in hopes to make children kill their parents and kill themselves but it was just a rumor anyway this is the worst show ever reba is gay i do not like her i think the office is better than this show and this show sucks
0	this really is an okay series everyone in it is pretty good but i just can't take reba she's trying to be funny but she just isn't and then she got a stupid accent if they took her out of the show i would love to see it every day br br i have been watching the show in 10 min now and as i said before reba is destroying the show however the 20 year old guy dont know his name but he's soooo funny and he's really saving it all br br so here's the recipe to get a great show kick reba of it and then put the 20 year old guy into the lead role br br i really hope someone out there agrees with me and thinks like me that they should kick reba of the show and put someone else in the lead role
0	i pretty much liked every character on this show from the start except reba herself she comes off as an holier than thou type and quite frankly a big bully and that stinks because she is in every scene and every episode in the later seasons van becomes unlikeable too like a spoof of his former self and kyra walks around sneering and being miserable the first 3 to 4 seasons are pretty good if you overlook reba towards the end its pretty bleak in basically every episode barbara jean is walking around being dumb reba is being mean to her but poor ole barbara jean desperately wants reba to like her which results in jean telling reba how awesome she is in every episode i think it is pretty clear to see reba has self esteem issues and wants to be seen as this all forgiving saint its really a shame too because other than her the show had such potential
0	does anyone else think that reba is basically a ripoff of roseanne just look at the characters from the two families connors roseanne and harts reba the blonde bombshell elder daughter becky connor and cheyenne hart who's married to a moron mark healy and van montgomery the sarcastic brunette younger daughter darlene connor and kyra hart the little brother dj connor and jake hart and the quirky relative jackie connor and barbara jean booker hart br br and then of course there is the biggest similarity reba hart and roseanne connor reba tried to copy the sarcastic and tough love style mom without giving her the same lovable qualities as roseanne had or perhaps they made her too lovable for reba hart seems to waver between being mean and scary hence van's line to his wife cheyenne i'm not afraid of you i'm afraid of your mother and being sweet and caring with little transition in between roseanne at least managed to get it across that she was being cruel to be kind since she was always mean and sarcastic and whenever she tried to open up it was hard for her as inconsistent as character is it's hard for her to be believable br br but even if the characters weren't completely ripped off of roseanne nothing could've saved the show from being sub par in the plot area the writers try to give the show substance but they really can't lay off the corny jokes long enough to give any impact and you'd better believe the jokes are corny it's as if they were written by a twelve year old who thinks that any joke is hilarious while occasionally they come out with something that's funny i don't pretend that i didn't laugh at a few episodes these gems are too few and far between to make reba witty br br overall reba is a very mediocre show with obvious ripoffs of roseanne sub par plots and sub sub par humor and let's face it terrible acting the show might be a bit better actually if they replaced all the actors especially reba herself who is more community theater quality than prime time sitcom quality br br i give it a 3 out of 10 just to be fair to the good jokes that make it in
0	this show is made for persons with iq lower than 80 the jokes in the show are so lame if you are on a deserted island and you do not have anything to do you will be better than to watch this garbage you will hate their accent their behavior and all the stupid jokes and pranks they try to perform it really pisses me of that viewers gave reba 6 7 on their voting sure i knew there are some people with iq lower than 80 but what i did not know that there are so many of them so people if you got to read this i hope that you will never ever download or buy this peace of garbage i know it is not the place for his but i wish to recommend one much better mini series
0	while it would be easy and accurate to go into why is at its heart indicative of many 'family oriented sitcoms' in the way it rips off from other better sitcoms the real truth is that the show is repetitive full of stereotypes from funnier and more groundbreaking shows and the lead star is completely out of her element while i'm sure ms mcintire can sing and has a fan base that supports that being in a sitcom shooting out zingers and calling her the next lucille ball is far far removed from reality br br reba herself has no presence which is needed here to establish the fact that she is cast as the put upon woman of which her entire family is centered yet after watching a few episodes there is no real connection to the character i could care less about her adventures because her whole character seems to be mia reba mcintire has no screen presence and to make a show around her seems very short sighted and indicative of most 'family oriented' programming to push a sitcom full of men stupid women do everything stereotypes that appeal to nobody but those who can't afford cable br br the show is a waste of time the only good thing is that it at least has better production values than your standard pax ripoff just
0	in my opinion of this movie the entire video portion of this movie was absolute trash however the soundtrack that was used contained the music of a great heavy metal rock band i recognized the music as being a band called and the album was just a nightmare and it was very well written and i am curious to see what the rest of you movie buffs out there think of it if can remember back that far i would appreciate the feed back i collect old movie and obscure movie sound tracks it is a very time consuming hobby but is very rewarding i have seen this bands music being sold in germany on the net for around fifty dollars per album not to bad hugh
0	now i've seen it all just when i thought it couldn't get any more pathetic and cheesy than woodchipper massacre just when i thought dialogue and acting couldn't get worse than nail gun massacre just when i thought don't go in the woods would retain its title as lousiest slasher film ever along comes the last slumber party somehow this cheap wretched manure manages to avoid lewdness but it remains terrible i couldn't believe my eyes for once i can't complain about excessive or in this case any nudity in a slasher film but it still managed to make me crimson with embarrassment for renting it never before have i seen such horrible acting dialect direction writing i could go on forever with this list here's a quick run down br br a mental patient somehow escapes from the loony bin dresses up like a surgeon somehow finds out where his doctor lives and breaks in while the doctor's daughter is having friends over for the night then begins the most stupid killing spree ripped off from other movies such as slumber party massacre and halloween this side of the universe the characters have negative iqs which suggests they are not human then again i guess they are not since they have the tendency to bleed kool aid when they get cut as the slasher likes to show use when he holds up his to the camera in way too many scenes it is only 80 minutes how many times must we look at that like that before it consumes the whole movie which i suppose wouldn't be all that bad of an idea in this case there is one moment where i thought maybe just maybe the director would make it interesting a second killer was added but alas it was not to be and then to insult even further there is a stupid super cop out sub ending and an even stupider final conclusion that probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense but i would hate to give away the dumbest few scenes in movie history to those two or three fools like me dumb enough to rent this sewage br br i sure hope that by writing this i have saved 80 minutes of someone's life i get on my hands and knees to beg anyone still thinking about renting this please please please don't this is a fan of the slasher genre talking i know what is good for you the only real victims in this asinine nonsense are the poor morons that have sat through the whole toilet tank score since there is no negative point scale i have to give it a 1 but a below average 1 at that avoid it at all costs please
0	i would most definitely have to say that this is the most terrible movie i have ever seen it's not just the actors that are bad but also the fact that the camera person taped the wall and the clocks for about 5 minutes at a time anyone that likes this must be crazy this movie is a waste of time
0	i thought godzilla 2000 was the worst movie ever until i saw this monstrosity my friends and i went to our local blockbuster and spent about an hour and a half looking for a movie we could not find one since we have seen almost every movie created we decided to look in the low budget horror section we looked for the most attractive cover featuring scantily clad women we finally decided on last slumber party the whoops we made a mistake it seems as though this movie was filmed with the cheapest camera that could be found in k mart the actors were picked up at a salvation army and as for steven tyler we will just leave that to the imagination the plot of this movie was ridiculous spoiler alert while watching the movie there is absolutely no closure at all then come to find out all the events were just a dream this movie should also have been about 30 minutes if all the camera zooms on still shots and scans of walls were taken out it would have been much shorter all i can say is i'm glad there wasnt a sequel
0	the 3rd in the series finds paul bronson turning vigilante to get revenge on the thugs that murdered his old buddy i don't know why this movie shoved me into it but somehow it did i found myself rooting for bronson to wipe the floor with those punks every time he blew one of them away i felt good this movie does not take itself seriously but what if it did there is a good build up to the fireworks finale in which bronson goes on a rampage but as far as acting and plot go it just doesn't measure up if i lived in that neighborhood i would get out as fast as i could but it seems like the people are asking for trouble i know there is that mentality that we need to save our streets but there is a limit here folks i had to give it a 4 sure there are good blow 'em away scenes but that's about it at that time bronson was 64 i'm sure if those thugs really wanted to they could have their way with bronson bronson takes the place of a or stallone in this movie this movie gives you a sense of rejoice the common man can save the neighborhood save the day to sum it up this is far from being the original death wish but it is rather good if you are just looking for an hour and a half of shoot 'em up
0	so one day i was in the video store looking for a movie i came across this and rented it because it was a film i hadn't seen or even heard of br br now i like slasher movies in general but this is just abysmal not even good for laughs besides being ultra ultra cheap and containing all slasher film cliches and terrible acting it has the most incompetent and inept direction i have ever come across now sometimes the aforementioned traits can be present in a film and some enjoyment can still be had but not here painful example of home made horror
0	i love cheesy horror movies i think dead alive and bad taste are great and i think slumber party massacre ii not even related to this movie are hilarious but this movie absolutely stank i didn't laugh i didn't even enjoy it you can see all kinds of mistakes that aren't even campy the best take of the scene where the woman leans out the window is the one where she smacks her head on the sill give me a break br br don't rent this thinking it's related to the slumber party massacre series it's awful and i don't even have a clue how it got any distribution rent it with a fake name and burn it do everyone else the favor
0	i'm not even going to comment on what piece of trash this film is since that has already been established however watching this with my friends we all laughed out loud when the lead girl made a shelley hack reference while on the phone we sat there trying to figure out why the writer would throw her into the mix we can only assume he had a charlie's angels fixation at one time based on that reference we assumed this film must have been made around her charlie's angels run in 1979 or 1980 but from what i've read here it was made around 1987 you sure couldn't tell that from the poor production values it seems as though it was made by a college student for a film class and while by no means would i expect a low budget trash fest like this to be politically correct the rednecks in this film sure did like to direct derogatory gay remarks to each other even so i'd still only rank this as the 2nd worst horror film ever made second only to nail gun massacre
0	i got this on a double feature dvd called scream theater and it's no doubt one of the most terrible movies i've ever seen and i've seen some really bad ones school's out and of three girls who if they're teenagers i'd eat my hat are talking about non stop party so of course they all go to the house of the girl whose parents are the most strict for a slumber party meanwhile a psychotic has escaped the local bug house where one girl's father works is on the loose with sharp objects and wearing green scrubs and sporting wide open eyes i guess that's to show he's bonkers of course since he has a bone to pick with that particular doctor off he goes to his house the location of which is apparently common knowledge in the meantime some dumb jock types are slamming down beers and out to scare the girls and of course the loony shows up too and starts cutting throats and that's about it as the heavy metal music chugs along in the background or maybe that's not it but really that's all you need to know unless you spend your time perpetually stoned or drunk you'll find little of interest here and even if you are wasted most of the time you'll still probably find your intelligence insulted 1 out of 10
0	my friend and i rented this one a few nights ago and i must say this is the single best movie i have ever seen i mean woah dude we better get some brew before this joint closes and dude linda's not a bra again what poetry woah and it's such a original movie too i mean you don't usually find a slasher film where every single murder is exactly the same i mean exactly now that's originality and almost all the transitions between scenes are these great close ups of the psycho in the er scrubs how cool the acting is so wonderful to the dad was just brilliant must have studied real dads before filming and how many movies do you find that just don't make any sense not many but this is one of those gems i mean how cool is it that one guy waited outside for like six hours to pull a prank while his friends were both inside that's really cool overall i'd say this is the single greatest film of the genre nay in the world
0	o boy was this really bad br br i saw this on videotape br br in scenes that had soundtrack music it was hard to hear the dialog when people were on the telephone it was hard to hear the person on the other end it appeared that at least two different kinds of film or video stock were used because the colors and focus sometimes shifted drastically between edits and there were a lot of out of focus shots that didn't seem intentional br br one indicator of the budget one of many was when a news report comes on tv there is just a news flash title card badly superimposed with a video effect onto a tv screen and a voice over by a newscaster they couldn't shoot footage of a newscaster and then actually show it on the tv br br the movie starts off with a killer wearing surgical scrubs and mask wielding a scalpel supposedly he's a paranoid schizophrenic who escapes from the hospital to avoid having a lobotomy performed on him br br students are let out of school for a break and three young women decide to have a slumber party three guys decide to crash the party and a geek named science decides to crash it too the slumber party is pretty boring and the guys just keep showing up randomly wearing masks taking the masks off and then disappearing the mother and father the surgeon who was to do the lobotomy of one of the girls keep showing up too the killer knocks slices people's throats without anyone really noticing the apparent lead of the movie more or less sleepwalks through the movie perhaps that was bad acting or maybe it was intentional since much of the movie is a nightmare and some of it a nightmare within a nightmare br br the ending is really horrible too br br the best thing about the movie is the cheesy united home video vhs box art which was revived for the dvd release a double feature with terror at i honestly can't tell if it is a photo or a painting or a combination of both the women pictured on the cover are not in the movie and the clothing they're wearing is way more revealing than anything the women in the movie wore the throat slicing on the cover is scarier than the ones in the movie where people tend to affect a goofy pop eyed look for that matter that's what the killer has most of the time head cocked and eyes bugging out mugging for the camera frequently the scalpel was held up close to the camera in focus while the killer's mask covered face was in close up but out of focus in the background
0	oh well its funny should have been a sadistic comedy a lot of horror movies lack common sense but i think a retarded caveman would weasel his way around this situation don't really expect hitchcock or anything close to this this is a good one for friends but i wouldn't recommend it for anything else this movie lacks all the substance of a true horror movie the suspense the shock and good characters the killer failed to be the unstoppable force that i expected him to be and he seemed to be the average angry d student able to outsmart only stupid people and the really funny thing is the horrible acting and the lack of emotion of the so called victims br br 3 10 just expect this one in the daily
0	there are a whole lot of movies primarily from the 80s that are so terrible that you can't help but love them the last slumber party is one of those i hate this movie so much but it still remains one of the most watched movies in my collection i have watched it countless times and get a huge laugh out of it every time it is the prime example of how in the 80s any movie could get released br br our killers name is maniac scary huh is an escaped psychopathic killer running around in doctor's scrubs and a doctor's jacket hacking off people with a scalpel as he goes along he ends up coming across a house of girls that are having a slumber party one of the girls is the daughter of the doctor that tried to operate on and ended up pulling him down in some kind of sexual position lol just watch the movie to know what i am talking about now i know what you must be thinking at this point this must be another cheesy low budget hack and slash flick like slumber party massacre or valentine's day massacre right no this movie is horrible first off the quality of the film changes off and on throughout the film sometimes it will look like it could have been filmed this year but other times it is so grainy and blurry that it isn't even watchable the funny thing is that certain specific camera angles will be blurry and grainy and other specific camera angles will be clear and perfect which is absolutely ridiculous and proves that they did not care at all br br the director played the killer as if that wasn't funny enough but because of the fact that he wasn't talented enough to act and direct at the same time he just filmed one shot of him walking toward the camera with his scalpel and then just replayed that clip over and over every time someone is killed br br the characters in this movie are completely ridiculous and unlikable and these people who are suppose to be ages 16 18 look more like they are 25 45 i know that slasher films commonly use adults as teenagers but i have never seen a movie where it was this obvious my guess is that the reason none of them are still in the film industry today is because they have all died of old age or maybe it was just because this movie was so horrible that they never wanted to show their faces again and that is a good thing because i highly doubt that they could have gotten into any more movies even if they tried all i can do is hope that tyler will one day make the last slumber party 2 the final conflict and have all of the original actors return i'm sure everyone would love that br br the movie was directed by stephen tyler no not the singer who never went on to direct again and it was released by b s which i am sure stands for bull and productions bull s only released one more film forever evil which was pretty awful but not near as bad as last slumber party br br a horrible horrible horrible film highly recommended
0	this one's a doozy dating from 1949 scene of the crime often plays more like a coen bros movie set in the 1940's and filmed in black and white except that the writer's ear for pastiche here isn't quite so well tuned maybe this can be seen instead as the forerunner to oscar baiting schlock like road to perdition frankly it's a wonder that this film isn't considered a classic by film professors and critics everywhere considering how much it offers in term of overly articulated thrills cloaked in false significance much like the grandaddy of all such fake art films citizen kane or anything by murnau br br mgm is usually a studio that can do no wrong in my eyes and i think any story any atmosphere even gritty realism can only benefit from grotesque you could say i'm a disciple of the minnelli school but it takes a certain light touch to write mannered tough guy dialogue of the dashiell hammett stripe a willingness perhaps to let maybe one or two scenes pass without a line like careful mr wiggly or you'll have thirteen fish to fry and no little to catch them with i made most of that up mr wiggly unfortunately made the cut but believe me the dialogue is just that inflated and riddled with non sequiturs even the lead cop's wife played by arlene dahl speaks like she has a moon shaped scar under one eye and the christian name rocco by the time van johnson turns in his badge with the line i'm sick to death of death and homicide you'll wonder how the writer's fixation with ornate literary devices in this case could ever have been misconstrued as street br br for those who have outgrown the naked gun series this is the funniest cops n robbers film going
0	okay now i know where all those boring cop homicide tv shows came from i do believe they can be traced back to this movie scene of the crime feels more like a tv episode or an episode of a serial complete with stock characters and situations the hotshot cop who clashes with his superiors the aging cop who doesn't want a desk job despite failing eyesight the reckless rookie the double crossing dame etc br br i like many of the actors here and they do a good job but overall i found this movie dull as i'm not a fan of the genre i kept tuning out when they were discussing the case something about bookies and informers and oh yeah there was a stripper played by the previously wholesome gloria dehaven what i want to know is why did she keep calling van johnson uncle wiggly wasn't uncle wiggly a rabbit a character from a children's book what the heck does that have to do with anything i guess i just don't get tough guy film noir ish kinda jargon br br in fact much of the dialogue made me mutter nobody talks like that however i could relate to one scene where the cop's wife arlene dahl who worries every time he goes to work realizes that maybe she shouldn't have made her husband the center of her life yeah i know that feeling of loving someone so much being so dependent on them that there's a constant fear for their safety so there are moments of truth in this film underneath the stylized dialogue and atmosphere which is trying so self consciously to be gritty and real that it actually seems unreal to me br br a little background this movie was made when dore took over mgm from louis b mayer and began to put an end to the wholesome musicals that made mgm so great dore was determined to bring more realism to movies i kinda hate dore maybe we can blame him for all the pretentious bleak movies being made today wallowing in the ugly truths about life focusing on and in my opinion helping to perpetuate the worst of humanity rather than the best no longer uplifting us the way classic movies were designed to do providing a necessary distraction during the great depression and world war ii br br well damn it we still need that kind of distraction today there's still plenty of depression and plenty of war and what are people turning to nowadays when they want to escape trashy brain deadening reality tv thanks a lot dore
0	since paul was running short of actual relatives to avenge the third installment in the death wish saga revolves on him returning to new york to visit an old war buddy he arrives only to find out that brooklyn entirely changed into a gangland and that youthful thugs killed his friend and continuously terrorize all the other tenants of a ramshackle apartment building strikes a deal with the local police commissioner conquers the heart of his blond attorney blows away numerous villains with an impressive magnum gun and gradually trains inspires the petrified new yorkers to stand up for themselves okay there's no more point in defending the death wish series after seeing part three the 1974 original was a masterpiece that revolved on the social drama as much as it did on the retribution and even though it was pure exploitation part two still had quite a few redeeming qualities and at least the events were a logically linked to those occurring in the first number three frequently feels like a totally separate franchise apparently isn't an architect anymore he's ten times more social and talkative than he used to be and suddenly nobody not even the police is against vigilante actions anymore all these changes and several other aspects make it more than obvious that michael winner and charles bronson reduced their death wish success to being a purely brainless and exploitative action series with a death toll that gigantically increases with each episode that becomes more and more explosive and criminals that get nastier sleazier meaner and a lot harder to kill however the gentlemen didn't seem to realize that the non stop spitfire of violence actually creates an opposite effect namely this extremely monotonous and much more boring than the previous two i once read a brilliant review that referred to death wish 3 as the pure definition of cinematic masturbation this description couldn't be more spot on as the script tiredly moves itself from one repugnant execution sequence to the next particularly the final twenty minutes are a complete orgy of gunfire explosions and executions realized through improvised homemade measures yi this entry in the series has quite an interesting supportive cast including martin balsam psycho 12 angry men as the fatigue neighbor who keeps machine guns in his closet ed lauter family plot the longest yard as the slightly unorthodox copper and even alex winter from bill and ted's excellent adventure in his debut role as one of the thugs
0	i had seen this movie when i was a boy before wwii and was surprised that the local library had a copy saw it again after some sixty years and forgot how bad it was this is an example of a movie that was not a a movie no editing poor script weak acting and not much directing should not even be as high as a b had a laugh at how jaded i've become over the years seems to me i thought it was good when i originally saw it
0	most of wayne's b westerns are kind of fun in a naive way but this one really stinks the editing is terrible and the direction and pacing is completely lethargic most of the cast stands around waiting for the mute guy to write down his thoughts on a pad of paper and i was bored sorry duke but this gets a 1
0	there were many westerns made in the 30s and early 40s and although this has a strong beginning it isn't one randy bowers john wayne stopping at a house' saloon finds it to be full of dead bodies the corpse draped over the bar holding a gun eyes watching randy from behind holes cut through eyes in a picture and a player piano playing the loveliest night of the year br br it was the result of a robbery by the marvin black gang to get ed rogers' 30 000 randy is an investigator who works alone who wastes little time in getting arrested escaping with ed's daughter sally's help and literally landing in the midst of the black gang's hideout behind a waterfall it all moves along fairly quickly only one too many chases after randy slow it down br br we even get george hayes clean shaven and playing two parts marvin black the vilest villain as well as the good citizen matt the mute who communicates via handwritten messages having him play two opposite roles was a good idea but the writing down of messages thing gets old real fast even for him as he finally gives up doing it near the end saying to sally ah i'm fed up with this you can find george playing a vile vile double crossing villain in the serial the lost city 1934 br br i think this is the only 'lone star' film in which the title relates to or is mentioned in the film sally offers her hand to randy and says he's not alone anymore then cut to their arms around each other as they look out facing a lake sally's running off with randy seems too abrupt and not sufficiently prepared for too much time spent on horseback escaping the sheriff br br not that bad considering everything but not that great either i'd really give it a 4 and a half
0	john wayne is without a doubt one of the most popular and loved actors of all time his career stretched over forty years and within that time he starred in films such as angel and the badman the green berets sands of iwo jima rio bravo north to alaska and the undefeated br br the film's listed above are hailed as some of his best unlike this 1934 effort randy rides alone which has been pretty much forgotten about as time's gone on which is unsurprising as it's nothing memorable apart from its very short running time of just 53 minutes br br a young john wayne plays randy bowers who for reasons never really explained arrives at a saloon in the middle of nowhere and finds that everyone inside has been killed while looking around a posse arrives and finds randy there and they arrest him accusing him of being a gang member and demand to know where the rest of his gang is he is put in jail accused of the murders sally rogers whose uncle owned the saloon and was murdered arrives at the jail to see randy in order to clarify that he was one of the gang members she was hiding in a secret room when the shooting took place sally doesn't believe that randy is a killer and doesn't recognise him so while the sheriff is out she slips him the keys and randy escapes while running away from the sheriff and his posse randy conveniently stumbles into the gang's hideout in a cave who were responsible for the murders randy sets out to clear his name and also to bring the gang to justice br br randy rides alone can be a fun film to watch especially if you're a john wayne fan but at the same time it has far too many flaws that are impossible to ignore the film is also extremely dated as you would expect we have the terrible camera shooting which makes everyone look like they are moving in super fast motion and the dialogue is terrible the acting isn't great either and wayne's character is very wooden and he along with the rest of the cast look like wooden puppets who are being conducted by someone in this case it's by director harry fraser harry fraser is at the helm and does a good enough job but the story is paper thin one can't help but feel that about ten minutes is missing from the start of the film as randy just arrives out of nowhere at the saloon and is looking to meet someone an explanation on why randy was there is giving later on which turns out to be something like he is a p i who was sent to investigate the claims that someone is trying to take over the town to be honest i didn't really pick it up most of the time i was hoping for the movie to end br br but that being said i didn't find this film to be completely terrible i enjoyed some of it and found it to be quite fun at times but it really isn't a great film and isn't really worth watching or tracking down br br overall randy rides alone is incredibly dated and is a tiresome western with very few redeeming qualities can be fun but overall it isn't a great movie and is certainly one of wayne's weaker outings
0	randy bowers john wayne comes upon the half way house at just the right time to take a break from the trail and discovers a slew of dead bodies inside among them a man he was supposed to deliver a message to ed rogers proprietor of the establishment he's observed by the dead man's niece sally alberta vaughn from behind a hidden room where she remained unobserved during the carnage br br randy rides alone was directed by harry fraser he uses a filming technique here as in other of his films where he fast forwards the action from one location to another usually involving a rider on a horse it's pretty well done and appears quite innovative in these 1930's era lone star westerns br br pre gabby george hayes is on hand sans whiskers and this is the first time i've seen him as a villain in fact it took a few scenes to realize it was him in a dual role first as hunchbacked businessman matt the mute communicating via pencil and paper only to turn into marvin black leader of a gang of outlaws black's gang was responsible for the murders at half way house in an attempt to coerce sally into selling out to matt marvin another staple player is here as well yakima canutt as a black henchman named spike interestingly yakima portrayed a villain named sam black in another fraser wayne oater the arizona skies br br there's a fair amount of time killing horseback riding back and forth between black's gang and the sheriff's posse as john wayne's character maneuvers to expose the bad guys in the end he saves the day by securing sally rogers' thirty thousand dollars at the expense of destroying the half way house where he exchanges some sticks of dynamite for the loot in a safe greedy marvin black attempts to open it with his six shooter and the explosion is a fitting end for the villain in his best aw shucks attitude john wayne falls under the spell of the pretty sally rogers and alas randy rides alone no more
0	watching this film today i got the feeling this thing was missing about 10 to 15 minutes or so from the beginning of the story john wayne rides up on this trading post saloon out in the middle of nowhere to meet with the owner about some robberies all he sees is the signs of a massacre some dead bodies signs of a fight and no one alive in sight that's because the owner's daughter is hidden in a secret room the kind you find in old english murder mysteries br br the reason you find those hidden rooms in those kind of stories is that they were formerly catholic families clinging to the old faith in 16th century england built these things to hide those on the run from royal authorities because of their faith not something you see in westerns but a good gimmick br br unfortunately because of bad editing or writing or both we never know exactly what brought wayne to this place exactly but this was a b western and not even a good one at that br br gabby hayes is in this and he's clean shaven and playing a mute part of the time an unusual circumstance for the garrulous gabby br br if you want to bother and find out what happens and see a gabby hayes then see this film
0	this review is for the uk dvd three disc box set disc one is called caught in the act and contains model behavior chasing jamie and fast and curious disc two is called bedroom fantasies and contains blue plate special falling in lust again and love potion no 10 the final disc is called anything goes and contains she's the boss and legally yours why the other four episodes in the series are not included is a mystery because there is surely enough room on the discs for a lot more material br br each episode opens with the hotel manager chloe lauren hayes reading a letter from a satisfied customer we then get to see the story unfolding as the guests check into the hotel blue plate special is the exception because this story is from a waitress the writers should be given credit for coming up with a good variety of story lines for instance model behavior is about two models vying for the attention of the photo crew falling in lust again is about a man and woman who parted and rekindle their love when they meet up again at the hotel she's the boss is about a put upon male secretary dogsbody who shows that he is more of a man than his female boss realised much to her pleasure all the episodes lead up to lots of nudity and sex br br it should come as no surprise that all the characters in this hotel are beautiful women and handsome hunks even the geeky secretaries get transformed when they remove their spectacles and let their hair down the sex action is plentiful but to me seems too frantic and false the camera work could also have done with a bit of moderation spending too much time close up and so moving about to capture everything and as usual we get loud music during the sex action finally the end credits mention the palm hotel singer island florida although my map of florida shows no singer island the scenery certainly looks more like florida than utah or las vegas that some people have mentioned this is quite a good effort and it is a pity that the second series is still awaiting a uk dvd release 4 stars
0	it´s long time that i and my wife didn´t see such a boring thriller it´s definitively not a gripping story and it is paced so slowly that we nearly fell asleep this could be instead a very low budget tv crime series there are some ridiculous scenes like the one where mafia boss wants to see the jury lady in a red clothes or another mafioso cannot stop to think about her and so on okay perhaps this should have been a romantic thriller but believe me you really don´t miss anything we gave 4 10
0	two years after this movie was made the juror came out don't waste your time on this one see the juror instead the juror is essentially the same story as trial by jury with better acting better directing and a far more gripping aura about it william hurt was not believable as a cop gone bad and armand assante couldn't be more unlike a mob boss if they had dressed him in a clown outfit you didn't become involved enough with character to be that upset by what was happening to her also the way in which she interacted with the jury wasn't compelling or interesting in any way kathleen role as a hooker killer wasn't fleshed out enough and quite frankly was unnecessary for to the plot
0	a antique shop owner in nyc played by joanne whalley valerie gets put on a us district court jury on a trial of a known mafioso armand rusty and most of this very slow paced film revolves around attempts of attempting to get whalley to acquit him of murder by threatening to kill her son and herself much action ensues involving gruesome mob rub outs with willam hurt as the go between much of this silly disjointed mess surrounds hurt and obsession with whalley courtroom scenes that we've all seen time and again and an ending that is unbelievable 3 10 is probably going easy on this waste of time
0	the movie is a happy lullaby was made to make us sleep and that´s what we do as we dream about the top beautiful natasha henstridge no screenplay no deep characters nothing special so let´s sleep
0	this is without doubt the worst movie i have ever seen and believe me i have seen a lot of movies the unbelievable twist the movie makes going from an extremely bad alien lifeforms inhabit earth movie with sickening bad acting to a film that tries to spread an judgement day is at hand seek jesus or though shall burn for all eternity in the fiery debts of hell message left me stunned after being tormented for 85 minutes even religious christians must be ashamed or furious by watching their beliefs being posted like this i didn't know what to do with myself when i watched the horrible acting that could have been performed by 7 year olds simply disgusting i am not a christian nor very religious but if i had been i would no longer be afraid of hell rich has shown be something much much worse
0	like a lot of the comments above me also i though this was the average scifi movie but unfortunately it was not i found it rather patronizing and indeed preaching br br but that is not the only comment the scenes are very not as in scifi as i will explain a in a few moments the next sentence is a small spoiler the movie more or less represents a discussion between two groups the physical setting of a discussion typically involves two or three men standing next to each other the middle one typically speaking in the worst case the other party is represented by one person br br also the interviews the reporters have are very artificial sometimes even unprofessional for example sometimes the discussion is between the reporters i mean from a point of the interviewed moreover the interview persons always stay calm they say everything without normal emotions i e you cannot tell whether they lie or not are mad or not they show almost nothing br br this is also very unprofessional the 'christian' reporters always believe everything they are told by the people they interview br br bottom line br br all conversations contain br br facts br br pro con arguments br br there are no lies nobody lies the next sentence is a spoiler ignore if you still plan to see the movie the only lie happening is to demonstrate how 'bad' non believers are br br this makes me conclude that the movie is a b movie it is very similar to 'plan 9 from outer space' from the 50's but this movie also has an annoying wrong set discussion about aliens and christian belief br br note i have no intention to insult christians people who believe in aliens or whomever else this is a thought i have about the movie not about people br br moreover i would like to note that i don't know whether the actors are bad or were just given terrible scripts
0	this movie was the biggest piece of garbage i've seen in a long time br br it's marketed as as sci fi when in fact it's nothing more than a christian recruiting tool br br it tells you quite a bit about the state of the christian church when they have to resort to deception just to get you to listen to their sales pitch but then again what do you expect from an organization that would go through such great lengths to help protect such an enormous amount of child in their organization br br religion is full of nothing but sexual deviants hypocrites and war mongers let's not forget our bumbling former president actually came out and said that god told him to invade iraq and nobody questioned if he was hearing voices or seeing things br br anyway going of the subject here no this movie has nothing to do with ufos whatsoever it's nothing more than a religious production
0	as you can read the only good comment about this movie is made by someone who actually watch it at his church br br anyway movie had a good b movie sci fi beginning everything was there to make a good entertaining easy to watch movie then everything felt in this religious jesus will save everyone brainwashing mode br br story start with 2 main characters 2 reporters but it fast give the first role to that jesus freak who is there to save everyone's soul with this con descendant attitude br br in a few words this movie goes from entertaining to brainwashing in about 30 minutes br br waste of time waste of money avoid it
0	ok this movie was the worst display i have seen in years the actors weren't to bad i figured it was a b movie so they were doing b movie acting anyways i watched this movie thinking oh cool a ufo sci fi movie wrong it was just an excuse for radical christians to push a message onto people the last scene was extremely messed up that is a horrible thing to do to a person to make them believe in something what someone believe in is a matter of opinion this movie just shows how corrupted religion is especially christianity br br if you want to watch a b movie this ain't if you want to watch a movie that is trying to brainwash the masses well this is the pick of the litter go right for it if you are going to convey a message do it don't force it ridiculous that people would abuse the media to such a degree especially christians
0	this movie is nothing more than christian propaganda it started off like a good sci fi movie and then works a syrupy sweet christian theme into the story which is totally unrelated i had to turn it off half way through because i felt tricked into renting it the catholic church has officially announced that aliens do not contradict belief in god br br the movie is slightly entertaining despite this but the dialog is unbelievable writing and acting is mostly rubbish and all in all this movie is mostly a stinker to be avoided br br there was obviously some research done into the phenomenon by the filmmakers but then you quickly realize that it is only for the purpose to debunk and inject their own paranoid religious views into a valid interesting subject if you are a zealous religious fanatic who believes in demons and angels you will love this movie
0	this movie starts really good br br after half of the movie it wraps to a religious christian crap br br some really christian with psycho problems are talking about good and believe in christ or you go to hell br br don't watch it it's pure propaganda and its pure wrong br br this movie starts really good br br after half of the movie it wraps to a religious christian crap br br some really christian with psycho problems are talking about good and believe in christ or you go to hell br br don't watch it it's pure propaganda and its pure wrong
0	my wife spotted this film on the aisle at a local video store from the cover it looked like a science fiction film but upon turning it over my wife saw rebecca st james was in the film realized it was a christian movie and suggested we watch it we are conservative but we also know that christian films have a poor reputation in the mainstream nevertheless we decided to give it a screening br br to be fair there were a few things i liked about the film the musical score much of which was orchestrated was quite good the cinematography was also pretty good considering it was a lower budget movie br br unfortunately any virtue in this film's production work was lost on a regrettable script the film begins with an interesting premise ufo abductions but by midway through the feature the storyline veers wildly into an evangelistic crusade spearheaded by the movie's two main characters which then veers wildly into a treatise on the rapture at least the frank peretti inspired the which was itself a deeply flawed film had an endgame that tied together the movie's premise unidentified ends nowhere even close to where it started which is a huge letdown br br as for the acting the supporting acting ranges from decent to awful rebecca st james plays a bit part and is passable for their part a few of the main characters are manned capably enough sadly their talents are wasted on characters so one dimensional in their personalities so as to be unbelievable the protagonists are anything but you know it's bad when two christian viewers find the most vocal christian character in the film to be the most annoying br br a final note on the evangelistic tone of this movie which will be of more interest to christian than non christian readers in a word it is embarrassing other christian films like the champion and peretti's the hangman's curse have managed to communicate a genuinely uncompromising portrait of the christian faith without sounding preachy or oppressive this film by contrast is a sledgehammer that feels so heavy handed and lacking in tact that a non christian would have a hard time taking it seriously br br i do believe that the filmmaker's heart is in the right place and i applaud efforts to create good christian film unfortunately this is not one of them if your church is looking for a screening of a good christian film consider mercy streets the aforementioned the champion or if you're pentecostal robert duvall's provocative the apostle br br as for unidentified rent it if you must but screen it before you show it to a non christian or a larger audience
0	first of all i have nothing against christianity i believe every person has the right to believe what he or she chooses but i cannot imagine how dumb a person has to be to believe this what a waste of money they'd better use it to feed some starving families in the third world countries i don't want to talk about talk acting or plot of this movie because i couldn't find any of those in this story's simple two reporters one a is atheist the other b for some sake has abandoned religion b regains his confidence in religion and teaches a a lesson believe in christ or go to hell this message appears after like ten minutes and keeps repeating to the end of the movie people do not believe the rating of this movie read reviews first i didn't and wasted an hour of my life ps why is it classified as sci fi because of those few weird sounds and a bit of bright light from the sky u f o satan's evil doings that's a new one
0	supposedly a movie about a magazine sending journalists to investigate reports of ufos with one being more or less tolerant or agnostic about the whole affair and the other an aussie a hardened skeptic who laughs at the ufo nonsense it's all a crock some kind of money making racket br br turns out this movie is actually a deceit and a trap to actually christian teachings and the christian explanation of ufos one i've heard before this is an ad hoc explanation that is itself not at all biblical but invented by certain modern theologians who can fit anything and everything into their mythology the paranormal it's real just demonic unless it takes place in a christian context then of course it is of god simple if it isn't of god it's the of the devil stupid so i suppose since beethoven's 9th symphony wasn't inspired by god it must have been written under demonic influence or so would the logic lead ad br br we are informed that since the bible does not tell of life on other planets in the universe therefore there is none a version of the ad fallacy and that god created the universe so huge so grand to show us his almighty power i think of carl sagan's remark that if god created such a huge universe and stuck life only on earth it'd have been a tremendous waste of space br br so what are ufos they are demonic activity and concern the soon to be earthshaking christian event the rupture i mean rapture before the tribulation the true christians will disappear from the face of the earth en masse causing mass panic confusion car and plane crashes whatever therefore satan knowing this is sending his demons to basically create an illusion of alien spacecraft and alien abduction which can then be used to explain away this otherwise inexplicable event all part of satan's plan which will of course keep people from looking to god or jesus and fall for the lies of the antichrist br br this ad hoc explanation also typifies theological mishmash by explaining away one mystery with another in opposition to the scientific method of explaining the unknown the strange and the mysterious in as much as possible first by the known if not solely by the known br br it's like jumping straight to an alien abduction whenever a child is missing and unaccounted for i think i'd look first at more mundane explanations like the child has run away gotten lost or been kidnapped for ransom or abducted by a predatory pedophile before invoking aliens or the supernatural or satan or some such br br this kind of deceit or trap on the part of fundamentalists is nothing new as young people are often lured to free rock concerts that may start out with something innocuous then suddenly switch to overt christian music followed by a sermon and an altar call this kind of blatant deception one might think would be more satan's ballgame but maybe because the christian faith is soon to be in its death throes these guys feel that anything goes any deception or trickery or scare tactics are acceptable to try to keep the faith alive which is facing serious opposition from both as well as competing faiths like islam the world's fastest growing religion which may well replace christianity as islam is far more cohesive and unified and logically more tenable than christian fundamentalism although this should offer little advantage to mankind as it would be replacing one intolerant thought system with another br br and of course the movie ends more or less with a variant of wager the aussie who is skeptical about just about everything is told well if you are right about there being no afterlife and death is nothing but rotting in the grave no worry but what if you're wrong br br basically statements implying that reality is going to conform to nothing but an viewpoint or christian fantasy is a false dilemma or black and white fallacy even if the atheists are wrong would not necessarily make christianity correct by default nor if christianity turns out to be full of holes in its theology that the materialistic atheists are therefore correct by default br br for all we know native american spirituality might turn out to be the best description of ultimate reality and we might all of use have wished we treated the earth and its creatures a wee bit better br br this movie should be stamped right on the box caution contains religious propaganda and not meant for informative or entertainment purposes
0	director fabio got a strange academy for his last movie o is a bad movie but in bella donna did one of the worst movies of all time his adaptation of the novel is ridiculous think with me how poor brazilians fishermen speak a perfect english in the film they do there isn't a screenplay it's only a very long with a beautiful places and many sex scenes with and henstridge
0	this is the third movie in a month i have watched that did not go the way i expected the first two being the black dahlia and hollywoodland neither of which gave any new ideas of who committed the crimes br br i have always had a fascination with ufos and was so excited to see a new movie on the subject of ufo investigation that was not a comedy but after about 30 minutes it all went horribly wrong br br i could have stood for the acting the camera angles the stereotypes if only there was a good story about chasing ufos but none here i am not saying there was anything wrong with the subject matter but netflix pushed this movie as a ufo skeptic and a ufo believer investigating multiple br br i stopped watching about half way thru can't believe i wasted that much time with this one please don't make the same mistake i did
0	the only reason i gave this movie a 2 and not a 1 was because for some reason i felt compelled to finish it out basically i wanted to see if there were going to be any aliens any ufo's anything at all suggested by the title of the movie the cover of the movie and the beginning of the movie i was very disappointed to see religion being thrown into the mix the way that it was this could have been used to the movie's advantage but i felt instead that the movie was trying to send subliminal messages to me finally how big was this cast's wardrobe i became so distracted by the number of different and extremely bright shirts each character had on in every new scene that i began to wonder if this movie wasn't really supposed to be classified under poor comedy br br toe thumbs down
0	wow just wow there are a lot of reviews on this movie already but i wanted to add some comments of my own i agree with most reviewers who have said this movie has terrible acting writing and directing whoo boy does it ever however i think there is some other problems here br br 1 why is christian belief and the allowance for extraterrestrial life mutually exclusive the film acts as though you just can't be a christian and also allow for the possibility why they ever so briefly touch on this in the film i e the bible doesn't say there is aliens well the bible doesn't say there isn't but the actual rebuttal is never answered the bible really doesn't say there isn't so how about dealing with the question instead of dismissing it out of hand or better yet acknowledge that this is an infinite universe we live in and if we believe in an infinite god there is the possibility that he made some other life somewhere and has his own plans for them br br 2 how come the only two explanations for the abductions that are valid are demons and hoax what about sleep paralysis and night terrors which have been linked to abduction experiences what if it's something else entirely too bad the film makers already have their minds made up br br 3 the film makers claim that all who have had abduction experiences have had ties to the occult that's a pretty big claim to make without any factual evidence to present i'm not necessarily arguing that they don't but if you're going to say something so asinine you'd better have the facts to back it up br br 4 why does the other reporter not the greasy haired blonde guy the other one always have his hands in his pockets it's hard to take someone seriously when they're constantly playing pocket pool br br i wish this had been an exploration of christian faith and ufo phenomena but unfortunately the film makers were too concerned with their faith message to care much about make a thought provoking movie as a christian myself this saddens me
0	i happened across this movie while channel surfing and it seemed to be yet another poorly made christian film about the end times which i find rather entertaining because they take themselves so seriously to be fair i only saw the last 30 minutes so i missed the part about ufos and the sci fi stuff but it was long enough for me to categorize it as an embarrassing and appalling representation of the christian faith as well as a rather pathetic film in any artistic sense br br as a film the script was terrible the acting was mediocre and the pacing was poor the cinematography and direction were sub par no interesting visuals no layered plot line no creativity don't just blame it on the budget films can still be interesting without special effects this wasn't christian films cannot excuse their mediocrity and unoriginality in the artistic sphere just because of their message and the message here was hardly christian br br disclaimer the rest of this comment is targeted towards christians br br first off it is unethical in any business to bait and switch your customers i don't like being told i can win a free ipod only to realize i have to spend 300 at participating stores first don't like being told they're watching a sci fi film and then get bombarded with christian propaganda that has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer hidden agendas don't win you any friends much less converts br br secondly you should not use overt threats to convince people your beliefs are true the actors who represented christians came off as callous smug bullies when dealing with the skeptical they even go so far as to stage the rapture in order to scare him into believing representational dialogue turn to jesus or go to hell fine don't believe me but you'll be sorry the day you die i can guarantee you'll wish you paid more attention to this jesus stuff when you land in the belly of hell ok i may be exaggerating but it certainly came off in the same manner if you think this is a clear message for christ you're wrong i don't recall jesus using threats and and i don't think people can make an authentic decision to believe in him out of fear so christians please don't use this as a witnessing tool for your unsaved friends it is heavy handed offensive and inaccurate in portraying a true christian message br br thirdly the theology was bad apart from characterizing jesus as a means of hell insurance it gave no room for debate or discussion and didn't attempt to engage the issue of whether ufos or alien life could exist instead it offered one pat answer ufos are the devil's scheme to deceive people when the rapture happens which is neither biblical nor widely accepted by most christians as the bible doesn't mention ufos or aliens you can't use it as a source to draw conclusions one way or the other the rapture isn't necessarily even a widely accepted sound biblical concept though nowadays most evangelical christians seem to believe it because of a popular book series if you do your research as so many of the supportive reviewers are suggesting the idea of two comings of christ the first as the rapture is a relatively new phenomena in church tradition popularized by some traveling evangelists around the turn of the 20th century the majority of orthodox christians will probably find this film's message to be a pretty big stretch that rests on a lot of unsupported br br basically this film misses the mark both as a worthwhile piece of entertainment and as an accurate representation of christianity and its beliefs i wouldn't recommend it
0	movies about u f o 's are always a nice way to kill some time so on a rainy sunday evening i picked up this flick expecting what can be expected from a direct to dvd u f o mystery br br boy was i wrong at about halfway in the movie it becomes very apparent that the u f o theme is just a deceptive way of attracting unsuspecting viewers to this christian propaganda and this is not just a christan movie from an average christian no this is christianity of the extremist fundamentalist kind the scary kind br br in the end of this movie the non believing lead is tricked by their colleagues using a practical joke in thinking that the rapture has started which is believed by christians to be the happening in the end of time where true believers are going to heaven and non believers are left behind br br when the joke is explained it is suggested that it is always better to become a true believer 'just in case we christians are right' now that's a lamest excuse ever to become a christian if you ask me br br this movie still tries to convert non believers using scare tactics believe in god or you will go to hell is the message here simple but quite offensive really especially because this movie is being sold as something completely different br br now let's assume you're a christian fundamentalist yourself and you're not likely to be offended by the themes in this movie is this a good movie i'm afraid it isn't no actually i'm lying i'm glad it isn't the acting is horrible the pacing is horrible the plot is horrible especially the ending is laughably bad as soon as the movie starts you immediately sense that this is going to be worse than you expected and you will be right br br in the first half hour it seems to at least attempt to set up a passable u f o mystery but then suddenly they bring in this count dracula look alike that starts babbling about the devil at first you just think this dude is just a crazy maniac but as it turns out he actually represents the real views of the makers of this movie as soon as you start realizing this you know how this is going to end up but actually it ends up worse br br avoid
0	my mom and i rented this movie i mean we love those type of sci fi flicks whether they be big hollywood flicks or indy flicks br br but oh we were fooled two journalists are investigating a ufo abduction in a small city in texas halfway through all the sudden things get all on us my mom and i believe in god and jesus and the devil but the way this movie was preaching it made it annoying all i really have to say is that we are christian but even we like to have fun so don't blame christians as a whole just blame the christians who need to suck the fun out of this movie br br in fact you can clearly understand the directors stance on ufo's and that is that he believes it is all demonic now i could say some words but i will not all i will say is that do not watch this movie unless you feel like being preached in fact many times it states that we must be perfect in order to enter heaven well last time i checked the only perfect person died on a cross
0	im warning you people out there this is just a waste of your time i am being honest when i'm saying that this is the worst movie i've ever seen its just a move about christian propaganda don't throw away your life don't see it br br i think they made the movie so more people will believe in jesus or something but it works in the opposite way the actors are all newbies the story is just fuzzy br br i think this movie is a work of the devil br br this movie is just not worth seeing so please take my advice and don't
0	this is the worst movie i have seen to date 85 minutes of utterly bad acting half the cast seem to be suffering from syndrome ghastly wigs strange make up including tide lines around wig areas and holier than thou characters with holier than thou dialogue that makes you want to puke one comical aspect of this film if you have the patience to watch it is the sheer overwhelming number of costume changes the unfortunate cast appear in from scene to scene was this film backed by a catalogue manufacturer of desperately dodgy pastel casual wear were the cast paid in clothes for their efforts they certainly did not deserve paying with anything else this appalling effort of a film delivers a rambling plot in the first half blending into an equally confused arch christian in the latter the entire cast and production team should be burnt at the stake or at the very least crucified
0	this movie was a major bait and switch i rented it because of rebecca st james a popular christian singer i have met her and wondered what she would be doing in a ufo movie well br br i think that she starred in this movie to help out a friend or a friend of a friend my first clue that this movie wasn't what it was supposed to be was when i witnessed the special effects of the ufo encounters cheesy as the movie progressed i noticed how plastic the actors were it was funny how almost everyone in the movie wore solid colors there are a few exceptions br br rebecca was disappointing she is always found in the house and doesn't show the realistic facial expressions of one whose husband has return to the fold doesn't she ever leave the house br br i had to turn off the movie several times in order to finish it i hope that rebecca doesn't believe the message of this movie believe in what we believe or suffer and go to hell jesus spread a message of love and hope his message inspired others to change out of love not fear
0	after a good start it turned out to be the worst piece of holier than thou propaganda i've ever seen this movie is an open insult designed to make you feel bad about not reading the holy bible br br to resume the ok let's call it a plot basically alien don't abduct people that we already know no in fact its demonic forces abducting people which are in new age stuff or witchcraft or read porno magazine as one protagonist does br br it's complete with the little emotional piano music when the lead character realize he must blindly follow christ to be saved br br a quote sums it all imagine a subtle piano music in the background you can't let others even those you love stop you from following the lord br br and we are supposed to live in an enlightened age still work to do boycott this piece of crap
0	the dvd for this film is by alpha video a company that almost always releases the poorest quality prints in defense often that is the only print available but the specialize in public domain and cheap o films if you can find another print by a different company try it first as the print for this film is scratchy and faded still compared to most alpha dvds this one is excellent especially since the sound is pretty clear and alpha never seems to include closed even with films with horrid sound br br a man has been dating a lady for a very long time one night he's a bad boy and spends the night with another woman soon afterwords he comes clean to his fiancée about this she forgives him and they marry br br very soon after the wedding he gets a frantic call from the other woman she needs to see him and has just tried to kill herself when they meet he learns that she has an std and she wanted him to know that he too might now have it then although there is a nurse there and they are treating her for the suicide attempt she somehow finds a gun and kills herself the makes a huge mistake he does not tell his doctor and he doesn't tell his new wife some time passes and now she and the baby are infected at this point the doctor meets with the guy and tells him about the importance of getting treatment and they shows him rooms filled with horribly infected people actually these were just films of people with stds that they spliced into the film most of whom have syphilis br br in some ways the film is very progressive it addresses a serious issue and it's interesting how the film encourages couples not to wait to get married but to marry fast and give in to those sexual urges but only with each other not bad advice at all on the other hand the film never exactly says what it's talking about they never use the terms std vd or the like nor does it even name the diseases often it is referring to syphilis but at other times it's talking about herpes or other stds the information just isn't very clear or specific a very common problem with such films from this era audiences at the time must have felt quite confused about what they were seeing and many of the more naive probably needed to have some of their friends explain it all to them br br speaking of such films in the 1930s 50s lots of small and often sleazy production companies made films decrying the dangers of drugs and sex though often they really just wanted to promise a bit of cheesecake for audiences who usually could not see such racy fare in hollywood films many of these are hysterically funny since they are so over done and the information so inaccurate the most famous examples are reefer madness and sex madness both by the same two bit production company and compared to how salacious and stupid those two films are this cheap film seems like it should be in the criterion collection br br interestingly there are weirdos out there i would definitely be included among them that enjoy seeing the films because they are often so bad and so horribly made that they are great fun this one however isn't that bad nor is the message that convoluted and the film of the victims isn't as grotesque as some similar films while the message really should have been more explicit and useful for a 1933 film it's pretty good despite the occasionally poor acting and the ludicrous suicide scene remember kids just say 'no' to suicide br br oh by the way the two years of treatment they talk about in the film was actually the norm for syphilis back in 1933 nowadays it's a lot more as are the rest of the stds
0	i thought i was going to see a ufo movie instead i saw a movie that was trying to make the audience me make the decision to accept christ in my life or risk going to hell the whole ufo thing was one big red herring the acting in it was pretty pathetic in fact it looked as though some people from an evangelic church just got got together and decided they wanted to make a movie all the characters talked as though they were in church conversing with other church members it wasn't real life dialog at all i wish i had read some reviews before seeing this movie so i wouldn't have wasted my money on it if on the other hand you are into the whole church scene in a big way and want to see a demonstration of how to push your views no matter how limiting onto other people then by all means go see it
0	i just happened to stumble to this film and checked imdb for more information score 6 7 well not so bad genre scifi good i like scifi so i got the movie and i was looking forward to have a relaxing sunday evening watching it but but no br br as in summary this isn't a movie at all it is a religious advertisement including about jesus god devil end of the world etc movie starts with a epic abduction story driving at night car stops bright light and so on well actually that was the film last of this ummm frankly i don't know what to call it was dialogue about end of the world and last judgement quite a same stuff what these tv tell you but they are good at it br br honestly if you wan't to see a scifi movie or something with ufos please stay far away from this thing it has nothing to do with them if you want to hear some cuckoo head's opinion what the bible has to say and what you should do then go ahead and watch this thing but i still prefer going to the church at sunday br br this is complete bull and evangelical christian propaganda as another users said well i should have red another users comments before i got the movie br br 27 of voters have rated this thing as 10 yeah right please go somewhere else to do your propaganda
0	christian propaganda lots of fear mongering br br this is not scifi this is christian fiction the movie started out ok but took a sharp christian right turn from then on it was all about god jc the holy bible and the devil the ufo's are really just demonic deception to fool people in to believing that there is other intelligent life in the universe satan's idea is to trick you in to thinking that there could be more to life than what is in the bible br br the abductions could be used to explain away the rapture the people left behind would believe it was a mass alien abduction instead of god taking all the christians to heaven no reason to repent if its aliens the deeper message in the movie is that if you don't believe in god and have jc in your life than you believe in nothing and your life has no purpose
0	this movie should have come with a disclaimer that it was akin to the left behind series i did not know it would be a bible thumping movie i expected it to truly be a movie about ufos and alien abduction for entertainment's sake as previous reviewer comments it would be fine to show at a church but not at a public theater at least not without the prior knowledge of what the premise of the movie is about i felt deceived out of my spent for this movie as nothing in the summary refers to its religious overtones if you go to church it'll probably be shown there for free some time other than the cover up of its true subject matter the movie was fine as far as acting and script were concerned but i have to say i walked out an hour into the movie when i saw what direction it was headed and that i was not going to be entertained but preached to
0	this movie was poorly conceived poorly written and poorly acted all of the characters were two dimensional it was a real amateur attempt the movie was fundamentalist christian propaganda the christian characters are holier than thou and they are without a shred of compassion for the skeptic or the undecided characters the movie was a real gotcha for both the skeptic character and myself as a viewer putting us in a very uncomfortable situation i complained to the theater management and was given a free pass to another movie i remember another movie on a similar subject the rapture starring mimi rogers that was much better and professionally done i think i'll watch the rapture again if you attend unidentified and don't like it don't say i haven't warned you
0	how awful is it let me count the ways 1 it is a bait and switch movie that starts out being about a ufo investigation then turns into a high pressure sales job for christianity c'mon if the makers of this movie felt so strongly about their message why disguise it it annoys non believers and pushes fence in the opposite direction 2 it's not even a good sales pitch if the characters in this flick asked me to go to church with them i'd run like hell in the opposite direction they're scary 3 the acting is terrible they all behave as if they were in an educational film about etiquette in the workplace 4 the cinematography is home movie bad wait actually its not even that good 5 script bad bad bad all dialogue no action like a tennis match they bounce back and forth between the talking head close ups 6 direction what direction oh there must have been a director there somewhere i challenge you to figure out where br br believe it or not i have some positive comments about this movie the editing seemed professional but couldn't make a difference a good edit of bad material is still a bad movie the opening theme music was actually very good very scary and ufo ish too bad the movie wasn't about ufos br br if you can't tell already here's the bottom line i wasted my money seeing this movie and it made me angry if they had not disguised what this movie was really about i could say it was my fault
0	this movie was terrible it is not something that people should have to pay to see it looks like some christian group made it to convert people i don't understand why it was released to theaters and not to tv br br it started out like an old fashioned b movie sci fi film from the 50s but quickly changed about 30 minutes into the movie the characters start talking about god and do you believe in jesus it quickly moves into pure religion territory br br i thought i was going to a sci fi movie the film has poor acting bad camera angles and is amateurish br br avoid it
0	calling this a sunday school movie might be generous because even as a christian i found the religious message so one dimensional that i wouldn't want to see it at my church the message is read your bible go to church and sign up for fire insurance so you won't get left behind at the rapture there was no love i guess when you get right down to it i don't believe in the god portrayed in this film the guy who was supposed to have all of the spiritual answers came across like count dracula br br aside from the spiritual religious element the script was tedious saying the same thing over and over that might have been to make up for some of the acting which was unable to deliver a convincing line the first time so they just said the same thing over and over br br i did enjoy the final scenes i thought it made a point without hitting someone over the head or stooping to a sunday school formula the movie wasn't all bad just most of it br br i am in favor of more clean movies that are well done and that present truth in a non preachy way this wasn't one of those i am sorry to say i took my family to this film wanting to support that kind of movie now i'd like my money back
0	unfortunately i went to this movie for entertainment purposes based on the limited information i had seen on fandango since i am a sci fi buff the notion of a movie about ufos interested me br br instead this movie quickly revealed itself as an evangelical christian propaganda flick appropriate for an audience of like minded individuals but very un christian like to exploit the movie mall scene and preach to an unsuspecting audience especially considering the costs of tickets and concessions shame on you at least the da vinci code did not hold back its wild eyed craziness br br so this b grade movie and i am being kind production will be appreciated in those churches with similar beliefs probably shown to wednesday and sunday evening youth groups but if you are a mainline christian or non christian you will not be comfortable
0	one of the worst films i have ever seen after watching it i walk out like what happened i am confused to this day can someone explain that movie to me please both the acting and picture quality are so bad you'll think you're watching someone's school project made with a home camcorder first i can not believe that how some people could give 10 star to this movie because it's unbelievably bad movie this movie isn't scary at all there is even no typical horror clichés too the plot and acting of this movie was terrible it's not fantastic surrealistic or horror it's just hideously bad turkish feature film and finally there were a lot of unnecessary scenes and unnecessary characters when i watch i fell into so hopeless so sad for young turkish movie maker please please don't make 'cinema' like this
0	this movie is really bad there is nothing appealing or worth of commentary in it except for the beautiful settings chilean landscape i know i must supply four lines as a commentary for this movie but the thing is that it is such a bad movie that i can only say that is actually bad michael ironside is the only one who saves the money in the film
0	i gave this a 3 out of a possible 10 stars br br unless you like wasting your time watching an anorexic actress in this film it's carly pope behaving like a ditz don't bother br br carly pope plays sara novak a young college student who becomes intrigued with a game of riddles that leads her down into subway tunnels underneath the city a dangerous thing for even a well armed man to go in alone br br there are various intrigues in the film a weirdo classmate who is apparently stalking sara a cynical shopkeeper who runs some kind of offbeat hole in the wall establishment that appears to be located in the back alley of a ghetto a nerdish dim wit that hangs around the shop and a woman named emily gray who is back in prison br br sara's father is a lawyer who is handling emily gray's case br br a few years back emily gray attempted to drown a 12 year old boy emily was put in a mental hospital for 5 years and for some cockeyed reason they let her out again even though it is obvious she is still dangerously deranged br br the only explanation emily has ever given for her crime is i never sinned br br it's all part of the design br br well my friend don't expect to ever get any better explanation than that because you won't
0	i watched on movie theater at my city my friend took away me and i was really curious what would be it looked like well i must say this movie was not a horror may be we can say that is ok here i go anyway but there was a lot of shooting acting dramatic theatrical and storytelling problems i can understand because of director is very young and is his first feature film ok directing of this film was not pretty bad i see unfortunately due to the restraints placed on the film by its extremely low budget the visuals are often as murky as the storyline and there is no powerful gothic scenes as a horror movie it really fails no scares at all and it is quite muddled and boring some people say is an art movie but i could not see a laughable terrible and off art movie like that so how can we say it is an art movie just funny
0	this movie changed my life hogan's performance was nothing short of incredible and i still haven't recovered from his exclusion from the 1990 oscar nominations and as brightly as the shines in this movie you can't discount the brilliant writing and direction that vaults this masterpiece in to the highest strata of achievement in film if you haven't seen this movie drop what your doing right now and get yourself a copy i guarantee it will blow your mind and if you don't like it then i just have one question for you gonna do when the 24 inch pythons and runs wild on you
0	in search of the cheesiest so bad it's good movie i've repeatedly laughed at the first fifteen minutes of various films only to be left disappointed and bored at the end not this time my eyes teared up my belly and my cheeks ached from laughing so hard throughout the movie sure hulk hogan is a subpar actor and the plot is utterly predictable but everyone dives into this movie knowing all this all anyone wants to see when renting this is hogan breaking out a can of with a bunch of yeah brother s and s flying from his infamously mouth and while the on the screen pales a bit in comparison to the in the ring seekers of the ultimate cheese will certainly not be disappointed by this gem of a flick a laugh riot
0	hulk hogan and zeus are horrible wrestlers and horrible actors hogan for some reason was popular enough to get a movie deal i'll never know why if not for vince mcmahon's money this stupid film would have never been made maybe someday someone will make a good movie about pro wrestling no holds barred is not that movie
0	hulk hogan plays rip a professional wrestler who has a big heart but is pushed to the limit when his girlfriend joan is kidnapped by thugs who are forcing him to take on another wrestler tiny lister jr bottom of the barrel actioner is such a failure that even hogan looks ashamed to be in it and with the evidence portrayed he should be
0	a thinly veiled attempt to push to the film going non wrestling fan what could be worse than hogan in the movies bad actors in the wrestling ring and this film produced both as tiny lester made his way to the wwe that summer in the mother of all promotional blunders see the dictionary under oops as a card carrying member of the stupid kids of the world paid to see this in theaters and when i came out i immediately checked into h a hulkamaniacs i am proud to say i have been off the hulk for 17 years now and have never had a craving since since this was made to bring in more fans to the juggernaut that was the wwe in hey day one has to wonder if there weren't more fans like me who turned to other past times that did not poison ones mind like this offense to celluloid did such as huffing gas or russian roulette
0	no holds barred is that movie that when you were nine or ten was the coolest movie this side of arnold schwarzenegger but then when you grow up and watch it you feel embarrassed that you were so gullible to have liked it you feel cheated embarrassed and stupid if you have a little brother and you show him this and he tells you it's gay give him a high five and take him to the strip bar for his eleventh birthday
0	i remember when they made a big deal about this when it was coming out they showed clips every week on wwf tv and everyone was excited it debuted opening weekend at number two behind indiana jones and the last crusade then it did a nosedive critics hated this film i don't remember seeing one good review everyone agreed it was bad and sometimes grotesque i didn't know they meant back then but now i do since the movie makes references to gay bars women getting slapped hard and nearly raped and a disgusting looking bar restroom with overflowing lol when i was younger i didnt care for that it was brother br br now i find this pretty bad but still fun to watch once in a while when its paired with which has a better storyline first off hulk hogan's acting skills just aren't great he is one dimensional like the character he plays in the wrestling ring and actually rip and hulk are not to far off from each other kurt fuller is a good actor but he is not good at playing the bad guy he is better at comedy and nervous drama characters he is just not believable as there isn't much character development in this film and the ones that suffer are the characters of randy brother and charlie the trainer in wrestling its unheard of a trainer a wrestler to the ring lol tiny lister plays zeus the way its supposed to be played so there isnt any problem there joan is passable and for all you softcore hounds she does have a lingerie scene lol by the end you figure what's the point br br for this one as with other wrestling films or films that feature wrestlers as the main star turn your brain off you'll enjoy it more if you do
0	i worked on this atrocity ten years ago luckily for me no one knows it because i didn't make the final cut and when i saw the movie in the theaters i was glad my agents were driven nuts by the apparently first time filmmakers rewriting the script daily and changing their arrangements with the agencies just as often they later told me that once back in california we shot in atlanta these professionals had 4 1 2 hours worth of footage even edited down to 90 minutes it's at least twice as long as it needs to be i found hulk hogan surprisingly charming but otherwise what a waste of film
0	no holds barred is a movie that should in no way ever be taken seriously it sucks hardcore as a serious movie look at it more in the way that you should plan 9 from outer space they are one in the same in that they are both so bad they are funny the funny moments in no holds barred are usually the ones that aren't supposed to be when rip played by hulk hogan as only he can play them grabs the limo driver out of the front after his first meeting with kurt fuller hilarity ensues and it is one part of the movie that every person should see it might be the funniest scene ever i swear br br anyway how someone thought this movie would make money i'll never know and that person should probably be beaten into submission i hope they at least got fired this movie earns a 1 out of 5 on my scale and that one is just for the unintentionally funny parts
0	he's the only reason to see this film he gives a very good performance much better than this crap deserves he's very handsome and very talented he deserves better than this also depressing is to see malcolm mcdowell in this he's another talented actor who deserves better but like esai he gives a very good performance so if you're fans of either of them you might want to watch otherwise stay away one more complaint couldn't we have had more scenes of esai shirtless
0	ignoring rocky 3 this is easily hulk hogan's best film and it still rates as one of the worst films ever hulk hogan essentially plays hulk hogan bringing his wrestling buddies in for a film with all the cliches to go along with it the crooked promoter the unstoppable monster the injured kid the sexy woman and dookie
0	in 1989 here in nz wrestling was somewhat of a mega hype phenom and who was steering starship at the pinnacle was the orange goblin himself hulk hogan one of my uber heroes at this time so it seems obvious to me now why i adored this movie in 1989 90 when it came out here hulk hogan a k a terry is a shockingly bad actor and zeus a k a tiny lister is worse the story line follows a standard wwe then wwf circa 88 91 story line culminating in the standard good guy beat down hulk up and then get beaten down again story line only to follow that the good guy calls on all his inner strength gained from eating vitamins saying prayers etc etc to mount the epic come back pretty standard formula here worth watching if only for reminiscing your youth
0	being a wrestling fan movies about wrestling generally suck backyard dogs jesse ventura story but this one isn't the worst i've ever seen yes its bad but its better than some of the others i've mentioned br br hulk hogan stars as basically himself and for some reason a rival network wants to beat him up because he doesn't want to be on that network let me explain it so everyone can understand picture usa network having rip and tnt will go to any lengths to get him br br does this make sense no well don't feel bad because it doesn't make sense nor does it make sense to have a legit ex con have a real fight with rip at the end of the movie br br none of this movie makes much sense but compared to other wrestling movies and later hogan films its not so bad br br 4 out of 10
0	hulk hogan stars as a champion wrestler a real acting stretch named rip who is forced to defend his honor his title and his girlfriend from a greedy corporation that wanted him to sign for their network because wrestling sells however when rip declines the network gets a circuit fighting championship called and i'm totally serious battle of the tough guys who's champion zeus played by tiny lister jr maybe the deadliest man alive rip refuses to fight until his brother is attacked and put in a hospital no holds barred is pretty much what i expected from vince mcmahon production starring the least versatile actor in the action genre hogan it is basically lots of unintentional humor tons of awkward sequences a couple okay action sequences and tons of stupidity in other words it's not unlike wrestling itself so i give it a fair rating mainly because anyone renting this knows what they're getting the movie is cheap but well made enough for what it is and really wrestling fans will probably enjoy this i myself found this to be ultimately hilarious they're are moments of such absurdity that you only chuckle to yourself such as the way hogan jumps 20 feet in the air after being stuck in a limo how he forces a guy to crap himself and of course the way hogan recites from his i e i'm not going to be around when this check clears no holds barred is a lot of fun true though it's mainly because of how ridiculous it is fans of camp should really enjoy this clever clinker br br out of 4 fair
0	a new wrestling show paves way for the most feared wrestler ever imaginable the giant zeus network president does everything in his power to draw wwf champion rip into the squared circle to face off against zeus for the championship of the 'battle of the tough guys' but zeus is unlike any competitor rip has ever faced br br normally i would give hogan some leeway as a wrestler crossing over into a movie role however this film didn't ask the to make very much of a stretch it simply asked hogan to play himself which he failed at miserably 'tiny' lister made a good effort as the mighty zeus but even his work left the film lacking something namely acting br br watch this movie if you so desire with a grain of salt and a sense of humor otherwise you will probably have to turn it off a little over ten minutes in
0	mind you it's not supposed to be but it is as a wee tot i watched this movie in the theatre being a huge wrestling and hulk hogan fan all i remember from the night is we were the only ones in the theater and that i didn't really like it very much i blacked the rest out and for good reason br br a poor film on par with the greats like gymkata and the no holds barred is a movie set in the high stakes world of pro wrestling well maybe the stakes aren't all that high and quite frankly i feel dirty just calling these people professionals at anything and really except for the first scene there's no wrestling to speak of so i guess movie is about the marginally low stakes world of amateurish beating the c out of people sounds good right br br hulk hogan plays rip the champion of the wwf never let it be said that hulk hogan was typecast this and movies like thunder in paradise showed how he challenged himself with deep roles that really pushed the limits of his talents essentially he's playing himself but with a wardrobe that's more black and blue than the red and yellow he also has this hand gesture he does it's kinda like the ozzy devil sign people make at rock concerts except you stick your thumb in the air and you curl your index finger in my friend claimed that it was supposed to look like an r try and see for yourself if that looks like an r well then mars needs women but anyway br br kurt fuller with his overacting detector obviously on the fritz plays a tv exec with his slightly homoerotic heart set on getting rip who's bigger than elvis on his network he won't have any of it and exits the office with a triumphant hand gesture to no one but the camera and so the movie follows fuller trying to boost ratings and get back at rip he does so when he creates his brilliantly titled battle of the tough guys marketing genius this guy br br from the numerous hand gestures to the rather idiotic fight scenes all played as if wrestling is very real and deadly serious to the overacting to the far too frequent shots of hulk in nothing but undies this movie has everything you'd ever want in a dumb movie it's frivolous not too taxing on the mind violent and includes the phrase what's that smell dookie dookie br br a classic for all time
0	i really should give this stinker more credit that 1 star because the film has so many eye rolling lines that it's almost worth the price of the rental br br the acting if you want to call it that is so stilted and contrived that it makes ed wood's actors appear life like sammy the lone black character must be husband in real life because he appears in her other films but he has zero acting ability his lines are priceless due to his absurd delivery though i suspect the intention was to create a sympathetic character his old man make up in her other turkey pushed to the limit is no budget junior high school quality with cotton ball eyebrows and white spray painted hair br br i cannot fathom anyone actually buying this video unless people like to throw their own mystery science theater parties and need a copy of something like this on hand it really is beyond fear it's actually beyond funny
0	alert this review contains major spoilers do not read on if you plan to see this film br br judging from the amount of votes this got my vote was the fifth one very few people know or care who mimi is well back in the late 1980s professional wrestling was pretty decent an all woman's federation called the ladies professional wrestling association opened it was a great league and mimi was one of the names on the roster i always thought she was one of the best people the had in terms of ring skill and acting ability unfortunately the closed down in the early 90s so it only seemed natural for someone with as much talent as mimi to start an acting career right but surely there was an alternative to stuff like this this movie is really bad as it was going along i kept comparing it to an underrated movie called survivor quest ' only this film lacks everything that made survivor enjoyable br br as i started the tape i went to fast forward through the preview to get to the meat of the tape at first i wasn't paying much attention but then i realized that the preview was for a movie starring mimi oh ' i thought here's another movie featuring mimi to look for ' but as the preview dragged on i became aware that is was a preview for… 'beyond fear ' you know you're in trouble when the only preview at the beginning features the movie you are about to watch the plot of this thing is pretty standard plays an ex kickboxer that is living with the guilt of injuring an opponent friend so she focuses herself on her second career which she shares with her friend sammy being a wilderness guide on this particular occasion she gets a troop of three couples two of the couples are just there to take up space you think that one couple a caucasian husband and a korean wife will be explored as an issue appears between them halfway through the film but it is ignored in favor of repeated jokes about bears in the woods which consistently scares the korean wife the joke is funny the first time you hear it but it certainly isn't by the ninth time they do it the third couple is just painful to watch it consists of mr and mrs page they trade insults back and forth and mr page uses his video camera for the art of voyeurism when he's not busy playing cruel jokes on his portly just like your typical american couple before the hike mr page is spying on two stupid guys and their prostitute one of them accidentally kills the prostitute and finds out mr page taped it so begins the peril as the two guys track the group on their trip and we and and and wait for them to finally do something when they do it's a fiasco br br you can't blame the cast they try as hard as they can with the material they have to work with the main culprit is director robert f lyons who needs to go back to playing bit parts and stay out of the director's chair lyons starts and stops scenes in such a sloppy sudden matter that you start to think he was suffering from throughout the entire shoot there's even one incompetent moment when a broad daylight scene with the thugs is slipped between some nighttime scenes then there is the sound department the music and background noise completely overpower the dialogue so that you have to move your ear right next to your television's speaker don't bump your head on the screen it isn't worth it to hear the poorly written lines speaking of poor writing gets some of the credit there as co writer the few interesting developments between characters are often abandoned for shots of the thugs or bad practical jokes early on knocks out a thug with a switchblade knife so not once do you think they are in any danger from the two stupid thugs when the crooks finally get their rear ends kicked by in a well done and long fight our cast all have a huge laugh together despite the fact that one of them has been shot and is bleeding everywhere yes everyone is happy in the end everyone except the poor souls witnessing the film wishing for the good old glory days when mimi performed in the wrestling ring zantara's score 4 out of 10
0	this formulaic film hero's girlfriend marries the villain just didn't move along fast enough given some of the circumstances of the story scott seems too old in this one and too many times his character turns away from decisive action the scenes he responds to the deaths of some of his hands weakly he escapes from gang by hiding in a full rain barrel his escape to the high country and pursuit by john russell seem superfluous as does much of the film the plot could have been tightened br br high points of the film seeing tennessee ernie ford without a mustache singing man in the saddle alfonso too brief scenes as a cook the color photography of the high country and the fight scene there with john russell
0	by randolph scott standards of the 1950s this is a disappointing and heavy handed star western two or three of the characters could be dispensed with while two or three other characters could be given more prominence the humour needs to be completely rewritten de toth handles the action well as always but his grasp of the overall narrative is weak
0	southern cross written and directed by james is a waste of good celluloid and actor's efforts a formula film is not necessarily bad if it pays off on it's promise which this film does not it is a tiresome concoction of movie cliches that can be traced to a thousand different films from the past it is full of random and empty plot twists that add nothing but aimless action such as a trip by the protagonists to a ghost town where the villains follow them this was obviously concocted as an excuse for a shoot out and escape scene bordering on the preposterous with people popping in and out of doorways and running past windows while firing pistols at each other it makes one believe that somebody told there was a ghost town in the chilean foothills and he said oh great lets do a shoot out scene there br br don't even waste your rental money on this it is a bunch of random bits and pieces from a hundred different films thrown together to call an action drama
0	over the gw is a near failure of a debut feature and not because it's not without trying actually it is it's a shamble all the more because it's writer director technical everyman nick went through the same rehab cult that he depicts in the film sometimes a first time filmmaker full of the vigor that comes with getting a thumbs up or two from fellow film students goes headlong into style that is way too disjointed unsure and dramatically frustrating that the personal side of the story the extremely personal side gets smudged in the purpose of telling a good story who was 13 when put into a horrid program that basically tortured and brainwashed their patients with crazy group scare tactics psychological mind f sessions that could go on for days and attitudes from the rehab leaders that would make most nazis cringe escaped finally when he was 15 i'm glad he got out though it might help if he now goes into a real rehab for his film making skills if only for a couple of days to learn things like say structure proper lighting fluid camera movement subtlety with actors and other basics that are perpetually lost here br br it's all the more frustrating because is dealing with a subject that should be shown more to the public there was recently a newsweek article referring to a similar aa cult rehab many times one wonders if certain personal character studies might work better as documentaries as opposed to narrative dramas this is an ever nagging sensation throughout over the gw where it almost feels like wants to tell the truth but doesn't know how to communicate it properly through his characters the character that one would think is closest to him bronx teen tony serra gallagher who is taken by his mother to a rehab in new jersey would be closest to is actually much more of a one dimensional being where there is very little back story we see a brief freak out in black and white in his old home and little connection to his mother moriarty who has more potential that is never tapped aside from a cold stone who passes her kids off to another but there is a story to go with his two year crisis i guess br br right off the bat things get rough a nude cavity search in the first five minutes and soon it's clear that instead of medical care it's more like a cross between anger management and some bizarre religious sect where the head doctor hiller is a total over controlling loon but soon tony's sister sofia gets thrown in to the program and as opposed to tony's repeated moments of outrage and supposed non compliance she goes head on through the whacked out three step program and once released becoming a runaway at times there are bits in this fractured nightmare where there's one woman a 22 year old mother who has been in the program a year and a half finds she's become a prisoner not allowed to leave and when the father of the main siblings comes and pays an enraged visit to hiller when sofia finally returns to them that do contain some raw power very brief glimpses of being able to at least garner some leverage in pure melodrama br br but these are moments few and far between it's not just the unsuccessful characters who are mostly reduced to stereotypes that veer into being like hysterical d a r e rip offs maybe some of them like an angry black youth the passive aggressive counselors or even older sister who is ratted out by the siblings as having taken a hit off a joint and almost thrown into the program would resonate more if there was more time given to develop any of them it's that is so unfocused in his multiple roles on his tiny 30 000 budget that not one side of whatever potential talent he has can come through he over uses tints mostly with a shade that looks urine coated he his hand held dvx camera as if it's supposed to be intense ala city of god occasionally a character will just shoot into frame randomly his choices of music are like the worst selections possible from pseudo indie soft rockers and there's even inane fake interview scenes with nicholas serra inspiration and that feel about as false as possible br br could just not get any interviews with the real victims he was with and resort to would be artistically cathartic plan b bottom line no matter how much from the heart true life stories may appeal to you don't bother seeing it in the theater or even on rental unless you love a final scene with two kids staring off into the digital hued hudson river sunset with the final words reading dedicated to the kids oy
0	i found the first bit of stop motion animation intriguing and the mostly live action short with the girl going about in whatever country it was kept my interest but the other 11 odd shorts really didn't pique my interest or make me think of anything at all the music and 8mm footage all seemed to be so random that it all just seemed random i would not recommend this to any one unless you get to see it free br br as for the music being so in step that didn't come across either i rented the dvd because i thought it was all stop motion animation or mixed with live action and only the first short was the second had a little stop motion mixed with mostly live action there was paper cut out stuff in one and the rest was outdoor shots from an 8mm camera with the music bed just didn't have any meaning to it i could see
0	now i'm a big animation fan love and usually am into all applications of stop motion so i had high hopes for this one then i came on imdb and paused i'm always real suspicious of films with a distribution of votes on imdb here we've got another a bunch of 10s shill anyone and then some real low ones i'm also suspicious of 10s with the word visionary in them br br sure there are visionaries but this character isn't one of them despite my misgivings i saw this film and have to side with the ones the stop motion animation was okay but the plots were banal and overall it seemed amateurish treat yourself to the real deal get some and leave this also ran on the shelf
0	walt was particularly fond of quality so how come the producers at disney would release such a terribly edited roughly acted even for family fare mess of a movie the big green had a good concept and since it is disney you know how the movie is going to turn out obviously but the big green is horrible the jokes are lame and steve guttenburg still alive pulls in another terrible performance on his resume br br kids with too much time on their hands in small town are offered an opportunity by their new teacher to play soccer the kids don't know a thing though and gracious for us we get to see steve guttenburg try to hit on the teacher from beginning to end br br the speed up camera work does not work the big green is full of speeding the pace of characters to move the movie along kids are not idiots they will catch on if you give them enough of a hint without showing all that garbage guttenburg for once in his life should have turned down an offer to join this movie also the pretty olivia d'abo should have called this one off too the big green can be known as 'the big bomb '
0	this movie appears to have made for the sole purpose of annoying me everything i hate about films is present fake sentimentality extreme corniness bad child actors and more feature abundantly that's ignoring the fact that it depicts the extreme ignorance of american sports fans with many of the cast professing that a football is shaped like a lemon what that's a rugby ball the story follows a group of no hopers that get a new teacher that they like who coincidently teaches the class in a short skirt and gets them interested in football naturally they're all rubbish don't forget they're no hopers except for one kid who has moved from el paso blah blah etc etc and the kids still don't become good but good heart ensues and the no hopers are turned into a bunch of well rounded kids hell even the adults start to come round drunks are turned into caring parents illegal immigrants are let off the hook groan br br this movie stars steve guttenberg now before you go rushing off down your local video store to grab yourself a copy hold up a minute guttenberg is rubbish no no come on let's face it how did this guy ever get to be in a movie i have absolutely no idea and there is nothing in this movie to give me an idea olivia d'abo stars along side steve and doesn't impress either she merely seems to be going through the motions and looking nice while doing it although i have no problems with the latter part her performance does the movie no credit the child actors that make up the rest of the cast are just as bad as you would expect from a movie like this most of them are disgusting and or annoying and it doesn't make for pleasant viewing at all there's a goat in the film who plays the mascot and he does a good job but you wouldn't see a movie for a goat so don't bother seeing this movie
0	take a cliché story and insert steve guttenberg need i say anymore this truly is as bad as you would expect sheriff tom palmer guttenberg and anna attempt to transform a group of useless inept kids into a winning soccer team lacking originality and direction from the offset it's quite a struggle to maintain any form of interest in this film despite my reservations about acting ability i can safely say that the acting of the rival teams coach is actually worse than previously unimaginable i thought this type of story of underdogs battling all the way to the top has been done before and better every time than this so called 'film'
0	nothing more than a soccer knock off of the mighty ducks this film proved to be annoying in most aspects this was one of those times where you're parents ask you to take your younger siblings just so they don't have to deal with them for a few hours to say the least my younger sisters liked it but it proved to be too much like the far superior mighty ducks oh well at least olivia d'abo was hot and steve guttenberg still had a job at that point in time
0	this is one of the most unoriginal cliche ridden movies i have ever seen even if you didn't like this film's antecedents 'the bad news bears' and 'the mighty ducks ' they are bound to have done a better job than this one from the moment the new teacher greets her class and they tell her don't bother with us we're all losers you can see everything that's coming twenty miles away for the rest of the film br br all the usual suspects are here besides the spunky teacher we have a group of what are supposed to be endearingly bratty kids they're brats yes but no so endearing a slow witted small town sheriff that they love to torment an arrogant head coach of the winning rival team etc ad nauseum only olivia d'abo as the new teacher displays any i never cared much for steve guttenberg before and his performance as the sheriff doesn't change things jay o sanders is a capable actor but his character the rival coach leaves him nothing to work with let's hope that writer director holly goldberg sloan comes up with something better next time out
0	how many movies are there going to be in which against all odds a ragtag team beats the big guys with all the money there's nothing new in the big green if anything you want them to lose steve guttenberg used to have such a good resume the boys from brazil police academy cocoon why oh why did he have to do these sorts of movies during the 1990s and beyond so just avoid this movie there are plenty of good movies out there so there's no reason to waste your time and money on this junk obviously the green on their minds was money because there's no creativity here at least in recent years disney has produced some clever movies with pixar
0	also titled the magical castle this one is a stretch why bother why create another and then add another story line that has nearly nothing to do with the play nor swan lake only some girlfriend of the stolen book of forbidden arts and the original characters not voices remain stripped to to its bares this is a continuation by a thread next thing you know some bird will have memorized the forbidden arts and swan princess 4 the magical bird will be born thankfully though the chapters are supposedly closed and this will beginning but bad ended trilogy will come to a close
0	formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it looks very much like a tv movie not really exciting the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it no real surprises here though it is nice to see vargas great looking landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell's part is very small and doesn't add much to the movie michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts the chase scenes are standard fare
0	i loved the first movie the second one was okay disappointed john cleese wasn't jean bob anymore as hes my favorite character but the third one what happened to the animation it looks low budget like a sat morning cartoon except for the flashback which was taken from the first movie they really should have stopped after number 2 this just makes the rest look bad derek's voice has changed but its not as recognizable as jean bob rogers also looks very strange i also don't understand where came from i thought he died this movie made me want to turn it off as much as i love the first one i was very disappointed with this installment they will never beat the original
0	i had to rent a couple of movies for my little cousin for new year's and she picked out the swan princess the mystery of the enchanted kingdom and the little mermaid 2 and we just watched both films while she's sleeping i figured i could get a couple comments in while this is a very cheesy cartoon it really wasn't that bad you have to admit that for children these plots are new to them and it could be a great introduction of these stories to them br br odette finds out that derek has been secretly keeping the magic secrets of and she tells derek to destroy them immediately but him being a guy typically he does not do so and tells her that no on could achieve the without his help when a witch named zelda gets her hands on them she finds out that derek tore off the last words of a spell she wants to use to destroy everything and she kidnaps odette in order to retrieve this information br br the swan princess the mystery of the enchanted kingdom is silly and predictable but for the kids i would honestly say it's a go it's so rare we have these clean cut cartoons now a days so i'm going to cut the film some slack it was just weird seeing all the voices change all of a sudden i grew up with the first one so i guess it was just stuck in my head br br 4 10
0	i am the sort of person who never ever watches animated movies but i make an exception for and the swan princess being absolutely in love with the first installment of the series i bought this and sat down to watch it with a very biased mind determined to love it because i'd spent money buying it i finished the movie and all i can think is the horror i wanted to like it i really did i tried very very hard to like it but i couldn't enjoy a second of this grueling film the songs made me feel like ripping my ears out of my head the dialogue was so lame i felt myself twitching with frustration and irritation every time someone opened his or her mouth the villain was laughable and i felt myself wanting derek and odette to die in the end and i was absolutely in love with them from the first film br br i am going to try repress the memory of this movie because it almost destroyed the first one for me there is one song in the movie in which there are a series of flashbacks to the first film the difference in animation between the two is made very obvious and i began yearning for the first one and wishing i'd never set eyes on the third br br do yourself and favor and don't waste your time
0	i think my summary says it all this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x or is that gen y type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations example kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his wedding kennedy is the bride done up in a full bridal gown and long wig the joke is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his bits and pieces problem is this schtick goes on way too long obviously to fill out time and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one running around constantly asking do i look fat i recognize the show was not made for me it was made for 12 year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today so let them laugh thank god the show was short lived
0	wow was this version of the racketeer tough to watch while none of the other reviews have mentioned this the public domain version i watched was seriously flawed the sound track was off by about 10 seconds meaning the dialog and action never came close to matching so you'd hear something occur well before you saw it a very confusing proposition the worst is where you hear a gun shot and only later doe the guy get hit and slump to his death in a taxi br br while this seriously marred the film it also made concentrating on the dialog easier and showed the serious shortcomings of it as well the dialog was simply awful often delivered with almost no inflection or feeling as one review said it was like watching a high school play part of this is understandable as sound was a new medium but this film's dialog was bad even compared to other 1929 films really bad and like many of these early sound films the film was just too talky with sappy and overly melodramatic language and just not much action and you'd think with a title like the racketeer that there would be some action however it's really a sappy romance with very little action br br the film finds carol lombard straddled with an alcoholic musician she herself ends up stealing to try to take care of him and the crook robert armstrong comes to her assistance when armstrong catches her cheating at cards he covers for her and then helps the drunk brother to get on his feet and naturally he falls for her in the process the problem is that once the drunk sobers up he too wants lombard and she needs to choose between them wow a recovering drunk or a mobster talk about a couple great prospects overall it's a bit hard to rate considering the lousy print i saw however even if you ignore this the film has a lot of problems due to its poor use of dialog and excessively talky nature and it was sappy too boot
0	carole lombard stars in this transition period film this film is a typical example of a very early talkie first practical sound film was the jazz singer 1927 overall the acting in this film tends to be extremely broad and very melodramatic br br the viewer may easily note that the actors are still acting for a silent film and this combined with the overly pronounced overly earnest dialog it seems most likely a diction elocution drama coach was employed extensively to teach the silent actors to speak lines creates some rather comical scenes which were not at all intended to be comical br br carole lombard's later great acting ability is all but unrecognizable underneath all the broad gestures melodrama and eager earnestness br br mainly interesting as an historical curiosity of the period and for it's completely unintended comedy camp value
0	time has not been kind to this film from the transition days of sound from silent the plot has a gangster falling for a socialite who wants to help the down on his luck violinist she loves there are of course complications the problem with the film for me is that it hasn't aged well performances are all over the place with some emotional scenes seeming so over the top as to be laughable one late exchange where carol lombard throws someone out of her room had me howling with its sing song delivery there are other times when the film becomes static a sign of the limitations of the microphones its not a bad film its just that the technical limitations of the film get in the way of real enjoyment normally i'm forgiving but this time out i just couldn't go with the flow then again the copy i saw was absolutely horrible worth a shot in a forgiving mood and to be reminded that robert armstrong actually did more than play carl denham in king kong
0	the racketeer stars carol deprived of the e that usually appeared at the end of her first name lombard as a woman thrown out of society because she left her husband for a concert violinist roland drew who has since become a down and out alcoholic and torn between her love for him and the interest of new york crime kingpin robert armstrong top billed it's virtually a compendium of what was wrong with the earliest talkies stiff direction immobile cameras stagy acting and ridiculously slow paced delivery of lines at the time the sound crews were telling the directors to have their actors speak every line s l o w l y and not to start speaking their own line until after the previous actor had finished theirs done about five years later this could have been an interesting movie but director howard higgin faithfully follows his sound dictates and systematically undercuts the talents we know lombard and armstrong had from watching their later movies the racketeer was made in 1929 a year that despite the transition problems from silent to sound nonetheless gave us some legitimate masterpieces — vidor's hallelujah applause wyler's hell's heroes capra's ladies of leisure — all from directors with strong enough wills to tell the dictators to get stuffed and let their actors talk and act too bad howard higgin wasn't that strong as it is watching a naturally rapid paced actor like armstrong slog through the part in the ridiculous way he's been told to speak one can't help but wonder where that 50 foot gorilla is when armstrong needs him
0	sammi cheng andy lau are coupled yet again in their 3rd film yesterday once more directed by actioneer johnnie to fans of to's action films will be disappointed to find not a single gun was used in the filming furthermore fans of cheng lau's previous films needing you love on a diet will also be disappointed to find that yesterday is no where near as funny or endearing br br mr mrs to lau cheng are a divorced couple both affluent hk citizens both incredibly mischievous both just happened to be professional thieves 'two birds of the same a couple years earlier they divorced over an inability to find middle ground on splitting the loot now she's remarrying to the son of a rich heiress a total momma's boy carl ng through through the soon to be mother in law jenny woo is suspicious of mrs to's past thinks she's only marrying her son for the family jewels the heiress' priceless ruby necklace br br the necklace is stolen is it mrs to's materialistic eye that gets the best of her or is it her ex husband mr to's way of sabotaging the marriage to steal the jewels for himself br br this is not a movie about two falling in love or rekindling a love its about two who have always been in love but have somehow been to foolish to realize it they let pride greed overwhelm them br br overall yesterday is one part caper heist film one part homage to classic hollywood glamour from its golden years i e cary grant grace kelly's to catch a thief johnnie to is riding too heavily on cheng lau's chemistry from their previous films hoping cheng lau's immense popularity fan base will be enough justification for this third film i think sammi cheng is one of the most likable charming entertainers working lau is definitely the tom cruise of asian cinema br br i really enjoyed their first two films consider the cheng lau pairing comparable to those classic hollywood couples of the 40's 50's but yesterday falls very short of expectations terrible writing ridiculous situations product placements galore all the subplots supporting characters were unnecessary come to think of it this film was unnecessary unless you just love celebrity watching
0	i've seen several stage and film adaptations of alice in wonderland and this one has to take the cake as the absolute worst my family bought the dvd unsuspectingly and couldn't even make it through the first half i later went back and forced myself to watch the whole thing it had been a christmas gift to me and was just appalled br br the only redeeming factor and it's hardly redeeming enough to save the whole show is mark lin baker playing the mock turtle with a yiddish accent it's one of the few moments in the piece that has some real charm and can be taken somewhat seriously other than that the songs are half songs the melodies are half melodies and even meryl streep cannot make this direction look good
0	terrific production and a good comedic performance by george clooney can't save curiously detached occasionally clumsy quasi comedy from joel and ethan coen depression era road tale hearkens back to yesterday with three escaped chain gang prisoners seeking a hidden fortune and inadvertently becoming country music stars in the process the film meanders along but never builds any momentum it does get a big boost from clooney's charismatic mugging and also from the art direction and t bone burnett's lively music otherwise the screenplay by the is seriously lacking in humor and interest supporting cameos by john goodman and holly hunter fail to add any lift and the second half of the movie slides precariously into self indulgence from
0	how can anybody give this anything higher than a '1' br br i thought manos the hands of fate would forever be the worst movie ever to itself upon my optic nerve indeed i didn't think anything could be worse br br i was wrong galaxina is that rare movie where every single element of it is achingly agonizingly blindingly bad how often have you watched a movie and commented who the hell lit this thing from lighting to soundtrack to effects to script to acting to cinematography to well everything this movie is absolutely unendurable it's so bad i couldn't even tell for some time if it was the worst comedy or the worst drama i'd ever seen br br it's too bad even to be laughable i'd sooner eat a of broken glass than sit through it again
0	if ever there was a film that can be considered a missed opportunity then that film is galaxina what could possibly be wrong in basing a sci fi film around a sexy statuesque female android surely such a film could never be a complete waste of time well sadly this movie is pretty close to useless there are a number of faults with this production it has to be said however there are two basic problems that entirely destroy the whole enterprise firstly this is a comedy with no funny bits at all or at the very least a film where the potentially amusing aspects are presented in an incredibly unamusing way secondly the title character is woefully underused this may be because dorothy stratten was not really an actress but if so it was a terrible decision as she is still easily the best thing about the film i don't think she really needed to be a great thespian to pull off the role of a sexy android to be perfectly honest anyway what we are left with is a whole lot of mind numbing comedy relief which often is made up of hopeless spoof type gags of the big sci fi hits of the time such as alien star wars and 2001 it's badly written and not funny at all and it doesn't even really have a plot to propel things along the story basically is about a police space cruiser that is sent to get a rock that's it steven spielberg once said that a high concept movie was one whose plot line could be described in one sentence what he didn't define was what you call a movie that can be described in less than a sentence pointless maybe br br this seemed like a sure fire winner to me but it failed miserably it seems to have been an attempt to spoof star wars and combine it with adult comedy situations all it does actually achieve is to leave you cold and a little irritated that it wasn't close to what it should've been a barbarella for the 80's this ain't br br shortly after this film was finished dorothy stratten was murdered in an appallingly violent and horrific way and for that reason galaxina has derived a considerable amount of it's cult interest i just think it's a great shame that dorothy didn't have a better film left to her
0	the odd thing about galaxina is not that it is supremely bad although it is the odd thing is that in spite of being supremely bad it is not funny supremely bad movies have their own particular brand of unintended humor the secret of their success you might say but galaxina is quite uniquely different it is mst3k's worst nightmare a bad movie in which the intentional and the unintentional humor alike fall flat br br it is easy enough to figure out why the intentional jokes fail and the reasons are quite varied sometimes it's a timing question sometimes it's a good idea badly worked out the human restaurant could have been hilarious but it wasn't sometimes it feels like there was some in the cutting room with the punchline ending up on the floor and sometimes the jokes are just bad jokes bad movies get their laughs from such unintentional snafus it's harder to figure out why galaxina doesn't get any laughs on that count something is subtly wrong with the unintentional humor in this movie just as something is wrong not at all subtly with the intentional humor it is a supremely bad movie whose very badness is not the redeeming quality it usually is it's absolutely unique in my experience
0	this is not the worst movie i've ever seen i did not feel like i wanted to remove my eyeballs forcibly after watching galaxina it just is not good the jokes are almost funny but fall short all of them the few gags that come close are beat back down by repeating them over and over the production values are well non existent the sound is bad the lighting is bad it just seems cheaply made overly so the dialog well often it is missing many awkward silences they are all just standing around and it seems like someone should be saying something the film even seems ambivalent about what it wants to be it is not always clear that it was intended as a comedy like maybe that developed after shooting started it feels like someone's film project that they threw together the night before it was due and if they had put two weeks into it it could have been good br br and i'm easy to please i thought mom and dad save the world was a hoot i like pluto nash mystery men is one of my favorite movies spaced invaders is well nigh unto a classic this turkey just doesn't do it space truckers was more believable br br avery schreiber who can be very funny tries too hard his part calls for a and he plays it leaning toward sitcom dorothy stratten is ok in her role but not particularly noteworthy br br oh yeah the my watch is always slow line was funny i'll give this movie all the kudos it can get it needs it br br the space vehicle models are not bad but they are few and are not used effectively the space scenes are vague no sweeping passes no close up detailed fly bys not even appropriate action scenes when they dock the infinity does crash land very oddly at one point the flight dynamics are terrible worse than anything you've seen they're jerky not smooth the initial battle is stilted and static even though the two ships have just shown that they can maneuver in their jerky fashion they trade slow shots at close range in a manner that is more reminiscent of a 16th century sea battle except not as exciting br br the aliens imagine if all of star wars was the cantina scene that many rubber masks could get dull rather rapidly no a few are used as sight gags that work ok the first time but not the fifth br br mercifully if you attempt to watch galaxina you are likely to fall asleep i got busy doing something else and missed the last ten minutes and did not feel like it was worth replaying it if that doesn't say it sucked i don't know what does sadly there is a lot of potential and this could easily have been a good movie it would be easy to remake this and have a decent film br br
0	i'm not a movie snob i've liked lots of movies that critics hate and i've hated movies that critics love however i have to agree with critics here galaxina is just substandard clearly intended to be a comedy it only has a few scattered laughs galaxina has poor photography it has poor special effects it has some pretty poor acting and the production values well the sets might as well have been made of cardboard br br galaxina tells the story of a spaceship whose crew is looking for a magical object called the blue star after a long voyage and some very unconvincing space battles the crew arrives at its destination a sort of wild west alien world there's a painfully unfunny cantina scene clearly designed to be a spoof of the famous star wars scene a chase involving space bikers and a final getaway br br the cast tries but can't breathe life into this turkey stephen and avery schreiber have done better work in other movies james david hinton is pretty good as a member of the crew the late dorothy stratten stars as the robot of title and while she looks great her role doesn't give her much of a chance to act br br you might catch this film to see dorothy stratten however if you're looking for a good movie you'll probably want to skip this one
0	i've seen worse films this is bad but at least doesn't try to be good so it deserves a brief round of applause it rest firmly in the realms of the low budget b movie sci fi genre br br it is a rubbish film but in a nice way and is certainly worth buying if it's in the bargain bin at your local supermarket awfully charming rather than just plain awful br br the highlight for me is when lover goes to rescue her upon turning up she exclaims which draws from his co pilot br br sit back get drunk enjoy
0	i have yet to watch 1979 that notoriously cheesy italian take on star wars 1977 but it can't be much worse than this misbegotten piece of junk which suffice it to say makes mel brooks' so so spaceballs 1987 look like a veritable work of art in fact the main reason why galaxina is remembered at all nowadays is because of the tragic fate which befell its leading lady playboy centerfold dorothy stratten who was killed by her insanely jealous estranged husband before the film had even had its official premiere br br although who subsequently had two biopics made about her wherein she was portrayed by jamie lee curtis and mariel hemingway plays the title role for the first half of the film she is reduced to being propped up in a chair ostensibly driving a spaceship on a 27 year journey to some planet or other in fact galaxina is an all purpose android who also serves the wacky crew their snacks gets them all hot under the collar and even goes scouting for the blue star cue choral music once they land having said that certainly looks luminous in her white attire and even if her role hardly demands much exertion of any acting talent she might possess it's not exactly demeaning either br br still it's ironic that for a film which bears her name she is overshadowed by the campy and would be zany antics of her fellow crew members especially the annoying captain cornelius butt which gives you the idea of the level of comedy on display here a long eared wing sporting colored guy a pot smoking proverb quoting old and best of all relatively speaking a foul mouthed rock eating hairy alien creature they hold prisoner the villain of the piece is a metal clad non entity who does however have the best laugh in the film when upon hearing the choral music following his every mention of the blue star exclaims what is this s t there is little point in listing the sci fi classics which are mauled by this stinker in its ludicrous attempts at spoofing the genre since they are not only lame but obvious incredibly enough a chest busting but ultimately benign alien is apparently played by diminutive hollywood veteran angelo rossitto br br for what it's worth then the scenes shot on the planet they visit which looks more like a western set than a planetary landscape have a yellowish sun like hue and its inhabitants are delicacies on their menu include skin and tonic scotsman on the rocks thigh pies baked alaskan etc not to mention a motorcycle gang who serve their own particular deity the harley davidson and when our heroes escape on the back of it they dare not shoot at them for fear of hitting their lord god awful indeed
0	this picture hit the movie screens on june 6th 1980 starring stephen as sergeant thor avery schreiber as captain butt j d hinton as buzz and starring playmate of the year dorothy stratton the picture starts with the police infinity roaming space looking for i guess criminals there ship is suddenly attacked by an unknown space ship enters sergeant thor and his partner buzz as they try to figure out who the unknown ship belongs to when failing they call on captain who instructs his crew to fight back enters the gorgeous dorothy stratton who plays the role of galaxina who is man made robot an now a few thoughts on this picture this movie was plan stupid and it's one of the reasons that i don't get into sci fi if you're into sci fi you would have notice that the laser sound effects were borrowed from an early sci fi movie titled battlestar galactica which aired in theaters in 1978 many of the door sounds that you hear in this movie came from another sci fi movie that aired back in 1966 titled star trek now for the reason that i bought this movie dorothy stratton she is gorgeous in her one piece suit i think her talents were wasted in this picture and she should have never been involved in such garbage connie was also considered for the role and her talents would have been wasted also on the picture alone i give this movie 1 weasel star and on dorothy stratton i give her 10 weasel stars even though she didn't deserve to be put into a trash movie like this if you like pictures like this you can get the dvd version on amazon com
0	for connoisseurs of bad movies galaxina is a true gem with truly horrid dialog acting and directing it's no choice for people seeking a proper movie but as one of the most unintentionally hilarious movies of its genre it's priceless for a good laugh in particular the scenes involving the harley davidson worshiping motorcycle cult are especially good and many other scenes present an opportunity for a cheap laugh br br sadly the scenes with dorothy stratten really fail to deliver but since she's playing an android i suppose one can excuse her for wooden acting br br bad movie lovers don't pass this one up
0	what a porn movie would look like if you took out the sex and just left in the bad dialog cheap sets and bad acting you would have galaxina br br this film came out when the original star wars proved there was a market for science fiction this in turn lead to some gems such as alien and a revitalized star trek unfortunately it also led to some bad movies and this was obviously one of them i say obviously because i hadn't even heard of this film until a few days ago i missed it when it came out in 1980 br br here's the underlying problem dorothy stratton couldn't act so for most of the movie they didn't even let her try i understand her tragic death has given this film an undeserved cult status but for the life of me i can't understand why br br clearly the movie tried to spoof star wars star trek and aliens but they clearly don't understand than when you spoof something it has to be funny this movie wasn't or at least the comic timing on jokes that could have been funny weren't science fiction is ripe for parody as spaceballs and galaxy quest proved this movie however did it poorly
0	earnest effort which achieves some success to adapt the classic odyssey story to a '30's nostalgia period piece the adventurers this time are escaped convicts wandering about the depression afflicted south bungling their way into trouble br br the greatest strength of the film is the wonderful music soundtrack effectively evoking not only the era that this is set in but the spiritual references that run rampant in the film besides its value to the tone of the movie the music is just plain fun to listen to br br what cripples the film is that the characters really aren't that likable in a comedy you need that element in order to have fun along with them in their misadventures instead we have a bunch of selfish arrogant soulless mean spirited nobodies who really have no positive points at all they're not imposing enough to make you hate them either so it's hard to relate to them at all they're offered up as clowns but like people who put clown makeup on and march in parades they just aren't funny br br like the story that inspired it the movie takes these guys on an odyssey encountering a variety of symbolic some even mystical characters everybody is stamped with offensive stereotypes the operative word being stupid people are mocked right and left and consequently no one is left being particularly interesting or appealing the movie doesn't like its own characters and it doesn't let you like them either br br riverside beautiful sirens stolen cars fistfights radio people being whipped with sticks all are thrown at you in disjointed fashion some evoke a few laughs others confuse or bore you i did laugh when a nerdy guy beat the snot out of an especially obnoxious lead character but there were a lot more pointlessly gratuitous scenes an example some '30's dillinger type guy cows with a tommy gun comedy symbolism no just mindless violence which detracts from the intellectual nature of the original source material this story draws upon br br other adaptations of the odyssey are much better unless you're a george clooney fan rent something else but buy the soundtrack cd the music is great
0	dorothy stratten is the only reason to watch this unfunny sci fi spoof and her appearance is a disappointment though she has the title role her screentime is limited and she only speaks a few lines of dialogue if you're not a stratten fan pass this one up
0	yesterday i watched this tv production and i was very disappointed br br i didn't have big expectations when it was a tv production but the complete movie was pain with no ending i felt it lasted for 3 hours but it was just me who was bored to death every minute was a long struggle and i really fought hard to stay away from the turn off switch br br the movie is about a doctor dr who gets a lot of aids patients and most of them die during the movie it is hard for to live with so his family gets punished with his frustrations however this movie has problems showing both sides it mostly focuses on his conversations with the patients and sometimes we see flicks from his home but we don't get much the difficulties to show more than one part of life doesn't get any better with the poor acting from andrews a man i hopefully can't see in any good future movies br br i believe it got 7 6 because of the subject taboo but i'm sure that there are better movies about this subject on the market stay away from this movie it does not deserve more than 3 10 br br
0	is it possible for a movie to get any worse than this there's a bunch of apes wandering about mumbling b acting supposedly silly and we are supposed to laugh there is no plot here to keep you going in the first place even when the women finally show up there is no sign of improvement the most expected things happen and by the time the film is over you might be far asleep beware this is not a trashy cult movie this is trash period i can't believe there's even a sequel to this br br 1
0	i readily admit that i watch a lot of really bad movies but there are very few that i can think of that are quite as bad as when women had tails it's a stinker of epic proportions what should have been a sexy comedy about a group of cavemen discovering a woman for the first time is instead a dull lifeless affair without a single laugh to be had the comedy is extremely weak i suppose if you think bashing someone in the head is funny you might find a laugh or two the guys in this movie make the three stooges look like high art and there's just not enough of a plot to hold the thing together it seems to drag on and on and on br br well you may be asking yourself if it's as bad as you say why haven't you rated it lower than a 3 10 good question and i've got two answers first the movie is not without its curiosity value i do find a bit of interest in an italian spoof of movies like one million years b c with raquel welch i'll give when women had tails a point for its historic value the other two points are for the mere presence of berger i know it's not much of an explanation or reasoning for a rating but what are you going to do it's the best i can come up with
0	way back at the dawn of human civilization cavemen sat around and made lame jokes hit each other over the heads with what ever they could grab and women were never seen and apparently at one time had tails these cavemen lived in a geographically diverse region with a a camel a monkey but no women this film tells of the hilarious misadventures of seven or so cavemen having burned their land with the new discovery of fire moving on by water to a new land where they find this woman with the extra appendage along the way we get such great moments of comedy like a fat cavemen swallowing a frog that keeps croaking in his stomach a monkey throwing rocks at their heads a man swallowing a mouse to get the frog in his stomach the obligatory gay caveman the list could go on and on this movie is the very definition of cinematic dreck i was bored from the onset and it only got worse as the cavemen around hitting each other making poor jokes such as puns on the word perch hitting each other and mauling poor berger who looks like she lost a bet to a producer to appear in this nonsense she is indeed one of two bright spots in this film she isn't much of an actress so you have to guess why she is an ass et the other bright spot is the music as soon as i heard the score i said to myself that it sounded very familiar i had never heard the actual score but the music was unmistakably that of ennio morricone it's a nice score and the best thing in an otherwise crude boring lewd unimaginative and ridiculous film essentially about a group of finding a woman for the first time and first wanting to eat her like some animal being taught what she could do sorry i'm stifling a yawn as i relive the plot the end of the film has some 100 or so mostly naked women on screen with all the erotic feel of pulling a off your knee this movie was painful to sit through and offers nothing of any real merit whatsoever the fact that it spawned a sequel doesn't surprise me as it offers that one thing which will prick viewer interest tail
0	i don't really know why so many persons love this movie maybe it's funny ok but it has totally ruined one of the best novels ever written as the author himself said this movie has betrayed the book not only the story is violently cut to about 1 3 but all the symbols all the complexity everything is lost in a very 80's fashioned fantasy adventure film for kids today we have effects directors a new attention to books i hope that someone tim burton peter jackson hayao miyazaki someday will direct the real neverending story a great dead writer a wonderful book and many literature lovers deserve it
0	i saw this film before two weeks it's kitsch boring and totally unintelligible for people that haven't read the original book there are many fact mistakes too actors plays rather poor you must laugh even in the sad moments it was a totally waste of time
0	the girls might be prettier if you're their or a faced onlooker what i'm sayin' is that it'll take special circumstances for a non reaction to this effort the delivery of many lines appears to be distractingly unnatural for some actors lighting seems to be a problem too although failing eyesight may have accounted for my frequent squinting and if you view this film be open minded enough to accept elements that no zoo or circus would reject they are the above and below ground creatures who feasted on dozens of campers near an empty louisiana mansion that's the discovery of a trio who is dispatched from their printed media to investigate the deaths then two of them disappear and the survivor is part of another threesome who take up the hunt eureka i just realized what one of those aforementioned special circumstances would be unconsciousness
0	this is probably the worst film i have ever seen it makes plan 9 from outer space look wonderful the acting is wooden the plot silly and the sfx non existent the only good thing about it is the fact that it is not a long film the scenery is sometimes quite pretty assuming you like trees if that helps any
0	i just finished up this unofficial adaptation of h p lovecraft's the lurking fear that was shot in louisiana outside of a few changes names setting this follows the short story point by point for the first 70 minutes but then tries to inject its own twist ending that you could see coming from a mile away either way it is a much better adaptation than full moon's the lurking fear too bad it is a terrible film director david mccormick shoots the thing with all the flair of an industrial short i swear i counted maybe two camera movements the creature design is cheap we're talking store bought masks here but shot in a dark manner intentional or not where they are somewhat creepy the most impressive thing in the picture is the abandoned mansion but mccormick fails to exploit that as well file this one under good adaptation poor execution
0	although not a big coen brothers fan i am an admirer of their dark humor films like 'fargo' and crossing ' i have been much less impressed by their other comic mode goofy camp or is that camp goofy unfortunately 'o brother where art thou ' falls into the latter category and isn't even as good as 'the big or 'the hudsucker proxy ' br br 'o brother' is basically an episodic series of in jokes without much point and not all that much humor or cleverness either as most reviewers have noted the film's plot is very loosely – and as far as i could tell quite arbitrarily – based on the odyssey its main character ulysses everett mcgill george clooney is an like his homeric namesake and has as his 'real' goal the return home to prevent the marriage of his wife penny to a suitor of course we don't discover that this is what the clooney ulysses character really wants until long after we've stopped caring and what does homer have to do with cool hand luke chain gangs ku klux klan meetings a la indiana jones cult gatherings a disbarred lawyer's vocabulary a talent for blue grass country music singing an association with baby face nelson a clark gable lookalike hairdo and other random and sundry character traits and encounters i leave that for others to discern br br the allusion to preston sturges' in 'o title is equally pointless yes viewers familiar with the sturges minor screwball comedy classic might find it mildly rewarding to recognize the title of the socially conscious depression movie sullivan abandons hollywood and comedy hoping to make and they might even be mildly amused by a couple of shot scene riffs e g hopping freight cars and the chain gang shuffle into view a movie but so what the coen brothers don't seem to have anything to add to the art for art's sake versus moral high seriousness critical debate about the function of art they obviously fall into the former school but that doesn't seem to motivate the reference in the slightest is it an homage if so why make it i like post modern pop culture reference and textual play as much as the next person but it's a lot nicer when it amounts to something at least tonally if not thematically consistent – and not just an arbitrary concoction br br this screenplay is simply a silly mess the only consistent and consistently pleasing element is the folk country music soundtrack it doesn't have much to do with homer or preston sturges but considering the rest of the film that's probably a good thing on the other hand i'd recommend using the price of admission on the soundtrack cd
0	before i really slag this film off i just want to say i absolutely loved it br br firstly how many times in the film did the characters use the phrase you're right i'm sure i was counting in the hundreds before i gave up and started watching the film again br br secondly what the hell is with those blue monkey things ok so the family led very private lives and had one brown eye one blue eye but since when does that transform people into subterranean carnivorous blue zombie creatures br br and finally 'old faithful here will protect me' hahaha
0	everything about this movie was bad the acting was bad and the plot was bad and were is all the blood and gore that was in demons which is a good movie and it was not scary at all my brother said that this movie was bad but i had to give it a chance since the first movie was very good when the movie was over i understand why my brother thought this movie was bad the only plus in this movie was the music by the smiths and the cult but this is a movie and the music soundtrack is not the most important thing and i saw that it has been released four sequels after this film i haven't seen none of them but can they be as awful as this one i have no plans to see them but maybe i will see them some time
0	saw this last night and being a fan of the first demons i had hoped that the sequel would have the same fun spooky spirit of it's predecessor this is unfortunately not the case the set up is similar as the first in which a horde of flesh eating demons burst forth into reality by being released from a horror movie being played the first had been a movie theater this one takes place in an apartment building and on tv once the demons are released madness and mass carnage ensues that's pretty much it as far as plot development goes it worked nicely in the first part because of the ghoulish make up fx fast pace and unpredictability the sequel however doesn't cut it the first problem seems to be that there are way too many characters who we don't really care about one way or another if they were annoying or idiots then there would at least be some kind of gratification when they are inevitably butchered demonized eaten alive but these people are just kind of there waiting to be slaughtered plus the fact that most of the characters are in different parts of the apartment building and out of it they are constantly cutting back and forth between them which kept pulling me out of the story there are some amusing bits courtesy of the splatter fx and campiness such as a constant flow of dripping blood eating through one construction after another as if it were alien acid the first demon possession of a crabby birthday girl leads to the destruction of her entire party and a creepy demon child clawing his way into the room of a tenant who is pregnant with child however that sequence parlays into a ridiculous looking rubber demon baby puppet thing that bursts from the chest of the human child that constantly flies across the room at its intended victim i got a couple of chuckles out of that scene but i don't think that was bava's intention the scene probably would've worked better if they just kept the child demon around to attack the woman but hey other little things like the over zealous acting of most of the characters and the bad dubbing don't help matters in summation i managed to see the unrated version on dvd and can't imagine having to sit all the way through the previously only available r rated version because the make up fx and gore were the only thing i got out of it also notable is an early role of producer argento's future hottie daughter asia in fact she probably gives the best performance of the whole cast and she's barely on screen argento bava fan's might want to check it out just to see it but will probably find themselves looking at their watch like i did gore fans might get a kick out of some of the fx but will be laughing themselves out of their chairs at the most goofy looking evil baby puppet since little selwyn from dead alive you could do worse but it certainly doesn't live up to the original
0	the films use of blue black and vibrant skin tones to create a noir ish feel to this movie unfortunately do not work in fact its quite irritating as it obscures the demon characters and reduces them to one dimensional beings br br at least the original had an hysterical energy and the gore set pieces were quite stunning black gore is hardly frightening nor is the main female demon at all frightening in her attempts to snarl and growl at the screen in her best camp lugosi style br br the narrative is grossly disjointed and if you could imagine 'naked directed by russ meyer you may appreciate the attempt to be william burroughs esque otherwise give this film a wide girth bava and argento fans once again are bitterly disappointed
0	this film sucks it looks like they just chose to place scenes together at random good gore but little plot sally whines and complains about everything till she becomes a demon i figured that she had pms it sure seemed that way the dubbing in this film is horrible one scene the woman was talking and a few seconds before we hear any audio i knew at that moment my suspicions were correct that it was not from the us i tried to follow along but got lost about half way through it and found it very hard to believe even for a horror film some good characters but not many not worth wasting one's time
0	spoilers more than likely nothing really important you couldn't have figured out yourselves yeah it's really weird i rented it at a blockbuster for the reason it had absolutely no description of the movie on the back of the box only a list of the bands that had songs in it but after that i had a of a time finding it even here on imdb i kept confusing it with night of the demons but you know they're basically the same thing br br the parts i loved most about this movie was the whole thing in the garage that black gym guy was hilarious the way he screamed all the time even when screaming wasn't really necessary he'd let out a listen up now block the door with cars and so they'd run cars head on into other cars but then he got balls and shafted by a zombie with a broom stick i believe it was the other part that kinda caught my attention was the part with the crash outside the building with the guys that they girl didn't want to come over to what significant aspect of the movie did that give us what was it why was it there why did the movie end with a guy breaking the tv's in a studio i saw that there was a zombie running towards the screen but he was kinda far away i mean he could have just turned the tv off yes this movie was shot on a whim and yes i hated it good day
0	please why on earth did bava had to add insult to injury making this pathetic piece of follow up crap br br to begin with we the viewers at home are treated to a narration from some unknown ding bat informing us of the aftermath events of the previous episode indicating mankind's triumph over the demons yeah right br br i can tell you right now that this doesn't in anyway what so ever have anything to do with demons as this is a completely new story with a different backdrop altogether bava as usual makes a casual appearance that doesn't even seem to fit into the main context of the story at all acting in this one beyond appalling and the whole concept about the demons appearing through a tv set oh god i'm not going to go on go see for yourself br br as usual you'll be treated to laughable dubbing crap scenarios that don't make any sense and above all un answered questions how typical of a sequel that dished out the first batch of crap br br overall if you're one of those dvd collector's then maybe you'll wanna give this a go otherwise avoid like the plague it's no way near the first so you may wanna avoid like the plague
0	when the word presents finds its way into a title preceded by a famous name the work is usually immediately for some reason people who are capable of creating good art don't seem to be able to see it in others however i've always been willing to give the second installment of the demons trilogy a try for one thing the soundtracks are absolutely to die for most american directors would have sacrificed small animals to line up the kind of talent on the soundtrack of demons 2 for another well two words asia argento of course she was eleven when this film was made and a number of years away from her seeming decision that she would style her acting after early helen mirren steamy looks and little clothing as well lamberto bava comes from one of italy's finest dynasties in that odd horror sub genre known as giallo he's the son of mario bava who may well have invented the genre in the sixties and the original demons is an absolute must see for fans of eighties b horror films so how bad can this be right well bad the demons continue their assault on italian media as the movie opens in a modern italian high rise where many people going about their lives have their televisions on in the background they're all watching a kind of combination news report mater video of some investigative reporter types trying to get proof of the events of the first film which would seem to put the time frame of this one no more than a few days after the first film through the usual horror film extra inability to concentrate the reporters manage to bring a demon back to life and he comes through the tv screen to start the plague anew br br yeah it's that bad about the only thing good one can say about the film is that the soundtrack when you're not being buffeted about by the likes of the smiths the cult gene loves jezebel etc is stunning it comes from the keyboard of simon boswell who got his start as a part of the argento dynasty and has since gone on to score such films as lord of illusions and hackers br br makes a half decent free rental if you're planning on drinking heavily but it's certainly nowhere near the fun the original was cronenberg's wonderfully funny high rise nasty creature romp shivers aka they came from within is a whole lot better
0	everything that made the original so much fun seems to absent here this is simply a run of the mill demons on the loose wrecking havoc slasher but without the passion that graced the original br br there's nothing new in the story in fact it seems like they ignore the first one altogether here the demons run loose in a high security apartment building and naturally kill most of the residents in grisly fashion the makeup effects actually seem less convincing here than the first time around although the actors weren't exactly brilliant in demons in demons 2 they're actually a lot worse you don't care about these characters at all the plot is nonexistent the music poor apart from one simon boswell song it's not scary in the least it's just not that good br br easily the worst film dario argento has been involved with and lamberto bava's also bava has a cameo in this film not a very funny one br br maybe 3 is too high a rating but at least i could watch it all and didn't think of stopping midway my advice stick to the original
0	typically elaborately crafted hbo production with a first rate cast a rich small town atmosphere and some nice narrative vignettes graced by above average production values br br but and that's a huge the various subplots peopled with some likable mostly annoying caricatures are paper thin and go and and on in dull stretches for over three long hours br br the often silly story veers uneasily between melodrama without being entertaining enough and personal drama without being profound at all br br a shame because some scenes really shine two or three that is br br 4 out of 10 grubby paul
0	although there is very little plot and whatever exists is just all improvisational still it was a good start from a new director with no previous financial back up and also a smart move from andy warhol to make his productions more marketable and viewer friendly in any case this story of a street hustler relies too much on showing joe buck naked almost all the time and the creative use of a flashy editing really wears off after the hundredth time and the cutting off the dialog thing gets really annoying half way this would have been a much more entertaining or even dramatic if they made a documentary of the daily of an actual male prostitute or hustler instead of letting the actors make up some plot and dialog of their own
0	despite the all star cast this attempt at epic fails it comes across as a set of flat cartoon stereotypes strung together by an all too too clever social commentary br br it's as if with every bit of dialogue and introduction to a new character the writer peeks out and says isn't that clever am i not smart isn't that biting social commentary and sadly the answer is always ummmm no wearying self absorbing stuff that is more like soap opera in the worst sense of the term than a movie and an obvious attempt at television immortality thankfully it died young empire falls falls flat
0	wow what can i say i was born in 1960 i love bad tv movies love them i get involved the works i want to get involved i'm spending time watching the thing i watched the emmys last night on tv how in the infinite world was the empire falls excellent name tv movie up for any awards it truly had wonderful talent of course and they tried admirably but how can anyone pretend that was an ok tv for goodness sakes screenplay ok direction you know i wish everyone the best really but i thought it was totally mind bending that hollywood was placing this very very bad film up for so many honors awards for me it was sort of a wake up call that hollywood is such a small insular community being cynical is not really my thing but wow
0	put simply this mini series was terrible let me count the ways 1 absurd plotting 2 over acting 3 scattershot approach to characters 4 annoying narration 5 inability to create viewer interest br br this film can't even pass the soap opera for dummies test i'm sorry i have not read this award winning novel so i am judging it only as a film but it really stinks imagine going to a party where they show you dozens of appetizers you look at the wide variety and want to taste them but suddenly they are withdrawn and you wonder where they went that's like this film with way too many characters introduced and never drawn out there are enough stories and characters in this film to create a 20 episode series yet we are given less than four hours to digest it all br br there are more facial expressions and reaction shots of ed harris than you'll find on 10 000 monkeys the pace is extraordinarily slow br br dennis farina and helen hunt are so far over the top that their characters are not believable joanne character is one dimensional br br the persistent river metaphor becomes trite br br and probably the most absurd part of the film the cat this evil and vengeful cat who follows the hero around to scratch him and his seat covers well come on now it's not even good stephen king br br probably the most interesting character in the film and one who is not drawn well is john voss the disturbed boy whose final act of desperation accounts for the only plot device that works in this film br br just about everyone in this film is unbelievable br br to sum up there's little here to inspire the drama is poor melodrama it's just a terrible effort
0	i'm relieved the later reviews have turned sour reading all the positive feedback i was starting to worry that my understanding of movies and life was completely different than everyone else's in the world everything in this movie rang false to me the characters the dialogue the manipulative soundtrack the corny narration all of it as each scene unfolded i kept thinking people don't act like this it's relentlessly heavy handed and maudlin in a way i think the movie bullies you into liking it or pretending to like it because it's serious and about real people and confronts issues but man it really did not work for me
0	we found this movie nearly impossible to watch with such a super cast it's a shame that the writing and direction were so awful the excruciating pace at which the story was told was maddening the flash backs were clumsy the characters were one dimensional the heavy handed metaphors the river the cat were repeated way too often br br the movie nobody's fool based on another novel by russo was infinitely better probably because it was more tightly written and directed br br the photography in empire falls was lovely too bad it wasn't a travelogue br br i read the novel and enjoyed the writing style but had some quibbles with the novel itself i would give the novel 4 out of 5 stars perhaps the screenwriters and director were so awed by the novel's reputation they felt they had to include every darn thing in their movie this was supposed to be a television movie guys not books on tape
0	i know my summary sounds very harsh but this film has very limited appeal the average joe out there would have a hard time sticking with this film the entire film consists of animated loggers doing their jobs and dancing on floating logs this is all done with very splashy and artsy colors and the film might be great to show to patrons in an art museum however unless you really love this sort of art or are a canadian who loves films about your native land then this is probably going to be next to impossible to finish i have a rather high tolerance for this sort of thing and even i had to force myself to watch after a couple minutes i can respect the work that went into it but it's just not compelling
0	not even cooking can save this disjointed idiotic nonsense starring as a tv chef from the food channel who with help of the crew to try to make the show better poor plot and stupid script throw this show down the drain robert urich wasted in the poorly supporting role and sadly this was his last one ever r i p br br this is the worst show of 2001 and it will be on the list of the worst shows of this decade br br i feel very sorry for for making this sitcom he even said himself it stunk br br it's hard to believe that they are the same producers of designing women that did this mess br br tv review 1 star
0	it's hard to make a negative statement here after all this raving about how great deed poll is how wonderful the actors did and so on and so on i did not like the film it's crappy br br there are orgies they have taboo sex gay sex bi sex oral sex rape anal sex masturbation brother sister sex brother brother sex sex on drugs sex without drugs sex sex sex seems to rule their world i guess the director is desperately in need of a getting laid the story is just dirty and shameful i wonder what made those people get up with this story and above all who cares br br the technical stuff didn't satisfy me as well the sound is poor so is the editing and the direction is absent the actors are admittedly fine but guess what it's their job their job is to act no need to jump off your seats if an actor did a decent job do you applause when a bus driver brings you home safely see br br i gave it 2 10 because after all this thing had something that i can't put in words b movie charm camp fun nudity i don't know
0	i watched this movie a couple of weeks ago and must say i was not impressed not at all i do side with the other posters when it comes to the fine performances but some good performances do not make a good movie br br on the discussion board i found a review by an anonymous poster that captured some of the main points it says is a movie that raises many questions but hardly answers even a few a movie that is disturbing and above every attempt at categorizing an experiment and a very conventional sexual drama despite some shocking scenes the brilliant acting of barbara and andré schneider the partly very impressive editing and the good camera work steffen ritter make up for gross plot holes and some technical slips especially in sound however the boredom the audiences have to deal with for 40 minutes remains unfortunately this is true i wasn't intrigued by the story at all the protagonists are cold ambition less people they do a lot of drugs and have a lot of incestuous sex so what for many times the direction seemed to be virtually non existent not to mention the technical aspect the poor sound quality was enormously disturbing br br what's the point of the movie what's the message behind it all the anonymous reviewer said somehow failed to make a clear point and so the movie remains hanging in mid air without a message thus the boredom i blame on the movie the movie is reserved and emotionless cold almost neutral and it doesn't take long to see the flaws for long stretches the characters of sean and ivy are not credible they clearly have difficulties with the english pronunciation the character of the mute brother is not developed very well some moments are very promising though in the scene where the call boy is skinned the one and only true love scene an intensity is reached that one would love to see the whole movie long as a spectator one has to regret the chances given away again i must agree i did like the final scene especially because of the beautifully captured faces of gianni and andré schneider but it was nothing compared to the boredom i had to suffer for the first thirty minutes the sex scenes though were aesthetically staged and perfectly edited br br all in all deed poll was not my cup of tea a good controversial idea wasted but it was a interesting to see how a movie can be made with practically no money maybe if they had a bigger budget and a more experienced director this would have become a better movie
0	electra glide in blue is a slow moving b flick in which blake plays a desert motorcycle cop who wants to be a homicide detective and becomes embroiled in a murder investigation a mediocre film at best eg in b features some members of the band chicago a whiff of action some philosophizing and lots and lots of boring dramatic filler not worth the time
0	technically abominable with audible pops between scenes and awesomely amateurish flesh requires a lot of patience to sit through and will probably turn off most viewers but the dialogue rings amazingly true and joe who exposes his body in almost every scene also gives an utterly convincing performance a curio to be sure but the more polished trash made two years later is a definite step forward i suggest you watch that instead 1 2
0	i always wanted to see electra glide in blue for a very long time i've always been intrigued by the title the star and the desert but for some now pretty clear reason this film is never shown on tv or i've happen to miss it if it's ever shown well after watching the dvd i now know why the movie is rarely shown it's because it's not that good in fact i'd say it's pretty much of a mess br br electra glide in blue was made by a first time director and it shows the film is mainly a series of vignettes with absolutely nothing holding it together more like a collection of short movies haphazardly strung together the movie can be boiled down to this intro murder cop and girlfriend together intro credits cops going to work crazy guy tells story cop finds dead body cop and chief and girlfriend at bar chase scene etc the scenes just don't flow together they're very distinctively independent from each other and because of this the characterization is weak borderline amateurish the scene at the bar with the girlfriend the scene at the farm with the hippies the scene with big john and the chief yelling at each other were cringe worthy i almost stopped the film during those awful moments br br the film maker's lack of experience is in evidence throughout the film the style like the 1970s is all over the map the intro credit scene makes the movie look like a commercial for law enforcement then it tries to be a buddy film big john and zipper then a murder mystery then a melodramatic love story etc a film doesn't have to have one particular style in order to be successful but i'm afraid the style in electra glide in blue was confused you can clearly see that the director had no idea what he was doing or where he was going with it br br the film is not a complete disaster while the content of electra glide in blue is almost amateurish the look of it is extremely and deceptively professional the cinematography is stunning every frame is worthy of an exhibition at an art gallery or because the first and last time director was involved in the music business worthy of an album cover the beautiful look of the film gives more credence to the finish product than it really deserves and thanks to robert blake's acting of a really badly written character the film maintains a certain level of realism even though nothing else makes much sense what's remarkable about the look and composition of the film is that it's been copied and duplicated a million times over the intro credits reminded me of something like top gun which was made 13 years later scenes of johnny dressing up with his clothes on the bed reminded me of american gigolo strangely enough electra glide in blue has a very contemporary feel to it due to the stunning visuals even if the story and the philosophy behind it are hopelessly outdated br br so electra glide in blue is on one hand a remarkably underrated and overlooked film because it obviously influenced a lot of future filmmakers out there when it comes to the look and composition very few films can claim to have achieved this and legendary cinematographer conrad hall should take full credit but on the other hand is also deservedly forgotten because the poor characters confusing story and muddled direction none of which are worth of remembering
0	first off i am a huge fan of robert blake always have been br br this movie came on last night 10 13 and the title interested me of course the star but after watching it i was left more confused than i was before it started there are some good scenes and i thought they would lead somewhere but they didn't it turned out to be an anti cop anti buddy anti hippie pretty much anti everything movie with an extremely confusing plot that also went nowhere br br robert blake is great as the lead well as great as someone could be with this bad movie i am still a huge fan of mr blake and love his acting even in crap like this but this drug induced 70's tripe well better stay away from this one and that ending what a
0	the show is at least partially faked so is not reality just pretending to be reality which makes me believe at least anyone without face blurred out is a fake episode br br proof in the episode where he pretends to be stabbed there is already camera crew on the boat before he gets there can been seen as his boat approaches br br the actors playing ambulance officers didn't remove his shirt or expose the wound in anyway so they work on it which would never happen in reality br br they also parked the ambulance in the car park and did not drive up to the emergency entrance which does not make any sense unless its fake and they would not be allowed to go there
0	i think cheaters needs to be off the air and end the reality show once and for all i don't care what anyone says you can attack me or agree with me but its times like this that the show is just spewing out propaganda and the host of cheaters joey greco is a little bastard who wants to think that showing people on camera is effective and unawares no it just will show disgusting he is also the wiretapping and following of people by cheaters spy's is illegal and a federal offense we are living in a police state like the soviet union and nazi germany rolled into one i am happy that there is poor reviews on this trash this needs to end soon or we are going to lose our liberties as a nation no wonder our country is going to hell its because of this and other filth shows i liked the older shows better from the 1950s 1980s i hope you all agree with me on that thank you
0	i'm not bothered by the sleazy hosts nor am i bothered by the cynical self righteous stance the makers of this crap take br br what i am bothered about is that the vast majority of the episodes are fake i wouldn't even be surprised if all of the episodes were staged hence this isn't a reality show but something far worse even than oprah garbage television with zero comma zero appeal like daily tv soap opera but with more action and fighting and less plot br br the premise would have turned out great if only it had been executed without cheating the viewer if only this idea were free of all the legal complications trappings that would most certainly ensue due to what would happen with real people and what is eventually aired hence the only way to create this reality show was to get some rather desperate actors and make them improvise and what pitiful and unconvincing improvisation it is most of the time shouldn't this be obvious to anyone who finished grade school most reviews i read here don't even mention that any of this is fake let alone that all of it might be wishful thinking or just boundless naivety br br the actors hired in this pathetic show are the kind of bottom of the barrel unemployed actors who are miserably waiting on tables waiting eagerly for a call from a talk show or this crap which is when they finally get a chance to make several hundred bucks i even recognized one actress in the role of cheater that i saw years earlier in the jerry springer show and i only saw 6 7 episodes of cheaters how many more of these loser actors are there that appeared in springer and cheaters that i don't even know about br br however to compare cheaters with springer isn't fair to the latter the springer show is not all fake a bulk of the episodes are hence often highly entertaining there is no value to be found in cheaters unless you're a struggling actor and want to get tips on how not to act in front of the camera br br the producers use various very cheap transparent tricks to create the illusion of realness to give their footage that elusive documentary feel but it's all in vein in the end the more intelligent train wreck seeking viewer is left with absolutely squat professional wrestling has more credibility than this
0	there is a growing trend in the media to vilify and ridicule men one sees it in television adverts and program plots cheaters is a prime example they could find plenty of female cheaters yet the vast majority shown are men why the prime threat to any government's power resides in the male population they're less likely to abide by authority and are more of a physical combat threat a way to reduce the threat is to emasculate men in society via the media other examples of psychological propaganda are crime dramas full of self righteous cops including big jawed aggressive women accusing everyone they question trampling their rights and making those men feel like scum in australia many top male sports stars have been arrested recently for dubious assaults and drinking charges another example of the government controlling the male populous by arresting their heroes and asserting dominance cheaters aside from the political machinations is an invasion of privacy and a violation of rights furthermore most of these women assault the men if it were round the other way the men would be in jail if it were an honest show they would be finding women cheaters because they don't normally get caught due to the fact that their male lovers are quite happy to get in no strings attached and get out without rocking the boat men's mistresses want the men to themselves and want to own and control the men and thus get the men caught anyway
0	if you find the depiction of violent murders and wanton police brutality expressed in a plot less film with glacial pacing entertaining then you're bound to enjoy surveillance this film was garbage for both the mind and spirit the notion that this is a thriller is comical that would imply some kind of tension and twists you kept waiting for the story to actually finish starting it never rises above a glorification of weak minded violent criminals and individuals from all walks of life picture all of the violence of no country for old men without any kind of chase or sympathetic characters thrill killers run amok the acting is good mostly but the script is a pile don't bother and tell your friends to don't bother
0	this p of s was highly recommended to me by two friends that have great br br similar to mine taste in films and have seen more than anyone i know br br i have no idea what they saw in this movie sadistic cruel and repulsive is fine in an entertaining movie but this is a windbag effort trying to pass itself off as highbrow lowbrow movie making or is it lowbrow highbrow br br the ancient generation gap cliché no redeeming social value comes to mind bill pullman is trying maybe a little to hard and except for the kid the rest of the acting seems self conscious and kinda lame br br save yourself from this and watch a double feature of in cold blood and the hitcher br br as somebody said this would never have been made if jennifer lynch was not the overrated david lynch's daughter
0	after a very scary crude opening which gives you that creepy chainsaw massacre feeling everything falls apart br br spoiler alert as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing you know they are the real killers anyone who have seen enough of these fooled ya movies can figure this out br br this movie is with one thing in mind to depict brutal murders why then is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well will this be next for us movie goers the torture and abuse of children whats wrong with you people lynch is truly has a disgusting ugly mind
0	this is a snuff movie i'm shocked it is even considered to be in the imdb library and bill julia and all other professional actors involved should be ashamed to be part of this sick flick i thought i was going to view a somewhat classic horror film with a creative end that writers like to invent that usually make no sense when writing a horror film but as a viewer we try to rationalize and understand this ending was not creative it was sick and has all the earmarks of a snuff movie i am shocked it was edited to this ending and more shocked that it will be out for distribution by the end of june 2009 it should not be shown in a theater it is harmful to innocent minds on many levels watch the movie the ending and you will understand this statement plus included in the plot is a sweet little girl not yet 9 her character says she is not in the snuff ending but she is an integral part of the movie why do directors feel they need to shock with a sick flick in order to get recognition the director is in the wrong line of work if she thinks this is an art film
0	i guess only a selected number of audience members really had any interest in watching how a male hustler in new york operates but i'd be willing to bet that even these brave souls were turned off by the irritating patchwork technique and deliberately muffled sound recording on display here the fact that these inherent were a direct result of the film's low budget underground experimental nature is i'd say beside the point anyway for those so inclined the film features extensive male nudity and joe understandably became an underground – and gay – icon br br the episodic structure showing the day to day routine of the hustler protagonist offers a couple of mildly interesting scenes his meeting with and eventually posing for an eccentric elderly artist the one where expresses his views on his unusual line of work and his particular modus operandi to a couple of prospective including perhaps the of hustlers – a bespectacled nerd perhaps mercifully the film ran for only 89 minutes against the imdb's claim that its complete length is 105 but the latter could well be a mistake br br i had watched a few other of warhol's 'movies' and this one is decidedly not as satisfying as the most tolerable example i've run into yet bad 1977 and only slightly better than the likes of my hustler 1965 which were mostly a strain to sit through the fact that this was only the first part of a trilogy did not well but as the saying goes you gotta to do what you gotta do and the other two 'chapters' had to follow in quick succession br br despite my generally negative reaction to it flesh is nevertheless still valuable as a 1960s time capsule and as a prototype of the underground scene of that era both cinematically and in real life for the record an image of from this film adorns the sleeve of the self titled 1984 debut album and transsexual candy darling who appears here rather unremarkably was immortalized in candy says the opening track of the velvet underground's eponymous 1969 album although the latter band is my all time favorite and one of the reasons for this is that through their unique and ground breaking music they described a lifestyle so utterly different from my own this is truly a case where i'd much rather experience something aurally instead of visually
0	i am not sure who recommended surveillance to me but i think i have an idea one of the fat guys at the movies the person said they were astonished by how great it was and said it was one of the goriest disturbing movies i'm paraphrasing and doing this only by memory so forgive me if i misquoted at any rate i made the decision to watch it so i take full blame for my own miscalculation in watching one of the most horrible predictable and stupid movies i've ever seen strange i doubt i've ever called a movie stupid but that was the first word that came to mind about one third in and stayed in my mind until the end br br where to begin unbelievable premise and reactions incredibly brain dead characters could blame the writing or the actors or i'll just blame both and enormously bad acting i'd sooner believe bill pullman as president of the usa than a fbi agent here of course there's a reason for that and i'll partially go into that and to top it off if you can't figure the so called shocking twist in the first 5 minutes then you must have arrived late to the theatre or came into the room to watch it late don't worry they'll tell you the twist every five minutes thereafter br br there's been some serial killer s on the loose in the most depressing town in the county or world but there's more to the story some dumbass and corrupt cops like to blow out tires for their own amusement could there possibly be more oh yeah there's a family well maybe not but there are four humans one boy one girl and an adult couple the girl says she sees things with much less conviction than cole sees dead people in the sixth sense there's gotta be more to this than what i mentioned that's what makes a movie interesting adding as many subplots that may may not be developed is the way to go okay then i'll continue we have goofy fbi agents that made me laugh a pair of giggling druggies who's shocked at first their dealer od's but then resorts to robbery a gosh tooting great guy cop who must've been put in for comic relief who's always battling an angry suspicious cop and finally poor poor michael ironside who didn't just phone his performance in he barely text it in br br none of these work they're all told in various forms of presence tense or flashbacks and believe me you'll lose all sense of caring after the first of many subplots begin in addition the reaction some of these characters are the most shocking of all i guess i'm referring mostly to the cops but mainly the girl who did or did not just lose her family and barely blinks br br this stupid stupid movie stinks it's barely gory as the person that recommended it said it was unless his exposure has been limited to goosebumps stories and what's with the title surveillance oh i get it it's because it was used in 1 50 subplots just to film interviews since that's so random it might as well been called cop car bullet or coffee just stay away from this horrid mess
0	this movie was good relatively during the first parts of it br br we have a story from 3 points of view so let's find some clues and complete the story br br oh wait none of that stuff matters because the fbi guys are the bad guys though that was a great twist it was almost a terrible twist i immediately downgraded the film from a 7 maybe 8 to 3 based on the last 10 15 minutes of it br br does anyone else not see why the twist is so bad yes it's a good shock but it is bad because it has absolutely nothing to do with the preceding hour and twenty minutes there's no connection to the killers br br the killers are in about all of 5 minutes of this movie as killers and the two fbi agents are only in 15 minutes of the previous hour and twenty br br we get it surveillance oh the killers are voyeurs which makes no sense because they were only described in limited terms as just being psychopaths and the hour and twenty minutes of surveillance we are watching of the 3 stories goes out the window as everyone is dead in 5 minutes br br all of this makes the ending even more ridiculous oh they killed a bunch of fbi agents in the beginning what fbi agents sleep together all in the same room to be found and murdered by amateurs and then impersonated by people who know nothing about being fbi agents a cop 3 feet away apparently can't hit either one with a standard police issue pistol that can shoot several shots i hate movies that try to make you feel like this could be real when they make absurd leaps they think we will believe br br the other thing is the movie ends about 10 15 minutes after they are revealed as the killers with a girl standing in the field somewhere
0	significant spoilers br br this is a sick disturbing movie just like the sick twisted director jennifer chambers lynch who also wrote it i don't even know why i gave this movie a rating of 2 it is not the fault of the actors for sure the cast certainly portrayed their roles well it is the way this movie was written and the way the characters were written which was the benchmark of a truly sick mind br br i do know that i will never ever watch another movie which has been written or directed by jennifer chambers lynch she is a sick twisted foul mouthed foul thinking deviant she looks speaks and sounds like some biker chick with her brain fried on drugs who spent 20 years doing hard time you can clearly see what kind of person she is by watching her on the dvd special features section of surveillance the watched are watching you can see and hear her for yourself she was every bit as bad as i had envisioned from the writing of this movie br br i'm not shocked by bad language although this director certainly talks like a sailor this goes far beyond simple bad language worse than any film the level of implied sado violence and perversion she incorporates into every character she writes are of the genre which is even illegal by standards this perverse disturbing thinking is clearly apparent in her own personality and things she says another reviewer found the description i was seeking this is a snuff film br br be sure to listen to her narration on the deleted scenes and alternate ending this director writer is truly a sick person i can't believe anyone would put her in charge of a movie much less pay her for it you can be assured that i will never ever watch another movie she has been affiliated with in the thousands of movies i have watched and collected there are only a couple directors and writers which have merited this kind of boycott she is offensive beyond anyone i have ever seen connected with filming a movie before there have been some bad directors and writers but none could compare to her sick twisted mind br br when i saw this movie which was just one murder rampage after another once it got past the hotel murder then the sick cops shooting at and brutalizing drivers for kicks the vacation family with the bad parents who had no business being in the presence of children followed by the drug addicts the movie then proceeded to the even more twisted deviant serial killers br br as i saw the serial killers reveal themselves i began to wonder what kind of truly sick mind wrote this movie those were my actual thoughts as i watched this movie i fully intended to find out what writer had such a sick mind because that writer seriously needs to be committed for long term psychiatric treatment to my surprise it turned out to be the director when i saw and heard what she had to say on the dvd i realized my assessment of the writer was right on the nose on the dvd she was indeed the sick twisted person i had envisioned writing such a disturbing film br br while the little girl stephanie ryan truly stole the show i can't believe that her real life parents would have tolerated this sick foul mouthed director to be anywhere near their daughter br br this movie is disturbing sick offensive twisted and the director writer needs some serious treatment in a mental facility br br as far as the ending of the movie goes the alternate ending should have been the outcome of this horrific ordeal there was no point and no benefit to the film or the story or the flow of the film by the death of the other character i'm stunned that any studio actually distributed the movie the trailer was completely misleading the only reason the movie got the audience it did was due to the clever and creative depiction on the trailer that trailer is not representative of the movie you will see br br other than the child every character in this movie was a sick murderous twisted perverse violent sex freak and their characters are mirrored the mind of the writer director who created them but if you watch it carefully even the parents of the vacationing family the sick cops taking pot shots the serial killers posing in alternate roles cops in the station and even the station dispatcher every single one of these character roles incorporated a sexually twisted violent pervert i'm not too sure about some of the actors after watching them talk about the filming of the movie and the canadian town in the special features section of the dvd br br this writer director has such a personal mental deviation that no matter what she writes every character role contains those same carbon copy stamps the only character which did not have these deviant tendencies was the child watch closely and you will see this in every character then listen to the director writer talk on the dvd special features section and you will understand what i'm telling you about her mental state and psychological issues she wouldn't be tolerated in too many decent homes if she were not from a hollywood film making family br br fortunately jennifer chambers lynch does not have much of a filmography less than a handful of things since she carbon copies those disturbing traits in all of her character roles i don't think we'll have to see many movies written or directed by her unless her dad director david lynch helps her out i'd recommend staying away from any movie she is involved with and i'm not too sure her dad's films would be any better br br do yourself a favor avoid anything written or directed by jennifer chambers lynch
0	i went to the cinema to watch a preview of this film without knowing anything about it recognizing jennifer lynch's name and seeing the 18 certificate i realised it might be disturbing in actuality i found the film a farce i found myself giggling in disbelief through parts of it the acting is atrocious bill pullman and his ridiculous twitching face i do almost pity the actors though as the script offers them no chance of any believable character interaction after some shocking incident there is plenty to try and shock the viewer in this film 2 characters are seen sharing a beer and talking about the weather everything was overstated or thought it was being clever when really it was obvious the performance from the little girl character named stephanie was the best thing about the film quiet and intense i really could not recommend this film to anyone its violent without point ridiculous characters bad acting bad script and plain silly
0	i must say when i saw this film at a 6 5 on this site i figured it was well worth a view i was sorely disappointed from nearly the opening scene it is obvious the two supposed fbi agents are in fact the killers could they have made it any more obvious if that is the intended twist in this film that's pretty sad while pullman and ormond are excellent actors even their talent is no match for a reprehensibly bad script pullman adeptly acts the part of a sociopathic killer and that's the problem there is no switch from i'm playing fbi guy to i just killed 12 people and boy are my arms tired you can't blame the actors the story fails in far more ways than one br br from the onset of the film however i was certain i was wrong that no director writer would ever be so blatantly obvious about a plot twist ormond and pullman must just be acting strangely in order to divert the viewer's attention from the real killers i thought which gave the film's makers far too much credit i should have followed my instincts and turned off the movie before it even made it past the 15 minute mark br br to lynch's credit she did manage to interject many things that make a good film sex violence humor and well trained actors too bad they were in the wrong configuration hopefully james can recover from this role i found her performance particularly impressive as the stunning drug addict turned would be savior she should have rewritten the role so the crack whore would win br br those people who have compared this film to natural born killers take note tarantino made the characters of mickey and mallory reprehensible yet sympathetic the artistry of that film far overpowers the gore and this is not seen once in surveillance surveillance only wishes it were natural born killers in fact it has wet dreams about being even a fraction of what that film was folks who haven't seen surveillance stick to something with a little more intelligence like camp rock
0	the film's executive producer is none other than that messenger of peace thru transcendental meditation david lynch the director's father i wonder what david's guru his holiness maharishi mahesh yogi would have thought of this production the hypocrisy here is as repugnant as is the film itself it's a safe bet that samuel l phoenix serial killer and devotee of recreational violence would have loved every minute of it br br i doubt if many would fault this film for its cinematic craft on that level it's quite good but on a moral level it's the most disheartening movie i've ever seen br br spoiler coming br br i guess it's the phoniness of the thing that saddens me the most morally numb generation learn a craft and a little post modern aesthetic theory at art school or film school and then get involved in the arts and entertainment industry and here's the result a film which wallows in human suffering injustice and carnage much of which is witnessed by a nine year old who sees her entire family brutally murdered by a couple of recreational violence killers who at the end ride off into the sunset br br no more spoilers coming br br for whom are films like this produced sadists are going to adore this why wouldn't they but who else as i noted above there's some really good film craft here but good craft can be applied to any subject matter why apply it to stuff like this also the movie is very suspenseful but that's not because of the grossness of the violence it's suspenseful because it's well directed well acted i'm sure the ghost of alfred hitchcock could explain this much better than i can br br so what has been put before us here and above all why br br yes our world can be an ugly dirty even evil place but shouldn't we dissent when an artist makes it her his business to rub our faces in it or worse still to stick it in the faces of those nine year olds who will one way or another end up seeing this on home dvd br br i hope that people will see to it that this film is not seen by their kids yeah i know dream on
0	sorry for all you guys that are not family with the lynches br br my sister in law asked me how you can make just a disturbing movie i told her that if the daughter and her father would not do these movie they would have instead to go around and kill and cut people in pieces br br after every movie i tell myself again one and a half hour lost of my life but next time i will check the director's or producers name br br so you don't want to be angry at yourself and loose time don't watch it but if you think that you need to kill someone watch it this is probably a better medicine than to spend your whole life in a prison for mentally insane
0	this must be the worst thriller i have seen in a long long time the directing the acting and the adaptation of the story leave what could probably have been a good plot into a meaningless waste of time within a few minutes of watching the film it was easy to figure out the whole plot and then there are more obvious clues very early on leaving no mystery i guessed this within the first few minutes and i kept hoping i was wrong and much to my dismay i was not br br the film starts off with two fbi agents who drive to a remote town to investigate a murderous spree which has left three witnesses a young girl a drug addict and a cop they are interviewed under surveillance cameras separately and each tells their account of the day each has something to hide about themselves and the day unfolds as they tell their accounts this part is probably the saving grace and if developed could have made this film better br br spoiler the whole story ends in the fbi agents being the actual killers and the young girl is the only one who has figured this out and so left unhurt by them br br why do they go through the whole charade of interviewing three witnesses and bonding with the young girl if their idea had been to kill them in the first place how did they get away with pretending to be fbi agents when you discover that real fbi agents had been killed and their badges were found on them how did they know how to set up and use the surveillance cameras br br bill pullman and julia ormond are so unconvincing from the beginning to the end maybe the idea is to develop their characters for the revelation at the end come on they both look ridiculous stupid and not sinister in the least the character of the young girl is also wasted potential there is no meaning to her actions and no meaning to whom she prefers to bond with in her ordeal she does not appear distressed but rather detached which again is not explained br br awful film on the whole
0	i do not know what today's movie goers expect but after 68 years of movie watching well maybe i didn't watch many movies in the first 9 10 years so make that 58 years of movie watching i expect to be entertained not bored to tears assaulted by continuous profanity every other word and idiotic scenes of violence that are presented in with no other purpose in mind but to show blood splattering and body parts being mangled surveillance is one of those movies that was made by people who have no imagination little if any talent a total inability to tie scenes together and an unreasonable trait of letting a scene go on and on long after the purpose for it has elapsed that anyone would ever think that this was a worthwhile movie when it is nothing more that hollywood garbage is beyond me as a combat veteran i have seen violence blood and gore in many forms and movies like we were soldiers is about as violent as a movie can get but it has redeeming value surveillance must have been dreamed up by persons in a drug induced stupor with no writing ability no directorial training no experience in film editing and a total lack of contact with reality just a stupid movie of two serial killers posing as fbi agents setting up a scenario to kill some stupid foul mouth cops etc a high priced piece of garbage that only an idiot could like
0	without a doubt the biggest waste of film of the year this movie is poorly structured sadistic cruel and filled with unlikable characters on top of that and maybe the worst crime it's uninteresting and vastly predictable as soon as bill pullman's character on the photo changing the word from evidence to violence i had the entire plot figured out there are no surprises and there is no compelling reason to watch this trash the only redeeming feature for me is that i saw this thing for free on my hdnet cable and didn't waste any money i would truly be angry if i had paid to see it in a theatre br br anyone that labels this thing a thriller really needs to get out more an awful awful film in every way that matters
0	it's hard to believe that oprah winfrey produced this piece of junk the show couldn't even hold a candle to cooking shows of the past including rachael ray is the most annoying talk show and cooking show host in tv history not since has had a terrible cooking show host i've watched at least has some good moments and some style this one has no style at all she's terrible as host the kitchen looks atrocious the writing is horrible the teleplay is over the top and the opening credits are so bad it makes me sick now i enjoy cooking shows that had a cool sense of style but this has absolutely none of that br br this is one of the worst tv of the year
0	i of course saw the previews for this at the beginning of some other lion's gate extravaganza so of course it was only the best parts and therefore looked intriguing and it is to a point a young college student sarah is finding riddles all over the place and is becoming obsessed with answering them and in doing so she's unwittingly becoming involved in some game now that's fairly intriguing right there but unfortunately it all gets rather muddled and becomes so complicated that the viewer like myself will most likely become frustrated characters appear with little introduction and you're not really sure who they are or why sarah knows them or is hanging out with them all of this has something to do with this woman who tried to drown a young boy years ago and her reason for that was that it's all part of the design in reality it's all part of the very sketchy script and when the film is over you'll find yourself feeling that you've lost about an hour and a half of your life that you want back for more productive uses of your time like cleaning the bathroom for instance 4 out of 10
0	in the european tv industry movies like this one are called stickers tv stations buy them and air them because when they wanted to buy broadcast rights to let's say titanic some not really blockbusters were a part of the deal br br 14 hours is a story of a hospital its employees and patients who have to face the worst flood slash storm ever unfortunately almost from every scene or shot one can tell that is was a low budget film br br newborn babies are very obviously not real there is no background action and probably the worst thing is the doctor acting the actors are not believable in their roles their lines when spoken sound way too memorized as if this was a read out camera test
0	i work at memorial hermann hospital tmc and was also working at texas children's hospital women's hospital and west houston during allison first the shots of the hospital are sadly suburban the texas medical center has a daytime population density similar to wall street there are huge skyscraper professional buildings and hospitals tch was the largest children's hospital before it doubled in size twice methodist with its 1500 beds is one of the largest hospital in world the texas medical center skyline is bigger than that of memphis yet the best pics hollywood could muster are that of some dinky hospital in the middle of nowhere besides the real pic of the hospital taken decades ago also they combined several real life characters and portrayed them all in one super nurse i actually know the medical technologist s working in the blood bank two where actually working at the time but the movie shows only one pregnant mt there was a pregnant mt and another mt that took the precious patient research for more info i will not mention their names privacy there was no nurse in the real life lab scene hollywood combined these two most likely to save time and money in the movie military helicopters true had to transfer the our babies and to all the way to galveston why you may ask when we have the largest children's hospital just down the street because texas children's hospital refused to take them you read right they refused being employed by them i was ashamed needless to say i'm no longer affiliated with that facility any other comments would be repetitive to the ones already posted by the people that who actually live here or lived through the experience
0	this movie starts off on the wrong foot and never really gets it going the first scene shows a life flight helicopter landing and just outside the window you can distinctly see mountains in the background for those of you who might not ever have been to houston there is no elevation change the city sits just above sea level and a 5 ft incline is considered a big hill to go along with that scenery any shots outside of the hospital immediately tell the viewer that they are not in houston the trees are all missing leaves or are pine trees neither of which houston has very much of even the hospital itself on the outside is very unbelievable memorial hermann hospital is one of the top hospitals in the united states and sits smack dab in the middle of the medical district just miles from downtown houston yet every outside shot of the hospital makes it appear that the hospital is out in the suburbs or even the countryside br br it is obvious that whoever was in charge of the actual tropical storm part of the movie skimped out because the numerous shots of radar are all wrong the first radar image in the movie is that of hugo hitting south carolina we later see kris kristofferson leaving his job and one of his assistants tells him that alison is moving back south across houston yet the radar image he shows has alison clearly moving north off of the gulf of mexico into houston probably the initial landfall of alison br br as for the acting it isn't all that bad jobeth williams kris kristofferson and rick schroder all do a decent job considering that this is a straight to tv movie the plot of the story is decent and the fact that it is based on a true story makes it a bit more entertaining my one problem with the acting is the portrayal of with big thick southern accents the actors all sound like they are from birmingham alabama and not houston texas br br the movie gets its point across and to the general audience it does exactly what it is meant to entertain if you are looking for a factual account of what happened to the city of houston in june of 2001 then you will be disappointed one thing to keep in mind before viewing this movie is that it is based solely on the evacuation of memorial hermann hospital and not on tropical storm alison and the impact on houston metro itself if you are looking for a factual account of tropical storm alison's impact on houston metro might i suggest watching the weather channel's storm stories for tropical storm alison br br 1 2 out of
0	upon a recommendation from a friend and my admiration of philip baker hall i rented the first season disc of the loop it's a typical tv comedy with all the clichés that the genre employs with the wacky scheming brother sully ditzy blonde lizzy token unrequited love interest piper sarcastic asian helper darcy which reminded me of arliss as if anyone needed to be reminded of that show the plot deals with various bad luck usually by sully that befalls sam that puts his job at the airplane in jeopardy only to have him save the day with ensuing in the middle i didn't a certain episode i described them all to a t therein lies the problem as what seems like it might even be passable entertainment at first just gets uselessly stale when watching episodes in a row and growing bored beyond belief at the endless repetition sully will do something mimi rogers will say something overtly sexual russ will tell about his gay son darcy will do her impersonation of sandra oh on arliss blah blah blah blah blah the only positive is the lack of an annoying laugh track but don't let that fool you into thinking it's any good go watch a far better comedy arrested development always sunny in two name two off the top of my head surprised that this one is still on the air oh that's right fox only cancels the good shows i forgot needless to say i don't trust my friend's taste in shows anymore br br my grade d
0	fox is pretty lame they cancel the wrong shows it's bizarre that they would cancel a well written program like arrested development and yet they keep this show and war at home i feel that fox loved that they broke barriers with the then edgy married with children but now it's just getting ridiculous the loop is a pointless and boring watch and their edgy jokes just fall flat in order for edgy comedy to work you have to keep the jokes coming family guy and the simpons work because there is a constant flow of jokes fox needs to pull their heads out of their rectal cavities and quit letting their relatives write this mediocre tripe i mean if you're going to invest money into making something entertaining make it entertaining also stop using no named actors it's great to have up and comers but you need to anchor a show with a noted celebrity duh fox
0	the first season was great good mix of the job and the brother and friends at home it was actually a pretty funny show br br now it shows up again and the brother and the two hot chicks are gone and the whole thing revolves around the airline company even the old man who runs the company has gone downhill way too over the top where before it was perfect br br that and no more sarah mason one of the best looking girls in hollywood br br this is what happens when you let some execs get their hands on a show you can almost see the meeting the old man is funny lets focus on him make him way over the top and make it all about the airline it'll be a nutty version of the office anyhow no hot chicks no watch
0	i am very open minded i watch all kinds of programs to the end good or bad just to give them a chance and learn from the good aspects and bad ones this show had potential to be good but my god what were the writers casting director and director thinking the cast of actors are terrible with the slightest exception of meryl mimi rogers and darcy joy being given occasional good lines with the best execution of the lot br br the rest of the cast kill the show it is the same story line in every episode sam has plans to do something his boss disrupts these plans by assigning him ridiculous work projects then the foolish ways sam tries to accommodate both in a manner that is primarily stupid and lacks any real intelligent humor this is every episode it gets very tiring br br season 2 they ditch the eye candy the 2 hot girls in the show get written out yet the brother stays explain that casting cut to me please i can see why they wrote them out they had no substantial role but they didn't add anyone better to replace them br br the cocky derek character is given a continuous appearance in season 2 his acting along with everyone else's resembles many poor sitcoms from the 80's might have been funny then but painful now br br the show could have been so much better with a few good writers and some people who had any talent to execute them this show lacks everything production quality is the only good aspect of the show it is great in that regard unfortunately the content is painfully sad br br my god fox was there really nothing better to choose from i'm sticking with shows like it's always sunny in philadelphia or 30 rock for now the bar should be set by programs like these that actually assume the audience are intelligent and aren't continually drooling on themselves using all their brain power on continuing to breathe
0	i love this show i watched every episode last year i bought the dvds and i tune into to watch tonight and i see for some reason you have retooled this great show and you have taken what made it work and ruined it you took one of the best aspects of the show away which was the 4 friends sam sully lizzy and piper i love the other characters as well but they are good in small dozes like derek darcy and even sully it is like the show lost some of its family and everyone else is trying to hard to fill in it is overdose while things are funny in small dozes when you are exposed to it all the time it goes from funny to annoying i was so looking forward to the return of this show so please bring back the charm even if you could not fit piper into the show at least bring lizzy back but i loved those girls they brought the fun the show was about sam trying to live his business life and handle his personal life and friends as well that was the charm and that great dog as well br br i hope the network fox forced the writers to do this and the writers did not willingly do this to the show i will give the show a couple more episodes before i give up but tonight's episodes were bad i made a big deal out of the show returning tonight and had people over and i felt like a fool because no one was laughing except 2 3 times i apologized to them and said i don't know what happened and about 10 minutes into the episode i realized they were not going to show piper or lizzy and this was no longer a must see tv comedy
0	wow there are no words to describe how bad this movie truly is i usually pride myself on being able to enjoy any movie no matter how bad but this was just too much i would only suggest watching this movie as a torture device if you can get past the terrible plot and dialogue by watching it on mute the even more terrible camera work and shoddy special effects make this movie a real horror if your thinking about watching this because your a sandra bullock fan don't even bother as she has less than ten minutes of screen time and her acting is absolutely atrocious not to mention the rest of the cast which could be replaced with baboons who would do a better job at least then we wouldn't have to listen to the terrible dialogue
0	don't worry when looking at the cover of the dvd sandra bullock only appears at most 5 minutes in total in this cult classic the entertainment value here is very high br br to name but a few of the many highlights that should be paid attention to br br the doubled evil voices of the chief bad guys the special gun cam the weird masks and outfits of the hit killers the showy ways to catch a bullet and hit the ground the abundance of bottom up shots the spacey scene in which bullock falls unconscious on the street the over cliché italian mob guy moe the cheap synthesizer background music the mesmerizing overdone gun fetishism br br and last but not least the super corny fist fight scenes wish there would have been more of those br br extra point for the successful attempt at making me laugh out loud
0	it seems like if you are going to post here it going to be a 10 star rating nobody ever seems to dislike anything well i am honest some don't like that but here we go rachel ray show is just plain awful this show reminds me of the snl character linda whatever if she had a cooking whatever show i must say i liked rachel on the food network on 35 40 a day but i am sorry she does not have enough life experience to make her interesting day in and day out give me ham on the street anthony interesting folks but most of all i find her annoying she actually told a member of the studio audience to shut up yes in a kidding way but shut up is shut up and who cares about her pet stories sorry rachel you been cancelled
0	oh boy oh boy on the cover of worn out vhs has a picture of sandra bullock and her name written on top i think only reason they had chance to sell the movie in nineties was because of sandra bullock's name bullock's fans don't have to disappoint sandra is only thing to watch in this movie and her performance is the only you can call acting rest of the movie… it's fun to watch in first fifteen minutes because it's bad but after that it's going worse much worse directing is awful acting is awful script is awful dialog is awful action is awful music is quite good actually typical score for eighties action movies this movie is so bad that it goes close to anything andy sidaris has ever produced it's so bad that there isn't proper word to describe this poor attempt to be a movie but still there was sandra bullock and super cool sarcasm jake who tried to be marlon brando br br i think they can now bring the film out on dvd it could be cool and they should write on the cover academy award winner sandra bullock in br br 1 out of 10
0	the prior comments are way to generous this movie is a waste of electricity and plastic on the other hand i have had a great deal of fun giving it to friends to watch and describing it beforehand as beyond belief no words can express how i feel about this this movie will move you as expected the friends took these nondescript comments as enthusiastic endorsements they were wrong the sadistic pleasure i had foisting this on people was well worth the 5 i paid for the movie on the other hand one former friend says i owe him 90 minutes of his life back i particularly enjoyed the gun's eye view of parts of the movie truly awesome in it's absurdity
0	found this film in a dvd discount rack for 10 it wasn't worth it some of the camera work and dialog look and sound as if it were done by a film student sandra's performance was somewhat credible but the film was predictable and the action was spotty and dragged br br one thing that i will give them however unlike most action films people in this film actually ran out of ammo and dead bodies for new weapons and ammunition
0	we also found this movie on the discount rack and made the mistake of purchasing it because sandra bullock was featured on the cover the cinematography was terrible and the back of the dvd box told more about the plot than the movie itself oh and i love the uzi cam not br br
0	the dvd release of this movie hopes you will buy this movie on the name and face of sandra bullock her picture from years after this film basically is the cover art and the back cover art and the inside cover art the same picture her name is prominently shown on the front cover all 4 edges and the disk itself she is the first name in the list of stars her biography is printed inside the case this film must revolve around her character right wrong it is her first movie and she plays a minor role after watching the movie every role seems like a minor role the character dog actually displays some personality less than an hour after watching it i don't even remember the names of many characters br br maybe if i watched it several more times i could actually figure out the plot but i don't think it would be worth the effort br br oh wait i just remembered a funny bit shoot em up video game fans will get a kick out of the doom cam looks just like a first person shooter game hands and gun pointing out in front of the camera br br i am generally not a person to be critical of movies but this may be the worst movie i have ever seen i kept expecting some silhouettes to walk across the screen sit down and start making fun of it br br i'm just glad that the money we spent on this used went to charity
0	this film stinks more than limburger cheese if you find this at a garage sale leave it there i love sandra bullock and yet hate this movie although ashamed i do own a copy and the studio has changed the cover to play on the fact that sandra bullock is in this at all they play it up to be a sandra bullock movie she only has a small part in the whole movie and she does her best with that but she is young and had not learned her talent yet well everyone has to start somewhere
0	i broke my own rule buying this movie from the 5 88 bin at walmart basically if a movie has a big star in it and you've never heard of it before it's usually for a reason well in the case of this movie the reason is because it sucked they plaster sandra bullock's photo and name all over the cover of the dvd as bait and it reeled this little right on in i was thinking of donating the disc to charity or giving it to the library but i don't think i would want to subject anyone else in the world to this movie worst lines what do you mean army buddies what do you mean your dad
0	my first warning should have been that this dvd was on sale for 5 00 but since it featured sandra bullock who i generally like i bought it my disappointment with the film began almost immediately the dialogues are slow and stiff the color is distorted i kept adjusting the volume to hear the conversations the acting is amateurish even the killing scenes are a failure twice dead people moved their legs when my cash deficient daughter offered me a dollar to turn off the movie i immediately and joyfully complied this is an amazingly bad movie tomorrow i am giving this dvd away at the company white elephant christmas party
0	i don't know how this dvd made its way into my collection my wife suggested it was one of these 3 for £20 deals at a high street store the thing isn't worth let alone £6 66 having invested heavily in it i felt duty bound to watch it to the end just to make sure it was equally bad all the way through and it was br br the dialog was awful the story line was impenetrable i still don't understand what the hell was going on despite having read the synopsis the camera work was disjointed and hopeless the acting was wooden not helped by the dialogue br br in fact there were no redeeming features no not even the lovely sandra bullock on whose glittering subsequent career this pile of dross has probably been sold she should get her agent to buy up all the rights to it and then bury it asap br br as a final amusing example of the director's ineptitude there was a scene where the young lead is conversing with his father's ex army sidekick while driving this was the clearest bit of dialogue in the film no engine noise whatsoever i look forward to the engine technology eventually making its way across the pond into british cars
0	i watched 5 of this movie tonight and you may tell me that i need to see the whole movie to understand it but frankly i don't think so br br what the hell is the story in this movie i saw a lot of people running around in a factory shooting at everything around them br br where to start okay br br 1 they were shooting around the place as if it was the terminator or something they were trying to kill the entire place is made of metal but not a single bullet sparked on the metallic surfaces br br 2 no ricochet metal vs metal is bound to cause but apparently no one got hit by a stray bullet br br 3 magic bullets in one scene a bad guy is standing right in front of a good guy when another good guy pops out behind the bad guy and pumps him full of metal you see the bullets exit his chest as it explodes in a bloody mist but the good guy right in front of him doesn't get hurt at all 4 after having just splattered a human being all over the wall the two good guys tell each other some jokes and they laugh and look like teenagers playing with soft guns br br 5 sound at one point the good guys cut a wire and an alarm goes off who the hell cuts a wire just to set off an alarm the lady screams out alarm in sector blah blah and the bad guy boss says okay this is not a drill blah blah in a very very amateur kinda way ooh we're getting ambushed by terrorists this isn't a drill but i'm gonna sound like i don't give crap br br 6 focus first you see the bad guys load up on weapons for some reason the same guy gets the same uzi twice deja vu or loop of scenes you literally see every single bad guy receive the same kind of weapon and they lock and load the same way the weapons dealer pops in the clip and the bad guy extra no xx locks and loads when they started opening fire you had to see the barrel flashes boooring 7 actors or dummies one of the presumed good guys throw down a smoke grenade for some reason and of course the bad guys are suddenly inside the smoke because they're smoke blind or something so they don't see it coming they cough and moan as if it was anthrax in the grenade then a semi boss bad guy arrives and he doesn't even cough when he enters the smoke he just pushes the other bad guys away and they suddenly realize that the smoke isn't anthrax anyway br br 8 b flick i think yeah a guy sliding down a metal pipe wielding a uzi in his right hand shooting away at someone in his eye height apparently i'd like to see a guy fire a uzi with one hand and i'd like to see him go get his hand afterwards extra bloody gore mess in a b flick kinda way small pops and a red hole with a torn shirt indicates that this guy is dead though the first bullet hit his heart the good guy who is a super trained green berets still feel the urge to empty his clip into the dead guy br br 9 one of these mentioned trained soldiers jump out from his hide with an empty clip how stupid can you be always check your clip before facing an unknown amount of enemies 10 boring scenes like the barrel flash scenes and the lock and load scenes the movie is filled with time wasting scenes of people running around in an apparently empty building cut to the action if you're going for a b flick movie please br br my two cents on this movie
0	here is a rundown of a typical rachael ray show br br 1 the awful theme song begins to play and rachael descends wearing her outfit in this bizarre cargo elevator 2 she begins running around screaming and or insulting the audience then yells at them sit down 3 an awkward monologue br br the next are in any order 4 a segment tooting own horn i e i lost 500 pounds with recipes rachael ray saved my life fashion tips 5 a totally useless d i y tip i e how to words into casserole dishes how to use your washing machine as a salad spinner how to build a tube of lipstick with a light on it 6 the unleashing of horrible recipe on the unsuspecting audience reaction shots of first bites are never shown 7 a celebrity guest with an awkward interview followed by some obviously scripted questions from the audience 8 a person who gets help from one of cronies i e the i say yes to everything woman the i own nothing but overalls lady and the i can't find time to put on makeup housewife what would they do without you rachael gasp br br reasons that this show should be avoided like the plague 1 fakeness rachael ray claims that entire show is unscripted many people who have attended of the show have claimed that the entire show is scripted many of these same people have also mentioned that there is even a very strict dress code for the show br br 2 her show jumps around too much where as oprah who is the highest rated talk show host of all time has a definite theme for her show jumps around like an adhd soda child on crack her show averages perhaps 10 short worthless segments a show on second you will be getting fashion tips from and the next rachael will be making gross stuffed spanish peppers with cheese and the next their will be a giant anaconda up on stage and the next well you get the picture br br 3 rachael is a poor host with bad ideas aside from her grating personality hosting ability is terrible at best her questions for her celebrity guests are poor and often times not even relevant to the interview and her segments are unappealing and offer little educational or humorous value br br in conclusion you need not waste your time with this schlock it will be canceled soon anyways
0	i saw this one remastered on dvd it had a big picture of sandra on it and said starring sandra and made it seem like she had a big part in it not so she's barely in it she does what she can with the script but that's not much br br the sound was awful by that i mean things didn't go together shots would be fired and the number of shots didn't correspond to the sound people talking in a car while it's moving and the shot is from outside the windshield but there's no motor noise road noise or any other sound kind of weird br br score was awful it sounded like the same few notes over and over dialog really awful br br acting was awful i couldn't believe any of it fight scenes were like a batman comic without the biff and bam they were really lame the shooting scenes i mean with firearms were laughable literally i fast forwarded through a lot of this movie even then it was too long
0	i checked this out for free at the library and i still feel ripped off yes sandra bullock is actually in it but only in five scenes totaling up to barely 5 minutes and even those are fairly painful to watch the rest of the movie is so bad that you'll spend most of the time hoping it will end soon but only if you're one of those people who have to finish a movie once they start it everyone else will just turn it off don't worry you aren't going to miss anything bullock's lines assuming that you were tricked into watching this because her name is plastered on the case are essentially just parroting of other characters lines like this dialog br br lisa bullock danny please tell me what is going on br br danny i don't know br br lisa mean you don't know br br danny i don't know it's something to do with my dad br br lisa mean your dad br br danny i don't know he ed up or something br br lisa why am i here br br danny i'm sorry lisa i don't know br br moments later danny some army buddies of my dad br br lisa mean army buddies br br see what i mean br br bottom line just say no
0	the dvd version we bought had sandra bullock on the cover but we've discovered it was a picture of her from another movie unfortunately she is in this movie very little you can however see how far she has come br br the one other bright spot in the movie besides her very small part were a few of the location scenes shot in nyc and new jersey in the 1980s br br the sound is terrible sometimes the background noise is so loud that the dialog is difficult to hear sometimes the dialog has been redone without any background noises at all which is disconcerting for example sometimes when they are in the car the noises from the car are too loud and then suddenly there is absolutely no extra noise at all the director is fond of close ups on faces and then it's clear that the movie has been over dubbed because the words don't match the lip movements through most of the movie the voices sound like the people are speaking into a tin can br br background music when there is music is distracting instead of adding to the movie br br the direction is laughable goofy camera angles and sound effects make the movie look like a joke especially during times when there is supposed to be tension like in the middle of gun battles the writing is terrible there are some subplots that make no sense and most of the characters come off looking very stupid because there is no explanation at all to their motivations the writer director tries to explain some of the relationships between the men that were together in vietnam but none of it makes sense these top assassins and former soldiers don't seem to be able to see other people's shadows or hear other people moving the actors go from calm to panic and back to calm again without any warning it's simply a combination of bad directing and bad writing br br the production values are so bad that at first we thought we had stumbled on someone's student film that just happened to have sandra bullock in it if you like laughing at really poorly done student films then this movie is for you otherwise avoid this movie
0	wait until you've watched most of all other films ever released wait a year then watch this when you're ready for something with such low production values it that will not challenge anybody's imagination br br i agree that whoever rated this movie as a ten star production has to be doing it to skew the data anything above 8 would be odd br br nice to see the very young sandy bullock in her hair for the short time she was featured though she overdid the new yorker accent but other times her southern virginia nc accent did sneak through ancient history for this accomplished actress who has grown so much since this film br br the dvd i rented had two bonus features a mini bio section that only featured sandra's bio taken verbatim from imdb it also had a trivia quiz as a bonus 3 questions hope you get them all right
0	i walked into blockbuster to watch some good old fashion action movies so i browsed around the action section until this movie caught my attention because the cover had in big bold letter sandra bullock an action movie with sandra bullock in it and it's rated r yay although i will admit i prefer her in a comedy but if this is anything like 'speed' then i was sold sadly sandra really is not in this movie her role is minor panicky kidnapped girlfriend she is in fifth place on the actors listing for shakes apparently this was her first movie role and after watching this movie i figured as much sandra is the only living human in this movie everyone else might as well be a zombie in a b horror flick this movie deceived me saying sandra was the lead i fell for it like biff from 'back to the future' when marty yells what's that god i wish i watched that instead of this br br sandra is the only bright side of this movie every time she is on camera it is like she is picking up shock paddles and yelling clear to get this movies going but it flat lines no matter how hard she tries more on sandra later br br the movie is dull very dull think of the dullest moment in your life then imagine living through that moment for 110 minutes for me it is this movie this movie even somehow makes gun fights and bullet time effects boring so boring that elephant tranquilizers are put to shame and this movie's idea of bullet time is a close up of an ak in slow motion which mocks you as the caps spitting out of it represent each second of your life as it slowly ticks away and i knew i was watching a bad movie because i found myself fast forwarding through the action the plot there was a plot music even by 80s muck standards is bad but at least it's the one thing that kept me awake acting sandra bullock was good and ummm moving on is it any good since it is rated r no unless r stands for ridicules snooze fest br br and it is really 80s cliché when a movie opens with an overhead view of a city rocking guitar licks or power ballet and ends with a gun fight in a grim factory complete with steel walkways and assorted pipes both of which this movie satisfies at least this movie establishes what era it's from which was unnecessary since sandra's hair was screaming 1980s and a movie gets really ham fisted when you watch an assassin stripper kill a nerd in the bathroom and stuff his body in a box which you respond to sadly saying that is probably the most action that poor sap ever got another hammy moment is at the beginning when some secret agent dude caps a crowd of people and apparently this movie thinks people jump into the air and fall to the ground when they die all that scene needed was the mario death ditty or maybe contra sound effects but nintendo might have sued br br and it is sad when the main action hero of this movie rips off other better movie icons before the big gun scene da hero is found standing in a boxing ring anyone sporting a leather fedora not jones' too with an ominous spotlights behind him terminator the 2nd before owning t 1000 what is really really sad is that people on youtube or can film better quality videos with a crappy webcam no less then this movie i'm serious most rant videos recorded with bad audio and blurry picture are more entertaining then this movie i cannot even call this movie by it's given name for it's very name bring back horrid memories of watching this cruel and unusual punishment a freaking violation against human rights the only bright speck in this dark abysmal abyss is sandra's career started taking off thanks to this movie but oh sandra why did you have to be in such a nightmare the paycheck better been worth it the dvd also graces you with a little back story on sandra as an extra seen how she is the only one from this movie who end up being a house hold name which explains why this movie uses her name as bait for unsuspecting movie buffs crafty little critter br br i don't have much experience with bad films but i know bad when i see it i could bounce back from 'mazes and monsters' with a good old campy bruce willis comedy but not even bruce could cheer me up after this movie i have yet to see any ed wood or uwe boll but i think i'm amped for them now for i can't even fathom a movie worse then gag
0	i give it a 2 i reserve a 1 rating for guy ritchie and woody allen films we don't even remember what this movie was about the only thing we recall is one gunshot scene where the actors drop to the ground roll to the other side of a hallway or something and then get back up shooting it was like watching 80 year olds with 2 broken legs trying to perform the also when the characters were driving in a truck the engine noise or radio can't recall would vanish entirely when the actors were talking br br and like others we bought it because of the sandra bullock front cover very sad very bad
0	i love sandra bullock she's one of my all time favorite actresses but this is a movie that she should have paid a long time ago to be trash canned i realize that it's almost 20 years old but my dead grandmother can act better than these people did beware it's not even worth the 5 50 walmart rack you know that when the acting stinks this bad that it's not even worth a couple of bucks the sound quality is horrendous there's no closed captioning to even hear the hideous dialog and it looks as if it were filmed on a 1 98 budget i thought that i'd like to see sandra in an early role to see how she evolved as an actress but yikes is too kind a word to use
0	this movie is soo bad that i've wasted way to much time already talking about it soo bad really bad and i'm not even that critical i'm almost ashamed to admit to having seen it sandra's few minutes show you how far she's really made it i mean really anything next to this is really oscar worthy for her i suppose the only way for her to look at it is there's no way but up after this one i suppose she had to start somewhere but really soo bad awful really bad is too good a word for this s t but i don't want to get mean now but really how can u not after wasting 90 minutes 90 minutes of my life that i'll never get back 90 minutes i could have spent doing something better like sitting on my butt and staring into space that would have been time better spent walks away shaking head
0	what can i say after i say the one line summary sandra does a credible job but what with the bad direction and story line it can't save it way too much pre occupation with guns how can the hollywood types rant about the need for gun control in our society and spend so much time and film footage focused on guns it's just worse than expected
0	this movie is 1 in the list of worst movies i have ever seen with lessons for an assassin on the 2 spot br br the acting is lousy sorry sandra bullock but even your performance was horrible the music score could have come from a bad x rated movie and the story was downright ridiculous it had this in common with a typical action movie the dialogues were short and consisted mainly of one syllable words but contrary to the average action movie there was no real action in this one boring br br the only reason i continued watching it was in the hopes that at one point there would be at least one interesting scene in this movie br br thumbs down on this one
0	although the figures are higher in proportion to other areas of society i don't object to the extremely high salaries for many of today's entertainers and athletes br br a rod or brady all have deals either well with 8 figures or the low 9 area ray romano and jerry seinfeld could actually become billionaires from their shows huge residuals and fees they currently demand even their cast members and all of the friends group reached near or over 7 figures per episode letterman's earnings for one show could solve most people's financial problems and a week or two's take care of many for life br br but all of these are based upon sound supply demand principals and the financial benefits they bring to their employers and all perform their crafts ably br br but then comes along someone like rachel ray who reaches a level of earnings far beyond any apparent level of talent or skill i find her shrill annoying and with a forced perkiness that's as phony as the proverbial 3 dollar bill br br a friend of mine is responsible for special meetings events and convention plans for her firm and its one of the major talent sources has hundreds of clients available from the 5 level to a handful who get and up per appearance this area includes trump seinfeld lance armstrong robin williams and no kidding larry the cable guy br br there are a greater number in the 100 001 200 000 range list included the likes of bill cosby steve martin and even cable guy larry's benefactor jeff foxworthy br br this category includes rachael ray i suppose i have to admit there may be sufficient demand for her talent and offerings to justify her talk show and there may be some out there who'll pay more than 100k first class air hotel suite all expenses and limos door to door for just a couple of hours of her whiny prattle at their organization's event br br i just can't figure how in the hell this could be possible
0	sandra bullock is my favorite actress but this movie was so horrible i couldn't help but chuckle throughout the movie in disbelief that i was actually watching something so crappy ha ha the audio editing is horrible they try too hard to come up with creative camera angles because they're just weird and stupid the script sucked acting was horrible storyline not very good very unrealistic even for a movie but it is a 20 year old movie so i'll give it a bonus point for that and yeah the music was terrible but we all got to start somewhere and submitting these things is such a hassle 10 line minimum bother well now i know why i couldn't find this movie in the movie store i had to purchase it offline to see it good thing it was only 58 cents even though shipping was 2 59 oh well i don't recommend anyone wasting their time and money seeing this film
0	notable only as the acting debut of future big time hollywood starlet sandra bullock this ludicrous action flick is so full of holes that one might easily suspect termite infestation the storyline is incomprehensible and very poorly thought out the production values stink of cheese in fact a total lack of production values would have been better at least the film might have seemed grittier that way the adr is laughably bad and omni present in the film it's debatable as to whether or not any of the dialogue tracks from the actual shoot were used br br the performances are for the most part horrible though there are a few exceptions in those exceptions however the performances are undermined by the fact that the director was obviously giving the actors poor direction and making them act completely out of character at times i e characters going from passive to panicked in the blink of an eye bad direction also the constant weapon sound effects magazines being loaded slides being cocked etc are completely overused and more often than not totally out of sync with the on screen actions add to this cheesy bad guy vocal distortion for the lead villain mainly so that you know he's the villain in this incomprehensible mess of a film and you have a recipe for disaster br br the situations in the film go well beyond standard suspension of disbelief and become downright laughable one lead character spends a good portion of the film tied to a chair before he decides to use the butterfly knife tucked in his sock in order to free himself so my questions are why didn't he do this sooner and why does he even have the butterfly knife he wasn't searched right this is one of a hundred examples of completely ludicrous situations which have somehow been crammed into this 90 minute package br br in whole the plays like an unbearably bad r rated tv movie from the '80s if not for the subsequent success of sandra bullock this would have never found its way to dvd but it has so my only advice is to steer clear watching this film may actually your iq
0	i had a bad feeling when i saw the cheap title work it only took a couple of scenes to confirm that this movie is a real stinker the only enjoyment i got out of this was to laugh at the technical flaws example the background car sounds audio just disappears during the scene with danny and dog in dog's car production shows a total lack of imagination example slow motion machine gun fire repeats many times sandra bullock plays essentially a bit part completely unnecessary to the plot to say that this movie actually has a plot is doing more justice to the writing than it deserves the antique computer hardware is kind of interesting this film was released in 1982 not 1987 as the imdb database indicates and then current high tech was an amber screen on a 4 8 ibm pc with floppy drives maybe the pc was the real star of the movie at least it was interesting br br we got this on dvd for a couple of bucks in the bargain bin at walmart as the other reviewer notes we paid too much
0	this movie is from the 80s but it looks like it was made in the stone age the effects are way too cheesy my copy has sandra bullock on the cover which was why i bought the movie she was in the movie for about 5 minutes of total screentime she would most likely deny all involvement br br in short there is no part of this movie worth seeing except to laugh at how bad it sucks rent this to see the worst film ever made bar none
0	but certainly a serious contender for one of the worst 10 of all time br br i got this dvd cheap with sandra bullock as headliner on the case this is false advertising she's on screen for almost 10 minutes of the movie br br on the other hand there was no other selling point for this movie the dialog was horrible the editing was apparently done by someone who was strung out on quaaludes the directing was well let's just say that my 14 yo daughter could do better but i hope she never sees such faint praise from me it's possible that the family cat could have done better br br sandra does a creditable job for a first film in the short time she's on screen and that's the only redeeming quality of this film stupid story poorly written and transferred to film as only a 7th grade media class should be able to do br br in short this is dreck
0	if you have ever shopped at wal mart then you probably know about the 5 dvd bin that sits by the electronics department well that is where i found this movie however i was tricked you see the cover of this particular dvd had a big picture of sandy bullock on it and even listed her name as a headliner i picked it up thinking wow i didn't know sandra bullock did this movie so i was pumped to go home and watch a cool sandra bullock movie much to my surprise ms bullock had a small role very small role she plays the girlfriend of the son of the cia agent talk about supporting actress she may have had no more than 2 lines in the movie besides being deceived of this being a bullock flick i looked past that and i continued to watch an action packed film negative at one point for special effects a gun was taped to the camera you gotta watch it to laugh at what horrible really is
0	i won't go into detail about why this movie deserves an awful rating plenty of other people have already done that suffice it to say that out of the over 400 movies that i've owned on dvd this is the only one that i got rid of it was so worthless that i couldn't see ever wanting to watch any of it again br br however i do have a comment on the ridiculously high average rating of 2 9 as of 3 15 06 while skimming through the 4 pages of reviews i saw no rating higher than 3 stars looking at the voting history 78 of users rated the movie as 4 stars or less it looks to me like a few people are stuffing the ballot box to keep this movie off of the imdb bottom 100 list it would be interesting to see how many of the 30 users who rated this movie as 10 stars none of who wrote a review of the movie are actual active users br br don't be fooled this movie isn't worth your time
0	i watch crap like this all the way through to see if there are any redeemable qualities whatsoever to justify including it in my clients' video libraries don't you watch this not even a minute of it unless someone has a gun to your head you will as i did moan groan at least 500 times and pray that one of the one dimensional characters all played by really bad actors would turn and shoot you dead br br even if you are the biggest sandra bullock fan in the world it is not worth even watching the two or three short scenes in which she appears br br i want to kick the asses of the sleazy marketing people who put sandra's huge picture on the face of this dvd box and have them thrown in jail for mugging me or something like that i really wish i had the chance to read a review of this film before i bought it br br please give me a call and i will pay you 10 to remove this movie immediately from my inventory before it stinks up the whole place just kidding please don't call
0	this forth film in the angel guts saga which at only a few minutes above an hour it just feels much longer is also the shortest which is perhaps just as well as it's also the most uninvolving of the series nami a department store clerk is interested in another part time job her fellow worker at the department store introduces her to modeling for a porn mag called 'red but when her other employers found out about her naughty pictures they decide to fire her and she gets some unwanted admirer oh yea and she likes to masturbate alot using various household items the wall to wall masks a lack of discernible plot and pushes this one far too much into exploitation territory not unsurprising though given that the director of this one is ikeda evil dead trap beautiful prey perhaps his sensibilities just weren't suited for an angel guts film br br my grade d br br dvd extras commentary by jasper sharp bio filmographies a 36 minute interview with ikeda original sleeve art and trailers for this and 4 other angel guts films high school co ed red classroom red vertigo red porno all available in box set but for some reason the 6th film angel guts red flash is not in the set
0	despite a small handful of nicely executed scenes this entry the fourth feels tired ikeda who directed the superb mermaid legend and the seminal japanese splatter film evil dead trap shows little enthusiasm for the stale premise br br a miscreant becomes obsessed with an outwardly conservative woman who reluctantly appeared in a porno photo shoot predictable stalking harassing assault and rape ensues br br the staple of roman porno is sex and sex mixed with violence both potentially exciting subjects to be sure but not when so little effort is made to make them fresh a masturbation scene in which a woman forces pencils up her opening via condom is too little kink to late br br the series' rain motif continues and the film's final scene brings relief
0	i love documentaries the andy goldsworthy doc was great i looked forward to this one but was very disappointed i knew of kahn and was intrigued by the idea of his lonely death in a penn station men's room there must be a story here i mistakenly believed the only story here is of sadly deluded women who had affairs with an ugly little famous married man in the absence of anything like an explanation for this guy's horrible behavior we're given endlessly repeated clips of kahn walking around and painfully long supposedly contemplative shots of his soulless buildings actually some of the buildings are interesting but the thrust of the film asks us to think about the guy himself the overwrought soundtrack references an emotional tug that is entirely absent from the film kahn's apparent gifts do not excuse his behavior or martyr his mistresses this film seems to want to give kahn the great free pass and thus make the director and his mother sympathetic figures i don't buy it
0	i am currently 22 years old and remember seeing this movie in the theatres when it first came out you heard me right i was 5 years old and yet i can still distinctly remember what i saw that afternoon so many years ago was it a mystical trip through the fantastic world of mark twain's creativity no on the other hand it was a quite creepy film about mark twain's dark depressed and in fact suicidal side one scene that still bothers me was a particularly strange scene in which mark twain is playing the organ at his own funeral br br would an adult enjoy this film well this movie quite possibly features some interesting viewpoints that a person with a working knowledge of mark twain's writing might enjoy but trust me on this adventures is not the film you want to use to introduce your young children to mark twain
0	i attended a screening of this movie it was wrought with clichés and very unfunny jokes and set ups i think the other comments were by people who must've worked on the movie or been family members of the cast i'm amazed this movie cost 3 4 million without any real stars where did the budget go it obviously didn't go to writers for re writes nice thought to bank on the success of big fat greek wedding but a major miss there was little or any spark between the main characters and the inciting incident was a bit flimsy at best the direction was uninspired and looked like a student film br br i don't even know what it means everybody wants to italian is that a real saying i've never heard it
0	far from combining the best bits of and 28 days this managed to ignore them whilst shamelessly copying them if that makes sense was different and got progressively this just stinks the radio dj we must stay on air spends effectively no time on air he sits on his bottom and watches the tv for news this is by far the worst excuse for a zombie movie ever is there a single person in the usa or indeed the world who doesn't know what a zombie is or ever heard of the word zombie well by the 50th minute this bunch of misfits are still calling the zombies the infected ones or the ones with the word zombie might make a guest appearance later i could care less maybe there's a copyright where you have to pay to use certain words like the bluetooth earphone is called the ear thingy i kid you not to finish no plot no acting no one cares a waste of time a shameless poorly executed rip off
0	stealing is a crime and these guys kenny and corbin bernsen look like their going to get away with it i haven't even seen this film but not only do i know it sucks but the fact that it steals the story of another film or 2 films for that matter is such bull crap and if imdb would allow profanity much more than just bull crap that i become filled with rage and feel as though i should just throw myself out the window and just end it all o k that's a little much but stealing is worse br br ever seen it was this awesome little zombie film made in 2008 this radio host goes into work and then this zombie attack happens we only see what's going on inside the radio station and the only guess we have on what's happening on the outside are the occasional calls from their eye in the sky ken easily the funniest moment in the film in my mind and the bbc calling in for an update on the situation from all the reviews i've read and from the conversation i had with my friend who has seen this film and this film was exactly like it in the story with minor tweaks here and there so throw originality and creativity out the window as for the zombies or the infected whatever you want to call them they are the exact same thing just because they got infected does not change the fact that they walk around mindlessly and have a never ending quench for flesh they are zombies zombies br br zombies okay one to many but back to this crappy movie the zombies from what i've heard are a lot like the ones in 28 days later another better movie with their insane rage and even more insane quench of flesh this is where zombie movies define themselves story does not matter in a zombie movie as long as your not taking the idea of another film sure a zombie movie can be enhanced by the story as is the case with but the zombies have to be in a way original 28 days later started the insane raging zombie i can't even begin to explain those guys without ruining the film the evil dead i think all i have to do is just type the name again because come on it's the evil dead romero is the master and he went through all different types of zombies from the painted face zombies in dawn of the dead to raging zombies in diary of the dead and he did each one with his own unique style br br so after talking about other great zombie movies i think it's about time i explain why i hate this movie without even seeing it this movie down right steals the original story outline to which i think is called plagiarism and is illegal in this country and many people get kicked out of school for doing this very thing yet in hollywood it's allowed and apparently approved of this is not the only film that takes the outline of another movie and just tries to tell it differently the 90's is like the worst period for movies ever sure it had some gems but what decade doesn't and it's because all the movies were the exact same my favorite the crime movie with a twist so big that you'll never guess it till the very end they force feed you one suspect make it seem impossible that it's not anybody else but him then bam all this time it was this guy you just had to look at the scenes where he wasn't there and then when he would mysteriously show up out of the blue say hey guys what did i miss oh didn't see that coming did ya well i'll leave a cliché as my closing statement this is one film you'll surely want to miss
0	corben bernsen directed horror film about a chemical weapon being released in a sporting event and turning everyone in to insane monsters we watch as the staff at a radio station takes reports br br its has moments but mostly it plays like a lifetime horror movie with breasts and blood there are some really good ideas here but they just don't work actually the film's ideas are better handled in a film called which pretty much works all the way through and builds tension by not showing us anything this shows us stuff and it just seems cheap given the choice i'd watch again rather than watch this film again
0	the idea behind dead silence is great zombie outbreak takes place during an edgy paranoia radio talk show there was so much going for this film unfortunately as soon as the zombies made their appearance all was lost br br the film is ridiculous and only those with a passion for cheesy b flick horror will enjoy it the zombies were soooo stupid they ran around flailing their arms they looked like a bunch of people putting on a haunted house for elementary students br br i know this is a brief review but i just don't see the need to invest much into this it's a dumb movie you've been warned
0	i watched this film mistakenly thinking that it was that other radio station zombie flick the shonky production values and low rent cast soon gave away that this was another one of the those cheap sci fi channel style knock offs br br the central performance from bill moseley is initially quite engaging as the dubious radio shock jock but as the film goes on becomes less and less convincing as he is actually required to act the rest of the cast have little to do other than look concerned and have no depth whatsoever br br the cinematography is dull flat and completely uninspired like so many of these kind of films it doesn't even manage a decent bit of convincing gore the zombie make up is literally pathetic apart from one notable exception towards the end of the film br br the film tries to inject originality and a message into it's concoction of half baked and ripped off ideas by somehow equating this outbreak with intolerance towards islam and the war on terror this is woefully handled with all the intellectual clout of a 6 year old as the characters and seemingly the writers are unable to distinguish the difference between race and religion describing all people of a certain skin colour as muslims most notably one character is revealed to be muslim by skin colour alone at the same time the muslim terrorists who cause the outbreak are the usual psychopathic stereotype br br presumably the far far superior had a similar budget as dead air yet shines everywhere where this film fails miserably
0	hard to believe but it is i shouldn't be surprised commercials try to show how unique and funny a show can be yet not only didn't the commercials announcing this new show have the slightest iota of humor to me i've not spoken with anyone who found the commercials amusing either br br i don't recall ever seeing a pilot so devoid of cleverness cuteness or humor the characters were insufferable for the most part especially selma blair's which is astonishing she would agree to be in a fecal sample of a show like this the few moments where the characters were slightly redeemable were considerably hackneyed and trite br br rare is the show with no redeemable qualities at all and this is not one of them and kim has exactly one redeeming quality and that's selma blair despite wearing repugnant outfits and acting like a pitiful whiny stupid excuse for a young woman who seems like a cross between britney spears paris hilton and kim kardashian selma is still nice to look at br br but if you want to look at selma go rent hellboy you'll at least maintain a modicum of respect for her instead of searing this abominable character into your brain to associate with her br br all in all and kim is a waste and truly epitomizes the worst that tv is or ever has been it sets a new low
0	need i say more the reason the good australian version of and kim was as mentioned good was because of it's hilariously funny originality the reason this new american version is so terrible is because a lot of it is taken straight from the original not to mention the unfaithfulness to the characters is meant to be a kim is meant to be fat kel or phil as they have dubbed him is meant to be pathetic brett or craig is meant to be a loser not a person who acts like he's on heroin and finishes every sentence with thank god szubanski didn't sell her rights to sharon she'd probably end up being a tall thin blonde who kim likes br br and kim are mother and daughter they are not meant to look 2 years apart and they are not meant to giggle like school girls this show is a disgrace to even share the same title as the australian version america get your own television shows
0	i've tried watching it twice though i haven't been able to make through either episode for me it's basically just not funny i can tell where i'm suppose to laugh but i can't i've never seen the original so i'm not comparing i also love comedies including off the wall comedies like married with children and family guy but this show just doesn't' do it for me the jokes are lame and flat and the acting is mostly annoying the commercials made it look interesting but it isn't they're trying too hard to be different and tying to force the humor that style usually doesn't work too well i don't think this show finishes the season of course i could be wrong
0	some ugly weirdo who had three families cheated on and neglected all of them built ugly useless buildings all over which are now unappreciated and crumbling his bastard half jew son runs around interviewing random jewish senile people who we care nothing about and shows his dreadful narrating and writing skills while tragic piano music plays this goes on for almost two boring hours and amounts to nothing br br all you shallow hippie people who watch these stupid documentaries eating and yogurt think all this crap is so important it's not save the whales no one cares
0	the original australian kim is brilliant why do american producers need to remake ruin yet another classic show remember the original version of the office with ricky gervais it was an absolute masterpiece and there was no need to remake it the producers said that the british humour from the office and the australian humour from kim would not translate to an american audience what so basically they are saying that americans are too dumb and stupid to understand the jokes so they need to remake the shows with over the top childish gags so that the americans can understand the humour the original australian version of kim is fantastic and very funny avoid the american version like the plague
0	it isn't too bad but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has br br the jokes are few and far between the actors are attractive they shouldn't be the film makers think far too much about the cinematography it's supposed to look like a home video and it's just like a serious version of and kim it's stupid br br it's too normal to be and kim and kim are supposed to be two curvy middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes there are no look at me kimmy jokes the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she's not even slightly stupid she's a stereotypical black latino chick br br it's just not as stupid or funny as the australian series it doesn't compare nothing is the same i admit this show is pretty funny at times but it is not anything like the aussie series i was looking forward to an american take on a family they failed it's supposed to be really stupid and hilarious but the actors don't act stupid to me this is just a typical american tv show it's a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show br br 2 stars because it is an okay show just nothing like what it should be
0	the best thing i can say about the american version is that jane turner and gina reilly must be raking in the money for this crap yes the american rip off was shown for about two episodes in australia but didn't rate probably by curious viewers who were wondering how bad it would be answer deplorable a complete waste of time the actors are relatively unknown and they don't take readily to the nuances of the australian written script bad luck for them as they are doomed to plummet with this turkey my advice to usa viewers is don't br br americans should be best advised to find dvd's of the original version on ebay but be aware that some dvds are in a different to those issued in the usa otherwise some dvd players will operate discs from both all zones
0	i watched the first episode and i found it to be a very wooden performance br br i have watched the original from it's early days on big girls blouse to the last series on channel seven and kim was a great mocumentary and it's humor is something that most people get br br however in this american version i found it to be dull molly shannon is to fashionable to be day wardrobe is supposed to be stuck in the 80s with her frizzy perm while selma blair's figure hugging clothes isn't as good as what the original kimmy wore i also found that selma seemed to be puffing her belly out a lot she is obviously a australian size 12 where kim should be australian a size 16 18 br br the exchanges from molly and selma is obviously so scripted and there is pauses where there shouldn't be pauses or the pauses are a bit long as someone suggested there could be a laughter track in there during those pauses it's like molly and shannon are not used to each other there is no mother daughter chemistry br br phil was okay he had the eccentric air around him like kel however craig was to handsome and not the sweet plain humble brett from the aussie version br br i found watching this was like watching a very bad stage play the acting was pretty much wooden and the exaggeration of expressions wore the funny off after ten minutes especially her sulking scenes br br to sum up i find this show to be a waste of time the script obviously has been dumbed down for americans which most on the board say they prefer the original if nbc wanted to show and kim why not pay the producers the money to screen the original br br all i can add is magda you are one smart cookie for not letting the producers use your character of sharon
0	me being from australia and loving the series i wasn't expecting much from the american version of and kim but i thought i'd watch the first episode to see if it was really that bad br br well whats there to say its nothing special selma blair is ok as kim and actually had a few good lines molly shannon is not a good though the good thing about jane turner's is that when she speaks with all her funny accents such as when she says or it sounds like its just the natural way that she speaks but when shannon has a go at the accent its clear that she is acting and trying to be the same as turner and the show really misses sharon or some one else to give us something to laugh about because the kal and craig characters in this version are really not funny br br so far only the first episode has aired and it is clearly not up to the standards of the aussie version although if it was a stand alone television show with a different name not being compared to the aussie version it would perhaps be viewed as being a little bit better but if there is nothing else to do on a sunday night or thursday night in america then you cant do much harm in watching it or better put on some of the aussie version if you've got it
0	there is something about this show that keeps me watching and hoping for the future of it in the writing the jokes are few and far between and the story lines are a bore so i figure it must be the physical comedy and the visuals br br i do enjoy the camera movement set dressing and wardrobe it's amusingly highly contrasted against the dullness that reigns and i'm pretty sure every time i have laughed it was because of john or molly's physical comedy the two of them make a sickeningly cute couple that make me laugh and want to puke at the same time br br so here i go ready to sit down to kim one more time tonight to see what path this production will go down or up as the case may be looking forward positively
0	i'm a fan of this generally excellent though sometimes rather dull show but season 3 has taken some terrible plot directions the episode hero is an example of what i mean br br the story as it eventually unravels is that the cylons deliberately allow bulldog a pilot captured several years earlier during a black ops mission to escape steal a cylon ship and get back to galactica the plan is that when bulldog gets back he will figure out that adama left him to his fate and be so enraged that he will kill adama which he very nearly does br br now the problem is this the cylons set it up so that bulldog thinks he has escaped by himself this means that bulldog gets off the cylon ship with no assistance so he kills a cylon and walks out of his holding cell that much we see then we must suppose that he walks to the flight hangar manages to get into a cylon fighter ship and learn how to operate it takes off and flies back to galactica just like that br br now starbuck managed to get one of them working in season one which was barely believable in itself but she only had to fly it visually out of orbit before making contact with galactica bulldog has to programme his ship so that it makes several jumps through hyperspace and manages to catch up with galactica somewhere thousands of light years away in an unknown direction how does he manage to programme a ship that contains completely alien technology cylons connect to their computers by touch there are no visual consoles or keyboards and having managed that miraculous feat how does he then know where galactica is bearing in mind that galactica took off some 3 years before and is trying ever since to evade the cylons it does not leave behind even allowing for the suspension of disbelief that must apply to any sci fi show this episode still absolutely no sense whatsoever
0	some people say this show was good in it's early years i disagree with all of 'em the show is just plain stupid and pathetic my mum hates it i hate it my dad hates it i don't know about my sister but oh well here some reasons why br br 1 the characters babies being used as grown up style characters are stupid the babies are just precocious and annoying the grown ups and adults are dumb and unappealing the worst character is that angelica pickles she really does it in for your ear drums when you had a long hard and miserable day at the office and also that kimi finster who appears later on she is too over optimistic and a pain in the butt she can't decided whither she is french or japanese it doesn't matter know you are a american citizen know and that's that oh what am i talking about all the characters from this show suck br br 2 the stories the stories are unoriginal and dumb the make it like the babies go off on a great adventure yeah to the back yard shed in one episode that little goofy brat tommy pickles the leader broke in to a television's control room and literally almost destroyed it don't give kids any idea to smash up normal t v station's control rooms they pay a awful lot of money for them in real life i can imagine what the broadcasters must of felt like airing this episode they will probably start staring at their machines throughout the day scared that a baby will brake in sad br br 3 over rated the show has been dragging on for years now and people are still making up stories and new series and spin offs for this get off the simpsons have been going for nearly the same amount of time as this but they are much better and funnier than babies the show is just plain over rated people where is your common sense br br anyway i surprised t v stations across the world want to air this series even off today the show is utter junk and should have never been produced the two movies for this cartoons sucked just the same 2 10
0	cruddy innocent no smoking drinking or bikers but jeremy slate good actor and jocelyn lane good actress make this feasible for a bad biker flick post biker exploit time they knew it we knew it adam roarke and slate are wasted but they lived on br br a 3 out of 10 best performance jocelyn lane lane is the only really to catch the final exploit biker film after run angel run which also has good actors like don stroud etc it was over they knew it they were trying to make a living but jocelyn lane from two elvis bad flicks tickle me and something bad one in yellow and leather is the modern hot chick with j slate fighting for honor it's worth seeing but it sucks but check it out well worth non biker non smoker non boozing biker types with hot chicks
0	i've read the positive comments on this movie i assume people who were in this movie must've come to this site to give it some good press because this was one of the worst movies i have ever seen i always watch the whole film despite the quality or lack there of which explains why i watched this whole movie but i don't think i laughed even once during the duration of this film the jokes were mostly very bad but when the jokes had some promise the delivery was off if you liked it maybe you should lay off the buds because you need to preserve the 5 or 6 brain cells you have left this movie had a poor script bad acting poor directing weak plot nothing of virtue and was not entertaining if you haven't seen this movie don't
0	a frustrating documentary louis kahn's son who saw his father only minimally during his childhood because he was a member of just one of the three separate families his father had created takes on the task of trying to learn more about his father through an exploration of his architecture and his life it sounds like a great idea for a documentary but it ends up flat and uninteresting br br sadly the basic problem is that kahn's son nathaniel is not just one of the film's protagonists he is also director writer producer interviewer and narrator nathaniel seems both too inexperienced and possibly too close to the material to function well in any of these roles further while he seems like a nice enough guy he doesn't have much screen presence so the fact that he is the only constant in the film becomes wearing br br nathaniel also comes across as an unprepared and amateurish interviewer there are several points where an interviewee makes an interesting or provocative statement and the camera cuts to a shot of nathaniel offering little more than a blank stare and a sort of timid uh huh as if he's a little panicked that he's going to have to come up with something to say in response at times i felt embarrassed watching people who might have had truly interesting things to say about kahn or at least better things to do with their time seeming to realize that they were in the hands of an interviewer who was going to rely on them to direct the conversation br br dual role as both documentarian and lost son seem to do more to hurt the film than help one senses that some of the interviewees are a little reluctant to really open up about negative aspects of kahn's personality and career presumably because it's not clear from nathaniel whether he's looking to dig into the truth or simply wants to hear nice stories about his dad preferably ones that will confirm his hope that his dad really did care more for nathaniel and his mother than seems likely his passive approach as an interviewer may stem directly from this conflict the only person nathaniel does push is his own mother but those conversations tend to feel a little like bad teen drama aren't you angry mom and don't offer much in terms of helping us or nathaniel understand kahn or the loyalty he evoked from those around him br br what the film desperately lacks is shaping by an experienced and independent hand not to exclude nathaniel but to balance his subjectivity and inexperience an independent director could have stood away from the material given more thought to what the interviewees could contribute and one hopes cut out those portions of the documentary process that just don't work such as the weird segment with the guy who claims to have see kahn die which made it look as if nathaniel was just being taken in by some loony or the entire bit about hooking up with kahn's first cousin who had nothing to add about kahn or nathaniel too many times nathaniel makes us watch him standing in or near a kahn building strangers to tell them that his father was the designer huh nice sir gotta go now i understand why these things might be important to nathaniel and that showing the documentary process is sometimes interesting but this is one of those examples of when a documentary can be too personal br br as an aside i thought the score written for the film was great but one of the oddest moments in the entire thing for me was when during the tour of the kimball art museum the voice over quotes kahn as making a comparison between architecture and beethoven's fifth symphony the music being played at the same time beethoven's ninth symphony a mistake a miscue who knows it did make me laugh br br kahn was a great architect and it's clear that he was an unusual human being and had an intriguing life story there's definitely a good documentary to be made about him one is sympathetic to search for the father he didn't know but i'm not sure whether that is an interesting story neither works so well in this film
0	yes i admire the independent spirit of it all but it's like road trip with a bad cast and no budget br br i chuckle when i watch american comedies i don't laugh this movie made me laugh but only because of the abundantly obvious attempts to simulate high budget american high school pot flicks br br if you want good independent american comedy with pot references go watch kevin smith or richard linklater flicks or something don't waste your time on this piece of movie br br i mean how can you take these comments seriously when most people are complaining about the characters not smoking pot br br and by the way in norway it's called dude where's my pot
0	i mean nothing happens 5 dumb kids go to oklahoma to find a magical forest of marijuana this could've been fun if it hadn't been for the 5 worst actors in the world and the dialogs weren't even half an inch of fun the only thing that i almost showed my teeth of was when the dumb cops stopped the teenagers in either oklahoma or kansas the plot could have been fun had it not been for abysmal interpretation if you even think about watching this piece of crap movie don't how dumb is it that the guy gets away from the cops by telling them he's gay like his friend did just that he wasn't pretending and there's that dumb hick joke about the several meanings to the word gay i'm laughing my hair off not anyway worst movie i've ever seen
0	this movie was extremely disappointing i thought it would be another comedy' but don't be mislead it's not at all there are barely any weed related jokes that come to mind i don't even think they smoke any weed in this movie the marijuana field is merely a plot device br br my impression after seeing this film was that four friends were bored one summer and decided to write up a script full of their idea of witty dialog and make a movie the product is bland dialog supported by mediocre acting to say this movie has no is a huge understatement don't waste your time or money
0	or better yet watch fandango if you want to see a really intelligent and funny male college age road flick rolling kansas sounded promising in fact the program guide gave it 2 5 out of 4 stars which usually means it's fairly watchable but i pretty much fast forwarded through it usually road trip movies have great music but i can't even recall whether there was music the only high point was a small role with rip torn as a wise old hitchhiker guru otherwise the jokes and timing missed all along the way the four main characters are unknown actors and i don't remember seeing any of them in another movie oh yeah i see that hayden church was in it but he's in everything good bad or indifferent this movie is about as funny as watching someone else stoned when you're not
0	every time i see a film like this i get sick to my stomach when i watch a movie i like to see what i see in everyday life as i go through my day i see blacks whites asians latinos etc how do you cast a film and don't even think of the possibility that other ethnic groups will walk past you i'm sure they didn't do it on purpose but pay attention i don't care if it takes place in kansas or south central all i saw was one token black this was typical in the 80's hey it's 2007 with all the rappers singers and athletes working as actors thomas haden church could have paid more attention to his cast aren't actors supposed to be more liberal
0	this movie is retarded a cheap movie that tries to be a stoner movie because the characters are looking for pot but none of them are smokers just a bunch of garbage thomas hayden church should not direct anymore especially this movie which is a waste of film people who liked this movie gave good comments but from all the people on here some are just retarded and don't watch movies so they think that any bad movie is good the actors suck and the movie sucks balls br br i think that many people are going to be upset because this movie tries to make itself look like the ultimate weed movie when it is just the worst movie about weed that i have ever seen i hope that people will stop the director from directing crap like this even weed cannot make this movie funny or entertaining
0	this film has some flaws and most of those flaws are a lack of anything happening possibly the greatest film to show the within fly over country rolling kansas is a film in which nothing happens and you don't care about anybody like life it starts it moves and then it ends a few attempts at humor are made but everything falls very flat the occasional cameo just reminds the viewer that they could be wasting their life doing something besides watching this movie and the one rock song they bought and used at every single instance br br do yourself a favor and go see a good movie this is free and repeatedly frequently on comedy central because nobody went to see it nobody wants to see it and it's marginally better than dead air not to damn with faint praise but the movie's one rock song is worth listening to too bad the movie isn't worth watching
0	this one and the one prior toulon's revenge and the next one seem to be completely different from the first two movies where the puppets were not so nice it is basically choose your series the first two go together and paint the puppets as killers while the next three are a series of them being the good guys this one plays out to much like some cheesy television series episode to be as good as part three was and i never really had the urge to try and watch part five of the series basically a kid gets the puppets while some strange dark lord or something sends his evil puppets out to kill this dark lord looks like some sort of enemy from one of those live action japanese shows like the movie is over before you know it though so it has to get credit for not inflicting you with a very painful to watch movie just to many plot holes and things in it for it to be considered an okay movie you do get to see the guy who played toulon in the last movie though then you have a very anti climatic battle and wham the movie is over before it really begins
0	so i decided to watch the entire puppet master series and had just watched parts 1 3 which i thought were all excellent they had a unique charm to them and a certain intelligence that i really appreciated about a year ago i even saw puppet master vs demonic toys which of course was bad but still a terrific guilty pleasure and fun to watch br br from the very beginning of this film i knew it was in trouble the cheesy power rangers style egyptian skull villain who watches the puppets style' through his pyramid glass came straight out of left field all of the additions to this franchise in this story were completely absurd suddenly we have a grand assortment of all kinds of new and random characters and plots that are a far cry from the first three films i seriously doubt that when the first puppet master was being penned the writers had visions of someday seeing an egyptian power rangers villain totem monsters annoying twenty somethings who seriously can't act and are supposed to be brilliant scientists but never say anything intelligent and a lame puppet who's head can morph into the ghost of toulon br br another thing that greatly disappointed me in this film was that it completely ignores what happened in the last entry part ii since iii was a prequel suddenly the puppets are back at bodega bay inn back in their case minus blade and toulon for some reason is willing to help his puppets again he betrays them in part ii for his love of elsa this isn't explained at all and so with that and all of this other junk thrown in i was no longer amused br br i'm a huge fan of ridiculous b movies a connoisseur if you will i even collect laser discs of rare b movies you can't find on dvd and so it takes a lot for me to say that this was one of the most absurd movies i have ever seen in my life i still love those puppets the original ones blade pinhead jester and the rest and if they had only stuck with what they had rather than trying to fix something that wasn't broken well the series might still be alive and in good health that being said even though the reviews aren't so great i'm really interested in checking out puppet master retro sounds like an interesting one that pays great tribute to the original themes
0	a severe backwards step for the puppets in this mainly dull and tedious outing guy rolfe so fantastic as andre toulon in part three barely features this time and richard band's fantastical them tune appears with the puppets a fair few minutes in to the film for the start of the movie we are introduced to the caretaker of bodega bay inn gordon currie and some youth friends of his many of the cast are canadian and are all very good in unfortunately rather undemanding roles teresa hill is quite yummy totems minions of the egyptian god want the secret of animation life back and the puppets when they surface act with a previously unseen cleverness to attempt to destroy the ugly and very computer game looking totems the totems merely complicate the series and distract from the things that previously made the series so unique they don't share the weird beauty of the puppets and thus don't really fit in top scene is pinhead using a rag to clean blood from drill bit classic and about the goriest this film goes the fifth film was filmed concurrently with this one so expect similar sections of mediocre and a toulon performance that seems to have been filmed in a different era or even galaxy guy rolfe deserved better and series fans certainly do
0	try as i might i just simply couldn't get into this one perhaps it was the washed out tones perhaps it was the drawn out approach i'm not really sure but though this was by no means a bad movie i didn't really find it to be very much of an effective movie words that i understand are so much more arbitrary than their common uses br br so basically the deal here is that a series of adolescent boys' deaths sets off an investigation and anxiety in a small provincial town triggering a witch hunt what do the boys' death have to do with the mysterious sexy woman who has appeared in town is the crazy hermit woman involved is it voodoo the story is a mixture of crime drama and horror as the various townspeople are all suspect and corpses keep appearing while bloody violence ensues br br good enough but to me most of it fell a little flat oh it had it's moments the one boy walking in on a beautiful naked seductress was pretty good and the scene where the fathers beat the hermit was a bitter commentary even if the effects themselves failed considering her skin seemed to peel off as if they were whipping her with red hot irons br br my biggest issue was the ending i've already put spoiler tags on this review but be warned here's the big spoiler i don't believe it i don't believe that a priest could convince himself to kill young boys for becoming sexually aware without some hint of that psychosis appearing earlier with other boys with a history or some other personal affect the movie didn't really earn its ending end spoilers br br nonetheless fulci is a big name and i'm more than certain there's an audience out there for this i definitely need to check out more that he's done because this may have been a poor introduction most italian giallo is hit or miss anyway so i'm waiting to see what else this guy can do before writing him off br br polarisdib
0	i'm a big fan of the demonic puppets looking at the surface of this one it looks pretty good you've got the puppets and a new villain in the totem unfortunately the little punk that's doing this project to animate inanimate objects can't act he stinks his girlfriend is worse if they were left out it would probably be cool blade vs the totem i'd watch that for 2 hours but instead the puppets role is down played and the whole movie suffered because of it the mystical skull guy who created the totem is corny at best and appearance is long awaited short and really quite disappointing you'd be better off watching the first one again
0	slight spoilers this installment of the full moon franchise changes the storyline a bit and implements some new elements first off a new puppet master is established secondly the puppets turn good in this sequel finally it introduces some scifi fantasy elements as well br br a new tenant of the infamous hotel by the bay his girlfriend her psychic friend and that psychics boyfriend stumble upon andre toulon's puppet trunk they also learn about some demon from another dimension that holds toulon responsible for stealing the secret to animating the so the demon sends the totems a bunch of craven little creatures that look like ear less gremlins then it's up to the puppet troupe to take care of the inter dimensional threat that's trying to kill there new friends br br like most low budget movies this film is rife with continuity problems how did the puppets get put back in the trunk how come nobody remembers the last rasche of in the hotel who bought the hotel why would a contractor by a building with a history of mass murders all this and many more questions will not be answered ever br br the real suprise of this movie is the acting it's actually pretty good the actors take it with a enthusiasm unusual especially for a bunch of full moon teresa hill was especially impressive as the shy nervous psychic lauren chandra west susie was also a pleasant suprise also gordon hill was a tolerable protagonist but cameron was far too annoying to stomach thank the norse god he dies before halfway through br br the puppets are there usual animated selves with some improvements as well there emotions especially jester's are much more human due to the sounds that have been given to them blade's hisses grunts and six snicker have all been improved and sound much better the stop motion animation is only average at best especially the totems they just don't seem to move as fluidly as the previous installment in the series also the costume is absolutely how are we supposed to afraid of a creature so humorous looking br br the story seems a bit for the series i think charlie band was looking to focus in on a younger demographic the violence being toned down in this movie also seems to speak the same gore fans will be disappointed br br i think the above is the main problem this movie can't really stick with many people it doesn't have the violence for the language is a little cleaner yet it's too violent and harsh for the wee ones which is why the movie gets low ratings i have to say that the common reviews are mostly fair
0	i absolutely love the first three movies they were great i once caught part 5 on vhs 10 years ago and i was disappointed but perhaps that was because i never saw the fourth one because they were shot back to back but after finally viewing a copy today i have to say it was no way better than number 5 my expectations weren't high to begin with but this is cheap direct to video stuff not even a horror movie it's pg 13 the acting was not convincing the story was rather dumb without any excitement and there were not many effects but the main problem is that there were no kills or any gore the annoying kid who gets killed in his car was supposed to be the highlight but come on br br surprisingly both parts 4 and 5 were directed by sequel director jeff burr who gave us the excellent stepfather ii and leatherface texas chainsaw massacre iii i liked puppet master the legacy even if it was nothing else than a tribute with the best scenes from all movies br br overall puppet master is very much like the hellraiser series a great trilogy but forget the rest
0	being a gay man who lived through the time period examined in this tedious documentary i was eager to see how the subject matter was handled unfortunately the film makers wasted what could have been an energetic and insightful opportunity to shed some light on our collective gay history this film only concerns itself with the period within new york city ignoring the rest of the country while i spent a fair amount of time in nyc at that time i can assure you that there was a gay life outside manhattan the men interviewed here are the same a list queens who thought they were better than anyone else during the 70s and here they are again waxing nostalgic and still throwing attitude the film should have at least tried to cover larger topics such as race the burgeoning gay caste system based on wealth body image and the rise of the clones discrimination of sub groups within the community and the ability to grow a decent mustache which was very important in the 70s alas we have none of this presented and the recollections of those interviewed are no different than my own memories if you were there in that decade you'll enjoy the archival photos and grainy home movies of the bars and discos we haunted if you weren't there this film will undoubtedly seem dull it should have been so much more but sadly it's not two stars for jogging my memory i still miss going to the anvil
0	this movie should be retitled sex in the 70s in a part of new york city called greenwich village and chelsea br br this movie does little to talk about sex in the 70s except focus on the environments of public and private sex spaces in new york city i doubt that the manhole bar was symbolic of actual sex in the 70s and that kind of sex is much more prevalent in the film br br don't get me wrong the time period looks like a blast and it's rather important to document the scene to which the film refers but as far as calling this film sex in the 70s the title is a bit misleading technically it's no oscar nominee but the rawness of it feels appropriate for the subject br br overall an eh
0	i just saw this at the castro theatre in san francisco and had trouble staying awake during this incredibly repetitive unenlightening little film it is a 75 minutes film that felt like 175 minutes and has about 20 minutes of modestly engaging material it's not bad in any offensive way it just repeats things that have been said many many times over and more interestingly and provocatively with only a couple of exceptions the interviews drone on and on and on making little emotional contact or context to the whole topic it's more like a how to guide for something that can't be done anymore i was alive during the era but felt little connection or nostalgia for what was presented
0	formulaic to the max neither title reflects the serial's actual content fighting nazis in morocco actually the ranch the plot is just to fill in the lulls between fistfights the packaging claims over 40 in 15 chapters that's at least three a chapter aside from seeing duncan renaldo cast as a spanish accented frenchman watching how much furniture is overturned smashed thrown burned or blown up is what this serial is really all about when the protagonists start fighting you can bet that everything in the room will be in it too so kudos to the fight choreographer who is the real star of this serial br br two positive notes the characters do sometimes lose their hats during the fights and best of all we have the girl side kick often a journalist as she is here actually participating in the mayhem mostly by shooting and killing the bad guys yet to come is linda stirling killing the main villain in manhunt of mystery island 1945 on the negative side there are just too many jump out of the way escapes before the slab falls before the car goes over the cliff before the speedboat explodes before the building explodes before the truck hits you etc etc br br it is claimed that this serial partially george lucas to make the first indiana jones film but that is more by implied concept than because of the actual story or the serial's development br br rod cameron as a moving rock a role he played in all his films other than watching all the furniture getting smashed there's nothing really going on here compared to other serials that have fewer fights more story better actors and more developed characters br br i give it a 3 for all the furniture smashing
0	i have to differ from the other comments posted amid sporadic funny moments there are a lot of actors trying too hard to be funny the strain shows i watched this with two friends on another friend's recommendation none of us were thrilled
0	is the cannes controversy meter remarkably esoteric or is that we americans are so callous and cynical that we never bother to read between the lines anymore be that as it may with plenty of careful analyzing at no point seems to live up to the hyped controversy it supposedly brought to cannes in 2005 a puzzlingly drab and aimless movie that rather lives up to it's glum american re title low profile br br building on familiar themes of bourgeoise angst and subsequent sexual liberation kind of admittedly it's a film not without it's surface level interests it starts out with a grabber as a haunting shot of a desolate off the highway road focuses in on a teenage drifter who ultimately walks by a car where supposedly a brutal hit and run has left the driver dead in a gory mess stunned he does nothing but pick up a scrap of the remaining engine br br just out of school the drifter turns out to be armin a product of the german suburbs with minimal ambition pressured by his caring but somewhat nagging parents to find a good job he endures interview after interview with every haughty interviewer along with it every one with the same fruitless outcome getting mighty sick of it his aforementioned highway encounter soon provokes his first act of rebellion claiming responsibility for the crime which he did not commit br br pretending to fill out more applications and going to more and more bizarre job interviews by sunrise he partakes in roadside sexual fantasies and petty vandalism way after sundown as the days get shorter and the nights get much hotter as he goes on living in his suburban neighborhood as if he's doing nothing out of the ordinary br br if you seem confused about what exactly is going on don't worry about being the only one this is about as far and coherent as the story gets the plot seems simple enough and perhaps due to it's seemingly direct purposes that's why becomes pointlessly convoluted becoming enamored with endless false conclusions dreamlike situations and graphic sex scenes to try and enlighten a story lacking clear logic to an already vague argument supposedly the soul numbing effects of the modern suburban wasteland or something about youth's fascination with crime hey it could even be a coming out movie at hand it spends a lot of time creating numerous symbols both tangible and allegorical but they don't seem to be really symbolizing anything of interest br br the most fatal flaw however is how the filmmakers paint all it's characters in a rough shade of vanilla there's hardly any distinguishable traits to help understand their purpose and how the secondary characters especially the confused relationship between armin and his rather normal perhaps too normal family the already under developed lead character's plight never comes into focus how are we supposed to identify with this young almost rebellion with little sense of the world he's living in or the prominent figures around him that help comprise it br br many people drop in and out of the movie including sort of girlfriend katja and a strange affluent visitor who for some reason finds pleasure in watching the protagonist eat and seem to exist for no reason whatsoever they ultimately just seem like prolonged padding to an already thin story with pointless subplots that continue to prove the movie is drawing a total blank about where to go next br br and even a movie that supposedly toys with reality especially with nightly exploits it ends with a literal almost moralizing head scratcher that seems to halt questions to a story that does little but put it's viewer in a state of pointlessly exhausted br br without any color it's impossible to shade anything vital in
0	a by the numbers exorcism exercise with a disappointing non allegiance and usage of the term ' the cinematography appears right out of basic cable mow land which removes any semblance of swampy murky atmosphere from the proceedings in addition there's not nearly enough gore sex or attractive young things to satiate the majority of the film's targeted viewers that being said the lead actress who plays the possessed has a sexy olive skinned presence what else needs to be said about this non winner don't rent unless you've got a thing for middle aged adults bemoaning their past and rants with clichéd priests shrinks hispanic all regretting their past actions
0	unless you're interested in seeing 2 hours worth of scenic mountain footage featuring hysterical characters lots of histrionics and cheap 70s gore not much of it either i would advise to avoid this movie it is long winded overlong and has a rather annoying amateurish feel to it masterpiece no an average thriller shot in an average fashion in a gorgeous italian landscape br br i'm a huge fan of slow paced 1970 movies when there is a plot to delight and entertain you in this case it didn't work out for me the plot is trite interlaced with superficial and stereotypical characters backed by hilarious angry mobs and your typical italian widow dressed all in black sobbing br br if you are not acquainted and familiar with the italy country side the movie might be worth seeing as the scenery itself is spectacular and rather breathtaking this movie isn't however nothing out of the ordinary there are much better italian horror flicks than this not much else than a yawn fest 5 10
0	while this movie did have a few scary moments great use of music and film angles to build suspense it's obvious director ethan wiley and scriptwriter eddy didn't waste any time researching their subject matter which also makes me question their claim that the exorcism scenes were overseen by a genuine catholic bishop br br amongst the many inconsistencies br br jacob the roman catholic priest when we first meet him outside the church is wearing an academic robe over his rather than the typical or academic robes are commonly worn by protestant ministers in denominations not roman catholic priests br br jacob the priest quotes some obscure and disturbing scripture about the angels taking up weapons he attributes it to st paul this verse is not from st paul's writings neither is it in the bible i can't even find it in the gnostic scriptures br br jacob tells his bishop he doesn't believe in demon possession and turns down the request to study exorcism but does a complete 180 later that same day within minutes of talking to possessed isabelle sure it's possible but a little unrealistic see father damien as a priest psychologist in the original the exorcist for a bit more realistic portrayal of a skeptic turned believer br br miguel the former priest turned is the first to try an exorcism on isabelle he quotes scripture and she quotes back he says i see you know psalm 65 she corrects him that's psalm 67 they're both wrong br br miguel the former priest who just got done performing an exorcism making the sign of the cross calling on the name of christ applying holy water etc tells jacob he doesn't believe in church and he doesn't believe in god maybe he's just conflicted jacob enlists him to put on home made and have another go at it anyway br br miguel the former roman catholic priest crosses himself backwards or eastern orthodox style as an hispanic roman catholic who used to be a priest he should've crossed himself forehead to sternum left side to right side of chest br br i had to read into the little side stories to get the notion satan was messing with the whole family not just isabelle but even in the end it was hard to say for sure if anyone was really guilty of the images in their heads or if it was all demonic trickery except for the sheriff it's pretty clear he was guilty br br on the positive side isabelle was creepy in my opinion she was the best part of the whole movie and i liked the plot twist with claire br br i'm just not sure if the movie was meant to be serious or a spoof br br listening to the running commentary with cameron and ethan wiley i'm inclined to believe it was a joke
0	blackwater valley exorcism is a movie about a possessed young girl do i need to describe any more of the plot to you the exorcist and the exorcism of emily rose are two terrific terrifying movies classics imo blackwater valley exorcism is not not by a long shot it's certainly not as terrible as a low budget copy of the exorcist could have been from start to finish it has the feel of a made for sci fi channel production it's one of those movies that will probably be spoofed and ridiculed on mystery science theater 3000 or a similar show br br the make up and effects were absolutely laughable the acting was horrendously bad there was not a single performance that didn't lead to me rolling my eyes or giggling oh except maybe for jeffery re animator combs as the sheriff the script wasn't that terrible but it certainly wasn't anything special br br it seems like through most of the movie everyone is more focused on who is sleeping with who than they are with the demon possessed girl in the other room oh there was something i learned from this movie apparently if your teenage daughter is possessed by a demon then all you have to do is lock them in the room c'mon and if your daughter is possessed don't worry too much because all it does it make them talk in funny voices eat rabbits try to stare you down and put fog machines in their bed other than that there is nothing to worry about apparently she was possessed with a low budget d list demon br br there was none of the ghastly deeds done by a list demons like crucifix intercourse painful body distortions or even projectile vomiting br br totally laughable movie not worth even a discount rental br br 2 out of 10
0	this movie just seemed to lack direction the plot developed so many twists in such a short amount of time that it seemed to lose any semblance of what the true storyline was there was a lot of wasted dialogue and just seemed like the writing was rushed and a little too wandering the exorcism scenes and possession story began to take a back seat to the character's back stories which were a little weak to begin with br br all in all i would say skip it unless you have rented out the rest of the horror section at your local video store and you have a jones for a movie you haven't seen before you're much better off just watching the exorcist or the exorcism of emily rose
0	let me tell you something this movie exceeds all of the troma laugh and gore movies hands down as it actually tries to come across as a serious movie from the terrible acting i knew it i knew she was possessed to the priest accepting sexual favors and getting into showers with naked teenagers this piece of dung takes the cake i am at a loss trying to compare this to another movie equally as bad this may just be in a class all its own the kicker is that supposedly some cardinal oversaw production to make sure it was true to the actual situation i did not know that people from backwoods usa act like utter imbeciles i am not sure if i am upset for renting it or have stumbled across a jewel of comedy this was a very guilty pleasure so awful that i watched with hands over my eyes half the time while i wasn't laughing so hard i was crying the ending simply made no sense whatsoever pulling the whole thing together perfectly if you want to watch something so awful its funny here is your movie if you want a scary movie on exorcism move on
0	while watching blackwater valley exorcism i encountered scenarios and dialog so incredibly bad that i was convinced that this was supposed to be a comedy a few choice bits of dialog worthy of a belly laugh i ate a rabbit i told you she was possessed are you telling me the devil is in my daughter br br there are many many more but you must discover these for yourself if you dare br br the story goes off into all sorts of directions and things happen that probably shouldn't and everyone seems to be a perv or psycho of some sort even the priest and i haven't even gotten to the bad acting most notable in this area is the fellow playing isabelle's father the director must have just told him to act like he's got a stick up his because that's the general impression one gets br br i don't really want to steer anyone away from blackwater valley exorcism because there is entertainment value to be had for all the wrong reasons but if you're looking for a decent horror movie that makes sense and is actually scary well run don't walk
0	as the metaphoric flies fled this steaming watery stool of a film i found myself longing to join them br br from the opening sentences you quickly gather that the actors are talentless the script editor was probably dead and the director should be to be honest i didn't manage to finish this film because about twenty dismal minutes in the sight of the main actress scuttling across the floor like a shetland pony that has been shot in the ass was too much for me to stomach br br i have never and i mean never seen a film as sweaty as this one and i watch tons of crap films br br turd
0	blackwater valley exorcism is set on a small town ranch where teenager isabelle kristin erickson is found wandering around covered in dog's blood her parents ely randy colton blanche leslie fleming mitchell own the ranch are deeply worried about their daughter recently she has not been herself is considered a danger to herself other's ranch hand ex priest miguel del recognises isabelle's symptoms as a possible case of possession when she starts to speak ancient latin in a strange voice he becomes convinced of it blanche calls priest jacob cameron who is her other daughter claire's madison taylor ex husband to see isabelle he confirms suspicions accepts the job of performing the exorcism that will hopefully banish the demon inside isabelle an innocent girl free br br directed by ethan wiley i was sat there in my house in front of my telly watching blackwater valley exorcism i kept asking the same question over over again why do i do it why do i keep sitting through all these awful low budget horror films that look like they were shot on a camcorder right lets honest about this blackwater valley exorcism is a complete total utter unashamed rip off of the exorcist 1973 you literally tick off the major plot points that the two share there's the possessed teenage girl who starts to get very horny suggest inappropriate things the demon that uses past against other's the worried parents the way that the possessed girl is shunned by doctor's the priest with a troubled past the possessed girl is tied to her bed amongst other things i suppose where blackwater valley exorcism is different other than it's total crap is that it tries to give all the character's some screen time tries to get across how the situation is affecting them but it's so badly written acted it just ends up being boring the film starts with isabelle already possessed so we never knew what she was like as a normal person so we never really care about her or what is happening to her either the rest of the character's are poorly written fleshed out at times i wondered whether blackwater valley exorcism was a spoof there's a silly scene in which a vet tries to sedate the possessed isabelle with horse after he states that she needs a 'little he enters her room with a huge needle hidden behind his back there are a few scenes in which people are punched accompanied by a silly comedy sound effect the film has an uneven tone as a result as it goes between silly spoof serious horror drama or it did in my opinion at least br br according to some text before the opening credits blackwater valley exorcism was based on yeah right actual events from 1973 that happened in a film called the exorcist this piece of text also states that the exorcism scenes were supervised by a real priest there isn't even any decent gore or exploitation to liven things up there's a scene of a cut arm there's a dead dog someone is stabbed with a crucifix that's about it there's surprisingly no bad language in it either despite the demon trying to be offencive i would imagine the only reason blackwater valley exorcism has an adult rating is because of one very brief scene in which a pair of are seen one pair of naked female is not worth the time watching this or the money you might spend on it there is zero scares no atmosphere a really amateurish feel to the whole film too br br with a supposed budget of about 1 000 000 i must say that i am wondering where all the money went the film looks ugly cheap throughout there are no special effects to speak of the production values are rock bottom the acting is very poor from all involved genre favourite jeffrey combs gets near top billing during the opening credits but has nothing more than a cameo in what amounts to about five minutes of screen time even he must have feared how bad this was going to be has he hides behind a moustache a terrible accent he is better than this br br blackwater valley exorcism is a complete rip off of the exorcist without anything that made that film such a classic the makers are thirty five years too late anyway a total turkey from start to finish
0	this movie had very few moments of real drama after the opening minutes the film descended in a spiral that didn't quite take us to hell and back viewing was pure purgatory to say the least the acting was more horrendous than the subject matter of the film and at times i couldn't stop laughing the continuity between some of the scenes was dire characters disappeared from scenes without explanation only to be replaced by other characters who minutes earlier had been some where else surely this was a spoof of the exorcist the collection plate at the church must have been full of copper the day mr russo signed up for this one do i speak latin et tu brutus
0	i have to agree with the previous reviewer although the kristin did a great job of playing the possessed girl i seriously don't think that isabelle the character she was playing was possessed i have seen people have psychotic breaks due to sexual abuse and they never made it clear whether or not the father had actually abused her or not i also had to watch some parts of it over again to make it clear as to what the letter said what the characters' names were and i'm still not clear on a few things that happened whether they were real or not i'm trying to find the original story that it was based on to compare facts but i can't seem to find anything about it online br br it wasn't a bad movie but some of the dialogue was incredibly cheesy special effects wise the movie wasn't bad for a grade b pretty much and those possession scenes made it all worth while that is if you have nothing better to do lol
0	even worse then the incredibly boring the exorcism of emily rose it started off decently and right up until the mom said to the dad see i knew she was possessed in an i told you so voice it was a terrible line spoken badly and it foreshadowed the rapid demise of this amazingly bad movie every family member has an issue from the past with the priest the dad starts to accuse everyone of either liking his wife or actually having an affair with her culminating with him killing his buddy then himself in the obvious instant lucidity after he realizes his friend hadn't slept with his wife after all people are dying others are coming under possession and by this point most viewers don't even care anymore except for their employee miguel none of the characters in this movie was actually likable making it hard to care about any of them the acting was terrible and the writing even worse glad i saw it for free although i feel that for a movie this bad someone owes me money for the time i lost
0	the plot seemed to be interesting but this film is a great dissapointment bad actors a camera moving like in the hands of an amateur if there was c movies this would be a perfect example a plus for a nice dvd cover though and a great looking female actor
0	ok i normally don't add comments on movies but i finally watched a movie that was so utterly full of bullsh t and riddled with incompetence that i just had to warn people about blackwater valley exorcist is loosely about a wife beating pederast priest and this podunk family of horse freaks and to make a long story short the youngest daughter who was molested by the priest but in love with the hillbilly ranch hand gets possessed along with a heroic god shunning mexican gardener who once participated in a exorcism the wife beating pederast priest manage to save the day but not before the possessing demon is able to jump over to a hooker who the town sheriff made blow him all in all this movie is the biggest pile of useless i could get very descriptive with this part but why waste my energy on this movie sh t i've ever seen any and all persons associated with the making of this movie should be sterilized so that they cannot pollute the earth with their useless spawn
0	a girl named isobel becomes possessed by a demon the local priest who formerly dated sister must try to save her but the bigger problems are with the family's suspicions of each other rather than the demon in their daughter br br this film is directed by ethan wiley the writer of house and the writer director of house ii i loved the first film and liked the second one even better so you would think this would be a winner alas this one looks like it was thrown together by first year film students dawson leery could have done better i have thought about blaming new writer eddy especially because the idea is hardly original are they trying to cash in on the fans of the exorcism of emily rose but wiley should have been able to do his magic br br also you'd like to think veteran horror stars jeffrey combs and james russo would help this film russo playing the bishop barely shows up and combs has a great role as a sheriff for the five minutes he's on screen but i love the mustache so no help here br br after seeing the exorcist all other exorcism films must be compared to the classic by default no and the demonic possession in this film was not scary in the least no head spinning or paranormal activity at all just a girl with a deep voice and runny makeup all the demonic stuff was centered around the father accusing everyone of sleeping with his wife as another reviewer wrote you get a lot of isobel bouncing on her bed like it's a trampoline hiding in her closet and jumping from a hay loft yeah it's chuck e cheese gone wild that sadly sums up the extent of the evil in this movie br br if you want to watch a movie about family members who invent accusations and yell at each other while the possessed daughter sits in another room off camera this is the movie for you but if you don't mind my saying so you have a horrible taste in film if this is what you're seeking br br the plot seems to focus on the father accusing a cowboy of sleeping with his wife who didn't but did sleep with his daughter and of the veterinarian of sleeping with his wife who might have but denies it and then you have a gardener who attacks the possessed girl with a crucifix and tells the family to call an exorcist but once the priest arrives the gardener declares he does not believe in god what was all the bible quoting you were doing five minutes ago br br a horrible exorcism movie examples of what combs and russo are capable of and such a sad display of directing after the house series of films became classic i would like to pretend wiley had no part in making this shamefully derivative and unoriginal uninspired film the power of christ compels you to avoid this movie as if viewing it were a cardinal sin
0	this movie was probably one of the worst movies i've seen in a very long time a friend of mine grabbed it off the shelf at the video rental store and all but forced me to watch it an action we both deeply regret ehh where to start the writing the acting the quality all of it sucked br br quite possibly some of the worst writing ever displayed in a movie the dialog was worse than i thought it could ever be in the movies blatant dialog such as how ya doing not that great doc directly after an attempted exorcism of a man's daughter and then his wife's attempted suicide of course he's not that great was at some points kind of funny if not horribly written planned out and obvious the general plot of the movie the writing and the way it worked horrible it was like the writers could come up with nothing better to do then write a bunch of crappy dialog and throw in as many sex and nudity scenes as they randomly could the only almost good sex scene between the preacher and the tattooed girl was filmed with such poor quality that it looked more like a cheap porno than a feature film oh yeah and they never actually got the deed done br br the acting horrible i think the only good actor was the short spanish guy who played miguel del and his part was written horribly the worst acting arguably paul whose acting combined with shitty music a gun and a half naked bluish white girl running around in the woods made the movie almost unbearable to sit through he even screwed up his own death scene one that should have been easy to nail although most everybody else's acting was horrible as well br br the lack of characters also added to the overall suck level of the movie there were just enough characters so that almost half of the characters died that same amount of people became possessed at one point and then the remaining characters couldn't be counted on one hand like 50 thumbs down br br p s what is it with the climax of exorcism movies happening in a stable anyways
0	i'm not sure if this is a comedy or not but i found it pretty comical isobel is possessed by the devil somehow a perverted priest and the gardener are gonna' fix that part exorcism and part soap opera you'll at least get some laughs there's the paranoid jealous dad satanic sister valley of the dolls mother and then the cowboy boyfriend all there to help the skirt chasing priest fight the demons from dear isobel it sometimes felt like a jerry springer episode but i actually paid to see this instead of the cool head twisting sailor cursing and crucifix humping that regan did in the exorcist you get a lot of isobel bouncing on her bed like it's a trampoline hiding in her closet and jumping from a hay loft yeah it's chuck e cheese gone wild so if you want to watch a quote unquote horror film that is worth a few laughs while you wait for the predictable ending this is your movie
0	the movie started very well so far isabelle's exorcism could be believed but later gosh i didn't know if it was a horror movie a drama one or a must not see one the possessed creature attacking the sheriff had no connection at all with the movie the make up well it looked pretty real at beginning but at the end last part of movie the make up especially teeth and eyes was very exaggerated if you want a good exorcism movie watch the exorcism of emily rose br br together with hard candy totally boring pathetic plot and ending these two movies are the worst i've seen from lionsgate but well the movie company has given horror movie fans excellent films but with this one you will wish you never rent it exorcism movie fans just stay with two the exorcist and emily rose's exorcism
0	i just rented blackwater valley exorcism because the cover and pictures looked terrifying and i don't normally watch movies that are automatically released onto dvd but this looked so interesting and scary i was very much in the mood for a good scary film and to me possession is one of the scariest subjects to watch or learn about just look at the exorcist or the exorcism of emily rose both terrific movies that made break throughs not only horror wise but story as well br br blackwater valley exorcism is about a girl isabelle who from the get go is automatically possessed so we can't even tell what kind of a person she was to begin with but a former wife beater turned priest is on the case with a gardener i know i know then they go into several other stories with the priest and isabella's sister and the priest hit the sister and messed around with isabelle i'm not sure then we get into a story with isabelle's dad and his questioning of his wife's faithfulness to him br br i mean the story just goes into too many directions and wasn't well developed at all not to mention that the exorcism didn't seem authentic at all and more of a just scare your pants off type of a film which i didn't like at all because i couldn't take it seriously whoever directed and wrote this clearly had no idea where to go or how to direct the story well so i wouldn't really recommend this br br 2 10
0	documentaries about fans are always mishmashes and never worth seeing through but i found this one made by some of the fans themselves more than usually unenlightening as a veteran of the original tolkien craze forty years ago i'd hoped for more than the obvious which doesn't always equate to the true if there's anyone living who doesn't already know the nature of a fandom any fandom from having been or known a fan he won't discover it here between platitudes to which the actors from the films are particularly prone and acting out by fans making the most if not the best of their one shot at fame i could glean little of the special appeal of lotr the special emotional responses it evokes and the range of the special creative forms those responses can take in addition the film is rather lazy it some facts that could have been got across with little effort e g what the exact legal loophole was the wording of a copyright notice that permitted the books' unauthorized publication in the u s speaking of which i take strong exception to the film's dismissal of the covers on that edition as irrelevant and psychedelic which they were not they were the work of jack a very able sf illustrator of the period and some fans including me found them more apt and more attractive than the covers on the rival set
0	dante would of been mortified if he knew that his masterpiece was being acted out puppets also the actors who played the puppets are sell outs due to the fact that playing a puppet is not acting it is just basically doing nothing no one really will care who the puppet was people only care who played a major role in like an actual movie this is just annoying how you could mock such an amazing man and his belief by this dumb little movie this should be a crime and i cant believe you would ruin a book like that i thought the movie was absolutely ridiculous and should be destroyed it totally ruins what your suppose to be getting from reading it your just making it a big joke
0	this demented left wing wipe out trivializes dante's great work distorts the genius of the author out of all recognition inserts hateful ideology incompetent satire and moronic political commentary in every imaginable place and itself deserves a place in the eighth circle tenth with the rest of the has reserved himself a spot next to it br br stocking hell with republican political figures fox news helicopters and christian conservatives is a work of literary sacrilege to say nothing of extreme liberal bias it is however unoriginal tedious and trite nothing in unworthy and heretical revision is in the least relevant to the original text or is in any way entertaining humorous or enlightening despite his smug pretension to the contrary br br i could have eaten a reel of video tape and puked a better movie i regret the two hours of my life that i lost watching this insult to the very concept of poetry will weep forever
0	i was surprised to discover michael moore or bill maher wasn't involved with this movie an american leftist laundry list of axes to grind with a distinct of democrats in hell mao and karl marx didn't make an appearance in hell but ronald reagan is in the same room with hitler perhaps we'll have to wait for these california spin doctors to butcher paradiso for them to show all of their pet ideologue political figures br br cheap shots at religion right wing politicians corporations and their fox news even suvs all the radical leftist talking points were too completely covered while conspicuously omitting references to wrongdoing from the other side of the aisle to not have been a conscious effort the singular exception i noticed in the hour and a half is jfk has to have sex with marilyn monroe for eternity the token inclusion in these propaganda pieces in a pathetic attempt at appearing non partisan
0	made it through the first half an hour and deserved a medal for getting that far lots of excuses for scantily clad women but no real plot to speak of emerged in that time what sounded like a good idea for a movie was badly executed
0	too bad this movie isn't while nemesis game is mildly entertaining i found it hard to suspend my disbelief the whole length of the movie especially the situations that sara was putting herself into are we supposed to believe that br br 1 this hot chick is going to go slumming unarmed around abandoned buildings and dark subway tunnels in the middle of the night just to solve some riddles br br 2 the protagonists are supposedly such experts that they play riddle games for fun but don't put the whole i never sinned riddle together until the very end and then and then get this she has to do the whole mirror thing to finally put the pieces together i know it was the filmmaker's device to show the audience what was going on but do they really think we're that stupid br br 3 when vern and sara go to the chez m to question the blonde there is not one topless chick in the whole building nada c'mon i know it's canada but i would expect more from a country that gave us shannon tweed br br and anyone else notice that when vern was surfing the web and found that site that when he over the link the cursor stayed an arrow and didn't turn into a little hand like all do when you click on a i mean if you're gonna have the internet play such a prominent role in your movie at least get the little things right geez
0	a group of young filmmakers with virtually no budget set out to make something clever and original and while there is a bit of originality and some skilled drawing in this slacker puppet show take on dante's inferno there is nothing especially clever dante's divine comedy was a brilliant piece of social commentary this film is a vaguely moralistic student film with pretensions to high art br br i suspect those who loved this film were those readily amused by the sophomoric pokes at some icons of the political and or religious right and that those who hated it took offense at seeing their favored icons poked be that as it may few of those pokes actually rose to the level of satire br br the high point of the movie is a sudden outbreak of schoolhouse rock on the subject of and the revolving door it's really a shame that the entire film couldn't have been a musical that would have stripped away a great deal of the annoying film school pretentiousness and added a far stronger element of fun
0	kubrick may have been the greatest director of all times he may have made more classics than anyone else he may have been a perfectionist but man was his first attempt ever bad br br kubrick had good reason to try to make this film from the map it looks like an ed wood film it has strange narration cheap shots bad dialogue ominous music reminiscent of your 50s sci fi horror flick and what looks like relatives of the cast of reefer madness going insane for no reason br br sure you can see an undeveloped kubrick in there it is a psychological horror study of war the characters became dehumanized and insane there are people playing more than one role there are constant shots of the faces and particular facial expressions of different people and there are a few interesting shots around there but really this is a mess br br of course i am not discouraging you from watching it if you get a hold of it you are joining a select group of myself and a few thousand people world wide who have had access to it
0	fear and desire is of interest mainly to kubrick obsessives who can plumb this pretentious clap trap for signs of his still to come greatness kubrick was right in seeking to ensure that the film was not screened or available on legitimate video he considered it embarrassing and amateurish and he was correct in his evaluation this is a weak and tedious film at 68 minutes it still seems longer than barry lyndon it nevertheless is of historical interest and has its genuine absorbing moments it's a difficult film to find only unofficial copies are in circulation though perhaps this may change if kubrick's estate relents and has it released on video recommended only for kubrick enthusiasts
0	stanley kubrick a director who i hold in the highest of for his masterpieces clockwork orange 2001 the killing the shining dr strangelove etc took the film out of circulation leaving it to be found by only the hardcore fans and completists after seeing the film for myself i could see why at the age of 24 kubrick had already honed his craft of still photography for look magazine and had done a few short documentaries like many first time filmmakers that came in the decades after him his ambition for fear and desire was in short to just go and make a film cheaply more than likely to see if he could do it on that level he was successful however the film itself definitely is not br br i can't really say that the film is a failure because there was something i did like about it throughout even as the film's story went on the wayside and the actors whom kubrick didn't have any idea how to direct not being a man of the theater his knack for producing and capturing some great images gets its seeds in this film at times there are some shots of close ups and quick shots in suspense action scenes that are eye catching unfortunately this is all the good i can really say of the film although there are a couple of 'name' actors in the film frank who also appeared in killer's kiss and paul mazursky a director in his own right the performances overall are dull and very routine br br in fact that is the film's main demise for me whenever i watch any kubrick film even his early film noirs killer's kiss and the killing i can tell who made it as his style by then became distinct which would continue as he evolved as an artist it wasn't 'artsy' like i might have pictured which is usually the case with first time directors like scorsese and spielberg but watching this film not only did it feel like it wasn't kubrick it felt like a lot of the time i was watching some b or even c grade movie by a director that time forgot not quite 'ed wood' bad but close the music is as standard as can be the fades are pedestrian and the plot seems to not really hold that much attention br br in short as others have said and which i can agree this is a doodle pad of a future ground breaker who shows some shots and a few edits that grab some attention the best scene overall being when the soldiers take the dumb girl hostage but not enough to really recommend except to those like myself who end up seeing everything by kubrick or perhaps have to see every ultra low budget war film ever made if only out of curiosity
0	this sickly sweet and laboriously paced 5 reeler is definitely not among harold lloyd's better films gags are sparse and mostly uninspired saccharine melodrama is abundant the setup takes forever as lloyd the unconventional but impossibly kindly country doctor makes his rounds bringing a little sunshine into the lives of children the elderly and puppies it's like a 1922 version of patch adams ugh 4 10
0	it's another variation on the oft told tale of two people getting married and having to share their brood of kids with six you get egg roll is directed by howard morris from television and it shows because it's the kind of tale that plays like a half hour situation comedy padded out to feature film length but with a scarcity of laughs or to put it differently only the number of laughs that would have been possible within the half hour limits of a tv show br br doris day decided to call it quits after this film and it's rather easy to see why even the presence of some fairly reliable actors in the cast doesn't help brian keith barbara hershey pat carroll and alice do their best but the script is the real problem and should have been left untouched for the big screen br br nothing much can be said in favor of it skip it and see miss day in any number of her more worthwhile films
0	and obviously i didn't see it br br but looking at the cast and seeing that doug masters is back from the dead i know now to avoid this like the plague i hate it when hollywood producers writers directors or all of the above think that audiences are stupid that they're not going to catch continuity errors a supposedly dead doug masters returning is a big giant one won't you say br br and i can't believe that someone like louis gossett jr would return for something like that br br did jason really decline this well i hate to say it but even if he took the role again it would have still had that same continuity error i bet if he really turned it down he must have been incredulous seeing that his character died in the second film br br i'll probably catch it by accident on a late night air on some channel but no way am i going to rent this or buy the dvd
0	louis gossett jr returns to the well one more time as chappy sinclair who goes to doug masters played by jason who is in for jason who wisely declined to teach a new band of recruits however this time they discover corrupt air force pilots who deal in toxic waste this is a series that just keeps getting worse with each subsequent entry this one however doesn't have any of the zip or even the action to make this even worth seeing on cable iron eagle iv is directed with such indifference that the dogfights come off as if we were watching a playstation 2 game played by two lobotomized teenagers it is horrendous to watch and gossett jr who has made his share of turkeys seems to have bottomed out here and i saw cover up aces iron eagle iii toy soldiers and jaws 3d what is mysterious about louis gossett jr is that he seems to be like christopher walken in his quest to do anything as long as he's working as i look at his post oscar win some of his better movies include iron eagle the punisher and the principal considering that the latter two movies have him co starring with dolph lundgren and james belushi it is indeed something to say that three guilty pleasure action flicks are in the running for his better work of course enemy mine and remain his best post oscar win work br br out of 4 bad
0	whomever thought of having sequels to iron eagle must be shot in this case once was enough iron eagle was a good movie to watch even though it is unrealistic it is still entertaining iron eagle ii has a senseless plot and can be used to as a cure to insomnia i didn't even bother to watch iron eagle iii but from looking at the r rating i assume it's more violent than the past 2 movies well iron eagle iv is probably the most inane sequel lou gossett jr returns as the always delightful chappy sinclair another jason returns to fill the role of doug masters canadian jason who looks just like jason from the first iron eagle but wait here comes a possible spoiler wasn't doug killed in iron eagle ii the writers must've been for a story so they revived doug masters by saying he was a prisoner of the russians this movie was the cheapest done of all the iron eagle films why do movie makers find it to make sequels to unappealing movies ex police academy movies i have always liked gossett jr 's work in these films he was the only one holding this turkey together let's hope this was the last of the iron eagle sequels let it rest in peace
0	this is a slick little movie well worth your time to find and see br br it really speaks to all those mundane choices we all make every day and like an h g welles story i can't quite recall may live to want back br br keep in mind that this is a short very short it starts out slowly but just as you begin to think it has become boring bang it's over and believe me the 'punch line' is one you will remember br br i'm not sure if the producers are going to make it available for purchase or available on the web but either way you'd be happy you took the time to get hold of a copy of that i am sure
0	where do i begin its one of the most frustrating movies i've seen because it makes a lot of sense in terms of the point but it comes off as seriously stupid a movie about a ghost inhabited bed the first 2 minutes of the movie shows a black and white flashback of a weird looking fat dude going dominatrix on a from pulp fiction lookalike contest winner and strangles her with his tie this is supposed to set up how the bed factors into the story still though if you wanted an opening to keep people interested or send them away early having a strangulation is the way to do it fast forward to the present day a married couple moves into an apartment with a friendly landlord and begins unpacking their things so far everything's normal then one night while doing the on a single mattress they realize they need a bed frame this is where things get fishy why didn't they bring or buy a g d damn bed frame before they got there we learn that the door leading to the attic where the first 2 minutes took place doesn't open but then once the couple realizes they need a bed frame the door magically opens they go up to the attic and discover the old bed frame and decide to bring it downstairs and their lovemaking days are saved or so they thought the rest of the movie centers around the both of them being haunted by the the female is an artist so she starts drawing up the ghoulish images she dreams about and the male is a photographer so he starts having his models act as if they're bring tortured or tied up one of which has gray hair and appears over 50 years old yuck the female grows increasingly scared and she discovers the house she lives in was once a haven for serial killings and murders which bring about the end to the movie they find the friendly landlord murdered which makes no sense since ghosts need to take a human form to kill and decide to get the hell out of dodge while packing up the husband goes up into the attic where he is possessed by the crazy fat dude and the female bashes his skull in before the cops show up and take her to a mental ward where she kills some dude trying to hit on her br br well if you've read this far you have to be thinking one thing why the hell didn't they just throw the out the window seriously they never said anything about the actual house being haunted just the bed so why not get rid of the damn thing and move on that's why the movie is so frustrating because it actually is a good plot and the actors follow suit accordingly but there are more holes in it than sonny corleone at a toll booth the couple did try to leave town as to every other movie that has the ol oh lets give this place a chance honey scheme going so props to that still though me and my buddy who watched the movie kept saying every 5 minutes why didn't they just throw the bed out especially once they learned it was haunted would have been a good time to set it on fire or something br br all in all its a near watchable movie with plenty of porno like bed scenes and a believable plot to an extent but the solution is so simple you're scratching your head by the end of the movie wondering how stupid can the married couple be the highlight of the movie is when the husband tells the 50 year old model to spread her legs and his assistant tells him that he can't shoot her like that br br 4 out of 10 a low budget porno the man show would love
0	are you kidding me the music was so loud in this show i could often not even hear the dialog and the music was nothing great anyone know what jake's mother said when he walked in the door and the mushroom cloud looked pretty close to have so little instant devastation anyone research the effects of nuclear fallout before writing this one i felt like a bunch of sit com actors were sent on location and didn't know what to do with dramatic dialog and what does a kansas teen know about shopping in soho couldn't we have had a better line here was bored to tears and only kept awake by the jarring blare of the over mixed way to loud music
0	a family a teenage boy his mother and a stepdad sick of city life decides to move to the mountains to get away from it all and have a fresh start however their idyll is shattered by three brothers and their domineering father who don't take kindly to newcomers on their patch while having objects thrown through their window and being threatened in the street is just the start the youth decides to make things even worse by having a relationship with the terrible trio's sister with the law unwilling to do anything about it and the violence escalating rapidly the lad decides to take matters into his own hands br br veering wildly between hilarity and nastiness this is one of the oddest exploitation movies ever made at first you can have a chuckle at some of the hammy acting and ludicrous dialogue given to the characters especially the overwrought bad guys but then you get completely unnecessary scenes like a mother being raped while her son is forced to watch or the sister getting herself beaten up by her siblings for daring to sleep with our young hero in fact the whole view of women in the movie which seems to be that they're pathetic creatures who scream a lot and can't defend themselves is pretty despicable but of course there's the obligatory nude scene which this time involves a young lady diving into a pool bra less under a very thin t shirt who cares about plot consistency when you have some willing young starlets ready to shed her togs right br br the climax centres on the teenager who up until now hasn't been able to sneeze without jumping suddenly morphing into a rambo clone and blowing off his assailants left right and centre to save his stepfather who is being held hostage by the gang it's completely implausible but hey so is everything else in this film so at least you can't accuse it of not being consistent so rather than attempting to find logic in a place where the word doesn't exist check out the imdb pages for janet laine green stephen hunter jonathan etc notice a pattern emerging here their careers all hit dead ends why sit through this and all will become clear remember kids if you want to get ahead in this business hire a decent agent and always read the scripts they offer you please 3 10
0	olivia d'abo in a wet t shirt is the only thing this movie has going for it other than that this canadian production about a man taking out a vicious band of hillbillies is not worth anybody's time the writing is bad the acting is poor and the direction is sub standard
0	lonesome jim is kind of like a romantic dark comedy about a dysfunctional family whose two boys are total losers both boys around 30 living at home with absolutely nothing going for them i live in the midwest and i can't name one family like this i picked it up because i kind of like buscemi acting humor now i realize i need to have a agent to that humor to make it work the acting and camera work and editing was fine the first 15 minutes got you set and the last 15 minutes helped prevent the film from being totally depressing jerry springer trailer trash type of story the female members of my family were begging me to turn it off but i prevailed under the premise that there had to be a turning point near the end and we watched the entire movie the male family members as expected simply walked out after the first 30 minutes
0	i was attracted to this film by its offbeat low key 'real life' story line that is a twenty something guy flops in the big apple and comes back home to live with his parents and even more floppy brother it just might have worked but there's a problem and that problem's name is casey affleck br br casey affleck is nearly catatonic in this film his acting mantra must be exert as little effort as possible at all times or why speak when you can mutter or maybe put yourself into a coma as soon as the camera rolls lips moving when speaking barely facial expressions none muscles in face something nothing anything zip
0	the only time i seem to through imdb comments is when i've seen a duff film i guess i'm looking to find reassurance that it's not just me for me then lonesome jim was a duff film packed with unbelievable characters in unbelievable situations which limped on lamely and boringly towards a cop out hackneyed conclusion so i check out what other people have to say and feel a bit like jim out on a limb alienated as page after page of multiple star ratings and plaudits leave me doubting my critical faculties yet maybe i should check the settings for the comments presentation since after a while the gushing dies down and i'm relieved to see that mirror my own i feel vindicated it is a rubbish film it doesn't hang together and it does constitute a wasted evening sitting through it praise be to kindred spirits
0	whilst this is most definitely a well crafted piece of film making it's thoroughly without any entertainment value whatsoever br br if you're depressed already this film will send you over the edge br br if you're feeling somewhat depressed this film will be just one more thing in your life to feel bitter about you'll feel that it's just your luck to have chosen to watch a movie that turns out to be a complete waste of time br br otherwise you might be able to make it through this film unscathed i didn't btw safe in the knowledge that your life is so much better than jim's then again you might consider that you have been fooling yourself and that are in fact in a much worse situation than you'd previously realized you might feel a bit annoyed at jim for bringing this to your attention you may want to slap him around a bit with a wet fish br br the sad truth is much as i wanted to like this movie i hated it it took rather a long miserable road down the path of oblivion and then suddenly for no reason whatsoever looked back at itself and then stopped br br jim does not have an epiphany at least not one that is conveyed on screen jim has a miserable life and a miserable set of options he discovers nothing that one can relate to and fails to make any significant progress on his journey of self discovery br br of course no one alive could write a happy ending to this movie as others have said it's no hollywood tale it's gritty and it's real it's well made life is quite a struggle at times if anyone were to know the answer they do well to shout it from the rooftops br br still i feel cheated because this movie pretends to have something to say you feel that it's going to say something that if you just suffer through a little more of it it'll have something to say it'll make you stop and think br br it doesn't br br again i do submit that this is a well crafted film and therefore may be of value to a film student with a penchant for e g lighting techniques of the use of colour palettes br br for the rest of us it's utterly miss able
0	i like steve buscemi i like his work very much both as an actor and a director you could say that i am into steve buscemi a steve buscemi freak i steve buscemi br br i remember when i first saw buscemi's full length directorial debut trees lounge i enjoyed the movie although it wasn't as good as it could have been it was almost there it almost scratched that itch the itch of wanting to see small movies about small people in small bars that are in small towns it was close enough to where i would say that it was a very good movie one that with a few tweaks could have been great but that's ok i like the movie and i've watched it more than once br br but this review is not about trees lounge it's about lonesome jim when i saw the description of the movie and then i saw who's movie it was i was excited at the prospect of finally seeing the movie that i knew that trees lounge could have been but what i actually experienced was not unlike that of leaving one of those smalltown bars with a belly full of cheap whiskey and an of cheap floozy heading back to your apartment with a mushy brain full of exciting prospects that inevitably disintegrate into the reality of alcohol induced impotence and regurgitation br br in other words this movie left me flat and unrequited and sorry that i wasted the time and the money that it took me to get to that state the film equivalent of waking up next to that cheap floozy the next morning or if you happen to be the floozy waking up next to that stinking and farting and unshaven imbecile the film had all of the substance of a stale white bread sandwich with store brand white bread no less and the emotion of a cadaver i am not sure what the point of this film was and since it was supposed to have some sort of a point and was not an exercise in abstract surrealism that can get by without one then this lack of a point is a sin of omission sorta like those new cars that don't come with anymore although there are millions of people who smoke and buy new cars i'm not one of them but hey i can sympathize overall it was a boring film about boring people doing boring things and had none of the grit and believability that can carry and save such a film i mean trees lounge was about boring people doing boring things but it was interesting br br i blame a lot of this on affleck why do people keep casting these affleck turds they suck the life out of anything that they are connected with one affleck was in one decent film and wasn't even the reason why the film was decent and all of the sudden every named affleck is stinking up as many films as they possibly can and liv tyler is no better being the daughter of a rock star does not necessarily make an actress she is as lifeless as affleck these people simply do not rise from the flat page of the script people pay to see films and they deserve to see actors and actresses with a bit of charisma these two duds together don't have the spark of the old guy who hands out shopping carts at wal mart i always thought that steve buscemi was the type of guy who would rise above this type of but oh steve you let us down this film makes me want to stuff you into another wood chipper
0	i am sitting here writing this review and the movie's not even over yet in fact i just checked and there are 45 more minutes to go but no matter there's no need to see it through to the end i'll just write this review and laugh as the film plays in the background and stumbles onward to some kind of presumably horrible conclusion which i don't care to ever see or know br br what accounts for my hostility to this movie the characters are not believable the plot is not believable the pretentiousness of the movie is sickening basically every element of the movie rings false buscemi obviously thought he had something to add to the dozens of movies which have already explored the well worn themes of dysfunctional families and the apparent meaninglessness of life however buscemi was badly mistaken because this movie contains nothing new it tries very hard to be depressing but fortunately no one can really be depressed by it because it's obvious that no people like this exist in the entire world br br what is depressing however is the knowledge that somehow this film was voted several undeserved awards disgusting bottom line stay away from this worthless film at all costs
0	yesterday as a movie is hard to rate the cinematography is excellent and deserves a 9 10 the story is gritty and real and does not compromise but the translation of the story to the screen through the actors did not match the camera work br br as a person who was born and raised in central africa i appreciated the authenticity of the film's look and the honest depiction of daily life for the zulu but this and the camera work are not enough to recommend the average viewer should see this film it takes an appreciation of true cinema and not just a love of movies to see the purpose and strength of yesterday br br unlike the 1980 film the gods must be crazy which was a comic look at one african culture encountering modern technology yesterday has no intention of appealing to any crossover audience the movie simply is not fit for the common western mind and i doubt it was intended for the western mind the scenes are long and slow the editing is not paced for a 60mph instant gratification world the dialog is not cleaver or witty it is real movies about health crises do not make the best entertainment and this movie is not entertainment it is education br br this movie is best viewed by those who know appreciate and love the way of life and the culture in sub sarah africa if you lack a broad enough world view to understand other cultures especially african cultures should skip this film do not waste you time with it go see talladega nights or larry the cable guy instead for your cross culture viewing br br i give it a 4 for most who might want to see the movie but have no accurate understanding of african cultures for the viewers with an appreciation for films about the human experience anywhere in the world i would give it a 7
0	i mistakenly thought this was the 70's art film about the bed that eats people which sounded interesting it isn't interesting i mean let alone about a man eating bed br br i assume stuart gordon put his name on this in the same spirit that lloyd kaufman puts troma on just about anything that's been shot with a video camera in the interest of building up a franchise library little more can be said about this opus other than the running time is less than 90 minutes it is of course about a bed that is haunted by the spirit of a man or something that once killed a woman with a wig and long false eyelashes along the way we get a five minute opening credit sequence is the one for lawrence of arabia even as long a murderer with marylin manson contacts who kills using the same technique as the troll in cat's eye demonstrations of a sexual practice michael hutchence may have employed a preview of what emilio estevez will soon look and act like soft core porn even cinemax would pass on and one topless scene a wacky or is it whack ee ending involving unintentionally hilarious hammer hits and leftover strawberry pie well it looked that way to me and a rudimentary surprise ending pos of nothing much it's like the screenwriter even fell asleep on the deathbed before finishing the last draft br br it's not scary it's not sexy it's shot on hi def video and doesn't look bad but doesn't look good either the acting is just good enough to not be bad enough to be fun and so is everything else no one would probably have even seen or heard of it unless it was on a disc with another movie the modern day double feature i wasn't paying attention for parts of it so i may have missed something but for some reason i doubt it rating pass
0	i'm pretty sure poe would have considered this a travesty the first two stories are decent nothing spectacular and then there's toby dammit what on earth was fellini thinking it's a rambling random dull piece with little to recommend it one should feel frustrated at the lack of backstory or conclusion but there's only relief that it's over
0	what is it about the french first they apparently like jerry lewis a lot more than the us does second they seem to like edgar allan poe's work more than just about anyone else does it's got to be the effect br br don't get me wrong i'm a poe fan myself but this trilogy manages to make three of poe's below average stories into well i'm not sure what they're made into br br toby dammit is a fine fellini film but it has nothing to do with poe's story at least in terms of theme it's enjoyable on the first viewing terence stamp does a good job with an interesting role however it has nothing whatsoever to do with poe or spirits of the dead br br is a big mess how did vadim's films get produced it's just awful not even up to amateur film school standards depending on the dvd menu you have try to skip it and save your time br br william wilson is actually the segment that is most faithful to poe's work it does not have much style though even if it includes the strangest snowball fight i think that i have ever seen on film it looks like the boys are throwing tissues or maybe handkerchiefs that have been rolled up into balls br br my advice is to skip watch william wilson and then if you're a fellini fan i'm not keep toby dammit on while you cook dinner or make a snack
0	it's reassuring to see that other imdb reviewers have had the good sense to pan this disappointing film at the risk of against the great malle and fellini br br these directors may be talented artistic in their own right however in attempting to pass off this hodgepodge of attempted eroticism and 60s chic as in any way related to edgar allen poe's stories they exposed themselves as frauds either a they didn't bother to read the poe stories or b they read them but were so transfixed by their own egotistical agenda that they didn't pay poe any mind br br imagine if metallica plugged in their guitars cranked the amps up to 11 and out 3 chords claiming it to be beethoven's 9th symphony that's the feeling you'll get after sitting through this film if you're a malle fellini fan metallica you'll dig it if you're a beethoven fan poe you'll puke br br br br here we begin with a bizarre porno version of poe ok porno may be a bit extreme haha but at the very least you have to call it a barbarella version including i don't doubt some of jane's outfits coming directly from the set of that scifi romp falls into old clichés of his own the girl lying on a bed being pleasured by some man whilst from the pillow cam we see the apathy in her eyes the general and ennui of a woman who finds no satisfaction in hedonism cute stuff but ain't the place for it and in addition to the barbarella outfits and irrelevant erotic themes jane fonda's awful american accent and unconvincing performance as a european countess made this the worst casting since julia roberts in that lousy version of dr jekyll mr hyde br br william wilson br br here's a great poe story about the madness that claims a man when he realizes that he is no longer unique in the world if you really want to see a fantastic visual interpretation of this theme go watch star trek episode 27 the alternative factor but here malle over that central theme and instead focuses on any guesses yup eroticism sadism and debauchery ho hum brigitte role is a complete fabrication to accomplish that end and once again the director distorts a classic poe story into a masturbatory catharsis of his own unrequited sexual issues do it on your own time malle i thought we're here on poe's dime br br toby dammit br br the absolute worst of the three and possibly the worst film i've seen since staying alive at least fellini showed some tact in changing the title but his departure from the original plot theme and humour of the story is so vast i wonder if he just picked this reel out of his private collection of home movies stamped edgar allen poe story on it and submitted it to this collection i strained very hard to find any thread of familiarity with poe's works but there was absolutely none br br the original poe story never bet the devil your head is a short and hilarious dark fable about a man who constantly exclaims i'll bet the devil my head on a foggy morning the devil takes him up on his offer the result is the sickest and silliest thing you've ever read this was poe the comedian at his finest yes poe wrote many comedies also check out a predicament and devil in the if you want a taste of his witty satirical works br br this fellini version it's bland soulless and not funny at all unless you consider it funny to see a drunk stumbling over himself for 45 minutes here fellini's egotistical rant is about an artist struggling with the hypocrisy pretense and mediocrity of cinema most of it is set at an awards ceremony where fellini beats us over the head with sarcasm cynicism and that classic sour grapes attitude that we find in all fellini films dealing with cinema note the sarcastic jabs at the critics a recurring theme in fellini's films for someone who considered himself above the critics fellini sure spent a lot of time talking about them at any rate i feel like fellini just took some outtakes from 8 1 2 spliced them together and sold it as a poe story worst adaptation ever br br i think i put more effort into typing this review than any of the three directors put into making a poe movie
0	i saw this film in the movie theater i was taking classes at the second city chicago and of course the buzz of this movie was intense it is a woodward film about one of second city's native sons br br everyone knew about johns history everyone knew how he died some even knew that the lore did not make him out to be particularly friendly towards women in improv or comedy br br but hey the man led his life and he was loved intensely by the people who were in his world and lore also states that he treated all of his close friends with love and respect br br this movie well forget the idea of poor michael who is a really great actor being in a really astonishingly bad film and really only relegated to doing an impersonation of the man br br forget the idea that they could not get the rights to any of belushi's work and all the snl scenes never happened that they portrayed in the movie br br screw the idea that half of the historical information in the film did not even follow bob work kinda saying okay we are about to mess with belushi now lets go after woodward too they also decided to take the premise of it's a wonderful life and turn it into it's a horrible life on crack br br is he a guardian angel or the devil is the pinball machine the devil's assistant electronic device how many different endings can you tack onto to a movie it is one of those movies after it is over you look at the person you are with and in stunned disbelief go what the hell was that in some circles this movie has become a kinda cult classic but for good reason br br a good cult classic you sit around the screen and make fun of or throw out snappy one liners to the screen a cult film is never good and most people would never watch them in any serious context br br if you want to watch some classic bad late 80's fair stoned rent wired if you want to know about john belushi you can get more information off of the walls of second city chicago than this movie
0	this could have been a good biopic but what a mess i had this film when i was a theater manager when i put the film together and watched it i thought i had some reels out of order as it turned out i didn't and if i did nobody would have noticed i couldn't figure out what's going on everybody who walked out pretty much felt the same way
0	wired would have to rate as one of the ten worst films i have ever seen the writing and direction show a stunning lack of imagination and i'm sure that most of the actors still cringe whenever anyone mentions this film br br it fails to work either as a tribute to belushi's unique talent or as an accurate account of his short life br br a pointless mess with no redeeming features
0	this movie narrate the story of john belushi based of his biography wrote by bob woodward all of movie is narrate on flashback without a chronological order where after the death of john belushi we see one angel accompany belushi during few points of his life michael in the character of john belushi is enough credible but entirely devoid of the devastate force of belushi and his play stay only a pale animation the director on more not succeed to give on the story that for who not knows the book is very confused but the worse is that they have featured bob woodward that spoke with belushi before he died for this negative points the movie is only a would be attempt to narrate the controversial story of john belushi my rate is 4
0	and i have seen a lot of films i saw this in the theatre in 1989 and to this day i remember the sickening urge to walk out if you like john belushi respect his talent or even the sanctity of the cinema this film has nothing to offer you it is mostly a pathetic showcase for the writer of belushi's biography bob woodward as we see the progression of belushi's life pass on the screen woodward actually shows up in the film like a ghost character the most offensive scene occurs when belushi is dying looks up from his deathbed to see the author standing above him and he weakly utters breathe for me woodward there are too many terrible things to mention them all the least of which is the opening that has belushi jumping out of his body bag in the morgue and getting into a taxi driven by a guy named angel i'll leave it at that
0	journalist bob blistering scattershot and sometimes suspect account of actor john belushi's rise and fall becomes a wholly misjudged movie a nebulous fantasy directed by larry as if he were doing something edgy and vital michael chiklis years before his breakthrough on the shield is put in the unenviable position of portraying belushi taking a post mortem trip through his life recreating those saturday night live skits which are now part of tv history it's like watching someone try to out lucy lucille ball it can't be done the reason why there was such sorrow at belushi's death was because he was one of a kind chiklis makes a commendable attempt at looking the part and he's funny in an early scene trying to escape from the morgue still it's an uphill venture and no actor no matter how talented could have saved it from
0	any film school student could made a film 1 000 times better than piece of garbage as someone who had read the book i expected even a straight re telling of the book would make this a fair film there was a chance that a talented director could go beyond narrative and make a great film br br well the director did go beyond narrative he added a hip hispanic angel named that was not in the book he had bob woodward interview the dead belushi in an exchange in the morgue the film had all the insight of someone stoned on pcp staring at his navel br br if this is a spoiler to you you will thank me for it because it is absolutely the worst movie ever made
0	rented this one by mistake thinking it was another film with the same title and realizing that i had rented it some time before br br quick plot line a couple consisting of an artist and photographer rent a studio apartment in los angeles from joe estevez still cursing the fact his brother martin sheen could actually act they find a bed in a forgotten room but the bed is haunted by a nasty looking serial killer from the 1930's and his last victim their ghosts inhabit the couple first enhancing their sex life but eventually becoming more menacing br br what ensues is cheap r rated sex scenes cheaper thrills and kind of a waste of time
0	after seeing the dvd release of the blues brothers and their mention of wired on belushi's bio my boyfriend and i were hungry for more information on john belushi i had heard of wired but didn't know too much about it and found it way in the back of the local rental store i understand that dan akroyd was really p ed over this movie and i thought it was because it didn't portray them in a good light but that had nothing to do with it br br the movie starts out okay until they wheel in john's body to the morgue when he wakes up on the autopsy table and decides to run for it then begins the utter tastelessness of this movie john is subjected to viewing his life and all of the turmoil he created with angel a puerto rican cab driver with a wicked sense of humor subjecting him to criticism and attempting to try to get him to cross over br br the two actors who portray john and dan look nothing even remotely close to the real actors let alone anyone else related for that matter i e lorne michaels making it difficult to really try to concentrate on them and how they were in real life but that is the tip of the iceberg br br i believe this was supposed to be an artsy film john constantly being tormented by drugs i e the powdered soap in the bathroom being cocaine in such a way that was also difficult to follow the flashbacks are choppy also making it difficult to understand br br probably the most tasteless scene was when john is literally forced to undergo his autopsy and is in pain while they remove his heart to weigh it saying that it was abnormally large due to drug use obesity yeah we get the point without the grotesque portrayal br br there are very few other actors we know of in the movie where's carrie fisher for instance they were incredibly close and jim belushi would have been a great person to show it looks very cheaply made we felt it looked as if the graphics were from the early 80s or late 70s it felt as if it was filmed in about a week and all in all didn't show the side to john at all i felt i knew a little bit more about him from watching episodes of saturday night live br br on one last note bob woodward comes across narcissistic by placing himself in the movie arguing with john about writing his life story for someone who was supposed to be very highbrow concerning the bust on nixon his calibur of person could match any writer in the national enquirer and therefore losing my interest in any of his work from this point forward br br skip this movie if you want to see more on john watch his movies see clips of dan akroyd talking about him or hope someone has the taste to make another movie on john that goes along the lines of man on the moon which is ultimately what we were expecting i guess this was a moral kind of movie you know don't do drugs but i guess the creators of this film didn't understand that his death made a number of people like carrie fisher stop doing drugs altogether for that reason
0	plodding maybe that should have been the title bad dialogue delivered at a snail's pace all the characters are single dimension with the exception of one unfortunately that character has some of the worst lines and does not seem to fit into this cliché ridden two hour drag having grown up in the seventies this film is seriously lacking in detail atmosphere and authenticity surprisingly this was produced by kelsey grammar someone who should recognize sharp dialogue and a consistent narrative in a script cameron richardson is about the only element that lights up this film robin music is also a welcomed addition
0	i saw this on a screener dvd a couple months before it was released br br i liked the main characters and the overall story but some scenes are pretty sloppy and confusing the sets were fitting but a few just looked like left overs from freaks geeks or reminded me of a cell phone commercial shot in a middle class home definitely not what the dvd cover claims destined to be the next stoner classic hardly br br wardrobe and hairstyles are done well and yes there are some really pretty girls in this always nice to see a good looking cast br br almost every scene contained guitar that just droned on and on sound design was a bit poor i think less would have been best
0	when i think of a 1970s period film this is not what i think of i don't want a monotonous one song robin soundtrack i want a soundtrack punctuated with the top 40 bubblegum songs of the day that epitomized the '70s the generic karaoke style disco music during the prom scene was especially annoying the acting if you can call it that was very wooden and seemed just read from script in monotone the film quality and camera work was horrid the dialog murky the script seemed thrown together without much thought and the plot was thin if not nonexistent i can't believe people are giving it the high ratings i've read here basically a forgettable poor attempt at recreating a beloved era of the past two stars is all i can come up with sorry guys
0	i disagree in calling this a stoner movie just because weed also makes an appearance i can't imagine this as even approaching stoner classic that would be like calling singles a grunge film the movie definitely plods along with a murky plot at times i wondered if the script had either been dropped and shuffled or if they lost it entirely and just tried to wing it watching this movie reminded me of watching children play acting and making the story up as they go along br br the characters are wooden the dialog is taxed and the whole story seems to be completely disconnected who got killed when what and this is how you act when your friend overdoses complete lack of emotion and utter disconnect from reality br br as for the droning guitar soundtrack that accompanies each scene enough it was like watching the opening menu screen where the same track loops endlessly in the background neither moving forward or back br br i kept watching and hoping that the plot would somehow fall in to order the acting and dialog would improve or something somehow would focus this mess in to a coherent movie after 112 minutes it never happened
0	the acting made you feel like you were watching a kindergarten play the story is full of holes and gaps and skips around so you have no idea as to what just happened half the scenes are pointless there is not an inkling of character development the score soundtrack consists of about three songs one in particular is played in about 70 of the scenes i'm glad i only rented the movie yet i still feel cheated avoid this movie at all costs unless you want to see some decent actors give horrible performances it seems like the bulk of the budget was spent on putting a few name brand actors in this less than bad film this movie is equivalent to visiting a strip club it tries to get you excited and interested but just as you think something is going to happen your thrown into some unrelated scene and left trying to figure out how you arrived there
0	the recent dvd release of good humor man labels the film as comedy it's hardly a comedy rather a dull indie film about a group of losers supposedly set in the 70s there is scant attention paid to period details with overly muted color correction taking its place the monotonous soundtrack only serves to accentuate the repetitiveness of the film perhaps that is the point but it does not add to the enjoyment of the viewing experience the clique of losers only like to hang out at one location the bleachers it seems like the packaging of the film as a comedy is meant to deceive people into renting or buying this film which is a complete waste of time
0	have you ever read a book then seen the movie and wonder how did they screw it up so bad this is one of those the book by nobody likes a drunken indian was great riotously funny this movie is not it seems as though nobody cared enough to move the direction along so we cared about the characters this movie which touches on some real concerns about indians makes you wonder why we haven't seen more comedies about the holocaust or slavery not well done
0	similar story line done many times before and this was no improvement br br 15 minutes into this and you should pretty much be able to turn it off the ending was deja vu all over again br br the only morals i could see out of this are stupidity criminals do not equal success if he screwed you before he's gonna do it again
0	in the mid 1800s irishman dennis hopper as daniel morgan emigrates to australia seeking a share of the gold instead mr hopper finds himself branded and thrown in a torturous prison there he is gang raped upon release hopper hooks up with aborigine david gulpilil as billy with whom he seeks revenge upon sadistic bill hunter as sergeant smith jack thompson as detective and others eventually vengeance becomes heroism hopper is admired and assisted by the common people and hunted by corrupt and powerful authorities hopper's scarcely human performance certainly fits the disjointed feel of the film mr gulpilil heads up a strong supporting cast the personnel involved in mad dog morgan make it not only worth a look but also a huge disappointment br br mad dog morgan 1976 philippe mora dennis hopper david gulpilil bill hunter
0	karen and her boyfriend jerry move into their new los angeles apartment they discover an old brass bed that karen takes a liking to unfortunately it has a really sinister history involving kinky sex murders deathbed tries to be a creepy supernatural tale but fails miserably the action is slow the acting is nothing special and there is no suspense whatsoever even the sex scenes are lame the climax is pretty gory and violent so fans of splatter should be pleased however the first hour of deathbed is deadly dull and offers some tired horror movie conventions and cheap scares definitely one to avoid my rating 4 out of 10 and that's being generous watch re animator or castle freak instead
0	this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen there is not a shred of historical accuracy in fact reality is reversed just one example morgan preyed on the few ethnic chinese he encountered the acting is over the top the script is a poorly written lie i have never seen worse fake beards br br hopper arrived in australia and reportedly only would make the film if the script was totally rewritten so he could be a hero since the script was ten made up on the fly the may explain how bad it is and how disjointed the movie is br br any movie about ned kelly is a lot better than this film
0	the recent release of mad dog morgan on troma dvd is disappointing this appears to be a censored print for television viewing some of the more violent scenes have been edited and portions of the colorful language have been removed anyone who viewed the film uncut will be mad as hell at this toxic dvd version mad dog morgan deserves to be released on dvd in the original theatrical cut however even as released on dvd the film is still one of the better depictions of bushranger life in nineteenth century australia after having toured the old melbourne gaol with death masks of convicts on display it is mad dog morgan that comes to mind
0	now out of all the shark movies i've seen this one takes the cake the plot of the movie was good but the excitement factor sort of took a nosedive afterwards antonio jr does an excellent role as a son who seeks the shark who killed his father a is one of the biggest sharks of all and the most dangerous one as well the view of the shark was indeed scary in some angles but the effects were a blur and the scenes were a little weak in some places with the mini weapons there that would take out a whole school of sharks there it was great that the son would get the exact revenge on that monstrosity although it would indeed cost him his life as well like they say revenge has it's price but was it worth it that answer could go on and on and this movie was a major letdown the beginning was fine and at the end it went like the titanic 1 out of 5 stars
0	this could have been good but sadly its too anthony sabato jr has a grudge please i wanted to like it love shark movies someone should have asked my opinion before they wrote this ha ha the shark is cool but the story lacks alot
0	this is one of the worst movies ever there is a scene where they are supposed to be underwater and they are literally walking on land and they added bubbles the shark is boring and is just this big slow computer generated silly thing antonio sabato is horrible i mean even worse than normal how does this guy work the directing is the worst and there is nothing redeemable in the entire films i love shark movies and this one just disappoints i've seen this studios movies before and everything they do has some star on their way down doing bad work i'd rather see an unknown actor who cares about making a good story
0	a really awful movie about a 30 meters long shark bad story bad discussions bad characters bad plot even a confusing ending a complete a waist of time in my point of view i thought it was a tv movie but then i saw it was not i cant imagine having paid to see this load of crap please avoid this movie at any cost even if u liked jaws which i averagely did don't see it even if you have interests in don't see it even if you like corny movies with corny actors corny plots during corny tv time do humanity a favor and do not i repeat do not pollute your mind with this ridiculous excuse for a sci fi animal thriller still some people gave it a ten ranting don't know if they were serious or not but sincerely expect they weren't
0	hey what a great idea to open a film show someone s home movie drama schools must be full of idiots there they are taking drama lessons hoping to become the next big thing in hollywood when all you have to do is send a home movie to a studio hey i think i ll send in the video of my wedding and call it the greatest romance ever seen or send in a tape of my honeymoon and call it the greatest sex ever seen oh hold on i m not married and i ve never been on honeymoon not to worry i ll send in a video of someone elses wedding honeymoon br br mild spoilers br br you d think with an opening like that shark hunter could only improve wouldn t you as shocking as it may seem the home movie is the best directed best written and best acted part of the film alas it s all downhill from here as the family go to sea in reality a fog shrouded swimming pool in a three foot yacht where mom and dad get eaten by a cgi fin and their son spencer swears revenge against the fin cut forward to the present day and the french are using an underwater research base for oil exploration only thing is and it s so obvious you can t fail to notice this it s not filmed underwater the director hasn t made any attempt whatsoever to even use the unconvincing technique of shooting the scene through a fish tank the underwater research base is blown up by the shark maybe it s hired by killing everyone inside and spencer now a grown man is hired to hunt down the shark that killed his parents and a bunch of frenchmen what else happens no idea because i decided to watch something else br br no hard feelings if any of the cast and crew are reading this and i do hope matt becomes a big fish in hollywood you think you know about sharks matt you t seen nothing yet
0	i was enticed into watching shark hunter by the comments posted on imdb the movie was bad but the shark was cool blah blah blah so i rented it bad idea this movie was bad on so many levels that i'm glad that i had the option to fast forward the shark itself is ok it's appearance is decent and it is the only thing saving this movie from getting a 1 i gave it a 2 the acting is incredibly bad and the dialogue is just as deplorable i wasn't expecting much but i was continually surprised by this suckfest antonio sabato jr is some kind of biologist or scientist or something i wasn't really paying attention he goes down with the expendable crew of this submarine to find out what happened to this underwater station that the shark took out of course by the way all the scenes that show someone working underwater are not underwater first of all if they are just going down to find out what happened to this station what's with all the huge tranquilizer darts and the and stuff are these things that you normally carry with you when investigating a accident the shark theory was advanced by antonio while on the way so it not like they went in knowing what they were up against antonio and this young college student horrible actress by the way just jump to the controls of the sub when the sub is in trouble what is with that unless everyone is getting some kind of sub training before leaving high school i find this a little silly the director seems to think that if crew members are working in the background then it is a good idea to put someone welding in the background metal crafting is very important when your on a sub i guess anyway i could go on but i've said too much already bottom line go to your local video store rent this video and then destroy it then send email asking imdb to remove all record of this movie from their site all memory and evidence of this movie must be destroyed we can do it if we work together
0	at last a film to rival 'el and 'darkness falls' in terms of sheer and utter dullness this is actually the first film i've ever given 1 out of 10 for on imdb and with good reason br br for one the cast is nothing special that's usually not a problem for me except that the only character that's in anyways interesting or different from all the rest is grand l bush's harrington secondly the production values a substandard television sci fi such as 'stargate' has more convincing sets and all of the underwater scenes not handled by the sfx teams are filmed on dry sets with that aren't very convincing this film is literally the worst part though is that this film is boring for the first 45 minutes i felt as if we were going round and round in circles it's a prehistoric shark bullsh t no really bullsh t i'm not making this up bullsh t there it is now i didn't see anything let me guess yup bullsh t after then it picks up ever so slightly for about twenty minutes or so then we're back to the dialog run around dialog is not a bad thing but that's all this film has characters talking that too is not a bad thing except this film isn't very good at it the dialog is often contrived and clichéd and is not very interesting to listen to i don't see any point slandering the special effects this film has worse qualities br br the sets are small and unrealistic the acting is sub par the script oh lord the script is worse than a garbage of sci fi television has to dredge up it makes you wonder where the budget of this film is or was br br yet another awful awful addition to the there's about four series of films bring on steve please
0	the plot of this movie revolves around this submarine builder who's a real bastard and he wants to launch his new sub that can travel thousands of feet deep unfortunately he can't oh yeah and he's haunted by the memories of his mom and dad getting eaten by a megalodon when he was a child the guy meets some scientist whos pretty hot and they and this crew of about a hundred people set out on the main character's submarine to kill the same megalodon that killed his parents now the shark in this movie is a really fake looking cgi shark basically this is sorta like shark attack 3 except more depressing if you don't get what i mean listen the film's opening credits show home movies of the main character when he was a child with his parents before they got killed and there's really sad and depressing piano music playing in the background you would expect to see a shark or something and you do a brief shadow of the cgi shark floats around every few seconds but that's just it also i don't remember one happy facial expression at all throughout the film's entire runtime a majority of the film takes place in the dark depths of the abyss where the story gets even more dull and all the characters the shark too die in the end i was thinking sabato would manage to kill the shark and manage to save himself and the girl but no they all die and the film ends with the shark all blown up and the submarine with sabato's crushed and burned body in it sinking into the abyss if you're a happy person and you don't enjoy being depressed then avoid this movie if you're the opposite then congratulations you found your movie
0	i saw this movie previewed before something else i rented a while back and it looked decent i've seen some good stuff from full moon video and thought it was worth a shot unfortunately this was not good stuff br br the story is about a possessed bed a couple moves into a new apartment discovers the bed and odd things start happening odd things like the woman discovers kinky sex and the man discovers kinky sex and the woman draws pictures of kinky sex and the man photographs kinky sex and they both start having dreams about dead people having kinky sex you'd think a movie with so much kinky sex would be good right br br well no the problem is that this is supposed to be a scary movie or at least a thriller and it just doesn't deliver there is little tension no suspense and no fear aside from some troubling dreams and visions there really isn't anything for this couple to be worried about the whole movie is basically the two of them having these visions and playing around in bed sure you get a monster fight at the end and some bloodshed but nothing spectacular there's only one murder and one good scare and that's it br br and the kinky sex don't get your hopes up or anything else for that matter their idea of kinky sex is woman on top fully clothed trying to strangle her mate with a necktie not exactly my idea of a good time
0	i'm not really sure where to begin from start to finish bad stinky bad like stepping into a port a john on a 100 degree day if you force yourself to watch this as i did keep some vicodin handy for the pain i will never understand how flicks this bad make it past the cutting room without the entire reel ending up on the floor the movie is a cross between gumby rides pokey meets the terminator meets wally beaver playing cowboys and indians without the cowboys i've seen better animation in the original cut of the blob you will get more entertainment from watching gone with the wind while suffering from the puke and poops bad acting and hokey lines will have you squirming and wishing you had rented peewee's big top or watched every episode of gilligan's island back to back ugh i'm going to go slit my wrist now
0	i thought i could see something good but i am tired after seeing this movie i don't know what i hated the most the script the acting the fx or the music try to picture the worst power rangers episode and would still be to kind i've seen better fx in fps games the touch with the bone sword or his breath that is making the people disappear in a green smoke is touch of genius and the music seems to come from a spaghetti western i did liked how the women in the car was screaming when the monster was walking around the car even if she's looking in the wrong way so give your self a break and don't watch this thing at least call somebody up to see a horror movie with you trust me you will end up playing monopoly for some kicks
0	sci fi channel thinks this is sci fi it's a shame big bugs snakes mythical beasties on and on they persist br br some one at universal had the brains to include battlestar galactica the new good one and firefly for a brief moment in their line up i know they know they difference between total garbage and extremely high quality sci fi br br a few years back they were on about how they were going all high and mighty making productions that were not just for us mere lame o trekkies thanks so much sci fi you know you make movies so bad even trekkies won't watch them so you achieved your goal fire serpent ice spiders manticore larva etc and a vast unrelenting crap storm later and they're still churning out just faster than the latest flu virus how they do it is beyond my ken why they do it i just don't know how they can ignore these reviews comments blogs and e mails i don't know either but it's clear they don't think much of their audience or care about our opinions they seem to think this is what sci fi fans want you would think one or two good productions with some sense would creep through when whoever green lights this junk is on vacation at least they're employing the collection of misfit toys many of the sci fi movie of the week actors were in science fiction shows once and now need the cash love you folks and hope you get some better work
0	sorry after watching the credits i thought this would at least be a decent homage to retiring sf actors br br boy was i wrong br br the direction and story telling in this pos are terrible i have never been so insulted by a production br br i have great respect and love for many of the actors in this film but have to say they were conned br br if you haven't seen this debacle yet do yourself a favor and stay away these are not only two hours you won't get back but they will also ruin your respect for some actors you may once have enjoyed
0	i knew five minutes after the monster made his appearance where his was going but when i saw the beginning credits i said oh my god bruce walter koenig from star trek gil gerard from buck rogers and he's almost unrecognizable then i saw john callahan who used to star on my favorite soap all my childen put on a few pounds but he can still act then there was veronica hamill too bad i didn't sick around to see her in the film i bailed out 20 minutes into he film it was that bad never did see william katt from perry mason and the american hero br br all these stars and one lousy film i hope hey got their paycheck br br bad bad bad
0	this movie was beyond awful it was a pimple on the a s of the movie industry i know that every movie can't be a hit or for that matter even average but the responsible parties that got together for this epic dud should have been able to see that they had a ticking time bomb on their hands i can't help but think that the cast would get together in between scenes and console each other for being in such a massive heap of dung i can hear it now you getting' paid nope you i understand that this flick was more than likely made on a shoe string budget but even with that taken into account it still could've been better you wait for the appearance of a monster creature and when you finally see it it's a big yawn i'm so mad at myself for spending a 1 07 on this stinker
0	i used to think that it couldn't get worse that army of the dead but this load of crap makes the afore mentioned movie look like the godfather the special effects are horrible makes the original nintendo graphics look like hdtv when it comes the acting put it this way i went to a play with my 6 year old niece in it and she gave an oscar worthy performance when compared to these d list and that's being kind about it actors and actresses so basically if i had a gun to my head and head to chose between watching this movie again or chopping my own arm off with a dull knife that's a tough choice you know what who needs two arms anyways
0	if you're like me and you occasionally enjoy watching terrible movies i guess it's kind of like slowing down at a car crash you can't do better than this the plot is inane the special effects are hilarious and the acting is some of the worst you'll ever see 4 thumbs down seriously i have no idea how the director and the actors can sleep at night it's painful and yet hysterically funny to watch and i highly recommend it for those who want to punish themselves for something if you can watch this crap without wincing you're a better man than i'll ever be i wonder if the producer of this garbage had any idea what he was getting himself and his money into
0	a great cast a fantastic cgi monster and a brilliant script if this film had had any of those things then it might not have been amongst the worst films i've ever wasted an hour and a half on infinite chimpanzees with infinite typewriters have not yet written the complete works of shakespeare but along the way this has appeared in their waste paper bin and somehow it got made into a movie you can tell the the actors regret signing those contracts with every word they mutter directly into camera the cgi is amateurish in the extreme and they might have created more tension of the cast had been attacked with the sinclair spectrum it was created on i wanted to like this film it has nice cameo appearances by gil gerard and walter koenig so i expected a fun horror movie that didn't take itself too seriously it actually does try to take itself seriously but is about as much fun as trip to the dentist do yourself a favour don't watch this movie you'll only encourage them to make more
0	as other posters have commented this was a very very bad movie keeping it kid friendly fx was low class they should of spent the 1 on a coke as is typical with these d movies most victims die and leave a mystery except for one lucky soul and of course the lead hope the money was worth it for really really big step down from babylon 5 nice to see what happened to buck rogers but damn this was low even for him ' it was so bad and on the older actors you could even seem to tell that they thought it was bad also don't watch br br warning spoiler below br br this thing chased down everyone it was after and yet boxlietner got away that was pure bs and the ending how in the hell did the kids end up right there with him that was just too much stupidity
0	the twilight zone has achieved a certain mythology about it much like star trek that's because there are many devoted lovers of the show that no matter what think every episode was a winner they are the ones who score each individual show a 10 and cannot objectively evaluate the show because of this a while back i reviewed all the original star trek episodes the good and the bad because the overall ratings and reviews were just too positive now it's time to do the same for the twilight zone br br now i was very surprised when i saw reviews for this bland episode that described it as being among the best and gave it scores of 10 if this is the case then why is it that everyone i know who has seen this episode hates it as much as i do it's possible that me and my family and friends are all cranks but it's also possible this is yet another case of rabid fans rabidly inflating the rating on an average or below average episode br br the episode itself stars william windom and others as various archetypes a soldier a dancer etc they are all stuck in a room with no escape and only at the end do you realize the shocking truth which isn't at all shocking and is in fact majorly lame no this is a badly written and unengaging episode yes there were plenty of episodes of the series that deserved a 10 but few as undeserving as this one due to a shallow script and an unappealing resolution
0	while trying to build a major mall or complex or something like that a wealthy landowner ignores ancient native american artifacts buried on the land and unleashes the bone eater a creature who goes around and kills people in search of his fallen friends or something like that br br indeed this movie had to be a sci fi channel original if it wasn't then the director should never direct anything again the effects in the film is laughable at best and the bone eater monster is nothing but a cgi animated being added into the frames at a later date the actors don't even look all that frightened when they see the thing probably because they really don't and they're just terrible actors it's a great comedy though even if it's supposed to be pure horror
0	i agree with all the comments posted so far this movie was a waste of time and energy for viewers as well as those who made it terrible cgi awful script stupid plot and hey the setting is alabama but it looks like california but the worst thing has got to be the native american angle on this which pulls in every stereotype you can think of from the chief surrounded by smoke the angry warrior people speaking without using contractions do not do this thing native american pipes playing in thin air etc it just shows such a lack of respect and understanding that i was tearing out my hair a native american with any ounce of self respect would have tossed their tv out the window at this trash so in closing i'd say this movie is pretty much an offense to everyone
0	construction workers disrupt the native american burial ground of a large hulking skeletal monster which disintegrates it's victims with it's touch breath or bone sword the head honcho over the resort project krantz jim storm orders his construction crew to keep their skeletal findings secret for much would halt the continuing development if the nearby katona tribe caught wind that remains were being dug up and disturbed an aging bruce likable as always stars as half breed sheriff evans trying to keep peace between the and crew the peace was strained at best but with that skeletal monster running rampant making it's victims vanish without a trace soon krantz wants answers to why members of his crew are missing evans begins losing citizens as well evans is warned by katona chief storm cloud michael horse that an ancient demon the bone eater has been loosened and can only be stopped with a sacred war axe the axe was removed by a worker who found it's remains with the weapon inside now in the back seat of his daughter kelly's clara bryant who wears tight jeans and shirts to reveal how daddy's girl has grown into quite a striking lady boyfriend's truck evans must somehow defeat the demon if the killing will stop and this must occur before the eclipse or it's power will become too strong for anyone to vanquish br br a solid cast floundering in an embarrassing horror outing the cgi isn't very good although the monster could've been quite threatening if done with a better budget it rides a horse made from dust chasing after it's prey for some cameo appearances include buck rogers gil gerard as evan's deputy big jim star trek's walter koenig as a coroner house's william katt as a country doctor attending to the wounds of evan's deputy none of these cameos last longer than one minute or so sad really impresses in an underwritten role as a brooding katona johnny black hawk who wishes to use the bone eater to drive the white man off his tribe's land jennifer lee wiggins portrays a tasty dish of a katona female whose against black hawk's hatred for the white man and wishes for evans to follow his indian blood regarding putting an end to the bone eating monster this might be worth sitting through if just to see dressed in war paint and indian garb i felt for the actor to be honest as bruce tries to keep a straight face in such a terrible movie in yet another over worked and tiresome cliché bruce's sheriff has an estranged relationship with his daughter whose 17 hot and wanting to date the bad boy although this winds up being an underwritten sub plot as is most of the plot concerning the killing skeleton and many of the poorly developed characters
0	bad bad and did i mention bad aside from the comical monster terrorizing the workers the funniest part of the movie was when are in the desert and one comments that they have an hour of daylight left but you can clearly see by their shadows and the bright sky that it's probably only 2 or 2 30 in the afternoon talk about consistency read the script director br br the only cool part of this movie besides the rack on clara bryant of course as another reviewer mentioned is the phantom skeleton horse that the bone eater rides on that thing was pretty cool as it chased the on their motorcycles
0	well i'd probably agree with all the bad comments about this movie cos honestly i thought it was such a piece of crap i mean the actors had done a terrible acting job and the script was all terrible although the special effects wasn't a bit bad but i think the should have thought a lot harder than that i mean how did clara bryant get successfully put into this film i mean she'd do a lot better if she looked a bit further and that goes the same with kristen honey i mean her character dies and she doesn't bother to try and defend herself i mean it's gotta be a total joke she should at least do a lot better than what she an do like become a soldier or more of a heroine or something along the lines of bravery but the point is the actors did a complete soulless lousy job and so did the director and the writer who made this film they should've went into film school to think up some better ideas and i hope everyone agrees with my methods cos they are probably thinking the same thing
0	all i can do is laugh wow i like jim movies i really do i mean chopping mall is a classic but this what happened to this guy he used to make funny horror movies that tried to be good but this was hardly even funny i mean i guess it was because i laughed the villain is incredible i mean horrible cgi it looks terrible and the movie has no gore and no nudity as redeeming qualities it is rated pg 13 a movie named bone eater you know won't be a blockbuster movie you know it probably won't have a smart script a movie like this may rely on gore but no it doesn't rely on anything really it's just crap check it out if you want to laugh though but don't expect a good movie i hope jim wynorski goes back to movies like chopping mall and ghoulies iv because this and komodo vs cobra ain't cutting it
0	another indian legend you never heard of before is let loose as the name implies this is a vengeful wraith who likes to absorb the skeletons of people while they're still using them as usual ancient burial grounds can you say poltergeist have been disturbed by clichéd greedy land developers building stuff br br the cgi if it had been better might have made the effect more treacherous looking but they skimped on the budget and it shows to comical effect the unleashed creature probably should have been kept off stage during its first several killings that might have added some mystery or impending doom atmosphere but the inept director decided to show us in the first five minutes what it looks like and it wasn't impressive the deaths are just poorly done again with shoddy cgi i guess ancient spirits always kill by using cheap special effects as for the victims they look they're going to laugh any moment while they do goofy screams it's always obvious who's going to get it a character with only a few lines shows up strange noises are heard cgi dots fly exit character repeat several times br br still there's a few chase scenes featuring the monster that actually made this thing watchable unfortunately the director seems to be using these as a device to fall back on so it's used too often when he can't think of anything else for his characters to do overall it's pretty silly but i've seen worse this flick is cheap but it's oddly fun to watch
0	now before i tell you the synopsis this is a non spoiler review bone eater hits its mark for being the worst movie of the year i don't know how these movies even get onto dvd if i saw this in theaters i would get extremely upset bone eater is about these people who dig up an ancient burial ground and find some bones it's the eater' and the more bones he eats the more powerful he gets br br first of all i thought okay well the dvd artwork looks creepy and it sounds creepy when i rented it and looked at the dvd label it looked scary but then when i played it in i could agree on one thing the title eater' is better than the movie itself tell me what's more stupid a bone eater that just attacks by throwing a bone ate you and you disappear don't worry that's not a spoiler you see that happen in the first 5 minutes or is it more stupid that eater' has a horse you know what i think is the stupidest the whole movie br br the cgi is awful yeah i thought the idea of eater' was creepy but once you see the actual thing you think this is some kind of action movie or just a cruel mean joke the film felt longer than titanic and this was half an hour once the film actually has its moments of suspense it just stops i admit the acting was not the best but actually decent and that the violence wasn't over the top but everything else is a stinker br br overall bone eater is a film you can skip if you like interesting movies with great creatures great cgi and suspense eater' is a film to skip if you like bad movies no matter how cheesy they are then eater' will satisfy
0	with the exception of the fine rack on clara evans this show was pretty bad so why did i watch it too much coffee and had to relax before hitting the sack watching bb change into his lamest big chief outfit was amusing at best downright laughable at worst br br i could have made a better and special effects on my dell br br boxlietner has seen better days this guy is a year younger than me and he's looking more and more like the scarecrow from his tv series days back in the early 1980 the women eye candy need to go back to acting school although evans size 40 and playing a 17 year old she's in her early 20s was a stretch the sci fi channel has done better that this but for us folks that don't get out to the bars much anymore i guess we have to take what we can get after all anything that gets you away form cnn and fox coverage of election 2008 these day is a good thing
0	yes thats that i felt after i completed watching this movie the acting is below average and the special effects are horrible in fact the worst i have ever seen it is a very low budget movie there is no way this movie will can scare you it has no creepy or scary moments mr bone eater was more of a funny creature for me it could have been much better but oh well they didn't had a big budget the movie fails to convince you that you are watching a horror movie lol i would name this movie the time eater waster i am sure you would have a lot of better movies etc to watch still watch it if 1 you have nothing else to watch 2 you get to watch it for free not worth renting at all
0	five characters in search of an exit has to be one of the most boring zones ever made it was on sci fi this morning and as usual i changed the channel i put it in my top five list of the worst zones ever produced dull and predictable and not worth watching serling worked this theme to death earthlings in the hands of aliens who often were giants and in this particular version it just doesn't work anyone who hasn't seen it before will quickly figure it out this is another serling philosophical mood piece perhaps paralleling the plight of those in prisoner of war or concentration camps where the imprisoned may lose interest in finding out where they are or fighting their captors william windom as the soldier who is the last to drop in is the only one curious to make the effort and it doesn't take long to figure the outcome
0	bone eater is set in a small desert town in alabama where property developer dick krantz jim storm is financing the building of a huge resort late one night three of his workers riley timothy starks hansen adrian alvarado miller paul rae are digging foundations in the desert when they unearth what looks like a axe unfortunately for them an ancient native american demon called the bone eater comes along kills them local sheriff steve evans bruce soon has krantz breathing down his neck as the construction of his resort grinds to a halt sheriff evans also has to deal with the bone eater demon as it kills anyone it comes across br br you know i consider myself a fairly big fan of the horror sci fi genre i certainly don't think my opinion is worth more than anyone else's unlike many here on the imdb but please believe me when i say that bone eater is the worst sci fi channel 'creature feature' i have ever seen it's up against some damned strong competition as a horror sci fi fan there are two names that when involved with a film send shudders down my spine in anticipation of how bad it will turn out those names are jesus 'i have no talent' franco who had nothing to do with bone eater jim wynorski who directed the absolute disaster that is bone eater in fact bone eater is so bad wynorski hid under the pseudonym bob robertson when a director as bad as wynorski hides under a pseudonym you know the film must be bad where do i even start bone eater is quite simply the worst film i have seen this year is so bad it's untrue the story is awful the script is sloppy at one point sheriff evans tells kia to meet him at the hospital but when they meet there later he acts surprised says 'what are you doing here ' at one point sheriff evans triumphantly claims that we are in the twentieth century that ancient native american demons are nonsense although actually we are in the twenty first century now there's a part when a woman tells in flashback the story where three men awaken the bone eater it kills them but since it killed all three of them how did anyone else know about it for it to be passed down in legend at times it gets more than a little bit embarrassing the character's are horrible clichés the small town sheriff who saves the day his daughter becomes involved which adds some personal motivation as for the native americans there's an old wise man a young hot head who hates 'white man' a young woman who is the voice of reason between the two who have names like storm cloud black hawk the film is as boring as hell nothing happens the story is awful it's full of plot holes lapses in any sort of logic the set pieces are terrible there's no horror or gore or suspense or mystery bone eater is just the sort of film that makes you lose the will to live br br bone eater has some of the worst cgi computer effects i've seen in a while from the daft looking stiff moving bone eater creature itself which is just a selection of bones magically held together to a motorbike jumping a large gap to an awful cgi truck crashing over the edge of a cliff to a van being tossed to one side by the bone eater whenever the bone eater needs to get some speed up he causes a large horse to form from the sand dust rides it in principal this is actually quite a neat idea but it looks awful the scenes even have cheesy cowboy music on the soundtrack there is one pointless scene at the end when sheriff evans cuts his own arm why it bleeds but apart from that there isn't a single drop of blood in the thing whenever the bone eater kills someone they usually just disappear in a cloud of dust boring the hilariously goofy climatic showdown between sheriff evans the bone eater has to be seen to be believed sheriff evans goes native on horseback complete with tribal war paint on his face while the bone eater also rides his dust horse they have a sort of jousting contest which is just to bad to describe properly br br with a supposed budget of about 700 000 bone eater is filmed in a very bland forgettable flat way there's no sense of style here at all the majority of the film takes place in bright sunlight if you watch it on a decent telly then the desert scenery is quite nice on occasion there are several veteran 'known' actors really slumming it here plays exactly the same role as in the similarly themed but much better 'creature feature' terror 2004 william katt will obviously put his name to any crap as long as he gets paid while ex star trek man walter koenig must be really desperate to agree to appear in this br br bone eater is a truly atrocious 'creature feature' there's really not much more you can say about it other than to steer well clear of it the worst film ever to appear on the sci fi channel that's saying something isn't it
0	ok small town clueless sheriff check sheriff's hot daughter check ne'er do well boyfriend of sheriff's hot daughter whom sheriff hates check corporate land developer who puts profit over people check developer's rank and file accidentally unleashing a primordial monster then being pressured to cover it up check natives warning of mass death and destruction if things are not returned back to the way they were check amateurish cgi special effects that could have been produced by a commodore 64 computer check seriously virtually all the clichés of your typical sci fi original movie have been lumped into a classic so bad it's good movie the only one that's missing is the scientist expert trying to impart his knowledge there is a paleontologist with three students who get ambushed my the bone eater fairly early in the movie but they are basically extras in the movie and i can honestly say that i predicted virtually all of this right down to who survives and who doesn't though i have to say i got the actual death time of one of the characters wrong by about an hour i swear i could have done this movie myself if they gave me all the characters despite all this the movie is fun to watch if for no other reason than to play mst3k with your friends if you're up for some mindless fun it's a great movie to watch which is why i give this movie a surprisingly respectable 4 even though for all intents and purposes it deserves a much much lower rating but then again you wouldn't tune in to a scifi original movie if you were looking for a movie with an actual plot substantive characters or good special effects would you
0	in sweet water the ambitious entrepreneur dick krantz jim storm is constructing a resort in the middle of the desert under the protest of the when three workers find some indian relics and bones in a ditch in the site they accidentally release the giant skeleton like creature known as bone eater and their bones are devoured by the monster the half breed sheriff steve evans bruce a k a running wolf is in charge of the investigation of the disappearance of the workers being pressed by krantz to arrest the protesters but the bone eater attacks and kills other locals while chief storm cloud michael horse seeks an ancient capable of destroying the evil creature br br bone eater is a lame and silly movie with one of the most ridiculous screenplay i have ever seen the characters and situation are not well developed and things happen without any further consequences the conclusion is probably the worse part in this flick with the typical white north american bruce dressed like an indian in the story his grandfather was an indian cutting his own wrist why and where is the blood later and clumsily throwing the axe in the chest of the bone eater destroying the monster and my last hope of any improvement in the story my last question if the bone eater eats bones what happens to the flesh and clothes of his victims my vote is three br br title brazil o de the bone eater
0	i really don't know if this was supposed to be science fiction or horror it was confusing to say the least what really upset me however was the lack of story development between the characters br br the sheriff's bruce 17 year old daughter clara bryant is stuck with him for the summer and they don't spend 30 seconds on screen together at any one time br br the hot native american jennifer lee wiggins apparently has the hots for the sheriff but they don't spend any time together either br br the hot secretary kristen honey ends up dead and she had more acting ability than the other two put together br br the bad developer vs the native americans is an overused story but i personally like evil developers getting theirs as i live in florida br br the only reason i stayed with this was the creature it was original i have never seen anything like it and i am a sucker for new creatures
0	i rented this film courtesy of netflix thinking i would receive the 1972 version i sat clueless watching this new version thinking gee the production values were spectacular i was convinced the soundtrack had a slightly 70s' sound to it i was even more convinced that this was a 70s film when it occurred to me almost every five seconds that the one thing that was missing between gene and finney was an intense hug a loaded stare a passionate kiss br br i'm sorry although john knowles himself has indicated that this was not a homosexual relationship it is painfully obvious that yes that's exactly what it was when people usually adolescents of the same sex have intense friendships it means that those longings for love togetherness the desire to express oneself sexually are all spilling over these boys needed to connect but they were never allowed to br br also despite a spirited performance by toby moore i never felt any of the emotions were real i never connected to either of the boys for the very reason their relationship was not truly honest br br people want to live in a fantasy and think that because this took place in the 1940s that these boys couldn't have had these sexual feelings for each other but i say they did at least in the book they did and in this movie finney had them almost painfully for gene the intensity that john knowles suggests existed between them was a closet homosexuality a hero worship an idolatry that would under normal circumstances be expressed in a sexual way even if these boys were repressing it it should have been crystal clear but this movie doesn't even really hint at it br br lastly there is an unbelievably bizarre moment when finney who has broken his leg is playfully jumped on by all the other boys during a ball game unless they were just a bunch of nincompoops they would know they could not possibly throw their bodies against him obviously this bone shattering moment was lost on both the director and the producer
0	this movie was not very well directed they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying 2 save time the only upside 2 me was that the actor who played was cute some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary also i was surprised not pleasantly by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters leper was poorly interpreted and portrayed he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book over all disappointing
0	john knowles modern masterpiece a separate peace are one of many subtle and subtly is the watch word themes of love hate jealously denial and regret the 1972 version does attempt to address this style and what the book is a love story with war looming in the background br br the 2004 version does not use subtly at all but in the portrayal of the story what is staring you in the face when you read the novel is a love story and yes maybe it is arguable a gay love story in the novel and 1972 film version there are sexual undertones everywhere in the writings and dialog in the 2004 showtime film version these tensions were omitted and the actors were in there late twenties playing teenagers which caused for mature acting taking away from any tenderness or hesitation of innocence in youth br br i did not like this remake for more reasons the hair that broke the back was that phineas was given a surname on the letters he received from the draft boards is a character that does not have nor needs a last name john knowles did that intentionally br br though i accept the 1972 version the acting was at times a little amateurish so what it attempted to be sincere to the novel by shooting on location at phillips exeter academy that the devon acedemy was based on which also the writer john knowles attended as a student br br the directors and producers took all teenage exeter students with exception of parker stevenson whom attended the brooks school to play in a paramount film class act by preppies compared to this canadian college shot played with adult actors politically correct platonic version no veto on this sham try again the 1972 film version with john and parker stevenson was the real deal for a separate peace on the screen the showtime 2004 film made for cable version was not
0	i saw this dvd on sale and bought it without a second thought despite not even having known it was out since this is one of my favorite books of all time as soon as i got home i raced to watch it only to find myself utterly disappointed while it is true that this film is somewhat based on the book the similarities end there the characters are changed ie seems more a pompous jerk than anything else whereas gene seems to be somewhat of a hillbilly scenes are misplaced or altogether changed ie many characters are missing and famous lines thought are missing the movie does attempt to portray some feeling that the previous one lacked but it is done in a lackluster way that makes for a flat boring movie it is the depth of character and feeling that makes the book such a classic and this movie takes those things and utterly destroys them in its rewriting
0	first i must confess that a separate peace is my favorite book so of course i have some bias against any attempt at adapting it for a feature film or television movie but as i began to watch this film i was more than willing to give it the benefit of the doubt the original version from the early 1970s though shot at phillips exeter academy where the book's author attended school and though it stayed as faithful as it could to the book lacked any real depth of feeling and failed to capture the essence of the characters the original seemed to simply go through the motions reading the trivia about the movie you discover that it was cast mostly with non actors thus the original has an amateurish feel to it and it ultimately fails br br this new version though i will grant that it captures the look of the period better than the original seems to have thrown the book out all together scenes are rearranged characters imposed where they don't belong characters created that were not in the book and no attempt was made to delve into the deeper conflicts that make the book so compelling and the cardinal sin of all the tree is not treated as the vital almost central character it is in the book this is an inexcusable oversight on the part of the film makers how could they downplay the role of the tree why was it not introduced immediately why the dead poet esque beginning and what in god's name was up with gene's accent this film is to be blunt garbage a separate peace should not be a difficult book to adapt for the stage or screen john knowles wrote it in a perfectly fine linear style the film makers should have trusted the story as it was already written make changes sure embellish here and there sure take some mild dramatic license sure but destroy one of the pearls of american literature in the process what were they thinking in their corruption of the story line they cut any possibility of suspense or drama the whole movie falls flat and fails miserably br br if you are a high school or college student assigned to read this book and you are thinking of skimping and just watching the movie don't even think about it this film will be of no help to you br br alas we shall have to wait even longer before a version of this story comes to the screen that truly does it justice
0	sheltered young woman home schooled and possibly quite gifted harbors a disturbed overly emotional side which comes to the surface after her absentee father pays her mother a visit asking for a divorce directed by celebrated cinematographer william a this ill titled psychological thriller falls into the trap that most films helmed by directors of photography find themselves in each shot is composed for the utmost style but at the sacrifice of fluid pacing and a tight gripping narrative and his cinematographer lászló are very fond of gauzy whites and golden tones giving the picture a tableaux feel the mansion at the center of the action looks like a funeral parlor and paces the wheezing yarn just like a funeral robert shaw and sally kellerman as shaw's fiancée two of the most interesting actors of the 1970s manage to cut through the plastic overlay and are quite compelling despite the jagged editing which turns their scenes into little bits of half realized business sondra locke another interesting screen personality seems cast for her resemblance to catherine deneuve in repulsion pale and saucer eyed with thick and long hair locke is a curious human puzzle and she's initially quite intimidating and dangerous however this role is so old hat that locke can find nothing fresh to bring out of the deep freeze and she flounders allows locke's freak out scenes to go on and on while shaw looking terrifically debonair is put in the impossible position of playing touchy feely daddy to her all of this nonsense might be worth slogging through if the screenplay had been peppered with a modicum of or at the very least some dry wit or humorous relief as it is lewis john and edward hume's limp script adapted from stanton novel go to thy deathbed strands the viewer early on and only the charisma of the players gets us to the finish line 1 2 from
0	i watched this episode with high hopes after seeing it on so many people's favourite episodes list i'm not boasting in any way but from the start i realised they were in some sort of can with the huge eye looking down on them to the type of characters in there even though throughout the episode the questions of who are we where are we what's outside carry the suspense of the episode which i unfortunately already figured out i must say that different types of characters and the interaction between them did make the episode interesting enough although the twist of the story may have been harder to guess if all of them were toy soldiers
0	lame rip off of the quatermass xperiment 1955 the first half is deadly dull even dreary but the latter stages improve considerably with the scenes involving the rampaging 'monster' in the accompanying featurette a rather dry affair at a mere 9 minutes when compared to the ones created for the other titles in criterion's monsters madmen set director day who admits to not being a fan of the sci fi genre tries to justify the film's shortcomings by saying that he had a zero budget to work with where all the outer space scenes were composed of stock footage and i'd have been inclined to be more lenient with the film had i not recently watched the immortal monster 1959 a similar and similarly threadbare but far more stylish venture from italy br br bill edwards as the cocky but unlucky astronaut obsessed with achieving the titular feat is positively boring at first but he eventually manages to garner audience sympathy when his physical features are deformed and the character develops a taste for blood marshall thompson as his commanding officer and elder brother is o k as a leaner glenn ford type he had previously starred in fiend without a face 1958 another and more successful richard gordon produced sci fi which incidentally is also available on dvd through criterion italian starlet marla struggling with the english language makes for an inadequate female lead even her input in the featurette proves to be of little lasting value br br the audio commentary is yet another enjoyable tom weaver richard gordon track where among many things the fact that first man into space was intended as a double feature with corridors of blood 1958 is brought up but it was eventually put out as a standalone release so as to exploit the topical news value of the current space race it's also mentioned that the monster dialogue was actually dubbed by who tragically died in a traffic accident prior to the film's release weaver even recalls a couple of anecdotes from the time when he was involved in the production of the dvd featurette shot by of all people ex cult ish film maker norman j warren who by then had become a lady of title was still ready to help out in carrying the equipment necessary to film the interview down several flights of stairs edwards was supposed to have contributed to the featurette but once in london he proved reluctant to co operate with weaver eventually the latter learned that the actor had been recently diagnosed with cancer and in fact he died in 2002
0	rivalry between brothers leads to main story line navy commander chuck prescott marshall thompson has developed the aircraft to test how far man can go up in the atmosphere his brother lt dan prescott bill edwards seems to be the best test pilot around and is chosen to go up in the dan of course has a problem with taking orders and is also an over confident dare devil br br on dan's second flight he hits over the 300 miles up comfort zone and his craft passes through a meteor dust storm returning to earth dan becomes a monster that resembles 200 pounds of bad asphalt he also has a demanding craving for blood whether it be from farm animals or fellow human beings br br short runtime of an hour and seventeen minutes black white with near stoic acting typical of low budget sci fi br br rounding out the cast is marla robert ayers and carl jaffe noteworthy trivia about two months after this film was released the russians put the real first man in space
0	okay when i bought this flick i though this gotta be the ultimate b movie space monkey landing to the earth and starts right away to kill people br br well it was almost everything what i expected typical low budget scifi movie from the 60's acting has to be the worst i've ever seen especially the girl playing the lead role and the girl that played the waitress made me laughing my ass off br br so why 'night doesn't fall in to category 'so bad that it's good' reason why is that some of the scenes were just too long and boring for example the scene were the police officers are searching clues in the woods it was just minutes of walking without purpose and then the grand finale the people's waiting for the monster about 5 minutes and when the space monkey appears it get in 20 second end of film br br yeah 'night is boring but it got couple of funny moments i can recommend this movie to all who liked films like the thing from venus' or of the swamp br br i give 'night 4 space monkey slaps out of 10 br br rob gruesome
0	a texas community is beset with a rash of mysterious killings involving some of the students from the local college the sheriff investigating the death discovers the startling identity of the killer responsible for the murders a nasa experiment involving cosmic rays has mutated an ape and turned it into an unstoppable killing machine with a thirst for blood according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br or could the creature really be a mutated alligator returning from a space bound noah's ark br br a long opening with laughably straight 1960s couple ralph baker jr as chris and dorothy davis as judy suggests night fright might be a joyously bad movie but don't get your hopes up after some innocent cavorting the attractive collegiates discover another couple has encountered a monster naturally the creature is hell bent on terrorizing young romantics sheriff john agar as clint crawford isn't trusted by the younger set but he really wants to help br br mr agar was a friend of my aunt he spoke about very few movies and this wasn't one of them
0	when a rocket from a government experiment on the effects of cosmic rays on animals crashes in a small texas town people start to die the county sheriff tries to investigate but is hampered in his efforts by other government officials it turns out that there is a mutant space gorilla on the loose killing teenagers in the woods br br i like low budget science fiction and horror movies i like monster movies so i thought that there would be a good chance that i would like this movie sadly i didn't br br i don't mind the bad acting the corny dialog the atrocious musical score or the giant plot holes that this movie has there are a lot of movies that have the same problems that i have seen and enjoyed in a so bad it's good kind of way br br but where others of that type and night fright differ is that night fright just has terrible pacing and it drags on because of that there are scenes that just go on and on without anything happening the searching the woods for clues is just people walking in the forest for a long time there are several seemingly endless dancing teens at a party in the woods but nothing interesting is going on if these scenes were shorter the movie might not have been as boring though i don't think simply cutting those scenes would save this one br br i have now given this movie three viewings to make sure that i gave it a chance before slamming it in this review sadly it has gotten worse with each watch there won't be a fourth
0	this cheap and rubbish film is about a nasa test rocket that is sent into space with a cargo of animals it vanishes for a while then unexpectedly returns crash landing in a forest unleashing a vicious mutant creature br br like many films of this type night fright features dumb teenagers on down to 60's surf music before being killed none of the murders however are even remotely memorable as we don't really see anything one thing we do see however is that one of the teenagers appears to be about 40 years old and sports a quite impressively silly haircut br br for a creature feature to work it really has to present its monster to the viewer properly in this film however we only get the briefest glimpses of the monster it seems to sort of resemble the alien from robot monster but i'm not sure as the photography was so dark i simply couldn't make out what the hell was going on a lot of the time although my gut feeling was that i probably wasn't missing very much
0	this movie was painfully awful most of the movie consisted of people running in the woods walking thru the woods or dancing in the woods more than half at least then two kids who discover two mutilated bodies' in the woods return to the woods the very next night for a romantic walk there is no time continuity its day its night its day its really really night its dusk its pitch black its day all the woods scenes go on like this until you think you will lose your mind really bad the sheriff discovers a five foot claw print embedded in the dirt of the woods and that a super large alligator may have learned to walk upright really a silly movie with no real motivation written in for the characters might be entertaining for young kids as an alternative to really graphic stuff
0	what that was it the town sheriff john agar blows up the mutant gorilla with a stick of dynamite hidden in a mannequin did i just write that did i just see that br br with by the wildcats night fright is one flick that never deserved to be made as late as 1967 the heyday of the gorilla was well over and anyone other than ray corrigan in an ape suit is just asking for trouble remake this in black and white and set the story about thirty years earlier and you'd have at least a 4 0 rating on the imdb but sadly this one never should have stood a chance of seeing the light of day oops there's another quirk you can never tell if it's day or night in the story since they seem interchangeable with one another br br i'll give you this though a couple of the early malt shop scenes looked like they could have gone on the air as coke commercials thinking about it now those were probably the best looking and best lit scenes of the picture coca cola must have paid for them had they seen the completed movie they might have been better served to prevent it's release
0	okay it is terribly and i mean terribly easy to pick apart this film what do you expect with the title synopsis and actors in leads such as carol gilley ralph baker jr dorothy davis bill thurman and my personal favourite roger ready yes b star john agar is here as a sheriff out to rid the texan landscape of a robot like ape from a nasa experiment gone awry the movie has dreadful performances dreadful scenery dreadful special effects and dreadful lighting i really cannot find much good to say about it other than as bad films go you could do a lot worse as far as finding something dreadful to sit through it is short and has many moments of unintended humor missed cues lighting faux pas off screen terror an unbelievably inane score and of course john agar trying his level best to be the core of the film with an earnest performance amidst this muck the beginning is the hardest part to sit through as it seems like it takes forever for these two teens to get their comeuppance for traveling in the woods down the texas back roads where great ape soon will reek his vengeance in his own terrible way yeah right night fright bah
0	i am a fan of bad horror films of the 1950s and 60s films so ridiculous and silly that they are good for a laugh so because of this it's natural that i'd choose this film especially because with john agar in it it was practically guaranteed to be bad sadly while it was a bad film it was the worst type of bad film dull beyond belief and unfunny at least with stupid and over the top bad films you can laugh at the atrocious monsters and terrible direction and acting here you never really see that much of the monster mostly due to the darkness of the print and the acting while bad is more low energy bad listless and dull br br the film begins with some young adults going to satan's hollow to neck well considering the name of the place it's not surprising when they are later found chewed to pieces duh don't go necking at satan's hollow well there are reports of some sort of crashing object from the sky so what do the teens go yep throw a dance party a very very very slow dance party where the kids almost dance in slow motion so it's up to the sheriff agar and his men to ensure that the teens can dance in peace without fear of br br as for the monster it's some guy in a gorilla suit with a silly mask a bit like the monster in robot monster not exactly original and not exactly high tech to make it worse it makes snorting noises and moves very very slowly so slow that even the most corpulent teen could easily outrun it how it manages to kill repeatedly is beyond me br br overall too dull to like even if you are a fan of lousy cinema
0	honestly i am not that impressed by it it's not a bad movie but it's not great one either there's a story to tell but it's told in a very incoherent way which kinds of makes it loose it's full meaning and ability to intrigue this movie could of been made in another way with an outstanding result the story is just so interesting yet somehow i'm not intrigued when watching it br br it definitely isn't an amateur movie rather the opposite and some of the scenes are really emotional the actors and actresses does quite a good job and so does the director but there's just something so unfinished by the whole movie that i cant quite put my finger on perhaps if you had gotten to know the characters more all the of the movie could of been better clarified and put more 'action' throughout it cause as it was it became slow from time to time
0	this one isn't even lively enough to be fun something is out there ripping people off off screen after a spaceship crash off screen while government executives investigates off screen and bad actors says stupid lines on screen including a guy who looks like jim carrey with a hangover the monster when it finally is shown looks like an extra from robot monster but there ain't enough monster fu anyway br br fortunately it's pretty short skip it unless you want to get bored out of your skull by this
0	there is one adjective that describes everything about this film acting plot effects continuity etc and that word is poor the government wants to asses the effects of space travel on certain organisms but the capsule crashes and a mutant something or other looks like a guy in an ape suit with the top of a football helmet over his face wreaks havoc around the accident scene which includes a favorite place for the window fogging partying set therefore some young people as well as a law enforcement officer are among the creature's victims you gotta be extremely about how you spend your time or rich if you spend any money to view this epic
0	imagine what it must have been like for john agar one of hollywood's handsome leading men married to shirley temple for five years he finds himself doing movies like this i remember him in tarantula where he wasn't half bad unfortunately there is nothing to recommend this film the monster is dumb uninteresting and incompetent the police are boring the teenagers are boring the plot is stupid people run around there are events that do nothing to advance the plot there's dancing that goes on and on and then there is no attack there is some idiotic love triangle that no one could care the least about it isn't even campy or outrageous it's just no worth anything agar might as well have been a post he's given nothing to do
0	mixing small town sheriffs high school students fake rock music and some weirdo who kills for well no reason in particular this film is essentially a re make of the giant gila monster except without the gila monster of course br br now anyone who has actually seen giant gila monster knows that it is one of the worst made films of all time frequently so slow it's not even funny and i can't believe that by 1967 giant gila monster had earned such a reputation that young directors were just dying to get to work on a sequel let alone a remake so will someone please explain to me why this film was made the dance sequence by the way is historically interesting although about three years out of date but even that's spoiled since it goes on and on and on
0	when the budget doesn't allow for a cadillac or packard or lincoln or imperial hearse we are talking cheep cheep that's bird language for cheap cheap br br what is in the hair of the forty year old teen boy the guy who looks like a cement head who tries a couple of times to run over john agar and provides the only scare in the movie by how close he comes his hair looks like a shoe a patent leather shoe he is a shoe head br br the nurse woman needs immediate emergency hair washing she has lacquer in her blond locks that would ignite if the production company had been able to afford lights br br the monster the music was scarier i would try to run from the music the monster probably had better hair than the rest of the cast put some lipstick on that monster and you've got older sister br br the camera work and editing and plot provided a buffer to prepare the audience for the bad music throughout br br hello mr agar we're thinking of doing a sequel to night fright and mr agar agar tom willett
0	i am giving this movie vampire assassins a 2 rating mainly because it had no sex or nudity other than that i am not sure why it was ever made it was more like a training exercise in how to make a movie with a very limited budget the characters derek and slovak were the best actors they were followed closely by the biker dude with the pants and silver belt he was ok too most of the movie was filmed in some kind of distribution warehouse if you got tired of watching the kung fu kick boxing stunts you can check out the packages of scott tissue windex and other cleaning products you will have a lot of time to do this trust me i almost started to make a list the dialogue and kung fu stunts were extremely slow they talked slow fought slow etc i don't know why at least with the extra slow delivery of the actors lines you could hear everything very distinctly i am trying hard to find good stuff to say about this movie we watched it all the way to the end to see if got any better but it didn't we never could decide if the actors really knew martial arts or were just acting like they knew martial arts you can watch yourself and decide my favorite line was something like vampire speaking what are you looking at other man responding your bad dental work
0	i watched this as part of a vampire movie marathon with research intent otherwise there is no way i'd have watched it all the way through the first scene wherein a bunch of vampires in very bad wigs seemingly get electrocuted by various slow moving weapons wielded by an even slower moving van helsing wannabe in black and white with a voice over sets the pace for the entire rest of the film the fight scenes look ridiculous the dialouge would be funny if the acting wasn't so bad what passes for plot doesn't make sense and the production values bite from the knock off of spike's coat worn by the hero to the cheesy cheap magician's cape their lead vamp swooshes around br br i've seen some bad movies check out the magic sword with b rathbone or the raven with a very young jack n but this one gets my vote for worst of all times
0	incredibly vampire assassin is significantly worse than such atrocities as tequila body shots and zombie nation and those movies are terrible writer director star ron hall is devoid of both charisma and acting ability and is also clearly incapable of the most basic directorial concepts possibly the worst camera work editing lighting sound visual effects music and fight choreography i have ever seen in a movie rarely do two shots cut together nor can you see much in the beyond dim lighting the terrible dialogue is spoken extremely slowly by a supremely untalented cast stretching the movie to a near deadly 87 minutes this is a truly laughable embarrassment for everyone involved obviously aficionados of terrible film making will want to see this but it's very hard to sit through no matter how experienced a bad movie viewer you are the fact that ron hall thought this was actually is astounding if you are a movie director and you actually think it's ok for the opening credits of your movie to include a few frames of the words slug before the title appears left over from your rough edit and you apparently can't muster the energy to edit those frames out then your standards are obviously so low as to be insulting i am astounded that lions gate maple agreed to release this movie on dvd in spite of rudy ray moore's very brief cameo this movie is a work of supreme self indulgence on ron hall's part he clearly thinks he is a formidable actor and must also believe he possesses superior writing and directing skills but the movie is so unbelievably inept that it's hard to believe he'd actually want people to see it for fear of being brutally excoriated like i'm doing right now a jaw dropping insanely terrible movie i'm not kidding
0	i wasn't able to last ten minutes on the this terrible film in and age of dv cameras it looks to have been shot on vhs without aid of any color correction or microphone br br as a filmmaker myself i know the constraints of indy film making and even keeping those things in mind i'm amazed films can be made this poorly br br the only praise i can offer is that this film got distribution as i've seen considerably better films still seeking modest domestic or international release i'm guessing the box is what sold it it does have good box art but it all goes downhill from there br br side note it seems the director has 11 friends since no one on the this planet would give this film a 10
0	a friend of mine showed me this film yesterday and i was really amazed that someone could make a movie this terrible br br mix the most awful clichéd dialog with the most wooden acting you've ever seen with the cheesiest special effects know to man and you get this magnificent beast br br assassins' is funnier than most comedies i've seen it really is awful br br i was in stitches during the scene where the ex cop vampire assassin character is having coffee with the internet journalist just watch it and you'll see what i mean br br i honestly can't believe that someone made this with serious intentions br br tragic but a really good laugh it has to be seen to be believed
0	the kite runner began as one of those important films that most people fawn over because they are told that they should if they want to be among the elite and quickly descended into an idiotic film of absurdly outlandish proportions br br i've never read the book and never felt the need because i honestly don't care sure i'm called uninformed for saying it but i truly have no interest whatsoever in just another pull at your heartstrings copy off of all other story lines to get emotion from the readers novel even if it is set in afghanistan br br that said i watched the movie i heard good things about its beauty and how touching it was and decided why not as it turns out there was a very good reason why not not only was the so called main character completely unsympathetic i get it he was young and this is a film about redemption but honestly he was horrible i hated him and not in that good 'anti hero' way he was just a dull idiotic self absorbed character that i felt nothing towards but the rest of the story was so completely absurd that i couldn't believe how everyone else was fawning over how beautiful it was and how they cried and it moved them i'm sorry but i only feel moved by something that feels realistic sci fi has been known to move me fantasy as well but this please this surpassed many other movies for pure absurdity my biggest peeve hassan was brother really you sure you didn't just rip that off from a thousand other stories positive that that particular tidbit wasn't just added in to try to pull more tears out of your audiences y'know the type of people who look for reasons to cry during a movie i was rolling my eyes when that twist was revealed knowing that it could only go downhill from there not to mention flashing back to star wars amir hassan is your brother nooooo that's not true that's impossible oh and it certainly did filled to the brim with cliché's and just plan dumb storytelling like good guy miraculously escapes bad guy against all odds with help from spunky kid who despite being viciously sodomized and having no clue who you are is willing to help out with a conveniently placed weapon that holds special meaning to you ooh and don't forget the oh so idiotic finally getting vengeance on the kid who teased you when you were little who surprise surprise has turned into a psychopathic adult trust me guys i understand you like to live vicariously through movies but that'll never happen you know that kid who teased you in high school he's no terrorist he's probably an accountant br br oh and i must mention the cgi tastic kites i think those were on par with the matrix movies and transformers bravo you guys bravo br br it seems this movie was just made for western audiences who need to a reason to care about the middle east hey an overly emotional friendship story will work this is one of the most shallow movies i've had the misfortune of seeing it poses as deep well but when you get right down to it it's nothing special br br unfortunately the core of america's audience will do what they're told and follow the it's about controversial material so it must be good way of thinking
0	this movie had a very unique effect on me it stalled my realization that this movie really sucks it is disguised as a film in the likes of memento and other jewels like that but at the end and even after a few minutes you come to realize that this is nothing but utter pretentious cr4p probably written by some collage student with friends to compassionate to tell him that his writing sucks the whole idea is … i don't even know if it tried to scratch on the supernatural or they want us to believe that because someone fills your mind a very weak one btw with stupid riddles the kind you learn on elementary school recess you suddenly come to the one truth about everything then you have to kill someone and what how what why why is just like saying that to make a cake just throw a bunch of ingredients and add forgot about cooking it i guess these guys forgot to not explain but present the mechanism of why was this happening you have to do that when you present a story which normal everyday acts lie solving riddle rhymes start to have an abnormal effect on people acting was horrible with that girl always trying to look cute at the camera and the guy from highlanders the series acting up like the though heavy metal record store yeah they're all real though s o b's the menacing atmosphere with the oh so clever riddles enter the 60's series of batman and robin with guest appearance of the riddle and the crazies who claim to have the knowledge behind that smirk on their just horrible horrible br br i'm usually very partial about low budget movies and tend to root for the underdog by giving them more praise than they may deserve in lieu of their constrictions you know but this is just an ugly excuse for a movie that will keep you wanting to be good for an hour and a half and at the end you will just lament that you fell for it
0	i don't normally give movies a 1 although i am a heartless critic i try to find anything that makes the movie worthwhile that is to say watchable the main thing i look for is a coherent plot if it has that alone i can watch it let me start by saying this doesn't even deserve to be called a movie this is more like an elementary school project gone horribly wrong and i've seen every sci fi movie special that was ever made br br many times i've read professional critic reviews that say crap like this played like a made for tv etc etc and i kept saying oh come on i wish they'd think of a real criticism well this is worse much worse this is truly the worst thing i've seen that's lasted the length of a movie if i did consider it a movie it would be my new worst movie of all time and i've seen every movie uwe boll made this movie makes uwe boll look like francis ford coppola i'd rather watch jaws the revenge all day then see this one more time even 5 minutes of it there was one good scene and it was the end p ok enough bashing the works of ron hall now for the serious criticism br br the script is poorly written the dialog is delivered in a wooden manner the effects are cheesier than those in a power rangers show and don't even get me started on the screen zoom in transitions ugh someone actually watched this thing edited it and then said ok release it i would have rather burned this than release it in closing all i can say is thank goodness dvd and vhs players have a stop and eject feature my advice don't rent it if you do you'll be glad you have stop and eject too
0	so this is the worst movie you will probably ever see it's up there with crossbones and southern comfort but if your a bad movie fan like i am this atrocity of a film will be the most fun you've had in years why does the camera make old school kung fu noises when it zooms why does that random guy stuff a nascar commemorative plate in his bag and who is he anyway why do the vampires shoot lightning after they die what is this highlander dracula mccloud who cares just laugh at it this movie has no continuity no plot no anything really ron hall's range of emotions are always off he looks happy when he should be sad angry when he should be confused the rest of the cast couldn't act their way out of a paper bag the special short bus kinda special effects are randomly placed and never needed most scenes are lit with a desk lamp if they are lit at all mel novak has the audacity to look off camera for his line and it's not even edited out they just keep on filming in fact half of this movie isn't even on film at all it's 1 2 film 1 2 sony hand cam for most of the film it seems that they left their boom mike at home this movie doesn't just have a few plot holes it's a mine field of confusion and mental pain but oh do i love it thank you ron hall for this cinematic abomination i went out and bought it cause it's just so damn funny 1 99 on amazon and i had it rush delivered br br i have weapons i have weapons i have weapons
0	if you came here it's because you've already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it br br i feel for you i really do and i profusely apologize as a canadian because that's what we do that this film ever had to cross your eyes if only for a moment i hear there is no cure for the bleeding reported out of every dozen cases br br i like everyone else rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade i thought sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie i'll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie br br and for the record i saw the movie but did not watch it the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother's trailer i swear to god br br you know what i'm not writing anymore about this it's just too painful
0	ok normally i am fascinated by z movies some of the actors directors writers etc in those movies have a shred of talent they want to get that talent out so unfortunately for them they have to associate with crappy people to make their films but some z films do have at least one thing that may be noteworthy about them br br not here br br as soon as i saw it i thought 'wow a blade knock off ' believe me if this movie could have lived up to that label that would have made it a better movie br br instead i was subjected to some of the most horrible acting i have ever seen in my life master kao was bad so bad that i believe some of my neurons in my brain exploded trying to comprehend his acting i am still trying to make sense of his enunciation and why he would raise his voice in speaking certain words to add dramatic effect i'm sure but it was for no apparent reason simply mind boggling br br oh and then there is the black guy in the purple cape near the end of the movie purple cape guy fights the hero for about 30 seconds but he is so bad that it actually looked like he was scared of fighting br br the main hero and the main villain did decent jobs the main hero derek washington seemed like he actually knew martial arts
0	this movie was pathetically awful the sound was terrible the action was ridiculous and the effects were nauseating if you have a life don't see this movie cause you will want to kill yourself this movie totally rips off blade which is undoubtedly a really good movie or trilogy i should say br br i don't care who the actors are this movie is just horrible i watched 10 minutes of it and had to come to my computer and comment on how absolutely just bad this movie is i actually don't know why my family is still watching it oh wait yes i do they are laughing almost non stop at the stupid action dialogue and acting
0	this movie has got to go down in the history of bad movies as the worst one i've ever seen it wasn't even a bad b movie i would have rated it at as a z the special effects were ridiculous err if you could even call them special effects i think the reviewer before hit the nail on the head it was the box that sold the movie while the cover art was great and the synopsis intriguing which both is why i rented it it was a waste of not only time but money as well i didn't last long i took it back to the store and switched it out for another movie i believe my local video store took it off the shelf because they had soooo many complaints about this horrible movie my 6 year old could have done a better job filming it writing the script
0	i hope the people who made this movies read these comments the choreography was horrid the plot was and the actors where so low budget power rangers appears 5 star to this junk br br the fight scenes where so slow you could actually see the actors waiting for each other to perform the next move camera cut aways and poor lighting could not cover up the cheap effects the lightning was just plain stupid the weapons looked like something out of a final fantasy game and the dual bow and arrow was just dull as anything i have ever seen br br next movie you decide to make try investing in some wireless mics better script and try actually spending some time on your stunts br br honestly there are shows on t v that play ever night and are thrown together in a few hours that look better than this one br br stick to martial arts unless its as poor as your acting then take up
0	as i said sometimes low budget is good you get to see a good movie without a lot of the extra bs that can hide an otherwise piece of crap well this was that piece of crap if anything i thought it had humor unfortunately the humor was unintentional the only half witted acting came from bill smith and his part was cut out that's a joke there was never a bill smith nor was there anyone cast who could act even gerald sucked and he's been cast in nearly 40 movies the fight scenes were comical and made me feel like i could kick all their the sound was horrible as if all sound was recorded on the set my 10 year old could have written a better script btw my 10 year old fell asleep no kidding i give a b to editing for cutting the movie to only 90 minutes 60 minutes would have been an a
0	do not avoid this movie simply because it is so bad that it is absolutely hilarious it possibly is the worst movie i have ever seen but it was so bad that my friends and i were able to laugh at every single moment of this film at times we actually debated whether it was this bad on purpose but we're pretty sure that it is not characters appear out of nowhere as if they have already been established the scenery changes mid scene to this warehouse constantly and the vampire assassin ends up having around 6 climactic fights with enemies before finally getting to the head vampire you will also be able to enjoy the one and only face of the vampire assassin as he never changes his expression despite his obvious attempts to so if you want to watch a movie that will make you laugh then i suggest this one as long as you go in with an open mind don't expect a good movie expect the worst and it will be even worse than that i seriously want to buy this movie and place it atop my comedy movie selection right next to anchorman
0	this movie actually almost made me cry br br for starters the fake teeth then you spot a nice plastic or drawn set to make it even more boring all the action is followed by a bright light flash then the talking sound levels are so different sometimes too hard then too soft never exactly good like in good movies also it echoes so much that i think they had one microphone on the entire set and to make matters worse ever heard of stereo if the camera switches the sound always stays centered the actors talk like they are reading from a board staged behind the camera and the zooming into another scene how terrible childish br br the music is so badly chosen that it never adds something it only destroys any accidentally created excitement br br to finish it up the fighting scenes my 3 year old niece would make a better fighting scene br br this movie is not even good for a laugh it's just that bad
0	this really is a film of two halves the first detailing the lives and friendship of two boys one a privileged and the other a down trodden in late 70s afghanistan before the invasion by the ussr works extremely well the young actors turn in convincing performances and seeing afghanistan as it once was throws the present situation there into stark relief br br the real problem comes when we move into the later phase of the story where we join the as a man living in america ancient debts to his young friend lead him to return to his homeland and it is really at this point that things break down the central adult character is clearly supposed to be sympathetic but in fact comes across as wimpish and wallowing in self pity it is hard to really care for him and one cannot help but feel that the really interesting story is the one we do not get to see that of his boyhood friend br br once he returns to afghanistan the narrative becomes bogged down in a series of highly contrived coincidences most remarkably he manages to come across his childhood enemy after all these years almost immediately even though he is not looking for him despite the chaos that has since consumed the country this enables him to confront past demons in a way that is simply too convenient to be credible the resolution of the narrative is also run through with an awful mawkish sentimentality which undermines any really serious points the film may be trying to make br br although it is possible to start seeing characters and the abuses of their lives as symbols of a state which has been torn apart by world politics it is hard to really see this as a film which engages with any wider political discussion instead the narrative becomes reduced to one character's emotional journey of self discovery and healing unfortunately this character is so dull and wrapped up in himself that it is hard to really become engaged in his story while opportunities to make a really interesting film about afghanistan itself are wasted
0	i don't really know where to start here just imagine a movie that is so bad in every way from the acting to the props to the story that it makes you angry this is one of the worst movies that i have ever seen and that is saying a lot because i have seen some bad ones when i saw this movie i knew it was a blade knock off but i thought that hey its got kung fu and vampires a combination that i thought could not fail that is until i popped this into my dvd player how ron hall managed to mess up something as cool as vampires and martial arts is beyond me first the acting i didn't expect to much here to begin with because its an action movie and a b one at that but the acting here is so bad i couldn't help but be bothered by it expressions and vocal tones were way out of place there was absolutely no emotion in almost the entire film and when there was it was so laughable it thought i was watching mad tv for example that girly man scream derek lets out when he has to kill master kao who should have never been born in the first place all in all i've seen better acting at elementary school plays then there is the action not even sub par compared to the things that have been done in action cinema as of late but still the action was not a total let down as ron hall does seem to posses some martial arts skills but even the skill he does have is over shadowed by the stupid things he does for instance the part of the movie where he starts spinning and then the camera changes i almost ripped a pillow in half and the fight scene where his prison buddy fights off vampires by swinging his arms at them wow or how about the part in the jail where derek all of a sudden knows magic and can preform chants that make tap water holy water and as far as the props go the guns look like walmart toys the teeth were stolen from halloween costumes and words cant describe how bad the cg graphics are i could go on for hours about all the things wrong with this movie and trust me this is just the tip of the iceberg its only getting a 2 because it made me laugh even though i was laughing at how badly the movie was done a laugh is a laugh i would say steer clear of vampire assassin unless you want to laugh at a horrible movie or are planning on getting tortured for long periods of time and want to practice
0	it's 2005 my friends a time of amazing special effects and an age of technology so why can't we see a movie that's a little more thought out than this cheesy low budget film i've seen a lot of low budget movies that rock my socks off but this one it's almost as if it's trying to be horrible just don't watch it i can look past lack of special effects and computer generated scenes if the acting itself was at least good i feel like a small child produced this entire movie there's not even an original plot line vampire assassins in itself is one big plot hole with an attempt to mock itself can someone tell me if perhaps this was designed as a comedy movie and i just didn't know it it makes me wonder what does the sequel have in store for us who so loved the first installment
0	i rented this movie expecting it to suck and it didn't let me down i rented it with some friends as a joke but what we got was worse than anyone could ever imagine br br it starts off sucking before you even take it out of the box it looks like a blade rip off and the guy on the cover is nowhere to be found in the movie its called vampire assassin but isn't an assassin someone who kills for hire well this guy kills the of his own volition so that doesn't make him an assassin br br then when you actually put the disk in it gets worst first off the menu animation is lame but when you actually start the movie every thing from the set design to the lighting or lack thereof is terrible you know a movie is bad when the credits even suck the acting is laughable the action is childish the writing is elementary and the directing is the worst
0	a dark yet humorous tale involving a cop who has a first hand experience with vampires and decides he must quit his job to pursue these evil beings most of the film contained questionable acting plot props and filming the fight scenes were as hokey as a middle schooler's rendition of a wwii battle the lines delivered were spoken as if the actors had no motivation for being there the props were bad because they did not even look like they could function in the slightest amount the majority of the film appeared to be shot in someones basement in some scenes you could see the rafters overhead in a scene that was not supposed to look like that of a basement the plot had no motivation to move forward or go backwards it just appeared to stand still at times with no reason for some characters actions i felt at times the sounds effects were out of place for this horror type genre and more of a cartoon series it is similar to the movie blade in that he is an african american vampire hunter however that is where all similarities end and the movie looks closer to a saturday night live spoof
0	i've spent a year deployed in iraq and amongst the hundreds of movies i've seen here was this little gem called vampire assassin judging from the cover african american with corn rows with a curved blade leather coat and the demeanor of a badass i expected a blade rip off fair enough br br so i pop it in and observed a overweight african american with no blade no cornrows and well nothing at all really except i don't know if you've read any of these other reviews you get the gist of the flick it sucks bad really bad br br i don't know if it was the highlander esquire lightning after killing an immortal vampire or the karate kick sound effects for camera zooms or the twenty dollar budget on props or the ok we have 90 minutes to film this before we're caught filming in a johnson johnson parking lot or the martial arts that is as exciting and fast paced as two old people having sex or the 7th grade acting talent or the eccentric asian master who's either or on acid or what but the movie manages to force you to question your existence and that's awesome br br not many movies can be so bad that your head will explode like scanners if you heckle or mst3k with your friends this is the flick for you i've seen it three times already and i think it might've caused permanent damage on my psyche if you still don't have any clue as to the quality of the film people were trying to give it away for free and no one would take it not even by force br br long story short watch it either as masochistic pleasure or punishment it will rock your skull and for the most part for all the wrong reasons
0	ron hall pulls a triple threat as he writes directs and stars in assassins' derek washington hall is your clichéd cop on a mission who finds himself up to his neck in some nasty vampire action tossing away his badge he searches for the last vampire slayer no not buffy to take back the streets and vanquish the bloodsuckers back to the grave br br assassins' is a horrible film it rips off so many other films can you say blade that it never even attempts to establish it's own identity the script is non existent the action is horrible who says a micro budget stimulates creativity there is nothing even remotely interesting here you will get nothing out of this except a headache stay away at all costs
0	in a world full of films like you got served that blow your mind with its vast amounts of errors you'd never figure that there would be worse films until now ron hall's vampire assassins does more than cheese you off it knows that you are mad at it first there are no assassins in this movie in fact there's only one good guy fighting in the whole movie second the location is basically one location some jackass's house or basement it's up to you third the special effects bluntly stated can kiss my ass fourth the acting beats plan 9 from outer space in the worst acting ever category ron hall can't act to save his life finally and definitely not the smallest problem the editing the person who edited this film better hope that i never find him the cuts and shots are horrendous other issues lighting virtually none the fact that the guy on the cover isn't even in the movie and the fact that this film exists br br to sum this film up let us just say that i tortured the dvd copy before taking it back to hollywood video don't worry i used the mvp membership so it was free never see this film
0	everyone knows that late night movies aren't oscar contenders fine i mean i'll admit that i was a bit tipsy and bored and figured i'd get to some skin a max it's pretty bad when the info on the tv guide channel makes fun of the movie in the description it even gave it half a star to be fair i did sit throw the whole thing cause man it was bad i couldn't stop laughing i mean the words coming out of these people mouth and how they were trying to be serious most of the time i think the people on the screen were trying their hardest to not to laugh in fact i think in one scene they did laugh anyways the movie didn't make sense it was like that one sopranos episode with the fat gay guy only the sopranos is great show but it was terrible i mean no nudity just sex scenes out of the 90's you know the kind that use shadows and silhouettes instead of flesh i gave it a two cause this flick makes for a good drinking game movie i mean with all the cheese it helps to get the wine out if its late at night and all that is on tv is this and that tony little guy and his exercise bike then i suggest tony little
0	there are some great canadian films there are some crappy ones last night i watched one of the crappy ones it wasn't the typical canadian film where it tried to be so different by being arty this film tried to be some type of hollywood gangster movie it was terrible br br from the beginning i had a sense that it would be a bad movie it had some of the cheesiest dialouge a movie can have there was this voice over for one scene and then it never returned that always bugs me when filmmakers just use voice over when they can't think of another creative way to tell a story br br i know being in the canadian film industry i should support my fellow brothers but this movie is junk the premise is something like a soprano's episode only not realistic some banker's mafia boss dad is on his death bed and orders the son to make the business legit not so original and the workers complain about it but they just take the fact that they will soon be out of jobs like nothing to make it legit they use extortion irony but not the good kind then some freak show girl who had an awful elvis wig and birthmark that covered half of her face robs the main character and kinda rapes him anyways this guy for whatever reason now likes to dress up as girls then this banker hooks up with a hooker when he has a beautiful future wife at home but he falls for the hooker because the hooker dresses like a man and puts make up on him she blackmails him with some photos of him wearing bra and panties yet he still loves her he also has no reason to leave his fiancé but he does in order to be with the hooker br br for a movie about organize crime and sexual fetish there was neither action nor sex it was like a late night cinemax porn movie without the good stuff the would be sex scenes weren't hot or sexy it was all too amateurish the movie had nothing going for it just the lame plot br br i don't think it was the actor's fault i think they had a terrible script to work with what stuck out the most was the ridiculous characters the bad guy's name was uncle bunny or something but the name wasn't important it was they all were cliché the dialouge was laughable throughout the movie and fellow movie goers laughed aloud at some of the movies serious moments then the worst of it all it had to be the cheapest ending if you can ever remember playing shoot out as a kid with either imaginary guns or toy guns that was basically the ending of the movie but i was more than happy it ended and i had to warn my fellow canadians to not waste time or money watching this film
0	what can be said about a movie about a cross dressing gangster not that much with the average indie style film making this film has the timing all wrong editing is just awful as far as the gangster story it might have been pulled off if the gangsters didn't lack character everyone just seemed to be there for some sort of punch line none of which were funny the usual suspects in this film are the hooker with the heart of gold the dying mafia father that wishes his son would make his business legit the best friend with the zany one liners but the main character the gangster that likes to dress up like a girl only his motivation for dressing up like a girl is that he got mugged by a woman weird the ending of the movie had to be the nail in the coffin it was anti climatic to say the least i mean i understand how indie filmmakers don't have the equipment for a proper shot out but they might as well been using water guns overall i would say the hype leading up to it red carpet premiere in vancouver it was a disappointment
0	i got a kick out of reynolds saying to his attorney look i've done a lot of shi ty thing in my life but i never killed anyone obviously he forgot about his career which slid down hill after he started making stupid movies like run ' physical evidence was originally supposed to be a sequel to 'the jagged edge' that glen close rejected the verdict is in avoid physical evidence
0	a blatant rip off of air bud this movie is really about parents worrying too much about parenting all the foibles of the characters eg adult coaches who dont know the game are taken to the extreme so much so that they are totally unbelievable not funny br br there is no semblance of reality here folks and you'll not develop sympathy for any of the characters br br the best thing about the movie is the good looking kits uniforms of the opposing team in the first game the dog plays perhaps chosen because the setting is supposedly near arlington heights il the home of the columbus crew's franchise player brian mcbride
0	this stinker is in mystifyingly frequent rotation on one channel here and i've found myself watching in horror again and again the script is like something one would come up with friends over several too many drinks and the production values match admirably br br it's meant to be a children's movie but features a grotesque and poorly explained kidnapping scene the star dog has a lack of star quality equaled only by the other actors and it in general has the look of being filmed in someone's backyard the climactic soccer game features no more than three dozen extras sadly cheering in the background br br it even all wraps up with a budget ran out voice over sequence when the story to one's relief simply stops the high raters here must be either the producers or the majority of the extras from the soccer game
0	even my five year old was bored br br very predictable and overacted this movie couldn't make up it's mind as to whether it was slapstick or wry commentary on the state of pee wee sports br br characters were underdeveloped could have done more with the connection between father and son both coming from an orphanage br br did not like the reference regarding the slipping the laxative to his teammate very mean spirited for a kid's movie br br typical mafia behavior was boring and stereotypical br br the dog however was so darn cute
0	ok we were going along with the stereotypical bad orphanage experience and explaining to our son adopted from russia that this was over the top acting and dramatization so we could get to the dog playing soccer since he plays soccer but the last scene in which the dog goes back to his original owner put my son over the edge and he cried for 15 20 minutes he's been replaced this from an elementary child i do not recommend this movie to any family that has an adopted child it displays adoption orphanages and adults badly and in the end even though they win the game the dog that the boy bonded with has to leave and this is too much please be wary if you have any adopted children and beware families with biological children because the impression of children who are adopted is not positive and paints a stereotype that is unhealthy and nasty the dog is cute but not enough to save our family's reaction to this movie
0	the worst movie i've ever seen and i've seen allot acting is horrible plot is awful idea is terrible and no research was done what's so ever ok i admit air was a pretty good movie but not soccer dog' this dog is smaller than my cat how can he possibly play soccer even for 10 years old kids it won't be a problem to kick the ball hard enough to brake the stupid dog in half it's horrible don't watch this movie
0	what i wouldn't do to give this film a re write extra disappointing due to the great beginning solo sabe degenerates into a mess of superstitious bull after the halfway point and ends on a note so ludicrous soppy and melodramatic i couldn't believe i was watching the same movie i started with the film had numerous elements in its favor such as chemistry between diego luna and alice braga so palpable i thought the screen would start sparking a great soundtrack and beautiful locations instead of ending with the heavy handed religious mumbo jumbo the film should have kept the focus on being a frothy road movie with maybe some undertones about fate and superstition vs logic peppered through i understand the director's entire intent with the film was to make it about religion but the fact is that it just didn't work and he threw away so much great stuff from the beginning by doing so
0	i thought the this film had an interesting name and just might have proved thought provoking but was i wrong this film was boring especially in the beginning and the middle parts i cannot comment on the ending because i just couldn't stand watching the whole film the premise of signing a student researcher just because he walks into your lab makes no sense this student had an interesting type of moving robot in his apartment and sadly enough this non living thing is more interesting than the characters in this film so if you are having trouble with sleep then i recommend that you rent this film
0	this movie was disappointing after 15 years when it was brought back to mind from reviewing some info about mariel hemingway all the regrets i felt about the movie came rolling back while i remember peter o'toole i was entirely oblivious to the fact that the female lead okay she was little more than an object for discussion in the storyline was ms hemingway i saw this movie back in the days when i wrote movie reviews and warned people off it as the stories just didn't work and fifteen years of my subconscious trying to sort things out still hasn't made sense of the flow of the ideas br br part of this may have to do with the fact that it looked like after the original movie whatever it was about was filmed an editor came in and tried to piece together something out of it i don't know if this had been a project of a previous studio boss and so was sabotaged to discredit him or her by the successor or this was a disaster from the original screenplay that attempts to salvage were unsuccessful the theatrical version just didn't work
0	this movie is at times a wild 80s college sex comedy others a sweet romantic one then it has moments of serious drama and then sprinkles in dashes of science fiction it is so uneven its almost ridiculous br br but i would hardly rank it as one of the worst films i've ever seen except of course for the fact that they casted peter o'toole br br there is absolutely nothing for him to work with here poor dialog poor performances to work off of poor everything and yet he's fantastic there is not one good thing about his part and yet he makes it work if only on pure charm alone br br the fact that he was so able to achieve so much with so little shines a spotlight on how greatly everyone else in this film failed making it seem even worse than i suppose it actually is br br if any other actor was in o'toole's role i would have forgotten this movie as crap and never thought of it again but a fine performance by peter o'toole despite all odds ensures that i'll remember this film for a long time to come if only as a film that maybe could have been good if anyone involved in it was nearly half as good as peter o'toole
0	i really tried to like this film about a doctor who has the possibility of a new life with a young woman if he can comes to terms with the death of his wife i suppose this was to play like a quirky light romantic comedy but the theme is a little uncomfortable for me br br but putting that aside i found the dialog was too much like a stage play despite being based on a novel and also the mediocre acting was embarrassing to watch especially by the young lead vincent spano br br i have been sort of trying to catch up on all the eighties movies i missed during that decade it has been my pet peeve that eighties nostalgia buffs seem to focus on the same core canon of films usually featuring the brat pack actors and actresses and neglecting the other films like creator that have fallen through the cracks but in the case of this feature i have to say i can understand it not all of these eighties films were magical and creator is proof of this
0	physical evidence is one of those films that you want to like but really should be a lot better than it actually is developed as a sequel to jagged edge for glenn close and robert loggia it gives the impression that all involved only made it while they were waiting for something better to come along the premise is perfectly serviceable it's mostly technically efficient if horribly uninspired with even henry mancini's score surprisingly pleasant but you can't help feeling that things would have turned out better if one of the leads had turned out to be the killer as is rumoured was originally the case as the opening scene of his little seen personally disastrous heat 1986 showed reynolds has all the makings of a great screen villain as is there are few surprises and a feeling of half hearted filming by numbers as it builds up a head of as it ambles towards a less than grand will this do finale br br reynolds is fine sailing through on charisma in what is clearly a star vehicle unfortunately the same cannot be said of theresa russell an impressive and fearless actress in husband nic roeg's films which allow her to delve into the darker side of human nature she's trapped in a part that requires star quality rather than depth and she ain't got it in spades she doesn't fluff her lines or bump into the other actors but that's about all that can be said in favour of her astonishingly stilted and often amateurish performance that lets the film down badly aside from ned beatty's prosecutor the supporting cast add only a slightly surreal presence in a boston where everyone seems to have a badly disguised canadian accent and the streets bear a startling resemblance to toronto and montreal br br likewise director michael crichton who in westworld coma and the first great train robbery showed that he knew how to lean an audience to the edge of their seats seems to handle the action in a purely perfunctory fashion indeed in one brief chase the shots don't even match and seem thrown together almost arbitrarily the climax itself has no flair and is completely bereft of threat or danger and many scenes are played for far less than they are worth it's no great surprise that aside from uncredited reshoots on the 13th warrior crichton hasn't directed since br br its watchable enough in an 80s tv movie sort of way even if it never lives up to the promise of its opening whether that's enough of a reason to see it is down to individual taste
0	seagal fans beware he does no action scenes until almost an hour into this mess instead seagal runs away from numerous fights letting ja rule convincingly lose every battle actually ja rule could be an up and coming action star but hollywood needs to let him at least hit puberty which should happen in a few more years also what sort of commando terrorist wears a bare midriff outfit the chick in this atrocity looks like a backup singer for christina aguilera back to seagal when he finally does cut loose it's his stunt double heavily padded to resemble the bloated seagal doing a lot of the work taking the falls i don't remember any aikido either it's just your standard kicks punches you'd see in any straight to video martial arts turkey not even so bad it's funny either just plain dull
0	steven segal has done some awful films but this is probably one of the best since his career took a dive about ten years ago the cast is better than usual and while the story and the plot are a total joke at least most of the action scenes look pretty good br br the plot is probably one of the worst in film history someone is being executed because he stole some money some mercenary types kidnap a supreme court justice their goal is to exchange the judge for the prisoner so they can find out where he has the money meanwhile the execution chamber is full of trap doors and false floors and looks like a set from one of the du soleil circus shows br br then there is the issue of the prison here the warden is a played by tony plana the prisoners all have their gang colors and signs and the guards are there to serve the meals and keep the prison clean nothing like a bunch of prisoners fighting and beating up some guards while the warden is watching what happens the warden gives them a stern talking to he might punish them next time br br there are a lot of moments in this movie that are good for laughs however peeples looks pretty good and ja rule tries to be an action hero lots of fun watching the prisoners all do the right thing and get armed so that they can free the supreme court justice from her captors regardless of how bad half past dead may be when you watch it keep in mind that it is easily the best movie that steven segal has starred in since under siege in 1992
0	every now and then some amateur will come out with a tired piece of action film making this one is just so wrong i don't think i even need to comment about the plot acting script camera work because it have none if putting a muscle guy in cool leather jacket walking in slow mo and throw in a funky rap song is the main ingredient of making a great action movie then sayonara action movie
0	half past dead was unlike any steven segal film i've ever seen very little of segal himself in action and i agree with the last review i read peeples steals the show br br i saw nothing really new here just the same old stuff from other flicks changed around a little the best action scenes were as she once again kicked butt it was interesting seeing her as the bad guy after watching her for two seasons on walker texas ranger still kicking butt but for the good guys br br
0	steven segal's movie career is a tribute to horrible cinema i have been tragically bored with every one of them as soon as i realized that they were even more unrealistic than jean claude has anyone else ever noticed that he never gets hit i mean give me something to root for a hard fought battle with a bad guy who's scary twenty years and he's still filming the same fight scenes fight scenes can often distract you from the fact that your hero cannot act the boring choreography of a segal film places his painful lack of acting skill in sharp relief worse yet he's woefully out of shape just what we need a fat stiff who thinks he's a leading man there's not one iota of redeeming cinematic value in all this movies ninety or so minutes do not watch this unless you feel like throwing away an hour and a half of your life
0	i saw this movie yesterday and like most wrote i also expected a steven movie god i love this guy just because his fighting style is unique and very humerous in had a little doubts cause i read that ja rule was playing in it but i thought hopefully they give him a role so i don't get irritations by watching him and offcourse the opposite happend steven what the heck were you thinking going to join a crew like this steven was broke and needed cash bah what a big dissapointment if you like steven movie pleaseee skip this one its pure drama you only get a few special effects that made me vote 3 10 but the acting of ja rule screws up the whole movie for his buddy kurupt with his irritating hood talk br br my beer went from tasting fresh to water we do the dishes in the story didn't had any good about it to me it felt like a 3 year old produced it br br hopefully steven makes me happy again in a future movie people this isn't even worth renting as that br br to bad and pitty
0	spoiler warning i seem to keep giving this guy his last chance strange how an action hero who once was keeps attracting an audience anyway this movie is about a character seagal being kind of a mysterious rough neck hero that's it br br next
0	this is for different reasons a very very bad action movie first of all seagal is terribly out of shape he looks old and fat plays like he has to fulfill an annoying obligation and his fight scenes require creative editing or plain replacement secondly his opponent is a very weak villain this is about a smart and mean and chestnut does not deliver so what about the action well the two parties permanently shoot at each other in different locations of the alcatraz jail they shoot wild and bad because compared to the amount of required ammunition the bodycount is rather low there is nothing to save this movie there is not a single good line and not a single good joke the little psychological interlude with one and judge mcpherson is ridiculous so what does it have well the usual bell helicopters silhouettes moving in blue light and slow motion doors riddled with bullets and 1000 watt lights shining through the holes characters jumping through the air while shooting loads of weapons coming from nowhere a long black coat containing a bold black guy and a thin wooden box containing 25 tons of gold the pain continues to the very last take a hopeless approach to lighten up the closing credits californian don michael paul was writing and directing at least this mountain of boredom comes from just one simple mind
0	my take steven seagal is obviously too boring to be a lead in an action thriller even a totally dull one br br remember steven seagal you don't don't worry there's not much to catch up on after starring in admittedly enjoyable crowd pleasing films like under siege and executive decision seagal hits the low grounds of the bad movie abyss now he stars in low budgeted b level action vehicles some of which are made for tv movie of the week entries that lost their way to the big screen half past dead is among these shall we say dead action movies a loud and lousy action film sloppily directed and lazily written and worse badly acted this is one of those bad movies that i don't need to watch until the ending to know it's bad i didn't have the guts to have all my braincells die while wasting my time with this it it this kind of bad films in which you realize those other films you hate are not bad after all br br the plot and the locale is completely lifted from a similar picture michael bay's the rock although similar may not be the word to describe it both movies are summer movies and not meant to be taken so seriously but in comparison even the rock which isn't much in the writing department as much as the lights and sounds has better characters a more compelling plot better action sequences and overall a more entertaining atmosphere although there are action scenes in half past dead none of them are exciting all of which are sometimes tedious and predictable br br although predictability seemed to be a welcome asset in summer action films predictability has never tasted more sour in ones that aren't fun and half past dead is never really fun a lot of times it's just a pain in the head hearing the bad rap music repeat over and over again throughout this film makes me yearn for an aspirin every second i hear them the acting is horrendously mediocre the plot is derivative with no compelling or appealing characters whatsoever seagal's character an undercover agent sent to alcatraz to stop a criminal mastermind morris chestnut a very boring villain is nothing to get excited about seagal's character is also provided with a sidekick played by rap star ja rule and a bunch of amigo inmates and there's no chemistry going on here br br if starring in a series of other forgotten action vehicles what were those films again killed of seagal's career for good half past dead is overkill and audiences be warned you're invited to feel the pain advice avoid it at all costs br br rating 0 out of 5
0	as if the world needed another seagal movie add a bunch of actors who well are not really actors a bunch of heavy metal music to compliment the rap and of course a hot looking crazy chick in leather with no hips and we prevent ourselves from being half past budget why oh why do people sabotage themselves by participating in such films br br fbi capture two buddies and send them to new alcatraz where the prison's first inmate to be executed has unexpected guests br br first rate acting all around particularly any scene involving tragedy for the good guys seriously though the director did try and pulled a modern hard edge for the movie the best he could be he went to the well too often and half past dead gets boring too soon what else can you do when the inmates just hang around talking while the hostages continually ask what makes the main bad guy motivated a mindless action flick that amounts to little if not a
0	most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they're essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments tommy boy is a character right from snl a big fat lovable in their opinion goof who doesn't know anything br br david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role he's paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy's business br br the plot for starters is really faulty the whole premise daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz can be traced back to just about any movie you want like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation empty shallow just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be funny together br br the movie's biggest influence is the 1987 comedy classic planes trains automobiles that movie is great because the plot isn't stale and recycled it's basic yeah a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob but it's real dammit it makes all the difference the characters are real the situations are far more real tommy boy is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters we feel nothing for them and we don't care about what's happening on screen pta walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able tommy boy is simply absurd with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn't dead then awakens and wrecks their car br br the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from pta and it's eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie br br farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable i've never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn't changed my mind spade's given very little to do serving as the movie's most thankless character br br dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy's business the ending is a joke and not in a har har funny way more like a oh god are they serious way br br some people dig it that's cool but i just can't get into it nor do i appreciate all the stuff it borrows from not just counting pt a without any credit whatsoever
0	the best thing about the movie is the name as it both describes the plot and the acting at least they cannot say they didn't warn you kind of like the button labeled don't push this br br segal must have run out of things that move like planes trains and ships but the plot remains the same under cover guy who fights slowly but still beats like 40 mercenary types and doesn't even blink when doing so what amazes me is that segal is now as big as a barn and the bad guys still cannot hit him in a hallway with a machine gun and 50 clips of ammo where do all these bullets actually go to the only redeeming feature of this movie is watching peeples pound ja rule real name jeffrey atkins doesn't quite sound so punk into the floor i could spend days watching that woman kick her foot over her shoulder like that especially wearing an outfit like that it was just a bonus watching get is ss kicked and fun hoping one of those kicks actually landed sorry it's just time we get stupid wannabe tough guy can't act rappers out of the movies who came up with idea anyway i'd lay odds it was the person who decided that cameron diaz and drew barrymore would pass as witty athletic angels br br the only surprising twist in this movie is that they don't do the politically correct thing and have come in and save the day no doubt if snoop otherwise known by his momma as calvin which again doesn't sound so cool when you refer to him as cal had been in the movie he'd throw some signs down on her and probably saved segal's life or something
0	yeah a long time ago it turned into a tourist attraction now it's a prison again kind of well it's more like an airport mixed together with a junior high school but there are lots of guys running around wearing orange so i guess in that way it's like a prison not really though when sasha steven seagal's character is being admitted into prison he's standing shackled in line and wanders over to a different line so he can talk to his friend like he's in line for the security check at the airport then before too long he and his friend are throwing punches smacking around a couple of security guards br br let me tell you something you assault a corrections officer in a federal prison they'll shoot you on the spot ja rule would have been shot about 30 times before he threw his second punch oh and there are guys wearing beanies and and whatnot in prison federal prison br br you can't dress like that at most high schools in america br br speaking of ja rule i have to say that the person who probably enjoyed his performance more than anyone else on earth including ja rule himself had to have been 50 cent just before i watched this movie i saw one of those shows on tv about the greatest celebrity feuds ever and like number 7 or 8 was this rivalry between 50 cent who had lived the thug life for real and ja rule who had not every time i saw ja rule on screen the only thing i could picture was 50 cent laughing his ass off ja rule looks like a rowdy 9 year old every time he appears on screen br br anyway getting back to the plot it's funny sasha is an fbi agent working undercover and he agrees to let himself be sentenced to prison so he can get behind the criminal organization he's sentenced to five years and that old line between determination and stupidity instantly vanishes nothing else in the movie matters after that it becomes a meaningless string of action sequences most of which aren't even well choreographed br br oh how about this a helicopter crashes through the roof of new alcatraz at one point accidentally freeing all of the inmates and what do they do they all run out of their cells and play basketball in the middle of the cell block without so much as a basket they had a ball but it doesn't matter the scene is so stupid they might as well have been playing br br so some guy is being sentenced to be the first person ever to be executed in state of the art execution chamber evidently not for stealing 200 million dollars in gold but for not telling where it was hidden once he was caught br br hey good thinking people if you can't get information out of someone kill them that's a great way to learn the truth so some gang breaks into the prison planning to stop the execution and get the location of the 200 million for themselves br br oh and the 200 million is in gold bricks i doubt they thought ahead to how difficult it would be to turn that into currency br br there's also the issue of the warden at the prison he's some tough talking vato who thinks he's a hardcore from the barrio which reminds me of a joke i saw this comedian once talking about people in california who talk all tough calling each other ese and homes and all kinds of other such nonsense these people go to mexico the comedian says and they're like oh my god people live there that's like a total shack br br the best is when the united states supreme court justice arrives and this guy tells her that her men can't carry their guns inside his prison i don't care if she is a united states supreme court justice br br this woman could him like a grape and he thinks he's in charge ha br br and by the way the supreme court justice that gets taken as a hostage in the movie tells the bad guy that she is 53 that's a year younger than steven seagal i just thought that was funny br br the only good scene in the movie is the one in the prison where ja rule is getting slapped around the prison like a sack of cotton balls by this little asian woman that was the funniest thing i've seen in a movie in a long long time br br you know i work for the company that produced this film which i why i watched it and i still don't have a single positive thing to say about it except of course for that one scene with ja rule getting spanked by that asian woman br br so read my review of and you will see how strongly i sometimes disagree with professional film critics like roger ebert but in his review of this movie ebert wrote something that i agreed with as much as anything else he's ever written br br i imagine the at the mpaa congratulating each other on a good day's work as they rated 'half past dead' pg 13 after giving the anti gun movie for an r br br way to go guys
0	oh dear what can i say about half past dead i was really disappointed in it i was thinking a steven seagal movie cool we'll get to see him kick people and flip people and break bones we might even get to see him have a stick fight with somebody excellent br br however i was in for a rude awakening this film can be summed up as follows br br take an episode of the a team remove the lovable and roguish characters such as murdoch hannibal mr t and face then get a writer director to pen a plot even ed wood would be ashamed of and who's too big a fan of the matrix and john woo movies for his own good throw in a bunch of people with really bad acting ability and who don't have real names finally add in a main star who's getting saggy around the midriff and doesn't appear to be able to do his own stunts anymore br br the result half past dead an action movie so ridiculous that it at least made me smile right the way through the plot holes are stupendously glaringly large for example prisoners who when the jail is invaded fight the invaders rather than attempting to escape or how about the prison itself which has an armoury that contains heavy and rocket propelled grenade launchers you also have a helicopter bearing a striking resemblance to a huey with some kind of video game mounted in the nose br br then there's seagal himself i like the guy he can fight he's even witty in a way that jean claude van damme will never be but all through the movie i kept hoping for that one great defining fight scene never happened instead we got people firing guns a lot and not hitting a whole hell of a lot i mean when someone runs down a narrow corridor and you fire a sub at them there isn't a whole lot of places the bullets can go other than down the corridor and into the target yet somehow they miss even the a team would cringe at this foolishness and then when it gets to any kind of one on one physical stuff we get treated to a shabby matrix rip off without the benefit of bullet time people getting kicked twenty feet through the air and sundry other ludicrous acrobatic nonsense br br c'mon steven you're better than this your career can't be over say it ain't so br br this is instantly forgettable except i'm forcing myself to remember for the purposes of this review and if you watch it try to find it amusing in an a team kind of way but i doubt it'll be high on anyone's re watchable list out for justice this ain't more like out to lunch
0	i enjoyed the first toxic avenger but the sequel just didn't work there are some funny gags in the opening involving members of the home for the blind but past that point i was simply bored the sequel is also filled with much quirky low brow humor only this time it's not funny much of the gags revolve around crusty japanese stereotypes almost every japanese character seems to be chopping fish does everyone in japan chop fish the troma films are known for being more than a little irreverent but if you're gonna use humor involving racial stereotypes at least make it funny i can't laugh if i'm handed the same crap i've seen a million times before one thing i have to give credit for is the gratuitous nudity there's even more gratuitous nudity than in the first but altogether i was very disappointed and the film ends with a tedious chase scene which had me huffing and puffing dying for the movie to fade to black at least there's one hilarious line from the film which had me bawling with laughter after the villain says a line from shakespeare to one of the local citizens the citizen an elderly woman responds by saying f k you that's from david mamet br br my score 3 out of 10
0	the toxic avenger hideously deformed creature of super human size and strength is back in this sequel that gets mostly everything wrong toxie goes to japan to find his father at the suggestion of his psychiatrist whom is in cahoots with an evil corporation who just want the avenger gone to get a on tromaville in his absence with new actors for toxie and his girlfriend who has a different name in this one a much less grim much more comical tone and a plot line that can't hold a candle to the original even with the totally uncut version that one can only get if you buy the box dvd set the gore is the only thing going for this one and if you happen upon any other version forget about getting any enjoyment from this one at all while the first one is a low budget classic this simply is not br br my grade d br br eye candy erika has a very quick nip slip phoebe goes topless one villianess gets fully nude and a few extras in a bath house scene show various amounts of skin br br box unrated director's cut dvd extras intro and commentary by director lloyd kaufman second commentary with director lloyd kaufman troma editors gabriel friedman and brian toxie on japenese tv interview with fangoria managing editor michael gingold interview by mike mayo the same damn radiation march that's on every troma dvd clip from lisa gaye toxie 15 years later mockumentary 2 troma intelligence test troma studio building tour ad for lloyd kaufman's autobiography stills gallery theatrical trailer and trailers for toxic avenger toxic avenger 3 def by temptation class of nuke 'em high sgt n y p d tromeo and juliet bloodsucking freaks surf nazis must die
0	the first toxie film was dark gory and hillarious this film is un gory battles to cheezy jazz music no real gore at all and the worst toxie mask i have ever seen his deep voice is now a light happy voice characters from part 1 reappear by actors that look nothing like them claire mom characters names change claire or sara it is lacking all the brutal violence dark humor and political incorrectness of the first film if it weren't for nudity this movie could have been rated pg really lame i am a huge fan of part 1 though just cant stand this one
0	gone is the wonderful campiness of the original in place is a c grade action no brainer wich is not all bad but pales in comparison to the original all the meaningless sex and violence is gone and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers see it but don't expect the thrills of the first
0	this is the worst of the toxie series by far the acting in tokyo is horrible and you can understand them about half the time the major problem with this film is all the sudden changes from the original like there's a different girl friend of in this one or it might be the same character just with a different name and played by a different chick why is this film made like a disney movie after about fifteen minutes it starts getting good with the gore and all there's 2 awesome killings then the movie goes straight to poop after the films 20 minutes are up the film is entertainment h ll it's watchable well unless your drunk then don't watch this film you've been warned
0	the toxic avenger br br the idea of this movie is that a person that the common population would call this person a looser and then after being thrown into a barrel of toxic waste mutated into a superhero that is completely disfigured sounded ok even for 1985 this movie is listed as a horror i even have read of a cult following with this series br br now this movie even given when it was made was so bad that i couldn't stop watching the acting is horrible even for an independent film that i think was to be the horror part of this movie br br drug dealing sumo godzilla entrance i'm all for movies that promote anti drugs heck i even like godzilla and well sumo i'm not into it but even still i think that the heights of sumo would love to give this movie the 1000 hand slap and ground salt into the eyes of the people that made this movie br br personally i am almost ready to write to the film company that made this and ask them for the or so of my life back br br to me 1 out of 10 is too high it's too bad that there isn't a 0 zero or even negative to place on a movie here br br in other words this movie is j u n k would rather watch paint dry and deal with explosive diarrhea then have to watch this movie ever again i would be the first person that would use not only the packaging of this movie as kindling but i would be up for a movie and script burning
0	the toxic avenger part ii starts with the startling revelation that after the toxic john who was apparently fired during production replaced with ron had rid his home town tromaville of evil it actually became a nice place to live this meant that toxie had no use as a superhero anymore now suffers from depression a feeling of utter uselessness just like directors lloyd kaufman michael herz should feel like after producing this toxie now works as a concierge at the centre for the blind' it's not long before trouble rears it's ugly head though an evil chemical producing company called apocalypse inc plans to take over tromaville for some stupid insignificant reason or other but to do so they need to get rid of toxie after the evil chairman's rick collins first plan fails he bribes psychiatrist erika to tell him to go to japan see his father leaving his girlfriend claire phoebe his mother jessica dublin his home behind toxie heads for tokyo japan once there toxie sets about finding his father a woman named masami helps him in his quest meanwhile back in tromaville apocalypse inc move in for the kill without toxie the citizens are powerless to defend themselves toxie eventually finds big mac whom he has been lead to believe is his father however big mac is all part of apocalypse inc plans to destroy toxie once for all br br produced directed by lloyd kaufman michael herz this follow up to the successful the toxic avenger 1985 basically proves the first film was a complete fluke a lucky accident to combine the right blend of bad taste comedy outrageous violence so bad it's good film making the toxic avenger part ii is a load of crap in comparison the script by by kaufman phil gay terry with a load of 'additional material' credits does not contain one single funny moment during it's entire 102 uncut director's cut duration the visual gags are terrible toxie walking through tokyo with a wig glasses to blend in for instance or a scene where he heats up a bath with a bad guy in it as he cooks toxie throws in a load of spaghetti a scene where he sticks electrical wires up a woman's nose sticks an antenna in her head a microphone in her mouth to which a japanese radio announcer talks into a bit where a japanese bad guy has his nose burnt into the shape of a fish a bit where toxie grabs a swordfish head uses it as a weapon or the embarrassingly bad overacting stupid idiotic facial expressions a guy who literary has a fish for a head gets turned literary into sushi the awful comedy music sound effects the whole film in general is a pale imitation of what made the original mildly amusing memorable the bad taste gags aren't there this time round the silly childish juvenile humour of the first is also missing it just feels like a real step back from the original lets not forget this is troma here so that is most definitely a bad thing there are a few gory fights some serious gore violence at least in the supposedly uncut 102 minute version i saw crushed heads with the bodies spurting out blood smashed faces intestines roses poked in someones eyes thorns wrapped around their throat ripped off ears severed arms a very graphic gory scene of a man being chopped to pieces unfortunately the special effects by aren't particularly convincing come mostly within the first twenty or so minutes the acting is of embarrassing proportions as i've already mentioned action wise there is an ultra cheap looking car chase at the end a few unexciting lacklustre fights utilising cardboard ninja throwing stars at one point horror wise there is nothing a few gory set pieces apart comedy wise this is very unfunny in fact the toxic avenger part ii sucks on all levels really to top it all off it's atrociously made as well most of the cast appear to be people plucked from the nearest street corner continuity is none existent cinematography is basic point shoot the special effects are anything but one or two gory scenes apart this is total crap plain simple do yourself a favour watch the original again instead
0	this is your typical junk comedy br br there are almost no laughs no genuine moments no memorable lines no scenes where you think to yourself that was clever nothing the plot is embarrassingly bad br br it's ugly to look at and boring as hell there is no substance here this movie has nothing it doesn't matter if was in this or not a crap movie is a crap movie no matter who's involved br br also david spade is a terribly unfunny comedian who plays the same lousy character in ever movie tv show that he's in br br this movie was dead on arrival there is no life here no fun no intelligence there are plenty of other dumb comedies more enjoyable that this one this film is just pathetic br br 2 10
0	i knew this was headed for disaster after looking at the clock within 7 minutes of air time the story line two people get married they move into the wife's parents home and husband doesn't get along with father in law and if you haven't seen this plot before you probably have not watched tv for the last 15 years or so
0	this series and gold were being hyped as the next big thing in sitcoms for nbc well they weren't dennis farina was terribly miscast as the father in law he just seemed so uncomfortable and out of place here the term private time was supposed to become the dyno mite catch phrase of the 21st century well it wasn't people were asking then as they still are today when his name comes up who the hell is gold i saw him on an episode of the mentalist this evening i mentioned his name and my girlfriend asked who not funny total waste of airtime nbc had really high hopes for this show but it just fell flat
0	there were nice characters in here played by pleasant looking actors and actresses plus it had a famous band and some famous dancers yet the film just didn't work by the time this was almost over i was bored to death the dialog was dumb the humor mainly milton was downright stupid and the music was just not up my alley br br i've never been a big band fan anyway and if i hear in the mood one more time i'll puke br br this was my first look at famous skater actor sonja henie and i have no complaints about her almost part of the problem at least with the humor is that it's so dated it isn't funny anymore berle phil silvers bob hope red skeleton abbot costello etc etc were hilarious to the crowds in the 40s and 50s but humor changes and what was funny back then is not today
0	what can i say this was one awful movie to watch i am normally not very critical of gay cinema in general due to the fact that most are usually low budget but this really pushed me up the wall i mean is this was has happened to gay cinema haven't gay producers and directors learned anything from gus van saints and ang lee's films just having to sit through the entire movie was like being in a dentist's chair and having my wisdom teeth extracted i kept on praying for moments where i would feel any sort of connection with any of the characters but that never happened most of the characters performances were just not very convincing it was like watching one of those badly produced made for tv movie specials on a local access tv stations i cannot tell u how greatly disappointed it was seeing this film after being a big fan of tori other works and the directors last work on latter day saints it was definitely not worth the wait definitely a few hours of my life i will never get back and will certainly not be purchasing it on dvd
0	wow kiss the bride wasn't that bad but it wasn't that good either it sure was no later day saints the movie sags in the center perhaps cutting out about 30 minutes would have made a more enjoyable film but the film gets bogged down again and again by annoying subplots and throw away scenes the whole gold outing sequence comes to mind br br even though kiss was made for theatrical release it looks and sounds more like a made for tv movie every scene is lighted like a department store so many characters are so throw away br br and dear tori is actually a pleasant surprise she steals every scene she appears in br br one scene really annoyed me it was the rehearsal dinner in this larger room with scores of tables all decorated but only 5 or 6 people in a room for 250 where did everyone go br br gay cinema has sunk to a new low but not as low as the horrible films being produced and shown on the here channel
0	this is an oft used line but it really sums up this movie if this is the current state of gay cinema then we're in real trouble i saw this film at because of the high imdb rating 7 6 and if there was ever a case of vote stacking on imdb then this is it just watch the number fall over the release weeks of the film br br easy plot boy finds out his high school ex boyfriend is getting married to a female friend of theirs so he goes back to his old hometown still carrying a 10 year old torch to see what happened br br first off i liked latter days the director's last feature despite its cookie cutter characters and plot contrivances but you're supposed to become a better director with each subsequent release i don't know how you get horrible supporting performances out of so many tv veterans robert foxworth joanna cassidy tori spelling but somehow he managed to the writing was lifetime network quality way back when they were really bad and the situations were unbelievable and uncomfortably hard to watch i kept reaching for a non existent remote control to fast forward but ultimately made myself stay to the end hoping for a decent ending ugh no even the gratuitous male nudity that popped up during the movie was so blatantly gratuitous that it seemed to be there to keep people in their seats br br to be fair the 2 leads especially in the gratuitous nude scenes were gorgeous there was also a real sweetness between them during their rekindling friendship as they uncovered how they went separate ways and the film looked great good quality and color saturation for an independent film br br how is it that network tv can give week after week of great entertaining weekly episodes like ugly betty housewives etc but so many feature releases in similar genres can be as bad as this
0	as a fan of c j 's earlier movie latter days i really wanted to like this film br br the nicest thing i can say however is that it's not an awful film there are some good performances and a few funny scenes in particular tori spelling has a couple of great scenes where she's talking to her fiancé's ex boyfriend br br overall though it's pretty week the script falls back on weird coincidences and clichéd movie moments way too often the main character went to stanford on a golf scholarship and his high school buddy doesn't even know that he plays the game br br most of the time this movie had no idea where it was going or what it was trying to say there are a lot of scenes that are mildly cute but ultimately turn out to be a waste of time and you could easily cut half the characters from the film without losing anything br br still for all it's faults i would have to say that this is one of the better gay films of recent years which says a lot about how bad most gay films are br br i'm hoping c j 's next film will be better
0	how did so many talented or at least charismatic actors wind up in this baloney nothing is very good about this movie but the worst things probably are the screenplay and the directing br br apparently this is director damian heart piece as he's both written and directed it and acted in as well he's a card magician himself and seems to have named characters in homage of other famous magicians this was his first feature film as far as i know and chances are it's his last br br it's hard to point to exactly what makes it so poor – but i'd say the story and character's are not believable the screenplay and the directing doesn't give it any boost the director plus – the poker scenes are bad in the worst hollywood manner super hands hollywood rules the supposed twists in the movie are either totally predictable or totally unbelievable they just end up tying a knot to a story that at best can be described as a few decent scenes
0	what a cast and what a waste of it seriously when a movie has gabriel byrne jamie foxx thandie newton stuart townsend hal holbrook melanie griffith and sylvester stallone in it you would expect some quality the movie is however one big mess with a unlikely story that can't seem to stop putting twist and turns in it yeah i think that they thought they were really being clever with all of it br br the story is not only messy and unlikely it also isn't exactly terribly original it uses elements from earlier and much better poker game based movies but to me it were really the many pointless twist and turns in the movie that did it it made the story such an unlikely one to watch on top of that the script remains filled with a lot of holes silly poker game errors and things that just don't make an awful lot of sense why would any one above all things want to play against a card player that is known as the best cheater in the game this is what the movie is about and builds up to but just didn't ever made a lot of sense to me br br despite that the movie has a great cast it still feels as if most actors were miscast in their roles i don't know what it is about stuart townsend he is a good actor but in most roles he plays he always feels out of place perhaps it are his looks i don't known this basically also was the reason why he got replaced in the lord of the rings the fellowship of the ring also thandie newton isn't much good and actually quite annoying in her female role and what was the point of having melanie griffith in this oh i guess i could go on about the movie its casting and could complaining even some more about the way too limited screen time the jamie foxx character gets but i guess you get my point by now br br damian just isn't much of an original writer director and on top of that he also doesn't handle his own material very well scenes often feel disjointed it tries to put in way too many characters and everything about the movie is shallow and in a way predictable on top of that the movie features some bad editing at times which also doesn't help to make this movie look like one seamless whole the movie was also one major box office bomb and no wonder that damian hasn't made a movie ever since br br a too big mess to make you enjoy this movie br br 4 10
0	shade tries hard to be another sting substituting poker for horse racing as the means by which to bring down an enemy but it fails miserably br br i watched the whole thing and still never could quite understand why the young kid wanted to double cross his partner was it because his partner stole his girl is there a woman in the world who is worth going to that much trouble over if there is it certainly wasn't this shrew she had no redeeming qualities whatsoever and really now did she actually have a special room set up so that a surgeon could remove the kidney from whoever tried to pick her up in a bar dina merrill makes a short appearance as a rich woman who hosts of all things pay the rent poker parties at her palatial home and then the players say things like i'll see your thousand and raise you another five thousand give me a break you can't call see and raise you do one or the other any kid playing for nickels and dimes at the kitchen table knows this you'd think grown men playing for stakes this high or at least the knuckleheads who wrote the script would know it too br br one of the other posters mentioned how no high limit poker game would allow players to actually deal their own cards and i agree you don't allow two of the best known car cheats into a game where the buy in is 250 000 and then let them deal to each other that's not poker that's just seeing which one can cheat better and i'd like to know what person in his right mind would buy in to a game in which two of the best known card cheats are playing and expect that he might have a chance at winning and most of all what mafia boss would run such a game every time melanie griffith came on the screen i was so mesmerized by those gigantic fluorescent red lips of hers that i completely lost the storyline and seeing her and stallone together was more like a public service announcement for plastic surgery gone wrong than a love connection stallone mentions that she used to be a grifter before she bought the restaurant she now runs but we don't know what kind of grifter she was and we never see her working with stallone in their younger days so we are left to wonder if we even care that much br br jamie foxx is the best character in the whole movie but he gets killed off right off the bat and we're left with cardboard cut outs who all sound like they're reading their lines off a teleprompter just off camera br br the ending makes no sense either the kid gets his cut from the game and just walks down the street with a briefcase full of money and his partner is nowhere to be seen the mafia isn't watching every move he makes everyone else just shrugs their shoulders and quietly accepts the loss of millions of dollars without trying to recoup any of it i don't think so br br most of all this movie does a great injustice to professional poker players all over the world insinuating that the only way to win is by cards and playing with decks and why is it they're always kings and aces sometimes you need a three or a nine to fill a straight or full house br br the best parts of the whole film are the of hand tricks during the beginning and ending credits everything in between is ridiculous
0	spoiler but probably not br br the game is called donkey kong but donkey kong is not even in it br br anymore diddy is gone aswell br br the 1st donkey kong country was one of my two all time favorite br br super nintendo games the other being super mario world br br the 2nd donkey kong at least had diddy kong and good levels br br although it felt more like a game based on pirates at times br br however this one is the worst of the lot it does not have the feel of br br the original or 2nd the enemy's look stupid and the levels are br br even worse it does not look realistic anymore i did not enjoy his game unlike the last two the first had great br br background music and the 2nd was not bad but the music in this br br game is horrible br br it happens a lot these days that movies shows and sometimes br br video games that start out fantastic end up with it being ruined by br br a stupid sequel i am sad to say i feel that donkey kong as a saga is not as good br br now that it has donkey kong 3 br br they should have left it at the original or maybe the 2nd one
0	as a professional poker dealer for over 25 years i found this movie very hard to watch too unreal it seems the producers of this movie either had done little or no research or just didn't care the card tricks are something you never would see performed in a real poker game common sense right plus it was full of film cuts and such during the tricks who couldn't do that the cheating was amateur stuff marked cards etc would you sit in a high limit game where they use opened deck cards would you sit in a game where the players push their chips into the middle of a pot constantly mixing them in then just how much they bet c'mon i gave it a 4 because the twists and turns might be interesting to some people but for those who know how to play the game it will be pretty painful next time they should use real players and get some insight on how to do it right ouch
0	perhaps if only to laugh at the way my favorite of jane austen's works has been portrayed perhaps i am too severe on this adaptation but i'm afraid i am biased to the a e version i have a hard time imagining mr darcy portrayed by anyone other than colin firth br br the characters seemed shallow and often dialogue forced lizzy seemed to lack the real feeling that is so evident in the book her fancy for was overplayed and then her sudden like for darcy was not believable br br darcy was portrayed tolerably well i will grant him he managed to maintain the aloofness that is required but i felt he did not project the feeling and inner struggle that makes his character so delightful especially in the proposal scene br br mr and mrs bennet were also played well but seemed lacking in many ways the mean temper of mrs bennet was not completely captured in her performance br br mr collins' was a good portrayal very much in line with the book br br i will refrain from commenting on lady catherine except to say that she is possibly the worst portrayal in the entire film br br other problems i saw were the few liberties they took with the order of events such as darcy being present at the first meeting with lady c and also that miss lucas and sir william did not join lizzy on her visit to the collins' br br the choreography was dreadful during the dancing scenes the scene where lizzy and darcy dance loses much of its intensity because one cannot get past the feeling that they look akward on the ballroom floor at least this bbc version left out the dialogue between lizzy darcy and sir william when he commends the two on their dancing as they performed very ill indeed br br there were occasional moments that it kept me interested but overall i find this version to be a disappointment i would not advise this film unless you're like me and you are excessively diverted by such follies br br
0	i have been an avid jane austen fan for many years i had never seen this adaptation so when i had heard of it i came here and read all the excellent reviews on that basis i eagerly ordered it from netflix what a cruel disappointment they have taken one of the most subtle and bright comic novels and made it dull each character seems to have been dealt a single facial expression a single tone upon which to base their flat characters although this adaptation seems to have used every word that jane austen wrote they appear to have been passed around to characters in a random fashion even though it was done as a miniseries this adaptation manages to confuse and feel as rushed as if it had been done as a movie of the week br br mr bennett too harsh mrs bennet just a chattering chipmunk mr darcy as lifeless as a nutcracker the bennett girls almost indistinguishable and mr a man who no one would look twice at hardly the appealing cad i'm quite put out
0	if you want to truly experience the magic of don then check out alien factor or maybe fiend but not this alien factor is actually rather imaginative considering the low budget and it's fairly creepy but which i guess is sort of an updating of alien factor is just plain dumb actors sleepwalk through their roles especially mr monotone sheriff and the monster is some dumb halloween mask kind of thing instead of the wildly imaginative but kind of stupid looking critters from alien factor a spaceship crashes on earth and there's a critter inside of course who runs around vaporizing people and ripping off arms etc and he has a cool ray gun that he uses to vaporize people too until it gets shot out of his hand and that's really about it alien factor beats this mess hands down if you really want to see a good don movie check that out instead and rip don 12 2 06
0	ok when i say wow i mean jesus please help me i have an old vhs copy that was printed before troma got a copy of the title the movie is about an alien crash landing on earth to terrorize us with a gun that blasts people into oblivion watch out and by that i mean watch out for those special effects there is an amazing number of mistakes the acting is terrible but i'd say the only one putting forth any effort would be the sheriff the film itself is really grainy and poorly lighted in one particular scene it is day outside and then the shot shows the night beast shooting his gun with night behind him then it shows day again shakes head i usually like low budget horror films but i had to force myself to finish it because i never watch a movie without finishing it the only accomplishment this film achieved was an alien that wasn't stereotypical so for that and only for that i give it a 3 out of 10 br br don't watch this movie if you've had a bad day you'll be even more depressed at the failed attempt this movie makes
0	after the opening credits over a black sheet of paper with spots of white paint sprayed onto it oh ok i'll be generous and call it a star field we witness an alien spacecraft crashing into a meteorite and being forced to land on earth a terrible looking model spacecraft lands on a terrible looking model field three nearby campers investigate from the burning spacecraft a reptile like looking alien the emerges ok so i lied it's a guy in a dodgy rubber monster mask and silver spacesuit the campers are quickly killed by the laser gun which shoots awful special effects at people the towns sheriff jack cinder tom griffith is informed he alerts his deputy lisa kent karin and gathers a posse of men together to investigate meanwhile the has killed an unlucky motorist who stopped on the side of the road for a leak his two annoying kids run for help they approach a house inside two young people are kissing the girl says someones running towards the house the guy gets up to take a look and is attacked and gutted by the it kills the girl as well then it manages to kill the two kids with his laser maybe the ain't so bad after all once the sheriff and his men arrive at the scene they have a gun laser battle with the after possibly the most unexciting gun fight in film history only the sheriff his deputy and a local man jamie lambert jamie survive but the is still alive bullets seem to have no effect on it the next day the sheriff visits the towns mayor bert wicker richard and his girlfriend mary jane eleanor herman to get permission to evacuate everyone in the town he refuses saying a party he is holding for the governor richard cannot be cancelled and that he doesn't want to create a panic situation the sheriff evacuates the town anyway two doctors steven price george and ruth sherman anne firth are attacked by the before they can leave however they manage to scare the away and survive together with the sheriff his deputy and jamie they decide to stay behind and fight the alien written and directed by don this has to be an amateur film made with family and friends look at the credits and see how many are involved for that reason i should probably cut it some slack but that still doesn't stop it or excuse it from being a throughly awful film in every department it has no story or purpose things just happen to waste time whats with drago don strangling his ex girlfriend suzie monica neff this and many more scenes add nothing to the film the script has no logic either why does the stick around the town once it's been supposedly evacuated the special effects are embarrassingly bad just look at the effect when the shoots someone with his laser a computer effect an 80's spectrum would be ashamed of there's not really much blood or gore in it a ripped open stomach a severed arm and a decapitation but they all look predictably poor credit where it's due the itself looks alright for the most part there's a sex scene between the sheriff and his deputy which has to be seen to be believed music that even a porno would be embarrassed about and two really ugly naked people make this a difficult sequence to watch less than stellar acting photography music lighting and editing make it a real chore to sit through and the worse thing about this film it commits the mortal sin of being boring and not fun in the slightest sorry don mate but don't give up the day job definitely one to avoid
0	an hulking alien beastie crash lands on earth and soon wrecks havoc upon the populace first using his laser ray gun to dissolve into dust almost every human he catches sight off that is when his aim isn't terribly off and later his bare claws with which he likes to rip out and eat human spleen br br all in all it's pretty silly stuff i do have to give it some points for being somewhat fun at times i actually enjoyed the mindless ray gun battle at the beginning and some of the later over the top gore effects however it doesn't help when the monster provides the movie's only truly entertaining moments and he isn't on screen for a large portion of the film's running time the acting throughout this is just plain awful and amateurish and our lead hero sheriff cinder is much too unattractive to be bagging the film's hottest chick i also have to take off points for blatantly copying the thing from another world 1951 on several occasions when the monster isn't on a rampage is far too dull and eventually his attacks become so repetitive and predictable even they become less fun watch this one back to back with the 1951 thing and see the difference characterization attention to plot and detail and creating suspense makes to a monster on the loose movie
0	from hardly alien sounding lasers to an elementary school style shuttle crash is better classified as a farcical mix of fake blood and bare chest the almost pornographic style of the film seems to be a failed attempt to recover from a lack of cohesive or effective story the acting however is not nearly as beastly many of the young aspiring actors admirably showcase a hidden talent particularly don and jamie who shed a well needed shard of light on this otherwise terrible film would have never shown up on set had he known the terrible movie making talent of this small maryland town
0	i was more entertained by watching my wife almost pull her hair out in frustration through most of this movie i thought something that would tie it all together would be just around the corner of the dairy barn any minute so i cheated grabbed the remote and was relieved to find out it was ending in merely 20 minutes i should have turned the channel cute it had potential but yuck
0	it is terrible it is like somebody gave a kid a faulty video camera and 30 and told them to make a film even then you'd get a better and more professional film than this the story is so dumb you can say there isn't one i don't think the guy who made this knew what to do at all watching foreign art movies all day long isn't enough to make somebody an instant director the acting is very bad really kindergarten level and the writing is just plain awful the only scene i didn't hate was the one with the caravan accident but even that only means it was just slightly less horrible than the rest of the film how do people get finance for this stuff i don't mind alternative films but shouldn't they at least not be a big steaming pile of cow manure i would call of amateurish if it wasn't an insult to amateurs this would not even be a good film if you were drunk or drugged
0	sorry to disagree with you but i found the series to be quite engaging so much so that i invested in the system and my own copies of the games this is mind you almost ten years after the initial release of 1 the graphics were ground breaking for their time the first graphics games for home systems the music and characters are all memorable and the games brought myself and my girlfriend dozens of hours of entertainment true the second game was better than the first and the third was perhaps lacking the of the second installment but all three offered different play and i enjoy them to this day by the way i'm old enough to remember when there were no video games whatsoever and tvs were black and white
0	this movie is somehow showing 6 2 stars it seems inconceivable that the director has that many relations i am at a loss to explain this br br avoid this movie at all costs you have only a certain number of hours on the earth don't waste 1 1 2 of them on this retarded steaming heap of guano br br there is no story as apparently the director wrote and i'm guessing with a blunt orange crayon the next day's script at the completion of the day's shooting the story has been called whimsical no it is aimless there is maybe enough story to fill a commercial don't you hate ads br br now while both leads can act they obviously decided not to here and similarly the writer director can actually both write and direct as evidenced by his next work toy love br br so to recap even if you get this movie for free even if you're paid to watch it avoid it br br to paraphrase monty python's search for the holy grail run flee
0	this movie is funny if you're the gentleman who was sitting about three rows behind me repeating every punchline laughing when there were no gags on screen and issuing a gravelly at every scene involving a computer or mobile device br br for everyone else it's a mean spirited bungled comedy the movie strictly follows the formula of the later scary movie films as well as epic movie and meet the spartans though without the flood of heartless pop culture references that made the latter two so irritating still the lampooning of intellectual and figures the world over makes it clear that the film knows its audience people who envy brainpower superhero movie is particularly and consistently nasty to stephen hawking introducing him as a sex starved druggie and using his disability as a vehicle for slapstick br br the plot is based on spider man with batman begins and x men thrown in just to deliver some physical comedy much of the movie is slapstick but not in any invigorating or interesting way the longest running gag is a fart joke and early on the scriptwriters seem to believe that having the main character get thrown in conspicuous piles of fake animal poo automatically enlivens an otherwise uninspired rehash of the spider bite scene from spider man perhaps the only redeeming feature of this feature is the energy in it notably absent in other recent parodies the filmmakers act as though they're doing something new and the audience can feel the influence in the way the actors bounce around the screen an extremely abbreviated length about an hour and fifteen minutes and the zest of the presentation makes superhero movie tolerable rather than horrifying
0	went with some friends and one of my friends mom thinking it would be a good way to start off the spring break but the movie turned out awful we all agree it shouldn't have been pg 13 more like r material lots of sexual dialog cussing and referring to boy and girl parts below the waist not worth the time or money strongly urge you not to go or rent it when it comes out if you do end up going don't take smaller children not the type of movie to see with the family if curious about the content check out the content advisory section on the superhero movie page on imdb most of the content that was meant to be funny was extremely crude especially when they make fun of steven hawking
0	i thought this would be funny i did i don't know what happened but i think a lot of the problem unfortunately falls with the casting i don't know who this kid is he could be a very nice person but he wasn't right for this movie and the supporting cast was great which only makes it more obvious for example there would be a scene with him and his love interest and your mind just starts to wander off but then keith david starts speaking or leslie nielsen or marion ross and it's like someone turned a light on and suddenly you can pay attention again and you think it might not be that bad but when they get back to the main characters the lights go out again br br the spoofing material available in the superhero genre is plentiful so the fact that most of the jokes were basically a fart makes you wonder who wrote this thing i mean it had a couple of funny bits as i do remember laughing a couple of times but right now i don't remember why and it was only a few days ago br br really i'm giving it a take it or leave it rating but i think most people should just leave it
0	and so it started with a send up of horror films then we had scary movie a genuinely good attempt at a new kind of genre the illustrious send up however now we have scary movie scary movie 2 scary movie 3 scary movie 4 date movie meet the spartans not another team movie plus many more genuinely funny movies marked with br br and super hero movie it seems the people that make these movies cannot yet grasp what makes the send ups funny using the rip offs from other movies in a funny way is all well and good if done properly but not many producers seem to know how to do that scary movie 1 did it well the following sequels were then horrendous as the tried to over play the franchise but it was redeemed by scary movie 4 not another teen movie was good because it used the spoofs well and to its credit i am sick of teen movies however this movie plays like a bad version of all of these it relies on slap stick the would make even the 3 stooges cringe violating the image of stephen hawking and then when people begin to get bored and the producers knew when this would be we are treated to pamela anderson in a skin tight suit to conclude spoofs should be about making a homage like mock up of an original movie with an original storyline not random take offs of legitimate film onto the storyline of a real film br br i shudder at the thought of sci fi movie and get my seppuku knife ready
0	this was the stupidest movie i have ever seen in my life it is a complete waste of money and time i went to see this movie with my friends and when the movie was over not a single person in the movie theater not that there was a lot of people there to see this terrible movie said wow what a good movie someone actually walked out it was absolutely terrible it was disgusting and i hated every minute of it my friend was putting her head in my shoulder towards the end because after the scene with rick on the ceiling peeing she had had enough it was not funny at all believe me i went with 11 other girls and not one of my friends liked it it was ridiculous i've seen many movies but this was absolutely the worst i mean a scene in the movie is with an old man making out with a dead person in a coffin i just can't make up these things
0	i took my 14 year old to see this movie we left after 15 or 20 minutes it was absolutely awful this movie should be rated r at the least i am not that strict with movies but this was just too much it was a waste of money i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but this was way beyond crude i was sitting there watching and reading a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was i could not believe that it would be ok for a 13 year old to read and see this content i don't understand how the rating system works
0	this film was the worst film i have ever seen it was a complete waste of money if i had not been in the cinema was my two young cousins who also thought it was disappointing but not as terrible as i thought i would have left the cinema there were two points in the film that i almost laughed but the rest of it was either boring ridiculous or painful i thought it would be a spoof on all superhero movies which i love but in fact it was mainly based on spiderman with a few oblique references to other superhero movies such as fantastic four and batman i really cannot think of one good thing to say about this film do not waste your money with this film there are many other better films out there
0	i went to see this movie with my boyfriend last night i'm 20 years old and this movie was way too much for me i couldn't imagine taking a teenager preteen or especially a child to this movie it was crude and offensive i was totally misled by its pg 13 rating and the previews that i had seen for it i had originally seen previews for it on nickelodeon and i thought that it looked pretty cute maybe i just don't remember the preview correctly plus drake bell the movie's main character stars on a nickelodeon television show that targets preteens and young teenagers i really didn't think that the movie's content would be as risky as it was i should have done more research about it before i went however i'm hoping that parents will read up on this movie before they take their kids to see it just because it has drake bell in it br br seriously do not take your kids or teenagers to see this movie the rating should have been r there are tons of sexual references drug references and disturbing events throughout the movie examples drake bell gets attacked by sexually charged animals several scenes that involve men grabbing women's breasts lots of profanity drake bell uses a bong to smoke vanilla frosting or something like that people get stabbed hit and hurt in the movie and an elderly lady and her dog get shredded there are tons of other offensive and disgusting scenes throughout the movie it was really demeaning to women in general the movie is by the people that made the scary movie series so that should tell you something right there please remember that seeing movies like this can give kids and teenagers all kinds of wrong ideas about sex drugs and violence most children and teenagers can't decipher between spoofs or comedy and reality br br i do have a sense of humor i also know that the humor that was in this film is typical of its genre but i find the possibility of children and teenagers going to see this movie horrifying br br as for the overall quality of the movie i didn't think it was that original or funny it dragged in parts and some of the humor was just forced and painful the acting wasn't too bad considering how bad the script was if you're an adult or older teen looking for a funny movie skip this one or rent it
0	scary movie 1 4 epic movie date movie meet the spartans not another teen movie and another gay movie making superhero movie the eleventh in a series that single handily ruined the parody genre now i'll admit it i have a soft spot for classics such as airplane and the naked gun but you know you've milked a franchise so bad when you can see the gags a mile off in fact the only thing that might really temp you into going to see this disaster is the incredibly funny but massive sell out leslie neilson br br you can tell he needs the money wither that or he intends to go down with the ship like a good capitan would in no way is he bringing down this genre but hell he's not helping it but if i feel sorry for anybody in this film its decent actor drake bell who is put through an immense amount of embarrassment the people who are put through the largest amount of torture by far however is the audience forced to sit through 90 minutes of laughless bile no funnier than herpes br br after spoofing disaster films in airplane police shows in the naked gun and hollywood horrors in scary movie 3 and 4 producer david zucker sets his satirical sights on the superhero genre with this anarchic comedy lampooning everything from spider man to x men and superman returns br br shortly after being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly high school outcast rick riker drake bell begins to experience a startling transformation now rick's skin is as strong as steel and he possesses the strength of ten men determined to use his newfound powers to fight crime rick creates a special costume and assumes the identity of the dragonfly a fearless crime fighter dedicated to keeping the streets safe for law abiding citizens br br but every superhero needs a nemesis and after lou landers christopher mcdonald is caught in the middle of an experiment gone horribly awry he develops the power to leech the life force out of anyone he meets and becomes the villainous hourglass intent on achieving immortality the hourglass attempts to gather as much life force as possible as the noble dragonfly sets out to take down his archenemy and realize his destiny as a true hero craig writes and directs this low flying spoof br br featuring tracy morgan pamela anderson leslie nielsen marion ross jeffrey tambor and regina hall br br hell superhero movie may earn some merit in the fact that it's a hell of a lot better than meet the spartans and epic movie but with great responsibility comes one of the worst outings of 2008 to date laughless but a little less irritating than meet the spartans and in the same sense much more forgettable than meet the spartans but maybe that's a good reason there are still some of us trying to scrape away the stain that was meet the spartans from our memory br br my final verdict avoid unless you're one of thoses people who enjoy such car crash cinema as bad as date movie and scary movie 2 but not quite as bad as meet the spartans or epic movie super villain
0	warning some spoilers ahead br br what an incredibly crappy movie it makes iron eagle 2 seem good br br the story is as follows captain holiday rutger hauer gets shot down by his friend banning robert patrick to stop him from shooting down a iraqi airliner filled with innocent civilians six years later holiday returns to take his revenge among other things he sitting in a tank chases banning now a colonel and his pregnant wife over a field he manages to fire shells and drive the tank at the same time after getting the tank blown up by a bazooka he miraculously survives and steals a fighter jet with it he shoots down a number of allied fighters before attacking the nato headquarters in an attempt to kill banning's wife br br an extra bonus is that major baxter who holiday hangs in her office has put the rank insignia on her right shoulder on backwards elegant
0	i happened to rent this movie with my sister in hopes of watching a great entertaining movie that was humorous however my expectations were let down this movie was beyond disgusting and revolting for a pg 13 movie this should have been rated r for the many mature references that went on in this movie i wouldn't recommend allowing a 13 year old teen see this br br even if no one under the age of 17 is watching this movie beware of a truly stupid movie there's no humor in the movie just a bunch of disgusting sexual references including a small touch of pedophilia something that shouldn't even be joked about br br i would like to know what happened to pg 13 movies that were actually safe for actual a 13 year old this is beyond a deplorable movie and should be re rated
0	here's a spoof that's guaranteed to entertain folks in the iq range of homer simpson it's a cheap shot at every great superhero notably spiderman and batman but it doesn't end there it gets progressively worse until it disintegrates into a pathetic ensemble of slapstick by the truckload br br for those interested in the plot you've only to watch spiderman while under the influence of some heavy narcotic what you get is dragonfly man – a boy wonder who loves the girl next door suddenly inheriting some stupendous super powers br br the rest of the script is as predictable as waking up in the morning and brushing your teeth but don't' take my word for it for kids this is somewhat amusing for adults it's a great film to drop the kids off for
0	superhero movie 2008 is the most recent in the long line over parody movie movies which i despise so much i wish this movie could be the death of the genre but i know that it isn't awful enough to put the final nail in the coffin br br if meet the spartans is considered the bottom of the barrel as far as hollywood movies go than superhero movie is probably near the top unfortunately meet the spartans was actually miles below the barrel and this movie just barely makes it in br br superhero movie has a decent cast of c list celebs it's got drake bell the kid from disney's drake and josh leslie nielson airplane tracy morgan snl and 30 rock and a few others scattered throughout although it has the star power to light a 40 watt bulb the movie fails to utilize any humor br br this movie is about 80 minutes long most of which is dedicated to following the spiderman plot and not one single joke is funny i didn't laugh or chuckle or smirk the entire time br br don't see this movie don't even think about it for the love of cinema just skip it and maybe they wont come out with another one br br oh who am i kidding they'll probably come out with another one by fall
0	the movie starts with a spiderman spoof which is your introduction to rick riker played by drake bell of drake josh fame personally i'd have given the movie to josh who is much funnier and the rick joke is lifted right out of airplane so the writers were obviously already scraping the barrel for ideas for this film rick's class is on a science trip to the amalgamated genetics lab and this is where we get to meet the 1st star name in the film brent spiner data in star trek tng playing dr strom rick is bitten by a genetically modified dragonfly which is where his powers come from br br we meet our next big star names at rick's home his aunt lucille marion ross of happy days fame uncle albert leslie nielson of airplane police squad naked gun fame and we're introduced to carlson on the amalgamated board of directors dan from the simpsons who is then very promptly killed we're told rick has slept for 5 days get some cheap crappy sexually orientated scenes designed to get the teen male audience paying attention the stephen hawking scene is painful to watch and is really a bad idea that doesn't work and isn't remotely funny br br we get another spiderman spoof rick catching the girl and all the planets but the movie should end right there as jill was hit in the head by a falling bowling ball which would have broken her skull and killed her stone dead you get to see rick's 1st powers emerge gripping ability speed then his 1st rescue which goes very wrong we also get an incest reference which is in very poor taste indeed we get a flashback and a batman spoof in which we discover rick is solely responsible for the death of his parents spoofing spiderman again uncle is shot with jeffrey tambor from hellboy playing the hospital doctor we then get an x men spoof done very badly as patrick stewart is about as white as they come barry bonds is played by yet another lookalike br br we meet invisible girl played by pamela anderson looking stunning in her costume 1st outing in his costume once he fixes his ability to see breath through it is another batman spoof the tom cruise youtube interview clip is played by yet another lookalike and not a very good one at that there are lots of modern references like youtube facebook wikipedia all showing that the movie is set in modern day there's a very weak gay joke never a good idea to do those either when jill is helping aunt lucille make thanksgiving dinner and the pissing scene isn't very funny just infantile br br the aunt farting scene isn't particularly funny just incredibly childish anyone finding it funny must have a mental age of about 12 she's killed and then we have a really bad necrophilia joke is there no topic these people won't try to use to get a cheap laugh out of at her funeral and the even worse cremation joke br br we get the 2 worst in the whole movie prince charles nelson mandela at the awards ceremony and if you didn't already know how infantile or stupidly lowbrow this movie is landers wins the douchebag of the year award landers is revealed as the hourglass in a really bad scene where the same girl manages to run past jill twice in the same direction br br obviously the hourglass is foiled jill is rescued from certain death and the only funny scene in the whole movie is the final one
0	it's not fair i was really expecting this to be a hilarious entertaining movie i mean i like drake bell from drake and josh and leslie neilson is nothing to be sneezed at since his earliest classics airplane and the naked gun however after seeing superhero movie i'm glad i didn't even have to pay for it it just wouldn't have been anywhere near the 9 per ticket more like a dollar and a few pennies because that would sum up for the hour and a few minutes and as disappointing as this film was i'm glad the running time was that short if not shorter i just cant believe how incredibly vulgar unnecessary and above all stupid some of the scenes were and above that i've seen better acting from a wooden dummy without the ventriloquist it's as if craig purposefully wanted to make a film that deserves its 3 7 if not lower and even try to be worse than meet the spartans very disappointing indeed
0	when a loser teen is bitten by an insect he becomes the superhero dragonfly br br superhero movie is the latest spoof movie to hit the screens sadly however despite the presence of david zucker who was involved with airplane top secret and the naked gun movies it still suffers from the fault most recent spoofs have mainly it's more dumb than fun the fault mainly lies with the gags it's simply not funny enough some of the jokes do work such as the nail gun scene but other parts simply fall flat the x men spoof for example or the whole farting sequence blazing saddles this isn't one of the key things about the best spoof movies like airplane is that although the dialog is extremely funny the cast for the most part play is completely straight this makes it even funnier even when there is simple dialog in the foreground there may well be funny things happening behind the cast again funny the other key thing is that they all have a plot of sorts to hang the gags on br br the recent trend seems to be to take scenes from various movies then try and spoof them as a result the so called plot of these movies very rarely exist another flaw these movies have is that some of the scenes were actually funny in the original versions and in most cases even funnier than the spoof scene the cast try to get into the spirit required but with a lot of unfunny dialog and scenes it's hard to get worked up about it br br as recent spoof movies go it's not as bad as epic movie date movie or the awful meet the spartans but considering that some people involved here have made good funny movies in the past it's nowhere near good enough
0	it's not unusual that hollywood likes to pump out crappy films occasionally a handful of good films come out of them while the majority just sucks major ass it's also not surprising that those bad films are retreads of old tv series' occasionally a surprise pops up with the fugitive who saw that best picture oscar nom coming but for every fugitive there's a navy or some other wholly unoriginal film devoid of any plot or interest the mod squad in my opinion goes into my top ten of truly lousy films in which hollywood should get it's sorry ass beaten for producing what could've been a good movie we're shifted right dab smack in the middle of a story that just doesn't seem to make sense it wastes the talent and the dialogue is just bad we don't actually know who the hell these characters are and we could give a flying f k about what they are instead you're expected to automatically know who they are and what they're going to do there's one particularly bad riff about the i'm too old for this s t line that's just plain stupid something my friend verbally noted when we were clamoring for the movie to just end it's just an insult to hollywood cinema grade f
0	i expected this movie to be absolutely god awful like what dreams may come or the truman show or something well they were selling it off for £3 99 in my local hmv and it had giovanni ribisi on the cover you know you cant help but love him and so my friends dared me to buy it and i was sure it was going to be trash maybe thats the only reason i could sit through this movie because my standards were never that high
0	one day someone said lets redo the mod squad we can make it hip cool and all that yo it'll make a mint then they actually made it and as you are watching it you can hear your spleen cringe in agony as it twists and binds into a knot from the pure horror of it all any movie ever made has something on this id rather meet wayne newton and sing karaoke with him in a gay bar in idaho and drink a virgin bloody mary than ever watch this again may god have mercy on my soul
0	this one is a poor attempt at spinning the old cons turn good yarn which we have seen so many times before it actually reminded me of the american series 'the players' although nowhere near as good omar epps is totally unconvincing as the hard man of the bunch as is ribisi who's attempt at being the funny guy gets lost along the way danes performance was decent though and you can see from this performance why she was cast in terminator 4 br br the mod squad is a film which lies in a kind of grey area between serious thriller and comedy at times it takes itself serious but other times it tries to be humorous but fails miserably the film has a kind of half finished feel about as if it was stretched to the 90 minute mark br br you'l be disappointed
0	well you know rutger hauer and robert patrick both are really good actors but wtf with this movie the story was lame and the script was just terrible the poor actors didn't have material to work with br br the dvd cover invited you to a flight action flick you would expect something like top gun huge disappointment the flight action in this movie is so cheap that makes you puke the aerial scenes are clearly taken from documentaries and some other footage sources not made for this movie and they didn't even care about the marks or the fighters models taking for granted the audience will not notice it br br as i said the story was lame with a little effort from the writer and director it could have been very interesting in short it seems a b movie made in the 70's br br i feel very sorry for these actors who put their names here they sure must be ashamed
0	this is one of the most boring films i've ever seen the three main cast members just didn't seem to click well giovanni ribisi's character was quite annoying for some reason he seems to like repeating what he says if he was the rain man it would've been fine but he's not br br 3 out of 10
0	i had the misfortune to watch this last night on the bbc i expect i may have been the only viewer from the beginning there was something quite wrong about the movie after a few minutes of viewing i managed to work out what it was the movie was bad not bad in a good way like wolfpack or a seagal film just plain old shoddy bad br br why was this made into a movie i've seen a few episodes of the tv series and thought it was alright but i only saw repeats of that because they made this br br i spent most of the film trying to work out what the story was and by the end i was none the wiser i seem to remember at some point a character maybe mentions that the mod squad can get in to places regular cops can't the turns out to be a one of the toughest places to get into maybe it was student night i lost track of the plot at this point or maybe there was no plot and the movie was just chopped together from various leftovers from other tv series remakes br br was it an action comedy i don't remember any laughs br br overall this movie lacked the real scene stealing power of someone like seymour hoffman as the bad guy with him ribisi would have had somebody to bounce off
0	the mod squad isn't a movie it's a void that's the most fascinating thing about it and the thing that kept me watching – i'd never seen a film that offered absolutely nothing before it's a film without any reason to exist whatsoever seemingly consciously designed to appeal to no one as if made purely as a contractual obligation to someone the studio really dislike there is no plot there is no characterisation there are no set piece action scenes there aren't even any scenes as such just a progression of increasingly empty shots projected at 24 frames per second i'm not talking about empty as in dumb summer blockbuster but empty as in we haven't got the pages yet so just point the camera at something and stop when you've got 90 minutes worth it makes you appreciate the 'artistic of charlie's angels and s w a t that much more what it does offer is far too much of giovanni ribisi at his most tediously execrable doing his bastard son of a thousand morons impersonating marlon brando method acting routine michael lerner dancing with omar epps and… no that's it oh clare danes has a nice smile in one shot and dennis farina has the sense to get killed off early genuinely the most utterly pointless film ever made it's like without the jokes but you know for kids
0	i was not old enough to really appreciate the original mod squad but i knew everyone thought it was cool i have some of the books that were written based on the series in my screen to print collection and they're pretty light duty so i didn't expect much from the movie that's a good thing because this movie was bad on a long leash br br i admire the risk in creating a movie that is so completely true to the 1960's hit the movie audience though has gained sophistication in 30 years at least i think so i certainly expect something more than an hour and a half of the original mod squad concept with now old car chases now considered poor camera work tinny sounding soundtrack and poor script and all on the big screen in the 1960s we didn't care as much because we had minimal expectations an integrated police team of young people wearing something besides suits was enough it was that another thrilling episode of ironsides or password br br rating this episode against usual theatre releases the story was well i'm not sure i should even say because i'm not sure there was one drugs are bad whatever the script was silly when the characters are exchanging dialog and advancing the plot with lines like i overheard him say so on the phone and i think i got a plan we really are in trouble no wonder the acting was dreadful no one knew how to say such idiotic lines br br if i were claire danes i'd be going after my agent with a flame thrower right now actually i think everyone in and watching the film has a right to seek retribution br br and where was the mod in that squad i realize these kids just got out of juvenile hall but no one had a velvet suit mod only meant young and integrated what happened to white go go boots perhaps the costume department was going for gritty but all they got was dirty and dingy br br since the movie was completely true to the original series and required special behavior from the actors cameramen stunt men etc we should appreciate it more unfortunately i still don't like it if i wanted to watch 60's crime drama i'd buy dvds no thanks
0	the movie was slow the dialogue between actors actresses felt flat and basically there was no development of the characters in the story br br omar epps skulks around with a mad look on his face the entire time pouting and basically looking annoyed with everybody danes has no on screen magic and ribisi's character is a that nobody would want to hang out with even if they were paid to do so br br throw in the weird scene where epps has to dance with an old man and you have what quite possibly could be the worst movie in cinema history br br i watched it on satellite thank goodness i didn't pay for it and wished i hadn't br br do yourself a favor and go sort your underwear and socks drawer if you need something to do but are tempted to watch this movie when if it comes on your tv awful movie if you ask me and i generally have something good to say about just about any movie out there
0	i watched this movie for the first time the other day and was bored to tears i guess i just was looking for some flashback to the wonderful series that i remembered i watched the mod squad television show religiously back in the day and it was fantastic it was action packed and the relationship the 3 had with greer was endearing there wasn't any of that here when greer was murdered you get the idea that these 3 could have cared less the actor who portrayed pete is a really good actor but they wrote his part like he was mentally challenged pete in the television series was quiet and serious but had a funny side also they had this guy acting like he was either on drugs on the time drunk or just plain ignorant i wouldn't recommend this movie at all especially if you were a fan of the tv series it will be a complete letdown
0	the dvd sleeve explains the premise three problem teens are headed for jail and are set to do time until captain greer offers them a deal to work for him undercover the film opens with definitions of the words mod and squad so you won't have to look them up in the dictionary for a visual definition of cool search for photographs of the original threesome michael cole as pete cochran clarence williams iii as hayes and peggy lipton as julie barnes br br one black one white one blonde once they defined cool br br the three who make up scott silver's version of aaron spelling's the mod squad are claire danes as julie barnes giovanni ribisi as pete cochran and omar epps as hayes they aren't able to do much with the material given mr ribisi's portrayal is the most far out meaning he most from the original characterization ms danes romances josh brolin as billy waites who looks like he could be in a re make of marcus md you won't believe hefty michael lerner dancing with mr he explains i'm not a fairy i just like to dance and requests spin me br br the mod squad 1999 scott silver claire danes giovanni ribisi omar epps
0	there is nothing at all redeeming about this film it is very bad and not in such a way that it is even remotely funny horrible plot acting and writing and incredibly cheap production values to boot this film makes the look like a work of art
0	i was actually looking forward to this movie the commercials made it look real cool and action packed and i heard that claire character was arrested for assault so i thought that maybe she would kick a lot of ass and that would be cool but their was hardly any action at all and the character were all kinda bland the only saving grace was omar epps and even he didn't help this movie much
0	i heard what people were saying but i ignored them being rushed at blockbuster i grabbed copy of this movie and ran out br br 45 minutes into i was fighting to stay awake there is some attempt to keep the film interesting but it was just bad a chase of some sort takes place but it was long and drawn out the perfect time to make a snack by the time this movie was over i didn't care how ended i just wanted it to end walking in and out of my room checking to see if it was over br br the entire movie is a cliche' the characters and their relationships the plot twists are predictable as well as the ending the actors made the best out of really terrible roles all can say is their clothes were nice but the movie it was just bad
0	well this movie shows us that mark griffiths and producers think we all are idiots if not how should we understand this br br american pilots take off on suddenly all aircrafts turn to f 16s ha a magic after an action migs land the magic again br br oh did i mention that f 16s had israel markings br br another magic obviously unarmed l 39 trainers are bombing enemies br br and more magic while all movie is situated in europe we can see a desert in almost any flying scene br br maybe the director wasted all his magic on things above because action scenes are incredibly chaotic and also explosions look awfully as if pilots bombarded with br br ok ok this is a movie i should write about its story wait a story yes there is some story in this film and its horrible as well
0	the forgotten aka don't look in the basement is a very cheaply made and very old looking horror movie br br the story is very slow and never really reaches anything worth getting excited about br br the patients at the asylum are embarrassingly funny especially sam and the old woman who always quotes an old saying to everyone look out for the bit when she gets close to the camera tell me you can watch without laughing br br now the gore is very poor looking with the blood looking pink in many scenes so it doesn't really deserve its place on the video nasties list br br overall if you aren't looking for a fantastic horror film and have some time to spare then it's worth a watch
0	this movie had great production values good lighting costumes set cinematography and acting but someone somewhere took the script and replaced all the dialogue with grade school level barely literate writing i felt my iq dropping points any time any character spoke br br did they do this on purpose was this just an accident of brain dead studio executives at this point we don't know br br all i know is this movie was one great mistake from beginning to end we don't even get to see how the squad became cops so instead of any character development we get what feels like a bad tv movie leftover from the 60's or whenever br br find the screenwriters beat them with a sock full of quarters everyone else nice work but read your scripts next time br br 3 10
0	possible spoilers three young people on the wrong side of the law are given a chance to turn their lives around and become useful members of society by becoming undercover cops in the mod squad ' a resurrection of the hit television series of the directed by scott silver given their less than stellar backgrounds and because of who they are and the people they know julie barnes claire danes pete cochran giovanni ribisi and lincoln hayes omar epps can go places other cops can't so they are tapped by captain adam greer dennis farina to infiltrate a seedy night spot suspected of being a front for a prostitution ring for a start julie gets a job there as a waitress while pete and just hang out' to find out what they may julie quickly becomes reacquainted with an old boyfriend billy waites josh brolin who turns out to be involved with drugs which are tied in to the shady dealings going down at the bar before it's over the is in it up to their necks while also running afoul of a bunch of wrong cops who are also involved with the drugs and consequently tied in with their investigation from the beginning of the movie there is a sense that you are coming in late as if it's that you know what's going on as far as the origin and workings of the squad all you get here are brief mug shot bios of the three that give you nothing more than a glimpse into their past there's nothing about how this all actually came about the thinking was probably that by doing it this way it would lead into the story quicker get things moving along while this is true to a certain extent some added background would have made the texture of the story a bit more interesting the way it was done here merely the credibility of the entire proceedings the plot is marginal to begin with and any time spent on character development would have been well worth the while what's delivered and quite unimaginatively at that is a less than compelling story filled with one dimensional characters the performances are satisfactory but the actors get no help from the script nor apparently from silver danes ribisi and epps come close to fleshing out julie pete and but given the time allotted them combined with the lack of support they still fall way short of giving these people life farina a good actor who deserves better than what he gets here comes off as nothing more than a caricature of the good cop ' there's a feeling that everything was given the once over in this film some detail and nuance would have driven the stock up considerably on this one the supporting cast includes richard jenkins detective steve harris briggs larry lionel mark smith lanier and sam tricky it's a shame to see the acting talent involved here wasted like this a lot more thought and planning should have gone into the making of this movie as it is it comes across as ill conceived and poorly executed danes ribisi and epps are like major leaguers who got stuck playing for all the marbles at the local instead of getting a shot at the title they all got hung out to dry like terry says in on the waterfront ' you was my brother charlie you shoulda been looking out for me ' well it's obvious that there was no charlie to look out for them here and after the mod squad ' they can all just hope for something better to come along the next time i rate this one 1 10
0	i thought this movie was horrible i was bored and had to use all the self control i have to not scream at the screen mod squad was beyond cheesy beyond cliche and utterly predictable
0	i really wanted to like this movie but i just couldn't it had the potential to be a really cool hip remake of a cool show but that's where it fell apart it was too hip too cool first of all all the cool lines and scenes were showcased in the preview trailers which i'd seen lots of times and the editing was very disjointed so that the scenes didn't seem to flow together and they all seemed out of place claire danes who i love as an actress failed to make this her break through to the beyond high school acting roles the only bright spot was giovanni ribisi as pete his slightly stupid yet actually smart style was funny and refreshing overall though i'd recommend just watching the previews instead of seeing the movie and wishing it was more
0	this is an astonishingly bad action film i'd say its primary flaw is that it's boring funky wardrobes retro chic set design and decent cinematography cannot prevent this flick from being a snoozer mod second major flaw is its lack of character development underscored by the actors' lack of talent i tend to like claire danes's work so i was quite surprised by her non existent performance in this film giovanni ribisi is woefully miscast how could his cotton mouthed bumbling acting style possibly fit into an action flick as for omar epps well he needs to take a few acting lesson to learn how to emote the man had the same facial expression for the entire film my suggestion is to save yourself a few bucks and wait to see this turkey on cable
0	ok number one this film is a 90's version of a crappy show from the 70's that no one remembers number two as soon as the movie started i was confused it was like i walked in halfway through the movie there was no plot it was very annoying horrible wardrobe call me crazy but it's just not believable to me that little skinny omar epps can chase down a big grown man without a gun and scare him into talking it's a ridiculous plot i'm sorry but to me kids these days can't even put their pants on one leg at a time let alone catch some evil underground killers i walked out of the theater and demanded and got my money back i do not reccomend this movie to anyone over 12 years old
0	being a fan of the series i thought how bad can the movie be well i got my answer some movies should never be made why call it a remake of the series when the only similarities are that there are three main characters the pete character in the series wasn't a whiney little baby as portrayed in the movie the only good thing in this movie besides the music and that clare danes is pretty was that it was short what's with that dance scene the only reason i didn't walk out of this film was because it was so bad it got funny maybe that was the plan it's really bad when a cheap 60's tv show is better then a 90's 20 million dollar film el mariachi cost only and is a much better film don't even waste your money when it comes out on tape it's not even worth renting
0	pure crap decent cinematography i liked some of colors other than that this was one of the worst movies i ever saw boring lifeless not once did i find myself interested in any of the characters i kept waiting for a real plot to form and the movie to pick up the pace nothing ever happened i think they spent too much time working on hair and wardrobe that they forgot there was a movie being made at the time
0	this may just be the worst movie of all time never have i seen such horrible film making before in my life its so bad i think i want to go watch barney instead i advise everyone who reads this to write a petition to get this movie off of our film history so we can never hear from it again i give it 1 out of 10
0	so it's friday night and you want to go watch a movie all you want is something entertaining not too artsy or anything that might require a long night of philosophical discussions so you pay 10 to watch the mod squad the trailer to this movie should have tipped me off but come on it's three of hollywood's most beautiful people eye candy but that's about it a string of moving prada ads and what did hollywood producers forget a plot why are these kids running around the streets after some unknown enemy where are they but don't worry after a while you'll just stop caring i was on the verge of walking out of this movie because i thought sitting in my room and staring at the wall might have been more productive and free but by that time it was over 90 minutes it's only saving grace so still willing to waste 10 go get yourself a nice hot meal
0	my caddy limo was destroyed well i had one just like it drove the hoi and many of the chosen ones around manhattan for a few years br br that was a whole lot more entertaining than this movie i can tell you lordy what a bomb as in rpg go boom i also drove a lot more stars in my white caddy than appeared in this dud of a flick br br robert patrick is a very serious actor and did a credible job with the nonsense he had to work with unfortunately rutger hauer played his part like a red nosed circus clown if he couldn't take it serious why should his audience the director should have kicked his butt off the set in the first hour of filming br br the dialog was written by 10 yr old's for 8 yrs old's surprised there wasn't a whole lot more cracking up on the sets oh well i am a movie fanatic ergo you must take the bad to get to the good
0	the mod squad gets started the formation of the without even bothering to develop any of the characters or show us why anyone is doing what they are doing br br moreover most of the events in the movie seem ancillary to the plot without even a smack of character development the plot meanders from gen x club scenes to action scenes and back again br br
0	i must preface this comment with a sort of admission i suppose i just have a soft spot for the original 60s 70s tv series i think the filmmakers here blew it from the get go as far as casting in a supposed remake audiences would look for reflections of the hip athletic clarence williams iii or the cool with it michael cole and so forth instead we get giovanni ribisi as a poor little white rich boy who comes off as just pathetic like he is in all his roles in the office i used to work in i amused myself once by creating a fake movie poster casting various actors as members of the office staff guess who i cast as the dorky son of the company president danes does ok as the new julie but none of the characters have much to do as the story just sort of sits there mired in conventionality so it's quite forgettable besides what was i talking about
0	i'm not one of those folks who bemoans everytime a film based on an old tv show comes out rather i usually run out and see it if i had watched the show and try to get nostalgic but if anyone feels like running down films based on old shows this is exhibit a so you can actually say something more than just navy mod squad is dreary tiring and lethargic at least the original series was angst riddled long before anyone knew teens could be so glum making it groundbreaking this is just tedious claire danes is nice to look at but does nothing else but mood swing and sneak around spying on the baddies giovanni ribisi's acting extent in this flick is that droopy the dog look for an hour and forty five minutes and omar epps looks like he wants to flee the set but the script's has trapped him sure the production is nice with the now seemingly rave nightclub opening action sequence and shootouts galore oh and the kids yell and get mad at each other and their superiors a lot too it's kind of like deciding to use the scooby doo mystery machine to go on a family vacation to hollywood with your teenage kids who you and your spouse know need heavy therapy and prescription drugs i really wanted to like this movie and there were promising moments but the next scene would suck the life out of it you can knock another spelling remake charlie's angels all you want but at least that film knew it wanted to have fun with itself the mod squad makes you wonder where the inspiration from the original series went
0	young writers young auteur young cast busload of producers what could go wrong everything even lame is too good a description that suggests that three of four legs were functioning when actually none of them were barely enough recycled plotline for a 48 and a half minute television hour gratingly stretched to ninety minutes the audience was talking back to the screen so bad was the story dirty cops steal drugs from the evidence locker how many thousands of times has this been done on television bad cops frame good cops again how many times there was not an original shred in this entire concoction giovanni ribisi made a valiant effort to prop up the lack of script drawing the only laughs of the entire movie and the thought of he and claire danes working from a real script with a grown up director and photographed by an actual cinematographer intrigues me note to screenwriters buy one of those story generators it can't possibly be as bad as ripping off bad television note to auteur there are shots available to you other than closeups even the lovely and interesting face of claire danes eventually grows tiresome in closeup note to cinematographer apprentice yourself to a professional for a few years you have much to learn note to color timer at the lab at least try to persuade the auteur and the cinematographer that they don't know what they're talking about note to claire i hope this paid for your new condo it's time to get some professional management and start actually reading the scripts before signing on
0	i love these awful 80's summer camp movies the best part about party camp is the fact that it literally has no plot it simply drops a weak batch of characters into a location and then things occasionally happen the cliches here are limitless spoilers the nerds vs the jocks the secret camera in the girls locker room the hikers happening upon a nudist colony the contest at the conclusion the secretly horny camp administrators and the embarrassingly foolish sexual innuendo littered throughout the only cliche missing is the presence of corey feldman this movie will make you laugh but never intentionally i repeat never a final note be prepared to bust a gut watching the nonsense that is the dramatic scene where jerry riviera and d a share a beer late at night spilling their guts to each other the dialogue literally makes no sense and the acting belongs on a high school stage it's a classic
0	there are movies that are leaders and movies that are followers br br meatballs was a leader and here's one of its followers br br party camp is about as interchangeable as any of its brethern who plumbed the depths that meatballs the original had so successfully mined of course that one had bill murray so what does party camp have br br i'm glad you asked that question br br jewel sheperd has made these flicks her bread and butter and what a side dish she provides even as an innocent wink wink girlfriend to a rich twerp she provides that sultry steam she gives to all her parts and yes guys she shows if you know what i mean and i think you do my gosh that smile of hers could melt through titanium br br what oh yeah the movie nothing special as i said every cheap joke is aimed for and hit at about crotch level and eternal teen jayne is good for a laugh or two but instead of a sense of humor there's just nudity lame sex jokes more nudity a soft core dream sequence a sex symbol nurse simply for clothed leering purposes even more nudity br br hmmm maybe it's a good idea bill murray wasn't in this br br two stars for jewel naturally plenty of camp but not much of a party
0	the worst movie i've seen in years and i've seen a lot of movies acting is terrible there is no plot whatsoever there is no point whatsoever i felt robbed after i rented this movie they recommended it to me mind you a disgrace for terrible movies stay away from this terrible piece of c p save your money
0	i watched this movie which i really thought had a promising beginning but then it just led me to feel disappointed in the end the problem i think with this film was that the director was trying a bit to hard to make this film weird and original there were too many flashbacks and too many bad effects which got me annoyed through the film i love debbie harry and isaac hayes but they disappointed me in this film they could of done much better this film seemed promising in the beginning dragging in the middle and then disappointing in the end the film could never beat stanley kubrick's when it comes to controversial matters weirdness and originality in movies
0	i picked this movie up because it sounded like a pretty decent flick and i've always been a fan of foreign films however for someone who likes movies i was surprised at how much i hate hate hated this movie br br although it does aim to expose the lives of young men in lima and to an extent it does the characters are hopelessly shallow and the audience winds up having absolutely no feelings whatsoever for them br br although the story chiefly revolves around m he rarely ever speaks and his dialouge is at best amazingly dry and dull br br warning some small spoilers br br basically the story revolves around a young man named m who has been searching for jobs but without success he does gain employment twice but quits because they're not for him when you're poor the last option you have is to be picky some amount of time is spent with his friends who's idea of fun is to rape a little 14 year old steal crappy tires off a piece of shit car for a dime sack of weed and several other slightly retarded activities br br m's friend with a plan to make 25 000 a piece and move to the us by running cocaine to miami when the drug lord gives them a job we're treated to an extremely lame scene of the three friends buying clothes at the mall with some music playing in the background we see them trying different clothes on like little girls given 200 to shop get there hair cut and then strutting off looking like slick gangsters one character carlos will from this point on wear sunglasses always even at night the day before they leave the leader of the group leaves to speak with the drug lord leaving m and his friend to be dumb they party up take several samples of the drugs they're suppose to run and break into thier old school acting like animals and smashing everything in sight br br the movie ends when m tries calling his girlfriend who hangs up on him the friends then proceed to set the pay phone on fire which brings out a bunch of kids and some old man with gun m and friend in charge of the drug run shows up on his motorcycle and wants them to leave with him now then he takes off by himself and gets shot by that old man the police show up and arrest m and his friends but not the man who shot the guy and cover thier dead friend up with newspapers as music plays and it fades to credits br br end spoiler br br i even watched this movie a second time hoping to see some subtle redeeming factor for it but i did not a complete waste of 102 minutes although i must give it credit for being straightforward and not shying away from disturbing elements the casting acting and overall direction still leaves much much much to be desired br br imho if you're interested in a movie that explores the issues this one was suppose to go rent city of god de deus instead avoid this trash at all costs you have been warned
0	now this is a bad movie if i've ever seen one in one of film's greatest years 1999 detroit rock city contends with runaway bride and wild wild west for the bottom spot in a barrel of junkies the plot is masterful four scrawny high school youngsters finally have their chance at seeing the hard rock theatrics of kiss third year in a row so when their tickets are by an ultra religious chain smoking mom the pals scramble themselves in getting to detroit and i'm sure you can figure out the rest br br well not exactly the movie does go to extreme measures in explaining how the four band members no not gene paul ace and peter go about getting these tickets losing your virginity in a confessional saving a smoked out bimbo and your mom's volvo from the soprano's steve schirripa nonetheless preventing a robbery in the midst of botching one for a 12 year old's debt and of course stripping down to your bare essentials for mc ron jeremy after shuttling a full blender with bourbon leftovers sounds funny doesn't it perhaps detroit rock city does have a point with all this tomfoolery in how extreme sometimes these fans can go and we do understand this movie is a comedy it is supposed to be filled with slapstick but does detroit rock city aim to the proper audience it is rated r meaning the only way prepubescent adolescents the audience as i see it to which many will eventually hail this one a classic will voyeur is through illegal terms br br detroit rock city also fails at giving itself the late 1970's touch the camera's texture quality is way too clear and way too bright missing the necessary flair from films like this is spinal tap and sid nancy this would've allowed audiences to feel more at home' with the times simply costuming kids into pre 90's grunge wear and settling others into disco does not do the trick environment does mean something you know i doubt detroit looked this glamorous in '78 if there's anything positive coming from this movie it's the kick ass soundtrack of hard late 70 to early 80's rock van halen ac dc you name it it's all here of course we can't forget kiss the band aptly subjected throughout br br what the film noticeably fails to manage are questions concerning why the knights of service it's really just kiss were so frowned upon by moms around the nation sure the loud rock and devilish makeup might be a part of that for youth to explore themselves and have a good time might be fair reasons as well but what is kiss saying in the music we hear throughout the film towards this highly rebellious group what separates these anthems of rock ing and roll ing all night and partying from the rest of the music most likely these questions will remain in a music communication class and not in the films that should answer them simply because it is kiss and they rock and we must do everything in our god forgiven power to see them br br 1 5 5 stars
0	this movie is astonishingly poor it was on television when i tuned in during an action scene and was chuckling away at the cheesy macho dialogue waiting for leslie nielsen to appear it took me a couple of minutes to realise that it wasn't actually a comedy it was meant to be taken seriously what has to be remembered is that somebody actually sat down and wrote this movie and worse still other people funded it and gave it the green light br br rutger hauer obviously doesn't read movie scripts before he signs up either that or he has some seriously bad debts to pay br br strangely this film is so poor that you find yourself staring at it wondering how it actually got funded and how a tv channel must have paid money for the rights to air it the dialogue between hero and baddie whilst trying to shoot each other out of the sky is particularly painful with dialogue sounding like it was generated by a texas speak spell br br the hollywood money machine at it's worst funny though
0	sometimes you get exactly what you expect a film produced and by and as a vehicle for a rock band in the middle of a comeback is not to be expected to rank high in artistic merit and in this case it certainly doesn't in fact as expected the soundtrack is a much better investment than the movie itself which like the 70's rock and roll lifestyle it attempts to portray is characterized by excess drugs and over the top antics but unfortunately is not nearly as much fun utilizing a script by carl dupre horrible enough to make a fellow screenwriter cringe and wasting the talents of edward furlong the sole highlight of this rock and roll period piece gone wrong is the music most notably the elaborate recreating of a 1978 kiss concert
0	well the name in the summary should tell you everything fred olen ray the modern king of low budget flicks be it for tv or direct to video i doubt he produces for the silver screen anymore with the death of drive in b movie double features and all br br creator of such cult classics like hollywood chainsaw hookers and dinosaur island br br well i kind of like this guys stuff its mostly entertaining in a distinctly cheesy campy and especially cheap kind of way and if he's one thing he's a pro something you can't say for all guys in the movie biz br br but this one flick here is among the weaker ones in his insipid acting an uninspired script and lame jokes conspire to make your brain go numb in a matter of minutes if you are out for real f o r goodness or rather badness look out for the above mentioned ones and generally his stuff from the 70s and 80s i think he lost a bit of his edge lately
0	this movie made me want to bang my head against the wall it is hard to compare such badness as this to anything but some say that watching this movie is similar to bleeding from under your fingernails and that comment comes from the writer's cousin this movie was so flipping bad it made hulk the second worst movie ever look like the departed one of the greatest movies in cinematic history if you like boring family movies with predictable plot lines then you will absolutely love this movie if you have a brain then you definitely will not when i rented this movie i actually fell asleep while watching it the next day i finished it from where i left off and it was the worst decision of my life
0	when i borrowed this movie i wasn't expecting a high quality performance but this was just sad br br most of the acting was so unbelievably bad that you couldn't easily get into this movie if you tried there's nothing quite like seeing a kid announce things like oh no my dad is invisible or i wonder what this does in the same monotone that one might announce traffic over the radio with there are some good actors but they are wasted on smaller parts br br the story is decent though it would be fairly easy to guess considering that there aren't too many real plot changes lots of holes too for example the dad is invisible and the inventor figures out what part is needed to make him visible again so the boy goes and steals the part from an electronics store couldn't he just ask his dad for the cash br br this shows up in the comedy category but most of the comedy in this movie was fairly dumb like the invisible dad taking off his clothes while invisible and then almost reappearing naked during a meeting or walking around with his head covered at all times funny at first but it gets old br br 2 5 because it is watchable and it's one of those movies that are funny in their own way like the monotone recitation of lines
0	okay it's a movie for children and it's not one of those movies that adults will enjoy as well however there are some unintentionally funny moments most of them involving holes in the story for example the kid needs a computer part to bring his dad back to normal and he doesn't have the money so does he ask his father for the dough nope he steals it and gets caught kids if i'm ever turned invisible i'll advance your allowance ok also while this kid is at the police station no doubt about to be charged with criminally lame acting his beautiful blond teacher comes in announces who she is and where she works then busts the child out of the slam in front of the cops to make matters worse instead of making a quick getaway they then sit in the parking lot of the police station and laugh about their achievement you know i hate to pick but the kid did steal something and ought to face the consequences but maybe being in this movie is punishment enough y'all avoid it
0	i received this movie as a birthday gift because all of my friends know i'm a big fan of low budget horror flicks kaufman studios have always made the cheesy gory flicks that delivered i loved to watch their films at home on rainy nights with my family until i saw bugged what happened br br this movie started out with a pretty good concept about mutating bugs and even added some slick comedy but overall the writing is just bad and that was mistake number one ronald k armstrong should learn to first be a better writer before becoming a filmmaker after reading the credits we discover he gave himself the most important role in the film two words mr director acting lessons ok mr armstrong joins the ranks of other writer directors who cast themselves in their own movies and that's mistake number two br br the only thing that i believed saved this film was the artistic camera work and the musical score let's hear it for the crew the cast of other actors who in the beginning of this production seemed a bit cold really warmed up toward the middle and end of this production everyone pulled together and helped to pull this film off ronald armstrong may lack the talent to ever become a decent director or actor but i'll say this of him he seems to know how to organize people to get them all to come together and pull his productions off br br this film i have to say can be an inspiration to any young filmmaker who dreams of making their own movie because if mr armstrong was able to pull this off any one else can too if you get a chance to see this film watch it for the sake of getting inspired to do better in the future hollywood needs bigger and better horror flicks to keep this genre coming back from it's grave
0	big spoiler right here this film is b a d but enjoy it's good bad br br bugged is the kind of film you can't believe exists with dialog plotting and direction so ineptly handled that uncle ned's cavern home video looks like an imax experience since it's a troma flick there's plenty of gross out gore on tap but its even sillier than usual br br most of the production money seems to have gone into buying soda and sandwiches for cast and crew the brilliant dialog is best summed up in the immortal what was that which is second only to the oft screamed now what br br any knowledge of how people act in a desperate situation is alien to ronald armstrong the writer director when one of the friends is found being eaten alive by a grasshopper termite thing armstrong has the survivors immediately making time with cute but dumb as a doorknob divine while she's being hit on divine is cooking up a big steaming pot of a rat poison oatmeal mixture on the stove stirring smiling stirring smiling never falling over dead from the fumes br br the killer bugs are as frightening as which they too closely resemble the effects used to move them include dragging them across tile floors real fast with their legs dragging behind br br the highlight for the film would probably have been the house blowing up but they were either out of cash or never had any so instead of seeing even a miniature go up in flames they simply let the screen go black eat you heart out ilm br br the cast is virtually all black how can the naacp consistently censor something truly funny like amos and andy which depicts characters certainly no less similiar than those on 99 of all white comedy shows but says nary a peep about something like bugged oh well it's best they don't know about how demeaning this film is to all involved as it would be if it were played by any single ethnic group frankly before they put the kabosh on bugged get some friends together and get ready for the plan 9 of bug exterminator movies
0	in what attempts to be a positive story dolph lundgren leads a group of mercenaries to take over a tropical island that looks a lot like paradise so that the men who hired his team can mine it for bird droppings actually the gas that exudes from the muck on this island is what they are after br br there was only one good thing about this movie the island location in which it was filmed was beautiful otherwise the story drowns itself leaving the actors with nothing to work with result a lot of violence a lot of language lots of blood and a few shots of women topless if you want pointless violence sorry the storyline can't even give the violence a point though it tries then this is the movie for you br br parents be warned that this movie is full of violence and blood driving the r rating
0	about the movie itself there are ample comments br br i just wanted to say something about the german version which i have seen recently on tv it is heavily cut from 103 to 76 minutes it is usual that the most bloody scenes are cut for german tv i understand the reasons for that but this movie was something else they did not only cut gore shots they have cut entire sequences sparing only glimpses like we have to attack them one 5 second shot of explosions in the camp protagonist running away br br when the assault on the island begins it isn't even possible anymore to follow the storyline all the cuts create something that amounts to a string of erratic disconnected scenes that don't make any sense anymore br br i could not stand to watch the end after spending 60 minutes on this nonsense br br i think i would have given the original 7 10 the german version is worth only 1 10 br br get it on dvd and check the runtime first or forget about it
0	i rented this movie because it supposedly takes place in a jazz club you know those hip cool places you might stumble upon late on a saturday night well there's not one ounce of cool in this ridiculous movie the score is goofy the original songs are awful both lead actors' singing is continually off key to be kind and unprofessional at best the plot is no more complex than boy meets girl the acting is laughable and the only decent cinematic moments are the stock footage scenes the jazz club scenes feature sophomoric dialog smothered by overly busy organ music this joey de francesco should keep his day job unless his day job is helping with movie scores is it possible to not only get my four dollars back but have my therapy sessions paid for as well this movie interestingly enough is so bad you might want to watch it sort of like driving by a bad accident you just have to look at least once just get the ear plugs ready
0	it's as if the stay puffed marshmallow man from ghostbusters had been reincarnated in rutger body and is taking revenge upon a rival's pregnant wife if seeing an obese hauer chase a very pregnant isabel glaser imagine the spine tingling thrills in that contest sounds good to you see this film seriously if hauer is what an iraqi pow looks like after six years in prison then hungry people everywhere should make a bee line to a jail in baghdad overall tactical assault rates 2 stars instead of 1 because mike mitchell as hawk is terrific mitchell burns up the screen as a nato pilot until his plane is burned up itself by an enemy whereupon the film loses what little verve it had to begin with
0	i am a huge amy adams fan and have been for many years i am also a big fan of musicals with that said this is not a good movie on any level it is quite dull and the acting overall is very very poor amy adams is awkward to watch act with scott g anderson due to the fact that she is in another league when it comes to acting all the performances come off as very amateur the music performances are pleasant but nothing special br br scott g anderson is just an bad actor i assumed he was put in this movie because he has a great voice but it's just not the case he has an average voice and sings on key but that's about it br br i guess i can see why amy adams did this movie with the singing element i just wish she had not i could rant about other poor elements of this movie but i'll leave it at that
0	having endured this film last night i turned off the dvd player with a sense of deserving a medal for having the stamina to see it through to the end throughout the film i felt that i was watching the storyline fillers that you get in a high budget porn movie the acting was stiff and taut camera work appalling and the locations and sets were so poor it felt like they had borrowed them from the local high school amateur society br br the only saving grace for this movie was that it had amy adams and harriet harris in its credits other than that it was pure dribble
0	i would say this is a background movie play it the background as your tending to busy work laundry checking email etc i thought this was a film that was done before amy adams became successful after enchanted wrong it was done in 2009 the screenplay script is pretty awful i love musicals but the singing is just average and doesn't move the plot along it almost seems like it's a made for tv movie based on the cinematography am i watching a tv show br br even the secretary breaks out into song what the f is going on actually she seemed to have the best voice amy adams was so great in enchanted lead actor is average disappointed for sure this movie would have been good for lifetime but that's about it
0	i watched this film because i thought it would be a classic amy adams movie wow this movie is so bad on so many levels it staggers the imagination it is poorly constructed for one also the script and the acting is just awful but hey even johnny depp has a slew of bad films under his belt the upside of this movie would be amy singing and even on that score i believe better songs could have been chosen amy is of course beautiful to see and if you are a die hard fan of hers you will probably watch this title no matter what just don't expect too much i wish i could have found more to like but it was just painful to watch i recommend sunshine cleaning or doubt
0	great subject matter director and cast somehow adds up to a truly abysmal film told in that flat semi documentary style that was so popular around the time this film was made and hello this is not a film noir the lackluster overly complicated over populated story has no arc no focus point little excitement and staggers from one scene to the next with no discernible purpose other than as a valentine to the supposed and highly doubtful cooperation between the american and mexican governments on the issue of illegal immigration br br the scene that made me hate this film is when montalban and mitchell make a daring escape from their captors race to presumably save injured partner from being murdered by a goon with a gun driving a piece of farm machinery montalban says something like quick we must try to save him but instead of doing so they lie on their stomachs and watch in agony for about 5 minutes of screen time as the machine bears down on murphy and finally runs him over or so we assume the machine simply stops another goon detects the presence of the two rescuers and shoots at them as they run off again scene over the whole thing is so horribly filmed and utterly anticlimatic there's nothing worse than a protagonist ostensibly montalban though he's off screen for over half the film who doesn't even try jeez ricardo do something br br i know it's anthony mann but hell not all of his films are classics people how bad does an old movie have to be around here to get anything lower than a 6 rating
0	how could a film dealing with illegal mexican immigrants being robbed and beaten over the border be dull well border incident is br br no wonder that song and dance man george murphy's career ended not long after this terrible film came out politics was certainly a way out for this future senator who dies a horrible death in this slowly paced film the film stereotypes the typical mexican migrant farmer worker as dimwitted and awfully dull br br the film only picks up in intensity once the identities of murphy and ricardo montalban have been discovered as federal agents for the u s and mexico respectively br br disappointing at best we see similar problems in our very own society today
0	i just saw this on tcm tonight and was shocked at the over acting by jean arthur her bugging her eyes out in surprise and just generally over doing everything was not in the same style as dietrich and art lund dietrich was marvelous in her restraint and comic timing she being the best thing in this movie the wilder gags were flat and frankly more like something a freshman in college would write trying to get away w being wicked witty and dirty but just sounded boring and not funny at all it seemed the humor was being pushed too hard to be funny the ending was totally contrived br br spoiler ahead never for a moment did i believe that art lund suddenly fell outta love w dietrich and then was suddenly madly in love w arthur oh billy get real 3 out of 10
0	when i first saw this movie in the theater i was so angry it completely blew in my opinion i didn't see it for a decade then decided what the hell let's see i'm watching all hellraiser movies now to see where it went wrong my guess is it was with sequel 5 that was the first to implement the whole i am in a dream omg i see weird stuff oh noes what is happening oh its a dream oh its not a dream oh wait i see something spooky oh never mind sucky storyline those sequels don't even require the box to be opened or stick to the rules from the first 4 movies that if you saw pinhead you are pretty much screwed and dead the first 3 sticked to this storyline which made it so scary in the first place nothing fantasy nothing weird the box got opened boom they came was the only one that could bargain her way out of it first because of uncle frank then because she had information about the this movie at least attempts to stick to all that even though it was a bad story it was still somewhat hellraiser no i'm pretty sure part 5 was the first part to completely and utterly destroy the hellraiser series now they are remaking 1 and i don't even think i will watch it oh who am i kidding i probably will and probably will be disappointed again
0	this movie is so bad and hellraiser part 1 to 3 are so great nothing is good bloodline a lot of gore but without meaning and the majority of time without originality the movie is about the past the present 1996 and the future of the puzzle box the creator of the box and his offspring fight against some demon but nothing link up seriously the 3 stories pinhead is in the movie but it isn't pinhead he is just a boring bad guy who kidnap kids and kill bird and the worse he talk too much a thing that i really didn't understand is why the dog from hell he can't be a because he had nothing human why the dog can be killed by the pressure if the other creature from hell can receive bullets without problems bloodline is incoherent with the movie series in many ways for example pinhead and angelique are old friend in this movie but it's impossible that pinhead met angelique because pinhead is just a soldier from the first world war and angelique is an old demon and she live in paris since sometimes like 200 years
0	this fourth installment of the series is the last to get a theatrical release though it feels like a direct to video movie it's ok i guess but nothing special the acting is the worst of seen in the series up to this point and like the third movie there isn't much in the way of imagination also the sentence directed by alan smithee is never a good thing smithee is the pseudonym directors use when they want nothing to do with the movie anyway its an acceptable movie in the hellraiser series but not much more than that it's a slight drop in quality from number three and a huge drop from the first two for me hellraiser iv bloodline is a 4 5 10
0	said the continuity announcer as tactical assault was about to be broadcast after seeing the first two minutes i started thinking rutger might want to get a new agent after seeing the next ten minutes i started thinking rutger might want to retire thereby saving a potential audience from any more of his performances br br yup this is a truly terrible movie i wasn't expecting much and why should i if the name hauer appeared in the credits but within seconds of the opening title credits that featured nato with ussr markings bombing bosnia i realised i was going to be force fed inedible turkey three months after christmas br br the attention to detail is non existent nato planes carry ussr markings then were told character spent six years in an iraqi prison which would make the setting 1997 what nato were bombing the serbs in 1997 i guess the producers didn't think the audience would have noticed this ridiculous inaccuracy but i know i did the producers also probably hoped the audience wouldn't notice the lack of continuity such as dogfights with iraqi jets that suddenly turned from migs to f 4 phantoms then back again but i did even stranger characters would take off in f 16s then when they arrive back at base there jet has changed into a soviet built br br oh and if you're expecting a dumb action movie you're only half right because it's dumb but most of the plot centres around a basic instinct revenge plot i'll give the producers some credit maybe credit is too strong a word because after seeing plots featuring from hell policemen from hell flat mates from hell we now have a fighter pilot from hell which means every single occupation of the 20th century has featured in a from hell type plot with perhaps being the worst movie of the lot
0	spoilers i sometimes wonder what makes sequel makers think that they have to explain and therefore destroy the mysteries behind iconic horror films the original hellraiser of 1987 was an absolute masterpiece and probably one of the scariest films ever made the 1988 sequel hellbound was also a fantastic horror film though i personally didn't like how the viewer got background information on the some of the all time creepiest horror villains in the original the third part hell on earth 1992 was already quite a mess whose makers obviously thought it necessary to add a dose of humor to the formerly incomparably creepy lead pinhead a typical 90s stupidity and therefore destroyed most of his scariness this fourth part hellraiser bloodline 1996 is slightly more atmospheric than the third one but it lowers this quality by inventing even more silly and completely unnecessary about the and the opening of the gates to hell br br seriously did we need to know how the mysterious puzzle boxes that open the gates to hell are being made i think not and that is not the only mystery about the that is stupidly destroyed in this film the setting of bloodline goes back and forth in three different periods the film begins in a 22nd century space station when scientist dr merchant bruce ramsay attempts to close the gates to hell forever when government soldiers disrupt his mission he has to explain his reasons in 18th century paris ancestor was a toymaker assigned to build a puzzle box by an aristocrat obsessed with the occult an evoked demon the princess of hell took over the body of the beautiful angelique valentina vargas since the only person capable of destroying the gateway to hell is the one who built it the bloodline of the toymaker would be cursed and his ancestors infested by throughout the ages the film which takes place in the 18th century the present and the 22nd century really is quite a mess i admit that the part set in the 18th century has a creepy atmosphere and is by far the best part of the film but its also its smallest part the parts set in the present and in the future are quite weak and filled with stupid and unworthy elements the film's undoubtedly strong points are the terrific make up and gore effects the absolutely ravishing valentina as the she demon and pinhead doug bradley who in spite of having lost some of his creepiness still is a menacing villain it is an almost offensive idea for hellraiser fans however that pinhead is supposed be defeated by a ridiculous light show overall bloodline is not a complete disaster but it sure is an unworthy sequel to a series that began so brilliantly even director kevin was obviously embarrassed about it as he preferred to be credited as alan smithee overall this is only recommendable to hardcore pinhead fanatics and most of them are probably going to be angered by another diminution of their favorite demon's creepiness all others are well advised to stick with the brilliant first and excellent second part of the hellraiser franchise and skip all the others the makeup effects in bloodline are creepy as hell but almost everything else is disappointing my rating 3 5 10
0	it's true no one really expects anything from sequels but even by that low standard this is a terrible film br br essentially an anthology movie this fourth installment in the hellraiser saga tries to be an origins story and a wind up to the entire series at the same time an ambitious idea but none of the cast is given enough screen time to do anything with their characters and rookie director abandoned the film rather than give in to studio meddling the result is a steaming pile of mediocrity that even fanboys have trouble defending unless you're an alan smithee fan avoid this one
0	hellraiser bloodline is where the sequel mediocrity of the hellraiser series well and truly sets in gone is the imagination and invention of the first two movies gone is the ethos of pinhead and his minions gone are the sick desires of humans in fact everything that once made hellraiser so original has been trashed by this mess of a picture br br all that is left is that basic premise of christian mythology that there is a hell with evil demons what happened to the evil that men do this watered down excuse for a hellraiser movie is padded out with endless psycho babble so that pinhead becomes a nonsense spouting philosopher and not the harbinger of doom as he is meant to be br br the film uses the most basic of film formulas with characters separating and getting individually killed pinhead is not alien the link between the box and the 'demons' or is never established it just arrives at a sacrifice and sits on a br br the lead female character is called and the producers obviously think it really funny because everyone keep saying her name really the film should have been retitled to give it that characters name br br shame on you kevin and alan smithee
0	some sort of accolades must be given to hellraiser it's actually out full full moon it bears all the marks of say your demonic toys' or puppet series without their dopey uh charm full moon can get away with silly product because they know it's silly these hellraiser things man do they ever take themselves seriously this increasingly stupid franchise though not nearly as stupid as i am for having watched it once made up for its low budgets by being stylish now it's just ish
0	hellraiser bloodline is only a so so film i believe it's the fourth installment in the hellraiser series br br i missed the beginning and all i remember from there was some topless women and a box shape thing on a computer screen but using my wit and intelligence and the info button i soon found out that the villain pinhead was released from pandora's box which i believe is a gateway straight to hell br br so anyways pinhead somehow comes out of the box and terrorizes the family and that's about it oh and not to mention the random tortures of various people that cross his path yawn br br what mainly happens in this film is that pinhead captures the kid and then unleashes the dog on his wife and then kills a random person then he husband comes along blah blah blah who cares why it fails is because hellraiser bloodline is too corny to be scary look at minion of creatures a cheesy dog that looks like it's been turned inside out two men whose heads and bodies are connected together siamese twins in a horror film and some person who is supposed to be a princess of some sort i haven't seen the previous films now look at the main villain his name is pinhead isn't that the name you call somebody when they're stupid he has pins in his head and hooks coming out of his fingers and he has blue skin i suppose he would make a decent villain if he didn't have such a corny name and a corny speech somewhere in the film two cops approach him and say don't make us put some pain on you pinhead replies pain how dare you use that word i am blah blah blah blah blah it sounds a bit cliché if you ask me br br don't forget the final half of the movie the characters and audience get to experience more torture when pinhead attacks some futuristic asylum some person who we don't recognize maybe he was in the previous films i don't remember him in the beginning of the movie this scene is basically one thing played over and over again br br a guard goes to inspect a mysterious noise br br some other guard oh no he's down i will go check on myself br br after he dies the same thing happens again br br spoilers here's the thing i didn't get in the film pinhead is supposedly sent to oblivion at the end so how does he come back for another four films are they prequels why hasn't he died in the previous ones geez the makers need to come up with an idea for a different series end of spoilers hellraiser bloodline is gory and full of torture scenes but has little thrill or scare value just forget it bad special effects with else make this more of a snooze fest than a good horror br br good people may enjoy the topless women in the beginning plus voice is pretty cool i suppose if you like ultra violence you might like this too br br bad none of the reasons above make this a very good film the corniness and repetitiveness are pretty bad and who names their villain pinhead br br feel free to send me a private message regarding this comment
0	there's lots of ketchup but not a whole lot of sense in the supposedly explanatory third sequel which piles on the naff visuals to no effect good old alan smithee directed this one in which various members of the same family all played poorly by bruce ramsay are terrorised by pinhead doug bradley wheeled out of mothballs for the umpteenth time peter atkins tries to imbue his script with poetic touches but doesn't seem to realise that his dialogue is as deep and meaningful as a plate of sick the incoherent plot fails to adequately fill the movie's meagre running time although this may have more to do with studio interference than anything the filmmakers intended
0	in the century an architect by the name of merchant bruce ramsay a space station which he personally designed as can be predicted a special force is sent to retake the expensive station and put merchant into custody upon arrival they find him partaking in a weird ritual with the use of a mysterious during interrogation he reveals that they must let him finish what he has started or else the hell he has released will bathe in blood in order to convince the officers holding him captive he reminisces about his heritage about the toymaker who built the box and about the reasons as to why he is here in space br br the movie that is essentially the same to hellraiser that the was to highlander something to be ignored and forgotten as so it won't influence the lore of hellraiser to much by far the most trashy of the franchise with a much more low grade feel to it than its predecessors who let's face it were b or c class films br br acting at times seems to be influenced by a mid budget porn flick with wooden unbelievable performances that actually have you thinking so when are they going to undress and start with the intercourse surprisingly not much sex in the movie albeit the introduction of the seductress demon angelique a totally superfluous character that unnecessarily messes with what we know of the world of hellraiser offers ample opportunities for the love making br br basically the movie consists of three abruptly pasted together separate short stories one in the future one in the present and one in the past which lack focus and are rushed along in amateurish fashion the end result is extremely poor basically underlined by the fact you have no interest into what happens to any of the characters in the film br br some decent gore in the flick but apart from that an utter failure
0	by the time the hellraiser franchise was reaching it's forth film the premise was wearing a bit thin dr paul merchant bruce ramsey is a scientist in the future whom while prisoner regales his captor of the story of how his ancestors all played by ramsey had first built the evil lament configuration puzzle box that sets evil upon the world and how his bloodline had subsequent dealing with said box the film is a awash with lack of continuity in regards to the other films and lack of coherency in this one yes this could be due to a combination of rewrites massive cuts in the original version of the film or what have you but i'm reviewing the film as is and not what it was or could have been and as it is now it's a mess sure the franchise will go on indefinitely with direct to dvd sequels but this one was pretty much a death nail to it's chances of getting a new one released theatrically ever again br br my grade d
0	after the failure of hellraiser iii hell on earth the chapter that served as a kind of 'death to the franchise another embarrassing cheapo cash in did not come as a surprise an abysmal attempt to explain every single mystery of pinhead and the puzzle box covering literally centuries of history in a film that runs under 90 minutes on display is sub par to wretched acting par to wretched b movie special effects and a ludicrous and insulting attempt at dark humour while still attempting to keep the whole project completely serious i'm wondering how many freaking directors did this thing have poor pinhead has so much screen time that every bit of mystery and menace that this iconic character possessed is completely lost after an hour of hearing long winded speeches and dramatic posturing we simply want to tell the guy to shut up mildly entertaining in spots especially in the first segment this mess begins to look and feel like a cheap ugly made for tv splatter flick after a while and ends in the most ridiculous way imaginable pinhead along with his pet dog killing a bunch of idiots in outer space i'm sorry but any true fan of the first two films in the series that gave this abortion of a film more than 3 stars should be ashamed on a side note the film that follows hellraiser inferno is actually a surprisingly intelligent and stylishly made film noir piece that brilliantly as a master of illusion and cruelty and brings back the concept of the inherent evil in human kind that was the centerpiece of the original film and the whole point of the story for any serious horror fan see hellraiser i ii skip the lousy iii this one and continue with ' you won't miss a thing by skipping this garbage
0	the joe cool review hellraiser bloodline br br starring bruce ramsay as phillip john merchant dr paul merchant valentina vargas as angelique and doug bradley as pinhead br br plot this follows a timeline of the lineage of the merchant bloodline which started with phillip who created the box that opens the doorway to hell starting with the 18th century to present time when pinhead first meets merchant and tries to sever the bloodline he's the only one who can stop pinhead you see and finally in the future in space where paul merchant has finally figured out how to send pinhead to hell for good br br openers this is a movie hated so much by the people who made it they declared fictional director alan smithee would be the credited director they only pull smithee out of the woodwork when they really think they've made a terrible movie such as classics as the birds ii end or bloodsucking pharaohs in pittsburgh no i didn't make that up how did i like it you're reading this so i'm sure that's what you want to know br br the good this movie isn't as bad as you've been led to believe oh i'm not going to sugar coat it this movie was filled with so much potential and ended up being a disaster but it does have some positives cooler this time around for starters such as the twins and the demon angelique pinhead is still in a main role and still has good lines pain has a face allow me to show it to you and it's somewhat entertaining throughout gorehounds will love the movie because of it's endless supply there is also some continuity with the rest of the series although you'll have to look hard to see it the dog is awesome br br the bad but for a story about hell vs the cursed merchant bloodline that could close the gateway forever it was really complicated and held together with duct tape nothing was really explored to it's full potential and there were some really stupid things included pinhead kidnaps a kid and holds him for ransom random deaths just to feature more blood not always a bad thing but not for the sake of the story pinhead is at his worst here he rants and rants and rants even when he's about to die for the very smart demon that he used to be he's been reduced to nothing more than a bond villain at best if hellraiser fans ever needed a reason why he was moved back into a cameo like role this is it bloodline ruined it for us all br br the ugly gore is always mentioned here this one has skin ripping drilling hook impaling beheadings and more goodies the dog while awesome reeks of bad special effects during the chase scenes br br final verdict this movie had the potential for something great even hellbound levels of greatness but all of that was wasted who knows exactly what went down to produce this crap but we can only blame alan smithee br br compared to the rest this movie is the worst of the hellraiser series for completists only br br rating 1 2 of
0	there is nothing original humane or insightful in this film the acting is average images are amateurish the writing lacks subtlety and the scenes are very basic something close to a soap br br in 2 37 a suicide is used to turn the film into a suspense drama we watch partly because we want to know who dies the various characters each have a problem and the film shows how bad each problem is for them but only as a way to get them each to a place where you think they might kill themselves despite the different points of view offered by the camera on the key events there is never another way of seeing the events themselves so in 2 37 the arseholes are arseholes the angels are angels this is simple stuff br br without this complexity the film emerges as a voyeuristic tale of youth sex and violence you hardly get to know the kids as much as the breasts bodies and limps that the filmmaker passes off as characterisation br br in the end if you know anything about film in the last 5 years 2 37 is just an immature rip off of elephant not a meditation not a progression yet while the filmmaker and distributor use the alleged suicide of a friend at every chance to give the film some legitimacy they never talk about gus van sant or elephant the positive posts on imdb curiously avoid any mention of this or simply don't value originality if you do want something with heart and voice avoid this piece of youth exploitation i was surprised by the filmmakers age when i found out after seeing this film i had assumed a 13 year old had made it the twenty somethings i've always known are too busy trying to express something real in them to lift the work of an old man
0	rarely seen a movie that deviates so much from the original premise and still remains more or less is a rather short which is a good thing in this case escapade that focuses on the mysterious hellraiser box who wanted it to be made and how it cast a spell on the entire bloodline of the man who eventually created it we're introduced to 3 generations of the merchant family all played by bruce ramsey one in 18th century paris one in the present day and the last one in a future galaxy far far opinions on this storyline may differ a you think it's very idiotic and far fetched and dared the initial atmosphere and setting by clive barker has completely vanished yet the morbid surrounding remains and several sequences are still very creepy and unsettling hellraiser bloodline contains quite a lot of exquisite slaughtering and the charismatic presence of pinhead doug bradley still is an extra horror value pinhead – accompanied by a pet puppy this time – still knows how to bad he talks too much and his vicious speeches tend to get boring quickly best aspects in this production are the newly introduced and the occult parisian portrait giant turn offs are the weak script the absence of the typical macabre humor and the lack of references to barker's initial masterpiece br br although not highly memorable itself bloodline stands as the last watchable hellraiser film after this sequel the series went downhill completely so far 2 more sequels came out 2 more are still in process and neither of those is worth seeing hellraiser bloodline suffered from a lot of production difficulties and the director eventually preferred to be credited as alan he doesn't want to be remembered as the director of it who could blame him
0	never mind the serious logic gaps never mind the achingly cliche character portrayals never mind the haphazard writing and you might like this movie the main character alyssa was supposed to be endearing the heroine who you root for to be saved or in this case save herself but instead she merely grates and makes one wonder are all pro really that stupid her busybody mother was obviously only necessary to further propagate the illusion that ballet companies are evil monsters ready to snatch your poor innocent young girl from your grasp with an ever present biting artistic director villain and the cliche's not only does she become anorexic an over the counter junkie and a pathological liar but all in the course of a few months it's like the writer read every horror story he could dig up about ballet and decided to see how much he could cram into two hours with commercials br br believe it or not but i am a dancer this uprising or resurgence of anorexia and that is happening is nonexistent at all of the dance schools i have attended in fact the teachers are so scared to even suggest that a girl might stand a better chance a few pounds lighter most of the dancers in my classes would be actually considered minorly overweight i'm not saying eating disorders never occur but not to the extent as it was portrayed in the movie br br another annoying problem this movie had was the means to an end writing style her on again off again boyfriend probably had all of half an hour total screen time all in the first half the other supporting characters were merely props decorations to further the story given the right dialogue this would have been a very intricate mind study of a problem as it is it turns into a one woman show and kimberly mccullough doesn't have the chutzpah to pull it off br br to a non dancer this movie would be a supposed insight into what really goes one behind closed doors at a ballet company to a dancer this is a very insulting movie which portrays as stupid and parents as pushy and ill informed those adjectives more correctly describe the people who got this on the air in the first place 3 10
0	i just purchased this movie because i love to donate to operation smile the charity on which the movie was based but i found the writing of the movie to be very strange it t does not really focus so much on operation smile or similar organizations like the smile train and their herculean efforts to relieve the suffering of children born with facial deformities in third world countries no it concentrates on an american teenage volunteer katie whose over privileged life in malibu california includes a mother who brings her to a doctor so that she'll have birth control pills in her before she sleeps with her boyfriend what is this birth control nonsense supposed to do titillate the audience it's 2005 i'd be more surprised if in 2005 a malibu teen wasn't on birth control and even if she is so what and who cares contrasting katie is the character of lin in china a girl with a facial deformity who missed last year's chance to get an operation and this year does not want to have one neither character is written in such a way that the audience can really identify with let alone understand the motivations of either girl on the other hand the actors do an adequate job of trying to play the bad hand they were dealt by whoever wrote this ridiculous script the best performance was by the gentleman playing lin's father although much of his dialogue is in chinese and subtitled operation smile deserved to be honored by a much better movie than this
0	not to be confused with michael ritchie's nasty 1975 beauty pageant spoof this smile is a down turned example of those good intentions paving the road to hell br br the film parallels two stories an impoverished chinese father sacrifices his wife and son to raise a facially deformed orphan named ling yi ding and a tv spawned malibu family act out gidget get birth control katie the third olsen twin plays a spoiled self absorbed high schooler distanced from reality her teacher sean astin paves the way for a school trip to china aimed at showing students how to work with deformed children br br the film uses deformity as a means of suspense by treating ling like the frankenstein monster kramer continually masks her deformity through hats hoods and camera placement this approach exploits the freak show quality inherent in the material she may be uncomfortable with the way society views her and kramer's answer is to cover her up until the big reveal why disturb your audience with such unpleasantness we see her face briefly at the end and only minutes before closing credit snapshots of her after surgery disclose a swan beneath the it is not good enough to give the girl a reason to live what is imperative is ling being equally as hot and popular as katie br br funding for the film came from a trust established by the late roy rogers and dale evans they envisioned a heritage of quality family films give me son of paleface any day
0	this movie is terrible it was so difficult to believe that katie became a heartfelt teenager with the power to save the pity chinese people the movie didn't show any convincing argument to prove that and the rest of the plot didn't make any effort to show us more than a cheap common sense br br the plot is ridiculous and the only thing we can extract from it is that it demonstrate how arrogant a human can be katie must have inherited her arrogance from her mother the most annoying character i have seen for a long time br br the acting and scenery were ok but the plot ruins everything full of cheap clichés and hypocritical scenes i expect not to see this movie again in my life skip this one
0	the characterization in this movie is among the worst i've ever encountered the dialogue is trite and cliché to the point of extreme distraction none of the issues the characters face are developed at all they're merely surface details intended to get a point across without having to actually come up with believable dialogue to support said point also the depiction of the chinese characters leaves a bit to be desired i find it hard to believe that the chinese father learns flawless english from a book or so it is implied in one scene so he can teach it to his daughter etc br br the smile train is a great organization and it's a nice idea to make a heartstring tugging film about the impact a program like this can have on kids' lives but overall i found this movie to be more frustrating than anything
0	the story line of a man's love for an innocent baby he finds with a malformed face and on the opposite side of the world a shallow self centered valley girl who shares a birth date with her and ends up making a big difference in both of there lives what a great and worthy story line but in this telling the screen writing and or directing and or editing is so poor as to take most of the joy out of the story linda hamilton's character goes from understanding mom to wicked witch and back faster than a speeding bullet and for what purpose conflict conflict conflict at the drop of a hat katie the california girl and her boyfriend mom and everybody including the poor lady at the airport check in counter lin's adopted father who is the nicest most considerate man alive and his wife and biological son all in constant conflict i really wanted to enjoy a heartwarming story but the only thing that made me smile was when all the hate and fighting were over there were too many unexplained or illogical events many of which don't add to the story my wife and i kept looking at each other and asking ourselves how such a good cast and what should be a great story could be crapped up so badly
0	without anything to walk away with this movie starts with scenes in china with the finding of a newborn while this is not a new concept i wasn't going to give up right there then there is a flash forward to adolescence the man's wife and biological child are fed up with the father who has neglected them while this did not seem culturally accurate and the movie made no move to develop these characters or the purpose for the adopted father's devotion i pressed on br br next we're in malibu where we are bombarded by poorly constructed classroom interaction and terribly low budget fill in the blank acting camera work lighting br br i won't give away any more of the plot because i suppose the synopsis is accurate the movie is meant to show how a malibu girl who though she seems to innately have the compassion and interest to help others when she immediately asks her teacher about the trip to china is spoiled and inconsiderate finds herself as being a healer and helper of both body and spirit br br lame lame lame lame br br now i admittedly am a harsh critic so maybe take one of those away and you'll be on the mark
0	two redeeming qualities of this film were the cinemaphotography and a storyline that was hard to resist however the script the direction and some scenes were just awful i kept asking myself why such a good cast would have produced such a bad movie my only conclusion was that these actors must believe in the charity which underlies the plot of the movie but knew the movie was filled with flaws br br this film could have been so much better and reached a larger audience accordingly what makes me think this is that with all of the problems of the film some scenes being painfully bad to watch i still wanted to see how the obvious conclusion would resolve itself
0	the pace of this movie is quite slow it takes about 70 minutes to get katie to china which we know that she will and leaves 30 minutes to wrap things up the storyline is so predictable that you know everything after about 5 minutes nothing surprises you i guess that the movie is a coming of age movie but the movie is full of stereotypes that are quite over the top br br katie a beauty that realizes that looks boys and shopping isn't everything she realizes that she can feel and see the real world touching br br the mother high strung nervous screaming mother wow very innovative that need taking care of by a strong man br br the father patient and always understanding and takes care of the incapable woman br br the boyfriend that only wants to get into her pants br br the comedian clown chinese guy that doesn't know how to speak english properly and made a laughing stock thought hollywood dropped those characters in the mid fifties br br the nurse that at times knows everything how to get around in china that in the next moment is a carbon copy of the mother i e a woman who cant handle the situation or knows anything br br the deformed chinese girl that with the help of us westerns get help and become a beautiful girl because in china a third world country according to the film don't have anything and hence needs our charity gah wake up and smell what you are shoveling br br sure that there are some poverty in china but the portrayal of the aid from western countries read usa is so shallow and happy ending ish that it is sad and revolting shanghai where the movie is set is the most expanding and evolving city in the world at the moment br br the chinese father that is so nice and goodhearted that in the end has one wish to be a cowboy with a white hat br br the teacher sean astin that has this really heart ripping story not that he tells without feel why sean why br br etc etc it is difficult to actually finding a real person in the entire movie br br this is nothing but a feel good movie for americans below age 15 if you want to learn anything about the world watch e g hotel rwanda instead for a better life story or coming of age movie i suggest you watch the italian cinema paradiso that won the best foreign film academy reward some years back br br the only nice thing in the movie were the small town sceneries that truly capture some not all of the beautiful chinese country side i have been there and seen some of it
0	this film is so copy cat cliché ridden clumsy and laboured i find it astounding that anyone could not feel cheated by the experience of sitting through it br br here is the range of idiotic clichés ridiculous and simply storytelling in this hard hitting representation of high school the tough guy jock is really a homosexual the a student is unhappy because his father pushes him and somehow this causes him to commit incest a teacher is mean to a student who wets his pants in class a girl who is going out with the above mentioned jock is really in love with him and just wants a family br br maybe the only saving grace is the student counsellor scenes which are vaguely interesting but most of the devices in this film are so leaden that it beggars belief br br this film shows me no insight into teenagers and i will not be surprised when it bombs especially with teenagers the people who like this film seem to be parents worried about their teenagers and boy are they barking up the wrong tree if they think this film will help with understanding teen issues i mean what is the moral of this film hey guys let's all look out for each other and hug each other give me a break anyone who thinks you can get through to a 14 year old with that kind of message needs to think back in the 1980s we were watching kentucky fried movie xtro porky's evil dead terminator etc this film will fall on deaf ears br br 2 37 is right up there with another australian film 'one perfect day ' which was as bad as this utter turkey of a film thank god no money was spent on this br br avoid
0	i do not like himesh i do not like his singing too but his songs are a craze in india especially among commoners now when he ventured to become an actor – that was a big joke what guts he has to reap as much as he can in his prime time i did never want to see this movie but one thing changed it the movie becoming a super duper hit after 2 weeks aap ka has raked box office collection of 14 crores – compared to that has collected 7 crores in the same 2 weeks if i can sit through and absurd sivaji – i should give this movie also a try to understand what stuff this movie has got that made it such a big hit the story is about the real life singer himesh hr who has gone to germany for a concert and falls in love with a german lawyer ruby mallika loves himesh now himesh is arrested for a murder the mission of himesh in last 40 minutes after he runs away from jail is to prove himself innocent and find the real murderer br br let me say that himesh has nothing in him to become a hero he tries hard but fails miserably he is pathetic i was thinking what could have made the movie click so much let me find something positive br br first the saving grace of the movie is the script till the point himesh runs away from the jail but after that the movie nose dives into unbearable stupid limits second the songs of the movie are good catchy crowd numbers third mallika – she looks gorgeous and acts well too as the second lady i can imagine fans of mallika coming to see the movie just for her fourth the cinematography of the movie is pleasing – especially the german locales are a treat to watch for the eye fifth the major portion of the story is a love story between himesh and – with clichéd dialogues that would probably connect to young crowd sixth the director prashant chadha has done a decent job in covering the pathetic acting skills of himesh as much as possible with shots that don't need himesh to act much br br the heroine looks like a small budget film heroine raj is wasted in a small role overall the movie is a below average br br i was thinking throughout the movie – what if the same movie script was done with salmaan as the main lead i think it would have had been a much better affair may be then i would have given the movie 6 out of 10 but stars 4 5 out of 10
0	this movie has to be the worst film of 2007 it was just really bad and i don't think i have ever seen a film that is just so bad i mean the don't make really bad hollywood films do they hamish really should stick to singing instead of acting cause he just can't act at all god he was just so bad i mean he was that bad in the film that he made mallika look like a better actress than him as for her performance she plays the same role in every movie god it is just so boring watching her i mean what do men see in this woman yeah she has a god body but where is that talent i have not seen it yet and at this rate i don't think that i ever will br br anyway hamish falls in love with ria now this 15 year old girl can act my god she was the best actor in the film and she does not look 15 at all to me she looks about 21 but her performance was brilliant in the film bless her she was really good i hope to see more of her in the future so ria falls in love with but her father wants her to marry someone else a typical bollywood film anyways there is a hiccup can only happen in a bollywood film and the both get married in the end br br well i would give th music 10 10 it was superb that made the movie a hit the songs were truly amazing and brilliant anyways the only thing that i can say is to go and buy the music and not watch the film
0	hr is what himesh is called in the movie i think he likes it too it's amazing how intelligent people talented even fall in to the same trap br br i really like it's amazing what he has done no one in recent years has come back from the wilderness and made a mark for himself br br and i truly expected a great film what with the budget of 50 cr and the cute actress as intense as is i thought he would excel at a sentimental and an emotional role ironically he is depicted the same but for what care sheer incompetence carelessness awful acting banal background music insensitive direction make it a real pain br br blunders rule ex how can german police issue public instructions on a loud speaker in english they communicate among themselves in english unfortunately this incompetence has become the standard in main line bollywood there are some excellent directors but many a bad ones too the worse thing is that the majority just doesn't care br br songs are the only saving grace br br please don't repeat this hr and find yourself a good director low budget no problem br br the villain should really have shaved his head instead of the wig you know after all it's a movie
0	as a nice anecdote to one of the above comments in was in mumbai about two weeks before the release of this movie i was approached being white to dub some of the lines of this movie in a recording studio br br while i speak german as well i was kindly asked to do all dubbing scenes in english otherwise it would be too confusing for the indian audience so therefore all germans in this movie actually speak english funny enough i did multiple characters so if you would want to actually spoil some time by watching the movie again listen carefully br br all non indian characters are only done by 4 voices
0	in bollywood it isn't rare that worthless films become hits good films flopping and good actors not making it big br br is such a movie br br himesh after a music director and singer tried acting hell man just because his songs became a hit that means next he becomes an actor br br the producers were sure the film will work perhaps the songs were a hit too and of course himesh did his cheap publicity as usual br br the film tells such a poor story such poor direction such poor acting it makes you cringe br br indian rickshaws in germany stunts by himesh and lot of stupidity cap is intact even when he is in the car which somersaults br br direction is poor music is saving grace though most songs sound the same br br himesh tries hard but sadly his emotive scenes are a joke lacks expressions he is best suited for his music director and some singing he cuts a sorry picture is awful malika is okay sachin is okay darshan hams
0	agreed this movie is well shot but it just makes no sense and no use as to how they made 2 hours seem like 3 just over a small love story br br this could have been an episode of the bold and the beautiful or the o c in short please don't watch this movie because there is a song every 5 minutes just to wake you up from you're sleep i gave this movie 1 10 cause that was the lowest and no this is not based completely on a true story more than half of it is made up i repeat the direction of photography is 7 or 8 out of 10 but the movie is just a little too much the actor's nasal voice just makes me want to go blow my nose unless you are a real him mesh fan this movie is a huge no no
0	i have been watching movies from i think last 10 years and i must say that i never felt that bad which i felt after watching this extra large bore movie it was bad very bad there were songs songs nobody should watch this movie the director has shown germans speaking english which is so rubbish germans does not speak english in one scene there was a white girl who asked himesh for autograph obv that he must have gave some money to her in the promo they have shown prepare for laughing riot but i could say there was only one scene where that himesh was laughing for no reason may be he thinks he's funny is very good she is like an angel but too young only 16 yrs old if you have plenty of time and don't know what to do then you should watch this movie or else its waste of money
0	whoever filled this stupid idea of acting and producing a movie in head which is always hidden under a cap covering almost half of his face all the time only hope this is first and the last as well for god's sake from to gayatri mantra himesh has tried every thing to create an aura of his so called singing talent which is nothing but atrocious pronunciations of words like which completely kill the beauty of the terms so commonly used for love songs why does himesh not smile simple because he does not use close up toothpaste now there this friend of his tailing him around every where and this number one lawyer in the town who has to herself sexily wiggle and try to seduce himesh of all the handsome german people she might have met earlier perhaps the male lawyers on this part of the world might be cursing their fate for destined to deal with the stiff unattractive lot every day the action scenes are so funnily shot like the event planner attacked by the thief autos riding over the cars so on and so forth the father of the bride seems to be in a great hurry to get rid of his daughter by marrying her off that he flies to and fro around most hypocrite he praises hr for distributing love among people of the world as if they were sweets and on his back coolly gives a lecture to his daughter on these show business men when himesh is proved innocent he again unceremoniously dumps the other guy as if it's a game of musical chair i didn't get to se the poor guy's face even did you in the role of ria looks as if she is in need of an eye check up for strain in her eyes the fellow in the role of a friend is good who has acted quite naturally and should be in better movies like sharman joshi for example child artist in brief appearance is sweet but wasted it seems today's young generation has gone nuts since they prefer this kind of mockery of lyrics and musical scores and associate gossip with it for example if you sing ek bar aaja the ghost would come this is a weird taste in music and rather funny i am surprised how such classic lyricists like gulzar have opted for himesh of all the people to give music there is story in that a crow attachés so many feathers of a peacock to look beautiful and appeal to the birds but the feathers fall off ultimately and the real dark crow is revealed hope himesh takes a hint and refrains from manufacturing such meaningless stuff and wasting precious money which he has earned by taxing his short nose so much his friend does tell him if your nose is cut how will you sing thanks for showing us germany himesh at a reasonable cost of renting the dvd and correct those spelling mistakes will you an extra e in movie and no e in love there is also a famous number from the old film sholey mehbooba on which mallika once again but this time with himesh winking at her and conveniently ria his so called real love and his new bride is not around now that was very clever himesh at least one thing in this movie which you have done smartly to justify presence but doesn't she look a bit washed down
0	if you feel reshammiya as the singer is too much of a pain to watch on tv try watching him in the movie for 2 hours straight his face is bland all throughout the movie and it is very comical to see him act the demanding and intense scenes this is way far from a real love story get the spelling right reshammiya it is not luv or and is complete with him doing a mithun da dance auto rickshaw fight scenes himesh getting imprisoned himesh accused of murder he fleeing from prison etc if you want a good laugh there is nothing like this one especially the scenes where he howls in mehbooba if you despise the nasal and want to know out of curiosity what two hours of reshammiya can do to you then don't miss this movie br br i couldn't stop laughing from the beginning till the very end the only saving grace that this movie has are the cinematography locations and a couple of the songs even then until you are a die hard reshammiya fan avoid this movie at all costs
0	one of the most awaited movie i thought himesh will do a bit of acting but alas all my hope went wrong given that the heroine is 15 yrs old omg what did they thought before considering the actress may be its because no wants to work with hr as he is called in the film human resource as many people wrote in nevertheless it was a disappointment i hope the producer doesn't make himself bankrupt by making a part 2 of this as this news is roaming around the story was predictable one with himesh showing his generosity character throughout the movie which i doubt very well br br anyways the movie is good from those people's angle who thinks himesh cant do anything wrong 4 out of 10
0	i truly hate and despise this film and the filmmakers behind it br br sure i'm all for making a hard hitting and honest film about youth and youth culture 1987's river's edge is an excellent example of a well made teen drama however what i take exception to is the infantile grubby and sensationalist approach that the makers of 2 37 took br br a prime example is how it raises so many issues and yet fails in any significant way to comment or reach a resolution on even one of them br br my other major problem with this film apart from its complete plagiarism of gus van sant's elephant surprised van sant didn't sue is its loose in a china shop' attitude to quite delicate issues such as incest and particularly suicide br br in short avoid this film like the plague and anything that this filmmaker ever is involved with subsequently i've heard that his motivation for making 2 37 may or may not be based on lies having seen the substandard result this doesn't surprise me in the slightest this is a glorified student film exercise that has no place whatsoever being in a cinema or on dvd pure and simple
0	first things first how can someone with his creativity on the right side believe in a movie like this i saw this movie and after end of couple of hours was left scratching my head what exactly is director trying to say br br if its a thriller there are no thrills if its action there is no action barring a chase sequence there is no drama and the much touted love story it actually never takes off no passion emotion nothing is there br br actually i never expected wonders from the movie however after the bumper opening it took i thought of giving it a chance i have no problems with himesh whatsoever and i am not one of the guys who will bash him at every given opportunity i went in with an open mind and came out with a closed one br br let's not put the blame of himesh he is just a debutant actor but direction screenplay writing makeup everything has gone for a toss br br himesh is very stiff and would take a lot of time to come up the curve he can do the don kind of roles is just a kid and it shows on screen with her baby fat and the way she walks br br the only actor who was good was the friend of himesh in the movie i don't know his name but he looks promising br br watch it at your own risk not even good to watch it for a time pass viewing br br strongly recommend to avoid this movie
0	i have to hold my hand up and say that i was one of the first and probably the last to see this film where do i start it's a complete mess the main attraction of course was the soundtrack which goes without saying is brilliant it's what himesh does best but as they say don't give up your day job hr definitely shouldn't br br acting is plain and simply awful even if the film had a plot the thing that baffles you most is why this man is up on screen and what the hell is doing there two words of advice to hr give up acting and secondly use br br hr has no screen presence no acting skills and the female lead looks just a little too young for him as for malika just the same old bollywood vamp crap br br you can package the product as much as you want but if there's no substance it won't hold don't waste your money
0	ego seems it's the only reason this movie was made this movie is so wrong in so many ways that it's below one's dignity to write much about it every character was only good at self praise and lead actors i use this term liberally as has the director emote in the likeness of stone the little story if that fails on the basic aspects such as logic feeling and drama direction leaves much to be desired blatant flaws are all over the place character motives aren't defined prospective husbands are found overnight broken car windows mend themselves among other things br br let's face it himesh can't act neither it seems can in her defense she's still a chubby child who looks older than she is thanks to tonnes of make up raj overacts and makes his little presence as fake as possible darshan jariwala laughs a bit too much the actor who plays friend is the only natural br br a few questions do come to mind how can such a film cost rs 500 000 000 where did the money go granted that one chase sequence was moderately well shot and mallika was paid an obscene rs 15 000 000 for her 15 minute appearance and 2 songs but the sheer stupidity of the film boggles the mind including 3 mumbai auto rickshaws that show up and jump on a police car br br the good himesh shows courage by allowing the film to make fun of his nasal voice and trademark let's give the devil his due himesh as usual gives good music br br the bad direction story singing is still hard to ignore br br the ugly dialogs and everything else br br final word painful in every sense of the word watch this movie only if you loved
0	frank tashlin's is a so so private snafu short which aims to teach the importance of the censor in stopping military secrets from leaking out snafu attempts to get word out to his girlfriend that he's to be stationed in the south pacific but the censor foils each attempt he makes to send the letter these early scenes are the best with the unseen censor plucking the letter out of the sky with long mechanical arms nets and even a specially employed eagle the second half of the cartoon in which snafu manages to send the letter with the aid of technical fairy first class who is actually teaching him a lesson is less funny and climaxes with a disappointing only a dream finale the main point of interest in this part of the cartoon is the appearance of extremely scantily clad girlfriend who is even seen bare breasted albeit with strategically placed limbs at all times aimed at the military the snafu shorts were often characterised by a heightened but these scenes in as they may be are by far the most erotic i've come across in any of these shorts thus far despite all this i prefer the snafu shorts that go for the jugular a little more usually resulting in the death of the main character for great examples of this seek out tashlin's 'the or chuck jones's is fairly weak by comparison
0	well some people might go to see this to watch a trashy rubber and pvc clad bisexual vampire assassin kicking some ass if that's what you want and you wear a cloak file your teeth to points and think that the name lilith silver is cool you'll see a fine film br br if like most people an assassin dressed in gleaming creaking rubber with huge cleavage thick makeup and bad fangs makes you laugh then this is one of the best comedies you'll see i laughed so hard i nearly cried ridiculous acting dialogue and plotting help to make this a better spoof than dracula dead and loving it could be br br it tries to be cool and goth and all it succeeds in doing is making each scene hilarious even the tacked on lesbian scene is funny how did she get those boots off that quickly they were laced up to here br br don't see it if you like good films see it if you like terrible films and want to laugh until you fall over it isn't good it's just bad
0	i laughed at the movie the script the acting please don't we deserve better but now the filming some of the camera angles were interesting i did enjoy the film but it's not to be taken seriously though i liked it if it had a new cast and it would be better than all right it's worth a look
0	br br 12 grand is the cost of a new car a new car that jake west now needs to escape the hordes of angry villagers desperate for his blood some may say this film could attract so bad it's good status in my opinion it is the proud owner of the so bad it's bad label
0	i had no expectations when seeing the movie because i was seeing it with a bunch of friends and had no idea what it was some parts were silly and some parts were lame but overall the movie was worth watching i like goth looking women this movie has plenty of it the fangs do look really lame though
0	i will not even make any more comments about this movie instead i will make a recommendation for all you euro horror fans if you want to see an enjoyable low budget vampire flick check out engel 1998 it has everything razor blade smile lacks acting nice locations terrific score and less hissing vampires
0	just as the whole cast and crew knows f all about film making br br this film concerns the adventures and predicaments of a modern day cockney vampire assassin and an age old spat with her seemingly jaded vampire lover that plot in itself reeks of clichés and promises of boredom when on as small a scale a film as this and that's exactly what you get br br first off let me say that i by no means dismiss films because they are b movies in fact some of my favourite films are b movies such as jesus christ vampire hunter but this one misses the mark by a mile br br anyone with any knowledge of small budget films will know that the acting is rarely gripping and emotional but razor blade smile creates a whole new dimension of hamming it up on screen some of the so called acting is just indescribably bad with characters spewing cheesy one liners that fall flat and discourse expressing about as much emotion and conviction as the terminator after a couple of horse br br a vast portion of the film is also taken up by the vampiric characters the protagonist in particular unnecessarily flapping their mouths showing off their ridiculously large vampire teeth and exhaling very loudly it literally must happen in almost every scene at least once and quickly became annoying and pointless as if that many looks of slack jawed supposedly scary vampire faces were used to merely fill a little bit of time and pad out the rest of this turd sandwich of a film br br contrary to what some of the other reviewers believe on here i feel this film the director in particular is really trying to take this film seriously in many parts the sheer number of overly dramatic action shots and extreme close ups seems to indicate to me that the director really wanted people to feel this film and make it legitimate to its genre and not spoof it and he fails miserably the attempts at supposedly tasteful sex scenes come out as comic and silly and the action sequences are sometimes just plain stupid br br also the ending of this film was one of the weakest and most pathetic conclusions i have seen to a film b movie or not when films such as this force you to sit through hours of themselves only to be rewarded with a oh it was all a game ending it is actually sickening it the conclusion to the plot feels like an afterthought of the director that he figured out on the last day of shooting because they had run to the end of their shoestring budget br br but i have not rated this film as one star despite the overwhelming crappiness and this is because of the only plus point i can really give this film intentionally or not it was funny i am fairly sure the parts i found humorous were not intended to be and i found most of the efforts at genuine gags to be fruitless but when watched with friends it is a good film to take the mickey out of
0	the time i wasted seeing this movie i demand back i felt sick afterward but not because it touched me in any way it's pretentious trying to get the audience to feel bad for the people involved but i couldn't care less the characters are soulless and stupid you don't get an explanation for some of the scenes and it doesn't leave any thoughts afterward to come up with your own explanation all of the students in the movie has issues but since you don't feel for them you don't believe their problems br br if i could write better in english i'd never stop but i can't so i'll stop now br br don't watch this
0	as main character lillith silver likes to point out you know f k all about vampires it is evident that this statement was aimed at the cast and crew who create an exceedingly bad image of everyone's favourite bloodsucking undead according to the misguided director vampires are all caked in white foundation and crammed into latex similar to a piece of meat in shrink wrap with fangs resembling and a bad case of asthma our main character lillith creates a slapstick caricature of the modern day vampire br br the plot consists of a 9 year old boys' playstation collection jotted down on a piece of paper then blended together to concoct this horrible tale lillith our pale protagonist is a vampire bounty hunter who makes a living from out members of everyone's favourite cult the rather than incorporate the classic assassin methodology of stealth and precision however lillith waltzes in through an open window and then proceeds to chomp her targets necks before shooting them point blank with a handgun that apparently doesn't leave bullet holes thanks to the shoddy continuity pc plod is then assigned to solve the murders he comes to the grizzly yet strikingly obvious conclusion that lillith is actually a vampire and proceeds to hunt her down armed with the usual vampire dispatching tools including a cross garlic and a sharpened piece of wood meanwhile lillith who has gotten into the habit of her boss is distraught when an old nemesis him and demands a ransom to be delivered personally as you may imagine this doesn't go according to plan i'm not going to put myself through the pain of the following scenes however so i'll skip to the end lillith and her nemesis have a showdown and after lillith obtains victory it is then revealed with all the extravagance of someone being told they have cancer that the two are century old lovers and the whole plot was some kind of twisted game yes that kick in the balls was the actual ending of the film in my eyes this joke of a conclusion is the icing on the latex clad cake and seals this film in the never ever watch this vault br br as far as cinematic techniques go the film merely doesn't bother creating any style the director tries to rescue his disasterpiece from the brink by throwing in some close ups and a few multi angular shots this however is not the saving grace the film needed br br you may be screaming but this is a b movie its meant to be crap i however do not take pity i have seen some cracking b movies such as evil dead 2 and jesus christ vampire hunter and therefore this disgrace cannot hide behind excuses the budget was low this is obvious by the lack of location and good actors maybe however if the director was more creative and spent less money on paying for makeup and fake blood he could have done something decent with this sickening attempt the seedy sex scenes are not beneficial in any way and merely served to give me a few chuckles at the obscene acting skills throughout half the budget must have been paid to the female cast merely for getting their tops off for lesbian romps if i wanted to watch a vampire porno i would have bought the vampire layer br br the cast are bad the story is worse and the effects are cripplingly fake this film had some potential however its seedy undertone and embarrassing portrayal of a classic horror character merely served to be its downfall br br if you want a laugh with a few friends i recommend you watch this mockery if you are looking for a more serious vampire action flick try blade or underworld to your raging bloodlust
0	sure it is a new take on vampires who cares i would rather the old take if it is entertaining this was not entertaining it was a dull story poorly acted with annoying cinematography save your money don't even watch it on video
0	the movie razor blade smile has an interesting title as well as leading role now most may not like this movie for the plot and acting was a little cheap but that is the appeal of a movie like razor blade smile in a way it was suppose to be bad movie br br however if you watch this movie all the way through the end you'll see it is as i said a cheap vampire flick with a little humor also how they manipulated colours in a few scenes is very interesting br br so in conclusion this movie is a type you rent and laugh at with your friends and enjoy it for what it is for no movie is throughly bad br br as lilith silver says humans just don't smile enough
0	i was all ready to hate this but it turned out to be surprisingly tolerable though the mtv style of film making shot on dv to boot is quite an eye sore i liked the script's self mocking style as well as its central idea of having the female vampire lead doubling as a contract killer as to the cast eileen daly best known as the 'star' of those horrid redemption intros has an undeniable screen presence and is quite sensual despite her age however christopher adamson's hammy chief villain is obnoxious david warbeck has a brief role as a doctor dubbed the horror movie man who conducts the autopsy on one of the vampire's victims the film seems to have taken quite a long time to shoot as warbeck died in 1997 there's plenty of nudity and violence on hand but not much sense alas especially since its subplot involving a secret society of vampires infiltrating the power structures is barely developed the film is also overlong for its purpose and eventually slips into tedium during the last half hour
0	following a 19th century gun dual that goes awry a charming young woman becomes a vampire not only does she become one of the undead she uses her goth temptress persona to sustain her talents as a cold blooded assassin this is a low grade b feature that should have went straight to video the violence is vicious and gory but actually quite mild the story line is so weak and dialogue so haphazard it is hard to work up much interest eileen daly is the lead character lilith silver also in the cast are mark kevin howarth and isabel brook
0	i was permanently scarred by this terrible film br br the main action of the movie is nothing special it seems there's a tribe of snake worshipping people in a remote mountain region of northern china where women rather than men are the leaders and decision makers i suppose among some men this is enough to make a horror movie anyway occasionally chinese men would wander into the village take a fancy to the local girls seduce them and then abandon them unfortunately for the men the women had put them under a spell derived from snake venom which would make them die horribly in 100 days their swollen like a pregnant woman's with live worms and snakes if they did not return br br forget the cover of the us video this has nothing to do with vampires though there is one inept blood drinking scene the title itself is only marginally appropriate is the latin verb meaning to lie beneath and it's the root of the word succubus a female demon who would seduce men in their sleep actually it's the men who are the here br br but it's not the main action of this ludicrous film that's so objectionable it's the little side incidents i'll overlook the slaughter and butchery of an ox that's performed on screen the participants seem very experienced as though this is an unpleasant duty they actually do in real life and i'm sure they really ate the animal afterwards though i resent having the act thrust in my face as entertainment br br what i wish i could overlook or had overlooked are the numerous totally extraneous shots of an unidentified man who from time to time interrupts the story by eating living animals he starts the movie by tearing apart a live snake with his teeth in the course of the movie he devours a bug a lizard a toad i had to leave the room after this and a whole mouse i stopped watching at this point and lost my appetite for days let me stress that this was totally unexpected and had nothing to do with the movie unless it's a cynical reference to love as it's portrayed in the film a blind selfish predatory survival mechanism that tears apart the helpless but then again i'm probably just to get the vileness out of my head
0	the animal eating geek scenes were not as bad as you would think after having watched mondo cane and mondo magic these scenes are average the grossest one was when the guy ate the head off the mouse but they were so fast and few that they didn't bother me br br otherwise the film was just sort of interesting i always like hearing the silly voice overs they never sound like what you think the actor actress would sound like in real life i liked the bright colors worn by the princesses the shots of weird looking bugs were cool too the youngest princess looked really young almost 14 or something the fight scenes were not as long and boring as most fight scenes so that was good br br 3 10
0	if like me you actively seek out the rarest and weirdest and often most awful that world cinema has to offer then you should look no further than the supernatural horror output of hong kong in the early 80s often mixing bizarre black magic with kung fu and silly comedy and usually packed with plenty of creepy snakes worms eels etc these movies are about as bizarre as it gets br br is definitely a case in point featuring a mountain tribe whose women keep their men from straying by casting nasty spells over them that should they leave cause them to fill up with writhing creatures and die an agonising death some so so martial arts and lots of real life animal killing much of which is perpetrated by a geek who has absolutely no bearing on the story this film is just plain strange br br a prolonged scene in which the tribeswomen hunt for snakes and insects casually throwing the creatures into the baskets on their backs is quite fascinating a tribal feast that sees a poor ox bashed on the head and then torn apart is totally disgusting and the moments that show worms crawling in open wounds and being vomited onto the floor will have the squeamish losing their appetite for a while br br however it's the live animal munching that really qualifies for legendary status amongst fans of out there movie making it's thoroughly vile to watch and yet strangely compelling the geek chomps on a snake down a fat juicy toad nasty and hungrily devours a mouse biting off its head and then shoving the rest in afterwards br br not a great movie hell it's not really even a mediocre movie is recommended only to people who think they've seen it all this one gets 4 out of 10 from me which is probably more than it deserves but i begrudgingly respect it for being able to make me feel slightly ill
0	i have never ever seen such a bad movie before the scene where they shoot some guy the pistol don t even shoot damn that is baad the scene with the boy is even not that good no script not any good sound not anything good to say about this movie
0	given the budget and the inexperience of everyone involved livin' tha life could have been worse jamal wants to be chris tucker whom i've always found very annoying as a previous commentator has noted but peanut edward d smith while some of his over reactions go on way too long a director's problem has some comparatively subtle and funny moments such as when he is trying to instruct jamal on the proper method of smoking a joint with a buddy throughout he is usually more poised and self possessed than jamal which could have been the germ of a nice exploration of the contrasts in the relationship but wasn't developed very far br br but the inexperience of the writer director cinematographer etc is no excuse for his inattention has he ever seen a movie faces are important has he ever heard of a closeup even ed wood could do a closeup i don't think it's much of a budget issue i could only give a general description of what any of the actors look like and not just because of no closeups but the lighting lights for outdoor shooting may cost too much but you can make a with pieces of paper that would have required moving the camera closer to keep the out of the shot helping to solve the closeup problem at the same time if that's too technical you can turn the actors around so they are not in shadow or you can expose for the shadows and if it hadn't been shot in l a i'd say take advantage of cloudy days it goes without saying that the movies this one steals from are all with the possible exception of weekend at bernie's better than this one but livin' tha life would have left a much better impression if it hadn't made the viewer squint all the way through just to catch a glimpse of whatever the human element might have been br br p s the scene in the barbershop is just stupid
0	this movie made me think of how i could write something about it without personally dissing the director and all the actors who as an australian i am proud of for actually getting out there and making a film br br but the movie itself let me tell you a story br br found this dvd in my local rental shop yesterday and had vague recollections of the reviews at the time of cinema release here so i thought i would give it a go br br for some reason i decided to watch the 'special features' before i watched the actual movie not something that i usually do turned the 'making of' off halfway through as i'd had enough cringing at the 'aren't we so wonderful for putting together such a hard hitting film with such a raw script' attitude br br the movie ugh full of clichés and pathetic character development the actors well done guys you are aussies and i applaud you and just like a team is only as good as the coach that directs them you unfortunately did not have a great script to work with br br i felt that the movie actually so many of the subjects that it seemed to want to cover i have seen many reviews here that refer to it as nothing more than a soap agreed br br finally and forgive me if i don't phrase this correctly i was extremely disappointed that there were no optimistic overtones at all yes we all know that life is full of hard stuff and yes we know that things such as incest do occur but i really find it hard to applaud a movie that has not one piece of joy in it i believe that a director has a responsibility to put it in there somewhere otherwise the movie is all about them and their feelings they have created it for themselves not for an audience br br which i think is the basis of why this movie isn't so great the special features mention that the director wrote the screenplay in a 36 hour sitting the day after he himself tried to end his own life well it may have been cathartic for him to do this however the movie reeks of self indulgence when you know the story behind why it was written i feel horrid i'm going to write a movie about feeling horrid note i have read the interview with andrew urban and understand why needed to write something to help him through his own issues but i believe there is a line in film that cannot be crossed the line of making a movie purely for your own emotional needs and i feel that this is what has unintentionally happened here br br by his own admission the director had no technical experience at all and sadly this makes the movie come off looking like nothing more than a year twelve media project br br as for any recommendations that this movie should be studied at school or that all teenagers should watch it not sure there either because there is a very dangerous line at the end i too have been in a place where i have thought that someone who no longer has to 'face life' is 'lucky' but as an adult i do worry that this line could be influential on a young viewer that was in a vulnerable frame of mind might be in there to promote discussion but again it reflects no possibility of redemption or joy in this story as a whole in fact it almost indicates that there is more sadness to come br br i haven't seen elephant but i just might go find it given all the comparisons here br br nothing personal here guys i do hope you can make another movie someday and we all have to start out somewhere so forgive me if i've been too harsh i am glad that you are proud of what you created which in the end is what life is all about it's not a movie i would recommend though br br oh i did like the way the time frames often collided thought that was an interesting way to film br br but the whole its the quiet ones you have to watch we already know that
0	my friends and i watched this movie last night it was pretty incredible by all means this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen at first it was tolerable it stunk of bad improv but it was pretty friggin hilarious despite the scenes being too long drawn out and the terrible quality i read 400 budget above sounds about right of the film itself br br the biggest problem came from the lack of a script with a background in improv i know how hard it can be to keep scenes short efficient what happened in this film was that the actors were left to improvise the scenes and they didn't know when to stop they just kept going for ages on stupid topics at first i thought this was because the movie was short and they needed long useless scenes to flesh it out as the movie progressed i realized it was just a really bad movie br br there were a lot of parts where i could see that the film maker had a really good idea for a shot but not the resources or talent to pull it off effectively a lot of the scenes were taken from a single shot cause you know improv for what felt like a really long time so boring if you can stand to put up with and hour and a half of terrible improv watch it it's really funny at parts but also really stupid and annoying the acting ranges from alright to absolutely terrible it seemed like the only good parts were the parts that really had nothing to do with the main plot the ballsy kid who swore lots the barbershop etc etc br br but yeah painfully bad like i was literally hurting after an hour or so my friends and i just got bored and left
0	never before have i seen such a tale of such talentless hangers on been so ungrateful that their golden goose has failed to lay these spunk monkeys are parasites and bad examples of friends i felt sorry for troy as he tried to hook up all of his friends with hollywood gigs but as soon as things turned sour they all left troy hanging overnight was a contrived effort of self indulgent retribution on a man who was going up against the forces of hollywood to retain story integrity the simple premise of overnight is to try an communicate the message look at this guy he blew it all when in fact he has a strong underground following dealt with harsh blows from friends and executives all in the name of getting a project done in the way he envisioned it quite frankly the only productive par that any of these guys played in the overall execution of the boondock saints shoot culminated as nothing more than extra bodies in the first bar room scene after that all they did was whine why they weren't a bigger deal based on the of their rancid efforts on top of shoulders the 2nd half of this was written by adam j farina
0	i was so looking forward to watching the documentary self of the mastermind behind boondock saints one of the most aggravating and pointless movies i've ever seen but the makers of overnight buddies ex of the mastermind in question also need to learn how to make a movie various unsavoury remarks yelling obscenities into the phone and enjoying his alcohol do indeed make mr duffy look like a putz but it doesn't shed any insight into why the guy got a contract in the first place what his creative process or vision is what's boondock saints even about how hard is it to meet patrick swayze what are these strange institutional machinations in which our disgusting heroes are caught because the film doesn't try to answer these questions in any coherent way it doesn't end up having doo to say about hollywood either so who cares
0	odious chuck norris decided to put one final nail in the coffin br br containing his film career before going to the safe world of cbs br br saturday night carnage with this hysterically bad supernatural br br actioner br br for such a dumb movie this thing sure is plotty norris is chicago br br cop frank shatter first off what kind of last name is shatter br br have you ever met any shatters com has no listing for br br the last name shatter which opens up any half clever viewer to br br replace the a in shatter with an i he and his partner calvin br br jackson do the same old buddy cop routine you have seen br br before make funny with the pimps and make their captain mad br br jackson looking like the theoretical love child of whoopi goldberg br br and rick james quickly wears on the nerves with his constant br br complaining and eddie murphy patented facial expressions br br shatter and calvin become involved with an emissary of satan br br whom we are introduced to in the too long opening scenes br br is a demon who is locked in a crypt by king richard the br br the demon's scepter from which he gets his power br br is busted into nine pieces and hid in nine different parts of the br br world by holy men in 1951 some grave robbers accidentally let br br out and he begins collecting the nine pieces he br br disguises himself as an antiquities professor named lockley and br br always happens to be giving a lecture where a holy man is killed br br and a piece of the scepter is taken br br norris brings in his walker texas blunder cohort wilson br br who plays assistant she helps norris with his br br investigation they make goo goo eyes at each other and our br br intrepid investigators travel to israel after a rabbi is killed in br br chicago while in israel calvin is given even more to complain br br about the heat the lack of restaurant the lousy br br drivers and the fact that he is missing the chicago bulls br br games norris even manages to work a cute israeli kid into this br br nightmare steals calvin's wallet and hangs around the men br br leading them around israel and not arousing any sort of br br appropriate suspicion br br eventually lockley assembles all of the scepter br br pieces but needs the blood of royalty to complete the ceremony br br and call up the devil where to find royal blood well br br father is a duke she has an american accent but she is the br br convenient method of forcing this monstrosity br br toward its inevitable conclusion sure this minion of satan may br br have killed countless hundreds over the years but how is he br br gonna do against a good old fashioned american butt kickin' br br after has been vanquished killed by his own scepter i br br envied him he did not have to watch steal calvin's wallet br br again we are treated to an awful coda involving a bearded man br br who has been watching shutter i mean shatter and calvin on br br their quest you see it was foretold somewhere that two br br warriors from the west would defeat the silent br br bearded man who watched over the couple was none other than br br jesus i kid you not he is listed as prophet in the end credits br br but you and even your pets will recognize the subtle christian br br reference the film makers are trying to exhibit here br br like in i use a walker texas ranger norris is aging and cannot br br get into his fight scenes too much anymore he kicks a lot and br br people fly over furniture in slow motion and then norris gives all of br br his line readings in that monotone voice of his oh what a real br br director might be able to fashion out of him his brother aaron br br who has directed him in other films as well has no sense of story br br or momentum scenes are thrown in for sake not to br br entertain the scenes when the dynamic duo first meet drag br br on and on and then is not all that important to the rest of the br br film br br the film was shot on location in israel which means the br br americans could insult the israelis in person there is not one br br likeable israeli character here the israeli police captain is a jerk br br the cops' driver does not know english and calvin convinces him br br that the word sh tty is a compliment nothing funnier than br br mocking those stupid foreigners on their home turf especially br br when all this racist humor is coming from an american minority br br who would have been more than offended if the tables were turned br br and the israeli cop was mocking the african american cop in br br chicago br br this film is badly written badly acted and badly directed it does br br not work as action cop drama or even horror it just shows that br br the now defunct cannon studios was willing to throw their money br br into anything no matter how badly it was planned hellbound is br br surely a most adequate title i disliked this movie intensely br br this is rated r for physical violence gun violence strong br br profanity some sexual references and some adult situations br br
0	this film is bad not so bad it is good just bad it is however hilariously bad i watched it out of some morbid curiosity and never intend to watch it nor any other chuck norris film ever again if you have to choose between this film and death you should happily choose this film however as it is is a masterclass in terrible film making hence the hilarity br br it is a constant depression to me as i grind away at my desk job that some people get to be involved in movie making and decided to produce things such as this br br 1 out of 10 still better than starship troopers however
0	this is the worst film i have ever seen so bad it is astonishing i am glad that i have never seen that black sidekick in any other film ok it wasn't his fault that someone gave him those lines but he could have refused the role and tried to learn how to act instead how did anyone get the money to put this film together is there some corporation in hollywood that deals with trash for male college students with no brain oh yeah they will love this one it's got no believable plot some kungfu movements chuck norris a black sidekick with bad corny lines a sweet little israeli or is he an arab or does anyone care boy pickpocket and the devil brilliant and many thanks to all concerned for enriching the human race
0	i concur with the other users comment hard to believe that this movie actually came out in 1994 because it screams mid 80's i think it is dubbed because the sound and the picture don't always match up if anyone can truly say this is a good movie they need to be locked up it is so sad how money has so much power over people that they will do anything to get it i feel i lost intelligence from watching this i used to have a little respect for chuck norris before i watched this but now i just feel bad i bought this as part of a 3 movie pack for 9 99 and i can honestly say i would have been better off literally throwing the money away forgive me jesus
0	this piece of crap is actually the bomb as in bottom of the barrel i can't figure out which is worst norris' dull portrayal of anonymity not a great trait in an action protagonist or christopher hysterical overacting this film doesn't deliver on any level what so ever the action sequences are tame the plot is paper thin and the scenes that are supposed to be horrific look like a cliché from the fifties you can't just fill a room with smoke and men in rubber suits and expect the audience to scream in terror br br visually the film does nothing for me it actually looks like an unfortunate mix between a cheap porn flick and a miami vice rip off with a little sprinkling of hell spawn no wait that should have been hell yawn
0	norris plays a chicago cop who stumbles upon a devil's apprentice who wants to well create he eventually kills the creature by get this throwing a solid gold 24 inch spike not very sharp about twenty feet hard enough to penetrate the chest unlikely so is the rest of the movie much of it consists of cn and his sidekick driving cars and talking nonsense the israeli or arab kid is there ostensibly to humanize cn ok doesn't work makes no sense and advances the plot so called not one bit also no cops ever every get invited out of the country to be interviewed by other cops it is ridiculous as a premise the whole thing is bad unfortunately it's not so bad as to be entertainingly bad or campy just plain bad but one can see how norris was trying to find his way to the successful walker texas ranger series
0	for the most part i considered this movie unworthy of a comment but the last 10 minutes prompted me to write one you see right then we learn spoilers if they can be called that that the devil's emissary has no chance of properly preparing the domination of the world by his master because he is not skilled at martial arts has been lying in a hole for centuries waiting for human greed to release him only to be defeated in a simple one on one match against 54 year old former karate champion chuck norris imagine what would have happened to him if he had taken on jackie chan 1 2
0	i'm sure some people will enjoy it and find it powerful or have some sort of personal connection with the characters and story but from an unbiased stand point it's not very well done the film revolves around atypical angst ridden teenagers each one playing out a different stereotype making us believe this is what it's like to be a teenager we get to see a bit of each teenager's lifestyle but the entire project just came off as pretentious to me whether it be the constant low angle shots of tree branches in the wind or the black and white interviews with the students there was nothing new or original showcased in this movie and nothing i needed to see yes it deals with some strong subject material and the dramatic scenes are played and acted well but the entire project seems unnecessary especially when it seems almost an exact replica to van sant's elephant one dealing with suicide the other with a school shooting as i said some people will probably enjoy this and the director writer clearly had some sort of inspiration to make this movie based on the death of a close one so it's nice the movie was made with some heart in it but i feel it's incredibly ineffective and when dealing with material that can be so easily clichéd to do something original with it i would not recommend this movie
0	dr stephens micheal harvey runs a mental asylum he has a different approach to the insane he conducts unorthodox methods of treatment he treats everyone like family there are no locks on the patients doors and he lets some of the inmates act out their twisted fantasies he lets sergeant hugh dress and act as a soldier and harriet camilla carr be a mother to a doll including letting her put it to bed in a cot dr stevens is outside letting judge oliver w cameron gene ross chop a log up with an axe it turns out to be a bad move as once dr stevens back is turned the judge plants the axe in his shoulder soon after nurse charlotte beale rosie arrives at the sanitarium having arranged an interview with dr stevens about a possible job she is met by the head nurse geraldine masters annabelle as anne mcadams and is offered a trail position she gets to know and becomes well liked among the patients however things eventually start to turn sour the phone lines are cut an old lady named mrs rhea macadams has her tongue cut out and she starts to get a strange feeling that things just aren't right somehow then one night all the sanitariums dark secrets are violently revealed produced and directed by s f this film has a great central idea which builds into a cool twist ending but ultimately is a bit of a chore to sit through because of it's low budget restrictions and a rather slow script by tim pope there are just too many long boring stretches of dialogue by the inmates not a lot really happens until the final twenty odd minutes the film has no real visual quality as it's set entirely in the sanitarium and it's grounds which is basically just a big bland house in the middle of nowhere there's no graphic gore in it a few splashes of blood here and there and thats yer lot there's a bit of nudity but like the gore not much the acting is pretty strong especially and the photography is flat and unexciting and i can't even remember what the music was like the twist ending is great but it just takes far too long to get to it a film that had a lot of potential that was probably held back by it's budget ok i guess but i think it would have worked a lot better if the story had been turned into a half an hour 'tales form the crypt' episode
0	this is a god awful norris film with one of the most annoying performances ever in calvin levels and a weak script the characters were terrible and it has hardly any action plus even chuck norris stinks in this christopher is very weak as the main villain and the story was not very interesting plus norris seemed bored with the whole thing and i don't blame him as i was too calvin levels gives one of the most annoying performances in a movie ever i couldn't stand as i was tempted to rip the tape out of my vcr plus norris and levels had no chemistry together if your looking for some great martial art moves from norris don't go near this however if you want a movie with an uninteresting story hardly any action and bad acting look further this is a god awful norris film with one of the most annoying performances ever from calvin levels avoid it like the plague the direction is incredibly bad aaron norris does an incredibly bad job here with no suspense or thrills bland camera work and keeping the film at a dull pace there is a little bit of blood and violence we get 2 gory ripped out heart exploding body and a few gunshot wounds the acting is really bad chuck norris is not amazing as he usually is here and seemed very bored here his one liners are flat and his acting wasn't that great and i am a huge norris fan this is his absolute worst norris still rules calvin levels is incredibly annoying here his whiny wimpy performance severely grated me i was so hoping for him to get it good but sadly he didn't christopher is pretty weak as the main villain his voice was cool but he over acted big time j wilson is beautiful and did okay with what she had to do rest of the cast are terrible overall please avoid this it's not worth the torture even if you are a huge norris fan like me bomb out of 5
0	this movie stunk there is not much more to it the final fight looked like walker taking on my grandmother not some supernatural demon with the strength of ten men i found the commercials more interesting the plot twists and jokes could be seen coming a mile away the only redeeming quality of this film was that it ended avoid this at all costs unless you enjoy bad chuck norris movies
0	all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future and there wasn't i'll admit to not finishing the film i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get and i quote more tail than any man in the past time i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to a story that will keep a viewer interested and they failed this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian would be like and i'm not against lesbians thank you mr director someone please give me a redeeming quality wait i have it there's no sequel
0	pure schlock from beginning to end the average 12 year old might find that it has an interesting take on discrimination otherwise it's a pure camp fest endurance test like one of those so so episodes of star trek the next generation that thinks it has something important to say br br you'll see every plot twist a mile off in this by the numbers romp however it's worth seeing for its portrayal of drag king prostitutes a brothel where young women pay old men to have sex with them how's that for role reversal and lesbian soap operas the ghost of valerie lives
0	i don't think this can legally qualify as film the plot was so flimsy the dialogue so shallow and the lines so terrible that i couldn't believe that someone actually wrote the lines down said holy sh t this is a masterpiece and then actually pitched it to a producer i for one am still dumbfounded and will forever remember this film as the mark of the degeneracy of intelligence in america that and crossroads of course
0	the plot in the future when nearly all men have been killed by a y chromosome targeting virus a hot female genetic engineer a man in a lab is intriguing despite the somewhat promising premise the movie falls flat in nearly every regard the dialogue is laughable the characters are paper thin the exploration of a single gender world is shallow the worst part of the entire movie is the asian detective who delivers lines so cheesy and contrived that you'll want to vomit br br i can't imagine how on earth this trash got produced most of the movie is male bashing all men are violent all men rape women men are only animals all of the women even the hetero seem to display anger toward fear of and hatred for men if you want to see a sci fi film something along the lines of this movie's premise you'd do best to look elsewhere
0	they used footage of some real protest spliced with some woman talking about a society with no men to make it seem like these people were cheering for the of men the funny thing is you can see a man cheering on his own death in the background br br ok the plot some lady says there should be a society with no men and the crowd in front of her which contains some men think its a great idea so then all the men are killed or something so there are no more br br then this blonde scientist creates a man but removes some chromosomes so he can't be violent the male grows very quickly and soon is a full grown man not long after he takes the volkswagen beetle and drives into the city where he's discovered now you would think the lone man in a city full of lesbians would be the happiest guy ever but no way the police chase him br br i didn't watch the rest but it probably ends up that they've got to race against the clock and some people or something bad will probably happen somehow the man ends up in a stadium with some other men who want him to lead the rebellion these brave warriors hiding in a stadium might have had some sort of plan which laid out the details of how they'd single handedly get rid of a planet full of women but i didn't watch and neither should you br br if you're up late and channel surfing and this happens to come on don't watch watch anything but this you'll find those ads for or the ones with women in bathing suits asking you to up the phone to meet women just like in your area will be more satisfying entertainment br br oh yeah there's this funny thing when they're pulling in with their cars i don't know what they did it looks like they drove in real slow and careful but then tried to speed up the film to compensate but it just looks really weird br br the blonde girl was kind of cute and i'm feeling generous so 2 10
0	but had to see just how bad it could get the plotline was thin to begin with but it just kept getting worse a female genetic engineering grad student uses her research on accelerated to artificially create a male because a biological weapon used in ww3 killed off 97 of the worldwide male population the surviving men are either high prices gigolos in back alley clubs or crazed lunatics in run down football stadiums plotting to overthrow the 'lesbian the entire process resembled the microwaving of a large bowl of jello press a few buttons and ding you get a baby not only that but he will age to mid 20's in a month and then begin to age normally how convenient eventually poor adam gets bored with the secluded cabin in the woods where his creator had raised him and steals her car to 'see the city' br br this begins 90 minutes of unlikely chases convenient plot twists and several subplots that we never see resolved as adam quickly learns what men did survive are treated as outcasts criminals because they are dangerous beasts that cannot help there genetic predisposition to violence the propaganda machines have been in full swing scaring women into believing all men are rapists and murderers this has led to lesbianism being the norm the fall of christianity female only reproduction via cloning and oh yeah world peace among other implied results all of which seem unlikely given that only 30 years had elapsed since the war adam stumbles from one bad situation to the next all the while being genetically programmed to be non violent and unable to really do much on his own behalf with the fbi on his trail looking for fresh meat and his creator trying to recapture him for herself it seems he learns that violence is not limited to the male species after all br br all in all i would not recommend this movie br br i did however enjoy veronica cartwrights portrayal of the 'love to hate her' director of the fbi and julie bowen didn't do bad as hope the geneticist either
0	this movie is awful beyond belief it's a low budget badly written piece of pointless garbage but the saturday afternoon i stumbled across it on tv still sticks in my mind as one of the most entertaining i've ever spent in front of the television the badness of this movie is epic maybe not ed wood epic but close the premise is hysterical men are banned for being too dangerous and imprisoned in haw football stadiums the pseudo dyke culture is laughably bizarre there's an underground sex trade with women who dress up like men to service deviants and the last man of the title is a pitiful reincarnation of rocky from rocky horror picture show i didn't get to see the end of it which i have to assume was so dripping with syrupy what have we all learned from this nonsense it would bring on an urge to brush the teeth but everything in the first two thirds was so memorably bad even if the last third turned out to be a pale imitation of the rest it's still worthwhile for anyone who gets a kick out of campy stupid brainless sci fi b flicks
0	it's a male bashing bonanza i saw this on sci fi a while ago and the idea seemed interesting it could have been a good movie and the plot itself i don't see as male bashing but certain specific references to men get really annoying i might still watch the movie again though because it does at least try to redeem itself by hinting that maybe the women in the movie aren't really as non violent as they claim but it still doesn't compensate for the really tiring male bashing i mean i can understand a little it's part of the movie's plot but come on it gets really tiring after awhile not only that but to assume that the majority of women in the world would accept becoming homosexual that easily and that the few remaining heterosexuals would be such a minority as to go in the closet it's just too unbelievable there are far too many women out there with cultural or religious restrictions that would balk at this it is totally implausible i mean i know its sci fi and i love sci fi but the best sci fi has at least a hint of it being possible and this is too implausible the phrase truth is stranger than fiction came about because fiction has to at least seem plausible to be welcomed but truth isn't always this movie is not that other than that the movie does have some good acting and the eventual morals of the story that something like what happened was wrong do redeem it a little but not enough
0	it is fascinating how this title manages to slip by the average viewer as something new and groundbreaking quoting some of the comments k must have thought by himself oh great elephant what a fantastic movie i'll try hard to do exactly the same movie and see if anyone notices sadly enough he even failed with his outrageous idea the movie turns out a complete failure considering that it tries hard to catch the brilliance of gus van elephant it makes it look even more ridiculous a most embarrassing faux pas for a film director br br the movie starts off with the suicide of a student in the schools bathroom this scene already shows the awkward acting skills of each one involved in this scene you don't buy a single word they say in carries on interrupted by short interview styled bits of the kids who live on their marry lives with each bit rather distressing in its plain stupidity on the basis of each worthless monologue means to introduce the characters this way to give a kind of fast as junk food insight look into their hearts and fails once again not five minutes later ultimately screams at the audience yes people i stole this movie and for some curious reason i am proud of it by taking gus van most unmistakable narrative style from elephant he shot scenes twice to let the viewer follow each character involved in a scene on his particular way and role in a school situation hm doesn't this seem awfully familiar to me this certain level of very forgiving tolerance had been right there to a point at which i couldn't stand this dreadful movie any more shame on you k i say i am especially surprised that 2 37 has reached the official selections in cannes as of 2006 whereas everyone must have certainly remembered elephant 2003 at the very same film festival just a few years ago so how in the name of the lord did this most disgraceful rip off end up being shown there i find myself absolutely puzzled by this mistake br br directors like use the ignorance of audiences who aren't and cannot completely be aware of every independent film out there as elephant has little to do with mainstream cinema although it is without a doubt a masterpiece few people notice that the story as told in 2 37 had been told before how that is possible at a film festival of such importance as attributed to cannes i cannot say it is sad and shameful that such things are passed on and hardly anyone sees the true fraud in it br br 2 37 is by all means solely commercial worthless as an independent film and on a certain level rather a phoney parody of its obvious idol elephant
0	warning this could spoil your movie watch it see if you agree br br to think that we as humans can not learn from the past the futuristic society portrayed glamorized what hitler believed obliterate a race of people in this case men for the benefit of society it made me sick to my stomach also the plausibility of a y bomb is insane even in war our instinct for self preservation will prevent the extinction of humanity we made mistakes in the past ie japan hiroshima and nagasaki in '45 but because of that we avoided a bigger mistake in '63 during the cuban missile crisis
0	the makers ask for a huge suspension of disbelief you grant them it in the hope that given a little time they'll convince you it's possible alas with tv movies it seems as though they specifically set out to make cheap cosmo questionnaire films with a small budget and big claims you should spend every penny on the details to convince the audience not here though the film gets a few points for the good performance the two leading ladies give against the odds but unfortunately it's not enough to save the day oh and the less said about the ending the better happy film viewing everyone
0	this has to be one of the worst movies ever to come out of the sci fi channel here is how the movie starts women are the only humans on this planet due to the fact that in the not to distant future chemical warfare is a ok as long as it only targets soldiers in case your wondering men however the virus back fires big shock and all the men on earth slowly die then all of male kind is condemned to die when the madam president is shot and killed by a man now we are taken around 60 to 70 years from now two female scientists are working on cloning a female baby and one of them says hey why don't we bring men back the other one says no the world is not ready for that but promptly ignores her and thus a man walks the again br br first off this movie assumes that all men who are not genetically altered are blood thirsty monsters secondly the writer forgot to mention that present day soldiers are a good mix of male and female officers so there is no real reason to have a virus like that this is the biggest waist of time you can find this movie managed to insult my intellect not only by the bad story but with the lifetime style acting avoid this movie at all costs br br i give this a 1 out of 10 but only because i could go no lower
0	for three quarters of an hour the story gradually develops towards a pivotal point of some sort although it is overburdened with scenes that just seem to be intended to dull the viewer and lure him away from the actual plot there is something happening it is not much and it certainly is not obvious the combination of palace impressions and story driving scenes do not add any depth or insight to the whole cast of characters in fact they keep them sterile as there is no character development at all everybody just remains spinning and centered around their own cliché and role the cute kinda headstrong girl the fighting the snobby aristocrat the male lead does not seem to have any distinction at all he is a shallow presence which actually doesn't even matter as he is only there because the storyboard required him to it seemed like he was on vacation and got caught up when the point comes of turning the corner in terms of what happening the movie first snaps completely blank for a couple of minutes and then becomes ridiculous it solves or better dissolves itself with a by the book deus ex machina more clichés and some of the most crude plot devices and choices i have ever seen it's history alright first the movie's a drama though it's supposed to be comedic and then it turns into a farce the protagonists do what they are expected to do and there are no surprises the first set of somewhat serious antagonists however gets replaced by a couple that literally was just bored maybe that was some kind of nod towards the audience br br this movie does not get any bonus from me for underlying philosophical meaning since there is none nor for its technical realization the animation and editing is fair and so's the sound mixing but it is by no means outstanding or even above the average japanese productions of the late 1980's in fact the visual treats seem static un inspired and un original br br worst of all it totally fails to entertain even if you don't bother with characters and all that stuff there's too little going on here and the rest is corny at best get a real ghibli instead have a feast with it and keep your fingers off this one
0	maybe it's just that it was made in 1997 or maybe whoever managed to get this up to a 7 has a soft spot for kids with aids but really people the maniacal laughter mayhem during the withdrawal scene did you not see that coming i'm surprised there was no baby crawling across the ceiling and addressing the camera the acting was fine sure but to me this is just one example of a movie from a time when situations and subject matter could pass for cinematic language things happen but that's it there's no glue or motive that can be detected on screen allowing the subject matter to use pre existing emotional connections to the plot without the script doing it like it's supposed to
0	fun with dick and jane failed to entertain on so many levels there were loose ends with the writing for example it seems as though one of the major conflicts was the indictment of jim carrey's character dick harper but the writers never follow up that particular conflict basically the story is weak and mostly unfunny but carrey saves a few scenes with his physical humor but honestly jim carrey wasn't very funny in this movie and tea leone might as well have been there just for her appearance because she wasn't funny either this is just another example of hollywood banking off franchise actors with a lousy unoriginal story
0	can't liberals like alec baldwin get it through their heads that they lost the elections of 2000 and 2004 the ridiculous lame swipes at walmart non union workers george w bush and the stock market not to mention the intentional gwb accent that character uses in the film just makes him look silly and bitter on screen as the credits roll the sour grapes continue as special thanks are given to ken lay and other ceos from enron and let me clue you in to something if you put all your money into one company's stock you're an idiot we don't need this excuse for a movie to tell us that what a waste of jim carrey's talent from the trailer i expected a completely different movie what i got was a 90 minute commercial on how to scare people into not investing for their own future keep them stupid and keep them dependent on government no wonder hollywood is in trouble and can't make a decent movie anymore maybe you guys could get an original idea and put it on screen for once although i shouldn't be surprised since jane fonda was cast in the original
0	i was looking forward to seeing this movie unfortunately i should have listened to my daughters advice this should have been a spoof but it took on a realism that corporations had a lot to answer for br br jim carrey after all the work he has done is still jim carrey and his comedy does not get any better his co star was not able to back him up their son in the movie was invisible br br the life of crime was a blink and that was the missing link of the movie the film showed 2 or 3 robberies and they were richer than before that where it lost it for me br br i did laugh in some parts the whole not good enough i felt was there to add some weight to the film his character was not strong enough there were just too many gaps to make this a smart and tight movie
0	i would give this a zero if they had that rating fun was no fun at all i grew tired of the movie about ten minutes into but endured to the end thinking it had to get better it did not the others i watched this movie with also agreed the acting was annoying i am tired of jim carey's over the top ham acting the supporting cast was no better while this movie was a statement of corporate greed and the plight of the worker who gets stepped on when a large company goes under the vehicle for this would have been better served another way i actually disliked the leading characters dick and jane so much that their antics were never funny but pathetic i am trying to recall one scene where i or anyone i was with laughed and cannot a worthless movie and a total waste of time
0	this movie was perhaps one of the most unoriginal and unfunny films i've seen in a long long while to be fair i was not expecting some revolutionary comic formula but i was anticipating to at least be entertained with such low expectations how could i manage to be disappointed br br jim carrey possibly my favorite actor not sarcasm did little more than tread water in this film he seems to have temporarily returned to his funny face making roots and created a character no different from his fletcher from liar liar this new character dick harper a k a fletcher 2 0 is a poorly rendered and miserably written if you find yourself smiling while watching this pitiful and essentially boring character it is most likely because carrey is trying so hard to bring a third dimension to him carrey's outlandish posing becomes humorously awkward and ultimately sad br br tea leoni as jane does little more than provide the abbott to carrey's costello i typically find tea leoni refreshing and underused but not in this case jane harper could have been easily played by any actress from age thirty to forty five and it is in that non specificity that the character of jane becomes uninteresting to watch she simply has no defining trait other than her following of the movie's general theme which seems to be that wait no this movie has no theme unless you count big business is evil as a theme i thought that was more of a given br br richard jenkins and alec baldwin both deliver believable though tired supporting performances but neither man seems truly invested in the role they're playing it's very clear that alec baldwin was putting about as much effort into playing his role as the sinister c e o as he puts into eating a sandwich which he seems to be doing a lot of lately br br slight tangent but has alec baldwin played any roles in the past few years that hasn't required him to be a powerful jerk in a suit br br anyway take my advice if you haven't already witnessed the horror for yourself save your money this is the one to catch on hbo in a few months dick and jane are present but there's no fun to be had
0	i don't understand what is hard hitting about this movie i don't understand why high school kids should watch this i don't understand why this should have made me think about anything in the slightest br br spoiler br br when the un noticed girl is on her way to commit suicide was i the only person cheering her on the cliché'd classical music long tracking shots melancholy emotion of the film by that stage had me in reversal to what was intended i would have only been happy if she walked into the room and the entire cast was in there with her holding scissors to slit their wrists up br br why br br cause i went to high school and frankly im sick to death of seeing movie after movie in australia with teenagers in it being solely based on terrible clichés i've been waiting ages for a younger person to write a movie that im able to relate to and this stereotype driven piece of emo garbage is what i got instead it was like a dark version of heartbreak high that needed a predictable ending br br why are all teenagers in aussie dramas depressed or have really weird problems that just aren't plausibly told br br on the plus side this was funnier then and i needed a good laugh
0	unfortunately this is not as good as any of the other films that jim carrey producing and starring and brian have worked on together but bits of it are definitely worth a look for laughs basically dick harper carrey thinks he is being promoted to a better job that's until the company of sinks and closes down now dick and his wife jane téa leoni and their son of course are in trouble with money no matter what they try they can't raise the kind of money they really want so they start robbing a few places and then they decide to rob the guy that set dick up his ex boss jack mcallister alec baldwin i think the most laughable bits are when carrey's in the elevator singing i believe i can fly and the bit when he ties up someone in a robbery and is speaking with a voice changer he sounds like a crap robot okay
0	as a big jim carey fan i took my seat in the cinema with optimism after all fun with dick and jane appeared to have all the raw materials to make this another carey success after the opening five minutes of good humour it seemed that this film would provide but it went wrong as soon as the plot kicked in the idea that a charming charismatic top v i p employee could suddenly find himself turning up to work in his nearest supermarket is just so hard to believe and then to get your head round the fact that this guy has also become a master criminal is virtually impossible the actors seem confused with the situation as well of course the stereotypical rich uncaring head of the operation doesn't struggle one bit to pull off his one dimensional character but for carey and others around him the job is a whole lot harder one minute dick is seen as a cocky office pro obsessed with possessions the next minute he's a bumbling mess who can barely string two words together and ultimately he becomes a petty thief who is able quite happily to put a gun to another man's head jane is equally confused with her role and her character never really gets going br br the idea behind the story is such a good one and it is a shame that this film has not managed to make it work the odd moment of laugh out loud comedy can be found but it is usually more physical humour than anything witty or clever carey tries his best in parts to save a sinking ship but his comic talent can never flourish in a character that has so many gaping holes to his personality carey shines when he is presented with a strong daring character man on the moon the truman show ace ventura which this film never presented him with despite its best efforts
0	part of the movie's low rating is the emphasis on unemployment and the suffering we have to endure while this is good for drama in comedy we know the pains it need not be emphasized as a result fun with dick and jane is not an appropriate title and i was just plain disappointed failing to see any fun with dick and jane it is true that this is a copy from the movie of the same name but it fails on the execution and the title was not appropriate for the story line br br however if the movie was retitled to be the art of the steal and the emphasis on bungling slapstick comedy more takes on the robbery and the plans to steal stupidly of course would have given the movie a major boost while at the same time the movie should show the ceo at least in the beginning to be a crook so it will be easier to project the pains to someone responsible early on and just leave it at that the movie suffers a viewpoint issue and with that in mind a comedy cannot work if the viewpoint is not done properly a scheming husband character who is that of a wile e coyote on the road runner would be more funny including the slapstick comedy but in this case a steal instead of the capture of the bird with complicate contraptions would be extremely funny here i mean you can make many of these and put them in the movie but since the viewpoint was done wrongly the robbery part had to be limited br br you will enjoy the movie the first 15 minutes during jim carrey's great rise but to make the problems they had to faced to be more comical since it is a comedy that is the part that needs a major overhaul it can be funnier if problems were faced more like john travolta's civil action during the downfall that movie was a serious one but the problems they faced were somewhat comical
0	i thought the movie was sub par the acting was good but not great the story was funny but did not come out that way the director dropped the ball on this movie it was not james jim or tea imho it was the music that killed it there is a scene where things go down hill and jonny cash music is playing man was that depressing not funny killed my mood after that the movie could not recover the deportation scene had potential funny situation good acting good set up i even smirked but the music again was unsuited to the scene the music kept me from being pulled in to the movie br br i say it had potential but was poorly done i would even say rushed into final production kind of reminiscent of the prequel to the exorcist the beginning the theater release was good i though so after watching it but the movie release exorcist dominion was a helluva lot better same story just different director same should be done here
0	what a terrible misfire not only the title but the idea is the same as that jane fonda george segal vehicle of a few decades ago why i wonder someone with the clout of jim carrey will not only star but also produce this tired ugly pointless excuse for a comedy he could be taking comedy to a whole new level instead he goes for what he may assume is safe territory money money christmas but i'm sure this uncomfortable mess will have very short legs i call it uncomfortable because that's how i felt aware as i was of the desperate attempts tried out on the screen to be funny and failing miserably it could have been an outrageous politically incorrect mirror comedy of the post enron days but no that would be pointing too high too risky what a shame
0	a satire about greed and money what there is more greed in the intentions behind this fiasco than in any of the themes they pathetically try to make fun of jim carrey's reign was certainly short lived he is an unbearable presence on the screen the insincerity of his portrayal is nothing short of creepy he produced this this masterpiece as well so he can't blame anyone here the number one comedy in america shout the desperate tv adds of course jim carrey was suppose to guarantee full houses but the game is over if i sound angry is because i am i spent a sunny afternoon in california plus between tickets parking flat cokes etc almost 45 bucks on this thing starring and produced by mr carry not anymore do you hear not anymore
0	oh my lord what were they thinking about with this one it not only is frantically unfunny but worse a very good original was trashed in the bargain jane fonda believe it or not actually turned in the performance of her life in that one even better than where she plays the whore in the other so called performance of her life maybe she is just flat good as a crook any other time wow what a waste of time but she and segal team up beautifully so if you even remotely got a glimpse of anything funny in this baby catch the anvil upon which it got beaten into a pulp from br br because very very very little of that one remains to this ones horror nothing in this baby is remotely funny except for maybe a couple of moments when dick and jane are bulging lipped up as lepers and cant kiss and uhh oh my lord that's it well looks like it br br it truly is that bad a film
0	jim carrey is a particular brand of humour and i personally think he's a great actor eternal sunshine for example br br however this movie is presumably intended to be nothing more than a jim carrey vehicle so be aware straight off that if you don't think his style of comedy is funny you will sit stony faced throughout this film as it has nothing else to recommend it br br even if you do like carrey's comedy i am not sure you will find this film amusing i went to see it on a saturday night at 10 30pm and the audience was definitely ready to laugh they giggled throughout the trailers which weren't particularly funny but when it came to the film stony silence i think it raised about five genuine laughs br br the problem with the movie is it doesn't know what it wants to be it can't make up its mind whether it's going for slapstick or serious if it were stupid throughout it could be forgiven but i'm guessing it's also trying to make a point about the relationship between the two central characters br br the strong point of the film is the hold ups and there was plenty of potential here but these didn't start until about halfway through and remained largely undeveloped meanwhile you have to sit through the first excruciating 40 minutes as the couple's life deteriorates br br four separate groups walked out of this film while i was there and if my flatmate hadn't asked me to keep away from the house his girlfriend having just returned from a month long vacation i would have done the same and in my entire 25 years of movie going i have done that just once before
0	see dick work br br see jane work br br dick and jane are married br br they are successful br br they have a son br br they have a nice house br br they have a latino housekeeper br br the housekeeper teaches spanish to the son br br the son speaks spanish br br ha ha br br see dick get promoted br br the pompous ceo is a crook br br see dick take the fall for the pompous ceo br br jane quits her job br br oops br br see dick and jane out of work br br dick jane turn to crime br br as a plot device they decide to rob the ceo br br see the robbery get botched br br see dick jane fund the company's pension plan with the money from the robbery br br yay see the end credits br br okay so you've got the plot beyond that dick and jane careens from one scene to the next one barely connecting with the last one or the next one the whole thing is terribly episodic in nature br br jim carrey didn't bother to bring his a material he just seems bored and slightly ashamed of the whole thing but heck when you're getting paid 20 million plus why bother tea leoni is frantic i guess i would be frantic not to get blamed for this flop br br there's just something sort of off about dick jane carrey and leoni aren't funny and have little chemistry the script isn't funny and it's not well plotted br br but it may be bigger than that the reality of dick and jane is perhaps a little too real maybe it's just not funny for people to lose their jobs in an enron like situation when real life still lacks a happy ending
0	dick and jane harper jim carrey téa leoni wind up on the unemployment line when the corporation dick works for is caught in a corruption scandal and after desperately and unsuccessfully trying to find jobs the duo turns to crime in order to get them out of poverty br br i've always been a fan of jim carrey it's been awhile since he has made a straight up comedy the last one was bruce almighty which was pretty good he has proved that he can do serious dramas but comedy is his real element fun with dick and jane proves that he still has it even though the film was funny it was still kind of disappointing it wasn't as funny as i thought it would be it's worth watching once though unlike most of carrey's movies it doesn't have a good repeat value part of the problem is the script i was surprised the script was weak since this is the same guy that made the forty year old virgin some of the jokes just fall flat and other times they seem to be trying too hard if jim carrey wasn't in it than the film would have been a lot worse br br next to jim carrey is téa leoni she's an okay actress but she just isn't very funny she doesn't match up well with carrey and she seemed to be phoning in her performance they should have gone with someone else the supporting cast includes alec baldwin richard jenkins and aaron michael jenkins the latter plays billy harper and he actually gives a decent performance he wasn't as annoying as most child stars are alec baldwin was okay and richard jenkins tried too hard to be funny to be honest i'm a little bias here the film altogether was pretty average but i liked it more because of jim carrey's performance fans of jim carrey should enjoy it but that's about it in the end fun with dick and jane is a fun way to spend 90 minutes but its not very memorable rating 6 10
0	honestly mr if you do a drama movie in a high school setting following a bunch of teenagers through a school day and if you mess up the time frame and jump back and forth if you do that you can't use the exact same visual story telling device of elephant which is using a camera that is passing of from one character to the next and having scenes shown 3 times from different angles you just can't do that because this is such a blunt rip off its hard to believe anyone gave this more than a 5 rating br br where elephant which was released 3 years prior to this movie uses school shootings or to be exact the columbine shooting as the focal point for its script 2 37 uses teen suicide and seeing the reviews the shock value of that subject worked its the same slow story telling a lot of dramatic piano music all leading to a finale you know from the beginning at least the characters look like they tried hard to be somewhat different in that department so you got a untypical gay guy who looks acts like a stoner skater a hunky lover boy who can't deal with his gay side brother and sister from a rich family who both got their very own problems and here comes the nose dive br br you also get a spoiled bulimic chick and one of the most ridiculous characters ever a guy with medical conditions who wets his pants because of 2 syndrome who actually never heard of the invention of diapers but rather pisses his pants in the classroom and then change into new clothes and does so every day wow as hard as this movie tries to be realistic this is the most absurd thing i have ever heard he gets beaten up on the toilet and is obviously ashamed of it but doesn't wipe the blood of his nose when going through the whole school with wet pants and a bleeding nose thats new age realism directly leading to the twist and final character who turns out to be the suicide victim br br after watching the very realistic life of teenagers one day including incest rape teen pregnancy bulimia parental pressure for grades and appearance and the gay subject mentioned before kind of like your very realistic daily soap trying hard to be we watch a girl die we met once in the beginning of this movie and who has no reason but that the guy she had a crush on left the room when she was talking to him in a thoughtful piano playing sequence btw seen that somewhere before and it gets even better before slitting her wrist in a painful long scene of yes and no she asks 2 guy if he is ok constantly smiling and then she cuts her wrist with scissors in a school toilet br br now you got a movie that is a total rip off of elephant fails with some really sloppy story telling the whole rape incest thing was pretty unbelievable too by the way and people call this a shocker br br what the heck is going on is all it takes to take some pseudo dramatic music boring story telling and adding a shock subject on top and people think there is a major deep message here i think elephant is way overrated already but that movie was the original while this here is an obvious rip off failing on many more levels i have never ever seen a more brazen stealing of a whole movie concept in my life and believe me i watched a hundred of horror movies so i know how low you can go there this is a total let down in all departments its nor realistic its stolen its damn slow and by all means i wonder whats more useless another romantic suicide many give this point to the movie which makes me wonder if they only watch romeo juliet all day long because there is dozens of movies which deal with the subject in a clear non romantic and more realistic way or this ridiculous set up come on i am still trying to work out if 2 guy or the suicide itself is more unrealistic and ridiculous
0	there is no fun poking fun at the desperate plight of illegal immigrants or the desperate plight of head shop owners for that matter that the richer than god brian didn't see the irony of having the heroes do exactly what the villain does rob honest hardworking people of their life savings doesn't surprise me hell how do you think he got to be richer than god br br in this alleged satire about greed these mental midgets reveal their own hypocrisy the the the the who are paid peanuts to take care of the the and the but the main problem aside from the revolting bigotry is the premise as the former executive of a now infamous company dick would be the big scalp for every corporate in the country no soup kitchens for him and raking in high six figures you'd think he wouldn't be caught dead around a gore poster
0	i rented this film out of the local video store one day you know the kind of movie with box art that just reaches out and tells you to me' well if you see this dull film in your video store walk on by fight the urge rent a porno because this film is despite the interesting opening the film lapses into repetitive murders and a hardboiled cop stumbling around dealing with the usual problems wife bastard of a boss etc wondering if the fast forward function on your vcr works rent this film and put your concerns to the test
0	a killer john with a penchant for really bad disguises afro wig on a white dude cruises around in his van looking for victims detective decarlo james is on the case and finds the killer rather easily by just hanging out by the local pool and looking for anyone looking weird again the afro wig comes into play tracking the killer to his home decarlo decides to set up a risky sting involving a female police psychologist br br inspired by the crimes of ted bundy before he was caught killer's delight is a pretty predictable and cheap serial killer flick director jeremy has no idea how to pace a film or even make it suspenseful he does know how to show lots of close ups of the killer wringing his hands though the only thing this really has going for it is the captured 70s atmosphere look out for the bathroom wallpaper well that and a downbeat ending the media blasters shriek show dvd has lots of nice stuff though including an audio commentary by and plus video interviews trailers and an alternate opening
0	detective sergent vince de carlo james and company are on the case of a vicious serial killer rapist can psychologist carol susan sullivan help or will she become the killer's next victim and what is with the killer's hilarious white dude afro br br inspired by the case of serial killer ted bundy killer's delight aka the dark ride is a rather dull serial killer tale from 1978 that doesn't offer much if anything it's more of a police procedural flick than a horror movie as much of the violence occurs off camera sure we get mutilated bodies but we don't get a whole lot in the exploitation department especially considering that they are from the aftermath and not during the crime those hoping for the likes of the toolbox murders or maniac will be very disappointed br br fortunately there is an impressive scene involving a woman trying to escape the killer that get's the tone right and is quite suspenseful to boot also john is quite effective as the killer though his hilarious hairstyle white guys with afros are always worth a chuckle is more than a bit distracting br br the dark ride is too routine and mediocre to really warrant a recommendation as it lacks the proper exploitation elements and is dated even by the standards of the time those looking for a better example should probably turn to don't go in the house and a few others instead as this just doesn't cut it
0	while sporadically engrossing including a few effectively tender moments and humorous the sledgehammer obvious satire 'homecoming' hinges on comes off as forced and ultimately unfulfilling with material like this timing is everything michael moore knew to release fahrenheit 9 11 before the 2004 elections and the real tragedy of dante's film is that it didn't come out 2 years ago when its message would have carried an energy that would have energized the further in 2006 mockery of the well settled bush administration hardly seems as controversially compelling or as it did then br br frankly anyone that could be convinced of anything by a ham fisted zombie flick has questionable intelligence br br and if you didn't notice michael moore didn't exactly help to defeat bush br br there was nothing engrossing about this film i just felt disgust at how blatant and frankly stupid the film was it was painful to watch if you are going to do something like this you need a bit of wit sadly this has none a poorly done satire actually has the opposite of its intended effect as they say with friends like these who needs enemies
0	i can get over the political parody even if this was suppose to be a masters of horror flick br br but what i can't get over is the blatant usage of our war heroes and their sacrifice as pawns in some washed up horror maker's political statement br br to me it was purely insulting to arlington and our heroes i have family at arlington the idea that this guy dante would even portray the arlington graves being disturbed just makes me want to puke br br i'm done with dante and done with moh
0	i think this movie lacks so much of substance it is even not worth a discussion br br in the first the package is really disgusting especially the stereotype filming and photographing surely joe dante's cinematic stile was appropriate and interesting in gremlins and small soldiers i mean the imaginative and visual pretty story telling of a spielberg wunderkind i really loved these movies but in homecoming it was a completely failure attacks of toy soldiers and hairy creatures is simply not comparable with zombie invasions dead stinky rotten beings trying to kill the living without any logical reason just because they hate them br br zombie flicks are characteristic in plain direct unconventional and brutal cinematography nothing to be seen in joe dante's debut another point is the annoying content really stupid dialogs between the two main characters a gruesome exploitation of the elder brother dies and leaves the younger traumatized and bad acting and by the way homecoming is neither scary nor gory and even less entertaining you see it is even not a horror movie br br zombie movies in the decade of their birth it the end of 60s start of the 70s used to be revolutionary provocative through its gruesome explicit content and of subtle social critic the original zombie film was actually a midnight movie named night of the living dead 1968 this one was a low budget movie that covered so many controversial themes it's hard to name them all a visual style of hitchcock raimi the american lifestyle of the 70s political aloofness the upcoming breakthrough of the human rights of black people and the even more upcoming racism as a result on the side of the conservative americans remember the shooting of the black main character in the end of the movie br br if you are interested in the creativity of midnight movies and want to learn more about the most important ones i recommend you midnight movies from the margin to the mainstream br br so steer clear of homecoming and even so of romero's land of the dead
0	just a few words it's a good thing george a romero is still among us cause if he were dead he would be forced to rise from grave to vote against the people who made this 'political and the saddest thing of all is that i actually agree with these people's sentiments yeah there's zombies in it and they do have a good reason to come back from beyond the grave to vote oh and one of them finishes off the doctor from startrek voyager that's about as scary as it will get people if you are looking for a horror movie i suggest you keep on looking and if you are looking for a witty political satire you're also in the wrong place and not just because this series is called masters of horror but don't let me hold you back maybe you see something i've missed though chances are you'll be wasting your time with it just as i have let's just say i prefer my zombie movies with the zombies standing in of the camera
0	okay it features one lovely blink and you miss it joke when the dead are rising from their tombs the names of the old time horror directors like jacques tournier and jean are featured in the tombstones and the smashing of morally bankrupt con rightist villains is on target preaching morals etc but why these soldiers are anti republicans because they have gone to the war most of them should be republicans right why they don't go to killing the enemies who killed them or something why they all want to vote against the republicans why this story has made of a movie questions never answered
0	the only reason i gave this episode of masters of horror a 2 instead of a 1 is because the two lead actors are good and it wasn't shot on vhs the story the dialog and the plot are ridiculous br br talking driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war give me a break what next zombies who come back to go maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows br br i never supported the iraq war but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces and homecoming was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war br br with zombies being mass produced in today's market this is the spam of zombie related entertainment how homecoming made it onto masters of horror is beyond me
0	i couldn't relate to this film i'm surprised that people are it for being so 'realistic' how many people at your school were victim to incest how many closet homosexual jocks were there how many quiet people that you never noticed committed suicide hmmm ok you wouldn't know even if their were but really these are explosive problems which many us never deal with and yet there are so many teenagers with subtle problems which could have been explored but hey where's the 'entertainment' in that br br with regards to the girl who committed suicide i found this to be exploitative i actually think many people in high school at some stage feel invisible ignored and unwanted but what possesses someone to violently commit suicide on just another day of being ignored and unnoticed the filmmaker decided this girl would suicide to make the film more provocative and the graphic nature of the suicide to make it even more provocative i didn't buy it as a real life scenario br br and the problems of the other students i didn't fully relate to bullying is explored but that's been done to death we all know it goes on and it truly is a matter of resolve within that person closet homosexuality pfft another cliché gets rolled out thats the thing really too many clichés i guessed the ending at the start there was a predictable unpredictability if that makes sense you've got all these characters with explosive problems and one with apparently none and i thought what is the point of this character unless she's the unsuspecting suicide victim and surely enough br br one thing i will say and it is the saving grace of the film is that it does not glamourise suicide the suicide is very graphic and heart breaking to watch it is a powerful scene regardless of how contrived it is and one that dismisses suicide as the easy option but the film is really not very imaginative and used stereotypes br br not bad but certainly not groundbreaking or worthy of a 17 minute standing ovation at cannes
0	homecoming what a huge disappointment after reading the plot summary the dead coming back to vote against george w bush i couldn't wait to see this it started off interesting and it immediately caught my attention unfortunately though it slowly descended into a boring political satire that i didn't need to see i can just watch some good old aussie comedy for that there was pretty much only one or two scenes of horror and they weren't even that scary i couldn't believe this came from joe dante who could easily have pulled it off with an equal balance of thrills and satire br br the worst episode so far br br 2 5
0	i disagree with dante portraying the democrat supporting zombies as creatures with an average iq of 23 i do believe their behaviour should reflect a lower iq than that something in the order of a iq a single digit figure please br br the moh series is quite uneven and this is the very worst episode dante yet another mindless hollywood liberal or an apolitical nerd who sucks up to the leftist establishment in order to re kindle his pitiful career must have finally realized that his directorial pursuits had been stuck in a low gear for nearly two decades now hence came up with this cringe inducing unsubtle left wing satire of the bush administration republicans and capitalism perhaps he felt he hadn't been overtly political before he wouldn't exactly be the first no talent to use asinine political propaganda to further his career when all else fails the maker of turds such as piranha the howling and matinee dante has been as useful a contributor to the horror genre as adolf hitler had been to world peace br br th uses lowest common denominator humour cheap and predictable gags which even the bluest of all blue collar union members wouldn't have trouble understanding or have you ever seen a clever subtle intelligent liberal satire populist manure has the basest of all messages hence the language and manner in which this message is communicated has to be as simple and basic as sean penn's name and what better people to send this message to the popcorn munching sheep than a couple of cocaine sniffing tinseltown losers who've all fallen so low that they're forced to write for tv br br i don't want political propaganda either left or right in any type of movie but placing it in horror of all genres is a testament to the endless stupidity that reigns so supreme among hollywood's anti intelligentsia so vapid was dante that he even failed to notice the hilarious suggestion that zombies would vote democrat that's what you get for finishing a movie school not a source of wisdom or useful knowledge by any stretch of the imagination
0	spoiler alert br br this was the worst of the series it is horror disguised as political satire and it is as subtle as a sledge hammer not very scary and not very insightful did micheal moore have anything to do with this piece of garbage br br i'm really sick of hollywood using entertainment as a political campaign against george bush and constantly repeating the same talking points over and over again this movie wants to be but unlike that movie which subtly poignantly tackled the problems soldiers who came back from vietnam by clever making the main character come back as a blood craving zombie and slowly built on this theme it was a true horror film that was also good social commentary because it didn't get sanctimonious and preachy br br i guess joe dante thought this was trying to make a horror film to scare republicans conservatives and and me being the last in that list found this film to be totally ridiculous manipulative and all at the same time and i don't mean the good type of exploitative that you often find in the drive in type movies i mean exploitative in the most sickening and vile manner using the deaths of our soldiers as a manipulative political statement disguised as a horror film br br this film assumes that all the soldiers who died in iraq would vote against a conservative president if they would come back to life as zombies which is a flawed premise because as i recall for the most part and going by george romero's rules zombies are mindless flesh eating creatures operating on pure impulse and even though the zombie andy in could talk he couldn't really hold a conversation and he was driven by his addiction to human blood okay zombies are mindless creatures driven by impulse and not intellect and obviously they are dead so why would dead people be allowed to vote in the first place my interpretation of this film is that the only war a liberal democrat could win is by having mindless dead people vote for him i guess they meant to say the people that vote for presidents like george bush are the mindless zombies while the real mindless zombies are actually the ones making the intellectually sounds decisions yeah whatever dawn of the dead tackled this idea much better but user the idea of mindless consumerism this film isn't dawn of the dead by any stretched of the imagination br br the film addresses the issue while the soldiers are alive that a majority of them voted for a bush like president but after they die they would vote for a liberal anti war democrat after they are zombies who are normally considered brain dead creatures and laughably has them destruct after they vote br br if you are gonna make a zombie movie mr dante and invoke george romero's name in it you better have mindless zombies that like ripping people apart and eating their intestines not zombies that vote i also like how the zombies just go evil conservatives who support the war br br if you want a good movie with social commentary skip this poorly made preachy piece of junk and watch instead br br the worst of the master of horror series hands down
0	i had enjoyed the masters of horror series until i came upon this infantile dung heap br br this anti bush propaganda piece masquerading as a horror film comes off like an episode of the original batman done by michael moore political satire should be clever this however pulls a ten on the simpleton scale with all the style and credibility of an l ron hubbard film br br in its campy inane way it accuses the republicans of stealing elections going to war for absolutely no reason and treating servicemen and women as mere cannon fodder it even takes a swipe at the second amendment and religion all that was missing was caesar romero as the president cackling in glee about how he orchestrated 9 11 br br i guess the ending was supposed to be the we support our troops moment but i think they would be more offended than pleased with the entire endeavor br br i'm sure the hollywood elites are sitting in their mansions patting each other on the backs for this pithy work while the anti war drones hail it as genius br br time to get fitted with new hats kids
0	i can appreciate satire that goes against my own views but it must be witty and well placed this film is how can i possibly explain it it does not make the slightest attempt at subtlety much less intelligence in fact it's hardly even horror dead soldiers come to life but they're not interested in brains only in voting why cue a never ending stream of the most idiotic banal bloated windbag ravings of bad president bad conservatives bad republicans what a self indulgent schmaltzy cornball piece of hog manure this was br br even if they agree with the episode's points only the stupidest of liberals would say they enjoyed watching it then again assigning a degree of stupidity to the crazed angry hostile anti social and anti anything halfway normal liberal spectrum is a tall task in itself br br avoid like a liberal convention
0	dear mr dante br br dude seriously the title of the show is masters of horror and be that as it may it is supposed to be an opportunity to show of your horror chops to show the world why you deserve to be called a master of the genre appearantly you misunderstood the exercise appearantly you thought it was your opportunity or worse your duty to educate the american public on your political beliefs and your attempt comes off as disgusting overbearing and above all preachy br br the only reason anyone marked your short as a high score is because their political views match yours and they are the type of people that don't mind having that sort of politics shoved down their throat br br i on the other hand don't give a damn what you believe they believe or i believe i just want such obvious not subtle and unfunny not satire messages out of my horror and while there were certainly other masters of horror that were big time disappointments or where i was just generally confused why that director william malone would be considered a genre master yours fails far beyond the rest for just missing the entire point of the series br br so next time can you please just keep your preachy politics to yourself
0	i was looking forward to dante's contribution to this excellent horror anthology series from showtime but this was easily the worst of the bunch it's really too bad part of this may be due to the poor if odd choice of source materials why joe didn't just write an original i have no idea instead we get this soapbox episode where the message overwhelms the script the characters the staging everything and by the end i was just wondering whether it could get any worse and i won't spoil it but it ended up getting worse what a stinker by such a talented creative team skip this one and buy the john carpenter one instead it manages to balance all of the elements horror humor character vision and it's fun homecoming is about as fun as having a bear take a dump on you while you sleep
0	the last sentence of this review is a major spoiler br br i have enjoyed joe dante's work since piranha he's done a great deal of different genre parodies that were both funny and honest br br but this is pure crap this is the kind of satire in line with thank you for smoking that is so literal and direct that it leaves nothing a to be laughed at and b to leave the audience to think about br br it's a shame because the plot and the material is so rich timely and ripe for intelligent commentary br br by the way there is absolutely no reason for the main character to shoot the ann coulter character at the end of the film it's just flat out ridiculous
0	there are places for political commentary in film but masters of horror is not one of them i get enough of this stuff from newsweek and every other editorial in the newspaper now i've got to watch this in horror movies c'mon all i wanted was a good zombie schlock film not another bush is bad rant if joe dante wants to express his politics let him go on air america and if you must insist on making a message film be a little more sly about it this had all the insinuation of being slapped in the face with a dead fish br br by the way joe do you really want the left wing voting block to be associated with brain dead zombies might want to think about that before making another political horror movie god help us
0	i disagree 100 with the reviewer who disagreed 100 with the reviewer who gave this short movie an f grade cashing in heavily on political propaganda only obscures joe dante's lack of ability to pull another howling out of his bag of tricks the masters of horror series was a phenomenal collection of truly horrifying tales save for this episode br br despite gaining acclaim from those who wish to promote it's political slant homecoming is the least effective episode of moh season one unlike the rest of the series dante's entry is a parody of the genre falling short of both horror and humor in it's ham fisted delivery of a hackneyed political point br br dante can really only be blamed for pulling this stinker off the shelf as it wasn't his creation the zombie sub genre is very popular this decade and among the crop of predictable george romero tributes and vacuous fantasies are a number of works designed to push political or ir messages such works are not written by or intended for true horror fans maybe dante really isn't a a master of horror either what has he been up to since the howling after all br br if you want a lame anti war zombie flick with a few pop culture references passed off as humor homecoming may be just your thing if you are a horror fan looking for something masterful pick up most any other episode of the series my personal favorite was dario argento's jenifer based loosely on a classic comic short by the team of bruce jones and truly creepy
0	i caught 2 37 at the afi fest in los angeles it's a very well shot first film though the dv format begins to show itself in outside scenes and i'm sure it has good intentions of showing us the dark side of high school in other words every side of high school but the filmmaker doesn't have the talent to write or direct up to the promise there are several characters but none of them are any more than what the plot requires them to be there's no depth to these caricatures beyond the machinations of i am troubled teen x i have y problem the perceived roles of men and women in this story are phenomenally troublesome br br let's start with the men you have the stoner kid who's gay the jock who's also gay the boy who rapes his sister and mr as the stereotype requires all gay men must be sexually unfulfilled and violent toward women and themselves naturally or unnaturally as the stereotype assumes the two gay male characters beat up women and themselves i'd be perfectly fine with these characterizations if the stereotypes were turned on their heads or if the characters somehow transcended them yet neither took place and that's all there is to these characters' stories br br next the ladies one young woman wants to be a bulimic housewife another is the pregnant of the sister raping brother and there's the girl who kills herself i'll get to that later again i don't think there's a requirement of political correctness for filmmakers i'd be out of a job were that the case but i do think that it's only justified if there's more to that character or story if that archetype were being used to reveal something about character other than i'm a teenager and life sucks i'd be happy as a clam but nothing new is revealed nothing is subverted or changed or sublimated br br finally the girl who kills herself this is blunt and highly sloppy storytelling we're supposed to sit through 5 minutes of a girl violently killing herself who we've seen for maybe 30 seconds through the whole film we've followed all these other stories for an hour and a half and now we're invited to torture ourselves for a character that isn't part of the story it's cheap exploitative and sloppy despite the millions of crappy indie films that came before this you have to earn something like that you can't simply purchase it on credit so this suicide happens we get wrap ups from the characters that go similarly nowhere but down and the film ends what have i learned i already knew high school sucked been there done that i already knew people have stereotypical views of gay men and young women i already knew that kids with disabilities are mocked br br what else is there then smoke mirrors and some really nice views of leaves oh and the nastiest deus ex machina i've seen in a while
0	some people thought this was funny because they loved the political issues discussed in this piece i however am so tired of the state of the two party system in our country that i can't stomach propaganda from either side i was hoping for a horror show but got cute zombies and partisan bull crap i watch my horror films to be scared this didn't even attempt to be scary also this doesn't have the wit of romero in his political cultural satire laced in his movies this was a blatant no imagination story that was hard for me to stomach for the wrong reasons on the bright side if you hate bush you'll love this i'm not condoning hate or bush with this statement
0	low budget murder mystery about a public defender trying to clear his client of a murder the man had been convicted of 12 years previously complicating things is the fact that he escaped custody after his conviction but the pd believes the man to be innocent of the murder and works to find the real killer gig young as the pd is okay and james anderson as the convicted killer is actually pretty good but the picture as a whole just rambles along with little suspense and despite some good character actors in the cast the performances are generally below par director george was apparently more at home making westerns he was churning out gene tv series at columbia at around this time but even if he had tried to inject any liveliness into this picture the hack script would have defeated his attempts average at best the film climaxes with a courtroom scene that's straight out of an episode of perry mason and is just as predictable
0	one reviewer says of those who might not like this film that it will only be appreciated by film goers who weary of film as diversion this i feel is rather unfair to those of us who find it boring br br i have not become weary or disillusioned with film or with film makers but found this tedious and self indulgent but then it's true i'm not too big into deep meaningfulness i feel that it may have great meaning for those in the know you know br br it is very slow and it spends a long time in trying to make its individual points using imagery indeed to do so but in such days as these it seems possible that a film like this might be the kind of thing that you'd come across in one of those dark and daunting in modern art galleries rather than on the screen of a popular cinema setting
0	i found this film completely and utterly incomprehensible i knew some of he facts about but here they were twisted and puzzling the images were weirdly interesting but i was looking more for a biographical and or critical accounting of life and works not an lsd type drug trip the dialogue was very confusing and jumping back and forth in time via the use of trains typewriters and cigarettes was extremely distracting had it been labelled an artsy film i wouldn't have purchased the dvd now i have a dvd that i'll never watch again and who would buy it i prefer mainstream films not those that require translation or elucidation thumbs down on this one for me
0	i went to see this film last night at the national film theatre in london as a birthday treat it was the the first time i've seen it and i think it has now overtaken the dreadful twister as the worst film i have ever seen disjointed for no reason self indulgent and full of imagery that from the crass and obvious to the obscure and unintelligible not particularly beautifully or shot i really don't understand why this is considered classic gay or otherwise i normally enjoy films that push boundaries or even films that are hard to watch because of their length or unusual cinematography but this was truly truly awful
0	what we know of caravaggio suggests a strutting with a healthy sense of entitlement who lived amongst whores and thieves and hustlers and put them on canvas his themes were sex death redemption above all finding the sacred within the profane he lived at a time where homosexuality carried a death sentence and political intrigue normally involved fatalities in a society defined by the maxim strangling the boy for the purity of his scream br br you can't fault derek jarman for his cinematography nor his recreations of paintings and you certainly can't accuse the man of shying away from the homosexuality but frankly jarman never strays beyond 80s caricature italian patronage becomes the 80s london art scene complete with pretty waiters and sean bean is a sexy bit of northern rough his motorbike tilda swinton performs a transformation worthy of a mills and boons why miss lena without that gypsy you're beautiful jarman provides caravaggio with a particularly trite motive for the murder which left him exiled br br this could have been a visually stunning treatment of a man whose life was dangerous exciting violent and decadent but who nonetheless elevated the lives of ordinary people to the status of renaissance masterpieces looked on by and kings instead what you get is pierre et gilles do italy the pretty bodies of young boys are shown to perfection but never the men who inhabit them jarman appears to satirise the london art scene showing it shallow and pretentious to use caravaggio and renaissance italy to make the point is to use a silk purse to make a pig's ear in fairness this film remains visually stunning but ultimately as two dimensional as the paintings it describes
0	opposing force 1986 wasn't as good as dr strangelove and it wasn't as good as the bridge on the river kwai heck it wasn't even as good as g i jane which is pretty sad br br the film revolves around a basic ethical problem in a simulated prisoner of war situation how far can you go before you start breaking the law what exactly is the law in such a situation how can you simulate the torture of someone without actually torturing someone can you intentionally inflict pain how about breaking bones mock executions sexual abuse severe blood loss real guns with bullets death somewhere between these is a really fuzzy line dividing acceptable from atrocious br br now what could you do if you found yourself in such a training program and the lines between simulation and reality begin to vanish what could you do this movie attempts to portray this dilemma br br i found it interesting to see the types of tactics used in resistance training i have a brother who went through the pow training program according to him it was pretty close to the mark technically br br the film has a fairly good premise but it doesn't have a particularly good story i wondered if it might be based on some actual event but it became pretty apparent that it wasn't when the explosions started they must have changed scriptwriters three quarters into the film because it takes a real extreme turn and devolves into a somewhat pointless shoot em up with lots of distracting explosions br br i found it to have a rather unsatisfying ending again kind of pointless i'm left wondering what the point of the whole thing was i'm beginning to suspect there simply wasn't one it could have been much better with just a little more story to go along with the fireworks
0	without saying how it ended it is sufficient to say that the whole thing degenerates from about five minutes before the end if the standard had been maintained throughout the movie would be worth a seven br br one wonders in a way why a woman was added to the cast well not really the premise is a good one the situation the victims find themselves in is pretty terrifying and it's rather well done but you get the impression the makers of the film lost interest towards the end or as a previous contributor said they changed writers and handed over to someone else
0	how anyone can praise this crude film version after seeing the marvelous waterloo bridge with vivien leigh and robert taylor is beyond comprehension br br mae clarke's myra is a far cry from the role as played by vivien leigh in the remake she plays a common american girl with a brooklyn accent and the yeah responses are a bit jarring when one is expecting a less coarse character douglass montgomery billed in final credits as kent douglass is wildly improbable as a soldier smitten with her no matter how many times she lets him down bette davis has a nothing role in a bit part br br their melodramatic confrontations during the last twenty minutes of the film are beyond belief extravagant bits of overacting even given the fact that this is a cruder version of the story when sound was only a few years old and silent acting was still the rage br br just awful and it ends abruptly with clarke losing her life during a bombing on the bridge the end br br it has none of the beautifully shaded performances in the mgm remake of 1940 including a sterling supporting cast instead this one is mounted with low budget production values and i mean a shoe string budget with no subtlety at all and there's no pre code braveness in the scene where myra tells the aristocratic lady why she must not marry her son roy she simply says i picked him up on waterloo bridge explanation over nothing bold there br br summing up for once the original is not the best version by any means vivien leigh and robert taylor have never been surpassed as myra and roy in the tender exquisitely acted 1940 film classic
0	although this series and the mini film in particular were very important at the time of release i feel that the series as a whole was actually fairly poorly written with a weak cast the issues at heart are extremely well portrayed yet it is difficult to relate and understand the problems within the film when the acting and script isn't convincing enough especially when looking at the mini film br br i also don't believe that this mini film or series has stood the test of time as now many of the scenes are quite laughable the issues are still crucial but boys from the cannot fully aid the cause of understanding the problems in britain in the 1980s
0	this film did well at the box office and the producers of this mess thought the stars had such good chemistry in this that they cast them in the much darker screwball farce the frankly i am shocked to see all the positive comments on this ludicrously plotted unfunny comedy both lead characters have the maturity of seven year olds and are much less interesting to spend time with a veteran supporting cast including fred clark harry morgan and eva gabor lend excellent support and the beautiful cinematography certainly makes the rich countryside of spain seem lush and there are four or five truly funny scenes to go with two wise scenes and a whole bunch of recycled and unfunny clutter br br i cannot recommend it started with a kiss
0	filmmaker bryan forbes who once displayed a light sardonic touch with beguiling material such as whistle down the wind and the original stepford wives completely bottoms out here not only is his direction inept he also sloppily adapted sidney early novel the results are atrocious roger moore plays a psychiatrist framed for the murder of one of his patients rod steiger chewing the scenery is a hot under the collar cop it's easily his most embarrassing performance the only actor here to exhibit some life is elliott gould who knows a thing or two about enlivening a bum script bland choppy and produced on the cheap no stars from
0	it beats me how anyone can rate this film very highly it is no understatement to call it far fetched how the guy managed in such a short space of time to construct a wooden maze of underground rooms is quite ridiculous or maybe he was the greatest carpenter since jesus the obese sheriff played by hoyt axton looked like a refugee from the jerry springer show and i found the blonde female lead jennifer jason leigh rather plain we have an expression here in the u k done up as which suits her perfectly it wasn't all bad however i enjoyed it immensely when the end credits rolled and 'the end' came up was quite brilliant for this hotch potch of a t v movie which if it had been a cinematic release would have been put on video and in discount stores in no time at all
0	though it's better than most made for tv movies buried alive is nothing more than a run of the mill revenge tale there are so many plot holes in this one it makes you wonder why the screenwriters didn't go through a series of re writes the ending has a nice twist to it but it's hardly believable br br the acting by jennifer jason leigh is terrific as always but tim matheson hams it up with cheesy one liners that reminds one of jack nicholson in the shining don't bother with this one
0	i saw this turkey in the theater but i had a good time the special effects aren't worthy of a grade school production a toy boat representing a freighter moving at speedboat velocity on flat waters while wind driven fog blows in the opposite direction the red and blue flood lamps add that extra dramatic touch whatever cache vincent price was supposed to bring as narrator is completely overshadowed by dreadful production work calling this a documentary is like calling britney spears a musician about 20 minutes into this something struck me as very funny maybe it was price's overly dramatic intonation of the oft used line they vanished into the devil's triangle cut to black next story once i started laughing my friends joined in next time vinny said the crucial line someone in the back yelled out good after that it got almost as many laughs as a marx brothers film nobody stayed for the dreadfully serious second feature chariots of the gods
0	back in college i studied marketing and even though i missed a whole lot of classes and never really paid any attention i will always remember the main and most essential principle of marketing namely it's not what you sell it's how you sell it this principle fully applies to the devil's triangle as it's basically a beautifully wrapped and enticing yet empty package writer director richard knew exactly that he had to divert the viewer's attention away from the major inaccuracies so he threw in some elements that never fail when it comes to providing a creepy atmosphere like the sinister voice of narrator vincent price and the oddball music of king crimson and i'm guessing richard dirty little tricks worked very efficiently as there was a huge bermuda triangle hype going on during the mid 70's and literally every movie production – whether it was an inaccurate documentary or a sleazy exploitation flick – covering the topic earned big money at the box office the devil's triangle overwhelms you with data that is unstructured and often irrelevant but the severe dramatization of the facts and of course the intimidating stark voice of the almighty vincent price generates an ambiance of fright and creepiness the narration constantly jumps back and forward in time and covers a massive amount of strange occurrences and mysterious vanishings of ships and airplanes in the bermuda triangle throughout a period of nearly one whole century but the reports remain extremely vague at all times and the eloquent mr price invariably ends every chapter with the sinister words … just another unsolved mystery of the devil's after a couple of cases the whole formula simply becomes laughable and almost pathetic but i guess it caused genuine mass hysteria back in 1974 the documentary expands a little more on the most notorious bermuda triangle mysteries like the five planes of military flight 19 that inexplicably disappeared all at once and the peculiar case of the vessel uss cyclops but still even in these chapters only a minimum of serviceable information is given the cameras never at one point go underwater to explore the depths of the bermuda area for example and the testimonies of the supposedly real life witnesses of the dramas suspiciously look like staged acting scenes if you're looking for an informative and objective documentary on the bermuda triangle i certainly wouldn't recommend this movie but in case you want to sit back and listen to vincent price's hypnotizing voice for nearly a full hour this is your chance
0	this is by far the most repulsive and atrocious version of the scarlet pimpernel ever to be devised as a pimpernel fan i was sincerely offended by what they did to the characters but this atrocity is not worth watching even if you aren't familiar with the story br br percy for example would never stab people in the back just to get down a hallway would never have a string of women in his bed marguerite never had an affair with nor armand with minette whoever the heck she is would not randomly shoot tony in the head name is not nor has it ever been paul they have completely eradicated any reference to the disguises replacing them instead with james bond esque gadgets and gizmos br br as to the film itself the makeup is horrifying the women look like clowns elizabeth mcgovern's beauty mark wanders around her face at random the poor pitiable actors have no script to work with so it's not really their fault that their characters are as thin as wet tissue paper the dialogue oh the dialogue the dialogue is unbearable and whoever is responsible for all those little captions at the bottom of the screen should be forced to watch this movie as penance i counted 13 location captions in the first half hour before i gave up as if we can't figure out that the body of water between england and france is the english channel br br the film if i can bring myself to call it that since it's really just videotape with a filter is absolutely without redeeming value do not waste your time and brain cells on this rancid drivel instead go watch the 1982 anthony andrews jane seymour version or the 1934 leslie howard film or indeed anything but this one
0	as someone who has read all of baroness books and seen most of the movies based on them i must say that the 1980's version with anthony andrews and jane seymour was better than this it was better written and stuck more to the spirit of the story than this one which seemed to go out of its way to involve people getting shot this new adaptation is less light hearted yet does not have as much depth either although there is some good acting the actors did not have much to work with nice costumes though
0	i have read each and every one of baroness scarlet pimpernel books counting this one i have seen 3 pimpernel movies the one with jane seymour and anthony andrews i preferred greatly to this it goes out of its way for violence and action occasionally completely violating the spirit of the book i don't expect movies to stick directly to plots i gave up being that idealistic long ago but if an excellent movie of a book has already been made don't remake it with a tv movie that includes excellent actors and nice costumes but a barely decent script sticking with the 80's version
0	the screen writers for this mini series should have been sentenced to the guillotine themselves they butchered a very fun story and squandered the talents of richard e grant the only thing the writers kept from the original books was the name all of the characters were totally altered and the story was not the same i strongly suggest watching another version of the scarlet pimpernel any other version is better than this one
0	i have read almost all the books by now and have seen the musical production in two different languages i absolutely adored everything that i have been acquainted previously but lately i've been running out of resources to sustain my fancy i still have couple of books left but they are either in transit or they are the sequels which i am not in a hurry to read so an idea dawned on me sink me there are movies which i have not watched thus i must watch them immediately br br the first five minutes of these series were acceptable in fact i quite enjoyed the variation of the reason for the denunciation however different it had seemed it went all downhill from there though was too foppish and i daresay too old for this role not nearly that dark and dashing figure with his dreadful either or and what was that with random bed scene featuring him it was way too creepy wasn't his only love the madame guillotine and his only interest his job and his only obsession sir percy marguerite prettiest woman in france cleverest woman in europe i think not although whatever compelled her to break into the study of sir percy i haven't the faintest idea and whatever my lord tony has done to deserve this death yes every member of the league did pledge his life to sir percy but he would have never endangered any of them nor would have run away like a coward when his dear friend faces mortal danger and if by any means he had to mourn his companion he would have done that mourn not just move on as if nothing had happened which brings me to another point sir percy his portrayal was most dreadful he was neither a lazy fop nor a gallant and elusive hero who is a master of transformations nor did he care too much about his pronunciation of that word alone made my ears bleed and with his own hands he had never killed anyone so what was that with him randomly walking around and slaughtering people br br the costumes were just too flashy for that time period as well this is post revolutionary france we are talking about not pre revolutionary people in dresses like that stand out in a crowd quite easily it was all just gah br br although i must admit after i watched other parts my opinion did change slightly watching it as a separate work independent of scarlet pimpernel series it was tolerable just your other average hero in the mask but for what they tried to pass it it is still miserable
0	the characters was as unoriginal it hurts the little skinny dorky computer geek the funny african american with stupid punchlines cool white guy with a compassion for cars and the handsome leader who ends up with the pretty girl the actors is at best mediocre from norton who does a pretty good job as the bad guy br br the rest of the movie is also stupid and a total waste of time its all in all about a group of spoiled boys using the world as their playground where every safe in a big house is what keeps them with food on the table i mean why work for a living when you can rob people br br and who the f messes with the traffic lights in a major european city and in the middle of the friggin day think of all the damages and not to say deaths among innocent civilians what about all the ambulances and br br i created no compassion for the main characters and weather mr wahlberg gets his bloody gold or not i could not give less of a fart
0	i don't know why they even kept the name how they could call the series 'the scarlet after they deviated from the novels so much i wouldn't have a clue the character names are the only things they kept and even then they changed a few of those and mixed them up and changed percy's relationships with them admittedly i only watched about two hours at the most of it but that was enough for me to realize that the series was nothing like baroness had portrayed her characters and probably would have been rolling around in her grave when it was filming and airing poor lady i hope that when the next person wants to make a movie series of the book they don't ruin it as completely as this series did
0	before i start to tear apart this movie mark you i love the scarlet pimpernel that story is one of the best romantic adventures ever written the movie staring jane grey is very good and the musical on broadway is the hottest thing there so i thought when i heard that this film was coming out that it would be great since it was a bbc film br br to my surprise it was a weak totally stupid story that utterly failed in capturing the gorgeous tale br br there were no exciting escapes with daring disguises there was no deep love that made your heart flutter as percy left the room and marguerite sighed as her husband was leaving her again br br all it had was a confusing plot and a lot of out of the blue sex and violence br br sink me what a horrible movie br br
0	having read the books and seen the 1982 anthony andrews jane br br seymour version i have to say that this is not good at all br br according to the books percy is supposed to be a seemingly br br foppish aristocrat when he's being percy and witty and clever br br when he's being the pimpernel but here he just looks bored as br br percy and mean as the pimpernel marguerite is supposed to be br br the most beautiful woman in europe not a tired and frumpy looking matron she looks middle aged probably due to br br bad make up richard e grant has done much better things and br br elizabeth mcgovern's acting is uninspired and flat the wit and br br dash of the books and the andrews seymour film is here replaced br br by brawn and flashy editing that just don't make the cut br br i might add that to a person who hasn't seen any previous version br br or read the book it would probably look ok
0	i am not quite sure i agree with the director of this version of the scarlet pimpernel i imagined sir percy a very calm seemingly lazy aristocrat this particular sir percy appears to be teeming with overwhelming energy and i did not appreciate the houdini james bond mission impossible style escapes that sir percy engineered either in the previous versions wit was the tool for escape not technology neither were the characters of marguerite and adequately portrayed there seemed to be little energy or chemistry in the interaction between the characters br br i do not wish to assign any blame for perhaps the reason for my dislike of this movie might simply be a matter of difference in interpretation had the director's interpretation coincided with mine perhaps i might not have been irritated by what seemed to me bad character portrayals br br i much preferred the version from 1982 anthony andrews was quite efficient as the imperturbable calm fop so were jane seymour and ian mckellen in my opinion the style of this period piece seems to have been lost with this latest adaption i recommend sticking with the previous versions either the one from 1934 or the one from 1982 br br
0	i tried watching this movie but i didn't make it past the first 15 minutes it's a terrible disappointment considering the cast but i can't look past the fact that the dialogue is in english and some of the actors pretending to be indian are not even close read kristin kreuk considering that india alone has 1 6th of the world's population and one of the biggest movie industries i don't think it would have been hard for the film makers to have found an excellent indian actress to play the part and i don't say so because of some blind patriotism but because it's absolutely and totally absurd for a non indian to play the role of an indian pakistani now some people say that 'as long as she's convincing who cares ' but my point is exactly that she's not convincing and never can be not due to her acting skills but due to her ethnicity for example however good an actor tom hanks may be he'll never be able to play an australian aborigine br br but that is still minor to the biggest faux pas the film makers made having the dialogue in english it totally destroys the mood as well as any semblance of authenticity had the same movie been made in native languages hindi urdu punjabi with english subtitles this may have been an excellent movie unfortunately as things stand i would not recommend anyone seeing it apart from film students who want to study what not to do in movies
0	as we are well aware movies are not set out to be a direct incorporation of history but it is a disgrace when a movie is made which has absolutely little to no correlation i wish the director and or the screen writer had done his her research in this topic all this movie does is create a forum for hate between people while causing a rift that should not be there this movie portrayed the sikhs and muslims in a very negative manor while making the third group hindus look as if they were non existent in the brutal killings of the people of both nations the inaccuracies coupled with the sear disregard for one's faith as portrayed by was a disgrace to the highest format though on a more positive note the actors did a great job in acting in their roles both kristen k and neve c played their rolls exceptionally i hope those that watch this movie do not see or use it as a template for the actual historical event
0	i seem to be disagreeing with a lot of folks here but i really did not find this movie as scintillating as the reviews i read claimed it was no doubt a touching story and the partition background provided the scope for an epic but the movie was a let down specially for who has seen inspite of the lead being played by sunny deol and the incessant songs i must say gadar is the better of the two the story being virtually the same partition failed to create any depth in its characters as well as the scenes that were supposed to hav an impact over looking kristin accent and the image which in itself wasn't an easy job the characters just did not seem too real not that i am criticizing the acting by any of the lead it just did not work the atmosphere was well drawn up but the movie really lacked in substance not that i am die hard rambo fan but some action have seen the movie through or some character development it all seemed like a rush to the finish and the ending only added to the viewers dissatisfaction br br i must say that it was at least a good effort in seemingly unfamiliar territory by the director and if u haven't seen gadar then u mite even like it
0	the title although singular will undoubtedly remind real horror fans of tod browning's immortal classic about a troop of circus freaks and how they were misunderstood by the outside world i can assure you however that this thing has absolutely nothing to do with freaks or even with the art of professional film making in general this movie was recommended to me supposedly because it's raw disturbing and thought provoking despite the low budget production values yeah right… the person who recommended it to me may now consider himself to be my personal foe the low budget factor is correct but that about sums it up freak is dreadfully slow poorly made and every character that gets introduced is downright that includes the freak too two siblings on their way to a new life encounter a deformed mental patient who escaped from the transport truck to another hospital and heads back to the house where he killed his mother at age 9 this could have been an interesting slasher with good isolated filming locations but instead tyler sharpe decided to make it boring and pointless family drama the lead actress' attempts to look emotionally devastated are pretty laughable and the total lack of suspense and action can hardly be blamed to the limited budget total failure
0	yawn that is my reaction to this film i was really hoping this would have been a good modern day slasher but it doesn't even fall into the category of slashers instead it tries to be something it isn't which is a psychological thriller and it fails so miserably at this even the title freak suggests that this might be interesting match this with the cover art on the dvd and you think ok maybe i will give this one a try not worth the time br br the story actually starts up a bit interesting with a poor deformed child with bandages wrapped around his head being chained up by his fat mother she yells at him and probably beats him since in one scene we see her actually slap him for no reason after all this he decides he has had enough and smashes her face in with i believe a rock present day he is now in insane asylum and is being transfered on his way he breaks out of the van he is in and escapes introduce also the 2 leads characters a little girl and her older sister they are moving and hit the road so most of the movie is them riding around in the car talking amongst themselves but the bandaged freak is now on the loose and is about go on a rampage of grueling murder this is me being totally sarcastic br br i can't believe how boring this movie turned out to be the budget was on the smallest ever with absolutely no special effects and the dialog i could just care less about this is one of those movie where the packaging is better then the flick itself and to compare this to halloween rubbish i am not even a fan of the the halloween series except the 3rd one but halloween is far superior than this at least with halloween we have a great score and some genuinely creepy moments with this there is virtually no music except some piano here and there and there is nothing creepy about this movie maybe this movie would have fared better if it had a solid score because even the worst of movies are tolerable if the music is good br br well that is just my opinion on the movie i thought it was just a complete waist of time and money but since the movie has over a 4 10 rating on imdb there must be people that like this movie i am not one of those people 2 10
0	i rented this movie because the cover was cool looking the first 15 minutes of the movie are okay and somehow interesting but once the young woman and her little sister go on their trip everything goes to hell and the movie becomes boring
0	the italian job is a caper movie done by the numbers riding on the back of every caper cliche it rises to no particular heights and will be a movie footnote by about the end of the month br br the biggest problem is that the italian job possesses no imagination at all i've seen it all before and done better then the acting is fine the cinematography is completely acceptable but this film breaks absolutely no new ground br br let's tick off the cliches br br old school criminal father figure and his protege br br another gang member jealous of protege br br a double cross br br only bad guys use guns while good guy criminals don't have to br br good criminals always outwit the bad guys br br and that's about the first fifteen minutes everything is so predictable even the heist and car chase scenes supposedly the highlight of the movie seem pretty ordinary this is especially true since they appeared in the trailers for the film so i already knew what to look for br br for me a caper film works only if it has an element of realism that maybe just maybe it could be pulled off without relying on a deux ex machina or just because moments parts of the italian job just throws that out the window with computers doing things that computers can't do the good guys not hitting anyone with their driving especially going down the stairs and not one single police car responding to street explosions recklessly driven minis or even a low flying helicopter must be a heck of a city for these things not to rate a response br br the acting is passable with the crew seth green jason stratham and mos def being at least fun to watch mark wahlberg is just too smarmy as the nice guy hero while charlize theron is about the only actor called on to display some kind of range donald sutherland is a class act as always and shows up wahlberg's deficiencies every moment they are together br br overall this is a pretty uninteresting film given the imdb ratings it's the girls that really love this film which i can understand to some extent but there are such better caper films out there even the vapidness of the recent ocean's eleven outshines the non event that is the italian job br br spoiler br br at the conclusion take a moment to think about what is going to happen to norton's character are we meant to be cheering the good guys for causing his demise especially since it would appear to be long and painful he didn't deserve that simpering creep that he was br br end spoiler
0	if you are home on a weekend very bored and lack the will to move with absolutely nothing better to do with your life for the next couple of hours you could enjoy making fun of this movie the acting and script and general movie making of this film isn't actually all that bad which is why it makes it possible to actually sit through this this is a movie they would show in high school health class to teach the dangers of pre marital sex or they could also show it to teach the dangers of very lame music that band brian austin green is in is really terrible i think thats a much greater threat to society than unwed parents
0	sometimes there's a film so bad that you just keep watching in awe this is one of those films of course i can't help that i'm biased i'm from chicago so i watched the scenes closely for accuracy and i don't find billy crystal funny at all and i can't stand all that english style photography tony scott etc with the smoke machine working overtime and all the soft lighting i suppose we're supposed to believe that billy crystal is really from chicago because he wears a cubs jersey oh and the plot if you really think about it these guys should be locked up not the bad guys since they're more dangerous and of course there's the cliché of the cops on the verge of retiring but the funniest scene is the climax where the good and bad guys machine gun other to death in the thompson center a state building of course it's a cool building but it's the equivalent of making a huge drug deal at the white house
0	in case you dear readers never heard this movie was the main inspiration for last year's samuel l jackson eugene levy clunker the man this 80s drenched buddy action comedy pairs short 'n billy crystal and the late ethiopian shim gregory hines together as some witty chi town cops who don't play by the rules that's pretty much the extent of the movie interest is somewhat peaked by hines' line delivery that is spookily similar to will smith's and by cameos of now more famous actors like joe pantoliano and nypd blue's jimmy my favorite scene is i dunno the car chase on the tracks i guess basically i just view this movie as a major helping hand in the demolition of action buddy flicks well this and lethal weapon 4 and rush hour 2 and the man
0	the core message is strong the cast has given it their best shot the packaging is excellent but the screenplay is seriously over dramatized and every cliche in the book on women's suffering in india has been over used to the max
0	the bearings of western style feminism on the various of india have hitherto remained largely non existent the two entities belonging to alien realms and threatening in the name of tradition never to coincide art imitates life or so the claim goes and popular hindi cinema is no exception reflecting an underlying misogyny which regrettably forms the foundation of much of the collective indian culture but why what is it about the female gender that has rendered it so hateful to the culture that women are routinely subject to the most unimaginable horrors including rape murder infanticide imposed illiteracy infidelity and the subjugation of spirit that goes under the name of rajkumar santoshi's latest offering lajja asks the same plaintive question linking the atrocities committed against women through three separate chapters episodes which comprise the journey of shame endured by its protagonist br br direction on santoshi's part is not up to par with the level the story demands he fails to achieve the necessary sensitivity in depicting the saga of sadness and confronts the issue of misogyny from the side instead of head on santoshi has recently said that he did not make the film for an international film festival but rather for the masses of his country regrettably the tackiness shows and the film too often delves into the action blood gore genre that santoshi specializes in the film suffers from its jerky episodic pace and its ending is rather too contrived br br the female cast is given much kinder and more rounded characterizations than their male counterparts the protagonist is played sensitively by the beautiful who proves in lajja that she is one of our time's more competent leading ladies and given a proper role and set up emerges with a truly commendable performance one wonders how brilliantly she may have shone had the film been made by a director with the appropriate creative intention and appreciation of the issue at hand puts in a laudable performance and continues to show that she is an untapped talent cast as madhuri dixit performs with a never before seen fervor and felicity for what truly deserves the name of 'acting ' the role of a street smart performer who finds solace in alcohol and the promise of an unborn child stands as the greatest risk in her cannon of song n dance roles which have maintained her marquee status over the past decade which leaves the final and most disturbing performance in this would be feminist saga that of the ceaselessly talented rekha lajja is film there can be no doubt about that but it is rekha who dominates the proceedings in a performance that digs into your bones and sends echoes of terror through the of your heart rekha dazzles as foregoing vanity and complacency to deliver a performance that is so replete with authenticity and ingenuity that emotional nudity becomes the mantra of this portion of the film comparisons are indeed odious especially when rendered opposite one of the world's great leading ladies but in the gracious presence of this reigning screen legend the others fade in her shadow br br lajja has none of the sophistication of proto feminist dramas like zubeidaa pinjar or even the hell queen celebration it fulfills its feministic goals in two early moments the loud tirade in which berates her in laws for their abuse of her father who has committed no other crime than given birth to a girl she erupts leaving the wedding procession in shambles seeing her father devastated she begins to weep blaming herself for the chaotic destruction in front of her she bemoans why did i say anything i have ruined everything it is all my fault her grandmother witnessing silently the abuse she bore comforts her by saying why are you crying there is no reason for you to be crying you are not at fault for anything the fault is mine the fault is of every woman who came before you because if we had had the courage to say in our day what you have said today there would have been no need for you to say anything today in this scene the importance of the feminist legacy is laid plainly in sight through words br br the other more subtle moment comes very early in the film when has fled from her abusive husband to the refuge of her parents' home in india to viewers of western societies it may seem perfectly reasonable indeed natural that any abused woman would seek the protective of her parents this however is a societal taboo in many eastern cultures india among them once a woman has been married the identity she assumes is that of her husband and his personal assets family business children etc for her to turn her back on these responsibilities is a grave social sin one which truly has no equivalent for the western woman she is thereafter regarded as tainted and as one whose value has been nullified entirely by her own actions and her refusal to submit to the role she has been given she is not so much an individual as she is an emblem of familial honor her father rebukes her for her actions concerned that his familial honor will be tarnished irreparably by the daughter he had already transferred to another man his primary concern is that of the impending marriage of younger sister a prospect made far less likely with a divorced elder daughter in the same household he tells her in no uncertain that she must return to the man to whom she belongs however violent and sadistic he may be he against her the age old adage that the honor of every home lies in the hands of its daughter quietly and pensively she replies yes the honor of every home lies in the hands of its daughter but there is no honor for the daughter herself
0	i can't believe some of the scores this film is getting on the imdb website have i been issued with the special edition naff version edited by produced by bernard matthews this film should be housed in i'm sorry for all the uk centric references but if you're elsewhere and you've got no toenails to cut or you haven't got a beer mat collection to catalogue then this film might just be worth 90 mins of your remaining lifespan as long as you haven't got any paint to watch drying the plot has more holes than a pair of fishnet stockings and the direction and editing is astonishingly ham fisted what on earth is irons doing in this film
0	jeremy irons and forrest whitaker are good actors but this movie was badly written first of all during the hijack scene irons sits too comfortably in his chair he appears to be reading something and rather calmly too perhaps the director shot the actor in between takes also the violence at the hijacking was a big letdown slow mo bullets flying how his wife and daughter get killed is just not that interesting and the tension is lost his grieving afterward wasted another 10 minutes then he decided to get revenge and talk to all his industry journalist friends and ambassadors he's a journalist for the stuffy economist rag and lo and behold they actually give him tips on where to find the bad guys how do they know but what really made me turn the movie off halfway through was when irons finds his way into a warehouse where baddies are hanging out but not the baddies who killed his wife and blows them away anyway so he's just a murderer he gets away and well i shut it off i mean i couldn't figure out how his friends knew anything and also i thought he was after the remaining 2 guys in custody who were the original hijackers instead he's going after their friends i guess or anyone who hangs out in warehouses and leaves automatic weapons laying around the suspense was just totally conventional and the dialog was lame it's ok son crying helps he says to his son son says no it doesn't and father says you're right it doesn't irons takes on questionable roles like that one dragon movie he did he was excellent in brideshead revisited which is a completely different animal than this lukewarm thriller
0	i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie for example the names of some serbian terrorists that i remember are and leo what kind of names are that certainly not serbian by the way what a name i laughed for days thinking about it probably an implication on karadzic and secondly there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians a journalist like the main character ought to have known that thirdly the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian all this aside this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes at times it makes no sense whatsoever
0	all through his career hitchcock did great films this was not one of them br br a man knows too much his daughter is kidnapped to secure his silence and in the denouement all is resolved to the accompaniment of gunfire and rooftop drama br br anyone who has seen 1930s fritz lang films 'm' comes to mind will know how far this urban narrative of crime and conscience falls short of what had already been done in that genre at that time there is an altogether amateurish air about much of the staging and acting which subverts any sense of menace darkness and depravity that hitchcock might have been seeking to br br what it is worth watching out for however is the sequence associated with the shooting at the albert hall once that kicks off it is as if the film has been given a blood transfusion the camerawork is lively the cuts are interesting and the way that everything combines to a climax is masterly here you can see the future master hitchcock effortlessly orchestrate all the resources to impressive and memorable effect when the scream comes you really feel as well as hear it
0	i'll have to admit that i'm at a disadvantage here when i learn more about a film from other reviewers than from watching it myself then that's a problem although the plot of the man who knew too much seems generally straightforward the movie allows too many cryptic elements to get in the way of what could have been a satisfying mystery by the time we get to the scene where a witchy looking woman establishes the secrecy of the first degree of the seven fold ray i didn't know whether to laugh or rewind to see if i missed something br br in retrospect the cryptic note retrieved by mr lawrence leslie banks from the handle of a shaving brush was a craftily written message leading to a dentist named and eventually to the albert hall a place not a person as indicated by a hall but for all the intrigue it's never made clear why the assassination target was being eliminated okay so louis bernard was killed because he knew of a plot to assassinate a diplomat named but why was a target come to think of it why was the note even written and secured in the shaving brush did bernard have to refer to it every now and then to remind himself what was going to happen br br with it's disjointed scenes the man who knew too much is hard to follow and a bit disorienting however i'll give alfred hitchcock credit for this early effort for perspective i'll have to watch some of his other work of the same era though this movie certainly can't hold a candle to his later works like psycho or north by northwest
0	i was really disappointed by this movie great actors in it and potentially a great plot but it just seemed to limp along br br charlize theron was masterful in her role and beautiful but it seemed like 90 of her on screen work was in car chases done with austin minis product placement gone wrong so very wrong br br the direction seemed off too edward norton is the bad guy and it was so obvious right from the start every time the camera would pass over him it would linger too long and norton would grimace or something c'mon hollywood give us a little credit it's okay to surprise us with a plot twist without having to telegraph it br br sorry but this movie was just below average i have always been one to appreciate the work and talent that goes into a movie but this one just didn't have it
0	this movie although well shot and superbly acted was awful i felt as if i was watching a car accident sure i kept watching but i really wanted to turn my head the plot leaves little to be desired was extremely disjointed and the ending was abysmal although it did fit the tone of the movie i was hoping for something to improve this movie i still don't understand what the references to rabies and the child get bit by the fox at the beginning of the movie fifteen minutes of plot that really didn't do much it's really sad to see a movie with fine actors and a beautiful set wasted on such an awful awful story there's not much more to say about this movie save yourself the time and watch c span it'll be more uplifting
0	this story is about a safari in africa that meets some guy named trent who convinces them to look for a tribe of white babes naturally they turn out to be amazon warriors and capture the men the rest is pretty predictable br br this movie has everything you'd expect in a bargain basement movie about africa the substantial use of often irrelevant stock footage film of animals that are not native to the continent such as orangutans moose and ground hogs a white actor in dark makeup playing a native bad acting particularly from trent a handsome man with the personality of balsa wood comic relief sounding like chico marx a guy dressed up in a gorilla suit and bikini clad white women with perms who are supposedly fierce jungle warriors like a tribe of angry female tarzans by the look of it my assumption is that the movie was made for under 49 95 including developing costs and paying for rental of the gorilla suit but what i didn't expect was an imdb score of 4 9 this is poor but not that poor considering that this is a schlock production in every possible sense and there is no conceivable reason why the film is rated that high now i am not saying the film isn't worth seeing it's campy and stupid enough to make enjoyable viewing particularly with friends just don't expect anything resembling a professionally made or competent film br br finally here's a smattering of the dialog from this jungle classic br br like strong white man want strong white man br br br br me te tonga no 'kill' man
0	the plot has something about white hunters captured by a tribe of white women in the african jungle plains its a turkey and the some what it really is is wildly mismatched footage from early sound and silent films mixed with badly shot recent to the release footage of men on a safari there are scenes of a man in a gorilla suit south seas natives at sea used to represent people in the middle of africa women in bikini's horrible narration and a guy in a loin cloth with make up all over his body racially insensitive i think so this is a movie to sit and make fun of but only with lots of alcoholic drinks and witty friends at any other time this is going to be a chore to get through its a bad bad bad movie beyond that i'm speechless
0	abysmal pulp adventure exploitation in the jungle woman genre lousy audio thankfully obscures the dumb dialog and it's awfully talky for a movie about people who don't speak english there's no adventure to be found here it's a jungle adventure with cliffhangers and one wild animal attack that happens in flashback br br three pale face dopes wander the african wilderness and encounter warring man hungry tribes of amazons these wild women have advanced out of the stone age only so far as to invent makeup shoes and hair removal technology despite their desperation for the ladies insist that they will fight the men and burn the weaker ones br br the only thing of interest as if there were any question is the assortment of young women clad in animal skins cleverly designed like the bathing suits of 1951 plenty of wrestling and bad dancing mixed with 1950s stripper moves no nudity or appreciable violence on the other hand you may be humming the catchy native song for days
0	the are coming is a rather disappointing british comedy from 1934 i purchased this because i like desert adventures and states on the box that it is a drama it certainly isn't br br it is about a couple who head for egypt to capture some desert drug smugglers br br this would have been much better if it had been done as a drama instead of a comedy which lets it down a lot it is quite silly in parts depsite this there are some good action and location scenes br br the cast is lead by jack with anna lee as the love interest br br one viewing is enough for this movie overall a disappointment br br rating 2 stars out of 5
0	i have seen both the mst3k version and the uncut version i rather enjoyed it either way it wasn't that bad of a movie sure it moved a bit slow at times i liked it br br as far as mst3k goes they only did the movies they could get the rights for not all the movies they ripped apart where bad movies it was just so easy to make fun of them take for example br br joe estevez and robert characters where so inanimate and boringly silly i couldn't help but laugh i couldn't take them seriously it really created a unique feeling though br br vivian schilling did an excellent job with the script a world better than 95 of the garbage in the theatres today her role was played well not too not to masculine but just right the camera really likes her in this movie i would have casted her in that role after ready the script br br anyways this movie deserves a bit more credit than it is given please watch the uncut version if you see the mst3k it deserves that much
0	first of all since i'm one of the people who never saw the mst3k chopped up version of this movie i can't comment on that br br however i did see the original version of this movie on the sci fi channel and i thought it was just as good as anything else on that channel in fact i thought it was one of their better offerings br br i've noticed in perusing the comments here that the people who write in detail about with a modicum of intelligence thoughtfulness and maturity tend to like at least a few things about this movie and rightly so in it's original cut most reasonable people i think would probably rate it at least 4 or 5 stars out of 10 five is average to me and i think this movie is about average for a sci fi pic br br in contrast to the above i've also noticed that the reviewers who seem immature dull and flip and as a result come off as boneheads from where i stand are the same ones who can't find anything good about this movie and basically trash it without cause based mostly on seeing it chopped up and on mst3k or if they have seen both cuts it seems they were greatly prejudiced by the mst3k viewing to begin with
0	seems to me that joe estevez spends most of his time hidden under the shadow of his rather successful brother and appearing in really bad movies joe spends most his time walking around dressed in black and looking quite moody he takes orders from a puffy faced angel of death who you might recognize as the puffy faced villain from tango cash and as the puffy faced cyborg from future war well joe and puffy have a job to do and it involves taking some souls of some kids in a big car being driven by a dumb who questions led zeppelin well the car crashes and the chase is on the lucky kids to escape joe look like harding and rick springfield they're chased around town break things and gets leered at by her mom while she's undressing for a bath the action winds up at a hospital where we learn that heaven is an elevator ride away in the end some green lights flash joe shouts and puffy vanishes without a trace wish i could say the same for this movie watch it from the relative safety of mst
0	that got destroyed quickly by the poor quality acting cinematography numerous pointless scenes and a terrible villain well let's see joe estevez is bad as usual but he isn't the only casting problem writer vivian schilling is no great actress in fact well she sucks her script isn't so bad it's just bad directed in fact if the direction had been better and if better actors had been cast this could have been a really good film br br but alas with all of these problems fails to be even kind of passable as a horror movie plus the pacing is just awful too br br the mst crew had some fun with this one but it definitely wasn't one of their better efforts 5 for that nothing for the original
0	first off i've read the comments by the director further down and i'd like to thank him for offering his opinion i've always wondered what the makers of the films lambasted on mst3k felt about their works being shredded not to mention how best brains acquired the rights comments make me curious however as to how much sci fi could have cut the film to make it seem different now i'm thinking i might rent it from netflix of course i've never seen the uncut non mst3k version of this film but even having seen it on mst3k i never thought of it as a bad film or something unwatchable though i did think it was a pretty funny mst3k episode certainly not as pearl describes it skin awful not after seeing the likes of future war and hobgoblins br br as far as cutting the film it's been done before on mst3k at least once case in point the joe don baker flick mitchell in which the subplot involving john saxon's character is cut in the mst3k version yet joel and the bots comment on saxon's absence after his appearance in the beginning of the movie if i may submit a criticism of mst3k if you need to cut the film for time considerations fine but be fair to the film being cut even if it is a film as lousy as mitchell of course such criticism is rather pointless what with the show being over but i think that aspect of the show was kind of unfair but anyway if it's the case with it gets my sympathies br br still i maintain that it's an enjoyable mst3k episode though the movie itself even the version that's been hacked in mst3k is no where near terrible br br as a final note in a weird coincidence or perhaps a case of synchronicity i happened to watch the hudsucker proxy the day aired and wouldn't you know it the guy who played vivian father had a bit part in that movie one of his three other credited roles actually i thought that was kind of weird
0	i must admit i was against this movie from the outset but i tried my hardest to be impartial i really did but the very idea of remaking a sophisticated witty entertaining quirky british classic full of character has to be dubious from the outset br br people in my house were watching this so i swallowed my pride and told myself to be professional about films i have studied them at uni after all br br as expected for an american film of this sort the movie began with a chase which wasn't bad indeed many of the action sequences are credible and this alone lifts the mark br br yet the characterisation was abysmal the set pieces could very easily have been spliced from any american schlock blockbuster you might have had the misfortune to watch and it lacked all character br br seeming to take a skewed angle on the original film with a failed initial robbery the us version does the predictable thing and introduces an emotional factor with the death of donald sutherland's character this allows our us cousins plenty of opportunity for sycophantic dewy eyed vengeance seeking against the 'evil which it milks to predictable excesses this is never more so evident as in the scenes featuring charlize theron oh pretty oh so pretty look at her pretty wounded bambi eyes everyone which were thoroughly nauseating her entrance scene particularly was like something out of resident evil or tomb raider which were both a more entertaining and b had better beginnings because they couldn't mess up a game like they could with british cinema which was already chock full of spark people you genuinely feel something for and moments of inspiration but i digress the whole inclusion of a pretty girl for the sake of it just seems like the most ham fisted manoeuvre i've seen in some time and exposes cynical hollywood blockbuster lust for what it is br br if you like any of these actors by the way and you agree with any of the above comments do not go to see this film if i had the opportunity of watching 'fight club' or 'american history x' after seeing ed norton in this i would have declined likewise jason statham with 'lock stock' and i suppose 'the is okay if you like that sort of thing br br sadly all the set pieces are designed in the most transparent possible way to get you thinking 'wow he's smart ' he's cool ' 'hey what a tough guy ' then there's the 'funny pc guy' who has 'comic relief' splattered across his forehead but whose humour content can be anticipated two minutes in advance to be honest if you've seen one or two films like it you might easily confuse the two as clones from the jerry bruckheimer stable not that jerry is irredeemably awful by the way but he just uses the clichés to excess as everyone knows or should br br this is where i have to come clean i didn't manage to make it to the end so i couldn't even say whether the brilliant ending in the michael caine version made it but i'm sorry it's just one of those extremely rare films that if i'd seen it at a cinema i would have walked out and staged a small protest outside it's not just that it is another identical by the numbers ocean's 14 or something ocean's eleven was fine but don't bother with the rest with all the glitz glamour fake sass and pantomime heroics of such a film but i couldn't recognise anything from the original at all br br so if you are expecting 'the italian job' and not 'ocean's albeit badly written with a less established cast and characters some disingenuous elements and cardboard cut out script writing then do not watch i don't mind people liking a bit of mindless fun but this is a criminal hatchet job that does not deserve in any way to parade itself under the title of a classic seriously show some pride i felt thoroughly justified in my outraged and sickened reaction when i first heard that the film would be made avoid at all costs br br p s some of the action sequences aren't bad at all so add an extra '1' to the mark if you like this sort of thing
0	low budget horror movie if you don't raise your expectations too high you'll probably enjoy this little flick beginning and end are pretty good middle drags at times and seems to go nowhere for long periods as we watch the goings on of the insane that add atmosphere but do not advance the plot quite a bit of gore i enjoyed bill performance which he made quite believable for such a low budget picture he managed to carry the movie at times when nothing much seemed to be happening nurse charlotte beale played by jesse lee played her character well so be prepared to want to slap her toward the end she makes some really stupid mistakes but then that's what makes these low budget movies so good i would have been out of that place and five states away long before she even considered that it might be a good idea to leave if you enjoy this movie try committed from 1988 which is basically a rip off of this movie
0	this crock of won a award they must have been desperate for giving out an award for something this movie reeks of teeny bopper stuff and it made me sick thankfully i watched it alongside mst3k's mike and the bots so it made it bearable horrid acting unsettling mother daughter moment silly premise if you want a bad movie here it is be warned though watch it with mike and the bots or you will suffer br br 1 out of 10 i still can't believe it won an award and the director is defending this piece of movie
0	it's the br br wow what a skin peeling bad movie honestly this is one of my favorite episodes of mst3k just some things to point out br br 1 the incestuous lesbian mother daughter exchange was weird i do need counseling now br br 2 there is no god there is just dude i love that quote from crow br br 3 whatever did happen to the nuns that took the bus home will we ever know i have a horrible emptiness in my stomach br br 4 lastly don't watch this movie un it has joe estevez as the main star yikes br br 1 10 for un 8 10 for
0	but at least this movie got what it deserved to be sent to the satellite of love to be ridiculed on by mike tom servo and crow t robot from pearl forrester on mystery science theater 3000 is one of those long lost forgotten movies that are so bad you'll be guaranteed to have nightmares or depression later on in life even though the movie is not that old it's still a very forgotten type of movie if it had never been for the intelligent minds at mystery science theater 3000 the movie would not only seem like it was never made but the movie wouldn't be very enjoyable by us moviegoers br br in real life this movie is really bad in the satellite of love this movie is excellent
0	the plot of this movie is dangerously thin and the only star power if we can call it that consists of joe estevez i don't know what is more shocking the fact that this movie was made or the fact that some people actually gave good comments about it if you ever see the cover of the video you'll be able to read them someone even went as far as saying that the actress writer could be the leading lady of the 90's yeah and joe estevez could have more money than his brother martin if you want to check it out anyways i highly recommend watching the version of it at least you'll laugh a lot without going insane
0	was written by and starred vivian schilling it also starred joe estevez gregg thomsen and robert as the angel of death br br the story begins with introduction to played by joe estevez we quickly learn what role will be in this movie br br next the college aged young people are getting ready for a summer festival aptly named in this film the battle of the classes is omni present throughout the film the girls come from a wealthy class and the guys come from roughly middle or lower class the class roles seem to play a role in the film for some reason which isn't really clear or pertinent to the story br br at we learn more about the apparent class struggles of why zach isn't encouraged to date natalie makes an appearance as well with apparently his boss the angel of death here character points out who is to die and who's souls are to be taken it's revealed as well that will have a character conflict regarding natalie and how he deals with her because of someone in his past br br meanwhile natalie is ditched by her ride to and zach convinces her to ride home with them during the ride home takes an active role causing them to wreck horribly at high speeds br br the rest of the story surrounds the collecting the souls of the dead passengers and zach and natalie trying to outwit him to return to their bodies so they can continue to live the class and character conflicts lay in the story but are really never brought to the forefront or resolved br br there's an attempt towards the end to drag out some of the drama there's a lot of chasing and running which does tend to be really boring it's not really acceptable and it would've been nice had this been dealt with differently somehow to maybe increase the drama but not bore the audience br br the story and acting are decent the soundtrack is ok and even the production values are good br br robert in his brief on screen appearances does a nice job as the angel of death joe estevez does ok however sometimes his role acting a bit flat vivian is pretty and does a decent job as natalie although perhaps over acting a bit in a few scenes br br this may sound odd but this movie definitely could've benefited from some pointless nudity vivian teases us a bit but that wasn't enough br br in my opinion this was a pretty serious attempt at making a movie the results it's worth watching just don't expect a perfect production br br 3 10
0	the film is essentially an older form final destination in which several car wrecked teens have their souls separated from their bodies and must cheat death who is chasing them the film has its moments and its concepts the idea of disoriented souls being separated from their bodies is a pretty nifty idea if this movie were remade with a few good actors actresses and some awesome special effects it could turn out to be extremely awesome as for the actual film i recommend watching the mst3k version the pure version might be too boring to sit through unless you love bad movies staring martin sheen's brother
0	when a movie's claim to fame is that martin sheen's younger less known brother stars in it you know it's not gonna' be a real good one is a low budget silly film about a group of 20 something year olds being pursued by an angel of death it's a stupid movie but it is pretty entertaining and even somehow slightly likable in it's stupidity br br the plot in the film is very small and it's stretched about as far as it possibly can be joe estevez isn't much of an actor so luckily for the audience he has very few lines and his role in mostly just him walking this movie really feels like it was trying to be a horror fantasy franchise considering it has the same plot layout as a slasher 4 characters each dies one at a time will any live who really cares though it sounds like i hated this i didn't i just didn't like it very well but i was interested through most of it so i guess that counts for something br br my rating 1 2 out of 90 mins pg 13 for language violence and nudity
0	now i did watch this when it first came out on vhs and all my friends and i thought it was a pretty good movie but then again we were teenagers but honestly not that good of a movie in retrospect sort of a hair metal version of carnival of souls but a bad movie does not exactly mean it is unwatchable however this one seems to lack the charm a lot of the regular mst3k fodder usually contains but if it was on cable and i was bored and drinking beer sure i'd watch it again but then again i've watched howling vii about five times now so maybe you really shouldn't be listening to me br br anyone else think it kind of sad that the director supposedly commented on his own movie and why did he feel the urge to use caps lock so much
0	okay to be fair this movie did have an interesting concept given a few script rewrites some decent actors and a budget this might have been a fairly decent cult flick instead of the mst3k fodder it turned out to be br br still it was better than armageddon
0	ok i read the director's comment about this movie featured as the and i have to admit that i can identify with his position br br micheal i hope your career recovered from this particular setback and you went on to other better things i've seen this movie in the mst3k form even with all the chopped continuity and snotty remarks being tossed out by the robots i saw a potentially decent movie with an ambitious set of ideas trying to struggle out from under the limited budget and limited actors available to it and this is one of those films mitchell is another where the mst3k crew took a lot of cheap shots at the lead character even when she actually deserved better you know they had some unfair fun at the actress' expense because it made for a livelier episode br br imo the fact that the movie actually tried to be about something and had a few decent effective moments here and there should keep it out of the tangents time chasers is another movie with a plot and a heart that doesn't deserve to be there either br br but it is still not a very good movie i don't blame the writer lead actress for being who she is it's just that her acting and writing skills needed a few more years to mature before she could pull off a vanity project such as this or carry a feature film the writing and characterization is amateurish and slapdash and the dialog is often barely up to abc afterschool special standards the cast sincerely gives it their best effort and the acting in general is definitely head and shoulders above abortions like future war or space mutiny but there aren't any really professional level performances here with the exception of 'big estevez who is hammy but suitably intense i never saw the full original cut but mst's sampling of was representative enough to make these facts plain br br oh and the film has robert z'dar in it that is imo a real of death' for any movie that hopes to be taken seriously yes he's big and scary looking in his role but i just hate the guy as an actor in real life i wish him well and hope he is financially comfortable br br there were little things i liked about the film for instance the camaraderie between the male lead and his dead buddy added some warmth and humor to the movie and made it a lot more watchable the idea of an elevator in the hospital that opened its doors to the afterlife was an inspired way to invoke some spooky vibes without springing for special effects and i respected whoever worked that into the script in attempt to keep the budget manageable it didn't really work but it might have with just a little more tweaking br br so anyway mr better luck with your other projects your involvement with this misfire wouldn't keep me from watching something else you did if the 'buzz' was good and ms miller has nothing to be ashamed of she was young and ambitious and the movie wasn't that bad
0	this is a woeful hollywood remake of a classic british film everything that made the original italian job entertaining has been bled out of this festering sore of a movie scripted by donna and wayne powers and listlessly directed by f gary gray i am amazed that troy kennedy martin the screenwriter of the original film allowed his name to be used in the credits for this pig's ear martin has worked on some of the finest film and tv projects of the last 40 odd years even being vaguely associated with this stinker is not a good thing br br the humour is forced the drama is laboured all the characters are cookie cutter likable crims with the exception of charlize theron's implausible beautiful safe cracker rally driver and the plot only matches the original on the following points br br 1 three minis the modern bmw made versions but minis nonetheless br br 2 use of the names and for 2 of the main characters br br 3 disrupting a city's traffic control system to provide a safe route through it br br 4 er that's it br br otherwise what you get is a bland and implausible american by the numbers heist movie in which a gang of jolly pirate chums eventually get the better of their evil associate believe me it feels like an awful long time before they do the cast do their best with what they're given but it seems that they all accepted it as a turd polishing exercise after reading the script none of the original film's quirky nature and distinctly british flavour has survived being fed into the hollywood hamburger machine br br do yourself a favour and watch the original 1969 movie instead of this sucking chest wound it's a wonder that noel coward hasn't done an aunt nelly jumped out of his grave and kicked the teeth of everyone involved in this tepid remake halfway down their throats br br italian job more like italian
0	ok i saw this film through mystery science theater 3000 but i did see the movie so i figured i would leave a comment on it i just love once again how joe gets stuck with the crummy roles while his brother and nephew's are just getting the oscar winning roles left and right is technically what you would call the movie that was meant to be good it seemed like the director and actors just took this movie extremely seriously and had very cheesy effects a story that didn't make much sense and not to mention pretty crummy acting abilities this is one of my favorite mst3k episodes simple because a lot of what they mention is what we are thinking throughout the film and i'll explain why in a moment br br natalie and zach are a couple who broke up and are now trying to work things over but since zach is in upper lower class and natalie is in middle class it just ain't gonna work but on the way home they and zach's friends get into a car accident and now the angel of death is after them to meet his quota of but also it seems like he's had some kind of other life relationship with natalie and just can't seem to move on so now natalie and zach must race against the ever appearing five million times a minute clock to save their souls and lives br br well i guess zeppelin was wrong when he sang that there was a stairway to heaven i wonder if black was wrong too lol basically there are a lot of plot holes in this movies like no one can see the characters and they can't be killed yet somehow they can still press buttons and open doors the angel of death had a very strange face and was a bit distracting from the story itself was just a lousy film that was rushed and makes you just feel so bad for joe the under appreciated sheen brother br br 2 10
0	that's how i was when i walked staggered out of this film i couldn't leave because it was at a film festival and the cinema was full of people i was stuck in the middle trapped br br the tiny fragment of original footage which attempted to bind this film together features some of the worst acting ever to grace the big screen the daughter was a stand out performance stand out in the bad sense br br thge cinematography was hideous consisting of disjointed framing and some of the oddest lighting i've witnessed br br as for the stock footage well at first one br br wait br br why am i reviewing this film why do i acknowledge its existence please don't watch it do something useful with two hours of your life and go watch some paint dry
0	take your video camera turn out all the lights in your house and film people running around with flashlights for an hour and a half and you've got the basic idea of what this film looks like it is very irritating to watch this kind of movie to be fair there are scenes of daylight at the very beginning and very end of the movie i like scary movies and creature features but this one just didn't do a thing for me so sorry i really tried to like it there didn't seem to be much of a plot other than we've got to find a way out of here didn't learn too much about any of the characters so it didn't matter if we lost one or two along the way this isn't the worst movie in the world open water holds that title for now
0	i totally agree this is pitch black underground and a well worn plot the best scenes i thought were the divers exploring the caves going through impossible subterranean passageways some of them were heart pounding the scenery was great had they dispensed with the staple alien toothy cgi entirely the movie would have been much better all they would have had to do is never show any monsters at all but have everyone wondering and follow jack's descent into madness and this might have been a top rate hitchcock style thriller maybe award material the acting isn't bad but those rubber bats just reduce it to standard fare
0	the movie the cave has got to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen there was no plot no story line and the lighting was terrible for most of the movie i was unable to make sense of the scenery as it was being highlighted by flashlights the persistent spaces throughout the movie were irksome the only scene that really came through clearly was in the cavern lit by what appeared to be a bad simulation of the conditions to be found in hell all in all the movie was not really worth watching if the producers cannot come up with something better than this they should find another occupation the underwater scenes were particularly awful being mostly made up of bubbles and flashlights with the occasional look at the actors in summation a really awful movie with bad lighting extraneous flashes throughout
0	i can't help but forget that incredible scene in alien when the extra terrestrial burst out of one of the men's chest or even in predator when the invisible monster snuck upon the bewildered soldiers and cut them to pieces both these movies expressed fascinating ideas on the run of the mill creature feature back track to the era of cheesy b movies and watch big men in phony suits parading around killing people in small towns now recognize that the two movies above revolutionized this genre the cave does nothing to improve on it it tries nothing new and worst of all the cave doesn't even have good gore shame on them shame on them all br br parading around in sexy spandex are the one dimensional characters of the cave all of which seem to not care when they witness the death of their colleagues they just stroll along unbeknownst to the evil creature lurking in the darkness the plot is very easy to understand so you got the two brothers the black guy and the sexy female scientist the rest by the rest i mean all of those meet grisly demises are even more unexciting then the others we have the korean assistant the risky outdoor chick a russian scientist and two divers both lacking a sense of emotion and are stupid enough to wander off by themselves this movie exceeds to be extremely clichéd since everybody but the black guy one of the brothers and the female scientist meet an end it also seems only americans can survive the terror since the russian and the korean die don't be offended if i give away details there's no real surprise anyway br br to be straight forward they find this cave they go in the cave they get stuck in the cave they start dying in the cave one of them gets infected in the cave more die in the cave they get out of the cave only to discover that one of them has a parasite that will turn them into a ghastly monster which really doesn't seem to bother them that's the simplicity of the lackluster plot it doesn't even try to be original it even has the part where they decide their leader isn't capable and split up we have just seen this way to many times before br br i know in a movie like this people don't care about the performances but it's worth mentioning how bad they were everyone is just so dreary cole hauser was especially unsophisticated and don't get me started on eddie who is frequently a lot better morris chestnut is hands down the best thing in the movie his performance is actually decent he portrays the guy who calms everybody down all the other actors are average at best in a show like this that's really not a bad thing br br now to the reason we go to this genre of film the action of course well to my regret the action was dull the death scenes are all boring hell the whole movie was there is barely any blood at all it's either they disappear and found later or they are attack and die without a bruise seeing the koreans man's death was the only exciting action i could find br br it's pretty amazing the bad things over shadow most of the things that are good a good example is to say the special effects were well done which they were the only thing wrong is that since everything takes place in a cave it's going to be dark i found it extremely hard to distinguish between the cave walls and the monsters so it was pretty hard to even see the creatures although i liked the special effects there was nothing original about the monsters they all resembled each other and they weren't frightening at all br br the cave marks the directorial debut for bruce hunt i don't see what he was trying to accomplish by making this film he obviously made a huge mistake almost everything about this movie stunk like a stink bomb a stink bomb is probably even more pleasurable than watching this mess again only the most forgiving moviegoer will find this forgivable i gave up all hope in the middle of the film when i heard the phrase what the hell was that for the third time
0	the cave got released more or less simultaneously with the english film the descent directed by neil marshall both movies share a similar premise only the cave is dreadfully unoriginal unexciting and incompetent compared to the splendid horror adventure that is the descent it feels like neil marshall realized that the basic story was too poor and instantly added ingenious ideas depth and a personalized style whereas the cave director bruce hunt simply went for the most rudimentary elaboration of the screenplay that was thrown on his desk the result is an unbelievably mediocre film that features every single horror cliché you can think of and in which most of the violence happens off screen and we all hate that don't we the story introduces a clique of insufferable cave divers that become trapped in a completely undiscovered romanian underground ecosystem hideous winged creatures that also happen to be parasites soon attack them and escape seems impossible due to a landslide the first half hour is still mildly entertaining if you keep yourself busy with spotting all the clichés and listening to the cheesy textbook dialogs but the whole thing just gets too dire none of the events are even slightly plausible and it looks like the entire cast is competing with each other to deliver the worst performance i've seen better special effects in anonymous b movies already the filming locations aren't used to the fullest and the ending downright sucks very much not recommended
0	some people go down in a cave for some reason and there's some sort of creature that's killing them br br i usually give a more detailed plot but i wasn't paying too much attention to this overall it was dull and the only time you'll be really paying attention is during the action scenes which the director did wonderful on br br the acting is alright but the characters are so dull and forgettable they blend in your mind you'll forget who lived and who died for 2 reasons 1 the kills are boring 2 the characters are boring br br the ending might have shocked me more if i knew who was who br br so you're looking for a creatures in cave movie check out the descent instead
0	its perhaps unfair of me to comment on this film because for the first time ever i switched off a movie because it was so bad i can watch anything but this movie was so very boring i was bored before i put on the dvd and thought this might be a laughable action horror action movie to lighten the mood it is not even that it is a device which increases the level of boredom by the power of 100 had to switch it off after 45 minutes because all that had happened in that time was some people had been scuba diving and a big mole had been discovered seriously this movie is not worth the time even if you can enjoy a bad movie like i can avoid this film like the plague worst thing i have seen in years
0	dire dismal awful laughable disappointing br br right your trapped in the cave with several hard men and a woman or two your being systematically killed by something and you still don't get to hear any naughty grown up words a 15 here in england and you could tell br br the egos of the macho men was just too much pass the bucket i'm going to be sick br br this movie should never be exposed to daylight and ironically be kept in the darkest deepest hole in the ground and be forgotten forever i have a feeling that this description isn't the first time to pop its his head from a hole in the ground br br just like the film the cube it looked like a good concept but was just let down at the last post by well its self br br this comment contains spoilers alright its called the cave br br thanks bruce
0	a ridiculous badly acted mini cooper infomercial includes cameos from pepsi dell etc br br absolutely nothing worth rescuing here particularly bad are donald sutherland the music score scene transitions etc an embarrassing production br br hey they should pay you for watching this one
0	the mission to see the movie the cave was a dream of a friend of mine after witnessing the highly dramatic trailer full of flashes of a creature lurking in a cave some young cave divers and not much else it's too bad that the movie didn't change much more than the trailer did br br the immediate allure of a movie like this is the creature what's he going to look like why does he live in a cave how is this one supposed to be different from the other creatures we've been shown in movies like alien and predator and the relic the cave demons do not look far from the skeletal creature in alien resurrection and even has the sight of predator shame that's a total ripoff br br well let's look at the plot very confusing and jumps to more and more totally improbable twists as a team of cave divers is sent to find a cave and its dwellers in the carpathian mountains the casting was very much clear that we want young hip tough chicks chiseled guys and the girls who have brains also have to be hot we also have to have one of every racial background in case the audience thinks that the film makers are biased to a certain viewpoint totally been done and i'm totally tired of it br br the other main problem was the ending as if to say there might be a sequel shoot me if there is one the tagged on ending made me wretch br br i gave this movie 3 10 stars the points that it did get were more or less appreciation points towards the creature builders for their high quality job spent on the costuming and design for the monsters who dwell within even when they looked totally ripped off and there's an interesting yet labored documentary on the dvd on underwater cave diving go check it out only if you love new creations of monsters and creatures but be warned that you've probably seen this movie before and it was better the first time
0	i think that most people would agree with me if i were to say that the movie alien pretty much set the bar for atmosphere i've seen quite a few movies match that bar but none have ever exceeded alien's eerie tunnels and darkened halls the cave is a film that tries very hard to reset the bar i believe the trailer even mentioned something about being as scary as alien yet not once throughout the movie did i ever feel even the slightest bit scared or thrilled for that matter br br so now that we got the ball of negativity rolling i might as well explain why the cave's main hook the atmosphere in case you weren't paying attention fizzled into a waste of my time i'll say right now that most of the sets were gorgeous and nicely lit but what we hear and what we know is there tend to ruin what we see the music for one is terrible we either get corny rock music or over exaggerated haunted house music okay maybe that's pushing it a bit but i couldn't bear it the many underwater scenes were bad enough it's a well known fact that underwater scenes are always boring as hell i didn't need rock music blaring in my ears while they were simply swimming through a cave this actually produced a lot of unintentional laughter that was then amplified by the following crash scene br br anyway as i already mentioned it wasn't just the music that killed the atmosphere heck no the creatures hiding amongst the darkness are supposed to invoke horror i'm supposed to be worried that they are going to appear and merely a glimpse of them is supposed to make my blood turn cold the cave does wisely take a page from the alien handbook by not showing the entire creature for very long and leading up to the reveal with only glimpses but it just doesn't work because the creatures are so lame i guess it would be rude to spoil the specifics but they are basically the aliens with wings br br i guess you get the point by now atmosphere ruined yet i know plenty of people who will still see a movie if it's exciting i'd like to say that about the cave but i'd be lying this movie is slow to get to the action and once we get there we sort of wonder when the thing is going to finally call it a day we've seen all this done better before with the exception of a few neat scenes the guy impaled on the eel and the rapids so you really don't get any thrills from watching people running from uninspired alien knockoffs in endless tunnels br br ah but no the pain doesn't end there we must also take the characters and acting into account well i can't remember a single line of dialogue other than run and the only character's name i can remember is jack but that's only because it's placed in almost every other line near the end of the movie perhaps the actors were capable but the script didn't allow them to do anything other then run and argue they had almost no background and whenever somebody died they simply shrugged it off it's pretty sad when you consider that the cgi eel puts on the best performance in the film br br speaking of cgi there's plenty of it most of which is terrible i do commend them on using suits at least i think they were suits but nothing truly meshes with the environment and as a result most of the effects end up looking pretty hokey br br so i guess to wrap it up the cave is bad and has very little going for it had the film been a scifi channel premiere movie or low budget direct to video release i might have a bit more love for it but this film was a theatrical release with more wit and talent this might have been a frighteningly fun movie but as it stands this film is about as scary as going into the basement and that's not very good br br my review from frider waves http friderwaves com index php page cave
0	mixed group of experts explorers divers and scientists venture a mile underground and go another 2 4 miles underwater to a spot even more remote where they find giant albino moles and some big razor fanged winged computer generated creatures lurking about the cave is sealed off by a and then the monsters attack and start killing everyone off as they search for an exit and that's all she wrote with this low aiming effort that even fails to combine action science fiction and horror on the most elementary of levels imagine if someone gave the folks at the sci fi channel 30 million dollars to make a monster movie that's precisely what the cave is like almost startling in its ineptitude at times full of clichés and almost entirely dependent on the special effects to entertain the only difference is they had more money to build sets more money to polish up the monsters and more money to hire supposedly professional actors who give awful performances anyway otherwise it's business as usual some of these movies are still fun to watch this one is not and there are loads of reasons why br br 1 it takes itself far too seriously and has no sense of humor whatsoever so you get a completely unoriginal and predictable movie that doesn't even recognize how unoriginal and predictable it is br br 2 the opening sequence serves no purpose whatsoever other than killing a few minutes and adding to the redundancy br br 3 unoriginal looking cgi creatures are not impressing anyone in this day and age br br 4 utilizing shakycam and quick cut editing for your horror scenes is simply lazy unimaginative film making and why further obscure the action by making things too dark and adding annoying distractions such as fire and explosion of bubbles it makes these scenes not only difficult to see but also impossible to enjoy even on a no brainer action level br br 5 even though it wants you take to it seriously the script is full of clichés the dialogue is awful and there's no attempt whatsoever at characterization casting 25 year old looking model types in roles as brilliant scientists and gruff veteran explorers might provide some eye candy but it completely kills the credibility of a movie that otherwise plays out completely straight sorry you can't have it both ways br br 6 there were two exceptions to the model rule as they did decide to cast an old guy and an average looking joe these were the first two characters killed off br br 7 for a little diversity they also squeezed in a black guy and a chinese guy strangely neither are given much of a voice in this film and basically stand in the background as whitey discusses what their next move will be insulting br br 8 furthermore how many movies have to be made where a black character sacrifices his life at the very end just to ensure hot white female lead and hot white male lead end up together at the end ugh give me a break already br br 9 much of the acting was horrible cole hauser's performance was completely laughable the other male lead looked like he just walked off the set of a soap opera and coasted by using the patented dimpled smile makes all the ladies swoon technique which is the pg 13 gender switch equivalent to my large breasts make all the guys swoon technique often used by ladies in r rated films either way his performance was completely phoned in daniel kim from the tv series lost and piper perabo also stunk up the room with their stilted and monotone line delivery br br 10 was the ending a joke absolutely terrible please god we do not need a sequel to this garbage br br so basically i wouldn't bother with this one unless you've never seen a monster movie before or if you're just really desperate and the only other thing on is the simple life the sets were good the blue tinted photography is ok and a few of the actors lena headey marcel tried their best so i decided to boost the rating up one notch to a 2
0	i rented this film from because of the cover and title sounded intriguing this movie suffered because of the writing it needed more suspense the monsters needed more face time we needed them to have some sort of special power and definitely more oh sh moments the photography didn't bother me except for the scene where a re breather blows up there were too many close ups but other than that the movie seemed to drag and the heroes didn't really work for their freedom overall i would say everyone put in a lot of time even the writers but this movie is definitely a below average rent br br there are definitely better picks i would recommend 1 or 2 over this pick
0	how unfortunate yet also fortunate that two films about pot the cave and the descent should arrive at much the same time sadly for the descent its release in the uk on 7th of july coincided with the very day of the london underground tube metro terrorist atrocity that killed almost 60 and injured hundreds not a particularly good night weekend to pop out to the cinema especially to see a scary as sheesh film about likable women being trapped in a deep dark claustrophobic underground caving system the two movies have virtually the same elements a half dozen or so characters lost in a previously unexplored caving system with no one outside aware they are trapped down there lots of water caverns danger then ultimately some vicious human like or human derived creatures determined to prey upon them where the two are so different is that the cave is unreal entirely unbelievable more alien esquire sci fi fantasy adventure than horror or drama the comparatively minuscule budgeted british film filmed in southern england though set in the appalachians is five pair of pants terrifying a heart stopping shocker so stomach turning that people walk out of screenings early in shock it knocks off the girls in any old order you genuinely have no idea what to expect next surely not her the descent is also lit in naturalistic manner making it all the more scary unlike the laughably lit cave which resembles a giant magical christmas santa's grotto with cathedral sized room after room dazzling in gloriously blue light from who knows where while the torches are employed exclusively in artistically lighting up the granite jawed heroes each more puppet like than any team america gerry anderson thunderbirds creation fantastic amounts of equipment are carried too yet despite this the impossibly deep voiced actors clearly forgot to pack any sense of impending danger drama or anything worthy of a horror film it's strictly pg rated and in this instance the actors peg out in exactly the order that everyone expects them to i quickly wrote a list after being introduced to each character only getting piper perabo out of sequence the cave script is entirely by numbers unlike shakespeare a room full of chimpanzees would eventually write it in under a week take a typical exchange between the 'good white and black leads that goes how many times have we been in this situation before bud too many replies morris i swear you could hear my suburban london audience gasp at the obviousness the scariest thing about the cave is that at the end there's a clear opening for 'the sequel' 'the cave 2 or whatever be afraid be very afraid or instead catch the descent and be truly afraid very very very afraid rr
0	the scariest thing about this horror movie is that the end alludes to a sequel 'the cave' is really a disappointing action movie a team of cave and undersea researchers go to romania one of these inexpensive places to make a movie for now at least and following a destroyed church enter in a cave that proves to be a realm of underground monsters or are they the movie never decides if it wants to be action science fiction or horror it is a mix of all without salt or fun and acted in a wooden manner the best thing about the movie is the cinematography but even the dark landscape of the cave becomes soon boring because the film lacks pace and the characters are simply not interesting waste of time
0	i went to see this movie to kill some time i remember cole hauser in tigerland and although his acting is wooden he does portray a tough leader character same here this movie was about a bunch of young hot scientists and divers exploring a cave in romania that one has to dive to see the beginning scene was very interesting with a bunch of romanian or russian men exploring the cave in search of booty flash forward 30 years and we have a team of divers called in by some scientist and his crew to explore some cave for some unknown scientific purpose br br there is a lot of clichéd useless talk the women are too hot for their jobs let's face it i hate to watch the lips of these women talk about the guys while drinking beer at the pre cave exploration party i mean it was like we were at some bar with frat and sorority types talking about the opposite sex not a group of scientists and divers every character had zero personality with perhaps exception of the scientist who at least wasn't one of the young and beautiful people so the acting although workmanlike was not inspiring br br the dialog was pretty bad at one point in the movie cole hauser jack the lead diver his irises morph into the wireless symbol and stay like that we are led to believe that since he was scratched by one of these monsters that he is turning into one of them fair enough but first of all nobody says the obvious thing to him what is up with your eyes dude no everybody just talked about how he's changed and that he should not be the leader of the group anymore and then this guy says you see how he's not human huh if they really believed he was a friggin' monster then why not act like it instead the group splits in two those who go with jack and those who go their separate ways i guess thinking him to be a monster it makes no sense br br the best scene in the movie was this blonde diver woman crawls up a cave wall and gets attacked by this goblin her scream really sucked but she fought like hell to dispatch the goblin br br the photography was fine when the camera was still but any action sequences the director found it useful to confuse the hell out of us by flashing bubbles flashlights dark space god knows what i wish they would just show us a scene straight once in awhile just because you move the camera all over the place doesn't make the movie any scarier folks br br this movie could have been a lot better if the following changes had been made br br 1 every actor was replaced by someone who looked real let cole hauser be the lead it's ok to let him be the good looking one i'm getting tired of seeing 20 something supermodel scientists give me a break people br br 2 the cinematographer was fired and replaced by one who just pointed the camera and sat still this could be the director's fault i don't know jumpy camera as in constant gardener is getting old folks br br 3 we got to see the goblins actually devour the people how bout some gore there's not much else in this movie we barely got to see the creatures i felt a little ripped off about that br br 4 the ending was pretty lame during the denouement the sexy british scientist has a secret guess what that is it's a bit canned the ending would have been better if they all died instead of the black guy morris chestnut who seemed to breathe a little sympathy into his character just by his worried expressions all the other actors had no expression br br i gave it a 4 out of 10 because after all the acting was without noticeable errors and the concept was fairly original i'd like to see cole do more military roles he's good at it
0	i though this film was okay i din't think it was great it was a bit too slow for my taste lots of drama but not very much action until close to the end of the film this movie was basically a dramatic film with the payoff if you can call it that not until near the end to me the scenes of the dam bursting and the water flooding the town were okay but much too brief the film itself is done okay the acting is decent but it just didn't do it for me in the long run think it had something to do with the fact that there was very little suspense or tension built through the whole movie at least that's what i think the other factor is that i had just recently watched '10 5' and its sequel '10 5 these are 2 big budget event movies which in my opinion are a very hard act to follow in terms of special effects and scenes of destruction as a result i have to rate killer flood the day the damn broke at 4 10
0	right so you have a dam tons of water that seems to flow really really slowly and a small town that happens to be right underneath the path of destruction throw in a profiteering glutton an apparently mentally unstable and disgruntled architect and his son and then to spice things up you add a weak plot and bad acting all in all when you have a look at this film from a paying customers point of view i would feel extremely peeved off if this was a pay per view film if you want a laugh then you really need to watch this film
0	why can't there be better tv movies made i was at a loose end today and watched this film on a satellite channel in the uk what a terrible waste of my time it was poor sets poor acting oh my god what a terrible flood blimey that woman can even outrun a torrent of water too br br i really wish that people would make tv movies using better effects better or at least more believable plots far better acting killer flood is well up there with poor acting a few bits of ham couldn't act any worse br br 1 final thing i really agree with the comment about the dog but i believe it would of already in real life
0	well how to start i saw the italian job for the first time some years ago and visiting a rental shop i couldn't quite remember why i had a bad feeling about it now i do br br after voting for the ratings for this film i saw the statistics apparently this film appeals most to under 18 girls no wonder they didn't pay enough to charlize to flash and i guess some girls magazine has rated mark abs awesome br br other than that this film is completely predictable the actors are mainly forever b stars and even the good ones are being misused horribly the film is filled with obvious product placement and imagine this it even manages to repeat itself without doing a sequel the first 15 minutes are the best part of the film and it's all downhill from there and once they figured this out they decided to use the finest hour again in the end repeating to detail their gold heist all in all lots of noise about nothing br br i think charlize theron is good and ed norton could be more as he's been before apart from donald sutherland's look i'm here too appearing in the beginning i'd say this movie ought to have a pass if you're above 18 all over it
0	this movie doesn't even have the saving grace of being so bad that its good it is truly appalling its closer to a tongue in cheek parody than a disaster movie but alas they were serious made for tv but not worthy of even that it contains every cliché and cheesy plot moment you can imagine oh will he save the town from the flood will his wife admit that she still loves him will they escape before the flood drowns them i cant explain how bad this is awful predictable plot that makes you wince it is so cheesy bad effects although to be fair i have seen worse super imposed bubbling water bad script woeful acting hideous so bad in fact that you probably should get drunk and watch it
0	when i first saw this movie i was literally rolling around on the floor laughing especially when they were getting chased by the water and when the guy drove through peoples gardens i mean would it hurt to drive around the washing line the special effects this movie clearly didn't have a big budget either that or the guy left his toddler in charge of the controls the water coming out of the damn looked like a close up of a can of beer that had up what were the actors thinking did they actually believe that it was a good movie or did they just really need the money not that they would've earned a lot when i first saw this i was like how old is this ' when i looked on the info about it and saw that it was made in 2003 i thought my tv was broken br br this really is a disaster movie in more ways than one
0	the director of this movie must have been mentally ill or even high when he accepted to direct this movie i'd rather stare at my ceiling for 5 hours straight instead of being punished to watch that stupid movie my parents make me watch it as punishment don't watch it the director of this movie must have been mentally ill or even high when he accepted to direct this movie i'd rather stare at my ceiling for 5 hours straight instead of being punished to watch that stupid movie my parents make me watch it as punishment don't watch it the director of this movie must have been mentally ill or even high when he accepted to direct this movie i'd rather stare at my ceiling for 5 hours straight instead of being punished to watch that stupid movie my parents make me watch it as punishment don't watch it
0	even a awful 1 is to much for this film everything form start to finish made you cringe i don't think it would be possible to cram more overly clichéd moments into one piece of mind numbingly numbingly waste of film br br prisoner cell block h meets thunderbirds hell even expressions were more life like than his son br br i haven't even finished watching this and i'm on here now oh no the cheesy clapping of 3 actors and a backdrop done by a child with adobe premiere this truly is the end of my i've started so i'll finish watching it phase br br oh joy the credits have come to rescue me and relax
0	this is one of those made for tv b movies that is so awful it kind of br br bad acting predictable script and cheesy special effects that were pretty much some of the cheapest tat seen make you have to keep watching to see if it gets any better br br it doesn't
0	what a dreadful movie the effects were poor especially by todays standards but that was forgivable what was unforgivable was the terrible rehashing of every flood dam breaks disaster movie ever made into this piece of trash the acting was awful and i mean awful the point in the story where michelle green stops to rescue a dog from the approaching torrent was hilarious they see the water approaching and run for their lives by the way they had to find a very old fat dog so as to not make ms green look to unfit they manage to the water for some time before taking refuge what speed later a speeding car is not fast enough to escape the torrent god she and that dog did run fast if you want to watch a good movie about a dam breaking this isn't it entertainment turn out some good family films but this time they just missed the mark
0	killer flood the day the damn broke 1 10 finally a movie whose title is spoiler proof even by the low standards of disaster movies excuse me allow me to correct myself even by the low standards of made for tv disaster movies this is truly awful where do i begin br br the dam may have once seen a photo of a dam but i doubt it most especially large ones that generate electricity have oh i don't know a power plant nearby some gates for water to run through heck even a high tension electrical wire or two br br the dam is also somewhat two count them two employees staff the entire dam all three shifts and the employees were apparently imported from a clichéd ridden world war two film as they heroically and rather needlessly have long eulogized death scenes complete with photos of floating by heck one of them manages to get shot by the dam itself in a way that defies description br br the special effects consist of flowing water superimposed on photo's of the town in a method that makes a sixties godzilla film look like the matrix a three year old drawing with a blue crayon on the film stock would have yielded better results since the disaster money shots are worthless how is the rest of the film br br needless to say the script and acting follow the special effects lead this is no diamond in the rough this is the rough so is it a guilty pleasure killer flood is awful enough to generate some laughs and the film itself has that earnest incompetence that makes a good cult classic but bad disaster films need to age like a fine wine avalanche the swarm meteor it is also doubtful that michelle green hiding from the flood in a dumpster with a golden retriever will ever match the great henry fonda being pelted by that are supposed to be killer bees check back with me in
0	possibly the worst movie i have ever seen pathetic in almost every way br br i threw the dvd straight in the bin i didn't even think it was fair to give it to the local thrift shop br br the effects are beyond a joke the dam control room looks like cardboard the water looks way out of scale with the backgrounds nothing works br br then there is the limp plot about as much depth as a scooby doo cartoon br br i couldn't wait for them all to drown
0	this was by far one of the worst movies sandra bullock has starred in ben affleck should stay behind the camera and continue writing scripts this is definitely his forte and acting is not i actually lasted 54 minutes into this movie before i was so bored with it i felt compelled to leave the theater it's a bore from beginning to well 54 minutes into the film anyway the premise of guess what happened to me on the way to the has been done over and over to death somehow there just doesn't seem to be anything funny or romantic about people cheating on each other parents should be aware that this may not be a suitable film for your teenage children especially impressionable ones that may view sandra as a hero there is a scene where the writers producers directors thought it would be nice to show how acceptable it is to smoke a joint while driving and then have no consequences at all when caught i'm no prude and i smoked my share when i was younger but i guarantee you i won't take my teenagers to see it and they're solid a b students if you want to see a good sandra bullock movie rent the net or hope floats which i believe are two of her best works
0	it seems on the surface to be a romantic planes trains and automobiles but at times tried for something more where it failed miserably some may like the ending but the attempts at deep insight into the world of marriage flopped around not really going anywhere br br but if you were interested by the story the movie tried other methods to distract you the unnecessary special effects of which the falling rain was the most obvious served to do nothing but annoy the camera work is erratic at best br br one note of caution however my movie experience as a whole was less than satisfying sitting in the first row with a group of around
0	this series takes a classic story and makes rubbish of it robin is somehow mystified by an elk man in the forest and is embroiled in all sorts of and outright satanic episodes the story is more about him avoiding the evil sheriff than helping the poor this is barely watchable and to top all the ridiculousness they kill robin at the end of series 2 and replace him with another actor some people may like this show as a fantasy show but it is not a robin hood show if you want robin fighting in king richards name against prince john and the sheriff and if you want robin feeding the poor and oppressed watch the classic series or the newest from the bbc
0	there were some decent moments in this film and a couple of times where it was pretty funny however this didn't make up for the fact that overall this was a tremendously boring movie there was no chemistry between ben affleck and sandra bullock in this film and i couldn't understand why he would consider even leaving his wife to be for this chick that he supposedly was knocked out by there was better chemistry between him and liv tyler in armageddon hell there was better chemistry between sly and sandra in demolition man br br there were several moments in the movie that just didn't need to be there and were excruciatingly slow moving br br this was a poor remake of my best friends wedding wait until it's been out for a year and a half on video and rent it in the 49 cent bin if you've got nothing else to do on a rainy sunday afternoon and you can't think of any better movies to rent
0	this is one of the worst sandra bullock movie since speed 2 but not quite that bad i really lost it with those out of the blue not so special effect guys if you're an insomniac go with your girl to see this movie i give it three
0	this movie seems as if someone had a cute idea for a movie thought of two or three funny possibilities hired a good cast then turned the whole thing over to a really bad screenwriter and even worse director the director filmed a screwball romantic comedy as if it were a dark artsy film weird camera angles blue filtered shots lingering close up looks at raindrops steve was good as always ben affleck was charming sweet almost shy he was perfect for a romantic comedy sandra bullock struggled along valiantly with a character who was supposed to be zany but whose wackiness consisted of things like madly kissing a husband she hated abandoning her child going on carnival rides offering to strip for money and a ride with a fellow airline passenger the script had very few funny lines there was no physical comedy it was boring it introduced potentially funny situations then cut them off before they could develop to top it all off the twist at the end was a slap in the face to anyone expecting a fun romantic comedy if you saw the trailer for the movie and liked it as i did my advice is don't go to the movie it will only spoil a nice trailer
0	ben affleck about to be married is shaken up by a plane accident and gets involved with one of the other passengers sandra bullock forcing herself to act insane who is to blame for this inept ugly morass it is so badly edited when i looked in the credits it wasn't to read the editor's name it was to see if the person actually took the credit rife with clichés contrivances and sandra bullock in raccoon eye makeup the movie doesn't even concern itself with creating chemistry between the two main characters laughs are non existent the scene in the gay bar with affleck might have gotten a big laugh if it weren't so stupid the bar patrons a big rowdy bunch of them shout for affleck to strip and start digging out their cash it's not supposed to have any significance other than getting ben to loosen up a little but the direction of the whole scene is wrong headed and the outcome is unseen because the idiot editor cuts away or was that all the film he had it's a small moment but it's typical of this film an amateurish piece of pop goods that wants to be an edgy modern comedy but doesn't have any guts it is tailor made for the bottom shelf at your video store from
0	this is a strong recommendation to anyone who reads this review who has never seen the film total reality don't waste your time and money renting this poor excuse for a film this is without peer the single worst movie that i have ever seen in my life i had nightmares of this movie ever since i saw it the acting was terrible and any amateur film maker could make a more decent film the film blatently rips off far superior sci fi films such as timecop or total recall where the title seems to have been derived from i'm sorry but i just think that there is more entertainment value in watching the side of a cardboard box for two hours if you already have seen this movie i feel sorry for you for going through what i did
0	i rented this movie for about 1 50 the most complete waste of money and time i have ever spent it's lame i couldn't believe how they could come up with something like this br br the plot there is no plot everything you'd expect to happen it does only in a worse way the acting was horrible my dog could've done better the special effects have no effect whatsoever except inducing complete disbelief and the cheesy lines i mean why even bother br br the only credit i can give this piece of sh t are the opening scenes they were actually quite pretty and one of the reasons why i decided to rent this the graphics shown there are probably the best and most realistic cg of the entire film br br total reality gets 1 out of 10 for not being able to mark it lower
0	this film is striking only in its banality and use of cliches sadly it was obvious throughout up until the ending but don't be mistaken into thinking that it ended strongly only a little unexpectedly though nothing worth watching the thing through for br br from the taciturn and wronged hero to the germanic baddy to the expendable team the characters were entirely wooden and obvious the two fbi agents smith and wesson geddit gave some hope of humour but that came to nothing br br i am a big science fiction fan but it is hard to find any redeeming quality in this film a turkey br br
0	there is no reason to watch this film br br why many reasons first up the acting is awful there is hardly a line that isn't but that is hardly surprising given the banality stupidity and repetitiveness of the dialogue the actors are asked to mouth it is awfully written one of the most annoying things about the script is that the writers only seem to know one way of keeping their characters talking after a certain point and that is to have them repeat the most important words of the previous character's line br br repeat br br yes they repeat it for the whole movie br br the whole movie br br yes the whole movie br br etc br br in movies like this you generally know who the bad guys are and what they are after all the good guys usually have to do is stop the bad guys setting up a good with x in my grasp i will rule the universe villain is the first stop in any cheapo sf plot but in this turkey you tell me br br as i understand it our heros are a bunch of mass murderers sent into the past on a dirty dozen type mission they are sent by a fascistic totalitarian state to stop some other mass murderers from altering the course of history the new history would not include the rise of totalitarianism and a war that kills 30 billion people and leaves the earth a dead planet we know all this because this movie has one of those handy long on screen situation reports just before the action starts telling you who is who and what is what it's an indication of who the producers think their target audience will be that it is narrated as well as appearing on screen just to save the audience from taxing their brains too much by doing a lot of reading so just who are we supposed to be rooting for here i guess we are asked to believe our hero undertakes some sort of journey from totalitarianism to love peace and understanding while shooting loads of people but that doesn't work as an arc because we are shown he is a decent ish human being right at the start when he tries to rescue all the civilians aboard the rebel station br br i guess the makers were aiming at some sort of deeper than normal complexity in this film but they just ended up with an unholy mess with more plot holes and logical inconsistencies than a dozen or so of your average crap sf movies br br the opening credits were nice
0	don't buy this film for comedy value like i did i didnt find it one bit funny but so f miserable and lame it's unbelievable i gave it to a friend for christmas which was pretty funny on my side i recently heard that he watched it and told me what an a i am br br there is nothing more frustrating than watching an over lit over dramatic poorly scored scene in which the camera is sat there on a tripod and doesn't move the film work is truely pathetic and i can only say dont watch this movie
0	as i mentioned in other comments i became a real big fan of david bradley ever since i saw him in american ninja 3 the guy is great doing martial arts has some kind of charisma and is a cool looking dude on screen he went to the dtv department ever since his debut and has remained as one of the king of tv movies until 2001 where he apparently stopped making movies now one thing is watching cyborg cop or hard justice which are crappy clichéd movies but real fun to watch coz they're entertainingly bad if that has any sort of meaning but another thing is watching a tasteless piece of boredom like total reality i mean this and crisis are the two biggest pieces of horse dung this guy ever did i wouldn't recommend this not even to the biggest hardcore fans if i had known this and crisis were going to be so f g crap i wouldn't have spent the 3 or 4 euros they cost me total reality is just as boring as crisis although funnily it starts promising a group of military prisoners in the future are given a chance to stop some kind of disaster in the past i'm sorry i didn't really pay much attention to this atrociousness and they only have 24 hours to get back or something like that if they don't they're stranded there forever the poor director who oversaw this tries some humorous clichés like the convicts arriving on earth and not knowing what a truck is for example wow hilarious the movie follows up with david bradley teaming up with some earth girl for the rest of the flick this bored me so much that i had to force myself to watch it in like 3 or 4 installments to at least make use of the 4 or 5 euros it cost me that's coz every time i tried i fell asleep and if you get a movie with david bradley with just one crappy 10 second fight scene in it then that's the final touch which would contribute to you throwing it off a hundred foot cliff so as never to see it again i wish i could meet the director of this pile of poo on the street and i swear to god i'd ask him back for mi 5 euros i'd also love to meet david bradley to ask him why in god's name did he choose to star in this poor excuse for a movie don't even bother with this film i mean it from the bottom of my heart not renting borrowing it and specially not buying it
0	i'll say it again one of the worst films ever made and it was made by the director that made one of my most favorite films excalibur i was floored to see it got a grade of over six this movie sucks it looked terrible it looked like it was shot in 18 days and boorman must've been sleeping when he directed this arquette didn't do anything just plain terrible rotten unbearable and probably the only blemish in boorman's celebrated career br br 1 10
0	rigoletto is verdi's masterpiece full of drama emotion and powerful memorable music the maestro must have rolled in his grave when this bawdy travesty of his work was released with its needless frontal nudity and cheap copulating and its portrayal of the naive but gilda as a horny ditz opera certainly can be adapted to cinema look at magnificent la traviata but when a work is as superb as rigoletto it doesn't need cheap gimmicks it might even have been acceptable if the dubbed in music had been good but it is a mediocre rendering of the libretto with second rate sound quality at that
0	publicity for this film suggests that it is shocking and sensational well we opera lovers see some strange sights in opera houses so we are not shocked by the duke of urinating during his reprise of la donna mobile nor is it sensational to see gilda sing caro in the bath it is just crass and boring what stands out about this film is its lack of imagination director van sets the duke's palace in a seedy swimming pool in fact he is not the duke he is just a character named so it's difficult to see why he has lots of hangers on and his own jester rigoletto rigoletto lives in a council flat that is furnished with the orange sofa and decorated in the spotted wallpaper that is de rigeur among avant garde directors the duke's sorry heavies ride around on motor scooters yawn br br concepts imposed on an opera like this can produce unexpected and unintentional humour what can we make of the fact that gilda has a maid even though she lives in a council flat when the call goes out that is being taken to prison we see him being marched out of the swimming pool by two attendants in pink shorts one imagines that he is going to be charged with urinating in a public swimming pool br br it was common for opera films to be lip 20 years ago but there is just no excuse for it today a dubbed opera is like soft porn you don't believe in what is happening because the performers are not making enough effort the actress in role does not seem to have learned her lines properly she barely moves her lips when she is supposed to be singing when she sings caro in the bath she lies back with her legs slightly parted it is difficult to tell which the sound is supposed to be emanating from the duke later caps this by singing while engaging in cunnilingus with giving a new meaning to the phrase yodelling in the canyon br br the ambiance of the sound never seems right with the orchestra sometimes sounding as though it is being played through a radio fairly slow tempi are preferred so that the overall effect is of a karaoke in your local pub br br this is a film of a production by opera is a village in in the netherlands they normally perform in a tent in a field if i had been watching this performance in a tent in a field in i would have been fairly indulgent by filming this production and giving it a worldwide audience the villagers also hold themselves open to worldwide ridicule
0	hi i'm sheena an african yet white jungle tribal princess who possesses the incredible ability to transform into the cheapest monster in the world think 60s star trek aliens by rolling seductively in mud when i first found myself in this horrible position i took the only logical action i made myself a torn apart jungle bikini in which to perform my badly acted antics i enjoy romance novels and tearing apart the occasional unimpressive african warlord and i would be remiss if i did not mention my white of course sidekick mr cutter an american ex military man who seems to have fled the u s after his divorce can you say ducking alimony anyway he provides the occasional distraction from my difficult life i mean how many idiot blonds do you know who are also an endangered species of flesh rending monster despite my many hardships acting is so hard whine i haven't given up and after much soul searching i have finally discovered my role in life to terrorize late night television viewers who are so unfortunate as to not have cable or satellite
0	a very bad film an amalgam of clichés and historical inaccuracies a few examples in an early scene soviet infantry are attacked by the germans instead of staying in their trenches to shoot at them they advance into open ground to fight them contrary to all infantry tactics kate one of the central characters is supposedly the daughter of a white russian and obsessed with her russianness yet she does not speak russian a guilt stricken german airman attacks an anti aircraft gun the gun however does not fire shells but scores a direct hit on his which doesn't look much like a german of wwii in fairness when they could escape the preposterous plot and the consequent absurdities there are some genuinely powerful moments the depiction of people slowly starving to death is convincingly done and moving but these only show up the rest of it even more a film to be avoided
0	well i have been to a british university in fact i went to the one in this very film and it was nothing like that this is a horrible badly made and acted film worst thing is it could have been really good if they bothered to spend more that on it in fact if it really wanted to represent true british students it should off acted like one and took out a 15 thousand pound loan it says nothing about uni life where was the bush diving the tea drinking till 4am the endless chats about group dynamics where was the diversity and fun maybe i'm just being romantic but i don't remember week being that awful and i'm and in the end the question still remains a bed or a wardrobe
0	this is possibility the worst and most disappointing film i have ever seen i've spent four years at two universities and know that there must be a good film to be made about the experience this isn't it the acting is god awful and the plot non existent br br here are a few incidents from my one year in halls of residence br br 1 a posh lad that unknowingly got off with a transvestite 2 the best friend pairing of two girls one with huge breasts and the other with the nickname the brick 3 a couple that shag too loudly 4 the lad who gets all the girls 5 the lad from northern ireland who is very difficult to understand 6 mcdonalds in bed 7 curry every night for a week 8 student bashing couple of my mates ended up in hospital 9 the discarded joint that started a fire 10 the flood 11 the lad who wakes up on his floor to find that every item of furniture has be taken from his room br br and if i can come up with that list in 5 minutes and from real life i'm sure a couple of script writers can do better a lot better br br and for a film named after a sleeper song where is the britpop soundtrack
0	there are a lot of 'bad' films out there tune in to channel 5 every night of the week and you might just be treated to a daily shocking effort from one filmmaker or another there are possibly films that have caused me more pain were harder to sit through than this but in terms of writing acting direction cinematography and the bare basics of cinema is a truly truly appalling effort and should be avoided at all costs the only laugh it gave me was in the behind the scenes documentary on the dvd in which the film's geeky director darren fisher explains how it was his script that attracted the 'talent' to the project never underestimate the power of self delusion br br darren fisher britain's answer to edward d wood jr
0	this movie is juxtaposition of various super bad tough guy biker characters loosely connected but with no real storyline some of the scenes are nicely filmed if they took the same cast and crew and made a movie called the gent who was the coolest character in the film and came up with an interesting and continuous story maybe it could be decent as it is prepare for a lame series of tough guy character intros all of whom do nothing but ride bikes around the desert all day and cause trouble while all staying never getting and keeping their hair and clothes perfect and never needing to look for a home or money etc there was a sort of background story about the characters pasts various people that were killed and a treasure that was probably supposed to be the plot
0	larry bishop the writer actor director focuses too heavily on the camera music and visuals the film resorts to meaningless ramblings and vulgar monologues which seem to have no purpose other than boring and irritating the audience the actors experience a bumpy ride from the film's start to finish and are caught in one terrible smoke screen the hell with the ride the film is a bomb br br the victors are presented as weathered vigilantes who seek their own form of justice for what they see as lawlessness they are bikers anti heroes and protagonists played by larry bishop is the leader of the pack the gent michael madsen is trapped in his own crossfire of chaos and psychosis br br comanche eric balfour is loyal but mysterious deuce performed by david carradine should have passed on the ride and so should the ticket buyers if you decide to see the film you'll be sorry but you'll find out why billy wings vinnie jones is a lewd and venomous character completely filled with disdain br br what puzzles me is how this film with all of its continual ramblings and vulgarity ever got anybody to invest in a ride that absolutely goes nowhere ticket buyers take my advice don't pay for the ride please don't make the same mistake as the investors br br the first fifteen minutes or so of the movie is confusing and unintelligible the dialog which rapidly turn into meaningless monologues doesn't make any sense the entire film is hell bent on going nowhere poor dennis hopper is caught in the middle of a real mess he too should have passed on the ride there are decapitated heads slashed throats and nude females wrestling it is clear that bishop doesn't know where he is going with the film he gets entirely lost but by the end of the ride you just won't give a damn mama mia stay home and by all means don't take the ride i rate this film a 1 out of 10 but this movie is so awful it deserves a zero
0	i would not recommend it whatsoever it was like getting stuck in the middle row of a theater so i couldn't leave and watching a part porn movie except they didn't take their clothes off it was the body language and definitely the language i have to say i was embarrassed filming was very low budget no good dialogue yuck actors stunk except the two best characters who got killed off and they were david carradine and dennis hopper it did smack of kill bill and that old movie with the two guys who ride the dessert on their you know what i mean blablabla the filming was grainy and just a very low quality there was nobody in that theater that liked this movie and the people around me were younger and tattooed
0	this film was sheer boredom from beginning to end ok so i salute boorman for raising the worldwide recognition of events in burma but that is all he achieves about 10 minutes into the film i thought oh no here we go again and i could have told you exactly what was going to occur in the next 80 minutes or so patricia arquette was out of her depth in such a role and her acting was wooden and unconvincing mind you being saddled with such an awfully conventional script maybe boredom set in and was such reflected on the screen a lot of the film was just plain laughable at one stage arquette's elderly companion is shot and he is prostrate on the ground in the next scene he is sprinting through the forest obviously attempting to break the world 100 meters record or maybe he's just trying to run away from boorman if you find it hard to sleep one night then play beyond on your vcr and you'll be snoring in no time i very rarely a film as heavily as this but in this case it is completely justified
0	once upon a time quentin tarantino was a relatively successful filmmaker br br now unfortunately he not only makes terrible films but puts his names to ones like this br br a supposedly cool retro flashback to biker movies of the 60s and 70s this plumbs new depths br br believe you me i enjoy it when a blouse falls off in a film more than the next man but even i felt kind of sleazy watching this to use a word i never thought i would its you see i can't even spell it the plot in the vaguest sense of the term is as incomprehensible as vinnie jones' accent the fact his terrible acting does not stand our particularly is as damning a testament as one can think of br br this is just terrible shocking it almost made me cry in horror
0	this is my first awful rating ever on imdb and i couldn't think of a more deserving film to honor it with i hoped for entertaining trash and found trash of the saddest dullest kind i found a film which no one can possibly have cared a bit about including its creator br br hell ride directed written by and starring larry friend of qt bishop has a simple plot about a hidden treasure and a trio of keys two bands of bikers and a gruesome murder in 1976 which has yet to be avenged larry seems fiercely determined not to tell this story focusing instead of putting his swaying strangely grimacing main character into situations where he can fondle women who pretend to like it he also has a dialog containing enough horrible fire puns metaphors to put one off the word fire for life br br dennis hopper escapes complete humiliation others are not so lucky sometimes they hit the road on their bikes making one feel even more sorry for michael madsen since his high handles seems to add insult to the injury of having to appear in this film there is plenty of silicon enhanced nudity but fairly little action and no humor whatsoever making one wonder just what kind of an audience they had in mind br br my guess is that most people who watch this film including fans of trashy 60s biker movies will feel cheated do yourself a favor and revisit the real stuff instead
0	this film oh my god this film is so poor i'm amazed i managed to watch it all br br first off id like to say that vinny jones should only play a london thug period that's it end of story br br is so unconvincing its almost comedy banging in dennis hopper and david carradine did not save this film in fact i think its a total comedy and as a comedy it deserves its 1 star br br avoid at all costs vinny oh my god i thought i saw it all when he played that irish tinker p br br i think the average viewer will realize that this film is maybe just a never will be type of film i cant see how anybody could actually fall this crap
0	this movie makes glitter look like schindler's list tarantino and the weinsteins really need to consider more carefully before putting their names on a product green lighting a p o s like this regardless of the friendships involved is just bad business larry bishop needs to be kept away from a movie camera at all costs writer director producer actor bishop shows that his skills are inadequate for any of those jobs a vanity project gone south hell ride allows usually good actors to chew the scenery at least when the camera isn't centered on bishop's feeble attempts to steal every scene he's in which is virtually every scene my final three words on hell ride are stink stank stunk
0	this is easily one of the worst movies i've seen in a long long time and i've recently seen starship troopers 2 i could find nothing to redeem this film the acting which is probably the best aspect of the film is fair at best michael madsen hams it up in his standard character persona denis hopper doesn't seem to know what he's supposed to be vinnie jones accent is bizarre one positive thing is that leonor looks fantastic her acting is pretty poor but i doubt that's why shes there br br the dialogue is truly appalling it is quite simply rubbish i don't know who signed off on this but they really need to get professional help next time round br br this film is the reason imdbs rating system should be able to include zero stars out of ten avoid at all costs
0	okay so writer director larry bishop obviously has some important connections and knows the right people in hollywood in order to produce his own film and fill up the cast with eye catching names good for him now what he really still needs is inspiration and talent in order to come up with an actually worthwhile scenario rather than the overly pretentious and wannabe convoluted crap he penned down here hell ride isn't a movie it's a hectic and hopelessly inept fan boy endeavor to bring homage to the notorious biker flicks of the 60's and to the recently revived grindhouse cinema formula in general with hell ride larry bishop embarrassingly fails in his set up and there are many obvious reasons for this he hasn't got a story to tell – or at least not a very interesting one – but gravely tries to cover this up through numerous redundant plot twists loads of gratuitous and very women unfriendly sleaze overlong and piteous dialogs aspiring to be cool and giant amounts of senseless violence the plot looks complex but can actually be summarized in one sentence the ancient vendetta between two rivaling biker gangs flares up again with the arrival of a new member a boy who may or not be the long lost son of a double crossing wench that got executed back in 1976 that's it seriously all the rest going from betraying gang members over to the recruitment of old timer members over to toying with his nymphomaniac informant girl is all completely pointless and confusing padding material another major problem in hell ride is larry bishop's very own tremendous and seemingly insatiable ego he definitely shouldn't have rewarded himself with the role of tough and relentless gang leader as that only comes across as incredibly pretentious and narrow minded especially when there are so many other and more experienced stars in the movie granted bishop starred in a couple of genuine 60's biker exploitation movies like the savage seven and angel unchained but that was a long time ago and he honestly isn't any good as an actor maybe it simply was bishop's life long dream to play a character that always outsmarts his enemies and for which every hot babe sexually craves and just wrote a whole screenplay around it the veterans in the cast like dennis hopper and michael madsen don't really bother to leave a plausible impression and i can't say i blame them this whole production is lame and pathetic and i can't bring myself to recommending it to anyone regardless of many beautiful babes parade around with bare breasts and naked butts
0	larry bishop is 60 years old dirty and not good looking yet in this movie he's like a drug towards the women in their br br a lot of movies have been claimed to be sexist but if any movie deserves that title it's this one br br i can't even count how many boobs there were shown in this movie probably more then hours larry bishop spend writing the script br br the script is ridiculous bishop and his gang argue bike party have sex kill people and the next day they argue bike party have sex kill people and the third day well you get the idea br br i like eric balfour and considering what he had to work with he did pretty good as comanche br br unfortunately this movie is about larry bishop's character who is so one dimensional it's not even funny br br he's also a horrible actor and apparently he never intended to do the lead himself but everybody he asked said no so what was he to do once he realized he was gonna do the lead himself he probably did a re write of the script so that he could touch up more ladies br br although visually it's kind of good looking at least the biker scenes and eric balfour isn't half bad this movie is just a big mess br br i hope to never see larry bishop in front of the camera again
0	the worse film i have every seen like the other honest reviewers it is just an excuse for getting naked birds with their out don't get wrong naked women isn't a bad thing but there is another film genre for that br br boyfriends beware i sold this to my girlfriend as a classic bike gang fest due to reviews to be greeted with every other scene full of naked women gyrating about the place slap in the chops for me br br what makes me laugh the most is all the bike dives they went to in the film were full of models with the works cosmetically what biker bars have these they are usually slightly haggard with tattoos and far completely unrealistic the acting is terrible loads of pointless swearing and a complete waste of time storyline br br did anyone check out vinnie jones's attempt at an american accent its as embarrassing as his football skills br br avoid like the plague the only reason you would watch this film is if you are a young lad who cant access p rn and have nicked it from their parents movie collection for a few pervy kicks
0	that's what i kept asking myself while watching this film i mean the amount of nudity and sex was one thing but another part of the movie which gave its genre to the adult industry was its lack of storyline really i just wanted to get up and leave during the whole movie but i persisted i persisted in the hope that maybe the storyline would get better that there might be a good twist at the end however i couldn't have been more wrong in the end i persisted because i figured i could write a bad review for it if anything after watching it br br i mean don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with beautiful sexy and vibrant women but when the director only shows that along with a shitty story thinking it's what the viewer wants to see it insults us all to think we are all so shallow to only want to see burlesque from rep big movie industry players is preposterous my advice hire a different movie
0	when a movie called hell ride comes out you expect a certain amount of biker cliché with character names like comanche and the gent i braced myself for the worse and was punch in the face by just that the dialogue soundtrack and shooting style are standard for biker movies dusty desert blurred from the heat as bikes coming tearing down the road while cc rider plays and they talk about sex and violence yawn the three leads were just ridiculous and unbelievable seeing old men like bishop and madsen in a freaking ruffled shirt riding down a dusty strip of desert highway reminded me of two men trying desperately to relive their youth poor eric balfour tried his best but with such poor material it got lost even an appearance by dennis hopper in full easy rider swing couldn't save it and let's talk about the store bought tans shall we many have compared this to tarantino's work it is not even close what makes tarantino's work so brilliant is he knows it's over the top so he just goes balls out and takes it as far over the top as possible bishop took this film so seriously that it became nothing more than a poor copy of the exploitation genre
0	i am very surprised to see the good ratings for this movie br br i watched the film 9 years ago and i still remember how angry i felt to sit in the movie theatre and to look at this mess i am a big fan of john boorman's work i really like his movies so i went to beyond with big expectations but i felt like watching a dumb cheap chuck norris jungle movie with all action scenes cut out even the soundtrack was very annoying br br i can't believe that john boorman was the director because this movie was so badly done i think the burmese people deserve better films to illustrate their struggle
0	this film is so bad it's hilarious i watched hell ride half thinking it was a comedy although i couldn't quite work out if they were actually taking the p ss or if this really was a serious attempt at making something decent i notice it isn't listed here as a comedy so they must be serious it's basically seems to be about a gang of who ride round on motorcycles shooting at each other and exchanging the most hilariously bad dialogue you can imagine one scene inexplicably has two characters smashing bottles over each others heads then showing each other 'get out of jail cards that they've made also check out vinnie jones' accent where the hell is he meant to be from oh and there's a load of naked girls in it too who for some unfathomable reason seem to want nothing more than to have none stop sex with these skinned b the guy who wrote and directed it a pee wee herman lookalike with a beard and an orange tan has for some reason cast himself in the lead role maybe this is part of the joke i don't know actually the more i think about it the more i'm sure this film is a p ss take it's produced by quentin tarantino and it's possible he's released this in humour as a bit of a laugh it is a total rip off of tarantino's style but just done really really badly it is very amusing though and i guess either way it could go down as a cult classic either from being an amusing parody of the tarantino rodriguez style or something that is very very unintentionally funny has to be seen to be believed
0	larry bishop directs writes and leads this soft core porn plot less biker movie about nothing to do with anything to call this one of the worst movies of 2008 is being kind to the garbage that i spent money on while in theaters its one of the worst movies i have ever seen i felt sorry for the girls mostly who probably think they're in the making of a feature film when in all reality they're making a porno they walk on the set for four days say some sexual lines to disgusting old men thirty years older than them then take off their cloths and run around naked for the four days they're on set i can only assume this was larry bishops only way to get laid you see shot after shot directly on a girls asses shot after shot of bishop walking up to some random chick and grabbing her most intimate parts as if he were shaking her hand how this crap was even funded is beyond me why tarantino has his name on it is beyond me but he's been slowly fading away since 1994 so i can't say i was surprised br br after 15 minutes you get that awful feeling that only horrible and i mean horrible movies give you when you see it in theaters the pain you feel is amplified after 15 minutes i wanted to cry for being so stupid and wasting not only my time but my hard earned ten dollars there isn't one redeeming quality or one moment in the movie that creates any kind of reaction or shows any kind of inclination that these people had any idea of what they are doing if you don't see naked women all that often then i guess this movie would be for you if you're eleven years old you will probably like it you can't even laugh at it because every idiot making it was laughing about the crap they were making the acting is awful the writing is awful the production is awful and the directing is awful it's not even worth your time renting it to see the car crash stay away stay very far away you shouldn't even be reading these reviews i shouldn't even be writing one
0	i have had more boring stretches of 80 minutes in my life but none are coming to mind right now hell ride is based on the retro cult 70s theme that tarantino brought back and did right in movies like pulp fiction and reservoir dogs the problem with hell ride is unlike pf and rd the story is garbage and so is character development how many movies does bishop think he can blatantly steal from the brief case in pulp fiction the air gun in no country etc etc speaking of bishop what the hell is he doing acting in this movie i couldn't help but laugh at those scenes where he's standing with his trusted out desperately trying to seem like some hardened biker nothing in this movie is believable and why dennis hopper did they really need the easy rider motif too i blame larry bishop for his horrible plot and dialogue not to mention his failed attempt at the leading role don't bother watching this movie it's a waste of time
0	director lead larry bishop tried way way too hard with hell ride the movie wants to be edgy witty provocative outlandish biting all of this seemingly in a quentin tarantino rob zombie style but it's not edgy the references seem forced the dialog tries to be clever and fails the humor is never funny nice try setting a gritty tone but we'd have to care about the characters or the story for it to remotely succeed br br what you're left with are cool harleys and pretty girls surrounding a bunch of tired old and out of shape bad boys in what looks like an attempt to do a modernized sergio leone western if this movie can make newer generations interested in 60s and 70s films kudos for it but on its own it is rather boring and irrelevant i do believe there is a place for style over substance but this movie is not it
0	because that's what hell ride pretty much is larry bishop and tarantino partying on the money with the promise to deliver a movie sometime down the line i'm all for fake boobage and booze as much as the next guy but did we really need the movie really there's nothing worse than the reheated second hand leftovers of an old trend and i'm not even talking about 70's grindhouse cinema because hell ride has none of the raw and unpolished feel of the era it purports to pay homage to no this is slick and glossy mtv hollywood through and through the old trend i'm talking about is the self consciously pseudo hip quirky cinematic world where tarantino meets guy ritchie and robert rodriguez all three guys were at least talented and found success for a reason hell ride is just a second hand copy fickle and uninspired polished to the max when it should be raw the aspect coming off forced and silly br br there's no reason for example why such a simple and utterly inane story has to be told in convoluted back and forth in time fashion it's just a post tarantino quirk there's also no reason why the dialogues have to be so mind numbingly pointless people flapping their gums while saying nothing at least when travolta was talking about cheeseburgers in pulp fiction it felt fresh dialogues here amount to little more than pseudo macho posturing there's also no reason why a grating rock'n'roll guitar has to aimlessly over the entire movie perhaps the lowest hell ride hits is when it tries to be quasi existential there's a hilarious dream illusion scene in the desert where bishop eats peyote and sees colours i was half expecting an old indian to come out and offer nuggets of wisdom br br the only saving grace of this abysmal turd is the boobage and vinnie jones' monologue about his wings and maybe some of the desert exterior shots lots of boobage and hot scantily clad babes now that's something i can get behind but a movie they don't make everything else is just an empty shell an imitation of other infinitely more talented imitators
0	tarentino should be ashamed to be involved with this awful film the acting directing and script are all third rate with the entire film playing out like an excuse for writer director star larry bishop to get laid the only reason it was made at all is most likely due to his association with qt the plot of the film is pretty flimsy and basically tries to survive on not so obscure references to older b movies and some cameos from guys like david carradine dennis hopper and vinnie jones each one is listless in their performance particularly hopper who is in full on paycheck mode at this point in his career the saving grace if there is one is that the script is so laughably bad that it can be entertaining bishop tries so hard to get that trademark tarentino banter and just fails miserably which can be pretty humorous at times and grating at others i'd only check this one out if you love bad movies or if you're really into biker films
0	or that's what the filmmakers would like you to believe anyway br br this movie tries sooo hard to be cool it's ridiculous everything from the look of the film the cinematography the editing the dialogue and the acting is geared in super cool mode from the get go just to make sure that no one misses how cool this film is there's a soundtrack of really cool rock n roll tunes and a twangy western surf tex guitar playing constantly throughout the film as a final reminder of how frickin cool this movie is all the actors have been instructed to speak in a hoarse voice because as we all know that's badass br br the plot if there indeed is one seems pretty straightforward but as someone else already pointed out the director and star of the film seems fiercely determined not to tell that story instead focusing on a plethora of naked babes and dialogue that's supposed to be badass but grows tired surprisingly quick did they have an contest to see how many times they could cram the words pussy and f ck and its derivatives in an 80 minute film br br this movie was absolutely horrible
0	quentin tarantino once said that to succeed in the film industry you had to make your own pulp fiction or reservoir dogs writer actor director larry bishop seems to have taken that advice a little too literally with hell ride and concocted a messy homage that borrows much too heavily in its visuals music camera work and time altering storytelling but to properly mimic a tarantino film one has to have a knack for constructing creative conversations unfortunately hell primary element is its atrocious ramblings and vulgar monologues that only work to disgust and confuse the audience while simultaneously invoking pity for the actors just for being involved br br the anti hero protagonist biker gang the victors consists of several weathered vigilantes who bring their own brand of bloodthirsty justice to the lawless roads the leader larry bishop is hell bent on revenge and putting out fires the gent michael madsen just tries to balance his chaotic psychotic symphony of life with putting lead into anyone who crosses his boss and comanche eric balfour follows with a fierce loyalty and a mysterious past br br on the villainous front deuce david carradine is the mastermind who orchestrates from afar though not quite far enough and billy wings vinnie jones spits venom and lewd explanations for his tattoos while toting a harpoon gun and a general disdain for life while these characters might sound interesting on paper once they're forced to rant horrendously ill conceived dialogue all traces of cool disappear faster than the funding should for bishop's next film br br while hell ride is riddled with imperfections and missed opportunities the main facet of its undoing lies in the poorly devised conversations and because bishop's main influences are the talky films of tarantino there are a lot of them the first twenty minutes of the movie are nearly unintelligible and would probably make as much sense muted by the time main squeeze is introduced and certain phrases are overused to the point of nausea you'll pray for both death and the ability to turn the sound off even dennis hopper has trouble remaining cool while spouting off such goofy dialogue br br have you ever repeated a word or phrase to yourself so many times that it just doesn't sound right or even make sense anymore bishop starts there and then keeps the madness going until you envy the characters on screen getting their heads cut off and when the dialogue finally takes a break we're treated to interspersed shots of nude female oil wrestling and throats being slashed i'm not sure what effect bishop hoped to attain but i doubt he found it br br hell ride wants to pay homage to quentin tarantino films robert rodriguez films and every movie that idolizes the violent and devil may care attitudes of bikers but while its intentions may be noble the horrendously cringe worthy dialogue and the hyper stylized timeline mangling editing prevents the audience from becoming invested with the generic tough guy characters by the time we figure out the mystery behind the characters' motives and it may be awhile before you even realize there's a mystery to be solved it's just too hard to care anymore and while everyone on screen is clearly having fun they've entirely neglected to translate any of that entertainment to the audience br br joel
0	definitely the worst movie i have ever seen in my entire life i can't find anything positive to say about this movie if this production is even worthy of that word br br this production is not even the standard of a low budget porn movie br br my question is simply why did someone look at the script and think hey i'm gonna make a movie out of this br br at the end of the movie i wasn't even hoping that nicole was going to make it… she was really that annoying br br so for your own sake do not watch this movie unless you want to waste 85 minutes of your life
0	first of all just let me say this ghost story hello br br if any of the other people who trashed this movie from beginning to end realized this fact their reviews would have been very different the fact that characters kept disappearing whenever the protagonist turned back to look should have been a dead giveaway this movie was not billed as a ghost story when you went to rent it in the video store not even a hint and that is the biggest mistake that was made by the studio who marketed it it was deliberate on their part not to market it as a ghost story in order to confuse you like the main character is confused as you try to make sense of it the problem in this is that they lost too many viewers the ghosts appeared too human and real without any of the usual telltale signs imagery or special effects that hollywood usually uses to let you know you are now seeing a ghost and that is what they were trying to do the main character does not know she is seeing ghosts and neither does the viewer now do you get it as long as you understand that the main character is seeing ghosts then you'll understand the movie and not be so irritated by what is perceived as major oversights in continuity or plot flaws br br i admit this being said it still was not a good movie just not as bad a just about everyone else made it out to be just understand if you plan on watching this movie everything you see ain't always what what you think it is 4 out of 10 for acting 3 for originality 5 for plot and 5 for scare factor though there was some gore and spooky moments still not a good movie just way misunderstood
0	this hokey movie left me groaning after just about any exchange of dialogue or plot complication patricia arquette though pleasing to look at gives a below par performance from her usual mediocrity my friends and i have coined the phrase beyond to mean anything really bad a lowpoint for boorman
0	under no circumstances watch this film it is terrible for a number of reasons br br no plot no structure no direction no acting to speak of no visual style no tension br br in a word no br br best thing about it the box and the fact it eventually ends who would have thought could feel so long br br once again under no circumstances watch this film it is terrible br br no plot no structure no direction no acting to speak of no visual style no tension br br in a word no br br best thing about it the box and the fact it eventually ends who would have thought could feel so long
0	continuing in the string of stalker slasher flicks in the vein of wolf creek hostel joy ride etc comes rest stop the most unoriginal and useless one of them all br br we start reasonably promising with the violent death of a pretty young girl in a filthy restroom br br this is where our interest is lost we then move to the cliché road trip couple on their way to la with their eyes on acting stardom which doing movies like this they'll never achieve br br from the sexual romp in the park the couple drives arguing all the way to a deserted and disgusting rest area for the girl to use the bathroom harmless enough until she exits and finds her boyfriend missing and realizes she's being stalked by a lame version of joy ride 's rusty nail only driving around in mater from cars br br honestly if this had been directed written produced acted by anyone else it might've been fairly good but no br br because then comes the ghost story yup you guessed it plenty of oh i'll help you but wait you're dead to wait is this stalker a person monster or ghost br br but wait who comes to the rescue to save the girl's life and possibly the movie that one brother excellent we're saved sarcasm oh wait no we're not br br you know if you want to laugh off a pretty bad or if you get free rentals like i do give it a try br br if anything you'll learn how not to make a movie br br ap3
0	obviously raw feed video is smarter than all of us who wasted our money renting this flick they will make millions from video rentals and their low budget investment is going to pay off big which will finance rest stop ii unfortunately i figure they spent a maximum of a few hundred thousand dollars american to hire the actors rent the rest stop locale and burn a truck and drag a motorcycle along behind the truck for a bit plus pay for the technical stuff that's it we should all be as smart as these guys i won't knock them for having the genius to promote a stinker into good monetary returns premise of the movie was good and it could have been a really adequate horror movie but it failed by not delivering a clear story line i am always looking for a gem from the upstart film companies but i didn't find it here and neither will you i'm only sorry i wasted 3 99 plus tax to find out
0	seriously folks i was getting ready to actually write the razzie council and recommend this movie as razzie champ for 2007 until i got on imdb com and realized its copyright date was 2006 and not 2007 seriously though this movie could have easily been a razzie champ this movie sucked how in the world this piece of crap was overlooked even for a razzie nomination in 2006 is beyond me because it easily could have competed with basically it stinks too for the 2006 razzie championship br br i rented this movie on the recommendation of a female neighbor of mine who told me oh my god after seeing this movie it's going to be a long long time before i ever stop at a rest stop ever again i couldn't believe how not scary and awful this movie was possible spoilers below not that you'll be missing out on anything br br ok first of all the problem the rest stop itself obviously the director of this piece of crap doesn't know the first thing about women the toilets in that rest stop were on the same level as the one in the movie trainspotting i don't claim to know everything there is to know about women but one thing i do know is that women for the most part are total and complete hygiene neat freaks given the choice between taking a crap on either of those toilets and possibly catching something or squatting in the woods a woman is going to opt for squatting in the woods i know because i've gone camping with them before and they have no problem squatting in the woods so right there major plot hole and br br second of all she comes out of the rest stop and her boyfriend who drove the car is nowhere to be found not him nor his car he just left she starts screaming his name wondering where he is ummm hello you're standing on wet mud did it ever occur to you to look down for some tire tracks i mean his car is gone it didn't just get up and fly away and actually that makes me think i actually was looking down at her feet and there weren't any tread marks in the mud how exactly did that happen br br third the bible thumping mobile home family with the freak midget in the back taking polaroid pictures wtf they made absolutely no sense at all and it's as if the director just threw them in to be weird for the sake of being weird they made no sense at all and had no place even being in the movie br br fourth oh my god this i mean finally near the end of the movie she finally sees the escape hatch on the ceiling inside the rest stop i'm like you dumb bi h you've been locked up in this rest stop for all this time and you just now see the escape hatch on the ceiling i mean it's like they threw that in just because the killer tossed gasoline on the floor through the window and was getting ready to light a match so she needs to get to higher ground to avoid being burned and oh look a perfect reason for her to get to higher ground an escape hatch on the ceiling it's like why didn't she go through that before most people in that situation would have seen that from the moment they were locked in that rest stop and gotten the f k out of dodge when they showed that escape hatch at the end of the movie i was like you have got to be kidding me br br fifth what was the deal with all the of people she encountered continuing to just disappear the girl in the broom closet in the rest stop the dumb cop her at the end of the movie when she ended up in the broom closet herself it was never explained personally when they did this i thought to myself oh christ on a cracker it's her she's the killer wonderful she killed all of those people doesn't remember doing it and the writers of this movie just ripped off a certain french horror flick that i can't mention on imdb com or i'll be blacklisted for giving away the ending that movie sucked by the way too people but it wasn't she wasn't the killer and the whole deal with the dead people disappearing was never ever explained oh for the love of god people stay away from this movie this movie sucked balls and i have now got a serious bone to pick with my neighbor it's on the 2 for 1 rack at family video don't even rent it if someone gives it to you for free
0	i have seen a lot of movies in fact i love b horror movies they are one of my favorite genres however this garbage i refuse to acknowledge that this was given the honor of film was the worst piece of crap i have ever had the torture of watching i actually signed up on imdb purely for the fact that i needed a way to at least voice how awful this garbage was i have watched films they at least deserve the honor done in basements by high school students that were better written and directed i have nothing but pity for the poor actors in this garbage because they were just trying to earn a pay check they will now and forever have this stain on their records like a virgin who was raped and given herpes if writer director john has any dignity left at all after obviously fellating countless people to get this made he should never allow himself near a camera again and try applying his so called gifts to something more suited for him like mopping the floor of a peep show
0	the only good thing about this movie is that i now have a movie on the worst ever list rest stop being on the end of the spectrum where i can compare all terrible movies to really this movie is the worst plot worst directed throughout the whole movie all i wanted to do is pull out my hair and kick the writer's and anybody who made this movie ass i am a deployed soldier and when i spend my precious downtime watching movies like this these people should feel terrible they had to of watch this before it came out and must have been to freaking lazy to redo after they noticed it freaking sucked i am so amazed that this great country of ours is letting them make another honestly this is the first time i have ever commented on a movie i had to let the world know not to waste their time delete this movie from the face of this planet it makes us humans look retarded
0	i cant put it any simpler than that this is a terrible film i've worked in the industry and made several short films myself so okay my standard is pretty high but seriously i absolutely hate this film i haven't made a comment on imdb before but i hated this film so much i literally had to come and warn others it is a piece of sh t the writer director is an idiot who just has no idea how to make write a good film and has the writing skills of an adolescent teenager the characters are unrealistic the lead woman doesn't think of taking the policeman's pistol yet is resourceful enough to improvise a molotov cocktail please and not even likable hell i hated her and cheered when she died i don't understand what the director was trying to do with his demon redneck idea but it just looked like sloppy writing and convenient bullsh t with no real thought behind it to me this is officially the worst movie i've seen all year congratulations you now rank up there with such greats as micheal bay in the prestigious shouldnt be allowed to waste millions of dollars on making a film club i hope you read this i really do and to the 163 idiots that rated this film 10 out of 10 oh my god i hope a redneck demon appears conveniently behind you and tortures you
0	spoiler meets texas chainsaw massacre if you've seen those don't waste your time with this one typical slasher movie nothing new here except for the spoiler visions which just add fluff to an already weak plot i would recommend this movie if you have absolutely nothing to watch and it's either see this movie or stare at a bare wall for 1 5 hrs the only semi interesting part spoiler is when the chick starts drinking in the empty sheriff's office i say it's interesting because at least she made good use of that liquor instead of stereotypically using it to start a fire to kill the bad guy although she did go that route towards the end all in all lame bad and not worth effort
0	this movie has to rank with welcome to the jungle and the hitcher and dream catcher for sheer god awfulness you've got the most irritating heroine in gore history who spends most of her time sobbing and wailing and shrieking all the time in the most horrendous rest stop toilet ever put on film why she spends so much time in this ghastly bathroom from hell is never explained even when the usual killer truck driver is trying to murder her she refuses to leave the crapper when a motorcycle cop comes to her rescue the killer truck driver runs over the cop's legs while the heroine just looks on instead of grabbing his gun for protection she drags the poor slob into the crapper and locks the door then the cop orders her to blow his brains out because of the pain she does so while wailing and sobbing and and blows the back of his head off then the cop still alive beg her to shoot him again because he's still in pain he says this while the entire back of his head is all over the floor the sobbing wailing heroine shoots him again the movie goes on and on like this none of it making any sense the heroine is so dislikable you really want the killer to off her early on i saw this flick on the sci fi channel so it didn't cost me anything to watch but still i did watch out of sheer fascination as to how a movie could end up so terribly bad
0	this movie is not a horror movie there is nothing scary about it it's more of a torture flick and it doesn't make sense to me there is a few scene's with disappearing bodies for instance he woman in the beginning of the movie that get pulled away returns for a scene in the restroom with nicole and she and she completely disappears then she kills the police officer to put him out of his misery and he disappears plus had to shoot him in the head twice to kill him i don't think so especially when you can see his head half blown off and didn't kill him the at the end she sets the killer's truck on fire that but he's not in it he is standing behind her then it cuts to the rest stop has been completely remodeled and some people are at the rest area and a new girl comes in and nicole in asking for help like the first girl totally no sense in this movie save yourself some money and skip this movie
0	american tourist on package tour in asia suffering recent bereavement decides to break law by 1 ignoring curfew 2 joining revolutionary army 3 possessing and using illegal firearm etc etc what is meant to be a political and educational statement about the so called atrocities of a military dictatorship in asia ends up as a how to travel guide for disillusioned americans especially those who wish to protest that the water in the hotel does not work regrettably the authors of this silly yarn have no clue about asia nor it seems in writing sensible dialogue example our human rights heroine searching desperately for medicine in the furthest of the asian jungle miles from anywhere comes across a peasant and asks excuse me does this town have a pharmacy well those who know something about the asian jungle will appreciate how ludicrous that scenario really is mind you i was recently in the thai jungle and an american asked me excuse me do you know where is this movie is meant to be a serious drama but ends up as a parody and rip off of all those killing fields type of films designed to confirm tha asian stereotype held by much of western civilization and re by hollywood fantasies such as this the basic message of this picture is we americans coming from the worlds only true democracy have a divine right to go to all other nations and put right their wrongs screw up their environment and teach them about freedom see for example the beach at least leo did it with a bit more style of course vietnam is another story and the educated asian may well ask why the ho attitude about asia should come from a nation whose main contribution to humanity has been helping to spread cancer aids gun carrying kiddies and jerry springer et al at the end of this picture the cynical viewer may well be cheering for the burmese military 3 out of 10 br br
0	i only comment on really very good films and on utter rubbish my aim is to help people who want to see great films to spend their time and money wisely br br i also want to stop people wasting their time on garbage and want to publicize the fact that the director producer of these garbage films can't get away with it for very long we will find out who you are and will vote with out feet and wallets br br this film clearly falls into the garbage category br br the director and writer is john it's always a bad sign when the writer is also the director maybe he wants two pay cheques he shouldn't get any so remember the name john and if you see anything else by him forget it br br i won't say anything about the plot others have already i am a little worried by how much the director likes to zoom in to the poor girl's face when she is crying and screaming these long duration shots are a little worrying and may say something about the state of mind of mr maybe he should get psychiatric help br br enough already it's crap don't waste your time on it
0	there are movies that are so bad they're good then there's movies like rest stop that should just never have been made because they are just plain dreadful br br bad acting unlikable characters predictable plot and a supposedly supernatural twist that adds nothing to the story are all key failures some half decent special effects are about the only thing worthy of note br br i can't even bring myself to write a plot outline because all i really want to do here is warn you not to waste your time and money on this movie do yourself a favour and don't even bother with this film at all it's 1 5 hours of your life that you will never get back br br 1 10
0	as horror films go rest stop could have been better in many levels director writer john shows he probably had the best intentions when he started it unfortunately either he was not sure as to what to do with the material or maybe he was under pressure to deliver a different movie from what he intended either by the studio or the backers several endings have been included in the dvd but unfortunately the one chosen for the finished product is probably not the best br br the idea of a psycho roaming the back roads of a remote part of california presents many possibilities at first after the disappearance of jess in the spooky rest stop things get out of hand poor nicole is left alone to fend for herself all the weirdos she finds along the way br br it was clear when one started to hear amazing grace in the background that there were forces trying to avenge the ways in which nicole an jess their neck of the woods by engaging in careless sex that is not well appreciated by the natives br br watch it at your own risk there's a lot of gore for the aficionados of the genre
0	a young couple decides to runaway to sunny california they never reach their destination as they decide to pull over at the rest stop br br after a fight with her boyfriend nicole insists on pulling in to a rest stop when she is ready to leave she exits the bathroom to find her boyfriend has disappeared with their car leaving her trapped on the back roads of texas with only an abandoned camper van to keep her company br br rest stop is one of those cheap and tacky horror movies that could become a cult classic will rest stop become a cult classic you may ask well the three elements that you need to become a cult classic are gore sex and artistic merit rest stop has bucket loads of gore and while i do not want to give too much away it contains oodles of blood soaked nastiness this movie has everything from the bad guy running over a cop's legs with his car several times to him making use of a drill on a girl's leg at times it can be about as bloody as a film can get it also has a gratuitous and yet somehow quite intimate love scene in the opening minutes of the film therefore the sex is covered now the hard one – does it have any artistic merit you never get to see the bad guy's face – you see glimpses profiles shadowy silhouettes he is a faceless relentless monster which alone scores highly on the artistic merit scale the movie has very few characters in it apart from the main protagonist – nicole jaimie alexander since she spends a large part of the film on her own she cannot reveal her thoughts in the course of a conversation but must speak them aloud so that we the audience know what she is thinking at times this can be slightly irritating however it is a brave step by the writer john and it does work for the majority of the film as an audience knows being completely alone and isolated from civilisation is frightening enough even when you are not being chased by psychotic killers br br so will rest stop become a cult classic it probably will because along the gore sex and arguable artistic merit it also has plenty of chills an interesting and inventive plot and gives rise to a lot of shouting at the screen as the main character does plenty of things you should definitely not do when running from a psychotic killer what fun are horror movies if you cannot complain about the stupidity of the victims
0	this movie is about a young couple running away to start a new life in la who end up being stalked by a psycho at a deserted rest stop actually it's really just about the girl nicole since her boyfriend literally disappears within a few minutes the movie gets going extremely fast and early on you wonder how it could possibly stretch its story out to feature length it isn't long before you realize that the movie does this by simply wasting time with unnecessary scenes that go nowhere br br the story is not only paper thin but unstructured stupid and incoherent minutes after the disappearance of her boyfriend and car nicole finds a mobile home at the rest stop she sees the flashing of a camera and knows that people are inside but she easily gives up on trying to get their help when no one answers her door knocks after she is informed by the killer that her boyfriend is in danger she walks around the rest stop doing all sorts of stupid and unnecessary things this includes turning on a tv and even looking amused when she thinks she's stumbled onto a porno movie even in this dire situation sitting around wandering and drinking from a bottle of liquor for hours on end she does all this knowing that her boyfriend has been abducted that the killer is still on the loose and stalking her and without taking any actions to ensure her immediate safety she doesn't bother to lock the doors or remain alert oh yeah she tries using a radio to call for help but why even bother when there's a mobile home with people inside right there at the rest stop it really seems like the script writer forgot about this important fact while writing this part of the story br br there's no sense of entrapment or ever present danger in this story the heroine freely wanders in and around the various buildings at the rest stop and the killer only drives in occasionally to scare her before driving off again there's nothing stopping nicole from simply taking off even if the rest stop is a long way from anywhere else that's better than sitting around but she chooses to stay anyway at one point in the movie the main character even acknowledges that she can run off but doesn't br br the story doesn't go anywhere and instead just jumps from pointless segment to pointless segment nicole finally gets inside the mobile home and it turns out that the inhabitants are a family of sheltered presumably inbred or psychotic religious fanatics they seem willfully ignorant or uncaring about the killer's actions but there's no indication that they're connected to him in any way and then kick nicole out after several minutes br br in the next irrelevant segment the main character wanders into the bathroom building she discovers one of the killer's previous victims a young woman named tracy who is still alive and locked in a closet for some strange reason tracy starts vomiting ridiculous amounts of blood nicole goes off to fetch a crowbar to pry open the closet door and when she returns a minute later both tracy and her pool of blood have disappeared without any explanation what was the point nicole finds a bulletin board showing many missing persons and sees that tracy had disappeared in 1971 so was tracy a ghost or something the writer never bothers explaining br br next a cop shows up in the middle of the night to man the police office at the rest stop which had been conveniently left unattended for the entire day so far nicole tells him all about what's been going on and when the killer drives up in his truck outside the office the cop goes outside to confront him what does the police officer do knowing that something is seriously wrong he goes up and calmly talks to the killer who nicole had even pointed out to be the guy who was stalking her and buys into the killer's lie that he was simply driving through and needed directions seriously the cop then talks to nicole outside totally unaware as the pickup truck turns around and runs him over br br the cop quickly starts telling nicole that he's a goner who's lucky to be breathing still yet he strangely doesn't die for quite a while the two of them do some more pointless talking and the all important fact that he has a gun is annoyingly not even mentioned for too long a time when the two of them finally try to use the gun nicole stupidly wastes most of her bullets blindly shooting at a door when the killer was possibly behind it with two bullets left the policeman tells nicole to use one to him she fires one into his mouth and he lays still for a few moments with a chunk blown out of his head then he suddenly and inexplicably yells out you missed and she has to shoot him again completely cheap attempt at shock br br nicole finally confronts the fails the movie ends with a scene taking place not long from then with a woman arriving at the now strangely much more active rest stop in the bathroom building she hears nicole crying for help in the closet locked in like tracy was she gets a policeman to go inside and check it but he finds an apparently normal and clean closet the cop leaves thinking he's been tricked a battered nicole is seen coming out from behind some boxes in the closet she would have been easily spotted if the cop had spent all of 10 seconds looking apparently too stupid to have said or done anything when the policeman was there wow br br this movie is apparently the first in a new line of quality direct to dvd movies marketed as being too extreme for theaters in reality it's just more cliché b movie garbage
0	this movie has got to be the biggest disappointment i've ever experienced with a film the acting is horrific the suspense build up minimal and the plot overall is ridiculous i found myself rooting for the victim to just hurry up and become a victim because she obviously needed to be put out of her misery anyone with rudimentary knowledge of how the world works will immediately be disgusted at the leaps we're asked to make in logic and the so called suspenseful buildup would be lucky to get a 3 year old to be mildly worried i'm dismayed that a sequel is planned because it means they'll be asking us to once again swallow a sub par plot line if this is an example of raw work i think i'll be avoiding any and all future films by them
0	there's something going on in this film directed by x files scribe john that has eluded me you get that feeling as the film moves that everything is not what it seems yet i feel the movie fails at giving you enough to go on to truly care afterward it's about perception there are characters the heroine nicole jaimie alexander meets in the film that she talks to that up and vanish this might seem like a spoiler but it's something that really only inherits a wee bit of focus on the filmmakers' part they seem to be poking fun at us as we watch curious at whether we should trust what nicole is seeing or not it never gets a proper answer and i for one was a bit clueless at the point there comes a time in a film when ambiguity can just be frustrating because the viewer is led on a wild goose chase that ends at a dead end with little explanation at what we just saw it ultimately feels like an exhausting exercise instead of a thrilling psycho drama now there's nothing wrong with ambiguity itself but give us something to latch onto or you will evade us that's how i felt as i watched rest stop this film is supposedly about a young woman named nicole who decides to run off to california with lover jesse joey to make it big in hollywood they make what is supposed to be a slight detour at a rest stop so that nicole can pee but it descends into terror for her when she finds that her jesse is completely missing someone in a crusty dusty yellow truck is a nut job who seems to be causing a lot of trouble to nicole and we soon realize that he is behind jesse's disappearance when things start to occur signs provided to her if you will she will have to find a way out of a very difficult situation nicole is far from any existing town and with limited resources to defend herself against a maniac who provides her with some strong evidence of how evil he can be br br that's the easy part when a female character comes into play the film makes a really bizarre leap from logic as we are not sure where she ever came from how she got there and more importantly where she goes once nicole tries to break her free from her supposed prison in the cabinet she meets another a police officer in the area joey lawrence who might seem like her savior but when he too is a victim of the truck driver startling things occur again that questions if he was ever actually even there to begin with the truck driver commits torturous acts to nicole like her up in the restroom and as she tries to untie a wire that the killer has wrapped around the door lock she receives a nasty bite from him he then sets fire to the restroom leaving her without a lasting place of refuge from the beast br br it's the timing of the truck driver's attacks that has me listless perhaps he just likes tormenting her but he appropriately appears in certain situations where nicole has time to flee or prepare it doesn't make much sense his motives which propel the film into an illogical idea why does he make himself so obvious why does he allow her to prepare it seems i'm going out on a limb here that he likes having his quarry believe they can find a way of escape only to stomp that hope out when he comes up with his next grisly attack yet why does decide to play with the viewer by having nicole experience odd meetings with people that don't exist what is and the writing team trying to say and to cap off the film's unhinged weirdness is a family in a rv they play a small part in the scheme of things as religious bigots themselves but the film doesn't do enough for the viewer to explain why they should be in this film at all
0	a young woman nicole jaimie alexander and her boyfriend jess joey become targets for a deranged serial killer after stopping for a at a remote road side rest stop br br what might have been an effectively scary chiller in more competent hands turns out to be a confusing ill considered mess under the sloppy direction of john who also wrote the screenplay there is a good deal of juicy violence a brief smattering of nudity and confident performances from the cast but the silly script leaves the viewer with so many unanswered questions one cannot help but feel disappointed br br on the surface the film plays out like a standard cliché ridden 'killer on the loose' movie but an ex writer for the x files throws in some subtle supernatural elements which suggest that his aim was something else entirely a ghost story with the rest stop acting as home to a vengeful spectre out to punish sinners br br by reading up on the film checking out viewers' theories here on imdb and watching the extras on the dvd certain plot elements begin to make a little more sense although even with the advantage of extra information there are still many questions left unanswered in my opinion any film that requires this much investigation to make itself only partially understood is not particularly a good one
0	i've never made one of these before but this movie was literally so bad i had to say something about it br br i'm all for independent film making as the past year has seen of the worst in my opinion of hollywood's showings the mainstream just seems to have lost touch with what making good films is all about that being said movies like this really give independent film a bad reputation br br the characters are boring and too stupid to empathize with the direction is horrible the plotting is horrible the plot itself is horrible stay away far away only one brief scene featuring a female's nude breasts and even that wasn't worth a second look br br the scariest thing about this movie is the idea of ever having to watch it again i gave it a 2 and not a 1 simply because the actors were visible and the sound was audible it earns one point for each of those traits
0	if you just want gore and nothing but gore and torture you've come to the right movie if you want a at least a sliver of good acting logic story or even a good guy ending go elsewhere br br i couldn't help but to think to myself are those people mentally challenged example after being chased around and seeing other people mutilated the main actress meets a police officer and spills out her story to the cop with tears and everything and told him about the psychopath that drives in a yellow truck the yellow truck pulls up and the officer just walks to it talks to the guy and the truck drives off without any trouble the actress comes out and says why didn't you arrest him and then the truck runs over the police officer after being rammed the truck stops on the road about 20 feet way just standing there while the actress tries to drag the cop away but he's too heavy at the time at that time the truck backs up and runs over the cops leg twice the truck then drives off why didn't the actress get the gun is beyond me which later she shoots the cop in the head twice because the psychopath was about to burn him alive once through the mouth which didn't kill him and twice to finish the job roll eyes right after that she turns away to escape the bathroom which was going to explode and when she climbs near the roof she turns around and the cop isn't there anymore ok br br another example the main actress meets a trapped woman in the bathroom she spits out like a gallon of blood on the floor covering about 1 of the room probably more after the main actress goes outside to grab a towel she comes back in and everything is gone they don't explain why everyone keeps disappearing either dumb dumb dumb br br i like horror thriller gore movies but this one was just way too dumb i lost brain cells watching this dribble and you shouldn't too
0	we have given this film one star for awful however it really depends on how you look at it we are currently watching this on channel 5 at 3 30am and we haven't stopped laughing so perhaps we could give it a 10 just for the entertainment value right from the outset with the thoughts of the stalker being relayed in comic fashion we were laughing is it me or does that chick from knott's landing look like one of the characters from the dark crystal br br i'm not going to spoil it for you however you would have to be pretty stupid not to see it coming i don't think its clever enough for double bluffs br br this has to be the worst best film we have ever seen if we'd been playing the 'spot the cliché' drinking game then we be wasted by now
0	every movie i have ppv'd because leonard maltin praised it to the skies has blown chunks every single one when will i ever learn br br is a raving old bag who thinks nothing of saying she's dying of breast cancer to get her way laura is an insufferable medusa filled with the holy spirit and her hubby's protégé caught between these harpies is dumb as a rock boy who has been pressed into weed pulling servitude by the old bag br br as i said when will i ever learn br br i was temporarily lifted out of my malaise when the old bag stuck her head in a sink but unfortunately she did not die i was temporarily lifted out of my malaise again when medusa got mowed down but unfortunately she did not die it should be a capital offense to torture audiences like this br br without harry potter to kick him around rupert is just a pair of big blue eyes that practically bulge out of its sockets julie scenery chewing especially the scene when she plays god is even more shameless than her character br br at least this harold bangs some bimbo instead of maude for that i am truly grateful and if you're reading this mr maltin you owe me 3 99
0	but it's not the plot isn't all that bad the actors aren't all terrible so it should be decent instead though despite a good starting point the plot just drags on and suffers from a lot of those i can't believe he she is so dumb moments so often used in horror movies to keep things going it frustrated me at times watching some of the decision made by the lead character also it took way too long to get to the good part of the movie anticipation is great but you can't spend over half the movie building it up a shame too since it got decent exposure upon release and hit right before the big halloween season even so i have a feeling this is going to get at least one sequel if not more so maybe they'll be able to build on the strong general plot to eventually release something decent
0	young couple on the road minding their own business and having casual sex in their car during broad daylight yet suddenly they're being menaced and terrorized by a deranged psychopath in an old and rusty pick up truck hmm where have i seen this premise before oh yeah now i remember we've seen this a thousand times before already and approximately nine hundred and ninety nine of the other cases were much better than rest stop this weak and pitiable new movie is insulting even to the intellect of the most undemanding horror fans as it doesn't feature a single original twist or memorable gimmick it's very sadistic and nasty but every teenkill slasher flick is sadistic and nasty nowadays so that's no real surprise anymore neither the absolute main problem with this production is the incredibly large amount of dumb plot holes and meaningless sub plots writer director john damn well realized that the ultra thin basic storyline nearly wasn't enough to fill a whole movie with and thus he stuffs up his film like a thanksgiving turkey with imbecile and nonsensical padding material nicole's boyfriend vanishes at an abandoned and filthy rest stop in california killing off her character right away wouldn't result in a very long movie and thus she subsequently encounters a motor home family of freaks suffers from visions in which she talks to the deranged killer's previous victims and she has deeply emotional and boring conversations with a police officer who just won't die even though a truck ran over him twice the dumb sub plots never lead anywhere and they're definitely the most pathetic and desperate attempts to stretch a movie's length i've ever seen instead of all the pointless padding should have paid more attention to building up tension and make his lead characters a little more likable jaimie alexander's character nicole is an annoying and brainless girl and you won't really care whether she'll survive the ordeal or not her boyfriend jesse as well as the cop are both whining losers and their brutal deaths still weren't painful enough if you ask me i counted exactly three sequences all including torture and gratuitous mutilation that were gory and exciting enough to bring a sadist smile on my face that's still way too few for a nowadays horror movie basically rest stop is simply a miserable attempt to cash in on the success of such films like wolf creek and hostel but you're better off watching the originals this was the first film of the new production company called they're promoting themselves as the new name in great horror but they'll have to come up with something much better than rest stop if they want us to believe that
0	apparently in the eyes of some there aren't enough horror films these days involving young people being chased across a desert by a mysterious bloodthirsty madman in a truck i mean all we have so far is joy ride wolf creek jeepers creepers monster man among others rest stop may very well be the worst out of those it is about a girl and her boyfriend who leave their lives behind to start over together in california along the way they stop at a grimy lavatory so the young lady can relieve herself but when she returns she finds that her boyfriend and his car are gone from there she learns that the culprit is a guy driving a yellow pickup who proceeds to stalk and terrorize her as she hides in the restrooms this movie is so unoriginal that it is flat out boring the acting is annoying the gore is mild and the killer whose identity is not revealed throughout the entire movie is anything but memorable terrible terrible film
0	i won't spoil it for you although you probably could care less if it was spoiled you'll know what i mean after you watch it poor story b rated movie quality typical horror stupid situations rare timing i should of known when they try to push a lot of hype in their advertising or even add quotes just tells me that the movie bombed big time and they are trying to pull in everyone just so they can break even with to cost of making this bomb i wish i could take back the time i spent watching this i was stupid and thought that there just had to be something great around the corner but i kept getting let down i don't usually waste my time adding comments to any movie in fact this is my second post i just felt maybe i could spare a few of you from wasting money on something that had a bunch of hype on it
0	if only he hadn't bowed to cliché mr could have actually made a good film from this story it was just different enough to keep you interested so for the same amount of time energy and money as was spent on this stinker we might have had something good instead of eye rolling br br production wise it is as good as one could really expect from a hand held camcorder so he gets good marks there it's really the script that's at fault as the acting wasn't all that bad either considering what the actors had to work with br br i thought the days were long gone when we would see someone finding a radio transceiver they desperately wish to operate first turn every knob on the thing from end to end bash it on top 6 or 7 times and then expect it to work this story is ruined by a continuous string of stupid moves by all the characters except the bad guy it's as though we are thought to be too shallow to grasp all the plot devices so they are all spoon fed to us to make sure we get them br br i don't know about you but that doesn't work on me my attention ends up being occupied by the plot holes and over dramatizations not the story br br so since i found this to be not so bad in the technical sense i think mr should try again only with a proper script next time then he might give us something worth watching
0	i do not write reviews here often but i can not stand by and let other people suffer through this movie without a least trying to warn them this movie is horrible and it is not because i do not know what the director was trying to convey or i am too stupid to understand the plot this movie is horrible because of poor direction screen writing and acting this is the trifecta of bad move making and the reason the film was direct to video it tries to be something like high tension hostel and with the lifting of some of those ideas but it just does not work i did not have high expectations or even medium ones going into the film but was still very disappointed it had potential to be very good with a nice setting and good idea for a film but it was wasted
0	the cookie cutter gets to work overtime in this obvious and unoriginal love story the plot such as it is has been done before a trillion times so there is no need to recount any of it suffice to say that all 12 year old girls will love this movie while the rest of us will be forced to make a face even the soundtrack is awful its not that i dislike figure skating although i don't its that i dislike cliched bad movies
0	nothing about this movie is any good it's a formulaic predictable romantic comedy geared to make females force their significant others to watch in other words it's a predictable chic flick that is neither comedic or romantic and is extraordinarily forgettable if you like watching the same thing over and over then this movie will fit just perfect i was also forced to watch this with my g f at the time and it's no surprise we are no longer together i enjoy great movies that are wonderful to watch while she just wants to see the same thing over and over again just with different actors nothing good to say about this movie the title says it all 1 10 one b c i can't give it a zero
0	another first this french movie is my introduction to the world eric rohmer perhaps i'm a bit hasty when i say that this is probably my last rohmer movie but i was immediately turned off by the way rohmer relies on monotonous philosophical conversations that never get to the point there is a scene in the movie where the characters discuss love that i thought was never going to end honestly no matter how much i tried i couldn't understand why rohmer is so highly regarded among cinephiles he struck me as being one of those obnoxiously petulant people who are filled with hot air if this is a sample of what his movies are about i'm not interested i don't care much for french cinema usually reflective and speculative to a fault so maybe i'm biased
0	being a huge fan of conte http www imdb com title i was expecting to be wowed by another french beach romance with a lot of honesty realism and humor same director same actress what could go wrong unfortunately pauline a la is a huge disappointment it's very slow and talkative which would be fine if the dialog conveyed insights into the characters was meaningful or original but it comes across as a typical soap opera alternating between irrelevant pillow talk and jealous accusations the only thing that saves this movie from being a complete disaster is a small amount of character development or at least character change with regards to pauline the source material is standard fare sexual awakening during a beach vacation but it could have been a decent film nevertheless if any of the characters were sufficiently interesting unfortunately that's not the case event though there are other shortcomings with rohmer's season cycle most of his later films are definitely leagues above this one
0	awful in a bad good way this movie has officially become the worst made for tv movie in my book except for the camp value it offers i give it a 1 in quality and a 10 for the camp value suggestion watch with friends champagne and plenty of popcorn you'll want to throw some at the screen preferably friends who like chris noth from his 'sex in the city days' this movie is dreadfully funny this is definitely the lowest point in the careers of all cast members honestly i don't know how they controlled the laughter as the lines were delivered daniel j is absolutely pathetic everyone participated in the school of over acting and poor joan van ark i believe she was the only one taking this theater of the absurd seriously she is credited as a producer though her mom jeans and bad plastic surgery are scene this movie also crosses the oh so delicate line of social incorrectness when they introduce a mentally challenged character into the plot this is an obscure movie showing on lifetime listed as with harmful intent has anyone else had the pleasure
0	certain filmmakers can do no wrong in the eyes of national critics which is one reason you should never pay attention to them this film is a perfect example the critics like director eric rohmer br br this movie is a boring soap opera about a woman and a teenager pauline she's taking care of for the summer and the relationships they have with a few men it's talk talk talk and more talk br br for those looking at the cover and hoping to be titillated there are a few quick nude shots and a couple of swear words but otherwise this is a harmless french morality play a friend of mine loaned me this tape he thought he was getting some sexy french film and was disappointed i was just as disappointed because it also was so boring br br how this gets such great reviews is almost unfathomable
0	and totally non scary film the characters doesn't interest at all and most of the time is spent in a car the dog is at best ugly never really scary to interest a more threatening menace would have been needed at least a few people you care for and evokes some emotions in you and not the least something interesting must happen something unexpected as it is this film just drags on and on in what seems like forever maybe a saint bernhard was not that smart to choose as the terrible threat to life and society br br in most scary movies thrillers mystery just whatever genre there must be characters that sparks interest and makes you want to know what happens here you really don't care you just wait for it all to stop and wondering if it wouldn't be better to see something else one of the weakest king adaptations
0	cujo is a giant lovable gentle and affectionate st bernard owned by the family during the opening sequence cujo chases a rabbit over fields and through a local wood somewhere in castle rock maine the rabbit disappears into a burrow and cujo sticks his head into the entrance hole the rabbit vanishes from sight angry cujo starts to bark and in doing so inadvertently wakes up and annoy a colony of bats one of which bites him on the nose donna trenton dee wallace stone as dee wallace is having an affair with steve christopher stone dee wallace's real life husband which her husband vic daniel hugh kelly who works in advertising discovers obviously their relationship becomes strained happily oblivious to all of this is their young son tad danny joe ed lauter fixes cars for a living out of his barn on his farmhouse joe is planning a guys weekend with one of his friends gary mills watson when his wife charity lee wins 5 000 on the lottery and decides to take their young boy brett billy jayne as billy jacoby with her on a trip to see her parents arriving at gary's house to pick him up joe finds him dead on the floor he goes into the kitchen to call for help and his dog cujo who is now rabid attacks and kills him donna and tad drive to the farmhouse to try and get her car repaired the place is deserted except for cujo who is now completely rabid foaming at the mouth his fur stained red with blood and maddened by pain cujo attacks the car to try and get at donna and tad luckily for them the windows hold firm at least for the time being anyway donna tries to start the car but it has completely broken down they are both trapped with nothing but the hope that someone will come and rescue them cujo lies in wait ready to attack and kill anyone who crosses his path directed by lewis i thought the film was a bit slow for my tastes the first half plods along the second half builds up a head of steam but i still felt it was a little underwhelming and unexciting the acting is fine by everyone involved i've no complaints there technically the film is ok photography music special effects editing and it's generally well made the big problem is the script by don carlos dunaway and lauren and in particular it's first half most of which appears to be padding to stretch the run time out clocking in at just under the 90 minute mark it felt longer it's also a little predictable as well cujo as a monster never really scared me either i just don't find slobbering overweight st scary i guess i suppose there's nothing really wrong with it but i don't think i'd be in a hurry to see it again average not too bad if you can find a copy going cheap or catch it on t v for free
0	not me if it came down to it i could kick a dog's ass and that's why this movie doesn't work for me if it was me against the alien or jason or hell i dunno any other horror movie antagonist then there'd be no contest and i'd have my ass handed to me barring divine intervention a horror movie works because it puts people in a situation with a creature person being entity whatever that is more powerful or resourceful or intelligent than they are and then people think 'well what if that happened to me' and they get scared and that's why this is a horrible idea for a story i can't imagine myself being terrorized by a dog so i'm not scared
0	br br man i just cant believe this movie i have watched it entirely believe me i have done this and the best part was the on the beginning and i hate br br no plot no acting no nothing i was watching the movie and thinking when this is going to start it never started how people can spend money and time to make such a crap br br the plot a dog gets bitten by a bat and get rabies okay until now no problem nothing special but ok now the rest of the movie will be the dog will chase people thats it nothing else now add to this some of the worse actings actors i have ever seem some completely scenes and some others really idiotic like the child cant breath and the mother gives him a big and strong hug to see if he gets better and a very lame ending thats it here you have crap ops cujo br br do your self a favor and make something more worthy like your head against the wall or play chess with yourself br br zero out of 10 br br gabriel
0	don't get me wrong i love stephen king and this is a pretty good movie over all the rabid cujo is very scary and the movie is suspenseful but after the first few minutes that poor donna and her little son tad were held captive in their pinto by the rabid st bernard i began to wonder why she didn't do something to help herself br br she could have stuck her foot out the door and pushed the car backwards i mean it was a pinto for pete's sake and they were on a downhill incline and rolled to safety but then it would have been a very short movie when she got the car started did she pop it into reverse and hope that she could get at least get part way down the driveway no she tries to make a three point turn in a car with a bad she did manage to get out of the car and look around for 45 seconds or so at one point to try and get to a baseball bat that was lying on the ground nearby what a waste of time i mean if you're going to make a run for the bat do it and at least you'll have something to hit the dog with but forget the bat were there no tools in the car like a tire iron or something i didn't see her looking in the spare tire well of the car really why wait until you're bitten and weak from and your son is having seizures before you make a stand against the animal br br at the end of the movie she was battered and torn but by god she was still wearing high heels
0	1983 was a bumper year for stephen king books making it to the big screen christine the dead zone and cujo were all released within a few months of each other while the dead zone was easily the pick of the bunch christine and cujo were both pretty bad and it's a close run thing as to which is the lesser of the two if pushed for an answer i'd say cujo marginally is the weakest br br donna trenton dee wallace fresh from success as elliot's mom in e t the extra terrestrial is a mother whose marriage to husband vic daniel hugh kelly is hanging by a thread she's been having an affair with a local worker and is now dwelling on whether or not to leave her husband dragged into the marital heartache is young tad trenton danny son of donna and vic and a pretty messed up kid with a chronic phobia of the dark which often leads to severe panic attacks donna and tad take the family car to a nearby yard for repairs but as they arrive their car to a halt things get a heck of a lot worse when they discover that the mechanic joe ed lauter isn't there he has been savagely killed by his pet dog cujo a gigantic st bernard which was recently bitten and infected by a rabid bat soon the dog has them trapped in their car and is trying everything to get inside the vehicle to tear apart these two hapless victims the weather is hot not a living soul knows they're there the car won't start and the dog seriously wants their blood br br cujo has potential to be a genuinely taut siege thriller but it never really clicks into gear i've read the book and it is quite disappointing certainly for king so it's hardly surprising that the film version amounts to so little on the printed page king was at least able to generate a degree of tension but the film is critically hampered by the fact that a st bernard simply isn't very scary the of the film medium serves as a constant reminder that cujo is a st bernard in the book it was possible to forget this in the book cujo sometimes almost seemed to assume the guise of a monster even with the relatively short running time of an hour and a half cujo becomes a tedious and patience straining experience occasionally unintentionally funny and certainly never as suspenseful as it would like to be they've even omitted the book's cruelly downbeat ending and replaced it with an all's well that ends well conclusion so that audiences can go home in a cheerful mood chalk this one down as yet another inferior king adaptation
0	it takes an eternity for this typically over simplistic and idiotic stephen king based film to finally get out of the starting blocks about half an hour is spent on needless introductions to various boring characters and their irrelevant little personal problems that might excite bored housewives and apathetic in soapy dramas but this is supposed to be the horror genre or so i naively thought the mutt fails to look all that fearsome which leonard maltin the notoriously clueless hopeless and always grinning film critic would disagree with he considers cujo to be genuinely frightening i often do have to wonder if maltin is genuinely thick or merely likes to do favors for his hollywood friends it's both illogical and inconsistent the way wallace survives an attack with only a leg injury and naturally her car breaks down just when she needs it to save her life this is one of the oldest horror film clichés trust king to use it to minimum effect the premise is imbecilic too banal even for a horror film a rabid mutt attacks a family is that it this sort of thing barely constitutes a 3 minute sub sub plot in your average zombie film i think even cujo must have sensed that he was starring in a turkey have terrible agents but what i really don't understand is how people can actually throw themselves at the cujo book and read it from cover to cover these fans must be immortal that's the only explanation i e why they treat time as such a meaningless commodity br br bodycount 3
0	cujo is a movie adaptation of a novel of the same name written by stephen king br br i've never read the novel but just scanning the comments page has given me some insight i noticed a reference to the change in the ending br br the plot of the movie is as follows a st bernard dog gets bitten by a rabid bat and goes on a killing spree br br the plot sounds quite worn now having been done in various movies however it might have been something new when king wrote the novel or perhaps king's novel put a twist on the story that was never shown in the movie br br anyway the first 40 minutes of this movie have nothing at all worth mentioning other than the dog being bitten nothing else happens nothing scary nothing funny nothing to add depth to the characters and nothing interesting in any other respect i found this section difficult to sit through and was constantly shouting at the tv come on get started the events that i was seeing on the screen were reminiscent of a tv movie of the drama genre or an extended episode of a tv soap opera unfortunately there was only one family in the movie given any focus so it couldn't even work on a soap opera level the dog was the best character in the movie but it didn't get enough screen time in this section there was nothing to indicate why this dog would go on a killing spree later br br after the 40 minute mark point something finally happened the dog suddenly transformed from a lovable pet into a vicious killing machine it began attacking some people there was also an interesting cat and mouse chase when two characters became trapped in a car unable to leave because the dog would attack them even in this overly long second half the suspense would build up well before dying again it was just a stop go situation repeated over and over again until the movie reached its conclusion br br without giving the ending away i can tell you it was very formulaic and unworthy of a stephen king story br br the suspense scenes when they are on the screen are exciting to watch some great camera angles add menace to the dog's vicious nature when he attacks people this is particularly important because as others have mentioned a st bernard dog is nowhere near as scary as say a rottweiler unfortunately the movie fails to utilise suspenseful music to support the images on the screen the music is far too melodramatic rather than suspenseful this may fit a tv movie but it looks incredibly out of place in what should be a dark toned movie presenting a living nightmare to the viewer br br this brings me on to a wider problem with this movie the photography the camera work and especially the choice of colours make this seem like a very cheap tv movie one would expect to see as the daytime movie on channel 5 here in the uk where i am writing this comment from br br the top two actors deliver good acting performances that help to breathe life into the movie's dull segments dee wallace and danny should be given credit for doing a great job with the poor material they are given i could forgive a few brief moments of overacting by paying closer attention to the dialogue which could not have allowed any other interpretation in my opinion i won't pass judgement on the other actors because they are given virtually nothing to do br br as someone who is a fan of salem's lot and stephen king's it both movie adaptations of famous stephen king novels i had high expectations for this movie but it turned out to be a massive disappointment br br overall i do not recommend fans of stephen king or horror movies in general to watch cujo this is one of those moments where i have to recommend the book rather than the movie hopefully it brings the story to life in a way that the movie failed to do
0	i am writing this with 10 minutes left before the film finishes i feel comfortable writing it now because unfortunately i know exactly how this film is going to end br br the premise is simple enough rabid dog on the loose in a small town kills people great simple plot for a good fun camp 80s horror br br uhh no br br the main problem is this is based on a book stephen king and you can tell that is should not have really been adapted to film at least not with the same plot why cuz its boring the first 45 minutes tries to build depth to its main characters and create suspense it however lasts too long half the film the characters are unlikeable and we never care for them anyway and it just about creates zero suspense the easiest film according to plot and time to compare this to it the classic jaws everything that jaws does right cujo does wrong jaws created good characters and a genuine feeling of dread cujo does neither jaws effectively creates a scary creepy villain in its shark cujo has a dirty st bernard running about growling and jumping and not a lot else jaws is exciting and unpredictable cujo is a tireless bore that remains predictable right to the end br br also confusing is the plethora of subplots that just act as boring red herrings to the films main plot br br if this film was rewritten for the big screen and had a better director this could have been good but it wasn't it was a waste of 90 minutes of my life br br people on here are saying this is one of the best king adaptations im sorry you could not be more wrong the mist is a hundred times better thinner is 10 times better and even the one with the cats is twice as good this in my opinion is one of the worst the only good thing was the action scenes with the dog looked real even though they were dull br br films ended now and it didn't get any better avoid
0	well i notice imdb has not offered any plot info that's because it's not possible to do that without sounding vile and disgusting because that's what this movie is vile and disgusting i watched it because i am a humongous fan of chris noth whom i have met in person and he is a great guy but if i ever meet him again i will have no qualms about asking him whatever him to star in something so awful he plays a former child prodigy who is now a brilliant doctor who spends his spare time running over small children with his car with the intent of maiming and crippling them this is not a spoiler because all this is made very clear from the begining sickening enough oh it gets better he is manipulated into doing this by his incestuous sister who threatens to with hold sexual favors from him if their latest victim fails to die even clive barker couldn't write anything so hideous please if you want to see chris noth in something worthy of his talent rent teddy roosevelt and the
0	why oh why is this trash considered a classic i've seen higher body counts on episodes of the simpsons virtually nothing happens in this film and much of it's running time is filled with nearly unbearable melodrama straight out of a low rent soap opera br br the trenton family are going through tough times and when dad is away mommy and little boy go to get the car fixed but when they get to the ranch they discover that the guard dog has gone mad the rest of the film is just them sitting in the car while the slobbering st bernard circles them over and over br br regarding the kid i have never ever seen a more annoying child in a film in my life and obviously he's completely aryan since blonde haired and blue eyed kids such as the one prominently featured on of kinder chocolate are apparently more sympathetic than people with brown eyes and dark hair like me all he does is cry and whine same goes for mommy she gets out the car she gets in the car she gets out the car she gets in the car br br i know this was made in 1983 but i just sick to death of horror films where the characters make stupid illogical decisions if mommy just used some common sense she'd be able to get away from the icky dog br br it's very poorly written and there's zero tension if you want to see a good bad dog movie then check out john man's best friend it's funny inventive has a better dog a higher body count and a more involving story leave this garbage be
0	although charlie chaplin made some great short comedies in the late 1910's others don't quite make it examples like his new job and come to mind and i would also the in this category br br charlie gets mistaken for a manager of a department store and vice versa this manager tries to steal money from the cash register and make a run for it and charlie is just an honest costumer but getting blamed for some missing objects stolen by other costumers br br there aren't many laughs in it except for the last couple of minutes or so with some great scenes on the escalator for the rest quite disappointing br br 4 10
0	this movie was extremely boring i only laughed a few times i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner's name on the cover it's all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist he meets a prostitute she takes him to a club called the playground where he befriends several pimps when mayor tony gold shatner decides to take over the pimp business lil' pimp must lay down for his homies br br the animation isn't very good in this it looks like it was made with macromedia which i'm sure it was it doesn't suck it's just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years the humor in this is not very good i didn't think any of it was funny
0	first things first i am by no means a picky movie watcher i'm not one of those people who gets movies just to pick apart the flaws and criticize i like most other people watch to be entertained i'll basically watch any type of movie of no matter how bad anyone says it is sometimes a movie's so terribly made and written that it invokes a sort of pity humor which i get a kick out of with all that aside lil pimp was simply pathetic i saw it on tv and just didn't know what i was watching it was too poorly written and cheesy to be an adult movie and had way too much sex innuendo and swearing to be a kid's movie in fact i doubt even kids would be amused by it the humor pretty generous even calling it that was so pretentious and campy i couldn't see how anyone with half a mind could even find it funny the only thing that made me laugh was how people like bernie mac and ludicrous could put their name and time onto into something so hurting character was such a cheap ploy for laughs which fell extremely short of its goal the plot didn't make any sense whatsoever the storyline has got to be the worst sequence of events ever put together on screen i could keep going on but i want to see what people think of my reaction before i start discussing specific instances of pathetic scenes all i have to say is it really has to make ya wonder how much time these writers spent on their knees trying ta get it made br br j
0	lil pimp is the story of a little boy who becomes a pimp the animation and voice acting were perfect for this type of film br br i laughed out loud for the first 20 minutes or so of this movie mostly at the concept after that the joke wore thin as a 15 20 minute animated short lil pimp would have been a classic instead this movie consists entirely of one joke that lasts far too long br br voiced by ludicrous does have several crude and funny one liners unfortunately that is all the boy's pet rat is good for as he contributes nothing else to the story eventually i grew as bored with his remarks as i did the rest of this movie br br i am a big fan of south park and other animation aimed at adults i also play several online pimp games so i am partial to stories about pimps the transition from little boy to lil pimp was brilliant but after that both the story and dialog became redundant and predictable br br i give this movie a five it is worth watching for the great concept and voice acting just do not expect much else or you will be quite disappointed
0	i mean really really really high and this movie has a shot at entertainment i don't mean regular high i mean the high where reading the would have you in stitches otherwise save the time out of your life and go do something more constructive with it like hitting your head on a brick wall and insulting your own intelligence a complete waste of talent in some cases bernie mac john c mcginley tom kenny and the master of hams shatner and exactly the kind of crap they deserve to make the myriad of rappers who insist on making movies not without it's laughs again chemical aid is crucial and certainly not without offending the politically over sensitive which i'm always in favor of but ultimately not worth the time out of your life
0	one of the commentators on the subject of lil' pimp of glen cove got it right when he she stated that the movie is really bad but i take exception when he she commented on the animation br br the animation wasn't bad because of macromedia flash it was bad animation because it was directed wrong flash is just a tool in the right hands an artist can create animation as full and fluid as any disney film and in the wrong hands it can look as bad as the stuff on the internet which is where lil' pimp originated and should've stayed there br br studios such as cartoon network nickelodeon disney and warner bros create wonderful animation using flash i e puffy ami yumi foster's home for imaginary friends etc br br lil' pimp was an ill conceived piece of tripe that was made because revolution studios bought media tripp and lil' pimp was one of the properties included roth and company thought they'd make a quick buck exploiting a turd like lil' pimp and the sham was perpetuated by it's producer amy the reason for this third trimester abortion of an animated film is that none of the executives at revolution studios had the pragmatic brains to sideline mark brooks and peter they really tried their best but were way in over their heads and hire real writers directors and at least a semi competent producer they did one thing correctly though they hired some of the best designers and animators in la but as lil' pimp demonstrates one can buy the best sports car on the floor but if you're a moron you'll wreck it for sure
0	this conglomeration fails so miserably on every level that it is difficult to decide what to say it doesn't merit one line much less ten but to adhere to the rules of imdb here goes and i probably won't succeed the first time around and have to type some more to make up for this submission to be accepted lol br br if i had seen this schlock during the '70s while i was going through my mushroom phase i would have still considered it unimaginative and shallow the most exciting shot for me was the long shot when the elevator door opened and closed i was on the edge of my seat br br one person on here wrote that he had met the creator of this mess as if that were a red letter day in his life one can only pray that something far more exciting occurs in that posters life get a grip amigo
0	it looks like people involved with this movie are stuffing the ballot box to boost its ratings the good news that apparently only 18 people have seen it i suppose that makes me the 19th i have no involvement with the flick and don't know anyone who did and i'm a long time imdb user check my vote record and reviews over the past seven years so i promise i'm giving an honest and unbiased opinion it's coming to you from a 30 year horror fan who has also appeared in a couple of low budget flicks himself br br aside from a couple of interesting video effects bloody nightmare is incoherent boring and technically flawed beyond all reason it was apparently shot on silent stock and the audio then dubbed in most of it sounds like it was recorded with a tin can and a piece of string anyhow more than three quarters of the dialog is inaudible br br i watched this from beginning to end and have no idea of what the story was or even if there was one it seems like the director is mostly impressing himself with long panning shots of the corners of table and dead black spaces that do nothing but pad the film out that would be a problem if one were actually developing a plot and making a film that had some sense of pacing in this case though the rule doesn't apply it doesn't matter how scenes are shot because they don't add up to a story br br watching this video is an exercise in futility at every level whatever people who worked on it are writing and however they're trying to influence the ratings here on imdb this is just bad tedious stuff br br that's the honest truth if you're thinking of spending your money or time on this one think again it's easy to find something better because you won't find much worse br br and that's the unbiased unvarnished truth
0	this is a pretty simplistic romance girl finds boy girl loves boy girl loses boy girl finds boy colleen moore is the outstanding ingredient in this recipe delivering a wonderfully varied dramatic romantic performance well deserving of an oscar nom equally fine are the aerial combat special effects br br moore plays a french girl whose mother has turned over their field to a british aerial squadron during wwi she is the daughter of the regiment loved as a little sister into this mix comes a fill in for a downed flyer gary cooper at first they hate each other then they love each other then the entire squadron is sent out on a suicide mission cooper returns but crashes in the village and a red cross unit removes him moore searches for him is told at a hospital he is dead then wanders the streets until he calls from a hospital window and they are reunited br br it's a nice little romance but hardly more than that recommended for fans of ms moore and mr cooper
0	my mom would not let me watch this film when i was in grade 2 because she said it was too violent well years later and the only reason i remember this film is because of my mom i stayed up and watch it on pbs well maybe the build up after all these year lead to the big of this film but i found it lame it did not age well and this made the acting choppy huge unbelievable holes in the script but there is a few cool scenes like car chases and a big gun fight i will not stay up for this film again
0	this film is by far the worst film i have ever seen in my life a woman the ex pretends to be a number of people in order to gain access to her ex husband killing people for no reason in baths to achieve her goal the women i don't think ever went to acting college she just spends the whole film making stupid expressions and she looks like she is trying her absolute hardest to avoid looking into the camera failing on most occasions she makes friends with her ex husband's wife and son she does this to use them against her husband at first when you watch this film you think that the ex wants to kill her ex husband maybe because he has treated her in a bad way but in fact the women is obsessed with the man and wants him back the two of them used to enjoy rough entertainment using whips of course my advice to the general public is do not buy this film do not rent this film and do not watch it like i did at 1 on fox
0	totally forgettable and almost unwatchable if you enjoy bad acting thin plots and predictably weak outcomes pull up a chair of passing interest to see bridget fonda look a like suzy amis
0	the material is poor the script's dreadful the acting mediocre at best and the music telegraphs what the scene is supposed to be communicating like a kick in the head br br give this one a miss even yancy butlers not hot enough even in the semi nude scenes to save this tripe br br i'm amazed people rave about yancy butler given what i've seen here and in the couple of other things i've seen her in she hasn't got the depth or presence to be a star and her off screen behaviour would tend to indicate she knows that as well br br last thing is where was this shot i don't recognise the externals
0	my husband wanted to watch this film because the review in the paper said that it was better than fatal attraction well not liking either michael douglas or glenn close i would have to agree not for conventional reasons though br br this is one of those films that needs to be watched late at night when you don't want to watch something that really requires thought but don't want to go to bed yet br br yancy butler is a really enjoyable bad guy she is not the best of actresses in fact she isn't even good but she is perfect for this role in this film everyone else in it varies from pine to oak including the slightly disturbing boy who comes across as a warped pinocchio br br spoiler the ending goes a step or two too far complete with the cliché not quite dead up with a roar still gonna get you moment and then there's a shot of pinocchio with his frozen wooden smirk which makes you wonder if they were going for chilling or just forgot there was botox in the make up br br regardless it's a hilarious eighty odd minutes and despite being a bad film you would have to be lacking the humour gene to not enjoy it somewhat don't pay for it but if you're in that kind of apathetic telly mood then this is just right
0	the only reason i watched this is because of its stars caspar van dien micheal pare eric roberts catherine jeniffer rubin all capable actors have given good performances in the past not this time a weak serial killer story you can guess who the killer is in the first scene very contrived in all aspects there is nothing to recommend in this disaster my rating is 1 2 poor
0	astounding that something like this could find its way to be viewed by the public i knew it was by uwe boll i found it in the bargain bin at a store for 2 still pretty steep considering but morbid curiosity led me to view this and br br 1 i am fairly sure this is a rip off of seven silence of the lambs and american psycho all rolled into one with dialog that may have been written by preteens br br 2 casper van dien plays the main character and he's so absolutely bizarre and creepy that just about anyone would know he must be the crazed serial killer br br 3 jennifer rubin plays the good cop that invites a serial killer to her apartment for a home cooked dinner and what does she get for her trouble i'll let you guess br br 4 michael pare plays an intense cop who drives a vw bug new style that is with a siren on it a vw bug that'll strike fear into criminal's hearts when they see that coming br br 5 van dien breaks up with his fiancé but she still has an not engaged party complete with not a wedding cake imagine everyone's surprise he shows up he was of course invited and they all get shot br br 6 actually this should have been 1 really the killer in this is known as the monkey maker this is without a doubt the stupidest killer name anyone could have come up with in a million years presumably it has something to do with the see no evil hear no evil speak no evil saying complete with monkeys it's possible that monkeys had something to do with the script too br br 7 oh yeah and there's a club that van dien visits near the beginning of the film there's bad disco music i mean really bad and a chain link fenced cage with uh gang members beating the crap out of each other with baseball bats that's what it looked like and of course this is only the tip of the iceberg the really cool stuff goes on in the basement where some questionable actor talks some woman into signing a confession before she gets shot this being i guess a snuff movie not quite sure how this fits in with the rest of the film and boll probably wasn't either so if he wasn't worried then i won't worry br br an incredible piece of non entertainment that will make you feel like you're watching something from a parallel universe a parallel universe that's kind of like ours but where things are just enough off where they don't seem right you have entered the boll zone exit as quickly as possible don't look back br br 2 out of 10
0	i went into this movie with low expectations knowing uwe boll's legacy as a film director and screenplay writer and i was still disappointed uwe boll finds a way to make each and every movie he is involved in worse and worse the overall concept wasn't a bad one a man bored with his life as a stock broker becomes a serial killer but the problem with the movie is there is no in between he goes straight from stock broker to serial killer the film has no name actors and i can see why after watching the movie i can't see why any actor with a career would want to even be involved in this movie anyone who turned it down did their careers a favor and if you haven't seen it do yourself a favor and don't br br i give a 3 out of 10
0	did uwe boll seriously just rip off the basic idea and dialogue from se7en why is it so difficult for this douchebag to be original he even mentioned in an interview with that he chooses stuff like games to make into movies because the characters plots backstories and so on are already there and ready for him to screw with br br guess it isn't too much of a stretch for him to rip off another movie entirely br br i mean seriously what the hell here's something i made in uwe's br br http com art uwe boll is a douchebag
0	oh my oh this is a really bad movie the acting is absolutely atrocious the script is god awful and the photography is simply dreadful br br what does make this movie stand out however is that you never once care about a single soul good guy or bad guy living dying or dead in the entire 87 minutes oh s he died huh figured they would was the best reaction i could muster after each murder characters are so black or white that with the volume turned off you could still figure out who was who while the cast's voices had an odd monotone quality throughout their faces give the impression that you're looking at an old silent movie with a lot of eyebrow exaggerated frowns and pensive looks each character is a humorless passionless one dimensional one trick pony once they fulfill whatever their particular role in this fiasco demanded their creation they are summarily dismissed br br it vaguely made me think of what would happen if thomas nielsen director writer of american title decided to do a low budget version of american psycho and got kind of distracted along the way br br this isn't a particularly gruesome movie the cold passionless cast ensures that it isn't an offensive movie the director plays it so safe that no one could possibly find it so it is simply and after all a bad movie br br avoid it we were not so fortunate and actually paid to watch this bomb on pay per view as part of my penance i'm writing this review br br enough said
0	you may not believe this but when the credits to this movie rolled i looked for the director's name when i saw it i burned it into my memory and i never forgot it this movie is beyond terrible it makes ed wood's films look like orsen welles at least b movies are entertaining this was a soul deadening experience the quality was so bad i began to wonder who allowed this to happen br br i hear uwe boll runs fourteen miles a day this is because wherever his movies are viewed the people must run him out of town with flame and pitchfork the script was terrible the lighting was like that of a high school football game and the cinematography was just above the quality of roger bigfoot video the acting was executed by people too ashamed of the production to say their lines with any credibility in the end was a film alan smithee wouldn't have put his name on i learned that day to avoid any movie by this man despite the circumstances from what i hear this is not a bad thing to do
0	i don't know if this exceptionally dull movie was intended as an unofficial sequel to 'the french connection but it does have many of the same drawbacks the script is so confusing that the viewer remains uninvolved and feels left out of the picture and the direction is so cold so lacking in energy that even the great chase sequence can't liven things up 1 2
0	my friend i rented this movie and within the first 5 mins we had no idea what was going on it felt like it should have been over within the first 15 mins it was a terrible movie my little brother could have been a better actor than some of the ones in the movie and the plot if you can call it that was full of holes never would i recommend this movie to my worst enemy yet anybody i actually like
0	oh my goodness i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon but here it is armed with rotten plot terrible editing stilted acting and headache inducing 'style' sorry i have no other words for it is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre that is this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better br br now not only is a terrible film in itself it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it right from the main titles nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se7en i was under the impression that something didn't smell quite right as soon as the movie started with a series of corny wanna be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors i knew where that smell was coming from br br it turns out that two policemen or rather policeman jim michael paré and policewoman dorothy smith jennifer rubin are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver a serial killer known as monkey killer what a menacing chilling nickname uh for his working methods has killed quite a lot of people you see this nut apparently works following the proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil and cuts eyes ears and tongues out of his victims so far six eyes six ears and three tongues in very ingenious fashion and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people well because he probably wants to complete the number 666 so suddenly the film focuses on tom casper van dien a young successful good looking businessman with a dreadful temper and that's where the rip off of american psycho kicks in br br so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath none of which is interesting in the least until they finally meet along the way to that a disco where barely misses unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory goes in the back of the disco club because well just because the script tells us it's a suspect place then with one single punch in the stomach renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path and the guard is never heard of again does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic br br anyway after another murder turns in as a witness but smith and especially immediately suspect he might be the killer in typical basic instinct fashion smith gets some dates with the young businessman under the assumption that she might discover his true identity br br i won't spoil the ending but it is quite simply an embarrassment there are contradictions some plot holes issues that never get resolved and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder supposed to be shocking and sad comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can't imagine how anyone could not laugh at it br br at 87 minutes is really pushing it you never care about one single character because they are all so flat not to mention boring that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them you are never pulled into the story because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place the acting ranges from average van dien to downright atrocious rubin and most of the supporting cast the music is abysmal generic techno and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen of course like every fiasco of the genre we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity br br 3 10
0	boom boom is a rip off from the movie amadeus i personally rate amadeus as one of my favorites not only because it is about music which is my favorite subject but also because it tells us the real story of a musical genius who is not only remembered for the voluminous works of beautiful music he produced during his life time but for his own self destructive nature and his tragic death at a young age of 35 being virtually during his life time because of the politics played by some people particularly the italian composer who was jealous of him br br personally i was shocked to see as the director has invariably cut pasted most of the scenes from the movie amadeus i see the worst kind of plagiarism in this movie and am skeptic about the kind of movies bollywood keeps on churning day by day the movie is a disaster the two musicians in the movie don't give you any feeling of being realistic the film is tasteless meaningless and total failure on every count the only person who makes an impact is bobby deol who at least knows how to act otherwise the whole cast looks like a bunch of amateurs br br the irony is that while watching the movie the first screen in the movie says that all characters in this movie are fictitious and that any resemblance with anyone is purely coincidental which is a blatant lie because all resemblances are very much clear and they are very much intended i wish i could take darshan and co to court not only for copyright infringement but also for mutilating a beautiful work of art
0	this movie lacks in everything except bobby deol who in his own standards is mediocre no one in this movie has come close to act in a single scene is complete fake in her acting br br the great anupam kher has a guest appearance and is better in those 2 minutes than bobby in the whole movie the music does'nt compliment the movie br br that well the contrast in music between bobby and is not highlighted that well great concept gone completely wrong the movie does'nt have a proper ending please don't waste your time as i did on this movie
0	most people get the luxury of typing in the title of a film and finding out about the film before watching it but unfortunately i've just never been one of those kind of people i wouldn't even read the synopsis for fear of spoilers but there are two sides to that because if you ignore such warnings and even give a film a chance after it has flopped in theatres you're entering at your own risk and might just end up with a bad taste in your mouth which is exactly how i feel about this stupid movie br br honestly the only thing good about crap crap are some of it songs and seriously excluding the title track even the ever promising talent metro gangster is seriously wasted here as she plays the woman who has captured the attention of both the leading male characters played by bobby deol who plays a j a rootless music producer and patel who plays an upcoming artist who crosses a j 's path celina jaitley provides the right amount of oomph required of a socialite who gets jilted by whom she helped get his foot in the record industry's door this doesn't sound like a mix or movie that should include anupam kher right well you're wrong because he's in it as father another wasted talent br br the film might not have been so bad had their not over killed the writing behind deol's character the moral message was too preachy revenge had a deadly dark side and the ending was way too overblown that it will make you wonder why you sat down to such a foolish movie in the first place truly this is the epitome of crap
0	now i like the bollywood films and i'm very glad they have recently gained success in the uk however latest effort is a deeply flawed film from start to finish br br the idea of a modern bollywood take on amadeus was quite an exciting one that is until the two supposed appear on the scene looking as if they have never touched a piece of manuscript in their lives patel is a very good looking man and the film plays to his narcissistic sensibilities but he is never once believable as a modern mozart in terms of acting all he can do is stand there and pout his expressions hair and clothes all look the same throughout including the scene where he is supposedly when in fact he appears to have nothing but a slight sniffle bobby deol playing the role does his best to liven up what little wooden script there is but alas just comes across as a little bit angry when he is supposed to be fuming with jealousy br br bollywood films are widely renowned for their stunning set pieces and colour schemes but looks like a drab bbc drama reproduction in fact the closest thing comes to is hollyoaks as it blatantly hides a really bad script behind beautiful people looking well beautiful he has yet to reach mediocrity the same could be said for the totally forgetful songs br br in short latest offering has no boom bang wallop or twang instead it merely plods along with its head held low hoping to catch your attention with a soft tap on the shoulder and that is not good enough at all
0	this movie is one of the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i waste my time on this i watched this movie completely as i took it a punishment for me i wonder how darshan could make such a movie it doesn't have any it feels he just shoot scenes and then joined them in some editing software music is of course good but the film doesn't need so many unwanted songs looks fake and i wonder what role does celina has in the movie bobby deol is good at least he can act patel needs to take some acting lessons rather than taking off his shirts in almost all the scenes the end was the most pathetic br br i watched boom boom after watching 300 the movie you guys can really imagine what i felt about this bollywood movie br br i really respect bollywood but please directors and producers get real not everything is fantasy
0	the film was half over before i managed to figure out what was going on it's a dog's breakfast of a movie about four family thanksgiving dinners the cliches and stereotypes tumble over each other when it's all over ten hours later well it seems like ten hours you're puzzling over what it was all about i don't want to see a movie about dinner table squabbling there is enough of it in my own family the turkeys looked pretty good the rest gave me indigestion
0	great premise poor execution cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written poorly directed poorly edited waste of film only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food br br joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agents
0	the concept show 4 families of diverse ethnicities in the fairfax district of l a preparing for the family get together at thanksgiving i loved soul food and how to make an american quilt i think there's a law that alfre woodard has to be in all these movies which similarly offered a pastiche of family traditions and was prepared for a treat instead i felt tricked they trot out about 40 characters and all but two are one note cliches with no finesse whatsoever the writers and director should spend a few more years learning about life and learn how loving people of different generations actually do relate instead you have a bunch of a holes getting together on turkey day to act like extra obnoxious a holes now to an extent this is what thanksgiving is all about but not this misguidedly and why bother having julianne then giving her absolutely nothing to do this was a chore to get through and mercedes ruehl is a standout but i give it a 4 10
0	with hong kong heart throb andy lau and veteran star ching wan lau chin has everything going for it for the beginning part of the movie unfortunately the movie falls apart at the end br br andy lau plays a sophisticated thief who only has 4 weeks to live but still has one thing unfinished he pulls an elaborated scheme tricking the police into helping him however the police is hot on his tail can he pull it off before being caught br br the build up of the movie is good bits of pieces of clues are left behind for the audiences to try to guess at the real intention unfortunately the build up leads to a disappointed final showdown it feels as if in the middle of the script the writer has changed and that all the build up becomes disconnected br br a 3 10
0	after watching this movie on a boring saturday afternoon i couldn't quite figure out why so many people liked it it wasn't heartwarming or clever it was merely an amalgam of every other mismatched people coming together during a holiday and despite their ideological differences learning something about each other movie ever made br br the characters are a stereotype we have the blacks the hispanics the jews the asians and the homosexuals and they never do anything except what everyone expects characters in a movie like this to do the black mother declares that it's all right then when it's mentioned that another black character is at church instead of helping prepare dinner because all blacks love church the hispanics seem only capable of speaking spanish when the greet each other or make exclamations the lesbians do nothing but cuddle and kiss and one of them wears a because all lesbians dress like ani difranco and the vietnamese family owns a video store in l a imagine that br br oh and the movie is called what's cooking because each ethnic family cooks a different version of what they think thanksgiving dinner should be the black mother wants and macaroni and cheese the hispanics are shown rolling the vietnamese family is deep frying spring rolls i'm surprised there wasn't a bottle of on the jewish table this is all shown via the time honored tradition of the musical montage where they play the rapidly switching the instruments used in the melody to reflect the respective cultures isn't that cute anyway once the director is finished establishing how different everyone is he attempts to show the inner humanity that we as all people of every race religion and culture share by inventing implausible and overly dramatic conflicts for each of the families to deal with it would be a plot killer to mention what each of these conflicts are but rest assured that they are indeed surprises that is if you have been sleeping for the first half of the movie the theme of disgracing the family runs pretty strong throughout br br all in all if you're the type of person who enjoys those new fangled movies that revolve around the stories of unlikely characters intertwining well you still won't like this movie if you like extended montages of food being passed around a table then you need to put this in your netflix queue but if stereotypes and clichés are endearing to you then make sure you ask for this for christmas or or
0	firstly i am a huge fan of crap films b grade is always good for a laugh unfortunately this film is just plain bad i dressed up as a zombie for a party and my make up looked better than the ones in this film especially the big guy at the beginning it just looked like a kid had drawn on his face with crayons br br the acting is so bad i need not comment on why the effect are also extremely amateurish with obvious blood tubes firing a straight jet of blood out the back of zombies heads when they get shot br br it also seems many people commenting on this movie are trying to boost the rating nobody without their finger in the pie would rate this film above a 5 10 frankly it is disgraceful that people who worked on this film are boosting their own ratings br br i suggest everyone avoid this movie it isn't worth wasting the 90 minutes of your life br br absolutely awful
0	wow i was told this would be a b movie worth watching i feel that i was misled after seeing this preview event the plot is a twisted make of several films at best even the title is a take on another film if you can give the movie that much credit i am sorry to say that i was taken to the cleaners i wouldn't waste your time on this one this movie appears to be a bunch of wannabes who got together and made a poor idea of a movie on a weekend with a borrowed camera being in the entertainment business i can judge a decent film and this one deserves to be shelved or discarded my advice stick to a classic like the 1979 dawn of the dead on a scale of 1 to 10 even a 1 is being nice to producers because this movie blows below limit of what sucks the producers need to stay with their daytime jobs if you do view the movie please be honest in your posting this one seems to have been hyped up and inflated by a few there are a few who have seen this for what it is and posted correctly sorry but i have to say this is one to be skipped
0	down at the movie gallery i saw a flick i just had to see it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into yeah i knew it would suck but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs only a few laughs were to be found this was an extremely stupid movie it begins with a bounty hunter our protagonist who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris but he can't his dialogue sucks too anyway he goes into a village shoots some zombies you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes 3 5 minutes to reload or watch some zombies at least the zombies look cool so anyway some people get shot some zombies die and in the end everyone is dead except our main character who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people
0	this movie baffled me i could not get a grip on it thought i might be missing something glad to see that most of you agree with me this isn't always the case see my recent review of re extinction br br to expound upon the faults of this film any further would be a glorious waste of time so i will br br they're dressed like cowboys but it's modern times right no i don't get it when i picked up the box i thought zombie western cool that's how it was presented haven't seen that yet hope they did a good job br br they didn't they tried to create an iconic character that would spawn a series they didn't br br they tried to make an aussie indie zombie flick on the caliber and perhaps riding on the coat tails of the very well done undead they didn't br br okay maybe they just wanted to make a confusing disjointed mess of film salad that might ultimately be edited into something watchable they didn't this is the new number 2 on my list of worst zombie movies ever there are really just the two so far day of the dead being the first not to be confused with day of the dead which is one of my favorite zombie movies of all time if you're gonna make a zombie movie and i'm not a zombie movie maker i'm just a connoisseur make a good one flight of the living dead is a good example of decent recent zombie filmaking fyi br br if you're really forgiving you might think well didn't they at least throw in something to make us feel like we didn't want our money back guess what they didn't
0	the production company for this film calls itself entertainment' and that is a surprisingly apt name this very is very entertaining from start to finish which is a shame because a mix of zombie movie and western could have been interesting every time a low budget zombie movie is released it will tend to be for the fans by the fans i do actually consider myself a fan of zombie movies but too many more like this one and i'll be re evaluating my opinion the film seems to be a rip off of the half decent aussie zombie flick expect instead of just having the lead in a cowboy hat everyone is wearing one but this doesn't make a lot of sense because the film is apparently set in modern times the credits sequence at the start of the movie fools us into believing that we're going to be in for an atmospheric film but when the movie starts properly it soon becomes apparent what we're actually in for naturally there's a fair amount of gore and it is actually fairly well done though the good things i have to say about the film pretty much end there there's a twist half way through which might have been interesting if the rest of the film was overall this is just another zombie movie in a world with far too many zombie movies i don't recommend it
0	this is a entertaingly bad b movie actually it really is much better quality than a lot of b movies it had a consistent script decent direction and i have seen worse acting the zombies were great clearly these were romero zombies and was really a interesting zombie story obviously not oscar material and if your not into zombie movies or b movies you probably wont enjoy this but if you are you'll like this movie br br the main clint eastwood knockoff western character guy is pretty good although they never really clearly explain how he can heal himself from gunshots and zombie bites but if he has more than a line of dialogue that where his bad acting is really evident br br it was a good ending to at least i thought so romero should be flattered if he ever saw this
0	unreal after reading the initial reviews posted by alleged reviewers i was shocked to find that almost all of the initial reviews 38 all rated this film a 10 upon comparison with other great films these reviewers felt that the quick and the undead is a better film than the 6th sense 8 2 saving private ryan 8 4 lord of the rings 8 7 godfather 9 5 gladiator 8 1 and dawn of the dead 7 8 to name a few hopefully these shills utilize their next discounted procedure that they hear of because it is completely obvious that these reviews have been br br i was led to believe that this film featured a unique concept in the genre of zombie film making sadly upon watching the quick and the undead it is obvious that these reviews were generated by people who either were involved in the production or have a vested interest in the films marketability financial success nothing cements this in my mind more than hearing that a portion of this film was shot in texas were coincidentally allot of the early posting praising the film are from the zombie film horror b movie culture on a whole is a forgiving group but this film is sadly beyond any redemption the characters are recycled and the plot poor the film quality was not bad enough to be labeled camcorder and at least they used a film quality camera the acting is horrible the star trying unsuccessfully to come off as a clint eastwood wanna be clone christ on a bike even the lead actor's name is clint he was just terrible the only resemblance to clint eastwood is that the lead is using the wood from eastwood's name in his style of acting the zombie makeup was above halloween party quality but not applied completely to the full undead cast members allot of zombies were not made up on their hands the plot was so hokey that it had me hoping for a power outage a blemish on the dvd disk or that the zombies would turn their attention on the director maybe the film has worth to some viewers but not for my hard earned dollar luckily i used my free rental coupon to check out this dvd maybe this film will be rescued by nott entertainment aptly named releasing a special collectors dvd which will tie up loose flaws and deliver the promised goods some how i think nott lets just hope that their next release the flesh keeper is truly a keeper of a film and not a 5th generation recycled version of the texas chainsaw massacre fingers crossed here folks but only if you care
0	new rule nobody is allowed to make any more zombie movies unless they actually come up with an original idea br br sadly this movie doesn't they have the premise that bounty hunters go out and kill zombies and prove it by cutting off their fingers well problems with that most people have ten fingers why not just collect ten for one zombie why not just kill a regular person and pass that off as a zombie finger br br not to mention the utter silliness of hunting zombies with a bolt action rifle br br i sometimes think films like this are resume fillers for makeup and fx guys hey this is what i did with ten dollars and some bottles deposit imagine what i could do if you gave me a budget do you think anyone goes to drama school or cinema school to star in a zombie movie i went to the school of the arts check me out as the tunnel zombie in quick and the undead his mother must be so proud br br these had to be the wimpiest zombies ever as a whole crowed of them apparently couldn't push down a wooden door or even break a glass window no they had to wait for the bounty hunter to open the door for them
0	i watched this movie a couple months ago when it first showed up on the shelves of blockbuster it is officially the only movie that i've wanted to undo watching let me start off by saying that i like b movies i consider ice pirates one of the best comedies ever i'll also note that i'm a writer and that i've met the director writer of this cinematic marvel br br evaluating the acting if i was going to pick a bright spot i'd have to point out that dion day had an admirable acting debut with his role in this for those who don't know dion is a boxer not an actor so we'll forgive him his lame death sequence why doesn't he fire the shotgun he's holding once budget to highlight the bad acting would take pages so i'll stick to the egotistical lead which seems like a name chosen from a comic book because it sounded cool has maximum face time in this movie probably because he was a producer his looks are completely fine but his delivery evokes memories of snl ripping on soap operas i suppose he could only do so much with what was written for him but part of the blame is definitely his br br special effects not my specialty but for a low budget flick i suppose the makeup and gun play was acceptable it didn't bother me but it also didn't impress br br writing directing oscar for best screenplay is not something i can foresee gerald nott ever winning not only is the plot rudimentary but the dialog is flat and stilted i understand stylized ness but this was just bad writing the thing that bothered me most was the theft nott stole scenes shots and facial hair from a slew of other movies the scene where russel crow is walking through the wheat field in gladiator entire sequences from the good the bad and the ugly that sort of thing just doesn't cut it with me i'll choose not to comment on the shooting because i don't know what it takes to establish a good shot etc br br conclusion don't rent this movie don't even pirate it it's far too bad to waste any time on the good reviews may be entirely bogus after meeting gerry it seems more then likely that he is posting them himself
0	the main character of this sex filled drivel mel ethan hunt notes on several occasions she deserves better than this the she he refers to is ginger played by beautiful brandy davis who indeed does deserve better than this brandy deserves better than this film its lame script and perverted mel a guy who gets off at watching his dream girl have sex with another man even in virtual world seriously does not deserve her at all an a for the simulated sex scenes an f for the script
0	i'm no director or writer or anything related to a movie but watching more than 1 movie everyday has given me the idea of what is a good movie or not so here it is the quick and the undead is a rip off of the quick and the dead i was thinking that it could be a little bit of a parody of a cool movie with lots of starts in it but oh no i was really in for an very big disappointment br br to put it simply the movie sucks i'm a big fan of gore movies but this one just gives you gore here and there but they are not that consistent br br but i have to give them credit in creating gruesome characters which has given me a little bit of squirm br br if you're a big fan of zombies watch this if you're not better look for other rob zombie films
0	well here we have a zombie movie that perhaps isn't even being much of a zombie movie the entire movie is set in a zombie plagued near future but yet the movie does very little with this concept instead it focuses on a zombie hunter who is trying to get revenge and his money back from a group of other bounty hunters what good is money anyway when almost the entire world has gone to hell and towns are mostly desolate and why pay money to people for killing zombies in the first place as if people would not go on to kill this dangerous threatening monsters when they are not getting paid br br needless to say that the story for the quick and the undead is far from a tight one it of course also isn't being filled with the most logical and interesting moments characters or dialog br br still it's not a completely horrible movie it certainly ain't as bad as some people try to make you believe it is it's a rather good looking one or rather said the movie at least doesn't have a cheap look over it it's effects may be a bit overused but nevertheless they are quite good looking as are the make up effects as well br br still the movie was not what i hoped of it its title might suggest that the movie is set in the wild wild west during the days of the cowboys but its title is just a misleading one no doubt picked to cash in on it i fell for it expecting this movie to be a combination of a western and a gory zombie horror flick br br for the fans of the zombie movies this movie will mostly be a disappointment to watch it of course adds nothing new to the genre but it also doesn't has enough of the genre itself in it to be considered a good one to watch br br not totally unwatchable but also far from a recommendable one br br 4 10
0	this movie was awful especially considering the work that must have gone into its production though it's not as bad as ax 'em it is quite awful take into account the obvious rip offs from gladiator and raiders of the lost ark and what do you get this smorgasbord of awful make up and wooden acting br br the movie starts as most zombie movies nowadays do a montage of interesting jump cuts and a radio broadcast of the outbreak at hand we see our hero quite possibly the worst 'zombie hunter' in modern era counted about four or five times where he either scratched his head with the barrel of his pistol or looked down the barrel while blowing cutting off fingers of zombies we later learn that these fingers are collected for br br well seems to be a rebel in his ways of dispensing of zombies going so far as to purchase chum gasp from his french buddy hans who isn't really french speaks with an odd middle eastern accent as uses the chum to collect a plentiful bounty from lost hills all hell breaks loose br br and cue the awfulness of the movie the zombies are put together quite poorly i've seen comments praising their make up but it was quite amateur in my opinion obvious halloween were used to make the zombies' faces and there were points at which one girl looked as if she were donning a clown mask instead of a freshly peeled face oy vey br br to sum the next sixty minutes up in a few lines is back stabbed by hans who made a deal with some other zombie hunters blythe being the ringleader gives him a second chance gets back stabbed again by hans then shoots hans and gets to union city where he finds blythe is poisoning the cities for profit br br that's it really in regards to plot when reaches union city all the baddies are gathered around in a house that evidently is so massive it takes hours to reach the top floor people die lives and the movie ends with one of those cynical is he going to kill himself scenes br br end spoilers i'm going to have to blame most of this mess on nott the direction was awful every character featured a scowl other than hans who was easily the best 'actor' in this group of macbeth rejects when they reach union city a hoard of zombies attacks the crew and the zombies were obviously given no tips or ideas about how to walk as if your appendages were rotten one woman is swaying as if she's swimming in mid air on a sunday stroll br br some movies are awful this movie is one of them simply on the grounds of how logic seemed to be abandoned in order to keep a story flowing works occasionally but in this regard where the story was already in shambles it doesn't br br avoid it unless you want a decent laugh
0	the quick and the undead is finally the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void it is essentially one gigantic plot hole br br aside from that the acting was quite bad character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn't a single character worth hanging our hat on the most interesting cast member who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist got snuffed halfway through the proceedings br br what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing it looked excellent when you take into account budget considerations br br unfortunately it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns most notably the good the bad and the ugly and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie you know they have movies where characters do this does it fit here no but who cares they do it in other movies so i should do it here br br maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and first year film schoolers otherwise a must miss
0	the plot of the movie is pretty simple a viral outbreak turned the population into flesh eating zombies those who left became hunters br br well first of all this is not the worst zombie movie there is among the worst are zombiez and the infamous zombie lake br br in fact i think the idea for quick and the undead was very good just executed poorly considering the budget they had to work with this movie looks very good i wasn't bored at all while watching it special effects were solid although they did use cgi once fat zombie getting shot in the head but everything else gore guts was rather good acting is awful however our main guy looks like young clint eastwood other actors are not even worth mentioning as far as the plot goes they didn't work enough on the development of the story br br bad acting low budget good special effects idea for the movie br br overall this flick deserves 4 10 from me it's not as bad as people say imagine a zombie western then watch this movie
0	produced by nott entertainment this movie is nott very good at all i sat through the first 15 minutes of the film before judging that the acting is bad the casting is bad and camera work is bad as i hear that there is a download of this film floating around on the internet it is nott even worth the bandwidth br br up until the time i wrote this review the average vote for this movie was an 8 5 which prompted me to view it and there was an average high majority of 10's for it obviously voted on by liars and shills this movie is nott for everyone or parents if you want to punish your kids with this awful film have them sit through this one for halloween
0	the trailer for this film promised a new twist on the zombie genre setting it in the old west except it's not the real old west of course it's some sort of future west in a world where some apocalypse has as are known to do killed people and subsequently turned them into zombies it's zombie virus time again folks and you know what that means get bitten and become one of them br br so into this dusty and dead filled world comes a hero he's a bounty hunter getting paid for taking care of zombies it's not exactly clear who is providing the funds but it seems a little cottage industry of zombie hunting has emerged but as the trailer tells us there's a problem they are running out of zombies the only way to keep on earning is to infect new towns and cities with the virus br br i think that's not a bad idea for a film but unfortunately it takes a lot more than a good idea and a crowd of people pawing at windows to make a good zombie film what we actually get is a clint eastwood clone the actor's even called clint for crying out loud and his hilarious sidekick trying to bag zombies while trailing some still living bad guys to get some big reward the whole subplot about infecting other towns is only mentioned in passing over half way through the film instead there's a lot of western movie clichés poor zombie make up and some world class bad acting really bad the sort that wouldn't even make it onto hollyoaks both hero and villain chomp on cigars quips are thrown people get bitten as the movie lurches to a conclusion the only thing worth wondering is whether it's going to end with the cliché of the hero being the only man alive having killed the one he loves or the cliché of him turning into a zombie in the final frame it's the first one by the way this film was written and directed by gerald nott it's the only thing he has done and hopefully it will be his last at the start of the film there is a caption that reads nott entertainment at least they got one thing right
0	one look at the rating ought to tell you this movie was voted on by shills in an attempt to artificially boost this film's ratings br br this film brings nothing new to the zombie genre in fact it is laughably bad in acting and cinematography and derivative in its plot the make up looks horrible and the zombies look even worse when shot lines are stiffly delivered and badly timed with the exception of the female bounty hunter who is the only good actor in this mess of a film the worst offenders are the italian guy hans the protagonist and the lead bad guy i've seen better delivery from pizza truck with a flat tire br br this is a self proclaimed zombie western but about the only thing that makes this a zombie western is the fact that people wear cowboy hats and the lead actor's real name is clint the protagonist isn't cool and mysterious like a traditional eastwood hero and as an anti hero he doesn't have the wise cracking attitude to pull it off either br br don't be fooled by the fake glowing reviews this is just another b grade zombie movie that's competently made for the budget it had it does have some decent lighting but it reeks of low budget first time directing and bad acting there are a lot of really stupid scenes that make this look really amateurish
0	looking at the ratings you would assume this is a classic but yet again its just another example of poor independent film makers trying to drum up interest in their movie they aren't even being smart about it 10 10 in the votes i guess that to buck the curve and offset all the 1 10's it will get is this better than any decent zombie movie no br br acting corny and rubbish br br sound effects cheap and nasty if it wasn't for where the actors looked you wouldn't know where it was coming from br br cinematography these people act like they have borrowed their dads camera right after watching the matrix less is more but more from this team is absolutely pap br br zombies are rubbish as well i don't doubt most of these people will never be heard from again and it will be for good reason i hope zombies eat their eyes as this was 90 minutes of pap that i wont get back br br and falsifying ratings just makes it a million times worse br br one reviewer said it was one of the best horror movies he has seen in the last 30 years i can only assume that his recent cornea transplant was a success then br br watch the trailer as thats a warning as to how bad this film is
0	i have no idea how accurate the portrayal of flynn appears in this film but even as a work of fiction it is one of the worst films i have ever seen br br the script is all over the place and leaves you wondering how he got from one scene to the next you are just not given the minimum information needed to keep some continuity and understand his present situation and it is difficult to understand flynn's and other characters' motives behind some of their behaviour br br add to that a series of silly and implausible situations and you have film that comes across as one of your dreams that seems to make sense while you are asleep but when you wake up and you try to remember it it is just strange disjointed and totally unrealistic br br there are many long boring musical sections of the film that to me are either bad direction or a bad director trying and failing to be artistic br br none of the characters are even likable and the flynn character comes across as a self serving liar thug thief robber murderer bear fist fighter gigolo and impostor who will do anything and step on anyone to further his own dreams and somehow despite all that great opportunities just seem to miraculously fall into his lap br br this film is not entertaining nor satisfying in any way and by all accounts not even historically accurate so why even watch it to rub salt into the wound the dvd had one of the worst transfers i have ever seen it wasn't even in wide screen or dolby 5 1 it had terrible wobble and many many artifacts from what looked like a film reel that had been gathering dust and scratches somewhere
0	and boy is it soft br br i saw this on cable channel bravo one saturday night and here in britain we often have these dire erotic soft core movies turning up late at night on bravo this one follows a weird science type plot of a couple of college geeks building a virtual reality headset that makes you have sexual fantasies br br when you ve seen one of these movies you ve seen them all with a bunch of bimbos looking like they re advertising silicone implants come on i ve actually seen breasts in real life i m sure some other of us have too and they wobble around unlike here where they defy the laws of if not physics than at least gravity the sex scenes are these tedious affairs where a well buffed geezer rubs himself against his co star without any dialogue or sound apart from some muzak and when they climax it looks like they re both having a bad attack of constipation the girls themselves are very pretty especially brandy davis and nikki fritz but they re wasted in these type of soft core movies br br and if it s fantasy you re after i recommend the lord of the rings trilogy
0	even though he only made his debut film in australia and left for great britain and then america to continue his career australians will tell you that the greatest film star they ever produced was errol flynn i'm not sure he ever even went back to australia after his breakout success in captain blood still i attribute this film to the well known aussie irreverence for trashing the reputation of one of their own br br part of the problem in telling errol flynn's life story was that he told enough tall tales in his life right up to the very end in his memoir my wicked wicked ways i could see that a lot of the film was based on that and upon reading between the lines of that book br br his mother's infidelity to his father was not written but could have been inferred in reading my wicked wicked ways he didn't particularly like the woman that is clear from a few sources br br i wish the film had dealt more with his new guinea adventures that to me was the most interesting part of my wicked wicked ways as for his street fighting in the depression i tend to disbelieve that even if he had been successful at it i guarantee that enough of that would have ruined his looks and he would never have had a career as a leading man br br still the folks down under seem to think the atmosphere of sydney during the depression was captured well and guy pearce is a charismatic errol flynn american audiences know him best as the uptight but honest lieutenant in la confidential which came out the same year as flynn br br but la confidential was a far better film
0	this film takes a lot of liberties with the known historical facts even little things like flynn licking one stamp after another when he almost certainly would have used a sponge is one of the annoying things flynn was never tried of manslaughter or murder he is not known to have caught his mother making love to another man and is not known to have had an homosexual relationship with anybody and he did not end up on skid row in sydney he did not get his role in in the wake of the bounty by imposture and this role did not turn him into a well dressed film star br br this is just a mediocre film where the name of errol flynn has been tacked on just to sell more tickets and more videos
0	i can only think of one reason this movie was released to capitalize off the upcoming fame of guy pearce this movie has no merit at all and needlessly trashes errol flynn's memory the homosexual encounter was pure speculation the disdain shown for flynn in this movie is palpable an easy way to slander an actor who died years ago horrible and embarrassing very disappointing don't waste your time on this utter trash watch my wicked wicked ways if you want to learn about this fine actor or read his autobiography this movie is not the way
0	guy pearce almost looks like flynn and this resemblance is the only one this film can claim nowhere in flynn's autobiography is the klaus reicher character mention the homosexual encounter is speculative fiction and the movie's claims that flynn treated native labor badly are groundless director frank howson hasn't made any memorable films and i find it lame for him to slander flynn to further his unremarkable career br br
0	one wonders how flynn could have failed so badly as a cinema release in 1997 with guy pearce aptly in the lead role it is not often that the casting of someone so famous is so exactly right flynn was a at the box office and did not end up on cinema screens in australia even after la confidential from a dazzling nude scene in the first few minutes presumably by guy pearce flynn gets off to a fairly robust and interesting start sadly flynn runs out of steam after about the first 35 minutes and with the entrance of hammy steven berkoff in a detour to new guinea looking and acting like he wanted the klaus kinski role in the film starts to resemble a tele movie rather than a major cinema biography believe it or not by about the 70 minute make it is boring and you are glad to see it over but such promise pearce is flynn but the movie caused a mutiny at the box office and unlike the bounty sank without trace
0	i bought this video on a throw out table at the video store expecting a good cast in what was touted as an award winning brit sex comedy i guess i should have read the finer print i rarely write a panning review but here goes br br these actors in gay roles really play games with your memories of a lot of far more worthy films this comedy was a very cruel joke at the expense of the actors the theatre going public and of all the nice films that have contributed to their reputations br br i repeat is the joke about trashing the actors' other highly respectable on screen personae with this trashy flick can the reference to the austen classics 'pride and and 'sense and sensibility' be anything else how much of a political statement was it to produce this melodrama using these stars are we meant to simply take it as a lay down that all actors are gay and thus letting their on screen affect our lifestyles is accepting their private homosexual dealings in our faces too i'm sorry but i don't think so i say no to this one
0	the daytime tv of films seldom have i felt so little attachment to characters seldom have i been made to cringe by such dire dialogue nauseous london thirty somethings mincing round lurid bbc sets spouting platitudinous mulch avoid this film as if it were your grandmother's
0	go fish garnered rose rightly or wrongly the reputation of a film maker with much promise br br its then hard to understand how she could turn out a movie made up of stereotypes that one associates with inferior sitcoms the entire film rings hollow i cringed the whole way through br br its supposed to be a look into nineties human sexuality well not much more here to be learned than from in and out by now most of us actually do know that there are men who are sexually attracted to women and there men who are sexually attracted to men and there are even men sexually attracted to both sexes br br seldom has this revelation been portrayed on the screen with so little wit and style br br pathetic
0	i found it hard to care about these characters who were either annoying or insipid all living their fabulously hilariously urban lives br br the dialogue was at times and at other times the narrative seemed hard to follow was it me or were entire scenes deleted br br it felt like a poor sitcom somehow turned into a film the stereotypes and jokes about men's groups would perhaps have been funny in the early 90s as it is this is where much of the humour of the film comes from and boy does it get old fast br br apart from the attractive irish man this film was a dud and not even in a so bad it's good way the last 20 minutes were particularly painful perhaps if you've never met any gay people or never thought about homosexuality before then this film might have something meaningful to say otherwise darlings you'd still be better off renting the boys in the band or beautiful thing
0	this movie starts at a and never quite reaches b its title promises far more than the film delivers it's superficial and filled with the usual cliches of a story in which a guy questions his sexuality the people are agreeable even the obligatory flamboyant type the lead kevin mckidd overacts insofar as there's a reason for him to act at all simon callow playing a horny straight is always worth watching and he's by far the only reason to stay with the movie however the rubbish about his men's group meditations or whatever they are grows extremely tiresome in short order they seem to have been thrown into the movie's mild mix in a misguided effort to vary the setting and non stop inaction the same comment applies to a really odd and unconvincing camping trip don't worry about pausing the tape so you can get a snack let the thing run you won't miss anything hugo weaving's character is superfluous he appears in a sequence with one of the lesser leads and doesn't even meet the rest at all the outcome of that sequence isn't explained and hugo's real estate dealings have nothing to do with the story the movie is a total disappointment at the end because there is no resolution the thing simply fades out and we're sent to the closing credits this is an interlude with no structure
0	director j s cardone presents something a little scary and a little creepy but nothing more a widowed mother karen lori inherits a home in the pennsylvania mountains so she takes her two daughters and moves into the sprawling estate in what seems the middle of nowhere but it is somewhere somewhere ninety some odd years ago a tragic mining accident claimed the lives of numerous children who were forced to labor in the dark and dank the area and especially the estate seems to be haunted by the spirits of the tiny little wicked souls the legend is the screaming children come out in the moonlight to seek their revenge and you better believe it also in the cast ben cross scout taylor compton chloe julie rogers and geoffrey lewis
0	ok so this film is well acted it has good direction but the simple fact is that it undermines what all gay and lesbian people have been fighting for all these years the straight man deciding to be gay and the gay man deciding to be straight i did enjoy it up until the last 20 minutes after that i got really offended as what usually happens in these films the straight actors play the main parts and the out gay actors play the secondary straight roles the leads are played by handsome men but don't let that distract you from the fact that this is a a film that leaves you feeling unfulfilled all the romance and relationships you hope would happen do not unless you are a priest that is in which case god bless straight woman who cure our homos
0	time line of the film laugh laugh laugh smirk smirk yawn look at watch walk out remember funny parts at the beginning smirk br br unfortunately this movie has a good concept that it grinds to the ground
0	it's awful br br pretty succinct review i know but it has been a long time since a film has left me in such a bewildered state wondering how the hell a film like that gets made br br the last time it happened was last years turkey to mars' br br salvatore coco is an ex con trying to better himself through self help videos endless seminars and betterment courses he lives by the catchphrases these courses expound br br he stumbles across a washed up nightclub singer played by nikki bennett and has an epiphany his new career is going to be that of a talent agent with the singer as his one and only client br br financed by his gospel singing girlfriend played by sasha he sets up shop and tries to relaunch career with results br br the talk' is the reason why australians are so contemptuous of australian cinema it is poorly constructed lame and way too long 111 minutes for a comedy that should barely have scraped the 80 minute mark br br every scene is too long and are very repetitive the audience is not given a character to empathise with a vital ingredient in a film like this supposedly about an giving it a go br br the downbeat and frankly poor ending comes at the end of 30 minutes of the most mind numbing dialogue and scenes that have you crying out for a power failure br br this film is a failure on all levels made worse for queensland audiences by its liberal and use of various gold coast palm beach location and its laughable use of brisbane suburb names like norman park and
0	this woman is a terrible comedian she can't crack a joke she has no real character this is another example of typical american rubbish that people laugh at because they have no idea how to react so they say to themselves well it's a comedy show so i'll laugh i guess br br i cannot stand this miserable woman and her pi poor excuse for comedy she does not deserve anything but booing br br why can't america dump this kind of delight and go for something that actually contains humour br br she is not funny not at all why oh why does even one person like this idiot
0	there's some nice scenery to look at here if you can keep your eyes open long enough to see any of it i'm a big fan of slice of life movies but these people are just plain bland although there's nothing political here the entire film can be looked at as a political statement in that it shows how communism destroys the individual making everyone the same bland animal that just spends its life sleeping eating and occasionally making love
0	a few years ago i saw the scent of green by the same director my feelings about both films are in fact the same beautifully shot but terribly slow and boring i saw this film in a sneak preview and left after half an hour couldn't stand it anymore how can one make an interesting film about people who are constantly telling each other how happy they are and how perfect their lives are i had a fantasy about a forgotten american g i still wandering around in the vietnamese jungle who was not aware the war had ended how he would suddenly pop up in the film and would start emptying his at the characters in the movie the red of their blood would make a beautiful contrast with all the green plants in the film so i was not very much gripped by this film time to leave
0	this is the worst film i've seen in a time it reminded me of a du soleil show i saw in vegas six years ago without the by that i mean a few striking artsy images appear randomly without any sustaining framework the fake sepia tinted film is really tacky this device is almost never justified and certainly is not in with apologies to abe lincoln you can fool some of the people some of the time
0	i hated it i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile over and over and over i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie let alone art
0	i will commend it in only one respect it was innovative innovative doesn't mean it's a good film it means that it can give you an idea of what you can take and implement in your own films br br the simple plot is well simple i got to the point where i didn't care if they destroy the building or not if i had to hear that girl's annoying giggle one more time i swear i would hurl the dvd out the window and there's also the protagonist they try to make him lovable but he's a freakin pervert sniffing the girls bra sneaking peeks at her when she's naked putting her bra over his eyes when he sleeps putting her bra on a blow up sex doll which she takes her panties off while hes asleep and slips them on his doll umm br br what irritates me even moreso is that crappy tinting in the photo gallery on the dvd you can see what the film looked before they it and put in a color tint digitally too the film looked a lot better without the effect so they sacrificed it being a good film just to be artsy bah i could understand using gimmicks like that if the film quality was crap br br i think most people who liked this film just liked it because the chick was naked for a good 5 10 minutes this doesn't compare to delicatessen like so many are to do delicatessen has characters you can get into and like these people here just grunt and giggle br br lastly i would also to point out that this was also to be like a german impressionistic film the old silents one of the problems with most foreign especially artsy films is that thety focus on making an artsy composition and forget about the 'space' of the scene it results in the audience not really understanding what s going on because they don't get a sense of the space of the surroundings br br anyway it's rubbish the short film on the dvd surprise was a heckuva lot better
0	i always say there's nothing like a good movie and i must say this was nothing like a good movie drab dull and tedious it was like one of those bad dreams that never seem to end no matter how hard you try to wake up i don't mind the concept of a film without words ie entering a fantasy or dream world but there has to be something there to capture your imagination not just empty images which is what this film is there seemed to be no character development and it jumped so fast from scene to scene that it was hard to discern any story was there even a story you could tell the actors were trying their best but unfortunately poor direction sabotaged all the actors' work it really seemed like a type of cinematic masturbation only existing to pleasure the director and nobody else big waste of time
0	this movie is very much like every other modern horror movie it's predictable in the way it gets build up and progresses and just never succeeds in bringing anything original or shocking to the screen that's really the biggest disappointment of the movie that overall still had a promising main concept for a movie of its sort br br you can call this movie a big walking modern horror movie cliché it has all of the elements in it that make modern horror movies often not so very great ones to watch one of these aspects is a moaning and very naive little kid why do they keep putting this sort of stuff in movies same goes for the sort of drama aspects that involves the family it just doesn't work out for the movie and is far from interesting or effective it often instead causes the movie to drag in parts and become an annoying one to watch br br so it has all of the clichés present but it also doesn't succeed at bringing any of these clichés well to the screen as an horror movie this simply is a very poor one it doesn't handle its horror or tension very well for the fans of the genre there is very little to enjoy the movie its story isn't too well connected and build up within the movie too often the movie sleeps in at parts and it doesn't ever allow its horror to fully kick in br br the movie is also often way too dark no doubt as an attempt to hide its fairly low budget and it shows very little gore as well mostly due to the fact that you simply can not always see things so very well br br you can just tell by looking at this movie that director j s cardone doesn't has much talent for the genre and doesn't know how to handle its present ingredients properly he did some attempts in the past but all of his movies have failed so far he just keeps trying unfortunately who knows perhaps with the right people behind the camera's like tobe hooper who was initially attached to direct this movie still could had been something decent br br it's a poorly cast movie with mostly big unknowns in it biggest name of the movie is ben cross but his role is just way too small and in a way also not really relevant enough for the movie and its story it didn't even seemed like he had much fun playing br br just skip it br br 4 10
0	i had a different experience with this movie it never got charming or delightful or funny for me one big clue that this was not your typical movie was that the label gave no indication of the s spoken in the film another was the lack of choices re subtitles br br i found the lack of dialogue annoying especially when accompanied by exaggerated facial expressions as it almost always was the wildly inconsistent development of the feeble plot was puzzling were there characters or only vague gestures was there even a plot br br on a separate matter i'm getting prompted to correct the spelling of dialogue with the suggested substitute of dialogue maybe this movie in its entirety including the imdb portion is designed to puzzle or amaze but i'm getting more irked than amused
0	like the other comments says this might be surprise to those who haven't seen the work of jeunet caro or emir kusturica but have you already seen delicatessen there is nothing new it this film i thought delicatessen was great when it came out but this film just arrive too late to be of any interest i don't think it's a worse film than delicatessen but it's a bore to see it now like it probably would be to watch delicatessen again there is really no point to the film nothing that really matter or stays with you there may be a distant similarity to the films of kusturica but he's really in a different league so you should rather go see his films than waste your time on
0	you know this is one of those emperor's new clothes films it's like so off the wall and strange that you're supposed to like it if you're really into film well i think that's a bunch of bologna films like this which hide under the cloak of dada or surrealism make me nuts some person has this bad dream perhaps brought on by eating the aforementioned bologna right before going to bed remembers most of it unfortunately and then puts it on film and we're all supposed to marvel at their creative genius i have bizarre dreams too sometimes that make absolutely no sense but i don't feel the need to put them on film expose everybody else to them and call it art weirdness does not in of itself mean something is interesting true dada or surrealistic expression has some intent and intellectual thought behind it if other people don't get it that doesn't make it profound it just makes it incomprehensible bizarreness for bizarreness sake for me is not good let alone great art and comparing to is like comparing the godfather i ii to the godfather iii same genre not in the same league
0	one of the worst movie i have seen in 2009 so far the story hesitates between a silly thriller or a dumb comedy br br as nothings happens the void is filled with long boring dialogs that don't make any sense br br the cast is famous but doesn't bring any emotions except to fast forward the play br br and it happens in a plush seaside hotel that looks really gloomy in comparison the one of the shining is funfair br br nb a lot of users think that it is located in the french riviera they are wrong it isn't the south of france nice cannes but totally the opposite normandy to be simple the beaches of the d day that's why the sea is as grey as the sky and there isn't sun
0	it seems to be a common thing in the 90's to play with cliches some manage to do so with great talent hervé doesn't on the paper the movie looked interesting though the weak plot could have been saved by great moments of comedy dark humour and a very style director unfortunately kills his direction with his camera angles and his absolute lack of rhythm every joke is embarassing as no one reacts in the theater the movie is incredibly slow and the actors seem to be wondering what the hell they're doing in this ridiculous what could have been a stylish funny mindless comedy ends up being a cathedral of boredom
0	this movie really sucks this is my second review because its so bad the girl on the cover is hot but the girl in the movie is not i cant believe it was rated r there is no violence no sex no nudity no swearing nothing really crap film
0	bad editing bad production values bad continuity implausible bad dialogue this movies is bad bad bad however if you want a movie to poke fun at a la mst3000 this is your movie i wouldn't suggest spending much money on it but if you do see this movie make sure it's with plenty of witty like minded buddies
0	i saw this on cable someone had to lose their job for this one for air just because a movie is made does not mean it has to be shown savage instinct should be shown in all film classes it is the perfect template for how to not make a movie the editing alone is so jumbled you'll think it was assembled by a team of trained poorly monkeys traveling across canyon road in the back of a jeep blindfolded and drunk the audio is often not legible acting i can't call anything i saw here acting reciting hmmm can't call it that either failing that works all that being said it is hilarious i cannot stress enough that there is not one redeemable factor in this film other than the hilarity derived from it's own incredible ineptness fun in a strictly masochistic sort of way watch it if you dare
0	if you like really shocking movies this is for you the acting is the worst i've ever seen and the story line goes no where if you come across this film in your video shop don't even consider borrowing it the chick on the front cover isn't even the one in the movie i gave this movie 1 10 only because i couldn't vote 0 avoid it at all costs
0	susan inadvertently stumbles onto a drug smuggling ring while her realtor gets a flat tire while driving her to see a house the leader of said drug ring whom only has one week until retirement thinking she knows much more than this bubbly blond actually does seeks to make sure she won't tell anyone anything and thus begins one of the more bone headed films that i've sat through br br all the actors in this film can't really act in the least susan makes a pretty ineffectual hero for most of the movie she'd never escape multiple times if not for the fact that seemingly every one in the movie wants to have sex with her and she doesn't take the offensive until the last 20 minutes of the flick when she does she spouts some generic i have had enough line preach on sister that very thought ran through my mind multiple times when i was watching this br br my grade d
0	this starts off in pennsylvania in 1913 a bunch of kids are killed in a mine explosion purposely set off by the mine's owner cut to 2006 recently widowed karen lori her teenage daughter sarah scout taylor compton and little girl emma chloe move to a remote house located near that mine what they don't know is the ghosts of the little kids haunt the woods and kill anyone who's around after dark br br slow and boring horror movie the premise is obvious and has been done to death already also there are huge gaps in logic in the story it's never made clear why these kids just kill anybody or why they eat the bodies afterwards yes it's shown they're dead already why do they need food and why haven't they gotten the main villain in the story long before he was around the area why pick this time to attack him also the characters aren't the least bit likable sarah comes across the worst it has a few saving graces the location is beautiful and eerie at the same time some of the killings were very bloody and brutal and the kids themselves looked spooky silently walking through the woods at night but all in all i was bored and fighting to stay awake you can skip this one
0	ben rupert is a deeply unhappy adolescent the son of his unhappily married parents his father nicholas farrell is a vicar and his mother laura linney is well let's just say she's a somewhat hypocritical soldier in jesus' army it's only when he takes a summer job as an assistant to a foul mouthed eccentric once famous and now forgotten actress walton julie walters that he finally finds himself in true and fashion of course is deeply unhappy herself and it's only when these two sad sacks find each other that they can put their mutual misery aside and hit the road to happiness br br of course it's corny and sentimental and very predictable but it has a hard side to it too and walters who could sleep walk her way through this sort of thing if she wanted is excellent it's when she puts the craziness to one side and finds the pathos in the character like hitting the bottle and throwing up in the sink that she's at her best the problem is she's the only interesting character in the film and it's not because of the script which doesn't do anybody any favours on the other hand isn't just unhappy he's a bit of a bore as well while linney's starched bitch is completely one dimensional still she's got the english accent off pat the best that can be said for it is that it's mildly enjoyable with the emphasis on the mildly
0	years ago when darling lili played on tv it was always the pan and scan version which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all br br boy what a terrible film it's so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong looking at it now it's obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals mary poppins sound of music thoroughly modern millie etc but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself camelot my fair lady etc because hollywood thought she wasn't sexy or glamorous enough so blake created this stillborn effort to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical darling lili suffers from multiple personalities never knowing who or what it is some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole it just doesn't work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing br br mind you the version on the dvd is the director's cut or in this case let's salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop in releasing the dvd edwards cut 19 scenes 19 from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version the film moves along with no idea of what it is we are 25 minutes into it and we still don't know what's going on or why we're watching what's going what kind of spy is lili how powerful is she was she ever responsible for someone's death instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews things aren't helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love why does julie fall for hudson why him and not other men she got involved with there should have been one of her ex hanging around trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings there's no catalyst in this story br br one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews' and edwards' previous successes the best or worst example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest edwards channeling sound of music it's no wonder he removed it from the dvd back in 1970 that scene might have worked on a certain level but today that moment reeks of desperation there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie the musical moment i'll give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie's mary poppins persona which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act the ending bird's eye view of julie running towards hudson's plane is another wink at sound of music br br the whole thing is confusing julie plays a singer born from a german father and british mother who lives in england but sings her english songs in paris you never know exactly where the story takes place some moments are just badly edited like when julie and her uncle are on horseback they talk and talk and then julie suddenly off in mid sentence i'm like what happened here br br the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy every scene with the french police are pathetic where's peter sellers when you really need him the action is stupid beyond belief when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train hudson's squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train almost killing lili in the process brilliant what's also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning that's one slow moving train there br br the musical moments the beginning is the best part of the entire film and the reason i gave this film 3 stars but it's effect is diminished considerably because it's repeated at the end speaking of redundant did we really need to see a can can dance crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too the girl in no man's land is ok even if it's bleeding obvious but that moment just doesn't make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital making me wonder how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying br br the whole project is listless and without energy the romance is 100 unbelievable rock hudson is way too old and tired looking check out the museum scene julie looks dazed like she's on valium but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision as much as i like julie she's no greta garbo who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari funny enough even if julie plays a german spy she still comes across as cloying and cute br br how bad is darling lili even after 37 years since its release blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release
0	this is one of the most stupid and worthless movies ever it really does not qualify for movie status it is very cheap apparently shot on videotape horribly acted and just plain rotten i could not believe how cheap and inept this piece of crap was it looked like a home video i mean i believe a guy i know a few houses down must have dug out his video camera and made this crap in 2 or 3 hours it is that bad i noticed the name from whence this i will never rent anything with that name on it again when you rent a flick check to see if it is from this company one thing is true though if you like horribly acted amateur movies then you might like this loser it is absolutely boring and terrible you have been warned
0	i had to suffer through this movie three times while i was a zombie extra in the director's new movie after sundown the first time that i saw this movie the director was standing next to me and a clearly fake and cheesy looking hand popped out of nowhere and grabbed one of the characters i could not take it any more i busted out laughing right in front of the guy the movie has no direction whatsoever and the one thing that could make this movie decent female nudity was nowhere to be found i am a fan of low budget horror movies but this was just too much for me the worst part was that i had to watch it so many times also do not expect the new movie to be any better
0	the is set in a small texan town called layton on the eve of halloween as the townspeople treat it like the second coming of christ or something i mean halloween isn't that important is it anyway sheriff pete burton gilliam has been called out to yet another murder as local boy ned co associate producer john william has discovered a body in the local woods could it be the fang lady justin hamilton the central character involved in a local legend about a witch who kills teenagers who knows being the fun sort of guy he is mark director producer robert harvey convinces his missus kelly laurie reeves to ride out to a cemetery that his mate steven josh found the night before for a halloween party the idea of spending the night in a cemetery in the middle of the woods obviously appeals to kelly she agrees along with steven a girl he picked up named camille natalie woods their nerdy friend jerry tim boswell they all set out for a night of fun well as much fun as you can expect to have in an isolated cemetery however they soon discover that the legend of the fang lady is far from the bedtime story many make out br br edited executive produced written directed by christopher the is a pretty rubbish attempt at a horror film the script is very predictable dull doesn't deliver any sort of entertainment value whatsoever in the right hands with a decent budget the could have been an effective horror film but as it is it isn't it moves along at a fair pace but the on screen 'action' is so poor that it doesn't matter i don't quite know what else to say other than the is a really bad film i can't see anyone getting any sort of enjoyment out of it the dialogue is basic the character's are clichéd lifeless while as a whole the film seems a lot longer than the 90 minutes running time there are a few lame attempts at humour which don't sit that well along side the horror elements what was that retard keeping in that cage i'd imagine the budget didn't allow the filmmakers to show it oh if you want to know what happens to jerry at the end then you'll have too keep watching past the end credits as the lame truth is revealed assuming you can actually make it that far of course believe me it takes some doing br br director doesn't do anything special thinks bathing scenes in neon light is stylish i can tell him that it isn't when your film is supposed to be set in the woods there's no atmosphere scares tension excitement or any of the elements that makes a good horror film good forget about decent gore there's a bit when someone eats some skin off an arm a pitchfork stuck through someones throat br br apparently the had a filming budget of 2 which makes it one of the lowest budget films ever to have a commercial release to be brutally honest it shows what about the retarded guy his false joke shop teeth that look ridiculous the terrible special effects the camcorder cinematography the terrible acting from everyone involved that makes it even more of a pain to sit through br br the is straight to video crap it has no redeeming features whatsoever it's low imdb user rating score is fully justified it's one of those films that within half an hour i was looking at the clock wishing the thing would just finish
0	this film is terrible honestly the acting is terrible the script made me cringe the effects are completely lousy which i usually don't mind for older films but this was made just two years ago and everything about it just annoys me a few friends go out on halloween into the woods and meet a witch and her cannibal son of course before that it has the cliché you really believe that ha ha ha it's just a story routine dragged out for a while the witch's cannibal son was made a retard i don't know if it was for comedy or to make it creepy but this film failed at both it has minimal gore and no nudity which made a bad film even worse heck the only good thing about this film is the leg eating scene and even that could of been better br br honestly don't even waste your time watching it on cable and certainly don't consider buying or renting this else you'll be kicking yourself for wasting time which could of been spent doing something more constructive or entertaining
0	yes it's a so bad it's funny classic with a budget running into the tens of dollars some of the most abysmal acting you have ever seen and absolutely no even remotely frightening moments not even a nanosecond camera work was at the elementary school level one still shot outside a house was obviously hand held and crazily blood looked like watered down cherry someone made a trip to the local butcher shop for the human bones and miss witch had the cheapest mask wal mart could provide br br did anyone involved look at the final cut and realize what a mess this was most of the names in the credits have to be pseudonyms it would be career suicide to have this on your resume do yourself a favor and watch ebert's video of his instead
0	i went into this movie with an open mind i had been too lazy to go to the video store to pick out a movie and my friend returned with this i promised him i wouldn't laugh at his choice but within the first five minutes i told him i would have to take back my promise we kept watching just hoping it would get better but no a continual mind rape followed br br this movie was probably one of the worse ever committed to film and surely deserves a place on the imdb bottom 100 i really don't know how this got distributed the lighting was poor i have seen better acting in elementary school plays there is really nothing positive to say about it
0	director john madden of shakespeare in love fame gives us another pretty bad film in ethan the plot centers around a new reverend coming into the town of where he learns the story of the local crippled man ethan sick wife and one time romantic tryst with the maid adapted by richard nelson from pulitzer prize winning author edith novel this film isn't interesting in the least thanks to an abysmally weak script and poor direction that turns scenes that are supposed to be poignant into laughable schmaltz still there are other aspects apart of the film that work the cinematography is well done rachel portman contributes a lovely score and while no one is at their best liam neeson joan allen patricia arquette and tate donovan work well in their roles but overall ethan is only marginally worthwhile and is easily forgotten
0	john cinematic interpretation of edith ethan falls short of doing justice to a great literary piece while the story is maintained the elements that give the novella its soul are skewered and all in all lost in the film madden fails to convey the innocence and overall tragedy of ethan and relationship instead transforming it into a morality tale the mark is missed and the point lost in added details and poor dialog zenobia in the book is almost completely the antagonist the books least sympathetic figure where in the movie she can be almost pitied though it's a stretch you kind of feel bad for this sick woman who is being cheated on the book more accurately describes tyrannical control of the house and of ethan the movie just ticked me off the addition of the fox was pointless as well as the scene with mattie trying to kill herself it was just poorly interpreted and done film mistakes ethan's elusiveness in the church dance scene interactions with denis addition of love scene fox scene store scene saying his plans allowed lack of displays of ethan's inner emotions and thoughts introduction of the priest instead of nameless engineer let on to much that knows about the growing relationship where in novel reader never knows what is thinking or aware of just too many flaws and poor directing decisions
0	although i found the acting excellent and the cinematography beautiful i was extremely disappointed with the adaptation br br one of the significant portions of the novella is the fact that ethan and mattie decide to kill themselves rather than go on this is never presented in the movie they show it as if it were a sledding accident br br the character changes in mattie and are almost non existent while in the novella they almost change places at the end of this adaptation it appears as if they are both invalids br br lastly that mattie and ethan consummate their relationship fully nearly destroys the power and poignancy of the finale br br the change of the narrator being a preacher was one effective change br br neeson and arquette are superb in their portrayals joan allen was also wonderful however her character was much watered down from novella br br i do not expect films to faithfully portray novels but this one went to far and in the process nearly destroyed the story br br overall i would not recommend watching this film unless you have read the book as you will come away confused and disappointed
0	let me first state that i really really wanted to like this film for the most part the actors and actresses looked their parts and did fairly well in their roles but the movie lacked any real plot it seemed so up in seeming that no interesting story ever shone through also the camera work was often sloppy attempting camera work and failing miserably most of the time shots meant to look cool ended up being confusing perhaps something was lost during translation but some of the characters were just stupid the crazy pretty boy who sniffs people like a dog ok overall a fat stinking 1 10 not worth your time
0	wicked little things known in australia as zombies is a rare find – a film that promises one thing but delivers another it is one of the few genre films to be made by millennium pictures a european film studio known for making various b grade action films thrillers some featuring action star jean claude van damme br br karen her two daughters sarah emma arrive in the town of in order to move into a large house that karen's late husband owned after finding a miner's deed in his effects once arriving they find that the house is very old in need of repair but the house's condition is the least of their problems as they discover that the area is prone to disappearances karen is confronted by the owner ordered to move out once night falls the find out the reason behind the vanishings a group of zombie children killed in a mine collapse in the area more than 85 years ago come out to kill anything that goes in the woods with the help of a grizzled neighbour karen attempts to end the curse before her her children become the next victims br br i bought the dvd expecting a film with flesh eating zombies but was let down by one thing the film is more akin to a ghost story than your usual zombie flick with the dead children being the embodiment of a curse that haunts the woods taking their revenge on anything that moves around at night although the internal logic is somewhat flawed – the children can only be appeased by the sacrifice of animals are repelled by blood wards on doors in the same manner that vampires are repelled by garlic mirrors – aren't these kids supposed to be zombies the plot as such would not be a problem would actually be entertaining but the main problem is that the producers adapted a script with the intention of making a zombie film only to fall flat on their faces with this effort br br as such a film like this would be okay as a ghost story but due to a poor script becomes nothing more than an entirely routine effort the film's greatest strength is the acting with the cast giving better performances than the film deserves of particular note is scout taylor compton who does her role quite well – it's a shame she ruins her genre cred with a very poor performance in the halloween remake or maybe it's just rob zombie's script
0	i'd heard this japanese flick is edgy creatively interesting a cool new thang on the asian movie making scene maybe even something as innovative as hideo nakata's ringu or chan wook park's oldboy especially the latter br br you can imagine my disappointment when instead i found the movie disjointed both narratively and cinematically though not in a way that a film aficionado appreciates cliché ridden even sadly silly instead of funny on the whole a very bad knock off of the pulp fiction style br br i stopped watching after 30 minutes when i gave up on it becoming something more than it is
0	to me this movie was just plain confusing slow and uninteresting why did the aliens choose to communicate through ants it makes no sense the ending was muddled and made no sense whatsoever in the end i was hoping that the ants would kill everyone br br avoid this one at all costs not even mst3k could save it
0	ants are shown in cartoons as being able to carry away chicken legs people etc this may be an admirable characteristic because ants carry the film phase iv this is not because they want to but because they have to br br the movie opens with a narrator cryptically explaining that some cosmic event has come over the earth and that a fellow scientist has been working on the effect this disturbance has on the ant population the movie is broken up in segments the first part after the cosmic event is phase i and so on until the end of the movie which is phase iv br br what is phase iv who knows we don't get to see that part presumably it has something to do with the bonding of one of the scientists studying the ants and a girl who lived in the area the girl who looks like a cross between alicia silverstone and liv tyler is mad at the ants because they killed her horse but except for one angry outburst goes around the with a blank clueless look br br these ants are pretty smart or the scientists are rather dumb i'll give credit to the ants why anything that usually ruins my picnics that can then build reflecting towers blow up trucks and adapts to poison with the greatest of ease gets my vote for being the smarter species at least in this movie br br sterno says stomp on this br br
0	if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors eating non ants and conquering the world with a voice over narrative then this is the movie for you basically a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants the most intelligent actors in this film in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination throughout the movie the two scientists and a girl they rescued from the ants use everything at their disposal computers green dye and horrid acting but to no avail i guess they just couldn't afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly br br the title of the movie phase iv is something of a mystery this is not a spoiler but phase i starts right after the opening credits whereas you don't reach phase iv until the end credits roll apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases 1 3 throughout the movie as a kind of progress report hang in there buddy only 1 more phase until final credits as a mst3k episode this one wasn't very good for two reasons 1 this one is from the season 0 on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons and 2 this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing 5 gamera movies br br the movie does have a trick surprise ending but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me
0	this is another of those films i can remember from when i was a kid and i recently managed to acquire it off ebay 20 years on it's nowhere near as good as i remember it being br br the story is kick started by a event' there's another extra film crew member in the credits for story development' which makes collective ants become super intelligent ant species who used to war with each other have ceased rivalries and are now working together the thing i wanted to know throughout was to do what exactly you never find out what they want nigel davenport and his sidekick travel out to the desert where bizarre ant activity has been noted and begin to study the ants from an impregnable shaped laboratory probably the most chilling scene in my opinion was when the two scientists visit the giant square in the crops like a square version of a crop circle a result of the ants chomping away br br this film was not very scary quite simply because you don't know whether to fear the ants or like them all you know is that the ants want people to leave the area so they can get on with their hijinks but you don't find out whether they are really baddies it ain't a sci fi because the event' explanation is too vague to be properly taken into account it is more of a chiller tbh the flares daft hairstyles tight shirts with big collars and nigel unnaturally big facial hair do freaked me out more than the ants did you notice that there are only six actors listed in the credits yup that right six and you won't see any other human beings in this film at all not even in the distance this is a plainly obviously low budget film which is a bit watchable because you probably won't have seen one like it i can't think of any anyway the filming of the ants is pretty good they must have done months and months of filming before they had the shots they needed to stick in the film you may well say to yourself 'how the hell do they get the ants to do that ' over and over but it is all quite simple you will also notice that the film makers sacrificed millions of innocent ants to make the film too so animal rights peeps stay away good for novelty value but you may not watch it more than once
0	humour is a very individual thing and the audience at the sneak preview of the boy seemed to enjoy it more than i did i found it an anachronistic affair more representative of the old fashioned racial humour of the australian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s the boy meets girl plot never takes off because of a lack of chemistry between lucy bell and nick while i found laughs thin on the ground if you want to spend your money on this wait until it's on video
0	i'm glad i didn't pay to see 'the boy' br br i sat there hopefully waiting for something original and or funny to happen br br it reminded me very much of those predictable english comedies of the 1970s br br i won't bother with a synopsis of the plot i suggest you do something else for 90 minutes br br
0	i really wanted to like this film however after an amusing opening few minutes i hardly cracked a smile i agree there was no chemistry at all between the two leads and the other characters were cliche ridden the script totally wasted the talents of bud tingwell and kim br br it must be said however that there was plenty of laughter around me and even a smattering of applause at the end perhaps i just couldn't relate to it enough i'm just glad i went on cheap tickets
0	this totally unfunny movie is so over the top and pathetic and unrealistic that throughout the whole 90 minutes of utter torture i probably looked at my watch about times lucy bell is so much higher than this crap and for her to sink this low is quite depressing i have to admit that the whole audience i was in was laughing hysterically but the majority were greek or italian so i guess that this humour will probably make them laugh but not me all this movie does is make you sick watching all these slackers make excuses for their stupid actions for 90 minutes god and i can never get that 90 minutes back
0	this is the first movie i have watched in ages where i actually ended up fast forwarding through the tedious bits which there are plenty of very ordinary movie i'm glad i missed it at the movies got a 2 for 1 video deal which included this movie instead
0	having spent all of her money caring for her terminally ill spouse recently widowed karen lori moves with her two daughters sarah scout taylor compton and emma chloe to her late husband's run down family home in rural pennsylvania where local legends speak of zombies who roam the woods at night br br just seeing the names of this film's writer and director in the opening credits was enough to send shivers up my spine boaz davidson is the responsible for penning the scripts for such stv titles as octopus 1 2 spiders and crocodile whilst j s cardone gave us the godawful 'video nasty' the slayer and dull vampire flick the forsaken with such dubious talent responsible i didn't expect much from wicked little things br br and having just finished the film i'm glad i kept my expectations low br br although the movie looks good at times with lovely use of the eerie woodland locale and the cast give reasonable performances given the clichéd drivel that they are working with the plot is so laboured poorly written and derivative that it's impossible to be enthusiastic about most importantly perhaps the film's killers undead children who rise each night from the mine in which they died aren't in the least bit scary a smudge of makeup black contacts and some crappy joke shop scars doing very little to add to the sense of menace scout taylor compton and company do their best to look afraid of the tiny terrors screaming convincingly with every confrontation but their admirable attempts to instill a sense of fear in the audience is to little avail the little just ain't got what it takes to chill the blood br br there are a few lacklustre zombie chow scenes in a futile bid to win over gore hounds and the final kill which sees the victim's blood both compton and is suitably tasteless but on the whole wicked little things aka zombies in the uk is instantly forgettable another clunker in the filmographies of cardone and davidson
0	after seeing the tv commercials for this film i marched to my local cinema expecting a lot of laughs in the end it was one of the longest 90mins i have ever spent the boy really did fail to provide a story line with enough substance to hold my interest and predictable and sometimes tasteless jokes didn't fill this void br br a scene where the two boys' dominate the of their local nightclub was the only one that impressed me at all the only character that was worth watching was played by the castle's stephen curry his struggle with the opposite sex providing most of the few laughs br br a word for this flic is boring save yourself the time and just watch the tv commercial as the only laughs are shown on it
0	breaker morant and romper it has also given us watchable films such as and the odd angry shot unfortunately for everyone involved in this debacle the boy won't be joining appearing in either list br br i was looking forward to seeing this movie simply because of the politically incorrect title so politically incorrect that when it was broadcast on bbc 2 late at night the announcer didn't even mention the movie's name so i was expecting something so offensively anachronistic that my jaw was going to drop in disbelief it did drop in disbelief i found myself not being able to believe that the financiers thought this was going to be a major international hit br br the problem lies with the cast and the script i do know that australia with its small population doesn't have a large pool of actors so i'll be forgiving for the most part but this doesn't stop my criticism of nick as steve for this type of comedy to work you must be impressed with the comic skills of the lead actor and i'm sorry to say but nick g just doesn't have the skills i'd never heard of him and seen nothing else he's been in so perhaps he's much better at other performances here however he's just plain irritating unconvincing and i lost count at the number of times he mugged for the camera the jokes themselves are very flat and predictable and getting back to the script it seems very under developed i mean who thought a running gag about a female of work who's having it off in the back of a limousine was funny to begin with you do get the feeling that someone in the production should have been more honest and said look mate this screenplay's not nearly good enough go and make it more subtle and structured br br i've been harsh and harshness has been called for in this review i gave the movie four out of ten and it would have only got three if it wasn't for the one genuinely funny sequence where steve is watching a current affairs show only for himself flashing up on screen and labelled a dole this shows that the screenwriters were aware of comic timing and social comment such a pity that they didn't come with a much better written movie
0	i'm starting to wonder after reading some of the opinions here if i watched the same film as the other reviewers but after checking my facts i am forced to the sad conclusion that i have br br this witless wannabee screwball comedy has to be one of the the longest 94 minutes i have spent and one of the most unfunny things i have seen for ages now don't get me wrong i love screwball comedies but this boring set bound drivel falls so far short of the dizzy heights of preston sturges and hawks that it doesn't deserve to mix my metaphors to be thought of in the same breath as those greats writer director charles martin's dialogue is neither witty subtle or interesting and there's so much of it he doesn't know how to end a scene either with some ruthless cutting especially of people exiting rooms and saying goodbye to each other the pace of film would have been lifted and then the fact that the limited number of characters are doing stupid and motiveless things for no other reason than this is supposed to be a comedy would have been a little less obvious characters in this movie fall in and out of love with each other and move in and out of apartments at a moment's notice only to move what little plot there is forward one moment people are desperately yearning for one person the next they are getting married to someone else having wooed and been wooed off screen so we know nothing about it until one of the characters tells us oh they're getting married usually after someone has made a faux pas or jumped to the wrong conclusion if we had known that these two characters were in love or supposed to be engaged before hand we the audience might have enjoyed the experience of watching someone making a fool of themselves in front of them as it is the characters just come over looking like selfish petulant idiots and we have no sympathy for any of them br br the sets are limited and the action confined to them in a way that makes the whole thing look like a badly filmed stage play the only moments of relief from the tedium are keenan wynn who looks like he has wandered in from a different movie and has decided to hang around and be slightly funnier than all the unfunny stuff going on around him br br highly avoidable
0	since i'd bought the dvd i watched as much of this as i did out of a sense of obligation to my wallet br br the plot has kirk douglas as a successful first novelist who hired laraine day as a secretary falls in love and marries her complications ensue br br douglas is usually thought of as an intense actor given to heavily dramatic roles sometimes hero sometimes rat he's not bad in this thoroughly comic part the problem is that the part isn't particularly comic and neither is anything else br br the plot rambles on a dozen quirky characters come and go most prominently keenan wynn as douglas's friend who does nothing but make wry comments thelma ritter was better at this sort of thing br br well if the plot is weak it could still have been rescued by some sparkle in the dialog but there is none to speak of some gags are silly others don't clear that bar here's what i thought of as an amusing line douglas has just hired day and wants to get her down to the beach house and seduce her day is disturbed and remarks that she's never heard of a writer working in a beach house wynn asks if she liked douglas's previous book last year's love yes of course she did well most of 'last year's love' was done in the beach house ha ha br br nice cast including support but a failed comedy there have been better sitcoms on television
0	ineffectual molly coddled self pitying lousy provider jimmy stewart is having a bad marriage to carole lombard after falling on hard times he endures a demeaning job a fault finding passive aggressive over bearing live in mother who is in dire need of an epic smackdown and an endlessly crying baby the movie on failure and squalor to no discernible end do you want to watch a couple bicker with his mom for ninety minutes many scenes feature a shrieking baby the movie fails to elucidate why we would want to endure the mother from hell or why jimmy stewart can't grow a pair who wanted to see this who wanted to see stewart and lombard without laughs or charm br br it's absolutely depressing and unendurable
0	i decided to watch this movie because i'd not seen carol lombard before in any movie i'm sorry it had to be this one because quite frankly this is a dog – and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn both of whom were great actors br br the problem with the film is simple it tries to put too much too quickly in to a story about a young lawyer john manson played by stewart who marries jane played by lombard within an hour of meeting her what's that cliché marry in haste repent at leisure br br in short the story is a series of episodes that show the couples' financial status their troubles with john's live in mother their struggles to pay the bills john's diminished status at the office the arrival of their baby son john jnr unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother the couples' angst about their marriage the baby's sickness which worsens thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot in a fierce storm to bring a special serum to save the child and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm br br how many more clichéd situations could the writers include maybe mother dying soon after there wasn't much comedy the drama was lacklustre at best the dialog was painful to hear only the acting of the four main players was adequate br br this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn – during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie br br so it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol' home spun american values of family relationships heroism perseverance and initiative – all against the backdrop of the average american family who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard br br and it should be noted that the film was released in early 1939 so it was planned in 1938 – soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii hence this sort of film was a great booster for the general public at that time many of who would soon have to join england in war as many here would know hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before during and after the war br br however i'm glad i saw it – as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda but i'll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range br br as another reviewer noted see this one just to say that you've seen all of stewart's movies otherwise don't bother
0	extremely formulaic with cosmic sized logic holes and a pretense at comedy aw poor nyc lawyer he's just scraping by and when he gets a reduction in pay he doesn't go out to find another job though he's one of the most respected lawyers in the area we see him arguing in court so that others come up and congratulate him on his fiery winning delivery but he can't stand up to anyone in his firm at home problems are ignored until people storm out of the house br br the only character you want to root for is the final maid who seems an actual human being who uses logic and communication to survive in the world how laughable that the maid should bring the lawyer and his wife a chicken and wine on new year's eve because she feels sorry for them the bit's not played for laughs br br sorry just too unbelievable and with a spoiler pat everyone turns 180 degrees ending how'd they get top notch stars for this if i'd been at the studio i'd have sent this one back for a complete rewrite
0	carole lombard and james stewart gamely try to inject some life and meaning into this bizarrely constructed film about the tribulations of a newlywed couple the scenes play as if they were parceled out among various directors each with a different goal some are capra cute some screwball some melodramatic and some surprisingly noir there's even an extended adventure sequence when the plot suddenly focuses on a small plane flying through a blizzard it's hard to say which scenes are the most incongruous when the film as a whole is so erratic in tone and the storyline not exactly believable only worth watching for film students or fans of the actors some smaller parts such as judge doolittle and the intrepid pilot are also very well played
0	when i bought 4 dvds for £5 oo in a local shop it should have been warning enough that this movie was not up to the usual standard of david selznick productions with a cast containing such names as james stewart and carole lombard i was looking forward to a real treat as many other commentators have said it is an odd mixture of plot and scenes that doesn't quite convince however i am so glad that i did view this film as i now have the memorable saying 'never let the seeds stop you from enjoying the watermelon ' to live by this should sum up everyone's life pick out those seeds or spit them out or swallow them and then enjoy the watermelon life itself
0	this film doesn't have a very clear picture of what it is or wants to be there are some good bits when stewart is on screen and they give him some lines to work with it works best early on as romantic comedy but the story keeps heading for more dramatic territory and gets itself lost in the process by the last fifteen minutes or so the plot twists are just a series dramatic clichés br br the part with the airplane feels like some leftover footage from another film spliced in br br the main reason i can think of to watch it is if you want be able to say you've seen all of jimmy stewart's films
0	i can't believe that i let myself into this movie to accomplish a favor my friends ask me early this april 14 2007 this movie certainly a pain in your ass in theater and sickly boring i haven't even felt the gory impact of its daunting scenes which i deem to be complete failure to attract its audience the worst even trampled me cause my friend failed to come on time at the theater because she was busy assisting her boyfriend in looking for an appropriate lodge to stay in for one night i wasn't really disappointed with that matter but this movie is a matter indeed for me poor plot useless storyline naively created and i don't know what to say anymore br br the title doesn't suggest anyway the creeps and horror it failed to overture us viewers maybe the beating of the animals could get more the creeps if they show it in theaters the real situational play good luck to anyone who attempts to watch it anyway
0	james stewart plays johnny mason lawyer carole lombard is jane mason wife lucile watson the mother in law harriet mason johnny sees jane and quickly marries her mother is disappointed mother lives with them many troubles are ahead jane can't cook can't set the table can't do many things according to mother the interaction between daughter in law and mother are the highlights of this film stewart and lombard are married but just don't have any real magic on screen stewart is stewart he is good as a timid husband and son but this doesn't carry the film can baby mason build bridges between jane and harriet a believable film for those that are married
0	this movie is an example of small budget ineffective star cast weak storyline and poor entertainment this kind of movies are made for commercial breaks and not for any entertainment of die hard fans of bollywood movies i went to this movie because i thought the earlier one gangster was tolerable so this is also only thing i appreciate the way new actress put herself in the movie in a very bold way she very much resembles bollywood actress nandita das she is good sexy and acting well she definitely go up in her career our was all time good at his work atleast he has some good to the movie i didn't like for his role must advise him to improve himself now as he has done many movies as new actor and he has been seen as established actor this movie has nothing except the bold scene done by new actress never try this movie
0	a reputed critic praised such a movie br br the film has a weird story wherein a lover sells his love to a brothel cos he wants money to save his mother and then also gets for it lol br br the movie is crap br br the entire first half has it's focus on romance comedy which fails to work the twist shocks but the entire second half is a mess and the climax is clichéd br br direction by aditya is bad music is typical himesh br br emraan does his serious role well but his wardrobe his way of walking through songs etc is similar to his previous films annoys ashmith patel fails to convince this actor was good in murder only so far and then a downhill mithun some screen time and he is okay but his breaking down into a song is forced ranjeet is okay
0	avoid this film if you are looking for entertainment br br it is filled with wannabes trying to be something that they are not and emraan is just wasted in the role of a tour guide who falls for a newcomer who needs to go to acting school seriously where to they get these people from just because you're pretty doesn't mean you can act or should be an actress br br patel needs to send an apology letter to everyone who accidentally watches him makes a fool of himself in this poor excuse for a film he plays an insipid wannabe gangster who drugs girls and forces them to fall in love with him and sells them off to the highest bidder
0	what has rajiv rai done to himself once a hit director of films like tridev and is now making one bad film after another i was initially excited at the thought of rajiv rai returning to the action genre but that soon fizzled out as a rajiv rai fan i thought i should at least give it a go but i left after an hour one reason for me leaving the film so early so the amount of bashing in the film this was not in previous venture br br a lot of directors have tried bashing but i did not expect it from rajiv rai another letdown was the music rajiv have always had good music until now there is only one good song and that is tere the performances are not upto scratch not even from rai loyalist naseer shah avoidable fare from once my favourite director
0	watched this film with an audience of 5 in total had a choice between lakshya and realized then i should have gone for lakshya a typical plot india v pakistan but just isn't cricket as you have kashmir in the middle an indian super hero goes on a mission to save the president of india from some pakistani rebels who are involved in a mass drug smuggling racket i left the film half way as it was simply boring and the plot was confusing and all over the place the songs were also awful the film tries to hide the flaws with its special effects but unfortunately they are outdated too br br overall avoid it if you can has to be the worst film i've seen this year
0	a pretentious but to varying degrees watchable collection of mostly pointless stories br br but let's start from the top br br if one ever wondered what finnish love romance was like perhaps this dull little oddity is some indication subdued feelings non emotions apathetic faces and a very depressing prospect of moving from finland to siberia i guess the sequel to this story will be for our honeymoon we move from siberia to greenland aki obviously had no clue what to write for this little movie so he just made up some half assed non story centering around a band he particularly likes or maybe they're his friends because we get to watch them and listen to their music more than the two principal characters br br first off i've never heard of this guy before – and now i know why nice black white photography and pretty much nothing else unless being bored silly can be considered an asset but you'd be surprised how many movie critics and film students love boredom in movies so i hotly recommend 10 minute snooze fest to those two groups of humanoids br br herzog not a movie but probably a slice out of his documentaries about tribes in south america this isn't a short film but a report but considering how dull the first two entries were herzog's bit is almost refreshing and does have some interesting moments and if nothing else fits into the movie's pretentious time concept very neatly br br jarmusch as was to be almost expected this once interesting film maker with the brain of a peanut a talented idiot savant serves us yet another doze of pointlessness he has become lazy and can't be bothered to write anything interesting either for his own movies or a collection such as the only bright side in watching how a dumb veggie actress spends 10 minutes in a trailer is that she is played by the lovely chloe sevigny otherwise skip this nonsense oh and btw i don't believe that any young actress listens to classical music was jarmusch trying to be surreal by making chloe listen to that kind of music does lindsey lohan perhaps listen to opera maybe drew barrymore is a jazz fan who am i to say they aren't br br jim jarmusch is a moron oh right i already mentioned that br br wenders here is the actual shock of the whole movie wenders can actually make something good everything else i've seen from this overrated charlatan has so far been dull and pointless however this short little story is done with style – atypical and is the best part of the movie it leaves one wanting to see more of it even though the story has a resolution br br spike lee oh dear what can i say here lee makes anyone seem talented by comparison like herzog he chooses not a story but submits a report – and a left wing political propaganda report at that cnn but in black and white and one sided of course naturally we robbed the retarded title of this little sleep is about how the poor gullible and infinitely idealistic democrats robbed by bush and his evil evil team of thieves this is by far the dumbest and dullest entry in this movie and i had to utilize the fast forward button so as not to doze off spike lee truly is a product of affirmative action god knows how many really talented black directors never had a chance to make movies because this pretentious and talentless little runt keeps getting opportunity after opportunity to make them and he gets it wrong every time now that does take some kind of talent right br br kaige the chinese story has a solid premise it's okay nothing more br br all in all there are many and far better movies to spend your time on but if your time isn't that valuable as is apparently the case with my own you can check this little film out br br ten minutes sure can be an eternity in the hands of anti masters of cinema time is precious waste it on better movies
0	i have been reading comments on imdb for some time now an 8 3 average for this movie just plain gets on my nerves i don't mean to pull one of those i just signed up for an account so i can post on this movie bits but i just did the only theme you will come away with from this movie is that incest does not deserve to be ridiculed br br now i realize many film people love this movie nevertheless it is crap the thing that really gets to me is the fact that the director expects you to have sympathy for the in the movie if you do have sexual relations with your sister you should probably be an outcast from society just my personal feelings i guess yet i sat through 2 hours of this expletive expecting some really deep reasoning behind soo's imprisonment br br i tend to like a lot of foreign movies but this is my first encounter with a korean flick and it has put them last in line in my book oh i feel better already after a little venting
0	let me get this out of the way before i trash this film i love park chan work as a director while i disagree with the masses saying he's is the best director working in our time i can't deny that he understands how to use a camera very effectively i really liked one of his other films sympathy for mr vengeance also min acting was the only thing that allowed me to take this film seriously for 1 5 of the runtime that is br br now the bad the plot is simply the oldest cliché used in cinema literature i'll never understand how critics can trash a hollywood blockbuster for being cliché then hail movies like oldboy which are just as unoriginal and clichéd if not even more so regardless oldboy is flat out one of the most generic unoriginal movies ever conceived spoilers man is held captive man seeks revenge man finds out he had sex with a family member man's life is over end spoilers simply put this plot line has been used in everything from greek plays to modern melodramatic soap operas and countless movies books in between it is so melodramatic and unoriginal when the major reveal happens i laughed out loud does that mean i'm a desensitized freak without emotions as some reviews of this film say about people like me no what it means overdone plots make people laugh the scary movie franchise proved that and oldboy proved it as well why can't people think of something that is truly disturbing instead of just spewing out tried clichés masked with fancy camera work and classical music that brings up the issue of blood gore simply put it isn't there the director is too timid to even point the camera at the screen when something gory happens as if we're watching a children's movie or something maybe we were anyway i've heard oldboy called the most brutal movie of all time and the most disturbing movie ever but when i watched it i failed to see anything even remotely gory or disturbing all the gore is off screen and even then the violence level is nothing you haven't seen in pg 13 movies like the dark knight or casino royale before why this even got an r rating confuses me much less the most brutal movie of all time seriously i've seen movies that just make oldboy look cute on every level when it comes to violence gore br br the other huge glaring cheesy flaw is the main villain the majority of his screen time he's showing his bare butt off for the audience in comedic american pie style but i'm supposed to think he's oh so evil when he's wearing clothes his hair is slicked back like a bad asian mix of the cheesiest james bond villain mixed with something out of austin powers he talks like a brain dead teenager recovering from an acid overdose and his dialogue is so bad it had me laughing yet again seriously oldboy had me laughing more than any comedy this year br br in the end oldboy is for those of you who sip fine wine have no sense of humor and talk about how boring your lives are at dinner parties it's for those people who are so stuck up in their own ego they forgot how unoriginal they are and consequently forgot how unoriginal and boring the films never movies they enjoy are br br to those people all i can say is this i like films and also like movies i like thoughtful dramas that actually say something about the human condition and i also like pointless action movies that thrill me into a coma but the thing is for me to like both films and movies they have to be original they have to be something i haven't seen so many times i lost count of the number of times the plot has been used when something isn't original it's expendable if it does exactly what everyone else does it's forgettable and boring before you give oldboy yet another perfect rating because it touched you maybe you should think about something wouldn't a movie equally as touching but at the same time original make you think more i just wish someone other than me would understand this br br overall oldboy is forgettable and cheesy br br 1 10
0	so some people might argue that this can't possible be the worst movie ever made and no it's not i have seen movies with weaker plots worse acting and so on br br so why do i hate this movie über alles well it's basically about a man who gets kidnapped for many years and when he comes out he tries to find out who did it and why to get revenge the problem i have with this movie has nothing to do with gore or horror but br br major spoilers stop reading if you don't want to know br br our main character basically gets tricked into having sex with his own daughter and he wants to cut out his own tongue so his enemy won't tell her because she didn't know it is so humiliating as he crawls on his knees like a dog in total submission and why did he deserve this because many years ago he saw a brother and a sister have a tender moment in the wrong way he went on and told some people and as a result she commits suicide and viola it's the brother who put our main character through all this just for that i have wondered maybe i hate this movie so much because i think his punishment is way too harsh maybe because i feel this movie doesn't condemn incest but somehow confuses it with love maybe it's because i expected something else br br end of spoilers br br believe me nobody deserves what happens to our main character in the end and i'm very serious you know how some movies just go under your skin and stay there well i felt goddamn dirty after watching this movie and i really wish i'd never seen it it stayed with me for days and some might ask well isn't that the purpose of a good movie the ability to affect us in such ways yes it can be but this movie not only made me sick it made me feel violated
0	child death and horror movies will always remain a sensitive controversial combination and therefore it is my personal opinion that every movie that shows the courage to revolve on this topic should receive some extra attention from horror fans of course like in the case of wicked little things controversial themes don't always guarantee a good film despite the potentially interesting plot the atmospheric setting and the involvement of video nasty director j s cardone the slayer this is an uninspired and cliché ridden film that couldn't offer a single fright or shock after losing their husband and father the remaining women mother karen and her daughters sarah and emma move to a small and remote mountain town where they inherited an old ramshackle mansion their new home is dangerously close to the old mine ruins where dozens of innocent children tragically lost their lives in 1913 strange things start to happen like young emma befriending an imaginary girl who used to live in their house and the eerie locals seem to keep secrets from karen and her daughters quickly turns out that the undead children still leave their mine graves at night to seek vengeance on the descendants of the mine's owner mr carlton who was responsible for their deaths wicked little things is rather tame and extremely predictable the script shamelessly serves one dreadful cliché after the other like car wheels stuck in the mud at crucial times flashlights and horridly broken dolls there's very little suspense even less gore and the make up effects are disappointingly weak the zombified children don't look menacing at all actually they all look like miniature versions of marilyn manson with their black outfits pale faces and dark eyes the excitement free finale is stupid and just as derivative as the rest of this pointless production lori is thoroughly unimpressive in her leading role as the mother but scout taylor compton currently a big star thanks to the halloween remake and young chloe are adequate as the daughters
0	when one of my friends recommended this to me raving about how well it was filmed the underlying themes and the general greatness of the film i obviously expected an amazing at least entertaining film br br the two hours i spent watching this turned out to be a huge disappointing waste of my time br br i understand that this movie is meant to be surreal but even in surreal movies there is something which anchors it down even if it is only in the slightest this movie on the other hand felt forced and fake a lot of the shots were unnecessary and watching it made me think the director was trying to hard to be artistic br br the acting was poor and the relationships between characters were not nearly developed enough maybe that's just me missing something that others could see but i hadn't even realised there was any sort of attraction between su and before they started getting at it like rabbits randomly half way through the film then again maybe this film was just bad br br i am not against violence in movies but in this one almost all of it was just unnecessary throughout all the fight scenes i felt myself cringing at how painfully cliché it all was br br and the plot the word laughable comes to mind i would be amused if i hadn't wasted two hours of my life following this poorly thought out and ridiculous plot despite all the movie's flaws by the end of it i was expecting something interesting to conclude it i won't discuss the ending because i wouldn't want to spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it just that the metaphor be it a rock or a grain of sand in water they sink as the same cannot be used as an explanation for everything br br this entire movie was made for shock value and shock value only i just hope sooner or later people will stop being so pretentious and recognise a bad movie for what it is i've seen many other great korean films and it depresses me that people have hailed oldboy as the best
0	classic excellent good fair tragic br br review br br oldboy is not for everyone it's pervasive violence its live octopus eating and it's story br br the film focuses around a man who's been kidnapped and is imprisoned for 15 years oh su is released only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days now the story though may seem gripping to start with but once watching this bloated and un original blood fest it develops into a mash of bitter blood and a forceful film br br it's directing is on par of average and by no means the standards of what a south korean thriller should be acting scenes are paralleled with dull humour and a poorly script br br oldboy is presented with thin straw performances that one could only feel shameful about br br verdict br br not for everyone but it's scope and vision isn't clear enough to see further than the grey abyss of fog br br tragic
0	there's a thin line between being theatrical and being just plain forced forced acting forced takes forced plot even forced photography there's people who say the movie develops that way because it's from asia but i don't see any kind of forced elements on seven samurai or sonatine there's a thin line between being fiction and every work of art it is in it's way fiction and being just unlikely in a more personal way i just don't feel anything with the movie it doesn't take me anywhere and i just can't believe in the fictional world it is proposed it just doesn't feel right there's something in it or through that just doesn't click
0	oldboy is set in korea starts as a drunken su oh min choi is bailed out of the police station by his friend only to be abducted su wakes up finds himself in a small room which he will be imprisoned in for the next fifteen years su is fed looked after by his unknown captors but is never allowed out of the room su begins to train himself to avenge himself after he gets out which he intends to do by scrapping away the cement from the with a however before su finishes he is gassed rendered unconscious when he wakes up su finds himself free on the roof of a tall building dressed all moneyed up su instantly sets about trying to find out who imprisoned him after meeting the pretty jeong kang the two fall in love together with her help su finally finds what he is looking for but the truth comes at a price br br this south korean production was co written directed by chan wook park has gotten any number of glowing reviews the sort that distributors can pick quotes out plaster them on the video box even won the grand prize of the jury at cannes while it was also nominated for the golden palm so surely oldboy is a true classic well not for me it isn't since as i can't understand why it's so liked i would go as far as to say i pretty much hated it apart from one or two isolated moments for a start i couldn't get into the story at all i just didn't like it as i thought it was slow boring while many out there would have you believe oldboy has the bestest most shocking twist ever i thought it was rather plain not very well executed either the ending in which su goes to the new zealand alps to be hypnotised feels tagged on as well almost as if the makers wanted some sort of happy ending at almost two hours i almost fell asleep i was so bored the violence is tame it's the thought of what's happening that i would imagine most people have a problem with rather than what is actually shown in fact oldboy has a very low body count of about seven one mild sex scene it's really not that graphic or memorable i didn't warm to any of the character's while i accept oldboy has an alright concept premise it fails to deliver it's one film that i will never understand why so many people seem to like br br based on a japanese manga of the same name oldboy the film looks alright there's one or two nice visual moments here although while everyone raves about the hallway fight that takes place in one continuous shot i was pretty unimpressed thought the fight choreography was quite dull the actual on screen gore violence amounts to very little su eats a live octopus which is apparently quite normal in korea anyway there are some fight scenes a severed hand someones teeth are pulled out there's a bit of blood at the end br br the budget was supposedly around the 4 000 000 mark which is actually a fair bit filmed in south korea new zealand the acting looks alright but it's hard to tell when actors are speaking a different language br br oldboy is a film that i found an absolute chore to sit through i don't mind subtitled films or foreign films or paying attention to the plot as i followed the thing perfectly but i just didn't like any of it it's as simple straightforward as that apparently the second in director choi wook park's revenge trilogy which also includes sympathy for mr vengeance 2002 lady vengeance 2005
0	this movie was one of the longest movie watching experiences of my life while i like how the director chan wook park handled the revenge the move as a whole was terrible oldboy is only billed at 1 hour and 55 minutes long but it feels like it takes at least 3 and a half hours to tell this story i will say that the english dubbing was done very well and the movie was easily understandable i felt that some of the scenes were unnecessarily long and a lot of the dialogue repeated itself also if you have an aversion to annoying voices then avoid hearing jeong kang she plays mi do speak if you are looking for a movie to kill time and make you feel morally superior to others then watch away if you don't want to watch a movie filled with incest bad dialogue unnecessary fight scenes gross torture scenes and confusing flashbacks then this is not the movie for you
0	please do not blame korea for this bad movie i am in korea please excuse bad english it me to see these movies which make korea look like obsessed with blood and sex it me even more to see animal killings and hear americans say that is how korea is we do not eat live animals so please stop excusing movie for its crime by saying it is the culture there is scenes with the man eating live animals and non koreans think it is normal no it is disgusting to us too the director is a misfit sick individual who has obsession with killing and sex with family members i wish america and france will stop glorifying this bad man who is laughable in his own country please watch any other movie from korea that will give you ideas of how artistic we really are this movie is rubbish
0	unbelievable philosophy depth genius masterpiece people must have seen another oldboy because the one i've seen was a badly written poorly conceived over the top acted sordid piece of which even ignoring for a moment the ludicrously violent scenes which makes it unsuitable for the eyes of a child could barely satisfy the imagination and the thirst for plot consistency of a seven years old br br the depth of this sorry concoction was exhausted in one little piece of wisdom laugh and the whole world will laugh with you weep and you'll find yourself alone the type of boring fortune cookie saying which a great author be him shakespeare or more to the point of imdb kurosawa would have thrown in the garbage can with no second thoughts where this movie should have landed too if we wouldn't live in an era in which the cheaply shocking and the perversely disgusting are confused with what used to be named once great art in short yuck br br 2 out of 100 it's not 1 out of 1000 only because of some occasionally expert camera work in no way enough to save this infantile failure from worthlessness though
0	it seems that some viewers assume that the only thing which can make the viewer dislike this movie is the graphic violence in fact violence both disturbing and cartoonish is the last of oldboy 's deep flaws the characters are unidimensional underdeveloped primitive the intensity an obsession and a goal in itself with this director is served up with the cheapest of means let's not confuse a mindless shot of adrenaline with artistic worth by the end of the movie it seems that all the cards were exhausted so the script becomes almost inadvertently funny in its efforts to find new levels of horror to continue to shock an audience which is already numbed by the plethora of dumb soap opera revelations already served up in big bunches it would be hard to imagine anybody even vaguely familiar with the masterpieces of the last fifty years of asian cinema being enthralled by this pompous piece of trash imagine homer simpson hesitating in front of the cinema theater should i go in or should i buy five cones of ice cream for the same money be smart homer go for the ice cream
0	i am sorry to rain on everybody's parade just a little background about me i like and know a lot about asian cinema especially japanese chinese and indian admittedly i am a novice when it comes to south korean cinema but if this is the best of the best sorry i just want you to know that i am not at all narrow minded when it comes to appreciating foreign movies and i do not fit the stereotype of the dumb american well not perfectly br br i cannot believe the high praise this piece of nothing is bestowed upon this is a disgusting and ludicrous movie hammy acting everything is badly done and overdone like begging for the uneducated viewer's attention horrible camera work with an insistence on meaningless close ups derived from the mtv aesthetics br br the plot is more full of holes than a gigantic piece of swiss cheese nobody expects a thriller to be 100 realistic and for the sake of entertainment i'd be happy to close my eyes to small unfitting details but excuse me what's happening here that can stand even summary scrutiny this story of an unbelievably intricate and contrite act of revenge is worse than the worst tabloid story one can read in a line at the supermarket don't want to spoil your enjoyment if that's the word so won't go into details of the plot the fighting scenes are violent unbelievable downright stupid the main hero taking on dozens and dozens of opponents in the same time after he only trained while imprisoned punching a wall the truly outstanding features of this movie are two the lurid and incestuous sex brother on sister and father on daughter well we've evolved since oedipus didn't we and the graphic violence the cut off body parts hands teeth tongues together with industrial quantities of spilled blood how many tens of thousands of tomatoes had to die for this movie to be made have no function motivation whatsoever br br a feast for the s m inclined admittedly but even for those a feast of no merit nor subtlety heavens even mel gibson's recent and much discussed work on an almost similar theme wasn't that bad br br the invariably good press this pretentious overblown overlong piece of gratuitous gore coming from korean shores obtains makes me wonder what's happening i don't think of myself as being the ultimate paragon of taste and often i am ready to accept that a movie i didn't enjoy may be better than i was able to perceive however i have no scruples whatsoever in calling this one as i see it bad bad bad no redeeming qualities my find something better to do with your time
0	this comment is meant mainly as a warning to the people who might be attracted to the title by its temporarily high user rating which i find frankly puzzling the reasons why i didn't like this title are following br br 1 the directer must have had some doubts whether to make a jackie chan type of a flick or a dark tragedy as a result in terms of genre the film falls between two stools as the tragic and comic elements clash and cancel out each other rather than make a harmonious whole br br 2 the characters' motives and behaviors are incoherent and unconvincing psychological truth and logic are sadly missing br br 3 absurd casting i don't blame the actors for it is a hard thing to create a convincing character by acting alone if there is scarce logic in the script however why is there an apparent age difference of about 15 years between the leading two actors whose ages in the film can't differ by more than 3 4 br br 4 to me the film was poor entertainment primarily because of point 2 if you can't find a character you could sympathize with it is hard to follow the story with interest when you finally learn the reason of what happened to the main protagonist it turns out to make no sense br br 5 some films apart from being entertaining are also thought provoking having seen this film i began to wonder whether the thought the director tried to provoke was not that incestuous relationships could be perfectly wholesome and delightful i cannot put any other construction on the ending br br 6 the film is rife with totally unnecessary violence violence in a film and elsewhere is a good thing if it serves an important and worthy purpose purposes can be different and i don't want to enter into this broad subject let me just say i don't object to violence in such films as saving private ryan the passion of the christ or the pulp fiction in oldboy the scenes of torture and suffering are prolonged and graphic or aural what for i do not know personally i don't derive any satisfaction from watching teeth being extracted with a hammer or hear a man cut off his tongue with scissors and then see him choking on his own blood etc etc br br 7 the film reminds me a little of japanese porno in its fixation on incest and young asian girls' panties urinating and the like it appears there is a minority who actually enjoy this kind of thing if you're one of them you might find this film enjoyable br br in short i do not recommend this film either as entertainment or food for thought where it isn't silly it is disgusting don't waste your time
0	j s cardone directed a little known 'video nasty' in 1982 called the slayer and since then has gone on to have a hand in a handful of feature films including the rubbish 2001 vampire movie the forsaken his latest feature film wicked little things boasts a plot that sounds decent as well as a creepy looking poster that i seem to remember surfacing a couple of years ago in relation to a film that tobe hooper was meant to direct well i guess he felt that this one was too similar to his silly zombie fungus movie and so turned this one down i don't blame him for it either the plot focuses on a mother and her two daughters that move to an old house in the mountains that once belonged to her late husband however what they don't realise is that around a hundred years earlier a group of children that were being used as miners were trapped down a mineshaft naturally that's not the end of them and they managed to survive their ordeal and now prowl the area in search of br br the film is essentially a collection of clichés from the youngest kid with an imaginary friend the mother who dismisses it and all the usual zombie rubbish j s cardone attempts to get the horror fans back on side with shocks and gory scenes mostly involving kids but its not enough the story doesn't play out very well at all either and really did remind me too much of the earlier mortuary and that's not a good thing although mortuary is actually a better film than this one the acting is nothing to write home about either lori is decent looking as is eldest daughter scout taylor compton but neither manages to provide an interesting performance chloe is slightly better than the usual child actor the plot is given hardly any credibility and indeed the screenplay can't even be bothered to explain the reasons why the kids attack the locals it all boils down to a typical and rather dull ending and overall i have to say that if you know your horror movies then you can feel free to skip this one
0	this movie was awful plain and simple it will probably be revered by those who only see films and not movies and will therefore feel sorry for me for having such a limited understanding of the theatrical brilliance of this film but i am secure enough in my intellect to say that this boring self aggrandizing and painfully drawn out movie was a waste of two hours and nine dollars br br i was suckered into seeing this by the inexplicable good reviews it had been receiving and came out of the theater thinking that those reviews had to have been written by over excited film students and the aforementioned group of individuals who shun regular movies perhaps for fear that they may actually enjoy one someday br br the storyline is quite a promising one a man is imprisoned for 15 years never knowing his captor nor his crime he is then abruptly released and given just five days to discover the identity and reason of the man who imprisoned him however the great concept soon disintegrates into a pathetic joke as oh su runs around beating people up trying to have sex with a young girl who is attempting to use the toilet and eating a live writhing squid presumably for dramatic effect as there is absolutely no other reason for it all the while he is trying to figure out this horrible thing he did to earn himself fifteen years in jail and when he finally finds out it is both ridiculous and a major letdown his nemesis a man who supposedly went to school with him when he was a young man looks like a banana republic model twenty years younger than him hey i know prison has been hard on oh su but is it too much to ask to find an actor that looks a bit closer to his age of all the things wrong with this movie this one seems like the easiest one to fix br br and the big secret the one that kept me in my seat for 90 minutes when i could have been out doing something productive is some joke of a plot line involving incest and a rumor started in high school come on throw us a bone here was that really the best they could do i sat through stupid dialogue over acting gloomy sets and gratuitous violence for this by the way i'm not at all against violence in a film if it seems to fit the story but in this case it seems i was forced to watch our hero knock out someone's front teeth and cut off his own tongue with a pair of scissors in order to distract me from figuring out i was wasting my afternoon watching a pretentious piece of garbage br br take my advice do something else with your time and money or take your nine dollars and go see a lowly movie one that you might actually enjoy
0	by jove what an unholy mess revenge incestuous love mechanical games like fighting ceaseless and utterly unnecessary violence some primitive music hammering away at the bewildered victims big surprises which actually tend to be about as revelatory as the national headlines add some shoddy camera movements pretending to be stylish and creative and you've already impressed the crowds this movie's totally undeserved popularity powerfully indicates the very low level pop sub culture has succeeded not only in achieving in the last decades but also in imposing as dominant taste on an impotent audience for by far deeper insights into human sufferance under mental sickness without oldboy s vulgar excesses i recommend an older dutch french movie the vanishing br br well don't believe there's absolutely nothing good to say about this movie in fact there is the in famous scene in which the hero is really a hero an abject father who sleeps with his daughter and then attempts to obtain rather than redemption eats a live octopus benefits greatly from the vivid presence of the best actor in the entire cast the octopus itself too bad the poor beast having been eaten couldn't survive its one and only act in order to obtain yet another worthless diploma for the best actor at the cannes festival br br which festival by the way between moore's propaganda nonsense and this epitome of worthless if somewhat exotic weirdness became a festival of the vapid and of the ludicrous br br sic transit gloria mundi
0	fortunately i haven't seen this film in a movie big screen just on a small screen on video i doubt that i would have been able to sit through the film in a cinema and watch all the violence present in the film after watching the first 30 minutes i became both disappointed and curious br br disappointed because of the hard to follow story line the hardly understandable screens the huge amount of aggression i still don't know why i had been shown the main character pulling out raw the teeth of another person his on women him cutting out his tongue and also curious to see what will the film say as a conclusion what is the ending summary of all this brutality br br unfortunately though the movie was not boring i didn't get any answer to all these cruelty that i had to watch from the beginning to the end to my opinion if you want blood and want to laugh there is kill bill 1 2 if you want blood with more meaning you can take any recent war movie and if you want an eastern movie there are much better titles out there afterwards i will take the ratings from the cannes film festival with more as while oldboy got a lot of praise from the jury it had not much to say to me and had only 4 10 on my scale br br i am hungry to see something beautiful harmonious with true feelings and a clear message
0	this digital horror film brings us into the micro budget film genre where the more blood and chicks in distress the better the story is weak the acting is respectable and the special effects well they're special alright a quality horror film for the fans that already know what to expect
0	jeff leroy wanted to makes fun of scientology so built a horror movie around a cult similar to it the twist is that instead of frail old l ron hubbard as the cult leader there's a centuries old space monster who turns his followers into vampires our hero is a dirty living college student who is doing research into the occult his landlord is an attractive blonde who tries to get him to clean up his life with the help of the cult it doesn't take him long to figure out that she's only after one thing his blood the screaming was shot very cheaply on video and i just plain ugly the space monster which looks like a giant winged cat that looks perpetually mad and has no skin is alternately a clay miniature and a large scale animatronics puppet both of which look awful the acting and writing are both terrible and the director doesn't even try to disguise the fact that this movie was made for nothing avoid this non scary pitiful little excuse
0	the screaming is a very low budget horror movie that was shot on video it features passable acting poor lighting a weak story and some of the worst monster effects i've ever seen the plot has a college student being pressured to join a cult by his attractive landlord the cult is a parody of scientology with a book similar to this would have been a funny shot at that group were it not for a dumb script and the cheapness of the production the monster effects look awful and the picture quality makes it feel like you're watching a home video or a public service announcement i think anyone who sees this will agree that movies should be shot on film
0	bottom of the barrel stinker is so bad it's beyond funny the plot is about an american mercenary played by reb brown in the film he's called a military adviser but it's not really clear if he's in the american military or not helping the army of a latin american country fight guerrillas who winds up joining the guerrillas when the government turns on him imprisons and tortures him shannon tweed is a sports equipment saleswoman he picks up in a bar who gets caught up in all the intrigue that description actually makes the movie sound better than it is because it's really a stinker of almost biblical proportions how bad is it well shannon tweed turns in the movie's most professional acting job if that isn't an indication of just what a 12th rate piece of junk this turkey is nothing is from mismatched sound effects to a music score that sounds like it's from a 1940s z grade horror flick and may very well be to the same footage i e armored personnel carriers going down the same jungle trail reused constantly to some of the most ineptly staged action scenes in recent memory this laugh a minute has to be seen to be tweed looks bored brown looks hung over and by the time this thing is finished if you can last that long i couldn't you'll know just how they feel br br although there are a lot of explosions and gunfights this can't be considered an action picture by any stretch of the imagination it's boring there's a scene in the back of a truck where everybody just stares at each other for three or four minutes repetitive the same rebels and soldiers being killed over and over illogical when a group of rebels is caught in an open field by a government helicopter gunship instead of breaking for cover they just stand there staring up at it inept soldiers and rebels falling dead when no gunshots are heard a gun battle inside a house where combatants standing against walls are machine gunned but miraculously the walls escape undamaged predictable when the governor says to offer a reward for brown's capture because someone might turn him in you know exactly who that someone will be and it turns out to be exactly who you thought it was and just downright stupid pretty much everything else in the picture inept brainless and stupid beyond belief don't waste your time
0	found this film for one dollar 1 00 and the film was a complete waste of time reb brown mark hardin played a military adviser in south america and was successful in capturing the leader of rebel soldiers operating out of the dense jungles however mark joins the opposite side after some horrible tortures were inflicted or women and men in one scene as mark is having a drink in a hotel bar his eyes catch the glimpse of sexy long legs sandra spencer shannon tweed dead sexy 01 mark and sandra have the extreme hots for each other and even make passionate love on some very hard rocks with no time for the comforts of a bed this is a horrible film and not worth wasting the time to even look at it
0	in yet another case of misleading marketing this film is included in a 10 movie dvd set called women who kick butt but even in its original cover it seems to promise shannon tweed in an action role actually during most of the movie tweed plays the typical whiny and prissy female character who has to be rescued by the male lead and even when she's trained in jungle warfare she still has to be dragged around by him there is one female rebel who is a stronger character but she's mostly kept in the margins of the movie the male lead is reb brown and he does have some unintentionally i think funny moments like when he gets electrocuted the action scenes are badly directed and poorly acted some of the stuntmen needed a few lessons on how to get shot and die convincingly i suppose if you're in the right mood you can find some things in firing line to laugh at at one point we can hear tweed speaking but her lips are not moving but mostly i was just bored
0	audio br br seriously i've never seen a movie with worse audio there are scenes where people are walking through the grass and you can hardly hear them over their footsteps they must be their feet br br you know how in some movies they forget a line so they have to dub it in on a shot of the back of someone's head here the editors were not that clever there is actually a scene where shannon character says her line without moving her lips at all br br i'm pretty sure for their background sound they played effects loops live while shooting because in a lot of scenes the sound effects will either be different or be absent whenever the camera changes angles br br i could write a lot more on how bad the audio is in this movie br br other nuggets br br in this movie they probably consider the opening credits to be special effects because they seemed so challenging to produce the main title and the first few names in the opening credits are in white text over a white sky and they wobble as if they were carefully hand painted on each frame br br the reuse of extras in this movie is incredible there are about 15 rebels in the cast and yet in any given battle thirty or more of them will be killed if only the film were high enough quality to distinguish which ones were dying over and over br br it's also interesting to note that the rebels are usually killed by explosions that are always between 30 and 200 feet away there is one scene one scene when some of the rebels are running out of their huts in the rebel base and one huts shakes as the rebel exits the door it makes you wonder if the hut will last long enough to encounter the inevitable explosion br br there is a blue helicopter that looks as menacing as a pair of running shorts but somehow is equipped with an infinite supply of missiles when they show the missiles being shot out of the missile bays the often shoot of in unpredictable directions very closely resembling large bottle rockets they still manage to hit their targets with ease which as noted above is always a very safe distance away from the rebels they kill note the recycled footage of the pilot pressing the live button to fire the missiles because it's printed vertically the first few times we saw it we read it as the evil button br br notice how the grenade launcher they use produces identical explosions to those that are created by the helicopter missiles it's also fun in many scenes how the actor in the foreground is shooting in a completely different direction than the group of enemy soldiers that he is killing and frequently characters shoot a disproportionate number of bullets to the soldiers who are killed like when a short burst fire kills a large group of enemies br br yes this movie is very very very bad the plot was thought out almost as well as a 5 year old's soccer game and the editing is the worst i've ever seen but honestly sometimes it's fun spend 90 minutes laughing at a group of adults who sincerely took part in such a terrible movie
0	i really wanted to like this movie a film with zombie children getting out of a mine to kill people at night really seemed like a great idea for a horror film unfortunately the film was in the bottom 3 of films played at horror fest br br a mother and her two daughters attempt to move on after her husband father had passed away from an illness that cost their family a lot of money they have to adapt to their new environment they end up struggling due to all the surroundings for different reasons crazy zombie kids go into this category the film never gives any sentimental attachment for anyone that lives or dies the film produces no scares or jump worthy moments the film barely shows the children doing what they're supposed to do kill with a bigger budget and a better cast this film could have hope until then pass on it br br 3 5 10 actually
0	what a shocker for starters i couldn't stand the constant screaming and noisy panicking all the time it didn't make me scared horrified or make me sympathetic towards the characters it was simply annoying the jerky camera movements were also annoying the plot was the same as pretty much every other cheap horror there was a few pathetic attempts to give the characters some depth but it didn't really work into the rest of the plot and then there's the ending i'm still not really sure what to make of it i guess it was supposed to be clever twist then shed some light on the situation but it was just stupid br br the case had a couple of those little award winner nominations symbols on it so i figured it couldn't be too bad i was wrong if you see it you should probably just leave it on the shelf
0	if you are a bit masochistic and like to waste some time you should try this one i wasted enough time myself watching it so i will waste no more explaining why it is so awful be warned oh i see that i have to fill 10 lines or more here we go every year or so some people think it is fun to start shooting a low budget film about the scary monsters of the underground that hopefully will prove to be some sort of a hit the cavern is one of those i didn't have high expectations about this one but the acting is so bad and the production so poor that i'm seriously thinking of asking for a refund one more line about a useless movie oh i'm done
0	a virtual carbon copy of the cave save for a fewer lower budget effects and a slightly different plot i knew the movie was going downhill when i saw the fake campfire lights clearly reflected in a facial close up of one of the actors the conflicts between characters and subplots seemed to serve no purpose whatsoever and added nothing to the film except fewer moments of silence the acting wasn't as bad as the typical b movie and there was some believability in their fear but as professional they seem to be too psychologically unstable for their chosen profession overall not worth wasting 4 50 to rent
0	this must be one of the worse movies that i have ever seen on a par with blair witch and just as annoying the flashing helmet lights made things difficult to see and i think that should take heed as there are moments with strobing that makes this movie even more annoying i think if they had been quieter they might have found a way out then when you think the geek might come up trumps even he resorts to a nervous breakdown oh and when is the guy who is having sex realise that when the girl says she can hear something she can really hear something one of these guys must have at least seen scream where they draw your attention to such things it is also a big let down when a premise offers so much promise and then someone writes the script so sorry folks i got this on weekly at the video shop and i would still like my money back
0	when i sat down to watch this movie i thought that it might be slightly good but no it was a ok film not good but not bad for most of it but then you get to the ending and it losses all credibility they should have just left then dead they did not leave the last bit it did not make any sense if they had something at they beginning about a plane crash yeah but we didn't so it didn't work the first bit is ok and i give them credit for that but the rest is just plane bad and unnecessary if you are thinking about going and watching this movie don t it is awful go and rent something that is actually worth watching i give it 2 10
0	there seems to have been some money behind this film but it would be impossible to imagine a film this badly planned and executed if i hadn't actually started watching it br br to begin with once we are in the cavern with the characters the usual young adult stereotypes we've been meeting in horror films since the early '80s the film is shot almost entirely in close up since the actors are wearing helmet lights this means all we see are glaring lights alternating with utter darkness we never get to see what the characters see so when they shout out look there we are left to beg what where ultimately the film has a nauseating confusing strobe light effect with no sense to it until we get to the end br br and i won't tell you what 'the end' means but you will recognize it if you've ever seen the old early '60s arch hall laugh fest with richard kiel br br but what crazy person would ever want to make a variation on a theme like 's long remembered as one of the worst films ever made but that's what we have here folks except that unlike the cavern is not anyone's idea of goofy fun it is unwatchable i ran it at x2 the normal speed just to get it over with hoping i would actually be able to see something by the end of the film but when i did it was just stupid this film did provide me with one satisfying moment though since it only cost a couple bucks after i got it out of the dvd player i was able to smash it with my own hands what a relief
0	monday october 02 2006 so i got together with my dad as i always do we ordered some japanese take out turned off the lights and pushed play i'm an avid fan of horror movies however the cavern released on dvd this october was most certainly a let down it seemed promising meeting all the standard requirements of any horror movie machine drawn out beginning with antagonistic character present a cannot be omitted sex scene and the all too familiar pre spook when they spook you unexpectedly but it turns out to be the idiot buddy then finally when it got down to the nitty gritty i was ready for some real gore action the director i admit was keen of course you would have to be to fill in an entire 81 minutes with people running back and forth in a space about wide it all begins when some college bound get together for yet another cave dive they all seem like seasoned pros very serious and spiritual about the whole cave experience this time they bring a new by along some annoying photographer too blinded by his national geographic cover to understand the full dangers of cave diving as they descend deep into what they call hell pit they soon realize that they are not alone in the chasm of death i will politely leave out any spoilers if you are naive enough to not heed my advice and avoid wasting your time although the atmosphere and background music was spooky and there was sure a lot of blood and gore when the moments approached to witness some actual dismemberment it was more like watching porn without the full frontal the camera work was purposefully dark and sketchy i guess the director used it for effect i suppose the thing i like most about the movie were the moving characters they deserved acadamy awards for those touching bickering scenes i almost shed a tear when they finally got it a tear for joy if you like dry horror soft porn and you hated braveheart then this is the right movie for your next saturday night
0	i haven't laughed this much in a long time or seen a film so ineptly made talk about so bad it made me laugh br br firstly i estimate that for about 40 percent of the film's length i couldn't tell what was happening or indeed even what i was seeing i can only describe the camera work as frenetic meets lsd there are whole segments minutes long where all you can see are blurred flashes and fragments of cave wall people and various other unidentifiable stuff i spent half the film asking my teenage daughters what was happening but they couldn't follow it any better than me br br then there are the black moments when in an effort to scare us everyone's lights go out and the screen turns pitch black and i don't just mean for a few seconds i think the longest lasted almost two minutes i guess blank film is one way to keep costs down br br i suspect the director had recently read a book on all the must do's to make a scary movie and decided to throw them all in about 20 times each br br there are three good things about this film 1 it's short at 90 minutes though still an hour and a half too long 2 all the characters die after all it's impossible to care about any of them 3 there was one genuinely good scene when the group are looking up the shaft they came down after discovering their rope fallen to the bottom saw that coming a large boulder is pushed across the opening sealing them in i wasn't expecting that and it was genuinely chilling br br and what's with the early campfire scenes with the shot after shot after shot panning from behind the camp lights i swear the director used almost the same shot about 20 times in 5 minutes br br and i'm positive that after the first kill the exact same footage of blood on the cave floor is used twice in about 90 seconds br br all in all a crap piece of film making i'll watch almost anything but this is close to where i'd draw the line
0	i am an avid movie watcher and i enjoy a wide variety of films however i found no enjoyment in this movie it is probably the worst movie i have ever seen i do not feel that it had much of a storyline the characters were not likable and the relationship between the characters was dysfunctional at best and the ending only made me dislike the movie more it is definitely not in the same category as the cave which was in my opinion the best cave movie ever made even the descent was better than this movie br br it was a waste of the 3 79 rental fee and of my time to watch this do yourself a favor and steer clear of this one
0	i have recently seen a string of caving movies and this film managed to together all the worst aspects of this kind of film you get very little appreciation for the caving surrounds or the monster that they face while the characters are clichéd spiritual guy leader with tragedy in recent past etc and the ending was just weak it really annoyed me that the director kept shaking the camera or showing almost total darkness to create atmosphere i have read that this movie gave a real representation of caving and yeah i imagine that caves are dark showing near total blackness for half the film really brought that home i quite enjoyed the descent which for my money had better acting showed more tight caving situations better monsters and had a good ending br br spoiler br br the monster turns out to be some guy whose plane crashed and parents were killed leaving him to grow up in the caves he seems to have developed super strength and speed but why is never addressed maybe the same force that drained their torch batteries caused this but during the film whenever someone is killed you get the impression of something large with claws that tears up each victim see how much blood splatters the walls but in the end its just some dude with a fur draped over him and a mask i would be willing to overlook this if great heights of suspense were reached but this was hardly the case then he starts raping the last remaining and roll credits almost absurdly bad i thought sometimes a film is soo bad you can appreciate it and maybe have a laugh but this films fails to take itself lightly as well br br you watched it you can't unwatch it
0	i generally love this type of movie however this time i found myself wanting to kick the screen since i can't do that i will just complain about it this was absolutely idiotic the things that happen with the dead kids are very cool but the alive people are absolute idiots i am a grown man pretty big and i can defend myself well however i would not do half the stuff the little girl does in this movie also the mother in this movie is reckless with her children to the point of neglect i wish i wasn't so angry about her and her actions because i would have otherwise enjoyed the flick what a number she was take my advise and fast forward through everything you see her do until the end also is anyone else getting sick of watching movies that are filmed so dark anymore one can hardly see what is being filmed as an audience we are impossibly involved with the actions on the screen so then why the hell can't we have night vision
0	if i could give this excuse for a film a 0 or negative rating i would i was stupid enough to pick this dvd up in the shop read the blurb and think that sounds quite good i'll spend £10 and buy it all i got at the end of it was a £10 coaster absolutely awful i don't even know where to begin i have no idea why anyone has given this more than 2 stars because i can't think of one good thing to say about it br br the plot is basically 7 people go into an unexplored cave one of them is a reporter no one else knows they are there when they get in the cave they can't get out and they get killed off one by one by a monster there turns out to be no reason for the reporter one of the characters has some past demons where his ex girlfriend drowns in a cave 2 years ago there seems to be no relevance or reason for that either just a rubbish attempt at character building i assume anyway the monster turns out to be a guy that wandered into the cave as a normal little kid and has lived in there all his life this for no reason makes him superhuman able to glow see in the dark take bullets breathe underwater be in 2 places at once and have insane strength able to move boulders carry grown men as dead weight etc br br in the end scene there are 2 women left alive they wake up naked just covered in some bit of rug or something they then find a picture of a kid the monster then bursts in the door wrapped in a carpet with some sort of animal skull over his head says in the directors commentary it was a skull if so that would be the biggest crow i have seen in my life and quite literally goes like a kiddie on halloween i was watching it with my boyfriend and at that point he literally burst out laughing the guy then sees a picture of himself as a kid and has a flashback to him sitting under a tree with his face all burnt and then getting up and wandering into the cave that is the extent of the back story to why he mutilates people and it leaves you feeling a bit cheated for a story the monster then kills one of the women and brutally rapes the other one cut to end credits i know the rape scene was designed to be shocking but as a woman it just made me feel quite ill and was the thing that affected me the most in the whole film he could have killed her and cut her into pieces and ate her and it would have been less horrific than the rape scene br br there are so many things that are left unanswered at the end aside from all this the scenes where there was minutes at a time of just black and nothing else was annoying and the constant nauseating camera angles where it's all upside down and you can't see what's going on wound me up so much at one point i almost turned it off an absolutely terrible film you might as well get the money you were going to spend on it and set fire to it it would be money better spent as like some clever person posting above me said once you've watched it you can't un watch it
0	i consented to watching this movie with a group of friends despite my extreme dislike for horror movies however it was not the shock of a monster that turned me off this movie it was the horrendous acting and absolutely disgusting ending within or the cavern has no redeeming qualities it is poorly made laughably scripted sickeningly bloody and the inclusion of the gratuitous final scene me no it is not my dislike for horror movies that makes me hate this film i've seen such wonderful teen horrors as house of wax its the fact that the film leaves you with the awful understanding that by renting the video you are supporting the creators of within
0	what a shocker for starters i couldn't stand the constant screaming and noisy panicking all the time it didn't make me scared horrified or make me sympathetic towards the characters it was simply annoying the jerky camera movements were also annoying the plot was the same as pretty much every other cheap horror there was a few pathetic attempts to give the characters some depth but it didn't really work into the rest of the plot and then there's the ending i'm still not really sure what to make of it i guess it was supposed to be clever twist then shed some light on the situation but it was just stupid br br the case had a couple of those little award winner nominations symbols on it so i figured it couldn't be too bad i was wrong if you see it you should probably just leave it on the shelf
0	if it is true that the movie only cost 150k to make it explains a lot but it doesn't explain why it has no real plot midway through the movie i honestly didn't care if they made it out or not i just wanted to finish the movie and go to bed the ending was really dumb and made me wish i would have just shut the movie off and gone to bed early pretty good acting considering there wasn't much to go with if you enjoy really bad movies with horrible lighting even for a cave and bad camera work even for a cave then you'll really like this movie by the way if the boy's plane crashed in 1980 when he was about 10 years old or so how could he have forgotten how to speak and built up so much anger wouldn't he have wanted to get help from the first people he had seen even if it was 14 years later
0	the person who wrote the summary and rave review for this film is either an idiot or an avid fan of shitty movies from the beginning this just spoke of cheap ass ripoff of the descent a far superior film that definitely does not start off slow br br from the very first moments of the cavern i was amazed at how bad it was how uninspired and unoriginal it was how badly written badly acted and badly directed it was this is without a doubt one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life and that's saying a lot considering i recently suffered through pulse i can't believe this piece of garbage actually won awards which just goes to show the quality of marijuana and other illegal drugs is much better in australia and other countries than in the u s br br the scenes where the group is running from the creature are badly directed especially the retarded upside down camera intended to show disorientation but only coming off as a cheap effect which a first year film student would be suitably berated for by their teacher br br sadly this director will probably go on to make other movies more than likely of the same low quality as this film since i'm sure he hasn't learned from his mistakes which on this picture were excessive br br if i had my way the entire cast and crew would be sent up the river for life without parole this film is a crime against humanity
0	i love movies and rarely do i see a movie that i hate but this was the worst movie i have ever seen or at least close to it any movie that ends with a rape scene is awful hands down i cant believe i wasted 2 hours of my life watching this movie i'm really mad i want my money back and my time back awful do not go to see it the cinematography is awful the plot is awful the ending is awful i didn't know what was going on during half the movie cause i could not see it and i was watching on a very nice and big tv rent saw the hills have eyes or house of wax any of those are better if u want something scary
0	horror films are a curious thing sometimes they manage to stumble across a formula that works very well sometimes they try valiantly to tell a worthy story despite time and budget problems sometimes they're so bad they're actually kinda fun and sometimes they're the cavern br br a good horror suspense film should contain vagaries that keep you guessing they should allow you to be interested in the characters and their motivations so that you actually have some sort of reaction when they die however the cavern chooses instead to introduce elements that work at first only to be by it's own lackluster storytelling br br all the characters are completely forgettable and any actual back story that might make any of them even remotely interesting is blurted out within a 30 second monologue making it impossible to do anything more than laugh as characters are picked off almost at random and on more than one occasion in the least possibly frightening way br br to spoil a scene a bit one victim is taken during a complete blackout which might have been a little frightening if the sound effect used to indicate his killing wasn't reminiscent of stirring a pot of too thick macaroni and cheese add to this formula the camera that work makes me think the director saw one too many nine inch nails videos and an ending which in an attempt to be shocking serves almost no purpose but to annoy and confuse the viewer and you have an almost completely unwatchable horror film that fails on every level br br i'll be honest with you if you want a claustrophobic caving horror movie go watch the descent and i feel weird saying that because i didn't particularly enjoy that movie either
0	i can't say if the cavern is a ripoff of the cave because i haven't seen that i've seen the descent and that's not terrible but it is very hard to watch and so is this one hard to watch as in there's very little light and lots of fast motion so you're hard pressed to say what you're looking at there are times when i guess you're supposed to be scared judging from the music but scared of what bad camera work poor lighting if that's the case than this should be the scariest movie made the story is that a bunch of cave explorers go to a cave in kazakhstan home of borat and make their descent but something is of course in there with them and what is it one guy says it's a wolf bear hybrid that is just before he gets ripped apart but whatever it is you can't see it and just when you think or hope the film is ending since the screen goes dark for a bit you see the two remaining the two women wake up somewhere in betty and attire and start trying to find their way out of wherever they are they do drink some water and start eating something until they figure out what it is and start puking and then the mystery of what's in the cave appears and you'll just be astounded maybe maybe not dumb dumb dumb i think i'm pretty well done with cave movies at this point 2 out of 10
0	first let me say that those of you that voted it 10 are only kidding yourselves and trying to get the votes to a respectable level something that this movie doesn't deserve the only movies deserving a 10 imo are the classics godfather shawshank etc look at the top rated films of all time for the complete list i also noticed that many people gave this a positive vote for being so realistic as far as what it's like inside a cave though i would have to agree with them on the surroundings they simply aren't rating the movie as a whole they are infatuated by the surroundings but miss the overall review that would be like me voting a 10 for the movie from justin to kelly because i think that the beach scenes remind me of what it's like in the florida keys though that may be true it does not merit the film getting a 10 because the movie as a whole was rancid br br i wish i could tell you that something saved this movie as usually if one thing stinks in a horror flick something else picks up or makes up for the weakness ex bad actors are overshadowed by a great plot and or great camera work and scenery we started the dvd and it all started out fairly normal we jokingly started to pick out who would be the first to die after a brief bit of driving and hiking they set up camp for the night at that moment i keyed in on some things which really made me tune out the rest of the film two main problems i had bad effects and an even worse story line the first thing that we all noticed was that the campfires weren't real you can plainly see the cgi or fake flames that they were all sitting at for a horror film to have such a blatant effect flaw should have told me what i was in for the next hour br br only minutes later i was shown how poorly written this film was i don't remember exactly how they arrived at the point but basically we find out that the token nerd is writing a book about exploring caves etc another guy in the group wants to tell a story about an experience but hesitates stating i don't want this story in your book the author convinces and coaxes the other that he will not put the story in his book and that he can trust him a direct quote if i tell you the story you will definitely want it in your book at this point i was fully expecting a nice 5 minute story complete with flashbacks and heartfelt acting what i got was a short poorly told and acted statement i say statement because what he ended up telling was about 10 seconds and 5 sentences i don't remember the exact quotes but basically he says we were in a cave the cave flooded a girl died as our friend watched her drown you may think i am over exaggerating and being really critical but that isn't far off from a direct quote line for line from the movie scene br br over the next 50 minutes or so the film takes place in the cave and though the lighting is what i would imagine to be like in a cave i could have really done without the really fuzzy hazy look to the film and the camera shaking is just one that i didn't go for i have really good vision and after watching the main parts of the film i felt like i was legally blind i was emotionally detached from this movie therefore the parts that probably should have been scary weren't maybe had i been able to overlook the very slow and poorly acted start to this film i would have at least been scared but i don't remember anyone in the dark room even twitching at any of the action scenes br br the last scene was probably one i will never forget and that isn't a good thing basically two women are trapped in a room naked the monster comes in to attack kill the women he is stopped when he sees a picture of a little boy a flashback occurs where we find out that the monster was injured as a little boy and spent his entire life in the cave cut back to present time and he takes his mask a large skeleton with what appears to be a shirt he glances at the picture and the two women appear to have found the weakness soft spot at that point he stabs and kills one girl then proceeds to rape the other woman rather graphically after about 30 seconds of watching the camera jiggle and shake as he rapes her roll the credits movie's over br br honestly if i had to do it all over and i wasted money on renting this movie i could have saved myself an hour and watch the first scene and last scene of this film and still left with the same thoughts about it that i have now br br those of you comparing this to blair witch are way off if any of you had read up on how the director and writer ran the filming of blair would realize how revolutionary it was handing each cast member a script the day night of filming without the other cast members knowing what the other actor was doing is genius br br if imdb would let me it would get a negative score i don't understand how anyone in their right mind can recommend this movie
0	a group of with a sad history take an author on a adventure through an uncharted cave in kazakhstan in these times of remakes and sequels and film companies trying to cash in on any winning combination of cinematic components the cavern has only one relatively different twist on the previous eight cave movies over the last few years and that twist seems to be taken from an x file i like to give every film the benefit of the doubt but there were just too many little annoyances for me here the camera work can give you a headache as they seem to constantly confuse which way is up not being a it doesn't really matter to me whether the filming was realistic there is entirely too much unnecessary from supposedly experienced by the last half you're saying out loud one of two things – oh just shut up and concentrate on saving yourselves or i hope you all die by the end it must have been very tiring for these decent actors to make this film a moderate amount of gore and nothing special in the dialog or characters while you're pretty confident you know what's going on by the end the last five minutes explain all the details but i would have had a better opinion of the movie if they would have left the last minute on the cutting room floor it just wasn't necessary i suggest you hit eject immediately after your suspicions are confirmed and save yourself the setup for the sequel i've long thought that the film industry should share a modified restaurant industry's checkout scheme you pay for the materials to make the film before you go in but any profits for the film come from the tips you give when you leave the cinema i can't blame what i don't like about this film on its low budget
0	one of the few reasons to make these films is to give some actors a chance to hopefully star in better films if they're acting is any good the only good thing in this movie is the acting the three female leads are better than most horror films like this there's 2 scenes that may cause an unexpected jump br br young small children are use to crawl through holes and lay dynamite to explode mines when one does collapse causing a cave in all the children die becoming zombies the adults in the mine stay dead no reasons are given as why the children become flesh eaters when still alive they looked terrified before the cave in innocent so they must become enraged at any adult which exploited them int he mines only reason that come to mind br br a mother and her 2 daughters move into a house near the mine along with a land who wants to build a resort and another of those creepy people who seem to know exactly what's going on yet no one believes him br br nothing new here you're usual clichés predictable a lot of negatives for this film very few positives
0	sometimes you ignore that little voice in your head that says stay away from this movie we should all pay more attention to that little voice this may be the worst movie i've ever had the non pleasure of sitting through or it may be the best reason to remember that your dvd player has a fast forward button made on a budget somewhere in the vicinity of 1 99 the cavern is obviously a quick cheapie made to on the current bunch of scary cave lots of darkness claustrophobic unknown menace flicks like the cave and the descent a few years back there was similar rash of look alike movies that used sea going vessels instead of caves all had scary boats submarines lots of darkness claustrophobic adventurers unknown menaces same old same old the cavern is really the blair witch project only this time we're lost under the earth and not lost on top of it throw in a flashlight with failing batteries a cow skull with fangs glued on it for a monster and one of the stupidest twist climaxes ever put on film that being said let me urge you to listen to me the little voice in your head i'm your friend i want you to have a happy life stay away from this movie
0	when i checked out the review for this film after i'd watched it i was surprised that there were people giving it good ratings br br this is a film of bad camera work everything happens off screen usually accompanied with a closeup of someone yelling did you see hear that well no we didn't see that we can't and when there weren't any close ups the camera was doing something weird like rotating upside down or shaking back and forth really really quickly to either convey action or to make us physically sick br br the characters were unlikeable because every two minutes they started screaming the same thing over and over again i don't care if that's what it would 'really' be like i did not rent a scary movie to see reasonable things i expect unreasonable things like aliens demons or good acting they were stupid too let's go have intimate relations in a cave with all of our clothes on speaking of which the ending somewhat contradicts what domingo said immediately before he died this bugged me a bit though not nearly as much as the fact that the ending resulted in a serious invasion of one girl's privacy br br no plot no climax no good acting terrible camera work what's left oh right the ending may have had a 'twist' but generally with horror movies the twist at the end actually has understandable relevance to what occurred during the film sixth sense does it explains a lot hide and seek did too but the cavern had a lame twist that served as an if you could call it that as it doesn't explain anything br br don't see it please
0	the cavern 2 out of 10 blair witch meets the cave and gives me a headache br br i have something to ask all film schools could you please teach future directors how to hold a camera steady flailing the camera around like aunt betty with 12 drinks is headache inducing br br also film is primarily a visual medium directors may want to point their camera's in the general direction of the action film also requires light to work perhaps a light source should be employed so one can see the action on the screen i know it is a cave movie but there is absolutely nothing frightening about watching pitch blackness for minutes at a time br br for that matter showing the film upside down doesn't indicate confusion on screen it indicates confusion in the editing booth br br a last note to the director i'm sure there was a good reason to have a horribly fake cgi campfire i honestly can't for the life of me think of one br br now on to the screenwriter try to make at least one character likable i'd prefer two or more but one decent person i can root for or care about might help also if you are going to have flashbacks make them relevant to the story br br if you are going to have a surprise ending it is probably best if it doesn't contradict every single thing that comes before it and try adding some fancy spelunking terms to a cave movie you might have wanted to start with spelunking br br the cavern is a pretty bad film poorly shot with a confusing improbable and anticlimactic ending
0	possibly the worst movie i ever saw the person who shot this movie probably never learned not to film directly into a shining light you can't see anything in this movie it is way to dark the parts where you can see something the camera is directed straight at a light source so you get big lens flares so you still can't see this movie should have been a radio play or something some parts of the movie are actually edited upside down for some kind of crap effect low budget movies can be done so much better then this and low budget is no excuse for this an editor should have said something when he started editing and saw that you couldn't see anything maybe the makers should have spend some of their low budget on a preview monitor so they could see what they shot the only good thing about this movie being so dark is that you can't see the awful acting it also covers up the crappy sfx people at beginner film schools make better movies then this movies shot with handy cams look better then this
0	the movie goes something like this run around run around someone killed lots of freaking out and then one of the group yells to pull it together or just calm down repeat this as many times as their are characters left in between these things you get to enjoy blank black screen these are not quick but rather several seconds long i kept thinking what a waste of film every time it happened yes it does happen more than once if you can believe it br br i notice other mentioned blair witch and it did remind me of that in the way the camera was bouncy however this movie takes that to the extreme every single time the characters move the camera is bouncing sometimes so much that you can't make heads or tales as to what you are looking at that brings us to lighting way too dark in some areas i get that they are trying to make us feel like we are in a cave but i'm watching a movie here it would be nice to be able to see br br then there is the ending i actually blurted out loud are you kidding me i was watching alone too dumb dumb i think the ending was purely the effort of the people who made this disaster to shock us after so much time of boredom with a so called twist at this point of the movie you could have seen the monster picking his nose and it would be considered a twist truly horrible you have been warned
0	my first post at the imdb has to unfortunately be to warn others not to waste their time with the cavern there is no story no character development no scares and no good lighting it doesn't make any sense if you enjoy bad acting people running through small portions of caves bouncing cameras posed at bad angles and people screaming while the screen is in complete darkness you'll love this movie i could shut the lights off in my house and scream too and i wouldn't have to pay for the rental the only thing that scared me was that someone actually made a movie this awful br br one of the worst movies i've ever rented
0	so you have the spoiler warning but i would argue that you cannot spoil what is already rotten i assume they changed the name to the cavern just in case within s reputation had preceded it br br after paying the cable rental for this movie i considered saving my household garbage for a month and mailing it to the writer director he had his garbage delivered to my home so i thought it only fair that i return the favor br br the movie opens with a suggestion that the scene is in the desert of kazakhstan i'm not sure why they picked kazakhstan maybe the writer is a fan of the ali g show but they should have just started inside the cave because the outside was obviously not kazakhstan it was the first clue that i was going to hate the movie br br the movie has no redeeming qualities save one it's consistent everything is terrible the writing the directing the acting the cinematography every aspect of this film is just bad and i like bad films goofy films b horror films but this was just plain bad and stupid and hackneyed and predictable and boring br br to get a feel for the film go into your laundry room with 5 of your friends and turn off the lights put a flashlight turned on into your dryer and start it tumbling now all of you start screaming and yelling at the top of your lungs that's it br br for a complete re enactment have 5 of the 6 people in the laundry room play dead on the floor toss karo syrup on them turn the lights back on stop the dryer now have a guy in a gorilla costume enter the room and rape the last person standing br br fin br br addendum reading through the other comments many find it remarkable this movie was made on a low budget that's not remarkable making a crap movie on a huge budget is remarkable waterworld making a good movie on a low budget is remarkable like blair witch which i thoroughly enjoyed making a crap movie on a low budget isn't a bit surprising and you can expect more of the same if these people are still making movies because i can't imagine anybody would hand them a pile of cash after watching this br br is the low budget an excuse for a terrible film no and it's certainly no reason to watch it would you eat a dog dung sandwich just because it was cheap to make br br the imdb rating for this film over time will be interesting to watch it should trend farther downward but only if the number of unsuspecting innocent viewers can the movie makers' ability to beg their personal friends to give it 10 stars
0	let me start off by saying i love japanese cinema literature and culture generally i've seen many japanese movies and enjoyed them but portrait of hell aka makes itself ridiculous the two characters who dominate the action the evil lord in his privileged bubble and the stubborn crazy artist are pure types with zero subtlety or nuance and all their actions from cartoonish extremes the film wants to show horrible scenes of violence and raw emotion but many of these scenes are so over the top they actually become laughable and the overall feeling is that of a made for tv movie that went off the rails if this rarely screened movie falls in your hands or comes to your town spare yourself and give it a pass
0	it's hard to write 10 lines of copy about this so so film noir there just isn't a lot to say about it it is not memorable enough to add to your collection and i have a considerable amount of noirs br br paul henreid plays a tough guy in here he's not one i would think of to play this kind of role but he's fine with it he's a fine actor anyway br br everything including the cinematography is okay but not memorable one thing that stood out the abrupt ending that was a surprise it was also a surprise to see this under the heading hollow triumph i've never seen the film called that it's always been called scar br br if you read about a tense film noir etc don't believe it tense is not an accurate adjective for this film
0	very odd this seems like a very average movie to me if not slightly less it is brilliantly shot but together with the performance of r lee ermey that's about the only redeeming aspect i found in the movie which consists of two separate parts br br the first part covers the basic marine training which watching it in 2007 comes off like something i've see a zillion times before in dozens of other movies and series and it's not particularly gripping after 30 minutes i got the idea and wished they could just get on with it the drill sergeant is about the only believable character while everyone else seem to be just cardboard cut outs the general acting is staggeringly haggard and the screenplay is devoid of anything interesting and consists of little more than the sergeant shouting the boys make it through their training and end up in vietnam oh and the fat weirdo shoots the sergeant what a surprise probably in the mistaken belief that it was actually the scriptwriter br br so one hour passed and nothing worthy of note happened nothing br br then we have the vietnam part br br it opens with a bunk scene where reporters of stars and stripes are bored and are making small talk to pass the time at first i thought they were re enacting some movie scenes from old films it sounded pretty bad but no they were actually muttering their script lines then the camp is besieged some 20 vietcong enter the camp through the main gate too bad for them they are being dropped like flies because they simply walk into several manned gun posts with no means of cover is that normal behaviour were the vietnamese all suicidal if so how come the us didn't win this war during the first two months of engagement the rest of the movie continues with even more completely illogical war scenes br br furthermore the whole plot is altogether pointless none of the characters inspire much sympathy and the story is frankly rather uneventful it shows little more other than some war reporters hooking up with a platoon with some guys getting shot because they are disobedient morons and who also seem to think that somehow a gaping hole in a wall will protect you from bullets br br what was the message of this movie that people died in vietnam that people are animals in war situations that if you want to dispose of really dumb people you send them to a war zone or that somehow in vietnam concrete can actually burn br br i'm sorry but if this movie deserves an 8 3 then apocalypse now deserves a 38 3 br br 5 10
0	as someone already said the living dead dolls were cute and if they came out as a new series of wicked little things i would buy one or two well basically this film was dark not in the scary sense but in that i cant see kinda way and it was boring three females in a house the youngest told not to go into the woods under any circumstances well that didn't sink in and it would have been better if that advice had involved their death and doesn't anyone do any cleaning or whitewashing or something you would think a lot of coughing would ensue a sexy young mum where you waste your time trying to figure her age by my calculations 34 or 36 and it looked like it had been longer than 20 years since someone had lived there so what was with the fathers young adult photos on much older album i am so tired of clichés that is just lazy writing and here they come in thick and fast teens getting stoned and drunk in car and well you know where that leads death and apparent deafness too as tim seems oblivious to his friends scream i mean i have pushed many a car where the instructing driver did not scream and i heard them cliché weird man in the woods who no one believes plumber who has lived in them there parts for years and this is his first experience with said children so that driving along he avoids wielding youngster in dead of night run him over you idiot cliché roaming about in woods without a clue about where you are going armed with knowledge that pick axe wielding kids yes them again are out and about senseless scene the of pig why do so many directors see no problem with animal mutilation and slaughter i would have much rather seen the kiddies run up and bit people on the thighs than this zombies don't appear to have that much energy in other films the villain well how ineffectual was he his big part was in the shop in and demanding to be served first what a none eventful man he was why not kill him earlier before the family got there and avoid the movie being made or remake it differently i give my marks to the house the woods and the little goth i want one
0	julie delpy stars in this horrific film about a sadistic relationship between a father and a daughter in france of the 14th century the film attempts to shatter the romantic chivalry image of the heroic medieval knight by showing a rather dreary image of the period defined by psychological dysfunction and violence br br the movie opens with a child françois growing up in the shadow of the hundred years' war told by his father to keep his mother safe and to wait for his return françois takes action when he discovers his mother with a lover in bed françois murders him in the name of defending his father's honour like father like son françois grows up and leaves his family also to go to the same war this setting is somewhat of an explanation for the events to come as on his way home we already notice that something is wrong with françois the war has not done well with him he has changed br br the daughter béatrice de delpy awaits her beloved father to return from captivity of the english she is pure of heart and she was left to take care of the estate while her father was gone in her father's absence béatrice needs to deal with financial difficulties which strengthens hope that her father will return to save her but upon his return she notices that he lost the will to enjoy life and he tortures and humiliates everything around him even his own daughter from this points the film depicts various ways how françois torments his family starting with humiliating his own son and ending with the rape of his own daughter béatrice br br setting the film in the middle ages supposed to soften the blow as the viewer may tell himself that these kind of violent acts were held in difficult times and indeed many films on the topic of incest such as tim roth's the war zone 1999 which are contemporary were more shocking because of that br br delpy appears in this film in several daring nude scenes indeed she appears to be angelic and beautiful br br i was annoyed when i saw some animal torture scenes i believe and this is not confirmed that some birds were killed for the making of this film which really upsets me the quality of a film drops when real violence is used towards animals i would hope that this movie will be re released without those cruelty scenes those scenes do not contribute much to the film storyline br br overall the movie is too long the script is problematic we don't get to see françois and béatrice before the war we don't really get the answer why is he changed to such extreme i would have pass on this film however i have to mention a few scenes that made this film worth watching br br scenes of a young child being able to murder in cold blood is truly shocking i saw it first time on city of god 2002 here françois murders his mother's lover while his father away at war excellent scene and very graphic the scenes from béatrice being raped by her father till she finds out she is pregnant from him are truly shocking and interesting the scene after the rape where delpy burns her cloths and cleans herself she asks her brother to kick her in the stomach with hopes to have a miscarriage br br the brother humiliation scenes where the father dumps his son's head into the food humiliating him then ranting about the war later dressing his son with women's cloths br br the film won the césar french oscar for best costume design i agree the costumes here really make the film look authentic for the time period the movie location is château de a real 12th century castle and a historical monument located in south central france beautiful castle and mountain view really helps you set into the period of this film the film also nominated for 3 more césar awards but they were all snatched to the widely successful french film au les enfants goodbye children 1998 br br released as beatrice in new york city march 1987 only to be screened in france on november 2007 watched it on on 3 may 2007 17 45 at work
0	i've seen soap operas more intelligent than this movie bad characters bad story and bad acting it would be a love story between a man and a mermaid really awful
0	i usually don't categorize a moving as boring i am not big on action flicks and my senses do not need to be stimulated during a movie in fact i enjoy a good rational logical dialogue and story line unfortunately this movie has none of those characteristics diane lane is the only saving grace in this movie and even her beauty cannot save it terrible overbearing music equals the moronic dialogue and acting none of the actors actually connect with each other and as a result the movie does not connect with the audience i guess the scenes where the townspeople are marching somewhere were suppose to add to the story but it seems that they were inserted just to fill space the scenes appeared choppy and incoherent there were some nice shots of the ocean and the beach which were beautiful
0	with all the potential for a good movie in its gorgeous settings cast and cinematography this film's lacklustre script leaden pace and wooden performances produced only a major disappointment with decent direction editing and musical score this could have been a good movie perhaps a dark version of blake edward's '10' instead of a weepy version of ron howard's
0	even sophie presence and the few very few good french gags are unable to save this otherwise slow and boring movie a disappointment the story is weak and so is acting this movie was advertised as the french version of the mummy but the mummy has at least spectacular and enjoyable effects
0	an evil spirit takes over a girl and diffuses panic in the louvre museum that's all i think the summary of the movie and the movie itself which i think it's one of the worst french or non french movies ever made in the history of cinema br br nothing good in here except the music of the credits only some tender moments of sophie and of course the movie's finale shot not because it ends ages of what seemed to be a countless years we had in watching that crap but also for being so perfect as one magical c g i work that was too good to be true in here br br by the way i want to change the plot summary to be like this an evil spirit takes over some cinema artists to make lousy movies just like this one for sure
0	if you thought this is the french the mummy and if you're hoping for another vidocq well look elsewhere it does have the same kind of story like the mummy concerning this book of the dead and a soul that needs to find 7 missing pieces that are scattered in the louvre i found the movie to be slightly entertaining boring for the most part the special effects aren't bad but it's nothing spectacular as i was expecting big explosions and perhaps the eiffel tower crumbling down until i realized that those kind of scenes were in the mummy and this is apparently based on a french cult tv series belphegor could have been so much better i voted this film a 4 10 only for the beautiful sophie she must be almost 40 and she looks breathtaking
0	a confusing senseless script with plot holes the size of the tower terrible acting by all involved no exception laughable and cheesy dialogue lame attempts at humor and romance extremely cheap special effects all this makes for a giant mess of a film you'd best avoid
0	ok i admit that i still associate sophie with la that was the main reason i went to see this film but it was so boring that i nearly felt asleep sorry but her talents as actress are not very convincing furthermore this film was presented as having outstanding special effects and cgi yeah for a b movie it is not that bad after having seen her in marquise some years ago also a very crappy film i thought that she would play more convincingly but la and may be the james bond the world is not enough seem to be the only good films with her is it her talent does she have a bad taste when choosing her films or simply bad luck
0	the movie is apparently based on a popular french horror novel by arthur from 1927 not that i had ever heard about it before but has been a popular subject before for movies and mini series the first movie got released way back in 1927 simultaneously with the novel arthur was a part of a group of writers who wrote and produced films and novels simultaneously the character is one of his best known creations br br once upon a time sophie was a promising new european actress who would conquer hollywood she has now however dropped back again to movies like this one nothing wrong with playing in french quality movies since it's the country she originates from but this movie is just ridicules br br problem is mostly that the movie relies on its special effects to make the movie good and scary well horror and special effects never really have been a good combination though with some exceptions here and there it's not like the special effects are bad in this one especially for an european movie it is simply good but it s just misplaced since the movie gave the feeling it could had easily done without its effect it would had actually made the movie a better and scarier one to watch no doubt about that really br br the movie is just not ever tense or engaging to watch also since the movie seems to have difficulties picking the right approach at times the movie picks a light and just less serious approach while at others it clearly attempts to be a good scary horror movie this is mostly the reason why the movie just doesn't work out on any level you can say that the movie is even a bit boring it all also definitely gets worse toward the ending after a while you just stop caring about this movie and its story and you start wishing you had decided to watch something else instead br br the editing seems totally off it uses too fast cuts without much style while the fast editing was obviously intended to give the movie a good modern style also the time line is just plain messed up at times as if some sequences got edited in the wrong order br br the musical score is also really annoying and at times doesn't even sounds to fit the movie as if it all long got scored before the movie finished shooting i can't believe composer bruno coulais is an oscar nominated composer the musical score is almost just as annoying as the movie its sound effects br br the movie is filled with many characters which you however just couldn't care less about it also just seems very unlikely that a woman like sophie would ever fall for a man such as the movie also features julie christie which is nice but just doesn't add much to the movie br br a horrible watch br br 3 10
0	all i could think while watching this movie was will it ever end it was unbearably boring to watch i was wishing i could just turn it off but i wanted to do this review justice so i fought the good fight and withstood the torture of watching this movie all the way through so that you the good reader need not bear that pain also br br this movie sounds like it has a great premise if you read the premise on paper however the actual movie does not deliver on this premise at all br br the opening scene features a mineshaft in the early 1900's where they are forcing kids to carry dynamite into the tunnels that aren't big enough for the adults to fit into this seems to be setting up the premise for an interesting movie but after 4 minutes it becomes clear that is not the case the adults who committed these crimes are never punished there is no consequences shown in the movie for their actions the opening scene is way better than and completely irrelevant to the rest of the movie the last time an opening scene misrepresented a movie so grievously was the opening scene of 28 days later which was the only good scene in that whole movie wicked little things zombies a movie so crappy they changed the title to try to disguise it's crappiness and sell it again is exactly the same in this regard the opening scene is the only watchable scene in the whole movie br br instead the movie flashes forward to present day a single mother and her two bratty foul mouthed kids right here is when it would have been wise to press the stop button and never go near the movie again br br in the first hour the zombie kids are barely even seen they get maybe 3 minutes of screen time total all they do is kill a pig that's it the rest of the hour is spent showing the dumb mother and her dumb kids buy things at the local store wander around the forest and have inane conversations with each other the dumb teenage daughter goes and hangs out with some other idiot teenagers and smokes weed with them br br there would be no reason to care at all if the zombie kids dispatched anyone in this movie every single character is both dumb annoying with no redeeming qualities at all not to mention one dimensional and clichéd br br this movie would have been vastly improved if the mother and her dumb kids were dispatched in the first 10 minutes by the zombie kids as they were driving up to their new house then the end credits rolled that right there would instantly change the score from 1 10 to 10 10 honestly when the dumb mother takes her eyes off the road and almost crashes into a pedestrian on the road her daughter scolds her you almost killed us mom of course anyone with common sense knows that if the mom had hit the pedestrian it would be the pedestrian who would be dead not the people safely encased inside the car i guess this line was put into the movie to show firsthand that the utter stupidity of the main characters knows no bounds and runs in the family br br wicked little things zombies runs for 1 hour and 34 minutes but it definitely felt like 5 hours or more to me trying to not fall asleep was a tremendous challenge it's not until over an hour has passed into the 1 hour and 34 minutes that the zombie children actually bother to kill any person then the scene shows the dumb teenagers drinking beer and making out in a car and saying lines like if you ever wanna get in my pants again you better start the car and get my ass out of here right now seriously that's verbatim from the movie the teenagers are so clichéd one dimensional badly acted dumb annoying that when the zombie kids finally get around to hacking 3 of them up 1 hour and 5 minutes into the movie it feels like a cause for celebration of course the princess dumb weed smoking foul mouthed beer drinking loser daughter of the main mother character gets away scott free what a buzzkill that was she was on the screen longer than the others and hence the most annoying of the 4 of them and most deserving of a to the head all the more reason why she should have been dispatched within the first 10 minutes as aforementioned to still keep her around past 1 hour and 5 minutes though is totally inexcusable br br the reason for this of course is that feature length movies need to be padded to at least 1 hour and 30 minutes so by keeping her alive long past when she should be they have an extra 27 minutes to pad the movie with her and her mother running through the woods by 1 hour and 22 minutes in it's the second time in the movie where the annoying daughter is trapped in a vehicle where the engine won't start whilst the zombie kids are coming to get her br br the zombie kids are completely generic never say anything no character development at all for any of them br br in the end all 3 of the annoying idiotic main characters live which in my opinion is the filmmakers' way of giving a final flipping the bird gesture to the viewing audience in my opinion the filmmakers surely know that they have bamboozled anyone who has had the great misfortune to watch the whole movie why not rub their faces in it by not even giving them the satisfaction of seeing any of the 3 main characters who should have been dispatched within the first 10 minutes die br br avoid wicked little things zombies like the bubonic plague
0	i just finished watching this movie and am disappointed to say that i didn't enjoy it a bit it is so slow slow and uninteresting this kid from harry potter plays a shy teenager with an rude mother and then one day the rude mother tells the kid to find a job so that they could accommodate an old guy apparently having no place to live has started to live with his family and therefore the kid goes to work for a old lady and this old lady who is living all alone teaches him about girls driving car and life i couldn't get how an 18 year old guy enjoy spending time with an awful lady in her 80s sorry if my comments on this movie has bothered people who might have enjoyed it i could be wrong as i am not british and may not understand the social and their family structure and way of life mostly the movie is made for the british audience
0	this was a pretty dull movie actually i think the problem with a french horror film is that the french must be easy to scare or something because this movie wasn't just that frightening the special effects with the mummy's ghost looked like they didn't even belong in the film as though someone put them in during post production to spice them up because the actors barely react to them br br the plot just kind of meanders which is the opposite of real storytelling i guess this was based on a french tv series where they had to distill it down to a two hour movie br br the plot is that a mummy is brought out of storage in the louvre which apparently has such weak security that this girl and her boyfriend can break into it multiple times so that's how people keep stealing the mona lisa the boyfriend and the police officer from the 1960's version of this film get together and try to exorcise the demon br br so i'm not sure if this mummy was supposed to be a bad guy or not he kills two guards during the course of the movie but he just wants to get to the afterlife
0	after putting a mummy in a local museum goes through the cat scan a metal object in it's brain reacts adversely to the procedure thus freeing the spirit or phantom if you will of the mummy belphegor due to convenient circumstances lisa who lives close to the museum finds herself possessed by the evil spirit soon enough she's stealing the museum's egyptian treasures out from under their nose detective comes out of retirement to catch the supernatural thief br br this is a serviceable enough if you haven't seen any other incarnations of before if you have i recommend skipping this particular version as it can't help but pale in comparison to the others despite the nice locals and scenery it plays out like a slightly higher budgeted sci fi original film and i don't really mean that as a compliment br br eye candy sophie shows ass side boob br br my grade c br br dvd extras none
0	my blurred childhood memories have kept the echo of the cult serie of in the french 60's so i was eager to see the big screen adaptation i should have kept my money and gone for a stroll in the louvre br br the idea of the scenario is still very apt and interesting the of le louvre but the adaptation is ridiculous the dialogues hesitate permanently between french irony and serious american business without achieving neither but not without sounding asinine br br acting leaves somehow to be desired and special effects are meager compared to what one could expect low budget br br what is left of all that not much outside a few good shots of paris which is seldom a disappointment br br was worth more than that br br
0	i saw this movie only because sophie however her acting abilities it's no enough to this movie almost all cast don't play their character well exception for sophie and frederic the plot could give a rise a better movie if the right pieces was in the right places i saw several good french movies but this one i don't like
0	it´s all my fault they all told me i should avoid seeing this movie because i´m a huge fan of the old tv series they were right while production values are good and the actors themselves including don´t look now julie christie that bad the whole film displays a and self conciousness that clearly is without any justification a comparison between the karloff mummy and the mummy returns 2000 comes to my mind in fact 2000 owes much more to the new mummy films than to the old series but then scripting is terrible speed there is none and sometimes the film is full of unintentional jokes the first scene in the tomb looks plain stupid with cats clearly being thrown when they´re supposed to jump landing with their first moves around like a statue on wheels neither impressive nor scary and the psychological drama that unfolded in the old tv series when the heroine had to learn that she´s a villain is completely neglected this movie is so wasted wasted money wasted actors wasted blueprint that it hurts it´s a below par mummy rip off that´s only good for some laughs but has nothing at all to do with the greco classic she has a small role in this movie too on the graveyard
0	seriously sci fi needs to stop making movies they're all horrible and this one had john rhys davies in it and he couldn't help the movie dr pena giancarlo esposito captures the legendary goat eater of mexico the and brings it aboard a cruise ship captained by captain rudolf john rhys davies the creature then escapes and starts killing crew and passengers captain rudolf and the crew then go after the creature guns but they can't stop it so they call in the navy they can't stop it either then the thing kills all 5 or however many of them there are then the captain and his daughter along with some other guy figure out how to kill it stay away from this movie the looks incredibly cheesy the navy men shoot at the slightest movement throw grenades on the ship and the acting is horrible 3 10
0	horrible script which was apparently directed by no one the marines can't fend off the monster with machine guns however it backs off when a 15 year old girl karate kicks it in the face a few times it's supposed to be a luxury liner but the fancy dining room looks like a cafeteria in a hospital it appears that they rented a high school for the summer and pulled out chairs and stuff to decorate the set with in the end shot they are pulled from the water and into a boat and less than 3 seconds later they are apparently about two miles from the ship as it sinks how do movies like this get made i guess anyone can be in a film these days aaron james nyc
0	first off let me say that this movie is nothing spectacular the cast is like the saved by the bell reunion the monster is a guy in a bad outfit and like always the military is useless it would seem that the more training you have and the bigger your gun the more likely it is that you will die if you're in a cheesy low budget horror movie apparently the people in the movie business have little respect for the navy seals the marines and ninjas who get it the worst the plot is thin a nutcase by the name of dr peña traps the he then smuggles it aboard a cruise ship where two members of the crew let it loose you can do your taxes and watch this movie and not miss a beat the most noteworthy part that really makes it all worthwhile revolves around the captains daughter toward the end she goes all martial arts on the monster and kicks his butt let me get this straight the monster wipes out the entire navy seals unit while they are using armor piercing ammunition ok its a movie it can happen right but here comes the captains daughter who can't be older than 19 and kicks the crap out of the with front and side kicks it was hilarious they should get a medal for coming up with that
0	this is another sci fi channel original movie staring rhys davies where its hard to decide whats worse the acting or the writing directing producing john helms all three basic story obsessed captures monster smuggles it in a cargo container aboard a cruise ship it escapes and the blood bath begins clichéd sci fi cast of the sturdy captain with the beautiful daughter handsome hero and mad scientist captian calls in a terrorist alert for the ship since of course wouldn't believe a monster story no dramatic helicopter drop of the navy seals here budget only allowed for entire force force of eight seals to arrive in a fishing boat and ride a ships wench aboard puleeze also cheesy computer animation of the ship you could do better on your computer i also loved when the seal commander looking thru standard binoculars from ten miles away was able to see three people jump of the ship if the sci fi channel is going to continue original movies i hope they realize there audience is not kindergarten level and purchase better scripts and directors if this were direct to video you would find it in the 99 cent bin
0	this is one of the most horrible 'scary' movies i've seen for awhile i had to wonder if john ryhs davies was just bored and wanted a distraction to do this movie th looked like a cross between the from land of the lost and the creature from the black lagoon additionally they should have used someone who was a bit smaller as the of legend is much smaller all in all however the movie was soo bad it was funny why couldn't bullets and electrocution stop the but the captain's kick boxing daughter do ok watch if you are sick at home or feeling down and need a good laugh
0	first off i'am a horror fan but this tobe hooper production come on the man from the original texas chainsaw and poltergeist was below standards even for a fan the acting was not bad at all some characters were unbelievable but the leading ladies were ok the story was something we've seen a hundred times already without any surprising twist or whatever never exciting or intense and do not count on any special effects besides blood splashing up the scary zombie kids are white paled faces with dark eyes and that is it that might have worked in the early 70's but not now director j s cardone didn't do a good job in keeping the suspense half way thru there is a risk you will fall asleep my vote is based primarily on the leading acting but this could have easily have been called children of the corn 8 from the corn fields to the mines enough said
0	excerpt from tv guide br br this week on the love boat captain has his hands full when a gets on board with an unexpected cargo join the captain isaac gopher and julie in a fun filled halloween special guest starring a guy in a really bad lizard suit as the br br this is typical lame sci fi channel cut rate fare the captain of a cruise ship played by the once respectable john rhys davies is in charge of a carnival cruise along the coast of mexico his daughter is along for the ride and she's earning her keep by being the ship's kickboxing instructor pay attention everyone that kickboxing will come in handy later it should be noted that the captain's daughter is pretty uncoordinated and painful to watch it would have been good if she might have taken a couple of kickboxing classes before trying to play an instructor in a movie br br captain stupid and his daughter join mrs howell from gilligan's island a kooky and a dark mysterious stranger on this 90 minute ride into boredom br br that's right i said he keeps mentioning that he brought some precious cargo on board that he needs to check out needless to say the box contains a that somebody decides to let out from this point on a man in the rubber suit runs around the ship killing people captain stupid is powerless to stop it he decides to call in the marines but telling them that there are a bunch of terrorists on his ship br br the marines respond they say all that marine speak stuff like and get some but those silly marines are no match for a they don't really tell anyone where they're going either so there's no help in sight i guess no one will really miss some lame battalion of lost marines but don't forget captain daughter is thankfully a kickboxing instructor yay for little stupid she comes in right in the nick of time she beats up the bloodthirsty goat sucker and saves the day means goat sucker therefore suck but there's no way that suck anywhere near as much as this movie
0	oh my god where to begin terror is one of the worst b horror movies ever made this crap makes demon slayer look like the exorcist special note a horror b movie needs to have at least one sex scene don't expect even a hot girl in this one with that inexcusable mistake i should begin with the complete bash br br first of all if you're going to make a horror monster movie you should spend big part of the budget in creating a cool monster outfit the monster in this movie looks like a 10 halloween costume there is no way the yes this is how it is spelled looks menacing in the movie it's an actor in a halloween outfit please it looks so cheap it makes me mad br br second the gore effects are the spinal cord of any direct to video monster horror movie again the producers decided not to spend for decent gore effects the blood looks damn fake please take a close look at the guy that gets chopped in two that's probably the best scene in the movie and it lasts for about ten seconds the ending is a very poor scene that won't leave you satisfied br br the acting is the last thing you should expect to have quality in these kind of movies but in this movie it's beyond terrible a cast of nobodies with no acting experience make the fool out of themselves for about 85 minutes special mention deserves a blonde guy with curly hair that tries to convince swat members that he is sick the coughing he fakes is beyond laughable he's probably the worst actor ever in a b horror movie no kidding also captain peña delivers a terrible performance in the first ten minutes of the flick br br the true story behind the is not even told all you get to know is that the monster sucks goat's blood why bother with this piece of crap do not even watch it even if you have the chance not even if it airs on cable br br i usually support low budget horror movies because the people involved in them at least try to do something different than hollywood but that doesn't means that horror fans like me should accept this kind of garbage
0	terror 2 10 it was the navy seal team that tipped the balance from bad cheesy movie to just bad up till then there was a lot of bad movie baggage but the they are wearing bicycle helmets painted black you know the ones with air holes that make every adult who wears them look like a complete tool of course the bass fishing boat they took to greet the cruise ship might have been another clue it wouldn't make it across tampa bay let alone an ocean … and their tactics wouldn't pass muster on an 3rd rate xbox game br br does director john have photos of john rhys davies in a compromising position with a hobbit because i can't think of any other reason he would be in this movie the other actors have a great excuse they are talentless unattractive hacks that couldn't get hired for an infomercial the plot is that two men try to smuggle the mythical love saying that name aboard a cruise ship and it gets loose br br the sets consist of horrible cruise ship fakery complete with the size of a small apartment the monster killings are bottom of the barrel there is no nudity and a lot of really bad actors refuse to finish their death scenes of particular annoyance is a gigolo character from a 60's doris day movie br br the cast bleeds ketchup while the bleeds day green glow in the dark blood why a goat eating mexican mammal would bleed anything but red is beyond me br br every b movie has a tipping point that makes it a fun time hey it's a lesbian shower scene omg that guy just ate is own eyeballs or not so fun did they just call those forty something overweight guys wearing and bicycle helmets navy seals falls into the not so fun b movie side with a thud
0	just been on sci fi channel uk 5th july its was shame on may be he was bored one week he cant be after lotr i suppose he wasn't to blame mr was i turned off after 50 minutes couldn't bear it the cgi ship was bad and the creature looked like a large 5 foot bat who funded this project i think the whole thing must have cost 250 bucks avoid at all costs don't think about buying the dvd if they release one i cant imagine they would spend dollars on producing one lets hope someone makes a decent film and a decent bigfoot movie sasquatch was okay poor lance its a shame a big studio and direct wont risk it no more super hero films please
0	i watched this movie knowing that it would be awful but damned if it didn't break new and revolutionary ground in the field of making fecal matter acceptable as entertainment the plot is deep rising with cruddy effects and horrid acting the lines in this well wow there really is no way to put this movie down because i think the words have yet to be created in the english language the sad part is that the filmmakers thought they were actually making something good you won't believe your eyes when you see how many movies they ripped off without even trying to hide it there are scenes plot devices straight out of deep rising alien jurassic park predator jeepers creepers and the list could go on forever however unlike any of those movies this one just falls short of celluloid stool the most incredulous thing about this film aside from the way it tries to be competent but fails is that gimli him freakin' self is in it how the hell can they afford john rhys davies but not decent effects writing actors or sets really awful and not the type of bad that's good
0	terror is saved from a '1 by the presence of canadian cutie simmons as the heroine she is a delight to watch from the front back and side otherwise what you have here is your standard monster movie playing like a low budget shipboard version of the relic john rhys davies plays the captain of the ship on which the monster is being transported and the very monster is simply a man in a suit he does commit about 100 senseless gory killings at least so the body count in this one is pretty awesome formulaic to say the least i love the moment when simmons ominously tells someone what stands for goat eater scary
0	i didn't like this movie for so many reasons i can't even say then all i thought it was poorly made just because of the whole story line i mean who is gonna believe that they captured the and it broke loose on a cruise liner lame it was all right for a lame straight to video movie but not worth spending money on it i can't believe someone actually gave this movie a ten but i guess there are people that like this movie i gave this movie a 2 instead of a 1 just because it was about the and it had the guy off of lord of the rings if you want to see this movie i would stay home and wait till it comes on sci fi channel don't waste your money on seeing this movie believe me
0	in case you're wondering the buffoonish loren c n of cryptozoology is a living idiot and any information he's provided is to be tossed out with the trash the guy simply is a news paper clipper br br as for the story line it was was a predictable train wreck the actors were mechanical the lighting was awful and the props clothing was cheap br br bobcat should have starred over the clowns in this film i was physically ill after seeing ten minutes of it br br there are insane retarded monkeys still in charge of films i see br br dan
0	without john rhys davies i have to admit that this would never even register on my movie meter but in spite of that single fact this is not a bad little thriller considering the low budget the low quality effects the stiff acting and the sci fi channel aspects the blood effects are very convincing and the actually looks realistic regardless of what you think a looks like this is one good looking br br aside from the positives this runs kind of like kolchak the night stalker darren mcgavin remember meets the love boat but in spite of the ultimate cheese of this work it still holds something resembling a plot and actually attempts to gain your respect while making you laugh and roll your eyes br br as conflicted as this work is i still managed to find some enjoyment herein maybe you will too br br it rates a 5 2 10 on the made 4 tv scale br br it rates a 4 1 10 on the movie scale from br br the fiend
0	i found this movie to be a big disappointment especially considering the cast the characters are not believable as are the ridiculous circumstances in which they find themselves the only part of the film i enjoyed was when the most annoying characters finally get killed the special effects consist mostly of scenes of gory dead or dying bodies a typical unimaginative slasher flick br br it's hard to believe make that impossible to believe that a reclusive creature that sneaks up on goats in the middle of the night could be captured by a group of clumsy noisy idiots equally impossible to believe is how they knew exactly were to find it in spite of the fact the creature has capture or even photographing br br the man that pulls off the impossible in capturing the alive is our one dimensional dr pena giancarlo esposito the only thing dr pena is more obsessed with than the creature is his dart gun a dart gun that works were mere bullets fail br br the captain of the ship john rhys davies is introduced as a 'war he employs his military prowess by having his men shoot at the creature regardless of were on the ship they happen to be the navy seals that show up from nowhere repeat the pattern of shooting at everything br br dylan neal plays an insurance investigator brought on board the cruise ship to catch a thief he spends most of the movie tagging along with whomever is trying to kill the creature at the moment br br the creature doesn't even closely resemble a it doesn't behave like one either instead of a small shy secretive animal that hunts by stealth at night we get a bulletproof freddy kruger killing everything in sight a simple search on google would have been very helpful to the writers and the special effects crew
0	the concept of this movie is pretty compelling zombie children climbing out of an abandoned mine to seek revenge for their deaths in the backwoods of pennsylvania cool the problem i had with the movie is the lack of creativity when dealing with the zombies the makers could have really spiced this film up with some terror like imagery a la the ring such as stop action reverse camera walking or stuff like that when the zombie children are strolling through the woods they look like a bunch of 9 year olds walking to a playground in west philadelphia instead of pick axes and shovels they could have easily been carrying baseball bats and gloves why would i fear these little kids anyone could just run away in a straight line to safety also who in their right mind would have stayed one night with their children in that creepy run down house the moment i opened that front door and looked around i would have said mm hmm mm hmm son go start the car i'm going around back to pee on a bush and then we're out of here totally unbelievable movie don't waste your time
0	apparently in early 2005 scifi channel threatened to release the incriminating photos they have of john rhys davies and said we need you to star in another scifi original the scary thing is he's actually pretty damn good in this movie that's really saying something since this is a silly scifi creature feature you've gotta put some feeling into it in order to be well acted unfortunately nobody else does it's your stereotypical run amok movie on a cruise ship the wants to keep the creature alive the navy seals think they have everything under control but they don't know what they're dealing with and they all end up dead a girl jumps into the movie sexpot role as rhys davies' daughter and the creature about 100 or so shipmates what this movie has going for it is it's very fast paced and lively you're never bored or waiting for another kill other than that though it does nothing to distinguish itself and it's silly that this thing crawls all over the ceilings and can't be wounded by navy seal machine guns but can be karate kicked into submission by rhys davies' daughter kinda went back and forth on giving this bad boy a 5 but for the above silliness i'm giving it a 4
0	in general i prefer horror movies that creep me out so much i'm afraid of everything for the next day or so not the ones where people act stupid and get killed by an indestructible monster this is one of those movies the of legend is a dog faced lizard skin greenish gray monster that hops like a kangaroo has fangs and claws has a row of sharp spines sticking out from its back and sucks the blood of livestock as in many horror movies good and bad this movie takes liberty with the legend it not only attacks humans but it eats their intestines and has a bulletproof nearly indestructible constitution so tell me how can a hypodermic needle penetrate its skin when bullets can't and why when the marines figure out that armor piercing bullets can hurt it do they split up so the can pick them off one by one john rhys davies gives a performance that rises above the bad movie and simmons and dylan neal deserve credit for their performances too otherwise the rest of the acting was poor to bad just like the rest of the movie my rating is based on rhys davies simmons and neal
0	well the sci fi channel keeps churning these turkeys out and they seem to get worse every time when normally good actors like john rhys davies and giancarlo come off as rank amateurs you can imagine how abysmal the rest of the cast in this waste of your time effort is the only halfway decent thing is the rubber outfit of the creature which is glimpsed in such quick flashes that you don't really have time to see how phony it really is the dialogue the plot if this movie and i use the term loosely was food jack in the box would be a gourmet meal compared to this watch a re run of the munsters for the viewing your time would be better spent and a lot scarier as well
0	dark waters has to rank as one of the most insipidly moronic movies ever made i had expected at least some passable entertainment because john rhys davies was involved and after seeing this movie i can honestly say i lowered my opinion of mr davies substantially br br why the acting is incredibly poor an excellent actor like davies should have demanded more from the cast and the director it was painfully obvious that mr davies was just clock watching and hoping the check would not bounce to say that he just showed up would be an understatement but at least he did show up the rest of the cast looks like they mailed it in from their respective jobs at the various los angeles restaurants where they work as waiters talk about a cast of unknowns this is the kind of cast that never appears in movies again they act as if they were auditioned while waiting at the unemployment office br br what about the special effects store bought firecrackers styrofoam a cheap rubber suit and cgi effects that look like they came from my 1980 atari game i have seen some horrible special effects used on sci fi channel movies but this stuff looked like cut and paste done at the kindergarten by child i expected mr crabs and sponge bob would show up at the end to battle the not to mention that all the accounts of the creature describe it as a small gremlin like critter it would have been a good film for a leprechaun like character instead we get a gigantic hulking creature that is shown walking with stop action speeded up effects that are laughable the is in one place and then it shuffles at super speed down the hall and it is worth a few laughs just to see this
0	dr pena giancarlo esposito a zoologist fancy term for one of those self deluded losers who likes to study extremely rare read nonexistent animals and his crew of hunters manage to trap a a big elusive fast moving beast to get it to the mainland they smuggle it on a cruise ship and some idiots open up the crate containing it despite being told specifically not to i guess the strange growling noises coming from inside weren't a good enough deterrent either the monster then does the monster thang running around biting chunks out of various passengers until the ship's captain john rhys davies a square jawed special agent pretending to be an insurance salesman for some reason dylan neal a squeaky voiced blonde tai bo instructor simmons a bunch of guys with machine guns and others try to stop it the main victims who i think are supposed to be the comic relief but it's hard to tell are an old rich bitch paula shaw with a terrier and a snobby effete gold digger david apparently the monster can be knocked out with a single tranquilizer dart but can live through dozens of bullet hits the design is acceptable though unoriginal but the rest of the movie is devoid of suspense surprise or interest a boring sci fi channel original movie they've made dozens of movies just like this with nearly interchangeable characters and plots but with slight alterations on the creature enough already
0	first and foremost i take issue to the title of this movie is not a spanish word the name to which they are referring is i imagine they dropped the 's' because it sounds plural that way but i assure you it is singular in spanish br br next i thought this movie had been done years ago it came off as one of those b horror flicks i watched when i was an early teenager at home when my stepdad was out of town then it would have been kind of scary br br let's talk about the special effects the most important is the costume used for the given that it is the main character you would think some serious money would have been put into it but that isn't so the shape color and texture were all goofy like some stupid haunted house at disney world br br there were times when the was walking where no man could walk his movement were jerky and strange at these times but moving around on the floor looked like any normal man br br another thing i take issue to is that there is no animal in the world that goes around slaughtering everything it sees with no regard to actually eating it the would kill one then the next but it never seemed to actually eat the victim you say it's just a movie and i agree but the idea is so far out there that it's stupid br br what country is dr pena from he sounds sort of hawaiian british something else but i think he's supposed to be latino the problem is his accent is so bad that even a russian could tell he wasn't latino br br the soldiers fired round after round at this thing and weren't making a dent yet the continued to fire i'm no military man but don't soldiers especially the special tactical forces such as this have to have some wit about them to perform their duties wouldn't they figure out that it was a waste of time to shoot and try something new they didn't they just kept firing away while the continued to slaughter and not eat them br br did they have to kill the little dog anyway my vote was 3 for this flick because it was bad why did i watch the whole thing i'm sure you've done the same on occasion so don't give me an flack
0	a captures a mythical on a caribbean island to get it back to civilization he bribes his way onto the cargo bay of a large luxury cruise ship with funny and i think the script intended disastrous results br br lets start with the one thing i really did not like about this movie the monster really just looked like a guy in a rubber suit the cgi scenes looked like a different movie ok thats off my chest now onto all the enjoyable bits about this b movie br br the best thing was john rhys davies his daughter the eye candy a close second john was intermittently funny and suave and no matter what the writers made him say he said it well good job given what he had to work with the was over the top and fun to watch too he had some funny bits the marines all were ok and make good cannon fodder for the monster as did some of the crew and guests there are a few pretty funny lines in this movie and a pretty amusing sub plot involving a thief br br the special effects are generally med to low and i swear they reused the same blood spray on the wall scene in about four different parts of the movie i did like the gore of the legless man really since this movie was not scary at all i feel a bit more gore would have gone along way in improving the watch ability of this movie br br all in all if you like b monsters this one is worth a visit
0	ok if you are a fan of mystery science theater 3000 and love to mock movies then you will have a lot of fun with this otherwise it may really be too painful to see br br plot obsessed sneaks a huge crate containing a onto a cruise ship apparently not having to declare it at customs or even mention that he's bringing aboard a live animal no really it's research equipment the air holes are just an accident some he hired to it open the crate figuring he paid bunches of money maybe there's something to steal once the wood crate is open the breaks through the steel bars inside and goes on a killing rampage br br yeah whatever br br by a stroke of sheer coincidence a marshall i assume a u s marshall since he was in the gulf war not just some guy named marshall is on board investigating some money that went missing from the ship's safe he's posing as an insurance salesman lady i'm the best insurance you've got other scintillating characters include the captain john rhys davies and sadly his dignity is the first victim of the film his tae bo instructor daughter snicker tae bo an annoying old stuck up lady with a tiny dog which should be fed to a cat guess what eats it and an incredibly unpleasant gigolo who might have been believable in a movie made in 1964 not in anything more recent much of the acting was really bad and the characters were just there so that you can laugh hysterically when they died br br overall screamingly bad bad on many levels bad bad bad what bullets don't even make flinch but the tae bo bimbo can punch him and scare him away hey sci fi channel you desperate for scripts or what
0	when i was driving home after work i bought some movies for my four year old twins i had bought this movie my kids would enjoy i watched this with my children my 10 and 17 year old were about to throw up in this movie the dad acts like a tard my little ones would watch it every day one day they threw away all our movies i sold the jones movie on ebay my grade f i rather be seen on the worst dress list br br my kids now hate this dumb movie if gives the idea that germs can talk to each other i wonder how the dumb movie sounds in japenese i broke the cd in half when i got irritated of seeing it over and over again no offence but brandy acting was the best
0	what a boring movie while it did have humorous parts it was just plain boring and lengthy for a 90 minute movie i believe that the cause was a lack of action br br when i rented this movie i expected to see white blood cells combat the evil viruses but no such luck it was more that the virus was thwarted than defeated br br the movie had promise but since made for little kiddies in mind it did not meet its potential in my opinion
0	wicked little things has an excellent synopsis empty house beside abandoned mine in woods with tragic past family moves into house and strange things begin to happen little creepy children begin to pop up here and there doing creepy little children things but that is where the cleverness and potential fun ends this group of kids was sealed in the mine many decades earlier and now appear roving the woods poor make up with weapons looking for flesh to eat oh i get it this is a ghost zombie movie hmmm while i can appreciate someone trying something new with this genre this just didn't work what was the children's motivation in seeking to devour flesh why did they need weapons did anyone else imagine the filmmakers all gathered around the daily footage giggling because they felt this was going to be a cool scary movie i found that after thirty minutes i felt the familiar resignation that i had just wasted my time on another modern crap fest while the acting was good and the setting cinematography of good quality as well the script itself suffered from what seems to be a lack of knowledge about the supernatural horror genre altogether a bunch of kids walking down the mall is scarier than this pack of poorly disguised rodents br br this movie is not scary and while i can appreciate the story perhaps have even enjoyed it if i had read it instead of watched it i still have to say that wicked little things is more accurately called wicked little turd
0	what a total lump of this was you've got to be kidding people any positive reviews of this movie are plants or insiders from the movie makers themselves disgusting movie not gross but just plain awful
0	this movie just was not very funny there's not much else to say other than that it was kind of embarrassing for laurence fishburne and david hyde pierce both of whom deserve much better than this also i don't understand why after this movie completely and utterly bombed wb insisted on making it into a tv show
0	great concept perfect characterizations and voices but a complete waste of time a real shame since had it aimed higher it would probably not have been the bomb it was is way too dependent upon scatological humor for starters i'm amazed by comments from educated reviewers referring to the good science behind this piece of puerile trash unlike finding nemo where with a bit of suspension of disbelief attention to detail was staggering and the science was as good as the context would allow osmosis jones was utter nonsense don't kid yourself about the science humor aimed at eight year olds but subject matter suitable more for some unsophisticated teens
0	whoa this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen the packaging for the film is better than the film itself my girlfriend and i watched it this past weekend and we only continued to watch it in the hopes that it would get better it didn't br br the picture quality is poor it looks like it was shot on video and transferred to film the lighting is not great which makes it harder to read the actors' facial expressions the acting itself was cheesy but i guess it's acceptable for yet another teenage horror flick the sound was a huge problem sometimes you have to rewind the video because the sound is unclear and or muffled br br it holds no real merit of it's own trying to ride on the coattails of sleepy hollow don't bother with this one
0	ok so i'am chilling in my room when mom knocks on the door i open the door and what do i see in her hands sleepy hollow high i thinking it has to be an older horror movie because there's noway anyone could be stupid enough to name a movie that after the blockbuster hit sleepy hollow starring johnny depp but to my surprise the movie is at least two years older then the original that alone should have stopped me from putting it into the v c r but no i had to take a chance i had to believe that this movie could have one small ray of hope little did i know that the rays where no where to be seen br br number one the story line is so ridiculous that it's probably true in some country bumpkin town two the actors seem more like people real life people who just happen to wonder on the set when the director yell cut three just about any movie starring the director is always awful but the funny thing is that this is yet another movie directed by kevin i've become to rely on his movie to bring me to the floor with side splitting laughter br br where to start on this movie i know let's start with the jogger in the woods the camera lighting was so bad that i lead to believe that the jogger was standing still and the camera man was running i love how the woman's stop to eat a candy bar i mean it's just about dark or just about light who could tell with the camera lighting and she stops running to eat a candy bar i mean a candy bar what the hell so she ends up being the first victim because of stupidity and already i'am ready to break the tape find the director burn his little hands br br then out of nowhere some guys like trying to fix a car that probably been broken for some years now then in come the fake mack 10 and a very real prostitute who happen to be part of our main charter cast br br the some of the movie is about a group of kids who all get into trouble and are given the choice to pick up trash in the sleepy hollow park or face suspension forever there sent in the woods with one of the teachers mr e or a k a kevin who suppose to watch over them and make sure that all goes accordingly the funniest thing is how undeveloped the charters really are i mean what is with the fake mack 10 dude and who's ever heard of hacker trying to kill themselves and some how one of the students has had an affair with the teacher mr e before all of this community service crap had even came up yet the school still thought it was a cool idea for them to let him go also there's one student named j who purpose in the movie is to keep annoyingly popping up out of no where trying to make the audience jump when all he really does is add to the cheapness of the film the sound was so horrible in this movie i mean there was one seen when two guys are fighting and the guy punches the other guy in the stomach and out of the t v comes this sound effect that sounds like someone punching a stale wooden box it began horribly and ended dangerously stupid even my taste i will say this though the music in the back ground made the scenes look some what tolerable but not that much tolerable my conclusion is this if you want to left at yet another movie that kevin took serious buy sleepy hollow high br br p s i'am still thinking about shooting myself to remove those images of the fake mack 10
0	br br it wasn't the worst movie that i have ever seen however that is only if i get to count home movies made by 8 year olds this movie was horrible from start to finish nothing about it made it worth watching unless you wanted to show new filmmakers how not to make a film
0	i hate movies that end like this br br this 16mm disaster is full of clichés stereotypical characters a generic over done plot and terrible dialog br br in this movie we have the aggressive black guy the black guys girlfriend the blonde bitch the possible lesbian hacker chick the teacher blah blah blah and then the pumpkin man br br do you think someone is taking the legend too far this question is asked towards the end of the film taking the tagline of scream 2 too far br br spoilers typically i don't go into spoilers but i have to rant br br a dream the whole thing was a dream this is the most way to end a movie i don't know how to explain all of this and we don't have any more money let's make the whole thing a dream this is what the director producer actor fx guy must have been thinking yes the director is the character of mr e he did almost everything on this garbage movie this is such a cope out ending and what of the principal okay so he has been doing all the kidnapping what did that have to do with the movie of course the black people are killed the bitchy girl is killed the teacher that has a past of sexual harassment with students gets killed he is main suspect yuck yuck yuck this movie gave me heart burn br br pointless senseless and made with parents visa and which tells me it is probably still being paid off this movie is dumb boring and just plain stupid br br the only thing i liked was the credits the way they presented the names etc in the beginning and at the end it had a creepy feel to it too bad the movie didn't br br 1 out of 10
0	this was obviously the worst movie ever made ketchup was the starring role in this movie and would be the only nominee for an award cause the plot actors and anything related to this farce was absolutely horrible and ridiculous i could have made a better horror flick in my backyard within two hours with a hand held camera using grass stuffed dummies as the actors atleast the acting would have been better don't waste your time or money on this one it's extremely cheesy and horrible
0	i think trash really sucks i watched it a couple of weeks ago and i haven't seen that kind of c p at the cinema since female trouble by john waters and that was even worse the dialogues the acting it really stank it was so bad it made me want to leave the cinema and ask for my money back but actually i am glad i saw it because then i could tell my honest opinion on it one should see this film even though it stinks
0	from the portrayals of andy warhol in the films i shot andy warhol and this is the type of movie i would predict andy warhol might make airy illogical snobbish amoral the movie's almost non existent plot which is sometimes unbelievable is offset by the movie's rough real looking cinematography the film has a way of being unreal yet dictating reality to the viewer the only worthwhile part of the movie is the development of the relationship between joe and holly and every thing in it should be viewed as a characterization device there are a couple of comical scenes that i do admit are funny but trash is really just about a character study of unengaging people that is mildly enjoyable if you do not mind watching nudity and i v drug use
0	if you described any of the scenes nightmares of children murdering you in your sleep your infant daughter talking to ghosts searching for your lost child in an abandoned mine at night so petrified with fear that you can't move even though the blood from a murder victim is dripping onto you from the floor above – then i'd say you had a horror movie but some how 'wicked little things' just wasn't scary i am a horror fan and i loved the location the plot in principal and i liked the three leading ladies i didn't want to see them come to harm i wanted the 'bad guy' to get his just desserts the rest of the cast are always simply cannon fodder so i was indifferent either way with them and it played out every cliché in the book even down to the torch battery running out in the pitch dark just as you start to here whispering voices closing in on you br br i would still recommend that you watch it but unless you are new to horror movies or under 12 years you will have seen it all before
0	yes it's pure trash it might be interesting for every guy who likes experimental cinema like me to see lowlifes babbling and doing nothing for almost two hours but it gets very painful when you realize you have actually paid for this probably this is one of those films you love to watch for its complete emptiness and nihilism i accept it though for its shock value decades before trainspotting and pulp fiction
0	this is absolute drivel designed to shock and titillate the 60's mindset the acting is completely wooden consisting mainly of ad libbing which results in the sub standard actors dribbling the first thing they can think of repetitively br br the end result is of a badly written play being read by people who have no idea and couldn't care the one exception to this is the lead character joe played by joe who spends a lot of the film in a naked stupor either stoned or the only one in the piece who can act please don't think i don't get warhol this is plainly and simply a stinker that should never have made it out of a film class
0	i like underground films when they have something to say or show for that matter i tried hard to like trash i tried to see some artistic achievement or some interesting representation of new york city life in the early 70's or at least being entertained by it but the movie stinks and can't be called either art or entertainment br br trash is basically an excuse to expose joe nude body for 2 hours while he meets other uninteresting annoying figures i agree that's a gorgeous body but no excuse for a whole movie about it right holly as joe's girlfriend provides a few good laughs by the end but then it's too late to save those wasted couple of hours lou reed's classic song walk on the wild side is a better portrayal of those people and that time even if it's more fascinating than they actually were 1 5 10
0	quite liked flesh and looking forward to heat but couldn't help but feel morrissey grossly exploited most of the performers featured here stumbling around naked in a narcotic stupor seems to be all was capable of in this feature a huge and heartbreaking contrast from flesh his semi erection in a few scenes is the only indication that he might be acting mostly it looks like something he did to buy drugs is a revelation all right she is the embodiment of the lower east side but hers is a one woman show she rarely engages the other performers though it has to be said her sex scene with a beer bottle definitely leaves halle berry in the shade when it comes to cinematic displays of raw passion when she on a young would be lover it is with the ferocity of a vampire two of the female performers andrea and jane have such annoying voices you'll have to mute the sound to get through their scenes the fact that several of these performers committed suicide or were murdered a few years after only adds to the air of exploitation but they were probably desperate to get in front of morrissey's camera anyway there probably isn't a worse way to spend a saturday night but at least it brings a specific time and place vividly to life
0	the core issues at play god satan good evil can be should be tremendously compelling as demonstrated through thousands of works of art music literature film end of days unfortunately is nothing but a cartoon byrne's acting ability stands so obviously in sharp contrast to arnold's corresponding lack of ability and is further underlined by a plot filled with nothing but stereotypes br br the single compelling scene occurs at the very beginning with the transformation of the gabriel byrne character and his subsequent interaction with his wife girlfriend it is both erotically charged repellent modernizing the themes the seductive power of evil
0	all the hype all the adds i was bummed that i missed this on the big screen where this film worked was in the little details in everything else it failed arnold has done so many better performances in the past few years i thought the days of commando and last action hero were gone from our lives sadly this film panders to the lowest common denominator and reduces arnold to a bellowing grunting face muscle that just knows how to shoot guns and blow things up in a cliche last moment and at one other time that was predictable from the start we see a glimmer of the actor that has proven he is more than what he got paid for early in his career i was unimpressed with the film as it never broke new ground or went anywhere but where you expected it to
0	this film sucks a big one so many holes in the plot if the devil is invincible why does he require the protection of arnies bodyguards i couldn't fathom why arnie didn't turn up for work for several days and then suddenly appears takes their entire armoury and disappears again nice work if you can get it it's sad that the last 1 2 hour has to result in the standard arnie finale arnies interpretation of a depressed cop is to bow his head and sniff i thought he had a bad cold for most of the film dreadfully scripted arnie is called etc for 95 of the film and then suddenly we hear him being called by his real name of jericho cane where do they get these names from the ending is so twee you'd better get the barf bag ready shame that gladiator pulled off the same ending with 100 more class br br
0	the plot of this boils down to ah versus satan and what i remember most about the movie is a lot of explosions gunfire blood noise and let's not forget that flammable satanic urine the story is nonsensical utterly predictable and so full of holes i couldn't take a bit of it seriously stick to rosemary's baby or the exorcist if you want to see a really good devil movie and um well i can't think of any good action movies at the moment probably because they're so far and few between so you're on your own in that category this flick does get a 3 out of 10 rating from me for its camp value and for a pretty good performance by gabriel byrne as that old satan
0	i felt that the film was rushed and the acting was full of holes arnold was good but the main girl was stupid and the guy who played the devil was awful the story was confusing and idiotic the film had no point and was unbelievable the movie is not the worst movie but is not too far away from it overall i was awfully disappointed it could have been alot better my score is a 3 out of 10
0	one of the worst arnold movies i've seen special effects were terrible script was horrible hopefully his next movie will be much better like t2 total recall true lies and eraser not as good as the rest watch stigmata if you want to see an apocalyptic future movie it's much better
0	in 1913 in carlton mine pennsylvania the cruel owner of a mine uses poor children in the exploration and after an explosion a group of children is buried alive on the present days karen lori has just lost her husband after a long period of terminal disease when the family savings have been spent in the treatment without any money she moves with her daughters sarah scout taylor compton and emma chloe to an old house in the mountains that belonged to her husband karen is advised by her neighbors to stay at home in the night and sarah hears that there are zombies in the area when emma becomes friend of mary he mother believes she is an imaginary friend however when sarah's friends are attacked and eaten alive by zombie children and emma vanishes karen and sarah chase her nearby the mine br br wicked little things is not a totally bad movie the acting is good the make up is creepy and the cinematography and the music score are excellent however the story and consequently the screenplay are very weak indeed a bad collection of clichés the beginning is reasonable with a widow moving to a house in a remote location because the family spent all their resources with the illness of the patriarch but when she arrives coincidently the little zombies attack people without any consequences for example families do not search the missing persons then the wicked mr carlton comes to the place with the most disgusting attitudes a typical clichés that he will die in the end there is no explanation why the children attacked innocent people and why they should stop after killing mr carlton when sarah is running away with her mother and says that she is tired and cannot run anymore it is one the most stupid lines that i have ever seen in a horror movie my vote is four br br title brazil zombies
0	to sum it all up skip end of days and watch rent roman polanski's the ninth gate instead this movie is the perfect stereotypical american movie vs ninth gate being the perfect stereotypical european movie br br ninth gate noir ish intelligent nicely scored atmospheric excellent acting johnny depp esp beautiful scenery good cinematography funny one liners intellectual minimal foul language thought provoking the only fault is it that a few people didn't understand the open ended ending and said the movie was crappy because of that and there were a couple of questionable scenes br br end of days overly violent liberal use of foul language no musical score except for a poor attempt at a commercial soundtrack that was only heard when gabriel byrne stalked around nyc as satan but all you could pick out was jonathan davis unintelligible screaming sex that had nothing to do with the plot violence incredibly predictable violence and did i mention lots more violence i guess some of the special effects were good but that's about it br br well maybe i'm wrong but i thought ninth gate was far more interesting quirky original and intelligent but maybe americans don't need need that dripping with cynicism even though i am an american sometimes i wonder
0	i like arnold and i love the subject matter but this was a very disappointing movie when i first saw the previews they were dark and ominous and arnold's name wasn't even mentioned but i recognized him which led me to believe that he was making a movie that had more of a serious suspenseful mood that it wasn't just another schwarzenegger action vehicle though i admit most of his are pretty good he had thus far avoided movies with any real religious theme and i was excited i was wrong this is just another action explosion gun fire movie and it's a pretty bad one
0	i was waiting to welcome arnold return to action after the dismal movies he'd made after eraser end of days however can be added to the dismal films he's had the misfortune of appearing in br br end of days starts well with a gripping action sequence yet quickly becomes a bore taking the focus off action and suspense and instead concentrating on the investigation of demonic happenings and the quickly approaching millenium read doomsday br br performances are stale special effects so so and gore plentiful considering myself a die hard schwarzenegger fan i couldn't believe i didn't like this film but with such an awful lame script what could arnie have done besides passed on this turkey br br 3 out of 10 br br
0	i never thought i would absolutly hate an arnold schwartzeneggar film but this is is dreadful from the get go there isnt one redeemable scene in the entire 123 long minutes an absolute waste of time br br thank yu br br jay harris
0	what does this movie have lots of gunfire and expensive effects nothing makes sense on any other level br br watching arnold cry is seeing acting so bad that it is laughable the plot is ludicrous br br if you think the devil will be impressed by a bad actor with a machine gun well this movie is for you
0	i really don't know why i'm this i think most people agree that this movie is bad well let me say this br br when i first get done watching some movies i like them then as time goes on my opinion changes about the movie this happened with end of days i liked it the first time i saw it i thought it was entertaining but a few weeks later my opinion has changed so to resolve this i watched it again at a friends house well it's bad br br i'm a logic person if i see a logic hole in a movie i try to ignore it if i see two then i start to get annoyed more than two and i'm p ed off end of days made me p ed off after my second viewing br br first off the movie is a bit depressing everything about it is sad everything from arnold's acting to the movie's colors but dark looking movies don't bother me but some thing else did br br if satan can regenerate his wounds how can you possible kill him in his mortal form if you shoot him his skin grows back if you cut off his head a new one should pop back up so question what's the point of even trying to kill him i'll tell you why because this is a stupid movie that has a recycled villain this isn't the devil my friends this is a human being of those bond villains who give away there entire scheme to the hero br br like i said it's worth a look but don't see it twice because it's crap
0	end of days starts off pretty well arnie plays a down and out cop a very similar character to riggs in lethal weapon and the story looks like a kind of serial killer action thriller that will be good entertainment br br sadly it fails to deliver arnie is as good as we we have come to expect but as for gabriel byrne i expect him to chose his roles more carefully than this cast as the devil this is probably the weakest portrayal of the lord of darkness ever br br this movie gets a little too daft for me and the end sequence aside from being very weak is visually one of the worst i've seen in recent years cgi is have been better than this since the early nineties br br quite simply not good enough 4 10 watch it if you have too but don't expect too much cause it won't deliver
0	throughout watching end of days i got the sense that the film makers were perhaps trying to make this unique to the average hollywood action film they failed of course but you have to give them credit for trying peter actually tried directing this time instead of just churning out another flat action film he attempted to inject atmosphere into the movie by darkening the lights and adding tons of blood this method can work if used correctly see se7en but here it just feels like a cheap trick to try and scare us is a decent action director and offers nothing more here than basic shoot outs and fight scenes except for the lackluster sub par f x end battle as a photographer demonstrates actual ability displaying some good frame work and movement but it is nothing above solid work br br screenwriter andrew marlowe is the film's greatest enemy at parts the script actually shows the makings of good religious thriller and at times it even shows some quasi intellectual thought the temptation scene between arnold and gabriel byrne but these small pluses are choked out by a river of negatives generic dialogue characters plot holes and convenient plot points that just happen to point all the characters in the right direction are just a few of the standard hollywood black holes screenplay falls into the shadow of the good movie it could have been faded very quickly br br the film surprisingly has a good cast arnold still possessing that larger than life attitude tries to play a depressed on the edge cop with no more than average results stick to be the invincible hero arnie it's what your good at gabriel byrne is the strong point of the ensemble bringing a nice air of cynicism to the role of satan in a villainous role ripe for overacting byrne restrains himself and it adds a bit more menace to the character kevin pollak as normal is able to bring at least a few chuckles to the movie but he's done better also look for a stellar small role from rod steiger br br looked like he was trying to separate this from the faceless mass of hollywood action films he was heading in the right direction but had neither the script or originality to take it there br br 4 10
0	end of days is one of the worst big budget action movies i've ever seen muddling direction meandering script loaded with lame dialogues and gaping plot holes rapid fire mtv style editing and poor acting all the way br br that's not to say end of days isn't watchable the movie kept me interested because i found ah latest action flick laughably stupid for being so inept and silly when it comes to logic without the sense of logic the movie dies quicker which is why end of days deserved a huge drop of box office reception in its second week after the opening in the u s br br i won't go into the details explaining why end of days violates the law of movie logic but here are several problems with this movie br br spoiler br br after the devil walks out the restaurant explodes without any trace as to how he did it no snapping finger no tampered energy gas to ignite the fire nothing how could this happen br br arnold and his annoying sidekick kevin pollack somehow magically comes up with the name christine york after examining the phrase christ in new york carved on a victim's body runs the database on the computer and viola christine york the only person with the exact name in all of new york city beyond my suspension of disbelief br br how did the characters who have come in contact with arnold's character turn against him later in the movie i laughed out loud when i recognized the good stepmother turned evil stepmother is the same actress who played a nanny in william shakespeare's romeo juliet her ironic transition from that film to this was absolutely hilarious if you can imagine br br all the mindlessly huge explosions and what did you expect in the arnold schwarzenegger vehicle br br the devil took a man's body comprising of flesh and blood yet he's invisible to bullets and explosions by healing through that body logically this is impossible br br as the devil demostrates the illusion in the apartment arnold's character runs into the solid christmas tree that supposedly is an illusion and falls on it physically br br the devil is capable of punching the person's brains out and twisting a victim's head 180 degree yet he could not kill arnold's character as he always intends to br br how the devil's object of parents died and why evil new yorkers run after arnold and the object of desire were never explained at all br br in the sequence that's a rip off of speed arnold and the devil's object of desire manage to escape the subway train wreck by the short distance inside unscathed this is beyond my comprehension since the force would be enough to throw arnold and the object of desire around violently and die from fatal wounds seconds after impact br br arnold suffers the brutal beating from the mob sanctioned by the devil and put him on the cross to hang against the wall yet the devil forgot to take the time and opportunity to kill him for convenience's sake br br at the beginning of the movie after the devil took over a man's body all of a sudden arnold is his bodyguard is this a coincidence or just an example of bad editing br br arnold's recital of cringe inducing dialogues in the particularly laughable scenes like you are a compared to me are the perfect fodder for mst3k just as eraser did with the classic line you're the luggage br br the whole theory about 666 1999 is downright ludicrous so are the pseudo religious babble about the christian theology involving the end of the world at precisely midnight and the fanatic killers who know the location of the devil's object of desire br br end spoilers br br it is highly ironic that end of days uses the scattered profanities abusing the deity while rambling about christian theories the level of violence in the film is excessive and gruesome and is therefore unnecessary to serve the plot the director's indulgence of excess is a factor here he surely doesn't know how to make a coherent action movie from the screenwriter of air force one who was only obliged to write the script just for a big sum of money br br hence end of days is a worthless film with no redeeming value except for campiness arnold's worst since hercules in new york br br br br br br br br br br
0	let's summarize how dumb this movie is with two details arnold to antichrist let's see who is meanest said with a straight face and you can tell they were not trying to be funny br br how do you think arnold will battle the evil of all evils br br blessed water a crucifix a priest nooo with a bazooka yes not even satan expected it they're so clever br br after an engaging beginning which reminds you of devil's advocate it goes nowhere somebody get me those two hours of my life back don't ever watch it rent it lest buy it br br
0	i saw wicked little things as part of the 8 films to die for horrorfest and this was the only film that disappointed me to wit a mom her little girl and her teenage daughter settle down in an abandoned house in the pennsylvania mountains every night however the vengeful spirits of children killed in a coal mine run about and slaughter anyone they find br br i guess the director was banking on his viewers being repulsed that children would be capable of murders and eating human flesh of which there are lavish close ups as a nice homage to george romero because the film just isn't scary otherwise simply put there are far too many establishing shots of the evil kids jogging to their next murder site if someone's gonna get it in the barn there will be a shot of the kids arriving at the barn oh the suspense and then moving in for the kill br br come to think of it why do the kids suddenly walk so slowly when they corner their prey and not that i have any experience in this but i think a shotgun blast will throw a child a lot farther than this film implies nor does it help that the mom is one of the worst parents i've ever seen in any film the lock on the front door is busted you have an eight year old daughter in the woods with bears and mountain lions fix it you moron plus mom and her oldest daughter look waaaay too close together in age even for a teen pregnancy and there's a pretty unbelievable death which involves sneaking up on somebody trying to push a car out of the mud with their butt br br i'm giving this a 3 because it tried as a splatter film it's not bad but for good scares go elsewhere
0	arnold fans will holler in joy fans of brainless action will holler in astonishment and catholics will just holler br br illogically written by andrew w marlowe and ham handedly directed by peter end of days gets the terminator out of his open backed hospital gown arnold schwarzenegger's return to the big screen after his heart operation whilst blowing things up in mysterious ways and biblical verse to give catholics something more to whine about br br it is 1999 and doom sayers the world over live in trepidation of their computers going fritz and losing their downloaded porn even as the technological stank of y2k the new york streets ex cop turned alcoholic security guard jericho cane schwarzenegger with the perfunctory dead wife and kid back story for loose cannon effect must brave theological waters to save 20 year old virgin christine robin tunney from being conscripted as – wait for it – the bride of satan dun dah stupidity ensues br br for every anti hero there is his anti christ gabriel byrne is the devil here – and he's out to party like it's 1999 on a mission to impregnate christine with the anti christ between 11 pm and 12 midnight december 31 1999 – ironically in the hour that all porn will be lost – thereby bringing about the end of days being able to read minds conjure hallucinations and employ limitless magic it doesn't occur to satan to the impregnation process by appearing months in advance and courting christine as a teen model and then closing the panty raid easily at the appointed time instead he appears on december 28th like a keyser soze terminator and wonders why she doesn't welcome him with open see above comment re stupidity here is a movie where nothing makes sense the moment it is uttered let alone after contemplating its veracity or mythology a priest rod steiger tells jericho that is really upside down with a '1' in front of it so wait prince is the anti christ br br satan soze pursues jericho and christine j and c – get it around town at no point doing anything which would actually precipitate their capture in one scene satan recreates wife and child to tempt him into revealing where he hid christine but if he can see so deeply into mind in recreating his family with enough nuance to inspire nostalgia why can't he see where jericho hid christine not ten minutes ago br br satan can make an assassin talk without a tongue yet he can't make that assassin a semi automatic weapon and when jericho shoots satan at point blank range satan is courteous enough to open his shirt to reveal the wounds closing so jericho won't worry unduly about satan's health not sanitary to go about with open bullet matter of fact instead of simply possessing jericho himself to get close to christine and rape her satan so much unnecessary energy on side projects the tongue less guy blowing up partner kevin pollak and then saving him and then blowing him up again ridiculously battling jericho when he could snuff him out with the effort of thought that we wonder whether a more efficient assassin lover shouldn't be put on the case – say antonio banderas br br what i find most precious about end of days is arnold's valiant attempts at the method sad means scrunching up his eyes and not out anything in a foreign accent depressed means raising a bottle to his lips and not out anything in a foreign accent deathly scared means widening his eyes and not out anything in a foreign accent there's definitely a pattern here if we could only decipher it br br in the end the devil is dispatched not by the holy men whom catholics pray to for deliverance from such as these but from the atheist jericho while the timid men of an impotent god faith and quiver in their cells doing nothing about satan actually walking amongst them the prince of darkness is thwarted by a with a big gun and a foreign accent which clearly says something that catholics blindly refuse to hear that even if the devil were to exist those who have been indoctrinated to unconditionally and irrationally fear him would be unable to conjure a belief in his downfall let alone act towards it further they might not truly want him defeated for only through his contrary does their god's existence become tenable br br for it is written in the book of revelations and the prince of darkness shall upon the earth without any solid game plan and impregnate a virgin on a date which won't have any significance until the calendar of the 1500s adopts the day numbering which will put it in sync with the and the anno syntax which will annoy sensible people for millennia by which time christians will have forgotten christ's actual birth date and appropriated the pagan festival in its stead and the prince shall effect a revolution through tight purple pants and ambiguously lesbian band i can believe the people being drained of blood and crucified and the alcoholic built like a mr universe i can believe that a giant supernatural monster can't kill a guy armed only with a foreign accent i can even believe that the devil needs to perform some hokey thirteenth century celtic druid ritual as foreplay but what i cannot believe is the 20 year old virgin in new york city in 1999 br br especially around prince
0	the whole set up of this contrived disney family film ad exec gets his teenage daughter a horse because she wants one more than anything else in the world is just an excuse to film the big climactic horse show at the end all the other ingredients the ad campaign for the stomach pill kurt russell as a potential boyfriend for the youngster lloyd bochner as a potential rival for dean jones over the affections of diane baker are shelved near the end simply to showcase the horse over half the picture is padding and worse it is whiny and obnoxious the kid is the sort who cries on the couch with a dog in her arms and as usual she gets her way from
0	love the but this was a lame episode didn't have the same feel that the series or the movie has looked like it was put together in a hurry i didn't enjoy it at all the so called acting was awful the cast appeared like they knew this was a money grab of an episode to get to market quickly i hope we don't have an easter special next because that will be it for me the writing of this episode was definitely mike worst in the history of this show the direction left a lot to be desired and i almost felt bad for the cast and crew of this weak attempt at a christmas special like i said i love the but this one goes to the trash bin
0	it purports to be the life of paul the apostle it opens with him involved in a loin cloth wrestling match with a priest the pharisees were called that because they separated themselves from the being forced upon the jews by their gentile rulers the point is that saul would never have been involved in greco roman wrestling period br br then we have the two men saul and the priest reuben a totally extra biblical fictitious character shown being washed down in the nude in a roman style bath house again the torah which saul adhered to religiously condemned in the strongest possible terms looking upon the nakedness of another man br br reuben is shown being the one that pushes saul into destroying the church again the text of scripture doesn't matter for their it is paul that says that he laid waste of the church and breathed out and slaughter against the church br br the movie shows sprinkling paul not immersing him when the text of scripture says it was that did it br br their is no mention of mark or his turning back so the writers of the script are forced to have paul and argue over paul's desire to preach in rome as the basis of their separation br br no silas on paul's second and third missions no timothy ever no titus no no no noooo james is said to have known jesus for a long time rather than it saying as the text of scripture does that he is jesus' brother br br why not just call the movie frank the fictitious apostle at least that would be closer to the text of scripture
0	i don't know which was worse the viewer's made dopes of or the stars in this movie who look like dopes am i to believe that this woman raised this child for seven years and never noticed the child was a bit dark am i to believe her mother her father and her husband never once said hmmm this child looks a bit dark am i to believe when the courts ordered the mother to view the adopted parents records that lisa hartman had this wow look on her face when she told her mother christopher is half black what was that for real gee do you think so so not only did the grandmother and grandfather look dopey and stupid never once mentioning this but i guess we were supposed to look surprised and say hmmmmm omg he is half black totally stupid movie almost an embarrassment even to watch this
0	i have recently found this film on one of my husband's vhs tapes the blank variety which he uses to record stuff from the telly the film looks as if it was last shown in the eighties and i don't remember having seen it since it has not to my knowledge been released on dvd or vhs although i shall browse around for a copy br br the film tells the story of three young people two girls one on the edge of puberty and the other much younger and a young boy who go to live with their mother's brother and his young mute irish wife his wife also has two brothers who live with them the children's uncle is an unpleasant control freak who forces his young wife to wear a silver collar whilst she watches a marionette show put on by him and her brothers in his br br the eldest girl and one of the irishmen the younger develop a love for each other whilst they live in the same house the girl helps her aunt out in the shop whilst her brother helps his uncle to make things in the workshop br br there are a lot of very disturbing elements to the film there is the uncle's treatment of his wife as some kind of dumb literally possession illustrated by the collar whilst the irish indulge dancing drinking and somewhat forbidden love interestingly though i have seen far more explicit themes played out in other movies made in hollywood today br br makes you wonder whether the british film industry and the bbc have some kind of hidden agenda going on br br still despite it not being a children's movie there are a lot of playful magic moments in it and the one irishman does some beautiful paintings
0	korea's answer to i know what you did last summer follows a similar story route to its american counterpart one year after a group of high school friends accidentally kill a classmate a masked killer begins to pick them off one by one who could have possibly seen them that night or was their 'victim' still alive when they dumped him into the sea br br originality cannot be expected from the teen slasher genre anymore but an effort can still be made to ensure films of this are entertaining and scary record is neither churning out badly rehashed scenes from i know the house on sorority row and the faculty among many others and failing to deliver one decent shock throughout the 95 minutes br br acting is decent from the cast who as seems to be the norm in korean cinema approach an uninspiring script with gusto and an undeserved enthusiasm direction is mediocre at best however a strange choice of camera angles and the worst killer's costume ever contributing to downfall most disappointing is the film's ending where the two are that obvious you've earlier dismissed them as being too blatant br br only saving grace is its bright start the first act is actually excellent and shows the american counterparts how character development and setting the mood are supposed to be done but other than that this is a very poor movie not recommended br br
0	this is a rip off of already crappy hollywood movies like scream and i know what you did last summer the story is classic some high school students tries a prank on the asthmatic misfit but something goes wrong terribly wrong when you watch the movie you know what'll happen before it happens all the time not good if a movie tries to be scary the actors are quite ok and the girls are cute after all they're asian so i'll give it two out of five on the
0	stay far away from this film the fact that you're reading reviews tells me you may have already been tainted by the awfulness it carrys this is a truely horrid movie so let's get down to the problems writing and direction it wouldnt surprise me if these were handled by a group of overactive that watched 'scream' and 'i know what you did last a few too many times giant gaping plot holes abound while i can't congratulate them for this movie its nice knowing they're finally potty trained actors or lack thereof only the finest for this film the finest extras ever to grace a screen now starring in their speaking role debut as a disclaimer i have to note that i am capable of watching and enjoying just about anything i recognize a good movie when i see it but i can still giggle and smirk during bubble boy yes folks its true so when i say to avoid something you know i'm not kidding
0	these days asian horror films are among the best in the world noted for their atmosphere and reflection of contemporary society this is not one of those films instead the record is a mediocre slasher movie highly derivative of american movies like i know what you did last summer and scream the plot is familiar 5 teenagers accidently commit a terrible crime but cover it up swearing to secrecy one year later they're being stalked by a knife wielding maniac with the unscary disguise of a hospital sterile mask and an orange jumpsuit it doesn't help that the teenagers are a generally unlikable group this is one of those movies where the killer's motives seem pretty reasonable and there are numerous stupid plot setups to keep the story going the direction of the movie is unsubtle more influenced by mtv than by current asian horror films like the ring the last third of the movie isn't too bad though delivering some decent suspense scenes though there is probably one twist too many in the end 4 10
0	even with the low standards of a dedicated horror fan i found this film to be beyond awful it was a huge disappointment since it was featured as one of the eight horrorfest films i can only hope the other seven were better i was actually embarrassed for the friends i was able to convince to see this and these are the same friends i made watch the remake of the wicker man it has every cliché in the book in fact it went out of its way to include them let's start with the characters instead of one young damsel in distress we get three the single hot mom with two a blossoming yet brainless teenager and a cute yet simultaneously creepy little girl that you just know is going to have 'special' skills including supernatural knowledge and the ability to communicate with the dead the little girl is the same one that was in the remake of the amityville horror she was a little annoying but not nearly as irritating dakota fanning br br overall these characters seemed like escapees from a lifetime movie i thought perhaps horror movies had moved on from scenes where the female characters go to bed in full makeup and run around in the dark announcing their presence to anyone with ears but not this one i also find it inconceivable that none of them could be bothered to secure the front door from arbitrarily opening day and night to give you an idea about how uninvolved i was with these characters i spent most of my time thinking about how cold it must have been on the set because everyone was in a coat even in their houses and how white their teeth were br br despite all the formulaic plot machinations the film does not build any suspense at all except to wonder when it will be over there is more atmosphere at the local giant in the middle of the most mundane of weekday afternoons as for the dialogue i could have sampled quotes from ten other films and cobbled together better more believable discourse the gore level the eye candy for a horror fan was minimal at best without their tiny weapons the 'zombies' were not menacing at all you could probably drop kick a couple of them across the room br br what really kills it is its banality horror films more than any other genre cannot survive uninspired mediocrity give me a horror movie that is comically inept or outrageously over the top with gore i can even take the new ones with their cringe inducing torture every once in a while i'd appreciate a truly frightening one anything but this
0	robert brutal quasi black comedy the grissom gang a reworking of the 1948 british film no orchids for miss has 1920s heiress kim darby kidnapped by a pack of clumsy thieves soon that gang is dispatched and poor kim is then transferred into the clutches of another crooked bunch third rate gangster brothers with sweaty pasty faces and a mother who looks like buddy ebsen in drag at first darby not very plucky and not very smart attempts to escape this drooling brood but they're onto her eventually she just gives up trying and therein lies the trouble with the story are we in the audience supposed to sympathize with her is her growing concern for the family half wit supposed to be heartwarming these are disgusting cretinous characters and i wanted to see as little of them as possible but since the side stories the progress of the cops on the case and another one involving floozy singer connie stevens are rather dull the director has no choice but to keep foisting those sweaty faces on us pretty soon nervous darby starts sweating too although her scene up in the is sensitively performed and climactic moments are thought provoking if disorganized from
0	it is truly saddening to see a once great director such as deodato delivering such a second rate giallo such as this this movie was so terrible it effectively put an end to his movie career the box lies this is no erotic thriller hell during the film's 97 minute running time charlotte lewis barely shows us one nipple i thought it would pick up once william burger showed up in one of his last roles but his character is killed off rather abruptly and lamely this movie fails in pretty much every way claudio simonetti's music is little more than noise and the plot made very little sense at all for some reason lewis is terrorized by ghosts which attack using phones by the end the characters all seem to have forgotten the previous 90 minutes of hell they went through and casually laugh as they sick the evil spirits on someone else lewis's ex boyfriend what this movie did little for me besides anger me and bore me half to death for genuine 80's deodato fun watch the barbarians or the atlantis interceptors let this one rot on the video store shelf argento could make a better giallo than this
0	don't be fooled by the plot out line as it is described on the cover at least the swedish version the story on this seems rather interesting with speculative hints nothing can be further from the truth this is the absolute most sad movie experience i've ever had it is plain and right awful and should not be sold or rented to anyone if you still think the plot seems intriguing reflect on this telephones can move run and kill people as can also any other electric appliance it can throw things at you haunt you and run after you please do not watch this movie it is a disgrace for the horror genre
0	this is only the fourth effort i’ve watched from this director whom i met and found quite genial at the 2004 venice film festival italian b movie retrospective and also possibly the worst as was the case with the bronx executioner 1989 which preceded it this is a prime example from the tail end of the euro cult era – prime because it shows the depths to which the previously invigorating style had fallen by this time br br here in fact we get a plot revolving around – i’m not kidding folks – a killer phone pretty but bland charlotte lewis – in her third film after pirates 1986 and the golden child 1986 – is a model who apparently has just ended an affair she keeps expecting her architect lover to call her back but every time the phone rings all she gets is static accompanied by voices from the beyond or some such crap she befriends a new tenant at her apartment block who conveniently knows of an authority on paranormal activity william berger – who hilariously explains that the negative energy which is unleashed say during family arguments can manifest itself via home appliances into a deadly force i swear i making this up br br among the highlights er lowpoints of the film are the grumpy bartender from whose dingy place the heroine calls a couple of times it seems that the chain of events can only be broken by having lewis go through her paces again exterminating angel 1962 style the sheer variety of preposterous looking phones on display the apparatus of the photographer friend sneaking up on her before the kill the sarcastic cop who greets lewis on reporting the strange occurrences what’s the toaster up to i wonder the would be rapist killed by a barrage of coins shooting out from a telephone booth and own bloody demise with the phone affecting the he’s fitted with and causing the heart to explode br br the film’s climax is rather confusing and apparently finally sees all the inhabiting a flock of doves and flying out the window of the office a service for what it’s worth the score – by ex goblin claudio no less – is effective enough despite the inclusion of dated heavy metal numbers on the soundtrack
0	well i was hoping i'd heard wrong about this film as i'm a big fan of ruggero deodato and really didn't want to see him slip up but unfortunately this giallo styled supernatural load of nonsense is just as bad as i'd been lead to believe it would be and that's pretty terrible the plot doesn't work at all as the film attempts to blend murders and a supernatural theme through a telephone and it all feels very forced and silly furthermore the plot doesn't make much sense at all and you have to ask yourself what's the point numerous times throughout the movie the plot focuses on a young woman living in an apartment block and being terrorised by a telephone the best thing about the movie is undoubtedly the presence of the beautiful english actress charlotte lewis and unfortunately the good points pretty much stop there there are a handful of deaths scenes some of which are gory but all of which are incredibly stupid the one that sees someone get killed by coins sticks out especially in that respect overall i really can't recommend this to anyone non deodato fans are unlikely to impressed and deodato fans are likely to find the film depressing avoid
0	ring ring have been horror directors hotline how may we help you i mean hello my name is err call me by my initials r d okay mr r d what seems to be the problem well the reviews on my latest movie dial help were all negative and harsh and frankly i myself feel like my career has seen better days as well okay mr r d and why do you suppose that is well i gained fame and a well deserved cult status thanks to my controversial and shocking movie about savage tribes of cannibals devouring a film crew and another one about relentless thugs terrorizing wealthy people in a house at the edge of the park for which i borrowed the idea from wes craven but dial help revolves on … never mind no no mr r d go ahead and tell me what the film is about um it's about a spiritually possessed phone line stalking a sexy model and killing the people surrounding her ah i see that premise does indeed sound a little silly and not as petrifying as cannibals or rapists but i suppose there are deeper themes in your film right oh yeah um what do you mean by that well isn't the phone line symbolism for another kind of terror or perhaps it's all just happening in the mind of your female heroine um it's just about a phone going berserk and murdering people with the cord vibrations electricity or even ordinary coins interesting mr r d but how do you explain all this supernatural stuff to the viewer at the end of the movie you see i figured the slowly unraveling phone mystery plot wouldn't be that important or relevant so i just concentrated on processing all possible phone gimmicks i could think of phone gimmicks what do you mean you know like wind blowing through the horn mind penetrating dial tones and turn tables catapulting into the air very original mr r d but not exactly horrific and as an experienced director you must know that in the end people expect a reasonable clarification of all these events oh but there is it all has to do with negative and unreleased energy if i remember correctly it's all a bit fuzzy i admit hmm… i see oh well as they always say a good motion picture relies on more elements than just the story did you at least process some of your regular trademarks into the film so that your fans at least recognize your style i tried lord knows i tried but the murders and bloodshed are simply not shocking anyone that's a pity indeed mr r d but what about sex everyone likes a good portion of sleaze and nudity in their horror films and you said yourself the film centered on a sexy fashion model in peril yes but … but what mr r d well to tell you the truth we kind of promoted dial help as an erotic thriller with revealing shots of charlotte lewis on the cover but in reality there's no sex in the film and charlotte even refused to go topless mr r d now i'm really disappointed that's just shamelessly ripping people off and lure them with false promises i know i know and i'm ashamed but i just wanted everybody to rent dial help and love it well to round up i can comfort you by saying that every major director is entitled to a few erroneous decisions without it affecting his her career immediately but be more cautious next time and do some research first okay mr r d i will thank you you're welcome tell me have you got any ideas for upcoming movies already yeah as a matter a fact i do i was thinking about making a giallo with a murderous washing machine doesn't that sound fascinating hello hello
0	i admit i was taken in by the provocative stills of charlotte lewis from this film as well as a comment on the imdb message board devoted to her calling this picture a great underrated film and so i got with great difficulty my own copy of dial help br br what a waste br br nothing but a cheaply made blood and gore movie with a ridiculous premise which i'm not even going to repeat with several telegraphed sequences for instance when we see lewis lovingly feeding her fish we know right away what's going to happen to them later not even lewis with her beautiful raven hair large and luminous brown eyes full and pouty lips and stunning figure can save this film lewis fans would be better off with bare essentials sketch artist or even golden child
0	a stunningly beautiful charlotte lewis stars as a woman who is terrorized by a ghosts who torment her on the phone driven to the edge in terror charlotte is forced to confront this chilling mystery in order to save her sanity and her life i can't believe that ruggero deodato the director behind mondo cannibale cannibal holocaust and house on the edge of the park directed this absurd piece of trash admittedly the music by goblin front man claudio is pretty good but the story is painfully stupid the script by franco is ridiculous and it makes no sense the acting is bad and there is absolutely no suspense the scene in which a prospective rapist of charlotte lewis is killed by coins ejected from a subway telephone is more than laughable don't waste your time with this piece of crap there are far better italian horror movies out there
0	the most disturbing thing about this film is not that it's a load of hogwash the was never really as much an espionage threat as the movie makes out the troubling aspect is the way that it the wholly unsavory tactics of the fbi and the unamerican activities committee secret informants gossip turned into accusations searches these are the kind of things secret police thugs like the kgb did and presumably what the good patriotic americans were fighting yet the fbi did them and didn't bat an eye that's the only realistic part of this movie and they present it with no sense of shame at all add to this undermining the constitution itself by having only communists invoke the bill of rights the film also makes thinly veiled accusations that the black civil rights movement was communist inspired another pack of lies it's extremely difficult in this day to excuse such outrageous propaganda even understanding the paranoia of the times when one realizes how damaging it was to real people then
0	matt is a loyal communist in a pittsburgh steel mill who works to recruit workers into the party even though this isolates himself from his son family and neighbors what makes this even more difficult is that is actually an fbi agent posing as a communist in order to obtain information about party activities the party is trying to create a strike at the mill whereby the pro strike movement will lead the workers into a wave of propaganda also has to contend with beautiful eve a party member and teacher at his son's school who finds the fact that is a double agent when eve learns the ugly truth about the party's real motives the reds decide she must be liquidated and must aid her without endangering himself the film should have plenty of suspense and double crossing but there is very little in this film but by today's standards very cheesy propaganda and little action or thrills lovejoy is very good in the main role but even he and the rest of the cast seem listless few surprises here and how did this film receive a oscar nod for best documentary rating 4
0	i'm guessing that the folks talking up this drivel are cronies of the director or something this is bad and not in the michael jackson song kind of way to compare the pacing of this movie to the progress of a snail would be to insult the snail this movie limps along for what seems like an eternity all to introduce us to some un scary zombie kids with silly makeup and some sort of vendetta or thirst for blood or whatever believe me you won't care the thought alone that mom would move her two daughters into this dilapidated and filthy home is absurd and worse i found myself simply not caring backstory about the zombie kids snore of mom and or daughters don't care br br in short wow was this dull don't bother
0	there are so very few films where just the title tells you all you need to know about the film such a film is i was a communist for the fbi another example would be i married a monster from outer space br br the really interesting thing about this film is how in heaven's name did this get nominated for an oscar in the documentary category it is not a documentary in any sense of the word it's not even in that hybrid category of docudrama it's just a rather exploitive film about the work of an fbi undercover agent named matt who infiltrated the communist party in pittsburgh and got active in trying to take over the union for the communists and reporting on said activities to his handlers in the fbi br br a documentary of that work might have been interesting but what we got was a film to fit those paranoid times i found it fascinating that when finally broke his cover it was to the house un american activities committee rather than the trial in new york of the communist party leaders there was a moment in the film where head communist james millican tells his followers to start spreading the word that the house un american activities committee was composed of a bunch of right wing yahoos looking to get their names in front of the camera now what could have given him that idea anyway just connect the dots and no doubt the word their came from j edgar hoover trying to give some credence to huac by having an effective undercover come out there rather than at an actual trial little thing there called cross examination br br warner brothers who produced i was a communist for the fbi later produced big jim which starred john wayne about a huac investigator in hawaii huac did grab on to credit for the work done by the honolulu pd in breaking up a communist spy ring there among the but at least in john wayne's film nobody claimed it was a documentary br br frank lovejoy is in the title role as and his fbi handlers are richard webb and philip carey dorothy hart plays a pittsburgh school teacher who says that there are 30 or so like here in that school system the young among whom is ron hagerthy son she has a change of heart about the communists and lovejoy has to save her from a homicidal fate planned by his superiors ironically hart left the movies and went to work for all places the united nations which as we know has been accused often of being a communist nest in the usa br br over half a century later and we really have very few objective works on film or in print about the communist party of the usa they were in fact a very active bunch in the labor movement the real heroes in stopping them were labor organizers like walter in the or david in the but since they were people of the left they just don't have the following on the right to be suitable propaganda material br br anyway i was a communist for the fbi is an exploitive work based on a real life character and a testament to those paranoid times
0	the thesis of father brown is that a good dose of roman catholicism will solve all of life's problems a little proselytizing i don't mind but this gets a bit ridiculous at times br br some fine actors have played father brown over the years kenneth more and barnard hughes are two good examples alec guinness plays him in this film and does all right by him but you didn't see any great demand for future father brown films br br i suppose if you are a committed roman catholic it all makes perfectly good sense it's far more important to catch the thief and convert him to your religion than see he's brought to justice br br but that's what were asked to accept here in fact there is a preliminary story before the main action of the film guinness in clerical garb is caught trying to put back stolen articles that one of his parishioners sidney james had during a robbery br br that's the story he gives the local cops and of course this is something that james has in him so he can't break the confessional br br now on to bigger game master thief played by peter finch has stolen a cross that is entrusted to father brown and was said to belong to st augustine back in the day but father brown is more interested in getting to go back to his faith than seeing him brought to justice so he misleads the cops so he can accomplish his mission br br i'm sorry but this whole thing was just too much for me to swallow father brown i'd hate to say it was guilty of obstruction and ought to have been arrested and he was under no obligation not to reveal anything he knew about the man had not come to him as a seeking absolution and spiritual advice br br author g k chesterton a very noted catholic lay person in his day finds all this very reasonable carried to his logical conclusion we should replace all police forces with an army of priests br br guinness borrows from his own reverend from kind hearts and coronets and from barry fitzgerald in going my way to create father brown granted though brown is a lot than the other two there's also a bit of colonel nicholson in this portrayal in the bridge on the river kwai guinness also was playing a character who's rather weird interpretation of the rules caused him to lose sight of what was important in the situation nicholson was in br br father brown's an entertaining fellow when he's solving mysteries and making the authorities look foolish we've enjoyed brother do it in a medieval setting and american audiences liked father dowling played by tom bosley a few years back br br this film should have stuck to being entertaining
0	on the pure theatrical side last stand was great as the reenactments and soundtrack are very entertaining but there are better accounts of this battle found elsewhere that while not as long or as flashy are far more historically comprehensive br br certain little details such as the misuse of the word for the greek hoplite shield and the of various names and words really ate at me br br my guess would be that because last stand of the 300 was aired the eve of the theatrical release of 300 the history channel was only trying to ride the coattails of the movie's hype br br if you're looking for a depiction that's historically accurate in all respects possible you'd have better luck elsewhere
0	fred astaire is reteamed with rita hayworth one year after their big hit for columbia you'll never get rich that was the movie which put hayworth on the hollywood map yet her performance in this wan romantic musical hardly gives a suggestion why she was so suddenly popular down buenos aires way a tyrannical hotel owner demands that his four daughters marry in order of age one may think film takes place in the 18th century but no it's modern day 1942 astaire is an ex hoofer turned gambler who goes back to dancing to earn some money getting mixed up in impersonating a letter writing admirer to hayworth's stone cold society beauty fred gazes at rita with a brotherly smile but she's so mannequin like lip synching to her songs like a wide eyed wind up doll that all romantic sparks quickly sputter they do dance together quite comfortably however and the jerome kern score is unmemorable but not too bad from
0	the price of a dream and some dreams can be too expensive br br only having viewed the english translated version it is perhaps the reason for a low rating from this viewer br br it made the overall film poorer than the story material hinted at br br and other comments seem to suggest the subtitled version would be better br br but some plot elements remained unexplained leaving an unfinished feel br br it also leaves the thought is there a series to follow br br a pity there was no more at this stage at least anyway
0	how do i describe the horrors first some points first this review should be taken with a grain of salt i saw this over 20 years ago when i was a boy at the museum of modern art in new york city br br secondly i am giving away some scenes and plot points however it does not have much of a plot br br finally i don't enjoy these type of art films anyway br br this film was directed by proto auteur luis bunuel he was a surrealist and dadaist these were modernist themes or movements popular critically in the 1920's and early 1930's was the school of art that made things hyper real yet often had freudian symbolism is based on what is supposedly the first word made by an infant dada or father br br made in black and white it was also made by a band of communists or as they preferred the term socialists bunuel and his group of fellow film makers and artistes had been working on a number of symbolic ideas and issues in spain and france between the world wars br br and surrealism influenced a lot of artists the police doo doo doo da poet arthur munch the scream rene magritte floating hats in space salvador dali melting clocks and even hitchcock psycho no norman rockwell br br here's what i recall most about this film a girl meets up with a cow her eye gets slashed by a razor clownish men cavort in a meadow there is not as i said much of a plot but then again that must be the point br br this was attacked as porn back then and would be again today one of the trade marks of surrealism is a significant anti feminism
0	ok it's a piece of historical film making that caused an uproar shocked people and was banned i'll give it that which is why i gave it a 3 rather than a 1 it may have been ahead of the times but it's certainly way behind the times now i am a big fan of salvador dali and i loved un chien andalou that short was captivating with one creative scene after another l'age d'or was way too long and dull just a self indulgent piece of pompous film making created simply as a feeble attempt to try to out do un chien andalou by creating a full length movie and shamelessly leverage name and fame even though he had little to do with it total junk except for a very few shots of shocking scenes separated by long stretches of boring non action a waste of time and money both of my thumbs are down way down it'll go onto my shelf never to be watched again
0	when something can be anything you want it to be or mean it's bound to register with someone as being rather special but just as the shape of a cloud in the sky may appear to one of us or remind us of a battleship and to another of his aunt's rear and yet to another absolutely nothing other than a cloud this does not make this cloud meaningful except for the viewers' interpretation anyone who might find throwing a stuffed giraffe out of a window brilliant or worthwhile for that matter without relating it in some context is possibly merely trying to impress us with his or her intellectuality br br submitting to this movie as the dreams of a madman does quite nicely especially since there is no standard or expectation for what said dreams would be like and even if we were mad ourselves this would hardly give us sane reference points for comparison a love affair with this movie entails the same risk as seriously interpreting nostradamus whatever real meaning was being conveyed at the time might be buried in the private jokes musings or provincial minutiae of its day and to a select few radical intellectuals at that i did spot a bit of an agenda even with my limited capacity though br br the movie is definitely anti fascist and to some extent anti italian i noted that although the years 1929 30 were years of great public works and urban renewal in italy any indication of this seemed avoided furthermore avant academic take note of this for your next class the very short cropped haired man with the mustache in the party segment near the end is a caricature of victor emmanuel iii and his tall female companion none other than queen helen formerly princess of montenegro without an understanding of potential historical relevance even the apparent irrelevance is beyond the competence of academic or other intellectual poseurs who would in irrelevance to impress us br br i gladly add my own paint buckets to the defacement of this cinematic joke but in an adaptation of the famous mot by the little boy the movie really has no face to paint would help it burn though
0	the man gaston modot and the young girl go through the film consumed by passion for each other they long to be together but their moments together are constantly interrupted the film is strewn together with imagery and comes to a halt after an hour do the lovers find happiness br br the film starts interestingly with footage of scorpions but you soon realize that its all a pretentious piece of nonsense it's made as a silent film with occasional dialogue and it has a non stop soundtrack playing that at one point is so irritating that you will turn the sound down and want to watch it as a silent film the continuous drum rolls must have driven cinema audiences mad there are some genuinely funny moments eg when the man kicks a dog and when he knocks over a blind man unfortunately this humour is carried out in the name of art so its just pseudo nonsense the film is crap
0	i'm a big fan of surrealist art but this film by bunuel with some ideas from dali left me cold bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways this is one of the silliest almost like what you'd expect from a smart aleck 18 year old in film class the last few minutes of the movie which have nothing to do with anything else are a final nose thumbing at religion br br if you read the scholars regarding this slow paced occasionally amusing film it's all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression if that is indeed the point then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies is this behavior the church's fault for interrupting his lovemaking or is he just a jerk i vote for the latter i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame br br there are a few moments where you might cry aha surrealism a cow in a bed a giraffe falling out a window a poor model a man shredding a feather pillow a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava or a mud pit hard to tell in b w the rest is forgettable self indulgence unfortunately bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career discreet charm if you're interested in seeing surrealism on the screen check out jean cocteau's early work
0	i am speechless simmons has managed to do something i thought impossible he has made the harlem on gilligan's island look like citizen kane painful cannot even begin to describe this piece of i don't know mind you the premise sounded funny but now that i've seen it it's funny in the way that dropping an anvil on your scrotum is funny br br i won't bother to describe the premise as the title says it all if only to say i don't think there was literally one funny thing in this film not one not even the monkey bite how could one of the funniest characters in the vacation franchise the sleazy white trash eddie randy quaid be made so horrifically unfunny i never felt so much sympathy for an actor in my life i equally pitied the other actors participating in this comedic atrocity miriam flynn catherine eddie's long suffering but sunny wife dana barron the original audrey griswold fred willard and the stunning sung hi lee perhaps the only reason to watch the film if only with the sound off save for that old commie ed asner uncle nick he had it coming alas the audience didn't i only say thank heavens that chevy chase who has been in a slump for years steered clear of this diarrhea splatter it's the smartest career move he ever made br br i don't know if you folks are religious like i am but i know i'll be praying to the lord tonight to add 2 hours if not 2 years to my life to make up for the time i spent in front of the television that i'll never get back otherwise br br hot water burn baby says zero out of 10 stars if you take a few hits off the bong and drink the water maybe 1 10th of a star out of 10
0	a man kicks a dog 2' in the air br br a woman kicks a cow out of her bed br br a man kicks a violin down the sidewalk br br a woman sucks on a statue's toe for 15 seconds br br a man kicks a blind man in the stomach br br jesus rapes a young girl br br there you have it i just saved you an hour of your life surely there are those to whom this shocking vanguard of cinematic expression would appeal but i found it no different from the puerile disconnected videos i used to shoot with my friends in the 9th grade except we never had a real cow br br having heard endless sermons from beard stroking art of how this is such an important film i thought it would be worth my time make no mistake this is crap if i hear one more person call buñuel the father of cinematic surrealism i think i'm going to punch someone if anything he issued a major step backward from the surrealist beginnings pioneered by his seniors fritz lang metropolis f w murnau faust and robert caligari 10 years earlier this made a joke out of the whole thing as if buñuel didn't have the confidence to truly embrace the art sans sarcasm sans it would take buñuel another 40 years before he would refine his style into something admirable skip the early stuff and hop straight to 1970 if you want to be more impressed by his work br br i'm sure he would agree in 1977 buñuel himself stated that he would happily burn all the prints of his old movies in this case i would be happy to pour the lighter fluid
0	some movies you'll watch because they touch your soul or challenge you in ways that grow br br some you'll watch because you want to be exposed to adventure or shock outside your experience these won't directly feed you but they'll help you yourself in a larger world than you otherwise would have and after all the hard parts of life are in what you choose not to accept br br and then there are movies that do neither of these things that you will watch out of obligation or because you have a need for historical context these are pretty worthless experiences in terms of building a life br br the problem is of course that often you don't know which of the three a film will be going in you might get some indication from people you trust but because a life in film is so personal you really won't know until you go on the blind date br br for me this was pretty worthless yes yes i know for many bunuel is the epitome of the sublime and rich and you should know if you don't that among my greatest film experiences are some very strange films very strange indeed br br it isn't that this isn't cinematic or symbolically deep or politically friendly to the way i think its how it gets there that is off base its the deviance from real deviance that annoys me br br part of the problem is that this is successful alternative art which means that it is successful commercial art which in turn means that it can be simply explained and the explanation is not only widely acceptable but simply coded in shorthand surely all this is true br br when the term surreal is used generally it is used incorrectly to denote any film image or world that differs from reality or seems strange but when it is used correctly meaning according to consensus theory it always revolves around bunuel and in particular this film and the one he genuinely did with dali so because they invented surreal cinema they define and control the term that by itself chafes me and i have my own alternative definition that doesn't come from their philosophy br br its because the philosophy is wholly contrary it isn't a philosophy at all but a rejection of philosophy an anti order its packaged anarchy carefully selecting the things that they use and the things they oppose without clearly differentiating them br br so okay against linearity against narrative against history against religion an easy one against deliberate love but for an linear narrative for establishing its own history celebrated by countless film school professors what else can they do for a sort of transcendent accidental love br br it is its own enemy if there were a bunuel alive today as he sold his image the first thing he would do is attack the church or the surreal br br my regular readers know that in nearly all matters cinematic i to the spanish and avoid the french but in the matter of the surreal i'd like to you consider the reverse get your surrealism from alfred not bunuel br br ted's evaluation 2 of 3 has some interesting elements
0	if you'd like a great april fool's joke then please by all means show this film to someone however it is important that you in no way criticize the film but instead talk about what an artistic triumph it is and how they just don't make great films like this any more as your victim watches many disconnected and nonsensical scenes such as a cute dog getting punted for no apparent reason a cow standing on the bed a woman licking a statue's feet or jesus apparently raping a woman make lots of comments using words like brilliance juxtaposed or transcendent all the while acting as if the film actually makes perfect sense and isn't a complete waste of an hour of your life also be sure to keep a straight face and feign shock when and if they say that they either didn't understand it or thought it had all the artistry of a cow patty then to further mess with them show them all the comments on imdb as nearly all except for a few trouble makers like and talk about what genius and artistry this film is by the time you are done with this little charade they'll most likely think they are idiots and will make an appointment with a psychologist br br this to me is the only possible reason to watch this horrid mess of a film that or you could show it to the prisoners at guantanamo in order to get them to talk br br if you ask me the famous painting of dogs playing poker or a velvet elvis painting are superior artistically
0	first separate the story from the film the story about a second continuing war in heaven is good very good religious themed films aren't the main choice for a lot of people but angels at war is i really loved the story and some of the imagery provided to back it up like the field of angels on spikes awesome imagery the actual film though was just poor i can't find any reason for the main character the priest cum cop being in there at all the lead female also no reason to be there the main characters dialogue was just empty it had no substance the story could have been told well without them now some sterling performances did feature walken stoltz and mortensen pulled off some wingers though their scenes were mostly with the lifeless leads br br one other thing i am not getting from this film is why it features native american rituals to purge the dark soul the child that carries it is clearly of native american origin but apart from the end scenario there is nothing that connects here with that heritage the plot concerning the dark soul itself it barely told odd considering that the dark soul is the driver for the whole premise of the film the back story of its original owner the colonel is briefly touched but not enough to allow understanding as to why its his soul that is the special one br br i cannot find a justification for the scrolling scenery shots in this film either several of the plains around rock' i get the feeling they had a helicopter and wanted to make the most of it as none of the shots have any relevance nor are they in keeping with the mood horror the film falls into the sci fi category more than it does horror there was no real shock or scare scenes some mild gore and blood but no fear element br br so aside from 3 roles played damn well this film is a big ole' dud unfortunately the dud factor outweighs the good acting factor just too many weekend actors
0	this review will have some very obvious spoilers so beware br br a friend brought this over and we made it through 45 minutes of the movie before we decided that fast forward speed was the only way that this film should be watched there were points when we were watching the movie at normal speed where i would leave prepare part of lunch and return to find that literally nothing had happened 2 lines of meaningless dialogue were exchanged nothing happened the background no important facial gestures were made nothing but mind numbing awkward silence br br this is not how to make a thoughtful film especially when the movie's plot follows all the same basic hollywood movie tropes if i told you that disney was making a film about 4 girls starting a band and the singer was a french exchange student what you would expect to be the conflicts that arise br br the lead singer has to overcome stage fright someone has an unspoken crush the band is late for their performance and a side character has to buy them time br br spoiler alert br br all of those things happen in this movie br br at no point in this film do you have even the slightest fraction of concern that these girls won't be able to accomplish their goal br br this ends the section of spoilers br br i like japanese films i've spent a lot of time in japan i work for a japanese company heck i even know all the bands referenced in the record collections and mds that they're going through and i've sung along to the title track with friends at karaoke br br this is probably the worst film from japan i've ever seen do not be confused though the characters will have points in the movie where they do typical japanese high school things this is not a typical day in the life of movie this is a day in the life of 4 extremely random heavily conflicted awkward japanese students br br there are noticeable problems with the dvd as well viz decided that a great extra would be a producer reading aloud the wikipedia entry about the blue hearts what a value in addition they care so little about the subtitling that the band's name in the subtitles is different than it is in the chapter selection menu in the final auditorium scene there is a very visible reflection ghosting effect on everything but this seems to be the fault of the original film br br 2 10 do not view if you do not absolutely love awkward silences
0	this show started out okay but then it turned into a nightmare the worst part about it was the contestants most of them were weirdos they did stupid things for a living and they also did strange hobbies in the second season one guy said he that he talked to his pants that is sick and repulsive also no one cared about winning money all they ever wanted to do was make alliances like it was survivor or something the men were always afraid that the women were going to team up together the women were the same also i just couldn't take it anymore i had to stop watching it it was truly one of the worst shows ever
0	the summary was promising but watching the movie was a huge disappointment nothing happens in this movie plot is linear and without surprise normal characters stay normal until end of the film weird characters stay weird until end of the film there is even not a single tentative to foul the viewer into thinking that the bad guy is someone else than the most obvious candidate on the positive side actors play quite well and there is a tiny bit of atmosphere in the movie but much too little to be any significant br br people who vote 10 for this movie either didn't see it or are member of the movie production team 4 is well paid
0	i mean come on this movie had such nice potential but it's like they ran out of money to finish the script and just telegraphed the whole damn rest of the movie about 2 3rds of the way through characters start spouting this movies whole reason for existence to other characters who didn't ask for the information on extremely flimsy premises they also fall into some stereotypical behavior because that must be what's expected in this genre of movie it's really pretty sad because this movie could have been so much more br br i was really hoping this would be a good movie there was some good acting mark hamill does an excellent job until the movie falls apart so does sally struthers it was fun to see them working and succeeding at their craft was pretty good for awhile until her lines just became untenable i felt sad for her that she had to say these lines that just shot the whole movies credibility for any thinking movie goers brad hunt does an excellent job he really has a surprising range of talent judging from another of his movies i recently saw lucky 13 which was a piece of crap this guy could be a star if he could pick the right scripts and get lucky with the right director br br almost forgot the music was so heavy handed you might think this project was handed to some minor film school to be scored i call this kind of music teller music because you can just tell what's coming next based on the music less is more sometimes br br cut half of the music from this movie get a good film editor a small rewrite or two and this would be a very good movie
0	i went to crooked earth to see a piece of new zealand what i found was a badly scripted and badly acted echo of the people i know br br great moments between characters – including many of morrison and scenes together – were often ruined by long and wordy monologues that the actors were forced to stumble through beautiful and ill fitting phrases rattled away from lawrence in particular as if he were the new messiah at his pulpit of beer crates br br when watching any film with actors i've found that i can always pick a half dozen characters that remind me of someone in my life with crooked earth i struggled to find one key character that rung true for the entire two hours most – including and – wound up saying or doing things that i didn't understand and couldn't connect with by the end of the movie the writer had succeeded in alienating the audience where the weren't able to relate to it and the were therefore given license to dismiss it my feeling is that the movies message – or at least the main one of several that was being at the audience – is important enough to avoid using character extremities unfortunately no one who read the script before it was filmed thought to pass this piece of advice on br br the soundtrack was invasive and as irritating as that horrible bing noise that they laced through eyes wide shut' the audience was not so subtly auto cued to laugh cry or be angry when the music changed it reminded me of darth vader's entrance music in star wars obvious and mildly amusing br br i think that there are some people out there that might enjoy this film it's funny in parts has a fair amount of action and has some really powerful scenes calvin and quentin did bang up jobs as well as a whole though i didn't enjoy the experience as much as i know i should have barb wire speed 2 the island of dr moreau and crooked earth look like they're going to be quartet of crap
0	i went to see this on the strength of albert finney alone he's one of my favorite actors and he rarely fails to deliver i'm not sure if the plot is interesting or just silly it's about a little boy who is about to be born but as his mother goes into labor he refuses to come out this sends god and the whole human being factory into a crisis and albert finney is called out of purgatory to try and convince the boy to change his mind and decide to want to be born so finney takes the unborn boy for an adventure in the big apple in hopes of showing him all the reasons he should want to live br br despite the ridiculousness of the plot i could have accepted it if the director had not tried to turn this into your typical hollywood sentimental moralistic message film the film was rendered unbearable by a horrible soundtrack of the stock sentimental music that hollywood directors seem incapable of resisting br br he further butchered the somewhat unconventional story by giving away its hand at every moment whatever twists and turns were in store in the plot were completely given away by the way the story unraveled it was as if the director assumed the audience is just a bunch of idiots who cannot see the obvious hints coming from a mile away br br even finney in his performance though satisfactory seemed a bit awkward and out of place and the little boy with curly locks though he was supposed to be cute was in fact rather dull bridget fonda seemed intent on trying to duplicate demi moore's performance in 'ghost' shedding tears at a moment's notice br br i understand that the film has been unsuccessful thus far at getting distribution in the u s which surprises me as i think it has the box office potential to be a modest hit appealing to both kids and sentimental adults as far as the quality goes it's not an awful film it's just not very good 4 out of 10
0	the only reason to see this film is sung hi lee the stunning model actress from korea who plays miki give me a break in this otherwise crappy movie br br she is given a fairly substantial part in this film and seems to handle it well though none of the parts is really interesting or well written even for a national lampoon's movie it's really stupid stupid humor is one thing but just stupid is another i may have laughed once and that was probably just me being polite br br warning watching this movie may be bad for your health on two counts 1 it like totally sucks 2 sung hi lee is so freaking gorgeous she just might blow your brains out of the back of your head upon first sight br br so don't say i didn't warn you
0	this cheap grainy filmed italian flick is about a couple of inheritors of a manor in the italian countryside who head up to the house to stay and then find themselves getting killed off by ghosts of people killed in that house br br i wasn't impressed by this it wasn't really that scary mostly just the way a cheap italian film should be a girl her two cousins and one cousin's girlfriend head to this huge house for some reason i couldn't figure out why and are staying there cleaning up and checking out the place characters come in and out of the film and it's quite boring at points and the majority of deaths are quite rushed the girlfriend is hit by a car when fleeing the house after having a dream of her death and the scene is quite good but then things get slow again until a confusing end when the male cousins are killed together in some weird way and this weirdo guy i couldn't figure out who he was during the movie or maybe i just don't remember goes after this one girl attacking her until finally this other girl kills him off hate to give away the ending but oh well the female cousin decides to stay at the house and watch over it and they show scenes of her living there years later the end you really aren't missing anything and anyway you probably won't find this anywhere so lucky you
0	i went out of my way to get this film and was fortunate to get it on vhs being a big gloria grahame fan it was an excellent addition to my collection other than that i really cannot say a lot to recommend this picture the plot is predictable and weak and the only interesting aspect of the film is watching sterling hayden get into deeper trouble with his own department ms grahame is always fun to watch if you like her as i do but the dubbing of her singing hurts this picture a lot she works in a dive so let her use her own voice it can only lend to the atmosphere i must agree with an earlier reviewer the ending borrows heavily from the big heat to the point of detracting from the ending i have seen worse films with ms grahame macao but i will never pass the opportunity to see her on screen if you are having a movie night and looking for a second feature film this is your movie enjoy the picture
0	has this ever happened to you i go into my local video store and see a few new arrivals in the film noir section i spy a copy of a new arrival of a film i have never seen called naked alibi its from one of those mail order video companies that offers mostly looking copies of hard to find titles the description on the box sounds good the film has players i like sterling hayden gloria grahame and gene barry so i take it home and watch it about ten minutes into this film i started having second thoughts about half way through this film i started to dislike it by the time the film ended i not only disliked it i despised it the film opens with cops questioning al willis on suspicion of robbery other than being drunk the police have nothing on him when he pushes a cop and demands to be allowed to go home the cops beat him up detective conroy arrives lets the cops finish the beating and then announces willis is in the clear willis swears he will get revenge later one of the police officers is shot dead with no evidence other that willis is sore about the beating conroy make willis his sole suspect despite the fact that his boss names a pair of mobsters as suspects conroy arrests him but for lack evidence willis is released the next day two more cops are killed by a bomb this time conroy goes to the bakery that willis owns and tries to beat a confession out of him conroy doesn't know it but a local newsman whose paper has been accusing department of police brutality snaps a picture of conroy trying strangle willis and conroy is fired but conroy continues his pursuit and willis flees to mexico where willis has a mistress conroy manages to convince his mistress who willis treats rather rough to help him prove willis is a killer what this film lacks is a convincing script the script looks as if only a rough draft was written and shooting began before a finished script was completed things happen characters personalities change plot twists occur for no real reason other than that script calls for it other than the fact that willis likes to tip a glass now and than there is nothing in the early part of the film to make us think that he is a crazy killer that cheats on his wife he treats his wife his kid and employees well early in the film one gets the impression that its conroy is the one whose is a loose cannon he seems to casually approve of police brutality conroy for no reason is convinced from the very start willis has criminal past he seems to operate on the motto of the old communist bulgarian secret police everyone is guilty of something we just have not found out about it yet later conroy shows kindness to al's mistress and young son now we are supposed to like him sorry the early impression i got of conroy stuck with me too long and he is also a dumb cop only after he is fired and goes to mexico does he run a background check on willis and discovers that a warrant is out for him issued in maryland why didn't he think of this before because this film hadn't used up enough running time the cast is good gene barry does well considering how poorly conceived his role of al willis is i'm big fan of 40's and 50's crime thrillers but not only did i not think this film was good it left a bad taste in my mouth something many modern films do but older films rarely do
0	gordon scott with his well coiffed hair hourglass figure and weird pidgin english has to be the worst of all the tarzans as for the other actors in this mess they're on a par with any 4th grade elementary school drama class i've seen used car dealers in tv commercials who can act better they make clayton moore look like laurence olivier and where does jane the dull eve brent get her lipstick and eyebrow pencils in the jungle i realize these were made for kids but wow the plot line seemed ok but the director should have required more from his actors i realize even the weissmuller films have a few flaws but this one seemed so low budget
0	tarzan the environmental awareness leader faces four who by most unorthodox means abduct animals to get them to zoos tarzan has a bland but sexy enough wife with an impeccable hairdo and a kid no one should fault tarzan for being grieved by the vicious actions of the hunters br br this gordon scott tarzan flick is one of the silliest completely and unnecessarily silly for one reason or another the team did not find anything charming to sustain the movie and so it's just some silly rubbish tarzan and his family are threatened by a group of evil because tarzan's environmental awareness brought him into open conflict with the evildoers the kid and the chimpanzee both belonging to tarzan are kidnapped by the malevolent so tarzan summons the unleashed animal forces of the jungle to release the kid and the tarzan leading the attack tarzan and the is silly unappealing quite uninteresting maybe as a kid i would have liked it now one has to be too viciously mean as those pathetic punished by ask a tarzan flick not to be silly this i concede but one is also truly entitled to ask these tarzan flicks however silly to have and to show some bit of a tiny bit of gusto some kick some excitement some fun now the gordon scott tarzan failure is too silly exactly in the sense of not having any gusto at all of lacking all excitement yes i liked the sequence of the jungle beast eating a snake what beast watch the movie kiddos now here i just gave you one excuse to do so for one reason or another the villains look somewhat pathetic and elicit mercy rather than virtuous anger br br the books leave the impression that tarzan seemed quite bright in his own way and if finding a decent bodybuilder or another sportsman to look clever enough for the role might prove a too demanding next to impossible task gordon scott was anyway too far from meeting that ideal br br the wife chides tarzan for disliking books br br the script suggests tarzan was uneducated almost illiterate and adverse to learning but the book says otherwise and we know that tarzan studied much by himself using the books of his gone family before even meeting white people br br and i did not like that yell br br it's supposed dear kiddos to be a genuine wild yell not a missed
0	gordon scott made some good tarzan movies but this is not one of them br br as i watched it wincing at the bad obviously interior sets and the hollow wooden sounds as they walked across supposedly dirt trails and cringing at the bad dialog and worse acting among the supporting cast i kept thinking sheesh this is tv show level then i find out it was indeed three tv show pilot episodes woven seam fully into one br br it's nice to see scott get outside alone away from the lame sets in a few of the scenes and the fights do have some pretty nice moves but oh ow and ouch as to the dialog and did i mention the acting heck cheetah or in this version was a better actor than most of the humans br br and that's not saying much br br it is kind of a stitch to see a younger sherman i e scatman acting as a native but probably not worth the overall time investment
0	look this film is terrible the plot involves twins who are neglected by their self absorbed parents and left in the care of a succession of and babysitters all of whom the children drive away by being completely obnoxious eventually the kids engineer ex convict beverly d'angelo to be their new nanny do you care why and d'angelo watches a tv talk show about selling children and decides she will try to sell the twins and well oh you don't want to know it's all very unpleasant and not at all funny in fact the announcer slated this film before it came on the tv channel i was watching just don't bother wasting a single moment of your life on this pile of complete trash
0	this could have been a really good movie if someone would just have known how to finish the film br br the story was going along just fine and heading towards that point in every movie like this where the gray characters turn good and the bad guys get their just desserts and boom it's like they ran out of script and the cast just started to make things up br br which wouldn't have been so bad if the cast had just continued with the character development they had already put in place but such is not the case and the movie soon becomes a goofy mess br br my advice is to watch this movie up to about the last 30 minutes and then shut it off at this point imagine how you think the next 30 minutes will look based on what you have seen so far br br believe me the ending you come up with will look far better than how this film actually ends trust me on this
0	what crack are you smoking this movie while gloriously entertaining is awful br br the action scenes are so obviously fake it's kind of sad the colonel's daughter is painfully irritating the ninja training camp is so hilarious it is almost not worth mentioning and when joe puts the bucket over his head and beat up the other army guy i just about peed myself i could go on br br entertaining arguably so good no well made certainly not br br as a commentary on america as empire it's actually pretty good joe as a typical white conqueror isn't all that surprising especially in the context of mid 1980s american cinema
0	for many year i saw this movie as a real movie of ninjas but after study more about this culture i can only think this is just another karate film a black shinobi and some weapons doesn't make a ninja it's much more than that the ninja are the most dangerous warrior of the japan because they are trained in every aspect of life to survive to anything killing whatever try to stop them this movie is not a about a ninja warrior just about a clown trying to be something he cannot even understand
0	ask a thousand people what the greatest unintentional comedy of all time is and they will almost invariably tell you battlefield earth or plan 9 from outer space they're wrong american ninja has those two turkeys beat down for a number of reasons not the least of which being a script that was quite clearly not thought through while i fully support the b picture industry for keeping slobs like michael dudikoff in work a little work on the product would have gone a long way br br for those who give a rat's posterior my next few paragraphs will give away significant parts of the plot br br first of all when we are given some background information on the titular hero we are told his date of birth next of kin parents and so forth are all unknown i don't know about you but i expect the us army to take fact finding about its personnel a little more seriously they also manage to screw up the continuity of dates quite effectively although i don't remember quite which dates were screwed up and when this is actually one of american less obvious flaws br br it has been pointed out before but a common failing of many martial arts films is that when our heroes are confronted by large numbers of antagonists said antagonists attack one at a time more recent films such as the matrix reloaded defy this convention but just about every film from the 1980s has the audience screaming hey why don't you attack all at once martial arts films tend to be a lot more impressive when the fights are more extensive than one on one br br the central premise was originally a joke but in light of recent events where the us army cannot crush a mob of insurgents simply because they won't delegate to the specialists it seems strangely ironic are stealing weapons from the us army's local division for sale to wealthy clients never mind that such a theft would prompt the army to give the local businessmen responsible or even believed responsible an aerial rectal exam this is a cheesy 1980s action film after all br br by far the funniest part of the film is the climactic battle however as joe and jackson turn combining posing and fighting into an art form evil ninjas start to explode for no readily apparent reason i agree with one previous commentator in that this film should have been called ninja holocaust because i'm willing to bet a total of at least three hundred evil ninjas bite it during the film's running time on top of that the black star ninja starts fighting with rocket launchers laser beams and all sorts of ridiculous implements that are not only poorly thought out they're flat out poorly executed you'll never see a laser beam effect that looks cheaper br br what tops it all off is that the film takes itself so damned seriously during the scene when joe is meeting up again with his old mentor i dare the viewer not to laugh at the hideous dialogue not that i know any modern of ninjitsu but the logical part of my imagination has a hard time believing that they have spoken like this at any time in their history during this mentoring scene i half expect the old guy to tell joe he must prove his manhood by cutting his own head off with a blunt plastic spoon br br in all i gave american ninja a 1 this is a special score in my system in that it is reserved for the worst most appalling most offensive films i've ever seen or films that make me laugh without even bothering to try american ninja is definitely an example of the latter
0	sorry randy i love your comedy but in this case you really laid a 'golden egg br br the plot was thinner than a single layer of my skin the acting more wooden than a giant redwood and i think the direction was non existent br br there certainly appeared to be pathetic attempts at take offs of other films jaws and european vacation to name but two br br if memory serves me right eric idle played the same type of character in nat lamp european vacation but much better br br i am wondering if chevy chase and beverley d'angelo were approached to make this sequel if so they certainly knew what they were doing when they turned their parts down br br in my opinion no one can better chevy and beverley in their roles as the griswolds and randy quaid complemented them admirably in the earlier movies br br randy quaid should have quit national lampoon whilst he was ahead
0	this is a great movie for first time ninjas who are dating if you're trying to impress some cute little i would highly recommend playing this masterpiece its one of those special movies that allows you to miss large sections of it without interfering with the plot br br also i was wondering where does a teal ninja hide are ninjas color coded like this is this normal if i were attacked by one of these yellow or orange ninjas i would die of laughter before succumbing to his sword br br and i finished my black star ninja test the other day it was multiple choice it went pretty good i found there were a lot of questions on how to sneak around and look evil its all about the eyebrows and the attitude br br basically the movie could have been better if 1 there was no color coded ninjas or the color coded ninjas could combine into a super ninja 2 joe died in the first two minutes and patricia had to avenge him 3 miscellaneous monkeys were scattered throughout the file 4 patricia didn't talk and patricia was replaced with another character 6 the french guy was also a black star ninja 7 chris tucker whoopi and chris rock were added as comic relief 8 ninja strengths came from
0	the plot is very basic but acceptable a young us soldier having studied asian martial arts puts this to good use in defence of the general's daughter and falls in love with her unfortunately the three main acting parties' soldier girl rebels combined iq amounts to 3 one point for the soldier one for the girl a large number of ninja fighters have to share the third point among them to be able to lose against the former two
0	michael dudikoff stars as joe armstrong a martial artist who fights ninjas who are stealing weapons from the u s army in this entertaining yet admittedly brainless martial arts actioner which is hampered by too many long pauses without action but helped by some high energy action setpieces as well as steve james' performance
0	i couldn't stop laughing i caught this again on late night tv i suppose you think you're some kind of hero for bringing my daughter back alive no good br br haha
0	this review contains a spoiler br br the movie is an american ninja mysteriously trained in the martial arts he falls for the colonel's daughter and turns from the most hated grunt on the post to the people's hero at the end of the film this film is extremely cheesy and very poorly researched it is good for folks who do not care about plot development or reality good for kids under 14 the military errors in this film is comical i remember during my three years in the military us privates were not required to salute or call nco's sir the film does this in various spots the colonel's hair is way too long on the ears the master moustache was against military protocol in length on the post the colonel was the only officer around not one other officer was shown walking around the post you had idiot ninjas swords against troops with m rather poorly made br br folks this filmed reeked michael dudikoff is not really that bad of an actor he just has lousy scripts the ninjas were more hilarious than dangerous avoid this film
0	i have seen cheesy kung fu fight films living in taiwan they come on in lieu of sitcoms in america i have seen movies make fun of themselves but this film belongs in the sad category of fight films that try too hard with awful actors awful props and awful music to be taken seriously i seriously felt pity for the person who composed the music for this movie how sad it must be to be a composer who has to churn out crap like what i thought should have been titled generic ninja fight scene op 1 or variations on a bad guy pointing a gun at a girl's head when backed into a corner or the daring flight of the helicopter then the fight scenes were over and the credits rolled those actually had me in tears laughing if the special effects weren't proof enough that this was low budget the fact that only two or three of the crew members presumably locals which although good for the much needed economy was probably done solely to save money have ever done anything since this series of movies they rented equipment despite making sequels to this movie that was pretty funny too the thing that really had me going though was not the music which left me half expecting an animated sargeant slaughter from g i joe to pop up but the ending i suppose this would be a spoiler if there was really a plot to spoil but when the american ninja drops the girl into jackson's arms and then takes off his mask i wanted to see him jump off the roof and jackson drop the girl to catch him br br i think that would have been the perfect punchline for this joke of a movie
0	young michael dudikoff like young lord greystoke was abandoned in the jungle on a pacific island as an infant but instead of being raised by the apes he fell into the hands of a japanese soldier who was still living there because he hadn't heard the war was over and like young luke skywalker it turns out he fell into the hands and learned the fighting skills of a ninja br br good thing because they were separated and the young kid came down with a case of amnesia but those fighting skills didn't go away the orphaned kid now named joe armstrong enlists in the army and gets himself stationed in the phillipines meanwhile his obi wan played by john gets rescued himself and goes to work as a gardener on the estate of planter and terrorist go between don stewart using a cheesy accent that seems to vary between french and spanish br br as these things happen everybody meets and dudikoff both solves the mystery of part of his past and saves the commanding officer's daughter from the bad guys in this golan globus production charles bronson was getting a bit long in the tooth now and golan globus needed a new star for their action flicks michael dudikoff filled the bill quite nicely and made quite a few films for them including several american ninja sequels br br this film is all action and dudikoff dispatches bad guys at a record pace what he doesn't do steve james does doing his best rambo imitation and showing his considerable martial arts skills br br the film has enough holes in the plot to drive one of those army vehicles through you see in the story but that's what the ticket buying public doesn't care about dudikoff certainly looks magnificent stripped to his fighting clothes no wonder so many sequels were made
0	this is the first porn i've ever tried to review it demands a different approach than usual since the allegory will not reward dissection i'm american i'm a prudish virgin we are european we are cultured and sex mad it is nice when we all screw each other lots to talk about well there kind of is in fact relative to your average 60s topless volleyball number anyway and the enervating patina of 'class' at least delivers clean detailed compositions but what the hell kind of thing is that to say about a porn ok then the only scene i really rhetorically got off on was the first time brigitte steps in there are efforts to toss in a nice variety of race and age while letting no two men anywhere near each other the one black guy suffers a premature bout of editorial coitus and multiple takes or not one perhaps on imdb act does look like it was partially simulated by a surgical hose still i stayed awake and it was eight in the morning but what does the last shot mean
0	there are actually some good reasons why a person should take the risk of going totally insane by watching this show the breasts are nice even though some of them aren't that real but they usually come in pairs which is good watching the beach on your screen is also a very relaxing experience as it is an ideal place for just taking it easy and not worrying too much about getting eaten by a rubber shark it's always good to remember that david hasselhoff is a god not the god but a god it's not so much about his acting skills since there are none but his does a lot of talking also there's no kitt hanging out in this series which is good since mr hasselhoff told in an interview that he always thought kitt was gay naturally that might make him to look like an idiot but considering the other statements he has made lately it shouldn't be surprising to anyone br br in a nutshell this is the kind of show that is totally harmless to people it gives us a lot to stare at and a lot to laugh at which is something many intentionally humoristic shows really don't give us i have to say it's no wonder that borat fell in love with pamela anderson i enjoy watching the show no it's not a great show actually it's quite horrible but i enjoy watching it it's basically like a b movie stretched to last for a decade
0	although the movie was only so so the closed captioning was by far the best i have ever seen most of the time the spelling is terrible and the captioning out of sync i use the closed captioning even though i can hear well but find a lot of actors mumble also many times the sound track overrides the dialogue thanks
0	makes the fourth theatrical release the one national lampoon took its name off of look like a comedy classic a complete mistake and a sad attempt to capitalize on a once proud franchise painfully unfunny and unwatchable even for a tv movie the cousin eddie character has become progressively less amusing from the original vacation when it was fresh and unique through christmas vacation when it was starting to wear a bit thin to vegas vacation where it was actually annoying to see come on screen but in fairness there were a lot of things that were annoying to see come on screen in that movie but this attempt to move the character up to lead status is unfortunate to say the least the vacation movies themselves met an ugly death in las vegas and this hope at reviving even the thinnest thread of the series for television was thoroughly misguided chevy chase and company put together a great trilogy back when he was in his prime now let's just pull the plug and let the title rest in peace one tiny note of interest the original audrey griswold dana barron the first of four actresses to play the part including juliette lewis returns to the role 20 years later one is left only to wonder why
0	this movie is so bad they wouldn't buy it back at my local used cd dvd store i only own it because it came in a box set which i bought for the masterpiece deadfall the store bought back the other two movies i was selling from the four disc set but they wouldn't buy back underworld and those other two movies redefined rank so what does that say about this movie so i tried to sell it back to another store that even bought back budget dvds that you could buy for a dollar at a local store but they wouldn't buy back underworld either this movie is bad on every level and is one of those that came out in the post tarantino clone glut of the mid 90's the only slightly redeemable element is dennis leary telling joe montegna that he's a stinky friend and calls him mister stinky friend that line is so delightfully horrible that i can't help but quote it at least once a week when describing a stinky friend but now that i've enlightened you with that quote you don't have to go thru the pain of watching this movie
0	i share the same opinion regarding underworld as the previous comment br br i sat through the 1 5 hours of this movie wondering what this story was all about and more importantly why the author and or director had made certain decisions for the plot on the whole i found the movie to be unbalanced consisting of strange sub plots which imho actually had nothing to do with the movie furthermore when writing a thriller i'd say you want your viewers to wonder about the story and not about the way the story is filmed
0	this movie is an obvious rip off of underworld usa starring cliff robertson you owe it to yourself to invest a couple of hours and watch the original i found this one to be disjointed and hard to follow with a lot of scenes that didn't make much sense i'm not opposed to violence in movies but this whole thing seemed to be nothing more than an excuse to blow away one person after another many of whom were only marginally connected with the storyline with everyone else getting killed all through the movie i wondered why frank didn't just blow johnny's brains out he certainly could have and johnny sure didn't act like someone that could be trusted another thing that bothers me is the sex scenes why do these people have sex with their clothes on is that supposed to turn us on surely they didn't think they had a shot at a pg rating nothing in this movie seemed to play out naturally as if one were watching people in real life instead it was done in a heavy handed and shallow manner
0	this movie was in my opinion very ignorant there is only foolishness as the motivation of the the police procedure was unrealistic the generated no sympathy from me the story must have been written as the movie was filmed unless you like police bashing stories don t waste your time br br
0	what are forest whitaker and clifton collins jr doing in this light it up is a ridiculously melodramatic piece on problems in low income area schools while the topic is one that needs to be addressed the film uses every cliche in the genre and comes off as a textbook popcorn flick the characters are cutouts from the inner city version of the breakfast club or even the faculty watch this with your children when they turn 13 or 14 with them it could be an outlet for a lesson on current social problems for anyone older it will be nothing more than something to watch and spit on at 4 in the morning as i did recently on bravo matter of fact what was this doing on bravo
0	i found this movie to be preachy and unrealistic it tries to be a movie showing kids fighting against the system but it doesn't even present a positive solution i guess i didn't feel really for the kids i totally can understand what their gripes were and i know how poor the state of schools are but i found their solution and the way the outside dealt with it to be a big bunch of if this comes on tv don't waste your time watch short circuit again for the time
0	i guess they reward idiocy today because whoever came up with the concept for this movie was not shot on sight br br this is a morons delight the worst stereo types of every ghetto and high school movie is dragged out twisted around and made even more unbearable every character in this movie has a sob story beyond sympathy lets pray for a remake where the whole school gets nuked br br spoiler how does a school so run down have the internet in the first place
0	i've seen worse which is a backhanded way of saying how crummy this film was the plot is ridiculous a student shoots a police officer and five more take him hostage in a dimly lit smoky new york school and somehow this clichéd hostage situation takes 24 hours to resolve are you serious a day long hostage situation with a wounded nypd officer no less takes all day i realize this film was made pre 9 11 but still i looked at the clock and wondered how they could possibly drag this overdone plot on for another hour and 10 minutes br br the acting was mediocre at best all around and the characters were seemingly thought up by 7th graders the child abuse kid the pregnant scared girl the violent gang wannabe a confused unfortunate victim the wise cracking white guy please br br trying to make this hostage situation into a mission for more textbooks and better school conditions please this is a weak attempt to justify writing a movie about a kid who shoots a cop they're confused ignorant idiots who get involved in a dumb far fetched situation don't try and paint them suddenly as noble the most laughable is ziggy who lives in the school's attic and admires michaelangelo so much so that he paints these striking scenes on the walls you've got to be kidding me br br the no racism signs in the protesting crowd a black kid shoots a black cop and a black negotiator tries to patch it all up this is a random message br br i understand the overall message which was poorly portrayed albeit by some actors who have gone on to respectable careers br br this was a joke though the red sniper lasers on the roof the worst scene was the kid fake snow falling dying in the arms of his buddy on the roof promise me etc how original br br the epilogue of i went to prison but now i'm pre law at university a fitting way to end a joke of a movie
0	crimes of passion is a film that is disappointing on most counts where should i start from the plot it is despairingly simplistic and full of gaps the direction reminds a cheap b movie the acting john laughlin is utterly terrible in his role as well intentioned husband of a frozen wife bobby annie pots is unconvincing as frozen wife amy and it is only kathleen turner above average and antony perkins excellent which get passable acting marks more specifically antony perkins gives a great performance as the pervert reverend peter shayne while turner manages to portray the roles of sexy china blue and frail joanna crane satisfactorily br br unfortunately the performances of turner and perkins alone are insufficient to help get the film a grade higher than 4 10 watch it if you want to see turner in some sensational scenes although even on this count the film can be easily matched by its competition basic instinct for example otherwise avoid
0	if you're in the mood to laugh at a truly bad movie bad in the way only ken russell at his worst can be you must try this one it succeeds in making you feel like you just landed in a 25 porn booth and you can just about smell the urine on the floor kathleen turner struts around in a blond wig getting her kicks from pretending to be a two bit hooker she really has a good solid job in the clothing industry and has been hurt so badly by men that this is the only way she can connect and tony perkins plays a hysterical priest who is out to maybe murderer her yet another movie that ends with tony perkins in drag annie potts shows up and is not allowed to provide an ounce of her usual wit which is reason enough to hate this movie the kinky will love the sex scenes so rent the unrated version in the red box so you can see turner give a cop a taste of his billy club i had to pause the vcr until we stopped laughing
0	when i found out there was a christmas vacation 2 i couldn't wait to buy the dvd i sent off my money and watched it as soon as it came through the letter box i love all the national lampoons films with chevy chase in it and i bet he was glad he wasn't in this one i couldn't believe how bad this was you would think it was impossible not to laugh at a national lampoons film but believe me it is this film probably looked like a good idea on paper having cousin eddie as the main character he started to get on my nerves from early on in the film and became totally unfunny by the middle of the film and by the end of the film i had gone brain dead and couldn't remember what had happened
0	ken russell directed this weird not very erotic thriller and if i hadn't known that i would have staked my life that the director was brian depalma absolutely everything about crimes of passion screams depalma from the gaudy cinematography that is lit a little too brightly to the domestic storyline that turns into a stalk and slash plot to even the title this screams depalma depalma depalma br br unfortunately since brian depalma is increasingly seen as a poor mans hitchcock over the years russell should have tried emulating a style of his own sure an erotic thriller in the style of tommy or billion dollar brain would have been bizarre with a capital b but at least it would have been a unique cinematic experience stories about prostitutes living a dangerous double life and being stalked by a religious maniac were an all too common sight in the 1980s video market oh and anthony perkins plays the same role he played in almost every movie he made in the 1980s yawn br br the only thing of any real note to crimes of passion is the controversy it caused i guess the studio were the happiest people to hear this since no publicity is bad publicity but as for the controversial sex scenes what controversial sex scenes there aren't any and the only controversy i can think of is of china blue dominating an on duty policeman with a needless to say he didn't come quietly ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
0	a few yrs ago i remember reading an essay by a feminist film theorist who briefly mentioned rosalind russell this theorist wrote that the of the women' that r played lay partly in their ability to stand by their man even when he wasn't worth it br br i thought of this essay after watching 'crimes of br br kathleen turner exudes the same strength and style as russell in her portrayal of prostitute china blue she's the object of affection for two men the loony priest played by anthony perkins and a bland whitebread boy who's marriage is slowly fading and she won't let either of them have a piece of her until br br i won't give away the ending but i will say that this is ultimately bland whitebread boy's fantasy no matter how hard ken russell tries he can't disguise the fact that this movie is basically a 1940s melodrama for the mtv generation except its class and gender politics make those old black and white films look revolutionary by comparison
0	the worst part of all is the poor scripting leading to superficial acting br br dreyfuss' character is intensely repetitive and annoying and dreyfuss himself has the annoying face to match br br holly hunter's character is exaggeratedly self centered and hunter herself indulges in serious overacting as usual br br brad johnson was wooden john goodman made the best of it br br furthermore the whole death ghost thing has since been somewhat overdone and now appears rather lame br br barely watchable only if you like old
0	this film is replete with sentimentality unprofessional flying that makes a pilot like me cringe and irrelevant material why introduce rachel for instance she has absolutely nothing to do with the film except to permit her follow me truck to run wild and crash into fence that has got to be one of the stupider sequences among many in the film another is at the end when the aircraft was it a b 26 or an a 26 both are used in the film is left with props whirling and no in place that serves the plot of course but to reveal it would be to commit a dreaded spoiler as it is the aircraft would have begun to taxi sans control the ending again avoiding spoilers involves much too much talk as at the beginning of sound films in the 30s with all those final speeches here dreyfuss just babbles on and on the ending also incorporates other radical violations of aircraft protocol and a couple of improbabilities impossibilities that i won't describe what a dull and disjointed effort
0	a lot of the films i've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago and that's just because i have a lot of old fashion values steven spielberg br br some points br br 1 though this film is a loose remake of a guy named joe it also borrows heavily from a matter of life and death and wings of desire br br 2 this was spielberg's second attempt at being frank capra br br 3 spielberg has often said that he wishes to make a frank capra movie in the vein of it's a wonderful life and mrs smith goes to washington judging from his recent attempts to get a harvey remake off the ground it seems as though spielberg still holds this dream the director rightfully not satisfied with his last 3 ventures into br br 4 critics at the time bashed always stating that the elaborate action sequences distracted from the film's romance but that's really not the problem at all the problem is that always needs a lot more special effects to distract us from the fact that spielberg can't film any line of dialogue that doesn't end in an exclamation point br br 5 the film is filled with comedy that just doesn't work spielberg's comedic tastes aren't very sophisticated and seem to be ripped right out of 1950's screwballs and looney tune cartoons these exaggerated antics may work in a cartoon universe but in a film it just seems like an odd marriage br br 6 the film's lead couple come across as brother and sister not lovers spielberg's films have always being apprehensive toward sex and intimacy but this film goes to extreme lengths she's a wisecracking tomboy and he's a wisecracking old man they're more irritating than endearing br br 7 the film contains one good scene in which john goodman argues with holly hunter but for the most part the film's characters are too annoying there's no subtlety every emotion overplayed every joke over designed every sequence filled with unnecessary br br 8 always and hook taught spielberg how to con audiences after their failure and the twin financial failures of the color purple and empire of the sun spielberg dumped the goofy colour cinematography of color purple and empire of the sun in favour for the more desaturated black and white worlds of schindler's list munich minority report and saving private ryan from here on less light and dark cinematography became equated with serious topics br br 9 after the financial success of each dark film spielberg reverts back to his colour cinematography and falls flat on his face once again amistad followed schindler's list ai followed ryan and lincoln will follow munich these colour films are always bashed for being too tacky sentimental corny and hokey but the truth is if you removed the all these serious films would feel the same way br br 10 since the 70s spielberg has tried to differentiate himself from the other brat pack directors scorsese de palma coppola etc by pretending to be an optimist and humanist he would himself state this repeatedly during many interviews in the late 70s the reality though is that he is probably the biggest sadist of all these directors the very form of his films often undermining their content their very box office performances always to their dazzling displays of carnage br br 11 the failure of spielberg to connect with any of the characters in always and the relish he shows instead for filming forest fires air planes crashing etc perfectly encapsulates the rest of his filmography people running from dinosaurs sharks nazis tripods rocks etc this is what spielberg delights in the moment his characters stop to speak however everything self destructs a film like amistad failed in other words because not enough blacks died and too many whites talked br br 12 the film's flying scenes aren't up to the set several years earlier in the mega hit top gun of course when your enemy is a forest fire it's hard to make things cinematic br br 13 failures like 1941 hook always etc are often more illuminating that spielberg's more successful films they reveal the steel skeleton beneath the technique they show what the amusement park ride looks like when its not working revealing the vacuum beneath the broken machinery br br 5 10 – there's one good sequence here two actors in a room simply improvising but this is mostly an annoying picture with a predictable script br br worth one viewing
0	so when bob and marion see a guy at a hotel marion believes it is her long lost brother brian but when she approaches him he appears to be someone else just with the exact same face marion manages to get his fingerprints and takes it to the police and when the identity is confirmed that it was in fact her brother brian she and bob leave for new york after tracing his whereabouts they get a hold of brian but still he doesn't know what they are talking about but all the couple really want to know is where brian has their 8 maybe 9 year old son joey and even when they see joey he doesn't know them either the plot thickens and they find themselves one day thinking that they are someone else as well experiments made out on people only to make the perfect assassins yet the question of why they would bother putting bob and marion in the same building as each other is beyond me personally gregory harrison played his 2 parts great but i have no clue what was wrong with the other actors they seemed bored and lost 3 out of 10 a little suspense yes but that's it
0	i had to watch this movie for a film class i suffered the whole time through i am not asian but was still greatly offended by this film the film's basis is overall minorities rex harrison isn't even asian are depicted in narrow minded manner the banning of the film in thailand illustrates the degree inaccuracy and subjective portrayal of asians in addition there has been critical attention given to biography of anna many critics argue that anna added many fictitious events to her story to project herself in a good manner some critics of the film and biography have even stated that anna made up the whole story an awful film but good for discussion of biopics as form of meta narrative fiction rather than a work of non fiction
0	i have just caught this movie on tcm and can understand why george murphy went into politics if this was the best mgm could serve up to him it is so slow moving that the attempt to make it a real film noir effort does not come off it featured two of my favourite br br players in eve arden completely wasted and dean stockwell the best actor in the film but what really hit me was that the leading lady frances gifford went through some 90 minutes it seemed longer without changing the expression on her face her fainting scene was comical john hodiak played his role ok but the script let him and the rest of the cast down very badly i gave it 4 stars mainly because of the photography it would have been on the first half of the program when double features were the go
0	in london the venetian carla borin is searching an apartment to share with her beloved boyfriend matteo she meets the lesbian real estate agent moira francesca and rents a large apartment when the jealous matteo finds some pictures and letters from her former lover bernard mauro lorenz in venice he hangs up the phone and the upset and amoral carla has a brief affair with moira and intercourse with an acquaintance in a party when matteo comes to london he concludes that his lust for carla is more important than his jealousy and her behavior br br is another soft porn of the sick director brass with a shallow and ridiculous story where every situation is a motive to expose the intimate parts of the women in the cast the amateurish camera exposes the body of the beautiful in every possible angle and her character is abused touched and licked in every part of her nice body but without showing explicit penetration this flick is only recommended to fans of this director and as a voyeur experience seeing naked in erotic situations my vote is four br br title brazil a the pervert
0	if a movie can't hold your interest in the first 25 minutes it's over as far as i'm concerned this concept that you have to simply deal with a slow first third of a movie and be rewarded later is nonsense a good movie has to start and end strong it all seem interesting and some decent shots and lots of promise but ultimately muddled and irrelevant there are so many other movies from asia to watch many of which i am sure most of you have not seen that i would really skip this one and look elsewhere why exactly does imdb require a 10 line minimum for reviews i said my piece and i hope this helps a few of you move on to the next film
0	national lampoon's christmas vacation 2 cousin eddie's island adventure 2003 randy quaid miriam flynn dana barron jake thomas sung hi lee eric idle fred willard ed asner d nick embarrassing direct to video flop has oafish cousin eddie and family on an expenses paid vacation to the south pacific by his boss hoping the dunce won't sue his company after being bitten by a smarter lab monkey idiotic spin off can't measure up to any of the vacation films even european vacation with a question of whether or not the filmmakers thought the script was actually funny not even quaid willard or asner can make it remotely watchable 83 min not rated
0	i have just given a 10 for thieves highway i mention this for two reasons one to prove i'm not a git who only gives bad reviews but 2 because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night br br we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can't avoid them all they'll eventually get you pretty woman for me does two things two terrible horrible ghastly things firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer you know with absolutely great friends leg warmers lots of giggling borrowing each others make up you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we're talking about here has a great life she's healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament my feeling is this 'happy type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it if i make a film about a chef but don't want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place by out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have what a cop out really really lame br br secondly 'pretty woman' insults romance itself edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this that is without his plastic friend yep don't leave home without it especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination 8 out of 10 of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another even when he first meets her it's the lotus turbo that does all the work necklaces here diamonds there limos over there money money money where's the charm where's the charisma don't mention that attempt at the piano please br br girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator as they probably don't either so it wont have registered more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate highway' a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject br br i'll finish on a song br br pretty woman round the street pretty woman the kind i like to treat pretty woman i don't believe you you're not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br br pretty woman wont you pardon me pretty woman i couldn't help but see pretty woman and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br br pretty woman shop a while pretty woman talk a while pretty woman sell your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way pretty woman say you'll stay with me and i'll pay you i'll treat you right
0	the first time i saw this was when i was with a date and she thought it was an awesome movie i didn't br br the second time i saw this was last night on tv it still sucks br br as a love story this sucks as having julia portray a street hooker this is repulsive to me she was a librarian with a miniskirt and heels she had no tough shell to her she wasn't tortured anguished enraged starving or anything else her hooker character was so flawed like comparing a cubic to a diamond the two simply don't fit no matter what they look like br br the only cast i felt was worth watching was the 2 bitchy saleswomen whom were excellently cast they did such a fine job that i hated them for the few seconds that they were on screen they had real definition for the minor roles ok so the movie wasn't entirely trash the two ignorant saleswomen saved the film br br aside from those two women sales people the rest of the cast including the big names was just crap either everybody was an ass kisser or had absolutely no reason to fill any dialog in the movie aside from just complimenting julia roberts or kissing ass to richard gere br br this was a movie about how when you walk around in high heels and a tight skirt in beverly hills people leer at you and guys who work in hotels gawk as if they just had a baseball bat struck to their face br br while in reality the women who are dressed to the nines in beverly hills are hookers and prostitutes to a higher degree but since they aren't wearing the gaudy madonna looking jewelry or the patent boots they can look down on the others who do br br the hotel cast was sickeningly sad to watch and anybody who had any real character had less than a minute of screen time br br this is an insult to romantic movies comedies dramas and even to prostitutes who face wealthy customers on a daily basis with hopes of having their lives work out perfect br br the story is about julia roberts being pimped yes pimped by a multimillionaire in a business suit and limousine br br she is still owned still told how to act how to move what to wear what to say where to go and what to do he is more controlling than a street pimp but the folks at disney buena vista butter it up to make it easier to swallow br br had richard gere been a black man with a gold tooth and an ak 47 at his side instead of an case this movie would be about how a woman has to struggle to get away from the harshness of prostitution same story different characters will make a very different outlook br br oh yeah change the white man for a black man or asian or spanish have the land business deal be changed to a deal of weapons or narcotics and the entire concept of romantic comedy is thrown away br br as far as i'm concerned pretty woman is still trash dressed with ribbons and bows br br i didn't like it 15 years ago when i didn't understand it and was led by the hollywood hype i hate it now that i can see past the pretty decorations that is called love br br this movie is not a romantic comedy it's a story on how to control a woman as long as you have the means and income to do so br br this is an insult to strong women weak women and women in general as well as to my television screen br br do i hate it yes does it suck yes would i recommend it to you no well maybe if i really hated you br br will this review get posted we'll see br br anywayz that's all for now
0	i was wondering if there was a place or a link that someone can send me or post for me so i can watch this show it seems to be a missing show i have been looking for years now its about oz and a girl who has to help save it it was really good but i found a good oz type thing on the web but i cant find it again or seem to remember a lot of it due to being years and was thinking that this one maybe it and from reading all this it sounds good and maybe the missing show that i really liked please someone help me thanks so much so please anyone that can help me or give me a link that would be so helpful again thank you so much or if anyone has an oz based good videos please post as well
0	when this show began it was fairly interesting we got to see what crab boat fisherman had to go through during the crab catching season soon after however it lost focus on the fishing and focused almost entirely on the drama in the lives of the fisherman episodes became nothing more than 'the captain doesn't like the new this one happens way too often 'someone is injured or sick' 'a fisherman gets word of some problem at home and is frustrated that he is stuck on a boat' repeat i don't know how people can find the newest seasons watchable as every episode seems to be essentially the same as those before and after it this show should be moved to a different channel and renamed to crab boat drama or even better it would have made a perfect one time segment on dirtiest jobs br br shouldn't the discovery channel have learned their lesson after american choppers
0	i just watched this movie last night within 30 minutes of the start i was hoping it would end br br it had a promising beginning the first 10 minutes the premise of this movie friendship that goes nowhere after they've spent days and years together in separate beds in hotel rooms is just not believable he does kiss her somewhere along the way and she feels ohh so terrible about it br br very little substance to grab your interest the acting just does not hold up he is very passive regardless of how much of the movie is shown the viewer never develops any type of a caring connection with the characters on the screen you learn that her next utterance will be as boring as her previous one do you have a cigarette he doesn't smoke he wants her to stop smoking doesn't she know this by now br br she calls him in the middle of the night to visit him after a year's absence she comes in through the door they don't even hug or kiss or express any type of emotional connection he doesn't even lean forward to lift her suitcase to help her in that is not how real people behave this is not how best pals behave br br when he receives her phone call in the middle of the night she is in town for one day he shows little interest to see her face acts more like she will be a burden for the night at this point they've known each other for two years and he hasn't seen her for a year not believable not real br br supposedly he has written a book on entropy and yet we never see him write or read or discuss any of his interests in physics with her not that she would be able to handle the discussion we learn that a watermelon in l a costs 50 it wasn't the silicon type mind you he has no problem that fruit we also learn that the airport shuts down when a few really really fake snow flakes fall off the sky i'm sorry but was that in l a too br br we never see how these two characters survive we never see them at work we never see them struggle they are always on vacation they have infinite time they have no worries whatsoever br br nice life unreal life unreal characters bad title bad movie
0	as one of the victims of the whole enron scandal my mother forced me to watch this movie with her how many times can i say awful the script was so weak using cliche after cliche it seems as though the writers pieced this story together with a few articles on enron watching the movie we honestly were able to complete about half of the one dimensional characters' lines and thoughts i realize this was supposedly adapted from a book but was the book this bad i don't know what to say just terrible the best thing about the movie shannon elizabeth actually kept her clothes on other than that this movie gets a big fat f
0	this one just isn't worth the cost of a movie ticket what these filmmakers have done cannot properly be called filmmaking rather they just chose sixteen students of some diversity though not quite as much diversity as the reviews have suggested and set them loose the results are to be brutally frank far more often boring self indulgent overwrought and off puttingly grainy than truly insightful br br there are of course moments of recognition and identification of the sort only possible in documentary film but overall there's not much more truth here than in bully or for that matter a decent tv documentary of the same sort though full of talk about sex and sexual diversity and racism the film brings nothing to the table that will be of use to anyone who has thought about any of these issues with any seriousness and while certain segments serve absolutely no purpose other than to inject a bit of admittedly welcome comic relief most often the five minute limit keeps up from becoming emotionally involved with any of the students an interesting idea but thumbs down for chain camera
0	the first film was quite hip and had amusing moments this film doesn't exactly have the same standard calvin palmer ice cube is still trying to keep his barbershop going but this isn't just against stylist gina queen latifah with a beauty shop next door but soon enough a big barbershop chain called nappy opening across the street calvin along with co workers and friends eddie cedric the entertainer jimmy sean patrick thomas terri eve and isaac rosenberg troy they are doing everything they can to keep regular customers coming and ultimately their business running against the competition also starring michael as ricky nash leonard earl howze as harry as quentin leroux robert wisdom as brown lewis as jennifer kenan thompson as and bad company's as loretta i didn't like this film as much as the first because of the unnecessary flashbacks about eddie and it isn't as witty i just got bored of it okay
0	this movie was completely stale and uninspired the central premise of this movie was basically a bunch of stereotypical black people sitting around a barbershop exchanging painfully unfunny repartee i did not laugh one time during the entire movie i could have sat in any barbershop in america and have heard this banal banter and maybe have even come out with a decent haircut i cannot understand why this mess got any favourable reviews much less why so many people have wasted money on this none of the characters here were funny or worth caring about i really didn't care whether the rival barbershop across the street would cause nappy to go out of business don't waste your money on this one folks as that is the only way to get hollywood to stop churning out these shambolic pieces of rubbish 1 out of 5
0	barbershop 2 back in business wasn't as good as it's original but was just as funny the movie itself lacked little things which the original held which made it much more enjoyable back in business seemed to be just another worthless sequel made to bring in money with a very thin plot cedric the terrible excuses for flashbacks ruined the movie and seemed to be a bad way to try and get the audience to adapt more with the character overall barbershop 2 back in business was a sequel not needed without the originals charm soul spark
0	warning miserable movie warning the day before christmas eve some nut case decided he'd entertain us by sending this movie as on tv what in gods name was he thinking br br this movie is filled with awful humor despicable acting lousy jokes and a disaster of a plot line randy quaid plays the idiotic role as cousin eddie johnson eddie is a brain dead person who's incapable of even the simplest tasks he was fired because he was dumb as a brick but the company he worked for was sorry for it so they sent him and his family on a vacation but being as stupid as he is he managed to make the vacation into a disaster br br all in all it's the worst movie i've seen and i have nightmares still over the miserable acting and the even more miserable jokes in this movie it's so sad you almost have to see it but don't the nightmares i have are far worse than any other nightmares you will ever have trust me i hate this movie so bad because of it's acting the humor the jokes and the story the only good thing was the nice scenery br br well it's my opinion and i surely hope everyone agrees with me
0	the first movie of this series was well written and original this show drags on poorly written gags boring flashbacks not the comedy that i expected even the young folks found it boring there are certainly bright moments historical elements and some good acting but overall i can only recommend this for dvd tape at home
0	the plot involves a new hipper franchise barbershop that is moving across the street from calvin's barbershop so he feels like he has to change and improve his shop by getting newer stuff and such sounds real exciting huh as for the rest of the film a lot of it involves the same material from the first film the people that work at calvin's stand around talk loud and mouth off to each other and the customers once again cedric the entertainer was mildly funny but it is more like he's doing a stand up routine than anything to do with the movie and calvin is faced with another moral issue involving taking a large sum of money he's already shown that he will do the right thing in the end br br final verdict nothing new i don't recommend it unless you thought the first barbershop was the best thing since sliced bread
0	this movie came as a huge disappointment the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain but i expected to tie up all the loose ends unfortunately it didn't it added more plot holes than it resolved and confused more than it clarified the animation and voice acting were great but with an idiotic plot dull setting most of the movie doesn't even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world and disappointing ending ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy and he ditches it was altogether pretty lackluster do yourself a favor disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie and read the manga
0	first off i am critical of this movie because i really had high hopes and instead this movie sucked br br possible spoilers if you haven't seen the tv series where to begin well let's start at the quality the movie was barely better than the original tv series and the two fight scenes were very nicely crafted however the cgi was horrid br br then there is the plot holes and questions that still remain after the whole movie is all said and done this movie does not close off as a successful conclusion to a very broad universe known as and only returns to expand the universe more before leaving us with nothing but our imaginations to decipher what would happen in the future br br and then there is the stories biggest fault adding wwii and hitler why the series was perfect and didn't need hitler it didn't even need germany br br overall the entire movie was sorely lacing in what a true movie could have been and if i were the directors i'd scrap cos and make a new more ending ending
0	conquerer of shows what happens when creators of an anime fail to understand what their fans want i as a fan did not want a 1920's evil nazi movie what i would have liked to see is a real final showdown between ed and dante as we don't really know what became of her i also would have liked to get ed back to his world much sooner and have him stay there to finally get a chance to be normal you know raise a family with a certain blonde mechanic that sort of thing no instead i got a convoluted plot involving nazi mystics fritz lang and about ten minutes of al a joke of a cameo by roy mustang and only one armstrong joke one short joke and no hitting ed with a wrench above all it just didn't feel like alchemist to me
0	this is a tedious movie the real villains are the clunky adaptation it's embarrassingly easy to tell that the source material was a novel and witless screenplay br br on the credit side considering the budget was tight due to wartime austerity the look of the film isn't at all bad and the performances are by and large ok except for phyllis calvert who is terrific a miracle considering the potential for a pit into which she most definitely does not fall ms calvert with a lot less to go on is as accomplished as olivia de havilland in gone with the wind br br the one absolutely unbearable aspect of the man in grey is the dreadfully conceived depiction of a black serving boy no matter that he's meant to be a sympathetic character played badly by a white boy in black face make up it is impossible to by pass this example of condescending racism br br grim
0	detective dave is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to new orleans mobster julie but during his investigation is led into a series of surreal encounters with a troop of confederate soldiers what a awful plot and it was worser than i had expected it was real slow and had minimal skill in the acting i could not watch through it it was waste of my time another flop i would give it under 1 if i could please people don't waste your time its 1 of wast full time actor sykes and his girlfriend driving under the influence as dave takes to the station the actor tells dave he found some skeletal remains while on the set of a movie he is filming
0	i saw this movie last night at the berlinale as part of the competition it was billed as the world premiere of the movie by the host though it seems that people here have seen it previously i have to say i still don't really know what to make of the movie i am unfamiliar with the book purchased the ticket only two hours beforehand and had only limited knowledge of the plot not enough as it seems as i had problems getting into the movie the movie is sometimes being narrated by jones' character but somehow that perspective did not fit for me and i really cannot say if some of the laughs the movie got were calculated or not the cuts were abrupt and disruptive the scenes seemed somehow slapped together and the storytelling did not always make sense right away even leaving out the supernatural parts the actors were really good but could not really save the movie somehow it was entertaining but sometimes only in the sense that i sat there thinking about technical details of movie making and what went wrong with this one i still do not know what kind of mood the director intended the movie to have it was a strange mix of light dark supernatural it sadly did not draw me in at all and i rather watched it with a technical eye but thinking about what is wrong with a movie while watching it is the best sign that a movie somehow has failed i would have definitely expected something else with these actors involved too bad
0	i have to be honest and admit that this movie did basically nothing for me except baffle me completely it's burdened with a plot that revolves around the mysterious murders of several young women which then gets linked to the discovery of a body over 40 years old the story never really seems to make much sense especially when played by tommy lee jones starts having his conversations with confederate general john bell hood i never really did figure that out jones was ok in his role although i thought he was really starting to show his age here horribly miscast was john goodman as julie baby feet who i guess is supposed to be some sort of local mob figure i simply didn't think goodman worked in this role although i'll admit that just could be because i'm not much of a john goodman fan somewhere in the mix appeared justina as an fbi agent although i never really did understand what the fbi was involved in which could mean simply that my attention kept wandering from the screen if it was explained though i missed it completely fortunately this is a fairly short movie so you won't waste too much of your life on it 2 10
0	if you've ever listened to any of the james lee burke books on tape or cd and the reader was will patton you may agree with me that will is the personification of dave r br br tommy lee jones is a native texan or so i've heard and no one portrays a texan better imho but he's not a cajun his delivery is all wrong i lived in the state for several years and i can still hear the strange patois that a louisiana accent contains doesn't have anything like that br br i thought marry was a good choice for but i missed seeing cletus who will be cast in this role the rock mickey rourke whoever he'll have to be big br br overall i thought the movie was only a 4 the plot flopped around like a fish out of water and didn't have the normal interesting yet non linear continuity that the book typically has br br hopefully hollywood will try another jlb book last car to fields would be a good choice we'd get to see some of the best villains from jlb ever
0	i cannot believe that the actors agreed to do this film i could not stand to even watch it for very long for fear of losing i q points for each passing second i guess that nobody at the network that aired this dribble watched it before putting it on imdb ratings only go as low 1 for awful it's time to get some negative numbers in there for cases such as these
0	this is a disappointing adaptation of the james lee burke novel in the electric mist of the confederate dead it is rather poorly acted mainly due to the miscasting of the principal players tommy lee jones a normally fine actor just doesn't capture burke's dave as main nemesis john goodman does a sloppy job as the heavy the guy who plays actor buddy doesn't look like a former a lister leading man the rest of the movie is mainly cast with no name locals who just don't do justice to a big time novel br br the movie and jones' performance is way too hurried for one thing in burke's series of novels gives one the feeling that he fits well into his environment most of the time being laid back and slow moving this is just like the deep south and southern louisiana then at times is nearly manic in his jones just moves at a fast pace through the whole movie he doesn't vary ned beatty is wasted mary steenburgen is out of place about the only good thing about this is the setting on the whole the movie gives one the impression of a tv movie
0	i've read all the dave novels and consider james lee burke to be my favorite contemporary fiction writer i've also visited new iberia and much of to be able to better visualize the setting in most of these books needless to say i greatly anticipated seeing in the electric mist especially since i thought tommy lee jones would be terrific as br br i was greatly disappointed the story was very choppy the interplay with the ghosts of confederate dead was shallow and lost the impact and nobility it added to the book and tommy lee jones was doleful expressionless and difficult to understand as dr the best way to describe this forgettable film is to add my ditto to an earlier user comment that this movie was like one of those old made for tv movies i expected jill st john or cameron mitchell to show up at any time br br the location settings were accurate and the photography at times captured the essence of the steamy smoky juke joints and eerie above ground graveyards of south louisiana too bad the story's disjointed presentation and tommy lee's sub par performance interfered with the unique mood and spicy zest of the region br br next to final comment in the novels dave nickname is streak because of the distinct streak of silver gray hair on one side of his head similar to how the sopranos' paulie walnuts would appear if he were seen only in profile tommy lee had no such streak in this film probably because the editors are james lee burke fans and they airbrushed the streak out after witnessing mr jones's poor imitation of dave br br final comment while i generally find alec baldwin to be pompous and obnoxious in most roles he was by far a better in heaven's prisoners than tommy lee was in in the electric mist also heaven's prisoners is much more interesting and exciting with uniformly believable performances and more evocative atmosphere than this new movie br br in the electric mist is okay to watch when one feels like out and there's nothing better on tv but then so are infomercials
0	i have read and enjoyed many of james lee burke's mysteries when i read 'in the electric mist with the confederate dead' was being filmed and tommy lee jones was playing the lead i was thrilled after watching it last night i ending up turning it off with about twenty minutes left not wanting to see any more people shot or beaten up don't get me wrong i don't mind blood and gore i love 'the and 'the godfather perhaps it was just that i had previously seen and 'what just before watching this i know that burke's books are violent lyrical and especially in the case of 'in the electric can be like the cajun swamps he writes about full of things that are never fully explained in a book that's fine in a film that's confusing many of the previous reviewers are also ardent admirers of dave which makes it more understandable that they really liked the movie or they are admirers of bernard tavernier or both even as a fan of all the actors and especially vince i felt it was such a waste of their talents overall they gave good performances in a film that didn't hold together now i say this having only seen the usa dvd and hoping that tavernier's cut will make a huge difference on the plus side the soundtrack was wonderful the scenes at place were perfect just as i imagined the bait shop to look like mary steenburgen was excellent as as was walter as if you read the books you know why is an even tempered person in the beginning of the film and then starts whacking people with various instruments overall i wish that they had filmed more of the mist and the confederate dead' and left out large portions of methods of interrogation explaining gifts and his bond to dave as well as dave's to the general then i wouldn't be feeling today as i did last night when i turned it off what just happened
0	this is bad movie there is no denying it as much as i'd like to tommy lee jones is about as good as he possible can be with the script they gave him and he had a couple of decent action sequences that felt really out of place due to their acceptable quality br br somewhere along the line someone figured that all of the shortcomings of script could be if they were to hire every single workhorse actor in the business unfortunately even truly deeply talented actors like goodman beatty sarsgaard gammon steenburgen macdonald pruitt taylor vince and lest we forget mr jones himself can't fix the wooden dialogue and plot progression that went absolutely nowhere br br in fact at one point i looked up sure that the movie had been running for the past 2 hours only to find that i was 51 minutes into it br br perhaps the most painful point of the movie was the subplot about the ghost confederate soldiers that seem to be of little to no help to the story other than slightly detracting from the confusing business at the end with the picture if you haven't seen this movie disregard this past statement which may seem tantalizing and know that it is not you will not understand it any better after having watched the movie br br the most interesting thing about this movie may be that it is actually a sequel to the movie heaven's prisoners starring alec baldwin in the same role carried by tommy lee jones in this movie i may have to watch it now first to see if it is as bad as in the electric mist and second because i can't seem to no matter how hard i try break my man crush on alec baldwin
0	i have seen this movie last week during the berlin film festival and had medium high expectations the director is bertrand tavernier and i was familiar with some of his previous work in french cinema i actually enjoyed some of his earlier movies the cast tommy lee jones john goodman peter mary steenburgen i was looking forward to see all this talent on screen i wasn't familiar with the book it's based upon and i hadn't read anything about the movie beforehand but i was told that it was an investigation movie set in the deep south we've seen a lot of those in the past maybe this one's gonna be as good as the others br br 2 hours later the end titles appear thank god it was over the plot is beyond comprehension if you've read the book you have a significant advantage there were too many minor characters and there were a lot of useless plot arcs we didn't understand a thing the accents my god tommy lee jones' accent is decent but i still have nightmares from mary cajun french singing poor casting in my opinion i can't believe old man tommy lee jones can beat the crap out of a linebacker built goon and i'm not afraid of john goodman who were these people we barely understand who all these characters are and what they do there's a bait shop tommy lee jones has a girl from guatemala the comedic attempts were pathetic the funniest thing about the movie was probably its action and suspense scenes they were horrible no thrills bad acting can tommy lee jones make different faces or is he like derek zoolander and then there's the sci fi stuff no spoilers but it gets ridiculously and annoyingly weird br br i usually don't write any comments on imdb but i thought the movie was so bad and disappointing that i felt compelled to share my opinion but that's just me
0	i see that c thomas howell has appeared in many movies since his heyday in the 80s as an accomplished young actor br br i bought this dvd because it was cheap and in part for the internet related plot and to see how much older c thomas howell is i do not recall seeing him in any movies since the 1980s br br in just a few words what a very big disappointment i give some low budget movies a chance but this one started out lame within the first 15 minutes of the movie this elusive woman is chatting with an asian guy in a they basically stimulate themselves to their own chat she then insists on meeting the participant in person she meets him has sex ties him up and then murders him in cold blood the plot then deteriorates further br br the plot is thin and flimsy and the acting is very stiff do not bother renting it much less purchasing it even if it is in the 1 dvd bin i plan to take my copy of the dvd to goodwill i am truly amazed that any of the prior reviewers here gave this movie a bad rating
0	i see that c thomas howell has appeared in many movies since his heyday in the 80s as an accomplished young actor br br i bought this dvd because it was cheap and in part for the internet related plot and to see how much older c thomas howell is i do not recall seeing him in any movies since the 1980s br br in just a few words what a very big disappointment i give some low budget movies a chance but this one started out lame within the first 15 minutes of the movie this elusive woman is chatting with an asian guy in a they basically stimulate themselves to their own chat she then insists on meeting the participant in person she meets him has sex ties him up and then murders him in cold blood the plot then deteriorates further br br the plot is thin and flimsy and the acting is very stiff do not bother renting it much less purchasing it even if it is in the 1 dvd bin i plan to take my copy of the dvd to goodwill i am truly amazed that any of the prior reviewers here gave this movie a bad rating
0	i see that c thomas howell has appeared in many movies since his heyday in the 80s as an accomplished young actor br br i bought this dvd because it was cheap and in part for the internet related plot and to see how much older c thomas howell is i do not recall seeing him in any movies since the 1980s br br in just a few words what a very big disappointment i give some low budget movies a chance but this one started out lame within the first 15 minutes of the movie this elusive woman is chatting with an asian guy in a they basically stimulate themselves to their own chat she then insists on meeting the participant in person she meets him has sex ties him up and then murders him in cold blood the plot then deteriorates further br br the plot is thin and flimsy and the acting is very stiff do not bother renting it much less purchasing it even if it is in the 1 dvd bin i plan to take my copy of the dvd to goodwill i am truly amazed that any of the prior reviewers here gave this movie a bad rating
0	if you're in the mood for a really bad porno with no good porn combined with a really bad horror movie this movie is perfect for you however if you breathe air make sure you spend your time watching anything but this the acting is crappy the plot is crappy they try too hard and the whole time i was waiting for the one good redeeming scene that might make the movie worth watching nope stick with the scrambled cable
0	no let's just say the samurai is somewhere between horrifically boring and mind bogglingly painful to watch as an historical epic it could have had so many more chances to be a rich saga but it's really no more than just another cheap '70s action flick with a based on real events story and an eyepatch sporting sonny chiba before this movie's halfway point i was even tempted to commit seppuku the music is like a thousand dogs in heat wailing in your ears to a tune composed by ennio morricone that's not an insult towards morricone the use of zoom lens cinematography is more nauseating than fascinating and in terms of action it's really nothing more than a series of brutal attacks and oh no they didn't shocks what a terrible movie
0	ok this may contain spoilers but who really cares do not if you value the seconds in your life waste your time on this pile of garbage there is not one redeeming quality in this movie and i say that as a full fan of the vacation series of movies i loved the cousin eddie character from the other vacation movies but he only works well as a supporting character do i blame randy quaid for the failure of this movie not at all i think he's a great actor but this film lacks any cohesion the pacing is off it's just plain unfunny and the actor who plays the third jake thomas was just awful more than likely due to a real lack of direction i don't know why but his whole character creeped me out br br some people say that this is a horrible movie because chevy chase and beverly d'angelo aren't in it that has nothing to do with it the script directing acting special effects everything is a train wreck with orphans and kittens oh and the train ran over some old people too br br please whatever you do stay away from this filth i call it filth because it dirties the name of the vacation franchise
0	i have seen nearly all the films of kurosawa and dozens of other japanese films as well compared to these other films this is a rather average to poor film the plot features two warring brothers neither one of which i cared much for and it is very confusing keeping up with who is allied with who the music and cinematography is pretty good but the special effects at times are terrible rubber heads flying off with about the same realism as the average high school play on top of these complaints the ending of the movie completely destroys and undermines the entire picture it turns out that the end isn't true but was completely fudged what's the point of this then if you have seen this film understand that there are many better films out there so don't give up
0	director kinji is perhaps best known in his homeland at least for his japanese gangster films a series with which this movie shares a number of characteristics violence and political intrigue are themes throughout both samurai and battles without honor and humanity and both feature a lead character who finds his loyalties challenged by betrayals both films also feature a large number of characters who seem to have little purpose but to die and since so little is done to develop them their deaths have little impact when they do come this film has other flaws as well the makeup costumes and sound design are distractingly poor and the battle scenes were substandard as well inferior to other samurai films of earlier years seven samurai comes to mind br br sonny chiba plays the sonny chiba character in samurai the no nonsense master swordsman who strides through the film scowling menacingly what a guy he even gets to wear an eye patch if you were expecting to see the legendary toshiro mifune you may be disappointed his appearance amounts to little more than a cameo and just when it appears that his character might do something interesting he disappears for good br br overall the strengths of the film are its story which is infinitely more comprehensible than those gangster films and the challenges posed to traditional concepts of good and evil two brothers are challenging for the throne of their recently departed father who may have had some help on his way out early on it looks as if we will be faced with a couple of characters who couldn't be more clearly good and evil after all the older brother stammers and has a birthmark the sure sign of a villain eventually however it becomes clear that in a winner takes all struggle for power there are no heroes and villains only winners and losers
0	in this film there is a loose plot of a man bardem who wishes to obtain financing for his construction business and marries a woman he does not love the wide eyed maria de in the process he maintains his passionate relationship with his first and true love and ultimately gets entangled in his own romantic web he never gives up his juggling act until the three main characters come face to face the film results boring with lots of free sex well both girls are really good all the reactions in the film are absurd incoherent and of course too much stupid none of the characters are believable which makes the movie a little annoying anyway the acting is surprisingly good for such a bad directed film which makes it a little interesting but if you can watch another film please
0	a bit too much machismo for me the cast was beautiful lovely to watch in all of the romantic scenes the locale was beautiful with skies and water it just was not convincing to me that such an egomaniac crud bent on nothing but his building could attract so many beautiful vulnerable women only in the mediterranean i guess certainly in no world i am familiar with the macho men were really obnoxious and i found it difficult to believe that the female characters could have anything to to with them for so long the screenplay cinematography directing etc was set up to deliver a class b film the central effort being on showing scenes of beautiful exposed female breasts it was aesthetically nice for a while but it could not sustain a very mediocre film
0	thank god i have fast forward i think this is a movie about a guy who rises and falls whatever it's a stupid cliché it doesn't make any difference there's this guy javier bardem who constructs buildings or something it doesn't matter he is handsome this javier bardem who cares i think there is a car wreck but i watched this in fast forward so who cares car wrecks and handsome heroes who struggle back from them smells like a melodrama to me javier likes someone but he marries maria de instead she is magnificently poetically beautiful with a heart shaped face then javier has an oral interface with who washes her beforehand for some reason you would think with her hand washed would be sexy no she is not this is a tedious story about a bunch of people who don't interest me javier and maria have a threesome how boring this film is annoying i think this might be a minor theme of some spanish language movies the rise and predictable fall of a little guy who succeeds against the odds let me just clear this up this is a high class melodrama or perhaps soap opera it is not worth your time except for a laugh
0	with some films it is really hard to tell for whom they were made de oro seems to aim at the well educated spanish middle class there must be many inside jokes in this movie which you will not understand if you are an outsider this can be pretty annoying br br symbols and references to art and popular culture abound the movie alludes to the work of salvador luis buñuel and the in general a certain infatuation with baths seems to point to ready what's more the main character has also a knack for karaoke tapes with songs of julio iglesias but why all this is mixed together in a rather pretty but also gratuitous way simply eludes me i can only guess that it all serves to highlight the vital impetuous boorish vulgarity of the main character who the director seems to admire and despise at the same time how all the really pretty women run after him the main character i mean is slightly disconcerting br br the movie has three parts it starts in the spanish enclave of in africa where benito the main character does his military service apparently in the corps of engineers then it moves on to the resort town of in where benito just wants to build the highest skyscraper of the place and become a howard for the last part a defeated benito moves to miami florida presumably in order to start a life but the change of places is not really explained satisfactorily it is also somehow irritating that there is no character development and that the movie descends into a soap opera modus without being convincingly ironic it must be said that javier bardem acquits himself very well playing the young stud who grows limp and deflated br br i purchased this movie because i am interested in and is a kind of a special place in this aspect de oro satisfied me only partially in jess franco's she killed in ecstasy 1970 this specific location was used in a more rewarding way
0	when watching this movie with it's deterministic cause and effect wall to wall clichés and hackneyed sentiment can anyone be so naive as to think that this is actually how barrie's life played out you watch it in a posture of disagreement hollywood biopics aren't based on the individual lives anymore they're just rewrites of previously successful biopics if hollywood made a movie about your life it would be filled with such perfect synchronization that you'd barely recognize your own story any personal complexity would be obliterated by some all explaining simplistic backstory your story would resemble rocky because it's the only life arc hollywood knows how to produce anymore we couldn't leave the audience pondering anything left open ended as they exit this movie doesn't trust an audience to figure things out without being led to them i perceived the captain hook mother reference eons before the movie it for me i could see the 25 kids twist coming for days br br this is a completely average movie not horrible but not great hence it's likely to be showered with a few oscars next year there's nothing the academy likes better than congratulating itself for finally noticing patterns put in place over the previous thirty years br br from the new yorker article lost boys by anthony lane br br arthur davies also adored his boys and it may be unfair of finding neverland to omit him for streamlining purposes from the scene by the time that johnny depp meets kate winslet she is already a widow whereas arthur was very much alive when barrie first entered the little by little the the davies family br br finding neverland is a weepie from the moment that barrie met george and jack and started to ponder the means by which they might be rendered immortal the story is sad but the reality is even more dismal davies dies from cancer of the jaw dies of lung cancer the five boys are orphaned barrie is made their guardian is killed in the first world war fighting with his regiment in flanders an undergraduate at oxford is drowned while swimming with a friend the two bodies when recovered are found clinging together br br on april 5 1960 peter davies by then an esteemed publisher threw himself under a subway train in london we should not presume to read a mind in torment but we may note in passing that if he had lived another month he would have reached the centenary of barrie's birth and thus one imagines a fresh flurry of interest in peter pan — that terrible masterpiece in the words of peter davies
0	a previous imdb reviewer has stated that romance' is a 'rip off' that's the other reviewer's term of a german musical called 'me by day you by night' apparently that reviewer is unaware that both of these films have borrowed their premise from and an english play written by john maddison morton in 1847 this play deals with two who rent the same room from an unscrupulous landlady each man believing himself the sole tenant because the two men have different work schedules the ruse is not discovered straight away this play was once so popular in britain that 'to box and cox it' became a common term for an arrangement in which two people willingly shared accommodations meant for only one person br br the innovation of romance' and its predecessor is that the two tenants are now a man and a woman who inevitably develop a romance as is usual in these cornball movies the guy and the gal detest each other until they fall into each other's arms hoo boy br br the landlord in this film is played by george sidney a character actor who specialised in playing jewish stereotypes that were meant to be sympathetic george sidney was never as annoying as the odious harry green the jewish equivalent of stepin fetchit but sidney's depictions of jewish characters are still exaggerated and embarrassing to watch br br the single most notable thing about romance' is that to my knowledge this is the earliest hollywood film to make reference to hitler and the rise of nazism at one point in this movie landlord sidney discovers his teenage son julius engaged in swastikas on the walls and his son are clearly meant to be jewish admittedly nobody in hollywood in 1933 had any real idea of what hitler was planning for the jews in europe still it's surprising to see a film depicting a jewish teenager who thinks that swastikas are a joke his father is quite properly angered by this display of the nazi symbol br br a very shameful aspect of hollywood history is the documented fact that all of the major hollywood studios continued to do business with the third reich as late as 1939 hollywood's leading ladies were medically documented as so that their films could be distributed in nazi germany and austria for the same reason hollywood's leading men were documented as and except for darryl zanuck at twentieth century fox all the hollywood studio executives who in this policy were jewish but clearly had no objection to doing business with hitler i'm surprised that romance' contains a scene depicting swastikas unfavourably as this sequence would have rendered the film verboten in germany and austria maybe the scene was cut out for german release it isn't crucial to the movie's plot apart from this the movie contains nothing notable robert does his usual unfunny befuddled characterisation i've never understood the appeal of this man i'll rate romance' 4 out of 10
0	for this movie based off of a tv show and a serious finale i thought that it was a lousy way to end off a serious 'm a s h goodbye farewell and was pretty good but not this one unless you really love the series like myself skip this movie br br i was a loyal fan of the show even stevens but the plot was too gimmicky and dave coulier man that guy hasn't done anything good well ever they shouldn't have used tim meadows he's a great actor but he was too good for the script br br i thought the movie was pure cheese i would give it a 4 5 10
0	for a film made in senegal based i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper this film doesn't achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films br br ms as the of the title is very good to look at her fiery dancing smolders the screen as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film br br this is a that aims to please to all genders but a real carmen she is not br br we would like to see ms in other films in which her talent is better used than here
0	to quote clark griswold in the original christmas vacation worse how could things get any worse take a look around here ellen we're at the threshold of hell little did chevy chase know that he was describing the sequel to one of his best films christmas vacation ii sets a new high or maybe it should be low in bad movies my wife bought this dvd thinking it would actually be a sequel to the original but we were severely disappointed this film is lame it bears no resemblance to the original is an absolute waste of film and an embarrassment to the otherwise good actors who had the misfortune to be part of it it must have set a record on imdb for the most bad reviews i really think we have a good case to win a class action lawsuit to recover the money we consumers wasted on this movie
0	i gave this 2 stars out of a possible 10 br br i went into this not realizing what it was and discovered it is apparently some kind of african musical since people break into song every few minutes br br none of the songs rhyme most of them aren't really saying anything sensible and they all have the same non existent tune if you could call it a tune br br is a tall spectacularly built young woman with the longest braids i've ever seen the actress looks as if she has probably done some modeling br br the film opens in a women's prison although not like any prison i've ever seen or heard of the inmates wear whatever they wish and seem to be having a party br br does some frantic dancing and the woman warden of the prison angelique a magnificently handsome woman is definitely erotically interested she and dance together later visits the warden's room and they make love unfortunately the scene is not detailed and is very short although there is some nudity br br then escapes from the prison and next we see her dancing in front of another group where a man named maybe a colonel it was never really clear who he was watches her he is with a young woman who dislikes seductive dancing and there is a dance off between the two women br br after that the story such as it is becomes even more muddled br br with in jail out of jail and who knows where br br may be involved with a group of smugglers or thieves br br there is more singing more dancing and a scene of angelique obviously suffering from heartbreak br br the film muddles its way to a finish and i heaved a sigh of relief that it had ended br br br br
0	this very loose retelling of carmen begins on a high note with a smoldering sexually frank dance between prisoner and her female prison warden but the vibrant opening minutes never ignite into any coherent film one minute is all sexual predator the next she is dancing in protest to her unfair government and then suddenly she is a smuggler on the high seas although the film deserves kudos for the first bisexual the broad strokes it paints are so vignette like and unsupported by any narrative coherence that the film comes off as a schizophrenic undisciplined melange of basic instinct meets bound meets an african version of a bollywood musical
0	i walk out of very few movie screenings and this movie managed to become one of those that i couldn't bear to watch any longer as far as the awards it won goes the ones awarded by turkish festivals are not credible in my opinion my only explanation for the queens festival award was to think that somehow a layer of comedy was gained in translation as the subtitles helped distract attention from the horrendous performances br br at the beginning of the screening i attended the presenter briefly talked about the history of turkish cinema and at one point mentioned that early turkish cinema was appropriately named stage cinema since many of the filmmakers and actors involved were people from the theater scene br br ironically this movie falls right into that category english speakers reading subtitles may think that turkish is a naturally loud language and attribute all the yelling in the movie to that but observant native commentators will immediately notice that all the actors are performing with exaggerated loud voices you could attribute this to the amateur nature of all actors but the biggest source of yelled out dialog is the main character played by the only professional actor in the movie not surprisingly his background is in theater my guess is that in response to his loud delivery of lines all other amateur actors raised their voices as well hence turning the whole movie into a series of unnatural performances br br put on top of all of this a storyline that develops at a snail's pace you get an extremely boring movie br br i have to say i also have a personal problem with turkish movies that depict entirely rural life with shallow uneducated characters ever since one of the best turkish movies ever made turkish filmmakers seem to be not able to avoid the appeal of the rural part of the country this is only interesting in small doses and if it is as beautifully orchestrated with excellent writing and directing as in most often however it is extremely boring and frankly somewhat embarrassing to native urban turks rural communities make up a neglected part of the country and while this provides good material for comedy it comes at a huge cost to image br br a western audience member whose only exposure to turkey is this movie will undoubtedly think that turkey is like afghanistan i wish filmmakers would realize this and let go of their passion for the stories of the rural man and stay loyal to the majority of the country who live in cities that put metropolitan areas in europe to shame
0	although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast ice cream i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity br br the plot opens with the dream of ali a traveling ice cream salesman in a western town in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies he dreams of playing in his tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis dancing around him as his dream turns into a nightmare he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife who rejects to make sex with him for 6 years with no apparent reason is it because he is not successful in his job apparently because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies but this is what he says we actually don't see him suffer that much he still sells good traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop selling ice cream to the people in the town ali blames big companies for using and coloring agents while he is using real powdered roots of mountain orchids ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business they always quarrel and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy br br in a very successful day his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town in search of his stolen bike ali goes to the police blames the big companies for the theft but of course nobody takes him seriously annoyed by the nagging of his wife ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk one of his friends at his table a wannabe socialist of the town gives a didactic speech and criticizes and with no real connection jumps to the subject of global freezing ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison his wife wakes up and prevents him an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life according to him ali can even sell hot drink if the world faces with global freezing when he returns home suddenly we see that his wife understood his value treating him like a hero and praising his manhood meanwhile the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream they confess to the doctor that they stole bike ali forgives them and there comes the happy end br br although the plot may look promising in a way it's the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy first the director doesn't show much of an effort to tell the story visually everything is based on dialogs and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art even troubles are not convincing because we don't see it we just understand it from his words the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies but there is nothing in the film about big companies we don't see their pressure enough the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft and when his motorbike is found it solves every problem ali becomes a happy and powerful husband not a real criticism of br br second the film is cheesy because of the crude humor maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and clever but they are not clever jokes at all they are just cheesy maybe i'm wrong maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars or to have a political message if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man's big erection in his shorts and we had to endure this joke twice or an old villager woman saying f k you then you may find this film funny
0	i have to admit that in spite of all media promotion and being nominee for oscar my expectation from the film was not so high before watching it and i really found what i expected a film trying to be likable for both for conservatives and liberals in turkey trying being authentic for foreign spectators and enough funny for all but it should be understood that it is not possible to be favorable for everybody therefore film stays as average for all br br whole movie is telling a story occurred within 24 hours to fit the short story in a full movie length some scenes are added without a connection with the main story these are mostly the ice cream selling scenes to the eccentric local people i e goat old women etc and each of these selling scenes are tried to be interesting to the spectators by skits with comic dialogs the subject is mentioned as a universal problem struggle of a local producer against holding companies and monopoly but this was the interesting subject of twenty years before most of the readers will remember the hero grocer against supermarket from ferhan sensoy in 1980's this was the correct story at correct time shortly the story is not strong enough and worth to be a movie as by now br br except some due to local accent the performance of cast is so successful the leading role is played by turan with excessive body language but anyway he is successful too br br on the other hand against limited budget appreciable efforts of director and players are obviously giving a good mood to the film but this is not resulting a film well enough either to compare with italian neo realists or worth to be oscar nominee br br note in the real life normally the ice cream seller would stop his own production and be the dealer of one of the competitors of brand
0	as someone who loves baseball history especially the early 20th century in which cobb was a main figure along with a ton of colorful characters i was looking forward to seeing this baseball film well it wasn't a baseball film which was disappointing no it was just a account of being with cobb in the later years while the two collaborated on a book even at that this could have been a more appealing movie than they made it br br granted cobb was anything but a nice guy an extremely talented player but brutal in that he would do anything to beat you and he was viscous intimidating and had a lot of demons to fight he was so hated his own teammates tried to hinder his chances of winning a batting title one year nonetheless this an over the top portrayal of the man it makes him into something almost cartoon like br br watching and listening to an old man rant rave and profane for two hours is entertainment no it isn't some day i'd love to see a real biopic of cobb showing him in his days and if they want to portray him as an evil guy so be it but the way they did it here with just a bitter blasphemous old man making an ass of himself in front of a reporter is not fun to watch
0	cobb it sucked i learned nothing about the man i had not heard before the performances were over the top a scene where cobb and al are driving down a snowy road in search of women in reno has to be one of the worst conceived scenes in recent memory it's just plain stupid and unentertaining the flashback sequences were terrible and they used the same sequences over and over and over again if i saw the same shot of cobb fighting with someone at a base one more time i would have become physically ill by watching this 'movie' we get to learn nothing of what it was like in era we learn nothing about his relationship with his players nothing about his days as a manager nothing about his relationship with his family members other than that they don't like him' i thought when i sat down to view this film i would learn something about the era of baseball in which cobb played instead all i got to see was a retread of how cobb hated everything and everyone and how they hated him boy what a great movie sarcasm intended cobb is portrayed as a constant liar in the film so which one of his stories is supposed to be accurate who knows who cares no one will after viewing this piece of crap if you decide to rent this film make sure the fast forward button on your vcr is working as you will be tempted to use it repeatedly hopefully someday someone will make a good film about ty cobb i liked this film about as much as the people in it liked cobb which is to say i hated it now i know why i found it in the rent one get one free section of the video store i think i will ask for my fifty cents back from the video clerk since i can't get back the time i wasted watching this trash oh well what could i have possibly been thinking about a movie that would feature robert wuhl
0	i don't know about the real cobb but i got the distinct impression that the filmmakers' aim was to try to soften his jagged edges and reputation not give us a true portrait of the man himself in the movie besides a few racist remarks he's shown to be just another hard nosed old coot he's so full of life with a heart of gold more or less this is also the worst acting i've seen t l jones do he brings nothing new or subtle to his stereotyped character he just doesn't flesh out cobb in a way that pulls me into the movie not for one minute did i forget that it was tommy lee jones on the screen pretending to be ty cobb robert wuhl didnt impress either the comedic elements in this movie were just distracting and didnt ring true at all a bloody waste of time it is
0	over all it was a real good movie though all the actors besides jones sucked by the time i was half was through it i was really getting tired of seeing only change i would have made to it would to have more flash backs possibly with the real cobb
0	ty cobb is by far the most interesting and insane athlete to ever live his baseball career was unparalleled in absurd statistics brilliant strategy and pure unadulterated violence every game he played in was a spectacle in human ability and cruelty so of course the film about him deals with none of that instead focusing on the writing of his biography by author al stump now this isn't such a horrible idea in theory as cobb himself slid even further into paranoid dementia as years progressed and the stories of his crazed outbursts even as a senior are shocking even by today's desensitized standards but instead of focusing on these events which i guess was simply too interesting the film is a pseudo fictionalized road film with clichéd a clichéd plot that will cause any knowledgeable cobb fan to cry vinegar tears br br tommy lee jones does quite well as a crotchety cobb but somehow manages to overplay his cartoon most stories about cobb are barely believable but to make him even crazier seems both impossible and unnecessary robert wuhl portraying the writer al stump is a dark vortex of nonexistent talent he sucks the life out of every scene trying to make this film his own nagasaki there is a reason we never see him as a leading man anymore arliss doesn't count it's barely a show even the played out inevitable role reversal of cobb and stump by the end is made even worse by his pure inability to utter words that don't sound like a poor book on tape narration voice br br for all the awful writing and bland film making on display there is one sequence which stands out as so far superior to the rest of this failure that accepting it's from the same film is near impossible a hyper stylized flashback sequence displaying overpowering psychology and brutal athleticism while actually playing the game of baseball is pure brilliance the camera moves in bizarre fashion and the whole event seems like a dream due to the unique playing style of the monster cobb every slide hit and tackle are rendered even more forceful due to enhanced sound and tommy lee jones owns the intensity of the master player it makes the viewer drool over the possibilities of a true biopic of cobb in his prime with the same actor it's worth watching the film for this incredible few minutes alone just to see what could have been br br i may be slightly unfair to this film due to my own knowledge of ty cobb and wanting it to be something it isn't but to make such boring neutered movie about this maniac is nonsensical i'm glad ron career has slid ever since
0	this has got to be the worst piece of crap i have ever seen randy quaid funny as a supporting actor in the original but not as the leading too much eddie the original is a classic like the original the supporting actor carried the show ed asner was very funny he is the eddie of christmas 2 how come still looks the same after all those years and everyone else in the original looks 14 years older after 15 minutes of watching this movie i don't believe i had even laughed yet the island thing just didn't work if it wasn't for the good looking south pacific female guide on the island the movie would have been a total loss i sat on this review for a week and yes i still think the movie should never have been made lets hope there is not a third br br shawn
0	i have to admit i was deceived by the title and the summary on the back of the box so i popped it in the vcr and kept waiting and waiting and waiting for something good to happen but of course it never does the makers of this film should be tied to a chair and made to watch saving private ryan maybe they would learn something
0	with a little dressing up this movie could be served for thanksgiving dinner not only is is boring implausible historically inaccurate and poorly directed the best actors were the bit players mainly because they had so few lines to say a waste of time even for war fanatics
0	the only reason i didn't fall asleep during this movie is because the seats were not that comfortable hannibal is boring boring boring and boring this film is just dreadful not because of any violence or graphic mutilations it's actually quite tame in that regard the story moves at the speed of a lazy snail i have the feeling that director ridley scott just phoned this one in the actors are all fine they just needed some direction the music score is also very annoying it's especially noticeable since so little is going on in the film it does look good but that's not enough reason to see it by the way did i mention that it's boring br br
0	well 1st off i haven't seen silence of the lambs yet but i think that i would have become sick if i would have seen it before this piece not from the gruesome violence but from the lack of everything else anthony hopkins was very good as hannibal and i really believed that he was as psychotic as he played himself off to be but from the reaction of the audience around me the film was filled with cliches from silence which left me lost at points where others were laughing at what was on the screen br br now i heard that the movie would be very gruesome and if the director wanted to gross folks out he did it but only in 2 sequences i mean if you want it to be gruesome and i mean so gruesome that you're going to play the film off of that you need more than 2 sequences i always see it as a film has to either become that cinematic jewel which will take you to another place and time or either go over the top which most of the time is done in bad taste but this film left me sitting in my chair and falling asleep at times br br anthony hopkins and julianne moore are the stars of the movie right well with the exception of hopkins i didn't feel that way who cared about the stupid italian police officer i definatley didn't so really the film is left with a big hole talking about a guy who dies anyway i mean come on who cares br br in a nutshell the movie is good if you want to see lector and starling once again but if you're going for a really good thriller you'll jump once and be grossed out maybe twice depends on your level br br thinking about how much money this movie will bring in there will probably be another hannibal made and this movie probably won't be on video until the fall if you must see it wait and save the 3 50 4 00 and get it on video don't spend the big bucks on this film
0	i completely understand why this movie was made silence of the lambs was an incredible film a gruesome thriller with a superb story and high jump factor br br what i don't understand is why this movie was made and why anthony hopkins agreed to reprise his role as hannibal the cannibal in this terrible and dissatisfying film br br there's no possible way to spoil the movie any further than going to see it could but for those of you who prefer to waste your money don't read on the film is absolutely horrible it's so bad that the transition from jodie foster to julianne moore becomes a non issue br br the only way to truly enjoy the film is to set your watch and leave the theatre exactly two hours into the film because up until that point it's quite an interesting thriller the between moore and hopkins is comparable to hopkins and foster and the performances by the other characters are pretty good but literally at the two hour mark the film degrades into nothing but a cheesy d grade horror flick it's sick and it's stupid and almost like the crew ran out of filming time and threw together an ending in one day of filming br br initial buzz over the thomas harris' book's unsatisfying and bizarre ending led director ridley scott to order a re write and honestly having seen the film and read the book's finale i don't know which is worse br br please don't waste your money or time on this film unless you're prepared to leave exactly at the two hour point because that's the only way you'll feel satisfied about the saga of clarice starling and hannibal lecter continuing the mystery that made the first film and the wait for this one so great
0	i'm a big fan of thomas harris i read all his novels at least 5 times and the book i really love the most therefore the movie was my biggest disappointment and i really don't get it why some folks here give it a nine or even a ten either their demands are very low or they haven't read the book or both even if i hadn't read the book i'd still consider the movie as absolute average and i'd give it a five the creepy mysterious atmosphere from the novel doesn't appear one single time in the movie when i saw it first in the cinema i even fell asleep why was margot verger a very important character totally omitted why was barney shown as a dumb ignorant whose only ambition is to earn money and most of all why was the psychological process starling went through in the end caused by the drugs lecter applied to her descended not to speak about the fact that the ending was omitted too and totally changed well the reasons why jodie foster refused to play starling again are well known and i accepted it although like surely many others i'm very disappointed 'cause i identified starling with her for stories like red dragon the silence of the lambs or hannibal that possess such psychological depth it is very important to identify with a character when they're adapted for the screen but as the germans say that's snow of yesterday ridley scott did some incredibly good movies but with this one he doesn't live up to his name jonathan demme had exactly the right feeling for the plot the characters and their relationships towards each other in the silence of the lambs he should have done hannibal too my only comfort is that i've seen the movie only two times it's long ago and thank god for that reason i'm able not to see the scenes from the movie when i read the novel i'm so sorry but i really can't recommend it to anyone
0	one of the worst theatrical movies of the year if not all time anthony hopkins belittles himself by even appearing in this joke i can't believe david mamet and ridley scott's name appear on this travesty the best career move jody foster ever made was turning this one down julianne moore was as emotionless throughout as a female keanu reeves gary oldman was of course his brilliant self he is a crippled victim of hannibal and the make up is so good i didn't know it was gary until the final credits but eaten by trained boars give me a break rumor has it that he didn't want his name even mentioned in the credits and frying and feeding his own brain to ray liotta i was laughing at the absurdity no make that stupidity of this flick at this point i haven't seen so many people walk out of a movie since who's that girl br br pay someone else to go for you if you must but miss this one at all cost
0	hannibal spoilers hannibal lecter anthony hopkins is back for a travesty of a movie now he's in italy appreciating our food including people such as rinaldo giancarlo giannini but comes back to the states for clarice julianne moore and to even the score with a former victim mason verger gary oldman br br let me tell you this movie does not deserve to be spoken of along with silence of the lambs and manhunter because it's truly completely absolutely totally bad br br i mean the scene near the end with ray liotta's cranium being opened and him forced to eat part of his brain wtf then why the hell was everybody so annoying including clarice and why did the story keep going nowhere i suppose that this is the chapter of the hannibal series terrible stupid gory for gore's sake and totally embarrassing br br don't watch it especially if you love any other of the hannibal movies manhunter red dragon hannibal rising br br hannibal 1 10
0	hannibal must be the most god awful movie i have seen in a long time in fact i want my money back what a waste of time no plot minimal character development questionable motives poor dialogue sub standard acting what else can i say if you haven't seen it don't bother i wouldn't even hire out the video and if you happen to come by it on tv change the channel the only reason anyone might have to see this movie would be to see whether the gratuitous violence lived up to all the hype which quite frankly is why they added it if you want to see some eating his own brain then fast forward to that bit br br what was the purpose of this movie its like someone just asked 'i wonder what hannibal is up to these days' and we just went along for the ride he is free in the beginning and he's free at the end in between is a lot of self indulgence on the part of anthony hopkins and the film makers julianne moore tries valiantly to inject some life into her clarice but they gave her a sub standard script and as far as i'm concerned she was set up to fail br br in my opinion this is just a very very bad story in every sense of the word the only reason it made so much money was because of the senseless violence they added which at the end of the day leaves you more with a feeling of contempt than the horror you are supposed to feel br br i give it a big fat raspberry
0	synopsis the sequel to the acclaimed silence of the lambs hannibal is a big budget production that totally fails to deliver not only is it not as clever as its predecessor it is not even a splatter or suspense or horror movie just a totally boring time waster do not be fooled by the media hype and particularly the stories about people throwing up in cinema and being mentally scarred for the rest of their lifes because of the brain eating scene in the movie it just comes across as laughably bad sfx why so many people in this forum are claiming that h is not all bad and worth watching on the big screen etc is beyond me and it is not so bad it's good either it is just plain boring i normally respect other people's opinion but in this case i have to say that they clearly can not tell from shine ola maybe they have fallen prey to the media hype maybe they have never seen a ridley scott movie before and were impressed by his excessive use of back lighting smoke and the ubiquitous ac fans h is totally devoid of suspense instead we get endless scenes of lecter swanning through an english speaking a totally unconvincing and uninvolving plot with more holes than a fishing net after seeing h i actually lay awake half of the night trying to find all the holes in the plot and when i wrote them down i quickly filled 6 pages in small type before forcing myself to stop rather than wasting your time and money on seeing it on the big screen i would advise you to wait until it comes on tv in a couple of years and then to go to bed early br br 1 10 br br below are a couple of extra bones i have to pick with hannibal br br h is the sequel to despite what some people in this forum are claiming and even though was a very tough act to follow there are sequels which are en par with their predecessors itself was the sequel to michael mann's manhunter based on thomas harris' red dragon and even though the first episode was a very enjoyable film was even better another example would be the alien series initiated by h's director ridley scott so much for the theory of diminishing sequels in any case being a sequel is no excuse for a film being utter crap br br this movie has a renowned director it is based on a novel by the same author as the cast is strictly a list great cinematography big budget first rate script writers yadda yadda yadda and the end result is simply a fart in the church so what went wrong i think a lot of the blame has to go to the film's producer dino here is my interpretation ddl produced manhunter which despite of all its qualities was a commercial flop disappointed he gave the rights for the hannibal lecter character to orion for free allowing jonathan demme to make and the rest is cinema history ddl then had to wait for ten more years he is now 81 until thomas harris finally came up with the sequel novel i think at this point ddl had lost all interest in making a good movie and was desperate to finally get his slice of the the cake before he pops his cork br br another aspect that i find thoroughly annoying about this flick is that it is being given so much undeserved hype in the media i mean it is boring yet one of the highest grossing productions ever so there is no need to give it free publicity and while most reviewers harp on about how dantesque the scenes in are and why jodie foster did not participate the simple fact that this movie is an utter utter utter flop goes unmentioned but there is more not only is hannibal being hyped through the roof it is also being used as a media agenda setter for a plethora of documentaries usually the left overs from similar productions in the wake of about serial killers cannibalism and profiling however not only does h not even pretend to be realistic lecter has also ceased to be a serial killer he now only kills out of necessity or to help clarice starling profiling is not even mentioned because we already know so there is no need to create a profile and there is also no cannibalism lecter feeds the drugged up paul his own brain so that makes it erm unaware auto cannibalism try making a documentary out of that br br much has been said about the acting mainly whether julianne moore can replace jodie foster and anthony hopkins who plays the lead hannibal lecter is usually given a lot of praise i think all of these discussions are moot there are several of my favourite actors in this movie namely liotta oldman and moore but the script simply does not give them anything to work with same for hopkins there is no development in his character and he is not being challenged in any way and by the way he plays nearly identical characters in all of his movies only that in h he has to do the odd bit of murder and is getting paid the tidy sum of 11 million to do it
0	obviously with this film going straight to dvd i wasn't expecting a lot but this film is so unfunny it is unbelievable the only part of the film that you actually may find remotely funny is before they even get to the island where eddie's son is blasted out of the bathroom by a jet of water and then that's it why do they bother at all the first christmas vacation with chevy chase was brilliant and hilarious this is not they rely on jokes concerning a dog with flatulence and a character called uncle nick who is about 80 and keeps trying to get his way with beautiful women when they approach the island on the boat the island in the background just looks so fake and randy quaid although funny in the previous film just overacts and seems like he's trying too hard to be funny you have been warned
0	now i love italian horror films the cheesier they are the better however this is not cheesy italian this is week old spaghetti sauce with rotting meatballs it is amateur hour on every level there is no suspense no horror with just a few drops of blood scattered around to remind you that you are in fact watching a horror film the special effects consist of the lights changing to red whenever the ghost or whatever it was supposed to be is around and a string pulling bed sheets up and down oooh can you feel the chills the dvd quality is that of a vhs transfer which actually helps the film more than hurts it the dubbing is below even the lowest bad italian movie standards and i gave it one star just because the dialogue is so hilarious and what do we discover when she finally does look in the attic in a scene that is daytime one minute and night the next well i won't spoil it for anyone who really wants to see but let's just say that it isn't very novel
0	i have witnessed some atrocities of cinema in the past couple of years it seems producers and directors are bent on making films that drive me closer and closer to insanity hannibal was not an exception i wasn't expecting much when i went in to see the movie the book was ridiculous and the saying the book is always better than the movie did not assure me at all that this movie would be anything but trash but what i came to see was a movie that made all other bad movies seem better in comparison br br usually when i see a terrible movie i find myself more amused than anything else sadly though i could not even laugh at the sad excuse for a film that hannibal is the movie was filmed with promise i guess it had anthony hopkins julianne moore and gary oldman and for directing there was ridley scott there have been movies with significantly less talent that have been tremendously better there was so much i would have cut from this film that i doubt anything would have remained it was pathetic the storyline was so ludicrous that it seemed like a complete idiot had written it what's worse is that the book was even crazier and there were some scenes that were too extreme to be included which is sad in the case of a movie where br br spoiler ahead br br ray liotta's brain was being cooked in pieces that scene more than any other made me want to cry because it tarnished its predecessor to such a monumental level silence of the lambs was one of my favorite films of all time but hannibal was a two hour plus joke this movie should only be watched if people want to learn how not to write a good movie
0	hollywood has churned out yet another garbage that's wildly overhyped and underwhelming on a first time viewing basis hannibal is bad terrible inept lame droll idiotic contrived laughable and utterly atrocious no pun intended minor spoilers follow br br this movie has huge logic holes more than any bruckheimer bay movie or for that matter any movie that exemplify the indulgence of hollywood exaggeration it's a slick hollywood production designed to cash in on hannibal lector mania directed by so somber he takes this way too seriously hack director ridley scott and produced by a hack italian producer with an inflated ego whose credo is doesn't matter whether film is s t money is good br br i can't get over the fact that acclaimed screenwriters david mamet and steven wrote this tripe adapted from a lame and pretentious book by a good novelist turned hack author thomas harris david and steven well known and immensely talented screenwriters wasted their effort on a poor screenplay in exchange for fat paychecks another factor in the disappointment of this film br br there are too many ludicrous scenes to list that are laughable in clunky execution and poor logic e g starling cell phone in the midst of lecter pursuit that turns up inspector as the victim not to mention laughably bad dialogues delivered by tony hopkins with a smirk and julianne moore ray liotta and others who cannot act with the straight face hopkins gives the true meaning of scenery chewing along with hammy acting by gary oldman as a deformed psychopath bent on exacting revenge against lecter br br the gore effect is good but only serves to repulse rather than provide suspense which is notably absent from hannibal the predecessor silence of the lambs is more believable with tension and suspense suspense is what made silence of the lamb work as a spectacular mix of psychological horror and thriller not to mention superbly written and tensely directed the brain dinner sequence is so laughably fake it borders on self parody br br the ending is kinda blatant and idiotic are we supposed to believe that lecter is still a menace to society with the last shot establishing his glittering eye glaring at you ooh scary br br
0	a typical old b w film the dialogues are sometimes good but too often especially in the second half they get naive sometimes awfully naive occasionally close to the point where they are unintentionally comical the first third with its background information on ladd's gatsby shown with a series of interesting flashbacks is the best part of the movie but once gatsby moves into his new villa and makes his moves on betty field the film gets overly melodramatic the ending is yet another cop out ending i don't know whether the novel itself contains this dumb clichéd ending or whether the movie's producer made some changes to it but i've always considered car accidents to be a poor way to add drama to the conclusion of a story i've seen this plot device a million times or if it's not a car then it's a fall from a horse the writer doesn't know how to end the story but he knows that he wants it to be dramatic so he adds in a car accident lame and to make things worse the accident is outrageously coincidental and preposterous both plot wise and time wise plot wise because field's husband's mistress winters gets killed by field and the fact that winters sort of rushes out from the gas station into the street as though she'd never noticed in the years that she had lived in it that there was a dangerous road right across her house and of course at the very moment that she comes out she sees ladd's car and mistakes it for field's husband's car and then shouts over here i'm here run me over and make the ending tragic that way time wise because ladd and field get involved in an accident at the very day when they are preparing to tell field's husband about their affair basically there is just too much forced and artificial irony in this accident it also doesn't exactly help this movie how husband da silva goes on a revenge mission to kill the guy who ran over his wife he basically does this by walking around like a zombie going from car to car looking for scratches and acting very badly indeed both da acting and his character's behaviour throughout the film are awful and confusing respectively br br scott fitzgerald was upset on a couple of occasions how his novels were adapted for the screen by hollywood's screenwriters and although he was dead long before this movie was done he might have been right to complain judging by this film's naive script or maybe his novels are even sillier and more naive than this film and were actually improved upon by the screen adaptations or the films are pretty much like the novels i could of course read this particular novel to find out but i just can't be bothered fitzgerald's name doesn't exactly inspire me to read any of his books and i don't mean the way his name sounds he was certainly no heller or twain more like hemingway – a lot of noise about nothing
0	leslie nielson is a very talented actor who made a huge mistake by doing this film it doesn't even come close to being funny the best word to describe it is stupid
0	do not see mr magoo it is one of the worst movies i have ever seen leslie nielson was not funny in it he has not been funny since the naked gun movies well it won't take long to figure out that this is not a naked gun movie the movie's plot is ridiculously foolish nothing in the entire movie was funny the first few minutes of the film were animated to look like the old magoo cartoons i wish the movie would have stayed that way
0	i know it's rather unfair to comment on a movie without seeing the complete piece but i am going to anyway i waited for a laugh i tried to give it time i think 20 minutes is long enough to wait in a comedy for a laugh my laugh never came so i gave up br br it's stupid humour not so stupid that you have to laugh though it isn't anywhere near that high grade let me correct that it's just stupid not stupid humour they may have intended for certain scenes to be funny but they weren't i suppose if you were really bored you could somehow blend the movie with a hallucination and end up with a mildly entertaining experience br br a very pathetic effort
0	i enjoyed the mr magoo cartoons i saw while growing up and i enjoy leslie comic skills so i thought this marriage must produce a funny child br br i couldn't have been more wrong br br this movie was just awful i don't recall a single funny moment this is one of the two or three times in hundreds of films over the years i've wanted my money back you will leave this film dejected because you won't ever have that time back to use in a better way in a comedy the plot must draw in the viewer and serve as a framework for gags this plot does neither it just kinda lies there gasping like a beached fish
0	horrible horrible movie i still can't believe my friend talked me into seeing this no plot bad acting unfunny scenes and very very stupid dialogue all i have to say is that this movie is the worst movie i have seen and it's worse than halloween iii which i gave 0 stars too so i give it 0 stars and a 0 out of 10 well on here a 1 but you get the point
0	this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny he isn't the movie had only one good part and this may be considered a spoiler by some and that the beginning credits were animated if the whole movie had been animated it might have been good i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on on a scale of 1 10 i give this movie a score of 100
0	after seeing this film i felt sick to my stomach and if i had seen one more minute i would have had to rush to the bathroom and vomit til dawn a sick film that was not funny and was not worth the money any money at all if anybody ever wants to see this movie don't your kids will never forgive you and will claim sickness for a week so if you value your child's education and want to stimulate your child's mind please don't see this movie i beg of you don't
0	i watched this movie last night and let me say it's the absolute worst thing i have ever seen the entire film is a train wreck and it's not the actors it is the horrible script br br spoilers alright eddie loses his job to a monkey his nerdy son is disappointed the bathroom goes crazy br br he gets a free vacation he goes along with uncle nick and the original audry their boats crashes they stay on an island they are stupid and don't even bother to look at the nearby hotel br br ok so that's that what makes this movie pathetic is the humor it is so horrid and stupid you can't even laugh and it's not stupid funny humor either i couldn't laugh the entire thing
0	only one word can describe mr magoo slapstick unfortunately this isn't no airplane looks can decieve and that's exactly what mr magoo does based on the old cartoon leslie nielson plays magoo a bumbling near blind man stumbles upon a pair of jewel thieves now he must hunt them down using blindness basically and that's all this film plays off the blindness of mr magoo now maybe if they had some funny jokes involving this but pretty much it's just one of those droopy dumb grin on your face because you're too ashamed to admit you payed to see this films br br but mr magoo isn't as bad as it's hacked up to be it's at least got some funny jokes and it's good wholesome fun for the whole family nielson tried to make a naked gun for families in magoo but it's no where near as good as that so see it once you might hate it you might love it whatever i personally didn't hate it but i sure didn't like it or even rate it okay 2 5 stars for mr magoo br br john ulmer
0	i left the theater and i was only 10 years old that's how bad it sucked the plot was horrid and the acting was worse leslie nielson should be ashamed of himself and so should the person who made this movie i was only 10 years old when i went to see this catastrophe with a friend and even at that young innocent age i did not laugh once at the movie we me and my friend still laugh about how bad the movie was we ended up going into the 'r' movie my parents were in bottom line this flick was bad mr magoo more like mr ma who this movie could have scarred me for life had i watched the popular cartoon on television as a child but luckily i had never seen it so i was spared the agony but i will never get back those precious minutes of my life that i wasted
0	this movie had terrible acting terrible plot and terrible choice of actors leslie nielsen come on the one part i considered slightly funny was the battling fbi cia agents but because the audience was mainly kids they didn't understand that theme
0	this morning i found myself unexpectedly remembering that this movie existed i found myself thinking oh yeah there was a mr magoo movie wasn't there this is more surprising because i remember following the controversy surrounding this movie advocacy group for the visually impaired said that this movie was demeaning i even went to see this movie on the day it opened because i am a fan of both mr magoo and mr nielson and thought he would be an excellent choice to play mr magoo i even remember the opening animated credits because i thought that they were pretty amusing br br after that though its all a complete blank i think its a pretty sad statement about any movie that it is so lame so bland and so utterly without merit that you can't remember anything from it i understand that leslie nielson isn't always known for appearing in first class comedies but i saw him in spy hard in scary movie 4 and police squad 3 and none of these were great movies but i came away at least remembering something mr magoo though is a complete blank br br i find myself wondering now if all the controversy surrounding the film wasn't actually generated by the studio that produced it in the hopes of generating at least some small amount of interest in an otherwise totally worthless movie
0	leslie nielsen hits rock bottom with this absolutely horrible comedy that is the worst mainstream film that i have ever seen there is nothing to like about this film as it is essentially a one joke film and the joke isn't all that funny how many times are we supposed to laugh at an almost blind man making a fool out of himself that's not funny that's just pitiful nielsen seriously needs to start refusing some of these pathetic scripts and stanley tong needs to stick to making jackie chan films because it doesn't get much worse than this
0	give director stanley tong of jackie chan's super cop and rumble in the bronx and what do you get you receive a series of kung fu fights and a lack of magoo like madness br br the limited plot has magoo leslie nielsen put into an international plot where he steals a world renowned gem of course he has no idea what he is doing in fact he has no idea that he had the gem br br within thirty minutes you could get very bored watching this there are some very funny moments though like when he is cooking the chicken you will wish that you were as as magoo its a fun movie to watch but its quite a disaster you have to love leslie nielson because he was made some very funny movies this isn't his best but he does a good job playing magoo i thought it was a funny film and it should be recommended to young children because they will probably think that its very funny
0	leslie nielsen is usually someone whose movies i really like even critically panned flicks like dracula dead and loving it and wrongfully accused so the fact that i'm slamming mr magoo should show that it's a piece of junk it casts nielsen as the myopic title character something gets planted on him and he makes a mess of everything it seems like the combo of nielsen and director stanley tong behind two of jackie chan's movies would make this one hilarious movie but it doesn't it seems like they just have people to do anything and there's no real humor here br br so the original cartoon with jim backus providing the voice was worth seeing so avoid this movie leslie nielsen has also done much better so there's no reason to waste your time on this also starring kelly lynch stephen ernie hudson malcolm mcdowell and miguel ferrer they probably don't wish to emphasize this hunk of junk in their careers
0	i saw this with my with my kids they love it but i don't she did not get run overfed by a reindeer in the song but what the heck in this crappy movie she got hit by the sleigh it's like what the heck why why when my kids heard the they thought it was good but we they watched this they were like this daddy why did granny thats how my kids say grandma any way my kids said this daddy why did grandma get hit by a sleigh i told them that the movie was crappy they agreed it's sad why would any one name there dog that's just dumb when every one dressed in black that looked so so i mean daphne looked like a dang emo goth girl every one looked like in the song they found grandma on the ground i think she died in the song but in this weird crappy movie she was gone i think they should take this show off ok every one would love this i give this a 1 out of 10
0	lame ridiculous and absurd my 6 year old son talked us into watching this rubbish tripe stereotypes and themes not appropriate for children the antithesis of the commercialism of christmas is not socialism it's jesus
0	this is supposedly a story in which a grown man tells a story about his youth yet you see things like personal computers e mails faxes etc which are items used in the late 20th century and early 21st br br so when is this guy supposed to be telling this story in 2020 gee i wonder how advanced we are then how about telling us that br br also there are several legal issues which also make no sense in the courtroom scene the story falls into the usual pratfalls of surprise evidence which is inadmissible in any real court of law in this country also grandma would have to be missing at least seven years in most states before to be declared officially dead br br congratulations elmo shropshire you are now officially a sellout
0	it'll be a blue christmas indeed if you subject you're family to this i loved the original movie and this one was not worthy of being its sequel actually for all intents and purposes it is not its sequel only one character from the original cast returns granted that character happened to be the hilarious cousin eddie but he simply is not hilarious being the protagonist of a movie his niche is that of the wacky relative who performs zany antics alongside chevy chase chevy chase was needed in this film for it to be a success and he definitely was not there as far as i am concerned a movie is not a vacation movie unless good ole' clark griswold is at the helm
0	never i have seen a movie so terrible that i've gone insane it was a huge waste of time seeing this crappy film there are a lot of things i hate about this movie the songs is so terrible yet a little bit catchy i hit my head on the wall especially from the song is gonna sue the pants out of which i hit 10 times shrugs the character design and that evil greedy and bitchy cousin mel br br i cannot stand her for one second she has got to be one of the most person i've seen even though i kinda like her southern voice br br the only bright side is that austin bucks is played by the person who is the voice of liquid snake from metal gear solid br br i would not recommended to people to watch for the holidays as it was a huge disgrace for x mas
0	i like a good novelty song no i take that back i love a good novelty song i absolutely despise on the other hand and have from the first note i ever heard when i found out someone had made a cartoon based on it my head almost exploded now that i have seen it because my kids begged me i wish my head had exploded it would have saved me from the excruciating misery that was this cr first of all making an hour long show based on a three minute novelty song is a ridiculous idea to stretch a song like this which had to pad like crazy just to be that long into an entire hour is even more ludicrous this was poorly written cheaply animated poorly acted the list goes on and on dear god is this ever bad
0	if we really want to get serious and find osama bin laden then we should take this stinker down to gitmo and force the to watch it they'll be singing within minutes of course i'm sure that making them watch this god awful dreck violates the geneva convention in several ways br br look my 5 year old daughter isn't allowed to watch tv at home so take her to her grandparents or cousins and she's a little tv zombie she got up and walked away after about ten minutes that's how bad this is br br you know when the person responsible for this garbage was a young writer i bet he or she had dreams of the great american novel now they have to look in the mirror every morning with the realization that they wrote what is possibly the worst hour of television in the history of the medium br br and we wonder why the rest of the world hates us
0	trite and tiring the one liners almost made me cry my 4 year old left the room and ended up doing a puzzle i don't know what age group this was written for but the writer himself herself didn't even want credit as for the song it's mildly amusing at least it was a decade ago there are many christmas movies to watch although i've seen some many more times than this they are still enjoyable whenever this comes on i try to encourage my child to watch something else one positive note that allowed a vote of 2 instead of 1 is that it encourages good moral values that would have been encouraging if anyone were watching
0	wow i swear this has never happened to me i only watched golden temple amazons yesterday and already i haven't got the slightest recollection of anything that happened in this film that's how brilliant this movie is i guess by now i only remember being lured into watching it because of the incredibly attractive dvd cover art showing a torrid drawing of a voluptuous amazon preparing her bow to fire at an unspecified target i often get fooled by appealing dvd covers – especially jess franco ones – and i still haven't learned to resist even after literally hundreds of awful experiences oh well… after reading the other user comments some parts of my memory returned although i still suspect to confuse this film with another jess franco masterpiece i watched the day before namely diamonds of the and yes that one had an awesome dvd cover as well br br golden temple amazons opens with a posse of hot white african amazons – i am aware of the contradiction but don't blame me – slaughtering the parents of a fragile young girl because they were trespassing the turf with the intention of stealing the golden treasures from the temple several years and hormonal changes later the girl returns to the jungle to get her revenge she's accompanied by a bunch of sleazy adventurers who are less interested in the act of vengeance but wouldn't mind taking some gold back home the rudimentary premise is obviously secondary to all the showcasing of ravishing female nudity and gratuitous sleaze eva and the other nameless amazons are all regular franco choices and willingly walk around with their breasts proudly exposed you better enjoy gazing at all these perfect female curves as the rest of golden temple amazons is a boring and incompetent mess there's hardly any violence or action and no less than half of the film is pure filler bits and pieces of national geographic documentaries edited into the story and that sort of stuff the awesome dvd cover would definitely be a great addition to your collection but opening the box is utter pointless
0	and that is only if you like the sight of beautiful woman with nice bouncy jugs running around the so called african jungle so no problems there for most males out there br br i watched it as one of those bundled together package forget about the plot which is essentially just a flimsy storyline to get our heroine flashing her jugs on screen at every opportunity possible just to give you a sense our heroine swings from vine to vine and climb on top animals at every chance possible for no good reason at all just to let you see her jugs at all angles again no complaints br br the fight scenes are laughable and borderline on the pornographic our heroine got caught by the baddies at least five times in the movie on occasions when she has to fight the fighting involves rolling around in the dirt grunting unconvincingly and basically fighting like kittens i am surprised no hair pulling is involved it get so bad that the chief baddie had to remind the combatants that i said the one that draw first blood wins in order to avoid watching anymore stupid fighting br br the witch doctor was a bloody blast from being a big cuddly bear in the beginning he became manic depressive when captured and then outright psycho he spent the whole movie muttering lines with no irrelevance br br beside our heroine bouncing around topless you also get to see plenty of other amazonians as well as one woman who decided to jump naked into the lake to take a swim for no good reasons yeah it is that kind of movie br br watch the beautiful in her bouncy glory despite the movie being more than 20 years old the allure of watching blond women flashing their nice jugs on screen never gets old
0	years ago i used to watch bad movies deliberately somehow i missed this one no gesture rings true no facial expression fits the scene or the action i've never heard such inappropriate music for a film at the final scene i was rooting for the car to run over that ridiculous kid one of the worst child actors ever br br only one name in it i ever heard of wilford brimley he must've been very hungry to take this part br br do not under any circumstances watch this movie you've been warned
0	it's boring br br it's slow br br where are the nasty and brutal murders where is the tension that is supposed to scare us this is like watching sesame street without the funny characters of ernie and bert or grover br br it's really lame br br maybe it was the writing maybe the direction maybe the acting maybe the editing maybe the cinematography maybe the special effects maybe the makeup br br maybe all of the above brought this to something barely able to keep your eyes focused on br br i wanted to get scared not bored br br this didn't scare me it didn't even interest me i had more fun watching the time on the microwave instead of watching this film br br don't bother to buy it and if you see it on television by some freak chance there is no need to tuck the kids asleep
0	it's hard to believe that a movie this bad could actually be released the dialog was unnatural especially poor was the portrayal of the relationship between the boy and his future step father i guess you could say that they succeeded in producing awkward dialog but what was said seemed false and artificial the suspense just wasn't there the music was about as bad as it gets the only reason i watched this movie was because i live in the death valley area and was curious about what locations would show up on the screen fortunately the movie was on tv and so i didn't waste any money renting this sorry excuse for a film i honestly believe that most amateurs could put together a more captivating plot than was presented here it's too bad that the time of an entire film crew was wasted on such trash i guess the only positive thing i can say about the movie is that some of the scenery was good
0	i have only seen this movie once when i was about 14 years old but i was thrilled that they made a movie about the division being from oklahoma and especially now that both of my sons are members of the i would like to see it released on a dvd i may sound a little bias but the division sometimes does not get the recognition it deserves today the history channel always talks about the other infantry divisions when it talks about ww2 and korea but you rarely hear it mention the one of the scene that really stood out for me was when the had the indian code at work and the puzzled look on the german soldiers faces when they could not understand this language i am glad that all of the native american code are getting the recognition they deserve
0	who gave these people money to make a movie there was nothing funny about it the fact that the farting dog was the funniest thing about this piece of sickness says it all first of all it has nothing to do with christmas it just took the name and counted on all those people who liked the chevy chase original they took randy 'i have no talent i m just a fat and sweaty quaid the only wrong thing about part 1 and made a 'movie' about him there are only morons in his family but not the 'aren't they cute' kinda moronic but the 'don t touch me' kinda moronic watching this pile of dirt helps you hope that everyone who takes part in it dies they didn't even bother to get the effects in order when they re on the boat the only thing that moves is the fake background when pigface quaid is in the water you can tell by the lighting that it's in a studio this movie was sexist uncle nick racist uncle nick and should never have been made never throwing the money into a volcano would have had so much more use br br well i hope i reached some of you nobody warned me and now i m scarred for life merry f cking christmas
0	a mexican outlaw tomas steals gold from a stagecoach along with some other mexicans and americans the americans double cross the mexicans and leave them all for dead the one outlaw survives and looks for revenge in this film that has jack all to do with the original django the distributors only named it django kill to squeeze a few more bucks out of more gullible people what we have here is a slightly below standard western that's too surreal to be that enjoyable and as such i can't really recommend it to all but the most hardcore western fan br br my grade d br br blue underground dvd extras part of spaghetti western collection uncut django tell 20 minute documentary poster stills gallery talent bios for tomas theatrical trailer br br 3 easter eggs highlight the hidden gun on the extras page for trailers for django run man run and a man called blade highlight the hand on the main menu to get interviews on the formation of a rock group and a hidden gun in the language subtitles menu leads to the story of how tomas almost got killed for being anti communist
0	it's hard to tell the actors from the non actors bad american movies can be spotted by all the youngsters every single line of dialog with you know what bad canadian movies can be spotted by all the youngsters ending every single line of dialog with eh have we learned nothing in a century of filmmaking cannot the entire weight of millions of wannabes descending on hollywood with scripts and reels in hand rescue us from these horrible tv movies made to order
0	nice movie and tom does a fantastic job playing the guy in the girl's body she really does it well br br a sort of teen version of many other movies but well done br br well casted from matt to
0	i fail to understand why anyone would allow a sub par director to put drivel like this onto celluloid this movie has already been made at least two other times that were better than this here comes mr jordan 1941 and heaven can wait 1978 the only saving factor for figure skating fans might have been some nice ice skating done by a professional cast of skaters but this just does not happen the closest thing the audience sees to good skating is when tara character takes a turn on the ice for a just a moment others like nancy kerrigan and elvis are hidden in the background and do not do any figure skating at all there is not much real emotion shown and there is not really any reason to tune in to this obviously made for tv movie my advice rent the original
0	spoiler alert br br the point is though that i didn't think this film had an ending to spoil i only started watching it in the middle after matt had gotten into sarah's body but then i became fascinated by the bizarreness of the plot even for a channel 5 movie and couldn't possibly see how matt end up happy what about his fiancee at one stage looked like he was gonna get with his best friend surely icky and wrong and then the whole thing does not work as a touching buddy buddy catchphrase tis just ridiculous so was going 'surely he can't just come back to life and yet how can he live as a woman ' and then the film just got over that by ending and not explaining anything at all what's that about i was so cross wasted a whole hour of my life for no reason at all but was one of the funniest films i've ever seen so swings and
0	this film has possibly the worst title for a stooge short ever dreamed up somewhat fitting given the actual fifteen minute content br br i can do without any of the shemp a d stuff but i will admit to having a few lol moments from the two man comedy offered by moe and larry in some of the new footage and kudos to those guys for trying to give it their all considering the position they were forced into in even making these dogs br br another bright spot to this and the last a d debacle commotion on the ocean is the decided lack of screen time for joe palma and the back of his head no attempts to have him speak or flap his arms like a chicken see hot stuff may be worth an extra rating point br br 2 10
0	this series made for is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in 1968 primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son br br based on a background of historical events such as the may 1968 student uprising in france the decaying franco regime the war in viet nam the rise of imperialism and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment br br generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can those times as it should be stated anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is occupied in other things br br the best thing that can be said of this series is ana as mother of three children she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant especially noticeable among women of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart without any resorting to the use of the brain as we say in spain common sense is one of the least common senses imanol arias offers very little apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series indeed as an actor he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series his resources are too limited however his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad br br not really recommendable for other audiences even spanish speakers in latin america the themes are all too related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers
0	you thought after surprise that german comedy can't get worse it can this comedy is yet another attempt at perpetuating stereotypes of gay men masked as a nice comedy the initial concept openly gay men in soccer sports would have been a great opportunity to erase some stereotypes but the real intended message of the movie seems to be in what way gay men are oh so different from straight men absolutely silly of course even gay sex is treated as being of less value than straight sex this movie only tries to serve straight audiences wanting to laugh about stereotypical gay men well don't waste your time on german comedy movies
0	when i went to see this movie it was already a forced choice as my original intent was sold out what then was sheer terror this movie is so bad i could hardly bear it the story is not worth mention a gay goalkeeper forms a gay soccer team to play against his old straight team who on discovering his sexual orientation gave him a hard time loaded with unbearably old and overused clichés of gays the thin plot matches perfectly the inane dialogues it is absolutely astonishing that actors as or charly waste their talent and time on such nonsense 1 10
0	stumbled over this film on amazon com had never heard of its release but the three reviews gave it five stars and rave reviews so being a lover of german movies i bought a copy br br have to say that i was not impressed the production values are cheap the story is derivative the characters are less than engaging and for a comedy it is surprisingly short on laughs br br i wanted to like this but i just found it lackluster and dull or maybe i expected more of independent german cinema than a gay spin on the full monty and a cast of stereotypes br br there are bits in the film that make no sense at all like one of the leather bear's trying to get in a sling like he'd even look at him twice or the vengeful ex wife turning up at the match but ending up cheering for her estranged gay husband bunkum is not the word well at least it explains the movies uk title i suppose
0	i was out of town visiting an old friend after dinner talking he expressed some reservations about his daughter's boy friend she's 15 beautiful smart athletic and the young man is also from an excellent family nice also athletic if not as smart i told him he might just be feeling the normal fatherly concerns however a few minutes later the young man arrived with his dvd of this flick which he had apparently been anxious for some time to share with the others br br these folks have a bona fide home theater set up with a screen something in excess of 4 feet and the two young folks preceded to view it while the young swain proceeded to extol its virtues almost frame by frame br br i saw enough in a few moments and with some fascination in its awfulness to endorse all of the most critical comments i've seen in scanning some here br br i told my friend i wouldn't go so far as to disqualify the young suitor solely on the basis of his liking this opus but it certainly seems to warrant his bearing close watch br br some flicks are so bad they're good the classic plan 9 from outer space and in my opinion the wonderfully awful bruce jenner village people work can't stop the music br br however this one remains firmly simply in the awful category br br second third fourth bananas even the best of these e g tim conway don knotts everybody with seinfeld have great difficulty in carrying a later starring series or as here film and these were great supporting characters in their original situations br br the eddie character really at about the 5th or 6th banana level in the prior movies and never added a whole lot to these in my opinion randy quaid is a capable actor who has delivered some good performances his contribution to the prior vacation was average at best both he and the other cast members many of whom have done some good work in the past accomplished nothing for their efforts here except to derive a few years' house payments or some ira contributions br br this whole presentation story performances from lead to support couldn't be worse
0	as much as i hated the movie that this series follows i can at least says that was amusing the animated series is quite possibly one of the worst things ever produced the animation is quite often inconsistent although it does stay consistently bad the shape of a characters face is even capable of drastically changing in the same shot the script and voice acting also leave something to be desired since most of the cast seems about as talented as the cast of a third grade drama play characters like and dj are so forced into stereotypes of their nationalities that episodes containing them are almost physically painful to watch not that the series isn't painful on a regular basis anyway episode plots seem to strive to reach new levels of lame with every turn and are so full of plot holes it amazes me they had time to show commercials truthfully it amazes me anyone wold pay to advertise during the show in addition to being a bad series it is an even worse adaptation of street fighter many of the characters maintain the failed adaptations from the movie examples include ken and ryu being idiot con men even though ken is supposed to be rich blanka being friend charlie and chun li being a reporter it takes talent to take something as bad as the movie and make it worse
0	racing enthusiast fabian as tommy callahan smokes drinks and suffers blackouts while juggling feelings for alluring brunette annette funicello as francie madsen and blonde mainstay diane mcbain as annie blaine complicating matters are ms boozy race car boyfriend warren as eddie sands and her father jan murray as pete madsen who encourages the reckless drivers cow eyed performance is sometimes enjoyable however her drunken driving scene is unnerving thunder alley provides marginally more nascar excitement than its predecessor fireball 500 1966 be warned it isn't much a wild party scene featuring some mild strip tease is the film's low highlight
0	thunder alley finds fabian banned from nascar tracks after causing the death of another driver stanley adams might want to put him on his team of racers but the other drivers aren't for having him around br br desperate for employment fabian hooks up with an auto stunt show owner jan murray who's paying him peanuts and trying to capitalize on fabian's bad rep he's got to take it but annette funicello who's murray's daughter provides another reason to stick around br br the rest of the film is fabian's struggle to get back to the nascar circuit while at the same time juggling both annette and his current girl friend diane mcbain personally i would have taken mcbain she has it all over annette br br thunder alley is helped by location shooting at the southern nascar tracks and good film footage of nascar racing not helped by a rather silly story which delves into the real reason for fabian's problems and his rather unrealistic recovery from same br br still fans of nascar might go for this
0	ladies and gentlemen be sad or be glad we are in the disgusting forensic t v series era now count with me and our luck br br csi crime scene investigation csi miami csi ny ncis crossing jordan da inquest even the cosby mysteries didn't we already have enough br br from the late 1990 till the late 2000s we've got almost the same sick series about the genius criminologist with a partner or a team who go to solve crimes by scrutiny the autopsy and what a nauseating mission to do so you will have for sure lots and lots of repellent scenes where we see clearly accurately and awfully the most horrific shots in the history of t v br br oh god once we had the great days the good cop or detective era such as columbo kojak magnum and simon simon or the good old sci fi era like the six million dollar man the bionic woman knight rider and oh boy we've got also the hot sexy such cover up the love boat baywatch even a flop as thunder in paradise br br all of those were unforgettable original had good real good thoughts action women till the x files came and then it was the beginning of the misfortune or to be exact the catastrophe br br x files undoubtedly was one of the greatest but there was a few slight disadvantages we had have agent dana scully medical doctor and fbi agent at every episode doing an autopsy and of course her lap as the series succeed became part of our living room so the thirsty for money producers loved it with all the physical terror the exciting hunt for the truth therefore they tried to repeat it in another not too far classification the forensic br br but it became so ugly full of and very cruddy just like bones plus the unsexy present of emily deschanel and bleeder as david boreanaz he was much better in angel and all of these corpses to the extent that every time i've watched it i found my self screaming what a terrible gross br br cancel it please you've canceled before real good shows such as the lone gunmen or a man called hawk here it's a bad one so please little mercy and enough with the bones era or we'll drop dead ourselves of nausea and monotony
0	i am a regular reader of kathy brennan novels as such i am extremely surprised she even consulted on this show br br it is horrible by comparison to the books the brennan character is in the books a down to earth recovering alcoholic and divorced mom of a college aged daughter in she is an arrogant rhymes with rich who in typical p c fashion is not a mother the emphasis on her assisting staff complete with lurid details of who has had how many sexual exploits is totally in contrast with the books br br in total deference to the p c movement she portrays the enemies of the u s as peace lovers some of the information isn't even correct for example having a character from afghanistan as an active member of an arab american friendship group since when is an afghan an arab i'm sure if negative references were made to minorities' or women or the show's producers writers directors would have to issue an apology however in typical far left fashion all of the racial slurs go to the highest achieving minority group asians as david agent booth continually refers to angela montenegro as a br br forget that stuff and forget this show after 'the man in the episode i thought i'd try a second episode to see if it got any better it only got worse i don't even care if the teenager in question was murdered or committed suicide and i won't be watching the show ever again
0	dude i liked buffy and angel as much as the next sci fi freak but this is too much the worst lead actress ever not even david hot pants boreanaz is able to save this crap no wonder i never watch fox — it blows we totally gave it a chance and it continued to suck we watched four or five painful agonizing episodes i want to kill the execs at the network so bad why is money being spent on this drivel i don't get it and i don't support it and you should never waste your time watching this show unless you like it when your eyes bleed from their sockets br br crap crap crap
0	this is so bad i don't know where to begin br br the lead role is a good starting point it is a supreme mary sue character that has few things in common with the original one from the book who was a bit more credible no this one is invincible infallible indomitable and insipid even beyond the standards that this chicks with swords era that our medias are spinning out of late she is a twenty something top model thin as a match yet rich already a leader in her academic field a kung fu master a natural sniper and seems to have enough authority to naturally trump anyone official like puny fbi agents she is god br br to balance it out she is supposed to be socially awkward due to her typically harsh upbringing that transformed her into a spock which gives us some delighted moments where she wonders what is star wars or american idol but yet when it's really important she can conveniently reveal herself as a top negotiator and diplomat because she is so superior ya know to top it out she is played by a wooden actress br br the more talented boreanaz serves as a faire token for this construct acting as a bumbling comic relief and house watson in fact everything in there is a pop parody of better works like sherlock holmes csi and x files from which it tries to emulate the sexual tension between main protagonists it is however cheaper as this is delivered with all the subtlety of an elbow poke in the ribs but a million million poor factory girls will doubtlessly buy into it hence the crazy rating this turkey gets br br in fact the lowest common denominator goes a long way in this sad puppy resulting in titillating sex details from the legion of sidekicks that aim to pass it out as daring and trendy while the overall tone of the show carries an obvious neo conservative view on things br br story wise there's not much here to feast upon as crimes that always start out with some gruesome remains are resolved using non existent technology while the lovable but so wrong the women less than the guys goes on varied theories all of them futile as the main character has it all from the start and once it is established she goes out and then punch the guy typically a real tough hombre with a spin kick here and a slapper there the end
0	the first season of bones is playing in finland and i can't believe the amount of bullshit that this show puts on the characters are shallow poorly directed and clumsy br br it's a poor mans' csi or actually csi without coherent plot although bones has potential it fails due to the lacking of the director who hasn't been able to extract the essence of the show from the actors it's actually sad to see a show throw it all away when it could had been a descent show with just a pinch more thought from the start you get the feeling how awkward the acting is br br long story short don't waste your time on bones
0	i just finished watching one episode s1 5 a boy in a bush so maybe my review is not very fair br br but based on that episode this is a very poor version of csi the acting is crap the main character dr whatever her name is is so fake it actually hurts i wouldn't cast her to do an add for dog food br br the other hurtful thing is david boreanaz of the angel fame a good actor does a great job but wasted coz of the idiotic acting of that woman br br supporting cast is ok but all is ruined due to this stupid acting of emily deschanel br br very disappointing version of csi very sorry to see it appear on the filmography of some of the potential talents involved in it br br that woman is really sh t at least in that episode but based on this one view i will not even invest watching it even if it was shown on an elevator screen
0	any of law csi take your choice of city and homicide life on the street's weakest episodes is superior to the strongest episode of bones br br david boreanaz is stuck in crappy angel mode and emily deschanel portrays bones too unrealistically the actors as a whole have terrible scenes together be it with forced acting or just awful lines br br the murders become predictable after a while as the foreshadowing and clues are just too obvious br br music is okay though really unnecessary at times br br all in all bones is hardly the show i'd recommend watching during the weekdays as it is a carbon copy of better shows with unreal characters and ever dulling stories br br skip this if you can
0	note i only saw approximately the last half of this movie so feel free to take my review with whatever grain of salt you deem appropriate that being said seeing what i saw was more than enough to make me quite convinced that a one star rating for this is enough br br in short it's a dismal plot slaughter of the wonderful precursor nl christmas vacation with chevy chase only it doesn't have chevy chase in it and it takes place in a generic tropical island essentially with no connection to christmas at all br br ol' chevy probably didn't want in because the plot is that devoid of actual fun instead they got the screwy cousin eddie who again was great in the original but in this he is just over the top and an extremely poor basis for any movie considering the plot and acting the attempts at humor are generic to a degree where even contemporary television comedy trumps it and considering that this is supposed to be comedy i doubt i need to say more br br this is not to be seen for its qualities for it has none but for it's failings and again how hollywood is spilling it's life's blood of the past in the pursuit of a quick buck br br i think i'll watch the original before the upcoming christmas season just to try to regain my childhood innocence from a lost time when motion pictures were more than just high budget but mindless garbage
0	one chinese gang attacks and wipes out another gang in the beginning of the film unfortunately the patriarch of the winning family is killed in the process oddly and without any discernible reason the gang solicits a volunteer to blame the massacre on and he leaves until the police decide to stop investigating now how one man alone is the one responsible for about 50 deaths is beyond me so sending this one guy away just seemed silly but that's the plot later when this man comes home betrayals and scheming have occurred leading to almost one hour and fifteen minutes of non stop killing br br if you are looking for a chinese martial arts film with much of a plot then you should probably skip this movie as its practically non stop action and practically no plot or character development even when compared to other martial arts films i would estimate that 80 90 of the film are fight scenes endless and reasonably well made fight scenes using knives again and again and again fight scenes if you want a film with a body count perhaps running into the hundreds as people are slashed kicked and slashed then this is the film for you the problem was by the end of the film there are literally no people left to kill and the film really lost my interest deep it ain't but if you want to see excitement and action only then this film is for you br br by the way this movie is set in contemporary times and no one thinks of shooting the hero until just near the end and when they finally do the logical thing it's too late and the effort is really really lame logical errors like this and the lady's suicide why make this a turn off your brain type of film
0	incident on and off a mountain road is don entry in mick garris' masters of horror series coscarelli is famous for being the man behind such cult gems as the phantasm series and the irresistibly weird bubba ho tep but he brings none of the qualities that made those films great to this tv episode the plot is a run of the mill one that follows the routine idea of an innocent being chased by a madman this time it's a young woman driving down a mountain road after a head on crash she finds herself being stalked by a white faced maniac the whole chase sequence is really ridiculous with the young lady stopping every so often to set traps only for the maniac to show up seconds later and this is cut with scenes showing her with her husband who just happens to have a wealth of information on how escape insane killers with lines such as expect the unexpected the only real highlight for me was the presence of tall man angus scrimm coscarelli tries his best to implement as much horror imagery as possible with things such as a rotted corpse of a dead baby but because it's all so silly on the whole it's difficult to take this piece seriously this is the first episode in the series and the first that i've seen i really hope they get better
0	you can survive anything anything except a dumb horror flick the director couldn't even decide whether he wanted a demon or just a plain ol' backwoods serial killer you can't have both it's like michael moore trying to have his cake and eat it too or in his case 1500 cakes by making his particular charlatan brand of docu comedies they're supposed to be oh so hilarious and zany and yet you're also meant to treat them as truth based earth shattering hard hitting documentaries some genres cannot be mixed br br anything can happen to anyone any time any place translation this is the horror genre so we can do any kind of nonsense we want this sounds not so much like something wise found on a paper of a chinese fortune cookie but more like the credo of every bad horror film director we get this baloney of a statement served to us early on sort of as a preparation justification of the absurd buffoonery to come br br my phone isn't working well of course it isn't there is a far greater chance that sean penn's brain starts working after decades of catatonic apathy than that a horror film cell phone does the single most dreary and predictable horror cliché of the past decade why even say it we know help will never come via a phone call so ye horror making might as well just not even mention it the last 50 horror films i saw use this plot device it's becoming embarrassing br br you always have to expect the unexpected the final twist was rather surprising i'll give them that much however plenty of nonsense on the way there br br check out the elaborate traps the heroine sets up with the speed of a drugged up lab rat in the cold wet and almost totally dark conditions i just love horror film realism br br when a blood thirsty demon starts trying to be funny by his victims then you know your horror viewing pleasure is in doubt the less said about the old geezer cracking wise the better another stupid cliché served by a tired lazy uninspired director br br what are the odds of being attacked by your husband and then by an eye hating demon on the same day expect the unexpected they might as well have squeezed in an event in which she survives a plane crash and then another in which she encounters aliens who tried to anal probe her br br the fast forward button needs a temple or a shrine built in its image
0	really disappointed me i can't consider it as a bad movie but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions dr displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can't really understand where it was born from i mean how many times does he ever have a conversation with maybe once also never appeared to be a real character instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie or else another title was needed some of the best acting came from a role that wasn't really important to the story that of the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard of course the scenery the cultural tidbits of the canary islands and other wow moments were interesting but the movie fell short of a documentary in case this was its real intention and most importantly as a solid drama
0	i was looking forward to this based on the reviews on this and the fairly good rating this was a big disappointment this doesn't hold a candle to contemporary zombie flicks like shaun of the dead day of the dead land of the dead etc horror flicks sometimes take a while to get going you have to build up the characters so when they snuff it you feel some empathy etc but even so there's a full 45 minutes to sit through here even before you sniff a corpse up to that point its like watching a bad soap opera nothing of any interest or relevance happens and if you are going to watch this for the first time you can honestly start watching after 45 minutes you won't miss anything plot wise when things do get going its all very sub par stuff some of the kills and make up are done well others are done very poorly consistency is lacking here and there are some really shocking continuity errors and some of the most wooden acting i've ever seen br br this could all be passable if you really believed this was all taking place on a plane but with guns being fired firebombs being let off no pilots in the cockpit in a violent storm yet the plane stays in the air c'mon we're not all simpletons br br oh and does it really take a whole minute for a fighter jet's missile to hit a plane that is a few hundred yards away i know its a zombie film and you have to stretch things but this film along with the other main defects listed above had zero credibility one to miss
0	i never really thought about watching this film i kept seeing it perched on the horror movie shelf in my local video rental shop and never thought much about it just your run of the mill bland zombie flick with a bit of gore and a sex scene nothing special might as well watch python oh no wait that's a terrible film br br i only decided to watch it when some of my friends saw it on tv and said it was an awful piece of trash so i decided to verify these tales and only then did i realise how terrible the film hiding behind the bland and uninteresting dvd box cover was br br not that the idea is bad in itself a plane is a confined area and would be a real death trap for the people on board should zombies make their appearance a good premise for a zombie film but this film took a good setting and crapped all over it with poor acting unsteady camera work annoying characters and a terrible score br br the characters all have different levels of hatefulness there are two young couples who are basically friends going on a vacation in france one couple is composed of a jock and his annoying bitchy girlfriend who is having an affair with mr best friend who came along with his girlfriend who is a blonde psycho there is also a policeman escorting a con man an effeminate and highly annoying con man the policeman is probably one of the least irritating characters of the lot then there is a bunch of air hostesses who mostly end up as zombie chow no i didn't watch the whole film it was just too painful an experience to carry through almost as bad as watching cannibal holocaust oh and there's also a golfer on holiday with his wife some strange air marshal who really does not appear to be important until he's summoned to help deal with the zombie escapees a trio of scientists who all fall victim to the undead and a couple of pilots the camera work is often shaky and although many people don't seem to mind it can really get on your nerves after a while like having a small fly buzz constantly around your head it's small but it's there and it's annoying br br the adulterous couple are genuinely annoying all they do is have sex in the plane's toilets while their spouses aren't looking in fact all the young adults in this film are insanely annoying they whine bitch argue and have some of the most inane and mind boring dialogue in the movie yes it makes you glad to see them die br br the score is atrocious it is so generic and uninspired it kills any kind of suspense a scene could have generated and replaces it with the feeling that someone is scraping a blackboard with their nails and laughing at you in fact it sounds like the score from python that film will never stop haunting me br br there is also a character that the film makers seemed incredibly intent on having in as many shots as possible a nun sitting near the young adults and clutching her bible who is included in so many shots you start to wonder if she plays any major part in the film but no she doesn't so why have her in so many scenes was it because the film's creator's original project was a nun porn flick nobody will ever know br br the zombies look pretty good their makeup is good and they are probably far better actors than the living characters they are far more convincing and likable the guard responsible for keeping an eye on the scientist's illegal cargo was quite funny a large crate appears to fall on him and the camera briefly shows the audience that his leg has been pierced with some kind of sharp object yet he doesn't scream wince or moan in pain he just grunts and in an attempt to get the thing out of his leg in fact he sounds more like an overweight man trying to scratch his back than a man in pain br br ah well all in all i give it 1 for the interesting setting and 1 for the zombies br br watch this movie only if you like young adults bickering and throwing things at each other and sadly there really isn't anything funny about the whole thing so watching for a laugh would probably fail unless you're high on some kind of psychoactive drug
0	this review contains spoilers br br i was searching through horror movie dvds on amazon when i came across flight of the living dead i already knew from the name that it was going to be abysmally naff and most probably a rip off of snakes on a plane but it was selling brand new for so i figured i didn't really have much to lose br br the music played over the opening credits didn't fit at all although i did like the song itself a pop rock song isn't really suitable to appear on the soundtrack of a zombie horror movie it started off surprisingly well the opening scenes weren't too bad some of the acting was a little cringe worthy but not as bad as i initially thought it would be br br it all goes well until laura rocket from kill bill vol 2 enters the picture she is supposed to be playing a scientist if she is she's not a very bright one luckily she's polished off pretty quickly br br i actually physically laughed out loud when the camera panned over the passengers of the plane during some turbulence there was a nun have you ever been on a plane with a nun i was surprised she wasn't clutching a crucifix br br finally after 35 minutes we get to some zombie action and use the word 'action' loosely the special effects are pretty below standard but that's to be expected from a movie with this budget being covered in blood and having yellow contact lenses does not make you look like a zombie though it makes you look pretty amusing using slow motion doesn't work particularly well either i think this movie is probably guilty of trying to add too much story trying to pass off the problem as a variant of the malaria virus wasn't an especially good move either considering malaria isn't a virus br br the rest of the movie pretty much plays out like any other zombie movie most of the characters are killed off and it eventually ends up with a handful of people fighting to stay alive possibly the worst part of flight of the living dead is the utterly inconceivable ending i know it's a movie about people who come back to life and feast on the living but the ending was just ridiculous rating
0	if you want to waste a small portion of your life sit in front of this predictable zombie film it fails at the first post by not being scary or funny it is a dull grey movie that i guess went straight to video hammy and tongue in cheek acting leave a sour taste in the mouth if you want to watch a poor but still watchable recent zombie film watch diary of the dead poor special effects school level script zombie films work if they have a moral point or even a political point this movie has nothing there is no worthy point that zombification underscores this is as thrilling and convincing as a republican convention no sorry watching the republican convention would be a better example of a zombie movie
0	i'm a huge fan of zombie movies and this is just a pathetic attempt at one i find the best features of zombie flicks to be the sense of solidarity and a need to survive this movie focused more on a let's just make it gory view br br the movie was full of bad acting and even worse special effects when the zombies emerge from the floor and take the guy down there is blood just spraying out of the hole i wasn't aware that holes in airplane floors bleed so extensively and the original zombie lady kelly or something displayed the worst acting i have ever seen when she woke up and began feeling sick i laughed quite hard when she died deserved it in every way br br i was a little confused as to why dr kelly could talk after becoming a zombie but then there wasn't anything uttered by another zombie because annoying screams and shrieks and they seemed to be killing the zombies pretty efficiently by shooting them in the abdomen yet when dr bennett is expelled from the airplane and into the engine removing most of his lower half he is still able to live at the end br br i kinda felt that they altered things to make a good scene when one of the bitchy girlfriends i didn't take the time to learn their names they played a pointless role was in the bathroom she was attacked by a zombie behind the mirror was it a two way mirror to watch mile high clubbers i've never broken a mirror on an airplane bad luck and all that but i doubt there is that much room behind there with the insanely confined space of the actually bathroom and all br br the few redeeming qualities were too little too late sadly one thing the movie had going for it was the smoking hot flight attendants yet they felt the need to kill all but one off and i will admit that i laughed pretty damn hard when the old lady chomps down on frank's arm and he says she's me to death or something to that degree br br honestly i'm sad i wasted my nine dollars on this movie the fact that i bought it underage kinda redeems that but still it failed on so many levels stick with dawn of the dead and 28 days later
0	this movie is really bad trying to create scientific explanations for zombies always ends up taking away credibility from the history of the movie there are so many things i could point about the movie that i could almost write a book on how much the movie sucks for instance there were like 50 people on the plane they killed like 100 and they kept coming apparently the virus gives complications because everybody had yellow eyes also the virus makes people roar like lions or something and the virus not only tissue as it also gives superhuman strength not to mention that this virus messes up peoples hair it's also important to notice that if you shoot someone with a pistol probably only happens on planes that person is kicked back in the air remember that if you are escorting a prisoner on a plane and you loose him always look inside the drawers and cabinets the size of a bottle you never know where those bastards are going to hide and if by any chance you can land a plane full of zombies against a mountain and survive happens all the time after watching dozens of people being killed just walk away from the plane watching the sunrise and making jokes about dating the flight attendant
0	this movie was awful it centered too much around eddie clark griswald's brother in law eddie works much better when changing good quips such as in christmas vacation and vacation br br i really don't understand how a movie like this would be given the thumbs up now don't get me wrong i like randy quaid but just felt this movie was totally wrong for him and for the character in general this movie leaves much to be desired and really needed some bigger name actors
0	flight of the living dead sports production values that belie the substandard script from director scott i'm a producer tell thomas and two hacks who shall remain nameless because i feel sorry for them having to attach those no names to this turkey apparently actually shot on film this direct to dvd release has almost nothing going for it that you haven't seen or heard a hundred times already br br despite the presence of a number of recognizable character actors like richard three o'clock high tyson erick stargate and raymond j little children barry and a slew of others not so recognizable fold is predominantly populated with cardboard most of which ends up soaked in unconvincing fake blood there are a few precious few gags that work the umbrella and the zombie trapped in his seat both come to mind but most of the scripting is pedestrian and comic book stupid and i am here to assure you that we're talking pedestrian and stupid you'll never for a second believe that fold is anything but a cheap cash in movie with pretensions of cool god forbid it ever spawn the sequel its idiotic ending promises br br strictly freebie viewing depending on how impecunious your local library is and otherwise suitable for insomniacs and the indiscriminate only
0	i don't understand why some of you or many have given this film upward of 8 stars out of 10 do you understand that there are lower ratings for a reason sure this may be a zombie flick with some splatter but thats it i'm not a hater on zombie films but this was awful really actually i should call it more like a zombie soap because thats how the acting is production is well okay barely an attempt at plot development awful acting silly effects clichés and an abrupt ending go ahead and like zombie movies but don't ever give this above a 5 0 honestly though the only reason you should want to watch this movie is to laugh seriously
0	it's one of the of low budget independent film making that so many with so little in the way of real talent fancy themselves the paucity of talent evinced by these wonky wannabees is there for all the world to see case in point flight of the living dead or as i quickly came to know it shite of the living dead there's nothing wrong with paying homage to one's heroes i've done it many times over the years myself in many different ways in fact in the book the night riders co written with m kelley i dedicate it in part to the six writers whose work inspires me still richard matheson harlan ellison shirley jackson edgar allen poe h p lovecraft and robert e howard had it been a motion picture i would've dedicated it to the directors whose films have inspired me over the years very high up on that list would've been george romero it's nothing less than a crying shame that the makers of this film weren't truly as inspired by romero as their title suggests
0	this has to be the worst movie i've seen this year and i watch a lot of cable the plot is just ridiculous the scenes are just thrown at you with no action no start or ending of any scene it's just random idiots with make up that scream in some plane the special effects spielberg would laugh his ass off are horrible the yellow eye contact lenses are cute though i have to that i couldn't bear to watch it to the end the scene where the great scientist bennett was holding for dear life by the engine body was too much for me i'm sorry for my bad english i am from romania and this is my first post i had to sign up just to make a comment on this movie because i just can't believe that this is a movie released in 2007
0	an obvious cash in on the insert monster here on a plane gimmick flight of the living dead is about what you'd expect it to be br br the film has little or no plot which is what you'd expect from a film of this type although it is fun in parts i must say the zombie action is particularly entertaining once the film picks up it never stops the pacing is solid br br the practical special effects are pretty good but the cgi is terrible and distracting br br the ending seems to leave the film open to a sequel let's hope that doesn't come to fruition br br if you're a die hard fan of the zombie sub genre of horror films i'd recommend it to you it's worth at least one watch however if you're just an avid fan of the genre leave it on the shelf br br 3 10
0	this movie is so over the top as to be a borderline comedy laws of physics are broken things explode for no good reason great movie to sit down with a six pack and enjoy do not i repeat do not see this movie sober you will die horrible death
0	not much to say other than plenty of wire fu and supposed monks ego tripping about kung fu and caricature japanese plotting to take over china all of this would not be so bad if not for the utterly fake japanese sword fighting if you watched a samurai movie or two you can tell that the japanese fighting in the movie is simply the same kung fu really circus stunt men doing the same things except with a japanese sword however there are a couple of fun moments such as when a japanese woman ninja tears off her clothes in mid flight to disarm a monk and captures him with a fishing net storywise there seems to be a bit of schizophrenia as far as whether the japanese should be shown as completely despicable or if there could be exceptions the japanese protagonist is shown as largely honourable but not beyond unwarranted cruelty such as when he murders a sedated monk so that he may have his duel quite disappointing with a very silly ending does not for a moment evoke even the semblance of the idea of an epic battle
0	i actually liked certain things about this game i loved the first person perspective and wish we had had that choice in the first three games there's nothing like seeing the monsters up close in your face the graphics really weren't bad but i would have liked more things to interact with even though it was just a shooter the music was fine the things i hated were the movement kind of sucked and aiming was a total pain the story was too lame for words and too much of the same old thing with no originality the inability to save was awful some of us do have a life and would like to save to finish the game later i thought the weapons kind of sucked too this game is fun for awhile but it's nothing like the first three and only good if you just want to shoot stuff i'd recommend it for the novelty of playing in the first person but that's about it play it at your own risk
0	this was the worst tv movie i had ever seen the visuals were so dang choppy it made me dizzy i hated the constant zoom in and zoom out and the frequent black and white to color switch i also thought that the story didn't make any sense what so ever and it was another clichéd action movie with a hero a bad guy and a few hostages i could make a better movie than that with my own camera why i can hold it steady something the director couldn't do over all truly the worst i have ever seen you thought disney was bad i didn't even bother to watch the whole thing because i'm sure i could guess the outcome and the visual were the worst i have ever seen
0	if you thought nbc's 10 5 was stupid you'll be happy to hear that fx reached into the bowels of made for tv hell and squished it's fingers into this pseudo post 9 11 poop not only was the plot stupid it was a complete ripoff of 24 and a bad ripoff at that the filming style was the now overused docu action look complete with cuts to grainy b w footage i'm not quite sure what that means but it sure sounds like something the dp said to the director before filming i don't know what they were going for here but it reminded me of the guy at the office who thinks presentations with fly ins and animations are cool br br the story is that 6 terrorists take over a nuclear power plant in southern ca that's right nuclear power plants where hundreds of people work where there's security precautions up the ying yang for the sake of reality they put 2 off duty in the mix because they'd be able to stop 6 people right six i mean even bruce willis had to deal with more terrorists over at that stupid nakatomi building br br leslie hope tv's teri bauer plays a officer who has problems talking on the phone after she's shot in her bullet proof vest her voice sounds like a sally tv ad whiny and monotonous her character is only a plot device and after she performs her one small duty she is promptly disposed of yes teri bauer is died br br bruce greenwood stars as fbi s a c tom shea who continually points out how he punches foreign diplomats in the face his boss is out so nobody over at the dept of homeland security believes his of the situation he's the sensible one out of a group of paranoid public officials afraid of taking blame for any type of catastrophe he's calm he's strong he's boring br br there is absolutely nothing redeeming or entertaining about meltdown ok well maybe teri bauer getting died was pretty unnecessary and funny other than that nothing redeeming
0	god bless randy quaid his cousin eddie in vacation and christmas vacation hilariously stole the show he even made the awful vegas vacation at least worth a look br br i will say that he tries hard in this made for tv sequel but that the script is so non funny that the movie never really gets anywhere quaid and the rest of the returning vacation vets including the orginal audrey dana barron are wasted here even european vacation's eric idle cannot save the show in a brief cameo br br pathetic and sad actually painful to watch christmas vacation 2 is the worst of the vacation franchise
0	director who brought us big budget debacles like the avengers and the remake of diabolique has directed this ripoff of the die hard concept done on what looks like a blair witch budget br br a california nuclear reactor is overtaken by arab terrorists but are you ready the terrorists aren't arab they're really disgruntled american soldiers masquerading as arabs we find out that they don't really intend to blow up the reactor just make a statement we're not sure what the statement is but never mind so there's really no threat but then one of the terrorists decides to go it alone and actually blow up the plant because he's kind of crazy so maybe there is a threat after all but the army goes in and all the bad guys are killed so there was no threat oh and a good guy is killed too let that be a lesson to everybody br br if all of this sounds muddled and kinda of a waste of time then you got the idea of what watching meltdown is all about br br the script never bothers to introduce the characters or to even give any personal details that might flesh them out or emotionally involve the audience so we're left with one dimensional characters the expert that nobody will listen to the trigger happy sergeant the slimy politicians the dweeby engineers the story skips from one cliché incident to the next in a formula composite of practically every action movie you've ever seen but at nearly every turn just when we think something may be at stake the script flinches and we find out there's actually nothing to worry about br br like die hard there's an police officer who's on the inside unbenownst to the bad guys the big twist is that the cop here is a woman oh and she's injured too but not that bad just enough to make her wince a couple times oh and instead of the walkie talkie that bruce willis had this cop has a magic cell phone that works everywhere even underground when he's not yelling at everybody else bruce greenwood his jaw made out of granite tries to soothe her over the walkie talkie he even makes a joke once but we're afraid his face might crack after all this is serious business br br but mostly it's scene after scene of people arguing the military expert is arguing to wait it out his reasoning doesn't seem particularly sound but he's supposed to be the smart guy in this movie so the people at the white house argue with him the army sergeant argues with him too the nice pakistani nuclear engineer argues with the main terrorist the dialogue is absolutely b movie all the way and lines like stop the broadcast stop the broadcast may have you in rolling off your sofa as you wonder if the characters are actually referring to this silliness br br maybe to compensate for the lack of production quality the camera work is kept jittery in that faux documentary 21 grams style that's supposed to lend immediacy and energy to the scenes but the way it's indiscriminately and amateurishly applied here it's downright annoying even pretentious further attempts to ratchet up the tempo are made with the inclusion of nonsensical black and white footage that's randomly intercut with the main action but this too is pretentious and annoying in that blair witch kinda way in short the stylistic attempts look very amateurish br br the music lives up to the visuals it's and cheap sounding sort of like a porn movie but with less melody and lots more heart beat sounds the graphic treatment is howlingly bad too cheesy graphics in huge red font scream out to us 9 28 pm as though the actually makes some kind of difference br br meltdown may work as a marketing concept but it's clear that the script was a second thought fx part of fox put this cheesy production together and dropped several million dollars on it now that's what i call a meltdown
0	while not as bad as some movies like the horrible atomic twister meltdown still relies upon common misconceptions and inaccuracies about the nuclear power industry to advance its plot i am currently studying nuclear engineering in the pursuit of a masters degree and it was easy to point out flaws that would be obvious to anyone involved with the industry br br riding the false fear that a style meltdown could happen in an american plant the movie states that any meltdown even partial according to one of the guest commentators in the movie would mean disaster for the area in fact a partial meltdown in an american plant while destroying the core would not pose any risk to the surrounding area three mile island experienced a partial meltdown and no radioactive material was released into the environment at all thanks to the natural stability of the fuel and core design used in this country paired with substantial containment br br the security steps shown in the movie were perhaps the part of the movie furthest from the truth at any important strategic location be it power plant chemical plant military base anything you will never see personnel responding to an alarm by milling around talking as if it were an unannounced drill this is especially true at a nuclear plant where upon the sounding of the alarm the reactors would be immediately shutting them off can be done with the push of a button in the control room you do not need to put the core in shutdown mode like depicted in the movie and the chemistry of nuclear fission prevents a core from being brought back up to power within about 9 hours of a so if this scenario played out in real life the assailants would not be able to cause a significant meltdown in theory they could still cause a partial one due to residual heat if they exposed the core immediately but that would be almost impossible given the numerous backup systems present in a plant there are many more than the single backup pumps they speak of in the movie br br as for the spent fuel pools it may be possible to turn the pools into a dirty bomb by blowing them up but this is far more difficult than simply parking a truck full of explosives near the pools the fuel is under approximately 18 feet of highly water the water cannot become radioactive no radioactive steam like they speak of in the movie particles dissolved in water can but the water itself cannot thus the reason for very thorough purification so the only way to turn a fuel pool into a dirty bomb is to get the fuel out of the water this is no easy task as water is very heavy and the pools are below ground with very thick concrete walls the explosives would have to be in the pool below the fuel which is securely fastened and there would have to be a heck of a lot of explosives as water is very hard to move through an explosion even if this were to occur spent fuel is not extremely radioactive and the explosion would not cause nearly as high a death toll as mentioned in the movie especially given the small amount of radioactive material that would be spread br br from a basic movie standpoint i grew somewhat tired of the style used the constant fading in and out use of gritty black and white and fast tracking and panning looked amateurish the characters were one dimensional especially those in the us government i have some problems with the twist thrown in the movie but will not discuss it as it would be a major spoiler br br overall 3 10
0	this film was not all that bad as the story went but the camera work is what makes it difficult to watch i just don't like that so called realistic camera work that is being done nowadays you know the type jumping off center panning around etc what got me particularly irritated about this film though was the new thing that they threw into the mix by shooting a few frames in black and white in each scene i believe that the film would have been much better if the camera work was shot in the much more conventional way because as it was i couldn't concentrate on it and found myself analyzing the camera work instead maybe if more people express dissatisfaction with camera work like this the filmmakers will finally get the hint
0	i gave it a rating of 3 out of 10 br br and what's sad is i made a point of looking up the movie schedule for that channel so i wouldn't miss seeing it i wanted to watch this film because it is based on a book by one of my favorite authors barbara wilson as a lesbian i expected to love this film br br i don't know how ms wilson felt about the film but i found it a major disappointment br br it should have been intriguing it was a mystery set in spain and the main character cassandra is a language translator who gets contacted by a mysterious beautiful woman who offers cassandra a great deal of money to locate her ex husband ben br br there are secrets galore revealed but for some reason it just didn't matter it was like oh so what i could not get involved with these characters or come to care about them or feel for them i couldn't even identify with these characters br br i think a large part of the film's failure was the actress playing the main character she looked old tired worn out and as dull as dishwater her hair was a perpetual mess her baggy clothes were boring and she just was not appealing or interesting br br the best part of the film was getting to hear a dean martin recording but even that was ruined by the weird make up worn by the man who was dancing and lip synching to the song believe me it was nothing like getting to see the suavely handsome mr martin performing it br br the ending is so syrupy you'll wish you had some pancakes to go with the syrup br br
0	whatever committee of pc enforcers is responsible for this movie has achieved something that i never thought possible to take some truly gifted actors davis hardin and taylor and make you want to insure you never encounter them in an enclosed space ever the sentiments that underlie the screenplay are so and idiotic that it is impossible to understand or imagine what audience would find this picture appealing much less funny architecture students perhaps br br only one scene is visually clever marcia gay hardin all and rhythm into a bar manages to exude more style and energy in ten seconds than the whole of the rest of the film added up and multiplied to the tenth power as for the other members of the cast they probably won't want to put this one on their resumes
0	some funny lines are all what makes this movie bearable the camera tv movie like the acting poor julie davis is more than and the directing amateurish and or loveless but i can understand that no one had fun to realise the and trivial script
0	comparing this movie to anything by almodovar is an insult to almodovar the best thing i can say about it is it tries desperately to be like an almodovar movie and fails miserably the script is dreadful the characters are one dimensional and the performances are the quality of high school drama except marcia gay which is pretty good given the material she has to work with furthermore the cinematography does absolutely nothing to convey the whimsical beauty of architecture or the infectious charm of barcelona if you enjoy the grit pathos and dark quirky comedy of almodovar's movies you'll find none of them here spend your money on something other than this waste of celluloid
0	i was hoping to like this movie to settle in for an evening of goofy fun i like judy davis and juliette lewis and the premise seemed off the wall enough to be entertaining br br unfortunately i found myself dozing over and over again judy davis gave a fine performance but had very little to work with juliette lewis was fabulous as expected but had very little to do the plot was full of twists that were just plain silly and as so often happens in movies of this type nobody acted the way a real human being would act and personally i thought marcia gay harden was totally miscast br br the movie also seemed to shift about midway from a black comedy with touches of farce to a total farce with touches of black comedy one reviewer here notes that other reviews seem to want this movie to be something different and therefore decried it all i can say is that i would have settled for the movie being something and sticking with it this one feels like the director had some grandiose ideas but wasn't able to pull them all off i give it a 4 out of 10
0	in a farcical key afternoons can be taken as a mediocre exercise marcia gay harden and judy davis a good cast juliette lewis' new age freaky character has been incredibly taken from reality i know an american young lady who squawks like her but ga does not show much beyond its plot br br even though movie making is all about make believe there were certain noticeable screenplay inconsistencies two samples you pay 14 euro to enter the chapel where cassandra and frankie met never at 7 am and you cannot leave a terrace without paying the bill they'll charge you on the spot if they don't know you or get off a taxi that quickly you americans always tip even though they don't expect to but the sequences portrayed in the movie were ridiculous don't believe me reader come over and see for yourself br br if you've never been here before you might not care about all this but good movies should be believable disregarding of your origin nobody knows about ga here and i will make sure that does not change in the future
0	i just get exited when the movie start because i saw juliette lewis name on the screen the script seemed very complicated first but as the movie continued it became understandably clear i concentrated well on it but the result was disappointing because the object of sex used too much on the film unnecessarily and it seemed to me that the director ignore ones who has tendency upon opposite sex in my opinion the well prepared script couldn't be embodied as we look at the cast the movie promises something in the beginning or i just expected too much and finally the end the end is so so much mediocre that i wouldn't expect the main character cassandra wants to give message about having baby and how a baby can change a life in my opinion that scene is the real disaster for the film all in all the characters are funny and acted beautifully but only cast can't save a movie
0	i was shocked at how bad it was and unable to turn away from the disaster this made 'major league ii' and brothers oscar worthy in comparison br br i have tried to remember watching anything as bad as this in my life and was unable to come up with anything even close
0	first of all i personally adore demons and demons 2 i saw them although it was hard to find good horrors without good official movie distributing here in russia when i was a kid and that is an unchangeable part of my boyhood then i heard nothing about mr bava then i saw his ghost son well it is certainly not a good coming back why was the leading character whom we never really knew to at least like him in accident in the middle of an empty road why do african servants say so dumb and stupid things about human soul why is the plot so primitive haven't we seen enough ghosts for 100 years of movie production it is clear that lamberto bava has nothing to show us so far it is a shame
0	ghost son is lamberto bava's best film and at the same time also his worst i suppose that statement requires some slight clarification it's his best because it's well directed ambitious accessible and very stylish but his worst because it's a dull unoriginal movie and undeniably a huge letdown to all the real fans of bava's past efforts let's face it many fans myself certainly included wouldn't have been interested in this film judging by the plot the famous names attached to it and even the boring sounding title the only motivation here was lamberto bava who brought us large amounts of convoluted gialli and fun splatter films in the past ghost son is a bit of his comeback film alongside the torturer and although the latter definitely isn't a good film it at least lives up to his fans' lines of expectations with excessive amounts of sleaze blood and sadism ghost son is a weak and intolerably soft horror film even talking in terms of mainstream ghost stories the emphasis lies too much on sentimentality and this badly affects the already limited number of horrific creepily atmospheric moments the basic premise might feature one or two potentially good ideas but the film is overall dull and far too clichéd john hannah and laura star as a happy couple living on a remote ranch in south africa and breeding horses for a living the joy and happiness couldn't possibly improve so naturally something tragic is bound to happen and it does mark dies in a car accident but the inconsolable stacey remains at the ranch where she's in constant contact with mark's spirit she even gets pregnant with his child but shortly after baby martin's birth mysterious events begin to occur it seems as if mark's restless and selfish ghost the baby and uses him to encourage stacy into committing suicide with all the focus on the couple's relationship many of the events and sub plots are underdeveloped and or remains unexplained like the whole background of the youthful maid there's too little action and the only real fright moments are too obviously borrowed from classic films such as the exorcist and rosemary's baby vomiting green goo self moving purely talking in terms of horrific entertainment ghost son is a painful misfire but it has to be said it's a beautiful and enchanting looking failure the cinematography is extremely elegant and many camera angles are truly inventive and suggestive the moody score sometimes even manages to create an ominous atmosphere even though there's nothing of any significance happening on screen there are several beautiful images of the south african wildlife to admire but if that interests you i suppose you're better off watching national geographic instead not much to recommend here fans of atmosphere driven ghost stories have much better options to choose from and die hard bava fanatics are advised to re watch demons macabre or blade in the dark
0	alas it seems that the golden times of stylish italian cinema have sunk into oblivion and the recent brainchild of celebrated filmmaker lamberto bava is yet another obvious proof to that assumption br br i felt lucky to watch many films from this prolific director like body puzzle delerium macabre and both demons albeit not entirely satisfying they have never been that dull br br a suspicion that this new entry to my dvd collection was money thrown to the winds arose shortly in the aftermath of the car crash scene exhibiting an awkward and unlikely position of the body under the flip over car br br and the sense of shallowness grew up in the course of the ponderously narrated chain of events that followed br br dumb dialogs suspenseless script and a total waste of talents from the international cast the only character that provided more or less passable performance was the mischievous mark's son up the entire boredom br br unfortunately mario's son job on all accounts could hardly be hailed br br i look forward to seeing his murder house hopefully expected to be an improvement
0	i started off being interested somewhat in the movie it appeared it might be serious drama dealing with death grief and healing with some realistic human conflict thrown in alas it didn't hold up br br i need a movie with somewhat consistent and believable characters too many characters in this movie were portrayed as extremely gullible and inconsistent look i know this was not supposed to be shakespeare but come on i need some quality in script and characterization br br the acting was alright the writing not so much at one point james brolin's character is berated for showing up at a picnic under dressed he states that ordering him around will not work his new wife says that if he goes home and changes she will rip his clothes off later that is a howler this movie had a few unintentionally funny lines br br it was hard to care about jame's brolin's character when he so readily gave his first wife's things to his new wife even allowing his daughter to be snubbed i lost most of my sympathy who really cares what happens to him i must confess that i did not finish the movie if it did a 180 in quality in the last 45 minutes let me know it was just unpleasant to watch and so predictable i felt there was no need to finish it
0	to start this movie was sick here your wife is dying and you go strutting around town with this blond chic by your side then your wife dies and within 2 months you are together with this chic hank james brolin is definitely moving fast throughout this movie i called him fast hank fast hank marries this beautiful lady and before you know it she is having sex with his best friends the part that gets me is when she is doing it in the barn with kevin and gets caught by another one of hanks friends kevin gets up and leaves she drops her robe and bam right into the arms of this other guy and they start doing it right then and there i guess he is finishing up what kevin started how gross i am like this is lifetime movie its a typical old man young woman movie that says you can have my body if i get your money
0	stunning blonde natasha henstridge is the young not so grieving widow in the mansion on the hill telling her story to a tv reporter in virginia and among the community's well heeled horsey set she's suspected of involvement in the death of her older husband that's james brolin trusting as a babe in arms flashback made in canada based on an article that appeared in vanity fair magazine it must be true whatever it's far more romance than mystery and a very familiar tale leggy species star henstridge as a gold digging hospice nurse it could happen i guess and it's good to see brolin in a sizeable role after his turn in antwone fisher even if he doesn't make it to the end of the picture the end of the picture he doesn't even make it to the beginning of the picture which is why flashbacks were invented of course
0	somehow this documentary about miles manages to include very little music and no complete tunes though miles appears in the film 95 of the interviews are other folks not miles there are huge chronological gaps many aspects of his life his childhood prodigy his drug addiction are skipped or glossed over and you'll learn little about what made the man and his contribution to music so groundbreaking skip it
0	first the premise stinks little boy likes to dress in girls clothes it reminded me of norman bates in psycho or ed wood in ed wood the jokes are lame and old you've seen 'em in a dozen 50's 60's films the whole cast is wasted i bet people signed on just to be in a shirley maclaine vehicle please would somebody tell shirley she did her best comedy in two mules for sister sara see it if there's no reruns of andy griffith on
0	this movie was terrible the plot was terrible and unbelievable i cannot recommend this movie where did this movie come from this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including gary sinise kathy bates joey lauren adams and jennifer tilly
0	spoiler or two not that is matters br br two things stand out about this movie first is it's been titled both bruno and the dress code and if you've seen this movie you'll catch the irony in that br br second is it's addressing issues completely off the wall the adventures of a grade school cross dresser isn't something that there was a crying need for a movie about nor a topic that i think most people would be interested in shirley maclaine manages to walk around the issues of gender by tying bruno's desire to wear a dress to religion which probably opens up an even can of worms what was she thinking br br yes there's some humor and it's not directly offensive but the kind of unsettling feeling in the beginning just keeps on growing it doesn't do much except repeat the liberal mantra that different people should be accepted or maybe excepted no matter what br br which is fine but in order for people to live in a society everyone has to give a little to get along bruno doesn't just want to wear a dress he wants to show up looking like a miniature gladys knight on awards night and his final costume makes him resemble a cabbage patch cowgirl doll yet all the other kids dress and behave well like regular kids so what gives if it came down to it we all could declare ourselves special or different and behave any way we felt like and the result would be total chaos br br this accepting of people who are different is also pretty narrowly defined i doubt we will ever see a movie about a kid finding his true self and wanting to wear overalls hunt geese and go to tractor pulls and demanding everyone else just accept him as he is bruno is one stupid movie and a complete waste of time
0	i can't believe i bought this movie on dvd i don't even remember it being shown on tv last year why in the world couldn't they have just done a real sequel to one of the best christmas movies ever made damn and randy quaid looks like he's been on the same drugs as jerry lewis i didn't know about this movie until i bought it tonight and thought i would check it out on imdb and see how it was rated boy did i make a mistake if your reading this review be warned stay away from it and just stick to the first christmas vacation well at least i didn't pay more then 10 bucks for it maybe i can trade it in and get half of that back at tower records then again maybe not ps i still haven't watched it yet my dvd player went on the fritz tonight watching another wonderful movie the chronicles of riddick unrated director's cut woo freaking hoo
0	brainy cross dressing little boy finds success on the spelling bee circuit despite an unconventional and dysfunctional upbringing shirley maclaine directed and stars as the child's grandmother and it is always fascinating to see long time actors getting their chance at directing a film the material that they're drawn to and the actors they choose to work with here the only person well cast in bruno is maclaine the child actors seem to have been picked for their twinkle and cuteness and squishy hearted maclaine holds their close ups for excruciatingly long periods nothing about these cherubs seems natural not the lines that fall without consciousness out of their mouths or the interaction they have with adults or even each other as the boy's disgruntled father poor gary sinise hovers around the edges in mock shame always with a pained look on his face towards the end of the film maclaine turns the whole thing into a of hugging scenes and even concludes with the kid hugging the pope in rome another ungodly treatise from a talented actress turned director who much like sally field and her film beautiful cannot seem to stop winking at and nudging the audience shirley uses ethnicity for shtick and childhood innocence as a punchline the children in this cast roll their eyes crack wise with mature comments use big words but when one mealy mouthed boy calls our pint sized hero gay maclaine's granny instructs him to go over and punch the kid out in front the media how's that for progression from
0	this is a horrific re make of the french movie ma vie en rose http imdb com title the only scenario that i can imagine in which anyone sinise bates butler what were they thinking agreed to be associated with it is maclaine seeing the original being rightly impressed and enlisting a friend with no writing credits or talent to his name to translate the themes for american audiences whom they both agreed are stupid stupid stupid then she enlisted other friends to sign up and they did so as friends certainly not on the merits of this pathetically contrived everything but the kitchen sink script br br i'm not a knee jerk fan of french film but ma vie en rose is a subtle thoughtful and thought provoking treatment of sensitive cultural issues i would love to see it get wider exposure among english speaking audiences and if that means an american re make so be it but puh leeze a little respect for the issues and the intelligence of the audience and better direction for the actors who couldn't seem to decide if they were working for tennessee williams or jerry lewis
0	this odd little film starts out with the story of bruno alex linz in a catholic school who has no friends and gets beat up everyday he likes to wear dresses and his obese mother angela who is a doesn't think their is anything wrong with what her son likes angela complains to mother superior kathy bates but gets ignored and as the two of them walk back to they're car they are harassed by the other kids and are pelted with eggs bruno's father dino gary sinise is divorced from angela and is totally disgusted by his son being a sissy and practically disowns him bruno meets a new student at school named who is a free spirit and dresses like annie oakley with cap pistols angela has a heart attack and bruno's grandmother steps in to take care of him when dino refuses br br the film starts out with a very hard and unsympathetic look at all the characters involved angela has a great deal to do with bruno wearing dresses as she practically encourages him dino was told when he was a young boy by his mother that he was a sissy because he liked opera and now he refuses to help bruno when he needs it the catholic school that bruno attends is very unruly and all the kids run rampant and even call the n word once shirley maclaine steps in the film shifts and becomes more family oriented so to speak spoiler alert the ending after the spelling bee is incredibly contrived and feel good hugs and cheers for bruno as reporters follow him and take his picture for their papers all the while shirley maclaine is acting like the tough old broad who snaps at everyone there is one thing about maclaine's character in the film that no one has mention in these comments and it has to do with the masculine nature of her i think the character of helen might be a lesbian she's very tough and strong and at one point in the film she shares a shot of whiskey with bruno and smokes a cigar at the same time i don't remember anyone in the film mentioning who her husband was or if she was ever married at all this is why i think her character might be gay lots of other good actors appear in the film as well joey lauren adams jennifer tilly brett butler gwen verdon and lainie kazan all should have taken a better look at the script before they signed on i guess when they heard that maclaine was directing that it would be an honor to be part of it very difficult to feel any remorse or understanding towards any of the characters and the subject matter is probably impossible for most to relate to the actors are not bad but what exactly was maclaine aiming for tolerance towards a young boy who wants to wear dresses and freedom of expression we get that in the first 10 minutes the rest of the time i was trying not to cringe
0	this movie was disturbing not because of the subject matter but because of the way it was handled the extremely overweight mother angela did not even make it on the cover of the video case when most of the rest of the cast did this is not fair but is a statement in itself i also notice her picture is missing from imdb maybe her own choice and it looks like this is her only film ever the language in this movie was crude beyond necessity watched with my 10yr old son because it was rated pg in canada and the language coming out of their mouths was shameful disgusting never did appreciate shirley like so many others seem to br br love kathy bates and always will part was annoying br br the little boy alex is a great little actor i'll have to see what else he's been up to lately
0	the recent documentary the adventures of errol flynn is an in depth look at the ultimate hollywood hero bogart cagney wayne and the like were basically blue collar types in their screen images but flynn was an aristocrat in his style and manner the younger son out to carve out his own for a sword thunder and romance analogy that ironically he found himself trapped in if he hadn't been under contract to warner bros he would've of been perfect in the cary grant role in suspicion the good looking charmer whose 1000 watt smile blinds one to the fact that he's a predator and he could've starred with his best leading ladies sister joan fontaine that was flynn's trouble he was the ultimate screen hero until his own habits and bad timing caught up with him grant and flynn in a way are similar but flynn was the more macho of the two it is possible to see grant as captain blood but flynn in the philadelphia story mr blanding builds his dream house or monkey business or operation petticoat would've turned those roles on their collective ears because he's too damn sure on his feet and the sexual tension he would've brought naturally would've made the story lines wobbly but this wobbly biography is just a plasticized view of flynn and his era there are times when i half expected a laugh track or an audience to go ahhh at some point it doesn't go deeply into flynn's life just the screen magazine view it also doesn't delve into his struggle to be considered more than a derring doer like the cleaned up biographies of lon chaney the father not the wolfman or lenny of mice and men and buster keaton done in the '50's this is just a time killing piece of fluff
0	after watching this film i thought to myself they really glossed up errol flynn's life the movie is really nice eye candy they really got the 1930s and 1940s atmosphere of hollywood just right the costumes were great all the women looked glamorous and all the men looked handsome and debonair br br is this a serious film about errol flynn's life nah it's a fun movie based on all the scandalous stuff he did in his life br br why am i critiquing this film this is a film that had a lot of promise but failed to deliver duncan was really good as errol flynn he was not as good looking as the original but he made you believe that flynn was not just a handsome playboy who did not take himself seriously but as a man who although gifted with great talent was kind of disturbed and unhappy inside flynn's love life was a disaster considering he had so many failed marriages he also lost a lot of good friends during his life he also suffered from unrequited love for the elegant olivia dehavilland the last scene of the film showed errol kind of begging for olivia to stay with him and instead she walks away he is shown in his tux looking really empty and slowly walking around the pool as he pours his drink into the pool it was a sad way to end the film but kind of fitting because everyone knows by now how he eventually fell apart from his alcoholism and his dissipated lifestyle br br this film could've had much more depth could've been better well written sure they showed all the scandals but they never showed errol flynn's human center surprisingly duncan was able to put some emotional depth into the character of errol flynn even though the film writing didn't put any depth there br br i'll probably never see this film again but i can still remember after viewing this film gosh this could've been so much more i give this film a d
0	if you read errol flynn's autobiography my wicked wicked ways you will see that this film is full of poetic licence not that that makes much of a difference because errol flynn was pretty generous with poetic licence in the autobiography anyway no need to worry about spoilers since there is nothing there to spoil br br to me it would seem more sensible to use the story about a fictitious hollywood actor then you could go out and find a better actor than duncan regehr to play him and you wouldn't have to worry about the audience saying things like but he didn't have a moustaches in captain blood another failing of this film is that it shows flynn as a two dimensional character flynn was an intelligent man well educated well read this film only concentrates on his image br br regehr is a disaster the rest of the cast struggle with their scripts hal linden is ok as warner and barbara hershey makes a believable damita although lili damita herself did not think so br br the best thing to do with this film is to forget about it and let it gently slip away to oblivion so what i am writing this for i can't imagine
0	they said it would be a film greater than turks fruit how dare br br they it's not even 10 of this classic bad acting the only character i felt sympathy for was the one br br played by angela her acting was the best in the whole film the story could've been interesting but it wasn't some scenes were very beautiful filmed lights and camera the br br opening scene for example but the bad acting made the magic br br disappear br br i really don't understand why so many people voted this film so br br good
0	actually i'm still in doubt if there's anything about this movie i like as for the story unrealistic and very exaggerated the acting was too bad in my opinion not very likely that will get a rutger hauer status some folks will expect it anyway first let him work on his english pronunciation if you watch the 'trip' to paris of these actors dvd extra you will most likely want to up advice to beau stop your acting career you'll never get there to the 2 main 'actors' grow up please being generous i'd give it 4 out of 10 br br
0	if this was the best dutch cinema had to offer these years my worst fears have come true i have never even in dutch movies seen worse acting i couldn't get myself to watch it for more than 40 minutes so if that's the cause of me missing the genius so be it br br
0	absolutely the worst experience i have ever been through i think my eyes started bleeding i actually got sick the night after watching this i don't even consider this a movie movies are supposed to be worthwhile and entertaining this fails horribly i could not make it through the entire film so because the ending could be greatest phenomenon in motion picture history this gets a 1 for that small chance otherwise it would be a flat 0 br br i can't see how national lampoon or let alone any organization would sponsor this atrocity renting this dvd is currently one of the worst mistakes of my life only watch this if you want to make ever other movie you will ever watch seem great br br without question this is the worst movie i have ever seen
0	a group of heirs to a mysterious old mansion find out that they have to live in it as part of a clause in the will or be but they soon find out of its history of everybody whom had lived there before them having either died in weird accidents or having had killed each other br br you've seen it all before and this one is too low budget and slow paced to be scary and doesn't have any real surprises in the climax no special effects or gore to speak of in fact the only really amusing thing about the whole film is the quality of the english dubbing which at times is as bad as a cheap martial arts movie br br 3 out of 10 pretty low in the pecking order of 80's haunted house movies
0	as a fan of author and humorous books of which van is not the best one i was looking forward to see this film i didn't catch it in cinema though and after seeing it on to tv i'm terribly happy i resisted buying it on video out of a good book they managed to make one of the worst movies in dutch film history all the good parts have been left out the story is changed not to its benefits all humour has been cut out what's left is a bad acted over dramatic non consistent film that i do not want to watch again ever br br i with this result and am happy that jan did a hell of a better job on topper sorry go see that one
0	this is one of the worst movies i've seen in a while the acting was just soooo bad is usually a fairly good actor but in this film he sounded like he was reading his text from a piece of paper especially his voice over was extremely wooden beau van was completely over the top as frat boy fraser although this probably had more to do with the crappy dialogue van is an adaptation of a book and it seem like the makers of the film forgot that film dialogue follows different rules than literary dialogue it all sounded way to bookish br br some of the situations were very badly visualized example somewhere at the beginning of the film there is a scene where a canoe goes over in a rapid this bit is just too incredible to be true you see an obviously rather shallow bit of river with a lot of rocks right beneath the surface hence the rapid we hear some suspenseful music to warn us that there's danger ahead a canoe with to girls goes over in that rather shallow rapid our hero then dives several meters below the surface to rescue one of the girl girl swoons in his arms and utters the words 'you saved me ' vomit br br it actually was so bad that it became funny this is sad because it really wasn't intended at the intermission i overheard some guy behind me say 'o god there's another part ' my feelings exactly what scares me is that the end credits of van were in english does this mean that it will be released abroad just when the netherlands were starting to get a good reputation after films like antonia's line and character
0	one of the movies i just didn't want to see i got it in the sneak preview but damn the acting was very bad at the end of the movie i still am surprised i watched the whole movie i wondered why i watched the movie br br also here in the netherlands the writer of this movie it's filmed from a book of thought it was very bad and was disappointed that his movie came out like this next time he wants a role in choosing people for the cast
0	yesterday was one of those days we decided to go to the movies we picked van more or less at random but we were interested to see the state of current dutch filmmaking br br the film is based on a book by ronald and i must confess straight away that he is not exactly one of my favorites the film features actors that are best known in the netherlands for their appearances in soap operas and or afternoon talk shows at least one of them has done some fairly decent stuff after leaving the soap world so we decided to give this movie the benefit of the doubt br br and what a mistake that was this movie fails on all fronts bad acting the best performance is actually by a guinea pig which very convincingly pretends to be dead flat uninteresting story with unexplained and uninteresting sidelines why france why tell the story to a girl from uganda mistakes black people dont have to use sunscreen as far as i know and heating systems in the netherlands do not produce clouds of steam like in new york even if this looks great on film people do not wear t shirts outside on new years eve in northern europe there's one funny moment which involves two little dogs and that's it br br so that's what i think but more importantly it seemed that none of the people leaving the movie theater afterwards had enjoyed it i overheard one of them saying that he was extremely disappointed because he liked the book so much i did not read the book but my advice would have to be read the book don't see the film
0	from 2002 on dutch cinema finally got better again this movie is still part and a example of the bad period of dutch cinema br br the story is needlessly told in flashback style all of the 'present' sequences set in france are completely redundant and add nothing to the story emotions or power for some reason european filmmakers often find it necessary to tell the story not chronological i never understood why or what the appeal of it is br br the story self also isn't exactly the greatest it isn't always clear were the movie is trying to go to and what it tries to tell the story of a young unexperienced boy falling in love with a wild young girl who later turns out to be quite psychotic might sound good enough on paper and even shows some parallels to paul verhoeven's turks fruit to which this movie often was compared to before and at the time of its release however the end result is far from comparable the story fails to capture the right emotions which is also due to the unimaginative performances from the actors the way the story is told also makes the movie far from always interesting or compelling i lost interest for this movie at about 40 minutes through the movie br br at the time this movie was made both and angela were promising rising stars with great potential and ambitions but both their careers have pretty much dried up by now angela seems to give her family more attention than her career that is not a bad thing of course while tried to start a career in hollywood he never got any further than playing some small bit parts in 2 renny harlin flops to be honest i'm not surprised it's not that he is a bad actor and he certainly has got the right looks but his english just isn't good enough to put it mildly just listen to him speaking english in the beginning of this movie and you'll understand what i mean they are really not bad actors but for some reason it doesn't show in this movie it's probably also due to the poor dialog i still kind of liked beau van he's been criticized a lot but his acting seems very natural he always keeps the characters close to who he self is br br it by no means is one of the worst movies ever made but it's not exactly one i would recommend either bad and uninteresting storytelling makes this a bad movie br br 4 10
0	you can generally ask two questions concerning 80's low budget horror films and this demon wind' in particular 1 is it a good film no 2 is it a fun film you bet demon wind is a gruesomely filthy and nauseating tale filled with cheesy make up effects and nasty violence the story is pretty much non existent and involves a group of young people revealing the horrible secrets of one of the ancestors apparently his grandparents used to live in a devil worshiping neighborhood and evil in the form of demons and fog still dwells around there but i got to hand it to this film from start to finish it breathes morbidity the diabolical undertones the playful gore and the relatively decent acting all together make this film raise high above the mainstream uninspired 80's slashers for sure it shows some creativity and guts literally where other productions from this decade fall into routine and oblivion more easily this creators clearly got inspired by the success of the evil dead' and perhaps even lamberto bava's demons but what the heck it's fun and made with lots of enthusiasm although this film does have a pretty high what the f ' standard at times especially near the end when flashbacks and laser shows are happily being mixed and what the hell is the story on those two wannabe magicians nonetheless demon wind' gets my recommendation if your likes aren't too high concerning crap horror
0	demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs it is definitely an awful example of a film so awful in fact that i don't even consider it a movie i describe it more as a thing a monstrous thing a thing that must be stopped at all costs my friends and i first discovered this thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend's house it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies we unfortunately picked this one well during the 90 minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word it's just a cheap poorly done rip off of evil dead the whole story seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed i've seen bad horror movies before manos troll 2 hobgoblins shudder i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films br br fun fact this film is like a cockroach on steroids much like the board every time we try to get rid of it it always seems to mysteriously reappear kind of scary huh
0	i swear i didn't mean to i picked this out only since it looked good on the back this movie wasn't scary at all and actually was very confusing the demon wind was only actually used a couple of times and people were killed off pretty cheesily the one major bright spot was seeing sherri from slaughterhouse play in it seeing what happened to her however made up my mind for this little turkey of a film a 3 out of 10 next
0	i truly love horror films try to give every one i see as much credit or sometimes more as possible but this is really pushing the ticket most of the cast were very like able but hardly any of them could act at all but then again think about the writing dialogue of this mess some good make up but absolutely ridiculous special fx all in all i give it 3 out of 10 am having second thoughts about that
0	in another of the dreadful horror films i seem so masochistically attracted to we have a bunch of friends stuck in a haunted house slowly being killed one by one thanks to a horde of zombies that spurt yellow blood and have very bad dental problems the first 45 minutes is all talk however and considering the young thespians cannot act their way out of a paper bag and are given the most banal dialogue ever to dispassionately recite this is especially painful to sit through if you manage to stay awake through that nonsense things don't get any better with bad make up galore and cheesy bargain basement not so special effects as for the conclusion well what's the betting that the old timer who warned them against going to the spooky mansion in the first place will turn up and save the day for the last two survivors a boy and a girl of course with his mystical powers please life is too short for these kind of movies donate the time you would otherwise have spent watching this tripe helping out the community do a couple of shifts in a soup kitchen or something you'll feel you've actually done something productive with your life and you won't have put money into the pockets of studios who churn out irredeemable rubbish such as this br br unfortunately it's already too late for me now where did i put that copy of 1 10
0	i watched about the first 30 40 minutes of this movie on television the other night and can agree that this is by far the worst of the series not any of it is funny even randy quaid can't save this mess eric idle wasn't funny in n l euro vacation and he's even worse here the only funny scene is where they're at the airport and some guy dressed as santa walks by the camera yelling did anybody lose this as he holds up a prosthetic leg br br 1 2 a star out of
0	i've seen this movie about 6 or 7 times and it truly gets funnier every time perhaps what i enjoy most is the tired character paradigms that the movie offers us the somber all american male protagonist his blonde girlfriend the theater nerd with glasses a brunette girl the antagonistic jock and brunette girl 2 however we're then presented with two magician martial arts experts with mullets driving a convertible if anyone can explain that please contact me among other highlights are bobby johnston's portrayal of the jock character dell and his trademark line that's why i keep her around in watching johnston's performance it comes as no surprise that his career quickly descended into the realm of soft core porn spoiler also after multiple viewings i still have absolutely no idea what that big demon at the end says at any point it's just muffled noises oh well that's probably for the better and lastly why are all the demons so slippery is wet skin scarier it certainly didn't help in this film
0	wow i just saw demon wind a little while ago and i don't think i'll ever be the same it has the power to inspire nightmares but for all the wrong reasons actually br br never before has humanity seen such a gratuitous change in make up for no damn reason or similarly so much bad zombie makeup that makes you hungry for those halloween green marshmallows br br or so much naked old lady for that matter but then there was the shining br br the plot here is so amateurish that it actually almost holds a little bit of charm as does the dialog the last shot of the film is just so silly that its beyond description it's like some drunk college student got together with some pals and decided to throw bruce willis type dialog together with i guess teenybopper dialog from some elm street film the result is jarring and it'd be truly funny if it was intended that way br br ah what the hey i'll laugh anyway br br hell get together with your friends and watch this but make absolutely sure you're drunk first or you may go insane particularly if you're a college film student br br cheers
0	another son of sam is definitely not an oscar winner technically it's horrible the acting is not too good either but there is something about it that makes you want to watch more sort of like a car wreck the ridiculous close ups of the killers eyes are more funny than anything if you are looking for a scare this ain't the flick for you it's very obscure and nearly impossible to find i'm sure there's a reason for that for a while it was titled hostage it don't matter what you call it it's still a poor choice for entertainment it might be good for a mst3000 party or something can you believe they would use such a title as another son of sam if that don't have exploitation written all over it i'll eat my hat i remember when this was shot in belmont nc a lot of local personalities were used as talent
0	as embarrassing as it is to admit i was listed as production manager on this film my very first as a matter of fact it was the first feature film for almost everyone who participated watch carefully and you even get to see me in one of the opening scenes as a soon to be murdered asylum attendant named my own last name br br originally titled hostages this picture was changed to another son of sam by the producer director who wanted to cash in on the serial killer in the news at the time nothing could have helped i don't even think this picture was good enough to be shown on mst 3k br br the film was shot primarily with a collection of old mitchell cameras and early hand held cameras matter of fact the shot of the helicopter during the hostage siege was filmed with my own wwii era the picture was filmed entirely in charlotte and belmont north carolina in the mid seventies most of the stars were local tv newscasters and the rest of the crew were just inexperienced enough or gullible enough to believe former stuntman and producer director dave a adams' delusions of br br if you enjoy watching this kind of picture you might love the work of another north the legendary earl br br
0	i'm really surprised seeing all these positive reviews for this movie don't get me wrong it's not that i don't like kind of movies' br br while i very well can enjoy a good mindless hollywood action blockbuster like die hard 4 0 i like the 'dogma' kind of movies or 'real life as it is' movies just as much if they are well made br br a good example is 1998 no music no dramatic camera angles no special fx no fancy locations just a good story combined with excellent acting and the result is an excellent movie br br is nine lives devoid of dramatic camera angles special fx and fancy locations yes is it a good movie i'm glad you asked br br the answer is absolutely not br br first of all everyone is raving about the acting performances i'm terribly sorry but you can act all you want but if the story and the dialogue is not believable the acting falls on its behind immediately and that is exactly the case with nine lives br br not once did i have the feeling while watching 'nine lives' that i was watching real people having a real conversation i had the feeling i was watching actors trying to come across as 'real characters' while they were were saying things a 'real person' would never say under the circumstances br br you can hardly call it a spoiler but there are some dialogue excerpts below if you think that reading ten lines of ridiculous dialogue will ruin your movie experience stop reading here if you want a good laugh continue reading br br the dialogue was often so ridiculous that it was tragical you want examples plenty of those in 'nine lives' br br br br picture this couple visits their filthy rich friends in their new mansion woman sees this castle of a house and says to her husband br br woman i could get used to this meaning the expensive house man don't woman why not it could be man no they are who they are and we are who we are woman i like the sound of that we are who we are br br she likes the sound of that her man is acting like a jerk but she likes the sound of that then an elderly couple walks past them holding hands this is what the woman comes up with br br woman look they are like children after school they lived through so much shared everything i love you br br they are like children after school and then the most overused cliché lines you ever heard finishing with 'i love you' she says this while her man is being a jerk to her yes very logical very realistic not if anything this kind of dialogue made me wanna strangle some of the characters in the movie for saying these horrible horrible things br br example 2 br br elderly mom dad and younger daughter at a funeral dad i didn't realize andrew was religious mom it's for comfort daughter it's for strength mom life is fleeting dad and daughter burst out laughing br br yeah this one liner cracks me up any time especially at a funeral sorry i must have missed the joke here br br and it goes on and on and on br br how about the camera work don't even go there would be a compliment it supposed to come across as 'realistic' instead you miss half of the actors facial expressions the only thing left to watch in this movie while half the time the camera is aimed at someone's back or side instead of the face br br conclusion well don't say i didn't warn you it's a good movie to rent if you want to make out with your date or something during the movie because you won't even care whether the movie is playing or not after the first five minutes br br overrated and more boring than watching grass grow kinda sums it up
0	the key scene in rodrigo garcia's nine lives comes when sissy spacek hidden away in a hotel room where she is carrying on an affair with aiden quinn find a nature documentary on television at which point quinn notes the contrivance of such things disparate footage is edited into one scene predators and preys are thrown together in order to capture the moment all to force connections where none actually exist characters in the nine shorts that make up this film occasionally spill over into each others stories but none of them ever seem to really connect a woman preparing for a violent confrontation with her abusive father is later seen working in a hospital room where another woman is preparing for a a man who runs into an old girlfriend in a supermarket and sees how his life should have been later hosts with his current wife a dinner party for an unhappy couple garcia arranges some of his characters in front of each other but none of the subsequent stories ever really build on what came before br br garcia's first film the wonderful overlooked things you can tell just by looking at her also had a short story structure and overlapping characters but there were fewer of them and they had a lot more room to breathe and grow the gimmicky premise of nine lives that each of its nine stories is told in a single unbroken take in real time never allows the film to build up any real dramatic tension or momentum it's also a fairly visually ugly movie interior shots are often murky and hard to watch while other scenes particularly one where a girl walks back and forth between rooms to talk to her uncommunicative parents are rendered annoying by the camera work given that this is garcia's third film and that he has a respectable history of directing for television the direction in this film is rather surprisingly amateurish like fellow filmmaker child of a great writer rebecca miller garcia son of gabriel garcia marquez is focused on the writing and character aspects of his films often to the detriment of the film making ones br br individual scenes are touching and even affecting i did like jason kissing robin wright penn's pregnant belly and joe mantegna whispering lovingly to his wife as she slips into pre surgery sedation and sissy spacek stealing a few happy moments away from her life with aiden quinn before brought back to it with a phone call from her daughter but the film unlike things you can tell just by looking at her feels more like an exercise than actual drama we are just watching people act
0	quit while your ahead is a phrase they never learn typical hollywood sequel scenario if the first film was only shocking the second wasn't expect the third to be the worst thing to hit the screen this year even worse are the prequels events of which were already explained in detail if you haven't seen to first two films you will not like this one it's like starting to watch lord of the rings or star wars with the last trilogy movie so stand alone this film is not br br remember in the first movie about revenge remember the second about the long lost savage brother well if you saw those two 5 min moments and paste them together you would a 5 min prequel but the creators ether thought these 5 min were vital historical events or just wanted to give a job to some actors cast and crew and maybe make some money in the process i have a loot of money i make movies for a living and i'm bored what will i do i know i'll make a movie so anyway you get this 5 min prequel and you stretch it for 90 min – that's this movie and you know what will happen to the main immortal characters so there is little suspense by the way all the drama of the movie is in those 5 min the only thing that made my eyebrow rise was mom killing in the begging of the movie sick the rest was braveheart remix if you want a comedy see braveheart first then this movie br br now i'm going to rant a bit – the movie put me in the mood who invented the concept of vampire vs werewolf in the first place it's older than i am and got old just as fast and why do vampires look like goth girls in heat while werewolves look like psycho bears hiding bad films behind cleavage fails isn't it about time we got some sane slimmer werewolves with an upright posture how can their unchangeable werewolves even breed if they rip everybody into shreds and why with all their powers the vampires didn't rule the world what a waste
0	to put it simply this was a pompous piece of canine poopie overly stagey and everyone being the total melodramatic drama queen at every single moment after a while i was starting to wish that every character in the movie wasn't such a stuffed up anal retentive br br and this movie has another one of those truly annoying things that has recently come into vogue and shouldn't have all the scenes are in a sort of washed out blue steel hmmm the last time i checked candles and torches are quite capable of putting a fairly wide spectrum of colors in fact the light they put out tends to be more in the yellowish orange range of the spectrum so where's all the blue steel grey light coming from br br this movie has fancy sets and glitzy cgi fx but it's still dreck it's pathetic junk put out for today's movie goers who are easily by pathetic junk br br i very much enjoy vampires and werewolves as movie plot devices but this was a total hack job br br universal studios' 1941 the wolfman is infinitely superior to this even though its fx is pretty primitive compared to what could be done nowadays br br i'm done with this franchise the first movie was reasonably decent the second still somewhat entertaining but this one i couldn't even finish all the way to the end because it was so boring
0	my mother forced me to watch this movie with her she apparently will watch anything with a vampire counsel in it i was bored throughout br br at different points underworld rise of the is reminiscent of spartacus battle for the planet of the apes the passion of the christ and mandingo what it reminds me most of are those italian sword and sandal pictures of the nineteen sixties not the good ones that spend an inordinate amount of time showing greek or roman despots in robes talking and plotting incessantly while you wait impatiently for the muscle man hero and his lover usually the despots daughter to do something br br this film was in desperate need of some color and suspense the characters were pretty two dimensional br br the sets looked as if they were constructed entirely of pewter i wonder how many civil war chess sets were melted down to make this movie br br all those wearing fishnet stockings on your arms and black lipstick feel free to click no
0	other than it reassembled the characters from the first film and gave them more backstory essentially lucian the werewolf fell in love with sonia the vampire a romeo and juliet scenario you know is going to end badly if you've seen the first movie so with absolutely no suspense we blunder forward with two hours of unremitting cgi and actors with little or no screen presence all shot in that monotone color that the first movie had because nothing was shot in daylight br br worth your time probably not in fact the quality has gone down even the cgi looks like it was done on the cheap you don't buy for a minute that these are real werewolves
0	i'm a big fan of the vacation franchise and i love randy quaid as cousin eddie and at least a couple of the behind the scenes names were involved in this project most notably simmons who produced or executive produced all 4 of the theatrical releases as well as animal house for those reasons i figured this made for tv spin off might be worth checking out even without chevy chase br br for the record i did not expect it to be very good i just thought it might be a slightly amusing diversion therefore my high level of disappointment goes to prove just how bad this utter turd of a movie really was it was mind numbingly jaw droppingly heart stoppingly head terrible yet somehow i could not stop watching it it's a sickness i have i can't seem to walk out on a film or give up on a tv show before it ends nothing has ever made me want two hours of my life back more than this movie
0	there are rumours that a fourth underworld is going to happen if so than the third part which is also a prequel would be in the middle of the franchise with prequels that succeed the original movies you always ask yourself in what order should you watch the movies so that it makes sense br br in this case i guess it doesn't matter that much the third underworld movie isn't up to par with the other two they had their obvious flaws too but this one lacks a few things and it feels like a cash in it seems like it's not going full throttle which is a shame because the actors sure could've used better material to work with br br the story is ok but it's nothing special a nice movie but couldn't fill the shoes of beckinsale yes she plays another character i mean the void that kate b left
0	there wasn't much thought put into the story line on many fronts this is a good action movie but that's about it br br the movie states that the were kept to protect the vampires during the day yet they are kept in cages and have collars on their necks so they can't turn into their wolf form or do anything any other slave can't do how does this protect the vampires during the day who are they protecting the vampires from the uncontrollable the slaves in human form are nothing more than peasants br br my understanding is that vampires are immortals and don't age yet sonya ages from child to adult do they just stop aging at a certain age i understand that viktor is old because he was turned as explained in the second movie but vampire babies age strange br br i didn't realize that vampires needed torches to see at night yet we see them carrying torches throughout the movie br br silver was the only thing that was supposedly able to harm yet wooden fired from the huge crossbows kill the too br br these are just some of the things that show just a lack of thought put into the story telling
0	i can't believe this movie is getting the rating that it is here on imdb of course i've come to conclude that imdb is somewhat worthless for actually finding out if a movie is good or not as 99 of films are rated from 6 to 7 it's the conclusion and failure of crowd on the internet for this purpose an average is taken of most people and unfortunately most people are simple minded easily entertained fast food lifestyle morons but i digress the movie i really don't want to waste my time writing about it let's just say i found it to be tailor made for seemingly two groups of people young teens at the age where violent action movies of any sort just hit the spot and goth types that just love to choke down whatever gothic vampire fantasy they can get their hands on if you aren't in one of those categories you will find this movie absurd i did enjoy the first underworld it was fresh at the time and held a sort of edgy quality the second was a bit trying in plot but i did enjoy the direction and cinematography at times but this whole movie felt like a sci fi channel production or even a tv series i found the actors to be over directed their body language stiffened into un natural idealistic poses that seemed contrived lines were spit out like young actors would spit out lines of shakespeare reveling in their own egoistic glory at being in such a role but in doing so crudely bludgeoning the role the plot was dry and predictable right from the start i found myself wishing things to just move along as it was so easy to tell what was going to happen i tried to care at first but my brain was forced to shut off by the end climax i actually caught myself falling asleep there were so many parts that were inconsistent and didn't make sense that it's not even worth listing them all if you're a pimple faced teen or a chronic goth sure have at it for the rest of us forget it like i'm about to do right now
0	first i must say that i enjoyed the first underworld movie i was intrigued and curious to learn about vampires and and so forth in this last part hopefully of the series i just feel sorry for how pathetic the vampires are at least in the first part you had the tight leather clothes now vampires seem like besieged victims of bad pest control problem they look and act like haughty white pasty humans br br some ideas were neat the whole thing with human nobles was interesting pity the acting was abysmal the slave thingy too was feasible br br other things just hit me as pathetic spoilers now castle walls that can be jumped over in a few steps enemies that don't attack during the day big bad ancient vampires that take ages to join combat and then run away from a fledgling leader after a minute or so werewolves that den close to their enemies that raid for what they don't use axes and swords or armor a vampire leader so inept he manages to have just about everyone against him the romance is so unconvincing its sad br br so i don't recommend this film unless you get it online or buy a very cheap movie ticket some of the action is good to ok certainly the vampires armor and weapons are interesting otherwise a very weak script that was badly put together and uses all sorts of inane plot twists
0	i like many this evening braved the frigid winter and long lines to see what i had anticipated to be one of the best movies of this year however i was left sadly wanting in many ways after the credits rolled but to be fair there were redeemable qualities although very few let's start with what worked first the on point in every way – from their terrifying physicality to their sheer ferocity the action sublimely visceral – when it did occur nighy victor and sheen lucian perfect now what did not and there is plenty this was less a movie and more a collage of sequences and do not expect to see any supporting characters from the other movies except and profoundly missing was a well written storyline and anything of real substance to bring these pieces of film together the story seemed to start right in the middle – at the cusp where lucian had made up his mind to rebel therefore there was no context no tension no sense of betrayal – the devices needed to make everything else work moreover it ended at where the climax should have begun which needed to be after the feud had simmered for a bit oh and it was way too short purist will also find offense in some liberties taken to certain facts previously revealed in the first two judge that for yourself in the end this movie lingered to long on what should have been brief background scenes e g various council scenes and as a consequence we never really got to know or care about the principal players or the movie ouch d
0	fairly appalling enterprise suggests welsh to be an infantile artist helplessly drawn to the violent milieu he knows best but unable to resist vacuous rooted in banal fantasy the first story is a ham fisted meaningless trudge with a b movie sci fi premise the second achieves some poignancy but only via the outrage inducing surplus of humiliation visited on its central character the third and most risible seems to aspire to being a dislocated sequel to child's play the direction is consistently clueless all whirling sound and fury a slave to the extreme unpleasantness of the environment suffocating in an ill chosen music score and in indifferently flashy acting this is sheer stupidity masquerading as a guerilla sensibility as arbitrary and hollow as the abstract images that link the three sections
0	because i would have never ever seen this movie through to the end although there are some but not many funny moments in this movie i couldn't understand more than about 15 the fancy english couple in the 3rd story included of what people were saying three short stories none with a real point with just some of the most miserable and lifeless people i could have imagined and a load of foul language didn't find it funny didn't find it amusing didn't find any sense in it 4 10
0	this is really one of the worst movies i have seen in a while it's not funny at all it simply portrays a lower class northern british setting i find it a very sad film at parts at others cuts are where they shouldn't be one thing that really annoyed me was the close ups of pointless objects it really slowed down the pace of the movie i only made it through the movie because i fast forwarded certain sequences towards the end br br this movie completely loses the attention of the audience it's main problem is that it makes multiple reasons for one action which in turn tends to weaken that action however if there is one reason for one action it makes it more passionate all in all this movie is all over the place i didn't learn enough about the characters to care about them because of the shifting plot lines and stories where as i would have maybe enjoyed exploring the life of one character br br for example at the beginning when the guy meets god in the bar god seems like a cool guy the movie could've elaborated on that moment and i think it would've been a lot funnier br br anyway enough if's watch it if you want but i'm warning you this film is crap i respect the makers for trying to pull it off with such a low budget but they could've done a much better job i guess it all lies in the camera movement and editing the acting was decent but then again that's just my opinion
0	the stories were pretty weird not really funny and not really cunning i'm not sure what the point of the stories was the first story was actually mostly sick the second was just really really pathetic and the third was only weird the fake baby was actually quite badly made
0	ah here it is a movie which is said by people to remind me of the epic trainspotting ouch was i a fool to believe that and ouch how my buttocks hurt after having forced myself to watch this c p from beginning to end after the first 10 15 minutes i just wanted it all to end or at least they could've put some nudity or action or cool acid house music into it to make it worth the time but no when i was through with it i put it into my cd shelf and i hope i will never have to pick it out again just to show it to some friend who is so anxious to see it that he she don't want to listen to my warnings
0	i knew this would be one of the worst movies i could have imagined but in just 20 short minutes it actually exceeded my low by being possibly the worst movie i have ever seen br br i have already wasted too much time typing about it trust me it sucks
0	irvine follow up to trainspotting hits the screen as three short stories set in edinburgh all with a few of trade marks drug culture depression the working class and football club uneasy to watch in places it is no less than very well written 2 of the stories having a darkly comic twist to them while the 2nd story a serious and shockingly realistic plot to it will not appeal to most including myself to a point but will no doubt adopt a cult following
0	with a humor that would appeal to an exclusive small audience the average viewer will find it pointless and monotonous when cartoon network advertised this show it was made to look as if it was a major drama or event complete with a real rain scene and government officials trying to catch the sheep br br when it came out on the air i was disappointed at how all the characters were so one dimensional and a totally bland animation the only thing that put it to anything close to humor were the names of the characters like private public and general specific a few vague references to cultural aspects and how lady pummeled sheep with her steel wig br br slightly off topic but i don't see why would sheep fall in love with that ball of dirty cotton balls called swanky it was hideous
0	the film makers went well out of their way to find only the following demographics palestinians that have the appearance of peace loving solution seeking good will palestinians particularly older women and families with children who are especially inconvenienced by the security fence and israelis that don't believe in the security fence sympathize heavily with its alleged effect on palestinians and consider it unnecessarily divisive and or a waste of money oh yes they do put in one member of the israeli government that does support the fence but they do what they can to portray him as inhumane and uncaring and ask him very leading questions that are really statements e g the wall is bad for the environment it is destroying everything br br i have no problem with any well most of this being presented in the movie however much i may disagree with the people they interview their opinions are valid enough for a documentary however there are at least two sides to the issue of israel's security fence and despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of israelis and many others support the construction of the fence and believe it is having an overall positive influence this documentary does not present the opinion of even one such person they even go so far as to interview an israeli jew who claims that all israelis support the fence and are thus insane and then stubbornly refuse to interview even one such crazy israeli oh and to top all this off they set the tone for the film by interviewing a couple of young israeli children truly exceptions to the rule i've been there that are laughing at about their arab neighbors from across the fence br br a documentary is a film that explores an issue and presents a full array of facts opinions and perspectives unfortunately this is not a documentary this is an unabashed propaganda film that very clearly very pointedly offers a battery of support for only one side of a heavily disputed emotionally and politically charged issue it is no more of a documentary than say fahrenheit 9 11
0	in my opinion a good documentary especially one dealing with controversial political issues should be informative and as unbiased as possible the point should be revealing the truth this means in particular having among the interviewees experts on the subject and representatives of all sides this film is a failure in this regard most of the interviews included in this film consist of men off the street on the question of peace in the holy land the wall itself the supposed subject of the film is given no serious treatment at all for most of the interviews the interviewer simply waits to be approached and asks general questions such as what do you think of the wall she does not approach random people near the wall and ask them how they have been directly affected by it outside of one interviewee the israeli general in charge of the construction we have no experts on the subject to provide us with the context e g how and when the project began whether it has been successful which groups are for and which against the project etc br br outside of the interviews a very large portion of the film consists of extended shots of uneventful scenes such as head on shots of the wall construction of the wall and people getting off a bus these shots take up far too much time in my opinion it's nice to see what the wall looks like but the 20 30 minutes of head on filming of the wall and only the wall are excessive clearly these shots accompanied by arabic music that conveys a sense of mourning are included for the sole purpose of arousing in viewers feelings of loathing for the wall
0	this movie is so bad it's almost good bad story bad acting bad music you name it o k who are the jokers that gave this flick a '10'
0	i was told jon was for awhile on spiritual experiences i guessed the film will be interesting in fact isn't at all not so much profound for a such subject eternity never ending life experiences after death and the film is not as a comedy but isn't funny at all at least not express yet it's so naive charming film but naive film a must to avoid the middle ages sequences seems coming directly from fairy tales and it's not the matter at all eileen davidson is so charming and voight is doing his best normal is a co producer and screenwriter of this movie the film was launched straight on video so i discovered it on a video store it's a pity 'cause i well know voight was seriously involved with spirituality and the film isn't so much profound about it
0	i can't figure out what jon voight could possibly have been thinking when he got involved in this tenth rate incoherent pretentious mind numbing slop he helped to write the alleged script himself and he should be damn well ashamed of it the film i can't call it a movie because it barely moves at all is rambling embarrassingly pretentious drivel sort of like a really bad oprah winfrey show but worse it meanders senselessly back and forth from medieval times to modern day los angeles with voight as a television producer who thinks he is the reincarnation of a medieval prince who must save the kingdom from the machinations of his evil brother and somehow this gets transferred to modern times where voight has to save the country from the evil machinations of an oil company executive if the bizarre casting wilfrid brimley frankie valli kaye ballard and armand assante among others isn't enough to kill it the stupefyingly inept direction the washed out photography it looks like it was shot with a really cheap 16mm camera the almost complete lack of editing scenes either go on and on endlessly or are chopped off in the middle of a sentence and voight's embarrassing apparently stream of consciousness acting are enough to bury it which is exactly what should have been done with it a jaw dropping experience avoid this dog at all costs
0	this is the lamest crappiest idiotic stupid movies i ever saw in my entire life i can't believe there are directors who make these kinds of movies this movie is a disgrace to horror genre acting oh no i couldn't bear it's full of anguish don't ever watch this movie you'll feel like u are being tortured to eternity please save yourself from the horrible fate of watching this movie if you really want to live don't watch it there are very good horror movies br br this movie doesn't deserve tat single vote too but i hate to vote if i want to post my comments
0	this movie was bad and the movies about how some college students stay at a house to get money by renovating it and then they find out that the house has a woman deamon in it and that there is a portal to hell in this movie there are heaps of stupid scenes like at the start of the movie how they are cleaning the house and they start to dancing to a cheesy song and some of the demons at the end of the movie are just some guys in bad costumes trying to make scary sounds and there are some good gore scenes like when the professor gets his face ripped of i only hired this movie because i am a big fan of horror movies and its only worth watching if u are a fan of horror movies the acting in this movie is really bad the only good actor is roy scheider from the great movie jaws and over all this movie has heaps of flaws and my rating is 4 out of 10
0	a rather mild horror movie if not for a couple of sex scenes it could easily have been a tv movie plot holes abound one example why would there be a secret passage from the 18th century leading from the upper floor of a house that was burned to the ground and a new building put ther 200 years later cardboard acting characters doing things that anyone with an iq bigger than their shoe size wouldn't do br br it's got a few fun moments but overall it's a sub par film that managed to get roy scheider because his bills were due if you're looking for an extremely formulaic predictable film that might provide a few laughs it might be worth watching if not then this one's not for you
0	i loved the original i watch it every year but the second is a piece of garbage and it never should have been made the second could have worked if there was a different location the son was not an original or didn't even act like one of eddie's kids third was too smart for eddie which downplayed his father role none of the other kids where in it it just could of been a lot better i don't know why they even tried to make this movie there was no from the first movie i will pretend that this one doesn't even exist it is sad that the actors didn't even see that they where made fools of a really bad movie i just think that i wasted an hour or more on a bad movie and i really love all of the national lampoon films
0	wow i'd hate to sound opinionated but anyone that rated this movie any higher than i just have must have an i q that reaches unimaginably low depths which reach out beyond time and space and connect at planet hopper is a retard for making this movie wow this movie stank fred ward's haircut looks i actually considered mailing fred ward some money in compensation for that miserable haircut he owned in this awful film jodie foster of course didn't have much to work with but still manages a terrible performance throughout joe pesci oh my joe pesci who mysteriously is not cast plays the ultimate stereotypical joe pesci movie character complete with mob killing and constant use of the f word you won't believe your eyes dean stockwell watching him in this mess made me feel bad for him because i actually thought he was either intoxicated or temporarily retarded throughout the course of the film jon turturro must have been intoxicated himself when he agreed to be in this along with vincent price bob dylan and charlie sheen i know what you're thinking great cast i know and it was the worst great cast film i've ever seen dennis hopper directs and stars and does equally bad in both areas how the man could have directed easy rider and then this is far beyond my excellent imagination his outrageously bad hit man character accent is beyond the realms of horrendous and only is equaled by the hilariously bad ending they hopper and foster are the most uninteresting couple i believe that i have ever come across in my exposure to the world of cinema and you will be cheering for them to lose and then be grandly maddened by the ending what exactly are the two of them wearing at that action filled conclusion i don't know but i do know that if i ever meet dennis hopper i will make immensely make fun of him for being responsible for this waste of celluloid join me ian
0	not as bad as 1992's nails where hopper plays an unstable cop but pretty bad how can a movie with such a great cast go so wrong this film manages to find a way the story was pretty stupid and hopper's direction seemed like he had never directed before all of the long shots in the beginning were bothersome lots of meaningless scenes with a lot of meaningless dialogue
0	or backtrack as it is sometimes called is not very good that is it's bad jodie foster had already won an oscar at this point why did she agree to do this i don't know br br the hostage kidnapper relationship is not believable even if it is a common psychological phenomenon in real life br br worst of all this film features a scene where hopper and foster ride a boat under the bridge a bridge in seattle which means that traffic had to stop so that the bridge could open i've had to wait for that bridge to go down many times almost all of them on the bus it's not a pleasant wait this film caused unnecessary bridge waiting and the world is a worse place for it
0	i watched this movie recently mainly because i am a huge fan of jodie foster's i saw this movie was made right between her 2 oscar award winning performances so my expectations were fairly high unfortunately i thought the movie was terrible and i'm still left wondering how she was ever persuaded to make this movie the script is really weak the story itself may have been somewhat believable if someone like mel gibson had played the role of the hit man the idea of jodie running off with dennis hopper and his irritating accent was impossible for me to buy into i did think that jodie looked great throughout the movie which was probably the only reason i watched the entire thing maybe parading jodie around with as few clothes on as possible was the only reason the movie was made i saw a tv biography of jodie where basically all of her movies were commented on in chronological order and this movie was the only one never mentioned after seeing it i can now see why
0	this movie has it all it is a thriller a chase movie a romance story a mob tale a comedy a road movie well in fact it's none of this at all br br all the time you are waiting for something interesting to happen but no you are still watching the same dull uninspiring and superficial cliché of a movie with a very bad soundtrack even the star cast acting is lacking in credibility a hit man with his quirks a girl who's playing hard to get mob guys acting tough and incapable cops yawn br br i'd recommend not to watch backtrack if you want to see a good movie directed by a famous actor go and see 'the three of by tommy lee jones now that's what i call worth watching
0	a young woman jodie foster is witnessing a mafia murder reports the killing to the local police and becomes herself a hit target by the mob operatives a professional killer dennis hopper hired by mafia is stalking her to prepare for the hit but eventually he falls for her then as a parody of the stockholm syndrome that defines a case when an abducted hostage begins to like and cooperate with the kidnapper jodie foster falls for her abductor too make love and both prepare for a getaway br br denis hopper the actor tries to align himself with the creative ambitions of dennis hopper the director the result is disappointing and fails to keep pace with the artistic level of a great performer as dennis hopper is there is no real thrill and the script is sometimes naive and predictable the film is saved to some extent by the performance of jodie foster who is not at her best but still shines with her talent beauty and gift of historical interest is the short appearance of vincent price and in a small act of charlie known from his great part in wall street br br if you decide to spend the 116 minutes to see the film it is not a complete loss this movie offers easy entertainment but we would expect much more from the director of easy rider and the actress who gave us the character of sarah tobias in the accused
0	this movie really left me thinking but not about the plot the direction the characters an underlying message or a clever script far from it i was left wondering what in sam hill went wrong behind the scenes clearly something was badly amiss from the beginning br br i'm amazed at the positive comments for the movie and for jodie foster's performance from the get go it was clear that foster had phoned this one in one earlier comment even made a favorable mention of her facial expressions i must have been watching a different movie since ms foster usually a personal favorite seemed to be totally disinterested br br in one of his first scenes with foster fred ward looks as though he also is distracted by her lack of energy and he struggles to deliver his own lines with any enthusiasm by the time he's called upon to take part in a supposedly desperate search for runaway foster ward also seems to have become embarrassingly half hearted about the project br br in my opinion dennis hopper has always been a uni dimensional performer so i wasn't expecting much from him and he delivered br br yes this one left me thinking long after it ended the fact that joe pesci and charlie sheen refused to have their names attached to the project suggests that this was a real stinker for everyone involved but to then learn that the director preferred to hide behind a pseudonym speaks volumes br br but why listen to me i always think foster looks ridiculous in a dress yet she's sensational in lacy underwear
0	is one of the movies where you find the loop holes in indian cinema here is one good example to show how excellent writers directors and actors succumb to the producers here is one of the most wonderful actors mohanlal acting in a movie about a real story in kashmir the seriousness of the film is slaughtered with sub standard comic scenes and songs there is this character who in reality is the son of the producer of the film hence he doesn't have a hair cut despite his officer asking him to do so this kid doesn't know what is acting and he is the hero of the movie god help indian cinema with such producers br br this movie is a pathetic display of what happens in kashmir a sensible viewer can intuitively understand the constraints of such wonderful writers actors and directors who want to share their real life experiences but the unfortunate part is that a movie about the highest ranks in indian militia turns out to be a pathetic display that only makes one think that the movie was stupid br br we should oust such producers in the film industry and pave way for good cinema
0	i've seen this movie n i can say that this is really a bad movie the director's gone nuts of course he does know a lot about the army but then he certainly is a cheap guy there are a lotta technical flaws in the movies as well br br okay here's my doubt in the end when they rescue the family including a girl who was just raped why do they leave them there outside their place i didn't see any ambulance around there are a lot of aspects in the movie that are real but then i just wish the major had narrated helped assisted some other good director n made the movie br br mohanlal surely does deserve a better director
0	the subject matter was good direction was ok mohanlal was efficient in his role as a major the acting of the supporting actors was amateurish at best the casting director and director should be held responsible for this debacle jai was terrible he stood out like a sore thumb with his poor histrionics he did not look the part nor did he move like a soldier there was a scene where a satellite feed was required of the skirmish with the militants and they were showing it from a camera angle satellite is located hundred of miles in the sky so the only angle is from above it was quite an embarrassing moment audience these days are matured and they recognize when one is trying to pull wool over their eyes the director is a major so the story could be out of his personal experiences no problem there but the movie is only as good as its actors and director so if major ravi is going for any other projects he should pay more attention to the casting
0	i sat through all 2 hours i do not know what was worse the awful plot the lame characters or the hawaiian hottie that eddie's 11 kid and 80 year old grandpa made sexual advances toward the money spent on this was just flushed down the throne simmons should be ashamed the original idea for this movie was a swiss family griswold and it somehow turned into this mess the only bright spot is that it's ratings were so bad we will never see this on tv again avoid at all costs rent ernest saves xmas or something else
0	i must have been in a good mood to give this shameful predictable embarrassing movie even a 3 what's wrong with it let's start with the gratuitous sex although i admit the style of was something i had not seen nor experienced before and i guess they also saved a few bucks by showing the same sex scene three times then there are the inconsistencies the tribune seems to be in a green part of whatever town it was supposed to be hamilton ontario yet in the scenes on the roof it appears to be in an industrial area with a steel mill belching smoke and flames also the inside of the building the the seem much bigger than the outside spoilers here then when our intrepid reporter finally gets fired she comes back to the building several times once after hours hardly likely the ending is also pitifully predictable the classic bait and switch caper in which the good guy turns out to be the bad guy but my major objection is the fact this is yet another movie financed with canadian and ontario tax credits which is ashamed to set itself in canada yet again proving that the canadian film industry is craven and opportunistic a country's movies must do more than just provide jobs they should reflect the culture it's bad enough that the american studios use toronto as a stand in for new york but it is embarrassing and infuriating when canadian producers in this case global do it with help from the federal and provincial governments in a word bah
0	spoilers spoilers there's not much that can be said about this early talkie era flick i'm hesitant to call cimarron a film because i feel that the word is too esoteric but what can be said about it mainly speaks against it br br take for example the overuse of portraying indians as bad folk in one scene the little boy of the flick's lead character an overbearing and over ambitious family man who wants to set up a newspaper business is playing just outside of his father's office an indian kneels down in front of the child hello the boy says to the indian in a very polite manner the indian gives him a feather stands up and walks off br br yancy cravat jr excitedly runs inside the office mommy mommy he shouts holding up the gift look what an indian gave me br br how many times do i have to tell you she snaps at the boy you aren't ever to talk to those filthy indians br br yancy yates sr richard dix comes across as a man who speaks with a forked tongue at the start of the story he seems to have a definite plan for giving his family a better life but we soon enough discover he's no great over much less a totally good moral minded man his slave child isaiah eugene jackson is one tell tale sign of this br br upon his family's first trek to a sunday morning church service one br br at which curiously enough cravat is to give the sermon isaiah tries to come along dressed up like cravat long tail suit holster gun and all cravat tells him to go home ya' all doesn't want me to come with ya' ta church isaiah says with a pout br br no cravat corrects him patting him on the shoulder you don't understand i want you to stay and guard the house and if anyone at all comes along you shoot him dead br br the characters not to mention the actors in cimarron couldn't br br act their way out of burlap sacks despite their obvious efforts and nothing in the script was any too commendable either granted the incomparable edna may oliver notorious for playing the red queen in alice in wonderland also released in 1931 actually manages to look good pulling off her portrayal of a pompous old woman which is what she's also been best known for but aside from that well br br yancy yates isn't popular in town from the first week he arrives br br and one of the outlaws decides to shoot white hat off as he and his wife irene dunne are casually walking by despite her anger with the man who fired the bullet cravat just takes it completely in stride br br not only was this story not shooting for realism but it was very br br lacking in several key areas e g newspaper isn't ever really seen bulletins and posters yes but not any newspaper br br perhaps strangest of all though this is set in a small town in br br kansas yet for some reason or other yancy cravat is dead set on br br calling his paper the oklahoma wig br br really good westerns have always been very few and far between the only exceptions being clint eastwood's so called spaghetti westerns of the late '60s to early '70s cliche westerns on the other hand are a dime a dozen br br if you like cliche westerns cimarron will do you proud but as for me it did me embarrassment br br
0	this movie was of the 67 of 71 best pictures i have seen by far the worst first of all i found the plot line somewhat absurd the absent husband for 25 years still in love not even a letter give me a break and why was the guy who was absent for so long coincidentally working on an oil rig next door to the congress woman's party this film also exhibited some of the worst stereotyping of african americans that i have ever seen it makes gone with the wind see prissy look downright progressive i have scarcely seen a movie that i disliked this much ugh
0	the selection of the bloated boring and racist cimarron ranks as the worst choice for best picture in oscar history poorly acted particularly by the justly forgotten richard dix whose performance as the self centered and irresponsible yancey cravat ranks as one of the most narcissistic characterizations in screen history and leadenly paced the film is truly shocking today because of the racist slant towards its one black character who is introduced by being shown sleeping in a chandelier br br other comments by imdb reviewers have dismissed the attitude towards this character as being merely dated but many films that appeared during this period did not depict blacks as shuffling lazy mental in the manner that this behemoth takes great delight in so that argument seems weak to say the least but whether you regard this demeaning characterization as in shockingly bad taste for anyone at any time or merely the forgivable ignorance of a less educated era it is very painful to watch with 21st century eyes br br but even this might not matter if the film weren't the overlong bore that it is voted the best picture oscar at the 1930 31 academy awards when such enduring classics as city lights the public enemy dracula the dawn patrol and the blue angel failed to be nominated cimarron is by far the worst selection to join the oscar pantheon
0	like a lot of films from the early sounds days cimarron must be viewed more for historical interest than as compelling entertainment the hammy acting of lead richard dix nominated for best actor can be excused as a relic of the silent film school of acting however even giving benefits of the doubt cimarron is a badly shaped piece of drama a bloated film that moves from unrelated sequence to unrelated sequence with little dramatic impact the film is two hours and four minutes it feels like four hours when you're watching it there is no reason to waste your time on it unless you want to see every best picture winner or have a keen interest in the early sound days in my opinion cimarron is the worst choice for best picture in academy history and the award should have gone to city lights or little ceasar cimarron is barely remembered today and would have be remembered at all if not for its oscar win
0	cimarron was painful to sit through although irene dunn does a good job with the heavy handed script richard pompous and overacted role is brutal the passage of time has not treated the character of isaiah as well as other racial and religious notions well although the movie is somewhat progressive on the roles of women and the mistreatment of native americans the editing is especially weak this is without a doubt the worst of all the best pictures
0	this movie is dated in so many ways it's sensational you can either laugh at it or shake your fists in rage br br this movie deals with many problems of american history but with the typical white male christian american paternalism the main character is one of those i can do it all and you've got to love me for it kind of guy he is so pompous and not to be taken serious at any time what a horrid creature his wife is a weak little woman for the first part of the movie and a still very weepy but stronger character in the end too bad she still forgives his cocky ways after he's left her for the second time it's just sad that the character didn't really change at all even though she is supposed to portray a strong and independent woman in the end she is consumed by worry about her adventure seeking husband so 2 out of 10 points from the feminists among us and those are only for the good intentions the problem of indian suppression is dealt with quite nicely but there is that patronizing story telling again and the fact that all african american characters are the typical stereotypes makes the movie even more hypocritical i was so enraged most of the time so one point for trying from the civil rights movement br br i know that the movie was done at a different time i love old movies and i have a lot of patience with some of those dated point of views but this was just disgusting br br what saves this movie are the parts without the main character mr dix's acting is way over the top and smug maybe that's why his character is so disagreeable i liked mrs dunne's performance even though her character enraged me at times br br but i must say the famous land rush scene was incredibly done and the way that the oklahoma settlement was portrayed made the movie worthwhile it's just amazing how civilization rose out of the dirt and dust of the 19th century and i don't understand the problem some have with that church scene i thought it was quite funny and amusing maybe it wasn't supposed to be but i liked it so 9 points for those scenes and the impressive storytelling of the development of the oklahoma state that makes about 4 points altogether
0	not all films made in 1931 are this creaky and the fact that this was best picture must have given even greater impetus to the development of television br br typical of all novels it isn't possible to bring the entire story to the screen to say nothing of developing character dix so stolid in the first third of the movie does an about face but no one knows why and it makes no sense and what is there about dunne that makes makes her so stoical edna may oliver's scenes are priceless as usual br br this film has a role to play in the history of cinema but it is long and boring
0	i'm glad this was the last of the '40's universal mummy movies the movies were all of qualities and this movie was definitely one of the lesser ones br br problem is that it's a very slow moving movie in which basically nothing interesting or exciting is ever happening perhaps it would had all been better if the mummy had made his entrance earlier on in the movie instead now the movie once again spends its first 20 minutes explaining what had all happened in the previous mummy movies by also once again using archive footage from this time the mummy from 1932 again to which this movie is the fourth mummy movie following the 1932 mummy story the movie just never knows to find the right pace and even though the movie is barely over an hour long it still feels a bit like a drag br br it of course also doesn't help that the movie has a rather simplistic and actually very little interesting story the movie also feels quite disjointed the first and second half of the movie don't really connect to each other and they seemed like two separate movies on their own br br at least lon chaney jr is still in it he once more reprises the role of the mummy kharis for the third time too bad that he has such limited screen time this time he gets unfortunately very little interesting to do which is also a big waste of the mummy character itself the movie is further more filled with dozens of silly actors who are playing around with silly accents it seemed so totally unnecessary to me that most of the characters had to speak with such an accent and it actually gets quite distracting and annoying at points br br the mummy movies that's least worth seeing br br 4 10
0	the mummy's curse is the last in the series of the kharis mummy films and it seems that creativity had run somewhat dry by the time they made this one kharis and his mate ananka both end up in the of louisiana and on his resurrection he searches out his beloved princess how they end up in louisiana isn't made entirely clear but with various people trying to find them the viewer can be assured of some mummy murders br br the mummy's curse was watchable but it really wasn't anything special i had the feeling throughout the movie that i'd seen this before quite frankly apart from the original the mummy with boris karloff the mummy movies are not my favorites among the old universal horrors they're not bad but they do get a bit repetitive br br there are some great scenes in the movie the scene with ananka coming to life in the swamp for instance but overall this didn't do much for me br br it's worth seeing if you want to be completest and see all of the mummy movies but otherwise you might want to pass on this one
0	i am a fan of a few of the vacation films but when a movie franchise goes from the big screen to the tv screen you know it's out of steam made for tv national lampoon films do not do well on tv this movie is another reason br br i think a lot of us were excited when this was coming out but we also had to face the reality it's a tv movie randy quaid is fine as cousin eddie but is better in a supporting role than the lead dana barron sets history as the first actor to reprise her role as one of the griswold kids she is just as pretty but it doesn't help a thin script br br why was this movie even made it was probably because nbc recently picked up another few years of presenting x mas vacation there is nothing wrong with the acting it's all in the script it's just not that funny people need to think before they write stuff like this it is one christmas movie i do not recommend
0	unfortunately this film is typical of the watering down of a good film by numerous sequels universal made several serial monster films in the 1940s which were pale imitations of the original the intelligent egyptologist imhotep has been replaced by a leg dragging frankenstein in mummy who exhibits no signs of intelligent life this film is entertaining in spots but if you have seen the mummy 1932 you will be disappointed
0	this sequel to the above and the final entry in the kharis series is slightly more enjoyable on the whole but it's also more contrived hell we even get a singing barmaid hostess peter coe is easily the least charismatic of the various egyptian high priests we've seen during the course of these films and martin kosleck as his henchman seems uninterested in the proceedings kurt katch then is saddled with a ridiculous accent as the man who discovers the newly reincarnated princess ananka the latter in the form of virginia christine later a much used character actress gets her most substantial 'role' and indeed the sequence of her resurrection from the swamps is a highlight not only of this film but the entire series unfortunately here too chaney has precious little to do as once again the emphasis is on ananka as i've said his mummy to which he returned most often at universal apart naturally from his signature role of the wolf man remains without a doubt his least memorable monster for the studio
0	is it really possible that so many people in this film believe that the girl is a witch just because she has dark hair and wears dark make up she is supposed to be a witch and i got the impression that the film tries to present her as someone who is different someone nobody understands she is just a teenager and some dumb girl in her high school says she is a witch and everyone believes her besides brandi is either portrayed very badly or the character itself is made to be so fake she didn't convince me that she is not a witch not that i would believe it in the first place everyone accuses her of being a witch and she acts like she is not entirely sure whether she is a witch or not and the way they dressed her for the court i see old ladies every day who wouldn't wear that even if it was the last outfit in the world brother also wasn't very convincing but you see the important thing is that she put that bad bad girl back on to the ground at the end of the film she has won the battle proved to everyone she is different br br this is probably one of the worst films i've watched in may life way too shallow i only watched it because there was nothing else on the tv at the moment so i was condemned to this trash please do not waste your time watching this film when i saw the 7 star rating i nearly fainted it doesn't deserve it compared to some other films which are also rated with 7 stars
0	i realize most people don't know who solomon kane is and that the film is pitched at that much larger audience but then why bother to call it solomon kane in the first place when the name has no marketable value the characters certainly has nothing whatsoever to do with the r e howard character except he has a big hat that's where the resemblance ends br br it's always a bad sign when any superhero fantasy sci fi movie lingers over an origin story but when you invent one whole cloth like this for a character who didn't have one at all you've already missed the point completely kane is no longer even the fanatical christian warrior of the stories but rather a formerly bad guy who is trying to save his soul this part is in the opening scene br br with the most basic character elements changed or simply ignored the use of the name solomon kane is simply perplexing is it just so they can say from the creator of conan and hope to plug into a budding franchise if the new conan movie gets off the ground ignoring the complete departure from the stories the movie is competent if utterly generic for the first half but then devolves into sheer stupidity in the climactic scene which involves multiple super baddies think three boss levels at the same time none of whom is the least bit interesting or menacing br br if i wasn't a kane fan who was disappointed that they completely ignored the source material i'd probably give the film a 3 or 4 instead of a 1 even for the majority of viewers who will come into this knowing nothing about kane it's pretty thin gruel
0	this movie is called solomon kane which it isn't the main character wears a hat but that's all he has in common with robert howard's character solomon kane as known from early pulp magazines and lots of publications ever since these days it is a fantasy movie not really that bad and it might easily have passed with a rather good review if it hadn't been called solomon kane the hero is a newly invented character who definitely is not the story is not robert howard neither br br as a fantasy movie it is one more movie following the traditions of the genre simple story poor cgi poor actors poor directing yet it can be fun you know 'the cheaper they are the better they are' but since it is called solomon kane i cannot accept it imagine a lord of the rings movie with a hero bilbo who fights the black sorcerer with the help of his dwarf friend aragorn and the beautiful heroine and with a final fight where the three use a magical ring to kill the evil sorcerer who has transformed into the dragon imagine that this is exactly what this movie has done with robert howard's character solomon kane br br i'd give it a 4 stars review if it was just another horror movie but since it is called solomon kane i can only rate it 3 stars
0	just saw this at the cinema i haven't read the books there is nothing new about this film at all br br the bad guys seem to die with a couple of slashes no matter how many times our hero has been stabbed with a big sword he keeps on going looking the same ish there are several action scenes but they are very fake filmmakers seem to be under the impression that whenever they cant be bothered to choreograph a fight scene they just move the camera up close move fast and turn the music up this leaves me feeling conned yet again br br i admire them for attempting to tackle a dark storyline without the normal hollywood cheese but i'm sorry to say the filmmakers have failed miserably the characters are 2 dimensional we hardly get to know them or feel for them at all the lead has a charming farmers accent oo though it seems he hasn't got much to say br br don't bother watching this unless you are bored and got it half price from blockbusters
0	michael film kane' based on the character of the same name created by robert e howard is a disappointing fantasy action adventure film that despite having a few scenes of genius falls flat with its awkward pacing poor characterisation and general dullness solomon kane james purefoy is a mercenary of queen elizabeth's army fighting in africa where he comes face to face with the devil's reaper – a demon who collects the devil's debts i e souls – refusing to go to hell just yet he evades the reaper and starts a new life in an english monastery with this new life solomon has left behind his culture of violence and bloodshed and instead now embraces the values of peace and non values but once he is expelled from the monastery due to the fear of the devil's reaper returning he must travel back to his home in devon and along the way he befriends a travelling family of puritans heading to the new world on their journey through the british the family is attacked and their daughter meredith rachel hurd wood is abducted by the evil sorcerer army which is lead on the front lines by the mysterious masked rider now a man of peace solomon must go back to his former life as a man of unrepentant violence and destruction to save meredith br br despite having great source material to work from and build upon to create potentially an exciting and enduring medieval action adventure film the film fails in three key areas the pacing of this film is terrible which may have a lot to do with its incredibly short run time of only one hour and forty minutes and this is most likely a consequence of the fact that they wish to turn this film into a trilogy constantly jumping between of drama and self characterisation to that of action and muddy bloodshed somewhat kills the excitement of the action sequences instead of keeping the audience on the edge of their seats frothing with the eagle eyed anticipation the film instead feels incredibly subdued and this follows on the next piece of criticism dull despite being touted as an 'action adventure' film or in some circles an 'action epic' kane' is almost most certainly not the action is mundane and dull and is generally finished before you have the chance to admire the beauty of a decapitation finally aside from solomon himself there is very little characterisation within this film for example we know little and because of this care little about the young woman that sets out on his journey to save and i imagine again the filmmaker would refer this criticism to the fact that there is most likely going to be a second film which will hopefully touch upon these aspects that this film surely missed br br it isn't an entirely terrible film however james purefoy is gives a fantastic performance as solomon the mercenary who must decide whether or not to fall back on his conscience or his blade and how his decisions will impact not just upon himself but those around him as well while respect admiration and acknowledgement must also go to bassett and his crew as well for creating vivid locations that beautifully reflects the period in which they are filming at times it is hard not to get carried away with admiring the beauty of the locations shot composition and mise en scene at show here which certainly shows that a lot of time and effort has been placed into this film unfortunately however that is not to say the same for the story and characters at hand kane' certainly had the potential to be something more than simply an 'action epic ' however it seems that once again the lack of any real depth in the story and characters has resulted in michael bassett creating nothing more than a one dimensional look at swordplay during the medieval period
0	i just went to see this movie with a friend i quickly looked and read a short synopsis and thought it sounded interesting we came out the movies not feeling very sure if we liked it not br br the acting was good enough and connection with characters was ok the main character i thought acted a lot like someone like van helsing yes it was pretty entertaining br br but the plot i felt like it was used from other movies the script was a bit weak i'm not sure why every time something bad happens the main character says oh my god every time br br the special effects worked well but sorry for this spoiler the main monster at the main climax reminded me a lot of the out of lord of the rings br br overall the movie was ok but i felt like it's been done already go and see buy all means but don't expect too much
0	i was looking forward to this flick being an old robert e howard fan mainly from a conan stand point br br i was not expecting a great deal and thought they could not mess it up too much oh dear how wrong was i br br the main flaw was it was fairly dull it needed to zip along with a nice helping of supernatural goings on sword fights and the like br br you got some gore but everything else was just pretty life less the middle section just seemed to involve 40 minutes in a muddy forest with slow plodding horse drawn carts and even slower dialogue and character development br br on the plus side costumes and effects were fine but not enough to keep your interest br br i think it would have been better to tone down the gore up the tempo and go for a 12a rating as a ten year old boy i may have liked this movie probably about the age i was first reading the conan stories funny enough perhaps that says a lot about my anticipation of the film br br or go really art house with tone direction etc but that's fairly high risk as far as box office is concerned br br oh well perhaps the next conan movie will make up for it
0	as a big fan of most modern fantasy movies i was really looking forward to this i was not familiar with the character although after hearing some general stories about the style of the comic and good reviews of the movie i thought i was in for a real treat br br from the moment that the lead character started to talk in his forced husky voice i could tell straight away that i was not going to enjoy this movie i found the story weak and predictable the acting poor the effects were very good for a small budget film but did nothing for the overall plot br br maybe as a fan of the comics you may get something more from this otherwise i would suggest that you skip it and not waste you cinema fare on this boring adventure
0	i just watched national lampoon's christmas vacation 2 on dvd hoping to see something at least close to the original great holiday comedy 'christmas vacation' i saw nothing of the kind you can tell right from the start that this movie just wasn't going to measure up it's too bad it has a title that links it to the original christmas vacation it's really kind of sad the film can't stand on it's own merits i think too many people will view this film on the strength of the title and it does not come close to that level of comedy other than the title there is very little connecting the movie to the original 'christmas vacation' and even less of a connection to christmas at all the comedy is very simplistic and the plot poor children might find some humor here but most adults would only get a chuckle here and there this movie is a flop don't waste your time with it
0	i'm desperately trying to stay awake while watching the movie solomon kane i have about a 20 minutes to go if it gets any better i will come back here and let you know but somehow i doubt that will happen solomon kane looks like it is based on the video game dark watch and it sounds like it is based on the video game legacy of kane but unfortunately neither is true i hear it is based on some comic book or graphic novel or pulp fiction or something else that i have never heard of but whatever it is based on there is nothing original in this excruciatingly boring movie the atmosphere is stolen from the movie 300 which wasn't that great in the first place the tedious overacting takes itself so seriously that it's nearly hypnotic and to be clear i mean that in a bad way the plot is practically non existent violent guy trying to be meets friendly family friendly family is murdered violent guy becomes violent again all the characters are stereotypes taken from waterworld or book of eli or the hills have eyes or whatever just choose another apocalyptic slash fantasy slash wizardry movie that you have seen and there you have it someone somewhere said this is how to make a movie use a blue filter to make everything look mysterious add plenty of slow motion shots of horse hooves splashing in murky puddles add hovering around while two boring characters are speaking to each other and oh yes rain pouring down dramatically to distract from the fact that nothing is really happening and don't forget the black silhouettes walking toward us with fire blazing behind them and lots of torches burning and of course blurry fight scenes during which it's not clear what is actually happening because we don't have the budget for the gory special effects so just throw in the sound of metal and oh by the way don't let any character live long enough for the audience to understand them relate to them or sympathize with them and cross fingers hope that fans of sword and sorcery films will eat it up even though it is complete doo doo and go straight to video do not pass go
0	swoon focuses on leopold and homosexual relationship a facet of the case that has been mostly and unjustly ignored since their trial even by leopold himself in his autobiography but even in its treatment of this swoon over does it by far worse it twists combines and straight out alters the details of the case which will irritate anyone who knows much about it while at the same time managing to confuse those who are not familiar with it while it is an interestingly made film swoon stinks br br 1 out of 10 awful
0	watched the director's cut last night glad it was free rental even a dollar would have been too much for me to pay to watch this attempt at film noir the anachronisms modern telephones were annoying to me not clever seeming more like budget constraints than anything else the non traditional casting i also found distracting if i have to stop following the story to wonder what the heck is the black chick drag queen doing there then the storyteller has failed me again not clever in my opinion but annoying and irritating and very film school final project ish and for pete's sake if you are going to shoot in black and white at least use some of the techniques used in old films that take full advantage of not having color there was no use of nuance in the lighting no shades of gray no depth no texture just black and just white boring
0	i had heard that this film was stylish and intriguing but i just found it annoying it's been a while since i've seen it and hopefully i won't find out all my memories are wrong and i'm unjustly condemning this movie but my memory is that the filmmakers tried to portray leopold and loeb as victimized by an anti gay society and that this somehow caused their horrible crime i totally disagree with this point of view and think it's unfair both to homosexuals and to bobby franks the real victim of the story i can't imagine why anyone would want to claim those two as martyrs i also thought l l were portrayed as a bit more sophisticated than they actually were after all they were teenagers who lived at home the film places them in a kind of fantasy world that seems like it should be scored by morrissey br br i just read an interview with one of the filmmakers that implied the film's anachronisms such as the push button phones that characters used were meant to add brechtian distance they certainly do that but i happened to find it highly irksome br br apparently a number of people found this movie interesting but i would have preferred a less stylish and more realistic examination of the part homosexuality may have played in the leopold loeb case
0	bad bad bad how do movies like this get made badly written poorly acted i could go on but why bother as an aside note that the characters' first names are the same as the actors playing them this is a dead giveaway that no one on the set is even interested enough in their role to bother learning someone else's characters names
0	this film is not one of those films so bad you get annoyed and mad because it seems to be so up its own arse and yet it completely not funny it's just that there is nothing of interest in this film there are no real jokes that make you amused you just watch for 80 minutes then turn it off i bought this on very budget dvd and i'm glad because it's not worth much this isn't even one of those films that's so bad you can watch it with friends when getting drunk high and have a good giggle i didn't hate it like i hate some films but it is rather boring and not worth investing any time in br br the only people who voted 10 on the votes for this film must have been connected to it somehow because i cannot imagine anyone actually liking this film other than small children passing time
0	five guys who were in the cub scouts together reunite years later to go camping were they run into their childhood nemeses as well as escaped convicts in this supreme unfunny supposed comedy most of the cast are content to simply phone it in and don't really seem to care about the film in the least the writers were so lazy that the names of the characters are for the most part the name of the actors that respectively play them richard lewis's shtick gets really old really quick even the late great character actor brion james can't save this stinker even though he's one of the few actors in the film that doesn't totally embarrass himself i hardly cracked a smile much less had anything that would reasonably be even misconstrued as a laugh awful br br my grade f
0	this is absolutely the worst comedy i have ever seen it's hard to explain though because unless you've seen this i bet you've never seen a comedy that was not good or bad it's just there that's the original part not good or bad just there br br let me say that i have seen every comedian appearing in a main role and like them all that's what makes this such a mystery the supporting leads are actually acting although the dialog is bad the only character that is fairly good is the one played by john goodman he does a pretty good job with what little dialog he has and actually has one funny line i won't spoil the only funny line in the movie in case you decide to watch anyway it involves a pancake the big mysteries are the main leads i won't call them characters because no characters have been developed this script is so juvenile that they don't even bother to give the leads fictional names they all just use their own they don't even seem to be trying to act it's as though they are all reading out loud to each other from scripts that the local junior high sent to them i actually wrote a paper like this for my english class when i was thirteen it wasn't funny either br br bottom line just don't bother to rent this it isn't funny it doesn't even have the kind of bad dialog you can groan to i just sat there and stared through the whole thing it was so boring i couldn't even work up any irritation at how bad it was i can't imagine how this is even getting a rating of 4 here
0	i saw this movie when it first came to the theaters in 1988 and though i knew it wasn't of award winning caliber i kinda liked it it tales the tale of 5 former cub scouts reuniting to take on the one task they never got to finish as kids which is to climb mt whitehead of course now the cub scouts are all grown up and have developed their personalities in a variety of ways but none too differently than they were as children richard lewis is still neurotic richard belzer is still a playboy franklyn is still sort of the dear abby of the group and tim thomerson is still the surfer dude of the group of course the top billed star is louie anderson a true believer in everything cub scout related he still lives in the same house with his mother still goes over the cub scout manual daily is brave reverent and clean and is the one who reunites the others for one more grand adventure in scouting compounding their task however is the brothers two bullies drummed out of the cub scouts by the above mentioned by coincidence they run into their old den and decide to harass them a bit albeit harmlessly not so harmlessly is three escaped convicts who think pack 7 is from the fbi and are intent on wiping them out all in all the movie still has bits of charm observe richard lewis trying to get comfortable on a folding cot for example and you have a really funny bit going for you upon further review the entire film needed more of that type of observational humor it doesn't hold up well after all these years but still remains a guilty pleasure
0	i love comedies and i love independent films but this was much too slow and the humor was extremely regional i guess it would have been better if the main characters were likeable but they were just typical gen x slacker types just like the people that have been causing trouble in high schools for forty years i can understand high praise for a young indie film maker when it is deserving but this is an extremely average film
0	why oh why did they have to try and make a sequel to one of the greatest christmas movies of all time the movie is a train wreck on every level and should have never been made randy quaid's portrayal of cousin eddie is an over the top caricature of his previous outings as cousin eddie also the eddie character is not interesting enough to carry an entire movie even eye candy sung hi lee could not redeem this hunk of holiday crap please do not waste your time on this move just watch the original again
0	this should be re named everybody loves sebastian the 1983 rural go nowhere town high school junior or senior they seemed to flip flop on that one with weird hair and leo like good looks has a big plate full of issues his step dad announces definite plans to have a sex change operation upon which his mom calls the marriage quits sebastian is called the f word by everyone and their mother all the while kissing around with various girls getting high on ready whip at a supermarket and saving a strawberry prostitute from the clutches of her ruthless pimp br br sebastian's buddies make eddie look like a choir boy bad association doesn't get much worse sebastian seems to go for harold's suicide attempts record although he won't admit suicidal for no apparent reason the genius level sat scoring sebastian must graduate a year early although he has no clue about the future nor does he want to attend college what gives with this nonsense br br this film is a look into a few weeks in the life of someone who is pretty messed up the final scene suggests that things will be alright although the how is left entirely up to the viewer br br the makers of this film seem to bank solely on the undisputed appeal of the very attractive male lead the story leaves a lot to be desired looking for what will this gorgeous kid do next doesn't exactly satisfy the lackluster production values just don't measure up to other films independent or otherwise a low budget and weak story need more than a pretty face to carry it through the results of this project are forgettable and an insult to intelligent cinema fans
0	the adventures of sebastian cole is about a boy named sebastian adrian grenier who fancies himself becoming a writer at some point given he actually puts effort into it this movie is presumably the years where he gets his material for writing the adventure years hence the title and the previous quote in it we experience the very typical coming of age stories and warnings of loves drugs and sex changes yeah there's a slight twist here that is very interesting and that is that sebastian's step dad clark gregg very early on makes a rough decision to get a sex change that has a huge impact on sebastian's family and his relationship with his step dad br br clark gregg plays hank henrietta sebastian's step father and is very good in the part very believable without being over the top which is a route this film could've taken rather easily thankfully they didn't adrien grenier who i'm only familiar with from entourage is also very good in his part as sebastian and together he and gregg have a great relationship on screen it's always quite engaging to watch these guys relationship as it develops and is genuinely heartbreaking at times br br and that's the best of what this film has to offer unfortunately it brings with it some mediocre camera work direction and cinematography it's not bad but it's a far cry from being good or memorable in the slightest the characters are also thinly written and it's clear from the get go how most of the arcs will pan out the only truly fascinating character through and through is clark hank henrietta i've already said grenier did well acting wise but the character of sebastian is not only not engaging but is completely unlikeable i don't honestly see why anyone in the audience would route for his character in anything he does he mopes whines cheats lies and lacks any aspirations other than to be a complete slacker it'd be different if he was maybe a side character or comic relief but to have him as the main focus and to be asked to take the character seriously come on br br and i don't really hold it against this film but i just want to say pick a different song in all these films hollywood no more where is my mind by the pixies we all know it's a good song stop using it in every other film br br i feel like i could just keep tearing more and more of this film apart but in all honesty i didn't hate it i just didn't really care for it and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone the adventures of sebastian cole isn't a bad or boring film it's just not a very good or engaging one either it's very uneven and the script could've used quite a bit of work i guess the point of the film is to be a loose sort of look at the life of a writer before he made it and it worked if that writer put out pieces of fiction that i wouldn't want to read
0	i expected a lot more out of this film the preview looked interesting so i decided to check it out bottom line is that the adventures of sebastian cole only had one decent thing adrian grenier br br i really like grenier and found his performance to be very pleasing the character is designed well but everything else sort of just drifts along through the duration of the movie clark gregg is really good but i don't think that his character was explained too well i mean there's not too much to explain he wants to become a woman still something was missing br br the obvious low budget of the film was nice to see i enjoyed that the movie was filmed on just a script a bad one at that and just a few actors it was a nice change br br while the main idea of the film was actually okay it became disappointing to see a lot of scenes that had nothing to do with it just thrown in here and there like i said the script looked promising and i must say that i was interested where director tod williams was headed but it was basically a very slow movie with not too good of dialogue br br sebastian started to look good towards the end but again it fell right back down into a hole the acting was mostly good the writing is in need of some work yet the budget of the film helped it out in the long run br br i would recommend this to someone if they wanted to watch a quiet movie with a strong lead character but other than that i would stay away personally i wouldn't watch it twice
0	i don't know why all the previous comments are approval of this movie it is well not by far but the suckiest movie i've seen lately full of clichés bad acting actually no very bad acting and has a silly plot if i would have seen it in a cinema i would have walked out after the first 20 minutes i f you hate somebody make him her watch this movie that's how bad it is a girl who has an imaginary boy friend that gives up a relationship with a real one because her imagination is jealous but i think it figures she takes after her parents who also have some mental issues plus the character who is supposed to be i think the laughing stock of it the thing that should make you laugh cal's room mate is a serious nut case and just makes me feel sorry for him and the whole movie
0	when i first saw the trailer for this film i really wanted to see it i thought some of the director's other works were quite good but i must say i was disappointed the plot involves a young woman who lives with a widowed father and two his two sons they move into a well guarded community yet all is not as it seems a sort of twin peaks the woman begins to see or not see things an people during the first reel i had a hypothesis and thought this can't be the whole reason well the ending lived up or better down and gave us what i felt was a truly weak final act the sound mixing and quality is excellent saw it in a thx certified theatre and was impressed by the audio and only the audio the picture is missing substance
0	'the shining' has wit visual flair and an iconic performance by jack nicholson ' however has none of these things although it does borrow from its classic to wit a man hacking through a door and a woman running around shrieking while clutching a huge kitchen knife unlike stanley kubrick's great psychological horror film is a work which resonates with a singular lack of genius it is magnificently comically awful it makes the spice girls movie look like a work of vital art is the tale of a family that moves to a gated community in the suburbs all is to be well with the world they will live in peace and they will calmly go about their business away from those mean old city streets but no character julia starts getting spooked by those things that insist on going bump in the night by empty supermarkets and doors that close themselves and her husband samuel played by jordi molla switches in an instant from laid back family man to wild eyed permanently unshaven nutter injecting julia with a drug to keep her under his sudden molla much respected as an actor is absolutely dreadful in this comic rather than menacing he simply cannot pull off a threatening expression he just come across as a barroom slime ball who's had one drink too many so is there anything to redeem this film no the script is clunky the plot non existent and the cast without merit completely without tension and full of be scared now moments is an exercise in how not to make a psychological thriller it is ridiculous and overblown but as one of the most unintentionally hilarious films of recent years it's well worth a watch
0	along the history of cinema there's been a few films that deceived the viewer such as hitchcock's stage fright alejandro abre los ojos david fincher's the game and this one absent to begin with i don't like this kind of films i feel like somebody is trying to pull my leg br br furthermore after seeing this film one doesn't know what happened is such a confusing film kubrick's the shining may be a better or a worse movie but definitely is more honest than this load of pretentious and dubious situations br br technically is fine nice photography fair performance and so on but the script is so poor i wonder what did the producers see to carry on and shoot this crap br br and this film remarks the 3 guys that wrote the script and are lost in cinema trying to make a masterpiece or trying to do something to fulfill their stomachs awaiting for more personal projects
0	its gonna be hard to make this fill 10 lines but ill give it a try just to prevent others from making the same mistake as i did to watch this awful and boring movie br br i like patrick swayze he did a excellent performance in films like ghost dirty dancing point break north south tv series but in this movie argh this movie is so the acting is awful the script sucks well i cant even find one good thing nothing absolutely nothing i was watching it with 2 other friends and we all agreed that this was one of the most boring films we had ever seen and the fact that it lasts for more then 3 hours which we didn't know when part 1 was over and it said to be continued we almost cried do we have to watch 90 minutes more of this movie br br its painful to see this movie at no time do you get the impression that the actors are russians the action scenes are extremely bad the only good scene is when the truck explodes in the beginning of the movie the rest is crap go clean your toilet instead of watching this movie and don't come running crying if you do see this movie you were pre warned personally i would recommend patrick swayze to call his agent and have them recall this movie its that bad
0	i would like to say something different about this movie i saw comments how beautiful is russia and the views from russia have been great hey guys this is not russia it's bulgaria more specific the capital sofia so this is not russia it's my country about the movie well in bulgaria maybe except the grey zone all movies from american directors are in one word awful like this one of course it's a shame that patrick swayze has to play in such a low budget movies most of the actors are but really this movie has no plot twist has no energy what can i say weak and boring movie a cliché not more hey people remember it's not russia in reality it's bulgaria
0	when i saw that icon was on tv i was surprised i know that the first clue of where it was headed was the fact that it was on the hallmark channel has to be said sorry i was hopeful when i saw that ff himself was the exec producer but very quickly saw that the only real way that the tv movie and the book were similar were in the name and the character names only the tv plot was a ho hum to say the least but i concur that in and of itself the action was worth a 3 stars in my personal opinion mr swayze could have portrayed a valid monk however i think that in order to do the movie justice it would have been a far longer movie and i don't think hollywood itself would have gone for the plot of by subterfuge a case in point is the terrible film version of the sum of all fears need i say more
0	arthur miller has always been known as one of america's great playwrights for works such as death of a salesman and the crucible focus is one of his lesser known plays brought to the silver screen however knowing what a great playwright arthur miller is i doubt that his original play was very much like the movie the movie comes across as empty and formulaic with william h macy as a non jew mistaken for a jew by anti semitic neighbors in wwii brooklyn don't get me wrong the acting is ok and i presume that the people behind this movie were probably trying to make a point about racism but the movie just doesn't work macy laura dern and david paymer just can't create an effective story with the material here
0	i have not seen and heard the original version br br i am no russian but i am learning right now br br i also have no preferences for russia the us etc br br but what i have to mention is br br in the german synchronisation in the whole film all russians speak with russian accent americans talk without accent i have never heard such a stupidity besides this is boring br br i hope the original is better br br the rest is a simple thriller not really good ideas like a cheap version of a james bond film
0	freddy forsyth has come up with a storyline which will suit the mood of the west's suspicions about russia forsyth installs a nasty guy as the president who wants to return the country not so much to communism but more to hitlerian fascism in fact his political manifesto could have come straight out of mein kampf rather than marx and the loon has the latest weapons of biological destruction to achieve the ethnic cleansing of the russian federation american mercenaries with the russian prez to realise his fanatical genocidal dream but then enter dirty pat swayze and yep things get really down and dirty he's a former us operative turned drifter jason monk who is enlisted by the british government to see what the russians are up to as a corny sidebar swayze's character who is no monk has sired a russian beauty elena played by the gorgeous marta on his previous missions to the former commie state swayze does a passable job in setting out to defeat the evil russians but young unknown actress marta steals the flick as his nubile 18 year old russian daughter elena who helps dad root out the terror threatening her beloved mother russia
0	the movie is complete disaster i don't know who write scripts for movies like this one but i would definitely love to meet one of them and talk to him a little bit perhaps script writers really don't know sh t about situation in foreign countries in present or recent past or they just don't give a damn and write everything that they think it's interesting br br a great and everlasting formula with mad dictator 1 lonely hero an american of course might seem like a good idea but come on we had such a tyrant in serbia milosevic who did a lot of bad things to it's people but i simply can't imagine him yelling shoot them shoot them with such a barbaric passion like in medieval times maybe they wanted to show how evil he was but it was a stupid idea much better impression would be if he just did it in cold blood like the real monsters do br br the list of nonsense is too long but the funniest thing is no matter how many national tv stations there are in russia russian president watch american cnn news omfg br br give me a break br br burn this piece of please br br awful
0	this is the perfect example of how a great book is turned into a poor film the direction just gives the impression that the film was made up as they went along and patrick is so wooden you can almost see the puppet strings on his body br br spy vs spy films are not or should not be about car chases and shootings the bad guys in this movies are really bad shots and miss the main characters even when at point blank range br br even the action shots are just a cliché with the usual mounting sidewalks and crashing through tables and chairs yawn br br i got half way through and switched off completely bored
0	i just finished reading forsyth's novel i thought it was one of the most in depth detailed and page turning books i ever read definitely in my top 10 i acquired a dvd version of the book starring mr swayze ok let me first point out that to fit a decent adaptation of the novel into 2 5 hours film time would of been impossible so i understand the teams reason to sway from the book version and differ however when i say differ what i really should say is take the characters from the book add a few leave a few out take away the book's plot add a modern new plot add frederick forsyth's name in there somewhere im not saying this was a bad picture far from it some of the effects were top notch and the acting wasn't half bad the story sucked and didn't rely on logic or reality forsyth's novel was so good and real and altered the facts of reality instead of exaggerating them this could of been so much more if it had taken its time and been made into say a 10 part series if you haven't read the book then expect a decent tv movie with a good acting cast if you have read the book then try and forget it when watching this
0	i just have watched icon on dvd and despite being a great book the movie is a weak from it those responsible for the writing should be banished to siberia why they maul the great story with all kind of c film which are totally irrelevant to the story is totally beyond me br br yet the filmmakers and cast do there best to make something out of it but at the end the film was not satisfying at all br br can someone please make a decent movie out of this to show how it is done i'm sure that the crowds will rally for such a masterpiece novel turned into a book not into a cheap c movie
0	i recently rented this promising mini series i didn't even know they had adapted it for television i was really looking forward to it since the book icon is one of the best spy thrillers i have ever read what a disappointment it was the plot only loosely resembles the one in the book the characters are completely miscast and there's some appalling acting a shame really the story behind icon is perfect for the silver screen but i think television budgets just aren't big enough for a decent adaptation of this spectacular book br br forsyth deserves much much better than this avoid and stick to the book which is a must read
0	such a bs movie it's just some stupid anti russian propaganda with a completely bs plot not in any way related to the book br br it looks like the production team got more money from the people who ordered the movie than they will ever be able to get from selling the movie the plot of the movie includes references to some of the real recent events in russian and other parts of eastern europe but puts them in such way that has nothing to do with reality it looks like the movie is a brainwashing instrument which helps to portray russia as a place populated by evil people that always dream about killing someone br br an of course there are hundreds of stupid mistakes like using the map of ussr instead of russia when running news reports showing a crowd with ukrainian flags and commenting that it's russian elections etc br br also there are many bizarre episodes i e a character runs though the red square in moscow and in a second he is in downtown sophia bulgaria
0	i had just finished reading the book and was really looking forward to seeing this tv adaptation which was broadcast on the hallmark channel on monday night 5 30 05 the key to the whole book was the manifesto which was stolen by the man with steel teeth but i watched for an hour out of 3 1 2 and i saw the man with the steel teeth but i never saw him steal a manifesto i saw someone steal some virus but what did that have to do with the book it's too bad because this film had great production values and a good cast but isn't the idea of turning a book into a movie tv or film to get the people who read the book to be part of the audience they only kept me for an hour i thought the premise of the book was great and what did they do but throw out the whole premise this book had a great mcguffin to paraphrase hitchcock but they ignored it and it said in the titles that forsyth was involved in the production they sure must have paid him a lot of money
0	frederick forsyth's books are always so intricately plotted with twists and turns and usually a great surprise ending this adaptation had none of that br br so much of what was great in the book the history of monk and the betrayed agents the plot to influence the outcome of the russian election were completely missing in this adaptation instead there's this completely new plot about bio weapons that was a yawner br br forsyth's protagonists always operated in the shadows forever just slightly beyond the reach of the antagonists the joys of his books have always been the machinations of carrying out their mission this film resigned itself to gunfights and car chases early on br br swayze's monk might as well have hung a sign around his neck saying i am a secret agent for all the attention that he called to himself during the film and with all of that attention the amount of time that it took the bad guys to catch up to him was surprising br br granted there was some energy to this film which is why i'm giving it a 3 instead of a 1 it was also great to see some underutilized pros like patrick bergin ben cross michael york and barry morse br br i hope that someday someone will once again do justice to a forsyth film adaptation like day of the did
0	did the other reviewers watch the same movie i did this was poorly written poorly acted and just overall boring i made it well past the halfway point in the movie and then just gave up i can't possibly imagine an ending that would have made the rest of the movie worthwhile don't waste your time with this dog seriously
0	i saw the mogul video vhs of this that's another one of those old 1980s distributors whose catalog i wish i had br br this movie was pretty poor though retitled don't look in the attic the main admonition that is repeated in this is don't go to the villa just getting on the grounds of the villa is a bad idea a character doesn't go into the attic until an hour into the movie and actually should have done it earlier because of what is learned there br br the movie starts in italy in the 1950s two men are fighting and a woman is telling them the villa is making them do it one man kills the other then regrets it and the woman pulls out the knife and stabs him with it she flees the villa and after she's left a chair moves by itself what's the point of that but when in the garden a hand comes up through the ground and drags he into the earth br br from there it's the present day thirty years later there's a séance that appears suddenly and doesn't appear to have anything to do with the movie the children of the woman from the prologue are inheriting the house the main daughter is played by the same actress who played her mother at least one of the two men from the prologue seems to as another character too she's haunted by some warnings not to go to the villa but they all do since if they do not use it they forfeit it people die a lawyer who has won all his cases tries to investigate a little the ending is pretty poor why was the family cursed an unfortunately boring movie br br there's an amusing small print disclaimer on the back of the video box that reads the scenes depicted on this packaging may be an artist's impression and may not necessarily represent actual scenes from the film in this case the cover of the box is an illustration that does more or less accurately depict the aforementioned woman dragged underground scene although there are two hands and the woman is different it's true sometimes the cover art has nothing to do with the movie i also recall seeing a reviewer who had a bad movie predictor scale in which movies with illustrations on the cover instead of photos got at least one point for that
0	stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history and deservedly so so i am happy to see any of their films ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital and with nothing else to do stan decides to visit him and take him some boiled eggs and nuts instead of candy chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie's leg cast string and manages to push the doctor billy gilbert out the window clinging on to it getting ollie strung up to the ceiling when the situation calms down stan gets ollie's clothes as the doctor wants them both to leave and he also manages to sit on a syringe accidentally left by the nurse filled with a sleeping drug which comes into effect while he is driving which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad although repetitive and a little predictable classic comedy it isn't great but it's a black and white film worth looking at stan laurel and oliver hardy were number 7 on the comedians' comedian okay
0	this is an alright show to watch its not the best nor the worst i've watched it for a long time and i don't like any of the new stuff this show has changed into some teen trash and is living much differently i dislike that crap i have no iq why they completely changed the theme of this show the first season was really enjoyable to watch and is was partly amusing the 2nd season is just out of this world dumb i seriously don't know why the writers directors changed this show up many more people liked the 1st season better than the 2nd and 3rd i will only watch the first season of this show from now on whenever i see a new episode ill change the f ckin channel ya heard me it gets a 3 10 because i somewhat enjoyed the 1st season but hated the 2nd and 3rd
0	this show is pretty alright and fun to watch its a great disney channel shows and sometimes entertaining br br i really enjoyed the first season but i hated the second and third seasons this show has completely changed around in the first season it was more about science and animals all that is gone now in the season and third season its more about her life and dating ever since that gay kid ben came along this show has sucked the writers took a perfectly good kid show and changed it to a crappy teen comedy disney took a turn for the worse i cant stand to watch the newest episodes anymore they're all garbage
0	i think that it was just like lizzie mcguire except that it was a lot worse than the original the only thing that is different is that she likes animals and science and all of that geeky stuff everything else is the same she likes a guy that she is too nervous to ask out and later she finds a guy that does like her and she has no clue i think that people need to quit making that same kind of shows and another thing that is the same is that it is always thaw the friends are two girls and one guy don't people think that these things get old and tired and these ideas keep being used over and over and yet they keep using these ideas but i do know people who watch this show and i know that they like them
0	when i first saw this show i thought to my self what is this its one of those shows where there is a perfect fake high school world with stupid problems that are considered huge then there's sadie this complete misfit for her friends and well her family shes completely obsessed with nature not that thats a bad thing but she compares high school students to animals like what is that also they made her another lizzie clone yeah because the world definitely needs another one of those shes also very perfect like most tv girls are which makes me sick so please this is a stupid show it makes no sense just skip it unless you liked lizzie mcguire or any other shows like that
0	naturally sadie is by far the worst show i have ever seen it is such a piece of sh and loaded with complete bullsh i didn't find any of the gags to be funny or somewhat clever it was all awful jokes br br the acting sucks many of the characters sucked at acting charlotte arnold sadie is such a terrible actor the other characters suck too magaret rain hal br br the plot isn't unique and creative at all and the show is soo very much predictable this is one of the worst shows made of all time it shouldn't have even been made the idiots who are responsible of writing this garbage should get fired if they already didn't the fist season was actually watchable but the second season was just a disaster its too hard to watch this show it is beyond awful
0	when this show first came to disney i love it started watching all the time it quickly became one of my favorite disney shows ever but this show somehow transformed into something that is disturbing and disappointing br br i do now find any of the second and third season fun they seem like a re watch of some teens shows i hat that garbage the first season was very unique because it showed sadie who loved science and animals and creatures the first season was very entertaining i mostly don't like the second season because of ben he annoys me and pisses the crap outta me the plot in the second season also sucks and is just awful
0	omg what has disney done lately most of their new shows really suck suite life of zach and cody are pretty good but other shows like cory in the house wizards of waverly place suck and are unwatchable br br naturally sadie is just beyond stupid and dumb its about a teenager named sadie who likes science and grows up and goes through her everyday life there are her friends margaret and rain and her older annoying brother hal there all annoying and stupid especially margaret who thinks she's the most popular girl in school and thinks she's soo pretty its just beyond awful i hate all the seasons of this show its just terrible in every way the first season was better though br br if you value your life you wouldn't watch this crap its painful and stupid
0	every time i by pass this show on tv i absolutely and truthfully want to claw my eyes out and rip my ears off it's so unbelievably horrible the jokes aren't funny the acting is completely terrible and the whole entire show is one major disappointment i hate charlotte arnold's guts and i just want to punch her in the face or stab her with a knife every time i hear her talk she is a no talent low iq big waste on society and i think she would be doing the world a favor if she just shuts the f ck up and went away for a long time please i say this with all my heart do not even watch one episode of this show it's not even worth 30 minutes of your life and there are thousands of better things to do including killing yourself than watch this show for half an hour
0	naturally sadie sucks big time i have no idea what the people were thinking about when they wrote this garbage this is not funny its not cute in any way shape or form its just disturbing and a waste of money sadie is such a bad actor i lost all my brain cells watching this show it honestly seemed that this show is forced it was such a huge over hyped pile of crap br br this show sucks br br its a waste of time and money don't bother watching this garbage the characters are so stupid and ridiculous in the first season its just dumb and stupid then when i saw the second season i just couldn't take anymore it made me want to kill charlotte arnold the second season is juts absolutely a disgrace to disney this show is also a racist piece of sh
0	i had the unlucky experience of stumbling upon a preview for this movie and thought it might be interesting i am a fan of the two main actors and i even find meatloaf to be oddly appealing but that couldn't compensate for the droning plot of this movie this movie attempts to make social comments and be artfully intelligent i am sure the audience gets the sociological message clearly but has to suffer in the process personally no matter how bad the movie is i can't stop it in the middle something drives me to finish the worst of movies but i often regret it this is one of those
0	the first time i saw a commercial for this show was when my sisters were watching the kim possible movie the commercial showed sadie and her friend discussing the meaning of the word nothing it is one of the stupidest commercials i've ever seen basically they go back and forth with lines like nothing is a thing so technically nothing is something when i saw that i figured it would be yet another lame lizzie maguire knockoff by disney but i had no idea how bad br br fast forward about 3 weeks when my sister turns on the t v naturally sadie happened to be on what i saw had to be one of the most unintentionally funny shows i've ever seen how'd it go something like this br br sadie a vegetarian tree hugger has an incredibly unhealthy obsessive crush on the very monotone and poorly acted acted out owen for some reason her friend margret decides that owen needs to be tested to see if he is as good as he seems what exactly do these tests involve well one thing they do is put a cockroach on her notebook why so that she can be squeamish and ask her monotone knight in shining armor to get it off how is this a test because if he squishes it he's mean and uncaring and doesn't believe that bugs as sadie puts it are innocent animals too they spread disease and they deserve to be squished but of course owen just brushes it out the window and sadie is still in love but that's not all margret says he needs to be challenged one more time on something that no guy can pass this one involves shoving scarves down their pants yes you read that right and walking buy him to see if he notices their large butts predictably he doesn't notice and we see sadie in her bizarre and strange notebook world sadie decides that she wants to be with owen forever raise a family with him and as she puts it live like wood ducks with their brood that's just plain wrong br br bottom line this is the strangest most insane show i've watched for those who like to make fun of dumb stuff you'll love it for anyone else skip this show
0	i do not find this show at all funny i actually think it is much worse than any of the other terrible disney channel sit coms right now charlotte arnold is an interesting choice to play sadie because she can't act the jokes on this show are terribly unfunny and it makes it even worse when the only cast member that has a little bit and i mean little bit of acting talent is justin bradley as sadie's brother hal jasmine richards and michael portray sadie's friends there both really stupid and just terrible actors two words that can really describe this show is terribly corny it's corny humor that only little girls find funny because their brains have not developed yet now i've explained my hatred for the acting and the horrible humor what's next the whole premise of the show is a stupid idea she changed again not so an ben loving and suddenly nobody recognizes her it's moronic in summation i hate this show however little girls who do not have a concept of funny will enjoy it so i guess that's what they're going for over quality although i can say as much as the first season is clearly better than the second br br bottom line just don't watch any of it br br my rating awful show tv g 30 mins
0	for those of us who are part of the real world of ballet this film is completely ridiculous ivan kirov was basically a gymnast not a ballet dancer viola at the time was with ballet theater now american ballet theater and a reasonably good dancer but except for dame judith anderson the acting is amateurish and is completely over the top embarrassingly so i saw this film at age 14 and at that time never having seen a ballet i was very impressed however later in life long after i had completed my own career as a dancer i purchased the video tape of it curious as to what it was like after so many years i couldn't believe how naive hollywood could be about the world of ballet but it was made in the mid 40s before the red shoes or the turning point the latter giving a true picture of the ballet world the entire cast of spectre have now passed away ivan kirov not his real name dying at age 79 it was his one and only film thereafter being kept by a chicago business man so the rumor goes
0	with actors like depardieu and richard it is really a hard task to make a dull movie but weber is a master in setting a slow pace and making supposedly funny scenes without any wits and depth this movie is high on story but low on character you never get to know any of the characters except for superficial slapstick unfortunately weber has no idea what slapstick is all about his style could be described at hit and miss of course some people laugh when they see someone slip on a banana peel weber directs his humor at this lot it is a shame how bad he uses good talent many good french comedians have been wasted away by mediocre directors
0	this movie is about 3 stories put together revolving around 3 separate individuals one of the worst movie that is available and even better if it is not available br br the good 2 pretty lesbians actress 1 true and touching story about theresa chan br br the bad the main story that revolves around the blind and dear woman theresa chan does not need to be told in a movie format and more appropriate in a documentary format no linkage between the 3 story lines minimum dialogue in the film substituted by and chat programs on pc no cultural insight by the movie and it makes you forget even before you step out of the cinema
0	i literally ran to watch it expecting a film that will make me cry or touch my heart br br what i found was not heart rending but a lame exploitation of 1 strong human character br br between a pair of young lesbians and an obese man br br in a setting that is substantially devoid of sound not to mention acting of the most common br br it was not entirely bad as i have seen worst and i left the cinema 10 poorer but wiser that a film well advertised is not the same as a film well made
0	'be with me' is almost the ultimate wallpaper movie just leave it running in the background chat amongst yourselves and return to it whenever you like and at some point it'll end br br alas as i watched it alone and so i felt like i almost watched the world's worst longest and most drippingly sentimental beer commercial by the time i just about managed to keep my eyes open as the end credits rolled and i then managed just a a few more moments of to witness a 'thank you' to the movie's sponsors which included asia pacific aha how surprising is that given all the shots of tiger beer interspersed throughout this most forgettable washout of a movie br br meanwhile dialogue spurts between individuals with occasional stabs at depth but all too usually nothing of any particular advancement to the movie's overall story is said or witnessed it's as if one could switch off at any moment and return at any later point and you'd really have missed nothing which would have been an unmissable contingency or part of its plot as far as the movie's overall progression was concerned thus the ultimate wallpaper movie br br well i wonder what movie were those who positively reviewed this one watching i wonder and continue to wonder it certainly couldn't have been this arty to the point of artless singaporean excuse for a camera's rolling allegedly 'be with me' is supposed to be woven around the themes of love tragedy and redemption but all i witnessed was boredom a half baked screenplay with a smattering of gormless text messages and the only redemption was that which occurred when this utterly useless movie ended what a wistful waste of time it ended up being it was also said that the characters in this movie were fictitious except for theresa chan who is a remarkable woman who has triumphed over adversities well no disrespect to ms chan but given that she was such a marvellous amazing character why at all did the screenplay have to involve the stories of other characters without the most tenuous attempt to connect their lives together yet it still proved to be an almost insufferably boring movie whose highlights included the credits rolling rather than tying in the fates of all characters i really felt that the movie ended up attempting the near impossible and evidently fell between stools as far as any viewer engagement could be concerned br br i am generally an art house movie fan and don't usually object to slow pacing of which here there is no shortage believe you me i hate such movies as 300 transformers fight club but consider e g eric rohmer as a great film maker so i hope that puts my criticism into some perspective nonetheless there was no redeemable feature whatsoever in the entire movie's conception and delivery which could prevent one's eyelids slowly drooping downwards as each minute of 'be with me' dripped by watch this movie if you need to feel like wasting time otherwise your life would be none the richer for having missed it 3 10
0	when i saw this movie three years ago i thought it exemplified a lot of the traits found in singapore art house movies slow moving with a minimal of plot and dialogue depending on film composition to make it work br br during then amongst local cineastes the inability to appreciate be with me is tantamount to panning citizen kane or any of ozu's late films i've no idea how be with me reached such hallowed heights in cinematic consciousness but i always felt that 12 is a better film even though the latter film does not boast as good a cinematographer as adrian tan dp for be with me 12 has a story that better relates to most singaporeans and has bite too something that be with me 's threadbare wistfulness doesn't have br br be with me is basically a barely interlinked trio of narratives strung together into a film by and his screenwriter wong kim it deals with a security guard who falls in love with a girl whom he only sees in the distance two girls in a relationship and the story of deaf and blind teresa chan br br be with me is very well filmed by tan using a camera the film compositions are masterful the film almost entirely silent has next to no dialogue characters move around not in a realistic manner but almost as if they are models under the instruction of a director almost always looking into the screen and emoting either loneliness or sadness unfortunately the characters don't act against each other this kind of film has been seen before many times in tsai ming liang's films in protégé royston 4 30 and elsewhere sadly its ultra slowness essentially plot less and use of a piano soundtrack simply doesn't appeal to me br br to criticize be with me seems almost to negate the inspirational story behind it that of teresa chan who is blind and deaf and yet lives a fulfilling life despite all this yet i'm afraid this film doesn't do anything much to me i'm willing to applaud chan's steadfast and courageous march in life and striking cinematography but for a better take on the same subject matter with more meat without the two other tedious and distracting subplots try werner herzog's land of silence and darkness 1971
0	i am in a movie club at my school and i was forced to sit and watch this utterly dismal film the film's story is not dismal but the entire movie itself is exceedingly dismal the acting was absolutely dreadful the children were overly whiny a metal pole could have done a better job i wanted desperately to fall asleep but because the television was so loud i was kept from peace the monkey's are neither cute nor are they funny the drama is laugh worthy i cannot remember when i saw a more dreadful film the story is weak thin predictable and completely fake the adults try to be good actors but they just can't seem to break through stereotypes the girl even appears to want to leave the film via falling off a hill during the movie in order to leave it i don't blame her micheal anderson should publicly apologize for this film not just to me but to everyone else who was forced to sit through this awful film in fact i apologize to you even if i had nothing to do with this project i apologize for this film because this means at least someone will this film even surpasses the dismalness of films that of rob schneider and the cheetah girls i would even go as far to say that it is even worse that hilary duff's collection of films but that's pushing it just please don't see this film or else you'll be pushed to write a review similar to this one on how awful this film is i'm very sorry
0	being one of the founding fathers of my regions monkey movie club this also includes apes chimps and orangutans i am reviewing this film from a monkey movie standpoint afterall it is a whole summer of monkeys 100 days for monkeys to do what they do best cause mischief shenanigans solve human problems and teach us about ourselves br br the story is simple enough in short poor boy needs money for stuff he wants luckily there's a few monkeys chimpanzees that have a bounty on their head that would get boba fett or dog's duane chapman blood flowing as the boy tries to catch the monkeys he learns about himself his family his grandpa the local weirdo flirts with a girl twice his age and learns the beast way to deal with bullies is to have someone point a shotgun at them br br there within lies the problem so much focus is put on the boy that the chimps just don't get the screen time they deserve the chimps are not as talented as the chimp s that play jack from the m p trilogy or the legendary orangutans that play or clyde 1 or 2 so don't watch this movie expecting to find the next big thing in the chimp genre the chimps hit some sweet flips which is what the film needed more of there is an epic scene of the chimps breaking into the poor families house and destroys all the things they worked so hard for serious monkey movie enthusiasts will want to rent the film for this scene alone br br so in closing this movie is not for the serious monkey movie enthusiast i wouldn't recommend this movie to families as it encourages a childs rebellion against their parents i can only recommend this film as a rental for hardcore monkey loving adults and well supervised children
0	let me first start with the obvious has been a serious problem throughout history present in many societies and causing the deaths of million of jews that said the problem with this movie is that it views the united states probably the most welcoming society ever to jews outside of israel as a not very different place from nazi germany set in 1943 the movie is about a man william h macy who gets confused with a jew after he starts wearing glasses a number of very nasty things happen to him after that he loses his job and he is unable to find a new one his neighbors shunned him all ending up in a violent confrontation from one of arthur miller's self pitying patronizing novels the sort that gave liberalism a bad name
0	ed wood rides again the fact that this movie was made should give any young br br aspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have thought of using to br br line a or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watching this br br movie made me realize that boa vs python was not that bad after all it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film it is understandable why this director has so many aliases there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br br make your toward your tv set's cocoon of cheese that surrounds it
0	poorly acted poorly written and poorly directed special effects are cheap best performance is by yvette but that's not saying much story is a confusing mess about corporate greed leading to sabotage of a space station and an attempt to rescue those stranded aboard br br there is little suspense and even less action there's one car chase that's not bad but the rest of the movie is simply a waste of everyone's time
0	rented this from my local video store it was titled black horizon i guess someone felt this was good enough for a 2004 re release br br micheal dudikoff is not a ninja in this movie one of the major flaws of this film right off the bat another major flaw would be that ice t's action scenes are stolen from other movies particularly the first scene of his rescue which is directly from the wesley snipes movie the art of war with ice t edited in i hope they paid for that footage br br the plot is awful the special effects had little effort put into them love those wires holding them in space the acting is wooden also love those new york russian accents ice t being in the movie is pointless these guys also forgot the fact that there is no gravity in space but i guess they weren't worried about it br br micheal dudikoff should go back to doing what he's good at and make american ninja 6
0	i really should have learned more about this movie before renting it it was one of those movies where you keep watching it figuring it's got to get better then when it ends you feel stupid for having wasted precious time in your life that you can never get back ice t did his bad guy thing and well that was the highlight of the evening the pictures of the shuttle looks like it was done with a little toy inside of a box and the scenes were funny because you could see the strings attached to the space suits the script was lacking and the car chase scene with the guy bleeding and going unconscious was incredible because he drove better than i could have on one of my best days all in all i have seen worse but this sure isn't one i'd recommend or want to remember
0	i rented this movie because i am a huge dudikoff fan i figured it couldn't be that bad boy was i wrong at the 15 minute mark i was the others to let me rip the dvd out and fling it back to the rental store but they refused they swore it had to get better br br they were wrong this movie was lacking everything the actors delivered their lines with as much emotion as a comatose rock the plot was ridiculous and i was offended that hollywood assumed people were dumb enough to enjoy it none of the characters interacted very well with each other ice t gives one of his worst performances here br br after watching footage of the wrong plane bad guys standing up to get shot and clips being emptied and missing everything i wanted to scream and bang my head on concrete the movie hit its plateau of ignorance when the people on the space station used an elevator to travel space suits are not needed and there is gravity in space regardless of what real astronauts may say br br i didn't finish this movie and hated it i don't want to finish this movie this is slow suicide i could feel my cerebral planning to avenge the torture i put it through
0	i knew it was going to be awful but not this awful as it's one of the most boring movies i have ever seen not a damn thing happens all the characters are dull and the story is stupid and incredibly boring plus the ending is especially lame the only reason i rented this piece of crap because i am a big fan of michael dudikoff however he is wasted here and looks extremely bored and shows no emotion what so ever plus i cheered out loud when the movie was over it's like the movie had no plot and it was all about nothing and ice t is god awful even though he is ok in some stuff plus dudikoff and yvette nipar had no chemistry together at all there's one scene that the director tried to make emotional but he fails miserably as yvette nipar didn't really show all that much emotion however there is a decent car chase scene but that's not enough for me to recommend this god awful film plus the dialog is atrocious avoid this movie like the plague not a damn thing happens please avoid and trust me on this one you may thank me afterwords the direction is horrible fred olen ray does a horrible job here with shoddy camera work laughably cheap looking set pieces terrible angles laughable use of stock footage and keeping the film at an incredibly dull pace the acting is terrible michael dudikoff is nowhere near his usual amazing self he looks extremely bored and shows no emotion what so ever his character is also extremely dull as i can't believe he signed on for this piece of garbage he also had no chemistry with yvette nipar dudikoff still rules ice t has barely anything to do and also looks bored and he didn't convince me one bit is not very good here he had somewhat of a wimpy character i didn't like him yvette nipar is pretty but was really terrible here she didn't show much emotion and had no chemistry with dudikoff and as a result i didn't give a damn about her character art owen marsh kathy katharine marsh and the rest of the cast are bad as well overall please avoid like the plague fred olen ray and steve should be ashamed of themselves bomb out of 5
0	the russian space station with a crew of four russians and two americans is threatening to re enter the earth's atmosphere in a matter of days russia asks for help in rescuing the stranded crew and nasa scrambles the space shuttle atlantis the nsa also have an interest in the a prototype microwave power source being tested aboard and organise for one of their men to be placed on the mission br br that's the plot onto less important things the space station and the shuttle are the same blatantly obvious models used in 'memorial day' and 'dark and a handful of other films i suspect the model effects are so obvious throughout the entire movie and make the film look very 1960s the sets are a little better but are far too '80s for what is supposedly a brand new station built by an american company which later comes in as part of a conspiracy to destroy and the and claim the insurance the script has a few good moments including farewell and the little spiel at the end but is otherwise fairly bland and sub standard the acting is okay the only real standout performance comes from alex who offers up some of the film's better dialogue michael dudikoff is surprisingly one of the best parts about this film ice t is ice t 'nuff said the film offers a few surprises though that i don't wish to spoil br br certainly one of the better low grade contemporary set sci fi films of the last six years but not the best the film is watchable but the special effects and plot will probably put a lot of viewers off rent the other sci fi film instead
0	admittedly you can put a model airplane against a black background and call it sci fi and thats enough to get me interested so if you are like that black horizon will at least get you interested before you watch it the best part of the movie is when they rehash some actual footage of a shuttle launch br br the movie plays like the naked gun series spoofing cop dramas with bad clichés and bad acting unfortunately i don't think they meant to be funny the actors really are made of cardboard the dialog really does suck so well just have to laugh at them and not with them br br on a side note it is rare to see a movie that takes place half in outer space half on earth and doesn't mix in the expected extraterrestrials and supernatural events i really do ache for more realistic drama based on our space endeavors
0	what a clunker br br it must have been made for tv or cable br br look forget the screenplay forget the bunch of forgettable actors excuse me continuity the nsa whatever or whoever he is an agent takes off in an f16 is shown in an chucking his guts up and later the aircraft shown is an phantom oooh wish that i could be so cavalier br br apart from the male actors the women are wasps blue eyed and long legged and eventually get to cry about the heroes who save them even when a solid weld could save most of the cosmo astro the blond drops the welding tool duh br br as an sf movie one out of ten as a movie per se 1 2 that's a half point they should have ditched the space station and headed for mars br br major raspberries
0	well i set out with a few friends to see this movie we went an hour before the show started to get good seats so as you can probably imagine we where exited to see this movie but that excitement soon turned to horror this movie is a complete failure it just try's to hard to be funny that its sad the script is poorly written and relies to heavy on the actors to make up for it br br the only good acting in the whole movie was from stefan c schaefer who was great the plot was weak and even the funny scenes felt forced and unnatural considering that the main actors are some of best comedians it's well special br br i would not recommend this movie to any one because it try's to hard and never really delivers
0	i had never heard of this film until it came to dvd i was immediately intrigued by everything about it the actors the title the cover and especially the author arthur miller you can't go wrong with him can you yep i haven't read the novel but i'm going to guess it was a lot better than the film i had high hopes for this movie i love macy and dern and it looked interesting unfortunately this film never really rises above cookie cutter messages about racism and bigotry if you've never seen any other films that deal with this subject or if you never knew that america was founded on bigotry then maybe this film will wow you others will probably find it predictable stale and overall bland
0	badly shot badly edited clumsy dialogue flat characters unsuccessful adaption of a novel it doesn't really get much worse decent acting and good popcorn saved me for this hour and a half felt more like three hours of boredom occasional good one liners br br david is a dim witted young man who has never recovered from losing his brother at an early age he puts his faith in a chinese philosophy mumbo jumbo video although that doesn't seem to help him much in real life david is a member of a debt collectors gang where every member has an iq below sea level a lacking script along with uncreative shooting and even worse editing make what could have been quite funny incidents of failed debt collecting look like a amateurish homemade reality show br br david rents an apartment from an elementary school teacher who by dropping a couple of sentences about his own importance convinces david he is dealing with the most dangerous criminal in iceland a severely lacking script doesn't offer david anything to base his opinion on a couple of scenes showing doing something that david could have misinterpreted would have done the work the potentials of film as media as opposed to the text of the book this film is based on are not exploited br br at first david's connection with raises his status within the debt collectors gang but the prevailing paranoia in the criminal world forces david to show where his loyalty lies br br the plot of the film is fine but then it is based on the book this could have been a much better film a good screenwriter could have made something of this material sadly that is not the case br br the acting is generally good is excellent and credible as david eggert doesn't get much to work with but does his best with what little material he has and michael imperioli in a tiny role manage alright br br overall opinion what could have been quite a funny and entertaining film about a dim witted anti hero in a debt collectors gang becomes a boring badly crafted film made after a poor manuscript staring at your toes for an hour and a half would be more enjoyable
0	i did have a good time the first 45 min or so but then suddenly it was all down hill the suspense somewhat started to get thin and the jokes somewhat the same all over what kept it going were the good actors br br but the problem with this film is that it is trying to be cleverly funny like tarantino and god is that outdated stuff tarantino being a bit overrated sometimes this movie comes ten years too late at best it is for teenagers and i am sure many of them find the character of funny which he is for the first 30 min the other problem i have with it is that the story fades away towards the end more and more thou i tried to find a recovery point maybe it didn't recover because the lack of passion comes with the effort of trying to be cleverly funny also like in many movies sure good actors who can afford it don't seem to demand a better dialogue or just turn down the script
0	i found this to be a watchable all be it very predictable movie there was some good stunt work that gave a fair degree of excitement and suspense to the story one did however have to suspend ones credulity on a number of occasions for the plot to work for example despite losing their transfer cable couplings and harness when the pilot retracted the manually they fortunately found a spare on board the aircraft complete with caribbeans according to the plot drilling a hole in the ceiling of the vault would disable the alarm system in the vault when the system was reactivated i can't think why according to there battery operated drill would be unable to drill through the vault ceiling however they just happened to have a hydraulic drill complete with hoses and to fit the equally convenient take off points in the planes hydraulic system located above the vault as the plane has a closed hydraulic system it is hard to see how this could be accomplished without affecting the control systems or at least setting hydraulic pressure alarms in the cockpit accepting this for the sake of the plot it takes them several minutes to drill a small hole through the top of the vault tension will they be able to drill through before fed's get there to check the false alarm yet from the time the vault door closed and before the fed's had walked the few feet to the second security door they had cut a squire hole in the roof of the vault big enough for them to get through one can accept all theses and other inconsistencies for the sake of a good yarn however what spoiled the movie for me was when what appears to have been an effort by the script writers to what up to that point was a fairly predictable ending they killed off the two hero's if one can refer to crocks as hero's brooks one was shot and thrown out of a 747 at 10 000 feet the other sliding down the cable between the two planes the villain with one hand manages to the cable carrying the weight of a full grown man with the air pressure of several hundred miles per hour pressing on him and letting him fall to his death and yet in the next sequence these two without any kind of explanation however tenuous or implausible have miraculously survived the full from 10 000 feet and had time to set up an elaborate scam to get the money the only comment on there survival was to sophie that her brother is a bad shot don't expect an oscar nomination for this one
0	the only reason any of the hundred or so users watched this movie was because they belong to the crew were friends to the crew or were obsessive fans of either lance henriksen or lorenzo lamas i personally follow the cult of lance so i was disappointed to see that despite being the headliner it's in name only playing rich criminal newcastle lance is a joy to watch but all of his screen time is relegated to the beginning of the movie newcastle sets up a 747 heist which includes lamas and a bunch of forgettable characters the biggest shock to this viewer was that the pre heist scenes were not all that bad with the exception of somewhat obnoxious and rather confused looking gale who times every line with the finesse of a grade school play actress acting was decent all around and none of the lines really made me cringe br br but once the heist occurs the movie falls asleep not only is their plan the most ridiculous thing ever captured on film but it's dragged out for far too long this isn't a very deep movie and you have to fill out your 90 minutes but these scenes are so boring i nearly nodded off at two in the afternoon one particular sequence in which we watch each and every one of the characters perform the same task over and over again is especially difficult to get through the movie's name is rapid exchange but the exchange is far from rapid it's overlong and bloated to extremes perhaps it would have worked if any of the characters had real personalities but come on there's only so much you can ask out of a straight to video movie airing of showtime extreme br br thankfully there are several laughs intentional and unintentional lorenzo lamas is seemingly a master of disguise which makes for a couple of incredibly bizarre scenarios and lance returns in the film's end albeit for a brief period of time it's a bad movie and i probably didn't have to tell you that myself but it's far from the worst thing i've ever seen i wouldn't put it too high on the list of henriksen films since he's been in some real gems with greater screen time and either way the movie loses a lot of steam once the heist begins but the best thing i can say for rapid exchange is that the last two films i watched before it were the mainstream hostage and the overrated pretentious crash and this was better than both
0	as a fan of henriksen i liked him in the millennium series and of course lorenzo renegade lamas i had expected at least something from this film sadly the plot is predictable the acting is bad and the used for most stunts don't work out sometimes it even looks like they've captured some shots from microsoft flight simulator br br the cinematography sucks as well unnecessary funky camerawork in the beginning only detracts from the cheesy dialogue and gives the film a cheap made for video look it works in hiphop movies and jet li movies but seems out of place in this flick br br i would have liked this film 10 years ago i was 11 then
0	i absolutely hated this movie even though the movie wanted to transmit some kind of social message it was done in such a cliché ridden and melodramatic way like a mexican soap opera br br also the acting was terrible especially and her son that's one of the problems with dominican movies they use celebrities that can't even act just to attract the masses br br i'm even more ashamed about the positive reviews here which sadly means dominicans are just being condescending to what's done here instead of giving honest and critical opinions that will help our film industry base itself on quality
0	i know when you buy a used oops excuse me previously viewed dvd for 5 99 you shouldn't have very high expectations but even that was a steep price for this poor boxed disc br br i will give the producers credit for providing a complex challenge for the viewer to determine which is worst the acting the scripting the camera work the special effects they all pretty much tie for just plain terrible oh it has the absolutely worst faked car crash ever used in a motion picture anywhere br br now all this is pretty serious ridicule for a movie fan who proudly features 'police academy' 'naked gun' 'national lampoon's loaded weapon and a host of other campy discs in his collection but at least those folks know that ones tongue should be planted firmly in ones cheek the cast of unfortunately use their tongues in an attempt to deliver inane dialogue and although it is almost beyond my belief the movies characters seem to think they might actually be doing something of value a back room pornographer would be ashamed to release this mess br br oh lucky me bought the worst video ever made at the same time fraternity demon maybe the name should have given me a hint
0	princess warrior is a science fiction action movie with a pretty thin plot essentially on the death of their queen mother two sisters one evil and one good fight for control of the throne the good sister is being beaten so she escapes to earth where she appears buck naked in a strip club in the middle of a wet t shirt contest the rest of the movie is basically one long chase scene as the evil sister tries to find and kill the younger good sister but the younger sister is helped by bob a good hearted dj and everything is complicated by police involvement and the good sister's ignorance of earth customs and culture the older sister catches up to her younger sibling several times but the latter manages to escape and go on the run again throughout all of this action there is a cult of women on the home planet having some kind of a space age séance to bring the good sister back sadly a good portion of this film seems to be rather boring car chase scenes as they drive around los angeles and what was that sound effect when the police car crashed the film culminates in another physical fight between the sisters with a predictable ending br br it seems to borrow elements from star wars the light sabers and the look of the girls' home planet in the opening and subsequent scenes dr who the phone booth like means of transportation and some of the costumes from the cult on the home planet could have been taken from star trek episodes br br ms dana the evil sister in the movie in another user comment mentioned the endless and dull wet t shirt contest it is seriously the longest wet t shirt contest in cinema history and the only one where the contestants were wearing industrial strength cotton polyester shirts that defied all efforts to get them wet and translucent i couldn't state it any better the only thing i would add is that the music in this scene is just plain annoying br br most of the acting is pretty over the top but that seems to suit the whole style of the movie the actors playing vinnie and vito were just too much for me i just found them annoying ms seemed to be enjoying herself and not taking the whole thing too seriously in contrast to sharon lee jones who acted decently but seemed to be taking everything more seriously all of the police were portrayed as bumbling idiots presumably to add comic relief which is a bit unnecessary given that the whole movie was rather comical br br from a ratings perspective this film had a lot of foul language some topless women and others scantily clad in thongs but not enough skin to satisfy those who are looking for nudity one sex scene that was portrayed in a non graphic arty dreamlike fashion and little violence while there were threats of violence throughout the scenes of both sword fighting and brawling were exaggerated and too camp to be offensive though it looked like the actors were having a lot of fun with it br br i have to wonder who came up with the character names a small egg a surgical instrument used for scraping and cleaning suspiciously similar to a disease characterized by scaling skin and an eating disorder with and and another disease br br overall this is a bad low budget campy sci fi action movie but it did keep me entertained though i might need a few drinks before watching it again
0	this movie can't decide what it is a soft porno or a sf movie not enough plot for a real movie but way too much for a porno br br in a galaxy far far away a good princess we know she's good because she has long blonde hair wears a white toga is polite and is mooning wistfully about her dying mother when we first see her inherits the kingdom over her elder sister who is evil and we know this because she has dark hair and wears too much makeup abuses her male sexual slaves sneers and curls her lip all the time and talks imperiously about the horrors she'll perpetrate when she's queen the evil princess gets upset and tries to stage a coup but the good sister gets away to earth of course she materializes buck naked in a bar during a wet t shirt contest it really goes downhill from there the acting is ludicrous the dialog sounds like it was written for a porno and the general storyline is ridiculous there's not even enough skin to make happy the sort of person who'd watch this for skin i love good bad movies and this one's not even enjoyable on a bad movie level
0	excuse me but my tongue was too in my cheek when we filmed this piece o' poop as the evil sister with hair that mommy dearest would envy i did my very best to channel tim curry in rocky horror i'm sad that this did not come across ah well a friend compared it to a 'rock bottom budget with a white hot spoon ' i'll have to be content with that br br what amazes me is no one mentioned the endless and dull wet t shirt contest it is seriously the longest wet t shirt contest in cinema history and the only one where the contestants were wearing industrial strength cotton polyester shirts that defied all efforts to get them wet and translucent br br and didn't anyone catch the director's cameo as the dude on the interrupted by our hero with the line 'are we filming yet clearly audible jeez this is bad movie heaven for real aficionados
0	if good intentions were enough to produce a good film i would have rated the turgid ponderous obvious focus a bit higher than 4 macy does his best but as an earlier poster commented miller's little parable asks us to suspend disbelief too often perhaps the novel gives us a bit more background on newman so we can understand how someone who is obviously not without intelligence could be so dense in perceiving the attitudes of those around him i agree with another reviewer that if one is unaware of how bigoted average citizens were in america during this time period then this movie might be an eye opener i grew up in the fifties and the good pastors of my church found nothing wrong with having the church picnic at a commercial beach whose sign prominently indicated that no jews or blacks would be admitted it is difficult for young people today to understand that this was the norm and not just in the south as late as 1964 when i graduated from a somewhat racially integrated but sexually segregated public high school in baltimore my black classmates could not attend the traditional father and son banquet as it was held at a facility which did not admit blacks sadly it was an establishment owned by a jewish family the subject matter of focus is important and we should never forget despite the lingering signs of racism in modern america how truly repulsive the attitudes of that previous generation were the greatest generation indeed so perhaps this film is somewhat valuable in countering the recent wave of sentimental crap about the forties from the likes of steven spielberg and tom but in the end as in far from heaven the filmmakers' good intentions are undermined by having a protagonist so ridiculously oblivious to the social conventions of their time
0	this has to be the most boring movie i ever sat through it is dreary and drab has no excitement the acting by hulce is terrible as hulce cannot pull off the proper accent required for this film the story is stupid and i sure wouldn't recommend this crap for anyone unless you want to die of boredom
0	i appeared as an extra and was on location as a journalist covering the curse my involvement was during the segments of this film shot in jim pa jim was also one of the locations of the 1969 film the molly maguires i reported the 'action' in the free press newspaper where i was editor 1978 80 the paper ceased publication int he 1990s i recall the excellent attention to detail of the period costumes automobiles etc the modern streets of jim were covered with gravel to mimic a 1920s rural town of the south at the time i interviewed the producer and spoke briefly with the director during a set change break i did not get to interview james coburn which was always a great disappointment to me as an aside i appear briefly in one of the street scenes wearing a snap brim hat and a tweed jacket the producer asked me to jump in and it was a real thrill i still have a collection of black and white stills i took of the production work for the newspaper someday they may be of interest to film television historians lou
0	just awful it's almost unbelievable that with characters and situations provided by dashiell hammett such a plodding passionless mishmash could result but that's television for you filler between commercials the first warning signal sounds from the of the period re creation which screams 1928 in banner type and touring cars fedoras and and speakeasy jazz jarringly played with all the attention paid to pointless arty detail the important matters get ignored br br like narrative clarity or plausibility or competent writing and acting the plot sets one of hammett's operatives hamilton nash so whether he's called ham or nash we think of hammett or dash investigating a bogus diamond theft thus is introduced the young woman who supposedly carries the curse the charmless and talentless nancy addison who went back to soaps where she belonged she belongs to a crackpot religious cult led by jean simmons and seems addicted to drugs as well there's also a mysterious drug which seeps into rooms br br but enough the writing is never more pedestrian than when it reaches for the poetic or high flown and the cast parrots it the only way they know how by grotesquely overacting simmons gets treated like minor royalty from old hollywood but the grande dame treatment doesn't wash hector elizondo for some reason enjoys second billing after coburn for a dispensable part other familiar faces drift through doing little good for their resumes br br the actors aren't even photographed to look good jason miller is an especial fright but extreme close ups of coburn are pitiless too coburn probably copped this role because with mustache he bears a strong resemblance to hammett he needed more guidance than that nobody has given him the vaguest hint as to how to play his character or of the story's tone or of how the different strands of the plot mesh together they don't at least not in this telling so he flashes his big cat grin whether called for or not br br the curse is available on videotape in a variety of lengths for those foolhardy enough to see for themselves the shortest is the kindest cut of all
0	set in the lethal panther 2 is a dreary early 90s martial arts action flick which sees a reckless cop hunting down the nasty criminals who killed his wife a rather cheap looking production with almost no artistic merit this film relies on the quality and quantity of its action but whilst there is no shortage of fisticuffs gun fights and explosions the quality is just not there the endless battles are desperately lacking in originality or excitement with poor editing and mundane direction making this film a real chore to sit through br br the usually impressive is totally wasted with her natural athletic ability overshadowed by some excruciatingly bad wire work the ballistic action scenes are an unimpressive mixture of 'slow motion flying through the air whilst heroics crazy vehicle stunts and endless bad guys lining up to be shot br br with so many better examples of the 'girls and genre now available on dvd i suggest that you leave this one well alone unless like me you'll endure pretty much any old rubbish in order to be a completist
0	you don't have to spend much time watching this made for tv movie or series pilot or whatever it was intended to be to figure out just what lies in store the incredibly bad musical score makes its debut from the start seriously if this isn't the worst theme i've ever heard i certainly can't remember it while the acting talent is available here from jeff bridges to carl vera miles and sal the writing is atrocious and the story is contrived filled with insipid stereotypes and an obvious ripoff from ken kesey why must hollywood always present tales from the sixties as if the so called hippies were all unidimensional morons it's too bad that such an interesting era in our exceptionally conformist social experience is generally depicted by out and out garbage so that the least offensive of the genre is now accepted as reasonably authentic when almost none of it comes even close to the way things really were the best i've seen to date is a memoir called looking back by a guy named becker but who else has even heard of it no one in hollywood that's for sure they're too busy pushing tripe like this groaner of a movie to bother with reality
0	one of the problems with popular culture especially when discussing the popular culture of the 1970s is that mass media especially television is usually about four years behind 'underground' media primarily music many people think the generation remained important throughout the 1970s actually it was all over at altamont in 1970 by 1972 'underground' rock or the had moved east to england and led black sabbath and david bowie early metal heads and the so called rockers ' who were all 'peace and love' not neither in a darkly different vein was charles manson's 'family ' br br this obvious pilot for a television show that thankfully was never picked up by the networks is attempting to come to terms with a culture that was already as withered as yesterday's flowers the script must have been lying around a few years by the time it was produced writer had already achieved recognition for tough mafia revenge tales and the cultural references are all to easy rider and woodstock 1969 the music referenced on the soundtrack is actually earlier 1966 67 at woodstock hendrix canned heat and sly and the family stone had blasted this kind of folk pop into oblivion br br the movie is about a middle class family that goes on the road in order to meet hippies wow man it's a groovy mind blowing happening of a bag however politics count for nothing vietnam some place in asia right br br this average meaning stale and vacuous tv movie is only redeemed by jeff bridges' surprisingly mature performance as the young college drop out who convinces his parents and grandma to hippie america all the rest of the performances are standard tv fair by standard tv actors of the time the director avails himself of some nice location cinematography but otherwise the film is a poor way to spend 90 minutes br br i knew it was all over when sal remarks of a young runaway who tells the other characters they are not really there she's a latent existentialist wow far out groovy br br a couple extra points for being 'so bad it's funny ' but if you don't care about the '70's tv version of the '60's stay away
0	this movie purports to show a middle class family's attempt to figure out what is going down in the america of the late 1960's their trip to a rock festival is as far as their old bus gets without exception the characters are superficial stereotypes br br if you want to know which well established hollywood actors were desperate for a paycheck in those days just look at the credits sal i had forgotten just how badly his career had hit the skids thank god his career rebounded before his untimely death br br the writers on this television turkey were clueless outside of doing weed their insights into the hippie movement were laughable
0	this film actually starts out pretty interesting but for my taste it degenerated far too quickly into a dull and predictable melodrama none of the performances are particularly interesting and the camera work is just standard tv movie stuff so there's really no reason for anyone to see this movie unless they are as big of a jeff bridges fan as i am i guess br br bridges plays mike olson a young man who announces at a family picnic that he is quitting college to go on the road his parents believe he is just acting out and talk about how he has no plan he assures them he does have a plan and that he needs to discover his true self and his place in the world so much so in fact that he invites them to go on the road with him and purchases an antique bus to travel in which he and his father repair in true tv movie father son bonding fashion up until about this point in the film i was somewhat interested in the plot and characters and i wanted to see how his stuck up mother vera miles was going to react to life on the road there's a funny scene early on where the father and son have to convince her to take the trip with them they show her the inside of the bus and she gradually becomes more and more interested finally departing in a huff with some kind of talk about curtains versus blinds on the windows bridges marvels to his dad carl equipped with radio announcer voice that she has changed her mind dad assures him electric oven works every time br br but the movie goes downhill almost as soon as they hit the road it turns out that mike's only plan is to introduce them to some friends of his who turn out to be random people who they meet at a hippie rock festival as soon as i saw the rock festival i was a bit disappointed particularly as it became obvious that the entire rest of the film would take place at the festival campground and not actually on the road but at least i thought there might be a decent band like well if they couldn't afford hendrix or the stones maybe they would at least have canned heat or little feat or something like that no dice apparently the only music at this festival is some horrible choral group with orchestra that sounded like a poor imitation of the fifth dimension coupled with an annoying announcer who's supposed to be humorous br br also we are introduced to a set of hippy and their various medical melodramas kathy renne jarrett is a pretty blonde girl with existentialism and nature on her mind who falls in love with mike before revealing the fact that she needs kidney to live and has run off to the festival to die and 2 other campers are determined to have a baby in their crude tent introducing the struggle between modern medicine and hippy ignorance or something like that all in all the longer this goes on the more painful the film becomes for anyone hoping for any element of surprise or real drama br br basically this movie is a waste of time although it would probably amuse anyone who is really into the period of time in the late 60s early 70s and the films from that time i'd be just as happy if i never see it again though
0	this unintentionally amusing mid 80s tv movie is based on the premise that sex bomb donna mills in a mostly appalling wardrobe throughout is a neglected housewife pining for her sexy past as a cheerleader she escapes her empty life by fantasising about random sexual encounters with one of the many attractive men she comes across finally giving into her fantasies and indulging in a bit on the side although all she really wants is to reignite the flames of passion with her boring husband james brolin br br there are many laughable aspects to this film mills' first foray into co producing later following her departure from knots landing she found great success as a trashy tv movie queen starring in mostly issue of the week melodramas through most of the '90s she usually played a victim of some sort clearly determined to wash her hands of the wonderfully wicked and entertaining she played for so long on knots funniest are the drawn out fantasy sequences filmed as though they are meant to be soft core porn wind and smoke machines backlighting porno music but as this is a network tv movie the scenes are all very chaste and ultimately not very sexy at all the most amusing and bizarre scene has mills taking a walk on the wild side downtown among the spiky haired punks complete with robert palmer soundtrack br br less laughable is the dreadful dialogue that the cardboard characters are forced to utter pity poor cicely tyson as the mandatory psycho analyst or veronica cartwright as the mandatory best friend or even pre babs james brolin with that daytime soap style of clenched fist anger br br of course as in all of these sorts of films we learn that all problems can be solved through psycho therapy and then the film just becomes silly as we explore briefly the reasons for mills' shocking behaviour as if it can't just be that she wants a good shag br br vacuous
0	admittedly i tuned into this in the hopes of seeing some beefcake shots of james brolin unfortunately there was only one early on and the rest of the movie was very tame and ultimately made little sense br br the story what there is of it centers on nick and julie atkins a couple whose marriage of many years is beginning to grow stale nick a successful businessman is focused on work to the point of neglecting julie who tries to fill the void by going back to school julie's longing for the passion that she and nick had early in their marriage begins to take shape in the form of powerful sexual fantasies which block out reality for minutes at a time causing her to do things like burning breakfast and her husband's papers at first she fantasizes about her husband but as the movie progresses she begins to fantasize about other men and about encounters with random strangers whom she meets this culminates in her acting out her fantasies with disastrous consequences for her marriage can she and her husband rebuild their relationship is it worth saving br br this could have been an interesting premise but the execution is so bland that you wonder why they even bothered characters aren't developed motives aren't explained background information isn't given no exploration is made of how julie got to the point where she couldn't control herself and no explanation is offered as to how she will do so in the future the end product is a muddled mess which is just as confusing as julie's fantasies which are surprisingly underdeveloped br br the acting is a mixed bag donna mills as julie does well with the material she is given although her continual self pity does become strident after awhile james brolin acts as though he is reading his lines from cue cards and even his anger over his wife's infidelity is hard to buy into he shows so little passion over the whole issue the supporting roles are mostly forgettable br br disappointing treatment of what could have been an interesting story more's the pity since it doesn't even offer the eye candy it promised
0	most likely cleopatra will be of little interest if you did not watch the series when it was broadcast and i don't think that many people did but if you are still somewhat intrigued it is a buck rogers in the 25th century premise without space ships and with no budget for wardrobe or production design br br in this case the buck rogers part cleopatra is played by jennifer sky which one might expect to be a good thing as jennifer is very beautiful and quite talented and has a nice comedic touch but a quick glance at the promotional material will show that she is somewhat the worse for having a bad haircut and a salvation army thrift store wardrobe if you remember how fetching jennifer was during her time on xena her dowdy cleopatra look will be a huge disappointment with a target audience of teenage boys looking to burn their eyeballs looking at hot fetish attired girls it is not a good idea to skimp on the exploitation value of your heroine or her costume and they wonder why some series don't attract much of an audience love it or hate it buck rogers had hotter costumes and much better looking guest stars br br the other two exploitation elements are two female associates hel gina torres basically playing her stock firefly character and sarge victoria pratt another xena connection an extremely wooden version of natasha henstridge torres does a good job playing off the cleopatra character providing most of the show's comic relief br br torres sings the theme song a somewhat lame parody of rick in the year and terminus 1969 you remember the one that opens with the words in the year if man is still alive if woman can survive they may find i suspect that they gave the series its title so that they could butcher this catchy little song although who knows perhaps the title is a homage to buck rogers and they thought of using the song later br br so the premise of the show is that the earth's surface has been taken over by aliens called not the wkrp one and the humans have been driven underground our three heroines fight against the under the direction of a disembodied presumably female voice appropriately referred to as voice unlike buck rogers cleopatra is kind of a wimpy third stooge still dazed and confused from her sleep or maybe just disoriented from the creepy haircut there are a lot of nice close ups of sky wide eyed and bewildered like buck rogers the running gag is cleopatra using a common 21st century expression and everyone finding it either totally profound or completely baffling br br unlike firefly the action is more of that hyper edited xena garbage which is neither realistic nor particularly entertaining one good gimmick is that the girls travel around spiderman fashion a sort of web slinging through tunnels and shafts in the labyrinth of their underground world br br strangely or maybe not considering the budget these are only half hour episodes and except for one two part show there is not enough time for any subtlety and nuance br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
0	in da moonlight is the first showcasing of jeff daniels writing and directing talents br br i've seen worse debuts but this one isn't that great br br in da moonlight starts off like as a decent parody of this part of american culture as we follow jeff daniels on the eve of deer hunting season 1989 he is getting close to the record of oldest to never bag a buck br br the film takes places in the upper regions of michigan and has all the normal cliche characters but there is a warmth there that tells you this isn't being mean spirited br br well reuben is heading off to the deer camp and before his wife kimberly norris guerrero gives him a native american necklace his lucky hat and two forms of liquid you probably don't want to know about br br anyway she is really the only one who believe in him he finally gets to the camp where his dad presnell is waiting and his brother joey albright is soon to show br br okay let's fast forward this in here there are some laughs a few moments when i chuckled a loud but most of the jokes here are used a few to many times br br but the biggest draw back is the spiritual native american happenings just when you settle in with the characters these strange things occur but the special effects are so cheap all it is is a big flash of light and then head quickly bobbing back in forth br br and the ending well it is worthless br br the move itself wasn't bad the quirky character and fun parody were good but it should've stayed at that instead of having stupid spiritual awakenings that look like rejected scenes from some demon possession movie br br i give in da moonlight a 4 5 out of 10
0	one of the worst movies i have ever seen excruciatingly slow moving boring and stupid lots of juvenile bathroom humor drawn out into painful tedium i like jeff daniels but he should stick to acting and forget writing i am amazed this is rated as high as it is i call it a turkey
0	i went into this movie expecting a piece about how to be accepted in culture and i wound up blowing 8 50 on a 10 minute fart joke and a whole bunch of fake accents sorry jeff but if you're going for the whole cult thing you gotta a while to go
0	it is inconceivable to me how anyone could have enjoyed or laughed at this movie i'd say it's the worst movie i've seen in years and i see a lot of them maybe i've forgotten junior high it's also very hard to believe that this is the same jeff daniels to did such a brilliant performance of george washington in the crossing seems like ever since he did dumber he's gone into the tank can you believe he even wrote and directed this junk
0	having lived in upper peninsula 30 miles from in the mid 1990s i was eager to see this film it begins promisingly enough with some superficial understanding of the values and quirks of u p life but jeff daniels apparently was not content with a low key approach that would have been fitting given the place and the people instead he introduces extremely crude humor and some wildly inappropriate mystical supernatural elements although there is a good movie to be made about this practically unknown region of the u s this is not it
0	i once lived in the u p and let me tell you what i didn't have the idea what the heck this bear walk is i never heard of it the whole 10 years i was up there it was really funny in the beginning but went down hill quickly
0	well this movie actually did have one redeeming quality it made up the funniest season one episode of mst3k i wish rhino had released this one instead of the crawling hand
0	i think i can safely say without really giving anything away that this movie had no robots in it the guys in robot costumes didn't act or speak as such and the evil entity behind the whole plot isn't a robot either br br the whole thing looks like it was shot in a city park somewhere with photos dropped in the background when the director needed a custom set i can't even use words to describe the acting br br this couldn't even offer the hilarious ending of star crystal in short it is clearly one of the worst sci fi movies of the 80's and i would be so bold as to say of all time
0	this was made in that beloved age known as the 80s and shot in my hometown of new york city actually this has become one of my favorite b sci fi movies oh sure it really stinks to high hell but there's so much to make fun of laugh and enjoy that it becomes more tolerable after every viewing br br such as br br try to find the similarities between this and well ok there is nothing similarly bad as this well except castle of br br sock puppets can be dangerous to your health br br create by describing through voice over rather than showing any imagery br br have leading villainess valeria played wonderfully by deliver some of the most riveting lines ever br br lots of men and women in post apocalyptic fashion aka leather bikinis loin cloths and dead animal fur br br do be horrified by the end br br i'm off to have a salad
0	after watching this movie i couldn't help but notice the parallels between it and another film called america 3000 both were very bad mid 1980's post apocalypse disasters on celluloid obviously fake sets wooden acting and stupid monsters are found in both films about the only difference between the two is that the lead villainess here played by has a very thick accent avoid this one unless you're watching the mst3k version joel and the bots barely salvage this turkey
0	just saw this at the madison horror film festival and was disappointed a few shocking funny moments the hollow carla a urinating harpy in the dreamland and two competing interesting premises similar to new nightmare with belief bringing a mythical character to life and also lost highway with a man living out a fantasy in his head but had long stretches of no movement and incoherent plot development just because you use the framework of dreams or a mental fugue state doesn't make it lynchian you need the compelling visuals and creepy performances br br positive things dr maitland had real comic timing and all the girls were very cute carla's father and ingrid pitt looked like they were having some fun and tom savini at least looked like he had his lines memorized and we couldn't see if he was just reading cue cards br br i get the hammer references but it looks like the director realized the script was a snoozer and just added some shocks to try and get some laughs out of whatever footage he could put together but they don't work because they're too few and far between and create an inconsistent tone condense this to 30 minutes of all the fun parts and you could have a surreal goofy short but at feature length skip it it's not so bad it's good it's just so bad it's boring
0	some films are just plain silly beyond explanation this is one of them words cannot do justice to the wooden acting the stupid plotline and the ever predictable outcome about the only thing that makes this film halfway worth watching are the scantily clad women and the mute guy for you ladies in it the leader of the warrior women and valeria are quite appealing to the eye but that's about all this movie has going for it br br some silliness in point one scene when they start to journey to the lair of the dark one they are walking away from a supposedly destroyed land but we clearly see a 1980's new york behind them about 2 3rds of this movie looks like it was filmed in a high school basement the deadly sock puppets look about as scary as a sesame street monster i have to agree with in that many 1950's trash b movies did a better job than this about the only one i can think of that didn't was teenagers from outer space
0	robot holocaust is about the lamest most pathetic attempt at making a post apocalyptic movie that i've seen and i thought the italians were the masters of wretched mad max wannabes some of those movies like escape 2000 are positively brilliant in comparison with this piece of poo the plot is nonsensical – even with a narrator setting up every scene and boy does it drag scene after scene with nothing of any interest happening the special effects and i use the word special loosely consist of sock puppets yes that's right – sock puppets the acting is abysmal is in the running for worst performance i've ever seen sure she's french or german or whatever – but man is she bad i cannot think of a single positive thing to say about the movie so i'll stop there because ten sentences on this junk is about ten too many br br however and fortunately for me i saw the mst3k version of robot holocaust some of the things that made the movie so bad helped make this mst3k episode a winner for a season one episode the riffs come fast and furious and hit their mark just about every time on my mst3k rating scale i give this episode a 4 5 – seek it out
0	mystery science theater 3000 would have not been able to bring any redeeming quality to a showing of this gem br br this one is like a cheesy pirate copy of 80's porn you could have purchased on vhs from an arcade on 42nd st before disney bought the whole smash and closed them all down br br but wait all the sex scenes have been cut i challenge anyone to find a worse film this film could replace water boarding as a humane method of interrogation br br no i take that back i would prefer water boarding br br the only credit this movie could earn apart from being the worst movie ever made would be to threaten the middle east into solving its problems under pain of having to watch this movie
0	this movie is really bad most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement there's a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all the whole thing is just laughable
0	i am not familiar with the producer's other works but this movie is a piece of crap br br i never saw the mst3k version but i can tell you mike and the bots probably didn't save it br br i love a grade z movie as much as the next bad movie fan but this was almost unwatchable br br there was no credit for who did the voice of the dark one sounded a bit like patrick stewart at times br br a group of high school students who found a junk super 8 camera in the trash heap could make a better movie than that
0	all right there's no way to this the plot was ridiculous the premise was ridiculous the acting was unconscionable the effects were laughable and all of the outdoor scenes appear to have been filmed in new york's central park that having been said there was something about this movie that i couldn't walk away from maybe it was the atmosphere or maybe it was the evil super vixen or the amazon br br anyway i'm not one to sit on the margins and criticise without pointing out a few redeeming qualities so here they are br br a violent off shoot of the women's lib movement is portrayed in a wilderness setting central park of course and all of the masochistic young men out there will be very impressed furthermore some of the scenes in which certain characters lose consciousness are amusingly dramatic you'll note that i write dramatic rather than convincing br br all i can say is that some people like b movies and i'm one of them if you're one of them too then give it a go cheers mr kincaid this is one for the ages
0	in fact it was awful the main chick in it who gets topless was obviously sleeping with the director at the time it was shot at some warehouse most likely owned by family or friends also they chose not to bother coming up with a story sure these are ways to cut cost but are they smart ways of keeping costs down no they aren't at the very least they could have found a middle school student in a creative writing course those kids may have at least had a lesson about story structure at the very least they could have read up on 3 act structure but acting obviously wasn't a priority either watching these jerks run around in funny clothing that was stupid by 1980's standards was an embarrassment the fact that none of these actors committed suicide in humiliation is probably a testament to the limited distribution this film received had the actors actually seen the final result of their hard work there would have been a line of people waiting to jump off the brooklyn bridge br br i'd give this movie 10 10 stars but it only deserves 1 for being released at all this movie should be shown to film students everywhere it's better than 90 of student films i've seen and wow is this movie a piece of
0	what a despairing film dress actors in furry rags place in suburban wasteland set cameras rolling and hope for the best one can only imagine e the thanks the cast gave when their characters were killed off by thus sparing them further humiliation in this this rivals monster a go go as the best cure for insomnia ever made oh god how can i fill up 10 lines explaining how overwhelmingly bored everybody looks in this movie whiney crappy plastic bungling robot who annoys everybody both on and off screen giant spider reduced to a single giant hairy leg pulled by string actors desperately trying not to look at the camera while mumbling off dialogs
0	cheap gloriously bad cheese from the 80's the decade of cheese i watched this one first uncut and un and it was pretty much laugh out loud funny even without the comments br br the plot such as it is revolves around a post apocalyptic world in which the ai robots revolted sound familiar and destroyed pretty much everything leaving a world in ruins with air so bad no one can breathe it the few humans that are left act as slaves to an enigmatic being called the dark one which seems to be part computer and part organic being the work to produce energy for this being in return for breathable air every once in a while the dark one has the strongest of the air slaves fight to the death so that no one will rise as a leader in a revolt against the dark one br br okay that's the so called serious stuff on to the silly stuff such as the ridiculous quasi futuristic clothing that everyone sports including car seat cover garments loin cloths and stuff and feather worn mostly by the dark one's henchwoman a chick with an unrecognizable and almost non understandable accent or the wooden acting and stilted lines sported by all of the so called 'actors' who's dialog is high on pretension and low on sense or the dime store special fx including pink socks with teeth glued onto them for sewer snakes a bomb made of strung piano wire and a tin can and terrible with halloween rubber masks on br br a band of air slaves follow their leader a mysterious wanderer who has adapted to the air outside to go to the energy plant to destroy the dark one the guy's name is neo which explains where the wachowski brothers got the idea for the matrix they meet up with a group of amazons along the way with the obligatory fight scene in which the female is bested of course has anyone else ever noticed that in every amazon movie or t v show ever produced these so called amazing warriors always get their butts kicked by either men or women amazons are just pansies i guess br br this band of determined warriors makes their way through central park errr the ravaged lands beyond the last standing city good way to save money on the matte paintings of a destroyed new york city anyway and journey into the sewers leading to the power station where the dark one and his go go girl henchwoman valeria hang out here they vanquish such ferocious beasts as the sock puppet worms a giant spider no one sees and the goofy lobster robot who is one of the dark one's personal guard br br the final showdown is pretty sad one of the slaves a girl who's father was taken by the dark one because he'd produced a way for people to breathe the foul air sees that her father has been by the dark one's true form which involves him being eaten by a giant avocado until only his head is sticking out the three remaining adventurers destroy the dark one by turning off a few switches and the robot holocaust dies not with a bang but with a whimper the two humans exchange some amazingly wooden last lines and that's it the end
0	i was so impressed with tim mutant hunt that i gave this one a try it is the near future post apocalypse of course a wandering fighter named neo no not that neo joins a group of similar looking fighters to challenge the dark one and his underling along the way they encounter mutants crazed females sewer worms a big spider leg and some clunky robots oh my br br sadly robot holocaust is hardly up or down to hunt's level clocking in at a painful 79 minutes the box says 90 this is one cheap flick the sets have all the elaborate design of a carnival haunted house and the costumes prove that in the near future everyone will dress like john travolta in the final dance number of staying alive the atomic wasteland is a combination of rubble filled old buildings and central park the dark one's headquarters is ominously named the power station and looks like well a power station the acting is universally bad except for as the evil is a whole 'nother level of bad vit er sick she gives a performance so amazingly bad that it becomes the sole reason to recommend this film she also delivers the film's only nudity in the pleasure chamber section of the film ed french again supplies the robot effects but they aren't nearly as slimy as his work in mutant hunt
0	i am a big fan of horror movies and know a lot of info on serial killers obviously the director of this one refused to research the film he was creating because half of the movie was fictional more than that the character of ed gein was portrayed in the wrong light i did not rent the movie to worry about the deputy and his girlfriend erica i rented it to watch ed gein and his legendary story this movie was awful the only reason i gave it a 2 out of 10 is because the gore wasn't too bad acting horrible actors sub par movie waste of time br br a big upset all around but i wont give up my search for a good horror movie
0	i kind of like jag it do have it´s charm but lately it´s to much propaganda in it for an outsider a non american the patriotic feeling can be a bit to much br br i don´t like that and mackenzie goes from being lawyers as they were in the early parts of the tv show to become super heros that stops wars and rescues entire continents its almost like watching a recruitment video from the us army br br i still watch the show so it´s not that bad but i would prefer more episodes when and mackenzie investigates military accidents and don´t save the world in the future
0	28 years before 9 11 there was another 9 11 which represented a key date in the history of chile south america and the whole world this was the date in 1973 when a bloody coup in chile deposed salvador allende the first marxist president elected democratically anywhere in the world and put an end to the chilean experiment of a democratic transition from capitalism to socialism allende committed suicide when the armed forces attacked the presidential palace br br unfortunately this film is too biased and too nostalgic towards the time of allende's rule to be an objective rendition of the man and of his place in history the times were troubled and allende was a disputed figure in the history of his country and of the whole world true he was democratically elected but his policies plunged chile into economic crisis he was deposed by a coup and a right wing dictatorship followed with repression and flagrant human rights abuses but he was also an ally of castro who saw in his policies another way of making revolution we'll never know if his tentative to build a socialist yet democratic society would have succeeded the authors of the movie take a completely pro allende position there is no opinion or point of view trying to explain the other side to answer questions like why did the middle class oppose him or how his democratic views could go together with supporting or being supported by castro the tone of the commentaries is nostalgic and apologetic almost propagandistic people who want to get a better understanding of this episode of the history need to wait for a more balanced and objective film or book in the future
0	imagination must of slipped jim wynorski mind when he wrote the script to this one i don't mind when the animals scenes are almost identical but when the actors repeat lines from other movies is going a little too far i did enjoy seeing jay richardson and ann gilbert get eaten gloria brings nothing to a movie but her tits my husbands sentiments jerri should of stayed on survival island her acting is stiff unbelievable and she just a plain boor liked the scene where the cobra comes out of the ocean eats the guy then for added flavor destroys the dingy at least we know the next plot giant snake man slays komodo before becoming daddy to a nest of eggs jerri would be great as the mother cobra sit back with a 6 pact or a couple of joints it will ease the pain
0	within the first 5 minutes of this movie i knew i was in for one of those pick at the faults kinda movie the acting was terrible the script was even worse who ever let these people write write such crap for a movie need to be feed the themselves with russian jets posing as u s air force jets and pistols that can miraculously shoot 50 60 rounds rapid fire without reloading is poor detail to any story in one scene komodo are killing special forces troops at night while in another they are explaining how the and cobras are cold blooded and don't come out night also with fantastic special effects available in today's movie industry they were only average even for this low budget movie br br all that being said i did watch it to the end curious as to what other wonders bad film making could produce shame shame shame for producing such rot br br this movie should have been left on the cutting room floor
0	scientists at a remote lab experiment on insert creature here and create out of control monsters in the meantime a crack military team the scientist's daughter bank robbers find their way to the remote place and are menaced by the giant critters one by one they're eaten all during an exciting race to not be blown up by the forces who initially created the monsters the sad thing is that this sounds like about a dozen movies which have appeared on the sci fi channel i have to wonder just what is going on sure i like bimbos and hollywood hunk wannabes be eaten by cgi critters as much as the next person but where's the plot or originality granted there are times when sci fi channel shines battlestar galactica if a bit dark can be very good writers have continued to pump life into the various stargate offerings and the latest bbc import of doctor who is surprisingly good br br even in the various giant animal movies on sci fi the animation seems to be getting better all the time compare the in this film to the rather clunky version in the first giant film on sci fi br br but goodness how about a different plot maybe some different giant critter on a whim i started searching around the internet among the litter i found a few interesting stories which might appeal to sf fans and out of work russian cgi animators at once i offer http www com archive metamorphosis day to the network with a suggestion that they contact the author for the story rights the story contains violent images generally on a par with those of various sci fi channel offerings br br the story has subplot ethical and moral comment on the nature of humanity and ends not on one of those horrible did they really kill all the monsters moments but rather leaves you guessing completely and in an entirely different mindset br br which is generally what science fiction is supposed to do no
0	bad bad movie so bad it is worth watching as long as you watch this movie knowing that it is bad and you'll be spending 2 hours of your time watching a bad movie it's worth it the special effects are cheesy and the animals look fake and the acting is bad but watching the faces of the actors as they try to look frightened is just very funny if your sister is about to be eaten by a giant komodo dragon wouldn't you do a little something to try and save her if she did get eaten wouldn't you fall on your knees crying your heart out this guy just sat in a chair and ran his fingers through his hair how anti climatic is that maybe he was supposed to be in shock or something he does join his sister in the belly oh didn't mean to spoil it for you
0	i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on while not as bad as curse of the komodo this still sucks bad wynorski uses the same island as in curse of the komodo as well as the same actors and house the effects are top notch suprising but thats about it i don't know what else to say about this movie oh yeah as in curse of the komodo the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island also when i saw this part i laughed hysterically a part man komodo and cobra overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie steer clear to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating it's almost over it's almost over 0 out of 5
0	jim wynorski strikes again with the very literal minded komodo vs cobra no guesswork here a giant cgi komodo dragon it sort of looks like a dog minus fur takes on a humongous cgi king cobra with a bunch of tree huggers and others caught in between the tree huggers get charter boat captain michael pare who else to take them to an off limits federal island an experiment by a mad scientist in growing very large has become an experiment in growing very large critters thank so to our nutty military now all that's left on the island are the very large critters and the mad scientist's tiny shapely daughter the group runs into her at the old plantation lab the monsters arrive and the chase is on if you watch enough wynorski sci fi channel flicks you'll recognize some of the sets and locations from many other movies acting is nonexistent as is the plot at the very least you can enjoy watching the badly animated dog stomp down on its intended victims just before scarfing them up the cobra just strikes and swallows no imagination at all
0	i am currently watching this movie and i have absolutely no hesitation in reviewing it now the acting is ridiculous half the cast must be retired porno actors and to get kicked off pornos you could imagine the quality of acting br br the graphics are unlike anything i have ever seen i think there are puppet shows with more believability they can't even afford blanks for the guns they shoot at the pathetic excuse for monsters perhaps i should also note how incredibly impressed i am at the number of their pistols can hold br br if asked to summarise the movie i would say that someone had up a group of complete no hopers at the local county fair slapped them on an island added needlessly intense music and let a 6 year old do the editing br br i can honestly not formulate any possible explanation for why this movie was released recorded on dvd and costs 6 from my local video store for one day if anything i have received the benefit of knowing that i am a lot smarter than all parties involved in this film br br i hate this movie with great intensity why i wish i knew captain i wish i knew
0	spoiler alert my boyfriend some friends and i rented this movie as part of a marathon of really bad movies we sort of knew what we were getting into but the lack of plot direction and special effects actually left us hoping for a great or passable fight scene between the two main characters the badly rendered swimming cobra and the super violent giant komodo that ate people like scooping ice cream we sort of get this in the end but had to be cut short due to possibly budget or time constraints its one redeeming quality is that its laughably bad with many salient details pointed out by other readers i recommend this movie if your into cutting onions to make yourself cry
0	the story of ed gein is interesting very interesting this movie however interesting only in the fact that it was actually made kane hodder's portrayal of ed gein is so far off it's not even the slightest bit funny ed gein did not behave psychotic in public he was very calm and collected and always extremely polite to everybody and talked to anybody who would listen this is one of the major things this movie failed to show the audience but the biggest mistake of this movie side from even one frame ever being shot was that ed never killed anyone without having been told to do so by his dead mother whom he thought was speaking to him from beyond the grave he killed only the people who his dead mother said he had to because it was god's will and he was very remorseful about it though that didn't stop him from experimenting with cannibalism and wearing people's flesh i officially gave this movie a rating of 1 simply because 0 wasn't given to me as an option br br i highly advise all to stay clear of this movie if you want to see a movie that accurately depicts ed gein and doesn't try to put in a sub plot love story between a cop and a fictional woman who never existed i highly advise you see the original movie which unfortunately seems to not be on imdb com though i could be wrong but i have yet to find it here the original doesn't stray from the actual events and doesn't try to twist the story i can understand telling the story from a different perspective but this movie just tried to straight change the true story itself something that i find as horrible as if someone made a movie based on 9 11 but gave it a twist that canada was behind it or a wwii movie saying hitler was a good guy and helped fight the nazi's
0	a team of amateur journalists and tree huggers catches wind of a secret government project project on a remote south pacific island the scientists there are producing giant sized corn but the genes are spreading to other species creating abnormally large komodo dragons and a cobra one that's bullet proof and swims underwater with the help of the scientist's daughter can they escape the island and tell the world even if i hadn't seen this film on the sci fi channel which sadly i did it would scream sci fi channel with its low production value weak acting and some of the worst special effects in history the effects here are comparable to another creature film raptor island although not nearly as bad i would suspect that there must be at least a handful of people that worked on both films but i haven't bothered to confirm that and probably won't it will be a sad day when i see either of them films again br br which is not to say it's not enjoyable i watched it at two in the morning with my sister's boyfriend and i can't speak for him but i thought it was a pretty good use of time as bad the whole thing is it's a fun picture if you like to make fun of movies and the scientist's daughter is attractive enough to carry the film i believe the actress' name is michelle michael pare also appears as a ship captain and his poor choice of roles here actually makes his work on furnace look respectable even if that movie is intolerably bad br br i can't be too hard on this film simply because it was more or less exactly what i thought it would be bad effects low budget no name actors i didn't have any higher hopes yet this doesn't mean that it's awesome either coming in at par is nothing to be proud of and this one will slowly fade into the distant memory department for the one fan who likes this film and calls it hold on to your copy because you'll have a heck of a time getting a replacement
0	i can admit right away that this is one of the worst movies i have seen in my life and that is not saying a little because i consider myself to be somewhat of an aficionado when it comes to crappy film but this is beyond bad this movie is so awful that there is no fun left in it it's just bad br br reviewing this is almost impossible there are no strong points and nothing positive to say i'll just ramble about a few of the points that sucked first off the cgi has to be one of the worst i've seen i can't believe this movie was made in 2005 the cgi reminds me of something i might have seen in babylon 5 way back when cgi was new and fresh it's poor beyond belief second the actors all seem like they belong in the worst kind of daytime soaps and looking at their resumes i see that i'm correct thirdly being able to breed enormous reptiles is no match to the other technology they invented in this movie the pistol with infinite ammo seriously michael paré fires 100 200 times without reloading in every other scene as if that was not enough there are also shape shifting planes at first they are regular f 16 fighters in the next scene they are something else completely and in the third scene they are f 16 again if you're buying stock footage please don't mix it like this br br honestly there is loads more to say but i think i'll stop you all understand what i'm saying honestly i didn't think this kind of movie was made any more it's like something ed wood would do completely ignorant of quality not caring how anything looks it's almost amazing in all it's awfulness if i could give it 0 10 i would but 1 10 is the lowest grade so that's it
0	probably the worst creature feature ever boa vs python was a million times better then this that wasn't great either bad acting bad effects guess what the dvd is one of those one with 3 hours of previews before the main menu probably the least scary movie ever no blood or violence people are stupid and keep using pistols when they have no affect on these animals the only cool part was the radioactive leeches that was pretty cool i name of the island is just a rip off of jurassic park boring tiring not worth even looking at but i suppose the characters stupidity is pretty funny so it would make a good comedy film but definitely not a thriller
0	nothing will ever top komodo with the lovely jill hennessey as a shrink but ain't quite as bad as i expected for a syfy channel quickie just make sure to watch it while drunk or stoned or while trying to go to sleep the unimaginative title basically says it all a group of mostly unknown actors converge on an island where a government experiment to grow giant vegetables has gone wrong giant creatures that came into contact with the vegetables have taken over the island and eaten everyone so now the government is preparing to blow up the island regardless of the people being there the acting is wonderfully atrocious especially a mustachioed general right out of the incredible hulk tv series but this is typical of this kind of made for cable schlock the cgi creatures are tv level quality which means you know you're watching cartoon monsters however two of the gals in the group are very cute and worth watching as they run here and there in their tight little outfits you just want to eat them up
0	when moviegoers hear two popular villains characters will be fighting they flock to the theaters to see how the battle will end there's freddy vs jason in which two very popular horror icons try to kill each other and more similarly to this there's godzilla vs insert name here but the very generic komodo vs python is just a horrible title and an even worse premise obviously the movie's a d list picture but at least come up with a more compelling name maybe something that can trick the unsuspecting viewer into watching it with a name like this you know what you're getting in to br br a group of military men women including a 20 something year old sexy scientist woman are left for dead by the military on an island inhabited by a giant komodo dragon as long as they can make it off the island and to the boat they'll be fine but no there's a giant python guarding the ocean and the way off let's hope all these guys can make it off the island and that the python and komodo don't verse each other in some sort of horrible special effect battle br br really this movie is bad in almost every way the acting is pretty bad or maybe it's that the special effects are so cheesy that the acting is unbelievable because no one believes that these people are in any danger with creatures that look like they were made on an early 90s computer nonetheless this movie is actually pretty funny the creatures are so clunky looking and the actors really give it their all pretending like they're in danger br br i'd like to say that this movie is a steaming pile of sh squawk but i can't this pg 13 rated film actually bleeps itself out every time a curse word comes a parrot noise beeps out the word even words that can be said on network television how squawk ing cheap that they bleep out words and with a parrot no less eventually these parrot noises got to me and i couldn't help but laugh at the incompetence br br this movie is bad from the silly beginning to the ridiculous night of the living dead style ending but it's also kind of funny as a horror movie it fails miserably as an action movie it fails slightly less but still pretty bad and as a comedy it shines br br my rating out of 95 mins pg 13 for some violence and out cursing
0	another laughably lame and senseless low budget sci fi tv but actually its kind of kind of… in a passably undemanding way am i being soft i don't know why they come up with these titles yes there's a komodo and yes there's a cobra however what's the deal with in between sure they do come to blows… in only two sequences one recapping an incident and the other being the dodgy climax and quite boring exchanges i might add the get up is the same old routine of a scientific experiment getting out of hand on a secluded island no dinosaurs about and some innocent bystanders environmentalists hoping to expose animal testing getting caught up in it this sees a komodo dragon and cobra becoming massive in statue with the government soon wanting to destroy any sort of the evidence including witnesses of its existence by blowing up the island so this leaves the survivors racing against time to find a way off the prominent staples existed of awful video game cgi hack script few dingy sets although the tropical island setting was easy on the eyes throwaway characters but i found the performances faired up lifelessly tacky thrills which for some reason kept using the same repetitive shot of the victim just standing there in which implied i'm waiting please eat me now i'm not going anywhere and eventually they were swallowed well almost as it seemed to always take a second gulp to finish them off or just save the hassle by stupidly squashing them and a very hysterical edge with some sort of wretch message amongst the acts of survival director jim wynorski seems to be on cruise control throughout michael paré has fun with his gruff dialogues and michelle added much needed sparks renee talbert is there to pout a lot quite successfully too
0	i just caught this on showtime not even fun in a bad movie kind of way one of the lamest monster flicks i've ever seen plus the tv reporter in the movie was that annoying jerri from a past season of survivor the only amusing thing was that the secret base was the house from fantasy island and a million other movies and tv shows the place is located in the l a area i fully expected mr roarke and tattoo to come out and greet the visitors if tattoo had gotten eaten by the snake i might have given this movie a 2 but oh well watching people stand there and scream for five minutes while the komodo or the cobra loomed over them instead of making a run for it was pretty funny especially because you could really tell that they were just screaming at an empty spot where the computer animators would later paint in the monster i nearly fell out of my chair though when in a flashback scene they brought in either the cobra or the komodo then normal size in some indestructible solid steel container with some air holes drilled into it wouldn't a wire cage have sufficed lol guess they couldn't afford to rent a real komodo and cobra i have to remember i rent showtime for their series and not their movies
0	laughable would be a good term to describe this movie but since this movie deserves nothing good said of it i'll use the term god awful instead br br centering around the adventures of a bunch of eco warriors investigating the nefarious doings of the military on a semi tropical island the lack of a budget rapidly becomes apparent michael pare a real actor but only in the sense that pinocchio was a real boy leads the bunch of fools through a series of monster chase and gobble hapless victim scenes there is some vague attempt at pseudo science to explain the presence of the giant reptiles but it convinces the viewer about as well as the acting does br br as if this doesn't insult the viewer enough the movie also features what i'll call guns of never ending ammunition i never saw mickey parrot or his female side kick change clips once during the entire film yet i can positively report they cap off at least 40 rounds each in any scene where they are required to fire their weapon forty rounds may not seem like that many but we are talking standard handguns here i figure 15 round clip tops and remember they never change clips nor even appear to carry any extra ammo br br it's dumb assery like this which movies to the eternal fires of celluloid hell and rightly so the third rate cgi does little to help matters and the acting is best laughed at else you'll start crying why scifi channel repeatedly churns out this mush is anyone's guess br br my advice give this one a wide berth a very wide berth
0	i just found out before writing this review that komodo vs cobra and another movie called curse of the komodo were both directed by the same guy jim wynorski that might explain why they are films of nearly identical premises they both feature a military governed island a colonel whose concerned more about covering his tracks than the lives of his employees people racing to get to a chopper that is conveniently lying in a field somewhere on the island and giant komodo dragons created through genetic experiments running amok what differences are there well the intruders on the island are now capitalists wanting to expose the government secret and there's a giant cobra on the island as well hence the title komodo vs cobra even though the conflict between the two monsters is hardly relevant to the 'story ' komodo vs cobra is more or less what you'd expect given its title and its channel origin the sci fi channel although every now and again you will find one that for one reason or another may appeal to you i liked a movie called komodo i hardly doubt this one will br br komodo vs cobra is not only a boring film but it's also one of the least enthusiastic sci fi flicks i've seen in a long time in some of these movies there is an air to them that indicates the filmmakers were giving at least a certain level of effort but i see very little here that's indicated again by it just being a rehash of curse of the komodo the cgi for the monsters look as if they came straight out of a second rate video game the cinematography and misc en scene is poor the acting ranges from passable to poor the action scenes are dull and then there are some parts that are frankly put unforgivably bad i see a lot movies where a person will shoot a gun many times without reloading and i can deal with this but in this movie where michael paré takes a single thirty eight handgun and fires it approximately fifty times nonstop without reloading at first i laughed but even then it just became tiring that would be the 'action ' a monster appears people scream paré fires nonstop without reloading his gun once throughout the entire picture and somebody gets eaten br br komodo vs cobra is a very bad movie the only thing in the movie that is worth mentioning in a charitable manner is an actress named michelle who is not only very beautiful but a surprisingly strong performer even with the trashy dialogue and lack of enthusiasm in the screenplay she was given michelle managed to pull off a surprisingly good performance and it just me that an actress as good as her can get stuck in a film as junky as this she obviously took it for the paycheck but it won't boost her career any i'm afraid
0	writer director jay andrews a k a jim wynorski serves up more of his characteristic shlock with a decent cast menaced by grade z computer generated reptiles in komodo vs cobra as generic a rip off of mysterious island meets jurassic park as you can imagine the chief problem with this predictable yarn about monsters dining on mankind is the incredibly phony special effects the cobra and the komodo are hilariously awful however the graphics people do an okay job of integrating the monsters with their victims not that any of this is in the least believable clearly komodo vs cobra had a budget that so low that virtually everything non human in its looks as fake as all get out this cheesy monster epic takes place on a remote island where the u s military conducts top secret dna testing on animals the result is that gigantic and cobra thrive in this tropical island paradise as the action opens the primary scientist is gobbled up by a cobra that likes to swim after we are introduced to a group of like environmental protesters and a journalist planet one organizer jerry ryan ryan of hellbent pays charter boat skipper jim stoddard michael pare of cbs tv's houston knights five grand with the promise of another five grand if he will take them to this forbidden island meanwhile the u s military suspect that something is amiss on the island so they send their own team of men who give eaten by the predators our heroes run into the last remaining scientist on the island dr susan richardson michelle of wonderland the daughter of the scientist responsible for this insane science project who tells them that the military is going to target the island for destruction the title match between the two overgrown predators occurs in the last quarter hour after our heroes who have been consistently whittled down by the monsters find a helicopter and take off in time before the military pulverizes the island there's no tension suspense or anything worthwhile in this substandard creature feature the best thing about this yawner is composer chuck orchestral soundtrack it gives komodo vs cobra an epic feel usually jay andrews writes and directs tolerable drivel but this ranks far below his low standards the sexy women fare better at survival than the guys in one scene our heroic group fords a river and we don't get to see any wet t shirts drat there's nothing in the way of memorable dialogue or relationships in this dreck i think that the military guys do far too much saluting when they get their heads together to conspire let's hope that michael pare got a good payday out of this garbage the ending as one of the scientists takes on the characteristics of a lizard comes strictly as an afterthought it's not so bad it's good it's just bad
0	michael writes and directs this fictitious story based on the arrest of edward gein in wisconsin gein was responsible for a rash of gruesome murders that sent a shock wave of terror through his rural hometown in the late 1950's his evil mind and twisted world is suspected to be caused by his domineering zealous mother ed was given the nickname the butcher of he would rob corpses from fresh graves of women who resembled his mother and he would have sex with them before them like a in his garage severed heads with bodies hanging upside down being his personal trademark after his arrest there would be many articles made from human skin found in his home in this movie a young deputy bobby mason shawn hoffman makes the search for gein kane hodder a personal one when his storekeeper mother priscilla barnes goes missing the acting is a whole lot better than the ridiculously liberal telling of the documented events concerning gein also in the cast adrienne timothy john burke michael berryman and amy lyndon
0	where do i start first off the story sucks the acting sucks the effects really suck i guess i'll start with the story the story for komodo vs cobra number one it doesn't explain how or when the komodo and the cobra even got there or for that matter how it was created the acting terrible it seems like the director just pulled a few people from the street which is probably what he did and last and definitely the least the effects they are so horrible that the komodo doesn't even look like a komodo just a dinosaur that looks incredibly unrealistic the water doesn't even move when the cobra appears all in all terrible piece of crap don't even think about renting it
0	komodo vs cobra starts as 'one planet' environmentalist jerry ryan ryan his girlfriend carrie renee talbert hire captain michael stoddard executive producer michael paré to take them to an island in the south pacific at first stoddard is reluctant since the island is a top secret military research base but soon changes his mind when a load of cash is offered along with tv news reporter sandra crescent jeri they set sail for the island once ashore find out that the military have been funding illegal dna genetic experiments which have resulted in huge komodo dragon's king that have eaten almost every other living thing there stoddard co are next on the menu br br co written directed by the ever awful jim wynorski under his jay andrews pseudonym this is just plain awful this is just plain hard to sit through is even worse than the usual rubbish 'creature features' the sci fi channel have the nerve to air if that's possible the script is terrible predictable utterly boring some giant monsters of some sort are created by scientists messing around with dna a group of people are trapped with said monsters have to try to escape being eaten that's it that's the whole plot of komodo vs cobra maybe this was trying to rip off alien vs predator 2004 with the title but all the ' bit amounts to is a rubbish thirty second stand off between the two titular beasts at the very end boring as hell surely a big disappointment to anyone hoping to have a full on monster mash the character's are poor the dialogue is awful the pace is slow the story is predictable cliché ridden the whole film just sucks really with a lazy script that states wrongly that both komodo dragon's are amphibious which they are not hell komodo vs cobra isn't even worth watching for any unintentional laughs since it's so dull hardly anything ever happens although the sight of a woman hiding behind the smallest rock on the beach from the cobra is quite funny for the wrong reasons br br how does wynorski keep getting directing jobs he is probably consistently the worst director currently working how can he keep getting fun sounding films set on beautiful locations with half decent casts still churn out such an awful film i think this was cut to get a pg or for it's tv showing since every time someone swears it's masked by a parrot squeak there's zero gore or violence the monster scenes are limp people just sort of stand there the monsters just sort of stands there too hissing or roaring that's about it the cgi computer effects are terrible this is really poor stuff that just looks horrible br br with a supposed budget of about 450 000 this looks as cheap as it was the hawaiian locations are nice to look at but that's about it the acting is poor from an uninterested looking cast br br komodo vs cobra is an absolutely terrible sci fi channel 'creature feature' from jim wynorski films don't get much worse than this
0	if you're looking for a movie that's fun to watch simply because you can make jokes about the not so great acting cheesy special effects and typical sci fi plot then this is the movie for you not at the acting was bad in fact a few actors were actually fairly decent the special effects weren't the greatest to say the least the animals looked completely computer animated there was an annoying squawking to cover up the swearing and there was only one song played over and over again throughout the entire movie overall a good movie if you're looking for something completely cheesy and fun to make fun of not a good movie to watch if you're looking for something serious
0	this movie is hilarious what is better than watching two creatures battle one another giant cgi versions of these beasts which battle however i do require one of the guns used in the movie because apparently they are using cheats count the amount of shots they use before having to oh wait that's right they never have to reload regardless count the shots it's hilarious br br the sound effects used in the movie for the komodo vary from a tiger to an elephant oh and did i forget to mention that apparently these giant komodo dragons are stealthy as hell because somehow even when the actors are looking in the direction that the beast comes from they are surprised when it appears br br whenever someone dies you can tell its coming because they all brace for it they put their arms up in the air and cross them to save themselves it never works br br the final gem is that these script writers brains are just a gland full o' knowledge with facts such as both of these creatures being amphibious to comments such as helpless animals they are just full of fun facts
0	this is like a zoology textbook given that its depiction of animals is so accurate however here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film br br handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons it doesn't matter how many times you shoot at the komodo bullets just won't go near it br br the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra or a giant komodo dragon is just to stand there the exception to this rule is if you've been told to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo is right next to you and then you should stand there expecting defeat br br minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching br br 5 000 is a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested br br members of elite army units don't see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one of the over sized beings maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it br br when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphones etc are all superfluous br br when you hear a loud animal scream and one person has a gun he should take it out and point it at the nearest person br br when you take a gun out the sound of the safety being taken off will be made even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br br reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something without having the faintest idea what they're exposing background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism br br handguns hold at least 52 bullets in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with guns claim that they will need more ammo br br expensive cameras also remember that the reporter only has one camera are regularly left behind without even a moment's hesitation or regret these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves br br the blonde girl really is the stupid one br br the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus making it unsafe takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection and nobody says a word about it br br high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets br br genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to 100 feet long in a matter of a day but don't grow at all in the weeks either side br br the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don't meet contact deadlines br br men with guns don't necessarily change the direction they're shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shooting into the air br br the better looking you are the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures br br women's intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds br br any time you're being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age br br animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for at the same volume br br old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military
0	as a total movie geek with the fortunate job of video store manager i tend to watch all sorts of movies from good to very very bad this was a movie with so many corn ball lines cheesy cgi effects and predictable plot points that i ended up laughing extensively before switching it off after 30 40 minutes the creature feature genre of movies has been putting out some pretty awful stuff in recent years godzilla 2000 anyone but this movie makes me think the creators weren't even trying it might be worth checking out just for the make fun of me potential count the gunshots but i couldn't in good conscience recommend this movie to anyone
0	so wynorski remakes curse of the komodo a second time this time replacing the interesting characters of the original with a bunch of obnoxious environmentalists anti capitalists and he adds a cobra most of the movie is spent listening to the self righteous characters prattle on about the evil capitalist pigs while sandwiched between this cavalcade of condescension are flashbacks to what happened on the island before they got there dna experiments were conducted critters started to grow people spoke to each other without coming off as being morally superior jerks etc needless to say it would have been a much better movie if they would have made the flashbacks the movie and forgotten about the sanctimonious do gooders lest i forget there are a few short scenes scattered here and there where the holier than thou posse gets picked off one by one but they probably comprise less than 2 of the film the main event pitting our title characters against each other lasts about one minute and is as exciting as watching the previews for the latest dino crisis video game br br the acting is pretty bad overall even for this sort of film half the actors seem like they're more concerned with pronouncing every last syllable of every word than speaking their dialog in any sort of believable manner br br i actually did make it through to the end but it's one of those movies i wish i would have recorded and then watched later because there are plenty of parts that need to be fast forwarded through overall i give this effort one star it has absolutely none of the elements that make a b movie fun to watch it's a sad day indeed when you can say with sincerity that the makers of this movie could have learned a thing or two from watching boa vs python
0	a group of environmentalists travel to an island to uncover a secret lab that is experimenting on animals when they arrive they discover that they are to late apparently the government made a scientist test his experiment on a komodo and yes you guessed it a cobra which made them grow very large i'm not sure that this movie really needed or deserved explaining since it is almost identical to curse of the komodo which also sucked the computer effects are as cartoony as ever an the komodo roars like a dinosaur which really got on my nerves like boa vs python this movie is not worth seeing and is about as much fun to watch as it is to nail your hand to a table avoid
0	komodo vs cobra is not going to set the world on fire it's not a hallmark of cinema history what it is is a group of underfunded filmmakers trying to make another movie make another paycheck and continue to support themselves and their families as such i give these efforts a lot of slack i mean come on it has to be hard to be a russian special effects technician not a lot of big budget films getting made there but they are a dedicated bunch and more than willing to throw their all into whatever lame american monster flick needs affordable sfx and i get a kick out of looking for the same locations appear time and again in these flicks if for some reason you find yourself watching this again look at the sequence where pare and company are walking through a jungle look at their feet and you'll see paved walkways and if you happen to still have a copy of ai assault shown a week or two earlier also on scifi you'll see the folks in there through the same ersatz jungle come to think of it i think the helicopters land in the same clearing in both flicks i can admire the of these films every dollar really does show up on the screen too bad there just aren't enough dollars
0	the good things first i agree with another viewer who said that gene raymond has a marvelous drunk scene he does i was tickled to finally get a chance to laugh and there were other moments i found amusing parents in the bathroom with the defective plumbing and the scene in the restaurant with robert montgomery trying to make carole lombard jealous by mouthing sweet nothings to a stranger br br but overall i was dismayed i love carol lombard and most of hitchcock and i understand the restrictions laid on productions by the hays code but this was embarrassing and awful to watch of course i knew they'd end up together this is a romantic comedy after all but it made no sense it happened too fast plus i can't believe the professions of love when confronted with such hurtful behavior both physical and confrontational
0	ed gein one of the most famous serial killers of all time he was the inspiration for famous movie killers like norman bates leatherface and buffalo bill he is also one of the most sick and disturbing killers of all time i watched a documentary on him so i know his story pretty well when i saw this i was curious because i thought it was supposed to be like a documentary re enactment but i have to say that this was just a pathetic waste of time first off the facts are completely wrong with a few minor exceptions and secondly this was just a stupid hollywood story when these horrific murders really happened and they just made it into a cheap buck not to mention that if they were going to make it into a horror movie this was poorly acted br br ed gein he lives in a small town in wisconsin called but he has a little secret that the whole town is being effected by he digs up dead bodies as well as brutally murdering people bobby a deputy is on the case to get ed gein only no one knows who the killer is at first just finding crime scene after crime scene but things get personal when ed starts messing with the policemen's family and friends br br of course this movie was just ridicules and completely insulting to the true story i always thought that bad acting is a necessary tool to a horror flick but for this story it should have been a better acted film not to mention it should have been more of a documentary than a stupid cliché'd horror film please stay away from this film it's completely pathetic and untrue to the story of ed gein br br 1 10
0	i first watched this movie back in the mid late 80's when i was a kid we couldn't even get all the way through it the dialog the acting everything about it was just beyond lame br br here are a few examples imagine these spoken real dramatically way over acted you're going to why would anyone want to go to br br nobody ever told us about any br br this movie was so bad my sister and i rented it again for her 16th birthday party just so our friends could sit around and laugh at how awful it was i don't think we were able to finish it then either
0	first a warning br br i recently saw this movie on dvd in the universal series the source print looks to be in immaculate condition but the image is a bit soft suggesting it might be a second generation copy straight from video the framing is far too tight so all the compositions are terrible even the title of the movie is cropped i gather from other imdb reviews that there is a much better version available br br mr and mrs smith is just a footnote to hitchcock's career br br in his lengthy interviews with francois truffaut in the sixties hitchcock gave a comprehensive overview of his whole body of work but all he could say about this picture is that he did it as a favour to carole lombard and that he didn't understand the characters so just photographed norman screenplay br br in truth there is not much more that needs to be said br br it is a screwball comedy out of the same mould as it happened one night his girl friday and story carole lombard is a typically feisty wife who learns that her marriage is technically invalid falls out with with her husband on the flimsiest of and spends most of the picture being unreasonable br br robert montgomery does well enough as the put upon husband but it is hard not to lose patience with him long before the end of the movie the audience is saying dump the silly cow she's not worth it br br gene raymond plays the best friend with whom she becomes engaged he is supposed to be a 'old family' southerner although this is not obvious from his accent and only really becomes apparent in the drunk scene which he otherwise plays very well he is an honourable generous gentleman so of course he is bullied and patronised by robert montgomery and made the butt of many of the jokes although he is not as badly treated as the similar ralph bellamy character in his girl friday br br this movie feels like it was made by people who only knew of screwball comedies by reputation but hadn't actually seen one for example a good screwball comedy has a strong central idea with a number of on going comic threads that continually intertwine and overlap here all the comedy elements are just strung out like beads on a necklace this is screwball comedy by the numbers br br it is the same with the direction typically these comedies race along at an ever increasing pace that rises to near hysteria by the end hitchcock doesn't get this his direction is somewhat lethargic and the picture becomes a stately succession of scenes that all seem slightly over written but under and slightly too long he was never a particularly good director of actors so he just lets the cast get on with it they do ok br br hitchcock had a good sense of humour which he frequently used in his thrillers but he had no feel for comedy as a genre his later trouble with harry was also a misfire for similar reasons to this movie but at least he was involved in that picture here he is just going through the motions br br all the people connected with this movie were good solid professionals so it is not especially bad it just feels a bit derivative over familiar over long and ultimately rather flat br br mr and mrs smith is one for carole lombard fans and hitchcock completists only
0	i only voted it 2 10 mainly because hitchcock agreed to direct it he certainly had an off day with predictable plot lines stupid childish characters who are desperately trying to be funny there were twee sanitised emasculated sex scenes at a time when the hollywood production code was in full force lazy male characters in the film who like soap characters never do a stroke of work for which they are paid it always irritates me when food is usually never eaten by actors one exception was in the eating scene in tom jones 1963 although copious amounts of drink are consumed actors have to leave their mouths free for the next line carole lombard certainly fitted hitchcock's cool blond idealised image of a heroine but what ever possessed him to direct this worthless unfunny script he should have stuck to his thrillers it certainly has not worn well over the last 69 years i couldn't wait for it to end as it gradually irritated me no end
0	this was hitchcock's third hollywood feature and it appears he was yet to settle into a pattern of consistency turning from faithful adaptation of classic novel in rebecca to espionage thriller in foreign correspondent and now this romantic comedy in the mould of the screwball pictures of the 1930s br br hitchcock's formal method on the other hand had by now settled into something consistent so much so that he was unable or at least unwilling to deviate from it it was unwise then for him to step outside his usual genre and a romantic comedy was particularly inappropriate in rebecca it was actually great to see hitchcock constrained by his producer and the source text forced to turn his technique to heavy gothic drama but for mr and mrs smith there is a huge mismatch between form and content in other words hitchcock was no ernst lubitsch br br first let's look at the romantic angle the best love scenes in hitchcock films were wild passionate and slightly dangerous – the ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have situation and he was great at depicting that this is something that makes a much earlier film rich and strange one of the few hitchcock non thrillers that really works hitch is not so good however when it comes to a more gentle and familiar love story a light tender touch is required and hitch doesn't have it br br secondly take the comedy of course hitchcock films could be funny – the lady vanishes is probably the best example – but only when the jokes were sprinkled throughout the story the master of suspense simply isn't enough of a comedy director to create a film that has funny bones he cuts up scenes as he would in a thriller – snappy opposing angles of people talking inserted close ups of hands and feet point of view shots – but doesn't allow for comic timing or focus on gags for example the business with carole lombard's dress bursting at the seems is shown to us with a couple of close ups but these are timed more as if he were revealing some crucial plot point and have no comedic impact occasionally hitchcock's style does roughly coincide with the comedy – for example the arrangement of characters in the scene at the club where robert montgomery tries to make it look as if he is with the attractive sophisticated woman at the next table – but such moments are few and far between br br even the cast of mr and mrs smith are not up to standard i'm not sure this was robert montgomery's strength lay and he is boring here this was of course exactly where queen of screwball carole lombard's strength lay and yet while she is clearly acting well the scenes are simply not geared to capturing comedy performances even jack carson who could be hilarious when he was really allowed to let go before the camera fails to perk things up at all of course neither of these fine comedy actors is helped by the screenplay which isn't exactly bursting with laughs in the first place even if the basic story is a fairly good premise br br the only full on comedy hitchcock made after this was the trouble with harry and that sort of worked because it played upon his familiar however it was only when the story could exist independently of the humour when the basic framework was suspense – as it is in the lady vanishes or family plot – that hitchcock was capable of doing comedy well
0	perhaps the wildest in alfred hitchcock's career is this straight out comedy vehicle by the director pairing carole lombard with robert montgomery as a couple who discover a mistake has their marriage where do they really stand with each other br br contrary to what others say there is an element of suspense here the idea that these two miserable people might escape each other free to inflict their awfulness on some other undeserving mate br br it's funny reading comments here about how miserable lombard's ann smith plays out in this film because montgomery's role is as much of a heel he manhandles ann snaps at witnesses short clients just the kind of lawyer who gives his profession a bad name ann is overbearing too of course the kind of wife who holds her husband hostage from work for six days over a petty squabble bringing up things like what he did in paris when he was 20 and hadn't even met her yet i forgave you that she says as if it was big of her br br for david a revoked marriage is an opportunity to have a little illicit pleasure with his mistress before tying the knot for good for ann it's an attempt at premarital sex that must be repelled with a bottle of champagne to the head followed by expulsion from their apartment and her life br br the acorn doesn't seem to fall far from the tree as ann's mother is into apoplexy when she learns what david tried to pull oh my poor baby thank heaven your father is dead br br that's a rare good line in this laughless unlikeable comedy br br you can call this an example of the remarriage comedy in which the bonds of matrimony are challenged in order to be you can also call this an example of what roger ebert calls the idiot plot in which the storyline depends on the main characters acting like idiots hitchcock seems to have a laugh at uptight american morality but can't really do much more with it than a scene where an older couple is by the sound of loud plumbing br br lombard died within a year of this film's release it was the last film of hers she lived to see what a shame it couldn't have been something better she was overbearing in my man godfrey too but in such a likable way you didn't just have to go with her you wanted to here she plays for laughs that aren't there while sadistically breaking david's chops again and again montgomery rolls his eyes a lot like groucho a study in br br the only really decent thing in this movie that lasts more than a few seconds is gene raymond as david's law partner jeff custer who makes a play for ann and acts with honor and decency raymond underplays his many reaction shots and even a drunk scene all to good effect br br spoiler so decent a guy is jeff that ann ends up rejecting him for not fighting david after she him into a confrontation calling custer a lump of jelly jeff exits the scene leaving ann and david together for their future murder suicide here's one custer that managed to escape a massacre spoiler end
0	alfred hitchcock made this comedy of mis marriage in 1941 but his heart doesn't appear to be in it carole lombard and robert montgomery are the couple who discover they were never legally married and spend the movie bickering their way back to true love it doesn't have much of a reputation and it is easy to see why the jokes are familiar from better films but here they don't gel and the leads are uncharismatic lombard's performance is clipped and starchy and it's doubly sad to think she was dead only a year later robert montgomery seems to know he's in a sow's ear and tries his to make a silk purse out of it without much success the best performance comes from gene raymond as 'the other man' he has a lovely drunk scene this is one of the few really bad hitchcock films
0	i am astounded that so many people find this film even close to good let me make it clear that i am a huge hitchcock fan and went out of my way to own as many of his films on video as i could but this one i felt was so below par not only for hitch's films aw heck i'm being far too nice here this pictured really sucked i don't care that hitch did a favor for the very talented carole lombard but i have seen 50s sitcoms with more cleverness and style than this boring turkey chemistry between lombard and robert montgomery i like mashed potatoes and ice cream but i wouldn't want to taste them together i have seen better chemistry in chemical spills on th highway than here br br if you really love hitchcock avoid this film and see any one of his better ones for crying out loud the bits hitch did on the old tv show were funnier than anything this film fails miserably to deliver
0	mr and mrs smith is one of the not too well known early american hitchcock's movie but if lifeboat wich unfortunately also belongs to this category is an underrated masterpiece not all the movies signed by the master of suspense in that time the early 40's are really worth seeing and to tell the truth not discovering this film isn't really a lost br br mr and mrs smith is an average and conventional screwball comedy where it's rather hard to find the hitchcock's touch maybe you can catch a glimpse of his shadow wich isn't much in the cruelty that carole lombard is sometime capable of but it's well hidden in an impersonal package in a vertigo scene where two of the characters are trapped on top of a trade fair attraction and maybe in the character of the mother and that's about it even for the hitchcock fan there is little to connect with br br and for the screwball comedies amateur there isn't very much more none of the situation are exaggerated enough for being really funny and we're far from the masterpieces of hawks for instance and if one or two scene are quite amusing there're not even the funniest in hitchcock's filmography who created comical situations in almost all his movies even psycho could be considered full of very dark humor so there is really little to save in this movie that can without annoying anyone or maybe only both hardcore fans of hitchcock and screwball comedy who are in love with carole lombard stays one of the not too well known early american hitchcock's movie
0	the big problem i had with this movie was that lombard's character is as another user put it unnecessarily cruel lombard plays the role of ann smith who believes she is married to david smith played well by the sharply dressed yet appropriately bumbling robert montgomery the movie has some funny moments especially when montgomery's character goes to great lengths to try to get his wife back understandably she is upset because the marriage is technically not legal but she only finds out three years into it br br lombard's character seems quite cold to her husband's sincere attempts to woo her back while not being highly adept in that effort montgomery is nevertheless visibly loving and yet lombard is as cool as a pillar of ice there are almost no clues suggesting any sort of reconciliation between the warring couple for much of the movie and it is hard to see any sort of comedy even dark comedy in that aspect to some extent the movie almost suggests a sadistic undertone with lombard's character getting a kick out of her husband's feeble efforts while one might consider this another 'battle of the type of movie the reality is that it is a highly battle if that montgomery's character while certainly flawed is not flawed enough to make it a typical exemplar of the masculine chauvinist misogynist an excellent example of that is michael douglas in 'war of the in fact the character is largely effeminate as revealed by not only the sharp dress of montgomery which probably owes largely to the sharply dressed actor himself but also to his discomfort in attempting but failing to play the role of a womanizing bachelor his only major flaw is his vanity but that fault does not balance out with his partner's excessive cruelty and there is no suggestion that she is trying to instill any jealousy out of subconscious love this is what makes it so cruel and sad montgomery's character simply looks weak in reality no wife would want a man so weak unless she wears the pants in the marriage but then again a woman who wears the pants in a marriage would never seek to be so cruel because she has already affirmed that role early on hence the whole theme seems weird this movie is neither a champion of feminism lombard's character does show some signs of the sort of independent oriented woman of the 60s but that idea is soon quashed and the character falls back into the 1940s nor an even sided battle of the sexes as montgomery's character is truly a cipher of masculinity and therefore a lost cause br br this movie is on the surface a slapstick but beneath that veneer it is really much darker with sadistic undertones all of which makes its resolution appear well odd maybe that oddity was the whole point in any case slapstick this movie is not
0	this movie is about pathetic spoiled ego driven who think they have something interesting to say performed by pathetic spoiled ego driven who think they are interesting straight from the coke filled gutters of new york's arty incestuous drama scene br br how so many viewers get tricked into making them think this carries any substance remains a mystery to me maybe they secretly long to belong too to this overpaid and overestimated or maybe they have never seen a decent movie br br get out put your hands in the dirty earth and get a real job otherwise kill your self with a real gun
0	after sitting through this god awful 82 minute excuse of a film and having previously wanted to gouge my eyes out after having watched another james directed mess called when will i be loved i've come to the conclusion that he has the best agent in the world how else can these horribly written painfully directed pieces of trash get made in the first place br br i like robert downey jr but perhaps being in this movie drove him to substance abuse br br heather graham has to be embarrassed about her zombified performance half the time the camera is on her she just is looking off in a daze br br such a crappy script prepare yourself for hollywood name dropping galore example five minute meandering discussions on denzel washington's acting etc br br there's a great character in joseph heller's novel catch 22 named dunbar he spends most of the time in the novel shooting skeet which he abhors when asked why he shoots skeet all the time if he hates it so much he replies that it makes time creep by and he'll have a longer life well if you really want to feel time creep by watch this film i swear the 82 minutes will feel longer than a 4 hour david lean epic it goes on and on and on and on br br i hope i never watch another james film again if i could give this no stars i would
0	please people do not bother with this poorly directed joke the direction was totally wrong from the outset where is the history of his mothers' emotional interference and the general madness in the original family why is ed portrayed as this large overbearing imposing figure full of anger and hate what is this crap the writer and director obviously did no research into the history and just wanted to cash in on the infamous gein name the fools who made this movie took so many liberties with the truth it's ridiculous if you want t see a brilliant gein film go back to the minor classic deranged to see how ed really was there is humor in that film and ed is portrayed as more of the sad lonely slight man he was according to history where is the background story here there is just poorly set up shocks that are not shocking that we've seen before and more accomplished as well take the worst texas chainsaw massacre ripoff and add this one to that list had to give it one out of ten because rating wouldn't accept zero i want my money back if anyone regards this film as is possibly getting a financial to do so
0	at my local video rental store they have a special place for two girls and a guy it's a long running joke really the clerk lets people rent it for free they value their customers too much to let them waste their hard earned money on it br br i was extremely surprised to see that people gave this movie a good review maybe someone can explain it to me or maybe the positive comments were jokes did people involved with the movie write them perhaps the mother of the director writer br br maybe i've just seen so many good movies that this one fails in comparison
0	i am being in no way facetious when i say that this movie was worse than any other movie ever made worse than batman robin worse than manos hands of fate seriously it's that bad when people tell me that a movie is terrible i use the two girls scale to figure it out if the movie is comparable to two girls then i won't watch it if it's twice as good maybe i'll watch it but only to laugh at the retards who paid somebody to make it because a movie twice as good as this one would still be a piece of garbage
0	the storyline seemed fine the actors seemed fine the movie should br br have been fine but it sure wasn't it didn't lead us anywhere the br br scenes are weird maybe it was meant to create something new to make br br us think that atleast it did where is the rest of this film to me it br br was waste of money time and talent someone might want to see this br br for curiosity to see if they can figure it out other i personally br br wouldn't recommend this to anyone
0	while the prominent and over use of the play like format is in total operation throughout the film it is not however this that lets this picture down rather it is the unconvincing female performances and rather tedious script that the film so obviously relied on a little too much with an idea that had potential the simple plot is diminished still by graham's failure to truly express the devastation her character so adamantly claims to experience the use of improvised scenes by all the actors would not be such a bad idea if only the two leading ladies could take advantage of this privilege as downey jr proves as usual what a gifted actor he is he shadows the two actresses in their scenes together which is constantly noticeable the pointless yet intense sex scene seems merely to exist in order to prevent the film from being too verbally expressive giving the actors a much deserved break from talking with an unsatisfying conclusion two girls and a guy has very little to recommend it other than downey jr's formidable if not out of place performance
0	after an intriguing start this little drama quickly descends into the ranks of sheer mediocrity the start of the movie sees two women heather graham and natasha gregson wagner meet each other while waiting for their boyfriends to get home from their holidays natasha gregson wagner is a lovely looking actress and she plays louise a cute girl whose beloved boyfriend is an all round entertainer music movies you name it he does it while she's telling the other girl carla heather graham all about her wonderful boyfriend it soon becomes apparent that the similarities between their two male friends are too much and it's obvious that the two girls are dating the same guy oh dear enter robert downey jnr the sleaze bag that has two girlfriends while some poor guy somewhere has to go without one downey plays the sort of guy that the ladies like but men find repulsively annoying he is basically a mummy's boy the worst kind too on the phone ringing mother all the time continually showering his girlfriends with ambitious albeit empty promises etc it's enough to make a normal guy sick br br the film knowingly rips off superior three way love triangle films such as jules et jim this film doesn't work though mostly due to the fact that it's story is so unbelievable seriously if two women had just found that they were dating the same guy they wouldn't stick around to talk about it another reason why it falls down is that it's just so turgid there's no end of possibilities for the outcome of the situation that this movie presents especially with the claustrophobia of setting it all in a small apartment but all the movie does is get lost in masses of dialogue badly written and poorly delivered dialogue that is the film is also massively overacted it just isn't believable that people would act like they do in this film after finding themselves in this situation robert downey jnr is one of the many things that is wasted in the film with natural born killers he proved that he could give brilliantly entertaining performances and that is something that this movie could do with the two females aren't wasted because nobody expected anything from them anyway but downey could definitely have been better utilised overall a waste of time don't bother see jules et jim or natural born killers instead that's my advice
0	the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br br rent unwatchable much of the movie is obviously improvised br br and not well it looks like took the first take of br br everything the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br br robert downey jr shows up then goes to hell again real br br quickly
0	br br the author tried to make a kevin style movie but he definitely failed the result is a boring film that cannot sustain itself using only the dialogues fortunately i had my remote control and could see the tape using the speed
0	wow i truly regret watching this picture funny i agreed to see it just for my wife who endured the torture of seeing it about a half an hour before retiring while i stayed in front of the tv but only to feed the the masochistic in me and i because i wanted to know if this movie was so bad in its entirety or if there were some redeemable aspects which might alleviate the feeling i had of being a stupid for watching this called two girls and a guy br br everything in this picture is wrong totally wrong since the initial absurd premise of two women stupid enough to stay with their common boyfriend until the awful but merciful end not forgetting the horrible acting of the three actors don't believe the rumors the acting is bad and i don't see how graham has made herself a known name within the movie industry br br i wonder why after the producers saved some bucks with just three actors and an only location they didn't hire a person to write the script instead of putting a monkey to do it with his br br at least i felt a little fine when i destroyed the dvd and threw it to the trash anyway i liked somehow and just a little the brunette actress natasha something but that was not enough to beat the incredibly stupid and crazy premise of face off changing faces so two girls and a guy to the bottom goes br br stay away from this
0	uh oh i just said the this classic film has a plot that stinks well it's true so get over it this film was a vanity project for joseph p kennedy in which his mistress starred and money flowed to make her an even bigger star today only a fragmentary copy exists one that was a few years back however even if the film had been in perfect shape it still would have stunk for many reasons and without further ado here are some of my reasons br br first gloria swanson aged 31 plays a girl in a convent school perhaps aged 16 or 18 come on she looks old enough to be the mother of many of the kids br br second the movie all hinges on the stupid concept of love at first sight while some people believe it this it is ridiculous to believe that a prince would throw away everything on a woman he didn't even know what a lot of hooey br br third the movie is histrionic and the plot is nuts after leaving the school kelly goes off to east africa and then becomes queen of the whores and later after the evil queen back in europe dies that's convenient the prince is able to get out of prison actually finds kelly and marries her and she then becomes queen of a real honest to goodness country gimme a break this is ridiculous even in the days of silent film this plot was a groaner br br so in summary this is a poor film with great production values mistresses need to look good that is parading around as a classic there are so many better silent films out there see them first and avoid this tripe
0	i can't believe this terrible film was made by the same people who made gore watch that and skip this the plot is muddled and the characters are mostly two dimensional stereotypes i suspect the editor went on vacation halfway through the film because quick choppy cuts start to appear that only confuse matters rather than elucidate them the ending doesn't make sense either br br this is predominantly a propaganda film made so serbs can feel sorry for themselves and vilify america for the nato bombings of 1999 they do this by perpetuating lies about serbs being our allies during wwii claiming the whole world is unjustly against them and completely ignoring everything said and done by slobodan milosevic like waging war on three neighboring countries they seem intent on making a political film but only show a few seconds of milosevic on a tv screen with no sound a nationalist agenda obviously any consideration of art which was not the case with br br regrettably i recommended this film to a teacher when it played last week at the seattle international film festival he also cited the bad editing and confusing plot and i had to apologize for the bad advice you've been warned
0	i have done some research on ed and i have found a few interesting things like the fact that ed was quiet and a loner not some buff over bearing jerk as in this movie i will say that i didn't finish this movie but i will i will cringe through the fact that all of us talk like we are from you know the funny but oh so sad factor in this movie is wisconsin isn't as hot as they made it look br br this movie is not only an insult to wisconsin people being a myself but it is a complete insult to a man that was proved to be an insane lonely man he killed two people and the movie couldn't even get that right ed didn't get that close and personal and scare people he shot the two and only people he killed so why do these movies lie and say based on a true story this is not based on nothing but the lies the director came up with in his foul head br br a joke and nothing more br br ok i would like to add on to this i did finish this oh so sad movie and i personal would like to laugh at the director do your homework when making a movie i would like to inform you that there are no mountains for those who have never been in wisconsin and oh there is no desert what the hell there was more pine trees and snow in ravenous and that was suppose to be shot in br br ok for those who know nothing about ed gein i would like to give you your history lesson ed gein was thought to have killed his family but it was never proved he killed a bartender she was shot at bar close when no one was around he took the dead bartender back to his house 10 years later he shot and killed the store clerk he the cash register and the store truck he was caught because of this murder he came in the day before when her son was there and asked about antifreeze the day he killed her he was in there buying the antifreeze and the that only had was the only evidence they had to start a world wide man hunt he robbed graves in fact in robbed 56 graves he hate the people he dug up and he made lamp shades couches chairs and other things br br he had a family that he had dinner with once and awhile and they threw all the meat he ever gave them out when he was caught considering he was caught at their house he was arrested and hid in the back of a cop car in fear of what may happen to him how do i know all of this i read the book the judge that tried him wrote br br after this movie was over after watching the whole horrific thing not only am i offended by the directors view on what wisconsin women look like i mean it was hard to tell who this guy had on the slab half the time you know cause wisconsin women are all blondes please i am overly offended by the lack of homework this guy did and the poor job he did making this movie i have no idea who this kane guy is and i think he may be ok in something else but he did a horrible job playing ed gein br br after all of this i am so sad i wasted the 3 99 on the movie br br movie after finished was completely untrue this movie is like me saying that the world is flat and george washington wasn't our first president come on people that is your history and this is history to end this rant how would all of you feel if i made a movie and george washington looked like brad pitt some of you may think that is fine but it would be not true and he lived and wasn't the president and whatever you can't rewrite history
0	there's only 2 reasons i watch this show i invested the time already in previous episodes and col for all you supposed sci fi fans out there who love the new bsg give me a break go read some classic sci fi novels by the true greats or watch some of the milestone films and tv shows from days gone by and you'll see what hacks these bsg writers are their only gimmick is who is the fifth cylon poor writing and really truly no sense of character development if adama or tries to take power or cries again or discovers the inner father he should have been one more time ahhhhh and roslin is as annoying a character that's ever been put aboard a starship out the airlock with her i could care less if it's six more months before they conclude these wannabe writers were out of tricks in season one if you don't know that you just don't know writing
0	i really enjoyed bg seasons 1 3 and really couldn't understand those who didn't like it but i can't defend this nonsense spoilers follow br br the first problem is that the characters are now doing inexplicably stupid things on a regular basis br br so if starbuck thinks she knows where earth is why not send her out in a raptor would the admiral accept the resignation of his third most experienced officer would the elect their newest member the non elected adama junior he has about three weeks political experience under his belt and is the son of a man they distrust would adama send and halo along with starbuck leaving himself short of senior officers would adama put a man into having sex with cylon prisoners in charge of the fleet br br i just don't buy any of this br br secondly while i accept there have been miracles and references to god up to the end of season 3 it's now all totally over the top i started watching bg because i thought it was sci fi not some biblical epic i expected the characters to continue to behave reasonably intelligently and wanted some satisfying explanations regarding some of the odder developments in the series br br baltar was the best character in the show but he now seems to be totally insane not illogical considering what he's been through but very unsatisfying br br all the characters appear to be just puppets dancing to an unknown third party's behest some godlike entity this isn't good drama it's annoying and a writing cop out br br ok so what are the good points nice battle at the start of 4 1 some good dramatic scenes well acted when viewed in isolation a good final scene a nice cliffhanging curve ball of a development br br but this isn't sci fi it's turned into fantasy i can't imagine how the writers can recover this one
0	the plot outline of this movie is similar to the original someone gets kidnapped the prince is incest with saving her turns into a swan the turtle frog first the bad magician as best they can and in the end anyways there is not much new here with the exception of a lack of well known voice talent sorry no palance nor cleese and thus jean bob was a
0	the worst sequel i've ever seen really awful songs which is upsetting considering how fantastic the first films score and story is also which ruins the film for me is the fact there is no john cleese so jean bob might as well not even be in it and the new villains are dreadful it is really annoying how that old woman type thing cant string a simple sentence together properly without repeating her words over and over and over again but to be fair not shutting up is a little bit funny but the fact it was her 50th birthday why do they draw her looking like an 80 year old i was going to give this a 1 but now i think i might give it a 2 but still the story line is no where near as good as the first film it is similar without the humour from certain characters overall i disliked this film entirely because of the disappointing music the severe lack of voice talent having changed the voice of prince derek and jean bob the new villains disappointing storyline the annoying habits of some characters and the very simple animation
0	i was disappointed with the sequel to the swan princess i can see what they were trying to do with the story show how married life was going for odette and derek but the story wasn't interesting enough to hold my attention and it seemed to cover the same bases as the original br br it isn't funny the only bit i found humorous was when jean bob was turned into a prince and then back into a frog and no one saw it happen and he was trying to convince them that it really did br br the villain is rubbish and the animation isn't as impressive as the first film br br the queen is a very irritating character and instead of cheering with derek to rescue his mother you're hoping that the villain puts a spell on her voice box to stop her talking br br it is a shame because i really liked the first movie but it didn't live up to my expectations
0	when i was a little girl i absolutely adored the swan princess it was reliving the same fairy tales of snow white sleeping beauty and cinderella the princess and her prince who saves the day is always a timeless story that will never die well hopefully but i figured that i would check out the sequels for the swan princess to see what they were like and unfortunately this is the typical cartoon sequel that just disappoints more than entertains the only character i found still very amusing was the queen she was very funny in this movie and had the best part but with the voice changes they were noticeable and also bothered me quite a bit i don't mean to be picky just it was too weird for me the story also was just more or less borrowed from the first swan princess just the villain in this movie is following footsteps br br odette and derek are about to celebrate their one year anniversary but derek has been too preoccupied with fighting for his kingdom to keep it safe with his mother's birthday also coming up he forgets about that since there is a new villain in town who is hoping to go above and beyond where powers went and kidnaps the queen on her birthday but odette must change back into her swan self in order to help derek fight him and save his mother br br the swan princess 2 is of course more than alright for the kids that i never mind it's good clean fun for them the reason why these sequels are disappointing though is because it is usually just for the kids that is the audience they aim for but it's more enjoyable when the jokes and story can be enjoyed by everyone now there are a few laughs and giggles here and there but this wasn't as clever in my opinion to the first swan princess i would recommend it for the little one's but if you're looking for a fun cartoon movie i'd recommend staying with the first swan princess br br 4 10
0	mickey rourke who was once a famous movie star plays martin fallon an ira terrorist who accidentally blows up a school bus full of children who is so disgusted by his actions decides to leave the ira and goes on the run in london br br mild spoilers br br the movie's opening is rather disturbing as the lives of little children are ended in a fireball things like this happened throughout the 1970s and 1980s and into the 1990s in northern ireland which gives a prayer for the dying a stark realism however as soon as fallon decides he's going to give up violence what he's a terrorist and he's never blown up innocent before realism disappears and clichés and ridiculous plot twists take place martin is employed by the london underworld don't they have their own hit men to commit a hit while he wears an ira uniform never knew the wore uniforms at a cemetery in broad daylight wouldn't an ira man use a bomb placed under a car where he's spotted by a priest who recognises him while he was in the sas hands up who thinks i'm lying i'm not and we're half way through the running time and there's still several clichés to come br br this all sounds very silly and it is but what do you expect from a novel by jack higgins everything is clichéd contrived and stereotypical and the bits that aren't are just plain bizarre the critics slaughtered this movie when it came out most notably they stated that it might have some potential if the movie had bob hoskins playing gangster jack and alan bates playing the sas soldier turned priest and for once the critics would have been right they should also noted the film might have been less dire if fallon was played by someone who was capable of doing an irish accent rourke might be hunky and macho oh gawd another movie with an ira but accents aren't his strong point any more than character acting is to give you an idea how disappointing prayer for the dying is the director ended up disowning it which is always a bad sign br br as a footnote the original release of prayer for the dying in britain was delayed for several months because of the bombing in november 1987 the provisional ira exploded a bomb in the centre of where a remembrance day parade which britain's war dead was being held eleven 11 people were killed and scores more injured it wasn't an accident and no one left the ira because of it
0	mickey rourke is enjoying a renaissance at the moment and fair play to him i always liked his image and his acting ability in such fare as angel heart and johnny handsome you know what you are going to get with rourke mean moody dirty but this film gives you much more and you don't want most of it br br first and foremost this whole thing just doesn't make sense rourke is a hardened ira killer who after killing a bus load of schoolchildren flees ireland for london he is on the run from the cops and from his own army comrades he has also vowed to never kill again it looks like the bus full of kids finally did it for him br br however when he gets to london he is tracked down by a local mobster bates looking like his eyebrows and hair came straight off a burton's dummy to kill his main competitor in turn for £50 000 and a boat trip to the us rourke reluctantly agrees to do it but is seen by a priest hoskins and confesses the crime to him in the confessional in order to keep the priest's mouth shut he figures it is better than killing him br br a wealth of things arise here which just don't add up 1 why pick rourke to off your competition as is illustrated by a scene whereby an employee is pinned to a wall by a couple of heavies with what look like these london guys are tough enough anyway to do their own killing 2 not only that but the mobster gets a guy to follow rourke and witness the killing with his own eyes why didn't that guy simply kill the competitor and save all the hassle of dealing with rourke 3 hoskins sees the murder take place and the police let him go off without protection i may add to take confession no way 4 rourke hangs around the church right next to where he carried out the murder immediately after the crime takes place to go to confession why aren't the cops checking the place out 5 rourke hangs around the church and blind niece in particular for days afterwards without anybody bothering him what he's on the run and he stays put by the very place where he committed another murder stupid 6 the cops actually meet rourke in the church fixing the organ and have no idea who he is do they not know he is on the run for the school bus bombing they don't even check up on him 7 why get rourke to kill for you and then tell him to wait around for a few days to get on the boat you'd think you'd want to get rid of him immediately or kill him one or the other 8 why does bates' brother suddenly decide to rape the blind niece in the midst of all the waiting could he not restrain himself for a few days at least until rourke has been safely offed to the states ridiculous 9 rourke suddenly has inner turmoil after all his years of killing and wins over the blind niece immediately even after she knows he is a killer she still loves him again utterly ludicrous and besides she falls in love with him in record time a few days 10 the whole bomb thing at the end is just plain silly from bates point of view 11 things happen in parts of this film that just do not make sense or are simply in there to help the storyline and i say that in jest along bates' houses rourke in a whorehouse until the boat is ready to sail and rourke suddenly displays a moral high ground to respect the whore in the house but yet will bed a blind girl 12 rourke asks a henchman on the boat where bates is and the henchman practically spurts out the entire movements of his boss in less than 10 seconds it was embarrassing the guy was telling rourke far more than he even asked 13 priest is an ex army guy and we see him beat up three henchmen behind a pub totally uncalled for and yet another cringe worthy scene br br i'm gonna stop there at unlucky 13 without mentioning rourke's hair so falsely red it is laughable his accent which to be fair is not too bad sometimes but deteriorates to a barely heard mumble at other times his clothes walk looks to the heavens etc nor will i mention the music and the choppy editing style br br i have just mentioned them br br overall a disaster of a film with some obvious religious imagery thrown in rourke on the cross preaching from a pulpit which would embarrass a first year film student never mind a top star and director br br 4 10
0	jack higgins' straightforward thriller about a guilt ridden ira bomber forced into one last job where have i heard that plot before gets a snarky treatment from cult director mike hodges mickey rourke with alarming red hair confesses all to the priest bob hoskins of all people who accidentally witnessed the shooting the rules of the church keep father bob from talking but then rourke goes and falls in love with the priest's blind niece they bond at the church organ what really that's the plot alan bates is around as the top dog mobster who's calling the shots literally and he seems to be the only actor who's on to the jokey tone hodges is aiming at bates is all set to do a sort of u k prizzi's honor but no one else including an effortlessly charismatic liam neeson in a supporting role has been informed
0	let's get things straight i was raised catholic and in a very religious family and spent as much time at church and talking to priests as at home that was useful for two things to make a convinced atheist out of me and to give me deep insightful knowledge about the church and its dogmas and i say if a catholic priest witnesses a murder and clearly sees the face of the killer he can report it to the police even if the murderer has confessed to him afterwards he can not reveal what he's told in confession but he can talk about anything he sees outside that and confession is useless to keep his mouth shut so here we have a movie entirely sustained on a lie and another lie is there's no absolution for murder according to the catholic church there's absolution for any sin as long as there's sincere repentance so far the biggest plot holes in this weak thriller br br as people frequently say this movie would have improved if bob hoskins and alan bates had switched roles hoskins is naturally suitable to play gangsters i will never lament enough that he lost al capone in favor of one of de niro's weakest performances in the untouchables and bates' features would have been perfect as the priest with a gray past but above that i think the film would have been much better had real life ulster native liam neeson back then mostly unknown to big audiences played mickey rourke's part not only his face is perfect to play tormented characters but he'd make us believe the character as real something rourke just can't back in the 80s rourke was not a bad actor afterwards he seemed to lose his talent along with his looks but he was one of those performers like brad dourif who's as good as the director he works with and as a former ira terrorist rourke's acting comes across more like a pimp sad to think that had this movie been made just some three to six years later when neeson achieved moderate celebrity status in 1990 with sam raimi's enjoyable darkman and superstardom in 1993 with schindler's list while rourke became pretty much of a forgotten has been liam and mickey could have switched parts to greater benefit rourke would have been effective in the supporting role of but just can't carry this movie along as the lead yet another missed opportunity and yet another film with the potential of being a classic that became instantly forgettable fare br br ironically enough the often criticized score by underrated composer bill conti worked for me i didn't find it overly melodramatic but suitably gritty and beautiful it reminded me of howard shore's score for the silence of the lambs here's to mike talent who made get carter yes but don't forget he's the mastermind behind flash gordon as well br br it seems the film was massacred in the cutting room it shows as some parts are really choppy and confusing and others just don't glue and a director's cut is waiting to see the light ok but i seriously doubt that will make it a great movie as we'll still have the bad casting and the false premise there 4 10
0	i got this movie for fifty cents at a going out of business sale i want my fifty cents back bad acting poor script writing lousy direction historically inaccurate even the sound of the film is awful it's not the subject matter that offends i'm one of the many who find suspense films and true crime films very interesting the subject matter could have been treated more seriously with much more attention to detail and accuracy and the lack of respect shown for the victims and their devastated friends and family is enough to puzzle anyone also there is little to no attention paid to what could have caused someone to begin the bizarre behavior that ed gein was displaying in acting out these horrible crimes br br save your time and sanity don't watch this awful film if you bought it you have my sympathy it's not a total waste though you can throw away the disc and make use of the plastic case
0	mickey rourke is enjoying a renaissance at the moment and fair play to him i always liked his image and his acting ability in such fare as angel heart and johnny handsome you know what you are going to get with rourke mean moody dirty but this film gives you much more and you don't want most of it br br first and foremost this whole thing just doesn't make sense rourke is a hardened ira killer who after killing a bus load of schoolchildren flees ireland for london he is on the run from the cops and from his own army comrades he has also vowed to never kill again it looks like the bus full of kids finally did it for him br br however when he gets to london he is tracked down by a local mobster bates looking like his eyebrows and hair came straight off a burton's dummy to kill his main competitor in turn for £50 000 and a boat trip to the us rourke reluctantly agrees to do it but is seen by a priest hoskins and confesses the crime to him in the confessional in order to keep the priest's mouth shut he figures it is better than killing him br br a wealth of things arise here which just don't add up br br 1 why pick rourke to off your competition as is illustrated by a scene whereby an employee is pinned to a wall by a couple of heavies with what look like these london guys are tough enough anyway to do their own killing br br 2 not only that but the mobster gets a guy to follow rourke and witness the killing with his own eyes why didn't that guy simply kill the competitor and save all the hassle of dealing with rourke br br 3 hoskins sees the murder take place and the police let him go off without protection i may add to take confession no way br br 4 rourke hangs around the church right next to where he carried out the murder immediately after the crime takes place to go to confession why aren't the cops checking the place out br br 5 rourke hangs around the church and blind niece in particular for days afterward without anybody bothering him what he's on the run and he stays put by the very place where he committed another murder stupid br br 6 the cops actually meet rourke in the church fixing the organ and have no idea who he is do they not know he is on the run for the school bus bombing they don't even check up on him br br 7 why get rourke to kill for you and then tell him to wait around for a few days to get on the boat you'd think you'd want to get rid of him immediately or kill him one or the other br br 8 why does bates' brother suddenly decide to rape the blind niece in the midst of all the waiting could he not restrain himself for a few days at least until rourke has been safely offed to the states ridiculous br br 9 rourke suddenly has inner turmoil after all his years of killing and wins over the blind niece immediately even after she knows he is a killer she still loves him again utterly ludicrous and besides she falls in love with him in record time a few days br br 10 the whole bomb thing at the end is just plain silly from bates' point of view br br 11 things happen in parts of this film that just do not make sense or are simply in there to help the storyline and i say that in jest along bates' houses rourke in a whorehouse until the boat is ready to sail and rourke suddenly displays a moral high ground to respect the whore in the house but yet will bed a blind girl br br 12 rourke asks a henchman on the boat where bates is and the henchman practically spurts out the entire movements of his boss in less than 10 seconds it was embarrassing the guy was telling rourke far more than he even asked br br 13 priest is an ex army guy and we see him beat up three henchmen behind a pub totally uncalled for and yet another cringe worthy scene br br i'm gonna stop there at unlucky 13 without mentioning rourke's hair so falsely red it is laughable his accent which to be fair is not too bad sometimes but deteriorates to a barely heard mumble at other times his clothes walk looks to the heavens etc nor will i mention the music and the choppy editing style br br i have just mentioned them br br overall a disaster of a film with some obvious religious imagery thrown in rourke on the cross preaching from a pulpit which would embarrass a first year film student never mind a top star and director br br 4 10
0	oh my god after having such a promising start critters 2 reiterated the karmic rule of what goes around comes around clearly very few things were thought out when this movie was made and what was up with scott wearing an earing this should have been the last expedition into the critters saga but more garbage was on its way this was the big reason why i didn't watch critters 3 and why is every bad film series has to have an episode in space critters friday the 13th leprechaun in space hellraiser etc
0	some changes for the better the special effects are more elaborate some for the worse scott a likable kid in the original has turned into an awkward teenager but generally this sequel is about on a par with the original which doesn't say much the pg 13 rating is questionable although the film is not scary at all there is some brief but quite explicit gore and some out of place nudity 1 2
0	what a terrible sequel the reason i give this film two stars instead of zero because it's a movie that has violence and gore and critters yet it is planned out poorly and this god awful sequel was done by none other than bum bum bum bum mick garris the bonehead that brought you the remake of the shining which nearly got kubrick to nearly roll in his grave when he discovered it was actually made garris is also the man that brought you the sad sequel of the fly the fly which was a wonderful movie but garris's movie nearly ruined john getz career anyway if you really want to see the crappy critters trilogy in order don't that's the mistake i made rent the first one or the third one or better yet don't stoop to that level at all this movie sucked so bad that i can't believe it please avoid this crap shame on you mick
0	two years after leaving the small town of grover's bend due to encountering the brad brown returns to spend time with his grandmother in time for easter meanwhile the eggs begin to hatch as they cause trouble in the town brown the townsfolk as well as the alien bounty hunters who have returned to finish the creatures must fight the bloodthirsty furballs before they wipe out the town br br the original critters was a minor attempt to rip off the family horror flick gremlins it became a cult favourite on the video shelves was successful enough to warrant a sequel this sequel plays down the horror makes its entire focus comedy instead unfortunately the comedy part is extremely clumsy as well as childish the acting is on par with the rest of the film it is just that the film suffers from a weak script the visual effects are fairly well done br br grade d review by m k geist
0	1st watched 7 29 2001 4 out of 10 dir mark fast paced frantic animation effort by ted turner's feature animation group plays a lot like tv cartoons and leaves a lot to be desired in the area of likeable characters but definetly has extremely unlikeable villains i'm not even sure why the kids would like this movie because there are so many references to old movie stars that kids know very little or nothing about mediocre effort at best despite raves on the box comparing it to disney efforts like aladdin and lion king don't let this fool you there is no comparison in story or quality
0	this movie didn't do it for me an avid snl fan for the past 14 years jamie portrayal was ok but there was something so off putting about the movie itself the facts presented in the movie are totally skewed but griffin produced it so that would explain a lot he was never on snl nor had anything to do with it the points in her life when she was on snl are backwards when we first see her on snl walking through the studio with lorne michaels the logo on the wall is circa 1988 1989 not 1975 and let's talk about the cast who are these people i have never heard of a one of them truly dissatisfying this movie shows why tv movies are just that tv movies
0	i enjoy science fiction just as much as the next man… but what the hell was that apparently shot over just three days using excess film stock left over from his previous film 1926 ' this jean renoir short is a bewildering futuristic satire produced on a budget that couldn't have been much more than zero in the year following a great war africa has become the most civilised region on earth and what was formerly europe has been designated unknown land an african explorer – played by johnny huggins a black man dressed up as a white man dressed up as a black man if you follow me – travels to the ruins of paris in his aircraft and lands outside the lair of a parisian savage catherine hessling then the director's wife and her primate companion perhaps the creepiest ape man costume i've ever seen the savage as part of some bizarre sexual initiation ritual starts showing the explorer the charleston dance which he is delighted to learn himself br br it doesn't help the film that hessling who was wonderful the following year in renoir's 'the little match girl 1928 ' isn't much of a dancer though the extensive use of slow motion adds a touch of surrealism to the ceremony furthermore i'm quite shocked that renoir would exploit his own wife as such a blatant sexual object – it doesn't come as a surprise to learn of their divorce just three years later on the plus side i did like the general sci fi concept behind the film and the slyly satiric touch of the reversing the racial roles usually typical in such stories as this however why renoir decided to dress up his black actor as a minstrel will remain a mystery for all of time silly crude and quite pointless parade 1927 ' is a cinematic oddity from one of cinema's most respected directors and is perhaps an effort that he would have liked to forget the dvd version came without a musical soundtrack but i compromised with a selection of pieces from shostakovich
0	made with film stock left over from the production of nana 1927's sur un air de charleston is described as a holiday film for all concerned and that's the best way to view it jean renoir seems never to have thought enough of it to even edit the footage together the plot is a simple reversion of racial stereotypes – in a black explorer travels to a post holocaust paris where a white native girl teaches him the charleston naturally he assumes she's a savage whose dancing is a prelude to her eating him before giving in to the seductive beat of 'white music there are plenty of surreal touches be it the pet gorilla eating the flowers in catherine hair the angels the girl telephones renoir and producer pierre among them or the fact that black performer johnny huggins plays his part in minstrel blackface while dancing ability is almost completely nonexistent and there are some interesting occasional experiments with slow motion but there's not really enough to sustain it for two reels an additional air of surrealism is provided by the fact that this silent musical has absolutely no score at all on lions new dvd…
0	a man in blackface lands in a spaceship and meets a girl who lives in some sort of shack with a monkey he hooks her up with a telephone and she teaches him how to charleston then they fly off in the spaceship leaving the monkey behind cringe inducing blackface aside this short film makes no sense i think that's the plot but i'm not sure by a long shot you can't tell that this is renoir at work despite his characteristic humanism good use of slow motion though can be found on the ny film series of experimental film videos no 18 i believe
0	all of the great horror movies of the 70's 80's and even the early 90's from psycho to texas chainsaw the original not that warmed over wb crap to silence of the lambs the characters in these movies were based upon the crimes of ed gein the writers and directors tapped into the true story for the inspiration for creating some of the greatest fictional movie killers of all time br br the old horror films were great because even though the crimes were loosely based upon the facts of the case of ed gein they were truly fictional and far removed from the true story br br in the case of this movie they've created a fictional horror film in which they tried to capitalize on the true story in order to sell a cheap poorly acted love story between two characters that nobody really cares about in fact in a good horror film these two characters would have been excellent victims br br end of lecture br br in short this film was like wearing clammy underwear on a cold afternoon sipping on a nice cup of chilled vomit
0	our story two u s navy deep sea divers search for silver coins hidden beneath the ocean off the filipino coast our proof extremely dull entertainment at its best with no plot in sight jim brown is completely wasted provided his help in producing this 70s war turkey richard jaeckel is in his usual form don cornelius and richard pryor are among those who gave special thanks in their contributions bombs away
0	why are there no good reviews because this film is hysterically bad br br set in a japanese prison camp in world war ii we have jim brown as the hero who puts up with a hysterically unbelievable racist officer and just as hysterical is the way the japanese officers brown nose jim brown's character br br this is probably the worst film any of these actors ever did stereotypes not only abound but they dominate this film the sixties seventies music may be the best thing about the film maybe because it has nothing to do with the film br br this is even difficult to sit back and enjoy as mindless fun this film is even more racist than the message of racism it tries to deliver and believe me i was alive in the seventies and we thought crap like this was just as stupid then it was never popular
0	if you are in to bad movies for the entertainment of witnessing bad movies bad acting bad production etc aka mystery science theater 3000 quality you will love pacific inferno jim brown will be forever remembered as one of the greatest football players to ever play the game as an actor he will forever be remembered as one of the greatest football players to ever play the game i am not sure who rolf was but i am hoping he was 15 or 16 years old when he directed this perhaps he may have been the next spielberg in the making because if he was a grown man directing this a 15 or 16 year old could have done better the basis or plot for the movie probably had some historical merit and maybe even truthfully accurate but the actual film may be one of worst movies made in american film history i kept waiting for lee marvin william holden or charles bronson to pop in to somehow save whatever face was left of this film i would have loved to have been at the red carpet black tie gala for the hollywood opening when this movie previewed as this movie had to have many a viewer laughing and cringing under their breath it is on the dime dvd racks now look for it for entertainment value this movie is so bad it is too good to pass up
0	the best thing about this flick is that it seems like they used a lot of stuff left over from the pearl harbor attack in tora tora tora my favorite was the shot of the p 40 crashing into the row of parked p 40s but filmed from the top of a hangar or crane unfortunately it just gets worse from there br br there's two black guys and two white guys as american pows as well as some filipinos pows and japanese guards the ranking pow of the americans is a white naval lieutenant which is of course an o 3 in the navy at any rate he's in need of a haircut badly distractingly badly hockey hair does not belong in a wwii movie oh and he's a racist he doesn't want to share quarters with the of course in real life he wouldn't want to share quarters with the white enlisted guy either i think the geneva convention has a clause about officers quarters and enlisted but that wasn't the point here oh well i think plot is secondary to other issues in this flick he gets put in his place and pretty much spends the rest of the movie as a look out and running the air pump for the divers br br but once you get going it's not a bad story line the japs want the divers to raise the silver thrown out by the americans before fell the filipino resistance wants them to take their time and the pows do their best to help a potentially good story and not that badly done i guess a bit unbelievable when the pows use camp made re to swim between the pow camp and the filipino village every night maybe i'm not that picky when i know going in that this is not a blockbuster film i guess that's why it comes on a 20 pack dvd war movie collection for five bucks br br the 70s music did not belong in this movie or any wwii movie it's quite distracting to say the least the acting was not that bad probably better than i could do br br not being a fan of football at least i found out that jim brown is a real person and not somebody richard pryor made up that in itself was worth the i paid for this movie br br worth watching on tcm or paying a quarter for br br one star for being a war movie another for being wwii and one more because i'm feeling generous
0	jim brown stars and produces a tale set in the philippines just after the japanese invasion the story has the japanese taking several navy men prisoner including some divers who they use to retrieve the gold that macarthur had dumped into the manila bay br br it's a messy movie aiming to make a statement about war and racism the film uses edwin war in a not so subtle montage the performances are just adequate at best jim brown is okay but he doesn't really show any sort of range in a performance that just has him standing there looking annoyed the sets are serviceable but seem rather cheap the film suffers from the outset due to a great deal of stock footage including many of the best known shots from the japanese attack in tora tora tora the use of such big budget sequence effectively makes the rest of the film look positively anemic it also reminds one that there are better films out there one could be watching for me the film seems to have half a real plot the retrieval of the silver and half a plot that is there just to fill time none of it is particularly exciting even with the explosive finale br br given the choice i'd take a pass
0	an old high school teacher of mine used to brag that he'd seen every movie ever made so one day a friend of mine and i decided to make up a movie called pacific inferno later we got into an argument whether the lead role was played by carl or billy dee williams our teacher found the argument interesting so he came up to us and informed us that the lead role in pacific inferno was played by jim brown we thought he was trapped in a lie that was until we went to the library and discovered that pacific inferno was in fact a real movie this incident forced me to rent the movie it's horrible our made up movie had a better plot than this piece and billy dee would have been much better in the picture
0	stay away from this movie it is terrible in every way bad acting a thin recycled plot and the worst ending in film history seldom do i watch a movie that makes my adrenaline pump from irritation in fact the only other movie that immediately springs to mind is another people in an aircraft in trouble movie airspeed please please don't watch this one as it is utterly and totally pathetic from beginning to end helge
0	what was i thinking when i rented this one what did the distributor think when he copied the tape and shipped it all the way to holland that anyone really wanted to see this s br br it's about some astronauts getting into trouble outer space apollo 13 flashback but never even in the shadow of this fine film and they want to return to home if you act in such a film you should be glad that you're gonna drift away from earth as far as possible br br this one wants to surf on the small wave of space movies in 1998 deep impact and armageddon and this one fails everywhere deep impact and armageddon weren't perfect either far from it but they were at least worth watching once and maybe one more time when we're all old they gave some fun max q doesn't it gives irritation okay okay it's a tv movie but does that mean you're allowed to come up with such a mess br br if you haven't choked in your own vomit by the end by all the cheap drama and worthless dialogue you've must have bored yourself to death with this waste of time br br it gets at its worst at the end when the space shuttle lands on no i can't 'spoil' this one imdb guidelines forbid it so you have to see for yourself no don't see it sorry but rent a movie which is worth renting like battlefield earth just kidding br br probably the worst one i have ever seen
0	the plot was not good br br the special effects weren't br br the acting was not very good at all br br like others i felt there were numerous holes in the plot that you could fly well a space shuttle through br br i thought the ending was rather unbelievable br br by the way guys about the blow torch in space br br blow torches have their own supply of oxygen hence the name oxy acetylene torch two hoses run from the torch one to an acetylene bottle and one to an oxygen bottle br br so a blow torch would work just fine in space
0	this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen the writer obviously bought the playbook how to write a space disaster movie and followed it play by play in particular the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space putting on a brave show in the face of disaster has been done time and time again br br max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw 50 million at the project but judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects the producers could only muster 50 thousand to learn that the film was nominated for a special visual effects emmy has me absolutely gob smacked br br i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects br br and the plot holes are too numerous to mention but i will pick one out as an example now i'm no nasa expert but surely it's highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before br br the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script br br i give this film 2 out of 10 with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark
0	this is the worst movie i have ever seen and believe me i've sen a lot of bad movies i love horror but this was just terrible there was not one scene in this film where i felt scared all the actors must have been people that they found at a bus stop 20 minutes prior to shooting i wish that would have given me my 99 cents back the acting was terrible the writing was incredibly bad someone had to screen this movie before it was released and had to know that it was terrible i'd be embarrassed to have my name associated with this monstrosity don't rent this movie if you do don't return it so no other poor souls will ever make the mistake of renting it
0	i'm sorry but this really does feel like a modern day apollo 13 knock off totally implausible at least armageddon felt like a comic book this felt like a bad high school film project acting was about as cliché as one can get and landing a space shuttle on an la freeway come on seriously jerry what were you thinking and all the clichés the pregnant astronaut's wife the nosy reporter who gets in everyone's way the stalwart manager with go fever and it's one thing to twist the laws of physics or politics or whatever to make an entertaining story but at least make it good fact and science were totally butchered for this the space shuttle doesn't have fuel tanks in it's wings and even if it did it couldn't steer by shifting fuel between them and neither could a dc 10 br br if you like bad acting bad storytelling low realism and cheesy clichés this one can't be beat
0	this movie was pointless i can't even call it sci fi since that requires more from a movie than merely taking place in space max q isn't even set in space for the entire movie the story plot is unoriginal the cast isn't anything to write home about although it would be strange with a top cast in a mediocre film furthermore it's not particularly exciting or well told at least it's evenly balanced in a low quality sort of way in that nothing or no one stands out everything is equally bland i usually find some quality in space flicks even if it's just 90 minutes of semi lame entertainment bordering on low budget pathetic but max q didn't even give me that satisfaction all in all a complete waste of time
0	snowball express from the disney studios isn't quite as dated as some of their output from this era there are no hippies or hot rodders just dull as dishwater dean jones inheriting a ramshackle hotel ski resort from a deceased relative when jones and family pull into a sleepy colorado town the folks who give them directions looking like extras from deliverance are curiously vague about the hotel we expect it to look like a one room shanty but actually the accommodations are very nice jones' teenage daughter has a sour look on her face throughout which doesn't prevent one of the local yahoos from leering at her and of course clumsy pop dean jones is a regular on the slopes leading to a lot of pratfalls in the slush perhaps this square scenario might've benefited from some magical whimsy for this script is a frozen stiff from
0	based on the comments made so far everyone seems to either hate this movie or love it i think it would be fair to point out that although this is not a great movie it has its interesting moments for one thing it was filmed on location in colorado was it breckinridge or i can't remember but it is in the credits the location is absolutely stunning and spectacular it's beautiful even to me who lived in colorado for several years br br next it has disney's penchant for wonderful character actors harry morgan has never been in better form than when he plays in a disney movie he is literally hysterical also remember the wonderful mary wickes although she has a bit part in this movie she is great as always if you don't know who she is think of the animated disney version of hunchback from notre dame she was one of the gargoyles and she was also the most interesting nun in sister act as well as the best nun in the trouble with angels she has always been a great character actress and most character actors never receive the recognition they deserve br br in addition to character actors and all star casts in the 1960s 1970s disney may have not had the greatest movies but if you really watch some of them from beginning to end you will notice that every movie has some really funny or hysterical moment in it the entire movie may not be funny but there is always a comic gem at least 1 or 2 in every single live action movie disney ever made whether it's harry morgan in one of his bellowing tones of voice or tim conway floundering around or joe flynn giving one of his priceless looks of horror it is all good the whole film may not be good but there are always hysterical moments in every disney film from this period that i have ever seen disney in this time period always managed to make a person smile despite the dumbness of the film br br on these comments i disagree with viewers who say every disney movie in this time period is awful that statement it not quite accurate rather it is easier for me to give credit to the funny moments and overlook the weaknesses in the plots br br some live action disney movies are true classics old yeller bedknobs and broomsticks mary poppins but for those that aren't i am able to appreciate them for what they were good clean family fun in a time when movies had become vulgar crude and offensive
0	do these guys take have a computer kick out these same plots over and over again only the names places and faces are changed to prevent complete boredom hubby is handsome and rich but too busy to pay attention to his gorgeous wife a situation she constantly tries to remedy her friend neighbor has the same problem so they become interested in each others the grass is always greener throw in a sexy scheming made who has designs on everybody and you get a lot of stripping and dipping and a salad bowl of an unintelligible plot br br the quality of bodies is pretty high here although not much in the way of contact even simulated is shown good late night erotica if jay leno can't put you to sleep
0	i'm not surprised that this film did well at the hamptons film festival it is a shallow film that would appeal well to shallow people two actors pretending to be actors in a relationship who fight and look for a lost dog the film is allegedly exploring the dynamics of the relationship however the relationship is far too petty to merit any such exploration this couple has one dimension they fight they tease then they make love and fight some more there brief moment of tenderness does not reveal any possible reason that these two would be involved with each other given their venomous and volatile relationship beautifully shot excellent score but without anything of merit in the script or characters this short is just that
0	this was included on the disk shorts volume 2 a rather dull collection of short films shorts are among my favorite style of films but somehow the people assembling this second collection had a hard time finding quality content and it wasn't nearly as good as the first volume or other shorts collections br br this short film feels like it's woefully incomplete there is a story but so much in unanswered that the viewer like me feels a bit left out and unfulfilled br br the film begins with a woman her boyfriend and her that's a dog by the way going to a lonely beach the lady speaks with an accent that at times is a bit difficult to follow given that i am hard of hearing i sure would have loved if it had been closed captioned anyway the boyfriend goes for a swim while she naps when she awakens her dog is gone she panics and makes the guy follow her all about looking for the dog they spend most of the time arguing and being disagreeable then out of the blue they stop to have sex later they find the dog end of story br br as far as the characters go both seemed rather dysfunctional and unlikable she was a fussy and demanding lady and he seemed to have contempt for her when you wondered why they were together their little sex break showed what bond kept them together br br some might like the characterizations i kept finding the people irritating and unreal more like caricatures than people you might meet or know also the payoff for all this just isn't worth the wait unless you want to see the guy naked
0	this movie looked like it was rushed to release for some reason definitely not a well made movie so unbelievable the scenes where the president holbrook were downtown and walking among the people were a farce there would not be a chance for the common folk to be within 30 yards of the president in that situation in real life if it wasn't for the blood and profanity this was shot like a tv movie it could have been decent if it was done differently holbrook's president talents were never realized in this movie shatner's acting is okay the production values in this movie leave a lot to be desired overall i think most people would be better off not wasting time to watch this affair
0	this movie looked like it was rushed to release for some reason definitely not a well made movie so unbelievable the scenes where the president holbrook were downtown and walking among the people were a farce there would not be a chance for the common folk to be within 30 yards of the president in that situation in real life if it wasn't for the blood and profanity this was shot like a tv movie it could have been decent if it was done differently holbrook's president talents were never realized in this movie shatner's acting is okay the production values in this movie leave a lot to be desired overall i think most people would be better off not wasting time to watch this affair
0	all i can do is echo the sentiment already expressed by some of the other commenters this is city of god meets happy days the of the ruthless thug one minute a ruthless killer the next minute a diaper commercial is completely unconvincing you can approach it in one of two ways 1 a gritty realistic movie turned sappy or 2 a sappy abc afterschool special with profanity violence and animal cruelty either way it just don't fly do it why then has it received so much praise as others have implied it gets the conscience vote from the west show us pictures of poverty to contrast against our fluffy double wide theatre seats and 44 oz cokes and we'll applaud in a heartbeat but oh don't forget to candy coat it because the bitter pill of reality tantalizing as it is is hard for us to swallow br br i'm terribly disappointed that this film would receive so many awards and accolades especially when there are far more deserving works of film out there all i can say is beware of any film that receives awards hollywood oscars sweeping syrupy tripe cannes film festival beard stroking artless propaganda to find the real gems you'll have to work hard at it
0	i just saw this movie and it turns out to be pretty lame just as mentioned by other user reviews and the one thing that bothered me the most was the southern accent some of the characters had it took place in wisconsin not the south as mentioned from other reviews ed wasn't a big dude so why did the guy that plays jason and leatherface portray him br br i fast forwarded through most of it being that there are many slow parts br br hopefully someone will do their homework on ed and the town and make a more accurate movie
0	like most musicals of the era one must check reality at the door broadway melody of 1938 is not remotely believable nor plausible but kind of fun in its strange way this movie is really just an excuse to execute the talents of the stars some scenes just happen as if they were in a review not a plot driven movie br br judy garland shines and it's a pity she has so little to do unless much was left on the cutting room floor br br one of the most inane happenings are the way eleanor powell get a lead role in a broadway show and robert taylor says it's going to be work work work from dawn til dusk several scenes go by and there's no work no rehearsals nothing she needs money to win a horse in an auction she has no money isn't she getting paid while she rehearses taylor has to borrow money to help he's supposed to be a big time producer he has no money anyway that's just two elements in this strange story br br the musical numbers are quite wonderful which saves this from being a total loss broadway melody of 1940 is much better as is broadway melody of 1936
0	the hindi remake of mrs doubtfire starring and directed by kamal hassan is a somewhat shoddy version and not as good as expected br br kamal hassan clearly struggles with hindi dialogs even after all these years and cannot handle even one scene effortlessly the guy has aged and should give it a rest hassan doesn't bring anything new to the role or to the character as say dustin hoffman does to tootsie or marathi actor does to aunt's character in auntie comedy play br br what was the kid doing playing with firecrackers when it wasn't diwali most of romantic vs amrish paresh and then johny walker seem redundant to the main storyline tabu's bathing scene was unnecessary the family is north indian but must be reminded of karva night by a chachi yeah right br br the fine acting skills of not one but four actors namely tabu om puri the late amrish puri and paresh rawal have been wasted in this film br br watch the original mrs doubtfire clean crisp and crackling with fun quite unlike chachi 420
0	now i remember what the filmmakers were ripping off before pulp fiction it was david lynch right br br i hunted this thing down to see kyle secor what a waste of a perfectly good bayliss it was so painful to watch him sort of like when someone you love is horribly sick and there's nothing you can do br br nearly every cliche in the book the desert the psycho the quirky mob boss the biker tracy walker who fortunately was only in one scene but i kept expecting him to reappear and say something strange and profound like if a man wants to know where he's going he's got to look at where he's been or some contrived garbage like that i have a theory as to why so many indies are short on location in the desert i think it's because they can save money on lighting br br if you like to be in pain find this movie and give it a viewing if you're a fan of kyle secor watch reruns of homicide on court tv if you want a good quirky road thriller check out wild at heart br br there is a reason that no one has heard of delusion my god what a waste of a good title
0	delusion is what you experience when you watch this flick and then believe you saw something worthwhile this flick which tells of a trio of semi psycho travelers who are up to no good somewhere in the ca desert is amateurish and just plain stupid the film suffers from an awful story a lousy screenplay and some terrible direction just to mention a few of the deficits if the flick has anything at all going for it it's b movie diva rubin's even performance don't waste your time on this turkey d
0	everything you do in this world should make at least a little bit of sense unfortunately very little of delusion makes any sense jennifer rubin is adequate in her role as the main squeeze of hit man kyle secor secor on the other hand overacts to the point of annoyance jim metzler the embezzling yuppie is very unbelievable as the novice revenge seeking adversary when jennifer rubin gives back the money she has carefully been concealing all credibility flies out the window and the guns pointing final showdown between secor and metzler is beyond ridiculous avoid delusion unless you are delusional enough to believe the misguided positive reviews here merk
0	this turned out to be more of a women's romance soap suspense film than what i hoped it was simply a tense thriller yes the final 20 minutes were suspenseful but much of the previous 75 bordered on being just plain tedious br br hauer was a little too subdued not playing his normal intense character natasha richardson sports somewhat of a dumb look most of the time and her character was very unappealing br br the story is so so it's not as bad as i'm making out but it sure isn't anything i'd watch again and the back of the vhs describing this movie was misleading
0	this is without question one of the worst movies i have ever seen however it is also one of the most unintentionally hilarious i like to compare it to plan 9 in that it can be so bad so awful so dumb and such a waste of time that i find myself laughing out loud br br one of my biggest problems with it is that it's a complete ripoff of robin hood and let be honest and say that i love robin hood with errol flynn and robin hood men in tights but let's face it from the forbidden love between peck who is definitely slumming it although in all fairness this was still a good few years before the masterpiece to kill a mockingbird and the female character who is so forgettable apparently that i have forgotten her name to the final scene where the good guys dress up as monks to fool the bad guys screams robin hood all over it br br however i don't think the film isn't worth seeing on the contrary i think that this is one of the funniest movies i've seen in years even if it was unintentional
0	originally i wrote what was a sarcastic scathing review of this pathetic piece of dung but every time i submitted the review i got this contains a very long word which is not allowed also words that were not misspelled were judged incorrect br br now the word that was judged too long was never identified after numerous attempts at eliminating words eventually i got the sneaking suspicion that the imdb site is politically sensitive and set to reject certain words automatically nothing i wrote was obscene or racist in itself but after eliminating all of the longest words the same message was repeated again and again also words that weren't judged misspelled were all the sudden considered misspelled br br the pc police are everywhere
0	i watched all three mad max films in succession for the first time a few days ago and was left bitterly disappointed with the third instalment it destroys the fine work of the first two films with weak and cheesy action and a story line that turns the apocalyptic australian wastelands into a comical sand pit one would expect to see in a children's adventure movie the character of max is unrecognisable from his dark and cynical persona seen in the previous films and changed into a predictable uninteresting saviour that left me feeling betrayed if you haven't seen this film yet then simply don't let the story end with the road warrior and save yourself a very painful hour and a half spoiler alert the other major issue i had with this film that truly left a bitter taste in my mouth was the flying man we had already seen him in the road warrior where he had helped max and yet when he reappears in thunderdome it looks like the two had never met whether he was supposed to be a different character or a relative of the road warriors gyro man i do not know however it was not explained and is a weak element in this overall weak film 2 out of 10 doesn't get a 1 10 because of the thunderdome fight
0	even allowing for my unabashed love of the first two films in the franchise and sweeping away any sort of biased leanings i might of had for the character of max i just can't bring myself to rate at average this cartoonery waste of space that so nearly soils what had gone before it br br gone is the rugged nasty streak that brought feeling to the character mad max gone is the impacting feeling of desolation in an apocalyptic world and more crucially gone is director george miller's passion for the franchise the dreadful score matches the cartoon heart of the film it seems that the makers didn't really know what to do with the amount of cash given to make this third and thankfully last instalment sure the stunts are spot on to be expected by now and of course miller manages to paint a barren desert landscape by purely lifting from what he has done before yet he clearly struggled for fresh ideas with the action since the road warrior's crowning glory of the petrol tanker pursuit is replicated here only he uses a train instead br br it's just a very poor show that may have seemed like an ambitious turn of events back in the mid 1980s but when viewing the three films together now thunderdome just comes across as a director losing his edgy approach whilst sadly getting caught between the mix of comedy and fantasy action and the truth is that neither of those genre slants would have worked singularly in the context of this series anyway i give the film 3 10 purely for one real good thunderdome fight sequence while the stunt men here deserve some credit at the very least but this is the third time i have tried to like this film and as glutton for punishment as i undoubtedly am i wont be trying again ever
0	when deranged was made the film makers saw fit to turn ed gein into ezra cobb even though the resultant film was actually quite close to the facts of the notorious case i presume that enough was fictionalised that they thought they should change names and such br br ed gein the butcher of masquerades as a true story retelling of the gein case but actually bears very little resemblance to the history as a biopic type film it is a travesty if ever a film needed names changing it is this one far more so than deranged it is as close to the true crime story as dirty harry was to the true story of the zodiac killings br br ok so that annoyance aside how is it as a horror film well as a horror film well as a film generally it is quite appalling one of the worst films i have sat through in months issues run thus 1 kane hodder is quite astonishingly miscast as ed gein utterly unsuitable in the part hodder just lumbers through menacingly very bad br br 2 kane hodder is the best actor in the film the rest of the cast are rather amateur dramatics and utterly unengaging it is painful to witness some lines being delivered br br 3 the occasional efforts of stylish film making seem to come from the big book of moody cinematography cliché you've seen it all before better executed aside from the efforts at style the rest of the film making is largely inept cameras shake framing is bad there are overlong pointless shots holding back the pace which leads me to br br 4 it seems to go on forever it is under 90 minutes in length but sitting through it is an ordeal you'd swear it ran two and a half hours br br 5 ed gein almost seems secondary mostly the film is concerned with the family affairs of a newly promoted deputy sheriff said deputy is played by an abysmal actor upon whose shoulders no film should rest br br is anything good about it well the gore fx are very good some convincing wounds are in display and the make up is generally excellent none of this however makes up for the massive failings of the film br br it doesn't even have any kitsch value it's just bad not enjoyably bad not so bad it's good just genuinely bad a film to avoid and despise
0	intelligent summary isn't it br br if mad max was something of a simple straight forward nothing special but nothing wrong either kinda film they totally made up for it with it's sequel the road warrior so in theory with a third great film it would've been a great trilogy now it's not br br such a huge disappointment beyond thunderdome was it's main premise is pretty cool with an 'underworld' think a mix between metropolis and the time machine but it all isn't carried out with too much conviction add the obnoxious tina turner and the no good story line of the people waiting for a plane and this is just one huge stinker br br maybe they can brighten things up again with part 4 although that one is just probably gonna be 1 huge budget explosion kinda thing because this just isn't right br br 3 10
0	like the previous two 'mad max' films 'mad max beyond is not exception to the violence and strange plot mad max is in a post war society where he must destroy master blaster and get the children to morrow land' this is generally a warped film with peter pan references and tina turner methane pigs and odd characters i got very bored by watching it all and it offered nothing to me i did not feel inspired after watching this film the only decent thing about this film were the extremely odd characters that got picked off in various ways throughout the film it's too weird for me and it was much too dull
0	every time i've seen this movie i get the same impression some parts of it are so amazingly stupid bad that they crack me up they aren't intentional and there are a lot of them the rest is just plain bad stupid and or irrelevant a movie like evil dead gets credit for being bad at it's own expense because it's the intended result it' stupid and cheesy because sam raimi succeeded at what he was trying to do this movie doesn't have that excuse it's stupid and cheesy because the filmmakers failed so miserably the crap result gets heaped on top of the crap writing and crap performances to make it a shame that the lowest rating a movie can be given is one for ' watching this movie has the same effect as listening to a billy madison essay everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it i should be able to give this movie something around a 5
0	this is not exactly what i would call a mad max film after seeing road warrior and experiencing the excellence of that film i felt somewhat disappointed after seeing this it supposedly started out as some kind of kids in the wilderness film and was merged with the mad max franchise bad idea the casting was not exactly the best i mean come on tina turner one of the main problems with this film is that there are no good villains no wez no not even a decent nothing really even happens if you are going to plan on seeing this sub par action flick can it even be called that make sure you see mad max 2 or mad max or better yet both another problem with this film is that there are too many people even the thunderdome battle sequence is dull max doesn't even kill anyone the music is bad the characters are bad not in the good way and after seeing this film it left a very bad taste in my mouth
0	i feel terribly sorry where the lubitsch pic was enchanting marvelous full of spirit and elegance this one here is only colored lana looks like 51 in fact she was 31 at that time but obviously depressive and tries to play a shy and dull girlie think of jeanette mcdonald who gave the role of the widow a double faced depth by playing with count that lana had to play an operetta although unable to sing crazy she only sings one song the title role of an lehar operetta that is really funny the only really good thing is the great waltz scene at the end glamorous and after watching this scene have a look at the introducing waltz scene in gentlemen prefer blondes any similarities
0	my wife and i met doing a professional production of the merry widow in 1982 in english but a straight translation br br only the very basic skeleton of the original plot is visible in this adaptation most of the characters have been deleted along with the entire b plot and all but one of the characters remaining have been renamed most of the characters in the movie aren't in the operetta either the action has been moved from paris to at first washington dc and then to the fictional country of which the movie has renamed and only later to paris the net result is that we don't reach the beginning of the original play until about 45 minutes in br br and the main source of tension in the plot is deleted too in the original years before count and the heroine were very much in love but his family refused to allow them to marry because she was poor it's his broken heart that has rendered him a careless playboy now that as a widow she's the richest woman in the world she still loves him and he still loves her but his pride won't let him admit it to anyone even himself and she must spend three acts playing mind games to break him down the trope of the aristocrat with money problems who won't admit that he's in love with a rich woman for fear of what people will think supplied the main plots of a substantial fraction of viennese for decades after the 1906 widow in this movie they've never met before which rips out not only the heart of the whole thing but nearly all the comedy br br lamas does a pretty decent job though br br an interesting musical point is that several times we hear a snippet or so of parisien an extra song written in english despite the title for the london which was not as far as i know usually found in american productions until the 1980s or so
0	okay i really tried to tap into the so called silly surreal humor that this film sets out to be i'm told that the japanese version of this film is much shorter than the one shipped to america go figure and has less political references apart from all that i found this sexual political farce just as boring and pointless as standard porn the central female lead is easy on the eyes and could actually act i would love to see her in a non pink film where she could actually flex her acting muscles and no not the ones you're thinking of it's obvious that japan can and does produce just as much crap as other countries i couldn't recommend this to anyone with the distant possibility of someone who has a jones for asian porn go see a real japanese film
0	it would be quite easy to make this movie sound fun a call girl gets shot in the forehead by a north korean spy but survives the bullet that is embedded in her brain makes her long for knowledge as well as sex unbeknownst to her she walks away from the shooting with the cloned finger of george w bush in her purse a key which can unlock the power to use nuclear armaments just call it a romp and at least a few people will show up to the theater i'm not sure how many did go to see this four year old film when it opened in new york this past april but i sincerely hope not many it sounds like a light and playful pinku flick but it has art house pretensions and is really just incredibly boring many pinku films in the past have been successful in their artistic aspirations but this film's aspirations just make the time that elapses between the sex scenes excruciating and then the sex scenes aren't even good i've seen some pretty outrageous stuff in dirty japanese movies i've never seen this country produce something with sex this dull the spice channel is more imaginative the only worthwhile thing in this movie is the body of the lead actress emi kuroda otherwise this is pure torture
0	the movie uses random events of historical significance as its backdrop and willy nilly criss crosses the lives and time lines of its 3 central characters to what purpose one may ask the problem with this film is that the script becomes the 'story' not characters or their lives br br it starts off with a bunch of rich aimless college kids and a couple of not so rich too drawn into the movement affair rejection and separation follows people go their own ways seemingly only till the heroine forces herself upon them not once but twice after a pause in the the next hurdle for these 3 is the emergency imposed on the country by indira gandhi lots of political figures roam around for no obvious reason the sub plots are too contrived and don't add up to make a logical whole br br the movie tries to impose a false pace but never reaches a true rhythm barely coherent at times there is no maturation and growth whatsoever in the arcs of the 3 ex college buddies even after they are presumably married engaged settled or whatever they are ever too eager to just ditch it all and head off to a village to have sex with the ex lover or ex flame what fertile imagination the screen writer possesses so many 4 letter words are used without any rhyme or reason that its downright abusive br br singh has a horrible american accent that she doesn't try to hide its hideous hearing her mouth cliché ridden dialog like up i didn't think you'd come' this after the hellish nightmare she's just been thru or in the beginning 'i appreciate your concern but i can take care of myself' yikes what kind of clown wrote the dialogs for this she invites her friend in to have a cup of 'south no less coffee wishes someone good morning and then is wished good night by someone else in the family now whats up with that br br the countless uncredited villagers and are the best actors the editing is really erratic with too many cuts obviously trying hard to make a bold statement sudhir misra screwed up big time on this one
0	this film is supposedly about three young idealistic people two of whom join the movement and blah blah it is really just another film about some beautiful rich people trying to decide who they should bed next the peasants and and the political struggles of the era merely serve as a picturesque backdrop literally as we don't hear the villagers say a word never mind learn anyone's name thus they occupy the same 'role' as the in old hollywood films the movie is also dull and the story does not actually get us anywhere except to various bedrooms we are apparently supposed to admire the of it all which merely means no good song and dance routine which would not have saved the film of course but might have at least the boredom br br my friend was annoyed at the immorality of the whole story not the bedroom bit but the whole pointlessness of the story the message seems to be that ideals are not worth pursuing
0	ever since he played a goon in lone wolf actor stuntman kane hodder has been busy his film hatchet got all the publicity last year but he still makes a couple of more films every year he should have skipped this one br br hodder seems to be the king of the slashers he has played jason voorhees from 1988's friday the 13th part vii the new blood 1988 to jason x 2001 he is working on a new film that appears to be a halloween remake he is very much what i would call the serial killer type with his methodical expressionless thirst for blood br br however there wasn't much blood in this movie and very little action occurred on camera it felt as if i was watching an episode of real law enforcement on a e br br i won't put the blame entirely on hodder's shoulders as the rest of the actors didn't contribute much either br br michael berryman the hills have eyes the devil's rejects just ran his mouth until gein shut him up adrienne the bold and the beautiful was cute veteran actress three's company and penthouse pet priscilla barnes did a credible job i am sure there are other horror favorites but they all just seemed to run through their roles
0	this is by far one of the most pretentious films i have ever seen it is a tight slap on the face of some indians who speak in english and were looking at the mirror disgusting the bubble gum version of the 1970s politics of the north indian plains the message the educated english speaking indian tried to save the poor beggars of india in all earnestness it ignores the fact that the poor beggars are also capable of and are saving themselves on their own br br as a love story its okay the problem is that the love story and character development is based upon a completely fraudulent version of politics
0	i rented a copy of this one from netflix big mistake the dvd version titled the one armed swordsmen was produced by madmen who thought that the fighting sequences would be appreciated better pasted all together in one big chapter than as part of a consistent sequential story some of the story was left in separate chapters which you can select from the main menu but the dvd is still a mess don't rent or buy it not that there was anything wonderful about the original story an absurdly complicated piece of nonsense much as i liked seeing wang yu in his prime again after all these years this one is an utter waste of time i've had dish that made a better film than this what the chopped up dvd version shows us is that no matter how silly a chinese script may be you have to see some sort of story to care about how the fighting sequences turn out br br but the one armed swordsmen does offer you do the chance to see both wang and shaw brothers stalwart lo lieh beating up smirking pretty boy david chiang it's always a pleasure to see that happen lo plays a sort of second string villain here and serves as a prime example of why some people really need he film is also graced by the participation of taiwanese actor chang yi as the magistrate br br another comment above mentions the obligatory fight in the inn scene there are two in fact where wang and chiang are attacked by a pack of comical barbarians using what look like cavemen weapons making bruce lee noises while they fight none of this makes any sense but that's okay if you're not expecting any clarity or common sense it was fun to watch anyway br br another of this production is that there are no significant women characters there are a couple of female roles but they play no serious role in the action or the plot br br if you can find a copy of the original shaw brothers one armed swordsman movie the one which explains why he has only the one arm and why he uses a broken sword go for it
0	hmmm not a patch on the original from shaw brothers the fighting is average and looks very clunky the story line is as to be expected from a 70's kung fu film confusing and daft stupid voices for women dubbed in posh english accents for men i turned this off early and i love martial arts flicks get the original its so much better than this average movie don't be fooled i bought the wrong flick what i wanted was the shaw brothers movie i have just started commenting i'm only doing foreign and martial arts films this is just the beginning of my movie collection i personally own most modern martial arts flicks hope you don't waste time watching this one its for die hard fans of 70's kung fu only
0	ok this movie wasn't good at all video games aren't what i would brag on if i was over the age of 15 cool to play games but writing a comment about video game players may like this movie for that it is that is strange just play a video game don't make up a sorry story about getting trapped in one i use my cell phone i hope i don't loose my girlfriend in that grease being the worst ever ok grease has a very well thought out story along with being a musical even if you don't like musicals anyone would say grease is good my brother plays video games all the time and he watched 30 minutes and left because it was so awful i feel asleep
0	well the first thing i saw after looking at the dvd box was best screenplay and thought this would be a good rental wow was i mistaken i'm sure at one time there was a good movie in here but after the incredibly poor acting and video game production values this ends up looking like retarded half brother the first scene sets up the overall atmosphere of the entire movie five minutes into it you'll be asking yourself what the hell am i watching and it will just snowball from there an awful soundtrack that makes every song sound like rob zombie's rounds out this miserable piece of crap into a laughably bad movie on a side note 3 most romantic quote in a movie i think you're the final destination
0	first there are some plot holes in this movie we see in the very beginning a kid dies from playing the game but who was tied up in the mail truck delivering the package which contains the game how did the driver place the package into the mailbox when he was lashed to the steering wheel it is not like he was mr fantastic wow that in just the first 15 minutes the actors are second rate take the bad guy played by patrick kilpatrick who exactly he has appeared in one episode of everything on tv and some secondary roles in poor movies like this one so most of the acting is like tv dramas i can live with that but the graphics or special effects are horrible the disembodied game voice sounds like a poor clone of hal from space 2000 what they called zombies looked more like shadows jumping around like monkeys from planet of the apes the aliens had transparent bodies like the shadow zombies in most cases the movie was just predictable as it had no hook or hidden agenda going the story was a good idea but like most good ideas discussed over lunch was never developed beyond that good idea stage
0	i've never written a comment on imdb before but this movie was so bad it left me little choice but to warn you not to waste the two hours of your life as an avid wwii historian i don't even know where to begin on how historically inaccurate this movie was carbines with korean war bayonet lugs missing cleaning and sight hoods german uniforms that didn't exist the list could go on forever added that it's loaded with flaws has literally no plot or climax and acting on par with your local high school theater the epitome of cheesy br br please there are too many good wwii movies out there to waste your time on this junk
0	i've rent the movie because i'm very fond on war movies and on the cover picture i've read better than save private ryan mmmmm i thought cool guys is just a ridiculous movie almost fun nothing to do with a proper war movie i want my money back why the f k the peoples lies f no subtitles they tried to make everything cooler with the light but they didn't make it sorry about this but the movie is awful the italians are shown as mafia e br br the american as stupid farmer the germans as even more stupid farmer br br the actor are ridiculous and unprofessional br br please please
0	what on earth was that my family and i just waisted 2 hours of our life for this piece of rubbish there was no plot no tension only a lot of boredom my kids could do better movies with our video camera br br but maybe we just did not get the point of the movie oh wait my mum did she was the only one who liked it for the following reason at least a film with no cars screeching if you are looking for a war film with no fighting in it is still interesting and gripping and has a strong anti war message then you should watch the trench br br i give this film 3 out of 10 because it is good enough for an afternoon nap and because i am too nice
0	for starters i once met the director when he was going to ww2 re enactments with a period movie camera and making videos of the events which looked darned good i really wish he'd kept that up because as much as i applaud what he accomplished on a clearly next to nothing budget when i popped out the dvd i just wondered why i sat through almost two hours of nothing there's no real plot to speak of you don't really care what happens to the characters maybe the italian troops and some of the germans and the ending is yet another art film commentary on the futility of war i could have told someone how it would end once i got through the first ten minutes i knew the germans would have a few heroically volunteer to fight to the death i knew most of the gis would be killed it was just too darned obvious and while i'm on the subject i was shocked to see so much of the axis side done well yet the gi side done comically all the character development was clearly for non english speaking roles the gis simply got shafted hard in this film and i can't help but wonder if they even had someone on the set who understood how the us army works the phrases terminology actions were clearly written by someone with no knowledge of the american military at all had i now known who had directed this film i'd have sworn it was directed and written by a german
0	my reasoning behind viewing this film despite the fact that it was free was more or less out of curiosity slight slight curiosity i wasn't all that familiar with this straight to video biographical account of mr gein and discovered during the opening credits that it featured horror icon kane hodder in the starring role my emotions turned from not just curiosity but now a glimmer of mild anticipation as to how his portrayal of gein would turn out also in the credits among some grim photos of ed's crimes was michael berryman and priscilla okay i thought to myself this may be mildly amusing as the movie started and progressed slowly my microscopic confidence or as i call it micro hope for this movie faded entirely and i was stuck with an overwhelming feeling of humiliation as i died a little inside from watching this dung heap hodder who is widely known and respected for his past work as an unstoppable serial killer inaccurately puts that into play here turning eddie gein from a mild mannered recluse to a hulking full blown killing machine he lurks by night killing cemetery caretakers his grave robbing buddy and teenage girls leaving in a panic as the local sheriff's department seems to do nothing to adjust the dangerous situation in the least the deputy and his mom have a warm little relationship that gave me a fuzzy feeling inside or that could have just been the cyanide pill i ingested halfway through this turkey i'm not sure what the point of this movie was and obviously the director knew nothing about the subject he was working with there is already such an abundance of films pertaining to story that unless the ed gein snuff footage is discovered i don't want to see anymore of these on the shelves if you want a more authentic film of this nature than check out 2001's ed gein aka in the light of the moon
0	remember those terrible war movies your grandmother forced you to watch 25 or so years ago on your old vhs recorder the fallen is just a bad executed remake of those movies the story is terrible the direction is terrible the editing is terrible the music is terrible and all together make an unbearable nightmare br br it is also terribly slow very slow i tried to sleep while watching it but i couldn't do it because i had nightmares of it br br please don't watch this movie it is that bad ten lines is a lot so i don't know what else to say br br press the eject button now and you wont regret it
0	a moderately interesting start some pretty scenes in sixteenth century japan and a promising idea but the execution the comparison that springs to mind after about fifteen minutes is cannibal women in the avocado jungle of death really a specialist in oriental history who doesn't speak any japanese walks on without removing her shoes and is generally dumb as celery please this looks like a student film the sets are risible the acting except perhaps for the title character close to wooden the plot utterly arbitrary at least cannibal women was funny this is best watched with someone who knows something about japan just to watch disbelief repeatedly crawl across their face
0	oh how awfully this movie is i don't know if it is a horror film or a drama cause the story and the both genres are not established very well the story is not moving it is slow boring and sleepy from the beginning to end this movie really bores me but i really liked the camera work it is authentic fresh and clear the acting is great too the little boy was the great performer in this movie but it hasn't made me to jump from my seat but this movie makes me grab a pillow lay on the bed and sleep until the credits roll br br boring not worth watching i tell you this movie sucked br br 1 10
0	i'm a fan of the horror movie regardless of which hemisphere it comes from i know what to expect from the west the east and most horrors in the middle so i received the dvd of in the post and looked forward to a slow build of ever increasing tension and scary children with odd disjointed movements hiding under br br the major selling point for this film was that it has a far more linear story line than many of this ilk you get who the characters are where they are from and what they do you get the baseline information nice couple can't have children and realise that the premise is just too normal for something freaky not to happen br br and then comes the bad the number one complaint is that the story is obvious i got it pretty much the moment the kid hugged the tree i knew where the film was going and was even able to predict the order of death and for what reason br br the editing is shocking and unfortunately not to the benefit of the film even were i still pondering the events tension isn't allowed to build because the director seems to have gotten a new editing suite for his birthday and wanted to use it as much as possible br br and my final gripe is this the tree was unnecessary this would have been a perfectly good tale of subtle horror with just the couple breaking down over the death of the child the titular tree bought nothing new or exciting to the film so i'll finish where i started my overall impression was 'oh '
0	from the acclaim it got i was expecting more from a korean horror if it's going to be viewed in the same caliber as a tale of two sisters as some other reviews have stated this movie isn't in the same caliber except in budget spent on special effects think horror with a tree and sparse dialogue br br if you're going to have a movie with limited dialogue the plot line and characters have to carry the film this film could have been told quite well in a 30 minute short film concept 2 hours with a lot of staring at trees and terror scenes that make you not only not scared but detract in a what the sort of way does not a good horror movie make br br those people who are stating that this film gave them lasting impressions must literally have heart attacks when decent horror films lay it in
0	as far as asian horror goes i have seen my share of disappointments along with some of the creepiest sh t imaginable doesn't really qualify for either of those categories it had a few moments of tension and was interesting to watch yet i couldn't help think that there should have been a tad more to this story the film deals with a childless couple who decide to adopt a kid who appears to have a fascination with trees he develops a bond with the tree in their yard and seems to communicate with it then during a fight with his mother involving their new birth child he storms off after threatening to find his dead mother who is now a tree when he doesn't come back the parents send file a report and wait while the neighbor girl believes he somehow inhabits the tree the pacing is rather slow and the ending gets a bit weird but i have to recommend this as a slightly enjoyable effort though the story feels a little flat hell i can't really make up my mind on this
0	having just watched i find that i have to agree with the negative reviews here i like asian and korean horror and i had great expectations for this film man was i disappointed watching this i kept thinking surely they just do this to catch me off guard later on and for a while i expected something ingenious to happen however i slowly realised that the film really is that bad it is the cheapest cash in into the asian horror market i have seen so far br br the basic story is perhaps not even that bad but the way it is filmed it seems like the most laughable plot ever the tree as a 'scary' device might be okay if used cleverly but all the filmmaker does is giving us different shots of yes a tree over and over again he seems to hope that the tree will do all the work for him in terms of tension and build up but it just feels like what it is shots of a tree for goodness' sake br br slow build ups can be very effective and a film that presents the viewer with only few glimpses of what is wrong might deliver good scares but not sure we get a glimpse of a child on a disappearing around a corner and yet again meaningful shots of the tree from above or underneath or the side but these scenes are just not scary they feel silly especially because you realise that the director means them to be scary they simply aren't br br apart from that i agree with some of the other reviewers that the characters are ridiculous in particular the one character's into madness' is laughable however what really breaks is the terrible editing its hard to see why scenes were cut together the way they are but it's bad and it kills any spark of it might have had it also makes me feel patronised because i can see what they are trying to achieve with it but i cannot believe that they think i would fall for such cheap ploys br br there are lots of great asian ghost films and lots of bad ones but this is by far the worst i have seen they must have been going through the list of 'what to put into ghost movies' and ticked them all off but in the end they forgot to add the actual movie
0	no serious spoilers but some very minor ones br br a korean contribution to the ever popular asian horror wave concerns a husband and wife who decide that they're getting on a bit and decide to adopt a child the child who has an usual obsession with the dead tree in the family's garden eventually disappears when the couple eventually have a child of their own and the aforementioned tree seems to hold a grudge against the family itself br br and that's about it the film moves at a snails pace clocking in at over 100 minutes with 80 minute material it is essentially a thin family drama with a creepy tree and there is very little in the way of scares just shots of the tree with weird mumbling noises playing over the top however the idea of the tree being the child's mother is a pretty original one but it isn't exactly exploited to its full potential this sort of separates from much of the new wave it belongs to films like ju on and ring tend to do the opposite and milk bland ideas until they are red in the face br br the film does begin to get going towards the end however the realisation of the child's fate and the parent's actions not only the earlier curiosity of the story but are revealed with such machine gun editing that it's difficult to take in all at once the final sequence is undoubtedly creepy however it feels like too little too late br br overall the film does not feel too much like a ring cash in however with the film renaissance that korea is currently going through i couldn't help but feel this film could have been so much more
0	this movie strayed too far from novel for me to enjoy barely made it to the middle of the film besides changing don from edwards nephew into his son the removed most of the major scenes and a number of characters that gave the novel so much life what was left was trash version was far superior to this poorly executed film i don't think casting did all that great a job on picking the chowder society members either hopefully someone will come along and actually remake this film correctly in my lifetime i just hate when hollywood butchers the works of talented authors because they think their version so much better makes me sick
0	maybe it's because i read peter wonderful book before seeing the film but i was terribly disappointed by this movie in my opinion the filmmakers removed everything that made the story interesting and unique and replaced it with more common hollywood style elements br br it's too bad too since this movie has a terrific cast particularly fred astaire douglas fairbanks jr melvyn douglas john houseman and the then largely unknown alice krige they're just not given very much worthwhile to do br br in fact i was all for leaving halfway through but a friend convinced me to stay to the end as he was sure it had to get better he to me during the closing credits
0	i own a vacation lake home not far from wi ten minutes from the gein property to be exact i've seen his land the cemetery where he is buried and where he did his digging and i've shopped at the hardware store that was formerly owned by the worden family while visiting relatives in california we decided to rent this movie it was disgusting the true story of ed gein is so disturbing and creepy why the creators of this piece of trash decided to make up their own story is beyond me the actor playing ed is a very large man ed was a very small meek and shy man that is part of what makes his story so frightening he did not have a helper to dig up the graves and anyone who owns land in the area knows that it is mostly sand with a little dirt in it you won't break much of a sweat digging a hole they didn't have to hire an actor with the physique of a wrestler just do your research and if the writing wasn't bad enough there are no mountains in wisconsin and i'm pretty certain that 911 was not available in 1957
0	blind date columbia pictures 1934 was a decent film but i have a few issues with this film first of all i don't fault the actors in this film at all but more or less i have a problem with the script also i understand that this film was made in the 1930's and people were looking to escape reality but the script made ann character look weak she kept going back and forth between suitors and i felt as though she should have stayed with paul kelly's character in the end he truly did care about her and her family and would have done anything for her and he did by giving her up in the end to fickle neil hamilton who in my opinion was only out for a good time paul kelly's character although a workaholic was a man of integrity and truly loved kitty ann sothern as opposed to neil hamilton while he did like her a lot i didn't see the depth of love that he had for her character the production values were great but the script could have used a little work
0	this story had a good plot to it about four elderly men that share a deadly secret concerning a young woman that they met 50 years ago after all this time the young woman returns to seek revenge on the men this story occasionally made me nod off during the movie in the middle of tiring elevator music and the ever so consistent thunder storms but it is well worth the wait in the end when we find out just who the mystery woman is that keeps plaguing the old men in their dreams and interfering in a young man's life the most of what i liked in this film was the suspense in which the young woman appears to the men just before their deaths the special effects were something every time i heard her call out to them i would think not that face again but it was a good movie i just wish that the pace was not as slow or the acting not as tiresome and what i also liked about the movie was the flashback of the 20's very authentic as well as the costumes being original
0	this film gives new meaning to the term uneven giving us a few intriguing characterizations offset by an awkwardly realized plot that relies on a few well placed stingers to deliver the majority of the thrills br br the plot concerns a group of men who harbor a secret that has caused a curse to be visited on them in the form of a ghostly female that causes death she also may be seducing their sons br br it is quite a spectacle to have all the notable veteran actors together in one film but unfortunately they're not very convincing particularly the scene where melvyn douglas goes off the deep end begging the others to listen to him it's no shock then that the actors who play these same characters in their youth are terrible especially the giggling ricky they deliver the worst gee aren't we all drunk scene i've ever watched br br the movie has a few saving graces namely dick smith's great ghost makeups however misplaced they are in this film and alice krige's fascinating performance as alma eva i've never read the novel that this film was taken from but i intend to after reading some of the other reviews on this page you don't have to have read the book however to realize that this is only a shadow of the original tale there is a good story here but it seems lost somewhere amid exposition that shows the men having nightmares over and over again and making unsubtle references to the secret they all share br br as it stands it appears as if there was about half an hour of footage removed from this print particularly near the climax after all how is it that fred astaire manages to mount an excavation of the pond so quickly what did gregory bate and the kid have to do with eva and while we're at it what the hell was she anyway why did letting her out of the car cause the apparition to disappear if it was an apparition how could it have sex with two men and have them not know br br these and other questions will never be answered at least not by this film unless some restored footage is discovered somewhere it will probably forever remain a curiosity with some oozing makeup bizarre sex scenes and nudity and a few attractive performances
0	this is another film i missed out on italian tv as a kid notable for its quintet of ageing stars most of whom had never made a horror film in their life fred astaire melvyn douglas douglas fairbanks jr john houseman and patricia neal it deals with the long concealed past crime coming back to haunt them it takes the form of a ghostly dead ringer for the girl they all loved alice krige but whom they were forced to dispose of after an unfortunate incident when she humiliated their egos fairbanks who was the one responsible for the deed has twin sons craig wasson and so krige directs her revenge upon them as well soon one of the latter fairbanks himself and even douglas and houseman all wind up dead therefore the remaining wasson and astaire decide to confront the ghost at the scene of the crime where they also have to contend with a couple of sinister tramps who somehow do bidding i was looking forward to seeing these veterans on their last legs douglas died before the film had even premiered though by that time he had already completed another role while it proved own inauspicious swan song but ghost story went through too many changes of mood – while maintaining a sluggish pace throughout and emerging overlong into the bargain – to be anything but a failed curio having dollops of sex including full frontal nudity from wasson and gruesome make up effects muddled the waters all the more and marred the old fashioned elegance inherent in jack another notable of long standing cinematography
0	ghost story has an interesting feminist revenge tale premise a list veteran actors colorful flashbacks with nifty look a like youthful counterparts of the old men scary staccato music heralding the approaching horrors atmospheric new england winter weather and an excellent charismatic actress in the title role ghost story could have been much more effective in black and white and in eliminating some of the more lurid special effects and to presenting a more cogent screenplay we should not have to be wondering about why the two trailer acolytes are in the script the biggest detriment of the film is craig definitely separated at birth from bill maher who from perhaps editing or just bad acting is totally ineffective he seems to specialize in wide eyed wide mouthed reaction shots not a lot of personality here the revelation however is alice krige pale faced enigmatic terrifying underneath the placid exterior however her eva galli is creepy even before she meets her fate i mean a young woman who says things like i'd like to take a bite out of you or dance with me you little toad is already not in the land of the living ghost story would have been much better in a low key val lewton mode the overdone special effects completely undercut the chill factor
0	all that talent but when ya have poor direction and a weak screenplay it doesnt matter who is in a movie very tired attempt at telling a tale which was actually interesting in the beginning but then quickly fell apart toward the end to bad
0	i must not have seen the same movie as the one the comments refer to here first i think they should have serialized ghost story if they were going to film it at all the truncated version they come up with was awful i felt the performances were mannered and so much was left out of the story that the performances of such masters as astaire douglas houseman and fairbanks seemed hammy alice krige was superb as eva though craig wasson is a good actor but he was only adequate as the protagonist the decision to cast patricia neal and to her role was not a good one imagine what anne bancroft would have done with that character i blame the script which was poor the production values were dark and the pacing was slow a disappointing pedestrian effort br br the book is one of the five greatest suspense horror novels of the 20th century imho but the movie was disappointing although a great introduction for krige
0	i can't express enough just how bad this film was first of all what a waste of some legendary stars although they are quite old and pretty unconvincing fred astaire well i guess he must have owed some one a big favor as this was his last film role the script is a mess and the film seems terribly draggy i imagine maybe if i saw this back when it came out 1981 i might have thought it was decent however seeing so many actual good horror films this was one of the worst the only real convincing anything in this mess was the very young and lovely sort of creepy alice krige the main young character was trying to act the best he could but was utterly terrible i wasn't sure how much of it was from his lack of skill or the lack of a comprehend able script but either way he was just plain bad don't watch unless you want to see a bunch of old guys be somewhat scared
0	the other boleyn girl not to be confused with the book it claims to be based upon this movie is not even close to a faithful adaptation i could understand them changing or elaborating on a few things the book is not perfection but it was well written and became very popular i could understand if the bbc wanted to make this a little more faithful to what actually happened who anne boleyn really was but it's not even close to being historically accurate either it's just fluff mindless made up fluff a real shame br br to begin with the writer and director seemed to think it was a good idea to setup the story like it was a reality tv show seriously they have the sitting in front of the camera confessing how they really feel about what's happening in their lives anne boleyn sits in a confessional not the church kind the real world kind and chooses what she wants to tell and what she wants to just sit and smile about she looks stupid having to use such a modern cinematic device in a film set in the 1500s it's the real world tudor england br br may is a very good actress and after 'the and 'a turn of the i was becoming a real fan of hers but she should never have been cast as anne actually i think she would have been a better mary natascha mcelhone was a poor choice she's a good actress sure but she has very modern features and does not appear convincing in period costume honestly i spent the first half of the film trying to figure out if she was that girl from 'the truman show ' she was she's also too old to play the teen aged mary so for some unknown reason they made mary the oldest of the sisters it makes no sense i know it's like the bbc seemed to forget that these people actually lived they're twisting the story around and making things up left and right i feel ridiculous having to correct the bbc on historical inaccuracies but really br br apart from the two sisters the rest of the cast was actually very well chosen steven mackintosh struck me as a brilliant choice for george and his casting was the real reason i decided to seek out this movie big mistake he does a great job sure but he's hardly in this how can anyone pretend they're adapting the other boleyn girl and hardly mention george boleyn that's just absurd philip was another very good casting decision but yet again was hardly in the finished product br br the real problem with this is the script there's just no getting around that it's bad it's really really bad it's too melodramatic and not engaging anne is portrayed as an air head mary as the ringleader and george as the follower mary's first husband is hardly mentioned her relationship with the king is never explained they simply do not tell the story gregory wrote the whole thing comes across as a great big waste i have no desire to see this thing a second time i guess i'll just have to read the book again and hope that the natalie portman version due out next year will be much better br br note as of this writing the only way of obtaining this miniseries in the usa is on the last disc of the miniseries 'the six wives of henry viii ' that's a great miniseries but can cost 50 to 60 and that's way to much to spend if you're just looking for this piece of garbage
0	i realize a period piece is expensive to make and that this style of shooting close framed shots to camera moving camera wide aperture shots washed out allows such films to be made for a price as a style it has advantages and disadvantages like any other it allows more period pieces to be made like any style it has its detractors and supporters there are probably even those that believe that this manner of shooting has an artistic basis br br if only some of the money saved could have been spent on the script for whatever style is used a film needs good writing and good acting br br the acting in this film is mostly very good the writing less so it is composed of a collection of bits taken from the book and much which is relevant to the plot is left out making for a disjointed collection of scenes with little or no continuity br br if you have read the book do not under any circumstances watch it if you have not read the book are easily pleased and have nothing better to do there is no harm in watching it but be prepared to be disappointed br br it could have been so much better
0	this movie was included in the six wives of henry viii bbc miniseries dvd i loved those six movies they were well acted well scripted and historically accurate i did actually read gregory's book and liked it well enough despite it's huge historical inaccuracies i mean the whole fake homosexual angle with george boleyn in particular but this movie didn't even mention that that angle was one of the pivotal points of the book br br above all this movie just leaves me asking why why do we see as someone else aptly put the real world tudor england why are the camera angles so bad in general br br why is the script so bad i mean i know it was improv but come on the actors at time stutter and stammer over their lines and it's obvious that they're making them up as they go along br br why are the sex scenes so awkward the way they were done in the book made them at least somewhat interesting in the movie they're just bad verging on being absolutely hilarious at one point the actress playing mary boleyn was having sex with the actor playing henry viii he's thrusting away and she's got this look on her face that says hm i need to go to the store is he done yet maybe if he finishes i can go pick up some cheese real quick it's just bad br br why does catherine of aragon play such a small role in this movie her refusal to get a divorce was one of the leading causes for the scandal that rocked she's the reason why henry viii and anne boleyn couldn't get immediately married why is she not present here over all this movie is just bad
0	the title tells it all ed gein the butcher of br br it's not a action filled slasher movie made for teens high on energy drinks that would fit it into a well established genre the kind that some people find entertaining something along the lines of halloween or the texas chain saw massacre br br this is dark slow filled with chopped up corpses and quietly evil there are few shock cuts no monster's point of view shots no loud electronic score i don't know who it's aimed at ghouls maybe br br beneath the credits we already see still photos of skulls carcasses hung up skins draped across the backs of chairs that sort of thing and they're sufficiently revolting that i couldn't help thinking this movie had better be pretty good to make up for this grand guignol opening br br alas it's not the acting is uniformly terrible as in a high school play the script does its best to sink below vulgarity ed gein who killed only two middle aged women and maybe his brother chases a screaming bloody young woman through the woodland of weir and she's wearing only a modern bra and bikini rather than period underwear gein also decapitates a night watchman which he never did in any historical sense br br the direction you could do a better job in the first few minutes law officers discover an abandoned car with blood spattered all over the windshield there is no body the handsome young deputy sheriff turns to his boss and suggests they search for the victim who may still be in the vicinity and living the sheriff lacking any motivation shouts at him now you just forget that i don't want you going off half cocked on anything it should be no more than a business like exchange of views why does the director have the sheriff so angry characters of diverse sorts listen to radio programs or records that play old jazzy pop songs louis armstrong's ain't misbehaving for instance this is what rural wisconsin in the 1950s and the characters insist on music that would appeal to customers of the cotton club in harlem in the 30s or new york intellectuals like woody allen nope the radio would be playing kitty wheel of fortune or theresa brewer or equally likely not that the dysfunction between the music and the events adds anything to our understanding of what's going on beneath the images someone involved in the production just liked old jazzy pop songs that's all br br of course there's only so much you can do with a low budget but it can be light years ahead of this butchery see ed gein with steven railsback for an example of a much more sophisticated way of dealing with this lunatic and his penchant for dead bodies and on a budget that couldn't have exceeded this one by much br br these comments are all based on the first twenty minutes of the movie that's about as far as i could get if anyone finds this tale to be well executed and fascinating in any way he should try to find some insight into his tastes it's beneath mine and i consider myself pretty warped
0	this movie twists the facts of anne and mary's lives into something unrecognizable to make mary boleyn who in fact was a rather dim and foolish creature and make her the good sister is just silly it is anne who was in fact the far more interesting character and that is why it is her life and not mary's that has been told so often br br in response to an earlier review i fail to see how anne's life was so criminal to me it's henry who was the real criminal whatever anne's motives for winning the king and withholding her affections in order to gain a crown and husband has to be taken into context of the time in which these real life events took place anne in comparison to the majority of most of the courtiers in her time was a relatively innocent figure most modern historians discount or have disproven most of the myths and that this movie perpetuate about her and i have never heard of anyone who actually believes the rumour than she slept with her brother this movie is so sensational and false that it is maddening to think that someone without knowing anything about this period in history could walk away believing anything this movie has presented as fact br br i won't even get into the weird filming of the movie but i'm pretty sure that cameras weren't invented in the 16th century so i don't understand why anne and mary are talking to one throughout the movie it's a really bad plot devise and is jarring and annoying to put it mildly br br anne of the thousand days is not accurate either but is infinitely more entertaining and at least comes closer to telling the story of one of the most intriguing women of history don't even think about renting this it's two hours you'll never get back
0	i was lucky enough to read the book beforehand and i do know a little about tudor england br br the writing directing and editing of this tv movie for the most part was truly awful i felt as if i was watching a really bad drama doc about the period rater then a movie br br first there were too many cut's between important parts and leaving out important events which happened at the time one is henry's fall out with rome over his desire to divorce katherine of aragon which led to england's breaking away from rome and establishing her own church they barely stuck to the book at all i'm all for creative freedom but to a limit especially when your dealing with a well written book as your starter point in the book mary birth to young catherine first and then she has young henry is born both their father is henry's the eight in the movie they show harry's first then catherine and suggest that catherine father is william carey br br there are too many bad moment's in the movie to write them all br br i will however say that may and natascha mcelhone portrayal as the boleyn sisters was probably the best part of the movie br br if you haven't read the book and know nothing about the 8 court i will recommend to stay away from this movie and for those who read the book the movie will annoy you for it's lack of details and important plot's
0	i am not a fan of the original book but was expecting to see a better adaptation than the natalie portman movie which i found awful this version is even worse br br first there is very little of ms gregory's book in this script the whole subplot of george sexuality is completely eliminated and in this version george is merely a flunky shuttling between his duty to the boleyn family and his duty to the king i thought the title of the book referred to mary as the lesser known of the boleyn sisters but here it is used to refer to anne br br second the script has the characters periodically address the audience as if in confession apparently this is intended to give a bit of back story and explain their motives but it is amateurish in execution br br on top of the bad script the direction is stunningly bad there are too many shots done with a circling camera which is none too steady at best and downright shaky at worst several of the speeches are delivered tentatively as if in a first rehearsal the production values for henry's flamboyant court are minimal the costumes vary some are copies of historical portraits and others are from some costume designer's fevered imagination and the king the source of all power and favors is often shown alone no fawning courtiers no servants in the background where are all the people i am accustomed to hollywood turning history into fantasy but i expected better from a bbc production even based on a flawed book this production is bad
0	i saw this movie on a show that was showing bad b movies and trying to get you to buy them it basically was just a long trailer but gave you a really good idea of what the movie was about after viewing the trailer i thought i would rent this movie because it looked stupid and generic but could still be entertaining in a perverse sense it's not entertaining in any sense of the word the film has two or should i say four things going for it and it's not the number of deaths it's the women they are hot and naked a lot and ms lovell could be a legit actress but not in a movie where the emphasis is on t a and corny dialogs this isn't even a horror movie or scary unless you are talking about watching the actors try to act the production value is pathetic the acting is worse and the writing is the worst what was the point in making this movie to scare people to rip off texas chainsaw massacre to try and be funny to show off the women's breasts to put some guy's head into a retarded outfit with fake hands and legs to have a character just say the word snow over and over to not have any real violence but have enough nudity in an attempt to cover up the fact there is no real plot to be able to make a sequel to a movie no one has seen or will ever watch i made a mistake in picking up this movie don't make this mistake too br br stay away from this movie
0	i watched this film on the advice of a friend who assured me it was one of the funniest things he'd ever seen sadly this person is completely lacking a sense of humour and i was forced to endure two hours of the worst film making i have ever seen please do not watch this film 1 10
0	a couple of friends and myself visited the video shop a few years back and we were in one of those moods to rent some cheesy non seen flicks my friend grabbed head of the family and we were greeted by a head sitting in a wheelchair well that set us off laughing and we decided to have a bet to see who would be the one who had to go to the desk and pay for the movie well you guessed it it was me i have never been so in all my life we got home and put it on and we rolled about the floor laughing for about 45mins because this was the funniest film in the world i cant remember much about it but one thing i do remember was the blonde girl getting it on with some guy in the back of a shop every 5 mins that head made me laugh and when i look at other peoples comments this movie it makes me laugh even more head of the family is so good and the head is funny and im still laughing ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
0	this has to be one of the all time greatest horror movies charles band made the best movie of in this little seen gem highly realistic and incredibly stylised with a visual flair david fincher would envy its not hard to see why band went on to make such classics as 2 deliverance from evil' 'the regina pierce affair' of sherwood and tales of the saddle br br with a highly sophisticated story a tiny body with a large head controls a family of weirdos who perform experiments on naked women this movie may be a bit too much for younger viewers and is only for the most educated type of viewer but for those who see it band is able to convey subtle messages about the human condition through his masterpiece the head is symbolic of the lost love and longing for one's inner self that we all must face at one point or another and for this reason i was able to engage with this film on a deeply personal level although many earlier critics have compared band's film to re animator and other lesser works this stands head and heels above the rest it is gorier but not pointlessly the gore in this film is well crafted and used to enhance the storyline rather than to just get a cheap shriek out of the audience also the special effects in this film are absolutely top notch easily the best work done in a horror film since well ever the work in this film makes savini's effects look like the work of a blind limbless hobo br br the only problem i have with this film is the copious amounts of full frontal nudity which were ultimately unnecessary in achieving the composer's goal to create a timeless epic that would forever go down in history as possibly the greatest film of all time if it were not for this slight problem i would have given this film a perfect 10
0	upon completing this infernal piece of trash a friend and i swore a solemn vow never to again speak of how we had just trashed away the last 90 minutes of our lives this film is completely pointless a two dimensional hero and heroin who we can't give a hoot whether or not they survive and some of the lamest villains to ever darken the screen of horror or any other genre to further prove just how absolutely pointless this film was i would have liked to add a plot synopsis but i can't write fiction all and all the only reason i can think of that anyone would ever want to view this film is if they had just murdered their entire community and is looking for some self afflicted punishment that will haunt you for all following years to come
0	this movie gives a cinematic example of the word worthless it's awful you can forget plot or decent acting cause it's not there and with the dismissal of any decent story or acting or even the trait of being frightening then there is usually only one plus left for a horror film the appeal to those who like soft core porn this film doesn't even have that the women show a little skin but not really anymore than say the xena show except for the main star who is not particularly attractive and has a couple of poor and i mean poor sex scenes so in short if you like good movies you have no interest in this film if you like cheese you still don't have any reason to rent this film if you like erotica and soft core porn you really have no motive to rent this film and most importantly if you value your time in the slightest you cannot do better than to avoid this movie
0	no gore no blood no gratifying death scenes dumb dumb dumb dumb dear god sitting through this movie made me sick sick sick sick very boring extremely boring br br theres not even a humorous aspect to this film i cant find a good thing to say about it other than the lead guy had a nice body i guess definitely not worth the fifty cents i paid to rent it
0	old ed was active back in the late 1950's he was apprehended 16 november 1957 the pr 24 police baton was invented in 1974 yet the cops in the movie are all carrying the pr 24 back then it would have been a standard billy club not the side handled pr 24 sheeze if you are gonna make movies do your research and get it right also it makes no mention of ed's usage of the bodies he tanned most of the skins and made various articles including a a belt and several masks he also had a large selection of shrunken heads that several local children knew about as he often babysat for them he was found incompetent and committed to the central state hospital for the criminally insane
0	this movie was not only disappointing to the horror suspense film lover it was disappointing to anyone who sees it wow i thought that this film might be funny because the guy with the huge head however it was filled with long and drawn out conversation that wasn't needed there was so much sex that i hate women and men now this film was not only boring but there was no substance wow wow on to of all this each scene looks like it was light from a single light bulb and i think they used the same set for two different lawyers a restaurant and an airport this movie is not for the movie lover who loves bad movies because in the end it feels likes wasted time see the movie br br party
0	ahh nuthin' like cheesy semi porn masquerading as horror this one stars lovell sometimes sara st james the nubile starlet also seen in the erotic house of wax and that family favorite nude bowling party she is now a fixture in surrender cinema's line up of talentless cuties starring in pointless soft porn exploitation flicks head of the family actually tries to be a real moovie a con man and a tramp try to get said husband off ed they turn to a large brained evil genius in a wheelchair and his family of moronic misfits who uses mind control to send out zombies to do his nefarious bidding said genius has a giant head hence the clever title of the film that's about the extent of the film's humor but basically it's an excuse to show off the ample talents of lovell and dianne laced with some of the dialogue can be herd what the heck is plowing oats and just plain stupid this titular thriller will moost appeal to the breast of drive in theater but no one else the moocow says avoid the devoid unless yer looking for a rent on cheesy t a horror night 8p
0	i saw this film for one reason the tagline is upset the head… and you're dead cracking it's not surprising that this silly horror comedy runs out of steam before the tape is out of the box but it wrings a few laughs from its oddball premise and cast of characters an eagle eyed human radar a huge and a big breasted sexual magnet are all mind controlled by a huge head in a chair who's not happy about his family being blackmailed by a murderous scumbag this looks like being a promising mixture of ham and cheese before it becomes clear that the characters are one joke wonders and the plot is pretty ordinary if you erm ignore the giant head
0	this movie is awful just awful someone bought it for me as a christmas present because they knew i liked a good horror flick i don't think they understood the good part all i can say is next year this person is getting slipper socks from me avoid this movie it makes you bitter peace br br
0	don't get me wrong i've got a considerable soft spot for the works of charles band both as producer and director but you've got to raise an eyebrow when the man who was willing to put his name to dollman vs the demonic toys sticks a pseudonym on anything as a bit of bad movie fun head of the family is rather lacking although it is better acted than you might expect jacqueline lovell is a definite talent who deserves better than these kinds of movies j w is also quite funny as the titular monster though for such a being he does get hoodwinked quite easily y'know i'm nitpicking because the rest of the movie is so sharp and witty of course br br and having a lead character called lance nice one guys we didn't know you americans knew that piece of slang
0	one would think that with all the lavish care and expense that went into this made for tv movie it would reflect something of the taste and manners of the upper class couple wallis simpson and the prince of wales instead of being a mawkish unappetizing historical romance br br nor is it helped by the fact that jane seymour and anthony andrews give stiff rather uncomfortable to watch performances in which the events move much too slowly to hold attention br br it's hard to understand why a star of olivia de havilland's caliber would wish to play the supporting role of aunt bessie since the role is so colorless she just about fades out of sight at this stage in her career olivia was appearing in so many nobility roles requiring a regal presence but nothing more br br a trivial movie best left forgotten among all the made for tv movies of that era
0	awful in a whole new way anything but love probably should be seen by movie buffs if only as a cautionary measure that proves all that can go wrong with a vanity production i am guessing a vanity production since there is no other reason on god's green earth to cast as talent free and not particularly attractive non singer actress as isabel gold in the leading lady role for yet by the likes of lookers like cameron bancroft and andrew mccarthy except that she also helped write this bizarre little movie her singing leaves much to be desired and yet unbelievable as it is all the other characters in the film think she's terrific there are a few moments here of actual charm or humor but very few otherwise this is a silly sad fiasco that veers from paint by numbers to paint by wrong numbers you know how it is when people look at a piece of modern art and someone says my kid could do better than that well this is a movie the likes of which your or anyone's kid might do better
0	it was poorly shot looks like a rush job last minute casting is obvious writing is very weak good for stage not film i feel bad for andrew mccarthy he's a very good actor who has not been getting good roles lately this role was not for him maybe glad it has been picked up yet on the festival circuit this film shall stay
0	totally forgettable movie but an unbelievable soundtrack i'd give it soundtrack a 9 out of 10 i have the cd and the guitar work nils is superb i saw the movie years ago and had to check imdb to remember what it was about i obsessed about getting the soundtrack and have since had to replace it it ranges from blues soul ballad to a dose of gospel all songs written arranged produced and performed by nils who is the other lead guitarist opposite steve van zandt in the e street band this dude can play the vocals are handled by nils he can't sing very good too raspy bonnie sheridan who is a great singer and tom
0	dodgy plot dodgy script dodgy almost everything in fact the most compelling performance is that of joanna pacula as lauren but even that does not rescue this pointless and nasty film the director's implicit invitation to viewers is not merely to suspend disbelief but to suspend judgement br br presumably it is intended to be steamy and menacing but although the film has its erotic moments they are few and far between this sort of thing has been done better by lots of others don't go out of your way to see it
0	the story of ed gein is a disturbing and terrifying story ed was truly a messed up character and his legacy went on to inspire such as the tooth fairy norman bates and leatherface how is it then that such a fascinating man has inspired such a boring melodramatic piece of drivel ed gein made belts out of nipples bowls out of skulls lamps out of skin danced around under the moon in suits of human skin none of this made it into the movie because they needed to give us a fictitious story of a ridiculously awful deputy and his rather homely sex starved girlfriend this movie seemed to go out of its way to history what baffles me is that most movies stray from the path of truth to exaggerate history this one seems to do it to minimize it i just don't get it
0	jud nelson is an aspiring actor who becomes involved with a married couple who enjoy playing sadistic games on other people the husband gets his jollies by burying people alive if that isn't bad enough he has a miniature video camera in each coffin so he can watch his victims suffocate
0	the first review i saw of this on imdb says that vince vaughn is a much better actor than anthony perkins was in this role makes me wonder if he saw the original it's tough to review psycho if you don't have the perspective of how revolutionary the movie was in 1960 you have a heroine who isn't very likable and is killed not far into the movie and a villain who is creepy but makes you feel for him add to that some graphic violence and you have a blue print for some of the slasher films of the 80s and 90s br br where does this film go wrong let's start with casting anne heche is fine as a vivian crane but as norman bates vince vaughn is all wrong for one thing he looks far too young secondly he has no idea how to play the roll his nervous laugh reminds me of ron howard trying to play a tough guy on happy days everything he does screams i did it the original movie even to those who know everything about it still makes you feel uneasy about the influence of mother on norman and turns her into a real separate character how about the shower scene when i finally saw the 1960 movie on a big screen i was surprised at its power to scare the heck out of me bernard score becomes incredibly shrill and loud and goes further toward scaring you than danny elfman's synth interpretations during the scene this shower scene merely serves to show us anne naked body and some nice color blood which brings us to the choice to film in color didn't work br br there is something about remaking classic films that hardly ever seems to work some may see this as a noble experiment but honestly if gus van sant had nothing to add to this film he should have left it alone
0	no no no that is my advice to you if you are wanting to see this film anthony perkins is the one and only norman bates as is janet leigh in her role as marion crane this just seems like a colorized version of psycho with a few mildly different touches thrown in for a more modern appeal vaughn is dull as ill norman and viggo sam loomis seems too much the cowboy compared to the original please folks do yourself some justice don't bother with this one can only wonder what mr alfred hitchcock and mr anthony perkins would be thinking right now br br out of
0	honestly how hard can it be to make a good remake obviously pretty hard i was soooo excited to see this because i loved the original and my friends go and see it and tell me it really sucks well i finally see it and i was sooo disapointed ok the shower scene was more realistic that's why i gave it a 3 otherwise it did suck vince vaughn does a terrible job playing norman he's just too dense or something i don't know it was just terrible don't see it
0	the original psycho 1960 is widely considered as alfred hitchcock's best work and certainly in my opinion is one of the best movies of all time the decision to film a shot by shot remake is therefore a little puzzling br br the cast in the original was flawless so the cast of this remake had a lot to live up to vince vaughn as norman bates was not a good choice for the lead he is too much of a pretty boy hunk and is not very convincing as bates i can imagine actors such as mark wahlberg or john turturro doing a much better job in the role anne heche as marion crane does a creditable job but one keeps mentally comparing her to janet leigh julianne moore is a much better actress than she shows here and mortenson merely walks through his role the best of this new cast is william h macy as the private detective br br although director gus van sant does an acceptable job he can't build the suspense the way hitchcock did and why did he change the scene in the basement of the house in the original the atmosphere is dark and damp and closed in whereas in this version it takes place in a brightly lit laboratory like setting and i think the black white photography of the original has a definite advantage over the color version br br maybe another flaw could be the fact that most moviegoers have seen the original and know what is going to happen and when br br all i can say is if it ain't broke don't fix it br br
0	okay so gus van sant wanted to remake psycho in color so that he could bring it into modern audiences who would probably go into cardiac arrest if they were ever forced to see a movie in black white while they conveniently forget that both clerks and schindler's list were filmed in black white and are great movies br br unfortunately the same narrow minded people who wouldn't want to see a great movie just because it's in black white are the same people who wouldn't like psycho anyway because it doesn't have a murder or sex scene every two minutes and the murders are not the grisly blood guts gore bone snapping that people are used to from having seen halloween friday the 13th and nightmare on elm street this is why remaking psycho almost exactly as it was originally was destined to not work because it's really only of interest to people who are fans of the original everyone else is just watching it to tide them over until the next scream sequel comes out and for that reason they will be disappointed psycho relies on suspense and mystery not blood and guts and just so nobody thinks that i must be a senior citizen if i like older movies let me set the record straight by saying that i am 21 br br so if doing the movie in color was all that van sant wanted to change why not just colorize the movie and it i mean what's the point of remaking a movie if you're not going to change anything the least he could have done was to put his own director's spin on it rather than just copying hitchcock's or even better hired a new writer to adapt a new script from the original psycho book but it seems that van sant couldn't decide whether he wanted to remake psycho exactly or not this should have been an all or nothing project either remake the movie exactly or do it differently but as it stands this movie is about 95 the same but with a few touches thrown in that don't seem to have any purpose such as having norman masturbate while he spies on marion undressing it doesn't serve the plot at all and the only reason he put it in was because he could he wanted to say hitch couldn't show people masturbating in 1960 so i'm going to do it whoopee big deal like i'm so shocked at seeing someone masturbate and what on earth was the point of showing single frame shots of clouds and farm animals spliced into the murder scenes and then he leaves out an important scene where lila and sam meet the sheriff outside the church br br plus by using the almost exact same script the entire movie seems a bit of an anachronism the opening credits say that the year is 1998 then what's with marion's 60 ish looking dress or the parasol she carries with her why do marion and sam have to have their trysts in a hotel room when these days nobody would be shocked by what they are doing why are there no air in marion's office why does the bates motel have no tv's in the rooms and apparently no automatic locks on the doors why does the sheriff have to ask the operator to connect him to the bates motel this was why using the exact same script was a mistake just changing a few words here and there was not enough to modernize it it needed a whole reworking br br while vince vaughn turned in a good performance as norman he just didn't seem right for the part part of what made the original psycho so creepy was that norman had that innocent boy next door quality so nobody could believe that he was capable of such horrible crimes with vince vaughn playing the part is anyone really surprised that norman was a psychopathic killer br br that said i can understand that gus van sant was obviously a fan of the original psycho movie and wanted this to be a tribute this isn't a bad movie but the problem is that this may be some people's only exposure to psycho i really think you should see this movie only if you've seen the original since i am a fan of anything to do with psycho i bought a used copy of the remake which i may watch occasionally the original movie was a filet mignon whereas the remake is a hamburger but even filet mignon would get boring if you had it everyday so it's nice to have a hamburger once in a while for a change
0	norm an ally i don't mind remakes there are some pretty good ones out there but this one is a stinker considering it was practically scene for scene it had a good story and great actors van sant copied al's direction virtually flawlessly and it added color i'm not one of those who think it has to be b w to be classic it should have been at least a mediocre movie but it was pee pee i don't understand how it could have been screwed up so badly if you must watch it as a curiosity but i would suggest that you not bother
0	the 1998 version of psycho needed to be set back in the 60's rather than present day the headliners would have done a good job with the setting there were two scenes that just stuck out like a sore thumb the first one was at the beginning of the movie when marian crane anne heche was sitting at her desk her boss took his client into his office because it was air conditioning i imagine that the majority of arizona businesses have air conditioning the other was the meeting of lila crane julianne moore sam loomis viggo mortensen lila sporting the walkman seemed like an exaggeration to update the movie the movie did spook a number of the viewers in the theater
0	this is one of the dumbest ideas for a movie remake a classic film shot by shot i hope nobody tries this technique again in 1998 good will hunting director gus van sant tried it by remaking hitchcock's 1960 classic psycho and failed miserably what on earth was van sant thinking of this remake doesn't even come close to topping the original the few changes that were made here were no help if you want to see psycho the choice is obvious see the original br br out of four
0	a remake of a successful movie can be a tricky business at best to remake a true classic especially one that is the definitive film of a director like alfred hitchcock is something else again and after watching this version of psycho ' directed by gus van sant two things come to mind immediately what's the point and what on earth were they thinking especially in light of the fact that van sant used the same screenplay by joseph stefano taken from the novel by robert bloch that hitchcock used the final result here underscores some of the finer points of the art of filmmaking first that a remake' should be just that a of the original rather than a using new players and second that shooting in color using more blood and being a bit more graphic does little more than detract from the impact of the film although this was a noble effort by van sant ironically in the end it suffers from the same flaw with which norma bates was afflicted the mind' of the film was divided half was hitchcock half van sant and the twain though met shall never be bound van sant even working from the original script would have been better off making his own film all the way through rather than attempting to duplicate exactly what hitchcock did with certain scenes the opening shot of the movie for instance and especially the scene arguably one of the most famous scenes in the history of the cinema copying hitchcock from the shots looking directly into the shower head to the one of the drain and using the same ' sound effects even as homage to hitchcock again only distracted from the story and if you factor in the performance of william h macy as private eye you have yet another split in the psyche of the film macy is a terrific actor one of the best character actors in the business and his performance here is excellent but as good as it is the attitude and delivery are pure david mamet with whom he has worked many times and seemingly out of context with what van sant is doing so the film winds up with a triple personality disorder hitchcock van sant and mamet i felt like i was watching house of good will psycho games ' br br as far as performances go macy's was as solid as they come and anne heche marion crane did a good job of creating an original character escaping the trap of attempting an imitation of janet leigh the weak links were viggo mortensen sam who made marion's boyfriend so smarmy and unappealing it made you wonder why she had anything to do with him in the first place and vince vaughn who to put it as delicately as possible was simply awful as norman bates his whole performance was that of an actor playing a role and not very convincingly at that affecting effeminate mannerisms and punctuating his speech with bursts of maniacal laughter made his norman more of a caricature than a character altogether unbelievable and pretentious it gave the movie the feel of a reenactment of a true you would see on a television show it would have been entirely in keeping with the sensibility of the film to cut away from norman sitting alone in his parlor to a shot of a sober faced peter graves such was the mind set of norman bates on that fateful rainy night when marion crane stepped out of her car and into his life ' the supporting cast includes julianne moore lila robert forster dr simon philip baker hall sheriff al chambers anne haney mrs chambers chad everett tom cassidy rance howard mr lowery rita wilson caroline james remar patrolman and james legros charlie the car dealer if nothing else van sant's psycho' is a curiosity that goes to show that having a good director a predominantly excellent cast and a script that is a proven commodity does not necessarily insure a success granted todays era of psycho babble american psycho' and hannibal lecter have effectively taken the edge off of a character like norman bates somewhat but there is still a singular intimacy in this particular story of the relationship between norman his mother and his victims that will forever remain inherently disturbing and terrifying but van sant is unable to convey that sense of dread that throat clenching fear with this film if ever there was a movie made that should have been straight to video this is it better still had it never been born i rate this one 2 10
0	i did a review for this director's fictional recreation about btk i had also seen this movie and it was terrible please save your money and time this movie was terrible and this director is untalented i do not understand how he is funding these movies they are horrible i have decided to make sure that i check who the writer director and producer are and if this director's name pops up i will not waste my money there is nothing worse than renting a movie on a friday night making the popcorn and then realizing you have been duped by creative art on the front of the movie box stay away so i guess i should make up some stuff to fill in the lines i have always checked imdb for reviews before but i think i will not anymore this is ridiculous i have been corrected in my reviews far too many times not enough lines you may cancel my account your site is a pain
0	spoilers included br br alfred hitchcock's brilliant and innovative adaptation of robert novel was an amazing film unlike anything previous every shot every camera angle every nuance was perfect he didn't just break the rules he made up a whole set of new ones br br here's the spoiler there is absolutely nothing new different or original about this movie gus van sant doesn't just pay a homage to hitch he rips off every idea and does so in a less original more conventional manner i didn't have anything against gus van sant before i saw this movie i liked drugstore cowboy and i thought my own private idaho was a very interesting film the question burning in my mind when it comes to the remake of psycho is why did you do it gus br br in my mind there are only two reasons to do a remake 1 the original was a good story but the movie sucked 2 the original was a good movie but someone has thought of a fresh new approach to the material neither one of these factors is at all present in the gus van sant version of psycho apart from the fact that it is in color and there is one scene in which there is a montage of disturbing imagery relating to the title character's possible inner dialogue which i found unnecessary there is nothing new here br br furthermore i found the casting left something to be desired anne heche was okay as marion but she lacked a certain vulnerability that janet leigh portrayed in the original i didn't feel as sympathetic towards her character because the choices she faced seemed far less constrained as a woman in today's society as opposed to the choices she would have faced as a single woman living in the early 1960's vince vaughn got a few laughs with his rendering of an incredibly naive norman bates but i feel that anthony timing and nervous haunted look was much more effectively creepy the only performance that i enjoyed better than the original was the character of lila crane played by moore she was excellent as usual and brought a new strength and intelligence to the character br br to be fair there is some beautiful camera work especially during the famous bathroom scene in which van sant takes advantage of his use of color to show the murder in vibrant shades of crimson and yet during the whole film i had this irritating sense of vu haven't i seen this somewhere before oh wait i have seen this somewhere before nearly every scene seems to be copied shot for shot from the original one almost gets the feeling the director made this film as a school project see i can make a hitchcock film too br br if you haven't already go see the original it's held up over the years and beats this bit of mediocrity hands down you won't be disappointed
0	what an embarassment this doesnt do justice to the original with awful acting from everyone in this movie hitchcock must be spinning in his grave the where marion gets killed in the shower is just so uneffective and unoriginal the only good bit is that they used the same music and its so obvious who kills her in the shower i rate this movie 3 10
0	van sant copies hitchcock's masterpiece shot for shot including some modern facets a walkman and nudity from anne heche unless you have a strong desire to see ms heche naked there is absolutely no reason to see this film instead of the original hitchcock's masterpiece is much better and van sant fails to realize that in hiding the nudity and the gore the original shower scene is all the more terrifying ask janet leigh about that one the acting is also much flatter and the technical aspects much less impressive
0	a horrendous film ill conceived and crude the acting of anne heche and vince vaughan is so inferior to that of perkins and leigh in the original version they have to be seen to be believed there was no reason to make this picture which only highlights how accomplished and brilliant hitchcock was and how inimitable also there's a creeping pervasive insensitivity in the film that isn't there in the first film hitchcock's psycho was scary and shocking but one could genuinely feel for all concerned even the pitiful norman bates there were moments of pathos irony and fey humor the remake doesn't have one of the best things about hitchcock's film was its incredible and intuitive depth and sense of nuance of when to cut away and when to show something on whether to use a close up or long shot on whether to make an actor sympathetic and when to make him frightening and so forth the remake has none of these qualities and doesn't even try for them it's an idiotic exercise that i'm amazed even got released
0	not only why but what were they thinking this must have been some br br sort of payback to gus van sant because this is one of those odd movies br br that never should have been re made it purports to be hitchcocks film br br frame by frame but without the magic or the tension or the great film br br making rent the original instead spare yourself
0	some possible spoilers br br of course this film could not be expected to be as good as the original remakes rarely are but this remake of one of hitchcock's greatest films psycho could have been a lot better br br first of all whoever cast the movie must have been psycho i mean vince vaughn as norman bates what where they thinking unlike the harmless almost childlike bates that anthony perkins was able to portray vaughn looks like he would could be a murderer in efforts to make his bates seem innocent vaughn ends up acting gay many of the other actors didn't seem to fit their parts either including julianne moore who just didn't seem to fit in the film br br on top of the atrocious casting the cinematography is notably shabby despite the fact that they remade the film scene for scene the one thing they added were random shots of object such as clouds or a nude woman in between the shots of characters being murdered these shots seemed to be irrelevant to the plot in anyway and in turn made no sense br br overall this psycho remake which could been a decent picture instead turned out to be a complete waste of time
0	ok first of all who in their right mind would remake hitchcock and second who would do it shot for shot i admit i had no intention of ever watching this movie for that very reason the original psycho is one of my favorite films ever and this just seemed like a degrading of it i did watch it because my girlfriend wanted to compare it to the original and we both agreed less than five minutes into this crap that it was awful first as mentioned they did it shot for shot where's originality why remake a movie that is almost perfect exactly the way it was done the first time why remake such a movie to begin with if you are going to remake something remake something that doesn't work and make it better br br second they used the exact same script from the 1960 version the dialog no longer works it works fine and sounds perfect for the 1960 version but seems odd and stilted coming out of modern actors why not update the dialog hitch didn't write the script you could have rewritten br br this film had some very good talent and they were wasted by imitation of the original actors the actor who played the car salesman seemed like he was just playing john anderson's performance as the car salesman in the original all the actors seemed like the only direction they were given was be the characters from the original movie vince vaughn may have seemed a little creepier than anthony perkins but in doing so you loose the sympathy you are supposed to have for norman having norman masturbate while watching marion undress was going too far and lost the innocence of the character that i think tony perkins captured so well in his performance viggo mortensen's accent was annoying and rita wilson was far too old to play caroline her lines came off as someone desperate rather than just young and fun like patricia hitchcock's performance br br the only good thing i saw about the film was that gus van sant was able to open the movie with the shot hitch had envisioned hitch wanted to open with 1 long shot going over phoenix but couldn't at the time so he had to settle for a series of shots cross dissolved together this film fulfilled that vision with a helicopter shot going into the window of the hotel after that though the film became a worthless waste of celluloid br br if you are curious about how to destroy a wonderful film watch this but do not under any circumstances watch this before you watch the original this is a faded of the original and should never have been green lit stick to the master's film not the imitation
0	don t be fooled into thinking that this is a remake as in this years remake of the time machine is based on an earlier film it s not because this is a pointless re film that is the director has used the original camera script shot for shot similar to the remake of the get away from a few years ago the scenes are identical to the original the dialogue is identical to the original the camera angles are identical no attempt whatsoever is made to embellish or restructure the original script but with a director like van sant at the helm we should be thankful he sure t no hitchcock in fact i might even be correct in saying the costumes might be the same because the private eye wears a pork pie hat didn t they go out of fashion in the late 1960s br br bottom line avoid
0	first of all the whole idea of remaking a classic such as psycho is nothing short of ludicrous a lot of time and effort was wasted here i am sure they are smart enough to know that they could not improve on the original so they must have had a tribute to alfred hitchcock on their minds however the idea that began as a well intentioned tribute results in being a slap in the face to the horror master this movie is poorly produced poorly acted and unnecessary to begin with the original classic stands well on it's own even after 40 years the event of hitch returning from the grave and coming after the people responsible for this piece of trash is unlikely but if i were them i would sleep with one eye open just in case don't waste your time
0	let me begin by saying that this remade version of one of the greatest ever created movies psycho 1960 has been nothing but a fine example of poor direction poor acting and poor cast the best way to describe this movie is by comparing it step by step acting by acting and process by process to the original br br alfred hitchcock one of the greatest movie directors ever lived had an intention to shoot the original in black and white despite the availability of color at that time okay people in 1960 may not have been used to bloodshed or horrifying scenes as much as we are today but that didn't prevent people from liking it and getting nominated for 4 oscars gus van sant had absolutely no reason to release this in color except that the year was 1998 what should have looked realistic in color did not after the shower scene norman washes his hands it is easily that whatever was used for blood looked like some kind of red wax once he washes off the blood his hand is red in color br br about acting perhaps there couldn't have been a better cast of janet leigh and anthony perkins in the original perkins suited well for norman and he was incredibly natural when he smiles and talks to the stranger hitch wanted a handsome and good actor and it worked just fine in this version i personally think vince vaughn looked perfect and handsome and strong to play norman's role unfortunately his acting was nothing less than terrible in the motel office where norman and marion have the long conversation he had zero expression on his face and his voice and face never changes throughout in the original in the same scene when the madhouse is described we can clearly see the sudden change of expression on perkins's face and he looks angry although not aggressively vince vaughn here works out the entire conversation like he's just had his lines by heart again terrible acting same is with anne heche in the opening scene in the original we can see how tensed and nervous marion janet is when she drives to phoenix she was happy in getting the money but at the same time scared for life that's what i call acting in the remake heche has no signs of fear and she smiles periodically for getting the money i don't think anyone would be happy and smiling when they've just stolen and the entire state police is behind them in the shower scene janet in the original grips the curtain turns around and dies after getting stabbed in the remake heche gets stabbed turns around then sways the other way has a foolish expression on her face and manages to die with great effort again terrible acting br br there are also some specially introduced changes in this movie from the original that seems to have nothing to do with the plot line and the ongoing situation in the scene where gets murdered two scenes blink in between the stabs one with a naked woman and the other with a sheep many people including myself aren't exactly sure whether the second scene showed a sheep or a cow or whatever it was what on earth does a beast or a naked woman have to do with an investigator's murder the changes were just inappropriate and unnecessary there are a couple of changes in the ending scene as well br br let me add some and the only positive points along with that i felt julianne moore did her job well and played a good character of lila and william macy acted well that was almost exactly how character should have been played br br it is common man's knowledge that the purpose and intention of a movie remake is to make the present generation aware of a movie that has a good classic plot line and to try and make it look better than the original and if anything has happened here according to what i just said it is directly the opposite unfortunately many people like me weren't impressed after watching this movie unless we came to know of the existence of an unforgettable original version br br please do not watch this movie it is nowhere near the original and the original will always remain one of the best ever created movies if not the best
0	i would hate to have anyone watch this inspired by a true story movie and draw any conclusions about the true event few things they did get right were overshadowed by the things that were just not true ed gein never dragged anyone behind a car never met up with anyone at the graveyard and killed them no proof he returned body parts to the graveyard the things he did were awful enough why try to make it worse br br this movie ranks among my 10 worst wastes of eye strain in the light of the moon is a much better film on the subject it is more factual and the acting is superior in contrast to this one
0	the most disposable movie in the history of cinema this one is a strong contender why wasting so much money for such a pointless useless work the only difference between the hitchcock classic and this poor imitation is color wide screen and leila's walkman a movie which's supposed to generate thrills and fear leaves me completely indifferent br br no you' re going to tell me it will urge the young generations to see the original this psycho 1998 is a giant spoiler br br they could have done something different for instance by casting an actor closer to bloch 's bates an obese man they content themselves with an obnoxious rehash a pox on it and long live alfred hitchcock
0	well i have to agree with the critics on this one who all said leave it alone why they had to make this re make of the 1960 psycho i don't know my guess is they wanted to reach a new audience and thought color and modern day actors were the answer since those were the main changes the dialog was the same and the story the same br br on one hand i applaud them for not making this over with a lot of profanity and nudity and making it a sleazy film yet if they were going to keep everything the same why bother when you weren't going to improve on tony perkins janet leigh and the original cast br br did they honestly think vince vaughn was going to be as good or better than perkins are you kidding ann heche with her short haircut is going to be better than leigh i don't think so br br yes the colors were pretty in here but it's the black and white photography that helped make the 1960 version so creepy to begin with it's perfect for the story not a bunch of greens and pinks once again i guess the filmmakers were banking on an audience that never saw the original br br this was just a stupid project that never should have gotten off the ground
0	i know that the original psycho was a classic and remaking it was a mistake especially a shot by shot remake i think that that has been more or less proven by the rest of the comments here but there's far more wrong with this movie than just that br br the first problem is the color the original film was shot in black and white but what few people realize is the original was shot after color film had been invented the choice of black and white film was partially a budget concern but it was also a stylistic choice of hitchcock's now this is not to say that the remake should have been redone in black and white but the colors of this movie are all too wrong the most predominant colors in the film are orange and green particularly on marion who is not supposed to be a flashy character the bright colors make it look like a happy movie and when horrific events take place in these color schemes it looks like a cartoon more than anything and the audience is inclined to laugh rather than scream br br the second problem is the lighting this is a dark dark tale which should be highlighted by dim lighting but this remake seemed not only to fail in this but seemed to go in the opposite direction most of the scenes are very brightly lit even at times when it is illogical to do so because it's at night br br another obvious problem is vince vaughn's performance yes he does pull off norman awkwardness and madness quite well i don't deny him that but there is one element to the character that he failed to show the softness there should be a certain deceptive friendliness to the character at least at first which then fades away once we realize the truth about him beyond being a character trait of norman bates this is a recognized character trait of all psychopaths br br there are a few good aspects of this film some of the performances are great as i said vince vaughn came very close to pulling off a decent portrayal of norman bates viggo mortensen and juliane moore were great together and their chemistry was very different from the characters in the original which was a welcome change anne heche may have been atrocious but unlike janet leigh who was advertised as one of the biggest stars of the film anne heche was given last billing in the opening credits br br i read on the cover of a copy of the psycho novel that gus van sant claimed this was not a remake of the hitchcock film but rather a new adaptation of the original novel i now wish that i had bought that book and saved the comment because after seeing this film that comment is quite possibly the funniest thing i have ever seen there was no attempt in this film to disguise the fact that it was a rip off of the original and it would be far more believable if van sant had tried to tell us that he was really a three ton ape from the planet so many shots were copied exactly without any actual thought as to why hitchcock had composed the original shot in that way such as the scene in which sam and lila are talking while their faces are entirely covered in shadow hitchcock covered these actors' faces in shadow because he thought they were bad actors and wanted to hide their faces so nobody could see their awful performances not because of any artistic or stylistic purpose br br in other words my review is about as pointless as the movie itself in that it replicates something that's already been said like everyone else here i reccommend you don't waste your time on this film and get the original
0	hitchcock's original classic benefited tremendously not only from the performance of but also the 'look' of anthony perkins he projected a kind of clean cut innocence a young teen idol type of persona he was not an actor who had portrayed baddies before this nor was he physically suited to the role of what the public might have imagined a psychopath to look like especially in the 50's when this ultra chilling aspect of mental illness split personality psychosis was relatively unexplored in film which is exactly why the casting of him as norman bates was a slice of true hitchcockian genius audiences were taken by surprise to put it mildly br br that's why this re make does not work even a little bit in spite of trying to be an exact copy whereas anthony perkins looked like someone you would never think of as being a serial killer vince vaughn is easily imaginable as one he lacks the frail look of perkins and his acting chops are clearly inferior as well at least in this role honestly has there ever been an actor who could convey nervousness as genuinely as anthony perkins while it was a pointless re make to begin with the miscasting of the story's most important character sucks this film down completely br br as a side note i feel that hollywood's propensity for re making great movies because 'young' people refuse to watch anything that's not filmed in color not only stinks to high heaven of corporate greed but is exceptionally disrespectful to the original work as for viewers who can't watch black and white it's their loss hopefully they'll mature sometime in the future and no longer require shiny colours to hold their attention when they do they'll discover that sometimes black and white works far better with the background muted the story and performances are that much more front and center and in many cases the mood or atmosphere created through black and white cinematography is just not attainable in colour
0	no matter what other people have said you can't review this movie without comparing it to the original if it existed on it's own it would be a 2 3 out of 5 film but it is a remake of a 4 5 out of 5 film and so has standards to live up to and we need to see if it reached those standards if the film was a re working or as in planet of the apes a re imagining of the original you would be able to look at the film in it's own right only referencing the original imagine it this way if someone took the model in the posed her in a different way and painted her you could only compare the framing concept etc to the original but if someone just repainted her in the position of the original you would have to compare it totally br br that said this film doesn't just fail to be as good as the original it fails spectacularly like it or not the original was one of the best movies ever made the shower scene will never be forgotten the remake was meant to be a celebration of hitchcock but ended up actually degrading him and his master work br br the degrading aspects of this picture were vince vaughn and anne heche it's nothing to do with wether they acted better or not it's that the relationship between norman and marion in the original was really quite innocent norman didn't really understand sex he had hardly any contact with the outside world and when he meets beautiful marion and watches her change you feel that he is partly doing it from fascination as he doesn't really understand sex and his attraction to her this makes norman sympathetic and almost an anti hero you are on his side because he doesn't fully understand the world and is constantly fighting with himself and his 'mother' in the remake that whole dynamic is gone i must admit to janet leigh not being my type but she is very attractive and you can see that anne heche is really unattractive and so norman finding 'her' marion attractive is unbelievable if you add that to vince vaughn's norman masturbating whilst looking at her and you get a norman that is just waiting for a chance to jack off at any naked woman no matter what she looks like who you feel absolutely no sympathy for they further destroy norman's innocent nature by putting the porno mags in his room it destroys a character that we have come to like and feel sorry for it's like re making 'it's a wonderful life' and having the main character a pimp totally degrading br br the only other character that i had problems with was rita wilson as caroline marion's workmate in the original when pat hitchcock says the line 'he must have noticed my wedding it elicits a response of laughter as she is absolutely kidding herself when rita says it it just seems plausible as there really isn't any other reason why any man would flirt with anne heche over her br br i'll admit that i am very biased the original 'psycho' is my favorite film of all time had the film been a reworking with a different angle then you could have turned these characters on their heads and it would have been perfectly acceptable br br hitch famously the film would be too gory in colour and made it in black and white to lessen it this also made the film more atmospheric and frightening in it's own way and it gave it a beauty that could never be captured in colour and it is a sad statement about how movies are de the public that people have said how the shower scene was more frightening in colour n b before people think 'he can't remember i'm from england and we spell it colour br br a remake should be just that re made this is a forgery a complete copy and a very bad one at that i could go on comparing but there is no point almost everything is superior in the original the only one thing that is better is the performance of viggo mortensen as sam loomis john gavin was very flat in the original hitch called him 'the behind his back and mortensen gives a more believable if less likeable performance william h macy and julianne moore are the only other actors that hold up to the originals br br overall a movie that should be labeled embarrassing failed experiment only view if comparing to original or if original is unknown to you but view original too' the movie would have got a 3 out of 5 if it were original or a reworking but as it is 0 5 out of 5 for macy moore and mortensen
0	i know curiosity killed the cat but i simply had to see the remake of psycho especially after being on such a hitchcok journey recently and knowing his work i've watched the original psycho though since i was a kid i knew how to respect it and not only that it was an excellent movie one of the best in fact the first thing i said when i heard about the remake was how do you remake perfection i stuck to that as well but i think i have a more open mind now and figured maybe it was a way of introducing psycho to a new generation br br but this turned into a total insult and slap to the face of the original psycho i know this has been said but i watched the making of this film and the director was like oh i just want to update it and shoot each scene shot by shot like the original what's the friggin' point ok but i want to judge this movie on it's own despite it's insulting blows the original i mean the acting wasn't up to par but honestly it looked like the actors just watched the original and just memorized the lines from there and made it their crappy own br br watching the making of this film i wanted to slap anne she said i've never seen the original i just wanted to work with gus ooh that made me angry because frankly it's not just that she really sucked in this role as marian she wasn't convincing not to mention her shower scene really was horrible vince vaughn didn't make let's just put it this way the film was horribly miscasted this was a sin against film and on it's own this was actually a bad movie it was too much and destroyed what could've been a new introduction for a new generation but to gus leave the film making the one's who know what they're doing br br 1 10
0	this is per se an above average film but why in the name of bog was it made it's impossible to treat it as a thing unto itself because it is an almost shot for shot remake of an alfred hitchcock classic of 1960 you can't watch it without the 1960 film nudging into your consciousness br br what does the word credit mean how can we credit van sandt and his associates with anything except deciding to use different actors slightly different sets and color br br anne heche is attractive but lacks janet leigh's stolid determination to become a respectable middle class woman and heche is younger than leigh who brought to her fruitless attempt to marry and settle down the desperation of a woman facing forty and heche doesn't project anxiety the way leigh did the scene with the officer looking in her car window illustrates the weakness in the role in the original the officer asks is there something wrong leigh of course not am i acting as if something were wrong the officer hesitates before replying well frankly yes that exchange is omitted from the remake for the simple reason that heche isn't nervous enough br br the worst change without a doubt is the substitution of vince vaughn for anthony perkins it may not be vaughn's fault who could match perkins in the role perkins is twitchy bird like long necked cloaked in an externally charming exterior that masks an inner vacuum his every move eating candy corn with his adam's apple bobbing and every utterance the faint laugh the arid chuckle is spot on he just can't be improved upon vaughn brings to the role the presence of a short haired beefy guy who was just discharged as a lance corporal from the u s army to suggest his psychosis all he can do is superimpose a maniacal giggle on top of what appears otherwise a perfectly normal norman in speech and manner unlike the original norman vaughn doesn't even stumble over the word fallacy because it resembles phallus he could be just hanging around the motel waiting to hear about his application for a football scholarship to ucla br br the direction deserves a few comments i don't see what it adds to the story when we see norman masturbating while peeping in on anne heche i don't object to it i wonder why it's there just as i wonder why the rest of the movie is there br br and i suppose in order to impress us with how much color adds to the visual experience van sant seems to have missed a bit of hitchcock's more subtle stuff heche is given underwear of all different colors green pink orange and mango is that a color if so what the hell color is it never mind the point is that in the original when the traveling camera first peeks through the window of the phoenix hotel it captures janet leigh in bed wearing a pure white half slip and a white bra later after she has stolen the money we see her in her underwear again this time both her slip and bra are black tis a small thing but hitch's own br br at that the idea of shooting in color might not have been bad except that the black and white shooting of the original was superb the color and odd lighting effects in this version turn the ordinary dull and subliminally ominous motel into something that looks like it belongs in the seedier part of las vegas br br most of all the 1960 film was shocking in more ways than one i can remember seeing it in a drive in in san diego and staring aghast at the screen when it became clear that the central character was actually dead half way through the movie nothing like it had ever been done before br br that murder in the shower in both movies was a big improvement over robert original novel by the way in which the author writes something like the murderer then entered the bathroom and cut off her head with a knife i'm not making that up well not entirely even here van sant's movie gives us excess there is more blood and more bare flesh and where hitchcock closed in first on the blood circling the bathtub drain and dissolved to blankly open eye then pulled the camera back slowly to reveal her face he rotated his camera from a slight tilt to the proper vertical giving the viewer a sense of not just disbelief at the murder but a dizzying disbelief van sant doesn't tilt his camera a delicate 10 or 20 degrees as hitchcock did he practically twirls it on its axis br br it won't do to call this a bow to hitchcock because it's not it's a plundering of hitchcock's material already ripped off in psycho i ii iii iv and psycho the beginning years and come into my parlor mrs bates' revenge and hand me that knife would you the true story of norman bates a rehashing of and grinding away at truly original stuff a act if not a criminal one and that's not to mention the many homages in other films especially the french such as the notorious ocean of boredom scenes between marcel and jeanne in the much admired la mere de la nuit maybe i'd better add that that last sentence is a terrible attempt at a parody of academic critics and when a chicken's guts grind corn it's a act i won't go on except to say these gags shabby as they are are more fun than the movie br br so who was it made for i'd have to guess kids who are too young to know about the original and who don't like movies in black and white kids who are hoping to see another ordinary slasher movie chimpanzees
0	yes why among the filmmakers that came out in the 80's and 90's gus van sant is one of my idols there are others a few steven sodebergh pt anderson tim hunter danny boyle martin donovan harmony wes anderson idiosyncratic infuriating some times but consistent surprising unpredictable their names make me switch on the tv go to a video store or even buy a ticket and go to a movie theater van sant's psycho however gives me pause why i wonder a shot by shot massacre of one of the perennial classics the color was jarring the performances atrocious what was vince vaughn doing was it a parody a bad joke what the hell was it anne heche as janet leigh who dressed her viggo mortensen with a cowboy hat viggo is a superb actor but in this case he couldn't make us forget john gavin and if julianne moore had been introduced to the world through this performance there wouldn't have been any the hours for her the minutes maybe so here i am bad mouthing the work of one of my idols the crashing question remains why mr van sant maybe in the words of president clinton because he could i'm afraid that's no excuse
0	at least the jingle by tim finn was melodic roberts is the his usual inept self characters are inconsistent dull purposeless roberts changes his accent even within one line
0	this movie really starts strong we know that roberts is an atlanta hotshot sent to australia to fix marketing problems we also know he is an eccentric genius roberts' fine acting convinces us of this rather quickly br br unfortunately the plot is so flimsy that whatever fine character development has been achieved it is by voids inconsistencies and downright boring film sequences br br usually i am a sucker for bold and far out plots examples which i am fond of include dark star o c stiggs and popeye coupled with the fact that i must admit that this film was well acted it surprises even myself that i cannot recommend this film br br the utter breakdown in this movie occurs about midway through the film all comedy is instantly lost and the film turns dark afterwards the film plods along the film's attempt to get the comedy rolling again is not successful more surprises await the viewer and they are darker still br br to be sure mixing drama with comedy can be a formula for success however with this movie the result is about as successful as new coke
0	ed gein the butcher of is set in the small american town of in wisconsin during 1957 where loner ed gein kane hodder lives by himself on a farm after the death if his mother brother the local police have had a spate of grave robberies to deal with when local barmaid sue layton suspicions grow that something nasty is going on ed is a violent sexually deviant man who kidnaps girls murders them will the police figure the truth out in time to save erica adrienne the sheriff's timothy daughter br br written produced directed by michael this was an attempt to base a horror film around the true events surrounding notorious serial killer ed gein turns out to be pretty crap the real life ed gein was only ever convicted of two murders died in 1984 but several films have been inspired by him including the texas chainsaw massacre 1974 deranged 1974 ed gein 2000 with this fairly recent addition possibly being the worst gein film ever even though ed gein was real next to nothing in this film is based on fact gein never had an accomplice none of his victims were related to any of the investigating officers there was no car crash victim although gein keeps his name other people have had name changes the kidnapping murder of the two women depicted here actually happened four years apart in reality but in this film it happens over the course of a couple of days while here gein is shown as a large hulking muscular man in reality he was a scrawny thin old quite short as a factual drama ed gein the butcher of is worthless as pure entertainment it's no better with a deadly dull pace feel to it the character's are all boring when he isn't killing someone gein is shown working or just walking around it's very dull there's no suspense because we know who the killer is it's just a tedious wait until he gets caught at the end there is no real attempt to get into mind with the makers giving him no more motivation than him occasionally having hallucinations of his domineering mother br br there isn't much gore here there's a scene with a woman hanging on a meat hook there's a really badly edited scene of gein cutting a leg off there's the usual jars of bodily organs skulls lying around as well as a bit of blood but there's really not much here to get excited about the film was obviously processed to bleach a lot of the colour out of the picture as it's not far off black and white at times i personally think the lack of colour makes it even duller to sit through br br with a supposed budget of about 1 500 000 i can't really see where the money went in a very forgettable production although set in wisconsin this was filmed in california kane hodder is all wrong for the role of ed gein just from a physical point of view hodder doesn't look even remotely like gein he gives a pretty poor performance to as he just stares at the camera a lot making silly faces br br ed gein the butcher of is crap it's as simple straightforward as that as either a factual drama or pure exploitation entertainment this is total tripe from start to finish with nothing to recommend it
0	you can't really blame the movie maker for glorifying che because the industry is all about money most of the stories you hear about this freedom fighter are absolute tripe fabricated by the communist cuban government after che's death che was a murdering scumbag from day one here's a list of the great things che did for cuba 1 executed thousands of innocent cuban men women and children to satisfy his lust for power br br 2 destroyed cuba's economy and good standing with the rest of the world the cuban used to be equal with the american dollar now it's basically worthless br br 3 continually failed at all things that involved diplomacy economy and the military he never made it past his first year in medical school and he was only in one real battle in which he surrendered with a fully loaded gun br br 4 he took over the largest estate in cuba to set up for himself he had a yacht a 60 custom made tv from america a swimming pool and a view of the ocean so much for shunning the life style br br cuba today is an absolutely destitute country and you have no one but che and the castro brothers to thank for it if you go to cuba today you will not be allowed out of the tourist areas if you did manage to get out of what you're meant to see you would find slums beggars and prostitutes br br if you think any of what i'm saying is untrue then go do some studying compare cuban exports from 1950 60 to those of today talk with people who survived or who had parents in the so called cuban revolution of the 1960's read all of the reports of murdered innocents read the reports from people who served under che and castro and fled because of what an evil disgusting human being he was br br and please please always remember to read or watch everything objectively stop taking everything at face value and think about it
0	che is a bad movie and deserves it reputation as an unintentionally funny film it takes a serious subject and presents it like the cliff notes version or classic comics because there isn't much emotion or a proper narrative just episodic segments stitched together with mostly stupid true stories relayed by a variety of br br this is a deservedly derided film as it is poorly written and acted however what i have found most interesting about the film is its apparent gay subtext instead of che guevarra and fidel castro working towards a communist cuba they seem to be more of a gay couple with che behaving coy and aloof and fidel as the ardent suitor again and again the film abounds with great lines such as when fidel implores che cuba needs you i need you i am not sure if the studio intended this homosexual undercurrent but it doesn't take a brain surgeon to recognize it i am very surprised that the other reviewers didn't point this out however if you remember this when you watch the film it makes viewing much more exciting and even funnier br br a final note in recent years che has been very chic even a fashion statement with hoards of brain dead teens who have no idea who he was wearing shirts emblazoned with his face considering he was a cold blooded killer and nihilist an odd combination for a doctor this new reverence for the man is gross what will they do next put hitler or dr on t shirts and posters even communists with should be appalled by the bloodshed guevara was responsible for and i find it ironic that people with computers are championing a man who might likely have killed them given half a chance br br considering how stupid and unintentionally funny this movie was it does nothing to further the message that guevara was no hero i would love to see a realistic film done of his life with the good and the bad but also with dialog and a plot that weren't apparently created by chimps
0	the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes when sharif or please god palance try their hand at fiery oratory they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling in the ocean and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass what does that leave us with one comical dentistry scene a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train and just for kicks a of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro's manic and unremitting cigar fellatio never trust a medved but even a busted clock is right twice a day this is a historically awful movie
0	35 years after this was made castro still reigns unfortunately we're left scratching our heads wondering how the dim witted maniac played by scenery chewing jack palance made it as far as 1960 i stumbled back across this recently and was amused at noticing the incomparable sid haig and b movie favorite paul untouchables among the rebels fleischer was obviously well past his prime when he directed this foolishness some of the lines are classic in a did he really say that kind of way ' the other thing i just noticed is that the score and the sound not the dialog are actually excellent the only first rate elements of the entire production so don't watch this to learn anything about history or acting but if you feel like watching this as a goof bring the beers and have some fun
0	if you're looking for an accurate portrayal of che guevara the cuban revolutionary who helped aid fidel castro in his bid for power you'd better read up on cuban history or even type in his name on a search engine you are on the internet after all br br but whatever you do do not watch che br br unless of course you just want a good laugh br br all the reviewers of the time and moviegoers gave che their vote for worst film of the decade and no wonder have you seen this travesty its facts are tenuous at best sharif is even unconvincing as a corpse and as for palance's fidel imitation br br like i said if you want a good laugh br br it's like watching a co production between the learning channel and mad magazine br br one star br br i wonder if palance can do w c fields too
0	this movie is essentially a how to on how to be a well connected pedophile i'm amazed that so many people especially other gay men have seen this movie and read the book and no one has brought up the fact that if weber was not an influential photographer he would be in jail doing time for child abuse poor peter johnson weber took this poor naive although incredibly handsome teenager whom he found at a training camp for high school wrestlers in the midwest brought him to live in his home and took thousands of homoerotic photos of him many of them full frontal nudes all through johnson's teenage years that ain't art it's child abuse and what's worse weber made lots of money off of it and poor johnson is going to have serious issues the rest of his life weber's lecherous love of the boy is downright creepy as are his ramblings about famous and not so famous people he's known as he tries to complete johnson's education creepy and then just plain boring the only redeeming thing i can say about the movie is that it is a fascinating study of self deception but i can't help but wonder why no one ever considered the effect this was having on chop suey weber's nickname for johnson himself
0	there are interesting pieces here of and about bruce weber's likes and dislikes maybe if a professional editor had put it together for biography i would have felt more satisfied instead i spent 8 at a film festival on it for an autobiography almost nothing is revealed about bruce weber other than he likes to look at photographs shoot interesting people especially beautiful teenage boys and listen to jazz the director of would have made a much more interesting and cohesive film
0	if you can stomach the campiness this movie should make you laugh out loud several times it did for me at least i'll only mention one of my favorite elements the underwater shots of the fish swimming the sound which accompanies those shots is great too br br one last note william katt is actually a pretty decent actor i hope he gets another day in the sun watching him as the greatest american hero was a fun part of my childhood a couple of decades ago and he hasn't been very visible since he seemed kind of depressed in this movie somebody give him a fun job on a good show or something
0	this movie is one of the worst remakes i have ever seen in my life the acting is laughable and corman has not improved his piranhas any since 1978 90 of the special effects are lifted from piranha 1978 up from the depths 1979 and humanoids from the deep 1979 it makes piranha ii the spawning look like it belongs on the american film institute list
0	i think that this was one of the most trite films ever made no redeeming features at all even my 12 year old son said it was laughable may be a good candidate for the next generation of mystery science theatre
0	i have watched this movie quite bemused i am not sure whether it was attempting to be a horror gore fest in a rob zombie type affair or an exploration of real events br br in either case it missed its mark it's not particularly historically accurate with characters being chopped and changed for the sake of the story br br the performances were neither compelling nor bad br br for me i would have preferred a more psychological approach and this film could easily have gone down this route without spoiling the overall effect
0	i guess my biggest mistake was to watch this remake of '95 piranha back to back with joe dante's '78 original i did the same last week with the omen curiously enough watching the remake right after the '76 original really made me appreciate the 2006 version quite a bit for various reasons br br but this approach sort of backfired on the '95 piranha version it enhanced the fact that it really is a lesser picture basically the '95 version is more or less the exact same film as it tells the same story and follows it practically scene by scene only steele's character and the military intervention were written out of it but the cinematography wasn't as good the acting was worse too especially alexandra paul playing heather menzies' character showed me again what a horrible actress she is bradford dillman from the '78 version had his charlton heston way of acting going which was amusing while in the '95 version william katt does a good job at being william katt so i didn't mind him really but the whole cast is pretty much inferior and the only worthwhile event was spotting james karen return of the living dead parts 1 2 in a cameo john carl make up effects aren't as neat as rob the musical score had some ring to it but pino score was much more memorable in the original so all these shortcomings really shone through with having just re watched the original as part of this double bill br br since scott p remake does follow dante's original i guess it is entertaining enough to sit through though it's lacking the wit dante's original had but what really made me not like version very much is the fact that quite a bit of stock footage from the first film was re used during the piranha attack scenes i never like it when filmmakers do this and i'm not talking about using footage for flashbacks or other valid reasons i mean if you don't have the budget or imagination to come up with newly shot material then for pete's sake don't do a frickin' remake but roger corman produced this cheaper remake so i guess i shouldn't be all that surprised about the re use of footage br br if you do decide to watch piranha then make sure it's been a while since you've seen the original you might enjoy this remake a little more then and oh yes that cool little stop motion creature from the original is nowhere to be found in this film as to be expected but what's worse there also isn't any female nudity in this one the original really had quite some titty shots going for it and that blonde girl from the opening scene even accidentally pulled her underwear a bit down too far when removing her jeans figures as this '95 version was made for tv
0	well i thought the movie was blah 1 10 br br anyways the best part is the first 5 minutes of the film with the nerd's or whatever girlfriend this is the part u guys watch out for tho she had big hooters i thought is that really a random actor heck no it wasn't it was actually a model by the name of larissa but u already knew that br br so that made sense but that was about it rest of the film that i saw anyway didn't care 4 and didn't bother watching the rest of it that's br br all i needed to c to be satisfied so 2 those of u that just care for that well there u go enjoy
0	it's not often i give two stars to a horror movie because horror is my favorite genre a movie can be bad in that it isn't a masterpiece but can be enjoyable on the basis of unintentional humour bizarre characters etc a case in point are a great number of horror sci fiction movies from the 1940s to 1980s era they are enjoyable for genre buffs and guilty pleasure seekers because their badness is entertaining however this movie has none of the humour or effective gory scenes of the piranha 1978 original br br i suppose in 1995 it was the heyday of political correctness so gore on tv was at a minimum now in the mid 2000s with the c s i shows tv's an absolute blood fest good for us horror fans br br william katt and alexandra paul are no bradford dillman and heather menzies the original 1978 stars it's not and paul's faults but the writers and director who created this tepid turkey how the main characters interact is the main flaw of this movie i won't say how because that is part of the plot br br this tv movie probably had a bigger budget than the original but flopped as good horror as can be seen from the user votes here stick with the 1978 original if you're in the mood for a killer fish movie
0	i saw this one at sundance and i can't figure out why it won the directing award it was painfully slow and literally colorless it's the type of movie that is only appreciated by film fest snobs who think any movie that a lot of people like must be beneath them br br the jury at sundance this year seemed to be making a conscious effort to reward the underdog ultra low budget films that's all well and good but this wandering dragging mess looks like a home movie mini dv shot in a snow covered gray winter results in a drab look for a drab movie br br certain motifs snakes are beaten to death in spite of the fact that they add nothing to the story and make no sense as symbols br br now it wasn't all bad vera farmiga is phenomenal in her role as a mother with a drug problem she will be going places and she deserves it her co star hugh dillon also does a fine job frankly there are many fine moments in this movie but they just don't fit together very well
0	what is it about drug addiction that so draws first time filmmakers to offer their own take on the subject this subject has been done to death drug abuse is bad we get it drug addiction is painful to watch we get that too but the bleak subject matter doesn't give the filmmaker license to make a sloppy film every film need not be hitchcockian masterpiece of cinematic excellence or use orson wellesian deep focus but it's still a narrative movie verite does not mean pseudo documentary even consumer mini dv cameras are capable of producing white whites and black blacks and this filmmaker is just being lazy by shooting no contrast scenes with existing lighting the subject is bleak enough without artificially forcing it with sloppy cinematography and even documentary films have a sound mix vera farmiga is very talented given the right material but the director obviously over directed her and sucked all the life out of her performance addicts may live in a fog but they still have emotions but none of these characters seem to exist off screen the supporting players merely delivered their lines without creating real people sorry to be so harsh debra but some things are true whether want to believe them or not i'm sure your next film will be better but please not another drug movie
0	nothing to watch here it's all been done and better before who cares about this woman deficient in every way as a mother as a wife and as a friend in one instant when she could have taken the high road she jumped into re addiction with both feet and held her breath for no better a reason than me too if she wasn't the pretty and young person she portrays on screen but looked more like the real human wreckage that is represented by our family members neighbors and friends who really suffer from additions we'd change channels in a nanosecond br br this movie starts out at the bottom and goes downhill nothing redeeming no lessons taught nothing uplifting in any way none of the main characters even evoke sympathy let alone empathy well maybe the snake i would have had more fun if i'd shut a door on my hand who needs drivel like this
0	given the subject matter of drug addiction down to the bone almost can't help but be a rather depressing film but depressing doesn't necessarily have to mean bad unfortunately in this case it is in fact pretty bad the film has some good things going for it most notably the quality performance of vera farmiga in the central role of irene a working mom struggling with a cocaine addiction but there isn't enough good here to outweigh the bad the film's failings lie mainly with the story which fails to captivate and never really seems to get going irene goes to rehab and comes home to a clueless husband who has no idea how to support her attempt to kick her habit irene grows close to another recovering addict a male nurse from her rehab center complications ensue but the story never really sparks to life it doesn't seem as if the movie is really going anywhere you can say it's a stark realistic look at the day to day struggles of an addict maybe so but in this case it doesn't make for an interesting movie the whole thing has a very blah feel to it the minimalist cinematography doesn't help matters adding another layer of drab to the incredibly drab proceedings and none of the other performances measure up to hugh dillon is ok as male nurse friend but nobody else in the cast adds anything of value to the proceedings all in all this movie is a bleak depressing and rather dull ride
0	watched this piece ondemand because the description was kind of outlandish this film stinks of cocaine the opening scene alone must have cost at least five figures in blow to film this is a racist homophobic piece of garbage that plods along for a good 1hr and with absolutely no direction i am a little confused on how this has good reviews here i won't bother telling you the plot line because as far as i can tell there is no plot i'm pretty sure everyone showed up to the set everyday did giant lines dressed loretta in plunging necklines to show as much flapjack as possible and yelled action letting the cast improvise in a cocaine frenzy much like real beer this movie nearly caused my liver to fail half way through save your money and watch 'strange instead
0	i kind of like jag it do have it´s charm but lately it´s to much propaganda in it for an outsider a non american the patriotic feeling can be a bit to much br br i don´t like that and mackenzie goes from being lawyers as they were in the early parts of the tv show to become super heros that stops wars and rescues entire continents its almost like watching a recruitment video from the us army br br i still watch the show so it´s not that bad but i would prefer more episodes when and mackenzie investigates military accidents and don´t save the world in the future
0	this movie which i just discovered at the video store has apparently sit around for a couple of years without a distributor it's easy to see why the story of two friends living in new york searching for their pal from high school who is now living homeless under the boardwalk at coney island has flashes of being a very good film but ultimately is weighted down by the story focusing on stan and daniel rather than on their homeless friend richie cryer is as usual very good and the film has a nice stark look to it with the ghostly images of coney island however writer cryer and director richard are too busy dealing with the fairly uninteresting lives of stan and daniel rather than focusing on richie one flashback in a music store where richie has a crush on an employee stands out and really shows the viewer where this film could have gone but in the end not much two many drawn out scenes of annoyance such as inside the building rating 4 out of 10
0	with a catchy title like the butcher of this ed gein variation and kane hodder playing him will no doubt fly off the shelves for a couple of weeks most viewers will be bored silly with this latest take on the life of ed br br the movie focuses on ed's rampage and gives us a few glimpses into his and dwelling in its these scenes that give the movie a much needed jolt br br what ruins this is the constant focus on other characters lives and focuses less on eds big mistake here br br kane hodder is a strange choice to play gein but he does pull it off quite well and deserves more acting credits than he gets these days barnes and micahel also show up br br 3 10
0	i saw this movie when it was first released in 1986 at the time i was young and enjoyed all the normal comedy available i e monty python jim belushi snl steve martin cheech chong so i believe that my judgment represents most sane individuals br br the absolute best part of this movie was the trailer played at the beginning of the movie for the new my little pony movie that was coming out br br this movie was so atrocious that it was actually yanked from most theaters before the initial week run was completed br br i'm surprised that anyone would waste there corporate money to duplicate this steaming pile of human waste br br don't waste your time or money to rent or watch this movie
0	this is one of the stupidest movies ever not the stupidest mind you but one of the stupidest this is 96 1 2 minutes of sleep inducing material probably jim worst movie ever the last 30 seconds of the film is the best and funniest part but hardly worth sitting through the whole movie for on the other hand if you are a die hard jim varney ernest fan then like me you must add this film to your collection it does have brief rare moments of humor although they are few and far between the mere fact that this movie is so hard to find makes it a collectors item and a must have for your ernest collection i was lucky to find this film online at a dirt cheap price a couple years ago i believe i paid 1 99 plus shipping for it and it was the only copy i could find anywhere even though this is a truly all around horrible movie it is still a must have if you are a jim varney fan and an ernest movie collector such as i on a scale of 1 to 10 i give this movie a 2 but thats only because i've never seen a 1 before
0	my website www org lists this pick as the worst movie of all time here is an excerpt br br if i were strapped down to a chair and forced to watch this movie over and over again i couldn't imagine hell being any worse jim varney plays a three handed crazy guy bent on destroying the world apparently starting with cinema now let's face it no one expects a whole lot from a varney movie but this agonizing drivel had me dry heaving for 92 minutes not a laugh not one this is not kamp or this is not even mindless it is evil do not rent this it may destroy your dvd player do not even buy the vhs from a 29 cent clearance bin to use as a blank tape it is the worst film of all time period i mean it really
0	jim first real movie is quite a delight but don't come in expecting to see ernest p any time soon i felt the wide array of characters varney depicted were great but without being said the rest of the movie should be put into a or something a rather odd beginning for a movie icon
0	irwin allen put all his talents behind this one he's co screenwriter producer and director of this cartoonish epic about an atomic submarine and its efforts to reduce a ring of radiation circling the earth potentially exciting story fails to take off despite an eclectic cast varied players from walter pigeon and joan fontaine to frankie avalon and barbara eden are interestingly intermingled and provide a dash of color but this soggy sci fi is pretty cheesy good for a few stray laughs but allen didn't seem to know the difference between strong solid adventure and campy nonsense later a popular tv series from
0	i think walter pidgeon was badly miscast in this film just not believable in the role barbara eden was beautiful and acted her part well enough no one else was at all memorable br br i remember the tv series spun off from this movie when i was a small child i even think i had a plastic that would and was great for playing with in the bathtub long time ago br br as for some of the other criticism i've read for this film it's certainly unfair to judge special effects or science knowledge of 4 decades ago by today's standards the effects were ok for 1961 not great but ok as for the science that was ludicrous even for 1961 there's no excuse also the sub was awfully roomy i understand that the navy refused any help at all for this film so maybe the filmmakers just had no idea br br overall the film bored me and i'm a sci fi fan can't recommend this one grade d
0	only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb the first difficulty faced by the submarine is what appear to be chunks of rock falling down through the water and crashing into its hull but it's not rock they're under the north pole it is ice everybody except possibly hitherto mentioned small children and even some of them know that ice floats br br then disaster strikes that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire no one knows how this happened we are told which is understandable because it is utterly impossible for radiation to catch fire and even if it could there is no air in space for it to burn br br there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to 2nd grade school textbooks when making a film however irwin allen manages to do it again and again perhaps we are meant to focus on the people instead which is pretty easy as they are cardboard br br the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp much like later episodes of his lost in space tv series the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production br br the sub looks pretty good though which is why this one gets a 2
0	irwin allen past master of cinematic schlock pulled out all the stops in voyage to the bottom of the sea a badly aged walter pidgeon who actually may have been dead when he played this role is the commander of an atomic submarine that must be the size of the empire state building every room is gigantic and some even appear to have no ceilings you could bowl and hold a formal ball simultaneously in some of these rooms the sub called the is on its maiden run when all hell breaks loose the van allen radiation belt catches fire and the must launch a missile into the belt by a certain time or the world will go down in global warming flames along for the ride are a bunch of truly terrible character actors many borrowed from tv this makes them tv hack the worst is probably that poor man's stella stevens barbara eden as a naval secretary squeezed into too tight clothes sporting high heels and acting like she's appearing in a beach party flick maybe that's because frankie avalon is also along for the ride a badly aged joan fontaine almost unrecognizable here plays a visiting doctor with a big bad secret but in truth who cares voyage is a truly bad movie obviously made for small children but what child is going to sit still for endless shots of a miniature model moving over and over again from right to left across the screen in what is obviously a studio tank there is not one scene where we believe these folks are actually aboard a sub when the shakes the actors fling themselves about sometimes in opposite directions to one another just like on the good old star trek tv series when the bridge shakes if i remember correctly not one fish or sea creature is seen except for an octopus that momentarily latches onto the sub a nod to 20 000 leagues under the sea the octopus if it was real was probably about a foot long and it shows worse when folks are standing at the glass nose the ocean they are supposedly watching is obviously a closeup involving an unseen air hose spouting bubbles probably filmed in a fish tank you have never seen bigger bubbles in your life you'd think these bubbles alone would smash the damned sub to pieces sadly a badly aged peter lorre is also along for the ride near the end when the missile is entering the flaming belt lorre is seen enthusiastically congratulating pidgeon while everyone else is still waiting for their cue to start shaking hands and embracing one another in victory a one take scene if i've ever seen one what a stinker it's not even good for a laugh stick with silent running
0	it's hard to work up any enthusiasm for this awful cartoon like epic that for some reason has become a cult classic it certainly can't be because of the totally artificial look of the set designs or the limpid acting of an all star cast these days it's shown much too frequently on fox movie channel or amc br br it pains me to report that veteran actors like walter pigeon and joan fontaine are even cast in this muddled science fiction travesty none of which rings true it's like watching an expensive budget being spent on a saturday afternoon kiddie show full of cardboard characters and unconvincing dialog it's a comic book version of the jules verne novel br br the maturing fontaine was still attractive but wears a pained expression on her face perhaps regretting that she had accepted the role of the psychiatrist before reading the script she contributes absolutely nothing to her cardboard role but an imperial and uncomfortable presence and looks totally out of place most of the time faring no better are robert sterling barbara eden and most of all peter lorre as well as frankie avalon who gets to sing the title tune which it's safe to say did not become anyone's favorite title tune br br an awfully frustrating experience to sit through a film like this which wastes an attractive cast and is an insult to almost anyone's intelligence totally unconvincing from start to finish the film as well as the fantastic submarine sinks to the bottom of the sea long before the fight with a rubber octopus brings the film to a dreary conclusion
0	i really wanted to like this movie great cast – walter pidgeon in a role that reminds us of his iconic forbidden planet barbara eden and robert sterling as young lovers frankie avalon as a musically inclined sailor is a guy on a submarine a sailor even peter lorre as a scientist with a fondness for sharks maybe it's a good kiddie movie but i had trouble staying awake lorre was severely underused i guess he was a red herring like pidgeon – you expect him to maybe go nuts and try to throw the hero or his gal in the shark tank no such luck by the way why is there a shark tank on a submarine it's typical of the movie's lack of ambition they explain why lorre is walking the shark back and forth because we're seeing it but just expect us to accept the fact that there's a shark on this sub for some reason research yeah scientists are always doing that research stuff who can understand them of course if there wasn't a shark who would kill the evil psychologist lady joan fontaine i'm sorry but even kid's movies in the 50s are capable of being less predictable and frankly idiotic not to mention exploitative br br the first 10 or 15 minutes really got my hopes up great theme song sung by frankie avalon pidgeon leading floyd the barber howard mcnear actually sorry howie loved ya in blue hawaii and joan fontaine on a guided tour careful to skip the room with the huge warning sign on the door past peter lorre with aforementioned sharks and then we see a full screen shot of eden shaking her moneymaker to impassioned horn playing the movie quickly goes downstream from there there's no real explanation for the firestorm threatening the earth so there's a distinct lack of dramatic tension and no villain to boot instead character is made into an unconvincing red herring vaguely of the ahab variety i guess the caine mutiny was still fresh in people's minds and fontaine's character suddenly turns evil for no reason at the end oh i suppose the reason is that it's a surprise for the audience and it is kind of surprising since the only negative thing she's done is to talk bad about the captain's mental health and there's still no reason why she did the sabotage after she's revealed to be the villain very poorly done and unconvincing the guy who was the pessimistic bible nut was better – at least his character made sense br br so what else could go wrong endless interminable scuba diving footage i never understand the appeal of that kind of thing a giant squid attacks the ship for a minute just so there's a monster for the theatrical trailer maybe that fooled some people into thinking it was going to be a fantasy adventure film instead of a half baked suspense movie about military scientists who are never wrong yes – perhaps worst of all it's barely a fantasy movie much less a science fiction movie it never did anything for my imagination because the whole premise was nothing but another disaster apocalypse and these characters never experience any feelings of wonder or discovery i'm through with irwin allen i never liked his later movies anyway but this one got me by pretending to be jules verne when it's really just another formula exercise in disaster escapism the whole movie is just waiting to see which character will improbably turn evil and die he always hired an actor actress with a charming and personable screen persona to play these roles and that's the only element of surprise to be found since there's no logic to these characters anyway what a pathetic waste of time for these actors george pal's movies are 100 times better the only one that was lame was atlantis which not coincidentally was the most allen esquire full of wonder and excitement and – think of it – ideas other than a few effects scenes and barbara eden there's nothing worth seeing here in my opinion i guess it's good fun for those who are into disaster movies but i think they are a hollow and dull genre of films
0	there are many reasons i'm not a fan of fact based films but more than any other is how the filmmakers give themselves creative license over the story if they have such great imaginations then why not use that talent to make something original otherwise stick to the facts this could have been an okay movie if only they had done just that ed gein was an insanely frightening human being it's been said if you were to take michael myers jason voorhees and leatherface wrap them into one person ed gein would still be sicker scarier so why can't someone make a movie about him that can convey this when will they figure out that reality is ultimately scarier than fiction br br i've read books and watched news programs about him and now i'm not a screenwriter or anything but i believe there's enough documentation on gein that it shouldn't take a whole lot to write a story about all these atrocities he committed without creating murders that had never even been documented i'm aware that he was only found guilty of 2 murders but with all the evidence found in his home and barn there should have been plenty of other ways to put this film together rather than using the deputy's relationship with his mother and girlfriend as filler and far too much of it br br i guess what i'm wondering is this why at the end of the movie did i know more about the supporting characters than i did about ed gein why didn't we get to know his mother father and brother and the relationships between them what made him the psychopath he was what abuse he endured as a child that may have contributed to the man he became instead the only thing we got of his childhood were flashes of him as a little boy running br br in the end i give it 4 10 stars thats 2 for the gore and 2 for kane hodder even though it was kind of bad casting in my opinion considering gein was a man and possibly effeminate and hodder is anything but small and nowhere near what i would consider feminine maybe i was just excited because he was jason voorhees
0	i'm sure that any legitimate submariner would happily ship out on the yes sos why you could play full court basketball in the torpedo room it's so large and how 'bout the bay windows in the bow the better to see giant squids or that appear out of nowhere did i mention the colorful mess cook with the parrot on his shoulder and the with what appears to be a loft big bleeping sub br br ok ok it's never gonna win any prizes for authenticity and if the sub is laughable the plot is even worse somehow the van allen belts of radiation hundreds of miles in space have caught fire are going to make global warming look like a weenie roast pompous admiral nelson walter pidgeon along with his sidekick lucius peter lorre looking suitably uncomfortable hatch a scheme to put out the fire by firing a missile into its midst br br there's plenty of intrigue sic along the way with a born again survivor and his little dog too two dames who can never leave well enough alone a of red shirts who are expendable and plot holes big enough for godzilla to walk through thrill to the being chased at what looks like 60 miles per hour by another sub no need for advanced sonar when you can follow from 100 feet br br the movie careens from one cliff hanger to another the payoff is so anticlimactic as to be pointless certainly not worth the 1 hour and 50 minute wait br br the technical adviser for this shipwreck must have been a 14 year old boy with a stack of popular mechanics magazines worth watching if only to riff upon
0	i suppose for 1961 this film was supposed to be cool but looking back now 45 years it's charm was just as silly as it's entertainment value granted the special effects do well on t v with the series that started in 1964 but for the big screen i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the obviously not well staged or trained overall it's pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it for fun laughs sake this was probably one of irwin allen's biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it eden went on to play genie on t v micheal was her husband now that is a cool part about this film i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie neat
0	why oh why did i ever waste my time watching this film it was given to me on video by a friend and i thought i'll watch it it can't be that bad surely firstly the acting is simply appalling and we're supposed to believe this is real secondly this film is blatantly trying to copy the blair witch project yawn and does so very poorly so if you want the fright of your life i would suggest that a simpson's halloween special would be far scarier but if you just wanted to a laugh then maybe the general crapness of this film would suffice but overall i would avoid this film at all costs or drink a large amount of alcohol before viewing the best bit its only about an hour and a half thank god
0	i realize why people hate this film and i hated blair witch project so go figure this is about as staged as it gets yes they do insult your intelligence by trying to make it seem real i really liked the madame storyline though it's more than likely made up but the main reason i like this film is fake or not when the ghosts start attacking kidnapping them i get chill bumps every time have to look behind me as it feels like something's there with me i know it's my imagination but hey more than half of the drivel that is horror in today's cinemas dvd's doesn't give me goosebumps so that makes this a creepy delight not for everyone as skeptics will hate it not for gorehounds as with a pg 13 rating there is no gore and the females are very annoying you'll wish the ghosts would take them off experiment on them before it's all said done out of
0	i just watched this movie with a few friends they said i had to see it but from the beginning i knew it was going to go from bad to worse so i can only give this movie a 1 because the effects that were used were so poorly used and thought out that anyone can see that there were no real ghosts i feel the worst part was this so called old haunted house contained a whole bunch of new items and a few placed items i could have thought up effects that would have looked much better than a chair being flipped over by an unseen ghost or should i say wire then later when they review the tape of the chair flipping it flips in a different way uh oh thats a big continuity error if this was a truly good movie then they would have caught that and all of the other old house items this movie is like a rip off of house on haunted hill and the blair witch project all rolled into one poorly thought out and assembled movie i would be ashamed to put out something with that bad of acting effects and cheap video shots of the girls chests and how convenient the camera falls when something paranormal happens this movie is an insult to people who are out there actually looking for ghosts and getting real ghost footage on tape
0	this film is a good companion to blair witch because it does so much wrong that bw did right like bw this one pretends to be a documentary of ghostly events with each member of the team manning his her own camera br br the sense of reality is never there however the participants are poorly written clichéd characters and the events that take place are equally clichéd the cat jumping out of a closet falling chandelier etc also the stilted dialog and inept improv work by the overly attractive cast detracts from the docu feel and worst of all the supposedly participant held cameras record too many events too perfectly to be even remotely believable actually with some re editing this thing could have been a blair witch parody in fact there is a scene in which the blond historian is eating a sandwich with a huge roach on it that is actually pretty funny as is reminding me of a similar gross out scene from austin powers the spy who shagged me but in the end the event is played straight with no punchline it's hard to tell what the intent was with the st experiment other than to glom a few stray bw bucks but it's pretty sad when the only real interest i could find in it was whether the blond historian was going to have her t shirt tied up off her belly in a particular shot or not
0	there is a lot of repetitive dialogue in this movie about cold spots signaling the presence of a ghost and characters praying to surround themselves with white light to protect themselves to recreate the feeling of the movie i shall repeatedly make references to cold spots throughout this review seen worse movies than the st experiment but this may be the most forgettable one of all it's getting cold basically some 20 somethings spend the night at a haunted house this is filmed as a supposedly true documentary it's obviously not real but the house does contain some cold spots spoilers as if you won't be able to predict most of the plot not much happens in this film we have the time honored horror cliche of a cat jumping out of hiding near the beginning as a practice scare to warm up the audience the people wander around with flashlights occasionally taking a moment to remind the house that they come in peace that they mean no harm to the spirits or cold spots within now and then a door will swing shut and startle somebody of course the board makes an appearance they chat with a ghost named charles a girl eats a sandwich with a cockroach in it more cold spots another door swings shut and some guy goes off about the sound of the door he says oh my god somebody says surround yourself with white light i admit there is a good scene in the attic where a chair is knocked over by a ghost that really caught me off guard but aside from some funny bad dialogue the chair scene the actual split second when it is knocked over nothing immediately before or after that moment is the only good thing in this movie however there are still some cold spots in here eventually the movie ends nobody dies no more details necessary i wasn't a big fan of blair witch project but it looks like a masterpiece next to the st experiment you may find yourself not debating whether or not this is a real documentary but whether or not it was intended to be funny i still don't know but whatever it was intended to be it failed
0	obviously someone was looking at catching onto the blair witch wave br br this movie was set up like all the reality haunted shows that are popping up on tv lately and i must admit i get a kick out of these but this movie is much cheesier probably the first three quarters of the movie is filled with the participants going through the house whining give me a break spending 10 minutes whining about going up into the attic is not my idea of a good time any paranormal happenings are blatant setups no strings but too perfectly caught on camera to be real the participants were not very likeable either two goofy guys who don't take it seriously one girl who scares at the drop of a hat and the quintessential over played paranormal person is this becoming the clichéd formula for a ghost movie br br i have to admit the last 15 minutes or so were pure tension they took every ounce of tension in the movie and stuck it in those 15 minutes i admit i spent that time pacing in the kitchen i really wouldn't recommend this movie to younger viewers even if it is pg13 br br if you're looking for some entertainment if you don't take it seriously you will get a kick out of this movie there's tons of situations to make cracks about if you're looking for an great story line look elsewhere
0	imagine if you will four teen students have an assignment to spend the night in a haunted house in st louisiana to check for the existence of the paranormal if you watch this in the dark and late at night you possibly will have the hair on the back of your neck rise a couple of times otherwise this mock documentary is a very lazy rip off of blair witch project what is to be dialogue is very lame and the actors are pleasant looking enough but seem to lack genuine personality it seems to take forever before something real spooky even happens this movie is excellent for when you have both eyes barely open and everyone is and
0	ted made a lot of great horror and fantasy films i am looking for all his films to see i could not find this one for 3 year until i unexpectedly found it in youtube to tell the truth i wanted to see more ghosts and less talks here it looks like in 1999 2001 ted had a crisis maybe in money his features of this time look more like real low budget thrash z garbage movies but i do not claim him to be a bad director this time everything happens the ending has some nice creepy details and suspense but the whole film was long dull dialogues br br only for real ted's fans br br www myspace com
0	this movie was really bad first they didn't even follow the facts for it half of the movie was made up and it was more about the deputy whose mother was one of ed victims the acting was horrible except for the guy playing ed gein but its not hard to mess up playing a weird guy though i think it was horrible i gave it a three because they started it off with actual crime photos that was the best part of the movie as soon as the introduction of the movie was finished the movie went downhill the writer of this movie tried to spice it up but it didn't need to be the story of ed gein is interesting enough without falsifying information
0	this flick is a waste of time i expect from an action movie to have more than 2 explosions and some shooting van damme's acting is awful he never was much of an actor but here it is worse he was definitely better in his earlier movies his screenplay part for the whole movie was probably not more than one page of stupid nonsense one liners the whole dialog in the film is a disaster same as the plot the title the shepherd makes no sense why didn't they just call it border patrol the fighting scenes could have been better but either they weren't able to afford it or the fighting choreographer was suffering from lack of ideas this is a cheap low type of action cinema
0	i rented this one by accident i lifted the video up and looked at the back and thought shameless blair witch rip off then in a moment of carelessness i grabbed 'the thinking it was something else my horror upon arriving home and realizing my mistake was far more terrifying than anything this film had to offer boring characters bad acting and a feeling of 'we saw the blair witch project and could do the same' permeate the action to the point where watching on fast forward will lead you straight to the credits i'm not one to fault film makers for being lazy or desperate but after this yawn fest i felt the need to warn everyone don't waste your time you have a life
0	the st experiment claims this ain't no walk in the woods a direct slap in the face of blair witch where blair witch proved to be a film that overworked the viewer's imagination through simple suggestion the st the viewer's patience one must say however that this is destined to be a camp classic br br warning spoiler is forthcoming br br i viewed this movie in a local theater in which the movie's paranormal consultant troy taylor spoke about the making of the movie should anyone want to see this movie without knowing the forthcoming information stop reading here for those of you who can't resist read on my friends and all shall be told br br mr taylor a writer of rather ghost stories which he claims are all true informed the audience at this video screening that the st experiment was not a documentary shock amazing as if we didn't know he informed us that all of the frightening discoveries the participants made were all staged and by the film's producers matter of fact he informed us that the last 15 minutes were not even filmed in louisiana but rather in california all four participants were true actors notice i didn't say good one of the participants is actually a special effects technician on er br br what infuriates me about this film is that it proclaims everything is true it feebly attempts to outdo the blair witch project by claiming it's true whereas blair witch was a hoax the amazing thing is that no one could have belief this film for an instant filled with dreadful acting and hilarious lines such as surround yourself with the white light and i love the ghosts the st experiment belongs at midnight movies everywhere so the crowd can properly heckle boo and chant i love the ghosts br br talk about false advertising true stories are not filmed with staged special effects that look as if the neighborhood boy scouts troop set up a haunted house from the bug in the sandwich ooh scary to the annoying madison from the which is nothing more than the foursome playing on an board to the two mice being found under a bed the st is one embarrassing hoax of a movie lion's gate would be wise to dump this thing into the nearest trash compactor or advertise it as it really should be br br the st experiment a comedic look at how not to make a movie
0	okay they tell you it's real they don't list any screenwriters or directors but one viewing of this movie will prove to anyone it's not real in the way you were hoping for the speaking rarely sounds like real natural talk but also down not sound to be scripted possibly loosely scripted to me it sounded much more like they were always trying to ad lib which they almost always did poorly therefore they knew they were making a 'movie' not just collecting real natural footage so i'm sure these people knew what was going on knew they had certain spots to look for things that were set up and they were just told to ad lib around it all br br 'major br br okay it's so lame every item spot or thing that could be strange or use d as a scare is magically stumbled upon by these people let me list off the ridiculously obviously faked things that happened that i remember br br 1 less than 2 minutes of entering the house they turn a light switch on the light sparks and a chandelier almost falls on a guy br br 2 they happen to find an old medical bag with a bloody butcher knife in it while exploring the cellar br br 3 they hear a noise in an so they open the door slowly bam a cat happens to be in there and jumps straight at the camera while shrieking br br 4 then they happen to notice there is a hole in the wall so let's stick our hand in wow they pulled out a doll of a baby wrapped in mummy tape br br 5 let's go to the attic uh oh it feels 'heavy' up here boom a chair flies across the room br br 6 time to eat oh no the girl that was scared of bugs had a roach in her sandwich lol ridiculous br br 7 let's get out the board oops one of the legs on the fell off the side of the board that couldn't be because the people were pushing it could it they find out a ghost there is named charles br br 8 wait what was that noise in the chimney clink oh my shackles fell out i think she kept people up here br br 9 now wimpy girl is going to brave looking up the chimney shaft oh what's this she sees something and is asking people who aren't looking up the chimney what it is swish it falls off straight at her perfect camera shot she moves just in time it was more chain br br 10 now we have to separate and each our designated rooms wouldn't it be something if things started happening one by one to these people now okay br br chick 1 wow suddenly her room is shaking but no one elses does br br dude 1 actually says to himself charles is that you charles it can't be you because you're just a figment of my imagination aren't you charles well guess what he gets knocked over and dragged across the floor another lucky camera shot br br chick 2 hears things try to communicate and is standing there getting or something br br dude 2 he was in the attic reached his arm through a hole in the floor and got a splinter i don't remember what else br br 11 dude 2 runs gets chick 2 they hear chick and dude 1 screaming they find them chained to a wall and strapped to a table they leave cut to black final text tell us they escaped safely were treated for minor cuts they have since had nightmares and insomnia we also find out the next day a 911 call was made by they name a someone named charles br br 'major over br br okay when i first heard this movie was being made i couldn't wait i thought it was going to be real real real and more professional with more professional type people i love the idea of this type of thing i'd love to see real haunting footage before this movie was released i saw couple reviews of it by people online they both claimed how fake it was and how stupid the people were time passed i forgot about the film then i realized it was never released at theaters so i found out it went straight to video rented it found that every brutal review was completely true it's too bad i really wanted this to be good br br random thought the house didn't seem to have tvs radios kitchen appliances that i recall which would make me think no one has lived there for a long time especially the house is truly known for being haunted im pretty sure no one lives there but it looks so clean and tidy and what was a cat doing there the property does not have near by neighbors br br all in all you'll only want to rent this if you and your friends wanna sit there and make fun of it or if you heard about it a long time ago and it intrigued you you will will be disappointed if you are expecting a good film or real film br br random thought i believe the producer says the you see is real well technically it is real footage isn't it real footage of fake hauntings maybe that was his loop hole br br i give this this movie one star strictly on the fact that they told the story of madame a real new orleans story br br the best performance was by the guy who teaches the participants about the ghost hunting equipment in the beginning he was obviously actually real or a good actor br br
0	i was surprised that the makers of this movie actually came out said that this movie was a true story the majority of the scenes looked fake to me for instance when the one girl was eating her sandwich and there was a roach in it while she was eating the sandwich the camera on the opposite side of it showed that there was a roach on it it's funny how the camera just happened to be filming on the sandwich when the girl was eating it another scene is when the gang went to open a clothes closet and a cat flew out of the closet or should i say it was thrown out to give it effect this movie was not realistic at all it's highly doubtful that the events that happened were true that evening when the st experiment took place i believe that the house may be haunted but not on the night this movie was filmed the ending was amusing when tim and and other girl were chained down in the some sort of basement paul and madison found them and rescued them i would rather watch the blair witch project again then have to sit through the st experiment movie again as i said if the makers of the movie did not state that this was a true story with true events i may have like it more your better off getting more entertainment from the blair witch project even though this is not a true story either
0	the characters are annoying immature and flaky madison being the most annoying of all ooh a cold spot such a dire threat any ghost in that house would have fled in self defense to make a long story short this movie is boring seeing a chair flying across a room may be creepy but that's about as intriguing as it gets i watched it once and when one of my kids wanted to watch it again i was tempted to take a baseball bat to the tv set rather than watch this rubbish again if you want a good horror movie or even a passable comedy this isn't it the only good part of the whole thing was the roach scene and by the end of the movie you ended up feeling sorry for the roach
0	no one can say i wasn't warned as i have read the reviews both user external but like most of us attracted to horror movies curiosity got this cat come on we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room but you know that's horror aficionados are always dying to know what's in there even if we know it'll be bad br br the bottom line is that this movie left me angry not because it pretends to be real who cares gimmicks are allowed or because the actors and dialogue are so lame is this an unusual event in horror movies or even because the movie is so bad and i am being polite here what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that br br i don't believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them but they didn't even try the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror or any movie
0	i think that a lot of friends of people who acted in this thing must've come on and rated it because i'm telling you its just awful the acting is worse than bad the effects are like something you'd see out of a 1970 episode of doctor who the story is well there is no story and they keep using the same 2 minute song over and over and over again and the werewolf its like the muppets they used in wing commander the giant cats remember how bad they looked the werewolf is that bad seriously the guy who directed this thing is terrible and should never get to direct anything else again except maybe his son's school play but even then he should have to pay the audience to see it is nothing but a bad joke
0	i just saw this movie and all i can say is where are the drive in's these days this seems like it would have been a great 2nd feature at a drive in in 1977 maybe playing with one of those joan collins movies but it's only worth watching now if you're feeling nostalgic for the 70's silly plot that is full of holes but it does remind one of the era it was made in interesting to see melanie griffith so young and anne lockhart is quite attractive though not much of an actress in fact there is not much acting going on in this movie at all it's sort of a dukes of hazzard adventure without a twang or a 1969 dodge charger jumping over stuff in the woods but there is a comet jumping over a garbage dump in this one
0	the video box for says starring second generation superstars and one can't help but feel sad granted melanie griffith has gone on to bigger and better things but who cares about the rest of the cast so with that being the pathetic attention grabber on the box i was foolish enough to purchase the film for a dollar thinking i would be in the land of 'so bad they're good 70's films' eh not so much while so many aimless 70's youth films or plain ol' 70's films for that matter tried so hard to say something deep and meaningful doesn't even try it's just aimless it is devoid of any interest whatsoever each character is so poorly conceived that it's no wonder these actors look so listless br br in a nutshell the movie is about three 20 somethings who go to alaska to start a business but instead get robbed and then have to find work they get beat up eat dog food steal cars rob banks it's all very typical but on top of that it's executed in the most mundane way possible there are no surprises and the flow is so bad and the actions of the characters so ambiguous that you can miss several scenes and not mind at all br br but if you're a fan of melanie griffith's breasts then this is a must see that's still not enough to get this above the lowest rating i can give br br best line jesus everything is biology with you out of
0	a pre nerd robert carradine a pre desi arnaz jr and an almost pre pubescent melanie griffith take to the road and head for alaska with romantic dreams of becoming wealthy salmon well their dream is about as exciting as this lackluster youth road movie they aren't particularly interesting and the film doesn't exactly have much of a point beyond we got together the spawn of some famous people and made a low budget film about their misadventures ' out of the cannon of 60's and 70's road films and rebel youth films this one is mediocre under developed uninvolving characters not much wit not much freshness to the story which is as bland as the films muddy landscape br br but for those who care they head to alaska and apparently alaska was like the wild west in the 70's because everyone carries a gun and is rough and tumble robert carradine says charming things like i hope we can find a shower my nuts sure itch ' and he's the one with melanie griffith they are quickly robbed and forced to take jobs and the local bigwig their employer puts the moves on melanie and eventually fires desi for not being corrupt that's when they aren't smart and do not leave town opting instead to eat dog food or go hungry get beat up by the guys goons and then take a joyride in the bigwigs car the final half of the film abandons the evil bigwig as the trio commit a robbery go on the run and hatch a kidnapping scheme and so forth the film just sort of ends annoyingly and ambiguously but seeing as how they didn't bother to have much character development and story in the first place its rather appropriate worth a look if you are really into low budget 70's fare but ultimately pretty forgettable
0	what a waste of time to watch this movie poor picture quality poor sound poor acting and definitely not based on actual facts the deputy's girlfriend did so much overacting as did the sheriff that it was more comedy than horror the deputy tries to make an emergency phone call by dialing 911 problem in 1957 that emergency number was not in existence that is just one example of glaring inconsistencies br br the scary aspect was way underdone just did not come across as horrific br br i did think that the actor playing gein did the most admirable acting job in the whole movie i could well see mental disturbances in his character portrayal br br sorry this one just does not get it
0	ken burns' baseball is a decent documentary it presents a clear origin of the game a great depiction of baseball's early years and heroes there's plenty in this movie for any baseball fan that said the film has several glaring flaws br br 18 hours is simply too long for the human attention span it's clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his nine inning concept it's not even a tight 18 hours the pace on every segment is slow almost morose the music always nostalgic and wistful isn't baseball ever exciting and fun why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak yakking about baseball as a metaphor baseball as americana the psychology and theology of baseball enough this is syrupy mawkish drivel billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he's sold us before ken burns uses the national anthem as the series' theme song and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many times you might vomit we get it dude br br clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today for shame he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times burns falls head over heels in love with buck o'neil a former negro league player and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o'neil waxes poetic about his playing days nonsense br br burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down baseball winds up as mushy gushy civil rights propaganda disguised as americana its clear that burns is not a baseball fan otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering not weeping and reciting soliloquies are you listening mr burns there's no crying in baseball
0	well that's what this should have been called anyway mainly due the the ridiculous ham fisted use of what can barely be called symbolism by the director it would not have surprised me to find out that this was a one of lea earliest efforts and b at least semi autobiographical turns out a is wrong although i don t know about b i will bet she attended boarding school though and had a rather terrible same sex relationship of some kind this is the message that was beat down our throats by this film and the short film which preceded it the name of which i no longer recall br br at any rate the character development was clumsy who introduces herself by saying what her name means nobody the symbols were about as subtle as an all glass elevator full of teen age girls losing a cable and plummeting eighty stories all over a loudspeaker honestly the cry of a falcon when perabo declared she was a raptor and leapt off the table that was ridiculous to the point of parody and it was only one of far too many symbols meant to show even the dumbest of viewers what her point was and that was that she had a crappy childhood and feels the need to make movies about it ala vincent gallo instead of seeing a therapist ala all of us who get on with our lives there was nothing tender nothing sweet and nothing moving about this film it was poorly enacted trash and the actors could not save the brett over the top hey this is my point in this movie use of film techniques writing and acting sorry but it was terrible
0	if you think it's beautiful to be obsessive about who you are in love with then i can imagine giving it a good rating but i cannot imagine that this theme of obsessiveness and having little respect for others such as the way paulie treats the teachers who try to help her is anything you would want to teach your children yes it's also bad the way victoria treated paulie but guess what that's life isn't it a more important lesson to learn how to get past these disappointments and make the best of your life or is falling off the roof a better lesson to teach our children secondly when mary's father didn't show up for the dinner and paulie helped mary release her anger that mary even said she wished he were dead somehow i don't think this is a good message either that you deal with your disappointments through anger
0	the worst part about this film is that it did not have to be so terrible br br they had a nice budget though so do many films they made it look slick and pretty and best of all they had the 21st century lesbian savvy audiences who would embrace a lesbian positive film and yet the writer and director went out of their way to lift every single redone film bit about lesbian torment and confusion at boarding schools you know the place all lesbian love lives and dies br br this is a theme that has been done again and again and again in film but something that viewers if one uses this voting forum as a clue cannot seem to get enough of br br every element of this story was so over the top excessively phony and contrived that it was painful to sit through the lead characters say it all the crazy abandoned genius rebel lesbian tough girl well they took a super pretty femme like piper perabo and tried to rough her up but it didn't stick much seduces pretty rich girl who is destined to betray her br br watching them every step of the way is character 3 a dopey well meaning wide eyed good girl observer i say 'every step' because she shares her every thought with the audience via the stiffest most inane monologues br br her lines seem to have been written by a fifteen year old though they are trying oh so so hard to sound like how a fifteen year old would really um you know well talk hearing them make love with their noises was um you know like well okay she says about her 2 wanton roommates who roll around in the bed next to her br br later she asks graham greene the accomplished native american actor who is completely wasted in a roll as a gardener is it wrong to care what people think br br sorry but is she a teenager or is she age 7 br br granted piper perabo as polly the tortured dyke others do an okay job for the horrible lines they are forced to utter perabo has a nice energy level and is obviously very comfortable in front of a camera she would do well in a decent project so this is in no way a criticism of the acting br br but this story is shameless in perpetuating every single stereotype about lesbians all rolled into one character they couldn't stop with her polly being an angry crazy passionate secret genius who finished math problems for the speechless teacher oh but that's after she argues with the teacher who dares accuse her of gabbing br br that's a word they males use against us women she says stomping out of the classroom br br is this all the writer could come up with or maybe we should ask why stop there br br poole and co went on and made polly a poetic dark child who communicates with wild hawks by screaming their name in the woods br br cue the slow motion sci fi xena atmosphere br br then we have her writing to her birth mother most lesbians are love starved orphans in case you were in the dark br br then we have two teachers one uptight one a zany type with loose neck ties who hover around all of the action the school looks awfully big for just 2 teachers and give dark child seductress bird girl tense looks hmmmm i wonder if something well you know um funny is happening between these two teachers br br there is simply no excuse for something this poorly done heartbreak happens but surely the writer and director know that lesbians exist in much more sophisticated times than this schlock br br i cannot reveal the ending out of respect to those who force themselves to sit through til the end but if you are not laughing i can only guess you are crying and not for the right reason and i don't mean the wimpy make out scenes
0	if you find the hopelessly amateurish acting the uninteresting story the fake blood and all the mindless shooting bearable then you may actually have a fairly good time watching this trashy low rent exploitation film you might also want to check out a pretty good sequence that's offered although it's not good enough to make the rest of the movie worth sitting through
0	pam grier is the super soul sister of the 1970's appearing in many blaxploitation films that have recently been discovered and appreciated by a new generation i can safely say that black mama white mama may be the worst pam grier movie i've ever seen br br grier is lee and margaret markov is karen they are two female prisoners who escaped from prison after karen's revolutionary friends attacked the paddy wagon chained to each other the film becomes the defiant ones for women but has three separate plots a fat criminal filipino sleaze star vic diaz wants lee dead a cowboy bounty hunter the excellent sid haig searches for the two girls and karen's revolutionary friends search for her the film eventually becomes so convoluted and uninvolved with the two women that the title should have been men chasing women grier an action star is not given any chance to participate in any of the many overlong action scenes markov is excellent as karen and grier is ok as lee but both are eventually forgotten in the many subplots one interesting scene has the bounty hunter forcing a police officer and his chief to drop their pants so he can shoot the one with the smallest penis judged by his whore but is easily forgotten amidst all the mayhem br br black mama white mama starts out great as a women in prison film complete with lesbian wardens and a shower scene then completely switches to a chase film if director eddie romero famous for directing filipino horror films had just stuck with the wip theme he would have been fine instead gets real old real fast and the surprise ending just makes the audience wonder why they sat through a 90 minute film for it to end like this another problem where is the film supposed to be set while some of the accents are hispanic and cities have spanish names los etc all the natives are obviously asian hmmm recommended only for die hard grier fans who even then will be disappointed
0	the title pretty much lets you know what you're getting it's a grade c howler but not as blatantly funny as i was hoping directed by exploitation film specialist eddie romero from a story that originally came from jonathan demme long before directing silence of the lambs and philadelphia this low budget 1972 action movie was obviously filmed in the philippines but set in some anonymous third world country playing hooker and small time drug dealer lee daniels blaxploitation superstar pam grier plays the first half of the title role while long forgotten margaret markov is the other half karen brent an unlikely patty hearst like political revolutionary looking to partner with her comrades to overthrow the oppressive local government naturally antagonistic toward each other they are in a women's prison camp where they wear inexplicably bright yellow mini skirts as uniforms run by a closeted warden and lecherous matron the prison is just an excuse for a lengthy shower scene and some half hearted cat fighting as lee and karen are pitted against each other of course they escape but shackled together a la the defiant ones and continue the cat fighting until they attack a couple of nuns to steal their habits br br meanwhile various groups of unsavory men are in pursuit the loutish drug lord looking for lee who stole from him the rather passive revolutionaries looking for karen and the incompetent police who suffer the humiliation of exposing their privates to the drug lord needless to say everything eventually comes to a head but not before gratuitous nudity by a number of filipino women a dog wears karen's panties and some of the worst of 1970's men's fashion one beer bellied revolutionary wears a leather halter top with a straight face there is a rather sad ending but what's truly sad is how much of the potential black comedy is missed entirely in this hilariously preposterous exercise sadly grier is disappointing in this outing because her character is not allowed much to do beyond dealing with all the jive while markov is an amazonian blonde whom i am convinced is trying desperately to be credible since no one displays any talent for acting the rest of the cast is not worth noting except balding bug eyed sid haig who uses his standard psycho persona as the drug lord the 2003 dvd contains only the original trailer as an extra
0	this is one heck of a sleazy film like so many women in chains films this one is chock full of lesbianism however unlike most prior films which strongly implied this black mama white mama shows an awful lot of skin as a horny female prison guard leers at the women as they shower as well as has sex with one of the inmates for the early 1970s this is definitely a soft core pornographic film sort of like girls gone wild goes to prison it's also a bad rip off of the defiant ones though in this case it's two hot females who hate each other who are chained together when they escape whereas the original film is considered a classic this one can only be considered a classic example of bad taste that's because there is no subtlety and the movie is just cheap cheap thrills cheap writing and very cheap acting br br pam grier is the black inmate with an attitude a lady who was set up and sent to prison on this hellish island margaret markov is a revolutionary when they escape they both can't stand each other and have opposite goals however since it is cliché driven there's really no surprise in how the film ends with their both becoming gag me friends
0	the plot for black mama white mama revolves around two female inmates at a women's prison in the phillipines one black and one white these two women are thrown together in the prison pam grier is lee daniels lee is incarcerated in the hellish women's prison for dancing as a harem girl br br lee's boyfriend owes her part of his profits from his drug dealing activities lee is mainly interested in breaking out of the prison to get hold of her drug money so that she can leave the phillipines and assume a better life margaret markov plays karen brent a white women from a privileged background who is also a revolutionary karen has joined a group of revolutionaries determined to change the corrupt political system she's captured by authorities and held as a political prisoner br br the story line takes off when karen and lee break out of the prison they were in together the two of them also happened to be chained together at the wrist as they flee they also fight with each other because they have different goals to pursue naturally they hate being chained together but they also realize that they must put aside their differences to help each other survive while they evade capture br br if this film seems very similar to the big bird cage it's because much of the cast in the two films is the same as well as their location in the phillipines roger corman has always had a consistent stable of actors that he used in all of his 70s b movies besides pam grier sid haig roberta collins claudia jennings betty anne rees and william smith were also among the many actors that were frequently cast in corman's aip films br br like the big bird cage black mama white mama relies on too much gory violence to be palatable pam grier conveys her usual tough chick persona in this film and shows her competence as a female action heroine margaret markov is less effect in her portrayal of the revolutionary karen she just seems to fragile and well coiffed to be a dedicated political guerrilla except for sid haig as the colorful ruben the rest of the cast is forgettable br br this film has little entertainment value unless excessive heinous acts of violence are your thing only the performances by pam grier and sig haig make this film worth watching
0	and you'd be right black mama white mama also known as 'women in chains ' is exactly the kind of trashy and crappy b movie that the premise suggests pam grier has been thrown into a prison on a small island with a lot of other women and this place seriously makes the summer camp where martha stewart is locked up right now look like a maximum security prison it's not five minutes into the movie that one of the hottie guards utters the line 'em and get 'em wet ' and then we are introduced to a prison life that resembles some college freshman's fantasy of what the inside of a sorority house is like br br the prisoners soap and rub and wrestle with each other in the shower like it's a girls gone wild shoot then they all hang out together in their dorm openly smoking pot and discussing in a big group what would be the best ways to escape i've never been to prison myself but i have a feeling that escape plans are the kind of thing that you want as few people as possible to know about prisoners or guards or otherwise the biggest difference between this prison life and some fantasy sorority life is that the women in this movie all wear orange and no pants go figure that say prison on the back must be those generic prison outfits for prisons that can't afford pricey accessories like their prison name or prisoner numbers for their uniforms br br and as is to be expected a prison that can't afford to put prisoner identification on the backs of the uniforms can obviously not expect to be able to find guards that are interested in guarding the prisoners as much as they are in having sex with the prisoners and each other br br the conflict of the movie's title refers to the fact that lee daniels pam grier spends much of the time handcuffed to a blonde prisoner named karen as they are on the run from the cops after escaping from the prison i won't go into details about how they escape except to say that you might have seen something like it in the fugitive had they been unable to afford to stage a train wreck and it leads into the muddled story of the conflicting interests also chasing these two women for different reasons karen and lee both have their own gangs of people each hoping to rescue their respective escaped prisoner and the cops are after both of them all the while br br spoilers so karen is involved with a bunch of hippies that want to revolutionize life as they know it meanwhile karen just wants to get off the island something she's been trying to do for years and isn't it just perfect that they each need to go to completely opposite sides of the island in order to fulfill their goals so we get this odd couple pairing and since they are an odd couple it's not hard to predict that they will hate each other for the vast majority of the film but grow fond of each other by the end br br in a movie with so many conflicting interests especially when those conflicting interests not only propel the two main characters in opposite directions as they pursue their goals it is not unreasonable to expect that there will be a climactic moment involving the rival gangs at some point in the movie not about to leave anyone unsatisfied they throw in a stupid gang standoff at the end of the movie where everyone shoots machine guns at each other killing each other en masse while the two women paddle safely and calmly across the river in a little boat nice br br even better at the end of the movie after a huge massacre in which lots of people get shot and spurt bright red paint all over the place the captain of the police looks over the masses of dead criminals covered in awful awful special effects and we learn that he will be a major before dinner not a bad way to end the movie the criminals all kill each other off and the cops get all the credit but here is the last line in the film – 'it's better to win isn't it ' br br is that why the captain is going to get promoted to major because he figured that out
0	this was without a doubt the worse horror movie i have ever seen forget the fact that the story had little to do with the facts of ed gein ed story is horrific this movie ignored the facts and strayed way off course acting on all levels was pathetic story again for some unknown reason didn't go into the horrific facts could have been so scary if it would have stuck to the facts what were they thinking terrible movie steve railsback version was much much better don't waste a penny on this terribly made flick and why ignore the reality of the horrific events that alone would make for a great story man makes you wonder why this would ever be approved for release why spend so much money on a movie that will never make a penny except for my wasted 5
0	some of the films produced by roger corman's new world film company in the 1970s represent the best kind of b movie where the limitations of the genre actually act as a kind of freeing influence on the writers and directors – such classic drive in films as 2000 hollywood boulevard grand theft auto and caged heat emerged from this environment unfortunately his former confederates at american international pictures were running out of steam in the 1970s particularly in the absence of jim nicholson and they often produced second rate imitations of corman's films sometimes featuring his self made stars black mama white mama is one of those films it's basically a cheaper imitation of the big doll house with some of the same stars doing a lot of the same things yes this is a john ashley co production yes the same john ashley who was the hilarious elvis wanna be in how to make a monster and paired up with debbie in beach blanket bingo with all the signature marks of his productions – women's prisons where everyone except maybe 2 or 3 lead characters including the inmates and the guards are filipino actors in mostly non speaking roles where we see supermodel type women taking on the roles of revolutionary militants and where the primary joy of the film is derived through rudimentary s m exploitation br br the print i saw most recently was horribly light damaged good ole will described it as yellow mama yellow mama but i think even in the best conditions the photography and directing are extremely routine there's also very little visual value here… corman must not have had very much to do with the film itself because he was always canny enough to at least give his films some extra production value by filming in free public spaces that would make the film look more impressive this film doesn't look impressive it doesn't have an impressive soundtrack and you just feel embarrassed for anyone who shows a shred of talent the only remotely interesting performances come from pam grier as a feisty whore out to escape the life filipino actor fernando as her grotesquely self indulgent pimp and sid haig as a cowboy styled mercenary the story places grier and co star margaret markov in a low budget female version of the defiant ones but does very little with the melodramatic possibilities afforded by that premise it's basically just an excuse to ensure that the two protagonists can still stop for a good mud wrestling match while they're trying to escape the prison together this is all in the spirit of good fun but the film ultimately fails even as exploitation because there's a certain edge and rawness that should be present in such scenes that is instead replaced under this director's hand with a kind of yawning predictability br br so the film will have little value for fans of hard core exploitation value – at least in the version i saw it's no more explicit than faster pussycat kill kill from over a decade earlier and far less interesting visually and thematically for those who just enjoy getting a laugh out of so bad it's good films this one might provide some fun but it's not in the upper tier people would be more advised to seek out caged heat or some of the others that revel in their own brutality to the point that it becomes camp this one is more similar to less ambitious efforts like santiago's the sadly the best thing about this particular film is the title and the presence of pam grier who was better in other films around the same time particularly jack hill's coffy this film perhaps illustrates a midway point in miss grier's journey from corman secretary to b movie queen for a day but other than its historical significance as such it will have little value even to grier's big fans because she is given very little to work with here br br worth skipping unless of course you get to see it in a movie theater with a lot of friends and a lot of beer like i did and even then its value is questionable
0	imagine an exploitive remake of the defiant ones with a black chick and a white chick attached to each other set the story on some caribbean island where the drug dealers rule and the revolution has arrived and have the black woman be from huggy bear's stable of ladies and the white woman be a watered down patty hearst and you've got black mama white mama br br in those waning days of the drive in theater this item must have been a big old hit all the hot buttons of the seventies are pushed in this one even though they both fill out their clothes better and will get a few whistles from the males in the audience no one is ever going to mistake pam grier and margaret markov for sidney poitier and tony curtis all right halle berry and jamie lee curtis br br margaret and pam are prisoners where the guards and the warden look lasciviously at the new fish arriving margaret is a rich girl from the state who took up 'the whilst pam's your basic high priced call girl who's been the local drug kingpin and grew tired of it and tried to leave the island br br margaret's fellow revolutionaries ambush the bus transporting them from the women's prison to town but they get lost in the escape both have their different agendas but like sid and tony they can't quite agree on whose agenda comes first makes for some interesting times as the police the drug dealers and the revolutionaries are all looking for these two chain buddies br br just so you don't get any wrong ideas the head of the revolutionaries and markov's kanoodling partner is named ernesto played by filipino actor the whole mess was shot in the phillipines who were getting their own film industry started br br nice location photography in the phillipines is all that black mama white has to recommend it but if you're a fan of really bad black exploitation flicks this is one for you
0	let's just say that it might be the worst movie i've ever seen on the front of the box of the movie it says something about it resembling reservoir dogs i fell for it hook line and sinker this is just a warning message to anyone who might read this it's not even worth renting when you want something to laugh at
0	this has got to be one of absolute worst movies i've ever seen in my life the writing and acting are just pathetic it ranks right up there with uncle sam on the all time worst movies ever made however when i see crap like this able to make it to video it really inspires me to pursue my wild dreams of making films because i know i could do a better job than what the makers of killers did
0	this film is an embarrassment nothing works on any level the direction screenplay acting and editing work together to repel your eyes from the screen everything is inappropriate and incoherent at first you can sit there with and groan wince and laugh at it but very shortly the whole effort of watching just becomes too ponderous
0	but you can see it from here br br i definitely don't understand why anyone would recommend this movie not a bit of plot not suspenseful not well made no point to having made it really br br completely forgettable in ever way
0	much of the commentary on this board revolves around debating the validity of some comparison to r dogs made on the dvd cover forget about all of that this film er home movie is utterly horrendous how can anyone with a shred of credibility claim this as being 10 10 there is no plot none i couldn't believe that i spent money to rent this more on that later and that i had fooled myself into believing that this based on box cover art and some sort of film fest award blurb had potential the only thing i do really remember was that unbelievably one of the annoying main characters was supposedly offed with a bullet to the head and he ends up surviving the wound and making it to the final credits alive wow and killers has a sequel double wow br br true story i actually was in so much denial that i had wasted my money and life force on this rental that i kept the videotape for what must've been six months i kept telling myself that it never actually happened the video on top of the tv was an illusion a mental symbol of my self loathing after someone pointed out that is was indeed real and that i needed to get a grip i decided that i couldn't just leave it there i thought how many others have i denied the suffering of sitting through the viewing of this masterpiece by hoarding killers all to myself i had to do the right thing and return it back to the hell from which it came br br so as i imagine most of the populous of imdb would do in a similar situation i mustered up some major courage and drove to the video store at 2am after making sure that no one was around i got out of my car still running of course slipped the movie into the drop box slot and booked the hell out of there never to return br br i guess i expected that some goons from hollywood video corporate would come looking for me the bill must've racked up to something like 1 67 by that time so i moved away from the area however coincidently much like the killers storyline nothing ever happened
0	i'd liked the takashi miike films i'd seen so far but i found this pretty disappointing i'd bought it but i won't be keeping it br br i saw it on the dvd which has just two episodes in the first a killer abducts women cuts the top of their skull off to expose the brain plants them in the ground up to their chin and plants a flower in the brain you can tell that from the dvd box in the movie the top of the head is digitally blurred out by tv static had you not seen the dvd box the viewer wouldn't know what people were looking at until later a young cop produced a small model of the body oddly there is also a flash frame later on of the woman's head and it is not censored apart from this i'm not really sure what was going on some women get phone calls and a sketchy animated character around when that happens an animated character also appears on tv screens sometimes it's unclear if anybody sees it br br in the second episode pregnant women are being found cut open and their babies are missing again a cop produces a model of what the corpses are like which is helpful since again the actual body is censored there is also a natural birth in the movie but oddly even that baby and the umbilical cord are censored according the the dvd box uncensored versions were not kept when this was originally made perhaps even if they had if they knew they were going to be censored maybe they didn't bother actually showing anything not sure br br if i hear the later episodes are better maybe i'll look for them as it is i won't bother
0	ah i loved the book series and eagerly devoured each one in middle school and when i heard that there was a television adaptation i was very excited br br boy what a let down the final product was i think for me this was the moment when nickelodeon stopped being about cool programming and more generic br br so what was wrong with the series let me count the ways 1 the characters were horrifically miscast in the books the were somewhere between 12 14 the television cast were at least 18 i remember being horrified when i first saw the cast photos br br 2 horrific acting bad writing i dunno which was to blame so i'm lumping into the lumpy mass that it was perhaps it was the fact that the accelerated age of the cast hampered the humor that is at least cute coming out of a 13 year old because marco not funny in fact i don't remember a single comical moment from the group and there were a few the actors were certainly not helped by the writing which was bland at its best and head pathetic at its worst br br 3 my lord they were stingy with the budget the final result of the alone should have convinced to pull the plug their heads had that clearly showed which was the helmet br br 4 back to the cast rachel by far was the biggest let down far from being the warrior woman in the books the best equivalent in the tv series was scarecrow also i know cassie was an idealist but there is a difference between idealist and idiot br br 5 one of the worst opening titles ever did the music have to be that obvious 6 answering question 6 yes because everything else was dumbed down so why shouldn't the expectedly less intelligent viewers receive a thick as a brick song from a lame rap rock rip off or whatever the hell that was br br since then there have been bigger let downs iraq 2004 but in case i haven't made myself clear this show sucked and was an abomination to the book series it was supposed to be based from
0	and in this series i've been reduced to an annoying jock with a gay hairstyle remember my friend marco who got all the good lines in the books well in this series his one liners put mr freeze to shame remember our uber evil nemesis visser three he's a bald guy with inane catchphrases remember rachel xena the warrior princess and cassie my sensitive and caring love interest they've been turned into mindless bimbos by the 10 writers who decided the original characters weren't cool enough for tv remember the awesome extra terrestial ax who was cool intelligent and really really liked cinnamon buns in this series he's the token alien with an extremely annoying voice remember the witty banter our team had in the books in this series our dialogue is so dreary and stupid it's obvious the writers were pandering to the lowest common denominator br br so forget everything you thought you knew about the it was cassie who became allergic to morphing not rachel thought speak is supposed to echo and visser three and ax rarely if ever appeared as no it has nothing to do with the budget br br i'm not crazy and i'm not lying the jerks are all around us and if you're unlucky one of them might adapt one of your favourite books or series or graphic novels into a really awful tv show you've been warned br br finally television worth watching the very bald visser three br br r 91
0	i stopped watching this film half way through it was just terrible boring contrived subplots a complete lack of the pathos seen in norman bates buffalo bill or steve portrayal of ed gein a movie doesn't have to be historically accurate but the true story of ed gein is so much more interesting than this third rate melodrama that was completely made up for no good reason ed gein as portrayed by kane hodder is a cartoon sadist the attempts to show the trauma inflicted on him by his mother are just weak exercises in recycled style and this movie wanted to be stylish but it even screwed that up fortunately there is a better film of this story 2001's ed gein told the story efficiently and offered a few real chills as we watched a sick man not in control of himself steve railsback who played ed gein that time was already famous for memorably portraying another famous serial killer charles manson his ed had pathos his film is the one to see avoid this mess
0	my blue heaven is boring the plot is insipid the characterizations and dialogue stink the musical numbers while occasionally staged in interesting ways are not only too often absurd but also lyrically trite painfully bright and emotionally hollow to the core the leads betty grable and dan dailey are attractive professionals however in spite of their every talented effort to uplift the and uncompelling material they fail david wayne and jane wyatt for all their demonstrated talent in other projects are more or less cyphers here br br there's really only one reason to watch my blue heaven one reason one star mitzi gaynor in her film debut her total screen time is probably less than ten minutes but so what her pert and promising screen personality her feline beauty and her exceptional charisma shine through gloriously and make these minutes the most watchable memorable and exciting moments in the entire film if you would value an opportunity to see a tremendous young talent on the rise then check out miss mitzi gaynor in my blue heaven br br incidentally i scorn and would urge you to avoid drew casper's manic obsessive compulsive dvd commentary for this film wordy digressive unduly fastidious frequently ill timed with what is playing on the screen and galloping throughout with an excess of nervous energy his comments are absolutely indigestible
0	this is a semi fictional memoir of an international man who have witnessed various political upheavals in recent 30 years br br i was hoping that this film would offer unique insight into politics and war i was also hoping that it would be touching and affecting however i was disappointed by this film chico seemed fragmentary with the main character ricardo staying in one country for 10 to 20 minutes as could be expected no detailed storyline could be elaborated in such time frame the excuses of him moving to another place were often perfunctorily explained the result was a disappointing collection of fragmented clips shot in various countries
0	the death of a performer at a broadway stage play brings a theatre critic and a police detective together as an unlikely crime solving duo the dead performer's niece becomes not only the object of affection for our critic but also a prime suspect in this death and some other murders that occur at the theatre 'the phantom killer' sets his sights upon the young woman as his next victim so it is a race against time for our heroes to catch the killer according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br milton screenplay puts a little spark in this low budget mystery whodunit helpfully dave o'brien as anthony tony woolrich does well in the lead role his skills as an actor appear to be much greater than the productions employing him o'brien and cab driving sidekick frank jenks as egbert romeo would have made a fine 1950s tv detective team leading lady kay aldridge as claudia moore and the supporting cast are also good unfortunately the story becomes meandering and anti climactic br br the phantom of 42nd street 5 2 45 albert herman dave o'brien kay aldridge frank jenks
0	films about the mundane are often the most interesting of all films to me in the hands of an insightful artist who examines all the twisted little details of the mundane the french cinema seems to often be very good at this sort of thing and i love the french cinema br br this film was about the mundane it didn't have a much of a plot it was just characters who lived in a town very normal people and stuff just happened but it wasn't very interesting stuff and it wasn't examined very insightfully the film did capture a bit of a mood but it wasn't a particularly captivating mood and while i can't think of much that the film did specifically wrong it failed on just about every level to do anything right br br there were a lot of characters in this film a lot of them kind of looked alike so it was hard to figure out who was who and what were their relations to one another i don't mind putting some effort into understanding a film or even watching an especially complex film more than one time to iron out the details but this one was a puzzle not worth the solving for me br br the only good thing i can really say about this film is that the cinematography was pleasant functional not brilliant but pleasant the camera often captured some nice postcard type shots but it rarely found the really interesting little details br br i've seen a handful of not so good films so far at the seattle international film festival but this was the only one that failed to get any applause when the credits rolled i sensed a big collective sigh of relief when the film was finally over but i suppose there are probably some people out there who would like it br br 4 10
0	screen treatment of the comedic broadway success the gay divorce a title which was considered too scandalous for american moviegoers though it was used in the u k concerns a man and woman fred astaire and ginger rogers meeting under embarrassing circumstances while she's in the process of divorcing her spouse they dance argue make up dance argue some more and dance some more betty grable is very appealing in a brief bit singing and dancing in the number let's k k with overtly edward everett horton but the star couple looks distressed and unhappy throughout the surroundings are screwball sophisticated yet the characters are not more than one dimensional 1 2 from
0	why isn't this movie on the bottom 100 raptor is without a doubt the worst movie i have seen in all of my fifteen years of life i have never before witnessed such a catastrophic mess as this absolutely everything about it is awkward and cheaply done br br nobody in the cast gives a somewhat decent performance the dialogue is utterly incoherent and the humor is anything but humorous corbin bernsen was the most painful part of the whole thing i can't help cringe when i recall some of his lines like in or out you're worse than a cat and your lady friend isn't a very good poker player she's just revealed her hand br br the raptors are a joke even i could make more realistic dinosaur effects than these filmmakers have shamelessly done it is an insult to the actual velociraptors or any dinosaur for that matter not only that but the killing scenes are too gruesome even for me i don't seriously think these animals would rip their victim to shreds and throw pieces all over the ground just to make everything look gorier besides the blood and guts are all useless when you can see the deaths coming from miles and miles away br br i am a big fan of jurassic park movies and of dinosaurs maybe the filmmakers didn't anticipate anybody with a shred of intelligence or sense to disregard bad filmmaking to stumble upon this movie on hbo late at night like i did if i could say one thing to anybody involved in this film i would have to quote dr alan grant from the first jurassic park br br just try to show a little respect
0	a gut ripping baby t rex is on the loose in a small western town prompting sheriff eric roberts and animal control agent melissa who walks through her role in a very disinterest fashion to get to the bottom of things they discover that a mad scientist corbin bernsen is unbeknownst to the government sponsorship continuing on with a long abandoned us research project called operation jurassic storm ha by creating an army of dinosaurs in a secluded underground lab facility before long our heroes become trapped inside the marines are called in the power goes out and the dinos are set free to make a quick lunch of everyone they can get their claws and jaws on br br despite an often infuriatingly inept script full of plot holes character inconsistencies and loose ends this direct to video copy of jurassic park and carnosaur is fairly digestible trash thanks to good production values passable fx the occasional laugh and plenty of brainless action br br someone pointed out that an opening scene in this film was stolen from carnosaur but anyone used to watching roger corman productions knows he allows directors to liberally reuse clips from his early films to save both time and money br br score 3 out of 10
0	i understand that roger corman loves to do things on the cheap but this is just sad i purchased this flick from the dollar bin at my local video store not a month after watching the original carnosaur i was blown away it was the same damn movie with just some corbin spliced in it reminded me of all of those 80s ninja movies that took old kung fu movies and spliced in a bunch of white ninjas running doing cartwheels with the word ninja written on their if you haven't seen them check out ninja terminator the thundering ninja black dragon and ninja warriors thanks roger corman you just made me waste a dollar
0	this movie doesn't even deserve a 1 10 this movie was a scam br br i swear that at least 30 minutes of the film were copied from carnosaur 1 2 3 the whole movie raptor was based of the movie and that was really a pathetic attempt to be a thriller action packed dinosaur copy i loved that movie series and seeing it be put on a movie that cant even afford or willing copy it without doing there own models is what america is coming to i recommend you see the carnosaur movie first all of them and then watch this and you will know what i mean br br spencer
0	ok lets get one thing straight i love dinosaur movies even the bad ones so with this in mind lets proceed raptor is a truly awful film in fact its not even a film in its own right as it is cobbled together from bits of carnosaur carnosaur 2 primal species carnosaur 3 there is some new footage with eric roberts as a sheriff and his busty sidekick running around looking confused frightened or whatever it is there trying to convey badly on the emotional scale but then how can they react to something that was filmed several years earlier the producers yes roger corman i'm talking about you even went to the lengths of hiring 2 people from carnosaur to play bit parts so there grisly death scenes can be reused so this film is the cheapest of the cheap watch the 3 original movies there no oscar winners but they have some and entertainment value but avoid raptor oh it also has the most pointless sex scene that runs for nearly 10 minutes do you think they were trying to pad out the running time
0	may contain spoilers br br i had very high expectations for this film based on the trailer i knew a bit about the real ed gein so i figured this was a medium budget hollywood version of the real events man was i wrong br br first the writing apparently came from an eight grader who barely knew anything about ed's history and cranked out the script in about 20 minutes the movie completely passes over the most interesting facets of ed and his relationship with his mother not to mention what the real police found in his house and decides to focus primarily on the young deputy who looks like he just wandered onto the set likewise all of the male characters seem to be ad libbing their dialog throughout the entire movie i'm not exaggerating br br don't even get me started with the historical goofs in this movie seriously who the hell directed this this movie is supposed to take place around 1957 but the cops are carrying modern side handled some of the stuff in the hardware store look like they came from and when the cop gets to a he 9 1 1 didn't exist back then also ed was a small guy scary like anthony character in psycho who was supposedly based on real life ed not this burly dude who ended up looking way too much like the bad guy in men in black br br another thing that really bugged me was the appearance that the makers of this film shot the whole thing in an abandoned 3 building set because of the clever camera angles you never see any actual town and the interior of the sets looked like old long abandoned shacks pop a cash register on a saw horse and bam instant hardware store br br i'm usually pretty forgiving of low budget horror films but this one just begs for it all you had to do was include most of the real events even embellish them pay five good actors instead of 15 crappy ones and for pete's sake take 5 minutes and think about the time period once in a while my advice google ed gein you'll be far more entertained
0	the storyline of this movie is cliché and obviously has been ripped off from jurassic park the filmmakers didn't even try to hide that it seems as though there was not enough budget to make decent dinosaur dolls so instead the viewer sees some robot like toy dinos from a cheap which move in a very unnatural way it's funny though because it's so bad the acting is almost as unnatural as the dinos are no one seems really excited to be in this movie which i totally understand especially the last half hour is extremely boring and it's almost impossible to watch it without falling asleep the one positive comment note i'd like to make about raptor is that it doesn't take a full 90 minutes
0	so i was sick with the flu one saturday and the silver lining was that scifi channel was having a marathon of dinosaur movies that day the carnosaur trilogy pterodactyl raptor island then i flicked ahead on my cable remote to see which movie scifi placed in its glamorous saturday prime time slot some movie i had never heard of before called raptor i was pretty excited the movie begins with some teens driving around in a jeep when they get stalked and killed by a velociraptor i was like hmmm that's odd that looks almost exactly like a scene in carnosaur except it was in the middle of that movie then i sat through some really bad acting and then some guy was suckered into walking into an underground research laboratory where he got eaten by a ferocious t rex now i'm like wait a second that was also a scene in carnosaur then after i saw some scenes blatantly ripped off from carnosaur 2 i figured out just what the hell was going on so basically roger corman co ripped off scenes from the carnosaur trilogy to use as the action scenes weaved in a basic dinosaur runs amok plot and tried to pass it off as an original movie shameful i don't know who i'm more angry at roger corman or scifi channel for trying to pass this off as worthy of the prime time slot the only reason why this was worth watching to its conclusion was to pick out the actors actresses who looked like their counterparts in the carnosaur trilogy and guess which scenes would be lifted next as much as it pains me being a dinosaur lover i have no choice but to give this the lowest possible rating because i feel completely ripped off
0	we all know that the world is full of dodgy rip off horror films some of these can be fun to watch due to their stupidity awful effects and iffy dialogue but raptor which could have been in the same league as the equally pointless carnosaur series does not even attempt to have any enjoyment in it its so poorly done it is really unbearable even if your just watching it with the intentions of having a no brain day at home where do we start well the sets are pretty drab my old drama group created more realistic stages the genetics labs look like they are from a university and it looks equally unbelievable on the outside even for cover up why would you place yourself near civilisation where people can easily hear the dinosaur roars whilst the doctors ward just doesn't look believable at all next up in the complaints list is the creature effects well what can i say absolutely pitiful also i think it's worth mentioning the woman's tits should be mentioned as an effect both of the main female characters have so obviously had boob jobs and it brings the characters down being one female is a respected member of police whilst the other is the sweet innocent daughter of the towns sheriff the acting though is by far the worst tragedy eric roberts can be excused for at least trying a bit to give his role something thats where it ends corbin benson should have killed his costume designer for making his lacklustre performance look even more pathetic whilst the female lead looks so bored though with this film you could let her off the other character i'll point out is the daughter who lets her tits do all the acting in the raunchy sex scene ten minutes of endless re run shots of her bouncing on top of some bloke br br all in all and summed up as one don't bother just don't
0	i bought a dvd collection 9 movies for 10 euros where this one was included it turned out to be the uncut version whatever that means beside the low average quality and short scenes there was one thing that was really strange the soft sex scene it started with a close up of 2 bigger breasts after around 2 minutes i had an expression on my face which fitted the term quite perfectly 7 5 minutes of not even bouncing concrete like tits at this point the term breasts is a bad choice is far beyond from entertainment br br the rest of the movie was more like people aren't that stupid are they br br lucky me the dvd was scratched and i got my money back
0	the defining scene to this movie is when the fat guy quits but the evil doctor just gives him one more duty check on the dinosaurs keep in mind that he no longer has this job and so is absolutely not getting paid for this also keep in mind it's a goddamn dinosaur and the doctor he's supposed to trust is evil and doesn't like him but he's still like yeah okay that just defined the stupidity in this movie one melissa proves that seriously anyone can bolt on some breasts and be in movies i can go ride a mountain bike between them but hey aside from that the people of paraguay are very nice eric roberts gives his absolute worst performance so far there's no adjective to describe how bored he is throughout corbin bernsen saves what there is to save and you start rooting for him but they have to stick to the formula of course and i wonder how much your life sucks when you play like one of the army guys in this one how low can your acting career go the special effects are so embarrassingly bad you expect a sign saying studio 3 to get into the frame it's not even honest pulp it's all taken from carnosaur which even sucked all by itself and then i wonder why just anyone is allowed to make a movie
0	the biggest and most disconcerting things of the raptor movie was ending for the is identical to carnosaur except kid in the loader was a bit better acted and action then the adult the similarities to the carnosaur movies was rather poor choice in plot line the only thing that approached good was the beginning with the kids in the jeep then the plot went down hill from there would have been nice if a different plot had been devised rather then cloning the earlier movies the raptor movie should have taken lesson from park series in various plots the only movie that has come close to a good dinosaur movie most recently is aztec rex the repeated scenes as if taken from the carnosaur movies leaves a person thinking of those movies
0	first of all i would like to clarify that i consider this one of the funniest films i have ever seen i have watched it almost 10 times just because i've wished to spread the deliciously tasteless innards of this film to other unsuspecting victims it has the captivating essence of a hand held camera recording of a distant nephew's seventh birthday it has all the writing of a wwe match and most of all it has the consistency of a face scraped along a sidewalk this movie is a masterpiece br br the film begins with an almost instantaneous mutilation of three drunken teens in the desert this scene convinced me that i was onto something big when i picked this film from the dvd rack being drawn to the box because of the graphic of a velociraptor yelling the word raptor on the front of it the scene contains such treasures as tomato sauce spaghetti intestines vain attempts at humour and rubbery dinosaur puppets that repeat throughout the course of the movie this movie is a masterpiece br br the film contains erratic backdrops and prop use that causes one's mind to melt at the thought that someone could just have so little shame when it comes to creating a film an example is when a truck in the middle of the night is parked beside a cliff wall the very next day they find it in an open area the driver couldn't have driven it there since he had his face bitten off by an unnamed i will explain why it's unnamed in a second so my only guess is that either the velociraptor drove it the livestock the driver was transporting did it or jim wynorski doesn't think very highly of his viewers hell in one part they expect me to believe that they are walking down a main street at night when the road doesn't have gutters the fire is precariously placed next to a phone booth and there's only a single street light yet still i feel compelled to watch and re watch this film just so i can find more things that will make me giggle the next time i watch it this film is a masterpiece br br the directing on this film is horrific long extended pauses strange cuts to characters that weren't even in the general vicinity of the conversation people discussing things casually while facing the camera and in turn making them face the wall they can't even give the dinosaur a coherent species flipping between calling it a baby dinosaur and using a rubber velociraptor puppet distinguished by the intensely long fat disproportionate claw this film is a masterpiece br br the editing is prominent on this film this is not a good thing i am well aware that the film is a collection of scenes from other films masterfully crafted into a single piece of crap but there has to be a limit sub plots end as abruptly as they began explanations for the sudden disappearance of characters not being limited to well not being explained at all and an ending that felt like driving a muscle car into a brick wall without a seat belt you just never know what is going to happen because the film doesn't follow a coherent structure this film is a masterpiece br br now i'm going to just have to mention a single scene the greatest one that occurs near the end this is a spoiler but not really the final scene contains a showdown between tyrannosaurus rex and sheriff tanner it is like the showdown between sigourney weaver and the alien queen in aliens except without all the emotional power budget epic battling it pretty consists of tanner ramming the dinosaur with a piece of construction machinery a white bobcat in a space of several minutes through a series of sneakily slipped in cuts the director manages to turn that white bobcat into a yellow forklift crane looking piece of machinery now as i said i know that this film is made from scenes from other films but what two films warrant a showdown with a t rex in a construction vehicle this film is a masterpiece br br this film gets a 1 10 for quality of film making but a 10 10 for how much it makes me laugh and enjoy myself
0	this movie is an abortive stillborn attempt to stitch together several bad movies and make some sort of extra bad movie it fails at even this since there's way too much plot and not nearly enough goofy puppets and ridiculous gore seriously the puppets are sweet and the guys in suits crack me up pretty good the performances are c grade at best and lame throughout with special props to the spec ops guy who spoke some sort of bizarre east coast dialect that was almost impossible to decipher not that you really care what he says as only the curse words are distinct cinematographically it's non offensive pretty much what you'd expect from low rent straight to video offal just like the script the fact that new concorde used footage from the carnosaur films is offensive and quite confusing for shame new concorde for shame carnosaur is one of my favorite terrible movies and they somehow screwed it up and made it nigh unwatchable see the carnosaur films if you want to see shoestring dinosaur mayhem br br i give it one star because i am so fond of the movies it steals from and also because the scale doesn't have a zero
0	oy vey jurrasic park got corman ized as usual the plot is wafer thin from 1 foot tall dinosaurs that weigh 150 pounds and leave tracks bigger than they are to inexplicable science which uses lasers to keep the dinosaurs in check and poultry trucks which have chickens loose in cages large enough for big dogs i've seen chicken trucks they are all in cages the size of shoe boxes and all that is in the first 15 minutes of this disaster of a film all the male actors are imbeciles thinking a grizzly might be loose in the desert constantly dropping items to give the raptor an easy kill and the female actors all look like they just came from a modeling shoot for of hollywood the raptor itself is the worst thing since the hobgoblins from the movie of the same name it looks like they had a hand puppet version and a plastic model for the motion shots if you want a good movie to sit around and heckle mst3k style this is gold if you want competent film making and good acting don't watch a roger corman film acting gets a 4 out 10 some of the players upon this stage did try story gets a 2 out of 10 it reads like a drunken storytelling session gone bad special effects gets a 2 out of 10 i've seen worse but not many
0	br br spoiler alert br br if you happen to like jurassic park 1 2 or 3 br br if you happen to appreciate really bad movies for their sheer entertainment value if not for their quality case in point john carpenter's dark star highly recommended br br if you happen to like movies about dinosaurs in general br br then stay away from this cinematic crapsterpiece br br the shameless use of stock footage from carnosaur 1 2 make up most of this miserable attempt at a dino slasher flick take the scene for instance where the security guard meets his doom at the jaws of the alpha t rex for some reason he drops about 50 pounds and appears 10 years younger why is that simply because this scene was lifted directly from carnosaur which was a crummy flick to begin with br br the ending was a carbon copy of carnosaur 2 for those unfortunate enough to have sat through that straight to video loser again we see mr rex do battle against a bulldozer which alternates as a forklift truck through the miracle of ta stock footage from the aforementioned carnosaur 1 2 of course the ending is exactly the same the beast falls to his death just as the complex goes up in flames br br a real insult to anyone's intelligence br br but it's still better than watching the rosie o' show br br rating 1 2 out of br br
0	i just don't get these reviews i can't help thinking they are written by the sort of l o g fan who would worship anything they ever do without questioning whether it is actually any good br br i'm a massive fan of the programme but thought this film was a pointless project i could forgive the ridiculous plot if i had come out of the cinema having laughed more than twice at one point i thought it might just me before i realised hardly any laughs were from the rest of audience br br i wasn't expecting much of a plot very few tv comedies stand up to being stretched over 90 minutes but thought the odd bit of classic l o g dialogue or visual joke like at the start of each programme would carry a film after 5 minutes of the 17th century plot i was begging for it to end little did i know it would carry on for the rest of the film it just wasn't funny br br i was just massively disappointed and can't see history being too kind to it even if a few die hard fans write enthusiastic reviews
0	the worst film ever with characters from carnosaur 1 3 inserted merely to fall to the same demise that they had in the first film so that footage and special effects could be reused br br stay away from this debacle br br corman is ruining his legacy he made and produced some amazing films but that era ended with carnosaur being his last creative in its badness film
0	on the bright side it ended that's the only thing this movie has going for it of course br br this is the worst movie i have ever seen and i've seen some bad ones this movie is actually so horrible i went and changed my rating for children of the living dead to a 2 just for not being raptor br br official one liner rating come with me to another movie if you want to live
0	this movie is sad according to my fellow imdb users spoiler raptor uses stock footage from the carnotaur films well since i have not seen the carnotaur movies i cannot say but i do notice some pretty bad editing and even worse acting this movie is one big steaming pile of s it makes absolutely no sense here is this thing that calls itself a plot mad scientist re creates raptors raptors kill people sheriff investigates spoiler although i don't know what it is that i'm spoiling sheriff catches on to mad doctor's plans army guys are sent in and raptors start killing army guys raptors yeah right i could make a clay figure that looks more real the fx are the cheapest ever used in a movie there is a lot of gore cheap gore it doesn't even look real i will agree with another person who rated this movie that the only thing this movie has going for it is the fact that it ends there are about two seconds of originality in this film and that only comes from when the sheriff is talking to some tax agent on the phone about his electric bill or something this idea has been used in about 100 000 other movies with 100 000 different names overall i'm gonna give raptor 1 5 just because it ended
0	this film was really terrible br br however it's worth seeing as it features the worlds most unnecessarily extended sex scene ever i mean this thing went on for about 7 8 minutes repeating the same over and over thats almost 10 of the whole film i haven't laughed as hard as i laughed at that for a long time br br there were some seriously strange and pointless goings on in this film but the one that i found funniest was when for no reason whatsoever a helicopter lands and 5 or 6 guys in orange suits run in to the complex near the end 2 minutes later they run out again what the hell was that for also the tiny white forklift that magically changed into a huge yellow digger was pretty classic i'm led to beleive that this is because they used footage from the trilogy to patch up this absolute donkey i'm gonna have to see those now br br the film is worth watching for a laugh or two but if you dont find bad movies funny stay away
0	i am a huge eric roberts fan i collect his movies and so far has get to 60 but i´m honest to say that sometimes he really makes awful movies but hey that´s why i like him he is entertaining br br but this one has to take the price i can´t stop wonder why somehow they managed to get eric and also corbin bernsen to the picture br br while bernsen is plain awful i really don´t like him roberts manage to be the best thing in the movie and that doesn´t mean much he practically do it on routine basis br br the female lead looks like a plastic doll and acts like one to and tim and his crew looks like action man plastic dolls and acts like those to br br the plot is really embarrasing i haven´t seen any of the carnosaur movies so i can´t recall on the footage that has been added from there but it explains some things but still there are holes huge as in the plot br br spoilers alert br br the first attacks are located outside the laboratory in the woods nearby but at the end they blow the whole laboratory in pieces and just relax that everything is over but they forgot about the ones outside br br when the helicopter pilot is eaten alive i wonder how she notice a t rex climbing into the chopper br br the guys in orange overalls is my favourite what are they doing out for a jogging round or what br br of course there are a b movie standard sex scene with silicon titties involved too this time it´s that greets us i don´t have any problem with that she looks awful but to look at a guy squeezing tits and being on the verge of climax for 8 minutes is just tooo long br br shame on you all including eric roberts now i look forward to watch con games i wonder
0	the only reason there is a question mark in parenthesis is not because i haven't seen every film released in 2001 thus far it's because this film was only made partly in 2001 the rest of it was stolen from roger corman's other dinosaur films carnosaur 1 3 br br i have a confession to make carnosaur 2 is perhaps one of my favorite b movies it borrows so much from james cameron's aliens it's not even funny but i love it i can't explain exactly why it just works for me i liked the sets i liked the cinematography i liked how they borrowed from aliens it's all a bit ironic that cameron at one point was an of corman's with films like battle beyond the stars 1980 br br i own the carnosaur trilogy on dvd and the most i can say for part one is that it has moments the most i can say for the third is that it took me five years to find it watchable br br now we have raptor which does not continue that series instead it borrows entire scenes from the carnosaur trilogy and builds a movie around it and somehow roger corman was able to get eric roberts and corbin bernsen to do it now i'm not saying either roberts or bernsen are at any kind of career high but they were both at one point what could be called respectable actors not here sure actors react to effects they won't even see while filming all the time here however they are reacting to mismatched footage from films that are between five and eight years old there's even a whose costume was modeled directly after a character in carnosaur 1 apparently it made too much sense to get the original guy back br br when raptor was announced i was a wee bit excited i was however disappointed when corman said that they'd be using the old dinosaur models from carnosaur apparently corman decided after this interview was conducted that he wouldn't even do that and its not that he couldn't find an fx crew to do it the script for this was clearly written keeping in mind that the story had to be built around pre existing stock footage br br don't compare this to ed wood ed did better than this at least he only used the stock footage of bela once in one film there are ways of incorporating stock footage into a movie and raptor takes this frowned upon technique to a new low even if you liked carnosaur 3 primal species stay away from raptor
0	so bad it's entertaining especially during cocktail hour and believe me you'll need a beer a drink or whatever to get through this turkey where do they get the financial backing for such paint by the numbers horror flicks the fun in this movie is predicting which characters will get eaten and in what order and trashing the so called uniforms the military jokers wear the raptors by the way are not the same raptors we met in jurassic park but a cousin species sorry no spoilers here you'll have to watch it to find out for yourself don't expect the plot to make sense simple as it is just go along for the ride you could make it a game take another drink each time you hear a certain sound or better yet every time someone gets by a raptor with a little luck you won't even remember having seen this c grade made for tv movie
0	roger corman has enjoyed his shares of cinematic infamy in his illustrious low budget career spanning over 300 movies while few if any would call him great his films' obscure connections to underground culture via reference tribute or influence have ensured him a warped legacy of sorts throughout his career he has also developed a bad habit of remaking his own films piranha humanoids from the deep the black scorpion etc without improving on them in the slightest raptor written and directed by jay andrews jim wynorski the man behind one of my favorite cinematic guilty pleasures chopping mall takes that practice to a disturbing new low regarding corman's mid '90s carnosaur trilogy br br credits are in quotes because raptor isn't a tribute to the carnosaur films and not even a remake raptor is the carnosaur films or at least the film's dinosaur induced death scenes haphazardly spliced together with trace elements of the original plot and some newly shot scenes many of which consist of dino's eye view shots in a lame attempt to make the inserted scenes look less obvious the new material was written around the footage instead of vice versa and is totally unremarkable with huge gaps of logic e g two separate teams are sent in by the military simply so footage from parts 2 and 3 where the soldiers had different uniforms could be included which is amazing considering how little logic plays into any of the carnosaur films already the actors' lack of any feeling in their characters though in fairness any character dimension is only presented in the script once maybe twice brings to mind the terribly wooden acting in 1950's b films and it certainly doesn't make anything between the ripped off attack scenes worth watching even more embarrassing for the actors of the new scenes is when there is an obvious discrepancy in the physical build between the new actor and the actor in the original scene when the only scene evoking any response in a film is the oldest trick in the horror book the spring loaded animal something is seriously wrong br br as it stands this is a despicable practice in two b grade figures who need not worry about ruining their reputations because they haven't got one ripping off their own material for the cheapest and quickest of dirty tricks simply because they can why else would anyone feel possessed to rip off a series meant to be a rip off of the jurassic park series there isn't much more i can say other than that this film carries my very highest recommendations against viewing the only good thing about it besides gazing at melissa navel is that now i don't have to see any of the carnosaur movies
0	my brother in law and his wife brought the movie over one night to watch on video this should have given me the first clue that it would be horrible it was from the very first frame to the last this movie is terrible it does not even quite register as a b movie maybe an n or a p one of the worst 5 movies i've ever seen from the rubber raptor on a stick to the still breathing corpses in the car to the beyond horrible closing lines this movie isn't worth watching if you've received it for free br br skip this one altogether unless you want to play mystery science theatre with your friends it will provide good ammunition
0	i go this game and it is alright i guess i just expected a bit more the main problem with this is that the hacking is extremely hard even if you read the instructions you can't get it also the graphics aren't as good as pandora tomorrow and double agent this game could do with some improvements it says that if guards are waling in water and you shoot a sticky shocker in the water the guard will fry up but nothing happens in my opinion this is the worst out of the three i haven't played the first one but have played pandora tomorrow this and double agent this game deserves a 4 10 though could do with some improvements
0	please re watch all 3 series and do not go see this movie the trailer is completely misleading and the 3 weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out tv episode into the most painful 2hrs of my life truly an awful film tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins micky has 1 line and her just reels out the same tired old puns also mr briss's accent just changes about 5 times in the film tons of badly acted extras and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for 2 hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap batman and robin all is forgiven
0	there is a difference between a film and a movie a film regardless of quality is ready for public consumption a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder in my time as a viewer i have seen may examples of both br br on september 19 i attended a screening of writer director jon donnybrook now having read the script and having seen two different cuts a rough cut and the finished product of this piece i can safely say it is a movie and a student movie at that it is for lack of a better word competent which is to say the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images the visuals are for the most part static and unimpressive and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film but some visual flair would have been appreciated and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested br br granted there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written engrossing story and some sharp dialog steven soderbergh's sex lies and videotape comes immediately to mind this movie however has neither the main story is weak and unfocused if the main plot is trying to mend his relationship with his father then i feel this movie misses the point what i got out of it is that main aspiration is to change the face of rock 'n' roll however we see very little activity on his part to show this while there is one dream sequence at the beginning and an impromptu performance of his at the end all we seem to get are scenes of listening to music or casually strumming a guitar we are simply told that has played a lot of gigs but we never see him in full rock out mode next time show don't tell the audience anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this also doesn't look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the 1970's he looks like he'd be more comfortable in the early days of rock 'n' roll posing as james dean's less talented brother in the meantime the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather cliché characters and story threads that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency i e the subplot involving terry's father if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction i will consider watching napolean dynamite again a film i could barely make it through the first time br br as for the above mentioned dialog scenes i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between is it too much to ask for characters who do speak i don't think it is when the characters do speak it is in short choppy sentences collections of oh so insightful questions angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts these characters simply do not behave like normal rational people working with material like this it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film al hudson's and that's just because he's doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen a good director or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them however with being so close to the material he simply doesn't see them or if he does he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it'll hurt his creative vision being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner is the mark of a self indulgent misguided fool just ask rob schneider br br in the end we are left with a poor high school set knock off of zach amazing garden state combined with the equally amazing velvet goldmine two films far more worthy of your time br br now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review allow me to offer this the best i can do is compliment mr for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see however the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur this is a student movie nothing more nothing less if the movie holds any promise and let's face it at this point it isn't going to come from the acting writing or directing it is this if if the people associated with this film are willing then please learn from this movie file it away and use the lessons learned on your next attempt don't attack your critics or have friend or family do it for you if you are able to do this maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution worthy of being called a film br br i am your audience and i am willing to watch
0	any one who writes that this is any good there kid may have worked on it or put money in to this god awful college experiment it was lousy slow and painful to watch running time of only about 84 minutes it felt like three and half hours the only person to blame is the director who knows nothing on how to direct a scene where to place the camera 95 of this dreadful movie was shoot by long master shots two or three people in the frame talking or yelling forever or what seems like forever no close ups no medium shots there are two so called fight scenes that any filmmaker with a brain would have shoot some close ups or medium shoots for them they looked very amateurish the scenes with the father and son screaming at each other would have worked better if there was a cut away of just the father or just the son acting or reacting tri c must be very mortified to show this any where i have seen a bunch of bad movies in my time some of them are fun because they so bad this is not one of them
0	first of all let me underline that im not a great fan of political correctness in fact i like satire or dark humor even if it makes jokes out of minorities the reason why im pretty sure that this racist piece of work is not worth a look is that it doesn't make fun of minorities to demonstrate their condition of living their social circumstances or the way they are treated by society moreover it uses every stupid stereotype and prejudice to strengthen xenophobic feelings and reservations its really a pity but not a surprise that the other comments didn't get that point cause we all had a cheap laugh congratulations
0	i like dark humor and non pc stuff but not if it is with no purpose but to elevate yourself bashing a group of people without any trace of self irony is crap br br there are people who could make concentration camp jokes funny but whoever made this film unfortunately failed even in the very easy task of making fun about turks in germany it is a very easy task but if your are the germany equivalent of an inbred redneck inbred southerner from a village where virginity is often lost to farm animals you certainly will fail at this and also at life i have heard and seen so many funny stuff about minorities in germany but this movie this piece of crap being listed here is an insult to the next worst movie sucks like the calf the makers of this movie met some years ago
0	this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen i could hardly stay awake the acting and the plot were horrible i like b movies but this movie has nothing that could make me laugh or think about ok there were two or three funny moments at the beginning so i have to give this movie 2 out of 10 if you really want to watch it watch the first 10 minutes after that you will get more and more disappointed while the movie runs
0	it seems that all companies that are enjoy with the taxes taken by romania for picture grant the image that disappear since 1994 they are hardly try to get the oldest car the had founded but they never take pictures of the ferrari aston martin and all new mercedes that are more the you can find in some important countries br br a second problem is that they filmed in some neighborhoods in bucharest where they had the possibility of clear the streets and put garbages on dressing people with i don't know maybe '90 clothes a making them seem so stupid that you will realize the script was maybe a second hand bought from ebay or worth br br i for future to keep making movies in us and to make good money there than to give us a little bit and shame our country i have no reason to believe that someone will understand the message beyond my english sorry
0	yes it is your typical direct to video action flick and of course they do their best to change it up a little bit but fail miraculously snipes delivers his perfectly bland performance that he always does proves that you don't need any talent to star in a film but just sex appeal the worst part is that it didn't cover my bad movie basics which are 1 – cheap looking villains 2 – perfectly timed one liners 3 – intense car chases with massive explosions 4 – the hero hooking up with the hot chick 5 – multitudes of nude or scantily clad women for no reason ok so i lied it covers those but does so horribly
0	meh sums it all up for me really boring story bland dialogue dull action scenes how do you make something like a fight or a shootout boring do you actually have to try to do that no real characters etc just dull snipes is a gifted actor and physical performer but none of this has come to the surface in any of his dtv work when the opportunity is there to give the audience a much more superior product than they are used to imagine a decent script with a few solid characters that you care about and some damn explosive action fights shootouts etc how can it be that hard to handle my personal opinion is that the primary players in the productions simply do not care there is no evidence of enthusiasm for what they are doing look at snipes in the first 2 blades passenger 57 rising sun new jack city demolition man etc awesome intense performances complemented by decent if not always outstanding scripts good supporting casts and wicked action br br none of that is evident in any of these releases so far which is a tremendous shame the distributors slap face on the cover knowing the audience will lap them up as they haven't realised yet that they haven't seen him in theatres for nearly 2 years br br i'd love to see snipes work with somebody like isaac florentine who really knows how to make the most out of a dtv production and work with alpha stunts who are simply some of the best action guys out there together they would all make an awesome team and a snipes action vehicle we would all be proud of seeing br br detonator sucks it's not as bad as the marksman which chews but it still really sucks
0	at first sight i must say already watch the contractor 2007 with wesley snipes too a better action movie and with a more dramatic plot br br the detonator has an horrendous plot focusing in some sort of atomic bomb set in romania and with awful directing for an action movie there is no thrilling moments and an action movie is turned in to boredom br br really what you expect wesley snipes to do when awful screenplays like this one are offered to him don't blame him he needs the money br br this was the first impression when i saw the movie 3 years ago but i won't see it again no way screw it it sucks there i said it br br ps i don't think i ever said this movie sucks on a imdb review thank you detonator
0	ok ill be brief this film wasn't just bad it was very very bad with like if you deal with the devil you expect to get sh t on your shoes you know your in hideous film territory after watching this film i wanted to kill myself and my entire family it gave me such a vast feeling of self loathing i wanted to do murder don't watch this film i will kill again but when i do it will be terribly edited with a pathetic soundtrack and stock shot for hire action sequences and bad shirts br br fortunately there is a flipside its the first action film to feature a three door ford sierra br br unfortunately it ends up trashed on its roof br br ps worse than the marksman
0	very disappointing and incoherent every now and then a germ of an idea would develop and be discarded in the next line it had the feel of a film that had been cut and re cut to try and make it work i was bored and distracted all the way through and i'm speaking as a huge fan of the series many of the jokes were unoriginal and tired the medieval section went on far too long and the quality of acting was very poor some on the tiny guest spots like simon peg and liam cunningham did more in their alloted 30 secs than the main cast did in 90 min's br br it's a shame really br br the only really interesting thing was getting a look inside the little shed on soho square which is something everyone who is ever in that part of london wonders about
0	i am from romania and for that i apologize if my english is not so good br br i just finished watching this movie and i must say that i am extremely disappointed i always liked wesley snipes's movies but this one is terrible i regret that i spent over 3 hours downloading this film there are a lot mistakes in the film for example the stadium in the film is not lia the name of the stadium is the name of the soccer team is called not uli the of the stadium is not capable of showing graphical images video replays live images etc it's a simple that can only display letters and numbers the uli team's opponents are displayed on the as din probably from who are main rivals in the romanian soccer championship the images from the soccer match are from a match between and poli my favorite team and my only love look it up on the internet and you will see why the police cars in the movie are not properly made there isn't a single dark blue police car in romania they are all white the mistake list can go on and on and on but i will stop here in short terms this movie is horrible it does not worth renting it it does not worth buying a cinema ticket for it it does not worth downloading it i honestly feel sorry that wesley snipes played in this movie a previous movie of his 7 seconds also filmed in romania was ok but this is terrible
0	let's get one thing straight i like much of snipes' work unlike his other high kicking contemporaries seagal and van damme he can actually act this film however does little to enhance his reputation it's not exactly unwatchable but i am not in any hurry to watch it again either in fact if i never saw it again it wouldn't bother me there are just loads of better films out there to waste my on it's a pity because with a bit of imagination and and some subtle changes this could have been a worthwhile film instead the director has chosen to almost try and bludgeon his audience into submission with too much over the top violence and very little characterisation br br the biggest problem i have is with snipes' co star silvia it baffles me that the producers of this film went to all the bother of hiring a stunning beautiful for my money anyway and talented actress like miss and then give her such a pathetic one dimensional character to play with if she was hired to simply add a bit of glamour to the movie she doesn't even do that very well there's no nudity in the film and also no sex scene worth mentioning strange really given the amount of violence in this film it baffles me why the producers have taken such a conservative attitude to sex and nudity are we living in 2007 or in 1957 what the producers of this rubbish and probably the actors as well have forgotten is that films are meant to be fantasies like most of the inhabitants of this planet my real life is very boring i would love to be chasing terrorists be able to handle myself like mr snipes and hook up with a beautiful young thing like miss this film satisfies none of those fantasies very well which is precisely why i am giving it such a bad review
0	the detonator is set in bucharest where some sort of ex cia government agent named griffith wesley snipes has tracked down a arms dealer named matthew leitch things go wrong though finds out that is working for the us government after a big shoot out most of men have been killed by which the local romanian police force are unhappy about top man flint michael brandon decides to send back to the us at the same time protect a woman named nadia silvia who is also being sent back to the us however it turns out that nadia is wanted by his football club owning boss tim dutton who need her in order to complete a deal for a nerve gas bomb which they intend to set off in washington killing millions of people br br this american romanian co production was directed by po chih leong the detonator confirms beyond any shadow of a doubt that snipes has joined the washed up action film stars club who are relegated to making generic action films in eastern european locations yep snipes has joined such luminaries as jean claude van damme steven seagal dolph lundgren rutger hauer chuck norris i give snipes a bit of credit since he held on a little longer than the rest with the excellent blade trinity 2004 still fresh in a lot of cinema goers minds every film he has made since has gone straight to dvd but it had to happen sooner or later like a lot of the names i've mentioned snipes has lived off the reputation of a few great films if you look at his career he's been in more bad films that good ones like the recent films of seagal the detonator is pretty awful the script by martin wheeler is as predictable boring by the numbers as anything out there the detonator is the sort of film you expect to see on an obscure cable tv channel playing at 2 o'clock in the morning the detonator is chock full of clichés snipes is forced into a situation where he has to protect a woman at first they dislike each other but by the end they are in love his closest friend at the cia turns out to be a traitor while the obnoxious by the book boss no one likes actually turns out to be a pretty decent guy snipes character is allowed to run around bucharest shooting killing blowing people up like it doesn't matter he never gets arrested the action is dull forgettable the bad guy own a football club so there are lots of annoying football terminology there aren't even any funny one liners br br director leong doesn't do anything anything to liven things up the detonator looks cheap with a car chase in which the two cars never seem to get over the mark ok the action scenes are relatively well staged but they are few far between utterly forgettable in a 'bad guy shoots at snipes misses in return snipes shoots at bad guy kills him' sort of way there's a half decent car crash explosion but very little else it seems some of the detonator was shot in a romanian football stadium i think i'd rather have watched the game for 90 minutes rather than this film br br with a supposed budget of about 15 000 000 the detonator is reasonably well made but not that much really happens set filmed in bucharest in romania the acting isn't that great snipes just doesn't seem interested feels like he is just there for the money which i don't blame him for at all br br the detonator is yet another poor clichéd action film starring a has been actor set in eastern europe why do sony keep making these things not recommend there are much better action fare out there
0	to start off i'm easily pleased i'm in no way a real critic and movies that authentic critics friends family and newspapers may find awful may even be fun for me to watch br br not this one however br br i got it since it was the newest wesley snipes movie in my dvd store i like snipes but this was a let down br br bad story bad actors continuity glitches crappy sound depressing locations a pseudo cool snipes i really had to force myself to finish the movie br br they even left some markings in the shots where a car was supposed to come to a stop br br and i'm not talking about small production company young director low budget kind of bad where you may ignore some mistakes because you feel sympathy br br a wanna be block buster action movie that disappoints like no other in a long time
0	since wesley snipes descended or ascended to the world of dtv action movies the result has been miss so so and miss was weak 7 seconds was entertaining the marksman was the proverbial scraping of the septic tank br br and what of the detonator we'll anything would be above suffering the marksman again but the detonator holds a small amount of merit that is hampered by a lazy star and low budget br br sonny griffith is a not so by the book covert op who busts illegal arms dealers in poland when his latest assignment ends up a bullet buffet leaving a pile of bodies sonny then is ordered to escort a witness nadia the ever hot silvia to the us trouble is sonny is being duped by a traitor in his own organization who is keeping his trail hot for gangsters with ambitions br br snipes delivers in the action department he is in half blade mode here he actually does well in the first 15 minutes of the detonator before descending into pure sleepwalking mode that ruined the marksman does more than look pretty there is some conviction to her scenes a lot of the actors look familiar and have been in the last 3 or 4 seagal snipes movies its always good to see michael brandon again br br the action is telegraphed here but never boring running car chases fights director po chih leong seems to have gotten better after the seagal farce out of reach he does a credible job but is constantly hampered by the low budget enough with the eastern euro locations its the movie's look cannot be that much expensive can it br br the detonator ends just average it does not have the so bad its fun aspect of mercenary for justice but it is nowhere near as entertaining as van damme's second in command nor as thrilling as dolph's mechanik perhaps dolph should direct wesley next eh br br its high time the producers pump a little more money and thought into these dtv titles with the kind of money they are making from them its only fair the result could be a high seller perhaps br br snipes would be advised to try making this one his last dtv action flick its sad to see yet another waste of this gifted actor's talents
0	unlike some of the reviews written here i didn't hate this movie it is a movie that could have been much better than it was not oscar material true but much better than it was br br i thought the plot had a good hook and through line granted this movie was badly written and terribly directed and produced i mean how many irrelevant flashbacks can you have why were we there what exactly is the point of the opening sequence it seems like the producer s watched american beauty a few too many times and thought 'i'll use that in an action movie ' i thought the movie wasn't that badly acted wesley snipes did a credible job he just ran afoul of some bad direction and once this movie hit the production room things just got worse the main actress i think had the same problems some of the other acting was suspect yes but it was a low budget flick again i would say it is the director's job to pick that up and correct it br br as an overall recommendation i would agree with the first review i read that this movie is not worth seeing or maybe it is worth seeing if you are a film student and want to see what not to do br br 3 10 and that's giving it praise
0	after an undercover mission in bucharest to disclose an international gang of weapon dealers the agent griffith wesley snipes is assigned to protect the romanian nadia silvia the widow of an accountant of the romanian mafia however the cia safe house is broken in by the criminals and realizes that the information was leaked from inside the agency alone trusting only in his friend michael shepard william hope fights to survive and protect nadia br br the career of wesley snipes is downhill i have just seen this flick and it is another disappointing movie of this actor whose career is presently very similar to steven segal's one the movie has many explosions shots and car chase associated to an awful story and horrible acting first the afro american wesley snipes is chased by the police of bucharest but they never find a black american man i have never been in romania but i believe there are not many afro americans in this country his character does not like to bath wearing the same clothes along many days there is no chemistry between and the sexy silvia but she freely has sex falls in love for him and shares her fortune with him the boy that performs son is horrible my vote is four br br title brazil o the detonator
0	i've seen a few bad action movies in my days but this one's just plain awful i feel it's a waste of time to even write this but i'll make it short why this movie suck here are 10 reasons 1 very directed and cut 2 bad bad bad acting of the whole cast 3 silly dialogs and too many clichés 4 too many plot holes a lot of scenes don't add up 5 bad photographing and a lot of continuity issues 6 ridiculously bad performance by the lead female actress 7 unreliable action scenes and not too good either 8 even for a snipes movie he shows a big lack of acting materials 9 outrageous accents of all the cast 10 last but not least too many implausible facts such as a tournament of soccer in the u s cia needing to do background checks to get new information about their employees a mattress that is explosion proof and so on in essence it's a waste of time it's not funny not entertaining not even as a joke don t watch it seriously just don't
0	wesley snipes latest straight to video film is a convoluted mess horribly reminiscent of steven seagal's latest works the script is horribly written and makes no account for the low budget it is and tries to be too clever for its own good sadly too snipes has fallen into the trap of having an adr voice double doing much of his dialogue and an entire narration that comes every now and again through points in the movie it's sad to see a guy of wesley snipes talent doing garbage like this film and producing a tired and clearly bored performance barely bothered to produce his own dialogue it's become somewhat of a joke with steven seagal the fact he doesn't perform his own dialogue but it's not something i'd have expected from snipes perhaps it's due to the producer andrew stevens who has worked with seagal previously or the director po chi leong responsible for seagal's epically bad out of reach br br the plot involves shady government officials terrorists who coach soccer teams disks with incriminating evidence on and a hefty chuck of missing money oh and biological weapons now how they are connected i don't know but what i can tell you is the diabolical script is pretty hard to fathom and like many of these dtv movies this likes to include one twist too many the plot is also told playing out it's cards with people having shady one to ones in offices and dark alleys etc it's all kind of lets have a sit down and dish out some plot points for the sad bastards watching this film the pace of the movie as such suffers because despite the dullness of the performances and the storyline the film does have some nice action scenes as an example of how a dtv film has successfully put across a storyline of a twisting nature i give you dolph lundgren's directorial debut the defender that movie had it's share of twists and over complexity but the movie has a last hour of almost entirely action with dolph under siege form terrorists the plot points are told in the context of action on the move while avoiding death the movie doesn't stop to tell us what's happening it doesn't break up the pace as such although the plot was a little convoluted it was more forgivable cause the action never let up the detonator like too many of these films stops everything to give us a convoluted walk through of who's bad and who isn't before inevitably shifting that round in the pulled from the rear end twist at the end these movies can often suffer with pacing issues br br snipes himself as i mentioned is pretty bland here at the beginning he's putting on a camp persona as he's undercover with some arms dealers initially it seemed as if he was enjoying himself but unfortunately the rest of the movie sees him and his occasional voice double sleepwalking through the role snipes only comes alive when he's called upon to kick ass there's some nice action here though with some swift and crunching martial arts and some nicely punchy shootouts the film also features a decent car chase silvia co star and she's not much of an actress but she is gorgeous with a costume that screams look at my cleavage the rest of the cast flit in and out with clichéd and uninteresting roles br br snipes thankfully has better projects lined up from now he has another team up with mario van peebles called hard luck then he will do chasing the dragon from the director chris who did jet li's kiss of the dragon finally snipes is apparently doing toussaint a biographical drama directed by danny glover the future is suddenly looking brighter for snipes but lets remember he was getting extremely well paid for his dtv films around a movie possibly more it's also funny to consider that of all these dtv god's dolph lundgren is doing the better films directing himself with the enjoyable defender and the supremely violent and nicely done the russian specialist and what's more he's doing them on a fraction of the budgets of these diabolical offerings from wesley and steven seagal are producing 1 2
0	what can i say about this such a big prestige production but in the end wasted time wasted money br br this work a disaster is historically seen only some examples br br augustus often is named his first name but the old romans don't used this name correct would be the surname gentile and or the br br livia was shown as wife but this historically wrong br br was shown as nice young woman but she wasn't one adultery and maybe prostitution and arrogant behavior was the cause of her banishing br br she wasn't at the dying bed of her father she never was allowed to leave her banishing and she was at this time around 50 years old not as young as she was shown in the same year augustus died she committed suicide because stopped giving her a pension br br augustus was much more then in this movie shown but author and director seems to believe own br br what remains historically extremely doubtful bad acting bad built and equipment 2 points out of 10 one for peter o'toole
0	this review took longer to write than i took to watch this film it's just plain bad the plot is terrible in comparison to the tv shows it is flat unfunny and boring br br it is clear that the log ran out of ideas long before this film was green lit viewers should read this as an example of not knowing when to stop br br bad editing bad music bad acting zero dynamism zilch chemistry br br a film that doesn't know what it is made without any love to some mysterious end that leaves you depressed and feeling kind of angry that so much money was wasted br br the log obviously were made an offer they couldn't refuse or perhaps their egos have simply got the better of them it's a bleak marketing push that perhaps would have been better when the log were fresher and more inspired br br i however did know when to stop and did br br please someone try to convince me of this film's finer points
0	what a stupid waste of money 30 000 square feet of rebuilt ancient rome 2 millions cubic meters of 50 feet tall buildings 10 000 costumes 2 years of works an international ancient history committee sic some first class actors and actresses the final result an empty tv movie for a single digit iq attendance
0	for several reasons this movie is simply awful other posters have listed some of this movie's historical errors well i have a layman's knowledge of roman history and even i found the inaccuracies flagrant i usually forgive errors in historical movies because i understand that the purpose is to entertain not educate and shrinking a long saga down to a two hour feature requires some let's say historical license but this movie goes well beyond mere rounding br br there's worse to tell a story from a distant period the movie uses flashbacks which just make the story more confusing unless viewers have some prior knowledge of the period they will quickly be lost in addition the movie was obviously filmed simultaneously in italian and english with various actors being dubbed later at times the actors seem as if they were in completely different movies which were then edited together in fact this is not far wrong the actors were obviously pasted onto a cheesy computer generated ancient rome br br the only reason i give this boring mess any stars is because i always find peter o'toole entertaining but that is no reason to rent it if you are curious about roman history there are much better movies available
0	in terms of historical accuracy this is the absolute worst roman film i have ever seen the list not only of errors but of plot ideas that are flat impossible would run longer than the three hour film but just to give you an idea br br julius caesar and augustus are presented as liberal democrats taking the side of the people against the nobles this is patently absurd the caesars were as noble as you could get their interest was in power and a country that had been wrecked by 150 years of civil war there had been reformers notably the brothers who lived about 100 years earlier and to some extent advocated for the rights of ordinary citizens br br there are several scenes that are utterly ridiculous if you know anything about the period cleopatra with richard burton will give you a much better idea of how events unfolded fanciful though it is br br historical accuracy is one thing acting and dialogue are something else and here this film veers perilously close to being a bad junior high school production i burst out laughing several times especially when julia the daughter of augustus meets a lover they clutch passionately as she breathes my father ah your father your father your father would disapprove peter o'toole is at his worst forced to gnaw his way through some very pompous and silly lines the actor who plays augustus as a young man is such a nebbish and the character is written as such it's impossible to envision him as the cunning crafty machiavellian politician who created the roman empire here he's just a whiner who has to be told what to do most of the time br br charlotte rampling does manage to emerge from an underwritten role as livia wife with dignity had she been given a fuller role to play she might have rescued this production from absurdity br br there is some nice photography and battle footage helped by plenty of standard issue cgi oddly this was made for british tv and appears to be a british italian co production but is labeled with an r rating br br the dvd picture is excellent and the dolby digital soundtrack is very nice although you only notice it during the few action sequences as the movie is mostly talk br br almost any roman movie even cleopatra or the fall of the roman empire has more historicity to say nothing of compelling drama than this bizarre classics illustrated jr adaptation this one gives new meaning to the much abused phrase based on a true story in this case they could have said suggested by real events
0	this is a voice of a person who just finished watching the second season of rome almost at one go and grabbed the opportunity to see what happened next this film conveniently takes off where rome ends if you find rome an abomination a foul mouthed screw fest of little historical accuracy then you might enjoy augustus but if you feel rome is a good thing if you enjoy the complicated intrigue the ambiance of decadence and the work of the actors then will obviously appear to you as an overly timid superfluous and tedious soap opera with not many redeeming factors br br there are some actors who for my taste look somewhat better than these in rome i especially disliked image of cleopatra as a drug soaked sex addict there must have been a great deal of strength and dignity in that woman and the actress in suits the part much better o'toole and rampling are good and so are some others but then if you have come to know and love as the super cool bitch you'll find the depiction of her in as a tear jerking mother goose in an apron absolutely ridiculous there are supposed to be some bitchy characters in but these actresses rely heavily upon staring at the men and nothing much more you'll find no interesting female characters in this epic there's also the painfully comic whom we see as a screeching drag queen even though there is little historical evidence that he was such he's once referred to as being effeminate in his pleasures in the annals br br the interiors are rather meager and rely on clichés upon clichés big hall looks like something out of a computer game or a children's play room in an egyptian theme park there's a of really poor 3d graphics not up to 2003 standards br br the action is presented as a series of flashbacks the aged augustus is reliving so we get a quick look at some historical events some of which are presented well whereas some are not an amount of time is wasted to show livia as the eternal flame of augustus this affair doesn't sizzle for even a moment the dialog is superlame and everything is seasoned with tacky tear inducing musical score whatever amount of reality the show aims to capture every last shred of it is destroyed by the dry synchronized dubbing most of the actors are non english speakers br br everything is lukewarm in this epic true there are more historical accuracies than in rome but dramatically speaking it's plain boring the characters lack depth and the dialog sharpness camera work is often reduced to static shots and lighting offers nothing to please your eye br br there's really no one to love and no one to hate in regardless of whether you liked or disliked rome there are much better films and miniseries around ancient rome the rise and fall of an empire would be one thing i recommend
0	my wife and i couldn't even finish the film truly it was rather painful br br first the historical accuracy is compromised not so much by the events themselves as the ridiculous one dimensionality of the characters for instance augustus takes the burden of power only with great reluctance indeed he is portrayed as if he's some sort of great humanist and believer in democracy br br second the camp my lord the dialog is horrifically bad i recall the soap opera my mother watched when i was a child having better dialog than this the constant exposition and pontificating grates upon the ears like fingernails on chalkboard ugh okay i exaggerate a bit but the dialog truly is bad the hbo series rome is superior for no other reason than that its characters were at least believable regardless of their historicity br br rome was also wise enough to know they couldn't stage epic battle scenes the creators of this film did not when caesar attacks the battle scene is practically farcical br br i will grant that the costumes are perfectly good the sets are fine though their cgi backdrops can be a bit jarring at times the sound is bad in terms of the music the foley work and the dubbing of so many of the side characters br br anyway it's completely not worth renting as a history major i was hoping for an alternative approach to augustus than hbo's rome which i feel failed to capture his overall feel quite as well as they did caesar or antony instead i should have just stuck to my reading
0	dreadful stupidly inane film dealing with corruption at the louisiana purchase lumber company br br everyone in the state of louisiana seems to be corrupt and inept a member of the college's english department can only sign his name with an x br br when it appears that a straight laced senator victor moore is coming to the state to investigate everyone there tries to blame the innocent but foolish bob hope character br br is it any wonder that vera did not get the part of maria in for whom the bell tolls br br naturally the corrupt officials along with hope try to show pictures of with moore so as to ruin him politically moore marries the head of the restaurant who he had insulted when he asked for a ham sandwich he thought the reason that she was upset was because it was a kosher restaurant this is the extent of humor is this absolute mess of a film br br when hope tries to defend himself in congress he does a take off of james stewart in mr smith goes to washington by then the film is too far gone for any good response br br the music and lyrics are both absolutely terrible that song praising louisiana sung in various ways is absolutely terrible irving berlin had something to do with the music of this utterly terrible film
0	this film tells the true story of escaped black slaves who found their own mountain top commune as free men in 17th century brazil the story is interesting and edifying however this film as a film is terrible br br the soundtrack is not period music or tribal music it is afro brazilian pop music from the early 1980s battle scenes are fought to the sounds of cheesy pop rhythms best left to the disco or bad cops dramas admittedly the lyrics are folk ish tales of the heroism the special effects are absurd rather than invoke the mysticism of african religion and atavistic beliefs they merely make the film look cheap they are completely unbelievable and i don't mean merely in a sense of verisimilitude br br life within the commune of could not have been the way it is portrayed in the film for this society as shown in the film is one part kibbutz one part afro pop festival moreover it is almost embarrassing to watch the director play upon the clichés of blacks as talented singers and dancers who simply want to be happy he portrays daily life as a series of dance parties in which the freed slaves paint themselves bright colors and whirl around to the strains of '80s pop music on the other hand they have an abundance of beautiful food but the viewer hardly sees any work being done the king against private property in a hackneyed and clichéd way when a man complains that people are taking the vegetables that he has grown over many months the king says what comes from the earth belongs to everyone as the earth belongs to no one if they need food they have a right to take yours br br i am glad that i learned about this episode in history but i am relieved that a film with such low production values and that trades upon such worn stereotypes would likely not be made today
0	ham handed homage to honest hacking felt good in a soft core way about equivalent to its mild pornography until its vapid lack of technical and economic reality emotional and moral sophistication became apparent br br basically a muddled '90s remake of real genius with fewer and stupider geniuses and a cynical bad ending br br perhaps this movie would appeal to someone delighted by the thesis that becoming a billionaire is so easy it's almost accidental or perhaps to technical types who like seeing themselves depicted as cool and sexy speculating about the reasons someone might like this movie is certainly more interesting than the movie itself the movies closing credits song is more interesting than the movie itself
0	computer savvy john light as john elias goes from stanford drop out to successful young dotcom era tycoon but mr light's sneering success could be short lived with partners like ambitious jeffrey donovan as robert jennings mr donovan used to bed down with light's girlfriend megan dodds as lisa forrester donovan wants light to know that binge drinking and casual sex don't have to end in college after reading a naughty internet sex session ms dodds shines light on he may lose is digital dreams internet empire too veterans unsuccessfully trying to lending dramatic gravitas include red lollipop sucking mia farrow as anna simmons and quick drawing computer hating hal holbrook as tom walker ms farrow looks sweet with her lollipops br br purpose 2 21 02 alan lazar john light jeffrey donovan mia farrow
0	that this film has such a low imdb rating is not surprising in our post enron era do we really need any more reminders of america's obsession with the greed creed the topic has become so politically charged that a lot of viewers not only are not going to be entertained by movies of this sort but will respond with barely concealed rage it was all i could do to sit quietly through this cinematic memo of corporate corruption without extracting the dvd and smashing it into a thousand pieces br br what's really irksome with these kinds of films including purpose is their pretense that behind the glitter there's some meaningful message that makes the film worthwhile in purpose i found no such meaningful message what i did find was a story that idolized the materialistic trappings of capitalistic power and wealth the two main characters nauseating in their do very little actual work instead they party they play golf they strut their coolness they sound hip with dialogue straight out of mtv culture speak rock my world and now get back to partying that's an order john is smug self important shallow and smirks a lot robert who wears funky little glasses is even worse br br the film includes two youthful garage geeks who look and sound like they're right out of the film antitrust 2001 stereotypes are played for all they're worth and in this film also include chic looking computer equipment and barbie doll chicks on hand for those occasions when our can do future billionaires need some relaxation after all that heavy duty partying and with the time bound images and dialogue that such a story necessitates can you imagine how dated this film will be in fifteen years br br about the best i can do for this waste of cinematic celluloid is to say that it does have some nice aerial views of san francisco the film would have been a lot more enjoyable a lot more entertaining if they had ditched those odious characters and that repulsive story and simply flown us viewers around in that little plane for the film's duration
0	as a massive fan of the three tv series i was very interested to learn that log were moving onto the big screen in my more honest moments though i had my doubts about the likely success of the concept and whether the writers would be able to sustain the high level of wit comedy and horror that infuse the original series br br unfortunately my fears were not unfounded and the film was a huge disappointment i struggle to understand the other comments on this site obviously people are entitled to their opinions but the guys i watched it with all agree with me and they are just as big fans as i am br br the acting lacked conviction but they are so good that even when not at their best they are still highly watchable the main problem was the plot and the script there were a few laughs but not enough a few moments of disgust but not enough worst of all was the feeling of emptiness after walking out of the cinema so rarely have i felt so utterly uninspired by a film and so unmotivated to discuss it with others br br i write this comment as a warning to other league fans get a wide range of opinion on this film before going to see it if you love league you might be able to convince yourself that they didn't totally mess up their move to cinema if you can't convince yourself of this then you will have tarnished in your mind the otherwise spotless genius that exemplifies the tv series br br log at the cinema more like log or little brown fish
0	i was forced to watch this film for my world geography class this film is what is wrong with america today instead of figuring out the best way out of hard times or situations we would rather complain about how it is someone else's fault this film goes through the downfall of flint michigan and blames it 100 on general motors in the process of doing so moore goes to great lengths to make the executives of general motors out to be villains just because they are doing their job in a capitalist society moore films several throughout the film and does not ever even ask once if the person is being evicted because of a gm additionally he never interviews the landlords of the tenants filmed moore goes to great lengths to twist historical events to fit his political agenda in this film of pure propaganda
0	during university our philosophy professor mr r played us roger me in its entirety this was at a time when the obese misfit was still pretty much unknown a charlatan in the making a soon to be household name who was still busy honing his fact bending skills and still learning how to manipulate the easily impressed the pathologically paranoid the mentally ill the sexually frustrated the illiterate the semi literate the clueless and the laughably gullible among ye br br as we finished viewing it i thought yeah it was somewhat entertaining in a totally daft bugs bunny kind of way but what an ultra biased anti capitalist propaganda turkey that has no objectivity whatsoever this is its sole purpose being to take cheap shots at people and ideas which the film's creator has pet peeves for this isn't a documentary by any stretch of the imagination however our beloved marxist professor was absolutely thrilled with r m and we ended up not only not criticizing any aspects of it but mr r actually spent the remainder of class praising its qualities just so we understand each other the words propaganda viewer manipulation left wing extremist or selective fact presentation never exited his perpetually smiling mouth and just to remind you this was supposed to be a philosophy class not indoctrinate your students with your own political b s course br br anyway now i get to the really interesting aspect this professor mr r is now a highly successful screenwriter in hollywood he has written several left wing scripts with a grade stars in them br br the moral of the story those are the kind of people for whom all doors are open in hollywood br br michael moore is a talentless filmmaker which he proved beyond a smidgen of a doubt with canadian bacon but being a marxist liberal opens doors to just about anyone tinseltown is teeming with rabid pro chavez extremists hence why political brainwashing through simplistic portrayals of reality has been part and parcel of the hollywood experience for many decades now br br embrace this demagogue and you've betrayed your own brain forever
0	leni riefenstahl would be embarrassed by the disgusting propaganda moore tries to call humor that this movie and moore's other prevarications actually attract admirers proves that alas it's possible to fool some of the people all of the time br br let's see if we can bait foreigners let's see if we can extol obsolete factories let's see if we can add to the sum of hatred in the world let's see if we can pretend we're funny let's see if we can out isolationist charles lindbergh the only thing moore lacks in comparison to lindbergh is a medal from göring br br admittedly in this film moore had a bit of self deprecation to his schtick in this film moore mocks roger smith ceo of general motors as an aloof uncaring elitist moore could do that in 1989 but now that moore has surrendered himself to aloof uncaring elitism this characterization of roger smith has an ironic twinge who really wouldn't rather be roger's buddy than michael moore's
0	can you people please stop believing everything this man says get br br your facts straight before you start praising this liar he's not even br br from flint he just says that to keep his blue collar look he's br br from a rich suburb next to flint i mean he went to a private school br br his parents paid for him to go to school wow that sure does seem br br like they suffered a lot from flint going to the dumps he was also born in canada oh wait that makes him a canadian citizen i wish he would just move there instead he lives here in his 1 million dollar new york apartment thats working class right there i sure can't wait for his dvd set to come out i want to here him talking about how big corporations are bad where will i get those dvds oh yeah at target and wal mart the two biggest corporations in america which were also the only two stores allowed to sell them
0	this must be the most boring film i ever saw the only positive i can say about it is that thankfully i didn't pay to see it we were given a free showing in school and everyone in the audience just sat there embarrassed wondering when the fun would start this piece of junk is a badly filmed way too long film the actual idea on why making the movie took about 10 seconds to present the only ones who can be interested in this film are those who lost their jobs and want to know why they might find some of the interviews interesting a different edit might have made an interesting documentary of this but i doubt it the interviews shown were not engaging in any way as it is it is just a tragedy both to behold and to be a part of avoid this film at any cost
0	i saw this last night at the tribeca film fest and holy god was it bad from the script to the editing to the acting to the cinematography none of it worked not to mention the set design costumes were so distractingly wrong for the time period it spans the years from the late 70s up until 2006 or so even john hurt who's usually an amazing actor was so over the top ridiculous granted quinten crisp is an over the top guy to begin with but hurt was given nothing to work with here i don't know much else to say except the audience i saw it with absolutely loved it so maybe it's just me but audiences love anything at film festivals when they're sitting next to the director and all the actors it's not a very accurate test of how good the movie is or how well it will play personally i thought this movie was terrible on the other hand it was so terrible that it was hilarious get drunk and give it a shot when it's on hbo in 2 years if it ever makes it that far
0	in this follow up to the naked civil servant we see the final years of quentin life in new york john hurt is again crisp come on who else could play the part and its a role he inhabits to the point of disappearing for me hurt is crisp and i've always found it very hard to take the man himself because hurt was more him than he was himself its masterful performance his equal is denis o'hare as phillip steele long time friend and confidant br br unfortunately outside of the performances the film has little to recommend it to be certain the film gets the details right filmed in and around new york the film the film looks and feels like new york and its environs but dramatically its kind of inert its crisp talking to people being witty trying to come to terms with the world as it is he ended up regretting some poorly chosen words concerning aids and dealing with the that old aged thrust upon him quentin the man is always interesting but his life as portrayed is really not br br i am disappointed by the film i've always admired the man and his unique point of view i just wish he was better served by this film about his life
0	one would think that anyone embarking upon a followup to the groundbreaking naked civil servant of 30 plus years ago would at the very least try to honor the original with some kind of inspired vision but no here we have a sort of biopic of one of the most stylish people of the late 20th century that itself boasts no style whatsoever true the filmmakers have assembled some outstanding actors and handed them a chipped mug of drab gruel to work with everything in the infrastructure of this film is wrong starting with the script which is another one of those tv movie of great lives wherein every other line is a famous quote by the subject and every other scene is an in your face introduction to the next pivotal character in the subject's life we get swoozie kurtz as a pr maven who promotes crisp as a stateside entertainer denis o'hare as the editor of a gay periodical who hires crisp as film reviewer becomes somewhat alienated from him when he appears indifferent to the passions of 80's aids activists and then returns to the fold as a compassionate friend of the dying octogenarian jonathan tucker in a fine performance as a shy insecure painter of gay themed canvases who is befriended by crisp and finally cynthia nixon as performance artist and woman about bohemia penny arcade who intrigued by persona offers him a spot in her traveling cabaret act nixon is a persuasive and gifted performer but is given no chance by the script to embody the down to earth and streetwise arcade crisp spent the last 20 years of his life in a one room flat in an old tenement building in manhattan's east village he famously said that he never cleaned because after a few years the dust doesn't get any worse or something like that but looking at the depiction of that flat in this film you'd never get the flavor of that he frequented a local coffee shop on a busy avenue and would be seen pretty much each day of the week sipping tea and watching the world go by in this film we get a diner that looks like something on 12th avenue by the hudson river most of the streets of new york scenes have a sterile unreal look with no sense of the period br br the soul of this film is the great john hurt in the title role after nearly 35 years he can still grasp the essence of this peculiar post edwardian englishman and put it across to third his every line every gesture is exquisite in the later scenes he even his vocal projection to suit that of a person whose life is winding down toward death crisp wrote shortly before he left this realm that when one grows very very old one's skin takes on the character of a smelly overcoat that cannot be removed and one longs for death one senses that feeling in hurt's performance so for him and him alone this film is worth a look
0	i was surprised after watching this piece of crap if you have seen an episode of tom and jerry in which jerry pours some liquid onto him and becomes invisible than you are likely to see the same cartoons with added erotic topping a man becoming invisible and doing s i is the conclusion of the movie involving too much sex in a cartoon themed movie doesn't increase its worth and most of all i was surprised when the same cartoon ending was used to show up the mr invisible and that was really awful i must say flour drops off the rack and our very own mr invisible becomes visible watch zack and miri make a porno i bet you wont get bored br br 1 10 from me
0	after just viewing the movie i must say this is one of the worst films i have ever seen this takes my worst movie award away from komodo which is no easy feat it is neither a porno nor a legitimate film and it gives them both a bad name the acting camera work plot script and sound are all awful my personal favorite part of the movie is the duck asking the bartender if he has any grapes why was a joke such as this put in the film was the director thinking i need a humorous scene to balance out the great acting so i will use some lame ass joke i read on a taffy wrapper another retarded part is when norman spills the invisibility potion on himself as he attempts to keep it from spilling why did they even bother to give the film a nc 17 rating were they hoping to get as large of an audience as possible at least if it were rated x it would be more sexual and therefore taking the viewers focus away from the overall low quality i pray for someone who worked on this panty waste of a flick to respond
0	if you watched the series and love the league as i do then prepare to be disappointed i went to the cinema with a group of die hard league fans and we were all in agreement that this film wasn't as funny or dark as the three series before in my personal opinion it was a money spinner the writing was contrived and the plot confused no not confusing just confused with what it was trying to do it was self indulgence of the worst kind from writers who are far more talented than my pitiful criticisms i hope the league at least can be honest enough with themselves and acknowledge this film as being inferior to the superb three series i will not be buying it despite owning most of the league memorabilia
0	honestly awful film bad editing awful lighting dire dialog and scrappy screenplay br br the lighting at is so bad there's moments you can't even see what's going on i even tried to playing with the contrast and brightness so i could see something but that didn't help br br they must have found the script in a bin the character development is just as awful and while you hardly expect much from a jean claude van damme film this one manages to hit an all time low you can't even laugh at the br br the directing and editing are also terrible the whole film follows an extremely tired routine and fails at every turn as it bumbles through the plot that is so weak it's just unreal br br there's not a lot else to say other than it's really bad and nothing like jean claude van damme's earlier work which you could enjoy br br avoid like the plaque frankly words fail me in condemning this film
0	i rented this type of soft core before but i can honestly say i wasn't expecting this to be in the same type as rod steele you only live until you die which was both sexy and funny it had a good script a sincere leading man and a sense of purpose it also has gabriella hall who is hot the reason why i didn't expect this movie was because the box was missing the must be 18 to rent sticker i was looking for more cheese and less cheesecake br br first of all i think movies shouldn't be allowed to start with actors rehearsing for a part at a talent agency or wherever actors rehearse in this movies seeing the actors rehearsing highlights the lack of preparation that went into acting out the real characters in the movie br br okay having found out that this was a soft core movie i didn't necessarily turn it off and demand my money back but the dizzying way the extended video erotic scenes are added to what was probably a late night pay cable release are very annoying and easy to fast forward through without the sustained quality of say rod steele you know they must've had some money because i think some of it is filmed overseas br br i will have to say the main actor trying not to spill the invisibility potion on himself is one of the most baffling acting jobs i've ever seen and i've seen from manos it may actually have been worth the dollar rental fee that and gabriella hall still there are better corny movies to rent with your friends
0	what can have been on irene dunne's mind when she accepted the role in this distasteful account of a woman of morals certainly the irene dunne of the 1940's whose reputation as a faithful roman catholic who publicly smut and shunned any film scripts or hollywood society that might be even be remotely construed as corrupting public morals would never have become associated with such a dubious project as this br br perhaps new york's cardinal spellman in his private audience with her gave her a good dressing down over this role that we will likely never know inasmuch as she never spoke of it in later years though she did denounce her morally suspect though quite successful 1932 film back street as trash br br certainly by the time she received the distinguished st robert award in 1965 for exemplary public catholicism ann vickers was no longer recalled by the general public br br suffice it to say that ann vickers works neither as entertainment or social commentary br br miss dunne's role as an adulterous social worker who sleeps around between reforming prisons and writing a best seller on correctional rehabilitation doesn't dovetail with her temperament or on screen demeanor and one keeps suspecting that the whole thing is a kind of tongue in cheek gag what else can we think when we witness a montage of miss dunne's sympathetic beatific gaze superimposed over a shot of a female prisoner being by films end she has renounced in favor of marriage to crusty convict walter huston no less and what kind of lunacy would ever conceive of pairing these two romantically br br irene dunne completists will no doubt wish to see this curiosity if only for the chance to hear her promise to rehabilitate a cocaine addict under her charge i'm going to get you off the snow cold turkey br br well if nothing else such sordid goings on do present her light years from her usual milieu of operatic chiffon and strawberry cocaine addiction not being the first subject one associates with the irreproachable miss dunne
0	this is a bad film as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts as a result it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr huston should have been proud of making however the film is worth watching if you are a fan of pre code films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out even if they aren't married and even if their partner is br br the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi in the process she meets a bruce cabot who eventually convinces her to sleep with him she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman however miss dunne does not want him back as she realizes he's not worth it but later her baby dies at child birth while all these very controversial plot elements are used they are always alluded to almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way kids in the audience will be clueless after all films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time br br surprisingly this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about 1 4 of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it it on to still another film in this second phase of the film miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women's prison though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate and as a result of all this violence miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer br br but then out of the blue another type of film emerges and the women's prison reform business goes by the wayside dunne meets a judge walter huston who is married but he desperately wants her now throughout the film dunne is portrayed as a very good girl even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot she was more or less tricked into it but now single irene who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only but she never thinks to investigate if this is true and with his assurance off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business but while she's pregnant with his love child he's indicted for being a crooked judge he assures her he's innocent but he's convicted and it sure sounds like he's a scoundrel using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to a fortune then in the final moments of the film miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released the film then ends br br so we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early 30s idea of what a nice girl should be like i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships this really undoes all the positives about dunne's character and it's really hard to imagine anyone liking the film a strong women's rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect with a decent re write this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film but it couldn't make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film
0	some famous stories are prone to being moved to another epoch and as such becoming an embarrassing tv movie oscar wilde's ghost is one of them this tv movie for kids is utterly cheap concerning acting character work credibility directing and even concerning the modest special effects as often the question arises what was this made for
0	i watched this movie by accident on tv and it was so unbelievably awful i could not switch it off every single piece of wit and intelligence has been removed from the oscar wilde story by the inept screenplay writer it barely matters because the dire acting clichéd camera work and cloying music would have ruined anything resembling like a decent script anyway the worst performance comes from patrick stewart who comes across as the most hammy talentless minor mock shakespearean as the ghost get thee out of here he screams at one stage while waving his arms like a pantomime villain a truly terrible film and why wonders why stewart who can act when called upon to do so has soiled his reputation by making worthless pieces of crap like this and the xmen
0	i was really excited when i read the ghost would be shown on tv however i was deeply disappointed i loved the original story written by oscar wilde and sadly nothing of that was transferred by the movie
0	there's a certain irony in a parody of the gothic genre being turned into a mess of clichés by filmmakers who either had no idea what the story's purpose was or just didn't care all of the hallmarks of your average family film are present rambunctious younger siblings a grumpy teenager who doesn't want to move unsympathetic parents who are unable to see the apparition and of course a romantic subplot the movie has very little in common with wilde's original story which was largely written to poke fun at the melodramatic gothic novellas that were all the rage at the time if wilde saw this version he'd probably laugh and then of course write a parody one can only hope that the children who watched this bland mass produced pap eventually discovered the wit and sparkle of the original version
0	there is nothing like an oscar wilde comedy and this movie is nothing like a comedy the melodrama labors from scene to scene and the comedy is completely absent in the original story the humor comes from the americans who are oblivious to the ghostly traditions of chase the american father even offers some oil to the ghost to quiet the creaking chains read the book
0	the ghost 1996 the director made this too sappy a production maybe it's the generation but i really liked the charles laughton version there is a time and place for emoting and this production does not translate very well patrick stewart reciting shakespeare was very good but still inappropriate would neither recommend nor watch again the close ups and padded text and sub plots were lost on me adding extraneous material and scenes takes away from a truly great work the screenplay writer should find another profession in which to his talent maybe afternoon soap operas would be a better venue check out the really good version and pass on this one
0	this film's premise seems to be that the passing of the world war 2 generation in america with its apple pie phoniness and hypocritical morality was a terrible tragedy those awful hippies ruined everything apparently br br what holds the film together are the excellent performances particularly lemmon's which is truly remarkable otherwise we have a boring slice of life drama just over 24 hours of jack's life with pretensions br br i found it a chore to sit through
0	it became apparent in the first 25 mins of watching this that the writers really wanted to make a feature length film and they probably certainly enjoyed the whole process but then seemed to forget the fact that it needed a decent plot if the best they could do was have 3 of the dullest characters enter the real world and have 'all sorts of amusing then they should have left well alone i didn't laugh once and that whole adventures of baron munchausen time bandits thing going on in the middle was very very poor contrived and very loose it just seemed like a whistle stop tour of anything they thought work just to drag it out to a feature br br full of holes eg the royston vasey characters needed the writers to carry on writing in order to save them yet jeff managed to write himself into the sub story time filling william and mary and era if he could do this then why didn't they just carry on writing royston themselves duh and herr audition what was that for i mean what was the point he did it and we heard nothing else whatsoever about it br br my main point is that while i loved the series this was an ill thought out seemingly rushed project put it this way the plot was so poor that if we didn't already know the characters and as a fan i had a certain loyalty to carry on watching and we relied solely on the the story itself this would have fallen flat on its face at best it would have gone straight to video and at worst would never have been made in the first place or maybe that should be the other way round truly dreadful
0	jack lemmon was one of our great actors his performances in days of wine and roses the apartment some like it hot missing to name the first ones that come to mind were all worthy of best actor nomination his only win was for save the tiger and that's a shame he gets melancholy down to a science but never brings it into balance with the driver in his character he actually did a similar character much better toward the end of his career in the one note glengarry glen ross br br as for the movie wonderful supporting work by jack gilford as lemmon's partner and thayer david as an arsonist go for naught because the rest of the script is a muddled jumble of cliched vignettes angst neurotic nostalgia and pointless moralizing worth seeing once as a time capsule into 1970's style experimental direction by
0	jack lemmon was one of the finest actors that had ever graced the screen he could effortlessly switch from dramatic roles to comedic with ease making most of his peers green with envy while his performance in save the tiger is oscar worthy i feel it was given to him as he had missed out on his other opportunities to win the award due to other better roles that had preceded this current one br br this is also one of those pretentious movies that comes out to basically showcase the talent of the cast or in this case one particular member it's too bad the screenwriter's output didn't match that of lemmon's don't waste your time with this one
0	the shanghai cobra starts out like gangbusters with a rain soaked diner scene straight out of shack out on 101 or gun crazy the first one unfortunately the film then proceeds to plod its weary way through a standard chan formula that is only barely enlivened by the always wonderful mantan moreland it's as if director blew half his budget in the first five minutes just getting the set up the way he wanted it watch the beginning and think about the city story
0	admittedly i am not a fan of the monogram chan films the plot involving radium theft from a bank vault is a bit far fetched and a long way from the atmospheric mysteries that fox produced mantan moreland and benson fong as no 3 son tommy provide some laughs as usual but otherwise there isn't much here great title that is wasted
0	not one of better not trying to be amusing here either chan entries the shanghai cobra has a lot going for it but in the end is just way too confusing and cluttered to be overly satisfying the film opens with a murderer named the shanghai cobra having already struck twice and now is about in a scene at a diner in some way we have a guy a girl and another guy having some implied connection when one guy dies in the streets yes i am simplifying things here for the sake of brevity for this really is at the core of the problems with this film it has too much going on without any real fulfilling explanation i haven't even gone into the diner cook who has some involvement and a juke box that talks to you and has a screen and everyone doesn't seem to have a problem with that all this is in the first five minutes or so then chan enters film working for the government and flying out to help a friend he also has right to check a bank's store of radium and is looking for a man wrapped in bandages that he helped arrest in shanghai many years earlier i found the plot very involved as stated earlier toler is back as chan he is ever affable benson fong and mantan moreland are back too both do good jobs and are quite amusing but the convoluted plot just didn't convince me and much of the film was watched with a weird questioning glance this isn't a bad movie not just a very interesting one except for the most devoted of chan fans
0	loosely based on novels by earl 20th century fox's charlie chan series proved an audience favorite but when japan attacked pearl harbor the studio feared audiences would turn against its asian hero this was a miscalculation actor sidney toler took the role to poverty row monogram studios where he continued to portray the character in eleven more films made between 1944 and his death in 1947 br br 20th century fox had regarded the chan films as inexpensive b movies but even so the studio took considerable care with them the plots were often silly but the pace was sharp the dialogue witty and the casts which featured the likes of bela lugosi and ray milland always expert the result was a kindly charm which has stood the test of time monogram was a different matter chan films were b movies plain and simple little care was taken with scripts or cast and resulting films were flat mediocre at best virtually unwatchable at worst br br thanks to an adequate cast and a few interesting plot devices the shanghai cobra is among the best of the monogram made chan films but even so it barely manages to achieve a consistent mediocrity in this particularly entry chan sidney toler is called upon to investigate a murderer who kills with what appears to be a cobra like bite at the same time he decides to make certain that a government supply of radium tucked away in a bank vault of all places remains secure do these two seemingly unrelated plot lines come together well could be sidney toler is always enjoyable as chan but most of his monogram performances seemed phoned in and that is as true of cobra as it is of any monogram chan film as usual the really enjoyable performer is mantan changing times have led us to look upon brand of comedy as demeaning to african americans but he was an expert actor and comic and taken within the context of what was possible for a black actor in the 1940s his work has tremendous charm and innocence br br fans of the 20th century fox series are likely to find chan a significant disappointment and newcomers who like the monogram films will probably consider them third rate after encountering the fox films like other monogram chan films the shanghai cobra is best left to determined collectors four stars and that's being generous br br gft amazon reviewer
0	i just spent the last half an hour reading through the other reviews and i don't know if i want to laugh or cry there's no way that is like harry potter danny phantom fairly oddparents other then a secret magical world which has been close to overdone also no way is anime anime is very much a drawing style and some will say more such as plot and japanese origin either way is not anime so stop saying it is and if you're looking for something that is like anime look else where like teen titans and avatar br br is typical it's just like all the other disney shows an arrogant main character kid who thinks he knows everything and doesn't bother to listen to people who're older than him and continues to make the same mistakes best friend sidekicks plot with a hint of a twist and sibling rivalry can't they once make a character that has brains and isn't full of himself can't they have kids respect their elders can't they think of something different with the plot can't they have the siblings get along and not hate each other is just too generic because you also have bad guys that get defeated and come back again and are also complete idiots that have no background for their hate c'mon you'll think that someone who's at least 30 will be able to out wit a 13 year old br br watching is like watching nearly anything else on tv these day same thing over and over again nothing special just new designs characters and one small idea that has been used again and again
0	not really worth a review but i suppose it's my duty to warn you all especially since there are some pretty good reviews of this canadian bomb floating around out there bad acting and a slow moving absolutely atrociously boring 'coming of age' tale in which 3 boys lives are turned upside down when a man on the run shows up at their clubhouse in the woods at the boys make good with the intruder and at one point even view him as some sort of a role model however all this changes and you still won't care you will recognize chris penn whose biggest cinematic impact is corky romano and a young devon sawa whose career peaked at i was hoping for a '12 and 'the war' or and all i got was a waste of time this film struggles to keep it's audiences attention and never makes an impact or maintains a note of anything remotely interesting
0	this was an attempt toward a romantic comedy and one which did not work although the film was cast in an interesting manner the dismal script betrayed the best efforts of all the director's fey mannerisms may have succeeded if he had adopted a point of view it was embarrassing to watch william baldwin and in particular armin muller stahl
0	not having any idea what this film was about but based on the fact that john leguizamo was appearing in it we decided to watch it well it turned out not to be the wisest decision in fact as another commentary in this forum puts it we felt embarrassed for the actors that participated in this movie br br while the film is by no means horrible it doesn't make sense at all the over the top performance by william baldwin doesn't help the situation either john leguizamo is a multi talented actor who deserved better the basic problem it seems to be the film was a project that started with good intentions in making a little comedy and the people in charge ran out of ideas along the way the result is an uneven film
0	am i right in thinking i went to see the same film as everyone else this film was terrible i'm a fan of all 3 series of the league of and have always respected the originality of the writers even when the format changed in series 3 this film however was a blatant half effort the plot was extremely poor having the characters going into the real world made this film see more like the last action hero there was about 5 moments in the film that got a mild chuckle but the rest of the time i was wishing it would end this would have been better as a 10 minute short on the dvd it was more of an explanation of what they planned to do and looked like some of the writers disagreed on the fate of the characters and they made a joke of this by killing him off in the first 30 minutes br br if your a true fan of the league of gentlemens ability to stay fresh then you'll hate this film if you only watch it cause there was nothing better on tv then u'll love it br br someone back me up
0	mild spoilers br br the premise goes like this a store gets burnt down and assistant sergio is asked by the father of the man who started the fire to take the wrap to which sergio agrees br br so far so good but there s a fair lapse of logic involved sergio agrees to do this for the sum of 25 000 dollars but why come on guys if you were a good looking white boy would you run the risk of getting a long spell in a tough jail a very real for arson for the sake of 25 grand i know i wouldn t and seeing as you d have a criminal record no employer would want to touch you with a barge pole so is 25 000 dollars all that much for a life of and welfare cheques there s also something else that seems to have gone without notice from the premise since mister has told sergio that his son did the fire he seems of the possibility that he may know too much wouldn t alarm bells be ringing in your mind about someone wanting to keep you quite if they told you something br br i guess we re not to think about such details since a pyromaniac s love story isn t to be an intelligent thriller it s a light hearted romantic comedy chick flick that s probably best as a girls night in looking through this comments page it is obvious that the movie has its defenders but as a cynical male i wasn t too impressed and william baldwin does go way over the top
0	started watching this but didn't believe in any of the characters in particular the relationship between the bakery assistant and the waitress just didn't work for me at all the scenes between the bakery owner and the assistant were nice but the rest was just very slow it was a very superficial movie and it gave me the feeling that i was watching play rather than a film the characters were very 'stagey' and the storyline was a lot like a stage farce by the time the pyromaniac waylaid the assistant i was bored and didn't care what happened next and so i switched off glad i didn't pay to see it didn't laugh or even smile once there seems to be a strange tendency for americans to classify their films as 'comedy' when they are funny peculiar rather than funny ha ha i have finally learned to avoid what americans term dark comedies which usually turn out to be gruesome weird and unfunny now it looks like i will have to be a bit more discerning when they call a film romantic comedy as well maybe comedy means something different when applied to a film rather than a series in america i don't understand why america can produce amazingly funny comedies like two and a half men will and grace king of queens but can't seem to produce really funny films without resorting to toilet humour this film wasn't gross or anything but it wasn't anything at all just one big yawn
0	laughable br br clichéd br br overdoses on style to compensate for poor writing br br remember when mtv actually used to air music videos and other shows besides reality shows aeon flux 2005 is based upon one such show – a cartoon from the mid 90s – featuring a superhuman female protagonist in black latex clothing aeon played by the lovely charlize theron in this adaptation is a cold detached rebel who is as dexterous as a line dancer and as deadly as a viper snake she needs to be if she expects to kick the asses of the totalitarian government br br i love science fiction but hate the sudden influx of half assed futuristic dystopian technology overdosed films like the island 2005 and equilibrium 2002 bottom of the pile aeon flux has all the problems that are present in these films but amplified that is there is nothing original left to show so they compensate for it with the sleek style that matrix 1999 catalyzed the special effects are therefore sensational in aeon flux which earns it a few points but scratch the surface and there is literally nothing there br br to make matters worse all performances in this film are atrocious and some actually wound me to watch charlize theron's character aeon flux is interwoven with the most cheesy tough chick schtick and it seems as though the director karyn kusama cannot quite decide where to go with her next – should she make her more detached or more emotional she doesn't know let's go both ways imagine you take a shotgun load it chock full of character developments of different sorts and there fire into a random mess this is the character of aeon flux br br the film aeon flux puts forward all the ideas in a dystopian society individual vs society nature vs science emotion vs cold reason etc you've seen all of this before and better done at that go read orwell bradbury or or even watch logan's run 1976 or blade runner 1982 anything avoid this viciously uninvolving cheese fest for as long as you can br br 3 10
0	i got to know back in the early 90s via television and i loved it br br what did you like about it the cranky drawing style the flawless artistic action involved the absurd and deadpan communication between the characters the whole layout of the surrounding future world no matter what you loved about it br br the aeon flux film of late 2005 has nothing of that br br karyn kusama the so called director of the film was hopelessly over strained with transporting the original content to a new film if you 're not familiar with the original series you won't understand anything during for the first of the film the story is inscrutable and the vapid characters do not develop during the film br br attempt to improve the storyline by implementing some rather weak explanatory conversations between the main characters is not only a lame attempt to cover up her flaws as a storyteller it's simply unworthy of the original concept br br charlize theron might be an attractive woman but she can't impersonate the character although she was attached to strings doing action scenes her lack of talent for physical motion simply ruins the action sequences in the film the result is a tremendous amount of hectic picture cuts to cover up the sheer lameness of her physique br br forget about all the rest it's not worth talking about br br i give for ms theron showing her boobs and for the nice architectural photography in the film that's it
0	while aeon flux was mildly entertaining and a slightly better way to spend a wednesday evening than the pub i did leave pleased that i had got buy one get one free tickets knowing nothing about the film as i went in in fact i didn't even know there was an animated series before i read this site i was ready for anything and as some other viewers noted the trailers showing a well filmed good looking and interesting piece of cinema had pulled me in half way through the film though i was kind of disappointed it did remind me of the fifth element but i too feel it just lacked the extra bit of depth and left me with the empty feeling and enough of the pointless and slightly boring gun fights if you're going to do them do it with some style not just loads of explosions and inept guards falling down personally i'd rather have seen a bit more about the story and the people in the city or got to know more about how the chairman was being undermined than yet another long and loud gun fight
0	critics have started calling it the oscar winner club understandably what after halle berry won it for monsters ball then going straight to the diabolical catwoman hilary swank triumphs in boys don't cry and follows it with the core jamie foxx takes a nosedive as a pilot in the dull stealth after scooping a gong for ray now it's seems hollywood starlet charlize theron craps all over her monster oscar with this one of the worst sci fi spectacles ever made br br the film loses its audience interest after a mere 20 minutes meaning the only thing really worth staying for is the fact that despite the film being rubbish charlize theron is still an exceptional actress who is clearly making the best of a crude and laughable premise not only is flux ultimately shallow but for an action flick it's also really very dull it will only really appeal to comic book fans and teenagers who like the idea of theron running around half naked for 90 minutes flux only really succeed in failing br br set against the virus that kills 99 of the world's populace and in the last city on earth the survivors some four hundred years later in the year are continuing to live in the dynasty the name of the scientist who developed its cure br br all is not well in this utopia and it is not what lies beyond its high walls that protects its citizens from the never ending jungle but what unspoken unwritten taboo that holds and binds these unwritten taboo that holds and binds these together that lies within these walls of paranoia conformity and unquestionable obedience filmed in and around berlin ironically this is a story set against a totalitarian state a walled city where its peoples are no longer capable of reproducing and its sinister and most secret plot of how it sustains life br br flux is the assassin that has been assigned by the underground rebels to change the course of mankind forever this is the story of her fight for justice freedom and revenge br br flux combined lousy narratives pacing and truly dire effects looking more like an unrealistic video game rather than a film the only thing that is fortunate about the failure is that no sequels are in the works flux might just be the beginning and the end of what could have been one of the worst franchises in history thank god for the lousy box office then br br my final verdict on this truly lousy feature there really isn't a story here just charlize theron jumping around in a black suit like a grass hopper the acting is very wooden moronic and emotionless compared to the other cinemas that are out there today it try's too much to be like an adaption and doesn't really take much from the cartoon which is what i was expecting the only thing that was done half right that pays tribute to the cartoon was the fly in the eye scene avoid at all costs
0	right up or down there with toys and jurassic park 2 and the phantom menace br br the premise sounded cool some of the commercials looked semi promising but alas the entire movie had about 30 seconds of neat shot ness and that was shown on the small screen's 30 second slot br br if you want amateur writing second rate effects ridiculous costumes and an all around snoozefest by all means watch it the plot is recycled sci fi fodder too bad too because coming in i thought it would be bad but held out hope it may be the worst movie i have ever seen and i have seen a lot br br bottom line don't watch it br br unless of course you liked any of the above 3 movies
0	the mtv sci fi animated series flux is brought to life with charlize theron playing the title character a freedom fighter who fights oppression in the walled city of 400 hundred years into the future for her latest mission she has been sent to kill the city's leader trevor marton csokas but she uncovers secrets along the way br br aeon flux falls under the category of good premise mediocre execution interesting story yet the film was a little dull a lot of people are saying that this is one of the worst movies of the year and that's not true at all it may be a disappointing film but it's an average film at best i have never seen the cartoon version of the movie so i can't compare the two it's probably better because they have a chance to explain the story more the film is not that confusing but it's easy to get lost if you're not familiar with the material the acting was alright nothing special charlize theron gives a good performance and seems dedicated to the film the rest of the cast also give decent performances including jonny lee miller frances and marton csokas there are also more than a few interesting characters in the film including friend br br the problem with aeon flux is that it takes itself too seriously it carries the same serious tone throughout the entire film and that gets a little tiring there's no humor and the film becomes a little boring at times this is the same problem that elektra had because the film is so serious the dialog sounds cheesy and the serious scenes seem forced the action scenes are pretty good but that's not what the film is really about so don't go in expecting just an action movie the twist at the end isn't mind blowing but it's still a nice ending and better than other thrillers that have come out this past year hide and seek the costumes are little weird but still look nice and interesting the visuals were are also done well so the film at least looks nice so the movie may be a case of style over substance interesting to look at but may not hold your attention for a very long time in the end it's not the best film out there but it might for a decent rental rating 4 10
0	if you're a fan of the original series do not see this movie br br i should have been skeptical from the previews when aeon expresses her motives for murder in the series aeon had no family and no motive for her adventures save selfish interests obviously the chimp writer in charge felt the movie needed to cater to the bad demographic by making the character deadly but have a good reason to kill people br br you wouldn't have thought it possible but the movie is more two dimensional than the cartoon the characters are all portrayed as inherently good with some conflict of interest that eventually gets resolved all dogs go to heaven and same for every character that dies in this movie br br the selfish twisted perverted dominating personas of aeon and trevor are nowhere to be seen in the end they literally develop into a cutesy couple ala annie hall the only character who remained true to the show was the the floating machine in the sky i suppose if you ever thought gee i like aeon flux but i wish it were more like every other faceless good v evil sci fi hollywood slop out there then you are in for a treat br br they didn't even get the look right i suppose a black metal bikini was too much to ask for but the whole setting is wrong 400 years into the future sure looks like 30 years into the past instead of a distinctly urban post apocalyptic world the viewer's eyes are offended with a 70's mod squad of egg shaped furniture wood paneled walls earth tones and lots of plants was a dystopia not a utopia br br speaking of that's the only city on earth according to the movie the show is clear that there are two cities and monica which used to be one in the movie the are just hollywood storybook freedom fighters they also have as much technology as the which is not the case from the show br br the only possible conclusion is that the real writer for this movie was a high school kid and that he wrote it the day before it was due to the studio execs and he's never seen an entire aeon flux all the way through the overwhelming amount of inconsistency with the cartoon is baffling beyond using certain names like aeon flux trevor and the movie is nothing like the show br br the actual bulk of the movie seems to try to blend the colorful plots of soy lent green blade runner logan's run and tomb raider which came out a dull brown mess
0	it's a bit unnerving when a studio declines to screen a film for the press before it goes into wide release that many movies suck is no surprise but when a studio itself admits as much ahead of time the process of movie going becomes a passion play of sorts consider it an early christmas gift from hollywood then that aeon flux isn't nearly the affront to taste and decency one might expect given the above though ultimately overwhelmed by its flaws it at least has sort of an idea with which to toy around too bad director karyn kusama seems to have little clue how to execute it all br br it's the future there's been a plague there is a dictatorship and there are rebels the latter are known as the and far from being a cult of beret or tennis racket worshipers they're into attempts to overthrow the former called the regime the regime is occasionally mean to the citizenry which is more than aeon flux charlize theron and her pals can stand through some sort of biochemical virtual reality technology the receive orders from their dear leader frances a mystical priestess type who appears to have been cross bred with a carrot it falls to aeon to strap on some form fitting futuristic spandex get ups to carry out the high orders which are of course some version of destroy the regime having years earlier watched her sister get liquidated by the she needs little convincing br br not surprisingly things get complicated the might not be quite what they seem and aeon herself might have an unexpected history with them though occasionally muddled the film's central conceit of which i won't reveal more contains some neat notions about the nature of human existence and survival there's room for much more examination of which the film doesn't take advantage but the ideas are there at least the big problems of aeon flux are technical kusama has made the baffling decision to film nearly all the action so close that we can rarely follow what's going on to make matters worse it's edited in a flurry of jump cuts that leave us completely lost the result is some serious spacial disorientation that takes over the film aeon flux 's aesthetic is one of sleek costume oddly angled architecture and nimble characters much of the action occurs in minimalist open spaces that beg for some unbroken long shots that might convey the grace and athleticism implied by the above instead we get split seconds of flying limbs breaking glass and accompanying sound effects br br there is a pretty good movie trying to get out of the morass of aeon flux put this stuff in the hands of the wachowski brothers say and the results could be quite different as it is though i felt like aeon flux was willfully pushing me away from a movie i wanted to enjoy this film is unattuned to its own strengths like a novice poker player dealt a royal flush it somehow finds a way to lose in spite of its potential
0	don't get me wrong i love the tv series of league of gentlemen it was funny twisted and completely inspired i was looking forward to the movie the premise was interesting and i looked forward to see what they had done with the characters and where the bizarre storyline would take them br br it was a total disappointment for starters the three weakest characters in the series were the leads and it only contained bit parts for the other characters why not pick mickey pauline papa or tubs and edward for the main parts it was unfunny throughout half baked gags and poor slapstick humour br br the real clincher was the plain ridiculous period drama comedy and i will use the word comedy loosely it distracted from the main storyline and felt awkward not to mention painfully unfunny the direction of the movie is appalling and often feels that the lines were delivered by the characters within one take very rushed br br then the three headed plasticine esquire monster what the hell was all that about plain ridiculous it felt like the league of gentlemen tagged it on at the end br br all in all i found myself looking at my watch and sighing with disappointment throughout my experience of the film what was once an amazing television series has been tainted by a terribly unfunny film br br if i could give it 0 out of 10 i would do not waste your money seeing this
0	in the animated series br br aeon flux was an amoral rebel that was completely detached from everything and everyone she was cruel selfish loving unpredictable witty caustic confident sarcastic lethal ambiguous all at once the original aeon had layers upon layers of depth she almost never allowed her personal emotions to show through the original plot was deliciously ambiguous and thought provoking you could never tell what motives were aeon was a militant anarchist whereas trevor was a radical idealist because of this they could never have any semblance of a stable relationship br br in the movie br br aeon flux works for the and her political motives and personal motives are very clear she was pretty loving vulnerable easily emotional and very predictable the aeon in the movie had one layer of depth at most the plot was obvious and contrived everything is completely laid out for you from the beginning there was virtually no conflict between aeon and trevor at least in terms of personal philosophies the only conflict between them was that they were on different sides br br the movie was a horrible disappointment to me i felt betrayed they took the idea of one of my favorite animated characters of all time squeezed all the depth and personality out of her and pumped her full of hollywood clichés the essence of the animated series was completely lost in this movie br br the only reason i'm not giving this movie a 1 is because the visuals were incredible it was neat to see some of the familiar animated scenes like the fly in the eye done with cgi
0	joan crawford is convincingly disfigured as our story starts and of course she get fixed up but she's a bad egg exploiting one guy while living out another guy's anti social philosophy all of this takes place in sweden which is truly bizarre it causes anything and everything memorable in the visuals which are freed from having to depict usa but it makes a viewer wonder why every remake since is burdened and rendered unspecific by the need to americanize everything there is plot plot plot so chatty that you could drown in it and making matters worse is a framing device that adds zilch to the movie the photography is occasionally nice with odd angles and miniatures incorporated quite well but it's overwrought without ever once drawing you in
0	this film is a cash in a cash in reliant on a rousing theme tune created for an earlier classic yul brynner has long since jumped ship and so have most of the production values lee van cleef takes over the lead role of chris i can't think of any actor who looks less like brynner than van cleef hey he could have at least shaved off his hair and lost the moustache just for the sake of continuity some correctional centres show this movie in order to punish offenders one step out of line and the magnificent seven ride is brought to the fore and wielded they didn't even bother trying to make this movie not look like a tv movie abysmal
0	the series finally hits rock bottom with this lousy fourth installment which was thank god the last one none of the three sequels did justice to the highly entertaining original but this particular film is nothing more than a shameless attempt to exploit the name of the magnificent seven and bernstein's rousing music theme the production values resemble those of a made for tv movie and the characters are forgettable and indistinguishable in parts ii and iii you couldn't remember their names here you can't even remember their faces lee van cleef was an inappropriate choice for the role of chris but nobody could have replaced yul brynner in our minds anyway don't waste your time
0	i would bet a month's salary the magnificent seven returns msr was made for tv other reviewers attest that msr was a theatrical movie and i'll take their word for it the logical answer must assume it was originally shot for tv and after a change of studio heart it was released theatrically instead every actor is primarily a tv actor mariette hartley michael waite stephanie powers tv performers all lee van cleef split his time between tv and theater screens stephanie powers has only made 3 or 4 real movie appearances in the last thirty years of a very prolific television career proof positive this was shot for tv minor players are veteran small screen actors who can be seen on old reruns of gunsmoke wild wild west streets of san francisco and so on br br the ho hum sets are identical to the universal studios tour sets often seen in old episodic tv and the editing betrays the one or two takes of tv with limited camera movements positioning cutting and lighting the sound track exclusive of the original themes are straight from seventies television yep i'd bet money it was shot for tv br br that's an important point in evaluating msr initially i watched msr on cable assuming it was an old theatrical release in comparison to the original magnificent seven it's a joke a cartoon an amateurish attempt at movie making acting lighting writing settings action cinematography music the themes editing pacing on and on all pale in comparison to the classic magnificent seven which is close to the perfect 60's western and one of the great action movies of all time br br however viewed as an early 70's made for tv movie as i suspect the film is actually better than average those unfortunate enough to live through the 70's as an adult know what i'm talking about msr would have competed against alias smith and jones and similarly bland network shows during the seventies gunsmoke was a quality show concentrating on character development rather than action gun play to two shootouts a week the first shooting usually a murder sets the hour's plot into motion the second shootout climaxes the episode by killing the guest star his nemesis or otherwise resolving the conflict with marshal matt dillon msr has more action than a whole season of gunsmoke in this light in this frame of reference msr is passable entertainment a cut above the tv fare from that decade
0	i guess i should now comment upon a 4th flick in the magnificent seven franchise the sequels still surprise or amaze their sleaze and deliberate absurdism they constitute or forge a 4th classic not revisionist not a sleaze americana kindred to the violent vigilante '70s movies absurd trash this installment too is bombastic awkward and even somewhat strange br br now what i find disturbing that these sequels not only have their opportunist fans but that the fans simply do not sense any difference between the original's style and the br br these sequels are not boring or bizarre they are of course very badly scripts rubbish lines it's straight crazy in this installment each gunman gets several van cleef's young wife begs him to release a young prisoner he finally does the young man resumes his life shoots van cleef kidnaps the wife rapes and kills joins a van cleef who has previously refused to help defending a village now assembles a small bunch and charges the hacienda then the charge the village where van cleef has set br br i liked the cast br br van cleef is chris stefanie powers pretty active in the '70s screwy westerns is van cleef's darling callan very is noah a writer and chris' sidekick the rest of the aggressive bunch are askew one of the only three survivors lucking lauter rita rogers is truly hot fleshy beauty
0	the director was probably still in his early learning stages when he tried his hand at westerns have a look at the outfits everybody looks well scrubbed well brushed well dressed and well ironed as though ready for church even the horses look well groomed and shiny this is a western for crying out loud it's supposed to look dusty nasty and sweaty and then there's the amateurish acting of the females in this bird the whole lot a dozen or so all pretty and well endowed were just freshly raped and widowed but hardly a tear flows instead they all look with great interest if not downright lust at the newly arrived magnificent seven who they subsequently feed bandage and comfort with love during their battles with the bandits the same directing criticism goes for lee van cleef who does a reasonable good acting job our lee playing the law just lost his dear wife but lee hard as organic rock shows no emotion whatsoever and finds himself within days of his spouse's demise in the arms of a juicy widow with whom he together with her brood walks off into the future the cad and then there's another thing that always kind of bothers me with this type of films it doesn't matter how many dynamite induced explosions take place in the middle of a pack of some 50 horses never mind how many shots are being fired at the rabble on top of them only the crooks get killed and the nags always go their way rejoicing in one piece i know silly moi it's just a movie it's not the worst western ever made but prepare for some serious yawning
0	i had high hopes for this film when i saw the listing and decided to watch it on tv uninterrupted by commercial breaks i've liked lee van cleef in many movies but i'm afraid that having the other characters call him chris repeatedly doesn't turn him into even a reasonable facsimile of yul chris br br i found this movie to be a complete disappointment the music sound track tried to impart the magnificence portrayed in the original but it too failed to bring the film up the the standard of the original the rich textures of the characters in the original were mostly missing from this film i guess if you haven't seen the original it would be okay too many clichés and too little depth to the characters i missed the humanity and compassion and the three dimensional characters of the original
0	i really wanted to love this movie and not only cause it had aaron in it but i thought the premise would be cool cause i enjoy movies and shows that revolves around chefs the cinematography was good but besides it being revolved around chefs everything else is just very cliché oh and little miss sunshine was very irritating in this movie although abigail breslin seems to be a bit irritating in every movie she is in cause she plays a lot of roles where she is whinny it has some decent flashes of cooking but food really didn't play a big part in the movie than i expected which was a big disappointment for me this film had some good potential the cast was great but they just had very little to work with i like a good light hearted romantic comedy but this was just bland and longer than it should be cause it felt way longer than it is it's not a terrible movie you just won't miss anything by not watching this movie br br 4 5 10
0	i'm really not going to waste my time with in depth analysis i'm just going to say that i'm extremely disappointed that catherine zeta jones made the mistake of being in the main role in this absurd nonsense in this full of clichés boring to death thoughtless pathetic try in film making there is no point in trying to find the positive sides of this movie because as a whole it is poor in every single way and the saddest thing is that zeta jones is dragged so uncompromisingly into the clichés that she has absolutely no chance of showing even 1 of her talent br br avoid this movie even at the opportunity of spending the night at home starring at the wall
0	i am a massive fan of the log i thought the first two series provided some of the best comedy this country has ever seen and the third series though different was wonderfully dark and imaginative the thought of seeing tubbs edward and briss on the big screen made july 3 something to wait for yet somewhere it all went horribly wrong the writers had no story and no real ideas the part set in old england showed the glimmers of genius that we know the league are capable of but these scenes did not fit well with the film geoff provided the best of too few largely poor jokes and and briss's performances were big let downs if you love the league save yourself the time and money and watch episodes from the tv series again and again a massive disappointment
0	when i saw the trailers for this movie it looked like a good romantic comedy i expected some light fluffy fun instead i was bored and a little depressed br br honestly there was no chemistry between the leads at all and the movie had little if anything that was funny about it the little girl was adorable when she cried i cried but i thought they might have used someone a little bit younger in the role br br either way the movie was filled with long dull silences or swelling opera music i'm not anti opera but i would have preferred them to spend that time letting us get to know the characters who were all stiff and underdeveloped br br i was really disappointed in this movie the whole time i watched it i kept thinking of how much better it could have been
0	catherine zeta jones and aaron star in a romantic drama about an uptight chef played by zeta jones who ends up carrying for her niece when her sister is killed in a car crash while she's out taking care of family matters she's replaced by br br unfunny maudlin tale with no chemistry between the leads she's a dead fish and he's okay but not much of anything watching this i was wondering why anyone would want to see this since zeta jones' character is so unlikable come on she's so obsessed with cooking and being the best all she does is cook for her therapist or talk about food ugh i won't use any of the numerous puns that come to mind i couldn't finish it
0	i recall years back michael douglas wanted his wife catherine zeta jones to be in a romantic film because he felt his wife had all the goods no doubt she does but not in this film a colossal waste of time no story no character development no chemistry nada this was not the vehicle that we all hoped this film would be boring and a huge disappointment didn't even watch the whole film torture catherine zeta jones was obviously trained in how to work a kitchen move around present a dish but this wasn't the food network nothing learned here and once her counterpart appeared supposedly a romantic interest brewing where was the chemistry the poor slob on the second floor of her building trying all the ploys to connect and no character development there the loss of her sister was poorly played out as who knew there was a closeness the sister's daughter just was plopped here and there with something that was supposed to draw you in not just a waste of movie time the promoters certainly did their job to put this lack luster film on all the networks tempting you with all kinds of teasers sorry to say don't spend a dime
0	yes i spelled that right this movie is so predictable the actual word needs additional letters to exemplify the predictability from the moment the principal characters and situation are introduced it is paint by numbers as to where this plot will take us the foreshadowing was as subtle as a two ton sledgehammer you could take numerous pieces of dialogue and anticipate the role it would play in the ending br br catherine zeta jones and aaron did decent jobs in undemanding roles and abigail breslin played the cute role admirably it's just that the movie brought absolutely nothing new to the romantic comedy genre the romance was tepid and the laughs were weak and few sure it's an ok movie if you have nothing to watch but you won't miss anything by missing this one
0	i hesitated seeing this movie having really enjoyed the original what a disappointment catherine zeta jones is a good actress but this wasn't her film the original had poignant moments perfectly punctuated with an incredible soundtrack no reservations felt like it never connected the food the characters nothing felt passionate in mostly martha the food came alive every scene was filmed in such a way you could taste it with your eyes the smells the textures the food in 'no was in the background rarely did we get a closeup of the preparation the characters were not real enough to carry the movie without it it was hard finishing the movie many of the scenes felt awkward see the original it's a truly enjoyable movie the soundtrack incredible
0	i am a longtime fan of the original of this movie bella martha mostly martha and everything that makes that movie great and enjoyable to watch is missing from this one i miss the slow pace the build up of characters and their style in small gestures the dominance of lights and moods and moves over dialog i don't think that the story itself is enough martha kate is more secluded and mario nick is not a clown in most of the cases the things that makes one scene great in the original its is not working in its copy here the small alterations take away the tension my opinion is that you should go and see the original it'll worth the inconvenience of subtitles
0	there really is only one reason to watch this barely adequate and utterly predictable movie about an uptight chef kate armstrong catherine zeta jones whose life changes when she inherits her orphaned niece zoe abigail breslin after her sister is killed in a car wreck and that reason is to watch aaron nick who with his floppy haircut and appealingly laddish attitude looks good enough to slap between two slices of organic and eat with an olive oil and balsamic dip and a few finely diced sun dried tomatoes he reminds me of sean bean the thought that he might take his shirt off really was the only thing that kept me awake until the end he removed his apron petulantly several times but to my disappointment never went further br br i can't be too critical because i was watching it on pay per view at home so it hadn't cost me the price of two movie tickets at least and i was brought up to be grateful for small mercies but really this is rom com at its most formulaic zeta jones gives a very flat monotonous performance she seemed utterly lacking in passion possibly due to the amount of time she apparently spent in the cold store at the restaurant thirty takes in there can't have been fun and her face barely changed expression throughout the whole movie abigail breslin was pretty good as the niece she's such an appealing little girl that it's quite impossible to criticize her and anyway i loved her in little miss sunshine patricia clarkson is always good value and i can't really fault her performance as the restaurant owner because she seemed very underused given what a good actor she is and how little she had to do here but the whole thing is just so clichéd much of the dialog banal and the outcome so obvious this is the cinematic equivalent of paint by numbers and zeta jones and generate little heat on screen br br nick likes italian food doubtless indicating his burning inner passion and cooks to the sound of his appearance in kate's kitchen at 22 the restaurant's name predictably her feathers but his uncanny ability to bond with her niece by cooking pizza and building a bedouin tent in the living room brings kate around and despite a few stumbles along the way she ends up giving him her prized possession no not her honour but her recipe for saffron sauce br br i'm being very unfair here aren't i i mean rom com is rom com and we all know what we are letting ourselves in for when we sign up but does it always have to be so mind numbingly dull
0	how bad idea was to remake an almost oscar worthy film martha is much more better has deepness finesse and so on and mainly a wonderful and talented actress in the leading role martina it's a joke and ugliness with the handsome aaron and the whole atmosphere again a ridiculous effort from hollywood there are more and more remake and the films are full with schemes isn't anybody there who can create a good and newly script or this is a safety solution to make remake or movies from the well tried cartoon figures the films are getting much less interesting nowadays oh yes if you want to see a really good movie watch the original one it's definitely worth
0	there is only one word to define the whole movie that is awful how mostly martha was remade is awful the title of the movie is awful the actors are awful and the idea of combining good cooking and usa is awful if you have seen bella martha well that is the original title and it means beautiful martha this one is a punch in the stomach the acting of ms jones is so poor and unnatural that even jessica alba considered one of the worst actresses http www razzies com history would have done better not to mention the cook who would better play a different role and the little girl not worth mentioning bella martha was a very nice movie an authentic one why was it remade there was a story here they took it out there is no story what shall it represent in one way also this movie was perfect you know when all ingredients fit together well this is the case here a perfect crap
0	much as i really like catherine zeta jones i wondered once again why remake a good movie this version lacked the tension and passion of mostly martha it was a clear rip off was more convincing as a hurting child who healed with love i couldn't believe abigail breslin martina owned this role unfortunately zeta jones should have found another one that she could own she has other roles she does own sergio castellitto was good as a vulnerable but joyful italian aaron seemed passionless in comparison this version was pleasant but bland br br the love between mario and martha was perhaps predictable but satisfying the therapist added an interesting bit of color that didn't seem important i liked it when at the end he said he'd be back but the movie was over before he returned i have mostly martha at home every now and then i revisit it
0	i watched this film in the theater in along with 3 other americans and our friend from manchester and we all thought this was a waste of time we would have much rather spent an extra hour to watch vapid dialog of star wars iii that was playing down the hall than all of this br br opening with one of the worst jokes i've ever seen committed to celluloid on the big screen it did not take off with a bang throughout the movie we got the feeling that the jokes were just trying too hard the writers thought about the setup so much that you could see the joke coming 2 minutes beforehand then when it came it was so lackluster that you couldn't even smile i cite the giraffe cum ming as a prime example br br the plot itself makes for some interesting thoughts in my mind which entertained me much more than what was going on on the screen i think a lot more could have been done with that angle the two different worlds the fish out of water experience of the characters the confusion and surprise as people try to comprehend and distinguish the characters and writers from each other but too much time is wasted with pushing this painful plot to the end with as much and 'goof' as is humanly possible br br and to say the 16th century characters show any extra talent from the writers is an insult to intelligent writers and editors who possibly could have made this film a worthy 40 minute afterthought but no its a full length torture film of unfunniness br br as we were leaving the theater which had very little laughing inside it i overheard the young hip electro clash british couple behind me saying that was rather good wasn't it you never really knew what was coming next and the girl responding yeah quite surprising and that was it if this is what is meant to get out of british people from watching a comedy no laughing for 90 minutes but a teeny bit of communication between two lovers at the end then this film succeeded but i have more belief in british life than that br br i've not not laughed so hard at a comedy film since american pie ii
0	go to the video store and get the original i do not understand why hollywood has that need to take a perfect foreign movie and remake it mostly martha or bella martha has a much better cast beginning with the heroine martina who convinced me much more in the role of the work obsessed perfectionist than the more famous catherine zeta jones to the italian cook and the niece suddenly deprived of her mother and forced to live with an aunt not fit for child br br in many ways the american version of the movie is a copy of the german original they just exchanged the actors however they also changed the story because it would have been difficult and not very believable to materialize a father for the little girl in an american context br br i was thinking about that maybe the father could have been puerto rican or cuban or mexican well there are so many guest workers in the u s take your pick but i doubt that any of them would have shown up to shoulder the responsibility as the italian father did in the original therefore the american movie leaves that part out but keeps the italian cook and by doing this the whole story changes in the original martha is so removed from reality that she thinks it is okay to send her niece off with a complete stranger in a foreign country br br the american martha is softer and therefore the movie is sweeter and does not have that edge the german movie has br br in the original the italian cook is not so good looking but much more charming the little girl is more of a brat but much more believable and martha is more representative of a career woman in today's world than the watered down version we are presented in the american version and the whole opera music in the american version was very annoying i loved the italian songs in the original and bought the cd br br hollywood recognized that mostly martha was a great movie maybe the distribution companies should have put it in more theaters or it should have been shown in english without subtitles in any case the original is so much better by the way this reminds me of another remake shall we dance is one of my favorites in the original japanese version and totally forgettable in the american version
0	well i must admit when i saw the trailer for this movie i was looking forward to it i am generally a fan of light hearted romantic comedies and from the trailer thats the impression i got of this movie however i spent most of the movie waiting for the comedy to begin although there were a couple of amusing scenes in general the outlook of the movie was quite depressing br br i also found it difficult to fall in love with any of the characters as they all seemed a little underdeveloped the time which the director could have used exploring the characters taken up by a needless overuse of opera making the movie feel dragged out and slow br br all in all although there are some touching scenes the trailer is quite deceptive and i would only suggest you go watch this if there is really nothing else that tickles your fancy br br not fantastic and as i have said before bland
0	this movie had all the potential and makings of a great feel good great love story the cast is perfect the visuals work the original premise works the characters work but the story moves from one chess move to the next in a most predictable way not one character in the movie has any depth or has any depth explained by the director all we know about catherine zeta jones character is she is obsessed with her world nobody is allowed in and nobody challenges her world that much is obvious but the remaining characters all have their own dimensions that are really never explored or exposed aaron character had so much more to offer to the story but wasn't allowed abigail character is so easy to understand that her performance comes across somewhat predictable and phony in the end everything reverts back to the forced turbulent world of catherine zeta jones which the audience never totally falls for honestly her turbulent world is not much more than a portrayal of a selfish self obsessed spoiled lady who most people would not have much time or sympathy for in the real world the director needed to make her a hero and never does in the end it is character that ultimately wins because he wins br br not a lousy movie just a movie that could have been a lot better with more depth of personalities allowed in explained and exposed br br cheers
0	this is the ultimate kung fu movie this is the only kung fu movie this is the only kung fu movie i have ever seen i am giving this movie way too much credit my best guess for the reason for making this movie is that someone wanted to show off someone else's martial arts abilities but realized that you can't just film a guy fighting another guy and have people watch it so he put a story behind the fighting and people still didn't watch it br br this movie's story line was onion skin thin that acting was goofy and stereotypical of any kung fu movie the dubbing was literally the worst i have ever heard it seemed if you played a small role in this movie like the fat guy or the two guys trying to catch the main character with a net it didn't matter who over did your voice it could have been a dyslexic with a slurred stutter and nobody would have said anything but beside all of this the movie makes up for itself with the somewhat awesome fight scenes br br the fight scenes were definitely what this movie was all about but the of the fights were totally absurd on most all instances a guy either pops out of the tall grass or glances at the main character from a distance and then attacks him but once the fighting started things sort of balanced out there were only two things that really hampered the fighting though those constant sound effects that were added to every swing of a fist or foot or sword and the poor editing that made 25 percent of the fighting very jumpy and choppy someone would be in the middle of a back flip and then suddenly be on the ground being kicked and then instantly be back on their feet blocking a punch but while the cut and paste editing was more of a nuisance than anything else it didn't really affect the overall movie br br in the end this was not a great movie but i wasn't expecting a great movie a great movie is not something you should expect when you see a box cover like this movie's all i saw this movie as was a way to pass an hour and a half of boredom i rarely say that but this was just one of those movies you have no practical use for so you watch it whenever you have some free time enjoy the movie if you decide to watch it good day gentlemen br br scott
0	i have a friend that works at blockbuster and he gets 5 free movie rentals a week so one day as we were scouring the aisles for something interesting i stumbled across 18 weapons of kung fu and judging by the box alone this movie seemed pretty wack but nonetheless we gave into temptation and rented it afterall it was free and thank god it was this is by far the worst movie i have ever seen the budget must have been a pickle and a piece of string the plot was ridiculous the only mention of the 18 weapons is that there is some book that teaches the ways of the 18 weapons that some bad guy is after and thats it there isnt even any weapon fighting in this movie that and the action sequences are just flat out bad 9 times out of 10 the other guy's punches and kicks come about a foot away from landing on the other guy's and there are many times when the the movie will skip frames a result of ridiculously poor editing the dubbing is as well laughable and it is hardly even understandable and we wont even get into the acting the ending will definitely leave you saying wtf however to be fair i must mention that the fighting techniques used by the actors were somewhat decent and the old guy is a mad chump but thats about it thankfully i didnt have to pay for this movie but i guess at least now i know exactly how bad a movie can actually be
0	firstly this has nothing to do with the much better 18 weapons of kung fu starring gordon liu i mention this as my kung fu theater presents dvd has a totally misleading picture on the cover the wrong plot on the back and goes on to mention no idea why the young hero starring hwang jang lee apart from an introduction to the history of the 18 weapons style told by a monk to some children during the opening and the usual mysterious manual that everyone is after the weapons never really appear again and the fights are all boxing style the hero is lee shao who i have never heard of before or any of the other actors the film mentions another director wu yuen ling as well as the one imdb lists the other actors are wang fu wang wing san chen fei fei wang ki san king kai and yue who seem to have sunk without trace after this film the fights are reasonable and frequent but not great and the 'star' doesn't have much charisma the twist at the end is just stupid and the film seems to end abruptly as though they got bored with it the scenery and the training sequences in the river are a little different from usual unfortunately the pretty sister gets drowned not the very irritating though acrobatic young boy
0	this is an excellent example of an bad b movie there are worse movies than this one titanic for example but this definitely shares the pile of steaming crap movies br br ok this was apparently shot in kansas city which explains why everyone is so lame the main guy looks like steve guttenberg and is even more lame than him i didn't even think that was possible in fact him and the main girl in the movie are responsible for the worst drama ever its not just that there acting was waaaaaaaaay over dramatic well actually it was of course the script was terrible which combines for a deadly one two punch in bad terrible utterly unwatchable drama br br the scarecrow lets talk about him the whistling you hear every time he's around is stupid and obviously dubbed in now his costume i cannot get over that its a guy wearing burlap sacks and a stupid mask i simply am dumbfounded maybe if your 3 years old with brain damage you'd be scared of him it br br one of the characters the token black guy actually used the line this might be a chance to earn my red wings when referring to trying to score with one of the girls on her period wow um yea that is the kind of dialogue you can look forward to br br oh in the beginning when the scantily clad girl is running through the corn why is it roped off i'm pretty sure its not supposed to be evident just one of the many obvious mistakes made throughout this 'film' another is the bad dubbing for the musical number yup thats right there all at the beach and the one gets up the courage to sing a song and play guitar for everyone and its so obviously dubbed its funny thankfully the scarecrow answers all our prayers and throws a spear right through the guy's chest when he's done singing overall the gore like that is pretty good this is one of those films when you rooting for these people to be killed by the killer br br ok there's a scene where the 2 guys bury one of their friends in the sand then stand up whip out their and urinate all over the guy in the sand who does this really imagine it hey lets bury joe in the sand then stand up and take out our genitals like its no big deal and pee on him in fact this brings up the homo eroticism in this film what the hell a good part of the beginning of this movie is the jocks standing around in there underwear in the locker room and corn field while there doing the hazing what the hell is with that traditionally in film and real life jocks get the girls and nerds don't that really doesn't make sense as all nerds think of is girls and sex and apparently all jocks think of is sports and being around each other in their underwear i don't get it br br lets get to the sex as someone who watched this movie with me put it i've never been so disgusted by heterosexual sex in my life and its true if you like hot a cup action or ugly old woman boobs then this film is for you i swear they found a girl with the smallest breasts ever and this is who they get to do the nude scene then the ugly old woman nurse shows her bouncy ones a couple of times and man i just didn't want to see that br br now i have to talk about the timeline continuity to this film thats what really is just bizarre it starts in the daytime then they all head to the cornfield and within like 2 minutes its instantly dark middle of the night when they drive off from there saying their going to the beach its instantly day again and apparently they stay at the beach until night again and until day the next day so basically these events in the film cover 4 days without any of the characters needing sleep or anything its really weird br br after the main killings have taken place it flash forwards to weeks later' and apparently none of these people actually care that they saw their friends brutally murdered the surviving people literally pop some champaign and thats when i realized the budget didn't go to the script directing or acting it all went to that freakin bottle of champaign br br the ending stop reading now if you don't want the ending spoiled for you it truly is enjoyable br br ok so the end takes place in a church and the scarecrow put his soul inside the diabetes kid body then he fights with the steve guttenberg lookalike guy and he fights him with a b movie version of the power the emperor had in star wars i'm not kidding its so stupid so somehow in the middle of the fight the scarecrow's soul jumps bodies into the guttenberg jr guy and then with the last amount of will he has of his own he impales himself on a cross in the church its awesome some blood but whats even better is that the cross is obviously cardboard you can see the bottom move off the ground wow yea have fun watching
0	this an extremely horrible movie and if your thinking you've seen another horrible movie exactly like this one before you probably have you probably saw scarecrow 2 made in 2003 yes thats what i said brian the director stole the movie idea and not only did he steal it he actually might have been able to make it worse i bet the even the actors were scared to tell people they were actually in the movie also i have to mention that the director was trying to make up for the cheesiness by showing as much tits as possible also the kissing scenes were put together like a porn movie in fact that is probably all that the director has ever seen and tried to put together a decent movie which will never work
0	another sequel why on earth do they keep making these this has got to be the weakest ever yet it is still being funded and spawning sequels scarecrow gone wild which i only watched so i could officially trash the whole series brings back the evil straw man who again butchers up some college kids that's basically it the acting sucks as usual the death scenes are beyond pathetic and don't be fooled by the title this thing doesn't have as much nudity as you may think a couple nice topless girls but nothing too pants tightening let me just conclude my continuous insult or review on this movie by saying if i come across a scarecrow in space or a freddy vs scarecrow on the video store shelves i'm going to be in absolute awe
0	scarecrow gone wild starts as high school teenager mike david zelina his mates decide to to give a to wimpish diabetic sam caleb as an initiation of some sort mike his mate decide to take sam to a corn field tie him to a cross next to a freaky looking scarecrow leave him there all night sounds like fun right well things backfire when sam goes into a diabetic coma after suffering from a hypo the vengeful spirit of sam passes into the scarecrow which comes to life starts to hunt down the kids responsible for sam's unfortunate life threatening predicament can sam's best mate jack matthew his girlfriend beth samantha aisling save the day sam's life br br written directed by brian scarecrow gone wild is the third straight to video entry in the scarecrow series while i haven't seen either of the previous two after seeing scarecrow gone wild i'm certainly in no hurry to change that situation that's for sure the script actually has an almost decent premise as the wronged soul of sam seeks revenge his friends have to keep the real sam alive somehow but the way it is told is poor i suppose that basically it's just an irrelevance to the fact that this is a film about a killer scarecrow running around killing people in not very gory or imaginative ways having said that there are one or two scenes here which save it from a one star rating the fart gag in the corn field is funny something a lot of immature blokes might do like me the bit when two guys bury their mate in the sand then stand over him pee on him is also rather funny in a laddish juvenile way a cool bit when some guy starts singing an awful song so the scarecrow throws a pole which impales him however these ok bits are few far between as a whole it's a silly boring poorly written teen slasher film with highly annoying character's who irritate it' also very predictable has a stupid twist ending which doesn't really feature the scarecrow at all which is a problem as when you watch a film called scarecrow gone wild you expect to see a scarecrow go wild i have to admit he looks quite cool as horror character's go br br director does a reasonable job here actually although what on earth is up with that hospital at the end all that neon lighting everywhere the fact there is only one patient there two members of staff the cinematography is much better than the usual straight to video low budget horror film of late there's some nice if totally unrealistic lighting the film lacks any real scares or tension some of the medical terminology used throughout is a bit iffy to say the least i say that as an dependant diabetic myself there's not much gore here there's a couple of scenes where some actor has some fake guts placed on their stomach to represent them being gutted but it looks pretty fake there's also a burned face a couple of but little else there's a fair amount of naked female breasts on show if that's your thing br br technically scarecrow gone wild is pretty good considering some of the low budget abominations i've sat through recently unfortunately it's still a poor film overall the least said about the acting the better br br scarecrow gone wild isn't as bad as some of the straight to video horror crap that's been turning up recently but having said that it's not that much better it's still a bad film when all said done not recommended the two previous entries are scarecrow 2002 scarecrow slayer 2003 both of which also went straight to video
0	had the league been unknowns pitching this script the backers would simply have turned around and said no you're not having the money this is dreadful as a fan of the league of gentlemen this is their poorest outing to date not particularly funny not particularly entertaining there are few laugh out loud moments they do exist but they are few and far between i felt the format was tired and really dragging the film refers to the writers being bored of the characters and it shows as for being a film i felt the xmas special had better production value the fx are generally pretty poor and it is clearly obvious that they didn't film in the original royston vasey they filmed this on the cheap in ireland the musical score is weak and the dialogue is terrible also the accents of the characters were largely off from their tv equivalents tubs and edward much underused again just didn't sound like themselves disappointing really because i was hoping for something far more entertaining this really was the equivalent of the 1970s comedies where the cast go to spain
0	1 the largest amount of money spent was on the package of hot dogs they put on that guy's stomach the ones that were supposed to be intestines 2 ken shamrock is in it 3 ken shamrock gets destroyed he doesn't die which is sad 4 it leaves you wanting more aspirin 5 the makers of the film are the kind of people who don't care what their monster looks like just give him a 30 mask good enough for me 6 the scarecrow runs a chick over awesome 7 the film makers don't actually make their actors sing or play the guitar 8 the scarecrow uses a volleyball pole as a javelin and impales the dude who doesn't actually play the guitar or sing 9 the scarecrow can choke a dude in like 3 seconds 10 it makes you actually think of all these things and write them down for other people god what am i doing
0	i watched the 1st scarecrow movie and didn't bag out that one though i knew it was b grade it actually had some decent gore and the guy playing the scarecrow was an awesome acrobat and had some good skills going the effects were better and the costume looked heaps better then this movie br br i borrowed this one with an open mind i am also a fan of ken shamrock former champ and was hoping it was a decent movie br br boy was i wrong the movie sucked the monster was pathetic in both appearance and in actually being scary the storyline was so predictable it was like watching the movie in preview mode as i already would guess what will happen the music was so bad with a horrible lip sync song that made me wanna punch the screen br br overall avoid this crappy movie br br save some money
0	i knew i was in for a long 90 minutes when the opening voice over mispronounced the word 'scarecrow' it sounded like scare crew and sure enough 90 minutes later after witnessing beyond horrid acting tedious drama scarecrow's punches going nowhere near their intended target but hitting it anyway ken shamrock acting and the most stupid illogical ending i've seen in my life ok no i take that last one back in about a week after making it through all that i openly weeped that i couldn't just go to lacuna a la jim carrey and just erase it completely from my mind any thoughts i might have had that director brian might have made an ok film given the right circumstances that i had after watching slaughter studios are totally and completely gone from my mind now br br my grade f br br eye candy tara platt and lisa robert get topless br br where i saw it starz on demand available until september 22nd 2005
0	so me and my friend are carousing our local movie rental store and are looking for something to pick up to go along with eternal sunshine of the spotless mind so why not pick up the third installment in the scarecrow series keep in mind that this is not just scarecrow three this is scarecrow gone wild now both of us had seen to the first two scarecrows so we felt obligated to finish the job let's start with the cover of the dvd first first we notice a picture of ken shamrock the world's most dangerous man on the cover apparently he was used to market the movie as the lead actor by the way he has the least screen time of any member of the credited class next we notice a picture of a very attractive and very scantily clad woman in the middle ground of the cover i can assure you that she is not in the movie at all at the time of rental we assumed that this was to reiterate the fact that the scarecrow was going wild in the background we noticed a large carnival on an island out in the ocean i can also assure you that the carnival is also not in the movie at all looking back me and my friend should have known something was up i mean really who the heck puts a carnival on an island now on to the actual movie we start when a young man is inexplicably fused to a scarecrow in the middle of a corn field don't ask me how they were fused but think of when brandon lee waking up from the dead in the crow it's just that stupid but in the scarecrow's defense he has gone wild anyhoo the scarecrow who now lives vicariously through the young man takes a trip to his local beach to those who had done him wrong because yes in the world of the scarecrow beaches are conveniently located in the same general vicinity as cornfields to make a long story short the scarecrow kills all who stand in his path without any warning except for the scarecrow's trademark whistle that signals a slashing this is however rather impossible to believe because the scarecrow's mouth is clearly sewn shut several tracking shots that would make kubrick roll over in his grave later and we have one of the worst third installments in a series ever well except for maybe the third matrix as joel siegel would say this scarecrow is wildly bad
0	this third installment in the scarecrow series is by far the best of the lot i know i know but how good is it well let's not be silly it's still pretty bad but by comparison to the first two it's a fine film again shot on digital with decent lighting and good camera work br br spoiler br br when a college baseball team new members one is left in a diabetic coma of course they abandon him in a cornfield tied to a scarecrow in keeping with the legend the boy's soul is transferred into the body of the scarecrow which comes to life and wreaks terrible vengeance on well pretty much everyone the co eds drive to the beach which is somehow very close to the cornfield on the sunny beach they are killed one by one by the whistling scarecrow br br writer director brian does a credible job of bringing some much needed drama to the film unfortunately the drama leaps over good and lands in common cheese much of the acting was fair but there were some really terrible bits including an awful piece of poorly done lip synching some plot points were left mostly unresolved and most were used to get someone alone so they could be slaughtered again better than the previous installments but still lacking
0	well first and for most i'd just like to say that i'm back out of retirement from writing well deserved comments about horrible movies only the movie in titled scarecrow gone wild could bring me back so here i am br br with that being said i like to start off with this comment ouch this movie was really horrible i mean i know it was going to be bad but i had no idea that i would be spending 60 minutes out of a possible 90 minute film laughing at what i thought was a horror movie br br let's start with the biggest flaw of the film to me that is ken shamrock now if memory serves me correctly shamrock is one of the worlds most dangerous men now if memory serves me again he was also in this stupid movie being a stupid comic relief or that's how it looked to me i mean how else do you explain all of his lines my all time favorite line of his in this so called movie was it's been a long time coming ok the funnest thing about that line was that no more then five minutes prior to him say that he was sitting on the beach talking to the soon to be dead kids about how the dam scarecrow could not be killed so if he has knowledge of this why on earth would he start trying to combat it as soon as he sees it the scarecrow that it like i said before he must have been the comic relief except i don't think his buddies where laughing br br now that i've finished that well deserved paragraph on to the movie br br i'll admit that i can't remember a lot of scenes and that's not good considering that i just watch the movie no more then fifteen minutes ago so what i'm going to do is list the top five things wrong with this film 1 usually when horror movie monster have their own theme music it's not heard by the victims or even by the monster itself so why were just about every person involved in this movie able to here this pathetic whistling i mean i saw the scarecrows face and nothing about it said that he was the whistling type br br 2 why on earth were there murders on a beach i'm sorry but threw out history beaches are associated with party time and vacation type feelings but i guess this horror movie thought it was going to be such a success that it would change all of that plus was it me or did the beach seem to be the size of someone living room i mean every time an actor or actress was running around on the beach it looked as if they were running in the same spot br br 3 the girl running in the gray sweat pants that really bother during the duration of this film i mean she looks so ridiculous plus it didn't help any that she looked as though she was the youngest out of the whole group i mean what was she like twelve or something there no excuse for someone to be that thin on camera i mean doesn't the camera add like ten pounds or something so what was her excuse br br 4 people trying to get record deals on camera just when i thought that this movie could not get any cheesier out comes the wanna be brooks and oh man was he lame i don't' remember the whole scene but from what i do remember it was not pretty this one guy starts singing this song about something that has nothing and i mean nothing to do with what's going on in the film the funniest part of the whole happening is how everyone seems to being enjoying this i mean the only person who doesn't really know how to response to this is the token black guy and that's sad because if i'm not mistaken he was the one that encourage this latest addition of american but here's where it gets funny while this guy is all into his new song or whatever in the far distance we see or villain aka the scarecrow and boy does he look pi ed off at this i mean there's actually a moment where he looks like he's really jealous of this guy so what does he do about this jealousy well i'm glad you ask he for the guy to finish his song and then he the guy i don't want to give the death scene away but i can tell you this if that scene doesn't make you laugh then nothing on this earth will br br 5 this movie was way longer then i expected and it didn't help that they tried to pulled some pathetic twist bulls t at the end to squeeze another 10 minutes out of this film i mean i'll admit i didn't see the twist coming but that had a lot to do with the fact that i was hoping that the film was over and done with but no they had to do they twist s t needless to say that when i say that coming i just turned off the t v and said f k it there's no way that movie could have gotten any worser thanks to my rather fast judgment i can say that i'll never know what was to happen next but i promise that i do not care all and all the movie is good for a laugh but please don't buy it just hype it up to one of your friends and watch it on there expanse
0	the initiation to the local sport team involves taking the newbies out to the corn fields and guess what there is a scarecrow murdering people there only one of the newbies survive but falls into a coma due to diabetes meanwhile the scarecrow starts to kill all of the involved people one by one whats the scarecrows secret will they find it out before the scarecrow gets them all this is a low budget movie and it shows sound is ok but picture is really corny the plot script really sucks and is quite pathetic and non logical the acting is really bad and sometimes just laughable cant really say much about the special effects cause there aren't that many but the few there is ranges from bad to ok for a low budget that is there is some nudity and thats probably the only thing worth to watch in the movie that is if your a horny teenager if not skip the movie all together another complete waste of time and money so don't see it goes for fans too
0	i supposed gone wild' is a dull slasher flick yes it have some good point but it's a rehash from another flick the acts is so awful nor the plot br br the story goes from a legend about a living scarecrow on the cornfield when an initiation become a prank and cause the life a boy in jeopardy the scarecrow comes alive and start a killing frenzy sound familiar right it's derived from scream friday creepers children of the corn you name it br br gone wild' is so below average film barely have a scary moment even the final scene is laughable sadly we still could enjoy it as our time killer but i prefer you to watch something else instead unless you're a big fan bad and cheesy movies off course br br 4 10
0	so unfortunately me and my mate watched this it was showing on a sky channel over here called zone horror which basically shows crappy b movie horror films 24 7 it was a boring friday night so decided to have a laugh and give this one a look apart from the atrocious acting the awful plot the dire effects the shoddy camera work and the brain numbing ridiculousness of it all it was ok lol in all seriousness it was quite a laugh picking holes in it and laughing at the goofy actors there is a bit of semi nudity which perked the movie up a bit unfortunately it was the who got topless as my mate calls her od if you're bored one evening and this happens to be playing take a chance you just might like it
0	scarecrow gone wild he's the death of the party need i say more scarecrow gone wild got four out of ten stars from me for one simple reason aside from the terrible acting plot holes cheap special effects and anti climactic whistling it was cinematic gold i think that this movie could have actually been really good had the scarecrow turned out to be the baseball coach as portrayed by the ever so brilliant ken shamrock but then again they would have had to cut those awesome return of the jedi electricity special effects br br while watching this movie my friends and i were convinced that it was in fact written by one of our friends a stereotypical teen aged boy this movie has topless women miserably fake gore and dialog that could not have talked its way out of a paper bag or in this case a cornfield br br if i could ask the filmmaker one thing it would be this how much did you have to pay the teenager that wrote this for you
0	this film was okay but like most tv series it would of been better if it just made for television the best and most loved characters only had five minute roles whilst the three mediocre characters were all the way through the film br br unlike most british movies that are based on television series this film does kick off and it seems to be on to a winner but the pace suddenly stops when the three mediocre characters are in the real world waiting to capture the three comedians br br the film then doesn't go anywhere when hillary in a room with the captured steve masquerading as steve and geoff somehow writing himself in to the medieval times which made me think 'hang on how come he doesn't need a key to enter in to that world unlike the royston vasey characters the medieval scene was okay but monty python did it a lot better and of course funnier with cameos from peter kay and simon pegg both didn't say anything funny kay had a line and pegg just sat up on wall looking bored br br what also grated me was that they seem to forget what happened in the previous episodes such as hillary escaped to the caribbean in the television in series 2 but in the film he's escaped from prison and also is a paedophile vampire which wasn't mentioned at all in the movie which was also quite disturbing when he's left alone looking after the children br br there were lots of plot holes and unexplained situations such as how did geoff and the dark one escape from the medieval times back in to royston vasey like series 3 it started of good but as the film progressed it slowly went downhill and had a very weak predictable ending br br they would of been better off doing what monty python did and remade all their best and classic sketches from series 1 3 and the christmas special and turned that in to a film which would of re introduced the characters to a whole new audience who can't be asked to watch the series or to tight to buy the dvds br br best advice is save your money and wait till it's on television where it belongs
0	jerk mike david zelina playing this college frat man as one major bastard you want to see die right away and his college cronies leave diabetic sam caleb hanging on a wooden cross along with this scarecrow which is a legendary ghost story they get at sam who essentially goes into shock and aims a swinging punch at mike that lands across his girlfriend patty kristina sheldon instead so leaving the poor guy hanging is his punishment somehow sam's soul emerges with the inanimate scarecrow who comes from the cross to destroy everyone who left the poor guy there to rot mike and the gang send the uninitiated dorks back to bring sam down but they are the first to receive a swinging blade across their throats mike and his posse head for the beach to gulp booze play volleyball bicker until the scarecrow arrives to end their little sam's substitute brother jack matthew is supposed to look out for him but decides to sleep with new love interest beth samantha aisling instead so when he receives a cell phone message from mike concerning how they left sam hanging on the cross while they were off at the beach taking in the sun and sand jack is frenzied with fear beth's estranged father is a doctor and he agrees to see after sam's condition after they cut the nearly dead young man down taking him to emergency hospital returning to the beach to confront mike because of his negligence not to mention jack's promise to coach ramsey played by fighter ken shamrock regarding no hazing jack and beth will face the same straw stuffed assassin that is bumping off the others coach ramsey who was part of a past hazing incident that went awry causing killer scarecrow mischief has to confront some demons himself as he informs the survivors of the group about what they are up against br br babes boobs and blood this flick follows the basic slasher guidelines yet this flick also carries the typical slasher traits of corny characters acting dialogue and overall plot the flick shows signs of it's low budget particularly in the violence as most of the real action takes place off screen instead of showing it happening up close personal what appears on screen is mostly the aftermath of the killer's vengeance one fellow holding his guts another with a stake holding up the group's volleyball net plunged through his chest blood spatter after a woman gets hit over the head presumably with a large rock one chick laying dead after the scarecrow hit her with the suv etc there is also some dubbing problems where it's clear the sounds of their voices often don't match the movements of their lips particularly the unintentionally hilarious sequence where ed travis parker wannabe rock star is singing to his buddies a horrible song they all seem quite impressed with
0	i cannot believe i let myself rent that piece of garbage the acting was so poor my grandmother could have done better the punches thrown in the movies were nowhere near the character the scarecrow was knocking to the floor the movie became a chore to watch br br so this group of baseball jocks decide to go hazing even after they weren't supposed to in orders form there coach under consequences so naturally they go anyway they decide to tie a loser to a post with the so called scarecrow when the loser's best friend finds out about this him and his girlfriend go to rescue him br br the kid is found out to have diabetes and is hospitalized while the jocks head out to the beach the next day the scarecrow finds them there and kills them all pretty much br br i'm sure you really don't care anyway the scarecrow ends up having a connection with diabetes boy and the boy starts to finish off the scarecrows job once the scarecrow is killed yes it is really really cheesy br br it thought this movie was full of bull sh t sooner or later the only ones living naturally are the boyfriend and girlfriend who are the main characters the evil is then transfered to the boyfriend and he kills himself to break the curse so nobody else will be hurt touching hey no don't waste your hard earned money on this i give it a score of a one since thats lowest otherwise it doesn't even deserve that much
0	my roommate and i have another friend that works at a local blockbuster video he finds truly awful movies for us and tells us about them one of them was a christmas horror film starring former professional wrestler bill goldberg as a killer claus we didn't watch it immediately but we didn't think there could be anything worse apparently we were wrong we were shown this slasher film starring ken shamrock versus a murderous scarecrow at first we thought ken would actually be the killer scarecrow and that's why we wanted to watch but he wasn't and that made the movie even worse what absolutely ruined the movie was the teen drama if you want to save your brain cells from trying to escape from your head never ever watch this movie
0	wow here comes another straight to video scarecrow movie to keep the cinematic masochists happy if the cheap looking opening credits don't tell you you're in for quite a ride then the diabolically tragic writing sure will br br a diabetic kid gets tied on to a legendary scarecrow as part of his initiation onto the baseball team then the scarecrow goes nuts and starts offing people need i say more this movie consists greatly of cheap effects that makes it look like it was edited with imovie note that spooky color inversion and actors who apparently weren't good enough to show up on some late night cinemax special actually thats not fair as the actors didn't have much room to work around the abysmal script parts of this movie really seem like parody especially when one character picks up his guitar and starts playing the worst song ever conceived by humans with the worst lip synching ever performed to go along with it the gore here is also a major disappointment in most b movies such as this there is a thick layer of cheap gore fx to make up for what the story and acting lacks here the stuff is so cheap that it's not even fun this movie actually makes jack frost 2 look like lots of fun in comparison br br if you think this movie is the worst one you've ever seen then you probably haven't gotten deep into the world of straight to video b horror regardless this movie will cause you a great deal of mental anguish no matter what your background
0	with a 500 budget and a bottle of ketchup br br if you are a fan of c movies with no talented actors whatsoever a ridiculous story cheap effects and lousy camera work this film delivers br br all others be warned you could probably make a similar movie with a couple of friends in your backyard and a home camcorder br br the film is good for some laughs though watch it with some friends and discuss how not to make a movie br br 2 10 for unintentional comedy br br why the hell do you have to write 10 lines i have seen comments with less lines and writing this is just a lame filler
0	normally i love finding old and some not so old westerns i haven't seen to be the entertainment for the evening it's such a great way to sit back relax and escape the politics and world problems for a few hours but this was not to be the case with this version of the magnificent seven the casting and storyline of this series closely follow the hollywood formula for politically correct entertainment good old get your mind right revisionist history where the 'bad guys' must all be white male confederate in this case and preferably christian if it can somehow be worked into the script it's sad really the best movies out there are now and have always been about simply telling a good story up on the big screen not about forwarding someone's political ideology
0	completely overlooking the whole movie adaptation of a video game this is another terrible movie by mr boll how he continues to be hired to make movies is a constant surprise to me and obviously most of the movie going community br br as a whole i will say that this attempt was fractionally better than so many of his previous attempts some of the dialog was even half way decent in far cry though he still some phrases and in some cases he doesn't even use the phrases correctly br br now besides the fact that jack carver is supposed to be american and not german til was still entertaining in this role one exception is the laughably lame lines he uses to get in bed with the girl and we are supposed to believe that she is ready to have sex with him so casually after such minimal dialog emile simply there for comic relief i am sure and still lame jack's character looks old and tired yet is still capable of the extreme acrobatics needed to avoid one of the altered super soldiers in the lab br br don't watch this one for the far cry adaptation but you might just waste an hour and a half watching it if you have nothing better to do
0	this was a disgrace to the game farcry i had much expectations but all ended up in a nightmare besides the bad acting the visual effects stunts the plot even the humor used in the movie was an absolute flop the movie is not worth watching at all the funniest part was when the girl comes and kiss jack in order to give him the key to the cuffs guess the she got the keys to handcuffs all the time i hope some good director will make a remake of this fantastic game into a movie someday and i they will invest some good cash to get the visual effects right and the right as well as the acting right but till then don't waste time by trying to watch this movie because it will surely make you go mad specially if you are a farcry lover
0	so im not a big fan of boll's work but then again not many are i enjoyed his movie postal maybe im the only one boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even br br people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned that this is not far cry this is something mr boll have together along with his legion of schmucks feeling on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with these players go by the names of til schweiger udo kier and ralf br br three names that actually have made them pretty big in the movie biz so the tale goes like this jack carver played by til schweiger yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes however i find that acting in this movie is pretty badass people have complained about how he's not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don't really know what he looked like when he was kicking a br br however the storyline in this film is beyond demented we see the evil mad scientist dr played by udo kier making genetically mutated soldiers or as they are called performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of spoiler vancouver for some reason thats right no palm trees here instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods we haven't even gone far before i started to cry i cannot go on any more if you wanna stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience meaning most of it will suck br br there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes until the whole albino squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh the movie far cry reeks of that's poop for you simpletons from a fa r if you wanna take a go ahead btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wanna shoot him the first three minutes he's on screen
0	being a fan of the game and watching this film made me physically vomit br br it was an awful film though the story was similar to the games plot the whole super human soldiers thing other than that jack carver an all american man in the game is played by a unless thats some sort of twisted irony that is what made me pull a middle finger at my tv screen the second it started the fact that you can tell its filmed in a forest in the middle in what seemed like the middle of summer this is uncalled for because the game is set in the tropical rain forest whereas this looks like the director just looked out his window in the morning and went thats a good forest br br this is a note to all directors if you ever plan to make a film based on a game book play it understand it and ask fans about it don't just play it for an hour and assume you know it
0	according to the blurb on the back of the dvd case ross until a little bit of wee came out' i suspect that that has more to do with his being full of it br br i never watched the series for one reason or another so maybe i'm missing some essential cues as to this movie i watched the first 45 minutes or so i laughed once smiled once then reached for the newspaper whilst waiting for something else entertaining to happen nothing did br br evidently intended to be a surreal spoof upon life in the post python gross humour style this one falls absolutely flat there's been a host of comedy series on television in the last few years not the least of which were 'the fast show' 'the vicar of and 'father ted' each one engaging a group of bizarre but hilarious characters and sketches any one of these could knock this crap into a cocked hat br br if the series was anything like this movie i'm surprised they got the funding happily it was one of those £2 tub purchases and is now in the local charity shop br br the moral of the story is don't believe the pundits never pay top dollar
0	i am a huge fan of the farcry game huge fan it still holds a place in my top 10 games list of all time the story line was new fresh a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on or so i thought br br farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise see doom the movie and many more br br the video game begins as the player jack carver awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier jack then finds a communication device where harlan doyle guides him across islands jungles installations and volcanoes to find his lady friend valerie constantine all the wile battling mutated super soldiers and genetically enhanced animals br br the movie plays out very very differently 1 there's a needless 30 mins 1 3 of the movie of backstory before we even get to the blowing up' scene 2 jack then walks onto the beach kills some goons then drives off nothing like the game 3 there is no communicator with doyle on the other end 4 the soldiers' look like with on and there was no mutated 'monkey like' creatures jumping out of the bushes a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot 5 there is no sun filled beach scenes no aircraft carrier no communications stations on huge cliffs little reference to any in game contents characters items vehicles in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all 6 the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building 7 there's an ending scene where everyone except live happily ever after what the br br i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs if you are a gamer you will hate this movie will all your soul it is a movie clearly intended for males so girls stay away so if your a male 12 29 years of age have never played farcry and are not disgusted by directors attempts at books games to the cinema then this is for you
0	i was actually fairly surprised to find out a movie based on the far cry game had been created the story here is not something i would consider to be a strong point in the game universe no worries though as in typical boll fashion the story in the movie has very little to do with the game it is based on now i understand that certain liberties need to be taken to make a transfer from one form of media to another but it seems like he really just doesn't even try to make a connection not only that but the acting and action sequences are so corny it almost makes you feel like the whole project was one big joke it has been said a million times before but why couldn't someone more talented pick up the video game rights to create a movie
0	barely came trough the whole movie acting is bad dialogs are even worse felt kinda 4 watching it but it was named the same as one of my favorite games so i struggled trough they even screwed up the sound at certain parts of the movie the background music is so loud that i had to turn the volume down it would be great if this was a competition about who can screw up more br br oh and ps i don't know what's this guy uwe capable of creating i certainly don't think this movie is bad just because he's the director i checked the list of his work and this is his first and probably the last creation that i've seen br br over out
0	not too good a movie sure it contains action but the effects aren't all that good for a '08 movie gunshot effects are downright horrible acting is meh br br it is nothing like far cry other than names and the very basics of the story genetically enhanced super soldiers going amok the super soldiers are very different the mercenaries are different the setting are completely different tropical island in the pacific in the game island in northern ish america in the movie br br i loved playing far cry i loved the story and setting i hated the movie
0	sadly this film lives up to about 1 of the hype that the game created in 2004 and leaves a very sour taste in the mouth for video game enthusiasts book worms and movie fans alike there is nothing more disappointing then a film that is based on an original concept whether on paper or gaming console that does not deliver and not only that goes well under the mark far cry the video game released in 2004 created such a cult following that making a movie from the content should have been easy and scores of gamers would have flocked to watch the film if you are a gamer that has played far cry do not watch this film anyone else who hasn't played the game it'll still seem like a b grade acted b grade directed movie uwe boll hang your head in shame this should've been easy to make into a blockbuster the storyline of the game was incredible think jurassic park meets alien and yet you still managed to take it and mould it into your own terrible recreation of an instant classic video game companies be warned if uwe boll comes a lock the door oh til schweiger i look forward to seeing you make up for yourself in basterds what were you thinking taking this one on sigh
0	clearly this would have had potential in more capable hands but given uwe boll's track record it would have been surprising if there would have been any merit to this farce br br the first 5 minutes are classic monster movie madness even the horrible one liners delivered by gi joe type soldiers feel as if they were lifted off another venture into the same genre br br you will be doing yourself a favor if you exit the movie at this point you've already passed all the highlights and you will have spared yourself the suffering of sitting through some of the worst acting in recent history br br next enter absolute rubbish talent the leading man has the same amount of charisma that you will find in garden slug br br there is an awkward bit of contrived romance thrown in this feels so wrong that you can only speculate why this scene was conjured up in the first place normally the genre uses interludes of romance and nudity to inject some humanity and sympathy into otherwise cardboard cut out characters here it backfires on all cylinders br br the effects are bad and the action unbelievably boring where other classics show originality and imagination in the face of budget restraints here it just seems like everything was spent on catering br br there are in fact no redeeming features here not even the it's so bad it is almost good applies it's just bad and in a bad way br br our hero questions the leading starlet about the night they spent together and how she would rate him she gives him 2 out of 10 i give the whole affair 1 i'd have gone for 0 if that were possible br br don't waste your time on this dribble there is plenty of crap cinema out there which exceeds this ridiculous rumble in the jungle br br oh and finally the movie has little to nothing at all to do with the popular game far cry at best it is extremely loosely based on it br br horrible move along
0	i really liked the far cry game nice graphics good level design interesting and clever enemies above average length and even a somewhat decent plot i am not by default against movie spin offs of games i thought doom the movie was hilarious but what uwe boll has done here is to take the game and modified every one of its good aspects and turned them into something horrible well not the length the movie runs only a merciful 90 min the characters are even more stereotypical than in the game which is quite an achievement the entire plot is told without any twists or mystery several blatantly ridiculous scenes tell you every bit of the story and come on genetically modified soldiers they could have come up with some better name br br however this film should get some award for the most idiotic love scene i have never seen anything of the like i could not believe they were trying to be serious we have to get out of the wet clothes i think i'll get hypothermia although everybody is wearing t shirts we need to cuddle together for body warmth is that your gun but but weren't there people who consciously did this there must have been a scriptwriter a director actors a gaffer an electrician some food guy why didn't anyone jump into that scene to stop this evil from happening was this film done by ravaging inhuman genetically modified film people i won't start at ranting about how many logical errors inconsistencies and scriptwriting flaws there were but even to the die hard action fan this can't be anything but insulting br br this film did actually ask for being rated 2 out of 10 so i'll do it that favor but that leaves me to explain where the second star comes from special effects nah acting not really references to the game you wish wait they used the font from the game for the title and the credits that was neat br br if you are looking for a flick for a bad movie night go for 2012 supernova this one is just sad
0	uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way its as if he couldn't be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life i'm guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had it really stinks clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he's ever learned about film gets flushed the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i've ever seen this isn't that bad but it is close simply because it should have been better then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film i'd take a pass unless it's late at night and you're catching it on cable
0	i don't really mind the creative ideas interjected in these movies but seriously there isn't one coherent part of the game in this movie that seems to be the trend buy the rights and then just make a movie that has zero to do with what the fans want this butchering is almost entertaining because you know you are getting away with hiding behind a lack of skill and control of money not yours that allows you to do this play a game or hire someone to and please make a real movie or stand in the boxing ring and have your butt handed to you as you so claim won't happen br br wow 9 lines of text and i was done had to add blah to bug you sorry
0	i am deeply disturbed by some posts i am reading on the message boards for this movie people saying it is actually a good movie just because this movie is uwe boll's best to date does not make it a good movie at all no way in hell far cry is a clichéd mess full of bad acting poor direction and an uninspired story with a shoddy script this is boll's first pure action movie and news flash people action movies aren't too hard to make because for a basic action flick all you need is explosions and gun battles scattered around a flimsy plot and hey mr boll succeeds in doing that house of the dead alone in the dark and bloodrayne all horror games adapted into movies by boll are far worse than this they have no redeeming qualities far cry boasts two things which make it his best yet two good leads and a couple of well done action sequences til schweiger is quite good as jack carver and emmanuelle vaugier is a strong female lead the usually great udo kier is passable as the clichéd villain and the supporting cast are pretty damn bad towards the end of the film there is a surprisingly tense chase sequence which came as a shock considering boll was behind the camera br br unfortunately the rest of the movie has an incredibly cheap feel to it with bad cgi lame one liners and clichés around every corner oh and the worst lead up to a sex scene i think i have ever scene not only have the two only known each other for six hours but all it takes is for him to say he kept warm while in the army by spooning his fellow soldiers he already got her to take his clothes off by merely telling her to then he took his off and climbed into bed because he was afraid of hypothermia br br anyway to summarise this is a bad movie it is mindless action movie that can kill 80 minutes if you are totally bored one could probably do worse than popping this in and watching it but i'd personally say watch a classic action film like die hard or predator and stay away from this derivative mess br br 1½ 5
0	jean hugh anglade is excellent as the teenaged boy who wants to be a whore to please the man he loves but the rest of this film is so bad acting writing cinematography and everything else that performance is wasted sad to see so fine an actor in such a garbage flick
0	there is only one reason this movie is watchable till schweiger he is such a good actor the movie isn't completely terrible uwe boll please take up another career the special effects and action are acceptable all other aspects were very disappointing all i can say is that kevin smith an evening with talked about tim burton not ever reading the batman comics and it showed uwe boll must not have ever played the video games that he keeps making movies about if you two ever want to know how it is done go see doom was one of the best video games to film adaptations ever some people may disagree but if you watch the movie you can see that the guys at id had a lot to do with doom it doesn't seem like anyone at was even near this production
0	one of bolls better attempts just shows that if you do something long enough you have to improve just by chance it is still not good but it is at least watchable which is an improvement over the bloodrayne the main difference between bloodrayne and farcry really is that the story from farcry wasn't the games strong point whereas bloodrayne had a strong story and thus boll had more chance to mess it up br br the action in this movie is actually fairly good occasionally a touch overdone but in a good way and worth a watch just for that br br acting wise it was pretty decent most of the actors are pretty good but you can tell they aren't taking it seriously based on comparisons with other performances but the lighter mood this gives to the film actually helps br br while i think sticking a little bit closer to the story of the game might have made for a slightly better film the changes made are pretty practical and not big enough to make a difference especially given the plot of the game was hardly oscar winning just a vehicle for fps carnage would have liked it set in the jungle as that was a pretty integral part of the game but canada doesn't have a great deal of jungle and it is at least set in a kind of rainforest br br why boll feels the need to change already professionally scripted and directed game plots i don't know but he does and until he starts letting the source material speak through his adaptations will always be lacking watch the film for a laugh its good for that and maybe for watching during a party as drinking party fodder
0	mr uwe fail strikes again transformed a classic game in a cheap piece of crap poor acting poor directing awful adaptation i mean far cry game was awesome its like a true fps game cool weapons and lots lots lots of point and shoot in the movie we had nothing compared to the game well we had some of the point and shoot thing but i don't know how to explain but if you ever watched another uwe fail movie you will understand if you don't believe me go to the website petition online and do a check for one named stop uwe bowl br br that movie made my eyes bleed someone must stop him for once br br don't waste your time
0	i was one chosen to see this movie in a sneak preview br br first you should know that this film is based on the video game far cry a for its time really good game 2004 second you should know that the of this flick is the great uwe boll this is a man who takes video games dungeon siege bloodrayne postal etc and makes movies out of them very horrible ones br br i still remember when i saw boll's the king's swords a dungeon siege tail there were so horrible mistakes in this film like 3 scenes playing at the same time 2 at day time and one somehow at night br br so lets come to far cry if you expect cool action forget it really cheap tricks and a plastic helicopter are far away from real action if you expect a cool story forget it by the not so bad story of the game this movie is a laugh the actors' playing makes the movie in a lot of moments funny but in a no good way br br i had the chance to see this movie for free so do not do the mistake and pay for this trash its one of my flicks for the bottom 100
0	glenn ford a new york boy who has been saving his cash thumbs and hobos his way to the arizona ranch he has bought where he hopes to find heaven with a barbed wire fence br br a film with a dalton script and story directed by villain extraordinaire ricardo cortez and starring the frequently twitchy glenn ford and the restless richard conte just shouldn't be so bloody nice though the system mostly seen as mean cops and railroad bulls and real estate con men is as awful as one might expect from the mr every single proletarian is just so sweet and nice and salt of the earth that one feels nausea it doesn't help that the heroine a sweet blonde thing who is an illegal alien refugee fleeing franco's spain is annoying for reasons of both scripting and acting br br so why watch richard conte in his first role already has his persona and a pretty good part and there are some moments of 30s leftist camp that are pretty astonishing did dalton absolutely have to set a major portion of the movie in the russian worker's mission all that was missing was a portrait of a beaming joe stalin also this is glenn ford's first substantive role though his performance isn't good br br why not watch essentially the movie offers an unconvincing vision is wedded to a political viewpoint that is risible and the two leads have made much better movies also the strengths of dalton as a screenwriter are nowhere in evidence instead we get a film that the coen brothers barton fink could have written in a flash and avoided that hellish bout with writer's block
0	a total and utter travesty of a movie 'dark the kind of film even troma would be embarrassed to release the script direction acting and action sequence's are so dire as to be almost painful to watch and one cant help thinking that it's mere 75 minute running time could have been better spent the above reviewer must be related to the director as that's the only reason i can see for his her appraisal of this rubbish some might call it b movie fun or 'so bad it's good' just to excuse there enjoyment of it but when the lead actor and most experienced cast member cant deliver his lines convincingly you know you've got a very very bad movie avoid at all costs
0	when a group of dumb kids including an unlikable racist bitch stay at an old house it awakens four murderous spirits can lash la rue save the day will you be able to watch until the end due to the horrible comedy on display br br the dark power is the kind of really bad horror comedy hybrid troma used to release regularly thing is they didn't release this that doesn't excuse the whole thing as it has a dreadful synthesizer score including bad attempts at native american music and even worse comedy music bad make up effects basically halloween masks and atrocious acting ok the fat guy was alright though everyone else is terrible and la rue a western movie vet seems embarrassed to be there not that i blame him really br br the worst thing though is the comedy aspects sure dumb teens is one thing but when the movie keeps talking about the spirits as if they are the ultimate evil only for them to turn out to be horribly annoying bumbling fools all hope is dashed combining horror and comedy takes at least some skill there is no skill on display here as it all is just stupid and not so dumb it's fun either i mean smoking pot and listening to bad punk rock aren't i dumb dumb br br not even a decent ripped off face and a chick in little clothing can save this disaster terrible movie and not even worth a rental
0	this film started off really tense when a poor young boy is set upon by a pack of savage dogs after a tense chase he is saved by said grandpa with magic whip br br we are then introduced to a string of annoying house mates including one tart who is always half dressed during this stage the film heightens tension with strange plinky plinky background noises that had me on the edge of my seat br br i stopped paying attention for a while but when i looked back on the screen there where weird creature type things going around grunting and killing one word of advice if you are ever trapped in your home by some nutter get some cardboard boxes and a tray br br although we did skip half the film because it was totally non interesting or memorable we are now at the stunning conclusion the last surviving creature thing fights a whip duel with grandpa and his magic whip i wont say what happens here but i can say the whip battle is full of tension with aerial fights split level fights and all manner of drama br br i am now going to shove this film through the door of a neighbour i don't like
0	wow i suspected this one to be bad but now i find myself just at a loss for words honestly no words of mine can do this movie any justice br br i'll try to say something anyway br br this truly is one unique gem one of the worst kind br br lash la rue given his background as an actor doing a whip fight with a sorcerer zombie during the movie's climax a true stroke of genius without a doubt br br it rarely happens that i laugh out loud when watching a movie alone it happened numerous times with this one br br the accents of the actors man the accents and the dialogues i heard them speak and the acting itself i just couldn't believe what i was hearing br br that fat uncle farting so loudly when walking up to the house together with his little nephew for no apparent reason whatsoever br br tits yes there's titties and female ass there's even a naked chick in a bathtub sipping a beer br br that one stretch his mouth over his face kill was the bomb a true highlight br br the comedy aspects were just totally bonkers i just couldn't believe what i was seeing and hearing for a while i even thought that they were unintentional shaking my head in disbelief but about halfway in the movie i started to get the bigger picture guess it took me half a movie to dumb down half of my brain to finally get it br br i had a really hard time believing this movie but it's good really i think it had one black chick walking up to a very tiny cupboard opening it and then saying look at all the storage space and she said it like she meant it i mean that's good dialogue and good acting right br br oh and perhaps needless to say lash la whip skills suck major ass in the dark power it's really sad and pathetic to behold that's all part of the comedy of course or wait i might be wrong no yes i'm wrong lash la rue was amazing with the whip it was the editor's fault he messed it up cutting his lashes together and all or wait it might have been the camera operator he filmed from the wrong angles then why didn't phil say anything that's it it's the director's fault br br but it's a good movie br br i'm just gonna quit talking about it i have nothing meaningful to say anyway except for the fact that i hope my brain will recover from this experience some time soon
0	ladies and gentlemen allow us to introduce to you … the this ancient latin american tribe even preceding the aztecs supposedly had the most malevolent and bloodthirsty sorcerers yet they get their asses whooped by a couple of college floozies and a one hundred and seven year old lawman with a whip but before you get to see this however you have to struggle through more than 40 minutes of sheer boredom infantile pranks and sleazy sequences that don't contain any actual sleaze in case i haven't made myself entirely clear yet the dark power is an indescribably cheesy and inept piece of 80's horror crap that still manages to be amusing because of its sheer and somewhat charming stupidity factor writer director phil intentions were obviously admirable but he – as well as the rest of the cast crew – lacked the talent and financial means to deliver something even half decent carefully watched the evil dead and other similar demonic themed movies and somehow must have thought he could pull this off as well the movie opens with an old indian guy dying in his isolated countryside house barely speaking out his last word above a whisper … his grandson promptly rents out house to a bunch of college chicks including a typically 80's aerobics babe a cute black girl and a racist redneck gal soon they will discover why exactly the old indian lived like a hermit as he was actually the guardian of an ancient burial ground sorcerers buried themselves alive only to emerge again thousands of years later and feed on the flesh of the living and honestly is there any better tasting flesh than that of bimbos as hinted at before already the first half of the dark power is terribly lame and sleep inducing the clichéd pranks the retarded dialogs and the ridiculously overlong footage of lash larue swinging around his whip seem to go on forever then the movie loses its last smidgen of credibility when the sorcerers emerge from the ground instead of menacing they look like drugged out hard rock stars with imbecile masks and drunken gestures exactly one gory moment is worth mentioning when a guy's lips are stretched out over his entire skull but overall even the carnage aspect of this movie is disappointing the only remotely worthwhile moments are utterly senseless like when a 9 year old kid named cletus goes joyriding with his uncle's truck or when the vulgar naked chick beer in the bathtub after working out seriously unless you get turned on by the sight of a 1940's western veteran swinging around his whip at nothing i'd advise to skip this film
0	ok the very idea is ludicrous br br 1 kids don't own planes 2 kids don't race planes with 3 it made the air force look like total idiots 4 the kids father would not jeopardize his entire career to allow his boy to joyride with him 5 neither would a reserve colonel br br the sequels i am sure were worse than this tripe the soundtrack is about the only redeeming quality of this waste of celluloid i am sorry but i just don't understand why in the world anyone would write direct and produce such junk the iranian air force is lucky to a couple parts for an ageing f 14 and this kid wrangles not 1 but 2 fully loaded and fueled f 16s gimme a break
0	technically i'am a van damme fan or i was this movie is so bad that i hated myself for wasting those 90 minutes do not let the name isaac florentine undisputed ii fool you i had big hopes for this one depending on what i saw in undisputed ii man was i wrong all action fans wanted a big comeback for the classic action hero but i guess we wont be able to see that soon as our hero keep coming with those going to a border far away town and kill the bad guys than comeback home movies i mean for god's sake we are in 2008 and they insist on doing those disappointing movies on every level why do your self a favor skip it seriously
0	julie andrews satirically prods her own goody two shoes image in this overproduced musical comedy drama but if she approaches her role with aplomb she's alone in doing so blake edwards' film about a woman who is both music hall entertainer and german spy during wwi doesn't know what tone to aim for and rock hudson has the thankless task of playing romantic second fiddle musicals had grown out of favor by 1970 and productions like star and this film really tarnished andrews' reputation leaving a lot of dead space in her catalogue until the seed came along i've always thought julie andrews would've made a great villain or shady lady her strong voice could really command attention and she hits some low notes that can either be imposing or seductive husband director edwards seems to realize this but neither he nor julie can work up much energy within this scenario screenwriter william peter blatty isn't a good partner for edwards and neither man has his heart in this material beatty's script offers andrews just one fabulous sequence a striptease 1 2 from
0	wow what a cheesy movie this is it starts off looking like it's gonna be a backwoods slasher with the camera following dogs running through the woods it then gets a bit boring and follows the story of some girls moving into some house haunted by indian spirits we then get plenty of shots of one partially clad girl and another naked girl in the bath it suddenly gets really cheesy when the zombie indians arise from the earth and start terrorising the girls we even get a samurai indian br br this movie starts off pretty boring although i did find the story of the four indians who buried themselves alive quite interesting once the indian zombies or whatever you want to call them for they aren't technically zombies start terrorising the girls is when all the fun begins this is not a special flick and can't be taken seriously it's just something fun to watch when you're bored or when you're drinking with friends i can't help thinking though that it would have worked better as a short story because the first half is tediously boring
0	of all the kids movies i have seen over the years this was probably the worst i took four kids aged from 7 to 11 and none of them liked it br br the script seemed to be based on a willy wonka style story but it just didn't have anything to it br br if you are considering seeing this movie dont waste your time it is bad br br they are making a sequel so it may be worth watching to see if they can even make a worse movie but i don't think it is possible
0	i couldn't help but look at the time every 5 to 10 minutes because i found this movie a total drag childish humor cheap looking sets cheap looking effects a plot that makes legally blonde look like the usual suspects and so many coincidences that i can now officially say that robert rodriguez had brain surgery somewhere after 1996 the only thing he left as his trade mark are some cool camera moves but there's where it ends ok so the guy decided to do something new for a change a children's spy movie well if i were 12 i'd feel insulted the best thing in this movie is the absolutely amazing carla that just stole every scene she was in sadly there weren't many 4 10
0	all the actors in this film seem bored they are not really interested in their roles and the dialogue is all delivered in monotone it's a problem because i think the basic idea for the film is really very sound i suppose it's just bad direction which leaves the actors drifting
0	as kids movie it is great for the family it just sucks i was truly hoping for something like the goonies which is a great film for all ages this movie was just geared too much to the kids with the silly script and characters calling each other little names like booger breath alan cummings was however a delight and why do people compare willy wonka to this movie just because there is a theme song closely resembling the willy wonka song doesnt make this film anything like willy wonka
0	my kids enjoyed the movie but i was bored there were a few good lines and a handful of funny parts but the plot was pretty lame and relied on the special effects and gadgets to pull it through still it hit the center of the bullseye that it was aiming for it was good for the kids
0	this movie was incredibly stupid with meaning what so ever i fell bad for all the actors and actresses that ruined there career to be in this stupid movie the entire movie was based on how unrealistic they could make it to make little like it which made it even stupider even some of the names were unrealistic the film is fun to watch which is why it had 2 out of 10 stars this is probably the 3rd stupidest movie ever made i got really made after i realized that it had mostly adult actors in it yet in was a kid movie the most upsetting one was danny trejo a horror movie actor who is always dirty the other actors were pretty much clean as far as i'm concerned
0	i am having a hard time finding the words to explain just how much i detested this movie the historical trial of henriette and the duc de is a tragic and compelling story that i feel had the potential to be a fantastic film but failed br br although the cinematography certainly had something to say for itself it in no way could make up for the terrible structure of the film the badly written script and most of all the horrendously overacted characters the worst of them were the children who were so over the top corny and sickeningly fake that it was almost painful to watch br br in conclusion this film left me feeling nothing more than irritated and profoundly disappointed
0	what an awful movie full of cliches perplexing scenes very bad acting and an script it is hard to believe the same guys that wrote the people vs larry flint and man on the moon wrote this garbage man this makes my list of top 10 worst movies of all time didn't this guy this director if you can call him that realize that the first problem child was bad enough let alone make a sequel for it amazing that piece of trash films like this can be shown to children let alone be released 1 out of 10 's
0	whenever someone tries to tell me that they think a movie is the worst ever and it's usually some movie that's cool to hate like manos the hands of fate or the avengers i ask them is that movie a comedy about an orphan who is constantly trying to murder adults does anyone utter the line 'i'd rather eat a in that movie br br this movie is way too infantile and moronic for adults and way too violent and irresponsible for children is there that much money in the beavis and butt head demographic to make a series of movies like this there is a problem child 3 but i haven't seen it i'd rather eat a turd
0	br br i still can't belive louis gossett jr agreed to appear in this film everything about this move feels artificial forced and contrived the air sequences are flat the enemy characters seem like puppets this is just a poor excuse of a movie at least top gun had air sequences that looked good the external shots anyway the songs by queen are cool though rent midway instead
0	did the first travesty actually make money this is another sequel along the lines of another stakeout that no one asked for but we've received it anyway the sequel is like its predecessor completely brain dead it's also pretty disgusting remember the dinner scene to think i almost felt sorry for ritter yasbeck and warden did they need the money that much
0	problem child was an okay movie but did it really merit a sequel i don't think it did the original movie's only redeeming asset was gilbert gottfried and he wasn't even good in this sequel br br i can't really put my finger on why this movie was bad for starters it just wasn't funny even when i saw this as a nine year old i didn't sympathize with junior michael oliver at all his character came off to me as whiny self loathing and perhaps most importantly a rebel without a clue he appeared to hate every woman that his father ben john ritter dated for the sole sake of hating them it also doesn't send a good message to kids with divorced parents who constitute over half children in the u s these days when the one woman ben decides to almost marry is a southern aristocrat who is vindictive and who happens to hate children as it is br br and as cool as i thought it would have been to see original snl cast mate laraine newman come back to the big screen she couldn't even save this movie i also found it strange that she was a white southern débutante whose name was that sounds more like an african american woman's name but of course that has nothing to do with why i disliked this movie br br i think the movie didn't work because you had antagonists you were supposed to hate along with protagonists you weren't supposed to hate john ritter's character was supposed to be a good parent who tried desperately to teach his child right from wrong without conforming to authoritative parenting instead he came off not only as a wimpy parent but also one who was desperate to find a wife in a matter of days regardless of how well he knew the woman did i mention this sends a bad message to children of divorced parents br br in a nutshell the rest of the things that went wrong with this movie included amy yasbeck unnecessary and unexplained return to play an entirely different character that young girl who was even more obnoxious than junior completely uncalled for toilet humor and even more outrageous and outdated homophobic humor involving the dog catchers the movie was just a mess and really doesn't deserve a dvd release if it hasn't been given one already it should just rot on vhs along with all the other bad forgettable 90's comedies
0	junior and his dad start a new life in a new town it's the same life because junior hasn't changed one bit he is still the same rotten brat as before only he's gotten bigger this time he has a pal named trixie and she is only slightly worse junior doesn't like his dad dating and messes up every opportunity that he has then grandpa moves in and the dog comes along i thought that the two of them would have made it a good movie but they didn't even become buddies until the end this is a movie for the most immature people it has diapers farts doggy do do and toilet humor in it only someone under the age of twelve would find this to be super hilarious i hope when i have a son he is exactly like junior
0	ten minutes of people spewing gallons of pink vomit recurring scenes of enormous piles of dog excrement need one say more
0	the only good either of the problem child films caused was bringing together amy yasbeck and the late john ritter aside from that the flicks are as demonic as their hero in this basically unnecessary sequel freshly separated ben ritter and his little hellraiser junior michael oliver who never needs screen time ever again move to a new town infested with willing ben eventually picks played by the most underused original snl er laraine newman whose blanche dubois tendencies don't suit junior in the least to add on to junior's torture it seems this town already has a little firestarter in younger girl form with trixie who coincidentally has a sweet single mother played by yasbeck the same actress who played junior's first horrible mother through adoption you can see where the plot goes from here searching for my favorite scene is like pulling teeth so i guess i'll go with the cherry bomb in the toilet gag that makes back to the future's james one of the many grown up victims that guy's always playing school authority figures jack warden and gilbert gottfried return as their parts from the first film but sadly there is no appearance from the bow tie er i mean killer michael richards that made problem child all the more fun on a serious note i'm sure these films whether abusive parents saw them or no did wonders for the red headed children of america let us also salute these proud american flicks for their terrific promoting of adoption oh and dog poop jokes gotta have dog poop jokes
0	problem child 2 was a complete waste of my time the original film wasn't very good but its a classic compared to this film the first film went over the top with its scenes of a devilish child wrecking major havoc in the lives of everyone he's around here it goes even further over the top and one scene in this movie proves that theory that carnival ride sequence was too much for me to stomach it's awful this movie shouldn't have been made br br 1 2 out of four
0	seriously you've just got to see this movie to understand everything that is wrong with it it came out during the time period where everybody was trying to make family movies that everyone could enjoy the little rascals mr nanny etc yet it lacked any charisma or enthusiasm every single character in the movie is driven by rage with the exception of mother who shows only aggravation and weariness possibly at the tired cliché's this movie enjoys br br to put it simply the biggest flaw in the film was not the acting nor the filming but most notably the writing the lines we receive are reminiscent of disney classics although this film lacks the whole heartedness il' walt managed to pull off junior's dad john ritter makes you mad without even doing anything simply because he allows junior to run around unsupervised and only gives him a stern warning when he tapes a 200 pound behemoth to a chalk board br br also junior's grandfather is particularly excruciating for those of you who saw the first one found it nauseating and thus did not see the second one big ben healy as he is referred to in this movie is still a total douche he basically into john ritter's house uninvited settles himself in junior's room even though he says that he hates junior and basically does nothing to accelerate the film's speed or to support the film in any way rather he ticks off the audience by being a lazy free loader br br finally we are introduced to a wide variety of new characters such as the smug obnoxious trixie who carries dynamite in her backpack which she first lights then hands to junior who simply stares wide eyed at also gilbert gottfried returns in this film this time playing the obnoxious principal at junior's new elementary school if gilbert gottfried ain't enough to get the point across i will put it simply this film reeks br br 2 10 stars because the actor's convictions shine through the film even though the script sucks
0	this was just an awful movie i've watched it once when i was roughly 12 i am now 19 and i don't think i will ever forget this movie br br i still feel sick whenever i think about it it was just everything horrible that could possibly fit in one movie i really don't understand what kind of person would enjoy this utter rubbish it's not enough to simply turn off your mind to enjoy this movie i can enjoy the dumbest made for tv disney movies as much as the next person but this is something else completely br br usually i don't like to judge a movie until i have seen it myself but believe me i am doing you a favour do not watch this movie
0	i saw this movie in the theatre and it was a terrible movie the way michael oliver who now turn even worse in the sequel is the biggest intolerance i cannot bare junior upset his father because he would not go to school which got his father ben madly insane also the crazy dance ride operator is not fair to junior for not letting him go on the ride and that is as horrible as a serial killer to junior because she made threatening insults to junior which is why i cannot tolerate this movie even if the movie is re released back into theatres in the extended version i still would not see this movie because this movie is not something i can even tolerate in fact it stinks
0	this sequel to problem child is just as bad as the first one it still teaches kids that it's o k to be bad it's impossible for me to recommend this movie to anyone
0	without actually giving away my age i saw this for the first time over 20 years ago when it first came out on video maybe it was a beta tape and i was old enough to drink barely and perhaps i had had a few because i remember thinking how great this movie was i have since seen it sober and have to admit it is a pretty bad film as mentioned in other posts the plot is absolutely ridiculous and the poor acting just makes it worse it's a poor attempt to fantasize that teenagers too can be mavericks although i am surprised to find out it actually was to be released the same time aprox as top gun and not actually meant to be a poor imitation but for all it's worth i do find myself watching it if it's on and i have the time it's one of those movies you watch because it's just so ridiculous and tries so desperately to take itself seriously like that other film moment by moment with john travolta and lily tomlin don't get me started on that one
0	and nothing else br br one of my friends bought the problem child tantrum pack contains the first two problem child s in one disc and we decided to watch the sequel because it was funnier br br there were many funny moments in the movie the vomit scene that's all i need to say nippy the dog after eating chow down and numerous others the movie is nothing but toilet humor but it's hilarious other than the funny moments though this movie has little to offer br br john ritter annoys the crap out of me because it sounds like he's reading out of a book the man can't act in this one sorry br br although i can't say if i would find the movie funny now we were blown when we watched it it's a perfect movie for a rainy day but nothing else don't expect oscar material on this one guys
0	everyone has their choice for worst movie they've ever seen some like to pick on gigli or battlefield earth some pick on classics like plan 9 from outer space ever since i was 14 i have been very vocal in saying that to me it is problem child 2 and 9 years later i feel the exact same way it's not one of the worst it's not just an expression it is the actual worst movie i have ever seen br br how much farting pooping peeing and puking can you put in a single movie i don't need to see a dog take a dump that goes up to my waist why is it that i'm so hard on this filth i have nothing against bathroom or gross out humor heck i like the american pie movies having such an excess of it within 90 minutes is a bad idea but the true tipping point is to do it with kids having little kids call each other sexual names imdb won't even let me post that word on here yet here it is coming out of the mouths of 8 year olds think of the irony in that and urinate and puke on each other just makes the whole thing feel dirtier worst line in the movie i guess i should fart in more people's offices br br what other film has urination into lemonade dynamite sticks exploding toilets a little boy filming his babysitter having sex and projecting it on the side of the house and a little girl joking about scratching testicles br br however my absolute favorite moment has to be when the same little girl is on a carnival ride says i'm gonna puke opens her mouth and fake looking puke shoots straight out of her open mouth in a perfect 90 degree angle the puking scene in scary movie 2 looked more real than that br br i suppose the only redeeming element in the movie is gilbert gottfried you get the impression that he didn't even have a script but was just being his usual self too bad he has to act stupid while pizza gets thrown on him br br you know what thinking about the movie this much has just made me have to go to the bathroom goodbye
0	i am coming out fighting here because this film was so well shot and so well cast that i am twice as angry about its de evolution than i would have been with a lesser work without revealing too much of the plot i can only say that part one of my 2 vhs set was an unnerving unfolding delight of bizarre but plausible plot developments the lead character was suitably naif like but also intelligent and very very open the events that he is rapidly forced to come to terms with are the separation of his parents the culture shock when his pakistani roots collide with a complete breakdown of english society in the sixties his father's dubious transformation into the revered buddha of suburbia and the turning of his cousin into a feminist militant as his best friend suddenly becomes an icon of the burgeoning punk movement in the seventies among other things br br what made me so angry was the amount of detailed work each actor put into creating and establishing their characters in the first part only to have the whole thing devolve into very bad porn episodes in the second part far too many to justify plot development and far too explicit to even seem erotic my biggest pet peeve is when directors let their private fetishes interfere with the truth of their movie and this to me was a supreme example br br i felt a bit like i'd been invited to a party of very clever funny strangers only to have the doors locked and the guests not allowed to interact and all of us forced to watch bad seventies sexploitation films instead what an insult to the hard work of these amazing actors why not just make a cheeseball flick to begin with and why cast a great lead character who can actually act and then cut away from him whenever he is building up to a great performance i almost felt as if he too was growing tired of the endless sex scenes where all he did was lie there pumping his for yet another breathy naked actress br br bottom line part one is minor genius part two is second tier soap opera perversion i know the book is quite explicit but i felt that these fine actors were as exploited in real life as their characters were in the movie and it made me quite angry and very uncomfortable only john waters can pull off such a dubious degrading of actors and plot and have it seem artistic my suggestion is to only watch the first part toss the second in the proverbial rubbish heap and you will love the buddha forever score a f 0
0	this is one of the strangest things on tv it is set in a bizarrely underpopulated midlands superb called which seems to be the dullest place in the country it features a bar with no visible staff or customers a university with no students a police station with no criminals and a surgery with more doctors than patients the story lines are dire every episode revolves round a bizarre medical issue acted out by a variety of brummie extras who can never actually act and for some reason the doctor always ends up round their house solving their problem pretty entertaining for its pure comedy value but i cannot believe that this thing actually masquerades as a serious drama bonkers
0	what to say about dead end road br br lets just say that edgar allen poe would have been so ashamed the acting writing effects and everything in this movie was just horrendous that doesn't even do justice this movie was the biggest piece of garbage i have ever had to sit through that is also why i stopped it about 20 minutes before the ending because personally i didn't care what happened to the characters i have seen bad but this was definitely the worst i got hyped up for this because i am a fan of poe and this was just bad just bad br br what upsets me more is that you can't rate films with negative numbers
0	how in the world does a thing like this get into my dvd player at home how does it even get to be packaged and distributed are there absolutely zero screenings a movie and i use that term loosely have to go through before it's put on a video store's shelf anymore i'm all for diy film making but come on that doesn't entitle me to get a group of my friends and relatives together a crappy camcorder an awful story and put it all together to create a heaping pile of crap and call it a movie and i wish people would quit using the words indie and campy to describe these types of movies they're not either in no other profession would something like this be considered acceptable if someone tried to sell you car that was as bad as this movie you'd take it back and say it was a lemon if it was a surgical procedure you'd be suing the doctor for malpractice i wish i could get my time and money back after watching this shame on the video stores who stock movies like these they're a rip off to the public you want campy go get any of the friday the 13th movies even the later ones or dead alive at least those don't make you want to kill yourself it's because of movies like this that make people automatically equate independent with garbage
0	you know i really hate imdb's censor system since my entire review is almost gone if you take out the cursing but here we go editing time br br holy is this bad i thought it might be a cool little movie judging by the plot summary since i've blindly rented such gems as frailty and american nightmare before but this is just it's about a killer who uses edgar allen poe's works as reference for his murderous exploits and the story of a detective who has to stop him can't these blithering hacks make a good movie without defiling the grave of a great horror writer i mean the kills in here are completely devoid of thought or originality and the references to poe are hokey and fake without enough thought put into them they're shallow and they put poe's work to shame full of holes with awful sequencing the acting is bad too reminding me of the abortion that was known in some third world countries as fear x what with all the pausing and un emotional lines br br i realize this is an indie movie but that's no excuse i've seen high school kids act better then these morons and i myself could've come up with better kill scenes and a better plot given ample time br br this has no reason to exist avoid at all costs
0	i bought this movie sight unseen at a sci fi convention and i got what i deserved for doing something so silly simply put this movie is implausible boring and unwatchable br br i was so bored and disgusted with the lack of plot development that i turned it off to watch a repeat of i understand that this was a very low budget move or least it looked like a very low budget move but that does not excuse the horrible acting terrible plot and even worse camera work it looks like something a group of college students did in between classes and getting drunk br br maybe if the villain wasn't so laughable and the plot was something that actually could happen in real life with respect to law enforcement it might become so bad it's funny this movie isn't funny it's just bad
0	this was honestly the worst movie i have ever seen the acting was god awful the story line also was bad it was however a good idea if this movie would have had better cinematics and a lot better actors i might of had something better to say edgar allen poe was a great gothic writer and this movie just destroyed it why do people always have to kill good stories by making bad movies the only good part was when the killer put the head under the floor with a tape going that was pretty good the swinging axe was just horrible there was absolutely no suspense and also when the killer is chasing everyone around in the end he was going from one place to another in just seconds it makes absolutely no sense
0	detective burt williams has been on the trail of the infamous poe killer for nearly three years burt's daughter kris williams a homicide agent for the fbi along with her partner sean michaels take over burt reluctantly steps down from the case and retires for the next seven months the poe killer continues his murderous rampage until kris discovers that the killer uses internet chat rooms to seduce his prey she logs in as annabel lee and is quickly captured by poe killer it's time for burt to find the sadist and free his daughter before it's too late amateurish and supremely braindead horror flick with no suspense and a bit of nasty gore the acting is hilariously terrible the characters are painfully dumb and the killer is not menacing still i have seen worse indie horror flicks 3 out of 10
0	but it definitely still only deserves 4 10 stars and no more a moronic dumb kid's father is a fighter pilot who gets shot down by some arab country they never name the country in the movie its really ridiculous they just vaguely refer to some arab nation this movie is really ignorant like that but lamar from revenge of the nerds is in here he is friends with the main character doug masters well doug masters who lives on an air force base his father is an air force pilot yet he fails to get into the air force academy conceives of a plot with help from his retarded friends to steal two jets and go rescue his father yea exactly this is one of the greatest films ever made louis gossett jr is fantastic in his role you can tell he basically wanted to smack the hell out of doug masters the whole movie well anyway you can probably guess how the plot ends i can't believe they made 3 sequels to this movie
0	this homemade horror movie tells the story of a dude who kills people using the motif of stories by edgar allan poe the local police have bungled the case for a few years so now the fbi has taken over they know exactly who the guy is but apparently no one has thought to swing by his house because that's where he's hanging out running around in his vintage clothing and torturing the random locals so fbi chick gets kidnapped which involves her father the former lead investigator from the local police to top it all off a pack of wacky college kids have decided to camp out at the house and smoke a bunch of weed br br mostly the fbi agent winds up shrieking and running around like a little girl and not a single one of the burly college boys thinks to just stop and take a swing at the wimpy poe boy mostly overacted and sometimes underacted dead end road reeks of a low budget cast with friends production that has silly points too numerous to cover
0	if you love movies about fruity dudes who prance around with a top hats and while spouting off random line of poetry while stabbing their victims then this is the movie for you br br if you like movies where it looks like the whole thing was shot with a camcorder and when people get disemboweled their internal organs are made out of baked ziti an sauce this movie is even more for you br br and if you simply love movies where the acting and dialogue sucks so much that it makes you feel dead inside then for god's sake run to the video store right now and buy this movie right now hurry go before it sells out
0	a low budget may be an excuse for poor acting talent and pathetic looking fake gore however it is not an excuse for poor writing it is a talent to be able to write dialog without making it sound forced and mechanical the dialog in this movie was on par with most instructional videos shown to fast food staff in training br br i also understand that one must make a few exceptions when it comes to acting talent when you only have 20 bucks to spend on it with that being said no serious director would have looked at these scenes and said to himself that was perfect i see better character acting on canadian television br br this movie had a paper thin plot bad acting poor dialog and holds no intelligent ideas at all this simply proves to me that some independent films are that way for a reason if your looking for a quick scare rent anything else even the cable guy was a scarier film after watching this film i think i would have been better off watching a re run on the x files
0	first let me start off by saying this film sounded very interesting a serial killer the works of edgar allan poe who is one of my writers of all time sounds cool right yeah definitely not probably the worst film i've ever seen ever and that's not an exaggeration i've seen a lot of very very bad movies this one takes the cake and i was even prepared for a bad movie before going into it br br perhaps the writer should've studied some law enforcement procedure if you have the name of the killer his entire life's history a criminal record and his address where is the first place you should look hmm possibly his house what no that's a preposterous idea anthony how could you suggest something so obvious and level headed rather than going to a bowling alley spoilers end honestly sometimes i can forgive a movie if the writing is good but the acting is bad or vice versa but this just had everything wrong with it you could possibly find br br i think my biggest pet peeve was how the police fbi acted br br for example black fbi agent okay endangered female just sit here in this car in an empty parking lot while i go inside and look around the potential crime scene where a serial killer is supposed to be sound good to you moronic female fbi agent yeah sounds a okay to me go right ahead i'll be sure to not focus on my surroundings or at least check the perimeter black fbi agent excellent that's what i would do honestly if you want to be in law enforcement rent this movie so you can learn how not to act or if you're a human and want to learn the same br br 0 5 10 a half point just for getting a film produced and in stores congrats br br ap3
0	i'm so glad he wasn't alive to see this this movie is a debauchery of his work i agree with the other commenter this movie was a terrible disappointment i'd give it a zero but am forced to give it a 1 br br the story was weak and it reminded me of the days when i was a young teenager trying to write a movie then looking back on it and realizing how horrible it was bad actors family and friends and someone stupid enough to fund it was how it was made it's really amazing how strings can be pulled to get anything done if this movie was able to make it out to the general public it puts high hopes on other indie film makers who have talent worth a damn who're struggling this movie made me laugh but for all the wrong reasons by all accounts this was seriously not meant to be a comedy scary movie is a better play on a horror genre this movie just sucks
0	this movie made me so angry here i am thinking that here's a new horror movie one w a sense of intelligence then the movie starts the scenery the delivery of lines the costumes the fake gore must i go on there are porno movies out with better dialog than this i understand the concept behind indie movies but my goodness this wasn't just indie this was a high school book report shot w a camcorder the cast are all friends relatives this is 1 movie that was doomed from its beginning maybe if it was 1982 instead of the new millennium this movie could fly but it seems to me that someone hung a rock around this neck it was sinking at a constant rate of speed
0	mary mary bloody mary is an ok time killer it has a uniformly attractive cast the action is rarely dull there are a lot of killings and the production values are not bad but in the end it plays like a standard tv episode from the 1970s with some nudity thrown in the film is the end product of an author trying to make a purely commercial film there's very little depth here and the film spends too much time with chases and action scenes except for the scene on the beach with the old man is almost devoid of any scares or suspense or dread the director has very little understanding of the horror genre br br it's watchable even though it doesn't leave a lasting impression
0	some movies you watch and you say well that made no sense and you don't really mean it you're just saying things were overly complicated or slightly nonsensical br br bread and circus makes no sense at all and i mean it and that's not because it's surreal from the start it's pretty clear it's a feeble excuse to do splatter special effects there's no script there's no plot there's no story of any kind one event does not lead to the next that's how fundamental the bad writing is here br br so what i mean there are tons of movies out there that fall into that category they want to show you gore they give you gore why even talk about it br br because in this case bread and circus gave me hope okay there are some surreal elements vaginas in the ground people crawling out of them the earth in space two legs on either side these sorts of images are wonderful fun odd crazy but the movie doesn't do anything with them br br stuff happens the movie ends and it's all very unsatisfying i suspect the script was made up on the fly too bad if there had been a story of any kind at all it would have made for a much more entertaining film br br the film is very much like the beautiful car you would love to own then you lift up the hood and there's no engine just a small man a bicycle br br
0	a chicago couple dillon and dougherty are falsely accused of killing their daughter people begin to wonder if they did it the police investigate and find suspicious evidence the couple are maligned by the public and accused in the press the cops speculate that they are satanists and have murdered their own daughter they are charged and brought to trial they are represented by publicity seeking lawyers who give them bad advice and bill them for 100 000 the evidence presented against them is twisted or hidden by the police fabricated of sexual abuse are presented their other child is taken away from them and put in a foster home dougherty is pregnant and gives birth to find her baby removed verdict she didn't do it but he did he goes to the slams with a sentence of 45 years br br in the last third of the movie with dillon in jail and dougherty wondering what to do next we see people who have been antagonistic now slowly coming to the couple's defense witnesses admit to having lied other facts are brought to light that finally result in dillon's release the killer is never found though the movie gives us a thorough as a plausible perp br br this is a weeper from beginning to end nothing seems to go right for the couple oh there are a few happy moment maybe a party where everyone is glad to be together and tearing up with joy or some point of evidence in their favor is discovered and people hug one another but it's never long before someone rushes through the door with more bad news and all the faces are frozen in tragic disbelief usually a fade to block follows there isn't necessarily anything wrong with moving tragedies although i can't imagine what pleasure we get out of seeing people suffer there's plenty of tragedy in shakespeare too i suppose whatever we find interesting about tragic stories lies in the way they're told oh but i am fool romeo cries after killing brother here we have dougherty running in her robe through a hospital corridor screaming where's my baby there isn't any ambiguity or irony in the story as i'm sure there must have been in the real life events on which it's based people are either good or bad here or else they're bad then they turn good br br the film isn't aimed at exploring human quirkiness or the way things work out it's aimed at wrenching tears from the audience the actors provide first rate role models i can't remember the last movie in which i saw so many tears there are of tears showers of them of them a veritable niagara of them a lake of them br br well i'll give one example of the efficiency with which the movie is crafted dillon and dougherty hire a chicago cop who works on the side as a private investigator ed asner asner is sympathetic to them but he doesn't really accomplish much he seems to be in the movie not because of his importance to the case but because he can provide the victimized couple with a kind of philosophy learn to live with it which is okay and because he suffers from cancer so we can watch him take his medicine double over with pain and finally pass away br br what's frustrating about the movie is that in focusing so intensely on the suffering of the couple it sidesteps one of the more important issues that it raises the function of gossip in private lives br br gossip is a strange thing really if we call it gossip it's bad but if we call it public opinion it sounds acceptable at the very least of course we all have convictions about issues that may or may not be justified as i write michael jackson is once again being brought to court accused of molesting a young boy and i wonder how many of us thrilled at the news and immediately assumed he was a pedophile but gossip isn't all bad either it's like water when it's properly controlled it's a community asset we need gossip to keep each other in line it helps us to maintain public order but like water in a flood or a tsunami it is ruinous to a village when it rages out of control br br this is a movie that's okay if you're not looking for too much in the way of insight into human nature it's done so cleverly that given its goal it's hard to argue with it
0	they prove that the cops when they can't find the real perpetrators always blame the parents and accuse them of sexual abuse of their kids these movies always depict the press as a bunch of animals and have the parents coming out of court to feed the hunger to humiliate the grief stricken hasn't anybody ever heard of a courthouse back door in these movies here you have a psychic who tells them exactly what happened and where the body can be found but the police are not told and nobody heeds his findings br br the police are portrayed as blockheads who don't know what they are doing and there's always an outside detective like ed asner who comes in late on the case believes in the parents and solves the mystery br br also after the parents are cleared they don't spit in the faces of the dumb cops who put them in jail took their kid away and accused them of killing their own child br br it looked as if i've see this film many times before
0	i remember watching this for the first time in the 80's as a teen man i've read the reviews on this trash and i find myself astonished by the voting this movie does not deserve four stars this movie is not better than has its own problems don't get me wrong this movie should be banned just for its own stupidity so many stereotypes so many loop holes so much poor dialog i cannot think of one redeeming quality of this vomit this is not action adventure this is a bad joke on film kinda like watching plan 9 with stock f 16 footage this movie not only defies logic and common sense within the context of a military setting it sends a disturbing message the military is not going to save your dad from the imminent evil of the middle east b ds so go out there and hijack a multi million dollar weapon and blast him out of the sinister clutches of the backwards anti american arabs cuz you can't reason with those animals this is a bruckheimer flick without a budget bland direction weak acting lame music idiotic plot equals iron eagle
0	the opening scene really got me into watching the movie however not more than 5 minutes later i was already gouging my eyes out not only could i not understand a word that was said the acting could have been better by a group of mentally handicapped the one highlight of this movie was that there was a punk white midget however i didn't quite get the connection on how a white midget was the child of two african americans but i guess anything is possible also why the hell was robin in the movie i'm not sure that it added anything artistically overall i would strongly recommend you jump off a cliff before you rent this movie
0	carlito's angels is a spoof of charlie's angels that is not afraid to spoof even itself at times however that does not mean that the film is above criticism by the viewers as well it is amateurish and juvenile i think fast motion stopped being funny around 1914 the assaulting rap music often drowns out the dialogue and the film feels longer than it is even though it runs barely over an hour the girls themselves are hot adorable with wonderful lean bodies and even though they never get naked their outfits leave little to the imagination by checking out their imdb pages i found out that one of them alessandra ramos is actually going through with a film career i wish her luck because although this film is bad she as well as the other girls gave it whatever energy it has and i wouldn't mind at all seeing her again on the screen
0	i thought that this movie might be a good spoof or at least a good independent comedy like friday instead it was more like something someone in high school would make with their parents' camcorder it wasn't just the low budget that makes this film bad many great films have been made on a low budget it is simply a bad movie and it wasn't even bad enough to be good camp case in point for the first ten minutes of the movie nothing happens except the 3 main characters sit in their room smoking dope put on their makeup and then answer a phone call you keep waiting for something to get story moving but it never comes the sound was so bad i had to turn the tv up all the way just to almost make out what they were saying which wasn't interesting anyways if i pay to rent a movie i will usually suffer through it even when it's bad but it was all i could do to sit through 20 minutes it looks like the person before me felt the same way because they didn't rewind the tape and left off about the same place i did the only reason i gave this a score of 1 is because the rating system doesn't have negative numbers
0	this movie really shows its age the print i saw was terrible due to age but it is possible that there are better prints out there however this was not the major problem with the movie the problem was that although the film was made in 1933 it was essentially a silent film with only the barest of dialog scattered only a few sentences in the film in the most amateur fashion sometimes the characters' backs were turned or they were talking with their hands over their faces all in a pathetic attempt to obscure their lips and cleaverly hide the fact that the film was dubbed well its true that this czech film would need to be dubbed into many languages but to do it this way was really stupid and obvious it just looked cheap br br overall the film looked low budget and silly it's really a shame though because there was a grain of a good story a young woman who marries an older man who is either gay and or has no interest in women but in the 21st century few people would really be willing to sit through this archaic mess even with a few glimpses of the naked and somewhat chunky hedy lamarr it isn't worth all the fuss that accompanied the film when it debuted even by 1933 standards this film was a poorly made dud about the only interesting thing about the film is to see how different lamarr looked in 1933 compared with the glamorous image hollywood created when she came to america she looks like 2 completely different people br br it's such an incomplete looking and technically inferior film i don't see how it has gotten such rave reviews for technical problems alone the movie can't rate a 10 or anything near it
0	it's unlikely that anyone except those who adore silent films will appreciate any of the lyrical camera work and busy but scratchy background score that accompanies this 1933 release although sound came into general use in 1928 there are no more than fifty words spoken to tell the story of a woman unhappily married who deserts her husband for a younger man after a romantic interlude in the woods br br the most vividly photographed scene has the jealous husband giving a lift to the young man for a ride into town proceeding to drive normally until he realizes the man is his wife's lover in a frenzy of jealousy he drives at top speed toward a railroad crossing but changes his mind at the last moment losing his nerve it's probably the most tension filled scene in the otherwise decidedly slow moving and obviously contrived story br br hedy lamarr is given the sort of close up treatment lavished on marlene dietrich by her discoverer but her beauty had not yet been refined by the cosmeticians as they were when she was transported to hollywood her performance consists mostly of looking sad and morose while mourning the loss of her marriage with only brief glimpses of a smile when she finds her true love aribert mog the handsome young stud who retrieves her clothes after a nude swim br br the swimming scene is very brief discreetly photographed and not worth all the heat it apparently generated the love making scene later on is also artfully photographed with the sort of lyrical photography evident throughout most of the film artfully so more is left to the imagination with the use of symbolism and this is the sort of thing that has others proclaiming the film is some kind of lyrical masterpiece br br not so it's disappointing primitively crude in its sound portions including the laborious symphonic music in the background and certainly miss lamarr is fortunate that louis b mayer saw the film and on the basis of it gave her a career in hollywood he must have seen something in her work that i didn't br br it's apparent that this was conceived as a silent film with the camera doing all the work the jarring workers scene at the conclusion goes on for too long and is a jarring intrusion where none is needed it fails to end the film on the proper note
0	i saw this film when it first came out and hated it i just saw it again 27 years later i actually liked some of it although robin williams was totally wrong for the role what i remember most about hating the film is that it was almost the complete opposite of what i had understood when i read the book since i haven't re read it i can only give you my impressions from the past but i am sure of one thing the film is a paean to family life whereas in the book almost all traditional institutions including and perhaps especially marriage are shown to be strait jackets that we would be well rid of the only positive in the book is the wondrous nature of children something that only the very beginning and ending of the film really captures with that incredibly gorgeous baby floating in the air too bad williams doesn't have a tenth of his charm my low mark is therefore from the fact that the film misrepresents the book as a film on its own it fares better but only for a few key performances mary beth hurt is wonderful i think anyone watching it would fall in love with her and john lithgow as an ex football player who has had a sex change operation is fantastic he never once camped it up or made the character anything but commendable and as such his performance had an incredibly integrity i watched him closely during all of his scenes and never once was he anything except womanly nothing in his performance ever came near the performance of a drag queen and that made all the difference in fact of all the people in the film his is the only one which is irreproachable it is worth seeing this film only for his performance
0	i went to see this movie at the theater and paid money thinking it would be at least mildly entertaining the only thing i enjoyed about it was when robin williams crashes into the car at the bottom of the hill and the end when he seems to get killed glenn close was obnoxious and she obviously did not seem old enough to be mother a mother like would have had her kids taken away by the department of children and families br br robin williams and his glazed donut look of benign goodness is just too sweet and smarmy for me he has two roles he can play funny person or sad tragic good hearted victim see the fisher king good morning vietnam and all of his so called dramatic roles it is always the same performance put them all together into one long mini series glenn close is always a cold fish remember fatal attraction would you have an affair with her even on your worst day and if you were single did you feel any sparks between her and michael douglas have you ever seen glenn close warm up any screen john lithgow had the only interesting role this was back in the day when he used to play serial killers and bad guys so seeing him as a transsexual was at least funny garp is made for all those people who love to see movies about sick abnormal dysfunctional people and then claim it is beautiful and profound
0	tediously long dreary cinematic waffle i couldn't believe how bad this film was i watched it merely because of the numerous people who gushed about it on this site was i watching the same film the entire episode is one dimensional nothing that happened in past affected his or anyone else's future and no one was affected by their past i think it was socrates who said about plays that if a scene can be removed from a play without having any effect then it shouldn't be there obviously the director didn't know this rule and so stuffed his 'work' with one dire scene after another even the plane crashing into the house was unexpected it wasn't a surprise but it was unexpected br br it is worth mentioning that at the time of writing this 1st dec 2002 even though many people say it is one of their favourite films no one has bothered to add a memorable quote the reason being that there simply aren't any br br don't waste your time watching this watch a plank warp instead
0	who the heck is responsible for this terrible mangling of one of my favorite books this is just terrible terrible acting terrible script the story isn't even close to its old self and what were they thinking robin williams for sake this really defies description don't see this seriously don't not even for laughs especially not if you're a fan of the book this might just be the worst movie adaptation ever everything is disjointed and scrambled the characters which are important in order to understand the sequence of events are seriously marginalized and every potentially interesting location from the book has been changed example vienna new york into something profoundly uninteresting br br for those who haven't read the book it's basically a fictional biography about a writer growing up exploring his writing and so on his mother writes an autobiography which is hailed despite her protests as a sort of feminist manifesto the book is well written engaging and long its prose is simply beautiful br br this movie on the other hand is about robin williams once again telling us to seize the day
0	empty shortening of john irving's novel strives for profundity courageously but ends up being absurd it's a quirky goofy and bittersweet string of sketches attempting to explain a man's growth from birth to adulthood and how he deals with the vices of lust and fanaticism that surround him garp is born to a formidable unmarried mother jenny fields played by glenn close the various stages of childhood are played by three young actors before robin williams takes over as garp reaches adulthood the story follows him through childhood at a boys' prep school where jenny is the school nurse through his high school passions wrestling writing and sex to marriage with his high school sweetheart children marital problems and a writing career jenny meanwhile has become a famous feminist espousing an unorthodox cause the plot details an abundance of comic and episodes and outlandish adventures williams gives a cherub faced performance this script was not fitting for his wildness and anarchy and thus his talent was wasted he's like an injured bird sputtering out of control john lithgow's role as a father like transsexual imparting wisdom also doesn't make sense this movie was able to attract some reasonable attention in 1982 due to the popularity of robin williams and his new entry into movies williams had recently shed his mork and mindy pursuits and focused more on stand up comedy and movies audiences were confused by this film especially by its arbitrary and inexplicable ending
0	a teen age boy who is not in the military and has not trained to be a jet pilot takes off for a foreign country to rescue his dad if this is not ridiculous enough he talks a colonel in the air force into helping him get his hands on a jet wow to make the picture even more absurd the colonel risks his career and life by giving the spunky lad some hands on aid they not only don't make like this anymore but they never did this sappy corny film should be tossed into the air and blown away by a
0	i was thrilled by the fresh pun intended synopsis of this film and looking forward to watch it the first few shots introduce some of the characters as well as the main location where the stories take place the gardening the movie looks fantastic colorful yet simple magical yet genuine unfortunately it only takes a few minutes to figure out where the movie will go we quickly figure out this will be a manipulative sappy tale illustrating a bunch of jaded people set in their ways confronted by nice victimized refugees and that it will have a happy ending where the jaded people realize the error of their ways and accept these people br br the characters particularly the prejudiced ones are very comic in nature the story focuses mainly on two refugee families one of them is headed by a single mom played atrociously by henry i am saddened to say that any emotion that might have been felt toward her struggles were defused by what was memorably bad acting br br the other story is much more interesting and focuses on a father and his two children all are scarred by their journey to this country by way of containers where the wife and mother died but it is the husband who suffers the most benedict wong gives a mind blowing performance here at first his emotions are very subdued but as the story develops he subtly makes us aware of the inner struggles of his character br br unfortunately the rest of the movie is just extremely boring there were so many possibilities with this movie there are several characters to keep track of many of which might have potential but none of it is realized even worse despite this movie being very much not hollywoodian some of the main plot threads are solved cheaply in a hollywood b grade way example br br character a likes character b character b rejects his advances no problem let's have character c declare her love for character a so we can all have a happy ending yawn br br i liked very much the plot thread of the asian family that was well done unfortunately the whole business the communal aspect of it the dynamic involving a large cast are all under exploited br br what you're left with is a movie that has very little worth
0	i only gave this film a 4 because i saw it in 3 d if you don't see it in 3 d i give it a 2 this movie is so bad it's not funny anyone can make a film like this for a weeks pay bad acting effects and story but it was cool to watch in 3d why can't they make good movies in the 3 d format
0	83 minutes nope this thing is 72 minutes tops br br if you cannot guess the killer in this movie you had better throw your tv out the window because you ain't learned nothing in 20 years of cinematic slasher history br br and how come the plain star who never gets naked is always the one you want to get naked
0	yeah i bought camp blood and it wasted about 86 minutes of my life and 5 pounds of my money on this crap i mean i didn't expect an amazing movie judging by the front cover i wasn't really expecting anything great but at least not boobies in the first 3 seconds i'm not complaining about the boobies i'm complaining about what the hell that has to do with anything this film should have been kept on there hand cam at home as a joke they suck why was the blood more brown and turd like that real blood cheap i tells ya i mean everyone wasn't in colour they were just tinted yellow and another thing that made me die laughing at this sad excuse for a film was the fact that they tried to pretend the clown was a woman all the time although its clearly a flat chested black short haired man did anyone else notice that the only special effect in this film was a slowed down jump that was also poor oh and the dissolve effect that you can find on many basic p c programs such as this film blows
0	well what can i say what the f k there really isn't much to say about this really the only way you would like this is if u like me like bad bad horror to laugh at br br acting very unconvincing just watch the last scene with the main actresses running rip off of texas chainsaw massacre but in a bad way just awful br br gore really not believable in one scene they use one of those knives which have a chunk cut out of them which fit over a body part etc by using this with the addition of red ketchup its supposed 2 look real although it really doesn't br br plot predictable get lost in woods on camping weekend' movie ripped off from friday the 13th br br killer quality scary mask if you're scared of clowns kinda unbelievable that someone would chose this as their costume however the director obviously realised all the good costumes had been used in all the other horror camp movies out there br br total 3 10 p s stay away from camp blood ii that one made this look like lord of the rings
0	but i can't say how i really feel about this pile of steaming dung where to begin the film quality there isn't any i've seen clearer pictures on america's funniest home videos the acting is substandard the gore effects is okay the clown mask is the best part of this movie the story is repetitive the same thing over and over again at least in a friday the 13th or halloween we stick with one main character for the most part there is no main characters just victims man now we come to the worst part of all the final survivor kills the clown and finds out it was one of her friends then when the police finally arrive they don't believe her and she is locked up in a rubber room what kind of ending do you call that crap that's what in my opinion there is no excuse for a bad ending in a horror movie that was just sloppy writing the excuse it has to ending badly it's a horror movie or we need to end it badly to leave it open to a sequel are just lame excuses and that is all i must give the camp blood the thanksgiving turkey
0	yes sure this is a friday the 13th rip off but i have no problem with it it's a good effort the killings aren't that gory but the acting of one girl carries the movie what a scream queen jennifer for a low budget movie the effects are nicely done okay sometimes you can guess how it is done some people have problems with the use of the camera i can't see what's wrong with that it's so strange that so many people dislike this movie i really enjoyed it of course the script isn't original but give me one that is i mean so many slashers are made in the woods maybe it is all predictable but it's a worth see i have seen a lot worser i can tell you that
0	how to round up every possible cliché and stereotype existing in the genre of horror and then subsequently stuff them into one massively lousy movie the answer camp blood this is amateurish slasher nonsense made on a micro budget and a little bit too obvious inspired by friday the 13th four of the most intolerable teenage characters you'll ever see – they're like a combination of ugly stupid and annoying – go camping and quickly find themselves pursued by a homicidal maniac in a clown suit don't even ask me what the killer's motivations were or even who he she was because if it did feature in the film i totally missed it this is one of the worst movies ever made with no inspiration or craftsmanship whatsoever the production values were so pitiable that there are actors playing multiple roles without even bothering to make them unrecognizable the only half decent and worthwhile sequence throughout the whole of camp blood is the opening in which the impressively voluptuous meredith o'brien has sex in the woods with her geeky boy scout yes i'm fully aware that this is a totally shallow remark to make but then again this is a juvenile and retarded film so who cares
0	it's a puzzle to me how this turd of a film ever got distribution br br sure it's horror and there's a fair share of nudity but by god the production value is the lowest i've ever seen the equipment used is worse than standard home equipment everything is overlit giving everything an amateurish look bringing your thought to america's worst home video's or whatever that show was called br br please people is it too much to ask that you actually do an effort when you expect to waste 90 minutes of peoples lives watching this you really should have done some short projects first cause it's obvious you're a bunch of amateurs 1 10
0	camp blood is an absolutely atrocious slasher film we're mixing friday the 13th with the blair witch project and adding a killer in a clown mask br br the budget for this film must have been very low some of the actors played multiple parts and the camera used produced a picture equal to the colourised version of the original night of the living dead which if anybody has watched that version will back me up that it is poor br br this film was just so bad there is nothing in the film even worth watching the very fact i watched this all the way through stunned me just take my advice and don't buy or rent this film it is appalling
0	i liked this move when i was a kid but now that i'm older i can see how absurd the plot really is in case you didn't read the earlier reviews it's about a teenager and an air force colonel who steal two fully loaded f 16s to rescue said teenager's dad br br it does have some nice aerial stunts even if the dialog accompanying then is basically babel br br some unintentional humor in the edited for tv version when the hero's dad is being held by iran err i mean an unnamed country and his captors ask him for a confession relating to why he's being held don't worry about exactly why or what they want him to confuse to he says tell him he can take my confession and shove it down his throat however his lips and more his gesture make it clear what motion and part of the anatomy he was really thinking of
0	1st watched 7 19 2003 1 out of 10 dir brad sykes ridiculously lame 3d movie which pretty much follows the plots of many 80's teen slasher flicks stupid kids go to a known murderous camp site become hunted by an unknown masked man and then we try to figure out who if anyone is going to live we really don't care who's behind the mask but even that's not hard to figure out if you've seen any of these kinds of movies what a waste of a 3d viewer despite somewhat decent 3d effects
0	i must first mention that as a group of mates we often find entertainment in wacthing films which are known to be terrible for comedy value hence our rental of camp blood br br camp blood was the first film which we'd rented that had been shot on what looks to be a camcorder and was so rubbish it wans't even funny br br the dvd was returned and a refund was demanded with the added suggestion some sort of quality control is implemented to prevent such utter rubbish being stocked br br don't do what i did and let the curiosity get the better of you it's so bad it's not even funny
0	idiots go camping and act like idiots before they finally die like idiots yes camp blood or if you're wanting an awful badder than bad pun that suits a badder than bad film camp bloody awful is so bad it's actually quite depressing to watch and it has all the ingredients to be a perfectly bad film br br awful acting check bad script check tacky effects check no originality whatsoever double check br br it doesn't even attempt to be different and is riddled with every predicted cliché imaginable for example the film opens to a couple having sex in the woods so of course they end up dead br br one of the most disturbing things is that this film actually spawned two sequels how and why only baffles the mind br br just stay away from this one
0	camp blood looked great when i was buying it but when i watched it boy was i wrong its tacky the acting is outrageous and the quality of the film is shocking being a movie fan i usually find humour from tragic horror but at times i couldn't even laugh maybe camp blood 2 will be an improvement
0	i am a fan of slasher movies especially of scream 1 3 but this one is just one killing after another to my astonishment part ii is far better and you get the whole story of part one summarized so don't waste time on this one and move right on to part ii you won't regret it cause part 2 actually has a plot and is quite self ironical first part 1 out of 10 second part 4 out of 10
0	its difficult to be too tough on brad sykes a hard working guy doing what he loves there is an honesty about him that seems often lacking with other microbudget directors check out the minuscule crew credits on camp blood there is none of the usual thanking everyone down to the pizza joint they ate in its brad and his buddies and thats it no pretentious rubbish jennifer isn't your average horror flick heroine but does well enough for you to hardly notice bethany looks like a star and joseph haggerty is so funny it hurts the clown is hardly an original horror film bad guy but the design is good shemp moseley does a decent job of bringing him to life and the image clashes nicely with the rural backdrop camp blood is horror as blue collar and basic as it gets not a good thing not a bad thing just a thing
0	warning some possible plot spoilers as if that was possible br br okay if you haven't figured out the plot yet i am going to give it to you two couples head out to a camping site but a clown masked killer shows up and causes all sorts of mayhem br br now it is time for me to give these couples some advice br br 1 never ever go to camp dubbed camp blood by the locals 2 don't have sex or make out in front of the killer 3 don't go chasing after the killer if he or she runs away 4 don't yell profanity at the killer 5 make sure your cellular phone works before you go camping 6 everybody needs to bring a sharp or dangerous weapon and carry it on themselves at all times 7 wear loose and comfortable clothing and bring a good pair of running shoes no tight and binding clothing and no high heels or sandals 8 wear glasses or contact lenses if you need them so you don't stab the wrong person 9 always carry your car keys on you 10 put out a camp fire when you go to bed 11 watch your step if you trip on something your going to break a bone 12 check the backseat for uninvited guess 13 if the killer has you cornered at least put up a struggle br br and guess what at least one but usually all four of the main characters breaks all of these common sense rules they are the dumbest characters ever to grace a film br br now for some brief comments this slasher film was on a very tight budget so low four of the 7 or 8 actors play more than one role the acting writing direction sound lighting camera work plotting editing etc are all bottom of the line but like the classic film jack o this works on a sooooooooo bad it is very entertaining and campy fun level so rent this and have a good time and laugh my rating 5 out of 10
0	the cover case and the premise that write there is so promising as slasher maniac i expect much from this but what the heck is going on the movie is awful the direction the plot the suspense and the act of the casts is so amateurish i even thought that they are using a home video camera to shot it lucky that it still manage to deliver some good moments to me that make me have to like it thanks for the bad package of so called camp blood br br 1 10
0	apparently the writer and director of this direct to dvd slasher movie is a fan of friday 13th and other summer camp slashers this movie has everything a group of teenagers who want to spend the weekend with fun alcohol and sex in an abandoned summer camp called camp blood the old man who warns them not to go there and of course the crazy killer with the machete who keeps on slashing and hacking at the teenagers without any reason at all the whole thing could have worked if it had been shot on 35 mm film with acceptable special effects but instead the special effects are poorly done the killer walks around as if he's out on a sunday afternoon stroll and the only good things about this movie are the acting of the talented main actress and the sex scene at the beginning other than that dull and forgettable jasper p morgan
0	camp blood br br aspect ratio 1 33 1 nu view 3 d br br sound format mono br br whilst hiking in woodland near the deserted camp blackwood site of an unsolved murder ten years earlier four young city dwellers are targeted by a masked psychopath who kills their guide courtney harris and stalks them through the woods with murderous intent br br low rent time waster filmed on camcorder utilizing the nu view field sequential 3 d format there's a plot at least but the script adheres closely to an established blueprint with obvious nods to the likes of friday the 13th the burning and the texas chain saw massacre without adding anything even remotely new or interesting to the formula director brad sykes also responsible for similar 3 d efforts like the zombie chronicles 2001 and bloody tease 2002 cites the early works of george a romero and sam raimi as key influences on his career but while those filmmakers challenged the mainstream with their no budget efforts sykes uses video technology merely to imitate his cinematic heroes resulting in a home movie with delusions of grandeur aside from the 3 d format there is nothing here to warrant anyone's attention followed by camp blood 2 2000
0	don't bother to check for logic there is none but on the other hand there are many really great movies that totally lack logic so why bother br br i both like and dislike this film i like it because the action sequences in the air are really great you get to see a lot of i also like the f 16 which is a very cool plane br br but there are just too many goofs to make me really enjoy it i guess it's not fair to wish for some sort of continuity as it is hard to make a really good fighter film but i also think there should be some sense of reason br br and i have a question do they fly from california to the middle east in f 16s without air refueling i'd like to see that happening
0	once again woody allen seems to be completely devoid of any inspiration other than recycling himself here we have a mock documentary like zelig the structure of the film is a series of anecdotes radio days broadway danny rose set in the 30's zelig purple rose bullets over broadway about a low life deconstructing harry who believes being a genius him from being a jerk ditto given this film and deconstructing harry one wonders if this is allen's justification for his own actions with mia adopted daughter yes i was a jerk but i'm a genius so you gotta love me br br allen has only produced two good movies in the past ten years the fine but overpraised bullets over broadway and the excellent but largely ignored manhattan murder mystery his other efforts range from trifles new york stories mighty aphrodite to edgy yet experimental husbands and wives to pure drek alice scenes from a mall shadows and fog celebrity deconstructing harry his films no longer even try to have a narrative arc and his humor seems to aim at wryly amusing not funny after deconstructing harry i stopped seeing his films in theaters after sweet and lowdown i may stop renting them as well
0	woody allen who i have to confess at the outset i have never been a big fan of directed this quasi documentary about the life of emmett ray sean penn a 1930's jazz guitarist whose star apparently shone for a while then quickly faded penn does a credible job in the role portraying a complicated and somewhat neurotic man not unlike allen himself which perhaps explains why woody would be attracted to this project who can't maintain relationships and whose twin passions aside from guitar playing were shooting rats at the dump and watching trains br br there isn't a great deal of consistency to the story it's narrated in a sense by a series of modern day jazz experts one of whom is allen himself who relate their various theories and interpretations of different events in ray's life the end result is a wildly inconsistent account of the life of a fictional man who seems to have been given a fairly interesting life story by his creators who probably should have done a better job with it br br jazz fans and fans of woody allen will probably enjoy this as for me the best i can give it is a 3 10
0	well i think i've finally seen my last woody allen movie i read the review in the newspaper and went to see this movie with the expectation of having a good woody allen experience as i've had many times in the past well that was not the case this movie has nothing to offer even with the wonderful performance by the talented sean penn this movie failed one of the features of his other movies is multiple characters variety witty dialogue this movie basically consisted of only one character very one dimensional it had almost no laughs it probably looked good on paper i think the only thing special was the performance of samantha morton now i'll be looking for her movies in the future so in conclusion this movie was a major disappointment
0	this is the first woody allen film i've found not worth watching i think woody has tried many different genres to interest results but this movie just left me irritated and bored the music is lovely but don't bother watching this hopeless mock
0	this film follows the life of a great guitar player who wants to make it big but acts irresponsibly almost to the point of self destruction br br i was expecting the usual woody allen witty dialogs sarcasm and humour but sweet and lowdown failed to provide any the main character ray is an egocentric rude irresponsible and hurtful man he is so unlikeable that i do not want to now about him or care about him i wonder why a film about him has to be made the pacing of the story is slow making the film a terrible bore even sean penn's great acting fails to revive the film to a watchable level br br i like woody allen's films a lot but sweet and lowdown is a major disappointment
0	wow did this episode start on a premise the enterprise is along when all of the sudden abraham lincoln is floating around in space and welcomes the enterprise is it just me or is this a really lame brained idea lincoln comes aboard and they welcome them abe suggests they beam down to some barren planet where they meet other famous dead folks both good and evil it seems that a really cheesy looking rock monster has assembled a team of good and evil people to battle it out for supremacy the whole thing seems really daffy and inherently unfair as the good side is saddled with a vulcan who makes gandhi seem like rambo despite a totally awful premise the action is pretty good and it's great to see overhead shots of obvious doubles fighting it out in this grudge match but don't mistake this for high art or deep sci fi the bottom line is that the series was on its last legs as a first run series and this really looked like they dusted off this turkey and filmed it regardless of the absurdity of the premise
0	believe it or not this was at one time the worst movie i had ever seen since that time i have seen many more movies that are worse how is it possible therefore to be fair i had to give this movie a 2 out of 10 but it was a tough call
0	pointless movie about making a movie no where near the flesh shown in the original which was quite enjoyable and even had fun music not here br br it's always fun seeing the guy though
0	the '80's were the best of times and worst of times for james karin he starred in one of the best cult horror comedies with return of the living dead and a year later he acts in this piece of this bad movie a sequel to but not really has a group of fairly unlikeable characters attempting to make a movie in greece through design or sheer laziness the line between the film and the 'film within a film' is not only blurred but throughly non existent from scene to scene which would be confusing if i were just interested in anything happening in the movie in the first place unfunny would be too generous a term br br eye candy nana and many numerous extras get topless brenda bakke shows some t a br br my grade f br br dvd extras just trailers for american high school strike virgin territory comes in a double feature dvd with the first film for the masochistic
0	it's just when a band tours and only has one original member it's not the same as the classic line up all new actors playing the main roles of rag scotty etc with ashby as virtually the only returning face from the first movie and he was of only minor note of the first flick serving as the only redeemable group of the three guys that scotty was trying to assist in meeting females the film is poorly written featuring the dumbest dialog this side of armageddon even for a t a movie this one is a turkey not even die hard low budget 80's films fans would want to sit through this movie which has no plot and plenty of bad acting this film would have been better off never being released just plain bad
0	i have rarely laughed so hard at a movie notice that i laughed at iron eagle not with it because this is probably the stupidest film i have ever seen with the obvious exception of sci fi monstrosity you should also remember that this film is not a comedy br br even overlooking the preposterous plot the idea that a 16 year old could walk into a us air force base steal an f 16 fly to the middle east and kill about a thousand people without anyone noticing is beyond belief the film is full of ridiculous action scenes that make little or no sense for example at various points doug masters uses a machine gun on his plane to shoot a steel a control tower and a tent all of these things explode in a massive fireball why the enemy aircraft also explode in a strange way reminiscent of a paper aeroplane being blown up with a firework br br on the plus side i did actually enjoy this film admittedly not in the way the makers probably wanted it to be enjoyed but all the same i laughed at it and later bought the dvd it's also improved by the awesome presence of david suchet as the evil terrorist leader maybe you'll recall him as mustachioed belgian detective poirot overall then the film is a laugh and a light hearted alternative to more serious fighter plane movies like top gun even if it is just as subtly homo erotic check out the man hug between doug and chappy something's going on between 'em
0	br br this film was produced and released as a successor to a ghastly although fairly popular slapstick californian beach comedy called but it has little or no connection with the earlier film and is better assessed completely in its own right it is certainly better than i and is more closely related to films such as venus and summer lovers which were also filmed during summer in the greek islands the combination of blissful beaches on blue bays with beautiful bare bosoms makes for seductive viewing but except for travelogues just designed to help plan your next holiday even such films require an adequate story line if they are to hold a viewers attention for more than a very few minutes venus was underpinned by the legend of the re incarnation of the goddess and summer lovers had the viability of a menage a trois as its theme in my view both these films were much more successful than ii which has a very tenuous story line and depends too much on simplistic semi slapstick comedy the use of slapstick quickly becomes tedious it usually leads to a series of very short self contained cameo sequences that are hard to integrate into an ongoing story line mel brooks achieved this brilliantly with silent movie but few other films have succeeded in the same way and ii unfortunately does not there is also the problem that the slapstick sequences do not co habit happily with the idyllic and peaceful scenario in which the film is set the final airport sequences were no doubt intended to provide a hilarious ending for this film but in my opinion they are an example of the worst type of overplayed slapstick pseudo comedy they are also grossly overlong so i left the cinema with a bad taste left in my mouth this is a film which could have been much more successful with a stronger story line and with most of its slapstick sequences very heavily pruned as it was released it certainly does not warrant a viewers rating higher than 3 br br there is little memorable in the acting but the cast does its best within the limitations imposed by a meagre story line and poor direction it is in these latter areas that the failure arises br br
0	2 is harmless aimless and plot less i would add brainless to that list but the movie within a movie gimmick although not done very well helps it to narrowly escape that label the scenery has changed from the california beaches to the greek islands and the only returning cast members from the first film are pickard the bearded guy and roberta collins who at one point falls into a mud pit bringing back memories of her classic catfight with pam grier in the big doll house all the other actors are new but apparently brad is supposed to be playing the same character scotty as grant cramer did in this sequel lacks the energy and appeal of the first movie and doesn't come close to matching it in the hotness department either of course brenda bakke and are both very pretty but the teal roberts cindy silver kristi somers team is unbeatable 2 is not the worst of its kind by any means but if you only want to see one of these movies the original is the one to get 1 2
0	jane eyre with full frontal nudity i was not surprised to see that a woman had had a hand in this awful woman's picture and i mean that in the worst possible way the trouble is it could have been so good if they had only left out the jane eyre stuff and stuck with the vastly more interesting scenes involving the spanish portuguese jews in early 19th century london when the sound track music is better than the film you know you are in trouble when you fast forward the video because you can't stand the film just to make sure you don't miss anything you are in even worse trouble this film will end up on the romance tv channel where it rightly belongs
0	this movie had potential if it had been handled differently what it needed was a different director that's certain and perhaps a different leading lady i just can't understand the minnie driver character or at least how she played it she was completely unbelievable i cannot believe she would have liked her performance in this movie either she was probably abandoned by the director or incapable of delivering what the director was trying to get her to do i am writing this as i am still watching it i'm thinking i would have hated to be in her shoes trying to 'act' something i didn't understand well we've just proceeded to the affair she begins with the son i'm still watching i'm now beginning to be profoundly embarrassed for everyone involved in this enterprise if you enjoy watching movies that miss their mark in a big way then watch this one
0	not good mostly because you don't give a damn about what happens to all these people some comments 1 i am tired of seeing governesses who never talk to their pupils never teach them anything and take a tired and annoyed look whenever the said pupil who of course has been won over in the space of 4 seconds says something 2 fine so rosina has a father complex and therefore is attracted to her employer but charles is completely different in all aspects from her father if anything henry is much closer as a sensual exalted person 3 how could you ever believe that she would be more attracted to tom wilkinson than to rhys meyer 4 hard to believe if she had been in fact raised as a deeply religious girl that she would be so careless about sleeping with a gentile after knowing him for 5 minutes br br some good things about the film at least she didn't end up pregnant not knowing who the father was the whole description of life in the jewish community in london is good
0	if i heard the male lead say this is madness one more time i would have barfed the film is one big cliche with fake grind him under your heel attitudes not one male in this movie has one redeeming quality reminds me of soviet era films with strongly politically oriented messages i couldn't even understand why there was attraction between the leads nor could i wait for the ending
0	despite strong performances by minnie driver and tom wilkinson this film fails to ignite the imagination of the viewer br br by the way what has become of ms driver she had such a potential in the film industry br br this to me was almost like an 1850s version of yentl without the musical fanfare with the death of her father driver takes a position as a governess to a christian family hiding her jewish identity br br while i realize that this is a period peace it was awfully dull even for 1850 england and scotland br br the lady of the house is most irritating with that sing song voice of hers i expected her to refer to driver as dear at any moment what kind of name is mary i know that driver is trying to pass herself off as a christian but does this name signify all the way br br in the interim mary finds love with the young father wilkinson and his emotionally unbalanced son br br in the end the only thing that we see accomplished is that mary has found a profession to provide for her family photography did we really have to be subjected to what was happening throughout the film br br the early scenes of judaism practiced in 19th century england and the cholera epidemic at the end could have been played up more there is a definite underlying feeling of anti semitism by the wilkinson family but that's never allowed to come out
0	the governess is a moody period piece the meandering story of a jewish woman who upon the death of her father sets out to 1830's scotland posing as a gentile to get work to support her family in london br br rosina or mary as she calls herself in a none too subtle piece of symbolic writing is a rudderless child a socialite with dreams of being an actress she strikes up an alliance with her employer and by accident solves a crucial problem in his research with photography giddy with success they begin a halting and uncomfortable affair while the eldest son of her paramour falls hopelessly and inexplicably in love with her br br and like a child she fails to understand the consequences of her actions in the end betraying those she deceived in order to make a life for herself br br many claim this is something of a feminist manifesto but i disagree whether intended or not this film only resonates with me if i think of it as a cautionary tale in the end greatest disappointment is the truth that she lied happened upon a way to help a man she wanted to be both her father and her lover and in the end contributed nothing but destruction as such the end of the film gives me the impression that nothing she did no one she used made her happy and that is exactly as it should be br br did i need a movie this long and to teach me this lesson not at all on the contrary had it not been for excellent cinematography unique score and my hope that she'd get her come uppance i wouldn't have stuck with it to the end of the film br br fans of minnie driver will likely be disappointed by her uneven performance but may wish to see it anyway i doubt young female fans of jonathan rhys meyers will be able to stay awake for the payoff they expect and i can't help thinking this holds too little cultural detail to be of interest even to photography buffs the 3 points i award the film are solely for its visual style and score on the strength of their other work i assume the actors' performances are so disappointing because of a poor script and worse directing but they are in the end unremarkable
0	the governess was by far a very pitiful film i do not use this word loosely as it honestly was a poor excuse for a movie i finished watching this feature with only one word on my mind … why honestly you could use this question at the end of every scene of this film and it would seem like it fit there were so many inconsistencies that lead to a lack of development both in the story and in the characters which ultimately lead to a very confusing film with actors walking through the motions instead of giving any explanation scenes would occur with no foreshadowing understanding or drive to a complete ending it was as if i was watching several different ideas thrown together without really any resolution actors were setting events in motion that did not seem to fit their character or really were resolved this was my biggest issue with this film the complete and utter lack of structure to this film brought all specks of foundation crumbling down with a genuine ripple effect being felt throughout the rest of the film as a result br br let me explain myself further on this lack of consistency throughout the film i would liken this film to a bowl of lumpy oatmeal that had a zebra in it it made no sense nor was there any logic behind it all minnie driver was the worst culprit of this deed her character's lines were drawn very fuzzy and nearly transparent she would do things like talk about sex all the time with her sister but yet she seemed very open to sexual experiences all the time she has her first moment of passion in this film and there is no pain or excitement it nonchalantly happens and this just didn't seem to fit the original conversation that we had at the beginning of the film with rosina and her sister she is a very intelligent woman that accidentally finds a solution to problem and suddenly wants full rights to his invention that was confusing and completely random is it not obvious to anyone else that her teaching methods were non existent anyone in their right mind could see that she wasn't teaching daughter anything the sudden and awkward relationship that randomly forms between driver and jonathan rhys meyers nearly had me laughing out loud i thought maybe i had discovered some magic in this film as rhys meyers literally poofed into the scene and suddenly caused some unneeded drama it felt that the director or writer was thinking that the original story was going nowhere fast so by adding this random character we may be able to advance the plot a bit or confuse the lesser film enthusiasts well it didn't fool me i saw that he was nearly a cut and paste character used to strengthen an already weakened story don't get me started on the ending which had no consistency to the rest of the story again using the cut and paste method the writer of this film needed a way to just end the story and this was the only solution they could arrive to it is sad when actors are forced to do things out of character … but i guess that is the name of the game in hollywood fix until completely broken or at least salvageable br br the remainder of the story was unexciting dribble there were maybe a handful of neat cinematography moments where you could see that there was one sliver of creativity trying to peak through coupled with some bars of decent period piece music but nothing to write to grandma about more family structure with some stronger introductions could have strengthened this film a bit more but as i stated before by leaving open ended scenes just lying around the entire film you will experience a crack in your foundation what may seem like a sturdy story will eventually wear down over time and by the end of this film i felt that the house was crumbling down on top of me wilkinson plays his normal self in this film while driver apparently did not want to get naked but everyone else had too i will have to see a doctor after those images were burned into my eyes … also she wore the same dress everyday that was disgusting and i could smell her through the television sex and dirty laundry now there is a great film for you there just seemed to be some potential floating around here but instead it was just rubbish nothing was answered questions seemed to fall like snow in alaska and mediocrity seemed to reign supreme br br overall this could have been a decent film that combined the powerful themes of science and love together but instead it was just pitiful i cannot stress enough the disturbing fact that characters were going through motions without any sort of pre explanation i don't need cinematic moments handed to me like a child but something should have been done to build a foundation just remember the oatmeal with a zebra analogy that i used if you were as confused about that as i was then you will completely understand the film the governess while if you prefer zebras in your oatmeal … then maybe this film is for you br br grade out of
0	this movie had an excellent premise and could have been a fascinating look at racism attitudes to women at work and male female relations in england early last century however it simply turned into a soppy love story but what was worse is that the love story was totally unbelievable the acting was for the most part poor the direction confusing but most of all the screenplay and the story were non existent the only thing i liked about the film was how dark it must have been before electric lighting i really got a sense of just how little light one candle puts out
0	this movie is the proverbial 80s flick that shows the viewer that as long as he or she tries at something they can be better than the pros the main character doug showed off his skills in flying a cessna aircraft which somehow equated to being fully capable of flying a jet aircraft and being able to kill people we all would like to have a few million dollars to play with maybe make a good investment donate buy a few things but the directors of this movie decided to make iron eagle not once not twice not even three times yes four times the thing to look most forward to are the multitude 'hollywood in this movie just when you think the movie is going to end after a cheesy end sequence there's another cheesy end sequence then another definitely a movie one must watch to believe and maybe own just to remind oneself of how awesome the 80s must have been
0	i wanted to like this one the situation was rich and the setting unusual and interesting but the story is swamped with childish female gothic romance elements that are hard to swallow the director is unfairly prejudiced against the characters content to let them be grotesque cardboard caricatures and inexplicably indulgent towards the behavior of the heroine the potentially interesting power struggle between the inventor and the governess is not really dealt with br br feminist film makers will get more credibility when they stop manipulating situations to throw all the sympathy to the heroine and start dealing honestly with issues this movie more closely resembles 'the 7 pieces of gold' another earnest failure more than 'the piano' a real tale of passion
0	spoilers br br this movie was truly awful this woman deceives her employers right from the start and then selfishly proceeds to tear them apart at the end you see her making a profession out of the trade she'd learned from the father of her pupil i put pupil in quotes because the governess never really seems to teach the child anything she seems to hate her and can't stand being near her i felt sorry for the little girl who simply wanted to be loved absent that it was understandable that she would say and do outrages things just to get attention but the viewer wasn't supposed to sympathize with the little girl the viewer was supposed to sympathize with the governess who hated her pupil and manipulated and deceived her employers i just couldn't do it this was not the story of a self made woman rather it was a window into the mind of one who uses others at every opportunity with no other thought for anyone outside of her own family i couldn't stand the governess this was a really horrible movie i only paid one dollar to rent it but even that was too much
0	first what is really great about this movie br br ryan reynolds great acting there are very few actors i really like and for now he is one of them he has an amazing skill to impersonate characters br br the soundtrack very good music played at the right time br br the idea of a nine lost in his own world incapable of leaving br br still i give it only a 3 out of 10 for certain flaws br br horrible second part it seems that the director was very eager to make something new but despite of the efforts it was really boring br br very annoying character melissa i couldn't stand the scenes with her i e it was constantly annoying she represents everything that is wrong with american woman br br terrible explanation of the numbers the director was so busy with character development that he completely missed the point of a good story excuse me terrible br br this movie had great potential the filming is nicely done the music is really good but nothing more br br see it only if you are a fan of ryan reynolds or have a lot of time to spare
0	i really like ryan reynolds and hope davis and i actually had high hopes watching this last night on dvd mainly as i try to avoid reviews until i watch something myself and form my own opinion big mistake my 2 10 is for the first segment which in fairness is actually quite decent and if they had made the movie about the characters in section 1 alone it may have risen above the 5 10 mark once it moved into tv 'reality show' territory it stank to high heaven ryan reynolds captured the essence of an actor on the edge wonderfully but as a gay tv writer and famous games creator devoted family man he was definitely less effective from the blurb on the box i expected a flashback thriller along the lines of unfortunately this is nowhere near that standard of movie
0	i haven't reviewed anything on here for quite awhile but after having the misfortune to sit through this rubbish as entertainment i had to put forward my thoughts br br normally however bad something is there is one redeeming part whether it is an actor who was okay a scene that was passable an attractive cast member or a general feelgood moment unfortunately that isn't true here as the film starts of atrociously with a ridiculous shootout which was so poor i thought it was a practice two otherwise known as the boys in blue chatting beside a school br br one of these idiots was daniel baldwin who not only starred in this but also actually directed this garbage unlike his brothers cannot act for toffee not that he was on his own here as everyone in it seemed to belong to the acting school of a trained chimp br br luckily certainly for me i only watched an hour of this masterpiece as the dvd wouldn't work was probably made by the same fools who produced this so if you have nothing to do but watch paint dry do watch this as it is just as boring ideal for getting rid of unwanted guests
0	consider i know all action hero is lighting a cigarette in the darkness while tries to hide seek the bad guys probably to give a signal light to say here i am coming br br that's one of the 100 scenes you can laugh at i think the movie should in the comedy category br br awful directing awful script bad acting cheap special effects they used a tunnel so they can hide there acting in darkness br br 3 out of 10 that also for making me laugh looking at those pathetic mistakes
0	this is perhaps the worst movie i have ever seen and i have seen well over 300 movies in my lifetime the acting atrocious the only bright spot seems to be judging the anatomical prowess of the female after watching this movie it is suggested that the viewer not operate heavy machinery or go driving for a period of at least 24 hours also a bottle of valium would be recommended so you don't feel so bad for the 100 wasted minutes of your life the plot is nothing original the dialog excruciating and even the weapons seem sub par do yourself a favor and go to your local blockbuster and burn whatever copies they have of this horrid film
0	to start out with the script is immitative and inane the characters are shallow and formulaic the plot has arbitrary reversals and non baldwin's direction is terrible these actors could do better on their own the jokes and wisecracks fall flat the shoot out scenes are clumsy and incredible baldwin directs himself as the wise courageous hero but spends most of his time in power struggles with women particularly with the caricatured in their tunnel team who is always asking for and denying reassurance the conductor suffer from absurd incompetence being unable to effectively employ a pistol he has come by anomalies a hooded man with guns stalks through a railroad car startling people the next time we see them they are going about their business sitting in their seats talking eating reading knitting in the new york subways folks sometimes come on the train to do some musical or dramatic number maybe that's what they thought the happening was
0	this is one of the worst anime series i have ever seen when i watched the manga review in a magazine i thought it was maybe interesting but when i got the chapters i realized it was a complete stupidity br br ok the first 2 or 3 chapters are ok and the series have an standard but as the plot advances it becomes totally incoherent the series tries to show some mystical based upon the christian mythologies but it's a total stupidity it features some demons and stigmata scenes totally nonsense it seems the series tries to seem deeply thought complex or reviewed but a watcher with a bit of brain and cultural references will realize soon all those elements used don't have a real sense they are put there only to impress the ignorant watchers br br the final chapters are full of totally nonsense elements battles with cat eared demons references to a supposed fight between demons and demons who controls time with no apparent reason the final is totally nonsense an ignorant watcher will see on it a floating final that gives them a place to meditate but the truth is this the final and the complete series is a total incoherent and incongruent nonsense
0	cheesy 80's horror co starring genre ken foree and rosalind cash along with brenda bakke are some of the featured players in this tale about a haunted health club goofy dialogue and some nasty gore effects make this movie watchable not bad but no great shakes either br br recommended for the bad dialogue and acting b movie fans only br br b
0	it's hard to believe that a movie this bad wasn't produced once but four times most movies require a certain suspension of reality' to enjoy but this one takes it just too far the basic scenario is an air force pilot who is shot down over a middle country the us government drags its feet in recovering him leading the pilot's son doug masters to attempt a rescue mission br br the problem i have with the movie is that it depicts the us air force as one colossal joke in the movie you'll find that doug and his friends on the air base manage to secure two f all the munitions the fuel the intel for the mission and so on security on this base seems to be a joke nobody seems to have a problem that a sixteen year old kid is fully qualified to pilot an f 16 br br if that wasn't enough you would think the producers would at least attempt to get the munitions right since people like to see things blow up' not so several times in the movie doug fires off aim 9 missiles on ground targets aim stands for air intercept meaning a weapon used to strike targets in the air he also fires off 15 20 missiles where the maximum an f 16 can hold is 6 aim 9's the movie also lacks continuity you'll see the aircraft configured with one set of munitions and in the next scene it has a totally different munitions package also doesn't just completely destroy anything it touches an f 16 will hold 500 rounds of and it's mostly used for self defense br br i could go on forever with plot holes flaws and outright wrong information from the movie but i won't bore you if you're in the mood to see a good air force movie your choices are rather slim most military movies deal either with the army navy or marines until hollywood can come up with an air force movie on the lines of saving private ryan' or a few good men' we'll be forced to watch movies like the iron eagle' series br br
0	it actually pains me to say it but this movie was horrible on every level the blame does not lie entirely with van damme as you can see he tried his best but let's face it he's almost fifty how much more can you ask of him i find it so hard to believe that the same people who put together undisputed 2 arguably the best western martial arts movie in years created this everything from the plot to the dialog to the editing to the overall acting was just horribly put together and in many cases outright boring and nonsensical scott adkins who's fight scenes seemed more like a demo reel was also terribly underused and not even the main villain which is such a shame because 1 he is more than capable of playing that role and 2 the actual main villain was not only not intimidating at all but also quite annoying again not blaming van damme i will always be a fan but avoid this one
0	hated it with all my being worst movie ever mentally scarred help me it was that bad trust me
0	what a waste of energy and money what a waste of what talent there was br br emilio estevez was completely wasted and mostly unused throughout jon lovitz was very mildly amusing but pointless harry dean stanton why bother and was it just me or can kari wuhrer barely act in this one br br the story was pretty non existent and really disjointed one of my biggest problems was the reaction of the characters to the events that transpired like the surf dudes giving up their lives every time they were threatened in the last half how about that you never saw them surf once the set up to some scenes took way to long with not enough pay off to make us give a damn nothing in this movie felt really true or genuine br br the only good things i can say is some very little of the scenery was filmed nicely and a few scenes were mildly interesting don't see this when there is so many better pointless movies out there
0	usually i have a lot of luck with these small scale movies i looked at the cast leary lovitz delpy wuhrer estevez how bad could it be unfortunately the answer was pretty bad i have a hard time remembering a movie that had such poor execution of a plot that had potential
0	i'll give it a two for denis leary he had some good lines but that's it what was the point where was the script who was supposed to act a movie needs more than this one has to offer save the hour and a half to watch your hair grow or fall out whatever the case
0	out of this movie br br sorry to say this showed at the cleveland international film festival our copy did not have subtitles so i asked the festival crew if there was a problem with the print received not so i was told the director wants it this way br br again sorry to say my french is barely high school elective level more than 3 decades ago much of the initial dialog is in french so i'm sure i missed the nuance and many details in between my understanding of a few key words br br i've rated this a 1 primarily because of the irony of a director who once worked doing subtitles refusing to put subtitles into a movie to be seen by an american audience excuse me even if most americans wouldn't know where europe was on a map not even a film festival audience should be assumed to know the native language of a given movie even if a few of us don't know finnish i would still expect subtitles for the few dolts who aren't sophisticated enough to have expertise in the 37 different languages presented i'll put up with this ego from david lynch not from
0	almost a masterclass in how not to direct a movie from the misjudged often incomprehensible script onwards dr rey builds on a series of poor decisions that make the film an excruciating viewing experience sadly the film never rises beyond a kind of old fashioned almost misogynistic gay camp in which women are over wrought ott and middle aged and the men are young vacuous and forever on the hunt for sex the director was unable to pitch either the tone of the film or the level of the performances br br there is certainly a great deal of 'acting' going on dianne wiest slips into a pale impersonation of her bullets over broadway performance and poor old jane birkin flounders in her attempt to give a comic performance though you have to pity her as there is very little real comedy here the whole thing feels like a very low rent version of merchant le divorce which to be quite honest wasn't very good either
0	i don't even know where to start i did not like it it did not behave like a story and so much was injected into the movie the pot the son was gay the murder was justified what possible reason could there be in the script for linda aka penelope to exist that was never explained it was all fluid spilled on a table and left dripping off the counter until it all made a big mess on the floor br br why did vanessa redgrave make a five second cameo why did diane wiest use her bullets over broadway character without the camp fun why was jane birkin in the storyline to begin with the list is endless the movie ended and we all looked at each other like did you understand any of this br br i tell ya one thing if i watched my long lost dad get murdered i certainly wouldn't be hugging the murderer tell ya another thing if bob broke up with bob what purpose did hiding the son in the closet have was bob going to have sex with bob in front of the son how did the murderer contact the son so easily br br if this review sounds confused it is because this was a waste of film talent and time what the heck did the dead shrink have to do with anything br br this is one of the worst films i have ever seen because it should have could have been better stronger and it should have made some kind of sense any sense instead we are given a watered down diva the film from the 70s complete with a murder and tired performances reading boring words from a script that is completely insane br br by pass it folks or maybe me and the rest of the people who reviewed this film are too stupid to understand it all i mean after all it is a french film
0	one can only sit in utter amazement at this mess of a film and be amused at some of the raves people have bestowed upon it the biggest problem seems to be the director's inability to make up his mind as to whether it's black comedy farce or a combination of both it meanders all over the place in search of direction and has some utterly embarrassing performances that might be better suited to bad sitcom what a shame to see the talented dianne comic talents squandered and the ever annoying jane birkin is so over the top she's more bothersome than usual br br perhaps a lot of the positive criticism is due to the quirky french nature of the film therefore it's labeled smart or genius it's neither instead it's bad tripe that leaves a rather rancid after taste merchant ivory should stick to the serious stuff as they certainly have no comprehension of comedy
0	if you wish to have a truly traumatic experience than this awful motion picture if you may consider to call it that is for you a film worse than the postman sizzle beach u s a batman and robin kazaam fair game well you get my point this film directed by french television sensation patrick sebastien jerry springer with an i q of 25 can truly be considered the worst film ever made i do hope that troma or someone in america would distribute it so that the u s a can experience the french stench at it's worth
0	to even say that this film is work at his best just tell you everything you have to know on the man sebastien is a pathetic foolish not amusing at best yet highly popular host on french television if watching any of his shows is just plain torture for any normally constituted human being his first ans lets hope only film proved to be even worst apology of rape the victim fall in love with her aggressor is not only misplaced but plainly unacceptable i highly suggest you not to bother taking a look at this picture or any of future features you would just loose your time there is something about french television that don't smell right and this is patrick sebastien
0	as a retired usaf msg aircraft spec this has got to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen the fact that a teenager could ever get on the flight line much less get into an f 16 is ludicrous the military spends millions on each pilot to make them the best in the world and this movie makes the air force and all its members seem stupid at best yes i know it is only a movie but it conveys a message to the younger folks that we are all idiots and believe me we are not the logistics involved in setting up any type of mission are highly involved even in the eighties military computers were too secure to hack by any teenager and the other flaws in this movie make peter pan more believable sorry to me this movie has no entertainment value at all
0	the director of this movie is a famous french tv presenter patrick sebastien he likes music and humor for rednecks and his incredible movie is absolutely in his image it's the story of a young retarded person called sic a night he sees his sister's sm sexual relation and decide to do the same thing he rape the girl who he loves is placed in a asylum and his unlucky girlfriend in a clinic one man will find them one man will reunite them this man is a psychologist this man looks like a hell's angel this man is patrick sebastien with an excessive use of clichés we'll see how the absolute love can break all misunderstandings and how a humanist doctor can force a victim to fall in love with her rapist we'll also learn how using sandwiches in order to seduce a girl not only patrick sebastien thinks that he can do better than one century of psychiatry but he also impose us a silly left ideology with the character of the father's girlfriend a boss who want to take away the feeble of his girl distressing but it's very pleasant to laugh at mentally retarded persons are not funny except in this movie
0	this thing directed by french sensation patrick sebastien is worst than all the turkeys that you may have seen forget independence day kazaam the patriot etc you get the picture this one's the pits sebastien is a tv celebrity in france if you need an equivalent let's say he's jerry springer with an i q of 13 this is his first movie let's hope it's the last i hope troma or someone would distribute this film in the states so that you guys out there can the french stench at it's worst let's cut this short this is the masterpiece of s t
0	this movie is bad i saw the rated and the unrated versions they are terrible now i know it's suppose to be a low budget porn spoof of spiderman but spiderbabe is just not good at being bad good it's not funny not funny at all i wanted to laugh i tried to laugh but this movie let me down at least the unrated version has lots of nudity to look forward to and is it me because mundae is not a great looking woman from the waist down she's okay but on the way up leaves much to be desired she does look good in that school girl outfit please if you must watch this spiderbabe rent it first rated or unrated doesn't really make any difference they're both bad to me
0	i'll preface my review by stating that i am not a fan of the independent 'straight to video' genre that owes a great debt to the grindhouse films of the 60's i don't own any i've never rented any so i might lack the appreciation for these tongue in cheek low budget stinkers that many other people have br br i caught this movie on cinemax late one saturday evening with a lady friend please don't ask me why i was watching cinemax late one saturday evening with a lady friend we were bored with world championship poker some atrociously bad acting courtesy of misty mundae and i wish she wouldn't own up to being from illinois as we actually turn out some very bright thespians here caught our attention now normally the aim of some good soft core porn would be to get you and your partner in the mood some good sex tongue in cheek humor and who know what could happen after about 15 minutes and a scene where the title character seduces a mugging victim my lady friend said 'if you want to watch the rest of this fine i am going to bed so i don't have to please turn the volume off ' here is what i gather from the plot misty's character is a sexless nerd who gets bitten by a spider and turns into a super sex kitten with super web slinging powers that don't come from her wrists there is some sort of evil villainess involved who didn't look particularly evil or sexy spiderbabe saves the day has sex m j who is male in this film constantly gets propositioned by stereotypically bad gay bikers and somehow the evil villainess gets pushed off a building to her death br br what was good about this film it ended br br what was bad about it acting to make a third grade pageant look like oscar winners a script turned out by people who i picture to be drunken college aged sex perverts who wouldn't know what sex is if they took a class taught by dr ruth special effects that were about as special as someone jumping off a trampoline humor about as funny as… well i have yet to encounter anything that is lamer the sex scenes if we were watching a video the only thing those scenes would have turned on is the fast forward button and the action scenes some of my old atari games had better choreography br br now i know this type of film is supposed to be enjoyed for it's inherent badness companies like don't set out to make good movies they have a niche and they target it my experience as a tells me they are right on the money in their audience but after my brief exposure to i for one can say i am not delving into that world again any time soon maybe the problem with the filmmakers in this type of genre is this they spend so much attention to making the films bad that if they made an effort to try and focus on those things they do very well they would turn out some very enjoyable bad' cinema a la troma films in the 80's sorry folks the spirit is there but the effort isn't br br though i have to admit that alice in intrigues me…
0	sure this film was retarded but you expected that the moment you looked at the cover box it's a b movie and on the t a factor this movie delivered truthfully it was funnier than expected while it was by no means a work of comedic genius like the party animal or orgazmo as far as b movies go it was worth the watch if you're into that sort of thing anyway br br christians and morally oriented parental groups this is soft core adult entertainment if you don't want your children watching sexual content and nudity then you should keep your children away from this film
0	childish storyline ripped off of a lame hollywood movie terrible acting cheesy dialogue and not quite up to par sex scenes that's right another great softcore parody i enjoyed this film greatly sure the acting is terrible but that part of the fun the storyline is ludicrous but some things must be sacrificed when the story has to revolve around girl on girl sex scenes and because it's only softcore no penetration the sex scenes were a little bland but it's like the great god of softcore smut russ meyers said who really cares what goes down beneath the waist i don't know if i'd agree with mr meyers on this one but what the hell the flick entertained me for an hour and a half i give it a c it would've been a solid b if they coulda cast more of the girls to look like russ meyers actresses
0	tip have it read to you heres how br br 1 copy and paste this to notepad not word 2 go to start all programs accessories narrator br br having your testicles ironed br br when jonathan ross started his career he was on a show call the last resort now a days he is the first resort to host anything and anything tv award shows that half the time he is up for nominations in comic relief chat shows quiz shows game shows charity shows brighton just when you at you wits end and think you can find salvation in the wireless the lisping twang of good old j r hits you like a freight train going none stop from texas to downtown n y that has lost a hour and is trying to make it up br br about this show br br its a normal chat show format with j r as host and a house band that of four gay men ha ha ha ow my aching sides and season one had andy davis but he left or was fired to give way to ross's ego br br ross will more less use his guests as props and you really don't hear them speak because of his its my ball and i'll take it home attitude you also see that the bigger the guest the more he is willing to lie and suck up to them to get in with the big boys like the weak kid at school who hangs round with the bully br br however when a small reality t v star comes on he'll happily humiliate them asking personal questions about the past and telling them about their lack of talent to get the laughs sometimes he will under estimate the popularity of a guest say something to belittle them and then when the audience act shocked he will quickly turn and start making himself the fall guy the best example of this was when life on mars star john came on and he said how does someone like you get work your ok looking but not hollywood good looking bare in mind the hugh jackman and halle berry was in the green room he was really only trying to suck up to them before they were even on the couch when the audience acted shock ross quickly said what i'm bit light headed from wearing that corset i don't know what i'm saying if he don't have any low forms of tv life on he'll just dig at the four gay men on the piano with jokes more out of date than his fashion br br its very much a different story when a hollywood a lister or big tv star comes on the show in that he'll tell them stories to humor them when some actor explains that he was in a support band then jonathon ross will say something like wow well he ever i go to see a band i was try to look interested for the support band to make them feel as though they are wanted with an underline message being please like me i was probably one of the people that cheered you when you was in your band top this off with an audience of ross fans so hooked on every bad old joke and it really makes for a poor show br br your better off watching us chat shows instead they are more scripted but not anywhere near as hard to watch
0	any evening with jonathan ross now means to me his wit in first hassling and upsetting with carefully chosen words a 78 year old man by phone and then suggesting he and russell brand should house break and masturbate him while he slept as a way to say sorry for making obscene phone calls to him kinky and illegal for a really big laugh maybe next time he should try it on someone he knows well like his boss or a follower of abu would he be amused if someone did it to one of his daughters br br over all the years i've perhaps seen less than 30 minutes of bbc star man ross's chat show because i find him so loathsome some of the guests i saw were ok though probably most of them who ever appeared were ok for all i know as a chat show it seems pretty poor though – what's so chatty about asking tory leader david cameron on this tv programme whether he ever masturbated to photographs of margaret thatcher he up gwyneth paltrow by simply asking her if she wanted to f him however ross's mentality was finally totally exposed with the above revelations and i thought i'd take the opportunity to warn the few decent folk around the world who might not know just how vile this man is and to steer clear of him and his unless you think all comedy should be edgy ie obscene vacuous we're not yet all the same here although bbc and channel 4 are jettisoning all standards br br in october 2008 ross with fellow russell brand made a series of premeditated sexual obscene phone calls to andrew sachs' answer phone manuel from fawlty towers had it broadcast as intended on bbc national radio against sachs' request and then tried to get sachs' granddaughter to burn the evidence in case they got prosecuted a significant number of people over here probably most of them non bbc license fee payers found it hilarious and or that the national scandal had been overblown but many people apparently still knew right from wrong and 42 eventually complained to bbc about the incident many media fools and others snickered about these 42 never having heard the radio programme and never wanting to using their argument they presumably also consider an event such as the holocaust justified because at the time relatively few people complained to the media and none of us here now should be horrified by it because we weren't there the 2 bbc producers initially involved in passing it for broadcast thought it was very funny and brilliant comedy and only 2 people complained about brand's radio programme at the time which i'm afraid only indicated the moral level his 400 000 weekly listeners had sunk to with the help of bbc expertise highly moral bbc tried and failed to use it in in the later investigation roll over aristotle tell lord the news sachs' agent complained to bbc but was ignored by them until a tory national newspaper got hold of the story the penalty for any ordinary pervert doing this would normally be sacking and prosecution maybe even prison but while brand and the head of bbc radio 2 were both eventually ordered to resign the multi millionaire ross was given a 12 week holiday by bbc's boss i suppose that he asked ross's permission first though if he could dock ross's pay by £1 500 000 to prevent him from suing to come back to this programme afresh in 2009 before his contract runs out all that time to think of more smut and or more insulting for his 4 000 000 viewers to admire but at least he could still chortle his way to the bank as usual to keep his spirits up some people think that his position will be untenable and he won't be able to carry on i think his skin is so thick because the stakes are so high that he will come back unbowed and re energised with pent up vitriol update 23 01 09 i've just watched the first 5 minutes of his new series the most enormous cock up to use his referential phrase is continuing to allow this sniggering unrepentant law breaker to take the public's money like this but who knows maybe in the future after the slimy british film tv industries have comforted him for the moral stance taken by the 42 and showered him with awards he will become a sir for his services to perversion by the perverts in government at the least i hope this pair of edgy deviants sign up with other perverted commercial tv and radio stations and stay there so i won't be paying for their the law and spouting illegal obscenities in the future in 2009 fined british tv license fee payers 000 for this sorry affair thanks ross for offering to pay not br br to the apologists get a life sense of humour sense of proportion it's not the end of the world having a pair of talentless perverts as your heroes and there's far more important things to worry about in this world like the price of real cheese to sum up family man dross a comedy genius to apparently millions of people especially himself merely a nasty obscene phone caller receiving an obscene wage packet from an obscene multimedia company to others so much for our society of political correctness and respect as you should've guessed it doesn't apply to the rich and famous and never will but only to the poor to sum up bbc stumbling blindly on from now i hope its next crisis will be i also hope anyone who thinks comedy should be always challenging and pushing back boundaries ie offensive aren't challenged or offended by my opinion of this particular law breaking pervert his perverted programmes and his current perverted employers
0	friday night with jonathan ross must have those in charge of ross rubbing their sweaty little palms together they know the bbc lacks imagination when it comes to talk shows so when they have jonathan ross at their disposal they are quite settled to just sit back and let a half wit command this primetime slot br br ross spends most of the show grooming his ego and smiling about how much the bbc is paying him the show is a complete copy of many us chat shows leno letterman conan o brian the list goes on but he and his team have clearly seen what works on the masses can also be done for the dumb masses in the uk also br br the unfortunate situation he has no competition parkinson has gone by the reality is he was never really up to much except grooming a celebs ego can't we have someone funnier and slicker on british screens instead of jonathan ross once ross has built up his ego enough he will then proceed to the very boring concept of the stiff celebrities in the green room so trying to get on with each other if an a lister is present which is so often the case these days as there are no other chat shows they can turn to to promote their latest movie he will spend the next hour either flirting with them or trying to be their best friend in the universe when he had ringo starr on a man that cares nothing for licking arse ross genuinely was begging for his mobile phone number as common policy on this show is for jonathan ross to get everyones number so he can be seen in the right company when not working of course ringo said it how it is and simply said no i don't like you dead pan serious br br ross needs to be axed from all awards and tv shows the masses will get over it
0	i loved so much last movie the masterpiece di it had a great screenplay great actors well have to say castellitto is so much greater than others a brillant use of lights for a great cinematography br br well notte is a different story ridiculous screenplay erupting tons of morals and we could speak weeks about politics you know we are italians poor cinematography it's too simple representing '70s dark years with dark colors and dark lights do some efforts more peoples bad use of music what's the point of using psychedelia to represent the tragic rationality of br br and to all the people who claimed the main prize in venice i answer are you nuts maybe the russian film was bad but not as bad as this br br i'm down with the p e don't believe the hype
0	i wrote spoiler alert but there's not really much that can be spoiled it's like spoiling rotten meat this movie is probably the worst i've ever seen not because of the actors or the special effects but because of the sheer number of mistakes both factual and physical first of all the migs aren't actually migs at all they're mirages and they're french and how the heck can dad withstand the maneuvers his son makes to fight off the migs without a g suit and why would chappy try to board his plane without a g suit and how could doug defeat the enemy pilot ace with such ease anyway i did not like this movie and the worst part is that it has 3 sequels the latest one from as late as 1995 now that's scary
0	most of the positive comments posted here are as verbose as the movie it takes a long winded bore to appreciate a wordy and boring film one supposes some have merely called the film contemplative meaning slow and devoid of plot however one dutch reviewer hit the nail on the head this is an important event turned into a dull film whose tone is set in the very first scene here a young couple is being shown an apartment by a realtor who predictably talks non stop and regardless of what else is going on so does just about every other character br br the only silences in this picture are dream sequences 1930's soviet propaganda snippets and they are also its most interesting parts this tells you something about how watchable the rest of the movie is br br the device of filming most of the scenes in extreme closeup as if one were looking through a crack in the blinds gets old fast
0	unfortunately a boring flick and obviously the only way to see it is the butchered bootleg public domain version which is so blurry and dark that at times you have hard time making out where the screen is the leading actors are a nuisance the man spends most of his screen time trying to appear nonchalant charming and sexy forgetting totally what the film is about and that he is a murder suspect because of some dame who played him for a goose to start with the dame herself merely walks through the flick being dignified if she's not busy appearing cute it's a rather badly written stuff never interesting or witty no good camera work no memorable soundtrack no glamorous actresses or atmospheric sets it only scratches the surface of the genre and nothing happens if you miss this totally missable flick
0	low budget mystery a shot rattles out of the dark and a woman is seen running from that direction a young architect jimmy mcmillan chick chandler discovers a dead body that goes missing the woman in a hurry mary june clyde is linked to the death scene but it is mcmillan that has to try and solve the case to avoid serious suspicion suspects are six shop owners in the vicinity of the crime scene all the atmosphere of film noir but not quite the real thing this flick musters just enough to be a decent low budget mystery drama and is a nice little escape other players include george meeker michael milton wallace and rebel randall
0	think jumanji but with a death curse a bunch of surfer dudes get their hands on a game that takes the life of some one who is playing it supposedly it was made from the skin of a witch during the spanish inquisition and carries a nasty curse br br okay undemanding and just sort of watchable tale isn't anything you haven't seen before frankly its a been there and done that story that hits all the right buttons in such away as to have no real surprises far from the worst thing that syfy has run but certainly its not the best there are better choices out there but if this is your only choice you won't completely hate it
0	i have to say this is better than most syfy outings but that isn't saying much br br the plot is that someone buys a game that is made from the bones and skin of a dead witch from the spanish inquisition and nobody ever expects the spanish inquisition he and his friends play the game only to be interrupted halfway through when the friend who went on the beer run is killed in a way that the game predicted br br what then follows are a series of kills that are typical for a movie like this or any of the final destination movies it has the puzzle at the end and the interesting subplot with the cop who wants the game to bring back his family but otherwise it's just a mess
0	ok so i know better than to watch movies on scifi er sorry syfy or or whatever it is now so sue me i spent my whole saturday doing advisory board for a i can be forgiven for flopping into my armchair and wanting to watch some movie i'd never seen rather than read proust in the original or learn how to play the br br which is to say i didn't deserve open graves of which i saw none incidentally were there any did i fall asleep why is it called this br br some icky visuals not many scares as with too many films in modern horror films no reasons are given apart from shared humanity to care about any of these people half a point though for the legless entrepreneur who was clichéd but did have one good scene br br it all sort of plays like final destination delivered via a board game the game does have an intriguing look to it and it involves one of my favorite old conundrums i'll give it that much the drawback there is that the game possessed more personality than most of the characters br br as for the end if you didn't see it coming then i think you fell asleep somewhere back around the dawn of the genre
0	the plot of open graves is very simple it's about a board game called where the players die in real life the same way they die in the game laughable death scenes include killings via computer generated crabs and snakes the characters are cardboard and deliberately annoying and there isn't even a tiny bit of suspense i liked eliza dushku in wrong turn but she is completely wasted and unmemorable here the climax with cgi witch coming from the sea is utterly laughable and stupid the only reason to see open graves are some interesting camera angles plus sexy eliza dushku if such movies are the future of horror then i seriously give up give me any 70's or 80's low budget horror flick over this modern piece of crap a generous 3 out of 10
0	this movie was terrible the acting was lame but it's hard to tell if someone was acting well since the writing was so bad this is one of johnny depp's worst movies i highly discourage anyone from watching it br br if you must see cry baby though i recommend muting it and simply ogling at mr depp for and hour and a half
0	maybe i was to young when i saw it perhaps i have not grown up with grease and elvis movies br br i failed to get it i get black comedy black adder etc i get irony and spoofs i don't get this one though br br i made it a quest to find out the name of this movie enlisting the help of people on usenet and the most excellent imdb message boards so it could be my first 1 pointer awful
0	john waters owes me 2 hours of my life back i saw a sneak preview screening of this way back in 1990 and i'm still in pain not before or since have i seen such a terrible piece of filmic waste spewed upon the screen there is nothing positive i can say about this film acting awful plot ridiculous music atrocious following the movie my friends and i demanded our money back from the manager of the theater he explained that since it was a free screening he couldn't give us anything in return no matter how much agony we were suffering through how johnny depp's career survived this trainwreck of a movie is anyone's guess
0	i loved this movie 10 years ago when i was about 16 years old my biggest mistake was to watch it again 10 years later it's not the worst i wanna be a pilot movies ever but it has so many flaws in it that you can hardly overlook them br br queen's one vision along with the rest of the soundtrack makes this film better than the average patriotic nonsense you usually get to see br br
0	this movie was pure genius john waters is brilliant it is hilarious and i am not sick of it even after seeing it about 20 times since i bought it a few months ago the acting is great although ricki lake could have been better and johnny depp is magnificent he is such a beautiful man and a very talented actor and seeing most of johnny's movies this is probably my favorite i give it 9 5 10 rent it today
0	contribution to the world of cinema has to be searched with a telescope and then when if something is found by sheer chance and lots of luck it has to be analyzed with a microscope br br and after it has been analyzed it would get discarded into the lab's rubbish bin for totally useless things one single atom of that microscope is worth all of his movies combined br br cb is campy and intentionally so the usual stuff comic strip dialogue simplistic plot cheerful characters chewing gum pop overacting etc waters knows that he is of making a movie of quality so he hides behind the mask of the intentionally cheesy film maker which supposedly makes him a special kind of anti artist but in the world of cinema being an anti talent often gets mistaken for talent which is exactly what waters had hoped for and eventually got it's a con act charlatans infest the world of cinema and modern pop art it's a plague br br perhaps we have john waters to blame for inspiring baz to make all those horrible dumb turkeys it's like a virus one waters creates five new bad directors and then these five each create more and so on where will it end with dancer in the dark can that bomb actually be topped
0	1st watched 4 30 2009 4 out of 10 dir john waters corny waters like comedy musical with some funny scenes and good parts but it didn't make a whole worthwhile experience john waters directed this music filled spoof of the fifties scene with johnny depp playing the title role this movie is very similar with what he did with the 60's spoof entitled hairspray but this one is not as effective some of the tunes are catchy some of the characters are interesting in their quirky waters like way and the portrayals are fine although sometimes overdone the storyline is similar to the movie grease where there is a good group and a bad group the guy from the bad group cry baby a girl from the good group the good girl then joins the bad group but once cry baby hurts her she falls back to the good group this just sets up the ending where cry baby tries to win her back now one difference that is expected in water's movies is that the bad group doesn't appear all that bad all the time and the good group acts like they have a pole up their you know what i definitely saw this in hairspray as well the wacky and goofiness isn't really all that much fun in this movie though and it just leaves us with a feeling like the movie could have been much better the prime appeal of the johnny depp character is that he's able to make one tear roll down his cheek thus his namesake at various times and makes the women fall all over the place for him this is overused and the basic bottom line is that the movie is ok but not that great
0	heh i'm surprised this movie still exists in any form let alone it being available for rent br br this flick is one of the many bad slasher flicks that exist only for the t a and the cheap laughs the story line crosses a bit of texas chainsaw massacre with a screwy centred back story reminiscent of psycho and a bit of the good old women in chains tough as nail ex con broads tossed in for good measure in other words complete unoriginality wrapped up in half naked women spiced with a dash of utter idiocy looking on as the director attempts to make the marsh land of quebec pass off as southern u s bayou land is sad i tell ya br br funny thing for me is i was actually at the premier of this flick as at the time i was pals with the film's star it was painful to watch on as jeremy sank into his seat whilst the flick unfolded its mangled wings br br i'm happy to see that after this sham of a first flick has grown into one hell of an actor he can be seen regularly on the canadian cop drama blue murder has appeared on csi not to mention his role in the classic clint eastwood film unforgiven we forgive ya jeremy it was a rocky start but you done good man br br t paul
0	we've all seen bad movies well this one takes the cake i've seen that junior movie box staring back at many times from my many journeys to the horror section at the local video store and i was a little interested it looks like it pays some homage to texas chainsaw massacre so i thought i'd get it mistake junior sucks hard long and with commitment in other words it's really bad although it does win my award for most creative use of a bikini top avoid
0	up at the villa fooled me into thinking i d be watching something similar to gosford park the film opens at a ballroom in 1930s italy which is populated by vulgar americans and uptight upper class brits but in truth up at the villa plays out far more like a merchant ivory production which is very bad news because it s a very slow and i do mean very slow romantic drama with some of the romance being very unlikely if you like slow romantic dramas you might like this movie i didn t
0	can someone please help me i missed the last view moments and i don't want to pay money to see the whole film again i got to just where they are in the train carriage and she says 'what about that drink now ' and smiles what happens after that is there anymore dialogue or action surely it doesn't just end there i was a bit bored in the film and kept hoping it would get better i love kristen scott thomas does anyone remember the uk tv series she was in about some nuns i am wanting to know the name sean penn was brilliant madonna eat your heart out everybody else in fact the film a bit predictable it was a 'spot a star cast' the ending took me by surprise i really thought she had burnt her boats if you are a fan of any of the stars its worth watching
0	boring as hell and kind of a chick flick br br it's the story of a neurotic woman who struggles with the concept of marriage as a business arrangement the romantic nature of a one night stand and the uncertainty and pitfalls of true love br br many of the story's motifs are reminiscent of other recent movies e g the english patient but have far less appeal br br after the first half hour i started checking my watch wondering if i'd make it home in time to catch leno on tv br br i passed up gladiator to see this
0	up at the villa 2000 1 2 br br warning you may find some spoilers ahead br br it's hard to know what is the point in up at the villa a gorgeous but shallow period piece one of those made with the only objective of earning oscar nominations for best costume design and art set direction one for cinematography and another for score are also welcome it has the same basic idea of thousands of period pieces produced every year a good looking intelligent woman trying to find love in a strange place to her she has many difficulties but ultimately finds her happiness in the arms of a man that is not the one that she had an accomplishment with in this case our lady is in florence some time before world war ii she is an english widow engaged to a rich but old man whom obviously she doesn't love one day she meets another man who has not a good reputation but for whom she falls in love of course there is her friend who will help her for better or worse and a third man who commits suicide here in the lady's room setting up a risky situation for her guess how the story ends br br up at the villa is not a bad film i was always quite interested in the story but never got excited the problem is not the slow pacing but the screenplay adapted from a novel it needs something more spicy exciting twists and suspense every time you think the story will get warm it gets cooler again if you think there is a conspiracy involving the mean police chief of florence well there is but it doesn't change almost anything in the story it just keeps going and going till the predictable ending br br as i said up at the villa is not bad if it is a bit bland it never gets sappy and too sentimental the acting is half and half but surely convinces kristin scott thomas made some really bad choices after the english patient the romantic drama the horse whisperer and the dull irritating random hearts up at the villa is undoubtly better than those pieces and kristin is also better but she can do more than that sean penn is good as always even if his character is a big dude anne bancroft is a terrific actress the graduate my god and here she doesn't let her character become ridiculous now the supporting actors are pretty bad jeremy davies is sooooooooooo irritating br br the directing is good but not audacious it was interesting to know that the director is the same of angels and insects also starring kristin scott thomas another so so period drama but more audacious than this what matters here are the visuals florence is wonderful the costumes are great the scenery the music br br in the end up at the villa is an average romantic drama but of course it could have been much better it is watchable and interesting but don't expect a suspense film it is not this film kind of fails because it wants to have some mystery something to behold however there is not much to say mainly because of the shallow screenplay now about the oscar nominations don't worry it will probably get them
0	let me be clear i hate these kinds of movies i do not like anything where the protagonists are all bourgeoisie english i find this kind of literature and film awfully pretentious you will never get me to read a jane austen book willingly that said the only reason i read w somerset maugham's book and watched the subsequent film was for a class br br mary kristin scott thomas is a beautiful english woman living in a borrowed villa in florence before world war ii one night after dinning with some of her rich royalty related friends she willingly picks up an austrian refugee has sex with him and ditches and then he kills himself as the movie gets further and further you really want to dislike mary br br what a load of crap this movie was first of all there were many subplots and characters invented in the movie that weren't even in the book i doubt very much the late mr maugham would've appreciated them the characters though wealthy were some of the most superficial and self centered people i have ever seen br br the only reason i didn't give it anything less than three stars was because the acting was the only thing redeemable the always talented kristin scott thomas is perfect for the role of mary in fact i couldn't picture anybody else filling her shoes sean penn and anne bancroft also had supporting roles that were just as good as the lead br br save yourself the pain of watching this movie
0	i was pleasantly surprised with this one it's actually quite interesting and engaging the cast is strong even dan cortese brooke shields has come into her own as an actress black and white must have really set her free 'cause i have never seen her in this much command playing a conventional character if marketed right could be a medium size hit
0	br br well great costumes and a wonderful feel' for pre wwii italy but what happened here br br great actors kristin scott thomas sean penn anne bancroft james fox derek jacobi if you can't get memorable performances out of this a list' then the problem with this movie must be blamed on pitiful direction and an inadequate script i rented this on dvd after having liked angels insects 1995 also directed by philip haas br br i can hardly believe how dull this thing was it just dragged on and on and no one was able to save the poor thing this is not even a good intriguing foreign dudes and young things in pretty clothes chick flick br br tea with mussolini gone amuck br br
0	i grew up watching the bowery boys on the weekends and even at young an age i could tell this was low rent stuff as the name implies still it was fun to watch hall get the better of gorcey after would beat the crap out him the east side kids stuff were never shown even though it was public domain stuff and probably cheap to run it was just to low a standard for kids to tune in even though we only had like 5 channels to watch enter the year 2005 and i am about my childhood i can't find any bowery boys on dvd but i found the east side kids on disc and also on a public domain website thankfully i saved my dough and saw bowery blitz on the web for free and it really really blows now i can see there are some bowery boys and maybe monogram bad movie lovers here that gave this melodrama crap a 7 of 10 but c'mon folks this ain't even trying to be funny it's an east side kids drama not a comedy so it's no good the best part was seeing fight at the end he reminded me of my grade school days away like a girl when i would get in a fight it was kinda leonard maltin said in his mini bio that this flick is one of the better ones so you can just imagine the rest if you wanna see some halfway decent east side action see ghosts on the loose maybe but the bottom line is usually a comedy team starts out strong in their career and tapers off these mugs blew chucks early on then slowly picked it up until hall's antics dominated than they were at best still 2nd tier stuff way below the 3 stooges who they imitate but amusing for those who grew up with them this feature won't bring back pleasant bowery boys memories and is best left to monogram fanatics
0	the final comedown wants to say something about racism and inner city violence unfortunately the message is by the nonsensical script the amateurish production and the heavy handed polemics how heavy handed you ask to give you just one example a black doctor comes out of his hiding place unarmed with his hands up in the air ready to surrender to the police one of the all white cops says don't shoot him he's a doctor to which another cop replies so what he's still a n r and proceeds to shoot him in cold blood the cops are portrayed as ignorant racist killers even though at the end there are just as many dead people among them as there are among the black people who staged the riot and this whole event was meant somehow to the white folks to the demeaning treatment of the black folks when in fact something like this can only breed more hate and violence on both sides pamela jones as williams' girlfriend briefly lights up the screen with her smile and body particularly in a tender sex scene and elevates the rating of this movie from 1 to 2 out of 10
0	i must give credit to billy dee for trying to pull this off knowing this was a blaxploitation film i started my dvd with a certain expectation i knew it would be low budget the acting sub par but hoped for a few gems to be sprinkled throughout if there were any diamonds or gems sprinkled within this film they were successfully buried under tons and tons of coal or perhaps overacting as an actor and filmmaker i cringed often when potential poignant moments were ruined with atrocious performances yet i must admit i could not look away i don't know if this was like a car wreck you can't turn your eyes from or some mysterious power in the film that kept me there this film is a good case for an excellent story that was told wrong if walter were to tell the aristocrats joke it would be a total flop although the joke itself is hilarious let dave tell it and we are all rolling on the floor laughing this film needed a chapelle now with that said if you have the opportunity to purchase this film for the dollar that i did do it it is well worth the money perhaps i will take another dollar purchase the rights to this film and remake it who knows it might not be any better but it surely can't be any worse
0	this is a serious film about black revolutionaries and not really an action film billy dee plays a young man fed up with racism who decides to take things into his own hands it's fairly gritty and realistic without exploiting the characters but still it's not that interesting either and billy dee's character though by white authority figures doesn't really come off as sympathetic it's also hurt by it's extremely low budget still it's interesting to look at as it's a good of 1970s social issues
0	gold raiders 1951 br br a dull western comedy feature with the three stooges including shemp howard at this point who i've always enjoyed as the third stooge doing their usual schtick and directed by the normally dependable edward bernds who also did some of their funniest classic shorts so one has to wonder just what went wrong this time the most probable answer is that what worked pretty good as a 15 minute two reeler comes up as too much for a 55 minute feature film unlike so many of their classic short subjects gold raiders is not worth revisiting br br 1 2 of
0	this is a joke right this can't be a real film it's not even a real video give any harvey milk high school kid a video cam and they could make a better movie than this the film maker's can't be serious right is this satire comedy drama gone horribly wrong the script is about as single minded and dull as is conceivable ten monkeys locked in a room with a laptop could come up with a better screenplay the dialogue isn't clichéd clichéd dialogue might elevate this holiday mess to something akin to camp fun but it doesn't and it isn't worst of the worst a landlady wanders into a dramatic scene in a private apartment dressed a carrying a frying pan like something out of a honeymooners episode whaaa i have seen better acting from middle school drama clubs one of the leads is an attractive lunk the other is not both can't even manage a convincing kiss so much for romance the supporting players are jaw droppingly over the top br br everything is underscored by a nauseating soundtrack and the sound seems to have been recorded in a back room toilet most of the dialogue is mercifully unintelligible br br this stale cinematic fruitcake isn't even worthy of being the next rocky horror or a gay holiday installment of mystery science theatre 3000 it's just plain bad in every way visions of will not dance in your head they will trample your every expectation have an eggnog and stare at mindlessly at the neighbor's holiday lights it will be time better spent
0	his has to surely be one of the worst gay themed films of all time who told any of the so called actors that they can act bad sound bad script gestures so overboard that they defy reality a nightclub scene with only one actor and dubbed crowd scenes br br after seeing other low budget films similarly made i was prepared for something innovative but not plain pathetic br br parents and friends really should not encourage anyone to make such tripe br br and the dvd no menu access its worse than a vhs tape once you start you have to watch the whole thing through luckily the fast forward button works with this film and dvd nothing else does
0	the horrific production doesn't qualify as a film it was obviously shot on video tape and very poorly at that there is a constant sound for the audio sounds like a bad microphone which is so annoying that you sometimes cannot understand what the characters are saying badly dubbed in music will suddenly appear in a scene and the entire editing of this thing rates about a zero br br the plot is contrived and ridiculous a late 20's gay man trying to hide his live in lover from parents visiting please and the reaction the mother has when she finds a picture of her son kissing his is beyond melodramatic and rolls right into stupid talk about a stereotypical view of gay life the acting is worse than a porno movie and the direction is very poor br br as far as production goes there isn't any br br this title is simply a lame videotaped attempt to call itself a film there is no heart and soul to give it even the smallest bit of praise br br it's just a stupid waste of time so avoid it at all costs bad acting bad writing bad directing and the title of producer is vanity as this trash probably them the price of the videotape they shot it on br br this ametuer garbage has no business getting released onto a dvd as it's deceptive to the i cannot stress how horrible this crap is br br
0	well folks this is another stereotypic of gay life however the additional downside includes poor acting horrible script no budget terrible sound and let us not forget the impossible storyline br br it is christmas in new york city and our story immediatly focuses on two male individuals apparently lovers for some time one of them has not let his parents the right wing religious zealot types know that he is gay adding to the of the story 'cause this guy is as as gay guys come these days and his parents are coming to him they will stay in his new york apartment where he and his lover have just decorated for christmas br br the story continues to develop around the arrival of the parents who noone will like anyway and how through only obvious and predictable ways they come to learn there son is gay tears are shed as was my interest in this movie br br the cast of charecters seemed like an intro acting course at the local community theatre the lovers in this film are mismatched and there does not appear to be any cohesion to their union br br the landlord is flat and her attempt to be humanistic in the situation are undercooked and certainly didnt help move the plot any further br br the friend who steps to the aid of one of the lovers in his time of need is stereotypic and gives a bad name to the unique art of drag br br although some guys night find one of the lovers to have a nice body again stereotypic imagery it does not help this story br br stay away from this film especially if you are considering a purchase you'll shoot yourself if you do
0	brooke shields in a departure from her suddenly susan duties plays a bitter divorcee who three girlfriends in a girls only weekend in palm springs the problem brooke is unattached and on the prowl while her friends are all involved hence the title implications and emotional backlash their amoral weekend causes br br despite a few laughs generated by dan cortese victoria's closet and mtv relationship authorities adam and dr drew this is somber stuff for women only d b sweeney virginia madsen and jon polito co star
0	the best part of this dvd is the cover it goes down hill from there there was no chemistry between the leads the kisses looked like something i traded with my grandmother br br the sound was so bad that at least i was spared some of the dialoge
0	first of all i dunno if i was supposed to use my imagination in this film or the director was trying to save money or low on budget here we go br br basically there were so many years and gaps that i don't understand its like the movie was jumping from 9 years to 20 years to 30 and so much gaps that makes you ask questions how the hell did this happen and why i think this is a big flow forget the reviews who keeps whining about the history this movie doesn't have only history facts issues but also has so many flaws so most of the people keep saying watch this in cinema you will lose all cinematography like rivers deserts etc thats true they are beautiful thats why i waited for bluray release ok beautiful scenes but whats the point of that i turned off the movie after 1 hour and half i just lost interest the movie kept on doing the exact same things jumping in years at least mr director put for example after 2 years after 10 years i mean i couldn't watch the movie i lost understanding of whats going on anyways i wish i could include spoilers but when u decide to watch this movie just ask yourself how did this happen you will know what i mean don't watch this movie its a waste of time
0	for native mongolian speakers the film lacked emotion and emphasis used too many non native speakers especially too many diversions from the actual history terrible terrible subtitle i wonder where and who did that subtitle it was both in english and thai i wonder how bad the subtitle was in thai if the english subtitle was soooo bad described the one of the greatest leader's life very uninteresting there are better films made by mongolian directors with very low budget from 1980's honestly i'm wondering if the film critics of academy award is that lenient or what only good thing was some good cgi in some fighting scenes only moderately not over the top cgi
0	this film did not excite me while on vacation in turkey i noticed that it was playing at the local cinema and decided to take the chance to go see it the action sequences in the film are well choreographed however the story drags during the middle of the film br br one thing that i did not quite follow is how was able to get the money to bribe the guards br br the other thing that i did not particularly like was the missing segment of khan's life it did not go into detail as to how the bad guys were able to find him and re imprison him after he had gone missing for so long br br overall i rate this movie a 4 because i enjoyed the action sequences but they were too few to justify a higher rating as the dialog left me less than impressed
0	i'm really amazed that this got an 88 on rotten tomatoes and a nomination for best foreign film at the oscars the 7 3 rating on imdb that's not so much of a surprise seeing the way imdb users have been voting recently i just can't get into a film in which the actual facts about its main character have clearly been distorted and not at all in a way to make the movie artistic but rather to make it melodramatic and less boring which it turns out actually makes it very boring for anyone who was expecting to see a serious and credible interpretation of the life of genghis khan the far fetched and over dramatized mongol often echoes the likes of 300 a film that couldn't be happier to be ridiculously inaccurate but unlike 300 mongol takes itself seriously it's stoic seriousness mixed with the obvious inaccuracies is what makes it truly the most boring film i've seen this year possibly the most action or biopic movie i've ever seen the characters were pathetically written honestly i doubt genghis khan was as boring and passive as shown in this film which is funny to me because if there's anything that i'd think should be changed for the sake of theatricality it's making a boring person into an interesting person the romance between khan and is similarly boring simple and stupid also without giving anything away mongol contains the single stupidest scene i have seen in a long time where there should be a good 20 minutes of plot development the film just skips forward without any explanation it looked like something out of a saturday night live skit that parodies epic action movies with horrible pacing did i mention how seriously mongol takes itself meanwhile it drags like no film i've ever seen before even now i could swear it was three hours long about 45 minutes into it i checked the time being pretty certain that it was almost finished besides some pretty scenery and quality acting from asano naturally mongol is honestly just a disaster it completely failed to entertain me or enlighten me in anyway i would never give this film a second chance and not to sound racist or patriotic or whatever but give me a trashy and mindless american epic over mongol any day at least then i know what i'm getting unlike with mongol where the reviews and ratings led me to believe it was actually something worth seeing br br the saddest thing about how much i hated mongol is that i have friends who i know without a doubt would simply love it
0	the worst film i have seen in the last 12 months the plot of the story was uninteresting the movie ended when he became khan i always thought there happened something really interesting afterwards i knew that mongolia and all the areas where the movie played have beautiful landscapes but the movie didn't profit from that the jokes where really poor the narrator himself could have told a bit more about mongolian history traditions etc my co viewer knew nothing about that at all so he was a bit lost i was so looking forward to see this film but was really disappointed after all it was one out of 3 movies i have ever seen in cinema where i considered to leave before the end
0	the narrative was clear and concise but overall the film never caught my interest scenes felt flat and uninspired khan historically speaking had a very interesting epic life but the film failed to capture that instead focused on small skirmishes as a youth and a love story i think i've seen disguised in a slew of other films i never felt sympathy nor empathy for the lead yes he had to overcome slavery but then seemed to have an easy ride to khan pillaging killing and double crossing his way to the top the one redeeming quality was the photography the landscapes certainly helped the bleak atmosphere of the film unfortunately combined with the bleakness of the story i left unmoved and disappointed
0	i was waiting for this movie for a time in the first day of the air in turkey i watched it it was totally a disappointment for me i was planning to watch a historical movie but the one in the screen was a fictional one first of all the main character of the movie han the great conquer was portrayed like a soft calm even a loser one you can not feel the power in the movie historically the war machine he created was conquered ¾ even more of the world know in those years to do that first unite the asian tribes however in the movie this loser man is in one scene poor alone man and in second scene he is commanding armies war scenes were incredibly week in the final battle the mongol horseman were using double swords on their sides and cutting the enemy as a consequences me and my friends just laugh at that scenes mongol army means mongol archery horseman you can not see that in the movie another ill thing was the use of fantastic elements in the movie i do not want to go into the scenes which was portrayed as a prophet we can say in the integrity of the movie it is acceptable however the scenes when the old monk saw the future and go to find the wife of khan after gave him a mission is really funny when the monk died in the desert wife feel this dead and she find the corpse in the continent we are talking about the again we laughed there are a lot of more things to say but i don't feel that this movie has value to talk more
0	i watched this film a few nights ago and it was awful br br awfully long even though they managed to skip through the majority of his life br br awfully boring the parts they included were long winded and for some reason the director chose to cut away from some of the action and left huge parts of the film unexplained br br awfully inaccurate the side to this film was a joke and last time i checked khan wasn't exactly a nice guy br br awfully acted i found several of the characters hard to believe they were very two dimensional and lacked and kind of depth br br a saving grace of the film was the cinematography that is why i gave this film a 2 star rating rather than the bare minimum however if you want to look at something pretty i would recommend buying a picture instead br br all in all this film was an awful waste of my time and money please do yourself a favour and give this mongolian turkey a miss
0	as a genghis khan fan i was looking forward to this movie after devouring conn epic novels about genghis and reading up on loads of historic records i feel i know something on the subject and was thrilled to share my knowledge with friends via this movie br br that turned out a deception this movie is practically made up from beginning to end there are a few things that seem correct but mostly it is pure make believe of the writers that does not have to be a problem i like good entertainment just like anyone else unfortunately it is mostly boring nothing of the greatness comes forth in this movie br br i would not recommend this movie if you know anything on the subject
0	it's amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place the characters are so weak and the acting so uninspired that it's impossible to care about any of them especially brooke shields the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible if you like this genre you'd be better off renting singles or bodies rest motion
0	have seen this movie today very disappointed and wondered how it could be in the oscar the most sad things are br br 1 it's very slow br br 2 how khan cruel and mighty emperor of asia can be played by a kind good actor with warm and lovely eyes during all the movie except one scene br br 3 lot of holes in the plot there's nothing about how he became the emperor nothing about where he spend 20 years between his childhood and mature age we see an ex slave without money power friends or home click the very next second he's leading the huge army without any reasons to be a leader br br 4 the magic of khan arise is kindly explained only by the help of one wolf god whoever it was br br 5 can a man make love to his wife that way after not seeing her for years br br 6 is it enough to win the sword fight if you just riding your horse through the enemy lines sitting there with two swords and everybody around you dies does ridley scott know that way br br 7 why after 20 30 years khan's mother doesn't look older br br 8 what is the motivation for the main character none literally br br don't waste your time really work is good the nature is outstanding but the movie cannot be made without director and script the real khan would execute director in a second br br kind regards
0	i went to see this film because it was recommended to my wife and she wanted to go br br we were both trying to look at our watches well before the film ended in order to see how much more we had to endure two hours and six minutes long it is it's divided roughly equally between battle scenes about a dozen of them all more or less interchangeable and plot development br br one would have thought that with the subject being the son of a minor tribal chief who conquers half the world plotting would have been relatively easy there's a fair bit of raw material there from which to make a pretty good story however the writers fluffed it completely we get no real history we get instead a hollywood version of history br br what sustains young through his long almost endless actually or so they seem to the viewer tribulations why the love of a good woman of course br br how does he get out of prison well an old monk who recognizes his innate goodness and greatness sets out across the continent to take to this good woman a talisman that love for her dropping dead just close enough to her for her to find him as he lies there talisman in his hand and of course she then goes and having inexplicably become rich and powerful rescues him br br how does he escape from the shackles well he goes off to the shrine of the great wolf god or some such name and sets him free by magic yeah right br br why does he want to become ruler of the mongols the wolf god again apparently off goes to ask for guidance and surprise surprise he gets it laws he says to himself what the mongols need are laws good simple ones golly it was impressive br br and then finally how does he win the decisive battle against his rival's more powerful forces better tactics certainly but also through the aid of the good old wolf god again who sends a storm at the height of the battle all the troops cower as the thunder rolls and the lightning flashes mongols are scared of thunder you see but not our the troops completely wowed by his bravery acclaim him king br br i don't know what induces people to keep producing this kind of garbage the funny thing is it's interspersed with all sorts of gritty realism lots of slurping of milk dirt and violence it's as if the producers of this movie wanted to get the trivial things right so that viewers wouldn't notice how infantile some of the big stuff is br br there's heaps of violence in graphic close up slashings impalings spouts of blood sprays of blood clouds of blood the blood guys had a great time actually despite the realism it's impossible to take seriously br br i must mention the ludicrous cgi final battle scene how anyone can think these things look realistic is beyond me they don't oh and it's all shot in the standard hollywood style breathtaking panoramas for the spectacular scenery and the super close up stedicam stuff for the battle scenes and the standard dolby super sound effects of and thumps and the constant low frequency hum to sustain tension br br tedious br br avoid
0	first of all the nature in the movie is beautiful and there is a bit of mongolian music well the horses looked mongolian and the camels but that's about all what was mongolian in it oh is played by a mongolian actress albeit a lame performance but she is pretty which redeems a bit the lack of performance on her part br br but i totally failed to understand what was the point of this painful to watch piece of 1 30 hour fantasy created by mr bodrov the plot totally lacked any sense of cohesion there was no logic behind the development of the plot in fact there was hardly any story at all just a number of loosely tied scenes with a bunch of guys in mongolian clothes speaking some kinda pidgin that is supposed to sound like mongolian most actors were either japanese russian or chinese most scenes were shot in china kazakhstan or russia and there were a lot of disturbing pathos about what is it to be a mongolian the dialog is primitive and the scenes with dialog are slow the battle scenes are laughable all the supernatural pathos is lame and is obviously there only to make up for the lack of the story br br the japanese actor was like a wooden doll and looking at him one wouldn't get any idea how this person could become a leader who could unite the nomadic tribes he looked sleepy soft stiff and pitiful for the most part of the movie br br and i don't even want to start on the subject of the historical relevance of this piece of cinematic waste to see khan half of the movie as a slave to see his two first kids be born from other men to see his wife selling herself to the merchant my blood starts to boil and where is the beautiful story about the friendship between and one could make a great movie out of it where is the story of the rise of of his childhood of his relationship with his family with his brothers of how he struggled to survive among mighty enemies of his family where is van khan who helped him a lot where is the depiction of life in the of the life of the nomads of their traditions of their relations with the other nations around them br br where is development of the characters we totally fail to see what brought together with and what brought them apart and most important how became khan how he an outcast with no wealth and military power managed to unite the mongolian tribes and create such an organized and effective war machine that crushed one nation after another and created the largest land empire in history all this could make several interesting and dramatic stories with complicated plots and deep characters but unfortunately we didn't see any of it in bodrov's creation not even a glimpse
0	okay i guess i'm pretty much a fan of mutilated and destroyed stephen king stories when they reach the as any of us sad masochists out here i know full well that most of them are done poorly i expect it i plan on it i humbly allow for it br br but this time okay so i think i saw this thing a number of years ago fine i thought i remembered that it was pretty good wrong like i'm saying granted in a wordy annoying roundabout way i really wasn't trying to be snobby or expect much but what was this thing a mini series i have only one thing to say d r a w n o u t how can you possibly justify dragging the thing out minute by minute scene by scene of friggin' endless completely meaningless and mind numbingly slow dialog i mean every bl dy scene is two people how they feel and back and forth and d r a g i t bl dy well o u t after about an hour and a half which i think is about 1 2 of the running time i didn't check sorry i finally got totally fed up after an hour and a half what had happened other than the original accident they were running away while the guy was killing eye doctors news photographers and lots lots lots of meandering dialog br br i'm sorry i promise that it is not that i have to have non stop mindless action i love lots of films where not much happens but in them at least when they do talk and such meaningful things are being said and characters are being deepened thoughts are being conveyed something okay i admit that the actors in and of themselves were not too bad except stephen king of course i liked the shop guy i thought both of the people were fine i liked the general and the main woman it's just if they could have cut out all of the hours of filler that's all i'm saying i mean it's supposed to be a sci fi thriller sort of right you know what really took the prize when the shop guy was needlessly making one of his many time filling telephone calls this time he is talking to god knows who getting all emotional for him anyway and acting like he can't handle it wtf the guy has clearly been shown to be a cold blooded efficient killer what the hell was that about so just multiply that by about 500 and that is basically why i finally turned if off about half way through it was either that or hang myself i swear i mean there are other king out there that are lame but at least they move along oh well i guess perhaps if you maybe are into the 'story' itself and don't mind crawling along and have the supreme divine patience to wait until the end it might be worthwhile br br but i sincerely and humbly doubt it br br i don't write these things very often but this time i just had to or i wouldn't be able to sleep at night like i did during the show
0	this is without question the worst screen adaptation of a stephen king work if not the worst movie of all time this is an unbelievably horrible movie i fell asleep on this stinker several times and i wasn't tired i would rather shoot myself than sit through it again
0	i love stephen kings work and the book was great but i was very disappointed when i bought this movie on dvd this was one of the worst b movies i have ever seen it feels like they had a tight schedule and only took one shot at every scene even if it turned out to be a bad one and where did they find the actors
0	ok i am really into king's stuff but this is just dreadful the whole movie i am waiting for the main character to do something profound with his new youth and power i can tolerate the worst of movies as anything is better than watching a cut movie with commercials in it but this takes the cake i gave it a 2 and i would never recommend it to anyone
0	i really hated this movie and it's the first movie written by stephen king that i didn't finish i was truly disappointed it was the worst crap i've ever seen what were you thinking making three hours out of it it may have a quite good story but actors no suspense no romance no horror no it didn't have anything br br it's got this strange crazy science man with einstein hair the classic thing not real at all and a man keep getting younger all the time it seems like they just used the name of stephen king to make a crappy too long movie with nothing exciting at all br br i give this movie 1 awful if they had like 5 i would probably take that instead it was a total waste of time
0	please if you haven't attempted to sit through this garbage and are considering viewing this flick mini series do yourself a favor and find anything else to do floss your teeth start learning to play the cello beat your dog anything you choose will be time better spent than watching this junk this is not a bad movie that you can get a few chuckles out of it simply sucks in every way possible just boring from beginning to end br br and for those animal lovers out there that feel my comment above is insensitive if your dog could speak he or she would beg for a beating rather than suffer through watching this mess
0	i remember when this show came out it was originally advertised as a mini series at the end of the last episode it said to be continued to the dismay of all the people who had watched the whole boring beyond words thing it ended as it was supposed to so yes you can blame the series for having no ending the plan was for there to be another obviously if ratings had been higher but it was a boring show that way too long and annoyed people by not ending when it said it would so they never made any more quite a few of the comments blame its cancellation and lack of ending on the viewing public when the truth is that for this show that is not the case it ended the way it was actually planned to end it is just a lousy ending
0	i like to think of myself as a bad movie connoisseur i like to think that the films most people label as the worst of all time i can easily withstand br br but there are exceptions i can only recall three movies i have had the misfortune to see that i have repeatedly used the fast forward button for large chunks of the story those movies are the mighty gorga night of the seagulls and this little crap deep blood br br in the world of jaws ripoffs this falls off the scale deep blood doesn't have the realistic storyline of the original crocodile nor the incredible effects of the sea serpent nor the commentary of tintorera no instead we are treated to a handful of teens from any random failed '80s public access sitcom battling bullies and the local sheriff br br shark attacks are realized by quick cuts of documentary footage with actors thrashing about in the water occasionally with a bit of what appears to be orange ish paint thrown into the water not a minute of original shark footage exists in this celluloid waste dump br br normally i or somebody like me would read a dismal review like this one and say cool i gotta find a copy of this that's the same thought i had when i read another viewer's review on this very site how wrong i was br br so from one bad movie fan to another let this collect dust on the shelf grab up from the depths or the great alligator instead to satisfy your need for something evil lurking in the water
0	firstly this is not an adaptation of a stephen king book short story novella or anything else from web site and their review on the show when it first aired he never writes down to his audience and he never betrays contempt for his subjects his first original work for television stephen king's cbs july 16 9 11 p m is no exception br br the series was apparently going to be as others have mentioned an ongoing series which is why we never saw the ending after the cliffhanger they left us on but this was never quite made clear to the viewers who were left wondering how it all ends br br when the series came out on videotape it touted itself as having the never before seen ending it should have said the should never be seen ending br br spoiler br br the very ending was the only significant part changed for the video though parts of the whole were left out and that changed ending was what destroyed the story for example rather than our two intrepid fbi agents realizing that they were now labeled as bad guys and on the run from the evil jude anderson of the shop as originally broadcast jude simply walks up to them and they shoot him bang dead and no real emotion to speak of in the scene ditto on the bit with harlan and his wife going poof whereas the original ending left us with a spectacular cliff hanger on the video they simply get out of the cock a car br br end spoiler br br it was a sad ending to a rather well made mini series and makes the video completely not worth buying or even renting sincerely save your money and your time
0	when this series aired i watched most of it i think it was supposed to be a long running series in the vein of the fugitive and the incredible hulk where the protagonist is being chased around the country looking for a solution to his problems in this case the hero's problem is his progressive aging in reverse i liked what i saw of these shows the acting was good especially the sorrowful relationship between the lead character and his wife problem is they cancelled it before it had a chance to end either that or i missed the last episodes br br they never got a chance to wrap up the story either knowing it had been cancelled poof it was just gone however like i said before i might have missed the last episodes but my proof to the contrary is this i rented the tape where i left off in the series the lead character's wife dies in a fire started by a chase involving king's famous organization the shop while getting away hero is kidnapped it ends with his friends realizing they have to go save him from the shop the end last episode on the video his wife does not die but escapes the fire with him right when he should get nabbed by the shop he and his wife share a weird moment then phase out of existence abrupt silly and cheap to the extreme they just wanted to put this video out and decided to tag on an ending not caring how bad it was they might as well of just shown some stock footage of the first atomic bomb almost br br the show did have a cool opening title sequence set to the david bowie song of the same name
0	dreadful i hope i can save two hours of your life by warning you away from this i just finished watching the film btw br br i love good cross genre films this isn't one of them show me a sci fi musical a dramatic farce or a religious action flick i'll watch them all but you cannot just throw epigrammatic quips at a rambling camp schlock horror fest and draw my applause br br i love philosophical films this isn't one of them anyone who is amazed at the depths of intellect plumbed in this film hasn't read a good book lately or ever the thought provoking dialogue is trite at best perhaps it lost something in the translation br br i love a good horror comedy this isn't one of them laugh i thought i'd never start squirm only when trying to think of a polite way to phrase my feedback of the film to the friend who recommended it br br rupert is incongruously good in the setting of this film but even he cannot resurrect it i only wish he had shot the director instead if the zombies br br for shame that the land that gave rise to the inferno should also give rise to this dante would be spinning in his grave
0	in michele soavi's confusing art house zombie film rupert everett plays francesco a caretaker in a cemetery where the dead don't stay buried for long aided by his simple assistant francesco deals with the zombie problem by either shooting the undead in the head or splitting their skulls with a spade br br however soon after falling for the mysterious beautiful widow of one of his recently interred francesco finds himself than ever br br having garnered some particularly favourable comments from some of imdb's more respected horror i decided to see what the fuss was all about i've just finished watching the film and i can honestly say that i haven't been this disappointed by a horror film for quite some time br br with its dreary muddled pseudo philosophical plot and an extremely bland performance from leading man everett is an irritating and plodding mess that not even some splattery gore courtesy of sergio stivaletti and welcome gratuitous nudity from busty anna can save i am at a loss to understand the amount of in depth analysis and discussion that this pretentious bilge has received from its misguided fans
0	i am utterly astonished at how over rated cemetery man is among horror fans now i usually welcome movies that blend two or more kinds of genre styles into one and i love just about every zombie comedy i have ever seen to my dismay this italian cult classic really didn't show me a lot to get too pumped up about it follows the unusual duties of a full time cemetery care taker and his retarded man child curly joe looking assistant as they seem to primarily dispose of the recently deceased who pop out of the ground seven days after their initial death he meets a widow whom he wows with some grisly grave yard atmosphere and develops a quick romance soon having sex with her on her dead husband's grave the husband's corpse springs alive and bites her triggering a series of events that seem to consume the rest of the movie cemetery man attempts to incorporate every element it can like horror romance comedy action and fails entirely in the long run it plods along never able to focus on any aspect long enough to make it interesting for the viewer such as the paunchy relationship with a living severed head a motorcycle riding zombie launching out of the ground the main character deciding to gun down random people on the sidewalk etc this thing is so convoluted and dull that it's nearly impossible to take it seriously sure it's stylish and often elegant but even the most artsy kind of films need the right kind of lineage to allow it to make sense cemetery man plods along appearing unable to focus on anything for more than a few minutes which becomes very tiring after a while people argue that it's a more sophisticated zombie movie frankly when it comes to zombies i don't want anything more sophisticated than romero there's a little bit of gore and nudity mainly in the scenes where it wants to play horror movie but not nearly enough to make up for it's uncompromising lack of structure terrible film
0	the appeal of this film has to be the artsy euro style because there's absolutely no substance a bunch of stuff happens that seems to be going somewhere but it never gets there br br it's difficult to come up with a full 10 lines of commentary because this film is such a totally empty experience there's lots of nice photography of a cemetery some really lame zombie effects some flashes of what might pass for surrealist humor and a feeble existentialist ending these elements undermine each other just when you might be enjoying the creepy mood there's some silliness with bouncing heads or zombie sex to keep from screaming with boredom you clutch at the minimal story line and it disintegrates into ridiculous illogic it's like someone took several half baked b movies and tossed them in a blender br br what comes out is mostly a film about meaninglessness and not a good one clearly it will impress that category of art house fan who sees emptiness as indistinguishable from depth everyone else should stay well clear of this dreary mess
0	the script is very weak there is no depth in the characters the story telling is not the importing thing here the unnecessary action scenes does not really help this one one of the worst movies in history of films
0	if this movie would have been in english all critics would have trashed it the language is extremely bad the scenes are awfully directed and it's not at all funny after the movie i thought that this movie could have been written by an 8th grader at least if you consider the lack of believable characters and the fixation on certain male body parts oh on dogs as well the story is just plain nonsense compared to the more mature av glas that premiered almost at the same time of course the public chose while av glas got little attention br br what was really disturbing for me was the fact that the movie looked really bad that was probably due to the fact that first time director josef fares used really cheap camera equipment and then decided to just play around with it for fun i suppose the result however is a movie that can easily be split into 12 short films with a new directorial style in each one of them this was very frustrating maybe josef fares should have stayed with his short films since that seems to be the only art form he can master br br another disturbing fact is that the story does not hold together at several times in the middle of the movie the story has to move on very quickly and the characters then run into one another in a way that is just too unbelievable br br and then i have not mentioned the 2 dimensional characters especially those in the supporting roles br br even though i consider this one of the worst swedish films of the 90s as well as one of the most overrated it is kind of understandable that the public liked it i mean bad taste has always been the trademark of the masses br br i'm more surprised that the critics enjoyed it they should have known better br br grade 2 of 10 br br
0	lame lame lame shall i go on there is one i repeat one funny scene in this entire drawn out anti amusing amateur hour special of a film fares fat father knocking someone over with his beer gut that's it the rest of this shockingly mediocre pile of nothingness consists of the usual trademark bored looking swedish actors delivering dialogue which goes into one ear and out of the other a banal story sloppy direction and well little else worth mentioning cast fares fares is as charismatic as a accountant and his nose rivals even that of adrien brody in terms of sheer ridiculous petersson should only work with lasse spang olsen the rest of the cast is luckily easily forgettable whereas humongous titanic nose will forever haunt me in my dreams br br josef fares helps ruin swedish cinema don't support him and his nonsense is to comedies what arnold schwarzenegger is to character acting would have been much more respectable if it had been a no budget youtube video and was simply the most pretentious pseudo touching garbage ever unleashed by a swedish director wake up and smell the roses swedish movies can be so much better than this so stop pretending flicks are worth watching simply because they're good to be swedish please
0	secret service agent jay charles bronson has been assigned to protect the president wife the new first lady jill ireland she is a very difficult woman and has his hands full she is the victim of numerous assassination attempts all directed by the president's chief of staff who wants the first lady dead this movie insults your intelligence with not only the story line but also with the lack of realistic locations for example in the scene depicting the inaugural parade the first lady is in a rolls royce convertible with agent and without the president also we know what washington dc is like weather wise in january and not only is everybody top coat less you can even see some palm trees in the 70 degree and sunny weather obviously filmed in hollywood not washington dc this movie is a joke it is not worth your time
0	zzzzzzzzzzzz this one came directly from the jaws cookie cutter mold with some other bizarre cliches thrown in for good measure i was interested in seeing this after finding a still from it in a book about italian horror films and wow i guess i got what i deserved br br very slow moving and talky much of this killer shark movie takes place on land which isn't really that surprising it seems like the only method they had of showing a shark is through shots of a shark in an aquarium the shark is never in the same frame as any of the actors and that's too bad most of the characters are so annoying that you actually wish they would get eaten br br the plot concerns a group of four kids who meet up with a mysterious indian on the beach one day while roasting weenies the indian for some reason gives them an ancient artifact that will allow them to track an ancient evil that assumed the form of a monster shark to attack their tribe supposedly because they were too good at fishing the ocean and the ocean god was worried they would take all the fish or something like that br br it's a good thing too because wouldn't ya know it years later a monster shark appears and starts gobbling up people in the sleepy seaside community when one of the four guys are eaten by the shark the remaining three are determined to kill the thing especially since big shocker here the authorities have killed a shark and they think the threat is over yawn br br the obligatory death scenes are unbelievably tedious and you can see them coming a mile away my favorite was the girl who has a fight with her boyfriend while they're sitting in a van then jumps out and says i'm going for a swim immediately to be gobbled up by the waiting shark they had a lot of nerve calling this film deep blood since you hardly see any just cloudy water the actors handle their cliched roles like they're all thumbs and there is even a hilarious subplot involving a greasy rocker type bad boy who threatens our goody goody heroes then turns good in the end to help kill the shark br br it took me a really long time to find this film it is rather obscure so i don't think there's any danger of too many people wasting their time on this however if you should be lured into it don't say you weren't warned
0	charles bronson has given the viewers lots of great moments on the screen but this movie lacks everything that a thriller action movie should have there are a few action scenes in the movie but they're really crappy and when the action scenes fail does the story save the film not at all is my answer to that the story is even worse than the action scenes it's very straightforward and boring and even though i'm a big movie fan i almost fell asleep several times i don't know how they came up with a failure like this a low budget maybe regardless of that it looked like all the actors had no interest in being in the movie at all when that happens the result is really bad
0	first off i'm a huge bronson fan have been since the late '70s i watched every film he made on the big screen since love and bullets which ironically was the beginning of his end as a big name hollywood blockbuster star br br i kept hoping that things would turn around for him that he would make a really good film in the '80s but that never happened and i don't know what he was thinking when he signed with cheapjack studio cannon and hack director j lee thompson for most of his latter films br br assasination gave me some hopes when i saw that peter hunt was directing instead of thompson but those hopes were quickly dashed first off the film looks incredibly cheap like it was made for about 3 mil minus bronson's inflated salary i heard he insisted on 5 mil per picture which is probably more than the rest of the budget for all his cannon films the white house scenes were filmed on the va grounds in west la i was taking the bus when they were shooting nice job on recreating the white house but did no one think about getting the palm trees out of the shots guess not br br secondly the supporting cast is really bad ireland was dying of cancer and despite this she's not bad but the horrible asian woman playing bronson's sidekick was typical of cannon's talent at the time non existent i would be real curious to learn how she got this role i can't imagine a worse actress for the part plus she's a good 40 years younger than bronson the story is not that bad and it's something that bigger and better budgeted studios did later eastwood's in the line of fire and costner's bodyguard film but the way it's staged here is really sad i'm wondering if they could not afford to do more than one or two takes per shot none of it is believable in the slightest if secret service men really behaved like the keystone cops in this movie we'd have presidents rotating out of office and out of life every few months
0	i can't believe i sat through this garbage palm trees in d c already mentioned a dummy as dead body bit so obviously artificial that i thought it was supposed to be a dummy until it left a stilted dialogue ridiculous plot i think it's a shame that jill ireland's final film before her death was this stinker don't waste your time i wish i hadn't the only saving grace is that it was on cable so i didn't waste my money on top of everything
0	bronson and ireland in their last film together make a likable pair he is more restrained than usual and she has become a winning actress but as a thriller the film is totally worthless its premise is downright silly and its pace is much too rushed
0	in the twilight years of his career charles bronson forged long running with several directors most notably j lee thompson and michael winner he did two films for one time bond director peter hunt too the first being the decent 1981 actioner death hunt the second being this indifferent political chase thriller assassination is pretty dull if truth be known and come the end you'll find yourself longing for something with a bit more passion and pace like the conspiracy for instance which plotwise this film resembles br br bronson sleepwalks through his role as bodyguard jay killian whose assignment is to protect the american president's wife lara royce craig jill ireland real life wife of bronson killian believes that mrs craig has been targetted by assassins she thinks he's an over protective paranoid pessimist turns out surprise surprise that killian was right all along and someone is indeed out to eradicate her the pair of them go on the run pursued by the assassins br br everyone knows that the wife of an american president is known as the first lady for some reason in this film they have renamed her one mama quite what the point of this is is anybody's guess but it's indicative of the film's pointlessness as a whole most of the film's performances are lazy and the script takes a heck of a long time to get to where it's going if i had to label assassination within a specific genre i'd say it is supposed to be a thriller i'd say that with some reservations however as to say that it's a thriller it has precious few thrills
0	this was the next to last film appearance by jill ireland who died of cancer in 1990 after four decades as a well known actress and producer ireland made quite a few waves in the press when she dropped her then husband david mccallum in 1967 beginning her long relationship with charles bronson it is a great irony that bronson probably the all time leader in number of deaths rendered on screen had one of the most enduring marriages in film history br br seems to be a movie that was tucked into cannon's production schedule for the sake of bronson and ireland ireland was already suffering from cancer related illnesses in 1987 and you can almost picture the two actors wanting to do 'just one more for old times' sake ' is carelessly done as a whole showing the lack of polish and dwindling funds that would tank cannon by 1990 but there's a kind of nostalgia value in seeing the couple together one last time and the film makes you wonder what exactly helps a relationship to survive in the chaos that is hollywood br br bronson plays jay killian a high ranking secret service agent who is assigned to protect the first lady lara craig ireland the president's wife has a reputation for being difficult bossing service agents around and wanting to do things her own way that all changes however when attempts are made on her life and she must journey with killian by car train motorbike and believe it or not dune buggy to escape would be assassins there is little surprise here as killian believes the murderers are part of an inside job perhaps arranged by the president himself on the way killian and mrs craig develop an unspoken affection for one another in scenes between bronson and ireland that are actually very funny br br what really gets me is how this film was promoted upon its release and how it's still made to look as a dvd the original trailer gives you the feeling that is another cold hearted bronson shoot 'em up but a lot of this movie which was rated pg 13 by the way is in a comic vein putting it along the lines of a romantic thriller like bronson and ireland's western 'from noon till three ' even the dvd case shows bronson with a rocket launcher ready to blow things up which he does but to a lesser degree than his other '80s potboilers br br on the whole is late cannon slop work and doesn't really know what kind of film it wants to be besides drifting from actioner to romantic thriller and back again there are serious mistakes in continuity property values are bottom of the barrel cheap and the effects are dreadful many of the explosions seem like matte work rather than being done on location robert ragland who had shown good composing skills in earlier films teamed up with valentine mccallum on a score that is mostly synthesized and better fit for television br br richard sale's script has real of dialogue with the conversations between bronson and ireland the only bright spot there is no explanation as to why the first lady is called 'one all of a sudden nor as to why ireland is left with her british accent when the character is a wyoming native jan boyd playing main assistant has a kitten like personality and is badly miscast as a federal agent stephen elliott a former tony award nominee who died in may 2005 randy brooks erik stern as assassin bracken and michael senator bunsen are acceptable in their supporting roles br br incidentally this was the last film directing gig for peter hunt who broke onto the scene with 'on her majesty's secret service' in 1969 and collaborated with bronson and lee marvin on 'death hunt' in 1981 is available on dvd through mgm home entertainment it is presented in dual widescreen and standard format with three language subtitles and theatrical trailer br br out of 4
0	i watched this movie last night i'm a huge fan of the book and i was pretty happy with the version in which winona ryder and susan sarandon starred but this one it's just awful oh my god i don't understand how they dared to ripped apart this classic story and made the characters totally different starting with the switching of beth being the younger sister and making amy the 3rd one and jo interpretation terrible jo was a feminist intelligent and kinda angry young lady and the actress portraying jo in this movie acts like a foolish and very annoying little girl and what's with the laurie going to war i'm ok with the fact that when a book is made into a movie there has to be some changes made but not re write the whole story very very bad done
0	after all the hype i had heard about the jane austin novel and different film versions of the book i found myself very disappointed with the movie i had expected a classic drama but that was not the case first of all let me preface my review with the fact that i love old movies particularly mysteries and dramas but not female oriented movies this probably makes a huge difference so take my review with a large grain of salt i thought the acting was a bit over the top but that is very common in movies of this era june allyson was good as jo but i found every sister to be stereotypical and form driven there were no surprises or overly dramatic moments i hate writing negative reviews but the movie left me very cold it has always been my intention to read the book but after this that seem unlikely the only warming story line was between the old gentlemen and the youngest sister that was a very welcome bright spot in an otherwise disappointing viewing experience again there are others who love this movie i'm just not one of them
0	has anyone else noticed that this version is basically a scene by scene remake of the 1933 version with some of the scenes taken out it makes me think less of a film that does that showing a definite want of creativity in all fairness i tend to be biased in favor of katharine hepburn but this version of the film seems like cinematic plagiarism the 1933 version was nice and sweet though a little awkward in presentation and transition at times and then this version took the script the music and even a fair amount of the scene blocking from the earlier version i don't understand the point of making the film again when the method of remaking it was to basically redo george cukor's film with everything the same except the people working on it
0	it's a long time ago i saw this movie and still it's one of the worst i've ever seen i like lots of kind of movies sci fi action drama thrillers and sometimes even horror not a combination of two this could have been a wonderful movie but they all blew it up i didn't want to see this movie but friends of mine insisted to watch it i didn't know it was such a crap i loved the first part in which clooney and tarantino drove through texas killing everybody on their way especially the scene with the liquor shooting was excellent but at its turning point in the titty twister bar everything changed stupid vampires took over the place and what could have been a perfect gangster movie became a stupid horror movie like 'nightmare on if you like horror watch a real horror movie and when you love thrillers don't watch it at all you will be very disappointed at the end
0	this is the worst italian movie ever quite possibly the worst movie of all time joe d'amato is of course no cinematic genius but many of his movies are interesting and watchable unfortunatly this is not one of them its cheesy and boring waaaaay boring if you want a movie to mst3k get troll 2 if you want a movie to put someone into a coma get deep blood
0	this film is simply appalling how the talent involved made this is beyond human belief they must have been boozing when they thought of this idea i feel as if 2 hours of my life have been taken from me harvey will try and distance himself from this rubbish it should have been a great crime movie but it develops into a gory mess of vampires i would recommend this film to people who like to sleep through movies you wont miss a thing the humour is set to appeal to the lowest common dominate movies can uplift us and remind us that life is worth living this film just depresses you as deniro said in one movie the saddest thing in life is wasted talent this film is a perfect example of this statement
0	warning i advise anyone who has not seen the film yet to not read this comment br br when i first started to watch this movie my expectations were it was a vampire movie that is going to be awesome considering how rodriguez and tarantino both helped make the film i began about 15 minutes into it and already my hopes for this movie were down the drain which shocked me first the story it was going with was not at all appealing in anyway possible and just flat out boring and uncompelling to the point where i just wanted to turn it off i was getting more frustrated with this movie as it dragged on but i guess i had hopes that it would get better then when it finally showed vampires it blew my mind in a very bad way i thought okay this movie started with some horrible story about these two criminals then very slowly turned into some vampire movie which i thought it was going to be from the beginning in like the last 30 minutes to add on to that they try to make the main characters all cool and awesome and mean around the end when they're just not a bunny would've been more intimidating than these characters this movie is a horrible piece of crap from dusk till dawn disgraced me and left a terrible taste in my mouth disheartening thoughts in my head and left my body unable to move from the horrible shock that i just wasted 108 minutes of my life away on a horrendous film i do not understand how george clooney quentin tarintino cheech marin and danny trejo all being the good and honorable actors that they are could take part in this useless filth in my opinion from dusk till dawn is one of the worst movies ever made that i have suffered my eyes on do not see it you'll be doing a great favor
0	i love dissing this movie my peers always try their best to defend it probably out of love for quentin tarantino or harvey keitel but they'll never convince me that this one should be treasured here's some huge reasons why a the plot goes from kidnapping road trip movie to vampire inhabited strip bar slasher flick with no set up whatsoever suddenly something very real turns into something very fake which is like sitting the audience down to a thanksgiving feast then exploding it with dynamite b that untalented juliette lewis is in it c preposterous ideas abound such as actual torso and leg guitars brothers with the last name gecko bad vampire make up jobs cheech marin playing three characters and a crotch based gun that only fires when erect and belongs to a guy who goes by sex machine if robert rodriguez didn't pathetically try to be so innovative with his violence i might've had fun with this obvious popcorn flick the whole like he got the ideas by playing with action figures the only thing even close to being considered my favorite scene is george clooney's laugh out loud cheesy monologue after he kills his blood sucking horny for children terrible acting brother i swear i think they thought it up right then and there this movie's out to offend and ends up offending those who want the offensive horrible movie
0	what could have been an excellent hostage movie was totally ruined by what apparently looks like a bored director there were so many directions that the movie could have taken a vampire slash fest was not one of these the last 45 mins or so results in the movie being an absolutely ridiculous waste of time and sex machine you gotta be kidding me the acting talents of the likes of juliette lewis and harvey keitel not to mention george clooney are completely wasted in this nonsensical movie br br the director robert rodriguez known for his other gory flicks including el mariachi desperado once upon a time in mexico and the very recent sin city really holds your attention with the well executed first half which leads you to believe that you are in for an entertaining time but then apparently for no reason and without any provocation the madness starts there's even feeble attempts at parody and comedy truly exasperating
0	just what is the point of this film it starts off as one film then changes track cheating us of a resolution to that film and ends as another movie which is nothing but a pale pale imitation of so many other schlock horror flicks you've ever seen the overall impression is confusion in every respect and a great deal of hubris screenplay by tarantino direction by rodriguez two guys who have previously shown talent but who now seem to believe their own hype and assume that whatever they do must be good merely because they did it but it doesn't quite work that way you're only good while you continue doing good things there are so many questions to ask just what are george clooney and harvey keitel doing getting involved in such pointless dreck clooney initially makes an intriguing bad guy — utterly ruthless and efficient — and it would have been interesting to see where that was going but of course we never do and the clooney of the vampire film changes into a completely different character that's not clever or witty that's just bad bad work keitel looks thoroughly ill at ease throughout and no wonder did no one in the studio take a look at the script before this project was given the go ahead tarantino is utterly unpleasant as a murderous sexual deviant and why did he as writer assume we would find the rape gruesome murder and butchering of an inoffensive hostage funny on every level — except the technical — this film stinks avoid
0	this was not a good movie why do you people keep saying that there is a nice little story going on and then some sexy girls and then bam vampires why why are there vampires where did they come from also what the hell there are all of these super human vampires but george clooney and three other random guys dominate all of them quickly too it's not like there was a long fight scene with lots of struggle there was just three dudes from the bar killing these vampires like a fat man kills twinkies the next thing you know clooney and the stupid girl are rescued by cheech and leaves the family less homeless in the middle of mexico end of story literally oh and the strip club was an aztec temple which is funny because that would have to be southern mexico not the border why are you people lying and telling people this is a good movie do not rent buy or even watch this movie at a friend's house you will wish you had that time of your life back
0	i watched this movie with no idea what it was about beforehand i was intrigued for the first whole hour it was shaping up to be a great thriller a very talented cast and good dialogue then it all fell apart for me at the sight of the first vampire i couldn't believe my eyes a great thriller was flushed down the toilet the rest of the movie from that point was totally awful br br i gave it 4 stars for the brilliant beginning alone i think that's a little generous but i was entertained for a while i'm not a fan of vampire or zombie movies at all if you are then you may disagree with my opinion
0	it's not funny it's not interesting it's not well shot you don't care about the characters not one single one of them there's nothing that engages you in the narrative flow you really could care less what happens big big waste of time and talent
0	i saw on broadway and liked it a great deal i don't know what happened with the film version because it was dreadful perhaps some dialogue that works on stage just sounds incoherent on screen anyway i couldn't wait for this film to be over the acting is universally over the top only kevin spacey has it together and he seems like he knows he's in a bad movie and can't wait to get out
0	acting 10 script 1 is from that unfortunate postmodern school of theatre that has declared anything resembling a story or plot is forbidden while people may get away with this on stage on film it becomes deadly or at least deadly dull we're left with a bunch of great actors spouting dialogue that while brilliantly written adds up to nothing even worse every character speaks with the same voice despite their backgrounds the only attempt to differentiate is to have teen waif anna paquin use the word ain't br br never mind that the characters are unsympathetic losers to the extreme the camera work is plain sloppy and for la residents the attention to geography is laughable hint the view out sean penn's front window is about eight miles away from the view out his back window and you can't drive south through hollywood and wind up in pretending to be burbank okay suspension of disbelief and all that and normally i wouldn't pay attention to little things like that because they are just vagaries of production but the fact that they did stick out so much despite the thespian pyrotechnics on screen says a lot about the weakest element of this enterprise the script br br in short skip this one even on video picked the wrong quote from the scottish play for his title would have been better named a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing a bit long for the marquee perhaps but at least it would be honest advertising
0	this movie is crappy beyond any limits it's incredible a very bad ripoff from jaws and other better shark movies a really bad one everything is really pathetic the story is purest crap actors are bad effects very cheap no creativity whatsoever it looks like some really children took jaws script and arranged it randomly then its parents took their 8 mm camera and shot the movie with their neighbors the music is really inappropriate just some elevator music bland and overly optimistic when nothing happens then slightly less optimistic when shark is around or when children gets depressed again listens to very loud elevator music carlo maria the author should be so ashamed he should ask for his name to be erased from the titles the movie acts as perfect demonstration how crappy music will destroy any scene which is supposed to be thrilling there is one major difference to jaws though in the beginning of jaws there are comments about stupid people who try to kill shark with dynamite well there is an attempt to kill a shark with dynamite when this does not work guys take an big load of dynamite and spent like 1 4 of movie by placing explosives in some sunken ship this is really original way to catch the fish i have to admit they use so much dynamite like they would try to kill a battleship i would guess bismarck class of battleship or to dig another panama channel this is just incredible i'm glad they did not try to use napalm flamethrower or tactical nuclear strike to eliminate this bad bad approximately 2 m shark well there is mystic disappearing native indian who looks like german pensioner too in this mess this is not a movie this is a warning example how bad the movies may be as a warning it is useful but the public should be protected from this crap most of italian movies is bad but this this is really exceptional in the worst sense of the word
0	isaac florentine has made some of the best western martial arts action movies ever produced in particular us seals 2 cold harvest special forces and undisputed 2 are all action classics you can tell isaac has a real passion for the genre and his films are always eventful creative and sharp affairs with some of the best fight sequences an action fan could hope for in particular he has found a muse with scott adkins as talented an actor and action performer as you could hope for this is borne out with special forces and undisputed 2 but unfortunately the shepherd just doesn't live up to their abilities br br there is no doubt that looks better here fight wise than he has done in years especially in the fight he has for pretty much no reason in a prison cell and in the final showdown with scott but look in his eyes seems to be dead inside there's nothing in his eyes at all it's like he just doesn't care about anything throughout the whole film and this is the leading man br br there are other dodgy aspects to the film script wise and visually but the main problem is that you are utterly unable to empathise with the hero of the film a genuine shame as i know we all wanted this film to be as special as it genuinely could have been there are some good bits mostly the action scenes themselves this film had a terrific director and action choreographer and an awesome opponent for to face down this could have been the one to bring the veteran action star back up to scratch in the balls out action movie stakes br br sincerely a shame that this didn't happen
0	a complete and utter waster of my precious two hours the entire movie could have been made in less than 60 seconds by simply showing people getting coked up a car crashing people getting more coked up people having sex people crying and people getting more coked up the tagline for this movie should have read come see how f up our characters are they're stoned they're coke addicts they're a mess who are these people do you really care does it matter just give us your money please because we sure don't care about anything else an absolutely terrible movie it never went anywhere you never got to know the characters they never even said what these people did to earn such a big house and so much money and cars and coke and it was just downright boring you might like the movie a little more if you're a stoner yourself but for the vast majority of us that aren't this movie is a waste of film and of time
0	i watched as a second choice after affliction was sold out i have never seen so many people walk out of a movie sean penn kevin spacey and chazz palminteri can do nothing to save this coke snorting endlessly pedantic bad mamet wannabe
0	that's what i felt like yelling as well as stomping out of the theater but i restrained myself yes the acting was great no this wasn't the typical hollywood film but the dialogue just wouldn't end or get interesting and despite all the gabbing you never get to really know or care about any of the characters definitely the most boring film i've seen since sphere but i was expecting that one to be boring i had to sit through it but please spare yourself
0	i sat uncomfortably through this film becoming more and more staggered at just how it got made at all the script itself makes the acting look embarrassing and it fundamentally becomes a waste of time for everybody concerned if you avoid seeing one film this year make it this one
0	did someone find the plot somewhere in the film perhaps it is the thing missing in this pretentious exercise of cinema about cinema it is quite surprising that gordon says that a movie without a plot is nothing it is possible that characters have more to say that the own wim wenders was this phrase in the original plot or the actor decided to send a hint to the director
0	this film brought a whole new meaning to that well worn phrase 'like watching paint because this was 'like watching paint dry in the middle of a br br i was attracted to the film by its location on the west coast of portugal which i have visited it is a ruggedly beautiful place and the black and white introduced a whole new dimension to the beauty that was the only good thing the story was appallingly banal and frankly you have to have some story br br a film crew runs out of film and the entire crew then have to wait well a wait is a wait i can wait for a number 15 bus on princes street in edinburgh i can spend hours on a remote railway station in the middle of nowhere on cold winter's sunday afternoon however a wait is boring and yes this wait was boring too br br so the leader goes off to america to with the film supplier who castigates him for not making the whole thing in colour after a number of arguments two blessed bullets ring out from wherever and the eagerly awaited end finally arrives and not before time br br yes i would see this film again if someone arms me with a couple of cans of colour film so that i can hurl them at the screen
0	director delbert mann was a much better director than this film indicates he directed all quiet on the western front that touch of mink and the last days of patton among others this mediocre made for television retelling of dicken's masterpiece is so bad even those unfamiliar with the often filmed tale will be unsatisfied br br besides the fact that the movie is available from only two known suppliers brentwood and bci eclipse the poor quality of the transfer and the scratchy and muddied sound track make the task of finding this film on video not worth the effort br br i have always believed that if a company is going to put a film on video and charge the public money to buy it then they should at least have a descent copy of the film and do a good job on the transfer unfortunately neither of the two suppliers have such a work ethic and the result is only fit for the bargain bin in the local discount store br br the story is told mainly through flashbacks making the film episodic and talky much of the rich detail of the novel is lost in this translation the characters of martha and others have been cut and the relationship of young david and is not explored enough so we are left wondering why david would hang out with the guy br br the relationship between david the boy and young agnes is never developed and it is hard to understand why she and david eventually marry since martha is left out it is a mystery how dan peggoty finds his niece and the absence of makes david a very lonely fellow br br some have credited this film with doing a good job of the lengthy novel i disagree this is at best a hatchet job on the book anyone who has seen the 1935 george cukor version will agree br br the performances in that version by fields as micawber and rathbone as murdstone are definitely worth the trouble of watching it and the more recent masterpiece theatre version april 2000 and hallmark 2000 versions are both outstanding achievements in made for television adaptations of classic novels directors simon curtis and peter medak who are responsible for those films are deserving of the highest praise br br my final comment on david copperfield 1969 is don't buy it there are several much better versions of the film available if it is on television turn the channel to something else it is a waste of one hour and twenty minutes of your life sorry folks but i can't praise such an appallingly bad film
0	this version of david copperfield is dreadful from start to finish i knew we were in for a wasted evening's viewing when a rather silly to the point of embarrassment attenborough and olivier camp it up as two baddies it was all downhill after this aunt betsy was adequate but had none of the eccentric flair she was noted for the worst of the worst was the producer's choice for uriah this was the music hall version of this character previously and admirably played by roland young and what was all this self absorbed angst from david dickens must have rolled over in his grave to see his favorite child turned into a wimp weeping in his beer br br this was one time when hollywood knew more than jolly old england
0	one only has to read the cast list and credits to salivate in anticipation of this david copperfield but alas alas how so much major acting and directorial talent could have turned one of literature's richest tales into such a monumental bore is totally beyond me it's pretty to look at with lovely photography particularly the sequences but just plain dull no need to go on skip it and check out the selznick or the marvelous bbc mini series from the 1980's
0	as much as i love the story of david copperfield i cannot claim to have enjoyed this movie it was probably the second worst movie i have ever seen one problem i see is that the magnitude of the novel asks for a miniseries of several hours rather than a regular movie it is just impossible to capture a significant amount of the events that take place in the story in two hours i dis not enjoy the brooding flashback format it was disjointed and would be impossible for someone who did not already know the story to fully grasp also i don't think the filmmakers interpreted personality correctly the idea of him strolling around on a beach moaning about his life seems inconsistent with the forward thinking nature dickens gave him in the novel agnes also bothered me she came across as a ditsy household decoration rather than a strong woman dora was perfect however this movie was fraught with problems and i wait eagerly for someone to make a decent screen version
0	the jaws rip off is the trashiest of the all the italian and director joe d'amato is second only to the great jess franco in the trash film production stakes put the two together and what do you get a gigantic piece of trash of course unfortunately it's not trash in the good sense of the word either as deep blood delivers more in boredom than it does in hilarity to the film's credit it does actually attempt something bordering on a plot but to take said credit away from the film the plot is rubbish it has something to do with a group of friends taking of an oath of friendship and then some indian curse that manifests itself into a shark or at least i think that's what was going on anyway the majority of the film is padded out with boring dialogue and 'drama' and the shark itself which lets not forget is the only thing we really want to see finds itself in merely a cameo role or not even that since most the shark is actually stock footage despite being a trash genre there are actually a lot of fun jaws rip offs but with this one joe d'amato makes it clear that he couldn't be bothered to even try and the result is what must be the worst italian shark movie of all time avoid this dross
0	while killing time on a saturday morning looking for lola came on hbo i decided to give it a shot even though the description of the movie looked pretty bad it was even worse than i could imagine the movie was incredibly unbelievable and there was absolutely no on screen chemistry between the lead actors that i found myself shaking my head almost every 10 minutes between mike lead actor in scenes in which he skips the bill at a fancy restaurant and where lola lead actress allows him to use her boss' house to fool his parents into thinking he's rich it was almost as bad as him daydreaming about people around him doing the macarena it was horrible and the two actors ultimately falling in love i kept wanting to change the channel but i was trying to give it every chance into becoming a cute love story with a few chuckles it never did in fact it became so bad that i decided to finish it just so i can claim that i watched one of the worst films ever made in it's entirety instead of being criticized for not giving it a fair chance the last scene where lola tries out for a dance part was the culmination of the movie she comes in late after getting married even that scene where mike tells the priest to hurry up and then just snatches the papers away claiming that it's done was in tune with the believability of this movie and then somehow convinces the judges to give her a look the two male judges are already put off with how late she is but after watching her waif around the stage ok she dances fine but not overly impressive everybody joins in including lola and mike's families other dancers that were there and cough even the judges bad horrible terrible it was so bad i had to write a review watch at your own risk
0	this movie was so frustrating everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time i at least thought i'd be able to stand it but i was wrong first the weird looping it was like watching america's funniest home videos the damn parents i hated them so much the stereo typical latino family i need to speak with the person responsible for this we need to have a talk that little girl who was always hanging on someone i just hated her and had to mention it now the final scene transcends i must say it's so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own what crappy dancing horrible and beautiful at once
0	james the king is a film that mystifies me i can't think what its meant to be for it's a story about a young man called elvis played by gael garcia bernal who gets an honourable discharge after 3 years navy service and then goes off to find his biological father and behaves with him and his family it's all rather sick really elvis worms his way into the family by seducing his 16 year old sister james it's rather impossible to identify with anyone in this film from here in middle england preacher father and bouncy joyful christian congregation i couldn't work out whether the film is meant to be them for their mindless beliefs or is the target the happy family and we are meant to think that's or is it just saying that some people are lost and just hell bent on destruction it's shallow we all know that bad things happen the interesting bit is to learn why but this film just gratuitously depicts a violence without ever the thinking that has led to it the king is such a lost opportunity there are some really interesting questions about honour the warrior code the changing concepts of valour honour killings in indian families and so on honour is a very varied concept but this film just adds nothing to the notion however paul the projectionist did more than his meagre role suggests the dvd projector showed all films in a green only hue and the only way to repair this was to get it sent to belgium he did this through christmas i think those postal workers and and paul went far beyond the call of duty and our reward was this dismal film but you might see it differently
0	i am an atheist with little love for certain aspects of christian fundamentalism br br that said this movie is reprehensible vile and transparent it only works on the level of the currently fashionable and tired hatred motif of white american christian fundamentalism had this movie been made about a fundamentalist jewish or muslim family or even a black christian family the outrage would have been palpable and the movie would have been roundly panned in all circles as it stands though it's ok and artful because white christian fundamentalists remain one of the last acceptable targets for garbage such as this br br and garbage it truly is if you want to see a quality film of a similar bent find and watch or review badlands nothing good was done in the king that wasn't done better decades ago in that masterful film br br as other reviewers note the characters are almost completely undeveloped in the king the lines are a snooze the cinematography is lackluster we've seen the tale of the sociopath done better 100 times this movie doesn't cut it for thoughtful viewers
0	if you are an insomniac and you cant get anything to get you to sleep i definitely recommend this movie if you are renting it for whatever other reason dont this movie is by far one of the most slow moving turtle motivated movies i have ever seen the only reason i rented it was because my brother wanted to for some odd and strange reason i cant even write about this movie anymore get it away from me
0	negative numbers are not available to convey how bad this movie is wooden acting coupled with a story line that has been rehashed dozens of times everyone in this movie should attend anonymous you would think an original story could evolve from the general concept young men at a prep school are tying to come to grips with the pearl harbor bombing it does raise interesting questions but the manner in which they are conveyed make it more of a joke the typical characters were present including the zealous jock and nerd glasses included i could not have been more uninterested in the wooden dialog and cliché characters upon the completion of the movie i had to throw the dvd in the trash stay far away from this dud you won't get the 90 minutes of your life back
0	i ordered this movie on the internet as it is very difficult to get turkish movies where we live i've heard so much about the tv series from my friends and practically everyone in turkey i was expecting to see a breakthrough in turkish cinema what a disappointment br br me and my husband who is an admirer of any movie with a bit of turkish landscape and turkish dialogues in it only watched it all the way through because we had paid 20 for the dvd well that was a boring way of wasting it br br it was confusing at times overacted whereas other times underacted the storyline was not only confusing but adding a gay man walking with his dog on the beach and using some toilet humor in the script to make it 'hollywood' didn't also work for me br br the american characters were almost too stereotypical that it was neither funny nor realistic and like another user mentioned the turkish customs and lifestyle was irrelevant br br the camera movements had no significance adding a few never seen in them in by the way and broken plates greek style only made the movie even more confusing br br i am ashamed of this movie and all the noise the press has made about it there are surely worthy movies made by turkish directors which deserve more attention and respect br br i give this movie 1 out of 10
0	has arguably become one of the best tv series to come out of turkey with its unique cinematography and visual approach to filming the series has gained a wide following base with rating records continuously broken personally i do not agree with singers becoming actors hence deniz the lead actor but i guess the figures speak for themselves br br in relation to the movie it was disgusting to see how much someone can destroy such a plotline years in the making this movie was able to oversee every descent story that existed within the series not only that the cultural mistakes were unacceptable with an idiotic scene involving the family members dancing greek style and breaking plates which does not exists anywhere within the turkish culture br br some argue the movie should be taken as a stand alone movie not as a continuation of the tv series but this theory has one major fall the way the movie was marketed was that it will be picking up where the series left off and will conclude the series once and for all so with that note in mind me and everyone i know would have asked for a refund and accepted to stand outside the theatre to warn other victims
0	the real problem with this story is that there's not much story to the story there's hardly any plot to speak of widower buys an electric grandma for his kids one kid resists electric grandma then finally accepts her then the kids grow up and grandma leaves really very little happens it's much more of a premise than a story br br moreover strip it of it's schmaltz and you have a story that had already done before and better the lonely same basic idea person initially can't accept the love of a robot because it's just a machine then eventually yields and comes to love the robot the biggest difference is that the lonely is much more powerful as both the protagonist and we the audience are shocked abruptly back to reality and forced to remember that in the end the robot really is just a mechanism br br i also find the story highly flawed in that the electric grandmother is just too perfect she's not only human she's super human she's wiser than a real person she has no traces of to her at all and she makes marbles appear out of thin air it frankly really chafes at credulity to think that she's a machine
0	perhaps it's just the format of this film a documentary but i believe that the movie would have been much better served by good actors and more solid dialogue the fact that the actors are also the business owners is a double edged sword they know better than anyone else the emotions and complexities of the business they were in but since they are not professional actors they do a very poor job of conveying those emotions and the documentary suffers there were some truly memorable scenes in this movie and lots of good lines but they were delivered so poorly that they will fade away with time and the only memory i will have of this documentary is that it had some good scenes which i can't remember br br watch this if you want a first hand account of the com bust and see what happened to the 99 of people in the industry who didn't become instant however be prepared for some nauseating camera work poor acting poor dialogue and an overall bad movie that epitomizes the era of the internet boom
0	parrots parrots i have been around this old earth longer than most and have seen nearly all the westerns that have have produced old west history is my passion comanche moon is one of the most poorly produced directed and acted stories i have ever seen there was very little historical accuracy but then it is obvious you were operating on a shoestring budget which br br played a distinct roll in this insult to intelligence i am happy that i this show it was bad enough having to sit and watch the movie plus put up with the inane commercials once again there was not one actor that came anywhere near convincing i kept hoping it would improve as the three days progressed wrong i'm ashamed to say i wasted 4 1 2 hours of what precious little time i have left
0	i'm sure there is a documentary amongst the ruins of this yawn fest somewhere given enough time maybe the producers could find it i do not connect with any of the characters this is a problem for a documentary that soon festers into a complete animosity bordering on hostility although because of the poor story flow i'm not really sure what is happening to them and what are the consequences of whatever it is they are trying to do the story and faces jump around so quickly it is very hard to completely understand what is going on the 3rd founder that takes them for is introduced so late into the film and tom have to fruitlessly to explain oh yeah this guy created the idea too and just when i thought i had a slight grasp on who all the tertiary characters were some crazy woman in ranting about getting a puppy what's up with that also did tom really have to give all those awkward speeches to the staff i can only imagine the boredom they felt when it was really happening actually i think i feel for them
0	i didn't care much for this it seemed too contrived for a documentary also the filmmakers seemed to steer me towards certain characters and yet i was completely unsympathetic towards the protagonist because of what they chose to show me of him br br this movie disappointed me because the story and the people were interesting yet the movie fell flat because of snappy editing that didn't allow the viewer enough time to understand each scene the developments in the story were glossed over in lieu of showing the men in boxers or other stuff that was incidental to the tale that they were telling br br i'd that you skip this one and just read up on this story
0	this is quite possibly the worst documentary i have ever seen it looked so amateurish chris was one of the directors of the war room which was a great movie albeit a little one sided but it looked beautiful com looked like it was shot in some guy's basement the quality was so pitiful that i couldn't stand watching it i saw about 30 minutes or so and i had to take it back to blockbuster and get something else i can't understand how something so amateurish some from someone like chris how the hell did this win any awards to begin with the war room definitely deserved an award as did another great documentary called both won awards this documentary looked like it was done by uncle joe who also does weddings on the weekends shaky dimly lit unflattering lighting bad sound a 10 year old could make a better film than that guy did
0	the ten steps has basically a reasonably good premise for a scary short but the execution is simply appalling the dialogue is terrible and the acting is of the kind so regularly witnessed in irish short films really really embarrassingly bad the girl has to go down the 10 steps of the cellar to change the blown fuse she telephones her father who is entertaining his boss at dinner the mother an actress with very questionable acting skills answers the phone and in a loud scolding voice tells her not to be ringing as dad is 'trying to impress his boss' the actress playing the boss's wife very successfully emulates the mother's poor acting when she tells them that their house is haunted the rest of the film consists of the father coaxing his daughter down the stairs on the telephone the ten steps employs the stock techniques in camera movement lighting and music that one would expect in a below average horror film poor
0	rko was trying to boost its starlet joan fontaine when they cast her as a flying nurse who is strong willed enough to make a doctor john beal come to terms with running away from responsibilities in this little programmer tcm aired it as a stepping stone in the career of joan fontaine br br fontaine is earnest and does an acceptable job nothing more and john beal is okay as her love interest but it's obvious that philip huston who has the appearance and cocky manners of a young james garner is the actor who should have shared top billing with fontaine whatever happened to this handsome actor why didn't rko promote him along with fontaine he showed skill as a light comedian br br these are the kind of thoughts that went through my head as i watched this rather tepid drama which never quite lives up to the stark promise of its title the story itself is rather tiresome only occasionally coming to life because of fontaine's spirited heroine br br she photographs prettily as the nurse and wears her serious expressions skillfully suggesting that there was more to be tapped at a future date beal never did go on to a distinguished career and his performance here shows why strictly lackluster br br but whatever happened to philip huston evidence here is that he should have had a worthwhile film career br br trivia note watch for dwight frye of dracula as the out of control patient aboard the airplane
0	this is the worst movie i have ever seen if i wasn't watching it for free i would have never finished it the creators of this film should be ashamed of themselves it seems like this is supposed to be a film in the vein of scary movie and date movie a terrible movie but 10x better than this one but failed miserably the only jokes in this movie seem to be based on slapstick a guy falls down someone gets hit by a bus etc none of the ideas are clever basically the worst premise for a movie ever the plot or lack thereof is completely retarded the plot seems to center around the coach and his family however there are so many other things going on in the movie it is completely ridiculous terrible terrible movie
0	back in 2002 when matthew lawrence did the hot chick i also saw drumline that day drumline wins by default if the had been released in march as planned the same time tmnt was released tmnt would've won by default br br granted matthew lawrence did a fine job portraying a quarterback he didn't have to resort to uttering dirty words which is a plus but when he started playing with his private parts as well as another football players and touching a girl's boob those were the minuses br br but the biggest minus that ticked me off is that every football player got to participate in the mock music video except matthew lawrence insert the price is right's losing horns another blown musical opportunity for him just because he's shy about doing music br br in the past matt has disappointed me many times super human samurai squad where he came so close to having a musical moment but ended up failing br br sure joey had a singing career with two albums to his belt and andrew's starting a music career of his own but it's very rare to find a matt musical moment the two that stand out would be on brotherly love where he played the guitar and sang pigeon on your car art which he wrote by the way and that romantic boy meets world moment when he sang this dame as time goes by br br matt you've played jocks too long why not make a musical comeback you have a good voice and i miss your musical side
0	we arrived at the theater too late to see rendition which was our intention and 'the was the only film that hadn't already started i had an inkling of how bad a film it was after reading the short blurb at the ticket counter the theater was empty when we arrived and only two other people entered before the film started br br the screenwriters and director threw every imaginable sports cliché at the audience without creating a single laugh not one during the entire movie think of all the football movies that have been made and the millions of dollars schools and fans spend each year on football and you realize how ripe it is to be parodied or lampooned if you add texas to the mix you ought to come up with the sports version of 'little miss sunshine' not a big yawn br br the first film that came to mind as we exited the theater was stop the music' by comparison this was stop the music' without bruce jenner valerie perrine or the village people br br if the film had a single grace note it was seeing matthew lawrence grown up
0	it was only a matter of time that a spoof would be made of sports movies and there are plenty of movies to be spotted which are made fun off but the biggest problem i had was the fact that it stays with recognizing movies the director and writers of the comebacks somehow forget to get creative while i must admit that i laughed at certain scenes the comebacks could have been so much funnier the actors forget to deliver their lines seriously and have a straight face throughout the movie a spoof demands this and that is the main reason why silly jokes work in movies like this because of the failure of the cast to do so the jokes never hit their mark some scenes take forever and normally in spoofs that doesn't have to be a problem take naked gun for instance their is always something happening on screen in the comebacks they didn't even bother to let stuff happening in the background only a couple of factors make this movie worth watching it still is fun to spot the movies that are made fun off and jermaine williams as ipod his parody on cuba gooding jr as radio was hilarious he seemed to be the only one in the cast to get the idea of what a spoof is about not entirely bad
0	a comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies the comebacks tells the story of an out of luck coach fields who takes a rag tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships in the process this life long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself saving his relationship with his family and friends and finding that there is indeed no i in team br br i decided to watch the unrated version for this film it was thirty minutes longer and i though it may be better than the theatrical release hearing that people hated this movie after all thirty minutes of extra footage can add a whole lot to a movie well i certainly was wrong it was as bad as the recent meet the spartans but it was thirty minutes more of torture br br seriously who makes a close to two hour spoof movie a spoof movie is short because if it goes any longer it would be overkill honestly i love stupid comedies heck i liked date movie white chicks epic movie and little man i guess when it comes to spoof movies it is either a hit or miss and this one definitely missed br br on the lighter side from the many jokes in this film i will say about six or seven made me laugh even some that made me laugh out loud but that's not saying much following those jokes were more scenes of torture and unfunniness br br i can't see how people would say this is not a terrible spoof film in fact there is as much product placement in here like meet the spartans there are as many dance sequences and unfunny jokes i will say another thing i like about this movie is the songs they are some very good songs in here overall watch it if you like spoof films skip it if you like funny films
0	it would be a shame if tommy lee jones and robert duval ever see this movie as they will probably be associated with it in years to come oh yeah the public will say moon' that's the mini series about the texas rangers and the comanche indians that starred tommy lee jones and robert duval it was a real stinker and probably the worst movie they were ever in i think it was a comedy but a not very funny comedy i really don't understand why they agreed to be in it that would be such an injustice as the original lonesome dove was a true western classic and this turkey is a real bomb and jones and duval will be remembered for it
0	do all spoof films require pure stupidity and a lack of any sort of intelligence whatsoever to the humour is there even just a single genuinely funny parody film anymore all i see are zero quality films that look like a couple stoned high school students got bored one day with a video camera these movies are not funny they're not clever they're not entertaining they're just useless in every conceivable way br br the comebacks was a movie that tried to hide its hideous level of trash by not calling itself sports movie it's the same thing though there are a few different writers for these films the wayans did some and seltzer did some others and i'm sure there's another pair i can't even tell the difference in direction or humour to be honest it all seems like the same people wrote and directed them i can't tell if the comebacks was done by the people who did scary movie or the guys who did epic movie or someone else it's just the same jokes from all the others br br if you have any shred of taste or value for humour don't see this movie if you have self worth don't bother seeing it if you have any respect for film making don't even consider watching it don't see it in any broke down derelict theatre that may still carry it don't rent it don't order it on netflix or pay per view don't it and don't even watch it for free on od avoid it like the plague br br the only conceivable reasons i can see to watch this film are as follows br br a masochism if you like torturing yourself there's very few better ways b seeing a prime example of why to avoid anything that says fox atomic c you're being paid considerably high amounts of cash br br i really would not watch the entire thing if someone offered me 100 to do it it's just mindless mental collapsing torment br br you might as well watch
0	for the record i hate spoof movies except for mel brooks and airplane because those are classics and make fun of the clichés not the actual movies itself i think that spoof movies are the bottom of the barrel for both comedy and film i especially hate things created by jason friedberg and aaron seltzer the geniuses behind date movie epic movie and meet the spartans br br i decided to give the comebacks a look since friedberg and seltzer had nothing to do with the production i was as objective as possible it was just like one of their movies it was basically every sports movie rolled into one with lame kindergarten jokes and disturbing images of bodily injury that's supposed to make me laugh and failed br br only someone high would laugh at these jokes toilet bowl who wrote this an 11 year old i was surprised to see that this was the creation of the producers of wedding crashers which was actually pretty decent but there attempt at the spoof genre was about as funny as a burning orphanage the only reason that i gave this two stars when it clearly deserved one was because friedberg seltzer had nothing to do with this
0	when i first saw the trailer for the comebacks it looked absolutely horrible and i had no interest in seeing it but when it came out on dvd today i figured since there was nothing else that caught my interest i would rent it and give it a shot i watched it and it really wasn't that bad i think it was immature and stupid at times but there were a few funny moments that made me laugh i don't really watch many sports movies so i wonder maybe if i saw more maybe this movie would make more sense to me but it's all good i still didn't mind so much watching the comebacks i admit these stupid spoof movies are lame but what's the harm in a stupid joke every once in a while the comebacks isn't really that bad if you give it a fair chance br br coach fields is failing in life family and career both but when he is offered a chance to bring his career back to life if he can bring a looser football team into the championship but the team is really really terrible like beyond terrible but with a little work and team effort they try to give it their all even though that might turn into something more sad br br the comebacks over all isn't the worst film i've seen i think it's good for a couple laughs and giggles i know that this was stupid but i couldn't help but laugh when the coach comes in the middle of a fight in the locker room and he's beating the nerd's head against the locker just him and the nerd in general were so funny together if you have an open mind and don't take this movie too seriously i think you'll have a fun time watching it if you watch it expecting it to be oscar worthy material this is not the movie for you br br 4 10
0	one would think that since this film has a bad rep that i would be exaggerating when i say i hated this film but i'm am serious this movie was just so stupid and so unfunny and such a waste of time i mean after the first 30 i had a major headache and the smile i had on my face that was mostly getting ready to laugh was wearing off when this film was over i was so glad and because i had good expectations that it would be funny i was extremely disappointed the acting is not great the comedy moments are lame and unfunny hardly anything is good about this because i laughed at like maybe 2 parts overall this is so boring and i can't tell you how awful this is i think this could be used as a suicide technique i mean i don't think for some its even watchable so my final words on this are avoid at all costs
0	1st movie comment ever i'll start with saying come on wasn't that bad was it no it that bad actually i laughed and giggled enough times through the movie so i cannot say with hand on my heart that it was rubbish br br it's completely different this and epic movie epic movie sucked bad doh how so people would ask i'll tell you how this movie is not as nearly as pointless not to mention that the stupid and i say stupid because it is but being stupid makes it funny stuff that happens around and with the characters is actually enjoyable in this movie not the best around but hey what would you expect look at the poster some people said it was stupid i find that when writing a comment one should be more objective my own opinion but yeah of course it was stupid it's a movie about stupid look i'm not telling you to go and watch the movie now or else you missed the event of the century what i am telling is that if you happen to see the movie somewhere please don't carve your eyes on the opening credits see what it's all about who knows you might like it a bit br br i give it 4 10 for not being so bad and making me laugh and some unexpectedly good sex related jokes
0	this movie is a terrible attempt at a spoof its attempts to parody various sports movies are half baked and not at all funny br br even things that should be funny like the female kicker from india who's always wearing traditional dress over her uniform aren't really funny the fact that the football team studies and gets good grades which makes the coach mad didn't get any laughs either br br the plot of having a traditional loser get one more chance by coaching a loser high school football team really had potential as a spoof it's a classic and trite sports theme but alas the screenplay was too weak for any cast to pull it off and this cast is no exception br br there is gratuitous use of women in bikinis and underwear so it's not all bad from that aspect br br but animal house or talladega nights this is not
0	there was nothing remotely funny about this movie it makes fun of various sports movies and clichés but nothing about it is remotely funny most of the movies they parody doesn't even fit in with the film and are really only their so they can be in it non the main actor was well cast in it but that's really the only good thing about this film also the various cameos in it were kind of cool to see but i have no idea why they would waste their time being in this piece of garbage thank goodness i only spent 4 on it as this is not something worth spending money on only watch if you have absolutely nothing to do or just want to waste an hour and 30 minutes
0	sometimes things should just not be made and while the set up seemed good enough it proceeds to only make the audience gasp in horror but the problem is its not another saw film its just so bad you wish you were receiving punishment from jason voorhees br br i lost track of how many sports movies and spoofs it incorporated into the film and generally it flopped in its attempts true telling his team they should fail every subject to be true players was somewhat funny at first but that grew tiring to watch that and the joke about radio and ipod br br overall i can't stand to watch this film again even is worth more than this d
0	if it would of had jack black listed as the leading actor i would of stayed away from this movie right away it actually makes some of his movies look good compared to this movie this movie should of been filmed as a cartoon for ages 3 8 and it would of been a lot better it is nothing but a bunch of the stupidest skits from other movies put together to make one big mess the movie looks like it was shot in about one day with no thought at all behind it there's a few times where it looks like maybe there's gonna be a turning point and the movie well actually have plot to the movie or at least a storyline would develop but the stupid skits inserted just ruin the whole movie
0	im sorry to myself you know why i feel pained from the viewing of this movie i went to the theater with some friends to see this movie and still did not give it the satisfaction of watching it in entirety i left with about 20 minutes left hoping to god it might make me at least comfortable for a moment most movies now even this bad ones when i watch them there may be a small part in the movie where i feel some joy at times because of maybe a quirky joke or a good line this movie on the other hand made me feel uncomfortable and mad at myself the whole time especially since i wasted money on it it was poorly written poorly directed poorly shot and definitely poorly acted br br please for the good of humanity do not see this movie even if your some guy who wants to say he has seen like every movie ever just don't
0	i watched all three segments and am so disappointed in the story line spends so much time mimicking duvall he does nothing else in the show and tommy lee jones would never be so weak as a young man unlikeable yes but weak never we never see how or why they go to back to lonesome dove which is a dirt hole in the original why would they ever leave austin where they are hero's for doing nothing during the whole movie i was rooting for blue duck by the end of the movie and he was totally miscast there is no warning about how many segments there are it just ends this mini series could have been somebody tragic it looked like it was directed by the parrot and the jag
0	the comebacks is a spoof on inspirational sports movies and let me just tell you it is not a good one tom brady the director probably found it hilarious that referencing sports films from gridiron gang invincible and even miracle to the longest yard and dodgeball yes dodgeball and tossing in a couple of sex jokes would be the funniest thing since airplane well he was wrong they did such a slipshod job you'd thought it was written in a week i have found it that if a director loves the genre the movie will be good obviously brady does not love the genre he is spoofing this movie is a rancid piece of garbage not worth viewing so don't see it
0	when i first saw the previews for this movie on tv i thought that this could be a funny movie i was wrong all though i am not totally against movies that make fun of others some are actually funny such as the first scary movie this was one of many that have been made as of late that are not the humor in this film was anything but funny and was rather dull br br i feel the one of the biggest problems is that they poked fun at to many movies such as varsity blues friday night lights stick it etc and if you are anything like me you try to pick out each movie instead of paying attention to whats going on in this one even the adult humor in this movie was dry do yourself a favor and save you money and time and rent don't rent this movie
0	the spoof genre which has lacked creativity and humor for some time already gets spat upon yet again by hacks with no talent no point no fun no originality just a few cheap bucks for the film makers br br it takes more than just referencing some recent movies and giving characters double meaning names to be satire to make people laugh any can pick up a cam corder and have some bad acting buddies in cheap costumes imitate somebody since the genre being targeted this time is inspirational sports movies there are a few lame references thrown out to movies of that type the jokes are so weak the characters actually have to emphasize the references in various ways to get you to laugh hysterically it doesn't work br br that's not comedy however the same old worn out sophomoric jokes ripped off from a middle school washroom done even more blandly than usual are all here if that's not enough there's a running gag of a bus running somebody over so funny right also one pathetically poor scene does more product placement than michael bay again with the same unfunny results a musical bit flops miserably pity carl once apollo creed in the rocky series now stuck with roles in swill like this br br lousy beyond words watching a snail run the marathon would be less tedious than watching this film is probably a lot funnier too
0	this movie is a nonsense spoof comedy in the lines of the airplane or naked gun but it doesn't even come close to this two because it lacks originality and a little more intelligent jokes rather then just throwing you with the same old easy jokes br br you can figure out some references to other movies from the top of my head i identified dodgeball and rocky so you can have some fun with that trying to find out what movies are spoofed br br the movie also offers you an occasional laugh but nothing that can cause you injuries thus nothing really funny br br i liked the character ipod in some ways even though some of the jokes with him are standard comedy 101 br br i think this movie and like most of nonsense spoof comedy depends on the mood you are in so if you think you will laugh to any joke watch this movie if you are in a serious mood forget about this re watch the airplane instead it will definitely make you laugh
0	with so many horrible spoof movies this is sadly a breath of fresh air to the genre compared to classics like airplane or the naked gun this is awful but compared to recent spoof movies like meet the spartans and disaster movie this is very clever and original don't get me wrong though this was not a good movie in any way i laughed a few times and there are a few inspired gags but any pop culture reference falls flat on it's face as does most jokes in the movie br br fields david koechner was a bad coach in the past but now he's brought back to teach college football and this time he'll do a good job his wife melora hardin is feeling distant from him and his daughter is dating a football big shot to spite her father spoofs of various recent movies come into play as do a lot of sight gags and nonstop stupidity br br the best parts of the movie are the gags not relying on reference to recent movies spoofs of radio rocky dodgeball friday night lights invincible and many other sports movies are not funny in the least it's mainly the smaller gags that get a few laughs like a bizarre crotch scratching scene or a chewing tobacco spitting joke these little throwaway giggles cannot carry the movie and by the end it's hard to watch the last 20 minutes are grueling to sit through br br the characters are surprisingly developed for a sports spoof movie however i'm sure the characters were built on clichés from the genre nonetheless they're not too bad david koechner can pull lead actor in a movie off too bad they gave him so much crummy material to work with matthew has fine comedic timing in a not always so comedic role as a ballet dancing football player with a cross dressing father carl rounds off the cast once again playing in a sub par sports movie not the rocky movies happy gilmore overall this is a goofy comedy at times it's funny but more often than not it's just very annoying and predictable br br my rating 1 2 out of 90 mins pg 13 for language sexual humor and drug humor
0	spoof films have come so far since mel brooks in 'the producers' 1968 said don't be stupid be a smartie come and join the nazi party it brought us delightful films such as 'young frankenstein' ' and even 'naked gun' but the good die young luckily the genre managed to make it all the way up to the end of the 90's and then the wayan's brothers unleashed the apocalypse 'scary movie' suddenly the word spoof was an innuendo for crude sex jokes most movies claiming to be spoofs since then have followed suit including 'scary movie 2' 'date movie' and the film to kill the genre movie' sure there have been some reliefs there was 'shaun of the dead' and 'hot will has become a vehicle spoofing close to every sport imaginable also the wayans brothers quit the 'scary movies' and they have been made by the dependable zucker brothers while these films have held some value in the rescue the genre is tragically doomed to be films only loved by prepubescent males who just discovered what an erection is people who haven't explored the term and cut and paste movies together for a quick laugh no heart no brain just cheap glue sadly 'the has been added to the list dave koechner who starred in alongside ferrell leads a teams of underdogs to win against a coach carl of 'happy fame who got him back into coaching koechner has shown promise as a supporting actor but as a lead in this film he just sounds scripted he sounds too much like he's doing a cold read passionately also the jokes about being a washed up coach who through the course of the movie encourages the team to fail in school and later runs from the police in his underwear have been done before yes this is a spoof film but let us remember that even spoofs can have quality give the characters dignity and a sort of sophisticated view on modern society also the reliance on stereotypes is not going to get us any more laughs who knew one movie with jive talking people could lead to gangster stereotypes not really but you see while i will admit to laugh at least a few times it wasn't on par the football team within itself had a lot of stereotypes including a mexican a cocky jock a fat guy the scrawny nerd and the mentally handicapped aid even the only female on the team got reduced to stereotypical female humor being mostly scantily clad and giving off innuendos in fact her character as well as most of the others never developed it's a sad state of affairs for this movie if only it wasn't so reliant on stupid sex jokes it could've made something for itself in fact this movie will probably be the butt of jokes alongside movie' for time to come koechner really deserved better the script in general was poorly conceived even naming the championship 'the toilet so yes spoof movies are dying there is a movie called 'meet the spartans' be ahead of the trend boycott now coming out that includes a spoof on britney spears' breakdown so let those kids keep getting erections but people grow up and lose them we need one day they will learn to stop spoofing spoofs and restore them hopefully one of the heroes will be 'get made by the master mel brooks coming out next year br br rating 2 out of 5 stars
0	i lay the blame for the comebacks on anyone who enjoyed date movie and epic movie you people encouraged the fox studio to keep on churning out desperate parody films and now we're faced with what just may be the laziest and most desperate one of them all the comebacks barely qualifies as a parody heck it barely qualifies as a movie this is a comedy in theory but not in execution no one not even the people involved with this mess could have possibly fooled themselves into thinking they were making a funny movie director tom brady the hot chick has made something truly wretched here br br the plot if you can even call it that centers on a man named fields david koechner right when i heard his name within the first couple seconds of the film i knew i was in for a long movie funny names are seldom funny and become even less funny the more you hear them is one of the worst coaches in the world but he's been given another chance by his best friend freddie wiseman carl to coach a ragtag high school football team called the comebacks must not only lead the team to victory but also teach them the ways of inspirational sports movie clichés he expects his kids to have poor grades and problems with alcohol and ridicules them when they don't when it looks like the team has a chance to play at the big championship toilet bowl game did 10 year olds write this script is shocked to discover that freddie is the coach of the big rival team that his team will be playing against turns out freddie only encouraged to take the coaching job because he wanted the comebacks to lose br br the comebacks is a movie so forced and pathetic i almost had a hard time believing what i was watching spoof movies have recently turned into a game of spot the movie reference and this continues the tradition it tries to squeeze in as many references to other sports movies as it can but it either does absolutely nothing with them expecting us to just point at the screen and laugh out of familiarity or it attempts to be funny and falls flat on its face some of the films referenced include field of dreams bend it like beckham rocky balboa friday night lights stick it radio miracle remember the titans gridiron gang invincible and dodgeball a true underdog story but wait wasn't dodgeball already a parody of inspirational sports movies so in other words we're watching a parody of a parody of inspirational sports movies if that makes any sense to you you're just the audience this movie is looking for some of these films are referenced in the plot and some like the rocky one are just thrown in for no reason because the filmmakers wanted to try to reference as many films as possible there are some that the movie even feels the need to explain to us in its dialogue just in case we've missed the obvious reference you know a movie is in trouble when it has to spell out its own jokes to us br br the worst thing is that the screenplay by tv veterans and first time screen writers ed yeager and joey doesn't even know the first and most important rule of parody you have to play it straight the actors have to pretend they're not in on the joke the reason why the classic zucker brothers movies like airplane top secret and the naked gun are remembered so fondly is because they cast serious actors like leslie nielsen yes he was a serious actor before he turned to comedy and robert stack and then threw them into ridiculous situations what made it funny is that they acted like they weren't in a comedy and kept a stone face to the weirdness around them those films wouldn't have worked if they played their roles broadly the comebacks proves this as all the actors are forced to play their roles so goofy it's like they're screaming at us to laugh david koechner keeps on flailing his arms bulging his eyes and screaming at the top of his lungs to the point he looks like someone who knows he's trapped in a dead end comedy and just tries too hard to pretend he's having a good time the movie also doesn't understand the art of celebrity cameos also an important factor when it comes to parody films what kind of cameos do we get in the comebacks andy dick and dennis rodman br br by the time the movie throws in an out of nowhere and extremely pointless cast musical number to journey's don't stop believing for absolutely no reason whatsoever i was just about ready to walk out the theater door i was the only person at my screening and the thought of this movie going on its pathetic way to a completely empty house kind of appealed to me i did sit through the rest of the comebacks and i was not rewarded for my efforts the sad thing is fox is not yet done killing the spoof genre they have a parody of 300 coming out next year called meet the spartans i'd say it can't be much worse than this but i've seen the trailer and i wouldn't want to get your hopes up
0	this film would be a great piece of history if in fact it was a real film of the kennedy assassination the are far too many mistakes in this film for me to point out it is a film of the kennedy assassination but many of the important facts have been altered there are missing scenes and many of the scenes after the president's limo passes the sign don't fit in both kennedys move noticeably slower then the other four people in front of them next time you watch this film look for things that don't add up such as the texas gov and his along with the ss men in the front lunge forward but you can see that the limo is not stopping or slowing down in fact is is accelerating this film is clearly an attempt at a cover up
0	this is the worst hindi film i have ever seen it conforms to all the stereotypes of bad hindi films the plot is ridiculous the acting over the top and shah rukh manages to fit in a couple of song sequences even though he is playing the character of a dumb man
0	there are times when less than halfway through a movie i start to wonder what the creators were thinking that made them decide not to burn every reel of footage and instead release a movie that has no real merit of any kind and i mean any kind this movie doesn't even hold up as made for cable porn in fact heaven's tears is completely and utterly boring and at times a bit disturbing in its naivete the girl who is as i recall eighteen masturbates while thinking of an older nazi who hit her with a car the bumping into her in the hall as a way of introducing ourselves syndrome from sitcoms and robert films then on their second or third meeting get this he is the shy one the one who is resistant to the girl's sexual advances and yet all she has to say is i'm old enough i'm want to and he takes her to bed then after sleeping with this girl he hardly knows he feels completed as if he could die right there in the bed with her and he'd have lived a full life it's like lolita without a shred of social and personal commentary br br the cinematography is the most boring part of the movie no interesting angles or originality at all not even for the sex scenes which are supposed to be the main draw for these kinds of movies the masturbation scene is just a camera circling the girl's bed very fake looking as if it's on a stage and it's with her fantasy of the man taking a shower in a waterfall the i am completed scene is just a close up of the girl's right side head down to her breasts with the guy on top of her and it's the same shot for the whole time even though there are repetitious cuts to a fairly unrelated scene of the nazi's older sister who has some kind of incestuous crush on him she's ridiculous and silly so it doesn't matter i think the whole thing lasts five to ten minutes and it's neither enlightening nor arousing
0	lonesome dove is my favorite western second only to the searchers with john wayne i watch lonesome dove about every 6 months and never get tired of it i have read all the ld books although i cannot remember much of comanche moon i too looked forward to this mini series and decided to tape it on our dvr so we could fast forward through commercials unfortunately i messed up and didn't record the first part but decided to watch the other parts and try to pick up br br there is nobody that can ever compete with robert duvall or tommy lee jones and i was expecting to be disappointed and i was br br although there were so many things that didn't ring true the most apparent to me was when nellie died the day before and gus was out on the range it switched over to clara writing him a letter from nebraska telling him how sorry she was to hear of her death how in the world could she have known the next day way out in nebraska additionally it was supposed to be 7 years later after her leaving and her children looked to be about 6 7 years old maybe a little younger yet more time went on before they actually moved to lonesome dove and in lonesome dove they had been there about 10 years or longer before leaving to montana when they stopped at clara's in nebraska which probably took another 6 months on the trail the girls looked to be about 10 13 since they were playing in the yard like little children the math just does not add up br br i agree that the man who played gus had a lot of his mannerisms and looked a little like gus may have looked as a young man br br i am also a little confused about one thing the captive white girl that they brought back was she the one they captured when they raided austin they said she had been captured 25 years ago but if she was the one captured in austin it was only 7 years later when this took place in the movie was she captured earlier i remember seeing a captive girl after they raided the town and don't know if this is the same one if someone can explain since i missed part 1 if it had been 25 years she would probably be over 40 years old when they found her since she looked to be grown lying on the ground also the way they were ravaging her when they captured her it is hard to believe she would have lived to go on to be married and having indian children br br i have to admit though nothing is worse than john voight playing call in the sequel to lonesome dove or the unbelievable marriage of to pea eye in the sequel to lonesome dove which was never explained either also the way he killed newt off was i hear from spite for them doing the sequel with john voight without his approval br br if anyone can clear up these discrepancies i would appreciate
0	i chose to watch this film because i am a stephen nichols fan unfortunately i am unhappy with mr nichols' choice to do this movie the film was slow badly acted and included some very graphic sex scenes of mr nichols' character with a very young woman watch at your own peril
0	your idol will deceive you in this movie stephen nichols is mis cast as a young german student still bending under his father's orders although the actor obviously looks near 40 years old this makes his relationship a collection of copulation scenes basically to a very young looking girl all the more disturbing the character's have no dimension and the war depiction serves only as a backdrop for this soft porn wannabe nichols who is one of daytime tv's best performers shows no passion in what is to be the main interest of this movie watching him have sex over and over with this girl it's like watching two animals going at it if you're a fan of this actor's talent in other projects don't rent this for you will never view him in the same way if on the other hand you want to see stephen nichols have an orgasm in front of the camera you might like it stephen will show you his naked butt lots of tongue work his groaning range but not his talent as this character who's obviously just as sex driven and misjudging as he was for wanting to do such personal things in front of the camera he may have found it kinky but i didn't a big deception
0	dictated by thin experience of both life and industry and no cash sofia coppola's early short is almost by necessity an observational piece set on a high school campus the cast are rather weak and do not benefit from being shot in b w it's difficult to tell the characters apart the sound editing does little to help a simple story of fickle teenage allegiance br br yet there are one or two things to note the inconsistent editing the high school campus is filmed with a balance of aspirant wide and intimate close up shots the editing to music also creates an interest and momentum without descent into the netherworld of the music video coppola clearly made an attempt to vary the pace of the film the dramatic turn is cut fast and to the point and the second act is almost non existent we recognise it's actually been played out in tandem with the first which is the point of the narrator on crutches trope who is an otherwise curiously appended character in that first act br br despite these notes it's an awkward short 2 10
0	well i must say i initially found this short to be quite average but having watched it nearly 5 times since its constantly shown on ifc i've developed an enjoyment of the simple plot elements and reality of the situations presented sofia coppola contributes a solid addition to the category
0	although this has to be the nadir of season six this schmaltzy episode isn't badly written or acted it's just that most of us looked to the x files for taut gripping horror thrillers ending without easy answers and moving toward dark but conspiracies season 6 gave us a stream of tongue in cheek comedies that undermined the show's continuity and frankly made simpsons' halloween specials look like great thriller tv br br in this episode victoria jackson of snl fame plays the long suffering girlfriend of a man who sets himself up as a rainmaker however her weatherman boss is the one who truly loves her and mulder winds up having to provide him dating advice in order to get out of town br br there's some playful fun with the chemistry between the agents and some amusing but none too sophisticated characterization of midwestern hicks it's nothing you'd want to see more than once br br it's hard to figure out season 6 x files creator chris carter seems bored by the whole story arc and abandons responsibility to the black comedy writers
0	ok this simply is the worst movie ever made period horrible acting sets and music ok everything sucks in this movie i almost forgot the special effects are great also so if you like bad movies watch this it can surely make you laugh
0	prey br br aspect ratio 1 37 1 br br sound format mono br br a lesbian couple sally faulkner and glory living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man barry who turns out to be a flesh eating alien the vanguard of a massive invasion br br despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing norman j warren's follow up to satan's slave 1976 amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff apparently his only writing credit faulkner and indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v eye catching cinematography though discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one or both of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed which may explain the absence of their respective families some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and under mysterious circumstances unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because is attracted to him creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence there's an extraordinary multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to their clueless visitor by dressing him in women's clothing though alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery br br in the early scenes at least the relationship between faulkner and is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity but this heartfelt liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and culminating in an explosion of horror when allows herself to be ravished by following a violent argument with faulkner the closing sequences are quite literally gut wrenching especially final scene which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in 1977 and never fully restored what remains is still pretty vivid so brace yourselves excellent performances by the three leads bolstered by warren's unobtrusive direction which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations thereby compensating for the film's budgetary shortcomings originally released in the us as alien prey
0	a genuinely odd surreal jumble of visual ideas which probably looked extremely puzzling on the printed page just what drew robert redford to the project one may never know sidney j furie directs this knockabout journey of an egotistical motorcycle racer taking a milquetoast juvenile under his wing the kid looks up to this anti hero and eventually begins to ape his amorality disjointed and off putting though for some the sight of redford disrobing about to disrobe or having been disrobed might be enough to warrant attention lauren hutton gets naked too however all the sexy flashes are just teasers for the prurient minded there simply is no story perhaps furie was making an esoteric comment about feckless wheelers and their flock circa 1970 if true then this pre blank generation approach backfired as the film was not a success 1 2 from
0	this appears to be two movies spliced into one in the first zasu pitts is a renegade in a small town she wants to help the romantic life of marjorie ok i'd never heard of her before either but she and pitts are in both parts of this concoction br br before we know it pitts is no longer miss polly she is i had to rewind to see if i'd fallen asleep somewhere i hadn't she no longer in a small town but on her way to the title honeymoon destination br br the movie has some cute moments the first part is better with roles for what seems to be every third rate character actress working in hollywood at the time br br and what of ms she sounds a little like betty hutton she sounds a little like marie wilson she's pretty certainly but she's no comedienne br br pitts often was used in very small roles here she has the largest role she's always fun though this movie made me wonder if a little of her doesn't go quite a long way as a comic when she was a tragic actress in von stroheim silents the wedding march and greed are the two i have seen she was brilliant
0	being a fan of zasu pitts comedies i thought this one looked like it was worth a try i was quite disappointed br br the version i saw was on tcm but consisted only of the niagara falls movie the miss polly movie was absent the talents of the actors who give fine performances is wasted on one of the stupidest stories i have ever had the misfortune of sitting through br br tom brown tom wilson surprised me by being the strongest actor in the show but the spotlight is by slim summerville sam sawyer who if he has any talent didn't demonstrate it here br br zasu pitts elly sawyer is great but doesn't have near big enough a part the biggest laugh in the movie is when she ends up under sam under a table br br the only one in the movie who has any sense at all is tom wilson margie marjorie is unreasonable in general while she is physically quite attractive her personality and attitudes make her completely undesirable elly sam and the hotel desk clerk are just complete fools br br sam and elly give up their honeymoon suite in the crowded hotel for tom and margie but then they take it back sam ends up imprisoning tom and margie in their room most of the movie is them trying to break out but sam using a rifle always puts them back again br br towards the end comes the worst part tom who is finally about to make good his escape runs into a minister on a lower floor of the hotel now the guy who as i said is the only one in the whole movie who has a head on his shoulders suddenly for absolutely no reason at all decides he has to marry margie br br he drags the minister up to the room he has just escaped from but margie doesn't want to marry him he gives her a kiss and now after one kiss she feels compelled to marry him br br finally sam has the nerve to say to tom you deceived me when practically the only line tom had to sam earlier was we're not married to which sam replied you think i'd believe that br br idiotic
0	wow as a big fan of larry western tales and the lonesome dove series in particular i was s o o o looking forward to comanche moon what a tremendous letdown maybe my expectations were set too high because of the all around excellence of lonesome dove the story the characters the cinematography the music it all worked br br comanche moon by comparison comes across like a bad saturday night live skit the characters are completely colorless the dialogue is babble and the plot meanders mindlessly all over the place it seems like the actors are all reading from teleprompters i couldn't relate to any of the characters good guys bad guys not even the incidental characters david performance stands out in particular it looks like it was plucked out of an eighth grade middle school performance i'm sorry i'd like to find something positive to say about comanche moon but i just can't do it there's nothing there
0	i don't understand why this movie was released it looked like something that you show your mates after you borrowed your mums handycam she bought in 1987 i am australian and work for a video store in the uk and thought that if an aussie film made it into our store it can't be all bad boy was i wrong br br if anyone writes a good comment about this movie they are either lying or the makers of the film br br the picture was bad the sound was horrible and the acting oh the acting it was the worst acting in the history of film br br it makes me embarrassed and offended that they used the word 'aussie' in the title because i am proud to be australian and this movie is seen in other countries and may give people the wrong idea br br please anyone who reads this and has seen this movie take the time to find other aussie movies to watch because you could choose any one of them and it would be better than that one br br i could have made a better film if i took a camera filmed my but for an hour ate the film waited for it to pass through my body then threw what came out at the television no offence br br do not watch this film
0	the reason why i gave this movie a 4 was for a couple reasons but this movie was not that bad first off the editing i found too be pretty poor at times the script or what they had of one was not very good and if not for la bianca the acting would have been crap but all that aside ha ha i know its like the whole movie its not that bad for an extremely low ind low budget film if they would have gotten more money a little better actors but these ones were intimidating so it was good and a little more detailed script this movie would be terrific somebody has to tell me this guy was influenced a lot by the warriors by walter hill i mean this movie is exactly like it anyone who has seen both those films will agree with me
0	this film could have been great but wasn't amongst the cesspool of talentless no hopers and friends of the film makers who wanted to help out there are some mild inklings of talent the main star of the film plays a good lead role he is convincing and has those scary italian eyes however he is teamed up with the worst rejects of actors anyone has ever come across the opening scenes of the film are among the worst and most embarrassing it looks like gay porno fortunately no one stripped off the rape scene that keeps being mentioned is rubbish the prison sequence was the best part of the film although irrelevant the movies soundtrack if you can call it that sounds like a teenage boys first attempt at using and some sample cds it is boring repetitive and extremely lame in fact the whole film is lame get out while you still can
0	i'm not prone to ranting and my expectations were low to start with but how did this seem like a good idea just because you have a camera some big ugly friends for actors and delusions of talent does not mean that you should go out and make a film this should have been the cinematic equivalent of singing in the shower i e it should never have seen the light of day however somehow this rubbish found a distributor to help it escape the confines of a 3 by 4 foot cubicle it goes from bad to worse talk about low budget one torture scene consists of a guy getting a mug of coffee thrown over him while he's tied to a chair evidently this is very painful because the big baby proceeds to scream in agony maybe he ordered decaf the acting is worse than wooden i could possibly watch a tree for 30 seconds before becoming completely bored if you can look at this rubbish for that long you're a better man than i and the fight scenes would be at home on a kindergarten play yard do not touch this movie unless you enjoy pain in which case you should try spilling lukewarm coffee over yourself i'd like to say it's so bad it's good but really this is just awful
0	this film follows a very similar storyboard to the warriors only with less intensity and rather poor acting which is nothing to write home about br br the story in general is not that bad based around a small aussie gang who are trying to get out of the city when one of their members is framed for the rape of another gang's girl they then have to fight their way through the streets whilst they are been hunted down by a number of rival gangs on could assume that the writers have taken a page out of the warriors book and re written it but as mentioned above with not nearly as much intensity br br the acting as a whole is not very good in my opinion and it's clearly obvious on many occasions that they are indeed acting the fight scenes make up for this however but then the poor sound effects that go with them bring it back down br br this film has nothing on once were warriors br br low budget alright story poor acting nothing to write home about
0	this film proves a theory i have had for quite some time in australia as long as a film deals with the right topic it will be a success regardless of how terrible it is aussie park boyz could not possibly be any worse the acting is beyond terrible the plot is basically a poor warriors knock off and the filmmakers clearly have no idea about ethnic gangs in australia an irish gang in twenty first century sydney the last time any irish gangs were in australia was about a hundred years ago in the time of the tinkers but because it's about ethnic rivalry one of four topics guaranteed to be a success in australian cinema along with struggling families minority groups and the biography of a famous australian it won multiple academy awards i've always suspected that australian critics will lap up any rubbish that deals with these issues but part of me thought or at least hoped that they had their limits this film proves otherwise so to all you australian aspiring film makers out there don't bother putting thought into your film or choosing people who can actually act or even getting your facts right just write a script about some poor family trying to make ends meet or someone of a foreign race coming to australia and having to deal with racial prejudice and stereotypes or if you want to take a leaf out of these people's book some ethnic gang fighting some other ethnic gang that isn't actually plausible in the period the film is set and your film will win five academy awards regardless of how pathetic it is
0	within about 5 minutes in to the film the first fight scene i was watching i just could help but the lack of tension in the scene the cameras crossing back and forth really shows he had no idea what he was doing well actually the soundtrack shows that the best i no its a low budget film and your not going to get top 40 songs but at least get music that goes with the scene that isn't actually that hard acting well if i saw any i would gladly let you know the script was so badly written would now surprise me one bit of the guy directing wrote this piece of beep i will give the person one 10 10 and that was for the dvd cover because if i actually saw before watching this in a shop and it was like 10 15 bucks i would have bought it why well if you look at the front cover this actually well done you flip over to the back and you see that it has actually won awards now that is a very misleading thing because even in a small film festival i wouldn't ever believe in my life that this would win anything all i can say is wow if this was the best i wouldn't want to know what the crap in the film festival was like br br films that are this bad only have one good use and that is for a aspiring film maker to use as inspiration films like this are better tools then good films because with good film you almost know off the bat there is a good chance you wont make a film that good but if you use a film like this you can look at all the things they director or writer did wrong so you wont make the same mistakes and you have the added plus of looking at this film and saying if a piece of beep like this can get made then there is hope of anyone out there
0	everything about this movie is awful br br you can tell in the first five minutes that this movie is going to be terrible you can't however gauge how bad it's going to be br br we start the movie with a seemingly endless intro scene aided with gay music and no dialogue having the camera move up and down big guys who are trying too hard to look like doesn't provoke the slightest emotion br br what then starts seems to be one of two separate stories the first half of the movie consists of the going around competing in paid midnight fights with other ethnic groups the always win of course because they apparently lift weights and have respect it is in these scenes that we first get to see the degree of bad acting editing scripting and hatred for the people who funded this film br br eventually the main character and his mate get sent to prison the entire prison part of the movie is unrelated to what i assume is the plot and consists of a bunch of fights br br once out of prison 3 years for murder the main character and his mate reunite with the they then go to the other side of town and try to lay low because apparently everyone wants to kill them br br soon the get set up for the rape of another gang members girl and run around town fighting off hordes of different gangs this point of the movie can be compared to an arcade game as the simply run around and fight off enemies who seemingly get worse and worse as the movie goes on br br anyway the movie ends with some massive climatic fight scene in which the remaining the two main characters take on every gang they've fought so far apparently the other gangs don't have a problem uniting to take on the remaining the skinheads don't mind asians after about a million more people get beaten up by the invincible brothers the movie ends with the main characters heading home they don't make it home however because they are burned to death by the the thousands of angry film critics who storm the set and leave angry letters everywhere br br this movie may be more like a computer game then a movie because that would explain how two guys can take about a million punches to the face from a million different people who the majority of the time are twice their size br br there are also tonnes more stupid unexplainable events in this movie such as an asian fighting off his own gang and taking a katana to the head just to let the get away br br like someone else mentioned this movie isn't so bad its funny it's just so bad
0	this movie is one that belongs on the cutting room floor for one the opening sequence does not put forth the element of 'gang' related subject if it wasn't supposed to then at least they got that part right secondly whats with all the glancing to the left and then to the right they even do it in synchronous style nowhere have i witnessed a member from a rival crew walk up to a bar look for someone from the outside lookin like he is all that and a bag o chips at a barbie and walk away without even being confronted let alone get 'what for' i wasted money on the rental price and am glad i did not purchase the dvd itself br br if this was made by college t a f e students then at least they gave it the old aussie try better luck next time
0	i love watching australian movies but this steaming pile of crap was just plain embarrassing the dvd cover looked promising but you know what they say don't judge a dvd by it's cover br br i also noticed that it won best actor for an award but the competition must have been really bad because the acting in this film is pathetic it just seemed that the director thought he had enough talent to direct and act when he should really focus on one part of film making and get it right before spreading himself too thin the music was pretty ordinary the story really didn't go anywhere it was just a sequence of fights strung together with poor script and cheesy dialogue br br i will say this to all aspiring filmmakers though watch this film it will give you hope that your film will win something at some festival br br however good on them for getting in there and having a go hope they learned some lessons and their next venture is a little better
0	was really looking forward to seeing a continuation of lonesome dove but this was total garbage cinematography was terrible shot way too tight was almost viewing the grand canyon through a stationary telescope editing was cut cut cut not even smooth more like a bad student editor don't know if did the screen play but the dialog was terrible really like val kilmer's portrayal of doc holiday in wyatt earp but what in heck was he doing with this character in comanche moon i have no idea even looked like it was shot on a sound stage using the old bonanza sets how can the director of the original lonesome dove gone so wrong with this where was his head can't say much for the acting either it's a shame to have messed up such a beautiful western that could have been but more like they rushed this one just to get it in the can have read other reviews and see that others felt the same way not even curious to watch the next few nights cause it would be just a waste of time like the first night was br br 2nd post ok since nothing else was on tv i must be honest and admit that i watched the last 2 nights of comanche moon and i will be honest to tell you that i didn't make it to the end of either of the last 2 episodes because i fell asleep i can only admit that i was watching the two main characters very closely and i could pick out some mannerisms that steve did while portraying the character that duval did such an excellent job with so i must give credit for that as for karl portrayal simple dead meat can only say again that i was very disappointed only because i cared so much for the original ld and like others have defended my feelings for a truly great western
0	although i watched this film by myself thankfully i still felt embarrassed while watching it i was tricked into renting it by the reviews on the front cover and the bloody gritty camera stills on the back which led me to believe it was some sort of documentary these actors are laughable throughout the entire film not convincing at all the story involves an italian australian gang just fighting other gangs and then running fighting repeat supposedly they train extremely hard which makes them way better than other gangs for some reason i don't believe that they could actually beat up some of these other guys that are twice their size i could be wrong no i'm not wrong this movie is not enjoyable on any level the jail montage looked like it was a summer camp just instead of kids it was a sausage fest of horrible actors just hanging out and laughing and trying to look hard this movie is not worth your time save your money or throw it in the garbage just don't waste it on this movie
0	for those of you who don't remember movies http www imdb com title this came out in '79 i guess enough time has gone by so naturally figured he could just redo this and say he wrote it yea right br br the acting in this is way overboard the tough guys walk around with their shoulders hunched forward to give the impression they are bigger than they really are also the hero' seems to have a passion for snorting and rolling his eyes in a bug eyed kind of way to express angst anger to the celluloid eye br br there is a sort of racial message here from the sicilian perspective mind you this is about 3rd generation down the line the original arrived in oz after the war and during my childhood yep i'm an aussie so the has been diluted a lot they even sound like true blue aussies not a flicker of the accent anywhere there there's another slang for ya nun br br with sunnies sunglasses at 4am must be cool to be sun blinded in the middle of the night and it looks like this is at this movie's tedious end tried to copy the flavor of the warriors but left too many holes in the story how about coincidences br br the warriors had a gang of baseball guys wielding bats with white face makeup chase the heroes to a train station and fight them gang get chased on a railway station by a gang of stick wielding guys wearing whitish face masks the warriors were mistakenly accused of shooting murdering another gang member gang are mistakenly accused of raping the sister of the big gang boss the warriors are lured into a room by a gang of girls who attack them crowd want to crash at a friends house which is populated by yep a gang of girls there are almost too many copies from the warriors to keep on about here br br i am saddened that people don't want to see other moves from oz because of this tripe how about mad max commander and master of the world not all movies are made by actors who are so bad they have to fund their own movies br br as far as the other actors in this show are concerned they seem to have taken their cue from the nun as they all are as bad as each other don't bother with this movie i can't get my money back so save yours
0	let's face it a truly awful movie no i mean a truly awful movie is a rare strange and beautiful thing to behold i that there is a special place in my heart for films like plan 9 from outer space half caste species etc and although i'm giving this film a 1 i highly urge anyone who enjoys a bad film for what it truly is a bad film to find a friend snacks something to drink and make the special occasion it deserves out of aussie park boyz br br from the very first moments of the lead actor's side to side eye rolling performance as he attempts to inject intensity directly into the film without ever looking at a camera a slice of ham straight out of silent pictures eat your heart out rudolph valentino to the sudden hey we're out of film conclusion you will not stop laughing br br to sum the film up its a poor man's warriors down under complete and that description alone should be enough but then comes the wonders of the spaghetti eating scene the 'we've got their tickets they won't be leaving town now' scene it's the asians run and more the only truly objectionable part is a gratuitously filmed rape outside of this i dare you to watch this film and i dare you to find evidence of acting or lines or direction or any of those other boring and superfluous elements that so called critics say a film needs to be judged as good br br if this movie doesn't cause fits of uncontrollable laughter before it ends all i can do is roll my eyes menacingly from side to side at you and shout you dog you dog you dog
0	it looked cool from the movie sleeve but after five minutes we weren't sure if it was a homosexual documentary of west side story without any female interest the film quality was poor and there was hardly enough gang fighting action to sustain even the person's interest for long enough to watch the entire film may god have mercy on the souls of both the actors and the filmmakers responsible for what i can only describe as my new one and only reason why i never will want to see or trust an australian made film again i have to write more so i will again say that the actors were so bad that i'm positive i could make a better movie with fifteen dollars and a box of trojans please don't see this movie for your own sake
0	i was expecting a lot more of this film than what i actually got the acting was just awful from everyone and the story was far from impressive it took a lot of something i don't to even follow what was going because it was so jumpy an example of the acting is when paxton's character is upset the south vietnamese colonel for so he throws some of the sand from the sand map it was impossible to get any idea of what he was feeling and his actions were robotic to make things worse i have no idea how i'm supposed to feel about he's obviously presented as the protagonist but as soon as he gets to vietnam he starts an affair with an vietnamese english teacher the only thing the movie had going for it was that it wasn't particularly boring i give it 4 stars out of 10
0	shame to see an interesting story diluted into standard vietnam made for tv fare usually hbo movies are a substantial cut above tv bill paxton was a pretty good choice for the lead role but wasn't given much to work with
0	mild spoilers below br br the prospect of war was clearly on the horizon when was filmed from the opening scene of european refugees to the final prediction that naziism will be the death of millions of germans this movie is as much a propaganda film as the films made after pearl harbor there isn't a lot of entertainment value here though the footage of the dust bowl is interesting to those of us who aren't old enough to remember it the rest of the plot is pretty forgettable with the herr coburn with a pretty bad accent and daughter assimilating into america with wayne's help other than the dust bowl scenes the only memorable aspect of the movie is one best viewed with hindsight coburn's speech comparing naziism to a malignancy worse than cancer and describing the then current successes as a momentary outburst of energy from a patient right before death were eerily accurate and dr played accurately to post war newsreel footage of unrepentant nazis justifying their actions br br when viewed from a historical perspective some aspects of are interesting if you look at it for entertainment outside of the wwii perspective you'd have to say this is one of wayne's less successful efforts
0	a cbs radio program entitled we the people assists in finding an american home for vienna refugee charles coburn as karl braun a skilled surgeon and pool hustler he arrives with beautiful daughter sigrid as leni who is studying to become a nurse relocated to a small dusty midwestern village they are welcomed at the station by burly john wayne as john phillips and his uncle spencer charters as a veterinarian ms is unhappy in the and wants to leave immediately but the prospect of romance with mr wayne might change her mind br br god answers the citizens' many prayers for rain but it may not be enough to save the farming town the entire town is advised to relocate to oregon wayne wants to stay and tough it out coburn receives an invitation to work at a top clinic and learns her fiancé presumed dead will be arriving to claim her as his wife she feels duty bound to accept but he has a dark secret this film does not flatter wayne who seems way out of his element being paired with promoted as another garbo doesn't help they do have a cute scene in wayne's car jalopy an italian car br br three faces west 7 3 40 bernard john wayne sigrid charles coburn spencer charters
0	tony curtis and skip both are wearing black with white trim canvas shoes in the scenes just before and after the swimming pond and the tank being blown up must have been too hard on the young stars feet if the real marines had been on the mission they would have been wearing boots in the first scenes they took off their just before starting out on their little trip to find the farmer when they went to the area where they dug the fox holes tony and skip are wearing combat boots then later when lovejoy and curtis run into the and his daughter tony is wearing the tennis shoes but hey have been the movie in about a true story but did they really need the love interest
0	this movie is very violent yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption black mail and murder this is where the killings start from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper this movie also co stars richard roundtree br br i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good i would not recommend this film and the action is very very bad
0	i am seldom motivated to write a review unless inspired by the quality of the movie in the case of comanche moon i was so uninspired i felt the need to warn others how bad this tv mini series is here are a few thoughts br br the indians they came across like they were in a saturday night live skit making fun of how indians talk when writes dialogue in his novels it reads so interesting i am not sure how they ended up with what they got br br gus looks like from the old gunsmoke series acting is ok and the mannerisms from robert duvall's are right on but the look is pure comedy cowboy br br clara maybe you could use a little dirt or sweat on her next time ever been in austin in the summer before air conditioning i promise you women did not look like that do you think they never saw any episodes of br br gov elisha again whenever they are in the governor's office it feels like a saturday night live skit and the skit is bombing br br woodrow call call is the most reasonable character of course he talks so little how can you screw up that but hey what about that hat br br blue duck see above and include the fact that he isn't even a tiny bit scary they should have gotten javier bardem to play the part br br the rangers right out of o brother where art thou i expected george to come riding up and them to break into a song br br perhaps i am premature because the miniseries isn't completed but i doubt i will watch any more of it any way br br i would not expect anyone to be able to duplicate the enthralling feel of lonesome dove but i watch this and it seems like they have no feel for the old west at all
0	essentially plotless action film has two good guys fong and roundtree pitted against two bad guys mitchell and pierce fong is perhaps the most uncharismatic action lead of the 80s small part is a far cry from his shaft days and cameron mitchell adds another shameful role to his career one to sit right next to his laughable turn in the toolbox murders this man was a respected actor once now he has come down to wearing flowers in his hair and complaining about people bleeding on his carpet only stack pierce acts with some dignity as for the violence don't worry most of it is too badly done to offend anyone 1 2
0	i had to write a review for this movie based on the ones that are saying gory non stop action great movie br br these people were obviously watching a different movie honestly sucked from the word go i kept waiting and waiting for this film to get better and it was to no avail some said this movie was brutal and others said gory but i can't find either of those adjectives actually showing up in this i mean hell there are so many scenes with people getting shot and there being no blood at all it's not even funny i guess the best way to sum this up is it probably should've been rated pg by 1984 standards and now in the year 2010 there is no doubt this would be pg bad bad not in the fun cheesy b variety movie
0	one of the worst movies i've ever seen absolutely awful poor acting poor story there isn't one redeeming quality about this movie to recommend amistad is much better avoid this movie like the plague
0	one of the worst movies i've seen this year everything about the film screams amateur for a movie set in the 1800's everybody speaks like it's the 1990's the acting particularly the people playing the white slave masters is horrible after about an hour into this movie i walked out what a waste of time and effort for a much better film on this subject see steven spielberg's far superior amistad
0	this movie was in one word terrible first of all the people who invented that thingie that puts you in the tv are slightly insane secondly the three teens are so obsessed with the show it's scary the movie was stupid and no effort or thought was put into it
0	1st watched 8 7 2004 3 out of 10 dir brett thompson silly juvenile focused movie about three kids being zapped into their favorite cartoon with their parents experiment the script left much to be desired in this hanna barbara like rip off of some saturday morning 'live action with people in dinosaur costumes kids show' with some goofy cavemen hanging around nothing really to admire about this and nothing much to be said either i'm just amazed i found this at a blockbuster video store as bad as it was and the way the stores are ridding themselves of old vhs movies i guess they couldn't even sell it so back on the rental rack it went
0	adventures in dinosaur city though a creative idea was a nauseatingly atrocious attempt at filmmaking being sucked into a tv and into a new world is interesting three teens obsessively enthralled with half animated dinosaurs is not don't waste the time or the brain power to see this sure loser i wouldn't even let my kids watch it
0	this may be all you need to know in order to decide whether you want to see this br br the movie is bad really really bad and sometimes it seems to be aware of that and make fun of how bad it is it aligns cliche after cliche and even manages to grow worse as it goes along with some moments that are bad enough to be hilariously funny br br if you can laugh about really poor quality in script writing and production values you might enjoy it otherwise prepare for some serious brain damage br br 3 10
0	okay i had watched this movie when i was very little and the day that we were cleaning out the closet i see this i thought i have no idea of what this movie was like so i went ahead and put it in oh my god this film is so darn bad i never thought that this film could ever get as close to my least favorite film as it did but i did laugh because all the jokes were so corny and ridiculous not funny so much stuff in this movie was funny because it was so stupid this film is not anywhere near good i would have to say if you want to watch this movie you definitely better not expect anything big and if you've already seen it trust me i feel your pain as well
0	if you and your friends find as much humor and enjoyment from horrible acting jokes props and overall film making as me and my friends you need to rent this br br from simply reading the tag line and seeing how not funny it is you should assume more not funny poor quality great hilarious content through out its a tale of some of kids who defy every law of physics and reality and fly back in time through a modern day big screen tv to a world of dinosaurs who eventually become their friends not to mention a hilariously serious scene where t rex becomes a father figure for one of the kids yeah br br it should be in the comedy section but you'll find it with kid movies if you find it at all so call your friends over sit back relax get ready to laugh and enjoy you will be quoting the laughably horrific one liners in this movie for weeks whats with all the ruckus
0	i like many folks believe the 1989 epic lonesome dove was one of the best westerns ever produced maybe the best and realizing that most sequels in this case a prequel are certain to disappoint my expectations were low comanche moon met that expectation with its marginal directing and acting poor casting and frankly a lousy script br br lonesome dove created western heroes of captains and call due to incredibly strong performances by robert duvall and tommy lee jones prior to living in lonesome dove we believed they bravely fought to rid texas of bandits and savage indians during their years br br if i had only seen comanche moon i would think these two boneheads were a couple of incompetent cowardly idiots in lonesome dove call and supposedly chased blue duck all over texas and never managed to capture or kill him in comanche moon a shot to call's boot heel convinced him to settle down and raise cattle there wasn't a decent fistfight or gun fight in the entire miniseries the best punch was mccrea sucker punching inez scull a funny scene but out of character for br br where was wit and charm clara's love for a drunken unshaven slob and philanderer was completely implausible and maggie's love for call a dispassionate and sullen loner defies logic br br the cinematography was excellent superior to the original credit goes not only to hd technology but the cinematographer the comanche moon miniseries was better than anything else on tv for three nights but sadly that's not saying much
0	saw this at the video store and thought i'd give it a try sounded like a good story and the cover looked good that was it the characters looked good and the actor who played noel was the most convincing though he didn't have any heavy time in the movie i find it really hard to give a movie a bad rating but this is one in a minute number that gets it my book as the movie went along i kept wanting it to get better but to no avail it was good the sound and lighting was good but the acting in this film killed it for me it was like watching a low grade soap opera i just kept saying i can't believe they released this move like this i paused several times out of sheer unbelief that the acting was that bad there's so much i want to say but i'll just say this everything else for the most part was good it was the acting as a final cut that really did this film in
0	i'm sorry but i cannot understand what people were smoking when they wrote how great they thought ethan mao was i have seen better acting character and plot development in pornos warning i am going to give away a key element to the plot after holding his family hostage overnight ethan lets his vile evil hated step mom go to the bank alone to retrieve the piece of his late mom's jewellery which he so desperately wants guess what she calls the cops wow what a twist i couldn't see that coming at all br br the only good thing about this movie was that it was less than 90 minutes br br pure unadulterated rubbish
0	i'm very interested in the overwhelmingly positive reviews here while it had some good features for the most part i found this movie to be heavy handed predictable and worst of all not in the least bit scary the first 30 minutes of the movie were promising the actress did a nice job in her portrayal and the world around her was well thought out and meaningful unfortunately from there the movie entered into a downward spiral i went into this movie with no clue as to what it would be about didn't know anything about the actors directors genre etc at a certain point my wife made the comment is this supposed to be a scary movie well i suppose so as the boiler plate horror movie score full of squeaking violins and extended vibrato could mean nothing else there didn't seem to be a whole lot of originality in the movie the romantic interest was painfully obvious from the first moment and the second half of the movie descended deep into the realm of the ridiculous a movie like this walks a dangerously narrow path and unfortunately there comes a point where the viewer must decide whether to continue walking along that path or to jump off and simply laugh at the ridiculousness of it all for the final 30 minutes i chose the latter
0	this was the first feature film for just about everyone involved including director teck tan so they deserve credit for pulling it off but this film was awkward in its direction preachy in its style exaggerated in its acting and overly politically correct the plot was all over the place preventing any aspect of it from developing well gangsters get involved in the story though i'm not sure what their presence added to the movie other than making the film even more unrealistic they could have been completely left out and the film would have been better as a result br br the plot is about a young ethnic chinese malaysian who returns to his home country after studying in the west his studies have brought him back with the skills he thinks he needs to fulfill his dream of managing a rock band and taking them to the top of malaysian charts a rather juvenile premise the beginning of the film hints at conflict with his traditional father but once the gangsters get involved this part of the story is dropped unceremoniously br br the film tries to take advantage of wondrously diverse ethnic mix but unfortunately the manner in which these aspects were put to film either seemed terribly contrived or downright preachy there is a pretty scene of malay women doing a beautiful traditional dance on a beach but the way the vision is integrated into the plot seems forced and unnatural br br the acting came off as somewhat amateurish and the male lead was particularly unconvincing the female malay lead was a notable exception leaving the most positive mark the film also has an openly gay character and though he is a bit of a caricature he provides some of the funnier moments in the film but the movie was just barely a notch above a typical local television soap drama sadly this film which is not in the least offensive has been banned in malaysia 3 10
0	to call this film a complete waste of celluloid would be an understatement br br the acting was unconvincing to say the least especially from actor craig fong who couldn't have acted stiffer as far as story goes well what story the film is nominally about harry lee a malaysian of chinese descent who comes back to his home country after flunking out of every course he took and tries to start a band br br the film has ever cliche you can think of sex tension among band members and a little bit of racial tension thrown in br br the problem is that even with a subject that's been covered adequately by even the most amateurish directors this movie is all over the place and the whole thing just feels contrived with parts that would make even the most hardened reviewers' hairs stand on end br br
0	oh the horror the unspeakable horror of this film if you can even call it a film this looks like some first year art school project hastily cobbled together br br the talents here will subject you to a painful mix of under and overacting and practically all the scenes were terribly contrived and pretentious br br the film in no way reflects malaysian culture or social conventions nobody even talks that way over here i live in malaysia btw br br spinning seems tailor made to pick up an award in the foreign film category of some western film festival and unfortunately that ploy seems to have worked some reviewers would no doubt describe it as exotic but a more accurate word would be atrocious br br
0	yep those of my generation who grew up watching those old cartoons were spoiled the 80's joe tune was one of the best cartoons in the history of television well written stories well developed characters granted it was nothing more that a glorified toy commercial but it definitely helped carry that toy line fast forward almost twenty years later and enter valor vs venom the animation was average at most the movement of the characters seemed to jerky and puppet like the movie felt more like a small soldiers sequel than a story about a special military force then we have character development or lack there of dusty likes to be all dusty slice and dice like to do things together what did the writers take a writing course on how to develops characters with the depth equivalent of jar jar binks as for the story i like a bit of sci fi but that whole concept of turning soldiers into a mutant army has been done to death in the joe universe mega monsters or zombies anyone but i give the creators credit for trying to make the fan boys happy by having martial arts action every 10 minutes i'm not a huge fan of se and ss but i did like the fight scenes between the two if you can appreciate for what it is you will enjoy it i admit to not being able to appreciate as i should again everything joe gets compared to what ways done in the 80's and honestly nothing will ever compare to the glory days of gi joe if you can appreciate for what it is you will enjoy it
0	dumb excuse for a thriller with absolutely zero chemistry or reason in relationship between lewis and hurt why is she dating a man old enough to be her father anyway the suspense is laughable lewis is very good but a script is needed and there isn't one my score for this trash 2 out of 10
0	unfortunately this movie is absolutely terrible it's not even laughably bad just plain bad the actors do their best with what is the cheesiest script ever how scary can a movie be when the climax actually involves a roomful of millions of styrofoam peanuts
0	my wife invited my son and i to watch this on cable tv on a lazy saturday evening thinking that it might show an unusual role for juliette lewis on this promise at least the movie delivers her character is ineffectual adhering to nearly every slasher type horror movie cliche as does the movie a cataloguing of its studied adherence to them would be an exercise in recall of something i hope to quickly forget so i won't make one basically this is a whodunnit heavy on the red herrings everybody appears guilty rather than just the two one suspects from the beginning the rule out the logical and obvious and what's left is it rule of bad horror movies works well on this one the only surprise to have any impact on me was its final of the indeterminate ending cliche will jane keep her appointment with her attempted rescuer who will tell her the obvious to the audience identity of the 2nd conspirator propelling her into another round of hysterical victim play mercifully i will never know
0	this is a poor caricature of lonesome dove and larry br br i love your books with lonesome dove among the top three i have admired the way you view yourself through your characters with such unflinching honesty balanced by never taking it all too seriously i am therefore spoiled br br why have you come to this br br comanche moon is not up to your standards i see that you are credited with the screen writing but this is so unlike you i prefer to think it is written by someone else br br the dialogue makes me claustrophobic wishing someone would break out with a naturally stated sentence the part about was agonizing was unrecognizable chiefly because of the inane words coming out of his mouth br br well i miss call too br br the most important missing factors are gus and call and the men they are their matter of fact courage the underlying vein comprised of ethics and honesty their lack of self delusion hard men leading hard lives with a certain undeniable grace br br some blame has to attach to the labored direction here and throughout all of the cast needed dialect and dialogue coaching br br while i try to imagine robert duvall as speaking this same dialogue it comes off better but not much it tries to sound cowboy of few words shy sly grin witty but doesn't half succeed br br how can it be so different from lonesome dove can the writer have forgotten his characters you have fooled some of the people mr but not this one
0	i had high hopes for this one until they changed the name to 'the shepherd border patrol the lamest movie name ever what was wrong with just 'the this is a by the numbers action flick that tips its hat at many classic van damme films there is a nice bit of action in a bar which reminded me of hard target and universal soldier but directed with no intensity or flair which is a shame there is one great line about 'being p ss drunk and carrying a rabbit' and some ok action scenes let down by the cheapness of it all a lot of the times the dialogue doesn't match the characters mouth and the stunt men fall down dead a split second before even being shot the end fight is one of the better van damme fights except the director tries to go a bit too john woo and fails also introducing flashbacks which no one really cares about just gets in the way of the action which is the whole point of a van damme film br br not good not bad just average generic action
0	'the 4th is a decidedly mediocre film starring juliette lewis as a young interior designer with a heck of a problem neighbor jane lewis has recently inherited a terrific 5th floor apartment from her grandmother and per agreement with the landlord gets a ridiculously low renting rate her boyfriend william hurt as a creepy weather man wants her to move in with him but she wants her own space so she moves in and weird stuff starts happening and because this is a b grade horror flick there's a dumb not to be found in reality reason why as the none too intriguing jane keeps trying to tell others her boyfriend the police coworkers what's going on everybody thinks she's losing it so of course she has to face the problem the lunatic living right below her alone neither scary nor interesting the movie's single saving grace is lewis she's a very fine actress but poorly used here which is not to say she isn't the best thing about this flick because she is she has feral charisma and holds the screen better than a dozen of the silicone bimbos that routinely populate this type of movie this type of movie though is not worthy of her which is ironic given that she's probably the only reason anyone would see it
0	a fine line up of actors and a seemingly nice plot though not original promised me a nice evening in front of the tv i was disappointed the actors delivered up to standard juliette lewis cuddly as ever william hurt solid but in the background shelley duvall convincing as ever but the story was too thin to keep me engaged to the story and the twist to the finale was too obvious and too late there was only one character who was nice to he girl so guess what then the final after twist… i do not know what to think of that the boyfriend and the neighbor contract with the devil or just to get her to move in what the film had a nice idea behind it but the idea was not worked out in detail it could have been good but it was not too many loose ends to tie up columbo would say
0	there's only one thing i'm going to say about cat in the hat as a kids movie and a good comedy movie it sucks i lost track of how many terrible jokes in the movie that not only sucked but weren't exactly kid appropriate oh and by the way the way the cat in the hat talked was annoying as for the plot i completely forgot who cares it sucked anyway i'm not sure why mike myers joined but i think the writers were trying to make it sound like him in austin powers without the swinger talk and it overly succeeded but so what it was annoying don't see it it belongs in the bottom 100 the jokes are so unkiddy it's funny
0	shame shame shame on ua dw for what you do br br i was appalled br br do not take kids to see this movie the humor is totally inappropriate for children plus they'll be bored and disappointed certainly we all have read theo's wonderful children book and certainly we have expectations but this is pure trash dr seuss would be ashamed and certainly would've never given his thumbs up at such a dastardly attempt to capitalize on a classic br br what a pity br br spend your money on the book if you own a copy then buy the book and donate it to a toys for tots program this movie is not worth a free ticket viewing br br stick with the book the tv cartoon version works well if you want a visual portrayal save your money seriously save your money it will be on cable by saint patty's day br br shame shame shame on what they do
0	an absolutely atrocious adaptation of the wonderful children's book crude and inappropriate humor some scary parts and a sickening side story about the mom's boyfriend wanting to send the boy away to military school to get him out of the way makes this totally inappropriate for the kids who will most likely want to see it because of the book 3 8 yr olds don't waste your money your time or your good judgement
0	most movies i can sit through easily even if i do not particularly like the movie i am the type of person who recognizes great films even if i do not like the genre this is the first movie i could not stand to watch cat in the hat is the worst movie i have ever seen and i've seen a lot of movies the acting is okay myers is good as the cat it's just that he is really annoying the silly songs the cat sings were boring and monotonous even for the children in the audience the plot drags on and on and viewers must suffer through poor dialogue the witty parental remarks are disgusting not funny i remember some awful comment about a garden hoe being compared to well a type of person people call a ho even though the movie is really short it seemed to last forever do not waste your time i know small kids who hated this movie if children can't stand it i do not know how any adults can i would like to fume more about this film but i do not even feel like wasting anymore time writing this review about it i hated it so in summary do not spend 90 minutes of your life watching this see a good movie br br 1 10 stars the lowest review i have ever given a movie
0	no redeeming features this film is rubbish its jokes don't begin to be funny the humour for children is pathetic and the attempts to appeal to adults just add a tacky smuttishness to the whole miserable package sitting through it with my children just made me uncomfortable about what might be coming next i couldn't enjoy the film at all although my child for whom the dvd was bought enjoyed the fact that she owned a new dvd neither she nor her sisters expressed much interest in seeing it again unlike with monsters inc finding nemo jungle book lion king etc which all get frequent requests for replays
0	dr seuss would sure be mad right now if he was alive cat in the hat proves to show how movie productions can take a classic story and turn it into a mindless pile of goop we have mike myers as the infamous cat in the hat big mistake myers proves he can't act in this film he acts like a prissy show girl with a thousand tricks up his sleeve the kids in this movie are all right somewhere in between the lines of dull and annoying the story is just like the original with a couple of tweaks and like most movies based on other stories never tweak with the original story bringing in the evil neighbor quin was a bad idea he is a stupid villain that would never get anywhere in life this movie is like a rejected comic strip from the newspaper if you think about it the film sure does look tacky sure there are a funny adult jokes like where the cat cuts of his tail and the censor goes off before he says a naughty word mildly funny at least the grinch had spunk and the film was actually good this film is a cartoonish piece of snot with bright colors and bad mediocre acting was mike myers even in this movie actually and another thing the fish what is with that stupid fish first time you see him he's an actual fish next time you see him he's all animated and talking but he looks like an animated piece of rubber play dough this film is a total off target wreck good joke bad joke bad bad bad good joke i'm surprised it even had good jokes like the water park ride joke that was good so please if you have the choice watch the grinch instead of this mess
0	spend your time any other way even housework is better than this movie the jokes aren't funny the fun rhymes that are dr seus aren't there a very lousy way to waste an evening my kids 4 16 laughed a little at the beginning the younger ones got bored with it and left to play barbies and the older ones left to play ps2 and surf the net my wife left and did dishes so i finished it alone it was the worst kids movie i have seen if you want to watch a fun kids movie watch shrek 2 that movie is fun for kids and their parents avoid this movie it isn't funny isn't cute the cat's makeup is about the only good thing in it and you can see that on the disc label
0	i've seen some bad things in my time a half dead cow trying to get out of waist high mud a head on collision between two cars a thousand plates smashing on a kitchen floor human beings living like animals br br but never in my life have i seen anything as bad as the cat in the hat br br this film is worse than 911 worse than hitler worse than vllad the impaler worse than people who put kittens in microwaves br br it is the most disturbing film of all time easy br br i used to think it was a joke some elaborate joke and that mike myers was maybe a high cocaine sniffing drug addled betting junkie who lost a bet or something br br i shudder
0	having grown up on westerns and considering the present dearth of westerns on tv and at the theater i was really looking forward to moon br br after watching two nights and not another it appears to be have been shot on a tight budget robert duvall and tommy lee jones level stars are conspicuously absent there is val kilmer but what the heck is going on with him four or five buildings on either side of the street plus the scull mansion make up the entire town of austin the capitol is never seen only the inside of the governor's office br br the dialog is often times hokey meaningless rambling the plot line disjointed altogether completely forgettable
0	i was so looking forward to seeing this when it was in production but it turned out to be the the biggest let down a far cry from the whimsical world of dr seuss it was vulgar and distasteful i don't think dr seuss would have approved how the grinch stole christmas was much better i understand it had some subtle adult jokes in it but my children have yet to catch on whereas the cat in the hat screamed vulgarity they caught a lot more than i would have liked growing up with dr seuss it really bothered me to see how this timeless classic got trashed on the big screen lets see what they do with horton hears a who i hope this one does dr seuss some justice
0	holy cow what a piece of sh t this movie is i didn't how these filmmakers could take a 250 word book and turn it into a movie i guess they didn't know either i don't remember any farting or belching in the book do you br br they took this all times childrens classic added some farting belching and sexual inuindo and prostituted it into a kaka joke this should give you a good idea of what these hollywood producers think like i have to say visually it was interesting but the brilliant visual story is ruined by toilet humor if you even think that kind of thing is funny i don't want the kids that i know to think it is br br don't take your kids to see don't rent the dvd i hope the ghost of doctor suess ghost comes and haunts the people that made this movie
0	when my own child is begging me to leave the opening show of this film i know it is bad i wanted to claw my eyes out i wanted to reach through the screen and slap mike myers for sacrificing the last shred of dignity he had this is one of the few films in my life i have watched and immediately wished to unwatch if only it were possible the other films being 'troll 2' and 'fast and furious' both which are better than this crap in the hat br br i may drink myself to sleep tonight in a vain attempt to forget i ever witnessed this blasphemy on the good seuss name br br to mike myers i say stick with austin or even resurrect waynes world just because it worked for jim carrey doesn't mean seuss is a success for all canadians br br
0	well i guess i know the answer to that question for the money we have been so bombarded with cat in the hat advertising and merchandise that we almost believe there has to be something good about this movie i admit i thought the trailers looked bad but i still had to give it a chance well i should have went with my instincts it was a complete piece hollywood trash once again proving that the average person can be programed into believing anything they say is good must be good aside from the insulting fact that the film is only about 80 minutes long it obviously started with a moth eaten script it's chock full of failed attempts at senseless humor and awful pastel sceneries it jumps all over the universe with no destination nor direction this is then compounded with yes i'll say it bad acting i couldn't help but feel like i was watching coffee talk on snl every time mike myers opened his mouth was the cat intended to be a middle aged jewish woman spencer breslin and dakota fanning were no prize either but mr myers should disappear under a rock somewhere until he's ready to make another austin powers movie f no stars 0 on a scale of 1 10 save your money
0	the sun was not shining it was too wet to play so i went to the movies that cold cold wet date day br br the cat in the hat was the name of the flick and when it was over my stomach was sick br br mike myers played the cat his humor was lame and kids needn't see this the humor was not tame br br the film was like drinking milk from a rabid cow so it is fun to have fun yet the filmmakers didn't know how br br this film in short is atrocious the acting was bad the plot was tweaked too much and the humor was surprisingly very crude br br it starts with conrad and sally a rule breaker and a future sheriff when their mother has to go to work she gets mrs kwan to babysit possibly the lone funny part in the movie is when mrs kwan is watching a taiwanese court room a la c span she soon falls asleep and here comes the cat br br the film starts to spiral out of control the cat came to try to let the kids have some fun he's got thing 1 and thing 2 who suddenly start trashing the house he improvises a tv infomercial and accidentally slices his tail off and when the cat goes full carmen miranda it's not funny possibly his only funny disguise is as a hippie activist and there's a fish who tries warning the kids about the cat br br too bad he didn't warn us this film was as much fun as sour milk or chopping your tail off br br soon the kids are outside looking for the family dog who has the key to a crate on his collar if the crate is not locked soon their house will be home to the cat's universe here it gets a little more interesting but not enough to save the film br br the acting overall is horrible mike meyers brings his brand of irreverent austin powers humor to the cat saying things like you dirty ho and imagining himself as a woman for the rest of his life after a whack in the testicles while posing as a pinata spencer breslin is great as the trouble making conrad and dakota fanning is cute as sally though they alone are not enough to save this horrendous aortic dissection waiting to kill john ritter accident waiting to happen alec baldwin's slick and slimey lawrence quinn is disgusting ever trying to woo the kids mom who is played by kelly preston and sean hayes is mr humberfloob mom's boss and is also the voice of the fish the latter three are also bland br br overall if i were a parent i would not take my kids who are into potty humor cause there's plenty of it and more save your 7 00 and see something else as the late great dr seuss once said br br it is fun to have fun but you have to know how really universal stop theodore's already turning over in his grave br br like my mom always says curiousity killed the cat the cat in the hat out of
0	just about everything in this movie is wrong wrong wrong take mike myers for example he's reached the point where you realize that his shtick hasn't changed since his snl days over ten years ago he's doing the same cutesy stream of consciousness jokes and the same voices his cat is painfully unfunny he tries way to hard he's some weird type a comedian not the cool cat he's supposed to be the rest of the movie is just as bad the sets are unbelievably ugly and clearly a waste of millions of dollars cardboard cut outs for the background buildings would have made more sense than constructing an entire neighborhood and main street alec balwin tries to do a funny great santini impression but he ends up looking and sounding incoherent there's even an innapropriate cheesecake moment with faux celebrity paris hilton that sticks in the mind simply because this is supposed to be a dr seuss story avoid this movie at all costs folks it's not even an interesting train wreck i hope they'll make horton hears a who with robin williams then we'll have the bad seuss movie starring spasitc comedian trilogy
0	there are plenty of comments already posted saying exactly how i felt about this film so ill keep it short br br the grinch i thought was marvellous jim carrey is a truly talented physical comedian as well as being a versatile clever actor in my opinion mike myers on the other hand gets his laughs by being annoying i used to like him very much in his waynes world and so i married an axe murderer days but ive never been fond of austin powers and the cat in the hat has just finished me off br br this film was horrible the gags were horrible inappropriate for children not only in adult content but in the fact that some of them were so dated they havent amused anyone for 50 years the plot was messy messy messy its a shame really because the children were very likeable as was mom they probably could have picked a better villain than alec baldwin but he could have pulled it off if it weren't for myers ugly revolting over acted portrayal of the cat br br i mean did myers even glance at a script was one written the other actors seemed to have one but the cat just seemed to be winging it br br on the other hand i would like to mention that the sets and props were marvellous but unfortunately they cant save this film br br poor dr seuss the man was a genius dont ruin his reputation by adapting his work in a such a lazy messy way br br 1 10
0	bad bad bad those three lines sum up this crappy little film that can only attract idiot children and their parents to the cinema and its 1 movie in america what is this country thinking mike myers looking more like micheal jackson some chineese lady that falls asleep within 3 minutes a lame plot with dirty jokes it's grotesuque and awful when green eggs and ham comes out in 2005 i'll be so happy not eddie murphy and tracy morgan will probably play two hipsters trying to find the lost green eggs and ham they'll try to chase sam i am and that mean guy who are running away with it i hope they don't ruin the classic book don't waste time and money by seeing this
0	this movie has made me upset when i think of cat in the hat im thinking of cat in the hat books you know the one from a few years back that parents read to thier children well i though that this movie would be a lot like that but much to my suprise was nothing like the books insted it is more like young adult humor movie in one part cat is talking to a gardening tool hoe cat talks to it like it is his hoe agin adult humor the naming of his car i all so though was a little untastful for a kids movie under the rating you'll find mild cude humor and some double entendres i think in short this means adult humor i wish i could return this movie wal mart said they wouldn't because the movie has been opened if you are thinking about buying this i suggest that maybe rent before you buy
0	the cat in the hat is just a slap in the face film mike myers as the cat in the hat is downright not funny and mike myers could not have been any worse this is his worst film he has ever been in the acting and the story was just terrible i mean how could they make the most beloved stories by dr seuss be made into film and being one of the worst films of all time and such a disappointment i couldn't have seen a more worst film than this besides maybe baby geniuses but this film is just so bad i can't even describe how badly they made this film bo welch should be fired or the writer should br br hedeen's outlook 0 10 no stars f
0	okay so i forgot to watch and only caught the last episode thinking it was the first or second honestly i thought cm would have at least one more installment to resolve plot points the rangers are left stranded on the plains we'll have to eat the horses for one thing little newt is bereft for another what a downer ending but my biggest complaint esp if this was the finale is that the episode had no suspense no big climax no dramatic confrontations even the last fight between blue duck and buffalo hump was badly staged the whole episode had terrible pacing which is what drives a western steve was watchable karl urban a ringer for johnny knoxville played call like a man with a terminal case of lockjaw all looks and spurs and jutting chin and what's with the rangers they talked big about cleaning up texas then around aimlessly in the middle of town getting drunk and how nice of hal holbrook to loan val kilmer his mark twain wig and the set of austin was like the fake rock ridge from blazing saddles all facade i admit i was drawn into the plot but that's mainly cause there were many things i didn't quite get thanks to coming in late in story if i'd watched from the beginning i might not have gotten to episode three now i have to go watch silverado to cleanse my palette
0	inappropriate the pg rating that this movie gets is yet another huge misstep by the mpaa whale rider gets a pg 13 but this movie gets a pg please parents don't be fooled taking an elementary school child to this movie is a huge mistake there were numerous times i found myself being uncomfortable not just because the humor was inappropriate for kids but also because it was totally out of the blue and unnecessary br br but all that aside the cat in the hat is still a terrible movie the casting and overall look of the movie are the only saving graces the beautiful kelly preston and the always likeable or hateable in this case alec baldwin are both good in their roles even though preston is almost too beautiful for a role like this the kids are conditioned actors and it shows especially with dakota fanning fanning is the only human aspect of the film that kept me watching and not throwing things at the screen br br did i mention there was an oversized talking cat in this movie mike myers is absolutely deplorable i didn't like him as the voice of shrek and i truly believe now that myers should not be allowed near the realm of children's films ever again his portrayal of the cat is a slightly toned down version of fat bastard and austin powers br br in the end the cat should not have come he should have stayed away but he came even if just for a day he ruined 82 minutes of my life 82 minutes of personal anger and strife br br the cat in the hat may be the worst kids movie ever
0	mean spirited and down right degrading adaptation to the classic children's tale not only lacks the charm of its forefather but lacks any talent what so ever mike myers should not only be ashamed of himself for his horrible performance that is a clear rip off of what jim carrey did but he should give up acting all together he is so annoying that you would want to beat the crap out of him if you were able to jump right in the film the sets are ugly and the cinematography is very poor i have seen a lot of bad film this year but this not only takes the cake but it is with out a doubt one the worse films ever made
0	well the previews looked funny and i usually don't go to movies on opening night especially with my kids because well you never know here is a movie that doesn't appeal either to children or adults as the jokes are too perverse for children and falls completely flat for entertainment purposes for adults i was actually embarrassed to be with my 9 and 6 year old and having to explain to my 6 year old what s h t spells essentially what happens here is a total twisting of dr seuss's classic it adds an evil and lazy neighbor who wants to marry the children's mother for her money if that was a subplot then maybe that would have been fine but it ends up being the major plot around the whole movie and the cat plays more of a subplot role in exposing the neighbor to the mom for who he really is take my advice and read the book and pass on the movie
0	from the acting direction scriptwriting and art direction this film is just entirely ill conceived and the money would have been better spent on shoes for land mine victims when did we get so sad that they have to fill a a children's movie with sexual innuendo to keep the parents attention br br dr suess is rolling in his grave right now what with the dirty ho s h i t and fake erection scenes etc etc etc its shameful how they trade on the name of suess to get the parents to bring their kids throw in the profanities to try for the teens and a few sad parents who won't watch a a film with their child if there is no t a greed greed and more greed br br compare this to the classic children's films and we can get a disturbing view of world is turning into these guys should stick to making mtv videos how on earth this movie got 400 votes as a perfect 10 is beyond me unless its the directors family
0	this movie was physically painful to sit through maybe because like many people my age and younger i grew up with dr seuss and loved his books funny clever whimsical and subversive at the same time the cat in the hat sucks all of the interest and spark out of the story and mike myer's performance as the cat is mostly bewildering why the borscht belt accent the unfunny patter the inappropriate jokes the charmless costume i had to go back and re read the books to see the real problem the books are simple this movie is overblown and way way too long br br you don't expect every kids' movie to be toy story or the iron giant but this one set a new low how could mike myers need the money
0	if you liked the grinch movie go watch that again because this was no where near as good a seussian movie translation mike myers' cat is probably the most annoying character to grace the screen in recent times his voice accent is terrible and he laughs at his own jokes with an awful weasing sound which is about the only laughing i heard at the theater not even the kids liked this one folks and kids laugh at anything now save your money and go see looney tunes back in action if you're really looking for a fun holiday family movie
0	the only good thing about this unfunny dreck is that i didn't have to pay for it i saw it for free at college and if a college student can't find humor in something that was free it's hopeless br br stale acting and poor jokes cannot be masked by an excellent yet bewildering set design that goes out of its way to market volkswagon beetles i don't know what michaels myers was doing in this movie but i have never seen anything more depressing this was nothing more than a blatant effort to capitalize on the previous success of the grinch which has its opponents but i enjoyed it very much it's difficult not to sit through this failure and wonder what better projects were passed over to fund it br br you want a funny seuss adaptation go with the grinch
0	audrey i know you truly cherish your husband ted's memory but please do his legacy justice and heed his wishes dr seuss refused to license his characters during his lifetime for a very good reason we beg of you to please stop cashing in on his stories images fantasies and characters they are getting disemboweled by the powers that be of hollywood and broadway the children of tomorrow will be stuck with these histrionic and grotesque interpretations that will forever pollute the loving warmth and innocence of his books br br it is indeed your property to do with as you wish i just wish you would listen to the advice of others for a little while save what is left of dr seuss thank you
0	film critics of the world i apologize it is your job to give advice to the moviegoing public so that they can wisely choose what to spend money on but i ignored your advice and i have been deeply hurt however my decision to see the cat in the hat wasn't made haphazardly you see three years ago all of you critics said that we should all avoid the calamity known as how the grinch stole christmas then some friends of mine took me to see it and it turned out to be a colorful funny and almost hypnotic yuletide treat so when the critics unleashed their fury against the cat in the hat another big budget seuss update with a big name star in the title role i thought that it must be the same old song how wrong i was br br for five whole minutes i thought i was in the clear the opening credits are clever the kids are charming and the production values are top notch then the cat showed up there are many problems from this point on but the biggest one was the woeful miscasting of mike myers where the grinch was saved by the inspired casting of jim carrey the cat was destroyed by myers he can be very funny when his energies are applied where they belong comic sketches every movie he's made that was truly funny was really just a feature length comedy sketch from wayne's world to austin powers so he tries to do the same thing here it's just that these comedy sketches are more like the stuff that they stick at the end of snl not funny just painful not that the writers helped him out any after the charming prologue the movie turns into an hour of repulsive bodily humor gags poorly timed pratfalls and insultingly stunted attempts at hip humor this movie was the most disheartening cinematic experience i have ever had period so much talent and work went into something so vile i know that the adult stars of this movie will be relatively unscathed by this mess i just hope that the wonderful spencer breslin and dakota fanning will get more chances to show their charms in far better movies if you are a parent please avoid this like the plague with movies like elf and brother bear currently in theaters you have far better choices
0	don't get me wrong i assumed this movie would be stupid i honestly did i gave it an incredibly low standard to meet the only reason i even saw it was because there were a bunch of girls going different story for a different time as i began watching i noticed something this film was terrible now there are two types of terrible there's freddy vs jason terrible where you and your friends sit back and laugh and joke about how terrible it is and then there is a movie like this the cat in the hat failed to create even a momentary interest in me as i watched the first bit of it not only was i bored senseless but i felt as though i had in some way been violated by the horrendousness of said movie mike myers is usually brilliant i love the majority of his work but something in this movie didn't click one of the things that the director producers writers whatevers changed was that they refused to use any of the colors of the original book red black white on any character but the cat coincidentally or not they also refused to capture any of the original and i hate to use this word but it fits zaniness of the original the book was like an ice cream sunday colorful and delicious and the movie was about as bland and hard to swallow as sawdust br br avoid this like a leprous prostitute
0	please do not waste six hours of your life watching this as i did the fact that i did is not a very good reflection on me the only redeeming acting job in this clunker was by wes studi how a with similar roots can not even be in the same universe as lonesome dove is beyond me it was a disjointed rambling incoherent story plot lines were not developed action scenes were almost laughable and the big ending disappointment was a fitting ending to this mini series val kilmer who i have thought as a reputable actor played one of the strangest roles that i have ever seen him in his final scene in the show had to have been a filler by the director i have been reading these reviews for years and this show prompted me to sign up
0	there is no way to avoid a comparison between the cat in the hat and the grinch who stole christmas so let's get that part out of the way first of all let me start by saying that i think grinch was an underrated and unappreciated film cat was well just awful br br jim carey was cast because he is a brilliant physical comedian and fearlessly commits to over the top outrageous characters mike myers fell back on his old bag of tricks br br why why why mike myers the kids could care less and the austin powers demographic isn't going to spy this film so what was the studio thinking br br the cat was also apparently related to linda richmond can we talk why a new york accent not entirely consistent with anything dr seuss has ever written myers was even allowed to sneak in his scottish shtick i wonder how many different voices the director and the studio tried to edit out of before they just gave in and said as long as you don't say fahklempt' you can keep the accents meyers never seemed to find any sort of comfort either with the costume make up or dialogue br br the jokes what few there were were crude and age inappropriate when myers picks up a garden hoe and delivers to the camera dirty ho everything but the rim shot was missing and even that wouldn't have helped br br the same folks who created 'whoville' clearly had a hand in the creation of the town and the houses in 'cat' the sets and props were very appealing giving the viewer a much needed distraction from the bad writing direction and myers br br there was some fun to be had with alec baldwin and kelly preston dakota fanning was the only actor who seemed to be aware she was in a movie based on a dr seuss classic and stayed true to the genre br br call the spca this cat should be neutered and never be allowed to reproduce again please please no sequel
0	what to say about this movie a married couple has more then just each other after playing around for some time things gets more serious a difficult choice has to be made continue the old situation or start all over by following the heart guess what happens at the end br br this movie seems to be very low budget but a good story don't have to be expensive it looks like a play that has been converted to a movie only by using several cheap locations at least very little other people visible more than just the stage in this one the house from the first minute future developments are clear as water nothing unexpected happens sometimes you may think watching a soft porn movie in which case you know in advance that there's no story br br i find this movie disappointing so that's explains the vote 4
0	love life explores a very culturally relevant scenario of a marriage of convenience between a lesbian and a gay man i found the subject matter compelling even if the conflict was a bit forced and too easily resolved for example thomas falls for joe a little too quickly and conveniently for the plot there are many continuity errors one other user commented on different cars in the garage joe's glasses the one that got to me the most was the fact joe's facial hair configuration seemed to change from scene to scene in the end i found myself more turned on by this movie than moved stephan d gill has a pretty nice body and shows it all quite a few times with skill and exuberance and all too often acting chops to match many times the movie seems like it is going to go full on porn stephanie does a fine job but her moment of enlightenment at the end was sullied a bit for me since i was in the mood for a good romp in the shower by the end of this movie
0	the worst movie i have ever seen the sound quality was bad the cutting of the scenes was even worse and above all it was not logic and it had no speed br br i first tought oh no i don't want the trail that proves that poor patrick was an innocent killer but this turned out to be even worse typically in this american film you get a super hint or no hints at all i want very tiny small hints that direct you to the killer the audience isn't involved and now when i don't get any hints at all you can expect a several 's he is the killer' sweeps in the end and that is not all ah this is hopeless lets make an end to it br br in one word disgusting br br
0	it might be that the film i saw was entirely different from the one that the others saw however as the actors are the same i can only think that the cut i saw in europe differed from the one circulating in the us br br anyway this was the worst movie that i saw the past five years closely followed by the waterboy br br why because in my opinion this director has taken elements from every thriller preceding this one mixed them put the in the wrong order with the wrong music and published it br br examples nothing the music gets scary and still nothing the grumpy officer us grumpy in a way that would let the actor flunk any acting class there´s a buddy moment which comes out of nowhere at the end there´s an inescapable scene and in the next scene all the problems are gone br br if you want to see a smart movie see memento if you want to see a better thriller see any thriller that comes to mind if you want to see patrick swayze see dirty dancing
0	this movie had the potential to be a decent thriller but it was hampered by only having about twenty minutes worth of good script which was mostly used up in the beginning after that holes started to appear in the story that one could drive a truck through the movie followed a descending curve from good to ordinary to bad to ludicrous by the time it concluded it's not recommended
0	we get to see who the good guys are the union and who the bad guys are a rich man who steals elections and his spoiled son the filmmaker forces us to see good from evil all the characters hate the bad guys so that when watching the film this can help us along on hating the bad guys this is the worst kind of film making manipulative and childish the plot centers on a cop who is in between the good and the bad and he's stuck in this ugly film it's boring and pointless the narration by star keach is really bad and a good actor don stroud overacted to the hilt playing the guy no one likes and who we aren't supposed to like it takes a long time for this bore to take off and for the title to assert itself then when it does take off it crashes a minute later boring one of the worst films ever made
0	a real let down the novel is such a brilliant stomach churning journey into madness but this made for tv movie style nonsense is turgid and painfully slow stick to mike hammer i find it hard to believe that no body has made a brilliant version of this book kubrick gushes over it on the cover he should have taken over the reins on this one stacey keach is too soppy as lou ford and the whole thing has the same production values as that seventies tv spin off of planet of the apes i thoroughly recommend that you go out and buy lots of jim thompson novels though actually the grifters isn't done too badly thats one of his starring jon cusak
0	downhill racer is essentially a movie to see only for the terrific skiing sequences although there is a story here robert redford's character a skier trying to make the u s olympic team is so bland and unsympathetic that you wonder why to care about him at all gene hackman in an early performance adds nicely but this is a film that could be watched with the sound off and it wouldn't make much of a difference
0	what this film has is its realism you really do get the feeling screenwriter james slater has been doing his homework on the subject of downhill skiing while director michael ritchie shoots the movie in a fly on the wall documentary style however the problem is unless you re a big fan of the sport there s not a lot in downhill racer to grab your attention br br before anyone asks why i watched it i did so because it featured the great gene hackman in an early role but that s not really a good enough reason for watching
0	i just watched lonesome dove return to lonesome dove streets of and dead man's walk all excellent this sorry hunk of junk is cheaply done and poorly acted br br in the previous series captain call and gus come off as tough respectable cowboys despite the fact that caption call is played by a different actor every time each one quickly won me over in dead man's walk the boys are believable as the younger versions of the experienced texas rangers in comanche moon they are just a couple of chubby rednecks i had to stop watching br br i suspect many of the glowing reviews for this show were written by the people who made this stinking pile it's a sorry end to an otherwise great franchise
0	rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a jollies project for robert redford as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine br br the story is as light as powdered snow with redford's small town boy david what kind of lead name is that who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory gets up the nose of in no particular order his coach father and team mates women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of heavens above a free thinking independent woman played by camilla the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day plus i'm not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel i couldn't really be that excited for him one way or another br br of the actors redford best profile forward doesn't need to do much and indeed doesn't while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material ms does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he's doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way br br in truth though there's a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don't fully compensate and you don't care a fig for any of the leading characters one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it
0	director michael ritchie and actor robert redford's second documentary style drama 'the candidate' is a political satire that still seems fresh and pertinent today so it's a pity that made a short time before seems so dated by contrast the music is ugly and the perhaps innovative ski ing sequences are now standard in televisual coverage of the sport the world of ski ing seems strangely amateurish probably accurately given the time the movie was made but it's hard to relate to today's professional world and the theme of americans in europe likewise seems in an age of ever easier travel perhaps the biggest problem is the flat plot centred on the arrogant but enigmatic hero unfortunately it's a dreary performance from redford offering us little insight into his cares or motivations and a character driven film without much of a character is never a good bet i expected much but sadly this is a boring movie
0	this is the worst movie i have ever seen in my entire life unless you're into masochism never see it it was an insufferably long pointless eye harming depressing movie and will forever top my list of bad movies whoever wrote this movie is a sadist i almost cried at the end that's how bad it was i'd like to give it zero stars but since that's not an option i give it one
0	11 years after this film was released only 5 people have reviewed it here on imdb there is a reason for this utter lack of interest in across the moon it is coherent but lacks all cinematic virtue see this film for examples of terrible production in all respects the opening credits for instance are white letters rising mechanically from a red background the ending features michael staring out a prison window saying there's lots of mysteries out there followed by a clip montage music video of all the uplifting moments in the tragically bad movie hatfield everything in between is awful i struggled to find any value in this movie and have come up empty though it is hard to believe even a cameo role from burgess always a crowd pleaser only disappointed me further this movie is like a mockery of what is special about movies on paper the movie is below average women living together in a trailer but what actually was produced was nearly unwatchable the movie attempts to branch off in many directions but never follows through on any the unappealing conflict of having their boyfriends in jail is never resolved no conflict is ever resolved there really is no conflict the women attempt to become hookers but that never happens instead they get jobs as a bartender and a shelf sound exciting it wasn't it was stupid and the bulk of the movie is the two women talking and generating contrived conflict the women are capable actresses but the script was beyond poor useless this was a terrible movie but it is even worst that they borough burgess out of his retirement home to make it bad from start to finish like the lion without teeth this film has no bite
0	the movie starts out a bit interested with the son interested in a teenage girl his own age timid appearing husband is killed in car crash as she is getting ready to go to rome and sing as a diva matthew objects but comes along he connects with the young girl again but this time matt is on cocaine his superb voice lovely impetuous mother is in the limelight she doesn't know how to handle matt's addiction the movie drags on in search of a plot clayburgh is in the wrong role and bertolucci may have had his head in the moon while directing the picture the moon has great symbolism br br save your time i am perhaps overly generous with 4
0	for the first forty minutes or so luna is a real pleasure to watch the characters and their situation are interesting and the photography and locations are beautiful to look at then jill clayburgh discovers her son matthew barry is using heroin and the movie starts to unravel and then becomes outright laughable in its sickness br br clayburgh asks him why and when he started using the drug and she nor the audience ever get a straight answer which would be a bit helpful he mentions not caring about anything but that's not right because we see clearly in the amazing early scenes that he has a good deal of interest in his mother's singing baseball sex and apparently cared enough to turn down marijuana this movie is for people who think junior gets into hard drugs because mom and dad were workaholics who missed his piano recital i think such a dangerous and emotionally volatile drug like heroin was chosen as some sort of intellectual catalyst for the later scenes of incest there's a lot of discussion about the mother's love for the son but it's really about bertolucci being pretentious luna would have been great as a quaint little family drama br br how old was matthew barry in this movie i was more concerned over the bizarre things he had to do as an actor for this film than for anything his character was going through out of
0	a friend and i went to see this movie we have opposite opinions about but after watching this movie we agree on the following the easiest way to have an inaccurate documentary is to make it about a foreign country in which you were not present when the events happened no matter how talented or how much you invest in the film if you are truly looking to learn about another countries history watch something made by natives of that country otherwise you won't be able step away from your bubble and those who try to force their views and opinions about something to which they don't belong are really abusing their power to make it even worse the director chose to not talk about the embarrassing involvement of the cia with regime she decides to evade dealing with the only subject for witch her country has much to explain to peruvians but this is not surprising because both the director and the cia are violating the sovereignty of peru by trying to affect the democratic processes at very different levels of course br br if the director was really interested in helping peru she would have financed a native to make the documentary in any case there are numerous peruvian made documentaries films and books about the subject such include ojos que no ven dias de santiago las dos de la etc the director of the fall of should spend her time analyzing the numerous problems in her own country or at least the involvement of her country in the matters of other nations
0	a friend and i went to see this movie we have opposite opinions about but after watching this movie we agree on the following the easiest way to have an inaccurate documentary is to make it about a foreign country in which you were not present when the events happened no matter how talented or how much you invest in the film if you are truly looking to learn about another countries history watch something made by natives of that country otherwise you won't be able step away from your bubble and those who try to force their views and opinions about something to which they don't belong are really abusing their power to make it even worse the director chose to not talk about the embarrassing involvement of the cia with regime she decides to evade dealing with the only subject for witch her country has much to explain to peruvians but this is not surprising because both the director and the cia are violating the sovereignty of peru by trying to affect the democratic processes at very different levels of course br br if the director was really interested in helping peru she would have financed a native to make the documentary in any case there are numerous peruvian made documentaries films and books about the subject such include ojos que no ven dias de santiago las dos de la etc the director of the fall of should spend her time analyzing the numerous problems in her own country or at least the involvement of her country in the matters of other nations
0	i was looking for a documentary of the same journalistic quality as frontline or fog of war by errol morris instead i was appalled by this shallow and naive account of a very complex and disturbing man and his regime alberto this movie should be called the return of the director presumes she made a perfect movie because alienates both pro and anti factions when in fact it is a very biased and unprofessional piece of work br br the movie has few crucial facts wrong br br 1 she uses the so called landslide election of 1995 in which was re elected with 65 of the vote as an example of the massive popular support of but we all now know to be the fruit of a very organized electoral fraud br br 2 the movie states that shining path killed 60 000 people in fact the truth final report states that there were 69 280 deaths due to political violence in peru 33 of those were caused by sl that leaves the other 67 in the hands of the police military and other groups the fact that she uses the same misleading information that has been using for 10 years it is another example of how terrible this movie is br br for any person with some education on peruvian politics and history is clearly a consummated manipulator a delusional character and remorseless egomaniac his regime was very far from being democratic he is still a menace to peruvians despite these facts the director lets tell the story not only on how he wants the camera to be positioned but the narrative and direction of the film seem to be part of his political agenda he always seems to have the last word there are no journalistic cojones just soft questions and unchallenged remarks where is when we need her the director when questioned after the screening didn't hide the fact that she was deeply impressed by his charm and intelligence yes she has been definitely charmed by him and you can tell by looking at this film it's obvious she has a very hard time to digest the multitude of facts that point towards his responsibility on the corruption murder and deception that took place she assured the gasping audience that was really a patriot when few moments earlier one of the leading peruvian journalists was very adamant in telling us that was above all a traitor she went on to say that despite all the accusations not a single dollar was found on any bank account on his name etc etc it was like hearing again the same gang of ruthless thugs that ruled the country for 10 years defending their master it was a sad moment for journalism br br this film makes injustice to history it is an insult to hundreds of dead people disappeared or unjustly incarcerated by regime no wonder she later confessed that all the peruvian intellectuals she befriended while making the movie felt betrayed by it unbiased the words naïve and denial come to my mind instead
0	all the pro comments about this movie claim that the movie is balanced that is their main justification to give a high rate to the movie but a movie is not balanced when the main perpetrator analyzed is given the last world in every single subject the director herself admitted to this at the first san francisco film festival showing she justified it by saying that she couldn't waste the chance of having access to that might be true but by showing so much of take on the issues makes the movie clearly pro and unbalanced i dare any of the other commentators to prove this wrong tips 1 claiming harvard professors intellectuals and latin american diplomats agree with you does not help your argument use logic tip 2 disagreeing with the director doesn't help your argument either the director says she thinks is charismatic and patriotic and therefore she portrayed him that way
0	the photography is good the costumes are good but the editing is bad the various scenes are cut or stopped at the wrong times and the conversations are s l o w and tedious this slowness continues the entire show it is a very tedious show to watch i believe that more scenes should have been added but that would make it a longer show it is very slow moving the writers should have made it just a 1 night show and not prolong our agony night after night there is nothing else on otherwise i'd change the channel the first night i feel bad for the indians of the time and am angry at the white men for what they did to the indians but thats our history
0	not a balanced point of view the director shouldn't express her opinion as truth the movie has some criticism of but it always gives him and his family the last words so few critics of were provided that it seems the only reason they were included was to be able to say the movie provides both views but that is not the case br br the movie barely shows one of the massacres that is accused of and it gives him credit for the the murdering of the insurgents that took the japanese embassy it is well documented that the cia did the planning there is even pictures of a well known cia strategist on the site published by magazine and other newspapers br br the fact that such well known information was not used by the director gives us a few possible conclusions the director is pro and purposely and falsely chooses to give the credit to him the director does not want viewers to note that the cia and worked together or it was just out of ignorance since the director is not peruvian and was not present in peru at the time the events occurred br br the explanation provided by other commentators that is still fairly popular in peru does not excuse the lack of accuracy and balanced explanations br br also the statistics provided in the movie for the actual support of were the highest i have ever heard of most statistics by major poll agencies are much lower br br another point to mention is that the intelligence that was key in the capture of the leader of and discover the secret network was done by a police force led by vidal and he had complete autonomy from and br br the first government of did experience an improvement in overall economic trends but this improvement was financed by the privatization of several national industries with contracts that were not beneficial for the country in the long term also the gap between rich an poor continued to increase during regime in his second term the economy was suffering and there was nothing else to privatize and by the end of second term the economy was about to collapse br br in terms of investments in infrastructure of regime they fallow the paternalistic pattern they were created to raise support for but were not meant to last long these structures needed continued maintenance but did not provide political power for the civilians in order to demand further investment in fact regime was able to destroy most forms of political organizing such as unions and grass roots groups and the increase in informal unorganized labor was immense br br finally the director chose to spend most of the movie talking to instead of citing the cases of massive corruption in favour of the media business owners the military etc that were so wide spread it was impossible that was not aware of it
0	i saw this in a preview screening and have to say that this documentary style movie is the biggest load of tripe i have ever seen br br completely unfunny low budget boring rubbish script terrible acting the entire audience young and old sat through the film comatose without laughing for most of it there were literally only about 2 places you will laugh in the entire movie br br many people left halfway can't blame them i stayed thinking that the film would pick up however it never did and i wish i'd left br br the humour was really lame and i am surprised that this ever made it on to the big screen i am not someone who is offended by the adult content of this movie at all it just wasn't funny the people who made this movie really don't deserve your money so please don't pay to see this film br br this isn't even funny enough to be shown on tv let alone cinema br br i wanted to give it 0 out of 10 but the system won't allow it
0	rabbit fever is one of those film oddities it's an enjoyable 90 minutes demands little of the viewer and delivers as much and on any terrestrial television channel even in a prime time slot i think that rabbit fever would be rather well received which makes me wonder why it has been pushed into cinemas br br the movie is filmed in the style of a television documentary and introduces us to 6 women who have am addictive relationship with the rabbit vibrator the film is primarily focused on investigating a supposed addictive quality to the famous sex aid product the narrative is 100 tongue in cheek throughout br br the storyline is strong an introduction to some well rounded and likable characters some enjoyable back story peripheral characters and situations develops into an engaging story and pleasing conclusions sadly there's nothing that feels clever or new br br rabbit fever has some sharp moments a few switches that hint at what the writers are capable of and all credit to them it's not just 90 minutes of knob gags and innuendo i could probably watch it with my mother but there's a laziness about some of the scenes that holds it back those moments went you are up for it when you want it to be outrageous and all you get is a dollop of sit com br br i chuckled i left the theatre feeling empathy for the characters but i also left with the bitter thought that someone had taken a 90 minute reel of made for tv light entertainment and tried to put it into national cinema br br i think rabbit fever achieves some of what it set out to do it's a quirky subject a rounded storyline a well presented cast and a good diversion for 90 minutes but there's nothing in this that can justify the extravagance of a movie theatre environment quite the opposite a few commercial breaks would have given the viewer chance to grab a breath of life that rabbit fever seems to lack
0	rabbit fever is a mockumentary collection of sketches each one of them focussing on a female personal device that was made popular by a single 1998 episode of sex and the city the latter half of 1998 rather than the early episodes which were all directed by women from opening statistics that make rabbit fever sound like a soft porn movie we are treated to a sea of predictable sketches with real and imaginary characters in a world run amok with women's addiction to solitary pleasure br br men as germaine greer rather arrogantly explains have invented a gadget for women that makes men superfluous in the bedroom the rabbit vibrator which some statistics suggest accounts for about a quarter of all vibrator sales is so called because of little rabbit like long ears which vibrate to stimulate the clitoris while rotating pearls inside the shaft stimulate the inside of the vagina the film interviews characters that attend rabbits anonymous to help overcome their 'addiction' as well as known people such as tom conti posing as a professor or richard branson amid scenes of rabbits being banned on aircraft saying he would like to provide free rabbits to his first class air travel passengers and ultimately to all of them br br the main weakness of the film is that the idea is not enough to sustain 85 minutes of cinema the sketches don't have the writing skills of say a charlotte church or ricky gervais to make them funny enough and while it might make desultory late night tv doesn't have a hook to get people to queue up in public at multiplexes to watch masturbation jokes br br lines like it's been nearly a week since you used your rabbit how are you coping wear rather thin after five minutes the film is based on the idea that the mere mention of the word will get a laugh and another one and another one frantic midnight drives to buy batteries might be amusing in real life but here they look rather laborious and the special emergency delivery service its welcome br br strangely the bbfc gave it an 18 certificate in spite of zero violence hardly any explicit sex and sexual references that are less than any late night comedy show the company protested the decision but the bbfc didn't budge at first sight this seems overkill on their part and their consumer advice now simply says contains frequent strong sex references one might think that youngsters would find masturbation jokes funnier than the most desperate of hen night parties and the topic one worthy of debate but rabbit fever does not even have the saving grace of a balanced approach to its subject matter br br the best part is probably the rabbit song by who play a band called thumper in the film for those who have dozed off and woken up at the end credits there is a bonus scene at the end of them to reassure them that they haven't missed anything
0	charlie chaplin responds to open auditions at studios rival ben turpin arrives at the same studio obviously another unemployed comedian turpin tries to horn in on chaplin's action after the studio head next chaplin manages to walk in over turpin however charlie amusingly manages to botch jobs as an actor and carpenter in the end he manages to get a big break but will a star be born br br there are a lot of jokes involving the buttocks the initial scene involving slapstick from chaplin and turpin is a relative highlight note that gloria swanson is the typist in the far background left on your screen in the film's opening agnes ayres also appears br br his new job 2 1 15 charles chaplin charlie chaplin ben turpin charlotte
0	gotta add a comment to this one br br first ironically one needs to add the alert to conform to imdb's parameters but there is absolutely nothing here to be spoiled br br there are six characters the good looking gal whose the a list mountain guide in the area of the climb and apparently among all guides including mt everest on the planet her lost love who disappeared from the titled pass two years prior whom the party is purportedly seeking but never find her store owner friend also a guide who may be better than a but no match for her the weird lead actor who engages her services and says they'll find her long missing love in the bargain his one associate a computer hacker with purportedly limitless expertise of a level sufficient that gates might seek advice from him and his other colleague a bodyguard who apparently has an iq not even near three digits br br there are of course nefarious goings on and the secret quest of the lead actor is to gain recovery of a satellite which has fallen in the pass and has world altering and unique data to bring them untold riches exactly what is never revealed br br overacting abounds the script looks like something which might get a c in a freshman writing class but an f if submitted at a higher level and the thespians gnaw every piece of scenery like a horde of beavers br br the most interesting aspects of this movie for me was juxtaposing portions with three other flicks or roles i've seen br br first the mysterious undisclosed secret data makes one recall the spanish prisoner an a list mamet film surrounding a valuable corporate process never specifically clarified but better for it definitely not so here br br second the lead biscuit proved perhaps even more resourceful then rambo in dealing quickly when menaced later in the presentation br br third i remember a steven seagal flick don't recall the title where he was semi conscious and for about 1 3 of the time and fully comatose for another 1 3 although i've not sought viewing a lot of his work i've seen enough to have noted that while comatose he provided the best work he ever has and most in line with his laconic persona in this opus while awake the young hacker may have been the most engaging personality on screen but while indisposed and incapacitated during the latter portion and unable to emote he provided the best acting during this seemingly unending two hours br br take the thin silly basis for a plot here imagine it being compressed into say a on snl with gilda bill murray dan aykroyd and martin short in the four roles they could get record laughs with few changes to the dialog here br br the most interesting aspect in the last analysis is contemplating what information could have been in the spy satellite to be worth even billions to any of many nations and yet rendered worthless according to the guru hacker if simply placed upon the internet with no apparent consequences thereafter even a turkey like this one should have at least a small trace of logic somewhere this one is totally devoid
0	spoiler alert br br this movie will spoil your afternoon or wee small hours of the morning viewing slot br br i like marc singer he has portrayed good characters in the roles i have seen until this movie br br what starts as a promising movie soon disappears up itself with the disastrous cgi'd background and the extreme close up on the person about to die br br then it gets worse br br a lot worse br br to describe it as hammy acting would insult pigs this movie goes to the bottom of the ham barrel and scrapes the acting off there br br apart from marc singer's overcooked hamming it up mike stomps and plods around the scenery looking as if he is afraid he might fall on the rocks and his wide eyed bad guy just makes him look like a moron he isn't menacing at all br br george looks like a deer caught in the headlights he claims to have been threatened by the other two but his character would have been threatened by a cashier offering him paper or plastic br br this is really a vehicle for nicole eggert as an independent woman getting her life back despite attracting the wrong sort of man she was unremarkable br br this is not a remake but this is remarkably similar to cliffhanger seasoned guide loses someone in a fall conscience pricked to help out someone else a missing treasure worth oodles of money and a gang of do wells who exploit the guide except cliffhanger was a great vehicle for stallone and lithgow i must admit lithgow stole the show br br even the unintentional comedy was poor there were times when i wasn't sure if they were using a rubber faced model as a stand in for singer as he tried in vain to storm the weather station no pun intended pressing his face to the door post and his clumsy manner in general did nothing to help his character br br avoid br br no seriously avoid it save 96 minutes of your life and do something else more constructive like watching paint dry or grass grow or just close your eyes and examine the backs of your eyelids for 90 minutes
0	i saw this on a boring sunday morning just this morning well i was drawn to the fact that it's an outdoor movie i was hoping to find some nice sceneries but it the views where just limited they just go back and forth in the same spot all over again i hate it when they're using this so called hi tech stuffs like the this motorola blue tooth headset they're using to eliminate the use of a walkie talkie it was just so funny they look like amateurs and they where like advertising those badly designed alien ware that could link up to a satellite to find people i couldn't say more about this tv movie the ending was bad that it looks like they cut it short eliminating the use of rescue helicopters and etc
0	i caught this film under the title of what lies above on lifetime movie network last night and just had to comment on it designed as a resourceful woman in peril action adventure yarn it is so unintentionally funny thanks in large part to marc singer's scenery chewing hammy performance that i thought i was watching a cross between cliffhanger and home alone 5 heroine nicole eggert makes her devious but dumb as dirt male pursuers look like the three stooges succumbing to her ridiculous makeshift booby traps somehow she manages to devise a swinging battering ram with rope and a log in a matter of minutes which temporarily takes out one of the knuckleheads who want to kill her worth watching for a hearty laugh
0	so i caught this one afternoon as what lies above and actually watched it because the beginning was somewhat promising the heroine diana pennington is a mountain climbing expert but that doesn't help her when her fiancé brian gets hurt on a climb when she goes off to get help and returns he disappears from the mountain never to be seen again br br two years later diana is still a climber but she won't go near snowman's pass that is until curt seaver appears and tells her that he can find the body of her lost fiancé with a new satellite program she agrees and they take off up the mountain with two assistants his bodyguard hugo and the computer whiz tyler from the start you know that there's some ulterior motive going on but unfortunately the twists aren't good and lead to a laughably bad chase sequence that makes up the last 20 or 30 minutes of the movie br br the major disappointments are the red herrings most of which have supernatural undertones that never come to fruition the object from the sky that fell into the mountains which turns out to be not so supernatural the story of how snowman's pass came to be and the most memorable one of them all diana's dream sequence halfway through the movie but what disappointed me most is where they dropped the ball the majority of the movie revolves around the search for brian that's why i can't for the life of me begin to understand why the mystery of what exactly happened to him and where he was is never solved through the course of the movie this was the major plot this was how the movie started how do you not wrap that up br br i wouldn't tell too many people to bother with this one
0	i will give it a second chance but was very disappointed in the first one it wouldn't hold a candle to the other series it has a lot of meaningless dialog that doesn't add to the storyline at all i agree with the others that it doesn't seem to develop a story that is interesting it is slow and plodding and i only know what the are planning to do maybe it will all tie together in the second installment but i am going to have to force myself to watch it and find out i am of apache heritage from the texas new mexico area but i don't recognize much of what is happening maybe i am just ignorant of the facts but this isn't doing much to educate me
0	the limited scenery views were the only saving grace to an otherwise uneventful and boring movie the acting was borderline absurd which i blame on the script and screenplay nicole eggert didn't look the part didn't act the part and was totally unconvincing as a mountain guide after watching this i was left with the feeling that some friends had some free time and decided to make a movie it must have been produced on a budget of pocket change the plot was thin at best and with the low caliber of acting at times it begged the question to be asked why are we doing this i managed to sit through the entire movie but also asked myself why
0	somehow i really thought that i was going to enjoy this film because i love pictures with mountain climbing and a great mystery in the plot i must say that the photography was fantastic and there was some scary scenes that captured my attention i thought that nicole eggert diana pennington thank you good night '01 played a very convincing role as a young girl who had a tragic loss in her life and meets up with some characters who want her to guide them up the mountain marc singer angel blade '02 played a very unconvincing weird guy and over acted in many scenes with a bad temper that looked comical this film was a big disappointed and not worth watching unless there is nothing on the tv to enjoy
0	eight legged freaks is a modern monster movie like a remake of any of the old 'attack of the giant insert animal here ' movies of the 50s 60s and 70s or rather it should have been more like a remake of the instead of what is was so how is a monster movie done in the year 2002 well from the typical opening with some chemical making the spiders grow to huge proportions they mix movies like gremlins jurassic park starship troopers and flavor it with some parody like scary movie gremlins is probably the best comparison but eight legged freaks was so full of parodies and stupid jokes that it was sometimes more like scary movie it was way too much at least if you're looking for a monster movie and not just another parody movie filled with jokes br br for a movie like this you don't expect much of the acting and that is just the way it was the story though was extremely thin with just a bunch of loosely connected events to show off some action mixed with all of the jokes leading up to an easily spotted and corny ending br br i rate eight legged freaks a 4 10 and that includes the fact that the special effects where pretty good and that the noises the spiders made where hilarious
0	i'm not going to say the story of the movie as some people do i'm pretty sure people who read this will know what the storyline is i'm also not going to go on and on about everything thats wrong with this movie because i'll be here for ages if i do the storyline is typical and the special effects are below today's standards this is not a movie you should watch if you are a serious movie buff as most of us here are little things will annoy you the whole movie and ruin the experience if your a casual movie watcher who likes to have a good time when they are watching a flick then this movie is perfect for you lots of fun it would also be a good movie to take a partner to just not for us movie buff's br br 5 out of 10
0	my expectations were high after seeing the trailer they were even higher when i saw the movie had the same director as independance day and godzilla the special effects in independence day were much better then in this movie the whole movie i was waiting for the spiders to show up the rest of the storyline was really boring and when the spiders came they had a very amateuristic look like the special effects were from a movie made in the 60's i didn't watch the whole movie when it was played for about one hour i switched off my dvd player i watch 3 movies almost every night and i have never walked away from a movie even if it was that boring the only thing good in this movie was the pretty sheriff that's why i voted 2 instead of 1 so don't go see this one instead you should go out and rent starship troopers it's like the same only 10 000 times better
0	with david arquette starring you would immediately think this to be a stupid movie well it is a stupid movie with a horrid script but the f x namely the eight legged freaks makes this flick a hoot to watch a tribute albeit on the silly side to those great mutant creature features of the 50s arquette and sheriff sam kari wuhrer summon help in fighting off the toxic waste induced giant spiders wreaking havoc on their tiny town in arizona also in the cast are doug e doug rick leon and the charming scarlett johansson
0	i hope this isn't a portent of things to come high definition camcorders are getting cheaper all the time although i wouldn't swear that's what was used here so it's open season for all the wannabe and br br there is no hiding the cheapness of this stinker and calling it a 'film' would be doing the industry a big disservice the photography is of a standard you would expect on a family outing to the zoo i could build me a new house with all the wooden acting what's remarkable about that is that nobody stands out as the worst they are all equally terrible like a whole bunch of ben or steven seagals br br what hooked me was the title i'm a sucker for this sort of thing like frankenhooker or frankenhooker was pretty bad too but at least i got some laughs out of it and the acting was merely bad not awful i can't comment on as i've yet to get hold of a copy of it br br anyway i hope the people who made this didn't make any money from it else they might be encouraged to try it on again please guys pawn the camcorder and go back to your regular job
0	go get your camcorder your little brother and the disturbing neighbor next door who throws boiling water on raccoons and you got yourself a film well that's what these guys thought anyway it was so bad i can't even remember the majority of it except for flashbacks comparable to someone who toured in 'nam despite the really corny title the horrible quality the terrible actors and the cliché writing i think this movie isn't the worst i've ever seen i'm saving that slot for everything with steven seagal chuck norris and jean claude van dam anyhow if you are out of options when it comes to finding new horror films that you haven't seen 1 000 times already as i was and you are debating this one i would still skip this it had absolutely no redeeming qualities this mock serial killer thriller was a weak puny attempt at an even b film if they're really lucky it might make the wal mart 4 50 bin but i highly doubt it
0	the movie was pretty bad it's not so much a script problem it's just that the movie is really boring in terms of pacing the movie just seems to plod along at a slow agonizing rate the story in san is that there's a serial killer on the loose who is killing morally corrupt individuals maybe i read too much into it but hey it's my nature apparently after the san kills a pair of people under the golden gate bridge we're introduced to one of the main characters of the film joe estevez brother of martin sheen as a cop named bill culp bill is currently trying to hunt down the killer seriously he doesn't have a name he's just the killer and he is trying to coerce a local news reporter named rita to help him with his investigation bill is the stereotypical hard edged cop and he threatens rita to throw her in jail for obstruction of justice anyway a few scenes pass by and suddenly rita finds a letter left by the psychopath he's a cold blooded psychopath and she has a change of heart and tells bill and his partner joe about it and help them with the investigation br br the movie tries to be a taut murder thriller but sort of just fails at that it's much like the movie the black dahlia it tries to be tense but it just is unbelievable in terms of that the movie tries to be serious throughout but it has scenes like where the killer masturbates obviously a fan of gore porn what with lines like ooh blood on her or something to that effect and joe estevez hitting the table going he's a cold blooded murderer i admit to chuckling more than once at the movie even though i'm sure it was intended to be a deadly serious movie br br one of the only positive points the movie has going for it is the fact that i didn't pay money to see it huzzah netflix and it's sad because i could see some good in their movies after watching the damned sure the movie had its fair share of flaws but it was enjoyable sadly though san has nothing going for it granted it has an okay script it's nothing too grand but it could've been interesting instead what you get is a murder thriller that fails to thrill or have even vaguely enjoyable deaths also the other reviews claim that the movie has a great twist ending that's shocking apparently i was watching a different movie because by about the one hour mark i sort of figured out what was going to happen the ending didn't shock me in the least bit i would go on insulting this wreck of a movie but i don't think i will long story short this movie is a boring uninspired thriller i use that term loosely that fails to have the hitchcockian thrills that another reviewer claims to have a predictable ending bland deaths acting with all of the emotion of a plank of wood and a decent soundtrack br br i'm sure others will try to defend this with the usual it was a low budget movie they did the best they could with such a low budget and all that other nonsense but when you get right down to it there was very little that they could've really spent that budget on there was very little special effects work the soundtrack sounds like it might've been recycled from hood of the living dead or the damned and it's the same damn crew from those two films this movie really reminds me a lot of another low budget flick that was no good and it was called mr jingles the two are about the same quality they fail to deliver anything close to enjoyment and should fade quickly into obscurity
0	san 1 out of 10 so you want to make a serial killer movie but your budget is non existent your camera equipment is elderly and your stars are joe estevez martin sheen's younger brother and a staple in really bad movies and todd bridges from different strokes there are probably ways to pull of at least a watchable film the quiroz brothers have no clue br br first of all much of the cast seems to have been chosen in a desperate attempt to make bridges and estevez look like oscar caliber thespians really how hard is it to play a priest or an overbearing mother certainly a city the size of san francisco has a few professional actors willing to work for a few bucks and a screen credit clearly chris angelo and bonnie steiger who play these roles have other talents such as landscaper or waitress they ought to be fine tuning br br joe rosete as the killer yes the serial killer is simply known as the killer is also pretty awful in a mentally ill method kind of way but i am almost willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as his character is written with zero style or personality a boring almost laughable serial killer is a problem for a serial killer movie br br in addition the quiroz brothers seem to have originally planned this as an abc family movie of the week there is no nudity or violence to speak of and the r rating clearly is for the adult style pacing this move meanders like an 85 year old woman driving with wraparound sunglasses and her turn signal on the only occasional horror comes from lighting face with a glare that makes it look like his lower jaw was removed br br i wasn't expecting a great film when i rented san but i wasn't expecting mind numbing boredom either
0	and call really did nothing why are they hero's they did nothing other then get to places after the bad guys where dead what was the point of this show i was very very disappointed i expected more action more story and to see the birth of heros and great deeds instead i saw very little it seemed like and call where just side story's for the great indian chief br br i'm not even sure that the history is even very close they did very little to show why the texans and comanche fought against each other br br the only good part about this movie was who played gus very very well and is a great actor a lot of good story that could have been gone to waste it was sad and i wish that i had not watched it
0	without a shadow of a doubt this is and probably will always be the worst film i have ever had the missfortune to see my whole life take 5 wooden actors who got thrown out of acting school because they were so wooden someone sat on them thinking they were a bench br br then add a cheap camcorder you know the old vhs types that cost £20 on ebay add a terrible story line with no effects and yes you have this film what a shocker it was they couldn't even save it by having a fit girl in it she was fat and ugly and was the worst of all i actually watched it all as i could not believe this crap ever got funded br br miss at all costs
0	this is one of the most laughably bad films i've ever seen i cannot believe whoever wrote the review above was serious perhaps he was connected with making it it doesn't have anything going for it there is no suspense the acting is dire the direction hopeless the music score is three trite notes played ad nauseam the plot must have taken all of five minutes to write the dialogue is what a 10 year old would come up with if asked to do a homework project the only slightly redeeming feature is the actor playing the psycho himself who grimaces and gurns magnificently and thus is amusing at times the only reason you would be on the edge of your seat would be if you were suffering from a weak bladder don't waste your time
0	this terrible moovie is fun on many levels the moost obvious is the lame fake looking bird puppet which floats around the cheap sets without ever flapping it wings like it was on a string perhaps attacking model trains and toy cars the science is asinine a masonic atom gun and what's up with the enormous amounts of in everyone's hair i guess the 50's were the slimeball decade well this bird puppet apparently comes from some god forsaken anti matter universe and it's here to build a nest lay eggs in new york seriously that they manage to kill the puppet is almost a shame i give it 1 hoof out of 4 it's silly and stupid but moore fun than armageddon 8
0	this is a truly terrible sci fi horror film from 1957 in fact despite ed wood jr and his dreadful films getting a lot of publicity this turkey is every bit as bad as the worst of wood now the acting is a bit better than you'd find in the wood epics such as plan 9 and bride of the monster but the special effects managed to be significantly worse than wood's however bad movie aficionados will be happy to hear that it's so bad that it's still excellent viewing like a wood film it's great to watch this crap fest and laugh along with your friends br br the film begins with a scientist flying about doing some testing in his jet however out of nowhere a ufo streaks by and his report of this over the radio triggers a panic by the air force however later they realized that the ufo didn't appear on the radio and they think the scientist is a nut but when soon after this planes start disappearing all over they realize there must be something to his sighting br br so far the film isn't great but it's watchable however by the time the horrible flying monster appears you know you're watching a turkey first through horrid use of stock film and crappy models airplanes keep changing mid flight some may not be bothered by this but with airplane lovers like me seeing an f 80 turning into an f 86 to an f 102 fighter plane made me crazy especially since the planes look nothing like each other second through clever cinematography all you really see of the monster is a ball of fuzz for half the film this is frustrating and you hope that when you finally do see it clearly it will be worth the wait well no such luck the monster looks less realistic or scary than the duck from groucho's you bet your life tv show in fact it's significantly less realistic than any of the japanese giant monsters in fact big bird from sesame street is even a bit scarier and realistic it's just god awful in every way and might just be the dumbest movie monster in history about as bad or worse as the monsters in robot monster or teenagers from outer space the bottom line is that this is an absolutely dreadful film that sane people won't like bad film fans like me who are a crazy bunch will probably love it all others be afraid be very afraid br br fyi you might notice that some clips in this film are from other sci fi movies i am positive the crashing washington monument scene was stolen from earth vs the flying saucers but i also saw a couple other scenes that i swear are from other films what a hack job
0	before we start may i say i hope you've already eaten when you're reading this why because after i'd seen this film for the first time the bird's look and sound made me want to eat chicken after the words 'the end' had appeared on the screen so don't say you weren't warned br br fred sears might have directed earth vs the flying saucers an okay film and one of the bigger examples for tim burton's mars attacks but the giant claw is not that giant a film yes it's a prehistoric monster that flies in the air attacks planes and cities and occasionally treats itself to a man on a parachute the beast is giant except in the scenes where it's considerably smaller but who needs consistent proportions in a movie scary it could have been but not if the plot is hopelessly silly and the monster looks like like a puppet that ran away from sesame street
0	the giant claw is in fierce competition with films like 'robot monster' and 'plan 9 from outer space' for worst film of all time a phony looking giant attacks in this completely unconscious film the script is so bad that everything the characters say to one another is ridiculous it's no wonder that this film is a prime target in the movie it came from hollywood where this gem is hammered for the line 'a bird as big as a with gleeful endless the line pops up relentlessly through the course of the film so there's no escaping it there are several shots from 'the beast from 20 000 and 'earth vs the flying saucers' among other sci fi films from the 50's to beef up the scraggly attacks at one point the big is responsible for a few deaths so the military puts the entire world under martial law and no one is allowed to go out of their homes of course the huge buzzard is mainly concerned with pursuing the stars of this classic jeff morrow mara wherever they might be yet the director is so lame that he doesn't even provide for a few honey shots of pretty mara in a decent dress and black heels for a little relief from the tedium of this zero star thriller that's the second time this blunder has been made in mara struts around in hot dresses for the whole film but is relegated to pants throughout 'the giant the budget for this film must have been not more than thirty or forty thousand dollars and i doubt whether morrow or got more than three thousand to make it it looks like the whole thing was shot right out of somebody's garage
0	i saw this movie when i was about 12 when it came out i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from right out of the air the horror the horror br br as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end i didn't care much for the romantic angle as a 12 year old and the predictable plots i love them now for the unintentional humor br br but about a year or so later i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star janet leigh was bumped off early in the film i sat up and took notice at that point since screenwriters are making up the story make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula there are no rules
0	i wish i could have voted this movie a ten it's that funny if they had intended for it to be that funny i would have given it a ten i have to give it a 1 but it's the funniest darn 1 you'll ever want to watch see the giant blur flash across the screen where did it come from what is it it flies it terrifies it's electrifying it's on strings this bird has real personality i was about ten when i saw it for the first time and when big bird appeared on sesame street i was sure they were one and the same
0	this is one awful movie some people told me that it was not that bad actually but i sure disagree the monster is amazingly cheap and funny looking but this is something we all knew i guess in addition to that the dialogs are awful and the writing is just plain terrible br br as bad as it is this movie as the quality of being entertaining not always for the good reasons but it's a good so bad that it's fun flick br br by the way there's no such thing as la according to a secondary character in the film named pierre described in the movie as a french canadian there's a legend among french canadians about a giant bird know as la as a french canadian myself i can assure you that i never heard of such a legend it sure made me laugh though
0	largely forgettable monster film from the 50s features truly awful special effects the claw in question is a giant puppet that would make jim henson want to kill himself i just saw the movie last thursday and i can't even tell you who was in it that's a bad sign i'm told that when the movie premiered audiences laughed it off the screen and that was in the 50s when standards in special effects were much lower basically i should have walked out of the theater as soon as the words produced by sam katzman came on the screen if i knew what was good for me but then i sat through also so i guess i deserve it
0	i must have missed a part of this movie i found myself asking who is this and when did that happen it seemed to jump around but i kept watching for fear i was missing something and it would all be explained to me i loved lonesome dove but this movie made no sense to me at all i did love all the actors but what happened to the rest of the movie it made me go what at the beginning of each part as far as the scenery i thought it was fine it made me feel though like i was through a book and leaving pages out the ending had me a little confused too although i imagine the boy was waiting for his father and was meant to leave you wondering if his father would finally come home to his son and be a father since his mother was now gone i would like to read the book just to see what i missed in the movie i don't expect this one to win any awards
0	personally i have no problem with the acting nor the script i do have a problem with the giant bird it was simply awful plain and simple br br one's first impulse is the roll around laughing when one sees it what were they thinking budget be damned the monster bird was a monstrous joke br br of course in my opinion if the producers could obtain actors such as and morrow then they would have the special effect people come up with a much better beast oh well what is done is done this will be the case of the eternal joke on them that was unintended
0	this one's as cheesy as they come – the concept of a massive and indestructible extraterrestrial bird is already too loopy for words but wait till you get a load of the goofy creature as it appears on screen i tell you i laughed so hard through this thing that i missed out on some of the expository dialogue – then again the latter is often so heavy on scientific jargon and laws of physics and such at which i've never been any good in spite of my love of sci fi movies that it didn't really matter anyway the bird – first depicted as a mere blurred form whizzing through the skies but subsequently shown in all its dopey glory – is so sublimely silly that it wouldn't be amiss in a looney tunes cartoon witness the series of intermittently taken photographs that start with the creature in the distance and end on a side splitting extreme close up of its face br br director sears had fared much better with his other film about ufos the fine earth vs the flying saucers 1956 – with special effects provided by a master ray harryhausen speaking of which i've just given away my copy of the latter in anticipation of acquiring columbia's recently released se dvd also it seems to me that some of the footage illustrating the bird's rampage in new york here were lifted from the destruction of washington seen in that earlier sci fi classic again the leads are played by genre regulars – namely jeff morrow from this island earth 1955 and mara from tarantula 1955 as with the afore mentioned flying saucers these titles are highly regarded and beloved by fans – consequently they are vastly superior to this lamentable addition to the alien monster animal cycle prevalent during the sci fi heyday and beyond incidentally other flying menaces were featured in the flying serpent 1946 which i haven't watched and larry cohen's tongue in cheek updating of same in q the winged serpent 1982 br br unfortunately the giant claw can't even rise to a decent climax – which is so rushed as to be a wash out to quote a jet pilot from the film itself whose assault with rockets on the bird proves completely ineffective that is before morrow realizes that it's shielded by an invisible barrier and then has to figure out a way how to be able to penetrate it ultimately apart from the and frankly tedious technical asides one gets a feeling of so bad it's good watching this after all it only lasts for 74 minutes – and in any case the bird is such an unforgettably daft creation as to put a huge smile on your face every time it turns up
0	spreading panic from broadway to bombay 1957's the giant claw boasts perhaps the ultimate flying monster in movie history described by one terrified quebecois witness as la – she's de devil in de storm with de face of de wolf and de body of de woman with wings bigger than i can tell it doesn't say much for canadian women since when we finally see it in focus it's a cross between an overgrown buzzard a and gonzo the great but this isn't just any old giant turkey – impervious to rockets invisible to radar and with a taste for swallowing parachutists whole and pecking away at the united nations building it's an extraterrestrial giant turkey from an anti matter galaxy millions of miles from earth that's come here to build a nest no other explanation is possible luckily for humanity jeff morrow test pilot and chief cook and bottle washer in a one man society invents a weapon to disable its impenetrable shield so they can hit it with everything but the kitchen sink – but don't worry morris general assures him we've got kitchen sinks to spare son – just in time for a last minute clinch with co star mara some of the dialogue has dated rather unfortunately – i admire your spunk and you keep climbing on our backs whenever we've messed up – and strangely enough it's nowhere near as much fun as a film with a giant flying turkey should be but the beast itself is such a truly memorable creation for all the wrong reasons that it's hard to dislike even if you are liking it for all the wrong reasons and full marks to the cast for delivering gem after gem of with a straight face honest to pete i'll never call my mother in law an old crow again the only trouble is that the last time i talked to a chaplain there wasn't any telephone line to the one and only place where we can get the kind of help we need and the immortal there it is now attacking the united nations building
0	this is almost ed wood territory yeah that ridiculous wreck of a flying monster looks like a cross between a turkey buzzard and a bad day at the dentist's office and that sound effect screech makes fingernails across a blackboard sound like mozart and why the giant claw when the goofy critter gobbles its victims with a mechanical jaw we get big close ups of the ugly chicken foot but nothing more i guess the producers thought a more appropriately titled big mouth might suggest a jerry lewis comedy and speaking of comedies all that anti matter gobbledy gook is funnier than anything in a lewis movie i guess the were stuck for a reason why an ordinary duck hunter couldn't take care of a 1950's flying menace so they concocted a real whopper anti matter from another galaxy yup this fugitive from kfc is supposed to have flown in from another galaxy behind a shield of anti matter as explained in excruciating detail by one of the film's resident geniuses in this case it's jeff morrow a pilot who i gather in his off hours advises einstein on the secrets of the universe br br unfortunately it's also morrow who keeps the ridiculous proceedings out of the bad movie hall of shame since he actually delivers his lines with a straight face what's more he even sounds as if he believes them this is a movie acting triumph of the first order to heck with the oscars morrow deserves a combat medal for performing above and beyond the call of duty under the most extreme bad movie circumstances watch leading lady then you can gauge his fortitude under fire she looks like she just woke up inside a bad dream and maybe if she stands stock still no one will notice her i barely did oh well the first time i saw this drive in disaster was through a beery haze in the back row of what's now a housing development i should have learned my lesson and broken out another 12 pack this second time around
0	pilot mitch jeff morrow sees a ufo while test flying a plane but nothing shows up on radar then planes and ships start disappearing and reports of a ufo increase it turns out it's a giant monster bird that is attacking and killing but what is it and why is it here br br this has all the right elements for a classic it has an actually pretty entertaining script i was never really bored the acting is good for a 1950s monster movie morrow doesn't overdo the macho hero act and mara is quite good as the requisite female love interest she's also strong and takes care of herself even though she is off getting food and coffee for everyone all during the movie the problem here is the monster dear god it's terrible it looks like a deranged turkey it has a long neck a hilariously stupid beak some teeth a few strands of hair on its head and claws and oh yes it squawks not roaring squawking the actors had no idea what it looked like it was added after production actors morrow and were horrified when they finally saw it in a theatre morrow said his audience burst out laughing and he left the theatre quickly before the movie ended producer sam katzman was responsible for this he wanted to save money and gave the world the stupidest monster ever and you can see the wires moving it too this gets 4 stars only because morrow and are so good and the script is well done it gets no stars for the pathetic monster wait till you see it attack what is obviously a toy train worth a look if you're a horror fan to see what has to be the stupidest monster ever
0	i love old monster movies for the pure camp value this one does not disappoint if you find that sort of thing amusing br br the acting is pure 1950s stilted crap you do get used to it when you've seen enough of these the dialogue is very silly and ultimately forgettable you're just there for the giant bird br br the science in this movie is hilarious a monstrous otherworldly avian that can manipulate anti matter intent on wreaking havoc and eating people an alien who has come to earth to nest some of the best scenes in the movie that don't have the bird in them include the scientists explaining what is going on br br a lot has been said about the ridiculous bird marionette it looks like a new baby bird bald and ugly with ruffled feathers it even like a hungry angry fledgling however the bird scared the crap out of my three year old who had big scary bird nightmares for the evening it's a bit creepy br br i was very sad about the scene where they shoot the egg somehow the egg is not protected by an antimatter shield but i'm a bird lover what can i say
0	ok this 'horror' film was meant to be a joke right please tell me it was supposed to be a joke then i'll understand br br a big cawing bird with giant claws or one claw anyway swoops down on unsuspecting folks on the ground and gobbles them up mara and jeff morrow sufficiently overact in order to keep things interesting but at least you'll enjoy a hearty snicker when you see the 'monster' it looks like a cross between a deranged chicken and mortimer br br either director fred sears just made this picture in a hurry and knew the bird looked utterly ridiculous or he really thought his film and creature were genuinely frightening i prefer to think and hope it was the former br br p s the bird needs a haircut
0	i haven't read the book of this and based on this adaptation will not bother i hated every character in this show miranda was slutty selfish and mumbled miserably through the appalling dialogue her sister was a total wimp and this was the worst depiction of manic depression i have ever seen i have a degree in psychology and this was not accurate in fact until it was mentioned i did not realise troy was supposed to be bipolar i thought he was a normal slightly grumpy teenager br br the only saving grace in this stupid show was david tennant whose brilliantly psychotic performance was the only thing that got me to watch the second half br br clearly the writers and producers of this show have not done any research troy's mental problems are not remotely accurate nor are the forensics involved in the twist ending and if you did not spot that a mile off you are a big ole dummy br br utter garbage
0	oh yawn not another chick flick where the men are all pigs and the women will get even for the abuse they suffered the only difference is that in this film everybody's a pig or has mush for brains i hated this film for the moral issue of why it's right to send a man to prison for life for a murder he didn't commit is that a more immoral act than his abuse and this movie shows all the situational ethics of bad writing i saw it on the cbc's best of britain series if this is britain's best no wonder the british film industry is in trouble br br the only bright spot in this film was david tennant he plays his character as so despicable that i'm likely to spit on the next person who speaks with a scottish accent kate tries to play the victim but comes off in the end as immorally devious as david character they deserve each other br br in the mush for brains category are the parents who see nothing wrong with the obviously psychotic brendan english policemen are made out to be so incompetent that they're unfit to give out traffic tickets the british policeman's union should sue the makers of this film for defamation br br this film isn't worth the electricity it takes to run your dvd to watch it
0	i find it disconcerting that in an era when satisfying and fulfilling spirituality is unknown and we are all scattered across the whole spectrum of possible beliefs that a charlatan and fraud of caliber as a charlatan he is exceptional there is no denying he had a special gift it's a pity he misused it though for the aggrandizement of his wounded ego feeding on the adulation of unwary sheep who were at his beck and call and in awe of him can inspire such extreme adherence and credulity this movie presents an idealized version of own largely fictional and fantastic account of his formation and awakening which i would rather describe as his discovery of how much he could sway the minds and wills of certain types of sadly disoriented people see it if you dare to have a disagreeable eye opening about how sadly deprived we are of true religious leaders to the extent that a clown like could inspire such devotion and be careful to have your blood pressure medicine at hand if you are one of those who still hope for a healthy religion to emerge from the ruins of christianity as a supreme example of cinematography at the entire service of the premises and pretenses of a dysfunctional cult
0	i'm not sure this review contains spoilers but i'm playing it safe by indicating there might be regardless it's unlikely anyone will watch this film who isn't familiar with the book br br there's an old wisecrack about mightily and bringing forth a mouse comanche moon is such a mouse br br the novel focuses more on the indians than the americans in adapting it for tv and rightly reasoned that the audience would be more interested in the whites than the reds unfortunately there's little in the novel that we don't already know about gus woodrow and their friends so the movie gives us mostly a portentous of what will occur in lonesome dove the indians who have their own story to tell are largely relegated to the background so much so that someone who hasn't read the novel will rightly wonder why it's titled comanche moon br br the novel has no overall story line or much of a point this could have been fixed in the movie by more strongly drawing the contrast between the indians losing their lands and way of life to the encroaching americans who bring this opportunity was missed br br unlike lonesome dove comanche moon has few extended scenes that develop character or relationships at least among the americans the extended scenes with the indians have been largely removed or shortened and for a net four hour film it is remarkably episodic and choppy one gets the feeling the script was originally longer and cut to reduce the production costs br br the screenplay comprises mostly clichéd dialog and platitudes coming from the author of the last picture show it's a startlingly bad script and had the opportunity to fix problems with the story and characterizations but did not br br some of the best dialog from the novel is missing or altered for no obvious reason for example clara cassie shows her intense hatred of woodrow jack by condemning gus for always running off to be with his pard that tart little revelation of clara's sexual jealously is gone then there's the scene where the ur dense woodrow warns maggie not to let jake spoon compromise her the exchange in the novel is shorter and harsher the film tones it down and doesn't portray woodrow as quite the socially stupid emotionally frozen stone he is when i read that scene in the novel i wanted to punch woodrow in the stomach or worse there are other changes some of them understandable inish eyelids are not cut off to do so would like have required expensive cgi but buffalo hump has no hump perhaps it was felt unreasonable to ask wes studi to around such a huge prosthesis and buffalo character is kindler and gentler he is nowhere nearly as grotesquely violent as he was in the novels br br the only good thing about this near turkey is steve remarkable performance not so much as gus but as robert duvall playing gus it is uncanny he perfectly duplicates duvall's mannerisms and manner of speech without ever appearing deliberate or self conscious as was duvall he is wholly within the character and he actually shows us gus becoming more gus in the third part br br the best thing about comanche moon is that it won't spoil our affection for lonesome dove not just a great western but a great american film br br ps for those who think rachel griffiths was over the top that's the way she was in the book
0	the title doesn't make much sense to me i'm not sure what door in the movie shouldn't have been opened br br the movie starts uneventfully with a conversation between a man and a woman in a room that looks like a richly furnished train car complete with the sound of the train traveling in fact the man's house is a train car and he has a cassette of train sounds the woman leaves and calls a young woman the young woman tells her boyfriend a doctor that she's been told her grandmother is ill and she needs to return to her home town she hasn't been there in thirteen years br br flash back to thirteen years ago a shadowy figure enters a house he caresses a sleeping young girl then goes into another room and stabs the girl's mother the girl wakes up and enters her mother's room and finds her dead with a knife in her she screams and an arm comes out of nowhere and a hand over her mouth she looks up in fear that early scene in the movie of the killer muffling her scream and the girl's look is one of the few effective shots in the movie br br it doesn't have much going for it in the visuals department occasionally there's some strange use of sound and there's some weird lighting in an attic scene where many of the panes of glass are red and blue br br back to the present day the young woman arrives in her grandmother's house an old doctor is there who she doesn't trust along with the man from the opening scene judge and kearn the town's museum operator she doesn't trust any of them and it's true they don't inspire any trust she's rather crabby throughout the whole movie she wants to check her grandmother into a hospital the men in the town want her house and the museum operator wants the things in it his museum is already filled with many of the grandmother's things inexplicably the woman wants to keep the house br br the young woman starts getting phone calls from a man speaking in a sinister whisper he makes various threats and wants her to do things to arouse him such scenes recur often unfortunately there are so few characters in the movie that the possibilities of who it could be are limited worse still we see right from the beginning who is making the phone calls so while the young woman doesn't know even though the caller occasionally drops into his normal voice the audience always knows no suspense each call rattles her more and more br br the ending was unexpected for me so maybe gets points for not going with the obvious but i'm not sure i cared for it
0	it seems at least vaguely possible that this movie provided a bit of inspiration for the sopranos as its main character martin blank john cusack is a hit man who has so many issues from his past and his profession that he's in therapy trying to deal with it all everything finally comes to a head at his 10 year high school reunion the problem was that by the time blank got to the reunion i had stopped caring frankly i found this movie a drag from start to finish br br it had potential there was a reasonably good cast headed by cusack and dan aykroyd playing grocer his arch rival in the hit man business along with minnie driver as debi high school sweetheart who he stood up on prom night and a limited role for alan arkin as dr psychologist that fairly talented cast never really seemed to come together though the drama lacked intensity and the comedy lacked real humour what i thought had the most potential to be a comedic storyline was grocer's proposal for a hit man's union but aside from becoming a bit of a running joke the idea never really got developed as for the romance one wondered why debi would even think of letting this guy back into her life br br there were a handful of chuckles but nothing really caught me and held me and i spent most of the movie wondering whether this thing was ever going to start to click it never did not for me at least 2 10
0	grosse pointe blank was really quite a below average film its hit man theme is very dry and is more like a romantic comedy than a hit man thriller the acting is very normal the performances are extremely embarrassing at times with many characters seeming very and that really annoyed me the whole reunion and the 'wow i haven't seen you in 10 years ' element is extremely cheesy and many scenes just drag on especially nearer the end when they are at the actual reunion party and the characters are going through each of their former classmates one by one greeting them it just all seemed very tacky pointless and was poorly executed br br dan akroyd's role as a assassin is very sparse he only seems to appear once at the very beginning and right at the very end in a 'final show down' which is hugely hyped up but doesn't deliver at all br br the soundtrack is also very mediocre the bulk of the songs that are in this film are straight out of the 1980's and with the exception of two or three are very bad hearing duff songs over quite a duff film just adds to the negativity that surrounds this film br br i could go on and on about how little things were annoying and were just very bad such as the very few action sequences that came and went very quickly the lack of character development and how poorly the whole thing was constructed in that department the way that half the time you forget that cusak's character is even a hit man at all as the element is so non existent br br even the way the comedy thinks it's funny but it isn't i didn't laugh once during this movie sure maybe i smirked now and again but my only real feel good point was when i realised the movie was nearly over br br please don't waste your time with 'grosse pointe blank' despite the relatively high but badly incorrect imdb rating i've seen films that are better than this film that have lower rating on this site which tells you that there are better films out there just don't bother with this one
0	i was shocked there were 18 pages of good reviews this has to be one of the worst movies especially considering it was recommended must admit that comedies are not my favorite genre but this movie made it worst in that it tried so hard to be clever that it made me squirm to watch it br br the concept of the movie is comparable to audition week on american idol you watch because people are so blind to their shortcomings but we knew this movie didn't have bad actors so how funny would it be to have good singers try to convince they shouldn't get anywhere near an american idol tryout it would be pointless as this movie was br br the use of improv is over rated we've all been in that setting where a group of friends get on a roll and everyone is cracking up with tears in the their eyes i feel that is improv improv can't be turned on just because the camera is rolling as this film proves if you like that drew carey hosted show of improv you'll probably like this film br br overall the jokes were poor the improv was sophomoric and the over acting by guest and company was campy and those are my compliments of this drivel if a guy playing a trumpet and the kettle drum at the same time is funny to you fine for me i prefer more heady stuff like i love lucy or hee haw br br but remember i think snl lost its humor in the 1980's so maybe you'll like this g rated humor i kept waiting for a person to identify himself as the zoo keeper and then tell us there was no zoo in town that's the humor you can expect br br my only wish was that i could give this a minus rating
0	just to let everyone know this is possibly the worst movie i have ever seen and i've seen pretty much everything if you're thinking of renting it don't it's not worth the cardboard container that it came in
0	college students who are actually in their late 20's on campus in boston which looks strangely like the isle of man are menaced by a fierce monster assembled during a blue peter episode the new teacher must save the day even though he is really oh who cares br br i'll start with the positives there is a nice shot of eastenders new gal samantha can in the obligatory campus shower scene with her best mate katy lawrence a bit of side trivia katy was hired when she arrived at auditions with her sister just as moral support to her sibling but ended up landing a part oh joy picked from obscurity to flash her pert buttocks in a meaningless scene added for titillation then getting killed 30 minutes in for her troubles her latest and only other credited role is as probationary nurse 5 in atonement i wonder if she snuck a look at keira knightly if extras and stars are allowed to mix and wondered where did it all go wrong br br i'll give a few hints katy if all the other british cast members are asked to speak with american accents in a doomed attempt at mass marketing and the only person who can manage it is the b movie veteran usa native todd jensen you know you're in trouble if you look at your wage slip and it'll only just about cover your lunch and your bus ride home you ain't starring in a movie with a trillion dollar budget if the premiere is attended by loads of family members of the fourth assistant director and provokes gales of laughter when the tape monster rampages through the sewers it should dawn on you that this isn't exactly alien or even a critters iv come to think of it so katy in your next life i'm a buddhist you see perhaps you'll be a bit more selective in your choice of debut feature rather than impulsively jumping at the first pile of crap that heads your way flashing skin in your first movie does not guarantee long lasting success unless you're sylvester stallone and he had the script to rocky to back him up br br to all intents and purposes this is as 0 10 a movie as i've ever seen however for sheer unintentional laughs and pure camp value it gets a 1 well done
0	this was a pathetic movie the alien was decent but the movie itself gave a new meaning to pitiful the plot is something that's been done over and over again however this one does it the worst the acting was c p the scenes were often too dark to get what was going on no one developed any concern for the main character the movie was far too slow paced and the murder scenes that there were were foolishly crafted and ended up looking no more interesting than the rest of the movie there are some movies which suck but can still be enjoyed because of there total outrageousness but this doesn't even have that whoever made this film thought that they could make something good and they failed miserably there is nothing this movie has to offer except a headache avoid it
0	after a meteorite lands in boston really somewhere in the isle of man a hideous fanged alien monster is released and is on the loose in a local girl's school causing mayhem and turning the students into zombie like creatures this film is apparently a loose and i stress loose remake of the 1986 film with the same name as it features the same monster but a different plot both films are terrible but to the credit of the 1986 version it was watchable this isn't let's start with all the acting especially from the lead professor was very very bad this film is supposed to take place in boston we know this because the film makers had the ingenious idea of putting boston police or boston gas company on everything yet everyone seems to have rather muddled british accents at least they didn't try using boston accents thank god the script is a big flawed mess the best example of how dumb the writing is when it's established that you can turn the zombie students back into humans by removing a necklace containing a piece of the meteorite is that what our brave heroes do no they run around shooting the zombie students instead nice director paul matthews who also wrote directed the weak 1995 monster movie grim clearly doesn't know how to pace his films the movie is terribly boring in places the lighting is awful the film looks cheap and bland one of the most disappointing aspects is the lack of notable gore 99 of the death scenes involve the creature popping out of a dark corner and dragging someone away while we hear they're horrified screams off in the distance this convention never worked well in the past and certainly doesn't work here the visual effects were awful the cg opening sequence in space looked like it could have been created on microsoft slideshow for god's sake the explosion of the gas tanks at the end was just as awful okay i like to consider myself a fair critic so i'll give credit where credit's due the creature effects were actually pretty cool gotta love those close ups of slimy drooling teeth br br to sum the film up is a terrible cheaply made horror movie that should be avoided like the ebola virus not recommended br br 1 5 10
0	imagine the most cliche ridden b movie horror plot you can add more plot holes than plot have it scripted by a 10 year old have the acting done by a level drama students faking really bad us accents in the isle of man add monster special effects that the lovers of b w dr who shows will appreciate result duff film throw in samantha janus taking her clothes off make a point of this on the cover and you'll probably sell enough copies to make a profit anyway
0	it's strange what fate does to some people while looking in the discount bin at a dvd retailer i came across a copy of deadly instincts being a collector of any film that is either sci fi horror or featuring alien monsters i decided to buy it not to mention the fact that it cost five dollars – a bargain believe me after viewing it i came to the opinion that it was nothing special but after doing some research on the internet i discovered that the film was actually called was a remake of the tim kincaid horror flick that menaced video stores in the mid 1980s which i've already seen my appreciation of deadly instincts grew following that discovery br br a meteorite crashes on the lawn next to a private girls' college the sole teacher there ashley played by todd jensen – that's right the guy who gets turned into a cyborg in the cult flick cyborg cop four years earlier notices that some of the students are beginning to disappear while encountering a black haired woman with a scarred face wearing a kinky leather outfit his investigation reveals that an alien creature had hitched a ride on the meteorite had come to earth to breed using the local womenfolk along with a local detective who believes him to be responsible for the disappearances ashley tries to stop the monster br br the original directed by tim kincaid who would leave the genre to make gay porn was a sci fi horror film which was actually a thinly veiled soft core porn film designed to take skin flicks to genre fans it is in my belief one of the worst films made in the 1980s why anyone would want to remake it is quite a mystery br br this remake is actually a better effort than its low budget source the film which takes the basic concept of an alien monster trying to interbreed with human women eliminates any pornographic elements in fact the film is actually very tame there are no sex scenes no nudity even during the shower scene swearing violence are kept to a minimal level there is no gore which may cheat gorehounds this makes the remake a film safe for the whole family that is if the kids aren't scared by alien monsters which brings me to the film's m 15 rating which seems a bit much br br of subject matter aside the film does have some faults the script while featuring some good characterizations has a number of holes so big you can crash a meteor through br br what you're mad at me for that come on this review needed a bad pun so it will remain interesting br br anyway the film's setting is one problem the script failed to fix – the film is set in boston but the buildings don't look like they belong in boston something about the architecture ain't right another thing is the college itself with a rather large building housing about twenty students all female of course only having one class – art the only teacher there has a relationship with a student so does the janitor which somehow escapes the attention of the principal not to mention the cops who are so one dimensional stupid that the real boston pd would have a good case if they ever decided to sue oh the well the chance that a meteor which is sent from saturn check the opening credits reaches earth with no onboard propulsion is astronomical that doesn't include the chances that any passengers in the meteor will survive the landing br br as far as the acting goes todd jensen gives a dependable performance as the heroic teacher while the late simmons who was murdered by her boyfriend shortly before the film came out cuts a striking figure in that leather outfit as well as proving she can act the visual effects are run of the mill with credits due to the filmmakers for bringing us a cool looking monster
0	i viewed the first two nights before coming to imdb looking for some actor info i saw the 9 rating which surprised me since i was not that impressed by what i'd seen as reference i happen to believe lonesome dove was the best tv western ever i grew up next to the mgm back lots in culver city in the 50s and have a certain sense of reverence about the western genre br br so i saw the glowing first review and decided to read more there i found several reviews with 1 or 2 stars that summed up my feelings well about the lack of character development poor editing feeling that it was shot on the universal back lot mgm's is long gone and overall impression that it was not going to come close to changing my feelings about ld my impression is that the overwhelming vote of those who chose to write was less than a 4 0 br br this got me to wondering about the process that yields a 9 rating if the people giving the 10s and 9s do not take the time to justify their vote is the ballot box being stuffed by people with a monetary motivation i have long used imdb as one tool to screen movies and thought it the best available now i am not so sure
0	first off let me say if you haven't enjoyed a van damme movie since bloodsport you probably will not like this movie most of these movies may not have the best plots or best actors but i enjoy these kinds of movies for what they are this movie is much better than any of the movies the other action guys segal and dolph have thought about putting out the past few years van damme is good in the movie the movie is only worth watching to van damme fans it is not as good as wake of death which i highly recommend to anyone of likes van damme or in hell but in my opinion it's worth watching it has the same type of feel to it as nowhere to run good fun stuff
0	dire beyond belief obviously set on the isle of man masquerading as the us very badly and full of cut rate british actors who can't do american accents a monster that looks like an promotional cut out for alien from a movie store with the most inflexible feet ever seen girls in the shower undressing blah blah blah you get the idea don't watch it run away hide avoid
0	of all the movies in the history of movies i can't imagine someone sitting down and saying i want to spend x amount of dollars or pounds sterling to remake that flawed classic film called lots of stories have been turned into films about meteors coming to earth with something sinister lurking inside why not put your money into making a spectacular 3d remake of it came from outer space instead why look for a dingy nudie flick that existed only for the purpose of showing off a rubbery set of monsters and some naked coeds was the script for the 1986 version of so inspiring that these producers felt it had to be done again and this time done correctly when you come down to it the only reason this film exists is to show off britcom cutie pie samantha janus but if you're gonna make a skin flick and exploit sam janus in it you'd better have her more naked than this and naked more often than this if you want to succeed br br meteor lands monster escapes coeds duff their clothes monster eats people and another what if ending ensues br br honestly i never thought i would ever recommend the original over any other film but this would be the one to come in 2nd place to it
0	i've read other reviews of this movie and while it certainly isn't the best movie ever made in the sci fi horror genre it isn't that bad if you accept it for what it is low budget b movie fare that shall we say borrows heavily from the likes of 'alien' nasty extraterrestrial monster that cocoons its victims gorgeous and confused space girl and the beastie breeding with captive girls angle this is one seriously cheesy movie and the whole thing was obviously done on a shoestring budget although the alien isn't too bad i've seen far less convincing men in rubber suits at any rate none of the acting is oscar material and the isle of man doesn't really double for boston very convincingly the plot is fairly predictable too and the premise that an alien craft would travel squillions of miles and crash land smack bang in the middle of an all girls college campus thus conveniently providing a rich source of perfect breeding victims is utterly laughable however the movie does have its suspenseful moments there's a few helpings of nudity and semi nudity and the film does feature one of the few movie appearances by the beautiful and tragic model actress simmons as the space girl who at the age of only 24 was murdered in london by her jealous boyfriend shortly after making this film
0	this is one of those movies where the acting set location direction and effects were so bad you need to rent a copy get 5 or 6 buddies a keg of beer sit down and watch it to borrow from the late douglas adams watching this movie will be like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick br br what is wrong everything british actors posing as americans there have been many that can pull it off like bob hoskins but he isn't in this one it wasn't even necessary to choose north america as a location why not say it took place in england or something the director seemed to like taking shots of girls tits and asses more than actually coming up with some kind of character motivation so at this point you drunken buddies will be saying all right another t a shot there isn't much dialog so feel free to skip off to the kitchen and make those sandwiches what did i like about this movie after my friends passed out i managed to collect 185 off of them and told them they spent it at the strip bar after we finished watching the awful movie
0	the trailers for this movie promised and this movie delivered exactly what was promised good campy fun with lots of very good looking naked broads if you were expecting a major hollywood movie with major stars stellar budgets and mpaa tamed money shots you will be very disappointed br br however if you are a fan of the old b movies with unknown but very good looking young stars that act amazingly well given the material some hokey but surprisingly well done special effects and very tight naked nubile bodies this movie is almost heaven
0	your ability to enjoy the ashes of time may depend on our expectations before stepping into the theater even its most strident supporters seem to agree that audiences can be split right up the middle in their appreciation of this unique film br br unlike most hk actioners the battle scenes are curiously kept at a distance when they do happen they're rendered in a jerky style in which it's difficult to make out exactly what's occurring on screen the dramatic scenes can be extravagantly beautiful with the of maggie cheung brigitte lin and a roll call of top acting talent chewing up the scenery as with some of wong kar wai's early work the dialog could be more precise br br in short the ashes of time requires a forgiving attitude released around the same time as wong kar wai's spectacularly successful chungking express it's clear that the director isn't as confident working with the elements of the martial arts film anyone looking for tense action is likely to be disappointed but those intrigued by the director's aesthetic will likely find this a unique experience at the very least
0	the direction by wong is perhaps the all time worst in film history i've ever seen this film makes my all time worst film of 2000 dungeons and dragons by courtney looked like an oscar winner the flaws in this movie is beyond explanation the biggest one is the lack of depth every scene does not develop fully as if the editing room doesn't know how to do their job correctly its a shame that with such an all star cast of talents and a famous popular traditional story can be destroyed by this lack of vision br br i am so disgusted and hope that some great director like john woo or ang lee decide to remake this film and do some justice i'm not even sure if i can rate 0 10
0	disclaimer during my ventures into foreign cinema i have taken a liking to a wide variety of movies that span different genres that include horror action drama comedy and romance to name a few thus i have enjoyed the thoughtful serious tone of dramas as well as the mindless popcorn fun of action films with a wide array of chinese japanese and korean movies under my belt i am confident in my ability to recognize bright spots in movies to appreciate and complement unfortunately ashes of time has nothing to recognize it is one of the worst chinese movies i have ever seen br br to start off this overrated swordplay epic showcases the infamous slideshow action sequence throughout which is nothing more than an ultra cheap and pathetic form of action choreography one simply needs to show a series of close up pictures of faces swords legs and or arms and then a dead body you now have an action sequence for ashes of time the problem lies not only in its poor quality but also in the fact that the scenes are so chaotic and disjointed that the viewer has no idea what the hell is going on br br the dramatic element of this film is nonexistent as it relies on the characters telling the viewer that they love someone or hate someone instead of actually developing and showing such elements on screen which renders all characters generic and colorless leaving the viewer completely indifferent to their actions in fact the storyline itself is an absolute disaster introducing way too many characters way too quickly with way too many plot devices plot complexities in films can be used very i e a tale of two sisters but ashes of time becomes exploitative trash when it does nothing more than convolute a very simple plot for no apparently good reason br br in fact this entire movie acts like a series of to cover up its deficiencies horrible action choreography is covered up by slideshow tricks and chaotic camera movements non existent character development is covered up by the characters overtly saying how they feel and a thoughtless storyline is covered up by confusing the viewer with br br as if this weren't bad enough this movie was extremely boring seeming more like 150 minutes instead of the actual 95 br br rating a rarely given 0 5 stars
0	as i sit back after watching wong kar wai's 1994 movie ashes of time – more specifically the 2008 re edit and re release with the word slapped on the end of the title – i wonder what went wrong i wonder why the film just didn't work out at all i wonder why the movie failed to score any major points in my book in particular what was it about the film which dragged it down and made it the director's worst film of his career br br well it's not too hard to figure out really let me just say that it truly is a shame that kar wai so abruptly went down this hell hole of mediocrity and poorness in moviedom especially considering the fact that in the same year he released chungking express one of his enduring and an absolutely sublime film so – what went wrong it would be suitable to consider ashes of time as somewhat of an experimental film our director essentially places his own inimitable style of film making and places it in an entirely different setting mood and atmosphere what results is a catastrophic film which is all over the place and simply does not work out hence it would be even wiser to call ashes of time a failed experiment bold audacious and innovative but a failure nonetheless br br let me elaborate those who have seen the films of mr kar wai a hong kong born film auteur who's made his mark on the art house world since his debut in the late 80's will know that there is an overriding aesthetic which binds all of his movies together essentially and frankly speaking they're all colourful thought provoking amiable subtly humorous and meaningful of life love and loss the same formula is transposed into ashes of time however the regular setting of hong kong is ridden of and in its stead we're placed into the setting of ancient china and the land of the legendary martial arts warriors and clansmen br br intertwined into this quasi adventure historical caper is the typical kar wai love story this time involving an elegiac hit man who has moved to the middle of the desert and is carrying out contract killings however i must stop myself there description of characters is a useless thing to do why because not a single character in ashes of time is worth mentioning or nothing what a bland cast and what a waste of talent the case of ashes of time contains nearly all regular kar wai collaborators br br not only that but the film is essentially endless incessant rambling in a horrendous almost non existent narrative structure one of the main reasons why detractors of ashes of time berate it is because it seems to possess no plot whatsoever let alone a semblance or an indication of one you can definitely see what they're getting at even from the first two three minutes maybe less of the film perhaps it's just the atypical setting of ancient china which is unaccustomed and inappropriate for kar wai's typical film making style i like to think however unfortunate it may be that mr kar wai just stuffed up big time here br br one thing that a reviewer can actually compliment in ashes of time albeit said compliment being starkly isolated is another director trademark – wonderful colourful and blissful aesthetics what joyous colour is composed on screen what glorious textures are painted for us and what breathtaking landscapes and imagery are captured for us throughout the entire movie we can at least take this as a sign that wong kar wai is still there at heart and it's just the film which is so atypical and buries his usually commendable nuance although the visuals aren't enough for us to fully absolve kar wai for this disastrous venture they're enough to make the film worthwhile – and at least we don't walk out of the movie in a completely and totally cantankerous mood now that there's something we can think of nicely br br the film is essentially a art' film following in the style of say legendary japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa however one thing differentiates kar wai's film from kurosawa's best and that's that in the japanese director's films everything gels together and simply works in ashes of time nothing seems to work kar wai's attempt to make a genuinely profound wuxia film let alone an intellectual and provocative movie in general terms is a futile endeavour br br kar wai claims that making ashes of time exhausted him and that he needed time to clear his head it must've certainly been a effort on his behalf as his are embodied in the film and transferred to us directly – i mean just watching the film is an exhausting effort and now i need time to clear my head of this unpleasant movie going experience
0	ashes of time was an audacious project but ended up being a pretentious movie this film is a good example of how to tell a simple story in a complex manner the plot of ashes of time is fairly simple and comes down to two words love triangle because of those love triangles crossing stories jealousy hate and love are the main dynamics displayed by the characters the narrative part is seen through yang eyes leslie cheung yang feng lives in the desert where he acts as to various swordsmen and becomes the tool of destiny through which vengeance is achieved unfortunately ashes of time fails in telling these simple stories of love and hate wong kar wai lost himself driven by a desire to make each frame of the film a painting and an aesthetic experience in fact beside the casting of beautiful actors men and women everything else is a failure in this movie dialogs are and not original at all picture's quality is very much the editing is one of the worst ever seen at least by me in the swordplay genre and finally the filming of the rare sword fight is very confusing and unappealing even the attempt of building artistic scenes is not always achieved the so call erotic women on a horse scene is ridiculous not erotic and useless wong kar wai wanted to deliver 100 minutes of pure aesthetic experience and forgot that a film is first about how a plot is told by forgetting that he delivers an awkward movie that doesn't even fulfill its artistic objective
0	did the writers pay people to come up here and write positive reviews i mean really it's a bit hackneyed and spike isn't that funny he seems more like the serious guy trying too hard to be funny there are so many mediocre gigs in this show like once the opening sketch was talk show apply directly to the forehead over and over and another that featured spike and another dude getting high and it wasn't even funny they didn't even do anything but sit around and laugh over and over ha ha and another that featured spike talking to a korean guy who ate duck and told him that he had a pet duck ha ha i mean really spike just gets funny guests on his show that's why people like this show
0	recap a lone swordsman living in the desert and acting as an agent to other swordsmen recollects how his life turned out to be as it is it started with that the woman he loved chose to marry his brother instead causing him to leave his home town one of the swordsmen is huang who is himself in the middle of a complicated love story where a woman wants to have him killed for having ran away from a promise to marry her younger sister but the sister wants to hire a swordsman to have huang protected and everything is put to an edge when the woman and her sister is really the same person br br comments i've seen the redux version released in 2008 of the original that was released in 1994 how the two versions differ i can't say but the redux is very heavily stylized in the way of chinese wuxia action that is unfortunate as that style to me seems to have forgotten one of the most important elements of a successful and entertaining movie a comprehensible story but true to its style scenery and visual elements seem much more important and much more in focus of writer and director kar wai wong therefore there are lots of colorful very beautiful scenes that are completely unrelated to the story br br the editing and timeline of the story is also mishandled much is left out in the scenes the time line is broken and rearranged in a confusing way very slow and calm scenes are suddenly relieved by surprisingly brutal and seemingly unmotivated fights only to themselves being relieved by something else and unrelated the result is a confusing and very uninteresting movie br br thanks to these brutal but very few fights the movie is put into the action genre the poster and photographs also imply this but could almost be regarded as false marketing only a few minutes out of the 90 could be considered as anything like action the other couldn't be farther away from it the movie in its entirety is very slow dull and hence very boring not even the rare action filled scenes help since they are so disconnected from the rest of the movie br br i might say that i'm not a fan of this chinese style since they often seem to be afflicted of these same problems most importantly that the visual is more important than the story but ashes of time redux is perhaps the worst example i've seen br br 3 10
0	no that its sick it's not sick it made me want to puke because i spent 2 dollars on it its boring retarded and annoying i didn't see the mst3k version which sucks because i bet the mst3k version was funny it's sad that people waste money on these kinds of movies i'm surprised its not on the 100 worst movies of all time list br br rating 0 outta stars
0	ah another movie with motorcycles hell's angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking pot smoking and lots of moronic acts steve's rendition of a dying cat during his i love what i know serenade had me vomiting for hours bike chick linda makes out with everyone fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying you wit private stock this is scriptwriting folks br br i liked the ending what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse you have to see this to detest it br br die jeter die
0	not really all that much to this movie either a stunt racer or a stock car racer has a flaming car in the beginning of the movie goes to bar is approached by a biker gang who ruins his chances with a very lovely lady offer him a job he goes back to their place refuses the police ask him to accept their ya go what plays out is a very annoying little film that sees the hero not really do all that much and a biker gang that can kill and for some reason the police can not pin a crime on them i am not sure why the female biker did what she did at the end but hey it is a bad movie you always get scenes that make little sense i am still trying to figure out if i misheard it when they said the hero of the piece was a stunt car driver they may have said stock car driver because why would a stunt racer be racing and i wouldn't think it would be all that uncommon for a stunt car to crash the actors are bad and all the bikers are pretty annoying and the hero is kind of incompetent really this movie is not full of kicks but it is the pits
0	this movie begins with a man who appears to be some sort of sports driver he meets up with a gang which contains an arrogant boss an obvious idiot a fat boy who never speaks and a woman who rotates between the three of them the group which is called satan's angels wants rod the driver as their personal driver he says no but then says yes after the authorities make him a spy to check on them they rob a weapon shop in a ridiculously plot missing scene the scene involves the woman walking into the store with her long hair in a bun and large circular glasses on she says she wants protection and wants the shopkeeper to load the gun to show her how she then takes it from the shopkeeper and shoots him the other three in the gang excluding rod run into the store they take everything off the walls and then proceed to play with it like children receiving their toys on christmas day br br this movie surely wastes no precious screen time with a plot
0	this movie was lacking in a lot of areas it's about this elvis type guy who races cars and is approached by these bikers from satans angels one of them is named banjo and they beat up college kids for fun they want the elvis guy to be their driver at times i wanted the folks from to be quiet because the movie was actually kind of good sure there was violence and a lot of cheesy lines such as what kind of beer do you want a cold one that was cheesy the dude who plays banjo is a great boxer and i was glad to see him do a few fight scenes also the biker named fats had a nazi swastika on his jacket that was pretty bold if i must say so myself
0	probably the biggest thing about wild rebels that hurts it the most is the hero he's got loser written all over him but that doesn't stop him from getting the girl probably one of the world's worst race drivers imaginable he decides to stop racing after he crashes his car well his new job is racing still as a bunch of biker types pick him to drive their getaway car as they commit crimes there's nothing really to endear you to rod even the situation he's thrown into is pretty stupid in the end at the lighthouse scene you'll wish that rod gets killed with all the bikers get this he's shot twice once in the arm and once in the leg and still manages to crawl up the stairs a little if only had better aim br br avoid this one unless you're watching the mst3k version
0	wild rebels was probably a fun second film at a drive in movie triple feature 40 years ago it hasn't aged very well but it was never meant to age well it was obviously intended to be disposable forgettable fun from its inception taken on that level it's a good example of the biker flick genre br br several elements help distinguish it from the dozens of similar films being churned out at the same time the 'hero' steve comes off as somewhat of an unimpressive 'everyman' he's not especially brave tough talented or handsome although he does win a fight with a tough biker gang member halfway into the film and the girl gang member chooses to help him over her fellow gang member at the end of the film the soundtrack is quite well done featuring a nice style bass drum riff that keeps things moving and saxophones and brass charts that pep things up quite a bit and although the script is pretty shallow all the actors inhabit their cardboard characters convincingly and with a fair amount of energy br br there are plenty of careless technical gaffes terrible for night' scenes that occur in broad daylight squealing tires in a swamp fire sirens mistakenly stuck on the soundtrack instead of police sirens a bank sign made of duct tape on a ceiling tile a luger that sounds like a winchester 30 06 shotgun blasts that cut down people 100 yards away a detective killing a biker on a 3rd floor landing from the ground with a revolver with a 2 inch barrel br br there are a whole bunch of goofy story elements linda the girl gang member a bank guard with a drug filled syringe the final shootout takes place inside a lighthouse police don't actually block roads the police apparently never heard of ducking and the police detectives apparently never heard of planting bugs or having their undercover guy wearing a wire br br but the plot chugs along the cameraman knows what he is doing the pacing in most scenes is pretty good and there are some nice zippy one liners and dialog exchanges here and there that keep the energy level up my favorite man you're messing with private stock ie linda so no don't seek this one out or anything but if a copy of the mst version should fall in your hands you should have some good shallow fun watching it vastly superior to five the hard way or the or even 'girl in gold three other mst covered counter culture movies
0	if you decide to watch wild rebels don't expect anything deep and meaningful if you're looking for a film that explores the relationships and structure of a motorcycle gang wild rebels is the wrong movie if you're looking for an expose on the breakdown of the american educational system and the problem of juvenile delinquency wild rebels is the wrong movie if you're looking for a movie that examines how rural police departments are when facing a well financed well organized gang wild rebels is the wrong movie but if you're looking for an absurd movie filled with scene after scene of unintentional humor horrendous acting a paper thin plot and community theater style production values wild rebels is the right movie br br wild rebels is the story of a down on his luck stock car driver named rod tillman steve after a fiery crash which rod walks away from completely unscathed despite having only a cotton pants and a london fog style jacket for protection rod decides to give it up with no plan for his future other than to wander aimless through the back roads of the south he stumbles on the satan's angels motorcycle gang a gang being three of the stupidest guys to ever zip up a leather jacket and a woman they seem to share this group of hoodlums spends their time terrorizing a rural town in florida by committing such atrocities as stealing a newspaper from a neighbor's mailbox these bumbling idiots need someone to act as their driver during some larger crimes they have planned apparently these three einsteins can only drive vehicles with two tires not four so they recruit rod to perform feats of daring that only an experienced stunt driver would be capable of like keeping the car in the middle of a gravel road during a low speed chase eventually they hold up a bank get into the aforementioned low speed chase and have the lamest gun battle with the police ever put on film i could go on forever but you get the idea br br i hate the term so bad it's good but that seems to aptly describe wild rebels
0	i just caught wild rebels on one of the mystery science theatre 3000 archive compilations and this movie was so bad even the mst3k crew couldn't make it entertaining there are some mst3k targets that were films whose concepts were so dippy they couldn't possibly have been good movies like the green slime and others whose basic premises could have been made into genuinely entertaining films if their filmmakers hadn't them in the execution wild rebels is a film whose basic premise did make a good movie three years earlier when don siegel directed his remake of the killers at universal both films are about a failed racing driver who's seduced by a femme fatale into driving the getaway car in a robbery masterminded by the woman's boyfriend only in the killers the driver was john cassavetes the woman was angie dickinson and the criminal mastermind cast wildly but successfully against type in what turned out to be his final film was ronald reagan steve bobbie byers and willie are quite a comedown but what really makes wild rebels an awful movie is the direction by william note the accent over the final e present in his on screen credit which has absolutely no sense of pace whatsoever and seems to let every shot run at least half again as long as it needs to to make its dramatic point it's only a pity that someone didn't do a mocking commentary on this movie now in 2009 the comparison between steve hairdo and rod would have been irresistible
0	this show is like watching someone who is in training to someday host a show there are some good comedy ideas and tons of mediocre ones it doesn't look like the writers know the difference between what's funny and what's just weird or gross br br it has its moments when spike down a neighbor who had been letting her dog soil his lawn repeatedly it hit it's peak but the hilarious moments are too few and there's too many experimental comedy bits that miss the mark br br the show's better than say watching a test pattern or the qvc network but it needs some better writers br br reading the positive imdb comments on this show i am convinced that most of them were written by show and by relatives and personal friends of spike br br it just isn't very good most of the time
0	this is basically your run of the mill violent biker flick complete with nifty crashes and music ok so just and crashes it's a slight notch above much of the other fare featured on mst3k but it's still the equivalent of driving a nail into your kneecap slow and painful to give away plot would exhaust my energy so i'll just say you're better off skipping this one
0	wild rebels is fun in a bad way but also frustrating due to the actual good or at least workable elements in the story it deals with a race car driver steve who gets mixed up in a group of bikers called satan's angels who hang around a lot until they decide to rob a bank meanwhile also gets recruited by the cops to report back to them what the angels are up to and where they'll rob next it's not even that the film is really too 'dated' though it does of course carry the significantly crude and stupid music in the film from the band on stage in one scene to performing if you could call that drek that to the regular generic score br br it's just that there's not more care taken by the filmmaker into putting a little more logic direction and better actors for the parts as it is i didn't have a major disliking towards the film as i did with the but it almost left me a little indifferent to it all too what could come through as being unpredictable only comes through with stupid things like the name of the florida town ho ho so it's not completely un worthy then of its mystery science theater 3000 status as of late the commentary is good on the movie even if once or twice i almost wanted to hear what the characters on screen were saying in case it might have some worth wild rebels might be more of a good time if you've got a six pack and low expectations but as it is i wouldn't watch it again
0	legendary pop star steve don't let the sun catch you crying stars as an unlikable stock car racer whose career has hit the skids ha ha because he constantly crashes his car or as he laments i'm tired of being run down by every grease monkey that gets behind the wheel he falls into a bad crowd of humorously inept nazi bikers improbably named banjo fats and er linda fats is the most likable of the bunch he took a surfboard to the back of the skull and now only communicates through grunts sort of a harley davidson leatherface br br anyway steve is fooled by the cops into catching the dastardly crooks in the middle of one of their bank robberies the gang only robs banks for kicks man i guess they give the money to charity steve fails constantly the bikers get and the whole thing never comes off as daring because it's so dull this movie looks like it was filmed through a grease soaked paper towel not since has a movie so trampled my soul br br the guy who played fats went on to direct deranged the ed gein biopic starring robert blossom br br anyway in summary wild rebels hilarious on mst3k dreadful everywhere else
0	oh dear oh dear oh dear br br to think that films such as this were made and probably enjoyed by thousands at drive ins really boggles the mind how innocent we were in those days br br to put it bluntly this film is crap the hero is so wet you can hear his squishy damp footsteps in every scene my lord but he's just one of a whole slew of awful awful actors that appear in this turkey no wonder mst3k picked it the story such as it is centres around a stock car driver who is so incompetent you really believe it is the actor driving the car that he gives up and gets in with the wrong crowd oooooh scary stuff however the wrong crowd turn out to be the biker equivalent of the three stooges and their hand me round slut of a biker chick as an example of how lame this whole thing is the writers obviously wracked their brains to come up with a frightening name for the biker gang if four people can be called a gang that is the result the gang is called satan's angels i kid you not br br such dire acting and dialogue along with ridiculous scenes make for a wonderful beer and chips movie but otherwise its just the worst kind of rubbish br br as i said once this may have been considered good but today it just makes you laugh and cringe with every minute that goes by avoid it except for a good laugh and make sure you're more than half drunk too
0	i completely forgot that i'd seen this within a couple of days which is pretty revealing in itself the umpteenth version of gaston 'phantom of the opera' locked door country house mystery i had heard that it was an engaging and witty update so it appeared from the likable title sequence and a few neat touches in the opening scene but the film very quickly ground to a halt and became vaguely tedious and wholly unsatisfying br br as a mystery the major problem is that it is fundamentally by the audience like the worst agatha it depends on a character appearing in the final act with a wealth of background information that we have not been privy to as a film be it comedy or thriller the crucial problem is that characterisation is almost non existent with the exception of the killer everyone is a face value version of the typical suspects in the typical country house murder story reporter endangered heiress suspicious fiancé scatterbrained scientist father a surprisingly poor michel etc there's no depth and little of interest and the frequently over ripe or misjudged performances don't help you frankly don't care about anyone in it so there's no jeopardy or suspense only claude rich and in the last reel pierre arditi get anything to work with and only in the last reel does the film get close to a sense of resonance that is too fleeting to be really effective br br for the rest we get endless exposition and a couple of ineffective would be comic set pieces a promising one with a photographer trapped inside a grandfather clock is just too poorly thought through to pay off with dennis reduced to irving the for the last third of the picture i'm not fond of country house movies or agatha christie style so those who are might it a lot more slack but i found it a poor show as rich says when the mystery is revealed it's all rather something of a disappointment
0	a few buddies and myself have the strange hobby of seeking out really horrendous and utterly obscure for a good reason horror flicks and then subsequently watching them under the influence of mind consumer goods like alcohol and or soft drugs surely a lot of people do this but they watch movies like the godzilla remake whereas we torment our eyes and brains with stuff like the loch ness horror and eureka this is a prototypic bad movie we open traditionally with bag pipes music during the opening credits this is of course to emphasize extra to us dumb viewers that the story is supposed to take place in the scottish highlights and not in director larry birthplace texas for that exact same reason the cast members are seemingly also instructed to overact tremendously and talk with talk with atrocious accents the american marine biologist prof george sanderson arrives in loch ness with some brand new and highly sophisticated sonar equipment to track down the whereabouts of the legendary monster in the lake meanwhile there are many other parties hanging around the lake like a group of kids on a science camp what a boring way to spend your vacation retired army generals looking for a luftwaffe plane that crashed in the lake during wwii and a bunch of thieves and failed scientists that are the monster's egg you would think that these numerous sub plots bring some diversity and excitement in the plot but unfortunately that's not the case loch ness horror is an overall boring flick with only a couple of noteworthy elements the monster itself for example is a delightfully cheesy creation with cute eyes and a smoky breath his teeth also glow in the dark which is quite useful when you're dumb enough to go out on a boat ride in the middle of the night near the end of the film the remaining cast members were more interested in the lost luftwaffe plane than in the monster so it was about time to wrap it up loch ness horror is carefully recommended in case you're a fan of bad b movies from the 80's but be advised that it contains an overload of senseless dialogs and a bizarrely rushed ending that makes it look as if the film suddenly ran out of budget
0	what can i say about a movie as bad as this the people who made this movie didn't even try to make the monster in it look realistic you never see more than its head and the head is just a giant puppet that has little movement except for when it opens it mouth to roar and the sound they used for the roaring is the best part at many points in the movie it sounds exactly like a tie fighter flying over i couldn't believe that when i first heard it and had to rewind several times to make it sink in other than the terrible looking monster and the noises it makes there isn't much more to this film except for a few corny attack scenes and the crazy scotsman attacking the kids trying to have an intimate moment in his castle still it's watchable if you like this sort of trash i know i do
0	i think this is one of those few movies that i want to rate it as low as possible just to pay it a compliment br br i haven't seen this movie in about 25 years so i really can't say that much about it it still seems to be very hard to find on video but i remember my brother and i stumbled upon it somewhere in the toxic brew of late night uhf channel television of the mid 1980s when i was about 10 years old so i've never actually seen the beginning of the movie but i saw most of it the first thing i remember is this couple is sneaking out of a campsite and they're rowing to an island to make out and then they get attacked by an insane scotsman in a kilt with an axe they manage to escape from him but get attacked by the loch ness monster which in this movie is just a head and a neck with no body the eyes and the mouth of the monster don't even move it looks like a br br i mean i had just literally never seen anything on this magnitude before and it totally blew my mind i had seen some bad movies on tv in the early 80s but i had never seen something so totally inept and so casually and thoughtlessly constructed that it seemed like the people who made it spent less time and effort on it than we did watching it i had already seen some of the troma films and that type of thing that tries to deliberately be campy but this was the pure and real stuff and it was my first encounter with truly great bad film making this movie was like the last gasp of the drive in era and i caught a whiff of it just in time actually when we were watching it we couldn't figure out if it was made in the 50s or the 70s turns out it came out just a few years before i saw it br br later i came into contact with mystery science theater and found out about a lot of the old b movies and serials but i had already seen it in this movie the movie is so funny that i had never even laughed that hard at the monty python crew or bill murray or any comedian after seeing this movie i was always trying to search for the good bad movies and i got a lot of my friends into it but this movie was and basically is an impossible one to find i never really found out what it even was or who larry buchanan was until the 1990s when imdb took off and the internet took off and information started getting passed around but this movie still needs to be discovered by a lot of others who might appreciate its bad qualities look for it
0	omg another bad film by larry buchanan that guy did not learn to stop did he first he gives us zero budget sci fi movies and lies about famous dead people and now he is exploiting the loch ness monster as being vicious br br the plot is basically about some southerners of the usa pretending to be scottish camping out at loch ness alas out on the fishing hole oops i mean lake of loch ness there is a killer monster that clams itself to be going out of its way to kill people for no apparent reason br br i am surprised that the crew of mst3k never heard of this movie yes it is that bad too
0	something strange is happening in loch ness the water is crystal clear nor cold a giant robotic plastic monster emerges and kills scots what is this movie first i love reading stories about sea monsters in general when i saw this for sale i thought it was a cheap rip off of jaws no it was terrible the story was pointless acting was 100 garbage the only up side was the cool mechanical they used it was full of inaccuracy wrong locations and bad everything not worth your while just leave it on the shelf or garbage can you found it on on second note this film was shot in not loch ness a major diss to fans
0	maybe i'm alone here but this is a crap show i'm sorry but i was lured in when i found out about lil' bill o'reilly which i had no idea came from this show until months later and has honestly since lost its appeal but i gave the show a fair shot spike tries to hard to make himself into something he's not which is to say he tries to be human fox didn't even bother to hide the strings when they took him out of the box he came in his sketches try to hard he himself isn't funny and the writers are struggling to write material for a no talent host there is too much good tv out there to waste your time with this show and fox fox we had some good times but you need to get your f ing act together and come up with something original instead of trying to be just another me too network
0	possible spoilers ahead br br whenever fans of bad movies congregate for more than a few minutes a name that invariably comes up is that of larry buchanan this amazing director has given us remakes of other turkeys the thing from venus cheap jack crime dramas like a bullet for pretty boy and tawdry conspiracy flicks like down on us and goodbye norma jean the loch ness horror is a humdinger to say the least overlooking the fact that loch ness is extremely long and narrow larry filmed this howler on a wide and round california lake early on the film boasts some dazzling for the budget underwater photography and creates some atmosphere in spite of itself then it degenerates into windy dialogue uttered by no name actors with lapsing scottish accents not to mention a soundtrack that will do nothing for the much maligned bagpipe at one point campers sing you take the high road i'll take the low road just to throw in one more scottish cliche if scottish people ever decide to jump on the political correctness bandwagon they'll sue larry buchanan over this film his surname notwithstanding the monster looks like a giant papier mache puppet and it makes the dragon in cecil look terrifying by comparison in one unforgettable scene takes to land and to evade some patrolling soldiers the fifty foot long critter tries to hide behind a tree and the soldiers don't see it the loch ness horror is a true mind that must be seen several times to be believed
0	pick a stereotype any stereotype whether racial sexual cultural etc and i bet you'll find it in wassup rockers do you think that all hispanic teenage boys are stupid hairy inarticulate and dirty troublemakers are hispanic girls sex crazed easy ass baring sluts do black people all want to start fights and carry guns do all gay people throw themed parties with pink drinks and ask young boys to model for them are all white teenage girls rich stuck up princesses who are bored with white teenage boys and are looking for something a little more dangerous if you answered yes to any of the previous questions you my friend are a bigot and you will love wassup rockers br br director larry clark likes to shock his audiences i was 15 years old the first time i saw kids and i think that's why i'm still a virgin but wassup rockers isn't it's just bad he tries to be edgy and realistic with his minimal dialog and body hair close ups but these characters and this story are completely unrealistic br br simply put wassup rockers is a teenage boy's fantasy what 14 year old boy doesn't want to be a skater who gets in trouble crashes parties drinks 40s and is told by the hot rich white girl that his penis looks dangerous besides that demographic i really don't know who's going to enjoy this film
0	it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids bully etc but then just as quickly it unravels into a direction less mess who is the main character is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted i have no clue i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came i cut a good 20 minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes yes it illustrates the changing landscape between the have i got it way back in the beginning kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends wassup felt very staged poorly constructed and ever worse acting teenage caveman which larry didn't write but did direct was terrible but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn't take itself seriously wassup rockers was just plain bad
0	there's nothing to say except i want my time back that this movie took from me i'm not racist against latinos hell i'm half brazilian i loved the movie kids it doesn't make any sense these kids just go around and do nothing they're not even good at skating the whole time i'm just waiting for something anything to happen but it doesn't nothing happens the whole movie did i mention they suck at skating i might make a movie called beat up rockers and the whole premise will be about kicking the sh t out of poser moron punks like these kids i'm not even going to get into it this movie sucks please do yourself a favor and burn this movie if you come in contact with it so some other poor soul won't make the same mistake
0	larry clark is not renowned for his talents as a writer or a director but he has made some undeniably important films kids bully and to a lesser extent ken park all achieve their intended purpose shock revulsion and even disgust these films are uncompromising in their content and use their controversial nature to expose very serious problems in modern youth kids exposed us to the proliferation of a i d s and sexual promiscuity among the young bully touched upon similar issues ken park dealt somewhat ham handedly with sexual abuse and suburban ennui irrefutably all of these films exposed something horrifying and left a bad taste in your mouth br br wassup rockers is about a group of poor hispanic from south central las angeles who go to arbitrarily go to beverly hills to skate that's it br br wassup rockers is nothing br br it has no substance it has an essentially nonexistent narrative and like kids it features a cast of first time actors who were drawn out of the films setting however unlike kids none of them have any semblance of talent there is better acting in porn this film features without a doubt the most terrible performances i've ever seen in a feature film one can respect larry clark to exposing these young men to the film making process but these kids are absolutely cringe worthy folks might i add that apparently these gents also produced the soundtrack which features some of the most dismally inept garage punk you'll ever hear my advice is to pop a couple of migraine pills before you enter the theater or you'll regret it afterward br br but then again it's not like they had much of a script to work with every line that is uttered is a contrived pathetically delivered and irritating beyond all measure the story itself is ludicrous it starts out reasonably enough but soon slips quite unexpectedly into sheer absurdity this begins of course with a capricious with a pair of rich white girls followed by a series of clichéd national encounters characters being killed off for no reason and finally resulting in a ridiculous anti climax shots go on much longer than they need to be prepared to watch people fall of skateboards for about fifteen minutes straight overlong lingering shots of characters doing nothing or skateboarding down streets but then again with the script at a scant 32 pages they need as much useless filler as possible perhaps wassup rockers would have worked better as a short film br br anyways i could go on like this this is the worst film larry clark has made yet for those of you who are interested in seeing a clark movie if only for his shocking pederast antics look elsewhere this is by far the tamest film he's made yet and it's also the worst it's flat out horrible like uwe boll horrible definitely the worst one i saw at the festival br br 1 10
0	i've never been a big larry clark fan but somehow i've been dragged to almost every single one of his movies now i like independent films and i grew up very much into punk rock and i'd like to say that this film is disappointing to both audiences not every punk song incorporates oi into its as they do in this particular film br br but the real problem with this film is that it switches moods every fifteen minutes or so and lacks any kind of cohesion clark has made his living pretending that his fictionalized stories are how kids really are and as such you'll allow him ten minute scenes of stupid dialog that go nowhere because that's the cinema verite feel he's going for however when he shoots a ridiculous death scene pick any of them save for the opening drive by the over stylized attempts at what i assume is intended to be black humor are completely out of context ridiculously shot in most cases far worse than a student film and absolutely ludicrous in terms of the story john cassavettes and date movie make poor bedfellows as the forays into the latter style take you out of any kind of reality to remind you that you're watching a movie a really really bad one at that
0	look don't get me wrong i love independent films but come on i could barely sit through it without wanting to kill myself the director had absolutely no talent and he turned something that could have been ok to a f ing nightmare i am a punk enthusiast myself and even the music sucked the acting was crap br br i am usually a bleeding heart for these low budget films but this one this one didn't even try please don't waste your precious time and money i am sorry to be so harsh but come on it dragged on and and on and on remember when the kids got into that party with the weird and the watermelon martinis how did they just blend in it made me frustrated how they could just go anywhere they wanted and get into trouble and have sex and a meaningful conversation with whoever they wanted i know im but my mind is just buzzing with everything i hated about this film
0	i recently had to watch this for a project in a sociology class and thought it was absolutely the worst movie i have ever had to sit through it was like bad a bad cinemax movie with all the good bits taken out bad acting the fake documentary set up nonsensical plot and rudderless direction all combine to make a terrible terrible film br br the female characters are basically only there to be sex objects consider this exchange he's hot he has a girlfriend do you have a girlfriend no girl takes boys hand and leads him behind some bushes boy comes out and sits next to other boy girl off did you hit that no i didn't want to take my pants off you're stupid another girl shows up when the boys are going to beverly hills gets in the trunk with one of the boys and when they get pulled over by a cop you see the car bobbing up and down br br a homosexual pervert a trigger happy clint eastwood look alike and what seems to be a mask all add to the inanity one of the boys gets caught by a cop no one cares one of the boys gets shot no one cares br br someone said the dialogue was mostly improvised and it shows just awful i would never recommend this film to anyone
0	that's about the only redeeming quality in a movie that otherwise insults the viewer's intelligence by losing track of time plot and reason for being produced br br plus how that guy with the glasses ever got a gig in hollywood is beyond me
0	ever once in a while i run into a movie that is so embarrassingly bad i wonder why movies exist this is one of them this is a terrible attempt to parody the godfather with annoying cartoon sounds and bad dialogue eddie is just plain annoying as tony an annoying twit who upon his father don william hickey 's request takes over the family business tony as i said is an annoying little twit this makes the whole movie a complete mess the movie is terribly daffy it's too cartoonish the main point i'm trying to make is that you can't make a parody of an acclaimed drama like the godfather with so much cartoonishness it doesn't work that way believe it or not you have to take a parody of a dramatic movie seriously if you don't take it seriously it will feel too much like a parody the thing about doing a parody is that you can't seem too much like you're doing a parody you have to make it seem like you're taking the movie at least a little bit seriously it also feels like they're just mocking woody allen and that's what makes this movie absolutely terrible
0	first of all i've seen better acting and more realistic makeup in porno flicks how bad was chris as ungar on the sopranos chris is not taken too seriously and can be considered comic relief and then throw in bobby as one of his vegas cronies it's just too much to take in a dramatic movie neither actor can handle a serious role and is better suited as a second banana for tony paulie or uncle junior and i want to know who did the makeup for this disaster i want that person to be my make up person over the next 25 years so i'll never age a day either so that's all i'll write on this movie since it's not worth wasting too much more of my time br br yes i do know that michael imperioli and steve are their real names
0	if you liked william hickey in prizzi's honor he resurrects his character as don anthony in mob boss this is a very weak godfather satire with few laughs stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he's doing in this schlock fest morgan performance is one of the better efforts in the movie and that alone is not a good sign for sure eddie vacillates between three stooges slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation fatally flawed mob boss is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom and numerous other nonsense merk
0	this has to be one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life i can't believe people actually a write scripts like this b have a budget to make a film c actually expect it to be successful words can't even describe how horrible this film is i enjoy my fair share of teen movies but this didn't even come close to being funny in fact it was funny for the sole reason that it was so horrible i can probably count one maybe two parts in the film where i even managed to squeeze out a chuckle other than the laughs regarding how bad it was br br renting this was one of the biggest mistakes i've ever made its been a day since i've seen the film and i'm still in shock regarding how horrible it was avoid at all costs br br 2 10
0	i could crap a better movie this is a waste of time and money it makes me sick that movies like these are actually getting made and the people making them actually think they're good i happen to like teen comedies when they're done well this movie however takes this genre to a new low with movies like this people think it's actually okay to make this filth and ask unsuspecting people to pay money to sit through it it's sadism
0	my mom brought me this movie on a dvd a guy in a rental recommended it but in fact this might be the worst movie i've ever seen you know i didn't expect much from this film but it didn't have a good story it wasn't even funny and it was senseless i was looking forward to see christine lakin in this movie because i loved step by step even she was a huge disappointment the story was completely unreal one of the party guys is dead he wasn't dead in fact he woke up later the house looks like there exploded a bomb and there are 2 guys who have 3 hours to handle everything but then there comes a homosexual policeman there is a total mess till the end and the guys managed to tide up and everything in like 15 minutes come on just be realistic at least waste of money really
0	everyone's already commented on the obvious fact that the first few comments were obviously from people who either had a stake in the film or had friends family who had a stake in the film and that's okay if i'd made a movie all of my family and friends would be in there complimenting it too in all honesty there are some good things along with the bad things in this movie unfortunately the bad things far outweigh the good good the overall plot was mildly interesting the music was overall pretty good several of the songs when you could hear them were actually pretty cool the only musical issues i had were 1 the first suspense scene with some sort of quiet instrumental it really seemed to take away from the suspense 2 the song being played when the lead characters went to an outdoor party at a friend's house and 3 the songs that were good were too quiet especially when a heavy metal song was playing in the background while danny trejo hung a man sounded like a pretty cool song but it should have ripped out across the scene when danny trejo got now for the completely bad stuff the script was atrocious i mean horrible i've seen smoother dialogue in a star wars movie advice to the writer from a part time writer and full time movie buff when you write dialogue ask yourself is this something that people would actually say honestly the script was laughable i want to slam the acting but with that kind of writing it's hard to know if they have talent or not the mildly interesting plot was seriously hampered by the crappy dialogue i know it was low budget but words don't cost money if you have a good script even semi competent actors can pull it off this movie didn't seem to have either but hopefully the director will get a second shot at making a better film
0	this movie was terrible not only was the plot weak but the acting was unbelievable bad and at times pathetic very unrealistic dialogs people in real life don't talk like this and there is no emotion or feeling in anything said very monotone except for the almost indistinguishable whispering that constantly occurs even the editing is bad the cuts are terrible the camera work was sloppy and shaky on close ups even sways back and forth during conversations there is nothing positive about this movie and george needs to be working on heavy machinery or anything where he doesn't have to converse with other humans because he clearly doesn't know how to how did this movie win get nominated for awards oh my god
0	wow this movie really sucked down below the normal scale of dull boring and unimaginative films i've seen recently the acting was poor and robotic the story was so bland you could have summed it up with a simple 5 minute short audio was so poor and dirty it was hard to even listen to perhaps it was unedited from the camera it was shot off of i'm not sure which movie the 3 glowing reviewers were commenting on but it wasn't this one perhaps the director had his hand in seeing that his film received a good review at least before the real reviews started to show up br br save your time or you'll just be wasting your time and money on this film absolute suckage
0	don't get fooled by the and the comment below this is just 1 poor movie the way george katt played his character the soft gangster makes it very annoying to watch the conversation in the opening scene is a dramatic display of this de in the rest of the film the character's head seems to be somewhere else his emotions don't match with the things that happen in the film the things he says as a voice over doesn't add anything to the film it just makes zeus an even more spineless character with is head in the clouds br br the story and the film was put together with a total lack of fantasy all parts of the film were poorly stolen from other modern directors let's hope jon will use his own style and ideas for his future films
0	this was pretty bad from bad acting bad technical details bad camera shots and bad audio even though i was watching a dvd sometimes i couldn't hear what they were saying sometimes it was blowing my speakers even within the same conversation the plot was predictable and the characters consisted of mostly unbelievable neurotics bi and caricatures character development was awful the bratty little sister why was she even written into the script the nagging mom again what purpose the whiny girlfriend why didn't he dump her long ago the 'dark gang how original couldn't think of a better name i guess the drug dealer's hot girlfriend gotta have a hot latina if your going to have la gangs i guess but really etc etc can't believe i watched the whole thing
0	return to sender a k a convicted is almost imperfect the one good thing about this particular film was that i was never bored that being said the reviews that hail this movie as a low budget success may not have watched the same movie that i saw br br rather than write a review and tell you what happens and what works and doesn't work i will simply comment that nothing works there are plot holes in this movie that you can drive a semi through the acting in the film is not very good although that may be a result of a script so poorly worded that it could have been ghost written by george lucas there was no need for exceptional sets or costumes for this particular movie and everything seemed appropriate did i mention that there were some plot holes by the end of the movie you are wondering how a blind guy can be such a good shot with a shotgun why kelly preston trusts aidan quinn why she would fall asleep the night before her client is supposed to be killed how aidan quinn can drive 400 miles in such a short time with a car that keeps breaking down during the rest of the movie why aidan quinn didn't by a fifth instead of a bunch of nips etc br br with all that being said this is certainly a b movie and a terrible one at that the unfortunate thing is that it just isn't bad enough to be good if you value your time please let this serve as a public service message to stay away from this one
0	what in the world this piece of gambling cinema would have been suitable for the lifetime network michael is a good actor but i think his portrayal as stu fell short the montages were unbearable and too many the supporting cast where are you whoever did the casting should be partially at fault the cinematography was useless a gambling story with an after school feel to it stories of this sort should be left for the oliver stone's of the world it would still suck ass but at least it would be fun to watch it was an attempt that lost it's wheels before the race ever begun mario andretti in the 1982 indy 500 came to mind
0	slow moving ponderous movie with terrible acting on the whole but lovely locations clothes to admire and of course timothy dalton who does a compelling job as always i wanted to laugh out loud at the voice overs so silly but dalton is always worth watching even in bad movies a wonderful actor older now but still very handsome and masculine this movie is worth viewing only to see him and he seems like he wandered into a bad dime romance novel poor fellow your time would be better spent watching mr dalton in 1970's wuthering heights or the early 1980's bbc version of jane eyre poor ward so lovely but so wooden surely she's been better in other movies
0	this is an adaptation of an edith wharton work whose writing is amazing sadly this movie never shakes the feeling that these 20th century movie people don't grasp the 19th century repression and desperation work depicts ward and dalton aren't so bad but alicia wooden performance made me wince she was supposed to be playing the restless element of the story but she stood like a stick the whole movie long and i never believed a word out of her mouth when she asks ward why can't i move you near the end of the film i couldn't help but answer that's what i've been wondering for the last hour and a half
0	the first shiloh film was enjoyable by adults as well as children this one starts with about an hour of filler where not much happens with stilted dialogue only in the last act is there any significant action that really moves the plot along the dog is still cute though and young kids may enjoy it
0	jane russell was an underrated comedienne and singer see son of paleface and gentlemen prefer blondes but you'd never guess it from her display here a real stinker produced by howard hughes in his all too successful effort to kill off rko radio pictures br br the movie kills its first opportunity to show off sexy jane when it places her in a bubble bath and then has her singing i'll be switched if i ain't gettin' hitched and it's all downhill from there in her autobiography russell apologized for the movie's number lookin' for trouble because it was supposedly so risque nowadays you could show it on the disney channel by the way said autobiography has a jaw dropping photo of russell in a bikini far sexier than anything
0	this film has recently been televised by turner classic movies it may have been considered racy in its time and may have made money but even the most die hard jane russell fan will find it hard to sit through this dreck br br there are many movie musicals from the 1950s which can withstand the test of time even though dated by current standards but which can still be enjoyed because of good music or dancing or an amusing plot the french line however fails at all of these aspects br br it doesn't matter that russell was a fine singer when she is given lousy vocal material the entire cast is dragged down by a boring trite plot and dialogue br br it's not even worth recording and skipping through to only the musical numbers they're crummy
0	i wish they would just make a special section in the video rental stores for movies like this the section would read movies for lonely older men who like to watch young girls being naughty and wearing fetish clothes i guess dominique swain after lolita nd now this is establishing herself as the queen of the dirty old man genre
0	i'm not even going to waste more time describing how bad this movie is bottom line it was horribly acted had enormous plot holes and went absolutely nowhere the only good thing about it was the description my digital cable gave for the movie a married man with a struggling business has a fling with his secretary huh wrong movie apparently although it may have made things slightly more interesting if any of the description were true br br shelly
0	tart is a pathetic attempt at film making which wanders around and among a bunch of manhattan teens exploring all the usual teen preppie stuff sex drugs and classical music almost completely without story focus or purpose griffith is in the film for about 2 minutes while swain dutifully works her way through another in her long list of dog flicks nothing in this films works and wayne should consider getting a real job not recommended for anyone pu ugh d
0	why do people make bad movies didn't anyone working on the picture know that what they were making had no point there is something about this picture that threw me off besides the fact that i found this movie to be unrealistic pathetic and poorly acted i admire them for the try but the actors in the movie at times seem to be trying to hard and no single character has substance or says anything mildly intelligent this movie deserves zero stars but i did not have that option so it gets a 1
0	it was so disjointed it seemed to jump from place to place and the thief was obvious it was a poor man's not to mention high school less than zero i would pass on this movie as it has very little to add so many issues are left unresolved and that's okay but the fact that it jumps around to the point where you wonder what's exactly going on is terrible the voice over is needed because the movie doesn't work on its own avoid this movie and watch something else about rich teen angst i'm sure there are plenty of others to watch don't waste your time on this
0	what could've been a great film about the late poker pro pre poker craze stu the kid unger turned into a disappointment br br you can tell the filmmakers were working on a short string budget everything look filmed on the cheap timelines seemed a bit off to me br br casting michael from the sopranos was also a bad casting choice he looked too old to play the baby faced stu he looked way too healthy for a coke addict if you look at footage from the 1997 main event the real stu was so skinny and he practically had no nose from too much cocaine so he wore those sunglasses to hide them and i kept expecting adriana to pop up and yell chris tu br br also they skipped over the fact that he had a son from angie's previous relationship that committed suicide in the late '80s br br every time i saw vincent van patten appear i kept thinking he was going to announce show tunes going off in head like he does on the br br if you're looking for real footage check espn classic because they rerun the 1997 main event every so often or try youtube avoid this move like a bad beat
0	spoilers br br i gave this film 2 out of 10 for 2 scenes that i will never forget by the way my husband rented this surprising non blow 'em up almost chick looking flick but i guessed why when i saw the cover girls in school uniforms duh lol ah well men if ya can't beat 'em join 'em br br bijou philips one of my favorites on the indie screen too cute not only gets into bestiality her toy dog is the best lesbian in town according to her bubbly outrageous character that would be the first worthwhile scene br br then she enters a restroom in a lovely gown goes into a stall after a bit she gets up goes out to the party she the pathetically sad 'cat' character are at hands a shiny silver ice bucket to the host of the party the host looks in her precious silver ice bucket and says oh my god it's poo br br i love bijou phillips myself for her creativity and unusual movie choices this would definitely be one of them and um i would rent it for the poo scene if i were you i am not a big poo jokes fan but it definitely puts the 'party people' in their place they didn't look like they were having a good time anyway lol you will never forget these two scenes hmm but is that what we want in our databanks maybe you shouldn't follow my advice at all lol br br dominique swain is kind of squirrelly sad in her confusing nonsensical role in i don't know i can't decide if i like her because she is so into indie films indie films are awesome all but couldn't she pick a few good ones i am going to check out a few more of her movies and reserve judgment but this one was pardon the reference to beasts a dog
0	for the first time in reviewing films i found myself immediately uninterested in this story i don't know if it was the way that it was filmed or the story behind the characters but it felt bland overused and completely unoriginal within the first thirty minutes i found myself rather apathetic with all the characters and the story i felt as if i had seen this structure before and tart was providing nothing new to surprise me after thinking that it may just be my mood i stopped the film and chose to start it fresh in the morning but the same feeling persisted i just didn't care that is not a good sign the characters were bland when i say bland i literally mean that by watching them develop you will never have any flavor hit your palate the story seemed recycled nearly to the point of plagiarism now i am not saying that christina wayne stole this story but she added nothing fresh to the perspective the casting was horrid the underlying symbolism and themes were so far lost that no critic could find them nor the characters and the stories were vague and sloppy you knew nothing about anyone or anything and instead of pushing more emphasis on the characters we instead found ourselves with drugs minor sex and money pushed into our faces these are themes we have seen in every film since the dawn of film time yet somehow could not be creatively captured by wayne br br what immediately pulled me away from this story it was mainly the characters i have seen most of brad work and honestly he needs to redefine himself director larry clark has defined him and oddly he cannot get out of that stereotypical character within the first twenty minutes of screen time i was bored i knew exactly what he was trying to portray and why it was spectacular nor impressive just repetitive he needed to bring some excitement or suspense to his role instead of just blandly playing this random socialite without a strong character the final climax of this film comes instead as a letdown did not showcase the best of his abilities in this film while i am on the subject … nobody showcased the best of their abilities what is going on with dominique swain outside of lolita i don't believe she has really emerged as an actress and following up with roles such as cat storm doesn't help bijou phillips was the only actress that i witnessed actually try to bring something remarkable to the screen sadly due to everyone else's horrid acting she was lost rambling here and there and honestly nearly forgotten about during the second act melanie griffith was a pointless cast and most of this film's budget probably went to her two scenes that she was in maybe the rest of it went to the random guy from the kids in the hall who desperately needs to place himself far away from this project br br my biggest problem outside of the acting was the pacing of this film nothing and this is hard for me to say but nothing gelled together there were so many sub stories happening throughout the course of the film that no actual substance was formed the robberies the teenage angst and woe the wealthy socialites learning how horrible real life is the random kids in the hall guy and even the ending just felt rushed and horribly edited together with this shoddy craftsmanship the whole story never really formed any true shape family structures were never defined characters were never given any emotion and all we are left with are bits and pieces of honest leftovers wayne did not complete the task at hand br br while i hate to put the entire burden on the director with this film i am left with little choice with a horrid title that just screamed the complete opposite of what this film was about with amateurish directional ability the cast pretty much was able to give every emotion in every scenes leaving us with disgusting acting and poor developments and with vague storytelling it is hard to place any good behind tart this was a film i had heard nothing about and after viewing it i can see why all wayne has done with this film is random take excerpts from other films that have done a better job of defining all the elements above and cut all together to make the film tart it is hard for me to say this but wayne ruined this film while i don't believe there was much to fully take from the story any remaining elements of excitement were drained as wayne took the helm while most of the time you can credit some of the story perhaps strong acting or even the music in tart you can credit nothing from the opening sequence until the end i felt like i was swimming through very lumpy oatmeal no consistency no strength br br overall this film is a waste of your time if you are searching for some deep symbolic elements or possibly some banter on our society you will not find it in this film while i know that was what wayne was attempting to show the final product seems like it was edited on an etch a sketch it was an embarrassing film to sit through and encourage nobody to pick it up wayne threw to the wind all the teachings of her columbia university education and destroyed two hours of my life avoid at all costs br br grade out of
0	as a rule i try to find as much in films as i possibly can to enjoy them i made no exceptions with tart doing my very best to appreciate it for what it was but no effort no matter how great could possibly redeem this pitiful excuse for a movie br br it failed for a number of reasons firstly the cinematography was directionless and ineffective secondly the script reached depths of 'poor' that took it well and truly beyond the 'so bad it's good' category thirdly the acting left mind blowing amounts to be desired it was appalling it really was anyone who saw mischa barton seen here as the remarkably terrible grace a character so poorly invented and realised that ja ja binks doesn't seem so bad as devon in john lawn dogs will wonder what went wrong between then and now perhaps had she been given a character worth bothering with and a modicum of direction she at least might have given this film one redeeming feature alas such was not the case finally the film seemed to have no point whatsoever expressing nothing achieving nothing really i wonder why christina wayne bothered br br tart made a feeble attempt to be something and failed the result a film sadly so bad that it's just very very bad don't bother it really isn't worth it
0	i only wish that i had the good sense to turn this movie off in the beginning when i knew it was terrible br br instead i gave it the benefit of the doubt and waited for it to get better br br don't make the same mistake i did br br the title has nothing to do with the movie the movie has nothing to do with the real world the plot has nothing to do with a plot the acting consists of a guy who wants to be john cusack but can't pull it off the lead is a girl who tries to be claire daines sadly she can't pull that off either they are in love although god only knows why and by the end i was hoping that they would all kill each other off just so i could believe none of these kids would ever taint the world again
0	just once in a while you see a movie so mind numbingly awful that you have to comment on it this was that movie poorly scripted acted and totally unbelievable it's movies like these that show you how good the banal hollywood trash usually is
0	the box to this movie totally misrepresents itself the cover shows a view of legs panties in a short skirt the title is tart ' the synopsis on the back of the box made it seem as though cat the main character was an outcast who became one of the popular students but that popularity lead to a bizarre lifestyle that she could not escape from everything that the box built this movie up to was a horrible lie i expected a sort of crappy direct to video version of targeted at the teenagers of today br br let me tell you what was really about yes this really is the plot so if you don't want to know what happens stop reading we have one unlikable boring rich girl this unlikable girl's best friend is a skank the skank gets expelled from school so the unlikable girl befriends some british girl this leads to the unlikable girl dating this boring guy who the box refers to as the most popular boy in school ' if that guy was the most popular guy in their school i wish i would have gone to that high school because i could have kicked the crap out of him anyway as any movie will tell you the most popular guy in school is invariably a murderer or drug addict or thief or in this case all of the above anyway everyone ends up disliking the unlikable main character because she is jewish then the most popular guy in school beats her best friend the skank to death with a rock because the skank caught the most popular boy in a homosexual act the unlikable girl's stoic mother and hypochondriac younger brother are there for her at the end oh and the entire movie is about snotty rich kids and their horrible parents too gee what is wrong with that that sounds like a fantastic movie well that's what i thought but you see there are no likeable characters in this movie the main character is boring the filmmakers made her average while during the film she keeps spouting off about what a freak she is the skank is not skanky enough and has little screen time the popular guy is nothing to write home about the popular girls are just your run of the mill rich girls there are no moral lessons cat the boring main character is not a freak does not ever become one of the truly popular girls and worst of all after all the crap she goes through she thinks she is still too good to befriend the only nice girl the dorky girl to be honest i have no idea why the movie is called tart i kept asking who's the tart is she the tart are they all tarts at 94 minutes theoretically this is not a long movie but after actually watching this awful waste of a vhs tape and not knowing who the tart was i was surprised that the movie was only an hour and a half the movie felt like it was two hours and some change after a while i was hoping the movie would be about pop tarts at least when you look at a box of pop tarts you know what to expect
0	movie title tart br br date of review 5 26 02 br br year of movie 2001 br br stars dominique swain brad bijou phillips barely melanie griffith barely br br rating 4 skulls out of 10 br br may contain spoilers br br plot br br an outcast dominique swain wants to be with the in group and so she abandons her real friends and joins them much annoying rich people talk occurs acting br br ugh i guess i got what i wanted in that dominique was ok but man the rest of the cast besides maybe brad were bad or at least not interesting or likable at all i know some could say that the others were good because they made me hate them trust me i like unlikable but this group is unlikable because they can't convincingly be bad people br br it figures that the only other people i got this for were barely even in it and that is melanie griffith and bijou phillips but the little time they had they were ok melanie spoke maybe 2 lines but at least bijou had a good character although small br br violence and gore br br my mind was constantly under attack from horrid dialogue and very very annoying characters that's violence enough ok there was one bludgeoning with a rock which was ok br br t a nudity factor br br hahaha they couldn't even add in any nudity to help spice up this movie probably because no one would want to bear their body for this crap if they are going to expose themselves they should do it in a movie where they will be remembered as their character and not for oh hey i heard she gets naked in this one br br overall view of the movie review br br ok ok i know i pride myself on being the person who can like most if not almost all movies or at least find some good in it well this movie is one of the few i really struggled to find anything worth while in the problem with this movie is that it is so damn annoying i already have a deep hatred for snobby rich people attitudes and that didn't help either all this movie really is is just a bunch of rich people sitting around acting depressed and stupid i can't stress the annoyance factor enough this movie tries to rehash the tried and true in group plotline which can usually be done ok with little difficulty br br why do i not have a pic from the movie or the box cover well i felt this movie didn't deserve that glory so i decided to put a pic of the reason i rented this and that reason is none other than dominique swain yes i too was wooed by her in lolita and thought she was so good that i decided from then on to check her out in any movie in which she acts at least i keep my promises and yes i have seen the majority of her movies minus a few hard to find ones she herself is a great actress and i would defend her actively but man she chooses some of the crappiest movies to star in this movie and smokers are both in the same boat of crappiness but at least smokers had a cool idea for a story and even some real good scenes br br also the dvd box tries to fool you into thinking that this movie has stars as well in it by putting melanie griffith and bijou phillips names on the front of the box if there's one thing that p s me off it's a movie that plasters the names of stars on a box to make you think wow it has i wonder how good is in this one i saw in that movie and thought she was great only to have the big names in the movie for a total of maybe 10 minutes between the 2 bijou actually had a part that semi meant something melanie on the other hand only has 2 lines about granted i don't like melanie that much but this is about ethics and not star acting br br out of all this mess though props must go to brad for turning in an ok performance along with dominique brad may be one very messed up kid in real life but at least he can act so the only reason this movie gets any skulls is because i got what i basically wanted which was dominique swain and brad also i had the added pleasure of seeing underrated actress bijou phillips make me like her even more so even though i was annoyed throughout i still came out with some positives although this was pretty hard this time br br i recommend you to only see this if you've seen lolita and know how good dominique is or if you are some offbeat fan of brad or bijou uber melanie fans will be sorely depressed also if you're a fan of crappy movies like me please do not assume this be a guilty pleasure because you will feel guilty alright for the money spent on buying or renting br br some movies are so bad that they are good as the saying goes what they forgot to add was so bad that they are good to pass up br br necro
0	tart is the worst movie i've seen this year and that includes both the affleck j lo bomb gigli and the rob zombie borefest house of 1000 corpses i don't know if that's a fair comparison seeing that tart was made two years earlier and probably has a budget half that of even the low budget 1000 corpses regardless all three movies suffer from the same shortcomings horrible script horrible acting horrible direction br br spoilers although i honestly don't think there's anything to spoil br br tart is about a group of super spoiled private school kids most of them reside in super sized apartments along new york's hyper expensive park avenue thanks to the finances of their neglectful parents the film showcases the aimless life of one of the students cat as she discards her only true friend as frivolous a person as she was in the pursuit of the good life with the in crowd that of course leads to sex drugs and music that is substantially worse than rock roll everything is overly in the way that truly bad movies usually are cat's first sexual experience leads to her being branded a tramp and ostracized by her newly acquired circle of friends her first encounter with drugs leads to her nearly being dumped down a garbage chute after her cohorts believe her to be dead from an overdose no heavy handed messages there he said sarcastically br br that's mainly what the seen it before 100 times plot entails other minor and even less interesting plot details include one friend who steals jewelry and trinkets from all the others a wild child who lives life on the edge and finally falls off of it one night in the east hamptons an anti semitic british chick who ends her close friendship with cat the moment she finds out cat has a jewish father and cat's strained relationship with her single mother who tries unsuccessfully to get cat to appreciate the privileged life she has the thief turns out to be an irredeemable lowlife the wild child is played as a toned down version of one of the hilton sisters the british girl disappears from the film after the break up the mother daughter relationship is seen as totally inconsequential until the film's final schmaltzy scene where she and her beleaguered mother have a reconciliation of sorts yawn br br end spoilers br br about the cast and crew dominique swain came on the scene strong with her role as the underaged seductress in 1997's highly watchable lolita and face off her performances were strong enough to land her on quite a few ones to watch lists at the time she was 17 at the time and i hope that they will not be the best roles of her career if she takes a few more roles like the one she takes in tart it very well may be br br i've only seen bijou phillips in one other film bully and i swear her performance in that one was nearly identical to the one she gave here i'm not sure if she's incapable of giving varied performances or if it was just a coincidence her roles in the two were so very similar my guess is that the former is true i sense this woman possesses very little talent as far as acting is concerned here she is the actress tapped to portray the watered down hilton sister that she gives such a weak performance is amazing considering that she grew up with and remains friends with the real life hilton sisters she's essentially playing a version of herself in this film and doing a damn poor job of it br br as for writer director christina wayne i know nothing of her other than tart was her first and only film project to date with a first effort like this it is no wonder her career in show business was short lived
0	what a bad movie tart is perhaps the very worst movie i've seen all year and i've run across some doozies there is nothing redeeming about this trash from the characterization to the direction to the plot even the usually brilliant dominique swain couldn't save this movie none of the characters are in the least bit sympathetic with the possible exception of eloise wonderfully portrayed by lacey chabert the only bright spot in this dismal failure br br possible spoilers br br the main problem with tart is that it rambles on without saying anything it staggers about drunkenly instead of leading us along the path of the story it also introduces numerous potentially tantalizing details the hypochondriac brother the mother's possessions constantly being repossessed the anti semitic classmate the other classmate's murderous father without successfully exploring a single one of them and just when i finally thought that there might be some sort of resolution for the characters the movie crashes to an unexpectedly violent end br br i left the movie feeling that it was trying to tell me something but with the strong impression that the message was forgotten before it could be communicated this is an obvious first film from a writer director who really needs to spend much more time working under more established film makers before foisting any more of her work on an unsuspecting public br br i gave this film 1 out of 10 and i'm usually very generous even with bad films
0	basic structure of a story beginning middle end br br sometimes this structure is played with and we get memento or irreversible and the story plays backwards sometimes it's just not linear a la pulp fiction regardless they all have a beginning middle and end br br this is the first film i have ever seen that doesn't have an end br br beginning girl's best friend is expelled br br middle girl needs to cope without best friend br br end non existent br br not that having an end would've saved this film but at least it would have been complete br br it's an exercise in apathy we get a party mix of characters and they all turn out to be duds boring vain vapid and pallid imitations of people br br and here's the action within this film nothing happens nothing at all happens mischa barton tries to talk with a plummy english accent dominique swain whines a lot and brad receives a blow job from some old guy end of movie br br by the time the credits rolled i had a horrible feeling that many prisoners must feel periods of time those precious minutes of our life have just been wasted br br the only passable point and that is a very emphatic only is brad he acts well lacey chabert i tend to like but no luck here due to good work in other films i will forgive mischa barton this travesty but i hope all cast members were slapped in the face for their involvement br br please i implore you avoid don't fool yourself into thinking i'll make up my own mind my sister told me to never see this and i ignored her wanting to make up my own mind that was a bad decision br br i have never hated a film there are many i don't like but i have never hated a film until i saw this
0	this is probably the worst movie i've seen in a long time independent or not solid writing is a must ditto for directing and acting i know these actors can act i've seen them in and more but this movie is very bad very bad maybe it's the script maybe it's the director probably a little of both probably a lot of both technically ok just bad bad bad i have a theory that the backers for this movie also own the poker magazines because i saw a very favorable review in one of the magazines hey' we made it so it's gotta be good right not so fast i know it takes a lot of hard work and money to even get a movie made much less sold and distributed and for that i commend these folks but the final product leave a bad taste in my mouth br br p s i won a free rental and chose this movie from blockbuster tomorrow i'm going to get my money back
0	the beginning of the movie was confusing and the rest of it was predictable it was just one of those movies that i came across in my netflix instant queue and i thought it would be interesting to see brad and bijou phillips team up together again since bully unfortunately interesting never happened in this movie swain plays an invisible girl at a private school whose best friend is rich and does anything she wants at any time phillips but swain likes one of the boys from the in crowd and eventually starts hanging with them and of course like all other movies things are good or so you assume since the movie never hints on that things are good and then things become not so good by hanging with the rich kids br br the problem with the movie is that there are absolutely no peaks and valleys it is just a dead lifeless movie that after you've watched it you feel you could have done anything better some scenes the ones with parents don't even make sense as to being in the movie because the director and writer didn't follow up on it at all br br all the interesting things that could have played out was just completely ignore and this is almost like watching a before they were stars episode mischa barton and rachel bison from the oc br br the only shining light in this movie and the reason it doesn't get a one rating from me is phillips they needed more scenes with her in it just look like he brought over a bit of his character from bully and for pete's sake the title is bs change the name
0	tart is a good illustration of old the yogi berra saying if you don't know where you are going you will probably end up someplace else writer director christina in her first feature has managed to make a 3 million movie that ends up someplace else tart is either a coming of age story devoid of characters that a rational person can connect with a black comedy without any humor or a sexploitation movie without anything that is particularly sexy br br unlike the standard swain film tart actually employed a competent and experienced production designer good enough to provide two extremely nice shots the scene of swain and barton taking a bubble bath together and the scene of swain in the park featuring a nice montage of the alice in wonderland sculpture the symbolism incorporated into these elements supports the possibility that despite the absence of a linear logic or unity of tone actually has some visionary talent and aspirations for making a quality film br br it is even possible that was trying for a fusion of the somewhat expressionistic metropolitan and the camp classic cruel intentions which also deal with the manhattan upper class there are many camera shots framed by windows and doors yet few tight shots of faces and eyes the former technique hinting at symbolism and the latter at intentional distancing from the characters and their motivations tart seemed on the verge of veering into camp territory at least twice and would have been well advised to keep going in that direction first there was the scene where they try to dump the seemingly deceased swain into the garbage chute then there is the whole bit about her father being jewish played to the same extreme as joel grey dancing with the jewish guerrilla in cabaret br br in her other films swain's acting technique is to overwhelm each scene in which she appears insert scenery chewing here but in tart she actually shows an ability to restrain herself this is the best performance of her career it also provides some clues about her physical deterioration from willowy super cute in girl to hulking lumpy faced in pumpkin this transformation was about half complete by the time she made tart so go the ravages of time br br mischa barton sixth i feel better girl and lacey are excellent in supporting roles the rest of the cast is simply horrible although some of the blame for this should go to script and direction
0	though i have watched i do not know if excrement tastes tart if it does this film is accurately titled so much of so little substance this is the celluloid equivalent of celery only it does not cleanse the palate it leaves the taste of wasted time in the mind's mouth and if i could vomit this film and get back that expanse expense i would detention was more exciting the director should be forced to wear a dunce cap and the spirit of ed wood jr couldn't save this semi professional projection from certain failure a waste of time a waste of mind don't be fooled by the toothsome dominique swain competent eye candy she was in the lolita remake less tragic and than sue lyon though by no means better however a previously competent turn of the screw does not make her a skilled crafts person you need craft for that not crap which is what this film is the reels belong in the girls' bathroom flushed till the pipes burst while director direct less christina wayne should do 5 10 in study hall watch anything else and pass this class by bye forever
0	at least for me i have been following the career of mr since the beginning and i was not crazy about this film i think penelope cruz was miscast the type of woman she is portraying does not look that good she makes the character unbelievable also the singing scene was just weird i do not get the point and the lip sync was awful br br as spaniard another thing that drove me nuts are the accents why people coming from the same place have such a different accent the difference between the two sisters is notable and makes no sense and the village are we in 2007 or 1950 i found myself trying to explain to my american husband that many of the things in the movie are old school things are not like that anymore br br i was expecting more but this time mr almodovar did not deliver at least for me i am not saying that miss cruz does a bad job i am saying that she does not belong there not portraying that character
0	one of the first things i noticed that allowed this culture to stand out among the rest was during the wake at place an aerial shot is used to show sole being flowered with kisses by a sea of women i believed this was a commentary on the closeness that women had for each other of this who stuck together across the generations and misunderstandings and still being able to bond and rely on each other also the film seemed to glorify women as almost flawless individuals what i mean by flawless is that they did not suffer the consequences for their actions and were treated as if they had no imperfections an example of this is shortly after paula accidentally killed her father her mother immediately comes to her rescue and takes full responsibility for the act while paula seems to suffer almost no remorse for what she has done again another example of this is when each daughter or granddaughter has had an opportunity to reunite with their supposed dead mother grandmother knowing the stresses that this has most likely caused in their family each one of them still embraces the mother without care for what she has is killing her husband and his lover in this light women are portrayed as ones who not only love each other independent of character acts but also ones who don't seem bothered in the least by the acts in which their friends family members perform br br another idea that i thought was intriguing of this culture was in regards to their idea of the supernatural with the death of and mother and her inexplicable return the director builds the audience's emotions to believe that this film is going to embody the supernatural the people depicted in this culture seem very supernatural that is to say very eager to believe that life exists beyond the grave their aunt long time friend the prostitute and other people living in the city of la mancha all believe the rumors of the dead coming back to family members to finish the unfinished business i believed this was a mixed reflection of the culture's religious faith predominantly catholic as well as their need to make amends with those who had no chance to be forgiven during mortality the belief they held in regards to the dead being alive was also to give hope to the destitute circumstances they suffered in mortality when the viewer is exposed to the fact that this film isn't supernatural at all it's interesting to observe the role the mother continues to play she's treated as if she still is a ghost i e hiding in small crevices underneath the bed or inside a car trunk i believe the director portrayed the mother this way to heighten the already existent supernatural beliefs the city had adopted the mother's character seemed to be a metaphor for the city's long held belief in life after death
0	a film by almodovar sends a tingle down my spine every time the capitalized print which opens the spanish auteur's latest feature instantly induces memories of salacious nuns gentle wisecracking i haven't even got as far as the infant terrible's critically reviled early work and after a beautiful opening montage with the camera roving across a wind swept graveyard animated by a hoard of widows feverishly scrubbing tombstones i thought pedro had me again under his wicked spell br br yet once my nostalgia had subsided there was very little to fill its place for a director who revels in bringing humanity to assassins and rapists he does a very poor job at finding any emotional depth or endearing quality in his women penelope cruz is a headstrong housewife whose life is complicated by her daughter's accidental killing of her abusive husband thankfully she lives in almodovar's spain where your friends will quite happily help to dispose of a corpse for the offer of a round of cocktails add to the melting pot the ghost of mother and a host of other eccentrically warm hearted matriarchs means literally to return and pedro does appear to be recycling old material the sub plot of incest feels as though it were tacked on as the obligatory taboo instead of commenting on or subverting the issue as with his treatment of paedophilia in bad education it feels forced and unconvincing amid the film's chick flick sentimentality i suggest almodovar call his next film to move on
0	i've been surprised by the enthusiastic response to this film it seemed dull to me much as i enjoyed looking at penelope cruz and the plot details often poorly worked out it also seemed like an intensely sexist film if the gender roles were reversed almost everyone with any sense would be up in arms complaining the movie is intensely misogynist it's not just that both the principal males are portrayed as complete jerks and sexual predators but also that the women are portrayed as almost flawless forming a utopian community which lacks conflict of any kind and which rests on relentless generosity and good humor are notoriously dull and this one turns out to be no exception but it's also interesting to notice what happens and here comes the plot giveaway though it refers to a very early scene when the teenage daughter kills her father 1 her mother rushes to take responsibility for it and 2 the daughter seems to suffer almost no remorse and in fact her emotional life then disappears from the film it's not quite a glorified killing though camera lingers on the blood in a bloodthirsty way as though it makes an attractive painting and then it's soaked up and out of sight without bloodying either daughter or mom neither materially nor emotionally later the film reveals another killing again by a woman of a man and once again it is a killing which the film implicitly endorses in short is an ideologically driven film with an unpleasant and in fact a repugnant ideology and so i write an ideological critique but apart from that it's just not very interesting it has none of the depth of say talk to her which i loved
0	back in 1994 the power rangers had become a huge franchise and t v executives at the usa network were hoping to get in on the action and came up with the tattooed teenage alien fighters from beverly hills in which the evil emporer who looks like he's wearing a home made darth vader costume and his talking bird that looks like a rubber dog chew toy come to earth to invade it using giant monsters that look like rejects from a 1970's godzilla film fortunately an alien that looks like a giant piece of clear jello recruits four teenagers to defend the earth gives them each a tattoo of a different star constellation that allows them to transform into buffed up superheros who look like dancers from an eighties tech no music video they could also combined into a giant knight forty episodes were made the usa network clearly did not have the money to try to adapt a show from japan like power rangers did and made up this show on their own using the budget of a 1950's scifi film the fights scenes are generic the special effects are poor and some of the sets look like they could fall down the actors pretty much realized how ridiculous the show was and pretty much ham it up and overact i can only imagine their shock when the show was cancel led
0	lucio fulci a director not exactly renowned for his subtlety ill advisedly tries his hand at black humour in touch of death a made for tv movie about lester parsons brett halsey a psycho who seduces and murders rich widows in order to pay his gambling debts br br starting off with a wonderfully gory scene in which the lethal lothario disposes of his latest victim via chainsaw mincing machine and hungry hogs touch of death starts promisingly enough but fulci soon loses control of proceedings introducing a weird sub plot involving a mysterious copycat killer and some heavy handed scenes there are several more graphic murders which in true fulci fashion are extremely violent and gruesome but even the high level of bloodletting doesn't stop this from being one of fulci's poorer efforts br br as i have found with many of his other movies a comprehensible storyline is not exactly high on the agenda when lucio is behind the camera this film has many peculiarities which left me more than little perplexed why didn't lester dispose all of his victims using the dismemberment method seen at the beginning why are all of his victims either hairy or disfigured what the hell is that ending all about br br fulci is considered by many to be one of the of horror cinema i don't understand his popularity finding the majority of the films of his that i have seen so far to be generally lacking both decent narratives and technical proficiency touch of death certainly does nothing to change my opinion
0	there are certain horror directors for whom i've built up so much respect admiration over the years that they can't possibly disappoint me know matter what garbage to decide to put on film lucio fulci is surely one of them but damned he's trying to disappoint me with his later efforts you can easily afford yourself to skip most of the films fulci directed or produced during the late 80's and simply watch cat in the brain instead because that one title gathers and repeats the best and absolute goriest footage of no less than seven other fulci flicks including the sickest murders sequences featuring in when alice broke the mirror as a whole this movie definitely ranks among our director's weakest and most pointless achievements the script is incoherent as hell the basic premise is totally implausible and somewhat stupid and there's absolutely no suspense to enjoy i love the title but it's actually quite meaningless there is a character named alice in the story but it's only a supportive role and she certainly doesn't break any mirrors i suppose she could break stuff simply using her voice as she's an opera singer but she doesn't the plot revolves on a middle aged and gambling addicted playboy who spends his days seducing wealthy widows and killing them for their money lester parson butchers the ladies as well as unwelcome witnesses in gruesome ways makes out of their body parts and feeds the remainders to his cat there's also a silly psychological sub plot in which he thinks his own shadow is responsible for the murders instead of him the difference between when alice broke the mirror and some of fulci's greatest horror films the beyond city of the living dead … lies in the fact that he totally doesn't bother to create a horrific atmosphere the characters lester included are colorless and boring and the murders are ordinarily depicted like it's the most common thing in the world to put a woman's head in a microwave or repeatedly run back and forth over a human body with a car the lighting is poor the cinematography super ugly the editing clumsy and amateurish and the acting performances are downright miserable if i didn't know any better i would think lucio deliberately made a lousy film in order to protest against all the harsh critics that dislike his repertoire no matter how much spirit and effort he put into it the obvious element to enjoy here is simply the outrageous gore bloodshed because even the attempt to blend in black comedy doesn't work properly as long as lester swings around his chainsaw and cuts off women's feet when alice broke the mirror is an undemanding piece of horror entertainment but other than that there's isn't a whole lot to recommend
0	i rented this movie hoping that it would provide some good entertainment and some cool poker knowledge or stories what i got was a documentary type look at an average guys life who happened to be really good at cards do i want to see the romance with his wife no do i want to see about everything that went on in this guy's life except poker no well thats what you get with this film the acting is good for such a low budget piece of crap the film never tries to break the mold or do anything original it simply sleep walks its way through the script the ending is disappointing and never really looks deep into mind instead it focuses on what was already obvious he was a drugged out card player with an average life not unlike any other average joe in vegas the movie focuses on the aspects of his life that were un extraordinary rather than the extraordinary the poker scenes in the entire film add up to about 4 minutes of footage achievements of winning the 3 times seem life after thoughts a 10 year old could do a better job directing this movie or maybe it was the script being a piece of crap from the beginning that doomed this joke of a movie br br if you want to see a film about gambling watch rounders it at least has style
0	lucio fulci was famous for his italian splatter movies mostly his undead films like zombie or the beyond here he directed a black comedy of sorts but there's just one problem its nauseating i say this knowing that i like city of the walking dead which is also gross but not like this a compulsive gambler gets money for his habit by romancing ugly and deformed rich women then murdering them and stealing their cash the film makes this plan look that easy i guess the women were too ugly to go to a bank so they always had their cash on person after the murder i began to suspect what i've always heard about fulci he hated women he must have at any rate this film stinks its not funny and fulci should have stayed with giallo and supernatural zombie movies avoid this film at all costs
0	this latter day fulci is a totally abysmal concoction dealing with an incurable gambler brett halsey who decides bluebeard style to pay off his ever rising debts by seducing some of the ugliest bitches you will ever lay your eyes on and who just happen to be wealthy widows the fulci penned script also contrives to incorporate a few blackly comedic elements which only result in some unfunny business involving a corpse which won't stay put an opera singer victim who won't stop singing etc not to mention a doppelganger theme straight out of the student of prague although in this case the two personas communicate via pre recorded radio messages in the end i can't say i'm surprised that this film shows no sign of the sophistication of mario bava's hatchet for the honeymoon 1970 which it resembles in several ways and that it is content to merely pile up the disgustingly gory but none too convincing effects of dismembered limbs and squashed or melting faces with which alas fulci had by then become completely associated
0	this is just dreadful i regret every second of the 80 minutes i spent watching this dreck i think it's supposed to be a comedy but i don't remember laughing much except at a few blatant inconsistencies and downright glaring errors br br an unattractive middle aged man called lester meets up with rich unattractive middle aged women via lonely hearts ads and then murders them for the money he needs to feed his gambling addiction that's the whole plot and that's really all that happens along the way there is an attempt at intrigue when lester starts to get phone calls from a mysterious stranger who taunts him about knowing his secret but its so badly implemented you may not realise what is actually supposed to be happening the sequences in which lester murders the rich widows are all quite brutal but also seemingly dressed up as comedies one sequence has a woman bludgeoned with a wooden pole and then shoved into an oven it's very cruelly depicted but it is played out against blaring big band waltz music with lester pulling faces and adopting comedy poses throughout another scene has the victim murdered while she constantly sings shrill opera songs you have to see this to believe it actually you don't have to see it at all in fact i strongly recommend you avoid this flop fulci does not seem to know which hat he is wearing and there's no evidence of any of the flair seen in his earlier career one sequence stood out to me as particularly wretched the revelation when lester suddenly realises that he has no shadow fulci seems unable to think up any visual representation of this phenomena on screen so from this point on he just films the actor as normal shadow and all and thus totally blows the whole angle either he had zero budget for effects or he just didn't care enough to think up any way of showing it whatever it was that should give you a taste of how lame this whole project is i couldn't even understand most of the film and there certainly wasn't anything on screen worth looking at half the time even the ending was as flat as a pancake a real dud
0	hailing from 1988 touch of death is probably the most frustrating fulci film i've seen to date prompting me to join the chorus of horror fans who that his films get worse as you get later into his career considering the plot synopsis i was expecting some bloody bad natured fun with this one but for all its bizarre flourishes it feels tedious even at a running time of just 80 minutes and suffers from nauseatingly shabby production values and film making craft or lack thereof br br el story a gambling addict widower and dines rich and strange women he finds via lonely hearts columns before offing them in gruesome fashion sometimes eating them or feeding them to animals and stealing their money to keep his debtors at bay sure it's unlikely that just one man would be the host for so much screwed up pathology all at once addict psycho sociopath cannibal but this is fulci br br touch is actually the cheapest and sparsest looking fulci film i've seen there's almost nobody in it even in the background of shots out on the street for instance a who keeps appearing on the film's televisions to warn the non existent cast about the maniac's latest doings operates out of the most pathetic tv studio on the planet he never even gets to look at the camera because has to read all the headlines off sheets of paper br br some scenes just go on and on with the protagonist muttering to himself about what he's done or what he's about to do but the acting is nowhere near good enough to sustain this kind of thing so the main outcome is viewer boredom the film also looks bland and ugly in general i've read that it was intended to be an italian telemovie did it ever screen in that venue with the amount of gore involved it seems unlikely and it does reek of crappy old telemovie production values br br this is also fulci's first foray into outright black humour but he's just too a director to make it work sometimes conspicuously cheerful or music is used to play against a gruesome scene for instance while the hero villain is carving up a dead body in his basement the effect isn't really chilling or funny or ironic anything that you'd like it to be it's mostly just hamfisted and crappy br br there are of course some redeeming moments of gore that you'll be waiting for while trying to stay awake including the eventual murder by oven of a woman who just won't quit life even after her face has been totally bashed apart with a bloody great club and a homeless guy who gets a car run back and forth over him about five times the most outrageous element of touch however is all the physical on the widows courted by the crazy guy beards hairy moles messy it's not like he sought out women with these features it's just the way all lonely hearts widows are apparently there are plenty of shots of mr crazy secretly grimacing while he's smooching up these women the black humour of such garish misogyny might have some staying power or resonance if the film wasn't so poorly executed in general in the end touch of death just seems like a really lazy inarticulate mess
0	yeah what did i expect i thought this would be a film about young adults at their turning point in life something like or american pie which i liked a lot i wanted to see a funny film perhaps with an ironic look on idyllic and what did i get br br attention spoilers ahead br br this film starts with a lengthy dialogue which gives you a good hint of what will inevitably follow more lengthy dialogues sometimes i thought moritz bleibtreu might have forgotten his text and trying to hide that fact by improvising and just repeating what he was saying before but as i think of bleibtreu as one of the better german actors i believe that this effect really was intended i think the author wanted to show how boring talking to close friends can be especially when they are stoned but really i don't need cinema to be bored by stoned friends' talk boring dialogues make up most of this film br br but okay that's one thing i can cope with that i have seen nice films with abominable dialogues just think of schwarzenegger's life's work but the next thing is that characters are cheap and flat and that the storyline is as foreseeable as anything just one example spoiler why do you think does someone take a garden hose to his plants deep in the forest to water them of course not usually you don't find water pipes deep in forests do you the only reason this water hose is there is that a hunter who happens to come by while the two protagonists are harvesting their dope can be drugged and finally filled up with three bottles of i truly hated this scene because it's really violent usually i don't mind violence in films slapstick comedies are full of it but in that sort of comedy there is a silent agreement between the film and you that people don't get hurt if they fall on their faces or get beaten with chairs or things like that but if that happens in a film which is otherwise realistic enough slapstick scenes also seem real in this particular scene in i really thought that this hunter must be badly injured if not dead the final scene really invoked in me the impression that he is left to die there totally filled up with more booze anyone could handle and the protagonists just walk away it would have been otherwise if the author had consistently followed one style the scene could have been quite funny br br talking about being consistently that's what i missed most about this film the whole film seems to be a listing of small episodes that came to the author's mind things just happen without a apparent reason yeah i know that's life but that's not cinema because cinema is meant to tell a story not to show boring episodes without any significance i found myself asking where's the point all the time characters besides the two main ones are not elaborated you never get to know why the protagonist's sister wants to sleep with his best friend kai in fact she tells you but i could not buy it not at all i think she just was there to give kai an opportunity to act this childish aids test sketch which you sure have seen a thousand times before and mostly better the protagonist's girlfriend you meet once then she leaves germany what you don't even see and the guy doesn't seem to care and finally it is mentioned in one sentence that she has met someone else in america and splits up with the protagonist it seemed to me that the author wanted to tie up a few loose ends he actually didn't you never really get to know what's so bad about studying law being daddy's son daddy fixes everything in the end and serves coffee in the middle of the night which to my mind made him one of the nicer characters in the whole film and living in beautiful even the dinner with daddy's layer friend which maybe was intended to show how horrible it is to have to live up to dad's expectations seemed flat just another nice dinner with the family's friends except for the trip the guy is on later but i think showing that eating dope before you dine with parents isn't healthy was not the point of this scene if there was any i have experienced far worse dinners in my life than this one and still finished my exams i couldn't understand one single character in the whole film they just seemed flat and implausible br br all this made it a not so good film but not one i wouldn't watch again on television it really had a few good scenes most of them were not new though like the one with the nice and understanding policemen some were really funny some dialogues were nice and i like play although he repeated his well known stereotypes again this time not good not abominable that's what i thought after the film was half over br br but then came this incest scene and this i really found repulsive incest simply isn't funny i don't even know if this was intended to be funny some people in the audience laughed so it could have been meant this way this scene spoiled the whole film for me i couldn't feel sympathy for the protagonist any more i can't feel sympathy for anyone who f a helpless person to me this is rape and rape isn't funny so it might have been a hint of drama or so but the incest is never again mentioned although we thought this could have been one reason for the protagonist to leave germany in the end but as it is never mentioned again we don't know it is even totally unnecessary i almost expected the sister to become pregnant in the end which would just have added the finishing touch to this tasteless story but not even this final cliche is fulfilled just as nothing is really solved or thought through to the end in this film it isn't really funny it isn't really a drama it isn't at all a road movie a la tarantino despite desperate tries on violence it is definitely not enjoyable br br skip this film watch final fantasy that's also bad but at least with beautiful pictures and not that tasteless
0	countenance antoine in a copycat impersonation of kevin smith's silent bob keeps asking for it but writer director christian never listens just can't say no to a joke no matter how cheap the best thing about this movie is its soundtrack of course joey burns of and the divine jonathan richman understated old school bard of there's something about mary fame would grace any small town dropout story in visual allure stefan lukas looks cool enough riding his tan six series bmw two door wearing aviator shades going nowhere true he accidentally sleeps with his wild eyed bohemian kid sister marie but then who wouldn't thumbs up also to how he goes black and white on a liberal dose of that mysterious substance they call zero zero but if you're looking for a slightly more serious rendering of what intoxication can do to you i suggest you check out fear and loathing in las vegas
0	i'm a huge zack allan fan and was disappointed that he only got one scene in the movie this was also my favourite scene where he confiscates a character's weapons and directs her to down below unfortunately unlike thirdspace river of souls most of the action took place off station i didn't care much for garibaldi after the first three seasons and think sheridan is okay but no sinclair i like lochley but she only had limited screen time if you like crusade or space battles you should enjoy it personally i can only give it 1 10
0	a remake can be successful an adaptation can be successful it isn't relevant whether its a remake or an adaptation br br a good movie is a good movie and a poor movie is a poor movie regardless br br sarkar i am afraid was a very poor movie first of all just by making characters look dangerous or macho they don't bring in an aura about them br br what was so brilliant about amitabh character that we should have been in aura of his and what showed the of the character nothing br br this fact was said by a commentator and amitabh kept giving facial expressions now amitabh can give brilliant facial expressions but why should it mean any thing if there is no history or story to go with it br br there wasn't proper of the characters who worked under too just because a man had spectacles why should we assume he is wise the flow of the movie was generally scenes from the godfather were created like the policeman slapping abhishek bacchan the older brother being killed by abhishek like fredo was killed on instructions of pacino but too much was sought to be packed into the movie with too little story and depth to go with it that was indeed the problem br br if you try to pack 3 hours of intricate detail like a godfather in 2 hours and that too with few dialogues what you get is a highlights show from a cricket match never making the full impact watching a full match will make
0	what on earth happened to rgv there are so many things wrong about this movie that one needs to stop and decide where to start first and worst the music every scene was accompanied with this pretentious background music that was telling you the mood quite pathetically i might add secondly the lighting do we really need such dark scenes where we are wondering if the projector is still working and finally if you are going to the godfather and godfather 2 please realize that a lot of us have seen in was a ripoff of but better done and more entertaining i have seen a similarity in both company and sarkar and while rgv's ab tak 56 was brilliant these two movies leave something to be desired people will not be impressed any more by just corrupt politicians and the lot maybe rgv should see which is good enough to be rgv
0	at the beginning of the movie ramgopal verma says that sarkar is his tribute to the godfather this one feels more like an insult it pales terribly in comparison to the coppola classic although no one was expecting ramgopal verma to fill coppola's shoes the movie did create a lot of expectation and buzz br br amitabh bachchan plays sarkar a character automatically drawing instant comparisons to indian political party supremo bal thackeray abhishek bachchan plays his son shankar who returns from abroad and gets caught up in politics at home just like al pacino in the original godfather br br as most bollywood fare incidents and characters are overtly simplistic and devoid of any kind of solid foundation quick phone calls and sudden announcements turn the film from one direction to another takes to mumbai's murky underworld politics crime nexus like a duck takes to water amithab bachchan as sarkar is supposed to look magnificent and powerful he just ends up looking old and clueless most of his acting is centered around constantly staring at different things around the movie set the actor in front of him the floor or in some other random direction br br however kay kay performs exceedingly well as the wronged elder son so does as rashid the dubai based dope smuggler who wants to gets his footing in mumbai this actor has awesome screen presence and can send chills down your spine with just the way he looks the moment he enters the screen you want to run and hide under the bed br br all its obvious flaws not withstanding the film did well at the box office the buzz and the big star cast obviously helping also verma manages to hold your interest albeit mildly towards the later half of the film he is actually making a sequel to this one which i am sure will be more of the same fare
0	20 people rated this a 10 that ballot box was stuffed better than a christmas turkey speaking of here's a traditional story hoping to piggy back on the current poker craze without success told entirely in linear flashback and when i say told i mean talked to death this film never let's a picture suffice when words can be used to br br stu childhood fascination with cards and his associations with hoodlums might sound like interesting movie material but the director manages to suck the life out of them at no point did i feel the least bit of sympathy for unger a genius at cards who threw it all away on other forms of gambling at which he was not so proficient of course this leads as we wade through three musical montages to the inevitable downward spiral of drugs loss of family and finally his redemption sort of big yawn
0	dear mr ram gopal varma i don't know in which capacity i am writing this letter to you i am a never say he's finished amitabh bachchan fan having sat through his cock chasing act in i also demand some important designation in the godfather fan club having watched the coppola classic more times than you have delivered flops from your factory and of course i have been a big admirer of yours right from the time you had wrapping the cycle chain around his knuckles in shiva br br when you announced sarkar and called it your take on godfather all one wanted to know was the date the first look would be out the sunday the promos would go on air the friday the film would be released it was sheer wish fulfillment at work knowing that you and not someone hovering between the mustard fields of and the tulip gardens of amsterdam had taken up the task of recreating the puzo pages on the bollywood big screen br br your cast couldn't have been more you — working for the first time with the legend casting abhishek as his screen son giving kay kay a role he has deserved for years bringing back forgotten faces like and and picking complete non actors like katrina and to join the before july 1 you had made sarkar the most awaited film ever for any godfather freak who worshiped bachchan br br the opening credits stoked the hope that your stunning sepia tinted promos on the telly had kindled but now you labeled sarkar your tribute to godfather instead of the word inspired which you had been using all along probably you don't want the two creations to be compared but when the medium is the same then a kaante would be compared to reservoir dogs and a reservoir dogs to a city on fire br br also when your first and last sequences — the heart of any screenplay treatment — are all about the establishment and the transfer of power you can't keep the and the apart even if you replace the american mafia moves with maharashtrian political power play br br but you got it wrong mr you wanted to show amitabh in his 70s avatar as up by the pens of you wanted him to lurk around larger than life you wanted him to be his own brand o then how could you steal his voice in the name of using silence how could you keep him rooted to his chair in the hunt for interesting camera angles how could you leave him stranded without his voice and stature the two things that have made his b so big coppola's godfather cameraman gordon willis masked brando's eyes throughout the movie because it didn't have the power to match that drawling husky voice or that sudden snap of the fingers but you tried to repeat the malik act from your very own company but bachchan is no ajay devgan — his forte doesn't lie in the stagnant stare and the suffocating silence you made the man look like a comatose patient who's reminded from time to time to look at the cue cards and mouth those predictable one liners for that there any given saturday br br which bachchan fan would go and watch kay kay menon stealing the thunder from under his nose in the scene where sarkar asks to leave his house which amitabh aficionado would go and watch him focus on and in a film that talks about power with a capital p in the promos we can't handle so much in the name of restraint and understatement you don't even allow the camera to rest on him for five seconds when he learns that his son wanted to kill him give me the old school camera only on bachchan style any given saturday br br kudos to you of course for making an actor out of abhishek first in and now in sarkar you also allow him to show mallika that he can run as well as his father even in the short prison sequence you really make the come out of the text an opportunity missed in aur wish the film could have been more a father son story rather than a chaotic conflict between caricatures in the name of characters who pop up like the ad windows on the internet br br you also let the women more into the script than puzo and coppola did and again you deserve all the brownie points for squeezing them in so effectively is a welcome return as the mother in the middle lovable as the lovelorn girl katrina a revelation as confused lover and silence speaks volumes br br but sub plots do not a classic remake when your free flowing camera tries to make every frame look and your loud background score irritates incessantly we keep getting reminded that we are in a factory well maybe not a nino score but sarkar certainly deserved better than those govinda govinda chants and uncalled for flute interludes br br mr varma some of your factory directors tell me that you are involved with every project from overseeing the shooting schedules to supervising the editing sessions perhaps in the middle of all the various storyboards the bhiku scream is being muted by the silence perhaps you need to bring the down on the factory and work on a single homemade product otherwise your products would remain products to use and throw not treasure and movie buffs like me for whom there are no hits and flops only good cinema would rather choose a film without factory finish any given saturday
0	it is disappointing to see as talented an actor as amitabh bachchan in such a weak role especially when he was beyond sensational in black which i highly recommend one line in the film states is not a mere man he is a thought and a philosophy director ram gopal varma credits the godfather as an inspiration for this movie and perhaps that is the problem it seems like a badly mangled american movie set in india the left elbow index considers seven elements of film making acting continuity plot character development dialogue artistry and production sets on a scale from a high of 10 to a low of 1 with 5 given as a average score the film continuity seems high an 8 by maintaining a violent tone infused with drama in places and using justice outside the legal system as motivation however there seems to be a lack of emotion connected with the evil of organized crime the acting rates a 4 it appears too weak even when someone is being beaten or murdered it seems for example when one character is shot in the forehead i found myself wondering if or when he was going to fall he does not and ala ronald reagan he is placed in an automobile with his bleeding face cradled ala john f kennedy the plot rates a 5 as an example of american style gangsterism with a family oriented at its head character development appears static and the characters seem like chess pieces on an abandoned chess board thereby earning a rank of 3 the dialogue seems stilted and appears to be forced to fit some bowery pattern of speech a 4 for dialogue production sets look to be below average a 4 and artistry is puzzling with far too many close ups too rapid panning and too many group scenes where the actors seem over rehearsed a 3 to me too much camera movement is disruptive the average of the left elbow index is 4 4 and with a slight deduction based on poor it moves down to a 4 two questions continually arise in the film one why are so many people eating so often and two does not india have its own brand of organized crime do films like this have to be so dependent on western cultural examples as much as i like amitabh bachchan i cannot recommend this film
0	i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan's role of sarkar but am disappointed being a ram gopal verma's direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie sarkar is supposed to be a strong character but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his there is a movie in tamil called based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan not his son amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father
0	yet another version of mother of all gangster flicks the classic godfather and yet another case of over hype due to media circus sarkar the 13th hindi film of ram gopal varma as director is also the weakest in his underworld trilogy including the other two being the excellent satya and company the charisma the magnetic persona of the two playing father son duo on screen for the first time is definitely a treat to watch out for not just strong performances but their perfect chemistry is the biggest scoring point here for which varma should be applauded however the same equation of the duo is missing with the other characters in the film reason the other characters look more like cardboard caricatures esp the villains represent the typical bollywood baddies a character who attracts attention is elder son played by but again not able to hold due to half baked characterization the drama and conflict is brought alive by the excessive use of close shots which brought a claustrophobic effect rightly needed to construct an ambiance the haunting score amar and the sound design kunal mehta dev together with dark murky background overlapped by shinning powerful images camerawork by amit roy contributes to visuals so typical of ramu's style but there is an overuse of music though fortunately no songs are there in the film but can interest of today's intelligently growing audience be sustained just on shoulders of two performers and strong visuals i don't think so surely audience more and here film fails to deliver in any adaptation in order to add a new dimension the biggest pre requisite is the screenplay which is sluggish here not being crisp at places and therefore the pace slackens quite often what finally audience is subjected to is a highly predictable very commonplace drama with very little surprise elements top stunt director allan amin is also not in his best form some scenes which require a different treatment includes a minister is talking foul about sarkar and the son is overhearing a very amateurish shoot out in the jail on sarkar sarkar jr escapes from the clutches of his enemies a son easily motivated to kill his own father a son is secretly entering his father's room to kill him a police commissioner slapping sarkar jr all this requires a more realistic hard hitting approach which is the back bone to create the required conflict the dialogues are weak for eg look at an amateurish line where a cm says to sarkar jr – wo jo police commissioner tha na maine the women folk take on working is completely ignored the uninterrupted negotiations about criminal activities while sarkar is with his family also look slightly out of place in fact the film follows a graph quite similar to ramu's own production ab tak in depicting the battle between good and evil the other side of life the law police administration politics is completely ignored certainly more is expected in content here the film definitely falls short and could not rise above an average fare dear ramu agreed that now you are laughing your way to the bank you definitely need to take some drastic measures in your film production factory before it is too late
0	this movie was obviously made with a very low budget but did they have to make it so obvious it looked like they made no effort to make the future look in the least futuristic for example the first scene takes place in an 80's office building and all the cars that get blown up are from the late 70's i assume they didn't want to blow up cars that cost more than 500 additionally its pretty obvious that don the dragon is driving his personal car during the movie after all he did partially fund the film finally they point out at the beginning of the film that all kinds of drugs are now legal in this new cyberpunk society not only does this never become important in the film but later when don needs surgery without anesthesia why doesn't he just go out and get some legal heroin or morphine the whole movie is sloppy like this and completely anticlimactic since don easily blows up an unstoppable about 25 minutes into the movie however if you find this movie cheap or free i'd watch it the last scene is almost worth putting up with this whole film
0	is set in los angeles sometime in the near future where bodyguard eric phillips co producer don 'the dragon' wilson saves senator robert dilly john from an assassination attempt by a group known as the the union of human rights who are angry at dilly for spearheading the computerised judicial system in which robots called are sent out to determine dispense justice on the guilty anyway eric saves dilly who is very impressed decides to see if he can trust eric in his shady activities like the cold blooded murder of a traitor being the fine upstanding guy that he is eric isn't impressed when dilly kills a woman he is asked to keep it quiet eric escapes sets out to bring dilly down however dilly has lots of powerful friends he uses his influence to frame eric have his sent out in pursuit of him br br co produced directed by richard pepin i think films like give films a bad name i didn't like it that much at all the script by hart is pretty predictable it doesn't excite it steals most of it's ideas theme from other better sci fi films the heady mix of martial arts action sci fi don't gel that well there a few fights some car chases a couple of shoot outs but it's all rather bland forgettable the film lacks imagination considering the film is set in the future it deals with robots technology the way society is run it's judicial system in particular speaking of which the fantastic robocop 1987 mixed it's violent action clever social commentary brilliantly but doesn't even try to make any relevant social statement or try to portray any meaningful moral message about law enforcement the script basically uses the concept to have robots shoot outs which robocop did as well but also managed to include a good story there is very little in that i can say was entertaining that's what films are about right br br director pepin does ok but nothing stands out it's all rather forgettable it's not particularly exciting the sci fi elements are nothing more than the robot side of things as a whole the film doesn't look that futuristic the action scenes are alright there's some exploding cars some shoot outs but nothing spectacular br br technically is average for a film supposedly set in the future it already looks dated the special effects are poor the acting was bad i wonder if don 'the dragon' wilson signs cheques with that name br br was a waste of my time there is nothing here original or exciting the action is instantly forgettable poor that's all that needs to be said not recommended
0	eric phillips don wilson is a secret service agent who prevents the assassination of a senator however along the way he finds a conspiracy and has a tracker on his tail the tracker by the way is bent on terminating phillips the most obvious inspiration for this low budget cheeseball action flick is of course robocop and while that film had some imagination and real energy this just has a real life kickboxing champ running away from a robot the movie isn't so awful as it is just empty and repetitive the story is written in clichés and the characters are set up to be cut down by the various gunfire don wilson as usual is terrible in the lead role br br 1 2 out of 4 poor
0	plot synopsis los angeles in the future crime is kept under control by core trackers android assassins dispatched by the united states computerized judicial system to execute the guilty secret service agent eric phillips prevents an attack on his boss senator robert dilly the man who set up the by the union for human rights a group of anti machine activists dilly attempts to initiate phillips into his private circle but the ss agent goes on the run after witnessing dilly murder a agent in cold blood dilly sends core trackers after him phillips joins the group helps them uncover a conspiracy involving dilly br br cyber tracker is the first of a number of sci fi action hybrids directed by richard pepin co founder of pm entertainment a powerhouse of action films during the 1990s other pepin films include hologram man t force the silencers dark breed pepin films typically start with a major action sequence which lasts about 10 minutes before allowing the plot to kick in the script for this film has a few plot holes – it is never clear what the conspiracy the heroes are trying to stop actually is as for the acting don the dragon wilson may be tough but cannot act for beans with little charisma his co stars are a lot better the film's best bet are the action scenes which throw up some impressive artillery fire a huge bodycount not one but three moments where a vehicle flies through the air flips hits the ground exploding the visual effects border on the cheap side the musical score is low key shrill
0	oh dear this has to be one of the worst films i have ever seen it's unbelievably repetitive every scene seems to consist of people being gunned down running round screaming or being kicked in the face which quickly becomes very dull i wouldn't mind if the combat was even any good but it isn't the main character phillips pushes the various goons over with ridiculous ease and no matter how often he stands in full view of the tracker he never gets hit even though extras and minor characters are being shot and blown up all around him i've rarely seen a worse cast of actors especially don wilson if you can even call him an actor but that's not really surprising given the dialogue they have to work with sample line computers killed my brother the plot is a sub par ripoff of the excellent terminator the special effects are laughable overall this film is just utterly dreadful and why does everything explode
0	this movie was sooo bad it wasn't even funny at all not even the sarcastic scenes were funny oh man bad so bad thumbs down spoofed karate kid teen wolf footloose dirty dancing some kind of wonderful soul man and probably another or two chris kattan at his very worst as the high school janitor who is a talented dancer who runs a dance studio in a warehouse he has a jealous girlfriend who breaks her ankle and her dance spot goes to the cute blonde newcomer who chris has eyes for i thought the acting was really bad i like laugh out loud comedies this was not one not another teen movie wasn't funny but had a lot more funny scenes than totally awesome scary movie is funny i always laugh when i watch those super enjoyable this movie not funny
0	this is possibly the worst film i have ever seen what a weak waste of michael obvious talent disgusting film from start to finish all i can say is this director is no you never once get inside the game the character's head the amazing talent with numbers the real had the coke scene is bad enough to throw your shoe at the set it might have been a great scene had it been shot for movies and not the stage with the camera half way across the house hovering over a mirror with drugs on it while the drama is going on far in the background the scene where he wins the big championship is just laugh out loud ridiculous this should be screened in film making 101 what not to do in making pictures
0	star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br former new orleans homicide cop jack jean claude van damme is re assigned to columbus a small but violent town in mexico to help the police there with their efforts to stop a major heroin smuggling operation into their town the culprits turn out to be ex military lead by former commander benjamin meyers stephen lord otherwise known as from east enders who is using a special method he learned in afghanistan to fight off his opponents but jack has a more personal reason for taking him down that draws the two men into an explosive final showdown where only one will walk away alive br br after until death van damme appeared to be on a high showing he could make the best straight to video films in the action market while that was a far more drama oriented film with the shepherd he has returned to the high kicking no brainer action that first made him famous and has sadly produced his worst film since derailed it's nowhere near as bad as that film but what i said still stands br br a dull predictable film with very little in the way of any exciting action what little there is mainly consists of some limp fight scenes trying to look cool and trendy with some cheap slo mo sped up effects added to them that sadly instead make them look more desperate being a mexican set film director isaac florentine has tried to give the film a robert rodriguez desperado sort of feel but this only adds to the desperation br br vd gives a particularly uninspired performance and given he's never been a robert de niro sort of actor that can't be good as the villain lord shouldn't expect to leave the beeb anytime soon he gets little dialogue at the beginning as he struggles to muster an american accent but gets mysteriously better towards the end all the supporting cast are equally bland and do nothing to raise the films spirits at all br br this is one shepherd that's strayed right from the flock
0	how does this movie suck as a fan of michael work on the sopranos i picked this up at blockbuster based on his name and a story that sounded like it had promise it still does but this movie doesn't fulfill it br br every turn of the story is entirely predictable i kept looking for the lifetime bug on the bottom right corner of the screen it's all there the noble woman coming out of hard times the guy failing to live up to his potential despite her best efforts the kid who gets stuck in the middle etc etc etc the mysterious stranger's identity is what really made me want to throw stuff at the tv i would have been more satisfied with little waking up and realizing it was all a dream br br the filmmakers may as well have had a the moral of the story is bit before the credits since as another reviewer pointed out this thing really does roll like an afterschool special don't gamble don't drink don't do drugs stay with your wife spend time with your kids come on how about a little nuance how about some interesting bad guys writer director a w should be singled out for special notice not only is the dialogue leaden the pacing within dialogue and at either end of many scenes makes this movie at least 45 minutes longer than it needs to be and believe me it feels like longer the talents of imperioli renee and some of the supporting cast steve schirripa natch are the only things that keep this from a 1 rating all of their good work is nearly offset though by the atrocious job of portraying the boy not sure if it was a casting mistake hey it's a mob movie so let's cast someone from blue's clues who can't do anything but over overact with a big fake grin next let's cast the sullen brooding kid in the disney flick or just awful directing but those scenes are really painful to watch br br i'd be interested in another filmmaker's take on this character and his story it's a shame imperioli has already been used up by this flick awful awful awful
0	stu ungar is considered by many to be the greatest poker gin player of all time an extraordinary self destructive force of nature tiny in stature but a huge heart for the game br br what we have here is a kind of hallmark film about the dangers of gambling sure he wins he loses he blows it all on sex drugs and more gambling we get it but where is the real play where is what made him the greatest card player of all time br br much too flat and frankly boring in places this gets a four because we get to learn something about stu the man but stu the card player nada br br nicely shot and presented up to a point this is the perfect example of how not to make a film about cards honestly coverage of the world series is more watchable than this br br a waste of a great chance
0	this movie attempted to make stu life interesting by being creative what they forgot is that his life was plenty entertaining enough on it's own without having to make things up br br a short list of the inaccuracies br br 1 was not sent straight to las vegas for a gin tournament to pay off old debts he spent a good deal of time in florida first and only went to las vegas when he ran out of gin games on the east coast br br 2 never associated or played gin with a casino executive like the one played by pat morita in the movie br br 3 there was no magical turnaround in the buildup to the 1997 in fact barely made it into the tournament as it was he cocaine the week before even br br either tell the story right or don't tell it at all 4 out of 10 stars for michael credible performance the only redeeming quality of this movie
0	this movie is a shameful result of what happens when br br a it is written directed and produced by an idiot and or b it was rushed in production to satiate the poker stu ungar craze br br the story from beginning is uneven spends too much time on childhood and not enough on some of the legendary tales such as counting cards his blackjack escapades the roll of money as id he also leaves out mentions of other poker greats such as chip reese etc the movie is a complete mess from beginning to end br br if you want a more complete and accurate account read the book one of a kind if you thought the movie was good read the book and change your mind
0	having just finished reading the book one of a kind a week ago i was thinking this would make a great movie especially now when people know a little about poker and poker players i was totally shocked to find it while browsing at the video store last night i had no idea someone had actually turned this into a film i grabbed it immediately and watched with much anticipation what a major letdown br br all of the intriguing things about stu ungar were skimmed over quickly and instead i was left with a biopic that could have been about anybody ungar may have been a burnt out jerk but he was also a brilliant thinker that could read people instinctively that is what made him so fascinating why not focus on that br br and talk about watering down the real truth this guy was excessive about absolutely everything drugs women gambling starvation sleep deprivation he gambled on sporting events from dusk to dawn he would go missing for days while hanging out in crack dens his body was perpetually emaciated and yet if he ever needed money he could always beat just about anyone at will playing cards now that's a story br br too much time spent on his childhood and personal relationships although his ties with vincent and his daughter were hardly touched on and hardly anything about his drugs use which was exorbitant his insane gambling and his incredible card playing abilities br br probably too late now but i hope someone remakes this film properly i had no problem with imperioli he is excellent the script just left him with nothing interesting to say
0	wow i just witnessed one of the greatest poker tragedies and i'm not talking about the premature death of the great stu ungar this film i'm sorry to say was terrible absolutely terrible a true tragedy in filmaking history well maybe i'm being a little harsh but unless you have some interest in the life of stu ungar then don't even consider coming near this one and those that do have an interest in his life will find that most parts were and made out to be great novelty scenes i watched it because of stu ungar but nearly wanted to end myself like he did while watching this movie 4 stars for effort but unpleasantly painful
0	well the movie was no terrible but whomever created the screen play did not do a good job of even creating the essence of unger this movie was slightly below average and did not tell the story correctly on one of the most interesting persons ever born i suggest reading the book one of a kind the real unger story they left out huge parts of his life they also at times did not understand the real that he was the actual facts of his life were at times out of order and in the end they really did not portray the actual personality that he did have so please don't watch the movie read the book by the way i'm not just some prick who feels you have to stay 100 to the real story but they did not even come close
0	an insult to both poker and cinema this movie manages to make the most dynamic brilliant and fascinating figure in poker history into an utter bore still a fun film to make jokes about from the lame gangster movie clichés of the first half to the incomprehensible nonsense of that second hour hilariously stu ungar wins all three of his world series titles without playing a single hand on screen his infamous dealer abuse 1 scene his coke habit 1 scene his incredible memory 0 scenes they couldn't even get any real poker players what did they cover a lot of high angle shots from inside a house in the suburbs oh and a montage of stu waking up every day and shopping for meat which doesn't come anywhere close to making sense why do i care so much about this little sopranos summer camp trying to cash in on the poker craze because i think there's still a great film to be made about stu ungar waiting for someone willing to do it right
0	for the most part michael is a disaster – ten minutes of charm and ninety's worth of missteps br br travolta and macdowell do their best frequently rising above nora ephron's numbingly banal script but the film moves like a snail and even within its fantasy context the characters behave implausibly on a regular basis reporters who routinely let the story of a lifetime – an apparent angel living on earth – out of their sight br br someone forgot to tell romantic comedy maestro ephron that william hurt brilliant in so many other films is no tom hanks the movie's climax redefines the word contrived ephron may be shooting for heaven here but unfortunately michael is a long long ride through cinema heck
0	my website org lists michael as one of the worst films of the modern era the following is an excerpt br br everyone slums some time in their lives this was travolta's turn i still don't know what the point of this terrible film was nora has proved to be a competent writer and director so what the hell happened here the archangel michael takes a new spin here and is portrayed as a ham fisted chain smoking sugar addicted fornicating slob whose biggest contribution to humanity after sending lucifer to hell was that he invented standing in line yes how funny and charming i don't find this offensive i find it stupid in its defense i can say that the ending was ever bit unsatisfying as the rest of this painful attempt at story telling
0	its a totally average film with a few semi alright action sequences that make the plot seem a little better and remind the viewer of the classic van dam films parts of the plot don't make sense and seem to be added in to use up time the end plot is that of a very basic type that doesn't leave the viewer guessing and any twists are obvious from the beginning the end scene with the flask backs don't make sense as they are added in and seem to have little relevance to the history of van dam's character not really worth watching again bit disappointed in the end production even though it is apparent it was shot on a low budget certain shots and sections in the film are of poor directed quality
0	this was more of a love story than one about an angel who comes down here to earth although both angles of that story are given a good share of the movie br br if i took this movie to heart as someone who knows and believes the bible i would have canned it pretty quick but i don't think the general atmosphere was either mean spirited or blasphemous it was just ludicrous or just plain stupid br br i mean john travolta as a grubby angel smoking scratching his groin quoting the beatles a warring angel who knows nothing about heaven an angel who flirts with all the women yes it's all absurd and certainly biblically incorrect br br i could tolerate all that but i don't know how many people whatever beliefs they hold who could stand a boring film which this turned out to be during the second half of it it begins to drag when the romance begins between william hurt and andie macdowell some of the dialog during that romance is so stupid it's insulting to any discriminating viewer br br this is another nora ephron directed film man i can't believe how many incredibly stupid movies this woman has either written or directed at least she's consistent
0	this movie makes you wish imdb would let you vote a zero one of the two movies i've ever walked out of it's very hard to think of a worse movie with such big name actors well armageddon almost takes it but not quite
0	do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made stop wondering i'm telling you michael is it br br it is not heartwarming entertaining or travolta at his best it just sucks if i had kids i would let them watch deep throat before michael br br a sold out john travolta a washed up and balding william hurt and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film br br but wait you'll get to hear andie mcdowell sing yeah hollywood really s t all over us with this one
0	i wanted to like this movie but there is very little to like about it it starts out with jean stapleton and a randy newman song in iowa northwest iowa i guess reminiscent of norman cold turkey which was one of the best movies ever made according to people on imdb so far so good and the idea of the archangel michael living at pansy motel on earth well give it a chance it's supposed to be a comedy okay so far so good but michael does things that an angel not fallen would never do and that completely blows any credibility the movie might have had the other characters in the movie don't have much appeal either michael brings a dog back to life and we're supposed to be in awe of that the people make up corny country songs in the end stapleton dances with travolta big deal if she was smart she wouldn't even be in this movie when it was over i thought gee what a stupid tasteless boring corny sacrilegious movie it's not fit to be seen by children or anyone else
0	czech movie goers may have enjoyed and rated this film highly because it was czech but i found it to be trite tedious moronic boring and insipid again i suspect ramping in order to increase sales of this dog of a film amazon describes this film as being about a couple of fellows that refuse to grow up but i will go one further i think it is about two fellows that have entered a state of dementia and perform actions that make no sense to anyone i have been told that one of the actors in the film committed suicide after the film and i would believe it when he saw his performance he probably realized what a gosh awful job he had done and realized that the only way to avoid terminal embarrassment was to make the big exit which i am sure was much more dramatic and a much better performance that he had done in autumn spring don't waste your time or money on this pathetic performance it's nothing but a dog in a manger
0	i happened upon a rare copy of this early almodovar film with high expectations almodovar is a prolific contemporary director i enjoyed his 1988 film women on the verge of a nervous breakdown and i had read one or two very positive reviews of the film well i must have missed completely the humor that the reviewers saw in this film i just found it incoherent tasteless and boring yes there are plenty of innuendos people in drag and crude sexual situations and yes these elements may have shocked audiences in 1982 which was almost certainly almodovar's intention but much of the shock value has probably eroded over the years leaving a limp storyline beyond that the whole movie seemed very chaotic none of the characters were particularly sympathetic and for a comedy even a dark one i just didn't find this film funny i suppose it is possible there is a very select audience for a film like this but i'm just not part of that audience and not sure that i want to be
0	i was very willing to give rendition the benefit of the doubt when it came to all the negative press i had read concerning it even about three quarters of the way through i still thought it was jumbled and a bit incoherent but otherwise a solid tale reaching its conclusion and then the bottom fell out not wanting to necessarily ruin the film for anyone but the conclusion flips everything you held to be fact about what and when things have been happening on its no particular reason whatsoever except to maybe tell the world yeah i'm cool and i know it i love a good twist i love a good ah ha moment but only when it is relevant to the story at hand the complete on the part of the filmmakers serves no purpose on the overall tale timelines didn't need to be parallel and they didn't need to be separated by a week all the revelation did was destroy any merit i was about to give director gavin hood and screenwriter kelley sane which may be a good thing because looking back it wasn't really as solid a movie as i initially was going to blindly give it credit for br br it is an admirable thing to try and get the term rendition out into the film going public's consciousness but it needed a story that delved deeper into the connotations and politics involved rather than gloss over those issues for a tale of a woman in distress over her husband's disappearance and the angst filled rebellion of a daughter against her interrogator father i understand that the bottom line film needs a human quality to grasp onto and for that reason i don't fault it for going that route my only qualm is that we don't get enough of what the title says we should be getting instead we are shown numerous plot lines all confusingly brought to the forefront before being sent back into the nether regions of our consciousness never to be returned to so much is going on that you forget what you are supposed to be caring for the wife the interrogator the cia agent the victim the senator the middle eastern daughter and her zealot boyfriend at the end i really just gave up and let the film take me where it would which ended up being someone totally different than what it first laid out br br everything that occurs happens as the result of a bomb explosion this bomb is at the center of every story thread and finally ends up being so innocuous that you can't believe how huge the waves it spread were the old butterfly wings flapping quote is in full effect because one boy's mission for revenge ends up destroying the lives of so many whether by death destruction physical and emotional abuse or career suicide no one really escapes unscathed however at the end of the day only the story about the man who has been excised to egypt for torture is really interesting we are led to believe he is unequivocally innocent from the start yet he is electrocuted etc in order to extract any information he might have when those in power include a man with no compassion or reason to stop until something is spilled whether true or not and an observer without the guts to partake or stop it the situation lends itself some intrigue as to how it could possibly end the three actors involved all are the best parts of the film and prove once more that the movie should have concerned itself with them for the entirety br br i don't want to belittle people like reese witherspoon the victim's wife or her senate employed ex played by peter sarsgaard because they actual do a good job with what they are given even meryl streep her kooky accent and alan arkin don't detract too much however it is the trio of jake gyllenhaal's cia agent interrogator and omar victim that truly shine is brilliant as the egyptian trying to stay sharp as a razor during working hours yet compassionate and worry filled as a father attempting to locate his daughter this man is brutal but he is because that is what his occupation calls for and why he is relied upon to find answers never gives a false second during the pain and suffering inflicted upon him whether he is lying or truly knows nothing about the terrorist who has been calling his cell phone we totally buy into his plight and desperately wait to see how the situation turns out as for gyllenhaal someone who seems to have one performance recycled throughout his career with varying degrees of success he finds a part that suits him the demons entering his soul throughout the ordeal he is forced to be a part of wear on his body and mind causing both ambivalence and a need to intervene the two feelings wrestle with each other until he makes a final decision and his stoic boyish demeanor suit that battle perfectly br br it is just too bad that the one plot line working never finds itself as the main focal point despite being the namesake of the film with all the clutter around the edges we as an audience get bounced around too much lulled into a sense of time and sequence and then slapped in the face as it all unravels in more of a laugh on us then a bet you didn't see that coming i felt cheated and unfortunately that is the lasting effect i have taken from the movie had it been more straightforward i might have enjoyed myself more but as is one can still take some positives from the severely flawed whole
0	the movie is powerful as a political statement about extraordinary rendition torture and the politics of the war on terror others have already commented on these and other aspects of the movie my review may contain spoilers so if you haven't seen the movie you may not want to read beyond this point br br several questions are raised by this movie first of all was the protagonist guilty or not there is no satisfying explanation for why the nsa decided to have him picked up and rendered in the first place is there an innocent explanation for why he got phone calls from what the nsa thinks is a terrorist if there is the movie does not seem to give one and that made the whole movie quite unsatisfying to me it is all well and good to make statements about whether torture is right or wrong but first prove to me that they tortured the wrong person then we will take it to the next step br br if the protagonist was guilty then what was achieved by releasing him perhaps we was well trained to resist up to a certain point and then pretend to break down and give answers that can be proved wrong with a little research thus tending to lead the torturers to believe that they had tortured an innocent man into confessing without actually being guilty however there is nothing in the movie that proves he is guilty either br br the various other loose ends out there are 1 so a rogue cia agent has him released and flown back home what prevents the nsa from picking him up again a little publicity in the washington post please give me a break here if a senator is not willing to put his neck on the line to intervene on his behalf what does corinne whitman have to fear 2 if the nsa has been tracking what phone numbers are being called by whom why couldn't they listen in on some of the calls to figure out whether anything underhanded is being discussed 3 the plot is even more stupid anyways any criminal with more than a dozen brain cells would his criminal business on an anonymous prepaid cell phone line not on one that can be traced back to him and his house br br the whole movie revolves around tugging at the viewers' heart strings by showing graphic and gratuitous scenes of torture but when you think about it with any more depth there is nothing of substance in this movie only plenty of unanswered questions and the feeling of what that is it at the end of the movie
0	there are many so called anti war anti govt policy films around now which start off as a mea and end with 'our poor boys are getting hell out there so let the world sympathise with them it's not their kind of stuff i was half afraid that this would be another in that style even if it treated another subject aspect of the same subject i nearly didn't go and see it for that matter i almost did not write this review what did we get here an egyptian gets taken off to a secret off shore torture centre on u s orders but it is another egyptian who has to do the torturing not an american 'see we americans have clean hands ' and the egyptians are a bad lot anyway so let them harm their own oh and the goody had to be an american with a conscience indeed many americans have them but here the concept was misplaced yes we all know it is called extraordinary rendition and it began in clinton's time and it is now used for reasons well beyond control otherwise it was very hackneyed and nervous about really condemning the u s for being party to torture as if the makers were afraid to go the whole way for fear of being as unpatriotic or whatever take a look at the message board anyone apologising gets a faceful of heavy verbal artillery torture is a terrible thing whether one is guilty or not in the 18th century king of prussia abolished it for convicted murderers though i must say a life sentence for a child molester is far less than what i want to see all right what about torture this film did not really bring out its horror and hopelessness enough when you are under torture now come the capitals for emphasis i am not shouting you will say anything even if it is not true even if you have not done the thing you are accused of in the vain hope that if you say amen to whatever they are it will stop it does not but you never learn and you keep on saying that you did whatever it is they say you did tho' you did'nt another thing the film did not bring out enough was that torture is exceedingly indescribably humiliating and that feeling stays with you your whole life it somehow changes people inside how do i know all that don't ask br br re edit two things the arabic that was used in the film was not the egyptian dialect it's sort of worse than setting a film in new zealand with locals as the characters and everyone has american accents also the dreadful little preacher who was inciting his ignorant audience to violence was telling them things unknown to that religion which should have been brought out nor was it anywhere explained that any can become a imam he doesn't need any special qualifications and that is a hiatus which needs to be put right many are acceptable because of their fundamentalist views and u s a 's great ally saudi arabia finances so many of them many thanks for this space
0	i was excited at the concept of my favorite comic book hero being on television and sorely disappointed at the end result br br the only amazing thing was the wall crawling despite the visibility of the cable i didn't think nick hammond was peter parker and he was visibly of a different build than the guy who did the stunts in the spider suit you could tell they were two different actors br br granted i can also spot in the modern spider man movies when i am looking at tobey and when i am looking at cgi but that is from a trained eye and experience working with cgi still the 70's version could have been better despite lack of special fx br br the webs were hokey and looked like ropes that seemed to wrap around things rather than stick to them and what was up with giving him a spider mobile to ride around in hello he's the web people br br sorry didn't mean to get so worked up but our beloved wall crawler deserved better
0	worth the entertainment value of a rental especially if you like action movies this one features the usual car chases fights with the great van damme kick style shooting battles with the 40 shell load shotgun and even terrorist style bombs all of this is entertaining and competently handled but there is nothing that really blows you away if you've seen your share before br br the plot is made interesting by the inclusion of a rabbit which is clever but hardly profound many of the characters are heavily stereotyped the angry veterans the terrified illegal aliens the crooked cops the indifferent feds the bitchy tough lady station head the crooked politician the fat federale who looks like he was typecast as the mexican in a hollywood movie from the 1940s all passably acted but again nothing special br br i thought the main villains were pretty well done and fairly well acted by the end of the movie you certainly knew who the good guys were and weren't there was an emotional lift as the really bad ones got their just deserts very simplistic but then you weren't expecting hamlet right the only thing i found really annoying was the constant cuts to daughter during the last fight scene br br not bad not good passable 4
0	spiderman was one of the first comic books to initiate a change in the genre in spite of being a very well made superhero comic book this is the first series ever that added a real psychological depth to the main character had complex moral issue round characters and also highlighted social and political issues in other words spiderman was the comic book's coming of age this tv series lacks all of those components it's just a straightforward good buy bad guy tv series suffering from obvious budgetary that make the action scene moderately exciting spiderman is about as convincing as the cardboard rocks in star trek nicholas hammond is way too old for the role at that point in time i think he was well into his thirties wheras spider man was really teenager at the time for some unfathomable reason the writers also changed names and deleted important characters from the comic book which again just resulted in the tension between characters basically disappearing
0	opulent sets and sumptuous costumes well photographed by theodor and a good not great performance by jannings as henry cannot overcome poor writing and static camera work henny chews the scenery as anne br br it's all very beautiful but it's all surface and no depth the melodramatic tale of a woman wronged made it a hit in america where the expressionistic the cabinet of dr caligari flopped in the same year 1920 proving that what is popular is not what endures lubitsch would be remembered for his lively comedies not sterile spectacles like this
0	and again i find myself in the minority br br i didn't like this one this is the only varney work i haven't embraced including slam dunk ernest rates the credit for being the worst of the line but this is a clear competitor for that dubious title br br this work is too rough and too base to be lovable was one of ernest's key components and this element was completely lost herein unfortunately most think this is the best of the line but if you loved the essence of what made ernest ernest you will realize to what i refer about fifteen minutes into this work it was too blatantly base to be fun br br it rates a 3 5 10 from br br the fiend
0	yes i had the misfortune of watching this film when i was younger at a friends house as his mother was a teacher and she wanted to screen the movie and see if there were any inappropriate scenes that a parent might object to well other than the unfunny jokes i think this one was in the clear well the unfunny jokes and the strange scene where the look a like ernest hits on a girl so yes ernest gets thrown in jail thanks to a look a like and proceeds to try to escape and there is other stuff to it like him becoming at one point shooting electricity and in a very painful to watch finale flying there are a couple of jokes but nothing to much to mention except for the gun carved from soap i think that is the only scene me or my friend's mother laughed out loud at this and camp are the only two ernest movies i have ever seen and from what i have seen in them i am not going to track down the other films ernest was good in small doses but a movie is just to much even when it is as short as this one i figure though the films made money mainly because all you need is varney and a location and a theme and you have your movie
0	i will give it this it tried it did try to make it good and even got luke wilson involved luke wilson is good but he can only do so much he can't make up for the fact that the story was very flawed and the characters were underdeveloped br br the running gag with the bully was asinine he was never funny and i got tired of the gag really fast and the kid bit was kind of weak too he to florida yeah ok br br the movie felt like an average kiddie film at times with this underlining mantra adults stupid kids smart and that bit gets tiresome br br but the only moments that were funny was the police cart wilson drove around when he lost his squad car i loved that little cart especially when wilson turned on the sirens but other than that nothing else was worth my time d
0	may be i don't get it right i mean the movie it does not make me happy or whatever has to do maybe because of my mood anyhow this one is a simple family movie with kids for actors just admit that all movies of that kind cannot pass the barrier of 4 out of 10 never mind who is playing in the movie example antonio banderas was playing in that kind of movies two or three of them cant remember the exact count i got bored i almost fall asleep just because the topic is so cliché and the actor play was so predictable but i am sure that my kid will love this movie when he grows up hey im not a monster i found some hilarious or good moments in the movie the owls in the movie were sooooo cute the trick with the painted police car windows and the hits that the kid received in the head by a golf ball
0	if you're a kid liking fairy tale real life adventures see it if you're a youth liking kids movies why not see it if you're a parent going to see a movie with your kids you're way better of opting for the squirrel br br the start of this film was a bit funny and set some good premises for the happenings to take place but after the kind of funny introduction of characters settings and potential conflicts the story turned out kinda dull when more or less the same things happen for the third and fourth time the word predictable repeatedly comes to mind just like parts of a lp or those commercials you really hate and the culmination of the plot oh sigh poor poor poor
0	i stopped this movie at 48 minutes and change i don't know maybe it's because i'm not swedish or french the cannes commenter or any of those other sleepy places from which the previous reviewers held forth born and raised in ny lived near san francisco for a quarter of a century and now holland i love a good independent film as much as the next movie enthusiast but this in a word isn't funny see now that's funny that you're thinking that i made a mistake i said 'in a word' but then said funny' nope no mistake if this is your type of humor i'd say you haven't really had much of a life consider your appreciation of this film a symptom and please don't ever write another review i have a tendency to believe them when they're unanimous even if there only were about 3 reviews before mine i figured i might actually be able to save someone else the boredom the anticipation of laughter that never materializes i did smile once or twice though when i started the movie and when i stopped it that should be 10 lines
0	you the living ok i think i am an intelligent educated liberal and really into films i really like and have a great sense of humour i was under the impression this was a bleakly painful comedy they got paid for making this petrol was used electricity burnt food was consumed sets built why i blame the current state of the world on this film and all those people associated with it i will even include us the viewing public we are all to blame and deserve whatever coming its not funny not much happens everyone it seems is bored or boring there are no conversations communication is minimal there is no plot as far as i am aware i have in fact just lost 89 point something minutes of my life i will never ever get that time back the only message i have come away with is perhaps life is too short to sit around watching movies of people doing not much and then you die
0	some people think of sweden in a negative way too neat too clean too serious too organized and too northern a people tortured by their own religious fate and history sometimes leading to depression and compulsive heavy handedness this need not be a problem for a filmmaker as for example the late bergman has shown us what can be cinematic possible under these conditions bergman used his identity as a starting point and did not explicitly comment on this identity as such br br however does the reverse he comments only on this identity hereby dissecting his people to the bone in his world sweden is equivalent for hell on earth but he does not take this any further and for me this is just not art but merely despite the exceptional amount of time it took to make this filmmaker has serious limitations he clearly cannot step out of br br compared to his previous movie andra songs from the second floor there is also not much progress to be observed the intention was that this was more accessible but the difference is minimal and the few scenes that try to please a larger audience aren't the best in the movie the same absurdism and minimalism also still apply there is the one shot camera position and the lack of action in front of this shot yes the stills are well done some of the scenes actually work and the coloring and positioning is amazing but does that make an interesting movie thinking in a negative way this is cinema taken a step backwards br br background as a maker of commercials shines through in the elaborate setup but i find his movies about as empty as those commercials there is a message about mankind but it is trivial and without much depth
0	i love sci fi and am willing to put up with a lot sci fi movies tv are usually underfunded under appreciated and misunderstood i tried to like this i really did but it is to good tv sci fi as babylon 5 is to star trek the original silly prosthetics cheap cardboard sets stilted dialogues cg that doesn't match the background and painfully one dimensional characters cannot be overcome with a 'sci fi' setting i'm sure there are those of you out there who think babylon 5 is good sci fi tv it's not it's clichéd and uninspiring while us viewers might like emotion and character development sci fi is a genre that does not take itself seriously cf star trek it may treat important issues yet not as a serious philosophy it's really difficult to care about the characters here as they are not simply foolish just missing a spark of life their actions and reactions are wooden and predictable often painful to watch the makers of earth know it's rubbish as they have to always say gene roddenberry's earth otherwise people would not continue watching roddenberry's ashes must be turning in their orbit as this dull cheap poorly edited watching it without advert breaks really brings this home trudging of a show lumbers into space spoiler so kill off a main character and then bring him back as another actor dallas all over again
0	all grown up is basically a spin off and not much else of the original rugrats cartoon that featured the babies tommy pickles chucky finster lil and phil deville angelica susie and later kimi sister and tommy's brother i grew up with rugrats and thought it was a great cartoon it had excellent humor nice stories and the show's creators klasky csupo were obviously very original and creative with the concept of the adventures of babies the new show all grown up tries to recapture the magic of the original cartoon i was disappointed when i saw it i found the all grown up chuckie just annoying and the whole pre teen acting mature trying to be popular that applied to unfortunately all of the characters dull and washed out there still are some funny scenes and jokes in the new series and it was interesting how the artists would make the whole baby gang of rugrats look ten years from their age in the original show overall this show is and only watchable if a you're a die hard fan of the rugrats b have never seen the original show c you're a pre teen that has nothing to do or d your so bored that your somehow forced to see this show this show is not that good it doesn't compare to the older rugrats episodes in quality humor and everything else
0	why did they change the cute rugrats television show we all know and love into a lame attempt to target teens they don't have to do that all ages watch the regular rugrats when i heard about this i thought hey they made a tv series about the movie except they're really grown up as a teenager this is going to be better when i saw it it was just as if i was watching as told by ginger except they made it suck great job br br when in the rugrats series has tommy been a director never basically all the episodes in this attempted series is about tommy's love of directing i don't like that i rather watch plots that change every episode not the same thing over and over also when did in the old series have each character have their own sides of the story never this series did that i didn't like that everyone separated i don't want to see angelica's side of the story i hate her br br i do not recommend this show if you like as told by ginger and the rugrats
0	all grown up had a lot to live up to and there was much hype when this show was now it's easy to explain why it didn't live up to expectations firstly this show failed to create a realistic world of pre teens in the way that rugrats captured the world and the imagination of toddlers secondly the show's character's are stereo types angelica white spoilt blond as opposed to suzie colored girl from modest family or boring tommy chuckie and annoying dil finally there is not one ounce of innovation or an original plot line to sum up all grown up is a waste of time and a bad idea for a sequel series to a show such as rugrats it's boring lacks imagination and it seems that the producers don't even know how 10 to 13 year olds behave to be accurate shouldn't angelica and suzie be comparing bra sizes rather than fight over who's better at doing chores
0	this movie should go down in the annals of as one of the worst of all time i will stop short of saying it's the worst movie ever only because i have yet to see every movie ever made i cannot make such lofty claims until then the story is stale the acting is horrible at best the special effects are no more than a couple of lbs of dry ice and a fan somebody must have been related to someone to get this movie made mr busey mailed this one in the dog is well trained and cute making it the only redeeming quality in this never should have made it movie two hours and 3 of my life i will never get back
0	i had to watch this movie with my 5 year old he didn't laugh once during the entire movie and he loves dogs and will laugh at nearly anything this movie was horrible from all aspects poor script even accounting for a children's g rated movie poor production the jittery camera shots made me feel nauseous for the first ten minutes poor acting perhaps they were directed to act cartoonish and even poor sound quality there are parts where the audio level seems fine then you can't hear what the next actor is saying i'm willing to put up with quite a lot when it comes to watching a child's movie but this was worse than having a stick in my eye i also didn't like being battered over the head with the god heaven belief thing in all it was the biggest waste of 90 minutes in my life and i've done some serious time wasting in my day
0	what a waste of precious time my 5 year old daughter brought this home from my mother's house and we watched it as a family none of us liked it this wretched little film rife with glaring inconsistencies overt christian themes and horrible film quality is not worth watching even on a dare it felt a bit like a bad high school drama class attempt at film making how sad to see talented actors chris atkins gary busey and company flounder their way through this trite and insipid storyline the only good thing i can say about this movie is that the dog is cute the film can should have gone straight to the pound avoid this film your time is better spent watching paint dry
0	this movie comes down like a square peg in a square hole a poorly made peg a peg so cheap it couldn't even be produced in a assembly line in chinatown mexico in fact when you try to press the peg into the hole for which it is obviously designed it crumbles into sticky disgusting pieces that smell like rotting fruit and won't wash off is such a peg br br this movie is so mind bendingly awful it couldn't have even been created a movie like this must have been the result of some accident of nature some freakish entity that in the corner of a dank office somewhere and and grew until it was too big and terrifying to look at only science would be interested in such a thing anyone not bent on studying it would exhume it from this world br br what it comes down to is this if you're the kind to enjoy first year violin recitals racism or coke zero it might just be your birthday
0	this is a really bad waste of your time i would probably rather go watch some documentary than this it's really that bad br br the acting is really terrible and you can tell that the producers had a low budget because of the terrible picture quality it's by far on the low end of the scale don't waste your money on it br br i have a really hard time believing the person who made this movie that it would fare well i had to watch it with the kids when my mother rented it because she thought it would be good for the kids even the kids 3 4 6 and 8 all thought it was pretty boring br br i agree with the other commenter spongebob would be a lot better to watch than this br br overall just don't watch it don't don't
0	my wife rented this movie and then conveniently never got to see it if i ever want to torture her i will make her watch this movie i've watched many movies with my 4 year old and i can take almost anything barney is refreshing after a shot of quigley br br the plot dialog cinematography acting were one step above or equal to a cheap porn film i feel cheated out of 3 69 that we paid to rent it and then 90 minutes of my life i will never get back i will say my 4 year old liked it luckily it was a rental we had to return right away br br i just hope that the younger actor's careers are not ruined from being in this movie
0	if you ever plan on renting hopefully not buying this movie think again it was as if gary busey had a gun to his head and was forced to act or die i only wonder if busey was arrested for something and was sentenced to play in this movie because i just don't see the guy that acted so much better with keanu reeves in point break play in this disaster it was a feel good movie but there are thousands of other feel good movies that make you laugh without wanting you to get your money back br br the only reason i would ever tell someone to rent this movie is to watch this movie is to see gary busey jump up and down like a monkey if you want a good funny movie pass up quigley and go rent spongebob or something
0	the opening of the jungle promises us a safari adventure with a science fiction element but mostly what we get is a travelogue with lots of stock footage and padding and the odd leopard attack the movie is leisurely when you want it to be gripping and tries to inject interest into the proceedings with badly staged matches between various wild animals i had no idea that lions and wild boars were natural enemies in the wild did you i thought the big cats stuck to hunting herbivores but apparently the producers knew better br br as for the actors cesar does his usual great job of rocking the mustache and marie windsor is reasonably believable as the progressively thinking daughter nice eyebrows btw however rod cameron is barely watchable as the hunter returning as the sole survivor of his expedition i'm sure he was in demand in his day but here he comes off as a rent a center bogart rough looking but with none of bogey's range or timing he spends the movie going back and forth from stoic anger to angry stoicism and any time the screenplay attempts to crank up some romantic sparks between himself and windsor you just have to laugh that face isn't a good vehicle for tenderness br br the screenplay is not entirely without merit although it does make some odd choices early in the first act the screenplay makes a point of spending several moments where the heroes decide to bring along the obligatory clever young boy and monkey mascot but then basically ignore them until spoiler the monkey somehow gets hold of a live hand grenade during the mammoth scene and accidentally tosses near windsor this is so cameron can prove his bravery by diving on it and saving her life at the cost of his own end spoiler it's possible that the indian version of this movie which i understand ran better than 2 1 2 hours might have given the kid and the monkey more to do br br another thing that makes the film show its age spoiler is the issue of the woolly mammoths the plot device that sets the safari into motion in the first place when they finally appear the way the scene is filmed it's obvious that the mammoths obviously elephants draped in shag carpeting aren't really attacking anyone or even moving all that fast and yet cameron immediately sets to trying to wipe them out with hand grenades these days the idea of destroying the last known specimens of a species thought to be extinct would be unthinkable especially when all they seem to do is roll through the jungle at a nice walking pace end of spoiler br br so imo four stars which is pretty good for a robert production normally hack jobs rate two or three stars at best it's not a train wreck of a film or anything plus it seems to mean well with the daughter arguing for of the most repressive aspect of the traditional ways and the elements of mixed race romance that was pretty progressive in 1952 and there's some nice scenery and exotic spectacle see it if someone offers to show it to you for free but don't expect much except an interesting historical chapter of early fantasy cinema
0	while the dog was cute the film was not it wasn't the premise or the theme that was a problem the premise had great possibilities for humor and pathos both the theme is a worthy one helping other people is more important than amassing a fortune br br sadly the adorable dog the unique premise and the theme were undercut by poor acting stilted dialogue and amateurish filming br br even my youngest child who will sit through almost anything gave up before we had gotten halfway through how many times can that dog run up and down the same hallway i can't spoil it for you as i never saw the end it just was not worth watching all the way to the end
0	i registered at imdb solely for the purpose of warning others about this movie does anyone ever get funding for projects like this that's the mystery farewell to harry might be the worst movie ever except that i tried to erase the others that rival this idiocy bad plot not credible logic runs throughout i can't spoil this movie for you by revealing anything that would make your experience less enjoyable there is nothing enjoyable about this movie i have the cd and will send it to you for free it is that bad first come only served if i know you this offer is void because i wouldn't inflict this movie on anyone not on purpose you have been warned
0	i'm sorry but this movie is just way to shallow for me in it perez is a taxi dancer with boyfriend keitel trying to make it as an actress first of all what the hell is a taxi dancer even after sitting through this i still don't know oh yeah perez also inspires to follow her like a lovesick puppy there's no reason behind the love it just kind of happens there are times when the characters and events really try to pull at your heartstrings but it rarely works the only character you really do feel anything for or with is keitel's character and that's only because he does such a good job with it any other actor and the character would have been just like the others br br the script is basically an uninspired rehashing about how hard it is to make it as an actor actress it's been done and said before the language and dialog sounds like it was written by a street pimp the ending is well i don't want to spoil it let's just say it feels unsatisfying i'd be more upset if the story was any good to begin with the directing is average with nothing truly wonderful but nothing that is really painful to watch either to reiterate the acting the only one that does anything worth watching is keitel though i could have lived on without seeing him in tiger print bikini underwear br br oh yeah eddie bunker shows up as random as that mention is that's how random it is in the film and tarantino does his director buddy a favor by showing up for about 20 seconds
0	i really tried to give this film a chance but when i realized that most of the film was being told by a bunch of boring officials walking around and talking on phones i knew it was over a lot of this film also looked like stock footage that's just lame br br the camera person kept like doing these quick short zooms for no reason it bothered me so much but i was just wondering why in the heck did they think it was a good idea it doesn't add anything to a static scene of two people talking this isn't nypd blue or some cop show or something br br how could they have not realized that telling this type a story from conversations of people in conference rooms and what not is boring did they not watch this mess anyway this was just a really boring movie and it does make it seem like whoever made it doesn't understand good storytelling in film br br darn stock footage that's just wrong
0	after huge budget disaster films set in america like the day after tomorrow and deep impact it was refreshing to see something on a smaller scale like flood br br using mainly unknown actors and actresses and actually focusing on england it was a welcome change of pace to seeing the empire state building being demolished br br however this is not a strong film on any basis whilst being fairly shocking seeing all your favourite london landmarks being demolished by a very fake cgi storm surge flood doesn't really deliver on anything else br br the performances are bland being saved from the pit of hell by david suchet and his refreshingly calm performance as the deputy he is perhaps a little too calm for what is going on in the film all that fake water gushing around london must have made him pretty annoyed br br it is understandable that the effects weren't going to be as good as and di but the cgi was at best average br br bland disappointing and sometimes even tiresome watch it if you must but watch something else straight afterwards
0	avoid this movie if you are expecting the poseidon adventure 1972 you may experience nothing more than a case of the this film offers nothing more than two extremely long and drawn out hours of complete boredom br br the cast members act as if they are angered by the irritation of a bathtub of water overflowing on a bed of an petunias the script is totally unrealistic and the film does not even have the feel of a disaster movie in fact everything about this movie is bad with the exception of tom it is unfortunate that such a fine actor got swept away by a flood of misrepresentation to appear in such a washout when this movie was being made the poseidon must have turned over in its watery grave in a sea of shame and shelley winters will rise again from the dead direct from the poseidon to haunt anyone who dares to see this pathetic movie i rate this film a 1 out of 10 but it really deserves a zero this movie will make you want to avoid or completely turn against water and it will leave a bad taste in your mouth it may even make you want to see jaws 1975 and befriend a great white
0	i was struck by the awful acting and script for this movie all the characters seem rendered immobile by personal issues rather like deer in headlights they dither around whining and moaning about their emotions when decisive actions need to be taken i found myself yelling at the tv screen trying to wake them up to their situation and do something the plot line is implausible every time there is a key decision to be taken by a lead character one of the other characters has to bring up all the problems with the obvious decision as though to further render the decision more difficult it is a tried melodramatic ploy and just wants to make you groan clearly the import of the decision is obvious you don't need to treat the audience as idiots overall there is just too much emotional melodrama in the whole movie
0	this film was total rubbish i was sitting watching this absolutely furious that this was funded they most definitely spent all their budget on the special fx rather than the script writer and director and some of the actors br br first the acting was bland and rubbish the story was not relatable to the audience enough rather than being from the peoples perspective of the storm the narrative was told more from government figures and the army which really isn't a way to connect to them as most of us hate politicians anyway the writer attempted to add a human element to the unrealistic characters by adding the little subplot about the father and son which failed completely br br as for the directing oh god his techniques to try and create tension and unease are repetitive and over the top the sped up camera movements and then the sudden flash bolt pauses on a characters face when something horrendous has happened was pathetic br br the only reason i watched it till the end was to see the special fx which is a bad thing as special fx shouldn't make the film it should only amplify the story and experience there was no story br br i really wouldn't bother watching this total trash and an embarrassment to the british film industry
0	this is possibly the worst film i have ever seen i gave it one star simply because it is the lowest score possible whoever thought flood would ever be a good film the director and cast should be ashamed and then it dawned on me this could all be part of a shambolic scare tactic only propaganda could be this bad br br the redeeming feature of flood is that it's ghastliness and shameless formulaic storyline make it funny if only the characters had the same depth as created by the flood itself yet they from sound bite to sound bite without any emotional response whatsoever br br the sad thing about this film is that it could have been so much better informative imaginative and tense flood has the amateur streak to found in many recent british films where a more focused use of funds would have made for a better entertainment br br where was smithee
0	oh dear oh dear what were they thinking of terrible script terrible acting i don't even feel sorry for the actors they took their cheques to the bank and smiled happily br br since when did an air shaft from charing cross pop out at bank why are vehicles crossing tower bridge going in towards the city when the surge hit why is tower bridge not crowded when the city is being evacuated how does carlyle dive into a raging torrent and survive i could go on and on br br there is no real sense of urgency in the command room they might just as well be waiting for the england eleven to come back onto the pitch after the tea interval at lords br br it says something when i await the to learn more about treatment with eager anticipation br br totally abominable trash
0	i cant explain what a load of rubbish this film is like really i cant its just that bad br br plot crap acting crap budget so low its laughable br br jesus its like the only good thing in this movie is the fact the main character was fairly hot br br the only people i feel that think this movie is good are the ones who took part in the film i'm sure they are not the ones who funded it because there was no money put into this hahahaha to the bit where there heads get shaved br br this movie has already wasted too much of my life so i am not going to waste anymore time writing my review for it
0	blake edwards tried very hard to change julie andrews image in this film he tried to make her sexy not realizing she already was i think they were both still a bit irked that julie had not been chosen to film her broadway success of camelot and was passed over as not being sexy enough unfortunately they chose this vehicle to try and assuage this belief it gets to the point where it is almost funny seeing rock hudson who we all know now was gay kissing julie every 2 minutes throughout this movie it seems now that they were not only trying to make you believe that julie was a femme fatale but that rock was straight sadly they have absolutely no chemistry together and the unending kissing scenes start grossing one out the other error they made with this picture was not knowing what kind of movie they were making it is almost three separate movies there is the drama of julie as the german spy trying to get military secrets from rock there is an air war movie with lots of footage of wwi vintage planes swooping about and there is the stupid attempts at humor that blake edwards seems to think he has to insert in every one of his pictures whether it is appropriate or not in this case it was not the only truly redeeming qualities in this film are looking at the always lovely dame julie and hearing her sing in that crystal clear bell like soprano of course if you love her you may overlook the weaknesses of this film just because of her you can always tell yourself afterward that it was a hell of a lot better than sitting through star
0	it was inferred by a previous poster that the military would not be subordinate to the police in a disaster as depicted in the film in fact the military role would be to supply aid to the civil authorities when requested to do so the civil authorities would retain in practise the army would need 48 hours or so to mobilise themselves there not being much army presence in london especially with current overseas commitments even then they would be dependent on calling in the ta br br as for cobra we were given the impression that it was a full governmental emergency department in its own right even reference to a met police cobra division in fact cobra stands for cabinet office briefing room a it's just the room where the pm or meet their advisers to discuss the current emergency
0	this film was just on two nights running on itv1 dear oh dear someone actually bought this on the strength of robert ok i missed the start but what i did see was so bad i thought no i watched in embarrassment for the stars who were in it nothing was based on reality i doubt things would progress as they did in this film everything was poor about this film ok cgi but no reality the write up gave the impression of a cliff hanger end sorry i wasn't impressed yes formulaic couldn't guess the end from what i saw the military had the upper hand people doing the heroic stuff were given next to no time to do their thing it just wouldn't have happened that way it was worse than leave your brain at the door it was annoying as someone else said yeah right of course that would have happened not the credits mentioned quebec and canada so it was a co production missed the third party concerned i'll have to check back on this site i'm not usually this critical but this annoyed me
0	in addition to all the negative reviews i was amazed to see that at the drop of a hat somewhere somehow a cctv camera was summoned at a most unlikely location to show the team what was going on notably near the thames barrier where the professor is hit at full wind force against the head by a heavy object and subsequently lives to tell the story otherwise i was unable to shake off the image of some actors as portrayed in other films programs i said to my wife 'hey that's neil from the young ones' nigel and 'did they summon hercule poirot for help ' david suchet to add to the disgrace of this film shown in two parts on itv uk recently itv showed the telephone number of the environment agency after each episode for worried viewers living in areas 'at risk of how low can you as a broadcaster go to treat your audience like that what must the environment agency have thought ''oh no it's mrs jones from hull again she says she was right all along she saw it on
0	i'll put it straight to you this movie is dead boring it's about a flood that's it blah blah a little about family blah blah blah politics blah blah blah boring br br blame it all on the weatherman poor sod the deputy prime minister campbell is a hard ass that expects everyone to be clairvoyant a most irritating character br br if you are from the united kingdom or anywhere that it may flood then you might like this film it's sort of like earthquake movies are most appreciated where earthquakes happen br br this is not really an action film where the weather is the enemy and you must conquer or outrun it literally it is more like a time bomb that must be disabled br br looking at this movie it is understandable why the uk thinks the world is overpopulated it isn't but for them it is br br really the movie is about as exciting as picking and i can't recommend it it's over 100 minutes far far too long br br the problems with the film i won't get into them beyond this because the film doesn't deserve such dissection hint to you buy more boats if you bring children to this movie they'll either fall asleep or become uncontrolled bored screaming demons
0	the digital effects were done on the cheap and the action sequences lack suspense this was essentially made for tv and it shows david suchet looks bored and nigel looks down right embarrassed and as for robert dick van dyke london accent no comment if you want to pass away an hour or two when you've nothing on then it will do if your going to buy the dvd wait a few weeks and pick it up in the bargain bin at asda cos thats where its heading if the budget was bigger and richard doyle's book followed more closely then it could have been something special but as it stands its a bit poor watch the trailer instead or read the book and see what could have been
0	this movie follows in the tracks of the riddle for an all star british cast in a downright awful movie poor cgi effects poor editing poor direction a cast that i hope were well paid as this will be a nail in many a careers coffin br br nigel should've donned his neil wig once more gone out with a laugh at least br br it was like a particularly long drawn out episode of torchwood but without the camp fake canadian doctor fella it had the same overly dramatic music though perpetually repeated in a vain attempt to drum up some tension br br oh the humanity
0	well as the headline suggests this is not the particularly good movie i was hoping it would be i thought it would be great with mr fully monty man himself but tragically not from the beginning i literally lost interest immediately when 2 women are just making tea and then suddenly she points out there is random water coming from under the door then bam a full on flood through the route of the house its hard to believe they didn't notice the rising water level outside or at least heard it sorry for this to sound like a rant but it really grinds my gears and has affected me most acting was poor and the story tried to copy nearly every cliché to each disaster movie ever but just failed in that sense cgi was poor i could do a better job using ms paint directing poor too and at the end i didn't care about 1 character at all don't waste your time people no wonder it was released straight to dvd well thanks for reading xxx
0	i usually like these dumb no brain activity movies but this was just too stupid there were way too many clichés and the plot didn't really make much sense there were a lot of loose ends and the ending was extremely poor and abrupt we didn't even get too see if the big master plan worked we only got too see the main character sob over his dead farther the professor that died because of stupidity see below br br one scene annoyed me particularly why did the professor only have about 5 minutes of oxygen in his container when he went to manually override the dam and if they only had oxygen containers containing 5 minutes worth of oxygen why didn't he bring two or three of them then he would have that was bloody stupid the movie is pretty full of such stupid things i can not recommend it at all
0	i don't normally write reviews but for this film i had to i'm shocked at the acting talent in this move going to waste the script was appalling the editing awful and the plot very thin you spend the first half of the movie wondering who is talking to who and what on earth they are doing the latter half of the movie slows down slightly but has no depth or feeling the only saving grace is the nice but still limited cgi and the location being london i gave 3 stars for that and the fact the actors still tried to do a good job with the drivel they were given if you fancy losing a couple of hours of your life with mediocre popcorn disaster movie entertainment by all means this is the movie for you but i would recommend doing something else with your time instead like watching the real archive footage online http www com flooding
0	miscast badly directed and atrociously written this is watchable if you have an hour or two to kill or are suffering from insomnia but only just robert carlyle fully realises his potential as an actor of supreme mediocrity with only one expression to his repertoire that of a chronically constipated football hooligan nursing a crippling inferiority complex which he manages at times to alter slightly by flaring his nostrils and baring a row of skewed yellow teeth this to indicate anger tenderness grief surprise horror hilarity compassion etc in his role as the best marine engineer in the uk and son of a university professor he is about as convincing as my cat tom equally miscast slurring and every line appears permanently soused to the eyeballs and would seem no more able to tell a flood from a puddle of his own urine if he were standing in it all in all another silly attempt on the part of the british to imitate hollywood pulp at its most rubbishy the dialogue is a series of badly delivered clichés the action is disjointed the plot is pointless and amputated and the characters if you can call them that do not even make it into the basic two dimensional sphere of their american counterparts
0	from watching the trailer the movie looked pretty interesting the production of the movie is also pretty good it looks like they had a good budget and doesn't look like a cheaply made movie the acting ranges from good joe morton as professor simon to ok kelly as eve to bad james haven as don br br the actual content and plot of the movie is weak the movie starts out like it could become interesting and ends with a poorly executed disappointingly boring twist watching the first 10 minutes and last 5 minutes of the movie would have made this movie ok but everything in between makes this an absolutely boring movie to watch it's as though they made a short movie then tried to force it to be over an hour long by stuffing the middle with an hour of filler material br br if you want to waste a good hour and half of your life watch this movie otherwise stay away from this extremely boring movie
0	i really do not joke when i can honestly submit that this film is not suitable for sunday night viewing on br br the underground scenes are just awful when london is supposedly under of water robert character is drab the police outfit reminds me of something kate moss threw up and nigel looks very very old in fact i am worried that he may have had suffered a stroke whilst filming br br the father of robert carlyle who was 'right all has obviously been necking too many and whilst he has a major part in this awkward journey he deserved to be killed off way way before he was caught pretending to be kate winslett titanic whilst dangling over the thames barrier br br i'm sorry film lovers but avoid at all costs
0	topical certainly entertainment probably but only on removal of any shred of the viewer's common sense reality only in so much that it was made on this planet br br how thousands of people were supposed to have died as a result of a 5 wall of water in a city liberally littered with buildings in excess of 25 metres high is quite beyond me line to the effect of how could anyone survive that when the shot shows forests of buildings with several floors above the water is completely laughable further if someone commits themselves to an area under water where one cylinder of air is not enough i e they are going to die why not use the simple expedient of taking more than one cylinder clearly the writer thinks that people in stressful situations cannot count beyond one one cylinder one floor br br rather than watching this tripe you would be more informed and entertained by throwing the dvd away and reading the pricing information on the cellophane outer wrapper br br pitiful truly pitiful and a terrible waste of the on screen talent br br as for the sexist propaganda suggesting that only women can see through the problems to illuminate the solutions to be effected by the expendable men yet more pc small wonder that first blood delta force navy seals and other such movies of little or no merit will always have a following while this blatantly politically motivated bilge is peddled
0	this awful effort just goes to show what happens when you not only use computers to generate the effects but also let them devise the plot and write the script someone somewhere has obviously come up with a new bit of software that asks a few questions then churns out four hours of loosely connected clichés lousy dialogue and a collection of stock characters that you end up wishing had all drowned in the first five minutes br br tom courtney took the prize for worst performance saying that he was wooden would be an insult to trees it's hard to fault robert carlyle in almost anything he does but the odds were stacked against even him in this one especially since he was for some unaccountable reason required to adopt a blimey london accent br br a complete washout
0	'flood' is a prime example of how throwing good actors and cgi at a film will do little to compensate for a rubbish script the basic premise is fine what if a freak storm threatened to send the sea straight over the thames flood barriers and engulf london so fast that most of the inhabitants would probably never get out in time it's basically the new york segment of 'the day after tomorrow' but that shouldn't make it any less of a film however the script just isn't there it's merely functional flat and lacking in depth great british talents like robert and david suchet to name but two do their level best with what they've got but their characters are two dimensional cyphers like something out of an old marvel comic and it'd be frankly easier to turn back the tide not that every actor gets let off the hook tom seemed capable of only one emotion throughout the film but then he wasn't given much of a challenge br br i applaud any opportunity to see some non hollywood disaster flicks for a change and i don't expect zillions of dollars spent on rendering ultra realistic graphics however there's no excuse for shonky writing especially from a country that has produced some of the best science fiction ever made on next to no budget at all this is the kind of half hearted b grade fluff the sci fi channel produces and that's hardly a target to aim for if like me you are such a fan of disaster films you're still tempted do yourself a favour and watch it with some friends better still don't bother
0	you would have thought given how much this overblown pile of rubbish must have cost that the budget could have stretched to a decent scriptwriter instead they seemed to have opted for a bog standard hollywood by disaster movie plot and dialog the only cliché they seem to have missed was the cute kid but every other one is there there's the sullen hero flung together by fate with both his ex wife and estranged father there's the doting dad and the rebellious teenager there's the 'professor that everyone thought was wrong until it turned out he played appallingly by the normally excellent tom courtney seemingly in the grip of some powerful drugs plus the comic duo wandering about in the deserted underground railway br br i sat down to watch this full of anticipation the cast is as noted amazing yet within minutes it became clear how bad this was going to be stuff this useless should come with a warning something along the lines of br br 'this film may have been made in britain but was aimed at the american market it therefore contains tired clichés stock characters stilted dialogue and a plot so lame brained and simplistic that even george w bush could understand it ' br br avoid
0	the production values for this film make it fall short of hollywood blockbuster status and the script makes it fall short of cult status what is left is a tired formulaic attempt at the disaster movie genre that will disappear with the ebb tide br br a decent cast are either miss cast or cannot be bothered the beautiful joanne whalley is unable to bring any gravitas to the role of police commissioner nash who wears the most irritating matching waist clincher above her skirt br br plays the heavyweight part of director of the thames barrier with all the conviction of a fairground candy floss her canadian nationality and accent were presumably drafted in to appeal to a transatlantic audience it and she fails her initial appearance in a tight fitting pink jogging suit as she arrives at work is risible br br the part of the siren old git who was right is played by tom as though he is acting in his sleep and the various plot twists that are designed to his son played by robert carlyle struggle to get any response from him br br nigel looks determined to commit ritual hari kari for his failings as met office director or for his acting or both and only david suchet emerges with some credit for his role as deputy pm br br there was enough in the story and the cast and the effects to have produced a decent effort alas that did not happen
0	on the face of it this film looked like it might be really good it isn't br br the cast is pretty good but most of them seemed embarrassed by the whole thing the real disaster in this film is not the flood but the script it attempts to include every cliché in the book all done incredibly poorly the ending is very abrupt but this is a blessing in disguise if you make it that far br br all three main male actors carlyle courtney and suchet would surely agree that this is the low point in their careers i hope they got paid a lot of cash because none of their reputations come out in tact br br the special effects are quite good but the same thing was done to much better effect in the day after tomorrow br br in short a pointless exercise don't waste your time
0	oh but this is woeful one good actor after another turns in lamentable dialogue in half hearted fashion under what must have been incredibly pedestrian direction to consider it acceptable i like robert carlyle and joanne whalley is one of my favourite actresses tom courtney can act well when pushed and david suchet is a professional of the highest integrity but they all around like fish in a barrel of watery gin i swear courtney was inebriated on painkillers or both br br was there a good performance in the whole thing well yes david hood as the junior underground engineer whose mate got washed away looked like he was taking the thing seriously and credit to him for that it can't be easy when all around are losing theirs so to speak or maybe his scenes came under the direction of the assistant director if there was one i just don't know what these people were doing in a film that was this poor other than paying the bills obviously i can't begin to say how disappointed i am in them you should be ashamed of yourselves br br any positives other than david hood the third yes the aerial shots of london largely submerged were very well done and the effects artists responsible deserved better than to have their fine work punctuated by such a shallow story if you'll forgive the expression as those few people that do see them will do so on a far smaller screen than would be to best advantage br br what's going on here why are british film makers trying to imitate such characterless spectacle driven tabloid level genres as the disaster movie and then doing it even worse than the americans gritty realism character integrity the capture of real emotion in a way that makes you feel it and care the family way spring and port wine get carter the long good friday trainspotting don't get me wrong i like a bit of escapist hokum the real italian job the adventures of tom jones but oh that it should come to this there was more realistic drama in carry on camping
0	there's something intriguing about disaster movies the simple primal premise can lead to several great stories granted most disaster movies tend to explore familiar territory instead but i can usually live with that br br unfortunately flood probably marks the low point in the history of this sub genre robert carlyle is undoubtedly the star of the movie even though screen time is split between different locations and characters he gives a barely decent performance as well joanne whalley is very uneven veteran actor tom he played in doctor zhivago for heaven's sake is particularly bad i mean his timing is completely off most of the time and his characterization is extremely poor what an embarrassing performance for that man the rest of the cast ranges from decent to really bad with one exception whom i thought might be there as a plot device eye candy gives by far the most convincing performance doesn't mean much considering how bad everybody else is but still nice to see that she cared br br the script is really bad confusing and cliché some of the worse lines i have heard in quite some time are delivered by the actors one after the other you've seen this story a thousand times it employs every dramatic hook and tear jerkers you've seen in outbreak armageddon the poseidon movies original and remake and many others br br the direction is awful no sense of timing nothing inspired the shots are bland dialog and action both fail to flow editing is bad but how do you edit such a mess without a doubt this movie tried to rely way too much on rather poor cgi the human factor the drama and struggles of the characters are glossed over scenes where the characters must actually face the flood are rare and poorly done the made for tv feel gives nausea some guy is supposed to go down a rope from an helicopter no problem let's show him inside a helicopter and make a really poor cut editing job and have the next frame with him safely on the ground in the most obvious way possible br br the movie score is rather poor all over the place no timing br br the ending is probably the worse i have seen in quite some time very much like they ran out of ideas scrap that you can't run out of something if you never had it in the first place must have ran out of budget br br this is a really amateur job i give it a 2 for using london as a location which is a nice change for being actually decent in a key support role and for the few cgi shots that were decent those of the water closing in on london and the gates br br do yourself a favor and check out day after tomorrow or just about any disaster movie before this one this includes older classics like the towering inferno
0	a really wonderful cast and very talented technical crew wasted their valuable career time and our equally valuable leisure time by bothering to support this utterly predictable and plainly formulaic piece of commercial junk the movie is based upon a really good and very topical idea but both the producers and the director simply applied the standard hollywood movie' formula and thereby ruined any potential value from the production br br an unusually high tide and very strong gale conditions combine to produce a record high storm surge that overwhelms london and floods most of the thames valley the plot centers around a heroic scientist tom who alerts the authorities of the danger and ultimately saves the day a glamorous female police chief who runs the entire show and an embattled deputy prime minister david suchet who tries to look important br br but it's all so unreal that one feels like an extended tea break after just 30 minutes the young glamorous female police commissioner demands complete authority over the army during a declared state of emergency and gets it as if the experienced general is just pushed aside like a complete moron who has to lick her boots because of her obviously superior capacity the trouble is that our female supremo whilst now responsible for millions of lives spends most of her time worrying over the fate of her two daughters who have taken a trip to south west london and haven't to say they were alright so our mighty woman sets her staff to look for them and decides that the sole priority for all the army and the rescue services must be south west london and not any other quarter of the city of course the minister the army and the entire entourage accept her without question one can only assume they all had property there when her children are eventually found after endless reports and efforts by her staff she is told by our male hero 'thank god they're safe that's the main thing' never mind about the millions of others or all the other responsibilities she was supposed to control as long as her own kids were safe everything was alright br br this film is just another excuse to push the same old female chauvinist sexist clap trap that women are the clever mindful caring and clearly able leaders whilst men are good for nothing except physical bravery mindless strength and very specialist knowledge and yet the one simple instruction that she could have given the populace namely to go to the nearest tall building and calmly go up to the 4th floor or above and await instructions when the waters was never given by this female super hero or indeed anyone else the whole problem was so simple to solve and yet millions of people apparently didn't think of simply going upstairs pathetic rubbish
0	breaking dawn starts in a californian college as professor simon associate producer joe morton tells his students that they have to perform an intensive six week study of a mental patient in cape state hospital as a crucial part of their education fail they will never become qualified doctors a bright young attractive intelligent student named eve kelly is given a particularly difficult patient to study his name is don wake james haven is a convicted killer he was found covered in blood besides the dead body of a woman diane verona her young daughter mccurdy at first don won't even look at eve much less talk to her but like the trooper she is eve persists in trying to figure him out eventually don begins to talk but what he says frightens eve he says that someone is watching her mentions the name eve then begins to see a dark shadowy figure at her every turn as don churns out the conspiracy theories bizarre statements eve slowly begins to lose her mind as the line between fantasy reality becomes more more blurred is there something more to the supposed nonsense that don talks other than being the insane ravings of a psychiatric patient br br written directed by mark edwin robinson i have nothing but negative feelings towards breaking dawn now we all like a good twist ending the sort of ending which catches us unawares surprises us works well with the rest of the film stays in our memory like the cool twist endings to the sixth sense 1999 fight club 1999 to name just two good examples to a lesser extent the endings to films such as scream 1996 where the identity of the killer comes a nice surprise isn't that obvious then of course there are films whose endings spoil everything that has gone before as an example lets take oh i don't know lets say breaking dawn because i have never seen such an awful ending to a film never breaking dawn starts out as a decent psychological horror thriller with spooky things starting to happen to eve it's not the most action packed film ever by any stretch of the imagination but it holds ones interest it's not the most absorbing film ever either but it is more than watchable it's not that bad a film until the twist ending i have to keep mentioning it because everything else up to that point which was ok to be fair to it suddenly becomes irrelevant i am sure there are people out there who think they have this muddled mess of an ending figured out down to the last detail all i can say is that no one will be able to explain this thing in a satisfactory way to me as far as i'm concerned it doesn't make a bit of sense never will breaking dawn is crap it's a waste of time watching it to be rewarded with the lamest ending in film history it's as simple straight forward as that br br director robinson doesn't half make a mess of what could have been a decent thriller maybe he thought what he had shot would play out ok or maybe it was ruined in the editing room but i'd imagine it was more likely down to a rubbish script as he tries to tie all the absurdities together within the space of a few muddled minutes give us all a happier than happy final shot he builds the tension quite well during the first 80 odd minutes but it's all for nought at the end of the day br br technically breaking dawn is fine it is generally well made throughout the acting is pretty good is nice easy on the eyes puts in a decent performance was it just me or did the guy who played don look like john star of such italian sleaze classics as cannibal apocalypse 1980 city of the living dead 1980 the house on the edge of the park 1980 cannibal ferox 1981 1987 the church 1989 ok maybe it was just me br br breaking dawn is rubbish i hated it all because of the final few minutes don't get me wrong it wasn't exactly getting me excited up to that point but it was ok definitely one to avoid as far as i'm concerned although it seems to have it's fair share of positive comments on the imdb
0	as bad as they get this film commits the fatal error of making the viewer not care what happens to characters the two women in this flick are so stupid that you begin to root for the bad guys so this thing would end br br this film is one of the few that was so bad that i had to turn to another channel br br put in highbrow language this film lacks verisimilitude people not even people from ohio simply do not act like this well maybe the writers do br br there is not enough beer in the world to make this film bearable br br
0	i don't usually like tv movies i reckon that if the thing was any good it would make it to hollywood this one though is better than average pretty high production values a few interesting story twists and some nice shots of nyc along with toronto hold the interest
0	what a sucky movie this is without a doubt a low class b movie the german elite stormtroopers assault russian en masse like an old ww1 battle the acting is mediocre the plot thin and it's hard sometimes to follow where it's going the action sequences are pretty worthless when it shows any except for the fact that they do use authentic equipment vehicles from ww2 this is in no way on the same level as saving pvt ryan or platoon lots of worthless attempts at character development which lead nowhere old theme good officer bad officer that's highly predictable even the action sequences look like a old kid set them up i could have directed better too bad this is the same guy that did das boot the boat because that was a dang good movie he must have partied too much after that success because he sure lost his touch when it came to this film i bought it on dvd better to rent it instead
0	the war in the east as the germans referred to the ww2 soviet nazi conflict was a war of annihilation on the part of the germany 90 of the german army were in the soviet union fighting their ultimate aim was to wipe out the so called sub human russian population and colonize the mainly empty country with german settlers after they had won br br read hitler's willing executioners br br here we have the german army presented as innocent victims and not as nazi mass murderers when are modern german film makers going to be honest and face up to the past br br better see the russian film come and see instead
0	i love das boot i hoped for something along similar lines a realistic war movie portraying and civilians on both sides as real people with both the joy and pain of combat br br unfortunately stalingrad appears to have been written by a third grader and directed by a fifth grade student major pieces of the movie simply appear missing leaving it completely disjointed the dialogue in translation is ridiculous but appears no better in the native tongue you only have to watch the actors' faces during the bad moments of dialogue to realize just how bad this movie is
0	i don't know maybe i just wasn't in the mood for this kind of movie but it was full of trite melodrama it was too long and seemed at least mildly disjointed granted i didn't pay full attention for a more entertaining depiction of the battle of stalingrad see enemy at the gates true some pretentious folks will scoff because it's a hollywood film and doesn't show the gritty reality of war like this wonderful foreign film does but it has better flow and is all around just more fun to watch besides there are already enough gritty war movies and this one just seemed done but hey you might like it so go right ahead it just wasn't for me
0	do people rate this movie highly because it's a foreign war movie br br to me it's nothing more than a bad hollywood war movie in german br br this movie is so bad on so many levels to even mention it along with platoon or full metal jacket is absurd the battle sequences are pathetic the dialog and acting atrocious br br this so called group of storm troopers are regulars in the not ss troops there is so much wrong with this movie it's sad bad editing bad acting it's got it all br br the movie goes on and on and on as though the audience should be made to suffer as much as the soldiers did br br i read in a review that the this film had a 20 million budget br br for real where was it spent in the fake train car sequences in the pathetic special effects ugh br br as a wwii history buff and wwii movie fan i found this movie to be a serious disappointment br br for an excellent alternative war movie check out the beast not a wwii movie but still outstanding br br don't bother with this one
0	one would think that with the incredible backdrop of wwii stalingrad that the writers would come up with a script nope there is no story here it's like porn vignettes of violence interrupted by pathetic rote and meaningless dialogue br br a bunch of germans march around shooting and getting shot slowly there are fewer germans to march around shoot and get shot then there are no germans to march around shoot and get shot br br pretty bad br br
0	the horror the film about the nazis the germans the murderers of babies young girls rapists for that they regret what are they interested in doing thousands of miles away from germany you do not come to mind is fascists are now good think killed tortured 27 million people no of course they do not want they were forced to hitler he gave each of them and forced to kill every fourth inhabitant of peace all jews gypsies killing the the facts at the beginning of the great patriotic war when taken prisoner by fascist german they were defiant and brazen we kill you all and so on since 1943 when they were taken captive they suddenly became anti fascists and peaceful peasants who were forced to hitler and personally for such films should be put to prison for life for the glorification of fascism br br if you want to see what they did yet went to stalingrad then watch the movie come and see 1985
0	with all of its technical flash the 1993 stalingrad movie is very disappointing before watching it i had read non fiction accounts of the stalingrad campaign and had seen a lot of documentary footage and photographs of the actual battle and its participants i don't think that any movie can really succeed in depicting the titanic struggle and suffering that actually occurred but i still wanted to see what a relatively recent german movie production would be like while there are a few good elements of this movie overall it is a failure to me the worst aspect is that it includes substantial anachronisms and also some very contrived and clichéd elements most glaringly in some encounters between a german officer and a soviet woman br br also there are some ideological elements in the movie which result in very distorted perceptions including what amounts to a caricature of a german chaplain some overblown class warfare messages and problematic depictions of good vs bad germans certainly the german armed forces of world war ii included men who were able to maintain some decency throughout the war and others who did very bad things but the attempts in the movie to show this contrast are very simplistic and childish i give stalingrad credit in the sense that it doesn't completely portray german troops in the simple demonic quality which is the stereotype that many people now have yet the movie includes stereotypes of its own such as an almost too good to be true infantryman who has attitudes more akin to the 1990's than the 1940's and two completely evil infantrymen and a rear echelon officer br br some recent movies such as stalingrad and saving private ryan are frequently praised for their authenticity in depicting graphic scenes of combat yet these same movies are deeply flawed and distorted in their depictions of the attitudes values and behaviors of 1940's soldiers and civilians stalingrad and s p r have major and minor characters who lack the stoicism that was common among regular people during the world war ii period certainly soldiers throughout history have been notorious for their frequent grumbling and occasional cynicism yet the self absorbed talky and touchy feely characters in both of these movies are something else and are much more prevalent in our world of today than they were in the 1940's while many people these days like to denigrate war movies from the 40's and 50's which present more patriotic messages and aren't as graphic about combat many of those earlier movies such as battleground are much more accurate in their depictions of typical soldiers' attitudes and they are often successful in showing the horrible effects of war in more indirect ways br br one well done part of stalingrad is a battle between german infantry and soviet tanks which does a reasonable job of capturing some of the horror and confusion in such combat br br stalingrad does a poor job though of showing the common look of the frontline soldier part of this might be due to the difficulty in finding thin haggard looking extras in our pampered and well fed america and western europe of today also too many of the german troops in the movie don't wear their uniforms and equipment properly and don't display the professional bearing that was common in the german wehrmacht even during the years of german defeat if you want to get a good idea of how the actual german troops looked i recommend the following documentaries which contain footage of the stalingrad campaign the world at war war of the century and russia's war also the books operation barbarossa in photographs by paul carell stalingrad by geoffrey and stalingrad by paul carell contain a great many helpful photos books written about the battle by antony and william craig are recommended also and the latter one is especially good about the common soldiers and civilians on both sides br br relatively recent movies which in my opinion are much better than stalingrad and saving private ryan in depicting attitudes and characters of persons during world war ii and the general feel look horror and grittiness of that war are der untergang the downfall and the winter war while a bridge too far and the longest day cover events on the western front rather than in the east they are also excellent war movies and stick very close to factual accounts the latter two movies lack some of the grit that is more prevalent in more recent films but they compensate for that lack with their other strengths including truthfulness
0	let me first start out by saying 1 out of 10 is too good for this movie it's unfortunate that imdb doesn't have tenths of a star i watched this abortion of a movie in the middle of the night due to insomnia and it was absolute garbage the plot was horrible the acting was horrible the movie was utterly boring looked like the shadow with alec baldwin the shadow is infinitely better than this as well the character eve was so undeveloped and 2 dimensional she didn't even grab my attention i didn't even know her name was eve don was interesting when he kept his mouth shut the twist if you can call it that was laughable and pathetic when it came the movie had done such a horrid job of building suspense or attachment to any character that i simply thought who gives a s the only thing that made me even lift an eyebrow about this movie was the fact the med teacher was dyson in terminator 2 also a movie that was light years ahead of this motion picture massacre anyone who was involved in this movie should be ashamed of themselves for wasting 90 minutes of countless people's time it's no wonder no actor from this movie ever had a fruitful career in summary this movie is so bad i feel dirty and need a shower worst movie in history gigli was better prom night the remake was better and dare i say it saw iv was better
0	this movie was terrible my friend and i were so bored by it we fast forwarded through the last half of the movie just to see what happened it's the typical sports thing she either wins or she loses the only remotely interesting thing was when the one guy refers to someone as a veg e tab le that will be a line my friend and i bring up for years to come reminding us of this colossal cheesy cliche waste of time
0	this movie was a complete waste of time the soundtrack was bad story was lame and predictable and the acting was terrible one of the worst 25 movies i have ever seen after the first ten minutes the rest of the film was completely obvious
0	talk about awful do not waste your time i wish i had seen the other use comments first br br i have to admit i didn't watch the whole thing it was just too horrible the worst dialogue i could go on and on but what really made it unwatchable was the direction the poor actors you can't even tell if they have any talent because they not only have pathetic lines to speak but the director gave them no action if you check the director's filmography on this site you will see why this film didn't have a chance br br this would not even be good as a made for tv flick br br ouch
0	i hired the dvd yesterday and first of all it started bad it's 4 3 aspect ratio film and it just keeps getting worse the acting is so bad and the movie itself is way to predictable i was like watching the movie and said to myself this going to happen next and guess what happened right br br if you want to see a good action boxing movie don't watch this one you'll end disappointed on this low budget movie like i did go and see ali its way better
0	it's about time for a female boxing flick but this one ain't it though the acting isn't too bad the predictable storyline and silly dialogue pretty much ruin this one from the get go to top it off the boxing scenes display zero tension come on how hard is it to make a boxing match seem exciting
0	well i fell for it i saw the box for this at the video store and mistook it for girlfight which i'd heard was great in my own defense the titles are similar and they re did the cover art for the box so it looked almost identical anyway to sum it up they obviously re did the whole cover packaging promo to capitalize on the buzz success of girlfight i popped it in and got a bad feeling when they started showing trailers for low budget straight to video flicks and even worse when a music video of the main song for the movie which sounded like elevator music and featured corny slomo clips from the movie preceded the main feature when i saw the first few minutes and maria conchita alonso showed up i knew i'd fallen for it don't get me wrong she's a talented actress but i knew she wasn't in girlfight the movie i'd been under the false impression i was renting br br so apart from me feeling sort of cheated and mad at myself for not looking closer the movie was ok the plot involves belle a young latino woman who is the daughter of an ex champion boxer one of her close friends is a female boxer who and i could see all this coming sooo far ahead of time it was really a drag gets seriously injured during a match with a mean champ named the terminator who resembles a female version of a bigger more pumped up ike turner of course belle decides that the only thing to do is to become a boxer herself and avenge her friend she lives with her caring supportive yet protective dad her mother died of cancer when she was younger who just happens to be a cop her love interest also caring and supportive yet protective is also a cop who works with her dad hmmm they both have jobs that put their lives in danger in the line of duty wonder what's gonna happen she starts training and meets a sleazy manager who of course pretends to care about her but just wants to exploit her the actor they hired looks like a very low rent cary and is so young he barely manages to have a mustache his acting was also really really bad i'm not even going to go into the plot any further because anyone who has seen rocky or almost anyone knows exactly where this movie is going and how it will end br br this was not a completely terrible movie most of the acting was ok and the lead actress was very good there were good strong female latino role models the final fight scene did get me sort of interested even though i knew everything that was going to happen long before it did the actress that played the terminator did a great job of being unlikeable enough that i really did want belle to kick her a and rooted for belle again although there were absolutely no surprises my favorite moment maybe the only moment where i wasn't mad at myself for renting the movie by mistake was when belle slaps her sleazy manager after he's shown his true colors yells at him and then turns away only to suddenly fake a punch and watch him cringe back in fear showing that she is really the one in charge br br the dialogue was really really bad my main complaint one of their attempts to be witty was someone discussing boxing saying size doesn't matter and the female replying wryly now where have i heard that before other lines that are supposed to have dramatic impact are the doctors told me i may never walk again come on you know you can trust me and your mother would have been so proud of you i could go on and on nothing you haven't heard a million times before in bad soap operas or movies of the week br br maybe i'm being too mean the filmmakers did make an effort and i did sit through the whole thing voluntarily but only because there was nothing else to watch while i worked out you could do worse especially if you are looking for a movie with strong female characters but you could also do much much better
0	this is in simple terms one of the worst films ever made the story goes way beyond being tasteless and judging by the actors performance they know it there just in not one single quality of this film patrick swayze will have to overcome some major obstacles in his career before people forget about this turkey
0	updating of the clare booth play and the 1939 movie is a major disappointment the cast of women is excellent most of the individual scenes work but nothing hangs together there is no connection from scene to scene almost as if the film was crafted in parts and then assembled in a vacuum granted the story of a woman dealing with her husband's infidelity and how she is helped and hindered by her friends is a less shocking one now in an age when divorce is so common but at the same time its just as timely as ever i just wish they could have managed to connect all of the pieces together because as it stands now you really don't feel pulled along by the plot wait for cable
0	no no no no my entire being is revolting against this dreadful remake of a classic movie i knew we were heading for trouble from the moment meg ryan appeared on screen with her ridiculous hair and clothing literally looking like a scarecrow in that garden she was digging meg ryan playing meg ryan how tiresome is that and it got worse so much worse the horribly cliché lines the stock characters the increasing sense i was watching a spin off of the first wives club and the ultimate hackneyed schtick in the delivery room how many times have i seen this movie only once but it feel like a dozen times nothing original or fresh about it for shame
0	saw this movie last night i don't usually comment good or bad as i think movies are like books in that there is something for everyone and everyone is different tastes vary yadda yadda this movie was bad by the end i thought oh my this is testing my patience how many women really look and live like this when they hit rock bottom and if i could just borrow some cash from mum and carry out to live my fashion designing dreams gosh life would be great i was out for a nice chick date flick with my girl my darling hubby likes watching movies together and i knew this wouldn't be his thing something light and easy on the senses but this was one bad movie we are intelligent and interesting movie watchers and this movie wasn't that annette benning is a great actress she held her own bad bad
0	these days writers directors and producers are relying more and more on the surprise ending the old art of bringing a movie to closure taking all of the information we have learned through out the movie and bringing it to a nice complete ending has been lost now what we have is a movie that no matter how complex detailed or frivolous can be wrapped up in 5 minutes it was all in his her head that explanation is the director's safety net if all else fails or if the writing wasn't that good or if we ran out of money to complete the movie we can always say it was all in his her head and end the movie that way the audience will buy it because well none of us are psychologists and none of us are suffering from schizophrenia not that we know about so we take the story and believe it after all the mind is a powerful thing some movies have pulled it off but those movies are the reason why we are getting more and more of these crap endings every director writer now thinks they can pull it off because well fight club did it and it made a lot of money so we get movies like the machinist secret window identity and this movie just to name a few
0	i went along to this movie with some trepidation the original is a masterpiece of both writing and acting and unfortunately my fears were realized this is a humorless piece of work and i sat in the theater waiting for the wit and humor to begin i'm still waiting it seems updating the storyline to the present time just didn't work and the altering of characters an absolute travesty why did they introduce bette midler's character when she disappeared just as quickly as she arrived the related character in the 1939 original was an integral part of the plot the women in the cinema laughed a few times but nothing touched me as being funny with the exception of a line from meg ryan talking to her mother about her situation and telling her that 'it's not like a 1930's movie' i sorely wished i was viewing the 1930's version it was all too touchy feely stick together' and really needing some of the acerbic wit and clever dialog from the original play i still watch the original movie and pick up a line that i have never caught before there is no sense of closure to this new version and whilst the 1939 movie is politically incorrect by todays standards each thread was tied up and when the movie ended it did so strongly this remake should be labeled with a warning for any viewers if you know the original don't bother i felt cheated by losing part of my life in a cinema watching this unmemorable piece of fluff bring on the jungle red
0	director screenwriter diane english's 2008 update of george cukor's 1939 mgm classic comedy unfortunately shows more mothballs than its predecessor based on clare booth shrewdly observant 1936 play on the relationships that evolve among a strictly female group of pampered manhattan socialites the story would seem ripe for a contemporary remake instead because of english's thematic overreach the production comes across as an extended therapy session with a paucity of wit what's more the diverse lifestyles of women today have been reduced to sitcom level stereotypes in this movie and the original play's central conceit of eliminating men from the storyline seems even more contrived given the openly evolution that has occurred among men as well as women since the 1930's to add insult to injury the recent big screen adaptation of hbo's sex and the city did this sort of sorority style dishing much better and with far sharper fangs br br the skeleton of the original play remains as the story centers on wealthy mary haines who gave up her promising clothing design career to become the devoted wife of a wall street financial wizard like sex and the city she is surrounded by three best friends sylvie fowler a successful cutthroat magazine editor in the mold of miranda priestly in the devil wears prada yet another film this echoes pregnant edie cohen representing the stay at home wife and alex fisher a lesbian author who seems to represent every repressed group generally excluded from such an exclusive clique through a mouthy manicurist they find out mary's husband is having an affair with man eater crystal allen a perfume girl at saks more than willing to break up a marriage as she struggles to become an actress the rest of the plot doesn't matter much since it becomes a series of scenes focused on sisterly bonding and bickering none of it very illuminating and without the satirical zing that buoyed the 1939 movie br br looking strangely youthful at 47 meg ryan seems to play mary in a manner that tries to resuscitate the goodwill she engendered in the 1990's with when harry met sally and sleepless in seattle it's not that she isn't age appropriate here but her familiar seems at odds with the character's passive nature annette bening fares somewhat better in the scene stealing rosalind russell role of sylvie because she has proved to be adept at conveying hardness while masking vulnerability but her character goes through such a trite transformation that it undermines the actress' performance severely poor eva mendes has to play crystal as a shallow transparent shopgirl versus the smart hard edged cookie joan crawford got to play debra messing and jada pinkett smith are way to the sidelines as edie and alex respectively much better are candice bergen as mary's savvy supportive mother and cloris leachman as the non nonsense housekeeper br br probably reflecting the lackluster box office response to the film's release the 2008 dvd doesn't have a robust set of extras there are two deleted scenes one with crystal and her friends having a girls' night in as a contrast to mary's elaborate garden party and the other an extension of bette midler's cameo as a multi married hollywood agent counseling mary during a late night at a yoga camp two featurettes round out the extras the women the legacy about the history behind the film from the original 1936 play and the women behind the women which has the cast and crew speak endlessly about female self empowerment and self image the irony is that this version of the women directed and scripted by a woman takes such a patronizing look at women
0	george cukor's the women remains one of the glittering gems of 1939 hollywood's most golden of golden years the film crackled and sparked and it's absence of males was a subtle touch hardly noticed because of all the fine entertainment br br flash forward we see fifth avenue in new york city in front of saks large crowds bustle along the avenue but something's off the shot reveals only well dressed attractive and young women creepier than i am legend the visual concept continues inside the store and later at a large fashion show what nyc fashion show doesn't have at least 5 gay men the no men rule is rammed down our throats creating an alien world off balance and distracting br br enter meg ryan first seen digging in her garden wearing a ridiculous get up complete with her retro curls and flailing arms i immediately sympathized with her husband and could understand why he looked elsewhere later in the film she morphs into an older jennifer aniston look and keeps her arms at her sides this seems intentional as if to say look i can still be relevant ryan's character is loaded down with a coven of miss matched friends insert sex and the city comparison here who if it were real life would despise each other annette bening plays the power bitch who during the course of the film realizes her life's dream doesn't really make her happy jada pinkett smith is the power lesbian all with no use for any of the men who aren't there debra messing is some sort of baby factory that eats a lot eva mendes is an odd choice for the bad girl to say the least she looks fake acts fake and any humor she tries to demonstrate falls flat someone's comment on here that she looked trans gender was spot on other various stars show up to rearrange the furniture on this titanic br br the only thing that would have saved this would have been the brilliant casting of jennifer aniston and angelina jolie they could have named their price tucked their tongues firmly into their cheeks and pulled off something very clever and profitable but no hollywood thinks of itself way too highly for that kind of exploitation instead we're given this thing that lumbers along awkwardly with no sparkle entire sections of dialog from the original are lifted and plopped down into a scene with awful results at one point ryan exclaims something along the lines of this isn't a 1930's movie no meg it's not
0	the women 2008 by diane english is sadly such a waste of talent with annette benning candice bergen bette midler cloris leachman whom i like and enjoy in everything i've seen them and meg ryan jada pinkett smith debra messing and eva mendes who may not be my favorite actors but are nice to look at how could the movie be boring predictable embarrassing sloppy and simply bad it was made by diane english who is known as the writer of the very successful tv show murphy brown and it is her first movie for which she wrote a script the movie has been a labor of love for english who had tried for many years to make it happen and i respect that i even found the scenes with the supporting players bergen carry fisher and bette in short but memorable cameos funny smart and enjoyable but in general the movie is a second hand sex and the city which was released few months ago i did not find sex and the city very good when i saw it but next to the women it was simply brilliant at least sex and the city spared us the long and tasteless scene in the hospital's delivery room where one of the characters' was having a baby and her friends were there supporting her poor debra messing what did she do to deserve that nightmare she was put through and we the viewers together with her the movies like the women give the whole genre chick flicks a bad name it is nothing wrong with the genre but why is it so difficult to make a really good comedy about female friendships and hardships about dealing with marriage motherhood and proving yourself professionally these are all very compelling and important subjects any modern woman can relate to why making movies with the lines dialogs and situations so clichéd predictable not funny and insulting that they will be forgotten as soon as the movie is over br br after i saw the new movie i checked out from my local library the original the women and i truly enjoyed it the story was told much better 70 years ago and kept my interest all the way the old movie had a real star power
0	i have never seen the original 1930s version of the film but this remake is one of the worst i have seen from a major production studio in years seeing actors such as meg ryan and annette bening once near a level talents sleepwalk their way through poorly scripted roles is painful there appeared to be no desire to be in front of the camera for anyone in this film br br jada pinkett smith and debra messing play worthless roles that have no bearing on the plot and add no entertainment value jada pinkett smith's character is used as nothing more than a ploy to appear modern having an african american lesbian character but in actuality she is there to just look cool there is no actual reason why messing in this film other than to fill out the amount of women in the original i take br br the side characters played by eva mendes and debi are stereotypical female characters with mendes portraying the vixen looking to steal the wealthy but bored and mildly neglected husband and covering the gossip roles br br the movie is boring lacking charm humor or sympathy for any characters it almost felt like the movie was a punishment for everyone involved whether in front of or behind the camera br br there is one glimmering hope in the film however little it is allowed to shine surrounded by the dim and dying stars around it is cloris leachman leachman is still an amazing talent that brings her remarkable charm and humor to the film in the small role that she has
0	imagine a film the complete opposite of lawrence of arabia instead of having an all male cast it has an all female cast instead of being set in the barren deserts of arabia it is set in the bulging metropolis of new york city and instead of it being one of the greatest films ever made it is one of the most pointless boring and forgettable br br the film concerns mary haines meg ryan a perfect wife and mother the envy of all others in her high society manhatten social circle she is painted as a women bearing the weight of the world on her shoulders despite the fact she needs a live in nanny and housekeeper to cope with her one child but i don't want to be too hard on her mary does all this whilst taking a faire attitude towards the fashion designing job her father has given her this idyllic lifestyle cannot last forever though and things start to crash in a very real way br br mary's husband is cheating on her and her father fires her for not working hard enough she is quite naturally upset and breaks down a little br br mary needs to bounce back though for the sake of her impressionable young daughter and for herself she does this through rehab hair straightening and designing her own line of clothes though amazingly for this kind of film not a montage mary succeeds her daughter loves her her mother loves her her friends love her and her husband decides he loves her now she decides to take her cheating husband back after realising it was her fault he cheated as she didn't dote on him enough br br the films one saving grace is that it doesn't go down the all men are evil route
0	this movie is not a comedy it is not even funny in the this movie is so bad it's funny department rather it is just plain bad other reviewers mention the bad lighting but beyond that is the abundance of bad plastic surgery br br meanwhile a lot of great acting talent was wasted on a poor screenplay and uninspired direction the main characters are one dimensional and boring it is hard to feel sympathy for any of them it is also hard to see the four characters as close friends it seems like just a bunch of women thrown together pretending to be close br br i won't list all of the problems with this movie as it doesn't merit that much of anyone's attention nor is it worth the time it takes to watch it
0	this film could have been a decent re make and gosh knows it tried or ms english tried assembling talented actors together with a successful experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film but ms english's experience according to her imdb bio is exclusively limited to television work and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film br br i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential it looked and felt like it was made for television to give some credit to ms english many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv and maybe a laugh track would have helped so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com i think it could have worked but this is cinema and sadly ms english's talents didn't translate i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled meg ryan is her usual perky cute self except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face but where did she have a chance to use her talent she has made films where she doesn't recreate her stereo typed role and done them well but not here annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions such a great talent and yet such a poor performance i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance and it was sad to see what worked in this film in the 1930s doesn't translate to the 2000s and no one helped ms english get the changes updates or subtleties right if only she as writer director and producer had reached out for some assistance i think it could have been good but it was not br br it's so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone's time money this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate a few movie execs are having a meeting the caption reads let's remake a classic with worse everything
0	i was very disappointed by this movie ms english who says that she is a fan of the original movie seemed to have taken a great piece of artistic work and transformed it into a flat lined ho hum you've come a long way baby production i tried to like meg ryan's mary haines but she was just boring she didn't seem to feel anything about her husband's affair there was no emotional struggle no deep hurt in the original 1939 movie norma shearer's mary haines felt betrayed shocked vulnerable confused and angry the 2008 production was more about some fake sisterhood theme actually my wife's words and didn't make you shed a tear or even chuckle the only performances that were note worthy we're of debra messing and bette midler i wanted more of bette there was really no protagonist in this movie the sylvia fowler character had too many sub themes to it and crystal allen had no fire the remake of the department store encounter with annette benning and miss mendez was luke warm also the pacing was slow as well obviously the 1939 version needed to be updated but this one wasn't it the reason that the original version worked so well was that the characters were dealing with man problems a subject by the way which isn't out dated the magic of the original movie was that the movie was about both sexes while you never saw the men
0	i've never seen the original movie others have commented on so my perspective is just about this movie without comparison br br i found the message of the movie to be if you only worry about yourself all will be right with the world everything will fall into place your lovers will love you more your friends will respect and like you more your employers will want you more pay you more and even your own children and parents will love you more br br i find this message to be reprehensible and totally false br br kudos for the very funny birthing scene at the end there isn't a mother out there who won't laugh during that scene br br overall a very disappointing movie plot i didn't find myself rooting for anyone in this movie i thought they were all pathetic self absorbed individuals that i just didn't care what happened to them and that's not a movie people want to see
0	françois mississippi siren had an unconvincing plot the screenplay required too much in suspension of disbelief the plot went at a glacial pace it started off in an interesting setting but soon drifted onto the shoals of melodrama that lacked logic or intelligence what were the critics thinking this one is overrated even to be described as a loser even catherine who charmed in the umbrellas of cherbourg and belle doe jour managed to be simply annoying br br we rented this movie at the same time as we rented another film we watched this one first and found it to be so bad that we sent the other one back unseen at the same time
0	i saw it tonight and fell asleep in the movie br br that is something that i have not done since i have never fallen asleep at the movies br br i love the original and have seen it several times and recommend it to everyone this may have been the problem but i do not think so because there were a couple of bright spots that showed if done right they could have made this movie work br br bette was under used and anne was over used and miscast br br i do not know why english or anyone for that matter let this go out in that condition br br they billed this as a sex in the city but better not a chance i liked sex in the city a lot and was disappointed by this movie br br so do not waste your money on this movie go see anything but this
0	i really wish i had read everyone's review before going to see the movie it was one of the most excruciating films that i've ever seen i was ready to leave the theater 5 minutes into the movie i should have followed my instinct the movie offered nothing new or clever it was boring and very cliché i was surprised to find that it was directed by a woman the characters did not represent any women that i know they were boring bitter and melodramatic the movie was unrealistic and depressing and a waste of time and money and the actors looked tired poor make up and hair styling it was recently compared to the sex and in the city movie it was not even half as good my suggestion do not see this movie
0	to say i was disappointed is an understatement an amateur film made by professionals i was about to leave the theater in two or three occasions something i've never done i was stopped by cloris leachman really she rings true the only one i should say this new women are less modern than the george cukor women of the 30's this ones are acting for us trying to be with it but their conflict is exactly the same as it has always been in movies anyway the fun of the original was based on a crisp vitriolic and very funny script a masterful direction and an cast all the elements that are missing here tv actresses with models and oscar nominees winners there wasn't anything organic about it the whole thing felt like a put on improvised in the moment without a clear objective 2 10
0	first i should say that i've seen the '39 version at least 100 times know all the dialog and have read the play which is different from the '39 and contains nuggets of gold of its own this version is as flat as a lifetime movie on adultery there's a reason you haven't seen an expensive campaign of tv ads for it according to entertainment weekly bening hated the catty tone of the original and how the women spent the whole time going to war on each other guess what that was booth's intent it was a slick theatrical take on gossip adultery and back biting among a set of well heeled manhattan socialites the crowd that made this new version had no intention of honoring the original source material they pick at it weirdly putting in half a scene here and half a scene there that come from the first version bette midler who is in just a few scenes and acts the old countess part in a broad grinning style doesn't have any context in this version she mentions going after buck which is a key element in the original then he's never mentioned again this movie is so dull that i'm not going to over analyze it but here are a few things that i found unbelievable mary haines bragging to her domestic staff i can suck the nails out of a board right great writing norma shearer could've done a line reading on that gotten an oscar nom right a compassionate sylvia fowler annette bening got what she wanted and the movie just sort of withers away claire booth used sylvia as the comic engine that swept through the play as portrayed immortally by rosalind russell she was an ignorant spiteful woman who rattled off reams of petty ridiculous irresistible dialog that is still classic and quotable she wasn't above biting godard's ankle the 2008 filmmakers decided that this character had to die in killing her off they killed the movie
0	i believe an entire book can be written about the odyssey to remake the classic film on which this film is loosely based when hollywood first started talking about such enterprise the reaction was always negative because there were just too many aspects that could have gone wrong starting with the solid ensemble that made the original unforgettable and that's exactly where things begin souring here with the selection of actresses that otherwise can do remarkable work but that are not suited to the parts and sadly enough have been directed with the heavy hand of a director that doesn't understand or appreciate the source material br br it seems as if there is no focus or direction or as if the direction that has been taken is to obliterate anything that was good about the original film this is called an updating as in let's drain the story out of humor snappy dialogue and any interesting premise most of all let's prove that women have come a long way except that the problem is that we don't really get at least by watching this film where the women are truly going br br for starters casting meg ryan in the central role proves almost fatal to the movie because somehow she seems to have locked herself into some sort of limbo where women don't really change appearances even after 20 years of working in the movies her mary which proved to be a difficult role in the 30's somehow grew from her interaction with the other stereotypes like dorothy in the wizard of oz by learning observing and realizing that she had a choice in the matter it might not have been a choice that women would celebrate nowadays but it was fun ride and part of the fun was the catty silly sometimes slapstick routines that elevated that movie into the realm of the sublime in here we are down to earth with a thud by changing the nature of sylvia the film has lost a lot of its spark and it isn't in anyway annette fault i couldn't help but admiring how she tried to save this sinking ship and got a sinking feeling as she struggled with the horrible lines she was handled thankfully i entertained myself by looking at some of her terrific outfits and kept reminding myself how talented this lady really was her sylvia is wise but flawed and she could have been a great creation unfortunately ms english wasn't paying attention to her own work and loses control of the one character that could have turned the film into a fresh direction br br yet that wasn't the biggest blasphemy of them all in the original we have joan crawford doing probably one of the best performances by a woman her crystal is legendary with conniving lines incendiary moves duplicitous maneuvers and some very sexy poses she was the link between the male and the female and through her we knew what the whole catastrophe was about she provided the tension between men and women she was dangerous sexy the ultimate femme fatale a woman of intelligence that we feared and admired and most importantly we wanted to destroy to save our heroine eva mendes as gorgeous as she is is two dimensional in this outing because of weak writing and once again some bad casting br br there are more atrocities in the film such as the addition of a terrible role for as the dedicated mother who lives for having babies and the rather annoying lesbian turn by pinkett then comes the biggest waste of talent in the movie as bette who is a little unrecognizable in her make up shows the spark of what could have been her acidic delivery reminds us of the contemporary angle the film could have taken her words revive and put a big of much needed naughtiness in the film and it is exciting to see that it could really fly then she is gone she is in the film all of six minutes and she fades away in the middle of the muddle br br here is a movie that raised our anticipation level and truly disappointed us a film that could have joined the successful sex in the city who made an amazing transition to the big screen because it respected its source material and didn't compromise it gave us more bigger and better adaptation it truly updated what had made it successful before the women in its present reincarnation needs to go back and rework itself much like the hulk did it this year find more suitable performers a really good writer and most of all someone who truly treasures what good movies are about
0	as a spanish tourist in los angeles and a fanatic movie lover i committed a terrible mistake i went to see the women the remake of one of my all time favorites i've seen the original many many times in fact i own it my rushing to see the remake was based on diane english the woman responsible for murphy brown my though was how bad can it be she must know what she's doing well i don't know what to say i don't understand what happened the botoxed women is a rather depressing affair meg ryan or whoever played mary she looked a bit like a grotesque version of meg ryan another actress perhaps wearing a meg ryan mask she doesn't bring to the character nothing of what norma shearer did in 1939 the new one is a tired unconvincing prototype of what has become a farce within a farce the friends annette bening debra messing jada smith are as disconnected as anything i've ever seen and if this wasn't enough eva mendes as crystal the character created by joan crawford in one of her best and funniest performances eva casting is really the poster sign for how wrong how ill conceived this commercial attempt turned up i didn't give it a 1 out respect for candice bergen and cloris leachman
0	insane really even if you haven't seen the original george cukor movie with norma shearer joan crawford rosalind russell goddard joan fontaine and a cast of a thousand other stars you may dismiss this forced politically correct depressing comedy depressing for many different reasons meg ryan for one what has she done to herself her face can hardly move that alone puts her miles away from norma shearer annette bening should be suing the dp and debra messing what the hell was she doing here actresses with no connection in the public's subconscious trying to pass for friends totally unconvincingly eva mendes in the joan crawford part is an outrageous piece of miscasting what a terrible idea her character is like a trans gender performer without any taste or subtlety bizarre to think that a woman adapted and directed this women the only positive things i can mention are a short but very funny appearance by bette midler and cloris leachman as the housekeeper
0	i'm sorry but i cannot even partly agree with some comments on this awful piece of sh br br english is not my native language because i'm a german citizen so please do not blame me for inappropriate grammar structures or something gg i cannot understand why this movie got such a high rating 6 3 are you kidding me this movie has completely no sense not even a seem of good acting br br when i looked at the comments on the da vinci code which has i think nearly the same rating i had to bang my head on the table because i watched 00 schneider directly after and oh my god there are worlds between them br br the majority of the posters in this board tears every hyped movie to pieces while rating this crime of movie making with a 6 3 and helge as a genius of course he knows how to make money but i think the main aspect of your opinions is the fact that german isn't your native language and you just ignore or rather don't notice the bunch of crap which is said in the sentences ok i must confess that some scenes are funny but all in all a 6 3 is just too much for my
0	every once in a while an indie comes along that has an awesome cast and a story that sounds really interesting and can't miss but the movie sucks some recent films belonging to this unfortunate category are levity and the safety of objects and now here's the united states of leland br br said awesome cast includes ryan gosling kevin spacey don cheadle jena malone lena olin michelle williams chris klein and kerry washington gosling plays leland p fitzgerald the teenage son of a famous author spacey who commits a disturbing and unforgivable crime murdering a retarded child but doesn't remember it and doesn't seem to have any sort of motive br br don cheadle plays a teacher in juvenile hall who is trying to understand leland and also exploit him by writing a book about him and jena malone is his ex girlfriend we see their deteriorating relationship due to her heroin addiction in flashback sounds like an awesome little drama huh i thought so too br br the fact is that this movie is just badly badly written the dialogue and narration are painfully pretentious and laden with irritating platitudes about life the characters are all two dimensional indie cliches and while it does manage to make leland sympathetic in some ways it glosses over his crime br br for the most part there's no problem with the acting gosling who was oscar worthy in the believer is a tremendously talented young actor but the way they're written none of these characters least of all leland even feel like real people so there's not much he can do but mumble his ridiculous lines and look sad br br jena malone is the most memorable she has one of the most expressive faces i've ever seen even playing an underwritten character in a bad movie like this she can break your heart with one look when she's got good material to work with as in donnie darko or the dangerous lives of altar boys she's really amazing br br but this is not good material maybe after a massive rewrite it could have been something worthwhile but as it is the united states of leland is ponderous inert and for a movie that seems in love with how deep it is it's really shallow
0	for those of you who have never heard of the movie until now of which i presume there are many lucky people who haven't i'll summarise it for you ryan gosling plays the titular character of leland who also serves as the film's narrator a la kevin spacey in american beauty but without the intelligent observations on life leland goes to jail for stabbing a retarded kid to death and the movie attempts to figure out why he did it he seems to be a nice boy if not mentally absent and is portrayed by gosling with a complete lack of violence anger or agenda and if you're waiting for him to reveal his sinister side later in the movie don't waste your time it's not that kind of movie once in juvenile prison leland goes to classes taught by pearl madison ably portrayed by don cheadle who is incapable of anything but quality even when in bad movies pearl attempts to unlock the mystery of leland in an attempt to figure out how such a kid could do such a thing and so he could write a book about it later along with being a juvenile prison teacher pearl is also an aspiring author br br the relationship between leland and pearl is the driving narrative behind the film as their talks unveil past to the audience however to call it the central focus would imply that this meandering film had one it does not the united states of leland boasts an impressive cast which seems to be to the detriment of the film it seems as though writer director matthew ryan hodge don't worry that you haven't heard of him he's never done anything had to give every character a personal story arc and personality flaw in order to get the actors to play them most of these traits and stories are clichéd and most go underdeveloped and unresolved br br i'll try and break them down here martin donovan and ann are the parents of the slain retarded boy i love how the movie kept calling the kid retarded never mentally disabled that part made me laugh inside they apparently have a cold relationship because all suburban marriages in contemporary cinema must be cold their other two kids are michelle williams who is apparently an aspiring actress about to attend college and jena malone who plays the same troubled teen archetype she always plays this time with a heroine addiction malone was also the girlfriend of leland which gives him his link to his victim williams' boyfriend who was orphaned and came to live with the family and is a baseball player looking to go to the same college as his girlfriend is played by chris klein he ends up doing more with his character than any of the other bit players managing to steal the movie at times lena olin is mother who seems to be perpetually sad for some reason kevin spacey also the executive producer is cold and absentee father who is a famed novelist eventually fenn will show up to put a wrinkle in story if you even care at that point oh yeah and there's a drug dealing ex boyfriend a couple of fellow and a co worker of pearl's with whom he has an affair on his long distance girlfriend with played by kerry washington br br sorry if all that synopsis and character breakdown took so long if it seemed meaningless and boring then you've just experienced a bit of what i did during the 108 minutes i spent watching the movie but the unruly supporting cast of over wrought clichés is the least of this film's crimes the biggest one is that the whole exercise is entirely pointless we aren't given a fascinating look into a troubled mind we aren't given an effective explanation we aren't given much of anything given that it sucked so much i'm gonna go ahead and spoil the ending for you so that you never have to see it leland stabbed the retard because all leland could see in the world was sadness and wanted to spare corky or whatever the victim's name was the sadness in his eyes it's like the worst emo band in the world made an album and titled it the world is sad so i killed a retard oh and leland dies in the end in a sequence so reliant of unbelievable coincidences that it would have ruined the movie if the movie didn't already suck of course he dies in the end because that made the movie so deep br br i'm giving the movie 2 stars because the actors themselves all did a pretty good job with the junk they were given the scenes with cheadle and gosling together were even interesting on some levels but to paraphrase the film itself you have to believe that movies are more than the sum of their parts
0	the first 1 3 of this movie i loved and thought it was going to be one of truffaut's best films i loved the plot where a pen pal marries a man from half way around the world sight unseen especially when this woman turns out to be a fraud and was responsible for the death of the real pen pal so she could take her place she then cleaned out the husband's huge bank account and disappeared i was really hooked and wanted to see more br br and then the movie fell apart and became just plain dumb despite her coming from new an island in the pacific and he from reunion an island in the indian ocean when he goes on a trip to the south of france he stumbles upon her almost immediately hmm odds are 000 000 to 1 but he finds her then instead of either killing her or turning her over to the police he forgives her even when she acknowledges what she has done okay this is tough to believe but okay but then he helps to hide her from a private detective by murdering him no one is that stupid yes the character catherine deneuve plays is quite beautiful but come on folks this is just silly plus if he only wanted her as a sex object then why would he do this for a woman who is often frigid and completely selfish and evil br br this movie due to it's very ridiculous plot does not deserve such high ratings unless you are a die hard truffaut fan try another film even one of truffaut's just not this one
0	not much actually happens in this movie there are a few pivotal moments and everything else is talking about a crucial moment that takes place before the movie began the primary mechanism used in the story is the flashback flashbacks can be used very well but they aren't here there is zero indication when flashing back or forward and there are only weeks separating the events so context as a scene unfolds is the only way to know when something happens perhaps this was intended to add a sense of mystery in places but it was largely annoying br br if you are interested in watching a 100 minute on screen discussion of the why's of things and a lame questioning of good versus evil enjoy if watching close ups of a mostly vacant stare on ryan face for much of the movie appeals to you you're in luck sadly i can find no reason to recommend this movie oh and as another review indicated spacey really is only in a cameo role here and plays with a disinterested detachment that you've probably already seen br br the rest contains spoilers though a few big points are held back br br first the killing of the so called retarded boy happens before the movie opens and we never learn what happened exactly the implication is that he was killed to stop the deep sadness that was communicated through the boy's eyes there aren't many other unanswered questions as the characters beyond the boy and the lead are very one dimensional br br as for what is with the lead character another review suggested he is crazy i agree he isn't 'right' but don't know that i'd call it crazy it seems that the movie tried hard to convey that he was either autistic or retarded in some way because he sure seemed slow and unable to grasp the obvious either that or they were going for a neglected youth with some detachment disorder and or who was heavily medicated as always ryan gosling is good at conveying something to the audience but it seems exactly what was deliberately left up in the air in this case this movie provides no answers just questions but it was a sufficiently bad movie that i really didn't care
0	this movie states through its protagonist that the world is essentially sadness and pain and those that ignore this have blinders on one can argue whether this is true or not but even if you accept this as true the movie's ending either a disputes this by saying there can be some good in tragic situations or b forgets this and uses a cliched montage in order to leave the audience feeling uplifted br br that the movie metaphorically acquits its protagonist by presenting him as a sympathetic character despite any evidence for that sympathy shows contempt for the supporting characters who were the most compelling in the film br br so what you have in this film is a script that is not consistent in its theme and direction that does not bring the ending into sync with the rest of the film there are excellent performances given by every member of the cast especially spacey olin martin donovan and ann it's a shame that they weren't supported by a better writer director
0	this movie is full of pseudo deep thoughtfulness and it's cloying in its ness that includes a canned ham voice over and some unbelievable dialogue dialogue that is tinny and tone deaf the way spike sometimes not always is when writing certain characters for those that like nonsense films like pieces of april and one hour photo this is another one for you br br that said this comment is nothing against ryan gosling who has shown his awesome chops in the believer a film that proves that movies are a director's medium and when a movie is rotten it's fair to say the fault lies there and not in the actors
0	this mess starts off with a real tank running over a car intercut with images of a toy tank this is followed by a family driving home from a birthday party without saying anything the unexplained tank and the family take up i swear over 10 minutes of film finally the family sees a car after it has been in a wreck and decides to report it to the proper authorities only to find that the citizens of the town are all hiding in their houses and the cops are hiding in the police station interesting almost when the town folk come out due to the family's presence we learn that both the writer and editor are conspiring to substitute suspense with incomprehensible storytelling techniques in the hopes that the audience's inability to tell what's going on will somehow bring unease upon the audience and it works but not in the way they thought it would i was very uneasy with how bad this movie was but not scared at all the dialogue is composed of things that make little sense not in a fun david lynch sort of way but a sort of i walked in during the middle of a boring conversation sort of way over the course of the next hour we learn that the movie makers try to bore us into being afraid by showing tediously mundane scenes combined with the above mentioned what's going on type scenes br br the plot involves something along the lines of gentle looking old folks putting children into a trance through the power of satan and then bringing them to a party to play with toys and an even more sinister intention and it's up to a group of white men everybody's white in the movie to grab their guns and save the day and a tag a long eye candy woman who whines at the drop of a hat they look for the kidnapped children by looking in random places and yelling the kids' names br br this is a great horror movie for any person who has never seen a horror movie because that person is frightened by the mere thought of satanism paganism or even catholicism due to a lifetime diet of brainwashing from the trinity broadcast network this represents satanism as elderly folks in halloween costumes with candles while at a party in front of an replete with a priest spouting completely made up nonsense about satanists while calling them witches the message that anything that isn't can be all thrown into the same category for easy condemnation br br about 30 minutes of footage is wasted to show mediocre elderly actors awkwardly babbling overwrought pseudo satanic gibberish corny enough to make a teen goth blush almost always in olde english and sometimes in latin that may or may not be made up words br br highlights include a guy laughing at the idea of little green men for a solid 3 minutes a family staring out of the windows of their car without talking for 10 minutes while listening to elevator muzak a priest studying satanism for 4 minutes with ooh so scary drawings of demons to scare the church lady crowd random shots of dolls random shots of children paint instead of blood at every chance film school level dream sequences introduces unimportant characters who do nothing before they exit sometimes they act as if the nothing that they're doing is a big deal br br the directing is sloppy at best an example of the directing includes a scene at the beginning where a man and woman are kissing and the man pulls away to look lovingly into her eyes and some dark red paint falls on her cheek looking up they see that it's not blood but from a girl's are ice and colored flavored water and would not have produced of the same texture as paint not to mention the fact that her was a bright reddish orange hackneyed writing certainly but made even worse by the bad directing it then cuts to an alternate shot of the man woman and girl and shows that she's standing about four feet away from them so the wouldn't have dripped on the woman even if she'd held her out over the woman's face way to go editor of course the acting is blah the acting by the whole cast could be put on a scale and balanced perfectly between overacting and br br the director's most offensive technique is to give the actors no motivation and then go out for lunch as the unblinking eye of the camera leers as the actors make fools of themselves br br and finally after all that we get to an ending that would've been great had it been handled by competent people and not jerry falwell
0	being a big fan of horror films and always manage to find something good about a picture but this film just did not hold my interest or attention this story revolves around a father and his daughter and a girlfriend since his wife died a few years back these people encounter a horrible situation in a town they stop off and visit and all the senior citizens in this town gang up against these people and almost kill them this film reminded me of a film called children of the corn because it really involves children who are being presented to satan and are his instruments of terror there is plenty of chants mambo jumble and a toy tank that completely destroys an entire family in their station wagon as well as dolls who kill a husband and wife
0	i have to admit i'm not a big fan of satanic horror movies and in fact i seem to like them less and less every time i see a new one and that isn't really surprising when i end up watching films like brotherhood of satan despite its low rating on imdb i was surprised to hear some good things about this film and my expectations went up this turned out to be a big mistake as this is exactly the film that its rating suggests it is namely a very bad one the plot is your basic bunch of satanists causing trouble and we focus on a small town where people have been murdered and kidnapped and it's not really clear why naturally satanists are behind it and this is bad news for a mother father and daughter on a road trip who become trapped in the mysterious town i had a feeling that this film might be along the same lines as the crappy satanist flick 'the devil's rain' and while it's not quite as silly as robert later film it's not much better either the plot seems to be fairly down to earth but it's also rather boring and i can't say that i enjoyed myself at all during this movie brotherhood of satan obviously has its fans but i'm not one of them this is a film that i see no reason to recommend
0	this is one of those religious horror films which never explain why the forces of evil are 10 000 times stronger than those of good we've got here a satanic cult which can 1 beam away people like in star trek 2 kill through little children's dolls 3 transfer a soul from one body into another 4 hypnotize telepathically from a bigger distance and 5 cause drastic car crashes in which selected persons turn into spaghetti while others kids in this case survive unscathed br br on the other hand the forces of good can 1 sit around helplessly 2 stand around cluelessly 3 panic 4 laugh hysterically 5 waste time by doing nothing 6 read comics while people get slaughtered by the dozens and 7 arrive too late to satanic rituals br br in every religious horror movie i have to assume that that movie's world is inhabited by god and by satan i also have to assume that satan can't be 1 000 000 times more powerful unless the movie has a world order resembling that of hell in other words where were the priests in this film who knew something the best that this movie's priest could do is guess that there are some witches about nothing else from reading all those books in his study at the first sight of violence this priest becomes catatonic then laughs hysterically only to finish in a major panic attack so this is supposed to be god's contribution to fighting satan ridiculous every good religious horror film has the powers of good equipped with some form of more or less supernatural power or at least some concrete knowledge of how to fight evil in that sense this movie is quite idiotic as is the casting of the droll martin to play the high priest of the cult there is very little menace or awe in watching the quirky martin lead a satanic ritual i mean it didn't have to be christopher lee or but couldn't they have found someone less funny looking also why does the couple go back to the town after their car is put out of the running after their friendly encounter with the town's folk no sane person would have gone back they should've just walked on the man's explanation to his girlfriend and the viewer is that who knows what's in that direction
0	the brotherhood of satan is a stupefying combination of conventional horror elements mixed with some imaginative characterization and direction bernard it all starts out with father charles bateman as ben driving out west with his pretty blondes luscious capri as nicky and daughter as k t things get weirder and weirder for the trio as they approach the town of which is being gripped by a satanic cult br br when the dullish travelers hit the action switches to the film's more interesting assemblage of characters townies l q jones as pete the sheriff martin as doc charles robinson as jack the priest and moore as tobey their interplay is sometimes fun soon enough it all gets very silly and predictable mr martin is the stand out as you might expect he considers the possibility of a satanic cult to be a cock and bull story but is of course their leader the come in children ending is puzzling unless perhaps it was the film's original title
0	i saw this movie when it was first released in pittsburgh pa i had traveled from youngstown ohio a distance of approx 85 miles i knew nothing of the plot nor the players i had read no reviews nor had i talked to anyone who had seen it believe me i will never make that mistake again it was being touted i believe as the first feature length movie filmed in the new 3d process that was what enticed me to make a 170 mile round trip br br there was a waiting line two abreast that stretched i kid you not 2 or blocks long and moving very slowly i could hardy wait to be seated if i had only known at that moment what i soon would know i could have been ¾ of the way back to youngstown by the time the feature started br br by the time the first 3d scene was shown i was already nodding off the novelty quickly wore thin and from then on it was pure agony br br without going into excruciating detail i can only offer the following advice if you have ever seen the famous film plan nine from outer space supposedly the worst movie ever filmed it in my humble opinion stands head and shoulders above this garbage br br i don't know if this has ever been shown on tv if it has i don't know why if you ever get a chance to see it do something else take a walk cut the grass wash the dog have someone flog you with a rubber hose anything your time will have been better spent br br this has been my first movie review it might well be my last unless a worse movie comes along and i wouldn't make book that will happen br br bill br br
0	i was a teenager when this first appeared in theaters and i saw it in japan the film's plot wasn't my cup of tea as a high school sophomore but i went to see it for the 3 d process it had been ballyhooed in the press so that even service personnel overseas had heard of it though it never screened at the post theater br br the film started the trend of throwing objects at the audience which was taken to absurd levels with later 3 d films br br i don't know whether this qualifies as a spoiler but you've been warned if it is in many films of the time actors would often work in front of a rear projection screen where backgrounds could be projected to make it appear that they were in a different environment such as a jungle background when the actors were actually on a sound stage this works well on regular films but when seen in 3 d they look like a flat scene behind the actors there were several scenes in the film where rear projection was used and it didn't work well in the theaters if seen in 3 d it will constitute another disappointment br br the film's only importance is historical since it was the first of its kind
0	i'm trying to find something of value here the best i can muster is that truffaut wanted to make a movie as tedious painful puerile annoying illogical and brainless as the experience of being in love if that was his goal then he succeeded but the solution to his exercise is really a drag to watch br br there is one scene that screams for a spoof belmondo compares the features of deneuve's face to the features in a landscape all i could think the whole time was glacier ice two lonely fishermen wearing army surplus on a frozen lake in minnesota br br the only other point of interest was the resurrection of theory of climatic determinism the tropics are presented as paradise and things get progressively worse as they get colder hell being calvinist french switzerland that was kind of funny
0	this film is worth seeing since it is a classic in the sense of being the very first full length film released in the process of three it was not very good in its acting or story plot but can be a great movie quiz question from an historical standpoint it should be seen in the 3 d process with polarized lenses
0	i'm sorry but this guy is not funny i swear i've heard heard 4 year olds come up with better jokes then some of his dee dee dee for instance is possibly the worst catch phrase i've ever heard it lacks any creativity at all and to be making fun of mentally challenged people when you've reached level of having your own show is incredibly dim witted on mencia's part br br though every one compares this fool to their is no contest first off they had very very different shows i think all in all show on average had only about 2 short 5 minute skits in between his 10 minute rants about god knows what show came off more as sketch comedy with 2 4 skits that occupied all the show all did was a short summarization of each skit before and after each one this is where mencia fails even more what would make mencia think having a show which consists of the same standup comedy that he talks about on his standup specials would be a beneficial idea does anybody really want to listen to a bit george lopez pioneered years before mencia but just dragged beyond belief to the point where its dead chance in hell br br my point is even though most people hate this guy for his rascism i just cant stand him for his comedy central was looking for a minority they could brand as controversial and then leave him to follow path the problem is this guy made it very clear he doesn't want to be so instead he conducts his crappy show like a burning trainwreck right into the ground does anybody want to watch a weekly standup about the same stuff every thursday i know sure as hell i don't br br i cant express my gratitude to comedy central though this show is done personally after watching his standup i don't know how he got his own show in the first place there are so many more deserving comics like jim zach etc in fact anyone is better than this fool
0	this show reminds me of an episode of the simpsons where had just been fired by mr burns and was forced to live a miserable life being unemployed all he did to while the way the hours was to drink and watch comedy central the implication was that comedy central was a pathetic tv channel for miserable people with nothing else to occupy their time mind of mencia is slightly better than most of comedy central's programming but it still serves as an example of why this channel is low quality filler for people with absolutely no lives br br truth be told mencia is a fairly competent comedian who throws out trite soft ball ethnic jokes and cashes in on bland stereotypes of people based on their race gender or economic status or a combination of two out of three of these characteristics if you've heard one of these jokes by one of your friends at a bar or at work believe me you've heard what passes as comedy on mind of mencia carlos also tries to make fun of current events but lacks creativity or originality this is not to say that carlos is a washout all the time i found some of his skits amusing such as his rap video portrayal as an oil sheik if you find bland run of the mill comedy up your alley you'll probably enjoy mind of mencia for those people who are tired of repetitive pedestrian comedians trotting out the same old time worn jokes stay away
0	while mind of mencia could be summed up as nothing more than a clone of chappelle's show it is really worse than that first of all carlos mencia is a that is as funny as he is original which isn't saying much the show contains lame spoofs of american television ads and political issues and mencia's comedic insight on politics adds to the low quality of this show on top of it all mencia tosses in more lame ethnic jokes and stolen jeff foxworthy lines than i can count on one hand while every once in a while carlos gets a cheap laugh the rest of the time he spends insulting everyone in sight which does include exploiting his own audience members with the exception of south park drawn together and friday night stand up this show marks the end of the chappelle's show glory days which for those of you who haven't heard was before he went to africa
0	it doesn't take balls to make fun of retarded people having to listen to mencia insist that he is brave to make retard jokes is intolerable also it doesn't take balls to bite off of the chapelle show the racial game shows the racial olympics it seems like a lot of the skits are merely reworked chapelle show skits that are just way less funny br br but the most irksome thing in the show is his insistence that he is just marching to the beat of his own drum when he is actually marching to the beat of many over worked over done drums that have been drummed many times br br i hate this show i hate that it presents itself as a voice for latin america br br and no carlos i am not trying to you if people like it then keep it on but i personally think that it's a bad show
0	carlos wants to make fun of affirmative action racial stereotypes and related topics on his show which makes him a lot like supreme court justice thomas he's there because of his race and then denigrates it he can supposedly make fun of mexicans to no end because he is himself mexican and i would also contend he can get away with making fun of the mentally challenged because any lay person can tell he's not the sharpest tool though he is definitely a tool of some sort br br he is a hack comedian who even with a staff of writers can't put together 3 minutes of genuinely funny material in a 30 minute show i can't think of a single comedian who is regularly on tv that carlos can hold a candle to except maybe larry the cable guy not too surprisingly he also has a show on comedy central to cater to the exact same audience no doubt br br if you ever see the greats jerry seinfeld chris rock jon stewart etc talk about comedy you really get a feeling for the amount of work and thought that goes into developing a funny interesting comedic voice all that work was completely skipped by mencia his comedic voice is in part stolen from other better comics and in part hidden by his propensity for yelling his unfunny rehashed racist tripe mencia's show is beloved by some of the at least i don't suck that badly crowd who i firmly believe watch it to feel better from his rants about the dumbing down of society unfortunately carlos and his fans are part of the problem not the solution on that topic
0	i've only seen most of the series since i leave the tv on as background noise in my dorm br br i've been a fan of mencia but this show really doesn't do much for me occasionally he'll say or do something to pull a chuckle out but he has this aura of smugness that completely ruins it br br i've always thought he was funny because of his raging angry man routine that's not terribly prevalent in this tv series instead he's just smug i guess that just reflects how funny his comedy is stale and uninteresting when he isn't in the proper mode of delivery i've seen him get into it sometimes on his show but for the most part he just sits there smiling and looking smug and it doesn't suit him well br br just my opinion though
0	carlos is perhaps not the most original comic but the first series was amusing his forthright comments and observations were fresh i missed a couple of seasons but after all of the allegations of stealing material i caught a couple of episodes of the mind of mencia at the end of july 07 a bit of a change i see carlos is much more into toilet humor and sex jokes than the race observations in one episode he sort of implied he was in the same league as chris rock and dave i think not perhaps comedy central will give him one more season but episodes i saw sounded tired and samey with more words beeped out than the carlos go back to stand up for a couple of years get some fresh material and try again
0	occasionally i accidentally leave the television on after south park and i end up catching some of the train wreck of middle school humor that is mind of mencia it's the only time i wish my room was cleaner because i'd be able to find the remote that much faster the truth is comedy central was in need of a replacement chappelle's show and what they got was a show that appeals to idiots that either miss dave so much they'll cling to any minority variety show or are satisfied with the plain mexicans love jokes that carlos mencia shovels in every week i am to understand though that there are some people out there that actually find mencia shudder funny i firmly stand by my words when i say i believe these people to exist only in myth however if you are indeed out there i ask only that you never enter into my housing district and read these major differences between carlos and chappelle's show br br 1 dave was funny you may want to highlight this one br br 2 chappelle's show was five times as edgy as mencia could ever hope to be yet every time a promo for his little show airs it's all about him tooting his own horn about how he's nothing we've ever seen before you've got that right carlos and not in a good way didn't need to tell people he was edgy and funny we all just kind of stuck around to watch the show to find out for ourselves br br 3 actually had race jokes that dove into some depth of the different cultures things that some people didn't know about like his i know black people game segment the grand prize was some hair cream that black people use that's deeper than mencia would ever dare to dive so how dare he call himself edgy if mencia were writing that sketch the grand prize would have been fried chicken and kool aid and my accusations have some merit i saw a promo for his show which i have affectionately come to call 'my t v monitor taking a s t for thirty minutes' a few days ago and it was some stereotype olympics sketch which i admitted to myself was a pretty funny concept then i saw that the mexican that won received a green card as a grand prize that's it that's as close to the fire as you wanna get who couldn't think of that back in 7th grade for you fans of the show if you're ever watching and you miss one of his punchlines perhaps because you and your friends were discussing how duh de durr never gets old and is in no way the part of the joke where someone funny would have something clever to say just remember that there are only five possible choices for punchlines anyway green card border jumpers lawn and of course duh de just remember whichever it was it was screamed enjoy br br 4 kind of relating to number two every time he says something that gets a laugh he'll pause to tell people while laughing at his own joke that he thinks he went too far with that last one then don't say it for god's sake or let the people decide by themselves he and comedy central keep shoving this tripe down my throat that he's this tell it like it is show that is more controversial than the da vinci code you're not you never will be br br i've never been offended by the show's content i would never give it that much credit i'm offended that carlos mencia is given thirty minutes to scream unnecessarily yeah i'm literally offended by that fact
0	carlos mencia is not funny from his stand up specials to this train wreck of a tv series carlos mencia is not funny i have been trying to convince people for two years that he steals other comedians' jokes and as far as his comedy material goes he is a regular johnny come lately with far less than sub par results psycho astronaut jokes britney spears breakdown jokes i hope this is only a scheduling error but come on carlos and comedy central those topics and many others have run the gamut of late night tv show opening monologues saturday night live mad tv and many many others lampooning ethnic and racial stereotypes comedy stands no chance of evolving with carlos mencia around perhaps people especially viewers and comedy central executives will get the point since this week's issue of new york magazine accurately labeled him carlos mencia unrepentant joke
0	this is one of the more poorly made movies i've ever seen one has to take anything by truffaut seriously it's not just some b movie cranked out by hacks br br evidently truffaut couldn't decide whether he was making a noir or a sentimental chick flick and neither could deneuve whose dozen character flip flops are simply unbelievable not even badly acted just not acted at all among other things how a woman as beautiful as deneuve could be a person such as julie marion is simply beyond anyone's ability to suspend disbelief the role absolutely demands someone not so beautiful belmondo's acting also suffers although imho his character is not quite as unbelievable as deneuve's the cliché ending which i won't describe is unfortunately all too appropriate for this complete mistake
0	i'm a huge comedy show fan racial humor is always a little risky but the greats like george lopez dave chapelle lisa etc pull it off perfectly br br they don't go overboard make the audience uncomfortable or cough cough steal jokes but i won't harp upon that br br carlos makes racial humor totally unenjoyable his jokes continually scream racial humor to the point were it's not funny or clever but it's insulting i'm not one to turn cold towards racial humor but his execution of these jokes is sloppy that cause people to recoil at his comedy br br his humor is only surpassed by his stage presence in annoyance i feel as though he's screaming at me constantly and he runs around the stage like a maniac it only comes off as annoying
0	besides the fact that this guy is a liar he is also a total idiot and a thief in the comedy community once when i attempted to watch this excuse for a television show i believe i actually threw up in my mouth a little i can't help but feel a little bit dumber every time is see one of his horrid commercials while i am enjoying great comedy central programs like reno 911 and american body shop it shows like this that make me worry about the continual existence of mankind it's hard to believe that even joe can make someone look like an moron please begin praying now that comedy central will realize their mistake and end this show as soon as possible haven't we suffered enough
0	okay i like to give the benefit of the doubt i watched his show br br it isn't funny to me all i remember was a lot of weird noises and yelling i don't think i even cracked a smile the only thing that somewhat resembled humour was his jolie jennifer aniston bit i think you can get dumber by the minute watching it though br br also what's with the ask whitey section is that a ripoff of ask a gay dude black man from chappelle's show isn't it that obvious but when did it he was exposing the ignorance of the subject like borat but what's up with picking random white people and yelling stuff at them that's not funny its just plain dumb br br and i'm pretty sure i heard certain jokes of his somewhere else it seems like he's bits pieces throwing in some loud yelling br br anyway it wasn't funny seriously don't even waste your time
0	the tagline for this show is he's speaking his mind we're hiring extra lawyers if you look back in time any classic raunchy comedian never prided himself in being controversial richard pryor's tagline wasn't i'm crude racist and daring that's basically how comedy central is marketing this show in your face non pc and honest but how can a television show pride itself in being this way where's the humility and humbleness and what suddenly has made carlos mencia this huge figure for comedy central let's start at the beginning dave cancels his show which became unexpectedly popular and controversial and comedy central is looking around for someone new to push they hire this guy named ned who claims to be a mexican even though he isn't they splatter his face on a few tv ads and make it look like they're being daring by unleashing him upon the public br br i've seen a lot of hateful topics on the forums for this show and i don't agree with mencia's detractors this is not an awful show it had me crying in laughter a few times when it's funny it's very very funny yes it's juvenile but so was chappelle's br br the problem with carlos is that he uses a lot of the same material over and over and he's too obvious the overt marketing put aside carlos has now said so many times i have lost count he's trying to make it the next famous line like i'm rick james b but it's way too obvious br br in terms of repeating himself carlos uses many of the same jokes over and over for example on one episode he said he'd love it if all mexicans disappeared from america overnight he'd wake up and an american guy would be saying room in a southern accent br br he used this exact same joke verbatim when he appeared as a guest on adam talk show it was a great deal less funny the second time around because he seemed more desperate br br is carlos funny i think so there are some outrageous moments on his show but he focuses too much on trying to be controversial rather than just going with the flow and letting his comedy naturally progress repeating silly little catchphrases over and over again coupled with goofy faces and loud vocal screams does indeed get old quite fast i just hope carlos or his writers can give a new edge to this show because right now it's starting to dwindle in repeat hell
0	there's been a whole lot made about carlos mencia's mr excuse me theft of other comics' material heck even before joe had a blowup with him on stage i knew that carlos was swiping material from cosby and and a host of others br br to compound the crime of his theft he retold these comic geniuses jokes badly br br and that is a crime he continues to perpetuate on this show i'm sure the series writers have to share some of the blame it's got to be hard to write jokes day in and day out but that's why people get paid so darned much to do it these series writers need to go back to their day jobs of flipping burgers or whatever it was they were doing before they decided to embark upon a career of intellectual theft br br not to say that he steals all of his material you can tell when he has devised a joke on his own when what you are watching transcends the merely awful and goes straight into the territory of horrifyingly bad br br because he likes to call people b h on his show ten year olds call him a genius they're gonna grow up one of these days carlos and when they do you're gonna dry up and blow away
0	thats right i can't watch comedy central anymore just because i can't bear to watch the repeated commercials for this show i'll tell you the truth this is a terrible show not because i'm offended by it but because carlos mencia is one of the worst comedians i have ever seen i rather watch carrot top do a george bush impression than watch this no skill hack and to believe he calls himself the greatest even if he didn't steal the jokes he is still bad at telling them he's way off timing and unoriginal i remember in one joke he said why do white people go camping to pretend there poor for a week now what is that suppose to mean that all white people are rich another one i didn't understand was when he did a skit of the price is right and he told some fat guy you should know how much a fridge cost you're fat and the fat guy had the saddest look on his face but what does that mean that fat people are always looking for refrigerators those are just the two i seen in his commercials god knows what his show is like br br this show falls in the likes of epic movie and date movie
0	to put it simply mind of mencia is the worst unfunniest show on comedy central and quite possibly all of television ever i love comedy central and watch many shows and movies there all the time but every time the intro for this show even starts after some good comedy i can't find the remote fast enough br br mencia tells used worn out racial jokes in a bad attempt at being controversial then will point out the ethnicity he just talked about in the audience as if to say 'they liked it so all of your race likes it and by extension me too' give me a break mencia i don't know if those people are plants or not but just because you go to a black guy and high five him after one of your ridiculous jokes doesn't mean he thinks you're funny it just means you put him on the spot and what else is he going to do smack you on tv he gives the impression that his jokes are deep meaningful and thought provoking which is apparent in his commercials but when you actually watch the show almost 100 of what he says is common sense he also claims that only smart people get some of his jokes but you don't have to be any smarter than a monkey to understand what he just said when he says that maybe you need to go finish 3rd grade carlos the guy goes on to say that he says what others are only thinking but i think you'll find that if anyone was thinking what he says they figured out all on their own that it was ridiculous and that's why they never said it in the first place br br all in all watch 1 episode and be done with it if you must because after you've seen 1 episode you've seen them all why comedy central keeps renewing this horrible show is well beyond me if you're looking for good comedy look elsewhere because you will find very little of it here
0	did you find the title funny oh you didn't well that's because you're uptight learn to laugh because if you're not laughing you're not living so please lower your standards regarding to what you believe is funny to that of a mere infant now do you find it funny still no ok that's because you're full of yourself and get offended too easily if you're not laughing you're not living and if you don't like me then send me hate mail so that i could write another review and state how much hate mail i get and try to twist this into making it seem as if i am a bad ass are you laughing at my hilarious title yet still no ok that's it you are a racist you have to laugh or else you are a racist why else would you not laugh oh it's not funny no this can't be why i want it to be funny so therefor it is laugh damn it please please ok that's it where's my notepad and pen and where's my richard pryor dvd's i need to write some jokes for my show br br and scene thank you thank you br br this is basically what you'll get from mencia for about 23 minutes please do yourself a favor and change the channel when this bum's show comes on even basic cable channels have things 100x better than this i'm not even saying this because i hate him i'm for real this show is like watching grass grow not sure though at least grass doesn't steal jokes i'm honestly trying to save your time i even tried watching his show i told myself maybe he isn't that bad but no he is i completely zone out when i watched his show i tried to collect myself during the commercial break and focus on the show but i couldn't i zoned out again i think i was thinking of something more interesting like re making my bed or folding my socks before i knew it the show was over yeah it's that bad br br here's my final thought there's so many things you can do with 30 minutes besides watch this guy shout about nothing for half an hour don't watch a show that tries to shove racism in your face in vain i can support shows that try to ease the tension of the race wars but this guy just provides more racism rather than stop it
0	if you've been laughing too much for a long time and need to take a break br br after reading about 25 reviews of this show i decided to turn it on and check it out for myself everything that each of those people have said about this show is absolutely true mind of mencia is like a half hour version of mad tv but with somehow worse jokes br br one skit i had the displeasure of watching was the second annual stereotype olympics what's funny about black guy who has trouble swimming or gay guy named sparkles that wins a banana eating contest neither of these concepts is particularly novel insightful or amusing do we really need a joke about star wars every episode that movie came out like 30 years ago mencia's solution to funny things up is toss in some stereotypes about hispanics and throw a few in there and call it a day to go home to roll around in his pile of money pure comedic genius br br then he blatantly ripped off jeff foxworthy on a second show i watched with a your gay if bit you could just imagine the roaring laughter he got when he snook in a ryan is gay joke it's not like either of those has already been done to death br br unless you're a big fan of jason friedberg and adam seltzer movies please stay away from this show especially when there are authentic comedians like dave out there who can joke about races and racism and still be insightful
0	i'm surprised that the comparison hasn't been made yet between mind of mencia and the television program the awful truth which ran a few years ago helmed by controversial director michael moore the show would begin in the exact same manor as this show with moore interacting with the audience and introducing segments namely short documentaries and skits which had been put together in an attempt to provoke thoughts about current issues the difference mencia rarely delves past the superficial and the reactionary what he says and does is often pandering and rude and insults the ability of his audience to make decisions for themselves there's a difference between being edgy which i have no problem with but mencia tries too hard to accomplish this and ends up coming off as arrogant and with little backing he does however make points occasionally but often in order to get to them one has to sit through some pretty mind numbing attempted shock humor
0	i'm bout it 1997 br br developed published by no limit films br br pros absolutely none br br cons i don't even know where to begin br br plot summary master p plays a drug dealer that looks talks and acts more like a live action cartoon character that's all the plot i got out of this movie br br review i remember back when i was in the ninth grade during its release and everyone in my class praised this clown called master p this movie is so bad it's not even funny all the characters in this film are extremely tired stereotypes the audio is only audible when music plays and the movie looks like it was videotaped off a public access channel luckily i didn't buy this film like all my other inner city degenerate classmates br br my rating 1 out of 10 br br my verdict avoid this video like its a sexually transmitted disease
0	this is a great example of what happened at comedy central after dave chapelle left here's the problem with carlos mencia firstly his birth name is ned and was known that until he was 18 when he switched his name to ned mencia he was born in honduras though he acts like he's from mexico he grew up in the united states as well br br i might be able to forgive all that crap but br br he's been caught stealing other peoples material joe has been his most vocal critic in this way the stereotype olympics was an idea he ripped off a couple of dj's from miami he has stolen jokes from bill cosby he stole george lopez's material in his own hbo special 13 minutes of it br br he thinks what he's doing is so original but dave chapelle and lisa have been cracking on race for years before this idiot amoung others br br this show will crash and burn the word can't last that long before it gets old he hasn't done anything new since the first episode br br wanna hear a joke a jumping a fence that's funny for 3 seasons not br br awful
0	carlos mencia just plain isn't funny his show is painful to watch because of that his sketches parodies are all very horrible and this really just feels like a filler for the chapelle show which while i'm not a big fan of that it is much funnier than this trash carlos mencia gives the stupid speeches and he all too often depends on finishing his monologues with a retarded voice and going der der der it's just not funny he often when talking to others makes puns they are horrible and painful when people don't laugh he blames them why would anyone laugh he's not funny he has an immature sense of humor in everything he does on this show it's amazing that anyone but 3 year olds watch this one of my least favorite things he does is water down every topic and make it seem like a joke i hope that this racist idiot gets taken off the air as soon as possible because he's dumbing down a station that doesn't need to be dumbed down anymore
0	what is it now a days that minority comedians feel its okay to slander their minority and expect to get away with it br br carlos mencia is no george lopez there is a difference when watching comedian carlos mencia i think he hates his own people and more than that i think he was forced to pattern his show as the hispanic latino spanish version of the dave show what a horrible mistake note to mencia please do not do a block party movie as much as i would like to see santana el christina jennifer lopez and the reunion of the cast of xica da silva on one stage don't br br carlos mencia likes to use the word as much as dave liked using the n word neither is funny and neither is acceptable even if it's from own people' carols mencia also likes to say if you're offended too bad it's not the offense it's the defense because of what is being said and asked to be accepted br br carols mencia goes further he everyone for what he assumes is comedy it's not comedy it's not funny there is a finesse to being able to look at yourself and make others laugh out of comedy and not laugh out of enforcing stereotypes that other races believed in the beginning br br mind of mencia needs polishing because carlos mencia needs polishing find out what is funny and not what will set more prejudices in motion and then do it until then the show mind of mencia is a pass
0	i absolutely love stand up comedy i love to hear the raw thoughts of the stand up on stage as they are appealing to an audience of their peers different life experiences they have had or things they have thought up or seen that they just thought were so ing stupid that they had to share it with someone br br there used to be stand ups who took on a persona that everyone could relate to rodney dangerfield comes to mind or were just so damn crazy that you couldn't help but laugh with them as they laughed at others richard pryor and then there were the thought provoking comics like george carlin who despite pretending to be a loon was the smartest guy in the room who appealed to people to rethink things they saw when they walked around and realize just how screwed up things were and how easily they could change things br br now this might seem to not have anything to do with mind of mencia which as i agree with most commentators here is comedy central's horrid solution to the loss of chappelle's show but it does carlos mencia spends half of the show doing stand up bits for his audience sometimes on popular topics most of the time on just racism and racial stereotypes he tries to be all three of the above types of stand ups he makes a stage character an every day mexican named carlos who despite stereotypes is just your run of the mill normal guy he then proceeds to try to laugh at others people he calls racist or just those that disagree with his opinion and then finally he presents skits to the studio audience and the viewer telling them that it will help them see his point of view br br carlos mencia always says he's showing a point of view that people don't see yet what he is really doing is not only promoting racist stereotypes that already exist and have been joked about to death but he stupidly encourages people to hear them and do the one thing that helps keep them around laugh br br promoting stereotypes is usually the lowest yet easiest way to get laughs in stand up the best comedians which i fear carlos mencia feels he is in good company with don't have to resort to them they talk universally and ask you to laugh at absurdity rather than with it like mencia encourages as he creates more skits or real life situations that call for racism or the bashing of others with the use of it he tells us rather than asks us to laugh and actually presents these absurdities as truth rather than just extremes of it br br his show is an insult to the minds of those who watch it mencia doesn't give us comedy and ask us to digest it and take from it what we want something that as much as i hate to compare the two was chappelle's show's finest quality he tells us exactly how we should view it and react to it which according to him is to make a stupid face and say dee dee dee this show is appropriately named it is indeed a show about the mind of mencia it's mencia's mind through and through and as such is nothing more than dumb entertainment the show is tailor made to give life lessons to its core audience 14 24 year olds about how stereotypes are bad but that racial bashing is alright to carlos mencia and therefore should be alright to you
0	yup that's right folks this is undoubtedly the worst show in the history of television if you want to watch a sad lonely and unfunny hack comedian attempt to entertain the masses with a half hour of pale and tired social ramblings that your mildly retarded cousin commented on at the thanksgiving dinner table then this might be the show for you this is billed as edgy comedy my friends but to be honest this makes tim allen look like richard pryor avoid at all costs unless you're a masochist
0	so where's my friggin trophy i seriously expected a banner and confetti to drop from my ceiling for watching a full 30 minutes of that crap comedy central is truly dropping the ball lately trying to fill the void left by with multiple seasons of a retarded man impersonating retarded men dah duh nah if you pay attention to the show you'll notice that when mencia isn't stuttering over punchlines and laughing at his own skits he only makes exaggerated observations which seem to lack any sense of humor you ever notice how people in drive really slow it's like dah duh nah not even the midgets and half naked hot chicks manage to distract from mencia's distinct lack of talent furthermore mencia isn't even a as he constantly and adamantly proclaims he is which makes him a fraud on top of it all br br if anything good could be said about mencia it's his effort the man clearly has no talent but like a wounded in the mouth of a hungry alligator god knows he's trying
0	i haven't watched this show in months but for a while i was forced to watch it every day because i had a roommate that liked it so maybe it's undergone some vast improvement in all that time although the commercials and the 4 2 rating on imdb aren't a good sign br br it was clearly just a quick replacement for chappelle's show even mencia says so and while i wasn't even that big a fan of chappelle's show his jokes were at least original and clever and far edgier than mencia has ever been mencia's jokes are completely unoriginal and stale if you can't see that i guess there's just no hope for you but to be fair here are some examples br br mencia blatantly rips off lil jon skit just takes it br br south park makes an episode about scientology one week later mencia has a joke on his show about how offensive he is to scientologists bear in mind the joke isn't about scientologists but about how much he's offended them on his show when up to this point he has never made a single scientology joke ever br br after hurricane katrina two ap photos go around the internet showing a black man looting groceries and a white woman finding them weeks later after millions of people have already seen this mencia presents it on his show as if he discovered it and it's being shown for the first time the daily show would have been on something like that in a day pathetic br br even more annoying than the joke stealing is the way carlos has promoted himself and his show claiming he's breaking down some sort of pc barrier whatever and that if you aren't laughing you must be a weak prude who can't handle any jokes about race yes carlos it's not because you're not funny it's because we're all too offended to laugh if that was really true then why was chappelle's show so popular he constantly berates his audience for not getting it if he doesn't get enough laughs and often repeats and explains his jokes a technique most comedians stop using by age 14 br br the worst part is that mencia does not seem to be very intelligent it's sort of tragic that there are dozens of funnier more insightful comedians out there trying to make it while this guy is rolling in money his show is supposedly the third highest rated on comedy central which is baffling again it has a 4 2 rating on this site where the hell are they getting these numbers comedy central tries to bill itself as an edgy station but as long as it tries to appeal to the dumbest audience possible that will never be the case
0	i thought puppets making crank phone calls was pretty low but i don't believe that carlos mencia's show even qualifies as comedy his main objective is to make the audience incredibly uncomfortable while using the word as many times as he possible can i have never felt compelled to write a review declaring the awfulness of anything on imdb before but i really do hope this show is never renewed or rerun br br mencia is trying to be the next dave chapelle and perhaps he was only hired by the network because they hoped he would fill those shoes it is obvious right down to the rip of intro blues guys vs mariachi band however mencia has absolutely no attitude and does not delve into popular views of the hispanic culture enough to come up with a creative poke at it each time instead he sticks to a small number of hardly shocking nicknames for his fellow latinos and makes jokes about immigration every once in a while he'll take advantage of the slight darkness of his skin to make fun of someone else like middle eastern cultures these jokes mainly consist of reiterating every joke or stereotype made against the culture and perhaps some incredibly old topics such as 9 11 in a watered down stand up style while he laughs at himself to cover up the audience's style i think he's too afraid of really offending anyone so it just makes the viewer feel awkward he also beats jokes to death if you've ever seen why the f is this news you'll know what i'm talking about it's funny at first but he just rambles on and on and becomes captain obvious at some point br br it's a trainwreck that is purely painful to watch
0	this is the most pitiful excuse for a comedy show i've ever seen i'm confounded that this guy was given his own show it smells of complete and utter desperation on the part of comedy central trying to fill the void left by the talented and incomparable dave chapelle he's a tip from ned's bag of comedy gold is a punchline not funny need to give it that extra push into hilarity f ing yell it at the top of your lungs simple no and as an added bonus finish half your jokes with then you're re tah or duh du oh man so funny hilarious does the laughter ever stop br br to illustrate my point in a more cerebral way i'll cite an example mencia jokes about how retarded it is to rebuild new orleans because it's so close to the water genius the line of distinction between a great comedian and a hack has never been drawn so clearly while a good comedian would find hidden humor in the tragedy finding subtle ways of weaving a joke into something that we can all laugh at and take solace in ned goes for the obvious move the city great wait is that funny ned doesn't have the intellectual capacity to find the deepest meaning of things the hurricane didn't flood the city ned the levee project was underfunded and in serious need of federal dollars and behold they broke i guess that's god's way of telling us we shouldn't be there after all he's got a seat in congress what a fool br br chapelle was a master of turning a tired racial comedic spin on its head he was effortless at it and at all points we were laughing with him while mencia talks about black people not being able to swim yawn chapelle took it 300 yards further with the black and blind white you don't have to be scathing to be edgy you have to be original br br mencia and his legions of fans are like that closeted gay dude who laughs all too emphatically at gay jokes thinking it somehow masks his own insecurities except of course with ned he's laughing all too emphatically at the retards du du
0	this is one of the most ridiculous westerns that hollywood ever made gary cooper plays a former confederate officer wanted by the law he meets up with a moron named played by leif erickson who is a u s marshal with no knowledge of firearms is on his way to dallas to see his fiancee played by ruth roman senor father has plenty of men but they can't seem to be able to keep an eye on his cattle which are regularly by the marlow brothers will marlow played by raymond massey has financed the loan on the estate making things completely absurd he even has the power to call for mortgage payments before they're due simply because he feels like it br br since is a boston boy who can't fight since he only became a marshal so he could visit his fiancee just another instance of more plot nonsense are we to assume that you only have to pass a written test to get this job wait a minute this guy couldn't pass the written test either he switches identities with reb hollister who of course is an expert gunman reb takes the liberty of greeting girl with a passionate kiss while looks on like an idiot gary cooper hollywood's number one stud is in fine form here as reb before the movie's done not only does he take job he steals his fiancee also and ruth roman as falls for him so hard and so fast that she gives chump leif erickson the brush off before the films little more than half over br br there isn't a shred of plot credibility in the whole film so despite the good cast and lush photography the film is a dud and cooper's character is a complete heel to boot the film also stars barbara payton as marlow's girl a beautiful and talented actress who squandered away her chances unfortunately by making too many headlines for the wrong reasons i strongly suggest you pass this one up
0	when i was young i'd get up early every saturday morning not to watch cartoons but to turn on the local channel for what was called 'kung fu theatre ' it wasn't as if these films were works of art it wasn't as if these films all came from china japan korea or any country in particular if the story had to do with fighting – be it swordplay or fisticuffs – and if the fighting didn't resemble much of anything going on in any american gym class then that was good enough it wasn't as if they were really even very good they were just great action flicks with incredibly over dramatic music where the hero reaped his vengeance over a whole host of bad guys and then the credits would roll br br sword in the moon is much like these films of my youth arguably a bit of a thematic throwback given a welcome twist by the characters up enough that it becomes increasingly difficult to tell the bad guys from the good br br yun cho hyun is known throughout the kingdom as 'the human butcher ' he kills quickly and mercilessly on behalf of the chun dynasty the chief bodyguard of an emperor who spared his life and the life of his men in exchange for his service however an equally merciless rebel and his lovely sidekick appear in the countryside and start murdering imperial ministers and yun agrees to find these rebels and kill them his task becomes one of personal discovery when he learns that the two rebels are choi a friend from his past and his former love shi br br sadly sword doesn't have much to distinguish itself from other action films some stunning cinematography is nearly entirely wasted on shoddy editing with portions of the film put together so loosely its hard to believe that what inevitably made it to the film was what anyone intended while the atmosphere and story tend to gravitate toward a dark mood the tone is almost sacrificed to the never ending parade of flashbacks as each of the main characters is given a healthy story arc what should've been a quick and easy action film gets weighed down by far too much personal baggage and the film suffers as a result br br i've read that this film marks korea's first real foray into the world of art house action pieces along the likes of crouching tiger hidden dragon next time i'd strongly suggest that the producers stick with a little more and a little less 'art '
0	an obvious vanity press for julie in her first movie with blake let's see where do we begin she is a traitor during a world war she redeems that by falling in love her friends who are presumably patriots because they are german citizens are expendable and must die and she winds up as a heroine ok the scenes with the drunken pilot and the buffoons who work for french intelligence can't even be described and we won't even mention rock's romantic scenes with a female by the way when they visit a museum look at his gaze i it on video and it's priceless is it a farce or is it a romantic classic or is it a war movie i don't know and you won't either
0	stylized hollywood westerns full of familiar conventions seem to have eternal life and this is an avatar everything in it seems to have been scraped out of the back of a drawer from 1939 a larger budget applied and this production its issue br br gary cooper has played this sort of role dozens of times the displaced southerner fast on the draw and firm with honor though kinda easy going whenever possible he plays hollister who travels to texas looking for the gang who destroyed his cotton plantation he wears a shirt and packs two ivory handled six shooters he speaks with a accent a could get hurt doin' this cf sergeant york the gang is led by sneering raymond massey who buys and sells land usually by underhanded means whenever possible the gang includes steve cochran who cannot play a westerner though he's very good at scum bags in general the requisite woman is ruth roman daughter of the mexican plantation owner who looks and speaks about as mexican as a boston brown betty br br i don't think i'll bother too much with the plot no doubt someone has gone into it in some detail and it's not worth much more mention as in any 1939 western it's labyrinthine everyone except cooper and his friends are underhanded and there are multiple double crosses and switched identities and hidden secrets br br everything is retro the plot the dialog the wardrobe even the music the score is by warner's stalwart max steiner he's the guy that scored king kong that was 1932 this movie was released in 1950 br br cooper's name by the way hollister prompted me to look through the records of the the real american cowboy to see if that name cropped up in their archives which date from the beginning of time to february 4th 1911 when the last real cowboy passed away due to an unfortunate encounter with a deranged there has never been a real cowboy with the name hollister yes but not as a matter of fact there is no record of any real cowboy named wade luke cole or matt either the most popular names for genuine cowboys in descending order of frequency were clarence mortimer noble and hortense br br if this movie had been released in 1939 it would have been routine in 1950 it is a calamitous monument in the history of human recycling
0	kinda funny how comments for this film went consistently downhill now add mine i think the script could have been saved by better acting and the acting by a better script together it was difficult to watch and i don't flinch from such subject matter br br sigourney was the best part i thought the relationship between her and her surviving son was pretty much the only new thing this film offered to its genre but even she lagged can't blame her who knows what takes were left on the cutting room floor by the director and or editor the whole movie had an okay that's good enough let's move on feel to it when i know there was more to be mined from the actors and the script which did have some good lines and some interesting themes br br i don't think this counts as a spoiler but a perfect example is the scene where sigourney marches up to her son's supposed house and has this look on her face and i thought that's the face of someone who is overacting what it's like to see someone living in a mobile home and sure enough next shot meant to shock us i'm sure bully lives in a trailer as opposed to a nice house like hers br br as many other posters have pointed out there are so many better movies with similarly airy scripts about similarly messed up families that hit the notes better celebration probably being the ultimate example that i've seen
0	i just finished watching this horribly depressing drama and realized that in light of recent dramas such as these the only ones who could be considered abnormal are those who are least aware that life is nothing more than tragic i would suggest how nauseatingly defeatist and counter productive this conclusion is even if relationships and outlooks like those presented in this movie are grounded in fact to some degree but instead i realized that these films have made the very determination of the great tragedy trivial when the same boring situations the same suffocating dysfunctional families and friendships continue to play out just have they been over and over again in some sort of attempt to knock out previous distortions of family life much of it existing in the 1950s and earlier with personality and character aberrations being made ever so subtle supplanting it instead with the reality of how things actually are that in fact what we are watching is no longer the dysfunctional but in fact a normal existence and set of circumstances that has actually existed all along but of which we may have been previously been unaware and thus have ignored or at least denied br br only problem is that too many films have been trying to make this point and by doing so in nearly identical form when i had read the synopsis for the film i immediately thought of 'ice storm ' while watching the depressing of the travis family which seemed to endure repeated emotional berating i immediately recalled 'american beauty ' and in some regards the interactions between the parents and the middle child tim i drew similarities from goes down ' heroes' may be a novel experience maybe a refreshing one deemed so for an honest portrayal of character that as said before is often not permitted to exist in the films of family which is idiotic to think anyways considering we were already seeing these kinds of relationships displayed in films like 'ordinary people' as early as 1980 and which go back even further than that but to the well versed viewer these films may offer nothing new they have in fact become a rather tired testimony of too many filmmakers who may try to out do the other with the amount of trauma and apathy they can pack into one family and here it extends to neighbors and friends in fact heroes ' the latest in this genre i do think there have been enough films to accurately declare it a 'genre' crams so many disasters and surprises into one family that they would make prize finds for a daytime talk show host it is the story of a family who is tested by the suicide of the eldest son a talented and decorated swimmer who hated the sport with a passion the youngest son knew this the father was in a daze and blinded by the push for competitiveness in his all star son and it's not clear that the mother and sister had much of a relationship with the young man br br granted it is no less entertaining to some extent for those who find this material exhaustively depressing after a while and the performances are quite good especially by sigourney weaver and jeff daniels but i sure hope that filmmakers in the future wishing to add to the commentary of struggling familial relationships which coincidentally or not always seem to be upper middle class white suburban families intend to offer something new by way of material and insight i should see no distinction and consequently no purpose otherwise
0	this wretched psychodrama uses every shabby device in the book to wheedle attention and sympathy from us for its characters who with one exception are not worthy of any notice at all let alone two precious hours of time br br as in robert redford's ordinary people a superb film that in comparison clearly shows up the vacuity of heroes a late teenage boy has died leaving his family in the throes of bereavement in this case the death was a suicide an event that nearly always poisons the emotional well of the survivors in a particularly corrosive way we follow these people over the next 8 or 9 months br br the father jeff daniels becomes a withdrawn virtually mute usually drunken stiff who secretly takes leave from his job for months sits instead on a park bench all day and insists on setting a full plate of food at the deceased son's place for every meal he treats everyone else in the family with unerring nastiness he sees his doctor regularly but the issue of therapeutic intervention in his obviously dysfunctional state never comes up br br the mother sigourney weaver yells at the neighbor woman among others gets busted when she stupidly tries to buy marijuana her term at a head shop what adult in reality would ever try such a dumb stunt and near the end swoons into coma with a lung condition that everyone in the theater assumes is cancer she's a heavy smoker ms weaver has a few flip lines but generally behaves too to merit much empathy br br it's not that there aren't people out there who behave in these silly ways when severely stressful circumstances arise but why make a film of such drivel what can anyone learn from this pair's conduct br br the older sister michelle williams is away at college and all too happy to distance herself from the family zoo the younger brother played by emile hirsch is the only credible member of the family his suffering is genuine its causes and his conduct is coherent within the circumstances but hirsch's character is too soft spoken too morose and beaten down to carry the movie the other bit players subtexts and cutesy unreal dialogue don't help br br the suicide theme is echoed in an almost nonchalant manner in the case of two other minor characters so what is the writer director dan harris trying to say about this subject that it isn't a serious matter why jeff daniels agreed to play the sap of a father as written in this screenplay is something only his therapist might possibly be able to answer avoid this dog instead rent redford's classic my rating 4 10 c seen on 2 17 05 if you'd like to read more of my reviews send me a message for directions to my websites
0	this was a character's movie the plot wasn't that hot when it was there but the characters were interesting and very well acted the story focuses on the travis family in the wake of the eldest son's suicide i say that loosely because the story is mostly about the surviving son and the mother because if the father was supposed to have the story focus on him too they edited the movie pretty poorly the acting on all parts was very good particularly emile hirsch as the surviving confused son the characters were all very interesting and i didn't mind watching them until late in the film when it just seemed to drag br br my big complaint however was the story the son killing himself was supposed to be the center of the plot however it really wasn't it was something that happened at the start of the story but then everything went every which way then they'd mention that the son killed himself to remind you that that was the central thread the other thing was that the big plot twists of which there were plenty were never really explained or built up to but just thrown in there randomly and often from far left field in fairness the ending was very very cool but it was also clear where the inspiration for the story came from about half of it the half that wasn't padding was pretty much lifted from the story in the pearl jam song alive which reminds me br br there was a poem in the movie that was supposedly written by someone who killed themself i could not have been the only one who recognized that said poem was lifted word for word from that very same song i dunno this was a movie i had hope for and they really really dropped the ball
0	big spoiler this is a terrible movie with no likable characters so many clichés and senseless scenes it needs a good editor but then there might not be any movie left please save your two hours the only decent and unpredictable scene in the movie was when the younger brother refuses to stop his brother from killing himself the description read moments of dark comedy perhaps i missed those when i blinked the horrible characters start right with the funeral the funeral goers are laughing and complaining about the food while at the funeral of a very young man who has committed suicide then the father makes digs at the only son left right at the funeral how is it that the next door neighbor whose husband cheated on her with sigourney weaver's character is the bad guy for telling the husband the father doesn't even know his son can play the piano though everyone else around him seems to know he is a great pianist the movie tries to shove every dramatic cliché possible into one movie father over driving athletic son to succeed dysfunctional family losing a chosen son to suicide the son left feeling lost and alone drugs marital affairs child conceived via affair but raised as husband's son incest homosexual tendencies bullies possible terminal illness etc etc etc do not waste your 2 hours
0	viewers of independent films know that once or twice a year they are going to see stories about dysfunctional families and they have come to expect them and it's becoming more of a challenge to keep them fresh but here despite the good cast it just seems more of the same story is about the travis family who is trying to recover from the suicide of matt kip who was a very promising high school swimmer ben jeff daniels is the father who withdraws from everyone and has never treated his other son tim emile hirsch as well as matt but he does communicate of some sort to his mother sandy sigourney weaver who finds his stash of pot and starts to smoke it br br spoiler alert sandy also starts to flirt with much younger men like the check out cashier at the grocery store but when she attempts to buy more marijuana she gets busted and hauled off to jail she doesn't tell anyone what happened but she does discover bruises on tim's body and also that ben has taken a leave of absence from work after all this happens sandy falls ill and lands in the hospital where her life is in danger which forces ben to realize that he may have to come to terms with losing another part of his family br br this film is written and directed by dan harris who has worked with bryan singer on x2 and also the upcoming superman film and while his script allows these characters to have genuine moments of expressing their pain and confusion the story for me just has too many things thrown in the script touches on so many different areas that you need a scorecard to keep track of them all including drugs sex love infidelity abuse neglect experimentation with homosexuality and a life threatening illness if all those scenarios weren't enough for you harris then tacks on a plot twist at the end that's supposed to sum up and explain most of everyone's feelings towards tim while i did roll my eyes at least 2 or 3 times with the way the script kept one thing after another i must admit that i didn't hate this film and i have to credit the actors for that everyone has at least one good scene somewhere in the film but i wish the story would have concentrated more on weaver and her character than hirsch weaver is exceptional and with a sharper script she could have had a role that maybe would have led to an oscar nomination but instead we get endless scenes of hirsch at parties or his shenanigans with the neighbor next door harris shows he can be a good writer director but with this effort he just throws so many different things at the audience that the material just becomes labored and contrived
0	the somewhat belligerent brother of a suicide finds that he and his mother grieve in much the same way by acting out but that dad is morose and blaming himself writer director dan harris gives us a dysfunctional family torn at the seams characters with question marks hanging over them and then lays all the story points out in the most obvious terms suicide secrets gay shame family sickness ultimately aiming to wrap things up with a tidy bow harris wants to make sure we don't miss a trick initially giving us thoughtful material to ponder but then spelling everything out in an elementary sentimental fashion sigourney weaver's bemused performance as the family matriarch is dryly disengaged and she's a joy that is until harris gives her a make over complete with sensible new hairstyle it's the cinematic equivalent of a condescending pat on the head from
0	combining serious drama with adequate comedy is touchy at the best of times looking for comedy in the muslim world pulled it off thanks to a topical subject and a fantastic script not to mention albert brooks' excellent character portrayal but man of the year can't come close by comparison it has a messy message folded in with forced jokes and a twisted love story that is completely unbelievable br br the premise initially seemed very promising put a jon stewart like comedy news guy up for president of the united states and see what happens this independent runner is tom dobbs robin williams rv a successful tv personality who is pressured into running by his audience along with him comes his manager jack christopher walken click and his writer eddie lewis black seeming to have very little chance at a successful run tom dobbs amazingly wins the election br br but did he eleanor green laura linney the exorcist of emily rose is a computer whiz at the company who designed the new software for electronic voting at stations she finds a glitch in the system that is quickly swept under the rug by the company's owner and his dark attorney alan jeff goldblum independence day poised to lose billions of dollars if word of this gets out the company's evil men decided to discredit and or kill eleanor to make sure she never tells anyone but eleanor is able to get to president elect dobbs and finally spill the beans this is where the unbelievable love story starts blossoming too dobbs goes onto saturday night live and explains everything to the world thus removing himself as the newly elected president and ending the careers of those at the computer company oh and saving ms green's life br br does any of this sound funny the comedy is forcefully wedged into the story and is often awkward robin williams blazes for a few moments during a debate but is quickly doused as the gravity of how he became president bears down on him br br the message of the film is interesting and debatable too that special interest owns presidential candidates i'm sure there's substantial truth in this and if you wanted to make a movie about it you could if you wanted to make a comedy about you could but man of the year isn't it
0	i was aware of man of the year's critical pans and unremarkable gross but was prepared to give the film the benefit of the doubt because i know good pictures can fall under the radar during the crowded release schedule of the fall months br br what i found out was that the movie is surprisingly uninspired surprising is an understatement considering barry levinson's gift for political satire demonstrated in good morning vietnam and wag the dog and robin williams' obvious comic gifts robin williams in fact is mysteriously underused on the making of featurette that comes with the dvd barry levinson talked about how sometimes he let robin williams improvise off the script like it was some naughty secret of his you really that much of a moron barry levinson whenever you have robin williams in your film and want to use him for his comic abilities basically every movie he's been in other than insomnia or one hour photo don't cage him within a script let him ad lib whatever he wants because he is the funnier than anything anyone else can write for him and his comic rants can instantly raise the bar on any mediocre movie like rv or patch adams what i found even more baffling in his failure to make use of robin williams was that back in 1987 levinson used this exact formula to perfection in good morning vietnam injecting robin williams' bursts of comic zaniness into a war picture to make a resounding political piece br br so the film isn't as much of a laugh fest as it could be and feels awkwardly lost in its tone if the film had potential to work as anything it might have made one of those thrillers from the mid '90s in the style of the pelican brief the fugitive or one of those jack ryan films its plot centered around an employee at a silicon valley company uncovering a glitch in a system that reveals that the country elected the wrong president and the efforts of the ceos to eliminate her before the secret gets out so if you replaced robin williams with some harrison ford type actor or perhaps even harrison ford himself added a couple more explosions and maybe that's where the movie was trying to go i'll never really know and it's not worth it to try to find out
0	the success of the original french emmanuelle series i've only watched the first which wasn't too bad considering led to a spate of imitations the italian counterpart which even changed the race of its heroine was clearly less polished and more exploitative descending more and more into vulgarity as the series went along incredibly there were 16 black emanuelle films in total with the heroine even having the spelling of her name changed to avoid copyright issues still laura gemser the titular object of desire became almost as much of an icon as the original emmanuelle sylvia kristel although personally she's too skinny for my tastes here she's even billed as emanuelle rather than with her real name with the director likewise becoming albert thomas br br in itself the film offers little of interest as a matter of fact one would do best to approach it as a travelogue with some decent footage of the african wildlife with respect to the sex scenes i don't know how complete the version i watched was but while there was a lot of nudity none of it was very explicit or even titillating the scene that came closest perhaps was when gemser who works as a photographer and her companion karin schubert turn the camera on each other naturally sans clothes in the middle of the jungle the film also features an artist made up to look like salvador dali but mercifully perhaps his scenes do not take much of the running time the score by nico is typically bland 70s pop and really nothing to write home about
0	i was kinda looking forward to man of the year a couple girls at my work said it was a pretty good movie and my mom said that she liked it so i waited for the rental and watched it last night i have to honestly say that this movie was a huge disappointment i barely made through it because to be honest the beginning was pretty good and very well paced but then it got too dark and not into the movie i saw from the trailer it looked like a good comedy then it turned into a very dark drama that wasn't even that interesting considering how many of these types of stories we've had about government conspiracy br br tom dobbs is a very popular comedian with a top ranks show and has an act where many people would want him to get involved with politics just because it seems like he has a good grip on what should be improved so he does it he runs for presidency but many people doubt that he can win due to the fact that he's a comedian but he does win but elenore green who makes sure all the votes are accounted for tries to fix a computer glitch but when the government tells her not to fix it they try to get rid of her and tom soon realizes that this may not be the job he wanted br br the acting was fine the direction was ok it was just the story that didn't work in my opinion like i said it just turned into a dramatic change of genres because if you see the trailer you'd think it was a comedy and when you start watching it that's what you get but then it just turns into a very dark and somewhat scary drama i wouldn't really recommend this movie it was one of the biggest disappointments i have seen so far br br 2 10
0	i found this robin williams vehicle mildly amusing at best i guess you would call it a political satire of sorts it's about a political talk show host comedian who decides to run for president and unexpectedly wins i found most of the humour dry myself and robin williams is much more restrained and sedate than usual i would say the movie is more of a drama than a comedy with a bit of mystery and suspense i think the dramatic parts worked better than the comedy parts and the mystery and suspense aspect though that's a small part of the movie worked the best still i wouldn't rate this movie very high for me it was an ok waste of 2 hours but nothing special my best advice would be to catch it on tv cable or rent it cheap first before making a decision on whether to purchase my vote for man of the year is a 4 10
0	i went to see this movie mostly because it looked so good in the trailers robin williams and barry levinson should equal greatness instead it just continues williams' bad streak of movies lately what's wrong with the movie more like what's right the ensemble crew does a pretty good job around robin and like usual christopher walken is fantastic that being said this movie just plain wasn't good i really only recommend seeing it if you want to see what it would be like if jon stewart ran for president and won saying he won isn't a spoiler since it was in the trailer the concept and idea is really amusing but that's all most of robin's jokes are just recycled from old comedy bits of his and there are very few laugh out loud moments and most are just dumb like most comedies that turn out to suck all of the funny bits are put into the trailer really no surprises there but come on some of the movie reads like a tom clancy or vince flynn novel people were expecting this to be robin's return to greatness instead it's more a flubber
0	this movie while it could be considered an alright attempt at comedy is not what the previews made it out to be the first half is comprised of typical robin williams stand up material though he really didn't do many voices he was always great at the one liners and hitting the punchlines somewhere during the election there is a problem with the computer program that is used in the election here is where the net 3 comes in a woman who helped with this program wants the truth to be told and the evil corporation wants to shut her up spoilers her boyfriend even helps them though this isn't even fleshed out this movie could have been one of political brilliance perhaps with at the reigns but it falls short in a stew made by too many chefs
0	i liked the understated character that laura linney played in 'love actually' and she is very good in 'man of the year' br br but wow robin williams doesn't give that much of a performance with a couple of minor exceptions this was weak laura linney may not have been miscast but either the editing raped her character or this was just a sad performance by director barry levinson br br and i think it was barry levinson that got old so many weak performances such uneven results have to be the fault of management br br christopher walken and jeff goldblum are great in supporting roles goldblum plays a sinister side with relish and walken's combination of manager and commentator for the film is wonderful br br but the story is cliché the presentation looks like it could have should have been a very good picture and too many actions are half hearted the pacing story and direction all come up weak compared to say 'head office' spoof of 'secret of my
0	i am pretty surprised to see that this movie earned even lukewarm reviews i found this movie downright awful the plot flounders around trying to decide if it is a comedy or a thriller then realizes it cannot achieve either so it throws in the towel and continues with its absurd plot highlighted with a unintentional hilarious scene with laura linney an injection and spilled coffee that leaves the audience awkwardly squirming in their seats looking at one another like is this for real basically it is abysmal and really disappointing for robin williams fans and it makes you think someone blackmailed laura linney into adding this piece of trash to her otherwise respectable resume i wanted to leave after 10 minutes and wish i had even seeing it for free i wanted someone to pay me for my wasted time the computer glitch twist in this movie was embarrassingly stupid and by the end you don't care who wins the election i vote for straight to dvd
0	how is it possible to make such a bad movie with such actors were they forced into it the plot has nothing to do with an idea of how things would turn out if a comedian ran for president they don't even try to give an impression of that just when you thought you were watching a comment from famous liberals on dc politics the first five minutes the movie runs off the road and into b film drama about 1 a computer voting error 2 the regular evil corporate suits who wants to cover it up with the most unoriginal lines in history and 3 a neurotic but extremely pretty female programmer who tries to tell the coming president about this she's soon the victim of the evil x files master lords of the computer company who instead of killing her drug her to make her seem untrustworthy but when she gets to dc she doesn't tell him in fact the movie then changes from b film drama to idiotic b film love drama up to now we are so far off the original starting point of the movie that most people turn it off i almost did if it just could've been intelligent love drama but no it's not it's the kind of oops i'm so nervous i'm being stupid all the time so please love me for it kind of love drama all with a slow slow pace that has nothing to do with either the political plot of the movie the x files plot of the movie or the comedy plot of the movie all plots fail on all levels which every annoying bit of meaningless dialog reminds you of the love part has to be the result of deciding during a drinking binge hey there has to be a dynamic of love between the president candidate and the extremely pretty female programmer yeah that'll work stick it in there br br meanwhile lewis black is castrated and put into a role where he doesn't come up with one single lewis black line the lewis black anger is replaced by a hope for it to surface sometime in the film which it never does and christopher walken is thrown into a hospital with heart trouble to duplicate the dramatic effect of the heart attack of the president's closest aid in watching christopher walken being castrated like lewis black in roles that constantly struggles uphill to sound casual and ish but fail like titanic every time is like watching a great blue whale dying on a beach heartbreaking br br and then enter the low point of the whole movie it raises the mindbogglingly enormously difficult ethical question should robin williams go on to be president knowing that he got elected because of a computer glitch the american dream and all good prevails as he turns down the presidency on live tv like lassie the dog would with the usual patriotic glamor of the presidency and the we're so smart that we're making history atmosphere that cultivated in sickening abundance for the next million years br br the director and screen writer barry levinson is now on my personal list of writers and directors i'm staying away from forever this film must be seen as a symptom of a faulty production process where people barry levinson got to spend production money due to their personal relationships and not their skills this is a project made to satisfy poorly skilled people's wish for career success and the formerly mentioned great actors were tricked into participating in it that's the only explanation there can be br br ps the voting error in the computers was due to the double letters in dobbs and mills of course it was what else could it be when you write a script and can't tell a computer from a dish washing machine
0	i saw a screening of this movie last night i had high expectations going into it but was definitely disappointed within 5 minutes of the opening williams is already campaigning for his presidency and he becomes president in the first 40 minutes so there goes all that aspect of the movie the first half hour are hilarious don't get me wrong the movie has its moments but after the first half hour it takes a turn for the worst it becomes less of a comedy and more of a thriller drama love story which is pointless the movie goes nowhere and stands still for a good 30 minutes there are laughs interspersed here and there but the consistently funny part is in the beginning and only the beginning at one point the biggest cheer i heard in the audience is when a person in the crowd yelled during a very confusingly emotional scene williams gives a great performance right on par with his comedic style walken also delivers a strong supporting role as only he can i think the one character that goes underrated is lewis black consistently vulgar and political its funny to see him tone it down for a pg 13 rating overall i would not pay to see the movie afterall i saw it for free and even i was disappointed the first half hour is solid and its all downhill from there not really fitting into a category the movie realizes half way through that it should not have been anything more than a one hour comedy central special 4 5 10
0	the premise of this movie of a comedian talk show host running for president as an independent just to shake things up is funny entertaining brilliant and even a bit inspiring thought about the west wing debate when tom dobbs leaves his podium thought about steven colbert announcing his candidacy good times the first 15 20 minutes of this movie are therefore very very entertaining the debate especially when he eventually get's elected it's a pity that is because of a computer glitch you'd want him to win fair although that is unrealistic br br but after that this movie goes completely downhill i thought we'd get a great movie like 1993 in which we see how it would out if a comedian actually ran the country instead the movie turns from comedy into a thriller a romantic comedy and a drama and does none good the computer glitch becomes the main storyline which really sucks boy is this disappointing i give it 3 stars just for the premise and because i actually managed to watch this movie from start to end without stopping it which is usually a good thing with me
0	saw this movie at a saturday matinée with a friend theater was about 70 full br br although there are quite a few funny lines it is more of a drama suspense with humor sprinkled on top robin williams gives a decent performance as does laura linney being a daily show fan lewis black is pretty good in this christopher walken gives a good performance also br br the movie starts out slow and remains that way for about the first thirty minutes then the suspense part kicks in and starts keeping you a little on edge throughout the rest of the movie suspense in a supposed comedy movie i know that i as well as everybody else in the place was struggling a bit with this a character would crack a joke during suspense sequence and you would hear just one or two laughs in the theater br br in all fairness after the movie was over there was smattering of applause so definitely some people enjoyed this movie br br i gave this movie a four out of ten because i believe the comedy aspect doesn't work very well in a suspense drama movie and the actors performances while not bad were just decent br br again this movie isn't what was advertised
0	her bit part as a masseuse in the lurid sequel to the original evidently gave someone the bright idea of putting a spanner in the works of the french soft core series' gambit by inverting the caucasian carnality and casting stunner gemser in a leading role in this the rather tame first of a series of that became increasingly depraved as sleazier directors took on in name only sequels br br someone and surely not the english language over warner was also anticipating an 'a star is born' type meteoric rise out the results judging by the way the actress is credited merely with the eponymous moniker of the on screen heroine albeit with a couple of sacrificed as insurance against litigation br br gemser's tenure in the series saw her as an photographer allowing of course for all manner of subsequent globe trotting adventures but whilst she may well have been one the very most beautiful actresses on the screen at that time any thespian talent that may have been there to discern becomes mired in the same sort of facile i have to confess that since i've been in africa i find white skin less appealing that was to be found in the french films br br and in this particular entry much to the consternation of the raincoat brigade the essence of on screen carnality is as much to be found in puerile symbolism pumping engine as it is in prosaic couplings although naturally these include generous dollops of lesbianism of kitsch are however guaranteed a continuous stream of aural delights what with such epithets of wisdom as i do nothing to be a perfect black she does everything to be a perfect white
0	interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno's replacing carson as host of the tonight show film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o'brien and jay leno br br the film does a good job of sparking viewers' interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the particularly of the nbc executives the portrayal of was particularly compelling and interesting i thought br br still many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon and some of the acting seemed perfunctory nevertheless an interesting story
0	this has to one of the most pathetic predictable and badly acted films i have ever seen clint eastwood has never been worse never have i seen somebody less convincing on screen i was laughing at him the whole way through then there's this romance kinda thing between him and the gorgeous rene russo which was even more pathetic than the one between mr connery and ms zeta jones in entrapment br br one imdb user posed the question what's not to like about this film i'm asking what is to like about it and the answer is john malkovich he is an absolute genius and probably the best movie villain ever he even saved con air you know but that's it br br this movie is called in the line of fire but 2 the rip off' seems to be a more appropriate title watch only if you are a die hard john malkovich fan otherwise avoid at all cost 1 2 out of five
0	this is a standard action flick as we have seen them many times before not much action in this one though again it's about the guy protecting the president he's macho as usual and at the same time soft and melancholic as usual does he have the guts to take a bullet for the president and then there's the girl and the usual conservative flirting around stereotypical and predictable to the last toe crumbling minute
0	jerry lewis was marginally funny when he didn't write his own material and had a good director like frank tashlin when he started writing and directing his own films what little talent he possessed was overshadowed by his egomania whenever his films would fail and deservedly so in the american market they made money in france lewis always blamed everyone and everything but himself for example he blamed the failure of this film on the fact that it was according to lewis released on a double bill with the porno feature deep throat if anyone should have complained about that situation it should have been the producers of deep throat this is an absolutely idiotic comedy about the world's richest man lewis who is rejected for military service during ww2 and decides to outfit a special squad to go to germany and capture hitler himself besides the many faults this film has the script is mind numbingly unfunny lewis' direction is nonexistent the film has the look of a cheap home movie lewis apparently thought that surrounding himself with no talent over the hill borscht belt comics like jan murray and sidney miller was a good idea he must have figured that they would be so bad they would make him look good he was half right they are embarrassingly bad but he comes out even worse than they do for a comedy lewis' character is sullen angry and pushy the way he heaps abuse on his underlings makes you wonder why they would ever follow a bullying jerk like this on a dangerous mission like trying to capture hitler the fact that this movie took in any money at all is astounding it is by far the worst jerry lewis movie i have ever seen i've heard that slapstick is even more pathetic but i can't bring myself to see if that's true or not and is to be avoided at all possible costs
0	as ben elton once observed nothing goes quicker out of style than comedy steve martin's latest offering 'the pink panther 2' recently opened to bad reviews and dismal box office while mike myers' 'the love seems to have won few admirers br br in 1970 it was jerry lewis' turn to feel the pain of rejection ironically his character in this film experiences a funny turn whenever anyone uses that word in his presence when 'which way to the front ' effectively drove him off the big screen for almost a decade br br in this world war two comedy he plays byers the richest man in the world who wants to join the army to do his patriotic duty and also because he is bored with being successful but is rejected as he is medically unfit he then decides to start his own privately funded army recruiting other 4 f's br br decked out with ludicrous uniforms that look like those worn by rescue' in 'thunderbirds' they go into training some good visual gags here when they fire rocket launchers they look pleased with themselves until they learn they have just destroyed a oil station wishing to learn german brendan plays a long playing record called to mein kampf by' when this army sits down to eat instead of being in a mess hall they are in an opulent room decked out with a chandelier br br john wood is very funny as byers' ever so english butler his best scene is when he blackmails a mafia type gangster into teaching byers' brigade to kill br br the script was not by jerry himself but by gerald gardiner and dee caruso author of a number of episodes of 'the often has the look and feel of a television sitcom indeed at times you almost expect to hear a laugh track br br where it goes badly wrong is in the last thirty minutes when byers replaces a top nazi commander and after ordering the germans to withdraw from the front gets involved in the plot to kill hitler and tom cruise is nowhere in sight as the commander jerry delivers a performance of such mind numbing ineptitude as to defy description he gives brian blessed a run for his money in the man alive' stakes it comes as a relief when the end credits appear br br perhaps the timing was just wrong bringing out a war comedy when the vietnam conflict was raging was not a good idea or the public simply had had enough of jerry that beard probably did not help what he needed here was a good producer someone to take him in hand and say that gag stinks throw it out 'don't raise the bridge lower the river' is a masterpiece by comparison with this picture br br as the '70's got underway the new comedy icons would be woody allen mel brooks and monty python fresher more biting and in allen's case more human styles of comedy replaced jerry's brand of slapstick it would not be until 1982 that he would make anything like a successful comeback as the conceited talk show host in martin scorcese's brilliant 'the king of comedy'
0	not since 8 heads in a duffel bag and the how high previews br br have i laughed so little at something that the film makers thought br br would be hysterical br br jerry lewis is the richest man in the world he is rejected as 4 f br br by the army and decides to use his money to raise his own army br br of about half a dozen he then impersonates a nazi commander in br br italy and eventually tries to kill hitler that is the description of the br br flimsy plot br br this film is as funny as a heart attack this film makes hogan's br br heroes look like shakespeare if the money men of the br br producers had really wanted to lose their cash they should have br br shown this film i cannot stress how bad this thing is br br lewis' direction consists of two different cameras shooting the br br action from two different angles then being edited together this br br sitcom type of direction works on television but here it is an br br obvious attempt to cheat the audience he ends most of his br br scenes with a still shot as if giving the viewer a chance to double br br over in stitches before going to the next tired set up i spent most of br br the movie doubled over in abdominal agony accompanied with br br severe flatulence over this thing br br lewis the director and producer sets the film in 1943 but makes br br no attempt to use period costumes or sets everyone wears the br br latest style and has the latest interior design for 1970 the br br supporting cast is lost as lewis goes off on his patented tangents br br which last as long as major surgery and are just as painful to br br watch when lewis becomes the nazi commander he spends the br br last half of the film screaming at the top of his lungs in a br br performance so odious as to stink up any good will you try to bring br br in at the beginning br br the final embarassing shot has lewis and his cronies trying to br br put one over on the japanese they wear buck teeth squint their br br eyes and talk in a funny accent it may be one of the most br br blatantly racist occurrences since the camps i was br br slack jawed at what lewis did through this whole thing but that put br br me over the edge watch for kaye ballard's very tasteless scene br br where she tries to attempt suicide over and over again br br star trek 's george takei has two small scenes then wisely br br drops out of the picture this has less laughs than mel brooks' last br br three films combined there is nothing sadder than watching a br br formerly respected comedian screw up a project so horribly you br br actually feel ashamed for them jim carrey learned that with the br br majestic but jerry lewis still shows up on television once in a br br while pulling the same unfunny schtick i feel sorry for him br br which way to the front is cheap unfunny offensive and stupid br br i feel bad for everyone involved and anyone who must endure this br br i do not recommend it br br though rated g this contains some physical violence some gun br br violence and some adult situations if your child shows interest in br br seeing this please consult professional help br br
0	just seen which way to the front on tcm uk it is a truly awful film if i'd paid at the pictures i'd have walked out br br a terrible mess of a film byers lewis and his mates prance around in cast off uniforms from an italian sci fi movie of 1960's were the cnd peace symbol badges on the uniforms meant to be ironic the sets were pure 1970 i'm sure a hollywood tv back lot could have provided a more realistic set br br the film is riddled with racism the film takes the mickey out of veterans br br not funny how lewis every got to make another film is beyond me
0	i had watched this as a kid but not being much of a jerry lewis fan i had completely forgotten it not that it's in any way memorable the film revolves around impersonation which seems to be in the curriculum of every comic star in this case a german officer and while not as bad as leonard maltin claims awarding it a bomb rating it's not exactly classic stuff either certainly leagues behind chaplin's the great dictator 1940 even if comparably narcissistic ironically the scenes prior to the appearance of the would be wacky general offer more felicities than the rather forced humor at nazi expense br br the film was really lewis' last gasp during his heyday in fact this proved to be his last vehicle to be released for 10 years it's painfully apparent here that his particular brand of foolishness wouldn't pass muster in the age of mel brooks and woody allen
0	is a terrible horror technological thriller dee snider plays carleton a disgusting computer freak who prays on young girls through the chat rooms his ridiculous philosophies on pain and suffering are both misguided and totally unfounded there is no tie to reality with the ideas that are presented in this film it is more like dee snider sat down and tried to think up the weirdest stuff possible to impress horror fans and maybe some of his old fans but the end result is just awful br br unfortunately for me as a horror fan the cover of this movie looks very good and it immediately caught my interest which is the main reason that i was tricked into watching it i assure you that this is not a quality horror movie it is a disturbing yet boring attempt to suggest what might go on in the minds of people who treat themselves the way the carleton did in this film the sad part is that no one does this stuff to themselves marilyn freakin' manson doesn't even go that far and the fact that he had a song on the soundtrack makes it clear that the film wasn't meant to poke fun at his type of music that would be a stab at snider himself it is more like dee snider was trying to raise himself from the career dead and present himself as a sick minded individual once more dee it seems that the time has come to let it all die
0	1998 d john kevin gage elizabeth pena brett harrelson robert englund tucker amy smart dee snider twisted sister amal disturbing scenes of torture this dark disgusting movie about a sadistic psychopath who lures teens into his torture chamber via the internet snider from ex 80s rock band twisted sister plays the putrid psychopath who is a grimy twist' no pun intended on hannibal lecter pena is wasted as one of the victims' mothers harrelson brother of woody delivers one of the worst cop performances i have ever seen in a movie and proves why this is her only screen credit with an equally pathetic performance the heavy metal soundtrack is ultimately numbing the torture scenes very graphic and gross and the ending just sucks rating 3 out of 10 rated r for graphic violence and torture strong language and sexual situations
0	this movie is over hyped i am sad to say that i manage to watch the first 15 minutes of this movie and anything beyond that i will have to force myself real hard to sit down and watch the rest of the movie it's totally stupid and very fake the robot in the movie looks like a man wearing those steel suit and the acting is really bad especially the one playing the character alien he is totally annoying don't waste your money watching this sequel to the popular gen x cops i'd rather sleep or spend my money on some other things rather than watching this movie 1 out of 10 if possible i'd give 0
0	dee snider is the villain in this movie and his bad acting and overacting kind of ruined it for me the whole movie just seemed to take itself too seriously it tries to achieve the dark atmosphere of seven without the good acting the movie highlights the urban industrial rock tattoo body art subculture and expects us to be impressed scared by the size of a guy's nose ring i'm not a expert on movies but the script and acting in this movie are just awful dee snider looks the part of the villain but his acing is downright horrid i recommend not wasting the time on this one unless nothing else is available
0	what starts off fairly well and quite disturbing quickly sinks into an annoying mess br br dee snider of twisted sister infamy apparently penned the screenplay from his own idea and while the idea of a cyber stalking pierce freak has potential they really blow it here on uneven pacing bad dialogue and one of the greatest non endings you'll ever see despite some lifeless performances the director manages a genuinely creepy first reel this really looks like it's going to be a good low budget effort br br no such luck the plot goes all over the map and character relentlessly spits out tiresome psychotic fortune cookie lines that are supposed to pass for meaningful dialogue worse the supporting cast barely registers and the only halfway believable dialogue comes from a young girl who helps a detective navigate the internet br br what a waste of a great idea oh and there is a new twisted sister song if you care
0	i watched this movie on video the other night and found myself dozing off throughout this uninspired snoozefest first of all one of my biggest pet peeves is when movies like this are characterized as horror movies it is a thriller get it right it has no monsters or anything supernatural it is simply a movie about a twisted serial killer actually there is a very small body count so it is more of a serial torturer movie and it did a good job of torturing me the basic premise of a man luring teenagers to his house of horrors through online chat rooms could have made for a great movie but we only see him lure one pair of teen girls through the internet at the very beginning of the film one of these girls turns out to be a local detective's daughter and he gets emotionally involved in the case the film quickly changes from a potentially intelligent sado masochistic thriller to a boring old cat and mouse game between the incredibly dull detective and the psychopathic captain howdy carleton played adequately by writer producer twisted sister frontman dee snider the occasional attempts at meaningful poetic one liners about the positive effects of pain and the like from snider are laughable if he is attempting to get people to subscribe to these opinions through this film he fails miserably and unintentionally makes light of them the directing by john whose only previous directing effort was jurassic women which i will let the title speak for itself was uninspired and there was something wrong with the editing which resulted in the film being disjointed with a few scenes completely unrelated to the plot unless the screenplay is at fault which is quite possible this film a completely unsuccessful attempt at a thriller trying to pass of as a horror movie that's only achievement was making me squirm at the sight of a few graphic bodily piercings if you see it at your video store don't waste your money but if you need something to laugh at one night and is on cable you might as well watch 3 out of 10
0	this movie was one of the most boring horror movies i have seen in a long time and i have seen a lot personally i liked the piercing take on it all that was original but other than that it was pretty unwatchable i could not stand dee snider as an actor nor as a singer i seemed that he was trying with everything he said to make it a memorable quote which they weren't i can get movies for free and i still didn't think it was worth the time to get
0	this sounded like it was going to be like silence of the lambs or zodiac or something but it wasn't it really was more like one of the halloween movies without all the jump scenes it was a little like plan 9 from outer space in the sense that the main bad guy kept making inane speeches that made me want to go get a snack without pushing pause the idea of a person who is so crazy that he would abduct people and torture them as a form of spiritual enlightenment is actually an interesting idea but the execution was too made for tv feeling i have to say it was better than i expected for a movie written and starring dee snider a good first effort maybe he'll learn some lessons and his next effort will be less clumsy
0	there are about ten minutes about half way through when one suddenly sees the glimmer of an interesting idea themes of revenge and rehabilitation come into focus during robert englund's brief screen time sadly then resumes its course as a thoroughly predictable and boring slasher film
0	sometimes i wonder if today's horror movies rely on human torturing to make people scared if so then there's a sad future for horror movies dee snyder tries to make you feel scared and terrified this movie does exactly this but not in a good way now there are some moments in the film where that there is a chance that snyder is saving this film from falling into a hole but let's be frank this movie didn't fall into a hole it was already in a hole and makes no attempt whatsoever to bring itself out of it when you finish watching this movie you are left sick depressed dirty and insane i have a feeling that was the intention of this movie what is lower than dirt
0	i don't recommend you watching this movie if you are easily offended i'm not even easily offended and this movie made me frustrated it's so disgusting and it doesn't make sense all the internet thing is so cliché and the producer obviously didn't understand all the internet rules when you chat with someone you can track their ip address really see the sarcasm here it was dumb pointless and i didn't even watch the end i could always say this doesn't make sense this neither this movie is pure crap at his best nice comment right
0	wow this movie really really sucks 'nuff said br br the story a psychopathic internet predator stalks and lures young men and women into torturous traps it goes like this kidnaps people they find him he becomes a changed man and is released on the world yet again reverts back to his old ways and starts the torture again the story is stupid it's implausible the characters are stupid they're implausible or at the very least way over the top it's got some very violent imagery and if you have a week stomach you might just want to stay away but than again even if you don't have a week stomach you might want to stay away it's that stupid br br the cast dee snider kevin gage if you're a die hard fan of twisted sister and dee snider you might find this one interesting since he's the writer and star of this film his acting is laughably bad and you can tell that he's the one that wrote the god awful script kevin gage well they say he's been in numerous other movies that i've seen but i don't remember him from any of them and you won't remember him from this these two sadly make the film they don't make it good mind you they just make it br br one to five scale 1 it's bad it's very very very bad in fact it's so bad that this movie should come with a clip loading pistol to play russian with
0	oh where the hell should i begin give a brief summary of the story no either you've already heard it or don't want to either way it sucks much like the movie i happen to be a semi large horror movie aficionado and i must say this is one of the dumbest and most clumsily executed movies i've ever had the displeasure of viewing br br the script is horrendously stupid the story starts too fast with absolutely no suspense or build up in the slightest all of those torture scenes would have been a lot more effective if we gave even the tiniest bit of crap for the characters since the first scene in the film is when the teenage girls meet capt howdy how the hell are we supposed to sympathize with them first off they seem stupid for going to a party with a guy they don't even know and second we don't even know their damn names why the hell should i care if they live or die not to mention the fact that they actually have the guts to try and make us feel sympathetic towards capt howdy after he's been reformed please i was cheering when he got his just deserts he deserved them hell he deserved worse also we're forced to sit through a pointless sequence lifted directly from the silence of the lambs and here it's done horribly of course he's gonna give them a false address and even if he had given them the real one don't you think he'd be waiting and not piercing some guy's johnson upstairs retarded br br then there's the dialogue everything captain howdy says is either laughable or just plain stupid the dead are so dreadfully dead when they're dead what the hell kind of crap is that dee snider at one point says knowledge is power well if that's true this film has absolutely no power whatsoever br br then there's the plot holes yes i know this is a horror film well wannabe horror film but damn you could drive a semi truck into these holes first off these have got to be the dumbest cops i have ever seen ever i mean dear god these guys are morons call for backup idiots second how the hell did that ring fall out of captain nose this piercing expert guy says that's the biggest one i've ever seen but if it's so damn big how the hell could it have fallen out so easily did capt howdy just leave it at the crime scene because he wanted to get caught they sure didn't make it seem like he did also they would never release capt howdy and i know that for a damn fact he would be in jail for the rest of his life and there's no getting around this much less let him return to his old house where he killed tortured everybody impossible and implausible br br and now the acting dear god did these people suck linda is the only thing good in this film she's poised and amazing too bad she hardly gets a good chance to act in this piece of crap amy smart shows up for about 10 minutes and then drops out of existence even the usually entertaining robert englund is underused and ineffective here dee snider plays the crazy guy with no talent whatsoever i never felt threatened scared or intimidated i'd rather have seen dee snider in alexis arquette's role in bride of chucky it would have been so much more fun to see this talent less hack get it by that lovable psycho doll br br dee snider just plain sucks he can't act one of the least scary villains i have ever seen he can't write did he write this damn movie in his sleep and he's obviously dumber than freaking jessica simpson this film is just a way for dee snider to show off all the weird crap he knows about self mutilation and modern primitives and blah blah blah either it's been done before or it just didn't need to be done i was bored throughout the whole damn thing br br the acting sucks the music sucks the script sucks the pacing sucks the special fx suck the directing sucks basically this movie sucks this film tries to be a serious and sophisticated thriller horror flick and it fails miserably it doesn't manage to scare shock or disturb in any shape way or form this is probably one of the least effective and utterly unoriginal films i have ever seen in my entire life a piece of cinematic garbage captured on celluloid br br gets a 0 out of 10 avoid at any and all costs not enjoyable in the slightest
0	i saw this movie on vhs some time ago 27 jan 2003 just because of the name of paul rudd on the cover i liked his performance in the object of my very much and i really expected a good work however i found this film a complete mess the story has a very confused screenplay and the characters are not well developed further the low budget special effects do not help much i do not know the previous generation of gen y cops but this next generation is not good i do not recall exactly why i gave this grade and i do not intent to see this movie again but my vote is four br br title brazil gen y cops a nova gen y cops the next generation'
0	the most worthless film of the decade the responsible parties should never be allowed to film again i have no words to describe the lack of entertainment this film provides you couldn't pay me to watch this film again quite honestly i think i would be a better person had i not seen it if i called it offensive i would fall into a category of emotionally frail extremists i would say this film goes so far as to damage the industry there are films that i refuse to watch now that i feel they might be this tasteless i feel like an idiot that i didn't have the good sense to walk out during any one of many moments i was compelled to do so yes i saw the end and am ashamed for it as should anyone else including the writer i am in awe
0	if you want to see a horror film which is horrible and in very bad taste this is definitely the film to view this films starts out with two young teenagers getting wild ideas about going into a chat room and going out on blind dates and quite possibly they will wind up like a little lamb to the slaughter house plenty of blood gore nudity handcuffs and all kinds of blood draining hooks and things you will never dream a person is capable of performing on men and women if you like piercing well this kind of piercing deals with heavy heavy hooks and plenty of besides lots of needles and thread to seal up things on the human body i really hope that this film does not give some sick person in this world the idea to act out these horrors in real life
0	everybody i talked to said that this movie would be good and really weird so i figured that i would rent it half way through the movie i was thinking to myself what the heck was going on and what is the point to this movie this movie from start to finish is so bad that even the sick parts of the movie didn't even bother me i mean what are they going to come up with next volcano 2 the return of the lava i mean come on this movie is so stupid the characters are so poorly developed and eve robert englund makes the movie worse i mean he might as well be transformed into freddy and spook people i was actually rooting for the bad guy to win that's how bad it was i mean look the father is a cop he didn't seem to care real much about the fact that his daughter is going through one of the most moments in her life i mean if my daughter was treated like that i would do everything in my power to keep the guy behind jail also it seems kind of obvious that dee character would turn bad again this is one of the worst films of all time right there with volcano and 8mm do not waist your time you will not enjoy it br br grade if there were a no grade on this site i would pick that thats how bad this movie is
0	unbelievable great cast fair acting interesting plot br br but this movie has such graphic cruelties that are not tense or giving thrills just pure disturbing br br spoiler br br everyone could see coming the freak returns to his habits and that robert englund was acting was he like an idiot forbidding your daughter to sleep with a football player but him trying to kill an idiot and liking is alright br br the policeman who's daughter was kidnapped anyone felt he was a cop and not an actor not me this movie drags on and on with an ending that we see in other horror movies if the returns were alright a part 2 could be made bad really bad stuff might give creeps some inspiration
0	put this movie out of it's misery and burn the negatives what am i saying the whole movie was negative fortunately only a very few would find this movie the least bit appealing this is what the vast american majority would call too much sex and violence it will probably show up on some non premium cable channel someday just for the shock value but after editing out the nudity most of the violence will stay all that will be left is 45 minutes of really bad acting interspersed with 45 minutes of commercials there are just too many starving actors in hollywood
0	i first rented this movie on the infamous day of september 11 2001 since then i've seen it a number of times my only complaint is that it's too short would've be a complete piece of horror art at two hours as it stands the running time is only an hour and a half br br ex twisted sister member dee snider wrote produced and stars in this 1998 set in a small colorado town he plays carleton a crazed sadist who has psychotic ideologies on human evolution and a love for near death experiences is no pushover he's a pumped up six foot modern primitive someone who has tattooed and pierced their body to the very extreme when he makes his first full appearance in the film it is a truly terrifying sight br br main hobby in life is to share his spiritual awakenings with his kidnapped victims he visits internet chatrooms under the name capt howdy and then invites people over to his house they believe they're going to a party instead they find themselves in a house of pain and suffering sows their eyes and mouths shut and tortures them by sticking blades and hooks in numerous parts of their body if it sounds sick it's because it is br br one of victims is genevieve the teenaged daughter of detective michael gage gage not only manages to save her but arrests as well four years later is released from a mental institution completely rehabilitated to the disapproval of the community a group of rednecks led by freddy krueger himself actor robert englund decide to kill him they fail and reverts back to his old self br br the rest of the film i'll leave to you only to say the conclusion is satisfying and will leave you in shivers with the exception of snider the acting isn't too good but it's serviceable the direction is okay too there are some humorous parts in and they are very funny i also loved the soundtrack it's awesome and worth buying if you love rock overall this is a movie worth watching if you love low budget horror films with a sense of humor check it out you'll probably like it
0	it seems that dee snyder ran out of ideas halfway through the script the second half of the movie is basically just a rehash of the first which makes the film very boring to sum up cop's daughter is suckered into party via where she is sexually molested tortured by psychopath played by snider cop rescues her psychopath is put in therapy jail psychopath is released four years later and the whole thing is played out again within all this are many unexplained plot elements why was captain howdy psycho in the first place what's with the one time personality detour to bible thumper how does he kidnap all the adults and manage to sew their mouths shut without a struggle and perhaps the biggest unsolved mystery of all how does a man with pink hair hide himself completely behind a 5'6 average build woman these are just some of the questions i had watching this film br br it seems that snyder was trying to make some kind of commentary on a the dangers of online chatrooms b the hypocrisy of christian sexual mores and c the effect our twisted puritanical society has on us as individuals if that is so he failed the movie is just too poorly done to entertain never mind convey social messages the torture scenes are stupid and boring bordering on silly especially when snyder goes into one of his pain and death monologues and everything else is just plain dumb the call tracing scene is really lame when are the cops gonna get caller id and 69 the young partner of the main cop character is particularly awful he shouldn't be working as an actor basically and the audio in the final showdown scene is really poor i guess they couldn't afford two boom mikes br br the rest of the acting is not awful but it's not good either the cop is pretty one note and his detached quality is not quite believable dee snyder is actually not too bad but he snarls and sneers way too much robert englund who deserves way better puts in a somewhat amusing performance of a hypocritical redneck if you're a big robert englund fan the movie is probably worth seeing just for him everyone else is forgettable br br in conclusion we've seen all these plot elements done before and done better in films like silence of the lambs hellraiser and texas chainsaw massacre i suggest you rent one of those instead of watching this turkey 3 10 br br
0	low budget horror about an evil force hard to believe in this day and age but way back when this stuff actually used to get theatrical release these days this sort of thing would either go direct to video or straight to cable shouldn't be too hard to avoid this one who's ever heard of it
0	the power started off looking promising but soon became boring and tedious to watch the plot is about an ancient aztec doll that takes possession of those who own it the idea is decent enough and this film would have been fairly entertaining had it been done better however after the first ten minutes or so it soon becomes boring we don't get any good death scenes and have to listen to loads of talking at the end one of the possessed men meets his death by melting away in front of two girls but it's not very interesting and definitely not gory br br i wouldn't recommend the power to any horror or slasher fan as there's little to be gained from it
0	i wasn't expecting much from this film but was eager to try something which i initially thought would primarily be an early 80s teen horror although three teens are somewhat critical plot it is by no means a teen horror film br br 'the power' is about a little aztec idol that exchanges many hands as its possessor who must be adult and thus becomes the vessel for unleashing all of the idol's evil and often with deadly implications for not only the victims of the possessor but of the possessor himself after making several exchanges in vying over control of this thing three teenagers wind up finding it and can't figure out what it is except that since they found it strange and dangerous things are afoot they offer to explain the situation to a news reporter who doesn't buy into the spiritual bologna although it is her producer who wants to investigate further especially if it means he can get control of the idol i presume the teens are even not yet corrupted enough to feel the dangerous desires encouraged by the idol it is a story told a thousand times particularly in 1950s and 60s horror and science fiction fare br br this one was at least for me able to sustain some interest though low budget it was not done so obviously cheaply or loaded with bad acting as many of the low budget come and go horror fare of the earlier decades had nowadays they have the same cheesy qualities but bigger budgets we are spare enough of it to at least allow ourselves an opportunity to become at least a little bit absorbed with the eerie atmosphere and so forth despite a story of clichés and though not terribly gory the special effects were done nicely br br again it is routine horror tale especially with the ending which by modern standards has become a device that is annoyingly overused but one that is not so embarrassingly bad it might be worth checking out even if just for laughs
0	i somehow managed to make it all the way through this movie but was dumbfounded by the complete lack of entertainment delivered my friends and i are fans of hk film but wow this movie has it all and by all i mean everything a movie shouldn't have underdeveloped and stereotyped characters way over the top overacting cheesy special effects talking robots no less than 20 double foot impossible situations unfunny gags and jokes elementary school premise mindless killings and too long running time for the material throw in the fact that gen x cops was a decent film and this movie becomes even harder to bear quite simply if you're entertaining the idea of watching this film don't
0	pluses mary boland is delightfully on edge as always i never tire of her upper crust zaniness especially in the women and pride and prejudice w c brief role is fun though the famous pool table scene stretches its welcome a bit because it seems to go on for ten minutes the madcap antics of the film typical of the period are great also a nod to alison wonderfully grounded hotel mistress i would love to see more of her she reminds me of marie dressler another personality worthy of high praise br br minuses gracie allen an irritating unfunny presence whose annoyance went unmatched until the rise of adam sandler that near falsetto tinged with an accent of unknown origin gets old in her very first scene this is the first of the burns allen films i have seen and while i as a big classic comedy buff try to experience at least one film with every major comedy star this is definitely one team i will not be calling upon again her timing and interpretation of the material is totally off a maddeningly mediocre talent br br the bottom line an ok comedy but the gags are few and far between and at only an hour long you can expect that this is not an a grade hollywood comedy recommended only for boland and fields fans who want to see all of their work
0	i watched this movie for the first time a few weeks ago and it was quite possibly one of the most boring unfunny films i ever had the misfortune of seeing first of all matthew modine is a terrible actor and ruined most of the movie on top of that the plot is just way too silly the only reason a checked into this film was because of alec baldwin and his character was eliminated pretty quickly unless you are a fan of michelle you should probably avoid this movie like the plague many people can't praise this film enough but i just cannot figure out what people find so terrific about it if its supposed to be the black humor that makes this film so terrific then i guess anything can pass for comedy these days
0	i seem to remember a lot of hype about this movie when it came out but had avoided seeing it throughout the years i wish i'd waited longer maybe this movie was funny in 1988 i don't know i was younger then but it didn't seem like the world was that different michelle pfeiffer lovely as she is is never convincing mercedes ruehl not only chews scenery but stuffs it in her cheeks like a to save for later dean stockwell is about as convincing as a mob boss as james gandolfini would be as principal dancer for the bolshoi and matthew modine demonstrated the most pronounced case of delayed puberty i've ever seen all in all it's not bad enough to make you want to pluck out your eyes with a melon baller but it's not far off
0	this is a very strange product from hollywood apparently it didn't test well because actors who have footage in the credits have been edited completely out of the movie which means a hasty cut job was done on it it feels like it was wrestled out of the usually competent demme's hands and just thrown away on the other and it is so totally lacking in substance that maybe nothing could save it it has no real center either narratively or time wise although it says the running time is 92 minutes i seem to recall it ending abruptly around the 80 minute mark it's over before it even gets going it's pretty much laugh free br br the merits of the matthew modine picture were as elusive then as the luke wilson picture is now
0	before hitting international acclaim with the silence of the lambs director jonathan demme cut his teeth making quirky comedies this was one of them and like quite a few oscar winning american comedies i could mention it has a fine concept is well paced has great performances a complicated romance but it just simply isn't very funny pfeiffer is mob widow who moves to the city after her husband baldwin is murdered the crime boss who killed him stockwell takes a fancy to pfeiffer his wife is furious and to complicate matters pfeiffer also falls for the cop who is trailing her all of this should have been a laugh a minute pfeiffer sporting a hefty wig is excellent as the widow as is the hyperactive ruehl and modine is good too as the nice cop but the script is simply devoid of one liners wit humour or punch lines of the verbal or physical kind that this kind of film demands the result is it raises smiles at best rather than guffaws it oozes charm but is tediously short on humour
0	overrated mob comedy director demme makes the actors pause after some funny lines to let audience laugh and not miss next line seems odd this director did silence of the lambs now there's the way to use pauses casting seems off mathew modine too young for fbi agent and love interest dean stockwell is doing a jack nicholson thing with a squint and he gets a nomination for it plus we have to accept pfeiffer and stockwell as italians charles napier as a hairdresser and al lewis as a mob lawyer are underused with only one line each they should be the bumbling hoods song score by chris is totally out of place better for a flick like pretty in pink re make this movie it's worth it but with proper casting and director and the satire will come through even the often repeated
0	have you ever tried a kind of food that your friend made and then said to yourself wow that was not a good mix well that is how i felt after watching this film br br many viewers will be left highly uncomfortable with this weird mix of crime and very very corny comedy its almost like watching mr rogers play a ruthless gangster very weird some things just don't mix and this film clearly proves that br br there are some very good performances here as dean stockwell mercedes and alec baldwin are all excellent but that doesn't make up for the lack of balance and symmetry in the film br br jonathan demme has done some excellent work in films such as silence of the lambs and philadelphia but seems to be out of his element with this one
0	this is a film that has garnered any interest or praise it has received simply on the merit of being a lesbian interest piece the performances are mostly emotionless compared to better films in the interest genre the entirety of the film's watchable value is garnered through modest suspense over whether and when the partners' family members will say something discouraging about their lesbian relationship the best element of the film is likely the beautiful new england scenery although much of the film is set inside it is hard to envision how any viewer watching this film and not seeking affirmation of their lifestyle or wishing to see that of others affirmed even through poorly realized drama could appreciate treading water in any significant way it is a terrible movie
0	a bad movie about a bad movie is that original or what if it is then that's the only good thing about it the lovely ally sheedy couldn't stop this bomb from destroying movie theaters and vcr's everywhere it should also be noted that she and the other actors hired by danny aiello's character were billed as themselves as well as the characters they played in his d rated film calling it a b rated film is too much of a compliment and would lead to delusions of grandeur
0	it's hard to decide what to say about this one it isn't totally one hundred percent bad although the movie in a movie is unspeakably bad meant to be campy but missing by a mile i'm pretty sure that this is intentional however danny aiello is perfectly adequate here and more or less nails his pathetic character dyan cannon was good in a small role was impressive as the latest twenty something girlfriend and linda carlson had a brave topless scene that she pulled off very well br br so it's not totally bad but i don't believe that this one accomplishes its goals all in all it's probably worth passing on
0	this film is really a big piece of trash trying to make itself look like a hollywood production poor story outline stupid robot story ultra bad acting by untalented pop idols and they are trying to fight my goodness those miserable actors uses wires to make them look like they are good fighters and i hate that arrogant edison chen the worst actor i have ever seen i will never touch his movies again avoid this movie at all costs i wanted to give it a negative value out of ten not even worth a 0 10
0	my wife and i saw every episode in this series and loved it however the series was cut short without a final episode by the producers of the show it ended with a typical end the season cliff hanger leaving it's fans feeling cheated a waste of great writing and acting
0	when i first saw race against fear don't you just love lmn movie titles i had to keep scratching my head was this meant to be serious why couldn't the main character even run like a normal person running much less like a star runner how did i know that the coach was evil only 1 minute into the film all of these questions and no answers then i just let the inane script and the awful directing just carry me away it was easier not to resist then the film became funnier by the minute and i now rank it among my top ten junk movies from lmn some have said here that ariana richards is really talented but that the material was flawed i heartily disagree not only can she not convince me that she's an athlete she's walks wide eyed through the rest of the story like she's just landed on earth maybe the coach broke out of prison and finished her off at least i hope so
0	this movie was pretentious foppish and just down right not funny the filming technique reminded me of mtv i am a fan of hartley but what was he thinking of so much more thought could have gone into this movie considering the subject matter this could have been a true theoretical battle over good and evil but hartley it appears used the stand technique of psyching out the viewer
0	it opens and for half an hour runs like an educational programme on the old testament although not without humour the movie finally begins to grow wings when the biblical cant gets dropped in a scene of mixed success martin donovan jesus decides to on kicking off the apocalypse and the final quarter of an hour is a sort of humanist 'what's all the fuss about ' play out gilded with optimistic against a retrospectively miserably ironic long shot of the wtc twin towers br br apart from authority the acting is split there's the thespian melodrama of the rest of the cast this though formally contrived for biblical presentation is appropriate for the modern paranoid comedy that hartley's aiming at but i was also pleasantly surprised at the contribution of pj harvey credited thus and in danger of existing within the film solely as the pop star entity she is not least in a set piece scene in a record store and a perilously patchy soundtrack to which contributes she remained cool a sort of disingenuous lack of focus in the manner of many pop icons who have taken to film i'm thinking the jagger of performance here but nonetheless maintained a convincing integration with both cast and project br br ultimately affirmative but this bittersweet essay is a bit too much like one and relies more on the perseverance than the imagination of its audience 4 10
0	this movie was shot using a digital camera and it shows there were enough annoying digital tricks used to alienate the viewer also with the help of a terrible score as if that weren't enough the acting was also terrible now in hartley's movies the acting is always peculiar but here it was just bad especially by satan thomas jay ryan and harvey who thank god doesn't get to say much after all these external problems it is also very unfortunate that the story itself is not that good either the jokes are predictable and unbelievably straightforward and the events just rumble on from one incident to the next the so called book of life with armageddon inside isn't much more than an excuse to see actors struggle to say their lines all in all this movie is a waste of time and money and effort thumbs down
0	i found this on the shelf and swooned with joy i danced up to the counter slapped down my money and ran home you know what i fell asleep less then half way thru tried again the next day yawn what the heck i could not watch it i love all the other stuff he's done i didn't see the one with the monster in it yet what gives is it me or him so sad boo hoo p s i did like the camera work
0	hey remember when hal hartley was brilliant what a time that was i'd say the book of life was when things really started going downhill but i will say that at least he went uphill from this one a movie that looks like it was filmed on someone's cell phone wouldn't have to be a bad thing if it was distinguished by an interesting story and dialog but alas those are missing along with hartley's spare quirky dialog in their place is tedious exposition on themes of christian end of times and a trite story of a modern jesus in a quandary packaged in a trying to be hip modern world where everyone looks like someone out of a hal hartley movie while it picks up a little in its second half it's never enjoyable or especially sensible what the hell happened to you hartley
0	should you wish to see the worst film ever made look no further some wretched movies are watchable because they are unintentionally funny alas american movie has no wit at all no unintentional humor just obscenities thought by its director to be laughable br br for those who liked this film i suggest you watch kevin smith's clerks similar in tone in clerks you will find creativity wit and enjoyment all on a shoestring budget it should make you forget this hideous effort
0	this movie sucked wind i imagine that the other 300 people that gave this movie such high votes must be independent filmmakers i can't imagine that anyone else could possibly find it funny or even slightly entertaining i feel like 100 minutes of my life were just wasted
0	this is an emperor's new clothes situation someone needs to say that's not a funny and original etc etc film that is an inferior film don't waste your money on it the film is trashy and the people in it are embarrassingly inferior trailer trash they are all too realistically only themselves they have no lines they don't act the american dream is not to create shoddy no quality films or anything else shoddy and of no quality it is to achieve something of quality and thereby success only people who are desperate to praise any film not made in hollywood it can't have been made in hollywood can it would try to any kind of quality to this film it's worse than ed woods another film about a film maker without standards these films shouldn't have been made and you shouldn't go see american movie
0	exceptionally silly actioner with braindead leads in a story which would have suited a fill in issue of spiderman the action sequences never really flow as they should leaving some cool bits orphaned in a sea of sound and fury signifying nothing i really wonder how they'll release this one in the west sam lee overacts like crazy newcomer edison chan doesn't display any acting talent yet the robot is clunky and not very impressive and the cgi effects though done by us sfx people are ridiculous totally destroying any remaining suspension of disbelief i am not looking forward to gen z cops
0	this is an emperor's new clothes situation someone needs to say that's not a funny and original etc etc film that is an inferior film don't waste your money on it the film is trashy and the people in it are embarrassingly inferior trailer trash they are all too realistically only themselves they have no lines they don't act the american dream is not to create shoddy no quality films or anything else shoddy and of no quality it is to achieve something of quality and thereby success only people who are desperate to praise any film not made in hollywood it can't have been made in hollywood can it would try to any kind of quality to this film it's worse than ed woods another film about a film maker without standards these films shouldn't have been made and you shouldn't go see american movie
0	this film has been lauded to the point of the ridiculous american movie is a boring documentary about a boring person so ordinary you'll find equivalents on just about every corner in america it takes a long hard look at a guy who's failed at just about everything in the interest of making an independent movie or two were his failures for other than his own selfish pursuits or were they in the name of real art the movie might have had a chance america has an abundance of better stories to be told this one should be flushed and many critics have good reason to be ashamed two thumbs up indeed
0	i usually enjoy underground movies and antiheroes but this is a bad joke i wonder how this can be called a movie all these people are and the filmmaker doesn't succeed in making them interesting at all they are not funny not tragic just plain stupid and boring br br may be i missed something but i won't watch it again to find out what anybody with a camcorder can do better than that br br i give it a 1 for the originality all the rest is crap
0	i love documentaries they are among my favorite genres of film before seeing this film i hadn't seen one that i hadn't liked br br the premise for this film is a great one the execution is well done there were some times early on when i laughed and smiled yet as the film went on the more tedious and irritating it became this could have been something special had the subject not been such an inarticulate childish inept putz i appreciate his passion for film but quit your whining if you're short on funds maybe you shouldn't have so many kids or spend so much money on alcohol maybe you should have gone to film school or at least graduated from high school maybe you should have lived life and gotten perspective and experiences that could add to your vision br br there are so many people out there with stories that are interesting funny and poignant to see this guy chosen over any of them is nothing less than crass if you want to do a documentary on a film maker why not do one on someone from china or iran a film maker with real problems br br two final questions br br who takes a little kid to see apocalypse now br br how many times did this guy say man
0	sorry folks but all of you that say this is a great documentary and that award it won at sundance well you've all been duped i've heard for a few years how i had to see this documentary and i finally watched it maybe in 1999 when it came out and reality tv didn't have such a dominant presence in the industry this movie would have seemed entertaining but mike and mark are so obviously playing themselves mike and mark at times they are funny and some of the lines seem off the cuff but mostly they do not ring true they are the reality version of jay and silent bob yes the people are real they are not actors but it's put on it's exaggeration of themselves and it's so obvious that it's hard to believe so many people think it's the real deal i wasn't fooled so it was actually a tad boring mildly amusing but not missing much if you miss it
0	this was a dreadful boring movie even for a documentary at times it did provided insight to life and also had humorous moments but overall it was not worth seeing every time i began to feel sympathetic towards mark and began to hope he would be successful i would become disappointed by his lack of responsibility and drug and alcohol abuse
0	the concept of this movie is unique however its execution is less than special when i arrived at the cinema and realised that there were only about 15 people or so in the crowd i thought i had made a mistake however the true mistake was realised in shocking detail when the film has ended and i knew that i had wasted two hours of my life br br without the cruel recordings of the old man and the stupidly funny friend this film would have rated 1 out of ten br br this film is special special because it is probably the worst film ever to be generally released to the public br br there is also the issue of whether you could call it a film or just an advertisement for the probably crummy northwestern br br if you are thinking of watching this film for the plot the humor the filming the locations then don't on the other hand if you like to experience both ends of the film production then go just take a book or a small game or just some novelty item
0	and it's a not very good documentary either american movie seems to have confused some people into thinking this is a spoof documentary mockumentary and even some newspaper tv listings described it as such i'll not laugh out loud at that because it's easy to mistake this documentary as one big wind up ala this is spinal tap br br what seems to have caused the confusion is that the documentary centres around budding film maker mark who is how can i put it rather self deluded yes but that's not necessarily a bad thing since if we had no dreams we'd all still be living in caves and the fact that mark is obsessed with horror movies is not to be taken as a criticism since both sam raimi yes that one and peter jackson yes that one both started out doing low budget horror comedies so again it's not a criticism no it's just that mark yes that one is a parody of american trailer trash br br remember in there's something about mary ben stiller gives a lift to a dodgy hitch hiker come into my office because you're f in' fired well that's who mark resembles along with most of jerry springer's guests so it's very easy to see why some people thought this wasn't a real documentary it's also not a very good documentary since mark and co give me the creeps did you know that someone thought mark would grow up to be a serial killer does anyone else think there's plenty of time left for this to happen
0	yet again i appear to be the only person on planet earth who is capable of criticizing japanese films made before 1970 fires on the plain 1959 is another in the seemingly endless line of classics that get all sorts of praise for no apparently good reason as much as i love to and psychoanalyze all of these moviegoers who have such horrible taste in film it's still nearly impossible to rationalize why anyone would ever think that poorly made fluff like this should be proclaimed as some sort of masterpiece what i find truly ironic is that fans of derivative classics like fires on the plain focus so much on inside the box movie making orthodox grading standards like scriptwriting acting camera work etc yet it always seems like the most highly revered classics are most deficient in these very standards for example one of the laziest for a filmmaker involves forced verbal exposition where characters basically explain everything for the viewer even when the constructed scenario is totally artificial most surprisingly the very first scene in fires on the plain uses this indolent tactic to the extreme br br after a funny head slap the following useless dialogue assaults the viewer why can't you grasp the situation we landed to the west under heavy fire to reinforce units at we lost two thirds of our men our artillery was sunk in transit we tried to reach airfield by crossing the central mountains but without artillery it was impossible the enemy's counterattack forced a across the valley you know that so why exactly is one character telling another character something he already knows oh yeah that's right the makers of this film are too lazy to think of more natural ways to communicate this information you see a quality film would actually show these events happening or at worst it would involve dialogue involving one character who has no knowledge of those events heck even an opening summary in paragraph form directed at the viewer would have been better than what transpired here br br such instances of poor quality movie making are littered throughout fires on the plain to the point where this film feels like it was written by imbeciles for imbeciles for example the lead character stumbles upon some skeletons wrapped in japanese garb instead of doing the natural thing like – oh i don't know – giving a depressed mannerism the character blurts out japanese soldiers thanks buddy but i could have figured that one out for myself br br even worse this movie is saturated with over dramatic ploys the most ridiculous scene involves a pair of boots picture this a soldier walks along and finds a pair of worn out boots one would think that such a find is utterly useless but it turns out that the soldier's boots are in even worse condition so he picks up the worn boots and leaves his super worn boots behind fine i get the point the soldiers are in rough shape – a fact that is already clearly emphasized with their worn boots to begin with the scene is ridiculous but i was ready to let it go until the second soldier arrives you see he finds the previous soldier's super worn boots and notices – get ready cause here it comes – that his boots are super duper worn boots lucky man he picks up the super worn boots and leaves his super duper worn boots behind but you see that's not all – because the third soldier then arrives he finds the previous soldiers super duper worn boots and inspects them along with his own super duper worn boots since both pairs suck he tosses them both aside and smiles as he continues barefoot at this point i was ready to throw my television through my living room window the heavy handedness and paramount absurdity of this sequence is beyond bad film making it's super duper bad film making br br there are a number of similar completely stupid moments to be had like the time when the lead character asks someone hey are you dead like the guy is going to answer yes if he actually kicked the bucket i'll also be the first to condemn the subpar performance of the lead actor who is the quintessential posterchild for artificial reaction i laughed hard during that opening head slap where his head slingshot back in place with this stupid goofy expression on his face br br the fact that this trivial fluff piece gets an imdb average rating of 8 4 while a certifiable masterpiece like a tale of two sisters 2003 only gets a 7 5 is the height of mass stupidity and to think that some people actually delude themselves into thinking that doesn't make sense well not every movie can have completely outrageous super duper worn boots on its side
0	so boring you'll fall asleep after the 20 first minutes sorry mr i do admire your work all these beautiful films you directed such as sans etc but here the plot is extremely vain except the magnificent photography everything appears dumb and there's no envy to know what will happen at these medium actors moreover the dialogs are the famous question where are the children is repeated so often it looks like a farce believe me it's a pure waste of time concerning the plot and 3 hours is a long long time certainly the real reason of this box office total mess
0	i usually enjoy watching laurel and hardy but this is obviously one of the films they made while they were on their way to becoming a successful comedy team br br the plot is all too simple and is mainly based on one joke how strange kilts and scotsmen are and that's all okay there are some other jokes but i didn't find them very funny at all they are outdated and i guess were not very entertaining when the movie was first released br br still the movie has got two of the most charming faces in history and they make the best out of the awkward story which i expect was filmed without a proper script and the scenery is nice to look at br br in my opinion watching this is only worthwhile for laurel and hardy fans other people should stay away from it
0	this is truly one of the worst films i have ever seen in my life rod steiger who stars as the ornery grandfather charlie is in full overacting mode hoping that the more flashy he is the better his performance cue buzzer sound rod steiger is one of the last true film legends and to see him in this film although end of days is the 2nd worst film i've ever seen is really heartbreaking from the bad storyline to the nonexistent direction it becomes clear that the only reason this film was made was that the producer's last name ended in the only good thing about this film is that it is so bad it's truly hysterical look for the flashback scene where rod where's a jor el wig from superman and a big black porno mustache one only hopes that his follow up film i believe in america from uber producer kevin will redeem him and leave a good taste in everyone's mouths
0	a trash classic basically what we have here is a story about a couple of american teenagers one male one female both beautiful people of course who seem to be psychically linked in that every time both of them fall asleep they can inhabit each others dreams and express each others innermost desires think mills boon meets x files and you'll be somewhere near the mark actually its more like an unhappy hybrid between one of ed wood's famously bad b movies and a particularly silly episode of melrose place so tacky are the special effects and so amateurish is the acting the actors who inhabit i wouldn't say act in this flick say their lines like they're reading from cue cards and pout when they're supposed to be showing an emotion and it comes as no great shock or loss to the industry that they have since faded into obscurity the whole thing is just a laughably misguided mixture of styles that don't go together at all and the end result is a intriguing curiosity that no doubt will be lapped up by purveyors of so bad they're good films in years to come i'll probably be the only person who ever comments on this film but if you are reading and have seen it please get back it gets kinda lonely round here
0	i was stan in the movie dreams come true stan was the friend that worked at the factory with the main character and ended getting his arm smashed in the machinery and got carried out screaming where was the ambulance the acting in this movie was for the most part pretty poor with mostly local actors from the fox valley wisconsin i saw the movie on the big screen it played 2 nights in 3 theaters and was something special to see yourself on the big screen i may be bias but overall i enjoyed it also the soundtrack was the band spooner who later became garbage my brother steve charlton was also in the movie he played the man who comes to the door on crutches to talk with the police
0	one of those movies where you take bets on who will die first and who will survive at the end there was just something about the movie that made me zone out i think because i keep looking back and thinking yep still in that tree still looking at the water poor character development i felt nothing when they were in danger i was voting for the croc i found it hard to believe a croc would try to tip a boat in the first place and then when it jumps into the boat i find that really unlikely as well the croc seems too supernatural at times 'all knowing all also when the croc attacks it's behavior seems very unrealistic it's a killing machine and wouldn't be letting victims escape twice to three times in a row especially when attacking in the water
0	perhaps it's about time we declare 2007 to be the international year of the cinematic crocodile the ridiculous primeval came first about a croc named gustave ruling the swamps in burundi then there was lake placid 2 a low profiled and made for tv sequel to a forgettable original thirdly there's this incredibly derivative and soporific piece of aussie horror and finally i have yet to see the promising rogue the last one is likely to be the best considering the involvement of the upcoming aussie horror talent greg mclean wolf creek black water certainly isn't a complete waste of time and film but it's another pretty pointless survival flick that confuses real life agony with horror pardon my bluntness especially since i honestly feel sorry for the people who went through this ordeal but depicting three characters sitting in a tree and whining for more than a full hour is not my idea of sheer suspense three young people travel through northern australia and decide to spend a day of fishing in the remote swamp areas it doesn't take too long before a gigantic and ferocious crocodile their little boat and devours the guide grace lee and adam barely manage to escape the reptile's hungry teeth by climbing up a tree even though he remains unseen most of the time the croc patiently lies in waiting and makes it impossible for them to leave the swamp alive yes it does sound an awful lot like the plot of open water indeed replace the numerous unseen sharks with one giant unseen crocodile and the open sea with an equally inescapable aussie swamp and there you have it oh well black water at least features some rare moments of excitement and one impressively designed water monster it has to be said the croc looks fabulously groovy and you anxiously count down towards every next time he wildly emerges from the water the three headed cast does whatever they can to keep their characters interesting but how do you achieve this by sitting in a tree the whole time the based on true events concept obviously causes a number of restrictions like limited images of the fantastic filming locations dialogs and amiable character drawings
0	yes the movie was that boring and insipid after a certain point i was wanting the croc to eat these people just so we could get the movie over with br br the plot is that three aussies take a fishing tour up a river in a little boat where the fishing guide straps on a gun he says he just does it for insurance purposes all the crocs have been hunted out of this river he is immediately eaten by a croc the trio then get chased up a tree getting picked off by the reptile in their attempts to escape they spend most of the movie arguing over the best way to escape br br predictably the one survivor finds the tour gun and shoots the crocodile aww they killed the movie's only likable character br br where's paul hogan or steve irwin when you really need them
0	there was some good build up of suspense throughout the cinematography was surprisingly good considering such minimal budget we witness occasional spells of good acting however this is quickly deflated by some quite cheesy lines understandably there would not be much of an intellectual conversation to be had sitting up on trees while a crocodile is stalking you silence would have been golden here there could have been a bigger play on suspense than dimly uttering i sat in the cupboard for fear of my brother something tells me there's a slight difference in getting a beating from your brother than being eaten by a mighty croc you decide throughout the film i can't seem to find a connection or for that matter sympathy with the characters perhaps thats because they don't develop one throughout the film character that is there are some occasional good scares when the crocodile sneaks up on the characters overshadowed again by some questionable scenes in one instance we should be terrified by an ear floating in the water but later we sit beside a decapitated limbless corpse and only worry about a broken finger a definite roller coaster of a film when it comes to logic
0	the presentation is very shabby to my notion as documentaries often are michael moore's farenheit 911 is far more convincing but has far too much media and political influence cant wait till saturday when i get to see the docudrama the game of their lives ifc goes right of center i have started a collection of ifc movies from off the internet due to out of on decade wanna see good documentaries stick to the history channel or try docudrama you cant go wrong with them my friend cant go wrong the seventies were ten years of reruns or so the old times would have you to believe disco died and it is gone forever when elvis died o yes we all did grieve
0	like many western pennsylvania history buffs i had been really looking forward to this much heralded pbs program that was produced by however i must say now that i was somewhat disappointed on the positive side i believe that overall this film did a fair job of explaining the main issues and describing the events of the so called french and indian war in particular its presentation of the point of view was somewhat new and quite interesting although it certainly was at time over emphasized also on the positive side the blend of narrative and action scenes was well done and came across somewhat better than many of these typical documentaries made up of experts interviews and picture stills a la ken burns on the negative side many of the battles did have a somewhat staged look and many important aspects of the war were overlooked most of all i was very disappointed and frustrated by how little importance was given to forbes's successful campaign of against fort duquesne as compared to the earlier failures of by washington and by braddock in particular i was somewhat incredulous that there was no mention of colonel henry bouquet the swiss mercenary in the british service who was most responsible for success finally i could not believe the complete omission of the battle of bushy run that started as a re run of defeat but ended up as the victory that decided the outcome of war thanks to the wiles of the same colonel bouquet who certainly must rank as one of the most successful british commanders of this war
0	i haven't seen all cage's works by any means but his acting in this one was truly awful the other characters run the gamut of ability but having most of the emotional scenes cage's scenes are just embarrassing to watch he's certainly come a long ways in 12 years
0	i came across this film on the net by fluke and i was horrified by its content of vivid abuse violence and torture scenes it was a relief to know it was not real after reading the comments what dangerously sick animals of a person make something like this and for what purpose goes beyond belief i was even more shocked to see people the film in the comments section of this site this is a extremely disturbing film indeed which could change your life forever the people behind this should be bought to justice asap today they shown a girl getting raped and butchered on screen tomorrow it could be a child even its fake or not its very very deathly disturbing nauseating indeed
0	found an old vhs version of this film in my parents house so i thought i'd give it a go right from the start i wasn't expecting much from this film and i'm glad for that because overall the film was no good br br the acting overall was very poor even for a nicolas cage movie one scene with a radio controller stands out as being so pitiful that i found it hilarious that this scene wasn't cut the first 30 minutes of the film had almost no developed plot and i didn't know what was going on br br the story itself had the possibility of being decent but either the director was just bad or was trying too hard to put his own unique touch on the style of the film i managed to watch the whole thing but i won't likely ever see this film again
0	i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode it was dumbed down to such an extent i doubt if i learned a single thing the graphics were rudimentary any small idea was repeated ad nauseum contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan that had a good musical theme there was no music coming from these infernal 10 dimensional strings
0	i'm really disappointed by this piece of work it is quiet shallow keeps repeating itself is mostly not exact and sometimes on the verge of being wrong i think it's made for elementary school especially because it keeps repeating itself over and over again while leaving large gaps a young kid might actually enjoy it and learn from it but a better way to make a kid appreciate theoretical physics are books like a short history of time or the tao of physics if you are familiar with the topic on a very basic level you won't gain any new information or views from this series don't waste your time with it nice eye candy though
0	i was very disappointed with this series it had lots of cool graphics and that's about it the level of detail it went into was minimal and i always got the feeling the audience was being there was a lot of what seemed to me as this is extremely cool but we're not going to explain it in further detail because you won't get it anyway let's just show you some pretty pictures to entertain you the host would drop interesting sounding words such as and super symmetry without any attempt at explaining what it was we had to look it up on wikipedia br br furthermore i know quite a bit about for a layman and i found their explanations were convoluted and could have been so much better they could have chosen much better examples to explain concepts but instead the examples they used were confusing and further obscured the subject br br additionally i got so sick of the repetitiveness they could easily have condensed the series into one episode if they had cut out all the repetition they must have shown the clips of the quantum café about 8 times the host kept saying the same things over and over and over again i can't remember how many times he said the universe is made out of tiny little vibrating strings it's like they were trying to brainwash us into just accepting are the best thing since sliced bread br br finally the show ended off with an unpleasant sense of a competition between and clearly biased towards this is supposed to be an educational program about quantum physics not about whether the us is better than europe or vice versa i also felt that was part of the patronizing audiences need to see some conflict to remain interested please give me a little more credit than that br br overall 2 thumbs down
0	an annoying group of ex students from alto international high school' decide to spend a night in the now abandoned institution where a 'mystery' killer called the watchman played by horror legend paul naschy murders them off one by one school killer features some references to such teen slasher staples like scream or friday the 13th the climatic twist ending looks like from the sixth sense the uncertainty about whether the homicidal watchman is alive or dead provide some mild interest but the characters are one dimensional and the endless scenes of walking through dark school corridors really got on my nerves the presence of charismatic paul naschy almost saves this clichéd slasher flick there is also some decent gore on display including a splendidly bloody beheading it's nice to see of rec fame in a small role 4 out of 10
0	a whole bunch of teenagers gather around to discuss their fears but an uninvited guest has showed up and is killing everybody off br br probably the worst horror film of the 90's camp blood 1999 is the only film that could challenge it for that title has some of the dumbest characters and situations to ever grace a television screen the so called surprise ending is awful as is the rest of this film mildly entertaining on a sooo bad it is good level my rating 2 out of 10
0	this film is truly execrable in all departments script acting plot direction and editing are all uniformly awful i give it 1 out of 10 simply because people turned up to make it i would have given it 2 out of 10 if they had all stayed at home instead avoid at all costs
0	this movie really sucked hard it was just stupid with a terrible ending i love a really cheesy horror flick but this was terrible the trick ending totally contradicts everything you've seen in the movie if you last til the end take my advice and steer clear of that dirty old hag the granny
0	granny is definitely one of the worst horror movies ever made in the history of cinema br br the script was diabolical so bad in fact that i was almost crying with laughter at some of the things they came out with the acting was almost as bad they would have been better off casting traffic cones to play the roles they would have done a better job the murders were laughable the suspense was non existent the camera work was ineffective and the major plot twist at the end was disgustingly inappropriate it just gets worse and worse br br the granny is possibly one of the most unthreatening villains caught on film she looks like she is wearing a cheap mask from the supermarket the hair caused endless amounts of laughter and a frilly nightgown would you be scared by that i certainly wasn't br br if you like watching bad movies see manos troll 2 michael bay films then this is a must see those who don't like bad movies and don't enjoy laughing at shockingly bad dialogue avoid like the plague
0	this home movie is basically scandalously rubbish but you have to give them 3 10 for trying the blood is rubbish but the granny that kills them is quite funny and i think the concept is good and make up is ok for a home movie however thank god it was only 55 minutes long and the twist at the end is quite literally fight club as in almost as trash as the film just read this comment don't watch the film
0	just watched this film and it actually made me want to write my first comment on imdb com even though i've been a user for more than 9 years the reason that i watched this is because i like splatter films and sometimes i like to test my limits and see what actually still shocks me first of all the gore in this film didn't shock me not even the idea that someone came up with this and made it into a film what really shocked me is that there seems to be a market for this kind of crap don't get me wrong i'm all against censorship but this film seems to me like it was made for some kind of fetish crowd that seems to get off on this type of sh t it didn't give you that same kind of disgust and guilt that one felt after watching films like august underground that film is terrible to watch but at least you get the feeling that the filmmakers want to show you how disgusting violence is in the case of it seems like it was made strictly to arouse people i prefer films that shock because they are well done and thought through like gaspar noe's films or takashi miike's or funny games or man bites dog those films will stick with you for a while this film i will have forgotten by tomorrow and the only thing that will stick with me is the thought that somewhere out there there are people getting aroused by watching this sh t if you read this please check yourself into the next hospital or shoot yourself this of course does not apply to gore hounds who just love splatter you're cool peace
0	some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not a college professor david suddenly gets a yen for adoption he pretty much takes the first child offered a bad choice named adam as it turns out adam doesn't have both in the water which almost immediately causes untold stress and turmoil for dr this sob story played out with one problem after another all centered around adam's and seizures why wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained along the way the good doctor managed to attract a to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out personally i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack bypass this yawner
0	this one features an interesting way of handling a camera br br for a dtv movie the version i saw was full screen br br but it falls short on the scenario department first you get br br around 20mn of talk talk talk in a would be hip post trainspotting way then it's slasher city and then comes br br the most dishonest cheat ending i've seen much worse than br br april fool's day where at least it made sense so all in br br all it's the old song and dance interesting director tries br br hard but deserves better movie funny usually it is the actors which are in desperate need of br br something skip it anyway for your time
0	oh my god this movie is incredible it's the baddest movie ever and i know what i am talking about i am a scary movies fan br br the story is totally silly a group of adults decide to make a party and a silly guy with an awful mask comes and kills everybody the dialogs are a kind of parody worst they're just talking about sex with a so bad accent the end is oh discover by yourself you will be really really surprised not possible yes it is and surprise the movie is just not possible bis yes it is worst than house iv and howling v br br to put it in a nutshell forget it forever
0	no way i hated granny first she is way too tall of course she is it is tom whoever's brother who's playing her and i hate that thing she does when she brushes her fake silver hair back but there are funny parts in this movie for instance the fact that every single actor looks v g very german and also that they think that even when left alone they should pretend that that guy tom is their actual granny or something i specially liked not that moment where charlotte leaves and starts walking to the nearest gas station to ask for some help she suddenly finds herself in the middle of some woods where were these before nobody dares explaining and turns turns turns a r d like a ballerina looking at the stars and ignoring the fact that granny's behind her ready to strike but anyway the music wasn't so bad the haircuts were okay and the ending terribly provocative mmmmm wish i had the german version
0	i love low budget movies including those that are intentionally or un intentionally funny excess fake gore violence etc br br this however is beyond stupid once you see the ending you'll say what the hell was the point of all the killing scenes with no one around except in a couple to witness them and how did the ending actually come about i won't give the whole story away for those dumb enough to actually watch this granny is like a psychic jason first she's outside the window with a body and 15 seconds later she's in the living room knitting the whole thing is a setup for a newcomer they pull off graphic kill scenes the knitting needles in the eyes that only chris angel mind freak could pull off and again the very end was pre posterous 56 min waste of time i've seen one of the directors other films and it was almost as bad give me 20 grand and i could do better this really deserves a big fat 0
0	an object lesson in how to make a bad movie which masquerades as horror without going in too close i would imagine this is the results of a bunch of film school students all adding bits to the story and then actually acting in it its like a film workshop of some kind and its a film badly in need of an editor in which case it would have lasted 10 minutes the director of this garbage probably had more money than sense consider the number of submitted scripts or even unreleased films which would have benefited from this the so called granny who was killing people in some pretty stupid ways looked like christopher lloyd in back to the future or maybe the musicians johnny winter edgar winter it starts off with 20 minutes of crass boring nonsense spouted out by the students something about paranoia giving this rubbish 1 is because it can't get any less it has not one single redeeming feature and when one of the girls thinks the body on the floor covered in blood is the guy fooling about she has to actually taste the red stuff before she knows its not tomato ketchup its an insult to the intelligence of an idiot
0	ok end of the story is all the kills were a joke on the main character and no one is actually dead yes i know cry wolf did it and did it well but this isn't cry wolf it's scream crap even though the characters don't apparently die we see them get stabbed to death and other ways they are killed even though these kills do not take place as anyone can see them mr director if you're gonna show people getting killed someone needs to see it if they're off camera and the character getting faked killed is alone it doesn't work and until the end i liked a couple of scenes but your end ruined the whole thing br br the acting is horrid especially the kid at the beginning who really thinks he tricked his friends into believing they were playing with his dead grandmothers brains the script is less than half baked though if you're half baked you might like the movie the only reason i gave this movie a 3 is because a they actually made something b they got it released and c they shot on film yes you read right they wasted at least 5 000 on film stock for this crap sad if they'd shot dv they'd had some cash for a better cast and another writer to go through the script and make it good br br i admire the fact that the director made something as most don't but the fact that he comes on talking about how original the movie is br br avoid the movie if it means buying it to see if a friend has it it might be a funny movie to borrow
0	this film is so awful it is funny not quite to troll 2 levels of hilarity but funny nonetheless the acting is awful the music is atrocious and the story does not make a blind bit of sense the story revolves around a man dressed in an awful granny costume killing a bunch of people at a party the death scenes are so badly done they are hilarious one girl is stabbed repeatedly in the chest but does not scream try or defend or self or run away she also manages to remain standing despite being stabbed repeatedly another death scene involving a rope is also extremely hilarious no thought seems to have been put into the plot the granny seems to magically move from one area to another e g be hiding under leaves in a woodland just where the victim just happens to stand appears in front of someone even though it had been behind them ten seconds earlier people kiss at extremely inappropriate moments would you stop and kiss someone if you were being chased by a homicidal maniac and the double twist at the end is utterly ridiculous it seems they just threw it on just to confuse people i would advise people to watch this film if they love awful horror movies like troll 2 the dreaded or blood gnome but do not watch it if you are expecting a scary horror movie you will be disappointed
0	i watched this movie at a party we were very puzzled by the ending it ended rather poor even though the entire movie isn't too amazing i was expecting something slightly better this movie is pure trash but i suggest you watch it if you find cheap horror films with a weak script quite funny personally i loved the advert it was my overall highlight the fighting scenes were basic a shot of a knife some shadows in a window fake blood i must say the granny costume was quite scary this film is a mixture of kill joy camp blood and boggy creek 2 except this film has slightly better camera wok and colour treatment compared with camp blood
0	granny directed by boris who sees eight friends experiencing a night of terror when a psycho killer dressed in a old hag rubber mask and a interrupts their party br br they say you can't judge a book by its cover but it appears that the same is not true of dvds i was in the mood for a really bad horror film last night and since the cover of granny featured a shoddily photo shopped image of the titular killer swinging an axe terrible typography they even use the system font sand a definite design no no and credits featuring absolutely no one i had heard of i reckoned it would be pretty lousy br br it was br br when a film clocks in at just under an hour long it really shouldn't waste too much time before getting to the action granny however spends the first 20 minutes or so with its unlikable group of friends indulging in pointless games and extremely banal conversation anyone who actually stays with the film long enough for the killing to begin and i doubt most sane people would bother will be treated to several dreadful death scenes featuring amateurish gore loads of awful acting and a surprise ending that comes as no surprise if you've seen april fool's day then you'll guess what the twist is way before it is revealed br br granny is uninspired unexciting and almost unwatchable avoid
0	truly awful nonsensical garbage this movie does everything wrong except make the running time under an hour the gore fx defy gravity logic there are no scares the acting is abysmal with everyone appearing to be reading their lines there's a surprise ending that's just silly where we find out that things we saw happen didn't even happen boy do i hate cop out endings they pad this thing out with long drawn out shots of people doing nothing interesting like putting on make up or talking for what seems like forever they have to pad out a movie that's under an hour long ridiculous the story itself is pretty freakin' thin i mean it's just a variation of the movie april fool's day if i remember that movie correctly and that film wasn't all that great either the only good thing i can say is it seems to have been shot well too bad nothing happens that's very exciting
0	not near as well made as the guinea pig flicks it was inspired by flowers of flesh and blood or devil's experiment and not conveying any real philosophy this video feature which is barely feature length adds hardcore sex with mosaic censoring to its inspiration the special make up effects which include stomach slitting and disembowelment are pretty good if overlit the amateur feel of the production is a distraction it all looks cheap and lazy the lighting is harsh and the sound and editing are sloppy the simple story involves a porno actress who ends up starring in a real snuff movie just when she gets tired of being abused the real abuse begins in the film's hero scene an actor cuts the woman's stomach open in graphic close up stuffs his member inside it and proceeds to do his thing i didn't find psycho the snuff reels shocking on the contrary i found it to be a desperate attempt by amateurs to one up guinea pig and its bloody ilk interestingly this was distributed by aroma a leading fetish producer
0	got this off of usenet so i wasn't prepared for the heavy and i do mean exceptionally heavy religious theme not that i'm one of satan's disciples or anything but it was very heavy handed br br on top of that the acting stunk it might be because they had to get good little boys to play bad little boys but it didn't work br br there was some pretty cool filmmaking involved so any fan of directorial style might want to check it out but be ready with the fast forward buttons br br there was some sloppiness to the editing in particular a black mustang probably a representation of satan squares off against a white wheels spin camera changes and know that white is into a white civic br br i gave up early on so i can't vouch for the moral impact of it but i would like to point out that this sort of film is totally preaching to the choir if the director writer producer was trying to bring religion to the unwashed masses they went about it all wrong i think i'd rather watch an adult diaper commercial than listen to a steely gazed bible thumper rant about jesus' dying for us yawn br br
0	as a note i'd like to say that i saw this movie at my annual church camp where the entire youth group laughed at it i bought it when i saw it on a shelf one year later if only for the humor i derived from a bad attempt at making an evangelical movie br br lay it down falls short of many movie fans' expectations on several different planes most of the problems lie within the impersonal acting regardless of the nice cars in the film or the truth in christ's sacrifice for you as a movie and witnessing tool lay it down hardly delivers br br most good opinions of the movies are supported by christians agreeing with the message while it's easy for a christian to agree with the points delivered the audience hardly ever witnesses life outside a cliché the fighting scene between ben and his brother is horribly dubbed and there are at least three blatant typos in the subtitles br br i encourage anyone to watch the movie a second time with the director's commentary on it really helps you understand just why the movie was written how it was the director's views on secular society are practically opposite of what would cater to a movie needs he shows a pedantic understanding of as well as some points of religious conflict most of the editing he admits was rushed but satisfactory he thought the over used transitions and themes to be effective and was completely happy with the acting br br he also inserted motifs that he was rather proud of all read most of the names are significant ben destin been destined gus gospel man nicky d nicodemus the car doing donuts is symbolic of the circling nothingness that is a life without christ when ben leaves on pete's motorcycle he crosses his crutches to form a cross br br i'm not making any of those up he throws around things like this in between saying while street racers and the like blow their brains out with guns and how god is in control when your born and when your die yes that was not a typo he really says that br br i have little forgiveness reserved for this movie the cool cars and good message don't do jack to make this movie good however the movie was made from a group of unprofessional individuals on a budget less than 1 100th of the fast and the furious's and the time limit was unforgiving with that in mind i give it a score of 2 10 instead of the 1 10 i so dearly think it deserves
0	as a christian i found this movie to be completely embarrassing the actors sucked the writing sucked the cinematography sucked and the story was so typical i couldn't say this is a great witnessing tool because i'd be too embarrassed to show any of my unsaved friends hollywood has much better stuff and that's because they invest the best into it christians put out sh tty work and think it's ok because it's for the lord in the old testament people spent huge amounts of money to bring offerings to god david or saul i don't remember spent what would be equal to about 50 billion in todays money on building a temple for god but these days spending what would appear to be about 30 000 tops on making a movie to witness to people with is just pathetic it's the person not the product that affects someone don't waste your time trying to convert your friends with this waste of an hour and a half if you want to make a positive impact with people show them movies like the matrix american beauty braveheart etc movies that have something to say and actually get it into you
0	apart from the fact that this film was made i suppose it seemed a good idea at the time considering bottom was so popular the one thing that puzzled me about guest house paradiso was what happened to the lighting there is absolutely no artificial lighting used in this film whatsoever and i watched it on network tv so it wasn t a case of watching a dodgy tape in fact the film was shot so darkly it was impossible to see what the hell was going on but if the dialogue was anything to go by that s maybe not a bad thing
0	this should have been a short film nothing more the length of 1 5 hours is much too long because after 10 minutes you have seen almost every joke it's getting more and more on your nerves untill you finally kick out your brain to endure that movie br br to do yourself a favor don't mention to see that movie
0	yep this has got to be one of the lamest movies i've ever seen it's utterly tasteless has no style whatsoever the story is so thin that you can watch television through it and the whole film has so many holes you could drive an oil tanker through it br br sure i appreciate a good b movie as much as most male white homo sapiens do but this has got to be the worst i've seen in fact it's so b that it lacks everything that makes a b movie interesting br br the whole movie is based around such charming artefacts as the characters beating the crap out of each other various bodily functions and the complete lack of sanity of anything on screen br br it's not even funny in fact it's quite the opposite i found it even boring at times due to it's extreme predictability br br i find nothing good to say about this movie it was a waste of time watching it and i hope others don't do the same mistake if you also pay for it you should get a serious done
0	the unthinkable has happened having first witnessed it a few years ago i have had a film that has been my benchmark for awfulness and that film was called island a family adventure movie with hulk hogan and grace jones i'm not making this up it plunged to new depths of movie making and is still the only film i've seen that made me wonder what else the film's budget could have been spent on like new schools or cancer treating drugs however for sheer and unadulterated levels of crap any film will be having to lower their standards even lower if they wish to trump guest house paradiso to the distinction of being one of the very worst movies i've ever had to watch br br based loosely around the puerile but amusing tv show bottom this film introduces us to two of the biggest losers imaginable richard is a hotel manager as unfriendly as anyone you can imagine and so lecherous as to almost ooze slime from every action his buddy eddie director adrian is an alcoholic waste of human life and together they try to run britain's worst hotel situated upon a cliff top next to a nuclear power station between them they indulge in cartoony violence with sound effects at regular intervals steal anything remotely valuable or interesting from the fools who stay there and stare longingly at any woman at all the plot such as it is involves the arrival of fabled italian screen goddess gina vincent cassel who is fleeing from her wedding and attempts to lay low at the guest house paradiso much to the astonishment of richie and eddie and that's it br br i used to think that the carry on films represented everything bad about the uk film industry and god knows we've spent so much time and money trying to escape that god awful legacy we've had films like trainspotting 28 days later four weddings and a funeral and the brilliant shaun of the dead also starring simon pegg but this this drags those films screaming and kicking back to the days of sid james and barbara top flying off with the aid of a bicycle whistle guest house paradiso is so low in its ambition that it insults you the minute you watch it i kept watching waiting in anticipation for the jokes to start but they never came just an endless stream of trapped knob gags unimaginative scenarios that defy explanation slightly amusing violence with frying pans and fridge doors and almost nothing raising so much as a smirk come the first ad break it was on tv you see and i was ready to switch off but my loyal duties to you my readers kept me going i'm watching this so they don't have to became my mantra so you guys better remember how much you owe me for this because this was about as much fun as having sand kicking into my eyes and being force fed dog food br br trust me i used to love the bottom tv show the combination of suitably grubby acting from and with ott juvenile humour worked for half an hour every week certainly not for an hour and a half as and indulge themselves in their little private joke and bore and depress the rest of the audience honestly this makes mayall's drop dead fred seem like the godfather and should you happen to meet either of these two people who are pretty much solely responsible for the chaos on screen pretending to be a movie feel free to swiftly deliver a boot to their testicle region they'd probably enjoy it pegg and bill nighy both as guests at the hotel are dragged down with this sinking ship but at least they survived and should not be so lucky the movie equivalent of and should be avoided as such
0	wow this film was terrible it is as simple as that it is actually the first time that i walked out early as far as i can remember this turned out okay though i had a very nice chat with two most charming girls while we all waited for the rest to finally give up on that crap they called a movie br br where to start bad acting bad jokes humour which i simply cannot stand sorry but snot pee and scat are not funny you have seen the title picture that scene actually drags on for about 5 minutes with the two heroes hitting and mutilating each other which is supposed to be humorous all by itself it is not br br apart from body fluids violence and cross dressing i do not remember much about this at least not much good i was really really disappointed by this piece of garbage or let us be honest here given that i am actually a big fan of british i e black humour i was angry br br so want my advice three words do not watch
0	i have always been a fan of bottom grabbing as many videos as i could find of the series here in the states the chemistry between and is always genius and the combination of smart writing and utterly stupid humor seems to work without fail i thus sat down to watch this movie with great eagerness and was utterly disappointed by the end br br the first 3 4 of the movie can best be described as uninspired and poorly directed sorry but with some utterly brilliant moments unfortunately these laugh out loud moments make you realize how less than brilliant the rest of the movie is the slapstick starts off funny but eventually becomes a bit boring with only the perverted sex jokes to keep things humorous br br the end of the movie the scenes for those of you who've seen it was perhaps the worst ending i've seen in the past decade honestly it was one joke repeated about thirty times followed by an abrupt ending that made no sense which didn't bother me and wasn't funny which did br br to sum up i was sorely disappointed by this movie i shall cling to the few brilliant moments in it to retain the memories that i can but i have to warn you if you're about to for your ntsc conversion tape from the local don't there are far better things to spend your money on
0	the premise of bottom crossed with fawlty towers sounds great however have managed to create a film that raises barely a titter ten years ago mayall's mad stare and idiocy were funny now they are just annoying br br the film had promise though the most horrendous hotel in britain is not a new idea but failed to deliver the saving graces were competent performances from simon spaced big train pegg and mathieu and the film is only 90 minutes long sorry guys but you really have hit the bottom
0	this movie just didn't do it for me i like horror and splatter movies but this one has very little to do with horror the effects are cheap and when they chop of one of her feet it looks so fake the same goes for the other effects like the tongue torture and the gut sex they could have spent of few extra bucks on the effects br br with lots of sex with as in all japanese movies this is just a sick fetish porn and there seems to be a market for sick stuff like this while bloodier for me it fits in with titles like purge and the series these movies feature girls eating and playing with every fluid that comes out of your body eating bugs and fish in a gross way and having sex with all kinds of weird animals like toads eels and one look at the covers will tell horror fans to look elsewhere no horror here just sick and degrading sex scenes br br horror fans should avoid this one and are better of checking out guinea flowers of flesh and blood or even august underground while these are not great they at least offer a horror experience and absolutely fails in that department
0	being a huge fan of the bottom series i was really looking forward to the release of this film i was eagerly anticipating a laugh a minute roller coaster ride alas br br where to start on this mess i think its a good start to say that its hardly richie and eddie on our screens in the first place as none of the jokes and one liners they usually deliver so well are funny i was still waiting for the first laugh after a good 20 minutes of viewing many aspects of the story were pathetic and it was as if the film was full of those bad moments they rehearsed and decided to leave out of the final cut br br the overall sets and atmosphere surrounding the film is dark and dingy which i suppose is good if they want to portray the guest house the 2 buffoons attempt to run but to me its just puts an even higher on a sorry state of filming that should never have been created br br the acting at times is pathetic fielding is wasted as the loony mrs and i've seen simon pegg have much better outings br br i'd recommend guest house paradiso to anybody who is blind drunk because they might appreciate the terrible puns much more but to any bottom fan who hasn't seen this film and is expecting true richie and eddie action you have been warned
0	i had seen in blackadder and the new statesman so i thought i'd give this film a try br br at around 4 pm i bought it at around 8pm i started to watch at around 8 i fast forwarded the remaining film to see if there was anything left watchable for a human being with a brain but there wasn't at around 8 i threw the dvd into the dustbin and that's where this film belongs br br what ever happened to british humour the humour so fine and witty intelligent and artful that you find in yes minister blackadder vicar of dibley fawlty towers or the fast show the black humour britain is so famous for i don't want to insult anybody but i presume even stupid children wouldn't find this funny they deserve more intelligent fun and you can do better so please do
0	possibly the worst film within the genre in existence it was announced as a comedy but is simply tragically pathetic i don't think anyone could have achieved anything more terrible and irritating if they were specifically requested to it is toilet humour at its very poorest i would avoid even watching the trailer i only went to see it because it was announced that if you like monty python you are bound to love this whoever wrote that was either biased or seriously deranged i am still bewildered how one can honestly believe such a statement rarely do i leave the cinema really it takes a lot of effort for a film to have that effect on me this one did it in just 30 minutes
0	the first time i had heard of guest house was in the er washroom after having just seen fight club in each urinal was deposited a small round black circle when the circle came into contact with moisture to put it delicately it caused a colour picture to form with photographs of the two stars and the tag line you'll p yourself laughing when you'd finished washing your hands the circle had dried and faded to black again waiting to spring it's surprise on the next victim br br okay maybe the punchline wasn't terribly sophisticated but you have to admit it was innovative in fact i think i can honestly say i've never seen anything like it in my life before and these days of over a century of cinema and marketing that's a real feat what a pity the film that went with it failed to live up to the promise br br i hate to pan guest house and i am indebted to richard and adrian eddie elizabeth for many years of laughter through their appealing television series be it the invention of the young ones 1982 1984 the sitting room plays of bottom 1991 1995 or even solo work such as in the new statesman 1988 1993 in fact this would have made an hilarious 45 minute tv special unfortunately its an 89 minute film br br there's definitely some merit to be had and i laughed continuously throughout the protracted finale which spoofed the exorcist and raiders of the lost ark and involved well you'll have to see that bit for yourself yet often the pace is leaden and a sterile atmosphere is throughout the two stars taking his usual backseat this time due to the fact that he adequately directs never really get into first gear only sporadically showing the foul mouthed mania that makes us love him on the small screen indeed the writers' presumption that we are already familiar with the characters leads to them being to the audience the slight hints of depth seen in the series richie's effeminate failed social climbing for example are not present here and instead we are left with parodies of parodies br br the fawlty towers accusation does pass water complete with drunken chef and unseen called for waiter which uncannily rhymes with manuel some of the ideas such a hotel next to a nuclear reactor with a childrens' swing hanging over a cliff face are very very funny but ultimately the frenetic pace is stolen the two constantly looking for a studio audience that isn't there and all the dead laugh areas patched up with incidental comedy music that would have been dated in a carry on film two decades ago br br brand of puerile sadistic perverse humour is funny and i feel sure it will make you laugh just not as often as it should
0	i loved all the other don knotts movies but i never heard much about how to frame a fig and now i know why i can't think of anyone who would find it enjoyable this movie seems to appeal to 9 or 10 year olds but even most of them would give this a thumbs down at best there are brief moments of mild amusement mostly from don knotts playing the same nervous underdog persona that made him famous br br after the movie finally finished i was curious if my teenager could pick up on this movie's fatal flaw we were in complete agreement the prentiss gates sidekick character was even dumber than the don knotts character br br be happy that mr limpet reluctant astronaut gun and mr chicken movies are around to enjoy
0	doesn't anyone bother to check where this kind of sludge comes from before on about its supposed revelations ask yourself a question is my skull an open bucket that i allow anyone to dump their propaganda into do yourself a favor and take a look at the bomb shelter mentality of com before you waste your time with this screed br br these sorts of mother earth people's republic of berkeley that openly despise a way of life only because it doesn't match theirs must believe their case fails miserably on facts and objectivity else why resort to willful distortion and blatant one pathetic br br don't be a sap take two seconds and cast a skeptical eye before falling for yet more 'end of the world' hysteria from it takes a village types with a political agenda that's probably even to the left of your own mi moore rather his unthinking followers have really opened the floodgates with this kind of one sided political trash passed off as a cough documentary but apparently they understand the sentiment of an ever gullible public if it's on a movie screen it must be true br br god gave you a brain act like you know what you're supposed to do with it
0	a modern scare film yep it is br br the hippies and environmentalists got together to deliver us a fear film i didn't recognize it when watching it only 2 years ago that it was a fear film but that's exactly what it is br br there's no difference between this film and films the nazi made about us in ww2 and the same films we made about them this is pure propaganda and speaks only to those that believe in aliens 9 11 conspiracy plots faked moon landings peak oil and major environmentalism what i can say is this film does push buttons make you ask questions and ultimately just forget about it it's a scare film so if your scarred get in your houses lock your doors and stock up for that nuclear winter we all know is coming when bush provokes the chinese into nuclear war
0	the topics presented are very interesting suburban culture suburban sprawl public transportation oil gas depletion energy dependence alternative energy sources etc br br the problem is that this is a pure and shameless propaganda piece one viewpoint is presented then hammered upon the viewer over and over you see the same handful of repeatedly making their case the supposed starts off sounding like a news reporter but by the end even he is preaching the film's dogma br br the dark side of the film is not so much the gloom and doom message about oil depletion but the sense that the folks in the film are actually wishful for a post oil society and all that it entails they paint this picture of a utopian society where we all return to the self contained local village model walk to work shop locally grow our own food and generally live an idyllic 19th century lifestyle for them the post oil society would seem a grand vision of a better world it would certainly spell the end of globalization and better still the end of walmart i will give them some credit for applying actual math in exposing the weaknesses of several over touted alternative energy sources including and hydrogen br br i gave it 3 stars because i appreciated the old footage and the premise
0	where do i begin with the killing mind before i mention the good bit this movie is about a young psychological profiling fbi woman or something that for some reason goes to work for the lapd for a wee while there are some recognisable faces like the i love you man bloke from wayne's world playing a cop nice beard age too and two guys who always seem to play cops playing you guessed it cops one of them was one of the cops in gross point blank following john cusack about the place and the other is the fbi guy with specs in final destination who is also in the fugitive as another cop i know the fbi us marshalls cia etc aren't cops but they're all the same they enforce the law to a certain degree that makes them cops in my book feel free to disagree with the definition of a cop all you want they're still seen as the ones who are trying to bring the bad guys down any i digress the woman is working alongside these cops who just seem to sit around in a library in the basement or something and for some unknown reason decides to reopen a case that hasn't been looked at for she saw the dead body as a kid so naturally decided that she can reopen the case cos she was personally attached to it i also like how the person profiling other people's psychological state witnessed a murder scene as a child surely that's the kind of thing that can screw with someone's head she starts asking questions off some journalist who covered the story when it was open even though he appears to be the same age as the woman so he presumably was either writing for a newspaper when he was 10 or he wrote a few school reports on it and she decided he'd be the best person to ask about it br br we then see that as well as reopening homicide cases from 25 years earlier she tries her hand at petty theft as some really inconspicuous bloke through a busy street wearing a balaclava way to blend moron anyway she and the cops she's with eating ice creams in the park give chase after him and whilst crossing a bridge with a woman and child standing on it the thief grabs the baby from the mother's arms and throws the baby in the river this if you haven't already guessed is the best bit of the movie i'm not sadistic and don't have a hatred for babies or anything but the scene just looks so stupid i promise you will wet your pants laughing at it if you should watch this movie it gets better when the cop from final destination the fugitive jumps in to rescue the baby then declares to his friend it's a baby how did he not know that before he jumped in is beyond me br br anyway she chases after the thief but loses him later on she remembers that a random dog didn't bark at the thief so assumed it must be his and decided to track down the thief through the dog the dog had no markings or anything on it so how she knew where to find the dog and thus find the thief is another question i won't go into it was shortly after this that i stopped watching the story was moving really slowly and after i had stopped laughing at the baby throwing bit i had kind of lost interest and missed what was being said br br saying that i'll go ahead and assume that the killer was the journalist bloke because he seemed a bit shifty and she was spending a lot of time with him and anyone who watches columbo knows that the person outside the police force who spends most time with the investigating officer is your bad guy plus other people's reviews say the killer was pretty obvious so i'm sure it was him br br so all in all a pants film but worth watching just for that one glorious scene
0	first of all season 1 is intolerably bad the prison is ridiculously unrealistic the characters are so two dimensional they're nearly transparent and the direction is terrible it runs like a bad video of a junior high school play characters wandering past the camera and uttering highly timed and rehearsed lines passing off as random prison talk soon the show gets better but not by much the return from the commercial break is always accompanied by some ridiculous monologue by wheelchair bound augustus hill who is played impressively by harold perrineau the only time his character is consistently bad is during the bad performance art monologues most of which take place in an inexplicable rotating glass cube and generally have nothing to do with what's taking place in the show br br unfortunately the bad ideas in oz could fill an encyclopedia of several volumes consider the whole situation first of all prisoners are able to hang out in plain sight getting drunk doing drugs and they not only have cd players cds they might as well pass out steak knives but all incoming mail is thoroughly examined by prisoners christ the place is like a men's club with guards guards that don't do much br br near the end of season two an older grandson is diagnosed with leukemia and all of the prisoners pitch in thick wads of 20 and 50 bills to help send him to disneyworld to fulfill his dying wish these have to be the richest prisoners in the world every single prisoner in oz all of a sudden became caring loving guys except kenny an irritating character but one of the only ones who is consistently convincing even wanted to be nice but that's okay because there is no order or sense in the show so even this is not much of a distraction br br later shockingly there is a boxing scene in which one inmate is wearing an i love cops t shirt in prison can you imagine i have a cousin who was in prison a few years ago i sent him an old picture of us with some friends in high school and in the picture one of my friends was holding an i love cops bumper sticker and one of the woods guys who have been in prison for years and years saw the picture but just grabbed it and ripped it to shreds my cousin got lucky br br kenny also constantly berates the guards and even more senior officers for not calling him bricks one of them even tried to bribe him to go to an english class you may lose track of who is in charge the prisoners or the guards more than one investigator for example goes into the prison undercover and gets killed trying to stop the drug trade personally i would just stop letting prisoners inspect incoming mail rather than risk the lives of investigators br br let's see what else son od's in solitary and no one thinks to ask the guard how he got the drugs he just got them i guess and make sure to pay attention otherwise you'll miss the reason why the prisoners have enough money to be able to afford when they get bad gums i didn't know guests in maximum security prisons were afforded such luxurious treatment options how about this when robson asks about dr schedule so he can ask what race of gums he was given is so terrified that he goes to the warden and quits his job on the spot do doctors and dentists not have the right to request not to see certain prisoners after poet and o'reilly make the announcement to the entire prison robson asks to see dr and is escorted to his office brought in without knocking and the guard promptly leaves without a word they might as well give him a gun br br i shouldn't go on about stupid ideas in this show but it's like a flood i can't stop it who thought of the chinese refugees who can't speak chinese and who disappear en masse from sight unless they're needed who thought of the goofy religious wars and all the reverend prisoners who though of gum transplant what's the deal with and agamemnon agamemnon because he clearly doesn't belong in prison and because of the whole thing with his grandson macbeth because it was nothing but a ridiculous means to an end as it were br br but what are the worst ideas things that go nowhere which are constant an irish man comes to the prison and builds a bomb he threatens to blow up the entire prison the bomb turns out to be a dud and the episode ends with him being led away by the bomb squad after the entire prison is evacuated nothing is ever heard from him or about the whole situation again it's like it never happened in one episode prisoners are given dogs to train what the hell if that wasn't bad enough during one training session a guard fires his gun inside the prison walls as a training exercise no one seems to mind br br i also like how anytime some kind of altercation breaks out the culprits are pulled aside they don't say anything and the guards or warden or sister pete or whoever always says i hope you don't think i'm gonna let this go and then they walk away and let it go the audience won't remember br br maybe i'm spoiled by prison break but oz is just a goofy prison drama that might be better as a play a short one at least a low budget movie there is just not enough here to sustain a multi season tv show then again i watched six seasons of it on dvd sometimes i don't understand myself
0	frankie plays jason who is a high school student his biggest problem is his life is built on small or big lies that puts him into trouble most times however he cannot escape from his teacher and he finishes his creative writing homework just before its deadline while he is biking fast to hand his homework to the teacher he crushes into a car as he explains the situation to grumpy man giamatti in the car he gives him a lift to his school but the problem is jason leaves his homework in the car the other way of saying this is marty wolf giamatti steals it br br after a few months jason goes to a movie and sees a trailer that takes him aback because the story of the movie is based on his homework he tells that to his parents but of course they don't believe him especially his father uses words which insults him jason decides to go to la and find wolf to tell his father that jason is not a liar when wolf refuses it jason takes action and ruins his life br br this is the short story of the big fat liar well as a kids movie it might be a light hearted one but there are some errors that even could would ask if that is possible such as having such a small amount of money and going to la with a friend to sort the problem out having access to this cinema producer's highly protected house and office setting up a telecommunications system overnight does it seem believable it does not well this is a kids movie but kids are not that gullible br br big fat liar offers some little pleasure to its target audience unfortunately i am not a big fat liar to say that this is a good movie out of
0	not for the first time i'm out of kilter with the majority view oz is a dreadful pretentious voyeuristic series the makers have their cake and eat it oz em city etc are used as ultra crude signals that the apparent grittiness is complete fantasy this allows viewers the of intellectual excuses to watch soap operatic nonsense spiced with everything that is bad about human beings br br when you watch an episode please remember that while the foul mouthed violent absurdly convoluted unconvincing sick imaginary drama unfolds before your approving eyes several hundred infants in poorer parts of the world have died from bad food or water br br oz is exploitative drama at its worst it appeals to the basest instincts but pretends to be serious and meaningful it blows hot and cold and changes from to more often than a symphony br br dialogue is unrelentingly ugly and utilitarian the liberties taken with realities are stupid here's a nightclub owning dandy arriving at oz in his foppish finery complete with a ridiculously cloudy contact lens in one eye brandishing a stash of drugs that nobody detected here's a murderous wimp bleating about the heat death of the universe begging to be killed but of course being refused by the brute he approaches and doing a bit of improbable throat cutting himself br br the action races on at a pace fast enough for the voyeuristic dim witted viewer to be thinking always about what happens next rather than the rubbish that has just been shown don't worry a betrayal a murder a sex scene will be along within a minute or two br br finally oz is obviously pretentious you don't have to feel embarrassed about being carried along by its flow you can watch it and tell yourself that the producers writers and actors are doing everything with a huge wink or same word but for a change of vowel to the audience br br yes you can be a nasty minded viewer and excuse yourself on the grounds of the cleverness post modernistic etc skills of the oz production team they appeal to the lowest common denominator while pretending to operate on a higher plane br br truly a despicable series and every hour it shows rewarding its makers and actors and generating advertising revenue for the channels that show it to people who have nothing better to do than watch something so ugly and unnecessary another few hundred children die whose lives could have been saved by the dollars spent by this horrible successful widely praised series
0	because it came from hbo and based on the imdb rating i watched the first season of this series what a waste the characters are occasionally interesting but mostly cartoon like the acting ranges from good to mediocre talent with a s t r o n g emphasis on the latter not only prisoners also viewers should leave all hope at the cell door that this story is believable it's such a load of dung that you will need unusually strong fortitude to keep watching the violence as with most of the developments in the story is titillating and whatever morality is supposedly served up it's of the lite variety if your idea of excellent television includes the the writing acting and overall production quality seen in the sopranos deadwood or six feet under avoid oz if you want to see a disneyland for illiterate jerks watch oz stuff like this gives edgy a bad name
0	when i first saw this film it was not an impressive one now that i have seen it again with some friends on dvd they had not viewed it on the silver screen my opinion remains the same the subject matter is puerile and the performances are weak
0	people please don't bother to watch this movie this movie is bad it's totally waste of time i don't see any point here it's a stupid film with lousy plot and the acting is poor i rather get myself beaten than watch this movie ever again
0	an updated version of a theme which has been done before while that in and of itself is not bad this movie doesn't reach the ring like the other inherent and pure evil ones do br br predictable ambitious attempt that falls short of the mark not worth sitting through for the tired contrived ending
0	this is a typical perfect crime thriller a perfect crime is executed and the investigating police officer ignoring all the clues immediately knows who guilty is the audience has to wait around the whole movie for the guilty to be caught the result is like every single episode of columbo or murder she wrote the director himself refers to the hackney story by showing the police officer watching an episode of matlock this story barely fills up 90 minutes but the director insists on using all 120 minutes filling with every cliche in the book skip this one you are not missing anything
0	murder by numbers is one of those movies that you expect is made for tv but isn't considering the only actor of any note is bullock although michael pitt seems to be moving onto bigger and better things it isn't a great surprise that this movie quickly fades away from memory to be replaced by more important things like remembering to lock your front door when you go out or putting clothes back on when you come out of the shower br br bullock plays cassie mayweather a cop with personal issues don't they all together with her new partner a wet looking ben chaplin she is called to investigate the murder of a young woman nothing unusual there except that the perps are a couple of teenage students who think they've planned and executed the perfect murder as the investigation continues a battle of wills emerges between cassie and the main suspect richie haywood ryan gosling br br the crippling issue here is that the two leads are hopeless bullock though she is very nice to look at is about as believable in the role of a hardened cynical cop as rodney dangerfield actually he'd be better chaplin for his sins is a complete non entity and i feel sorry that he has to put this film on his cv in his attempt to break into hollywood at least gosling and pitt as the conniving sneering suspects acquit themselves adequately as if dodgy leads weren't bad enough a story that would send anybody to sleep and a highly predictable but illogical ending shoot this film in the head before it has a chance to run br br murder by numbers has absolutely nothing going for it even a pointless nude scene by bullock wouldn't redeem it well just a little but still not enough to save it forgettable predictable and redundant this is one film that isn't going to move the cop genre forward as cassie probably says on her next case there's nothing to see here people move along keep moving
0	well the writing was very sloppy the directing was sloppier and the editing made it worse at least i hope it was the editing the acting wasn't bad but it wasn't that good either pretty much none of the characters were likable at least 45 minutes of that movie was wasted time and the other hour or so was not used anywhere near its full potential it was a great idea but yet another wasted good idea goes by it could have ended 3 different places but it just kept going on to a mostly predictable hollywood ending and what wasn't predictable was done so badly that it didn't matter the ending was not worth watching at all sandra bullock was out of her element and should stay away from these types of movies the movie looked rushed also the movie just wasn't really worth seeing and had i paid for it i would have been very mad maybe i was more disappointed because i expected a really good movie and got a bad one the movie over all was not horrifibly bad but i wouldn't reccomend it i gave it 2 out of 10 b c i liked the idea so much and i did like one character justin i believe the super smart one and it also had some very cheap ways to cover plot holes it was like trying to cover a volcano with cheap masking tape it was not pretty anyway if you see it wait for the 1 50 theater or video unless you like pretty much every movie you see then i guess you'll like this one
0	at first the movie seemed to be doing great they had the characters profiles set the plot seemed to be going in the right direction however as the movie progressed it seemed the director focused on the wrong kind of things or just a lot was edited from the movie the characters' identities changed for the worse within the movie also there seemed to be a lot of implicit meaning in other words they had things within the movie that didn't seem to fit the movie itself and the title no where in the movie does the title fit the movie i suppose the title works for the previews actors did well with what they had if they had a better director and writer maybe this would have worked out better but it didn't so now there's a new terrible movie coming out this friday my opinion don't waste your time or money
0	so i'm wondering while watching this film did the producers of this movie get to save money on sandra bullock's wardrobe by dragging out her before clothes from miss congeniality did ms bullock also get to sleepwalk through the role by channeling the before gracie hart as many reviewers have noted before the film is very formulaic add to that the deja vu viewer experiences with the character of cassie maywether as a somewhat darker gracie hart with more back story and it rapidly become a snooze fest br br the two bad boy serial killers have been done before and better in other films as has the good guy partner trying to protect his partner despite the evidence character been seen before in fact none of the characters in the film ever get beyond two dimensions or try to be anything but trite stereotypes br br one last peeve using the term serial killer is false advertising murdering one person even if it's a premeditated murder does not make you a serial killer you may have the potential to become a serial killer but you are not a serial killer or even a spree killer
0	i suppose i can see why critics give this film two out five stars it isn't fantastic but i think it is worth a look from director shawn levy cheaper by the dozen night at the museum basically 14 year old jason shepherd malcolm in the frankie is often lying to his parents and teachers and his teacher warns him that if he doesn't do his creative writing he will fail his whole semester and have to repeat the grade during summer so he completes his work but getting a lift from hollywood producer marty wolf paul giamatti who hit him on the way to school he manages to leave his paper with the story big fat liar in the car he finds out from a movie trailer that marty stole his paper and is turning it into a major movie so he and his best friend she's the man's amanda bynes are on a mission to prove jason is for once telling the truth marty of course is too nasty and smug to give jason's father harry michael bryan french a phone call and he burns the big fat liar paper so now jason and are determined to make marty's life as hellish as possible until he agrees to call jason's dad they put blue dye in his swimming pool and orange hair dye in his shampoo and much more naughty pranks creating chaos for marty's career there is the obvious point when jason looks like he wants to give up but don't worry all characters that despise marty help out in the final operation and with jason's parents coming he wants to finally prove his truthfulness and boy does he deliver big style also starring amanda detmer as monty lee majors as vince donald faison as frank jackson sandra oh as mrs phyllis caldwell russell as marcus duncan christine tucci as carol shepherd and american pie's john cho as dustin wong is likable byrnes proves a very surprisingly talented support and even though he is wasting his time and talent a little giamatti is great at being nasty it is a kids film so if it seems corny cheesy or predictable just keep that in mind and try to enjoy the performances and slapstick okay
0	from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class and i recognised the leading actress so i tried it despite the rating by the critics basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson's ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully's michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie 'the hyena' mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene e g non relating hairs the plan doesn't seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects it is just a question of if they can sway them away also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills chris penn as ray feathers r d call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst d a al swanson i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock's rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film does it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable adequate
0	alfred hitchcock invented any kind of thriller you could think of he set the standards so high that any director who makes a suspense movie will be fatally compared to him br br the main subject of this bullock vehicle all the ideas almost everything was already in hitchcock's classic rope the two students who commit a gratuitous crime nietsche's philosophy and the clues that the boys disseminate the master was the first to transfer them to the screen and with an eighty minute movie which was a technical riveting tour de force br br murder by numbers does not take place in a single room like the rope mind you and what a supreme originality it pits two cops against the evil youngsters and you would never guess it these two cops are very different actually bullock plays the part of woman living like a man and her partner chaplin is as shy as a clueless girlie the two boys' performances are not really mind boggling not as good as say that of edward norton in primal fear br br well you know rope was so good
0	there's something frustrating about watching a movie like 'murder by numers' because somewhere inside that hollywood formula is a good movie trying to pop out however by the time the credits roll there's no saving it the whole thing is pretty much blown by the cop side of the story where sandra bullock and ben chaplin's homicide detective characters muddle through an awkward sexual affair that becomes more and more trivialized the longer the movie goes on although bullock is strong in her role it's not enough to save the lackluster script and lazy pacing ben chaplin's talents are wasted in a forgettable role he did much better earlier in the year in the underrated 'birthday girl' as well as chris penn who has a role so thanklessly small you feel sorry for a talent like him anyway the plot really isn't even a factor in this movie at all the two teen killers played by ryan gosling and michael pitt are the only real reasons to see this movie their talent and chemistry work pretty good and they play off of each other quite well it's too bad they weren't in a much better all around film barbet schroeder is treading way too safe ground here for such a seasoned filmmaker bottom line it's worth a rent if you're a genre fan but everyone else will live a fulfilled life without ever seeing it except maybe on network tv with convenient commercial breaks
0	having been pleasantly surprised by sandra bullock's performance in miss congeniality i decided to give murder by numbers a shot while decent in plucky self effacing roles ms bullock's performance in serious roles see hope floats speed 2 28 days leave much to be desired her character is at the same time omniscient confused and sexually maladjusted the sub plot of sandra's past comes across as needless filler that does little to develop her already shallow character the two teenage boys gave decent performances although their forensics expertise and catch me if can attitude is belied by stupid errors that scream we did it chris penn as the all too obvious suspect is wasted here as is ben chaplin's token partner love interest character br br spoilers ahead mediocre acting aside the biggest flaws can be traced to a tv of the week plot that never has you totally buying into the murder motives in the first place and as mentioned the stupid errors vomiting up a rare food on the murder scene an all too convenient and framing of the school janitor the two boys hanging out together in public a convenient love interest to cause friction etc etc cause the view to go from being intrigues to being bored and disappointed by the murderers the ending was strictly by the numbers and was probably the most disappointing aspect of the movie using the now cliched tactic of almost showing the climactic scene at the beginning of the film and then filling the audience in how we arrived at that moment the final scenes surprise no one and lacked any of the so called intelligence the film purported to arrive at it's conclusion a somewhat promising concept but poorly executed and weak in nearly every way out of
0	hard to believe that director barbet schroeder once did the majestic and very funny maitresse 1976 and now only seems to do by the numbers hollywood thrillers br br this is very lightweight john grisham material crossed with the plot of a tv movie bullock is cass mayweather a feisty and independent crime investigator specialising in serial killers ben chaplin is her reserved police partner sam kennedy and together they make an uncomfortable duo not good when two unbalanced college maladriots gosling and pitt decide to send them on a wild goose chase by planting very clever and misleading forensic evidence at a crime scene br br fair enough but while bullock and chaplin fail to create any sparks we also have to endure a several dull overly melodramatic flashbacks illustrating an important event in cass's history then of course there are the frequent shots of a cliff side log cabin where there's absolutely no doubt the ott ending will be set oooh the atmosphere br br watch any episode of csi instead it's to the point and far more exciting
0	the worst film ever made bar none give yourself a pat on the back if you can possibly sit through every excruciatingly painful minute of it except for the bit where the hard luck loser turned deranged psychopath from forced medical experimentation pours his pea soup on the doctor's head and laughs like any good raving lunatic should that's all
0	i've already commented on this film under the name but i see there are others who have commented since all i can say is what the f k i cannot believe that a whole 16 people have commented on this film or even seen this movie add to that the fact that a couple give it great reviews probably the makers of the film who went to one of those places in a strip mall that provide internet service and wrote a good review seeing as how there is no way they could or would pay for their own internet provider just look at their movie although i still admit i got a soft spot for this movie i thought that some of the other people writing about this one might have it confused with another until i read the reviews especially the person who identified the tag line on the front of the box the ultimate in frontal lobotomy what the f k is that supposed to mean anyway frontal lobotomy i totally forgot about that until i read it in the review people we are a select few i say we meet once a year to view this film wait does anyone still have it if anyone does have it please contact me i'm to get drunk
0	i bought this movie at a garage sale when i was like 15 i hated it then and watching it again just for the hell of it it's even worse now you can hear the director and cameraman in the background yelling commands like zoom zoom zoom the are no special effects just a raw piece of meat that is supposed to be a brain this is utter crap and i originally thought it was a one of a kind home movie or something that i bought but this was distributed elsewhere and it's just really weird to know that other people have seen it whoops i need 10 lines well this can be an interesting thing to watch to see how no budget movies were made before the invention of digital cameras this sucks actually yeah do watch this just to see if you can sit through the worst if you can make it through this you can make it through anything
0	i remembered this awful movie i bought at camelot music store in the summer of 1989 when i was visiting my grandparents it was a time when i had just discovered movies like re animator from beyond the return of the living dead and dawn of the dead i was ready for all the horror gore genre had to offer or so i thought i was only about 12 years old at the time so i really don't remember it all that well i remember a psycho running around with a corkscrew killing people and a couple of cops i think who were riding in a car that wasn't actually moving but being rocked side to side to look like it was true cinemagic i also remember it being the worst film i had ever seen up to that point and i promptly threw it in the garbage br br something tonight made me think of that movie i can't believe i actually remembered the name so i jumped on imdb to see if it was listed to my surprise it was and a full other 5 people have seen it amazing even though i remember hating the film at the time i sort of wish i had kept it hidden away somewhere because i'd love to check it out again for a laugh it would probably make a good drinking game movie anyway i'm glad i'm part of the elite few that's seen this little treasure i would love to pick it up somewhere for a couple of bucks but beware this is not a recommendation it is awful it's just for nostalgia
0	for a while it seemed like this show was on 24 7 then apparently there was a second season or some other kind of continuation of this horrible show about the two most vapid and conceited people who have ever been filmed all the other comments have captured the essence of these two selfish airheads perfectly not much less can be said about them besides what everyone else has said br br i doubt these two ladies have souls and more than likely they made some kind of faustian bargain in order to get their on a television series may the fates protect the human race from any more exposure to the ghastly girls
0	shakespeare would have been outraged the writers mutilated shakespeare's amazing work ariel is the only believable acting performance the african voodoo secluded swamp and gator man character make the movie a mockery of shakespeare's true tempest br br don't waste your eye sight on this movie
0	well the episode i just watched had the older girl whining about why people keep mentioning her husband mr a famous american football player apparently she seems unwilling to accept that he's the only reason she isn't flipping burgers she married someone famous and that's why she has cameras pointed at her br br when challenged by an interviewer to explain what she actually does she gave a wonderfully circular reason for why people should pay attention to her i work really hard on my reality tv show then she said i'm not a celebrity i'm a personality br br i'm not quite sure who this series is meant to appeal to except people who've had all their intelligence removed it's certainly no role model to anyone except gold diggers as the two stars do nothing but spend money and all it tells you about rich people is that they have no money problems
0	1940's cartoon banned nowadays probably because of the 'black beauty' gag in which daffy rides a black person as if it were a horse br br the whole story takes place in a bookstore where the characters of the books come to life every evening so we have among others the ugly duck daffy and the wolf of they wind up in a chase after the wolf tricked daffy with a phony duck hence the title br br and chase is all there is in this little cartoon that doesn't have any real appeal nowadays only fun if you're a true fan of the looney tunes i guess br br 4 10
0	i only rented this stinker because of its relatively high ratings it totally sucked i cannot imagine how anyone would think this a good movie even an ok movie none of the characters had any redeeming qualities of any kind to varying degrees they were each selfish and mean spirited or abused and damaged personalities who hadn't a clue about the spirit of christmas when this takes place i know canadians and like them but i cannot think that even they would think this a good movie i'd rather a sharp stick in the eye than watch this offensive movie again a colossal waste of time and money do not believe the person who wrote the opinion that it was worth watching this person probably would enjoy having a dentist drill their teeth without anesthesia too don't mean to be unkind but for the life of me i cannot imagine what this person was thinking unless they had ulterior motives maybe s he was the director or the producer if so i'd like to ask them to give me back my money if your money is important to you save it instead of renting this piece of drek or rent something anything else i'm running out of good reasons not to rent this film if i were canadian i'd be ashamed that it's supposed to be a favorite canadian flick if so i would say that those who think so are definitely in need of great quantities of powerful drugs
0	i had to watch this one for my canadian cinema course and i was told that it was considered to be the best canadian film when i watched this i really did not agree considering i've seen a lot better ones i understand that there were canadian themes and messages but the fact that the characters and the plot were so disconnected with me as a spectator it made me not really care what the film was trying to tell me the plot was too dry the characters did not have many positive personality traits but this is to emphasize the messages not to tick off spectators this film shows a little about the history of quebec not a very interesting film it definitely does not deserve to be put on such a high pedestal
0	explores the frontiers of extreme boredom life in a small canadian town in winter as an experiment in extreme sensory deprivation absolutely nothing happens as viewed through the eyes of a blank deadpan totally uninteresting protagonist viewers of this film should be prepared to in the style of altered states br br in a groundbreaking study david found that he could predict alzheimer's thirty years in advance by comparing the autobiographical essays of nuns as they entered the convent those who eventually suffered the disease wrote in simple direct prose the essays were quiet and contemplative with little optimism or episodes of joy br br now why did i mention that perhaps my mind begins to slowly unravel watching this interminable autobiographical contemplative film which shows in simple direct style the bleak and stoic life of a small community living next to giant slag heaps of asbestos br br this film became popular at the height of the quebec movement because of its presentation of this community as permanently wounded victims tragically its writer director was soon diagnosed with alzheimer's disease in the early 1980s and apparently committed suicide
0	first let me make it clear that i'm a big fan of bad sci fi especially when it involves gigantic city stomping monsters but this one is so fantastically lame that i can't even like it for being bad they apparently didn't shave enough money off the budget by skimping on the props the only prop we have to indicate the size of the alien girl is an oversized novelty pencil available at spencer's gifts for about fifteen bucks they also decided not to outlay for concept or plot the monster does look okay in my opinion but it doesn't have enough interaction with the backgrounds i e not enough destruction to suit most fans of the genre the general rule of giant monster movies is if you don't have a lot of fake looking buildings to smash then you'd better have another fake looking monster to wrestle with this movie has neither i can't make my final complaint about the movie without giving away the ending but suffice to say the origin of the monster and the method found to get rid of it just don't hold water not even as well as most of these movies skip it
0	this movie stinks imdb needs negative numbers in its rating system to properly evaluate this turkey the acting is either wooden or over the top the film was apparently not written by anyone in particular and the monster scenes were mediocre at best even as a movie driven solely by the monster scenes those shots were so disappointing that they could not inspire any sympathy for the rest of the movie i want the 80 minutes of my life back that this movie stole
0	this is an utterly forgettable picture a friend of mine picked it up in a bargain bin at a local rental place for 50 he should have demanded a refund or at least a discount br br the plot is something like this a giant monster threatens the earth and aliens decide that the most average human being on the planet must be chosen to save the earth thus a tiny holographic space alien appears before a postal worker and tells him that he's it br br the devil is in the details when it's time to rate a movie and on that count the invader fails miserably the monster only has a few brief moments on the screen totaling maybe 5 minutes tops with a generous estimate the cute alien hologram has even less screen time and might be the most interesting character to look at and only because she's wearing a teeny bopper stereotype outfit complete with a teasingly short skirt the climactic final battle with the monster is over before you can say whiskey tango foxtrot over in the next moment you are left to ponder whether you've just experienced a train wreck or if someone just drained 3 pints of blood out of you br br admittedly though this movie did deliver one line that my friends and i to this day still repeat and laugh at and was about the only bright spot in this otherwise abysmal picture as the cast of protagonists is being interrogated by the fuzz one of them responds to the questions with the statement what are you some kind of a question it is delivered in such a preposterous manner that if you're sitting with a group of friends who won't be your friends long if you actually talked your friend into watching this you may actually experience a howl or two of incredulous laughter br br while this is no manos or it's not even bad enough to be classically bad this movie will still bore you with its awful dialog unimaginative characters and nonexistent special effects and still deserves to inhabit the bottom 100 br br 1 5 10
0	is one bad movie this doesn't even rate in the so bad its good category it's just bad from the lack of set design to the acting to the special effects everything about this movie stinks for starters the film looks like it was filmed in just empty rooms with a couple of props thrown in to make it look good then we get acting that is so bad that it makes a high school play look like it was an oscar candidate and to top it all off there's the special effects that are so bad that they look like an amateur pulled them off in their garage the towns that the monster is supposedly crushing look like my nephew's train set so obviously fake that they scream out at the viewer the only good thing about the movie is the monster suit its just too bad that they spent all their budget on that and left nothing for the rest of the film and maybe a decent script would have helped too
0	aliens let lose a giant monster named then send down a hologram that looks your average stupid teenage girl to tell postman tommy ward rhys pugh in the only movie you ever see him in that has been chosen to fight also if he loses the plant goes doom so he goes off to fight the invader this movie is bad very bad so bad it you need negative numbers just to gave it a horridly written bad directing way below power rangers over the top wooden acting that you're just whiting for a horde of to come out of no where and cut them down and don't get me started on the theme song at the end the people who made this stemming pall of s should not be aloud near a camera or any thing to do with films is a cool looking monster that should have been in a movie a million times better than this one do your self a favour and don't see this movie it's 80 or so minute of life the actors that are in this never worked again by way br br 3 10
0	i keep waiting for peter fonda to start acting for someone who comes from such a talented family it's a mystery to me why peter fonda can only play peter fonda trying to play someone else and that's the good news in this disappointing dog of an adaptation of the tempest a string of loosely connected ideas that only suggest a relationship with the bard's great play is what we're served the setting is the civil war and prospero's here evil brother looks like an 1890's melodrama villain complete with snidely whiplash moustache i kept waiting for him to go uh ha hah which would have been a high point in this dreary presentation none of the supporting cast was and peter fonda's lack of expression and wooden body movements made the lackadaisical story drag on and on br br the tempest is the bard's statement about the rage of man's unjust treatment of man the only believable character was the gator man the counterpart the to the swamp had possibilities but the civil war setting just didn't make it all in all a very disappointing production i saw it on video and would advise if you want a willy shakespeare fix save your money on this one rent something else like branagh's much ado about nothing or kevin kline in night dream
0	ok so it's a silly movie but i think they knew that when they made it and there are some neat little twists on the otherwise tired overdone godzilla type genre borrowed a tape just because i knew someone in it but i did loan it out to a couple pals who also kinda liked it
0	edge vs michaels boring in general loved the sweet chin music into the chair 4 10 taker vs one of the worst matches i've seen predictable as hell 1 10 tripe threat wwe match why do i watch them nobody ever wins a championship at the rumble its not the main event liked it when show drove jbl through the wall 3 10 world heavyweight championship pretty ok match kind of more a beat down by tripe h than a match but i was happy to see it after watching crap 5 10 royal rumble good rumble liked the brand showdown the hassan thing and the end 7 10 overall still crap why does anyone watch the rumble
0	the plot four people are caught in an elevator one is a business man the annoying kind who is aggressive and complains about everything and everyone and is a walking talking sample of distilled stress and hostility then there's his colleague a woman who is much more pleasant in her character a teenage rebel who just broke into a coke machine and by his mere presence drives the businessman mad and an older guy who just stole 100 make up the rest of the cast br br the movie is all about how they cope with their problem as time goes on and on without any success in reaching the outside world as the lights go out and as the cables begin to snap one after the other br br and yet it isn't too exciting the characters are stereotypes the story is stupid and unlikely how could so many things go so wrong in just one elevator you don't like the characters very much you just hate one of them and all the twists and turns in the plot are not contributing to the excitement they are just stupid excuses for filling yet another few minutes with dialogue as the screenwriters keep running out of inspiration and ink on a full length movie set in an elevator br br let's just hope phone booth will be a better effort
0	by strange coincidence i've started to watch this move straight after brice de nice and the good thing was that not many movies could be worst than brice de nice so i was really looking forward for something better which would make me forget this horrible flop br br unfortunately oss 117 again left me disappointed i don't know maybe it's just problem with translations but since diner de cons i haven't seen any french comedy that i would call really good even when i look at the reviews on imdb only people from france are giving the oss 117 high notes br br for me this movie didn't really work in some parts is as funny as real bond movies in others jokes were a little bit too predictable or too corny
0	cultural vandalism is the new hallmark production of gulliver's travels an act of cultural vandalism not literally after all not a single copy of the book is burned but if this is the only gulliver people are exposed to many it will people will not get anything like what jonathan swift intended were jonathan swift alive hallmark could be sued for moral rights violations and they'd lose that's a good way to think before starting a project using someone else's ideas br br swift's masterpiece is an extraordinary vision of humanity through his hero gulliver he travels to places that make him feel big small shat on and… human the little people in are small in every way petty and stupid they fight the big enders and little enders interminable wars of annihilation over which end of their soft boiled eggs are opened at the breakfast table sounds a bit like us br br i forget most of the rest it's been years since i read it the tv show reminded me of a few things and on the bright side it made me want to read it again br br this gift to mankind has been shat on like under the beneath the vulgar yahoos and danson and especially two great actors peter o'toole and edward fox ought to be thoroughly ashamed some creative person got the bright idea to put the focus on the star gulliver played by ted danson whose acting is just plain bad he portrays gulliver as insane all his travels were made up of course swift made up gulliver naturally the lands he visited were imaginary that's called fiction his purpose was to talk about humankind and our often awful relations with each other the travels of his imaginary character to imaginary lands is his method but these people treat imagination as a disease and anyone who has a moment that hallmark couldn't turn into one of its anodyne cards is suspect br br i can sure see why hallmark would produce this crap it's so bad that o'toole always profound seems as little as his character he's in character of course while commenting on the character simultaneously as many if not all great actors do informing the character sheds light on it our light completes the character it becomes three dimensional through this act of psychic most actors do this very subtly like hopkins in the remains of the day others like nicholson in most things in the last twenty years play the two parts pretty broadly apart nicholson actually plays on the relationship of his two points and with us too with him it's all cat's cradle and he chuckling away holds all the strings great fun as is o'toole but something here is lacking he is shouting into a megaphone as great as ever and all one senses is a hollow shell standing under him br br that's because it is look up anodyne and there ought to be the word hallmark as a synonym harmless bland inoffensive hallmark is the doll who can't pee because she has no genitals it is the norm the average the person of no distinction hallmark is to have no hallmark i never suspected that such people despise those who have imagination quite so much suddenly disney against the meta stands out in bold type or einstein's men of genius always will be violently opposed by mediocre minds indeed anyone to this mediocre type who has an answer to any question other than a or b is suspect who more distinctive then that a man who journeys to the darker places of the human soul and shines his little flashlight to illuminate what can be found there hence the act of vandalism the taliban destroyed the buddhas in afghanistan the palestinians the oldest synagogue in the world at jericho the barbarians the great statuary of the classical age and these things are obviously vandalism hallmark endeavors to protect us from foreign foes by undermining our own culture the one that feeds and sustains them and us br br please buy a copy of gulliver's travels wherever you live and read it or order it online i like to use abe books
0	this adaption contains two parts br br 1 the now time when gulliver is at home in england and soon is put into a mental asylum by the evil dr bates br br 2 the described time in which gulliver describes his travels br br the times are interspersed with a very choppy tempo which makes willing suspense of disbelief far more difficult than it would have been if the movie simply would have discarded that part and followed the book as written in the book there is no dr bates no asylum and mrs gulliver gets very little mention the travels in plural are depicted as one in the movie there are several movies covering the topic of sane people dumped into asylum by some nasty person out there look at them if you want that stuff the now time part adds absolutely nothing to the story's value is a complete invention by the movie adapters and takes valuable time from the real story all the time when this was going on i was longing for the next bit of real travel to be shown br br so much for the drawbacks the parts which actually are part of the real story are well done and the cgi is really well done for its time many small and a few medium sized parts of the real travels are simply cut out but that does not make the story halt this is the only version which depicts all four travels and for that the movie should get special mention br br the two interspersed parts get approximately equal time i rate the first part 0 out of 10 and the actual travel coverage as 8 10 averaging out i give it a 4 10 if only they would have cut the rubbish and focused 99 on the actual travels since that cut would have freed up a lot of time much better spent on filling in the details cut from the travels br br why some adapter think that he is gifted enough to improve upon swift's work i do not know my best guess is that cgi was so costly back in 1996 so that the movie company felt a need to incorporate a lot of filler which did not need elaborate sets gci etc in order to keep total costs under some limit while at the same time producing a mini series which clocked in at some set number of minutes
0	george and mildred was a spin off from the mid 1970s sit com man about the house though i haven't seen the series since it was last broadcast i do remember it being fairly amusing with most of the comedy arising from the eponymous couple going to live beside the snobbish family a sort of love thy neighbour without the cynical racist gags br br having seen this big screen version of the show i find myself asking what it's a big screen version of certainly not of a popular mid 70s sit com of the same name for some reason the movie jettisons all character interaction from the television by having george and mildred leaving the street where they live behind and getting caught up in a plot involving some serious gangsters who want something george has inadvertently picked up and which leads to some cringe making situations and lines like br br did he give it to you br br no that's the first time a man has resisted my charms br br i meant the envelope br br you do get the impression that screenwriter dick sharples who never wrote an episode for the original sit com has never seen an episode of the source material and has got the show confused with the carry on series of films in many ways it resembles the same mistakes of the latter lost in space movie in that it has absolutely nothing in common with the series that spawned it
0	g m started a the odd couple downstairs in man about the house and went on to amusing the nation in their own sitcom br br what was the typical small scale personal charm of the couples chemistry on the small screen g m's to the big screen was as appalling as and wise and countless fine tv shows br br unfunny unsatisfying and featuring an ill yootha joyce who died before the film was released
0	george and mildred is a truly unfunny film this attempt to translate the successful tv series to the big screen was a dismal failure as is so often the case br br the wit and clever one liners from the tv shows have gone missing the plot is a typical english farce of confused characters and mistaken identities which is neither funny enough nor weird enough to provoke many decent laughs br br die hard george and mildred fans might want to see this final episode of the pair's output mildred died of hepatitis before the film was released but others should invest their time more wisely
0	george mildred the movie lacks the talents of its tv writer john mortimer who brings the close quarter cut and thrust of george's class war with the alive br br the plot is cut from standard spin off cloth hit man mistaken identity and has as little tension as there are laughs the producers should have taken a leaf from rising damp also 1980 which was also bought to the big screen after the tv series demise and kept much of the story in familiar setting br br yootha joyce died in 1980 but she should not be remembered for this creaking piece of work encumbered as she was by her illness mildred lacks the sharpness of her tv incarnation cutting asides and withering looks largely directed at georges lack of libido george's sputtering incredulity also gets lost in the more expansive sets this is not to say that they were much to shout about the budget for this movies looks pathetically small a restaurant they go to is clearly a new semi starched house with some christmas lights adorning the front door br br for fans of 70's british comedy or those who just want to revisit an old tv companion from their youth this film can add nothing to the experience and they should just stick to the first four tv series out now on dvd
0	jack the tempest is an adaption of shakespeare's play the tempest bender transports the plot from medieval italy to mississippi during the time of the american civil war he includes the slavery problem and the role of revenge in br br prospero re named gideon prosper is not the duke of milan but a landowner in mississippi he learns voodoo magic from the female slave mambo he saves her son ariel who thus accompanies him into his exile the island is not situated on the sea but in a swamp near the banks of the mississippi there lives an alligator hunter a so called gator man who later tries to rape prospero's daughter miranda during the time of the civil war ariel wants to join the union troops to help fighting against slavery prospero does not care about the war he is only interested in his personal revenge on his brother antony when antony and his bookkeeper willi gonzo gonzalo try to cross the river prospero raises a storm the union soldier frederick gets lost in the swamp and finally comes to the island he and miranda fall in love with each other but prospero won't accept that meanwhile ariel transformed into a raven by prospero finds out that antony has feigned to ally with the union but plans to betray them antony and gonzo meet gator man in the swamp and conspire with him against prospero they kidnap miranda and ariel but prospero freeze them and helps the union defeat the southern army in the end ariel is free frederick and miranda are bound to marry prospero returns to the plantation and gator man gets back the island br br peter fonda represents gideon prosper powerfully and convincingly while the character of antony stays rather flat it was no bad idea to perform the tempest before the background of the civil war but perhaps the director has risked too much in some parts the story seems constructed or comical gator man for example does just appear without any explanation that it needs a kidnapping to bring prospero to his mind and that he loses confidence in his power shows that bender tried to make prospero more human but only made him a weak old man without his magic prospero's original authority and wisdom is not made clear br br end of part 1
0	let me start by saying how much i love the tv series the nature of class war was always going to be a subject worthy of poking fun at but this tv series exploits it better than most the chemistry between yootha joyce and brian murphy was always electrifying and the writers wrote almost entirely flawless episodes every time in my opinion it is the best british sitcom of the mid to late 1970s surpassing the likes of rising damp robin's nest are you being served and so on with the on the buses series having finished a few years earlier george and mildred became the next pride and joy of itv or itv 1 as it's now known enjoying a four year run on the channel br br the movie however is absolutely terrible in almost every respect the general essence of the tv series has almost entirely been stripped by the writers of this abysmal movie who anyone will immediately notice are not the same ones who worked on the series as one commenter has already pointed out mildred lacks the sharpness she had on the tv series and does not come across as anywhere near as overbearing br br the plot instead of focusing on the class war with the that was the very foundation of the tv series actually writes out the almost entirely after the first half hour the plot if you can call it that consists of george and mildred going on holiday to some hotel and getting mixed up with gangsters first rate talent in the form of johns kenneth cope david barry and sue bond are all wasted here most of these are well past their heyday and all of them look very embarrassed as if they very well know that the only thing worth hanging around for is a paycheck which probably won't be much br br the jokes and gags in the movie if you can call them that rely heavily upon traditional british farce including mistaken identities embarrassing situations poorly timed slapstick characters losing control of what is happening to them and general confusion and it all fails miserably as another commenter has pointed out it seems as though the writers of this movie have never seen an episode of the tv series and instead crafted out a something resembling a carry on romp the scene where george is stripped down by sue bond's character is particularly out of context br br a mystery surrounding this movie is the bbfc certification provided 15 just why is it rated 15 when all there is to see is harmless non vulgar entertainment br br not surprisingly the era of sitcom spin of came to an end not long after this movie was released shortly after the sad death of yootha joyce and the company behind this movie hammer well known for producing first rate horror movies back in the 1950s to mid 1970s soon disappeared into total obscurity br br all in all the movie is a near total washout my advice skip this and stick to the tv series you won't be missing anything i assure you
0	the film was disappointing i saw it on broadway with bernadette peters and she was outstanding maybe as she herself on to the end of her musical career her of lands her in role that she flaunts re invents and as her own bette's singing is always belted always flat and lacking to show her ability as an actress to be entertaining this performance was dying for a stronger lead and a stronger cast so that the others would be memorable in bette's absence another criticism she smiles directly into the camera every time she start singing i know it is musical theater but please leave some grace cannot perform like liza or streisand might in a retrospective tour out of character and out of context
0	such a highly anticipated remake of a cherished musical classic and such a bitter pill it was to have to take very very hard to swallow all of it it didn't have an ounce of believability anywhere and when you don't have a rose you don't have a show br br bette midler seemed born to play this part yet all she was able to produce was a cute funny glitzy trademark bette midler weighed down with all the familiar roz russell has nothing to worry about she can rest in her grave knowing she is still the definitive mama rose of film anyway br br i thought midler was really going to put it across this time to throw herself into what is one of the greatest musical roles of all time like she did in the rose but no she played it safe she played herself she made rose a total dinner theatre cartoon even her songs were uninspired it was maddening to watch knowing midler has the talent to rise above her money making schtick she showed promise only once in this gypsy and that was with rose's turn but by then it was too little too late br br a sincere cynthia as the titular heroine gave the film its only true spark and when the role of gypsy outshines that of rose you know there's trouble in river city br br a huge huge letdown
0	bette midler is the best thing about this movie it is a poor second to the original from 1962 with natalie wood as gypsy the songs were done much better in the original and the costumes were better bette's voice was great and she looked better in most of the costumes compared to cynthia only someone who has not seen the original would think this a good movie br br there was not enough of a change between ugly duckling to beautiful girl when natalie wood was gypsy she only was seen as beautiful when she got into the dress with her gloves for the first time to perform in the burlesque show when she has her hair down and then magically it is all done up beautifully and she looks so elegant it is an important aspect to the movie because it is also the first time gypsy sees herself as something special and that she might actually be a star not just a poor substitute to her sister and the scenes where she slowly becomes more famous were rushed through it was an important part of the movie and they butchered it it is critical to show her becoming more comfortable with her future as a stripper and the costumes are amazing in these scenes in the original it was a huge let down to watch it unfold in this movie i was completely disappointed and had it not been for bette midler i would have shut the movie off
0	this attempt at a thriller would have no substance at all some may state that this movie has it all autism arson robbery lost love a bag of money cut throats murder blood a snub nosed revolver clenched teeth groaning boobs various definitions can be used large flashlights tribal people a brother duo attempting to out portray dumb and dumber white wolves fight scenes that resemble happy slapping snow mobile s a large tracked vehicle and a motel under renovation all this with an melody toward the end br br perhaps my rating is a bit harsh but one viewing will certainly be enough for the sane with nothing else to do br br
0	put the film down and back slowly away the acting rivals a highschool play the plot is and the production values are slightly higher than community theater the goofs are so plentiful that it becomes a laugher rooms are switched around the dead move dogs are used for wolves men shot point blank with 45 caliber pistols are able to walk and ride snowmobiles blouses button and without human touch this is a movie i nearly passed out when i saw the average rating there is no accounting for taste btw there is no nudity
0	i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night 80's sitcoms on tv one night at 2 in the morning i must say i didn't expect much and i didn't get much although rose is hot her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy to say the least this movie has its ups and downs and does have a nice couple of twists at the end but in all honesty it was awful not even a typical slasher movie no gore no sex no nudity no real violence just bad acting i'd give it a 3 out of 10
0	after a snowstorm the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason adam beach comes to the diner of his friend fritz jurgen prochnow and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day among the weird strangers jason meets his former sweetheart nancy rose who has just left her husband in los angeles along the night without any communication with his base jason faces and suspicious situations with the clients and finds some corpses indicating that among them there is a killer br br the last stop could be an average thriller but the screenplay is simply awful most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests my vote is four br br title brazil trapped
0	after starting watching the re runs of old columbo movies i thought they would all get about the same vote from me 6 but apparently i'm now starting to see differences in the movies it happened in some of just previous episodes that showed some pretty genius directing and it shows in this one but in the negative way br br the movie was so boring that i sometimes found myself occupied peaking in the paper instead of watching never happened during a columbo movie before and sometimes it was so embarrassing that i had to look away the directing seems too pretentious the scenes with the oh so mature neighbour girl are a and generally the lines and plot is weaker than the average episode then scene where they debated whether or not to sack the trumpeter who falsely was accused for the murder is pure horror really stupid br br some applause should be given to the prelude however in this episode a lot of focus is given on how the murderer tries to secure his alibi and hide the evidence etc i really liked that but alas no focus on how columbo reveals all this and the proof that in the end leaves columbo victorious is the silliest ever br br rating lies between 4 and 5
0	i am a big fan of the abc movies of the week genre i am only 27 meaning i wasn't even born until after the series ended but i am trying to collect as many of them on dvd as possible i have about a dozen or so i had read such wonderful things about this film both on here and elsewhere that i was really excited to see it i just received my dvd in the mail today and watched it anxiously i'll admit that the first one or two phone calls did give me the creeps that boy's voice would give anyone the creeps but it began to ware off fast and the entire divorce subplot was stupid i also figured out that michael douglas was the antagonist about a half an hour before the movie ended as soon as that story was told about how elizabeth ashley's character had locked up his mother i knew something was fishy plus didn't anyone ever think to ask him why he happened to suddenly appear that night when the fire occurred in the barn i'll admit that i thought he was coaching a boy at the school to make the phone calls i didn't guess the mute boy part or the pre recorded tapes did they ever say whose voice that actually was i doubt douglas could ever get his voice that high br br i am only giving this movie a four out of ten because i actually liked most of the acting in it ashley especially is great br br it's a shame because this movie has such a great premise but oh well thats what happens sometimes when one gets his or her hopes up for a movie too much
0	the dvd movie the tempest directed by jack bender was published in 2001 it didn't make its way to german cinemas and neither the director or an actor were able to receive an important award for this movie the movie refers to the shakespearean play the tempest which was published at the end of the 16th century the director tried to create an modern version of this play but failed at the beginning of the movie the plantation owner prosper gets in a conflict with his brother antonio about the treatment of their slaves antonio sets his brother a trip and tries to kill him but with the help of a witch prosper is able to escape and flees with his daughter and a slave called ariel to a small island nearby the mississippi river for over twelve years he has lived isolated on this island till a lucky chance enables him to take revenge on his brother if prosper will be lucky you have to find out by yourself br br in my opinion this film is really a bad try to create a modern version of the original play by william shakespeare the story of the movie is confusing as well as the characters prosper doesn't have the same powers as in the tempest end of part i
0	i watched this film awhile ago and the only thing i can remember about the film is how absolutely horribly outstandingly bad it was its definitely in my top 5 worst films i have ever seen and to think i had to persuade my mates to get this film out at the video shop my reputation has been shot to bits because of this film will my mates ever trust me again i doubt it they always say don't judge something by its cover they were right when i saw the cover to skins gang boys i thought wow this looks great as it had a load of skin heads on the front cover running riot with metal bars don't watch this film i can't think of anything else to say the acting is bad the story is bad its just bad
0	wings hauser and son cole hauser team up to make a film about neo nazi thugs targeting a gay man and terrorising a city wings plays the hero and his real life son is the villain fairly low budget film that has not many redeeming features and for some reason no one has seen it perhaps because it is quite a laughable and ridiculous film and the studio realised this maybe wings hauser himself prevented the distribution of after seeing it himself maybe people just didn't want to comment on such a bad film oh well i generally like wings and cole as actors but this was a film that they both should have skipped wings directed wrote and was the lead actor in an extremely bad and stupid film 1 2 out of
0	it is beyond me why two million danish people each week sit down to watch this terrible show the dialogue is terrible and not realistic the characters are hollow and simplistic there's a tough man a tough woman and a sensitive man the writers actually say that they have modeled the characters after greek mythology give me a break all the characters are of course brilliant policemen when i have watched this show i have longed for district hill street and nypd blue these are brilliant shows and is a lousy copy this program is a symptom of the disease danish television is currently suffering from
0	ok what was this story about again i am afraid that i never read the book and frankly this was one of the most confusing movies that i have ever tried to watch in a long time i get a bit confused on the number of flashbacks between the nurse the patient and the man with no thumbs the film didn't even really explain what they were looking for in the desert until they found it or even how in the world they all knew each other to come together br br after recently seeing the pride and prejudice movie with colin firth i have been trying to do a study on his film career by watching other movies of his and bluntly other than what a girl wants i am not finding much where he played in that was any good i am definitely not saying that he wasn't good he is really one of the best actors i have seen in the modern day film but the content and quality of the films he plays in have a lot to be desired br br the english patient is another perfect example of where the director writer and crew are just too close to their subject matter to see that the viewer is not getting the picture – literally the entire movie seemed to be to showcase ralph fiennes as a dramatic actor with long periods of emoting that was a bore nothing is really explained and every one of the subjects from the beginning seems to need a psychoanalyst evaluation br br kristin scott thomas' character seems to enjoy describing erotic stories standing in front of a totally male audience and titillating other men other than her husband colin firth who plays her husband does not necessarily have all his marbles in place and is supposed to be a secret agent – i guess and ralph fiennes walks around like a roman mr darcy sorry colin who thinks he knows it all the rest of the cast is cast pun intended to the four winds as the plot wanders on br br the subplot of the mental stability of the nurse juliette binoche and her motives and involvement with andrews is another confusing element that leaves the viewer with an unsavory taste but of course the viewer is still reeling how in the world the first two characters thomas and fiennes ended up having sex the first time anyway what was the attraction there was no chemistry and no build up just a slap bam thank you br br and isn't it romantic that fiennes ended up a traitor helping the germans by giving them maps to the desert sarcasm br br to describe this movie i would have to simply say how to impress your with your and cheat on your sweet adorable husband who loves you br br the final unbelievable section of this plot is to fathom how anyone would choose ralph fiennes over colin firth firth had very little opportunity to demonstrate any of his acting talents – in fact when watching the movie i thought it must have been one of his first the scene where he had been waiting for his wife all night was perhaps the only two second clip that is worth seeing in the movie at that i have no interest in watching it again br br the best scene i liked was the plane crash where firth is trying to take them all out too bad he missed it would have saved an extra twenty minutes of even more fruitless film aerial desert scenes were pretty neat though
0	i am not surprised to find user comments for this film full of gushy nonsense such as that this film proves that when it is predestined love will find a way i begin in this way not to criticize a specific reviewer but because this citation so typifies the hyperbolic uncritical treacle that was poured out over this film even before it hit the theaters even the best of films do not prove anything nor are they intended to the best films entertain and move the viewer and the english patient fails on both criteria br br i remember the studio's promotion of the english patient very clearly from the producers of 'amadeus' and 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest ' it grandly announced an ignorant or careless listener might miss the crucial word producers in this disingenuous statement and mistakenly associate the director of the english patient so very inappropriately with the truly great director milos forman such a comparison is offensive to the memory of mr forman br br while the novel by michael upon which the film was based is a good one it is unfortunate that the film failed to capture any quality of the book in any way whatsoever aside from plot elements that seem only coincidentally similar the film bears little resemblance to the novel br br despite misgivings which began when i heard that shamelessly misleading promotion i went to see this film in the theater as it began to unfold i realized that the rendering of the novel's peculiar magic had failed that the actors knew their words but not their characters and that their characters were flat dull and unengaging the film was a complete travesty of novel and a completely still born cinematic artifact of the worst description br br those who gush over this film are very apt to speak with adjectives like sweeping and grand and hypnotic well it is none of those in fact not even fine novel could be described as sweeping or grand it could be described as magical and hypnotic yet these are precisely the qualities that the film so utterly failed to deliver it is almost as if had as a reader entirely missed what was valuable in the novel and could grind out on celluloid only a pale skeletal version a version that not only missed the spirit of the story but that focused on the wrong characters he produced a filmic transliteration that not only had no respect for story's metaphors but no apparent of them as well br br took the central focus away from hana and kip and put it on the patient and katherine clifton thereby missing the narrative trail of the novel as well as the essence of it br br ralph fiennes and kristen scott thomas put in unengaging uninspiring uninvolving unemotional performances that were obviously intended to convey a great driving passionate love affair to the viewer but which in fact delivered only an inexplicable perfunctory liaison between two flat shallow uninteresting both actors are physically and emotionally inadequate and unexciting and neither performance provided the viewer with the great emotional response obviously intended by grandiose and overblown presentation br br the grand sweeping david lean like qualities to which the many undiscriminating reviewers of this goofy film love to refer simply is not there the comparison to david lean dr zhivago is positively insulting to yet another great director take for example the patient's sandstorm scene which is no doubt one wherein these grand sweeping qualities are believed to have resided or should have resided the sandstorm is not grand it is not even convincing the subsequent burying of the characters in the automobile and their emergence after the storm which no doubt was supposed to affect the viewer dramatically and emotionally completely lacked either drama or emotion in fact because it was so patently weak it had an air of comedy about it where comedy was clearly out of place br br this film failed it failed as a rendering of the novel and it failed as a film it seems to have been the oscar vehicle of the year joining such over filmic as kramer vs kramer or terms of endearment one can only thank god that even the hype driven acadamy br br had the good sense to present the best actress award to frances for her truly deserving performance in the truly excellent film fargo there was not a single performance in the execrable english patient that was not either embarrassingly horrid over acting willem dafoe or truly forgettable mediocre acting fiennes and scott thomas br br why this non entity of a film retains a coven of fanatical and clearly tasteless devotees will remain a mystery fortunately the sands of time will bury this mediocrity of a film permanently and it will not thankfully have the strength ever to dig itself out
0	this is the dreary tale of the self absorbed affair between two unlikable people one of whom is married to someone else it ranks high on my list of most boring movies ever and i'm a die hard romantic my husband opted out after the first hour of its three by which time little had transpired the desert scenery is spectacular with the endless sand and the sunshine on golden hair however cinematography does not a brilliant film make unless it's a national geographic travelogue the magnificent saharan scenery in this ill conceived tale is like putting perfume on a pig br br the movie revolves around a badly burned dying pilot named count de who is left in the care of a canadian army nurse hana during world war ii italy he appears to remember little of his life but through a book in his possession his story is very slowly revealed with the help of a man from his past named caravaggio who mysteriously appears at his deathbed was a hungarian cartographer employed by the royal geographical society to chart the sahara desert he entered into an affair with the wife katherine of a fellow explorer who proved to be a british spy meanwhile in the present nurse has her own affair with a sikh nicknamed kip who is involved in the dangerous work of disarming mines br br my quarrels with this movie are many length and tedium for starters i don't fault the acting in particular it simply isn't a good story caravaggio seems unnecessary his connection to sketchy he provides a torture scene but appears to serve no essential purpose in the film br br the core problem is that the two parties of this affair and katharine are woefully unsympathetic characters shallow and dull they simply aren't very nice thus there is no one to cheer for is cool aloof haughty and eventually disgustingly possessive of another man's wife katharine is likewise detached and nasty not to mention having a deplorable lack of guilt or feeling whatsoever for her imperfect but loving husband apart from managing one minuscule tear at the corner of her eye when he dies br br this is a tale of lust rather than love with such pearls as 'i can still taste you' ridiculously to a colleague his erotic obsession with the in his beloved's neck surely more indicative of a focus on body the victim of this unrepentant adultery is the hapless husband geoffrey who is treated as little more than an unpleasant nuisance it's all quite sordid and disgusting charade of feeling faint so that these lovers can indulge in their much vaunted unbridled passion all as silent night is being sung in the background i'm not sure whether the intent was to contrast the carol's purity with their selfish lust but i definitely was not impressed by the sacrilegious undertone we have full frontal nudity with katharine but their sex scenes come across as cold selfish lustful and sometimes downright hateful not warm loving giving nor even truly passionate if either of these two feels any emotion for the other it is a totally selfish one and definitely not love as i define the word br br return to the cave of the swimmers to retrieve the body of his beloved comes across as contrived rather than moving katharine must have expired only moments earlier as she shows excellent colour and barely appears dozing not at all corpse like of course this is all for dramatic effect as the romantics watching this tale normally i'd be one of them would not appreciate a decaying putrid corpse in order to retrieve his adulterous lover's body he has betrayed his comrades the allies by giving his maps to the nazis the english being cast as the villains of the piece regardless of whether or not he's keeping his final promise to katharine his traitorous act is not something i admire much br br kip seems a pleasant fellow and hana generally likable but their romance is not in the least engaging merely a brief wartime fling with the parties indicating little trauma upon parting moving back and forth between the two settings past sahara desert and present italy proved distracting and unpleasant but really both stories were dull as dishwater the only spark of interest in the whole picture was kip's tense mine disarming scene br br not being totally heartless i did have some sympathy for the current severely burned and dying state however perhaps my major complaint with this film is the euthanasia at the end when hana obliges her patient by giving him a morphine overdose we are supposed to feel that this is justified and morally acceptable because she obviously has affection for cries while she is preparing the deadly syringe and reads aloud from his allegedly passionate book to console him as he's dying br br the amazing director david lean's masterpieces should not be insulted by comparison with this pathetic immoral tale yes lawrence of arabia also has a desert but in lean films doctor zhivago brief encounter those engaging in affairs are sympathetic characters exhibiting admirable restraint guilt and some regard for the betrayed spouse as opposed to the total self absorption of this pair in ryan's daughter the cuckold husband displays touching loyalty and forgiveness br br this movie is a supposedly intellectual enormously over rated bit of boring and disgusting drivel that unfortunately passes itself off as a great love story its best picture oscar does not speak well for the academy for those who wonder why people are so hard on this movie the answer is simple it's awful
0	i caught this on cinemax very late at night nothing else was on so i pretty much had no choice bottom line terrible plot slow waste of good film and actors' time to make it short don't even bother with this one it's too bad we can't give as a rating this one really is not worth even a consideration
0	spoilers cash crop goes something like this down on their luck farmers grow pot to make ends meet dea agent blows into town farmers hide the pot dea agent leaves town end of story br br this flick features solid performances by some second tier actors mediocre direction and a so so screenplay but it ain't got no story and since the story is the foundation of every drama cash crop is an utter failure too boring to recommend
0	the dea agent's name is a nice inside joke this is the name of the former drug czar who almost single handedly made marijuana illegal br br despite this bit of book knowledge the writers go on to have the farmers harvesting and selling fresh leaf rather than cured buds br br additionally i always find it amusing that movie makers never seem to be able to find real marijuana plants for filming you would think there would be a business that would make real looking fake ones for the movie business or maybe they could film a couple of scenes in amsterdam or switzerland i suppose that's asking too much for the budget br br probably the most interesting thing about the film is the attempt to cover the notion of exactly what is right and what is wrong in society and how the law treads that line and yet tries to do justice in spite of it br br
0	thomas de helte is yet another road movie without the most important element of a film a good story the characters are not very original and not particularly interesting especially thomas bo larsen is a pain in the neck playing the same role he has played in the past few years and which he repeated in it seems as if he thinks acting being angry and screaming at other people the film doesn't make much too sense and isn't very funny either although it tries hard to be kooky and weird if you're going to make a road movie why not add something original to the genre
0	i tried to watch this adaptation but it was just so awful i couldn't torture myself like that the performances were quite sub par with the exception of ariel fonda was way over the top in a role that should be handled with some subtlety i have studied shakespeare and seen many adaptations and this is by far the worst one i have ever seen i have to wonder why on earth someone made this film shakespeare can and has been beautifully adapted in many cases this is not one of them if you must watch this film may i suggest a drinking game take a drink every time they go off book from the original idea and two drinks every time fonda overacts you should be quite drunk in a very short time
0	this movie was playing on lifetime movie network last month and i decided to check it out i watched for the first 20 minutes and then shut it off b c i am sorry but plot holes that are integral to a movie's plot make the movie nothing but garbage br br the movie is about a woman who accidentally runs a child on a bicycle off the road leaves to get help returns only to find out that it's being called a hit and run and there's a hunt for the 'monster' that hurt in the end killed her br br this is a movie about a female in an affluent neighborhood who has 2 small grade school children and who is an active sociable woman and yet in order for this movie to work it needs to be believable that she does not own a cell phone sorry but that's complete bs especially when everyone else seems to have one they used theirs to call 911 when they found the girl lying on the side of the road when our lead female left the scene of the crime to go phone 911 at some when the lead female comes back the ambulance is already at the girl's side and there is chatter about how horrible the person is who hit and left her br br just dumb sorry but i am not willing buy that this woman doesn't own a cell phone which is needed for the movie to work please don't insult my intelligence movie thanks maybe if this took place in 1970 or 1960 i'd buy it but it's clearly a present day 1999 at the time movie but wait if she had a cell phone there would be no movie pfft br br the woman clearly knows about technology since she had computers in her house ones the kids played games on so all the movie had to do was make her cell phone dead in the car making her resort to another way to call the cops leaving out a cell phone altogether just created a ridiculous plot
0	after seeing forever hollywood it would be natural to want to see a john waters film at least one get to say that they have joined the legions of cinema cognoscenti who have experienced the unique cinematic stylings of perhaps the best known non mainstream director it's worth the effort and pf is a lot better than eraserhead and there is a certain campiness about his films which his followers find addicting
0	the only reason i haven't given this film an awful rating is because i feel that it was such an awful film in every aspect that it deserves at the very least a 2 10 for not trying br br the plot is the least of your worries as you are slapped in the face with over the top language and scenes like 'the singing arse hole' in a poor attempt to shock and disgust seen as the main aim of this film is to shock and the main body of it didn't achieve this the final scene disgustingly manages to erase the memory of this shockingly pointless film and fulfil its aim to be the most filthy film ever br br a really low budget film awfully acted and the dialogue is shockingly bad br br i give it 0 10 really
0	i guess i was prepared after all the years of hearing about it first heard about it from siskel and ebert when they said divine ate excrement i had to look it up then a friend told me about it in 1991 she said also that her parents saw it when it first came out and that her mom almost dumped her dad over it so by the time i caught pink flamingos on sundance today i was prepared for the most part br br i still couldn't help but be surprised by the anal close ups and the blowjob scene that said the only characters i sympathized with were edie and the egg man her crying scene early in the film though over something frivolous to normal people actually makes me sad though she sure wasn't pretty she had a cute voice i was happy for her and the egg man and they actually touched me br br on the other hand the acting in this poverty level production was not good and as for the script just how does john waters come up with this stuff well at least it's different
0	i have seen most of john waters' films with the exception of several of his very early ones which are not available i have actually seen just about all of them so it's obvious i am a big fan and it's certain that i have a high tolerance for the gross and irreverent in his films while way over the top and disgusting i adored female trouble and polyester two monumental tributes to bad taste and excess that are seriously funny films so i am certainly not squeamish and can take most of what waters has to offer however in pink flamingos he has created a film so repellent so unfunny and so offensive that i couldn't even stand it in his other films he made before he became more mainstream they were funny yet here the humor just isn't there as it seems the intent is to shock the viewers and not entertain them in any way i am glad that after making this film waters' sense of humor improved as divine consuming dog feces as in this film is shocking but not the least bit entertaining my advice is to skip this film and just pretend it never happened and then watch his infinitely better films of the 70s and 80s
0	if i could rate it a zero i would coming from someone who likes shock exploitation films of the time and waters overall i must say this is useless br br it does nothing serves nothing an idiot with a camera and a urge to prove his cleverness by against social standards is all this comes off as br br its entirely amateur both in principle and execution it doesn't have a point its for the sake of disgusting obscene with the wit of a neanderthal its useless br br someone said waters was probably chuckling over all the bad press and disgust others gave with this film but why if i made a short film depicting a man in a bathroom taking a sh t for ten minutes straight surely it would receive the same but why would i be proud or chuckle at that br br would it be because i am so unintelligent that i have to resort to this so i can say ha take that censors and mainstream im so rebellious ill do whatever i want and film it no br br waters shouldn't be proud of this mess fans of waters shouldn't watch it its useless that is without any use br br its doesn't even fit under the criteria of art for arts sake br br to like or defend this movie is to defend something that was designed purposely as being anti culture to be pushed for the mainstream audience in modern terms this film is the hot topic of films br br useless and obsolete a poser film that demands it be acknowledged as rebellion
0	someone told me that pink flamingos was in a word insane now i'm doubting whether this guy actually ever saw it because that isn't the way i would summarize it in one word disgusting absurd um more disgusting would do it every time you think it can't get any more filthy it does one of my particular favorites was when divine had her birthday party and when the cops came to bust it up they were butchered and eaten by the guests i admit that it's one of those movies where it's so grotesque you simply can't look away but this is by no means a creative work of art it's pure shock value br br on the upside it makes the jackass guys look like a bunch of pussies
0	alright so not every australian movie is all that good yes maybe there have actually been very few with much merit take away however is an absolute bomb qualifying as one of the worst movies i've ever seen i wanted to like it i figured i'd give it a fair go i've even met one of the screen writers dave o'neil so i feel kind of a traitor giving this movie a bad review but the plot is fairly thin i won't bother relating it read the synopsis which i can forgive there are plenty of movies that can cover that up with a few decent jokes unfortunately take jokes cover its plot up like a 2 prostitute's skirt probably the only laughs that came from the 6 other people in the cinema was at the poor acting and dialogue take away goes down like a week old dim sim you might understand that joke if you see the film but the joke's not worth it
0	i usually can tolerate twisted movies but this one is really a sick obsessive self absorbed movie br br firstly the writer director is totally a self absorbed guy full of sick jokes that are not funny at all secondly he is also a sick pervert who manipulates and poisons children's mind i can't believe my ears when i heard the sick and perverted monologues spoken by the kids br br i really feel sorry for zane and devon matthews they are both very talented but fell prey to eric schaeffer's dirty little known movie br br and what the hell happened to eric good looking face i mean he met this girl that he's supposed to marry but he wasn't in the wedding in fact there is this bald guy in his place did time really fly that fast br br anyway don't waste your time to see this movie unless you want to be poisoned and manipulated by one sick eric schaeffer
0	this is supposed to be the story of the life of a man named from age 8 through to 36 told in narrative by the character at each age point in his life so for example when he's eight it's the eight year old's voice that is doing the narration when he's in junior high it's that one doing the narration etc that's about the only interesting thing about this movie it looks like each actor playing is a separate character not only do they not look alike their life experiences don't seem to match up br br avoid this movie like a bad cold
0	this film fails on every count for a start it is pretentious striving to be significant and failing miserably the script was banal in the extreme nobody at any time said anything remotely interesting it was impossible to care about any of the characters knightly was a self regarding waste of time whilst sienna miller was just a waste of time the bit about the soldier who went off to war was a cliché even before the film atonement used it the use of the second world war as a backdrop was in itself a cliché the bombs the in tube stations etc employed to import a bit of much needed drama why anybody thought for a moment that this film was worth making is quite beyond my comprehension it was yet another case of let's get the costumes looking authentic never mind about the story the script or the acting
0	few movies have dashed expectations and upset me as much as fire has the movie is pretentious garbage it does not achieve anything at an artistic level the only thing it managed to receive is a ban in india if only it was because of the poor quality of film making rather than the topical controversy the ban would have been more justifiable br br now that i've got my distress out of my system i am more able to analyse the movie br br from the onset the movie feels unreal especially when the protagonists start conversing in english the director of course did not make the movie for an indian audience however it underestimated its international audiences by over simplifying it watching the character of the domestic help conversing in perfect english is too unreal to be true br br next we get regular glimpses into radha's dreams these scenes are not very effective they coming up as jarring and obstruct the flow of the movie i'm still wondering how that philosophical dialogue connected to the story i felt that the surrealism was lost br br the love scenes felt voyeuristic and are probably meant for audience titillation rather than being a powerful statement in any case they do not achieve either of the two br br the names chosen for the women radha and sita are names of hindu deities and hence been selected to shock the audiences however since the film wasn't meant for indian audiences in the first place the shock through name selection is not meant to achieve its goal which is absurd br br the quality of direction is very poor and some key and delicate scenes have been poorly handled a better director could have made a powerful emotional drama out of the subject br br the acting felt wooden although nandita das brought some life into the role the others were wasted i always thought that shabana azmi was a good actress but her talent is not evident in this film the male leads were outright rubbish br br in case you are a fan of earth and wish to see more of the director stay away from this one please
0	seeing as how i am a big fan of both fall and if lucy fell i came to with high expectations i am not sure i could have been more disappointed this had it all weak dialogue weak performances you name it i was let down oh well better luck next time eric
0	i've been looking forward to watching since having happened across schaffer's fall unfortunately i found ws to be a wandering unengaging boring bunch of claptrap pieced together with what apparently is schaeffer's signature a mix of story narration and poetry the film recounts the sexual and other experiences of a manhattan man about to be married through self narrated flashbacks like beads on a string schaffer apparently has strung together every little sexual life experience while neglecting to tend to the beauty of the necklace the result is a disjointed rambling story about a boy growing up which fails to engender empathy and leaves the viewer disconnected unsatisfied and with a bad after taste which taints the mechanical feel good ending a mediocre indie and a step backward for schaeffer
0	i thought sleeper cell was interesting and exciting to watch up until the last episode when nothing happens its f bs you americans portray muslims as terrorists and the americans as hero's its the other way around i hate it when every american tv show ends up predictable i was hoping the bombs would go off in that stadium but i knew it would'nt it takes the joy out of watching it when you know that the good guys are going to save the day yet again americans are the biggest terrorists g bush the leader of them all he is to blame for 9 11 and i'm p off that you keep throwing these shows at us which are all the f same i've a good show about terrorism its called the and bush himself the cell leader its the same with 24 how ever 24 was good sleeper cell is a mock and should never make a season 2 its f joke and so are you american producers
0	yeah there's a sleeper watching sleeper cell and it was me after reading comparisons to 24 like on the cover of the dvd i expected a fast paced action romp but nope this series just along in my groggy half awake state i would think he's gonna and poof it would happen guess that van is gonna roll off the and there she goes br br and so on br br and why would in extra deep cover pursue a babe could it be perhaps to provide a little t a hey that works for me hence four stars rather than three br br this show is no 24 i've watched 24 sleeper cell you're no 24
0	very dull show whats worse its very racist the white guys are dumb idiots and the only romance is between a black guy and a white woman there is nothing interesting about this romance it is not exciting it is not fun they don't even seem to care for each other at all its more like the writers and directors wanted an interracial thing going on why this is so popular in media today it is social programming and will lead to no good there is always tension when too many people want the same thing this show is not worth the 20 bucks for the season its a waste of time and harmful to society at least when they use tv shows to sell products they are more discreet selling whatever agenda here is quite obvious and without clear thinking some may feel wrong to oppose it but some of us know better
0	i hoped for this show to be somewhat realistic it stroke me as just another mainstream show after i watched it i didn't feel the characters at all is this americas glamorized idea of how terrorism operates the main character doesn't act like a fundamentalist at all and how he passes for a terrorist is beyond my comprehension neither of the other terrorists managed to appear genuine one of the members a blonde all american white boy would never be accepted by muslim terrorists in real life another member a french ex skinhead doesn't quite fit in an islamic terror movement on top of this the terrorists have sexual relations to white american housewives which i find very strange this is just another stupid misguiding american tv show it is about just as realistic as prison break
0	the horror of this made for tv film was that it didn't end with this one it spawned a regular weekly series that was even worse than the pilot movie most films about various professions have some type of realism to them and of course are jazzed up to make it exciting this had none of that if the intent was to make in camp then it succeeded it resurfaced on cable a couple of years ago and failed again richard performance as the master chief who does it all was the only redeeming part of this film campier than the batman series of the 60's
0	not only have i read the book and watched the movie but i was stationed on the uss john f kennedy when they filmed this needless to say film crews and actors can be trying to people trying to do their jobs now about the movie as a career navy man i was pretty upset on how they showed life on board an aircraft carrier i could pick apart the inaccuracies throughout the movie anyone that has lived on a carrier could but that would take pages one scene that stands out in particular was when they were in the cic combat information center and they were watching a radar contact move across the screen each time the contact moved it beeped unfortunately that equipment doesn't beep like that i was a technician on that equipment the book was based upon fact the movie wasn't the follow on tv series was just as bad and the navy finally realized that support for this series would just make them look bad if you're a navy person watch this to see how a movie about carrier life is seen from the eyes of hollywood if your not a navy person watch midway or top gun at least those movies are entertaining and based upon fact
0	it is so bad i can not tear myself away i keep asking myself why why with every scene br br there is no continuity but then again if you want to make a very overtly homosexual movie with a fetishistic attitude towards all things big big boats big boys big planes then you don't have to worry about things like plot or character i am baffled and very concerned that the looks so much like richard pryor it seems wrong to put a pryor look alike in such a terrible movie but i can't tear myself away this movie is the first movie i've ever reviewed that is how phenomenally bad and bizarre it is it motivated me to join this site i have counted 50 main characters perhaps if i was stoned i could follow this but as it is i feel like i'm in some kind of never ending bad dream where it is always 1988 and we were the greatest on earth
0	i'll start by confessing that i tend to really enjoy action movies military or other i'm a guy but this dreck was awful i saw it for free showtime or hbo and still feel i paid too much it was a prolonged episode of general hospital br br i gave it a 1 only because 0 or 0 1 was not possible how or why 59 others would give it a rating of between 5 and 6 boggles my mind unless they are all family of the cast or crew br br it might be this movie was so bad many bailed out and as such were too to bother br br i'm sorry for repeating but the 10 line minimum seems silly for what essentially boils down to a warning in hopes of saving others the 2 hr black hole this movie represents trust me stare at a blank wall they'll be more action
0	my god i have not seen such an awful movie in a long long time saw it last night and wanted to leave after 20 minutes keira knightley tries really really hard in this one but she cant handle it dropped her accent every once in a while and didn't have the charisma to fill the role sienna millers acting gets you to a point where you start to ask yourself has she ever had acting lessons judging by the edge of love shes never been to acting class but should consider to go in the near future they both look really pretty maybe thats what they should focus on in their future career if they can be actresses everybody can
0	the storyline of the stranger mirrors somewhat the 1969 film journey to the far side of the sun made by gerry sylvia anderson of 'thunderbirds' and 'space fame a parallel universe earth is the premise of both films but there is a difference where the world in the stranger features a totalitarian regime out to squash the freedom of the citizenry journey to the far side of the sun merely showed a true mirror world where handwriting roads houses machinery of every kind and of course internal organs were all in reverse or mirrored order so the similarity of parallel earths is the only connection of both films br br similarly the tv series land of the giants came before both of those films having run from 1968 to 1970 it featured a world that was nearly parallel to the earth with the exception that the planet was populated by giants 12 times the size of the humans who crash landed there the idea of a totalitarian government out to capture and contain the 'little people' was similar to the premise of the stranger more so than the premise of perhaps because of the similarly to a series to the stranger was shelved had it turned into a tv series it would have been a sci fi version of the fugitive with star glenn corbett being chased by the baddies from week to week hiding out in different locations etc btw a stronger script could have helped this film along
0	stranded in space 1972 mst3k version a very not good tv movie pilot for a never to be made series in which an astronaut finds himself trapped on earth's evil twin having a planet of identical size and mass orbiting in the same plane as the earth but on the opposite side of the sun is a well worn sf chestnut the idea is over 2 000 years old having been invented by the ancient greeks in this version the counter world is run as an orwellian 'perfect' society where for totally inexplicable reasons everyone speaks english and drives late model american cars after escaping from his hospital the disruptive is chased around not southern california by tv and bad movie stalwart cameron mitchell who like his minions wears double breasted suits and black polo neck jumpers a stylishly evil combination which i fully intend to adopt if ever i become a totalitarian overlord our hero escapes several times before ending up gazing at the alien world's three moons and wondering aloud if he will ever get home thus setting up one of those man alone in a hostile world making a new friend each week but moving on at the end of every episode shows so beloved of the industry in the 70s and 80s 'the 'the incredible 'the littlest etc the curiously weirdest bit though was the title sequence somewhere between in space' first airing under the title 'the stranger' in 1972 and the mst3k version in 1991 it somehow acquired some footage from the 1983 movie of the lost so in 1991 the opening credits for in space' run under a few shots of three people falling into a matter transmitter and vanishing it's a sequence that has nothing to do even thematically with anything that is going to follow br br just to add to the nerdy b movie confusion one of the actors in this nailed on footage kay lenz later appeared in a 1994 movie called in space' knowing this fact could never save your life but it might score you very big points and admiring looks from fellow trash movie enthusiasts if you could ever work out a way of the conversation round to the point where you could casually slip it in without looking like a total idiot
0	a malfunction in space sends astronaut neil stryker glenn corbett off course and headed to something of a parallel world called terra circling the sun exactly opposite earth as a being from space would pose a threat to this world's order stryker is held until a determination can be made as to exactly what to do with him stryker however gets suspicious of his surroundings and escapes with the help of a sympathetic nurse and a old scientist who opposes the government stryker will try to board a spaceship and head back to earth br br stranded in space or the stranger if you prefer is another of those 70s made for tv movies that was to be turned into a regular weekly show in this case it's easy to see why it didn't make it first off there's nothing new about the show's set up it was undoubtedly designed to follow the same formula used by the fugitive or the incredible hulk or planet of the apes you know a stranger constantly on the move going from one town to the next taking whatever odd job he can all the while being pursued by a government agency or newspaper reporter it's a formula that's been done to death the second strike against stranded in space is its lead glenn corbett could this guy come across any less likable i was rooting for him to get caught without sympathy for the main character this kind of show would never work finally this is supposed to be science fiction just because everyone is left handed and someone has hung three fake looking moons on the horizon i'm supposed to jump to the conclusion that this is some distant planet so it's a mere coincidence that they all speak english dress just like people on earth and drive plymouth furies yeah right br br the lone highlight for me was the inclusion of cameron mitchell in the cast sure it's difficult to watch him in something this dreadful but you know the old saying any cameron is better than no cameron yeah i've never heard it either br br as with a lot of these 70s made for tv movies i watched stranded in space courtesy of mystery science theater 3000 i wouldn't call it a great episode by any stretch of the imagination but there are a few good jokes along the way so in the end while i rate the movie a 2 10 it gets a 3 5 on my mst3k rating scale
0	this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick doppelganger an astronaut from our earth crashing on a 'counter earth' on the opposite side of the sun and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series however the whole thing sank without a trace and tv is probably better off for it br br everyone here is perfectly adequate in a 'made for tv' way cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance so does glenn corbett who seems to be a kind of poor man's john saxon who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the 'world order' on counter earth br br but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad br br i'll give one example in the original template for this pilot doppleganger the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers br br in stranded in space the astronauts are sitting in their seats when sound things start shaking and the camera blurs into a blackout and as a friend pointed out it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats the director wasn't even shaking the camera or the set i've seen episodes of the twilight zone and the outer limits that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity br br and that in essence is what's wrong with stranded in space no budget no time no imagination just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys' imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest sorry guys it didn't work br br i'm sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away and never thought of it again except as a listing on their c v and that's what you the viewer will do you'll remember if pressed that you once watched a tv movie called stranded in space but it made no lasting impression on you and you can't recall too much about it
0	a friend of mine who is even more into 1970s cult films than myself recommended this one to me and in fact gave me the copy of it that i watched however i was not as enthusiastic about the result as he – or for that matter michael elliott – was the film is a hybrid of house of wax 1953 and the texas chain saw massacre 1974 indeed i would venture to say that it served as the basis of the 2005 remake of the former much more than the 'original' did so we have a remote and derelict wax museum of incredibly lifelike dummies guess why that is with its apparently harmless curator a hammy chuck connors being by the obligatory group of stranded teenagers among them tanya roberts he also has a mad brother – shades of psycho 1960 incorporated for good measure down to the self same twist – who is supposed to be a mechanical genius showcased in a 'poltergeist' which unaccountably accompanies the first murder the film does benefit from a pino donaggio score but being so derivative and not especially well made to boot essentially ends up merely a redundant and fairly muddled genre effort
0	greetings br br i never thought i would see the day when i would be so disgusted by a movie that it would be a burden to finish it i was always a fan of horror movies and c's included but in this case it's hard to describe how a movie could fail to qualify for any letters in that scale br br the movie is centered on a poorly developed back story a mix of folklore with an after taste and to top it up the performance of the actors is questionable horror b movies usually fall in two categories 1 a gem that was under looked and under funded 2 so bad it's funny laugh or your money back well this movie falls in between i wasn't scare didn't laugh so i guess if you really need to see it you could but i recommend you don't
0	i bought this film from e bay as part of a lot of about twenty horror flicks all about a dollar a piece when watching this my first impression was that it probably was from the late 80s later on i began thinking the linkin park posters on the wall and everything else seemed to hint that i was dealing with a more recent film realizing that the flick became an unbearable torment the last 3 minutes were the longest in the movie history the film just refused to end is there a genre such as horror for children in that case this film is definitely it if there are parents perverse enough to want to introduce their offspring to horror i suggest this would be perfect for kids of about 6 8 the only thing i really liked was greg who was much too good an actor for that kind of nostalgic retro bottom part of a drive in double bill
0	spoilers herein br br where do i begin with just how silly this movie was 'mole sized people living under the garden attacking residents of a big house' when i first sat down to watch this movie i was unaware that the protagonists where not etc but 10 inch high goblins that looked mighty easy to kick hard and far i carried on watching it because i like to see movies through to the end even awful ones this movie was terrible my girlfriend who went to sleep inside the first ten minutes apart from finding it a good aid to sleep thought it was hilarious that i had bothered to watch it all br br tiny goblins even in large numbers the thought is silly i know are about as scary and menacing as flat cola they only managed to trip one guy up and kill a cat before they were blown up the end i did mention it sucked right
0	thanks to silly horror movies like troll and the indescribably atrocious cult favorite troll 2 it has become practically impossible to take movies with gnomes and various other types of little green hobgoblins seriously these days only just recently i watched the 70's made for tv movie don't be afraid of the dark which is basically a quite terrifying and serious toned film about domestic little goblin monsters and yet i still couldn't help thinking back about the laugh inducing potato headed critters dressed in garbage bags that were running amok in troll 2 same thing happened to me now as much as i tried going into inhabited with a clear mindset unconsciously i kept comparing the supposedly creepy and menacing garden fairies with the badly sculptured goblins of still even without all the prejudices inhabited is a remotely entertaining albeit unmemorable straight to video horror flick it's a cheesy soft and politically correct pastiche of family drama and northern europe mythology the annoying and murderous little creatures in this movie aren't your plain average goblins they are the wicked little norwegian demons that live underground and attempt to chase happy families out of their houses through influencing the youngest children this overcomes the russell family as they move into their ramshackle dream house in a remote little town the cherubic blond daughter of milf actress megan gallagher starts to behave strangely whenever she hangs out in the cute play house in the back of the garden she claims her friends are fairies and even though the sinister handyman also warns for strange occurrences in the past gina's parents simply think the girl has troubles adjusting to her new neighborhood when she keeps rattling about fairies they arrange an appointment with the acclaimed psychologist dr werner whilst the are slowly coming out of their shelter not much special to mention here the pace is acceptable and the attempts to build up suspense are pretty cute you understand this is a family friendly horror movie so no bloody murder sequences are graphically being shown here heck even the cadaver of the family's pet cat is kept off screen this is the umpteenth nonsensical horror movie in which malcolm mcdowell pops up and he practically always depicts an unreliable greedy and self centered authority figure
0	this might not have been as horribly bad as it was if not for the absolutely awful acting job done by raymond wallace this guy is so bad it wasn't even funny his character was needed in the film but why they chose this guy is beyond me br br if you're looking for some quality chinese films might i suggest raise the red lantern the story of ju red sorghum br br anything but this i was surprised at how many people actually rated this highly really the acting by this wallace loser is so bad it overshadows the other good parts of this film this was agreed upon by all 6 of us watching this movie last night br br stay clear of this piece of garbage
0	this film is about the complicated friendship romance and deceit between two men and two women during the world war ii br br a lot of effort has been put to make the edge of love look the right period however i find this effort too excessive particularly in terms of the tone of the colours most of the first half of the film is processed so much to have a strong bluish tone it's hard to make out who's who in this tone br br another detrimental point is the fancy use of image splitting lens there are many scenes that have three or four images of the same thing such as three keira knightley smiling face or four pairs of arms in embrace that simply makes the film confusing and hard to follow instead of being artistic br br as for the plot it is plain boring the way the story unfolds is not engaging at all sienna miller's unstable character is annoying in fact all the main characters are annoying and unlikeable keira knightley's accent is impossible to understand making it a further impediment to understanding the plot br br i strongly advise avoiding the edge of love unless you watch a film only to appreciate great costumes nice sets and lighting
0	it may be difficult to believe but the basic plot of this abysmal flick has been lifted from hitchcock's perennial classic vertigo to see edward james olmos in the part once played by james stewart is heart breaking sean young is better but still a poor substitute for kim novak
0	this movie was so bad it was funny for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie a la for your consideration the cliffhanger scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt the script was dreadful enough but coupled with sean young's terrible acting especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail complete with flashbacks while dangling off a cliff makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie i still can't believe how this thing got made first of all how did such a bad script get the green light how did star actors get attached were they at low points in their careers questions questions
0	there's simply no redeeming quality about this film ok some of the costumes are ok but they're nothing you can't see in say the conan flicks and what's up with hair i can't believe this is part of a series i will say one thing about this film it was deemed bad enough for a righteous lampooning by the early cast of mst3k and i suggest to anyone that's curious enough to see how bad this film is to watch that version of the film for moral support if nothing else
0	this movie's one redeemable quality besides barely there loincloth is the hilarious acting on the part of the bad guy this wonderfully overplayed villain has a certain oh shakespearean presence that made this movie bearable hence the 2 i just giggled every time he lifting an incredulous eyebrow to henchman or hero a true example of someone not getting paid enough and that beard br br now really what was with the 12 minute hang glider scene really really really bad i can't emphasize that point enough br br so seriously if you even deign to see this movie watch the mystery science theater 3000 version with those dear silhouettes has many a horrendous movie been tolerated
0	i just read an extra long review on the front page of this movie on this site and he explained in full detail that this movie is only worth watching on the television show mystery science theater 3000 and yes i do find that advice really helpful i mean a movie that tries to be this good and this exciting just really is not what that movie wants to be so yes do watch this movie as seen on that show and instead of giving this movie a single star out of ten stars you can give this a ten out of ten stars until then my one star review is for the real pure untouched version of this movie only got that now
0	miles o'keefe stars as ator a loin clothed hero who resembles a dancer the conan wannabe must do battle with an evil guy in a cher wig and protect the earth from the geometric a sort of primitive atomic bomb watch closely for visible sunglasses and tire tracks mystery science theater 3000 made fun of it under the title cave dwellers
0	this movie has some of the worst production values and editing i've ever seen there are several instances of actors pausing while trying to remember their lines actors walking in front of actors who are talking and one point where the film skips about seven frames not to mention the heroine getting shot in the chest yet she starts limping oh and what about the secret passageway that is well lit and right out in the open awful br br the plot is non existant something to do with a primitive nuclear bomb and going to the ends of the earth and some kind of caveman war ator pulls out a hang glider at one point in the film's dumbest moment the dialogue is stupid containing such gems as it is everything and nothing and i can feel it here br br the movie is a mess a confusing insipid mess ator is a bland hero the sword fights are absurd and the plot plods along slowly all in all this is a movie to avoid
0	cave dwellers or the blade mater or whatever it's called is in one word vile i saw this on mst and i laughed not only at the great running commentary but at the inept film making that was demonstrated sunglasses tire tracks and where did ator get a hang glider then they lift a few shots from another movie where eagles dare as tom servo points out to show just how cheap this movie really is watch the scene where ator and thong have to battle invisible swordsmen or even better look for the giant hose dressed up like a snake that ator must wrestle and what exactly do those scenes in the credits have to do with the movie
0	the sequel that no one asked for to the movie no one wanted there are obviously too many flaws with this movie to name here so i'll just concentrate on the acting miles o'keefe would have been better suited to play the spritely asian sidekick thong mainly because he would then have no dialogue lisa foster delivers her lines displaying one emotion dullness charles brings life to his part by pausing every five words and finally the flamboyant john saxon type guy no comment is needed br br see conan the barbarian if you need to but don't waste your time with this low budget loser
0	even mst3k couldn't make this painful long and ultimately mind bending drek funny or entertaining while most bad movies in and of themselves are hilariously bad this one is one of those few videos that uses the word bad in its literal sense br br the element that makes this so painful to watch is not the lack of story but the fact that soooo much background is crammed into the first half hour that it is utterly ridiculous and harder to follow than a highway while driving with no headlights br br the hero of the film ator is no more than eye candy for this literal energy sucker of a film dressed in a loin cloth and sporting pecs like melons as joel put it he belongs more in a fitness magazine than here br br i would recommend this only to die hard and i mean die hard followers of cheese if you have an enemy recommend them this film if you make it through this i commend you you should be able to make it through anything
0	i just got done watching the edge of love by the way this is one of the worst titles so far this year and it felt like a chore watching keira knightly's unlikable skeleton looking character made me cringe even more throughout the coarse of the film br br it took me four nights to watch this it was so boring the only good thing about it was cillian murphy he's always good believable and is severely under looked in many films this however was just not good enough for him br br apart from the unlikable characters boring storyline the plot was also emotionally unsatisfying i felt like i spent my time watching this for nothing which i did i should have done the smart thing and turned it off but i kept it on out of respect for cillian murphy and the great cinematography
0	i saw this one on the late late late late show back when mst3k was just a twinkle in joel eye i had the privilege of seeing it without knowing exactly how bad it would be i didn't know that a woman with an arrow in her chest could run to the ends of the earth in about an hour and a half thank god her father gave such specific directions and then take days to make it back to the castle with help i didn't know that a sword wielding barbarian type could run into the forest and create a and flash powder bombs in under 30 seconds i had no idea how disjointed a movie could be br br it's a bad thing children a very bad thing if you enjoy bad movies go for it
0	like almost everyone else i became aware of this turkey on mystery science theater 3000 it easily ranks as one of my favorite mst3k episodes of all time i really couldn't imagine attempting to watch this film on it's own though it's really really really really really really really really really really bad br br miles o'keeffe stars as ator a muscle bound fabio wannabe who lives during the time of cave men we the viewer are asked to suspend our disbelief in that he knows alchemy and chemistry and can manage to build a complete hang glider in about 5 minutes yeah right there's also a fairly attractive actress can't remember her name who wears a hub cap as a chest shield oh and i can't forget that wacky asian side kick thong he had the easiest role in the movie since he doesn't utter one word of dialogue throughout the entire movie he had to figure out how to make his character interesting without talking and he failed miserably br br the film isn't watchable in any way and should be only viewed in it's proper mst3k format if you watch that version you'll laugh yourself silly br br i'm huge br br rating 1
0	why it's none other than ator played hilariously bad by miles o'keefe surprisingly i had the misfortune of sitting through this turkey before mystery science theater 3000 tore it to pieces i highly recommend checking out the mst3k version since it's hilarious and one of their best episodes ever br br the movie on it's own is basically the kind of typical b movie crud that italian film makers were churning out in the early to mid 80's this film was apparently made to cash in on the conan craze but it fails miserably on all counts br br keep an eye out for the scenes where ator fights a giant rubber snake and also manages to make a complete hang glider during a cutaway br br thong fish is ready br br rating the movie itself 1 the mst3k version 10
0	why was this movie made are producers so easily fooled by sadists that they'll give them money to create torture methods such as this so called film i love a bad movie as much as the next masochist but cave dwellers is pushing it it's seriously physically painful to watch the plot is something about a dude name ator a buffed up whom i will refer to as private snowball for the rest of this review who has to fight invisible warriors and rescue a princess in order to beat the bad guy who needs to find a better hair stylist i might have gotten the plot wrong since it's been a while since i watched this excrement but really do you care that much oh yeah private snowball also has a mute asian sidekick who hasn't who's not funny br br anyway private snowball fights invisible people visits some caves all in the name of a good king so personality free he makes al gore look like jim carrey then private snowball builds a hang glider yes i'm serious and gets the girl kee yay it's cheap unintentionally silly and mind numbingly dull why am i not surprised that the director ended up making porn br br bottom line avoid ator will steal a part of your life and you will have no funny so bad they're good catchphrases to take with you from the experience bad ator bad gags
0	another in the long line of conan wannabes that tired to cash in on that movie's success this italian monstrosity is about as bad as they came you know it's a bad sign when your heroes fight invisible enemies because the movie was made so cheaply there wasn't money for either adequate special effects or to hire real people i won't even bother going into the plot as i defy anyone to follow it and make sense of the storyline maybe it's the television cut i watched but i can't imagine any version being that much better it all seems so random to me evil sorcerers cavemen giant snakes medieval castles grenades and hang gliding – none of it fits together it's as if director joe d'amato had an epileptic fit while making cave dwellers or any of the other half dozen names the movie goes by and threw everything he could think of onto the screen regardless of how unrelated it was or how it fit into the film's already puzzling plot the acting is sufficiently bad miles o'keeffe could never act his way out of a wet paper bag and he proves that once again in this movie the rest of the cast is equally atrocious then there's the well you get the idea it's late i'm tired and i've already wasted more than enough time writing about this piece of garbage take my word for it – avoid cave dwellers or whatever you want to call it at all costs
0	i actually own this movie which is the mst3k version called cave dwellers which is really the only way anyone could really watch a movie like this if it weren't for joel crow and tom servo constantly making wisecracks it wouldn't be possible to sit through this piece of crap you have a hero called ator who looks a lot like jeff in fast times at ridgemont high and appears only slightly more intelligent just without being stoned he takes on cavemen the cave dwellers invisible guys a giant snake with a bunch of anal retentive snakes that like to line up all the skulls to face the same way invents a hang glider which suspiciously looks like a modern aluminum one with some cheap vines wrapped around it and then does battle with the evil john saxon looking dude then he rides off on his horse across the tire tracks where someone's been four wheeling br br yes i got most of that from mst3k which as i said is the only way to watch this turkey of a movie if it weren't for that it would get zero stars
0	there are plenty of reviews that describe this movie as the worst ever made for sure there are plenty of mistakes lackluster acting rather boring and cliched and at times paradoxical script and the stock b movie sound and special effects as noted there are plenty of glosses of plot making cave dwellers a tissue of fantasy film especially in comparison with the lord of the rings trilogy however this movie is not the worst movie ever most if not all including this review of these reviews are written by fans of mstk3 therefore many of these reviews are pretty much summaries of the mstk3 episode of cave dwellers br br in the episode joel tom servo and crow remark to the mad scientists that this is the worst movie ever sent to them of course loyal fans have taken this quote and ran with it i have found this movie endearing not in a way that one finds forrest gump endearing but in the effort put into this movie by some the cast also this movie is laughable without its mstk3 treatment that is because cave dwellers does not take itself seriously and it is not trying to import into its viewers some sort of righteous theme for all of the monster puppets medieval hang gliding and continuity lapses this movie does not advertise to be any more that what it is a shallow depiction of a rather shallow genre br br likewise i can't bring myself to hate miles o'keeffe or lisa foster instead this hatred is for coleman francis tony jennifer lopez arch hall jr and so on br br
0	this was the second movie i ever saw and still holds a place in my heart as one of the most hilariously awful film experiences you are ever going to have br br miles o'keeffe sp is in this using his chiseled physique to score another payment on the mortgage on his condominium he's stiff wooden and unconvincing but he still comes across as a cool likable guy and at least he's photogenic that's the only decent i can find to say about the movie so i thought i would get it out of the way right up front the fact that he is in the movie adds another point to the score and saves it from being a 1 out of 10 br br in no particular order examples of how badly put together this film is br br 1 ok the tanya roberts clone mila quests to 'the ends of the earth' to find ator which takes 3 minutes of screen time including the time she spends stumbling around dying from a poisoned arrow in her shoulder which i assume would have slowed her down quite a bit so ator heals her up and takes his trusty aid thong and sets out to go back to the her castle and proceeds to take the next 50 minutes of the movie recovering the ground that mila traversed in 3 minutes how does that work i know that the intrepid crew is being harassed by magical forces and enemies etc on the way back but still br br 2 apparently the writer director felt the need to add 'depth' to the film by adding a running debate dialog game of 20 questions between the mean john saxon wannabe and the wise man the richard harris wannabe but joe apparently got his philosophical training from hallmark cards t shirts and bumper stickers and he doesn't understand tempo pacing or timing and neither do the actors remark during one of these exchanges is the tag line for my entry the scenes with these two drag on and on bringing the movie to a screeching halt and killing any momentum or excitement generated by the sword fighting and questing of the heroic trio br br 3 once ator arrives at the castle and is captured things go even farther downhill decides to feed a bunch of women victims along with ator and mila to the serpent god he keeps in his basement this scene had some potential for excitement so the director immediately kills this potential by instilling the scene with all the drama of people waiting in line at the dmv to pay their traffic fines ator proceeds to have a big battle with the serpent that is barely more convincing than bela lugosi's battle with the rubber octopus puppet in bride of the monster br br 4 the climactic scene in which ator invents the hang glider out of twigs and animal skins is so patently silly that it completely blows the viewer out of the movie and makes you roll on the floor laughing until your sides hurt br br 5 oh yes and the filmmakers decided to include stock footage of an atomic explosion at the end with the moral that ator decided to destroy the mcguffin that drives the movie because mankind was 'not ready' message coming in just like bride of the monster again come to think of it all it needed was a bystander to observe they tampered in god's domain br br 6 for some reason the version of the movie i saw features introductory and closing homo erotic credit sequences that have absolutely nothing to do with anyone or anything else in the movie i have no idea where this footage came from but it is actually worse than the actual movie it bookends br br watch this only if you are a big fan of miles or if you enjoy the way mst3k skewers material like this
0	the credits come from the sandy frank stitching job that was made to turn this movie into cave dwellers for re release now that that's cleared up oh excruciating eye gouging pain blade master leaps shamelessly on the sword sorcery bandwagon started by the conan flicks except the bandwagon never left the garage anyway as such this italian flick is a dud trying to rip off a box office dud with predictable results however this would give too little credit to the director and writers who make no effort whatsoever to maintain a coherent plot continuity any semblance of era accurate continuity miles o'keefe is no leading man now or forever tarzan the ape man proved that if ator didn't just an unlikeable picture and a chore to watch
0	this is about one of the worst movies i'd ever seen it's not the worst though manos the hands of fate holds that honor br br this movie has a lot of problems to begin this whole movie is a cheap rip off of the conan movies there's the babe in a skimpy dress wearing a the quiet asian warrior the cookie cutter bad guy the almost mindless and so on there's lots of continuity errors in this film some of the dumbest errors i've ever seen are in this film br br fortunately when i watched this film i seen the mst3k version joel and the make the film watchable otherwise i probably would've turned it off five minutes into the film
0	i can't believe how dumb this movie truly is the storyline written by keira knightley's mother is what ruins the movie to the extreme it is straight out dull absurd and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever br br this movie lagged so bad for most of it especially at the beginning the story just kept going on and on about their everyday flirts with each other often times seeming like a threesome in this movie you have an annoying deadbeat couple the poet and his wife who are complete total drunks from the start the wife sleeps around with other men to make ends meet while the poet is a pervert who thrives on cheap boos and women the wife who too quickly becomes friends with his former childhood lover played by keira suddenly gets jealous knowing full well that the two were lovers since they were kids something doesn't seem right here i mean come on get with the program lady you expect br br bottom line is former lovers meet again with new wife embracing it then gets jealous then former woman lover gets married and her husband gets jealous bombards the crazy drunk couple's home crazy husband calls police and they end up going to court for the man's attempted murder charges that's it summed up in a nutshell br br this movie had it's moments such as the quality and good acting by cillian murphy but other than that i cannot believe i watched it i complained about it during the movie and some family members watching it with me fell asleep i decided to give it a chance and i should have stuck to my first instincts
0	and kept falling asleep if you want to see miles o'keefe around in a furry speedo by all means rent this movie if not please don't bother rife with anachronisms was this supposed to be set in the ice age the iron age the steel age or the age of reason what was the reason for the black wig on the guy dressed up as genghis khan was that really supposed to be genghis khan if ator had access to so much advanced technology and science why did we have wait another 1000 years for leonardo it's never clear where ator comes from or if he's supposed to be some superior sort of being you wonder if it was all explained in the first movie but after seeing this one you know you'll never bother
0	spoilers horrifyingly enough i have actually seen the film that this horrid film was a sequel to it was called ator the fighting eagle and i saw it when i was just 8 years old it made such an awful impression on me that i never forgot it i've been an mst3k fan for a long time so when came out on tape i bought it i was horrified to realize that it was a sequel to the wretched ator movie that i'd seen so long ago costume has somehow gotten ever skimpier than the last time i saw him how can he wear that tiny little bikini doesn't he care that it shows off the fact that he has no errr package and poor thong he gets no lines and no girl and has to follow that frizzy haired girly doofus ator around all the time has anyone else noticed that miles o'keefe walks like a woman no wonder he's not interested in the pretty if somewhat lackluster the evil but bad guy is more to his taste i'm sure i loved cardboard spray painted swan helmet and the way he spent all his time trying to touch some part of ator the fight scenes are so badly choreographed that its a wonder that the swords ever manage to connect the dull old guy spends all of his time standing around looking depressed ator drinks from a cup given to him by a guy who hates him and then looks surprised that they drugged him he must be pretty smart though he invented a hang glider in the space pf five minutes then flew it into a rift in the space time continuum so that he travelled briefly into 17th century bulgaria that was after he stabbed the giant snake puppet of course and saved the post coital while she sat around doing absolutely nothing the real hero of the movie was thong who saved ator several times from his boundless and killed the evil in the bargain kudos to thong the only competent person in the whole film
0	i mean you just have to love the italian film industry someone came up with a post doomsday action movie road warrior and the italians were busy for years doing one rip off after another then some other one came up with a successful barbarian movie conan and the italians were busy eh see above br br besides countless other variations of the theme one of my favorites is umberto lenzi's the barbarians starring the paul twins the ator series was created and this the second one is probably the worst or best depending on your point of view br br ator is called back into action by his old teacher who has discovered some kind of nuclear power that of course has to be protected so it won't get into wrong hands the old man sends his daughter to ator and after a few complications ator his sidekick tong and the girl set back to the castle which meanwhile has fallen to some evildoer of course an old class mate of ator somewhere along the way the heroic trio forgets about the plot and eradicates some giant snake worshipping cult for the fun of it not before some virgins are sacrificed just in time before the madman finally loses his temper and kills the wise teacher our heroes remember their duties invent and grenades and save the day br br included terrible acting by all participants especially o'keeffe incredibly hilarious special effects you just have to adore the snake fight scene which must be sort of a hommage to bride of the monster badly staged fight scenes numerous continuity errors ator flies two different during the climatic battle watch for it just an example and an overall non understanding of the concept of history cavemen civilized barbarians castle builders all thrown in one film br br if you're like me devoted to bad movies this is the one of the series to see you'll probably end up for the records the malta filmed third part is actually quite watchable br br considering joe d'amato's other efforts this is probably his most entertaining movie as he certainly has failed to deliver watchable horror or erotic movies but i strongly have the opinion that this was completely by accident br br
0	yes this movie is obviously trying to be a conan the barbarian and what amazes me is that this is a sequel the people demanded another one the first part of the flick is a flashback showing the original from what i saw it doesn't look worth checking out and apparently ator always kills a huge puppet in his movies well now ator lives at the ends of the earth with his mute sidekick thong a girl seeks his help as this evil dude has her father in his custody let me just say this bad guy is extremely patient as the old guy constantly insults the villian and just prattles on endlessly the bad guy waits to the very end of the movie and finally smacks the old guy around leaving you to wonder what took him so long to snap meanwhile ator and his sidekick and the gal go through one adventure after another they fight cavemen invisible soldiers don't ask rent a thugs and people who worship snakes ator also battles a giant snake puppet and hang glides again don't ask all the while you will be thinking that conan would kick butt
0	good grief to think i've seen it all danny thomas looks so out of place in this mishmash he seems really uncomfortable he can't sing worth a lick and when he's paired up with peggy lee peggy lee she easily easily him maybe the director saw this and made him do the really bad comedy routines that he sometimes does in the film peggy lee is okay but the whole thing is a shambles good for a laugh maybe
0	if you are a pauly shore fan you will laugh your butt off if not this is a silly mess wasting some very good talent a cute coed carla from south dakota invites her california college dorm counselor shore home to share thanksgiving notable cast members lane smith cindy pickett mason adams and the drop dead gorgeous tiffani amber thiessen watch where you step
0	this movie is one of the worse movies of all time i'm kind of upset this movie isn't on the bottom 100 it deserves a spot at least number 60 or 70 on that list this isn't just a film i think is bad in a campy fun sort of mst3k way it's just bad this is one of the few films that i really really hate freddy got fingered is in the same category of bad br br so the story in this one goes that the daughter goes to california to go to school and comes back with crawl shore and he tries to learn to be a farmer then the boyfriend tries to set shore up so that the girl will leave crawl and go back to him it ends and what's left of the audience can leave br br the main purpose of this movie is for pauly shore to mug for the camera and try to be funny but i'd say about 100 of the time he fails at that their horrible inaccurate and out of date view of farms and farming is offensive and there's nothing in this movie worth seeing if you think of seeing it don't the one time i saw the movie it felt like i was watching it for 5 or 6 hours if you've already seen it you have my sympathy
0	on his recent maligned reality show mr shore conceded his filmic oeuvre is best enjoyed stoned no he must have said best watched while a healthy toke might see you through the end credits there is little pleasure to be found save some sporadic chuckling at the picture not with it titular absence is the least grievance other wholesome tiffani amber thiessen i dare you to rub out that saved by the bell patina of purity is miscast as a rural vamp she's too round of face for treachery mr shore himself occasionally displays the odd talent for mimicry i thought i recognized a jimmy stewart in there however it is never aptly used the trite fish out of water formula has yet to be rendered with less grace our hero crawl has precious little wit to account for expeditiously charming his agrarian antagonists ultimately i had to announce it's been the worst movie ever p s as another fish adam sandler fared better with mr deeds it may take a shore to appreciate a sandler
0	it amazes me that anyone would find pauly shore entertaining he is basically one joke that gets stale real fast he has his little california jerk vocabulary and a basic stock of lame jokes mainly he is just obnoxious br br that said i watched this movie because i was up sick and there was literally nothing else on but infomercials otherwise i would have turned it off after 30 minutes anyway the film could have been ok if pauly could have just turned off his spiel and just played it as a comic actor instead of well pauly br br anyway i'm sure pauly fans will like it anyway but if you are not a pauly fan stay away from this crock of manure br br i had to leave this comment after seeing that another user actually gave this film a 10 10 maybe it was pauly personally i gave it a 3 10 because they didn't have any mike in frame shots didn't drop the camera and the supporting cast was pretty good
0	perfect double bill for the horribly corny beverly hillbillies is this equally atrocious lame brained 'comedy' son in law country girl rebecca goes to wild california to attend college only to be assaulted by the lifestyle crawl helps her settle in and soon the two are good friends decides to bring the wacky crawl home for thanksgiving with obvious fish out of water results br br the only other comic angle steve rash aptly named achieves here is a sexual one this he bludgeons us with but to no avail both comic aspects fail dismally and you know the film is groping when crawl hijacks the combine harvester and writes his name in the corn field br br dramatically the movie falls short too with several attempts at family and personal counselling from crawl misfiring between them pauly shore and carla manage to raise a couple of smiles but little else while the rest of the cast are mere fodder the problem is it's nearly impossible to actually like crawl and you'll find yourself spending the whole flick wondering why rebecca would want to spend a moment with him however if you're a fan of unintelligent comedy son in law is right on the mark br br sunday november 10 1996 t v
0	this movie is so dull i spent half of it on imdb while it was open in another tab on netflix trying to find out if anyone thought it was one of the more boring ponderous gimmicky films they've ever seen a warning i actually could not finish it so these are my impressions up to minute 54 br br keira knightly gets loads of screen time as others have mentioned her mother penned the script perhaps during some sort of drug induced stupor wherein utter inanities and emotionless statements about emotions sounded like interesting dialogue and it seems that the film is a showcase for knightly oops although i agree she is lovely with her teeth her barred teeth cause me anxiety and fear i found her reactions forced and poorly timed as in william or dylan does something cute pause hahaha from k with dimples and a playful arm jab like a minute too late what and she cannot match cillian murphy's intensity he somehow manages to really look at her and look as though he is fascinated by her and falling in love with her whereas she seems totally disconnected almost like she is interacting with a mirror that must be torture acting opposite someone who isn't delivering the same level of energy as you know what else is torture this movie br br knightly does look stunning during her cyclical i've got 1940s pin curls and a hot dress watch me sing shots but what's the point is she an altar or an actress when she talks it's bizarre ya going this makes me confused because the accent is so mixed up and yet so thick at times i have no idea what she's saying or maybe fell asleep if no one knows who vera was or cares or few do was it so important to give her this supposed welsh accent it distracts from all the rest of the action just kidding there br br this movie seems like someone dreamed a movie maybe after reading a little dylan thomas before bed but instead of adapting to the waking world was like man that dream was so interesting and tried to replicate it then someone else cautioned your script needs work nothing that happens furthers a story or creates necessity and the writer is all but that's the way i dreamed it it's like the rambling fantasy of a child one of those wild and meandering yarns they spin to get your attention and then william went to a war and then vera had a baby and then some blond chick drank too much and there were so many airplanes and pin curls and everyone had ruby red lips and br br as for the dylan thomas character so bland that's all i can call him why didn't he have any lines in this goofy biopic all he does is drink beer and smoke cigarettes and roll around with sienna miller who is so wild and artistic she'll do a cartwheel in public get outta here you crazy poets i realize she is not a poet but she and thomas are like this one nauseating unit of crazy guys crazy times like a lukewarm sailor and from wild at heart someone asks in the message board if they should buy this film i say do it leave it on your shelf and only utilize it as a weapon to children the elderly or lingering house guests br br p s to murphy's character when someone asks if you were in the sh you can say yes because your war scenes appear to have been shot at a landfill
0	frantic somewhat mean spirited infantile humor abounds in this city boy turned wannabe farmer tale it is not outrageous enough to appeal to the will ferrell crowd and not interesting enough to carry the feature length the most i can praise son in law would be to say that for the most part it avoids toilet humor the main problem is that all of the characters lack warmth and pauly shore is so abrasive that he is a most unlikable hero there are a few amusing bits involving farm animals and that's about it the story what there is is so simplistic and predictable it makes jury duty seem like gone with the wind merk
0	here's another of these modern day ultra sleaze comedies in which dysfunctional families are supposedly hilarious know wonder people once asked what ever happened to pauly shore well shore didn't disappear but his career took a nose dive that's for sure movies like this one didn't help br br in son in law shore plays an incredibly obnoxious character called crawl and yet he's the most likable of the family his father is a profane idiot his mother is totally incompetent his young brother is a sex maniac and his college age sister is a real snot br br watching an hour and a half of totally unlikeable people was tough to do i certainly wouldn't watch this again or recommend it to anyone but die hard shore fans adam sandler took shtick and went a lot further with it br br the following is an excerpt from the imdb title page here under biography and it explains why i am not the only one who was disgusted with this movie br br but his lunacy was dismissed as crude dumb and for the most part unfunny his film career quickly tanked this downhill spiral was not helped by the failure of his failed fox sitcom pauly 1997 in 1997 lambasted by both critics and media alike he was soon becoming a running joke and forced to lie low and ride out the storm
0	oh how i laughed this has it all an asian white family a disabled asian boy everything a healthy person needs to see in the eyes of the bbc br br what utter tribe this was a total insult to my eyes that viewed this rubbish for one episode and one episode only br br when you think of some of the quality the bbc has put out over the years fawlty towers for example and then this comes rolling in its a disgusting disgrace br br its all geared on political correctness and is devoid of any humour whatsoever br br this is straight from the bowels of hell but what would you expect from the ultra left wing i mean bbc
0	it says a lot about the united kingdom when television programmes like this not only get made but also run for three series unfunny politically correct to the point of sickening and poorly acted and written meera syal has not been funny or accomplished in anything that she has been in go on tell me i am wrong and jasper carrott funny guy as he is is well past his eighties prime this is such a bad comedy that it could have been made by itv but even stinkers like the upper hand and the one with james bolam as a car park attendant look like fawlty towers compared to this rubbish i would love to sit down with the writer director of this show so that they can point out the humour in this programme admittedly the majority of the uk's population is made up of poorly educated but this would not tickle their funny bones that's if they could tear themselves away from big brother or from their mobile phones but that's another story complete and utter dirt
0	oh my god the beeb hit a new low with this gutless act of political correctness a mixed race family living in birmingham with a disabled kid thrown in for good measure whoever commissioned this tripe should be hunted down and thrown to the dogs the usually funny jasper carrott is about as funny as piles in this show and don't get me started about the others they have the timing and subtly of a nuclear bomb i only hope comedy will get better but with the likes of little britain and catherine tate about i severely doubt this i think you'd be better off getting the box set for a decent comedy from yesteryear such as fawlty towers or bottom if you want a laugh br br ban this squeaky clean rubbish
0	this is one of the worst pieces of cinema i have seen in some time this is also my first review so you can tell i must hate this film at lot br br don't get me wrong i like my serious films i don't like hollywood too much i tend to like french italian offbeat us or anything that tries to communicate something sensible br br but this was awful why 1 the plot such as it was was entirely unbelievable even though the director seems to be everything on a feeling of realism br br 2 the main character has nothing to recommend him does he smoke for coolness or to show us his angst for goodness sake this guy is meant to be an ex dodgy mafia lawyer are we meant to care more because that he is also one of the meanest unfriendly people you could ever meet and he smokes so he must have deep personal issues pop psychology at it's best in the final moments i almost cheered as he gets buried in the cement best place for him and i thought that was about the only good scene or maybe that was because it was so close the final credits br br 3 the entirely tired and unbelievable interest in the main character from the beautiful girl she was there simply because beautiful girls always have odd sexual relationships with old old men with a deep and meaningful personality as demonstrated by smoking happens all the time in really bad films that is br br 4 the pace was so leaden i like slow i like careful but this was just deathly br br 5 50 a bunch of other stuff that i really can't be bothered to write br br awful
0	i was so looking forward to seeing this film that i can't really understand how i got the impression i would enjoy it i'm afraid it really is a yawn fest every single patron in the cinema i attended yawned and fidgeted frequently during the whole film this is a shame because it is a fantastic story i'm inclined to think that it would make a better read it is not helped by the principle character only showing his teeth once and that was as a result of the camera angle as the story unfolds it becomes easier to understand the main character's dilemmas however the suspense and drama that could have made this a really top rated film have been completely spoilt by the dull treatment dull as a half baked documentary
0	very slow dull enigmatic film maybe the kind of film jean luc godard would have made had he been italian certainly conveys how tedious repetitious joyless and empty a person's life can be but i don't usually go to the cinema to find that out the plot such as it is doesn't convince why a gorgeous hotel receptionist an exception to the dullness of the film would be the slightest bit interested in a moody chain smoking silent loner who speaks in 'deep' baffles me very difficult to feel any sympathy with the main character one feels like shaking him by the throat and telling him to out of it ' his brother is a much more human character the ending is inconclusive and puzzling everyone in the cinema when i saw the film went out muttering about how they nearly fell asleep of course it shouldn't have to be a hollywood bruce willis style em up' and but a little bit of energy and action would have made it a lot more thrilling one of the best italian films ever an art house curiosity at best
0	aimless teens on summer break in a small ohio town can't find any meaningful ways to fill their time some consider driving to chicago others are content to drink and bully their peers in a random act of alcohol fueled arrogance the bullies rough up a homeless man and steal a strange book the handwritten text turns out to contain archaic spells designed to summon demonic forces a night or two later one of them reads an incantation and is quickly possessed he turns into a vicious killer and begins to quietly prey on his former peers br br demon summer is an amateur production with a microscopic budget the production values are low but the filmmakers were smart enough to not be ambitious little in the way of special props or shooting locations were needed the acting is especially weak and there is virtually nothing original in the screenplay on the positive side the special makeup effects are surprisingly good by low budget film standards despite this the gore is minimal makeup effects aside there is little going for this film even for die hard gore hounds not recommended
0	i rate movies on this site all the time but i don't normally write comments however in this case i felt compelled to warn others this movie is bad it's probably one of only a dozen movies i have scored as '1 awful ' i know people say this all the time but this truly was one of the worst movies i have ever seen it's easily on the bottom ten anyway br br when it comes to horror movies i have very low standards i'll overlook all sorts of shoddy film making for a good scare but this movie is embarrassingly bad it looks someone bought a video camera at sears and decided to make a movie with his buddies the fact that every single crew member's name appears in the cast list proves this theory i think this movie has lower production standards than your average high school play it's actually a little shocking to see a movie that looks this bad released on dvd the special effects are somewhat effective at times but are still amateurish at best the best thing that can be said about the actors is that at least they remember no to look into the camera most of the time i can't say for certain if they struggling to remember their lines or making them up as they went along any and all attempts at humor are lame this movie is such a colossal waste of time
0	after i saw this i concluded that it was most likely a chick flick afterward i found out that keira's mother wrote the screenplay so that pretty much confirmed it however a chick flick can have some appeal to men this one does not and really seems not to appeal that well either to women looking at the dismal box office receipts one item that i believe both genders agree upon is the stupidity of the the scene in the movie whereby an analogy is made between the pain of childbirth to the pain of a limb being amputated w o anesthesia though men do not undergo the pain of childbirth we understand that it is a painful process yet it is a natural pain whereas an amputation certainly is not women understand this even better i suspect some woman was trying to make a feminist statement that is in poor taste in fact a lot of things in this movie are in very poor taste though movies nowadays are known for having poor taste this one really excels in that department this could have been a good movie that shows the struggles of dylan thomas during wwii and how strong the sentiment was against men who somehow managed to avoid serving in the military then keira's screen writing mother tries to show how this sentiment was used against dylan but really muddles this instead we get a chick flick about how two young mothers bond together sort of in a way perhaps somehow of note is the fact that a soldier the husband of the friend of dylan's wife is sent back home after serving in combat yet it is unclear if the war has ended a lot of things about this movie are similarly unclear and though i have stated that already i will do so again as it seems to be the central motif of this mess
0	did you ever think like after watching a horror movie with a group of friends wow this is so cool we have got to make a splatter horror movie ourselves some day soon i bet it isn't as difficult as it seems well this must have been what went through the minds of the young campbell brothers back in 2003 presumably right after watching sam raimi's the evil dead or a similar independent horror classic this demon summer however is so bad it's embarrassing these young amateurish filmmakers obviously worship the horror genre and know their classics but that nearly doesn't make them talented i've seen quite a lot lousy b movies in my years as a horror fanatic but this honestly ranks as one of the biggest pieces of crap ever made and it's quite sad to be this open hearted because the whole cast and crew clearly had good intentions there's pretty much no script at all a duo of thugs simply steals a mysterious book from a bum and whilst reading some passages of it one of them mutates into a hideous demon that starts killing off members of all the different teenager groups dorks hot catholic girls stoners and troublemakers that's about it except of course for all the obligatory clichés like the hot girl falling for the biggest dork etc etc the performances are really painful to listen to and none of these annoying teenagers use mimicry they just stand there motionless until the script says it's their turn to interact i hate that some of make up effects are remotely decent but still not spectacular and the soundtrack contains some of the most awful punk songs ever this film should never have been released i can very well imagine that it must have been fun to be a part of the production but it's utterly imbecile and doesn't feature the slightest redeeming element not even a bit of amateur nudity damned
0	i understand that the budget was low on this film but come on this is really terrible film making the script is just plain awful and that was the free part the effects aren't bad but this film plays out like a conventional r rated movie with lame scares and cut away violence rather than a no holds barred unrated gore fest that was intentionally made for video who were these guys kidding like this would have been released in theaters br br the acting is terrible the editing another free aspect of the film is beyond amateur and the plot as i said before leaves little to be desired there's nothing original about the film gore fans avoid this one to the filmmakers try for something original next time or stop making movies all together you're not good at it people hate a trashy rehash especially one of such low caliber avoid it isn't even worth making fun of
0	i could not watch more than 10 minutes of this movie it has set the standard i will never again give a movie a 1 unless it was as horrible as this one i fully agree with the other comments about this film but since i'm dutch i watched it with dutch translation apparently they didn't have money for a proper translation so they decided to babelfish it with sometimes hilarious results br br don't smoke don't drink don't do drugs don't watch demon summer br br i was surprised that the actors wow i can't believe i just said that didn't hold the script was there any in their hands while shooting i think they also did a good job on well no they didn't do a good job at all
0	a few bratty kids unwittingly unleash an evil that has lain dormant for the past twenty years and have to reap the ill fortune that comes with that the campbell brothers' film before this midnight skater was fun their picture after the red skulls was all right so why is demon summer so mind numbingly bad i really don't know it is better then their splatter rampage wrestling but not be much as the basement level of acting is cringe worthy and when a 'horror' film is as talky as this one is that's not a good thing the story's been done to death in many other better films so why waste your time on this one br br my grade d
0	linda arvidson as jennie and harry as frank are enjoying a romantic tryst when in walks her father charles inslee furious he chases mr out of the house he goes to her balcony and begs her to elope ms arvidson is agreeable and goes to pack then burglar george arrives to rob the place though he doesn't get much in the way of booty thieving manages to use trunk to escape from the br br a contrived comedy note during the balcony scene goes off camera so burglar can enter the house undetected and arvidson travels very light since there appears to be nothing in her heavy trunk perhaps she just wanted to buff up beau director d w griffith robert harron and florence lawrence are illustrious extras br br a calamitous elopement 8 7 08 d w griffith george linda arvidson harry
0	andré was a specialist of what the french call theatre de boulevard plays where you find the eternal triangle man wife male or female lover many of his plays gave some of her best parts on stage and the great actress was the main reason to watch them for is not sacha guitry by a long shot the french audience remembers au theatre ce br br still with me plays were not made to be filmed and this one is pretty mediocre material even if the screenwriters call lewis carroll to their rescue i like stewart granger and david niven and ava gardner is eye candy but this might be their worst film being crude predictable even the intervention is ludicrous a knockabout farce around a menage à trois on a desert island where granger would be some kind of robinson niven his friday and gardner his girl friday
0	this is probably my least favorite episode i lived in cape for quite some time i can tell you there is no ocean or shrimp boats fresh crab or scallops anywhere near missouri cape is the only inland cape it's on the mississippi river it looked like the license plates were from mississippi which may explain why there was so much racial tension missouri and mississippi are 2 completely different states that don't touch one another there are many roads in and out of town and none of them are route 6 or route 666 this whole inaccuracy was very distracting also cassie did not seem like someone who would want to hang around dean if she was well educated i did not buy them as a couple and didn't enjoy the lengthy love scene jo was more dean's style
0	tommy lee jones was the best and no one can play f call better than he not only was he the first and best he was the only person that could portray his grief and confusion it was a bad let down and i'm surprised i even made myself watch it i can even begin how how pitiful they made i understand he would be old by that time but everyone knows that he would never let that pull him down the first movie was the best and the only one that i'll ever watch i hope to god that no more directors plan on continuing or remaking the wonderful classic without tommy or duval without them the movies are pointless wastes of time and money for everyone including the director if you plan on making another lonesome dove movie of any kind take mine and billions of others don't waste time continuing the movies is just grinding the first one into the ground thanks
0	i should have known better the clues were all over imdb com this flick was written and directed by the same guy who has no track record the cast is a bunch of unknowns with the possible exception of joe estevez who seems to specialize in bad movies etc suffice it to say i can't see any reason why anyone would want to see this awful amateurish attempt at film making turn on any broadcast channel at 3am and you'll see better movies nuff said
0	this was an 1970s type irreverent comedy poking fun at the psychiatric profession and at beverly hills i didn't mind that but i did object to more that irreverence regarding marriage and religion two topics which secular filmmakers meaning about everyone in hollywood and elsewhere just can't stop trashing br br walter matthau plays a scuzzy character donald becker who walks around with a collar on which offends me but when has hollywood ever been worried about offending christians br br anyway despite that nonsense the film has its entertaining moments and even some charm to it dan aykroyd is good at paying a nut case and donna dixon laura rollins is a knockout i am sorry she didn't have a bigger role
0	an odd willfully skewed biopic of dyan thomas in which we hear little more than a dozen lines of his poetry instead we have to endure a raw character seen through the prism of his proto relationship with wife sienna miller and childhood love keira knightley matthew rhys plays thomas with sufficient charm to inoculate us against his otherwise repellent self interest and cillian murphy makes up the persistently tense br br the film never seems to decide on where it's going there's no arc so much as a from one end of the war to the other seems much more interested in his two female leads who wouldn't than in the man who brings them together and then divides them miller is the choice of the two i found knightley competent at best but then i have never found her sympathetic but they both offer dreadfully inconsistent welsh accents other funny decisions include too much for the inconsequential character of william murphy arty production eg double that is neither impressionist nor symbolic and the old chestnut act of period footage which doesn't blend 4 10
0	this movie seems a little clunky around the edges like not quite enough zaniness was thrown it when it should have been but i mostly enjoyed it br br the storyline is more than a little bit preposterous so no expectation of something real should be included in your viewing experience check your brain in at the door it will not be needed and might be an impediment otherwise br br i quite enjoyed performance as the real dr his role was spot on for giving aykroyd's character a protagonist what a putz the real dr was br br and matthau was quite good as the lead character's sidekick annoying at first but ultimately lovable sort of kind of or at least something the use of a bar of soap and a lot of water would have been more than helpful br br actually worth watching if you're in the mood for a spoof on the psychiatric profession sure why not
0	what a truly moronic movie all i can say is the writer must be very fond of magic mushrooms and lsd because this must be the result of one of his br br you follow the whole movie thinking alright this is very weird but hey i'm sure at the end there will be a perfectly good explanation for all of this only to be disappointed to find erm no there's no explanation at all and the twist at the end makes it even more confusing at the end of the movie you'll probably have the same facial expression as if you were standing in a que paying for you groceries and the merchant told you that'll be 11 95 please and proceeded to elbow you in the balls for no apparent reason there are so many factors in this movie that go unexplained and i think it leaves it to the imagination of the viewer in an entirely bizarre way don't get me wrong i like weird movies 'the could easily be described as weird and twisted but in my eyes it's a brilliant movie despite casting j lo who i dislike to the maximum even that didn't manage to sway my opinion this isn't one of those movies and i think you should take in to consideration the characters of those who praise this movie i can tell you they are probably the sort of people that would go to an art exhibition see a splat of pigeon excrement on a white board and say oooooh what a masterpiece the artist has truly found a unique way to portray eternity when in actual fact all it is is bird excrement on a board br br keep that last bit in mind when watching this movie br br thanks for reading
0	i received this movie in a pack called 50 all star movies for 18 45 cents each many are good this one was terrible it was a hackneyed retread done 1000 times before and each time better a crippled ex jock is dared to coach a team made up of juvenile delinquents they learn from him that they can make it if they play by the rules i'm sure the kids and the locals were thrilled to be included in a real tv movie but i can't imagine what the folks that launched and produced this project figured they could bring to this already over beaten subject i kept waiting to see that 'new twist' or 'new but honest it doesn't come avoid this movie forget about the 45 cents i want the 96 minutes of my life back
0	like another reviewer my wife bought this movie as part of a 20 movie family pack i guess you could say that this was a decent made for tv movie for 1980 but it is super predictable and the acting except for robert conrad is generally sub par the football scenes are nothing special and seem to mainly act as filler for the movie the movie is very dated now but a decent remake could probably make this into a good movie however is that really necessary i mean how many underdog sports team works together for the big game with the undefeated guys movies do we really need this is probably a good movie for your younger kids if you find it in the bargain bin but a sports movie buff will find it lacking
0	i don't know if this type of movie was as cliché then as it seems to be now br br considering how many bad news bears films had already been released by 1980 however i think that this sort of movie was already a tired idea br br a former football player is partially paralyzed in vietnam and is confined to a wheelchair the chicago bears offer him a pr job but he wants to coach at the same time his underage nephew is picked up for armed robbery we are told that he has already been arrested over a dozen times before and he must now serve some hard time which turns out to be less than a year br br of course the kid is actually a good kid who only needs a tough male role model in his life the same goes for all of the kids in the detention facility yes even the one locked up for attempted murder i'm sure you already know what happens so i'll try and keep the rest of this brief br br our protagonist becomes the coach of the kids' football team he overcomes the cynicism and earns their respect his team faces off against a local high school team yeah right and they get their butts kicked now determined more than ever to prove himself a worthy coach he demands a rematch will these underprivileged scrappy kids with hearts of gold be able to improve enough to win the rematch awful execution of the football sequences ruins any possibility of excitement in this film coach of the year should get penalized for roughing my brain 1 10
0	when this movie was made in 1980 i was a teenager in the football stands playing as part of the audience this was done at illinois the big letters spelling out at the top of the stands were covered up with a banner in the movie the director would tell us to cheer loudly at certain points as if a touchdown was being made st charles juvenile correction center is a real place less than 30 miles from although i think it may have closed down recently during one scene they show a black woman and a white man in the audience watching the game right below them you can see my sister head she was 11 at the time in the vhs version i can only see the top of her head but when i saw it on tv in 1981 i could see her whole head and my sister jacqui as well br br i thought the movie itself was ok for a made for tv movie since there's already a description of the movie here i need not repeat it it's worth seeing at least once
0	a child like puppeteer for a public access children's show goes over the deep end when he discovers kids he entertains at a hospital were victims of horrible abuse this movie has some of the worst indescribably monstrous parents you could ever come across not an exploitation film as much as an afterschool special on the dangers of child abuse seemingly harmless mr takes matters into his own hands when it seems the police are neutered by lack of evidence to convict loathsome parents of their terrible abuse towards their children the children are emotionless and zombie like due to the amount of abuse inflicted upon them the parents loud inconceivably harsh contemptible and belligerent the mothers in particular are so obscene you'll root for their execution they are essentially miserable people taking out their frustrations on the kids our detectives are a tired lot frustrated with the whole judicial process how police procedure is often unable to prosecute those who beat their kids into submission while the crimes themselves are heinous the film doesn't explicitly elaborate the grisly activity on screen i'd say the reason to see this is for tom performance as the unbalanced man child who slips into psychosis there's quite a weird dinner table sequence between mr and his guardian shortly after he murdered the parents responsible for the death of their child regarding how he lives in a fantasy and how what he had just done has left an indelible mark notice the changes in behavior pretty impressive work going from innocent to creepy peter is lt hayes the detective in charge of the homicides cases expressing on his face the strain that is taking it's toll on him there's an early performance by john ashton as detective matthews always raising the ire of hayes because of his inability to follow directions not to mention how opinionated he is regarding the parents abusing their kids awkward laid back bluesy score that seems improper for a film such as this controversial conclusion establishing that even kids can only tolerate so much a bit too slow moving for my tastes but there's an effective use i felt of eyes before he takes care of business waiting patiently as he prepares to strike
0	this movie over does it on the cgi i mean sci fi really they over did it the original '' is better it does not use cgi like the sequel in this movie its the simple people running from mutated killer bats and really bats in afghanistan the plot involves u s army soldiers finding a terrorist and being attack by bats and dying but the reason i gave this movie 3 stars is because the way the camera zooms in on the soldiers the acting is bad and this doesn't even look like a horror movie in all this movie is a fairly good tv movie for sci fi channel but if like sci fi's movies you'll like this movie because you just like channel 43 oh and if you fall asleep during the movie don't be surprised oh sorry i think i give it 2 stars instead
0	okay i can sit through almost any movie and i tend to get a real kick out of sci fi originals but there was a major flaw in this movie that made me have to turn it off half an hour into it br br having served in the us army there are certain expectations in a movie including the military at least some semblance of attention to proper military rank uniform and terminology is necessary if you expect a viewer to actually enjoy the experience bats human harvest had characters wearing rank that was facing the wrong direction on the lapel and later in the movie the time was listed as 11 00 hours but it was full dark outside even if the script was perfectly done and the dialogue spectacular and the acting oscar worthy if the people making the movie don't care enough about the movie to even bother to look up the proper way to display military time why should anybody bother to attempt to watch it
0	i have yet to watch the first entry in this series however fortunately i was still able to follow the complex and intricate plot with all its unexpected twists and turns and i applaud them for the utter originality of the concepts herein in case there is any confusion let me leave no doubt as to the fact that everything i've just said is coated in pure carefully nurtured sarcasm the kind that flourishes and grows exponentially when exposed to crap like this flick a clear sign that this is unimpressive is that it was directed by a visual effects creator whose only other credit in that field is a henry rooker film that wasn't well received the acting is average at best and i defy anyone to not find scottish computer woman come on seriously what is with that last name 's russian accent laughable and or irritating there is an attempt or two at stylization in this and they are reasonable the action isn't terrible cinematography and editing are fine the music is cool enough language is infrequent if even that violence is fairly bloody i recommend this solely to fans of b movies and i will say that you can do worse than this 1 10
0	this movie is actually so poor in its desperate attempts at being feel good and casual it really made me embarrassed watching it i can't imagine how the inner circle of norwegian celebs and press must have felt trying to pretend to like it at the star packed premiere its great media reviews is a sickening example of how ridiculously small and inbred the norwegian media scene is had a foreign film of this quality reached the silver screen it would have gotten the rain of rotten tomatoes it truly deserves br br the combination of literally amateur actors home made style visual effects awkward dialogue painfully idle attempts at working class humour and the overly cozy and meaningless plot really makes this a movie of rock bottom quality stay away
0	an elite american military team which of course happens to include two good looking women and a guy who can't quite grasp teamwork lots of bats some terrorists and a team that acts like the gang that can't shoot straight all thrown together in a jumbled plot with mediocre acting this one has nothing much going for it the characters are not compelling even the setting which has great possibilities looks like something out of the middle of rural pennsylvania not an exotic forest in eastern europe br br the bats are certainly ferocious looking they can even pick up a man and fly with him for a few feet harpies or chop off an arm you see delta force surrounded by hundreds of bats with a guys shooting assault rifles and pistols at them and bat flopping to the ground it would be like trying to shoot skeet with a rifle from a distance of 3 feet utterly clueless the dialogue is unrealistic with boy girl jokes and flirts in the middle of tense parts of the mission one of the team is blown up by a mine and the first one on the scene just stares sadly at his body stunned not even bothering to take cover or secure the area in fact after the rest of the group shows up he talks about how the area is laid out like a minefield thanks for the heads up bub br br if you want a contrast in how a horror movie involving a small military group can be done well on a low budget check out outpost harvest is not the movie you want to see in fact i think i'm going to give it a two instead of a three if i can make it through the second half seems unlikely at this point
0	dull one note characters with next to no development unimpressive performances by people who sound like they're simply reading lines and ludicrous special effects combine to make this a genuine stinker the story begins with eminently bland commando russo and his fellow soldiers attacking an al qaeda training base the scene tells us that al qaeda has recently come to seek an ultimate weapon and also serves to illustrate russo's only character trait a tendency to eschew teamwork with the help of a collection of blank slates and walking stereotypes including a russian spy russo travels to territory to catch a mad scientist working for the terrorists along the way they encounter vast hordes of flesh eating bats that fly in broad daylight for some reason from there the movie becomes nothing more than a dragging morass of ridiculous action including a scene in which a swarm of bats slices a soldier's arm off
0	i give the show a six because of the fact that the show was in fact a platform for damon wayans as the cosby show was for bill cosby it dealt with a lot of issues with humor and i felt that it in fact tailored to getting a laugh as opposed to letting the jokes come from the character br br michael kyle an interesting patriarch and a wisecracking person he is phenomenal in movies but in the show he was there for the wisecrack and though i loved it i felt that the laugh was more important than plausibility br br jay kyle i have loved her since house party and have enjoyed her in school daze and martin this was a great role for her and she made a great choice in picking this sitcom to co star in i also feel that jay and michael were more like equals in the show but jay was more the woman who fed her crazy husbands the lines and went along with his way of unorthodox discipline because she may have felt that it worked br br jr just plain stupid his character should have been well developed and even though he does have his moments of greatness we are returned to the stupidity as if he learned nothing which drives me nuts not to mention that most of the situations in episodes i've seen seems to center around him br br clair the attractive sister who dated a christian i found her boyfriend's character to be more interesting than she was she'd be better off sticking to movies the writers should have done more to show her intelligence but it's not stereotypical enough br br kady lovable and the youngest daughter i think the writers established her character most on the show aside from the parents and franklin br br franklin i love this character and i think they derived it from smart guy t j which only lasted one season they did a great job of casting for this little genius the effort would have been made if jr would have been the smart one but show the down sides also br br all in all this sitcom is a wonderful thing and it's homage to the cosby show is well done i love the show and wished it would have stayed on longer than that i can't wait to see the series finale
0	i jumped for joy to learn this show ended this show's characters were extremely irritating none of them had one singing redeeming quality damon wayans is probably the most one campbell is campbell she's just as annoying as she was in martin br br the kids are all very annoying as well the oldest is an idiot the oldest girl is a stuck up brat and the youngest is frustrating to listen to br br i guess i did like the intelligent little boy but that's about it br br it did the world a favor by ending br br let's pray that a wayan never stars in another show ever
0	this is probably the most irritating show i have ever seen in my entire life it is indescribably the most annoying and idiotic show i have ever seen everything about it is just bad br br synopsis different situation comes up each week for the parent to handle their kids br br i could not understand what kind of idiot would produce this mess in the first place not to mention several season the script is bad very bad – it contains both cheesiness and unethical joke that you normally see in rated r or nc 17 movie especially for the young boy character where all he does is pleasuring himself is that what one called family show humor the casting is also horrible cause all you see is a really really bad actors period br br final word this show is a real torture this show provides an image of how irresponsible parent can be using power wrongly rather than understanding it is zillion times away from reality listen to kenny g would be a god sends compare to this watching washing machine twirling around wouldn't hurt your eyes as much as this show br br rating 0 10 grade z br br note the show is so bad that even mother of the cast pull her daughter out of the show
0	lets be realistic here this is one of the worst shows i have ever seen my wife and kids showed real promise in its first season and only went down hill after that it is so bad that words do not describe the acting and writing are so dreadful on a consistent basis i wonder if damon wayans was producing such an atrocious show on purpose from top to bottom every performance is ridiculous damon wayans completely phones it in and george gore ii is so horrible i cringe at every over acted line can anyone really watch this show and find it to be entertaining let alone funny please i implore you do not watch this show as soon as tv stop picking this up in syndication we can finally be rid of this absolute garbage
0	i never really started watching the show until it was canceled and started showing re runs i actually enjoyed it for the first to third season once i saw the fourth and fifth one i was beginning to get irate the first problem was that they did that irrelevant scenario of history repeating itself jr having a kid like his parents did the second had to be the one where they had everyone paired up with someone ex katie and franklin the third one was when they made jr even more idiotic than before which was beginning to be tedious and vexing to the point where i wanted to go into the t v and beat the stupidity out of him until he's unconscious the fourth one had to be that zealous dork that claimed as a boyfriend the fifth one had to be katie she was beginning to be too good for herself and was treated her boyfriend franklin like the pushover he was the last but not least was noah gray franklin franklin was just scary it was like watching a terrible combination of and tj henderson only more annoying they seriously jumped the shark when came he to the show there was little to no realism to his character and the way he laughed was a sign of obvious force showing that noah can't act eveytime i saw that kid just made me want slap he silly however b f before frank this show was funny and very entertaining
0	my wife and kids was billed as the 00s very own cosby show but unlike the latter it was unfunny and unwatchable in fact it is so poorly written and some of the jokes revolve around michael mickey taking michael jr's dumbness and the fact that he is such a loser which got more and more tedious and annoying as the show went on br br what was supposed to have been a promising hit eventually turned into a dumb silly show later on where the ideas became so ott and ridiculous and as for the second claire i ended up disliking this character so much she became a spoilt childish and moaning teenage brat in most of the later episodes br br was no cosby show trend setter rather it was just a poor black sitcom by general standards
0	this is a painfully slow story about the last days of 1999 when a strange disease breaks out and i stopped caring this is suppose to be about two people who live over or under each other in an apartment complex there's a leak and a plumber put a hole in the man's floor so you can see into the woman's below apartment also since there is a crisis going on much of the dialog is actually news reports br br sounds promising br br not really br br i became distracted and started doing other things which is deadly in a subtitled film basically i started not watching which made events seem even more surreal when i did look up br br it may work for you it didn't for me
0	i loathe despise and hate this film with a passion that makes the red hot gates of hell look cold by comparison it's nothing but a campy frightening and completly shoddy trip down memory lane to that oh so nasty time the 70's a decade im glad i wasnt a part of if this absolute trite is all that was on offer br br the animation is sickeningly dated not least of all with it's tacky missing frames and characters with huge bulbous heads this film is an eye sore from the knowing snide nod to the parents with the gay sea horse and it's camp hand motions and kenneth williams esque voice to the overtly unsubtly druggy anthem high this film im sad to say is one that was forced upon me as a child and i have never fully recovered from the terror it caused me br br this ghastly display of complete terribleness should carry an r rated certificate so disturbing it is in it's contents
0	this is one of the most awful movies i've ever seen probably only surpassed by the dreadful and utterly meaningless blueberry how can harald even have put his name on this crap i'm feeling every ounce of respect i had for him waning fast br br so what is it about this film that makes it so poor is it the story yes is it the actors yes it it the whole look and feel of the movie yes br br to start off with the story my god it's about as cliché ridden and predictable as what you would expect from a drunk 14 year old who is late writing his her paper on what i did this summer the feel good vibe the makers try to achieve just completely drown as we suffer through yet another embarrassing turn to the story br br the actors are amateurs i know and thus we cannot expect them to be of the same quality as professional actors but for this to work the characters have to be charming and or funny preferably both so that the viewers don't mind the cheeky acting or perhaps it even adds to the characters in this case not even close baby you start off disliking the characters mildly and by the end of the film i think it's about 90 minutes long although it feels like 4 hours you have a strong desire to hurt somebody to get your mind of these annoying stupid guys it should be impossible to find this movie's attempt at humor successful unless you're actually yourself like these stupid their before mentioned lack of talent and credibility as far as acting goes only makes the foolish and overly simple scenes fall harder to the ground even the family of the people involved will have a hard time finding this anything but very very embarrassing i'd rather have my sister make a fool of herself on american idol br br finally why cram in a bunch of misplaced norwegian celebrities they look even more out of place than the actors if this is possible these celebrity cameos just add to the cheap feeling of the film and is in itself a pretty see through shot in the dark at trying to improve something broken even before inception br br i cannot even begin to stress how much i'd rather watch paint dry than ever watch this movie again
0	this is a dreadful adaption of charles kingsley's story the animation is to put it bluntly awful and the songs are a disgrace to film songs the high song which they keep repeating i feel sorry for jon pertwee and david jason 2 of britain's finest talents providing the voice for the depressing animation sequence tries his best to perform in this awful production but fails br br avoid this film at all costs even if it is the last film on this planet
0	classic author c s lewis once wrote an essay stating that no children's story is worth the reading viewing etcetera if it can only be enjoyed by children i'd say this film is an easy one to hold up as a defence of his argument br br around the age of five or six i loved it tracked it down only three or four years later and found it to be wet poorly animated dully and confusingly written and with distressingly repetitive and awful songs i'm looking t you hi showing a production aiming at joyful silliness and whimsy but resulting with an ugly twee frustrating mess br br by all means show this to your infant but i would heartily recommend that you don't buy a copy or attempt to sit in on the viewing if you want something set in the same era but with genuine charm and wit go after 'oliver twist' or the bbc's brilliant adaptation of 'the box of
0	i was 12 when this film was released and adored it the song's were inspiring and it made me feel good watching it several time's at the cinema i actually had the soundtrack album and played the song's over and over br br 26 years later i'm ashamed just sat and watched it with my 2 daughters who enjoyed it lot's but my cynical older grown up eyes hated it it's very poorly directed in many places and considering it was lionel jeffries directing i really wanted to enjoy it the character animation was so rough yet the backgrounds were quite good i remember the critics at the time saying that it was a poor film and was horrified but now i agree br br it is an old film yes compared to what can be achieved now maybe that's why i thought it was good then but that does not excuse it for it's poor acting directing and sloppiness the main child actor's voice seem's dubbed which is very distracting too can't quite see what they were trying achieve when it was being made all that it become was a weak film
0	very resistible but ultimately harmless film version of the children's literary classic which incorporates an animated portion in the style of mary poppins 1964 and bedknobs and broomsticks 1971 the human cast is very distinguished james mason billie whitelaw david tomlinson joan greenwood bernard cribbins but their roles range from the miscast a 69 year old mason as a thieving chimney sweep to the inconsequential greenwood as a befuddled aristocrat to the bizarre whitelaw plays several 'exotic' characters including a circus performer an old hag a maid and a fairy for no apparent reason br br the animated segment of the film handled by a group of east european animators is hardly inspired but mildly enjoyable in itself and as usual with this type of thing there is an assortment of songs one has to put up with one of which in particular is reprised far too often for its own good the film was directed by noted character actor jeffries who had previously directed far more successfully other children's films namely the railway children 1970 and the amazing mr 1972 which i've yet to watch myself but which was released some time ago on r2 dvd by anchor bay uk
0	a real hoot unintentionally sidney character is so sweet and lovable you want to smack him nothing about this movie rings true and it's boring to boot
0	maybe this wowed them in the 50's but this is one of those flicks that doesn't age well it's got that preachy earnest downtrodden working man vibe of a 2nd rate rod serling live tv playhouse broadcast the plot is by the book the cassevetes character's troubled background seems tacked on and the love interest is unconvincing and half hearted br br sidney gives an ok performance but man he sure was an annoying haughty snot if i had to work with this guy in a warehouse i'd probably want to hit him with a grappling hook too jack warden is good because as usual he plays jack warden br br like 90 of the films rated on imdb whether they are classics mediocre or crapola somehow this one gets rated with 7 point some stars it is in no way deserving of that save your time
0	pat o'brien portrays the all american notre dame football coach no doubt this film will be considerably more appealing to those interested in some aspect of all american notre dame football probably it's most interesting to serious followers of football and or notre dame football you will see some good documentary style film footage br br otherwise it's difficult to recommend this as a film it's not much more than an historical document you'll know the end is near when gale page gets a chill and don't blink or you'll miss ronald reagan doing of all things camille br br all american 1940 lloyd bacon pat o'brien gale page ronald reagan
0	forced cloying formulaic do these adjectives make you want to run to rent his miriam hopkins was brilliant in the original dr and mr hyde a few other early movies of hers notably the story of temple drake are never shown but said to be excellent br br here she is cutesy bossy and thoroughly unappealing ray milland as a village bohemian not at all convincing br br the two child performers are creepy and also bear no relation to the village as it was then br br speaking as a native of greenwich village i find the setting ersatz generic and phony not that i was around for a couple generations but my relatives were there in 1937 it isn't funny it isn't remotely authentic we don't care about the characters br br so many movies were made about the struggling masses vs the capitalists at this time and done with elan easy living comes to mind it didn't take place in the village but it rings very true this rings with a thudding knell
0	the most irritating thing about dies august days is not simply that nothing happens in this film but that director marc has the nerve to pretend that this film is some sort of homage to leftist catalan journalist ramon unless mentioning name a few times constitutes an homage this pretense is an utter fraud you will learn virtually nothing about in this film nor about the spanish civil war 1936 1939 nor about the special role of catalunya in that war you also will not learn about the collective punishment inflicted on the heroic catalan people for years afterward by the victorious and vindictive franco br br the footage of the catalan countryside is very beautiful of course but dies does not have an extensive and varied enough collection of such scenes to qualify as a travelogue the large number of stills shown not very illuminating images of the forest floor for example is the clearest indication of the paucity of ideas here the aimless drift of brothers marc and david during their camping trip does not produce compelling cinema on the contrary one's strongest impression is of a film made by and for spaced out middle aged hippies don't waste your time read a good book about the spanish civil war instead i recommend felix scathingly anti stalinist revolution and counter revolution in spain which contains a gripping account of the 1937 barcelona uprising br br barry freed
0	if you are a catalan nationalist socialist with unnuanced reverence for the mythologies of the spanish republic this movie may be for you two brothers real life ones one of them being marc himself re enact a fictional version of a real life journey they had made through the spectacular catalan countryside and history is evoked pans of bullet holed walls artillery booms on the soundtrack but not shown there is very little dialog and most of it is incidental the story is told in a third person voice over the voice being that of an actress impersonating the real life sister of the real life brothers the images have little to do with what story line there is which isn't much many are stunning brooding pans across stark semi arid mountains and rivers think terrence malick or gus van sant there's not a little of both gerry and last days here interspersed with some stunning still images and motionless frames these are best enjoyed within the film's superb natural sound environment and without the ultimately tedious narration or even the occasional background music some quite good some rather odd but all gratuitous the best of what this movie has to say is said in these sequences with their occasional comment less inclusion of power stations and br br the relationship between the brothers is left sketchy and generic a major character is a man biting catfish never shown the more the nationalist commitments of the director are suggested the more the film's richer unspoken message is subverted and the more irritatingly narcissistic the experience becomes though the director said at the screening that the film was conceived from the beginning with its third person narrative i'd like to see a version of it without the narrative or the music and with only the natural soundtrack and minimalist dialog the result might be more moving and would in any case not be that much less baffling br br meantime this is most likely the only film you will see this year in which a guy strides into the frame with a cloth object the bathing suit he had been wearing dangling from his penis this is one of the few moments in the whole movie in which your interest is sorry pricked by something that's actually happening on screen what is that why's it hanging there but as usual no answers are provided very warholian very sixties and a not a little tiresome
0	i think i watched a highly edited version because it wasn't nearly as graphic as i expected based on the other reviews that i have heard br br other than 1 being written by the same person who wrote the original emmanuelle 1974 emmanuelle 2 the lead character being a sexually free spirit and 3 being set in the exotic locale of asia laure doesn't have the same flair as its predecessor br br i just found this film way too talky with philosophical topics that i'm really not that interested in i e the voyeuristic open relationship between laure and nick i'm just happy with whatever brings her pleasure something along those lines i cannot relate to this mentality and the film characters don't really shed any light br br the second half about finding the mara tribe just seemed as though it were a completely separate film one that i didn't care for by that time i was just hoping that it would turn into a porn so that at least it would keep my interest br br maybe i just didn't get it br br i'll leave it at that
0	for years i've been a big fan of park's work and old boy is one of my all times favorite br br with lots of expectation i rented this movie only to find the worst movie i've watched in awhile it's not a proper horror movie there's no suspense in it and even the light part is so lame that i didn't know whether to laugh or cry br br i introduced my younger brother to chan wook park and what a disappointment he got from this for me an idol has fallen br br if you loved movies like old boy the mr lady vengeance or even his short films on three extremes don't waste your time the film's not worth it
0	jason connery is not an actor he is the son of an actor his macbeth is the worst i have ever seen oh yes he murders king duncan but he also kills william shakespeare his wife is even worse please give me polanski's version on dvd so i can forget this monster jon finch orson welles laurence olivier there you have actors
0	i have just watched this latest version of macbeth and was pleasantly surprised with the solid acting and obvious effort that had to turn a low budget historical piece into a fully fledged watchable movie br br one note however the music was very lame and added nothing to the intensity of the film and sounded like someone with a keyboard and a bunch of as opposed to a full orchestral score i think paul needs to get his act together
0	i had high hopes for this production being one of my favourite works br br indeed a lot of it is reasonable helen is not a bad lady macbeth but lacks the devilry which the original character is infused with many of the minor characters do well and the scottish settings are superb br br the big disappointment to me is jason connery in the title role he seems to be reading his lines off a cue card with the wrong glasses surely for the first time as well he can do so much better any production when compared to the sublime ian mckellen macbeth 1979 who to my mind gave the gold standard performance is going to struggle to be appreciated but i actually fell asleep and had to rewind this one before i could get through it hardly a great sign br br honestly one to avoid
0	macbeth i've always thought is the most accessible of shakespeare's 'great plays compact focused with heaps of violence it should have been the play most open to screen adaptations i'm not aware of a really good rendering of the story however the best effort being orson welles's vigorous shoestring version to the list of we must add the connery effort br br it seems it was not a 'film at all but a tv version that was given a theatrical release post romeo juliet and branagh's hamlet that might explain some of its flaws but doesn't excuse them br br it starts well with a feisty battle sequence with pleasingly grisly witches looking on poor old gray and are cut from the opening scene but they aren't alone for long in quick order they are joined by the bloodied sargent and his account of the battle the treachery of the of the luckless master o' the tiger even macbeth's meeting with duncan when he is invested as of all of these had virtues that plead like angels trumpet tongued against the dark damnation of their sending off but sent off they are these aren't the only cuts either this is macbeth in a hurry br br from the opening battle we are pitched directly into macbeth's encounter with the witches which is well done brian blessed curiously directed the witchy sequences and he has great fun with the special effects as macbeth and banquo are told of their fates jason connery as macbeth is awkward obviously unsure what to make of the verse graham as banquo on the other hand is capable making his lines natural and easy within a few minutes of connery's mumbling the viewer is struck the urge to see the roles reversed and in the title role no wonder macbeth felt he needed to kill him br br these first few minutes marks the high point of the film from there we move to helen receiving word of her husband she's as lost as connery and denied the beard that he gets to hide behind her unsex me here of evil is embarrassing not unsettling there are some reasonably clever touches macbeth's we will speak further is not a sign of his hesitancy in the face of his wife's wicked ambition but his attempt to silence her prattling as he throws her onto the bed br br the acting of the leads is the biggest let down connery's method consists of staring about the screen while he mumbles his monologues via voice over looks pinched and neurotic an attempt to do something interesting with is this a dagger the fantastical dagger is a shadow cast by a cross on an altar falls flat due to connery's poor delivery and sloppy direction which mars the production throughout we accompany lady macbeth back into the murder chamber where she gets to stab the reviving duncan but the effect is comic not dramatic br br big scenes are botched the appearance of banquo at the feast is made incomprehensible through attempts to mix subjective rendering of macbeth's delusion with what those around him see or don't see the second meeting with the witches is even less coherent and the prophetic visions are confusing timing seems to be an issue here banquet is the of the play but the film moves rapidly towards conclusion after it giving it an unbalanced feel and no scope for the intricacies of the riddles macbeth is caught in to be appreciated or for his descent into madness to be convincing another crucial cut is the scene where malcolm tests and learns of the murder of his family this robs his revenge of most of its emotional force and the character of a lot of the screen time he's a virtual stranger when he turns up to kill macbeth br br a point for trying banquo earns another the first few minutes garners another but that's all from then on it's sound and fury blah blah blah
0	this film had it been done properly has so much potential parody films are always funny and people tend to like them because they're light hearted stupid and silly but fun this film was funny in some parts but it could have been a lot funnier the acting itself was ok from all the actors but i wasn't satisfied it seemed a tad empty and my summary title says it all about the effects proper green screens weren't used for this movie backgrounds were added in after which just looked terrible no wonder this film went straight to dvd lol it wasn't all a total loss it is funny and will give you a good laugh at it not with it most of the time
0	except for the appearance of talented austin powers impersonator richard this pic was your run of the mill movie spoof dated movie references will not help audiences that may come across this endeavor in future watch for groovy austin powers in the hot tub it's a hoot and a half br br poor special effects are overcome by the appearance of numerous starlets in skimpy outfits so at least that should keep one entertained if that's what thrills you br br for my money i would rent the dvd of classic spoofs such as airplane or lobster man from mars
0	this is a film that revolves around two mysteries which i have now br br first did the film makers understand the concept of before using it to carpet bomb the audience throughout the film parody is when a reproduction attempts to mock comment on or pay homage through self depreciating humour to the original work in other words there should be reasons to parody such work and they should definitely be clever i didn't see any of those in the film i did see some awful 10 seconds jokes that fell flat within 2 seconds of delivery bryan probably went to eric roberts and said hey i was drunk last night watching survivors and had this brain fart for a straight to dvd release i want you on board without reading the script because i plan to direct this film without one br br and herein lies the second mystery eric robert's career i use to think eric roberts had the career he had because he was unlucky now i realize it's because he is stupid and therefore deserves the career that he had after watching this movie it is apparent that he would have been better off had he gone into mainstream adult films which has higher budgets more intense scenes and roles better acting and direction more elaborate and compelling plot lines and a much wider audience than this b movie reject c movie
0	there was a time when michael jackson was revered as the king of pop then came a time when he attracted negative publicity as much as lemonade attracts wasps finally it is now the time that we feel truly sorry for this man br br this 'movie' is another reason to i promised a rabid michael jackson fan to watch it with her you know the type of fan someone who tells him or herself to like everything the object of affection ever did while watching this movie which she had seen twice already i realized how far this fandom goes probably far enough to rate this movie above a 1 10 as some people miraculously did br br the movie attempts to be a parody of many other movies and series most notably cast away lost and jurassic park unfortunately it fails miserably at any level the acting does not save the absolutely horrible story the filming has the quality of a too often played video tape the special effects were better executed in be kind rewind for those who do not now this movie with aluminum foil all this would be funny if the movie managed to be well funny unfortunately it is not it hurts to watch this br br and then there is michael jacksons appearance in this garbage he appears on a projection screen to deliver an important message and manages to come across as mobile as jabba the hutt and as serious as a 4 year old just when i thought who is the terrible person that lured this poor man into participating in this movie and yet again making a total fool of himself i finally reached the ending credits and discovered that the movie was actually partially shot at jackson's neverland ranch in other words he likes it br br this movie and jackson's involvement in it is truly disturbing do not watch it even for the haha a movie in the imdb bottom 100 effect or be warned
0	as an indie filmmaker i try to at least make a decent film this piece of was beyond low budget it was shot on video and not mini dv at least the look and feel of this was just baaaad i met the director a few years ago at showbiz expo in la and he was talking about that book film making for dummies that he was putting together i thought this little video was going to be something but i guess i was wrong he could have brought the value up a little by shooting 16mm film instead of that awful video the plot was stupid as well as the acting and all the fake green screen and sound and the whole nine yards i had a choice tonight to rent any movie and made the wrong choice damn i did buy joyride which was a hell of a movie maybe the director should read real motion picture books on film making and not try to cut corners when trying to make a low budget flick maybe he should learn from the masters who made night of the living dead and the evil dead and chain saw massacre just to name a few of the all time low budget great hits this is one video that should have stayed dead i cannot call it a film because he did not use film
0	holy sweet murder this is quite possibly the least funny movie i've ever seen you can take my word for this as truth because it's playing on television right now it's really one of the most pathetic productions i've ever seen there is not a single redeemable aspect of this flick it just lacks any humor whatsoever the only good thing it possibly has going for it is that it's so unfunny that it's wholly unmemorable in fact i just sat through some ridiculous sub plot and i can't really tell you what went on the only reason i can even possibly remember having seen this movie is because it's so absolutely humorless it will stick in my mind forever based on that alone br br an absolutely must miss if your friend wants to show it to you shoot him and save yourself the boredom
0	there were so many classic movies that were made where the leading people were out and out liars and yet they are made to look good i never bought into that stuff the screwball comedies were full of that stuff and so were a lot of the fred astaire films br br here barbara stanwyck plays a famous country magazine writer who has been lying to the public for years and feels she has to keep lying to keep her persona and her job she even lies to a guy about getting married another topic that was always trivialized in classic films br br she's a new york city woman who pretends she's a great cook and someone who knows how to handle babies etc obviously she knows nothing and the lies pile up so fast you lose track i guess all of that is supposed to be funny because lessons are learned in the end and true love prevails etc etc please pass the barf bag br br most of this film is not funny stanwyck was far better in the film noir genre as for dennis morgan well pass the bag again
0	you should never ever even consider to watch this movie it is absolutely awful this isn't an overstatement it is so unbelievable and exaggerated it gets boring it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one they writer hasn't been able to pull it off in a good way br br if you'd like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you but still you should plug your ears and just watch it's not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there and if i could choose one this would be the last movie i would pick but all in all it's your choice br br enjoy
0	while traveling with a team of misses for the dispute of the miss galaxy the airplane piloted by maximus powers eric roberts and mike saunders charlie schlatter crashes in an isolated where lays noah's ark protected by the jurassic pork while the group fight to survive alien apes plot to use the ark to destroy the human race and dominate planet earth br br i like parodies but miss castaway is an offense to human brains the awful story and the special effects are very but really very bad there are spoofs with lost castaway jurassic park sixth sense titanic planet of the apes raiders of the lost ark congo mib perfect storm austin powers jaws mission impossible close encounters of the third kind star wars and hulk but the problem is that most of them are very silly and not funny in the end the trailer is better than the film my vote is four br br title brazil mission almost impossible
0	first i would like to apologize for my rating of 1 the only reason i give this film such a high rating is that i can't delve into negative all this is a spoof musings aside and while i certainly have tried to give it due consideration have left me with a certain notion namely this is quite possibly the worst film ever made on any level and in any plausible of qualitative measurement seriously i tried i'm just as in to any indie born for cult video distribution film as the next buff but seriously this movie sucked rhino balls br br honestly if i had directed this film i would have seen it as a legitimate cause for suicide
0	do the following get a copy of this movie and a friend wager the friend 10 that they can't sit through this entire movie they cannot divert their gaze or be distracted by anything now watch your friend win or lose you get 10 of entertainment br br it angers me to no end when people see a movie and are quick to give it 1 out of 10 or sum up their thoughts with it sucked and when asked why they respond just because arrgh that is why this movie exists it's sole purpose is for me to say there this is a horrible movie that is 1 out of 10 br br this movie is absolutely appalling br br while the recent trend of movie parodies has forced them to become increasingly formulaic this movie falls short in every single aspect it's not funny it's not entertaining and for some of the parodies it's completely inaccurate horrible acting unfunny dialogue a witless story terrible special effects one inane gag after another and to make matters even worse there isn't even gratuitous nudity to somehow make it even fleetingly worthwhile br br this movie leaps past idiotic stumbles over stupid and lands face first on moronic even i who loves a good check your brain at the door movie found myself physically agitated watching this this movie isn't even hard ticket to hawaii so terrible it's good bad it's just bad br br note i actually challenged a friend to watch this as described above not only couldn't he make it all the way through but he had a headache and needed a couple minutes afterward because he felt a little ill true story br br i could not accentuate this rating any more a resounding 1 out of 10
0	this movie even calling it a movie is an overstatement is ridiculously horrible normally a huge fan of eric roberts in b list movies this tragedy of a flick makes me question his real b list clout and charlie please go back to hoping for a diagnosis murder revival rather than this you can't blame the nameless eye candy beauty pageant members for participating in this weak movie but you are a former tv star man pull yourself together don't even get me started on stuart pankin for the sake of all that is good stuart you should have seen this was not necessarily a real movie bryan michael exemplifies absolute genius only in the fact that he was able to dupe anyone into investing in this picture money or time br br really this was no parody or spoof movie although it tries on a 2nd grade level mostly it is poor writing and acting and camera work and editing and well poor everything i watched it because i read an article in some mag about agent mj's involvement and my interest was peaked due to the lawsuit in which he was involved i now wonder if the only reason they show him from the shoulders up in the movie is because he like at the trial showed up wearing bottoms and barely lucid wait a second is he ever really considered lucid i digress and agent mj is that the best they could come up with for a name for his character sheez what a startling piece of originality or maybe that was supposed to be funny putting marriott into the movie was a nice touch at first but overdone and annoying after all is said and done br br spare yourself the grief of watching don't say i didn't warn you
0	i actually enjoyed if not for much more than mocking the production values dennis hopper was just fine although i wonder if he would have signed on the project had he seen the special effects they used and furthermore what was with the scene with the ninja that was just completely out of pace perhaps someone came up with the bright idea mid shooting oh well this movie is great if you're drunk and need a good laugh cheers
0	it's certainly a direct to video but the story is not as bad as most of the other reviewers think i quite like the fact the hero is doing the wrong thing most of the time br br the hero's reactions and the reactions of the rebels are just human the hopper character is actually playing god that might be the right thing to do but one may not like that anyway br br in the end the god player is doomed to death and the hero who would have spent his own life can live quite a morale br br the most unrealistic thing i saw is that earth is doing so well with no moon its rotation
0	i have read all of the reviews for this direct to video movie i can agree that the movie is not armageddon or deep impact quality nevertheless if you are looking for a way to pass ninety minutes or so then this is a movie that is bearable br br i started looking at the film early in the am hours as i was doing some geek stuff it was very nice because i was able to switch back and forth between what i was doing and watching the movie with out missing a beat it is a predictable movie and the acting is not up to par for some of the veteran actors for instance dennis hopper br br but i should point out that i paid only 2 us and as the old adage goes you get what you pay for if you are looking for some deep meaning movie that will have you have to watching it over and over again then this is definitely the long video on the other hand if you looking for something to pass the time then there is nothing wrong with which incidentally was called comet final impact in mexico where i found this video
0	is one of the worst films direct to video films that i see ever br br i am not amazing that this product does not appearing at the cinema bad visual effects the start is dreadful bad actors i don´t understand why appear in this film the great dennis hopper and bad screen without sense my alternative or twister sentence for do not watch this film
0	unimpressive and extremely low budget sci fi without any charm and appeal even the scenes related with the fall of the asteroids are stolen from other movies with the same plot it's just a bad rip off of asteroid with and deep impact with morgan freeman mr hopper seems to be anxious to slip away from this pointless and dull sci fi entry br br i give this a 2 two and don't say i'm not a good guy
0	oh god it could be a very interesting film and in fact it is i would have like to give it a 5 but i give a 2 for my vote why i saw it in a theatre see this film on dvd or on tv the shooting is really really poor it keeps shaking all the time in a completely tasteless framing br br its really painful to see this very interesting film in a cinema you got quickly seasick and you have to make some huge effort not to puke on your neighbor 's seat br br it's really a shame 'cos the story is edited in a non linear way which is quite rare and a very good idea for a documentary br br watch this at home
0	oh boy it's another comet hitting the earth film coming within a year or two of deep impact armageddon space cowboys and various other stupid flicks with rap stars in them you'd think people would be burned out on this concept apparently not since i rented it hoping it might not be awful dennis hopper was in it after all and he's a good actor right br br i forgot something important along with peter o'toole robert de niro and quite a few other esteemed actors hopper has a penchant for appearing in dreadful films not only that but he seems to prepare for them by taking forget how to act classes his performance in is so awful that you expect divine or edith massey to appear in some scenes br br i don't know what else to say about this rubbish other than if you're into things crashing into the earth films watch deep impact and then armageddon and space cowboys at a stretch forget the others altogether this one really is bottom of the pile
0	oh dear oh dear oh dear my lifetime was drastically wasted by this pile of stink i would rather chew off my arm than watch this film again painful story line painful characters and a painful two hours br br the best way of describing this movie is a follows i would rather stick pins in my eyes and cut out my brain than watch another minute of this tripe br br advice is to stay well clear and let your local do you a favour of removing this rubbish br br lin you told me this was good br br
0	is almost as bad as a science fiction film can go br br i can hardly find something good to say about this film the premises are completely wrong a comet is supposed to hit the moon and cause catastrophic damage to earth but nobody believes the scientist who predicts this a whole underground city plus a launching pad for nuclear armed rockets is build in the california mountains without anybody noticing when the comet nears earth the news make it to the tv and newspapers hardly a day before the event and so on and so on br br neither does any kind of emotion make it to the screen is the genius who discovers the comet and builds the underground city a savior of humanity or a beast the director or dennis hooper who is playing the role did not seem to decide until the film was done and actually it does not make any difference because acting and directing is so confusing that you end by wondering what does this film try to say the special effects are so cheap that not only that they cannot be convincing in the era of computer effects but they could not have been convincing even in the 50s four decades before this film was made br br a total waste of time
0	not only that the vhs and dvd cover at least in europe show a scene that has nothing to do with the actual plot of the movie the acting is so bad that the movie is crying out for being made fun of if you have nothing to do you are with some good friends and you want to have some laughs about a movie that is supposed to be serious watch and peter onorati a man who will teach you how to knock over bad guys with empty carton boxes shame on dennis hopper following example by starring in his very own battlefield earth for those who want to watch a good movie about the earth being destroyed by a terrible force please do not choose but do yourselves a favor and watch armageddon for he 20th time
0	this is complete crap do not watch the main character is so f u c king concerned that the doc's bomb shelter is not big enough for everyone thus he claims the doc is playing god by saying who lives and who dies all during his he kills people without thinking twice and beats people to near death also the main character is an selfish little a wipe as because of him the doc who made the shelter died and his friend died he also killed several no name cops the main character is just a f u c king dumb hillbilly s h i t head that's got no concept of the greater good also this movie makes no f u c king sense tell me why a comet would cause seismic activity if you say gravity i will f u c king rape you cause the comet is smaller then the moon and you don't see the moon causing volcano eruptions and earthquakes and avalanches br br why does a comet cause atmospheric discharges the red lightning also why is it red in addition if you don't know the f u c king moons been hit by thousands of times thats why there's f u c king everywhere on the moon the size of an object needed to shatter the moon into the fragments as portrayed in the movie would require a comet around the size of the moon itself br br it takes huge amounts of ke to cause an satellite to explode like that br br a goof in this movie is that the nuclear explosion in space resulted in a disk shaped shock wave this is incorrect as in space the explosion should have produced an shock wave this inaccuracy is also apparent when the comet hits the moon br br also someone tell me why the commander the person who drives the big old broken plane suddenly felt the need to die i mean he's just like walking with them to the shelter then he stops he salutes the main character br br wtf the main character is also an ugly hole he's got a huge forehead and thinning hair disgusting br br stay away from this movie
0	peter crawford discovers a comet on a collision course with the moon but when the government doesn't believe him dumb fact 1 he builds a shelter in deep underground and is drawing lots to see who will go plus is willing to kill to save humanity dumb fact 2 with millions of dollars of technology how could a civilian see what nasa could not plus the ends justifies the means moral of this story is just plain wrong this movie is improbable and totally unbelievable what was running through these people minds why the hell do crap piles like this get the green light some times i wonder who someone has to to get a movie made in this ing town
0	like many others i counted on the appearance of dennis hopper to make this not a complete waste of time i was sadly mistaken everything negative said about this flic is more than true what takes the cake however is the horrible horrible storyline for the main character br br here's why the planet might be destroyed the only way to recover from it for the entire human race to be saved trough it is to get as many smart capable nice competent people into an underground hide out and dennis hopper is the lone seer scientist with vision who was prepared for the worst and who has realized this but what's the main motivation of stevens sonny d'angelo he's angry because dennis has decided who is to be saved or to be doomed while it clearly explained to stevens that dennis' character has done everything to warn people of the danger but that he was laughed at the hopper character was the boy with the finger in the dike and now stevens is blaming him for and and if that isn't enough he wants to stop everybody from entering this hideout because it isn't fair and he's responsible for the death of the one guy who is humanity's saviour oh my god how stupid can you get br br what's also maddening that imdb forces one to write minimal ten lines about this piece of crap i mean two million in budget what could have been done with that think clerks blair witch and lotsa other movies who have been made for under 100 000 dollars and were still better i count myself lucky that i didn't pay one penny to see this crap and to sit through the end of this utter crap is one the most heroic things i've done this year it's no wonder that the writers of this pile of dung had jobs as camera operator and title designer before
0	not only did the effects and acting in this movie bite but the story was terrible br br a scientist discovers that a comet fragment will hit the moon world leaders ignore him he builds a shelter then everyone is upset that he is playing god br br how lame he built the thing why is everyone entitled to access totally lame story don't waste your time
0	i found myself getting increasingly angry as this movie progressed br br basically dr crawford dennis hopper has predicted a meteor will hit the earth the powers that be don't believe him so he sets about building a survival shelter inside a mountain for a small collection of people br br jake lowe peter onorati is a down on his luck reporter for a trashy tabloid who gets a tip from a friend he thought was dead that something is going on in the mountains he sets out to investigate br br while trying to get into the secret survival shelter jake spends a great deal of time shooting people to death or beating them to within an inch of their lives he spends the rest of his time bitching at dr crawford about who gave the doc the right to decide which people should get to survive the meteor br br i found myself wishing jake would do the future a big favor and turn a gun on himself br br don't waste your time on this turkey
0	this is a disaster movie in both meanings of the word every character every role every conversation every twist everything in this movie stinks big time it's a shame to see dennis hopper's talent wasted in this dreadful movie i can give you of examples but see for yourself br br or rather don't
0	as noted in other comments here the camera work is laughably bad i am tempted to say that the director of photography is a 7 year old but that would be mean to 7 year olds br br okay but what about the subject i was looking for some insight into the state of the wine industry worldwide you know what the film is about is a very narrow view of one intrigue in that world the struggle between and the french and italian that they would like to buy there is no enlightening narration that would put the whole deal into context so we are left with the selective process of the director and the interviews with the various characters in this little psychodrama there's no shortage of despicable characters or even despicable dogs in sight there is a shortage of evenhandedness however br br is the director a marxist i wondered as i tried to maintain some semblance of focus as the camera dipped swerved zoomed in a chaotic flourish small grower in france good huge grower in usa very very bad forget about the hundreds of small throughout north america australia and south america there is a dead horse to beat here for over two hours br br to learn about the intrigue more you are better off reading about it elsewhere and you will be able to sample your favorite wine without feeling sick while doing so br br i suggest a new award at cannes for best america bashing diatribe
0	horrendous i'm a teenager and i don't mind teen movies but this is horrible aaron carter plays this popstar named jd mcqueen and to keep his grades up or something he works together with the 'nerd' jane but the girls' are too predictable and such the clothing most of the girls wear in the movie isn't realistic how would any of those girls get away with wearing no bra tube tops and shirts that expose the belly in high school at my school we'd be sent home for something like that br br and one part of the movie where jd texts jane she says tight he must think i'm an idiot i didn't know was so stressful ' how is stressful and how obsessed jane is with jd and how he 'falls' in love with her is very stupid the dialogue is cheesy and stupid the acting's terrible the music is somewhat enjoyable and the plot is little to none br br for boppers who still love aaron carter you'll enjoy it if you're a casual watcher like me this is not the movie for you
0	my summary refers to the fact that this film has votes just 21 short of making it eligible to be on imdb's infamous bottom 100 list the 100 lowest rated films on the website with a paltry score of only 1 8 this would place the film at approximately between 38 and 46 on the list talk about a very dubious achievement my score of 3 isn't that bad but it does bring the film that much closer to the dreaded list br br as for the film it stars the once cute aaron carter yet another and forgettable pop star of the 1990s when he first broke onto the scene he was a cute kid with some songs that appealed to pre teens and tweeners on radio disney his songs look and image were all scrupulously groomed and created by marketing folks and did the trick leading to some huge album sales unfortunately by 2005 sales were in decline and carter had hit his awkward stage of life something all kids his age have to deal with eventually to put it bluntly he isn't cute any more in this film and is at a very tough stage of life i assume now he's a gorgeous young man but in popstar he's no longer the heart throb he once was here he is just very normal a death sentence for a kid in his position as a pop sensation br br interestingly the film has some appearances by some other ex teen heart throbs from the last few decades including a roles for david cassidy and leif garrett two guys who also know what it's like to disappear from the limelight cassidy managed to pick up the pieces and make a niche for himself while garrett is a great example of a pop star whose life after stardom has been a bit of a joke hopefully carter will take after cassidy in the future and so far thankfully he's managed to avoid the negative publicity and court appearances of many ex pop idols i was far from thrilled with the film but seriously wish him best in this department it's not his fault he was plastered across the radio and television throughout the early to mid 1990s br br in this film carter doesn't exactly need to stretch himself he plays a pop star however despite making millions and being adored by girls he doesn't have it all he's quite dense mostly because he has little interest in learning the problem is so bad that his mother decides to no longer home school him forcing him to go to public school the problem though is that he is rather phobic about taking tests and making the grade in school is difficult so he gets the idea of finding a smart girl to date one who would naturally be obliged to help him out in school he picks the cute but bookish jane alana austin and pretends to really like her in a sad attempt to make this scheme work br br this plot by the way isn't bad and could work even though it seems a lot like an episode of a show like the brady bunch or a nickelodeon sit com sure it's predictable and you know that the formula will mean that she will eventually learn his plot and be hurt and he will eventually realize that he actually does care for her and by the end of the film all will be forgiven and they'll be a real couple but given good acting and competent direction this could be worth seeing for his teen fans as predictable isn't always bad and as it turned out this isn't exactly where the plot went but it was awfully close br br there are a few good things i liked about the film seeing tom bosley and stella stevens playing jane's grandparents was very nice their role was quite sweet and it was good seeing them again also 1970s made for tv movie star andrew stevens appeared in the film it was nice to see him again though part of me hated him as he looks so great after all these years and i look ever bit of my 45 years he did a fine job and it was nice seeing him in the same film as his mother stella br br as for carter with his many prior experiences on tv he was not surprisingly pretty good while his relationship with jane didn't seem very believable he and ms austin gave it their best the film wasn't great but they did try and i think most of the problems with the film were in the writing with a better and less formulaic plot it could have worked much better plus the whole angle seemed pretty contrived and rather insignificant who cares if a mega millionaire star gets anxious taking tests in school overall not a rotten film as the current rating would imply though there isn't much here to attract a wide audience people who grew up loving carter probably will enjoy the film older folks will probably care less as well as really young people who probably haven't heard of him for them there is no nostalgia value in the film br br my favorite part of the film leif garrett giving aaron advice i felt like screaming don't listen but didn't
0	it was funny because the whole thing was so unrealistic i mean come on like a pop star would just show up at a public high school and fall in love with the girl who happens to be obsessed with him come on people br br everyone but the lead girl were completely horrendous at acting the dialog was cheesy the premise was stupid and the camera work was poorly done i felt like i was watching a badly made home video br br i feel as if i've wasted almost 2 hours of my life that i will never get back br br i don't have anything else to say except that i'd rather punch myself in the face multiple times than watch this movie again
0	honestly the only reason i picked up this movie from blockbuster was because aaron carter was in it okay first thing's first do you notice how ugly aaron carter has become i mean he used to be so cute but now with that lanky body and skin ew i think he should stick with singing and the directors of the movie could've found a much better looking guy who could lip sync no offense though i thought this teen movie was majorly lame and this is coming from me being a teen myself the girls' in there are oh so predictable the acting is so amateurish it makes you cringe at times especially from aaron and overall i just didn't enjoy it although i give out points for the storyline that was alright but not at all realistic anyway stay away from this movie by all means you can unless you happen to have wads of cash on hand and have absolutely nothing better to do with 94 minutes of your time it's not worth the 6 50 br br p s this review of mine may not be applicable to younger kids under the age of 13
0	i rented this movie with my friend for a good laugh we actually got laughed at by the clerk at the video store because of our questionable movie tastes unfortunately i don't remember the first half of the movie because all i did was stare at the giant metal braces jane wore and i didn't hear anything either due to the incomprehensible lisp the other thing that was able to grasp my attention besides her metal mouth was her questionable fashion sense this movie was made in 2005 but it seems like the wardrobe people jumped all the way back to 2000 for the clothes if you remember the days when aaron carter was considered a popstar and you like high waisted jeans ankle socks and knee length skirts then this little trip down memory lane is perfect for you
0	what really stood out to me about this movie was how little the plot made sense so many characters were randomly introduced it was like how i imagine tommy the room would be re envisioned for the disney channel set we had the wise elderly couple who kept on hanging out where jane worked telling the same story about how soda brought them together or jane's mom stepmom random crying woman who would all show up at random times br br aaron carter's acting is definitely the highlight of this film i actually looked forward to every scene he appeared in the editing is painfully bad with scene cuts that make no sense the jane character is really irritating mooning about and moping about j d mcqueen the scenes with the music awards are more depressing than anything else and the ending of this movie is surreal
0	the only people i would recommend this film to are both blind and deaf although i'm sure a would get a kick out of it this film had nothing no acting terrible music awful script only the power to suck any happiness from your soul you may be wondering by now why or even how i managed to sit through the full hour and a half of sheer inanity and it is honestly a difficult concept for even myself firstly i had to pace up and down as the film progressed as i found it extremely hard to get comfortable secondly i only made it without gnawing off my own arm in order to have something to beat myself to death with by phoning friends for moral support when the plot became particularly slow the problem was it became a matter of pride for me to finish it after the opening thirty minutes and that was a fatal error on my behalf i normally like films to leave you with something by the end but all this did was take for the sake of your sanity do not watch this film
0	worst film ever nothing more needs to be said aaron carter is utterly repellent and the rest of the cast should fire their agents immediately it really is a terrible terrible movie from beginning to end i wish i could be more eloquent in describing the movies many oh so many flaws however i cant be bothered get too angry to form proper sentences br br in short i absolutely hated everything about this movie and not in so bad its good kinda way br br it was unadulterated drek br br gavin
0	this movie started out as a quite decent looking film but it never really kicked off instead it became predictable and even a bit silly some scenes were quite well made the photography and the cuts used in combination with sounds and such made it a bit more interesting to watch but since the story was quite slow it didn't manage to keep the interest alive and more importantly its not scary at all it's supposed to be a horror movie but there wasn't a single scene that was close to frightening or even exciting br br to be frank the actors weren't all that great either no colorful characters you ll remember for the rest of your days br br overall a watchable movie but it doesn't add anything and once you've finished watching it it wont last long until its already forgotten br br the reason i watched it was because i had read some review giving it top scores but i disagree and instead i would grade it 4 out of 10 if you still want some japanese horror i would suggest you watch ju on instead br br
0	ok let me start off by saying this isn't a horrible movie by any means it's just not good i recall one poster saying the acting isn't campy it's just nuanced no i've seen nuanced japanese and asian acting i'm sorry you're wrong this is camp br br the characters are totally unsympathetic the deaths are totally random and utterly meaningless the writing is bad i'm fine with suspending disbelief i'm fine with not having everything handed to me in terms of plot but this movie has no plot one reviewer stated this movie is set in a small town where people are going nuts over and spirals that's not a blurb that's the entire freaking film congratulations i've just saved you nearly an hour and a half there is nothing more to it no character development no plot development no explanations no resolution and not even the acceptable within the realm of j horror lack of resolution just nothing br br in addition the musical score is done by someone who obviously wasn't actually watching the movie at the time because it's random enough to cause whiplash cognitive dissonance is one thing and done well it can be brilliant see dark water but here it just seems as if the score was designed to go with another movie all together br br the best example i can give is it's as if the japanese remade evil dead without any of the clever bits or good acting it just falls flat it's j horror without the horror
0	was it really necessary to include embarrassing footage of non participants in a documentary and why all the silly dog scenes and then repetition of all the same silly dog scenes this film starts with a great promise to expose the international politics and the business of wine it got off to a great start and included all the right characters but the production is a mess points started and developed most of the way then never finished or left with dangling ends very poor and disorienting camera work and editing they should have used subtitles for the british mumbler from christie's br br too much fluff and not enough fact for a documentary br br probably honored at cannes because of the us bashing although in my opinion there was too little of it br br we left at the 2 00 hour mark i have no idea how much longer it ran on
0	this feeble attempt at veering your typically bland japanese horror movie more towards a creepy cult hit did not have the ammunition needed to keep the viewer involved throughout translated to vortex is about just that an irrational and tribute to the strange downward spiral into nothingness that has seemingly captivated a whole small town into dementia obsessed lunatics while this certainly makes for a pleasurable b movie on the surface the traditionally tiresome acting direction and script will have all but asian horror buffs shaking their heads in dismay what could have roughly translated into japanese equivalent of an early david lynch piece instead wares out it's spiraled gimmickry before it even has a chance to explain itself which of course it does not aside from a few clever techniques employed the movie rarely connects the dizzying thematics with the dull script ultimately coming across as a cheap exploitation into the cult genre substituting hollow imagery for genuine substance when the movie had ended there was hardly anything that was gained from any of the interactions save a tiny few scenes or images that rose above the one note film i do applaud the makers for at least trying to take the genre into more supernatural metaphysical realms and understand the rough losses lost in translation but with zero substance to back any of it's up this will likely be relegated to obscure fanboy's bong ridden basements
0	translates into spirals arriving within this new wave of asian horror films following such hits like ringu ju on and the eye two of them with remakes and much more coming like dark water and tale of two sisters falls short of the spooky supernatural thriller element so characteristic of the other movies the only thing that remains is weirdness and not in a tim burton or david lynch kind of way but in a irrelevant and dull way br br its start with a girl some other kid with a crush on her her best friend and his dad who's obsessed with everything that happens concerns people die and you see so okay it'll go along with it i'm kinda amuse by spirals myself characters don't seem to go anywhere but i'll play along we find out the town is cursed by people start screaming at and the point is are everywhere the movie is a disaster it doesn't know where to go except to show you the power of there are some cool concepts like when the mother cuts her fingers because she sees on her fingerprints but then there's another scene where she hears her husband from beyond the grave tell her that she also has in her ear the way they handled that scene was just laughable not even cheesy fun there are also some a little bit of cool visuals like the collection the father has of and the girl with the hair yep hair its out of context though its seems like it was taken out of a fruit snack commercial where if you eat an fruits snack its taste is so incredible your hair turns into now if this wasn't bad enough suddenly out of nowhere there are snail men or whatever… and you know why right because in their shells they have that only left time enough for a crappy anti climatic ending and by that time i was sick of friggin' here there sure look around you how many can you if you want to see a movie about spirals go see pi 3 now there you'll find some pretty cool concepts in between the meaning of life and dark city has also a little bit of a spiraling thing in there br br this movie could have worked as a music video it has already garnered a cult following and thats why i was compelled to see it but after doing so i'm not sure why people think it's great i was truly disappointed
0	i thought it was weird and just gory not scary i have seen a couple of the japanese horror films ringu and and loved them but this movie was a disappointment it never even explained anything about the curse i just didn't see any horror it wasn't scary to me at all the whole time i was watching i was waiting for to discover the secret of the curse and why it was happening now if this was some ancient curse why didn't it happen before father and it never told us what happened to her father i kept waiting for someone to tell us the meaning or the reasoning behind this curse and then it just ended i was very disappointed
0	some modern horror movies are very good strong plot scary moments good acting while others are just unfortunately belongs to the latter camp br br i will rate the movie based on 3 elements plot scary factor and acting br br 1 plot true to the name the movie the plot moves in circle and never really explains itself ok the town is captivated by the spiral curse but why and why do people act so foolishly there is a fleeting attempt to explain about what is happening by the reporter br br 2 scary factor if this was meant to be a horror flick it has failed miserably i can't really remember one good scary scene with plenty of build up to it br br 3 acting very monotonous people walking around saying meaningless phases i can't really feel much empathy for our tragic heroes br br all in all there are much better modern japanese horror movies out there with coherent plot and strong characterization don't bother wasting your time on this wannabe
0	i recently waisted 8 by going and see this movie in the cinema it was a waste of time and the only feeling you get going out of the theater is a slightly nauseous of all the disgusting social pornography br br it could have been interesting if it had a quite absurd twist but it hadn't so it was just plain awful with maybe one or two scenes which could have been taken out and made to very nice short movies br br another thing i thought about is the way the director uses all the finish stereotypes as characters it is quite extraordinary how you as a finish director can make a movie with the worst stereotypes of your own nationality it was sad to sit and and hear the audience sitting and laughing at things that they thought was typical finish but in general just is making fun of people
0	if this is what's best in the finnish cinema at the moment i'd say those big tax euros spent at supporting culture have gone to waste here in a horrible way maa is the worst kind of example of trying to make a finnish european film for big audiences i'm sure they wanted it to be all state of the art smart and touching at the same time the result is crap br br to make it short the story is pretentious naïve and not credible the same goes for the characters i can imagine them about making a film where everything would like turn to t and people would be hurt and feel you know really bad inside because finnish people are so notoriously depressed too and their self esteem is so bad which brings us to the fact that br br the film is loaded with clichés mostly about the finnish mentality the way the it deals with people's problems and their causes could be straight out of a regular women's magazine or a cheap bull psychology self help book we feel so bad inside i'm sure they watched some too to find out what it is about his films that people like misunderstood him completely and came up with a boring depressing story about people going through all kinds of s t for no other artistic purpose than perhaps social pornography it's a crying shame they threw in tolstoy here it's just a sign of trying to be smart and of not being br br i think the worst fault however is the complete lack of vision and depth the film is highly unoriginal it is also frustrating to watch endless sulking and suffering without any real revelation brought to it i can go through this kind of mind ck if the film is funny or ends up being an elaborate joke or better yet something sublime like in e g von trier's breaking the waves there was none these in maa actually though i did start laughing at some point because the turn of events was again just too predictable over the top and incredible br br who does this crap and who likes it i hope they're pretending
0	let's see this movie is many things to different people to finns as shown by the comments it can be ok or dreadful or boring to other folks it can be something different first off if you do not speak finnish i do you will understand half of what is going on as subtitles are dreadful and even the title is translated incorrectly maa would probably be translated as badlands in uk english br br why did i not like it because it is a tarantino style movie it simply takes a very harsh reality and throws it back at you as brutally as possible i however am not american and thus i am not particularly fond of this proceeding because all it does is show that the director has really nothing new to say technical prowess camera work is brilliant script not that unoriginal do not rescue this movie from the bottom where it belongs should you wish to see a finnish movie then go for any of the brothers' movie who match talent and directorial skill with very good actresses and actors br br this director ought to review his intention and priorities none was intelligible and thus this film failed by not watching it you won't miss much
0	although the acting was excellent i spent the whole movie waiting for the nasty boy who caused so much grief to so many of the characters get his final nemesis and instead everyone else suffered except him and he gets the job of the husband whose wife's death he causes by running away from his friends wins the girl he gave an overdose to and tried to rape even his friend gives money to his father but the butterfly effect completely fails to return to its cause br br this is a very dark film as each character that gets affected suffers never ending depression none of the normal avenues for relief seem to be effective and the only thing the authorities seem to do is give out quantities of stress pills br br if this is normal behaviour in finland now i'm never going to go back just in case i am affected by such an amoral butterfly and end up as destroyed as the characters in this film were
0	i was so offended by this film that i had to write something about it so please humour me br br its only redeeming virtue outside of some good acting is that it doesn't go on past 107 minutes even that length is about 30 minutes too long br br comparisons have been made here to the brilliantly dark 'the grifters ' but i can't see it they are two different films altogether the closest comes to an existing film is 'the sting ' made in 1973 it borrows sorry steals liberally from this splendid george roy hill ' which is exactly what is was i enjoyed it because it didn't pretend to be anything else br br there are so many red herrings in that i thought i was in a fish tank it's very confusing but that's only one of its many problems the principal one is this if you make a film where everyone lies to everyone else where everyone is conning we have no to ground us the inevitable result is a mish mash of very sloppy seconds from other caper flicks br br just about everyone in this film is conniving and objectionable surely a basic film 101 class would tell us that the audience has to 'care' for someone we can't 'care' for anyone here they're all it might have worked as a rakish comedy but it plays it straight from beginning to end br br if you want to see this film read no further big 'spoiler' coming sorry but i have to do it br br there's so much fake blood and so many fake killings that it doesn't strain credulity it destroys it the ending is absolutely ridiculous a 'murder' in a crowded airport that isn't really a 'murder' at all and the 'murdered' guy blood soaked simply stands up brushes himself off and walks away fake blood dripping with the booty all while the police and hordes of people are looking on and no one intercedes the director must have a lot of cojones if he thinks we're supposed to buy into this noirish b movies from the 1940s did better br br i'm a great fan of european flicks but this confirms that schlock doesn't always come from hollywood as far as is concerned my judgment lies with a famous line from the oft producer samuel goldwyn who knew all about schlock me out'
0	i liked most of this film as other reviews mentioned it has a good cast the plot is interesting enough all in all it is fun to watch br br but the ending i feel is completely botched it left me bewildered yes you expect people crossing and double crossing each other in this sort of movie but quadruple crossing well if it's justified by the plot then why not br br but that's the bad part there's completely no need for it after a certain point it's all scheming with completely no meaning here comes the spoiler after the airport scene enrico and his accomplices already have the money i couldn't understand the need for the rest of the scam is it all necessary just to rub nose in the fact that he's been fooled i don't buy it br br so 6 out of 10 for 3 4 of the film and 2 out of 10 for the ending
0	i've heard people compare this movie to sideways how this comparison was made i'll never guess because this movie was in no way comparable to sideways br br these 2 films were as different as star wars and the the only thing they had in common at all was they both had wine as a subject br br though the interviews in this documentary were semi interesting they were ruined by the absolute worst camera work ever attempted i've never seen worse camera work in my life and i'm comparing it to home videos accidentally taken by 5 year olds br br i give this two stars only for the interesting interviews with french wine types and for showing how pushy and corrupt the american wine companies are aren't all companies pushy and corrupt i'd give it 10 stars yes that's negative 10 for the deplorable terrible horrible awful vertigo inducing 5 year old could do better camera mess
0	i felt that the movie directed by ingmar bergman was very dry it shows the things people will do to survive during a war and the shame that comes out of these actions however i feel that it was not complete or attention holding he never fully got into the plot or deep into the character emotions or reasons behind their actions the only thing that i found rather attention holding in the movie was the transformation of the two main characters jan and eva many times during the movie was just the two main characters sitting around or doing their daily chores and not even having a conversation i understand this was to show the reality of these people however i feel there are other ways to show reality and have it be entertaining i think that ingmar bergman could have filmed this movie in a more riveting way
0	i just recently viewed shame which is directed by ingmar bergman the film was interesting and very unique i liked how it was in swedish with english subtitles and that it was also in black and white these features allowed me to better relate to the characters the time period and their stories i didn't like how the movie was very slow in the beginning and how you didn't know what was really going on at first it was mainly a story of eva and jan's relationship the movie also ended on a very depressing note because nothing good came out of all of the conflicts and changes throughout the movie i probably would not go see shame again but it was a very cultured experience
0	some movies are not for everyone this accurately describes movie shame at only 18 i still have what i guess you could call a minor form of add and well i watch movies to be entertained shame was a movie with a very interesting premise of trying to convey the effect of war on the common people it however fell short of accomplishing this for me i don't know if it was the subtitles black and white filming length of the movie or the fact that it took two hours out of my studying for a huge chemistry test but i did not enjoy it i understand it is considered a great movie and very important in the history of cinema however i think as my teacher pointed out not everyone has liked or likes it i guess i just wish it finished all of its many side plots maybe the translation lost something but i felt there were infinite little off shoots that never met a conclusion you would meet characters and never see them again or really understand why they were included in the movie my overall recommendation for this movie is that it's worth seeing but only to form your own opinion on it whether or not you like or dislike it it is necessary to respect the point that it is trying to convey
0	kidman and law lack the chemistry to make this sloppily directed poorly written romance melodrama work on any level other than kidman pouts and br br pines wistfully for her absent lover law she's just met him when he's whisked off to do battle for the south in the civil war and they've only exchanged about 5 sentences and one kiss yet they're totally smitten law's main direction throughout seems to be look vacant and shell shocked but sensitive ' rene zellweger is about the only spark in this dreary script but she plays it way too broad and over the top like she was starring in annie get your gun ' yee hah boy howdy something about her character felt more like it belonged in a monty python sketch the one from holy grail' where the peasants spend all their time wallowing in muck making mud pies for no reason kidman is a smart enough actress to stay out of her way whenever she can their scenes together are like a comic book hidden inside a victorian era novel br br whenever the action bogs down into total tedium which is frequently all the writers do is shout cue the simon type villain ' and ray winstone comes galloping out of nowhere to do his unspeakably dastardly acts like kill and torture innocent god fearing townspeople in the name of loyalty to a fast fading br br confederacy all other times he's missing in action which is preposterous even in this cornball script there is a plethora of other talented actors who give credible performances in small roles these are the characters law meets as he does his johnny trek from the front lines where he has deserted to the hopefully loving embrace of kidman back in cold mountain ultimately though none of these characters matter law has no time for them or their lives each of these little mini movies has the same tired theme war is gol durn heck and turns otherwise decent christian folk into rabid animals br br and the script is far too predictable too heavy handed moreover the pacing of the story is dreadfully slow you spend the entire movie waiting for romeo and inevitable reunion with kidman wringing her hands and sighing law overcoming incredible odds and dodging bullets and when it finally comes you just don't care anymore you'll be looking at your watch wondering how much more of this clap you have to endure br br i give it one star out of five for the battle scenes there is a potent anti war message here the incredible lack of concern for the loss of life by the generals on both sides of the conflict is powerful stuff but it's only about 15 minutes of this 150 minute dog
0	another tiresome bore from anthony who seems to thrive on these big bloated super productions that take over two and a half hours to do what any reasonable filmmaker would do in about ninety minutes br br the story centers on a jude law who goes off to the civil war having just barely started a sort of romance with nicole kidman a preacher's daughter who has recently arrived in the prettily photographed backwater town the story cuts back and forth between trials and tribulations at war which is guess what boys and girls hell and kidman's trials and tribulations back at home which are very predictably incredibly boring renee appears on kidman's farm to help kidman get it back into shape after kidman's saintly daddy dies of inconvenient character disease acts all squinty and bossy in that granny clampett kind of way dispensing enough tough love and homespun wisdom to turn the stomach of even the hardiest watcher of touched by an angel br br this film is quite simply excruciating avoid it like the big bloated oscar bait bogus pretentious literary adaptation nonsense that it is
0	what gives anthony the right to ruin two extraordinary works of fiction first he destroyed the english patient which was bad enough but now i discover he's butchered cold mountain butchered br br i had such a strange reaction to the english patient my son and i went to see it the first weekend it was released and i was so disappointed but told my son i felt like i needed to read the book i drove straight to barnes and noble bought it read it and tried to figure out what in the world the critics were talking about when they said had trusted enough in the intelligence of the movie going public to give them a great film that is what he most surely did not do br br i do not ordinarily read a great deal of fiction but cold mountain was so highly recommended by friends that i felt compelled to read it i did not see cold mountain the movie when it played in theaters and it was because of what had done to the english patient but like a fool i rented it today and i'm so upset i had to vent my frustration and most of all my sadness that someone could have taken this beautiful story and crafted it into something almost as beautiful on the screen and now they never will br br read the book and let the movie rot on the shelf i will never be taken in by a project again i think he may be one of the worst directors working today and i'm tired of the praise hollywood heaps upon his head it must be that no one in hollywood reads anymore this movie bears no resemblance to the book except for the names of the characters ego must know no bounds and if he didn't like the book then why didn't he write an original screenplay and leave the book alone even if i hadn't read the book i would still consider this movie one of the worst i've seen from 2003 and i've seen almost everything that's been released for viewing in the usa br br elaine you aren't going to like this one either
0	the two leads an englishman and an aussie filming an american civil war story in romania have not the slightest spark between them are utterly unbelievable as lovers and wholly unsympathetic there is no story no characterization virtually nothing to keep the eyelids separated during this interminable bore fest renee also hopelessly miscast practically chews the fence posts but at least watching her embarrass herself provides some comic relief nicole kidman is a decade too old for the role and has not the slightest idea what's going on jude law's moron role could have been played equally as well by any of the romanian extras the only requirement is to wander about the forest looking stupid while watching a parade of guest stars steal the show not that it mattered because all of the guest star roles were completely unnecessary as they did not advance the so called plot by one iota and as if all that wasn't enough the auteur felt it necessary to throw in some spinning whirling kung fu jumping off horses what was that about
0	jude law nicole kidman and renne they are all horrible especially the star jude law br br it's directed by the same guy who did the english patient and its based on a best selling novel of a man risking all to get back to his lover but unlike the wonderful english this movie sucks it is really bad br br worst dialogue ever but we've only know each other for a moment but they were a thousand moments like diamonds in a bag br br or br br in some cultures you just have to say i marry you 3 times and you're married lovey dovey i marry you i marry you i marry you i marry you br br i'm ashamed i sat through it all br br the whole movie was awful horrible no words i'm sick br br 1 10 the one is for the really loud bullet sounds the sound crew did a good job
0	her embalmed look was totally inappropriate for the role her face remained too white hair too clothes etc too clean and well fitting especially her father's old hat and coat in the scene where comes home for any sense of accuracy it would be one thing if the production had allowed all the other actors to remain clean and perfect too but she was the only one who didn't get messy there was never even a smudge on her powdered cheek are we to believe she was the only person in the civil war with a bathtub and a mirror she certainly looked like the only one who used them tweezers too i mean what's with those eyebrows she looked absolutely mean br br the love story was implausible she only went over to the guy because someone told her that he had said he thought she was cute so she goes over to tease him then flirts with him a couple more times and suddenly this is a love on a par with odysseus and penelope please br br i should have known better than to expect anything better from the man who brought us the english patient my reaction to that one was the same as on seinfeld it sucked
0	i found the first 90 minutes of this film to be very interesting even though a few parts of it were ridiculous i e philip seymour hoffman's character the last 60 minutes were distasteful and i began to lose interest in the film the last hour lasted forever it seemed br br the movie is nicely acted and i can see why rene zellweger won an academy award since her character was so interesting the movie also is beautifully filmed and the story is an emotional one however i found the message to be a bad one not surprising these days in hollywood in this story jude law deserts the confederate army during the civil war his reason his girlfriend misses him and wants him home he's also getting disillusioned with war can you imagine if every soldier who was in a similar boat deserted the army in the two world wars br br yet in this film of course all of that is perfectly acceptable then again what liberal filmmaker has ever had a nice thing to say about the u s military to add to their left wing slant they portray a vigilante like posse going after as cold blooded sick killers well in the world of films as we know good is portrayed as bad and bad is good and only liberals would portray as heroes
0	i was looking forward to this and to be honest there were some bright spots but it would have worked better if it had concentrated on one story rather than shooting all over the world the many dogs were a lot of fun but i got bored of the wine fascists whining on about their achievements br br i felt it would have worked better as an hour long tv documentary concentrating on one of the many different issues it explored the most interesting being the french town near fighting off a an american wine company's campaign to get rid of the historic forests a socialist mayor agreed to a deal a nicely timed election arrived and a communist mayor was elected who turned it down much to the exasperation of the american wine execs br br hopefully the director's cut will be shorter than the original
0	i had to write a review for this film after i saw it last night and read some of the comments of people trying to classify the displeasure of this film go down to post i don't fit any any of those classification the other classification that needs to be on the list is 5 people didn't like this movie because it was not good i found the film to be and forced my wife picked it for us to see because she is a huge kidman fan and she also likes jude law br br speaking of law it took a long time and a huge amount of suspension of belief for me to believe his southern accent i can't help but wonder if they didn't make his character less talkative on purpose so we would't have to hear that tortured accent so much br br as far as the movie it took a long time for it to get interesting about 1 or 1 5 hours and then fell flat in it's ending what was interesting is that i did not know that this film was directed by about 40 minutes into the movie i asked my wife this isn't going to be another english patient is it it absolutely was br br as far as the battle scenes i'm trying to think of a word to describe the opening battle scene but i think the most descriptive word that accurately describes it is simply dumb it was forced it was unbelievable it was silly and it was dumb after the battle i looked at my wife and asked was that just dumb to which she vigorously nodded her head br br the only bright point in the film was the performance of zellweger the role was a bit over acted like any decent comedy relief role but it worked from her speech pattern her walk her mannerisms and esp her little quips my favorite if you want to get 3 feet up a bull's ass all you have to do is listen to sweethearts talk to each other she was able to create an almost cartoon like character who did her job extremely well br br i simply did not like this movie and i have to wonder about the kind of people who do say they like it or the english patient for that matter i suspect you could categorize them in one category 1 soap opera fans
0	jude law gives keanu reeves a run for his money as the most wooden actor around renee z's character is straight out of the beverly hillbillies and the two leads have about as much chemistry as darth vader and queen the bad guys are the worst kind of cliche and there's not a subtle moment in the film incredible that some critics actually liked this movie
0	br br this movie really has nothing going for it with the reverend played by phillip seymour hoffman complaining about his constipation and other toilet humor in a 2 5 hour movie you know that they made no cuts at all and left the crap in literally it's a waste of good talent and a total embarrassment dreadful br br
0	critics are falling over themselves within the sphere of influence to praise this ugly misguided and repellent adaptation of the lyrical novel on which it's based ham fisted direction of the gory and shrill overly episodic odyssey is one of the many missteps of this civil war love story are they kidding after ms kidman and mr law meet cute with zero screen chemistry in a small north carolina town and steal a kiss before its off to war for jude and his photo souvenir of the girl he left behind it's a two hour test to the kidneys as to whether he will survive a myriad of near death experiences to reunite with his soulmate who cares philip s hoffman's amateurish scene chewing in a disgusting and unfunny role pales to renee appearance as a corn fed dynamo who bursts miraculously upon the scene of kidman's lonely farm to save the day rarely has a performance screamed of look at me i'm acting smugness her sheer deafening nerve wakes up the for a couple of minutes until the bluster wears painfully thin released by miramax strategically for oscar and golden globe what a farce consideration the weinsteins apparently own along with dick clark the critical community and won 8 globe nominations for their overblown failure the resultant crime is that awards have become meaningless and small less powerful pr driven films become obscure cold mountain is a concept film and an empty bitter waste of time cold indeed
0	mild spoilers dear kind words are hard to find for me to describe the movie i have just been subjected to that stars you the problems are far and wide and painful for me to recount yet i feel i must if only to prevent others from suffering the same anguish as i did this is not a film for anyone under 50 it's soooooo and when the big reunion of ada and happens the biggest and most important scene in the film nothing happens it is a epic letdown now like the director should have done i will keep my words short and end with this warning your film is disjointed boring has no flow and jude law is tragically mis cast he showed more emotion as a robot in a i be warned the film should be retitled bored mountain love ada
0	this movie was so bad i thought i was going to scream in the middle of it it was all i could do to sit through it the beginning of the movie where they are at war was promising only it smacked of saving private ryan to me or at least an attempt at it only we don't care for these people there was no build up to the characters the kid that dies i guess was suppose to make us cry but for some reason it just irritated everyone then we have to listen to line after line of sappy dialog that tried desperately to mimic wuthering heights which of course was also quoted in the movie go figure there was nothing original about the movie at all it was like sitting through the most mundane parts of every war movie ever made with a little bit of humor thrown in to keep you hoping that it was going to get better sadly it doesn't 3 hours later i leave the theater feeling cheated anthony should be shot for trying to duplicate the english patient which for it's time was a good movie but now i wonder should i rent it and make sure i wasn't just caught up in the hype maybe i was but i definitely wasn't caught up in the hype of this film i really went to the theater wanting to like this movie i am a die hard nicole kidman fan save your money rent it on dvd and laugh through it as i did
0	i was really excited about seeing cold mountain alas like most movies i'm really excited about seeing it was a letdown were it not for that miraculous invention called a dvd i think i would've put my head through the monitor i was so bored br br i closely watched kidman and law when they meet because their characters are supposedly destined for each other yet law's face showed anything but dumb struck love while kidman seemed to be counting the seconds until she could run back to her trailer character is pure granny clampett as if we don't get it cornball banjos mark her every entrance and so over the top it was all i could do not to laugh ironically her performance serves to highlight just how stiff as a board the leads are br br ada nearly because she freed her slaves we never learn why more perplexing is why didn't any of them stay on as ada and her father were unusually benevolent and as shown in one scene it was a very dangerous time for negroes as they're politely called here why didn't the neighbors teach her how to milk a cow or grow a crop heck why didn't she just sell the farm and go home and for all of ruby's practicality when she dispatches ada's evil rooster that kind of puts the kibosh on them having any more chickens br br by the time her beloved finally returns ada doesn't need him or anyone else which is the big joke indeed she may be physically intimate with but her real intimacy is with ruby who has turned ada into an babe version of herself did anyone else notice how they walked down the hill holding hands happy as two peas in a pod as they left behind br br i doubt that recognized this as he was too busy making an anti bush movie tells us he is like every fool sent out to fight with a flag and a lie and ada's father says i imagine god is weary of being called down on both sides of an argument these observations are historically inaccurate and insulting while slavery was the basis of the economy the reasons for the war were more complex it was incomprehensible for a soldier to think that the cause was a lie in fact most in the rank and file were indifferent to it for filmmakers to stamp their views onto a period where such views were foreign to those who lived in that time is beyond obnoxious br br structurally the film is choppy and episodic law and kidman are miscast and have zero chemistry the script is little more than half baked dialog and an egregious bunch of clichés and banalities small moments like a bag of diamonds ugh
0	first i am a big fan of alien and alien ii in my opinion both of these movies created and defined the si fi horror genre as we know it today i noticed lifeforce was often compared to the aliens saga after viewing this movie i would highly disagree there are some okay special effects with the alien vampires and the story line might have been acceptable i just can't get past a naked woman space vampire throughout the whole movie this is absolutely absurd although she does look good add in a bunch of bad british acting and it's pretty much over most of the movie ends up taking place in london or somewhere in england so after the first 20 minutes you lose the outerspace setting and any hope of some real si fi horror action and suspense br br
0	a poorly paced sf horror venture that takes itself much too seriously memorable only for a the beautiful mathilda may wandering around naked through the chaos and b terrible miscasting it has a few mildly gruesome effects and startling moments and some unintentionally funny scenes but is mostly a waste of time
0	usually any movie with steve railsback in the lead is a good movie however this movie does not conform to that opinion lifeforce is a below average movie that is extremely confusing in the beginning reminds me of star trek but is able to pick things up a bit towards the end when london becomes zombie city a horror sci fi mess that is very hard to sit through although the naked vampire is very easy to look at this movie deserves a rating of 4 out of 10
0	the filmmakers try to paint the influence of the and robert parker as a travesty on par with the german occupation of france and the reign of fascism but they never find a victim in this film we hear wine makers critics and distributors bemoan that while the wine industry grows it becomes increasingly homogeneous but the film never makes a case that this has resulted in the loss of any good wine or exploitation of any person or culture other than naive wine spectator readers with lots of cash if they want to pay hundreds of dollars for a dull wine so be it br br if this were a film about the diamond trade where the corporation's market domination results in human suffering the style might have been appropriate but as it is it just comes off as anti american anti modernization and anti capitalist had the filmmakers been around in the 1870s they most likely would have protested the grafting of american vines in the effort to save french wine
0	even though this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen i would recommend this movie for anyone who likes good pyrotechnics its plot was terrible its horror wasn't really that good its sci fi was even worse but its pyrotechnics were excellent mathilda may was extremely beautiful too
0	this is species already hatching into a beautiful model mathilda may a smashing baby with an urge to kiss and kill br br the movie begins with a strong launch and infected by a bore virus throughout the middle to end br br the weakest spot is the presentation of the basic plot story as you should have compared it natasha species got the same plot but adds up much interesting side plot and not mentioning good actions and strong ending br br this explain why patrick stewart joins the fleet of enterprise in star trek next generation he wanted to find more models in glass cage floating inside halley comet br br a must see for a science fiction fans
0	this was a crappy miserably acted movie based on sublimated male fantasies a shame that it was based in texas an otherwise excellent state i would recommend this movie to no one and wish that it had never entered my consciousness as i am now so irritated that i wasted my brain cells even paying the slightest attention to it
0	this movie was absolutely one of the worst movies i have ever seen the plot could have been made to work had the movie been written better the acting was some of the worst i have ever seen i was very slow and made me want to leave turn off the movie several times i watched the entire movie in the hopes that the ending would make it worthwhile but it didn't this movie i think should be rated in the negative numbers in my humble opinion
0	casper van dien what can i say i enjoy the guy his movies bring a certain flair to them that is actually not brought on by the director or producer but by him recycled plots check rip offs of better movies check wooden acting check it's not that van dien is a bad actor he has been effective in hollywood gloss as starship troopers and sleepy hollow he just really has not been offered a script worthy of his talents and yes he does have acting talent other than being eye candy this movie offers a slight hint of what van dien can offer but is bogged down by the production of it all the script can be better developed see oliver stone's u turn the directing can be better utilized see robert from dusk til dawn the dp could've made the desert more exotic see russ meyer's faster pussycat faster kill this script is weak because this is something we have seen before many other times so the double triple crosses are expected the direction is weak because it is not offering anything new and telegraphs many of the weak script moments the cinematography at times paints a lovely autumn desert flavor to it but at other times it doesn't take advantage of the scorching light and the beginning sequence is horrible in blue br br now to the acting van dien shows some grace and charisma to his jake he neither gets too methodical nor too campy in his role a nice balance especially since the rest of the cast seems too distracted as to how they should be acting in this film bad script or bad direction you make your opinion the only other person worth mentioning is bryan brown's villain as it provides the only real credit for acting in this film aspiring actors forget trying to learn how to act in green screen try learning how to act in a horrendous script and take notes on bryan brown in this film he adds extra depth to his role and is a nice counter part to van character jake always seem to either be one step ahead or control of any situation whether if it is out of his control the femme fatale is weak this is a desert noir after all and is another nail in this film's coffin you decide script or direction the character should've been thrusted forward in the movie instead of being pushed into the back ground later on to make room for the real femme fatale so watch the film for van dien and brown and for fun try to skip a rock across the plot holes laced within the film
0	my tolerance for shlocky direction was overwhelmed by some of the choices in this could be really good time waster br br when the romantic intervals were of a nature to take me out of the story and into how and why did the movie maker do that mode you got to figure something is missing in there restraint and i think br br brian brown is a capable empathetic actor usually i think he didn't like the project or the people and it shows i don't remember anything the other guy did can't even picture his face br br on the other hand it doesn't have to be any good to be entertaining some of the vignettes and twists are fun and even ingenious br br i watched this movie 2 00 purchase at the vid rental place against the advice of the screenwriter i understand he was tempted to remove his name from the credits matter of pride i bet
0	i starred as eugene morris jerome in my high school adaptation of the play and this film definitely doesn't live up to the script or the imagination of neil simon i know this play backwards and forwards and i can honestly tell you that the acting was off the production was cheesy the changes in the play's script were poorly done if you want to really enjoy this play you should see the actual play not a hollywood movie adaptation the eugene character lacked soul and was overly sarcastic in all he said the other characters were off key as well a general disappointment messy disloyal to the play amateurishly executed
0	stinger starts months on the submarine the ss newark where genetic experiments have gone awry the crew member are brutally slaughtered by large killer scorpions jump to 'camp a couple of months later where general ashford james lieutenant williams john miranda on his mission to board the newark assist genetic scientist dr carly ryan michelle meadows before anyone knows it a group of corporate scientists marines are on board the newark are shocked to discover he mutilated corpses of the crew apart from dr mike thompson casey clark who doesn't make much sense it's not long before the scorpions attack first to fall is lt williams so sergeant sam harmon christopher persson is promoted takes the responsibility to get everyone to safety end the menace of the giant scorpions forever br br this sweedish america co production was directed by martin he also handled the cinematography i thought this was a strictly by the numbers uninspiring creature feature it's early into the new year stinger is the first giant genetically mutated monster creature insect type film i've seen in 2007 hopefully things can only get better the script by mat is incredibly clichéd gets all of it's ideas from other films most notably aliens 1986 lets see there's the isolated location in this case being a submarine there's the hastily assembled team of marines including one who chews on a cigar throughout the entire film there's the scientists including a blonde sweedish one to try explain it all the evil money grabbing corporate villain who puts the mighty dollar above human life the final ingredient being the monster alien insect or whatever in this case there's loads of large scorpions running around but they're not utilised in any sort of unique or imaginative way so they might as well have been killer grasshoppers yeah it's all here unfortunately stinger isn't an aliens if you get what i mean it's a touch long at over 100 minutes it's throughly predictable although it moves along at a reasonable pace as a dumb creature feature you could do worse despite what many say on the imdb br br director doesn't distinguish himself it's not scary there's a lack of atmosphere the action scenes are dull unexciting there's not many scorpion attacks it's almost an hour before any significant action occurs the special effects are at the bottom end of the scale but i have seen worse that's for sure i mean that's not to say the effects in stinger are good but i've seen worse there isn't much blood or gore there's some mutilated bodies some decapitated heads someone is ripped in half the only clever amusing moment in the entire film is when the naked sweedish female scientist ask's her lover to turn her on by talking about all the money their going to make from the scorpions however there was a moment which had me groaning tearing my hair out in it's stupidity as a bloke tries to repair the circuitry get the lights working by hitting the power supply computer boards with a hammer it works as well br br technically stinger is average at best there's the usual endless amount of dark corridors which gets monotonous stinger was shot in stockholm in if your interested the acting was poor there's nothing else to say br br stinger isn't a great film it isn't a great horror film either i can't recommend it at all but i've seen worse if you liked stinger unlikely you might like the similarly themed 'giant scorpions on the loose' films tail sting 2001 or 2006 just as unlikely
0	at the very beginning the look at a control panel that reads 8 miles of the cost of california and no i didn't that they really did not realize the put of the cost instead of off the coast these people must have been morons br br it's good if you're into terrible movies but the sheer fact they couldn't catch a simple spelling issue make me believe they really didn't put any effort into creating the movie whatsoever the navy uniforms are not correct at all in any manner whatsoever br br wow completely ridiculous but good if you are looking for something insanely stupid to watch how these folks made any money off this is beyond me
0	i'm a fan of low budget b movies and campy horror flicks but this was too much even for me br br if you can get past the weak plot the cheesy effects and the uninspired acting then the horrible writing will kill you or you'll wish it would the dialog was most likely written by high school stoners who thought that saying sir yes sir over and over again made these guys sound more military br br the characters were all the typical cardboard stereotypes gung ho sarge sorta gung ho other guy with sensitive side evil scientist with secret agenda bald or course bitchy brainy chick who would be hot if she tried too dumb sexy chick with vital piece of information idiot genius nerd random other sorta military dudes who die soon enough and spoiler character alert crazy scientist who was in charge until something went horribly wrong oh yeah i almost forgot there is a secret military navy submarine sitting on the ocean floor 5 minutes from hq or so it seems full of radioactive scorpions ok and dead bodies your mission is vague and poorly defined br br if you watch this don't say you weren't warned
0	the film is annoying br br technically there are too many times you see unfocused and very roughly edited scenes one could easily get a cleaner film using a decent amateur camera and 100 video editing software down to earth man on the street doesn't mean sloppy editing unfocused scenes that don't contain important statement should have been deleted the same goes for making sure that the head hand others stay in the frame my 8 years old son knows that by now br br the film is way too long the main point anti globalization is understood after 30 minutes why bother with all the rest after the interview with james suckling i pressed the stop button what a waist of time br br the main theme just doesn't work for me anymore i've seen too many small which produce mediocre commercialized and many big that produce great and unique the movie identifies the small producers as the ones that are producing with more identity or the bigger ones are accused of producing or commercialized the film is trying to make a black and white statement in a world full of gray tones however the movie hasn't proved this claim they look at a couple of sporadic examples tie some of the big producers with fascism and provided interviews with key people well did all the small producers spent wwii in the resistance is it relevant to see that parker has a thing with the movie is very manipulative and unconvincing
0	some giant scorpions are on a submarine and kill everybody two months later some marines and the scientists in charge of the scorpion project go to the sub to retrieve their cargo after finding 200 dead bodies the marine commander tells the doctor i need to know if there's anything down here that could be a danger to my men uh gee ya think she refuses to tell him what is down there citing need to know yup that pretty well sizes it up one of the scientists is apparently some sort of idiot savant real heavy on the idiot light on the savant he's given the task of fixing the lights he finds the control panel for the lights cuts a wire and shrieks like a banshee then he does it again then he takes a hammer and smashes the control panel to pieces which causes all the lights on the submarine to start working br br and so it goes apparently this was made in sweden i'm not sure if the swedes have a really weird sense of humor or if they're just really awful movie makers i'm inclined to think they're awful movie makers if you guessed that there's a huge explosion at the end of this thing well sorry but that's on a need to know basis so i can't tell you br br if you've absolutely got to see a giant scorpion movie let me suggest tail sting which is a cheesy and fun movie about scorpions on a plane or bugs which is a fairly descent b movie about scorpions in a tunnel look at this movie as an absolute last resort oh it's watchable it's hard to turn it off just because of the sheer lunacy of it but that's about all it's got going for it
0	even by the standards of most b movies this movie is by far the worst i've ever seen the graphics are so poor that a man in a monster suit looks more realistic the ocean water effects are especially laughable including the one scene where they board the mini sub and the water looks like its frozen in place the problems with this film are so numerous that i'll just stop here with the details needless to say i kid you not when i say that even uwe toilet boll himself could do a better job avoid this movie at all cost there are other b grade movies out there that despite being horrible are at least a good way of passing the time by
0	there is so much bad to say about this movie and so little that's good br br the plot has enough holes to sink the titanic the characters are completely unbelievable the monsters are so unrealistic and i'm sick and tired of seeing movies that involve an ex husband and ex wife being thrown together in some bizarre emergency it happens far too often in films and it's become another bad cliché br br i find it hard to believe that anybody would have invested 1 in making this garbage never mind the 100 or so it must have cost br br you could make a better movie with more convincing special effects on your home computer i didn't think movies could get this bad avoid it at all costs do something that's more fun and enjoyable such as having a tooth pulled or an enema
0	i thought this would be a fun comedy with no sex or nudity in it well there's no sexual content but as for being a fun comedy i only remember laughing a total three times during the green butchers the hilarity is centered around cannibalism and mental retardation which is just sick humor in a bad way br br i should have walked out of this film and i'm kicking myself because i didn't in fact i shouldn't have seen this movie in the first place the only good that came out of this film was was the fact that and his brother finally made amends and put their ugly past behind them i advise any well meaning individual to steer clear of this gross out flick
0	if this movie was made two years earlier it could have been a lot better but unfortunately it was made in the decade that had no idea about how a horror movie was supposed to look or act when i first heard about this movie people on imdb were it as the sequel to cheerleader camp oh how wrong they were yes betsy russell was in it but uma thurman sure wasn't i'd really like to find the person who started that whole sequel rumor i'm sure a lot of us would though i'm not gonna give anything away because frankly i don't remember how this movie even ends i'm just gonna tell you to watch a real camp horror movie the burning starring jason alexander fisher stevens holly hunter the geek from fast times at ridgemont high a word to the wise just because a horror movie has the word camp in the title doesn't mean its gonna be worth watching oh and another thing any horror flick made in the early to mid 90's was ever considered even remotely good
0	why you ask does this man claim to have the truth behind the existence of the almighty well its deductive logic my friends you see i know god exists because satan does how else would my poor eyes have been soiled on such a horrendous film yes there is no doubt about it on a cold friday in the year 2006 satan possessed me and forced me to watch this film he what you wonder the devil makes little girls spit up vomit and climb ceilings why would he waste his time in making you watch this film my only conclusion to that query is that satan believes watching camp fear is the worst form of mortal punishment not gouging out your eyes or making you speak in tongues instead making you sit mindlessly through one and half hours of the most awful film making ever can this film be as terrible as he says yes my friend watching this film is the equivalent of getting kicked in the sack about fifty million times maybe more but maybe i am being too harsh this film does have a few moments in it the beginning for example starts in a sorority house with a lot of topless girls now never being in a sorority i am unsure if girls really do this but hey one can always pray now after the five minutes of boobs and butt cheeks has ended we are presented with a scene on campus at an all girls college the girls themselves about eight in all are in an archaeological class where they discuss virgin sacrifices and ancient mounds flash forward the professor of the class who happens to be the only male at this girls college apparently takes a handful of his nubile students plus girlfriend to a remote lake in the mountains their quests to find ancient indian artifacts yeah right professor we know what angle your pitching now this is where the movie gets going the group of five four girls one guy stops at a gas station to get some directions but lo and behold a biker gang pulls up and harasses the girls only to eventually leave them alone and go their separate ways moving on they get to a campsite consisting of four logs and some trees and then things start to go horribly wrong first the prof and his girlfriend go wandering away to have some alone time when one of the girls takes it upon herself to find them only to be captured by some unknown force continuing on the other two girls begin searching for the missing girl when the bikers plus one drunk guy come looking for them their plan to rape the girls and do horrible things to them the movie goes on with something about a druid needing four virgins for a sacrifice to save the world from some kind of water monster before the year two thousand but their is a hitch to this plan mr druid one of the girls is right before us so away goes that plan now since i said there would be spoilers i'll go ahead and ruin the end of the movie for you the four girls get taken drugged with some green goo and then are ready to be sacrificed after one of them is killed the two remaining bikers and the prof come to save them they stand upon a ledge where the not lead biker says i think i can make it down there only to leap down and break his leg the prof runs at the guy and gets subdued only leaving the once rape minded now heroic biker left to fend off the giant druid first he makes a pathetic attempt with a stick then pulls a knife the knife reflects some lazer beam within a gold snakes mouth and lights the druid on fire instantaneously afterwords they carry the wounded away via emergency stick and ponder if everything is really over only to have the lake bubble showing the monster within it still lives in a nutshell that is the film and this is my review which unfortunately will go unread by most eyes since this is only the fifth posted review for a film that has been out for fifteen years thankfully satan can only get to some of us and not all the judge would like to make one heartfelt apology to the poor girl at circuit city i am going to let borrow this movie i'm sorry sheila please don't hate me for letting you watch this
0	this movie starts out the way every movie should start out with a bunch of hot babes in a dorm walking around in their undies and or topless a couple of them take showers i'm liking it so far unfortunately we then meet or main characters they're just not particularly likable usually in these movies the actresses aren't really acting they give very natural performances and they're quite sympathetic fun and likable not here they don't have much of any personality and i didn't care for them much br br some of the girls go on a camping trip for school on the way they stop at a backwoods gas station and meet a biker gang the biker gang should really have been left out of the movie it was cheesy before but now it's just plain stupid the head biker looks like a middle aged guy dressed up as john bon jovi for halloween the girls go out to the woods and later the biker gang follows them br br i don't really know what the heck happens after that there's a bunch of stuff about the world ending because it's the end of the millennium then some of the bikers get killed by a mysterious indian dude who keeps disappearing somebody gets eaten by a cheesy lock ness monster thing as he's swimming across a lake some guy in silly makeup is apparently a druid and he needs to sacrifice some of the girls in order to forestall the end of the world or maybe cause the end of the world i'm afraid i wasn't paying much attention first he dresses the girls up in animal skin lingerie br br it could have been a really fun cheesy movie but the biker gang kind of ruined the atmosphere and the plot was so scatterbrained that it didn't even live up to my grade z schlock expectations they really should have eliminated half the plot elements and just focused on one or two things instead it's all over the place overall if you're looking for late '80 schlock i imagine you could do worse if you tried really hard there's plenty of nudity at the beginning but the characters are kind of crummy and the plot is too nonsensical to be even the least bit satisfying
0	this movie is so irredeemably bad nothing about it makes it worth seeing no effects no suspense and poor dialogue poorly delivered oh and neither a camp or any fear does it contain do yourself a favor and go see the original friday the 13th or preferably sleepaway camp but what ever you do do not see this movie br br even michele appearance at the very beginning can't save it usually in these kinds of films you expect violence suspense and a little gore and some t a the violence was poorly executed the suspense was laughable there was no gore and the t a is plentiful in the first 5 minutes then nothing at least one of these things properly done would have at least made it watchable br br to say at least one nice thing about it buck flower is great he seems to be the only one who understands they are making schlock and rightly hams it up if everyone else had fit that tone it would have been campy fun no pun intended
0	oh my started out with such great potential a bunch of cute sorority girls walking around practically naked check then off to a bar where the 80's cheese gets turned up a notch check off to a woodsy state park the next morning check a bunch of girls and their professor rowdy bikers a general store guy and that dood from they live acting as the local drunk makes for a nice body count check and speaking of body count notice the strong resemblance on the dvd cover to the foreign horror flick body count aka camping del terrore a whacky indian in the woods doing some sort of ritual hmmm ok i'll let it slide check and then oh brother all downhill from there terrible the monster head in the pond had me cracking up though
0	a handful of nubile young college sorority sisters decide to go camping with a professor a giant druid want to sacrifice them to prevent the apocalypse come the year 2000 they also have to contend with bikers an indian and a loch ness monster type thing worth watching for only 3 reasons george flower a sadly unsung b movie staple is on hand as a hobo and the other 2 belong to the stunning savannah in one of only 3 non porn roles she had both have very small roles too bad everything else in the movie is horrendously bad br br my grade d br br retromedia dvd extras original trailer br br eye candy 4 pairs of breasts 2 asses
0	i do not understand at all why this movie received such good grades from critics i've seen tens of documentaries on tv about the wine world which were much much better when if you watch it please think of two very annoying aspects of first the filming is just awful and terrible and upsetting to me it looked like the guy behind the camera just received the material and was playing with it plenty of zooms for no purpose other than pushing the button in out for instance i almost stopped to watch it because of that secondly the interviewer the director i think is not really relevant he looks like and ask questions like a boy scout not like a journalist even if the general idea and themes would have been interesting too bad conclusion overrated documentary maybe only for guys who do not know nothing about wine not recommended at all 2 10
0	i have been a huge lynn peterson fan ever since her breakthrough role in the 1988 blockbuster movie far north and even though i loved her in her one other film slow 2004 where she plays francis this is by far and away her strongest role br br lynn as i'm sure you all know or should plays the critical role of driver br br unfortunately other than lynn's amazing performance i'm afraid this movie doesn't really have much going for it br br oh wait there was one other thing the amazing creativity of the editing to remove profanity for tv viewers memorable lines like you son of a gun you son of a witch shoot and well forget you br br o k bye br br p s does anyone know where i can get another lynn peterson poster
0	of all the films i have seen this one the rage has got to be one of the worst yet the direction logic continuity changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain how could anyone come up with something so crappy gary busey is know for his b movies but this is a sure w movie w waste br br take for example about two dozen fbi local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer inside the jeep is ma and is confused as to why all the cops are about within seconds a huge gun battle ensues ma being killed straight off the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough truly a miracle not since the six shooter held 300 bullets has there been such a miracle
0	aside from the horrendous acting and the ridiculous and ludicrous plot this movie wasn't too bad unfortunately that doesn't leave much movie not to suck do not waste your time on this film even if you find yourself suffering from insomnia as i did watch an infomercial instead
0	too bad i really like kristen cloke and gary busey but the director failed to put this together there's a lot of action a lot of promise but it all comes off hokey the director didn't do his job promising action comes off lame so much seems contrived in a desperate attempt to save the film this version of the rage directv credits it as 1996 simply isn't worth the time to watch it another director would have done a better job
0	heart of darkness was terrible the novel was difficult enough to understand but when a production company decides to release a film loosely based on it then that just messes everyone up not only did those in charge decide to change certain characters and completely eliminate others but the acting was horrid and the overall impression i got from the movie was that it was a complete dud i watched the film in hopes of understanding the novel a bit better but it just threw me and my fellow classmates off completely i think the movie was a waste of time and i was disappointed to see tim roth in such a disappointing film especially when he has awesome flicks like pulp fiction and dogs under his belt same with the very cool john malkovich
0	heart of darkness a short novel written by joseph conrad about greed corruption and traveling through africa was to say the least a tedious read the narrator follows marlow a seaman who travels into the deep of africa to rescue kurtz somewhat of a prodigy ivory trader who supposedly went crazy this conclusion arose when the ivory stopped coming into the main port the basis of the story is conrad writing lavishly of the surroundings he sets the scene wonderfully but possibly a bit to extensively the story seemed more like a water color painting as apposed to the slow creeping mild action story that conrad might have intended to pan out br br it sometimes happens that after you read a book maybe watching the feature film might help correspond some thoughts with those in the book or vise versa not so with heart of darkness even with the supporting role of masterpiece actor john malkovich the movie only confused me more there seemed to be no real main characters in the film no one stood out to the others non of the extensive symbolism was explained it was rather bland and to say the least br br in all do respect to the author the heart of darkness is a true short novel masterpiece it touches on some very severe subjects the lies of marlow and the greed of kurtz it is not a book to be taken lightly and will put you in a rather somber mood a book like this i feel might be to heavy for a lot of people i would however recommend this book to those who crave a sad pseudo action story without a textbook happy ending
0	after completing the lackluster novel heart of darkness i moved on to watch the movie which was a complete and absolute disappointment at the onset i expected that the movie would help put together the jigsaw puzzle of a book however even though i had read the novel the movie still made no sense at all so i can't imagine how lost i would be if i had skipped the book altogether it seemed as though the writers picked out their favorite parts and put them in the movie and left out anything that may assist the viewers in comprehending the meaningless plot this dreadful movie made no sense at all and i would strongly recommend against watching it as it will do nothing more than leave you completely baffled and bewildered
0	joseph conrad's novel heart of darkness is a dark profound and lasting novel that portrays the futility and irony taking place in africa if you are looking for a great book to read over the weekend this is not the book for you conrad holds nothing back when describing 19th century imperialism but the novel is meaningless without giving it the reflection and consideration it deserves if i read this novel looking for a great adventure story i would say that i wasted my time but looking at in the perspective of explaining the futility of 19th century civilization i would say this is one of the most significant novels i have ever read because of the fact that i read this novel in my english class and we analyzed every page i think i appreciated the book more than someone would who was just reading it for entertainment i am not going to lie this book was difficult and it challenges the reader to dig deep into this novel to find the true meaning the movie on the other hand i found tiresome and boring the movie heart of darkness comes no where near giving the book justice the movie left out many key parts that i consider important to get the true message of the story if you are having difficulty understanding and visualizing the novel then the movie might be a good recourse but i would not recommend seeing the movie as an alternative to the novel or even a different perspective
0	roeg's take on conrad's heart of darkness was not quite what i had expected although based on one of history's most studied and interesting texts the film just became sort of dull the story just never manages to grasp the viewer it just comes across as indifferent in a way br br the traces of the text are easily spotted but still this is not really conrad's heart of darkness benedict fitzgerald's who also wrote the passion of the christ script just uses conrad as an inspiration and thus becomes fitzgerald's heart of darkness the film is just not worth it unless you are particularly interested in conrad or perhaps john malkovich
0	the movie 'heart of based on the 1899 book by joseph conrad is one with little to no detail and has an almost schizophrenic like plot line if you have read the book then you know that little to none of the important story making scenes were put into the movie in the book there is so much that is left up to the imagination and i feel that that is one of the part that make the book what is it an example would be when marlow spent timeless hours and days even months waiting for rivets and that entire scene was left out of the movie again if you have read the book then you would know that this scene in the book is one that almost describes the main theme of futility best finally i feel that the movie was too cut and dry not enough though was put in to the original text and how that made the story what it is today br br if you have not read the book 'heart of preferably the norton critical edition then don't waist your time in renting or buying the movie however if you have read the book then i think that you will appreciate the book a lot more if you decide to watch the movie br br eric 2007
0	did beavis and butthead make this movie it is just that bad truly an uneven and unfair portrayal of bad vs good in the wine world did you notice the filmmaker trying any of the from the featured protectors of individual and the camera work is dizzying at best while the content may put you to sleep before long this is not insightful journalism what i got from this movie was that the filmmaker was trying hard to make a point about the of wine by showing for example that the family owned in all parts of the world okay that is a good start so how do these compare does the napa cab taste like their italian we never find out because no one in the film comments on this instead there is a lot of innuendo about nazi's and fascism well those things don't grow grapes hmmmm
0	might end up being the biggest disappointment that i will see in 2009 i seem to be the rare person who disliked park's oldboy but i think that his lady vengeance and sympathy for mr vengeance are among the best films i've seen in the 2000's decade therefore i really was looking forward to see this especially as it got such positive reviews instead i found the film clichéd and broke little if any new ground to the vampire genre and while i can appreciate a bit of gallows humor in movies like this i felt park did this at very inopportune times br br others have compared contrasted this to let the right one in and i have to say that let the right one in was far superior to this one and was a fresh take on the vampire genre sadly park's take was a tired one
0	heart of darkness movie review joseph conrad's heart of darkness is pretty dark deep and very profound i would have to say reading the novel is way better than the movie the character mr kurtz played by john was totally the wrong actor to do the part he fit the character in of mice and men the movie left out man key parts that i consider important to get the true message of the story br br the movie is poorly edited it shows a lot of non important and annoying flashes in the novel it has a very suspenseful atmosphere but in the movie it lacks that kind of feeling in the book there is so much that was left to the imagination of the reader for example when marlow spent timeless hours and days waiting for rivets and that entire scene was left out of the movie in the novel marlow waited very long time for the rivets to come for him to fix his boat this was a big source of futility in the novel the movie added more parts that were useless and kind of didn't make sense for example when kurtz was talking to marlow at the end of the book and kurtz snapped the monkey's neck and killed him that kind of just ruined everything didn't make any sense to me what so ever so my suggestion to you is don't view the movie just read the book you will understand more and have a better interpretation of the story br br chris c
0	joseph conrad's novel heart of darkness had a vivid sense of description that made this book astonishing when reading this book i had every scene totally drawn out in my head and i knew what every character looked like this book had many pieces and when i finished reading this book it seemed as the puzzle had been completed after i finished reading heat of darkness i watched the movie which was a mistake the movie cut out so many substantial parts for example in the novel marlow waited a very long time for the rivets to come for him to fix his boat this was a big source of futility in the movie that part was just left out the movie added more parts that were useless and made no sense for example when kurtz was talking to marlow at the end of the book and kurtz snapped the monkey's neck and killed him what purpose did that scene have other than to make the audience feel sorry for the monkey it's as if the script writer didn't even read the whole book and just put the parts that he read in the movie if i had not read the novel before i had watched the movie i would have been thoroughly confused the book was amazing and it is truly a classic in american literature but the movie could have defiantly been nominated for the worst picture in the razzie awards
0	the 1994 film production of heart of darkness was in no way capable of living up to the outstanding book the film contained unnecessary scenes that confused the viewer rather than aiding them in understanding what was going on the director was obviously not experienced and if he is then he didn't show it on top of that scenes from the book were left out or changed scenes that were rather important the movie left me feeling rather bored and was a complete waste of my time the characters acted as though they had no idea what was going on and the actors did not portray the emotions that marlow and the rest revealed in the book overall the movie was terrible and completely lacked the suspense that was otherwise necessary to make it even remotely interesting
0	the movie adaptation of heart of darkness is disappointing both as a movie and as a representation of joseph conrad's classic story br br there are several small differences between the book and movie but that's expected in any book to movie transition kurtz dies in a different location the manager does not accompany marlow on his voyage mistress spends much more time with him than in the story the real issue is the amount of footage that's put into the movie but has no basis in the actual story for some reason the director finds the need to spice up a few of the scenes adding drama or actions that seldom make any sense and are always unimportant to the story some examples that come to mind are mistress beating marlow over the head and knocking him out nothing happens while he's unconscious and marlow didn't even provoke the attack a couple hours pass and he wakes up total waste of time kurtz has a pet monkey which for some random reason he kills on a whim also when marlow leaves station he makes the noble decision to leave behind all the priceless ivory he had obtained for no real reason at all one other flaw is character john malkovich is a terrible choice to play the man who is described as tall and inspirational a man with a commanding presence he practically whispers all of his lines which in a more capable actor's hands could have been very thought provoking i can't remove the image of john malkovich playing a mentally disabled in of mice and men when i'm watching him botch the role of kurtz over all i would rate the movie at 3 out of 10 stars it's a good movie if you've read the book and want to see it in movie form perhaps to help you visual the scenes but as a source of entertainment i would never recommend it
0	if you're looking for a movie that puts you to sleep then heart of darkness is the movie for you the book wasn't what i expected to it to be and the movie disappointed me even further the cast list was pitiful and the all around plot was pathetic and was not like the book except for a few scenes i understand that everyone has their own point of view as they read heart of darkness and they create their own movie in their head but they director cuts important scenes and adds pointless ones if there was someone in the movie who was supposed to be of a certain culture they should've used an actor that was of that culture there are actors from every where and i'm sure that they could've found better ones to fit the roles joseph conrad was a respectable man and created a book that will entertain you if that's what you're looking for but the movie was cheap and pointless and someone who could make the movie as respectable as the book should've done it if you want a movie that drags you into darkness then heart of darkness is the movie for you
0	in a sense this movie did not even compare to the novel however it was good to have a visual of what the congo looked like and also the natives if you are not good at visualizing as you read i would never recommend watching the movie rather than reading the book i hardly suggest even watching this film let alone any other films based on this literary work this movie and many others did not fulfill this book one important part that is missing from the movie is marlow's sense of how government of lack of there in africa was forming an early genocide also in the movie marlow and his companions didn't stop and get the note and wood likewise african mistress knocks marlow out towards the end of the story which has a major influence in the story but was not in the book in the novel kurtz died on the ship however he died in his hut in the movie the fiancé's reaction to marlow's interpretation of last words also differed this movie is only effective if you wish to visualize more clearly the novel
0	if you've ever heard the saying the book is always better than the movie heart of darkness is no exception to the rule i believe that it was much easier for me to comprehend the details of the novel over the movie because i read the book aloud with my english class we discussed each paragraph in great detail so i grasped the concept pretty quickly i couldn't really understand the plot as well while watching the movie this may be because there were no discussions held in class but i suppose it is also because i couldn't paint my own pictures in my mind of the events of the novel if you're the type of person who believes in that well known saying then leave watching the heart of darkness movie off your to do list
0	heart of darkness movie review could a book that is well known for its eloquent wording and complicated concepts ever be made into a movie good enough to portray the deep meaning in the book so far that goal hasn't been achieved the heart of darkness was attempted to be made into a movie in 1993 but it was a failure in comparison to the book br br it is hard enough to make any book into a movie there always is the worry that it won't be as descriptive or have the same meaning so why the novel the heart of darkness is made into a movie i am clueless there is so much description and hidden meaning throughout the entire book when just reading the words plainly i think that a person would think it is pretty boring and wouldn't get the symbolism i think that is what happened in the movie the movie just skimmed the story at the surface br br the movie didn't even follow the full storyline of the book major changes were made that i thought made the movie worse for example the manager did not go along on the boat with marlow and the rest of the crew the spy did instead i think that took out some major plots and took out the great deception of the manager in relation to kurtz also kurtz wasn't even on the steamboat when he died which especially made the entire journey even more futile which just got annoying after a while and when marlow was telling fiancée about his final moments and words it was no where near as descriptive or important the fiancée didn't even get that upset br br as far as the acting went none of the actors did a very good job except for the actor that played in my opinion kurtz was not very evil and that was kind of an important thing in the book also other characters such as marlow the manager and the fiancé didn't do the characters justice that they deserved from the book their acting wasn't very exciting or memorable at all over all i don't think that this book should have even been attempted to be made into a movie i think it is fine to use some of the themes in a different story line like in apocalypse now but as for following the same exact story line of the book it just does it shame
0	after reading the book heart of darkness the movie did not do it justice the movie puts the book to shame and anyone who has not experienced the book would frown upon the story and plot because it was portrayed so poorly by the movie in the film the characters and set were just some of the let downs that occurred in the movie the director left out so many important and interesting aspects of the book that made it one of the best literary works ever made br br of course any book is better than the movie but these weren't even comparable joseph conrad as a writer was brilliant in vocabulary and the cleverness of the written word the movie doesn't even start to show any of this some of the very important and influential scenes from the book were completely left out like how kurtz was not in the boat when he died also when marlow went to deliver the news to intended she reacted differently in the movie rather than the book another major difference was that marlow saw the picture of the lady that was blindfolded at the end of the movie not at the beginning like the book this was influential on how the audience perceived marlow and the movie totally messed that up br br the book was so fine tuned on what every location looked like but the scenery in the movie was a let down there was a bunch of cheesy fake backgrounds and to compliment a bunch of bad actors to go along with it there was one exception to the awful actors and that would be isaach de bankolé who played his character was depicted the best though the movie wasn't that great i still would recommend it only if you have read and understood the book very well that way you can see what the differences are in the movie and book and contemplate them if you have not read the book i do not recommend the movie because it is a boring lifeless mess i loved the book so you should definitely read it and enjoy it
0	a made for television version of the heart of darkness seemed like a good way to add more insight to the book well that was the wrong assumption the movie made it even worse i was highly disappointed about almost everything in the movie i hoped that the movie would possibly help put the pieces of the book together that i didn't comprehend but it did no such thing it still left me confused and hanging it is one of those movies that makes one feel like it would be more fun to watch the grass grow instead of watching the movie not exactly anyone's cup of tea it was an overall dreadful boring and slow movie br br to begin with nicolas roeg must have been pretty desperate when he decided that he wanted to undertake the task of making the already boring book into a movie it's a guaranteed loss it's like going into a knife fight but forgetting the knife on the kitchen counter the person is going to lose and in the case the person was roeg all i've heard about the movie are bad things and the movie deserves those bad things to be said about it from watching the movie i got the impression that the people who made the movie just skimmed over the book to get the key points br br furthermore although the movie did follow the main story line of the book it left out quite a few details and it also changed the ending i am not a fan of that roeg left out when marlow and his crew came across the russian sailor's camp and at that camp they found the book also it didn't show when at the camp they came across the sign that says wood for you hurry up approach cautiously conrad 110 also at the end of the book kurtz dies on the boat not at the inner station br br on the contrary nicolas roeg did one good thing while he was making his movie he managed to hire some pretty decent actors to play in the movie for instance he acquired tim roth and john malkovich both of whom would later go on to have successful careers in doing so he added a little something to the horrible movie also though i am ripping his book to shreds i do have some respect for him because it takes a lot of courage to try to take on the heart of darkness it isn't exactly the easiest novel to portray into a film a valiant effort though in conclusion if for whatever reason someone actually wants to watch this movie i suggest the reading of heart of darkness first this way you'll get all of the scenes that were left out of the movie and you won't be completely lost when you watch it but i really suggest you don't read the book and that you really don't watch the movie both will be a complete waste of your time trust me i was forced to do both by my english teacher and now i wish that the book and the movie didn't exist if either the book or the movie are pursued good luck
0	this film appears to be an exposé of the current trend towards globalization and in the wine industry around the world are more and more either joining large the american producer in the case of this film or paying high priced experts to help them make the perfect wine and as a result are becoming very standard and predictable to some this is a good thing especially since few can afford to pay 50 or more for an everyday wine and to others this is horrible as the uniqueness of smaller is disappearing i truly can understand the concerns of both sides and don't think there is a villain or hero in this business sure good and cheaper wine is a nice thing but like what's happened with beers with giants like and busch food mcdonalds shopping european shopping malls are almost indistinguishable from american ones and mega stores like walmart asda are taking away much of the uniqueness of the little guys so i definitely was ready and willing to listen to these film makers however with a product that is almost two and a half hours long and a general lack of focus the film simply became too big a chore to watch and i lost interest an 80 90 minute focused film would have been much more effective especially since the average viewer is not an that's the high brow word for a wine aficionado br br on the very positive side the film makers are smart not to do much talking at all and simply let those on both sides of the issue do the talking plus the topic is so relevant and timely however despite choosing a good style of documentary making the film simply goes on way way way too long and ended up making a very dull film
0	taylor mrs drake english 10 b4 31 march 2010 br br a shot in the dark br br it is difficult to make it through the movie heart of darkness because it is incredibly unexciting the book that this movie is based off of has little action to begin with so the thought of turning it into a movie seems like a totally off handed idea anyways basically guaranteeing a fail br br most of the book is of the mental travel of a young seaman named marlow on a job through the many of the congo and people as a feel like the screenwriter failed massively at capturing the essence of marlow's travels it totally missed the biggest issue of light versus dark that is the major point in the book and when that doesn't translate to the movie all that's left is 100 minutes of boredom and monotony br br this being the case the question is posed why would anyone make this into a movie an even better question could then be asked who would want to watch it it is utterly a chore to watch had it not contributed to a grade in my english class i would have never even considered watching the movie i would never recommend this movie to anyone heart of darkness is stripped of all its insight and meaning when it's taken from the pages of the book the novella is torture to read until the last twenty pages or so but the afterthought is that it is a pretty decent book the movie is like a shot in the dark with no chance in the world of hitting its target br br how can a book that's all about the mental processes and realizations of darkness be portrayed in a physical visual sense i feel like it's impossible to accurately show thoughts also i feel like the time difference between the book and the movie creates major points that don't seem to add up at all the novella heart of darkness was published in 1902 while the movie version of heart of darkness is from 1993 the 91 years between the two may be a reason behind the seemingly different the novella seems to have much harsher conditions and the movie does not portray the prehistoric feel of the congo the congo in the movie just seems like another place not the dark inhuman place that the book paints this setting of i feel like this removes another major element that really contributes to the novella br br with two of the biggest aspects of the storyline missing in the movie the little bit of decency that is in the book heart of darkness is gone when the controversy of light versus dark is the biggest theme not including it in the movie makes it seem like the entire movie will be incredibly it is it's dull unexciting and a major waste of time there's no reason to watch it the book is stripped of any significance it has if it's necessary for some reason read the book avoid the movie at all costs br br cast and credits marlow tim roth kurtz john malkovich the russian morten the intended phoebe nicholls br br directed by nicolas roeg written by benedict fitzgerald based on the novella by joseph conrad running time 100 minutes rated pg 13 some sexuality and language
0	to be honest i've never been to the congo or even africa and after watching the made for television movie heart of darkness i do not think i'd want to the movie completely shames the book to the highest level possible though the book was not the best i have read after watching the movie i seemed to appreciate the book a hundred times more nicolas roeg the director of the movie did a horrible job portraying joseph conrad's novella into a movie i give roeg some credit for trying to attempt the impossible by making the book into a movie but this may not have been the job for him the movie was unsuccessful to express any part of the novella other than the basics of the plot the set and scenery also lacked the beauty conrad portrayed of africa in the book in the book marlow had seen so many great wonders but in the movie you did not get that same experience no i'm not blaming everything on the director the acting in the film was just terrible all of the actors were dull and uninteresting throughout the whole movie i felt as if the actors were not putting forth any emotions as if they were reading from the script the entire time tim roth who plays marlow did not portray marlow's sense of adventure for his journey into the congo well marlow's journey to find kurtz was supposed to but i didn't experience that in the movie i would not recommend watching this movie especially if you have read the book already it does not come close to doing justice for joseph conrad's novella conrad's words capture the reader and take them on the journey with marlow on his quest to find mr kurtz where as the film did not a great novella but a very poor film heart of darkness the movie is based on the book written by joseph conrad also called heart of darkness
0	the movie heart of darkness is an insult to the book by joseph conrad to be quite honest the movie made me want to fall asleep on the other hand the book was definitely extraordinary i feel that the movie left out several key elements and missed some of the main points from the book in addition the actors were boring and lacked originality and enthusiasm br br the book while not an adventure story or easy to understand is full of hidden meaning and interesting twists in the plot the book though very confusing and complex is astonishing when you do finally understand it you feel as if you have actually learned something the novella or short story had several key ideas like futility and craziness which the movie left out in addition several key scenes were changed which in return affected the entire plot many of the scenes seemed to be very choppy in the sense that they did not fit together in summary the movie seemed to be a bad interpretation of the book br br i would only recommend watching this movie if you cannot picture or understand the book but otherwise i would skip this one it was dreadful and in complete disarray if you have never read the book then definitely do not watch the movie because you need the basic information from the book to understand the movie the movie was a horrible spin off of an outstanding and detailed book
0	despite the excellent cast and the potential of the story this movie fails on many levels i was convinced that the director was a beginner the movie is very poorly edited shows a lot of non important and annoying flashes has very visible goofs and has no suspenseful atmosphere whatsoever the question which repeatedly popped up in my mind while watching this was so what i couldn't care less about the protagonist and what happens to him it's not that the story isn't compelling it's simply the way it's told the movie tells the story period it's like an actor who mumbles his lines without knowing what he's saying the movie simply tells the events that happen without any soul and the director's to blame he doesn't know how to make something interesting or suspenseful or enjoyable and believe me i'm not somebody who wants to see die hard 8 or 2 fast 2 crappy on the contrary i especially like slow paced movies so i was convinced the director was a beginner but to my amazement this man has years of experience and has worked as a cinematographer or camera assistant on a lot of marvelous productions guess he had a bad year back then
0	overall the movie heart of darkness was pitiful compared to the book anyone who has ever read the book and had a sufficient understanding of it would be able to see the countless obvious flaws there is an immeasurable difference between the two it seems to me that the director was walking into a losing battle i couldn't imagine that someone would take on the monstrous task of recreating heart of darkness the immense detail and magic of the story would be impossible to justly interpret conrad's story had so many layers and so much depth that it would seem pointless to try to make a visual interpretation br br first capturing the details of the story is unattainable the colossal fine points created by joseph conrad cannot be rightfully recreated through film marlow's feelings and emotions cannot be equally construed in the movie if you have taken on the enormous task of tackling conrad's work then you know as well as i that conrad only wrote half the story the additional half is a series of connections made by the reader you as the reader are required to be capable of and connecting joseph conrad's ideas as a result several crucial details are absent in the movie br br also although the movie was an adequate length the film seemed short it seemed that conrad was able to pack many more details into 75 pages than the movie could pack in an hour and a half the speed of the movie kept the viewer from getting to know the characters marlow was much more of a stranger the viewpoint of the book puts you into marlow's shoes however in the movie you're almost watching marlow from a distance i began to think that the director was trying to utilize the same read between the lines method as conrad did however the connections were weak i know that if i had not read the book then i would in no way be able to begin to understand the depth of the situation and the characters br br finally kurtz also seemed to be interpreted incorrectly his role was short and the details weren't all included it was impossible to comprehend the true kurtz in the length of time he was shown an important detail in the book was that kurtz had become a god to the africans i didn't think that significant detail was defined also in the book kurtz represented a soulless being he had died inside long ago i believe the director comprehended this detail however instead of recreating it he just had kurtz mope around and mumble everything moreover it seemed like the director attempted to make kurtz seem mysterious however instead he seemed entirely unidentified br br altogether this movie reminded me of a teenager cramming to finish a science project due the next day it appeared to have been crafted effortlessly and in hardly any time the characters were alienated crucial details were left out and overall the central plot was lost in translation
0	after seeing the film version of heart of darkness i feel as if i wasted 100 minutes of my life though the book was not my favorite i was very disappointed to see how poorly nicolas roeg portrayed the story despite the fact that he left out many bits of important information the cast just did not seem to fit their roles and the whole film seemed vastly emotionless the book depicts vivid scenery and detail that are completely disregarded in the movie br br you'd think a director would be able to fit 76 pages of a book into a film of at least an hour and a half the differences completely changed the story for me for example when the character of fiancée is nonchalant to the fact that kurtz has died it completely modifies the ending the book had given not to mention the sets and scenery used in the film were not nearly as beautiful as they were described it sincerely feels as if roeg was filming another story with references from heart of darkness embedded in it br br if you watch the movie without knowing the title or expecting it to be anything like joseph conrad's tale you may find it good though i thought the camera work was poor and the cast unfitting it is a captivating story all the same however if you are looking for a good movie version of the famous classic story don't look for it in roeg's film
0	this is the first and as far as i can tell the only completed production of heart of darkness ever released prior to starting on citizen kane orson welles shot some test footage for a version of heart of darkness that was to be filmed entirely in what would now be called pov where we would see everything from the point of view of the main character charlie marlow he would be seen only fleetingly in mirrors windows water etc the film was never made the pov technique was used not too successfully in 1947 in the lady in the lake with robert montgomery starring as philip marlowe presumably the coincidence of the two marlow e characters is just that of course francis coppola's apocalypse now was based on heart of darkness br br the short novel heart of darkness by the polish born british writer joseph conrad first serialized in a british literary magazine in 1899 features one of his favorite alter egos ship captain charlie marlow who also narrates the short story youth and indirectly tells the story of lord jim marlow temporarily out of work decides to take a job a river boat for a belgian company involved in the brutal exploitation of the resources of king leopold ii's personal the cruelly misnamed congo free state marlow travels from london to brussels signs on with the company and is told that his mission is to take a boat up the congo river to a far inland station headed by one of the company's most productive agents in the colony a german named kurtz shipments of ivory latex for the production of rubber and other products from station have ceased and no word has come downriver from kurtz for some time there are rumors that he has gone native marlow is to investigate take any necessary action and make a report on his return he takes passage down the west african coast to the mouth of the congo is delayed for weeks while he is forced to repair his boat at the company station on the coast and finally sets out upriver to find station the river the heat the vegetation the wildlife the insects the people all take their toll on his endurance his imagination and his mental resources he finds kurtz ill half mad and close to death the final encounter and the death of kurtz are almost an anticlimax especially since conrad is so obscure about what actually happens that we are left to puzzle it out for ourselves this is a novel where you close the book vaguely dissatisfied with the ending but nevertheless treasuring the story for its amazing atmospherics br br this heart of darkness was filmed with guyana in central america standing in for west africa it is best where the novel is at its greatest disadvantage actually showing us first world urbanites what a boat trip up a tropical river would look like but the rest of the film was forgettable tim roth does his best as marlow but so much about the plot characterizations and character relationships has been altered beyond recognition that you wonder why they bothered if the aim was to make conrad's story for the screen why didn't they leave it alone it's unreasonable to expect that no compromises will be made when a book is made into a movie but so many changes were made that to me had no cinematic justification that you wonder whether we are simply dealing with incompetent screenwriters and cinematographers most disappointing of all was john malkovich as kurtz he was completely miscast and simply flubs the role everything about him is wrong his looks his acting style his voice his accent everything a vastly better choice would have been someone like bruno ganz unlike malkovich an actual german like the character br br this is a very disappointing production and i would recommend it only after you've read the book if you want to depend on more than your imagination to get a visual picture of a boat trip up the congo river circa 1900
0	i felt last night's episode was slow and kinda of boring at times i honestly don't think it has to do anything with the writing because i know the story was well staged and tried to keep things in place i thought it wasn't that bad but overall i didn't enjoy it the most blame has to do with the director of that episode stephen williams i always hated stephen williams's directing if jack bender continues with this episode from the season premiere he would have kept it in a good pace and keep things float to keep things interesting i'm glad jack bender is directing next week's episode and it'll be much better and i'm glad he got first episode to direct and i'm curious what he will pull off this time since stephen williams had directed too many episodes before br br i always keep thinking that stephen williams needs to be thrown off from the show he doesn't even do anything interesting with the show br br why does the opening have to be done with a target thing while being in the helicopter it was so boring bad perspective of camera work too
0	this series continues to frustrate and annoy how are they going to drag this out for another year each episode offers up more and more questions whilst providing the answers to very few to quote another very popular website i believe that this show has now jumped the shark br br will i keep watching it br br probably br br will they manage to keep the show on air till it ends br br probably not br br how did two qualified doctors fail to notice that naomi was still alive how did 30 plus people not notice a corpse wake up and walk off with a knife still in her back how did someone have enough strength to create two trails and climb up a tree to ambush kate br br we've now introduced a ghostbuster br br same time next week yep
0	this film would like to be the kind of shocking cerebral and intense movie that many others in its genre have successfully been but it's not it is at best confusing and absurd when the twists and turns finally revealed themselves rather than saying ahh i get it i muttered something along the lines of okay whatever in my opinion when a movie reveals a major plot twist it shouldn't have to employ a flashback sequence to prove that it did give some hints that would enable the viewer to discern the truth himself but this movie does have a flashback and here's the kicker it flashes back on scenes that weren't even in the movie br br the characters were stereotypical unsympathetic and wholly ridiculous i feel that the steamy love scenes between the romantic leads were the most and unsexy that i've ever scene in a movie that wasn't porn it seems that the director was going for shocking and kinky with the love scenes but they were really just plain silly br br and don't even get me started on the crappy accents and second rate sets i guess the movie was set in new orleans but aside from the afore mentioned accents and a couple bland city shots the movie could have been in usa br br my recommendation don't bother
0	an interesting period showing us what was amazing in 1938 gosh ma a fake accident ring suing for 25 000 i guess projected into the 21st century it would amount to a lot of money the acting would amount to pure 21st century ham nice to see the president as a hard working newcomer
0	it's not easy to find judas kiss on vhs it's not available on dvd but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection br br i can't understand how the talented mr rickman gets into these mediocre films judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors an interesting plot and intriguing twists but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character's actions why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses why did he mistrust the detective he replaced there were times when i honestly couldn't tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors alan rickman and emma thompson to use such awful new accents as an alan freak i confess that i still thought mr rickman was sexy in a rumpled weary take him home and tuck him in sort of way br br judas kiss isn't a great movie but it does have some intriguing moments but i don't recommend it unless you're trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman
0	alan rickman emma thompson give good performances with southern new orleans accents in this detective flick it's worth seeing for their scenes and scene with hal holbrook these three actors to entertain us no matter what the movie it seems the plot for the movie shows potential but one gets the impression in watching the film that it was not pulled off as well as it could have been the fact that it is cluttered by a rather uninteresting subplot and mostly uninteresting kidnappers really muddles things the movie is worth a view if for nothing more than entertaining performances by rickman thompson and holbrook
0	this brief review contains no spoilers since the movie spoils itself it is wooden and pedantic it has no saving grace whatsoever if someone invites you to his house to watch mr don't go even the title of the movie is dreadful and portends what garbage lies within the whole plot is so bad that it could drive mother theresa to despair it wasn't a stroke that led to the early demise of poor it was having to act in this clunker that did him in it must have haunted him the rest of his days perhaps he was an enemy alien and wanted revenge upon the americans for his confinement he found a perfect vehicle for his wrath in this travesty
0	simply miserable lana turner vehicle had a beautiful voice but he rarely uses it in a film that reminded me of the student prince with adults is no leading man either he looks like an elderly man ready to collect social security and go fishing br br the plot is extremely thin and the supporting cast of barry sullivan marjorie maine and debbie reynolds are given so little to do sir cedric hardwicke comes in at the end to announce that our king had better return to his people as far as i'm concerned the faster the better is that lana turner really singing with not bad if it is her the picture would also remind me in a way of the 1960 movie the prince and the showgirl with marilyn monroe and laurence olivier
0	on assignment in scenic italy beautiful lip synching lana turner as meets older singer and prince as mr the two fall in love while enjoying the pretty italian countryside unhappily mr is called away to his kingly father's death bed leaving lana in the lurch twelve years later ms turner is a los angeles actress about to make a motion picture about falling in love with a king turner is being romanced by co star barry sullivan who wants to marry her then king re enters her br br mr provides a tired storyline for sex symbol turner and debuting bass vocalist who appeared for several decades with the new york metropolitan opera likely earned his mgm feature film career after appearing in the hugely successful stage production of south pacific 1949 the cast album and golden some enchanted evening single sold millions supporting marjorie main cedric hardwicke and debbie reynolds give the film a even greater sense of wasted resources br br mr 1951 don hartman lana turner barry sullivan
0	i watched this basically for the sole reason that it was supposed to have third reich references in it it turned out a pretty brainless and predictable slasher film that appeared to be made to appeal to feminists or something br br let me tell you something if you wait an entire movie to see the attractive female lead's breasts the last thing you want is a tastefully done sex scene with annoying camera angles that don't show anything her busty friend didn't get hers out either but we saw plenty of men's butts and pubic hair and guys with their shirts off and at the end you have our heroine magically dodging the scalpel thrusts and swings of the villain who turns out to be the hunk funnily enough and she easily out fights him uh huh while her male love interest is tied down and waiting to be rescued the funniest part was when she picks up a chair and swings it at the guy and it breaks over him now it'd be about as much as she could manage to lift the chair let alone smash it against a person with enough force to break it it looks ridiculous she basically brushes it against him and it falls apart if you are going to do this sort of role reversal rubbish which has already been done to death then you have to at least make it semi plausible br br there was one good bit though the bad guy did get the better of her slutty friend teaching her a lesson for being such a tramp and sleeping around that's not exactly something feminists would like br br pretty stupid really not that american slasher flicks are generally much better but you have to wonder why they bothered it brought nothing new to the genre at all br br 5 10
0	i had high expectations going into this film but alas i feel let down i bought it for 5 bucks at a used vhs place and the version i bought was the english dubbed version the dubbing is awful so beware lola just wasn't as good in this film as in run lola run and the bad guy just kinda came out of nowhere and lola starts to catch on to what's going on the second she gets to the university seems unrealistic to me i was also wondering if in the original version there were american songs in the soundtrack they seemed extremely out of place too bad for this film i really thought it was going to rock
0	this is a pretty lousy picture it offers nothing unique or original or even interesting br br a medical student discovers that a secret society at her university is engaged in macabre medical experiments and of course she becomes involved in solving the weird deaths at the school this movie started out promising with a few cool special effects in which a guy is partially dissected while alive and tries to get away after he wakes up but then even that fizzles and the rest of the special effects are pretty routine plastic models of the human body and that unreal looking blood that these second rate horror movies always seem to have br br and as if the routine plot and the lousy acting wasn't enough this movie had subtitles that many times didn't even match the dubbed english that you hear being spoken and then add that to the mouth movement not matching the dubbing well let's just say trying to coordinate all that in your head isn't worth it for this mediocre movie br br i was at least counting on some skin in this movie and except for a bit during the opening credits this movie didn't deliver on that either br br this is a boring routine run of the mill horror gore movie short on horror and gore skip this movie unless ernest goes to camp is the only rental left
0	anatomie was a german made movie and subtitled it was also overlong and boring if it was supposed to be a horror movie it failed miserably for me the actors went through their paces looking more like they wanted to be some where else the film work was ok but more attention should have been applied to the awful banal script i paid nothing to see the video and i still feel cheated go read a book and save your money
0	this is by far the worst non english horror movie i've ever seen the acting is wooden the dialogues are simply stupid and the story is totally braindead it's not even scary 2 out of 10 from me
0	honest young insurance agent ronald reagan as eric gregg is optimistic but poor his wife scheming sheila as gregg longs for the finer things in life describing herself as not weighted down with tons of righteousness ms begins to spend more money than mr reagan earns obtains the finer things in life but puts the couple in debt is a fun shrew br br handsome reagan attracts other women like perky clerk gloria blondell as patricia but he doesn't indulge to pay the bills gets tangled up in the insurance fraud racket which helps get her husband fired an unemployed reagan seems to be tempted into a life of crime will he remain straight up or get crooked clinton has an uncomfortable broken arm scene br br accidents will happen 1938 william clemens ronald reagan sheila gloria blondell
0	finally got to see this movie last weekend what a disappointment it barely reaches made for tv level given the list of actors i would have expected something substantially more sophisticated the movie lacks a good story well actually any story for that matter it has no credibility instead lots of predictability save yourself the money and the time
0	anatomie isn't very unique in horror genre in fact it isn't even scary at all it reminds me of its american cousins horror slashers it's just a copy of any other horror slasher and as a german movie it's just too american with nothing to add to it br br actually anatomie is too predictable and boring its plot is not intact and consistent it's got stupid scenes to it which don't even fit into a horror movie genre amusing sex scenes with pop music and topless women in underwear why do they need to have it all in just one movie they should have made a cheap german adult movie instead br br i can't recommend this movie to anyone because it's just too boring
0	1st watched 6 24 2007 4 out of 10 dir stefan ok thriller but a little too predictable this story is based in germany which is also where the movie is made it is about a young medical student who gets a shot to go to a premiere school in heidelberg and arrives seeing some strange things occurring someone she met on the train there and saved shows up on the school's experimentation table and she's suspecting foul play right away she does some investigation and the disappearance of her friend leads her to a secret society called aaa and no it's not alcoholics anonymous that has something to do with the anti hippocratic oath and is used to perform on live people that doctor's wouldn't normally be able to do she finds out her grandfather who was a dean at the school was a big part of establishing it and it's pretty readily filled by members of the school it's an interesting story but the problem with this movie is how quickly the audience is told what's going on and then it's kind of a horror movie with the heroine fighting off the bad boy of the group that's taking things to the next psychotic level although this movie was made in europe it plays to a young american audience with it's focus on gore sex and the horror film premise which is really it's big downfall and explains why it probably made good money and spawned a sequel but doesn't necessarily make for a good movie
0	okay i had reasonably high expectations for this the controversial subject matter was a good concept as a horror fan i admit i was fascinated and very excited about this br br it turns out they had a great idea but it was terribly executed let's see this movie seems to run in 3 modes happy sex and dark the problem is that the movie never decides what it wants to be the happy parts i believe were meant to contrast with the dark parts but it doesn't work the soundtrack is one of the reasons br br the movie transitions between these 3 modes very badly i can't even begin to say how much the directing and editing suck there's sex in the most unappealing and unerotic way i'm not complaining but even for horror standards they were unnecessary and filler br br the characters are all unlikeable with the exception of paula potente her friend from munich is a slut and possibly one of the most annoying characters in movies i've come across recently br br there's a bit of plot which i won't go into detail it's not stupid and in more talented hands would make a good movie there's even a nice twist and a cool conspiracy going on don't try to understand everything because there are giant plot holes here br br it's all so shoddily done that you don't care for the victims the perpetrators anyone and to think this could have been great i can say one good thing about it which is the movie shed some light on today's unethical medical procedures with genetics and controversial sciences advancing this could have been a great philosophical film that raises and discusses these questions but you won't find that here just a series of scenes loosely pasted together with people and things that you don't care about br br skip this and go watch instead you're welcome br br 3 10
0	there is an endless supply of trashy horror movies it seems that people never get tired of trying to scare and thrill alas very seldom these attempts succeed this unfortunate movie has almost no redeeming value the story is highly predictable most of the actors very uninspired or just plainly miscast special effects of very low quality it took a lot of effort not to switch off the dvd and go to bed with such a limited number of foreign movies issued in the usa why in the world would anybody want to import this drivel to top it all apparently there is an anatomy 2 for those who have nothing better to do i'd rather watch the paint dry
0	this movie had such a good premise to start with suspense slashers a secret society and you really couldn't figure out who the bad guys were until the last quarter of the movie br br but it contained so many dumb clichés from the worst of the old american slasher horror movies now i love slasher horror movies but there are all the old clichés that have long disappeared from american cinema for example the old i hear noises in the basement and i'm home all alone and the basement light doesn't work so i'll go down to investigate cliché br br three examples of these clichés just really irked me to no end br br 1 when potente finds out that there may be a secret society at work at the medical school carving up live bodies she proceeds to ask questions and tell everyone very publicly in essence she is saying i found you out come kill me because i am telling everyone your secret and then she wonders why she finds blood smeared all over her bed and is brought her severed finger in a towel br br 2 even after one guy she met two weeks ago ends up on the dissection table and she finds out about this secret society disemboweling live people she goes to the lab where all the dead bodies are stored 2 3 more times by herself at night to investigate br br 3 her roommate gets killed she gets chased by the killer whom she knows doesn't report him to the university or the police then leaves the school to go home to visit her parents then she returns to school apparently thinking that this guy who tried to kill her will let be and not try to kill her even though she knows his secret she was of course wrong br br for someone who was supposed to be so smart she was studying to be a doctor in the best school in germany she acted like the cliché bimbo in a horror movie br br these things just made a potentially good movie very frustrating and made me wish the ending would come even sooner halfway through the movie i stopped routing for her and wished that she would end up on the dissection table too
0	medical student paula wins a place at an exclusive heidelberg medical school when the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death and uncovers a gruesome conspiracy perpetrated by an secret society operating within the school disturbing and gross lots of scary parts it even has a good script and ending but it has a one poor part what else could you see from this movie it's a good mystery and horror movie but of course if you like it go buy it if you don't there still is not reason to waste your money on this br br rated r for extreme graphic violence sexual situations and profanity
0	firstly this movie works in the fact that it is disturbing i really did not like seeing all these scenes where people get cut up alive etc the weirdly erotic introduction gives one a sense of wonder it is somewhat to me personally but the movie really works in that respect and it is to be scary so i give it credit for that yup a few points there for those scalpels and well damned disturbing idea of getting alive br br but what this movie lacks is an interesting plot characterization or real surprises the whole teen flick horror genre usually goes in a very simple predictable way lots of moments creepy guys who are insane and the big question of all is the boyfriend the murderer this movie fits into the category of scream and countless others which have spawned over the 90s well i won't spoil it for you but it's not exactly interesting who is the killer we find out who it is half way through and from there on the movie on trying to fill in some time rather boringly to say the least i was looking at the clock a bit on this movie br br the lead actress is great as usual but the acting box she is placed into makes one groan in pain the college girl who is a detective who everyone thinks is insane but she is the one who really knows whats going on and the cops ahhh they just laugh and eat donuts very predictable flat disturbing at times and most of all boring and dull it's like an american film company took a flight to germany to shoot a movie to make it foreign hmmm or did they br br
0	i was looking forward to this movie as everyone was talking about it as being a good horror movie and finally an european one so maybe my expectations were to high br br it begins with a good quiet horror shock sequence but it lets you down right away in the following scenes where the plot begin being introduced as the acting and the motivation life of the characters reveals itself no better than any 'made for tv' drama it keeps that way right into the end br br about the horror part of the movie it is certainly a good idea and a different one but all the scenes are of the it before' kind br br overall my idea of this movie was that it had a good concept which was inserted into a mediocre story bad acting and less than tolerable plot holes br br
0	this relatively obscure hong kong is the perfect desert island movie for video age peeping at least its first half is every set up every scene every sequence is an excuse to look up a girl's skirt stare down at her breasts gaze at her bottom and leer at her tight crotch what it's establishing is the lead character's perverted proclivities of course br br genre stalwart anthony wong is a marginally perverted married man who is plagued by erotic daydreams and outrageous fantasies all involve scantily clad sexy chinese ladies with nothing but sexual servitude on their minds br br the plot is thickened by a homicidal subplot voodoo doll skewering and a little rape and pillage br br some of the sex scenes are fairly hot and the gore is liberal but the supernatural elements introduced into the second half feel half baked and the plot developments are ludicrous br br clearly producer of garish garbage wong jing was in a terrible hurry to get this into and out of theaters br br the arty title sequence did not fool this jaded punter
0	he who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster and if you gaze for long into an abyss the abyss gazes also into you br br yes this is from nietzsche's 146 from beyond good and evil and that's what you find at the start of this movie br br if you watch the whole movie you will doubt if it was the message that the ram gopal varma production wanted to pass on as the scenes crop up one by one quite violent and at times puke raking the viewer is expected to forget the nietzsche quote and think otherwise that to deal with few people you need dedicated people like who will have the licence to kill anyone not just writing something unworthy of the police to do as we are made to believe br br when was and the government wanted to pass newer and even more draconian laws rgv's satya did the required brain surgery without blood transfusion for the multiplex growing thinking urban crowd whose views matters in a democratic country like india within a year was passed br br when real life encounter specialist a monster on the path of fighting them' and was himself booked by tak was made to heed out false impression among the people about this with it's you have to be a monster to save your nation approach br br and people consumed it no questions raised only praises and hopes that they get a in their local police station who will solve all problems and hence let only milk and butter flow all over blood you can ignore br br every time israel attacks palestine or lebanon we hear voices like india must also similarly attack pakistan this movie is made for such psychopaths if you don't give them this they will probably die out of boredom and lsd and what not br br hence this game of the passion of hatred
0	doll master is an example of a lousy horror film fallen somewhere in the space with it's two not so well established genres a horror film and an emotional drama film seems like the doll master tries very hard to be a very scary horror film but it fails the noise of the dolls while moving is like taken from the of in ju on and the crawls are like esquire the killing dolls will remember you a cute version of chucky but compared to child's play this film is more superb but the story seems a nothing the brilliant camera shots and the brilliance of acting was taken away cause of the plot br br watch this if you are expecting great shocks
0	have to disagree with people saying that this is a lousy horror film with good acting and camera work i'd say it's an okay horror flick ruined by shockingly abysmal acting and poor camera work watch 'ju on the grudge instead of wasting your time with this garbage the principal idea behind the film is rather an original one considering the abundance of killer doll based scare fests which have been foist upon us over the years unfortunately the story is handled with all the subtlety of the latest michael bay actioner with a cast of characters which are uniformly unlikable and played with precision perfect by actors presumably from daytime korean soap operas it isn't scary and only succeeds in dampening your expectations of the next korean horror movie to come a calling oh well
0	the worst ever korean movie the plot is ridiculously complex unbelievable and the film creates not a single shock it builds up suspense well enough then leaves you agitated providing no shock or jumpy moment whenever there is a chilling moment you are not bothered by it as you're still trying to work out who is who and what is going on it goes something like this a modeling company recruit 4 people for a modeling career but the owners are not what they seem they have model dolls of everyone and a strange girl is seen walking about the place and the owners have no recognition of a girl it turns out that everyone is there for a reason and thats as much as i could grasp the ending is a muddle of killings and you don't know who's a doll who's real and who's dead i don't recommend it to fans of korean asian horror films
0	the concept for this movie was quite good but somehow the execution failed on many parts there aren't many horror movies that i can think of that used dolls that looked so realistic especially when these dolls start blinking their eyes or moving hands so much could have been done with this premise there were a lot of scenes where there was room for tension and suspense and i really was expecting creepy things to happen but never did the movie managed to be scary one of the main reasons is that the story is too minimal and predictable i actually thought that they did this on purpose in order to surprise us with some wonderful twist sadly this doesn't happen well at least not in the way that i hoped for the cast also failed to make it all believable it would have been nice if more background was given on the characters in the beginning when we get introduced to the main character it seems that she and other characters are invited by some sort of artist but it also is apparent that they don't have an idea themselves what they are invited for of course this is part of the mystery but it does seem unlikely if i got an invitation without having a clue what the deal is i simply would not go furthermore most characters aren't real likable with the end result that you never actually care for them another flaw is that the director deviates from the basic premise which is scary enough and brings up new elements that never get explained and aren't even relevant to the doll master mystery overall this movie has been a big disappointment to me if you want to see a good horror movie involving dolls go see dead silence
0	i am a usually a very generous voter on imdb and don't bother commenting on movies i did not like but this was just lame i actually turned it off 15 minutes before finishing it to watch this is it because my gf wanted to i just chose the lesser of two evils br br if you want to watch this movie picture this film as a collection of worse than average horror stories like scary short stories that you find in an issue of reader's digest in the waiting room of your dentist's br br i did not expect anything particular terrifying or funny i am not the i want to see blood type of person but this movie is neither horror nor comedy nor entertaining in any other way br br it's probably more scary funny and entertaining to look at the movie poster of you've got mail for 90 minutes while drinking tea br br conclusion a horror comedy for people between 4 and 7
0	when i first saw a glimpse of this movie i quickly noticed the actress who was playing the role of lucille ball rachel york's portrayal of lucy is absolutely awful lucille ball was an astounding comedian with incredible talent to think about a legend like lucille ball being portrayed the way she was in the movie is horrendous i cannot believe out of all the actresses in the world who could play a much better lucy the producers decided to get rachel york she might be a good actress in other roles but to play the role of lucille ball is tough it is pretty hard to find someone who could resemble lucille ball but they could at least find someone a bit similar in looks and talent if you noticed york's portrayal of lucy in episodes of i love lucy like the chocolate factory or vitavetavegamin nothing is similar in any way her expression voice or movement br br to top it all off danny pino playing desi arnaz is horrible pino does not qualify to play as ricky he's small and skinny his accent is unreal and once again his acting is unbelievable although fred and ethel were not similar either they were not as bad as the characters of lucy and ricky br br overall extremely horrible casting and the story is badly told if people want to understand the real life situation of lucille ball i suggest watching a e biography of lucy and desi read the book from lucille ball herself or pbs' american masters finding lucy if you want to see a docudrama before the laughter would be a better choice the casting of lucille ball and desi arnaz in before the laughter is much better compared to this at least a similar aspect is shown rather than nothing
0	whoever wrote the screenplay for this movie obviously never consulted any books about lucille ball especially her autobiography i've never seen so many mistakes in a biopic ranging from her early years in celoron and jamestown to her later years with desi i could write a whole list of factual errors but it would go on for pages in all i believe that lucille ball is one of those inimitable people who simply cannot be portrayed by anyone other than themselves if i were lucie arnaz and desi jr i would be irate at how many mistakes were made in this film the filmmakers tried hard but the movie seems awfully sloppy to me
0	this has to be one of the worst films i have ever had the misfortune to see the general idea of a mass ejection hitting the planet earth with em disruption is fair enough but where did they get the idea that humans could survive a sustained the acting was so terrible i got the feeling that the casting agents simply grabbed a handful of people off of santa monica boulevard and threw them in front of the camera in all honesty i have seen less wooden acting from my ironing board sorry but this film was poor poor poor
0	absolutely horrible movie not a bad plot concept but executed horribly cliché storyline bad script so schlocky it doesn't even qualify for campy this is the kind of movie that gives sci fi a bad name
0	inferno starts off with a fairly impressive for a tvm effect we re also introduced to a scientist who s called heller don t you get it heller hell er inferno so i guess someone on the production had some intelligence however it does become more and more obvious as the tvm progresses that intelligence has been discarded throughout the storyline in order to appeal to an american tvm audience br br the story itself is overwhelmed by subplots featuring umpteen stock tvm characters like the tough liberal schoolteacher who s trying to save a home boy from a life of crime the doctor who s lost his medical licence etc in fact the story concentrates far more on these characters than the approaching disaster that all the potential tension and drama the scenario might have had soon goes up in a puff of smoke and being a tvm we just know that there won t be a downbeat ending br br there is an onscreen problem i noticed and that is everytime there s an explosion there s a massive fireball which looks ridiculous not to mention physically impossible look at the scene where the national guard are in a fight with a gang a soldier fires a grenade into a tower block and the whole building explodes in a fire ball what a small containing no more than a few ounces of high explosive can do that no it can t there s also another scene of army engineers blowing up a dam with plastic explosive and the same fireball effect is seen can directors please note that high explosive is not the same as napalm br br having said that i did find inferno highly watchable for a tvm and at no time did i find myself wanting to turn it off it did have some potential and let me repeat the special effects are fairly good considering the budget and it s not as bad a tvm as some people are making out
0	this movie is not at all like city of god you might get the same feeling but it isn't there's no intense shooting nor intense drug scenes you get the idea if you ask me i think this film was a waste of time there are a lot of other films which gives 100 times better meaning and teaching than wooden camera yes i might be the only one to give a negative comment for this film but it's only in my opinion it's one of those films where i can get the feeling that i'll be blown away but when the credits start to role my friends and i all gave mutual looks and we all laughed at how ridiculous this movie was so to conclude this matter i advise not to watch it br br personal note making africans talk english was a big mistake in city of god they used their native language which gave the film much more power and reality
0	mario from europe is the only user who has posted a comment so far and covers the major points to the film yet again another difficult film to purchase in the uk i had to go through midnight video who have a swedish branch i went to the post office and bought by mail order this and a similar title at only a title br br this film goes under many a k a's depending on when and where it is marketed i had previously purchased the bloodsucker leads the dance which you will find if you search on imdb under people and input krista nell the actor who plays the count on his private island in the latter film had his words dubbed from italian into english by an actor with an unmistakably mournful and rather tired sounding voice i smiled when i heard this same voice dubbing on the english soundtrack as the police inspector who is investigating the murder of the prostitute killed in the in the subject film my choice of course was to see another outing by the delicious krista nell br br there are quite a few rather inconsequential sub plots in the movie involving blackmail extortion sleazy affairs with mothers a motor cycle chase resulting in a gangland hit a by a client's motorcycle friends sleazy photography cross dressing by transvestites etc which give a flavour to this film summarised in a word sleaze but artistic sleaze the aforementioned contributor liked this film but the lowly rating suggests other imdb fans did not albeit without explaining their wheres and personally i thought there were too many subplots and not enough put into the main story and the relationship of these subordinate characters to the central plot and the development of their screen characters also a professional film editor was sorely needed as some of the scenes appeared to last far too long having made their point so that the film appeared to drag in places e g the scene of the dancing transvestite krista nell appears in one fruity scene with a client but this too is but a vignette and i was left wanting more from her the director and the screenplay br br i love the political incorrectness shown in older films this is 30 years from its making e g smoking in offices and the way some characters react to each other in the office i would suggest 4 10 as a more realistic rating and i have awarded it as such
0	if you are thinking of going to see this film then my advice is dont br br for me the film failed to make the grade at every level and was a reminder of how dire most british irish films are forgettable tripe is the best i can say if it had been on telly l would have wandered off to do something more interesting five minutes after the start i saw this film with a group of friends and having read the press previews went along prepared to not be critical and hopefully pass an amusing 90 minutes but oh dear br br as a comedy it wasn't funny as a thriller the stupid story was sloppy and lazy as a love story totally unbelievable most of all as a piece of over the top it lacked both style and charm and caine did what they needed to do to earn their money playing er and caine is it just me but other than playing east end gangsters and jack the lads does michael caine leave you cold br br in fairness some of my friends thought it was 'ok' but if you do go my advice is have a few drinks or puffs beforehand and leave your critical faculties safely locked up at home br br
0	michael caine usually appears in either very good blame it on rio sleuth without a clue gambit dirty rotten scoundrels or truly bad comedies noises off death becomes her harry walter go to ny this falls into the latter category br br ta is a comedy that succeeds in only two things managing to waste a cast that includes caine and richardson all of which have comedic abilities and succeeding in its mission not to make the viewer laugh there isn't a single truly funny moment here the main reason is the lousy script there was so much futile effort put into writing a pointlessly convoluted story which is simply too bothersome to follow considering it's only a comedy that the writer s forgot to make the damn thing funny which as far as i can recall is what the whole point of a comedy is supposed to be br br i've never seen this moron before some people even say if you're a moron fan you'll love this bla bla bla a moron fan does this non descript person really have fans a comedy as badly written as this requires a mega talent to eke out a laugh or two out of it someone like steve coogan and not your average moron br br if you're going to make a comedy about actors then at least make them out to be the utter morons that they usually are the characters of caine and moron are insufficiently dumb br br the single most annoying thing about this unfunny collection of scenes is the little girl only a truly horrible writer would think that to spice up a lousy script it's wise to include a super intelligent wise ass kid smart a kids aren't even funny to bill cosby fans any more in little miss sunshine we had a totally normal kid and she was very funny this stupid ol' the kid is smarter than the adults shtick belongs to a century old marx brothers film
0	we saw this in a bargain basket at the local asda £1 50 for the dvd reading all the hype plastered all over the cover saying how hillarious it is and it also had a really good established cast we thought this must a great film br br so we bought took it home shoved it in the dvd player sat back and waited for the to begin and waited and waited and waited a bit more br br some 90 minutes later although it felt more like 3 hours the credits rolled and that was the end of that br br what a letdown even paying £1 50 seemed a con god knows what caine richardson and were thinking when they said 'yes' to this tosh and as for moran well much as i enjoyed black books shaun of the dead and his comedy tours i felt he was out of his depth in this film he tried too hard playing for laughs probably thinking that if retaining the characteristics from his black books character would work here br br sadly it back fired the gags fell flat after awhile and then he became just an irritation which is a shame because i believe given the right part he could be a very good film character actor br br anyway to sum up the actors in the actors failed to act br br
0	it is hard to imagine two actors of such class and experience as michael caine and michael getting involved in such an embarrassingly inept film the responsibility for this ill judged production has to be down to the writer neil jordan and director conor mcpherson i doubt i've seen such a bad film with such good credits in a long time the comedian dylan moran who made his mark as the irritable and incompetent bookshop owner in the tv sitcom turns in much the same routine here except with such excess and lack of comedic control as to leave one squirming it is easy to see how the story could have been made to work for the situation is an interesting one and loaded with comic potential a classical actor caine tries to rip off the mob and co with the aide of a bumbling wannabe colleague moran with predictable results it could have and should have been good sadly it was not to be
0	the real surprise of this effortlessly lightweight movie is how such a top notch cast got assembled for what is nothing more than a hammy uninspiring affair presumably it was a proverbial snowball rolling down a hill gathering pace and size and shape one can imagine that by the time miranda richardson got contacted by her agent the conversation went along the lines of 'do you want to shoot a movie in dublin scripted by neil jordan michael caine and michael are already in ' this is a dull 'comedy' that sees michael caine and dylan moran try and pull off a well planned hustle where moran must imitate a london gangland boss whose arrival is imminent to collect a sizeable sum of cash from local kingpin michael the rest is simply a forgettable romp that is thankfully over quite quickly moran is mildly amusing in places but on this evidence is better suited to life on the small screen in hit comedies such as black books caine is unchallenged in his role and gives a steady performance without being overstretched one can only imagine what made him sign up for this movie it can't even have been a summer in dublin given that many of the scenes look positively autumnal in the background actually steals the show and anyone who has caught some of his performances in the likes of have i got news for you will know that he is a wonderfully funny man but overall the result is disappointing and it seems a lifetime ago that neil jordan was making quality movies of the likes of mona lisa
0	in following dylan moran's star from the charming misanthrope bookstore owner in the surrealist sitcom black books i could see his comic potential begging to be utilised in theater or larger cinematic avenues this first big screen outing in a starring role he had a cameo as rufus the thief in notting hill had oodles of promise but like the strained steve coogan vehicle the parole officer has too many which should have been ironed out in preproduction br br the plot is so convoluted that i shan't bother repeating the finer details the script has every character do that for us and the laughs are sourced from show business in jokes michael caine is a pompous has been running a production of richard iii updated to nazi occupation one of the few genuine laughs a satirical jab at ian mckellen in which everyone is forever doing the hitler salute every time they take the stage convincing dylan that acting should be a conceptual act unto itself the two plot to steal money from some fairly harmless gangsters by way of their acting prowess confusion ensues both on screen and in the audience there's a romantic sub plot between dylan and the daughter of one of the gangsters blah blah blah and dylan gets to dress in odd clothes and do funny accents michael caine delivers some choice lines and dylan's comic timing is on the money so why isn't it any good it does have a certain charm that you would expect from film 4 but it also has a precocious little girl acting as compass in a muddled and irrelevant plot a no no in screen writing 101 exposition overshadows everything else you just want to see moran and caine acting as comic foil to each other the way the were at the beginning but when they're together toward the end the the pairing has lost its charisma br br the actors is an amusing albeit underwhelming effort should it come on telly during a rainy tuesday afternoon then have at you otherwise you would be better off watching your old black books videos or renting withnail i
0	when i say worse i mean less entertaining todd sheets seems to have learned some stupid camera tricks since the last zombie bloodbath which makes the movie even less tolerable in the last movie there were no special camera effects where in this one we are treated to shaky cam and constant switching to black and white also this is called zombie bloodbath despite the fact that the zombies are barely in this one the movie starts in 1945 where some satanists kill a violent burglar and put him up as a scarecrow back in modern time some kids have a car problem and go to a house the same house in which the satanist murder happened some mean people try to rape the kids or something and they bring the scarecrow burglar back to life who comes back with some zombies and now talks like darth vader mr sheets amped up the language and lessened the violence if you want to see what a bad movie is check this out br br my rating bomb 96 mins not rated contains violence and language
0	jerry angell owner of zombie horror's finest mullet returns for more undead action in the sequel to director todd sheets' atrocious home made gore fest zombie bloodbath this time around jerry plays a sleazy low life thug who along with his equally despicable partner in crime some escaped convicts several teenagers and a bunch of screaming girls comes face to face with a horde of shambling flesh eating corpses br br obviously having learnt zilch about improving his craft in the two years since zombie bloodbath sheets delivers another shoddy mess of a film that somehow manages to be even worse than the feat that i thought was almost impossible to achieve the acting is uniformly lousy the effects amateurish and cheap most of the gore appears to be nothing more than a selection of offal and blood from the local butcher's shop the story incomprehensible as far as i could fathom the zombies rise from the dead because a scarecrow commands them to and the direction frustratingly laden with cheap looking video effects and completely meaningless cuts to black and white br br and as if that wasn't enough to convince you of this film's complete lack of redeeming features the simply mind bogglingly moronic ending should do the trick the few remaining survivors stumble upon an abandoned truck that conveniently happens to have a stash of flesh eating bacteria laying on its passenger the thing for dissolving the undead but strangely enough not at all detrimental to the living
0	a group of teens have their car break down in the middle of nowhere they seek shelter in a farmhouse but three murderous convicts are there killing the owner of said farmhouse and his family one of them accidentally brings zombies around by knocking over a scarecrow cue blood gore carnage bad acting better than the first but only by default i still wouldn't wish it on my arch enemy bob in the end the filmmaker wants it to be a parable about how we us americans are killing and our forests huh ok whatever buddy dude i'd rather chop down forests then have my braincells diminish and my grey matter leak out of my ears in other words become a simple minded idiot liberal br br my grade d
0	don't get me wrong i really love the arena martial arts genre and i get more and more surprised over how many films like this there are out there this one is one of those and it's not even close to be one of the best with mathias hues in it i thought it would be good he can't save this movie though and to be honest he wasn't very good either just don't pay attention to what other people say the fighting scenes in this movie are not good at all i really know what i'm talking about since i have seen so many movies like this there are also a bunch of scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with the plot whatsoever i guess they added these only to make the movie last a little bit longer in addition to manifest the bad guy as bad like we didn't know that already
0	wow this movie is almost too bad for words obviously the writers wanted to somehow link this to the ghoulies franchise so they got pete from the first one to reprise his role as jonathan only now he's a cop and has no similar character traits as he did in the first one the ghoulies in this one aren't the ghoulies from the last ones the cheap looking puppets have been replaced with even cheaper looking costumed little people instead of being any main antagonist or being evil they are more like the comic relief characters that appeared out of nowhere for no reason br br when watching this film for the first time it felt like i'd seen it before why was this because everything in this was stolen from another movie all the cheesy cop lines and action scenes were from lethal weapon the ghoulies were pretty much like bugs bunny and daffy duck except they weren't amusing at all even scenes from the original ghoulies film were sprinkled throughout this flick br br i think the target audience was supposed to be adults but the mixture of black magic cartoon slapstick cop drama and bad acting doesn't work at all i hope they don't make a ghoulies v because i don't want a movie studio to lose their money br br my rating bomb 78 mins r for violence
0	they do each sequel is worst you who think that ghoulies 2 or 3 need a 1 please watch this sequel you'll be wondering with the first three parts then you'll give a 10 to the first 8 to the second and 5 or 6 to the other that's because ghoulies 4 really gets the big 1 from me it does
0	this movie was so horrible i want to beat the hell out of who ever made this movie i was a original fan of all the ghoulies movies but when i seen this i just began to cry i could not handle it there are not even ne ghoulies in it like the original creative monsters this is so friggen cheap i come on a witch thats bull crap no one wants to see the witch they wanted to see what the movie is about ghoulies i am i right or what thats y we watched the other ones now we have to actually put up with this horrible storyline this makes me want to eat my own poop after spaghetti monday
0	ghoulies iv starts in a museum storage facility where pvc leather clad blonde alexandra stacie randall is looking for a ancient jewel after offing various guards she summon the demon faust who she worships wants to have sex with unfortunately she lost the jewel so he's not very happy orders her to get the last remaining one which belongs to jonathan graves returning from the original ghoulies 1985 peter who is experienced in demonic possession stuff like that after the events of the original ghoulies alexandra sets about finding the jewel so she can bring faust to earth permanently from the 'other side' to well i don't know actually erm that's about it really br br directed by jim wynorski whose very name name sends shivers down my spine when it's attached to a film i'm about to waste 90 minutes of my life on iv is as i expected complete total utter crap from start to finish it's as simple straight forward as that the ahem cough by mark has virtually nothing in common with the other ghoulies film except in it's title that they managed to convince to reprise his role which also has the added bonus of big able to use footage from the original even though it has no relevance whatsoever the story is almost none existent the whole film is a real chore to watch it's incredibly boring moronic it's slow it's predictable it's squeaky clean as far as blood or gore goes it has two comic relief goblins whom i assume are supposed to fill the ghoulies quota even though they look nothing like they did in the previous films are in fact just embarrassing to watch in fact i think they were practising to be ventriloquist's during most of the film as when they speak their don't move you know i don't want to talk or think about ghoulies iv anymore so please believe me when i say this is one huge piece of crap of elephant sized proportions don't waste either your time or money br br wynorski turns in a throughly rotten film on just about every level the special effects are terrible as is the whole film apparently ghoulies iv is meant to be some sort of horror comedy but it misses both targets by the proverbial mile it is neither funny nor scary the best thing about this film is actress randall in her pvc leather outfit running around trying to find the jewel that's hardly worth sitting through this rubbish to see there's a half decent runaway car scene with a few crashes but it looks like it was edited in from a completely different film given track record i'm sure it was forget about any gore as there isn't any br br technically ghoulies iv sucks it's obvious it had low budget but that simply isn't an excuse for it to be this bad is it is back in the cast although he probably wishes he'd stayed away pvc clad babe randall is easily the best thing about this film which says a lot br br ghoulies iv is crap there's nothing else to say really i honestly can't see anyone who enjoy films getting anything out of this i just can't i can't believe that i'm going to recommend the original ghoulies over anything but it's going to happen now because even though that's crap as well it's a hell of a lot better than ghoulies iv one to avoid folks you can thank me later the things i sit through so you don't have to honestly
0	this is one of the worst movies ever made i can't believe how bad it was i was shocked at the awfulness of the ghoulies masks they are obviously halloween masks the mouths don't even move when they talk why did they feel the need to make the ghoulies comical and goofy whenever they do anything there seems to be this circus like music and overused bonk and noises when they hit people the bondage dominatrix lady is one of the worst actresses i have ever seen this movie is just bad the plot is nonexistent the mom from one tree hill is in this though and she has obviously had a nose job since this was made why did the main character from the first movie return to make this garbage bad bad bad movie
0	this is quite a bad movie but oh well this movie is at least not as lame as the third ghoulies movie br br yes this is a bad movie in terms of its writing directing acting and basically everything in between it has such a weak simple and ridicules story that besides has little to do with the previous ghoulies movie entries it tries to connect the movie with the first movie ghoulies from 1985 but then on the other hand if they really wanted to connect this movie with its predecessors then were are the ghoulies in this movie instead now we are having some small people played by tony cox and arturo gil dressed up as demons not that the ghoulies from the previous movies were any classic characters but they were nevertheless the heart and soul of the movie and also provided the movies with a certain amount of fun it's like having a gremlins movie without the gremlins br br the movie is not really interesting to watch because it lacks any tension good humor intriguing characters and basically everything else you can think off because it got put together by persons who obviously aren't the most talented ones within their business just like at director's jim wynorski resume with movies such as the witches of and its sequel alabama jones and the busty crusade house on hill scream queen hot tub party the bare wench project and the sequels the bare wench project 2 scared topless and the bare wench project 3 nymphs of mystery mountain and the da vinci coed on it br br yeah the movie is quite silly and campy but this is not really enough to boost this movie and gives it some more entertainment value you know it's the kind of cheap looking movie with some lame special effects costumes make up and actors nobody has heard of ever since br br still it isn't the worst movie out of the series because of the reason that ghoulies iii ghoulies go to college is by far a more worse movie since that one had some horrible lame attempts at humor this movie at least still does some attempts to be serious and professional one even though the end result is far from perfect br br bad movie making and perhaps only watchable for those who have seen the previous ghoulies entries br br 3 10
0	the only good thing about this film is they managed to tie it with part one but other than that it was one of the worst films ever the only time you see the ghoulies is in a flashback and the flashback is just clips from part one a must not see on a one to ten ghoulies 4 gets a one
0	all movies that contain goofy sound effects should be shot if there is one thing i hate it's gotta be the use of a whoop whoop whoo when somebody gets hit one the head the only movies i have seen to do this is ghoulies iv and hobgoblins when they are in the bar and pixie is hitting the guy in the red suit with a beer bottle or rather fanning him with a beer bottle because she never really hits him with it yes ghoulies iv does suck but i have to wonder did they mean to not make the so called ghoulies mouths move when they supposedly talked their faces are almost as static as the masks used in trolls 2 hell i can make a better mask out of construction paper some rubber cement and a handful of glitter this sucked
0	some things just won't stay dead they just have to keep coming back for more whether we like it or not i guess some people like to beat a dead horse the first 'ghoulies' was a surprise hit and it's first sequel was an even better film the third film took a more comical approach and by this point the little were starting to overstay their welcome i guess someone out there in hollywood thought it was a bright idea to resurrect the franchise but the outcome will likely disappoint fans of the previous entries br br pros the acting is actually pretty good for a movie like this a silly but fun score moves at an alright pace some cheese for those who love it some pretty good action packed sequences has a bit more plot than the others and unlike ii iii at least attempts to link itself with the original br br cons not nearly as much fun as it's predecessors though it has more plot than before it's a pretty ridiculous one poor effects the original ghoulies only appear in flashbacks and here they're replaced with two trolls who serve no purpose other than to be comic reliefs speaking of comedy all attempts at humor are lame is a direct sequel to the first film but there are so many loose ends for example i thought jonathan was done with black magic after what happened in the original not that it was spectacular in the others but this film's direction is especially bland br br final thoughts the first three 'ghoulies' movies are a bad movie lovers' dream this fourth and so far final sequel let's hope is a bit of a letdown sure there's some fun to be had but it just isn't the same the others are low budget too but the people involved put a lot more into them see if you're a completeist or you wanna see beautiful women in skimpy outfits otherwise just stick with the other three br br my rating 2 5
0	busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad bad ass bitch alexandra the faithful acolyte of faust an evil entity trapped in hell determined to free her master the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive troll like creatures called lite and dark br br now alexandra must find a replacement gem which isn't going to be easy the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover police detective jonathan graves peter who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of meanwhile wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home br br in the warped movie world of jim wynorski all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker ghoulies iv is no exception every woman in this she be a police captain a curator of antiquities or a mental patient in an hot hot hot and wears not a lot and it's this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable br br but be warned even though the presence of semi naked quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful the black humour as the dvd blurb describes it is about as funny as a knee to the knackers with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy and the special effects are bargain basement consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier br br 3 10 solely for the high bimbo quotient
0	i laughed so much when i saw this film i nearly soiled myself awful acting laughable effects super imposed explosions and dodgy slow motion fighting br br one of the worst films i've ever seen
0	i don't know why imdb lists all the ghoulies films as theatrical releases they were all straight to video films same with the puppet master series why hasn't anyone noticed this yet right somehow you've stumbled across ghoulies iv probably raiding through an old abandoned video rental store from 1993 you looked in the discount section and found this look at the back and front covers what do you expect the shawshank redemption there is no need to review this film so critically it is the fourth ghoulies film i bought it on dvd for 50 because it was 50 i knew it wasn't kubrick material and i was right an dvd with no extras not even a trailer boasts an for film br br it actually contains the star of the first ghoulies film peter who really didn't get many 'big' roles apart from those two films and i don't see why he's not too bad an actor and is pretty fun but i guess if you're gonna take a lead role in the ghoulies films scorsese and tarantino will lose interest also present is his idiot sidekick bobby di who despite having a very small resemblance to al pacino very small retains none of his acting ability a complete idiot who's just awkward to watch then there's stacie randall obviously a porn star i don't need to look that up she does look quite sexy though her costume her character and everything she does drags down the films credibility which is no easy task for such a film br br then there is the ghoulies themselves who also manage to let us down ghoulies iii made them start talking mistake no 1 but ghoulies iv takes it a step further instead of being puppets this time the ghoulies are in fact kids in costumes the filmmakers decided to run that extra mile to insult the films viewers also there's only two of them and they're not the main highlight of the film as they don't appear in a lot of it however at times they are mildly amusing and they're not evil this time either br br this really is hilariously bad stuff it's amazing that i was actually able to enjoy it i dunno why some of the black humour is actually funny though the script is mostly effortless imagine satan's only threat to you being that he will kill you slowly painfully br br but at least full moon had no involvement this time did they yeah a very bad and cheaply made film with 0 production value but not so bad as to be in the ranks of puppet master 1 2 lawnmower man 2 surviving christmas or even ghoulies iii
0	this movie is really stupid and very boring most of the time there are almost no ghoulies in it at all there is nothing good about this movie on any level just more bad actors pathetically attempting to make a movie so they can get enough money to eat avoid at all costs
0	just caught the rain people on turner classic movies late one night the film was released in 1969 shirley knight stars as natalie a long island housewife who exact reasons unknown leaves her husband and embarks on a road trip not knowing exactly where she is going natalie is also newly pregnant which complicates things along the way she picks up a brain damaged ex football player jimmy james caan who has been kicked out of his college and is hitchhiking there are many twists and turns along the way between these two as natalie struggles to take care of jimmy and she begins to realize he is mentally limited and cannot take care of himself she is going through her own struggles needless to say and in no position to care for him natalie appears to be a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown at times she makes some odd phone calls to her husband who begs her to come home natalie tries to dump jimmy several times only to have him re enter her life through circumstances a young robert duvall plays a strange and troubled cop who befriends natalie you get the sense all along that this film is going to end badly and it does this film is certainly uneven at times and the script is somewhat lacking francis ford coppola directed this and of course he would soon become immensely famous in the next few years for directing the godfather the actors are good ones needless to say as they all would have futures ahead of them in film shirley knight is the least known of the three although she is also underrated as an actor james caan is especially effective here and he seems to just inhabit this character this film remains little more than a curiosity now no doubt because it is an early movie of coppola's and i confess i had never heard of it so god bless turner classic movies for bringing it to a new audience
0	this is not a good film by an standards it is very poorly written and the acting is just a little above par some performances are well below par but swayze and grey do a very good job with little to work with br br what was good br br the dance sequences were choreographed very well and as stated above swayze and grey were high points br br what was bad br br the script the bad guys were simply too evil to be believable the best villains are the ones who aren't so obviously evil these guys the owner's nephew the waiter who impregnates the girl do and say nothing that would leave me to believe they could be real people perhaps there are guys like them but i sure don't want to see a movie about it br br another scene the first where grey and swayze meet when the employees at the resort are dancing swayze and grey dance together and seem to enjoy themselves the next time they meet swayze is hostile towards her why what happened in between to make him dislike her so when they danced well together br br and some of those lines i mean come on i cringed at the end when swayze muttered the line nobody puts baby in the corner how did he ever do that with a straight face br br another thing wrong the setting of the 1960's everyone looked and dressed like the 1980's who was in charge of the costumes and hairstyles br br the music original music for the film was laughable with the exception of i had the time of my life which was a good song br br not the worst film i've ever seen but definitely the most over rated
0	you know as you get older you somehow think the movies you did not like when you were younger might have been because of your youth and inexperience case in point when i saw the godfather at age 14 i thought it was boring 20 years later its an incredible movie to me in other words i grew up and began to appreciate great movies br br so i rented dirty dancing with my girlfriend last night on her request as she loved it at age 14 and i hated it at the same age but i hoped because i was young and stupid at age 14 perhaps this would be a new experience for me so i sat down with her to watch hoping to be enlightened br br well the night after watching dirty dancing i feel a violation i feel like someone reached into my soul and robbed me of 2 hours of my life from watching this cheese fest br br first patrick swayze plays a 20 year old but he looks like he is 35 and the premise of the movie is him seducing some underage teenager wooing her with his dance moves really creepy br br anyway the movie is the cliché plot where the wrong side of the tracks guy and the rich smart girl accidentally fall in love with each other of course their romance is fueled by the fact the rich girl can't dance a lick so the poor hero teaches her in a week to become an expert dancer for the big end of vacation show or something like that br br but you guessed it the disapproving father soon enters and forbids the two to see each other and the movie progresses to secret meetings of dance lessons and love making this all culminates into the final scene where the entire resort rallies around the two young lovers while the once antagonistic father accepts the 35 year old dancer as his teen daughter's new man br br even my girlfriend whimpered at the end of the movie as she admitted it was not anything like she remembered i didn't press her but i did smirk a little and put the godfather part ii in the dvd player
0	stripes an army training camp comedy starring bill murray and directed by ivan reitman is a favourite of mine meatballs a summer camp 'romp' starring bill murray and directed by ivan reitman is a complete waste of time it takes a considerable effort for four screenwriters to produce a movie the word 'comedy' a work with mirth as witless anaemic and boring as this br br murray evidently reached the same conclusion during filming but his usually reliable powers of improvisation escape him and his flailing attempts to inject life into proceedings just add to the embarrassment the it really doesn't matter chanting scene is excruciating it doesn't help that the supporting cast is bereft of talent the funniest thing about them is their hair but then meatballs was made in 1979 and introducing chris makepeace as rudy announce the opening credits no not the chris makepeace br br mercifully reitman rectified his mistake two years later for stripes murray's shtick is so much funnier when he's larking around with the likes of john candy warren oates and john larroquette ditch this and watch that
0	this might be for those who have been to summer camps but it sure isn't an entertaining camp i went to one before but it didn't make me scream up and down for joy instead it made my head hurt br br the first thing you notice is that bill murray actually had some hair in the 70s yeah and he also didn't mind running some but to get him to run a lot you would need to give him a woman to chase after br br its not that some of the stunts can't be funny for example the running joke with one of the councilors who is always waking up somewhere else due to the movement of his bed instead its that the jokes and stunts were poorly setup and executed it just failed to be funny br br to somebody who loves comedy this is a pain others are glued to it for life i wish it was more like leonard part 6 but it doesn't come close f
0	i live in mexico city so i have to suffer the trailers for every piece of trash that comes out from all these stupid mexican filmmakers you want to admire a mexican guy for making great films take a look at something by guillermo del toro specially the devil's backbone or maybe alfonso cuarón though i really don't like his films but i respect them br br mexican filmmakers often produce some of the most terrible utter trash ever por la libre el segundo aire american visa but this is one of the lowest points in mexican films ever if you respect your brain please avoid this piece of at all costs it would be more intelligent to watch some video of a wedding or to watch britney's reality show that's got more iq than everyone in this 'film'
0	i have seen tons of trash in every language about every topic and of every trend of film making from every period every director and any kind of budget available that said i really have to declare br br this is one of the three worst movies i have ever seen br br it's painfully bad it's pompous it's grim it's incomprehensible it's annoying it's a really bad mess it is a piece of you know what br br and what's more important it lacks a point and even if it had one the characters are so unreal and annoying that it's impossible to overlook the lack of cohesion of the whole thing br br it's just weird for the sake of being weird br br i actually felt sick watching this trash the theater where i saw it lincoln center in new york was full when it started by the end of it half of the audience had walked out there was a q a programmed at the end but nobody stayed with the exception of about two sickos everybody else ran for the door myself included br br save 2 hours of your life it's probably one of the worst ever done br br if there is a movie theater in hell this movie will be playing 24 7 for eternity
0	de un combines the worst defects of mexican cinema a rare feat nowadays br br it's pretentious it wants us to believe that it is deep only because some scene is out of focus another is pseudo surreal yet another plays with the eisenstein tradition of laughing crying faces the edition is fragmented and it is all so solemn br br it has a weak script the main story hardly develops so it has other three smaller needless stories stuck into it they are only good to make the film last longer br br most of the acting is bad a true feat baring in mind that many of the best known mexican actors were cast br br there is an abuse of foul language to the point that the character of who symbolizes the dreams of freedom of a child uses it throughly br br it is homophobic the character played by eduardo is the sorriest and most punished representation of a transexual i have ever seen br br it is very boring i ended up envying the people that left the theater before the end of the film br br whatever it tries it has been done better in mexico and elsewhere br br in other words para la madre nada como una mala
0	and i still don't know where the hell this movie is going i mean really what is this movie about is it about demonstrating sean connery's complete lack of arabic is it about showing that if he could play the role of a moroccan warlord then he was a natural to play the role of ramirez in highlander why was teddy roosevelt even in this movie why was there so much sand that was put to so little use where was there so much table slapping why did teddy ignore the japanese guy who he was shooting archery with did he realize the man was japanese why was no no credible excuse given for connery's accent at least jean claude van damme has an excuse for his french accent whether it be being raised by french nuns in hong kong double impact being raised on the bayou in louisiana universal soldier or having a french mother and being raised in indochina i cannot even remember the name of that movie can anyone explain this
0	apart from the da james and a brief appearing woman who is convincingly sympathetic to ellen renee zellweger plight ellen herself is the only convincing character and likable character in the movie she is the one not her dying mother who should be and is the one true thing it's not only in the role in acting but also in the plot itself until the plot turns against itself and makes the mother the one true thing in the eyes of her weak willed shallow husband who can do nothing right for his wife or daughter the daughter perceives what the viewer perceives but such intelligent perceptions must give way to the shallow sentiment of the husband who is blanked out on both the realities of his wife and daughter br br to boot the one powerful scene in this whole movie when ellen confronts her father's cruelty is given the lie at the end ellen is just another young strong woman who must be tamed into conformity by a crybaby father a very flawed movie so flawed as to be called a bore and not worth the time
0	what really amazed me about this film was that it ringed so false first of all who in the late 80's when the film takes place lived like this family a college professor wouldn't make enough money to support the lifestyle i saw on the film hence he and his stay home wife would be plagued by financial woes especially when she gets cancer second streep is my age and most women particularly in her class educated white well off experienced the feminist movement yet this woman seems oblivious to her anachronistic behavior i actually felt that she was a very controlling woman who kept her husband an emotional child by taking care of his every need br br the fact that so many people were moved by the film is amazing i have admired carl franklin's films in the past and i actually like meryl streep but gad what a manipulative and lying film this is
0	unlike terms of endearment and steel i left the movie theater feeling very disappointed i started to get into the characters and their complex mother daughter and father daughter relationships at the beginning i even cried but i had no sympathy for the characters with the ending the final act did not seem in line with the mother's character at all so although the acting was pretty good i thought the movie on a whole was disappointing
0	i appear to be in the minority on this one but i found one true thing to be schmaltzy contrived and generally unpleasant not that the acting was all that bad but the characters seemed little more than archetypes the bad father oh but wait maybe he's not unredeemably bad maybe there can be a resolution at the end admittedly the woman i was with loved the movie so maybe you'll like it but i didn't
0	one true thing may have seemed like a horror movie to the yuppies of the 80's but it doesn't ring true today unless you happen to be part of a pampered upper middle class family which is so insulated from the world that it has never tasted suffering br br avoid this shallow flop
0	although inevitably linked to the 70's decade the concept of exploitation cinema is actually nearly as old as cinema itself moreover universal studios practically invented the term with their long running monster cycles dracula frankenstein the wolf man and the mummy every original classic spawned a couple of sequels at least and after a while they even thought up the idea of making genuine monster house of frankenstein released one year earlier and also directed by c was quite a successful effort with interesting ideas and enthusiast performances but house of dracula is a little too loony for me to recommend it the plot suffers too much from extremely irritating situations forced twists dialogs and – most of all – a far too short running time to elaborate the monsters' personalities like they deserve onslow stevens doesn't receive top billing but plays the most fundamental role as miracle a doctor who's challenged to cure count dracula carradine from his incontrollable thirst for blood and fix lawrence illness of mutating into a hairy wolf man whenever the moon is full during a nightly walk in some caves they also pick up the remainders of frankenstein's monster and the good doctor himself eventually undergoes a jekyll hyde metamorphosis due to a bad blood transfusion the last invitation to the messy party is a female hunchback though not of the notre dame something is very wrong when you're watching a movie that is literally stuffed with horror icons yet the only character in the whole movie that is able to freak you out is an ordinary villager going by the name siegfried the actual monsters are dull and their once fabulous backgrounds are fully drained count dracula is a whining talbot is a pitiable and also whining old martyr and the frankenstein creation … well his share in the plot isn't even worth mentioning there's a serious lack of atmospheric settings and nifty photography in this universal film especially compared to all their other efforts and the abrupt climax is a disaster
0	okay the title house of frankenstein was a reference to a line from the original frankenstein movie when they follow it up with a movie entitled house of dracula which makes no real sense you know that it's just beginning to turn into a franchise br br without explanation dracula is back and he's calling himself baron he infiltrates the home of a doctor with the claim that he is seeking a cure for his vampirism has a hunchback nurse who assists him what is it with hunchback assistants in these movies but what dracula is really interested in is his other more beautiful assistant at this point larry wolf man talbot returns again no explanation given and just happens to be seeking the same doctor for a cure to his lycanthropy and then he just happens to fall into a cave in which plants can be grown to help him which also just so happens to contain the frankenstein monster dear god when will it end sure the other universal monster sequels were silly but this is just ridiculous br br first the good stuff there are some great settings and the vampire bat effects are slightly better than usual some of the other effects are pretty neat too john carradine isn't bad as dracula once you get used to him but still nothing like as brilliant as lugosi was in my opinion onslow stevens plays a much better vampire in this movie although he has exactly the opposite problem to carradine all of the creepiness and none of the class none of the performances are that great but it's more due to the atrocious script than anything else the female parts are particularly badly written but stupid as it is it remains reasonably entertaining for the most part the best thing about it is it's short length br br now the bad stuff it's not creepy it's poorly written and it doesn't work i was hoping the three monsters would begin some kind of a supernatural struggle for power but it doesn't happen the focus is almost entirely on dracula who isn't particularly well portrayed on the other hand this is the only movie in which dracula infects another man but it is done via a blood transfusion rather than a bite as universal were always uncomfortable with the possible homosexual subtext larry talbot is decent as always as the wolf man but he plays a comparatively small part once again the part of frankenstein's monster is reduced to the anti climatic closing moments for god's sake glenn strange was fantastic as the creature why not give him more screen time it's unfortunate that the series had to end on this note not counting the classic comedy abbott costello meet frankenstein in the end it just fizzled in the sunlight and died much like dracula himself
0	i watched this film when i was a kid and i thought it was terrible then now that i'm older i found it just as terrible universal could have done better than this they merely decided to make the most money they could out of using all their monsters at once to me that was a cheap shot these characters were capable of holding their own in their own movies and the choice of actors was deplorable dracula needed to be bela lugosi frankenstein's monster needed to be karloff br br in my mind it was the disney squalid sequel sequence done decades ago and it was not appreciated started out with something great and original and then thought they could pander to the masses with the schlock which is extremely evident in this film
0	it's proof that movie makers and their financiers treating their audience with contempt isn't a new phenomena as it was done as early as the 1940s and house of dracula is a great example you'd think having a film with dracula the wolf man and frankenstein's monster the producer would dictate to the screenwriter to have all three appear in a scene they had a chance with house of frankenstein then when they had a second bite of the cherry they blew it again with house of dracula to lose one chance is a misfortune to lose two smacks of cynical money making br br it's obvious the producers are beyond caring larry talbot turns up again even though he was shown to die in the previous film which sums up the cynicism of the franchise it also shows what a poor screenplay it is and we're mistreated to some awful plot turns like condition being cured by a special type of plant which will soften his skull i'm thinking screenwriter edward t lowe might have had his skull softened if this is the type of stuff he comes up with br br director erie c can't improve on the script and throws in a few of his own for example talbot is startled to see dr snatch a lift on a cart but nonchalantly watches climb a wall and jump in to the château courtyard one can't help thinking reaction shots were mistakenly switched round at the editing stage br br lon chaney jnr is famous for his roles in horror movies but didn't have much of a career outside them perhaps that's down to the fact he's not a good actor and here he commits the worst type of acting being very wooden it's not entirely his fault though because all the characters spout rather awful dialogue and are all rather wooden due in part to lackluster directing br br house of dracula feels a million miles away from james whale 1931 film and its sequel from 1935 and would have been a very sad note to end on but ironically universal decided to make one more movie to wrap up their franchise with a horror comedy starring abbot and costello
0	i've been a classic horror fan my entire life many nights stretched until the early hours of the morning watching the universal films on horror incorporated and creature feature night sadly i viewed this film in the early evening and yet it still almost put me to sleep br br i don't think i've ever seen a horror picture where everything was so matter of fact dr doesn't seem to believe in the supernatural yet before long he's medically treating dracula and watching larry talbot change into the wolfman while hardly blinking an eye he and talbot discover the frankenstein monster like it's an everyday occurrence is all fired up to bring the monster back to life but after talbot and nina protest he's like aww you're right no big deal after realizing dracula's treachery he opens the count's coffin to sunlight and poof he's gone just like that br br the only person who didn't appear to just be phoning in her lines was jane adams as nina her reward is getting bounced off the hump in her back into a pit by the frankenstein monster at the end of the film and no one even tries to rescue her she dr and the monster all perish while talbot and casually leave the castle br br definitely the low point for universal during it's classic horror years
0	luscious candace bergen as a prim victorian beauty kidnapped by sean connery as a devilish desert how can you go wrong how oh let me count the ways earthy primitive sean connery exactly the right man to tame a brittle classy beauty like candace is well underwhelming in the role that's because instead of having dialog about the real issues you are a woman i am a man he has to babble nonsense about the will of allah and the wind blows destiny across the desert sands john milius a director known more for the worship of naked male bodies and brute military force than any insight or interest in conventional human relationships has a maddening way of cutting away from his desert lovers every time it looks like candace might get kissed instead of watching nature take its course with two fabulously attractive people in a picturesque landscape we are treated to endless and i do mean endless shots of brian keith flashing his walrus sized choppers and delivering gritty sermons on the joys of being teddy roosevelt i have nothing against teddy roosevelt but watching him test out his new rifle or make speeches about the heroic death of a big bear just doesn't excite me the way the love story between candace bergen and sean connery would have if it had ever actually gotten underway the weird thing is milius spends most of his time building up characters and story lines that have no resolution two little children in the story both get more screen time than she does there's no humor no chemistry no sizzle in any of the things that happen to her in the desert unless you think it's funny that after weeks of galloping around on horseback her hair is still perfect br br the only real moment in the story is when late at night candace bergen shakes her little daughter out of a sound sleep on soft cushions and says we must escape the little girl turns over and without missing a beat replies but mother i was sleeping that one line sums up what's really missing from the story no danger suspense or sizzle in the basic story line of a cultivated lady in captivity she and her children are both so snug and well cared for that it's hard to believe anyone is worked up about their fate br br mind you if candace herself had said the line it might have worked better if the tension came from her enjoyment of her captivity or her delight at being in the arms of sean connery and her guilt about all the trouble being caused by her abduction then the story would have had some tension but milius makes the odd assumption that the audience is just as worked up as he is over whether teddy roosevelt will get the chance to prove his manhood three thousand miles away in the end the pretty lady and her children don't seem to matter worth a damn to him and since they're at the center of the story the whole thing seems rather dry and endless like the burning desert sands
0	i have not figured out what the chosen title has to do with the movie this is another gathering of monsters just like the house of frankenstein not exactly a masterful plot but universal needed to capitalize again br br dr edelman onslow stevens is either very ambitious or over the top in the ego department he is working on the cure to keep larry talbot from turning into the wolf man somehow count dracula happens to drop by to get a fix on his vampirism and rounding out the good doctor's experiments is the restoring of the frankenstein monster's energy along the way the kind hearted doctor's blood is tainted with that of dracula br br john carradine plays dracula again this time he is more convincing lon chaney jr as usual is the soulful wolf man glenn strange is the frankenstein monster who has very little to do this outing also with roles are lionel atwill and martha
0	i guess the previous house movie was a hit prompting universal to wring a few more drops from the monster cash cow the creative team must've been in a recycling mood starting with the opening theme lifted from 'son of frankenstein' and some of the stock footage dispersed through the film like one unintentionally funny bit of business where footage of glenn strange as the monster is mixed with clips of karloff from 1935's bride and compared to how robotic strange moved karloff seems to move like a cheetah in comparison br br previous film continuity is thrown by the wayside concerning the miraculous death cheating abilities of the wolf man and dracula but when dr larry talbot discover frankenstein's monster with the skeleton representing boris karloff edward t lowe does at least acknowledge some of the past movie history though talbot curiously never mentions having met karloff's dr niemann br br since this was to be the last of universal's horror cycle the supernatural elements of the wolf man and drac get unconvincingly morphed into medical ailments drac is told he suffers from a blood disease a very rare sickness that allows him to transform into a bat or evaporate if sunlight touches him and larry talbot just has a little pressure on the brain of course all of this is painstakingly explained with a of medical jargon being related in many scenes throughout this proves to be the biggest hindrance as somewhere along the way the filmmakers seem to forget about actual horror or entertainment in favor of giving the monsters conditions that seem as as a flu br br as a huge fan of the old universal horrors it's rare that i feel so bored while watching one the whole thing just feels like a movie that was made just because it could be but if this mess hadn't been slapped together the monsters might never have met abbott and costello so i guess some good came of this
0	i'm not picky with movies oh i've seen so much crap i could watch anything maybe that was the reason i watched this one to the end im big fan of rpg games too but this movie its a disgrace to any self respecting there is the security camera footage of a game play would make it feel more realistic than this movie does the lines the cuts the audio everything is wrong in some scenes you can see that it was filmed in some photo when spoilers ahead people running around does not disturb people sitting near computers i mean would you continue your work if you got ninjas around you oh and the jokes about pirates that's the worst one yet in movies spoilers end at least first one felt like a documentary now it looks like someones home video experiment you can find better movies at youtube top line don't waste your time and money on this one its as bad as it comes
0	i can't believe they do this kind of filth out of a serious theme totally unrealistic they seemed to want it to be highly realistic but all the elements are based on clichés real propaganda stuff after seeing this an addict probably just want to continue his her career i gave it 2
0	yes this bizarre feature was written by john sayles shot in toronto it's yet another '80s era feature about the dangers of the urban jungle where the police fear to go and the homeless and the criminal classes are the only inhabitants into this mix comes the myth of wild thing a feral young man raised by a bag lady after his parents were murdered by a dirty cop on the take maury chaykin and chopper the local crime lord robert davi stir in the local do gooders priest sean hewitt and clueless social worker kathleen quinlan and you have a recipe for some rather unexciting action sequences davi is the standout amongst the cast and cinematographer rene does a pretty good job otherwise this is a rather lumpen action pic that won't satisfy action fans and will leaves admirers slack jawed
0	whereas the movie was beautifully shot and reasonably well acted the script was dull plodding and nothing we have not seen before not once in this film did i ever get the feeling that these people were really in danger no noticeable climax and a very standard resolution i believe these type of movies have been overdone and should be given a rest after all didn't everyone on the planet see schindler's list
0	i watched the version with pathetic american over dubs maybe this made it much worse but from what i could make out the film was pretty bad anyway it seemed low budget the visuals reminded me of a second rate tv movie random white dog substituted for embarrassing 60's bbc costumes etc mainly though i feel like the characters in the movie did not behave anything like the characters in the comic and as a result i never felt willing to even try to forgive the poor look of the film it is always going to be hard to capture the feel of the comics in a film without using animation and i didn't feel this attempt was worth it ultimately
0	god did i hate this movie i saw it at a sneak preview 13 years ago and i still have bad flashbacks it was without a doubt the worst movie i ever paid to see it was badly written badly directed and surprisingly considering the cast badly acted i would rather be thrown off a rooftop onto razor sharp spikes and then have my skin peeled off than to sit through it again can you guess i didn't enjoy it
0	a very carelessly written film poor character and idea development the silly plot and weak acting by just about the ensemble cast didn't help seriously watching this movie will not make you smile it may make you retch
0	what a frustrating movie a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark hidden beneath placid surfaces as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows this does none of that instead the writers settled for cutesy cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama the thing looks like a made for tv movie and was directed with no particular distinction but it's hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting br br the most frustrating aspect though is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this well there's no other word for it drivel a tragic waste of talent in particular that of the great stockard channing
0	in 1904 tangier a wealthy american woman and her two children are kidnapped by murderous desert pirates who scorn the moroccan government and by doing so kidnap american pestilence which attracts the attention of u s president theodore roosevelt fictitious historical epic is less a grand adventure than it is a peculiar somewhat exhaustive throwback to the desert sheik films of the 1940s with a bit of the king and i interjected besides portraying the cloaked mustachioed bloodthirsty leader and his snippy haughty captive sean connery and candice bergen could be acting in two entirely different movies neither one seems to know how far to carry the camp elements of their characters and dialogue and both seem singularly without proper direction the various and anonymous slashings and beheadings which occur are arbitrary we don't know any of these victims and the big action scenes become blurry noisy montages of sand swept violence on horseback the pluses a much lauded music score by jerry goldsmith oscar nominated but a loser to john williams' jaws fine location shooting and cinematography 1 2 from
0	bloody birthday opens to a shot of meadowvale general hospital there three babies are being born at precisely the same time during a total eclipse a caption informs us that it is now california june 1 two teenage lovers duke benson ben marley and annie smith erica hope are getting down to business in an open grave they hear noises and duke investigates both duke and annie are murdered sheriff jim brody bert kramer is baffled and only has the handle of a child's skipping rope that annie was holding as a clue unfortunately before sheriff brody can solve the case his youngest daughter debbie elizabeth hoy and two of her friends curtis taylor billy jayne as billy jacoby and steven andy freeman murder him just as they are finishing sheriff brody off another young boy from their class named timmy russel k c martel turns up the three killers are unaware of how much he saw soon after the incident timmy plays with steven and curtis in a junkyard curtis locks timmy into an old locker timmy manages to escape and tell his sister joyce lori but she doesn't believe him at first the three children carry on their murder spree their strict teacher miss davis susan strasberg a lovemaking couple john avery and sylvia wright in a van and debbie's older sister beverly julie brown are among their victims joyce begins to have her suspicions about debbie curtis and steven which makes her and timmy a target for the evil trio will they be able to convince the authorities that these three innocent looking 10 year olds are really soulless killers br br co written and directed by ed hunt i have an intense dislike for this film i think it's absolutely awful and doesn't have a single enjoyable aspect to it's 83 minute running time the script by hunt and barry pearson gives us no explanation for the child killers motives beyond the solar eclipse that blocks out saturn and therefore for some bizarre astrological reason these three children don't have any conscience so these are the only children ever born during a total eclipse if that is true why do they wait until just before their tenth before starting their killing spree i guess it just suddenly kicks in right to it's credit it is reasonably well paced but i still found it incredibly boring and tedious to sit through the film as a whole is very unexciting and predictable the children are revealed as the killers within the first 10 minutes and as i've mentioned next to no motive is given it's very silly at times too check out the scene where debbie stops steven by throwing a bowl of water over him the sheriff's death is put down to him falling down some steps yeah right the injuries suffered from that type of accident aren't going to be the same as if your beaten to death with a baseball bat like he was in reality any competent doctor or pathologist would have spotted that within 5 seconds there isn't a single drop of blood spilt in the entire film and all of the lame killings are dull and unimaginative there is some out of place looking nudity as debbie charges to let boys peek through a hole while her sister beverly strips there is an early scene just after the 5 minute mark when joyce walks from the kitchen to the living room and the boom mike is clearly visible at the top of the screen not even a little bit of it the whole damn thing the general incompetence continues throughout the film the whole production is bland and instantly forgettable the acting is poor throughout those three kids are very annoying and got on my nerves right from the start and made sitting through this film even more of a chore especially curtis in his geeky over sized glasses i just hate this film really simple as that i can't think of a single good thing to say about it definitely one to avoid
0	this was one of christie's later stories throughout her long career she was interested in the shifting narrative and the notion of conflicting agents both are essentially the same thing and boil down to questions of who it is that controls or creates the situation br br in detective fiction the game is a matter of conflicting realities the murderer intends to change reality to fool the detective the writer intends to do the same to the reader both the reader and the detective are in similar battles to create what they see that's why her stories often include a writer br br in her works she explores every combination of tricks she can think of that deal with this along the way we often have bodies that are not who they seem and times and intended victims and such but the real magic of the books is this notion of control in it was literally a building br br here it is a dead man well sometimes that happens but not like this it is as if the writer were the famous mr this is particularly sweet to marple readers who remember this same character from the mystery ' which in a way was also framed by her nephew in that story was the conveyor of the story to the authorities br br the producers of this series have an almost wacky commitment to using a different creative team on each one sometimes it produces bland work the episode was rather brilliantly staged this one is the most lavish of the lot and has an active camera but unlike the work it has nothing to do with the story br br the camera moves and captures merely because it can the 'citizen kane' quote at the beginning was a little too literal and blunt this story is good but the adapter took out some pretty critical stuff and that irrelevant camera annoys br br ted's evaluation 2 of 3 has some interesting elements
0	sorry this was a woeful excuse for a film a plot line so holey it resembled a block of swiss cheese and a butch of characters who seemed to me to be utterly devoid of inter personal relations well except of course for carlyle and lee miller who i could have sworn were meant to be in love unlike the union of tyler and miller who were for the most part like the rest of the film utterly unconvincing although the end product was and amusing for all the wrong reasons the production values were high and deserve some acknowledgement but unfortunately the end result was rubbish what was everyone involved thinking they definitely should have packed up early on this one
0	if you have few expectations then this will entertain for 90 minutes my problem is that they've dumbed down this tale for the modern audience are already sexy exciting characters they don t need the techno soundtrack and snappy dialogue
0	and are two that rob from the rich in order to give to well the rich comparatively they are the rich but we know they're the good guys because the chap behind the forces of law and order a mr chance is just so evil he rapes women or tries to he beats up his underlings he commits murder he has bad breath he doesn't shave properly he has no fashion sense he tortures puppy dogs that last one is just an inference of mine we don't actually see him torture puppy dogs but i'm sure he does little of chance's villainy has much to do with his pursuit of and it's just something he does in his spare time a kind of a hobby he takes up to make absolutely certain that we don't like him he needn't have tried so hard no one in this film is likeable br br let's take stock appealing characters there aren't any i believe we've covered that swashbuckling not a swash instead we have a kind of grimy heavy breathing dash sparkle vigour all gone the way of swashbuckling i'm afraid realism none of that either i think they were trying for realism since everyone was so filthy but the characters and action had all the plausibility of errol flynn with no sense of exhilaration to back them up beauty nope fine camera work for a tv crew perhaps humour you might giggle once or twice if you're in a benevolent mood then again you might not dialogue see humour' above music don't even get me started on the music the music in was by comparison uncannily apt and at least the misguided aesthetic of that score was a consistent one br br ugh i apologise to for even thinking about it in this context br br to sum up there's much positive badness here and nothing good unless you count liv tyler which i'm in two minds about doing br br i feel as though i've just written a review of the pox not very good ' the review says it would be much more interesting if i could somehow defend the pox to claim that critics of the pox have got it all wrong but i don't know how i'd go about doing that
0	if you need a clue as to whether is decent or not look to its star colin firth who refers to it in an interview as absolute rubbish i sincerely hope no one ever sees it br br the script and plot are ludicrous the female lead is unconvincing the only thing worthwhile is colin firth and he seems slightly embarrassed throughout br br for diehard firth fans only the shower scene alone is worth the 3 99 you might have to shell out should you find it in a video cutout bin like i did br br i'm happy for mr firth that his days of taking projects like this one are over
0	if it wasn't for colin firth the movie would be ready for the dust bin so so silly and so badly acted only colin firth as always shines through this mess as single light on the end of the tunnel br br the worst was jennifer rubin's acting for sure maybe it was because of this script did they actually have really written one or was it just made up on the way br br to cut a tooo long story short br br it is a must see only for colin firth fanatics like me since he is incredibly sexy and good acting struggling hard against this mentally challenged script these minutes of colin screen time make up a lot of this movie br br don't spend too much money on it though try to see or get it as cheap as possible an auction or something like that and then do stick to the colin firth scenes br br the rest of the movie might be dangerous for anyones mental health
0	did you ever watch a really bad movie and get mad about it even a movie you didn't have high expectations for well i just rented the movie dead line this is the us video title for now i have seen a lot of bad movies and watched a lot of b titles but this is in another league all its own it was put out on the asylum label and anyone that rents a lot of direct to video horror films knows this label when you rent one of there's you know what your getting a lot of marginal acting low budget horror but usually still pretty good not this one the acting by the three leads was beyond bad even fast forwarding couldn't help the tag line on the front of the box says in the tradition of depalma's body double the nerve to compare this to that classic movie the only true comment is the screams you will hear are real yea you will be the one screaming if you rent this
0	starts as unemployed martin sanders andres hears something strange on his phone he hears a mysterious man talking to a prostitute named diana arranging to meet her soon after martin reads a local paper sees the front page story about a prostitute being murdered thinks back to what he heard martin confides in his friends laura virginia lustig aaron oliver kolker but they don't believe him then shortly after the same thing happens again the phone call the man the prostitute her death reported in the papers martin decides he has to find the killer put a stop to his killing spree but who is it br br this argentinian production that was apparently shot in just eight days why so long on a budget of about 3 000 why so much was written directed by sergio i cannot believe some of the glowing comments has on the imdb out of 195 user ratings as i write this of them rate this pile of crap 10 out of 10 i am sorry but there is no way anyone should be giving a film this bad a quite literally perfect score of 10 out of 10 if a score for a film on imdb is fixed then this is it i honestly don't believe that if you showed to 195 average people that well over 100 of them would rate it as being absolutely perfect no way on earth the user comments are also amazingly positive all by imdb users who have only wrote comments for one film this the one user besides me who has actually written more than one comment gave it a rock bottom 1 out of 10 which sounds just about right everyone is entitled to an opinion but i would stake my life on the fact most of those positive comments are from fake accounts set up purely to big this piece of crap up where do i start how on earth can i adequately describe how bad is the plot is a mess that basically lives or dies by it's terrible twists while most twists turn a plot on it's head alters the perspective of everything that has gone before in a clever relevant way are genuine surprises here in the twists destroy the first half of the film makes it utterly pointless in a 'it didn't actually happen' sort of way the twist is so poorly handled that it leaves you asking more questions than it answers what made martin go mad why did he imagine the phone calls why did he imagine a killer why did he imagine the newspaper headlines no explanation is given for martin's behaviour during the first hour or so of the film there's just this absurd revelation that it was all in his mind that's it that's all the exposition there is then there's a plot twist about martin's missing wife her lover before martin for reasons unexplained starts to kill his friends for no apparent reason i am sorry but is so bad it's so boring it's so badly written thought out that i honestly can't think of a positive thing to say about it sorry guy's but that's how i feel quite simply is one of the worst films i have ever seen is a complete mess both conceptually technically br br according to the imdb was hot in just eight days to be honest it doesn't feel like that at all nope it feels more like it was shot in five days the whole film is an eyesore has probably the worst nighttime shooting i have ever seen it's like no attempt was made to light the scenes it's like the makers just went into a dark room or basement or whatever just shoot the scene regardless of whether you could see anything the scenes set outside in the daytime have this horrible unnatural blue green tint to them for no apparent reason which just looks daft becomes increasingly irritating this strange tint is not repeated on indoor scenes so they are also quite jarring noticeable there's no real horror or scares in fact i would say is more of a thriller than a horror as far as gore goes there are two decapitated heads in a fridge a knife is stuck in someones mouth nothing else br br according to the imdb this had a budget of about 3 000 which makes one of the lowest budgeted films ever commercially released surely some people think just because a film is low budget all reasonable viewing standards should go out of the window we should accept any old crap wrong to watch this on dvd you will still have to pay good money i personally think we have the right to expect some sort of good product if this can get released praised like it's oscar worthy then we can all release our holiday camcorder footage including embarrassing karaoke footage scenes of total blackness as we forgot to take off the lens cap win top prizes at the next cannes film festival the acting is awful although the female lead virginia lustig is actually rather sexy helps ease the pain of the final twenty odd minutes as she features a fair bit br br is an absolutely terrible film seriously i beg you don't be fooled by all the fake positive comments there is no way anyone not involved in this or have some sort of agenda is going to give it a 9 or 10 out of 10 an amateurish mess that is truly horrible to sit through sorry but that's the way i see it sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind you have been warned
0	all i have to say is one word sucks the only reason i gave this a 2 is because josh hartnett was in it and he's cool should have beat that klein guys ass stupid dumb and brainless by the end of this movie you can't stand klein and you really don't care what happens to leelee hartnett was the only good thing about it
0	ho hum rich good looking kid gets in trouble poor girl falls in love with him jealous ex boyfriend causes tension yadda yadda i actually laughed out loud in many parts of this movie because the next scene was so predictable and just plain stupid as one scene moved on to the next i often found myself wondering just how we got there like i had skipped a few chapters in a book br br the script was pretty pitiful and didn't have me or my wife caring much about any of the characters except the jilted boyfriend now if the ex boyfriend had gotten an axe and hacked apart the girl and rich kid then then we would have a movie and all the stupid dialog and leaps in plot could be acceptable but since this movie attempts to be touching and totally misses the boat and ends up resorting to the romance equivalent of divine intervention to try and jerk a tear it just falls very very flat br br avoid this movie clip your toenails instead you will have more fun
0	let's not fool ourselves okay we all know that this film was made because of the success of the grumpy old men movies unlike those however this travesty has zero humor and very little heart br br gloria dehaven is the sole shining light to be seen it breaks my heart that she was finally given the chance to show off her skills to a new generation of moviegoers only to end up in a piece of dreck such as this there was a touching scene which featured her being stood up by someone she was falling in love with her fine performance was the only quality acting going on in out to sea everyone else is just going through the motions 2 10
0	i had been waiting eagerly to see this movie but when i finally got the chance i was very disappointed i had to stop half way or was it quarter way because of the poor script and directing not to mention the poor cast josh hartnett is the only one who can act and he's much more suitable to be the hero of the story br br well basically the story is just about a loose girl from the country who cheated on her long time decent boyfriend only to have meaningless sex with a spoiled rich brat this movie failed to draw my sympathy not even when the writer intended to i wonder where the moral values go br br the actors are so stiff that when i resume the movie few weeks after it was interrupted due to its boring nature they still failed to make me pay attention the spoiled couple can only disgust me what a movie br br i think all the people involved in this production need to sit down and review it together so that they won't make the same mistakes next time round and next time they might consider josh hartnett as the protagonist
0	well if you set aside the fact that this movie features abysmal acting and if you set aside the fact that the story is muddled and wanders off in about five different directions without ever deciding which way it really wants to go and if you set aside the fact that i didn't find a single scene in this movie that was remotely interesting well if you set all that aside this is still a really terrible movie br br i take it that this is supposed to be a love story about rich guy poor girl i never really understood for a moment how this romance between kelley chris klein and samantha leelee sobieski ever got started the inexplicable romance is made worse by a complete lack of chemistry between klein and sobieski the screenplay by michael is dull to the point of stupefying how managed to write the thing without falling asleep is a miracle that he would think anyone would want to pay to see this is unbelievable br br did i mention that this is a really really terrible movie br br i'd give it a zero but the imdb doesn't provide for votes of zero so i give it a one while holding my nose
0	one can always tell if i'm enjoying a movie by the number of times i cross my legs switch positions make slight rustling noises etc etc the lesser the better i moved so many times throughout this movie that i succeeded in knocking over my friends giant tub of popcorn and getting a huge thigh strengthening workout br br sobieski a young actress who at some points in a soldier's daughter never cries gave some promise for her thespian talents played poorly in a poorly written part depressing fact number one number two chris klein was in it depressing fact number three chris klein had lines number four chris klein played a valedictorian woah dummies from rich families unite even worse he actually tries to act but only succeeds in sounding like a mentally disabled in an increasingly sappy independent version of a b demille film go back to humping your american pies br br this movie was terrible in almost every sense save josh hartnett's mildly endearing performance as stiffed boyfriend jasper luckily he refrains from trying to have too many moments unlike all the other characters of course this is why he's much better than the rest and he actually shows some mettle here if you like josh or are thinking of casting a kid who knows a few things he's your man br br hartnett is a sharp actor but the rest need no further lambasting br br 2 out of 10 for poor hartnett in this terrible film br br
0	i rented this movie the other day b c i love romance stories but this has got to be the worst one i have ever seen in my life i find it hard to believe that sam would fall in love with kelley after they've said hardly no more than 2 words to each other when she has a great long time boyfriend who's devoted to her completely i thought kelley was a major jerk throughout the movie and he never changed at all the only good thing about the movie was josh hartnett i thought he did a wonderful acting job and i'm going to start watching more movies of his
0	i watched this on cable because i was a big leelee fan big mistake what a horrible film you don't care one bit for any of the characters in the movie chris klein plays a guy who is a complete jerk in the film and steals away josh hartnett's longtime girlfriend if the writer knew what they were doing this film would have followed the proven formula and made hartnett an ass and leelee as the girlfriend trapped in a bad relationship from which she's saved by klein but hartnett is a really cool guy who shows a lot of emotion and love for leelee br br you then hate leelee because she cheats on hartnett with klein who is a jerk to everyone in the town that's trying to help him and really stuck up br br it's also really campy and the characters do everything but run around the kitchen dancing and lip synching and using and spoons and fake microphones although they come very close br br what a horrible horrible movie you don't even care what happens in the end because the director never lets you care about the characters
0	i'm not sure why i disliked this film so much maybe i'm too old or too male or too something just who was the target audience here if you're it and you liked it then i'm happy for you personally i found it a bit of a pill the characters were uninteresting and unlikeable the script was just plain embarrassing and some though not all of the acting was uninspired mawkish tedious and occasionally nauseating surely there's something better on br br on a related issue why is it that whenever i see chris klein in a film i get an urge to slap him silly does anyone else get that
0	this comes close to the worst movie i've ever seen the writer starts you out in a way that you'll side with jasper josh hartnett when he did absolutely nothing wrong sam leelee leaves him for kelley chris klein in a way that leaves you mad at sam you aren't let in on what she feels so her feelings with kelley aren't real to you and their relationship is phony it drags you in either direction and it gets rather exhausting and annoying the only good thing about this movie that i saw was the cast br br
0	spoiler spoiler this movie stunk just let me say now that i totally agree with what had to say about this what was sam thinking she was with a guy who told her he loved her 3 times in total was extremely hot and stuck with her though her trying times josh hartnett but she decided to break up with him no cheat on him with a snobby ugly spoiled rich brat jerk loser who never said he loved her in the entire movie oh wait he wrote it on the wall does that count and left her in her time of need because he was scared chris loser klein who would you want to be with the only reason i sat through the entire movie was because it had josh hartnett in it and hoping that maybe she would die at the end i wanted jasper to get another girlfriend who was actually worthy of him the whole your mom thing was funny i enjoyed it i hate it when people around here say it but i think that kelley deserved it jasper should have said it to sam as well she needed a good slap how the romance started is a mystery to me they never said anything to each other anyway so i don't understand how they got together i was thinking about the cheese sandwich you gave me did it have mustard or or oh what a come on the supposedly romantic lines were so stupid plus he's ugly i must admit i did cry in this movie for a long time really hard not because she died but because she broke heart he cried in this movie so many times he tried to smile for her but he couldn't stop the tears he cried when 1 he told her he loved her 2 she got sick 3 chris klein came back and he saw how happy she was w him 4 she died i cried when he cried because he loved her her entire life and told her and yet she was dumb enough to not care and love a guy who left her in her time of need and who did not cry at the funeral 1 1 2 stars only because i love josh hartnett oh by the way chris klein your mom sis
0	life is too short to waste on two hours of hollywood nonsense like this unless you're a clueless 16 year old girl with no sense of reality and nothing better to do dull characters poor acting artificial emotion weak story slow pace and most important to this films flawed existence no one cares about the overly dramatic relationship
0	where to start where to start hmmm well how about some of the stiffest most unnatural unbelievable and camped up performances one can imagine how about stereotypical characters situations and locations or what about a manipulative cloying utterly wretched script i can't think of one element in this movie that was original worthy of watching or interesting br br note to all you josh hartnett chris klein leelee sobieski fans enjoy their collective fifteen minutes folks because they're not going to be famous much longer
0	i never heard of this film when it first came out it must have sunk immediately o i saw it on cable while sick in hospital so i hardly had enough energy to watch it let alone turn the channel better choice than the style channel 0 filmed on location this travelogue should have been on the travel channel the plot is recycled from ship board farces of the thirties and forties the cast seems to have been recycled from the fifties donald o'connor star of musicals and edward as a card shark as to the main cast walter matthau is still playing the same part as he did in guys and dolls or was it the one about the orphan girl irresponsible gambler and rounder but it just doesn't take with a man of his age as to jack lemmon he plays his part so straight he can hardly dip and glide when dancing and as mentioned dyan cannon is outstandingly attractive as another swindler sailing with her mother who thinks walter is rich while he thinks she is rich elaine plays mother another retread from the fifties the most fun is the running feud between brent spiner as the domineering and snotty cruise director who immediately spots walter as a poor dancer and spends his time trying to get him dismissed so he will have to pay for his free passage in the end though he receives his meanwhile jack mopes about meets an attractive woman with mutual attraction but their affair is broken up by walter's lies that jack is a doctor when he was actually a retired department store buyer but finally the two men take to the sea in a rubber boat to intercept her and all is well there does not seem to be any principal player under the age of fifty
0	rich vs poor big city vs small town white collar vs blue collar these things are not original themes in movies so when one chooses to involve these themes the situational story line had better be very original or very good this one was neither i never believed in the romance of the two young lovers in this movie neither convincing nor compelling it just fell flat don't bother even with a video rental
0	this was a sad waste of two such promising actors chris klein's character was unlikable from the start and never made an improvement what did she see in him he was rarely kind never thankful for what he does have and a coward pass this one by on the shelves you'll be glad you did
0	spoilers spoilers here on earth 2000 1 2 out of four br br mark here on earth holds the record for a movie containing the most recycled material in 96 minutes literally every contrivance cliché and familiar plot element are somewhere in here there is simply nothing unique original or fresh about it god what an agonizing motion picture to sit through i wish i saw the film during its theatrical release last year so it could have earned on my year's worst list this is the kind of movie where the story makes itself instantly obvious and goes downhill from the opening credits and worst of all takes itself seriously here on earth is clearly one of the most horrible painful movies to come down the pike in some time br br here on earth is a teen heartthrob film so it must contain some of hollywood's most prized young men who are attractive and inexperienced enough to accept a role in a movie as bad as this chris klein and josh hartnett fit that vary description and take the lead roles by storm klein plays kelley an arrogant and insolent student with a wealthy father cliché number one he is to graduate as the valedictorian and attend ivy league college following in the footsteps of his father stuart wilson this sets up the i don't want your life cliché in which the father tries to control his son's life while the son resists rebelliously throw in deceased mother who committed suicide a while back when his father brings home another woman he brutally questions his intentions the no one can replace mom cliché counts as number two br br josh hartnett plays jasper a character on the opposite side of society to kelley his family owns a local diner enter his long time love interest samantha cavanaugh leelee sobieski a waitress at the diner who covers for her sister who has no purpose whatsoever rather than controlling the following scene when jasper and kelley act like childish morons by racing their cars and oh no crashing into the diner causing it to erupt into flames conflicts between the rich and poor will count as cliché number three br br the bungled car chase sets both kelley and jasper up for a contrived and plausible conflict they get in trouble with the law but because this movie feels the need to exist the local judge orders them an alternative to serving time they must work together to help rebuild the diner br br the two boys work hard during the summer growing strong and getting a nice tan samantha's eye catches kelley and romantic sparks fly jasper is jealous but wants what is best for his true love cliché number four her parents annette o'toole and bruce greenwood disapprove of her little romantic triangle cliché number five but she continues two timing jasper without a second thought her father also happens to be the local sheriff how surprising lets count that melodramatic nugget cliché number six br br the contrived romantic feelings between kelley and samantha count as cliché number seven but samantha's relationship with jasper is never defined so how can there any romantic tension if the film is going to induce involvement in samantha's choice between the two young men then we need to see both characters from both sides the movie depicts jasper as a distraction to her rightful love kelley it's clear jasper truly loves her but it is also clear she does not love him back this absolutely slaughters the romantic tension early in the story br br leelee sobieski does no harm here however her charm and kind performance do not fit a two timing character like samantha john hartnett is also right for the role of jasper but the movie gives him nothing to do except bicker with kelley chris klein gets to make a hunk name for himself here he spends much of the movie shirtless sweaty and overworked unfortunately he does not show off his acting ability maybe because he has very little the supporting cast is much more talented bruce greenwood supplies the best performance in the film but does not have near enough screen time to save anything but a few brief moments i also enjoyed the performance by stuart wilson who perfectly fits the role of a rich controlling father of high social status br br then we lean about samantha's knee problem exactly one hour and ten minutes into the movie another spoiler ahead what is this she has a serious incurable illness yet another contrivance into the picture approximately number eight her terminal disease brings the two competing young men together as friends well at least i think that is what the movie intended to show that the loss of one loved by two nemeses can bring both together cliché number nine br br klein rehearses his valedictorian speech to demonstrate his character is more than a shallow stereotype but we have seen this so many times before i would prefer a rich character rather than a deeply sentimental who hides actual feelings cliché number um was it ten the conflicts between kelley and jasper are desperate and inane a your mom comment triggers a fist fight while they rebuild the establishment there is a retread from armageddon as samantha and kelley sprawl out in an open field horny as hell as he slowly moves his fingers around her body naming areas after us cities why not call that number eleven the movie uses alcohol as a means to increase the romantic tension an intoxicated kelley makes a fool of himself after getting in a fight with samantha's date jasper but the following day he recites desires only to dance cliché number oh no i am losing count
0	why did they have to waste money on this crap br br warning contains spoilers br br the plot down to earth good kind girl meets a rich snob ignorant guy her boyfriend gets jealous and with the guy they burn down a resturant over an ugly girl guy has to stay in town to build a new resturant perfect for the love story to begin but hark the girl is dying isn't that a surprise boys and girls but she teaches him love life and enjoy it he's sad she is dying she dies he is sad but has now learned to love life br br what's the moral of the story when dying teach another person to love life br br like every other love movie ever made br br aaaaah this movie was the thing i have ever seen did the director want to try to make this plot original aaah and the friggin' girl would not die it took her a half hour i felt no pity for the and the love story died the first hour of the movie br br 1 10 br br don't watch this movie unless you want to be bored or get a head ache
0	this comment may contain spoilers warning this does contain spoilers i have seen some pretty lame films in my day and that only stands to reason seeing as i see about 80 films a year i would have to say that out of those 80 films i see at the theater maybe 5 are really really good 15 or 20 are not that great 40 or 50 are okay and then maybe 5 or 10 are absolutely terrible here on earth falls into a category unto itself this is one of the most predictable vehement despicable films i have ever seen it is loaded with unlikable characters maudlin situations about after school special kinds of topics and enough fluff in here to make the young and the restless look like american beauty and i am not being unfair this is an awful film br br this is the story of a rich guy a poor girl a poor guy and a small town that makes fresh cookies every day for all of it's town folk are you getting warm and fuzzy yet let me continue one day the rich snot comes waltzing into town with his new graduation present that his dad has bought for him and he insults the pretty girl at the diner almost gets in a fight with her long time boyfriend and then races him and destroys the little diner that she works at so he is sentenced to a summer in the small town where he and the boyfriend have to fix the diner together what this does is gives us plenty of opportunity to see chris klein with no shirt on so we can understand why the girl at the diner would fall for him he has abs oh and he is rich and he is the biggest jerk with no respect for anyone he is james dean he is a rebel that doesn't give a damn he is rude to everyone in town he doesn't want to associate with anyone that is trying to be nice to him and he acts like a spoiled rich brat but leelee sobieski still falls for him there is no reason given as to why she does she just does oh pardon me that's right i forgot to mention that he likes the same poet that she does well if that doesn't get you wet then i don't know what will br br here on earth also has some of the most predictable moments i've ever been privy to in film there was one point when i left the theater to get some popcorn and read the graffiti on the wall of the bathroom and i told my fiancée exactly what was going to happen in the next ten minutes upon my return she just laughed and said i was right even when i said that there was going to be a dancing scene and furthermore the disease that she suddenly contracts is cancer this is the most beautiful cancer patient i have ever seen have you ever watched a cancer patient die slowly they lose weight they lose their hair their gums begin to rot it is not a pretty picture sobieski glows after she contracts cancer like she is pregnant what an insult to people that have watched love ones die slowly from this disease and how do you contract knee cancer from falling down in the field br br now i realize i have seen way too many movies and this causes my cynicism to run rampant at times but this is ridiculous there wasn't one thing to like about this film or the chris klein character he is a jerk he is obnoxious and he never once tries to make peace with anyone around him here on earth is not only a bad film it is an irresponsible one this received a 4 2 on the imdb voting chart and that is way too high this is an embarrassment to screen writing and whoever gave the green light to this being made should not only lose their job but he or she should have to promise never to step foot near a script again br br 0 out of 10 and that is being generous this film should be shown at film schools as how not to write and direct a film br br if you are bored and really need something to do and your choices are cleaning a farm full of cow manure or watching this film choose cleaning the cow manure it'll smell better and you'll feel like you've done something good with your two hours
0	a fine young cast is wasted in this empty mawkish manipulative film that tries to be a combination of both a cute comedy and an insightful drama the plot moves so slowly that the 90 minutes seems endless as characters do nothing but mope and emote the dialogue is filled with stilted cliches and fortune cookie attempts at pseudo philosophy br br apparently aiming at being a moving and profound look at life and love the film ends up being merely pretentious the only real weight is the burden that the talented cast is forced to carry as best they can but never fear they are held up by the puppet strings of the contrived plot
0	to be fair it has been several years since i watched the bile committed to celluloid known as here on earth so forgive me if my memory of the film is a little sketchy i'll stick with the main points which plague the soul of the unfortunate viewer br br scene one chris klein after having been thrown out of prep school because he looks like a seventeen year old yes very believable gives what i assume is his valedictorian speech to a field let me repeat that for you a field i think we're supposed to be moved by the combination of shame and eloquence he is failing to express klein has the delivery and facial expressions of a cardboard cutout he is a decent looking piece of cardboard but little more br br scene two after some joyriding and teenage pyromaniac hijinks chris klein and josh hartnett do some damage to the local diner of which he is forced to rebuild of course because who better to help with construction than some random moron who crashed into it burned it in the first place better yet let's have said random moron move in on josh hartnett's girl miss the girl he fancies for her equally wooden line delivery br br scene three chris klein's character is making out with leelee character and decides to name her various body parts after the states on the eastern seaboard my soul weeps really how can this scenario turn out well surely you must alienate several million people if you imply their home is equivalent to miss more erm feminine areas secondly naming her breasts after new york and new jersey prompts some confusion as to whether miss is actually freakishly disproportionate br br scene four leelee is running she falls down this gives her knee cancer we always knew it could come back her father says right knee cancer from tripping perhaps i missed something as i said it's been a few years surely i missed something didn't i for the love of god please tell me the girl did not contract knee cancer from falling down br br that scream you just heard was my soul dying
0	i watched this movie to see the direction one of the most promising young talents in movies was going unfortunately with this movie leelee sobieski has chosen a path not only well worn but completely free of any meaningful destination this movie used every hackneyed trick in the book to leave the screen tap you on the shoulder and politely ask if it can have your heartstrings so that it may give them a good tug romance can be done well and when it is the viewer is left feeling the love portrayed on screen during the emotional climax of this movie i laughed heartily to save you the time and money i would suggest instead of seeing this movie you have a meal of karo syrup and velveeta it's about the same
0	that separate good memorable movies from movies like this its not entertaining touching funny interesting and at times feels a little sub human the principals act like they are other worldly in the worse way when they are supposed to be relating to each other and the audience br br starts out conventionally enough rich kid gets new car for graduation but the dean says he can't have the car until after the ceremony goes joy riding nonetheless and stops in the diner on the wrong side of the tracks for a quick argument with the local yokels wise asses the waitress girlfriend of the head yokel shockingly they play chicken until they accidentally burn down the diner they left three minutes earlier aren't all diners five feet from the gas station br br they told they have to pay the price in court so the only reason to get this 'fish out of water' to stay in town is to come up with the scenario that both boys have to assist in the rebuilding of the diner worse than that the rich kid in staying with the family of the un rich kid in the room above the attic that 'room above the has rescued many a person in need of a bed br br rich kid inexplicably is treated well by the girlfriend who never mentions to him that he nearly killed her this does not bode well of course with her boyfriend and is never fully explained you don't know why sam leelee sobieski falls for kelley chris klein or why jasper josh hartnett allows it br br chris klein is tolerable leelee completely intolerable and josh does not register much of an impression the character with the most life is the judge that sentences kelley and jasper to help re build the diner she gets off at least one funny remark which is more than anyone else does everyone is so morose and humorless that you will feel a little sill if you even think of smiling while the movie is on br br the ending is one way to end the piece not the most original but at least it was over i don't enjoy trashing a movie that some little girl somewhere in the world might really love but since i am not one i have to the nicest thing i can say about this movie is that its not mean spirited and although it fails to compel its innocence and home spun corny dialogue comes from a nice place 4 10
0	dear mr or whomever i may hold responsible for mr not meeting his rightful fate of being eaten alive by rabid wolverines br br i do not know you and so cannot comment on your character for all i know you give to charities and help little old ladies cross the street still i must insist for the common good that you never write another screenplay as long as you live put down the pen step away from the laptop br br if you refuse to heed the pleading of wounded brains i have watched a movie or two in my life and i believe you will find my counsel helpful br br 1 do not include love scenes in which overwrought teenage boys name the body parts of their girlfriends after us states if you must pen such a scene please do not name the breasts new york and new jersey it causes unnecessary speculation as to which cities occupy the nipples also it is almost incomprehensibly stupid and annoying br br 2 do not rely solely on john hughes movies in order to reinforce class distinctions br br 3 do not bludgeon the audience over the head with exhausted clichés yes yes kelley and sam stand out in the rain and it them of their cares we get it yes the roses continue to bloom in dead mother's greenhouse even though every other plant has begun to rot it is a symbol of their love it is also very painful when applied via blunt force trauma to the backs of our heads for the love of god mr we get it we all get it all across the land amish people the hard of hearing unborn babies we all get it br br 4 do not require the actors to perform mime sequences ever no never br br 5 did i mention that you should ease up on the trite symbolism because the audience can draw the parallel between the rebuilding of the restaurant and the building of the relationship between kelley and sam without any help truly we get it br br 6 go through your script and cull out the following lines and any lines resembling them i don't know what we are anymore i don't want to lose you he's just like the rest of them and its corollary daddy you don't even know him br br 7 yes yes she's in heaven running around in a field we get it br br 8 and in other news we get it br br i have seen dozens of terrible movies in my life i never expected to suffer for your art and i would have just left the theater but an elephant with the words doomed love painted on its side fell from the sky and pinned me to my seat br br in closing your writing bites you owe me ten dollars and i hate you
0	sadness was the emotion i felt after the screen went dark puzzled was another why would two seasoned screen vets like matthau and lemmon sign on to this putrid project i'm under the impression they didn't read the script before the cameras started rolling all the cast is wasted in this unfunny uninteresting and unimpressive movie sadly enough this was one of elegant edward last projects here as the heavy dyan cannon tries hal linden looks bored donald o'connor reciting a few lines laden with profanity i'm not with the legion of decency my point is they were spouted purely for the strangeness of hearing him use off color language that is a desperate attempt to infuse humor into a picture he actually did deliver the film's only morsel of entertainment when he about on the though i save my harshest criticism for the leads walter matthau should have known better he still delivers great solo performances iq dennis the menace etc his character although affable is rather dull and one dimensional seen him once seen him all jack lemmon gives another one of his trademark weepy just too darn sensitive male portrayals when he starts that mode i vicariously want to hand him a box of tissues out to sea is painfully unfunny and whoever produced this mess should be made to walk the plank
0	possible spoiler br br if you were making a serious movie involving a powerful but aging father with three apparently ungrateful daughters featuring actors of the highest caliber with great cinematography and a beautiful midwestern setting now where would you go with it why you'd fashion a modern tragedy after king lear of course br br that's what i was expecting that certainly wasn't what i got what i got was 105 minutes of feminist tripe one long harangue about man's inhumanity to woman why there wasn't a decent male in the entire story br br you see early on where this film might be headed but you can't believe anyone would waste all these fine actors and craftsmen on that trite scenario you just want them to get on with the king lear theme but it never happens and there's the real tragedy if you ask me br br aside from the panorama of glorious rural heartland about the only thing worth watching in this film was that wonderful chameleon british actor colin firth practicing his midwestern accent now there was a treat br br 3 10
0	the story is derived from king lear the setting is a farm in iowa here's a test for this kind of thing if you find yourself asking why did so and so do such and such and the answer is because that's what happened in 'king you know that the film has failed well that is what happens here the father figure in this story isn't living his own life he's mimicking a fictional one but there's more wrong with the film than this br br jocelyn is ambitious far more ambitious than i think she realises she's trying to take the king lear story and completely change the setting this is a task in itself the result is that the transplanted story will die and nobody will quite be able to work out why although there are enough successful transplants like west side story to make it worth trying but she's also attempting a revisionist retelling in the version of king lear she wishes to create reagan and command our sympathy and is a villain this is a task in itself too br br succeeding at either task is hard succeeding at both at once is impossible in fact succeeding at one while so much as attempting the other is impossible if we are to look on the very same events from a different moral perspective then the events must be the very same events which means there can be no tampering with setting if the story is to be transplanted alive into a different setting its moral heart must keep beating the whole while which means there can be no tampering with ethical perspective was bound to fail in not just one but in both of her endeavours and so she did naturally it's possible to attempt both tasks fail at both tasks yet by some fluke hit upon a work of art that's good for independent reasons i mention this because i haven't read jane smiley's novel which for all i know is good for independent reasons but the film isn't if there was nothing else wrong with it there would still be no getting around the fact that it's just so thoroughly excruciatingly dull the very fields of corn are even more boring than they would be in real life which needn't be the case since off the top of my head i can think of four films the wizard of oz north by northwest the straight story in which the cornfields aren't boring at all
0	this movie has more on its plate than a sumo wrestler and the result for the viewer is indigestion there are some good performances but the subplots are extraneous and largely unresolved br br in addition i found all the characters unlikeable and if you can't identify with at least one character there isn't much to get excited about all in all this is a classic example of trying to do too much with too little
0	sadly a great opportunity to utilise a superb cast to bring king lear up to date however instead we got a contrived family drama that appeared to dip into lear when the writer had run out of ideas the cast worked hard but it just didn't gel recently stephen showed how to adapt and update the classics with his screenplay for the magnificent tv movie king of texas
0	it's probably a cultural thing somehow the natives of this country have been conditioned to find this stuff funny i have experienced this phenomenon first hand during an open air cinema event where this film was shown before the feature most of the indigenous audience laughed and no this wasn't in a sanitarium or a clinic for retarded children this was in a well to do area and the audience consisted mostly of educated adults br br so it must be possible somehow to find this amusing but honest to goodness i have no idea what it takes maybe it's in the air or the water prolonged exposure to which causes this condition something must cause it obviously the only thing i can say is that i am quite sure what doesn't cause it the movie itself br br there are no jokes in it it's brain dead stupid nonsensical unfunny lame it's in short a waste of time any tom and jerry is funnier heck even funerals are funnier br br just in case you have been fortunate enough not ever to have seen any of the stooges' performances it's three guys behaving running even talking like retarded infants causing all kinds of unfunny mayhem with no plot no real purpose and no real conclusion it's like ugly teletubbies without the cute costumes br br sitting in a crowd watching this garbage in this country can be quite exasperating because you feel like you are at a party with a bunch of potheads and you are the only one who hasn't smoked anything br br so unless you are prepared to yourself to make this bearable or come equipped with whatever it is that makes people think watching three ugly old men behave like morons is funny my advice on this is stay way far away
0	i saw this when it came out in theaters back in 1996 i remember i was already familiar with elijah wood's work that's right he made stuff before lord of the rings and the merchandising tie ins to the film were pretty abundant flipper water guns were even circulating br br adults were reminded of the old movies and tv show and for nostalgia's sake took their kids to see it who were excited because it was a movie about a dolphin and a stupid boy br br unfortunately it wasn't what anyone expected and flopped severely you know a movie's in trouble when a boy swims away from a hammerhead shark in the middle of the ocean and a pack of dolphins scare the shark away and the kid instead of getting out of the water into a boat floats in the water for five minutes thanking his dolphin for saving him apparently he hasn't taken into mind that the shark is still out there perhaps even below him br br another problem is paul hogan he looks old crusty and tired of recycling his croc dundee shtick by now no one even remembered crocodile dundee much less hogan and i half expected him to suddenly start pretending he didn't know what a hair dryer was for the sake of fish out of water social satire laughs br br all in all this is a really poor family movie that is amateurish and almost hard to watch at times i hated it when i saw it in theaters back in '96 and i hate it more now
0	my take even splendid underwater photography can salvage a familiar script and paper thin characters br br for those who haven't already got enough of the free willy pictures flipper might serve up a decent rental others are heavily suggested to stay away although flipper is harmless affair it hardly showcases anything for the adult audience unless it's your first time to see a dolphin br br a remake of a 1960's tv show and film flipper may have sound like a good idea back then a dolphin charms the life of boy and a girl they help ave the environment by first getting rid of toxic wastes thrown in on the sparkling waters of the florida keys and at the same time battle a shark and a salty sea baddie who happens to be the one responsible for the toxic dumping and also happens to hate dolphins but even for the 90's especially if an eerily similar film like free willy was a recent hit flipper is just another harmless yet occasionally empty summer splash movie for the kids although the animals this in case is the main dolphin a clumsy pelican and a realistic looking hammerhead shark typecast as the villain and the pristine underwater cinematography steal the show there's nothing much in flipper to steal from anyway br br the story is completely predictable something than nowadays even a 6 year old may find evident the human cast led by a pre lord of the rings elijah wood and an out of work paul hogan have rarely anything to do but stand around and look pretty their acting skills whatever they may be to this movie is rarely revealed on screen unless you consider the acting talents of cheerful dolphin i guess not trying to recommend flipper as mindless family entertainment won't be fair but anyone over the age of 10 no make that 8 are better off renting or buying something else besides the film is about 95 minutes tops that might just give you enough time to something elsewhere without worrying about your kids that alone might be worth the rental br br rating out of 5
0	reading the other user comments the review by has articulated most of what i was feeling throughout this film predictable storyline cliché versions of lesbians heterosexuals i e straight woman becomes a lesbian while concluding that her husband is abusive and aggressive br br also the score was severely disappointing it was bland soft sentimental elevator music another common cliché in movies about lesbians the movie would have had a few interesting dramatic moments if they had not been destroyed by the music br br a few scenes concerning sex and eroticism also struck me as attempts to titillate and raise shock value including parts of the final performance scene the conventional hot and steamy moments were as boring as the overly sentimental score for example during the pool scene the women are kissing and then the camera pans along the abandoned wine glass the flowing water the sound of their heavy breathing over the soft crashing of waves br br the only elements i liked were the costuming and they are well choreographed and the development of attraction between the two characters felt very natural during the training scenes i genuinely smiled during those and during the last scene with the police officer but they were not enough to balance out the negatives or make me enjoy this film
0	i have not watched every jackass episode it was mildly entertaining if nothing else was going but after watching jackass 2 i was fond of bam and dunn they had a nice attitude in the movie jackass so i figured i'd tune in on viva la bam boy was i mistaken seriously you could pair a bunch of provide them with the same budget and i bet they could knock off something more creative on the screen i mean c'mon mtv at 23 where most people are tuned in you give us this rubbish br br everything seems so forced you don't know the characters because there's no attitude at all you can't appreciate bam or dunn or anyone for that matter if there would just be a tiny tiny doze of thought anything we won't forget as soon as next shot goes on br br they finally manage to create a good shot and you like whats going on you sit there just waiting for their reaction and then some jerk closes the scenes with two lame sentences and bang was that the close for that shot or what please if i had been there i would freak out and laugh do some insane stuff and have my adrenaline pumping but these guys just scripted stupid reactions br br yes they get a few chuckles of the audience by cheap gross jokes or gigantic jokes which in my opinion are such a waste of cash br br many many normal humans which was not taken under the jackass wing could in a heartbeat write a far funnier script or impress with visual camera work even spontaneous wannabe cool guys without a script would pull of a better job mtv could in a whim bring more soothing material on the screen you just need to fire the writer of this stupid show br br some scenes actually require a bit of courage and therefore 2 stars
0	viva la bam this jackass spin off focuses on the obviously scripted adventures of bam and his pals johnny knoxville brandon etc this show while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts focuses mainly on torturing of his parents br br i'm sorry to say this bam but you're in no way as cool as you think you are this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny and yes i liked jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he's going to do whatever the f he wants to how about you do something that is actually funny i liked jackass for what it was worth the camera work was horrible any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents' garage but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed br br not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile br br viva la bam is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed already too big ego i don't recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone
0	hair the movie based on the broadway hit fails to achieve any redeemable cinematic qualities you cant really take the play and make it a movie whether one is so tempted by the rock music to see this movie it really detracts from the quality of a broadway show worse than seeing sitcom reruns musical fiasco and cant believe others rated it so high
0	bam of the jackass fame is back with his own reality show and not only is it not as funny as jackass but it's also amazingly stupider this has to be one of the dumbest shows ever conceived sure there are worse reality shows but none are as mean spirited or as dumb br br bam has made it big and his parents decided to piggy bank off of his fame bam and his parents his uncle his crew of idiotic friends all live together and while bam and his buddies are off breaking things and getting into mischief generally his parents are at home being stupid when parents aren't at home being lazy they're being tortured by bam especially his father to add to the humor we are treated to his fat uncle don who is constantly out of it and never paying attention br br this show really is like a toned down version of jackass toned down in that there aren't stunts instead bam and his buddies just go break stuff and do lame stunts and meanwhile loud music plays to make it all the more awesome this is not funny in the least i can't imagine a dumber show than this because there is not an ounce of intelligence found here br br if you are a big fan of bam and want to see one of the many follow up cash in sequels to the jackass series br br my rating out of 30 mins
0	anyone remember the first etc back when it was about making crazy cool stuff rather than watching bam act like a douchebag spoiled 5 year old super rock star wannabe br br the show used to be awesome however fame and wealth has led him to believe that we now enjoy him acting childish and idiotic more than actual cool stuff that used to be in ex br br the acts are so repetitive there's like nothing new except annoying stupidity and rehearsed comments the only things we see is bam so busy showing us how much he doesn't care how much money he got or whatsoever br br i really got nothing much left to say except give us back cause bam suck br br i enjoy watching steve o knoxville etc a thousand times more
0	this is by far the worst and most stupid show i have ever seen on tv it is almost physically painful to watch an adult well in his twenties doing nothing but torture and mock his parents who always seem to have no clue what so ever about the stunts they are forced to endure by their dimwitted son and his equally stupid friends of course i know his parents are in on it but i really hate how they always act like they are caught completely by surprise it seems fake through and through and i really hate the intro of the show in which a voice over asks bam what will he think of next i think that's how it is anyway and bam himself answers whatever the f k i want wow bam is really a hell raiser living at home with mum and dad of course the word f k is replaced with a tasteful beep but we get the message bam is the real deal rebel at least in his own eyes of course bam and his posse of numb aim at an audience of teenage boys and of course it's a mtv show but please raise the bar a little it's painfully predictable and stupid and therefore nothing but boring
0	overall i'd call this a disappointing performance it attempts the old horror anthology approach but fails miserably the acting was bad and so were the stories any skin shown in the movie was obviously random just to attract the r rating for sex typical i guess but bad nonetheless take your 5 and rent a real movie instead
0	okay so the movie went straight to video if i had paid to see this i would've been disappointed but at 2 am in the morning alone at night it's a pretty good fright hey that rhymes br br
0	warning this review may contain spoilers the back of the box is misleading it says all this crap about kids telling ghost stories which they do but then it implies that they will all be killed by some killer in the woods this doesn't happen the stories they tell are a little interesting specifically the one with the dog and all that licking but most are rather boring monsters in the woods some mute girl and the main one the whole movie
0	the movie had an interesting surprise somewhat psychologically gripping and the makers could have ended it tastefully without making it just another of a rash of movies put out by hollywood promoting homosexuality and or other sexual deviances this could have ended with a pay off but there were other motives behind the pen what me off is that the mud in your face after you've seen the whole movie like the disappointing the talented mr ripley yeah sure i'm just another puritan this gay content tarnished the whole film i wouldn't positively judge a movie for artistic or entertainment value if its sole purpose was to promote an ulterior political motivation more so for this
0	this is really bad the characters were bland the story was boring and there is no sex scene furthermore it lacks drama the conflict is minimal causing it to be extremely slow paced nothing happens in this film you would expect a sex scene but they just have a kiss the plot revolves around three characters a man his wife and a stranger that they pick up from the high way the couple invite the stranger to stay with them because he is homeless at this point you would expect the stranger to have sex with the wife right no they just kiss and thats it also this film contains no action no comedy no drama and not even suspense makes you think that maybe the studio did not even read this script
0	it is easy for a movie that tries to be suspenseful to wind up being merely uninteresting it happens quite often not only is dark harbor uninteresting but it is very poorly done scene after scene is tacked on to an otherwise overdone premise a troubled couple picks up a troubled stranger only to find more trouble br br some movies build tension by building the story dark harbor keeps adding on to its story but never building upon it i was hoping that like other movies the suspense would finally explode it never does also the characters have no continuity from scene to scene they may act one way in one scene but then act a completely different way in another scene at first you think that they are merely out of character but by the end you realize that they are not really characters at all they are just props for the final twist the final ten minutes try to be shocking instead it's rather lame and uninteresting the only thing that was shocking to me was that the movie finally ended at less than ninety minutes the movie still feels way too long br br this isn't one of those low budget gems it's more like a counterfeit watch that breaks as soon as you take it home
0	this is a classic b type movie that you'd rather not waste your time and see it started well and i thought it will grow up as a good thriller but i was mistaking all movie long you get the feeling that soon something interesting will take place and it will suddenly turn into a tensed thriller but that doesn't happen it runs slowly and peacefully til the end with nothing interesting in it just the ending was unexpected and original but that's it vote 2 5 out of 10 oh one more thing why is this movie rated r anyway
0	this film is an insult to the play upon which it is based the character of claude has been warped beyond recognition leaving a painful performance that does not even vaguely resemble the original plot shame shame shame they have also cut a fair number of the original score of change the context in which the songs are sung this warps the air of the film and causes the viewer who is aware of how this should be to wince as the writer of this screen play gives hud a wife turns sheila into a spoiled rich girl characterizes claude as a cowboy and kills burger by sending him to vietnam instead if one is not familiar with the original plot i assure you this is not a bad film for you to see but if you ever wish to see the original or are as i am a die hard fan of the classic play you would do best to avoid the film altogether one really must stick to one or the other
0	i had noticed this movie had been on cinemax a lot lately so this morning i decided to watch it i had just finished the which is a great movie and i thought this looked good as well from the description the cable had atleast this film was awful it's slow the pacing is horrible it feels as tho it lasts 4 hours there's no real plot to speak of how can anyone say anything good about this movie rickman is good but he always is the other two characters work well but there's no real story to support any of it after 2 hours and you sitting there wondering what on earth is going on where on earth is the plot it ends with a surprise that frankly just made me sick don't bother with this one
0	talk about rubbish i can't think of one good thing in this movie the screenplay was poor the acting was terrible and the effects well there were no effects i can't believe the writer of this movie did identity everything in this movie made me sick to start to finish br br the front cover of the video box shows a showman with shark like teeth and scary eyes i looks like a scary villain but like the old saying never judge a book by it's cover the whole villain looked like a cardboard cut out one part in the film a girl gets killed by a salad tongs terrible the setting was bad enough like they could of set the whole thing in but no a tropical island instead br br i took this movie as a spoof which i think they wanted it to be but the only thing that made me laugh in a bad way was the tacky effects you can argue that i haven't watched the first one but seeing this i would be safe if i wouldn't attempted it br br the biggest joke in this movie is the effects the snowballs looked like they were home made and that carrot was a complete embarrassment if i would of guess the budget of this movie would of probably be between 8 to 9 pounds fifty the producer in a last minute panic must of grabbed the actors for the street gave them the script told them they have 6 minutes to practise these lines and shoot on a island br br lastly the acting in the film was painful it was like the actors forgot their ordinary lines and made them up the way through br br in conclusion i give this film 0 stars out of 5
0	jack frost returns with an army of styrofoam balls that can only be foiled by being shot with super loaded with margaritas how's that for a plot the film hinges on such a ridiculous premise that it barely raises an eyebrow when characters are killed with bbq tongs and are impaled by carrots you might even say the whole movie is skating on thin ice ba boom tish br br admittedly there are some fantastic one liners including a remark about the murderous coconut shark br br fair enough times are hard but that does not excuse the willingness of the actors to take part in such utter tripe br br for those fans hoping to see jack frost be prepared to accept him as merely a phallic carrot creeping up the beach with corny voice over commentary
0	hello it is i derrick cannon and i welcome you to the first ever review show my movie for this week was debatable what route what movie what excellent four star epic would i choose guess what i decided to pull a one eighty and go the other route i've decided to review a movie so atrocious that it totally killed what could have been a very unique concept the movie i will review today is jack frost two revenge of the mutant killer snowman the stars in this movie include christopher allport as sam eileen seeley as anne marsha clark as marla david allen brooks as agent manners sean patrick murphy as captain fun ray cooney as the colonel and scott macdonald as the killer snowman himself jack frost br br it's hard to believe that this movie was in the same series that gave us the incredibly funny jack frost loved the carrot scene but it's even harder to believe that this is the exact same cast the movie was ruined for me as soon as they arrived on the island and captain fun was introduced what was the point of his character and how did he fit into a horror movie the only possible reason i could see was that they wanted to give us a character that was total killer snowman fodder sam seemed more paranoid then he did in the original his babbling about anti freeze was one of the most pathetic display i had seen in a movie his wife however was one of the few bright spots she played her role as the main woman to a hilt she was a voice of reason in film of pure idiocy the scene where she figures out how to kill the snowmen was one of the most anticipated parts of the movie ray macdonald once again did a great job as jack frost despite what he was given if it wasn't for such weak characters he could have been immortalized like chucky freddy and jason laugh if you must but when it comes down to it jack frost had spunk he had humor and most importantly he had an vicious streak br br this movie could have been so much more it could have been a continuation of a great franchise instead any plans to make a jack frost three have been canceled br br this movie gets a two out of ten for me and it's lucky that it even gets a one
0	i remember when i first heard about jack frost i was in video at miranda with my family on a monthly video hiring tradition it was at this time that i worked up the courage to venture over towards the horror section of the store browsing the various titles i finally came across jack frost the cover was enough to convince me that the film was beyond my viewing pleasures years later the film disappeared only to be replaced with the inevitable yet unnecessary sequel i once again ventured to the horror section and picked up the case only to come to one conclusion the film would be but not intentionally br br jack frost 2 revenge of the killer mutant snowman quite a title follows off where it's predecessor left it sheriff sam is seeking counseling after his ordeals and jack is now in the form of anti freeze to escape his past sam and his wife head to an island hotel where he is in the company of a wide variety of slasher film stereotypes including busty female models thick headed sports jocks and caribbean staff however jack is released from his liquid grave and is back to his icy methods he heads over to the island and proceeds to kill anyone that would prove to have an awesome death only sam can stop him br br let me just say that this is a straight to video film so it's bound to be bad but this is terrible even in the eyes of other over the top films the camera work is poor using a camera that would make a soap opera look majestic half the actors look like they've come out of a porn shoot and the other half look like they've come out of a retirement home but in actual fact they've actually come out of an asylum there is an extensive use of special effects used in the film which tends to alternate between bland puppetry and cgi that can be bettered by an infant and the death scenes are mostly off screen showing us little of what has happened to the hapless yet deserving victims but the film is most memorable for it's killer one liners such as there's something that needs a little christmas stuffing and i know pronounce you officially f ing dead ultimately the whole purpose behind a film like this is to make a popcorn flick for those friday nights of boredom and even it fails at that to make a sequel to a film that was a poor slasher with a concept that a child would find unbelievable must've taken some nerves of or a total frontal lobotomy to director michael thanks for wasting my time to everyone else… avoid like arsenic
0	jack frost 2 the worst horror film i have ever seen why 1 the premise is well beyond ridiculous 2 the damn thing doesn't even have legs to move on 3 it escapes after being completely submerged in anti freeze first film 4 get this it travels all the way across an ocean of salt water to a tropical island to get revenge on the sheriff that did him in the first film 5 killer snowballs i have yet to be drunk enough to see ginger dead man so as of the writing of this jack frost 2 hold the distinction of being the stupidest horror film ever even surpassing the of it's predecessor if you can believe that
0	jack frost 2 is out of the question i'm actually surprised people are allowed to make these sort of movies br br as sam and his wife take to the for a relaxing christmas jack returns to kill off the fun and take on a revenge with inbreeding br br don't take a at this film at all most people say its a laugh with your mates but its a waste of time if the people who made this film can get a job by doing what they do they can at least take the time and effort to write up a better story especially the cheesy character names
0	this is the worst film i have ever seen bar none from the flimsy looking poorly lit sets to the laughable acting to the infantile plot and shoddy drawn out action sequences this film is so bad its hilarious for about ten minutes after which you will be reaching for the remote or the power socket to end this film non experience although it was obviously made with the entire production and acting collective tongue rammed in cheek please god i found jack frost 2 so dreadful as to be unwatchable for more than a quarter of an hour if you have not had enough of it after this time you must be indulging in drug abuse
0	why did i have to go out and buy yes buy jack frost 2 revenge of the mutant killer snowman maybe it was a burst of temporary mental derangement but i'm guessing it's because i kind of enjoyed the first jack frost it was a silly but funny horror comedy which had some okay effects by screaming mad george that and the fact that on the back cover of the sequel there was this nice picture of this guy impaled by this giant icicle coming out of his mouth with a lot of blood and all so i thought if it's as idiotic as the first and has some nice splatter gore in it it should be fun right well i was so dead wrong br br let me first say that the movie deserves some credit for having an immensely insane and retarded plot i mean a mutant killer snowman on a tropical island that spawns mutant killer baby snowballs which can only be killed or harmed by bananas as much as i love the premise i really hated the movie first of all while the first jack frost looked like an actual movie seemingly being shot on real film and all this sequel has the look and feel of a third rate soap opera it has this way too slick shot on video look the lighting is just plain awful bright white spots for the day look and stupid colors like blue and green at night the acting well don't even go there the dialogues range from stiff to extremely senile that jamaican man was just moronic saying man after every sentence and when it comes to the voice of the killer snowman all i could think of was a seventh rate chucky from child's play spewing dumb and supposedly witty one liners before he kills someone br br the best joke was were one guy asks why are you talking to your watch and the best scene was undoubtedly the one with that beautiful asian chick popping up out of nowhere and taking a swim in the pool totally naked thank god for that oh yeah and that little scene over the end credits with those two japanese dudes on a miniature ship being badly dubbed had me laughing too but the worst thing about this movie was where was the gore and splatter action everyone is talking about there were plenty of occasions to show some decent gory killings a lot of people were killed off in original ways here but all off screen like i've read in many other comments there were indeed nice set ups to a head explosion a crushed body eyes being poked out tongue ripped out but on the crucial moments the editor cuts away to some blood splatters on the floor or nothing at all that frontal shot of that british guy being impaled from the back cover of the dvd wasn't even in the movie i only saw that particular killing filmed from the back meaning i didn't see sh t i was waiting throughout the whole movie for that to happen and then i get to see nothing what a let down could it be that i saw a cut version of the movie that would be a shame 'cause only a decent amount of splatter fun could have saved this movie if you ask me seeing a lot of killer snowballs reduced to bloody pulp just didn't cut it for me speaking of those snowballs they were done very poorly they made munchies look like state of the art 'animatronics' but i guess that was the whole point of it at some point the special effects crew even turned to some laughably bad cgi boy you really have to see it to believe it best is to not see it actually 'cause this flick is just too bad okay i did laugh with it for it kept getting worse and worse just stick with the first jack frost 1996 and you'll be okay just bare in mind that it's a pretty silly horror comedy but fun in it's own right br br it's funny but writer director michael cooney somehow must have realized that he was a pretty bad director after jack frost 2 and then focused on writing turns out he then wrote two pretty good thriller screenplays for the i inside starring ryan phillippe and identity starring john cusack so the man seems to have some talent after all br br now it would be far too easy to give jack frost 2 the lowest rating possible so i say one point for that naked asian babe doing the skinny dipping and one point for those completely retarded snowball babies way to go mr cooney
0	horrible movie this movie beat out revenge of the living zombies for the worst movie i have ever suffered through what the were the morons who made this film thinking was it supposed to be scary because man let me tall you it wasn't it was so dumb it wasn't funny we all know that tropical islands are the natural hunting grounds for killer snowmen and those stupid baby snowballs stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid fake snow and lousy actors oh and frost looks nothing like he does on the box do not waste your time rent it and destroy it
0	i should start off by saying i have something of a love hate relationship with musicals some of them are fantastic some are downright crap so i expected hair to fall into one of those categories however it didn't falling instead in the middle br br the songs aren't brilliant though the sodomy song did make me smile a lot and everything is rather dated looking but the movie didn't draw me in as others have such as rocky horror although that's a bad example since for years i hated rocky horror then all of a sudden i got it and have loved it ever since maybe hair will be the same although i doubt it will get as much exposure as rocky horror due to the language and nudity content so i doubt i will get the chance to have it grow on me hair grow oh suit yourself br br anyhow i didn't get to see the last fifteen minutes or so due to a technical glitch which was a shame since i would have liked to see how it ended especially after reading some of the reviews here br br not a film for the casual cinema goer but definitely one for musical lovers i really hope they don't re make it though since i think any such re make would end up a shallow pale pc version of the original br br worth a look for lovers of the genre
0	please if you're thinking about renting this movie don't if you're thinking of watching a couple of downloaded clips don't if i had my way nobody would even have to read this summary br br the acting despite being one fo the high points of the movie was still pathetic the director was probaly a sadist the witty one liners were something you'd expect from a room of highly paid anti social 7 year olds that eat paint chips for breakfast br br the problem with this movie is that it tries to be a movie like evil dead 2 do not under any circumstances associate these 2 movies in that it's so bad it's funny but it also tries to be funny at the same time and fails so overwhelmingly to do so that your sense of humor is left too crippled to do anything but set off your gag reflex in an to save itself br br i could go on for much much more detailing just how awful it really was but i think it would strip me of my will to live just to continue to think about it if you need me i'll be off trying to boil myself so that i might feel clean again
0	if you like bad movies and you must to watch this one here's a good one not quite as funny as the first but much lower quality a must see for fans of jack frost as well as anyone up for a good laugh at the writing
0	in all it took me three attempts to get through this movie although not total trash i've found a number of things to be more useful to dedicate my time to such as taking off my fingernails with sandpaper br br the actors involved have to feel about the same as people who star in herpes medication commercials do people won't really pay to see either the notoriety you earn won't be the best for you personally but at least the commercials get air time br br the first one was bad but this gave the word bad a whole new definition but it does have one good feature if your kids bug you about letting them watch r rated movies before you want them to tie them down and pop this little gem in watch the whining stop and the tears begin
0	alright we start in the office of a shrink and apparently not a very good one the main hero from the first jack frost is in the shrinks office out random rhymes about jack frost gee alright my brother is yelling it off '' anyway back to the crappy movie br br the shrink has his speaker phone on and is letting his secretary and her friends listen in on this heroic insane sheriff i suppose he is supposed to be the hero from the first movie but he looks nothing like him yadda yadda yadda they laugh at the poor sheriff yadda yadda now some people are digging up the anti snowman yadda yadda now we're in a lab with some type of doctor people i don't quite see how this has to do anything but their poking the anti freeze evil killer mutant snowman with needles heating it shocking it adding strange and bizarre chemicals to it the whole nine yards nothing alright they give up and leave it in a fish tank one of the doctors leaves his coffee on the top of the tank the janitor walks in cleans stuff bumps the and the coffee spills the tank which makes jack alive br br behold the power of mocha now somehow he is in uh i believe the bahamas but it looked more like hawaii but it couldn't be hawaii unless they spent all of their budget on the dang air plane tickets bah i wont spoil the rest of this rotten movie so you'll have to rent it and watch it your self er i wouldn't suggest doing so though sheesh
0	jack frost 2 was a horrible terrible sadly pathetic excuse for a sequal to a great movie the original was a low budget comedy horror film about a murdered who was turned into a snowman after an accident with some toxic waste and the snowman went around murdering people and avoiding blow like the plague this however was a far cry from the quality of the original it seems like this even had a lower budget because for some reason after an hour into this film i still hadn't seen the snowman some revenge he's getting if he's always in the form of ice cubes with a cheesy voice over and a little shake of the cooler he rests in to give animation to the character disappointing to no belief even for a fan of bad cinema
0	may contain spoilers br br clearly who ever made this film must have had a lot of connections i just can't see it any other way what really surprises me is no one used the name allen smithee and more surprising everyone involved didn't use this name br br anyhow where to begin the bad dialogue the crummy costumes the sorry looking film stock the unintentional comedy the over the top characters and more inconsistencies than george w bush's college career i don't know what was funnier the guy losing his arm because of a snowball or the slow motion scene where all the baby jack were getting killed also one of the great lines of all time was uttered in this film how do we know it's him like there's another mutant snowman who can talk and kill people with snowballs a great camp film but a very bad film overall
0	this movie sucks did anyone notice that the entire movie was shot in like 2 rooms there are never any outside shots and if there are its obviously film taken from somewhere else this movie blows hard painful to sit through too stay far away
0	yes in this movie you are treated to multiple little snowmen on the attack in apparently a very warm climate so yes this movie is definitely not to be taken seriously it is in fact a much worse movie than the original as at least with that one the whole production looked like it cost more than a couple of bucks and a video camera to make it has its funny moments but really playing off the cheapness of your movie and making that be your intended laughs is kind of weak film making if you ask me you can not come up with a good story your effects are going to really be bad hey let us just make the movie look as bad as possible with horrible one liners and we have our movie the first one at least had a somewhat credible story as the snowman in that one attacked during the winter and not what amounts to a resort it also had better effects too this one is just a step or two ahead of hobgoblins as far as the monsters are concerned and you really want to be more than a step a two above a bunch of hand puppets still it makes up for all of this with a super ending that depicts a great sea vessel being taken out by the mighty frost actually i am just kidding but really it was the funniest part of the movie
0	ill conceived sequel the absurd idea of having the killer snowman on the rampage at an island resort where there is no snow or cold weather brings back the spirit of the psychopath returning thanks to a scientific experiment providing foreign elements which life to his molecules it's the best i could do to explain this preposterous concept br br i could go into depth about how he winds up at the island in order to slay numerous tourists but i simply find no reason to bother because it'd all be so exhausting anyway the filmmakers think it wise to kill off the pretty girls not ten minutes after their arrival i mean seriously why worry with even introducing them to us if we can't enjoy our eye candy no longer that this br br the snow anvil murder scene takes the cake ice icicles from the beach's sand so that a victim can fall on them oh and another girl is stabbed with a pair of weenie tongs br br look i get what's coming to me when i sit down to watch a killer snowman movie such a ridiculous supernatural slasher will either tickle your oh it's such a wonderfully cheesy horror movie or have you pondering why the hell you're wasting time with such nonsense jack frost has the power to freeze water then how were they able to melt him in the first film and causes the island resort to snow one sequence has jack freezing pool water encasing a swimming model under the sheet result being her drowning with nowhere to escape oh there's also a recreation of the tongue stuck to the icy pole bit from the christmas story dude br br i gotta hand it to the cast though they're real troopers for trying to make this wretched material entertaining christopher allport perhaps unwisely returns as sam to face his old nemesis as does eileen seeley as his wife the attempts at tongue in cheek humor for me at least fell flat but the cast soldiers onward trying to make the most of a very difficult situation with spirited performances they do their best to rise above the pitiful premise and woeful dialogue br br a development occurs which increases the danger towards those still around to face off with jack his genetically altered water molecules thanks to the introduced foreign elements allow him to withstand anti freeze and even worse he now can reproduce through indigestion jack hacks up what appear to be snowballs which hatch to reveal little snowballs with black eyes mouth and sharp teeth the killer snowman costume and little snowball puppets introduced later in the film might produce belly laughs if you are in the mood for such shenanigans but i personally found this junk rather hokey that's the purpose behind it i suppose cheap guffaws from those willing to embrace this and unbearable the snowball offspring is an obvious homage to gremlins where we get a bar scene where the little bastards are celebrating in number over terrorizing victims at the resort the weapon against them bananas it's explained that when jack went to kill sam in the first film both fell in a truck bed full of anti freeze an icicle emerging from jack's belly was penetrating sam's chest when he pushed them out a window into the truck bed and i guess in their being being linked by the icicle jack inherited sam's banana allergy or so this is what we are led to believe and in doing so both merged in a sense br br phew such a film as this defies simple explanation it's a film with effects and plot so terrible one might find the presentation enjoyable because of it's many failings
0	having already seen the original jack frost i never thought that jack frost 2 would be as absurd as it is boy was i wrong then again a pix movies have a way of showing unbelievably bad material even worse than you might expect i believe this is the first a pix sequel and it may be an indication of what to expect in the future more a pix sequels br br it's hard to watch this without laughing especially during the later parts of the movie in which jack frost's offspring which are essentially snowballs with eyes arms a mouth and sharp teeth start killing people with the typical comedic dialogue and silly voices to go with it they are shown both as puppets with a stick underneath to move them and as computer animation which i have to say looks very cheesy the computer animation surprised me as the first jack frost had no such effects br br i'd strongly recommend that you see the original jack frost before seeing this one both of which it would be preferable to watch with a group of friends to get the full amusement out of it and because it would make more sense sense being a relative term br br now only if there was uncle sam 2
0	i've liked milos forman's movies since i saw one flew over the cuckoo's nest and amadeus two big masterpieces but when i saw hair i kept wondering if this was the same milos forman this movie is boring and uninteresting to say the least ok the music is pretty good but on screen it only seems like a bunch of drugged people dancing around wait a minute that's what it really is in fact the only interesting part and the only part where talent shows up are the last 15 minutes or so spoiler since when berger takes claude's place as a soldier set to the vietnam war that 15 minutes are moving and well directed but it's a shame that we have to endure so much awful material before that br br well maybe this is one of those movies you need to be on the subject to enjoy the subject being marijuana acid and other drugs the film glorifies i'm not so
0	after kenneth rousing story of the invigorated me back into the pleasure of reading during grade school i had high hopes for this series the story of an underdog bat across country to reunite with his colony captivated my imagination and resonated deeply with my burgeoning imagination upon hearing of this series i began browsing animation's site and liked what i saw the character design looked impressive and the fast paced plot seemed to have been stretched respectably across a thirteen episode arc much was my disappointment then when i decided to watch a rerun early one morn br br the opening episode shows our hero shade pursuing a tiger moth in the deep hours of the night an song we see a nifty if crude cgi effect illuminate the moth and the chase takes on a frenetic turn as the tiny insect creates numerous illusory copies of itself do deceive its pursuer as a lover of biology i had a decent understanding of the principles in place tiger moths can sense the sounds their predators use for and spin a sonic cover for themselves but without such exposition i would have surely been lost a minor quibble i thought surely they director will fill us in momentarily i waited in vain br br once our protagonist down with some of his fellows we are treated to some of the dullest dialog i've ever seen on television childhood rival begin taunting the diminutive hero with the stupidest lines i've ever seen on a show i can understand the writers not producing shakespeare but one would think they'd have had some social contact in their lives surely enough to make communication seem natural oh how wrong i was br br the voice acting while not horrendous hardly was a shining example of human achievement oh shade you're broken the law mother sighs emptily you must come with me young one frieda the wizened elder of the colony the actors try but it hardly matters at this point as the story becomes less and less compelling with each pass minute br br while each episode deals with a problem of the week as is typical of with most television series overarching story arcs the saga for better and worse while the main point of the story is reunion with his family later episodes tack on other story arcs involving cannibalistic bats from the southern jungles and a brewing war between birds and beasts the writers try to do too much at once fighting to compress as many promising ideas as possible in the hopes that it will grab audience interest enough to keep the bloody show going on unfortunately these attempts are futile to all but the eight to ten year olds at whom this show is aimed br br while it's nice to see canadian media be perpetuated it would be all the sweeter if the enjoyability of the series wasn't limited to the immediate family of the animators or frothing fans of kenneth books there are worse things out there your children could be watching than but far better programs are out there too pass on the mediocrity and read the books instead
0	there were so many reasons why this movie could have been great i'll give you three br br 1 sienna she is extremely hot in this movie and was the reason i chose to watch it in the first place br br 2 tim curry amazing bad guy and i always get excited seeing him in movies even home alone 2 br br 3 jason donovan for all you aussies and poms out there this is a rare treat former neighbours star 80's heart throb dressed in drag selling drugs br br however none of these things nor the fact that the movie is about the drug rave culture managed to make this movie even remotely interesting the script was dull the performances ordinary and despite the scenes with j d and any scene with sienna i found everything about this movie pretty passe br br 3 out of 10
0	a rather disappointing film the club scenes were ok but over done the plot was thin and boring it's only redeeming features were some of the characters the chemist and the dj were pretty fun characters tim character was just bizarre and stupid
0	a pretty transparent attempt to wring cash out of the thriving british club scene sorted is a film that shows promise in certain departments but does very little else a perfunctory thriller plot which is there merely to string the club sequences together variable acting and a pretty ludicrous script all stop sorted from being the showcase that director obviously intended br br however although is sometimes over indulgent especially when using the often ill fitting dance music he does show potential and the lack of an anti drugs message is enormously refreshing overall however the film is a wasted opportunity and the prospects for a great clubbing movie remain out there somewhere watchable nevertheless
0	this cosy middle class sitcom became the subject of much hatred by the new breed of talented comedians in the 1980s such as ben elton did it deserve such malice well terry and june was never clever it was never a well written tale with different threads which intersect at the conclusion it was the show your mother and father and probably grandparents watched they chuckled rather than laughed but they were never likely to be offended by the show so the fact that it never challenged them was immaterial br br one foot in the grave suffered initially because it appeared at first sight to be just another terry and june br br a few days after the death of terry scott an episode was broadcast on terrestrial tv and that has been its final outing there have been few repeats of the show on any tv channel br br thankfully tv comedy has advanced since terry and june it's hard to find kind words for it terry scott did make the best of weak scripts
0	this show lasted for most of the 1980s and had its moments but plots were usually dishwater thin and often painfully unfunny br br terry scott and june whitfield were wasted in this sitcom they both deserved better but it does provide some fond memories and i have found myself smiling at some repeated scenes june talent for comedy is allowed to shine through on occasion when she is not being a foil to terry and she really is clever br br the 1980s is the last decade where you will find this kind of middle class middle aged comedy and many people remember it fondly but i prefer to remember the decade for alternative comedy and the biting satire of spitting image
0	so after the initial disappointment of the first final fantasy movie which seemed to bare next to no resemblance to the final fantasy series final fantasy advent children has released itself to a warm reception and now a dedicated fanbase and the reason for the films success is understandable as it has lush graphics fast moving fight sequences and some cool as hell characters however if you haven't played then it is likely that you will not enjoy this film as it's storyline carries on from the game without previous explanation and your likely to get lost from the plot even if you have played the game secondly there is no character development without previous knowledge from the game your opinions on the characters are limited to 'cool' and 'not of course for fans the film is almost guaranteed to entertain at least for nostalgic reasons and it's cool seeing all the characters you grew to love from the game rendered in some pretty amazing computer animation one last complaint the film at least in my opinion attempted to cram too much into less than two hours and therefore the last half hour or so seems horribly rushed if you played and enjoyed than it is a worthwhile watch though nothing too special if you have not played then it is best that you play it first before watching this film
0	i give this movie a 4 cause i'm a die hard fan of the video game series the graphics and animation are excellent and its nice to see the whole gang in cg form still cool br br now the reasons it only got a 4 well the characters feel like planks of wood with some of the worst voice acting i've ever seen i've watched epic movie br br the movie just seems cloud orientated so much so that it make even the fans embarrassed with cloud this and cloud that clouds mentioned so much that it make you not want to see him in this movie br br the villains have the award for the worst villains ever i was more scared by the wicked witch of the west br br all the other characters in this movie are simply put in the movie for a nod to the fans and doesn't take it further then that br br with the chilly br br summary waited 9 years for this movie and this is what i get a large pointless and boring cut scene i beg the head of square to shoot the man responsible for this burn every copy of the movie and any one involved in it and create a new movie from the it would be nice to make the movie in live action and based on the original game
0	pretty visuals and a lot of fights make not a good movie and that is precisely what happened here br br first off let me admit i am yet to play i intend to order it soon however i did do research to myself with the characters and the story however not everyone has the luxury of time to research things like this and advent children demands that knowledge of is required br br in spite of incredible visuals i can't say there is too much thats new we've seen it in final fantasy the spirits within and apart from some better movement i can't say they've done lots of super daring stuff with this br br the fight scenes well they are a bit of fun still how could we ever doubt the result of any of them this one was boringly classic there were three fights with the bad guys following the standard procedure the hero cloud gets smashed then he almost gets there and gets smashed and then finally wins the reason i say it was boringly classic was that it is used a great deal but in this case is poorly executed i'll touch on that later br br the english dub seemed fine to me though i didn't watch it in japanese so i shan't judge the japanese dub but only the english one i'll say this i've heard plenty of better ones even in my limited repertoire br br and now the plot ummm what plot let me be frank this movie is nought but a fan service a chance to see the characters on the big screen with lovely eye candy as i said earlier the fights seem to just happen for no reason the opening fight is never explained seems to have neither ambition to destroy the world himself nor any real motivation to do anything nasty cloud sits around moping for the entire film and pretty much everyone else gets an obligatory cameo br br really was an ensemble piece advent children is anything but if they'd managed to give everyone some significant story role star trek first contact proved it was possible i might add then this could have been a lot better naturally that would have changed the plot too which lets be honest is almost set to be better than the one we got br br characters were also generally either unused or virtually forgotten the members of avalanche thats the group cloud worked with in for those who don't know get 2 scenes 3 in the case of vincent valentine and some get even less hell the bad guys get more lines than these guys and that is pretty bad br br the music well i don't care if uematsu is god himself he botched this film big time advent one winged angel was the only decent piece otherwise he couldn't decide whether to be epic and orchestral or fun with electric guitar when he switched from one to the other you felt it as though he'd taken a sledgehammer to your head br br and that last point on whether this movie was epic or fun it tried to be both and failed miserably honestly you can't please everyone and do everything the movie also tried to be deep you can go epic and deep or fun and deep but all three is too much but failed here too the last scene which is reminiscent of a ceremony was thrown in there for what looks like the sake of it you don't need to be a christian to just shake your head and cry there that scene just didn't belong in the film and nor did frequent appearances she's dead jim br br given just how fantastic i've heard final fantasy vii to be this movie is nothing short of a gigantic disappointment because of the beautiful visuals i give it a 2 out of 10
0	final fantasy advent children is and will remain a classic example of style over substance gone wrong instead of drawing upon the memorable characters and captivating mythology of the original game square enix has churned out a frivolous montage of incomprehensible battle scenes yes i said incomprehensible did you know that knows blindingly fast kung fu techniques that magically cause the camera angle to shift every second that cloud can effortlessly suspend himself in midair for a full minute while wildly swinging away with his 2 ton sword the english dub is mediocre while not bad it is far from well produced the quality is comparable to that of an average anime dub br br here is what i'd like to say to the die hard fans who can't stop gushing over this movie advent children is the best fan service you could have hoped for from square enix but even a trashy cg flick like had a better story you'll be embarrassed by this movie and its lack of thought in due time the days of its novelty are numbered br br movies like advent children make me question whether square enix recognizes the potential of its franchises after all and no offense it's a japanese company japanese developers can deliver fun games but most of their offerings are disappointingly shallow they are utter psychos however when it comes to production quality advent children features some of the most breathtaking renders in cg history but that doesn't save it from its convoluted plot and cardboard characters br br any fan who followed this film knows comes back bending the story to accommodate his resurrection was a big mistake br br note the one point i give this film is in honor of the 10 000 enslaved japanese animators who gave their lives to render each bleached blond hair on cloud's effeminate caucasian head
0	i was a hippie age 22 in 1965 have seen the play 5 times have 2 versions of the music and have read the script many times maybe taken as an separate thing the movie is ok but as an adoption of the play it's terrible br br first the good the songs are sung well and the production values are pretty good the homosexual implications in black boys white boys is cute the claude berger switch was interesting hair is a fluid production and constant changes in it are inherent provided the basic spirit of it is retained br br but the basic spirit was very much distorted it seemed like all the producer wanted was to sing certain songs and fit the story line to them regardless of what that did to the original intent of the play br br claude sheila and hud were presented as a selfish brats who could care less about anyone outside their tribe claude destroyed sheila's parents party it's hard to believe that she smiled while her parents were being hurt and repeatedly stole cars sheila stole the soldier's clothes and car then she left him in the middle of the desert where he would certainly sunburn badly probably be busted in rank and could likely die on that lonely nevada road good fun and hud found it fine to break his son's heart while yelling at his ex this is not what hippies were like not what the play described and is directly opposite to a love generation br br i've never seen a hippie beg for money the point was to be self sufficient outside the capitalist system not beg from it br br after berger is thrown in jail for ruining sheila's party and claude offers to bail some out berger insists on being bailed instead with no better plan for the rest that hitting on sheila's parents and then hitting on his own mommy br br be in has always been a very spiritual point but here it is wasted on silly brides floating around even if this is part of his trip it ruins a beautiful song i know they're contrasting floating in space with the army but again it totally ruins a beautiful song br br while sheila and claude are skinny dipping berger steals their clothes laughing it was fun man even after he could see both were very annoyed then a little later berger does one thing that no hippie ever does he hits claude terrible br br then they have the perfect opportunity to sing at night in some beautiful sf spot with the stars twinkling down maybe working into an inventive duet instead the whole tribe sings it in the blazing sun speeding down the road in a convertible stolen of course br br i was vastly disappointed with the movie in 1979 and i like it even less now i think it would have been possible to do a reasonably close adoption of the show but this ain't it
0	i was giddy with girlish glee when i found out about this movie shortly after seeing spirits within br br after years of anticipation they gave november 2005 release date well november came and went followed by december oh look today's january 31 2006 no us release as of yet br br oh well i'm so glad i had a friend with a bootlegged subtitled copy d br br well the cg was great not as good as expected but near perfect i cringed however at the unnatural movements made by the children throughout the movie i had thought that we were passed this by now also i didn't really care for the anime look given to their faces i was under the impression that they were shooting for a realistic look to the film and yet most of the characters have larger than norm eyes especially the girl characters they had personality though i'll give them that br br even though i'm not a big fan of anime i do have to say i was impressed with the wild fight scenes they were animated beautifully and had me hanging onto the edge of my seat br br for about the first two br br and there in lies advent children's biggest flaw it's mostly just a bunch of hyper stylized fight scenes br br a sequel of epic proportions had been promised for years instead they gave us a pretty piece of cg with barely a plot to excuse it's just under two hours running time br br where final fantasy is famous for its intricate stories this movie falls short you don't really get to know the characters the only way you'd have any understanding of most of what occurred in the film would have been if you had played the game we barely got to see them before they were battling it out with whatever current threat br br what hurts the fans even more is the awful cameos that the majority of characters were given they were nothing more than cloud's i'll call if i need you but i probably won't back up singers and to add to the hurt they had each character individually throw cloud higher and higher this little part here was so cheesy i almost turned it off i would have been much more impressed if he had just simply jumped up all on his own off of walls to get himself up higher br br it hurt even more when they reduced the turks to less than just comic relief that was fine for the game but this is cinema people do not act like cartoon characters in a harsh battle they took away their dignity br br and spoiler yeah right most of you probably already know anyhow who remembers darth maul being hyped up in sw episode 1 yeah now picture that but with that's right he had maybe 5 minutes of screen time maybe that end spoiler p br br if this movie was made for the fans then way to go square if this is any indication of the direction you're taking the ff series i doubt you're going to be seeing much of my money i played your games for the wonderful story and the excellent characters br br you had a chance to make something epic something truly beautiful a masterpiece that flies in the face of all of the disney cg films br br instead you gave us a pretty piece of flesh with hardly anything underneath to hold it together way to go br br and i'm sure if the rest of the fans paused for a moment and tried to just pay attention to everything but the cg they'd know what i'm talking about well i was gonna rate this a 5 10 but after thinking about it while righting this i'm giving it a 3 10 because they could have done better they have done better and this is just sad br br if they're gonna remake anything they need to do this one first
0	first i will say that i am going to be as subjective as i can br br there will be some potential spoilers ahead so beware br br i hardly ever review movies but this one in particular i felt i had to review this movie final fantasy 7 advent children based off the ultra popular rpg final fantasy vii for the ps1 has been in the works for quite some time after the years of hype and the dozens of trailers none of which i ever saw i had only seen stills this movie got the legions of fans really excited about seeing their favorite characters on the big screen i myself had played and completed the game a few times like any good fan and being such a movie freak i was pretty excited myself so i had thought to myself what could go wrong br br well the movie started out ok in the first 20 minutes but then things get out of hand as the movie progressed without a doubt this is the best looking cgi animation around but that won't help a weak plot undeveloped characters and over indulgent action scenes br br here is the story basically these three silver haired nancy boys in leather who have nothing to do with the game are supposedly clones of he's the villain of the game who had supposedly murdered all his supposed clones are trying to kidnap all the children for some reason that was not really explained all that well probably to make an army of kids they also center some of the story on some kid named denzel i don't know who this kid is or what his point is he just seems depressed all the time so the clones also are involved in some kind of scheme involving some disease called that only affects the children this disease seems to cause boredom and small amounts of skin br br so now cloud must save the day from these guys apparently cloud and his fellow team mates have learned the ability of flight i felt a little insulted that these characters where flying around a city fighting a dragon and landing on there feet all the time maybe if the movie wasn't so over the top then the view relax into it and then they can be amazed by something incredible the real problem of this movie is logic now i know what you are gonna say but it's called final fantasy it should have those ideas in it well that is a foolish way to think the game based itself in some kind of reality and the movie should follow through in that context context and logic in this movie is inconsistent i could explain it all but if i did i would end up writing the screenplay br br also some scenes in this movie were extremely contrived and trite like when all of the characters from the game show up just in the nick of time for their obligatory screen time so as not to upset the fans they show up do there bit and pretty much have no point in the story br br if this is too long here is the simpler review br br the pros the first 20 minutes top notch cgi animation decent action scenes visually stunning br br the cons illogical over indulgent action unbalanced action leaves the viewer jaded at the climax weak plot super human characters no suspense the j rock soundtrack score what happened to the orchestra horrible ending br br big time spoiler br br now the ending of this movie really disappointed me they could have had gone the really cool and sweet ending where cloud dies and meets up with in the after life but after the great battle at the end cloud gets shot in the back the kinda wound where the bullet blast out through the chest then cloud has his 100th flashback in the movie and then wakes up in a pool of now i remember the in the game but it did not have resurrecting properties if it did they could have brought back to life thus making a completely different story so cloud is brought back to life and everyone has a party and dives into the pool and we have a ultra cheezy hallmark lifetime type moment br br not that the movie doesn't have it's moments its is worth seeing for its visuals but thats all br br other than that it's not really a good movie it is strictly for blinded fans of the game not for people who care about plot and character and story telling
0	when the spirits within was released all you heard from final fantasy fans was how awful the movie was because it didn't seem like final fantasy this is a different story for better or worse the familiar settings characters music story and over the top action scenes should thrill fans of the original game the problem is that it just isn't a good movie in its own right br br the direction during the fight scenes is often sloppy switching camera angles ridiculously fast in an attempt to make the action seem more frenetic but only serving to make the scenes look jumbled and confusing br br the cg itself is exceptional but i can't say it's the best i've ever seen since spirits within had much more detail on the characters although i must admit that advent children's characters moved much more naturally br br the plot is virtually a black hole it's a giant deus ex machina designed solely to bring back for one last fight old characters reappear but serve no real purpose other than to please fans character development is nonexistent and the film does nothing at all to resolve any of the plot threads left hanging after the game's end but it's packed with neat looking fight scenes with magic summons and limit breaks which is probably what fans wanted anyway br br in the end advent children is a very flashy but totally brainless action flick that serves more as a side story for final fantasy vii than a real sequel br br by the way don't think you're hurting my feelings by voting not useful it just makes me feel superior knowing that fanboys fangirls resent my objectivity so greatly
0	i really like kinski he is a great actor i've seen this movie because i've heard that there are autobiographic aspects in this movie br br the film is full of symbols like a piano sinking in a river or strange shadow pictures at the walls then the narrator always says abstract sentences like a kid sells fortune but her box is empty now this is really disturbing and wasn't really necessary because everyone understands what this movie is all about the movie shows how kinski's character treated woman and how he kept them under control if there are really some aspects of kinski's life in this story then he really was an swine so there is no need to watch this movie unless if you want to see kinski naked or if you like sick trash movies to laugh about
0	this film is sometimes called 'the story of o pt 2' which tries to pass itself off as a sequel of sorts to the french erotic s m thriller 'the story of o' although i've never seen the original version i did however get to see this sorry mixed bag of sexual social politics i guess the 'o' angle comes from the occasional s m overtones which were never as explicit and unpleasant to watch as the ones in klaus kinski is the only recognizable face in this french japanese production but speaks his lines in english at least in the version i saw the unnecessary use of surrealism only manages to make this some what boring example in pseudo porn even more pretentious what are they trying to prove with depicting a piano floating in water it's obvious that after the whole porno chic trend in cinema petered out ouch sorry bad pun about 1975 producers had to scrape the bottom of the barrel trying to please the mavens of adult cinema not to mention foreign art cinema so film goers had to contend with dreck like 'the last woman' and others like it
0	i bought this film on dvd despite the stale review and that was idiotic that review was completely accurate and i have never seen any worse erotic film in my long life even if it partly was lovely filmed and had interesting surroundings plus a nice cover but my own extreme erotica c films are over 100 times more erotic just in the soft delicious aspect with probably less than 100 times of this films budget the story have no logical connection with the first film or the famous book or any new exciting element of slave training except some very strange and sad developments then did the main male character klaus kinski not look a bit like the second master of o he try to play and not even lovely arielle dombasle did look delicious in any scene
0	this is one of the worst films i have seen in a while br br the problem is that it doesn't know whether it wants to be an intelligent political film 'artistic' or an exercise is eroticism as a result it fails on all accounts br br the acting is atrocious the narration off putting and the supposed symbolism pointless br br klaus kinski is probably the best thing about this film but that isn't a good thing sure he has an intense and 'unique' look but ultimately he can't actually act just look at how he reacts when his mistress leaves br br really don't watch this film some say it needs repeat viewings i say one is too many
0	this movie tries to be artistic but comes across as puerile as a film school student's first attempt next it tries to be erotic but comes across as clumsy as a virgin's first attempt lastly it tries to be cruel gripping but aside from kinski's performance which is powerful but conspicuously misplaced amidst the amateur melodrama it's about as gripping as your hand around a wet noodle which is an appropriate metaphor considering how un erotic this film is it features a blowjob scene which is even lamer than career burying performance in the brown bunny run away now while you have the chance go find yourself a victoria's secret lingerie catalogue instead it's more artistic and more erotic than this tripe
0	the premise of this movie is the guy is married and yet everyone on this site seems to think yeah this is funny cute and a good movie what the hell what is funny about immature girls fornicating with a married man with a new baby what is cute about the fact that he is cheating on his wife what have been wrong with them finding some teenage boys to have sex with before starting college noooo that is not good enough the guy has to be married off limits off the market that's the one we gotta have dumb ass girls then one of the girls decides that she loves the guy no she just loves the way he makes her feel two of the girls are having fun with it they think it is funny and no one seems to have any moral problems with what they are doing it just shameless but yeah this is all good with everyone one this website the dark haired girl even has the audacity to have her dad pick her up from the guys house under the ruse of baby sitting this is a morally disgusting movie and where is the wife poor woman working and paying the bills while he screws the baby sitter
0	this movie is worse than heaven's gate or plan 9 from outer space don't know why it got even one oscar it should have gotten a million raspberries just like the audiences that either walked out or didn't show up in the first place the hospital was a first rate financial failure but i'm certain the elite classes of left wing gutter mouthed intellectuals that the american public was far too to appreciate biting social commentary when they saw it and on and on george c scott in one of most artless and embarrassing roles along with aging sex symbol diana rigg spend most of the movie trying to cuss in an increasingly blasé manner as they push along a silly plot poor old george is impotent and is just crushed by the event but after lots of dirty language between him and rigg he rapes her multiple times on lovely night in a filthy crumbling nyc hospital that looks so disgusting that i wouldn't want a dying pet rat treated in it there's also some sacrilegious junk dialog tossed about hither and yon laced with plenty of cussing as well it ends by portraying the faulty notion that unusual stress without physical exertion always brings on cardiac arrest never want to see another minute of this awful movie again
0	when a friend once lambasted me for my first movie a pretty bad videotaped affair i argued that i could grow orson welles' first movie indeed was even worse he challenged me that it couldn't be so i pulled out the criterion laserdisc of i think citizen kane and played hearts of age my friend lasted just a few minutes before conceding the point br br there is a little humor in this short but it's basically as pretentious as and perhaps a collegiate answer to blood of a poet and other avant garde films of the time it is what it is a succession of images with a vague theme and unless you really enjoy any footage of welles in heavy makeup to boot this isn't really even worth tracking down
0	i'm amazed that the hospital has been so well received by the critics and the public i found it dreary visually ugly and generally meaningless after the first virtually unwatchable 40 minutes the film does improve relatively but it remains way too far fetched not to mention unfunny to be successful as a satire and has too little substance to succeed as a drama the film's uncertain tone is its biggest fault overshadowing even scott's terrific as usual performance
0	i have to ask myself do movies like this get their support by people associated with the movie itself coming here and critiquing it how can something so awful score this high my parents went to see a lot of the more adult themed movies when we were kids anything with an r in it until we were old enough i only remember two films that had them saying yech when they got home this one and catch 22 br br the movie is comprised of bumbling physicians and staff in a filthy hospital rambling narratives and a pack of inner city people who look like rejects from a 1970s norman lear sitcom staging a protest the worst part is the murder mystery a crazy old guy doing god's work by killing doctors and others when he confesses scott and his girlfriend show little emotion they only care about him getting out of there where he will be safe and happy a doctor that drops dead of a heart attack is faked as the man so he can get away oh my what a fun movie br br this movie didn't make me think chuckle or have any other feeling other than it must get better but it never does people wonder why it was a failure no wonder here i wonder how imdb has enough members that think this movie is good yech
0	cowardly and cynical the represents the nadir of paddy special brand of celebration of the status quo disguised as satire br br thanks to ham handed director arthur hiller this ludicrous script gets the visually ugly poorly paced presentation it deserves br br only a great performance by george c scott in the sort of mean spirited role he was born to play keeps the from being a complete disaster br br ironically though scott's performance does viewers a disservice his magnetism keeps them watching when they might more turn off the vcr and clean out the closets stare at the clouds or watch re runs of baywatch ' br br certainly anyone who emotionally invests in the set up modern medicine apparently gone amok will feel cheated by the dismal payoff where reveals that the system works just fine so quit your carping br br while the first half of this film provides some entertaining black comedy it all turns out to be a red herring before that becomes clear though gives some good lines to scott as his middle aged middle class white male stand in br br bitter alcoholic impotent scott's dr herbert has alienated those who know him best and he has the bile to keep alienating them in worldview all that of course makes a magnet for a hippie chick half his age br br playing a collection of adjectives the long haired long legged and almost bust less diana rigg struggles in the part of the girl ' the british rigg is miscast as a southwestern free spirit but any other actress would struggle as well like the rest of a good cast gone to waste rigg can't overcome a script that isn't interested in any character except or any philosophy beyond banality br br for fans of george c scott this is another star turn and worth watching for fans of black comedy turn it off after the first 45 minutes for anyone else don't bother
0	it's okay a few years later classic network will be his true cinematic big home run but for now this dark comedy isn't the classic it aspires to be it's mostly awful although it has some good scenes the first murder victim being found the e r clerk responsible for billing patients making a surprise discovery delusional confessional and the very last scene where scott's character regains his professional integrity and self respect it also has some ludicrous scenes scott's character's whiny monologue during his early visit to the hospital psychiatrist scott's character's raping rigg's character horrible mugging in his brief scenes and the o r doctor on the operating table to resuscitate the wrong patient because i already have one malpractice lawsuit br br also tries too hard throwing every conceivable hurdle at this one hospital i e the murders the administrative mistakes the poor people protesting outside etc it might have worked better as a look at the industry as a whole acting wise scott is passable rigg seems miscast hughes is inspired and mugs through out his brief performance the rest of the cast is too one dimensional
0	i just saw this stinky old boiler on tv best watched with a very large of dr jungle juice at hand this cheese fest is hilariously bad on the very slim plus side raquel was in her physical prime she looks good and you get to see a fair bit of her since she plays a go go dancer she had great legs that's for sure there's also some minor interest for screen buffs in the footage of los angeles ca '69 and in spotting actors in minor parts who went on to better things veteran thesp ron rifkin 'brothers and sisters' delivers a toe curling early performances as sailor the faggot junkie barman who rats raquel out to the bad guy you might also recognise the gun toting security guard in the hit and run scene it's a very early appearance by gordon jump who gave such a lovely performance in as piece of br br the 'plot' of such as it is follows the travails of an exotic dancer welch on the run from her murderous ex husband luke askew this turkey is classic production line hollywood sludge a paint by numbers script pedestrian direction hokey shots edits and effects ultra cheesy stock music plywood sets and performances to match br br the cast is as uniformly dreadful as the screenplay although raquel is capable of fair performances in the right vehicle this old clunker is so bad that she doesn't really stand a chance and neither does the audience one of my favourite moments occurs when raquel awakes up in the hospital sees the vegas cop who's pursuing her murderous ex and asks how did you get here to which he of course replies in a plane oh the humanity and you won't be able to take your eyes off the doctor michael who has what might well be one of the very worst walk ons in the long sad history of bad cameos i don't think i've ever seen anyone stand in one spot so badly before br br love interest joe james stacy ambles through the film with a fixed look that's somewhere between bemused and embarrassed and no wonder this bomb puts the cast through just about every made for tv cliché in the book from spectacularly dreadful turn in the dreadful nightmare montage to the pure schlock of the 'romantic' horse ride along leo beach br br spoiler warning just about the only interesting thing in the whole film is the denouement in which raquel finally gets her own back and hilariously enacts the title by setting the baddie on fire whoever the stunt guy was really earned his money on this one he goes up like linda in a heatwave yet even this fairly spectacular scene is compromised by the fact that one of the crew moves into shot near the end br br there are so many crappy things about that it's oddly compelling i found yourself wondering if this could be one of the worst films i've ever seen made the answer seemed to be a resounding 'yes' until i saw the film that followed it roger corman's mega trashy classic 'the big doll house' which takes awful to a whole new level i can heartily recommend these two as a double bill you'll laugh yourself silly
0	after nearly getting killed by a big dog a stray cat thinks to herself why can't i be a skunk then everyone would leave me alone she looks around the junkyard and gets an idea white paint black paint and some limburger cheese and some garlic hmmmm the next thing you know we have the forerunner to pepe le pew although in this cartoon she's still a cat she's a she and just a skunk in disguise br br the cat also is enjoying and taking full advantage of her new status as a smelly skunk he's a happy content guy now until a real skunk with the charles boyer imitation voice shows up br br i did appreciate the cat putting on a bugs bunny outfit however overall i never cared for these french takeoff characters finding the stereotypical dialog overdone and not really funny so i only rate this as fair i do this a point however for the moral at the end of the story
0	chuck jones's able kitty' is the cartoon that introduced pepe le pew to the sort of there are a few key differences between the pepe we know and love or hate in the case of some people and the character in this cartoon for one the disguised cat who pepe pursues in able kitty' is distinctly male also pepe is exposed as a fraud whose real name is henry at the cartoon's climax his french accent dropping away when his wife and family turn up pepe is not even the lead character here the focus the put upon cat who disguises himself as a skunk to scare off his enemies for the most part the storyline largely follows the usual format of a pepe le pew cartoon but pepe's aggressive courtship is lacking the usual wisecracks and straight to camera addresses that make him such a great character he is also not nearly as handsome as he would become and rather awkwardly animated in fact able kitty' is a fairly ugly and clumsy looking cartoon all round its main source of appeal comes from its concept which was original at this stage before it became the template for every pepe le pew cartoon that followed this subsequent development has robbed able kitty' of any impact whatsoever and to modern viewers it just looks like a rather dull pepe le pew short with a weird surprise ending as a child i hated pepe le pew as an adult able to appreciate his more sophisticated verbal and risqué humour i love the character and most of his cartoons able kitty' makes me feel like a child again
0	my guess is that the producers of this low budget space horror film wanted a serious movie but the director had his heart set on a parody so this is what we get set in an abandoned spaceship 1000 years in the future and peopled with characters and props right out of the 90's the set is some industrial complex maybe an oil tanker whatever they use is as is so the controls consist racks of old tv equipment one location is obviously the employees lunchroom and sports an old tv and vcr as well as a water cooler with plastic tiny lister and coolio get the best lines arguing throughout the story the dialog is packed with terms that are pretty dated even now a ok daddy o but then maybe the 30th century is very retro when the captain declares the ships cargo is a load of coffins from the transylvania station you know this is all a put on its a bit of alien part jasonx shameless rip off of all the best sci fi and horror titles at one point casper even tells his pilot to make it so with a straight face this film would have been better if they had just let everyone run with the satire but they keep attempting to make the story serious maybe the backers were on the set that day anyway not a bad boredom killer if you aren't too picky fx are as good as the sets are bad
0	i normally like casper in his movies a real credit to starship troopers but the box cover on this video ssooooo mi the renters at my local video people rent it expecting a perhaps borg like vampire and instead they get a bad re make of lon chaney it had great potential and fell very flat ireally think i could have written a better story line and screen play why is it in every science fiction movie they the cast constantly refers to a solar system as a galaxy didn't any of these screenwriters or authors stay awake in science class it is a pet of mine but a solar system is a single star with planets a galaxy is a whole bunch of solar systems it is like referring to a can of coke as a gross of six packs makes it sound even dumber
0	this was on scifi this past weekend and i had to check it out after all it was science fiction with vampires and erika eleniak what could go wrong with this b movie br br a lot br br to start with it can't even be classified as a b movie because that would put it in the same league as roger corman and this movie doesn't even meet his expectations the most money they spent was on the contact lenses for the vampires br br secondly the casting was horrible yes casting udo kier as the captain of the was a smart move but the director clearly couldn't even get kier to memorize his lines casting eleniak in a vampire movie is also a smart move because it means a bunch of horny guys are going to buy rent record this flick to watch her get seduced by a vampire but the director writer and producer screwed that one too granted they got some money out of the poor souls who enjoy watching vampire movies with hot women in them but no one is going to remember this movie in another two or three years br br thirdly little things that just emphasize the laziness in this movie for example van helsing calls a cross a crucifix and when mina is staked in the coffin the viewer can clearly see the fact that her chest is nothing more than pillows br br oh and one other thing why did they go for the george type dracula instead of something that would look decently scary does george hamilton have an overwhelming hold on our future why didn't everyone who saw dracula just laugh at him for his get up br br a waste of time even with a tivo remote in your hand
0	just watched on this early experimental short film directed by william vance and orson welles yes you read that right orson welles years before he gained fame for radio's the war of the worlds and his feature debut citizen kane welles was a 19 year old just finding his muse besides vance and welles another player here was one virginia nicholson who would become first wife she plays a woman who keeps sitting on something that rocks back and forth courtesy of an african american servant paul edgerton in blackface during this time a man welles keeps passing her by courtesy of the scene constantly repeating i won't reveal any more except to say how interesting the silent images were as they jump cut constantly that's not to say this was any good but it was fascinating to watch even with the guitar score by larry added in the 2005 print i watched worth a look for welles enthusiasts and anyone with a taste of the avant garde
0	this movie cannot be serious because it has a nerdy looking kid named curtis killing people the other two psycho kids are kind of cute but that curtis kid is just so ugly because he wears these huge brown ugly glasses the actor probably wandered on the wrong set and he was really supposed to go to revenge of the nerds br br another thing that i hate so much about this movie is that curtis takes his sweet time shooting people i kept my finger on the fast forward button because he took too long and what was up with his voice he sounded like he was fourteen and not ten another thing i hated was that he kept smiling like an idiot and there was no point to that br br then they put that annoying kid in the freezer and somehow he found a flashlight in there that didn't make any sense and neither did the music the music didn't fit any of the scenes br br this movie is slow boring and a waste of time watch a different movie on your birthday
0	this is a pale imitation of and a gentleman ' there is no chemistry between kutcher and the unknown woman who plays his love interest the dialog is wooden the situations hackneyed it's too long and the climax is anti climactic i love the its men and women are fearless and tough the action scenes are awesome but this movie doesn't do much for recruiting i fear the script is formulaic but confusing character is trying to redeem himself for an accident that wasn't his fault costner's is raging against the dying of the light but why his 'conflict' with his wife is about as deep as a mud puddle i saw this sneak preview for free and certainly felt i got my money's worth
0	this is my first comment on a movie in here i have to say that of all the bad films i ever seen including braindead for an example this is really worse i promise don't even look at it it is boring bad acting bad script and plot bad effects the whole movie is one big piece of crap if i could i would give 0 stars out of 10 but since the lowest is 1 which is awful i need to vote that but i would say the movie is worse than awful br br don't pain yourself by seeing this movie and hoping it will get better because i can tell you already now it wont i hoped that there might would come one single scene which would be worth watching there didn't came any good scene at all br br what an excellent piece of crap br br and coolio as a vampire lol lmao
0	ok with coolio in it i should have known better but br br within 3 mins you've encountered 5 bites from other movies and tv shows br br 8 mins casper van dien should have learnt by now br br 10 mins you're feeling sorry for tom 'tiny' lister jr that he has been reduced to doing movies like this br br 15 mins erika eleniak shows up looking like zena br br 20 mins you're ready to shoot you're self br br how these movies receive funding is beyond me and yes i watched the whole thing the ending is priceless just stay away
0	please don't waste your money on this sorry excuse for a motion picture the only way i could see someone watching this is if they are a die hard fan of erika but you would be better off surfing the internet than to watch this piece of crap i would rather watch paint dry than go through watching this br br they lure you in with casper and erika and lead you to believe it is a sci fi dracula movie but it quickly works out to be a farce about van helsing's great great you get the point grandson here ironically for one last show down between himself and dracula br br the movie also tries to make a political statement i believe when it appears that none of the characters in the future know who god is that they have not been taught about him and don't understand when they see a cross could have done a lot more with this idea it's a shame it turned out the way it did
0	it is quite rare that a movie comes along that is so useless that i with imdb allowed the use of negative scores in fact i reflect back upon this movie and i truly cannot think of a movie that had so little going for it acting your kidding right direction no a plot no this movie has nothing going for it if you take it as a serious movie this is often the case with movies of this genre but most movies of this nature can be watch as if they are a comedy and you can laugh at how pathetic the characters and situations are and almost get your times worth this movie is so empty that it cannot even suit that purpose i have to give this a 1 10 three points lower then any other movie i have ever rated i truly feel that the staff involved in this movie should pay me for the 83 minutes i spent watching it i do not really have the words to describe how bad this is no one should ever watch this for any reason again
0	i won't reiterate what so many others have said about this film i'll try to add a few new points the coolio as vampire bit is a nod to fans who are familiar with his turn on the blondie song no exit in which he assumes the role of a rapping vampire it actually works as a musical concept and is in fact a great song casper van dien is no worse than brad pitt and is actually more handsome and really what does anyone go to a brad pitt movie for other than eye candy same here although this is poorly filmed check out starship troopers instead and of course udo kier after having played dracula in the morrissey warhol film has little more than a cameo enjoy it if you can
0	this was by far the worst movie i have ever seen me and my husband own over 600 dvds most of which are sci fi and horror b movies that aren't top quality but still entertaining dracula 300 had absolutely no redeeming qualities at all the writing was horrific and the acting was even worse it took us a 3 tries to get through the entire movie because we could only tolerate it in 30 minute intervals we thought surely it must get better we were wrong i would rather watch a corpse being embalmed than to have to sit through that again when it ended me and my husband just looked at each other like uh is that it the ending seemed like there was supposed to be more but they ran over their apparent 500 00 budget and were like oh crap we are broke end it now quick roll credits
0	hey if people thought ed wood was a bad director then they totally have not seen this movie i mean there were gaping plot holes and under utilized cast shoddy special effects i mean i cant believe that this movie came out from a hollywood studio a high school drama club could probably come out with a better product i mean they had erika eleniak who is gorgeous casper van dien and under rated actor their agents should be shot to ask them to sign on to this dribble don't they read scripts i still cant believe that tiny lister was a survivor in the movie i was banging my head the whole time at why him and not a descendant of van helsing be the last man standing i am a fan of vampire movies and this is by far the worst they should stake it so that it never sees the light of day
0	wow there's a lot of venom directed at this movie and a lot of it is deserved but it's not the worst movie of all time that's probably zoolander br br anyway if you're high on something really drunk or just in the mood for a b minus minus movie that you can make fun of this may be your cup of tea br br yes as others said the first part of the movie makes you think you're watching an updating of the bram stoker novel two of the main characters are named van helsing and mina the ship is the and they're in the carpathian galaxy you later find that van helsing is a descendant of the original and he just happens to be on a ship in the 30th century with dracula br br oh yeah and to add to the originality this spooky ghost ship movie has another character named ash sound familiar br br there's paper thin character development and anachronisms like the aforementioned manual wheelchair and coolio and tom lister talking 20th century black slang but what really makes the movie ridiculous is the ending if that's what happens to the characters then the previous two hours have been a waste br br like i said it you want a dumb movie to play mystery science theater with and your mind is in approximately the same mode required for viewing the great vegetable rebellion episode of lost in space then you may find this diverting otherwise put a stake in it it's done
0	well it is about 1 000 years in the future and we have finally breached traveling the vast distance between galaxies but sadly we still use guns that shoot bullets black men are still calling each other brothers and getting high stoned fighting etc common stereotypical urban black men are still getting the short end of the stick babes in tight black rubber pants that look like they're from baywatch share close quarters with the captian and crew crippled people still require wheelchairs to move no fancy cures implants or robotic legs dracula still looks and acts gay need i go on in short this move was shot on a typical sci fi set low budget props actors and no real special effects to speak of the beginning the middle and the ending was pathetic i have to go off and shoot myself now there is nothing left to live for
0	hmmm is it worst film ever well sort of for some of the cast its a shame to see them in such a film but hey if it pays the bills why not as for the film well ok cg effects not to bad for such a cheap film music is just about ok again for a cheap film end credits are ok lol br br bad to many to list but cast acting sets script ending what the hell drac worst drac ever many more but can not be bothered to put them all down br br idea was ok but needed ten times the budget and more thought and much better lighting and style and change all bad points i do say however to see this film so you to can say what the fu was that all about as the credits run also its kind of a must see just to see how bad it is
0	i was at wrestlemania vi in toronto as a 10 year old and the event i saw then was pretty different from what i saw on the wrestlemania collection dvd i just watched i don't understand how the wwe doesn't have the rights to some of the old music since most of those songs were created by the wwf they shouldn't have to worry about the licensing and royalty fees that prevent shows like snl from releasing season sets its pretty stupid to whine about but for me hearing demolition come out to their theme music at a wrestlemania in person was a memory that i never forgot and it didn't exist on this dvd what is the point of them even owning the rights to this huge library of video if they have to edit it so drastically to use it
0	my original comment on this particular title was deleted by a imdb user or the staff only because i just happen to dislike this film to the point i had to sincerely write what i felt after seeing this poor excuse for a film where's my freedom of word br br obviously this movie was made by students 'cos so lame and amateurish it felt of course even they have to start from somewhere the script was incoherent mess and so was the acting with low budget and b class actors what can you expect there's some cgi in places so poor it looks like done with an old pc some may say this is sort of an alien clone only this time it's dracula in a vintage costume who's sucking the other cast dry one by one the sets are unconvincing cheap and small boiler rooms although the story takes place in a large space craft br br it would be fun to know what the stars erika eleniak casper van dien coolio and udo kier thought about the film after it was released coolio must be the worst rapper turned actor ever br br it was a total waste of my time and money don't know why i even bothered to rent this flick honestly i just hate this film with uwe boll's house of the dead dracula 3000 shares the questionable honor of being the worst movie ever well i've seen even worse than these two br br avoid any other film will do better
0	and that's a goddamn shame please make the sun rise and have it incinerate all copies of dracula 3000 this must be the worst vampire flick of the new millennium so far i haven't seen reign in darkness yet but they don't get much worse than this don't be fooled be the movie's cool h r cover this is so bad it's almost hilarious i can't describe all the emotions this movie conjured i laughed my ass off i yelled at the screen i sat there numb nodding my head in disbelief this film has cheese' written all over it the best thing of this movie are the opening credits and the opening shots which feature more or less okay cgi of two space ships but when casper van voice over comes on you start smelling something fishy and indeed it all goes downhill rapidly after that br br the crew of a salvage spaceship finds an abandoned vessel the which seems to be heading for earth they enter it thus sealing their fate this movie is above all things a shameless low budget alien rip off mixed with vampires right down to the plot twist were erika eleniak's character aurora reveals she's a robot coolio goes badly over the top as the dope smoking bloodsucking code from the hood as a name casper van character's named capt van helsing hahaha and he looks like er well casper van dien udo kier as capt former commander of the is only shown on a monitor screen and he really does seem to have trouble reading his lines from an auto cue poor udo what where you doing in this flick and then we have langley as count one of the most pathetic and laughable dracula's ever to dis grace the silver screen just look at his outfit instead of some cool looking futuristic black suit or something he's wearing a cheap old school halloween suit with fringes you thought richard was unconvincing as dracula in van helsing then wait until you see performance br br the set designers went overboard on this one the interior of the looks like a cross between an oil tanker and an old steel factory which they decorated with awful lights and colors like green pink blue and yellow the prop master must have forgotten that this movie takes place in the year 3000 because the characters use guns which look like today's 45 and prof uses a non motorized non floating wheelchair it has to be pushed around in order to move br br aside from one dried up corpse a few impalements and one dismemberment there's absolutely no gore and the vampire fangs and contact lenses look fake as hell add to that also the most lame stupid and abrupt ending ever humvee and aurora are the only survivors instead of having one final bloody showdown with count they lock themselves in the control room then aurora explains that before her program was upgraded and joining narcotics she used to be a 3 2 pb in other words a pleasure bot so she says well then what are you waiting for humvee answers ain't gotta tell me twice come on girl picks her up and the ship explodes and credits roll no sex scene no erika her boobies no bloody climax just one more shot of udo kier reading a line on the monitor and it's over br br so this movie is a must see for every bad movie lover but i must warn them it gets really painful at times and everyone claiming that van helsing underworld or even queen of the damned is the worst vampire movie of the new millennium clearly is insane or just hasn't seen dracula 3000 yet
0	oh dear gods this is awful stay away just stay away if you think you've seen bad movies think again never before has my brain hurt as much as it did after i watched this movie the acting if it is allowed to be called that is enough to cause internal inside your head the story is so thin it is just barely there no wait scratch that there is not a complete story there but once in a while there is a few thin lines that stick up from all the amount of horribleness and believe me those few lines should have been shot the best way to enjoy this movie is to drop napalm on it and watch the cozy fire from a distance br br some may call me sarcastic in this review but i am only trying to spare some of you of a serious headache however should you be what i like to call a visual masochist like myself please go right ahead and watch this monstrosity
0	imagine the worst thing that could ever possibly be conceived by human intellect now imagine something infinitely darker i mean worse than that then multiply that by the quantity of the suckiness possessed by the star wars holiday special this movie is by far worse than that br br dracula 3000 infinite darkness starring such illustrious and reputable actors such as coolio and langley as the film's horrifying antagonist count is to eating one's own feces exclusively for one's entire life condensed into approximately one hour and twenty minutes to be frank there is no way to approach a review of this cinematic tragedy riddled with communist propaganda promotion of drug use futuristic anachronisms and quite possibly the worst special effects since the original war of the worlds br br the hammer and the sickle of the soviet union can be seen proudly displayed throughout the dingy sets they dare call a spaceship lenin can be observed on several posters throughout the film and of course religion has been abolished for two centuries by then so they don't know who this god is even though they have no reservations about using his name in vain but of course in the socialist republic of space presided over by interstellar president baker death stick like drugs are legalized and quite common yet handicap mobility seems even worse off than it is today they don't even have a wheelchair ramp br br racial tension still festers throughout the galaxy in quite a familiar predictable fashion we receive great commentary on ethnic division through lines such as is dracula a us gotta stick together and once you go black you don't go back speaking of the token black characters one is played by coolio playing a stereotypical stoner coolio becomes possibly the most annoying and ridiculous vampire ever oh wait second most ridiculous vampire ever that prized title goes to our friend count from planet transylvania in the carpathian system these two make quite a pair between coolio's attempts to cripple a strange attempts at making high pitched animal noises a hairstyle years old and gigantic stretches of completely worthless dialogue and count twenty dollar generic halloween style vampire costume exploding coffins or confusingly inane back story br br one wonders if they did not simply give coolio the opportunity to get as high as a kite in space without gravity let him interact with the other actors and just went from there br br count motivations are also somewhat in question does he want infinite darkness as the film's subtitle would have you believe does he want to eat the crew or does he want coolio to kill them all or does he desire to give handicapped people a chance in such an future it doesn't really matter because none of this film's plot makes sense anyways br br the highlight of this movie has to be it's ending more for the fact that it means the movie is over than by any merit of the abrupt trainwreck of a climax they phone in before the credits instead of facing count off in some sort of duel the closest we get is a shot of flailing around at breakneck speeds in front of our protagonist who dies shortly afterwards our heroes beat him by cutting off his arm in an ordinary door then proceeds to collapse screeching in pain at a totally mundane yet understandably painful injury this is by far the most fun you'll get from this movie watching a vampire's contorted face as he cries in pain will have you on the edge of your seat with laughter almost worth the four bucks for that alone of course right after that we're treated with one of the film's worst one liners the mandatory allusion to sex and perhaps the most abrupt excuse for an ending ever they're driving into the sun and their ship literally just blows up before they even come remotely close to impact i think they just outdid the wachowski bros for the worst finale ever br br i can only sleep at night because we know that a sequel is impossible secure in this fact we can safely say that this is the worst movie ever created and one which will never be exceeded in low quality lower budget and lower est acting talent
0	dracula 3000 or van helsing dracula's revenge cheap cash in on another lame vampire flick as i saw it is a master class in how not to make a movie a rag tag collection of misfit board a previously lost cargo ship the in the cough carpathian system which later is upgraded to the carpathian galaxy and awake a relentless evil in this case the script the film is a bizarre bastardization of event horizon and whatever the lamest vampire film of all time is br br spoliers follow after a plethora of production company logos and a credit sequence that most of the budget must have been blown on we open with a cheesy exposition type speech from casper silly name who plays captain abraham van helsing sillier name and in lieu of actual character development goes on to describe the twisted unintelligible oddities that make up his crew van helsing himself sports a spray on stubble and wears a body warmer throughout in a sort of retro 80's tribute to han solo i guess now and again the captain of the pops up in some sort of mad video diary to tell us nothing of consequence in a pronounced german accent subtitles sadly not included crewmember mina boards the derelict ship alone armed only with a gun shaped torch and thick east european accent while conversing with van helsing on his ships bridge which is basically a single glittery wall mina wearing a gas mask with rubber hoses glued to the front encounters what can only be described as a skateboarder in a black cloak who continually glides by the camera why this happens as the vampire is not yet made flesh is never explained this leads on to a shaky camera chasing mina down the hallways until she runs into humvee it's possible will smith could have been drafted in to write lines as most of them consist of humvee reminding us he is black every ten seconds and saying the word ass enough for a guinness book of records entry while delivering all this in a from da hood accent this is the year 3000 does da hood even exist one of the main problems with this film is that it insanely tries to pretend its set in the year 3000 unfortunately anyone with healthy eyes won't buy this as the looks suspiciously like a soviet style ocean going tanker possibly the film crew thought it would be okay to leave hammer and sickle symbols everywhere and a sexy poster of lenin next to a bunch of lockers and explain it away as some sort of futuristic communist comeback special the crew's clothes look as if they were raided from a collection box sealed since 1993 and they are armed to the teeth with latest in 20th century automatic weapons with added year 3000 zing when fired which of course are absolutely no use against vampires is a thing of the past in the future as the simpering professor not only has glasses but is in a wheelchair my god what happened to all that genetic engineering stuff br br the professor is an interesting character as he is a direct rip off from alien resurrection who had their own rag tag misfit crew with a guy in a wheelchair who oddly wasn't killed fans didn't take to prof as he appears scared in a lot of scenes if i were entombed in a non wheelchair access soviet ship pursued by bad acting vampires and everyone left me because i was such a whining wimp i'd be scared too br br during the un dramatic mina chase scene the prof informs us with feeling this is disconcerting the rest of his lines are also disconcerting bugger and we're all going to die x 100 follows br br erika eleniak appears as the vice captain what happened to 1st officers in what i thought would be the tired standard issue hard nosed no nonsense don't eye me up unless i tell you too beat up 10 stuntman at one time super babe but this is a z flick so she basically wears a tight low cut top and even tighter leather trousers coolio's performance boosts the ham factor by 90 and is camper than a row of tents but luckily for us he dies soon enough although he seems to keep his heart on the right hand side of his body br br after a lot of running up and down the same corridor using clunky soviet style controls and sitting in soviet style locker rooms the crew find themselves stranded as their own ship off to find a more interesting crew probably why dracula is even mentioned is unknown as the main bad guy is called which is space transylvanian for crimes against fashion as he dandies about in a big puffy frilly shirt and even bigger starched collar making hammer horror vampires look slick by comparison stops to explain his entire back story off camera to erica eleniak but fails to kill her in another rip off twist from alien resurrection his back story is such a load of mince it's not worth repeating as the budget can't afford fight coordinators special effects original music script not written by a chimpanzee and even proper end titles the first cast list i saw were same characters but completely different and italian names the film begins to destroy whatever sanity you began with the crew luckily are able to fight back with the help of a ships computer that contains obscure millennium old references on how to kill fictional creatures and some handy 20th century pool cues they find in the ship recreation room up yours holodeck the ending is awful and a little suspect either they ran out of money or the ex soviets demanded their ship back i walked into this film knowing it was bad but oblivious as to how bad it really was
0	greetings from lithuania br br this is the first question that comes to head after watching this movie br br you know i saw a lot of bad movies in my life but after watching this one i only had two questions 1 is this was just a parody spoof br br 2 how could people create such a thing br br if you never saw this film than you really don't know what is a really bad film i mean bad the script are you kidding my acting is so horrible that i thing the actors where just having fun in this movie i know this is b movie but come on is this have to be a reason to be such a garbage br br oh and what an ending a must miss ending just when you thing that this is the worst thing you have ever saw wait until the ending because that kind of ending you have never saw before and i hope you will never see br br this movie at any cost and don't say i didn't warn you
0	a space ship cruising through the galaxy encounters a mysterious cargo ship apparently adrift in space the crew investigates hoping to lay claim to its cargo and acquire the ship however once aboard the ominous vessel their own ship mysteriously leaving them to fend for themselves and battle none other then count dracula or orloff as this creature calls himself br br not a bad start i mean it follows any number of typical sci fi horror plots the genres have been around enough that even the most original story will inevitably invoke comparison to some other film but when you start with a fairly typical horror convention the legend of dracula and vampires in general and combine it with a fairly typical sci fi convention a crew happening upon something and becoming marooned to battle whatever they're forced to confront the filmmakers better have some clever up their sleeve to imprint their own mark on the familiar genre staples br br director darrell roodt who also wrote dracula 3000 with ivan is primarily responsible for this utter failure so no roodt and have nothing up their sleeves but their arms br br this film begins ominously enough with a very poorly delivered voice over by caspar van dien essentially providing enough exposition to explain who the crew on his ship are i should also point out that van character is named van helsing and oh so very cleverly this orloff character is from planet transylvania in the carpathian system no kidding i mean come on guys we get it and again don't be goofy and use such names unless you got something special in store br br so after van helsing's introduction of the crew we have essentially a film about this crew trapped in a space ship with a vampire lurking about br br i'm a very forgiving viewer when it comes to low budget films occasionally they can be brilliant see raimi's first two evil dead films dracula 3000 had a decent budget enough for some decent special effects and for the salaries of 3rd like van dien erika eleniak coolio etc however unlike the evil dead flicks there is no talent behind the camera in front of the camera the talent is marginal but i'm going to give the actors some benefit of the doubt it really seems like they don't know what to do the best actor of the bunch alexandra kamp gets killed off quickly and the ever enjoyable udo kier is reduced to being an exposition vehicle for the viewer as the deceased captain we hear and see via a video journal grant is also okay as the professor but it's hard to take seriously a scientist in the year 3000 who wears glasses and rides a wheel chair and yes it's a wheel chair as in there is nothing futuristic about it as for the rest of the actors i'm sure coolio really tried to be scary after getting turned into a vampire but well i don't think irritating qualifies as scary in most people's book tiny lister and erika eleniak don't really provide much either lister is never really more then the il' big brawny black stereotype eleniak actually appears unhappy throughout the film and never tries very hard eleniak is a pretty girl even in her mid thirties but looks a little worn out and uninterested for the movie's duration br br this brings us to count dracula orloff played by langley to be honest i can't recall who exactly the vampire is supposed to be he introduces himself as orloff but at some point he acknowledges himself as count dracula as well go figure in any case you will be absolutely astounded by just how lame this vampire is have you ever scene those cheesy horror show hosts local networks would have on their creature feature time slots yes it's that bad langley the actor playing must have found it almost impossible to concentrate in such a ridiculous outfit i'm sure he's still getting hassled by his friends br br there isn't much to the plot the vampire is the last of it's kind and wants to go to earth for some reason and also there is some lip service about wanting to defeat caspar van character van helsing most of the crew get turned into vampires including van helsing and the crew use conventional machine guns and pistols to try and defeat them before they figure out the old stake in the heart routine yeah that's right bullets and yes the year 3000 keeping in that baffling vein one of the main areas the crew hole themselves up in while battling the vampires or vampire since there is really never more then one threatening them is filled with old soviet posters and insignia and such what the there are also references to god religion being antiquated systems but these references only confused me did the soviet union make a comeback is there some point roodt and want to make with this it never really goes anywhere seems dumb and the posters etc just look cheap br br on the positive side the film is competently shot and edited the cinematography is nothing spectacular but it's clearly done by professionals and i had no problem with the special effects the ships look like ships in outer space although as i write this i recall how god awful the corpse of the captain looks when the crew discover him what were they thinking why didn't someone say something see how difficult it is to say something positive about this film without falling back on the negatives i guess ultimately that's the thing whatever positives you try and grant this sci fi horror debacle you become overwhelmed by it's lack of quality br br poor udo kier
0	this might quite possibly be the worst movie i have ever seen i knew it was a b movie before watching it it was actually the reason for watching it but i'd never thought it could be this bad the title promises dracula in space and does deliver however the story makes no real use of the fact that casper van character is a descendant of van helsing and watch out for the ending of the movie it comes at you fast i've never seen an ending scream out and now we're over budget in a clearer fashion their resolution of the movie was rather comic though the story had so obviously painted itself into a corner if you feel you have to see it watch it with a friend who shares your love of b movies if i hadn't i wouldn't have made it to the end
0	dracula 3000 is the epitome of painfully cheesy cinema from the get go i assumed i was in for something pretty nasty with a cast line up that featured casper van dien erika eleniak coolio and tiny lister what could be expected well let's just say that expectations were crushed br br if i really start up i feel like this review will go on for ages so we're gonna keep this simple the vampire isn't even named dracula the space crew is carrying coffins from the carpathian sector of the transylvania system in his big scene coolio speaks of the most horrible things ever spoken of in film history in the year 3000 everyone wears bad clothes by today's standards they don't have anything more advanced than a modern wheelchair and they decorate with neon lights that appear stolen from a roller rink br br to top it all off the ending sweet merciful god it doesn't deserve to be ruined it has to be sen to be believed br br i've rated this movie a 1 and i wish i could give it a zero yet i feel compelled to make you watch it what madness is this
0	being a huge horror movie fan one of the most difficult things to be considering the lack of abundance of good movies in the genre and having seen hundreds of them in my lifetime i have to say that dracula 3000 is by far the most uninspired lame and poorly done piece of trash i have had the misfortune to see stay away from this movie it's so bad it's not even laughable the special effects did i say special were probably achieved spending a couple of grand the acting is terrible and the script should have ended up in the trash bin after the first read by the studio that decided to take on this miserable project the whole movie was literally filmed in a warehouse also for you guys out there who like nudity in your movies don't be fooled by the r rating if you're thinking you get a chance to see erika eleniak even half naked you're wrong she is fully clothed throughout the entire movie and the cover art is completely misleading there is no scene in any part of the movie that even marginally resembles the awesome cover art they put on the box to draw unsuspecting horror fans br br too bad the rating is only 1 to 10 i would give this movie a 10 be warned don't waste your money or your time on this one
0	this movie despite its list of b c and d list celebs is a complete waste of 90 minutes the plot with its few peaks was very predictable it was so silly that i cannot believe that i am taking the time to even write a review of it flex to his credit has grown in his ability to act since playing michael jackson in a made for tv movie a few years ago on the other hand has as she was more talented in her role as some years ago as i sat watching this train wreck of a film with its pitiful production and horrible sound quality other four letter words came to my mind to qualify what i thought of this film however in an effort to keep my writings g rated i'll simply say this film is another four letter word starting with an l lame
0	my goodness and here i thought that there were no directors worse than uwe boll br br imagine the number of decisions necessary to produce a motion picture conceptual approval scriptwriting dialogue editing casting set and prop design location selection acting timing cinematography lighting music sound and video editing direction br br now imagine that every single one of those decisions was made wrong br br result dracula 3000 br br for a film supposedly set in the this movie looks surprisingly like a cheap gangsta flick of the 1970's the set is ridiculous for the period the dialogue is atrocious the timing of each scene is ludicrous the acting is beyond abysmal everything stinks br br let's just take props for example if you have a movie set on a space freighter built in how likely is it that it will have the exposed piping and hydraulic doors of a 1960's era oil tanker what technology hasn't changed in 900 years the uses a standard tandy keyboard and radio shack to reprogram the computer what they haven't figured out voice control yet of course the prof is tethered to a wheelchair with wheels even though you know they've got intergalactic hyperdrive but apparently not even a motorized wheelchair much less a floating one or bionic legs or something and apparently this freighter was carrying an intergalactic of caskets how convenient then there are the weapons the crew carry standard late 20th century firearms in a ship in the vacuum of space where one would kill them all nice planning there prop department br br oh why go on
0	i'm at a loss for words this movie is beyond description i don't believe there is a language on earth that has a word that can describe how horrible this movie is if you do attempt to watch it be sure to stick around for the suprise ending i only made it about three quarters of the way through this piece of crap before i couldn't take it anymore fortunately or unfortunately a couple of my buddies stayed till the end when they woke up from their coma and after a couple of weeks of therapy they were able to fill me in on what i had missed this movie has no story no plot horrible writing and even worse acting if you enjoy watching train wrecks or auto accidents then this film is for you i think my iq dropped about 30 points from watching this insert expletive here
0	space is a vacuum right therefore space sucks vampires also suck a really bad vampire movie set in space would have twice the sucking power right br br it started with what could have been a fun premise retelling bram stoker's dracula story in the future there's a salvage crew that's sent out to investigate a cargo ship that's lost in space called the fans of the original novel will unwittingly assume that this is to be a straightforward retelling of dracula set in the future unfortunately short of sharing character names this one takes the lowbrow route and goes into the b movie galaxy twenty minutes later when coolio becomes a vampire trust me when i tell you he's the best actor in the movie and that's not saying much br br casper van dien should be his wares on daytime television erika eleniak should have quit after she left baywatch and poor udo kier is having trouble reading from the cue cards the guy who plays dracula in this one is more ridiculous than frank langella was in the 1970's version if you can manage to sit through the whole movie you will be rewarded with the worst ending imaginable the ending makes one wonder if the actors and the crew realized what a piece of garbage they were making and walked off the set br br take heed vampire fans this one sucks twice as hard
0	considering that they wanted to do a vampire movie in space i thought well it'll probably be pretty cheesy but at least interesting enough to see a different take on the whole genre whoops i don't care what kind of movies you like even if you're the biggest vampire horror thriller or suspense fan in the world or adversely if you've never seen a horror movie before and would expect that your first would be impressive in any way whatsoever you're wrong i don't think i've ever seen a made for tv movie or after school special this bad i've never seen a tv pilot show this bad i've never seen footage of animals sleeping or that's as bad as this this is by far the single biggest waste of hours you could otherwise spend contemplating the importance of dish towels and their effect on your life i would far rather be trapped in a bathroom for weeks with nothing to consume but my own urine and excrement than watch even a single clip of this movie again watching this made me wish for the fates that the characters fell to instead of dealing with knowing that i paid money to watch it it was however like a train wreck so bad you just couldn't help but watch hoping something good might happen it didn't please for the love of god if you or your friends even if using illicit substances while doing so even consider watching this movie choose instead to have a contest to see who can shoot a snot rocket farther it will bring you far greater enjoyment and entertainment
0	have i seen a worse movie no i can't say that i have this was pathetic if the director is still alive 1 he shouldn't be 2 he should be ashamed 3 god how i would like to take out my 2 completely wasted hours of time on his a br br to give you guys a few pointers of the film br br 1 i'm a male and i would rather give myself a on the opening of my before viewing this again seriously br br 2 it does have a few known names in it casper van dien erika eleniak coolio they don't help and their careers in cinema after this film are officially over by the way br br 3 the dialog is the worst i've ever heard i want to ejaculate on your what kind of writer did they have on this film was he still using hooked on and just got his letters mixed up to make these horrible sentences or was he trying to get the director killed by the few people who saw this br br 4 watch this film backwards because i promise you that you do not want to watch it forwards br br 5 this film would make helen keller get up and walk out of the theater br br 6 the set of the movie looks like an adult sized mcdonald's i was just waiting for this so called dracula to fall in the ball pit at some time in the movie br br 7 also i like that in the year 3000 they still have headsets with wires that go to their mouth no bluetooth no wireless headsets no chips placed in the brain but they use headsets borrowed from a agency that went out of business in 1983 nice job set director on this one real professional i hope you're currently unemployed and reading this br br 8 i don't know who was in charge of special effects but i could have done better in my backyard with my vhs camcorder that doesn't have a battery br br 9 i was a devout catholic before this film but since viewing it i know there is not a god because if there was he wouldn't have let this film be produced i am now an atheist br br 10 i'll be honest i can't talk about the ending last time i tried to explain it i fell into a coma br br folks however bored you get however curious or brave you are however many laughs you think you will get out of this movie please do not watch this it has literally ruined my life avoid at all costs br br comment to the director i hate you you have ruined my life after viewing this i feel empty inside my wife and kids have left me and hate me because i couldn't speak or hardly move after seeing this i lost my job my dignity and above all my pride i will never forgive you in this life or the next which is not looking good from my newfound beliefs
0	screenwriter steve sophomore effort following upon the wildly overpraised breaking away is a compendium of clichés coincidence and dour melodrama perhaps he lived some of this if so i'm sorry to say he was inexplicably unable to dramatize any of it convincingly br br in fairness he's not helped much here by arthur penn a talented director who's done remarkable work in the past bonnie and clyde little big man but fails to inject any energy or verisimilitude into narrative br br the cast struggles as best they can but are saddled with weak motivation and dialogue sympathies should be reserved particularly for craig wasson whose morose performance presages the impending quick fade of his leading man career as well as the embarrassingly untethered jodi miscast as the film's extremely unlikely 'femme fatale ' br br it all seems longer than it is and any points made are heavy handed and obvious see arthur penn's earlier take on the subject of the 60's the droll and elegiac alice's restaurant it's everything this one isn't
0	the beginning voice over sounds like 'the wind' could be quite an intriguing movie but as the story unfolded i knew it was downhill from there the major things about this movie that blew were the terribly bad acting jobs all the main characters did except for a few scenes involving the inner turmoil of mic there was a total lack of character development and absolutely no point to the plot what were the writers thinking br br michael won 2 'horror sci fi' awards for 'the wind' huh what was so scary about this movie nothing except for the resident evil 2 video shots the rest was more of a 'made for t v thriller' it wouldn't even have to be edited if you want a far better movie about 'murder among friends' rent shallow grave instead br br 'the wind'
0	i found this dvd in the store and figured why not support some indy film and watch a cool horror flick please save your time and money and pass this one by the acting the script practically everything with this film is sub par there really isn't much of a story and there is no character development i found myself not caring what happened to the people in the movie as long as something happened everyone is supposed to be college age but they all look like they are in their mid thirties except for the woman who plays a mother who looks like she is pushing 40 in fact the worst part of the film is that every single scene is shown in a master shot there is no editing no cut ins or close ups do yourself a favor and skip it
0	the wind easily one of the worst films ever made the only good that comes from this kind of pointless drivel is the fact that seeing films like this get distribution makes indy horror filmmakers like me confident that my upcoming feature will make the cut too i mean if this represents the market for indy horror i could make a fortune videotaping myself taking out the garbage for 83 minutes br br a complete list of what this film lacks would take way too long to write out but the are no story terrible acting awful cinematography and virtually no editing that last one bothered me the most as an editor myself this film drove me absolutely crazy because it had almost no editing at all every scene was shot in a master they had absolutely no coverage at all for anyone who doesn't know coverage is shooting a scene from multiple angles to have cutting options when editing to make for a desirable viewing experience yeah this movie had none of that i'm talking about even the simplest of scenes example an ordinary conversation scene between two people sitting at a table would typically start out with a master establishing who's in the scene and where they are then as the conversation goes on you would cut back and forth to over the shoulder shots as the conversation continues you may even throw in a cutaway shot or two of something on the table or in someone's hand anything this is film 101 stuff guys it seems as though these people had no idea this is how films work every shot was a camera lock down no movement no cutting no nothing if i was teaching a course in filmmaking this would be the visual aid for my what not to do lesson br br in closing don't waste your time folks the only amazing this about this film is that it ever scored distribution at all br br br br
0	alright this movie might have been good if there was a plot behind it the title didn't even fit the it after the first ten minutes the wind didn't have a whole lot to do with the rest of the movie the acting was sub par and the writing reminded me of something you would read in a children's book of scary stories br br as far as horror movies go this shouldn't even be classified as one this was a disgrace to horror and thriller fans everywhere i hate to be so harsh but i felt i want the time i spent watching this movie back hopefully there will not be a follow up to this this movie should be locked in a vault and never released to the public for viewing
0	this looks so good on paper matt damon lawrence fishbourne jean reno nice right and a heist with 42 million sounds like a kick ass crime movie br br big disappointment i reckon the stars got all the money because the production values on this are lousy br br but more than that it the pseudo reservoir dogs atmosphere when the easy crime goes wrong it's very much made for tv stuff br br all in all hugely disappointing it score points for being what it is but loses them massively for being bluntly not very interesting at all
0	ok i wanted to see this because it had a few good reviews but this movie was awful just plain awful the characters were 1 dimensional and nothing the actors could do could ever breathe any life into them the story was abysmal the wind stopped becoming a plot device halfway through it just completely becomes forgotten the visuals while were cool were sooooo drawn out 5 minutes of a guy crawling on the ground 3 minutes of a girl putting on her makeup i don't know what this guy is trying to pull off it's like he had no plot no dialog and the movie needed to run just so long so lets not edit scenes at all foreign films are great for creating a story without using a lot of dialog this movie makes me think that there is no way american cinema can ever do this i want to give up watching movies altogether bad bad movie
0	somewhere in usa the young clair manipulates her friends mic billy and john showing a letter that would be sent by bob to her and the group cowardly beats bob and mic kills him with a piece of wood in the forest mic feels sorrow and decides to tell his mother what he did but john and billy threaten him with tragic consequences br br i believe the wind is the worst movie i have ever seen in my life the awful screenplay is ridiculous and it is almost impossible to write a summary since there is no story or plot only sequences of disconnected scenes the amateurish direction and acting are amazingly poor and terrible it is unbelievable how producers invest money in such garbage distributors release this crap worldwide and viewers like me buy this dvd i waited until the very last scene because i was curious to see how bad this film could be and i was impressed since it is worse than i could imagine in my lowest expectations in the end i question why imdb does not offer zero in the vote system since the garbage really deserves this vote my vote is one br br title brazil invisible force
0	this was the most uninteresting horror flick i have seen to date the premise is glaringly forgotten after about 1 minute the acting is terrible the scariest thing about this movie is when the two guys kiss yuck what were the film festival judges thinking when they gave this garbage a 'best film' the only reasons i didn't turn this movie off were to see what not to do as a filmmaker and if the paper thin plot line could really keep going on as is was i was not disappointed by this latter notion there wasn't even a single bit of nudity or gore to keep the kiddies interested also i thought it was tacky to use about 3 minutes of resident evil 2 in the movie was that supposed to be filler 'cause it was the goriest and most interesting part of the movie
0	pretty disappointing i was expecting more of a horror thriller but this seemed to be more of an episode of dawson's creek but with out the acting there were some very impressive shots though almost worth seeing maybe future efforts will improve
0	it is the early morning of our discontent and some friends of mine and i have just gotten through watching the wind truly a disaster film not in the sense of forces of nature wreaking havoc on an unsuspecting populace but rather an awful movie wreaking havoc on an unsuspecting audience to give you an indication of how frustrating it was to watch this particular bomb i'll give you an example quoted during my first pained viewing if given the choice of watching this movie for a second time and say boiling myself i'm afraid to say the choice would not be an immediate one but rather than simply ranting ad with lousy one liners i'm going to get specific as to why exactly my friends and i panned this particular film br br to start this off i like low budget horror flicks i even like artsy low budget horror flicks i liked cold hearts midnight mass jugular wine etc films that were ambitious and daring even if they were lacking in production value execution and even acting generally an interesting premise unusual camera technique or merely just a well done scene or two will save a movie that is running a little rough around the edges with these in mind i would like to say conclusively that i hated the wind br br the movie was probably most disappointing in the sense that it was incredibly frustrating to watch from the actions of the main characters to the flow of the plot to the big portents hinted at by the opening which ultimately aspired to dust and did not even attach themselves logically to what transpired in the remainder of the film and left the viewer expecting something more with a sense of much ado about nothing the dialogue was spotty at best woodenly delivered and completely unrealistic by this i mean no one in any of the situations that the characters were in would have reacted the way the characters did or said the things that they said in the way that they said them there was an obvious lack of vision and direction that would have corrected this problem br br character interaction and development was abysmal claire the sex goddess or so the aggravating passive aggressive in the movie thought was so overt in her manipulations she may as well have pulled a gun on the characters nevertheless she was the shining high point of the film the other main characters with the exception of mick's mom who was not terrible are so that they may as well have been portrayed by the same actor let's see if i missed anything borderline personality co submissive goons with profound feelings of sexual confusion and inadequacy spurred to fits of puerile rage through the artless orchestrations of a loose lipped suddenly and turned caligari no i think that about covers it br br lack of scope was also problematic how did those involved with the making of this film expect the casual viewer to derive that this was the beginning of the end of the world from this amateurish unbelievable poorly portrayed lust pentagon well what would you call it that occurred largely in the woods in the middle of nowhere there were no witnesses to the atrocities presented there were no witnesses anywhere in this film br br the believability problems stemming from this lack of attention to detail were rife even from the point where the plot begins to sicken case in point if that guy bob took that route through the woods to come home from the gym and here's the key every day there's a jolly good chance that someone else would have been around to see something at some point afterwards while the perpetrators argued about the crime scene one would think that with the murder of a young man in the woods said town would have been in an uproar the characters would have been questioned etc but instead there wasn't a witness in sight other than earl the closet psychopath with no inner monologue we suggest that there be no witnesses for this film either br br as for the quasi homosexual meanderings present i don't have a problem with those either it's not as if they came as a surprise considering we had been shouting as to the closet case of most of the male characters since the second scene again not problematic in and of itself but thrown in for the wrong reasons it was utterly unnecessary thrown in for pure shock and or dangerous art value and neither shocking nor dangerously artistic from any perspective what we had instead was an awkward attempt to redeem a boring clumsy movie with a boring clumsy plot the poorly hinted at sexual tension which was only hinted at heavy handedly in anticipation of this flaccid snogging scene only pushed this film further down the totem pole from mediocrity warranting criticism to film sucking so bad that it lacks the inherent grace to suck enough to properly mock and harangue br br so it is with most of the film a lot of artistic fumbling very little meat and a lot of aggravation it's not that we don't get it oh we got it alright we just don't want it look the very fact that we were cheering the bludgeoning in the final scene as the only tableau that made sense on its face is an indication that something was terribly wrong with this film rather than moving briskly along as its name implies this movie oozed languidly forward like the sweat trail working it's way down the side of your nose while your hands are full argh that sensation pretty well sums up the gut wrenching frustration realized while watching this train wreck there is no breath of fresh air with regard to this movie only the stale miasma of bad ideas poorly realized before coming to fruition
0	an incomprehensible script when it shouldn't have been dependent on a rather flaky voice over br br the animation however show real talent br br quite visually impressive
0	there is a reason to call this a teen flick out of 100 possible points i would put it somewhere in the teens it is predictable the acting is horrible especially the minor roles and above all else it is super predictable the ending is so hokey that i should have left early and maybe it would have passed by the way could you call the male lead a pervert i bet if it really happened someone in my school district would have said so finally in the school i grew up in even though the average class had over 1000 students we could have picked out a chump like josie as being a fraud and we would have singled her out of the crowd my final word is save your time when it comes on tv watch something better like the stock quotes
0	i had nothing to do before going out one night so i didn't want to watch anything too heavy i picked the perfect film this must have been a gift to barrymore from someone she slept with the director raja has made nothing but silly crap and the writing on this one is just atrocious in what high school can you register without a parent present and no proof of age or former schooling they let kids all come to the prom with no shirts in skin tight leotards ass shorts and one girl was dressed as eve wearing only fig leaves she announces that she's 25 and her brother is 23 but there is no from the school parents or lawsuits of any kind against the newspaper for fraud or spying the newspaper boss wants to catch the teacher in an underage sex scandal but doesn't realize the teacher is coming on to a 25 year old so any case would be entrapment they allow a camera in and record peoples private conversations with under age kids i wonder if i hired my younger sister to go back to hs with a camera on her and filmed under age girls for my personnel use i would not get in some kind of trouble no problem didn't she have to take gym or go to the bathroom at some point the secondary characters in this were like cardboard cutouts of what high school students are thought to be and everybody was a stereotype jessica alba is just embarrassingly bad in this mugging for the camera at every chance in what world do the parents not get suspicious when their uber geeky daughter is miraculously asked out by the school stud to the prom and they don't ask the guy inside to meet him like every other parent in history if some guy in my school or any other school for that matter had conned my sister and thrown eggs at her in her prom dress he would have been in a body cast for the rest of his life this movie is so contrived and predictable it's nauseating and why at the end is everybody the alpo girls included cheering for this chick when two days before they hated her br br dumb dumb and dumb
0	brilliant acting excellent plot wonderful special effects this is what i would say about this movie if i had been watching it with a bag of on my head for the entire film instead i endured a 2 hour crap o rama our brilliant story begins with some billionare who has nothing better to do than look in volcanoes in a vain attempt to find his lucky charms instead he finds a man in a cheesy rubber dinosaur suit and some queer cave folk br br in his infinite wisdom along with his infinitely large nose he decides to go inside this volcano with a team of special people to travel to this underground land they go by plane no boat no they use this giant soup can with a solid metal drill on the end that i swear i saw wobble in summation this movie was faker than oh that's right this was the fakest movie i've seen for those of you who haven't seen it and are thinking of sitting down on a sunday afternoon with this wonderful movie i warn you if you watch this movie you should be prepared to cut of any shred of your manhood and give yourself a full frontal lobotomy br br the rating system only allows for a minimum of 1 10 i give this a 10 10
0	kinda boring kinda gross kinda unsettling this wasn't horrible but not too good there's a good creepy bit when the statue comes to life though props to this scene not much happens and the movie just feels sort of scummy i was happy when it ended and don't believe anything about this being a true story very surprised this is averaging around 6
0	armored br br the best part about driving an armored vehicle is that if any bums approach you at a red light asking for money you can shoot them in the face br br and while the armoured guards in this thriller aren't using their protective power to purge the drifter population they are using their position to fleece their employer br br when newcomer ty columbus short lands a job with an armored trunk company he feels like he has found his lot in life unfortunately however when he discovers that his co workers matt dillon jean reno and laurence fishburne are plotting to take the 42 m shipment for themselves ty must fortify himself – and the funds – inside the armored truck br br a tedious caper with a plodding plot and phoned in performances armored is an utterly forgettable film br br besides if you really want to jack millions it's a lot simpler to just disguise yourself as an atm red light
0	an art student in rome is possessed or something she has dreams of being nailed to a cross and satan himself raping her he possesses her i think and turns her into a sex addict that's about all i could take and i turned it off br br a pointless exorcist rip off i caught this on cable back in the 80s and was horrified and not in a good way this movie is supposed to be a horror film but turns into nothing more than a sex film disguised as a horror movie there's tons of pointless female nudity and the actress playing the lead has to degrade herself more than once we see her being raped by satan a hot looking guy masturbating coming on to her own father gotta give her points for bravery add to that bad dubbing editing the rape scene looks like it was cut a bit lousy acting and a story that makes next to no sense the one disturbing sequence her being nailed to the cross almost works but the lousy special effects ruin it this is one of the few horror film that was so bad i stopped watching skip it
0	wow what a horrible hideous waste of time this celluloid atrocity turned out to be i remember seeing it years ago and thinking it was fun but now it's just plain silly not to mention the fact that it is a blatant rip off of the exorcist to the point where it was re released at one point under the title the sex the only real difference is that the producers have the gall to further discredit themselves by slapping on the claim that the events in the film are real who in their right mind would actually believe such a bold faced lie to make matters even worse there was a video release in circulation with cover art that blatantly tried to cash in on the rocky horror picture show by throwing a pair of lips on the cover how low could one possibly sink do not be fooled by the false claims blatant lies or title rip off because you will be sorely disappointed if you do
0	i just can't get it freaks out on the planet are talking about this one as a must seen they even dare to call it a s exploitation because the possessed girl is seducing priests and is masturbating all time don't let me laugh i watched the movie seducing is only at the end of the movie and don't call it seducing it's just bad language that's she is talking and the is a big laugh too she tries to seduce her father while masturbating let me be clear with her clothes on you perverts out there it isn't gory or bloody at all everybody is vomiting on beyond the door well let me tell that one is for me better than this flick only the last 5 minutes the possessed one is vomiting and having weird eyes if i had know that this is so bad then i would never caught me a copy if you really wan't to see a s about exorcism watch angel above the devil below or other cheesy ones a waist of time this is
0	out of the handful of alternative titles in english the is definitely the most appropriate one since this is basically just a shameless rip off of william friedkin's classic horror film in which they replaced 13 year old linda blair with the 19 year old stella only so that she could gratuitously show her ravishing naked body i'm not sure what exactly satan tries to accomplish here but he exclusively seems to possess the young girl to play sexual tricks on her poor masturbates around the clock and tries to seduce priests and even her own father into having sex with her the young girl is introduced as a smart and ambitious theology student with an odd looking boyfriend driving a stupid yellow car and loving albeit adulterous parents when she takes a peculiar crucifix home to renovate the ancient relic comes to life and no less than satan himself played by ivan rassimov of jungle holocaust and planet of the vampires starts to torment her the overlong masturbation sessions and some bizarre nightmare sequences cover about three quarters of the movie and then finally director mario begins with the actual exorcism that final segment is even more embarrassing and amateurish the priests don't really do anything apart from saying some vague prayers but somehow seems cured all of a sudden there isn't much gore the dialogues are horrible and the producers seem to compensate every little flaw by adding more sleaze this is one of the strangest italian exploitation efforts of the seventies why the hell are they referring to the rocky horror picture show but definitely not one of the best if you fancy clones of the exorcist i recommend demon witch child beyond the door and the antichrist
0	the film is somewhat entertaining but the greatest feature is shalom harlow's laughable performance it has been 4 years since this movie was released and hopefully harlow has gone through more training perhaps she should stick to the more worldly somewhat characters that she has generated in other performances
0	what can you expect from a direct to dvd film you know what you are getting yourself into when you rent this the quality of the cinematography reminds me of reality tv shows br br why are they shots always up so close to the actors and why are they always centered there isn't anything to look at and the actors are that great looking so that blows br br the writing and dialogue is just plain awful that intro scene with the british guy is hilarious just try and listen this words they hardly make any sense just goes around in circles the lines in the rest of the movie sounds like they were pull out of romance and sci fi novels as if the writers had no idea what they were doing the characters definitely sound like they have no idea what they're saying br br this is a terrible movie i feel bad for the actors tied to this project embarrassing
0	the thing that's truly terrifying about this is that the filmmakers thought they were making something intelligent and sexy instead they made probably the stupidest horror picture of the year br br this movie starts with a bunch of art snob friends at a gallery this trashy european weirdo walks up and starts talking pretentious to the main character sounding like he just walked out of an episode of dark shadows he then offers her up some stick to smoke yes a freakin' stick which she eagerly agrees he picks off some red crap and puts it in a spoon for her to if this ever happens to you in real life don't do it br br she's transported to some weird wannabe jean rollin netherworld that's supposed to be sexy but isn't where there's this thing that looks like a rotted creature from the black lagoon br br soon she turns all her artsy sleazeball friends onto her new form of supernatural crack no matter how much these idiots freak out and turn blue they can't leave it the hell alone at one point she even makes out with the rotten creature br br after the final battle and the stupid woman is vaporized or whatever the so called hero is left alone to pack up his copy of michael moore's dude where's my country and can't resist smoking that stick one more time to try to rescue his moron lady friend what a dope br br rates four stars for sheer unintentional humor
0	as americans we have come to expect as par for the course when it comes to horror and unknown directors directing unknown actors acting for unknown writers we truly expect this to suck when they don't suck it becomes an over night success br br this is not an over night success nor is it an over the weekend or over the month success this blows from start to finish and my only recommendation is this go into this knowing it sucks enjoy it for what it is for what it isn't if you have something better to do keep this on the back way back burner it's entertaining in the way watching the elderly cross a busy street during rush hour but don't expect much they almost never get hit by an actual car its just a lot of hoopla
0	simply i just watched this movie just because of sarah am also giving these 4 stars just because of her on the other side this movie was easily one of the worst movies i have ever seen was horrible the script was uninspired this was a movie that kept contradicting itself the film was sloppy and unoriginal its not like i was expecting a good film just something to give me a jump or two this did not even do that br br he worst thing is that the more i think about the overall plot the less sense it actually makes and the more holes we keep finding a real shame really as i'm fairly sure that there was a good idea lurking in there somewhere br br i'm perhaps being a bit harsh giving the film a 4 10 but given the actors involved and again sara obvious writing talent this film really should have delivered far more br br this movie is just crap i cant put it differently since the very beginning one knows is going to be crap br br the story dialogue acting special effects make up pretty much everything sucks i like vampire movies and i know they will never be oscar winning movies but this one is not even worth seeing i can't believe how somebody produced this thing br br it's not even about vampires it's more about a dream reality experience the development of the movie is incoherent the motivation of the characters is doesn't exist everything seems like a big joke maybe that's what they tried to do but i sincerely doubt it i wish i knew what they tried to pull but it just backfired it's definitely one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life and i've seen many bad movies but nothing compared to this please make yourselves a favor and do not watch this br br p s it's also full of clichés p s 2 bad script bad directing bad cinematography p s 3 i bothered commenting on this as a favor to everyone
0	worst movie ever made ever i have no words to say about it other then it truly had no point no plot no anything sheer crap i don't know how everyone in the movie didn't shoot them shelves after watching it i love vampire flicks and mysteries and alternate abstract outside the box films and this was non of those i mean what the crap i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don't know and i just wasted an hour and of my life watching it bottom line i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs thats the only thing i got from this film please don't watch this i mean for a sultry sensual vampire flick there wasn't even the to be expected nudity you'd get from a vamp flick anyway back to my point this movie blows go set yourself on fire instead
0	well where do we start there was a lot of potential for this film with such big stars playing a role but the whole story was ruined by a horrific plot this movie did not pan out to be what i would expect the good guy makes it out alive i mean co mon nobody wants the good guy to be successful the ending was cringe worthy and very cliché no thought what so ever you got the plot all wrong the bad guys are meant to come out successful br br if you want to waste 1 hour and 2 minutes of your time spend it doing something else this movie was the epitome of crap i really think the actors did this movie for some quick vegas cash no doubt about it save your money watch a better movie
0	pretentious horror film that looks like a soap opera gone goth about a drug that send you to a fantasy world where strange creatures lurk the film has some good imagery but its odd mix of whats real and whats not doesn't go anywhere worse are the vague pronouncements in voice over from one of the characters it seems to herald a more serious more meaningful film but i don't think they even got into the serious or meaningful territory to begin with so trying to over sell the meaning comes off silly there isn't a great deal to say people talk take drugs have visions they talks some more its not bad so much as pointless and dull the dull is the sin here and the reason you'll want to avoid this
0	bled starts as young female artist sai sarah meets a mysterious yet charming man named renfield jonathan they end up back at her studio apartment where he gives her the bark of some sort of tree which is used as a hallucinogenic drug when melted down sai quickly becomes hooked as she is whisked into an alternate fantasy reality which involve vampiric creatures photographer friend royce chris ivan becomes concerned about her as she drifts further from reality as she becomes addicted to the drug can royce her kick the drug or will it end up ruining her life why did the mysterious renfield get her addicted to the stuff in the first place do the elaborate fantasy dream like trips have any significance br br co produced directed by christopher hutson this anaemic arty vampire flick is pretty much 95 minutes of tedium is throughly deserving of all the bad comments the script was written by the interestingly named essex how the hell do you even pronounce that anyway who is also credited as production designer his unusual name is actually more interesting than anything that ever happens in bled i would guess that the makers set out to make a very serious fantasy based horror film with a strong moral message about the dangers of drugs drug addiction date rape drug at it's core the majority of the film is spent on the drug issue with initial introduction to the drug how great the first time was how she becomes hopelessly addicted which eventually destroys her her life her friends lives it's never explained where she keeps getting this drug from as renfield only gives her a little bit during their initial meeting but hey who cares the first twenty odd minutes of bled are really boring dull the following hour or so aren't much better before a mess of a final ten minutes which involve a vampiric monster renfield making a reappearance the moral elements are patronising the fantasy elements seem like an afterthought the horror is none existent there's also the dialogue which is awful every sentence tries to be profound have loads of hidden depth just tries to have so much meaning that it becomes tiresome to listen to br br the concept of the film is terrible so is the execution as there's absolutely no gore or violence to speak of the entire thing is set inside an apartment that doesn't appear to have any lights the fantasy setting looks a little better but it's sparsely seen underused there are no scares here no atmosphere to make matters even worse the makers have decided to used muted very faded colours which i just hate find annoying what's wrong with a nice colourful image it seems to me to be a fad with current filmmakers who seem to think that it automatically makes a film cool or adds atmosphere which it most certainly doesn't more often than not it just makes your film look dull drab as evidenced here with bled br br this probably had a low budget was shot in los angeles it has reasonable production values but it's all so dull the acting didn't impress me i didn't care for or about anyone which is never a good sign br br bled is a terrible vampire film that goes for psychological horror as well as physical with all sorts of parallels to real life dug addiction what it can do to little or no effect because the whole thing is so dull there might be an audience for a film such as this but considering the other comments not that big a one
0	what on earth like watching an episode of neighbours after drinking two bottles of cough medicine nightmarish and making no sense at all i was waiting for the clever part where everything fits into place and saves the film maybe it was there and i just missed it or was lost on me br br my strongest suspicion is that it is a thinly veiled attempt to market a new drug thats about to hit the streets i wouldn't say don't watch it but i will say its pretty poor on every level like am in high def whack unless you drink two bottles of cough syrup then it's just dandy
0	simply i just watched this movie just because of sarah am also giving these 4 stars just because of her on the other side this movie was easily one of the worst movies i have ever seen was horrible the script was uninspired this was a movie that kept contradicting itself the film was sloppy and unoriginal its not like i was expecting a good film just something to give me a jump or two this did not even do that br br he worst thing is that the more i think about the overall plot the less sense it actually makes and the more holes we keep finding a real shame really as i'm fairly sure that there was a good idea lurking in there somewhere br br i'm perhaps being a bit harsh giving the film a 4 10 but given the actors involved and again sara obvious writing talent this film really should have delivered far more
0	i rented this movie today worst movie ever it was a total waste of time and a horrible story the acting was horrible especially by the actress of sai she was so bad it was ridiculous i can't tell if it was her bad acting or because the character was just that stupid in the first place i can't even get my mind wrapped around just how awful and pointless this whole movie was i'm surprised someone even thought it was a good idea to film this movie and bother to release it br br if you're looking for a good vampire horror flick this is not the movie for you move right along it's a waste of time and money heck i wouldn't even download this movie if someone paid me br br this movie is so bad it doesn't even deserve a 1 i wish i could give it a 0
0	bled is a very apt title for this as you watch it you will feel your life being bled from you the cliché in horrors is about people doing exactly what they shouldn't going down into the basement or going up into the attic then the trouble ensues take heed then don't watch this film show the brains that victims in horror movies never do stay clear do not enter and if you need anymore incentive this film is as bad as the worst uwe boll film i mean the house of the dead bad i have often thought about entering a review of a film on i m d b and after watching some based on the comments herein i discovered i guess everyone's to his her opinion please trust me on mine
0	once again i fell for it in my roots i crave a fun and gory horror film even a vampire one even if it's stupid as long as i get my fun gore in the mix i'm a happy camper it doesn't take much so i saw the cover of bled over at hollywood video and was kind of curious what it was about it looked kind of interesting so i decided to rent it why why do i always fall for it not only did this movie not fulfill the satisfaction i needed for my gore and senseless violence and nudity but i was bored out of mind this movie has the to say it's a vampire movie and it's really not i'm so close to going back to the store and begging for money back because this is one of the rare times i actually turned the movie off br br an artist meets a vampire i think dunno i'm still trying to figure out what the heck he was but his name was so i'm assuming maybe he's a cockroach eating guy who likes to freak people out i think i dunno anyways he thinks the artist has a certain flare for darkness so he gives her a drug to go into an alternate fantasy where a vampire exists and needs blood to become alive i think i dunno so her friends get excited and decide they wanna try the drug too i think i dunno so after they decide to try the drug things get weird the fantasies are real i think i dunno and the vampire is now enjoying the will big breasted girls in clad clothing i think i dunno but a couple of the girls really end up being vampires i think i dunno br br sorry for all the i this is possibly one of the worst reviews i'm going to write but that's because this movie was just awful boring and confusing i love just seeing these wanna be actors who you can tell are waiters looking for that big break not too smart that they fell in the cliché of the horror genre sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't in this case they really should have read the script because the movie the look the feel the acting everything about this movie was just bad i really recommend that you just pass the movie if you see it at your video store this possibly could have been an interesting movie with it's concept of a different dimension but why did they pick this director to display his creativity if he even has any this was a bad movie just stay away br br 1 10
0	this movie is probably one of 3 worst movies made in history i rented this by chance without reading reviews and wow do i regret it really has no plot doesn't really follow the vampire genre just plain god awful watching this movie will taint your enthusiasm for vampire movies i felt like the writer director producer went on this drug binge and had hallucinations and tried to recreate it on film whole time i wanted the movie to end but the ending was even more whacked br br if this review can save just one person from watching this crap i felt my time spent on registration and writing this review was well worth it
0	this movie is just crap i cant put it differently since the very beginning one knows is going to be crap br br the story dialogue acting special effects make up pretty much everything sucks i like vampire movies and i know they will never be oscar winning movies but this one is not even worth seeing i can't believe how somebody produced this thing br br it's not even about vampires it's more about a dream reality experience the development of the movie is incoherent the motivation of the characters is doesn't exist everything seems like a big joke maybe that's what they tried to do but i sincerely doubt it i wish i knew what they tried to pull but it just backfired it's definitely one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life and i've seen many bad movies but nothing compared to this please make yourselves a favor and do not watch this br br p s it's also full of clichés p s 2 bad script bad directing bad cinematography p s 3 i bothered commenting on this as a favor to everyone
0	this film is a disaster from beginning to end 75 percent of the movie is made from scenes taken from hercules the haunted world and hercules the captive women badly edited together with original scenes that do not add up to anything but a complete rip off i'm a big fan of those two movies and seeing scenes taken from them re edited and re dubbed with nonsensical dialogue made my head spin these kind of cheap producers tactics to make more money by duping unsuspecting audiences basically killed the sword sandal genre back in the 1960s br br there is one memorable scene in the new footage and it's the one when hercules fights with the bad hercules the fight is albeit cool and giovanni who plays definitely stands out he makes a memorable nemesis to but the rest is borderline embarrassing that was probably shot in a day br br avoid at all cost
0	what a bad movie the premise was all there the actors were all there and yet a believable plot good dialogue characters to relate to were somewhat missing br br typical heist gone wrong premise set against a backdrop of everyman being shafted by the system the lead character and his little brother have been having no luck and their house is going to be repossessed along comes godfather matt dillon who does not look much older than so not exactly sure how that happened to the rescue with a plan to steal money from an armoured van which they work on as security guards has a brief flirtation with a conscience but decides to go along with it and thus begins a truly awful hole ridden 30 minutes of unbelievable trash i will not list all the ways in which this movie was unrealistic but let me point out the major ones br br because of deciding to be a good guy because a homeless guy became collateral damage all of his close friends including his godfather die his godfather who is supposedly family and the man who brought him into the caper at the last minute to help him out dies because of in the process of thwarting his friends and godfather destroys all the money the money came from the same bank that was repossessing his house and yet he chose it over the supposed family of matt dillon br br there are many more needless to say that this film was tripe and i earnestly hope nobody else goes to see it
0	this movie is of interest to the fans of the famous rock group the band in that singer keyboardist richard manuel appears in several scenes it looks to me like the movie might have been shot some years before 75 judging by richard's looks interestingly jones would later act with the band's levon in a considerably better film coal miner's daughter anyway you really need a special reason to this tough to watch art film alas the famously sensitive manuel would commit suicide i've never heard how he ended up in a movie four of the five members of the band would appear in another bad film man outside
0	a girl is looking for her soul mate this movie was very strange lots of sequences that look like an hallucinations tommy lee jones is the only stable one in the picture it was hard to figure out what the director was trying to say most of the time the main character is dressed in weird clothes and makeup a weird combination of reality and madness
0	i bought this dvd as part of a set of 50 historic classics it's hardly a classic and as the plot was updated to the time of its release is not historic either the actual title on the dvd is indecent and additionally subtitled the private life of becky sharp myrna loy is not very convincing although in her defense she is saddled with an awful script and trite dialogue as with many early talkies and especially ones made by smaller studios there is little skill demonstrated by the cast and crew loy does wear a few gowns that are quite stylish but her costumes and make up in the later scenes are overdone the one saving grace is a tolerable performance by billy bevan who plays one of her many suitors
0	there are those who gripe that this is not the opera but then they don't quibble with the film of cabaret that was not the original show either all films of musicals operas are and have to be adaptations or they don't work cabaret took more liberties with the original show than did the film of and bess and yet it kept its original integrity reworking the material and is judged an artistic success the same holds true for and bess it reworked the opera into a dialogue song libretto because audiences at the time loved musicals but stayed away from the few echt filmed operas it would have been economical suicide for preminger to produce a film of the opera it would have lost a fortune for the goldwyn studios br br that said this is a fine adaptation the acting is excellent the oscar winning scoring of andre previn is magnificent as is the choral singing and the individual vocal achievements are incredible robert dad of popular musician bobby dubbed and adele addison dubbed bess while sammy davis jr sang his own songs in the film his recording contract would not permit his voice to be heard on the soundtrack album so cab calloway recorded his numbers spectacularly for that release brock peters' bass baritone is extraordinary and pearl bailey is her own unique self diahann carroll although a singer of fine note has the small role of clara which required a high soprano so old reliable marni nixon dubbed her singing br br the gershwin estate hates the film and refuses to grant the musical rights although the dramatic rights are in the public domain this sort of hate feud held up the video release of carousel for almost fifteen years although in that case it was the dramatic rights that were in litigation and is currently preventing both and bess and annie get your gun from being released on video br br of all the stage productions given film versions it is these latter two which are the sole holdouts to video only a campaign of letters to the gershwin estate in ny might loosen up the reserve
0	saw this on french tv today and was most disappointed the film starts off reasonably well but nothing is elucidated and at the end we are no farther forward than in the beginning as to seeing the husband for the murder of his wife this is just not plausible you need tangible proof to convict someone and a minimum of evidence in this case there is none at all so it just is not plausible remember the old adage innocent until proved guilty the fact that a woman has disappeared without trace is no proof that her husband killed her so i really don't know what kind of point this film was trying to make the outcome is totally illogical and incomprehensible no incriminating evidence is revealed to the spectator so quite frankly viewing it is a complete waste of time after all a film must be entertaining this is completely untrue in the case of this one and i suggest it be irrevocably consigned to the dustbin where it belongs
0	i was an extra on this film but wish i wasn't because its rubbish the worst thing about this film is the music but the acting script editing directing and story are terrible as well the main reason its bad is because the budget is so low and the only way to make good film on a low budget is to have a good script the script which should have been ripped up before the film was made isn't funny i didn't laugh once what did make me laugh is how makers probably think the most important thing was getting the film made who cares if its total rubbish the film needed about million pound more budget and a better writer the only reason i didn't give the film one out of ten is because i felt sorry for the guy who is gonna lose a few hundred grand making this if you do go and see it just make sure your drunk at the time ha ha
0	i don't even know where to begin br br it's is not worth typing a review so i will just quote what another user posted because i agree thoroughly but i give it 1 10 instead of 2 10 i am at a loss to find the words to express how bad i thought this film was the initial precept was promising but in all respects afterwards it was totally awful let's run through the main points plot good initial idea but truly terrible development there were many points when i thought no nobody would do something that stupid the ending was amazingly anticlimactic characterisation all of the characters were either completely bland or grotesque caricatures i keep trying to think of one that wasn't possibly the mother but that's it music intrusive inappropriate and generally terrible direction totally amateurish cinematography doubt they've heard of it camera angles stability zoom levels often really bad i am totally bemused at how this film has scored so highly it's the worst movie i've seen at the cinema for years if not ever
0	i am at a loss to find the words to express how bad i thought this film was the initial precept was promising but in all respects afterwards it was totally awful let's run through the main points plot good initial idea but truly terrible development there were many points when i thought no nobody would do something that stupid the ending was amazingly anticlimactic characterisation all of the characters were either completely bland or grotesque caricatures i keep trying to think of one that wasn't possibly the mother but that's it music intrusive inappropriate and generally terrible direction totally amateurish cinematography doubt they've heard of it camera angles stability zoom levels often really bad i am totally bemused at how this film has scored so highly it's the worst movie i've seen at the cinema for years if not ever
0	as the film reviewer for a local gay magazine i automatically get sent any dreck if it happens to have a homo in it chicken masala is churning on in the background as i write this i gave it my undivided attention for 53 minutes before i found myself involuntarily shouting like a sufferer this is the sh test film i have ever seen we're just coming to the emotional climax where the son is giving some coming out speech to his father at his wedding father seems to be taking it quite well an attempted honour killing at this point would at least have livened the film up a bit and made it funnier br br i didn't particularly like beautiful thing for example but could at least see why other people did it was made with some professionalism and i seem to remember it had at least a couple of good lines the lack of wit in this film is quite astounding even the most mediocre sitcom will tend to have recognisable jokes the nearest this movie got to being funny at least in its first 53 mins was the subtitled comment delivered to the fat unattractive female lead look at her with her legs wide open she's like the tunnel completely witless and i didn't crack a smile but i could imagine someone with a low iq who perhaps works in a chip shop enjoying it br br i'd imagine it's some lottery funded atrocity if not i can at least console myself with the fact that the backers will lose a substantial amount of money as even a low budget british film will still set someone back a couple of million seriously if i met the most handsome bloke in the world and on going back to his place to make sweet love i found a copy of this in his dvd collection man i love this film i'd probably kick him in the nuts and leave and this from someone who's gone about six months without any of the aforementioned sweet love br br oh lord i hate this film
0	for those expecting the cover art and story outline to indicate another entertaining bollywood indian production beware no musical dance numbers or songs of production value exist to brighten the mood in this rather tired story of arranged marriages in the british indian culture with a few variations thrown in as written by parekh the script jumps around topics worthy of discussion only to cover them up with routine avoidance tactics singh directs like a traffic cop trying to hold together the disparate subplots to the point of keystone cop tactics br br jimi chris is a medical school student who is gay and has a lover jack peter ash and they live with jack's obese alcoholic loose morals aunt vanessa sally and sally's chubby daughter hannah katy clayton family is visited by the patel family from delhi who bring their beautiful daughter mahal to england to find a husband parents jaffrey and massey and his grandmother zohra decide is the girl for jimi to marry and arrange an engagement and wedding in the custom of indian ways without consulting jimi jimi discovers the plot and is too spineless not to go along with it a decision which enrages jack and infuriates vanessa hannah tells a 'little to that she is daughter and the wedding is off when parents visit house they discover the drunken vanessa are repulsed by her but eventually decide that for happiness they will go along with the fact that vanessa has given them a and decide to use the marriage preparations as a wedding for jimi and vanessa jimi convinces the very reluctant vanessa to go along with the idea and before long vanessa is dressed in a sari prepared for a wedding and jimi terrified at what he is doing just to please his parents includes jack as his best man at the wedding the truth comes out and to surprise his family adapts to true self and the day is saved by simply being truthful br br the cast copes with this silly bit of nonsense rather well and there are some good performances chris and peter ash are attractive men and play their roles well albeit without any indication at all of a loving relationship the director seems terrified of showing the least suggestion of intimacy between the two men sally provides most of the laughs as vanessa the rest of the cast repeat the stereotype roles they've played countless times in indian movies this is not a bad film it has its moments but it is just too superficial and tired to make us care about any of the characters
0	a heist film with jean reno matt damon and laurence fishburne sounds great on paper i suspect it must have done when someone green lighted the production of this movie but the end product is terrible br br the story is dull the action boring and for a film that is only 88 minutes it seems to just drag on i could feel my life slipping away and was sure there was something better i should have been doing any paint to watch dry somewhere perhaps br br sigh i'm a huge fan of jean reno but what on earth was he thinking when he signed up to this there are so many other great action movies around go watch one of those and let this movie be best forgotten
0	the plot for a movie such of this is a giveaway how can you go wrong with a gay plot line and all the colors and music of india a story like this writes itself i'll watch most anything but this was unwatchable the sad thing is the white folks are the most colorful in the film vanessa was a riot with a mouth like a sailor and jack was great eye candy but everyone else was so boring jeffrey who was exceptional in my beautiful did what he could but the story was so boring the saving grace was really the background music which made it ok to laugh at the film instead of with the film or not at all there are many other better gay movies ethnic movies just plain movies i give a lot of low budget movies a pass but this shouldn't have been made or should have been made by someone else
0	another bad spanish picture this is very baaaad i only save the photography and the music of josé the rest of the film is the worst i've seen in years paz vega is horrible don't see it
0	another pretentious film from vicente if la of the same at least its quality was superior mainly thanks to the great performance of pilar de but carmen is boring and full of topics ardent brunette with a dagger in the stocking poor man dragged to madness due to passion sierra nevada gangs br br obviously paz vega is a pretty woman but about its talent there're more doubts and role is so stupid that results almost incredible the script is weak and and presumptuous character influences the entire film with these ingredients the result could not be good br br not the worst film i've seen but a complete failure in my opinion
0	dull acting weak script worst spanish movie in years i was br br attracted by the naked beauty of paz vega but as an actress br br she's useless you almost can't understand what she's saying br br about the story there's not much coherent to say we heard of it br br before but as this is a modern carmen we find a few changes the french soldier is now a basque soldier himself is a character in the story carmen is a dangerous in love with a famous br br matador and she can speak fluent basque br br can anyone understand this mess
0	like the other guy said it sux you can count the words that have been said in that entire movie on one of your hands too nudity she got naked like 7 or 8 times in a 1 and a half well past the nudity you'll find a porno behind that film he f ked her all movie long bad acting bad story bad language carmen was swearing all movie long so you get out of that movie scenes and dirty language a lot of gaps in the movie a big silence every now and then the only good thing in that movie is the beautiful places were it has been shot otherwise it's an hour and a half of your life that you'll gonna waste so if u gonna watch that movie good luck it really sux
0	this movie has been promoting in everywhere in spain with a huge publicity campaign after watching it you realise that someone has stolen your money paz vega is horrible as carmen she´s not natural at all and she looks like she´s making a fashion magazine cover in all the shots the best is when she as an andalusian woman speak basque and leonardo is much better than her as jose but the story is very slow the plot don´t work and the screenplay is really very very bad i think penelope cruz the film was written for her would have been a much more credible and sexy carmen br br what a waste of time and money
0	when i saw this in the cinema i remember wincing at the bad acting about a minute or two into the first scene then immediately telling myself no this has to get better it didn't the performances are pretty uniformly teak 'n pine and no there is no sexual chemistry in this film whatsoever just the awkward posturings of a reasonably comely discreetly talentless actress who seems born to grace the cover of and not much else besides if the scriptwriter thought that making mérimée a character was a stunningly original creative ploy he perhaps ought to get out more and if he'd given the matter a bit more thought would have realised that the story of carmen is just crying out for a thoughtful iconoclastic parodic deconstruction not this leave your brains at the affair of ersatz passion and comic book dialogue this is contemporary spanish cinema at its worst br br
0	carmen is a prostitute that lives seducing and stealing soldiers of the spanish army she is without any doubt the best femme fatale at the moment when a man resist her charming attentions she decides to do everything to destroy him at the end he falls in her web and he will be forced to make all the things he ever hated only for being with carmen despite paz vega is very beautiful she doesn't seem a gypsy as carmen is and neither her acting nor are good the story results very boring and in most moments it is very absurd while intending to appear truthful in the same way are the scenarios and the special effects despite not being but they are not but acceptable and too much artificial for a historic film as it is to sum up boring and bad with a very absurd development there are much betters thing to watch
0	before launching into whether this film is worth your time or not i should inform you i've never seen another adaptation of carmen so if you're looking for a review on how it ranks amongst others this might not be of much use to you br br the only time i've come across carmen was on the car stereo when driving through spain on a family holiday when i was a teenager i didn't pay much attention to it because i didn't like opera at the time and i didn't know any better the story has been around for 150 years or so do i feel i've missed out after seeing this movie yes mainly due to the plot but also because if all the actresses who played carmen looked like paz vega i would have all the adaptations happily sitting in my dvd collection br br directed by vicente who also co rewrote the story with joaquim the story is told through the eyes of the original author prosper mérimée a french writer making his way through 19th century spain he comes across josé leonardo a delinquent soldier and one of many men who fall in love with carmen paz vega a sultry sexy gypsy woman who has the mouth of the devil the temper of a and who recklessly leads men to their doom the moment she meets josé she is attracted by his stand behaviour but she hooks him reels him in and lets him go many a time until one day josé is wanted for murder carmen persuades him to join her band of gypsy smugglers they seem to be settling she's fallen in love with him but she meets the charming the bullfighter can josé hold his jealousy in check or does it destroy him br br it's a beautiful seductive story something that resembles almost a shakespearian or ovid plot with the portrayals of immense passion and emotion that can make or break us and transform us to do things out of character it's poetic fiery and above all slutty i was left hanging on i didn't know which way it was going to turn i always hoped that josé might change dirty little ways i won't tell you if he succeeded or not br br the above synopsis is what i took away from the film but i was not impressed by the film itself it was only after i watched it that i dug a little deeper into the story and i realised how much of a missed opportunity had made of retelling classic it was a shallow slutty period drama blunder that saw paz vega spend a lot of the time partially or completely naked not that i'm complaining about this in particular br br first of all the acting was poor i was not impressed by as josé i'm still unsure whether he was a weak actor or josé was supposed to be a weak character i've not read the book he's supposed to be a man who with burning desire for carmen but he spends much of the time looking confused jealous and a bit dim paz vega was slightly better as carmen i was convinced by her hardened wicked character although i have seen more convincing performances by her in other films such as zapping and lucia y el sexo she seems too pretty to play a gypsy woman not that i've come across many andalusian gypsy women so in a way the role didn't really fit her the other actors in the film weren't great either they seemed to do everything half heartedly the story is passionate emotive – they looked half arsed as if they couldn't wait to get out the tight 19th century costumes they were wearing br br however the costumes i was impressed with one of the redeeming factors of the film i like spanish culture i liked the soldiers' uniforms the top hats and the women's flamenco dresses they fitted the time well that's all i can really say about that sorry back to the criticism br br the script as stated above was co rewritten by vicente and joaquim and done so badly so much that it would leave mérimée turning in his grave it was boring it didn't make best use of intense passion for carmen or maybe that was just the acting there were cheesy lines piled upon one and other satan and devil connotations everywhere amongst the millions of swear words i know the spanish are partial for the odd swear word but the film was littered with in literally every line maybe it was realistic in 19th century poverty stricken seville but the story itself didn't need it br br the editing and camera work was dull and ordinary there was only one bit i actually liked and that was when the camera follows a fly close up in mid air which lands on face that was good but the rest boring br br to conclude it is sad to see such a great story go to waste with unconvincing acting and directing if you're a literature teacher by all means let your class watch this adaptation to get an idea of the story however only the male half of the class will be paying any interest to the film thanks to paz vega otherwise stick to the opera version even though i hate musicals i give this film 4 just for the fact i love the storyline and paz vega
0	this 2 5 hour diluted snore fest appears to be one of the poorest excuses for an adaptation ever clearly possessing a budget allowing for breathtaking location shooting in greece the monies might have been better spent working out a cohesive script with character development and motivations clearly outlined especially since bill has gone through the trouble of doing this already the portrayals lacked passion direction leaving the viewer debating whether they should bother to care about the demise of the protagonists at all which brings out another point the main character of the original work prospero is not so named in this rendition despite the fact that most other characters' names are used enchantment and magic are also markedly absent from this particular piece in fact all aspects that made the stage version of 'the tempest' full of wonder and intrigue have been sucked completely from this convoluted version about a self absorbed pompous arse who can't figure out how to care about anything beyond the blur of his wealth and power over all a lackluster effort at best and a brutally poor imitation of the intended inspiration
0	the sounds in the movie were so mundane and ridiculous seriously banging on the door hinges for about 30 minutes really crunches your teeth and makes your head hurt br br i love bad puns more than the next guy but come on no blood on our hands being said about a million times by matt character and when matt dillon's character shoots the bum the lead character which i fail to remember his name because i don't really think anyone cares gets blood on his hands literally br br the background music with the heavy metal guitar ringing an a chord for about 5 minutes isn't my idea of music come on i was having the worst headache by the end of this garbage
0	tempest is based on the classic shakespearean work of the same name but bears little resemblance to its source material br br it masquerades as being as cerebral as its namesake but instead is a jumbled convoluted and hackneyed exercise in tedium the original the premise that people have an evil side which would be destructive if unchecked here you just get an uninteresting mid life crisis yawn goof ball who is having everything go wrong in his personal and professional life he becomes endowed with a supernatural power that he uses to try to control his environment in other words to get his own way br br every few minutes after something else in his pathetic life goes wrong he finds a secluded place and starts babbling show me the magic while waving his hands around and making a serious concentration expression from the way these scenes are shot it looks like he's trying to turn bugs into other kinds of bugs turning a spider into a cockroach maybe but by this time you really don't care br br the story has him bolt from his life with his daughter to a greek island somewhere then have a awkward relationship with some girl he meets one of the dullest romances ever committed to film the story just bogs down and moves at a slower and slower pace you are never given any reason to like or dislike anyone br br i'll give this a 2 because of the beautiful greek location shots and the semi optimistic conclusion although it isn't clear if the tempest power brought this ending about or not the spirit of shakespeare's work has been captured much better in other movies one notable example is forbidden planet which gave credence to how the power gets out of control br br as for this tempest its only magic is to cure insomnia
0	paul mazursky misfires on this film the writing direction casting and acting with the exception of gassman are all off the mark i remember the reviews from 20 years ago being mediocre but i thought it still might be worthwhile to view with notables such as susan sarandon raul julia who overacts in most of his scenes and john cassavetes i understandably expected much more the music picked for the film is jarring the cuts between new york and greece confusing and the overall pace all leave much to be desired why paul mazursky felt the need to update this story or add his touch to it is puzzling this retelling of prospero and his daughter takes very little of import from the play and adds not much more the play is not one of shakespeare's best anyway and to gut it even further seems not to be a good decision unfortunately there is nothing to recommend in this film
0	the greek locale for parts of the movie were very beautiful and the photography get all my votes and that's about the extent of my raves for this movie i found that all the characters were narcissistic archetypes found so often in the american culture and were shallow and uninteresting susan sarandon and gena rowlands are easy to look at but i found their characters very narcissistic and unlikeable for many other reasons when gena rowlands sings at a party it made me wonder how this woman could think of herself as a competent star of the stage i was tempted to hit the mute button until she finished singing molly ringwald was herself and raul julia's character was so lecherous he was downright creepy the movie was much too long for my liking and i could not sit through it again even at the point of a gun
0	watchable but pretty terrible how shocking that this was the great gregory la last directing credit even in his better known roles i don't care for gene kelly he seems to me to be smug hostile and self involved here paired with a minor actress like marie wilson he seems to show those characteristics in spades br br marie wilson playing an heiress who falls for a military man is exceptionally hard and unsympathetic the actors seem to be working hard to get past the hard disagreeable core of the picture and they do ok br br the know it all butler is apparently meant to be funny but he seems like an extended riff on the prissy bits for which franklin pangborn was famous and in which despite their stereotyping he was generally funny unlike this guy phyllis thaxter is as always very appealing in a rather underdeveloped secondary plot
0	i didn't see this movie when it originally came out but there has been a couple songs sharing the title and the term still gets used from time to time and i figured there must be something to the flick so i dug it up and gave a view now i would like the approximate hour and forty five minutes of my life back it seemed much longer there was nothing particularly bad about the movie the acting was good no large plot holes of course there wasn't much plot to have holes in there just wasn't a lot to the movie there was some chemistry between the two but nothing compelling about their relationship nothing interesting about their story near the end when he attempts to chase down the train to catch his fleeing romance neither my wife nor i wanted him to catch her honestly we figured they were better off with out each other and if they did get back together we really didn't care so what's that say about this love story when even a 25 year old sappy romantic like my wife had no emotional investment in the relationship i should have left this one in the missed category br br logan www com html
0	i saw this movie over 20 years ago and had rather fond memories of it catching again on cinemax this month i realized how little discernment i had about films back then this is an utterly ordinary spaghetti western with absolutely nothing noteworthy about it script direction acting photography are all a big blah stick with the sergio leone westerns
0	this spaghetti western uses three american lead actors which takes away a little of the typical spaghetti aura the plot is about an amnesty that the governor of new mexico gives to all willing criminals to provide them a chance to start a new life usually this kind of opportunity is limited to past events but in this film it seems more like a licence to kill because even new crimes like e g threatening the governor are forgiven the story is an endless chain of killings where nearly every character has only the purpose to deliver more carcasses only the few leads have stamina clay mccord is haunted by nightmares related to a childhood event where unsurprisingly he killed a lot of people in the middle of the everlasting mayhem this kind of reflections lack credibility compared with similar films like e g none of the characters in this film was likable for me br br apart of the weak content which targets certain customers this film is well shot sets are somewhat detailed and the acting is average br br 4 10
0	just desserts was i must say one of the worst movies i have ever seen the acting was terrible and even the plot line was laughable i gave it a 3 out of 10 instead of a 1 because i enjoy laughing at excruciatingly corny movies my expectations weren't high to begin with but it turned out to be cornier than i expected i thought it might not be all that bad when it started but as soon as the name of the competition the golden whisk came up i began changing my mind it all went downhill from there the only thing i did like about this movie other than snickering at it's absurd plot and dialogue was watching them cook however being a movie about pastry chefs there were minimal scenes in which they actually baked anything i would recommend watching the cooking channel instead of this movie you get to see more food being prepared and you dodge the pathetic one liners however if you enjoy corny love stories which is sometimes fun go ahead and watch
0	this film is bad yes but had the producers used a real kangaroo it would have killed the actor it was boxing with i am an australian and i have seen two seven foot tall male fighting each other it is not a pretty sight as the object is for one or the other to kill it's opponent this is there way of securing the herd of females and there are incidents where someone has boxed a kangaroo and been injured or killed so when you see a kangaroo on tv or film it is likely to be a female or animated as it is a good idea not to injure actors they might be annoyed at losing the ability to breath there is a strange idea that australian animals are cute and cuddly that is false many are dangerous 10 of the 12 most deadliest snakes live here and most are just plain ugly are as soft as steal wool so if you come to australia be carefull
0	i picked this dvd up for 3 99 at rogers video in order to get enough points to get a better movie for free i never actually was planning on watching this but it started poking at my curiosity and i finally decided to pop in it the dvd player the effects in this movie are horrible and cheap some of the dialog in this movie sounds like it was written by a swear happy 12 year old boy the acting is really cheesy in some parts and the action scenes are completely laughable you'll burst out laughing at some parts which was a positive for me because it kept me mildly entertained the plot is some girl has a curse on her which causes her to vomit snakes so some shaman has to get her to los angeles there are also two girls trying to smuggle drugs there and a few other people that are unimportant to the plot not that there really is a plot at all don't expect anything from this movie and don't listen to the cover there are not 100 passengers and 3 000 vipers there are 10 passengers and 20 random snakes br br as for the dvd there is a trailer which is almost as laughable as the film a blooper reel which is just one shot over and over of one actor trying to say train and the deleted scenes are really pointless if they weren't good enough to stay in this movie they must be pretty bad there is also a really bad making of featurette which doesn't really show much at all except that the people involved with this movie were kind of idiots i can't recommend it unless you want a really bad movie that you can laugh at with friends i give it 2 kitty cats out of 5
0	the film had it moments but was disappointing in my eyes anyway it was a reworking of trespass walter hill and so the treasure of the sierra madre with less tension bite and human emotion there was some nice acting but the story was limp and lacked any real depth i watched the movie for mr reno and mr fishburn neither were inspired and both had little to say or act out of their skin for this movie has been done to death in the past and did not have to be made eats up money which could be used on better movies for an action movie it was sparse of action and as a thriller did not thrill better than watching snow fall but not for me
0	last week on friday i went to see snakes on a plane with my friends it was amazing compared to this horrible film however many of the scenes were ridiculously hilarious basically some woman has a mayan curse where she pukes up harmless harmless garter snakes that instead of attacking crawl inside of they're victims the girl with the bag of coke is pretty hot on the title screen it says 100 passengers 3 000 vipers scary i know there weren't even 100 passengers on the train only a couple of stoners and some other washed out losers it's worth the five bucks to see the woman turn into a huge cg snake and devour the whole train then get sucked into a huge vortex though it's just sad that someone would go to such lengths to make a crap film only to make a few bucks because of the snakes on a plane craze
0	this train wreck begins with brujo and alma crossing the mexican border alma is suffering from some horrid curse that causes her to vomit garden snakes and nickelodeon every few minutes as well as clench her teeth and mutter nonsense so apparently alma has this uncle in los angeles who knows of a cure for her they hop aboard a train to get there and luckily a friend of theirs pays their way alma and brujo stay in the luggage cart the whole movie since they can't afford upper class seats meanwhile in the higher class we see a bunch of nobodies on their way to la for whatever reasons a balding guy on a business trip two girls one of whom is carrying 5 grand and a wad of cocaine three stoners and some mexicans the mexicans rough it up with brujo and try to take his weed which apparently is a sedative for snakes inside her they realize that the snakes don't attack they enter your body through your veins very twisted and b movie brujo saves the guy by ripping out his heart temple of doom style and procuring the snake for some reason he cannot have the snakes harmed or it'll hurt alma while this is going on a narcotics expert tries to bust one of the girls and gets a little action topless in exchange for not telling about her shipment of drugs a mystery guy shows up and has a gunfight with him as a grand finale alma turns into a vampire bites her man and then becomes a giant pathetic excuse for a cg snake the size of the train eats the train and is blasted into a nuclear bomb hurricane whirlwind and disappears everyone then heads to la on foot br br the credits actually say at the end any similarity to actual persons living or dead or actual events is purely coincidental and very weird we suggest moving and or taking a plane odd since a line in the movie from the bald guy is yeah i hate planes the credits go on to say no snakes were hurt during the production of this screenplay only a small child but it's cool there actually were a lot of real snakes used in the movie and all of them very tame there is actually no scene of cg snakes attacking anyone unless you count the large one but then it just eats the train and the other fake snake is just the head and it looks like a muppet the snakes don't really attack anything they're just there one crawls out of toilet paper actually br br the movie isn't funny isn't scary as there's no real snake attack and is just a cash in' which is when a low budget movie company hears about a big budget hollywood release then they rush to put out a similar film or even a parodic version for release just prior to or simultaneously with the big name flick the effect of this being that many people will either confuse one for the other and go see the quickie rather than the or they will want to see both for whatever reason like myself avoid at all costs
0	shut the front door that's what i said when i was told that blockbuster got a new movie in called snakes on a train okay maybe that's not exactly what i said but you get the point i didn't need to know who was in the movie or anything else all i knew was that i am renting this movie br br i probably should have asked what it was about though in retrospect i don't know if i would have really wanted to watch a movie about a mayan curse that causes a woman to give internal birth to snakes and have them spit out of her mouth nor would i want to see a movie that features a guy who looks strangely enough like a version of leif garrett br br anyways while the curse might be interesting on some levels well maybe not there was still promise of these annoying characters getting eaten or at the very least killed by snakes so i was willing to sit through the first hour of very little happening other than a texas ranger forcing a girl into a nice little titty grope so she can keep her cocaine or the hispanic shaman that likes to occasionally stab people but then all hell broke loose and the girl started to spit out more and more snakes br br spoiler alert so everything's going well at the end and i'm willing to overlook the fact that some of these snakes all of the sudden turned out to be 25 feet long after all people are getting eaten so it's all good but then all of the sudden and i'm not going to tell you how because that would ruin the best part one of the snakes is about 300 feet long then it proceeds to squeeze and devour the train with all the graphic artistry of from the old gi joe cartoons unfortunately i could not make a nemesis enforcer connection with this movie anyways so you would think that a snake that big who ate a train would be pretty unstoppable well not if you know your mayan voodoo rocks and have the ability to summon tornadoes from heaven yeah that's all i'll say about that br br in short this movie is bad really bad to the point where you might be numb after watching this or your brain might hurt i didn't give this a one because no matter how stupid it was it still wasn't as bad as date movie so if you like camp or badly constructed b horror movies this is the one for you if you think this will actually be cool like its bigger more infamous brethren just walk away from the box if you see it and i'll leave you with a quote from the movie that should basically sum it all up br br snakes can't get on a train because that's just silly not like they make stops or anything
0	i can't believe that anyone would green light this let alone voluntarily star in it i will never be able to get that 90 mins of my life back br br this has to be one of the worst films i have ever seen some films are so bad they're good this has gone so far round again that's somehow it's so bad it's terrible i was not exactly expecting much it being a low budget bandwagon jumping rehash of a b movie but it still came in way under my expectation levels even tv movies have higher production values br br there were very poor special effects shocking dialogue terrible acting and a completely unexplained plot who cursed her and why why did the 6 inch snakes turn into 15 foot snakes has anyone ever heard of highly venomous garter snakes or pythons 100 passengers 3 000 snakes so many promises none delivered br br some comments would have you believe that this film is worth watching for the last five minutes it's not even worth a rental stay in and watch a low budget tv movie you'll enjoy it a lot more br br why was this made oh yes to shamelessly cash in on the internet phenomenon that is soap shame on you brothers shame on you
0	not to be mistaken as the highly touted samuel l jackson vehicle snakes on a plane snakes on a train is low budget features no actors to speak of but some pretty decent visual effects an attractive young woman julia ruiz does not want to marry choice for her husband so she is put under a powerful mayan curse that has snakes hatching inside her body slowly devouring from the inside out her only hope for survival is a shaman who lives across the border in texas time is running out for her and she is put on a train from el paso to los angeles before long the snakes are leaving her pain wrecked body and rapidly growing in size the passengers aboard the train are now trapped and soon to be snacks for the snakes the finale sequence is no doubt the best of this 91 minute flick also receiving acting credit are castro al and giovanni
0	snakes on a train 2006 dir the brothers a zombie curse is placed upon a woman which causes her to have living snakes inside her brujo who is looking after her attempts to take her to los angeles on the train after several confrontations on the train collection of snakes manage to separate themselves from their owner and go on the hunt whilst all this is happening normal everyday passengers are relaxing what is unknown to them is that something deadly is heading their way and that their is no were out br br after watching the wonderfully fun 'snakes on a plane' i had to check this out i knew it was going to be a rip off and that the film will look cheap but what i found was worst to watch the whole curse plot was silly and should never have been included the special effects aren't terrible but are not the best looking i did not have a clue about the ending it was silly to watch and pathetic the acting was absolutely terrible and looked bad they just could not act to save their lives if you want a great laugh watch this otherwise you should really avoid this br br we have a runaway train i repeat we have a runaway train conductor stephen a f day
0	very straight not happy with the movie br br the main center of the movie is the story where the lady is the mother of all the snacks and all the things br br if they can more explain that how this is happening and all the stuff then it was quite a fun and more rating for this movie br br the end was very short and sudden till now actor of the movie was to save her then at last he told sorry now we are late oh crap br br what was the story and how this all this thing happen i think they can put all these stuffs so the end user like us will be satisfied that yes we are happy with the movie br br any way but nice idea and nice try so i will say 4 or max 4 5
0	overall this is a pretty bad film but for 5 at it wasn't a total waste br br the whole scenario has to do with a guy who is with this lady infected with snakes supposedly from a magic curse the actors actresses aren't names that are big even though some look like from tv shows so i won't do my usual troy mcclure thing br br for awhile the film holds your interest as the couple hop a train and travel to l a to see a shaman to undo the curse there's a bit of other plots going on too like two ladies smuggling drugs br br but the last 20 minutes turn out to be a total let down as violent and gory as the whole film is the grand finale is just totally computer animated br br i saw the unrated version which had tons of language gore blood violence everything the bonus features were ok br br overall grade d
0	getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film getting eaten by a bunch of snakes is more entertaining than this film
0	looking back on the year 2006 one of the things i will remember most is the on the internet for a film called snakes on a plane but unknown to me there was a straight to dvd rip off film called snakes on a train after seeing this i feel its at best a below par b movie br br the plot br br a husband and wife get on a train to go to los angles to get help form the husbands uncle who is a shaman this is because the wife's family do not approve of her marring him so they have put a curse on her that snakes will become her thought with a sixteen hour drive to los angles and a group of passengers the include an ex narc cop and some drug traffickers will they get there in time before the snakes take her over br br view on the film first the effects i have to say that while some scenes with the smaller snakes look good in a gory way the main effect shots you have to wait eighty minutes to see are sadly that bad that they completely kill any good memories of the film the film makes video games look like t2 next to this one of the things i noticed is that there is no screenplay credit on the film and the directors make the film so anti climatic it ruins the whole film final view on the film br br a below par b movie with an unbelievably bad ending
0	dillon fishbourne reno should have teamed up for a much smarter effort because this one slides in the b category and could have been done with no name actors and a much smaller budget since anyway 2 armored trucks and a wasted warehouse could not have coasted too much since the writers did not manage to come with a smart heist plan they targeted the dramatics of the situation but there was not much to exploit there either fishbourne and reno do not bring anything to this movie except the media interest they're only expensive advertising dillon is ok but this was a walk in the park the choices of the main character ty hackett are quite uninspired and the final with the reward is quite childish waste of time money actors and so on
0	a mean spirited repulsive horror film about 3 murderous children susan strasberg is totally wasted in a 5 minute cameo even though she receives star billing if your a julie brown fan you'll want to check it out since she's naked in a couple of shots all others avoid
0	snakes on a train is a movie i rented due to the pure amusement of the thoughts i had about the movie snakes on a plane was an enjoyable action film so obviously the film makers wanted to cash in on the success with this low budget effort at 85 minutes snakes on a train is almost unbearable to witness i had to keep pausing the film to do something to entertain myself due to the lack of happenings in the film throughout the duration of the film it's never fully explained why this girl has this curse or why she keeps coughing up this green purplish goo constantly not only that there is endless boring dialog of the two main characters brujo and alma discussing how to get rid of the curse i can appreciate low budget film making i'm truly not picky on movies i'm open to any genre or budget but snakes on a train is truly one of the worst horror films i have ever seen were the writers on acid or something at the end of this film why did the woman suddenly turn into a giant snake and most importantly how on earth was it able to devour the train br br bottom line snakes on a train is a movie that needs to be avoided at all costs don't be intrigued like i was by the title this is a movie that's seriously bad let's put these snakes to rest br br 0 10
0	upon renting this i wasn't expecting to be blown away in fact i knew it was going to be horrible it was just seeing how horrible it really was that's what comes with low budget horror br br snakes on a train not to be confused with the serpentine summer blockbuster snakes on a plane with samuel l jackson is about a woman who is put under a mayan curse that causes snakes to hatch inside her and devour her from within her only hope of surviving lies in a shaman that lives across the border so she and her companion stowaway onto a train bound for los throw in a few passengers and hilarity ensues br br come to think of it though the story isn't half bad isn't half good either br br the acting in this film rivals that of a sci fi original if not worse trust me it's horrible the snakes were another problem they were supposed to be i guess but most of what you get instead are mostly harmless garden snakes that don't attack anything and there's this rattling sound effect that gets really annoying br br the gore effects on the other hand while not on the tom savini level were actually pretty good br br and another thing the ending alone makes up for the rest of the movie i'm not going to talk about it here so you'll have to rent this and see for yourself
0	snakes on a train starts as mexican couple brujo a j castro alma julia ruiz cross the boarder into the us they then illegally board a seventeen hour train to los angeles however family didn't approve of her relationship placed an ancient black magic curse on her that turns all her insides into snakes ain't life a b tch as the snakes pour out of mouth slither away to other parts of the train they begin to infect the other passengers with the same unusual ailment br br edited directed by the brothers although the imdb claims it's just one guy using a pseudonym peter one has to say that i thought snakes on a train was crap it's as simple as that really it seems the entire film was set up made to cash in on the samuel l jackson cult flick snakes on a plane 2006 by every horror fans least favourite production company the asylum who specialise in ripping off big budget hollywood flicks that style of money film making is no more evident than here with snakes on a train making a film just because the title rhymes with a more successful film is not a good starting point the script by eric is rubbish for a start snakes on a plane was great fun whereas snakes on a train is a lot more serious when you actually break it down look at it this should have been much more light hearted in fact it probably would have worked better as an scary movie 2000 type spoof you know something i am struggling to find one positive thing to say about snakes on a train it's that bad for a start the character's are rubbish it's impossible to emote with anyone the story is downright awful makes no sense if people spew all those small snakes up where did the huge ones come from why did alma turn into the giant snake at the end why did kill the train driver how was he going to stop the train once it reached los angeles where did that typhoon come from at the end it takes itself far too seriously the first seventy odd minutes is so boring uneventful i am surprised i stayed awake it's just a very very poor film on just about every level br br director only has a few train carriage car sets which all look pretty much alike so the film becomes very repetitive dull to watch there's barely any blood or gore there are some snakes borrowing under a few peoples skin someone gets shot that's about it the special effects are rubbish too the giant cgi snake at the end is truly awful the least said about it the better it's not scary there's zero atmosphere it's a bit of a bore from start to finish the real live snakes are a problem too they are just so docile nonthreatening if you look at any scene featuring a real snake an actor the snakes never make any move towards them or act aggressively in fact always appear to want to slither away in the opposite direction br br shot in california technically the film is obviously low budget it show's basically it looks cheap because it is the acting isn't great not that the actor's are given any sort of material to work with br br snakes on a train is rubbish i am sorry but that's how i feel i don't quite know how else to describe it i really can't see what anyone would get out of watching snakes on a train it really is that bad
0	there are spoilers but trust me i'm doing you a favor br br my friends and i like to watch crappy movies every so often inspired by mystery science theater and our knack for on the spot jokes we set out to find movies worth watching that are in fact not worth watching however trouble comes into paradise when these movies can only be found if you buy them and i am a firm believer in not giving one cent to such a group of talentless scumbags so as another reviewer has said films like this are a reason why downloading movies for free should be legalized i prefer the idea of instead of straight to video you have straight to internet that way the ass bags who made this travesty won't ever turn a profit which unfortunately you know they do they hire a bunch of actors who can't act special effects from a high school classroom rubber snakes you can get at the dollar store constant vomiting of green jell o and the two main characters who seem to switch between being border jumping mexicans who only speak spanish to arabs to being 100 fluent in english random nudity a guy being shot like 10 times including one to the side of the head and living and the most retarded ending in the history of film book cave drawings and hustler magazine the fact that i actually predicted that the jell o puking snake girl would actually transform into a snake about half way through terrifies me br br anyways the movie is great to make fun of but you have to make sure there's at least 4 of you and you're all spitting out jokes in rapid fire because if there's even 1 second of watching this movie where you're not laughing your ass off you will feel physically ill i kid you not my friends and i were eating chicken wings and now i can't even look at such a thing anymore without being reminded of this piece of sh t br br this film is one above alien vs hunter which is by far the second worst movie ever made and i've seen lots of bad movies incidentally it's the same production company as this film and that bald guy is in both as well just thought you might like to know that little fun fact 100 out 0f 10
0	oh good grief br br i saw this movie title in the tv schedules and thought i must watch this movie ripping off snakes on a plane it will be terrible but hopefully laughable too sounds fantastically bad well i was half right br br this movie is eye meltingly bad and sadly not even unintentionally hilarious it's just bad even worse it takes almost an hour to get to anything resembling action for the first half of the movie we have to endure some mumbled foreign language mexican or spanish apologies for my ignorance and terrible acting as some woman vomits up live snakes for reasons we only find out later on then we have to endure even more terrible acting and we find out that those mumbling in the foreign language could speak english anyway as the snakes finally get loose on the train and things move from the sedate to the ridiculous br br low budget does not always mean bad but in this case it does what we have here is a movie given no thought a terrible script a bad cast and not even the sense to capitalise on it's very few strengths i give two marks for a few decent special effects and a whacky ending but that still feels a bit too generous avoid if you can br br see this if you like the wicker man remake terrible cgi
0	i would probably want to give this movie a zero if not for the climax which involves not really snakes on a train but rather train in a snake the premise was cooked up far more than likely over the course of a night of beers after hearing about snakes on a plane in production this in fact was released to coincide with that film's release the joke is probably not lost on those who will seek this out i don't think there would be a soul out there who would consider this anything as a serious action thriller effort unless on an ironic level beyond the capacity for rational thought it's about a mayan curse placed on a woman who's damned by her family for leaving with another man and is soon seen sickened and coughing up green slime laced with of course snakes she and her beau go on a train headed for los angeles and very soon after the more than cliché characters are privy to snakes overtaking the train with the originator woman becoming a snake herself br br if it would be worth listing more about the movie i would but there isn't enough time during the day all that can be said for the quality factor is that it's almost on existent there are student short films with larger budgets maybe that was a wise calculation on the filmmakers' end that there would be so many copies sold just for the joke factor alone that they would re coup their budget in the first weekend because by looking at the sets the trains themselves change randomly in the middle of a scene the actors if you can call them that with only one other actor the one with the very thin hair who hits on the one woman throughout the movie who benefited from the flick being produced the fx also next to non existent making the effects in snakes on a plane seem like star wars and the actual cgi snakes themselves with the final huge behemoth snake something to behold in sci fi movie channel terms br br this all means basically that it is a laugh riot every step of the way especially as cruel as it sounds when a little girl becomes involved in a snake's attention with the very disregard for good taste working well in its favor this being said it is also 100 disposable like a b movie sour flavor lollipop
0	truly truly awful i don't even know where to begin this is a perfect example of a movie that doesn't know what to do with itself i'm not sure i could even assign a category myself except that i'm quite sure it's a slap in the face of everyone every where even the unborn br br at times i thought i was watching a parody or some kind of farce at times just a bad b movie but i kept holding out for the porno which i fear is almost but not entirely non existent br br some one advised skipping to the ending i would definitely second that emotion the last five minutes are intense and certainly contain some of the best film making cgi you will ever see ever br br ed wood would be proud
0	for their credit this is one of their more competent pieces of trash and that's because there's considerably good gore and an interesting take on ripping off snakes on a plane but if there's any more of example of the inconsistency behind newest rip off it's the two characters at the beginning whom are illegal immigrants and can't understand nor speak english to a texas man sneaking them across the border yet when they get on a train and meet a friend they begin understanding and speaking perfect english br br aside from being a pretty bad depiction of a hollywood formula snakes on a train is utterly boring at least with snakes on a plane we were given the chance to watch actors wax comedic and attempt to be remotely interesting the brothers installment features some of the most boring characters i've ever seen from an electrical engineer gee i wonder how he comes in handy later on to some stoner surfers right down to our two main characters attempting to fight off the snake curse that lurks in the husband's wife br br snakes is never entertaining and even when it's very gory it's still never as good as it has the chance to be because snakes could have been a funny short film and instead just takes itself much too seriously and never camps it up at any moment instead of taking their small budget and making original films that can set a precedent they instead force their small budget to work against them in these knock offs while the brothers seem to be trying the train just looks incredibly artificial br br it seems almost like a stage play with these inconsistent and awfully bland set pieces that try desperately to look like actual train cars while every so often it shakes the background of the windows are blurred and the sound effects go off every now and then to let us know they're actually on a train not to mention that in such a large extended train there only seems to be about ten passengers on it and beyond the train fight and a drawn out sex scene we're forced to be subjected to a plot that makes zero sense and not even the directors can work around the fact that the lethal snakes that go on this train look far from venomous or dangerous br br the rest of the film staggers onto only about a minute of snake carnage and a bad subplot of an ex drug agent trying to molest a passenger all of this dull exposition ends with a really ridiculous climax in which a poorly computer generated snake i saw better animation on the super nintendo completely swallows the train whole and is then dispensed in a method that should have been exercised from the very beginning asylum scores again br br asylum scores yet again with a hackneyed lazy horribly directed and boring rip off of another better film snakes on a train takes itself way too seriously and that's why it's never entertaining or memorable
0	seriously i thought it was a spoof when i saw it at the rental store but i realized it was just crap i can't even believe i didn't shut it off like we all know those snakes weren't they were pythons and gardner's the acting was lame and i still cant believe the ending loll if your gonna watch it just watch it for the end it was seriously priceless way better then 6th sense i don't even know if the makers of the movie actually thought this title would fly the only time it is really going to fly is when i throw it in the garbage just watch it for a laugh it was hilarious in the stupidest way don't buy just rent
0	the movie starts in mexico where a girl has been cursed she spits on snakes thru green jello and her friend tries all these crazy spells to lift the curse he does nothing but chant horrible language that does nothing so they decide to cross the border get on the train to make their way to l a to see his uncle to lift the curse comic hilarity ensues this movie has the same snakes over and over it has garden snakes and pythons that will never bite they all make the sound of rattlesnakes which makes no sense the whole movie has some funny lines some weak effects but most important a great ending that leaves you like wham bam what the heck just happened the whole movie is about a 1 but the ending is a 10 so by my crazy math it gets a 3 overall when blockbuster has nothing else you want grab this for mindless entertainment
0	one of those movies in which there are no big twists whatsoever and you can predict pretty much whats is going to happen matt dillon was awesome once again but the rest didn't played a bigger part as they should have br br it was exciting in the beginning but kinda slow paced and predictable in the end its one of those flicks in which the good guy wins no matter happens if you have absolutely nothing to do you can give it a try i personally found it not worth watching the story could have been more interesting and the director could have made it less of a b movie by engineering a happy ending
0	so i was energized during my snakes on a plane weekend after the movie we craved some more why not snakes on a train how bad could it possibly be its snakes probably killing people on trains the snakes were supposed to be first off me and my buddies thought the snakes were harmless garden snakes and pet snakes with the same cheesy rattling sound clip we actually sat through the entire thing completely ready to turn it off we're too lazy to walk over and hit eject next thing we knew we don't know what the heck was going on but something amazingly funny happens at the end it's one of those endings that you'll rewind a few times just to squeeze the laughs out because you suffered for so long br br last 10 min a 8 rest of the movie a 2
0	can i just start by saying i'm a fan of bad movies and this is a really bad movie it states on the front 100 passengers 3000 snakes but i think it's more accurate to say 12 passengers and about 20 snakes br br the snakes don't do anything particularly interesting the whole movie in fact just blunders on with little happening although there is occasionally a great gore shot of pulsating arms and green goo puke bad movies have to have green goo don't they br br but then the ending comes along and will quite literally smack you off you seat in hysteria and for that this movie gets a boost up to a 2 rating br br there are certain movies about in the world that you will want to show to your friends just so you can watch there reaction when a certain event happens in them br br for example the arrival of 'big man' in r kelly's in the closet' 'the line' in attack 3' you'll know it when you hear it the arrival of the mama shark in attack 3' almost every scene of 'troll 2' the ending of 3000' just for utter disbelief and confusion and the end of this movie proudly sits in this category it's worth sitting through just for that so get drunk stoned whatever your poison is and watch this movie with some mates br br quite simply if you like bad movies get this but don't get it confused with 'snakes on a plane' there's no relation br br and don't pay more than a fiver for it either
0	how on earth can you have such fantastic actors in such a miserable creation this is one of the most stylized pieces of rubbish i have seen in a long time not only is it poorly written it is a product of shoddy direction and editing the cinematography is so horribly manipulative and unoriginal and the montage jumbled beyond belief the actual ideas behind the plots cloning toxic waste climate change are all fine to begin with but where the production direction team takes them is a big cesspool of filth the likes of which are seen in one episode and this is a scientific series i am a physician and all i can say is that the science in this film is utter crap almost embarrassing to watch i really felt bad for the actors involved since they were all extraordinary
0	if i was british i would be embarrassed by this portrayal of incompetence a protection agent of the special branch unable to defend herself against a sick unarmed and untrained assailant the home office sends a single science adviser to investigate a possible level four biohazard and that advisor doesn't have the sense to wear even a mask and gloves totally unprotected london police officers working side by side with technicians in full biohazard suits the advisor and his bodyguard the lair of a sociopathic doctor experimenting on human subjects without any backup puh leeze one wonders whether the producers could not afford to hire any technical advisers or if for some arcane reason they consciously decided to portray the principals as hopelessly incompetent even my wife who has no background in either medicine or law enforcement was rolling her eyes in disbelief after the first episode i was discouraged now that i have seen two episodes i give up
0	just after watching the first one and it is very dumb i happened to watch an episode of bones first and then the eleventh hour the 11th hour should be embarrassed br br it is so weak stewart introduces himself as a government scientist no mention of what kind of scientist just general stuff in a program about cloning they bring a caretaker who was paid to dispose unsuccessful embryos to a church and made him kneel before the statue of jesus on the cross and ask forgiveness and as well tell them where the bad guy is so as they can move the plot on now thats science at work br br there is a dumb not good dumb bit where picard rages at a tv that advertises skin scream that makes you look younger shouting it's a lie as his randy female assistant gets groped by the local hot bobbie next door br br the end of the first episode is like a bad cartoon where the bad old lady named after daddy in order to move the clunky plot along waves at picard from the street as she gets in a taxi picard is one floor up and he looks out a window wistfully going she got away he could like try to run down or maybe ring the cops or maybe get the number of the taxi and ring it in or maybe had anything other than i am waving and getting into a taxi now and there is nothing you can do about it until next week ending br br pity it's so stupid at one point a grieving father is convinced by picard that even if a replica clone son was born it would never be his son as his son had a soul yes that's right folks the general scientist argues against cloning on the basis that every soul is unique and sure why else would you want to clone br br although the general scientist picard finds cloning a bit gooey he's all up for stem cell research and goes as far as to say that calamity will befall humanity if it isn't allowed he has a pretty strident rant about how important it is of course he doesn't mention a single example that kind of sums up the show buzz words and
0	will spanner david byrnes the fifth actor to play the role in the series stumbles onto another bizarre case this time involving vampires rather than the usual witches warlocks demons he's at the hospital to check on his friend's son who got hurt in a hit and run when they wheel a girl who's been attacked by a vamp in he brings in lutz to help out with the case which revolves around a clandestine vampire organization trying to get a business to go through to let them legally own all the blood banks in the world or some such nonsense br br the plot of this movie pretty much takes a backseat to the nudity simulated sex scenes as is to be expected from this series i guess so complaining about the lack of good acting or compelling plot line or even convincing characters i suspect would fall on deaf ears if you're watching this film you don't care about such 'frivolities' and just want some 'action' sadly on that front the film fails as well all the woman are attractive enough but the way the scenes are filmed are just atrocious making this more or less an exercise in futility in every conceivable way br br eye candy both kimberly blair april show everything shows full frontal aline mai lis holmes only shows their breasts br br my grade d
0	i think this movie can be called the movie of misdirected rage br br the characters of joe and bob were relics of the wwii generation who didn't quite understand their kids opposing the war taking drugs and listening to rock and roll but i think their real rage was at the fact that america was beginning her long decline from the heights the war left her at br br joe himself is a low rent archie bunker ranting at all the things that have made him angry living his life of quiet desperation until he teams up with compton a guy who wants to avenge himself on the hippies who ruined his daughter br br honestly most of the movie looks silly the characters are worse than one dimensional they're laughable peter boyle was capable of better stuff
0	joe was first released in the us in the summer of 1970 despite respectable notices reasonable box office and an oscar nom it vanished shortly afterwards and remained forgotten about throughout the 1980's before being enthusiastically reappraised somewhat unjustly in the us in the late 90's thanks to this lengthy its reputation has gone on to see it placed inexplicably alongside the likes of michael winner's original death wish although revenge is a theme a film about vigilantism this most definitely is not br br the plot isn't worth synopsizing its a flabby hammy and bizarrely stagey ramble about an accidental murder and the unlikely relationship that blossoms out of it that relationship and the largely class based quirks of its two leads are exaggerated into ridiculous caricature these two and their situation bear absolutely no relation to reality br br almost everything about the film is cantankerous and begrudgingly antiquated which makes the whole thing completely fascinating hippies are depicted as snide and exclusive misanthropes hard drugs either make you sleep or dance around maniacally with lipstick on your face and most young women are prepared to have sex with strangers in exchange for marijuana at the drop of a fly its very much a film of the 60's rather than the 70's so why some industry luminaries have begun to include it in retrospective conversations about the beginnings of the hollywood new wave is a complete mystery martin scorcese of all people even got involved though probably only to give a nod to the dank hues of the grim urban cinematography which almost certainly influenced taxi driver four years later but joe seems very much like a furious tirade against the likes of easy rider and bonnie and clyde rather than a continuation of that same insurgent cinematic ethos br br it isn't a film of any real artistic significance despite joe's fury at everything in his world it remains a story about absolutely nothing but its value as a cultural museum piece is unprecedented shot on and around the streets of new york city during the darkest hours of the vietnam war and at a time when america and significantly its cinema was being revolutionized to the horror of the old guard the film ends up in its own completely oblivious and accidental way saying more about that period of history than numerous infinitely superior movies that directly to capture it br br but as a film despite a really surprising and effective shock ending this is basically a michael winner film but not as well made how does that tickle your fancy incidentally if you are like me a fan of spotting arbitrary background then check out harold steptoe at 1 22 11 in the hippy art gallery
0	this is a perfect example of the 90's mainstream horror crap nothing is scary here and the film is almost bloodless yes there is some violence but everything is politically correct like in a tv movie this is not a completely bad picture i can safely say that i found it quite enjoyable however a lack of the originality really hurts voodoo all in all if you are a part of the mainstream audience and pseudo horror movies like scream are your favourite then you'll love voodoo but if you want something very gruesome avoid this film
0	this is a perfect example of why many people say the 90's sucked when it comes to horror movies a boring voodoo on campus tale of terror starring the once so promising corey feldman stand by me the lost boys etc there might be just enough stuff happening to keep you from falling asleep and it doesn't look too cheap but this still is horror aimed at an audience that were in their very early teens during the 90's i might have been part of that audience but still i got as good as nothing out of it when watching it now and nowadays teens are used to a lot more and better already and i can't imagine any of them knowing or caring about who corey feldman was or is actually as the dude's still making films but the only thing still linking him to his days of glory is the lost boys 2 the tribe sequel that got made recently and i imagine even that one isn't going to encourage anyone to seek out voodoo just another movie that got lost in 90's horror for obvious reasons
0	after watching this for 15 minutes i knew how it would end its a cliché film with a stupid setup i'm a big fan of thief films but this one does not deliver anything new smart or special it's about an insider heist gone bad because hot head bad guy shots a bum and of course do goody bad guy goes on a moral trip the reason why it's stupid and not believable is when you've already gone so far to kill a bum why not just kill the one guy that stands between you and 43 million they got 45 minutes to stash the money and stage a robbery nobody in there right mind would hesitate to shoot mr do goody and in this case he is a guy they known for a few days all and all i was leaning to fast forwarding from the middle of it but i it out and boy do i regret it
0	this film has the worst editing i've ever seen this is yet another film to avoid at all costs unless you view it via mst3k on their website they wonder why the coast guard cooperated with this film i mean they let them use a helicopter
0	muscular unpleasantly thin females in swimsuits lots of beer drinking yet it's too long to be a beer commercial oh okay there's some plot about a big shark like monster that's killing people and stuff but it's nothing you haven't seen before
0	this movie is a pure disaster the story is stupid and the editing is the worst i have seen it confuses you incredibly the fish is badly made and some of its underwater shots are repeated a thousand times in the film a truly truly bad film
0	a perennial fixture in the imdb bottom 100 upon viewing this it's not hard to see exactly why for it proves to fail utterly miserably in just about every bloody department going br br take the editing for a start to call this choppy would be overly complimentary indeed had the makers of this got drunk one night and sliced and diced the film reels with some scissors and children's glue then the resulting mess could hardly have been any worse than what we actually have here added to this the inane story drags on mercilessly for what seems like a torturous infinity before we finally reach the decidedly lacklustre climax br br aside from the ever game michael poor performances from most of the rest of the cast don't exactly help matters any either and the actual beastie that is causing all the troubles is somewhat less than convincing to put it mildly yay verily all in all this is a complete pile of crap if ever i've seen one br br deary deary me and to think that lamberto bava directed this to tut tut indeed br br note this was released in the uk under the alternative title of devouring waves although bereft of most of its gore scenes which ironically are just about the only reason that this may have been worth watching
0	there's really not a whole lot to say about this it's just really really bad the acting is bad the script is bad and the editing is probably one of the worst jobs ever it's so sloppy and choppy that it serves only to confuse the audience there's no real to plot to speak of mostly it's a really fake looking monster fish attacking europeans trying to pass themselves off as americans pass on this one
0	the lousiest of all lousy jaws rip offs was regretfully made by one of my all time favorite directors lamberto bava here under his john old jr pseudonym you know how it goes in these cheap european imitations right they only want their monstrous animal to be be bigger sicker and more threatening but this more than often results in the opposite effect bava's creature is a humongous sea devil and it's more than just a shark we're seemly dealing with a prehistoric monster here with the jaws and appetite of a great white but it also has tentacles like an octopus it's up to a couple of dolphin loving to discover how this monster was able to survive all these thousands of years and why exactly he only started his killing spree now the script of monster shark makes few to no sense and most of the action takes place on the mainland the shark itself is an unintentionally laughable creation and it was a wise decision of lamberto bava to only show it vaguely and in quick flashes the acting performances are above average and the underwater photography is surprisingly clear and well handled the twists in the plot are predictable and you'll probably have the most fun spotting detailed facts about the characters for example count all the cans of beer dr hogan drinks throughout the whole movie
0	what could possibly go wrong with a movie that includes a bunch of italians pretending to be and some vague lava octopus crustacean thingy as the hell induced hellspawn devil fish br br everything is what goes wrong i tell you br br this is a very good mst3k episode because the heckling in right on the ball which without fault is easy to do considering this movie is a piece of junk with a lousy and boring plot br br 9 10 for version 1 10 for un version br br
0	yikes br br i've seen quite a few bad movies in my days a lot of them in the company of mike tom crow and the others from mst3k so was the case with this one as well and even though i found the movie in itself quite funny it wouldn't have been nearly as fun without the mst3k commentary br br the movie is a prime example of really bad movies coming out of europe during the eighties horrible music horrible acting horrible plot what little there is horrible dialogue and really really really horrible editing cripes br br this might be called a turkey if it weren't for the fact that it's not unique in any way whatsoever it's pretty much the same kind of film that almost every italian hack of a director cranked out br br so try and get the mst3k version it's a pretty fun episode with mike and gang in quite good form
0	a man unger is found floating in the sea among the wreckage of his destroyed boat just off the florida coast a helicopter him up only to reveal both of his legs are missing below the knees dr stella dickens valentine and her partner dr bob hogan lawrence are marine of some sort and are conducting research in the sea regarding dolphins while out at sea hogan hears a strange high pitched noise intrigued he and stella hire peter micheal and his assistant sandra iris to create a device to locate and track the source or something like that anyway as it isn't made particularly clear meanwhile a scientist named florinda de as stewart who works at a rival organisation called the 'west ocean is brutally murdered when she threatens to expose someone within the organisation more people are attacked and sheriff gordon gianni as john is on the case peter stella hogan and sandra all set out to sea soon enough they find evidence that something monstrous and very unfriendly may be lurking beneath the surface together with rival scientist professor donald west william berger sheriff gordon and the united states army they set out to destroy the monster but there are other sinister forces at work as someone doesn't want the genetically engineered creature to be exposed at any cost directed by lamberto bava as john old jr this is a far cry from the classic italian horror and splatter films of the 70's and early 80's the script by gianfranco herve and sacchetti is drearily slow and will put most people to sleep well before the 90 odd minute run time has elapsed the monster is barely used large portions of this film are made up of footage of boats and helicopters large chunks of the first half concentrate on the not so mysterious 'who's behind it' part of the story there isn't really any gore to speak of a guy with both his legs bitten off and someone with one arm is about it the special effects on the monster itself are generally poor and it is shown in very quick flashes disappointing the cast of virtual nobody's don't help make this any easier to sit through there really isn't much to recommend this film so i won't don't bother you can do a lot better
0	i really wanted to like this film as i have admiration for italian rip off cinema especially jaws rip offs but the simple fact of the matter is that monster shark isn't very good all the signs of this being a great piece of trash are there we've got one of the kings of trashy cult cinema lamberto bava in the director's chair one of the best ridiculous cult actors michael taking the lead role and a central creature stupid enough to give even the best that this sort of film has to offer a run for it's money yet somehow the film still manages to be rather stale the fact that the 'monster doesn't feature too often is probably a good thing given the creature design but there's never enough elsewhere to pull the film through without it the plot focuses on a resort off the south coast of florida or rather somewhere in italy where several local people have turned up in the water with arms and legs missing it's not long before the local authorities decide that this creature has never been seen before and it's up to a motley crew of various sea experts to catch it alive br br the main problem with this film is that it always feels very pointless and since there is little in the way of characters or plot development even the least demanding of viewers are likely to start getting bored before long this sort of film is hardly famous for being brilliant although the fun element of films such as 'the last and 'killer fish' is unfortunately absent for most of the running time the thing i love about lead actor michael is that he always seems like he's taking himself seriously no matter what film he's in although he only ever made four this is certainly the case here although bava never really allows him to completely dive in and often he feels as much like a spare wheel as the rest of the film much of the runtime is spent watching the various characters american lager and it's not very fascinating although bava does manage to come good by the end with an entertaining flurry of action as the central monster finally gets to wreak havoc upon its would be captors overall there really isn't much to recommend this film for as mentioned i really like this sort of stuff and even i found myself bored on numerous occasions for hardcore italian horror fans only
0	disappointing heist movie indeed i was actually expecting a pretty cool cat and mouse stuff going on through out the movie and it does have few of those cat and mouse stuff going on but it was just pretty stupid and it basically showed all the good scenes in the trailer as a matter of fact if you seen the trailer to this you basically seen the whole film cause it is just that predictable so basically the plot is about a few armored truck company workers that try to steal the 42 million dollars they are suppose to transport until one of the members grows a conscience i thought the movie would be better with it's cast of well known actors but i was wrong i mean this isn't necessarily a bad film but it just wasn't that good either or has any depth this is most definitely a rental at best just not really worth seeing it in theaters heist br br 4 8 10
0	this cheapo exploitation flick is some genuinely insipid stuff courtesy of spaghetti land director lamberto bava who wisely left his name off this junk br br the basic crux of this outing concerns the discovery of some brutally mutilated individuals being washed up on shore in the caribbean authorities initially believe them to be victims of shark attacks but as the investigation unravels turns out to be something much more sinister br br all of this ultimately amounts to very little however we have here poor dubbing complimented by similarly weak script which often consists of nonsensical jabbering and is really of little consequence for the most part acting can only be described as sub par which is par for the course in this instance truly lax direction doesn't help things either br br special effect mainly is for numerous close ups of various gory bodies missing limbs and so forth of course there is the obligatory creature which periodically emerges at feeding time which looks something like a big monster octopus thing where its animation only consists of its pointed teeth ascending and descending in rhythmic articulation overall the end result is none too convincing sure but admittedly is almost entertaining in a cheesy kind of fashion br br it seems what the film makers were going for was a sort of low rent hybrid of jaws and piranha but the final product is just a bloody shambles much like the corpses incessantly shown throughout this picture i find it difficult to think of any redeeming attributes to warrant viewing this so moreover strictly for incurable monster movie addicts
0	i wish i had something more positive to say about devil fish but i honestly can't seem to come up with much i can't even come up with many of those so bad it's good kind of moments devil fish is just plain old bad the plot is completely derivative jaws anyone the acting is wooden the characters are uninteresting the special effects are beyond bad and the score is annoying add to that the seemingly inept direction of lamberto bava and you've got one stinker of a movie i think however that the film's biggest sin is its lack of a budget it doesn't appear that bava had much to work with by 1984 the italian film industry was in full decline – especially as far as genre films go the funding available to bava was most probably very meager film's like devil fish that rely on special effects just never had a chance to be good it's not the only italian film to suffer this fate there are a number of italian movies made in the mid 80s whose ideas and concepts far exceeded what anyone could realistically have expected given their budgetary limitations br br however having said all that and noting the film's many weaknesses i can't bring myself to rate devil fish lower than a 3 10 i've even considered rating it higher but can't because i realize how bad a movie it is why don't i rate it lower well that's hard to explain despite the many problems found in the movie there's something about devil fish that i inexplicably enjoy it could be as simple as my love for low budget cheesy italian movies maybe my taste in movies is horribly skewed but i enjoy what i enjoy br br the mystery science theater 3000 treatment of devil fish is actually very enjoyable i rate devil fish a 4 5 on my mst3k rating scale the guys do a fine job of poking fun at the movie's many flaws one very astute observation comes very early in the commentary when tom servo notes just because you can edit doesn't mean you should – highlighting yet another of the many weaknesses to be found in devil fish
0	movie i have ever seen actually i find it one of the more entertaining episodes of mst 3000 i have seen not that it was good but for anyone who has seen manos the hands of fate knows this one wasn't two bad the monster in the movie looked terrible everyone wore upsetting swim suits and the plot was laughable i still don't have a clue as to why they made the monster they never really gave a good reason the lead female had to be the gal i have ever seen they would have done better if they cast the gal that was killed at the beginning as the lead on the plus side the dolphins acting was great
0	this stupid anti environment wannabe jaws is sad pathetic boring poorly dubbed and stupid there is nothing redeeming about it br br plot follows some shark octopus creature thingy that appears off the coast of florida and kills some people including a boring stupid couple with a whiny wife and a silent husband who stabs himself with a fork for some reason his ascent to the surface is always represented by a vague of something bumpy over and over it makes no sense it's horribly boring and it's conspiracy plot sucks br br there are moments of camp that cannot be ignored the same shot of the boat of the couple of the opening sequence three times the doctor slamming a dying patient's chest twenty times with a without stopping even though he's clearly dead the porno esque soundtrack the shot of the couple making love on the beach with three different that us is getting ahead of us doing this the ancient computer that sounds like kermit the frog a beer guzzling scientist screaming i know a la dr smith the list goes on and on br br oh and everyone drinks at least thirty bears in the course of the movie much noticed by mike and the br br the mst3k version is their best episode but it's certainly better than the movie itself this is how i like to go fishing guys with a flashlight and a flamethrower crow br br one star for devil fish seven for the mst3k version br br
0	a 40 foot long giant mutant squid with five tentacles razor fangs and the ability to reproduce it's own cells terrorizes a small florida town various marine doctors and cops plot to kill it meanwhile a human monster named miller offs people who discover the is a manmade creation used for the greedy benefit of some evil doctors miller attacks a female researcher strangles her drowns her in the bathtub tosses in a hairdryer then rips the panties off her dead body br br lots of false alarms are set when our heroes peter stella janet and bob set out on a high tech high tech for 1984 anyway boat to catch the creature who is frequently seen in close up or hilariously obvious speeded up film to seem more menacing and only fire can destroy it which leads to a flamethrower armed posse vs aquatic beast finale br br this jaws cash in is pretty tame other than a legless corpse and a decapitation but watchable and benefits from an excellent antony barrymore score and a decent again for 1984 monster design luigi and sergio martino wrote the original story br br score 4 out of 10
0	never before has such a large cast of ugly people gathered together to make an equally ugly film br br something huge and horrifying is loose in the waters off the florida coast something that leaves half chewed up bodies behind in its wake unshaven beer dependent bob thinks he has caught the thing's evil voice on tape bob's assistant the amazingly unattractive and painfully skinny stella decides to enlist the help of slimy ladies man peter an electrician whose equipment may be able to help them locate the mysterious creature but anyone who sticks their nose too far into the mystery winds up dead killed by a baboon faced hit man with a bad perm what is the terrible secret behind the sea killer br br ugly scientists have torrid affairs inept cops and doctors puzzle over the increasing numbers of corpses stella and peter make out on the beach and characters we don't care about are killed off or munched up the sea killer a weird combination of an octopus a shark and a pair of large dentures never really seems as threatening as it should the conspiracy behind the monster's creation makes no sense whatsoever none of the characters are particularly likable and the ones who might be are killed off immediately this is a poorly shot badly dubbed plot less mess the whole thing is so scuzzy and smelly it made me long for a hot bath i've had sushi plates scarier than this film avoid it unless it's the mst3k version
0	warning may contain spoilers br br the ripples in the wake of the first jaws movie were still prominent in the 1980s as well as beyond movie monsters went from being radioactive monstrosities to unknown and voracious beasts lurking in the unexplored corners of human experience ie the ocean deep space genetics although jaws was a milestone in this particular realm of film horror few films have been able to match the visceral impact of the original shark rosso aka devil fish or red ocean is a dutiful follower of the original jaws formula after several hapless boats and are brutally murdered by some ocean creature there is an initial drive to discover the beast then a failure to study it without horrible results and a final push to destroy it although the filmmakers attempted to inject some fresh life into the equation by adding elements of technology and corporate conspiracy the result is nothing short of disastrous this movie sinks under its own weight of ghastly editing brittle acting and cheap scares br br the most sickly compelling feature of devil fish is its cookie cutter editing from the onset of the film when 3 different scenes are mashed together the viewer gets a sense that the film lacks any technical credibility it appears as if the editors cut the scenes around a set musical score instead of cutting the film and then making necessary changes to the music furthermore every cut is an intercut and it would appear as if the editors had never heard of the terms fade wipe or dissolve the impact of scenes can never settle in because they are immediately cut short after a final line and a new scene begins silly camera tricks abound such as when two of the principle characters share a private moment on the beach and a sort of time lapse image of their act is composited over their bodies br br the music is equally bland the creature theme is a hopeless duplicate of the jaws theme with slight variation although i like to keep my reviews devoid of mst3k influence mike most aptly described the somber score as soft core porn music failing to produce tension in a film that relies so heavily on it is a death blow to devil fish the acting is stale the relationships baffling and the whole conspiracy is laughable the question remains that if genetics had advanced to such a level to create a huge chimera of a sea monster to protect oceanic interests why couldn't a more practical use be administered to better mankind one of the few positive aspects of this film is the idea of the monster even though its film presence is less than stellar br br overall this movie is bad enough to dip below mediocre if jaws had never been made then the film could be described as average because its subject matter would be new and exciting even if it was executed ineffectively sadly as a carbon copy of spielberg's original thriller it sits most comfortably on a garbage heap of cheese
0	boring horrible piece of italian euro trash about a scientist who seems to spend most of his time guzzling beer this is what makes him american right our scientists spend most of their academic life soused out of their minds sure that's where all the really great theories come from who's studying something dolphin calls fish migration patterns who knows he hears a weird sound through his headphones proving that his radio is picking up a station in at the same time a jack skellington girl with one of the worst most bleached manes of bad 80's hair that it has ever been my pleasure to witness is trying to calm down the dolphins in the she works at as they're apparently upset about the amount of fish she's been doling out lately the beginning of the film was a really badly colored storyline about two annoying very italian people who's boat is attacked by something unseen under the water the whiny woman is never seen again best part of the story and the guys' corpse is found with no legs the dim alcoholic scientist who has an inexplicable english american italian accent and the stick girl with the hay hair begin to theorize that there's some kind of giant monster lurking under the seas off the coast of italy err florida br br they enlist the help of an electrician to set up an underwater mike so that the monster can sing karaoke this guy has a beautiful girlfriend who's only drawback is that she pronounces peter tah but for some reason he's sexually drawn to the anatomical skeleton with the hair a situation that leaves one blinking br br the dubbing is awful the editor a spaz and the storyline generally a yawn there's a bit about how this weird scientific corporation genetically engineered this monster giant shark squid barracuda thing for some reason that makes no sense and a really unpleasant greasy haired guy goes around killing women again for no apparent reason a stupid sheriff and his bulked up deputy are along for the ride along with a female scientist who we know is smart because she wears huge glasses at one time the woman scientist takes on the huge terrible monster yeah right ed wood's giant octopus was more believable with only a small and she wins the contest hooray for skinny little women who obviously make the best monster hunters br br the solution to the problem of the giant thing is to blow up half of the everglades leaving a dead zone for several miles in every direction to hell with ecology and the environment right we have to kill this giant monster at the end the electrician and his broomstick love ride off into the sunset on her vespa which is o k since she's gotten over her death and he's not very upset that his girlfriend got whacked by the crazy guy with the greasy hair hooray for true love wait a minute isn't there something fishy about all this
0	sometimes it's hard to judge how bad a film made in italy or spain really is because they all seem to use the same stable of 9 10 esl trained voice actors to supply the english voices for release in the us and things are always lost in translation anyway dialog character shtick and plot elements written for the expectations of european audiences may not go too well with our american ideas of what is funny hip or dramatic i imagine that the team responsible for making the translation for the sound track of this movie to english had about 3 days to do it from start to finish and they probably each earned the equivalent of an installment payment on their used to do it in other words pure tossed off in one or two takes and never reviewed or redone by someone with a real ear for the american language br br watching devil fish i can imagine that if you were an italian watching this presented in your native language you might find it a mildly amusing little piece of fluff you'd laugh at the 'in jokes' and the amusing drunk you'd gasp at the monster and the villainy of the bad guys and you'd ogle at the attractive pair of peter and not quite daryll hannah as they couple on the beach for no apparent reason in the middle of a search for clues about a man eating monster who has already killed one of their friends br br but since the jarring voice acting and tin eared dialog keep yanking we americans out of the film experience we can't help but notice that the editors had serious attention deficit disorder that no one on screen can really act so much as project an attitude that the stated reason for the creation of the monster makes absolutely no sense that the action sequences have all the impact of a cereal bowl full of cooked oatmeal and that the director screenwriters and producers really hate women br br don't even think about buying or renting this movie watch only on cable tv on saturday afternoon with one of several beers in your fist or with the help and protection of mike and the bots on mst3k
0	i'm not sure what the director and editor were thinking when they were editing this poor excuse for a film but whatever they thought of didn't help this movie it only hurt it and it hurt this film badly the acting for once isn't the problem it's the horrible editing scenes will end for no apparent reason while in the middle of an action sequence or people will be cut off in mid sentence i'm not sure what the story was but it didn't really matter since what i did see was fairly uninteresting just bad all around a huge jaws rip off and not a good one at that the mst version was funny though 7 for that none for the film itself
0	ok i for one thought the trailer was quite good so was hopeful for this film plus with the cast line up i was sure it couldn't get less than a 6 in my books however i got annoyed half hour into the story just where normal films get good this film hit rock bottom br br spoiler the guy who everyone is trying to help is so caring of other people getting hurt in the middle of the hustle that he turns on his colleagues to save a tramp and then locks himself inside one of the armoured trucks not only that he constantly tries to get other peoples attention by which he ends up endangering more people and long story short the outcome is that he is responsible for not just the tramps death but also a police officer getting shot and the kidnapping of his younger brother oh and all 5 of his colleagues dying disgraced deaths br br but in the end he is happy because he came to his senses halfway through the endeavour so what if all his colleagues are now dead rather than sticking to the plan and being a millionaire this film tried to be so politically correct it makes me sick ruined a good story shame really
0	italians movie makers love to rip off american movies all of our movies and as often as possible br br i'm not stating that as a slur against italy as a whole but i would like to further observe that the italian film industry does itself great harm by allowing like this to go overseas to be seen by the world at large that's all i'm saying br br and no more grave injury do the italian people subject themselves to than by not sticking a harsh penalty upon those who made the world watch shark rosso which is admittedly a ripoff of the far superior jaws as if you didn't know br br let's dive into the plot get it haw haw this huge monstrous swimming thing that looks like a cross between an octopus a shark and steven tyler attacks many innocent americans ie italians off the coast of florida ie italy and the intrepid beer swilling peter sails out with his anorexic beer swilling girlfriend and other beer swilling people whose main purposes are to be eaten by the creature killed by mysterious forces who want the creature left alone or just stand around and be otherwise useless and swill beer or be the doctor in this film who dying patients repeatedly 20 maybe 30 times in a row without waiting for his paddles to must be one heck of a good battery there doc br br then there's the monster brother if you thought the jaws shark was fake look herein and have your mind changed immediately br br this is a movie that was directed as an afterthought by a bava edited with an onion chopper acted by beer swilling pieces of driftwood and written by presumably beer swilling people who should never ever ever ever be let near a typewriter movie studio or major city in the world ever again if this is how the people who made this film think real people act in such a situation they've obviously made one too many of them zombie movies or too much beer br br need i say this movie is bad it is bad like green cottage cheese bad like a hawaiian shirt at a formal wedding bad like the bad theatre skits dan aykroyd used to host on saturday night live bad like calista weight gain get it good br br mike and the sol gang slap this beer drunk beauty upside the head repeatedly and reveal this horror film as what it is horrible though with a certain european charm it's charming when watched by a european preferably a beer swilling one br br no stars for the waterlogged dead fish known as shark rosso six stars for the mst3k version and now anyone for a beer br br
0	i cannot get over how awful this movie was my eyes want to jump out of my head and my ears are gushing blood from the horrible awful one song soundtrack there are four kids and dog and they run away from a hospital then get away with stealing two cars and a bus no one gives them any punishment or anything to correct them the acting is just so awful it sounds like an instruction video for social studies class i cannot think of one thing that i like about this movie nothing even the kid that loses his dog made me want to vomit he gets his dog back without the lady even seeing the dog run out the door maybe the dog was trying to escape out of this movie then there is some horse manure in the whole mix it was torture watching this movie then at the end the oldest boy says something like staying together isn't a crime and they all hug him and love him stealing gas is a crime stealing two cars and a bus is a crime and he should have went to juvenile hall or something avoid this movie at all costs and especially if you want to keep your family together
0	if i were to rate this movie based solely on the acting script production etc i would give it one star all these elements are awful i can partially forgive this in light of the film's 250 budget the movie does contain many entertaining scenes mostly those of the unintentionally funny variety some of these include a 14 year old kid stealing and driving a bus teenage hooligans one of whom is sporting a joy division t shirt getting scared away from harassing the film's protagonists by a woman brandishing an obviously fake firearm and an encounter with a plastic bull's skull in the arizona desert br br i would have given it 5 stars just for the entertainment value were it not for the presence of that horribly annoying morally pontificating old granny i had to dock one star just because of her who the bleep makes a wedding cake with black frosting anyhow
0	ahem i think i'll be the only one who's saying this but yes i was a lil bored during the film not to say that this is a bad movie in fact it's a very good attempt at portraying the innermost emotions dilemma sorrow love esp it's the director's debut read from somewhere is it true i felt that something's not quite right maybe it's just me i'm not drawn to the characters enough to immerse me in their world this is a simple story about ordinary people ordinary lives through simple and short dialogs the director tries to relate a simple guy's life and how copes with the news of his illness by laughing it away every time oh ya his laughter was kinda cute at first but gradually it gets to me such a deep hearty roar for a gentle man i must say i didn't feel the impact that most readers felt in fact i was more drawn to the trivial scenarios like spitting of watermelon seeds with his sis that clearly shows that they're comfortable with each other the granny who came back for another shot this is kinda melancholic the thoughtful gesture of writing down the procedures for his dad hmm but this is predictable don't misunderstood that i'm an action lover independent films are my cup of tea perhaps i just have a really high expectation after watching many deep films that have stronger imagery some asian films worth the watch br br tony depicts loneliness wayward cloud only 1 dialog my sassy girl i like it 4 30 loneliness as well 15 gangsters lives in local setting before sunrise and before sunset i just have to mention these even though they are not asian films fans will understand
0	black eye 2 outta 5 stars unimaginatively filmed '70s action movie looks like it was made for tv only the occasional cuss word and a subplot about lesbianism tip you off that the movie was actually made to be shown in theatres fred williamson plays a tough guy ex cop who becomes a tough guy private eye he stumbles upon a couple of murders and attempted murders linked to a mysterious cane there are some fistfights a bullit inspired car chase a fairly original elevator scene and even time for williamson to confront the rich lesbian lover of his girlfriend teresa graves there is also a scene with williamson bullying a poor old man by tearing up some priceless old autographed photos in his memorabilia shop yeah way to go tough guy maybe you can find a cripple to beat up later obviously meant to cash in on the success of shaft this and about six thousand other movies this movie doesn't have enough edge or enough originality to make much of an impression
0	his significant charisma and commanding presence are about all that keep this afloat but fred williamson has done far better urban action films including many of his later vid released fare the big studios' williamson films of the early to mid 70's rarely had the punch of their mid level counterparts and this is a prime example clumsy action little violence and the pg rating is nowhere near questionable worth a look for hammer completists in any case
0	after slightly over 50 years of avid film watching i've come up with some simple rules for making good movies br br 1 introduce your main characters early certainly within the first half hour 2 keep your characters to a minimum if adapting a novel combine characteristics and actions of minor characters br br into one person 3 make sure your characters actions have credibility if necessary create additional scenes to establish motivation 4 keep the action clear violence does not have to be explicit but it must not be confusing either 5 get the best music money can buy frequently it matters more than acting photography etc 6 usually if a movie isn't very good within the first 10 minutes it's not going to get any better br br cannon for is a textbook example of what happens when these simple rules are not followed elmer bernstein's score is one of the worst i've ever heard in a modestly budgeted movie this is altogether surprising considering bernstein's credentials man with the golden arm ' the magnificent seven ' the great escape ' sons of katie elder' paul direction is lackluster and confusing performances vary from very good don gordon peter duel to terrible raf giovanna ralli gabriele with the usually reliable george peppard falling somewhere in the middle this should not be surprising considering the mediocre direction and amateurish script which breaks rules 1 2 and 3 br br don't waste your time i give cannon for a 3'
0	i do not know which one was first released earlier in 1970 cannon for is an western it was made in spain this means this is fairly inferior to sergio leone's so called western spaghetti and to the real american masterpieces of john ford sam peckinpah howard hugues john sturges and anthony mann in my order of merit this order is not to be interpreted as all john ford westerns are better than all by sam i think imdb's 100 sort them out all pretty well br br the worse about this firm is the casting george peppard is fit for a sergeant's role raff for a maffia capo and giovanna ralli to a in piazza in the in rome
0	you know you've got a bad film when you hear that the soundtrack is performed completely on a single cheap synthesizer without any melody or sense of rhythm br br it's hard to see how anyone could take this film seriously even while giving it a bad review this film is way beneath 'bad' br br the continuity of this film is outrageously butchered in one fight scene we the hero wearing and turn a corner with two revolvers in his hand he doubles back only now he has two semi automatics in his hands he turns another corner and now he has an automatic rifle in his hands he chases down a hallway and comes out suddenly dressed in standard army fatigue jacket with a shotgun after which he exits the building with yet another automatic rifle or here's one for the books a bus slams into a car at high speed the car goes flying thrown by a gigantic explosion cut to the bus which is completely unscathed from the same explosion the narrative continuity suffers from an equally numbing sense of unreality the bad guys really want to kill the hero obviously but every time they knock him out or otherwise get him in a vulnerable position they suddenly decide they want him to live to see this huh one of the funnier moments of the film is when the hero is released from isolation because his lawyer has come to see him then the bad guy decides he's not going to let the two meet after all and this despite the fact that the the villain the hero and his lawyer all know what's going on anyway so the hero writes a note to the lawyer and next we see the note being passed to the lawyer by another prisoner even though we never see the hero give it to him this lawyer btw has complete access to the offices of the in california including its confidential computer files huh well but it's a mindless action movie so the action scenes not bad surprisingly unfortunately they happen to be from about a dozen hong kong films made five or ten years previously the opening scene a shoot out in a junker garage actually has shots the composition of which are stolen directly from hard boiled so clearly so that it's a wonder john woo didn't sue for plagiarism br br other hong kong films stolen from include prison on fire island on fire burning paradise police story i ii and iii aka supercop i thought i recognized a couple sammo hung clips here as well in other words the actions scenes are exciting only to the extent that they are successful of action scenes from other films br br there's nothing one can do with this film unless one shoots smack and just needs a lot of visual stimuli that needn't be make any sense br br very funny film for all the wrong reasons
0	hell to pay was a disappointment it did not have anywhere near the substance of a b western movie and should in no way be compared to a fantastic movie like silverado the dialog was dull the plot was torpid the soundtrack was overbearingly unnecessary and the acting was awful even the professionals could've taken some lessons from the sunset carson school of acting the only positive thing about this movie is that it showcased some of the top cowboy shooters in the nation but you can see them in a better light in any sass video the packaging of this feature makes it very enticing and the preview is decent but it's all over after that
0	this movie is sooooo bad that it forced me to create an account with imdb just to warn others about it br br i have been using imdb for a long time and many movies have come close to making me want to register to either praise or bash them however none have ever been that worthy until now br br i am a huge matt dillon fan all i could ask myself throughout this movie is how did dillon choose this script really i mean there are holes in it larger than br br i mean it is a modern day heist movie not one set in the seventies for crying out loud even a child knows that armored trucks have gps tracking and the sort makes you wonder what it takes to get a script produced in hollywood br br i could go on for ages but i wont believe me when i say this save yourself the time and give this a skip br br sorry matt i'm still a fan but this movie sucked
0	this has got to be the worst case of over acting since the silent era not just one or two actors but virtually the entire cast lee majors and bo svenson were fine but the rest of them look like their first time acting br br so the budget was not tremendous much of the costumes and set were believable but there were many things that jump out at the viewer to let us know that they couldn't double check or get all of the props to match the period br br i can't think of one aspect of the film that i liked or didn't shake my head your time will be better spent burning lint collected from your
0	not sure if this is just a lousy movie or if it was intended to be a mockery of a b western story line was so so but the filming editing and acting were just plain bad plus the music in the background was irritating to no end too loud and just non stop many times you could not make out the dialog over the background music i'm in sass single action shooting society and do some old west shooting with them and a lot of the actors are members of this group so that's why i bought it if you have no interest in this group of people or that sport you certainly most likely wouldn't even have this little bit of interest to help out with the film the acting of even the veteran actors particularly stella stevens left a lot to be desired also
0	i simply cannot believe the folks that made and performed in this movie really took it seriously the skits on snl look more real everything was laughably fake the goofy gunfights the ridiculous fist fights the dialogue the sappy background music and even bo's blind eye had it been billed as a comedy it still would have made more sense but still would be bad i can see this as entertainment only if you get a room full of stoned college kids watching it like it were rocky horror picture show imagine some of the stuff you saw on blazing saddles like knocking the horse down or the old lady stomach punched now imagine the producer wants you to take those scenes seriously and you get the of this disaster
0	the seasoned actors in this do know how to act and have proved that before but the director who also wrote and produced this travesty is incompetent on so many levels o k it's low budget but i know films students with lower budgets and lesser known actors who can do much much better for example since there were people involved who should know better some of the gun rigs were totally out of place and never existed in those days the stunt work was clumsy the story stale and hokey if some one gives you a copy of this use it for a coaster by the way i love westerns and have known many stunt men and even went to high school with one of the actors so i was looking for it to be good
0	i am not sure who is having more fun the people that wrote the reviews or the director of the movie i could not go any longer reading this comments or watching this movie i had to say something br br i can see a low budget western film that is done with passion and interest on the detail but using a garage with art deco lettering pastel colors actors that seem to be falling sleep because the script is so boring and the boom getting on the way of the camera every two scenes that is definitely not my definition of one of the best western movies produced in the new millennium br br please if any of you guys had friends in the movie just say it
0	there's no use trying to describe in detail the convoluted overly melodramatic plot involving civil war bitterness a crooked town boss and other complications it's all bad br br stella stevens andrew bo svenson william smith tim thomerson and lee majors are all good actors that may not be big stars or big stars anymore but always made fun movies br br here they're all wasted on a picture that looks like it was shot in a wild west tourist trap with costumes borrowed from the local high school theater department in fact most of the acting appears to be on the high school level too which might not be so bad if it weren't so pretentious br br the name of ed wood is invoked way too lightly these days i think in this case the comparison is warranted however i suspect that old ed would have made a more entertaining western than this
0	i love a good western movie but this was more like watching a play on stage or an act at the local street carnival show i could only stand 38 minutes of it in hopes that it would improve but it only got worse and i had to end it each actor s stated the lines as if reading directly from the script or cue cards there was too much predictability to the lines and actions not as if a natural occurrence or conversation the wig on rachel was obvious the actresses playing native american sisters could have played non native parts and should have wardrobe for the native americans could have been better and a little more authentic looking if i decide to watch it with any friends in the future i will do so not with the expectations of watching a good western but with the expectations of watching an amateur comedy film production
0	i'm not sure what the point of making this film was it looked as if it was made by some historical society to be shown in your local museum at first it appears that it could be the beginning of a mad tv or snl sketch but then the joke is on you when there is no punchline and you realize that someone was taking this seriously the story wasn't bad but the inclusion of the sass members seemed to be a ploy that worked to get me to see the film i swear the trailer listed every character in the film down to dead cowboy 5 the reason westerns are so fun is the atmosphere and the characters it brings i just had the feeling i was watching civil war actors dressed up as cowboys not even worth the digital video it was recorded on
0	i cannot see how anyone can say that this was a real good entertaining movie with a few well known actors i found it hard to believe that this was only made in 2005 it's crap the acting is tantamount to amateur dramatics poor amateur dramatics unless you want to laugh loudly at an amazing 100 minutes of pure corn don't bother to download it or rent it worst that i have seen in years it's from the bygone days of acting where cowboys are shooting 8 bullets from the six shooters the more well known the actor the worse they were drury was just sad i was extremely disappointed with lee majors has he actually stooped to this sort of garbage it was bad enough when he played the six million dollar man
0	yes my summary just about tells it all br br if you haven't watched this try it but not for pleasure for studies of one of the worst examples of trying to be politically correct family oriented and cool at the same time br br the men always think they know everything are stupid and finally loose to the magnificent women etc this is especially offensive when all the characters are just as terrible and stereotypic i mean ok cody was funny one time or another but unlike other stupid characters tm like woody in cheers or joey in friends he doesn't get good lines his stupidity is cast in a way which gets quite annoying after a while br br the family morale is awful everything for the family mother and father are supreme dictators who inbetween severe punishing and old fashioned parenting constantly say they love their kids and then of course in the end the kids love them back barf br br and there's always a tender spot like that squeezed into the action where american c tm morale lessons are forced upon the viewers about sex in a mature you can't have sex before you're 18 kind of way or drugs even church habits are thoroughly described here the whole concept is directly sickening all made in a half hearted way to make money if there are people like karen and frank out there please lock them up and the key br br so with themes ranging as far as revolting religious propaganda i think it's fair to conclude as i did in my subject
0	a new guard in in the armored truck gig is recruited by his co workers to steal 42 million from the truck no bad guys so no one will get hurt right of course things go wrong and the new guard decides to have a conscience and make things right by saving the life of a dying man br br i'll admit that i didn't really have any interest in this film but i didn't have any interest in fantastic mr fox either and that film made my top ten of the year armored is even more of a disappointment then i thought it would be as a heist film it fails to deliver the goods it's boring and full of plot holes and leaps in logic that one will hurt themselves thinking about it br br despite this the film somehow has a really great cast but the film doesn't even use this to it's advantage everyone seems wasted in wooden characters that make stupid choices columbus short is an uninteresting lead that is never charismatic and never makes the audience want to give a crap matt dillon is the mastermind behind the heist and he plays mr nice guy at first then when things don't go his way he quickly becomes the villain the rest of the impressive cast include lawrence jean reno skeet ulrich fred ward from prison break and milo ventimiglia from heros non of them do much and when they actually do something it's without much reasoning behind it br br the film is relatively short but even with it's running time under 90 minutes it felt dragged out how long can you make a movie about a guy trapped somewhere phonebooth did a decent job and it was even more restricted the leaps of logic concerning the plot here are tragic 42 million and all the security they have are check ins every hour or so the entire plan from my understanding was to drive the trucks into an abandoned warehouse and hide the money pretend to get hit and burn the trucks they would then walk away with the money of course something goes wrong or there would be no movie right through a series of unfortunate events out so called hero has trapped himself inside the truck with an injured officer the rest of the movie is dillion and his crew banging on the doors to get in how very exciting br br the script calls for our hero to have financial problems he might lose his house which would in turn make him lose his brother you see both their parents died and it's just the two of them looking out for each other so now he has a reason to join the heist at first he didn't want in but his money problems is just the right push to throw him in the thick of things how convenient br br whole spin on the heist genre is that it's from an armored truck from the guys who drive it after that basic premise the film falls flat on it's face i found myself wanting it to end sooner and sooner each time someone spoke speaking of the ending it sucks br br skip it
0	back in the cold and creepy early 90's a show called family matters aired and became an instant classic the trick was to buy a manual in standard family situations and their solutions and insert some attempts to sarcastic remarks in it and you had yourself a lovely little stealing is wrong parents are right show so that worked out fine so warren had a new ambitious plan making the exact same show again br br here's the difference though family matters had step by step has the guy from those kickboxer sequels nobody saw he says things like and the dane meister and somehow the audience is still not supposed to hate him i mean seriously how can you even get that across your lips br br the rest of the people were mostly white versions of the whole winslow bunch combined with some more one or zero dimensional characters like the dumb guy jt well eddie the smart girl laura and a pretty girl who spends her days looking pretty in theory the character development was just awful in this show grover and the cookie monster have more depth than the lambert family everybody just milked their stereotypes for what they were worth they weren't worth much br br powered by a massive laugh and cheer tape stolen from something funny this show aired for a whopping 7 years which was humiliating for the competition although you'll have to note that this is the time where family sitcoms were pretty much all big hits everybody just ignored their because well it was the 90s one more crappy show didn't hurt
0	in the early 1990's step by step came as a tedious combination of the ultra cheesy full house and the long defunct loopy classic hit the brady bunch the differences between step by step and the two aforementioned shows was of course better writing excellent comedic timing from almost all of it's actors and a great deal funnier situations that weren't quite as sugar coated as it's extremely popular predecessors admittedly though even with the big boosts in the show's basic dynamics and all it still wasn't exactly spectacular nor was it really even that memorable in the long line of corny family programming it was just a much better time passer you might say in comparison to the cutesy migraine inducing full house which coincidentally ran neck and neck with step by step during that time period in terms of overall popularity the show now in syndication obviously is certainly suitable family fare but be sure to not expect much beyond that when watching it
0	i was given this film by my uncle who had got it free with a dvd magazine its easy to see why he was so keen to get rid of it now i understand that this is a b movie and that it doesn't have the same size budget as bigger films but surely they could have spent their money in a better way than making this garbage there are some fairly good performances namely jack beth and hawks but others are ridiculously bad droid for example this film also contains the worst fight scene i have ever seen the amount of nudity in the film did make it seem more like a porn film than a sci fi movie at times br br in conclusion awful film
0	cyber zone as this dvd was sold in oz is about the worst b grade junk i have seen apart from a restrained deadpan act from singer indicating he knew how bad the movie was going to be the other actors sway about genuine attempts at line delivery swanson and quarry or absurd imitations of classic movies scenes hues makes the most ham fisted portrayal of dying since jim carrey's mask all of this with no real thread to suggest an attempt at a spoof by genre period or any common vein is plain annoying don't even try to join the dots with the plot it is blade runner thinly disguised with no content actors or scenery due to a very limited budget you gets what you pay for is never more apparent there is repeatedly annoying re use of limited sets with no attention to set dressing and a spew of special effects that would have hit the cutting room floor for dr who in 1976 the helicopter explosion is worth a rewind to demonstrate my point of course there are masochists that will lap up this tripe but if you are watching this movie for a bet make sure you get more than your pay rate at 2 this dvd will make a cheap and interesting beer coaster
0	my first thoughts on this film were of using science fiction as a bad way to show naked women not a brilliant story line it had quite a good ending
0	with matthias hues on the cover and only 3 00 i had to buy it i enjoyed some moments like hawks annoyance with the pleasure droids but i only really watched to see matthias scenes i particularly enjoyed the showdown at the end it was a cross between clint eastwood's the good the bad and the ugly and for a few dollars more a 3 man quick draw showdown with a musical pocket watch used as the countdown timer apart from that there's really nothing more i can add the actors gave good performances all except the assassin droid whose performance was nothing outside of comical but the movie really lacked depth and purpose simply not enough to fill up 1hour and a half of standard movie time so we're stuck with the main characters aimlessly wondering around from place to place for an hour or so until the ball gets rolling for example the main character returns to the same strip club about 4 times taking up two fifths of the movie br br the scenery really lacked depth and creativity probably due to the films budget i don't think we ever did get to see this perfect city of new angeles that was always talked about in fact when the main characters finally reached new angeles its set in a factory or warehouse full of pipes and walkways hardly the kind of kingdom the owner creator of an entire city would dwell in the super high security of new angeles was also always talked about but only a total of 15 maybe 20 security guards were counted even when the alarm went off not even close to approximation of at least a hundred men out there br br if you are a fan of any of the actors actresses in this film then you may want to watch it simply to add it to the list however if you value 1 and a half hour of your time or 3 00 of your money you may want to give this one a miss
0	troma founder lloyd kaufman is the in this anthology film made up of two films that were such celluloid feces that tried to salvage them by combining the two into one anthology film and throwing in copious amounts of nudity whenever possible does it work nope it's still crap that i'd have to scrape off my boots if i stepped in it will anyone like this mess sure young teen aged mongoloids with the combined iqs of a vienna sausage have to laugh at something i guess for those who have brains that are even semi functioning steer clear though and watch something less insulting to your intelligence even dude where's my car would do br br my grade f
0	tales from the crapper is gory disgusting tasteless offensive lowbrow and scatological but that's ok i was prepared for all that from my previous troma experiences what i wasn't prepared for is that it's also witless unfunny and boring very little of the genuine anarchic spirit of films like class of high has remained intact in its place we get endless fart jokes to the point where you start wondering if lloyd kaufman is going senile thinking that adults find loud farting so darn hilarious and a cynical shameless exploitation of the viewer who is essentially investing time and money to see a film that even kaufman himself seems to know should never have been released in the first place oh yes there is plenty of female nudity on display but let's face it the average porn film probably offers a better storyline higher production values funnier humor and above all more respect for its intended viewer than this atrocity br br p s kelly powers aka lorraine the blonde lesbian student in the how to make your own movie segment is one of the most beautiful women i have ever seen
0	i understand that this was kaufman's attempt to save a movie that was the pits the whole movie is voiced over since the audio reel was junk the voice overs were so bad and terrible quality as much as i love troma they tend to be a little heavy on the voice over work the acting was terrible one thing i did enjoy from this movie was the quick cameo of trey parker doing the aristocrats joke with a goofy wig on there are a lot of big director dudes in this movie like james gunn and eli roth friends of lloyd kaufman again i think this was attempt of saving a crappy movie and trying not to lose 1000s of dollars i won't go on and on but this movie was a mess check out other troma titles
0	while the writing was terrible the acting was atrocious the only thing that saved this turd was the breast count but that wasn't enough to make me watch this again all said and done i'm actually dumber from watching this movie this was a new low for troma lloyd kaufman starting the movie wearing a garbage bag and making fart noises should have made me realize what i was getting into this was by far one of the worst ever put out by the troma team the best place to show this movie would be to invalids sense they can't get up to change the channel to conclude this is not a swift recommendation to watch this movie just for the breasts
0	how do you take a cast of experienced well known actors and put together such a stupid movie has the answer armored six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves but just as they get to first base with their plans everything unravels quickly with a plot like this you'd think it couldn't be too bad at least for an action movie however in the first 40 minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be 6 normal everyday kind of guys they joke they laugh have a few drinks together etc then we suddenly learn they're planning to rob their own business the hero ty columbus short is sucked into the scheme because of the cold cruel world even though he's a decorated veteran nice guy and reliable employee oh my oh my then in the last 40 minutes of the film these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos willing to butcher each other for cash in the last scenes mike matt dillon goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty it's utterly unbelievable and b movie is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot i would say don't waste your time too bad no one gave laurence fishburne jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture
0	when voting i was going to give a 2 but when seeing that 1 meant awful it hit the nail on the head the portrayal of native americans as blood thirsty savages is deeply disturbing to me this is the third film i've seen of d w griffiths where races of men are stereotyped in ugly ways the man isn't able to tell his side of the story so i'm going to try and keep away from attacking mr griffith personally in my opinion the three films probably influenced the thinking of millions of people and their children's children films like this probably made for many of the resentments that are still with us some may say the camera work was great the action a first for it's time the positives are far outweighed by the negatives it's like someone taking 10 from you and giving a dime back to make up for it
0	was a big disappointment for me i'd heared how great it was how important it was it just didn't strike me it had a dim witted story line plus some moronic and sadistic native american characters that are offensive by today's standards while most of d w griffith's films have depth and this one feels more like a formula programme picture br br i loved seeing lillian gish and mae marsh in pre birth of a nation roles plus some of the staging of the battle scenes were pretty good to future griffith cameraman karl brown audiences were standing on their seats and cheering once the cavalry comes riding in at the end i felt nothing and me i watching griffith's early work at biograph this film just isn't what it used to be br br the best thing about this film it that for all of it's flaws it has many of griffith's touches to it he handles his principal actors pretty well plus the scene where the indians are the cabin it reminiscent to the climax of birth of a nation a far superior film that would send shock waves across america a little over a year later
0	why do i hate this let me list the ways br br i have nothing against mary pickford but a 32 year old woman playing a 12 year old is just stupid br br there's a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it's considered funny and it goes on for 15 minutes br br strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br br the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br br for a family film the fights were way too violent loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy and the humor was just stupid br br seriously 40 minutes in i gave up and turned it off the slurs racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me also there was no plot that i could see the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era br br just painful avoid
0	i don't normally write reviews but this film was special i couldn't turn it off i don't believe i've ever seen a worse movie but there i sat watching it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway it was disgusting but i couldn't turn away where do i start the movie seems to think it's a sports thriller but it's so utterly ridiculous it can only be a comedy but it's not funny not even in a dumb silly way it's like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get it's painful to watch but at least it's only for a minute or two second string went on for over an hour br br whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again the writing directing acting and everything was just terrible the problem is i can't describe how bad it was you just had to see it and i'm sure this will never be shown again so unless you saw it you're out of luck i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other bad film i've seen over my lifetime and for every film i see in the future that i can't stand i will think to myself well at least it wasn't bad as the second string
0	wow this movie was horrible as a bills fan i was really looking forward to it but this was bad they should have left it on the shelf it was on for 4 years i can't believe a guy like jon voight would sign on for something like this
0	this excruciatingly boring and unfunny movie made me think that chaplin was the real hitler as only someone as evil as him could torture people with this tripe i saw this movie remastered which only made the suffering inflicted by this atrocity more severe this movie is nothing but a pathetic repetitive movie which instead of inducing two hours of laughter it induced two hours of suicidal urges after the first 10 minutes of this i began wishing that gas would start seeping from the speakers of the theatre br br if i could give it a zero out of ten i would happily do so avoid at all costs
0	a lowly soldier in world war one rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of he creates an aggressive antisemitic war machine and a little toothbrush moustache sound like anyone you know br br from the safety of hollywood chaplin uses this soapbox to europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini given that the united states in 1940 had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it and no strong desire to itself in europe's civil strife remember it was hitler who declared war on the usa not the other way round it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic br br the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly humane brave etc etc chaplin is and he also plays the jewish barber the little hero of the ghetto the tramp in all but name needless to say chaplin writes directs stars composes the music and does the catering br br in 1940 the full truth was not yet known about the third reich and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong a comedian and a chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making silly and hapless all this does is to humanise him when the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane he becomes endearing rather than despicable as dictator he inspects his technical innovations which don't work the parachute hat the bulletproof uniform etc and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside in fact regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling br br in truth chaplin's day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic at heart he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen check out the humour with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious or the pantomime of the coins in the the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which can be judged but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi is it in any way believable that a schultz figure if such had existed would say to the face your cause is doomed to failure because it's built upon the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people and how does schultz come to be in the of the jewish ghetto if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz or but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age as usual chaplin thinks in terms of comedy set pieces loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers shaving a man to the accompaniment of and the globe ballet watch for the segment filmed in reverse br br goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice and the jewish haven in is ridiculously idyllic so hannah is quite literally too good to be true brave defiant resourceful hardworking and of course beautiful she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage gee ain't i cute she asks after the barber gives her a make over too cute by far is the answer she doesn't come close to ringing true because chaplin has made her a caricature the 'wouldn't it be wonderful ' speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author too wordy too emotionally cloying br br jack oakie is great as the fascist dictator of bacteria he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings but the film's underlying weakness remains if is silly and ineffective how can we fear him and anyway the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth br br and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate uniform
0	chaplin was great a silent comedian but many silent era stars fell when the public heard their voices in the first talkies in my opinion chaplin's voice simply did not fit his silent characters that made him rich and famous his career never recovered when sound came to film contrary to most of the reviews i have read chaplin's lifestyle and politics did not help his popularity with the average viewer who expected to be entertained by chaplin the comedian and not spend their entertainment dollar watching chaplin's political commentary br br despite chaplin's awards and knighthood i would take exception to his contributions to humanity the great dictator was made at the same time brutal dictatorship was having it's show trials and both dictators signed the agreement that lead to invasion of poland by both dictators wwii started in an attempt to save poland the nazi's were defeated in 6 years but poland disappeared as a sovereign country this happened during the time this film was made and the investigations of hollywood by the federal government had chaplin included joe stalin in this satire in addition to including the italian dictator perhaps he would have had less criticism about his politics by the politicians the mistreatment of jews and exceeded the nazi's in time and numbers br br judged simply as a film many of the gags were too topical to be understood by younger viewers who wouldn't know who goebbels goring or mussolini were a classic piece of art must stand the test of time classic greek tragedy the mona lisa and beethoven's 9th are still enjoyed centuries after their creation because they are timeless films which rely on topical political commentary or currently popular social views usually do not the generation in which they are made but those that address issues that are common to all generations will probably live forever and receive a high rating from me br br chaplin as the writer director and lead actor must take the blame for what i judge as a dated and tiresome film br br chaplin's apologists have excused his decision to leave the country that made him rich and famous if chaplin found the us so offensive why didn't he return to his native land great britian fought the blood and money what did switzerland contribute in the fight against the european dictators switzerland is like a country club that picks and chooses its members based on race and class and cares little about people who can't join the club
0	mild spoilers br br in this would be satire chaplin set his sights on the evils of german fascism playing the twin roles of dictator and one of his subjects an inadvertent world war i hero and jewish barber through events inspired by both adolf hitler and the marx brothers negotiates contracts and declares war on neighbouring whilst finding time for numerous oddly flat set pieces the dictator's much celebrated waltz with an globe is actually entirely heavyhanded underwhelming and unfunny br br chaplin should certainly be commended for looking to lampoon hitler and for speaking out strongly on celluloid his much maligned final speech is actually the bold memorable highlight of the piece but the film simply isn't sharp or funny enough to merit the praise frequently heaped upon it nor to demand repeated viewings the best gags are away from tiresome posturing and involve the barber attempting to avoid a large spinning bomb a sequence which steals from the gun tussle in the gold rush and later with a pot on his head accidentally walking the plank off the roof of his shop br br compared to the director's silent classics the great dictator is slow wildly inconsistent and altogether somewhat unsatisfactory whilst the barren spells between laughs are often long and difficult to endure there is no doubt that chaplin was a genius but even geniuses make disappointing pictures and the great dictator certainly ranks as such
0	maybe this was an important movie and that's why people rank it so highly but honestly it isn't very good in hindsight it's easy to see that chaplin probably all of hollywood was incredibly naive about the magnitude of what was really going on in the ghettos so you can't fault him too much for the disconnect that affects a modern viewer but the disconnect remains br br more disappointingly the movie is just clunky it's as if chaplin had no idea that movies had progressed in sophistication since the silent era the set pieces those involving both the jewish barber and the dictator don't flow into each other they just sit there like discrete lumps of storyline that progress in fits and starts moving somewhere but never arriving at resolution some are funny some less so br br what charm the movie has is strictly in the person of chaplin himself his parodies of hitler's speeches were the best part of the whole thing and there's no denying that he had a physical grace that was delightful to watch but virtually everything he surrounded himself with was annoying hannah was too damn american the storm troopers were too damn american br br oooh oooh one more thing i don't know what purpose was served by having garbage be the source of evil behind the throne it almost seems like the film is saying that if it weren't for malign influences like garbage wouldn't have been that bad a guy
0	i have to admit that i am disappointed after seeing this movie i had expected so much more from the trailers the movie was absolutely horrible it lacked a real story line and the acting was not exactly the best don't waste your time the movie is not what the trailers lead you to think it is i would have to say that i don't usually write anything about movies on imdb in fact this is my first one but this movie was such a disappointment that i registered just to let people know not to waste their time or money the story line is that of a heist that is to happen and it looks like it had potential to be good but the things that happen in the movie are a little far fetched to be believable watch another movie instead maybe the inside man
0	this is supposed to be charlie's masterpiece but i will contend that it is actually one of his weaker films first of all it's not funny not one thing in this movie made me laugh okay there's a quick jump into a box that was a giggle but that was one of desperation the first and only talkie where he speaks he sings in an earlier film but his flat dialogue shows us exactly why he was such a joy to watch in modern times and gold rush two films that are at least ten times better than this film there's literally only one good scene in this film the one where hitler plays with the globe like a beach ball that's it br br okay so it gets a lot of praise for being the first film to wage war even long before we entered the war nope not true simply not true so that praise can be turned down a bit the three stooges did it on january 19 1940 with you spy ten months earlier than the october release of chaplin's film and that movie was actually funny if you want to watch chaplin's greatest film watch this only for reference and then pop in modern times gold rush city lights limelight the kid or even tillie's punctured romance
0	i bought this video on a throw out table at the video store expecting a good cast in what was touted as an award winning brit sex comedy i guess i should have read the finer print i rarely write a panning review but here goes br br these actors in gay roles really play games with your memories of a lot of far more worthy films this comedy was a very cruel joke at the expense of the actors the theatre going public and of all the nice films that have contributed to their reputations br br i repeat is the joke about trashing the actors' other highly respectable on screen personae with this trashy flick can the reference to the austen classics 'pride and and 'sense and sensibility' be anything else how much of a political statement was it to produce this melodrama using these stars are we meant to simply take it as a lay down that all actors are gay and thus letting their on screen affect our lifestyles is accepting their private homosexual dealings in our faces too i'm sorry but i don't think so i say no to this one
0	the daytime tv of films seldom have i felt so little attachment to characters seldom have i been made to cringe by such dire dialogue nauseous london thirty somethings mincing round lurid bbc sets spouting platitudinous mulch avoid this film as if it were your grandmother's
0	go fish garnered rose rightly or wrongly the reputation of a film maker with much promise br br its then hard to understand how she could turn out a movie made up of stereotypes that one associates with inferior sitcoms the entire film rings hollow i cringed the whole way through br br its supposed to be a look into nineties human sexuality well not much more here to be learned than from in and out by now most of us actually do know that there are men who are sexually attracted to women and there men who are sexually attracted to men and there are even men sexually attracted to both sexes br br seldom has this revelation been portrayed on the screen with so little wit and style br br pathetic
0	i found it hard to care about these characters who were either annoying or insipid all living their fabulously hilariously urban lives br br the dialogue was at times and at other times the narrative seemed hard to follow was it me or were entire scenes deleted br br it felt like a poor sitcom somehow turned into a film the stereotypes and jokes about men's groups would perhaps have been funny in the early 90s as it is this is where much of the humour of the film comes from and boy does it get old fast br br apart from the attractive irish man this film was a dud and not even in a so bad it's good way the last 20 minutes were particularly painful perhaps if you've never met any gay people or never thought about homosexuality before then this film might have something meaningful to say otherwise darlings you'd still be better off renting the boys in the band or beautiful thing
0	this movie starts at a and never quite reaches b its title promises far more than the film delivers it's superficial and filled with the usual cliches of a story in which a guy questions his sexuality the people are agreeable even the obligatory flamboyant type the lead kevin mckidd overacts insofar as there's a reason for him to act at all simon callow playing a horny straight is always worth watching and he's by far the only reason to stay with the movie however the rubbish about his men's group meditations or whatever they are grows extremely tiresome in short order they seem to have been thrown into the movie's mild mix in a misguided effort to vary the setting and non stop inaction the same comment applies to a really odd and unconvincing camping trip don't worry about pausing the tape so you can get a snack let the thing run you won't miss anything hugo weaving's character is superfluous he appears in a sequence with one of the lesser leads and doesn't even meet the rest at all the outcome of that sequence isn't explained and hugo's real estate dealings have nothing to do with the story the movie is a total disappointment at the end because there is no resolution the thing simply fades out and we're sent to the closing credits this is an interlude with no structure
0	ok so this film is well acted it has good direction but the simple fact is that it undermines what all gay and lesbian people have been fighting for all these years the straight man deciding to be gay and the gay man deciding to be straight i did enjoy it up until the last 20 minutes after that i got really offended as what usually happens in these films the straight actors play the main parts and the out gay actors play the secondary straight roles the leads are played by handsome men but don't let that distract you from the fact that this is a a film that leaves you feeling unfulfilled all the romance and relationships you hope would happen do not unless you are a priest that is in which case god bless straight woman who cure our homos
0	it's the best film that takes the first place at the sickest and an useful films ever made in this poor country really u people even don't know what the word cinema means and u cast votes for movies i'm really curious to know how many movies of p p p or l bunuel have u seen the score of this experiment it reflects a lot of way of understanding things and to recognize a good quality movie when u see it we the romanian people have only one movie and until this day the status hasn't change that movie is but i don't lose my time thinking how many of you have seen it that is a movie that respects all the required of an movie from the script to the frames and even to the quality clarity of the picture even are past over him 41 years i recommend to the voters to search for better movies and then vote kudos will see u later
0	the movie is okay meaning that i don't regret watching it i found the acting purely and the most of the dialog stupid oh no this was my grandmothers bible it's sort of bad remake of u turn a man arrives to a desert town out in nowhere meets the wrong people and falls in love with the wrong woman and off cause get's involved in something he thought he could leave behind him the movie is quite predictable and there is really nothing new in it when it's finish you didn't really care most of the characters are stereotypes specially brian austin green all in all just another movie from the states but okay entertaining on boring wednesday night imdb vote 4 10
0	it starts off pretty well with the accident and the decision not to return to la but everything falls into place too quickly there is a decent plot twist towards the end but so many scenes that don't make sense randy played by brian austin green comes home angry and ready to confront people and he takes the time to put on the club when he parks his car in front of his house in the middle of nowhere i don't want to spoil it for anyone who does decide to see it but the last 45 minutes are ridiculous even the acting which wasn't bad early on turns bad towards the end don't bother unless you want to see how bad it is
0	unbelievably disappointed the pace was slow the characters unbelievable and throughout the film as a whole just let me feel bored and unfulfilled there was no real plot that could keep you revolving around the film and keep you interested the heist itself never offered any excitement and didn't seem very well though through br br there was not enough depth or background to any character and character was one i eagerly awaited for unfortunately has no idea how to play the thuggish and is much preferred as a likable character columbus short one of my favourite actors in stomp the yard let me down with his performance his character was dark and you could hardly see what drove his reasoning br br the only character i think offered anything to the film was milo ventimiglia peter in heroes though his character quite small and insignificant i think his touch added to an all around dull film br br in conclusion buy the dvd if you want to find a new way to waste your time
0	los angeles physician tom reed vincent ventresca survives a tragic auto accident but ends up going to prison in the high desert of california when his time is up he lands in a small wind swept town named purgatory flats his first stop is a bar where he quickly slams a beer and gets hired as a bartender so much for ex cons having a tough time finding work this is the first in a long line of absurdities that make up the plot of writer director harris silly attempt at modern desert set film noir br br his first night on the job tom meets a sexy femme fatal named sunny alexandra holden who hangs out with a family of bad boys the consisting of uncle dean gregg henry and his two nephews the drug addicted owen kevin alejandro who is sunny's husband and awol soldier randy 90210 s brian austin greer after his shift is finished there's a shooting and dr tom just happens to be nearby he agrees to treat one of the wounded and most importantly not tell the cops i'm not sure that's a good move for a guy fresh out of the pen but this script co written by diane fine has very little to do with logic br br tom makes a series of poor decisions that get him further and further entangled with the criminally inclined boys including stealing medical supplies and hopping into the sack with sunny everybody in the theater is screaming don't do it walk away but tom does it anyway br br in a classic film noir like body heat or double indemnity we root for and empathize with william hurt and fred as they get sucked into the web of bright sexy devious femme like kathleen turner and barbara stanwyck it's not their fault we'd probably be tempted by all that money or that particular dame too but dr tom's weakness seems to stem from stupidity more than circumstances sunny is sexy but not a very compelling character and there's no money to tempt him you're left wondering if he attended the same medical school as dr nick riveria from the simpsons br br the silly script would have you believe that a rural home has almost everything you need to treat a gunshot to the stomach and that one so wounded could easily hop to attention and effectively participate in a fist fight it gives us an implausible car chase with one of those the club things to the steering wheel oh that oil tanker that just exploded no one noticed that br br i wonder how such a ridiculous script ever got green lighted perhaps brian austin greer has more juice than i gave him credit for it's obvious that he took the relatively small role of randy a hot headed murder to show producers that he had more acting range than he displayed on 90210 br br it's also sort of sad to see nicholas turturro playing a stereotypical hispanic drug dealer he deserves better than this br br if you have an iq over 50 purgatory flats will have you shaking your head in disbelief i'll give it 3 stars for the unintentional laughs and the scenes with the sexy miss holden running around in her red panties
0	i read all of the other comments which made this movie out to be an excellent movie i saw nothing of the excellence that was stated i thought it was long and boring i tried twice to watch it the first time i fell asleep and the second time i made it to within six minutes of the end and gave up i suppose that it was mainly my fault going in with great expectation but i don't think that this would have completely ruined the movie for me the movie was just bland it had nothing that was spectacular or unique to it the plot was not half bad the action sequences were non existent the dialogue forced and the movie just went on forever i would not recommend seeing this movie
0	lots of flames thousands of extras in battle scenes lots of beautiful sets i don't think the plot supported such a vast expenditure the story could have been told far more effectively and have been more valid psychologically if there weren't so much macho bombast in the production chinese movies tend to be this way in my experience and i think this detracts from the film
0	now i have seen two movies by the director chen kaige a very good one farewell my concubine and this bad one the assassin both movies depict crucial events in chinese history fmc in the 20th century and ta the first unification of the whole chinese nation in the 3rd century bc fmc with memorable characters gorgeous cinematography convincing sets good acting and an interesting story the assassin fails on nearly every level okay the sets are great the cinematography is good and the few battle scenes are quite exciting but the pathos call me a cynic but too much is too much if you felt that saving private ryan was too pathetic be aware this here will make you sick the dialogue is lifeless many lines seem like political statements subtle or entertaining is this pic not the film is overpowered by its own i am really surprised that the assassin gets such high votes here on imdb 4 10
0	the net is a movie i never saw upon release i remember giving it a pass upon the mediocre reviews and since then perhaps been noticing a snippet here and there when it's been on tv seeing it now fourteen years after it's original release i'm a little flabbergasted as to how time flies being in my mid 20's it made my childhood feel ancient i felt as if i should probably do some exercise before my body starts stacking up fat in all the wrong places cut down on fat and sugar too much coffee and cigarettes br br anyway that was the best part of this movie experience for me i'd say the first 30 minutes of this movie really kept me occupied with retro heaven look at those big cans they call computers look they chat in chat rooms i remember those tank tops they look stupid and hey it even stars sandra bullock first billed would you look at that br br as a movie the net is just an unimaginative plain and totally routine cat and mouse thriller nothing archaic about that they made them then as much as they make them now bullock plays a reclusive computer nerd who's job it is to fix software for people who don't get that whole computer thingy as it happens she stumbles upon some delicate information and after her vacation trip ends up with her nearly getting killed by a sexy lay who turns out to be a killer played by jeremy northam and she should have been suspicious by the fact that they are in an american movie and the guy both smokes and has a british accent she gets her identity wiped out her house is empty for sale and upon checking it out it turns out that she now has got a new identity a convicted prostitute and impostor no less br br now you might say that this is improbable how could they possibly do that to her even in 1995 it's impossible that's true but back in '95 a lot of people didn't even know what the internet was i can see how it's a plot hole you could have accepted back then what's far more disastrous though is the inconsistencies that have nothing to do with technology the movie obviously owes a lot to hitchcock movies it's one of those thrillers that feature a merry go round by night but hitchcock always made sure that his movies were plausible the characters didn't act like confused maniacs when trying to prove their innocence and the plot didn't conveniently lay down for a structure where one obstacle inevitable leads to the other the characters also tried a little before giving into the whole rouge chase has bullock's character really no friends what so ever couldn't any old high school teacher confirm her identity or like her nearest pizza guy oh right she orders pizza from the internet never mind you figure the movie out pretty quickly there seems to be hope in an ex boyfriend you really think so you should always count on at least one surprise the net offers none br br the internet poses a lot of danger this movie seems to predict but had the movie been made today imagine the troubles the villains would have to go through to ensure the identity wipe not only do they have to do all those boring literal things she would still have her facebook membership with at least like 100 friends or so and picture tags not to mention she might be on youtube or linked in and what about her video blog with like 150 daily hits or the in her house and recorded video of her in other people's cell phones web downloads her imdb membership
0	when oh when will hollyweird write a decent movie based around computers i cannot believe people actually consider this movie to be a credible story br br no computer operating system could ever survive wit that sort of annoying scrolling interface it may look good on a movie screen but if you actually tried using it for any length of time you would go nuts br br as for tracing people the way she did it simply cannot be done that way network security alone would prevent that from happening the key stroke logging was laughable to say the least br br regarding the software that was supposedly being installed no system administrator would allow such a critical piece of software to be installed on a production system until it has been tested and tested again on a sandbagged system br br but probably the worst possible part of the movie was the virus there is no way that a virus that works on one operating system will work on any other system and as for a virus that could take out a mainframe is a couple of seconds that just beggars belief there is no way that an open remote connection would have the required access that would allow deletion of system files br br i could go on but i can't be bothered br br a porno has a better thought out plot that this pile of garbage
0	as a new resolution for this year 2005 i decide to write a comment for each movie i saw in theater 10 or in dvd 90 br br i must admit that dvd have revolutionized this habit for instance i can hear the true voice of the cast which is an essential trait of the personality in my country non french movies are dubbed and we end up with aberrations french voice is terrible very far away of its original tone the same voice for different people or a same people with different voices br br and well if everybody found my comments well in 2006 i will stop my reviews ah ah so enjoy them now br br my summary means that the story locations cast is not very enjoyable br br only br br sandra bullock is there she is a talented actress able to get the viewer to catch on the movie br br it reminds of a feminine the fugitive so if you look for a moment of escaping your life watching this movie makes it worse because sandra's life is a mess br br she got nothing left to hold on to only her poor mother who is ill again the touch for depression br br in fact she has a sad life in the beginning of the movie has a sadder life throughout it to finally get back to it at the end what a happy ending br br maybe the writers wanted to make a point about a nerd's life br br very far away from the best computer movie of all time wargames
0	we can conclude that there are 10 types of people in this world br br those who understand and those who do not those who understand put this movie to its grave along with hackers while those who do enjoy this movie for the sake that none of this crap could happen ever br br for a movie to attempt to be a modern movie with fiction applied to it it has failed horribly only a old and below can enjoy and only and up could be scared to have their identity taken it losses out on the main market for a value i watch it now it is more boring than when it was first released
0	computing can there be anything more boring sitting in front of a computer all day typing away at some keys all day every day tap tap tapping that's much of the problem with this movie the heroine sits in front of a computer tapping the keys and no matter how many looks of agitation she gives or how much suspenseful notes the composer strikes or how many extreme close ups the director uses there's not much excitement down to the fact that there's few things less exciting than watching somebody on a computer br br there's a few other problems too much of them factual errors regarding how computers work is it possible to hack into a computer that is both turned off and not connected to the internet i guess that when the net was made 10 years ago very few people would understand how computers worked so the screenwriters would have been able to bs at length but since we now live in a global village where nearly every household in the western world has their own computer the audience are certainly very clued up on the factual errors of this movie and of course there's too many instances where someone acts stupid or out of character at crucial times in order to progress the plot which makes the net a very mediocre movie
0	rating 1 2 out of br br the net is one of those films that won't remain in your mind till the next one hour well just if you keep thinking how bad it is it's a mediocre miserable hollow laughable and predictable piece of garbage one of those adjectives i've just used above is the reason which made me add 1 2 a star to the one i would have given so is it a case of 'so bad it is good' no it's a case of 'so bad it is br br bullock in a surprise very bad performance plays angela bennett a computer expert who is at home all the time she works at home doesn't have any friends and her neighbors don't know her suddenly she sees herself involved in dangerous situations after her colleague dies and the same thing almost happens to her her identity bank accounts etc etc etc are all deleted and she is now ruth marx the conspiracy involves even the government and wait haven't we seen this before yes thousands of times the net tries to be modern to be the portrait of the '90s showing the computer as a villain big deal it is a film about nothing just a pretext to show ridiculous action scenes take the scene of the boat accident i just laughed when the camera started to get slow br br what makes everything even worse here is sandra bullock how awful she is has she already made a decent film a time to kill okay but she is still a bad actress repeating her robotic face moves in each of her pictures br br the vantages and disadvantages of the computer were already shown in 2001 a space odyssey the best most intelligent and most complex film ever made it's not needed to compare the net with it is it br br the only reason to see the net is to laugh as i've said and to see what it tried to be the results well are a shame br br delete this film from your mind
0	this movie is one of the worst movies i have ever seen the cast was fantastic but the movie itself was horrible it was so awful i had to register just to say how bad it was br br i watched this movie and i wanted to break it every minute i watched it could have been great had a great premise if you're going to rob an armored car and there's a homeless person which sees you you have to do what you have to do for the main character to decide to get a cop killed and kill his friends and co workers after the homeless guy was already dead it's just ridiculous and yes i'm sure there will be responses to this about how his conscious got to him but come on br br the main character crawled out the bottom of the armored truck no one saw him he blew up the stash of money and grabbed and dragged the cop right behind the other guards and no one saw him he was able to get back in the armored car and no one saw him this movie had potential but blew it br br you couldn't pay me to watch this movie ever again don't ever watch it aggravating
0	bloody birthday is a totally rubbish slasher movie from beginning to end br br i found the acting to be pretty good considering the genre of movie and its obvious low budget i don't know what was going on with the cinematography but it looked ghastly way too over saturated maybe this is a bad transfer to dvd or maybe it always looked like that i don't know br br there really are no redeeming qualities to speak of there are a few deaths but not really gory i wouldn't bother with it if i was you the best thing about the dvd was the 15 minute interview with producer max rosenberg who was very amusing and honest he didn't have anything good to say about director ed hunt and admits the movie was a failure but he would like to re make it as he believes it has a decent plot however he died in 2004 so i guess it will be up to someone else to take on that challenge with the way things have been going in the last few years it wouldn't surprise me there's at least one re make per week at the cinema these day it couldn't be any worse than the original i suppose but i couldn't care less whether it got re made or not
0	this is basically just a dumb chase story nearly identical to zillions of other chase stories in terms of acting suspense plot dialogue characterization or lack thereof and pacing br br the one area in which 'the diverges from traditional chase movies is in its subject material computers unfortunately the scriptwriters clearly didn't understand the differences between a pocket calculator and a cray br br computer newbies shouldn't watch this movie because it will make them paranoid about computers no matter what hollywood tries to tell us it's just not that easy to erase someone's identity by hacking there's still too much paper documentation in the world and there was even more of it in 1995 br br computer pros shouldn't watch this movie either i mean a magical virus that can melt your entire pc when you press escape please and the whole virus including the cool multimedia effects of your screen dissolving what's that all about can fit on a single 1 yeah whatever
0	spoiler alert br br i don't go into 'high movies expecting them to be 100 accurate on all things computer related but somehow even the average 'i have a user is supposed to believe that br br 1 a computer professional with a top secret special data br br 2 is going to keep the primary copy of said data on a 1 44 floppy br br 3 and make absolutely no backup of this special secret data br br even high school students back up their homework for goodness sake br br also this is the worst of a computer nerd ever even though she is super cute we are supposed to believe that she has no friends neighbors extended family or coworkers who can identify her even the had a family that could turn him in br br end spoiler br br these aren't just minor mistakes that had no bearing on the movie these are the major plot points that fueled the storyline the characterization was awful the plot wholly and if you haven't seen this don't bother
0	okay she's on the boat with this guy realizes he's out to kill her knocks him out and then finds the reason he's out to off her is this disk that got her coworker killed so what would any rational person do maybe him over the head again to make sure he's really out tie him up look sandra honey you've got the chance to escape while the guy is out for only so long until you know how long it will take you take you to escape make sure he's not able to come after you i hate these stupid female victim roles the rest of the movie was just a series of twists and turns that were completely convoluted and too unbelievable to remain interesting
0	made and released at the time when the internet was just becoming huge this is a storyline hitchcock would have loved br br sadly hitchcock wasn't around to make it and we're left with an occasionally suspenseful but mostly silly thriller that is held barely together by bullock's intelligence br br it was released in 1995 but is already dated and the amount of mistakes and regarding computers must be seen to be believed and you don't even have to be a dot com person to spot them
0	this movie is such a piece of unbelievable crap first let me talk about the pros sandra bullock in a black bathing suit br br now the rest of the story which is all pretty much bad we have said computer programmer angela bennett who's online profile is angel how witty i bet the directors cheered over that one for an hour who basically checks other company's software for errors glitches etc so we start with her ordering pizza on the internet and then putting on a fireplace on her monitor extreme computer skills shown thus far this is after she finds some virus on a macintosh program which crashes the whole system after hitting the escape key this is apparently a huge problem yet the virus created to do such could be done in about 1 minute with a simple batch file br br any event we move on she gets this call from some other bloke that works at the same company and this fool says to go click this symbol which apparently opens up some secret internet gateway to a bunch of unprotected 'top secret' data woohoo angela saves this crap on a disc and now the people that created this loophole are out to get her this of course is only after she hooks up with one of the bad guys only before he tries to kill her before she jumps in the ocean off his boat before she winds up in a random hospital br br problem 1 you can't create a loophole on the internet to gain access to a bunch of top secret fbi data where the hell did this come from since when can a group of hackers control the basic flow of the internet even in 95 problem 2 angela would need proper identification before a hospital or clinic would release her she could not just pack her things and go br br then these or whatever change angela's id so she can't get help from anyone and conveniently enough all her id is gone so she returns home and a cat and mouse chase goes on and on and on br br apparently all police and fbi people are stupid and don't believe her so then she has to utilize a bunch of tactics to enter into the building where she works where the person who is now filling in for her is and get back to her old computer she starts talking to some other random bloke and finds out who is behind everything through some bs ip address that the director knows the audience is too stupid enough to believe br br then she runs to some center to mail all this information to the fbi she apparently has to use a mainframe to email stuff to the fbi but then the same fool that tried to kill her before throwing her in the water catches her and easily hacks into the fbi again wtf but remember that cool virus well somehow she luckily gets that and even though the virus only worked on software it now works on the entire system too it brings down the whole mainframe which has all the fake information because the mainframe was just sitting in the middle of some convention what the hell is this crap anyway the now uber virus works and angela the real one now runs away and later kills the evil dude with a fire extinguisher he of course has a gun runs up to her so he's like 2 feet away and then decides to aim classic hollywood br br all in all this movie is so full of bs and crap anyone who doesn't know a lot about computers will be wildly fooled into thinking this crap is possible but not one thing is accurate concerning computers or the net and i honestly doubt i'd see a virus for mac and a mainframe computer cough lmao
0	i am a huge randolph scott fan so i was surprised and disappointed to find he is barely in this film the movie really belongs to robert ryan who is the hero in the jam and the one embroiled in the love triangle good grief gabby hayes gets more screen time than mr scott in this movie for many viewers that is not a problem but i am from the walter brennan school of sidekicks not gabby hayes although i will say that his lines were a bit more humorous than annoying in this film than in many of his films with randolph scott and john wayne br br personally i found the movie very slow going with a convoluted plot that was muddied even more by the unnecessary romance subplot by convoluted i don't mean impossible to understand or figure out i just mean too messy for its own good br br the direction is uninspired and the two main bad guys have the most unsatisfying come uppance at the end the whole movie comes across as fake unrealistic and poorly filmed br br just so you don't think i can't find anything good here br br on the plus side anne jeffreys is very sexy in her all too brief parts of this film not sure if it is actually her singing or someone else but whoever it was had a very pretty voice ms jeffreys also had a couple of nice acting moments the script needed either a lot more of her or to remove her character altogether as it was her nice few moments weren't enough to help the film br br lastly there is mr scott he looks fantastic in this film and is the no nonsense lawman out to set things right some folks complain that his characters prior to 1950 were too goody goody perfect but that's never bothered me at all i'll take him goody goody pre 1950 or gritty and violent post 1950 either way randolph scott was a real western hero br br it saddens me to have to say it but i would have to recommend passing this film by unless you are a die hard fan there are so many better scott films out there that this one won't be missed
0	this was a modest attempt at a film though it appeared more like a tv pilot extended br br some may find this unfair but it looks like someone saw the brothers and save the last dance and thought hey i could do that too well not quite br br while i personally found the movie predictable somewhat poorly acted and contrived watch for the cookies carl payne shows that he can carry off a lead role and should be back on television the leading lady can't remember her name sorry was plausible too but you keep thinking of julia stiles she was the one in save the last dance right because this one was really stuck in white girl mode
0	i would rather have someone cut out my eyeballs with a razor blade than have to watch this movie again i watched it from start to end thinking it couldn't get any worse but it did the writers and producers should be slapped for putting this kind of crap on television the actors are all terrible get out of hollywood you fools and go work at mcdonalds sweeping the floors and emptying the trash anyone that thinks this movie is even remotely decent should be hung they are an embarrassment to humanity to think we have soldiers putting their lives on the line for anyone that produces this kind of inane garbage makes me embarrassed to say i'm an american
0	poor casper van dien his career has slid a long way from tarzan and starship troopers br br in meltdown he's a policeman who just happens to be dating tv reporter stefanie von and her brother is a scientist who's trying to deal with a speeding comment headed for earth but in the runaway comet business even a near miss causes some real problems as the earth's orbit goes out of kilter br br from the survival of the earth we go to the survival of van dien and his immediate family his daughter's gangbanger boyfriend ryan mcdonell actually proves to be of some use especially when he suspects a guy he knows as a crooked cop might mean the van dien group a lot of harm br br my only question here is why didn't they have bruce willis billy bob thornton and the rest of that crew to deal with the nasty comet br br pass this one up folks
0	meltdown is pretty interesting sci fi no major budget very few special effects but decent acting and a storyline of global doom is enough to sustain viewing an asteroid the atmosphere and thrust the earth into an orbit closer to the sun global warming rapidly becomes unbearable a determined lapd cop casper van dien goes all out to save the world from certain annihilation as the rising temps are devastating the pressure is on to save mankind from this solar catastrophe as well as protect his daughter nurse ex wife and tv reporter girlfriend the cast includes stefanie von venus amanda crew and vincent gale
0	there is not much to add to what others have already commented the movie fails hard where it shouldn't it has no depth in the planning of the heist and the characters are so unbelievable br br one thing that got me thinking was that although the rest of the gang is trying hard to remove the pins from the doors of an armored truck because there is supposed to be no other way of opening it the guy inside the truck with great ease manages to remove the floor of the truck which happens to have a hole in it so he can get out and then get back in without being noticed by anyone because no one else could think that he could get out from there or even better that they could have gotten into from there br br promising but not quite there
0	this movie is total dumbness incarnate yet i've seen this movie several times already and plan to watch several more times because despite its sheer dumbness it's very entertaining and it has one of my favorite hokey movie actors casper van dien who is here in his full hokey movie glory here casper van dien is fully casper van dien and ya gotta love him for it if he hadn't been in this movie it would have been totally unwatchable dreck or at least far than it already is br br the cough cough science used here makes absolutely no sense at all no one else in the world noticed that big asteroid approaching the earth besides that small group not even with thousands and thousands and thousands of professional and amateur astronomers constantly searching the skies for just such a thing an asteroid that big would have made itself completely obvious to anyone who has a pair of eyes even vaguely capable of sight and a chunk of the asteroid bounced off the atmosphere and no one even noticed it a rock that big hitting the atmosphere would have caused enormous shockwaves that would have in turned caused an enormous amount of damage to the planet's surface surely someone would have noticed such a thing the science used in this movie is so completely ridiculous that somehow it works for making this movie as entertaining as it is br br one thing i noticed is that despite the uber heat all the characters weren't dripping with sweat and their clothes completely soaked with it at the most the characters looked like they had been lightly on occasion by someone off camera with a water bottle to give a sweat sheen authenticity was not a goal that this movie and constantly strived for which in a weird and hilarious sort of way gives this movie its entertainment charm br br is this movie actually worth watching definitely assuming of course you have absolutely no expectations of anything that even remotely approaches reality and it's your desire to wallow and in total hokeyness at the moment
0	meltdown opens on a scene of scientists preparing to conduct an important test on a missile system developed to deflect asteroids should they be on a collision course with earth nathan vincent gale mentions some misgivings to his but the test appears to be an unqualified success then the asteroid breaks apart and the largest piece is pushed into a direct collision path with earth fortunately the huge rock skips off of earth's outer atmosphere and into space unfortunately the glancing blow is just enough to alter earth's orbit and the planet begins to spiral closer to the sun br br while all of this is going on above their heads los angeles cops tom casper van dien and mick greg anderson are on a stake out they're supposed to collect evidence against a suspected drug dealer but the deal they're watching quickly devolves into a shooting match afterward tom takes a few minutes to be interviewed by a local television reporter who also happens to be his girlfriend carly stefanie von br br at a nearby hospital where mick is treated for a minor injury tom has a brief chat with his ex girlfriend bonnie venus who is a nurse he tells her he's concerned about the fact that their 17 year old daughter kimberly amanda crew is dating a man named cj ryan mcdonell once tom explains to bonnie that he's discovered cj has a criminal record she's a little worried herself br br it's not long however before everybody has something else to worry about the temperature is rapidly rising all around the world carly is one of the first non scientists to learn what's really happening nathan who is her brother calls her to say he may have a way that they can survive carly calls tom he of course promptly contacts bonnie br br in relatively short order the motley group is on the road before they can reach their ultimate goal however they've got to make their way through bands of looters deal with a catastrophic water shortage and manage to travel in temperatures that are high enough to kill br br casper van dien is a good looking guy and i actually enjoyed him in starship troopers that may be because he's good in action scenes it might also be because he didn't talk much in that movie in meltdown he's unfortunately given just enough lines in situations that are just dramatic enough to showcase his entirely average acting abilities amanda crew is also okay and ryan mcdonell isn't bad either vincent gale and stefanie von are also both reasonably good but venus is sadly on a par with van dien br br what really makes or breaks a movie though is the story and the script while the story here is okay and actually has some real potential the script is just awful the science part of the science fiction is non existent starting with the asteroid pushing the earth out of orbit and escalating with the notion that the gravitational balance of the solar system might pull the earth back into its usual orbit over time when the temperature in la hits 120 degrees cars start blowing up br br you know what's even worse than the bad science the bad continuity okay really hot why are people in the movie not only wearing long sleeved shirts but jackets too why are people mugging each other for bottled water instead of turning on the taps at home why are the streets completely empty but the freeways completely full and why are the freeways full of unexploded it's almost superfluous to note that the sets costumes and production values were good especially when that only forces me to say that the edits were not br br so basically you take a pretty good story idea and combine it with mostly mediocre acting a terrible script low end special effects utterly irrational plot twists and poor edits and what do you have a movie that's even less than the sum of its parts i'm sorry to say that i can't recommend meltdown days of destruction to anyone br br political notes there is mention here that congress finally loosened the purse strings enough to fund the tests that start the movie rolling while the tests here were wholly irresponsible targeting an asteroid with a nuke and not knowing the composition of the big rock is in fact well beyond irresponsible and approaching the insane the fact is that such scenarios are a very real danger to the planet unfortunately we've tracked nowhere near all of the near earth asteroids that could be worrisome in some orbit some day and our ability to spot something on a collision course with us is limited at best br br once we do discover we're going to be hit we quite literally have no system in place to deal with it there are no nuclear tipped space missiles we can launch the space shuttle is completely incapable of going beyond earth orbit and if it were we couldn't launch enough of them or launch them quickly enough for it to matter i'm not big on the government doing anything beyond its constitutional mandates but i certainly think protecting the planet from destruction coming at us from outer space could be construed as defending the country don't you family meltdown days of destruction is rated r for some violence i frankly didn't find the violence here anything beyond a fairly typical t rated video game if your teens are keen on seeing meltdown and you can't talk them out of it the r rating shouldn't dissuade you from letting them see it it's not however a good idea to leave the younger kids in the room with their elder siblings while the shootings aren't too graphic in the main some of the dead bodies are
0	yeah it may not be for adults and some adults may find it stupid but if you don't think about it it's really not that bad br br the story has alvin and his gang going across the world in search of jewels for a bad person and the misadventures that they come in contact with br br so the animation is good and the story is cute and the songs are forgettable but it's a good movie br br i give it a 6 out of 10 or out of 4 stars
0	it's amazing to think that this movie came out only one year before star wars but seems a million years behind it in sophistication and special effects actually the art direction and set design nice victorian space ship aren't bad it's the monster costumes that are the most laughable resembling the guy in a rubber suit monsters from the lost in space tv show the evil cave man makeup reminded me of some of the aliens from ancient twilight zone reruns br br the script is stilted and outside of peter cushing's comic relief the acting is pretty miserable too this movie is only recommended if you really enjoy bad kitschy sf and the music yikes a horrible 70s experiment with synthesizers that doesn't fit the time period of the film and which sounds like someone rambling with a and a 2 track tape machine
0	this is just about one of the dumbest things i've ever seen maybe not a worst movie ever contender but if you haven't seen that many bad ones this could easily make your top ten worst list when you consider what was achieved in 1933 with the original king kong you've got to ask yourself why anyone would stoop so low as to produce this debacle then taking it one step further and realizing that the quantum leap to star wars the following year achieved a new level in sci fi entertainment this offering will make you laugh and cry at the same time br br now let me ask you what would possess the professor peter cushing to bring along an umbrella as a prime piece of subterranean research equipment for the ride to the earth's core ok so it was useful in fending off the parrot tyrannosaur in the early going but come on somehow i don't think this is what edgar rice burrough's had in mind when he wrote his tales of he probably didn't have caroline munro in mind either as princess dia probably the only redeeming factor to this whole escapade br br at least there was one bit of pseudo scientific explanation that i got a kick out of i'm always looking for one in films like this that would have to be how the sky at the earth's core was really the underside of the earth's crust explaining that ethereal pinkish glow but try as it might the story just couldn't hook me in a way to find anything at all interesting about the sly one or the ugly one much less those goofy half man half pterodactyl creatures to paraphrase the good professor you cannot mesmerize me i'm paying attention
0	there is something about doug appearance in a movie that is a of wretchedness his initials are like a special cinema certification that comes somewhere before 'u' br br cushing on the other hand seemed to both a dilatory agent and poor judgement of his own he did excellent work in the hammer movies as dr van helsing seen him do a very passable sherlock holmes in 'hound of the and his magnum opus was probably grand tarkin in the first 'star wars' the only man but the emperor who could tell darth vadar to 'stop and get away with it but crikey he's done some turkeys there was that lamentable movie for one and here's another br br there's a machine that's been hijacked from tracy island it's a cylinder with a screw at the front and traction devices at the sides i'm surprised jerry anderson didn't sue for plagiarism maybe he was bought off yet if the movie is any guide they can't have paid him much br br it's 1976 and we're still playing about in latex romper suits br br that's about it really some movies have an entertainment value in the 'so bad it's good' category this one doesn't even manage that it wouldn't even entertain kids stuff from the 1930's has got more going for it
0	of all the e r burroughs screen adaptations that doug mcclure starred in the 70s this is the of all it's so stagy you can taste the dust of the sets and feel the heath of the lamps above the thing looks like a very very big budget school play or indeed a very very low budget action movie which it actually is it's been said on many occasions that this was the last of the genre entries and i do hope it was the genre didn't die peacefully but in horrible agony amidst a lot of smoke fake blood and lousy sound effects peter cushing must have felt a boy again as a nutty professor whose shirt stays white as snow after the gentlemen has dragged himself through the slimy crap holes of the underworld what a sport he was to accept a part in this mishmash and carry it so bravely br br shot entirely on a sound stage and accompanied by then trendy now unbearable synthesizer soundtrack the main anti attraction of this film are the cardboard monsters yes there are always monsters like that in a burroughs adaptation but they rarely manage to be so completely ridiculous helpless or void of any credibility on a few occasions during the elevated action combat scenes where mr mcclure heroically attacks the creatures you can almost hear the empty hollow sound as his head bangs against the side of a fortunately the animals explode and go up in flames the minute they trip and fell over indeed there is a great deal of unmotivated exploding as the film and the genre draws towards the finale and lovely miss munroe loses her accent br br the triple bill currently on the market features this film plus two others the land that time forgot and the war lords of atlantis the first two are quite strong entries especially the first one with a lot of money invested and occasionally even fascinating script turns don't expect any of these qualities from this film get drunk with pals and laugh shamelessly at what you see after all the makers didn't have any shame either
0	why is impossible to write in french very kitch this journey in the center of the earth is despicable technical possibilities nevertheless current in 1976 these big of monsters is completely ridiculous the film deserve however a remake as was king kong the last one with a little more supplied scenario the professor has resemblances with the professor calculus and is rather funny david the character is enough inconsistent but cross spend to the people from below a good message you unite and will overcome you altogether we would say a film made in the 40s now that i said everything or almost the evil of which i thought of it we can say that if we have the brain get tired or anything has to see of the other one then the thing matter is even rather entertaining hugh such is my opinion translating french to english with sorry for possible mistakes
0	at the earth's core was on television yesterday i was at my computer working and happened to glance over and see what must have been some of the worst action sequences ever made i was instantly enthralled by the film's shoddy production values appalling acting by all included even peter cushing and horrific unintentionally hilarious action sequences and puppet monsters br br the film is about a victorian scientist who takes a stereotypical buff american hero on a ground boring trip in the welsh countryside little do they know that a great evil lurks at the center of the earth's core br br forget the fact that the title doesn't make sense if they were really at the earth's core they'd be about underground and burning alive in a sea of iron or whatever it is down there forget that the puppets used in the production rival the beast master for being the fakest looking of all time no the real genius of at the earth's core is its naive stupidity a gung ho action spectacle without real action and without real spectacle it is in essence just a gung ho movie and a stupid one at that people who enjoy mst3k style stuff will love this it's appallingly bad and indeed so bad it is almost enjoyable in a strange way
0	doug mcclure has starred in a few of these british produced genre adventures and this one has got to be the worst of the lot i know the land that time forgot has its critics but please at least that movie featured location filming and relatively good production values that's the problem with this movie the production values go way beyond so bad they're good affectionate territory and become so bad i think i'll go and see what's on the other channels br br one case in point is the first scene featuring the intrepid cushing and mcclure encountering a monster it's painfully obvious the monster is an average sized man dressed up as a rubber monster being made to look over twenty foot tall via overblown back projection it becomes even more painfully obvious that our heroes are trying to escape the monster by running on the spot have i mentioned that this is one of the more convincing set pieces no really this looks like it was filmed in somebody's living room with the spare change left over from that year's doctor who budget even former doctor who peter cushing is bland and what should have been an amusing line you can't me i'm british is delivered in a very flat way a very similar line is spoken by cushing in horror express in a script devoid of characterisation plotting and memorable dialogue it's not just the fact that the dialogue is unmemorable it's also infrequent and rare since the monsters don't speak wouldn't it have been better having the chief bad guys humanoids like in warlords of atlantis so that they could explain the plot does anyone here know what the plot actually is br br a very tedious british movie that even the twin talents of caroline munro can not save the whole mood of the movie is summed up by the final sequence featuring two keystone cops
0	i am so angry to the point i normally down make reviews with spoilers but in this case i'll make an exception the first scenes of this movies are weak and then when they get to the meat and potatoes of the movie it sucks this is one movie were i rooted for the bad guys because the captain save the day was unbelievable and there was no connection to him or nothing to make you like him the lead actor gave the weakest performance and laurence fishburne or matt dillon couldn't even save this movie sometime there are eye openers or great moments in a film that may not be that great this movie has none if you are looking for a movie to see in the meantime while nothing peeked your interest don't choose this one save your money
0	there i am sitting at home in the morning suddenly my brother flips on what appears to be the stupidest looking movie i have ever seen considering it was the 70's and special effects weren't to sharpe this movie just about equaled the definition of crap the stupid monsters the stupid story line and the stupid setting made this the worst movie i have ever seen so bad in fact i didnt even finish it i made it up to a certain point then proceeded to see how long i could go without putting a rope around my neck and hanging myself im just kidding haha awful movie
0	mildly entertaining and self consciously cheezy but what else could it possibly be cushing in one of his poorest roles and he often sounds dubbed mcclure is just too cheezy to be believed but who can blame him in the wasteland of this movie whose plot about ancient dinosaur birds ruling humans has 19th century throwback period charm but not enough and unfortunately the script carries the racist connotations of the literary genre into films nice effort from the actors but a poorly conceived production
0	a brilliant professor and his sidekick journey to the center of the earth in a huge machine which screws its way to the core there naturally they find all kinds of things that are intent on killing and eating them plus of course a love interest for the young sidekick ho hum does the plot never take a different tack
0	compared to director kevin connor's later arabian adventure this is a masterpiece however that's not saying much in fact at the earth's core is a silly fantasy adventure in which peter cushing who appears to be on something strong and some other actor whom i don't know use a giant digging machine called the iron mole dig their way down to the earth's core only to find that the inside of the earth is pink and populated by ape like creatures who have enslaved the humans there's also a giant bird that controls the apes by means of telepathy and we get to see it blink its eyes in closeup throughout the film most importantly cushing and what's his name also encounter the lovely caroline munro in the subterranean caves and here's what i've really got against this little flick why oh why is it that whenever munro's in a movie she only gets approx 5 minutes of screen time in the spy who loved me maniac dracula ad 1972 golden voyage of sinbad always she's in the background how can kevin connor possibly think that we'd rather listen to peter cushing's fake accent and look at some ridiculous ape man whose voice sounds like a scratched cd than gaze at the beautiful munro i don't get it please somebody direct a movie where this english brunette is on screen all the time
0	based on a edgar rice burroughs novel at the earth's core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest a victorian scientist dr abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters br br cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying instead of being a bold adventurer he comes across effeminate on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth also in the cast are godfrey james grant and michael crane
0	what annoys me with so called programs such as these is that it is presented as if it were a fact that dinosaurs live of years ago firstly nobody can even conduct a scientific experiment to prove that the earth is millions billions of years old it's a shallow theory based on inaccurate dating methods with huge assumptions thrown into the evolutionary pot br br secondly nobody can prove that evolution ever happened all darwin's missing links are still missing if you look at all the fossils anywhere in or on the earth they are complete animals of a certain kind eg a dog or a cat nobody has ever found the skeleton of a dog turning into a cat or in the example presented in this series a dinosaur turning into a bird br br this is utter hogwash there's more proof that santa claus exists than any animal changing into another kind of animal br br all the ideas presented in this series is an attempt to eliminate the idea that the universe and the everything in it was created br br this series is not science it is a religious world view that hides under the banner of science science is something we can observe and repeat what you are seeing here is science fiction br br if you want to watch a science fiction program that has the decency to admit that it's a science fiction program then rather watch star trek or star wars
0	warner brothers social responsibility at its most ham handed with sermonizing every five minutes or so about how we're americans we don't run from trouble we face up to our responsibilities it also suggests that if you're willing to yourself to protect your family from clearly deadly gangsters you're un american walter huston looking bored is the frustrated da and the average american family includes such familiar faces as sally blane looking a lot like her sister loretta young and dickie moore as an allegedly adorable moppet both are regularly crowded out of the frame by chic sale only 47 then but playing an octogenarian civil war veteran ponderously jumping and amusingly at prohibition hooch and moralizing about how we're americans his st dance old coot performance is tiresome schtick it's like walter brennan based his entire career on it william wellman directs efficiently and quickly much like his earlier public enemy but he and the screenwriter neglect to show what happens to this family after the happy fadeout i e they'd probably be rubbed out by the mob
0	aside from a few good moments of fairly raw violence this painful film is most notable for making 68 minutes seem like two hours br br it starts with an interminably long intro where the family is introduced including two insufferable tykes and their adult brother and sister completely clichéd pa and ma and incredibly annoying grandpa played by charles chic sales while sitting down to dinner the family is disturbed by the sounds of gunfire and rushes to the window in time to see two men gunned down by mobsters in the street the mobsters flee through the family's house leaving them as witnesses to the crime br br the rest of the movie consists of walter huston as the crusading da occasionally interrupting long anti crime speeches to make half hearted attempts at trying to protect the family from the mob it all winds up in a predictable manner br br good points about the movie include a couple of decent shootouts and a truly nasty beating nat pendleton as one of the mobsters and the gorgeous sue blane in a small role as the daughter br br if you want to watch huston play his early trademark crusading lawman try 1932's beast of the city avoid this one if at all possible
0	all those who criticize the sopranos for its stereotypical portrayals of italians haven't seen anything until they've gotten a good look at this cornball gangster film which focuses on a family so irritating you almost want them to be rubbed out br br the parents in this clan aren't so bad but their two little boys one a total brat one cloyingly cutesy poo are insufferable while their older good for nothing son and pollyanna daughter ably compete for audience contempt but the granddaddy of them all is well granddaddy as played by chic sale in full mode he serves as the films moral compass throwing in lots of diatribes about dang dirty foreigners for good measure if these are the good guys it's no wonder the actors of that era who played baddies became the big stars br br not that there are any stellar performances to be found among the criminal actors but they at least acquit themselves better than the grating family the incompetent police officers aren't even given enough screen time to bring things down any further only walter huston as the district attorney elevates the cliché riddled material in his futile attempts to breathe some levelheadedness into these dolts br br the film deserves credit for being an early entry in what would prove to be a very popular silencing the witness formula and it doesn't flinch in its depiction of the hard bitten underworld lifestyle but there are quite simply better and less xenophobic examples in the genre
0	a few of my fellow writers have covered this movie's plot elements so i will stick to some of the cuff remarks br br 1 this is entertaining but not for the reasons you'd think it's cheesy but somehow still watchable br br 2 daniel's love interest has to be about thirty the christian girl that dan ignores is way cuter br br 3 muriel stole his shirt from mr spock also if my guardian angel looks like muriel i'm going to have to apply for a transfer br br 4 okay so apparently dan is responsible for his parents' divorce what kind of horrible guilt trip is that muriel says that it was dan's prayers that kept his parents together i just thought that was absolutely ridiculous listen i can pray for my parents as much as i want but the only way they'll stay together is if they decide they're going to do it br br 5 i'll echo the comments on how this movie portrays non christians apparently they're all slovenly bullies br br 6 for something positive david white is a decent actor he gives the movie a little bit of credibility even if he is the only one he pretty much holds this film together on his own
0	i went to see this movie today with hopes that it would involve an at least half intelligent story i was extremely disappointed as it did not the plot and the decisions by the main character were so far fetched i was hoping for a dog day afternoon type movie but instead got something totally unacceptable i actually found myself totally hoping for the hero to be knocked off and i nearly walked out of the theater on several occasions when this should have happened but didn't heist movies are to be feel good flicks and this one tried to be just that every couple of minutes during the second half of the movie i found myself saying no way without giving the whole story away it revolved around an armored car guard who was financially down and out and whose house was going into foreclosure he was invited in on a heist and accepted only to back down once the action began weak
0	my take typically routine and lazy straight to video attempt from disney br br disney must have fallen in love with the family movie tradition that is the family dog many movies have devoted themselves with stories that solely center themselves with man's best friend disney themselves have made a handful they also made a handful of those that are literally dogs add this one to that bunch br br i haven't seen the original for a very long time so probably i'm not the right person to judge if this straight to video sequel fares any better anyone above the age of seven aren't the right people to see it either perhaps only the youngest of the young will want to see lady and the tramp ii adventure and even they would grow up and say it wasn't the best kind of family entertainment they have ever seen i guess to be fair i can say is that it warrants a rental but that ain't much to say br br this sequel pretty much picks up the parts left behind after the original oft called classic lady and tramp now have a litter of cute crocker spaniel pups and one mischievous mongrel named scamp who is a chip off the old block instead of the confines of home scamp wishes to run off with the other junkyard dogs of town unknown of his dad's own past as one of those of the streets to capture the charms of the original this one throws in the same poor dog rich dog love story in vice versa scamp falls for a one of the junkyard dogs named angel and who wouldn't with a name like that and a voice that sounds like alyssa milano que replay of the famous spaghetti scene other than the cute factor there is nothing in store for any audience in this lazy straight to video effort stick with the original br br rating out of 5
0	i rented this movie knowing that it would be bad i have only seen one good disney sequel and that was toy story 2 but it went far lower than my expectations i am a die hard disney fan and i just don't believe in sequels with disney movies for somebody who didn't grow up with the classics either watching them when they came out or renting them since you were born it's a cute story i just feel that the plot was dragged out a little too much and was to predictable the one thing that annoyed me the most was the voices of the girl children of lady and tramp they were too high pitched although most reviews say that it isn't that bad i think that if you are a true disney fan you shouldn't waste your time with this one br br hopefully disney won't be making any more sequels to any of the other classics any time soon
0	if regarded as an independent feature i can't say it's too bad at all but from where i'm standing this sequel and the original lady and the tramp don't agree with each other they are two completely different movies with different style different voice personalities different narratives and about the only thing that they share with each other is the visuals e g the town house of jim dear darling lady and tramp and none of those have changed br br if you're seeking any kind of continuity years after the release of the original for those memorable songs like bella notte and the cats song this sequel won't give you any at all just about every song has a little pop to it and those good old characters like jock and trusty jim dear and darling and aunt sarah and her cats may well be seen but they're seeming to be somehow replaced by new characters not to mention peg not appearing at all whose voices are quite annoying even lady and tramp don't appear often enough and as for scamp he is so spoilt and treats his father tramp with utter disrespect then runs away with no remorse even after hearing how much he's being missed at home and they called his shameless getaway an adventure i'd say scott wolf truly brought out the abusive bad boy in scamp wiping out the typical cute disney animal even the old characters just drive you mad in this trusty sounds like goofy sick in bed jock jeff stupid bennett and his voice sound neither scottish nor worth hearing zap him off as far as possible to free our poor ears from his voice and as for the dumb feather brained exasperating junkyard dogs somebody put them down br br lady and the tramp 2 isn't completely bad if you're not already having a tough day but i expect a lot more charm from a sequel to a true classic scamp is so is his girlfriend angel and there is a feeble storyline still i think you should try it at least once because as i say there are much worse movies around
0	at least it is with this episode here we have a time traveler the professor from gilligan's island no less going back in time to 1865 what does one do why try to save lincoln of course no really interesting variations are rung on this old theme as another reviewer has stated this episode is particularly drab and with little to suggest that the professor really is back in the 1860s budget limitations are readily apparent and the direction is stolid john wilkes booth adds a spark but it remains a very flat production we too often feel we are on stage sets waiting for something clever to happen there is a minor twist at the end but i emphasize minor
0	this is the second addition to frank personally produced trilogy of oz films it's essentially the same childishness as in the other two pictures although i consider it preferable to the others because it's shorter as in the other films there are performers in animal costumes an adult woman pretends to be a boy and the characters and plot jump all over the place while the camera work is static this time at the centre is a magic cloak that grants wishes and the boy played by a woman is made a king br br most of the special effects are witnessed at the beginning fairies are represented by multiple exposure photography and there's a man in the moon that looks just like those made by georges years before most famously in voyage dans la 1902 méliès' imaginative fantasies and creative trick effects made him the leading pioneer of early cinema and the films he made around the turn of the century were far better and even technically more advanced than this trifling oz series
0	for one thing he produced this movie it has the feel of later movies with international casts that are dubbed the opening credits tell us it was filmed in vienna br br bey was a delight in the universal adventure movies of the 1940s he was also superb in a movie i saw maybe ten years ago but have never heard of since the amazing mr x maybe it was dr x i remember it as a thrilling and frightening movie br br this one is pretty wooden unfortunately the plot isn't easy to follow when i got the hang of it i was disappointed anyway br br francis lederer looks great as a concert pianist he was a very handsome leading man ten or 15 years earlier he never really caught on as a major star though he should have br br this isn't terrible but it's pretty heavy going
0	this is realism if rivette was seeking to give us a ground level study of a woman in a certain place and time and how she was able to influence and was influenced by the world around her he has failed miserably most prominently because we never get a clue as to why thousands of men would have followed her into battle there is certainly not enough exposition of the cultural historical context to define the country's need for such a savior and god knows there is nothing particularly charismatic about joan as she is presented here unless wooden posturing and flat line readings are supposed to indicate transcendent faith and determination the use of landscape is particularly uninspired we never lose the feeling we are watching twentieth century actors wandering in a supposedly medieval landscape and as for the battle scenes which in contrast to some commentors claims do take up a good 15 of screentime they look like look like some some history club from your local high school recreating a medieval siege although the kids would no doubt put more passion into it i will give rivette credit however for picturing a side of joan left out by other movies that of a petulant naive and narcissistic adolescent played by a woman all too clearly at least twice the age of the character she is supposed to portray obviously unable to understand her place within the movement she is helping to create or the world existing outside her own passions joan's outrage at her own soldiers swearing and astonishment at the enemy for their lack of respect and obedience to her are jarringly spontaneous and believable notes you suddenly realize such moments must naturally have occurred in an otherwise uninvolving historical representation unfortunately they also serve to point out precisely what is not addressed on screen what made joan special i must say i also continued to be puzzled and frustrated by certain foreign film lovers who equate tedium and lack of dramatic involvement with artistry and seriousness does this film really increase our understanding or involvement with the subject or with anything for that matter 4 10
0	i went to see the movie because my boyfriend was raving about how much he wanted to see it and how his friends had already been and loved it so i came in with a neutral attitude not really expecting the worst unfortunately that is what i got i could write a 15 page paper on why this is easily the worst movie i have ever seen but for your benefit i will point out the pros and the endless supply of cons to begin the acting was very good especially christopher waltz and melanie laurent there were also a few lines that deserved a laugh and a couple suspenseful scenes sadly good acting a little humor and suspense is where the good points end the whole beginning story could have been great a jewish girl's family is butchered she goes into hiding later encounters the man responsible for her pain and then hatches a great plan for revenge sounds very good but the movie wouldn't be quite as satisfying for the americans and jews craving nazi blood i have no problem with wwii movies or killing nazis i saw defiance and like it very much however it's the way and attitude with which our would be heroes kill i'll give you a prime example of the kind of hypocrisy this movie oozes our hoodlum gang ambushes a german unit and kills scalps all of them except a sergeant and two other soldiers no problem so far they ask the sergeant to divulge information on another german unit when he respectfully refuses to betray the lives of his fellow soldiers they bash his head in a with a baseball bat cheering and swearing as if they were at a football game they took that nazi's head off now let's look at the hypocrisy in that scene here's a hypothetical situation a group of american soldiers are ambushed and taken captive by the enemy the same scenario follows and the american commanding officer would rather die than betray his fellow soldier the enemy bashes his head in with much celebration this would infuriate an audience if this scene were in a movie that american soldier was a hero for placing his men above himself and those barbarians brutally murdered him about the nazi sergeant well he's a nazi and deserves to die the cruelest death possible right coincidentally the nazi's felt the same towards the jews see the hypocrisy by celebrating the butcher of the nazis we are placing ourselves on the same sadistic level br br major hypocrisy 2 the nazis make a propaganda movie about a german sniper who kills nearly 300 american soldiers near the end of the movie the film is revealed hitler and his cohorts giggle with delight as they watch an american soldier get shot out of a window and fall into a fountain the nazis cheer as soldier after soldier falls to the snipers skill this is supposed to enrage the american viewers of this scene those evil nazis are laughing over the deaths of our brave men well the irony is isn't that what we were doing or supposed to be doing the entire time we're watching inglorious basterds laughing over the pain of others simply because they were the bad guys how would we feel if native americans somehow made a hit film in which they reek bloody vengeance on the american settlers or what if blacks made a movie glorifying the nat turner rebellion ok enough about the hypocritical flaws br br i'll summarize other reasons for the 1 star rating 1 there were view admirable characters throughout the movie brad pitt even tortures a woman by sticking his finger in her gunshot wound because he suspects she betrayed him he's the good guy 2 scenes dragged on way longer than they needed to 3 brad pitt's southern supposedly tennessee accent is horrible and thoroughly annoying throughout the entire move i'll quit now since i'm at 700 words br br unfortunately it seems that the general population doesn't think anymore they just want blood and that is why this movie received such a high ranking i recommend this movie for the ignorant or if you are jewish and simply wanting to see a nice fantasy justice personally when i finally got out of the movie theater i felt like i had been scalped or wish that i had so i wouldn't have suffered over 2 hours of mental rape
0	basterds is tarantino's worst film he has ever made it's full of his usual i e snappy dialogue brutal and sudden violence but it all deja vu the directing is typical tarantino and nothing seem's new at all it's almost as if he's copied exactly from his only masterpiece pulp fiction br br there is nothing new or exciting about basterds to be honest it's just a war drama that isn't funny nor brilliant as pulp fiction was basterds supposedly is tarantino's tribute to leone's spaghetti western's but seem's mis jointed and out of place especially with the continuing use of big sub titles and the audience of balance
0	little quentin seems to have mastered the art of having the cake and eating it br br as usual the pure sadistic display can be explained as a clever thought provoking way of sending violence back into the audience's face br br sure mr tarantino violence is baaad sadism is baaad it is well worth wading in it to make that point how very brilliant br br the juvenile part of the audience may well not be clever enough to follow all the smart references to higher levels of consciousness though but i'm confident they'll see the light one day br br thanks for making this little world of ours a little better you deserve a medal
0	at the heart of almost every truly great crime thriller is a carefully considered methodically planned out high stakes super crime which 9 times out of 10 is committed by a bunch of likable grey scale morality underdogs for who life isn't fair for whom getting back at the man is well something worth cheering for first time screenwriter james v simpson's script for armored gets this half right he made extra double sure that we've got nothing but sympathy for the recently orphaned iraq war veteran ty hackett stomp the yard's columbus short who's about to have his house taken away by an evil bank brother i've been there and he gave ty a good family friend in mike matt dillon who is super nice and gets him a job at the armored car company that he works at with lawrence fishbourne and some weird french dude jean reno these guys like to have fun and play pranks but they are also serious armored car guys too so that means they carry guns and are tough br br after a short while as one theoretically watches armored one might start to think as i did that maybe just maybe this is going to be some kind of awesome tongue in cheek cornball heist movie with some on the nose characterizations that move the story along its natural course cranking up the personal stakes of all involved in hopes of unveiling a really really clever plan with lots of potential 'holy sh t' moments i mean the music alone is textbook heist movie gritty edgy beats working overtime as we're treated to close ups of characters who say things like as a matter of fact i do and are you crazy for 45 minutes or so the movie had some serious genre flick potential br br then things start to really stink these dudes these idiots have no plan there's no ok here's what we're gonna do scene no blueprints no explosives no black van or ski masks despite their run' as can be seen in a trailer no these guys are going to steal 42 million dollars from their own trucks which are only being tracked by hourly contact over the radio despite being equipped with some fancy big deal technology' and they aren't even going to sit down and discuss it hell mike only tells ty about the plan the night before which is completely ridiculous but of course got his house to think about so as long as mike promises that 'no one will get hurt ' he's on board guess what though somebody gets hurt why because besides driving the trucks into an abandoned factory to hide the money they have no plan that was it that was how far they thought things out so naturally things start to unravel these cats deserve everything they get for being so unprepared br br this script frankly feels like it's like the product of some bad improv game armored car robbed by its own guards go despite some half decent buildup that could have maybe taken the film in a few interesting directions the story just completely falls apart and pretty soon nothing makes sense or is even remotely plausible br br when filmmakers don't have a cool hook for their heist their characters seem stupid and bungling and when characters are stupid and bungling it's hard for an audience to invest in them and their story and when that happens any suspense drains out the bottom of the movie leaving a laughable hollow husk br br skip it 3 10
0	quentin in my opinion has written and directed only really one good movie and that was the multiple award winning pulp fiction however most of films especially of recent have been real real turkeys people still rate him and his stuff today and i really can't see why there are many other directors and writers nowadays producing far better entertainment in all aspects of their movies from this point on i shall not believe the hype that is a tarantino movie br br inglorious was too long and worse still you felt it the humor was well minimal and not that humorous the violence was nothing new minus the end scene the dialog was sometimes very very drawn out br br for some they'll love this movie and for others they'll hate it br br and i thought the subject matter of nazis was finally put to bed with the awesome 2004 german movie der untergang
0	countless historical cultural mistakes 0 10 br br 1 a jewish guy named omar hahahaha 2 brilliant detective was taking out by the least intelligent guy in the movie 3 jewish suicide bombers that was funny 4 hitler and his top guns went to watch a movie downtown paris with two guards at the door shoot me 5 brad pitt overacted and it was painful to watch him 6 mr qt is re writing history hitler was killed in a really the funny thing about this is that people and i mean stupid people will actually believe this plot br br and finally can any one tell me how this movie made it to the top 250 movies of all time shame shame shame still wondering how can anyone like this movie
0	this movie is not worth a descend review it just made me decide that i am not going to go see the next tarantino film and i used to love tarantino's films br br not artsy not entertaining not witty not funny nothing just dull and stupid if this movie would have been first it would have also been his last br br tarantino has to get a grip on himself otherwise his next movie is going to be 3 hours of meaningless boring and uncool dialog it seems like he has fallen in love with his dialog and his love is blind br br after you finish your there's no reason to sit in a theater anymore
0	bad bad bad br br this is another stupid movie still don't know what is the language of this movie is or french or german you have to be speaking all 3 languages at least italian too to understand it poor quality translation with very hard to read font showing a very stupid way of ending this movie in the mid of the movie you will lose interest in this movie and start to think why am i watching this brad pitt is proving that his acting talent is going down br br maybe this is the movie number 1000000 that talks about nazis is there any other subjects that hollywood can produce i think this movie is another american propaganda to show super heros american i expect next hollywood movie is american hero will save jesus
0	the first half of this movie was quite good it was interesting and suspenseful the second half was pretty bad the comic book revenge story came full circle and we see lots of comic nazi characters and some badly acted good guys blowing them away there's a lot of violence in this movie i'm not squeamish about violence but i think it should at least have some purpose in a movie there was little purpose to the violence here except to create a genre film where we see lots of people getting mowed down with rifles we're somehow supposed to be amused by this br br i watched reservoir dogs recently there was a movie where violence was employed effectively it was realistic within the world the movie created there were never any over the top sound effect it was a crime movie which played it straight inglorious basterds should have played it straight but didn't i was rolling my eyes at how the violence was exaggerated with sound effects and extra bullets to the head and face br br none of the back story of any of the basterds is really explained either they're simply nazi hunters we don't really get to like any of them either because they're too busy cutting scalps off and shooting people in the face it's all about revenge and very little else br br there was 2 1 2 hours to work with here but few of the basterds were really examined in depth this seems like it was simply a revenge flick pure and simple we saw that in tarantino's last flick death proof which i didn't care for either it suffered the same problems the characters were almost interchangeable br br the first half again was pretty good i wanted to see the exploits of the inglorious basterds across europe i was presented with a much lamer movie about the resistance movement plotting revenge against some comic book nazis when they all go to one movie premiere in france
0	every movie quentin tarantino has made has become progressively worse i'd like to believe that most people would agree with that statement but seeing as sic basterds sic has an 8 5 10 from over 100 000 ratings it doesn't seem like the general movie going public has any sense even his best work reservoir dogs wasn't a 'masterpiece ' the trouble is that claiming that you like tarantino's work has become trendy as soon as that happens you get boatloads of people ready and willing to hop on another bandwagon they will ignore laughably terrible acting and utterly self indulgent writing just so they can be part of the exclusive club called everyone this movie is so terrible that i swear it must be some sort of twisted joke by tarantino to see how much torture his fans will tolerate and still praise him like another reviewer has already said previous tarantino movies were from a guy in love with other movies this one is from a guy in love with his own writing i couldn't agree more this movie is nothing more than self indulgent and in joke riddled writing paired with acting ability taken right out of a high school play but thanks to the general movie going public i'm sure it will still go down as one of the best movies ever made bravo tarantino you've pulled off one of the best practical jokes of all time
0	hooray for title misspellings after reading reviews and contemplating my girlfriend and i confirmed that this movie is an utter piece of trash this movie lost her as one of those rare tarantino fans i wish it were made on nitrate film and all the copies piled neatly underneath a chain smoking tarantino fanboy the literally needless violence the plot holes tarantino's table itis sans drama and absent character development made this a thoroughly painful glorified montage br br what acting was there and how much of that was just because i was too busy reading the subtitles i watch my share of anime and kudos for the attempt at authenticity but it was overdone for an english language movie with the glaring historical inadequacies the constant reading killed what acting there was br br why pay money for a narrator who will have absolutely no tie to any of the characters plot themes setting or anything involved in the movie when the movie needs that sort of off hand explanation it's foreshadowing the utter filth that follows br br historical research while it was sprinkled with interesting used the proper costumes and props for the soldiers this movie stretched the truth beyond belief even for historical fiction kudos on mata hari reference though using it as foreshadowing was a bit much mata hari was executed by a firing squad not choked in an isolated room this ruined any sense that the reference may have had br br other reviews mention more than half a dozen homages to other artists in the first 15 minutes considering the audience all these and other references were completely lost on many who would bother to see this movie and all who would enjoy it br br i'm confused by his choices of when to start a scene end it and what needs to be included in a movie promoted as an action film why did it take nearly 20 minutes to set up any sort of testosterone br br what i believe to be the message was trite the idea of rats and how we act on a primal nature against them and who is the rat were at best clichéd but at worst not realized mention of american camps for the japanese and german americans would have added legitimacy to this question to the moral high ground literally every character in the film that gets a speaking role was caught up in their own legend is that the world in which tarantino lives br br i'm glad i didn't pay to see this one i regret that i bothered to view it at all even with well meaning hosts there was a rich base of ideas to develop but none were realized
0	i was debating between this movie and 2012 but chose basterds due to it's amazingly high imdb rating i must say now what a disappointment i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence but i also expected a lot of witty dialog i got a huge dosage of the former but not nearly enough of the latter i felt shortchanged the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong and the plot it's that believable or really all that entertaining either save your time and money i can't believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses
0	this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br what is the purpose of this movie a bunch of americans enters nazi occupied france and starts slaughtering germans you see them their enemies and beating them to death with baseball bats while making jokes of course br br some will say that this movie is a parody of a certain genre for a parody it is neither witty nor funny the contents is zero it is exceptionally brutal and disgusting underneath lies a subtle political message because it is again the good guys killing bad nazis the whole plot is unthinkable if you turn it around could you imagine a storyline where nazis while making jokes kill everybody in the warsaw ghetto with flamethrowers probably not but this movie is exactly about that with the exception that is satisfies the weird moral expectations of a certain audience slaughtering people is so cool when done by the right people br br this movie only works because of the hidden nazi ideology underneath it does not regard the enemy as people and if the latter is supposed to be an element of the fun i am happy to say that this kind of fun will always remain a mystery to me br br another mystery is how such violence can fascinate the american crowd while a bit of nudity will freak them out but if a naked body is pornography this movie with all its brutality is pure pornography at its very worst br br inglorious basterds is a pointless boring and tasteless waste of time and money
0	chapter one once upon a time… at a table 1941 br br in which a german nazi and a french dairy farmer talk at a table for 20 minutes first in french then in english br br chapter two three years of inglorious basterds in sixteen minutes without tables mostly br br in which an american lieutenant talks to his newly formed 8 man jewish american commando unit there are no tables present cut to adolf hitler three years later he is angry at his men's inability to deal with the basterds hitler does have a table we return to the basterds in a flashback again distinct lack of table based content br br chapter three german night in paris at a table talking br br in which a jewish woman who escaped from under the table in chapter one has somehow managed to become the proprietress of a cinema the jewish woman talks to an actor at a table in a bar later the jewish woman the actor joseph goebbels and a translator talk at a table in a restaurant the actor and goebbels talk in german the translator translates the german into french the jewish woman replies in french the translator translates the french into german goebbels decides to hold a film premiere at the jewish woman's cinema the actor and goebbels leave the nazi who talked with the dairy farmer at a table for twenty minutes back in chapter one arrives he talks with the jewish woman at the table he leaves the jewish woman breaks down overcome with emotion at having spent so long talking at a table br br chapter four operation table talking br br in which austin powers sends a british officer to join the basterds and an actress on a mission to talk in german at a table in a tavern after 21 minutes of talking at a table they all shoot each other the actress survives but spends the next 5 minutes lying on a table talking br br chapter five revenge of the giant table br br in which the basterds decide to continue the operation by talking in italian and suicide bombing the cinema the nazi takes the actress into a small room where they sit next to a table a hoe that he found under the table in the tavern fits her so he kills her then he takes two of the basterds to a big room where they sit and talk at a table meanwhile the cinema burns down hitler is riddled with bullets and the two basterds blow themselves up for no good reason at all br br the end
0	i had been amazed by director back in 2003 his first american project vacancy was less impressive but a decent start armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable the film never rises above the level of a b movie br br it's a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn't really deliver in that department either br br what you are left with is one implausible situation after another a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money if you look past the sharp cinematography cast and the tight music score you're left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal br br this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time
0	i will never go to another tarantino movie again the entire film was worthless my wife and i both regret that we didn't get up and walk out at the first indication of what the film was really going to be about which is still hard to determine since it was such a ridiculous storyline blood guts and violence seemed to be the only real theme but we kept hoping there'd be something redeeming just around the corner unfortunately there wasn't because there wasn't anything that made sense we along with a lot of the other people in the audience walked out of the theater muttering that was disgusting what a waste of time i should've walked out where was the comedy that was pathetic etc it actually made us the audience voice our disgust and the feeling that we had just been thoroughly ripped off the only thing of merit in the film was the costuming and the acting ability of almost everyone in the film there just wasn't a plot script worthy of their talents i rate this a 1 because there isn't a 0 i can't quite understand how anyone could rate this higher than a 0
0	i am sorry folks but i have to say i really cannot understand the overwhelming feelings everybody gets by seeing this movie br br when i saw it i looked at my watch to know how much more time i had to spend with this kindergarten nonsense br br so why this verdict br br first of all the movie tells a story that doesn't deliver any excitement it is not even the amusingly distorted reality of a quentin tarantino we used to know this story could have come out of every little kid's head it doesn't have anything intelligent in it neither anything inventive and it goes on for hours the story has appropriate content for about 30 min the rest is just awfully enhanced scenes that are supposed to leave a somewhat cool image doesn't work even the previously seen cutbacks that tarantino often uses just confuse and are not in any way cool br br second some guys go to germany and kill nazis ah really do they the only nazis they killed were a handful of guys one of them being man enough to rather die than betray his companions is this the ugly face tarantino wanted to give the nazis a brave soldier that is more valiant than any of the basterds certainly not fail and what happens to the terrible nazi killing basterds well they all get killed by nazis except two who are taken hostages wow what terrible monsters they are br br third any characters yes one the only role and the only gleam of hope for the entire movie is waltz who is building a truly deep and very detailed character here great acting brad pitt really sucks and is completely out acted by waltz never seen a such a weak performance by pitt and the rest well some germans you've never seen before and will never see after when the movie started and i saw the group of the seven basterds i hoped to see something like the magnificent seven a group of extraordinary guys each one with a distinct character making their way to their destiny fearless and knowing i was then very disappointed when i saw the basterds no details at all no characters no real men just some random guys you won't remember who were not given any chance to differentiate themselves but in fact you don't even need to differentiate cause the basterds except pitt hardly play any role in this movie br br so i was really disappointed and seeing this movie on place 40 of the greatest movies of all time is the only thing about this that leaves me with my mouth opened
0	i deliberately did not read any reviews of this movie on imdb before i watched it because i really wanted to see it and make up my own mind i have been a big fan of qt in the past i think we can all agree he has made some great movies but lately he seems to have been overcome by his own mystique and disappeared up his own this movie proves that it consists of few scenes of the basterds at work it consists instead mostly of long tedious boring stretches of conversation between people that after a while you realise you just do not give a stuff about it's longwinded and lacks any of the great sparkling dialogue that qt has been responsible for in the past the entire movie is anticlimactic there is no tension what is going to happen in every scene is telegraphed so clearly in advance that by the time it happens you just don't care honestly folks don't believe the hype this is a very boring movie and you will be missing nothing if you don't see it
0	previous tarantino movies were from a guy in love with other movies this one is from a guy in love with his own writing it isn't inglorious its disgusting br br i absolutely hated inglorious basterds the entire point of a film is to entertain if u call bashing people's heads and removing their scalps entertaining and if there is one unforgivable sin a movie can commit it is extreme boredom or disgust br br the movie is just a collection of endless and excruciatingly boring and disgusting scenes of people talking at tables in various languages there is even one scene where 3 people talk for nearly 45 minutes at the same table before thankfully they are all shot i wished they would have been killed off after 5 minutes even woody allen knows when to shut the f k up br br this table talk style is a tarantino hallmark but in other films i actually cared about what they were saying and the people who were talking here i couldn't care less all of quentin's films display an enormous confidence particularly jackie brown but here there is a pervasive feeling in every scene tarantino had no idea where he was going with the film br br is it violent sure there's torture and galore but you'd have to remind me thankfully the film was so thin i didn't even remember i had seen it earlier in the day when until i saw a review headline on br br he's out of gimmicks and apparently dying to write a novel but do us a favor qt and spare us the movie br br i walked out of this movie halfway through and i would never recommend anyone seeing it no matter what a die hard fan he or she is br br i give it 0 10
0	seriously disappointing performance by brad pitt and q t the plot is very superficial and lame and unless indirectly intended this film actually glorify the nazis and portrays them as men of honor and show that the jewish people are deceiving cant keep promises and bloody vicious the following contains spoiler hitler together with the most notorious nazis are attending a stupid plot less movie about the killing of 300 italian soldiers in a small cinema theater in paris is unbelievably ridiculous the nazis laughing and each killing in the movie as if watching a basketball game stupid the deal at the end is lame whats really appalling is that the movie earned great reviews and is ranked here in the 40s amongst the greatest 250 films will not be surprised if it harvested many awards including oscars as well the movie is simply a kissing ass to the jewish people but hey reconsider its not even doing a great job doing that it truly dwarfed the whole nazi jews conflict and a pure insult to all who fought and suffered from the tyranny of the nazis
0	this usually all sounds a lot better in my head so forgive me for rambling i'm hardly tarantino's biggest fan and will try not to stoop to calling him a which is quite hard i don't like to mock or critique a movie before seeing it so with cautious hesitation i walked to the cinema today to watch br br now to call it a 'rip off of a rip off' would be unfair here tarantino is happy enough to take the title from enzo less than spectacular dirty dozen clone but not it's plot points that he takes from all other genre of movies opens with a nazi officer and his lengthy interrogation against a farmer who is hiding jews in his basement this is such an anti climax in that it's dialogue is stale and outcome signposted a mile off of course one of the hidden jews makes her escape but more of her later we the obviously easily pleased audience are treated to the introduction of lt aldo raine ha ha that name almost sounds like b movie king aldo ray ha ha quentin keep those coming and this character is played by none other than brad dallas pitt sorry dallas was about the only good thing he's ever starred in and with jaw jutting mr jolie treats us to a hound dogged southern drawled smirking nazi killer meanwhile mr tarantino forgets that actual grown ups may be in attendance so assumes that the won't have heard of the 'dirty br br raines consists of john cassavettes looking blood thirsty jewish soldiers all looking to get the big payback on adolf hitler tarantino in all his superior knowledge pays special attention to two of these men by casting his long time best buddy and fellow homage sycophant eli roth as the baseball bat wielding the other man is called hugo and i'll wager more than half the qt fan boys had never heard this name before this movie keep up the good work tarantino you've managed about 6 or 7 so far in the first 15 minutes keep adding them and it may detract from the plot or lack of br br anyhow cutting a long and extremely boring and protracted story short both raine and his men the and the sole survivor from chapter one both have separate plots to kill hitler at the showing of a nazi propaganda movie in a french cinema owned by the fore mentioned survivor now grown up br br more boring and pointless conversations follow two and fro as pitt mugs away at an audience past caring and any genuine suspense leading to the assassination of the most deadly tyrant of all time is thrown away by the directors insistence of placing a 1980's david bowie song in a wwii movie br br my problems and there are many with this movie is the re occurring problem i have with most tarantino product he rarely knows when to either start or stop i don't need 'homage' after 'homage' to get the joke whatever it may be i knew of inglorious bastards enzo castellari aldo ray hugo and the ultimate crime of the entire movie ennio morricone's haunting score from revolver i go to the cinema to see the stars if the best you can do is the dire pitt i'll assume you mr tarantino are the main draw here i don't want the audience directing the movie i pay to see your vision your ideas your creativity not how you can patchwork time and time again endless scenes from endless movies it's high time the fan boys on imdb employed some 'tough love' on your god knows if you don't the studios should br br the tired old argument with tarantino worshippers is well if you can do better do so let me tell you if i was a 46 year old director with the unfortunate pull qt has i'd want to offer you a lot more than a warmed up muddled re hash of better wwii movies than this tripe the directors he attempts to emulate made movies so bad by accident or due to budgetary constraints it's a cop out time and time again to hear his fans campaign his lack of imagination as 'art' i'm sure he's capable of better but after giving him the benefit of the doubt once more and not to mention 2 and a half hours of my life maybe he isn't
0	i will just start with some quotes from other reviewers that describes it the best br br this is easily one of the most overrated films of the year and probably the worst film tarantino has ever done the only good thing in this movie was the performance of mr waltz br br so i was really disappointed and seeing this movie on place 40 of the greatest movies of all time is the only thing about this that leaves me with my mouth opened now for more details go and read hated it reviews br br one thing i hate about a movie is when it treats audience as bunch of dumb people spoiler ahead now i know tarantino's style is based on fantasy and fictitious plots but come on adolf hitler and 200 top nazis officers will be in attendance of a movie premier in occupied france and you have only two guards in the whole theater and the surroundings where also an american african walks around freely with steel pipes locking doors and setting fire these 2 guards are then executed in seconds opening the door for our 2 heroes to slay hitler at point blank with around 100 rounds very dumb at least challenge our intelligence and create a smarter plot to kill one of the most feared tyrants of all time go watch valkyrie besides mike myers impersonation of a british general is more realistic and authentic than the guy doing hitler just picture that br br what ruined it further is that the only smart and powerful character which nailed everyone in the movie with his psychological and mind bending interrogations ends up to be effortlessly tricked by the most mindless character in the movie br br after watching the movie i was sympathizing with nazis who were portrayed to have more bravery and humanity than our basterds imagine that br br my recommendations if you have insomnia 2hrs 33 min to waste or you want to give your mind a break go watch this movie
0	a very un tom and jerry short jerry narrates this tale that revolves around tom the cat falling in love and losing her to his rival butch tom is best friends with jerry here which irked me a bit the cartoon is also presented in cinemascope overall i found this tom and jerry cartoon sad and depressing the should have just put puss gets the boot on the dvd instead and i would've been happy this experimental animated short can be found on disc 2 of warner brother's 2 dvd spotlight collection set it's the last one on the set and i'm hoping that warner brothers chooses to release a second volume soon br br my grade c
0	br br summary not worth the film br br as an avid gone with the wind fan i was disappointed to watch the original movie and see that they had left out many important characters luckily the film on its own was a wonderful piece when the book scarlett came out i read it in hopes of following two of my favorite literary characters farther on their journey together while the book lacks any true quality it remains a good story and as long as i was able to separate it from the original was and still is enjoyable however i consider the six hours i spent watching the scarlett miniseries to be some of the worst spent hours of my life any of the original character traits so well formed in margaret mitchell's book this series also turned the story of the sequel into one of rape mistrust murder and relationships that even the book scarlett stayed away from the casting for many of the characters refused to examine the traits that had been so well formed in both the original novel and film and even carried through in the second book and again leaves out at least one incredibly crucial character in the novel scarlett o'hara butler follows her estranged husband rhett butler to charleston under the guise of visiting extended family after coming to an arrangement with rhett she agrees to leave and proceeds to reconnect with her o'hara relatives in savannah eventually she accompanies her cousin a passionate leader of the brotherhood to ireland to further explore her family's roots that go deep and is eventually named the o'hara the head of the family while her duties as the o'hara keep her engaged in her town of scarlett ventures out into the world of the english landowners and instantly becomes a sought after guest at many of their parties she having been scorned by rhett time and time again eventually agrees to marry luke the earl of fenton until rhett comes along in a clichéd night on white horse type of a rescue the scarlett miniseries fails even to do this justice raped by her fiancé and scorned by her family the series shows scarlett thrown in jail after she is blamed for a murder her cousin committed br br i heartily advise anyone considering spending their day watching this to rethink this decision br br
0	this movie was nothing like the book i think the writer of the screenplay must have wanted the job of writing the sequel to gone with the wind and been turned down this was his or her way of getting their ideas in anyway the only similarity between this movie and the story it was portraying was the names of the principle characters and the location of the main action none of the events that are shown in the movie happened that way in the book for a gone with the wind fan of both the book and the movie this was deeply disappointing if you loved the book scarlett don't watch this movie hoping to see it played out on the screen they only share the title in common
0	after reading fool for love in a drama class of mine i was looking forward to seeing how sam shepard's wonderful play would be translated to the screen much to my dismay it was nowhere near as entertaining as the play the film seemed to drag the music was inappropriate for the tone of the movie and all the raw energy of the play seemed to have been sucked out of this film version it's a shame to see this come out this way even with shepard's involvement playing the role of eddie do yourselves a favor see the play next time it's being performed in your area or simply read the book instead
0	margaret mitchell spins in her grave every time somebody watches this mess fine costuming and sets can't even begin to overwhelm lackluster performances by joanne whalley as the title character and the ever bland timothy dalton as rhett even worse than the acting and perhaps partially explaining it is the script which is astoundingly cliched and predictable add to that hellishly bad script a score that'll have you cringing and you've got a disaster i wouldn't wish on any viewer scarlett is just amazingly lousy and i can't imagine how it ever got made much less made it to video
0	alexandra ripley wrote a horrible sequel to margaret mitchell's masterpiece book published in the 1930's margaret mitchell's heirs sold out their rights and for big bucks allowed alexandra ripley to write a piece of junk book even worse than barbara cortland romance novels i was a huge fan of margaret book and the fake sequel by alexandra ripley was written just to cash in for money br br although i always admired the acting talent of joanne kilmer and timothy dalton this is a really terrible film the script is horrible and full of clichés ann cameo as belle watling is so awful i wanted to slap her br br the only worthwhile thing in the movie is sean bean who gives a masterful bravura performance as the sexy feral villain lord fenton sean bean's performance is along the lines of the man you love to hate and portrays an unsafe sex symbol br br but sean bean is only in the first half of the movie so you then have to be tormented with watching an incredibly long 6 hour movie with an insufferably boring script br br don't waste your money on this film unless you are a hard core sean bean fan and just watch it for his wonderful performance
0	i am insulted and angry over the idea that a sequel to with the wind' should ever have been undertaken having expressed that i have no problem with the quality of the acting or the actors in this film the performers are talented people whose talents were wasted on this piece of garbage the hype surrounding this book and film just happens to be an exercise in futility i think it will go down as one of the misguided films of hollywood i don't believe that the beloved characters created by margaret mitchell should have been soiled by the ideas and interpretations of another writer the film and the book should be on the list of worst ideas conceived in the world of publishing and film making the sad thing is that people actually made money off of this tripe
0	but not this one i always wanted to know what happened next we will never know for sure what happened because gwtw was margaret's baby i am a lifelong fan of gone with the wind and i could not have been more repulsed by the movie i did compare scarlett to the original gwtw because any film worth following gwtw needed to be on the same quality level as the first rhett was cast beautifully although no one will ever compare to mr gable i am also a strict vivien leigh fan she was scarlett she fit the bill not another actress in this lifetime or another will ever fit the same shoes but with scarlett the job could have been done better not enough thought went into finding the proper scarlett that was evident br br overall something to look to but if you want to know the what happened to scarlett and rhett i suggest writing it yourself or finding fan fiction this movie is not worth the time
0	as an avid gone with the wind fan i was disappointed to watch the original movie and see that they had left out many important characters luckily the film on its own was a wonderful piece when the book scarlett came out i read it in hopes of following two of my favorite literary characters farther on their journey together while the book lacks any true quality it remains a good story and as long as i was able to separate it from the original was and still is enjoyable however i consider the six hours i spent watching the scarlett miniseries to be some of the worst spent hours of my life any of the original character traits so well formed in margaret mitchell's book this series also turned the story of the sequel into one of rape mistrust murder and relationships that even the book scarlett stayed away from the casting for many of the characters refused to examine the traits that had been so well formed in both the original novel and film and even carried through in the second book and again leaves out at least one incredibly crucial character in the novel scarlett o'hara butler follows her estranged husband rhett butler to charleston under the guise of visiting extended family after coming to an arrangement with rhett she agrees to leave and proceeds to reconnect with her o'hara relatives in savannah eventually she accompanies her cousin a passionate leader of the brotherhood to ireland to further explore her family's roots that go deep and is eventually named the o'hara the head of the family while her duties as the o'hara keep her engaged in her town of scarlett ventures out into the world of the english landowners and instantly becomes a sought after guest at many of their parties she having been scorned by rhett time and time again eventually agrees to marry luke the earl of fenton until rhett comes along in a clichéd night on white horse type of a rescue the scarlett miniseries fails even to do this justice raped by her fiancé and scorned by her family the series shows scarlett thrown in jail after she is blamed for a murder her cousin committed br br i heartily advise anyone considering spending their day watching this to rethink this decision
0	i've read the book and was expecting a good movie the first time i saw it i'm afraid to say that i was disappointed the movie did not follow the book and made many changes that i did not like br br one of the changes that i did not like the way that lord fenton was portrayed it made no sense to make him out to be a bad man the way that things ended between lord fenton and scarlett was a lot different and their whole relationship was too intimate br br there was also a lot less confrontation between scarlett and rhett in the movie than was originally written in the book the movie sent the two in two completely opposite ways and they did not seem to cross paths often enough to make it seem like there still could be love between the two a fine movie but i believe that it certainly could've been better than it was had it more true to alexandra book
0	as everyone knows nobody can play scarlett o'hara like vivien leigh and nobody can play rhett butler like clark gable all others pale in comparison and timothy dalton and joanne whalley are no exceptions one thing that i really couldn't get past was that joanne has brown eyes the green eyes were the most enhancing feature of scarlett's good looks and in this sequel she has been stripped of those br br the movie as well as the book had several lulls in it the new characters weren't all that memorable and i found myself forgetting who was who i felt as though her going to ireland did absolutely nothing whatsoever it could be that i'm only 11 but i saw no change in her attitude until the last say 10 minutes when rhett told her she had grown up if rhett hadn't told her that i would have never guessed that there was any change in her attitude she really loved cat her baby she likes this child best because she had it with rhett her only loved husband still if you've read gone with the wind you would see that children make no difference in scarlett's world br br quite frankly it seemed to me like there was way too much going on without rhett all anybody cares about is whether or not rhett and scarlett get back together and scarlett took way too long to get to that it is virtually nothing compared to gone with the wind but then again what isn't if you have read the novel you will like that better than the movie br br i would watch it just because it is the sequel to gone with the wind regardless of whether or not it's worthwhile it may not satisfy you entirely but it will get you some of the way there
0	if you really loved gwtw you will find quite disappointing the story those who may think this is just about a romantic story and the south will be probably satisfied with this decent tv production i consider an important miscast the choice for scarlett but let me say that considering the novel nothing good could came out of this br br i've read gwtw more than 20 times and i can really appreciate the adaptation mrs mitchell did for the film it took me some time to understand how good the ending was scarlett knew for sure she was going to recover rhett since she always got what she wanted but there was no kiss in the end br br then alexandra ripley came to fix this by showing us exactly how perfect and mighty scarlett could be and of course describing in detail how exactly she gets rhett back even when she had an important affair with someone else nothing could have been further from mrs mitchell mind i am sure br br the story between these points is in my opinion just a long and boring ride made up to tie ends showing off costumes and scenarios just to give us an obvious and totally unnecessary ending br br if margaret mitchell could came to live again she would die one more time at the very moment she'd find out what scarlett became after gwtw br br sure it's not fair to compare this to the original but this is not gwtw fault isn't it is it any good if i don't compare it to the original maybe sorry to say i don't really care br br i would expect little more compromise to continue someone else's suberb work otherwise don't even try
0	may have a good story but the director is utterly devoid of talent he does not know when to stop when the story calls for people to act confused there are ten minute scenes of people miming the act of confusion when the story calls for a little background history there are ten minute scenes of greenery when the story calls for a kid throwing tantrums you get the idea br br not to mention the extreme closeups so that you can count people's nose hair there are movies that should be seen on a big screen this movie should be seen on a 13 tv also who plays is the worst actress i've seen in quite a long time a normal human being would need to practise overacting for years to achieve what she does so effortlessly br br i give it 4 10 solely because the subject matter is different and the story is not bad the fact that a movie like gets to be india's entry to the oscars tells volumes not about the state of indian cinema but the state of indian judging committees a movie is not good just because its subject matter is arty
0	this is not a good movie at all i cannot believe that after fifty years this movie gets the national award when there have been such gems from marathi cinema that have been so systematically ignored this is a very overrated movie that got very very lucky it was given the national award harvested the popular opinion and now is going to represent india before the international audience anyone with even a marginal understanding of good quality cinema will know very well that this will not even be nominated at the oscars br br i cannot understand where to start there are just so many things that are wrong and lacking in this movie that it amazing it even got considered for the national award that this movie is awarded as the best movie to come out this year goes to show the biased judgment of people who hold the reins of indian cinema and the diminutive understanding of the people who blindly appreciate this movie br br the topic chosen is great it is important that such movies be made – but only by people who are able to handle them sawant does not measure up to the task – not even close his direction is jumpy confused there is no clear thought process he tries but is not able to explore the depth of the characters especially the grandfather he is not able to show the initial horror anxiety and then hopeless detachment and yet the insurmountable courage of the grandfather he wastes our time in the hospital when we should have been shown the time pair spend together he is trying to cram in everything without any priorities he does not understand his subject properly and that really counts against him br br however the cast does not help sawant either worst job – she is a terrible actor and a terrible choice for this or any sensible acting job how did she get extremely lucky and or extremely influential and or extremely pitiful casting having said that she goes out of her way to do an even terrible job in this movie her act of the should have gone to the more responsible actor – sonali kulkarni did not understand it work under constant emotional stress and yet it is important for them to project a calm strong exterior as this is reassuring to the patients seems even more scared and in need of support than the people she is working for br br second worst – i have never seen a more wooden face in marathi film industry it is abound and everywhere in today's hindi cinema though he is the producer and so he chose himself no second thought no consideration any good actor would have jumped to play this role even if he had to pay the producer's to do it but would not let anyone else do it over ambitious and obtuse he contributes to bring down the movie more than everyone else combined his acting lacks research and even the basic acting skills my choice for this role would be br br the music is uninspired the movie is technically lacking it could well have been an project job br br on the up side brilliant performance by it is amazing that such a young boy could give such a respectable performance he put many of today's actors to shame unintentionally maybe but he brought his own innocence to his character and that made it a memorable performance also kulkarni really gave a very believable performance really put in all his efforts and it shows the script too is well written br br budget' cannot be a valid argument to praise this movie lack of funds dogs all of the marathi movies cricket and hindi movies sponge all the money and the rest are left to fight for the scraps it is a sorry state of affairs but yet not reason enough to praise any immature movie that comes out 'doghi' was brilliant movie and it too was made on a shoestring budget 'doghi' also lacked technically but it was well researched and well made it was abound in details and supported by wonderful performances by everyone and that made it rich cinema why did it not receive the accolades it so very deserved – only proves my point of biased judgment br br lack of research and not of funds is what makes such a bad movie
0	fool for love is one of the several now forgotten films robert altman directed throughout the 1980s this one a screen adaptation of a sam shepard play that features shepard in the lead role just simply isn't very good altman made many not very good films over the course of his fascinating career and many times the fault was his but here i think the fault lies with shepard for writing such a flimsy play altman's direction is assured the performances are o k given what the actors have to work with but this inconsequential screenplay goes nowhere and takes its time getting there br br shepard is eddie a stuntman who has a love hate relationship with may kim basinger the two fight endlessly over the course of an evening spent in some dusty motel in the middle of nowhere while a mysterious man harry dean stanton who may be either a figurative or literal father to both eddie and may quietly observes randy quaid rounds out the four person cast as a gentleman caller br br the only dramatic hook in the entire plot is the suggestion that eddie's and may's relationship is incestuous however this hook feels more like a gimmick than anything the screenplay doesn't explore their relationship in any detail and it doesn't use their relationship to explore any more universal themes shepard and create eccentric mannered characters who grow irritating within the first five minutes stanton and quaid have little to do but provide reaction shots br br the last half hour or so of the film is especially bad when eddie's and may's back stories begin to play out in flashback over monotone somnolent voice over br br chalk this up to another of altman's experiments gone awry br br grade c
0	the comparisons between the 1995 version and this are inevitable sadly this version falls far short br br the casting is uninspired and the acting wooden one gets the impression the director did not read the book so did not understand the characters br br sir walter elliot is portrayed as pompous but his inadvertent silliness which redgrave brilliantly captured in the 1995 version is nowhere to be found br br the musgrove sisters are so unlikable one doesn't understand why wentworth or anybody else would give them a second glance br br the relationship between wentworth and anne is devoid of feeling br br in the 1995 version hinds and root managed to convey the depth of emotion the two of them felt towards each other with their body language and facial expressions in this one it is hard to understand anne spent years mired in regret unless one has read the book br br this production does not capture the emotional complexity of the main characters' relationship br br in the scene where wentworth walks in on anne and mary having breakfast it seems to the viewer as mary thinks they are only slight acquaintances br br in the 1995 version when wentworth walks in the first time he sees her in years the tension is thick resentment is coming off wentworth in waves while anne is almost overcome br br in this version while wentworth is courting it is as if he is truly invested the undercurrents are missing in the 1995 version the viewer sees wentworth's anger at anne he is flaunting his courtship in front of anne as if to say see what you gave up i don't need or want you anymore br br yet he still cares if she suffers as the scene where he asks his sister and the admiral to take anne back to house illustrates in the 1995 version the viewer feels anne's shock that he would care if she was tired we also feel wentworth's discomfort that he does still care in this version he just walks on with as if nothing happened br br the pivotal scene where anne is conversing with about who loves longest man or woman is totally botched the actors are just reciting lines with no emotional investment br br when anne reads the letter from wentworth it is as if she is reading a grocery list br br contrast this to the 1995 version where the viewer feels anne's joy at her second chance we are there with her as she reads the letter the director had both actors reading the letter and you hear both their voices wentworth is full of frustration passion and hope while anne's is at first incredulous then evolves in to joy br br this production has more scenes after the revelation probably because it was needed to explain to the viewer what just happened the 1995 version didn't need to explain we knew and rejoiced for the characters the only thing this production has in it's favor is it kept the mrs smith sub plot intact while the 1995 version did not br br the 1995 version however did include part of austen's original ending the scene where wentworth is commissioned by the admiral to find out if anne and mr elliot will want to move back to her house which he mrs croft are renting after they marry br br this is a production to avoid at all costs
0	usually when bbc releases a tv series one is used to a certain satisfaction guarantee usually the tv series is splendid even if the story is boring you can trust the acting will make the it worth while when i came across persuasion here at the local library i was looking forward to an enjoyable evening cause i read the story br br i'm glad i read the story first otherwise i would not think highly of it further was i relieved to learn that the production date of this tv series was from 1971 since i thought until that moment that bbc had lost it it is really bad and should be used in acting schools as a horror movie br br the only positive thought i have about this series that the people in this film are not likely to appear or be involved in any bbc or other product this century other than the young sisters who apparently were taking their fist steps in acting and doing remarkably well under the direction otherwise given
0	oh my poor jane must have done the old rolling over in the grave thing even allowing for poor production values for the time 1971 and the format some kind of mini series this is baaaaaad whatever else you do with austen the dialog should sparkle even in this perhaps her most serious work and melodrama should be strictly out of bounds alas not the case with this production by the time you get to anne's frederick frederick frederick you'll either be laughing or crying unless you're just out to visually collect all extant films of austen's work you can skip this one if you do watch it however there are small the actresses playing anne's sisters each do a wonderful job with their roles
0	oh yes i have to agree with the others who describe this as appalling the acting in this four hour feature is uniformly bad so bad to the point that i find it impossible to believe any of the actors in this production could possibly earn a living as an actor i still wonder who did the casting each delivers their lines without appearing to have any kind of engagement or emotional investment with any other character none appear to have a true relationship family or otherwise with another the direction is also appalling and any action scene is laughable and unconvincing were the film editors asleep br br the costumes appear authentic to the regency period but the fabrics look 20th century and colors especially the blue colors are jarring and i don't believe were available in early 19th century fabric except perhaps in silk br br also the hair the men have obvious 1970s haircuts and the women have big hair especially the woman playing anne elliot br br all the female characters young and old are quite lovely but this doesn't make up for the lack of acting abilities the actress playing anne looks as though she is in her forties while anne elliot is supposed to be 27 years old i mean where was the makeup and lighting crew if we were to find the woman playing anne believable she spends much of her time gazing pensively with her eyes at the level of the horizon whether indoors or out i wonder still what that was suppose to convey regret perhaps yes this production is regrettable br br the actress playing louisa was truly appalling she screams squeals giggles and leaps around like an ill mannered twelve year old my apologies to anyone twelve years of age reading this that i found myself eagerly awaiting the moment when she knocks herself out how this behavior is suppose to attract an adult male is beyond me most would back off when she first opened her mouth to giggle and shriek br br the actor playing captain wentworth portrays someone so bland and colorless one wonders why any woman could pine over him for eight years br br the of the pair at the end is not convincingly done or explained how did they get together again not because louisa was in a coma that is certain no there has to be more than that and it is not explained in the film br br i rate this production two stars one because it is work and the other because some of the outdoor scenes were lovely the only reason i could watch the entire production is that i was off sick with the flu and i got it from the library br br if you enjoyed the book see the 1995 version with amanda root and ciaran hinds i would recommend this film even if you have't read the book
0	well anne is way way too old wentworth looks younger than she and he should not louisa is much too young and too cheerful oh sister mary is way too pretty she is supposed to be average not pretty when this actress complains the way mary should all i think is that she is too pretty to be a complainer lady russell is too old this is crazy if you read the novel she is anne's older more mature friend maybe as old as mother would be which would be around 18 20 years older than anne so around 50 not 70 its crazy doesn't fit how come anne is so darn happy in the beginning she smiles when she says oh the worst is over i've seen him now the worst has passed yeah right ok if anyone has seen the 1995 roger michell version than you cant compare these two that one is right on this one is way off read the novel and you'll know what i mean
0	okay if you discount the production value the ugly outfits and the big hair this adaptation is still far inferior to the 90's version first ann playing anne elliot is literally ten years too old to play this role and her acting leaves much to be desired amanda root playing the same role in the 90's version can express more in her big brown eyes than can with her entire face in a four hour production anne is turned into a peevish whining boring character and what was with the scene during the long where she stops to spout off poetry henrietta and louisa looked so much alike that the only time i could tell them apart was when they stood next to each other henrietta was taller and louisa never was there a more obnoxious character it was ridiculous to think that wentworth was supposed to be interested in her she is supposed to be high spirited and pretty and charming not stupid and silly with her ridiculous laugh that's like nails on a chalkboard when she starts to chant to to to ' i started yelling shut up shut up shut up ' the best part of the movie was when louisa falls those three feet at the cobb because i knew i wouldn't have to see her anymore in the movie speaking of the fall at the cobb scene it was the poorly acted badly directed and edited scene of the entire film how does a person fall three feet down land on her feet and still be knocked unconscious br br on the plus size the character of elizabeth was much closer to the book than in the 90's version they also put in many more scenes with anne and frederick at the end br br i'll admit i have bought this movie even though i knew how sub par it was but i'm a huge austen fan so i'll buy any movie adapted from one of her novels watch this move if you're morbidly curious or to appreciate the 90's version even more br br the bottom line is this version may follow the letter of the novel but the 90's version follows the spirit
0	this four hour miniseries production is about two hours longer than necessary primarily because the filmmakers seemed not to have a clear idea how to adapt a novel to the screen they seemed not to know what should be kept in and what might safely be left out the film opens with sir walter reading from the book that is his primary solace in his troubles this introduces the family all of whom we get to know intimately over the next four hours anyway but serves little other purpose similarly the scenes where the lament poor richard serve no purpose but to drag the story down some of austen's actual dialogue is allocated to different characters and some of her narrative is recycled as dialogue that falls awkwardly from the tongues of the characters there is some fill in dialogue too and this is uniformly dreadful the scene where charles hayter is boring henrietta with his concerns about getting dr shirley's was only barely interesting as narrative in the book as a scene in this production it is stultifying the scene on the cobb when louisa falls and is taken up lifeless is entirely without urgency and i wondered whether wentworth's line is there nobody to help me might have been directed at the writers as well as the other actors br br this production often looks and feels like a play that has been filmed rather than an actual film and this is most evident in the acting which is the opposite of subtle booming delivery of lines exaggerated gestures and actors who have no idea what to do with their hands feet or faces when they are not speaking their lines charles musgrove stands in his parlour feet shoulder width apart and appears to project to the balcony if there were one when speaking to the other people in the room with him louisa face when not actively simpering or giggling seems to be in confused repose louisa is a giddy giggly ditzy creature and i did not for a moment believe that wentworth would be interested in her br br the costumes are a mixed bunch but mostly awful and anne elliot's green tartan gown is quite possibly the most hideous alleged period costume ever devised we are given the dates at the beginning of the show it is the late or perhaps very early 1800s and yet many of the costumes seem to be of victorian design and thus about 60 years too early the hair is just so wrong that i won't even mention it here except to say that i won't mention it br br this production does do some things right however mrs smith is given her proper importance and her history with mr elliot his and his intrigues are fully addressed i was also pleased to see the fleshed out reconciliation scenes with anne and frederick at the end which are precious reward for the reader but were glossed over in the 1995 production br br if you love the book persuasion and even vaguely like the 1995 movie don't waste a moment or a penny on this production you will find it sorely wanting
0	boring utterly predictable soap opera mary tyler moore is married to ted danson who's having an affair with christine moore is friends with and doesn't know about the cheating danson dies in an accident and is pregnant with his baby yawn br br i'm ashamed to admit i paid money to see this in a theatre in 1986 i liked all three stars but even their considerable talents couldn't pull this off i constantly knew what was going to happen like another poster said this plays like a pg rated lifetime movie br br it does have swearing nonstop at one point and even moore lets loose once also there's a pointless shots of topless women playing football other than that it's tv friendly the only good thing about this was timothy gibbs playing moore and teenage son very handsome and quite a good actor that aside there's nothing to recommend this you've seen it before and done better it's obviously been forgotten skip it
0	this is what used to be called a women's picture and later a chick's flick when times and movies got more juvenile the plot is just soap opera for women and will only appeal to those types the only appeal for most guys is if they wanna see a too rail thin mary tyler moore in leotards if you're of a certain age like me that might still be enough to give it a look otherwise mtm gives another of her typical by the numbers performances that she's been giving since the early 70s when she took it to heart that she was america's sweetheart christine gives another of those abrasive and unpleasant performances that seem a real part of her as a person and probably only appeal to those of that type sorry but it seems true ted danson is too young as husband and usually gives off a slightly creepy appeal unless he has an acting partner who can soften it and it doesn't happen here allan burns wrote directed and probably got it all through because he worked with mary before wrote it as a project for her and she had the juice at this point to get it made there seems no other purpose to it
0	director screenwriter allan burns seems to have patched two different scripts together before coming up with this minor outing a comedy about infidelity and a melodrama about loss and sabotage it results in a unfunny film christine plays a crass cynical tv news reporter who makes friends with aerobics instructor mary tyler moore and is soon having dinner with moore and her family only to discover mary's husband ted danson is lahti's secret affair burns has a strange stop and start rhythm to his dialogue which is neither realistic nor effective just increasingly annoying because nothing important ever seems to get said rail thin moore looking alarmingly frail in her leotard has a radiant smile but doesn't convince as wife and danson gets stuck with a paltry thankless role he's just there to be a cad the movie attempts to cover all the bases in a classic case of overreaching woman's role in the workplace the tv news biz the cheating family man the working wife and mother who wants more a woman's need for female friendships et al but nothing substantial comes out of these ideas since burns only half heartedly examines the issues as a writer he is surprisingly free of punchlines but is devoid of a purpose as well and the heavy plotting just gets all fouled up 1 2 from
0	i saw this only because my 10 yr old was bored he and his friend hated it but of course liked being at the movies this is the first time i've strongly disagreed with ebert in many years there is not a single thing to recommend this film willis is good as always but the story stinks is unbelievable there is no real story no action no interesting cinematic sequences no surprises and worst of all the child star is a thoroughly repulsive slug guaranteed to turn off any parent who does not have a dweeby fat slob for a kid by all means stay away and spare your child unless you want to punish him or her there is no excuse for such lousy directing or writing and one hopes these filmmakers will suffer accordingly
0	this is the first recorded effort to put sound with a movie and a the oldest that obviously is still in existence this historic piece of film is the opening segment in the more treasures of the natural archives dvd br br it's only a 15 second clip of a man playing a violin in front of a huge recording cylinder next to him are two men dancing near the end another man walks on the stage william dickson the director of this experiment is the violin player this movie had several titles over the years but the sound experiment was not really a success it took over 30 years from this point to the synchronize sight and sound to the point where something could be issued to the public for entertainment however this was a start no matter how primitive it came off br br for more of the technical information and history of this film process see the other review here by boba
0	by the numbers oscar hungry biopic about the late great singer ray charles there is one exactly one great scene in ray it occurs during a flashback to charles' youth after the boy become completely blind running into the sharecropper house which he shares with his mother he trips over a chair and sprawls on the floor he cries out for his mother she in keeping with her philosophy that a person should stand on their own two feet observes silently and pensively from the kitchen waiting to see if the boy can fall back on his own resources the boy proves to be up to the challenge using his ears and memory to locate a kettle on a stove a nearby fire pit the grass blowing in the wind outside of a window the scuttling of a cricket across the plank board floor br br the movie pauses here it expands it breathes even if for only 40 seconds the scene is a much needed respite from taylor otherwise noisy film by noisy i'm not referring to the music which is of course excellent i am referring to the sound effects big booms preceding yet another flashback and the inane dialog i'm speaking to you as a friend ray etc on the visual side is equally and pointlessly flashy sepia colored filters over the camera lenses during the flashbacks whirling dervish from the camera crane etc etc all the modern amenities what a horrible cinematic style is displayed in ray a style all too common in wanna be important movies from the past decade or so scorsese's aviator is stylistically very similar to this movie these gimmicks are employed to the cliché ridden screenplay some of us won't be fooled br br some of us also are not quite prepared to accept jamie foxx's performance as anything more than superb mimicry granted foxx eerily resembles ray charles he walks like charles talks like charles and even twitches like charles foxx's imitation of the singer during live performance is technically perfect i'm not begrudging mr foxx his oscar he deserved it it was a pretty weak field this year anyway but one wonders if foxx really understands charles the actor does achieve one great moment when he insists on trying out the smack that his band mates are shooting up he registers if only for a brief moment a disgust at the unfairness of being blind and a life of darkness the movie seems to want to dramatize the struggle within charles between the bright salvation of music and the oblivion of heroin with his blindness as the battleground between those two but the damn movie just won't take the time it bounces along from triumph to triumph never really pausing for any insight into the man one has to stretch to find the dramatic tension one must supply the drama for the movie one must in other words imagine a better movie than this one br br in its rush toward a glorious conclusion ray introduces then dodges several excellent ideas for a movie his early days on the circuit his bold musical innovations for the atlantic label the problem of his addiction to heroin the inevitable artistic compromises attendant upon overwhelming success the man's importance to the civil rights struggle touched on in the movie for oh about 3 minutes of screen time and much more the filmmakers are too lazy to focus on any one of these elements two and a half hours of watching a man overcome one adversity after another may make us feel good but such a movie is not necessarily a grand work of art this sort of approach certainly provides no deeper insight into the film's subject and shouldn't insight be the real goal of a movie like this if i had wanted a laundry list of ray charles' accomplishments i'd have simply googled him br br 3 stars out of 10 the extra 2 stars strictly for the music
0	i was supremely disappointed with this one having just read the wonderful oscar wilde story i had hoped for at least a little of the magic to translate onto the screen well there was none this version played like a condensed dumbed down reader's digest movie not only did it feel rushed it was cheapened and needlessly re written major characters and plot points were either changed or completely removed i appreciate the difficulties in trying to bring a novel to the screen especially on what may very well have been a limited tv budget but there is no excuse for mangling a great story in this way i thoroughly recommend reading wilde's tale of the depravity that exists under even the most beautiful exteriors but i cannot advise anyone to rent this travesty
0	i bought a tape of this film based on the recommendation of other imdb users and have to say that i was very disappointed i'm a college professor and showed this movie to my class they unanimously voted that it's a terrible film i guess that if you like the old dark shadows series then maybe you'll like this i liked dark shadows when i was a kid in the '70s but now i think it's just awful the first half hour or so at least has the virtue of some fidelity to wilde's novel after that the story veers wildly off course at least as compared with the 1945 mgm version which won two oscars nigel davenport as lord henry is really about the only thing watchable in the whole production a lot of the other acting is bad the music is melodramatic and look of the film is terrible actually it's not a film at all it was obviously shot on video and has that characteristically claustrophobic bbc look about it the opening scenes are particularly poorly lit the women's costumes are terrible the men look all right and a lot of the characters including dorian seem to have 1970s rather than victorian hairstyles the movie does well to include a lot of wilde's dialog but the voice over narration in the voice of dorian contains a lot of rubbish that directly contradicts wilde's character i'm a big oscar wilde fan and i fear that he must have rolled over violently in his grave when this monstrosity was made its only improvement over the 1945 version is that the homosexual subtext is definitely more apparent without being heavy handed i haven't seen either of the more recent versions but if one is interested in seeing the story well told i would have to recommend the 1945 mgm black and white over this one
0	it only took one viewing of this dog for me to say never again it's so profoundly unmemorable that i had to read other people's reactions to it before i could remember anything beyond 1 it was awful 2 connery should have quit while he was ahead and 3 the film included a total gross out bit involving faking a scan through the most gruesome not to mention horribly inefficient means possible br br actually i've never understood why anybody would prefer even the best of connery's bond films over even the worst moore or dalton outings or brosnan or even david niven for that matter i personally found octopussy and moonraker among other canonical bond films to be far more entertaining than this and probably for the very same reasons why others the moore bond films namely their wry humor and their willingness to surrender to the of the whole basic bond milieu
0	thunderball and never are two of the biggest box office misses and never is a surprise farce from empire strikes back hero irvin kershner klaus maria brandauer seems to steal the show when in the midst of the unfolding plot bond's mission turns more to hollywood romp sometime around when basinger comes in how about klaus kinski i still think that the casting of largo makes or as is evident in both films breaks the story worst of all is the attempt to pass off the aging and very hairy connery off as the sex symbol he indeed was in the '60s the '80s was a barren time for bond flicks mostly though for your eyes only is a great title at times when i happen to need to waste some time over the holidays by watching this film in the often string of bond re run festivals i think the best attribute of the film is its score and i'm not into soft '80s
0	connery climbs aboard the moore buffoon train in this stinker of a movie tossing away everything that made bond successful in the first place this movie further degrades the bond character throwing him into the category of inspector gadget get smart this ain't there is no style here only second rate actors performing on cheap sets it's a shame that connery couldn't lend an element of class here but it doesn't come across everything here reeks of mediocrity including connery's bad toupee perhaps if i was snowed in and given the choice between watching never say never again and howard the duck i would choose the former if you want the real james bond pick up any ian flemming novel
0	this is more than just an adaptation of bond it's a plain rip off with mediocre character sketches that ian fleming would not have approved of this film goes down as the worst 007 movie an older even haggard connery tries to relive his past 12 years later the result is a humourless tacky version of the classic hero give me roger moore any day
0	sad in every aspect this poor excuse for a career boost for connery was neither that nor the hit warners wanted it to be overlong by 20 minutes and filled with embarrassing moments for everyone involved this film and robocop 2 are proof that irvin kershner did not have any real control over the empire strikes back connery hadn't been in a hit since he bowed out from bond in 1971 but this didn't bring him back at all octopussy was released several months before this film and easily it imagine that a roger moore bond not only better than a simultaneous connery release but it and compared to never octopussy is on par with 2001 br br the worst bond theme song even worse than the man with the golden gun pointless scenes that drag on pointlessly with the worst example being that ridiculous video game sequence my god who cares and the most atrocious collection of non talent as far as the fabled bond girls go does anybody seriously think kim basinger is attractive in this movie there were girls in my high school who could never get dates who looked better than she does in this and barbara carrera just plain stupid but the way kershner has directed her to prance around all the time didn't help her out any she is the that would become the very impressive which was about the best feature of goldeneye but that doesn't mean anything as you laboriously struggle through this film br br casting as a black agent was an excellent idea but the buddy interaction connery and he are supposed to have is awfully bad two actors never appeared so clumsily linked together witness the scene where to escape local authorities they strip to their boxers and pretend to be out exercising i can not imagine another scene in any movie that tried so hard so fruitlessly to get a laugh
0	though some would prefer to comment on the value of bond movies in the connection of learning frequency and while most of the jargon that tends to limit bond to a meager 007 following has been exploited beyond all reasonable contention there are several redeeming that extend the credibility of sean connery in this doubling role that had seen its counterpart adaptation in part of a previous performance by jessica tandy in driving miss daisy while connery had been less visible in the latter his woman seeker qualities had maybe not cast a frown on the face of embittered spectators as it would in this latest rendition which to most involved approached the 007 theme with kind resentment albeit while the general flavor had been altered great for those who interest others while faking to be who you're not
0	the first few minutes showing the cold and crusty the willis character were pretty enjoyable especially with jean smart but it really tanked after that this is just hackneyed big man and little irritating kid stuff from way back with no innovation at all i know that the casting probably picked this kid to show that willis was just as irritating in his younger self but i found this kid especially irritating and
0	not as bad as some people say this is a unofficial bond movie and a remake of thunderball written by kevin co producer in thunderball well the cast is very very interesting maria brandauer is a great bond villain kim basinger and barbara carrera are just like the original bond girls plus rowan atkinson and a truly great edward fox who looks really refreshing in the m role in fact the whole movie is refreshing and gives some new impulses sean connery does it once more confident and charming except that he looks a little bit too old but alright he is the original bond and it was great to see him once more in this role the locations are also typical bahamas france etc the only thing that really fails is the music score the song never say never again is o k but the theme song is just missing all in one a nice try to make a difference from the comic and silly roger moore movies like moonraker only if there was another story thunderball was a excellent movie and really did not needed a remake
0	actually i feel like having my review be that one word my friend whose opinions i almost always trust about movies especially horror movies warned me not to rent this no matter how tempted or bored or desperate to see a new horror movie i was because it was a complete waste of time unfortunately i haven't talked to him in a while and i was in a hurry to pick a movie and thought 'what the heck how bad could it be ' why don't i learn what was i thinking did i think it would magically turn into a better movie while sitting there on the shelf for years waiting to be rented br br the 'plot' concerns a guy who edits films for some company his boss is a jerk the guy who had the job before him went insane and blew himself up in the pre credits sequence so for some reason the boss picks nerdy for the special project of editing loose limbs splatter movies he never says what ed is supposed to edit but i guess that doesn't matter ed is upset by some of the clips working on them up at this house all by himself that the boss has decided to relocate him to for no apparent reason he asks his boss if he can stop or do another project but his boss doesn't care he starts to slowly go insane supposedly from watching the clips and wants to carry out the gory murders in real life or has he been this way all along please note that i am making this plot sound much more deep interesting and coherent than it actually is br br we don't care about the characters at all or have any sympathy for them or even hate the bad guys the plot is really really boring and predictable the splatter isn't even that gruesome or creative this is not worth renting just to see the gore because what there is isn't interesting or original br br all the to sam raimi just come off like really bad ripoffs and no one in the movie is anywhere near good looking enough as bruce campbell so you can't distract yourself with that i think an evil dead ii dead by dawn poster is only prominently displayed in one scene in the hopes that sam raimi will be flattered and not consider any sort of legal action a trained chimp could have written a better screenplay every time i hear lines like are we having fun yet which even bride of re animator couldn't pull off without making me wince i start feeling like picking up some sort of deadly weapon myself characters just appear out of nowhere with no explanation wandering in only to get killed this might be ok if the movie was even remotely amusing or entertaining but it was all i could do to keep from fast forwarding through most of it fortunately i chose to pay some bills and balance my checkbook at the same time the movie was playing trust me it did not require my full attention i still felt like 90 minutes of my life were wasted just by having this on in the background br br don't watch it no matter how tempted you are you'll hate yourself for wasting your money horror fans will be completely disgusted by how incompetent it is even those who haven't seen too many splatter movies should stay away as there are so many movies out there you could rent that are much more well worth your while if you want something brainless low budget and fun rent something else complete waste of time with no redeeming qualities whatsoever be smarter than i was at the time and don't be fooled by the warning not for the faint of heart on the box you have been warned br br
0	this flick is terrible it sets out to disgust and make you laugh but it fails horribly the director obviously has no sense of slap stick gore comedy and the actors are like nothing i've ever seen lacking both acting talent and flair of comedy even their attempt at the english languish is really sad and actually the down right peculiar swedish accent in which the incoherent dialog is spoken is probably the most comical and enjoyable thing about this film even the gore i awful and unconvincing if you crave gore comedy i'd suggest you turn to classic fare such as the evil dead series or even brain dead if you must we all enjoy a bloody good laugh but this is ridiculous
0	a swedish splatter movie has the world gone insane br br probably not but it's still not a common sight in these days with swedish gore flicks the b movie business in sweden seems to have troubles these days long gone are the golden days of i and this movie seems to have some troubles on its own it's just too much talk in it it still manages to be somewhat amusing mainly for the good fx which are great for a b movie the script and most of the acting is still pretty bad though but that actually don't matter that much it's supposed to be a gore flick and nothing more that's where it goes a bit wrong for some reason there's is simply not enough blood to fill the void br br every person who know about gert will have a good laugh over his role as a sgt though i nearly laughed my ass off it's really that hilariously bad br br besides the good parts i've listed there's really nothing else to recommend here unless you're starved for swedish b movies br br 4 10
0	once in a while i like a good horror movie so i thought this would be a splatter and gore movie but it was a boring boring movie maybe because i have seen a cut version because there where only two things that where a little splatter one time where some ones cuts someone arm of and where some one shots an arm of but that where the only things for example had more cool then evil ed its more a boring ed than a evil ed and some actors where lousy to o
0	this swedish splatter movie tries to parody imitate american horror films such as the evil dead gremlins and others writer director actor cinematographer anders and writer producer actor makeup effects supervisor did i miss something were obviously inspired by sam raimi but the camera work is a bad copy of what can be seen in the evil dead and elsewhere some other users have written that they enjoyed the humor of this film but i didn't br br the film rather disturbed than entertained me it tries to combine suspense and comedy and the final product just left me with a feeling of oppressiveness although it wasn't scary or shocking at all the combination of different genre elements made this film very strange i was never sure if it was meant to be scary or funny br br the story is quite inventive except for the showdown at the hospital but i didn't like the way it was staged for the reasons mentioned above the gore make up effects are considerably good and at least the loose limbs sequences were quite entertaining because in these scenes the film makers didn't try to mix scares and jokes br br all in all a strange film that you will either hate or love rest in pieces evil ed br br my rating 3 10 made me stick to american productions
0	calling this film a decent or enjoyable horror tribute is far too optimistic heck you can't even refer to it as a nice spoof of the genre because it's way below average it's funny but not haha funny you know but still i'd say to give it a look if only for the huge amount of trivia elements in it by the way all those people who're complaining about this movie here in their comments have only themselves to blame when you see the dvd cover of this film you should already know that it's not going to be on the same level as the piano for example so don't come complaining afterwards br br evil ed could've been something but the totally screwed it up i suppose the main idea behind this film is criticism towards the growing 'cutting in horror nowadays it shows an editor named edward who's slowly well not too slowly going nuts by seeing all the violence and gore in the movies produced by his company produced the big boss is named sam campbell funny isn't it personally i also expected a character named bruce raimi but to my surprise there wasn't anyway this guy became rich by making movies called loose limbs they feature and i'm not kidding you scenes in which a girl is getting raped by a beaver and then gets shot in the head by a bazooka now who says horror isn't original anymore br br with all the gore and the it's hard to believe it but it really gets boring very quick after a decent first 25 minutes evil ed turns into complete boredom and never recovers from that the only think left to do then besides pushing the eject button of course is look for the obvious amount of references to other much better horror films i saw scenes obviously stolen from the evil dead silence of the lambs braindead and several others and there's a huge amount of classic horror posters on the walls to admire as well br br evil ed finds it origin in sweden i'm convinced there's a lot up talent there far north take the danish as an example but none of them talents joined the cast or crew of evil ed only to see if you're in a dumb mood and you don't want to use your brain at all
0	the glorious edward gets to move up in the world when his supervisor tells him that he can drop those filthy swedish drama movies and head up stairs to the splatter and gore department excited along with his big for the new type of movies he soon will be going to edit he asks all sorts of questions about the wage his and lunch brake well not really edward is maybe quite the opposite calm stuttering guy on top of that he got glasses with the exception when he's insane i guess that created a much creepier atmosphere br br evil ed is with all reason a swedish movie but somehow a magical force came across the good actors and turned their lovely swedish accents into stereotypical american voices i guess that's some of the expertise an actor needs these days the acting is wooden as in they are inflexible not well hey what did you actually expect on top of that the movie has a jamming techno theme song sounds like its e type in any case this only makes the movie experience worse since i'm fairly harsh against this movie so far there will usually be a breaking point where i tone the level of happiness up but there's really not much to say the blueprints look good but somehow spelt coffee over it and partially destroyed it that's how i look at this movie if the movie ended where edward is taken to a mental institute and they the parts from where he goes insane and kills people the result would have been much better but that's just my radical view i would also like to see more footage from the lose limbs movies br br there are also illogical things to discover in this piece of movie let's to say that the actors really are american living in america why would they then work on a swedish movie like edward did and also that delivery man why is it that he never uses the which is located directly beside him instead he goes away with tapping softly at the door good old edward really got some good ears to hear all that while he is editing br br anyway this movie had its moments it's just a shame there were not that many but that doesn't mean i would not recommend it it's a rather cheap movie go ahead and buy it's almost like i see a pattern for the price and the movie on the other side if you like watching dubbed movies getting crappier by the second this might be it my verdict would then be a rock solid 4
0	you know i really have a problem with movie lists i was reading maxim magazine a while ago and they had a list of the 50 greatest b movies of all time and knowing me i of course have to go through and watch them all and write reviews of all of them this is why you see reviews of movies like gator bait and barb wire and coffy on my list so i noticed h o t s at the video store the other day and recognized it from list of the 50 greatest b movies and i decided to rent it and check it out my only consolation is that i rented it because i recognized it from a list of b movies so i already knew it was going to suck br br given the type of movie that it is i can't say that h o t s is a total failure since it is nothing more than a late 70s t a film and it never pretends to by anything else the only place where it strays widely from its objective is in a ragged subplot involving a couple of ex cons who have stashed a lot of stolen money in the house that the self named h o t s move in to because this subplot has absolutely no place in the movie despite the fact that the rest of the movie is as well this subplot is completely superfluous and unnecessary br br the story is based on a couple of rival sororities at the beloved f u which exists as one of those universities that contains a grand total of one sorority until the rejects form their own in order to get back at the snobs in the other one this new sorority help out the seals h o t s is a sorority supposedly based on helping seals the seal subplot is another one that doesn't really belong in the movie and little attention is paid to the meaning of that name beyond having a seal running around here and there throughout the movie br br this is going to sound weird but there was actually one scene that i was pretty impressed with in this movie one shot that i was impressed with i should say about midway through the movie one of the girls in pi the rival sorority is pouring alcohol into the punch and she pours some for herself in a glass and drinks it oddly enough what she does as she drinks that alcohol reminds me of something that charlie chaplin would do which really brightened up the movie obviously nothing in this movie comes close to anything that chaplin ever did but that shot alone raised my score for the movie from a 2 to a 4 br br as a whole however the movie is exactly what you would expect it to be a lot of people running around looking for excuses to take off their clothes i liked how the remove one piece of clothing for every score in the football game at the end was one of the girls' ideas and not much thought is put into much of anything else there is for example a scene early in the film when a couple of the pi girls pour hot sauce into the refreshments at a h o t s party accidentally getting caught in an incriminating photograph the girl taking the picture didn't realize that she photographed them at the time although the photograph never comes up for any reason later in the film br br i've seen movies like this before it's kind of like gator bait but without the violence and the rednecks and coffy wasn't far off even barb wire is much the same just with a bigger budget and more silicon thankfully 50 b movie list contains only a few more comedies because while these cheesy teen t a films are entertaining every once in a while as bad movies with the occasional semi nude scene after watching h o t s i think i've decided that i like the bad horror movies better than the bad comedies i'd rather watch a lot of terrible actors pretend to be scared than pretend to be funny
0	when my mum went down to the video store to rent a film for the night my sister and i learned a lesson to always company my mum to the video store in fact the only reason why she chose it was because colin firth was in it and she cough thinks he's a good actor br br it starts off with some beautiful of africa and then goes down and down and down and down after this film i was very surprised that colin firth got as far as he did since this pointless film could destroy any actors career br br the story is about a divorced women who's son is trying to her to a man called matthew fields who he met whilst impressing his friends because of his large house br br the divorce does not like matthew at all and is going out with the local vicar who does not like her son john and the same with him br br i am sorry if you disagree with me and i hope i haven't offended you but to all the people who haven't seen this film i leave you with one word of warning don't watch this film
0	there are a few scripts like this one floating around hollywood this one is not even close to the best just the first this is all production value no substance but the disney name probably will help it a good idea a wasted opportunity
0	when you make a film with a killer kids premise there are two effective ways to approach it you can either make it as realistic as possible creating believable characters and situations or you can make it as fun as possible by playing it for laughs something which the makers of silent night deadly night did for example on an equally controversial subject a killer santa the people who made bloody birthday however do neither of those things they simply rely on the shock value of the image of a kid with a gun or a knife or a noose or an arrow in his her hand the result is both offensive and stupid the whole film looks like a bad idea that was rushed through production and then kept from release for several years it's redeemed a tiny bit by good performances from the kids but it's very sloppily made 1 2
0	the murder of the red in abbey was a long way from one of the most horrendous things ever done in the scottish war of independence and fights and killing in churches wasn't unusual at all not that much later robert wife daughter two of his sisters were captured during a fight in a church in which people were killed and comparing it to the massacre of berwick in which the english slaughtered at least 8000 non combatants some yes in churches is ridiculous br br that said this is not a well made movie it is slightly antidote to the absolutely ridiculous sniveling representation of robert bruce in braveheart whatever bruce was it wasn't a wuss br br too bad that they didn't do a better job of this because someone should make a really good movie of a war that is so amazing that it sounds like something someone made up going from complete defeat at the battle of to a secret return from hiding to a long guerrilla war to this isn't it though poorly made and to a large extent poorly written and acted too bad
0	this movie is the last straw in a list of films i have seen this week that have pushed me over the edge and forced me to join imdb and spread some warning to the public it was absolutely horrible the film was drawn out and painfully boring the sound effects and even picture quality seemed like they came from willow 1988 or maybe even conan the barbarian 1982 the battle of was absolutely absurd this largest filmed reconstruction of medieval battle ever staged in the british isles made me snicker there wasn't even a coherent formation at all just a few guys with spears and horses running right through them the scenes of douglas especially in the last battle were simply horrible as was most of the acting in the film
0	so i rented this movie hoping to learn about the democratic republic of congo and the beginnings of its independence from belgian rule i was excited to become familiar with the figures involved in its history mainly and i wanted to see how the new government attempted to bring together the various groups opposing colonial rule the political motives behind each one the reasons behind decision to give the its independence and also how the united states and the former ussr were involved sadly all of my questions went largely unanswered my belief is that this movie was made by people who through a passing familiarity with the story of the fight for freedom saw a story filled with drama and emotion and decided to exploit it they then proceeded to try and stuff all the dramatic points into a storyline briefly filled them out with dialogue went to the set and shot it i could be wrong but if so it's all the sadder because then the makers must have simply become too tied up in getting everything in and ended up glossing over all details in an effort to create an encompassing history whatever the reason the fact is that the movie could be a timeline of sentence long statements and facts printed on the screen the film goes through each major occurrence and tells the viewer point blank the main idea of what's going on completely over the actual details in favor of getting across the big things for instance there is the scene when is captured by the increasingly rebellious army controlled by in the situation the soldiers have three possible viewpoints one that sympathizes with one that vilifies and one that stands in the middle sympathizing and yet obeying orders there are three soldiers that speak in the scene uttering lines that show their points of view then to avoid dealing with the actual tensions that these opposing viewpoints bring up the scriptwriters simply inserted some random shooting more army guys show up and they just end up beating everyone up this is the extent of the of the movie most of the time each character simply states their basic motives the other characters respond with theirs and that's that there's little telling through actions even the things they say are direct the point of painfulness it's hard to believe that the people represented actually acted like that also in the trend of this directness things like political tension between factions is reduced to simple acknowledgement of the fact we never learn what these factions are what they're fighting for their power basically anything except that they exist the characters likewise are one dimensional and flat unfortunately i don't know whether was actually a freedom fighter passionately devoted to ideals of unity but after an hour or so of the movie i certainly didn't trust it to tell me so the like many developing countries has a complicated and important history especially in the period leading up to and after independence but the telling of these histories will not be useful unless there is recognition of the intricacy of the situations fails to give proper attention to these details and ends up telling the viewer little except the most general of outlines
0	dubbed beyond comprehension the hbo version of is a disastrous rendering of what looks like what was once a decent film some scenes simply don't make sense in english and the actors bring zero energy to their voice reading add in the self censorship involving cia operative frank carlucci and you have a film stripped of both its drama and its power here's hoping the subtitled version gets to american television screens at some point
0	cute idea to have dionne warwick do the song vocals for this movie adaptation of jacqueline bestselling book a la valley of the dolls although it's really too bad this sudser doesn't have patty duke's o'hara to spike the story the love machine is unrelievedly dull even the final brawl with an academy award as a fight prop can't save it dyan cannon seems embalmed in her heavy pancake make up and cumbersome fall although her tiny figure is a beauty to behold john phillip law is a block of wood in the lead david hemmings embarrassing in gay mode as a flamboyant photographer and where is robin stone walking to at the end is he trekking out to the waterfront to pick up some sailors after cannon has deflated his masculinity it would be a safe bet in that case love machine the final episode might've been a more interesting flick certainly better than this yawn inducing snooze opera 1 2 from
0	jacqueline susann wrote several novels all involving sex and melodrama and a few of them actually were made into films including this effort and they all have the distinction of being some of the worst films ever made story here is about robin stone john phillip law and his rise to the top of television by being ruthless and calculating to everyone around him he's a playboy of the worst sort using and then throwing away every woman he beds including the wife of the network president br br spoiler alert greg austin robert ryan is in charge of the television network and when his younger wife judith takes one look at robin she wastes no time getting into bed with him greg falls ill and has to take some time off and this is where robin steps in and starts trying to run the network but during all this a model named amanda jodi wexler who is in love with him kills herself when greg returns to his job he tries to get rid of robin by using the morals clause in his contract when rumors start flying about his relationship with jerry nelson david hemmings who's a gay fashion photographer br br this was directed by jack haley jr who went on to be a very successful producer in both television and movies but this was only his second film as a director and the material he was forced to deal with seems way over his head the script comes from novel and that would probably be why this resembles a cross between alfie and the valley of the dolls and i think the reason why her books never could translate well onto film is because the filmmakers made the terrible mistake of taking her stories seriously instead of tongue in cheek with that the laughs that come from this are unintentional especially during that totally ridiculous fight towards the end of the film which starts when cannon refuses to give back the slave bracelet to the gay characters hemmings was a very good actor but his role here is completely over the top and it has him wearing one of the worst beards in history and using the term chic in every other sentence law was not the original choice for the lead but another actor that was cast had a serious accident and law stepped in and delivers one of the more wooden performances this side of miles o'keeffe the film's script suffers in two different areas in that it's both completely silly and horribly dull and it will test a viewers patience if they choose to watch this one has to wonder what would be the outcome if a director decided to film one of novels and not take it seriously because the attempt here is ponderous and ridiculous
0	even though this film was nothing special as such i am drawn to comment on at least one factor that ruled in its favour that of the lead female performer in the film dyan cannon in spite of the film's ridiculous storyline and what she goes through here hers was the best acting job in the film making the unbelievable seem more plausible her raucous scene with the gay photographer david hemmings has to be seen to be believed good work dyan
0	movie based on jacqueline best selling novel it's about robin stone john phillip law a ruthless tv anchorman who claws his way to the top it details his love life concentrating on amanda jodi wexler and judith dyan cannon it also shows his total inability to commit to anyone and instead sleeps with any woman he can get br br the novel is no work of art it's not even good literature but it's a quick silly trashy read but this movie makes it seem like gone with the wind this is a textbook example of how not to do a movie adaptation first they condense the novel terribly in the book stone's inability to commit is dealt with and it's revealed why here it's brought up and ignored also there's a truly revolting scene in which a woman is brutally beaten it's in the book but there is a reason totally left out of the movie and the book dealt with three women not two don't even get me started on the homophobia br br adaptation aside the acting is pretty terrible law is just horrendous as stone very wooden and boring you seriously wonder why all these women are after him to be fair to law another actor was cast but had a very bad accident before shooting began and law stepped in at the last minute wexler is terrible as amanda maureen arthur is truly astoundingly bad as ethel evans shecky greene is unbearable as christie lane only three performances stand out david hemmings having a great time camps it up as a gay photographer cannon is actually very good and robert ryan is just great also dionne warwick sings the catchy opening song he's moving on br br it is bad but i watched the whole thing and it is in a silly sort of way a lot of fun i'm giving it a 3 br br also jacqueline susann has a cameo as a newscaster
0	i remember when the love machine was first released to theaters i was a mere 13 years old too young to see the much ballyhooed motion picture release but not too old to take my mom's paperback copy of the jacqueline susann novel to school and pore over the 'naughty with my schoolmates br br though i'm not sure what my problem was at such an early age but i was very much into the book i bought and wore an ring just like on the paperback cover and i remember the ads for the perfume xanadu that was cross promoted and featured clumsily in the film despite such an interest i didn't actually see the film until several years later i should have left things as they were br br the love machine is hands down the worst of the many bad films adapted from novels which of course makes it the most fun to watch its faults are many from its script that jumps choppily from one incident to another with nary a connecting thread its dated horny brass instruments i mean music score of ersatz bacharach the flat first take performances the boring sexuality i've never seen featured so prominently in a movie before it's like a fetish whenever sex nudity or something sleazy is called for out pops somebody in a blue robe very odd that and most certainly the circus train of awful 70's fashions that are on endless display poor dyan cannon's performance which is no great shakes anyway but heads over the rest of the cast is consistently undermined by the jaw dropping get ups she's called upon to wear however the film's chief liability is the stoic stone like john philip law as appropriately enough robin stone the object of every girl's and one top flaming male photographer's affection br br law is just awful and performs as if he were pulled off the street handed the pages of the script in hurry and told to give a cold reading on the spot just lifeless not only that but he appears in desperate need of a blood transfusion or something he looks wan and sickly throughout and is several pounds smaller than most of his female costars robin stone should be a hunk not a hankie br br for anyone finding the film hard going it's rather slow by today's standards i beg you to stick around for the climactic fight scene here ms cannon balancing 23 pounds of teased hair finally abandons her heretofore starchy acting style and lets loose with that infectiously raucous laugh of hers setting in motion a truly memorable free for all that should have become a cinema clip highlight by now trying to rival valley of the dolls 's infamous wig down the toilet scene the love machine finally does something right br br jacqueline unique brand of trash is sorely missed perhaps someone out there owns the rights to rona the and will revive the genre
0	to preface my remarks on the film i know the topic is horrendous and words can't adequately express the compassion any decent person would have for people dealing with the post horrors of an atomic bomb dropped near them br br however this film doesn't really deal with in a horrific way except for the first 10 minutes some of the images there are horrifying and should be as a reminder what devastation nuclear weapons can produce seeing burned people walking around aimlessly or man combing his hair and of hair coming out etc is not a pretty sight br br but after the first dozen minutes this japanese film concerns people dealing with the aftermath of hiroshima in the mid to late '40s i actually found the story developing quickly into a boring soap opera br br almost all the story occurs five years after the bomb and deals mainly with one family's problems at that point this is why it became more of a melodrama than some shocking story of nuclear disaster it's simply a story about how these people got on with their lives from about 1950 on whether one of the women was permanently damaged and if so should she marry br br this could have been a real impact film but it didn't go in that direction
0	bruce willis as usual does an excellent job br br warning may be considered a spoiler br br while my friend thought it was good i kept glancing at my watch during the entire movie wondering when it would end after seeing such great flicks as the patriot and chicken run i was really disappointed in disney's the kid br br willis plays a middle aged man with a harsh and realistic attitude on putting a positive spin on people's images he's an image consultant an unknown kid shows up yes it's him but younger and even lily tomlin can see him at this point i'm reminded of a cross between a poor quantum leap episode and a bad time traveling flick br br kid and willis go through trying to figure out why he's in that time period they figure it out they meet willis when he's older nevermind that it never goes into detail how old willis them between time periods and gets them together to begin with how he got that knowledge to begin with how he came to the realization that he needed to do this and so on br br basically it's a very tired unoriginal uninspiring plot that has some great actors in it the good news is that the kid actor is nowhere near as annoying as he's presented in the trailers on television
0	i'd really have to rate sex is comedy as one of the worst pieces of dreck i have ever seen the film showcases those which are the worst aspects of the french or at least how they are stereotyped narcissism snobbery and pseudo intellectualism i myself am french canadian and feel slightly ashamed that the creators of this film are from the same culture as me that should give you an idea as to how bad this movie really was one doesn't so much watch this film as undergo torture to it there was a total lack of humour and it seemed to me as if the entire film was a documentary interviewing people who were neither famous nor talented as if to celebrate something that has never happened to begin with instead why not watch happenstance or je t'aime a la folie three fantastic modern french films
0	the first users comments are very detailed for a very vague movie not saying that i disagree but this summary can be written in a few sentences to get straight to the point this is pretty much like watching the making of a really bad amateur porno flick there are a few funny points in the movie but with the kind of things that happen in todays youth everyday its actually kind of lame the main actor in the movie is a pompous jackass and both guy and girl in the film are way too modest to be in a film like this do not waste your money on this movie the only reason why i gave it a 4 and not a 1 is that they used at least a somewhat attractive girl in the movie and towards the end you got to see almost full frontal nudity from the girl thats it thats the only thing thats worth watching it for the end
0	as one who loves films that appeal to intellectual as well as those that simply tell stories this film should have been appealing but as written and directed by catherine who seems to be playing out her own conundrums in film making experiences this tedious and talky film fails to arouse interest br br the main character jeanne anne is the screen form of a director frustrated in her attempts to film a convincing sex scene with two difficult actors grégoire colin is the actor and mesquida is the actress the one bit is imposing the use of a dildo strapped onto the actor in order for her to drive the sex scene to fruition but even this sight gag wears thin quickly and we are left with a film within a film that feels more like a scenes' featurette on a dvd than a solid french comedy with class grady harp august 05
0	i don't recommend watching this movie it's a movie in which a movie is being filmed with no attraction between actress and actor being played the sex scene at the end of the movie which is to explain the reluctance of the actress being played in the movie to cooperate with the actor being played in the movie in it is a blunt repetition of the same scene in the movie fat girl everything there was played with more delicacy if you can attach delicacy to a sex act like that a typical french expression for the the thing happening in sex is comedy is oh la la in film brief crossing there also is sensitivity in sex is comedy i don't see real sensitivity and also a clear plot for the movie is not being developed so that there is a rather loose story with the disillusion of the end
0	1 hour and 40 minutes of talking boring talking and more talking and then some it is hard for me to grasp how an actress like anne who shone superbly in femme fatale would sign up for such a piece of crap unbelievable if you need a this movie might help although i would prefer some nice classical music unfortunately i just found out that i have to write 10 lines for my comment to appear that's almost as unbelievable so short and succinct one or two sentence commentaries expressing one's core take on a movie is not enough geez people i made my point and don't to waste your time with more unnecessary words as this movie does wolfgang
0	i´m only joking this was potentially the worst film i have ever had the misfortune to sit through how anybody in the could have raised a laugh at this innane rubbish is beyond my comprehension i jest not
0	if imdb would allow one word reviews that's what mine would be this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film the singing the story everything is dull and washed out just like this public domain print like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland this movie has limited appeal and just doesn't age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable so my advice is don't watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their films except for a c go to mars would be an improvement
0	this little cheapy is notable only because it is the worst film abbott and costello ever made it is dreadful in every way crummy music horrid choreography check out the awkward lead male dancer cheesy special effects and sets wooden actors the leads are barely at the high school level in their profession and were unheard of later and a script without a single laugh better times were ahead for the comedy duo abbott and costello meet captain kidd is much preferable as is the television series which at times was inspired but skip this one
0	although i am sure the idea looked good on paper and it appealed to me when i first heard of it this movie often lumbers along and falls flat and when i watch it i just want it to end the bookend beginning and ending of the film about lou having to babysit a troublemaker is contrived at best although i found the tall cop part to be humorous however i found little to laugh at with the bottom of the barrel script that was thrown together for these two great comedians i thought that it was a mistake to put them in a musical and it reeks of wizard of oz rip off with the songs and black and white to color format i wouldn't recommend this film to anyone but die hard a c fanatics anyone else will be disappointed and they have many better films
0	i'll start blasting the movie first remove abbott and costello from the cast and you've got a badly colored movie stiff cardboard from the casting department badly dubbed sound especially during the singing and annoying dialog ex listen to the line mr ad infinitum obviously some studio hack thought that they could cash in on disney's classic presentation of mickey and the but maybe audiences were either more gullible back then improbable or stuck in a double feature more probable even children should feel insulted at having this movie shown to them a total waste of celluloid now about the acting of abbott and costello bud abbott always played the straight man and by all accounts was the nicer person off the set on radio his character was usually the smooth fast talker and was especially funny when his speed caused him to flub his lines and smooth over the mistakes in the movies he still plays the straight man but is more of a con artist not that he's bad at it but that character has been played to perfection by groucho marx the real travesty of the duo on film is lou costello again on radio he was funny he played a character that was a little slower than abbott but not too much slower he was also glib with the lines and got me laughing when he would ad lib at abbott's mistakes on film i don't know if it was his decision or not but in the movies his character becomes a shoddy impersonation of stan laurel which in turn was even more shoddily done by jerry lewis why the change he was funny on radio when he was a but here he becomes a child like character that looks like he's mugging for the cameras in every shot this characterization is shown in every movie they do and only brings a stain to the reputation they had on radio what is left to their film career is a poor very very poor copy of laurel and hardy the movies would have been much funnier if they had played their radio characters instead of retreads of stock casting
0	after 15 minutes watching the movie i was asking myself what to do leave the theater sleep or try to keep watching the movie to see if there was anything worth i finally watched the movie what a waste of time maybe i am not a 5 years old kid anymore
0	for some reason my father in law gave me a copy of this tape i think because my great uncle buddy baer was the giant in this movie and my father in law thought i'd like to see it i had years before as a child and didn't like it then either br br my son then two watched it and was hooked every waking moment in front of the tv this horrid video played i went to work with the inane songs stuck in my head the two leads were worse than a junior high stage review the dancers looked like rejects from an ed wood horror flick and abbot and costello phoned their parts in thankfully i was able to distract my son long enough to lose this videotape frankly i think it was the tape from the ring br br to correct another reviewer buddy baer is the uncle of jethro max baer jr not his father 0 out of 10
0	absolutely inane film starring abbott and costello even our young children would become increasingly annoyed with this complete mess of a film br br abbott as what a look he had on his face sure he had to be part of this dreadful film br br did anyone notice that mother in the film sounded and looked like fay bainter luckily for ms bainter that she wasn't in the film br br there is really no excitement hear for children the jokes if any are quite stale some of the singing is nicely done but the lyrics are ridiculous
0	i'm not really much of an abbott costello fan although i do enjoy who's on first and to be honest there wasn't much in this movie that would inspire me to watch any more of their work it wasn't really bad it had some mildly amusing scenes and actually a very convincing giant played by buddy baer but somehow given the fame of the duo and the esteem in which they're generally held i have to say i was expecting more as the story goes the pair stumble into a babysitting job and during the reading of jack the as a bedtime story with the kid reading it to costello jack falls asleep and dreams himself into the story there's a wizard of oz kind of feel to the story in that the characters in the dream are all the equivalents of real life acquaintances of jack and the movie opens in black white and shifts to colour during the dream sequence the fight scenes between jack and the giant and the dance scene between jack and polly dorothy ford are among the amusing parts of the movie polly of course also leads to one of the questions of the movie what happened to her jack and gang apparently left her behind in the castle i know it was just a dream so who cares still i wondered there were also a couple of cute song and dance routines my 4 year old giggled a bit during this so she was able to appreciate some of the humour i found it to be an acceptable but certainly not anything that would convince you of abbott and costello as comic geniuses 4 10
0	i watched this last night for the first time in 40 years it's bad really bad but it has enough hilariously awful moments that it's worth watching first of all was it deliberate to make the boy being babysat completely effeminate he even says to costello a la mae west you fascinate me as costello does a double take god only knows what would have have happened if the babysitter had been a hunk this kid would have seduced him in a heartbeat then there's the principal male dancer he is totally inept roar with laughter as he leaps and prances with no talent whatsoever over the grave during he never looked better in his life the two romantic leads are wastes abbott gets to sing one line and that was dubbed in by another singer geez i guess he couldn't even carry a tune costello does manage to be charming in his i fear nothing number and i guess very small children might like it but there's not much to recommend it but oh that seductive effeminate boy that aspect alone blew me away plus the fact the family accepted anyone off the street with no references to babysit a child today little boy would be taken away from them
0	in need of work straight man bud abbott as jack and comic partner lou costello as get the latter a job babysitting self described problem child david as donald young winds up reading mr favorite novel see if you can guess the title which puts costello to sleep dreaming he and mr abbott are reliving the story of jack and the you guessed it br br the sepia tone switches to color for the bulk of the production apparently this was an attempt at something different for the duo a colorful children's fantasy it fails but this is where you get to see abbott costello in color silent film superstar william as the king make his last performance a bit part boxer max brother buddy and before disney's spin and marty br br jack and the 4 4 52 jean lou costello bud abbott buddy baer william
0	most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance i came out of this movie wondering what was going on i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie i discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back movie reviewers and critics love this movie which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film the 8 rating this movie has is so misleading in 20 years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn't enough to save the film nor are the lesbian scenes
0	i bought the video for at hmv we pay more in britain as a friend had told me it was highly rated and the reviews on this site were generally impressive br br i have to say that the opening credits were a let down the dancing music not very powerful br br the car ride and unexpected crash just as the lady passenger was going to be harmed was a nice touch something unexpected though the way she walked away from the car with hair perfectly groomed and still carrying a handbag looked corny for most directors but for lynch was something else br br her dazed walking around after such a shock was enhanced by a regular low noise similar to fingers scraping along a blackboard i thought another lynch master touch perhaps portraying the demons gnawing into her shocked and traumatised self conscious after a while this noise became somewhat annoying and on further investigation i discovered the new video cassette squeaked br br i dont know whether this squeak took away a lot of my enjoyment but this movie became a waste of time and money br br the two female characters had some presence and the lesbian scenes were fair enough though predictable there were no male characters of any merit and apart from a few vaguely good scenes the hoover switching on there were far too many dreadful scenes that were plain weak and ridiculous eg the coffee being spat into the napkin by the menacing loon and the silly monster face at the back of the diner oh and what about the paint in the jewels boring and naff br br this whole film gives you the feel of the failed genius you know when you listen to the worst dylan track ever and think my god that was embarrassing was that really bob br br the whole feel is that of a failed tv movie badly put together with a few not many extra bits to give it a 15 rating br br i it on during the last 30 minutes br br do i give it another chance and watch again if i want to be puzzled and work hard at understanding a film i will watch frank woods guide to consolidated accounting br br lynch did one classic blue velvet and straight story was nice br br this like wild at heart was a let down his weirdness is now predictable and stale anybody want to buy a 2nd hand video br br make way for some younger original talent david br br four out of ten and no more sorry
0	if you don't like bad acting poor editing ridiculous dialog and unbelievable characters you will hate this movie if you like all of the above that is to say if you are a lynch fan then you will love mulholland drive this is quite possibly the worst film to be rated above an 7 0 on imdb br br outside of naomi watts work you will be hard pressed to find any competent acting in mulholland dr the other female lead went to the hide your face with your hands when you don't have the chops school of acting given the script they had to work with it's a wonder all of the actors weren't holding their heads in their hands br br characters wander in and out of the film that do nothing to advance the storyline you have a hitman a mysterious cowboy an adulterous wife and her cliche'd poolman lover a mafioso type figure sitting in a darkened room who speaks through an external voice box and a host of others too numerous and tedious to mention suffice it to say that they manage to do little more than fill up screen time br br this isn't so bad however in that it distracts the viewer from the fact that the movie has no discernable plot you will wait and wait for for all of the loose threads to come together and in the end you will be abysmally disappointed the hardest thing for a writer to do is to bring everything together in a believable fashion at the end of a movie in a way that leaves everyone feeling fulfilled the easiest thing for a writer to do is to create a lot of odd characters and put them in scenes that are not connected to the movie as a whole and then to take what few coherent threads there are and jumble them up at the end for the sake of surprise guess which way lynch goes surprise br br you know you have a bad script when you have to resort to dream sequences to make any sense out of it after all a dream sequence covers all sins dreams don't have to make sense anything can happen in a dream br br the editing is similarly disjointed let's just say good editing does not call attention to itself much of the way this film is edited seems to be done for the sole purpose of calling attention to the editing look at me you can see my editing aren't i a genius uh well no this movie has all of the earmarks of the worst and most self indulgent french films br br so why is this movie so popular my theory is that it is just another sign of the decay of our culture melodies are hard to compose so let's listen to rap plots are hard to follow so let's dispense with them pictures are difficult to paint so let's pee in a cup and stick a crucifix in it these are the symptoms of our times and mulholland drive is just another part of the affliction
0	i had stifled high hopes for this david lynch whom i really like film but the very poor acting by everybody but naomi watts was the first clue that this was a wasted effort some twin peaks characters are recycled into this film but it wasn't eerie it wasn't interesting except for the topless watts scenes and the quirks were poorly executed br br i will probably give lynch one more chance but the hype around this film just doesn't pan out especially for those of us fans who saw eraserhead when it first came out
0	a colleague from work told me to watch this movie since he considered this movie to be one of the best movies ever so i did watch it first i have to admit that i dislike mainstream movies and prefer to watch movies with a real meaning br br and this is the point why i dislike this movie it doesn't have any meaning it's just a combination of funny stupid boring entertaining absurd and thrilling pieces br br at first i thought that this movie could be a real mystery thriller as the german packaging read but the movie was too mysterious for me br br david lynch may be able to make a combination of the most different images but the composition tastes to me as awfull as a combination of milk with beer both for themselves are pretty good but together
0	i can't emphasize it enough do not get this movie for the kids br br for that matter you'd best spare the adults from it as well br br all right perhaps i'm a little this isn't the worst kids' movie no let me rephrase that this isn't the worst movie made by adults for adults and somehow marketed towards kids that would be jack which i've been meaning to review gut like a fish br br adults won't learn anything surprising well if you must fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic we don't usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way well duh i could have told you that so can four years of college at an art school but i br br i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie most likely it will only upset them we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old there's a better movie kiki's delivery service that has essentially the same message but handles it instead of drilling it into your head and the adults will like it too br br by the way there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst3k ers in mind if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it
0	oh boy it was just a dream what a great idea mr lynch is very lucky most people try to tell classical stories this way he can play with his little and his even more little payoffs check out polanski's the lodger for far more intelligent mix of fantasy and reality
0	i thrive on cinema but there is a limit a name isn't enough to make a movie the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet but we remain hungry or angry till the end things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed next
0	there is an inherent problem with commenting or reviewing a film such as this i remember feeling the same way after disliking dogma if you do not like a film that is odd and controversial like mulholland dr you are seen as not getting it of course for those who have already seen this film you know that the entire point is not getting it anyway br br i have heard from several different sources that the unique and likable aspect of this film is a dream like quality it has in other words the plot isn't structured like other films with the case of mulholland dr it seems more like an unfocused collage made by a third grade boy who until the last second to do his art project it doesn't make sense it isn't supposed to but i know it was to be a tv series at first it appears lynch had a stack of unused film and decided to mash it in with a bunch of new stuff you will notice that toward the end the nudity sex and foul language increase all things he would not have filmed for television br br for a better film not told in a traditional linear fashion rent the thin red line from 1998 that was a great film this is not br br rating 2 out of ten
0	ok we have a film that some are calling one of the best movies ever but i'm sitting here thinking hell the f the storys sux which there is no story the is quite plain artisticly nothing great and the acting is nothing real out standing so if you want to pretend to be arty say you like it but if you have a real view say you don't like it or if you did explain why
0	how much longer are we to persist with this flawed belief that once a director produces great ground breaking work all future work can't be all that bad after all he made such and such br br mulholland drive is a case in point and is in fact unmitigated rubbish the performances are excellent particularly from watts and theroux but a good film they do not necessarily make what lynch has clearly forgotten is that just making a film unnecessarily wierd only works when it takes the audience by surprise when the audience is expecting the film to not make sense then the film has to have some substance to keep the audience interested lynch succeeds in the first half of the film with the murder mystery set up with lots of twists and red herrings and then plop the story into a quagmire of bizarre and pointless segues methinks lynch realised how muddled the film was becoming and threw in the lesbian and scenes to the audience awake and to stop the male viewers from standing up and leaving br br watching the film at the preview i was surrounded by who had no more idea of what was going on than i did but left the theatre commenting on the layers and layers of lynch's film making excuse me but these people are the same nitwits who stand in art galleries staring at that have been painted white commenting on the courage of the artist at painting such a brave work br br films like these are made because a lynch is trading on his previous work and b because people convince themselves that film is art and therefore must be good i a number of the about what they actually liked in the film and only response i recieved that wasn't a broad layers type of answer was that they liked it when the chicks got their kit off br br nuff said
0	seriously if i wanted to make a movie that makes zero sense never will and features lesbian scenes as its only high point i could have br br david lynch is the worst as is this movie anyone could have made a better movie in which at least some answers were given and the story wasn't so slow and long winded the story means nothing without something at the end besides the credits what a waste of time i will never get those 147 minutes of my life back and hope that others can learn from my mistake
0	how does david lynch do it unlike the legions of thick black framed glasses wearing types and pretentious movie critics who praise his name i just don't see how this guy keeps getting paid to make such tripe how can lynch sloppily together leftover footage from a failed tv pilot into a nonsensical poorly acted mess have critics rave about it actually include it on year's best lists br br i'm baffled if you're looking for a good film noir rent bound instead if you're looking for a good puzzle movie try memento but beware of this over hyped stinker unless your idea of a fun night is throwing away 2 1 2 hours of your life 3 50 of your hard earned cash
0	some directors take 2 and a half hours to tell a story david lynch takes 2 and a half hours to piece together scenes with clues and his trademark oddity but there's never a story no plot no progression of the characters unless you find revealed delusion a progression it amazes me how anyone can call lynch's garbage art but if beauty rests in the eye of the beholder so be it lynch's movie and tv work in the 1980's came off as avant garde and alternative fine 20 years later work like mulholland drive comes off as a 2 5 hour david lynch masturbation piece it's embarrasing i've finally seen the movie that takes my top spot as the worst ever at least the people churning out godzilla and rodan weren't passing them off as art
0	i get the feeling a lot of people liked this movie not all people but a lot of them because they don't want to admit they don't understand it people of middling intelligence if you will who pretend to be ever so avant garde and trendy who think lynch is a genius br br lynch to me is like tarantino they're both great but neither one is the messiah as so many fanboys want to believe no director can change the world so chill out and both make sucky flicks sometimes it just happens everyone has a bad day and clearly since this movie was actually designed as a pilot first and then hack jobbed into a feature film it wasn't made with all the passion and forethought one should put into a movie face it much of the movie is gibbering which cannot be understood we can all make up meanings lynch may have his own view but none of that matters it was strewn about the screen incoherently admittedly the first portion had the semblance of an intentionally convoluted interesting story but then it falters br br the cowboy the mysterious organization of men with their the lawyers come on i can almost picture david lynch yelling cut forcing the crew to gather around him and explaining to them all look how crazy and weird i am isn't it great it's so weird and crazy weird and crazy works if it's a by product of your style however it's pretentious and tired when you go out of your way to do nothing but that it's like all those half assed pulp fiction throw backs that came out after pulp fiction it's just not cool
0	it´s a joke right lynch could not get produced this as a tv show he was out of money so what to do well he received somehow some dollars and completed the pilot and created this mess by just mixing everything together how can anybody see a failed pilot for tv as an cinematic masterpiece br br and now everybody is guessing about the deeper meaning well wake up there is none like in that other tv series by lynch what was the name again same procedure there build up a mystery and then come up with nothing i guess lynch will repeat this concept until people will realise the emperor has no clothes br br in germany there is a comedian called he dressed up as an opera singer and performed some new art songs singing complete nonsense like this br br the wolf the lamb on the meadow br br it´s a classic now br br anyway afterwards he discussed it with the audience and they were talking seriously about the deeper meaning of the wolf lamb relationship br br you people giving this movie a rating of 8 0 in imdb com you people could be one of them br br so let´s say it all together br br 0 10 macaulay j connor
0	what was bruce willis thinking when he signed on for this one this one made no sense to me i was so confused by it it wasnt funny at all i dont even know why disney made this one bruce is a great actor whom ive liked for a long time and this disappointed me a lot pass this one by on the video shelf
0	if you are a pretentious person it would sound like a good idea to brag about your intellectuality saying that you really like this movie br br otherwise don't bother and better watch something good br br this is the stereotypical movie for snobs the plot line would be very silly if you could see it from beginning to end it is just presented in a messed up way as an attempt to make it hard to understand and make the movie look intellectual br br mullholland drive is not enjoyable to watch you would very rarely understand anything the first time you see it and if you do you would most likely be disappointed because it is not a big deal
0	like most i rented this after i heard the universal praise and despite countless bizarre unexplainable moments along the way i was very interested and entertained through 100 minutes of the film then the two women went to the performance late at night the rest of movie which is another 40 minutes by the way is even weirder than the first part and completely contradict and dump on what i had already seen then the movie abruptly ends br br baffled i wandered over to my computer to see if i could buy a clue as to what just happened nothing made sense and i'm a pretty clever guy none of these other user comments made sense even when they say spoilers i still have no idea what they're saying someone's dream not real then what's the point of a 2 hour 30 minute movie if it's not real or is it real i'm forced to make a choice either br br a the movie is a work of genius on a mensa level and i'm simply too stupid to understand it br br b the movie is weird for weird's sake and just doesn't make sense everyone who loves it is trying to save face and pretend like they get it br br i choose b screw you guys i'm going home
0	to me this film is just a very very lame teen party movie with all the normal clichés and boring stereotyped characters nerds jocks popular girls guys etc but with an underlying anti drug drinking theme br br if you ever have the unfortunate chance of seeing this film keep an eye out for all the references to responsibility and keeping it real dunno how else to word it i guess the only thing that'd make this film cool would be if they tv playing it was on fire that or dvd it was on exploded br br 1 out of watch animal house instead
0	is a pointless exercise go to gold coast get drunk and have sex worthwhile ambitions maybe but not highly intellectual the plot is a simple as a few sentences assigned to each character and nobody is helped by the cliches doled out here br br something that would help is the casting everybody looks too old these characters are supposedly innocents embarking out on their own in faltering steps to adulthood yet they all look way too old to be believable in the role br br
0	i watched this film on telly the other night and little did i know what a cringe fest it would be i knew it would be stupid but not this bad this film exemplifies everything that is awful in australian comedy apart from the most tedious uninspired scenarios and characters i have ever come across aside from those dubious french produced american tax break comedies most of the situations were boring unbelievable stereotypical and so not funny just terrible br br one such scenario that really annoyed me was the nerds on the bus scene from a screen writing perspective the writers used the most uninteresting not to mention unbelievable scenario to get these three stranded without their luggage they are on the holiday of their lives and they're going to risk it all including a 300 deposit luggage and room to exert their rights to dance on a bus i mean they're about half an hour away from their destination at least they could have had the bus driver kick them off but no they leave willingly cos 'they can't take it anymore 'and wreck their holiday anyway i can't believe the writers didn't workshop this appalling scenario out i think a ten year old could come up with 5 set ups more clever funny and believable br br i can go on with many others the really unimaginative stereotypical psychopath the whole relationship with the angry jilted girlfriend and tag along virgin the 'wow man out there goth girl' inhaling stuff on the train everything was just woeful i cannot think of one redeeming feature of the this film except that maybe the third wheel nerd was kind of cute spoilt his career by appearing in this trash though
0	mediocre at best slow but probably more entertaining to the younger viewers a young boy chris miller is haunted by an indian spirit and horrid monster in the cellar of his father's new home also in the cast are patrick kilpatrick suzanne and ford
0	if you can get past the slow start and bad acting it's worth watching the story line was pretty decent the father had a wicked temper because he was unemployed and he hardly got to see his kid except in the summer because his ex wife had custody of him the father was very angry and frustrated the majority of the time the monster in the story wasn't too scary the movie breaks consistency of the monster being so incredibly strong the one scene that the moviemakers do this in is one of the times when the kid is down in the cellar and the monster goes to attack him when the monster goes to attack the kid his arm gets caught in a steel trap attached to a chain the monster is about a foot away from the kid's face every other time throughout the movie the monster is strong enough to break through or tear down anything yet the steel trap and chain holds him back from getting the kid more than likely the moviemakers did this for shock factor because no one wants to see one of the main characters die moviemakers just wanted to scare us into thinking it may be a possibility that the kid could die instead of breaking consistency the moviemakers should have replaced the kid with someone who they could dispose of
0	the cellar is an intolerably dull and overly child friendly 80's cheese parade directed by kevin tenney creator of the much better films witchboard and night of the demons and starring the incredibly untalented patrick kilpatrick supposedly depicting a guy with feelings the pacing is really slow the plot feels far too familiar the monster effects are all but petrifying and the film opens and ends with tedious narrative ranting that somehow feels unrelated to the actual subject matter of the film the voice over keeps on nagging about wind and creatures riding on wind but what the hell there's no wind in the plot like so many 80's horror movies the cellar handles about cursed indian landscapes and all too real mythical monsters hidden in basements and quagmires and his family move into a house build on what once was the home of native americans but then white people came and turned the land into oil fields half of the script is wasted on explaining the origin of the monster but i can easily summarize it for you an ancient indian witchdoctor summoned the creature which looks like an over sized paper mâché rat to annihilate the white people overflowing his land but he buried it again because and i quote the sob kills indians as well hugely irritating son accidentally awakens the beast and naturally can't convince his parents about the big hungry rat in the cellar the allegedly emotional family situation daddy constantly wants his son to love him is very pathetic and redundant and the film badly needed more bloodshed kids' movie or not the youthful hero chris miller is quite annoying but we've definitely seen worse kid actors in the 80's the cellar is very much not recommended unless of course you're a fan of cheesy and typically 80's monster designs the big dodgy rat thing is a real hoot to see
0	br br a few years ago i bought a movie called the cellar i had heard that it was supposed to be a great movie but it turned out that it was a flop and a b movie br br the story is good but there are no good effects in the movie maybe they didn't have enough money for that on the budget br br if you choose to watch this movie be sure to watch it three times the first only and last time
0	regardless of what anyone says its a b movie and the effects are poorly done if you're a vampire fanatic i suppose it would be ok not 10 out of 10 you others here cant sincerely mean that we are to view this as a movie not read it as a book so the effects and characters are important as well as the story the story are good but it doesn't carry the film no wonder it has a low rating over all i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb but got severely disappointed don't get me wrong i thought the blade movies was awesome and loved the underworld movies but this characters aren't close the make up on the vampires is poorly done and the effects are worse this sucks i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something seriously if you think this is awesome you don't care about acting or make up this is better as a book 3 out of 10 for an ok story
0	the kid was born retarded it pulls in a half dozen directions features dialog and action lifted from much older and better known flops and might be funny if only the writers knew what funny is br br disney stuff has gotten a lot better in the last couple of decades but don't let that fool you they should have given the kid a wide berth sang it a lullaby then ran the train into a ravine mercy killing
0	first of all let me make it clear this movie is a real piece of garbage but although it is a real piece of garbage it is an better piece of garbage than it could have been it could have sucked big time but it doesn't br br what this movie didn't have was for example scary moments good acting and a good script it wasn't very entertaining either but the movie had cool music fancy locations and hot girls it also works great as a dracula spoof hope it was meant that way although i really don't think so br br the story focuses on three girls in transylvania awaking an ancient vampire which then terrorizes and kills the girls one by one sounds familiar yes so it does br br after reading through this you may think that i should have given it a better vote the reason i don't is because i almost felt asleep at some points
0	subspecies is set in romania where two american college students michele laura mae tate lillian michelle mcbride arrive to study local folklore with the aid of local friend mara irina there they rent rooms in a hotel become curious about the mysterious ruins of a nearby castle it turns out that a powerful evil vampire named anders lives there who has stolen the from his father king angus scrimm takes a fancy to the three girls starts drinking the blood of mara lillian meanwhile michele falls for a guy named stefan michael watson who just so happens to be brother michele stefan decide to team up rid the world of the evil br br directed by ted this film seems to be quite highly regarded amongst genre fans while it's not terrible i certainly wouldn't call it very good i could't really see anything much to get excited about subspecies is a rather slow going film not that much actually happens while it does try to stay close to certain classic vampire lore there's all this nonsense about a some little monsters that grow from the tips of severed fingers for some reason subspecies could have been a half decent film if not for the fact that it's dull i really can't remember that much about it good or bad the character's are alright but some f the dialogue is silly there's a scene which bugged me near the start when the girls are at the castle ruins one says they have to go because it's getting dark yet it's still clearly the middle of the day very bright there's also a scene where one of the american girls finds a coffin that hotel's attic doesn't really seem that bothered by it i am not being funny but is some bloke whose house i was staying at had a coffin in his attic i would be very very worried if you know what i mean i don't think i would ever want to watch it again there's no real threat the plot is weak that mixes classic vampire themes with silly subplots i was distinctly unmoved by it all not the worst film ever but hardly the best either br br the film looks alright with nice locations some local scenery although you feel the look is down to the budget rather than the makers attempt a authenticity there's not much gore apart from a decapitation some broken off finger tips for no apparent reason the makers throw in some average looking stop motion animated monsters that really don't do anything or have much significance to the story br br filmed on the cheap by charles band's full moon entertainment production company in bucharest in romania the production values are alright better than many later day band productions the acting isn't great with many of the cast putting in below par performances while genre regular angus scrimm has a small cameo at the start there's a little bit of style here on occasion with a few scene reminding heavily of the original nosferatu 1922 in particular the bit showing shadow coming down the stair with his long claw like fingernails standing out br br subspecies is a film that many seem to like for reasons i don't quite see i thought it was throughly average at best overall rather dull followed by subspecies ii 1993 bloodlust subspecies iii 1994 subspecies 4 bloodstorm 1998 the film vampire journals 1997
0	this movie was one of a handful that actually caused me pain it might be enjoyed by anybody who thinks that it would be funny to see his her mother in a crowded discotheque full of people half her age inventing some totally ridiculous dance in a completely misguided effort to be hip in the parlance of that age to see ingrid bergman stoop to such a pitiful performance on the disco dance floor was hard to watch i was embarrassed br br to make matters worse the music in the disco was not realistic at all it is the bogus idea of some hollywood director about what pop music was like at the time that is always a total embarrassment in most films of that era the ersatz music is canned and bears only a painful passing resemblance to the music that was actually popular in the 60's br br mathau is hopelessly miscast as some kind of ladies' man he just looks grotesque hawn's wide eyed innocence is just too silly the handsome neighbor in her apartment is portrayed way too earnestly and seriously he seems like a brady kid who got lost in this farce painful pitiful mess
0	hitchcock is a great director ironically i mostly find his films a total waste of time to watch i admire hitchcok on a purely visual and technical level br br first the positives hitchcock invented the notion of the probing camera the curious eye that is able to withhold or search for information it isn't exactly a new visual grammar but it was revolutionary then br br secondly hitchcock pretty much perfected the thriller and chase movie he has an economical style and is always thinking of the audience he gives them regular thrills regular jolts of humour and regular shocks in short he anticipates the audience's base needs and plays them like a fiddle br br unfortunately the base needs of a human being are mostly stupid food sex the thrill of danger and a little comedy caters for all these needs on screen with the exception of food which judging from his size he catered to off screen br br it's this pandering to the audience that sabotages most of his films a second downside is that most of hitchcock's camera work and visual grammar are now common place what keeps his films watchable are the simple economy of his tales the intelligence of his camera work and his skill at crafting tense action set pieces br br so on to saboteur this is a light hearted romp in the vein of the 39 steps it jumps from sequence to sequence until it concludes at the typical hitchcock final act set piece br br on an emotional level the relationship between the leads is not up to par with robert and madeleine caroll in the 39 steps hence the whole story lacks a certain energy the plot simply rumbles on like a machine desperately depending on the addition of new scenes and new scenes only bring us nearer the end since it's not clear if the hook is the hero's escape from the police from the villains or his action to stop the plotted sabotages br br there are the usual hitchcock logic flaws for example a guy with handcuffs frees himself using a car fan belt etc why doesn't he just drive away in the car surely handcuffs aren't that restrictive he's able to swim in them after all br br if you want a better hitchcock wartime propaganda flick from the 40's i would advise you watch foreign they are both silly chase movies with a catchy finale but foreign makes great use of umbrellas and tulips something spielberg rips off nicely in minority report br br 7 5 10 some good set pieces beyond that however there's nothing much to sink your teeth into
0	as i post this comment imdb currently rates alfred hitchcock's subpar saboteur a 7 3 10 personally i rated it less than half that honestly i can't tell how a movie this bad could've come from what is probably the most consistently good director i know of i've seen about 10 other hitch movies from the 30's 60's vertigo is thus far my hands down favorite while saboteur is easily the worst it's hard to believe that 7 years earlier hitch used the very same formula in the 39 steps far more competently my recommendation would be to see that instead and avoid this like the plague it's the only hitchcock movie that i turned off before before the end and have no desire to go back and see the rest if you must watch it then rent or borrow don't make the mistake i did and buy the dvd on good faith earned through notorious rebecca vertigo rear window etc even a master screws up sometimes i guess br br edit maybe i was a bit harder on this film than i should've been it's certainly nowhere near ed wood or manos or anything like that but there's three reasons i feel i must rate it so low br br 1 the name hitchcock brings with it certain expectations of quality this film delivers on a few of them but they're way overshadowed by the darn near non sensical plotting br br 2 i want to compensate a bit for all the 8 ratings this film is getting hitchcock is like the john coltrane of directors true fans will find reasons to consider anything by him a work of art but the high rating on imdb gives more casual movie enthusiasts like myself the impression that this movie is far better than it actually is br br 3 i spent 18 on this maybe if it'd cost me 5 or even 10 i'd probably be a bit less bitter
0	rarely will anyone deny that hitchcock remains one of the most creative inventive and prolific directors of all time because he is arguably all of these things it takes true genius to scare generations of film goers out of taking showers and wearing neck ties saboteur however is not creative or prolific at all rather hitchcock set out with the soul intention of creating a film to muster american pride a certain call to arms support our troops title which was a popular theme of the time with that in mind hitchcock severely underplayed other important aspects of the film including but not limited to a logical plot characterization believable dialog and a fluent running storyline br br typically hitchcock does great with espionage films only a few years earlier achieving cinematic greatness with the foreign and the 39 steps but seemingly lost his stride in creating saboteur and merely recycled the same once thrilling story lines both his previous excursions readily provided without going into any great depth here is a list of a few of this films major problems br br 1 despite having his face plastered on every newspaper across america the only person who recognizes kane is blind br br 2 at the dinner party kane and patricia don't want to run for the door because the bad guys might grab them and tell the party they were gate crashers logically what prevents the spies from grabbing them and saying this at any point during the evening besides does anyone need to be reminded kane is a wanted terrorist br br 3 since when can a fan belt cut through handcuffs br br 4 nobody recognizes him his face is on every newspaper br br 5 the spies catch up with kane in the ghost town and assume he's the man freeman sent to work with them he have some sort of credentials i know spies don't run around with name tags and photo ids but a secret handshake maybe br br 6 cop picks up kane escaping from freeman's house still seems no one recognizes this guy br br 7 how exactly does the fbi come to believe kane with no evidence they don't even show kane talking to the fbi the scene simply fades in and we are forced to assume everything is now kosher br br 8 when the cops search the carnival caravan how do they know kane is now with a woman the blind man believed kane's story thus logically would not have reported his daughter missing kidnapped or even more importantly running with kane why does this movie not employ logic br br this is a running list the movie is not exciting the plot makes no sense and the world is full of people who willingly take wanted terrorists into their homes and cars everyday because its no big thing hitchcock fails miserably on this one
0	saboteur was one of the few hitchcocks i had yet to discover and i was less than half overwhelmed the french title la i e the fifth column a very evocative phrase for underground spying and sabotage organizations set my expectations quite high as did the images of the finale on top of the statue of liberty br br basically saboteur is as much light hearted as were the 39 steps note this is another evocative phrase even mcguffin as a title but it lacks most of the humor so the characters are rather down to earth and it's definitely not as fast paced as a chase movie across the usa from la to ny saboteur drags its feet from sequence to sequence the sequence at the villain's lovely ranch lovely ranch lovely villain but pretty tame on the whole it doesn't really add up to nothing the meeting with the blind man the mixing with circus people the soda city sequence the ny ball sequence they fall flat bringing in more characters with very little added suspense value br br one big problem i can point out is the relationship between the leads robert cummings and priscilla lane which is not building up as with robert and madeleine caroll in the 39 steps hence the whole narrative structure is floating depending on the addition of new scenes and new scenes only bring us nearer the end since it's not clear if the hook is the hero's escape from the police from the villains or his action to stop the plotted sabotages in the 39 steps it was clearly scripted as 1 escaping from the police so you know the hero can't just go to the police then 2 running for his life and after the villains to prove his innocence br br if you want a better hitchcock from the 40s wartime propaganda i would advise you to chose foreign over saboteur they are both chase movies with a catchy finale well really a gripping one and not just sightseeing in foreign as well as beautifully efficient scenes the umbrella crowd the tulip fields the strange mills
0	human traffic is purely a been there done that' experience – only this time it's quite limp br br major themes explored are paranoia male impotence and jealousy – but only mildly and poorly br br a lot of the movie seems to want to imitate trainspotting drug culture – but it fails to include the low times come downs that trainspotting deals with eg issues with death dependence etc it even tries to come up with a similar monologue to ewan classic choose life' speech – but the milky bars are on me yeah ' – what the fudge is that all about br br the characters try to analyse their lifestyle but when their lifestyle is so shallow – their analysis becomes boring and repetitious br br the soundtrack for a movie that is trying to be cool is pathetic it includes the likes of fat boy slim and cj – come on people – good dance music is be better than this br br the characters become grating and annoying especially half way through the movie and the lack of care for the characters soon dawns br br there are a couple of funny scenes – but they are few and far between the mother catching the son in the bedroom was quite amusing br br but please – i'm sick to death of the star wars analogy scenes i thought it was much more sharper in a couple of kevin smith's movies ie clerks and chasing amy according to the characters – yoda is a drug fiend hence that's why he is short and bald – huh br br my score – 4 out of 10 – do yourself a favour and see trainspotting or go instead
0	if i wouldn't have had any expectations of this film it might have received a 5 or 6 as it stands i give it a 3 the acting is poor the factual accuracy of the drugs it discusses is lacking and i feel no empathy whatsoever for the characters br br i watched immediately before watching this film and i both laughed and cried on several occasions this film did not strike even a similar chord the directors of traffic' may have some off hand experience of ecstasy but there is no demonstration of actual drug related semantic knowledge here in fact i find it rather offensive and to the strife of making current drug laws less politically oriented br br watch 'requiem for a dream' if what you're looking for is an amazing touching film about drugs
0	the best movie of the 90's the welsh trainspotting aye right i went into this movie with pretty high expectations and it was all downhill from there br br this movie was supposed to be this archetypal movie on the drug culture of the early 90's and was going to allow us all to see inside this scene and shatter the media's preconceptions following the moral panic which followed the death of leah betts in 1995 unfortunately it has fallen a long way short br br where trainspotting was able to treat you like an adult on the subject and potential problems that surround drugs this just provided us with some schmaltzy tale of the wonder of drugs and how it can like you know like totally open your mind cue some guff about bill hicks and howard marks ad nausea it is painfully bad at times i mean the scene at the end between lulu and her auntie actually made me laugh out loud br br now maybe i am just a cynic but the way jip leads us through this tale is like listening to that acid frazzled guy you once met at a house party who talks to you about how the man is holding us back and how acid has released him from the strains of modern society you just wanna shake some sense into him and ask him to leave the premises br br the script was a real problem for me because where trainspotting had irvine excellent book to cite from this is written and directed by justin kerrigan the words jack of all trades master of none come to mind you can see where his inspiration comes from particularly in the style of narration from main character jip which sets the main character in a social situation where he speaks directly to the camera and outlines what is going through his mind as the scenario plays out the problem with this is that some of the speeches to camera are just painful to watch mainly this comes down to a lack of empathy for jip but they are so desperate to sound philosophical that they just end up sounding like your average a level drama project the direction is fine and the intentions are good but it is so lacking in any integrity that you start to wonder what the hype is about br br saying that though it is not all bad there are moments which are genuinely very amusing and entertaining is the highlight of the movie for me for an independent movie it also managed to attract a high numbers of quality british actors actresses which maybe outlines why there was such a buzz about the movie br br best movie of the 90's not by a long shot but if you're looking for a solid sunday night movie then this might just be your bag inevitably though the movie is flawed by the hype that surrounds it
0	first of all i wasn't sure who this film was aimed at it seemed like a story for kids but had stuff in it kids wouldn't understand and find boring there wasn't really much to it bruce willis wasn't stretched as an actor at all he did a lot of glancing to the side with that half smile of his unless you are a big fan of his i wouldn't bother and if it's the story you're interested in guy who seems to have it all but is lacking emotionally is taught lessons from a child i would go to see about a boy it has everything this film lacked humor sadness and reality
0	utterly useless having been there done that with the subject matter i have to say this captures the clubbing atmosphere in absolutely no respect it may have done so had the characters not just been mouthpieces for incredibly dire unrealistic drivel so many cringe worthy scenes that would put the office to shame not a compliment to this film it also may have helped to have some semblance of a story a point a message a commentary anything seriously kevin perry go large had more to say on the subject than this film term used very loosely in this case there should be minus numbers reserved for films like this 10 extra turd
0	i cannot believe how this atrocity managed to capture the hearts and minds of a cross section of the 'bright young things' of its era but i'm certain i wish it hadn't in my opinion it is an inaccurate poorly acted weakly scripted pretentiously directed piece of the brief outings to an imagined reality bludgeon any humour to death the situations are unsubtle exaggerations which make the the already flimsy characters even more unbelievable and detestable the romance is dull the end is unsatisfying and ruins the only sensible drugs message in the film and the simple plot and i ' 'fear and is tested to extremes with the uninteresting motion of the film in short this film as a blatant visual assault with no hint of skill or initiative i condemn it to the ash heap of history and pray it stays there
0	this extremely bargain basement blaxploitation kung fu hybrid was in my country released by a questionable dvd label that usually speaking just occupies with the transfer of pure crap onto disc so that wasn't exactly a favorable herald several other titles were released in the same series like the black six the black gestapo and the black godfather and judging by all their low ratings and negative reviews none of these belong to the elite of the 70's blaxploitation hype neither tnt jackson is a pretty lousy film completely lacking a significant plot but featuring far too many laughable fighting scenes and horrible acting to compensate apparently roger corman – never too embarrassed to make some easy money – assigned two of his most loyal acolytes to rapidly invent a simplistic story that would appeal to fans of both oriental kung fu movies and contemporary trendy blaxploitation flicks the result h santiago and dick miller came up with was tnt jackson the tale of an arse whooping black babe traveling to hong kong in search of her missing brother she quickly discovers he was killed by a criminal network of drug smugglers and swears to avenge him mrs jackson smoothly infiltrates into the underground and encounters macho pimps helpful undercover agents loads of vicious kung fu fighters only one thing's for sure they all want a piece of ravishing body in one way or another i sincerely doubt movie concepts get any more elementary than this but – unfortunately all the other aspects suck too the battle scenes are overlong and moreover pathetically staged jeannie bell and the other poor suckers try really hard to stare menacingly and assume a tough position but eventually all they ever do is kick in the air and stupidly leap across rooms the cinematography is horrid the soundtrack is vastly disappointing whatever happened to soul music the few dialogs are poorly written and the acting performances are inferior speaking of which jeannie bell is undeniably a beautiful woman but still she can't hold a candle to tamara dobson or pam grier there's only one really good and memorable scene in tnt jackson namely the famous hotel room battle where bell entirely naked except for panties repeatedly switches the light on and off whilst kicking the hell out of some goons amusing scene i just haven't figured out yet whether it's thanks to the light switch ingenuity or bell's perfectly shaped breasts
0	now any fan will recognise the ingredients big afros topless babes bad fashions and some talk in this case add in a lead who can't act a plot that makes little sense editing by someone with no hands who has been blindfolded and the most god awful fight scenes and you have jackson' not quite bad enough to be good but not good enough to be bad this is a wonderful mess from start to finish i especially loved the endless continuity errors and the lead's white stunt double br br this is so '70s bad far eastern martial arts meets black power that it hurts but boy it hurts so good i am ashamed to admit that i almost enjoyed it
0	a young woman nicknamed t n t for being virtual dynamite in a fight and a knockout in terms of looks to boot goes to the most lawless part of hong kong in search of her missing brother stag jackson when she learns he has been murdered she decides she will bring the killer to justice in a fashion only she can br br sounds good doesn't it well there's really nothing wrong with the basic premise as a starting base for a martial arts blaxploitation action thriller which is what this aims to be the leads actually prove pretty good too with jeanne bell fitting nicely into the role of t n t and stan shaw doing well as the ambitious power hungry charlie where this fails miserably is in terms of the fighting action it offers up the fight scenes are totally and completely unconvincing and or sometimes so completely over the top it reaches the point of ridiculousness which doesn't at all help when the basic focus of your movie is a kung fu action heroine also the poor lighting actors sporting accents making them hard to understand the confusing camera work and the sometimes poor sound doesn't help this obvious low budget effort out either any this does deliver in one area which may delight some fans it does offer up plenty of the t in t a in fact practically every fight scene in the film is proceeded by some type of nude scene and jeanne bell actually does have one extended fight scene in which she is completely topless br br in the end this fails to be something you want to revisit because the fight scenes are so pathetically laughingly bad
0	tnt jackson isn't completely unwatchable but either the version i saw on dvd was edited with a weed whacker or the screenplay itself is the lowest level of grind house blaxploitation sausage or maybe both br br jeanne bell is supposed to have been a playmate at one point in her career and the movie makes the most of the connection by displaying her breasts at least two times more than was really necessary including a hilarious topless fight scene that i am pretty sure was meant to be funny i will admit they are quite nice still she's sort of average looking and doesn't have the charisma of a foxy brown of even a cleopatra jones she does have her moments as an actress in the film though but it would have been nice if the director had pushed her a little harder or the screenplay had given her a chance to do more than emote attitude and kick people br br speaking of kicking people the fight scenes the other putative reason to watch a film like this are pretty poorly done there's no real choreography to speak of here just people posing and sticking feet and fists in the general direction of their opponents one minor exception is a nice moment with an opponent equipped with butterfly folding knives another is a sequence near the very end where an obvious stunt double for bell and maybe for stan shaw leap around and do some decent sweeps and groundwork for a minute or two before bell jackson punches her enemy's liver out shaw collapses and the screenplay just stops again i will admit that this is very much in the tradition of shaw brother quickies since time immemorial br br there are a couple of supporting actors who are actually better than the film deserves i'm thinking of joe and the fellow playing the drug lord's right hand man there's a halfway decent funk laden soundtrack that complements the action on the screen and add a star to the rating by itself there's a semi dodgy sex scene that manages to be effective almost in spite of itself br br this one is strictly for hardcore fans of blaxploitation i saw it out of sheer curiosity and i'm not sorry i took the time but i can't imagine wanting to take the time to see it again unless i decide to write a dissertation on the pop culture intersections of kung fu theater and foxy brown
0	a good ol' boy film is almost required to have moonshine car chases a storyline that has a vague resemblance to plot and at least one very pretty country gal barefoot with short shorts and a low top the pretty gal is here dressed in designer jeans but the redneck prerequisites stop there jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff he comes up way short big john is big but he isn't convincing with the bad part of his moniker bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades ned beatty also does his part in a small role but there is no story it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film cornball with easily predictable sentiment perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme you know the one it was made famous by jimmy dean
0	no way out 2007 was a really bad and if it is the road to wrestlemania they choose the wrong road br br chris benoit the hardy boys def mvp in my view this was the best match of the night some good wrestling here but not much 7 10 br br championship open which chavo guerrero won awful no high flying at all really quick and boring 3 10 br br little bastard finlay def little bogeyman the bogeyman this was more comedy than wrestling some laughs 5 10 br br kane def king booker a decent effort by these two but they could do better 6 10 br br wwe tag team championship paul london brian kendrick def deuce domino another boring match no high flying by the champs 4 10 br br ecw world title mr kennedy def bobby lashley in my mind the worst match of the night truly awful i thought ecw was no rules i was wrong 2 10 br br john cena shawn michaels def batista the undertaker an okay match but could have been a hell of a lot better 6 10 br br overall this was bulls it id give it a 3 10
0	doesn't this seem somewhat familiar oh wait that's right 90 of the jokes in this movie have already been done in the tv series what's the point in repeating yourself you may ask is it for the benefit of the americans who haven't seen the programme did the scriptwriters run out of inspiration or maybe everyone on set suffered a sudden attack of amnesia and forgot they'd covered this ground already either way for someone who has sat through the first three series this was just really boring i had to turn it off during the that turn your water green' part yes it is very funny but give us something original for goodness sake actually if the best new stuff you can come up with is leonard take on saturday night fever you can forget it br br the guy they got to replace the late richard beckinsale is a lookalike alright but not half the actor personally i would exorcised the role as a mark of respect to him or better yet not bothered making the film at all and just let the hilarity of the tv series speak for itself but no they couldn't do that not as long as there was money to be made sad really 4 10
0	the film version of came out two years after the television series ended like many fans i duly went along to the cinema when it opened i came away bitterly disappointed eric could not have spent very much time writing the script most of it is rehashed ideas from old episodes at the time of the film's release the series was still being repeated regularly on i t v so the public was being asked to pay to see something they'd seen already at least the 'on the movies boasted original screenplays br br secondly richard beckinsale had died the year before so they eliminated the character of as a mark of respect substituting art student 'john' played by christopher of 'only when i fame it simply wasn't the same br br as another poster has pointed out boarding house looked nothing like the one used in the series being bigger and altogether cleaner br br director joe mcgrath was one of the directors who worked on the original 'casino royale' a film steeped in surreal humour also has its share of 'walter style fantasy sequences such as the 'saturday night parody personally i found them horribly out of place a case of 'over egging the br br on the plus side leonard is as magnificent as ever as the seedy as are frances de la tour as and don as its just a shame the film isn't worthy of their talents br br when died in 1984 it was shown by i t v as a tribute with its final scene showing laying prostrate at the foot of the stairs removed in the interests of good taste
0	like a lot of movies involving little kids this starts off real cute and likable and then after about a half hour or so becomes the reverse br br that's certainly the case here in this time travel story which i usually love where an adult meets a kid who his really him at the age of eight great premise and a great lead actor in bruce willis but br br the kid rusty is a smart aleck and whiny brat and willis rusty grown up now as russell gets abrasive with his constant yelling that is entertainment no thanks br br young breslin has gone on to become a very good child actor being involved in a number of films including the cat in the hat opposite a more famous child actor dakota fanning br br overall a disappointing film especially with all the good press this movie got when it was released
0	this film derives from a long running itv sitcom by the same name the sitcom lasted for half a decade roughly and brought to our screens phillip alan mrs jones vienna br br then in 1980 the film version hit the cinemas now when it did sadly richard beckinsale had passed away was replaced by only when i laugh actor chris br br i myself felt this gave the film a different feel i would have preferred if it wasn't shot as richard was a key character thats like having the porridge film without or mackay br br the film did have some classics moments definitely but it felt a bit de ja vu many parts were seen before in the tv series now if you saw the movie first rather than the series you would get a different feeling about it then the series fan br br saying that leonard is definitely on top form and makes the movie just like in the tv series the film has recently had a new lease of life on dvd and is usually on terrestrial over a quiet weekend it is a cracking good film but for fans you may feel that youv'e seen it similarly before br br saying that though its worth a buying watching br br 7 8 10
0	leonard and frances de la tour carry this film not without a struggle as the script was obviously hurriedly cobbled together out of old episodes when it came out this must have been a real disappointment as it's also done on a bus ticket budget attempts to move it out of the house which is jarringly unrecognisable a bad job all round there with a picnic fantasy sequences rugby and a boxing match in the local gym simply don't work most of these are just character light setups for a solitary not particularly good gag that said the interplay of and de la tour and anybody else with him is mostly hilarious they even manage to make a soda gag work but you can see the struggle with recycling a literally uninspired script that changes plot half way through don has very little to do except 'be black' and due to the random script hacks christopher changes character at least twice and in the end as he often did in the tv series though you might not remember read the scripts eric lets you down with a up' ending were they that cynical or just too desperate to be in the film business and de la tour are always funny but as a film it's a terrible postscript to a fondly remembered tv series rip
0	this is a comedy version of strangers on a train it works pretty well i am a harsh grader so the 3 rating reflects mostly on the characters and plot the performances are extremely good all of them of course the two stars devito and crystal shine most each performer acts well enough to play off of the comedy works in a level just short of slapstick devito characters work best when depraved his character portrayed as a writing hack would probably be more real if he was published and lauded as much as most hacks are his character would in real life have a great agent and multiple the characters are one dimensional which is okay in comedy but character is not written very well his desire to kill the all of a sudden makes no sense at all it looks like a pitiful attempt at humor the pitiful attempts are not too often and the movie flows fairly well
0	danny de vito shows us here he is definitely indeed infinitely a better on screen performer than off he plays the part of owen a miserable would be writer with a cranky old mother delightfully played by anne ramsey he would like to see dead billy crystal is larry a very frustrated writing teacher who has an estranged wife he feels the same way about so owen after viewing hitchcock's strangers on a train suggests they swap murders br br as director though de control is inconsistent as he wastes this clever idea while his film lurches from the very humorous to the very bland he and crystal are okay in the lead roles but the show belongs to anne ramsey as the cantankerous mrs lift br br saturday june 20 1992 video
0	i've always said that there's nothing to beat the original form the comics i've been proved right again this like all of the other movie takes on the asterix series failed to impress the makers of this movie don't get it that what makes all the other such comic turned movies x men superman et al ventures successful is that they all deviate from the original comic versions and adapt it to make it more watchable agreed this movie did deviate in the sense that this movie was a cross of two asterix books viz asterix and the great crossing asterix and the also uncharacteristic of the asterix series save asterix and the secret weapon a love interest for one of the main characters was introduced all this ended up doing was create a childishly immature storyline the funny parts were very few and far between all in all a total waste of time and money watching this let alone at theaters even at home
0	it's not awful but what a waste lousy gags bad music poor drawings and animation br br regarding the impressive number of animators and on this picture from hum a hundred different studios throughout the world come on how can you expect something coherent when doing an animated movie this way i wonder if one guy on the credits one drawing the lines are rough the 3d work inadequate i'm not against it but not in this film but the backgrounds are corrects the storyline is rather dumb far from the precise cleverness of the bd and obviously aimed at an international audience to distribute a movie all over the world doesn't mean to take everyone in the world for a simple minded guy a cultural object is far more interesting when challenging even when it is a foreign movie being french in this case it's even worse br br some new stuff is doing well the olaf character sometimes like with the stone explanation but it's not great but the modern references are exasperating music not even a verbal joke just a stupid bird named short message service does anyone know imagination but hey it's a production with some celine dion in it pathetic br br asterix is underemployed and talks too much could be great like in the book but he is too clearly a cool guy having a love affair with an uninteresting made up female character in fact only the vikings wizard excepted are funny too much action not enough laughs the best part of the movie are the end credits not the music but the few stills it contains bd style well definitely asterix is not made to move
0	this asterix is very similar to modern disney cartoons soulless technically good and the usual in jokes for adults maybe it's because this is the first cartoon i watched after laputa castle in the sky but it was quite disappointing br br the plot is contrived and forgettable but it involves asterix and going to the territory to rescue a spoilt teenager who then learns humility and finds love as well oh and initially they don't get on but after facing adversity they all share a deep bond of friendship yadda yadda br br the best bit is to watch out for the little jokes the vikings get all the best ones such as the chief's wife giving a list of furniture and skulls to bring back from the next raid or the vikings not knowing the meaning of mercy literally oh and olaf the dumbest viking is actually hilarious as much for the voice acting as the dialogue br br for example aboard the viking ship after a speech by abba the captain's daughter olaf who is this new guy captain that's my daughter cod brain olaf your daughter's a man
0	this film is a perfect example that a movie can not be successful with a high budget alone it's obvious that there was a lot of time and effort dedicated into this the animation is fluid detailed and superb the soundtrack isn't too memorable except for the ending song by celine dion at least i think it was her the musical score is powerful full orchestra material kudos to the animators and music composers 9 10 however the story and characters fall flat it feels very 'been there done that' predictable and plain uninteresting the characters have distinct personalities but nothing too likable they annoyed me to no end i tried really hard to like this but i didn't care about the story it was cliché action adventure plot there were 'jokes' that weren't funny it was vomit inducing predictable from start to end the dialogue was cliché and awful especially the last line it's not that gives you wings it's love whatever it was i remember cringing i was wishing it would hurry up and finish i wasn't the only one either the people i went with thought it was boring please watch the asterix and cleopatra film if you're going to watch any this was a waste of time
0	i think it's the first time that i go inside a theater and go out so disappointed there were two reasons why i went to see et les vikings first as a film buff and second as a big fan br br in the end the film doesn't satisfy any request it's simply a big animated mess and it proves that the franchise is going from bad to worse br br in fact it has been this way since the death of first scenarist rené in 1977 his faithful collaborator illustrator albert took his place but the following books were clearly lacking of the quality that was present during the years br br et les vikings is based on the book et les which was published during the reign the basic story is the same arrives to the village and et must turn him into a real man while the vikings come to in order to discover what fear is because it seems that fear gives wings br br the similarities end here what follows in the book is a non stop series of laughs gags and hilarious dialog with the result that the vikings do discover fear and they flee the movie is silly unfunny fast paced corny well just name a default and it has good chances of being applied br br the difference between the book and the movie could be more acceptable if the movie was good but the new ideas simply crashes it in a bottomless pit even older movies such as le which almost transferred the lines one by one without changing them are easily better br br animation has the quality of other 21st century movies but it has its faults and any film beginner could find the mistakes the greatest example is the continuity mistake where the day follows the night after a fraction of second in the same sequence br br imagine they took animation studios from numerous countries and they still can't get adequate film making br br the changes of the original story are simply unbearable and they still could be even if there was no original story in the movie has a pet pigeon named and who act as his cell phone the viking chief has a rebellious teen daughter named abba and she constantly defies her father's authority there's also a stupid viking wizard his cartoonish dumb and muscular son the faithful bride of who is obsessed with decoration her name is and well i can't stand that much longer br br we're far from the original gags from the original book the biggest problem is the difficulty of transferring the images to the big screen mainly because the greatest laughs in the books come from the verbal jokes and visual gags which do not have the same appeal on a theatre screen i remember that the greatest moments in the book were laughing at the names which all finish in and tries to scare them in ridiculous ways br br and if everything wasn't enough somebody in the publicity staff decided to write on the movie poster that there's an already existing céline dion song which would be featured in the final credits if it was a new song i could have understood but using an old song is only another proof that the movie is so badly made that they're ready to do anything in order to attract film goers br br the only good point for this movie is that it is so stupid and the end is so bad that we just can't walk out of the theater without being left cold in a summer release it just can't hurt br br the only other acceptable point of the movie is how becomes courageous his psychological transformation in the book is too spontaneous and not credible while it's better pictured in the movie and the motivation point is more believable br br so if you haven't seen the movie yet don't waste your money on it grab the book instead br br oh rené why did you leave us
0	this film is so bad it's almost good trash at its best jesus' bro vs pimps come on i'd say that you'd actually have to see this it's so bad my sides hurt when i laughed i can't understand why this isn't in the worst 100
0	the robot vs the aztec mummy was one of the silliest and least believable films i've ever seen o k i can buy that the woman in the film is a reincarnation of a virgin that was sacrificed to an aztec god what i can't buy is that the incredibly phony looking mummy and the even worse looking robot when you want to watch a film like this you want to see lots of fighting action but the robot and the mummy fight for about a minute total probably worst of all was the dia de los muertos art they had in the credits it's the worst i've ever seen avoid this one if possible
0	this film almost gave me a nervous breakdown when i was recovering from a few years ago i had just started teaching in secondary high school the whole teaching business was all a bit for a beginner but to mentally prepare myself for going back into the classroom i decided to watch some rather awful films the flintstones was one of the films that i chose and then i put king of the streets the uk title of on just before it finished i found myself almost in tears at the sheer waste of it all my life the film stock the £2 i had paid for it a couple of weeks ago in the blockbuster ex rental section the time it must have taken to print the sleeve art the effort of the editors and musicians involved in the soundtrack as as their efforts were the list goes on br br i love bad films let me make this perfectly clear i love watching crappy films from blockbusters me and my mate dan used to sit and watch many many cheapjack horrors and laugh at them but this was a different type of crappy film i don't think that anything has come close to this not even tobe hooper's death trap which is probably my second worst film in the world the whole making a car from abandoned parts section nearly killed me the repetition of music at any available opportunity regardless of on screen events the whole i can't even carry on with this dissection as my gag reflex has started the futility of that film even now three years after i watched it for the first and last time still renders me speechless but i am still able to type the whole making a car from odd parts section had me contemplating horrible things br br i implore you if you are interested in watching this film just gaze at the cover of the video and imagine the worst possible version of the story synopsis on the back i can almost guarantee that it won't be even half as bad as this film actually is don't under any circumstances contemplate actually watching it for any reason whatsoever not if you are a christian and you want to see a christ allegory not if you are a bad movie and you want to experience the true nadir of trash not even if you want your life to seem longer and believe me every second that this film runs seems like at least a minute make no mistake about it this film is unholy it is the antichrist in video form as bo in get shorty said i've seen better film on teeth
0	imagine if you took the christ myth mixed it with a healthy dose of porn against a backdrop of bad sci fi from another planet like throw in a dash of after school special and lots of really bad kung fu fighting oh and some decent break dancing with an awesome casio keyboard soundtrack br br and some how they make this even worse than you could imagine there are at least 4 rape scenes at least one great car explosion a buff black guy running around in his undies with an uzi br br add alcohol and this is the perfect movie br br i mean lots and lots and lots of alcohol
0	ugh unfortunately this is one of the worst movies i've seen in a long time none of the characters are remotely likable which makes this film difficult to watch they're all miserable thirty year olds who don't take responsibility for their crummy lives i was only able to make it through a half hour of the film so there's a chance things got better afterward but i doubt it i can't imagine five people as self absorbed as they are would manage to remain friends with each other for ten years br br three sex scenes in the first half hour were also disappointing as they had no relevance to the plot and were clearly a gratuitous failed attempt to bring some life to this otherwise dull film br br save your time and money and skip this movie
0	synopsis correction the ending does not show ben cruising online for guys he is looking up arabic language courses at the military acadamy in san francisco perhaps to join the war in iraq as a translator fyi many of the dishonorable discharges from ask tell have been translators they are now it major short supply ben also spoke russian this movie is a good time capsule of life in manhatten but quite a bit of non reality here mostly a good laugh at lame social skills and the sad portrayal of grown up twenty somethings not developing beyond the college party mode also a brief study of the always changing scene in manhatten somehow it always stays close to the edge of the same b s br br watch together the films englishman in new york and the the new twenty both good for nostalgia i think the movie twenty shows how far the blur between gay and straight as evolved br br these two films are gay time travel for sure enjoy
0	talk about marketing the poster home video cover of 'the new broadcasts a half naked male in a wolfe video for those familiar with the gay themed movies – this broadcasts a must see i loved reading one reviewer from another site stating they had been tricked into seeing a movie are you serious the tagline itself as the word gay the lord gives you eyes yet you cannot that being said despite the number of gay characters stereotyped no less see the lonely gay the aids victim gay and the closeted gay it's more about long term friendship and characters that grow apart in fact if anything there's more here's one for christians to complain about heterosexual couples having sex outside of gasp marriage not to mention backstabbing drinking to excess and drug usage i see this more of a made for tv logo or showtime movie than big screen effort sure i loved the cinematography some of the actors could act and i always love seeing a big group of friends that actually act like they've known each other for a million years but we've see this all before nothing really new here barely an original idea – hence bringing back the same i have aids let's deal with that for a good portion of the movie and boy our friend has a serious drug problem but let's not deal with that until it's almost too late that's so us as folk' and 'broken hearts club ' respectfully the film deals with a group of college buddies now grown in size not minds who have to eventually grow up and each trying their best while failing strangely as in most of these independent movies the most interesting to me at least was the heavier set one ben he stole each scene but again there wasn't much to take
0	what we're given in this trying to be trendy film is a frat pack of college friends now approaching age 30 which we all know of course their generation thinks of as the new 20 consisting of four guys and a gal we have thrust at us the following types seemingly and frequent drug users along with one individual who is job successful and one who is trying to be they are all in their own way drifting while trying to find both a future and emotional happiness with one possibly two exceptions these are people this reviewer would definitely never care to come close to modeling myself after there is disappointment after disappointment after disappointment in almost all their lives except in the instance of one individual who appears on the way to finding it none appears headed toward emotional satisfaction in his her life and so about the only sincere moment in this film is when a knock at the door brings to the person answering it an unexpected and heartfelt i love you br br with only the exceptions mentioned these people are the kind hardly deserving or worthy of several hundred thousands of dollars being thrown away in presenting their stories br br ps writer director johnson definitely appears to have a problem with showing gay sexual scenes with no such problems in presenting more prolonged and revealing heterosexual ones why might that be br br
0	the new twenty is one of the worst films i have ever seen yes some may argue that formulaic small budget films that strive for less may seem worse but i would argue that a pseudo intellectual anti formulaic indie film that pretends to be more is worse br br the new twenty was written and directed by chris mason johnson and i will never get back the 91 minutes of my life that i wasted on his film br br the screenplay characters br br from beginning to end the screenplay failed to provide an anti hero or hero with a moral core that the audience would want to see succeed or fail br br in story telling the three dramatic conflicts are man vs man man vs the world and man vs himself br br the screenplay focuses on a group of college friends in new york and is preoccupied with the dynamic of man vs himself where each of the film's characters are so self absorbed in a stupor of depression and self destructive behavior that the movie before the audiences very eyes br br each of the main characters indulge in unexplained bad behavior heroin addiction with no history as to why the character is an addict a fiancée who has sex with her fiancée's boss investor even though the character is written too smart to have sex with such a sleazy character a man who begins as a decent guy but is attracted to a foul mouthed investor and converts for some unknown reason into a similar foul mouthed business jackass a closeted chubby gay cyber geek who does nothing but find dates online and a gay asian man who dates an hiv positive older man but has no scenes establishing why the relationship works and why love develops br br crucial scenes establishing the cause of the character's addiction the suffering and self loathing of the fiancée that might explain why she would sleep with a sleaze bag the back story that would explain why a decent guy would be attracted to a gordon gecko type character and become a jackass a story line for the chubby cyber geek and more scenes of interaction between the asian man and hiv positive boyfriend are all missing br br without proper establishing details all of the characters' actions seem forced and contrived br br direction cinematography score br br i found mr johnson's direction to be without a clear point of view leaving the actors emotionally incoherent br br the cinematography can be described as mundane at best mr johnson selected small spaces to shoot and failed to catch the grandeur of new york city this failure created a claustrophobic film that viewed like the filming of a stage play and not a film br br the score was embarrassingly absent from most of the film i assume that mr johnson is to blame since he could have asked for full score to enhance understanding in each shot br br conclusion br br the new twenty is an annoying and unmitigated failure in film making
0	if you see the title a sex odyssey in the video store beware the cover has tori wells and three other 80's porn stars and has a copyright of 1986 if you're like me and i hope you're not you'll think 80's porn tori wells alright trickery it was made in 1974 and has dubbed german stars there's nothing inherently wrong with 70's german porn but it's not my cup of tea and it's nothing like what the cover leads you to believe you're getting once i got past my rage about the blatantly misleading jacket i watched it anyway it's a bad bad movie sorry i guess i didn't really get past the rage
0	four guys jacks go into the restaurant business with a fifth guy and lose all common sense they allow themselves to be abused worse than textile workers at the turn of the century without simply leaving the situation this is truly one of the worst films i have ever seen i just hope i can resell this item to someone who might like it br br it is true that it holds your attention if you can let the illogical plot developments not bother you too much it is very silly throughout however especially once a stranger enters the restaurant who is he guess br br
0	on paper this movie has some chops a street kid overcoming past trauma rebuilding his life and succeeding when the world would have written him off great stuff everyone loves a happy ending br br in the theater though there were some omissions that left the movie dead inside the dialog was hollow and uninteresting the characters were almost cartoonish in their lack of dimension and complexity and why did everyone need to be gay i have nothing against homosexual themes or characters in a movie but when it's used in this fashion not only is is offensive to homosexuals it trivializes the lifestyle and cheapens the movie if the story works without this cheap trick it should have been cut br br every character seemed to come out of the same cookie cutter form each had one major flaw and one minor flaw every character is good hearted were they succeed or not and everyone one of them had or is in an abusive relationship with someone br br the most annoying fact of the movie is that they never let you get over that the name pip comes from great expectations they give it to you once and that should be enough the story shares enough with the dickens classic to make this fact obvious br br the most interesting part of the film is the story of the grandfather and the cassette he leaves for pip and how pip the main character learns how to grow up from the lessons learned from the tape in the end with lessons learned pip confronts his dark past and movies forward with his life
0	awful confusing bit of crap from south of the border i've now watched it twice and i still don't really know what was going on it had something to do with a stupid looking aztec mummy a that's the dumbest looking robot i've ever seen bar none and a woman who is the reincarnation of some ancient aztec chick most of the story is told in a painfully slow and droning manner by an incredibly dull scientist this guy is a marvelous sleep aid his nemesis is a fat slob called the bat which is a pretty unimaginative name for an evil scientist br br i guess the boring scientist and his wormy assistant dug up the mummy and what a shocker the scientist's wife just happens to be the reincarnation of the mummy's girlfriend they keep the mummy perpetually in a mausoleum for some reason i guess so that the overacting bad guy can steal it it takes him five years to do this because he's inventing a to steal the mummy or attack it or whatever he's after some treasure that the mummy has so that he can be rich but excuse me if the guy had this huge an intellect and a strong drive to succeed why didn't he just patent some of his ideas and get rich that way br br oh well i suppose that would make too much sense instead there is ridiculous fight between the mummy and the robot and it's really hard to tell which one is faker looking or more cheesy to tell you the truth i watched this because i thought a film with a name like the robot vs the aztec mummy just had to be fabulously cheesy instead it was just dully awful and mind blowingly confusing
0	though not a complete waste of time really wasn't all sweet as it pretended to be nor are the ages of the actors they're portraying – 18 my butt mckellen could have actually shown up in the film telling us he was 30 and ask us to believe it even michael j fox was more believable as a teen in 'back to the future' parts ii and iii okay maybe not they're probably equal believability if you can get past the obvious age flaw you'll have either the complete void of acting or simply overacting paul anthony's so called anguish clarence lifetime moments and even though i do favor brendan fletcher it's best to just watch him and more in 'freddy vs jason ' incomprehensible scenes a faster than britney spears marriage incest to prove a point and a man who needs help to urinate but still has one hand free – i'm guessing this was the writer's fantasy an entire movie of despicable characters anthony might be playing someone that's 18 but acts like he's 12 and some odd john thrown in so anthony's character pip can save the day – was there really a sex scene in front of a baby and practically every character questioning their own sexuality by strange actions scenes on the positive side i did enjoy ian mckellen's voice over seeing a rarely well portrayed straight gay friendship puppy love from someone who collects stuffed puppies that is good score some decent dialogue love the separation of gays and pedophilia – wish more people would realize that and acting from the female leads as well as cumming i can't really recommend it as it's really trying to be too many things – gay tolerance gay hustling homelessness wwii epic priesthood first love flawed judges etc etc etc – on a shoestring budget
0	how better to describe it than scuzzy criminals on tv and i don't mean in the show cops here they're actually being presented as protagonists br br i don't see any remedial value in this show unless you have a perverse penchant for human tragedies whitney houston is a tragic example of the fallen star a star which bobby brown helped pull from the sky bobby brown is nothing but a low life criminal why watch him why does whitney stand by him no matter how despicable he is this couple should be locked up and it's a loathsome shame they are making money and achieving a modicum of fame from watching the septic tank which is their lives and the human waste which is their character
0	a good idea let down by heavy handed production br br quite a bit of the dialogue was unintelligible because of the level of music background sound and this didn't help this reviewer nor did the welsh accents pretty impenetrable at times towards the end i lost the will to live trying to follow the dialogue br br this movie didn't know whether to be a farce or a black comedy and they require different approaches some of the incidents were laid on so thick that they only merited a groan some were so unbelievable even for this sort of plot that they made the story just not worth following br br the acting was in the main good although the american just came over as a clone of the back to the future mad scientist the little boy was very good br br i did watch it all the way through but god knows why i can't remember laughing once
0	oddball black comedy romance featuring a great cast and a less than stellar script brenda blethyn lovely amazing is the title character a woman trapped in a loveless marriage with a man who is obviously having an affair with his beautiful blonde secretary guess who's playing this minor role yup naomi watts mulholland drive must of sandwiched this project in before her superstar status was insured with the blockbuster thriller the ring br br on the male side of the cast list there's the woefully miscast alfred molina frida an old fashioned undertaker who suddenly decides to reveal his desires for which have lain dormant for decades perhaps miramax is hoping molina's turn in the upcoming spider man 2 might generate some interest in this little trinket which belongs on the dvd rental shelf br br but the award for wildest thankless performance goes to christopher walken catch me if you can who goes completely over the top as 'modern' undertaker with his vegas style funerals in a small provincial town his character must have into the village because there's little reason for him to exist in this script br br that said if you'd like to see some top notch actors engage in some low brow humor then this one's for you and if this isn't your cup of tea then try renting harold and maude the ultimate funeral movie that's still funny to this day
0	the premise is interesting and the cast does the best it can but the script and the directorial effort are so poor that it is not surprising that this film was buried which is fitting given the screenplay as i watched this i could not decide which was worse the screenplay or the directing the actors are over the top the art direction looks like a disney movie the music is contrived and the sentiment so sweet that it gives viewers cavities it's a bad attempt to imitate four weddings and a funeral if one wants to watch comedy that is as flat as a pancake and how poor direction can turn a story into cavity sweetness this is a good one to watch
0	love and human remains directed by denys arcand is an abysmally pathetic film as it is completely different from the kind of films he has been making all through his career making a different film is not an objectionable matter what is troublesome is the fact that if a film from a master is complete out of tune then it is a really bad event the film begins on a good note as there is some suspense created however as the film progresses what is shown is just a futile attempt at creating something meaningful as arcand shows us half a dozen oddball whimsical characters whose lives are intertwined with each other homosexuality and lesbianism are not of any consequences here what is even more bothersome is the feeling of guilt related to the characters who are rather in a fix regarding their feelings towards each other and sexuality such a film would be of interest to some who wants to see a different denys arcand film all in all there would surely not be many takers for this film
0	love and human remains is one of those obviously scripted obviously acted obviously staged flicks which is so obvious that the escape velocity from its contrivances and fabrication is beyond me not worth explaining this amateurish flick tries to cram every clever line every misanthropic overtone every peculiar sexual predilection into one film with an absence of concern for making the pieces fit in short sensationalistic crap without the sensation which pretty much just leaves crap
0	your time and brains will be much better spent reading or listening to charlie wilson's war phillip seymour hoffman plays the most enjoyable character in the movie gust the greek and he plays him as a eunuch gust in the book is hard core and completely free to speak his mind in the movie he's not even shown as being equally important to charlie and poor charlie is never shown donating blood which he did every time he visited the camps in pakistan in short the movie is too bland and the history is too old for our modern time we don't really care about the end of the cold war and the defeat of the soviet union which happened in spite of reagan not as a result of by a well financed group of people who were extremely willing to fight not quite the lesson we need to be hearing and seeing considering how well the wars in iraq and afghanistan are going as i read the book i kept getting that deja vu feeling except it was present day
0	the 3 stars are for phillip seymour hoffman nothing else and no one else in this movie deserves even a wee smidgen of a star well ok amy adams deserves a wee smidgen but the doesn't seem to be working so i'll stick with 3 tom hanks nothing julia roberts nothing mike nichols do you see a trend yet aaron omg not a chance br br i could rant on for several paragraphs about the way charlie wilson's war glosses over history morality legitimacy and so on but i don't think any such rant could outweigh the gushing of aaron fans the rest of you beware spend your movie money elsewhere br br still if you're looking for a pithy comment here's mine you can put hot fudge sauce on a pile of garbage but it changes nothing garbage is garbage and so is charlie wilson's war
0	i'm sure that the folks who made this movie think they're doing something wonderfully politically correct because they manage to criticize u s wars in afghanistan and particularly iraq by suggesting that the u s does war well but doesn't clean up afterward thus the seeds for future trouble furthermore they do this without making the enemy and without making republicans the enemy since it's the republicans that are in office and are doing this supposedly great thing bringing down the ussr by covertly supplying a war in afghanistan br br but seriously now do we really want a movie that repeatedly says let's go kill some russians like that's the greatest thing a red blooded american can do and are we supposed to find this congressman adorable because he surrounds himself with women with big hair and revealing clothes even his supposedly smart assistant who is always dressed professionally keeps looking at charlie like he's just the most wonderful handsomest greatest guy around as if she's nancy reagan to his ronnie julia roberts does a bang up job in her role but basically women are really demeaned in this movie and it was really annoying
0	oh man they sure knew how to make them back then hollywood has forgotten the basic ingredients of bad movie making cardboard steel and the god fearing scientist action hero br br this film was so close to a masterpiece alas it was not to be as it failed to feature ray guns and invaders from the moon the mst3k version tried to fix this by adding a pilot of a show called captain cody where a guy with a rocket propelled jacket fights bad make up people from the moon but it didn't quite add up br br also the comments of the guys in the theater were not nearly as funny as i expected them to be all in all a great disappointment
0	when people say children are annoying u think ya my little cousins can be annoying and i said little these children are turning 10 and they are without a doubt the most annoying bratty children you will ever encounter in a film lets start with the blonde debbie she's a slut of a girl i mean come on she wears mini skirts she has stupid frizzy blonde hair and a red bunny like face she acts so innocent next we have the second child the geek who thinks he's so cool with his long range shooting and his use of a silencer a coat over the gun and most of all his evil bratty smile the next kid is the quiet one you don't care about so thats all on him this film angered me at the children's intelligence and the only enjoyment i got was from my cousin who kept bitching about them
0	the filmmakers neglected to connect the dots that is the sequence of events and choices that led from charlie wilson and the anti soviet to al qaeda and osama bin laden and eventually to 9 11 the filmmakers of course neglect to tell us the back story why were the soviets in afghanistan but that omission pales in comparison to their failure to reveal that support for extremists in afghanistan in the name of rabid anti communism ultimately strengthened the hand of anti western forces and was a big contributing factor to the mess that we find ourselves in today 9 11 terrorist networks a prolonged ground war in afghanistan etc because these consequences are not spelled out the movie leaves the viewer feeling sympathetic to mr wilson hey check out his latest projects on the internet instead of seeing him as an individual whose actions were contrary to the best interests of his country and the west as a whole
0	when the american movie industry tries to critically look at their own government they make damn sure it looks good even when it's bad br br the film does 1 thing right it demonstrates perfectly what is wrong with the american politics the motto seems to be to f k with whoever it takes to get things done mix an american congressmen a cia agent a jew and an arab just to f k the thanks to us for giving us osama bin laden br br the disappointment of the film comes in the face of muddling up the issues using imagery of afghan children with no arms and the stories of soviet atrocities and then making a blatant attempt to suggest a link between those and the reasoning behind the american help every sensible person knows why the 1 000 000 000 was raised not the dying afghani children that's for sure br br as usual the serious issues are covered into facade of bullshit dialogue here is to you you m r f s chants at the end all that's missing is the american flag in the background and the stupid military the films can not help but leave the aftertaste of the feeling of american pride and glee on how we the americans have saved the world once again not even the last 5 minutes of the film can save it where an attempt is being made to stop praising yourself and wake up to the fact that its just another american f k up br br the acting and editing was good though
0	spoiler this film gives away plot points and discusses the ending i hated this film mostly for political reasons but also for moral and aesthetic reasons politically this film glorified war and military technology blowing things up real good we are led to cheer as the music swells and the afghans use our weapons to blow the to bits and no u s soldiers put their lives on the line so it's a fun war aesthetically there isn't a touch of real human emotion in the film just smug privileged people being sarcastic feeling superior and doing whatever they want regardless of the consequences and speaking of consequences the film only makes a few small hits at what the arming of the afghans actually led to i had read an earlier draft of this script and it ended on 9 11 with charlie wilson realizing that things had gone horribly wrong but that wouldn't leave the audience feeling good this is a feel good movie about killing and it made me sick
0	russians never dropped children's toys filled with explosives over afghanistan that never happened who did invention of that hollywood portrays russian army as horrible dreadful troops of evil that is disgusting united states president jimmy carter had accepted the view that soviet aggression could not be viewed as an isolated event of limited geographical importance but had to be contested as a potential threat to the persian gulf region the uncertain scope of the final objective of moscow in its sudden plunge made the american stake in an independent pakistan all the more important a great deal of damage was done to the civilian children population by land mines
0	very curious that nichols and hanks would team up for this obviously they believe it strange because it should carry the title charlie wilson's war the lie br br how could the time frame leave out the real history that while ridding afganistan of the russians the cia was providing support for the taliban and today's world of terrorism in 1990 bin laden went home to saudi arabia as a hero of jihad who along with his arab legion had brought down the mighty superpower of the soviet union in afghanistan br br to avoid any connection to osama bin laden is to say again hollywood cares little for historical truth charlie wilson a patriot hardly more like a congressman gone amok
0	this movie has the distinction of being the worst movie i have ever seen and the only film i have ever given a 1 out of 10 on imdb as of yet i was fooled into renting it because of the cool h r giger cover art on the box this cover art is the only thing the least bit good about this steaming pile of br br it was about frat boys fighting freaks in a strange but not the least bit interesting post apocalyptic world where the cities are in ruins chaos but apparently the suburbs are still a safe and wonderful place for young men to haze other men into braindead frat organizations the most uninspiring performances by boring characters not so special effects dreary un original scenery and just generally extremely poor quality in all production aspects make this lemon the all time loser on my list br br final rating 1 10 i wish i could give it a zero br br noob
0	this film is worse than cat people which i saw during the same week it has all the 80's style mtv punk rockers the real ones who are anti social not todays pc commercial type frat boys and a bad guy called i really like and the film does that blue lighting 80's feel but the rest of it looks like low budget canadian i have seen so much of this while living in this great country and realize these type of movies were made because of tax breaks avoid at all costs
0	simply put the only saving grace this movie has is settings costumes and an ok punk concert how h r giger must feel about his cyborg picture on the cover of this movie i wouldn't like to know right away all i could do was make sardonic comments about the films protagonists i was hoping that the freaks in this movie would execute them in gory fashion i sense spoilers a comin' i was wondering if this film in the spirit of the first 20 min was intended to be as humorously half baked as the rest of it examining all the obvious political police trying to rape a freak the discussion of superficialities between the freak and the frat boy and the punk concert w the female vocalist and the use of slow motion in the fighting sequences which screams martial arts coordinator i just don't know the character named steve irked me since he tries to pick fights w people off the street he shoulda been mugged and raped and looks bad when he broke that guy's neck towards the end want me to show you how to do it i must say this though if they would've developed other characters better than they did splatter this might have gone somewhere if there was a 0 to give this movie it would've got it but alas it's a 1
0	during my struggle to stay awake during this borefest i fought through my near off to discover some silly plot regarding fraternity schmucks quite incredibly obnoxiously annoying running into trouble with a psychotic damaged half human half cyborg named splatter who sends his soldiers after them for the murder of their prestigious politically vocal leader for whom splatter killed himself setting them up to take the blame so he could become the leader these face painted freaks form a group who express their feelings though non violently living on dilapidated streets abandoned by the civilized world voicing their concerns regarding nuclear disarmament anyways most of the film has these five frat goons running throughout darkened streets with graffiti walls as splatter and his punks pursue them thankfully for these guys they find a punk chic to assist them on their journey out of this rather ugly terrain with which they're this territory the frat guys are immersed is a veritable labyrinth of streets and alleys with the idea of an exit out most difficult particularly when crazies and bunch occupy nearly every turn br br yeah i was duped like others thanks to the hr giger poster which is most excellent if only he had been the designer of this dreck this is not the case and we the viewer are left a film modeled after of all movies it seems walter hill's the warriors except this film doesn't have the style or grit that film has the film has a plethora of unfunny bits and lame confrontations between the frats and the punks with hand to hand combats often laughable the setting is rather interesting and there are some atmospheric uses of neon light but it's not the environment that's the problem it's the plot and characters within the environment that grow tiresome the under my eyes weighed heavier every minute this movie continued yes texas chainsaw stars edwin neal quite a funny voice man who has an entertaining interview on the dvd i rented for this flaming turd of a film and marilyn burns have key roles as opposing members of their faction against the government resulting in the final conclusion within a building complex at the end character splatter uses these metal spikes which emerge from his metal arm to kill his victims
0	if you tried to make a bad film you could not make one worst that this one i can't imagine anyone paying good money to see trash like this in a theater the thing that really gets you is being mesmerized in looking at the entire thing just for the amazement of seeing how lousy it could get the redeeming facet of this film was seeing the words the end
0	there must be an error this movie belongs with plan 9 and a lot others as a quite entertaining silly diversion you'll never accept you like it yet you will watch it whenever it comes out on tv it's as simple as that
0	i didn't really know what to expect from future kill but i certainly hoped it would be a little better than what i got i knew the rating was bad and the reviews were but the subversive dvd cover illustration looks beyond cool and i can't resist that for a very long too long in fact time this film raised the impression of being an unofficial sequel to porky's with lame vulgar and offensive fraternity pranks five mega dorks one of them resembling an exact young clone of jim carrey desperately want to become members of a frat house but their ultimate initiation might just be a tad bit far fetched and dangerous they are dropped in the city center with provocative marks painted on their faces simultaneously with the outbreak of a violent gang war it doesn't take too long before they are confronted with splatter a seemingly half man and half machine warrior who leads a gang of which i never really figured out who or what they were were they a government experiment cyborgs terminator imitations from a distant future does anyone care future kill is a bizarre amateur flick with a scenario that leaps from one subject onto the other without any form of logical connection or narrative the plot borrows vital elements from great cinematic cult classics like the warriors escape from new york and the terminator but the end result is one gigantic sci fi monstrosity the costumes and special effects are quite pitiable and there's a truckload of cheap and gratuitous nudity the acting is terrible but i'm willing to blame the retarded dialogs instead of the cast members one to avoid at all costs in spite of really cool dvd cover art resist it
0	i'm sure i saw future kill for the same reason as most people the awesome poster by hr giger and like everyone else i was disappointed to find that the movie could not live up to the poster giger said that director moore actually begged him to do it when i first saw this at the age of 14 i thought it was the worst movie ever made i'd still think that if i hadn't seen certain movies on mst3k since then br br the plot has a bunch of annoying college boys driving into the mutant city to kidnap a gang leader for their fraternity that's when they meet splatter ed neal a mutant cyborg psycho who kills the gang leader and blames it on the frats as an excuse to hunt them down and seize power the rest of the movie consists mostly of chases a hand full of frats try to battle their way out of mutant city which i think is supposed to be la even though it was made in texas there's some pseudo political stuff about the frat boys' society being pro nuclear weapons and the mutant society being anti nuke there's talk of how splatter became a freak due to radiation most people develop cancer from radiation but splatter just shoots spikes and slaughters girls yeah that makes tons of sense at one point our heroes rescue a mutant girl from two pro nuke police and she shows them how the other half lives the other half it turns out are all punk kids who dance around to a bad 80s pop band so our little epic is both dumb and dated that's really all there is to it frat boys running around in messed up buildings while guys who look like bikers try to kill them oh and it's the future br br i don't think you'll have any doubt about why ron w moore never made another movie this thing is a real stinker if you like giger buy his books they have the poster without the horrors of the movie or just watch alien again future kill is a waste of time that nobody needs br br if this description makes the picture sound good there's another crappy movie that does the same thing only bigger and better after the fall of new york it's crap but it blows future kill off the screen
0	the only thing good about this movie is the artwork on the promotion poster by h r geiger anti nuke protesters who all looked like punk rockers of the late 1970s and somehow became non violent except for their leader splatter occupy the cities fraternity boys descend on the to do some violence on them and turn them into victims bad acting and bad plot then descends on the real victim you the viewer i gave this a 2 because a few sexual scenes at least give it mst3k potential br br
0	so i give it one star for true quality but i'd give it an eight and a half for sheer enjoyability an incredibly strange hybrid of sex comedy and vigilante thriller young warriors is just the sort of bad movie you usually hope to find when poking around the video fringe yet so rarely do it starts off with about half an hour of wacky hi jinx sex jokes and juvenile shenanigans including an olive in the martini joke that has to be seen not to be believed then the main character's younger sister gets gang raped by a bunch of swarthy bikers an objectionable scene that keeps me from giving this a 10 for entertainment value rape is not entertainment and the main character gets the rest of his sex crazed frat brothers to help him in a quest to clean up the city find the responsible bikers and kill anybody slightly criminal they run into along the way br br it's hilarious non stop fun apart from the very unpleasant rape scene and is essential viewing to any serious bad movie fan trust me i've put my time in on these things and this is one of the best highlights include a wonderful visit to the library a great flickering slo mo shootout in a sleazy bar with a shot of a guy blowing his own foot off that's pretty impressive a couple of decent slumming actors richard roundtree ernest borgnine a couple of semi famous recognizable faces lynda day george scream queen linnea quigley and a couple of relatives of famous people chuck norris' brother mike van patten clan member james it even has one of those great what have we become type morality lesson endings although the turning point comes when the vigilante gun down a couple of kids robbing a store with a toy gun i've always wondered why that was the catalyst that got the hero thinking after all whether they were kids and not hardened criminals and whether they had a real gun or not they were in fact still robbing a store so as far as i can tell it was just another job well done for our vigilante frat boys right wonderful stuff highly recommended just don't blame me when you enjoy it despite yourself
0	it begins with a couple of disgusting sex comedy gags but soon it reveals its true colors it wants to be a death wish clone i say wants to because the script gets so increasingly laughable by the minute that it ends up looking like an absurdist death wish spoof from a love scene in a room inexplicably filled with candles to heroes who dress up as commandoes and wave their machine guns because they don't want to attract attention to themselves to bad guys who drive around the city in a black van long after it has been recognized as their vehicle this film has too many ludicrous points to fit in a list the other major problem is that you can't tell most of the characters apart of course you know who borgnine and roundtree and even james van patten are but all the other roles could have been played by different actors in various scenes and you wouldn't know the difference 1 2
0	a party hardy frat boy's sister is brutally murdered by a street gang sending the young man into a sudden psychotic rampage he and his buddies massacre half the city to bring his sister back to life br br savage streets was released a year after this film and was more entertaining linnea quigley who has a costarring role in this film as the sexy and briefly nude girlfriend of one of the guys also starred in savage streets br br this film is subpar though it delivers enough escapist entertainment and gratuitous nudity to please its intended audience me br br mpaa rated r for strong violence nudity language and some sexuality
0	there are good bad movies and bad bad movies and enjoyably bad movies this isn't one of them this is a movie that doesn't realize just how bad it is br br i saw this at a screening on november 14 2006 at the new beverly theater in los angeles as part of the grindhouse cinema this theater puts on every month hopefully presenters eric co will think twice before letting writer director anywhere near them again what a con man the guy got up to speak before the film you would think he was orson welles talking about touch of evil or some other lost classic hardly nice of him to take up 20 minutes of the audiences' time with his incoherent rambling br br young warriors has been described as a cross between animal house and death wish but if you are expecting something along the lines of imitations like revenge of the nerds or the exterminator you will be in for one sad disappointment the script makes zero sense the direction is so poor the actors looked embarrassed and what can you say when the best thing about the movie is watching a car blow up br br poor richard shaft roundtree in this movie he plays another character with the first name of john but that's about the only similarity his character here has to the aforementioned classic i hope this film allowed him to pay the rent for another month other actors who look like they wished they could be anywhere else included ernest borgnine and linda day george br br this is a complete waste of time even the audience did not seem that into it except for the one spazz boy sitting in the back who yelled whoa every five minutes and his girlfriend who giggled with the fervor of a lobotomized talking barbie every time he opened his mouth br br for real films about vigilantes i would suggest the following br br death wish i ii iii exterminator i vigilante force ms 45 rolling thunder the no mercy man the latter two being a pair of films presented at this theater a couple of years ago probably the same budget as young warriors but both were a million times better
0	if you re not old enough to remember globus and menahem golan here s the rundown they re a couple of film producers and from israel who set up the cannon film company in the early 1980s the only israeli to get a worse press than these two was begin begin probably deserved the bad press but globus and golan were a god send to film makers because no matter how bad your script was they d happily fund your movie and would normally employ directors who couldn t direct and actors who couldn t act in fact you often got the impression that people would just walk up to and menahem ask them for some money and they d oblige without seeing the film maker s resume if only producers nowadays were so trusting br br the young warriors isn t a cannon film but globus and golan did finance it and it has their signature all over it it s badly directed badly acted badly edited but it s the script that jumps out and attacks you with its awfulness it starts with a bunch of high school jocks getting involved in all sorts of zany pranks in fact the first 20 minutes of the movie plays out like a sex comedy and it s something of a shock when the young warriors turns into a vigilante movie but it s not just any type of vigilante movie like exterminator 2 or death wish 3 notice a connection they re both sequels and they re both vigilante movies made by cannon films no this is a laughably bad vigilante movie about pretty boy high school jocks and their poodle going on a mission to wipe out scumbags this film is proof that globus and golan were giving money to people regardless of their film making abilities and you have to worry about people who seem to spend their entire reserves on making movies set entirely around vigilantes
0	where to begin this film is very entertaining if you are new to the wonderful game of rugby however if you live outside the us and do follow the game it is laughable various rugby traditions such as the which is preformed by the new zealand all blacks and only by the all blacks the leader of the is usually the member of the team with the best pedigree this is one of the most important conventions of the modern game and has been misused and represented by the writer the film itself is quite well directed however it is the poor script and over all execution that lets it down heavily taking into account is is based on a real story it does posses a great deal of clichés in the storyline i would strongly suggest that any american interested in rugby watch this film then watch what rugby actually is on youtube because the rugby portrayed in this film has been distorted and skewed so far from what it really is
0	if the directors producers publicists wish to promote a film as based on actual events and make a film that is meant to inspire and have meaning then for a start to maintain any sort of creditability and integrity you would want to keep a film as honest as you possibly can br br a team wearing all black jumpers and doing the in america is just plain dumb any half intelligent person would know that the all blacks are the national rugby union team of new zealand and their jumpers are all black and the is performed by them as a part of a traditional dance br br having such stupidity in a movie without explanation merely reduces the credibility of the movie to zero and negates the message and inspiration that the movie is trying to achieve br br the question is why why would you do such a stupid thing and for what possible gain br br i can only conclude that the writers or director or producers have seen it on tv before a international rugby union match and thought wow that would be great in our movie no one will know that it never happened they're all too dumb to know about nz nd the all blacks this will be great br br how would an americian audience react to a movie made in nz about americain grid iron with a team wearing an american indian costumes and war paint doing a native american indian war dance running round in circles shouting oh woo woo woo oh woo woo woo react they'd laugh their heads off br br the people that made this movie and the industry that spawned it really should have their heads read for some reason the industry thinks that they can fool all the people all the time br br it's just dumb
0	mexican 'classic' was the third entry in the aztec mummy series as you will soon find out this movie is anything but a classic instead it's more like a movie that deliberately tries to bore you br br some scientist wants to steal aztec treasure from a tomb but guarding that tomb is that walking toilet paper commercial the aztec mummy knowing he can't beat the mummy he then builds a robot and a very bad one at that we only get to see mr robot in the last reel as he clunks around and does battle with the aztec mummy br br i have seen a lot of lousy sci fi films hell most sci fi films i see are lousy but this one for it's entire duration of 64 is the worst movie i've seen with fubar coming in a close second br br in conclusion don't waste your time
0	awful film terrible acting cheesy totally unrealistic embarrassing to anyone who has played the game for a start that guy is not a hooker he would be snapped in two as for score that's my well no it's not for the the uneducated american audience it might come across as a good film for me well that's a few hours of my life i'll never get back i read through the reviews and came across one where the guy sounded like he knew what he was talking about then i read br br while american rugby may never reach the level of talent that new zealand or south africa has third in the world is also nothing to hang your head br br all i can say is br br keep playing your american football and baseball leave the real sports to the big boys
0	i'm from australia and have watched with respect the extraordinary culture surrounding rugby union in new zealand i can totally appreciate the comments made by in relation to this movie it was a total insult to a race of people and their beloved sport br br whoever was involved in the making of this atrocious movie should be made to formally apologize to anyone who had the misfortune of watching it note people do not kneel down and cry while slowly reciting the what a pitiful scene this was br br are we supposed to feel some kind of sympathy for this idiot who nearly killed his girlfriend who refused to listen to any advice from anyone with half a brain then apparently saw the light what a thoroughly dislikable character with the visits to children's hospitals doing nothing to redeem his despicable personality br br and why are people even making a movie about americans playing rugby they barely even feature in the sport on the world stage not so much as to even warrant an attempt at making a movie about it yes a 'world' sport unlike gridiron and baseball
0	this film is probably the worst movie i have watched in a very long time the acting is so wooden a door could have done a better job the plot is laughable and shallow and the actual rugby shown is a far cry from reality i still don't get the as portrayed in this poor excuse for entertainment i am not a kiwi but i do know that the can only be performed by someone of origin and not by an all american white boy br br i am assuming that this was made for the american audience so the shallowness and disney end' is excusable but there was hardly any attempt to point out the basic rules of the game apart from the prison side where the main character suddenly takes charge of an american football game and gets everyone playing rugby instead the only thing good about this film were the end credits it would be less painful to spend ninety minutes inserting toothpicks into your eyeballs
0	coach preachy or straight sappy it's bad writing combined w even worse acting you can choose to drink the of this after school special but i didn't not even on it's 20th toby robbins islander philosophy motivational moment it's too much posturing to be entertaining and not substantive enough to be informative i have respect for the coach and the program this movie is inspired by but the move itself is awful as someone who has played rugby for nearly 20 years in the states i had hoped for a better rugby movie even one that has something loosely to do with rugby and i can tell you that the performed by a bunch of and islanders is not intimidating much like when it's performed today by the all blacks seriously boys everyone has seen it it's time to put it away if you want real intimidation line up across from a bunch of south africans the real eye gouging convicts of rugby this is a fake and badly done movie about being a genuine and good person
0	this movie like so many others remember the titans miracle follows the basic sports movie formula there's a guy he's a jerk jerk does bad jerk must play by someone else's rules someone else's rules change jerk jerk becomes good insert tragedy death drugs riots etc tragedy effects jerk makes him totally change jerk must now play championship game lots of close ups on the sweating players and the balls jerk wins quote from coach or news or something that explains title credits weren't you touched these movies can now be used to sort out the morons of society anyone who pays to see this in theatres must be slapped
0	first off just let me say that i live in south africa where rugby is our biggest sport by far and our national side the have won the rugby world cup twice so it's quite a big deal over here i've played all my life and i'm shocked at the poor attention to detail in this movie at first i thought it had the potential to be a great movie considering the cast of neal mcdonough nick ferris gary cole and sean astin for goodness sake but it turned out to be a mockery of the sport they basically mashed it together with your normal everyday american football movie br br my first problem is that this movie supposedly captures the values of rugby but the discipline or should i say the total lack thereof during the games are contradictory to this in the final it looks more like an nfl game with penning being tackled of the ball numerous times in front of the referee that would've immediately led to a couple of red cards because foul play like that would never go unpunished in by a referee of that i can assure you you'd also not be able to find a coach in world rugby who would have so little control over his team any coach would take a dump on a players head if he intentionally stiff arms an opposing player or double teams him like they did in the final red card and certain suspension full stop br br secondly it's absurd that a coach would take a brand new player who has played wing all of his life i gather move him to hooker which is a highly specialized position and say that it's for the good of the team what hooker is a highly specialized position in the front row where you have to be able to extremely well and preferably be able to throw the ball in at line out time which penning never does for some or other reason by moving a wing to hooker without any extensive long term training it would firstly lead to your team's demise at time secondly the poor kid would probably break his neck how is that good for the team i ask you finally the overall high emotional pitch of the movie is way too much because even though rugby is a great sport and it builds great friendships team spirit it rarely gets that out of hand corny i've seen true life football drama's with less emotion than this movie it turned out great but in this one sean's penning acting skills is dragged way too far and the movie attempts too force an emotional response out of the audience which ends up being boring and hard to watch at times br br hollywood have made some great sports movies over the years but next time they venture into a sport which has just recently picked up in the states they should try and do their homework maybe get some experts into the fray br br do it right or don't do it at all
0	this movie is horrendous the acting is cheesy and laughable if you know anything at all about rugby the match action is boring in fact any episode of power rangers contains more realism than this movie the 'action' consists of no more than one pass and a shot of guy landing over the try line or being tackled without the ball and hectic hand held shots of who knows what it's impossible to tell there is nothing of the excitement skill and construction of try scoring that real rugby contains as for the this is a bunch of yanks trying to imitate a tradition they know nothing about much like the white rasta character that should have been left out of the film next time there's a rugby movie made we can only hope that people who know rugby make it
0	ok from the point of view of an american who i assume do not know much about rugby this would be an amazing film for them first of all its got heart good morals the typical good coach trying to change the bad boy however to us where i come from rugby is the number one sport it is a way of life it is a game played only by the bravest and the victorious are hailed like heroes as though americans do for their baseball basketball stars am not really sure if it was the cheap budget or the maybe the director or actors knew very little about rugby and being a rugby fan my whole life i can see than some of the actors didn't even knew rugby existed before acting in this movie in summing up to me this movie was terrible if you watch it and thought it was great please make time to go online and maybe google all blacks this is new zealand's national team and the ones who made the famous believe me they will make the highlands boys look like school girls
0	awful awful awful br br i loved the original film it was funny charming and had heart this piece of junk has none of those things br br reused jokes from the original film stupid plots bad animation different voices with the exception of and that sound nothing like the ones in the original especially shudder br br the characters are off model the animation is flat and boring it's just a bad job all around br br and why is a jerk again i thought he had reformed but since when are these tv spin offs loyal to the original rolls eyes br br i'm sorry but there is nothing redeemable about this at all br br avoid at all costs
0	it pains me to see an awesome movie turn into some lame repetitive and lazy series it is filled with plot holes and the plot is confusing in a bad way whoever the prick writers were that decided to turn such a great movie into this garbage should have done some research instead of filling it with one liners and hollow new characters and the classic jokes from the first movie over and over and over and over again sure they get a little creative but its like seeing the same episode with a small twist pretty much like listening to creed or has to prevent himself from failing has a complicated plan but decides to go the easy way to save time and just use a potion someone questions the monkey and the bug appears in the background flirts with she disses him without sounding like a bitch disguises herself as principal and she calls and he forgets that she is i admit this show does have it's moments another problem is the fact that looks younger and looks weird also no one can replace david spade and john goodman their the ones who made and and sorry but i give this show two thumbs down
0	with the dialogue in the dubbed version of this film i don't think that shakespeare is in any great danger this is the story of an ancient aztec mummy who has been disenfranchised his stuff has been taken and this really ticks him off he seems to know who's doing this even though he's a gyrating raving entity i loved the two dull men who tell the story of how the mummy was found and the doctor who is determined to destroy the creature there are all these scenes in this ridiculous graveyard full of cheap crosses and other junk there's a mausoleum where the mummy is kept i can't begin to reproduce the idiocy of this including a snake pit where the good doctor is thrown there is a door next to it so he can crawl out to the robot a mass of metal cans with a guy inside the dialogue is awful there are long pauses between speeches as if someone offstage is feeding them their lines i love the scene where the two little kids accuse their mother of going out at night she goes into this zombie state or something nonetheless if your looking for a film that you can laugh at and never takes itself seriously watch this have a couple beers first like a direct line from the mummy's tomb watch this and your eyes will bleed and your breath will stink what more can i say
0	first when does this storyline take place it has to take place after the first movie because knows and has her third child but it can't take place after the second movie because doesn't get a girlfriend or wife or something you never see her in the show br br also why is going to school the whole plot of the show is that is going to school so that he can be emperor but wasn't he emperor before this and who's emperor while he learning to be emperor shouldn't that be or was fired in this time line already and if that true why is waiting for him to fail to become plus you know in the first movie he said he was trained from birth to be an emperor by private tutors so he should kinda know what he's doing br br why is a student he's around 25 they stated that in the first movie he's an adult going to high school does everyone think he's a moron i really like but i think because of his age and because everyone know that he is working for he should have been a teacher being a home ec teacher would be right up his alley br br is very unlikable she suppose to be love interest moral compass but a lot of time she comes off bossy and know it all she commonly says thinks i like i should be proud because i am pretty and smart br br she has esp when it comes to and knows whenever he's in trouble when he's cheating or even when he sings the hot hot hottie song in his head even though she does cheer leading school newspaper and keeps straight a in all of her classes br br she seems more interested in using her prettiness to get to do the right thing and do well in school then dating him in fact she seems more motherly to then a love interest br br as i bought up before is trying to get to fail so she become not sure how that's suppose to work with being fired and all seems to be reliving the first movie in every episode in almost every show that she appears in she turns into an animal in hopes of having him fail a class there are only 3 times that i can think of that that didn't happen the jokes about being old aren't as clever in the show as they were the movie and classic jokes about are used to death in the show like the pull the level roller coaster and the lab br br also some other points that don't make sense in this series the fact that whenever is assigned something everyone acts like this assignment will make him pass or fail the class but he seems to pass every assignment given to him so why does one assignment matter so much br br seriously who is ruling the kingdom while this is going on do they have a consul or a steward you never see anyone ruling the kingdom unless has his powers back or is br br why is going to a normal peasant school shouldn't he learning about how to lead a country what to do in case of war or something that will be useful to him in the future i could see taking some normal classes on like farming so he would know how to prepare the country for a famine or something like that but knot tying how is that helpful br br now i know that someone is going to say but it not suppose to make sense it's suppose to be funny then they should have more funny things in there all the funny things about the show have been done already in the movie also if they notice some of these huge plot holes why don't they poke fun at them like in the movie for example when and get to the secret lab before and and and can't explain how they got their first br br there are some good points it is nice to see some of the characters from the first movie in the series like and monkey with the bug and his family are still very good characters with a good down earth feel i feel that this series would be amusing for younger children br br in conclusion the series is not as good as the movie that it based on but it may good for younger children
0	this show is not in my opinion good then again i have not enjoyed any cartoon from disney channel except for the proud family because that so is about a normal female teen this show is very similar to the way i feel about lilo and the series it was a mistake turning the movie into a cartoon because the movie was excellent the cartoon is terrible disney channel was doing just fine before adding all these stupid cartoons such as dave the barbarian brandy and mr whiskers lilo and the series american dragon jake long and where it all started kim possible the shows would have been better had they come to playhouse disney as for this particular show will never get out of school just as dave the parents will never return home and as brandy and mr whiskers will never get out of the jungle
0	all this show is is the same plot spelling is in danger of failing school he needs to pass to become emperor he needs to learn something which he thinks is stupid he then uses it learns more about it and realizes it's not so stupid posing as the principal tries to transform into some animal to stop him every episode br br jokes from the movie are copied incredibly complicated plans breaking the 4th wall constantly squirrels they should try hiring some writers br br 2 10
0	i cannot believe this show was okay ed first off j p does a horrible job filling in for david spade and voice is too deep compared to john goodman's the theme song is so annoying and the plots of the episodes are so stupid the only good thing about this show is that eartha kitt and patrick warburton remain as the voices of and this show is a waste of money and a waste of your time half of the episodes are copied of the movie in my opinion the emperor's new groove was one of the best children's movies in years but they ruined by making new groove and this show you should watch such shows as spongebob fairly oddparents danny phantom or kim possible but not this show
0	i think this was a horrible mistake on disney's part first off does not need to pass emperor school to become emperor that's never happened before secondly the new voices don't sound like the originals at all very poor redo and while i adored the movie the emperor's new groove the new school is just stupid like all the jokes are the same and many are from the movie the plot gets redundant always is that how you spell it trying to become empress stopping her etc or learning to become a better person i think gets annoying with his constant complaints and questions he is a spoiled brat and it bothers me i do not think this is worth five minutes of your time much less a half hour
0	i don't normally write reviews in fact i never write reviews this film was so atrocious it actually inspired me to start virtual sexuality attempts to be a light hearted and cheeky teenage comedy regarding the usual trappings virginity boys etc except the main character apparently turns into her perfect boy that she has created using the help of a machine at a technology fair br br sound interesting well it isn't the acting is the most half hearted and appalling i have ever seen the unfortunate thing is they appear to be genuinely supportive of script and movie which probably explains why i have never seen them in any memorable production since i have not bothered to learn the actors names nor their characters the lady does not enrapture or charm you and thus you do not care for her whatsoever the leading lady's male friend raises no sympathy even when the script is screaming for you to pity him the only rise he will get out of you is one of extreme anger and sudden violence the only half decent actor was the blonde leading man who despite his miserably weak role really gave it all he could which wasn't much in the light of such a horrendous piece of work i will not even talk about the acting abomination that are the 'bad guys' of the plot but then again what plot br br i watched this film unfold incredulously as i had absolutely no idea how anyone would have the foolish audacity to write such a script nevermind produce act in and direct it i can only wonder the only reason my companion and i continued to watch such a mangled example of film was the disbelieving laughter it managed to arise out of us as cohesion logic class and even impotent storyline were disregarded within half an hour into the film i have completely no idea why anyone wanted to violate the movie industry by releasing this to the public this is a joke of a film and is best left to gather dust in warehouses for the rest of eternity 1 2 out of 10 if that
0	this movie plays out like an english version of an abc after school special with nudity it makes you wonder who the target audience was supposed to be it's not as though the writers were too preoccupied with selling a plausible plot either while it does possess a certain watchability virtual sexuality is fluffier than dandelion meringue it's a good movie to watch if you're snowed in the out and it's the only tape you've got
0	it's hard to tell who this film is aimed at the characterisation and style smacks of a children's itv series crossed with an aussie soap yet the subject matter nudity and language aims it at an older audience br br the first half hour has the heroine justine philosophising about losing her virginity and is excruciatingly embarrassing to anyone over 18 a complete rip off of ferris bueller from the talking at the camera bit down to the on screen graphics br br her nerdy friend brings her to a computer fair where an explosion during the use of a virtual reality machines turns her into a man or actually creates a male alter ego of her called jake don't look at me like that i'm just relating it the way it was shown br br after this the film is mildly amusing for a while amongst all the drama school mugging only rupert penry jones brings a real comic touch to his woman trapped in a man's body role of jake there's some funny scenes with jake dealing with his new body and new feelings nothing you haven't seen before but then in this film you'll clutch at anything that's entertaining br br unfortunately justine and jake meet up and hilarious antics ensue i wish involving the owners of the virtuality machine who want to kidnap jake in order to have sex with him or examine him or something anyway it's just an excuse to fill an extra half hour with some explosions and car chases for such a cheap looking movie the explosions come often and loud suggesting the money was spent in all the wrong places br br in the end the heroine realises she can't fall in love with herself deletes her alter ego and ends up in a one night stand with the nerd to lose her virginity this presumably is what is meant to pass for a happy ending in the 90s but only after he removes his glasses and puts some hair gel and a leather jacket on god forbid she actually have sex with someone who looks like a nerd of course this is a bit subversive in these days of pc movies which tell you to love and be yourself and that everyone is special in their own way it's refreshingly reactionary to have a film which screams conform at you and treats virgins and nerds with the contempt they deserve br br the characterisation is simple dire the nerd is very nerdy room full of computers thick glasses social virginity no leather jacket there's a slut she's very slutty blonde tight dresses orange tan accompanying music there's a jock he's very well you get the picture you can get away with this kind of characterisation in a broad comedy but virtual sexuality isn't very funny it's only mildly amusing in parts and excruciating in others it takes a lot for a woman as cute as justine played by laura fraser to annoy me but she manages it br br don't be fooled by the title there's absolutely nothing erotic about the film and it doesn't deal with the topics of how the new communications technologies are changing the way we view and acquire relationships unless you actually think there is a chance your playstation might blow up and change your sex br br
0	oh dear this was quite possibly the worst film i have seen in years i mean what more can be done with the old woman inside mans body storyline it was full of cliches eg the nerd coming into his own sequence the lad getting whats coming to him etc im not calling these spoilers because any one could guess what happens the only thing it had going for it was laura fraser who gave an average performance and as for the dream boy that was the piece of acting ever even the bad guys were instantly forgettable br br terrible movie
0	laura fraser creates her ideal man on a virtual reality machine and he's suddenly brought to life of course oh what jolly japes don't ensue in a britcom flop so day glo bright yet so dismal it manages to make the execrable 1980s american teen flick weird science look almost decent the sex obsessed script is by the sun film critic nick fisher a former teeny mag who's obviously never watched an episode of smack the pony in his life shame because then he might at least have been in with a shout of writing female characters that were recognisably members of the human race this knicker twisting lot have all too clearly emerged from the virtual brain of someone who imagines they're amusing suddenly the thought of new wave iranian cinema is somehow attractive
0	spoilers the third and mercifully last of the aztec mummy trilogy in the fact that the series major star besides the mummy actor ramon gay as dr eduardo was gunned down by the outraged husband of a woman he was having an affair with on may 28 1960 still that didn't stop gay in him being edited into them from his previous films from being in a number of future mexican horror movies made over the next four years after his death br br in robot vs the aztec mummy we have the once again mad scientist dr trying to get his hands on the mummy's golden and bracelet in order by having them deciphered to find the treasure that's been secretly buried somewhere in modern mexico city over 500 years ago robot vs the aztec mummy is not much as a movie in itself in that its made up of stock footage of the previous aztec mummy films that take up over half of the films running time br br after getting introduced to the movie's cast members some who have been killed in the previous aztec mummy films we get down to the real nitty gritty in it involving the evil as well as criminally insane dr also know as the bat dr who looks like a wild eyed and crazed orson wells is a man with boundless visions of grandeur in him not only uncovering the long lost aztec treasure but now unlike in the two previous movies he was in creating life and using it in making an army of human robots to take over the world an idea he must have gotten from watching ed wood's 1955 atomic superman classic bride of the monster br br unable to handle the mummy in his two other encounters with it where he ended up getting thrown by it into a snake pit filled with deadly dr had created a robot with a human cadaver stuffed in it to the job of doing in the mummy for him with he mummy sleeping in its tomb at a local mexico city cemetery dr has his robot man brake into the mummy's crypt to do battle with it and destroy it with its bolts of deadly radiation br br spoilers the big built up to the aztec mummy robot man confrontation turns to be a big let down with the mummy having no trouble at all dispatching the tin man in less then 30 seconds together with its creator dr all this while both dr and his friend and assistant who came to the mummy's aid have nothing at all to do but sit back and watch the action now without the mad and off the wall dr annoying it the mummy can go back to its eternal resting place without ever worrying about the problems of the modern world at large like dr that it has really no interest in
0	justine cannot find the perfect mate to make her first time the perfect one with geek friend in tow she enters a virtual machine to improve her appearance when she sees the opportunity to create her perfect man an explosion occurs and the results are left to your imagination problem is how many obvious sex jokes are left anymore how predictable can these kind of movies get a few funny moments here and there but nothing too outrageous or different from jokes in other movies or even normal life if you liked weird science or jokes about the 'fish out of water' combined with identity crisis' then by all means these 90 min you could enjoy
0	a british teen movies which centres around a girl justine accidentally creating her dream man jake in by the use of a virtual reality machine there is only one problem well… not just one… she gets trapped inside his body with a geek as the only person who knows the truth and the only person she can trust it sounds a lot worse than it is i found it more watchable for the reason that laura fraser was starring in it more than the film content indeed she looks stunning throughout especially when she dresses in a red lycra dress in order to impress jake wow if only i had a virtual reality
0	virtual sexuality proves that britain can produce romantic comedies as vapid as those from america the only differences are an ending that ties up the loose bits differently than an american film would and a cameo by ram john holder which is always welcome that's enough to make this a watcher on a cold winter's night
0	miserable film not even to be compared in one breath with to kill a mockingbird or in the heat of the night br br yes there is racial prejudice but the film is at most ridiculous br br come now would you really have elizabeth patterson of all people guarding a jail so as to avoid a lynching patterson in her day played everyone's mother and was the landlady in i love lucy before fred and ethel mertz bought the building br br imagine the body so that it will not come out that the black man's gun killed a white man br br claude jarman jr who was so fabulous in the yearling appears in this mess he still had those sad eyes my eyes would be sad too if i appeared in this awful film br br to me this was nothing more than a faulkner flop all the way
0	silly disney film about a college student who accidentally discovers a potion that makes things invisible not a bad idea and some of the special effects are pretty good still the script is very bad all the jokes flop and the acting is lousy everybody's trying to be funny and they're not a real boring stupid disney film but it was fun seeing kurt russell so young
0	genre cartoon short with no dialogue african girl and lion br br main characters the lion and the bird br br what happens a lion wants to eat an african girl called there is also a rather confusing bird is he on or the lion's side br br message br br my thoughts i agree with lee eisenberg this is rather mean on poor african people i like how the main character who is an african girl is quite a nice main character but they still portray her rudely and make a younger audience not like her very much just because she's hunting grrr charles m jones i don't like the lion very much and i think the bird is all right i suppose personally i prefer charles m jones's looney tunes cartoons in the future br br if you want to watch this anyway then i recommend the website youtube just type in on the space in the main page and you're there br br i wish charles m jones had been nicer to in this short so there br br recommended to people who are interested in old cartoons and or people who are just messing around on you tube
0	cartoon like special effects horrible acting and dialogue and dry plot this movie has it all my friend and i went to blockbuster to find a horrible movie that we could make fun of but this was just too much the movie begins with a women and her son vacationing on a made up island in the region the women who just happens to be a doctor is in the area when a man collapses he has a strange wound on his arm and she immediately knows that it is a contagious virus the story goes on to show startlingly fast romance between the two teenage leads this is justified by the girl saying i know it's fast but it just feels nice anyway the entire island gets infected with this virus and the is brought in we are told that within three months if the virus is not treated and contained that it will spread to the united states and kill millions of people this information does not stop the from leaving the island to save themselves thankfully the cure to this horrible virus is found just in time and the entire island is saved to celebrate the death of there loved ones the island people have a smashing party where everyone is dancing having fun and forgetting about the horrible epidemic that just occurred
0	standard disease outbreak in remote area expert who happens to be vacationing in the area takes charge movie there are only a few deviations from the norm one is that the kids involved are pretty reasonable from the outset usually they are monsters who repeatedly gum up the works until they redeem themselves in the end another is that the local medicine man witch doctor who is normally an impediment early on is never completely discounted or redeemed in the end perhaps since this seems to have been made for the faith oriented pax channel they didn't want to seem too judgmental about the faithful finally there were no evil local politicians leisure industry bigwigs trying to cover the whole thing up the lack of these stereotypes was refreshing if we have the pax channel to thank for that i may have to sample a few more of their offerings aside from that however this was pretty standard stuff you've seen it all before
0	unbelievable i never saw something like that everything is bad really bad from photography lots of scenes without focus to the acting the young female is terrible and what can we say about those helicopters made in paint brush really amazing b i mean z film br br the plot are bad cliché and bad wrote basics conveniences to the screenplay seems to work i can't even think a young student of cinema making this movie nothing justify it br br i recommend that you don't even think to see this movie sleep or play solitary are best choices br br xxx
0	before i saw this masterpiece i never would have guessed that a devastating and hideously contagious virus could be defeated by the use of prayers and ralf performance is gargantuan the realism incandescent i was so inspired i'm flying straight to tomorrow to crack out the and get my hands together for third world prosperity god bless this film br br seriously i'm going to have to watch troll 2 and anus just to believe that it is possible to concoct more clichéd dialogue it's so tortured that taking a to your knuckles might well be preferable to sitting through it the only subtlety it manages to achieve is in its thinly disguised racism as the poor islanders turn to ineffectual dumb ass collective prayer which achieves nothing until the linen shrouded teutonic hero with his direct line to yahweh can provide a blood sample which the horn blowing yankee scientists can get to work on and save the hapless natives this movie sucks
0	following the pleasingly atmospheric original and the amusingly silly second one this incredibly dull slow and uneventful sequel comes across as a major letdown once again the nefarious criminal mastermind the bat hammy luis is trying to steal valuable jewelry from the aztec mummy the bat builds a hilariously clunky lumbering robot with a human brain in order to achieve this heinous goal flatly directed by rafael with a talky and tedious script by alfredo salazar and guillermo calderon cruddy continuity for example the bat was clearly killed at the end of the previous film but is miraculously alive and well here an excruciatingly sluggish script an excessive amount of stock footage from the first two flicks a meandering narrative a crippling lack of action and momentum largely dreary going through the motions non acting from an understandably disinterested cast and a poorly staged climactic battle between the mummy and the robot the movie finally bursts to sidesplitting stupid life with said big bash but alas it barely even lasts two lousy minutes and thus proves to be much too little far too late to alleviate the severity of the general overwhelming boredom this numbingly dry drippy and draggy snorefest rates as a complete washout
0	i ticked the contains spoiler box in case i say anything that is a spoiler and don't realise i've said it until i re read it after i've posted so it's just in case br br anyhow back to reviewing this film br br i saw this film on earlier on this afternoon and by the description sky gives you these people must be on acid it sounded pretty good but then when i actually got about 30 minutes into it i was appalled this film in my opinion has the worst scriptwriting and actors actresses ever the young girl who falls in love with the boy from l a after about 3 hours is a really stupid lame character who has an annoying whiney voice and hair then there's her lover who's an idiot and is also very whiney actually maybe they suit each other then there's the boy's mum who's with him on holiday and surprise surprise she's a doctor and oh my god wait there's even more unsuspected surprises a virus suddenly breaks out on the island and she knows all about viruses o shock horror yeah right lol then there's this insane religious lad who keeps going on about or something and how the lord knows all everyone on the island seems to love him yet he's actually a stubborn arrogant steroid pumped you really need to watch this film just for the scene where he comes out of the sea after a swim his head is like tiny and his body is massive it's hilarious buffoon who's had way too much to drink br br anyhow after all these weirdo characters including a stoned looking taxi driver the religious lad finally gives in to the doctor and she takes a blood sample and they get straight to work on finding the cure from that because for some reason he's dramatically been saved all down to and god and oh my god yes there's another surprise you'll never guess what just in the nick of time with 11 minutes to go before everybody on the island drops dead in fact including her son and his girl she finds the cure and injects everybody and it's all resolved what a pathetic film i mean i knew it sounded an obvious ending from when i first started watching it but i actually though it'd be good and have some sub plot twists somewhere but no no it was just boring and dry br br don't watch this film you'll end up like me stunned for 3 hours and then demanding the hour and a half you spent of your life watching it back
0	i think i would rather have my piles clipped with a pair of rusty than bear another 5 minutes of this movie in fact i cannot even be bothered to go in to detail not sure how they managed to get the needles into the wooden actors to cure them better off for all concerned if they had just nuked the island after finding out about the virus that way it would have lasted as long as the commercial break and we could have moved on with our lives plus one more thing was this rubbish commissioned by the god channel as all they seemed to do was praise the bleeding lord most of the time avoid like the plague in fact i would prefer it
0	when i think about tv movies i always think of this film i have watched it a few times on sky movies it was terrible br br its been a long time since i have seen this film was just browsing and came across it on here s br br a linda flemming goes on holiday with her son william flemming at this holiday resort kinda place they meet up with paul johnson taxi driver owns a bar and kathy johnson br br its like a weird romantic thing william starts to fall for kathy and paul falls for linda br br some guy passes out in a street he has some mark on his arm joseph joseph was a deep sea diver who on some dive saw a light or something and converted to religion says he will take care of this person there is a gap in my memory then there is a wide out break of the virus i think linda offers her help to come up with a cure kathy gets infected william notices a mark on kathy's arm with the virus also does joseph br br paul says some lines to joseph then joseph stumbles away the next time you see joseph he is cured some how that information is used to cure the infected then there is a beach party the end
0	i watched about an hour of this movie against my will and couldn't finish it i'd rate it as a 0 the writing was bad the plot predictable and one that's been done far too many times the most annoying part of this movie was the acting done by melody thomas scott this part did not call for someone appearing snobbish but she managed in every single scene i saw to look like a sour snob or someone who was about to spout something extremely sarcastic or cruel br br the two romances which seemed to develop into something serious almost upon the couples meeting was a bit too much br br i should know better than to watch made for tv movies if there is absolutely nothing on the telly and this is the only choice read a book
0	thursday june 9 6 broadway performance hall saturday june 11 1 broadway performance hall br br bless the independent filmmaker without them we'd see nothing but spielberg the farrelly brothers and films based on old sitcoms they are the risk takers they reap the rewards of success and suffer the failures max and grace is most definitely a failure credit is deserved by michael for getting out there and making his first feature which he claims drove him to bankruptcy he might be better off sticking to the stage if this film is any indication of what to expect in the future even though everyone warned me i went to see max and grace anyway hoping i might discover something they did not it starts off well enough a party for max in his parent's house shot in warm subdued light the camera floating into interesting angles as soon as we see max has hung himself an obvious rip off of harold and maude the whole thing goes right in the tank how could he do this unnoticed in the middle of a birthday party for that matter how could two mentally ill and committed psychiatric patients decide to get married and do it with the blessings of all parties concerned in the q a after the film david suggested the entire story was the surrealist dream of his character max this story is so badly written the comment sounded more like an excuse the film doesn't look as though it was made on a shoestring all the more reason to be so disappointed with the results what's intended as funny isn't but instead is offensively bad the continuity is sloppy the lighting is dreadful and the effects look cheap and forced seats under three hundred and was surprisingly full but i saw at least thirty or forty within the first half hour at one point grace played by natasha laments her inability to die i found myself thinking the same thing since i never walk out before the credits if really thinks this is one of the best scripts he has ever read it sounds like he needs to catch up on his reading a terrible waste of talent and resources this is the worst independent i've seen since bubba ho tep
0	from 1936 1939 peter lorre made a string of highly successful mr moto films while technically b films they were much better made than typical films of the genre however lorre tired of making these highly repetitive films and told friends he wanted out of the series when it was canceled in 1939 lorre was thrilled but his plans of getting more complicated and satisfying roles did not materialize when he moved to columbia pictures island of doomed men is one of these films and it's pretty obvious the studio isn't putting much effort into the movie as i think the plot was written by penguins talented penguins perhaps but still the movie made little sense at all br br it begins with a guy agreeing to be an undercover agent for the government he is to infiltrate an island in the us where something strange is amiss now they easily could have just got a search warrant to do this but given that penguins were writing the film the agent takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit and spends a year in prison for this he apparently hopes that he'll be paroled to this island as many are sent there when they finish the term br br there are some more serious problems with this idea first they only have him serve a year before getting paroled but he was convicted of murder and he refused to divulge who he really was they would never parole anyone in a case like this second what if he wasn't paroled to the island he would have spent an entire year in jail for nothing third why not just have scuba divers or or cops in boats come to the island talk about a contrived plot br br once on the island the agent discovers that evil peter lorre has set up his own private prison and staffed it with guys on parole as slave labor what about the men having to report to their parole officers this was never explained but lorre was using them to mine for diamonds and they were treated abominably now another question i had was that if lorre was discovering huge diamonds there he was a very wealthy man so why not just pay people to mine for the diamonds why set up your own version of devil's island and savagely beat and kill the men br br eventually lorre gets what's his and the island's slaves are released unfortunately by then i really didn't care overall watchable but rather dumb lorre's career only took a turn for the better when he moved the following year to warner brothers with films like island of doomed men i could see why his stay at columbia was short
0	greetings all br br isn't it amazing the power that films have on you after the 1st viewing br br i was so delighted by the first viewing of this film i couldn't stop talking about to all my friends for weeks mind you i was a very impressionable 18 year old back then and my taste in films have become a little more conservative since then br br then somehow i forgot about this film until i saw the dvd in my local department store and remembering how great it was i thought right i'll pluck you off the shelf when they bring out the special edition br br last week i was overjoyed when my best friend invited me over to watch on dvd the expectation was that i would love this film even more on 2nd viewing how wrong i was br br verdict after 11 years my view on this film had changed from a very scary 1st class movie to total junk which overplays on the religious and supernatural side of things superficially br br i have never been a big fan of julia roberts' acting excepting for erin in which she deserved her oscar i think the problem with this film definitely lies with the director and a so so mediocre script i left this film feeling it had no real substance or potential and just a couple of scarey cheap thrills which weren't very well done at all not even the score by james howard who i rather like as a film composer could captivate and thrill me br br in 1990 i would have given this film 9 5 10 but in 2001 i'd be lucky to give it 2 10 at best br br
0	the only thing more full of holes than this movie's premise is its script is the ideal showcase for joel schumacher's glorious flamboyant brazen lack of talent the plot is totally illogical but super fake ponderous and everything is art directed within an inch of its life in the most clichéd overheated way i love how the med school autopsy room is a cavernous vaulted marble mausoleum low lit in red with huge rembrandt paintings hanging from the walls i love how keifer sutherland drives a canvas backed army jeep no one in joel schumacher's movies lives in an un eccentric manner it's always an alternate universe where everyone is young and painfully hip but hip strictly and obsessively according to an out of touch middle aged billionaire man child's idea of hip and holy crap the part where baldwin brother 16 dies and comes back to life and then is haunted by all the women he's slept with who i'll call you and i just need some space is the funniest friggin' thing in the whole universe what kind of a world do we live in where joel schumacher gets to keep having people throw money at him made me want to review the man's entire oeuvre solely for the kind of high quality yuks contained therein
0	what i came away with after watching this movie was a guilty conscience the film itself has a rather intriguing plot line and premise to it but unfortunately it is a movie that you cannot watch with out being bombarded with pornography if you plan on viewing this and have a moral problem with the degradation of the marital act for the viewing pleasure of an audience then you are making a big mistake this is not the type of movie with the token sex scene that you can skip on your dvd player near the beginning of the film baldwin's character is video taping his sexual exploits without the knowledge of his partner this tape and others like it continue to pop up throughout the movie at unpredictable times it appears that the film is attempting to make a statement about the dignity of women ironically in doing so they made multiple women into prostitutes i only gave it a 2 instead of a 1 because had they handled baldwin's promiscuity better it would have been an interesting film
0	i don't much mind the factors that others here have objected to acting lighting and so forth for the most part these things were executed well enough to carry the film and put its points across it's just a horror film after all br br what bugged me were the points themselves because this is a deeply moralistic film and its morality is deeply tacky in fact it's actually fundamentalist christian morality and this is a fundamentalist christian film look at the 'sins' br br sutherland's character picked on a kid at school when he was a pre teen leading to his accidental death br br baldwin's character used masculine wiles persuasion and good looks to shag quite a few women some of whom he videotaped ooh the swine how unlucky for him that women are such passive gormless creatures that they had no complicity in the matter br br roberts' character's dad came back from vietnam a junkie so ashamed to be caught shooting up that he kills himself yes what a terrible sin why couldn't he have just become an alcoholic like all the others br br and bacon's character picked on another schoolkid how awful the fact that he was a child himself apparently counts for nought children it seems are divinely judged by adult criteria br br well maybe lots of people support this level of moral it certainly seems to have gone unremarked in this movie's comments does everyone just buy this stuff at least human laws treat children differently from adults recognising that their ethical sense is partially formed this film has no such qualms and i find that pretty objectionable ditto the notion that women are helpless fluffy creatures before young men's evil lusts or that a vietnam vet driven to drug addiction is so shameful that suicide is a valid option pathetic
0	the first 2 3 of this film wasn't that dissimilar to the american mummy films of the 30s and 40s two lovers in ancient mexico dared to defy the law and were doomed to die one became an aztec mummy whose job it was to guard the sacred treasure and his lady love and the lady was reincarnated in the present day and the mummy was naturally attracted to her so far it's all the typical mummy film though it's quite a bit slower and duller than the american versions oh and of course the aztec mummy looked really really crappy br br however into this standard but boring film there is a super villain why i dunno it sure didn't make any sense to have one it seems this villain wants the treasure and he manages to hypnotize the lady and have her show them where the aztec treasure is buried why does he need the treasure well to buy the equipment needed to make an army of atomic robots dummy but first he has to construct a single mummy to defeat the mummy as the mummy has so far been unstoppable br br you've got to see these human robots as they look like the enormous clunky robots from flash gordon and other serials but they have a rubber head of a supposed dead guy inside they really look hilariously funny and seeing the conclusion when there is a huge battle between the lethargic mummy and the equally slow robot is worth sitting through the rest of the dull movie both battle in super slow motion like they are bathed in taffy and it's done in such an artless and silly fashion that it is bound to elicit chuckles certainly not thrills br br overall the film is dreadfully dull and a muddled mess especially at the end however for bad movie fans it's a must see it's bad but unintentionally funny and great to watch and laugh at with friends
0	a bunch of medical student yuppies get together in their spare time to hook each other to the electrical cables and die then they stand around counting the time before brain death and then start cpr and heart massage and bring each other back to life the fact that julia roberts was in this movie should say it all is like group ghost everyone wants to see their dead relatives and visit their old dead buddies so what better way to do it than have a bunch of medical students kill you for five minutes and then bring you back to life the rest of the movie has the predictable relationship issues plus the predictable gee maybe if we keep killing each other one of these days one of us will stay dead d'oh this movie should have been called brain dead the fact that the characters were depicted as being medical students made me wonder if they had gone to a foreign correspondence school to get their degrees the only thing that kept this film from being a total laugh was that they did not just stick their fingers into electrical outlets in order to die this film would have been a great three stooges comedy movie
0	this is about as pretentious a movie as a shallow director like joel schumacher could make i suppose a group of medical students take it turns to die for several minutes upon revival they discover that their sins have manifested themselves somehow or other as some of the characters are visited by dead people and some just seem to be haunted by their guilty it's not quite clear exactly what the connection is but the visions do all seem to look like sixth form art films why the students treat their experiment as some kind of grand journey that'll make them famous is a bit of a mystery as the results are completely and as the movie mentions several times have been documented plenty of times before still it's nice to see schumacher practising for his batman trainwrecks with a bit of the old neon paint and coloured and william baldwin is a plank
0	jb jack black runs away from home after being spanked by his father meat loaf years later he finally makes it to hollywood and comes across the greatest guitar player he has ever heard kyle glass br br after a little squabble the two decide join forces and perform at an open mic night at what appears to be a less than popular bar to their shock they don't do that good br br back at their less than spectacular apartment the two are trying to figure out what the legends of rock have that they don't while looking at some old magazines it's only then that they realize that the guitarists on the covers have the same guitar pick br br while trying to look for a similar pick an employee of the music shop ben stiller who is also the film's executive producer tells him the ancient story of the pick of destiny of which they seek this employee who has long gray hair and thick glasses also tells them that the pick which was made from satan's tooth is in a history of rock museum br br now the two pot smoking losers with delusions of grandeur goes on a music filled adventure to steal the pick br br let me say this up front if you are not a fan of tenacious d which gave us the comedy actor jack black then you should skip this one i am not a fan of these two and only watched it because it was suggested by com br br the jokes for the most part produce silence more than anything i laughed at maybe three of the jokes and chuckled at a few others tenacious d is only for a certain audience of which i am not br br this movie lags in numerous places and this is where the worst jokes appear and let me say that when black and glass are not working off one another they are completely lost on screen br br all the songs in this movie is by and performed by tenacious d many of the songs perfectly advance the storyline by describing their adventures at the time in the film however i felt that the songs sounded too similar to be told apart br br another problem with this film is that the language will turn off a lot of people there are a lot of four letter words in this film there are also some drug references i would not recommend this for children br br part of tenacious d's schtick is that black is in your face and glass stays in his shadows for the most part this is how they are in this movie and it doesn't really work now this may have been part of the act but i felt that glass just didn't want to be there in one scene he performs his background lyrics at a party and he just can't work alone br br tenacious d are supposedly rock fans in real life and have maybe two rock legends in the movie i lost count because i was so bored with this film personally i would have liked to have seen more rock legends and icons in the film however we don't get that br br what we do get is a movie filled with completely lame jokes lots of foul language a lackluster script you also get horrible acting and an unoriginal story however you get some pretty good songs that pretty much sound the same br br the story could have been promising but many of the scenes appeared to have been added into the film at the last second this is somewhat similar to the blues brothers movie many years ago but the blues brothers had a much bigger following and two songs on the billboard music charts tenacious d only has a small following with a few hbo specials under their belt and unlike the blues brothers the comedy is not well thought out at all br br if you are a hard core fan of tenacious d then i suggest you check it out however like most of the movie audience when this film was released to theaters i would say avoid this one save your money on this one folks
0	once again we have a movie that packs about 20 minutes of entertainment much of it involving the band's occasionally funny lyrics into a 90 minute package for anyone old enough to remember this is along lines of the first bill and ted without the story line if that doesn't say enough as to how brainless this movie is think about jack black singing for about 20 minutes of the movie and that being its selling point if you actually like listening to tenacious d because of their musical prowess then knock yourself out and buy the soundtrack don't waste your time with this though if your a stoner looking for a good bad movie filled with laughs you're still barking up the wrong tree no matter the potency of your buds you'll still be left wishing you'd popped in grandma's boy again instead
0	jack black and kyle gass play fantasy versions of themselves in this comic showcase for their side band tenacious d an art rock outfit with satirical barbed lyrics an ex runaway obsessed with heavy metal and a beachfront living pot smoking slacker who pretends he's a rock god meet and form a band the birthmarks on both their butt cheeks form the group's moniker opening with a funny prologue which apes a twisted sister video from the '80s the pick of destiny is a fairly well produced movie aimed at older kids it occasionally resembles nothing more than a middle aged variation of wayne's world with jokey stoner interludes and a climactic bout with himself yet black and gass have an enormously comfortable rapport they also acted as producers co wrote the script and all the music the target audience will obviously go for it though inspiration is a bit low particularly in the second half just about the time our heroes impulsively outrun the cops in a student driver car the music sequences are far more successful than the attempts at movie satire and for the first thirty minutes or so jack black's manic enthusiasm is infectious 1 2 from
0	too predictable for spoilers but i'll not be cagey below so don't read it if you care br br a few dull scriptwriters together for half an afternoon and even then they run out of ideas so let's start with a criminal sought by all france doesn't matter what he has done we'll think of that later they don't some seconds of suspense but not too much and nothing unexpected because that requires art half an hour needed to finish off the film i get it have them rob a and take a lot of time avoiding alarms etc everybody robs jewellers in films just ike this it's bound to work it doesn't no humour no character ok yves montand does get to ham it a weeny bit and have everyone speak in a quiet deadpan voice that is supposed to make one think of noir but merely makes the actors sound depressed if they are silent it'll make them seem grimmer but also save us writing their lines we'd better add something for the stay at home women who are going to watch this stuff so let's have something to make them empathise with hubby we forgot to put any women in the film got it a son on gasp marijuana oh and have him attempt suicide for no particular reason shame his dad's a mafia boss for crying out loud but the audience will feel his fatherly care and if not sod them oh the crooked cop was a classmate of the guy who gets him in the end wrenching eh let's have them all die at the end or we'll never finish this stuff is it in the can right that's over with then thank god who'll we get for director
0	this movie had lots of potential beautiful women cute guys a beach beer a hot tub a mansion on the beach a swimming pool a sexy maid who hates her job and really nice cars however the movie had one thing that doomed it to failure a full length script and a bunch of sexy women who want to give acting a try because they think it would be a cool idea br br let's put it this way br br if you find yourself at a party and you have a choice between watching this movie or a childs potty training video from the 70s choose the potty training video
0	this is by far and away the stupidest thing i have ever seen on celluloid i mean we started watching it assuming it was a skinemax t a flick but aside from a couple boobs that was it i mean i get the point of making stupid movies in order to show some sex scenes as they are the sole reason for a movie of that kind to be made this movie however has no sex scenes and really has no point at all there is no linear time the scenes travel around like a fart in the wind people show up for no reason then leave and it is never explained the plot is never advanced and nothing happens i have never been as flabbergasted at how bad a movie was until i saw this has the director even been to a film school has he ever seen a movie i don't know but from the looks of it he seems to have made some moron proud with this piece of crap as he is still working i literally walked away from this movie dumber but i still recommend watching it as it should be shown in every film school of the country as an example in what not to do when making a film move over plan 9 from outer space you have a new contender for worst movie ever made
0	this movie is awful if you're considering to see this movie two words do not it's tasteless the storyline is really lame and the jokes are even worse the acting is really pathetic i can't believe that this movie was made rather watch american pie going greek or road trip if you're in the mood for a teen comedy it's about two girls who head for malibu on their spring break as usual they didn't do much planning and called i think her names michelle 's uncle to crash at his malibu mansion uncle bennie strictly forbids them of having any kind of party and as you would of guessed they go ahead and do it please i urge you do not see this movie
0	2 deathly unfunny girls stays a their deathly unfunny uncle benny's beach house uncle doesn't like party but guess what the deathly unfunny girls have a yup you guessed it a deathly unfunny beach party if you didn't catch the not so subliminal message that i'm trying to convey first off you're a moron i would rather watch a nude jello tag team watching match between bea and vs rosie o'donnell and jessica tandy this movie and i lose the term loosely is just that bad br br my grade f br br eye candy kristin novak and charity go topless singer shows breasts and buns
0	2 3 of this movie is recycled footage of the previous movies a fact that's sadly obvious even to someone like myself who hasn't seen the original movies and somehow it feels like a rip off even though i haven't seen the stuff before it's like that episode of every tv show where the characters sit around a photo album or something and you just see recycled footage of other episodes i've seen some producers do extended montages of recycled footage but never anything beyond 5 minutes or so this movie is mostly stuff that had already been seen by audiences so you could mount a case that it's one of the biggest rip offs ever foisted on the motion picture public br br i got to see it in the theater in a 16mm print which is good enough i suppose considering how rare this kind of material must be on film these days i give the movie some credit for semi convincing gothic atmosphere and for unintentional humor but that's about it the aztec mummy monster looks good even has some mobility in his face which is better than most movie monsters of the period but the robot is pitiful although it's interesting that they made the human face totally visible it's a robot human or something of the sort as they somewhat explain in the movie i think that's considered an android so technically in hard sci fi terms this movie should be called android vs the aztec mummy but i doubt anyone was too worried about technicalities here anymore than they were worried about quality in fact the movie is so sloppily put together that it makes television look good even the dubbing from mexican into english is lazy and weak for example at one point the hero says i might as well begin at the beginning what the heck kind of translation is that couldn't they at least have him say start at the beginning so that it doesn't sound repetitive a high school newspaper editor could have fixed the screenplay of this movie it's the epitome of utilitarian film making just absolutely nothing is in this movie that doesn't need to be there for the basic commercial purpose of the film they put no more effort into making it than they had to and considering the extensive recycled footage i would doubt that they actually spent more than a week making this movie br br i will now cease posting about it on the principle that i don't want to expend more energy in the process of commenting than the creators of the movie actually expended while making it
0	according to the article at http blog com article html one of the actors in the film lau was forced to appear in this movie for free she was the victim of an infamous kidnapping shortly before this movie was made and later photos of her in distress were published in a magazine which has since been forced to shut down and its publisher sent to jail the actress denies she was assaulted but there was a movie leaked on net that allegedly showed her being gang raped the hong kong press out of respect for her has mostly refused to report on the incident but google will turn up a few articles about it
0	for what it's worth this is a fairly decent road runner cartoon if a little short just under 6 minutes the gags are adequate at best the animation is competent and the new restored dvd master looks nice however that's where the qualities end allow me to provide a little backstory in 1958 thanks to a labour dispute wb got hold of a bunch of canned music that would be used in 6 of the year's cartoons br br there is only one phrase to describe this short's music and that is it has the 4kids sound i use that phrase to describe music which has absolutely no correspondence to the on screen action and feels like it was recorded by an orchestra consisting of members of a sonic youth cover band the music in this short feels hopelessly tacked on and incredibly obnoxious especially considering there are scenes in this short namely the piano trap that would have worked best with little or no music br br i didn't think a wb cartoon would be ruined by awful music even scores aren't this obnoxious but considering the cartoon isn't that notable anyway it becomes almost painful to watch with the music it's kind of like how late 80's episodes of doctor who could be bad anyway and yet be made unwatchable thanks to unbelievably awful music which sounded like he hit the demo button on all 5 of his casio keyboards at the same time br br i am going to have people call me crazy for this but i'd easily watch one of rr cartoons over this at least the canned music was usually in sync with the action on those
0	well it is standard hollywood schmaltz that you can see coming a mile off it's enjoyable in parts but just oh so predictable i must confess i did not really enjoy it but i am pretty tough to please and a lot of my friends loved it br br it is quite sweet and the actors give good performances it's a nice backdrop and the eye candy is pretty good but the irritatingly predictable unoriginal and really quite dull storyline holds the film back personally i can think of better ways to spend a couple of hours of my life br br the chick flick genre gets some bad press but there are some genuinely good chick flicks out there this isn't one of them
0	i cannot believe i actually sat through the whole of this movie it was absolutely awful and totally cringe worthy and yet i sat through it thinking it had to get better it didn't and i have wasted 2 hours of my life will smith is much better in action movies i loved him in i robot enemy of the state and independence day and i don't think he can really be expected to carry off an entire movie as the romantic lead in the way that cary grant could then again the script was unbearably awful and the dialogue was so cheesy br br i disliked everyone except for albert's character and even that i found was done with a heavy hand if you want to watch a modern feel good romantic comedy watch something like how to lose a guy in ten days or when harry met sally the 40 year old virgin left me with a smile on my face i even preferred music and lyrics above this and yes i know it's cheesy but at least it didn't take itself seriously and was sweet i also disliked the main female lead and wasn't convinced of the chemistry between her and will smith's character br br in all i think there were two scenes that i liked and definitely not the ending which was nauseating and unconvincing hitch calling sarah when she hadn't given him her number was quite sweet and no sorry that's the only thing i liked about the entire film don't waste your time
0	no hitch is decidedly not a romantic comedy about bilious and former leftist pundit turned reactionary pundit christopher hitchens though it sure would've made for a funnier movie a dumpy little englishman teeth stained black from cigarettes and guinness barking out advice and acerbic political commentary to lovelorn men look into her eyes when you speak to her you nutter and remember calling someone a 'neo makes you a de facto anti semite can't you get anything straight you liberal br br oh well instead we get will smith whose continuing success remains a mystery to me at least i am apparently alone in this regard smith is the most powerful man in hollywood as of this writing americans just can't help throwing their money at him i on the other hand find his smugness insufferable unmitigated by a scene here spoiled by the trailer where he suffers a drastic allergic reaction to seafood we know smith will bounce back to his bland over muscled good looks because there's a fat sit com actor kevin james on hand making a fool of himself we're supposed to laugh hysterically whenever the slob starts dancing like a jackass cue everybody dance now by cc music factory but why would a straight arrow accountant behave in such a way i've worked with several straight arrow accountants for years and i can tell you that if in norman memorable phrase tough guys don't dance neither do straight arrow accountants am i taking all this too seriously or and here's a daring thought perhaps the writers couldn't conceive a logically drawn character to save their lives br br speaking of the writers they come up with a lousy idea for smith's love interest a writer for a tabloid eva mendes since when do tabloid creeps deserve love what universe am i in anyway everyone here at imdb is actually gushing over this tripe either you all need to raise the bar in terms of entertainment value for your buck or i'm just a skunk at the garden party me and about 150 million other long suffering boyfriends and husbands in any case if i may imitate smith's hitch and offer my male readers some smooth advice when you're dragged to see hitch say to your better half hey that was pretty good after the movie is over don't be overenthusiastic don't rave about it she'll know you're lying to her praise it in a lightly surprised way as if the movie was better than you expected and wasn't the agonizing time waster that it actually was but what am i saying eh fellas we dudes know all the moves br br 1 star out of 10
0	what is wrong with american movies these days hollyweird keeps making movies that have men acting like women and women acting like men the idiotic male director and writer of this movie need to have their heads examined the main problems with this film are its overt extreme feminist portrayals of the sexes br br in the scenes of the bar eva mendez and her friend are swigging from the beer bottles like you may find sailors on an oil tanker doing so at a bar in iceland mendez continually kisses every girl she sees after that she also dresses provocatively in every scene yet curses like a guy she gets very emotional when she fights with will smith for a while while trying to all women from bad guys everywhere br br the men are no better in this movie what we see is a bunch of idiots trying to do anything they can to win a date the males in this movie are concerned with getting either sexual favours or unable to speak clearly when face to face with a woman men in real life do not behave this way br br what we see in this movie is a product of culture gone awry everything is flip flopped guys act like girls girls act like guys all this is done while keeping the extreme predilections of the sexes very much a part of the story men are shown as soft and stupid but only interested in sex most of the time while women are shown as macho and overbearing but only as a veneer for their emotional insecurities br br this movie would be good if it wasn't presented obnoxiously to the audience the content is not the culprit it is the manner in which the content is presented
0	nothing about this movie stands out as either being great or terrible br br in the end that is what kills it the blandness is just not good i can't say i expected better from will smith but i definitely did from kevin james of the king of queens but hey i'm getting used to saying that a lot lately this film attempts to make its mark as a witty romantic comedy but it never hits the bull's eye in fact it never hits anywhere within the target the allergy scene is disturbing the fact that kevin james can't dance is something that wouldn't exactly catch anybody off guard and is therefore in a movie like this not funny this movie constantly tries to win your heart but always with the wrong ploy at the wrong time some parts are okay but i'm searching my brain for examples but i really think this movie should be avoided
0	this is a comedy romance movie directed by andy tennant starring will smith eva mendes and kevin james br br it is about a professional dating doctor will smith known as who helps men to land dates with the women they are interested in he is currently helping a shapely clumsy albert who is obsessed with a very powerful famous and rich woman called at the same time hitch has become interested in a gossip columnist sara eva mendes who has been assigned to write about when the best girlfriend of sara has a love disillusion with a man that sara thinks that is a client of hitch she plots a revenge against hitch and the misunderstanding leads the two couples to a conflictive situation this film is not one that men should see as it has a lot of male bashing and both subtle and blatant male hating there are also double standards that you would have to be blind not to spot hitch and sara are both very guarded around the opposite sex hitch still likes women despite his burns from them in the past and is teaching men to make them happy but of course sara is a sexist bigot who makes frequent sexist comments along the lines of men want to have sex with anything that walks shes self obsessed and knows she looks like a goddess and knows there are no 'real men' out there what annoyed me most of all was the 'bad' guy who wanted a quick fumble with sara's best friend who is the classic example of a defenceless 'victim' and even after being turned down physically by hitch receives as blow to the pills from sara after which she says now i'm satisfied add to that the women are still oppressed vibes you get from not being allowed to spend her own money after asking permission from a table of men in spite of all the rubbish assumptions and women can always tell when you ain't being straight with them this movie does have the correct point that in america love simply doesn't exist there are some funny parts in this film such as albert and his dancing habits but this film overall only beats the dreadful film honey by a marginal amount
0	1 if you want to make a movie that deals with social realism it's quite important that the audience identify with the characters that are being portrayed 2 the audience can't identify with characters that are highly stereotyped or with situations that are to obvious 3 if you got a bad actor then you can't build any character anyway even if you got nice actors their job will result ridiculous if you force them to speak with a fictitious andalusian accent br br ignores those 3 points and also makes some cheap jokes that are completely out of place his script is so predictable a woman comes out of prison she meets his old junkie boyfriend life's tough etc whatever the fact that the story is everything but original wouldn't be that bad if only weren't a complete incompetent writing and filming br br i wonder how long will they keep giving money from our taxes to make movies such as this one br br my rate 3 10
0	really really what pleases audience american one in this so called show is totally beyond me what can we learn from these series br br 1 each casino there is spending about 2 3 billion bucks every year to rent a satellite and enormous quantity of hi tech high resolution cameras for their security team let fbi bites the dust of them br br 2 every security employee must have voluptuous breasts of course natural ones the tits must be shown all the time otherwise they will lose their job br br 3 if the employee happens to be a male he needs to get breasts implanted then go to step 2 br br 4 only in hollywood one can blatantly rip off other show's ideas then implement them as their own and call all this crap original and art br br 5 every security with tits bigger than is considered immortal and cannot die br br i really would like to have the opportunity to vote with minus values 10 10 for this one
0	ah such an original title for a very shoddy film the dubbing is hilarious since the voices and mouths never seem to match as a result i had no idea what was going on as i watched this mess unfold there are flashbacks within the flashbacks and no real time takes place until towards the very end the aztec ceremony had me laughing i rewinded it twice and got the best ab workout ever the singing aztec lady is comic and the dancing and costumes are a hoot some guy gets a face full of acid there's a lot of fighting you have no idea who any character is not that i really cared and it's a whole noir mess oh and the actual fight doesn't happen for awhile so during the movie feel free to get up take a nap take a trip you won't miss anything exciting
0	i've seen every episode and the characters have all remained the same self absorbed whinny little brats thought out there's no character development in 5 years getting pregnant is not development if your still the same daddies girl only now whines to danny because dad isn't around sam never changes or grows which makes her boring repetitive and just so annoying its sickening after season 3 danny is a typical soft character that gets ordered about by everyone in his life he has no principals morals of his own especially mary and the old boring cliché will they wont they on and off relationship does get boring very fast indeed br br james cann can act and his character is ok to watch only he is just another hack writers wet dream an ex cia man that has huge contacts and training etc so he can stop any thief or cheater known to man even though the cameras cant do half the stuff they make out its fun for a while however in 5 years the writers act very dumb why because they have all this expensive and advanced technology but no simple walkie talkie communicating is fast and easy you never see security walking the floor only when there's a situation and suddenly everyone is just there br br the plots very quickly move from the cheating and robbing the casino in one way or another to awful typical american boy girl relation ships the same done to death material seen all over the world they have sex but i hate you i've always loved you i think i do but i love her him instead but what if maybe one day blah blah blah br br i'd recommend to people who like las vegas it has so much more going for it simply because the characters are interesting engaging and not forced down our throat for 6 months of the year br br i'm glad to be british – i'd rather see the same actors in 5 different shows rather than 5 years consistently getting worst in the same one
0	when las vegas came out one review described this show as quote a harmless bit of fluff needless to say that after seeing a dozen or so episodes i think this description is right on the money an assortment of pretty boys and strutting model types play out an assortment of paper thin stories while all the time trying to pretend they are serious business people one dimensional characters in a one dimensional setting pursuing one dimensional stories that pretty much sums up vegas i still watch from time to time to see if the show is trying to evolve and take itself a little serious but alas to no avail so far
0	wow not in a good way br br i can't believe people dig this trash most of the shows on television are pretty bad and this has been a running trend for a while now they just keep getting worse but las vegas definitely takes it home what a terrible show br br the actors are a bunch of has been c losers that never went anywhere except james caan who knows what he was thinking when he signed on to this pos so its not their fault that this show sucks they just can't help it blame the producers and the writers i can't believe they shot this and were actually proud enough of their work to air it
0	this show had a promising start as sort of the opposite of 11' but has developed into a shallow display of t a actually according to my little brother thats the only good part of the show br br the first season was by far the best it was new and interesting things just went downhill after that the only redeeming point of this show is the other actors are lack luster the characters lack depth and they seem to be incredibly selfish nd generally un likable people br br to quote a friend las vegas is like in a casino in my opinion thats way to generous baywatch was way better and much more realistic
0	here we go another pop star breaking in to the grand tv land and from my observations from her pop careers directors saying yeah your great gwen you could be a real star maybe some day you'll be in the a list movies they would do anything to expand the show there just not a pretty face but have an acting ability as well almost overnight gwen has some how found the ability to act by watching actors like james dean or clint eastward please give the real people in the world that have to sit behind that box and have to suffer pop stars effort's in trying to act please gwen stick to your pretty pop videos with your jap posse and don't insult the british with your efforts as an actress anyway i'm going back to my working class job and think to myself god i could do that but yeah remember i'll be working till i'm 65 if i live that long and yeah you put your feet up girl with your royalties every three months pah marry into money right xxx
0	i saw this movie on videotape with my younger brother a long time ago despite the fact i was a young boy who's hearing impaired i didn't have the closed captioning decoder at the time it was 1986 the year of the transformers the movie but i could follow the plot and understand what's going on it wasn't my fault i saw the animated movie intended for girls my father rented the video to show to my other younger sister br br a decade later and i rented the video for 50 cents to watch again with the closed captioning turned on my memories of this movie was utterly destroyed by none other than a wretched script i have seen plenty of poorly written movies like cool as ice and jason goes to hell the final friday but i have never seen or heard the dialogues this bad only with enough inanity to make your head spin from laughing in hysterics and screaming from the pain of enduring the torture of sitting through this movie despite good plot and intriguing story concepts the script has to be one of the worst ever written for the screen bar none the incompetent howard r cohen should never be working as a screenwriter professional or otherwise i can not believe they would even allow the terrible script to produce a movie like this in the first place did the japanese producers read the script in broken english or translated before they know what they were into even crap like g i joe the movie and my little pony the movie have redeeming values compared to this abomination br br if you're a big fan of 80s animation or just taking a nostalgia trip beware of rainbow and the star stealer it does not matter whether you were elated or traumatized by the sloppily animated movie with an atrociously written script or you have not seen the movie stay away from this movie the movie should be viewed with the to learn how not to write a bad script
0	some spoilers br br this movie is sometimes subtitled life everlasting that's often taken as reference to the final scene but more accurately describes how dead and buried this once estimable series is after this sloppy and illogical send off br br there's a hey kids let's put on a show air about this telemovie which can be endearing in spots some fans will feel like insiders as they enjoy picking out all the various cameo appearances co writer co producer tom fontana and his pals pack the goings on with friends and favorites from other shows as well as real baltimore personages br br that's on top of the returns of virtually all the members of the television's show varied casts your old favorites as well as later non favorites br br there was always a tug of war pitting quality conscious executive producer barry levinson fontana james yoshimura and the rest of the creative team against budget conscious nbc execs who simply wanted a another moronic police procedural like nash bridges which regularly beat homicide in the ratings the pressure told as the show bounced between riveting realism that transcended its form and sleazy sensationalism that demeaned it br br unfortunately for this movie fontana co writers yoshimura and eric overmeyer and director jean de segonzac simply threw in the towel they took the most ludicrous story are from the series topped it with an unlikely and artistically unfruitful new plot line and laid the burden of carrying the whole mess on one of the weaker cast members br br briefly some time has passed since the last episode of the show the former heart of baltimore's homicide unit yaphet kotto as lt al giardello is now a kurt schmoke like candidate for mayor and schmoke himself makes a cameo appearance but this promising start immediately and improbably takes a tragic turn br br the spotlight shifts to giancarlo esposito as giardello's son mike a handsome man who has done good work elsewhere esposito was one of the pretty faces brought in late to supposedly enliven the tv series but the question for viewers always was is mike that uncomfortable as gee's son or is esposito that uncomfortable in the role br br to be fair esposito doesn't get a chance to play out the main story without interruption that's because the writers choose this moment to revive another storyline that spat on the intelligence of the show's loyal voters br br an apparent snuff streaming video was promoted and then seemed to actually take place on the internet after some red herrings the detectives arrested a repellent suspect but zaljko ivanek's harassed and overworked deputy states attorney forgot to file motions in time and the suspect was released only to be murdered later br br let's summarize he forgot to file the paperwork because it wasn't the most sensational case of his career because the mayor the attorney general the governor the entire maryland legislature the u s attorney general nbc court tv the bbc ap reuters people the sun the washington post the new york times the la times time magazine the times of london the economist the johannesburg mail and guardian l'osservatore romano le figaro paris match l'equipe and computer world weren't calling every 10 minutes to ask about the status of the case br br nevertheless the old gang of detectives and associates flocks back to baltimore to help out there's quite an array of talent on display unfortunately with the limited amount of dialogue to hand out some of them are merely on display br br two of the strongest actors clark johnson and melissa leo are criminally underused while time wasted on jon seda and michael michelle could be better spent on commercials the writers do seem to satirize this presenting jason priestley as the latest big deal detective on the other hand they give easy come easy go michelle forbes a very affecting scene br br there's some other sly casting with actual lt gary d'addario the center of the book that gave rise to the show playing another detective guests drop in from other shows like whitney allen doing her deadpan and clueless miss sally from the children's show beloved by the inmates on fontana's oz dina napoli of wbal tv turns up as herself br br even when entertaining though these guests can be distracting ed begley jr actually advances the story in his brief appearance playing dr victor ehrlich from fontana's st elsewhere he's still a vivid character and fits in a hospital setting then you remember didn't st elegius turn out to be an autistic boy's fantasy br br the most useful cameo reflects corporate synergy this movie was made when court tv bought re run rights to the series that network contributed legal waif helen lucaitis who had interviewed the homicide team and later appeared on oz the tv correspondent does an efficient job summarizing the news that is plot points for latecomers br br although she's so thin that she disappears when she turns sideways lucaitis also adeptly handles a bit of physical comedy with esposito he shows more juice in his scenes with lucaitis than with any of his usual colleagues perhaps those two should have done a spin off br br as the movie winds down the cream of the cast rises to the top although they are saddled with a loser script andre braugher and kyle secor overcome it their performances remind viewers what made homicide for considerable stretches the best show on the air and one of the best television productions ever br br it's fun to watch top pros do their stuff it's just a shame this movie doesn't give them more of a chance die hard fans may want to see this movie anyway but you can live without it
0	purported documentary that tries to examine sci fi films of the 1950s and how they affected and reflected america steven spielberg george lucas ridley scott and james cameron are interviewed and mark hamill narrates br br pretty terrible the insights that are given are nothing new for instance the cold war and the threat of nuclear war affected a whole generation of children well duh they try to cover all of the different sub genres of sci fi films of the 1950s the big bug movies invaders from space movies etc etc that's good but they choose the most obvious films and they've been over analyzed to death already it was cool seeing clips from x m destination moon forbidden planet the thing and the day the earth stood still but everything the directors said was so incredibly obvious to any viewer that it's insulting even though it's under an hour i was thoroughly bored 30 minutes in this gets a 2 for some of the clips but nothing else
0	i was expecting a documentary covering the 1950 to 1965 era of sci fi and received a big ol' commercial laced with leftist political innuendo by james cameron and movie mogul baby pushing the own works 'watch the has in the past referred to the 'giant and 'space exploration' movies from the 1950's including such favorites as earth vs the flying saucers thing from another world and forbidden planet as well as them deadly mantis and tarantula there are lower budget examples that rarely get mentioned like space monster 12 to the moon and cosmic man br br this would have been a much better documentary had the few remaining actors directors stunt men and collectors plus the non hollywood from the era been interviewed i only wish there was a 0 rating available since a 1 is much to generous
0	there is no real story the film seems more like a fly on the wall drama documentary than a proper film so this piece may in itself be a spoiler teen drama about 3 young singaporean kids very similar to uk who play truant from school run with gangs get into fights insult people on the street get tattoos hang about doing nothing etc etc they generally imagine themselves to be hard and every so often shout challenging rap chants into the camera filmed in mtv style fast cuts crazy camera angles tight close ups and animation interludes the dialogue might have been crisper in the original languages of mandarin and than in the subtitles and i have no doubt that some of the contemporary singapore references will slip over western heads as well as the cultural and political context unless of course you are familiar with singapore this kind of teen film may be a first for singapore but it has been done before and done better in other western countries la haine 1995 for example
0	i saw this on mystery science theater 3000 and even that show couldn't really make this movie bearable i could make a better movie with a broken camcorder and action figures of course you expect terrible special effects with a movie this old but i've seen silents that were better the storyline has enormous gaps that leave you trying to figure out why they are even at certain scenes the cameraman apparently doesn't know what a tripod is and had too much coffee or something harder maybe because the camera is always shaking around i couldn't even follow the plot but suffice it to say this is the absolute worst movie i have ever seen in my life br br update i saw epic movie a while back and have decided to give this movie a 2 it's not the worst movie i've ever seen anymore
0	i did a screen test and read the script for this turkey in 1988 it was awful then and even worse now i spotted it on vhs at the local video and said oh what the hey for auld ang sine yech br br they had to shoot most of it in mexico after they ran out of money a couple of the stars pitched bitches because they ran out of some kind of exotic fruit drink crap the movie's plot is ok i suppose but i happen to know that the writer intended for it to have a spy catcher thread running throughout br br dr o ended up being a cartoon character he must still be whirling in his grave over in the kremlin wall br br technical errors were all over the movie not only with the infant atomic technology but with the uniforms insignia and military jargon they were too cheap to hire a professional military adviser of course even mr newman's august and expert presence couldn't have saved this bird from being stuffed for thanksgiving
0	this movie is a definitive 5 i finally caught it on hbo the other night i remember when it came out in theatres telling a friend that it would never be a hit because americans didn't want movies about history especially movies that were more about ideas than action i don't know if that was the reason didn't do well but now having finally seen it i can add a few observations of my own br br first while dwight schultz has been fine in star trek and the a team as the lead in this movie he is off putting i kept expecting him to shout out jon lovitz like i am act ing he phrasing and tone of voice sounded like he was trying very had to be an act or on a stage where he had to emphasize strangely various words and phrases br br second i enjoyed the sly positioning of paul newman's character as a manipulator who at every turn strives to herd these cats the scientists along to get to his goal br br third there was some discussion of the moral implications of creating the a bomb and whether the us should use it probably not enough of this or as in depth as warranted br br finally there seemed to be an awful lot of twists thrown in for dramatic effect i don't know how much of the events in this movie are true to life but things like having the test bomb slip in its chains or having a lab accident caused by a spilled coffee cup and a scientist killed as a result were stretching the bounds of believability maybe that stuff or events that were similar really happened but it sure felt like various scenes were added solely for dramatic effect which undermined the whole tone and purpose of the movie br br was ok i need to read more about the actual events to know if it was over the top or just mostly accurate
0	there are lots of other comments here about how poor this film is what i wanted to point out is how this film took the largest science project in history and made it look small the manhattan project was an incredible achievement and it was huge virtually all silver in the country went into making wire for electromagnetic if there was every a choice between two alternative ways of doing things they just did both the first sustained nuclear reactor was fired up under the stands of the university of chicago football stadium with graduate students wielding axes as a mechanism it's a fascinating story involving hundreds of locations and thousands of people that this film seems to reduce to a small group of eccentrics in new mexico br br the other thing i really disliked was the huge moral debate over if we should continue the project after germany surrenders okay we have thousands of mostly men who worked for years to make a really big boom does anyone think they didn't want to see it work there was some controversy at the time about if we should use the device but it was not that serious clearly not the huge debate this film makes it out to be
0	i watched this years ago on television when i was sick i don't know i tend to be more complacent with my tv viewing when i'm sick too much effort to use the remote control i guess br br from what i can recall every aspect of the movie casting acting writing directing etc was ill advised at best i could have forgiven the historical inaccuracies if this film had created a sense of what it was like to work on trinity but it didn't there were attempts to humanize the scientists but they were insufficient and never transcended caricature br br i didn't know very much about the people involved in the manhattan project at the time but the portrayals in the movie were so cartoonish that i became interested in learning about the real personalities and i did so i guess this horrible film has done a very small amount of good after all br br this is not an in depth review but neither deserves nor requires one you might enjoy it if you're a fan of bad movies
0	it' s easier to watch this film if one views it as a scenario created by star fleet lieutenant reginald barclay during his holodeck addiction barclay is a recurring star trek character played by dwight schultz br br dwight schultz is miscast as oppenheimer character is poorly written so we never see the depth and breadth of his knowledge instead we see a shallow two dimensional figure from a soap opera paul newman is also miscast as general leslie but this movie's problems go beyond having the wrong actors in the wrong roles br br the factual errors and great liberties taken with the chronology of events in order to advance screenwriter bruce robinson's political agenda make this movie embarrassing to watch that's probably why this movie has found a home on the so called history channel br br fat man and little boy combine bad science bad history bad screenwriting and mediocre acting to produce a movie that should not be viewed by impressionable high school or college students who know nothing about the manhattan project
0	i've read just about every major book about the manhattan project most people know what it was but few people understand the depth and breadth of the project its scope was immeasurably massive rivaled in us history perhaps only by the space program of the 1960's br br there were literally millions of people involved from all walks of life at numerous sites most clandestine around the country each involved in a specific and different aspect of the project that they couldn't talk about to the person sitting in the cubicle next to them much less their family the logistics are overwhelming particularly given the considerations of wartime communication security and transportation in the 1940's br br as an example my colleague's father was a carpenter who worked for one of the companies that had a contract with the federal government for the manhattan project his job was to supervise a crew of about 30 other carpenters who were responsible for manufacturing forms for the pouring of concrete for the massive research installations at washington that's all he did six days a week for nearly two years these carpenters needed food housing sanitary facilities hospitals and materials just as much as did oppenheimer and his crowd at the top of the pyramid just think about it that being said it's simply impossible to do the subject justice in a 2 hour movie in defense of however i would say that they had an impossible task particularly since he chose to have a diverse screenplay with multiple plots multiple angles and multiple characters what exactly was he thinking and how could he be so arrogant to think that this would work that's hollywood i guess br br fat man and little boy has so many flaws that it would take a book to list them all horrible casting dreadful and politically motivated writing bad science the portrayals of and are particularly inaccurate and downright galling notwithstanding the screenplay's all too obvious agenda it is still incredibly bland and sloppy br br these flaws have been listed elsewhere on imdb but i was particularly struck by the fact that the scientists had so much time on their hands softball horseback riding parties semi formal dinners ballet etc not to mention romance and of course circulating political according to fm lb if these great brains had gotten off their and actually spent some time in the lab instead of seducing laura dern we might have won the war before d day br br one final gripe fm lb mentions that fat man and little boy were the code names of the two atomic bombs but it doesn't mention that these names were a semi good natured jab at fat man for heavy stature and oppenheimer little boy for his slight stature another reason paul newman should not have been in this movie
0	the united states built the atomic bomb in order to show their superior military power and to end the second world war the movie fat man and little boy is a portrayal of the efforts of american physicists to invent the technology necessary to create the bomb and the tension that existed between the scientists and the military over the potential uses of the bomb and even the of its creation the scientists thought that the bomb should be created as a deterrent a mechanism that would halt the war by wasting as little life as possible fist they saw themselves as in a race with german scientists who were attempting to build nuclear weapons themselves when the germans were defeated many scientists hoped to stop work on the bomb project as they knew that the japanese did not have the technology necessary to build a nuclear weapon and therefore did not pose a threat of massive loss of life those who favored the continuation of the manhattan project hoped that the bomb would be used as a demonstration inviting the japanese head of state to view its deployment upon some tiny deserted island this massive display of force they felt would be enough to win the war no killing would be needed the us military under the direction of general leslie hoped all along to used the bomb as a actual weapon to be deployed against the enemy first against the germans and then against the japanese because of the persistence of japanese soldiers on the small japanese islands the us decided to drop the bomb on populous cities in order to end the war first hiroshima and then nagasaki the display of that vast amount of force also served notice to the rest of the world that the us was the dominant military power a message aimed especially at russia whose growing military power and economic weight in eurasia threatened our preeminent world position fat man and little boy was a movie that had good intentions in mind but muddled them rather badly by the choice of actors script and cinematography one of the main points of the movie was the struggle between the military view of science for killing and the scientific view of science for knowledge the keystone of this conflict is the continued disagreements between general and dr oppenheimer mr newman does his job in the part of the general craggy massively angry and radiating his dependence upon the success of the project dwight schultz on the other hand never puts up much resistance at all to the general's demands always looking rather weak deflated and phlegmatic in his audiences john cusack presents a stunningly unsympathetic character in as flat a role as i have ever seen it looks like he is just reading his lines laura dern seems to be suffering from the same none of the characters are helped by the script which is almost childishly ridiculous in the way it attempts to explain scientific concepts offers the most unrealistic stock relationship between mr cusack and ms dern imaginable doesn't even give us the cheap thrill of watching the army drop nuclear bombs on japan and relies heavily on voice over a technique that is evil anytime even when explaining a characters true innermost thoughts or for the narration of something that cannot be possibly show on the film medium but is used here to read some absolutely trite selections out of cusack's diary the cinematographer offers us several shots of the ominous shadow of the two bombs which might be striking if it didn't look like they were cardboard cutouts instead of bombs the fake atomic fire really does look fake and why use it when the stock footage on hand is so genuinely stunning and realistic and the pervasive brown tone doesn't seem to be thematically appropriate besides that it's not a bad movie
0	six stars for paul newman's portrayal of general negative four for the inclusion of a highly fictionalized event where the truth is well documented michael merriman did not really exist his character or at least his fate is based loosely on that of louis a canadian physicist who did not come to los until after the war he conducted his lethal tail of the dragon experiment in may 1946 this is a critical point the effects of hard radiation on the human body were not known until they were observed in the victims of the hiroshima and nagasaki blasts had anyone died of radiation poisoning at los before the trinity test it's very possible that the scientists would have abruptly stopped their work and history would have been changed whether for the better or the worse we can only speculate someone should ask the producers and the director whether they added character for dramatic effect or to deliver an anti nuclear message for a more even handed and accurate treatment of events at los during the manhattan project see the tv movie day one or better yet read the peter book on which it is based
0	well since it's called porno holocaust and directed by joe d'amato i went into this film expecting sleaze and while i somewhat got it porno holocaust was a massive disappointment as it's just so damned boring the title suggests that the film will feature porn and that's not wrong porno holocaust is pretty much just porn and most of it is just the same stuff over and over again i was fast forwarding before the end the first sex scene is between two women and it got my hopes up but after that it just degenerates into normal porn and the rest of the film for the first hour is made up of talking and you can imagine how much fun that is to sit through the plot focuses on a deserted island where believe it or not something strange is going on naturally it's not long before a group of people made up of a few men and some scientists who all happen to be sexy women land on the island they have sex a few times and some strange things happen then over an hour later they're attacked by a mutant zombie creature with an eye for the ladies br br this must have seemed like a good idea for an original porno a zombie who likes to get it on but unsurprisingly it doesn't work well at all the film clocks in at just ten minutes short of the two hour mark and that is far too long for a film like this i have no idea why porno holocaust is as long as it is if they'd just snipped one minute out of every sex scene the film would have been under ninety minutes and that would have made it much more tolerable the zombie takes what seems like an eternity to appear it's quite a long time before there's a sex break long enough for them to actually travel to the island in the first place and when it does finally appear it's a huge disappointment i realise that this is low budget b movie trash but d'amato surely could have tried a bit harder and come up with something better than this i'm not even going to bother mentioning the acting atmosphere etc there's no point porno holocaust is basically just your average dull porn flick with a slight sprinkling of horror and i can't recommend it
0	d'amato's hardcore horror hybrid doesn't really live up to its extraordinary title and intriguing premise wherein various vapid contemporary types are attacked by a monster on an atoll previously used for nuclear experiments but for the most part the film is so slow the action so dreary and the cast so clearly repulsed to be having to have sex with each other that the film becomes a chore to watch br br this is a pity because the film sets up a promising idea a group of scientists are taken to the atoll by a naval officer in a small vessel the scientists – three women and two men – are an intriguing cross section of sexual types suffering to various degrees from nymphomania co dependency and there's even an intriguing foray into the world of female sex tourism where one of the women stops off at a brothel to get serviced by two hunky caribbean studs for hire the creature himself – a mangled native islander with a horribly scarred face and an long – bears some affinities with the old creature from the black lagoon and is the kind of nuclear nightmare that has over postmodern man since the cold war commenced despite those of us in the west having retreated into hedonism and science br br porno holocaust certainly is a film which shows the post sexual revolution westerners coming across their mirror image in a nuclear monster yet the with which it unfolds really lets down the fierceness of the idea there is a promising interplay of action shots with pov shots which suggest that the monster who looks stalks on as horror monsters from their pov position tend to do is akin to the voyeur in the audience getting off on the sex between the beautiful people the sight of the monster forcing a gorgeous young woman to suck his over sized member certainly throws the target audience's ugly fantasies in their face but d'amato has developed similar ideas better in other films and porno holocaust is a potentially fierce idea let down by the execution even d'amato's usual cinematographic skills let him down with much dreary camera work
0	i am a big fan of bad horrors cheap horrors b movies and all that bottom 100 movies and i do not deny those are the worst stuff ever to enter the big screen or even your home video for that matter some of them e g the infamous manos the hands of fate are truly bad and watching them especially on your own without any friends and beer around is a torture for a good cinema taste br br la azteca contra el however was not that bad well of course it's bad it's silly dated corny cheap etc there's an aztec mummy a tin robot a fat masked villain a mad scientist mexican mobsters etc the montage is poor the lines well let's say the lines are not theatrical the fx and sfx are the best what the mexican low budget production could've offered etc etc still the movie is fun it's so bad it makes you laugh cheerfully for an hour time sure it depends on one's sense of humor however i'm pretty sure la should teach any newcomers to this kind of cinema how to enjoy it please note the movie lasts for about an hour and i think it's just enough time of silliness one is able to easily digest br br there's also another thing watching la can give you a clue what was the whole sf horror genre concept back in the fifties when you compare it to the present day matrix era of cinema entertainment i think it also shows how both the industry and the audience evolved due to the fact the watches like la still attract full house in the theaters for some special shows movies like this are special alright and very often receive a standing ovation
0	'bloody is an odd and at times humorous low budget horror flick along the lines of or a less intelligent version of 'the good son' br br set in a small californian town three babies are born at the height of an eclipse where planetary alignment means they are somehow born without emotions ten years later our three little psychopaths take themselves on a killing spree doing away with parents siblings teachers and anyone else who irritates them only one teenage girl knows the truth to be able to stop them there is no explanation for why babies across the world born at the same time aren't equally as twisted but there you go br br for a slasher film it's very tame in terms of violence and gore which i suppose highlights the problem of casting child characters as the killers as there is only so much you can expose the young actors to instead it's amusing and a little disturbing seeing three ten year olds plotting murders and carrying out their plans using guns knives and crossbows the main reason why it doesn't descend into being totally ridiculous is because the child actors are very convincing in their roles with the way they slyly play the little innocents in front of adults while showing their dark side to the girl who knows the truth br br 'bloody is rather mediocre as a horror flick with few scares and little blood but because it has the shock factor of having kids as the killers it is a bit unique in that way one to watch if there's nothing else on
0	it's strange while the film features full x rated sex scenes and violent murders it never feels as shocking as it ought to br br a group of scientists go to an island in the caribbean to investigate a radioactive incident upon their arrival a mutated islander goes about the happy business of murdering the men and having his way with the women doesn't it always seem to work out that way br br among the acts we find a some lesbian encounters a three way with male prostitutes assorted heterosexual couplings and the rape of an already dead body even though it's all fully explicit it fails to ever shock or stir as it is meant to as soon as the sex goes fully pornographic it just loses it's edge the suspension of disbelief is broken and we realize we are just watching people having sex br br there is some blood and gore with the murders but given that this is a d'amato flick it's really tame for a much more rounded experience watch the similar nights of the living dead' br br 2 10
0	as a serious horror fan i get that certain marketing ploys are used to sell movies especially the really bad ones so i wouldn't call it naiveté that i assumed this was softcore horror ripping off cannibal zombi jungle holocaust unfortunately i was completely wrong as this is very hardcore i should have realized that when i saw the odd no actual or identifiable minor was used warning notice the identifiable part as though he is daring us to catch him a group of scientists half of whom are pretty women in bikinis are led by a sea captain with a penchant for on the beach in search for a mutated native killing villagers due to a nuclear bomb detonated on a supposedly evacuated island the radiation turned this last man into a rapist killer br br writer actor george eastman is the only one trying here and succeeds in keeping his clothes on the sex scenes are whacked out women walk around nude exuding a strange overconfidence and one even asks for rape when her husband turns her down well two chicks slapping each other naturally turns into a lesbo scene because women are i saw the chick toss another chicks salad and finger herself br br if there is anything you should know about this film it is that because the rest of this insane movie is just the same oh who am i kidding there is a ton more to tell here like the white duchess that pays for 2 black guys to tag team her in a parlor or the duchess taking off her top to use as a bandage when the captain cuts himself when he refuses her advances she starts crying so being the good gentleman he is he reluctantly lets her pleasure him in front of the other crew members i was honestly waiting for the pizza guy to show up and the duchess to ask if there is any other way to pay him br br and all of this happens before they depart for the island to conduct their research wait i thought this was a zombie flick but the zombie doesn't enter until the mark but by that time everyone else has been entered plenty i found myself hitting fast forward a few several this is my first splatter porn flick and i don't think it does that subgenre any justice i guess it is the woman in me talking when i say that i would like more plot and less sweaty slobbering hairy sex funny thing is this could have worked as a decent horror film as the idea of atomic bombing mutating a bitter man and killing his family was a good one even eastman's character shakes his head and walks away from a couple copulating it makes me wonder if it was the character or the writer himself that was disgusted br br i don't feel like going into the sound or film quality because you should have already guessed it was bad this production was shot back to back with 3 other movies including erotic nights of the living dead which sports most of the same cast eastman has said this was done because everyone wanted a vacation and a paycheck nevermind i feel like talking about the sound suddenly the sound was weird during the sex scenes because while the cast is speaking italian it seems as though they recorded english voiceovers and played that over their dialogue so while 2 people are boning i can clearly hear someone in the background say no yes wonderful wait there was a slightly amusing italian score that couldn't save this movie the sfx were minimal at best and consisted of some blood in only a few scenes and i would like to point out that there were no violent rape scenes as the bright warning label said on the dvd cover ahem another marketing ploy so no fear there only fear the bad movie br br presented in widescreen 1 85 1 aspect ratio i watched the region 1 not rated version running at released in 2005 by exploitation digital there is apparently a xxx version by digital which is the same running time so i doubt anything is different prices vary but you shouldn't pay more than 25 00 for a copy or as i would recommend pay nothing and pretend it doesn't exist br br favorite quote shipmate civilians are bad luck women are bad luck they're scientists too they must really be monsters dvd extras original trailer with hardcore shots kills to make it look more interesting than it is trailers for ss hell camp emmanuelle and a very informative interview with eastman br br bottom line lame porno but even weaker as a horror film either get real porn or watch real horror br br rating 3 10 by molly celaschi www horroryearbook com
0	joe d'amato might have made some other notable movies in his very long and very prolific career prolific of course by turns of making very cheap z grade movies in italy's big exploitation boom of the late 70s early 70s but porno holocaust isn't one of them or at least shouldn't be granted i should not expect much from a movie with such a title but i thought considering the back of the description that it might have some fun horror scenes with the horny mutant cannibal zombie turns out the zombie doesn't appear until more than halfway into the movie and at every turn we get instead a tawdry sex scene as hardcore as one can imagine which is fine but it's not very enjoyable except in the most what the f is this bs kind of way there's laughable dialog involving lobsters costing more from mail order japan than in paris hot slim women play and who have particular sexual hang ups letting the door be unlocked to be raped and a bi polar kind of enjoyment out of getting gang banged br br it all leads up to the island where the main attraction is a guy who early on just spends an absolutely pathetic forget ludicrous amount of time just staring at the newcomers to the radioactive wasteland of the shot on caribbean island and once revealed has a face like one of the guards in jabba's palace and has a sweet potato for a main genital but much dumber than anything before it is the relationship that develops between the monster and a dark skinned lady who has an inordinate amount of time to escape but just sits there blank faced as the monster brings gifts and for what must be a racially motivated exploitation move on the part of the filmmakers the monster only rapes and kills the white women and not her and it ends of course with a happy ending i use quotes of course out of a kind of shock that this could have any kind of legitimate ending at all br br bottom line this is not what you might expect as possibly being a bloody horror movie with plenty of tacky but cool looking italian monster zombies devouring human flesh if anything what violence is in the film is done on a shoe string a log hit to the face is immediately cut to the bloody aftermath which is like the aftermath of a tomato hitting someone so really the last part of the title is meant more for market sake yet even as a porno movie it has little to go on except as a reason for the cast and crew to get a paid vacation to the caribbean as an interview with george eastman suggests this was just one of a few quickies made while on the island its got penny bought schlocky camera work and similar actors filled with genitalia about 3 4 of the whole time and with wretched lip syncing and music like nino forced at gun point to make something snappy in a bordello and it's still a piece of celluloid dung all the same all of this could be an immense guilty pleasure but it isn't
0	wow i felt like i needed to shower off after watching this one but maybe there were other reasons that i will leave to your imagination i felt used and abused after i mean watching this film hairy chests thick mustaches and well hairy everything describes this porn horror movie but hey it was 1981 you can't call it porn in the 70s and 80s without the hair br br as a horror flick this bites but as a piece of exploitation porn from italy's rich cinematic history it definitely has a place in my library the copy i have is in italian with english subtitles i wish it had the really poorly dubbed english i think it would have added to the sleaziness factor that already existed the only white guy who gets laid in the movie is mark shannon he is the moustache wearing hairy chested piece of machismo who really does try and give a performance every time he steps up to bat this was at the end of an era where porn producers were actually trying to make something artistic nothing like panning the camera from a tropical backdrop to a hairy man having doggie style sex with a woman i can't help but laugh br br this is one of those movies that i pray my future wife and kids never find
0	one of a few movies filmed at high school in scottsdale az in the late 80's as well as just one of the guys bill and ted's excellent adventure and just perfect which was a segmented movie played during the mickey mouse club movie is definitely for kids as the previous comments have it pretty right on br br has gone through an overhaul in the past couple of years and many of the buildings seen in this film are now gone the field where they are playing catch is adjacent to the football field one of the few areas still there the internal scenes near the lockers i believe were in the old 200 building br br unless it is playing late at night on the disney channel it may be a very hard to find flick how they ever made sequels to this is beyond me
0	first off i refuse to even consider this piece of work a music video i consider it a short film that uses excerpts of the song thriller in its soundtrack to me a music video must be no longer than the song itself and the song must play the entire length of the video calling this a music video is like calling the great gatsby a poem on top of this let's face it thriller is a boring 14 minutes including the extremely dated werewolf transformation the mindless vincent price poem just because vp recites it doesn't mean it's not lame and the least threatening zombies i have ever seen sure this was certainly a cultural phenomenon but don't forget this also happened at the same time the a team was the 1 show on tv so lets not give the culture too much credit on that one one last point on this film's impact on the media on music videos what exactly did this add to the equation that billie jean and beat it didn't already add from what i can tell it only added the practice of stopping the song for some dialog or a superfluous dance scene so you could say that all this video really did was give puffy the inspiration to make more annoying music videos not quite my definition of great
0	i've seen several of these body snatcher type movies but none was nearly as bad as this one br br no thrill no fx bad acting bad photography bad sound bad everything br br blue jello all
0	the opening was a steal from eight legged freaks a film that is everything this one isn't stilted and pedestrian are the words that apply along with others that can't be repeated drifter type returns to his home town meets up with old friends etc the usual annoying kid single mother local loudmouth and so on bad special effects alien ship atmospheric disturbances hey didn't the director see close encounters good acting good story good camera angles good cutting not here do not rent unless you are sharing the cost and have a lot of beer handy do not watch on tv go and drink a lot of beer instead you'll enjoy it more
0	this film is so unbelievably awful everything about it was rubbish you cant say anything good about this film the acting script directing effects are all just as bad as each other even ed wood could have done a better job than this i seriously recommended staying away from this movie unless you want to waste about of your life or however long the film was i forget this is the first time i wrote a comment about a film on imdb but this film was just on tv and i had to let the world of movie lovers know that this film sucked balls so if you have any decency left in you go and rent a much better bad movie like critters 3
0	i cannot believe i sat through this utter waste of time i was just too fascinated by how unspeakably bad it was that i couldn't move it reminded me of the feeling when you can't take your eyes away from a horrible car crash or the rotting carcass of a cow you can't help but look but you feel sick and nauseated afterward br br let me elaborate plan 9 from outer space for instance is not a bad movie not even star wars holiday special is a bad movie they both are awful to watch for sure but they both have some qualities and at least they leave you the strength to reach for the off button br br this remake in name only of the sci fi classic left me weeping on my couch desperately trying to come to terms with why such scripts get filmed why anyone would soil the memory of the original classic and whether or not i could resume my normal life without my suddenly acquired longing for the quiet and peace of death br br although death i realized would offer no rest from the horrid memories of this pile of crap as the poor souls in hell are probably forced to watch it over and over again for eternity
0	despite having a very pretty leading lady arenas one of my boy crushes the acting and the direction are examples of what not to do while making a movie br br placed in southern mexico the aztec mummy real aztecs by the way did not made mummies has been up by the lead characters and starts making trouble in mexico city suburbia during the first movie the aztec mummy in this second part the leading man and woman want to find th mummy and put it in its final resting place a fireplace would have been my first choice br br into this appears the bat a criminal master mindless stereotype of a criminal genius who creates a human robot some idiot inside a robot suit to control and get this take over the world the final match between the robot and the mummy is hilarious some of the worst choreography ever witnessed the funniest part is that this movie was made and released by a serious mexican movie studio br br the acting is just as awful hearing the movie in spanish as it is in english they dubbed the over acting you should watch this movie through mst 3000 the comments are even funnier
0	they've shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it the bad acting isn't enough the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists i love the original from 1953 so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead because this one is such a bore
0	alien body snatchers in the desert little blue rocks that look like they are made from cheap plastic the overall storyline isn't bad if you like that kind of thing but the acting is so far beyond poor that it amazes me that some of them actually entertained my in the x files and the special effects hello where did they get their fx crew from secondary school i mean come on there was so much more they could have done it was amateur and extremely basic i didn't particularly enjoy it and my dad fell asleep during it and of course our hero falls in love with the leading lady its so typical and highly predictable
0	this is a pretty pointless remake starting with the opening title shots of the original was a real mistake as it reminds the viewer of what a great little period piece chiller that was the new version that follows is an exercise in redundancy br br brian kerwin plays a 'city boy' photographer who returns to a semi abandoned desert town populated by a scattering of underdeveloped clichéd stock characters the lollipop sucking doll lolita the old coot prospector the crippled vet and his asian wife etc br br character witnesses the crashing of 'something' into a hillside and shortly after strange things start to happen as pieces of weird blue rock are scattered around the temperature starts to rise all the water in the area vanishes people start to act weirdly things explode character gets in and out of his car more often than is humanly possible in one movie the film develops no sense of place no character development no humour no tension everything that made the jack arnold's original a creepy little cold war paranoia classic has been abandoned it just runs through its minimal hoops and then just ends br br the special effects aren't very special the interior of the ship looks like bits of cling film wrapped round some ropes which were then dangled in front of the camera to frame some of the most uninspired and clumsy wire work ever put onto the screen the script is repetitive everyone says everything at least twice kerwin gets to say let's get out of here at least three times during the movie twice in one scene loads of things are left unexplained at the end why do the aliens need all the heat and water for example not that anyone watching would care if the film makers didn't care why should we br br the acting is adequate better than the script which at times has an under rehearsed improvisational quality deserves though often the actors look like they just want to get the thing over with as quickly as possible a notable example of this is when elizabeth peña registers the briefest token moment of frustrated despair hands to face gesture before following sulking son stevie outside to watch him do angry sulky teenager smashing something off a table gesture br br continuity errors include the gb sticker on the back of jeep appearing and disappearing a double action of the gas in the exploding car a towns person being in two places simultaneously once in the alien pov shot then immediately afterwards in a reaction shot elizabeth peña appearing to shut a car door twice you can tell i was gripped can't you the movie commits that greatest of errors it's boring
0	based on a ray bradbury story a professional photographer brian kerwin returns to his modest home near a tiny desert town where most of the citizens wishes he stayed away a lonely boy jonathan latches onto him for the attention and the two witness the landing of an alien craft in the rocky region of the desert the aliens turn themselves into the images of townspeople kerwin must convince evacuation of the town and falls in love with the young boy's mother elizabeth pena acting is pretty shallow the story line is no worse than some others this movie leaves you feeling that you got shorted on a decent ending supporting cast includes howard morris dean norris and mickey jones
0	having seen carlo documentary on luchino visconti i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied i faced a need for critical opinion which i generally don't like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally but when i read the reviews already written on this title i also felt a bit confused people sometimes don't know what to criticize therefore to be clear i'll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably the former one about visconti before his director's career and latter one about visconti the director br br the aristocratic background all the hobbies the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents' divorce we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano in riches galore with cooks with access to everything in true aristocracy for instance his father's splendid villa at and other marvelous villas prove that there is also an emphasis on visconti's crucial visit in paris in the 1930s where he met eminent people left wingers who later had impact on his style and message in art that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing a contrast at first sight br br however the part about his director's career which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with just before the director's death in 1976 is poorly executed his movies are not discussed well why because there are very few people who really have something to say franco zeffirelli the director remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right there are also some interviews with franco but later such movies like il la caduta dei rei la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig i did not like the interviews of his moreover some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster a mention about and romy schneider should also be made there is one footage interview with maria that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit franco zeffirelli though i appreciate him as a director makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious for instance he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service therefore i say simplified and unsatisfactory br br what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself as a result we may get his own opinion about his works for instance i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig br br i believe it is better to see luchino visconti 1999 by carlo than this doc although it is shorter and condensed as a whole you will get a better idea of the director visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people's emotions and viewpoints into stone 4 10
0	how dare you adam low without apparent shame puts his name to this fake tribute it's not even a serious study or analysis or commentary of the great visconti's work yes it's long and portentous yes we do have some wonderful clips from the films that most people interested on the subject have already seen but what the longest leaving the most lasting impression is the gossip the last and loudest voice comes from a third rate german actor ranting and raving the appropriately named mr low directed this hoping i imagine to get better ratings than his previous more to the point but deadly boring documentary on kurosawa well i have news for you mr low and your cohorts you missed a great opportunity and i for one won't give you another
0	luchino visconti was and is one of the most influential cultural figures of his generation but adam low the director of this thing allows the stronger voice to be helmut how can it be what a missed opportunity we come out of this ordeal knowing less of what made the master great and more about the things one shouldn't care at all the beautiful images belong to visconti's world the embarrassing interviews to the likes of berger and zeffirelli to adam tiny little world a must to avoid
0	luchino visconti the artist with the sword courage should be the first word associated with his entire opus film theater music revolutions artistic cultural personal a legacy with powerful consequences and endless ramifications he introduced the neorealism through the work of an american novelist james cain in he gave anna magnani the most extraordinarily beautiful close ups of her career he gave us alain delon and maria but the last word about his life and work rests on the talents of a certain adam low and the voice of helmut berger what a terrible fate br br for those interested there is a 61 minute documentary by director carlo a man who really knew visconti titled luchino visconti a portrait it is out on dvd distributed by image entertainment
0	i like most other people saw this movie after hearing of it from patton oddly enough it was easier to find than i thought it would be though it shouldn't come as a surprise that i found it used br br the plot is summed upped masterfully within the title it's a bed that eats nothing more nothing less there is an effort to throw in a story line but not a very good one br br a demon's blood ended up on a bed and as a result it becomes possessed it devours anything that happens upon it by absorbing and then dissolving it in what appears to be orange there is an artist who fell victim to the bed but was sick and ends up behind a painting in the room it inhabits the narrative is told entirely through him br br this movie fails horribly at everything even at being bad still it's not without its own brand of charm
0	ok this is one strange film fans of ed wood jr will appreciate the inventive techniques director george barry utilizes like stock footage and cheesy voice overs he can make a crack in the wall into a plot device there is more humor than horror here but i found it an uneven blend you will be laughing and crying and probably wondering why you got your hands on this barry explains in the introduction that filming began on this movie in 1972 and was completed in 1977 at a cost of 10 000 that's 59 months and 9 900 too much if you like your cheese on the campy side with vintage '70s gore you might find this an irresistible and freaky snack
0	this movie should have been billed as three movie summaries linked together to form a full length feature film including lots of shots of people slowly walking down dark corridors and streets be warned the first hour of this movie is simply a re hash of the first two aztec movies as told by the main character the actual movie doesn't start until the thing is almost over i must say the overacting on the part of the bat is quite hilarious br br as for the robot i thought a robot was a mechanical device that may or may not resemble a human the robot consists of a radioactive reanimated corpse encased in a lead robot body as tom servo put it he's not that impressive he doesn't even have knees that and it takes the robot about an hour just to lumber across the room but once he catches you watch out he'll disintegrate you with a touch powered by radium ease br br this is a great movie when accompanied by joel and the bots otherwise you're just a glutton for abuse
0	i first heard of this film when patton talked about it on his werewolves and lollipops cd he said it was a lost classic that is completely ridiculous being a lover of terrible cinema i knew i was in for a treat br br this film is hands down one of the weirdest i've ever seen certainly one of the weirdest shlock films basically a demon took human form years ago for a woman the woman died or something the demon cried blood the blood fell on the bed the bed is now possessed and it now eats along with fruit flowers and chicken it also has a taste for people the people can range between horny teens gangsters servants or professional orgy throwers there's also a sick guy who the bed ate but put his soul behind a picture in the room br br most movies let you figure out the plot through exciting action death bed takes another path it basically tells you through narration exactly what's happening while slow dull murder scenes take place also i must say everyone who's eaten by the bed are surprisingly quiet i would think if a bed is eating you through the ways of a 5th grade science fair experiment it would sting a little i guess nerve endings weren't invented until 1981 or so br br the story is wacky the direction is slow and pretty awful the sets are sparse the acting it fairly painful and the brother is one of the unintentionally ugliest actors i've ever seen probably would make a great party film if alcohol and smart asses are involved certainly one you shouldn't miss
0	it's difficult to criticize a movie with the title like the bed that and involves a ghost narrator who's trapped behind a 2 way painting he drew and a bed that and – if i'm not mistaken masturbates now that's getting back at its human companions furthermore it up in orange for whatever reason to absorb lying on its surface including apples wine fried chicken and of course people again it's suffice to say that don't expect too much when you see what i guess is stomach acid – the final remains of anything that orange suds takes – dissolving only certain things it'll drink the wine but the okay and it'll eat away at the chicken bone but the just fine heck the bed even replaces the unused containers hilariously at one point it downs pepto bismol i had to laugh at that one i don't think they really wanted you to take any of this seriously it's low budget and it's extremely easy to see where they cut costs and saved oodles amounts of money i thought in a world where there can be a killer and a 'blood beach ' this might be amusing to watch for reasons that might involve cost 90 of the film is voice over no one screams or shows extremely low signs of fright confusion on why a bed would attack i can think of one – and i never was one of those kids that jumped on the bed and you'll have to suspend your disbelief beyond belief a victim loses all flesh on his hands barely saying ow only one scene that went on too long was minutely tense – a woman attempts to crawl away only to be dragged back using a sheet where are the mst3k guys
0	this movie was really stupid and i thought that it wasn't so bad and i could tolerate a movie about a bed eating people then the part near the end where the guy has skeleton hands ended up being the cherry on top of a bad movie i could see the screws in the plastic skeleton hands for goodness sakes the brother was still alive and moving when his hands were bare bones the funny thing was that he could still move his hands that was just not right without muscles you really can't move your hands but he did the brother should have bled to death even before he was moving his hands the movie wasn't great but it was okay until the hand scene i was laughing so hard that i don't really remember how it ended it had something to do with foam or something
0	when i attended college in the early 70s it was a simpler time except for a brief occurrence in 1994 i've been totally free of the influence of illegal substances ever since and i've never regretted it until now db has got to be hands down the best movie to watch when stoned the odd dreamlike state it creates is very strange when you're not smoking anything but i'm sure that it would seem completely normal after a big doobie not that i'm recommending this you understand the soothing narration provided as it usually is in quality cinema by a tb victim trapped in a painting would be ideal to help the stoned viewer to follow along as things get complicated plus everything in the film is pretty organic from old fashioned natural breasts to the bucket of fried chicken br br now there's also no question that the young man with the ahem hand problem is absolutely sailing away in the film at one point you just know that he's going to say hey when i move my hand it leaves trails trust me you'll know when you get to that point br br the only other thing we have to address is this how good can a film be when at least half the budget was spent on moving a huge bed frame around for interior and exterior shots br br definitely a must see for horror aficionados but suitable for the general audiences under the right conditions if you know what i mean and i think that you do it only earns four stars because i can't actually say that it took any talent to make
0	i had read online reviews praising this obscure outing as a combination of gory horror quirky black comedy and borderline art house the film has elements of all three to be sure but they are at the service of such a supremely silly premise the title immediately gives the game away – and amateurish production to boot – that its long term neglect due to a lack of proper distribution – basically until cult epics picked it up for dvd release a full 30 years after its inception – was no great loss to cinema or even the genre s the bed was apparently created for the purpose of accommodating a demon's dalliance with a woman anyway a dying man who had made use of the four poster and even painted it ends up trapped in the wall behind the canvas and provides intermittent commentary to the 'action' several people from teenagers on a fling to gangsters in hiding supply fodder to the hungry bed latest on the menu are a trio of girls – one of whom however recalls its mistress of long ago and consequently the bed seemingly fears her seeing various objects – from cigars to pieces of fried chicken – and people getting swallowed up the belly of the bed is depicted as a vat of honey colored liquid makes the film mildly amusing at times especially when a young man's hands are reduced to their skeletal formation which he seems to take rather too easily in his stride but also awfully that at even a brief 77 minutes the whole pointless exercise feels strained and downright desperate
0	i used to work at the company that originally put out this film vestron pictures vestron had the same problem that a lot of small independent film companies had they didn't have a lot of money to put into the production values of their films not that money alone will buy you a good film look at kevin costner's waterworld for instance br br sometimes if you have a talented person in house doing the or development you can create your own new talent but at vestron there wasn't such a person and they always skimped in some crucial area in this case it was on the director and the writer which makes it pretty hard to have a decent movie even with the great ensemble cast this film has br br i think the basic premise of this movie was let's put a bunch of quirky characters in a room and see if anything interesting happens it's an intriguing idea but not worth your time watching br br most vestron films ended up having a very distinctive look and feel to them my wife and i developed the ability to spot this quality even in non vestron films many times we were even able to spot that quality from watching only the trailer or tv ad we'd sit there watching the trailer or ad and afterwards we'd turn to each and almost in sync we'd say now that's a vestron movie this is a vestron movie
0	a root canal without anesthesia is more amusing this movie is disturbing and pointless there is absolutely nothing believable about any of these characters or the plot line what in god's name were these people thinking when they agreed to star in this movie the acting in this movie is so incredibly bad even from actors who are usually pretty damn good the in laws is a funny movie the birdcage is a hilarious movie the big lebowski is a humorous movie this movie is just dumb i cannot even begin to fathom the kind of sick mind it takes to write the novel that this movie is based on i honestly cannot think of even one nice thing to say about this movie it just doesn't make any sense people please i beg of you do not see this movie you will regret it for the rest of your life this movie is not the worst ever made but it is definitely right up there on the top of the list
0	while everyone does a decent job in this film i agree with the other comment it's too loose and scattered too much like a script less experiment with really talented actors as such it isn't enough to hold your attention having said that there are a few really funny moments one involving dylan mcdermott and a flaming shot glass that i think anyone who's been that drunk would find as funny as i did the other is a split second with an dinosaur crispin glover does his usual nutty twitch fest guy and does it fine harry dean stanton does his usual nutty patriarch repo man anyone etc good cast not enough to keep it going just a few gems seconds long
0	man are you serious did you read the book or watch this movie well if you did let me warn you it is bogus mark has been seeking a job since losing his job with the lapd you remember him don't you he was the guy that lied on the stand and gave the oj simpson defense a foothold they were looking for well he has written three books since then i have read all three of them no i am not a fan they were given to me however i will tell you one similarity in all three they grossly distort the importance of mark he shamelessly exaggerates his stature in all three in murder in spokane he pretends that he had something to do with catching the killer when he had nothing to do with it in all books he takes great delight in running down local law enforcement efforts kind of like his efforts were run down in the oj trial in this movie there are plenty of slow motion shots of ladies looking at and lusting after him many other shots have him at the center of attention when in reality i am sure the only thing people were thinking at the time was hey isn't that the racist that caused oj to get off this was an interesting real life story but not a good movie over it
0	i can't believe it were they crazy in filming a movie about connecticut in southern california for god's sake there's palm tree's everywhere in one of the opening scenes a guy says welcome to connecticut and throws down a newspaper the newspaper says something like greenwich herald greenwich connecticut doesn't have a herald it has a times as in stamford advocate and the greenwich times refering to the stamford connecticut newspaper maybe the film makers should have done a little research i mean my god at least get the name of the newspaper right or film in locations that look at least remotely like connecticut
0	's reputation preceded it i first heard of it in one of those medved style movie books the 50 worst movies ever or the golden turkey awards or something like that every review of the film basically said that this movie was so bad that it would make you bleed from the eyes to watch it so when the exposed film society finally got around to showing it i was anticipating the kind of cathartic experience that only a true cinematic stinker can provide br br however robot wasn't really all that bad br br oh this is definitely a z film through and through some of the voice dubbing as is usually the case for k gordon murray imports is awfully cheesy and the movie itself seems to be structurally something of a frankenstein since a huge chunk of it seems to be footage from a previous aztec mummy movie narrated with a voice over by the leading man a dead giveaway anytime the question then what happened is asked more than twice in the dialog you are looking at reassembled footage put together with little regard for plot coherence or momentum in then what happened or what happened then is uttered at least four times in the 1st hour br br even without the structural problems the plot and dialog don't translate well to an older american audience for instance as the hero explains and explains and explains the back story he includes a remark about doctor a doctor who suddenly turned into an evil master criminal and began his quest for the treasure that the aztec mummy guards no background no explanation he just suddenly turned evil obviously this was aimed at a pretty undiscriminating audience br br the clincher though is the robot the supposed showcase of this movie this robot is the worst robot special effect since undersea kingdom or even santa claus vs the martians compared to this hunk of junk the tin man from the wizard of oz looked like the terminator that chased linda connor through the in t2 the aztec mummy himself is well designed and executed he's recognizably undead familiar enough to look like a mummy and yet distinct from the boris karloff bandage collection familiar to most american audiences but whoever designed the robot in this followup had no feel for the concept or no budget they could at least have given him some knees for heaven's sake br br in addition the titular battle is terribly executed and lasts less than 60 seconds i've seen shoving matches on junior high playgrounds that are more convincing then the movie basically just stops that seems a bit of a rip off considering the amount of time the movie spends building up to the battle itself br br in spite of all these problems the movie isn't horrible or incompetent the way a coleman francis film or a larry buchanan film was compared to monster a go go or attack of the eye creatures is like a coppola film it's just kind of dull and boring and silly the actors are competent in a mannered b movie way and reasonably photogenic dr in particular seems to be having a wonderful time as he leers and plots and capers about in his cape and phantom of the opera suit i often found myself rooting for him in spite of his being the villain br br anyway i've seen much much worse file this with samson vs the vampire women under interesting mexican juvenile oddities
0	this movie is trash because out of many reasons it is based on mark book which is also trash let me must say that mark is a racist pig that is just looking for another way to get himself into the spotlight and others that right this type of trash belong in jail for the movie itself being based on the book was horrible as well the only reason that this murder case became such a big book and movie was because the guy is related thru his aunts marriage to the kennedy family and it is ridiculous that people still believe that this family somehow has the ability to make and cover up murders they are just a family and middle america needs to get over the obsession this poor guy and his family have been hounded by the police for years they couldn't get tommy so they went after micheal its amazing that he went to jail with all the evidence that supports that he didn't do it besides the facts that the statute of limitations among other things should have kept this trial from being brought back after twenty years for the love of god don't watch this garbage
0	i was so disappointed in this movie i am very familiar with the case having read not only mark book but also the far superior a wealth of evil the true story of the murder of martha in america's richest community by timothy dumas anyone who watches murder in greenwich should be aware they're watching the mark story not the martha story this film is nothing more than an ego trip for just watch his character strut around as if he is the second coming yes even being by women the actors playing the kids look way too old for their roles and the flashbacks to the 1970s are totally unconvincing if there is any hero to this story it's martha's family her mother dorothy and brother john they kept this case alive for two decades before walked into it in order to make a name for himself they and martha deserve to have the true story told
0	i just saw princess raccoon at the asian film festival in new york the gentleman who introduced the film congratulated the audience on their fine taste you could be at herbie fully loaded he said with a smug smile but instead you're here to watch seijun suzuki's princess raccoon the audience applauded and cheered well let me tell you i would have rather watched herbie fully loaded twice in a row princess raccoon an allegedly whimsical musical based on japanese folklore easily qualifies for one of the ten worst films that i have ever seen it is so wretched that its wretchedness actually makes me dislike other seijun suzuki films which is quite a feat br br there is such a vast expanse of things wrong with princess raccoon that i hardly know where to start perhaps its worst faults are being both aggressively unintelligible and mind bogglingly monotonous if the reels got mixed up or if half of them got lost in shipping the audience would not know the difference if you don't believe me i dare you to steal a print and have someone run the reels in random order if you can tell me which one goes where i will give you every penny i have br br the first third of the film features a mishmash of scenes songs including a cringe inducing rap number and images that don't seem to be related in any way at all horribly integrated computer animation is thrown into the bargain adding yet another brick to the immense and rapidly growing wall of incomprehensibility it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the writer wrote down any japanese folklore that came to mind of on a bunch of note cards stacked them up shuffled them dealt the cards out on a table and then wrote the script according to their order br br about thirty five minutes into the film some semblance of a plot arrives on the scene something about a shape shifting raccoon princess in human form and a regular human falling in love i hoped that this was be a portent of the film being something other than a series of perplexing scenes but no such luck the film continues in the same absolutely baffling manner i wish i had gotten out then but i was trapped in the middle of a narrow row in retrospect it would have been worth the awkward scene br br i'm exhausted just thinking about the last couple of reels i spent every moment hoping and praying that it would be over every big dolly move swell in music or scene that looked remotely like it was concluding things renewed my hopes that the credits were about to roll for agonizing minute after agonizing minute it went on and on and on and on finally after dozens of false alarms it cut to what i was sure must be an abstract pattern over which credits were about to appear then in defiance of all reason it cut to another scene how could i forget the completely unrelated subplot concerning a ninja being captured on and boiled in a soup hadn't been wrapped up yet br br i'm never going to get those 111 minutes back but you can spare yourself the pain unless you want to taint your memory or future enjoyment of great seijun suzuki films like youth of the beast and tokyo drifter do not see princess raccoon i would have rather spent my time vomiting
0	weird with unnecessary singing and backdrops randomly much of the action will occur on stage giving the feeling of an opera performance none of that explains why this is such a bad film br br it's the impression that either not enough rehearsal took place or that no experienced choreographer was available the acting is flat even the sparkling ziyi zhang looks like she's just waiting for her next movement or line you may notice the trivia on this site stating that she spent half a month in japan learning to sign and dance read that again as 2 weeks and things begin to make sense even worse are the little kids who seem to be looking at their parents at the back of the studio rather than at the camera br br the cheap and cheerful sfx are just cheap and cheap the editing is staccato chops peppered with slices of just nothing that adds to anything except annoyance just imagine all the silly dance scenes from the recent zatoichi particularly the closing routine performed by your local high school drama club with one famous actress who speaks in another language but you get her in simply because she's so good normally despite being unsuitable recorded on a cheap camera and then edited into three times its length in no artful order
0	this movie starts off promisingly enough but it gets a little to convoluted and caught up in its stylistic charm the set designs costumes and music were wonderful as close to perfect as one can get but the more i got into the movie the more i felt like all this effort was for the director's entertainment not the audience although i loved looking at it except for a few brief musical scenes i can't say i enjoyed it the director shows enormous imagination but if he had fun with this film he failed to share that with the audience or at least with me i didn't get a sense of whimsy and i didn't get sucked into this universe br br a big cause of this was surprisingly zhang ziyi you can tell she's trying very hard but she seems to have been so miscast that she comes off almost amateurish she's a capable actress but she has her limitations i've noticed in her acting that she has yet to truly react to her fellow co stars a flaw that creates a void of chemistry the language barrier in this film seems to have only exacerbate matters she and odagiri act as if they're on separate planets she's also not a very good singer which made me cringe every time she sang but thankfully there weren't too many scenes of that odagiri was ok but doesn't make much of an impression br br i didn't even care for the characters separately there really is a sore lack of characterization the only reason to care about them seems to be that they're good looking royalty without the compelling love story at the center of the film though it's hard to care what happens the film also takes detours into minor scenes that added nothing to the story and was actually distracting i had to rewind because after going into a subplot i couldn't remember what the heck they we're doing in the main storyline there were also scenes where it was hard to tell what the action occurring was because it was so stylized br br mostly i'm just disappointed because i really like the concept behind this and there are a lot of things i do like the music and dance choreography are really great the supporting performances are uniformly excellent fantastic in both the acting aspect and the singing it's just too bad the lead actors were so bland
0	i think the problem with some reactions to this film is that with few exceptions they don't focus on the main disconnect hence the main split in the audience br br on the one side there are those who are taken by the visual design pretty costumes and variety of elements going into the film some children's movie fans love the colour and animation and all the un scary effects shapeshifting animals and so on some culture vultures like the complicated references the of different folklore elements and the fact that they can watch zhang ziyi singing and quasi miming in two different languages in what really was intended to be a children's comedy br br on the other side there are those who say that a children's movie should still have a point that a blend of is not a tale at all and that it's easier to believe in magic when enough thought and care has gone into the technical aspects to make it seem real br br in other words the ideas could be lovely but when you put them onstage they have to deliver here they don't br br a good from any country has a clear story a point and characters who interact strongly with each other this lacks them all a few over sophisticated gestures to opera western and japanese are no replacement for a solid theme br br as a fantasy fan i must say that i've sat through some turkeys and loved a few but this one really tries to do too many things cheaply putting in zhang ziyi to try to add a little glitter smacks of exotic flower syndrome the other problem isn't that there's no plot there's half a plot which means that you keep getting pulled in then dropped again as another none too sharply executed dance number kicks off br br the characters all seem to know that they're starring in a movie unless you really like watching other peoples' amateur video this ain't good i'd like to test this on real children i think they'd drop it for uproar in heaven after about 20 minutes
0	sherlock holmes and the secret weapon starts in switzerland as the world's foremost detective sherlock holmes basil rathbone outwits the nazi's manages to smuggle a brilliant scientist named dr franz william post jr out of the country to the relative safety of london but is london as safe as holmes thinks dr has engineered a revolutionary new bomb sight that will change aerial bombardment forever he has agreed to give it to the british government but those nazi's want it just as badly holmes arch enemy professor moriarty lionel atwill plans on stealing the secret of the bomb sight selling it to the nazi's add the bumbling inspector lestrade denis of scotland yard dr love interest charlotte verne assassins mysterious scientists a puzzling coded message holmes has his work cut out to keep dr alive so he can deliver his bomb sight br br directed by roy william neill sherlock holmes and the secret weapon was the fourth in a series of fourteen holmes films made between 1939 1946 to feature rathbone bruce as holmes watson the script by edward t lowe jr scott darling edmund l hartmann is based on the short 'the dancing men' by sir arthur conan doyle isn't the tradition holmes murder mystery as it's more of a wartime adventure story to neglect what holmes is all about the solving of complex crimes mysteries is a big mistake as far as i'm concerned the involvement of the nazi's the war as a backdrop to the story feels out of place awkward just didn't sit too well with me the dialogue isn't great professor moriarty feels almost like an afterthought as if they couldn't come up with a villain for it as a whole it's far less engaging than other's in the series however at least it's short br br director neill does his usual efficient job but you have to cut it a little slack bear in mind that it was made over 60 years ago it has no real style or imagination lacks both atmosphere intrigue as well br br technically the film is ok if unspectacular the black and white cinematography is fine although i understand that a computer colourised version is also available the acting is alright bruce do their usual comic relief turns rathbone's hairstyle in this looks ridiculous i'm glad he changed it for later instalments br br sherlock holmes and the secret weapon was a disappointment when compared to some of the other excellent entries in the series there is very little by which i can recommend it everything that made the other's so good seems to be missing here leave this one till last watch some of the better ones first for die hard fans only
0	abysmal indonesian action film from legendary triumphantly sculpts a template for future cinemax pap like and 'do or die' with erik estrada while simultaneously burying poor rising action star pat o'brien with a hackneyed backyard script and three cans of hair styling gel to perm his impressive 1984 mullet this guy's physical prowess resembles a more femme mark gregory and his next credit would be second fiddle to chris mitchum as tom selick powerful at least the action is mindless and non stop with some daring asian stuntmen risking their lives for what is essentially a poorly constructed movie by teens and or meth addicts with no concept of reality one poor extra gets ly shredded by an electric hedge clipper and many more are killed by getting hit in the head by odd objects such as a motorcycle wheel or cardboard box classic rape scenes are tasteless and priceless and quotable dialog such as i would rather trust a rattlesnake are delivered with such exuberance and fervor from the third rate voice actors random highlight some crazy dude eating live lizards movie also holds the record for most cars driven through walls 2 10
0	anyone who will pay to see troma movies knows and appreciates what they are going to get having said that i didn't think it was possible to make a movie this bad and still be compelling i found myself watching just to see how much worse it could get before the end first off it's an indonesian action movie with an american main character who looks and acts like the bastard son of taxi 's christopher lloyd and rambo he puts posters of himself dressed up like sly's cobra all over the place and even has a custom built firing range with action posed cutouts of his greatest enemies in jakarta although he's in the cia and has just arrived days earlier there is a lot of action involving gun play no muzzle flashes on those m 16s only sound effects motorcycles that bust through walls karate where no one makes physical contact and even some sex where all the actors are ugly the main plot of an epic like this should at least be reasonably plausible but not here it involves the world's most dangerous drug cartel going all out to find a drug detector device why would they need it that is never revealed why not kill drug sniffing dogs makes no sense but it is taken seriously the actors are to be commended because they really seemed to think this movie would make them all famous and tried hard to act best line now dance to your grave you dirty whore best scene rambo jumps onto flying helicopter pulls machine gun out of hand let's go falls shoots helicopter as he's falling helicopter blows up cut to mannequin thrown in water f king genius if you can't appreciate trash don't watch it if you can it's awesome one last thing did i mention it was directed by the three punjabi brothers
0	on a flight back from london i watched she's the man apparently air canada has a crap movie policy perhaps that's not the best way to start a review of this movie amanda bynes plays a girl who loves soccer so much that she pretends to be her twin brother to get on a team at a boarding school across town even if you check your mind at the door on a 6 hour flight you have to the story is implausible and ridiculous there are some moments of humor mostly from comedian david cross as the principle but the intricate love polygon doesn't really inspire emotion although is is cleverly mixed with the caveat of mindless plausibility the ending is just as ridiculously mindless as the rest i guess if i was a 12 year old girl i might have really enjoyed this one
0	i have watched this movie twice in the past six months what i go through so you don't have to the first viewing left me half crazed and babbling the second viewing at on a rainy morn was a little better i only screamed in agony once br br seems the aztec mummy had the hots for a certain aztec princess who was supposed to keep her maiden obviously they gave each other the business and were put to death for it now that is severe but before they are the film tries to put us to death with a screeching aztec ceremony the singing will make your ears bleed br br anyhow there is the usual reincarnation nonsense not to mention a treasure map on a bracelet guarded by that swathed slob by this time looks like he's been on a 2000 year bender and is after the defilers of his tomb his groans moans sounds like he has a bad case of montezuma's revenge or he read the script for this movie that will make your breath stink br br an evil dr von appears wanting the aztec treasure possibly to finance acting lessons screenwriting classes for cast crew he is called the bat because in the curse of the aztec mummy he wore a bat like cape hat and something like a ski mask over his face guess it's better than the laughing fat man br br the bat in typical mad scientist fashion wants to rule the world he stresses this by rolling his eyes laughing maniacally and chewing the scenery he has cobbled together an invincible robot looks like the 'bot was made from a garbage can a chandelier and the grill of a 1957 buick this will make your eyes bleed a company even takes credit for making this tin can br br well the mighty showdown between and the robot takes place in the mummy's new crypt having been made homeless earlier br br about half of this movie is culled from la aztec never released in the us in its original form but in a chopped atrocity from jerry warren see my review on attack of the mayan mummy and curse of the aztec mummy the robot is frankly stupid as are most of the characters if that and the plot doesn't make you howl with laughter nothing will br br my first impression was so bad it would have gotten a one but after seeing mayan mummy which is a movie deserving of being burned and watching robot again it garners a 3 you have to watch this with no expectations at all then it can be naively pleasant
0	this movie was different from most of jimmy films of the 1930s in that it was not done by warner brothers first national but was a loan out to a smaller studio because it was a poverty row studio the production values are lower than you might be used to seeing with cagney films plus the plot is certainly one of the strangest i have seen instead of him being a gangster he was a good guy in this one fighting for the law this isn't all that unusual because cagney frequently played lawmen such as an oss leader the forefather of the cia of fbi agent but to make him an investigator for the bureau of weights and measures was indeed odd especially since at times he acted pretty much the same way he did in the movie g men br br all in all a time passer and that's about it br br finally the videotape i saw this on from memory lane video was perhaps one of the poorest i have ever encountered the sound was terrible and scratchy and the print looked very white and had lots of torn film and gaps
0	first off this is the worst movie i've ever seen that may make you want to see it but it is not bad in a good way it's boring implausible poorly shot ridiculously scripted and lacking in cool disaster effects br br worse it is intensely patriotic without a trace of irony or fun wallowing in a sense of japanese uniqueness and everyone abandons the japanese in their hour of need particularly the koreans the most noble characters choose going down with their ship as their beloved island sinks only japanese would think this way says the prime minister br br if this movie in any way reflects the japanese opinion of their place in world opinion the first thing they should do to rectify the problem is stop making movies like this
0	i have just finished watching this movie and for me it takes ages to finish because it is so boring and the storyline is extremely bad br br now where should i start o the movie is called sinking of japan yeah yeah it does show that japan is actually sinking but the action part is very bad compare to the movie the day after tomorrow i would have rate it at least 8 10 br br the sinking of japan does not show much about the disaster that actually happening right in front of our eyes there isn't much excitement at all boring all i can say br br one more point i would recommend this movie to have a better title maybe something like the romance of sinking of japan because this movie does have lots of waste of time talk nonsense the love story is extremely boring have been dragging too long honestly i almost get frustrated br br overall this movie does not show enough details of the disasters e g many people running like hell to avoid death love story part was extremely not touching enough for me br br but hey there is one thing we should appreciate about this movie though its has got good songs
0	due to rather dubious plate japan starts to slip under the sea initial predictions say it'll take about 40 years before the country is submerged but a rogue scientist adds in some even more dubious science and determines it will actually take less than 1 year the government think he's a crackpot but evidence soon starts bearing his theory out br br this big budget disaster movie follows the formula set by any number of hollywood films of the late 90's i assume having seen none of them with the scale of disaster and tragedy bringing out the nobility of the human well japanese spirit in acts of heroism and sacrifice and proving the power of love or something like that i e it's as naive in its psychology as it's geology we all know that half the populace would be out raping and looting the minute they thought the police had their back turned and the other half would just panic and be useless br br the film does have some very nice special effects but is not as slick or expensive looking as an equivalent hollywood production would be it is at least as nationalistic humourless and lacking in self awareness as that hollywood film would be though and probably has even worse acting it does have the hot evil chick from battle royale as one of the leads but she's not even slightly evil and is therefore much less hot br br the film is much too long at 132 minutes and gets worse and worse as it progresses towards a conclusion that had me in danger of puking i certainly didn't care in the slightest whether japan sank or not by the half way point and well before the end i was trying to think of ways to the process should i ever find myself in that situation for real br br but it does have nice special effects and kou shibasaki is still pretty hot so i give it 3 10
0	this disaster flick is a remake of a 1973 movie of the same title based on a novel by japan is located right alongside the pacific ring of fire active volcanoes and also along the edges of plate whose shifting will cause earthquakes and a japanese term in itself for tidal wave naturally this makes a natural premise for a disaster picture what with hollywood having a field day with films like armageddon deep impact and more recently the day after tomorrow which tackles how global warming becomes the catalyst for natural disasters gone bonkers around the world br br but i'll have to say this the sinking of japan makes all the films mentioned earlier look like classics this disaster movie is a disaster and a massive one at that having to look at my watch every 10 15 minutes is a signal that the movie doesn't engage and feels than it had over clocked its runtime br br the special effects are gorgeous to look at from satellite styled outer space pictures to the vivid recreation of every conceivable natural disaster that can strike the land of the rising sun the effects are the star of the show however having spectacular computer generated graphics does not in itself make a movie palatable as too much of a good thing just plain bores br br if you had seen the trailer where you're enticed by the effects and specific scenes of chaos and mayhem then yes in fact those scenes are just that there are no details and everything is seen from afar in a god like mode things happen just like that on screen with nary an attempt to try and delve deeper to look at issues up close it's akin to godzilla knocking over buildings and it's as if there are no humans or loss of lives through that single act morbid as it might sound show us the victims a populous nation like japan doesn't just suffer disaster after disaster with an extremely low fatality count not when the filmmakers unleash mayhem in such an epic scale br br trying to weave a romance into the movie it stood out like a sore thumb there are many characters in the movie but each one of them lacking real characteristics or humanity and look like wandering zombies without expression without emotion and definitely very stiff and unconvincing heroes become stuck in generic control rooms issuing statements instructions and form policies and react to incidents like it was a computer game all settled with a push of a button these are characters that you don't give a hoot about br br if i may just use the day after tomorrow as a comparison while there are terrific effects there is at least an attempt to provide a microscopic view of the entire disaster from different individual's point of views and infused within are plenty of action sequences big ones like the disasters themselves and small ones with the focus on the triumph of the human spirit that makes it relatively compelling br br unfortunately for the sinking of japan this movie should preferably be one to sink and tank and hopefully undergo a short and quick death at the local box office to make way for better stuff
0	this film has some nice special effects tearing apart the japanese archipelago to a degree that would humble godzilla the two leads also put in above par performances apart from that it is all a bit ropey in this understated disaster flick the incongruities in the pacing are bizarre at one point we have sinking into the sea and snow falling on the rest of japan while osaka is buried under an immense tsunami yet elsewhere in the country people are still strolling around sightseeing and licking ice cream when another tsunami rolls in also manages to travel great distances without any hindrance or even a in his cream shirt other people turn up with burns ripped clothes and mud streaks on their faces br br the of the film is both touching and repugnant sacrifice in his final evening with shibasaki is a touch of chivalry seldom seen in this genre these days however the ill fated pms musings on the japanese psyche and the seduction of death and the fact that japan is abandoned by everyone and has no friends in the last instance hint at a darker paranoia that infects japanese concerns regarding their status in the world br br sadly the final sequence is a rip off of edited with a cookie cutter br br finally my own particular bug bear the heavy handed product placement for cigarettes this time around it is mad or is he scientist who gets to be the poster boy for japan tobacco at one point he manages to light up 5000 meters below the ocean surface in a miniature sub the size of a phone box gimme a break
0	may be spoilers so do not read if you do not want to just like watching the tv news everything is already happened a great tsunami looms over a city bay and cut no more to see suffers a large earthquake did anyone see more than the 5 seconds i saw if you want to make a love story make a love story but if you want to use a disaster movie title do please be kind enough to show me the disaster pd after watching this movie watch or any godzilla film to satisfy the part that was willing to see people screaming and buildings collapsing that did not get a chance to do in this movie don t take me wrong i love disaster movies and i love the original and i even like the latest poseidon not to much of a story there but a very good and graphic disaster sequence new looses the point as many times as pearl harbour or the day after tomorrow but at least this two movies do show good disaster sequences and also enough with the expensive fx that did not show anything give me fake buildings if you like as long as you do destroy them properly i know i must sound like a sadistic freak however i did go to see love actually when i felt like going to see a romantic film even sensei makes me cry and this movie didn t there is also a tv series called napping made in 1975 i have on dvd and it is much better
0	what a terrible movie it represents perfectly the state of of french society where the most elementary respect for wholesome values and traditions has completely disappeared the plot is nonsensical the movie is not funny at all and the characters are completely shallow and uninteresting to say the least the direction and the cinematography are very poor and uninspired catherine deneuve is as bad an actress as she always was even when she was directed by bunuel in belle de jour the rest of the usually good cast vincent lindon line jean seem completely lost in an ocean of vulgarity platitudes and i cannot help to draw a parallel with the wonderful james le divorce with its thoughtful depiction of french and american mores its superlative cinematography and stellar cast put to good use having watched le divorce you can feel a kind of empathy with the french regardless of their foibles belle maman leaves you with only a nauseated contempt for its morally bankrupt and clueless protagonists
0	i rented the matrix revisited with a friend of mine we both loved the matrix and we both love filmmaking so we wanted to see what was going on behind the scenes of the matrix it turns out that the matrix revisited tells you hardly anything about the art of filmmaking or even how the matrix was made it is basically a huge commercial for the matrix a movie that the target audience of the matrix revisited has already seen br br if you really want to know about the process and the troubles and the stress and the detail that went into making of the matrix look no further than the bonus features on the original dvd of the matrix there are things they show in those documentaries that i had not even realized had to be done or was done the matrix was such a difficult and challenging film to make that it deserves more credit than a documentary that's about as informative and interesting as an mtv special
0	mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna erika fay lives her best friend is rosie martine hughes she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel gabriel who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town killing livestock several residents including some of their friends local mexican legends speak of the an evil creature from myth legend erm i'm struggling now because not that much else actually happens br br written directed by scott i won't beat about the bush here simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful period the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once the rest of the time it's referred to a in fact i suspect this wasn't really conceived as a werewolf flick at all the 'werewolf' creature looks mostly hairless more like some vicious dog there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions there is no transformation scene at the end when it is killed it doesn't change back into anyone either to be honest apart from the title there's nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london 1981 this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead 1978 the evil dead 1981 halloween 1978 or friday the 13th 1980 which were all made on shoe string budgets maybe the blair witch project 1999 but that's it in recent years crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic the character's are awful things just happen around them the dialogue is rubbish the pacing is terrible the story sucks virtually sent me to sleep as a whole this film is just crap i'm sorry but i don't know how else to describe it br br director does nothing to make this watchable there's the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache quick you'll miss editing which just annoys irritates in equal measure it's not scary there's no nudity there's no tension or atmosphere the special effects are awful the monster really does look poor it's no wonder keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it there's virtually no colour to the picture either it's either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well the gore consists of some fake guts blink you'll miss them a few bloody wounds a severed arm big deal br br with a supposed budget of about 300 000 i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far the whole thing has the look of a home movie it has no style is throughly bland dull to look at the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that br br mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it's a sequel to john classic which it most certainly isn't it isn't even a proper werewolf flick either don't be fooled this is awful i'm fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this
0	the usual disclaimer i do not give 1 star ratings to movies which are harmless bad low budget and silly although they may deserve it these films are often funny and get rated 2 4 based on entertainment value not as a representation of their exemplary film artistry this film fits this model perfectly it is a mexican monster movie riddled with voice over narrative and extremely weak not so special effects the makeup is not that bad and the acting is sometimes quite entertaining but this film is almost as silly as aliens vs predator and the script isn't half as slick aliens vs predator might get a 1 from me but i want to see it again before i commit br br the plot is ridiculous but deliciously convoluted if you've read this far you must really want to know a group of remarkably unscientific scientists comprise the main characters most of them are heroes sort of but one is of course mad and quite perverse this mad scientist invents a laughable nuclear powered robot who looks a bit like the tin man from wizard of oz but has a human face inexplicably located inside its head an aztec mummy discovered by the same whose wife just so happens to have been an aztec princess in a past life don't ask is pitted against the robot for the big climax the fight scene alone is enough to put the most stoic movie watcher on the floor in belly laughs br br for what its worth given the budget and the utter silliness of the script this is a very entertaining low budget goof ball monster movie if you're into that sort of thing go for it
0	first off mexican werewolf in texas' title is misleading as many others have pointed out it is actually about el which is a similar creature to a werewolf but by no means the same br br the production and editing just plain suck when it was over i probably wouldn't be able to give a very accurate description of what exactly the looked like for whenever it was in a scene despite one or two exceptions the camera turned all shaky and you could only see the monster's face clearly the special effects were laughably bad but that has to be expected from a low budget horror movie br br along with the terrible production comes the bad actors now a couple give fairly plausible performances erika fay and martine hughes but then there were the bad actors everybody else who seemed to have no emotions whatsoever when people died then there's the absolutely terrible actor sara who gives one of the 2 worst performances i've ever seen in a movie i mean my god she was indescribably bad br br the plot was very simple basically a is in a small texan town killing off local residents and a group of teens look to stop it however even with the plot being this simple a few plot holes managed to leak through br br anyways horrible movie however if you are looking for a movie to make fun of and laugh at with your friends one night this would be a pretty good one my friends and i had a good time watching this probably the 2nd worst movie i've ever seen 1 10 awful
0	in the dusty little town of furlough in texas an animal is slaughtering the cattle and the locals when the teenager tommy michael is killed their friends anna furlough erika fay her mexican american boyfriend miguel gonzalez gabriel jill sara and rosie martine hughes finds that a mexican werewolf is the killer and they plot a plan to kill the beast br br mexican werewolf in texas is an amateurish crap and among the worse movies i have ever seen if not the worst nothing works in this movie the screenplay is laughable with some of the most terrible lines i have ever heard the direction does not exist and the camera follows the style of the blair witch project the amateurish acting seems to be a prank of high school students or a high school play the special effects are gruesome and extremely poor and the werewolf is the cheapest i have ever seen ed wood movies are cult but this mexican werewolf in texas is pure garbage in the end jill says that no man can resist her actually the most beautiful thing in this flick but i believe the correct quote should be no man or woman can resist to watch this movie to the end i was driven by my curiosity to see how bad a movie can be and i lost 88 minutes of my life but i believe most of the viewers will stop seeing with less than 20 minutes running time my vote is one awful br br title brazil um no texas a mexican werewolf in texas
0	first of all mexican werewolf in texas is not a werewolf movie this title is bullcrap the story is actually about a that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something and i guess it actually works because that's the reason why i bought this piece of crap it sounded so stupid anyway the movie isn't any good actually it's bloody awful but i didn't expect anything else when i bought it it's a low budget horror movie with a monster if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog actors and some gore then you should check into this movie but i must warn you this movie is really br br this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous they almost never say a line in a normal way they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say it's so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody it's like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo she's the worst of them all i have never seen an actor as bad as her and i've seen even when her boyfriend dies she can't stop being a bimbo about it i hate her br br some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project but most of the movie is shot in the night when the strikes and the lighting is way too dark the gore scenes are few and short but really grizzly and violent the effects are pretty hilarious really but that's the way i like it the looks pretty messed up and it's easy to see that it's a guy in suit br br overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it's very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer
0	i must say i was disappointed with this film although it is well acted and directed the underlying story simply plods along too slowly br br granted in another mood i would have liked it better i did chuckle a lot but rarely laughed out loud and there was actually a sense of suspense to discover who won but in contrast to another movie that my wife picked up the same day one neither of us had heard of before this one paled in comparison br br if you see lots of movies then by all means see this it's distinctly better than your average fare but if you like me have limited time and want to watch only the best and most entertaining save this for later br br rate 7 10
0	if it had not been for christopher guest's hilarious role i would have stopped watching this movie after 20 minutes the jokes were flat the movie choppy and slow paced certain characters were obnoxious and painful to watch but guest's character kept me laughing so i stuck with it br br i do feel there are much better choices out there
0	i could not stand the woman who played the mother i wanted her to shut up she had a bizarre manner of speaking and the lines she was given to read didn't make it any better i had no idea why the men of the town were so taken with her to cause all these problems except that in a town populated by men she seemed to be the only woman over ten and under sixty even after a terrible tragedy her voice was devoid of human emotion she seemed to have no ability to grasp the events of her life she delivered her lines with the same emotion whether she was saying i love you i hate you the bank is my dress is on fire was this actually filmed in ireland the sun blazed throughout the movie and the characters seemed surprised by a rain shower during the harvest i lived in ireland during the summer of 2002 the summer in a century most everything was still harvested if the farmers in ireland could only harvest during long dry stretches then the country would have starved hundreds of years ago it seems as if there wasn't a lot of money to make the movie the black and white flashbacks looked as if they were filmed with the security cameras one can get at sam's club
0	like the previous commentator on this film i too found myself in tears at times during this movie sometimes one wonders how a film of such awe inspiring awfulness comes into existence from the first moment when our protagonist wakes up in his new york apartment from a dream of subway trains intercut with galloping horses what irish emigrant hasn't had that one its clear we are in trouble and it doesn't get much better br br whisked back to 1950s ireland we enter a world where everybody speaks without intonation and exclusively on the topic of the irish civil war schoolchildren go to school to learn about the civil war the drinkers in the pub divide themselves according to their civil war allegiances are carried out for those who died in the civil war the town is divided between those who believe we should remember and those who want to forget the civil war every glance and conversation is dripping with meaning that traces back to the civil war br br the blurb on the of broken harvest suggests that the film is a parable of the troubles in modern ireland the only parallel which strikes me is that in present day dublin conversation is indeed dominated by one topic house prices if its intention is to offer some sort of insight into ireland's obsession with its past it fails miserably it is striking how few irish films have dealt with the irish civil war and its however it will take a film of a great deal more subtlety and intelligence than this one to tell us anything about the lasting effects of such a traumatic event on the nation's psyche br br for those american viewers who have suggested the film evokes the atmosphere of 1950s ireland it doesn't 1950s ireland was a horrible poverty stricken pit of sexual repression and misery from which young people fled in their droves however there was more than one topic of conversation
0	i thought maybe a film which boasted a cast including peter o'toole susannah york michael craig harry andrews might be worth watching alas i was wrong utter pretentious nonsense from beginning to end with both o'toole and york overacting wildly i watched it twice and still have no idea what is was about i've a feeling o'toole plays the laird of a scottish castle who has a drink problem and likes reliving childhood games with his sister york he is also barking mad but apart from that your guess is as good as mine br br the film has no redeeming feature whatsoever i can only assume the cast and director were blackmailed into making this dreary unimaginative stagy piffle clearly a waste of the time of a talented cast and director risible
0	this movie was a rather odd viewing experience the movie is obviously based on a play now i'm sure that everything in this movie works out just fine in a play but for in a movie it just doesn't feel terribly interesting enough to watch the movie is way too 'stagey' and they didn't even bothered to change some of the dialog to make it more fitting for a movie instead what is presented now is an almost literally re filming of a stage play with over the top characters and staged dialog because of all this the storyline really doesn't work out and the movie becomes an almost complete bore and obsolete viewing experience br br it takes a while before you figure out that this is a comedy you're watching at first you think its a drama you're watching with quirky characters in it but as the movie progresses you'll notice that the movie is more a tragicomedy that leans really more toward the comedy genre rather than the drama genre br br the characters and dialog are really the things that make this movie a quirky and over the top one that at times really become unwatchable sure the actors are great peter o'toole and susannah york amongst others but they don't really uplift the movie to a level of 'watchable enough' br br the story feels totally disorientated basicaly the story is about nothing and just mainly focuses on the brother sister characters played by peter o'toole and susannah york but what exactly is the story even about the movie feels like a pointless and obsolete one that has very little to offer like i said before i'm sure the story is good and interesting to watch on stage but as a movie it really isn't fitting and simply doesn't work out br br the editing is simply dreadful and times and it becomes even laughable bad in certain sequences br br more was to expect from director j lee thompson who has obviously done far better movies than this rather failed stage play translated to screen project br br really not worth your time br br 4 10
0	contains spoilers br br the british director j lee thompson made some excellent films notably 'ice cold in alex' and 'cape fear' but 'country dance' is one of his more curious offerings the story is set among the upper classes of rural scotland and details the strange triangular relationship between sir charles ferguson an eccentric aristocratic landowner his sister hilary and hilary's estranged husband douglas who is hoping for a reconciliation with her we learn that during his career as an army officer charles was regarded as having 'low moral fibre' this appears to have been an accurate diagnosis of his condition throughout the film he displays an attitude of gloomy disillusionment with the world and his main sources of emotional support seem to be hilary and his whisky bottle the film ends with his committal to an upper class lunatic asylum br br peter o'toole was when he was at his best as in 'lawrence of arabia' one of britain's leading actors but the quality of his work was very uneven and 'country dance' is not one of his better films he overacts frantically making charles into a caricature of the useless inbred aristocrat as though he were auditioning for a part in the monty python 'upper class twit of the year' sketch susannah york as hilary and michael craig as douglas are rather better but there is no really outstanding acting performance in the film there is also little in the way of coherent plot beyond the tale of charles's inexorable downward slide br br the main problem with the film however is neither the acting nor the plot but rather that of the theme that dare not speak its name there are half hearted hints of an incestuous relationship between charles and hilary or at least of an incestuous attraction towards her on his part and that his dislike of douglas is motivated by sexual jealousy unfortunately even in the swinging sixties and early seventies the date of the film is variously given as either 1969 or 1970 there was a limit to what the british board of film censors was willing to allow and a film with an explicitly incestuous theme was definitely off limits the american title for the film was 'brotherly love' but this was not used in britain was it too suggestive for the liking of the bbfc these hints are therefore never developed and we never get to see what motivates charles or what has caused his moral collapse resulting in a hollow film with a hole at its centre 4 10
0	i m in two minds about following the film debut of christopher nolan part of me admires it for costing 6 000 dollars to make but part of me hates it for being too art house in many ways it reminds me of the cult movie pi a film i disliked and i can t get my head around the central plot of a man who wants to be writer following people around wouldn t it be more logical for someone wanting to be a writer to sit in front of a keyboard and write br br oh well i guess following gives indie film makers hope that just because they made a no budget movie costing 6 000 over two thousand imdb members will vote for it and over five hundred members will comment on it but you have to wonder if this movie would be so well regarded if it wasn t made by the director of memento
0	this is indeed the film that popularized kung fu in the 1970s however if it ever had any kind of excitement or even halfway interesting plot it doesn't seem to have aged very well br br long story short extremely drawn out slow moving confusing plot with run of the mill choreography typically annoying and exaggerated whiplash sounds with every punch and kick and constant plot twists that never come to an end by the time the film reaches its emotional climax i had long had all the wind knocked out of me to actually care br br watch it for its historical value as a milestone of chinese kung fu cinema just leave your expectations at the door or you'll be bitterly disappointed br br for hardcore fans only
0	i remember when this came out it was the first kung fu film ever seen around our way and we were all excited about seeing it for sure although the action was mediocre at best it gave us our first taste of kung fu and our first taste of bad dubbing as well as bad film making or more precisely the way chinese people were making films at the time they were admittedly inferior question but there was entertainment value here and that caught on for sure the kung fu craze had begun and bruce lee and ''the chinese would soon follow either that or ''the chinese with jimmy wang yu in any case this film was chosen to lead the way
0	seems sensei seagal is getting more and more moralising and less action packed to date this has to be his worse movie no action a poor story line an impossible plot and to make things worse one of the endings i have ever seen br br seagal films are like seeing a dirty harry you do not go see it for the great social causes or impeccable acting you want a good action flick br br on a scale of 1 to 10 this one gets a 1
0	steven seagal played in many action movies most of them were bad but not bad as the patriot this one is a z series action low budget movie after operation delta force act of war the substitute 2 plato's run the base drive sabotage etc comes the patriot now steven seagal is sure to be considered as a bad actor like mark dacascos jean claude van damme treat williams jack scalia gary busey chuck norris michael madsen and many others the scenario was full of holes and the characters were not realistic maybe because of the very bad actors and the 4 25 bucks you spend by renting the patriot are called lost money i give it a half for laughs out of 5
0	okay some other people have commented that this isn't an action flick so i don't need to rehash that even though i just did this isn't exactly a let down in fact it's nice on occasion to see an actor try something different but unfortunately this isn't one of those occasions br br now the story non existent this film lacks in storyline almost as much as did sure they throw in a couple environmentalist no not even environmentalist something else tidbits here and there to please seagal being that that's what he's into this doesn't make a story not even close now the ending even those amongst us who actually liked this film the ending you have to admit it was a bit much or a lot stupid br br now from what i understand this was a direct to video film at least in the states but this is even too good for this one this piece of garbage should have been cable only on tbs or starz late night
0	i don't know about the rest of the viewers of this movie but personally i'm dead sick and tired of steven seagal films when above the law came out it was a great action film wahoo now in the patriot steven seagal plays steven seagal from above the law i get tired of seeing no character changes it's the same character time after time after time he needs change this movie was probably one of the worst action films i have ever seen calling it an action movie is giving it almost too much credit because there's too few action scenes and they're spread far apart throughout the film i guess they wanted to go for some drama but it was a meaningless try as the film portrays nothing but the regular squinty eyed steven seagal we've seen thousands of times over get a new look and lose the pony tail is all i have to say i definitely do not recommend viewing this film in any form go out to eat heck rent barney goes to vegas but do not under any circumstances rent this movie under the precept that seagal will make a great performance
0	i discovered the patriot in a dvd store and thought it could be a real action thriller no it´s instead a low budget movie with a ridiculous story it´s no doubt a cable movie and not one for the theatre fortunately after 90 minutes the movie stops otherwise the audience should have taken an anti virus against sleep one thing came over it was the nice country the film has been shot you can really feel the american air but that´s all i hope for steven seagal that he finally succeeds in a big hit it is not a must see because i and my wife voted average 4 10
0	dr steven segal saves the world from a deadly virus outbreak this movie strikes me as foolish earnestness that has morphed into an unintended camp classic the best kind memorable lines include knowledge is like a deer chase it and it will run away from you and drink this it will make you feel better it is so sublimely bad they couldn't have made it any worse if they tried br br segal tries to convince you that he is 1 sensitive by saving a stricken pony 2 a good father by a saccharine cooking scene for his daughter 3 a man of science by looking at a fake spectrum 4 in tune with nature by using remedies 5 politically correct and multicultural by having indian friends 6 an iconoclast by opening a rural practice after a former life in a national research lab and 7 an action hero by being really fat but yet can still fight br br it's good to see on as a late night saturday flick with friends preferably but not necessarily inebriated
0	the most stupid of seagal's movies i've ever seen the final scene is just crescendo of stupidity my recommendation if you really like steeve seagal's movies never never rent or buy this one do not repeat my mistake and keep a good impression of him which i've lost
0	wow i haven't seen a movie this bad since fire down below wait that's a seagal movie too like on deadly ground and fire down below seagal centers the movie around his environmental awareness message and how the military fbi and cia are incompetent idiots problem is that both reality and a sensible plot are secondary to whatever social commentary seagal is trying to get across
0	on humphrey bogart's first trip to hollywood he got his first leading man role in this b picture love affair the first thing you ought to realize is that this film has absolutely nothing to do with the classic love affair later in the decade with charles boyer and irene dunne or the two remakes that followed it's not half as good any of those films br br in fact bogey is second billed to dorothy as a spoiled heiress who finds out she's been living her extravagant lifestyle courtesy of her late father's best friend and financial adviser hale hamilton it comes as quite a shock to she considers a show business career as a way for an income br br bogart is a test pilot who is also an aeronautical engineer and he's designing an ultimate airplane motor and is looking for investors is willing to do it besides she likes what she sees in bogey br br considering the cynical roles that bogart later made a specialty it's a bit disconcerting to see him as this highly moral and self righteous character in love affair the part doesn't wear well on him br br love affair is your average b program second feature nothing terribly special about it
0	apart from some quite stunning scenery this steven seagal vehicle is devoid of reasons to spend any time watching it for a seagal movie it has very little almost no action but he does put in some reasonable for him acting in contrived character development scenes not recommended to anyone
0	steven seagal has made a really dull bad and boring movie steven seagal plays a doctor this movie has got a few action scenes but they are poorly directed and have nothing to do with the rest of the movie a group of american nazis spread a lethal virus which is able to wipe out the state of montana wesley seagal s character tries desperately to find a cure and that is the story of the patriot the patriot is an extremely boring film because nothing happens it is filled with boring dialogue and illogical gaps between events and stupid actors steven seagal has totally up in this movie and i would not recommend this guff to my worst enemy 3 10
0	this film is without a doubt the worst action film i have ever seen i am sorry but it is just pathetic in fact the best part of the movie this movie is supposed to be a serious one is when a chicken speeds across the road on foot at about 100 miles per hour this pathetic editing mistake makes the film absolutely hilarious for approximately 2 seconds then it is back to non stop on the edge of your seat as you try to find a comfortable position to sleep in action
0	since i am not a big steven seagal fan i thought this was a pretty good movie it is apparent that his fans are very displeased with this drama that lacks an over abundance of martial arts and brute force br br gailard sartain plays a self claimed patriot leader of a militia in a standoff with the for weapons violations he surrenders with the intentions of releasing a deadly virus seagal is a former cia agent turned country doctor that pressures himself to find the antidote for the lethal bug that has incapacitated a small town his grandpa's native american herbal remedy figures into the salvation br br notable appearances by l q jones camilla belle and silas weir mitchell my personal favorite in this movie is whitney yellow robe she is stunning and appears to have what it takes to take on a more challenging role br br despite the far fetched ending this was a decent movie that could have used a lot more action
0	seagal was way off the mark with this film i'm a fan of his and come to expect cool fight scenes and sharp one liners but this film had none of this instead it had injections and cheesy music even if you're a fan of his i strongly recommend you keep away from this film and watch under siege or even on deadly ground instead
0	forget the fact that most people expect an action movie form seagal this movie simply had no substance very long drawn out and boring scenes were much longer than they had to be the camera would often focus on something for long periods of time when absolutely nothing was happening cure for insomnia worst seagal movie by far i do like some of his other movies 1 10
0	possible spoiler alert br br it's unlikely that seagal will ever again scale the heights of he did with on deadly ground mainly because no one's ever going to let him direct again but he sure tries don't he br br this one's a typically brainless and badly written little fantasy about how indian folk remedies are much more effective than western medicine seagal seems to actually believe this nonsense although he never explains why life expectancy in the americas and europe is so much higher than it was in 1492 br br kinda like he never explains how his supposed water fueled engines work in on deadly ground br br even the action in this one sucks
0	you get a good portion of steven seagal environmental anxieties and some breathless mountain views along with cow boy scenes or alternatively use parts of any remains of the horse whisperer you then add a large piece of outbreak virus or similar attention it must be more lethal and at least biohazard level 4 wrapped around a fat militia group leader you add one of martial arts and a zip of explosions and gunfire for the taste add the classic red indian herbs for the extra taste serve immediately br br what is the name of the film you get the patriot perhaps the worst film of steven seagal i am sure that seagal tried to say something in this film except the usual i am a cook but also an ex seal but his recipe was confusing and the taste was awful
0	this is a known fact mr seagal cannot smile he can act he can kick butt there are faint smiles no real smiles no laughing out loud and no real point of watching this confusing movie we see an over weight mr seagal as dr wesley maclaren who is in desperate need of a haircut and his real daughter made an appearance as his office assistant story okay so wesley lives in another darn outback with his sweet daughter holly they sit and enjoy their red flower tea and and on the other end of town some over weight militia leader decides to make the whole town sick by spreading a virus that travels by air and kills in a matter of 2 days thinking he can survive as he had an antidote problem there is no antidote and the one that exists only holds back the virus for a while the cia are contacted and even they can't help and only one person isn't ill daughter holly so she gets hunted thinking the cure is in her blood wesley manages to grab his daughter and take her to her grandfather who is a native indian together with his sister in law ann they go to a base where there is a hidden lab to find a cure but even the soldiers there are dying slowly and so will others if they don't find a cure in time and to shorten the moment neither ann or wesley are infected by the virus hmm one weak fight scene terrible movie and all the men in it are in desperate need of a stair master
0	steven seagal's intent is to be commended and his acting in this film is equal to that in many of his others if you ignore the fact that he is supposedly portraying a brilliant scientist the problem i had was with two items of the plot which stretched my suspension of disbelief beyond the breaking point br br first how is it that a carefully engineered variation on a nasty germ whose antidote must be just as carefully researched and engineered by a big lab is cured by drinking tea from a flower growing high in the mountains and that grandpa's family seem to be about the only people who know anything about this br br second and this one really takes the cake having gathered up enough of the cure to fix a whole town wouldn't you expect the army to land the helicopter and start rushing bags of flowers to all the homes in this small town no they instead decide to sprinkle the flowers all over the town and force the sick people to go out and gather them up all over again just plain silly unless under native belief the power in the drug somehow depends on one's having gone out and gathered the flowers oneself br br add in the cardboard nature of the villains and the unsuitability of the title and you might think my vote on this movie is actually high
0	in 1932 humphrey bogart was a relative unknown an unproven actor who was starring in one of his first films and because he was an unknown the movie they gave him was clearly a b movie a quick film with relatively low expectations after seeing it i could see why it would still take bogart many more years and another film studio before he became a household name while the film isn't terrible it certainly isn't good making it more of a curiosity than anything else when seen today br br bogart is a pilot who has dreams of building his own aircraft engine company however when a vacuous rich playgirl comes his way his dreams all seem to go on hold as one of the characters in the film said the combination of the two is like oil and water they just don't mix br br while bogart is throwing away his promising career his sister is going full speed on the road to having met a sleazy guy who convinces her to sleep with rich guys so they can shake them down for tons of cash bogey has no idea his sister isn't the actress she claims to be and doesn't realize later that the rich woman he loves leaves him for the same guy whose mistress is bogart's sister all this leads up to a finale that is reasonably enjoyable however what follows is one of the dumbest scenes i have watched in a very long time by now the rich lady is not going to marry the guy sleeping with bogey's sister whew but because she's now poor and no good for bogart she's about to fly away and kill herself bogey finds out chases the plane on foot jumps on the plane as it's taking off and crawls up the fuselage to take control of the plane and save her this is so utterly silly and ridiculous i found myself laughing out loud up until then i might have scored it a 4 or 5 this sunk the movie to a 3 how one reviewer gave this an 8 is beyond me br br the bottom line is that this was a talking and silly film on top of that it's all wrong for bogart as the action hero at the end and the simpering lover are horrible matches for his persona that was so wonderfully created in the early 40s manly and solid better suits the man one of america's great actors but clearly out of his element here br br by the way those who love pre code films and their very adult sensibilities may want to see this one practically everyone in the film believes in and practices pre marital sex and bogey curses in the film things you never would have seen after the toughened and more moralistic production code was adopted in 1934
0	the patriot nothing to do with the mel gibson film of the same name came out steven seagal was still doing that 'saving the thing in his movies which is fine but it doesn't make for good action br br when the plot of this film finally kicked in i saw the twist coming a mile off seagal's anti warfare care for mother nature stance is not very subtle for a film that was originally going to debut in the cinemas it is shot very much like a tv movie despite some wonderful shots of the country by dean the photographer of dances with wolves br br steven seagal does like 1 fight scene in the entire film and it's totally boring as an action film it fails as a drama it stinks as an environmental message it's obvious avoid like ebola crossed with plague
0	the patriot staring steven segal is a late 90's thriller action movie that is not really a thriller and not really an action movie rather it is steven segal playing steven segal by another name but this time he is a native american country doctor who kicks butt every now an again baring the obvious plot line holes the movie itself is absolutely amazing in terms of the blatant disregard for character br br from a marketing standpoint i was left asking myself who in the world were they aiming at the bio thriller plot line is way off the mark for the middle america crowd and segal as silk cowboy would never sell to anyone even if you deep fried him and put him between a cream donut the whole movie is just way out there even for segal fans because it simply does not deliver on any level
0	i caught this film late at night on hbo talk about wooden acting unbelievable plot et al very little going in its favor skip it
0	i saw this at the toronto inter film festival in sept 2005 the description seemed intriguing how wrong i was this could easily be the worst movie i have ever seen in 50 years i see the director is my age b 1948 and lived with nico of the velvet underground which leads us to andy warhol which coincidently is the one i thought of while watching this warhol's 24 hour movies of nothing much happening this is not art this is boredom br br specifically black white ok maybe but what is the purpose here surely they had color in 1968 and there is no contrast with the present and yes the subtitles were in white naturally i don't think i missed much but that made about 20 of them br br next it's pure chronological order but with seemingly random events thrown in what's the purpose of the conversation with the old man at the dinner table it adds nothing to the movie there were many similar scenes almost like someone took a camcorder and filmed random people and spliced them together to make a movie br br plot none the riot consists of some figures in the distance occasionally heaving a rock off screen mostly it's an excruciating length of time watching people in the distance stand around the repetitive opium smoking is just as boring when the main character got a cute girlfriend i perked up but no she was boring too this is perhaps the only french film i've seen where no one takes off their clothes probably they were too bored to bother br br romance none the girl seems totally indifferent to everything maybe her sculpture holds some interest but if it does we're not shown that we are completely indifferent to the fate of the characters because they are all unappealing maybe that's the point of all this
0	this is clearly a french film it is about young group of idealist revolutionary anarchistic people it moves very slowly long takes long closeups a minute or more devoted to an attempt to light a pipe full of hash opium a long take on how a group a car and burns it it is a black and white film the subtitles were white so about a third of the time they were unreadable why do they do this i walked out after about an hour and three quarters when it became clear that this picture was going nowhere slow i was not the first to walk out it was the first time i walked out of a picture in my long lifetime well maybe the second
0	well of course everybody is entitled to have an opinion about a thing everything the presentation was interesting black and white movie the year 1968 students manifestations general strike youth ideals love etc sorry but i did not sense love romance a lover who is all right that his girlfriend sleeps with no matter who that is love but not only that the movie is very long and for no reason i had to stop watching the movie several time because i simply lost interest i waited for something to happen but nothing the only thing i was impressed during the movie gypsy fiddler playing in the streets yes that was nice i do not think that art should be complicated encrypted hidden in secret meanings confusing big disappointment and waste of time
0	i saw this film last night and came online specifically to see if others thought it was as awful as i did br br granted obviously some people see a lot in this film that i didn't so if you're one of those people fine good luck to you but i'm a patient person i've enjoyed extremely long films before but this was an exercise in torture for me br br i honestly felt that this was one of those films with little to say and that it was more about style than substance however the style too made me feel like tearing my hair out pretty much anything interesting that happens during the course of the film happens off screen it's like a deliberate attempt to make a film entirely from outtakes the bits that would usually be reserved for the deleted scenes section of a dvd if they were shown to the public at all br br you don't even get to find out in the end anything about the main character francois i had no sympathy for any of the characters in this film except perhaps the violinist his goat and the old man who believes that octopuses live to 300 because they're really smart seriously i was excited when it cut to a shot of francois holding a gun to his head i felt so ripped off when even his inevitable suicide turned out to be gut wrenchingly boring br br oh and where was the editor off smoking opium too i swear i almost screamed every time i was subjected to an extended shot of absolutely nothing happening except perhaps someone pacing backwards and forwards and then finally there would be a very abrupt cut to the next scene and it would be a year later and we'd missed everything interesting that happened in the meantime and everyone was still wearing the same bloody clothes br br so in conclusion if you liked it great but this review is intended as an antidote to the fawning you'll love this film if you love cinema dross i've seen posted here and elsewhere see i hated the film and i still included a sly winking reference to its content
0	debra winger's 1987 black widow is much better br br this is like a lame version and jane seymour usually does better br br chad allen is pretty poor in this too just playing his usual role as a boring rebellious child br br maybe the both of them being from dr quinn was supposed to make us get excited br br if it's on go grab a copy of black widow
0	i got to watch this one without commercial interruption and let me tell you even for a tv movie it was pretty predictable the actors did a workmanlike job with what they had and the cast was pretty accomplished barry bostwick jane seymour frances fisher etc however the script was not only predictable except for the last scene but the dialogue was treacly and sounded as if it was lifted from a third rate romance novel jane seymour's psychotic monologues were laughable i'm sorry but i find it hard to believe that anyone that creepy would arouse no suspicions whatsoever as bad as theresa russell was in black widow and she sure stunk it up she at least had the sense to play her pseudo characters somewhat straight seymour is a much better actress but didn't overcome the material here br br lastly the musical score is incredibly cheesy it's almost a satire of its genre like a kenny g meltdown a movie with such a lackluster and derivative script really should have gone for something edgier
0	this is so blatantly a made for tv ripoff of black widow 1987 even the insect titles are so similar br br if you want a better marrying for money movie check out black widow starring debra winger theresa russell br br these movie is cheesiness at its best i just had to watch it entirely to see how it ended
0	this is so embarrassing it's a remake of the wedding singer which happens to be my favorite movie which gives me another reason to disapprove of this film it has the same plot same jokes same characters jeez people need to be more original
0	i couldn't believe how bad this film was and trust me i was not expecting a masterpiece from a made for cable film i taped it just because i liked jane seymour i've seen her enough to know that she is certainly an accomplished actress so i just don't know what happened here the characters were shallow the dialog stilted the acting bad and yes that includes seymour it was nice seeing her play against type but not in something this bad i noticed that she carried a credit for executive producer so she cannot escape blame for the sheer badness of this film and oh yeah they had barry bostwick playing the male lead 'nuff said
0	i'm usually quite tolerant of movies and very easily entertained however this movie was dreadfully disappointing br br i watched this movie after seeing on the cover that william was in it the karate kid bad boy and during this movie i could see that this would be the only reason br br this film is a tremendous waste of the actors talent the music and sound is dreadfully tacky i couldn't believe this of a movie made in the 90's br br i wouldn't really recommend this movie unless you're interested in one of the actors
0	the new hope of romanian cinema if this is the new hope then i wouldn't really like to see the saving hero of such a prolific cinema romanian cinema that is now seriously where should i start 1 the crappy scenario are you kidding me this is not even believable not to mention it's high degree of stupidity 2 the direction what direction this movie should have had psychological tension at least that since they have decided to make it look as trashy as possible i admit is no polanski hitchcock fincher or lynch the list could go on but at least the minimum of effort would have been appreciated 3 the language i don't understand why almost every single romanian director believes that if you make the movie as miserable and obscene as possible then you have art i don't mind explicit language or bad image quality as long as the final result makes it worthwhile in this case it doesn't there is nothing to comment upon since everything this movie wants to say was already told thousand times the characters are far too thinly portrayed to become memorable the shocking events that occur are also poorly illustrated and become unimportant this film relies only on the self induced emotions on the we must hype someone was found murdered so we must feel sad frightened or panicked someone went through this and that so we must feel in a certain way that's baloney because a movie is a piece of fiction nothing is for real here so the only true emotions are those that you discover when you wander deep into it's world the movie's that is br br
0	the screen play is very bad but there are some action sequences that i really liked i think the image is good better than other romanian movies i liked also how the actors did their jobs
0	family guy when the show first aired it was fresh original and actually quite funny now i have stopped watching it it has become one of the worst shows on television combining unfunny jokes repetitive drawn out jokes and the hope that each joke can become funny with the inclusion of the word bitch seth clearly has issues with himself and he is obviously pandering to the 13 year old boys audience br br i just don't understand how something that started out so funny so different from everything else can devolve into this horrible mess of a comedy show i seriously have heard better one liners from a comic br br it truly is sad to see great shows fail and watch drivel like this continue on either seth has stopped trying or he believes that this show is hilarious the way it is br br either way god help us br br i hate this show and will dance an irish jig when its finally cancelled
0	have you ever seen one of those shows that became so popular that it could eventually get away with any crummy nonsense and repetitive halfhearted gimmicks that it's creators can get away with if you haven't then you've never seen family guy br br fans of the show seem to think of it as witty edgy and poignant it's none of these it is however dull repetitive insulting and uninspired br br the humor of the show comes from two sources br br 1 irrelevant idiocy the show often has flashbacks to things that have nothing to do with the plot and are mostly just absurd and pointless and then there's the random movie references in which the shows characters reenact a scene from a popular movie without effectively parodying it or parodying it at all which isn't funny br br 2 the same crap that's in every episode the show the one guy is a sexual deviant with aha ha isn't that funny hey ya know what's even funnier making the same joke about him anywhere between one and fifteen times in a single episode and don't just tell it numerous times in a single episode make sure you drag it out so that an entire scene is devoted just to telling the one joke now also imagine that this same routine is used over and over again for practically every character in the whole series br br the offbeat un pc humor isn't as un pc as they would have you believe mostly they just say whatever morons think about the latest newspaper headlines politicians and random celebrities br br the series had it's moments but now i think it's time just take the show off the air and be done with it br br you know what is funny i still like this more than nausicaa of the valley of the wind
0	it is such a shame that so many people love family guy because it is easily one of the worst shows on tv there are many points to address here br br the flashbacks now in season 1 and 2 which i think was exceptional the flashbacks were quite frequent and actually somewhat tied into what the plot was about and was even funny now season 4 and on the flashback s are even more occurring and has nothing to do with the plot aren't funny and really long boring and meaningless family guy thinks that long drag scene which go nowhere are funny when really it is poor writing br br wow a baby that sounds british how funny can that be it's not his character is so unstable it's unbelievable remember in the early season's when was all about world domination and killing lois well now he just has scene's that are awkwardly gay with brian from wanting world domination to being gay bad writing br br references how do they manage to keep making poor references to 80's tv shows or events well they just re use the same old garbage you know in 20 years hopefully family guy will be canceled by then if they are still doing jokes about shows from the 80's it will be even more irrelevant than it was before because will have forgotten this still keeps me wondering why they can't just writ good episodes with quality jokes br br voice acting my god the voices in this show is so poor seth should just focus on his crappy episode writing and stop doing voices all the extras in the already bad family guy episodes all sound the same the simpsons get 6 or 7 people to do all the voices a few of them are voicing about 15 20 characters all sounding very different but why can't family guy do that oh right it's a crappy show br br the stuttering usually done by peter brian and any extras whenever they talk or are offended by something they have to stutter out their just to try get a cheap laugh i can't believe that family guy can't even speak normally to get people to laugh at their jokes br br offensiveness ok short and simple family guy tries to break the barrier and be cutting edge but really they fall flat every time go watch south park br br terrible plots the plots and story lines are just utter trash the simpsons have started their 20th seasons are still have better plots than family guy about a total of 8 or 9 minutes is flashbacks and drag scenes which have no relevance br br popularity lots of little kids have shirts and think hes so funny when really they don't even get the terribly written sex jokes they just say oh ha ha when they don't even get it family guy has gotten canceled twice and brought back by dvd sales how sad is that they got canceled the first time i think after the 2nd or 3rd season and i honestly believe that shoulda been it those episodes back then were superb they shoulda left on a high note br br drag scenes and falling there are scenes that go on way too long one that just aired this last sunday peter went to an executive bathroom in which about 2 minutes was spent imitating the intro to jurassic park and the plot of that episode is stolen from a seinfeld episode as well also a scene when chris is working at a store and hes talking with the employee for about 5 minutes about a movie which also features the stuttering the chicken fights are so stupid 3 of them each one longer then the last useless unfunny writing thinking that people enjoy long scenes of rerun fighting between a chicken yeah a chicken now every time someone falls down and by the way no family guy fan can deny this that every time they fall down its under a split second and they always land with their arm over their back to make them look funny i guess its been used at least 30 times br br herman oh jeez everyone thinks the old pedophile is so funny when its just a really bad running gag they've even gone to lengths of giving him singing scenes which are very poor and basing entire episodes around him they've done the same thing with other characters like the doctor who i know has had an episode based around him br br the simpsons well not much explanation needed here there is so much evidence of family guy stealing simpson's jokes how family guy is just a poor mans simpsons br br so im sure i've forgotten some key points somewhere but im sure this is enough to prove that family guy is really a terrible horribly written tv show that everyone seems to love when really they should go watch simpson's seinfeld and frasier
0	it's literally the three stooges all over again without the charm this show's nothing more than the worst slapstick i'm surprised they actually have writers the so called jokes are completely haphazard and 'controversial' for no other point than trying very very hard to be controversial and people think this is 'edgy' get a clue this show takes absolutely no thought time effort money or creativity originality to produce any references present are geared toward anyone between the ages of 6 and 16 who would occasionally browse people magazine but i suppose this is only what all the kiddies want like and need today
0	i haven't seen a lot of episodes of family guy and it's a pretty safe bet that i won't be seeing too many in the future some people say to compare this show to the simpsons is unfair i absolutely think this show wouldn't exist if the simpsons hadn't come first and i absolutely think it wants so very much to be the simpsons i don't understand what's so funny about this show in the episodes that i've watched i've understood where they've wanted me to laugh i understand that someone thinks a joke was just told but the joke isn't funny i find the whole show to be lazy the title the jokes there is a complete lack of inspiration throughout br br the best shows on television cartoon or not are created like this a script is written it goes through several rewrites stuff that doesn't work is taken out inspiration is sparked good stuff is added there are more rewrites and then it is filmed br br i picture a family guy episode to be created like this a script is written and it's filmed
0	family guy is easily one of the worst shows i've ever forced myself to watch not at the bottom though i've seen the jersey shore a popular hit with high school and college kids who mistake immaturity for edginess this show is unoriginal and stale br br as this has been dubbed a comedy show let's take a look at its humor 1 random flashbacks cuts to celebrities or movies or politics or anything that can be cut to for a knee jerk laugh it got old after the 5 or so repetitions per episode simple solution every time you hear this is worse than like the time plug your ears br br 2 for its own sake this show is notorious for inserting inappropriate gags that have little to do with the overall plot solution watch south park they did it right br br the bottom line is that family guy is not worth your time and doesn't hold a candle to the simpsons
0	where should i begin with this movie all i know is that it is a mess be the script story or the actors first of all this movie is very disappointing from salman khan who gave us a fun hum le jayenge and har dil jo pyar karega before this second rani is getting really annoying appearing in every stupid movie since hota hai glad saathiya stopped this nonsense the story is stolen from the wedding singer but ruins the funny movie the dialogues are lacking i may have laughed here and there but entertained no salman khan was tolerable in the above mentioned movies but here he is insane his character is poorly written one minute he is poor and next minute you wonder how is he poor rani mukherjee looks like a plain jain and wasn't putting any effort she luckily redeemed her career with saathiya because her career was going haywire around this time pooja put a little charm here with her looks but it is still not enough jackie is wasted shah's beauty and acting has ran away from her because she chose such a horrible script raveena tandon looks beautiful but puts little performance mohnish behl gets the award for worst supporting actor they need razzie's because there have been terrible movies in india he says stupid dialogues dances terribly looks weird and is not in his regular form just to tell you there is more to the cast who are also terrible if it weren't for awesome beauty in aa meri life bana de i wouldn't give the movie a point otherwise the dancing by salman was terrible pooja was dancing like a wind in otherwise i wish the costumes were given a make over and the rest of the cast and their monkey dancing had been blown away from the wind the good song of the album was o priya o priya which doesn't have a good enough picturization same goes for the half way decent title song otherwise this movie and the rest of the songs are a no no for everyone
0	is it a poorly acted cliche ridden pile of trash of course anyone who doesn't realize that when they pick up the box in the video store probably doesn't have any right judging movies in the first place thus i will now rate the aspects of the film that we actually care about on a scale of 1 to 10 br br violence and gore 4 for this genre there are very few deaths and the gore is almost non existent anyone looking for a little blood should probably look elsewhere the only redeeming quality is the fact that kids are doing these awful things which raises the bar a little br br suspense 1 okay i feel bad for anyone who gets scared by this trio of dorky looking kids br br nudity sex 7 lots of boobage from three different women one of whom is the mtv vj julie brown there are two sex scenes but little is shown in them br br unintentional humor 4 there are a few good laughs with the kids trying to act scary but all in all it's just bad not funny bad br br overall 4 it's not unwatchable there are a few fun moments and enough nudity to keep your attention for the entire movie however only watch this movie if you're a big fan of the 80's slasher flicks this definitely falls on the lower end of the scale but it's not all the way at the bottom the real downside is the disappointing ending it almost ruined the movie for me
0	words cannot describe how asinine juvenile and repetitive this steaming pile of a series is it relies on 3 things 1 constant 80s pop culture references 2 the tired stretch out a joke to the point of awkwardness bit and 3 at least 3 or 4 pointless flashbacks per episode the only reason i can see for this crap fest being as popular as it is for the constant pop culture references which i suppose elicit an omg lol that's from superfriends that is so totally ironic and i am so edgy and smart for getting it response from the viewer the writing is beyond lazy and panders to its viewers mostly in their 20s and 30s plus there's the character design which seems to consist of the same three characters with the same bored expressions drawn over and over again but with different skin colors and maybe a different hairline occasionally insulting crap
0	this is the most overrated show on television i believe people continue to watch it because they feel they should because it has become somewhat of a cool show to watch and talk to your friends about the next day at work or school rarely does it actually elicit anything more than a chuckle and never provokes any sense of irony or thought from the audience every joke is interchangeable with punchlines that seem to be drawn out of a hat the complete lack of originality combined with the even somehow lamer spin off it has spawned see american dad makes me question the of an audience that continues to keep this horrid show on tv i award family guy no points and may god have mercy on its soul
0	ya know what family guy started out as something fresh funny and more original the random humor used to be funny i actually used to think it was the best animated sitcom next to the simpsons after watching the new episodes that aired for the past few weeks i grew fed up with the show relying too much on random humor to be funny south park was right about dead on when they brought up the manatees and the idea balls br br and watching the show itself i don't understand why my parents like it so much there's nothing great about it the humor is funny and would've been funnier if the show didn't rely on randomness
0	everything about this show is terrible its premise even sets itself up to get cheap laughs with bad writing a family theme has already been used too many times most notably by the simpsons which is an excellent show with great writing and many laughs meanwhile family guy has about five minutes of story in each episode with tons of celebrity jokes and random flashbacks thrown in now if this was original or funny sure i'd think it was clever but no it's not funny at all in fact the only reason the episodes are like this is because it is the easiest way to effortlessly crank out episode after episode of this junk much of this show is unoriginal and what is original is just lame it is also amazingly crude and irreverent which again can be fine if it's still intelligent animation isn't everything either but from an artistic point of view this show fails also proving yet again that family guy strives for as many cheap jokes and easy shortcuts as possible people enjoy this show and i don't really care because people can enjoy anything they want no matter how much it aims for the lowest common denominator but no i don't recommend this especially for anyone who wants to someday study film or become a writer this is cheap entertainment that aims low and has found success in this the fact that this is so successful says bad things about america
0	i must admit i did enjoy the earlier episodes but probably because i was younger and stupid at the time i was sorta excited about the return of family guy until i saw the new crap they were putting out no surprise it was exactly like the old crap all the lame jokes were there including the flash backs except this time they added a joke about a old creepy pedophile who seems to be in every single episode this is just one of the annoying gags family guy lives off of and for some reason people keep watching its no longer funny its just annoying let it die br br maybe family guy was funny at a point in time and the cheap laughs and gags were original and fresh but now its just not funny anymore if you actually do find family guy funny than you must be retarded or borderline retarded
0	this could have been great the voice overs are exactly right and fit the characters to a t one small problem though the look of the characters mostly the supporting or guest characters look exactly the same the same bored look on every face only with minor changes such as or weight size it looks kind of odd to see a really big guest star's voice coming out of a lifeless form like the characters here if i am not mistaken kathy griffin did a voice over for this show and it looked too odd to be funny br br there is a few other problems one being the family plot the simpsons did it much better where you could actually buy most of the situations the characters got themselves into here we get too much annoying diversions like someone having a weird fantasy and then we are supposed to find that funny but for some reason the delivery is a bit off as you can probably tell it is hard for me to put a finger on exactly what is wrong with this show because it basically nothing more than a clone of the simpsons or even more married with children br br if i should point a finger on what is totally wrong with this it probably is it's repetitiveness peter griffin is not really a bright character but neither are any of the others lois should have been named lois lame because she is sort of one dimensional seth green as the kind of retarded son is the best thing about this show and that is the most stereotypical part on the show br br so what more can i say there isn't exactly anything wrong with this show but in the long run you have to admit that it takes a lot of work to do what the simpsons has done for almost two decades
0	when family guy first premiered i was not in a discriminating mood with the 1990s containing a wealth of clever surreal cartoons why should i be nickelodeon produced doug ren and stimpy and modern life among other fine cartoons yes this includes spongebob all had quirky dreamlike animation and surprisingly sophisticated stories and dialog the simpsons became an outright phenomenon perhaps not as brilliant as its biggest defenders claim it to be but a very fine investment of your time and certainly dismisses the false axiom that all tv is junk south park started out as a crude but hilarious attack on everything with unique and intelligent satire underneath it evolved to become a monty python esquire show with outrageous concepts and brutally swift and sharp societal critiques such as their defense of the noble underpants gnomes and eventually settled to be entirely self referential and meta like the simpsons did and has unfortunately jumped the shark family guy is superficially like the simpsons and south park it pushes buttons and is a favorite among college students and bestiality enthusiasts however what it has in it lacks in true wit br br the show is famous for its use of gimmicks especially for flashbacks many are references to bad tv sitcoms or commercials some are funny especially from the first two seasons most are not are references inherently funny i'm not sure but they are mostly what the show stands on considering that its characters are painfully uninteresting where homer and bart have charm and cartman has an artillery of self awareness and pure outrageousness to back up his awful behavior peter griffin has no excuse he's just a loud obnoxious pig anything funny coming from his character is only because the writers forget how to be unfunny that day lois is also very shallow and dull meg is a prop only to be abused chris is borderline retarded and only occasionally funny and the two main stars of the show and brian are so inconsistent in their characterizations that it all really kind of pointless br br other gimmicks i can't stand are when a character points to something obviously and lingers on it for an uncomfortably long time this happens a lot lately and i can't bear it any longer not just the oft mentioned chicken that likes to beat peter up i'm talking about the painful moments where they talk about pop culture and prod it as if they are alien spectators that's not wit or even ironic humor it's totally boring and lifeless br br not that the show can't be funny in fact some of the earlier episodes had me rolling highlights include the pilot episode where peter loses touch with reality after losing his precious television when peters religious zealot father shows up and wreaks havoc when peter becomes a narc at megs school and the pancake episode i suspect these are the episodes that accidentally incorporated actual human traits in its characters or merely were times the writers had actual comedic inspiration br br one last thing the show is not offensive it's only offensive to those who wouldn't watch the show in the first place so it's almost like a circle jerk to the choir of hipsters
0	wow after seeing this film you will know why america's youth continues to lack intelligence and any traits to contribute to the wellbeing of society except for making themselves more inept to function br br jackass number two stars some of the most people imaginable who at there core lack any sort of talent or brains to make anything of themselves especially bam and steve o and there only option for fame was to make a living entertaining those as stupid as them by harming there being a guy drinking horse semen just flat disgusting a man putting a fish hook through his cheek and acting as bait for sharks this isn't humor it's evidence for him br br overall i walked out of the theater with no hope for mankind
0	it had its moments but overall when i watched this cartoon as a child i was bored out of my mind the only thing that kept me watching was the fact that it was a cartoon probably my first exposure to anime it is also one of my least favorite anime's i remember others one involving a giant ship in space that made no sense but was more enjoyable because they were in space i also remember one with these people dressed like birds that was a bit strange but more entertaining i do not really like car racing though at all did not then and still do not so that is probably one of the reasons i did not care for this show even though today i am an avid anime fan the characters were a bit goofy too and then there was the horrible scenes where virtually no action was taking place that was probably used to cut down on animation costs and to pad the show the gadgets in the cars were cool though and provided some entertainment for me back then overall i find this show to be rather unwatchable compared to newer animes and some from the same era but this is just a personal opinion i am sure many other reviewers love the show which is cool
0	as a kid i never understood why anyone would watch this very crappy show it was pretty stupid and i always wanted and jim jim to get in some sort of fatal accident they were that annoying br br now almost 40 years later i have a new attitude about the cartoon while i still think it was complete crap this is only in regard to the american version of the show that's because i was reading a book about anime and found out that the shows we watched growing up were completely different from those originally shown in japan you see the idiots in charge of the series thought it was too violent so they cut this out of the episodes that's bad enough but what else they did is beyond belief they actually chopped the episodes apart and spliced them together to create shows that were nothing like the originals for example one episode might be made up of parts of episodes 3 6 18 and 27 as a result i really don't know if the original show really was bad it might have been brilliant but who can tell considering all we have to watch is this americanized mess
0	k murli mohan rao made the much better in 1998 this film is an awful remake of the wedding singer br br basically in short the film consists of salman khan who in those days used to have the role of a dejected lover who looses his girl and also he had his comic scenes where he hammed badly even today he does well he does it all here too and also looses his shirt in scenes br br jackie wasted bored and tired his role is so stupid he is shown as a lover of pooja then in 1 scene he is shown as a womanizer br br inder kumar confusing characterization again br br rani mukherjee boring overweight and does nothing special pooja tall fair and actress worthy but lacks talent br br shah says a dial as if a poetry br br behl poor fellow the 2 kids were awful too br br the story is the same and has awful comic scenes a sudden love story and boring drunken scenes plus a forced comic track of shakti kapoor br br direction is poor music is decent br br salman khan just goes through the motions jackie is bad rani is as usual pooja is bad and are nothing great inder is awful
0	this son of a son of a sequel was terrible to say the least you would think that production would be better 10 years after the original was released however retro puppet master was not directed by or written by the original writers and contained poor story lack of any connection to any characters and dragged out slowly scene to scene no build up of strong plot very weak climax you will find yourself slowly getting antsy throughout the movie if you can sit through the whole reel i never could understand why a horror movie continues making sequels after the release of their final chapter i hardly suggest watching this flick but if you must i wouldn't recommend making anyone else sit through it with you
0	this film may have been the first puppet master but this sure bored me to death when i saw this stupid movie i wanted a refund this was a bad series to the puppet master and i'm sure that i am not the only one that thinks this was terrible to some it was great but to others it was a ticket to ville and boy are they right the puppets didn't even do anything nor did they kill people it should't be seen by people so i'm warning you not to see it you will be disappointed even to the fans who love puppet master it was a waste of their time and it didn't make so much money nobody even got kill but one or two very pointless br br 1 10
0	this seventh yes you read right the seventh puppet master movie shows how the demented group of dolls came to be by a french puppeteer who uses them to get revenge on a group of ancient mummies who are after him once they learn that he holds the secret to life it was taught to him by a sorcerer also on the run before he died he used this power to bring normal puppets to life this sequel is basically nonsense sprinkled upon even more nonsense like most of the puppet master sequels due to the pg13 rating we don't even get any entertaining puppet murders come to think of it there are no damn puppet murders if there was one franchise that needed to be cut off it would be this one no more god please no more
0	you know i'm sure the boys were sitting around the office one day and said how can we make more money they had made every possible variant of toy they could make with their current characters so they decide let's steal the star wars idea a prequel and we can make up all new characters and sell them as toys something they did in puppet master 3 but who cares anyway they pick a point in time before the first movie when toulon is still alive he and the puppets are sitting around and a wooden head roll on the floor and the puppets want to know if that is a dead family member or something it doesn't matter so the tale of the puppet master ancestry begins it's long it's boring no body cares br br the funniest part is they tell the origin of these new characters in the movie but give no clues of their fate so guess what once the revenue from the new toys pays off they can new and 4th straight rotten sequel called puppet master 8 the sequel to the prequel of the fate of the dead retro puppets hold your breath
0	latest attempt to revive the series actually based on a pretty good idea but without the required gore fx violence for this type of thriller and thus boring good special fx sets costumes etc but the film comes of just plain silly and a near waste of time hopefully the next installment will correct this problem
0	when does the hurting stop that's what i said somewhere between the beginning and that other part of the movie that really sucked this film nearly sapped all the life out of me and i have sat through some really bad movies coming from a true puppet master fan i would expect to hear myself say this but it's true the plot is inane the special effects awful the sound track the most infernal i have ever heard oh i almost forgot about the acting it was so bad that i forgot it was there at all nuff said the only redeeming factor in the film is the puppets themselves they truly are the stars and could out act all but guy rolfe himself he is the puppetmaster and although you can see their wires and strings they carry me throughout the painful start to finish of retro puppet master in closing is for true fanatics who happen to be masochists br br roach br br
0	very disappointing 7th chapter of this slowly dying series very evident that the budget was extremely low this movie was made for one reason and one reason alone to sell puppet master toys fans such as myself of the series have decided from what i have read and heard that the only one in the series worse than this is curse of the puppetmaster in turn turning us away from the series br br opting to make this a pg 13 film for whatever reason did not work in the films favor the plot seemed almost to be there but was easily lost in the steady stream of nonsense br br the only film in the series worth watching also directed by decoteau is part 3 toulon's revenge br br granted i do favor the scenery in the film br br yuck
0	retro puppet master is complete and utter crap in particular the puppets look stupid and crappy the acting was unforgivable and the story was rancid this movie goes back into the the past where the dolls where first created thats not puppet master retro puppet master is rated pg 13 the first puppet master to be rated pg 13 the movie contains no horror or suspense the fact that this movie was a puppet master film boggles the mind because this installment doesnt have the buckets of blood good acting or any like the previous movies did dont see this movie dont rent it and dont even watch it f its on tv because this film is stale not violent and completely crappy 2 out of 10 as a puppet master fan i am disappointed seriously
0	i have never seen a movie so bad it's not even entertaining enough to be a drinking game br br it's so bad i don't even want to talk about it and that's the whole point of this isn't it please don't bother to see this movie said
0	in the literal sense br br reminds you of those cops and robber or cowboys indians role playing games you played with your 8 year old friends br br tedious and un inspired the storyline was obviously written to make bad acting and dialogue seem as part of the plot but all it does is showcase it i cant believe john badham let his name be associated with this piece of crap this could have been done better by a high school film buff who had been given the camera lighting filmstock and editing br br destined to be a time filler on sci fi channel when they've overused everything else from their library and barely better than the paid programming shill downstream
0	when i read the reviews of pyaar na ho i thought huh it was that confusing to be sure i went to watch the film and what do you know it's a remake of the wedding singer several scenes have been changed to suit the whole essence of but the rest of it is a direct lift from the 1998 hollywood hit bollywood is no stranger to remakes but this is one so poor that it pains me just to watch it i groaned so much watching this and i realized i wasn't the only one doing so one guy actually walked out of the theater and never came back salman khan should seriously stop doing comedy roles he shrieks and whines too much why can't he just take it easy he doesn't do justice to the role originally acted out by adam sandler he doesn't have sandler's sense of comic timing rani is a wonderful actress and one of my favorites but she's no drew barrymore either the scene where she stands in front of a mirror practicing to say her new surname hi i'm mrs doesn't match up to barrymore's version hi i'm mrs julia i felt embarrassed watching that scene even though i had loved the original the music is not too bad it's probably the only saving grace of this otherwise horrible film avoid this at all cost
0	now this is a movie i really dislike it's one of the most boring horror movies from the 90's mainly because it starts slow and centers in a boring atmosphere the settings are not even attractive for the eye and do not serve for the movie's purpose br br the puppets look really cheesy not in a good way like in the puppet master 80's flicks what did they do to our favorite toys br br the story is lame not interesting and never really explains the sinister origins of the puppets there aren't death scenes like in previous movies and the f x are terrible br br i felt asleep the first time i watched it so i can recommend it for insomniacs
0	retro puppet master starts in during 1944 where puppet master andre toulon guy rolfe his living puppets plan to escape germany hold up in an inn puppet master toulon reminisces about his early life the point at which he learned the secret of giving life to dead objects way back in 1902 in paris when his younger self greg ran the he describes the fateful night when he met a 3000 year old egyptian sorcerer named jack donner the eventual love of hi life the young beautiful ilsa brigitta dau he tells the story of how passed the gift of life to himself gave life to his own wooden puppets that were part of the theatre show however the gift of life was also a curse as the ancient god whom the secret was stolen from in the first place by wants it back everyone who has learnt it dead br br as of late i have been on a bit of a puppet master bender as being a big fan of the first three i decided to watch the rest of the franchise as such i have seen puppet master 4 1993 puppet master 5 the final chapter 1994 curse of the puppet master 1998 now retro puppet master in the space of a couple of weeks boy was it tough to get through them all especially this one as it's the worse of the series so far retro puppet master feels like a cross between puppet master iii toulon's revenge 1991 with it's period setting puppet master 4 puppet master 5 the final chapter with trying to kill everyone associated with his stolen life giving secret there's not much continuity here either again there's none of the green serum featured in the earlier films despite andre toulon committing suicide in 1939 at the start of the original puppetmaster 1989 he is seen alive well during 1944 in this the majority of the story is told as a flashback concentrates on andre toulon himself rather than the puppets the film focuses on his relationship with ilsa him learning the secret of life it's all rather dull tedious stuff to be honest even at only 80 odd minutes retro puppet master feels long padded with no real pace the no central concept as the plot never really settles down generally hops around a lot then of course there's the baffling decision to totally redesign the puppets which i found incredible i mean why would the makers take the one basic thing that made the puppet master films so memorable completely do away with it the puppets are seen briefly at the start the end but otherwise we get these rubbishy looking wooden caricatures that are nowhere near as cool as their modern re workings it's never even explained why these puppets were used rather than the ones all puppet master fans have come to love although one suspects that full moon was hoping to make yet another sequel which dealt with that very question br br if a poor story a complete lack of our favourite puppets wasn't bad enough full moon decided to go with a pg 13 rating for this making retro puppet master the only puppet master film not rated 'r' in the us obviously other countries have their own film ratings systems therefore there's not a single drop of blood in the entire film the puppets don't kill anyone there's no swearing no nudity either this is tamer than tame kids stuff all the way besides the puppets themselves being rubbish the special effect are the of the series too there's no stop motion animation at all in this one no cgi computer effects surely in 1999 cgi was cheap enough all the effects are of the stiff rod puppet type effects i mean whenever you see a puppet the camera is always positioned above it's wait so it's legs don't have to be shown there's obviously some production assistant just pushing the thing along that's as complex state of the art as the special effects get br br the one positive thing that retro puppet master does have going for it is that it looks rather nice the period production design costumes props are actually quite impressive it's a fairly handsome film to watch at times apparently filmed in bucharest in romania which doubles up quite nicely for turn of the last century paris the acting here is awful maybe the worst of the series br br retro puppet master is more or less the final puppet master film as the next one puppet master the legacy 2004 basically edits together footage from the previous seven films it's a pretty crappy way to round the series off which started so well with three excellent distinctive little killer puppet flicks don't bother with this just watch one of the first three again just remember the good times the killer puppets would return in the terrible spin off flick puppet master vs demonic toys 2004
0	i watched the first few episodes a short while back and felt i couldn't take it anymore the horrible looking fight scenes are the worst i've ever scene in my life about one third of each episode is dedicated to flash gordon and his mighty fight moves i know fight choreography from that era isn't exactly up to par with today's standards but this is ridiculous they don't even try to make it look realistic flash gordon who hardly resembles a fighter uses his drunken slow moves and bare fist to knock out four or five guys with knives guns and other weapons give me a break there's also a scene where he does some similar act while in the water basically every episode has scenes similar to that as for the rest of the episode there's not much else i remember i basically viewed it out of curiosity on what science fiction looked like 70 years ago
0	thank god i was not operating any heavy machinery it could have been an even worst disaster shots were slow very repetitive different scenes same shots medium shot medium shot medium shot snooze story line was rather empty william hurt was the worst where did he get that stupid accent from random shots of scenery just to include them really didn't add much there were more shots of traveling in her car than anything else the direction really didn't take us into any of the scenes it also didn't make me feel for any of the characters i would have rated it a zero if imdb had the option great sedative if you can't sleep there went 2 hours of my life i will never get back
0	lazy movie made by a lazy director the characters are grotesque despite the tragic of this war there is no emotion at all in the movie symbolism is artificial and inefficient and old bosnian woman giving a photo of her son to will her willingness will awake the super mother sleeping inside her a corpse eaten by worms to show the horror of genocide too much is sometimes worst than not enough br br this movie is only an advertisement an empty to a woman who is not a hero she worked for united nations remember un failed to protect civilians at srebrenica who are the true heroes of this war a canadian judge leading post mortem trial for atrocities that happened mostly because her organization failed to prevent them where is the criticism in this movie
0	i was forced to watch last year in year 10 australian history looking around the class room both classes all 40 students were nearly asleep all 40 heads on the table whispering to the person next to them i refuse to believe that because i am only 16 that my opinion doesn't count having studied world war two i not only felt embarrassed and ashamed watching this australian piece of trash television i was out of my mind at the appalling effort this mini series applied in the usage of film elements the acting was poor the screenplay was very inaccurate and the score was dreadful please do not watch this film it is bias and very racists to the
0	is an australian comedy drama set in the world war 2 japanese prisoner of war camp of that name the story cuts between past events and the present day when the aged veterans plan a reunion this is a much publicised and controversial miniseries here in australia the budget ran over 6 5 million dollars historians and veterans criticised it's authenticity and critics pilloried the uneasy mix of comedy and drama shades of pearl harbor series writer john doyle half of the successful roy h g comedy team has tried to defend himself with comments about the characters are of actual people the troops used comedy to cope with the situation it's only based on actual events one of our actors was actually there etc i don't have a problem with any of these points many superb fictional and factual dramas have come out of the japanese p o w camp experience king rat tenko merry christmas mr lawrence bridge on the river kwai paradise road empire of the sun blood oath and a town like alice black comedy has often been used successfully in p o w dramas life is beautiful the great escape seven beauties stalag 17 the colditz story and even hogan's heroes so why is a monumental failure the acting in is uniformly excellent the music and cinematography is good it is the writing and direction that have let it down every scene seemed to give me waves of deja vu when anthony hayes is made to stand in the blazing sun i thought didn't i see alec guinness do this in bridge on the river kwai the sudden flashes into surreal song dance brought back dennis potter's singing detective but without the finesse this borrowing happened so often it smacked of lazy writing by cut and paste rather than homage the constant intercutting between the past and present stories left me unable to concentrate on either flash forward and flash back can be a useful tool here it left me distanced from characters where intensity was called for the is overdone every conversation seemed to include stone the bloody crows such that i was saying i get the point i know they're aussies cultural stereotyping extended to the british and japanese too sadistic young japanese officer uptight british officer wiser japanese commandant fun loving rascally aussies etc i thought i was watching hogan's heroes on the river kwai after 3 episodes i'm tuning out
0	this was a very good show i enjoyed the construction of real time and flashback seeing the old diggers meeting again and recalling the terrors of their captivity in pow camp the main problem with the way the show was written is that the scenes of life in are more like a holiday camp than what the place must have been like i am old enough to remember film footage of the men being liberated from and other japanese pow camps no actor could lose enough weight to have a resemblance of the state of those men they made the jews of look like sumo wrestlers i have met several veterans from over the years many would never ride in a japanese car let alone own one the physical and mental torture those men endured was too horrific for them to even talk about what percentage survived john doyle might be ok writing comedy for roy and hg i hate that too but this is a serious sugar coating of history that should never have been tolerated i'm happy for to write the life of brian and make fun of the crucifixion because it is obviously comedy even if some consider it to be in bad taste is written as a portrayal of a real event and as such might be regarded by younger people as a true record great performances by a fine cast cannot redeem this lightweight screenplay
0	milo is a complete rip off of the 1992 slasher flick mikey if you actually check it up both films have the same tagline but if you want to watch an incredibly funny film with absolutely no plot whatsoever well then this is the film for you the acting is terrible and the flashback scenes are overwhelmingly confusing the story behind this atrocity is simple milo is a kid with serious family problems his father is an abortion doctor who keeps unborn in a jar nice and was desperate for a child of his own he figured out a way to bring one of these aborted children to life and he named him milo br br aside from all the bad acting terrible directing annoying sound of milo's voice and the ear piercing sound of the bell on his bike if you take away all that badness its still a bad but funny attempt at a film br br i'll give it a bank busting 1 out of 10
0	four young grade school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game the killer is a strange young boy named milo sixteen years later the four survivors of the event re unite under happier circumstances in the same town where it happened they believe that milo drowned in a river shortly after the murder but soon learn that the demonic killer milo has also returned still a young boy unchanged even after almost two decades br br the cover for this movie makes it look really cool yet i still expected a bad movie to come out of it when i pop in the dvd into my player the menu comes up and makes the film still look cool sadly this movie isn't all that it got my excited about the movie is your average attempt at a slasher film and when i say average i mean just like all those other small budget slasher movies that have never been welcomed with open arms into most members of the horror community i'm talking about you the horror fan in other words you could walk up to any horror fan and the majority of responses would be this sucks br br what mistakes did the movie make first of all the dvd cover art makes milo look really dark but they blow it all by showing his face in the movie in many different scenes he had the potential of being a very freaky character secondly the back of the cover art tells freddy jason chucky etc to pack their bags and move on out because milo is so much better why in the hell would you want to say something like that when it comes to a no name low budget slasher film that has obviously failed i mean it just raises your expectations of the movie making it harder to impress itself upon you in a last ditch effort to attract attention it says in very big letters from the creator of anaconda just shows you how low they're going to get as much attention as possible for the movie br br the gore in the movie sucks the director gives you some hideous angles when milo attacks someone the music isn't all that bad and i never once fell asleep during the movie congratulations i'm still trying to figure out what milo actually is my best bet would be that he is a zombie if anyone else knows tell me rest assured i won't be losing any sleep over thinking about it
0	there are no no redeeming qualities to this film they didn't check a single fact not one about anything i feel sorry for larry miller and even more sorry for his agent for not being more capable for finding him a more suitable venue br br the adults are all idiotic the effects are cheesy and devoid of any sense of reality the music is honestly cheesy the plot is beyond belief br br i you want to see something good with your family see anything else take some time and check for in your attic my ten year old is mocking this film as we watch it he's unfortunately learning that not every movie is worth watching
0	this is easily one of the worst films i've seen in many years i started viewing the film not expecting much and that is exactly what it delivered not much in fact it ended up delivering even less than i expected my first reaction when i saw the opening portions of the film was that i would probably end up rating it a 4 i thought that it seemed to have reasonably good photography and a haunting atmosphere br br as the film progressed however the rating kept going down and down in my mind mainly due to pedestrian acting and a plot that went from being just plain silly and tasteless at the beginning to being both silly and repugnant near the end by the time the movie was over i was willing to rate it no more than a 1 br br don't waste your time or money on this one
0	i happened to catch this supposed horror flick late one friday night i wish i'd gone to bed tell me is a 3 ft tall raincoat clad twerp on a bike supposed to convey some sort of fear not here yet mi low is still able to beat the crap out of the janitor antonio fargas who is three times his size uh huh and the ending is so pitiful it just leaves you hanging with nothing to go on what so ever i found myself asking is that it br br acting is about as good as it'll get in a low budget film the aforementioned fargas delivers a decent performance but it is my conclusion that jennifer maybe one of the worse actresses to ever strut into tinsel town sure cute face but bad acting br br rating 1
0	this movie sucked sooo bad i couldn't even watch the ending milo's voice was too low and i couldn't understand what he said as well as some of lines also where did he get all these wedding dresses from it was very impractical the movie failed to elaborate on milo's drowning and how it made people ridicule dr jeter and his practice overall i was disappointed that i was unable to give this movie a rating of zero because by grading this movie as a one i felt i was giving it undeserved praise
0	this movie scared the hell out of me for no good reason the eerie music was well written but other than that its a complete waste of time and it really disturbed me i'm not really sure why either if you just want to see a bad 'b' horror movie i guess you could give it a shot but only as a last resort
0	this has got to be the worst horror movie i have ever seen br br i hated it so much i wanted to come here and complain about how bad it was normally bad movies are no big deal but something about this one if you hated it you really hate it br br if anyone liked this you probably enjoyed baby geniuses i thought i could never find a movie that was worse then that one i guess not
0	this movie was by far the worst movie i've ever had to endure i couldn't believe that they tried to pass it off as a serious movie it was so bad i couldn't even laugh at it's pathetic attempt to entertain me if you want cheesy horror that you can laugh at rent dr giggles instead
0	this movie was crap the script is so full of holes i can't see how the producers agreed to finance it br br we are never given an explanation of anything the acting is horrible the plot sucks this movie was obviously written for those 8 and under br br i have to say this why are the high school classes only 2 minutes long teacher walks in finds a frog in the desk or drawing on the chalkboard and 30 seconds later the bell rings class is over the kids haven't even opened their books can we have at least a little continuity br br oh the dialogue milo jeter is the re incarnated aborted fetus zombie thing do we really need the line this is dr jeter's office dr jeter milo's father thanks for the tip i could never put that together myself it never gets any better br br why does milo talk the way he does even in the beginning was milo ever real' or was he never real just always what he currently is and if it was always that way why the unexplained milo had br br besides what is milo what are all the unresolved items for we see all these contraptions in his father's medical office and are never given an explanation of what they are for or what they have to do with the story what are the injections for what about the aquarium contraption they obviously aren't needed see the movie it'll make sense and what does this medication do to anyone apparently nothing since it has no effect on the lead actress br br this movie is a very very bad rip off of all the other slasher movies it's a really awful friday the 13th halloween slopped together by a 10 year old writer it's not cheesy enough to laugh at it's just an incredibly frustrating bore
0	stay away from this movie at all costs i was suckered into watching this movie in a bet to see which one of us knew the t worst movie of all time needless to say this one won hands down it is long and drawn out and has no purpose or plot from what i can gather a movie about a killer kid raised from a fetus that was grown outside the womb just has no place inside your vcr if you are extremely bored and have no life watch this movie but if you rather keep your sanity stay away
0	this movie was so weak that it couldn't even come up with good cliches to rip off i love horror movies and will see practically anything but if i had it to do over again i would have skipped this one entirely you may think that i'm exaggerating but i challenge anyone to find anything even remotely satisfying or interesting about this piece of garbage not scary not funny not curious not worth it
0	typical story of an evil kid going after people i suspect that antonio fargas huggy bear on starsky and hutch and vincent schiavelli didn't want to stress this junk on their resumes actually schiavelli left this life with a mostly good resume sometimes i wish that the killers in these movies would just go after the idiots who decide that we need a new one of these movies every other month note that comment is not to be taken seriously i just think that slashers have lost their touch br br anyway this is one movie that you'll do best to avoid it's ninety minutes to two hours that i'll never get back
0	this is officially the terrible boring corny and ridiculous movie ever created the movie is all about a crazy kid and his friends and they land a 747 his dreams are very corny and make no sense at all and is very poorly done every special effect looks as if it was done without any modern technology and might have been created by the kid that plays the leading role in the movie if you watch this movie it will definitely make you stupider i advise you to never consider watching this movie and if you do good luck and don't miss the brain cells you killed off my comment does not even fully grasp the awful creation from hell that has been made the person that wrote the comment before me did not watch the same movie that i dreadfully watched and wish i never watched peace
0	in a quiet town a couple of girls witness the murder of one of their friends to a strange young boy named milo who lives on the other side of town after the murder his body is found in a river and his pronounced dead so sixteen years later a weddings draws the girls back to their childhood town and claire a school teacher becomes obsessed that milo hasn't died as she has recurring visions of him and her friends are dying one by one and no one believes her when she claims milo is apart of it so now she sets off to find out the horrifying truth br br when i came across this film i was pretty sceptical about it especially when it had from the creators of anaconda on the front cover but reading the odd little plot outline on the back of the video case it sounded alright and rather refreshing for a change well guess what i thought it was a good idea at the time but it was a totally different story when it came to watching the film it just seemed to try to hard to be smart and very psychological based but that latter element didn't come off that well for me and it was basically a prolonged and mostly unconvincing thriller hey i'll admit it had its moments but hardly enough to make it neither effectively chilling or memorable but a bravo to the filmmakers at least the story isn't a rehash of those slasher imitators that followed scream and shock horror there's no self referential humour actually there isn't even a hint of humour although maybe it was too serious especially since the plot is rather absurd but that's not its main problem what a disjointed plot we get i didn't know about to much that was going on as it seems to skim a lot stuff in favour for some supposedly shocking and disturbing sequences no more like irrelevant scenes and yawn inducing clichés that we see from time to time also you can see some influences from some good 70's horror films one being don't look now this when our main character keeps on seeing the figure of her past in a slicker the other would have to be one of my favourites alice sweet alice with the person causing the trouble wearing a yellow slicker and committing grisly deaths interesting idea but it comes across quite shallow and too many faults pop up i liked it more when the scenes dealt with the character's childhood as the performances and circumstances had something creepy about it but when it leans into their adulthood its tired and uneventful for most part and the performances weren't awful but incredibly mundane and hardly involving is a good way of putting it most of the dialogue had me groaning in disbelief at how contrived and awkward it was you'll be yelling no duh at the screen because you just can't believe what you're hearing the police detective gets the brunt of it br br quality wise the film isn't bad actually it's better then your usual straight to video i would say very slick stuff with some inventive and prominent camera angles and a faint score that works reasonably well another factor that stood out and was a key to building on the moody atmosphere was the creeping sound effects and that bicycle bell does leave a ringing sensation in your ears the setting of a quiet elementary school was well done and rest of the action takes place in a house but just don't be expecting any real suspense or surprises as the execution of these are non existent the deaths aren't pleasant and they're mildly bloody and it's more the aftermath to what happens to these bodies which tries to disturb you the villain in this piece the mean spirited child milo was mildly unnerving well that voice and yellow slicker does make an imprint to begin with but it does seem to lose its effect when we come to the films conclusion the cheesy tag lines on the video compare him to move over jason watch out freddy and this isn't child's play chucky but you got to be kidding me right he's labelled the new face of evil yeah sure all he needs is to be taught some manners and problem solved overall the film just left me with a sour taste as i've could've gone without seeing it i probably wished i did br br just don't expect too much in this blur of a film or even better just skip it as you won't be missing out on much really
0	this horror movie lacks any horror or even mild suspense even the gore is not good the plot would have some promise if it was done by someone who cared about what they're writing filming but the people who made this movie obviously did not basically the film proceeds in a series of fits and starts thusly br br main character insists she's not crazy br br milo lurks about in his yellow raincoat or rides in front of a car on his bike br br main character insists she's not crazy and rambles on about her passion as a schoolteacher br br someone gets killed in an unsatisfying manner br br main character insists she's not crazy and musters up a few fake sobs br br are we seeing a pattern here if you don't you may enjoy this film otherwise watch something else the budget is low low low and it shows unlike say the evil dead which makes you forget about its crap budget and the acting is bad bad bad with the possible exception of the janitor in general the movie is boring boring boring i can't think of a single scene that's actually done well in fact i disliked the movie so much i actually turned it off ten minutes before the end something i very rarely do heck i watched the non manos the clones and wild wild west all the way through br br 3 10 spare yourself and watch phantasm again
0	milo is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that's also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn't bother him and he still kills people friday the 13th what's that one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo's dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn't it his bedtime yet and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can't be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity
0	if it wasn't for the very attractive jennifer in the lead role i would have turned milo off after the first 30 minutes however as easy on the eyes as she is she's not enough to save this film not by a long shot br br milo starts off with a group of young girls accompanying an assumed young boy in a yellow slicker to a house in the woods where he shows them embryos in jars apparently the deal was that if he showed them the jars ol' milo gets to conduct a exam on each in return one of the group volunteers to be milo's first patient and he leads her behind closed doors moments later blood flows from under the door and we are whisked into present day enter the lovely who plays one of the girls all grown up in present day a substitute teacher with shallow confidence whose closest friend appears to be a goldfish she receives an invitation to return home for a friend's wedding yep you guessed it return to milo who allegedly drowned years ago seems to be having a dilemma staying dead and begins terrorizing and murdering the girls he failed to examine all those years ago br br milo the character reminded me of one of the mutants from cronenberg's the brood he could have been scary but just how scary can a villain be who wears a yellow raincoat the plot confuses even itself and the conclusion left me wanting my 90 minutes back i'm sending milo an inept slasher film to stand in the corner
0	this movie was horrible if it had never been made the world would be a better place come on a flying wagon what were they thinking this was a sub par movie with a horrible hook and i would like a written apology from the studio that produced this along with some cookies to help repay me for the time i wasted on this crap fest that i can never get back if you payed to see this movie i am truly sorry because i watched it on tv on a sunday afternoon when i had nothing better to do and it pretty much ruined my whole week a flying freaking wagon and that's supposed to make up for having a horrible mother who cares more about her own screwed up needs than her children no wonder they don't have enough sense to tell someone he is beating them their mother teaches them nothing but that what she wants comes before everything else absolutely horrible
0	this was one of the most mixed up films i have ever seen everything in the movie seemed to be attached to justify some other element that had been glued on there is even a talking buffalo that wants his wet nose rubbed to make the magic happen even the brutal father seems to be stuck in just to give the kids an excuse to fly away in a wagon it was laughable but in an uncomfortable way because of the serious subjects that seemed to be used just to set up the plot
0	even though this was a well told story i found it too unpleasant the main subject is child abuse which is never fun to see a sordid topic add to that a lot of profanity by the abuser husband and a by a little kid no less and this movie turned me off as far as ever seeing it again br br also portrayed in here were punks picking on the two little boys another unpleasant viewing experience the realism of the story takes a swan dive when one of the boys flies away on a home made airplane give me a break br br the only positive enjoyable part of this movie is seeing the nice loving and touching relationship between the two young brothers played by elijah wood and joseph the latter became a familiar face in the next couple of years with big roles in jurassic park and the river wild wood of course didn't hit it big until a decade later but he made it very big in the lord of the rings trilogy those two kids and narration by an unbilled tom hanks are the only facets of this film i liked
0	back in the dark days of 1990 the hoped for heir to the spielberg throne after the failure of supposed whiz kid phil was mistakenly believed to be pretentious spielberg wannabe david mickey evans evans managed to fleece the studios for over a million dollars suckering baby boomer executives into believing his screenplay a combination of nostalgic 1960s references and a disturbing drama about child abuse somehow equaled good storytelling and a decent film br br as rod stewart once sang look how wrong you can be br br but the artsy fartsy e t inspired script convinced enough people he was the next chosen one the new spielberg and so a deal was struck to not only buy the script for more money than 99 percent of the world's population will ever see in their lifetime but for evans to direct the film as well even though he'd had never directed anything in his life br br hey how hard can it be to be another film making genius after all br br two weeks into the shoot columbia found out his dailies were called totally unusable by the studio or at least those level headed enough to not to have fallen under the e n c emperor's new clothes spell all his footage was scrapped and recycled into guitar pics br br so what's a studio to do after sinking 10 or 20 million dollars into something they still believed represented the resurrection of steven spielberg hire spielberg himself to save the day columbia probably tried that br br enter old pro richard donner hey he may not be a cinematic genius but he gets the job done superman wasn't too bad after all and the first lethal weapon was pretty good br br so donner steps in and grabs the directorial reins fortunately he manages to convince columbia that the worst of the film's insipid fantasy sequences which would have played out like a ten year old's acid trip have to go unfortunately he leaves in the crying buffalo ooh how poetic and the ridiculous pseudo spielberg fantasy ending complete with clueless mom perfectly content for the rest of her life to get postcards from her missing son as he circles the globe in his red wagon right br br but donner did manage to get a decent performance out of elijah wood and lorraine bracco as the idiot mom wasn't bad either maybe donner should be reevaluated maybe he's not such a phony hollywood hack as everyone has always believed br br the only reason i'm giving this over baked misfire a 2 rating is that someone was smart enough to cast the great john heard but in the wrong part of course the kids do okay though tom hanks' horrible overly explanatory narration nearly destroys every scene it intrudes upon br br one might think that after the david mickey and phil and troy of the world the studios might finally wise up one might hope that these hype driven film making debacles might prevent the emperor's new clothes syndrome from ever its ugly head again br br doubtful
0	i went to see random hearts with 3 friends and at first i thought maybe it was just me who wasn't enjoying the movie after all i didn't like as good as it gets and that movie won all sorts of awards well it wasn't just me none of my friends liked it either it was unbelievable slow much like getting teeth pulled the only action that is in the movie is what is in previews we didn't walk out of the theatre because we all assumed something more would happen we weren't as smart as the 7 or 8 people who did walk out i have never walked out on a movie in my life but i definitely should have this is all tough for me to write considering i am relatively easy to please when it comes to movies it takes a lot for me to think a movie is awesome but not much for me to just like it this movie didn't even come close in the like category not only was the movie about 2 hours too long but it was like two separate trite stories in one but they weren't smoothly sewn together plus the soundtrack if you could even call it that was so annoying like seinfeld has the same riff that is played over and over again difference being that i like seinfeld this movie had this jazz riff that it kept playing which sounded highly inappropriate at times especially when people were dealing with the deaths of the plane crash hard to explain what i mean but trust me it was awful i cannot say enough to make people not waste their money after i left the theatre i honestly wanted to write to the movie company and demand my 7 back sheeesh i could have gone bowling or something for that money
0	it was tough watching harrison ford obsessing over nothing kristin scott thomas should have slapped this guy and told him to take a hike br br save your money don't even bother with a rental fee unless you need a good nap
0	oh how the critics fell all over themselves to praise their paul schrader author of taxi driver when this movie came out i never saw the qualities they were detecting when i watched this movie back in the day so i re viewed it to see if i got it wrong mishima is extremely uninteresting this is a chilly unremarkable movie about an author living working in a chilly culture the flat reenactments don't hold your attention because they are emotionally adrift and stagy and the rest of it just sits there being awful with soldiers singing songs about the masculinity they pledge themselves to about purity the admiration of swords etc br br it must be a triumph when you learn you've landed philip glass but then you have to get something out of him glasses score offers not a whit of distinction from his other work nor does it provide the film any perceptible value in 2010 it should be clear to anyone that schrader squandered his career on work of no impact or importance cat people autofocus light sleeper patty hearst american gigolo he can bore you to pieces and kill the momentum of a movie quicker than anyone else schrader has made a resume full of lousy amateurish films
0	to quote one critic's review of the movie it started off slow and stopped the plot was believeable enough although some of the characters' actions seemed very very random the script was fairly well written in that the dialogue did not seem forced but everything went way too slowly there were too many pauses between lines and the way the lines were delivered was not all that great this movie had potential but blew it like a teenager turning to drugs my advice wait for it to come on tv before you see it
0	harrison ford plays sergeant dutch van den of the district of columbia police department he tries to get the bad guys but doesn't do a very good job when we meet up with him he's trying to catch a corrupt undercover officer kristin scott thomas plays a new hampshire senator kay chandler trying to get she's running against a candidate who has plenty of money the last thing she needs is the death of her husband she's a politician she can't be bogged down by feelings br br this story moves slowly and painfully i was looking at my watch every five minutes wondering when it would be over the story gets lost in details the director sydney pollack didn't need to put in we don't want to know about police investigations they throw in some insight to politicians and the control' they do for campaigns after seeing the movie i'm still wondering why they got involved romantically doesn't anybody mourn anymore don't you need more than two weeks to even consider going with someone else br br it was good to see actress comedian chicago native and second city alumni bonnie hunt her role isn't necessarily comic relief but she was the only one i wanted to see more of do yourself a favor wait for it on video if you want to see it at all
0	two things too long and totally lacked credibility this movie didn't make any sense and was to sit through i am usually pretty patient but man it just doesn't keep your attention at all i think i am being nice here even you keep thinking it's almost over only to find out it's still got another half hour good actors
0	i really like harrison ford so i eagerly rented this movie only to be disappointed minute after minute mr ford seemed to be walking through very warm water looking for a place to urinate his co star was very good and had the better lines the story intrigued me but the mistake big mistake as everyone is identified via driver's license or passport before they board any american commercial aircraft left numerous plot questions in my mind br br i could have cared less about these people in fact the sub plot of the internal affairs investigation was more interesting than the two lovers killed while flying first class to miami br br i am disappointed in the director sydney pollack who gave us the classic tootsie and other films this one is a waste of time and energy
0	i clerk in a video store so i try to see the movies we're about to put out each week i don't have a problem with this in fact i sort of feel it's a privilege not so with this film after an hour and a half of our hero whining and growling his way through scene after scene i was truly wondering if they planned to get to the point i felt like i should be getting paid for watching this at home in my free time and if i'd known there was another hour to be endured i might have given up right then i didn't care about the characters the filming was unremarkable and ford made kissing look like a chore even the score was incongruous and jarring what a waste
0	being a harrison ford fan i am probably being kind it was predictable sappy my husband made a lot of gagging sounds while we were watching it what a disappointing movie our local newspaper san jose mercury news actually gave this 4 stars out of 4 stars hard to believe that the reviewer saw the same movie we did
0	motivations of the characters was completely unbelievable many times throughout the movie you find yourself thinking that the characters' actions were totally illogical making it impossible to identify with the characters possibly the writing direction were completely out of sync making the movie painful to sit through i wanted my money back from the video store
0	why is it that such romantic movies that never actually go anywhere always start and probably end with crappy jazz it's not clever and it makes it look like a bloody tv movie this film was sappy slow paced boring unoriginal wooden and did i say boring br br harrison ford was probably trying to be mysterious and crude but he was just a crawling mumbling cop that seemed to walk into the congress woman's home like everything was fine when he behaved like a pervert staring at thomas with a pervy glare hardly ever bothering to speak br br and why the hell do they always get british actors to put on crappy accents they're casted because they're famous and everybody knows they're british precisely because they're famous
0	so much great chemistry between kristen scott thomas and harrison ford but every time the story about their relationship began to gather momentum the script cut away and dealt with some irrelevant sub plot that did nothing to advance the story indeed the subplots had nothing to do with the story at all they were like commercial breaks in which you watched a trailer for another movie br br the writers or someone who controlled the writers obviously didn't trust themselves to write compellingly about relationships and the interior lives of their characters they seemed to be uncomfortable unless they threw in some gun battles and bar fights or perhaps they didn't trust the audience to pay attention to a story about a man and a woman trying to understand their relationship under difficult circumstances after all we all know how boring casablanca was br br perhaps if the relationship between kay and dutch had been developed more and had been allowed to play out the writers would have know how to end the story this film is a disappointment for not doing more with its wonderful actors who gave good performances but could have done more with a better script
0	it wasn't until i saw sidney pollack in the picture that i ever connected him to this film this is his worst possible movie absolute dreck the dialog is wooden and unbelievable the plot is unbelievable br br kristen scott thomas is wasted in this movie there is nothing about her character that makes you even want to believe in this story br br harrison ford is like on valium there is no life in his eyes br br i blame sidney pollack for the failure of this movie the script is awful and he is too smart to not see that so it smacks of some kind of payoff whether of a studio obligation or something else but this is just bloody rotten
0	ocean's twelve just plain stupid bad and nothing compared to the other two br br an art robbery 10 known actors at least a weak script and very slow developing idea that's why i characterize a movie i only saw at least 20 minutes of it don't get me wrong you may like it but i only like the ocean's films because of the heist theme if ocean's 12 it's not about heist then what's the point to see it glad soderberg saw his main error and redeemed himself by making a film far superior to the first one kudos for that br br steven soderberg isn't really a good director apart from his hit sex lies and videotapes nothing else happened so much great to the career of this director shame on him but his fault only
0	nothing could be more appealing than the idea of a good love story featuring kristin scott thomas and harrison ford the cool refined english beauty and the warm blooded american male what could possibly be more lovely well this is not that movie right away they ruin it by casting kristin scott thomas as an american congresswoman that's like casting hugh grant as babe ruth or colin firth as al capone kristin scott thomas is exactly the sort of woman you don't picture shaking hands with greasy ex junkies in filthy slums or squeezing into smelly crowds and kissing babies she would have been far better cast as the english born widow of an aristocratic senator the kind who belongs to the hunt club and goes to flower shows but has no idea how the other half lives br br then there's harrison ford as a regular guy cop certainly he's tough enough for the role but the idea that he's going to romance this stunning high society beauty is a bit hard to swallow why couldn't he have been say a tough but wealthy reform politician with blue collar roots who inherits late husband's senate seat the two of them are initially quite cool to each other but for sake kristin is cordial to him and he in return starts showing her some of the rawer side of life things her husband sheltered her from her political awakening coincides with the jolting passion of a newer more blue collar lover one who appreciates her polish and refinement far more than her aristocratic husband now that's a love story instead of that though you get a blank meaningless thriller where the action drags and nothing happens well there is one ghetto style drive by scene where harrison almost gets killed but it's so abrupt and unexplained it's really more like welcome comic relief br br the sky is always gray in this movie and our refined lovely kristin always looks a little chilled when she's supposed to be dreaming of passion she looks more like she's dreaming of a wool blanket and a cup of tea she also looks a bit sleepy most of the time like she'd really rather be napping in the bed than screwing harrison ford br br all things considered i'd say you can't blame her
0	unusually cold and silly drama from director sydney pollack soapy plot revolves around adulterous couple perishing in a plane wreck leaving their spouses to find eachother and connect on their own intimate level romance novel writing gets sluggish treatment although i thought the performances by leads harrison ford and kristen scott thomas were fine slick production holds interest even though the plot keeps covering the same ground and never builds any emotional momentum as a result the climax in the airport is a big 'so what '
0	did you ever see the film marathon man the part with the dentist i would rather have that happen to me than to sit through random hearts again it wasn't simply uninteresting or uneventful it was horribly painfully and agonizingly boring at one point i momentarily lost conciousness to the average layman i may have appeared to be sleeping but the other movie patrons knowingly realized i actually blacked out from the i thought i was going to die when the film finally ended i think it was twelve hours long but i'm not sure i let out an thank you jesus it's over to which all other movie goers cheered if i had to listen to harrison ford drone on one more second in that monotoned whine i would have been forced to search for something sharp to jam in my eye to divert my attention this is 136 minutes of my life i will never get back
0	a friend gave me this movie because she liked it i decided i would finally watch it it was sooooooo long i kept waiting for the suspense to happen but it never did i kept waiting for something to happen after the opening scenes and it never did i stopped the movie and came back later i actually forced myself to watch the rest of it hoping it would get better it got worse i kept asking myself who are these people do they have feelings are they just robots i'm glad i didn't pay to see it or pay to rent it the end would have been better if dutch died from the gunshot wound at least we would have gotten some emotion from the audience or maybe not
0	james cagney plays richard gargan nicknamed patsy a former gangster now overseeing the surly lads as the new superintendent of a state run reform school tepid genre entry wherein cagney's the whole show he dominates the picture but only because there's not much else of interest going on jimmy gives just what's expected from his hard boiled persona which can be satisfying if you're in for a quick fix the direction by archie mayo though michael curtiz was said to have helped is straightforward without being particularly gripping although the narrative slips in the second half grinding the film down to a messy conclusion with even cagney's patsy getting lost in the shuffle remade in 1938 as crime school and again in 1939 as hell's kitchen from
0	the stranger jack matthew lillard arrives in the studio of the crook collector of antiques max vincent d'onofrio and tells his ambitious companion and specialist in poisons jamie valeria golino that he is jack's brother jamie does not buy his story dominates jack and ties him up to a chair when max arrives jack proposes us 100 000 00 for each one to protect him in a negotiation of the antiques spanish judges with a wealthy and dangerous collector max invites his stupid acquaintance piece mark boone junior who comes with his retarded girlfriend that believes she is from mars to compose the backup team however jack double crosses the collector and then he intrigues jack jamie and piece br br the low budget spanish judges is a movie with a reasonable screenplay with an awful conclusion that wastes a good cast valeria golino is astonishingly beautiful but together with the good actor vincent d'onofrio they are not able to save the stupid story further the scenes that are supposed to be funny unfortunately do not work and actually they are silly and not funny my vote is three br br title brazil tudo por dinheiro all for money
0	michael myers the deranged not so young anymore psycho who seems to get with every appearance is resurrected by his druid brothers to wreck more menace upon his family members and any one else who gets in the way gaps in logic seem to be ignored in favor of a healthy body count michael who originally preferred strangulations and kitchen knives learns to swing an axe and use whatever means necessary to off his victims and the result is an awful patchwork dollar store film virtually by a few genuinely creepy sequences donald pleasance who died shortly after production seems to have been injected into this story simply so somebody could be billed as the star you won't want to cover your eyes during this one but you will shake your head at the downward slide of john carpenter's classic creation
0	ok just what the hell is all this supposed to mean halloween 6 let's just call it that ok is without a doubt the most confusing film in the series and from what i've heard seeing the original producers cut doesn't sound like it makes things any less bewildering than the official release what a mess br br this isn't a really bad film as some have said it has its scary scenes and some rather intense moments it just doesn't make any sense don't tell me that michael was engineered from the beginning to be evil and kill and destroy and blah blah blah it was bad enough when they turned michael into jamie lee curtis' brother just so they had an excuse to keep her in the second film this is too much br br it would seem this is another case of the creators of the film trying to be too smart by coming up with a new premise that will shock and impress us all bad move guys we're not looking for an explanation of why michael kills so please don't try and feed us this crap show me michael looking menacing and killing a bunch of people show me dr loomis trying to track him down and as always coming up just short don't waste what turned out to be the last performance of donald pleasance by telling me in the most confusing way possible that michael was created by some cult from hell and that his seed will be passed on to another and oh brother br br halloween 6 has its moments don't get me wrong and we all know there have been far worse sequels than this hellraiser anyone so get what you can out of it the scene toward the end of the film with michael charging down a deep red corridor is particularly effective and try to ignore the screwball plot hopefully one day we can all see the producer's cut and maybe get the chance to make a bit more sense out of all of this till then this will have to do br br
0	by far this is the worst halloween movie ever made the acting is bad except for paul rudd and donald pleasence the girl who played kara forgot her name was ok but overall this movie was basically a big letdown nothing moved the story forward it lacked substance and the scares that made halloween and h20 so good all and all skip this movie it's not worth the price of rental
0	normally i wouldn't go to the trouble of commenting on a horror movie sequel because it's usually assumed that they're bad and if you watch them with a healthy disrespect they can be very fun and enjoyable to taunt laugh at however this chapter of the ongoing halloween saga came close to up everything the original stood for in the very first movie dr loomis said very pointedly i might add that michael myers was evil and this tries to explain why doing a bad job of it i might add in my opinion he was much scarier when he was just a blood hungry freak the whole goth cult thing was unnecessary and a desperate attempt to throw a new curve into the halloween equation the result was a boring predictable movie that was not scary and not bad enough to be funny
0	i enjoyed oceans 11 i thought it was quite enjoyable helped by the performances and the direction however i was disappointed with this film don't get me wrong it is not a complete dud thanks to the stellar performances from brad pitt catherine zeta jones george clooney and matt damon especially and the efficient direction from steven soderbergh however the film really does suffer from truly lethargic pacing some of the film was so slow i almost fell asleep between one key twist second the plot is very convoluted and there are many twists and turns that makes it hard to keep up the camera work wasn't as innovative as it was in the first movie either whereas in the first movie it was smooth and professional it was jerky and awkward here and the music wasn't particularly memorable the screenplay also wasn't as witty or as fun and the film felt anti climatic at the end of the day it all felt a bit too lazy despite the expert playing and direction so much potential but really a missed opportunity 4 10 bethany cox
0	avoid this one it is a terrible movie so what if it is very exciting all it is is just pointless murders and the whole thing with thorn and michael's curse that was the absolute worst thing they could possibly do to the series why couldn't they leave michael's story a mystery he's supposed to be the boogeyman not part of some stupid cult ugh thank god for halloween h20 which wiped out halloween 3 6 they all sucked but anyway if you see this movie please expect no more than pointless murders and gore
0	most of this film was okay for a sequel of a sequel of a sequel br br i was impressed by the amount of suspense there was i had actually expecting that to be chucked out the window in favor of gore gore gore it wasn't but there's some pretty ridiculous deaths br br the thing that i disliked however was all of the plot complications those could have been okay if the scriptwriters had taken the time to explain all of them through but what was the purpose of the secret society in the mental institution specifically why were they protected from michael's damage until a certain point what exactly were they going to do with the baby how did jaime lloyd get pregnant for that matter why lock her up for 20 years for her to get pregnant too why did michael kill all his co conspirators in the end why were there fetuses in the lab the actors seemed to have figured it all out once they saw the fetuses but it was never explained to the audience br br if you're just going to watch this film to see people get snuffed then this'll be okay for you however if you can't stand a plot being thrown at you which remains unresolved by the time the credits roll you should go watch something else
0	i am not quite sure what to say think about this movie it is definitely not the worst in the series there's still halloween 3 the style is just very different and it focuses on other elements than its predecessor did it tries to explain why michael myers freaks out on halloween and starts butchering around well all that stuff about michael myers being cursed and the evil cult was a rather nice effort but i didn't buy it none of the other installments in the series tried to come up with any fancy explanations br br the movie contains lots of gore actually it's plain carnage if you haven't seen the other halloween films you will probably like this one for its blood content but for a real halloween freak this sequel might be just too different to be seen as a good one suspense was turned into terror and carnage exploding heads you get the point br br the ending theatrical cut is simply awful michael gets stabbed with a needle then beaten up with a pipe then stabbed again this time with more needles then beaten up a little more until there's slime running out of his head where did this green stuff come from anyway basically it's nothing more than trash worth 5 million br br there was one good thing though michael's mask br br dedicated to donald pleasance quite a disgrace br br my rating 4 10
0	this movie is very bad in fact the only reason why i've given it a 2 rather than a 1 is because it made me laugh without giving anything away a man's head actually explodes in this film it was so pathetic i laughed i don't believe the scene was meant to be funny but it's nonsense complete nonsense the original halloween is such a good film it's a shame they had to go and make such a stinker
0	possible spoilers br br the sixth halloween film is an utterly depressing affair but unfortunately not in the manner envisioned by the filmmakers by now everyone knows the story of how it was butchered and released in such a sloppy incoherent form the second half in particular makes little to no sense as plot elements are introduced and dropped seemingly at random the very ending left me scratching my head what the hell happened is dr loomis dead or what this is what you get when you put a shameless hack in charge of a motion picture it's not a pretty sight br br on a related note this is the most graphically violent entry in the series i have no problem with gore if it's in the right place but this movie takes it to absurd levels the infamous exploding head must be a new low for the series michael himself even seems to be enjoying the act of murdering another human being inconsistent with his efficient methodical approach in the john carpenter original br br i'm not quite sure who was responsible director joe or the producers probably a combination of both i'd be perfectly happy to grant a pardon to all concerned if only they'd release the legendary producers' cut a more complete version of the film that is a vast improvement from every account from what i understand it's like a different movie altogether i offer to pay full price to purchase the dvd if miramax comes to its senses and releases it br br there are a handful of good elements however the idea of michael being controlled by the druids is intriguing paul rudd is solid as tommy doyle whose appearance is a neat tie in with the original the slick visuals help make the proceedings a bit more watchable but these meager offerings are overshadowed by the overload of drivel we have to put up with br br finally the curse of michael myers is noted for being donald pleasance's last film many of his scenes were excluded from the final cut and when he does appear he seems frail and unhappy the movie is dedicated to his memory a blatant if unintentional insult if there was ever one the fact that a talented performer should end his career like this is too depressing to even think about br br 1 2 out of br br released by dimension films
0	if halloween 5 was a cruel joke to the fans of the series than halloween 6 is a like a vicious insult the storyline has gone to the dogs everyone michael is used as a helpless pawn in this film and he isn't at all scary he reminds me of an over weight alcoholic man than the boogeyman that struck fear in our hearts back in the original there are almost no redeemable qualities about this feature and i'm so glad h20 came out because it would be an insult to fans to have this be fresh on our minds br br halloween 6 had about 2 aspects that i liked having an adult tommy doyle in the film was a nice touch and it linked it to the original donald pleasance is here in his last performance what a bad film to end an otherwise nice career on when he's on screen he makes you remember the good old days when halloween was actually scary br br that's about it my friends the stalk sequences are unoriginal one of them being a blatant rip off of the laurie michael chase in the original the other characters are terribly under written and just aren't likable the music on of halloween's highlights even when the film is bad is tortured in this film we get a silly rock version of the stalk chase theme what were they thinking when they made this film br br spoiler br br their biggest mistake was off the character of jamie now played by another actress who isn't worth mentioning we watched this character escape death in two films we rooted for her and when she is killed in this film you cant help but feel sorry for her and realize that the filmmakers don't care when good characters are established in a film br br end spoiler br br the less said about thi embarrassment the better i wish it didn't exist i suggest skipping this film and even 5 and just going straight to h20 because if you watch this you may not want to see another halloween film again
0	curse of michael myers is a very frustrating piece to deal with for a fan of the halloween series after a very disappointing letdown in halloween 5 the series reached a near ebb in plot lines with a silly devolution into witchcraft and a teenage cult dedicated to the worship of michael myers curse of michael myers ups the ante in blood and gore but really represents a decay in the series' integrity it's too bad to as this is the last movie for donald pleasance as the character of dr loomis pleasance has some good screen moments precious ones if your a fan of the series as the now very aged and as he says very retired doctor sadly he died before the movie was completed and it is very apparent at the conclusion of the film that the stories original climatic scene was never realized right from the beginning credits halloween 6 has more of the feel of a made for tv movie then that of the block buster horror flick that it started out as in 1978 any loyal halloween alumni should have demanded more from this film dr loomis and donald pleasance deserved more
0	there is a lot wrong with this movie it can be said that doing a sequel to halloween was a bad idea in the first place and we should feel lucky that the previous entries even at their lowest were still watchable but even still halloween the curse of michael myers even today is so bad it's shocking poor movie making at it's worst indeed there is so much blame to go around but where to begin whose shoulders does this blame rest on br br was it director joe style over substance directing well at the very least the sixth installment is fresh on the visual front and as far the visual effects go you get to see michael kill in some pretty gruesome ways even if it doesn't quite fit in with the overall tone of the series br br so could daniel troubled script be the culprit well to be fair he did the best he could by the time you reach the sixth entry in any series you're running out of places to go finding a rhyme to michael's reason isn't a bad concept so much as it's an uninteresting one especially the way it's handled here and it really doesn't help that the movie was hacked to pieces and sewn back together so many times that the story got completely lost towards the end br br perhaps dimension miramax could have botched the whole thing afterall this was the first studio film in the halloween series and we all know what happens when too many cooks get in the kitchen heck look at the unbelievable lows they dragged hellraiser to i guess everyone is to blame because aside from the actors and the visual effects guys it seems nobody put in the effort to deliver a decent flick br br the bottom line though is that no matter how you cut it slice it dice it or electrocute it until it's head explodes halloween the curse of michael myers was never a good film marking an all time low for the series that nearly killed off any credibility for michael myers curse is just that cursed the thorn angle was never interesting nor was it probably expanded upon the needless gore is so out of place and replaces the tension that is the trademark of the halloween name towards the end the movie stops making sense stops trying to push a plot and simply tries to find a way to kill the characters and end the film before anything else is lost it's sad that donald pleasence's final performance is immortalized in this film even if the man did the best he could under the worst possible conditions and for the most part there's other strong cast members in this film paul rudd plays the weird anti social adult tommy doyle rather naturally while marianne hagan does a fair job at portraying the sympathetic female lead on the other side of the coin the re casting of jamie lloyd was a shame and thank god devin gardner doesn't do movies anymore as the child in the film being pursued by the man in black danny is the anti jamie in that he is annoying whiny and absolutely unbelievable in his role it's sad when you can't even feel sympathy for a child in a horror film but i guess that's halloween 6 in a nutshell essentially this is the anti halloween made by a director who didn't know what he was doing and a studio that had their own agenda hell even the music is bad many will try to paint this as the edgy halloween because of it's sci fi twist but really it's just stupid save for some good visuals and decent characters the curse of michael myers is just about as bad as it gets and this is coming from a fan
0	scanning through the comments there doesn't appear to be a lot of love for this movie and it's not very hard to see why it's rubbish br br now i will start by saying that the finished product was hurt in any number of ways by the death of donald pleasance dr loomis in post production this required a re of the film's conclusion with loomis buying the farm and took away what was supposed to be a double twist at the end with micheal swapping places with mysterious man in black and i do not mean johnny cash br br now to the story the fifth movie ended rather unsatisfactorily with micheal myers escaping from jail with the mysterious man in black it turns out aggh that this man knows the origin of micheal's evil and is also a colleague of dr loomis named dr wynn they also kidnapped jamie lloyd played by danielle harris in parts 4 and 5 but here played by jc brandy jamie pregnant escapes from dr wynn's lair and so micheal follows her and kills her but she'd had the kid so now he needs to track the baby down so he can kill his great nephew br br we hear some ludicrous explanation to micheal's evil involving gaelic curses down and mysterious symbols a radio show is broadcast from micheal's home town for some reason which gives micheal some more hapless victims br br in the end the movie just like this review is vague confusing and directionless with a very anticlimactic ending br br some sex scenes and nudity poor plot passable effects with some good run of the mill slasher kills but severely lacking in motivation for what was supposed to explain everything this only stirred up some new questions made parts 4 and 5 pointless and was a poor way for a great actor in pleasance to end his life and career
0	man the '90's really were an horrible decade for movies the movies are lacking in a good style and also the storytelling is often lacking br br this 6th entry into the long running halloween series is certainly a bad one you just never really get into the story because it isn't a very well constructed and build up movie br br it's simply a poorly done film that also suffers from its imagine less writing and non compelling characters that are in it dr loomis seems to be in it just for the sake of being in it it's a real shame that this had to be donald pleasence last film role it's nice and also sort of suiting that his last role is in an halloween movie but he definitely deserved to be in a better one br br there is never a sense of real danger in the movie and the character of michael myers just never comes across as threatening or scary perhaps it's because he's featured too prominently throughout the movie from pretty early on already he does his usual stuff again but without too much class or originality also the attempts to uncover myer's past don't really work out for the main reason that it just doesn't get explained very well it's obvious that the script went through various re writes before and also very possibly during filming several scenes even got re shot or added after the first cut turned out to be far from pleasing br br the movie more often looks and feels like a made for tv one this is also due to the lack of some real good gore as an horror movie it really is lacking in basically everything to make this a good or even original one to watch br br so far the worst out of the series br br 3 10
0	what can i say about ocean's twelve who thought that it would ever come to this a gigantic mess that loses itself halfway and can't retrace i found myself amazed at how bad this really was really i have never seen the ending properly because this film is just insufferable i'm a huge fan of the first but this is a lame excuse for a sequel br br what was the point of the heist if they were going to give the money back the movie is just boring and so drag along that i can't ever sit through this it really is bad just stay as far repeat far away as possible from this movie it's worthless
0	all ambiguity about michael myers has withered away thanks to this series' chronic habit of about with its continuity and pulling relatives out of nowhere this entry introduces the potty angle that he's not just a psycho killer but is actually controlled by which appear as a star constellation every halloween and a cult is using him to erm well this film is far from coherent and i lost track of the plot after a while the movie credibility so profusely it doesn't have a drop left by the end why does michael put one victim's clothes in a washing machine why does an otherwise empty corridor have a deadly spike sticking out of the wall does getting electrocuted really make your head explode and so on it's left to donald pleasence in his penultimate film role to produce some wonderful little moments from the pile of dreadful dialogue he's given
0	taste is a subjective thing two people can watch the same movie with one of them loving it and the other one hating it as it concerns 'halloween the curse of michael myers' i fall into the latter category br br i'm of the opinion that john carpenter in 1978 made one of that decade's finest fright films which despite its flaws still holds up well into the 21st century it reused many of the old horror film devices but utilized them in original and effective ways it had no pretensions that it was anything other than a movie about an escaped mental patient stalking babysitters on halloween night and yet there were 'ideas' in the film but they were subtly introduced and not hammered into your skull it juxtaposed the myths of the macabre festival with the reality of what was taking place in the story and it did this with a wonderful ambiguity br br the of this 'film' probably wouldn't even understand that previous paragraph that's why we're saddled us with this miserable and inept piece of disposable celluloid direction script acting are of the lowest strata imaginable this is the type of film that is so mind numbingly dull and nausea inducing as to make you want to crawl back into the womb and die it is also truly truly sad to see veteran british actor donald pleasence wasting his acting abilities with this saliva puddle of a movie he seems drained of all his energy and resigned to the fact that this may be his last film maybe that's what killed him
0	okay wait let me get this street there are actually some morons on this site who reckon this is one of the better if not the best halloween sequel i even read someone saying it was just as good as the original pah what nonsense don't believe them i've watched every halloween and clearly unlike some people knows what makes at the very least a good horror movie and this shower of s is one of the worst horror movies i have ever seen in my life frankly if i was john carpenter i would sue the person who wrote this either that or go around to his or her place with a hunting rifle seriously halloween sequels in general are nearly all rubbish two was crap three was stupid four is alright five is well five h20 alright resurrection painful yet in many ways i find this to be the worst of a very bad bunch of sequels why well let me just embark on some kind of rant not so much a review but a mindless rant on why halloween 6 the cure of michael myers is one of the most abysmal movies i have seen in a very long time ok where should i start ah yes the plot oh boy the plot basically the plot is a heaped together mess containing cults signs of thor and some other crap it's just stupid it really is the film tries to be flashy and intelligent yet its heaped together in such a horribly made way why does michael myers got to have a reason for killing people simple enough explanation micahel likes to kill his relatives that would suffice but no we have to have a man in black and mysterious cults and signs of thor and utter crap god its so bad it made me want to cry it really did the writers have tried to add to the character of myers but have actually managed to do the entire opposite apart from wearing a mask and a boiler suit which is a completely different colour by the way myers just isn't the same guy from the original or even two heck maybe even four thats another thing why has myers become a jason parody i thought it was meant to be the other way round yet myers is so similar to jason all he does is endlessly kill people in gory ways in the original he teased his victims took his time and as a result the whole thing was far more suspenseful in this he just walks around hacking people to death i mean in the space of half an hour we had equalled the amount of kills in the original it was just ridiculous oh and myers in this seems to have a really big head i mean its huge and hes put on loads of weight what else is crap oh yeah the return of tommy jarvis thats pretty bad in fact all the characters in this film are crap bar dr loomis of course i can't stand the little kid i wish he had got it he's really irritating our heroin is boring and not interesting and her whole family are a terrible bunch of actors the mother is rubbish the brother is bad and the father i mean was this his first part or something he was like a cartoon villain for gods sake he was actually more evil than myers by the way his death is one of the most abysmal i've ever seen i think even friday the 13th wouldn't come up with something so entirely laughable what else is rubbish oh yeah tommy jarvis don't know the name of the guy but he really can't act he tries his best to be serious and all that but i just wanted to laugh at him i wish he had died in fact if everyone had died it would have been quite good really there is dr loomis a horribly aged and dieing donald pleasence by all account despite him being on his last legs pleasance is still the stand out in the brief amount of time he features its such a pity that such a corner stone of this franchise had to say farewell in garbage like this what else is rubbish oh yeah the bit where the radio dj gets it firstly how the hell did michael manage to get in that van when five minutes ago he was in his house secondly it was just a pointless kill which may boost the body count but is just another peace of nonsense which adds to the drivel that is this film its in fact that death which said it all for me in that it was pointless a lot like this film
0	after loomis gives a quick recap of micheal myers we flashback to 1989 where jamie is kidnapped by the man in black before the burning police station explodes micheal returns to once again to find jamie and his baby in this version the loomis character gets more scenes and seems much more pro active than he is in the final cut the score is much better more in line with parts 4 and 5 none of the electric guitar bs and the ending makes a tad more sense for these reasons coupled with the fact that this cut has more characterization and suspense and cuts back on the gore factor halloween unlike say the friday the 13th was never about blatant gore is why i prefer this bootleg producer's cut not to say that the cut magically turns a turd into gold it just polishes the turd a little bit and makes it more comprehensible the whole cult plot is still very stupid as is micheal fathering a kid br br my producer's cut grade c br br my theatrical cut grade d
0	scott's collection of 80's icons cannot save this teen disaster but then i suppose that's why it was only a tv movie and not a major motion picture william a schwartz writer comes up with something closer to stewardess school except this movie is more boring this movie isn't really stupid just boring and completely plotless the only reason to see this might be to see tina in an actual role after family ties after this movie and equally dumb class cruise i guess mr scott wised up and went back to directing sit coms which was his best move yet 4 out of 10
0	this movie was unfortunately terrible br br clichéd hackneyed stilted dialogue and acting make it almost unwatchable br br the feel good finale is laughably lame br br there is a reason judge career has vanished br br if you don't live in new york and aren't jewish several of the jokes will be inscrutable br br i too found the need to have the unacknowledged lesbian daughter go straight at the end quite insulting br br i simply cannot fathom how this film was so popular at film fests br br it is without a doubt one of the worst films i have seen in quite some time
0	obviously it seems many people really enjoyed this movie and that's wonderful it is certainly a very well intentioned film and i appreciate that in an era of heartless or emotionally damaging films unfortunately the film has a lot of problems and it was not something i enjoyed watching br br the primary problem is the writing it is just not very funny when something tries to be snappy or witty and fails that is far worse than when it hasn't attempted wit at all this film is to a great degree a series of snappy but gentle come backs between adult family members none of which seem imaginative or apt there is also a few central premises in the film that seem like too much of a stretch of coincidence or character motivation to be believable or really work some of the back story seemed more intriguing and did serve to decorate the story around the edges fairly well but it couldn't make up for the moment to moment flatness that pervaded almost all of the movie br br the directing editing doesn't support the film well either although i don't know to explain how exactly somehow things always seemed to me rather fake and that the actors were forcing there way through unnatural material for the most part they tried and i don't fault any one person here there were also too many small and charmless roles in it outside the immediate family br br not a good rental in my opinion though again apparently a number of people found it very charming i am 38 i suspect that perhaps people over 60 might enjoy this film more
0	i'm new to argento's work and if this and suspiria are any indication then argento is much more a filmmaker of experience than story in his films characters are placed in grueling and mesmerizing horror contexts that literally saturate the logic of the world around them the camera literally flows gracefully through sets as the characters run stumble and choke their way to an eventual horrifying conclusion it worked really well in suspiria for some reason it didn't work here br br the problem i see with this movie is that even though the protagonist gets help by way of contacting the police and asking for help from her friends it still feels as if she refuses to get help in terms of actually trying to find a solution to her problem the entrapment in this film is that she's trapped in the killer's little game one that she could easily get out of by not setting herself up so easily in a weird way it seems like the character wants the torture the killer gives her which in a way is the point and could have worked except that the whole psychology of it is thrown about mostly due to whatever argento feels like doing br br as a loving homage to the phantom of the opera it's certainly an interesting and unique take for all his worth argento delights in operatic movements as well which well highlights the action it just doesn't make much sense especially as it delves further into a completely useless ending yes i know it's a reference to harris' novel red dragon no it didn't work why the character should go from one horrifying experience of entrapment to a willing one with the director is beyond me it felt almost self serving on argento's part br br overall a fun experience and between this and suspiria i'm more than willing to follow up on more argento productions but this is not a movie i'd want to return to or remember br br polarisdib
0	this movie is truly amazing over the years i have acquired a taste for japanese monster movies and am well aware that early examples of this genre can be poor however this one reaches a new low as it follows the adventures of johnny a young boy who controls a giant robot and his fight against the evil gargoyle gang who seem to have an endless supply of horrid giant monsters at their disposal
0	the discussion has been held a thousand times is the merchant of venice antisemitic i think it is isn't it unfair to always point out this little bit of in an otherwise great piece of art i think it isn't does this play stain shakespeare's reputation as the world's greatest playwright i think it does does it play a role if he didn't do it on a particular racist purpose i think it doesn't michael radford knew all this and this is why he added to his movie a prologue about the pitiful situation of the jews in renaissance venice br br in vain for the play remains what it has always been and the new make up only gives a first but futile hope that someone has dared to set something right that remains a permanent outrage not because its degree of would be particularly shocking but because the play comes under the name of william shakespeare br br why spend so much time in portraying the hatred of a man shylock why employ a great and serious actor like al pacino if in the end everything is getting ruined in this outrageous but hey i'm not responsible shakespeare wrote it court room scene and now i'd like to be very precise just like shylock himself br br he's demanding his right according to the contract which the not very responsible christian antonio who always used to look down on him signed in full awareness of the consequences sure what shylock demands is cruel and useless but that's not the point what we see or should see is a man who has been humiliated for all his life to the point where all what remains on him is his hatred i think it is certainly a bit inappropriate to lecture such a man on things like compassion br br but what the play the movie they are one and the same now does at this point is become a soap opera the cruel madman with his knife the horrified but rather short minded audience the poor victim tied to his chair true antonio accepts his fate but why can't he just say one word sorry i think we need not lose many words on the ridiculous verdict of the young from it's a truly popular verdict not much different from what would be seen 400 years later in the show trials of the nazis from one minute to the next this jew is robbed of everything he owned sentenced to being baptized christian and kicked out br br isn't that outrageous obviously not the story moves on to the romantic intricacies of the rings and its happy end br br what one can learn in jewish museum in berlin and similar places all over the world is that often goes unnoticed by the mass because what's so devastating for a minority or some individuals is embedded in the alleged greater good for the majority it should be exactly the task of everyone of us to develop a sensitivity to detect and unmask such tendencies br br i don't accept the excuse that this film was made to create empathy with the badly treated shylock it just doesn't work out i don't think that anybody can be forced to be merciful br br i don't recommend this movie in particular not for an oscar
0	watching this movie brings several words to mind sophomoric ridiculous improbable self indulgent and finally and fatally boring badly directed badly photographed and badly acted the film is a confusing mess with plot lines if one can call them that veering in all directions someone may have used a five year old's finger painting as a template as punishment for this childish crime of a movie this cast of stars should be spanked soundly and sent to their respective beds without dinner all in all it seems like george needed an excuse to get together with his little buddies for a paid summer vacation and we're the suckers paying for it bad george bad
0	i have long tried to understand why people like shakespeare so much and every few years i give him another go i was hoping that this play film my 6th different shakespeare play would unlock the lucky casket and marry me to the riches of this literary demigod bah i clearly chose the wrong key br br once the phrase pound of flesh had been uttered 10 minutes into the film the main parts of the plot were transparent which grinds along with a languid script and lifeless acting at every step the plot is laid bare two scenes in advance the concept that a dying aristocrat would persuade his daughter to choose her future husband by means of a lottery is incredulous it is no surprise who wins the matrimonial jackpot because a main protagonist in the play and he's the third man to try and there are three caskets to choose from and his friend risks his life to pay the dowry the only genuine surprise that i had watching this film is that it did not end immediately after the resolution of the court case however as soon as the ring treachery began it was immediately apparent what would transpire br br ok so i know that millions of you love shakespeare not for the surprise in the well known stories but for the depth and passion of the characters but i felt nothing for the characters rather than gripped with suspense and admiration during the court scene i sat there hoping that it would be over soon please br br one day i might just find a shakespeare play that does something other than bore me
0	i have to admit that although i'm a fan of shakespeare i was never really familiar with this play and what i really can't say is whether this is a poor adaptation or whether the play is just a bad choice for film there are some nice pieces of business in it but the execution is very clunky and the plot is obvious the theme of the play is on the nature of debt using the financial idea of debt and justice as a metaphor for emotional questions that becomes clear when the issue of the rings becomes more important than the business with shylock which unfortunately descends into garden variety anti despite the bard's best attempts to salvage him with a couple nice monologues br br outside of jeremy dignified turn i didn't think there was a decent performance in the bunch pacino's yiddish consists of a slight whine added to the end of every pronouncement and some of the better shylock scenes are reduced to variations on the standard pacino gets angry scene that his fans know and love but lynn collins is outright embarrassing to the point where i would have thought they would have screen tested her right out of the picture early on when she goes incognito as a man it's hard not to laugh at all the things we're not supposed to laugh at with joseph fiennes standing there trying to look sincere and complicated it's hard not to make devastating comparisons to gwyneth paltrow's performance in shakespeare in love the big problem however that over rides everything in this film is just a lack of emotional focus it's really hard to tell whether this film is trying to be a somewhat serious comedy or a strangely silly drama surely a good summer stock performance would wring more laughs from the material than this somber production the actors seem embarrassed to be attempting humor and unsure of where to place dramatic and comedic emphasis all of this is basically the fault of the director michael radford who seems to think that the material is a great deal heavier than it appears to me
0	last week i watched a royal shakespeare company production of macbeth it was 25 years old filmed w no props except swords no furniture except chairs it was riveting the acting was super all the actors trained brits contrast that performance to this yawn yawn yawn al pacino as shylock was tragic heavy and couldn't quite lose the new yorker accent despite the long pauses between lines the whole thing was soporific even the comic scenes were barely even worth a smile let a lone a belly laugh this is supposed to be funny they tried to make it tragic it was neither just boring i give it four points for costumes scenery and jeremy irons who is good at playing a dull depressed deep voiced guy can he be anything else
0	i am a shakespeare lover since childhood i am also a jew merchant of venice is anti semitic through and through no matter how hard scholars and literature lovers try to re interpret it br br in the play shylock is portrayed as demonic and cold hearted and has no forgiveness no warmth no love except for money and cruel revenge whereas the christians are kind moral people his motives in the play revolve around money he plots revenge from the start based on damage caused to his business as well as blind racial hate not noble ideals or hurt racial pride as this movie wants you to believe and this characterization is given to him by shakespeare himself not by the other characters as final proof the happy ending is where the jew loses his money and is forced to convert to christianity br br i acknowledge this and move on it is part of history and i enjoy shakepeare despite this fact therefore i expect a movie based on this play to play it straight i would much rather see the work adapted for its rich language and storytelling without any whitewashing br br but many of the the bard's artful subtleties and playful characters are lost in this movie for example in the last scene where the men discover undercover work as a man who also took away their rings instead of the playful game of words and misunderstandings as the truth reveals itself it becomes a mean spirited game where two bitchy women play cruelly with their soon to be husbands br br so instead we are only left with lovely detailed sets fragments of the rich language with poor reinterpretation poor casting one intense courtroom scene and a controversy br br the truth is i think it would be much easier to identify the anti semitism in the story and move on if it were left as is despite all the whitewashing the makers of this movie pulled out of their hats there is plenty of hatred left only now people can make excuses and pretend the portrayal of jews isn't so bad anymore br br and finally another problem is with most of the actors being miscast pacino is way out of his league and is very uncomfortable with the language not to mention the horribly fake accent fiennes as is charmless and awkward with the language irons is dependable as always but doesn't do much with his role is somewhat ok but unlikeable and covered in bad makeup just like the movie
0	i saw this film as a sneak preview before the venice opening at the film festival your reaction to it will largely depend on your attitude about respecting the text of shakespeare on the plus side pacino gives a very good performance indeed as shylock lynn collins is a fine and the film has a sumptuous look br br the negatives are predictable the merchant of venice is arguably the most difficult of all of shakespeare's plays to stage today largely because we look at it through the distorting lens of 20th century history the romantic plot with and presents no problem the character of shylock does because we lack the original frame of reference of the elizabethan audience shylock is simultaneously a human character with human qualities and motivations and an abstraction of the pitiless quality of the old law when he says hath not a jew eyes he is a character when he proclaims i will have my bond he is an abstraction the long passage on music and cosmic harmony in the final scene here moved and cut to ribbons is the key to the play in that it re establishes universal harmony after the disruptive and evil the shylock of the trial scene forces are ejected it is possible to make psychological sense of the character of shylock by showing his gradually going mad and turning into a by the time the trial scene rolls around the key is that at a point he must cease being sympathetic br br pacino's performance almost does it but not quite the film can't quite make up its mind on the one hand there is the right movement in the character of shylock and on the other there is a great deal of extraneous footage of jews being abused and venetian whores with rouged nipples no doubt to show the decadence of antonio et al shakespeare was not writing an ibsen like social drama he was writing a comedy following the classic pattern of disruption of social order and the restoration of social order symbolized by marriage with a theme of love versus law at the center of the shylock plot br br in this sense the film is a travesty surgery on the play and direction almost force us away from what the play really means taking the beginning of the final scene cutting most of it and moving it before the trial scene is the most extreme example there are some other significant difficulties jeremy irons a fine actor plays antonio as if he were overdosed on sedatives joseph fiennes is pretty but shallow as most of the actors with the exceptions of collins pacino and the actor playing the duke in the trial scene mumble their dialogue br br final verdict a pretty film with a few decent performances it's not shakespeare it's poor interpretation not really worth your time or money although lynn collins as almost redeems it
0	watching this movie and then listening to the commentary it's clear that michael radford doesn't understand this play the first clue that he fails to fully grasp the work is that he takes pains to set the film in seventeenth century venice which sounds truly odd yes that misunderstanding the film would mean trying to make it as accurate to its location as possible but anyone who's studied shakespeare knows that while he set most of his plays in exotic locals the culture and values are always contemporary england this doesn't hurt the film but it displays a lack of necessary knowledge br br where radford kills the film is in making it so dead serious he manages to suck every joke out of the script leaving the whole production flat every ounce of passion is beaten out of the characters even 'do we not speech is a mild awkward ranting from a choleric who seems to only be saying and doing what he does because he's supposed to the lovers are solemn and far too restrained joseph fiennes delivers some of the most romantic lines in the cinema this year in a barely audible whisper who has to promise to behave at one point is more sober and collected than who makes him promise to behave jessica is reluctant to leave her father and spends her life with lorenzo pouting br br in the commentary for the bland and watered down court scene the director voices his shock that an audience laughed at 'a pound of flesh no more no less' sentence ultimately concluding that it had to tension release laughter 'the merchant of is a comedy and radford scoffs at the idea that the most absurd and hysterical portions of the story are anything but the most daringly provocative drama br br the film has no intelligible focus yet cuts out some of the most entertaining scenes the characters are forced into high drama veils so they come out sounding like ibsen characters reading victorian poetry and the comedic ending where all of the good guys go to bed happy is drowned in a dignified despair that feels like they're finding stiff upper lip peace with impending death rather than reconciling with lovers even lancelot and antonio exit the film holding their hats like aristocratic mourners br br the film is poorly done because the creative powers that be don't understand the script it is stern where it should hysterical it is reserved where it should be passionate it is michael radford where it should be william shakespeare
0	this is one of those wonderful martial arts movies that begin with two posses of tough gang members facing off in a park and when the deal goes wrong and the battle starts it turns out they all know karate and kung fu the ever wooden cynthia rothrock plays as usual a cynical deadpan good cop this time in los angeles she and her police partners are trying to break up a ring and when that plot line is exhausted the story just switches over to something else and cynthia becomes the personal bodyguard of a wealthy great looking tycoon within the film's obviously rock bottom budget there's some helicopter action some speedboat action some car chases a brawl where cynthia beats up everyone in a country western bar some swimming pool scenes with bimbos in thong bikinis and a surprisingly good horseback chase about a dozen and a half cops get gunned down a lot of plot twists happen that just don't make any sense don't worry about them and currency is a federal crime so where the hell is the fbi i guess they were too busy the fight choreography was done by cynthia rothrock's frequent co star richard taylor whose classy and witty presence in front of the camera would frankly have made this a better movie he also tended to make cynthia a better actress when they appeared together and frankly she could use it she seems tired and bored and does her best acting in guardian angel when she is playing opposite a pet dog to whom she delivers bitter drunken monologues the dog almost out acts her she also wears some of the most god awful clothing any leading lady has ever worn in any movie loose baggy leg jeans with pale acid washed areas over each buttock were the most shocking the other actors are all over the map you can picture many of the minor characters being cast this way hey me and some other guys i know are going to be in a movie you wanna be in it too no dude i'm serious then there are the slumming professionals the most fun is denier the stunning french model and veteran of red shoe diaries baywatch melrose place and of playing many many other variations on the sexy french bombshell here she plays a psychopathic killer as if she were in moi or an alias episode and not some direct to cable trash like this there's also the tall dark and handsome daniel now a regular on the bold and the beautiful john o'leary who has played a dignified old man in dozens of movies and sitcom episodes and does it again here and the veteran arab character actor perhaps best known as pharaoh seti from the mummy and the mummy returns for these professionals guardian angel must be the most laughable entry on their resumes i gave this movie a better rating than it probably deserves because my daughters who are enthusiastic martial arts students both like to see a woman kicking ass and having the big action scenes for a change they're still a bit too young to care what a low quality picture this really was and just enjoyed cheering cynthia on as she did her legged high kicking stick fighting thing if you like this kind of flick you could probably enjoy it on that level
0	a female ex cop who was drummed out of the force for recklessness and who could probably beat chuck norris in a fight hires herself out as a private bodyguard her first client is a worthless playboy type it takes half the movie for her to get kicked off the force in the first place lots of great fight choreography but the plot is strictly by the numbers and the acting is as wooden as the dialogue give this one a miss
0	i actually trawled through the entire set of reviews searching for the ones which gave this film less than 5 stars they were few and far between which is utterly baffling yes i know it's a disney film and it isn't directed by christopher nolan but good lord this is straight to the bargain bucket nonsense they should've had done with it and animated the bloody thing br br and what's even worse is the fact that imdb won't let me simply finish my rant there because my review needs to be longer br br the awesome in game camera shots are literally taken from tiger woods tour golf on the playstation the story plods like a sulking school boy the multi stranded character and plot development cripples an already weak setup and the grand finale is plain boring br br aside from that it really was the greatest film i've ever seen in my entire life br br good authentic looking costumes sets and sports equipment there i said it
0	i went to see quitting with high hopes because the director's shower had impressed me so despite a few lapses into shower ranks high on my list of all time favorite movies for its penetrating insight into family relationships and its generally superb acting and direction and i've seen it at least three times now br br but quitting fell flat in my estimation it seemed a pointless exercise and i was quickly so tired of the main character's insufferable personality that i was longing for the movie to end i admit to falling asleep six or seven times but it was only for a few seconds at a time so i think it's still ok to write this comment br br i did admire the parents and sister the device of using all real characters in the film is a nice one i've never seen used before br br disappointment aside i will still make an effort to see any film bearing yang zhang's name simply on the basis of the beautiful shower
0	comparing oceans twelve to the 2001 oceans eleven did anyone else notice all the things that stayed the same br br all the stars returned for twelve and zeta jones was added br br twelve had the same director br br twelve had the same producers br br twelve had the same production designer br br twelve had the same music director br br twelve had the same film editor br br did anyone notice the things than changed once the oceans franchise was established br br twelve's budget was 25 million 30 greater br br eleven got great reviews but twelve largely got panned br br eleven made 450 million but twelve dropped to million br br domestic box office for twelve dropped 32 br br soderbergh teamed with a different screenwriter br br movies are a director's medium of course i almost forgot
0	formulaic slasher film only this one stars three ten year olds all born during a lunar eclipse as the killers nice huh a little bit of gore and a nice nude scene may make this worthwhile for diehard fans of the genre others beware br br 1 2 out of
0	amnesiac women who remove their clothes at the drop of a hat or a blouse are about the only stand out points in a film that is otherwise slow and aimless although the basic premise of the story offers a wealth of possibilities they are never developed to any satisfying degree and exposition is almost non existent a large proportion of the film is mere wanderings through the corridors of a multi storied clinic hospital the overall effect is bleak and sterile a la thx 1138
0	so far i disliked every single jean rollin movie i've seen and that always bothered me because he's an acclaimed euro trash monument and extremely popular amongst many regular reviewers on this lovely website people whose opinions i always value and usually concur with apparently everybody always appears to pinpoint some sort of gloomy and stylistic filming trademarks in his work that are completely lost on me rollin's movies are unimaginably boring they all feature the same basic concept lesbian vampires in various settings the dialogs are incredibly absurd the marvelous gothic setting are always underused and the production values are cheaper than the price of a bus ticket i had actually given up on rollin's repertoire already especially after enduring the iron rose until i found out about night of the hunted allegedly this movie doesn't feature any lame lesbian vampires and stands as a bona fide horror movie with gruesome killings and macabre plot twists and the verdict is … yes and no on one hand this is undeniably the most compelling and inventive rollin film i had the pleasure of seeing thus far and also the only one that i watching without dozing off… on the other hand it still remains a moronic movie with a nonsensical plot and emotionless sex sequences to compensate for the dullness jean rollin heavily attempts to generate an atmosphere of secrecy and suspense mostly through a lack of information and vaguely introduced characters but barely manages to hide the fact he actually hasn't got a story to tell at all the unearthly beautiful lead actress brigitte and the beautifully ominous musical guidance are the only elements that keep you hooked on the screen during a nightly drive back home to paris a young man abruptly has to stop for a confused and scarcely dressed girl who comes running from the woods her name is elisabeth but furthermore she can't remember anything about herself and from what or whom she was running away her case of amnesia is so bad she even continuously forgets who picked her up the next day she's kidnapped again by an old guy and taken to a sinister apartment complex where multiple people in the same bizarre mental state are held captive elisabeth knows nothing but she does sense she needs to escape from here obviously i won't reveal the denouement but i can assure you it is quite dumb illogical and far fetched apparently rollin realized this as well because the explanation is kept very brief and quick there's a large number of overly weird and senseless sequences the sex footage is dire and filmed without passion the nasty make up effects look cheap and randomly thrown without actual purpose as said the score is mesmerizing and brigitte perfect body is addictive to at
0	as a fan of the old series i must say that this is at best a parody of a much beloved series first the old series would at least attempt to follow some military structure i know in this p c world it is not the thing to do but hey don't turn it into the care bears in the old series was a soldier now he is a teenage mutant turtle another thing is the flying tank ok it flies out of the cobra base and bounces off the copter and they are both ok lets face it if the next one is not better this could spell the end of g i joe
0	as a cartoon the movie was pretty bad it is only 44 minutes long yet several battles occur culminating with the destruction of the cobra headquarters one downer was the very beginning of the movie an animated battle that was better than the rest of the movie turns out to have been some kind of battle simulation that right there was a major turn off and made the rest of the movie lack credibility then there was the issue of shipwreck tied up along with his parrot and tossed into some room where nobody had checked for several days whatever happened to surveillance cameras br br the cobra base only had a handful of characters and the rest were bat robots aside from a lot of corridors the cobra base did not seem to have any weapons tanks trucks or any other equipment then there was the silly notion that 100 complex androids could be created overnight the plot was silly even if this was intended for small children spongebob powerpuff girls and even barney the dinosaur give more attention to their plots br br the characters were not bad except that i could never understand anything was saying and the cobra commander was silly and not much of a villain in fact except for storm shadow and the rest of the cobra characters were comical and hardly impressive the gi joe characters were pretty good scarlett agent faces road block and snake eyes were my favorites here shipwreck and beach head were the worst shipwreck is written as a goof ball and beach head sounded like some 1990s surfer dude i guess the writer larry hama was trying to make a character that appealed to teenagers but he was a decade off the mark just listening to beach head's surfer talk fast times at ridgemont high i was wondering if the new gi joes were going to smoke a before the big mission br br the cgi was pretty good except that cobra commander had a jerking spastic walk and the vehicles did not look very realistic at all the flying tank and the explosions were not very impressive old style animation would have been much better than this since reportedly likes to do things cheap they got what they paid for i had trouble watching the whole thing it was just boring and lacked any soul or gi joe spirit even the old gi joe commercials would have been better in fact the dvd included extras such as four or five current commercials for gi joe spy troops and those commercials were much more entertaining than the movie the commercials had more kid oriented fun and spirit the commercials were lively while the movie was dull
0	although this movie is inaccurate overall there are some items that may be true certainly he was a wild character in his youth having played practical jokes on his fellow cadets at west point almost expelled several times graduating last in his class of 34 and often reckless in his leadership during the civil war br br but history may have made him a scape goat of the indian wars certainly he did his share of cruel things but how much was he under orders also there is evidence that he testified before congress at great risk to his commission and command that he argued about the fairness of breaking treaties with the indians and that if he was an indian he would also fight rather than live on a reservation br br as a character said in the play when asked what will be said about the british about losing the revolutionary war the character states history will do what it always does it will lie who knows how bad a man custer was certainly he wasn't the sympathetic character as portrayed by errol flynn and later by ronald reagan but i also doubt he was completely evil as he is later portrayed
0	i like errol flynn i like biographies and i like action movies this featured all three of these but i didn't like this film it just went on too long although the last 20 minutes was excellent especially in the photography with some great low angle shots however i seemed like it took six hour to get to that point and i really can't say why i feel this way br br the action is interesting errol flynn and olivia de havilland are fine in fact it was refreshing to see de havilland actually be supportive of flynn instead of her normal role as antagonist to him yet something is lacking in this movie br br the film has been roundly criticized for its historical inaccuracy but i don't hear that same criticism for a lot of other films which have done the same in fact its rare when a film is historically accurate for some reason this revisionist history offended most critics if the film had made general custer a lot worse than he really was they would have probably liked it well too bad in their twisted way critics prefer villains to heroes br br i really wish i could have enjoyed this more but i'll take a lot of other flynn adventures over this one
0	the first time i watched this movie i was ten years old i thought it was bad then and at that age i had no cinematic taste whatsoever i watched this movie on cinemax about 3 days ago and was reminded why i hated the movie in the first place madonna's character nikki is annoying and obnoxious there's no way that the main character would ever fall in love with her the jokes were corny and the dialogue was worse than a t v soap opera i'm glad that i didn't see this movie at the theatre or rent it i feel bad for my parents who had to endure watching it with me madonna is not necessarily a bad actress but in this role she is portrayed as a complete idiot
0	the laughs are few and far between in this dull movie and i can't help but wonder about how this mess ever got made in the first place about the only good thing in this movie is the talent of griffin dunne but his best efforts were easily overshadowed by madonna's obnoxious performance i was able to sit through this without getting too bored but that's probably the nicest thing i can say about this time waster
0	an ear splitting movie a quasi old fashioned screwball romp designed to showcase singing star madonna's comedic attributes she does indeed go far out on the proverbial limb here playing a beyond vivacious parolee attempting to prove she was framed for murder a body was found in the trunk of her car after she ran a red light big laughs after an energetic animated credits sequence which is much more fun than the rest of the picture we have nothing to look at but madonna's black mascara and red lips set off by her platinum hair and pale what else is there griffin dunne seems defeated playing maddy's keeper while the poor choice supporting cast struggles to get laughs with lousy dialogue it's an unfortunate set back to the talents of director james foley who unwisely allows his star to run rampant in the spirit of the nutty slapstick films from the 1930s but even katharine hepburn in bringing up baby had a human side wretched from
0	i was actually planning to see this movie when i noticed it in my tv guide but after about 5 minutes decided time is definitely more precious than who's that girl could ever be worth describing how bad madonna's acting looks like is impossible and the end result is one of the most annoying characters ever captured on film this crap is an insult to movies and intellect i almost never rate a movie i don't see from start to finish but in this case the former is impossible 2 10
0	i didn't expect a lot when i went out to see this but my god what a disappointment the original was kind of fun within it's genre but this is so bad i felt abused when i left the theater there's no plot it's not funny it's not enjoyable to watch it's straight out embarrassing after an hour i hoped my patience would be rewarded but now i regret not leaving the theater do yourself a favor and ignore this one see it when it comes to the small screen or see it on budget dvd whatever you do don't waste any money on it don't say i didn't warn you
0	for people who have absolutely no idea of what a comedy is that not only includes the people who liked this movie but the people who made it what could they possibly have been thinking madonna playing judy holliday please she can't even play madonna if there actually is a madonna i hope griffin dunne was paid well he deserved every penny he got because if this didn't kill his career nothing will i'm sure that the few people who actually paid to see this movie left it feeling like their pockets had been picked madonna is apparently past the point of feeling embarrassed by her virtually complete lack of talent as an actress but you can't help feeling embarrassed for her anyway she has no connection with the rest of the cast it appears like she showed up on the set and said ok i'm here i'm gonna embarrass myself by doing the absolute worst judy holliday impression anyone's ever seen now stay the hell out of my way and then proceeded to do exactly that i know the phrase rotten madonna movie is redundant but it certainly fits this it's painful to watch a totally inept and talentless actress make a complete fool of herself but it apparently doesn't bother her as she does it again and again br br the only remotely funny thing about this comedy is that she actually managed to find people who gave her the money to make it now that's funny
0	possible spoiler madonna plays an ex con that needs to recover some valuable information that might clear her from the murder that she was put in prison for four years ago griffin dunne is a tax attorney who's marrying his boss' daughter together the two of them are supposed to come together in a world where chaos keeps you from getting on the bus br br when you get down to it this is a stupid movie without trying to give away the plot possible spoiler the bad guys in the movie are trying to protect their boss by retrieving the information that would incriminate them for the murder that madonna was sent up for what kind of bad guys don't commit murder by trying to hide the original murder br br then there's the cops who are trailing madonna who follow the bad guys in a limo where they have the brides maids all tied up and let's not forget those same brides maids who fought from the front gate to the front door still all tied together and i hate to say this but that feline sure looks like a cougar there might be only four of them in the new york city area so they might be endangered there but i know there's plenty of them in the rocky mountains see charlie the lonesome cougar if you really want to see a large cat in the movie and let's look at the old man who falls asleep on his feet naw br br the plot is there but that's all there is to this movie i was barely out of my teens when this movie originally came out and i was some what of a fan of madonna but that was the only reason i liked the movie but since then she's fell out of popularity with me and i've faced the fact that she is just a terrible actress good thing she's got that singing career to fall back on it rated maybe a 5 back then but it's fallen to barely making a 2 over the years
0	this is the epitome of bad 80's film making unless you are a pre pubescent girl riding on a big name like madonna a story line that physically assaults one's intelligence and humour that is most suited for a nursery school if there was ever any doubt i think this turd of a movie clearly displays madonna's absolute lack of acting talent and made me feel highly embarrassed on her behalf the only thing i can't believe is that they ever let the director near another movie again madonna spends most of the movie prancing around like an infantile rag doll and talking like a baby it is painfully obvious that the only reason this movie was ever made was due to the fact that madonna was a big name in pop music at the time do not be duped into seeing this awful attempt to cash in on pop stardom stay away at all costs
0	this has to be one of the if not the worst movies i have ever seen after watching this piece of sh t i felt as though i should write to madonna and demand compensation for my time but now i feel that i should write madonna and demand a great 80s album considering she can't record a good album to save her life anymore in return for this disaster br br on to the movie itself which can be summed up like this br br it consists madonna jumping around acting like a spoiled teenager who lost her way she is trying to impress this absolute douche of an actor who plays the in the movie but the best was the ending i was staring with my jaw on the ground into the television as the credits rolled by thinking to my self that's it that's the ending what a piece of sh t if madonna wasn't a pop icon at the time of this film this movie would have single handedly destroyed her career and the funniest thing of the whole situation was that i just watched the damn movie to see where they placed the song who's that girl well guess where they placed it at the end
0	do you get it like the car these are the jokes folks softcore beach blanket bingo with aliens answers many of life's important question what do the relatives of celebrities do for some cash how does a hot tan alien wash herself how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood well maybe not that one linnea quigley member of the softcore hall of fame provides some comic relief nikki fritz also a member show her talents sarah is not as bad as you might expect from a porn star this is not erotic except the shower scene and not funny enough to make up for the rotten plot the sequel has a couple of pleasant scenes as well with miss br br p s the title is a good example of
0	yes it was an awful movie but there was a song near the beginning of the movie i think called i got a woody or something to that effect i would love to find a sound track of that if there is one available i saw this song on mst 3k and as awful as it was it had it's moments and that song was one of them br br if you like babes in bikinis this is the movie for you but if you don't then don't bother it was great material for mst 3k i have to admit though i would really love to know where to get a copy of the soundtrack though not just that song but a couple more were really funny and are classics as far as i'm concerned
0	tacky but mildly entertaining early 90's soft core comedy features xena sarah luna tamara landry and nicole posey as three outer space teenagers parents have gone on vacation for a couple of days following some persistent persuasion from her friends xena agrees to take her father's spaceship for a ride the end result they wind up running out of gas in space and crash land on planet beta 45 aka earth meanwhile teenagers dave michael todd davis and jerry ken steadman have come to california to stay the summer with dave's uncle bud joe estevez a beach bum who lives right on the beach the three of them wind up meeting our three space girls who have walked away from the crash without a scratch uncle bud is about to be thrown out from his soon to be condemned beach pad thanks to sally linnea quigley who lives right up the hill and used to be in a relationship with bud she's also a bikini magnate and is trying to win a bikini design contest to the tune of 30 000 exactly what bud would need to fix up his property so the girls decide to try to win the prize for him and that's about it folks that their paper thin plot was barely enough to sustain a feature length movie the filmmakers subject us to scene after scene of endless beach parties featuring tons of extras gyrating their half naked bodies in the scorching sun oh and lets not forget the sex there's quite a deal of it before i go any further i need to put this movie in context it was released in 1993 long before the advent of such soft core labels such as surrender cinema and seduction cinema compared to these newer edgier more explicit movies the soft core movies of the 90's sure seem somewhat mild when beach babes from beyond first came out in 1993 from the full moon offshoot entertainment it was heralded as the debut release of a label that specialized in mature audiences type films to say the times have changed this particular film genre has gone from a few steamy but brief sex scenes and fleeting glimpses of female full frontal nudity to extended sex scenes that occasionally threaten to venture into the realm of hardcore looking at beach babes from beyond again after viewing it upon its release it's safe to say that if this same film were to be made today there would be a hell of a lot more emphasis on the sex scenes and less time spent on plot and dialog as for the sex scenes themselves they tend to run hot and cold three space girls waste no time in getting comfortable with the boys that evening so each couple gets a soft core scene complete with annoying slow motion camera work and too dark lighting they're really not that horrible and are surprisingly graphic in a few spots especially the scene between xena and jerry that takes place in the back of a trailer but the one sex scene that really leaves a lasting impression and causes you to be surprised in its overall intensity occurs quite early on in the film sally is attending a topless photo shot with three of her models posing by a pool all of the actresses in this scene are beautiful gorgeous but nikki fritz stands out from all the two due to her enormous presence remember that this point in her career she had yet to achieve the type of enormous popularity that soon would follow her posing nude by a pool leads to an unforgettable fantasy sequence where she shows her soapy body in a tub and then again when walking away from her bath walking toward the bed towards a nearly nude pumped up guy in the waiting we get a full length complete nude scene with her almost heart shaped rear end and perfectly shaped back it's good that back is so muscular as it is about to get a pretty good workout nikki spends the next few minutes completely nude with a hunky guy in a variety of positions in a scene that is filmed completely differently than the three other lovemaking scenes no dark lighting or annoying slow motion here just two actors in one enormous bed sans sheets and covers who seem at time to be barely acting at all ecstatic body language just goes to prove that few other actresses seem to enjoy filming sex scenes as much as she does it's really the only time where beach babes from beyond truly delivers the goods but even without this spectacular scene i am mildly recommending this film just for the fact alone that it's fairly watchable and never dull no thanks to an incredibly energetic and attractive cast many of whom would show up in various direct to video features in the remainder of the decade
0	i am easily pleased i like bad films i like films featuring attractive young women in small amounts of clothing br br this film gives all the above a bad name yes you know going in that what you're getting is not high art or anything like but even for the type of movie it is beach babes from beyond isn't very good br br some people have given it 10 i can only assume that these are people who have had the organs which enable rational thought to take place surgically removed br br it isn't very good it simply isn't very good br br 3 out of 10 solely on the grounds of a novelty value for the famous relatives and burt ward and b some of the girls are cute br br oh by the way did i tell you that it isn't very good
0	as joe bob briggs would say this movie relies a lot on the actresses' talents rather than their talent this early 1990's show the babes in bikinis fest has very little to redeem it other than showing beautiful women nearly naked joe estevez martin sheen's little brother proves once again that his movie career will be nowhere near what his brother's career is br br avoid this one unless you like watching beautiful women in skimpy clothing it's about the only thing that redeems it
0	radio is possibly one of the best films i have ever seen while at the same time one of the worst it made me laugh in places where you were supposed to cry and made me cringe at moments you were supposed to laugh it lacked any kind of character development which is usually crucial to a sentimental flick that this is some questions why did ed harris character take radio under his wing this was not properly explained and i'm sure their relationship which is the main aspect of the film is the most pointless if ever seen br br who keeps on giving cuba gooding junior work he is a crap actor and should be taunted heavily until he takes up another line of work br br as true stories go this is not that interesting p s the reason i said it is one of the best films i have ever seen is because despite it being complete pap i still enjoyed it laughing at the script and most monologues which are truly the work of either am idiot or someone very clever trying to show how easy it is to release a crappy film about a retard who becomes everyones favourite joke the fact of the matter is cuba's character is comedy fodder for the people who watch the football matches
0	the people who bash this movie were looking for it to be as cool and slick as the first one which this isn't this movie was supposed to be the complete opposite as ocean's 11 this has been said by a lot of the cast members and also the director steven soderbergh ocean's 12 while it did lack a gripping plot is being bashed because it was different then what people wanted if it were released before ocean's 11 it would be taken much differently not as a failed sequel the problem with sequels is people go into it with a preset idea of what it should be like it and have lots of expectations they should go into this movie with an open mind and not expect it to be ocean's 11 again
0	i appear to be in the minority but i thought radio was pretty awful it seemed to contain almost every cliche in these types of heartwarming movies br br the motivation for the characters falling in love with radio was never really explained we were just supposed to accept that everyone was fond of radio except for a couple of bad apples br br you could see almost all of th big moments in the story from 100 yards away when the movie wanted you to go awww or pull out your tissue i was rolling my eyes and wished i was watching rudy instead br br there were some good performances by the cast too bad they weren't given a better movie in wish to appear
0	no offense to anyone who saw this and liked it but i hated it it dragged on and on and there was not a very good plot also too simple and the acting was so so br br i would give this snorefest a 2 at the most
0	i am disgusted and appalled by the positive reviews this movie is receiving not only is it hokey manipulative and melodramatic it's also shamelessly offensive the character of radio gooding jr ' is paraded around as a cute little stuff animal like a puppy that's so cute you just want to take him home ' this mentality is shameless radio is never treated as a human being but as a manipulative device to draw sympathies from its audience even more atrocious are the film's numerous moments in which radio gets hit in the head trips falls over etc these moments of slapstick comedy had the audience howling with laughter merely purely because it's funny because radio is this is shameless now i do not feel that the word is an appropriate word at all to describe the mentally disabled but this seems to be the stance the film is taking radio is retarded but that's okay because he's cute and we like him ' gooding's portrayal seems better suited for a john water's film than an inspiring family drama to add insult to injury the film is incompetent on every level debra winger is uninspired in the role as the stereotypical housewives' that the very reminder of her heinous monologues insights laughter in all who see the film the score by john horner is pure sap always its tear some score over the tired cinematography ed harris is decent in a role he could have slept through but manages to retain much of the audience's attention throughout the film in conclusion if you consider yourself a decent human being ignore this travesty of a film read the book but otherwise skip this dire film on an interesting character from american history
0	this could have been a good tv movie but the flashbacks do not make it easier to understand the movie as they give the viewer informations on the way will the movie proceeds i found myself wondering why she never said or mentioned that in the beginning then the whole trail would probably not have been necessary br br when the movie ends you understand why she shot and of course she is not guilty too bad that the producer director used the flashbacks this way but on the other had the movie would not have been worth while at all br br nice movie for a rainy day big bag of chips to kill the evening
0	am i the only one to notice that the realism of the 19th century ship is erroneous actually it's a 15th century right around if memory serves me because the realistic ship in the movie is the now as far as i know the never went to australia or even attempted a voyage to australia i don't know who handled r d for this film but using the and hoping that no one will notice is a poor job indeed br br they even printed it on the cover art and the dvd i wonder how may other people noticed this little blunder not to mention that the movie itself was just plain awful i would have expected better from sam neill
0	the opens with the memorable scene of a monkey in a cage attacking a ripping apart a small toy robot as part of a scientific experiment this random act violence sold it for me and i'm happy to say the rest of provided a veritable feast of cheese br br the is about a scientist david who is nearly killed an explosion in his lab whose tattered remains are put inside an experimental body suit armour for some unfathomable reason he is fitted with a rage response a device wired into his brain that will turn him homicidal if he comes into physical contact with any other person they give some daft explanation about how it is a necessary defensive mechanism but i cannot see the logic in installing such a device unless you wanted a rampaging cyborg killing machine it is especially ridiculous when it is indicated the suit carl is wearing is actually an experimental space suit what possible need would there be for an astronaut to turn into the incredible hulk whilst on a mission he predictably breaks out of the lab and proceeds to battle the dodgy scientists who put him in the suit along with the ninja assassin hunter played by pam grier no really br br the itself looks pretty damn goofy it is basically a dude in a mangled golden foil suit he also has a perpetually bewildered look in his eyes that doesn't inspire fear or even compassion i guess you can't blame him for that most people watching the movie will have that same look on their faces br br the acting is of the really bad stilted 'i'm not sure what the character's emotions or thoughts are that this point so i'll take a punt and spurt out my dialogue in a random tone of voice whilst trying not look at the camera' school of acting the actor playing the funky black scientist even struggles with this last part br br it is after this initial accidental death that the goes after the scientists strangely enough the whole rage response 'touch me and i'll kill you' thing doesn't play as big a role as you might expect with carl going after his former colleges in a reasonably detached manner there was one scene where he rather brutally kills some street punks who push him around i know that it is de rigueur for street gangs to randomly assault the lead characters in eighties movies but surely one of them must have realised it might be a bad idea to attack the hulking cyborg guy even if he does look like retarded cousin as it is they don't even seem that surprised to see a mangled golden cyborg walking down the street as though it was an every day occurrence for them the only other time this rage response comes up in the movie is when old carl can't give his wife a hug when hunter tries to turn this against him by throwing her into him so he'll be forced to kill her he casually remarks he has himself off screen naturally so this doesn't happen they could have left out the whole rage response thing and just gone with a straight revenge story and it wouldn't have made a huge difference to the movie br br there is an amusing sequence in the sewers as grier and her cronies track down the due to his armoured hide they are all armed with weapons which fire acid ' for some bizarre reason when these weapons fire it is represented on screen by cartoonish red lines that streak toward their targets ala ghostbusters the fights back by ripping a gas pipe out of the wall and incinerating all of grier's goons in an enormous streak of flame that comes out the resulting fireball is so huge and powerful that it comes out of the sewers out of a man hole and blows up the van a couple of the scientists are strangely enough grier escapes by throwing herself down into the inch deep water despite the fact she was closest to the this is one of several fake fiery explosions throughout the movie including the death of funky black scientist when the sends his van of a cliff this is after they capture the by trapping him in a giant lump of no seriously br br there is also one unsettling and long and out of place sequence in which carl's treacherous overweight friend who looks like a poor man's ned beatty reveals his infatuation with carl's wife and tries to rape her it goes on for about 5 10 minutes and is full of disturbing shots of the guy slobbering over the wife's face gyrating on top of her and trying to pull her dress off it is icky to say the least and seems really out of whack with most of the rest of the movie which is kind of cartoonish and larger than life in its violence br br the movies finale involves the battling a whole bunch of other dudes in battle suits for whatever reason all these other dudes are less kick arse than carl some of them being dispatched by the wife simply by having a protruding tube in their side ripped out luckily for carl the suit he is wearing lacks this crucial design flaw the only really memorable part toward the end is the death of grier doing something i've never seen a baddie do in a movie before in the middle of her confrontation with the she decides she really doesn't stand a chance against him and in a rather of matter of fact manner blows her own brains out with his pistol
0	the is a weird little canadian b movie at first glance it would appear to be just another cheap extremely cheap terminator knockoff but strangely enough it also shares some qualities with the original robocop which hadn't even been released yet when appeared 1986 coincidence who knows anyway the story is thus scientist carl seems to be a pretty nice guy who works for a super duper secret government high tech research lab reporting to a sleazy boss named whom he butts heads with about project funding early in the movie carl's got a loving wife at home and a baby on the way which makes it all the more tragic when he is suddenly killed in a lab accident but wait carl's not really dead after all has extracted carl's brain and inserted it into his pet project some sort of experimental bio mechanical space suit when carl wakes up inside his new body he understandably goes a little nuts trashes the lab and escapes this is a problem because for reasons known only to himself has programmed the mechanical suit with a rage reaction program which will cause carl to kill anybody who touches him for any reason in hindsight that little addition to carl's psyche was probably not the best idea br br so robo carl wanders aimlessly through the movie for a while killing a couple of random muggers and other assorted background characters till he returns to his home and contacts his wife this scene is supposed to be heartbreakingly touching i guess but turns out comical because carl's robot voice is so heavily synthesized that you can barely understand a word he says he of course tells her to leave the city and never come back because she's in danger but she wants to stay and help him yadda yadda yadda eventually hires a gang of commando thugs led by hunter an apparent ninja assassin played by pam grier to hunt down and destroy his runaway creation using carl's wife as bait and predictable but laughably cheap looking mayhem ensues br br i'm a b movie kind of guy but the was so half assed that it turned into high comedy pretty quickly i'm assuming that a good hunk of the budget went into stan winston's robo carl suit design because that actually looks pretty cool but the rest of the movie suffers from a cheap made for tv kind of look the script could've used a lot more work but then maybe the filmmakers had gotten wind of robocop going into production and rushed to get out so they couldn't be accused of ripping them off either way judging by the other comments here on imdb i'm not the only one who's noticed the parallels between and robocop and obviously robo is the superior film so there's no need to waste your time sitting through this piece of nonsense unless you want to see a film that can best be described at best as a rough draft of robocop if it were made by an 8th grader
0	it's times like these i truly wish i was a more avid reader of clive barker's literary repertoire since very few things feel worse than not being able to fully comprehend a movie of this stunningly caliber based on the novella cabal the story of involves a amount of lavish and bizarre creatures and settings in an underground society of demonic ghouls a normal guy becomes linked to the strange world called through his dreams and his psychiatrist coerces him into believing he is responsible for a series of gruesome murders of families in recent months thinking this to be true he retreats to located under a rural cemetery where he is reluctantly accepted the shrink however is right on heals with a diabolical scheme to whip out the community of br br wanting so much to love this movie i was very let down in the long run i have regretfully not read the story so barker's fantasy world and the purpose of it and all these monsters was horribly confusing and the premise was painfully uneven i understand how the final cut was diced to hell and even barker show's moderate dislike for the overall product but i just didn't get it even if it is crucial to read the story i feel like it should at least be translated to film in a way that it is still comprehensible for those unfamiliar with the literature if cabal is as convoluted as this film than barker really milked a dead concept couldn't help but feel a bit bored after a while especially when things started getting increasingly ridiculous somewhere around the jail scene i realized just how bored i was like a police department fearlessly going to war with like it happens every week no one seems to think the idea of immortal monsters is a tad strange i did like the visual effects and all that crazy sh t that went on in especially that porcupine lady and that big headed sob definitely an epic flick when you consider the massive quantity of effects and convincingly morbid decor david cronenberg fills his position well as the loony shrink with his cool zipper head potato sack mask but we all wish he had done some behind the camera work to help save this heap br br so if you have a boner for clive barker material and fully grasp what exactly is why they show the creatures during the opening title sequence terrible idea and why these creatures reside there and how some punk kid shares a telekinetic link to it you should probably check out i'll look for cabal one of these days and hopefully gain some perspective or maybe i'll just forget this travesty completely until then this is a poorly constructed and fairly tedious mess of a movie watch hellraiser instead
0	it's a bit difficult to believe that this came from the same director that gave us hellraiser where's the style the foreboding and the charm i mean hellraiser is not a great horror film but at least it had something is like a large ball of bad ideas poorly executed from the opening there is a problem with subtlety the monsters are shown in the first shot the opening dream sequence shows too much for too long our hero doesn't display professional acting skills but no one expected that from this bastard genre there are killings that one wishes were more interesting then we have david cronenberg the man was never really meant to be an actor he fills the role of the creepy psychiatrist adequately but what he should have done was step behind the camera and save this disaster then we come to a creepy fake graveyard with an over creepy fake gate this thing is not a huge improvement over the cemetery in plan 9 from outer space it gets worse when we meet the creatures in it there is nothing really wrong with the character design and make up effects here well except for the guy with no scalp the guy with a pointy chin and forehead and the fat guy with dark circles around his eyes the problem is the way they act and the terrible dialogue that is given them barker's photography of the subterranean city is tired and this part of the story could have been made much better some might call what follows spoilers after our hero dies and becomes we wait around to see what he'll turn into there's talk of things that fly and werewolves but when the time comes for him to change they appearantly thought their hero too pretty to give a decent creature design with the turn in cronenberg's character the story just gets less interesting until the battle of freaks vs norms which is just bad barker's mythology failed him here there is no genius and little originality behind any of the picture could have used a larger budget a serious script and character design that doesn't leave you saying oh oh how lame what a waste not scary not cool not even very dark just weak
0	you'd have more excitement cutting off your testicles than watching this clearly a trick to get you to rent descent instead of the descent which is a much better movie br br this is a total rip off of the core and much much worse as regards special effects i could do better with a box of cornflakes and a roll of i mean come on that mole thing bore more resemblance to a vibrating dildo than a subterranean vehicle br br don't watch it if you do you'll find the room your in has a funny smell for days after and you'll have this nagging feeling in the back of your head that you should go kill yourself or something
0	just like most people i couldn't wait to see this ocean's 11 sequel but it really stinks i must say it stinks because there's simply no good screenplay it was just cheap i hope the producers donate all the money this movie has made or will make to the tsunami victims in asia so this movie will have at least one good reason to exist it is so bad i even can't write a decent comment about it but i still advise the creators of this thing to make ocean's 13 ocean's 13 will be about the same thieves who are trying to steal a screenplay well hidden somewhere in hollywood the 13th member will be a foreign maybe russian screenplay writer who knows all tricks to write a copy of this well hidden screenplay so they can replace the original they'll have to steal or they need to find at least 13 people to write a decent screenplay for a movie in which not only julia roberts plays herself but even all other star members of the ocean's films 13 people because it's the lucky number of andy garcia's character
0	i got subjected to this pile one wednesday afternoon when my mother in law was watching it i can't get over someone basically doing a remake of a crappy high budget hollywood flop the core with washed up actors like luke perry if the high budget one flopped what makes people think doing the same movie 2 years later with no budget would go anywhere i was laughing through most of the movie because of how insanely similar it was in fact i am shocked it's not held up in legal rather than airing on tv and how it was basically the script of the core just redone badly which if you have seen the core you know why doing it worse is funny since the core was already so bad it was funny br br if you enjoy getting a laugh out of really bad movies this one will be right up your alley the only thing i can say is that i wish luke perry was able to have a career because he isn't a horrible actor he just lands horrible roles crappy made for tv movies that will only run on daytime television is pretty much one step closer to the end for him if it wasn't for 90210 he would have a career
0	for sci fans this will be better than anything likely to be running on tv at any given time that's about the best you can say of it good points repartee and sense of humour is less dull than usual in such movies the plot is coherent and doesn't use any magical mystical revelations bad points the writers try to do good science but it falls down in direction and production eg a rock drilling mole using rock drilling equipment breaks surface underwater with nary a bubble or boiling cauldron to be seen the characters are cliché's and the plot unfolding is pretty stock standard ok for a too tired to do anything else type evening but don't expect any major edification or even talking points really
0	the core meets crack in the world 1965 made for tv the acting is stock the suspense predictable once you subtract all of the plot ripped off from the core basically the manned drilling machine you end up with the plot of crack in the world crack was a truly excellent movie starring dana andrews his team of scientists working in south africa drilled down to the crust and punched through with a nuclear device in order to provide a steady source of energy one of his subordinates also a brilliant scientist disagrees he believes that the blast will not drill a simple hole but will instead form cracks in the crust possible spoiler he is right in order to stop the resultant crack from destroying the earth they must place another nuclear device in the path of the crack br br although i have placed a spoiler warning i don't know if i really spoiled anything for either movie and since crack in the world is only available in very rare vhs format if at all my decision not to reveal whether or not the counter blast works is probably academic br br all in all i rate descent' just below average
0	terry cunningham directs this sci fi network original all is not well in washington state and oregon volcanic eruptions and earthquakes threaten to drop most of the pacific rim in the ocean trying to keep the world from plunging in ecological havoc a crack team of scientists led by dr jake rollins luke perry take a massive earth drilling vehicle called the mole to chew its way to the earth's fiery core to avert impending doom technical dialog doesn't really help or speed this movie along the acting is lame but then perry has always been laid back you can only blame him for taking part others in the cast michael dorn adam frost and michael
0	the script seems to have been wholesale ahem ahem cough cough borrowed from a certain other movie involving using a self propelled manned drilling machine scene by scene the two movies were almost identical just enough of the serial numbers filed off in this one to prevent a copyright infringement lawsuit br br but other than that i have to say i found this somewhat entertaining as i enjoy deep underground in the earth genre of movies it's a little bit on the stupid side as far as the science goes but if one is willing to squint one's eyes real hard and pretend one didn't notice that scientific gaffe here and there and all over this movie is almost bearable far better than supernova which was another flick that luke perry had a leading role in that was so dumb dumb dumb that nothing could save it a note to movie makers employ someone who knows something about the subject the movie deals with it would be a very small part of the movie budget but it would have a big effect overall in helping prevent your audience from guffawing at you for doing dumb science br br production values almost passable i've seen far worse in my time br br a new thought for disaster movies instead of them always having a happy ending where the world gets saved yet once again how about some where things are a tad bit more realistic where sometimes even the very best efforts still end up in failure particularly when the problem that needs to be resolved was caused in the first place by sheer stupidity stupidity caused disaster movies with glowing heartwarming endings sort of justify stupidity by stating no matter how awful a problem is caused by braindead stupidity it can be fixed which is definitely not the case a self caused disaster movie with an unhappy ending would serve better as cautionary tale of don't be so damn stupid in the first place should you watch this movie if you're bored and you've seen everything else in the scifi section at your local video rental store sure why not but do avoid supernova as i can assure you that you're not that bored that definitely was not one of luke perry's better movies this one is better that's not saying much but it is better br br one dead hoof up for being a deep underground genre movie one dead hoof down for naughtily ripping off from the screenplay of another certain movie of the same genre
0	this is a very very very bad movie br br the plot is weak the acting is bad and the science is worse br br the special effects are unconvincing the dramatic scenes are a joke every step of the way you can see coming a mile away the end is disappointing and there is no suspense the best aspect of the film is the soundtrack br br the only reason not to give this a lower vote is because it is a tv movie and i believe the budget was low to start of with br br i do believe that the young female fans of luke parry will still see this movie however he has done better work again this is terrible very very very terrible if you have a choice look at something else
0	this movie was so awful i don't even know where to begin the only positive thing i can say about it is that luke perry gave a good performance the entire movie was all over the place there was no explanation as to the cause only theories of the eruptions or for their solutions or why it would work it was ridiculous all the characters and relationship between them was so cheesy you just wanna laugh there was just no background to any of them the love relationship seemed to have been added on to the script it was so awkward there's an army man big black general with a permanent cigar in his mouth with the i'm the man attitude such a pathetic bad guy the two sidekicks who are supposed to be geniuses are acting like two 16 year old frat boys and then to create some action they decide to drop a rock on somebody's shoulder and for the rest of the movie he's coughing as if he was dying of a pneumonia or something and then plays hero cheesiest scene of all to help the plan which is to do who knows what its never a good sign when you find yourself laughing out loud in the middle of the dramatic scene in a nutshell don't waste your time
0	this movie is a great movie only if you need something to sit and laugh at the stupidity of it as a geologist this movie gets most of the important facts wrong and uses actors that are too young to even be considered in the top of their fields it is interesting how it shows spurting lava in massive caverns below the earth's surface it also is funny how active areas are shown to have massive destruction from a 6 5 magnitude earthquake they seem to forget the building standards in these areas would be higher needing a bigger quake to do this much damage also it is funny how much they make the coast line of washington state and also oregon to look as though they are nice beaches of southern california the jelly donut analogy is very entertaining even if the way it is used is wrong the director does a good job of adding more comic relief with the 2
0	this movie's script is indistinguishable from others most notably the core another bad movie it's pretty clear why luke perry doesn't get much work but to see the beloved lt commander worf michael dorn resigned to something like this is just sad br br i really can't think of one plot twist that isn't seen coming a mile away that's not an exaggeration br br special effects are very poor even by tv standards the lava flow at the beginning of the movie signaling the coming global disaster starts things off at a very amateurish level and it gets no better from that point on
0	usual awful movie i'll not bother you about the synopsis just put together the core armageddon an evil planner military officer and one or two solve all nukes and you'll have the movie if i can call it that way br br seriously nukes in this kind of movies are more useful than swiss army knives br br the big one is approaching nuke some places and it's over a tornado wants to destroy insert important city name here nuke insert another important city here a volcano is erupting nuke it a nuke is near to go off nuke it coffee is cold nuke it you didn't like transformers nuke yourself but i can't assure this will fix things br br in the end how many more movies like this can be made before they start copying one another i doubt there are still many things to blow up with a nuke
0	i've seen professional reviews claiming julia roberts playing herself was clever and very funny i think not an actress playing herself and doing it with her same usual dizziness whenever she tries comedy talk about hollyweird narcissism at it's utmost why doesn't she just stand there and go me me me look at me the director and writer should be shot for not thinking of something better then this in what could have been a charming sequel and by the way steven when the audience starts paying more attention to the weird camera angles then the story you have a problem capra hitchcock all used some creative cameras but they were talented enough not to lose the audience in them or just show off with the camera you seem to have forgotten a cardinal rule of film making in the name of style the pitt and zeta jones chemistry is quite good however perhaps if they had made the film more focused around them and dispensed with the narcissism it might have worked once again zeta jones shows how she's got more talent and beauty then roberts could dream of sadly this film wastes talent and fails on many accounts i want my money back
0	i just watched descent what an awful movie right off the bat they depict a lava geyser and a note says that it is miles below the the surface of washington state folks there are no geysers deep in the earth like that they thought it looked neat and in typical hollywood style they threw it in and then there is that well that spewed lava he dropped a stone and i heard a splash steam would have erupted out of that well before a blast of lava could if ever br br and the acting was pretty bad as well micheal dorn has sunk to a new low in jobs br br what a dog of a movie i bet the vote goes no higher than a 3 5 br br it didn't look like scifi channel spent too much other than to have pretty boy perry as an attempt to draw
0	i'm a pretty tolerable guy when it comes to movies even b movies i routinely watch some b movies for fun and they can range from surprisingly good to just downright awful i usually set my expectations really low before watching these types of movies and even after doing that descent was just downright awful i really didn't mind that they were ripping off the core to some extent but they did absolutely nothing interesting with the material some scientists are worried about the earth's seismic activity and must travel into the depths of the earth in order to stabilize the so what we get is a monotonously long set up in which two dueling scientists played by luke perry and rick roberts have to work together on a top secret mission named project deep the man in charge general fielding played by michael dorn is secretly withholding vital information from assistant marsha crawford played by mimi rounding out the cast is natalie brown who plays jen a mission specialist who created the mole a drill which is used plunge into the depths of the earth br br other than some pretty good special effects and set designs nothing about descent is worthwhile the movie starts out fairly entertaining but it gets bogged down quickly in a tiresome story about uncontrollable seismic activity which has been done to death in other movies such as the core descent also has a poor script with useless forgettable dialog between the characters to make matters worse there is literally no action no real threat or danger the attempts at comic relief are painfully unfunny the plot has gaping holes and some of the subplots are left untied at the end leaving a bad taste in your mouth br br in closing this movie was just a cheap way for everyone involved to get a paycheck there was no thought behind this movie no innovation it's just there other than some nice looking special effects and set designs this movie fails on every other level the story is from the garbage can of hollywood and the characters are uninteresting to boot descent will simply descend you into boredom and frustration avoid at all costs
0	this was pretty inevitable this movie borrows from the core and from the film it borrowed from armageddon and the films it borrowed from and so on except this time there's luke perry too this films version of the familiar save the world plot involves super earthquakes beginning in the pacific northwest and extending too the whole ring of fire its soon determined that everybody on earth just might be doomed so the military and some scientists build one of those high tech drilling machines to go inside the earth and fix things it just wouldn't be as much fun if they didn't have to go somewhere like space or inside the planet there's even a line the tries to make the journey into the earth sound more impressive than the journey into space like the one in armageddon it's a sci fi network movie so the script is paint by numbers disaster movie there is in fighting between scientists and military guys there are rock melting lasers people die and sacrifice themselves for the good of all and above all there are weak cgi special effects not original and not all that entertaining this is a movie to watch when you have nothing to do particularly if you've got beer
0	on the heels of the well received and beloved coming of age film classic concerning the lives of teenagers as they headed into adulthood george lucas' american graffiti we have cooley high an adaptation of sorts by one eric monte co creator of the popular 1970's cbs sitcom good times br br cooley high was and is viewed as a black version of american graffiti instead of central california as in american graffiti we have the black slum of chicago's green as the backdrop for the story here instead of america in 1962 cooley high is situated in 1964 the movie stars welcome back lawrence hilton jacobs and glynn turman as the movie main protagonists and its' main characters it has garrett morris playing the principal who tries to keep and turman's characters named and preach out of trouble a great deal of the time br br you know i would like to say that cooley high is a worthy comparison piece to american graffiti or that it is a great film on its' own but i can't the problem lies with the fact that the producers of the film couldn't or wouldn't hide the sad underside of black life in america having the film in the green part of chicago doesn't help things br br neither does the crass gross attempts at humor here when is looking for a letter of intent from a college he finds his little brother has thrown down a toilet when the gang visits the chicago zoo one of the gang named has manure thrown on him by an ape when the turman's character preach is being chased by two hoodlums in the school hangout a dirty and depressing place to eat food in much less meet people at he opens the door of the girls' bathroom while a girl is relieving herself as he escapes through the window of the same bathroom the high school the homes of the characters the bathrooms just about everywhere in the film displays the unfortunate look of urban decay and poverty br br if that wasn't enough there was the rough display of humor in the film the use of violence and profanity in the film cooley high may be an coming of age film but it is a hard and rough coming of age film with little or none of the wit and liking of the use of nostalgia that made people like and appreciate american graffiti so much br br motown records had a hand in making the film the company's music was part of the film's soundtrack but even here you get a sense of same old same old as one has heard these songs before a million times over not that they weren't great songs within themselves but black music of that time period was more than just motown especially in chicago the song nearing the end of the movie by the g c cameron was not all that impressive there have been better motown ballads that have been done by better motown artists than cameron without question br br the last part of the film showing where the characters went to pay homage to the film cooley high aimed to be american graffiti it shows that preach an intelligent but underachieving student went to hollywood and became a successful television writer eric monte may have patterned himself as turman's character the last shot of film show's preach running away from funeral held on a dark rainy afternoon and all the bleakness that cooley high came to represent eric monte through preach and that final scene had one little lesson for all of us when watching cooley high and for the love of the past don't look back
0	i admit to a secret admiration of the original love thy neighbour tv shows mostly because they exhibit the kind of exuberant brashness and bad taste synonymous with so many programmes of their era but i'd be lying through my teeth very uncomfortable position if i pretended that this big screen spin off is anything other than an abomination the opening scenes of wanton vandalism are not only pointless but baffling as well it's never explained why the film opens with a tracking shot of people trashing each other's houses and nothing improves from there by the time the film unearths the oldest joke in the book the horrible dragon of a mother in law turns up unexpectedly to stay is followed by the crashingly obvious revelation that she's developing a soft spot for the black father moving her bigoted son to ever greater depths of self righteous ignorant rage most discerning viewers will have switched off take that as a warning unless you're keen on spin offs with terrible acting static direction and the overall comic flair of a burning orphanage
0	spoilers i am a fan of 60's 70's french cinema but not necessarily of the more modern so to be honest i watched this because of bellucci she is very young here extremely beautiful and on top of this supposedly this movie is where they met with cassel so it gives it some extra importance br br the movie begins with a very nice style reminiscent of depalma then suddenly we are thrown to flashback and the back and forth goes on which gets tiring i don't mind one flash back but do it and get it over with man anyway the movie is still interesting to me until a point when the first and definite hole in the plot that allows for the rest of the story never lets me enjoy the rest i can allow for little holes here and there but not to base an entire plot on hot air this is the story of a man who is literally searching for an old flame this is the main plot i will go along when the story at some point will convince me that there are really mysterious things going on but in this story there's nothing really mysterious bellucci cassel are a couple then bellucci urgently has to leave for some job in italy not the farthest place on earth from paris and she leaves him a message which for reasons later explained he doesn't get ok so what don't these people have phones supposedly she was away for not a century exactly and wouldn't she call her boyfriend in paris to see how he's doing of course not instead even after she gets back she forgets all about him and thats fine but later in the movie she tells her friend that it was her greatest love and was ready to commit for the first time in her life yet she failed to give him a call for and then never tried to get back with him and what about cassel's character he was supposedly unable to locate her in italy really hard to find someone in italy its probably like siberia especially an actress who is probably listed even in the arts papers and after when she would be back really hard to find her and ask for an explanation one thinks she wanted to avoid him but no we find out they simply couldn't meet so hard to meet in paris ok i don't need to go further because this is the incident where the entire movie is based what is even worse bellucci is not really the star of this movie but this other girl is
0	i love basketball and this seemed like an intriguing movie however in the first ten minutes of the movie i knew that it was going to be lousy it was poorly acted and much too slow on top of that it was very very racist sexist antisemitic and homophobic sometimes putting in racial ethnic and other types of slurs has a point illustrating the bigotry that exists in this movie there was no point to the horrible bigotry and no one learned from what was being said part of the problem is that it was an adaption of a play and a remake of a 1982 movie that dealt with a basketball team from the 1950's having this movie take place earlier in time would have made a little bit more sense it didn't translate well to modern times and the writing was horrible i don't know how the play was originally written but i can't believe that any movie as bad and as hateful as this one has made it to television and video in 1999 it was disgusting don't waste your precious time on this one
0	is about a somewhat arrogant reasonably wealthy man who discovers that his mother is dying and finds himself looking after his sister who has down's syndrome he can't be bothered with her and basically just wants to get her off his hands he has better things to do at one point he finds that he has to take her by car she doesn't like flying across the country br br if that all sounds familiar to you it is probably because you have seen rainman ' a film far superior to its imitator afterlife ' that it copies the basic premise heck it nicks a few characters and even scenes too is not the fundamental problem with the film the fundamental problem is that i did not care about these characters br br the brother kenny kevin mckidd is a bit of a womaniser he has a girlfriend who comes and goes in the story and who learns to like the down's syndrome sister again this is taken from he is a journalist trying to get an interview with a doctor who is facing a scandal when he ends up looking after roberta the sister he doesn't have much time for her and sometimes leaves her alone for a little too long when she wanders off he becomes even angrier towards her am i spoiling anything by saying that he becomes a nicer loving person by the end of the film br br roberta is not determined to be 'normal' she is 'normal ' and wishes people would stop treating her differently she is played by paula sage an actress who does have down's syndrome and her performance is easily the best thing about the film why did the screenwriter not explore her character more well probably because that would mean the characters would get in the way of the story when we surely already know the story anyway didn't the filmmakers see the problem they were creating br br for a film about a dying mother and her handicapped daughter the father is absent i think he is dead but i'm not sure it is surprising how little impact the film has on the emotions of the viewer the scenes are performed in such a standard dull way with such standard predictable dialogue that i found myself rolling my eyes br br i have nothing against sentimentality in films but it only really works if you care about the characters here the characters are so uninteresting and two dimensional that i didn't really think there was much to care about rain man' has an emotional climax but that moved me because i cared about the characters br br talking of climaxes this film has a stinker there is sequence at the end of the film that starts off as an unbelievable situation and ends up in even worse territory an unforgivably cruel trick is played on the audience the sequence is designed to move the audience but ends up being horribly manipulative and offending the intelligence of the viewer audiences aren't stupid and they know when the film is cheating what a cheap shot br br there is not one scene in this film that has the impact it should there are a few sequences that are funny yes but when the characters talk to each other i can practically see the screenplay in front of me moving predictably and never hitting anything that touches the mind or the heart there are those phoney arguments that are reserved especially for the movies where the other character knows exactly what the reply is why don't supposedly 'realistic' films not realise that in real life anger can be irrational and sometimes people can't express their emotions and they might say things that don't make sense or not be able to say anything at all all of the actors in this film deserve better material this film is not based on fact but i think a documentary on a family with a down's syndrome member would be much more interesting that way we might have had truth and emotion for some reason the characters in this film think that an emotion only involves saying something loudly and making a suitable facial expression br br out of 5
0	before i had seen this film i had heard some negative comments about it however when watching it i found myself thinking ok it's a little slow paced but this is quite interesting as it built toward the end it created a complex moral dilemma leading to a shocking yet within the context of the film entirely believable decision with extremely powerful dramatic consequences if this had been followed through it would have been a tremendously powerful ending and would have given me a very favourable impression of the film br br however due to an ending which not only cops out emotionally on an unnecessary happy ish ending without real emotional credibility but also within the context of the film makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for you clearly see one of the character take an action which should end her life but inexplicably doesn't incidentally please tell me if i did miss something here and there is a reason why she survives as i just couldn't how logically she could have and this wrecked the whole film for me br br this said all three leads put in powerful performances although kevin characters' transformation by the end goes a little further than is fully convincing and it does create a very powerful ethical triangle br br this film is recommended if you ready yourself to walk out when the mother and the sister are lying on the bed but do not watch further than this unless you have only a pinch but several mountains of salt
0	as powerful as the true story of is this book this film is based on came out before she herself was released from prison and had the chance to tell it br br it is allegedly based on her diaries but she is illiterate how does that work br br that said some areas of he film are accurate and the acting isn't bad with some sensitivity being shown br br really though this story needs to be old in a tv series far to much happens to cram into a couple of hours br br read her autobiography highly recommended it is a fantastic story
0	i hadn't planned on watching because i didn't like that much i thought was a nice but slightly boring little bank robbers movie with a sensational arsenal of stars anyway i was talked into watching one night and i regretted it a lot the plot is not only boring but also senseless i honestly don't even know what it was all about i left the movie after 3 quarters and got some coffee with another girl who didn't like it much more pleasure i can tell you that but even the guys who stayed till the end later reported to me that the plot continued being awful and useless my advice don't watch go watch team america hilarious btw and forget about ocean's twelve br br in my opinion the most boring and senseless peace of crap to be on the screen in years
0	this movie is everything but the true story of devi director shekhar kapoor's claims are countered by the fact that he made the entire movie without even once meeting devi on whose life this movie is supposed to be based the excuse being that meeting the woman would have interfered with director's conception of the story the film wastes the opportunity of the society of the plight of low caste women in the indian society and ends up as a stereotype portraying devi as an angry woman whose sole motivation is revenge no wonder this shekhar kapoor's film was successful in the west as it catered to their non bollywood tastes
0	i've read a lot of reviews on the imdb well all five of the ones that have been written at the time that i'm writing this and i'm surprised at the amount of praise heaped upon the brideless groom which is undoubtedly one of the lesser comedies performed by the stooges i prefer the older ones where it was larry curly and moe although shemp gets credit for most of the funny scenes in sing a song of six pants another stooges short which is only moderately amusing but far superior to brideless groom indeed there is a single slightly amusing scene in the film the don't hit a lady scene which is barely amusing at all and is 15 minutes into the film not very promising in a 17 minute comedy br br shemp is a voice trainer whose uncle has passed away and left him an inheritance of 500 000 provided he get married within 48 hours which is short enough notice as it is but by the time shemp learns about it he has only 7 hours left this is a premise that had been done and redone before but was not i don't think a massive cliché at the time this film was made as it is now there are a series of gags throughout the film none of which are even close to the level of comedy for which the three stooges are so widely known it seems that the stooges have run into the same troubles that plagued so many of shirley temple's films – there is too little reliance on content and too much reliance just on the fact that they're there br br the standard characteristics of the stooges are here moe is the mean one whose meanness is certainly not used sparingly in this film and the slapstick sound effects although with more exceptions than usual are fairly amusing but are plugged into their standard slots in this film the line hold hands you lovebirds is immortal the rest of the film is not br br there is much talk among the other people who have reviewed this movie for this site about this being one of the best of the stooges shorts that you won't find one weak moment about how this is their best since the early 30s shorts it's just not true i can certainly understand a level of automatic respect for milestone classics and for the giants of early comedy which the three stooges certainly are but that respect is damaged when poorer films are praised more than they should be the brideless groom deserves some respect because it is a stooges film but for exactly the same reason it should have been better the three stooges were just better than this
0	shemp finds out that he stands to inherit a million dollars if he is married within 24 hours considering how hideous he looks and his personality it isn't surprising that he can't get a taker that is until an article appears in the paper explaining his predicament at which point five crazed women appear from no where to claim their new hubby plus the money of course br br while i don't hate the three stooges and like to watch their shorts on occasion they never even on their best day came close to the brilliant comedy of buster keaton that's why i disliked this film as it was a ripoff of the plot from keaton's masterpiece seven chances with the stooges it wasn't uncommon for columbia pictures to steal old comedy plots or just recycle older stooge shorts so from the outset this film is a pale imitation of an original it's also obvious that this film lacks the charm and subtlety of the original and the gags generally seem very forced the phone booth scene the cousin basil bit however was pretty cute and funny though far from subtle however the worst aspect of the film was the not particularly funny conclusion in the keaton version hundreds of women appeared to marry him and the action became very fast and furious here it all stayed in one small room and lacked comedic punch ending in a fizzle br br overall a dull retread also before marking this review not helpful be sure to first see seven chances to see what i am talking about then you decide
0	if you like the three stooges you'll undoubtedly like this 17 minute short there were certainly some amusing moments in it but like all the stooges' work this revolves around their particular style of slapstick comedy and i have to confess that somehow the stooges just never really did it for me their slapstick always seemed angry rather than funny and even though it was obviously fake their antics always seemed more likely to cause hurt rather than to cause laughter in this short the slapstick revolves around the attempts to find shemp who is a professor of music in this a wife because he's just inherited half a million dollars on condition that he marry within 48 hours of the will being read one of his students is interested but once word of the inheritance gets out there's suddenly a long line up of potential brides and a pretty good cat fight emerges between them fans of the stooges will enjoy for me it has all the elements that drive me nuts about them 4 10
0	make no mistake about high school is a bad movie br br high school is about a geek who makes a plan to become rich and get the girl however he goes about it all wrong and of course by the end of the movie ends up dead along with a few other people thankfully including the girl br br the moral of the story is all women care about is wealth also for us men i guess we're just supposed to accept we either have it or we don't have it br br i could easily see how this movie could be rated a 1 however it is above that of the very worst of movies the acting's not totally horrible and production values aren't ultra terrible over all it's a bad movie and not worth viewing for many reasons if you insist of course at torturing yourself watch the mst version br br 2 10 maybe a 1 5 10
0	this movie reminded me a lot of a song by the dead kennedys called straight a's however unlike this film the hero of the song turns to suicide you'll wish this bozo had resorted to killing himself instead of doing the crime he did the whole thing was convoluted and in the beginning you sympathize with the hero of the film then he quickly betrays your sympathies the long sequences of just showing the hero's face while he delivers a monologue drag the film down quite a bit avoid this if possible
0	i saw the mst3k version of this film and it is a bad movie but its not nearly as bad as its low imdb rating currently 1 8 out of 10 at least the movie has a few production values and it apparently had a competent editor unlike the movies that truly are awful the primary problem with this movie is that it had no appealing characters whatsoever the main character marv is so pathetically morose that he practically asks for all the bad stuff that happens to him and he isn't very smart either or he would have figured out to stay away from the conniving girl betty and even more pathetic than marv is his father who is nothing but a drunken loser the highlight of the film is the heist sequence at the end but even that is so weakly executed any excitement it might have added to the film is completely missing at least this movie made for a very funny mst3k episode as mike and the do a great job making fun of it
0	this could have been so much better than it turned out tom pittman gives a good performance and some of the older actors do well with what they have to work with but it just doesn't work br br first the actors are much too old to play high school students especially howard vince he looks about thirty second it's hard to sympathize with poor marv especially since betty is not all that hot to start with br br spoilers the ending is so strange it looks like the director intended for character to get shot but there are no gunshots he's just knocked to the cement where he lays there until the ambulance drivers pick him up and place him on a stretcher face down what were his injuries a skinned knee goofy vince has just shot his girlfriend dead without any remorse whatsoever yet he simply shoves marv to the ground and rushes off despite the fact that he makes no secret of the fact that he hates the kid and to make matters even sillier marv begs the police to tell his father he's sorry duh hey marv you just got knocked around i think you will have plenty of opportunities to tell your father you're sorry in person and this writer didn't get an oscar nomination skip it unless you get to watch it on mst
0	drab morality tale about a high school kid who's pretty much the now stereotypical nerd he's smart but has no friends no social skills and a lazy loser of a father who borrows money from him a pretty girl hits on him he should've known she wanted something he's supposed to be smart right she manipulates the poor desperate fool into writing her term paper on shakespeare which the teacher immediately knows she couldn't have written he loses the girl not that he ever really had her the confidence of his teacher and his college scholarship all in one fell blow br br marv is so silly and desperate for love that he decides to rob some heroin dealers who are running the stuff through the warehouse he works at then maybe the trashy little slut will be impressed and want to marry him sad really sad marv is such a pathetic dope and pretty brainless for a supposedly smart guy i mean trying to rob drug dealers has this kid got a screw loose that you stop feeling sorry for him and get the dreadful urge to kick him in the butt instead br br the girl of course tells her boyfriend about the robbery marv boasted of to her and talks him and his cronies into stealing the money from marv and company they try to do so and in the process manage to shoot several people the cops show up at the same time and the idiot marv is dragged away a total disgrace forever i know this thing was geared towards making teens behave themselves by showing them the consequences of bad behavior but all it really illustrated was the consequences of stupid behavior which is the premature end of your film career of course goodbye marv we never really knew ya and thank goodness for that
0	times i look back to high school and it amazes me that i never went lower than marvin did in this bad film br br poor marv is the main character who's bad luck just gets worse and worse despite his intelligence he manages to get bullied exploited supports his lousy deadbeat dad and plenty more goof ups including a daring heist which let's say doesn't go fully to plan of course the viewer feels no empathy with anyone in this film so all this disastrous gloom bounces off like harmless zeta rays recommended for those days you're feeling down pop this film in and you'll smile and say i'm so glad i'm not marv
0	what a ridiculous waste of time and money this movie was the biggest loser of the year all the hype was a warning i am disappointed for julia roberts by far she is the most talented cast member i think her ability to truly act carried the film the buddy buddy boys club was a little too phony and to add insult to injury why bother to cast catherine zeta jones she only has the ability to ruin a film she lacks the ability to have on screen chemistry with anyone not to mention she lacks the ability to act she lacks chemistry with the other characters kind of reminiscent of america's she made the terminal terminal this movie is headed nowhere what a shame please please don't tell me 13 is on the way
0	i was forced to read this sappy love story between a german 24 year old pow and a 12 year old jew that has political correctness written all over it its kind of like the movie spirit in which a horse wants to be free but those evil americans wont let it because they need it well i have good news the americans are evil in the german soldier and his summer book why horses where given to us by god and if the americans needed a horse the can darn well use it in the same sense the german had been trying to kill americans but this book movie makes it seem ok the casting is absolutely awful the girl is hispanic the mother is white the dad it from mostly white descent and the little sister is shirley the acting is pretty bad too the serious parts become comedy bad movie bad book but both have different endings don't read or see either one
0	i have read a lot of books in my short lifetime but this is by far the worst i just got done reading this worthless piece of trash and when i finished it i threw it across the room i hated it and let me state the reasons 1 the soldier dies why would the author make the soldier die why couldn't she have kept him alive like a good love story author would do i deeply applaud patty for trying to claw that fbi agent's eyes out br br 2 ruth get's fired ruth the black housekeeper get's fired and for no apparent reason too she tried to comfort patty and then patty's sob dad fires her for no good reason ruth and anton and patty were the only bright spots in the book oh and the grandparents too 3 the perm yes the perm now you people might think why would the perm upset you well here's why patty's mom asks the girl if she wants her hair done patty says no but the mom calls mrs reeves the horrible hairdresser and tells her to give patty a perm why on god's green earth would she do that why would a mother ask her daughter if she wants a perm only to have her get a perm anyway the mom always pretends that patty has a say when she dosen't have a say at all she should be given the worst mother of the year award for the stuff she dose to patty thank god ruth cut her perm off 4 discrimination and i hate the discrimination in this book they use the word beep too much yes i know that in those days blacks were free but had basically no rights but come on why teach todays children that word it just teaches them how to discriminate people not only were blacks discriminated but the chinese too in the book people refer to mr lee a chinese man as the beep that is really despicable and last but not least jews and i hate the town for spitting on a little girl what was so wrong for her liking anton she is a 12 year old girl it was just a crush like a 12 year old can really love a 22 year old come on this isn't lolita and lolita is a good book not a piece of filth i'm surprised that this movie isn't considered dirty like lolita is br br 5 patty going to a reformatory patty should not have gone to that reformatory are for thieves and murders not innocent 12 year olds the teacher or whatever she was called patty an ungrateful spoiled brat ungrateful spoiled brat my butt patty was not a spoiled brat because her father and mother never gave a rip about her patty should of got community service or something she did nothing wrong she just helped a friend br br 6 the parents played favoritism with their children patty their daughter is clearly the least favored while sharon the five year old brat is their favorite daughter the dad says that he wanted to take sharon to hollywood but clearly forgets his other daughter br br 7 the dad i hated him he was so mean patty might as well had hitler himself as her father her dad beats her for no apparent reason and the way he talks to her in the end will make you so mad you'll be caught thinking patty would get better treatment in a concentration camp br br well there you have it folks 7 reasons i hate this book instead of reading this book read the diaries of anne frank or anything else because i warn you it is very depressing and it will leave you really mad the only reason it gets 4 stars is because of anton patty ruth and the grandparents
0	a good cast a good idea but turns out it is flawed as hypnosis is not allowed as evidence in courts so many good actors and they are all acting so badly so why did they all get attracted to this mess and yes it has its good points such as lighting etc but ultimately i wondered two things how could so much talent lead to such a bizarre mess what is that accent that nigel hawthorne is putting on he is was a great actor and so what is that accent all about it is impossible to identify what was he trying to do maybe it is his subtle indication as if to say to us 'i've got involved with a turkey so here's a crap accent to go with it '
0	if this film is an accurate display of j acting skills i think he made a big mistake leaving television hasn't he watched any films starring david caruso especially cold around the heart along the lines of acting ability what about mary louise she has done much much better yes it is a terrible script ineptly edited and totally lacking in continuity but skilled actors can and have overcome similar obstacles a very big disappointment
0	someone should teach the people who made this movie that there is a difference between presenting multiple twists and screwing the audience over they even use hypnosis as a tool to cover up the plot holes whenever they can't find their way into or out of a scene they just say she is to her past now or she's snapping out of it now and they think that explains everything this movie is a dishonest cheat and in the last 20 minutes becomes a full blown fiasco 1 2
0	fellow noir devotees be not deceived this is a stinker poorly filmed poorly acted and there is nothing nothing here for the film buff looking for yet another solid b movie from the goldmine of the 40's 50's era of classics i gave it a try based on the relatively high rating on imdb there's no accounting for taste but i found nothing in this movie to recommend to other imdb members this is a classic example of having watched a movie and feeling like you have been cheated out of x number of minutes that it took the movie to get to its thankful demise to have alan ladd on the cover of the dvd tape is nearly fraud he is on camera less than two minutes and has almost no dialogue this isn't this gun for hire folks it is a classic in the lousy sense of the studios cranking out fodder on no budget we all search for the great ones save your time on gangs inc paper bullets it is lousy
0	the film begins with a little girl rita seeing her father killed he apparently was a criminal who on his fellow crooks later and this part makes little sense the girl has grown to adulthood and still her father's past haunts her a bit later rita meets a good for nothing and dates him during one of their dates he's a bit intoxicated and driving like a total fool the cops give chase and he speeds away killing a pedestrian in the meantime here comes the really stupid part he convinces her to confess to the crime as he assures her his lawyers can get her off scot free why oh why would she agree to this yet she does and spends the next couple years in prison and soon after her conviction this boyfriend disappears showing that he's a total heel what a chump later after her release her friend jack la rue informs her about the truth about the boyfriend then he explains the boyfriend's family is loaded and she should shake them down for lots of cash for all the trouble he put her to by taking the rap frankly this does make sense as they certainly owe it to her especially since they knew she'd go to prison and had every intention of using her and then casting her aside br br now the idea of bleeding money from the rich chumps is a good plot idea however there is no way this would have occurred in the first place because it's hard to believe anyone could be so stupid as to take the rap for a hit and run in an interesting twist the dumb lady decides on a life of crime donning a wig and picking up a rich guy taking him into the desert and robbing him at gunpoint wow how she's changed apparently she loves the idea of stealing from phonies i e rich hypocrites however and this made no sense she soon stopped doing this and began shaking down the father of the old boyfriend why she bothered to do some petty robberies in the meantime made little sense and what also was a bit hard to believe was that instead of wanting money from the old jerk she was interested in getting him to put his influence behind a mob controlled man for mayor odd very very odd br br in the meantime another plot develops involving a young alan ladd he's an undercover agent who has infiltrated the mob he was chosen because he just happens to be a dead ringer for a real crook what a cliché but what makes no sense is that this real crook isn't in jail and is out committing crimes while the fake one is infiltrating the mob in another town br br eventually evidence that ladd is able to uncover is enough to issue warrants to the mob kingpins including rita this is a case of very bad timing as in the interim she's made a decision to become a decent and legitimate woman as she's met a really nice guy who she wants to marry wow what are the odds overall this is a goofy and rather dumb movie that suffers from kitchen sink syndrome in other words there is way too many plot elements and weird twists to make the movie the least bit believable plus since the movie is only a little over an hour long it all seems very forced and contrived it's a relatively bad b movie from crap studio prc of note only for the performance of alan ladd just before he gained great fame the following year at paramount br br by the way this dvd was released by alpha video a company which sometimes releases some wonderfully obscure titles mostly public domain but which never cleans up the prints or adds closed captions in other words the dvd production values are strictly 3rd rate at best
0	this movie really sucks br br just try to stay awake for 5 minutes while watching this baloney about a nice girl joan woodbury who gets involved with the 'underworld' because she needs money and because she's too lazy to take a job from friends after they offer it to her alan ladd was supposed to be the star of this thing but he's nowhere to be found for the first freaking half hour and when he does show up he stands around like a constipated mannequin a real dud with enough talky scenes and unlikeable as well as stupid characters to make you wish somebody would shoot anybody like really fast br br bring a pillow
0	i couldn't make heads or tails out of this terrible film noir br br the plot was confusing the acting was alright but the picture quality was awful though i bought this at a double pack 8 movies on two discs at walmart for 5 50 and when you put the dvd in it apologizes for the awful picture quality that some of the movies may have br br the plot was flip flopping everywhere i couldn't understand it and had no idea what was going on then the end popped up and the movie was over br br what a waste of my time br br i say don't waste your money or time on this or if you too bought that double pack then just skip over this one br br 2 10
0	as a young lass beautiful joan woodbury as rita adams was orphaned after her stool pigeon father was shot to death as a young woman ms woodbury finds herself struggling to keep a job as her murdered father's ex convict status makes woodbury a bad business risk woodbury rooms with understanding linda ware as donna andrews who advises woodbury to get in touch with old orphanage friends john archer as bob elliott and jack la rue as mickey roman but none of her friends can help when woodbury is the victim of a scam which lands her in prison upon release woodbury decides to give the male mobsters a run for their money… br br re titled gangs inc this is an obviously weak cheap mobster melodrama still it's a lot of fun to watch woodbury work wonders with inferior material she plays the innocent growing more sophisticated rita quite convincingly and she tosses in a great bit as a blonde hooker woodbury must be added to the list of unfortunately underutilized hollywood actresses of the past paper bullets also features an early alan ladd as jimmy kelly aka bill dugan ms ware who sang the hit an apple for the teacher with bing crosby sings a couple of fair '40s numbers nicely but mainly it's show br br paper bullets 1941 phil rosen joan woodbury linda ware alan ladd
0	man i loved ocean's 11 br br smart movie all eleven characters were crucial to the heist as each had their own specialised skill that was necessary to pull of the grand finale br br what on earth was oceans 12 what was the purpose of the twelfth person i assume it's supposed to be zeta jones but she wasn't really a part of the 11 as she was trying to trip them up and working against them the whole film it was more like the story of brad and zeta jones' characters boring relationship with some bits from the original movie thrown in just to get some bums on seats to watch the movie br br with o 11 the gang were always a step ahead of benedict garcia they were always able to outsmart him what happened here he catches up with them after a tip off and suddenly they're all wusses the whole movie is so that they can raise the money they stole plus interest to repay back benedict for the heist they pulled on him 3 years earlier so next movie they're going to develop courage and brains again and get him back for making them pay him back for the first heist puh lease br br this movie could have been achieved with just brad pitt zeta jones and 5 mins of matt damon for the switcheroo scene br br slow moving movie not the energy of the first one i tried hard to like it and i'm usually very easy to please but i'm really disappointed br br spoiler the twist the whole movie didn't need to have been made as the real heist was done before everything you just saw over the past 2 hours br br end spoiler br br wait until it comes on tv or if you're a fan of the original from 2001 please don't watch this
0	my question is what was the worst element of this movie was it the acting directing script maybe it was the waste of alan ladd and jack larue larue and especially ladd are capable of bringing extreme sinisterness to a role in this movie it was hard to tell who the bad guy was granted ladd was playing an undercover good guy but even in his good guy roles he could be very chilling so the net result was a potentially good movie bereft of any feeling of conflict
0	this obviously was a pretty low budget production but the cast was pretty decent the basic premise had promise and something more could have been done with it but the script wasn't that great the plot is incoherent and seems almost random at times and the dialog is stilted and terrible br br basically a girl's father gets whacked by fellow gangsters and later she becomes a robber and wants to avenge his death and then it goes into a mob protection racket involving corrupt politicians br br alan ladd gets top billing but he really plays a very minor role br br i have to say i found it mildly entertaining in its archaic b grade but it really is shoddy and pathetic
0	what i liked best about this flick was the chance to see joan woodbury who awe struck me as one of the several beauties in the charles boyer classic algiers in a leading role she does well as rita an orphan who rises to make good as a lady crime boss her ascent to the top reminds me of joan crawford's characters e g mildred pierce who realize their ambitions by fierce determination and willpower if you're looking for a film noir classic better look elsewhere at several points it's difficult to know where this story is going i first got the impression that it was going to encompass rita's plot for revenge against the father and son who tricked her into taking the rap for a drunk driving death perpetrated by the playboy son but payback time ended up being only a minor point and a springboard to the somewhat confusing second part of the film where rita becomes increasingly involved in city corruption anyway it's only 72 minutes so a second viewing should clear up any my copy is from a platinum box set called mobster movies the picture quality is good but the soundtrack sucks constantly skipping fragments of dialog there are eight films in the 5 50 box making each movie a fair 69 cents look for anne archer's father john archer as rita's childhood friend bob alan ladd doesn't get much screen time it's definitely joan picture
0	i gotta go with my boy allen who also reviewed this film zombie gangbangers as my copy is entitled guess they left out the ninja part after realizing there isn't a single ninja nor reference to ninjas anywhere in the whole f cking film is a total wasted of time honestly one of the most boring retarded films i've ever had the displeasure of viewing br br a hooker is repeatedly un graphically raped by two zombies and then by a cop again un graphically when the cop doesn't believe her story she meets a guy who was beaten up by said zombies and the two try to find a way to seek vengeance on the undead culprits br br first off there is no or really other banging at all to be had in zombie ninja gangbangers i was hoping to at least get some sort of horror porn hybrid a la porn of the dead or re penetrator or perhaps perverted stories but no there was absolutely no sex in this film at least a bit o' the ol' in out might have redeemed this boring garbage to some degree but without it we get a bunch of poorly shot scenes of complete boredom with zero payoff i'm all for trash films and most other schlock gore porn and exploit material but this one honestly sucks in every conceivable way save your time pass this one up 1 10 and the one is only for a few brief shots of some sub par titties
0	this is one cheap looking movie a stripper keeps getting attacked and raped by zombies and no one believes her she goes to the police who also rape her she finally finds a kid who was also attacked by the zombies and they trace the zombies back to 'the zombie the fact that stephanie beaton stars as the stripper is the only reason to watch this film
0	this is a cheap o movie made by al adamson a man who was perhaps the worst film maker ever even possibly worse than ed wood jr adamson specialized in extremely low budget horror and skin films during the 60s 70s and 80s and with such titles as five bloody graves hell's bloody devils satan's sadists and lash of lust it's obvious he wasn't making shakespeare his movies all had rotten production values sensations gore and amateur acting br br here in brain of blood several stock adamson actors such as his wife regina carrol and angelo rossitto are along for the ride and had appeared in adamson's previous film dracula versus frankenstein this is fortunate because the prior movie was so terrible and so poorly executed on every level that brain of blood can't help but look good sure the makeup is laughable the plot dumb it involves the ubiquitous brain transplant scheme and acting is level z but it's still better than their last film br br about the only positive things about this film are that aging supporting actor midget angelo rossitto actually had a better than usual part with more dialog and a more important role in the plot and there is actually some sense of danger and tension at times as for ms carrol she still looks like a stripper and the rest of the cast limp through this silly flick however it's bad enough that it makes for good watching by bad movie fans you've just gotta see makeup on the guy with acid burns as well as the ray gun that appears to be made out of an old tail light
0	in the muslim country of fictional its benevolent leader dictator reed hadley as amir is dying of cancer amir dies and a desperate plot unfolds his body is wrapped in aluminum foil and taken in a clandestine operation the population does not know of his death consisting of his doctor and mohammed out of the country to perform a risky brain transplant the surgery is being performed by the disgraced dr kent taylor who believes there is no chance of failure and has two assistants one of them is about 3 feet high master blaster did indeed run barter town and the other is a mutilated traumatized 7 foot giant named gor what could possibly go wrong br br did i forget to mention deathbed american blonde barbie wife tracy or that dr kent has a dungeon with female slave test subjects delusions of grandeur how about a brain transplant that didn't take there is a lot of double dealing throughout this and people are killed but i'm not going to lie to you anymore mission accomplished the ends justify the means if you can accept that then you will not have to waste 80 minutes i hope that is warning enough don't say i didn't warn you if you must watch then don't watch alone and have plenty of medicine standing by br br celluloid rehab
0	i'm not sure i've ever seen a film as bad as this awful acting all over the place plot terrible special effects there are some 'so bad its good' moments in here but not really enough to maintain interest the woman who plays tracey looks hideous there are some fairly worrying scenes with a dwarf which leave you feeling ever so slightly violated on the plus side the operation scenes are fairly amusing for the special effects as is the car chase where one car is trying to force us off the road without actually making contact guess the budget didn't stretch to trashing cars oh and what looks like a postcard of the taj mahal is shown every time they cut to the fictional foreign country
0	any time a movie feature a dwarf or a midget in a prominent role the odds are 10 to 1 that the director threw him in because he didn't know what else to do to keep the movie interesting in this case the featured little guy isn't all that bad he manages to keep his dignity for most of his scenes except the part where he drags the leading man down the stairs of the dungeon but the movie itself uses him like a doggie chew toy br br the problem here is a common one with low budget exploitation movies there's a germ of a decent idea in here but the director and the screenwriter don't know how to develop it a good director would take the various story elements brain transplants mad doctors with secret labs and a dungeon car chases fist fights dim witted monstrous frankenstein style assistant mind control betrayal and conspiracy etc and make an exciting involving film full of cheap thrills and fun br br instead what we get here is a bunch of people stumbling around and arguing in the doctor's lab then a cheesy operation where the patient bleeds paint followed by some of the same people stumbling around and arguing in the doctor's lab some more followed by another subgroup of the initial group driving around and having an accident followed by a dungeon escape scene that is mostly about a woman putting her shoes back on followed by a rooftop chase the actual high point of the movie followed by a confusing series of events where everyone in the movie apparently escapes from everyone else followed by a lovely stroll in the countryside where everyone either chases bumps into attacks or escapes from everyone else again followed by well not much else br br somewhere in here is a scary peroxide blonde dressed in white a well meaning heroic type who is sort of blandly good looking a three foot lab assistant a big lunk with a mass of melted rubber pasted to one side of his face a kid who wonders into the middle of the movie to provide more of the frankenstein factor a brunette who sort of falls in love with the hero for no apparent reason and the mad doctor himself who must be the luckiest man in the history of evil super villains because nothing goes according to his plan but things work out for him anyway and all because he remembered to stick an into the transplanted brain at one point in the operation br br this was by no means the worst movie i've seen or even the worst exploitation movie i've seen or even the worst badly made exploitation movie i've seen but it just lies there oozing cheapness and inattention to detail at every point and there is no real reason for even bad movie enthusiasts to watch it
0	first off i am in my mid 40's been watchin horror films since i was a kid so i have seen a lot of variety imo this is not as bad as the multitudes that gave this a 1 or 2 br br yes it is a low budget horror flick the dialog is soso and acting tolerable sometimes the basis of this film plotwise is actually pretty good for those of you old enough to remember or lucky enough to have seen them on dvd this is very much like a 1970's movie of the week just add in blood and minor gore minor t a and swearing without big names that is it to a t i would rather watch this than jason vs godzilla or whatever other crap is out there tho not as good evil dead was a low budget film at least give these guys credit for trying with mil budget this could have been a pretty good flick my score a watchable 4
0	i was watching this movie and getting increasingly bored with the silly plot that was going nowhere when suddenly the story takes a surreal turn for the worse and has an actor playing herself oh how i guffawed because it's sooooo funny isn't it we know julia roberts is playing the character of tess and here they are in the film cracking the joke that the character of tess looks a bit like julia roberts so julia plays someone impersonating julia how well she does this we'll never know because 99 999 of the audience don't actually know julia roberts personally and reading about her in hello magazine doesn't count br br and then bruce willis turns up apparently he's julia roberts' best friend well he is in the film how would i know whether or not bruce willis and julia roberts even know each other i'm not in the least bit interested in the personal lives of actors i just pay my money and expect them to do the job they're paid to do anyway they start cracking jokes about the plot twist in the film where willis rather unconvincingly plays a psychiatrist the one with the little kid in it you know the one i don't i've forgotten what it's called willis even drops in a comment about how well that film did at the box office how modest of you mr willis br br the problem is that not only are these scenes pointless and horribly horribly self indulgent it also remind us the viewers that we're simply watching a bunch of actors strutting around and getting paid vast sums of money for very little effort you see when i see a movie i want to suspend disbelief and forget that i'm watching actors i want to believe in the story i'm watching when you start pulling the scenery down mid movie you simply ruin the illusion for me br br you know that a tv series has jumped the shark when it starts introducing celebrities playing themselves stand up and be counted the simpsons friends etc but this is the first time i've seen a movie jump the shark i usually stay away from movies like that e g scary movie the naked gun etc the trouble is i honestly never thought the ocean's 11 films would go in this direction what a shame br br so with suspension of disbelief thrown out the window and the plot now languishing in the movie then cracks the most wicked joke of all on the audience the heist actually happened way back in the story and the final 90 minutes or so of the film was pointless posturing yes that's right steven and his actor friends all get up point at us the audience and say ha you've all been had thanks for your money then they give us the single fingered salute br br well right back at you i didn't actually pay to see this movie i downloaded the dvd for nothing how d'ya like them apples now that's a plot twist
0	dark harvest is a very low budget production made by a bunch of rank amateurs which manages to come off as a kind of semi professional movie unfortunately the poor effects wooden acting and unoriginal story makes this a very mediocre horror slasher at best by no means is dark harvest the worst horror movie i've ever seen it just isn't anything special and has nothing in it to warrant a second watch or hope for a sequel you know a director has doubts about their own horror film when a there is some pointless nudity and b the movie's so short they add some rather boring outtakes at the end credits that nobody really cares about because the movie wasn't that good a slightly better movie which i can't help feeling was the inspiration for dark harvest is the eighties movie 'scarecrows' which is an ok movie but still pretty average br br dark harvest isn't as bad as some of the other comments say it is but don't think that you will be entertained much either one thing i also have to comment on is the character of angela who has a really terrible english accent what was the point in that to maybe give it a certain touch of class yeah right english people do not say when they mean to say water and i don't care what part of england they are from if you can't find a genuine english actress or a non english actress who can put on a brilliant english accent not many of them about then don't bother sheesh final score 4 10
0	another stupid movie the quality of image is correct sound too music is middle the guy try make music like in halloween br br for one rare time producer director choose no anorexic girls it is cause this movie take one week to do and cost 10 000 does it mean when producer have money they choose all anorexic girls good question br br but girls in this movie are physically correct but they are not good actress neither guys too but maybe it's just cause the story of this movie have no value br br i'm sure we give 10 000 to some teen who like movie and they can create a better movie br br don't lose your time to watch this thing
0	i knew full well when i rented this dvd that it could very well be one of the worst movies i've seen in my life but to say that it was one of the worst movies i've ever viewed would be putting it lightly i'm wondering if there isn't some legal action that can be taken against the individuals that allowed this film to produced i mean the financing had to come from somewhere someone had to put up money for this to be produced br br i'd pinpoint several production values that led to the failure of this film but this film violated every production standard in the universe i couldn't make it thru the entire movie as i started getting dizzy the from horrendous filming techniques i also can't tell you how many scenes i just ended off during because of the inexplicably horrific dialog br br i feel like i've been permanently scarred for life if you viewed this movie before getting this warning you should think about starting a support group with me for the poor people who did view this monstrosity
0	this is one of those films that you watch with a group of people you will have the best time it's really really bad like showgirls bad but without the quality of showgirls br br you've got the best mix of bad actors bad director and bad script here everything that can possible be wrong that can make for an entertaining evening you have here the first being the tag line is a bunch of teenagers these people are as much teenagers as my grandmother br br the director has zero sense of suspense or tension the 30 year old teenagers are standing around and the monster comes out and attacks and this pretty much happens throughout the movie when the monsters are revealed there is no suspense building up to this or surprise or anything it's more like when you were kids pretending to be chased by monsters and just kind of made up stuff as you went and when i use the word monsters i exaggerate more like a couple guys in halloween masks bought at the 99 cent store br br there is no doubt this script was spun off in a couple days no rewrites and i can only imagine how bad and poorly formatted it looked on the page because it was clearly written by an amateur with no clue it's another example of one of the bad things about this day and age anyone can make a movie br br but of course the best bad thing about this film is the acting it's as bad as you can get there isn't one person in this who has the slightest skill at acting and the lead is the absolute worst he delivers every line in this monotone manner without any expression and you have to wonder how someone this bad could possible get a part in any movie no matter who he knows when he had to cry when his girlfriend was killed it was one of the funniest scenes i've ever seen in a movie watching these people reciting some of the awful dialog is very very funny but when the black guy said tell her tell her i love her before his death scene there was a huge laugh among our group funny funny stuff br br my only hope is this movie gets bad enough ratings to take its place where it belongs in the imdb lowest rating 100 movies we can do it folks br br ps is it any surprise that the one great comment this movie got in here was from someone in virginia who has one comment only on this movie and nothing else and guess where the movie was made virginia i've said it before and i'll say it again people who work on the movie should not be allowed to comment on it
0	straight to video and with good reason its like the neighborhood kids putting on a play in the backyard but worse a young man don inherits a farm in west virginia that has been dormant for generations he decides to take a few friends to check the property out this farmland used to produce good corn crops even during the great depression the secret being that the owner was murdering folks and watering the fields with their blood then hang their bodies out as scarecrows the special effects are pretty lame and the the horrible dialog is full of unfunny one liners and the banter so ridiculous the sound may better be turned off cheap gore and a sham of a horror flick along with in the cast jeanie cheek b w york booty and jessica
0	this is an irredeemably stupid boring unimaginative lazily put together piece of garbage when watching a direct to video slasher pick it is only fair to expect the film to be trashy on some level but this goes beyond trashy it is just horrible on every level with a cliché ridden script that manages to be both incredibly stupid and incredibly boring at the same time a cast of no name over actors and some of the worst special effects i have ever seen even fans of slasher movies won't be able to find anything here that would make this film a worthwhile use of an hour and a half br br the plot focuses on your usual group of young people who decide to spend the weekend at a remote farm in west virginia that one member of the group has recently inherited unfortunately for the teenagers the inherited land was once owned by a farmer who made sacrifices in order to help his crops grow or something stupid along those lines and now some evil scarecrows are out to kill everybody i don't know anything about writer director paul moore but i am assuming he is over ten years old and therefore he ought to be able to come up with something more original than killer scarecrows honestly br br the special effects bringing the scarecrows to life are laughably poor they often look like hardly more than costumes on sticks special effects such as these would have been considered rather rather poor twenty years ago but by todays standards they are nothing short of embarrassing br br this is a total waste of time for all viewers whether or not they are into horror movies if you must watch a slasher film rent any one of the friday the 13th or halloween movies most of them aren't very good but are certainly superior to crap like this
0	i woke up and it was a beautiful day the sun was shining the birds were singing and i fancied getting a movie something new a horror movie perhaps like many other reviewers i came across what can only be described as a piece of in a gold wrapper the front cover is great and the comment on the back is mesmerising 'it will scare the crop out of you' oh how i chuckle looking back at such naivety and ignorance br br one of the many things scarier than this movie is the acting skills of these 'actors' i think no i did actually cheer when they got slashed up by these 'scarecrows' who were wearing some classic fancy dress costumes i used to drive quite quickly past cornfields as i found them to be pretty scary at night but having seen this movie i nearly wet myself through laughing so much just at the sight br br i have seen scarier quite honestly not mine though i'm a dab hand at cooking and if anyone associates this movie with my let's just say that i would create a situation in which they would be forced to watch this movie 3 times in a row br br if anyone has any good corn crop not pop movies they can recommend feel free to inform me it's a great comedy if nothing else ok it is nothing else enjoy but a little advice before pressing the play button on your dvd player throw it out of the window
0	some teen agers go to an old deserted farm house left to one of them by their dead grandfather unaware that there had been several murders there decades earlier because their grandfather had made a pact with the devil for a good harvest couldn't the guy have thought of something better to sell his soul for the man's grandson and his friends are set up to be the next sacrifice for reasons which are never explained the stereotypical teenage son and his girlfriend the black guy with a white girlfriend and the two lesbians have to do battle with three killer scarecrows but don't be tricked like i was this isn't nearly as fun as it sounds it's mostly just a lot of chit chat about ball kicking dope smoking and the lead actor complaining about never knowing his parents the camera work is atrocious and shaky maybe done on a hand held camcorder in some scenes which maybe a good thing since the scarecrows look like they just came from some kid's birthday party and apparently they could only hire two people to play the three scarecrows some of the best movies i've seen have been these low budget independent horror movies but this one is just pathetic the cast and crew seems to have just been made up of a bunch of people who knew each other had never acted before and had no intention of acting again and had a few thousand dollars i can't believe this movie cost 130 000 to make and a weekend of free time on their hands even the lesbian skinny dipping scene is lame br br i think it's amusing also that as of this writing there is a sequel to this film which no one has even bothered adding to imdb br br out of and i only rate it that highly only because of the skinny dipping scene no matter how lame it may be
0	let's begin by acknowledging that there are arguably three types of horror films good bad and utterly embarrassing reels that make the entire genre suffer in every way dark harvest promises big with its artisan dvd cover but rest assured that is where the show stops following a grueling opening montage we soon discover that the film consists of a very poorly written script extremely under qualified even for a beginners film acting disastrous lighting and even worse special effects seriously could no one afford anything more than a mask for the villain or did they just think it was good enough for jason voorhees and michael myers so it's good enough for us well it did not work at all to create a scary villain at any rate this is one of the movies that make you check your watch sigh and curse your own gullibility the timing in every scene is painful and the entire production has a middle school feeling to it come to think of it i have seen better middle school stage productions right down to the special effects i'm trying to think of some way to end this review on a positive note so let me suggest that all copies of this train wreck be donated as drink coasters frisbees wind chimes i'd say go see your yourself but that would just be cruel br br check out the rest of this production company's reviews and you'll find the same for every one of their movies they claim to honor the contract between film and audience i e please the fans but all they have done is chuckle and dumped a load on our heads for the cash of which i am sure they saw very little for this br br sorry people the high ratings and favorable reviews are obviously posted by those either directly or indirectly connected to this travesty br br 1 star out of 10 because it is the lowest possible rating giving it even one makes me angry
0	according to the budget information given on this web site dark harvest had an estimated budget of 130 000 where this money was spent i'm not exactly sure let me see costumes no location and sets hmmm think not special f x not acting lessons ah no dark harvest tells the epic tale of a young man who inherits a family farm in the hills of west virginia his girlfriend talks him into taking their friends up there to check the place out once there our intrepid hero learns that his great grandfather used a unique method for getting his crops to grow and now it's revenge time killer scarecrows out for revenge ewww scary well no not really we all know there have been some terrific movies made with very little money but this is not one of them this film contains pretty much some of the worst acting and dialog i've ever seen terrible clichés with terrible delivery all in all do not be fooled by the half way decent cover and avoid at all costs i'd like to give the film makers at least a d for trying but i'm afraid they didn't even do a good job with that grade f
0	this was the biggest disappointment of a movie sucks cos i was really looking forward to it br br all the twists were crap they were all flashbacks br br what makes a good heist movie is the believability of the the job yes it has to be surprising so the audience is stunned but if you walk away and go that's bulls t what's the point br br plus the main heist was a bag snatch anyway you didn't get to see the team operating at it's full deceptive and brilliant potential there was not even one good heist in this movie they were all rubbish including that french break dancing crap to get through the lasers it's easy to do that when they are composited in afterwards plus that kind of stuff has already been done in at least one other movie and it was stupid then as well br br also there's no reason to have even half of the 12 or 11 in this movie what difference do half of the cast really make to the outcome of this movie half the scenes don't even need to be there br br the first one was classy this was cheap and it makes the whole team loose credibility especially ocean himself for bowing down the bennett
0	the first opening scene that lasted around five minutes showed the potential of becoming an instant classic with to good acting good film a story that keep the volume up and an in the corner the of screen a spooky did you see that the scarecrow moves br br after the quick set up of history that would come into the present it was like someone else had written and directed the rest of the film the next scene is a basic outline of how the film goes downhill like a runaway truck it looks like the rest was shot in video with crappy porn style actors the set design was a lawyers office with practically nothing on the or anything in the office at all br br i remember only watching crap horror films for a chance of seeing some naked teenage girls back then there weren't victoria's secret mags everywhere and not watching for things that make great horror films of today like acting terror suspense and so on br br it took nearly fifty minutes for the first person to die when it did me and and my friends were so shocked by the worst costume of a monster ever we through our popcorn at the tv screen booing
0	the movie starts off as we see a footage of a huge drought back in the 30's in america then a short story is shown about a creepy looking farmer elija who made a deal with satan to get good harvest elija hired young men to work in his garden killed them and used as scarecrows he also fed the ground with their blood some time after 2 cops come to visit him one of them gets shot by elija another one kills the farmer himself after that the present day is shown and some guy named sean is told that he has an old farm left as inheritance he decides to go there with some friends to see what's up little did sean know that the next night is the payback night br br as for me this movie had a good story for a horror flick but low budget and poor special effects just ruined it dark harvest is a perfect example of lazy film making for example we see a scarecrow a usual guy wearing a funny cheap mask chasing a girl when he raises his hand we get to see a normal human skin below his glove instead of some rotting flesh the gore is not very impressive as well there are some nasty killings by our lovely scarecrows but everything is very cheap and unrealistic surprisingly the acting is somewhat ok in this flick or i better say its believable some nude scenes are presented as well for the fans even a lesbian scene but those scenes don't save it br br verdict good music good story solid acting but awful effects cheap gore and plot holes slow this movie down not really recommended
0	bad script check awful effects check horrible actors check lame direction check br br after seeing the dvd box at blockbuster video and being a fan of the horror genre i placed my 4 28 on the line and rented this film my girlfriend was out of town and i was bored so on a late tuesday night i decided this would be a perfect time for me to watch what appeared to be based on the box cover art a horror movie what i got instead was the worst film ever made up until that point i had always declared slumber party massacre 3 the worst film ever made br br if you are the type that wants to see a movie because you heard how bad it is this is for you if you don't want to lose 4 00 and 80 irreplaceable minutes of your life steer clear of this garbage br br an added note i noticed a few of the actors come on here and post comments on the bulletin board how can you brag about being in this film you were all horrible i mean really bad if there was an american idol for actors you all would be laughed at in the first few episodes br br peace br br cain
0	okay i'm sorry to the cast and crew for this review but this movie is by far the worst i've seen yet first off the acting was okay it could of been better especially in some parts but it was okay then there was the cheapest video camera which they used the violence was pretty good if it were paced faster it would be awesome but they didn't sigh scares the scares were well written in the script but not well done for instance spoiler here in the loft a girl is half way in it and the other half is in the dark bottom area of the barn house then she gets it the monster yanks her down and then you hear someones guts getting ripped out the scares could have been better if the music wasn't ripped from a cheap horror sounds cd the blood effects were pretty good but the blood was like that of kill bill k b pulled it off because it was meant to resemble old kung fu movies but when the crew can't tell the difference between red and pink it's sad the ripped up bodies in the movie were good but the scarecrow costumes were something you would see for 25 bucks at a halloween store don't let the cover fool you the costumes suck my overall grade is a 3 10 if you are interested in independent movies are easily satisfied or just have 3 bucks burning a hole in your pocket go to blockbuster and see the horror of failure
0	do not take this film seriously rent it with some folks who want to play mystery science 3000 and you will probably laugh your butts off the evil guys are so not scary it's funny it's like some dude from 7th grade with a sickle in a scarecrow get up the acting is hilarious i love the occasional self torture with a poor horror film and this really had me giggling i recommend it on that basis of course recreational drugs will enhance the experience oh there is a naked group swimming scene that will allow for some star dust on the 5 star system the token black male gets injured badly but continues his joking as well as using the injured body part quite readily throughout enjoy this complete and utter disgrace to films
0	may contain spoilers this movie was the worst movie ever i couldn't even watch it all it was so bad this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times not even the gore in the film was good the shootings were fake and the acting was worse please do yourself a favor and skip this one if you see it at the rental store then run the other way there is nothing good about this film at all if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow i rate this movie a 0 2 out of 10 that's how horrible this film really is the worst movie ever
0	now i am going to do this without putting spoilers if i can my cousin and i were renting movies the other weekend and we stumbled across this with the big freaking' scarecrow on the cover it looked cool so we rented it alongside kungfu hustle br br wow just wow br br to start off the movie was horrible now the box art opening scenes and music was decent to well done but the movie itself is horrendous the acting is sub par sean the lead shows hardly any emotion and or effort in his character the scarecrows look nothing like the one on the cover false advertising perhaps and the camera shots and angles were that of a bad wrestling event br br and trust me i'm a wrestling fan i know bad camera angles and honestly this is right up there with gigli and tang it's done so bad that it amuses me it makes me laugh so somehow this movie takes its place as a good comedy to me br br but to be fair it does serve as a what to do and what not to do in movies especially of the slasher genre i recommend that people do watch this just to get a good grasp of what to avoid
0	pardon my spelling this is probably the funniest horror movie that ever existed think evil dead 1000 the acting is horrible you can see the makeup line on a certain lady's face there is a lesbian scene which makes no sense at all and the ending haha ohhhh the ending be prepared to have your stomach hurting from laughter now if you watch this film for more then 5 minutes and are still expecting something take a look at your self and ask what the hell is wrong with you this is a very bad movie meant to laugh at and enjoy for its pure silliness br br don't forget to watch all the outtakes after the movie you can see just how low budget the whole thing really was all in all this movie is a rare gem in demonstrating the pure and udder lack of talent care ability money and anything else you would ever need to make a successful film but its definitely worth watching
0	dark harvest is about a group of friends that go to a farm it belongs to one of the friends relatives or something for a getaway but there are killer scarecrows lurking there there was something about a curse in there too but i forgot what that was about br br the acting in this movie is awful i don't know what the director was thinking when he was casting actors and actresses the script is the same story as the acting awful this statement coming up is very obvious but if there was better acting and a better script this could have turned out okay br br the directing stunk too i see no potential in this guy's future after all these negatives this movie still maintains a fun factor that bumps it up to a two the last plus is they don't use cgi my overall thoughts on this film are it's bad real bad but so bad it's fun so it gets a 2 10
0	i think there's a reason this film never came close to hitting theaters it was probably my neighbors down the street who filmed this movie with their mother's video camera the acting is very amateur this movie is definitely not something you would want to watch unless you were extremely bored the actors even seem to double as directors and crew members with no professionalism whatsoever should the director s and or actors choose to continue with their endeavor of making movies i would definitely advise them to brush up on their skills and perhaps take a few ok many classes on film making and acting
0	i had read the newspaper reviews of this film and i must say my expectations were very low before watching ocean's 12 i really enjoyed the first movie but this successor is one of the worst movies ever i would rate it top 5 of the worst movie i have ever seen why do i say that first of all there is a story so thin that britney spears crossroads looks like the perfect action thriller the fragments that could be assigned the term story is loosely held together at times but most of the time the movie just moves along with no purpose or drive the entire story seems forced and the script surrounding the story is even more forced that it become farce at times br br the actors show up but doesn't do anything to deserve any credit or appraise most embarrassing are leading ladies roberts and zeta jones that either overplay or are extremely plain damon clooney and pitt aren't brilliant either to be honest i really don't understand how they would want to be associated with something as bad as this movie br br may contains spoilers camera and editing sigh where should i begin there are many unnecessary camera movements that just make the experience painful combine that with extremely editing and you start looking for a wooden spoon to carve your heart out especially the scene where the entire gang is moved out of the prison to be transported away by car the camera zoom to each person just get boring and when you are at number 3 of 12 you got the message wow you are cool and can do simple zoom effects not i understand that the scene with tess ocean julia roberts playing julia roberts is supposed to be funny but it just gets extremely embarrassing and you turn away to avoid experiencing the mess bruce willis why please explain it to me why br br to summarize if you have to choose between root canal work and watching ocean's 12 i recommend the former make sure they do all the teeth while you are at it
0	cover girl is a lacklustre wwii musical with absolutely nothing memorable about it save for its signature song long ago and far away this film came out before gene kelly really hit his artistic stride and while there are evidences of his burgeoning talent here mostly he plays sidekick to rita hayworth and there's the problem rita hayworth is gorgeous no doubt about that but she's simply not a compelling screen presence i've always found myself wanting to like her more than i actually do and this movie is no exception she's simply not a very good actress and she's not even a very good dancer good looking as she is there's something vapid about her and this movie suffers because of it br br grade c
0	few videos in recent history have been as amateurishly produced as this one at least none that have been released by such a reputable distributor every frame of this film is a of better films of the past the word is given new meaning by a talentless writer director who should reserve his imagination for lesser masturbatory efforts that don't victimize film viewers assisting in the amateur night 'horror' effort is a number of less than capable technicians who contribute poor cinematography and laughable make up and special effects unfortunately the one or two of the amateur actors in the film who display a hint of talent that will go unnoticed due to the reputation that this atrocity will produce
0	this is possibly the worst of the worst i am a huge fan of the horror movie industry and i can believe this movie was allowed to be made the acting was juvenile and the story completely idiotic the camera work was also juvenile one scene that comes to mind is outside a store it is nighttime and you can see the moon yet the characters all have shadows that cast on the wall there was no street light to be seen one character gets gutted at one point yet manages to resurface later after removing herself from a post come on it felt like i was watching a middle school play i kept expecting the characters to wave to their family members off camera and mouth hi mom i can only give it two positive comments it ended and it was good for a laugh please do not rent this movie
0	i was in blockbuster and i saw a film called dark harvest the cover art looked great the plot wasn't that bad and the tagline you reap what you sow made the movie look pretty good but i was dumb that day because i did something i should have never done i rented a straight to video independent horror film walking out with my much better rentals i went home popped dark harvest in the dvd player and it began i figured i would watch the trailer after the film was done bad idea but went ahead and watched it anyway now to the review possible spoilers first off the acting by the kids sucks and the scene when the 2 main characters are talking the lighting sucks and the buildings even look fake now they go to this house where sean i think he's the main character i don't care relatives lived there all of a sudden one by one they all start getting killed by gasp a killer scarecrow ahhh the scarecrow is obviously the definition of low budget and the scenes where the scarecrow is computerized looks so fake it's hilarious it makes dinosaur noises and everything and then at the end they shoot the scarecrow with a gun that is red for god's sake and looks like it was purchased at a local family dollar and it pauses for a while and then gasp blows up br br save yourself some time i'm telling you this movie sucks if you need to pass an hour and a half look at the wall because looking at the wall is a fun compared to this disaster it is quite funny though br br overall grade f if there was anything lower f than i would give it that
0	rent this only movie if you're in the mood for laughs for sheer stupidity as this movie wouldn't scare a bunch of at a halloween party the trouble is there is too much gore for kiddies so definitely don't put this in your vcr for the toddlers it starts off with a little bit of promise giving you the impression that the box cover artist may have actually started watching this film before designing the cover but then descends quickly into epic stupidity the killer scarecrows are clumsy oafs that are about as scary as the one in the wizard of oz but not quite as smart if they'd only had a brain i got this movie for 1 20 at a local discount close out store and even so i feel somewhat ripped off i think with all the other comments posted here if you actually pay to see this you can only blame yourself
0	a young man who never knew his birth parents receives an old farm in an isolated section of west virginia upon the death of his natural father he visits his property with a cross section of potential victims including the comic relief black guy and a trendy lesbian couple hmm will there be skinny dipping take a guess unfortunately the party comes to an end when the spirits of drifters killed by his evil great grandfather and used as scarecrows come back for revenge this film starts out well an artful montage of depression era photographs and phony newspapers set against a speech by fdr this i believe is his first appearance in a killer scarecrow movie establishes the mood i developed some hopes for the film which were partially realized the story was serviceable enough the setting was sufficiently bucolic the photography was mostly in focus the acting while no great shakes was slightly above par for horror movies in this budget range the film might've actually worked within the narrow demands of the genre if the scarecrows were scary but they weren't they looked cheap they weren't frightening at all the better the monster the better the movie these scarecrows wouldn't scare dorothy let alone toto
0	i've expected a comedy about the nva but this is a parody it shows the national army of eastern germany in a light that is not appropriate and definitely not true br br one can make a comedy about everything as long as the underlying facts are not changed even a comedy about the german is possible as roberto benigni with life is beautiful has shown br br the movie nva would be an ok comedy because the jokes in it are overall ok nothing special not hilarious but enough to live with it br br the point is that the movie makes a farce and a parody about the nva a death machine that was ready to attack western europe along with it's friend the red army an institution that used everything to get the utmost from it's soldiers an army that marched into the in 1968 and was ready to march also in poland to destroy the you can't make a movie without showing the tiniest bit of evil or would you make a parody about a guantanamo or 9 11 showing osama bin laden as a funny screwed guy 90 minutes about a funny osama in a afghan taliban camp where he makes jokes and is training his soldiers would be comparable to what this movie is doing about the nva
0	if you have been to the east of europe or even in their armed forces you might find this movie interesting i don't know why calls this a comedy sure there are a few funny moments but it is not a good movie if one of the orderly officers talks for 15 min about the achievements of socialism on a christmas dinner and the officers in general act like funny oafs the soldiers are running of the base to meet their girls at night and surprise surprise one of the girls is the daughter of the commander the east german army was known for its abusive and humiliating service of its conscripted men and the comedy was basically not filmed on the facilities or with the equipment to make a good movie of the east german army and their time now gone by despite this some of the actors and actresses tried to act well but it came out only in the roles they're known for from east german tv and some small films i would not recommend this movie to anybody it was basically boring and very cheap made
0	as was mentioned before in other comments the major problem of nva is that it cannot decide what it wants to be slapstick of the cheapest kind or an honest parody of the east german army there are a couple of moments which are quite moving for example when one of the recruits returns from the army prison in with a completely broken personality but in the end leander goes for the infantile humour no wonder the film flopped at the german box office as it's historically untruthful to the real situation in those training camps and led by an actor who is unfortunately incapable of giving a nuanced performance br br however there is the camera work of frank who as always does a wonderful job if it wasn't for his beautiful images i would have rated the film far worse
0	i didn't expect too much from this movie but i was still disappointed it's supposed to be a comedy but there are only four or five scenes where i actually laughed and i think that's rather poor there is no real plot either i always had the feeling that most of the scenes could have been put anywhere in the movie because there's no connection between them but the worst thing was the acting of kim franke he has one facial expression during the whole movie as if he was supposed to play some retarded guy but i believe that's not the case all in all i rate it four out of ten i've seen worse movies than this but i wouldn't spend money on this one again
0	what a shame this could have been good the main problems are the script and the star the film cannot decide whether to be a slapstick comedy of a very uninspired and routine kind or whether to be a insightful satire on the old east germany and its mores its attempts at the latter flop totally however the film does not hold together well and the ending is very artificial and unbelievable any stereotypes one might have about german comedy are sadly reinforced br br the characters are stereotypes one and all and the leading character played by kim frank is colourless in the extreme he just cannot carry the film and appears to have been chosen largely for his baby face it may not be all the actor's fault he is a pop singer as the script does not give him much to work on br br one plus the recreation of the east german 'style' and period is good br br the worst thing is that the film feels somehow dishonest and demeaning the film seems to have been churned out by people who were not necessarily giving it their best and just wanted to make a quick buck from a few cheap laughs if they were giving it their best it is a sad case indeed i watched it at the cinema with an east german audience and i felt sorry for them the regime was awful in almost all respects but those who lived through it deserve better than this
0	ocean's 12 starts off on annoying and gets worse from there on like a celebrity awards presentation each major actor actress is introduced in short 60 second scenarios that seem to stop just short having a blinking applaud now sign the first 60 minutes of the film are incredibly disjointed poorly edited and at times utterly unrelated to the story and confusing speaking of the story there is one kinda but its barely visible for all the look at me shots and cameos only matt damon seemed to actually act during this film the rest of the cast appeared to only be there to participate in a rat pack wanna be session as for the heist the action the drama it was put into the last 8 10 minutes of the movie and was pathetic and anticlimactic horrible horrible horrible
0	if rich people are different from us because they have more money then film makers are different from us because they think the world cares about their every thought br br this self indulgent piece of tripe seems to have been made just because the director felt it was time to make another movie and someone would finance it not every trivial idea or reflection is worthy of a movie unless you are a college film student trying to complete a course when you don't have anything to say sometimes it is best to remain quiet br br the visuals are not breath taking they are quite ordinary the dialog is inane and unbelievable they speak words no one would every sequence together in situations that are beyond imagination germaine f k is finally brought to the screen even if you believe in love at first sight no one falls into bed as easily as these characters they screw before they talk even more unbelievable is an aging balding director finding instant sex with the most beautiful chick in town though gravity is already getting to miss at a youthful age
0	i haven't seen any other films by antonioni and the people that saw this one with me agreed that it shares themes and imagery with the rest of his works maybe if i had seen other stuff by him i would have enjoyed this one knowing what to expect br br i saw it as an almost complete failure for so many reasons first of all the film introduces interesting deep issues about social relationships feelings the nature of reality versus fiction but this is very often done in the of ways making the characters speak as if they were delivering speeches rambling on and on juxtaposing declarations rather than having dialogues the scriptwriters seem to be so worried that we will not get the point that they prefer to tell instead of showing br br secondly the movie has no rhythm especially in its first half it is not only that it is slow some slow films have been made with an excellent sense of pace and rhythm el sur by victor or scorsese's the age of innocence are examples i like but for that to be successful it is necessary that we find the characters so engaging or the story so moving that we can adapt to it this does not happen in beyond the clouds where the first episode seems to drag endlessly and the relationship between john reality and the love stories fiction is at times fluid others abrupt others confusing
0	reports of this film's brilliance appear to have been greatly exaggerated and unless the other reviewers were watching a different movie i fail to see how anyone can find this film anything other than dull unscary overlong and at times unbearably irritating i'm not some schlocky horror fanatic i love j horrors and euro horrors over american horrors any day but i feel the need to warn any potential viewers about this film before they invest two hours of their life in it br br it could have been so great a reporter is investigating a series of bizarre deaths and occurrences which seem ostensibly but a series of unnerving tropes appears to connect them dead pigeons thudding noises the presence of strangely tied knots our reporter goes from person to person interviewing them filming them and then passing on three important characters are among this jumble of people a young shy psychic girl an immensely irritating insane psychic man and a crazy old woman and her boy whose importance is not revealed until later on br br the problem is that the film is not even remotely interesting which makes its two hour running time unforgivable it's also not even remotely scary or creepy supposedly scary scenes like shots of ghoulish faces are done incredibly poorly shown twice or worse we are told when they are about to happen other techniques such as telling us that a family just interviewed died five days later simply don't make me care let alone mildly creeped br br the film does pick up a bit towards the end as our reporter cameraman psychic and cursed woman go to a village in order to the curse which is linking all these deaths however by that time i was in a state of catatonic boredom and couldn't care less so all the fairly creepy camera work and shocks were wasted on me the final tape is quite good but once again i'd given up caring and just wanted this film to end br br boring and dull not scary and not creepy i would advise you keep away from it has promising moments but this is a film that was poorly made and not worth your time
0	big d b tries to keep peace between the settlers and their red brothers br br boone an aging bruce bennett has to try and prove to the local indian chief lon chaney jr appearing to be drunk as usual that his son was killed by the tribe's leading jerk who has also been dealing in rifle trafficking when nobody's looking young sings though he holds his rifle like it's a mop br br ok western adventure directed by two guys neither of whom has many credits on his resume but this flick ain't too bad and it has a nice short running time of 76 minutes
0	after hoo american indians scalp number one son frontiersman bruce bennett as daniel boone seems at first like he wants to get even but he really wants to make friends with the natives when sad eyed indian chief lon chaney jr as also loses number one son it gets more difficult to clear up misunderstandings apparently this was republic pictures' attempt to do for their daniel boone trail blazer what disney studio's had successfully done with davy crockett king of the wild frontier 1955 br br the dan'l boone song whistled and sung by a group of children in a wagon did not follow fess parker's davy crockett up the hit parade singer young as doesn't perform the title song perhaps wisely he does sing long green valley and makes a good impression as a blond boyfriend for boone's daughter but spanish actor freddy fernandez is the film's most valuable player in a cute scene mr fernandez reminds mr young the name of the character susannah he is supposed to be in love with br br daniel boone trail blazer 10 5 56 ismael rodríguez bruce bennett lon chaney jr young freddy fernandez
0	i really liked this quirky movie the characters are not the bland beautiful people that show up in so many movies and on tv it has a realistic edge with a captivating story line the main title sequence alone makes this movie fun to watch
0	while i was watching this movie i never thought i'd be defending it it's honest enough from the about not having much of a plot there's no real characters to latch onto except the killer some of the acting can be better but most of it is capable br br i know a three out of ten isn't stellar but there are reviews saying it was shot poorly and completely useless etc i think it set out to do what it's supposed to fairly well the lighting is minimal at times more natural than most audiences are used to but it's supposed top look like a camcorder snuff film in fact at times the quality is probably still too high to be true to that but nobody would make it through minutes of camera work that's truly that bad br br it's not particularly scary but it is disturbing at times there are one or two characters who don't come across as believable at all and the soundtrack does get tiring at times but overall it was put together cleaner than a lot of camcorder movies
0	kill the scream queen may sound like a good slasher flick but it is terribly boring and very dumb br br kill the scream queen is about a crazy filmmaker who auditions girls to be in his snuff film he rapes and tortures them this is trash that is not amusing suspenseful or entertaining the killer has no motive okay maybe hes just sick and very dull maybe they could of gave a victim a story of their own anything could be an improvement it needed a lot more br br they could of put just a little more into it i love horror slasher films but this is ridiculously bad
0	could easily have been better in fact maybe so much so that if the filmmaker hadn't tried even as hard as he did it might have actually been better br br on a good note the lighting was reasonably okay but pretty much everything else was lacking wobbly camera work yeah yeah i know that's supposed to be the style now poorly recorded audio and editing that looked like someone watched too many ulli lommel movies which are some of the worst edited movies to sum it up the movie seemed to be a rationalization for the director writer main character to get some young women naked put them in fake bondage and grope them while saying menacing things
0	this movie was absolute trash the director and stars should be banished from making movies forever the paper thin plot concerns a sleazy director played by the sleazy director now thats acting advertising on the internet for women to star in a snuff movie br br there's no horror at all the girls look strung out and bored the direction is pointless the music is misplaced heavy metal in a library scene and the lighting is awful the director should have cashed in a couple more shopping carts full of aluminum cans and gotten a script sober actors and a few light bulbs as it is this is one disgusting nasty worthless mess of a movie
0	i felt compelled to write about this movie after i joined imdb because i thought it was the worst script writing i have seen in a while br br the acting direction other areas of the movie are fantastic i love brad pitt with george clooney it works the witty banter was still there too from the first movie my question is how in the world did they let this script out of the drafting process i thought that not only did the plot develop like a slug racing to the end of the sidewalk but that twist can i call it that was so incredibly stupid that i wanted to go demand a refund from the ticket booth i have never felt so played and used from a movie in my entire life here i was expecting something similar to the first movie good chemistry good acting good direction amazing plot only to find that they had taking my 8 dollars and made a mockery out of it br br the part that gets me still is that this movie has now grossed more than 125 million dollars br br in summary i felt that this movie insulted my intelligence i still feel like the only part the writers concentrated on was that little bit with julia roberts acting like julia roberts this movie made me sad and angry
0	i'm a big fan of sleaze and horror movies when you put them together that's my sweet spot horrible sleaze you're not going to get it in this film though br br there is certainly sleaze in the form of girls being kidnapped and tortured tied naked to various things the sleaze isn't very sleazy though it didn't register very high on my sleaze meter mainly because none of the girls were in the least attractive nor did they attempt to act as if they were even threatened they seemed to be thinking more about what was for lunch or maybe when they could score some crack br br forget the effects they were lame in the extreme the lameness was contributed to by the bad acting effects are harder to believe when even the actors and actresses aren't buying into them br br cinematography was pretty bad they could have hired a couple cameramen from a porn movie and done better in fact that might have raised the sleaze factor enough to make it enjoyable as it is there are a lot of dark shots where you can't see very clearly and what you can see isn't looking too good br br the horror factor is nil null zero nada zip zilch i've seen kids movies that were more frightening there's no camp here either it's just a movie that attempts to be shockingly sleazy but doesn't even come close
0	i can imagine why he'd want to die after starring in this rubbish the man is incredible but even sidney poitier couldn't save this tiresome morality play about racism in the old west he and joanna going are both fantastic in this film too bad the screenplay co stars directing and score couldn't match those two
0	sex drugs rock roll is without a doubt the worst product of western civilization the monologues are both uninteresting and pointless in the rare monologue that captures the audience's attention it is quickly lost through overly long repetition and unnecessary additions the hells angels at mcdonalds comes to mind i guess one man show needed some filler material to give a length that he thought justified the price of admission br br i would rather sleep with my aunt and be hung upside down and drained of my blood than see sex drugs rock roll again
0	having seen just about every movie on record that a child of the eighties could have seen this ranks at the very very very bottom of the heap of bad movies i have ever seen it's depressing and just plain painful to watch nuff said
0	this thing takes the horny teenager genre very poorly respected to begin with and completely flushes it down the toilet the only people i would even consider recommending it to are teenage girls for a revealing scene in a boys' locker room and in the end i wouldn't make such a recommendation to do so would be to contribute to the delinquency of a juvenile an absolute piece of garbage with utterly no redeeming qualities
0	well the film starts good but after half an hour it becomes boring and stupid when all the plot is about karen's that was the name of the girl right pregnancy br br the end of the movie it's really corny and the characters really dumb br br i don't know who is more stupid if the girl because she came back with her old boyfriend or the boy for the way he was used for her br br anyway my conclusion is this definitely not the best eighties comedy just another movie like many others with nothing special they could do it better but they ruined it if only the plot had take another way but they keep that pregnancy stuff and they definitely ruined so final conclusion i don't like
0	i wrote an essay in 1981 the year i graduated high school called the last american virgin i also had a friend named nancy who was the prostitute in this film apparently her daughter got a hold of my essay one night when she slept over my house a year later i wake up one morning and see the advertisement for this film i was 18 years old based the essay on experiences in my life the film is a bit different from my essay but definitely taken from it i did not have any proof of this matter except my english teacher mr versace who gave me an a on my essay i let it go never did anything about it i figured what comes around goes around i still would not take any action against anyone involved in this film i just needed to get it off my chest as i really never told anyone about it except my closest friend they agreed to keep it a secret the same year it came out i saw nancy in a market she actually had the nerve to ask me if i had any good stories or scripts for her to look at i guess thats what hollywood is all about getting stories from wherever you can it was interesting seeing parts of my life on the big screen though br br ghost writer
0	ya know i have no idea how everybody else's teenage life was but this does not reflect the folks i knew and hung around with let alone myself and just in case if you're wondering no we weren't pristine clean cut pat boone type teens if there was ever such a thing br br look i'm not saying being a teenager is easy the better well actually the best teen movie of this time is fast times at ridgemont high now those kids i knew and were as realistic as it got back then and maybe now br br this was crap this was a low rent version of fast times and even then it didn't do much for me it had a few moments but not enough for me to recommend this or even claim this is how it was for teens back in 1982 i couldn't relate the lead girl girls did nothing for me and please if they really wanted to keep their virginity they would have in which case this film would not have been made pure crap and a bad staple to be left behind as a time capsule cinema for teens young adults in the early '80's
0	this film is bundled along with gli le colt lo and both films leave a lot to be desired in the way of their dvd prints first both films are very dark occasionally making it hard to see exactly what's happening second neither film has subtitles and you are forced to watch a dubbed film though il del does seem to have a better dub personally i always prefer subtitles but for the non purists out there this isn't a problem these dvd problems however are not the fault of the original film makers just the indifferent package being marketed four decades later br br as for the film it's about the assassination of president garfield this is a major problem as van johnson looks about as much like garfield as judy garland in no way whatsoever does he look like garfield he's missing the beard has the wrong hair color and style and is just not even close in any way trust me on this i am an american history teacher and we are paid to know these sort of things the real life garfield was a civil war general and looked like the guys on the smith brothers cough drop boxes plus using some other actor to provide the voice for johnson in the dubbing is just surreal never before or since has van johnson sounded quite so macho he was a fine actor but certainly not a convincing general or macho president br br in addition to the stupid casting president garfield's death was in no way like this film it's obvious that the film makers are actually cashing in on the crazy speculation about conspiracies concerning the death of jfk not garfield garfield was shot in washington dc not dallas by a lone gunman with severe mental problems not a group of men with rifles however according to most experts what actually killed garfield over two months later were incompetent doctors who and and to retrieve a bullet to no avail and never bothered cleaning their hands or implements in the process in other words like george washington who was basically killed by repeated bloodletting when suffering with pneumonia he died due to malpractice in the movie they got nothing right whatsoever other than indeed president garfield was shot br br because the film bears almost no similarity to real history it's like a history lesson as taught from someone from another planet or someone with a severe brain injury why not also include ninjas fighting robots and the greek gods while you're at it aside from some decent acting and production values because the script is utter cow crap i don't recommend anyone watch it it's just a complete and utter mess
0	after receiving a dvd of this with a sunday newspaper i hoped that it was not the usual duff films that are given away because no one would ever buy them i was wrong acting is on par with that of a ten year old in a school pantomime production and the same goes for the majority of the cast neill is satisfactory but plays a russian and isn't helped by his hybrid northern irish new zealand accent and nor are the rest of the kgb characters all of whom sound like they're in a cambridge reunion in fact the only people with genuine accents are extras who supply an odd word here and there helpfully letting us know at least where the hell everything is going on in what is otherwise a complete mash the espionage factor is unimpressive for the most part and primarily consists of sheen about in various ridiculous disguises whilst trying to blend into the background quickly becoming not only boring but laughable the plot has potential but is completely murdered by the rest of the confusing production elements this could have been so much better
0	terry benedict andy garcia catches up with danny ocean and his team and demands that they repay the money that they stole from him in oceans 11 plus interest he holds back from violent action however as he is under the instruction of the world's greatest thief the night fox the team then have to pull off a series of heists to pay benedict back whilst testing their abilities against the night fox who wishes to maintain his position as the greatest thief ever put simply this film is a complete mess the masses may argue that it is cool and that clooney and pitt put in great performances but these are the same people who have a subscription to hello magazine and think that david beckham has the potential to be a great actor the story is convoluted it is not complex or clever and it does not have intelligent twists and turns it is just a complete mess that spills out in multiple directions with the hope that the audience will think it is cool and intelligent hello magazine readers any respectable movie watcher will however see the film for the farce that it is whilst oceans 11 wasn't a great film it had a decent pace was stylish and had some decent twists and turns this movie loses its way very quickly and then basically gives up it is as if the director and cast said to themselves hey this isn't really working out lets just have a laugh indeed the cast looks like they are enjoying themselves but i was not i will not delve into the plot as its confused evolution does not warrant any examination the addition of catherine zeta jones is largely annoying the scenes where julia roberts impersonates herself with bruce willis undertaking a cameo role whilst mildly amusing appear to be a desperate move to keep the audience interested the movie is so full of plot holes that it as if arnie has emptied an uzi 9mm into the film studio credit can only be given to some scenes where the night fox uses to undertake a heist against the back drop of some funky music but this is hardly justification to watch the movie the final scene features the team in a nonsensical drunken stupor this accurately sums up the movie stick with the original
0	this espionage melodrama has a nice almost promising cast and should have been very atmospheric there is a will or an intention of also a want or a lack of it br br sheen plays a dissident who now activates as an agent he is a loner loved by women but haughty mrs fossey is his mistress neill plays the gallant generous chivalrous soviet agent br br sheen and neill are both essentially annoying finlay does a cameo and so do other known actors mrs fossey is hot but then again she always is br br i will be your true friend and break it to flick is low on suspense and on excitement it's trite and quite boring the good thing is that you get to see mrs fossey naked other than that lukewarm derivative espionage exploitation
0	first of all this is one of the worst soft core straight to cable erotic thriller i've ever seen in my life of course like all erotic thrillers are want to do it's about a brothel madam and is set in a brothel this of course makes the softcore simulated sex that pops up every other 10 minutes seem in context whatever br br forget for one moment that this was never meant to win any awards the actors are terrible and their line reading made me cringe the woman who plays the female cop is so bad it's beyond description she must be a really really good friend of the guys who put up the movie for this terrible adventure if you know what i mean br br the production values are only slightly higher than porn other than that i suppose if you're really drunk and you need something to laugh at this would be a perfect film and if that's the case i recommend fast forwarding to all the scenes with the female cop what's that accent brooklyn hilarious
0	as a big fan of brian yuzna and the majority of the movies he's been involved in i guessed i'd enjoy progeny i didn't although in ways it has it's moments however if you're expecting something of the calibre of society or beyond reanimator you could be in for a shock in a way this is similar to society being a tale of a seemingly ordinary world with a horrific supernatural underbelly but that's where it ends br br i'm not covering for yuzna when i say that the fault doesn't really lie with him as bad direction is bad direction but the direction is sound what trips the movie up is both script and acting stuart gordon reanimator dagon has written an intelligent script but one that doesn't really work with yuzna's style of direction leaving him paused on actors delivering lengthy dialogue when really he wants to throw that camera around and get down with his bad self this matter makes the movie awkward enough as it is but there's worse br br if the movie had been made with great actors the movie would have probably held it's own unfortunately this is very far from the case the acting is wooden shockingly so even for a low budget b feature the inexplicably successful and renowned arnold vosloo wrecks every damn line with near pinpoint precision handing in one of the worst performances i've seen in a long while the man manages to turn every line of well considered dialogue into the kind of ham line you'll be throwing drunkenly at mates next time you're in the pub 'hey bob good god am i going mad what's come over me noooo ' in fact i may try that one myself next weekend the last minute addition of genre veteran and personal favourite brad dourif instead of enriching the film like it should almost seems to hand dourif the movie in a last ditch effort to stop vosloo from hamming but quite frankly dourif looks deeply uncomfortable possibly waiting for the next assault of bad acting next to vosloo and even an eccentric turn from him fails to resuscitate the film br br if the acting was better this movie would have been okay hell it might have been pretty enjoyable but the lack of character makes the movie a soulless affair and makes the horror element seem tacked on and tasteless instead of an organic part of the film i found the alien torture rape scenes a little difficult to stomach already but the fact that the characters were so lacking made them seem gratuitous as well as unpleasant leaving a nasty taste in the mouth br br so if you really like sci fi and don't have a problem with bad acting pedestrian pacing and a really garish nasty rape scene progeny will probably be your cup of tea but since i do i'm probably never going to watch it again once was enough on the plus side this is the only sci fi movie yuzna ever bothered to make so he obviously wasn't really that pleased with it himself
0	this was not a good film poorly scripted and acted the concept was not new the effects poor and not a showcase for arnold vosloo who really is a half decent actor i watched this under some protest and only remembered having seen it before towards the very end it's that forgettable the acting seemed to consist of a number of glares looks devoid of any sincerity i kept expecting this to actually get going and before long i was just hoping it would finish as for the medical bits well i wasn't expecting a true version of er events but this was just comical i am a dr so know what i am taking about and the operative bits were just plain silly br br do not waste your valuable time unless you have absolutely nothing else to do go out ring up a long lost friend watch paint dry sort out your sock draw do some household task avoid at your peril
0	i love brian yuzna's other work even cruder stuff like 'necronomicon' but was too much even for me my chief complaint is that it's needlessly exploitative of jillian nudity i'm no prude but these nude scenes just drag on and on and on only to culminate virtually every time in a tawdry wink nudge insinuation of sexual violence the scene where she attempts a coat hanger abortion after several minutes of naked screaming is a prime example arnold is utterly turgid but even jeffrey coombs couldn't save this festering heap of a film the aliens are boring the uniformly dull lighting saps your interest and the plot is absolutely predictable the only highlights for me were an all too brief glimpse of the aliens' true form very nice model and the scene where vosloo finds his wife in the closet was ok too but you've been warned
0	a young doctor and his wife are suddenly expecting a child both are disturbed about a two hour memory lapse on the night of conception interesting twist on an hackneyed story very good f x and interesting editing jillian is outstanding in a cast that features arnold vosloo wilford brimley and brad dourif brimley brings normalcy to the outlandish kudos to director brian yuzna
0	rented the video with a lot of expectations but it was a disappointment the story didn't make sense the plot was very weak and the special effects well i think even i can do better with my home computer sorry missed a change here
0	brian what the hell were you on when you signed to do this br br i saw this recently at a festival and it was greeted by howling laughter throughout by the time the credits rolled tears were streaming down the faces of many of the audience br br the plot is a clunky melding of r ' and 'the x files' as cynically aimed at the tv audience as is possible to get without being sued the sequences involving the abductions are hilarious both yuzna's staging of the from the and mad george's pathetic plastic aliens drew gales of disbelieving derisive laughter br br limp camp and stupid my only hope is that it was an aberration as awful as 'return of the living dead 3' was good br br
0	now let me see if i have this correct a lunatic serial killer is going around murdering estate agents okay what's wrong with that scenario i can live with that br br what next a slasher with tax inspectors butchered traffic wardens sliced to death are we supposed to feel any sympathy for empty headed and shallow money obsessed property people er no br br sadly joking aside it's just not a very well made film with poor acting and crude effects the climatic scene is particularly silly you can almost see the director shouting 'action' to the stuntman as he falls through the glass of the window br br as another reviewer quite rightly said after starring in 'the fog ' this was the nadir of adrienne barbeau's career therefore i was happy to see that she had it by becoming the voice of catwoman in the batman animated series while watching the extras on the live action catwoman film nb not quite the awful film it's made out to be by the way br br this however is a bad film think a poor episode of 'kojak' or 'streets of san francisco ' and you will get an idea of what is on offer here
0	this movie was the slowest and most boring so called horror that i have ever seen i would include a comment on the plot but there was none i do not recommend this movie unless you are prepared for the biggest waste of money and time of your life
0	unfortunately i think this is one of those films that if you or i took it to the studio and said 'can i make this great movie with my friends mary mungo and midge from school ' the studio would have you kicked to death on the spot however if a bunch of massive hollywood names say 'look i fancy a to italy with my mates how about it ' the studio writes a cheque br br we kick off with the casino boss from ocean's 11 tracking down the robbers who made off with his cash and then brad pitt is shagging catherine zeta jones and then there's some about in amsterdam and italy and such and such and then it all ends somehow br br the film does however include the most shameful moment of both julia roberts' and bruce willis' careers which is a cinematic gem i nearly vomited in my lap and tore my eyes out when julia roberts playing tess in the movie pretends to be you guessed it julia roberts bruce willis stands about clearly wondering when he can leave and how much the cheque will be br br ah well to be fair i'd have done it for the cash so i suppose i can't really criticize the poor loves but i'm a penniless slob not a hollywood legend i guess what really annoys me about this film is not that it is boring and pointless and has a terrible story but that i think the actors probably all had good fun doing it i think the actor's entire job is to project emotion outwards i feel like i paid to go to the party but had to stand outside in the rain br br watch it if you like como or fancy or something but otherwise go for a walk
0	lisa grant adrienne barbeau is a real estate agent who finds herself in jeopardy of getting killed by a deranged maniac who kills people in her profession who he feels make house prices too high as motives go this is pretty damn retarded lisa's boyfriend happens to be a talk show host whom the killer keeps calling on air at first i was positive this was supposed to be a comedy or satire of some kind but as the endless minutes drone on and on i realized that it wasn't and the film was just grossly incompetent in every way shape and form i'm just surprised that something this horrid wasn't directed by jeff yea email me some hate mail again jeff you hack anyway back to the film poor poor barbeau you can pinpoint exactly when her film career went down in flames and it all started here br br my grade f br br where i saw it the movie channel
0	some spoilers dull as dishwater slasher flick that has this deranged homeless man harry out murdering real estate agent all over the city of l a because of the high prices that they charge for their looking like an extra from a clint eastwood spaghetti western harry who's been living in abandoned houses eating dog food get's very upset where his quite lifestyle as a squatter is interrupted this happens when a number of real estate agents invaded his space in an attempt to sell the houses that he's staying at to their potential clients br br joseph stars in this bottom of the barrel horror movie as radio talk show host dr david kelly the handsome and popular host psychologist of the survival line dr kelly is being sued by the family of one of his callers tracy who ended up blowing her brains out while on the air with the doc who couldn't do anything to help her survive her ordeal of taking to him br br the real estate killer gets to talk with dr kelly on the air about his adventures and the police try to get the doc to get his phone number and address by keeping him on the line but he refuses to in order not to hurt his rating by having potential callers not call in in fear of being monitored by the br br kelly also is having a hot and heavy affair with a real estate manager and agent the busty lisa grant adrienne barbeau who's office of sellers are harry's main victims in he movie harry also gets to murder lisa's main competition in the housing business the chubby and outrageous barney resnick barry hope who threatened to put lisa out of business by any means possible even if he has to kill her br br getting alone and with his pants down harry slices his head off while he's being entertained by one of his clients a hooker whom he leaves dead and hanging together with the headless barney the movie ends with the deranged harry taking lisa hostage and having dr kelly try to come to her rescue only to have det shapiro robert looking like e hasn't slept in a week pop out of nowhere and blow harry's brains out harry quickly come back to life minus the gay matter between his ears and gets himself killed for the second time in the movie by being thrown from a balcony and landing on the ground as a dozen members of the lapd cocked and ready come on the scene br br nothing in the movie house worked with the tension laughable to almost non existent even the hot sex scenes between dr kelly and lisa didn't save the movie since there were far too few only two of them and and sexy adrienne barbeau was a bit too with not enough light and too much clothes on in all of them br br harry the killer in the movie was also a bit to comical to be taken seriously in trying to make a point to dr kelly on the phone and in person about the high rents and real estate prices in the country and how people like himself find it almost impossible to find a decent place to live in you can sympathize with harry's concern about the high cost of living but be very critical of him in how he crazily went on in it
0	best thing i can say about this porno horror film is boobies boobies boobies br br beyond that this film is made by some hindu indian guy with some background in porn films or such br br plot talk show host and girlfriend are stalked by a psychopath who is angry over the plight of the homeless and takes it out on you guessed it beautiful real estate agent ladies films like these are why the slasher films of the 80's got a rep for misogyny br br this film is not really a slasher but has the same sort of implausibilities and stereotypes the dumb ass cops the villain is an old white male and the women are busty babes br br if you like porno horror this is your movie otherwise stay away adrienne fans will get to see her sagging breasts for a second or two
0	at first i thought that this one was supposed to be somewhat of a comedy horror when i had seen the body in the bathtub with the lady just standing there screaming over and over again but as the film proceeded on it got more and more flat the plot was silly with a man upset that the prices of real estate have gone up so now he to call up some radio psyciatrist and babble out his fury because he has nothing better to do then the law gets involved and tries desperatly to make us feel that they really care who the caller is and go out of their way to track this guy down one suspect after another are accused this movie is terrible and the slow moving love scenes of adrian b and her husband are boring and made me just fast forward the movie avoid it
0	this was a very brief episode that appeared in one of the night gallery show back in 1971 the episode starred sue lyon of lolita movie fame and joseph campanella who play a baby sitter and a vampire respectively the vampire hires a baby sitter to watch his child which appears to be some kind of werewolf or monster while he goes out at night for blood the baby sitter is totally oblivious to the vampire's appearance when she first sees him and only starts to put two and two together when she notices that he has no reflection in the mirror has an odd collection of books in the library on the occult and hears strange noises while the vampire goes to talk to the child she realizes that the man who hired her may not be what she thought he was originally she bolts out the door the vampire comes out looking puzzled and the episode is over i don't know what purpose it was to make such an abbreviated episode that lasted just 5 minutes they should just have expanded the earlier episode by those same 5 minutes and skipped this one a total wasted effort
0	low rent version of ashley judd's double jeopardy sutherland is too professional to be bad but what was fonda thinking the penelope ann miller curse continues think about it when has she ever been in a good movie other than other people's money and i'm not saying she's bad but all of her movies fail in some way
0	bridget fonda is the sexually satisfied wife of handsome hart bochner one afternoon she comes home calls him honey and quietly fixes him a drink only to find that he's sulking minutes go by while she puts up with his frowning silence suddenly he bursts into a rage accusing her of infidelity in the complete absence of any reason to do so calls her the c word slams her head against a cabinet slaps her around and winds up flinging her off the second floor balcony breaking her hand and a couple of ribs br br she wakes up in the hospital where it is revealed she is deaf although we notice that she reads lips perfectly that avoids all the awkwardness associated with an asl interpreter or having her squawk words in a of language br br all right let me just lay out the basic plot elements this beautiful and devoted handicapped woman is beaten by her husband misunderstood by her elderly mother betrayed by her sister has her bank account emptied by unknown hands almost raped by a fat man who accosts her in a bar is thought to have murdered her now missing husband and is pursued by two cops kiefer sutherland and steven weber one of whom is interested only in justice while the other seems to dislike all women and is embarrassed by their presence the end finds her standing alone at a deserted bus stop with a hand full of cash alone tearful but brave br br now a pop quiz there is only one multiple choice question this story was written by a a man or b a woman not to sound sexist one could as easily pose a scenario about a decorated military hero and trained warrior who is captured by his enemies betrayed by his organization beaten and tortured escapes to exact revenge and winds up with the woman he loves whom he thought he'd lost long ago br br the direction is functional and conventional when fonda regains consciousness in a hospital bed we see from her point of view the faces of the anxious doctors and nurses looking down at her that is at the camera an echo of every scene in myriad second rate movies in which the gurney is being hurriedly wheeled down the corridor and people wearing starched white coats and festooned with hover over the camera br br hart bochner has played a number of evil people in an interesting way some of the characters are stupid die hard and some are rather more than plain rude and the sea will tell his virile handsomeness has a kind of evil tint to it it would be too easy to cast him as a hero nice intentionally bland performance by steven weber as the dumb cop maybe the best in the film br br bridget fonda is interesting too her acting range is limited but it's on full display here what makes her an object of interest is her almost stereotypical beauty she's like a high school prom queen very feminine of course she can't help it if she slithers around or moves her hands so gracefully neither can she do anything about her nose for most of its length it's perfectly normal and attractive but at its very tip there is a bump outward that follows the natural flare of her nostrils the tip of that nose is full of intrigue br br as for the movie
0	worse than mediocre thriller about an abused wife who goes on the lam after she is linked to the death of her husband and sister determined to prove that her husband is alive she follows leads across the state her peril increasing at each stop chasing after her are the traditional 'good cop' and 'bad cop' pair of partners one is convinced of her innocence the other more interested in closing the case and getting home this pair is often able to corner their suspect but never quite to capture her all the main players meet up in a remote town in the desert and the truth begins to unfold with deadly consequences for some br br wow this was a bad movie the lead acted as if she was the cops couldn't find a suspect if he or she is in the police station this happens twice and everyone else is as one dimensional as can be avoid this one at all costs br br
0	the plot was really weak and confused this is a true oprah flick in oprah's world all men are evil and all women are victims
0	terrible absolutely terrible long confusing and unrewarding after about three hours of this painful mess the ending truly is the final nail in the coffin not even the magnificent sexy beautiful goddess francesca annis can save this poor adaptation of agatha christie's work the plot drags and drags and time goes by slowly and suddenly you realize that you don't even have any idea of what's going on anymore by the end even with the usual explanation by the villain there's still a lot that's left unexplained and then… it's over a complete waste of time and without a doubt one of the worst to bear the name of agatha christie
0	spoiler terrible camera work horrible writing non existent plot and numerous plot wholes wonderful acting except for julia roberts who poorly plays someone who is impersonating julia roberts poorly catherine zeta jones is adorable in this movie br br during the movie we repeatedly zoom in on each of the twelve characters twelve is too many even for a classic like 12 angry men and the problem is we tediously zoom in on the characters when all of them are in the same room doing the same thing br br yep clooney's eating yep pitt's eating yep the jew is eating yep the geek is eating yep the eating yep mr sensitive is eating yep yep yep yep yep yep phew this happens at least three other times in the movie yep they're all sitting in cars bored yep they're all getting arrested frightened yep they're all being led out of a jail depressed br br but it wasn't until i was home that i realized how badly they'd got me on this one this is a heist movie right that's what i went to see right but when i walked in and set my car keys in the change jar only then i realized nothing was actually stolen in this movie that's right it's a heist movie where nothing gets stolen oh they try they go to try and steal some boring document or something from some guy's house whatever and it turns out it's already been stolen 20 minutes of my life wasted then they try to steal some egg from some museum yawn and they screw that up and get arrested br br then we see how some fairy french guy stole the egg even before they did and we get all the joy of entrapment except this time the person inside the tight dancing around the fake lasers is an ugly skinny french guy um br br but it turns out he didn't actually steal the egg either actually our heroes stole the egg loooong ago in another movie entirely which would have been a great movie to watch had they made that movie br br instead we see a 30 second clip in black and white about how they robbed some college student of his back pack you heard me the daring caper the ultimate heist the buildup of this 2 and a half hours of utter boring crap is them stealing a back pack from a college student by creatively getting into a fight over baseball teams and distracting him and replacing his back pack with an identical back pack what br br ugh i'm telling you this was so bad i didn't even realize just how bad it was just how badly i'd been robbed until i got home
0	well it wasn't a complete waste armand was as usual very good in the movie the whole turks vs german thing was kind of strange because i remember seeing bulgaria at the beginning of the movie bother to go back and check the central theme is about the serial killings with the whole gang warfare loosely woven in never saw a movie where the characters looked italian supposed to be taking english american accent and euphemisms with german words the climax was the most intriguing part and there are parts of it that still did not make sense to me in any case if you have nothing else better to do you can watch this movie
0	first i have to say that i really love udo kier and have always had respect for armand assante but nothing could save this train wreck of a movie udo does not even appear till much later in the movie and the acting from everyone is just terrible the script is all over the place the dialog is wooden the action is laughable and the plot could be summed up on a dirty cocktail napkin i really wanted to find something redeeming in this movie but found myself holding my hands over my eyes shaking my head and repeating over and over to myself oh udo why why if you are a fan of udo or armand please don't watch this movie it will only make you sad for them
0	this is probable one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br the only reason i gave it 2 stars out of 10 is the appearance of the gorgeous denier in some of the scenes despite her 42 years she is an amazing woman in every aspect her nude scene in the bathroom with armand assante is as hot as hell br br anyway about the movie well nothing really interesting to say a and a turkish gang fight over berlin in scenes that include people open firing on the street in daylight and inside a club where 30 40 people fire at each other with machine guns in a place no bigger than my house and amazingly after some hours of firing just three die and ten are injured lol br br while the gangs fight over berlin a serial killer is killing young children and then dumps them painted white on various places around town br br armand assante appears as the turkish detective who although now working for the police was an ex leader for the turkish gang and now is up to solve the serial killer crimes br br the movie is obviously a very bad rip off of the classic m movie the killing of the children the involvement of the underworld the character of the serial killer and the ending scene with the trial of the serial killer are more than influenced from this classic movie br br the acting is terrible the script just stupid the production of the lowest standards possible and in general this was a great waste of time and money br br don't even bother renting this one
0	i sincerely wonder why this film was ever made a bulgarian italian co production set in a version of berlin where all germans speak english with a german accent and all turks speak english with some turkish words in between is hardly credible the english vocabulary is basically limited to fuck you bastard and the acting is worse than anyone can imagine apart from this racial tensions in germany can be an interesting subject but in the germany i know there are no gangs shooting each other in the middle of the street in clear daylight and if all that is not enough there is also a serial killer going around who kills turkish children and paints them white in order to create some tension we see the serial killer and hear him hum schubert's lullaby but we won't see his face br br i don't even believe they actually shot it in germany there are some street shots that are quite obviously in berlin but the actors are not seen in those shot it's probably bulgaria with some german signs added here and there
0	before watching this film at a screening attended by the director herself we were informed this had won the short film prize at the film fleadh surely this result will give filmmakers hope anyone can do better than this br br how anyone cannot notice the flagrant rip off of donnie darko in this i'll never know the film is pure drivel the acting cardboard the dialogue ridiculous the ending just flat the only of comfort we enjoyed after seeing this rubbish was to loudly comment on how dreadful it was in front of the director yes that was mean but liberating br br at least irish film making can't sink any lower
0	this movie is just plain dumb don't bother watching it believe me you're better off br br long and short of the plot a defense attorney represents a man who murdered his son and other children in defending him she comes across a wooden doll of pinnochio she takes the doll home pinnochio is possessed and begins to start killing people br br this movie moves very slowly only to have such a weak ending the plot is very bad and the dennis michael musical score is pitiful the story written by kevin s tenney is just pointless and evokes no horror or fear this is a far cry from his work on night of the demons and witchboard which are decent outings but nothing to write home about his directing is ok but with such a bad story no one could have made this movie any good br br in conclusion 2 out of 10 perhaps the blandest most boring movie i've seen all year
0	you get this stupid excuse of a child's play rip off man what were they thinking first they mess with a rumpelstiltskin horror movie then they make crap like this tale haters well to be honest i've seen this as a kid and it scared me a bit a lot simply because i was under aged with the assumption that pinocchio wouldn't do that wah wah wah but i've grown and come to think of this as child's play rip a fairy tale bashing nonsense and a lame tales from the crypt episode or trying to be one at least with a lame ending that was stupid and it had many plot holes and i still can't understand how it came to life was it the work of an evil then what after a few evil deeds he becomes a real boy who becomes america's most wanted personally i think the concept of an evil sounds better he builds an army of wooden killers and starts a crime wave funny but this is awful awful awful awful awful awful stinky like a shoe and awful it sucked it sucked if you want killer puppets settle for the killer doll specifically child's play instead no strings attached or if you want a fairy tale figure turned upside down watch leprechaun or if you want pinocchio watch the animated version or live version with jonathan taylor thomas and martin landau instead 10 10 negative 10
0	i have never seen a b movie like this one on the part that the nanny sofia is being killed a hand of a woman appears on the tape handling the stick how bad is that lol i seriously laughed and wanted to stop seeing the movie but i kept watching it to see if this movie could get worse lol it is bad for itself poor pinocchio the only nice bit is the first time you see some special effects of pinocchio's face moving apart from that the whole movie is awful it's not really worth your time if you don't really have much to spare but if you have nothing to do go on treat yourself with some z movie cos b movie is still too good for this one lol
0	i was really disappointed after viewing pinocchio's revenge the other night i had a good inclination that it was going to be a bad one but i didn't think that it'd be as bad as it turned out a wooden puppet of a murdered boy falls into the hands of an attorney's eight year old daughter from there it is a murderous path for anyone who gets in the way between the puppet and the little girl we've seen movies like this before i e the child's play series which is by the way far better however it was good to see actors like james w quinn and todd allen both of which have worked under kevin tenney before in any event i encourage viewers to check out night of the demons and the original witchboard these are titles that tend to bring out the best in kevin s tenney
0	pinocchio's revenge is not a good movie nor is it terrible br br the acting was wooden at least on pinocchio's part the puppet had all of 2 expressions as did most of the actors except strangely enough the secondary characters most of them were enjoyable over the top br br the special effects in this are pretty b and as i said earlier the puppet really blew br br the 2 best scenes in the movie are the knife through the hand looked pretty good i think they spent about a 1 3 of the budget on that and the shower scene wow i think they must have spent the other 2 3rds of the budget on talking the actress who did that scene to do it outstanding br br seriously this is a slightly below average b horror puppet movie rent chucky if you have a urge to see puppets kill br br the story had a few interesting idea's enough to keep me watching it to the end
0	every james bond movie has its own set of rules just like every indiana jones movie has its own set of rules and the fact that screenwriters don't break these rules maintains the integrity of the characters with a completely unnecessary plot twist the integrity of both ocean films plummets somewhere between airplane 2 and a roadrunner cartoon br br imagine what would happen while teetering on the rope bridge outside of the temple of doom if indy told shorty and willie not to worry because throughout the entire first two movies he's secretly had super powers and can fly them both to safety br br entertaining sure for a roadrunner cartoon but spielberg would never have done that because it would have destroyed the integrity of the film more importantly it would have angered the audience they'd already sat on the edge of their seats through 3 hours worth of indiana jones movies and they were counting on indiana to get them off that bridge in a believable way if he were to fly off people would have walked out of the theaters the same way people did during ocean's 12 br br spoilers br br 1 julia tess infiltrates a museum by disguising herself as julia roberts a clever twist by breaking the fourth wall three hours after we've been introduced to these characters is this the naked gun 33 and 1 3 it's a textbook example of how a cheap laugh can ruin an entire film but wait just in case you haven't walked out yet br br 2 the suspense builds throughout the last hour of the movie how will they pull off the heist there are only 10 8 5 2 days left and then in the last 12 minutes of the film the only entertaining part of this movie we see that the heist was made days earlier and took matt damon all of 30 seconds to pull off the past 10 days a complete waste of your time br br back to indiana jones on the rope bridge just relax willie i stole the real stones back about a month ago besides i convinced them you were kate capshaw br br if you haven't already seen it cut your losses and go see the polar express i don't want to ruin the ending for you but there really is a santa claus most importantly you won't feel cheated leaving the theater
0	play made a new genre of horror the killer dolls some of this films has not got too much money for make it but i think that the only film that make shadow to chucky is this ok it´s a product direct to video or direct to tv but pinocchio is not real and the killer is the little girl the imagination of children are too big and this film play with it the roles are good and mckenzie is great br br
0	this seemed really similar to the child's play movies except so much worse a lawyer tries to save a criminal who was convicted of killing his son from execution she fails the lawyer's daughter then finds a puppet that the killer had buried with his son and is immediately attached to it then after several people are seriously injured they find the little girl secretly talking to the doll saying that she didn't hurt anyone throughout this movie i found myself asking myself ' why am i watching this cheeze ' over and over the end sucked so bad that i went and watched the disney cartoon version right after and slept with the light on
0	when i first heard about this movie i eagerly went out to rent it believing mistakenly that it was one of those so bad it's fun movies and that i was in for a treat i was wrong br br for starters the pace is agonizingly mind numbingly slow the pace doesn't even begin to pick up until the last 15 20 minutes of the movie the plot was boring and the ending was nonsensical and confusing for those looking for a cheesy horror movie with cheap thrills look elsewhere this movie provides the cheesiness in spades but is sorely lacking in thrills cheap or otherwise br br try child's play instead
0	i bought this movie hoping that it would be another great killer toy movie i am a big fan of the child's play series and was hoping to see the same here boy was i wrong most of the movie was not the least bit scary plus the only time we really see pinocchio alive is the final few scenes of the film the little girl in the film her acting is so bad it's almost laughable plus the ending never showed what happened to the puppet or what made them put the little girl in a asylum or wherever she was at the end of the film so in my opinion this movie is the worst of the killer toy genre if you want a good killer toy series stick with the child's play franchise pinocchio's revenge is a waste of money and time
0	about one step above an olsen's twins film there's a nary a surprise in store here except for how repulsive the bloated hunchbacked depardieu looks walking around the beach without a shirt on this guy was supposed to be some sort of heartthrob quasimodo hubba hubba well whatever br br katherine heigl's a great actress whose career over the last several years has displayed a lot of her potential as both a comedic and dramatic actress but this movie definitely didn't do anything to offer her a break out role her vapid character lacks any trace of personality or self esteem spending her entire vacation crushing on a cute boy that she thinks is the greatest guy in then world basically because he's a cute boy yet she can't be honest with him for two seconds ladies let me tell you something if a guy's really into you he's not going to stomp off in a huff because you tried to pass your dad off as your boyfriend he may be a little confused about why you'd do something so silly contrived and um incestuous but in the end it's just going to be something you'll laugh together about br br the plot and dialogue hits every right on cue no originality and no wit but it's sweet and ben's cute so viewers who think titanic is the greatest movie ever made will of course say this movie is great because they won't notice that it doesn't have a brain in its head one star
0	i have really enjoyed several movies by gérard depardieu and expected i'd like this movie a lot more than i did the biggest reason was that i just didn't find the movie very interesting or funny so it didn't hold my interest also although he does not sleep with his headstrong daughter the idea that she is lying by telling everyone that he is her much older lover is just plain icky yes i know there is no incest and i know that nobody around them knows he really is her father but i found that any kid passing her dad off as her sexual paramour is too yucky and prevents the movie from truly being funny in addition i really didn't like this little brat very much apart from her lies she seemed very sassy and self involved i would have preferred if somehow she'd gotten her come uppance and somehow been punished as i just didn't like her
0	and parading around a 14 year old girl in a thong swimsuit is one of them to fans of this movie i'd like to ask would you allow your daughter to walk around a resort dressed like that and would your 14 year old be able to handle the reaction she'd get from men if yes i'd like to know why on both counts a suit like that is a clear invitation to men it's hypocritical to suggest that's not br br and on another point what teenage girl would ever claim her father was her lover without the excuse of severe mental problems that's almost as disgusting as the swimsuit br br simply put some things are just not funny or appropriate and they never will be
0	i couldn't stand to watch very much of this crap this is your standard junk that certain annoying women love old english era drama with lots of costumes and cliché characters that seem to be plucked from either directly from oliver twist or some other dickens novel this uses the usual clichés from the victorian era certain idiotic people really think that the whole emotional torture of that culture being so bloody repressed is somehow fascinating and romantic this is sap pure and utter junk and boring as watching grass grow as such it is perfect for women who crave some sort of english countryside snoozer romantic drama in a victorian setting but for this man this movie is nothing but torture and cruel and unusual punishment to watch a bunch of drab boring scenes with unoriginal characters speaking in that wretched forced and fake english accent
0	i've just watched and i'm stunned to see the 8 10 average rating for the show br br not only was the plot was difficult to follow but it seems character development was randomly applied br br the actors were adequate but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional once this happens the story really falls flat and becomes tedious br br and just in case anyone didn't see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film br br the end scene is disappointing and phoned in and anyone who sat back and went ohhh so they were carpet munchers all along must have been out for the evening br br two stars for the hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy none for the rest of it
0	i like and viva la bam so i couldn't resist this when i saw it for £1 99 in it is bam debut scripted film penned by himself and brandon and stars the entire crew ryan dunn himself rake don vito etc etc brandon also is in charge of the artistic direction which is one of the film's greatest merits its quite in its colour style but also shows progression br br basically it follows very loosely ryan dunn's break up with girlfriend played by played by bam named after by any chance and falcone play his best mates who reek havoc by doing various stunts br br its a bit like the films but with a linear storyline which is very basic indeed and poor acting its strange the usually super gang seem to have the life sucked out of them when they know what their meant to say next br br the acting and script is pretty appalling for the most part but the second half of the film is much better than the first 90 mins is a stretch for the flick though and there are a number of redeeming factors such as tony hawk's cameo sub plots such as 'the invention awards' and 'the diamond the soundtrack is also very strong its not all and him in fact mc's steal the film in terms of its use of music in the second half of the film the sense of fun is much more real especially since don vito has a fairly prominent role in the latter part and he seems to steal every scene he is in br br the film will appeal to those who like the antics but only because of the core material and not the filler or story line bullshit oh and will someone tell bam that skating montages especially in films is sooo 1998 br br however the best part of the package on the dvd is not the film but the 40 mins 'making of' doc br br the last 20 minutes of the documentary deal with and the crew's real feelings towards each other amazing candidly as usual bam comes across as a bit of a dick especially towards drink problem and ryan dunn comes across as a really nice down to earth guy the last ten mins of the documentary deal with a friend who is an infrequent member trying to kick heroin whilst staying at the household with the crew and a caring side of gang ape and ryan really comes across a startling gem in an otherwise dull dvd br br for £1 99 i'm very although i hope bam stays to the improvised and short skits from now on
0	i had very high hopes walking into this movie after all ocean's 11 was a truly great hollywood product its rapid fire jokes incredible star power and tight script made it one of the most fun caper films i have ever seen of course with all the money it made a sequel was on the way and i for one was excited br br needless to say i was absolutely blown away by this movie blown away by how horribly wrong things can go this movie had everything going for it the return of the entire original cast the same director news stories of crazy on and off set antics how could it possibly have gone so wrong br br it starts immediately with one of the most awkward and unnecessary opening sequences ever and goes downhill from there after reasonably goofy short scenes between pitt zeta jones and clooney roberts the film spends several minutes watching andy garcia waltz from scene to scene telling each individual member of danny ocean's original eleven that he wants his money back believe me when i say that these scenes are only here to pad andy garcia's running time because without these ridiculously awkward shots his screen time would be well under five minutes br br this leads me to another major qualm i had with this film the pacing is so uneven that characters are dropped completely from the story and only sometimes brought back later bernie mac's character is dropped from the script early on and never comes back except for 2 short scenes with no dialogue garcia appears for the first few minutes and returns for an exceptionally brief scene at the end roberts shows up for about 5 minutes at the beginning and isn't even mentioned again until there's about 20 25 minutes left even clooney himself spends a large chunk of the film in prison br br this would all be excusable if the film was funny at all 90 of the jokes fall completely flat and the ones that do work are worth a chuckle at best the plot is undeniably worthless and left me feeling cheated at one point in the film the team takes on a job worth 2 5 million of the nearly 100 million they need to raise before garcia's two week deadline several characters even acknowledge how absurd wasting the time to do this job is but they do it anyway over 30 minutes of the film revolve around this job that they shouldn't even be doing and one gets the feeling that this part of the plot was simply added to pad the running time furthermore the equipment they use to pull this job off clearly cost millions upon millions to fund just wait until you see what they do to pull this job and realize it would cost far more than 2 5 million to pull off obviously because of this they have to pull off several jobs to make the money the beauty of the first film was the one big con and how ingeniously and intricately it was pulled off here they pull so many jobs in so many different ways that they rush through all of them because to explain them would make the film several hours long br br we all know walking into this film that there will be a big twist at the end thus is the nature of the caper film the twist at the end of ocean's twelve made me laugh not because it was funny but because i couldn't believe how cheated i felt i won't give it away because i know most of you will be foolish enough to throw down the money to see this movie anyway br br what i will say is that it makes most of the 2 hours you have sat through already completely irrelevant br br i was excited to see this film after absolutely adoring ocean's 11 i left the theater feeling like i had been the victim of a truly great con pulled by the cast and crew of this movie in tricking me into thinking that this movie would actually be worth watching i have never given a 1 to a movie on imdb com but there's a first time for everything consider yourselves warned 1 10
0	i kind of like bam so i was curious br br but watching a home production with somebody elses friends and family with a decent camera and a sound guy just isn't good film making br br writing direction acting and editing is abysmal at best but i sat through half of it and why br br this film gives perfect examples of what not to do it is a film student's dream of what to avoid at every stage of the process cram it into film school all over the joint br br so thanx bam now i know jackass is for real cause you ain't looking to win an oscar dude
0	i did not think haggard was the funniest movie of all time i like and viva la bam a lot more i think a lot of it was just really stupid and had no plot for being a movie i highly recommend not paying a lot of money for this movie but anyone who likes viva la bam or jack ass should see it i loved many parts of the movie and then there were parts that should have been cut out i think that jonny knoxville should have played in the movie because he is a much better actor then most of the people from haggard and probably could have made this movie allot more funnier i think ryan dunn was probably the best actor and it should have had bam skating more
0	this movie was really bad it has that quality that a lot of indie movies have moments of humor filled with long spaces that are completely boring any die hard bam fan will prolly like this movie but then again thats probably the only person who would see it someone gave me this movie to watch knowing i am a fan of jackass and was a fan of viva la bam before the scripted nature of that show wore thin to explain why this movie doesn't work i should just say the premise itself is played out br br a guy who is with a girl who is horrible to him and pretty much the whole movie you've got this ryan dunn guy whining and bam skipping around like a merry mischief maker performance is strange at best it's a humorous little nonspecific canadian french accent that pretty much is the extent of his performance basically funny for 5 minutes and then its like you're pretending to be foreign enough already br br maybe it would work if they were going for parody but all they succeed in doing is making a movie with an iq of zero i love toilet humor as much as the next guy but this isn't even lowbrow its just stupid its like the only humor to be gotten from this movie is completely inside and the audience even those savvy to and company are left out of the joke br br next time is handed a sack full of money let's hope he doesn't blow it on some lousy pet project
0	wow i just watched this movie american people have this stereotypical view towards hindi films such as all indian films have dances songs and a love story its pathetic how far away from the truth that is this film simply exposes the stereotypical western view of hindi films horrible acting horrible direction horrible cinematography and all this by a hollywood director most indian films today are much more content driven realistic touching and meaningful than this piece of crap indian cinema not just hindi also cover a variety of different subjects just like most other hollywood films these days this shows a very stereotypical view of of another country where truth is thrown out the window this is a highly not recommended movie instead watch good hindi films like black friday khakee gangster don dor sholay mother india lagaan those films are what real indian cinema are all about
0	to put in simple words or rather a word would be best suited by pathetic the movie starts with attracting a little interest by the plot but but as few minutes by audience is getting restless for restrooms and getting snacks or to get a breathe of fresh air outside the closed dark hall br br it seems like watching a movie from 1960's where colors were dull directed by a debutant and acted by high school students movie revolves about a american high headed actress trying make a comeback into films by acting in one of the not so great indian movie her acting is real sad complimented by the worse dialogue delivery br br overall i would not recommend anyone to watch this movie still want to watch then try watching it at home when some tv channel airs it believe me it would be fun as this movie would not get a single advertisement and no sponsors br br and better carry a aspirin u might need it if you cant find a remote control to change channel p s i have no clue if the other reviewers even watched the movie i did and wasted my 10 on the ticket
0	i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie it didn't have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd the music was not bad it was quite nice usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes ali her acting had a lot to be desired however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie thank you
0	to me bollywood movies are not generally up to much though they are still quite desired and bollywood is a big file maker as they have their own fans br br the only motive that made me watch the movie was to see to what extent an american actress could change or affect the logic that indian movie were based on not only did not it change the movie story also this blending caused some ridiculous series of events br br i mean it is quite common to see heaps of illogical things through indian movies as they have their own world in their movies but once you see such incidents happen to an american it makes you laugh for god's sake can you believe a famous american actress is stuck in desperate situation and feel impotent can you imagine an american actress falls in loves with a dance instructor whose fiancée already fell in love with american's boy friend and they met each other at the same time there were lot of similar things to mention the less said the better br br perhaps i was wrong as i expected too much from indian movies
0	the basic plot of boasts of a romantic comedy wherein the film industry is kept as a backdrop an american actress played by ali carter gets stuck in india worse that she is out of money she then decides to play a small role in a bollywood musical so that she can earn enough money to get back to her nation here she gets to meet indian choreographer prem played by salman khan basically the movie fails at the script level just by calling a film a hollywood venture doesn't guarantee quality cinema stands out as the best example the art direction is weak and outdated musically turns out to be a dud shankar ehsaan loy's is far from being acknowledged as a decent hear actingwise salman delivers of his most amateurish performances till date ali is good and has immense screen presence performance wise too she is good br br one can also find good reviews regarding this movie at http www net films php id
0	i read the reviews of this movie and they were generally pretty good so i thought i should see it i'm a big francophile and art film lover but i believe this is yet another case in which the critics make something arty or intellectual into something it is not i will be blunt it contains scenes of sexual perverseness that i never ever wanted to actually see obviously the piano teacher has some major psychological issues but i really did not want to see them displayed so graphically the film is in essence disgusting i mean when i saw requiem for a dream i was repulsed by the last sort of scene with jennifer connelly but that was not anywhere near the sort of disgust and repulsion i felt during this film
0	i rented the video of the piano teacher knowing nothing about it other than what was written on the video box i did this with some trepidation because films that win awards at cannes are usually very good or very bad unfortunately this one falls in the latter category about one quarter of the way into it i found myself saying out loud this movie is boring about half way through i was saying to myself where have i seen this before at the three quarters mark i had figured it out br br in spite of its literary origins this film is essentially a remake of robert altman's much earlier 1969 and better that cold day in the park although the details obviously differ and altman's work was more plot driven and less of a character study the two films are thematically identical there is nothing new to be seen in this production every aspect of it has been done before a character spiralling out of control with increasingly self destructive behavior abel ferrara's bad lieutenant 1992 a perverse and doomed 'love' culminating in an operatic near death scene david cronenberg's m butterfly 1993 uncommonly brutal sex scenes david lynch's blue velvet 1986 and so on hence i am bemused by the fact that so many found the film to be shocking shattering etc this highly derivative film seems to have been made for the sole purpose of making viewers feel uncomfortable and clearly succeeded with some however i largely attribute such a reaction to a lack of film viewing experience see enough movies and you really will eventually have seen it all and while it is true that i saw the expurgated 'r rated' version i doubt that the additional scenes would change my overall opinion of the piano teacher br br technically the film is not without merit there is some very good camera work and the lighting is excellent isabelle huppert's creditable performance also helps save it from being a waste of time this is the first of haneke's films that i've seen and if i were to see more i expect i would have the same opinion of him that i have of ferrara an interesting director but not nearly the genius others make him out to be rating 4 10
0	i thought it was comedy what a hoot i can't believe forsythe or reynolds would actually appear in this piece of trash and then there's the beautiful erika eleniak or whatever this piece of eye candy is called appears she put on a few pounds since her playboy centerfold like about 50 the story line is ludicrous the acting absolutely horrendous and the tired old cliché's that are run over and over and over again boy it took a lot of stamina to sit through this dog the only thing worth it was the laughs and there are plenty if you really want to kill say an hour and a half pick this baby up at the rental shop but make sure you have a room full of brain dead people to watch it with you i think that's who it was written for it plays like they were thinking of a real low rent drug induced audience for this one
0	although i can see the potentially redeeming qualities in this film by way of it's intrigue i most certainly thought that the painfully long nature in the way the scene structure played out was too much to ask of most viewers enormous holes in the screenplay such as the never explained your father died today comment by the mother made it even harder to try to make sense of these characters br br this won first place at cannes in 2001 which is a shock considering perhaps the french had been starved for film noir that year and were desperate for something as sadistic as this film i understood the long scenes as a device to keep the viewer as uncomfortable as possible but when matched with the inability to relate to the main character it went too far for me and kept me at arms distance from the story altogether br br this is a film for only the most dedicated fan of film noir and one who expects no gratification from having watched a film once it's over i loved movies such as trainspotting or requiem for a dream which were far more disturbing but at least gave the viewer something in the way of editing and pacing to watch this teachers slow and painful silence scene after scene just became so redundant that i found it tedious and i really wanted to like this film at every turn
0	well the artyfartyrati of cannes may have liked this film but not me i am afraid if you like the type of film where shots linger for so long that you wonder whether the actor has fallen asleep or the cameraman gone for lunch then it may be for you a large part of it is like this with short sojourns into the realm of unpleasantness i did not find it shocking nor disturbing as some other reviewers have simply a little distasteful and pointless the only reason i did not give this one star is that the acting is commendable ans the film is fairly well shot the plot however has little to recommend a large part of the film just shows a grumpy woman teaching or listening to piano which might appeal to some people but lest you think this is harmless enough be prepared for some snatches of pornography and sexual violence just to wake you up with a bad taste in your mouth not recommended
0	i do not fail to recognize haneke's above average film making skills for example i appreciate his lingering on unremarkable natural day lighted settings as a powerful way to force a strong sense of realism however regarding the content of this film i am very sad to see that in the 21st century there is still an urge to pathologize domination submission relations or feelings and or bdsm practices the problem that the main character has with her mother is unbelievably topical as is the alienation and uncomprehension felt by walter i don't mean the frustration of a lover which is not loved back in the same way which is understandable i mean that he looks upon her as if she were crazy or as if he was a monk come on i mean d s is not something new in the world and i think it is rather silly to treat the subject as if it were something freakish or pathological it isn't in general films dealing with this subject are really lagging behind the times br br so for me i feel that this film ends up being quite a programmatical film worried with very outdated psicoanalitical theories isn't it nearly embarrassing and that does not really relate with real life lives and experiences of those engaged in d s relationships personal experience forums irc chatrooms even recent scholar studies will show this
0	isabelle huppert is a wonderful actor the director of la pianiste understands this providing the viewer with long takes of huppert's face and these are a pleasure to see huppert is not an animated actor she registers emotion with the smallest lift of an eyebrow or flicker of a smile br br other than the enjoyment of watching an experienced actor excel in her profession there is nothing in this movie that makes me want to recommend it well if you enjoy self mutilation sado masochism and bizarre behavior la pianiste might work for you other than these attributes i could not find any redeeming value in it br br buried in all this strange material there is a kernel of truth people who compete at the very highest level musically athletically whatever begin as strange people and are shaped into stranger people by the competitive environment br br not worth a trip to a movie theater to relearn this life lesson br br
0	this movie purports to be a character study of perversion some reviewers have been gulled into assuming that because perversion is depicted the film is psychologically deep actually considering the salacious material it is surprisingly tedious and shallow with no motivational substance why is the main character the way she is you won't find out from the script for a better treatment of the same theme and a more entertaining movie try bunuel's belle de jour
0	elfriede jelinek not quite a household name yet is a winner of the nobel prize for literature her novel spawned a film that won second prize at cannes and top prizes for the male and female leads am i a dinosaur in matters of aesthetic appreciation or has art become so debased that anything goes br br 'gobble gobble' is the favoured orthographic representation in britain of the bubbling noise made by a turkey in the film world a turkey is a monumental flop as measured by box office receipts or critical reception 'gobble gobble' and the piano teacher are perfect partners br br the embarrassing awfulness of this widely praised film cannot be overstated it begins very badly as if made to annoy the viewer credits interrupt inconsequential scenes for more than 11 minutes we are introduced to professor erika kohut apparently the alter ego of the accoladed authoress a stony professor of piano she lives with her husky and domineering mum dad is an institutionalised madman who dies unseen during what passes for the action br br reviewing the piano teacher is difficult beyond registering its unpleasantness what we see in the film and might read in the book for all i know is a tawdry exploitative nonsensical tale of an emotional pendulum that swings hither and thither without moving on br br erika whose name is minimally used is initially shown as a person with intense musical sensitivity but otherwise totally repressed not quite because there's a handbags at two paces scene with her gravelly voiced maman early on that ends with profuse apologies if a reviewer has to yawn extract a leitmotif why not use a pretentious word when a simpler one would do elrika's violently alternating moods would be it br br a young hunk walter studying to become a 'low voltage' engineer whatever that is and playing ice hockey in his few leisure moments is also a talented pianist he encounters elrika at an old fashioned recital in a luxury apartment in what may or may not be paris in the glib fashion of so much art he immediately falls in love and starts to 'cherchez la femme' br br repressed erika has a liking for hardcore pornography shown briefly but graphically for a few seconds while she sniffs a tissue taken from the waste basket in the private booth where she watches br br walter performs a brilliant audition and is grudgingly accepted as a private student by erika whose teaching style is characterised by remoteness hostility discouragement and humiliation br br he soon declares his love and before long pursues erika into the ladies where they engage in mild hanky panky and incomplete oral sex erika retains control over her lovesick swain she promises to send him a letter of instruction for further pleasurable exchanges br br in the meantime chillingly jealous because of walter's kindness to a nervous student who is literally having the shits before a rehearsal for some future concert erika fills the student's coat pocket with broken glass causing severe lacerations to those delicate piano playing hands br br the next big scene by passing the genital self mutilation etc has walter turning up at the apartment erika shares with her mother erika want to be humiliated bound slapped etc sensible walter is for the moment repulsed and marches off into the night br br at this point there's still nearly an hour to go the viewer can only fear the worst erika tracks down walter to the skating rink where he does his ice hockey practice they retire to a back room lusty wally is unable to resist the hands tugging at his trousers his 'baby gravy' is soon expelled with other stomach contents ho hum br br repulsed but hooked perhaps desirous of revenge for the insult so recently barfed on the floor walter returns to erika's apartment can you guess what happens now it's not very deep or difficult yes he becomes a brute while erika becomes a victim one moment he's locking maman in her room and slapping erika the next he's kicking her in the face having sex with her and renewing his declarations of love br br am i being unfair in this summary watch the film if you want but i'd advise you not to br br anyone can see eternity in a grain of sand if they're in the right mood i could expatiate at the challenging depiction of human relationships conveyed by this film if i wanted but i 'prefer not to' because this is a cheap and nasty film that appeals to base instincts and says nothing br br i'm supposed to say that parentally repressed erika longs for love ineffectively seeks it in pornography inappropriately rejects it when it literally appears pink and throbbing under her nose belatedly realises that she doesn't like being hurt blah blah blah br br the world has for reasons not explained stunted her she apparently makes a monster out of someone who appeared superficially loving but surely we all know that any man is potentially a violent rapist because that's his essential nature however much he tries to tell himself and the world otherwise br br at the end if you have the patience to be there there's a small twist before going to the final scene where she's due to perform as a substitute for the underwear soiling student with the lacerated hands erika packs a knife in her handbag for walter br br yes you're ahead of me she stabs herself in a none life threatening area and leaves roll credits br br if this earned the second prize at cannes just how bad were the rest of the entries
0	a man is a hotel with a partner he finds out the hotel is over insured things just get worse this film has a huge of scenes they must have been put together in sleep it jumps around from place to place it does not stay focused on anything for very long the ending starts on christmas morning with a hotel fire it then cuts to a night scene of that fire and then cuts back to day time the dvd sound track is horrible it takes a fair plot and turns into the worst film i have scene in a long time
0	yet again not quite bad enough to make it enjoyable in fact this one is just boring it's reasonably well made even though the script is bad the effects are ok and the acting average apart from james mason who is always great but in this one underused br br i suppose it is hard to write anything about this film because it didn't evoke any reaction in me what so ever br br dull dull dull dull dull
0	this flick is worse than awful it took a good story plot and turned it into schizophrenic cinema the photography is extremely amateurish looks like a 5th graders home movie project filmed with 8mm kiddie cameras the editing appears to have been done by somebody having psychotic flashbacks while on drugs and booze with scenes cut short followed by other unrelated scenes then chopped segments of scenes pasted in totally unnecessary and gratuitous nudity missing scenes daytime scenes inexplicably turning into night time scenes then suddenly back to daytime obviously no continuity tom skerritt wendy hughes and james mason's good acting skills are wasted as are the talents of the key supporting cast forget the villain and the anderson women very amateurish acting this movie is a good candidate for a remake even with skerritt and hughes just have it professionally done this time
0	spoiler alert disjointed and confusing arson drama that has to do with a sinister plan to burn down a major vacation resort before new years day being insured for ten million dollars the man behind valley view estates in the blue mountains in australia julian guy is determined to bring his own project down in flames in order to collect this has to happen by january 1 two weeks hence before the insurance policy on the project runs out br br with his mind totally on his work builder and architect howard anderson tom skerritt has no idea that his boss julian is planning to burn down the resort he's building and possibly set him up as the fall guy anderson gets a bit suspicious when insurance investigator sophie mccann wendy hughes informs him on some very fishy goings on between and the insurance company proud alliance it turns out that proud is actually owned or 60 of it by himself this explains whey is having all these arson fires happen in order to collect the ten million dollars of insurance which is at least twice as much as the entire valley view estates is worth br br we later have sophie mccann murdered in a faked swimming accident to keep her from finding out whats happening with the suspicious fries around and in valley view estates it's when lloyd's of london who's proud alliance insurance investigator george james mason shows up that takes a powder leaving his ace arsonist on his own and out of control to blow entire plan br br meanwhile anderson has gotten wise to both and who unlike wants the valley view estates to go under for reasons which are never made quite clear just watch the last few seconds of the film to realize that by it's writer and director the arsonist is exposed as he's about to do in his girlfriend with anderson coming to her rescue we then have this wild chase scene with the arsonist getting lost in the valley view construction site only to have it set on fire with the help of howard anderson where he ends up burning to a crisps by the time the fire department came to hose him down br br the sudden and unexplained ending never made clear to just what happened to the big cheese in this whole scheme of things the sinister and evil minded julian it's as if got away scot free and only his unstable and deranged henchman the arsonist who was only the instrument of crimes ended up as the only person who payed from them
0	question how does a film merit two different titles like the librarians and strike force br br answer the film is sooooooooo bad that the filmmakers couldn't even decide on a title br br this film is a hodgepodge of martial arts death wish melodrama romance and other cliché film techniques the story focuses on a vigilante group called the librarians led by agent simon william forsythe the group is hot in pursuit of a nefarious multi creature named marcos andrew divoff who captures women and holds them hostage in the lawless urban world of south florida br br burt reynolds appears as a cameo in this film and his scene is entirely extraneous to the action burt delivers a long monologue in one of the strangest i have ever heard this may have been burt's attempt at an irish dialect but the overall effect is a kind of perverse imitation of marlon brando in the godfather br br also appearing in this film is erika eleniak who has infiltrated the inner circle of bizarre world erika's character kick boxes her way into an alliance with simon the librarians and erika will become a powerful strike force against evil in a film that has been delivered directly from the editing room to your cable tv box
0	i've been on a bad run of films this is a clinker about an arson plot and a psychopath tom skerrit whom i really enjoy was pretty young here he is a builder with a passion but he has a partner whose profit motive includes over insuring and burning into the mix comes an agent who is drowned his daughter and her nut case boyfriend james mason plays the insurance investigator any idiot given a little warning would know something was rotten in the nation of australia still they bumble their way the most interesting thing to me was that the huge hotel that was going to be built never got beyond being a bunch of sticks low budget i guess the plot could have been interesting maybe they should have hired a film editor the did half the time you don't know where the characters are but i guarantee a five million dollar payoff would have probably made a close watch on the structure mandatory it doesn't work although there is lots of neat fire
0	additionally titled burning man and flash fire for its various releases this australian made film shot in new south wales is problematic for its producers from its outset due to several personality conflicts and extended shooting time that prematurely uses up its allocated budget and although the storyline is at times nicely detailed below standard post production finishing and overmuch cutting jettisons the affair tom skerritt plays as howard anderson an american entrepreneur with a passion for building who is in process of a tourist hotel in the blue mountains region all the while unaware that his business partner julian guy has insured the incomplete structure for ten million dollars far more than its actual worth and plans its destruction as corollary to normal summer brush fires in order to collect a handsome sum through fraud in line with this illicit scheme arranges for an arsonist to perform the incendiary deed a young man who also happens to be the boyfriend of anderson's daughter and due to the future being in the midst of a critical fire hazard sector one of the many unexplained elements of the screenplay julian has every expectation that his dastardly design will come about without serious hindrance as the local insurance firm victimized by the crime is majority owned by the naturally skeptical lloyd's of london deploy senior investigator george james mason to probe into the nature of the made more sinister because of the death possibly a homicide of an insurance investigator wendy hughes who in following clues was apparently coming close to the cause of the arson the setting for the film is the week before christmas of summer in the antipodes a dramatic background but the links within the story are not smoothly compounded resulting in the presentation of events that are rather difficult for a viewer to follow a problem heightened by erratic editing the mentioned heavy cutting and poor sound and picture quality skerritt's semi comatose and droning style is fatally by this dim sound processing but mason is very effective as ever and enjoys the best dialogue with hughes impressive as the too early written out investigator wins acting laurels with his performance as the malevolent julian
0	this movie is honestly one of the greatest movies of all time if you suffer from insomnia it is a fool proof way to guarantee hours of sleep at a time as the movie slowly progresses the audience slips into a state of unconsciousness and gradually loses sight of any sort of plot that the movie might actually contain this effect is surely created due to the lack of sweet action sweet babes br br also mr eisenstein was obviously unable to master the art of montage a prime example of this is the scene on the odessa steps for no apparent reason an event that in real life would have taken a matter of seconds is transformed into a seven minute nightmare for any sane viewer this editing flaw tarnishes any sort of realism in the entire film honestly i've seen more realistic editing watching cartoons br br some individuals who have commented on this title have hailed battleship potemkin as one of the greatest movies of all time and truly a masterpiece well i'm writing this comment to persuade readers to avoid watching this film at all costs my best guess is that my fellow potemkin critics simply wrote the wrong words in their summaries surely what they meant to say was one of the greatest snooze fests of all time and truly an epic fail br br in conclusion don't waste your time if you are interested in watching a movie of far superior quality go to www youtube com and watch a halo 3 montage if i played the movie battleship potemkin in a game of slayer on guardian i would shoot it in the face with my sniper rifle and then its dead body peace
0	this is a really really bad movie however it's good to laugh at the horrible ideas and special effects the plot centers around an eu space agency that discovers a 10th planet that orbits directly opposite the earth they send a mission they have been to mars and have yet to discover this planet is anybody stupid enough to fall for this to the planet and can you believe it it's the mirror image of the planet they came from most everything is predictable from that point honestly from the title of the movie you can guess just about everything the only surprising thing here is a space program run by there really can be no excuse for the plot concept or execution so it's good for a laugh or maybe if you are in an altered state of consciousness
0	this is a very dull film with poorly developed characters subplots that go nowhere and barely tolerable acting it comes across as a poorly conceived rip off of 2001 br br the only thing making it worthwhile are the sets and costumes and visual effects but even that wasn't enough to keep me from nodding off i would like to get the soundtrack especially the music during the space flight sequence for nights when i have trouble falling asleep
0	being the sci fi fan that i am i was always curious about this film so i was excited to see journey to the far side of the sun finally get released on an affordable dvd the previous print had been fetching 100 on ebay i'm sure those people wish they had their money back but more about that in a second br br anyway the premise of this film just like twilight the parallel is that there is an undiscovered planet resembling earth on the other side of the sun this planet is of course exactly like ours except that it's inverted this basically means their letters are reversed and people drive on the wrong side of the road br br sound intriguing well that's basically all there is to this film the first hour or so is dedicated to the preparations for the journey to this other planet it's just tedious scenes of switches being pressed banal dialog etc there's no point to it whatsoever gerry anderson managed to find the most boring british actors in the history of cinema to play most of the roles i mean they are so dull i'm surprised the crew was able to stay awake to finish the film br br anyway once the crew finally lands on the planet after an interminable sequence of the astronauts sitting and literally sleeping in the cockpit roy thinnes notices the copy is all backwards on a bottle of cologne and hops back on another ship to tell people about what he has discovered oops he never gets to do it as he crash lands and dies the end oh wait there's a bonus scene of one of the space executives hurling himself into a mirror in his wheelchair at the end i guess he wanted out of this film too br br i'm really surprised a film like this could get made even back in the 60s rent if you must do not buy
0	i'm also a sf buff among other genres and i especially like those films from 60's and 70's with their ideas over effects premise that produced so many intelligent and likable stories put on screen in a nutshell i completely agree with scott review of this movie i heard of this film and being what i previously mentioned a 60's and 70's sf buff with a penchant for sf stories with touch of the twilight zone i expected a lot and my expectations were heightened with reviews ranking the effects of this movie second best to kubrick's 2001 space odyssey what a fraud journey to the far side of the sun was ordinary convoluted half baked silly looking film with laughable amateur special effects and remember i love films from that era and despise cgi and it can be fully compared more to 60's sf disasters such as marooned which journey very much reminded me of the idea behind it all is not that bad but building the plot on a story of a twin planet to earth on which the same world is inverted asked for a master like kubrick to direct needles to say robert parish is nothing like that so he delivered boring and silly movie that looked and felt like a matinée tv series of those days not worth wasting your time on even if you are an absolute fan of the genre
0	i never saw the other two ninja movies and for all i know there are known but for some reason i watched this one this one starts out rather fast as this one ninja goes on a super killing spree he is almost unstoppable as it takes quite a number of bullets to take him down he is not out for the count though as he ends up possessing a woman and he then continues his killing ways by using her as his tool another ninja enters the fray and apparently the only way you kill a ninja is with another ninja so he volunteers this leads up to a big battle at the end as the dead ninja goes back into his body and they have it out in an all out war sounds better than it actually turned out being but at least it was not boring
0	ninja iii is not quite as bad as enter the ninja the first part of this trilogy but it's still a very bad movie it will hardly please the fans of martial arts movies because there isn't enough action but even the action scenes themselves are often spoiled by laughable excesses and needless violence as if the film wasn't already weak enough the filmmakers turn parts of it into an idiotic the exorcist rip off the only redeeming value is the winning presence of the actress who plays the dominated heroine she is a beautiful and athletic woman which the director doesn't forget to exploit in various sleazy ways she just happens to be an aerobics teacher i don't mind a little soft core exploitation but it must not pretend to be something else
0	wow this movie is bad think flashdance with ninjas the worst part is when a sword is supposed to be floating in midair but you can see the strings or maybe the worst part is the gigantic eye patch that looks like a coaster that the good ninja wears actually there are so many bad parts i can't make up my mind which is the worst i can't believe anyone actually put up the money to have this thing made the only redeeming value is that it is good to laugh at
0	all things old are new again erika e is on celebrity fitness vh1 florida state rep mark foley is the national buzz for allegedly sending sexually explicit emails to a 16 yr old male page as i edit this mr foley is resigning from his representative seat mr foley you see does his turn at acting as the father of the recovered girl seen during the opening sequence my place in movie history will forever be solidified with my appearance in the graveyard scene i should have looked at this as a omen i hate to say it but be warned if you place this in your dvd be prepare to put your toe on the trigger of the shotgun you'll soon have between your teeth your level of depression has reached its zenith i have seen better writing put to screen on an etch a sketch shot in 1999 00 under the working title the librarians in and around palm beach co why the librarian's you ask well you would need to be wrapped as tight as binding to be able to read anything into this frat party of over the hill stunt men plying their trade onto celluloid for one last time oh well enough with the accolades burt reynolds as a irish mobster in miami no less possibly the worst forced accent impression since linda lovelace in deep throat william forsythe as a hip slick and cool tough guy doubtful possibly 10 years ago i'd say it's curtain time for mike you now have the forsythe to pass up this sub par movie more like a film school project for anything on tape disc or paper your local retailer has to offer
0	rita hayworth plays a brooklyn nightclub dancer named rusty who specializes in cheesecake chorus revues she manages to get herself on the cover of a national fashion magazine but her impending success as a solo with romantic offers all around has smitten boss gene kelly chomping at the bit terribly tired piece of technicolor cotton candy with unmemorable musical sketches the two worst of which are irrelevant flashbacks to the 1890s with hayworth portraying her own grandmother kelly as always dances well but acts with false sincerity when he's serious he's insufferable and the rest of the time he's flying on adrenaline the script is a lead weight not even giving supporting players phil silvers and eve arden any good lines 1 2 from
0	i saw this movie a few years ago and man i never want to golf again i mean ninjas apparently have no respect for the game of golf or the way it has evolved and i'm not talking about victimless stuff like forging a scorecard no no based on what i've seen here they shamelessly massacre policemen and golfers alike on hallowed country club grounds judge would be spinning in his grave and do they repent for said sins no no based on what i have seen here the typical response by a slain ninja is to take over the body of a buxom female telephone and seek revenge i find this morally reprehensible and needless to say after viewing this nonsense i not only stopped golfing and talking on the telephone but also decided to stop feeding the homeless
0	following the movie that represents the pinnacle of the 1980's ninja genre namely 'the revenge of the salivating fans were to this bizarre offering that mixes ninja shenanigans with spiritual possession the end result being not dissimilar in nature to that somewhat horrifying experience when one spies a nugget of human poop floating menacingly towards oneself in a public swimming pool br br take for instance the supposed 'action introduction which is set of all places on a golf course here we witness an evil green clad ninja slaying a group of golfers for apparently no discernible reason whatsoever although i must admit that the shallow elitist attitude adopted by many participants of this particular sport does irk me somewhat though hmmmm perhaps that's why he murdered them yep i can relate to that after all actually later in the movie we are told that one of the golfers was a top scientist but this story line is never elaborated upon nor alluded to ever again br br anyway back to the intro the police proceed to surround the golf course and basically shoot the absolute hell out of the assassin and they have to keep on shooting him because he just won't stay down yes literally hundreds of rounds are pumped into him and still he gets up to slay of the law enforcement numbers br br finally after what seems like an eternity our miscreant detonates a smoke bomb and disappears or so it seems for in actual fact he is merely hiding beneath the soil and upon our decidedly gormless officers leaving the scene to search for his body he crawls out from hiding and staggers away br br we next see the lovely lucinda dickey a truly beautiful actress and in superbly fit physical condition here playing a telephone repair worker from her high vantage point she happens to spot the dying at last ninja however upon closer investigation the man supposedly on his last legs suddenly leaps upon her and grapples her to the ground after a bit of a struggle our feisty heroine manages to break free luckily but doesn't count on the ninja possessing hypnotic powers and she inevitably succumbs to them it is at this point that the dying ninja actually projects his soul into our heroine his intention is to use her corporeal form to slay those officers who killed him the few he didn't actually manage to wipe out initially br br from this point on throughout the film whenever our heroine spots one of the aforementioned officers she is subjected to some overwhelmingly awful cinematic scenes of flashing lights smoke effects and the sword that the ninja bequeathed unto her levitating towards her in a most wobbly manner br br to make matters more complex a particularly irritating police officer who sports enough back and shoulder hair to put an average yak to shame persists in trying to win her affections in a most bloody annoying manner well of course it doesn't take the gift of preconception to work out that in a rather feeble 'shock' less twist towards the end of the film he is revealed to be one of the officers she must slay br br but wait there's some hope yet br br step forward the one and only sho kosugi br br yes the ninja himself and looking here as cool as ever golf club news obviously travels fast and upon learning of the said events that transpired there he flies all the way from japan to sort the situation out suspecting the worst in a brief sub story that amounts to all of a few seconds sho's interest in this particular ninja is demonstrated to be personal after the said villain is shown to have murdered sho's father teacher and blinded one of sho's eyes thus necessitating sho to wear a really decorative looking sword guard eye patch br br after stealing his dead body from the morgue and then tracking down our heroine who provides an unwitting abode for the evil soul matters climax at an oriental temple seemingly in the middle of nowhere where our man sho manages to reunite the two disjointed aspects br br now reanimated from the dead the evil ninja and sho battle it out in traditional ninja style with swords with the winner being well yes you can probably guess br br really this movie has only two things going for it namely the always excellent kosugi who looks absolutely fantastic in the role as always and the lovely miss dickey what a shame that the material they found themselves in here is such a rancid pile of br br oh well to be fair i've seen a lot worse than this in my time although i certainly still can't recommend this other than to those desperate to complete their sho kosugi ninja movie collections
0	and boy is the collision deafening a female telephone is taken over by the spirit of a recently deceased ninja strips down to her undies pours tomato juice on her body so her boyfriend can lick it off performs a seductive dance then goes off to kill the policemen who killed the ninja she's possessed by only to be hunted down by a one eyed ninja master just like in real life eh enlivened only by sho kosugi's martial arts choreography and his declining to put his obnoxious kids in this one you really have to see this to believe it it's the ultimate mix of totally at odds genres
0	you can only describe this with one word and that would be wow wow i really did not think piece of crap like this could ever be released if you watch a movie titled ninja then you expect to see at least some cool martial artists right however none of these guys know any martial arts whatsoever and it seems like they went to china and picked the first people they saw on the street and trained them for a day in martial arts that's the level of their martial arts skills the actors are way overacting the special effects are ridiculous and there is not any plot that makes any sense this is the worst martial arts movie i've ever seen and i have seen plenty
0	i remember catching this movie on one of the showtime channels what stood out for me is that this movie takes place entirely in phoenix arizona i'm from there so i spot the locales easily br br regardless a ninja kills a scientist because they wear yellow sweaters and golf who is pursued by the police it takes about half the police force to take him down and when they do eventually kill him there are no discernible bullet wounds his spirit lives on however when a woman finds her and touches his katana br br from then on she periodically gets possessed and kills the police officers who killed the original ninja then another ninja from japan comes to kill the evil ninja this might be a plot device from the previous two films or perhaps a plot hole all i know is that this movie is very campy bad and entertaining this is something to watch with a tub of popcorn and several friends and give it the mst3k treatment
0	you know after the first few chuck norris movies i got so i could tell that a movie was produced by golan globus even if i tuned in in the middle without ever looking at the credits or the title what's more i could tell it was golan globus within a minute of screen time something about the story structure the goofy relationships between the characters the mannered dialog the wooden acting spiked with the occasional outright terrible performance the scene tempos and rhythms that made albert pyun look like john the paper thin plots and not ready for prime time fight choreography golan globus has been incredibly consistent over the years in style subject matter and point of view br br what can you say it must work for them since they've produced literally dozens of movies you go to one of their productions and you know exactly what you're getting and it ain't brain food folks br br ninja 3 is another piece of in a long line of products from the g g sausage factory and offers the typical limited pleasures to the movie goers' palate you've got a bad ninja slicing up cops and criminals and anyone else who gets in their way you've got a good ninja pledged to stop him you've got a westerner thrown into the mix so we americans can identify with him or her in this case and be reassured that we can still beat those pesky orientals at their own game you've got a love interest who is usually also the worst actor in the film fencing with the hero you've got your endless string of assaults assassinations and lingering shots of men gurgling in agony while an arrow or throwing star sticks unconvincingly out of their eye neck or chest you've got your beefy white guy bodyguards in suits calling a ninja a 'son of a b and throwing a roundhouse punch only to get his ss handed to him you've got a final confrontation between the good guy and the bad guy which goes on for 20 minutes and just sort of stops like a roadrunner cartoon instead of reaching a climax or a resolution br br ninja 3 is a little different in that the plot revolves around a scrappy female athletic type getting possessed by the bad ninja so she ends up killing a lot of the cops and criminals and beefy white bodyguards in suits while under his spell but all the other elements are there as formal in their way as a kabuki play or a drama br br i actually thought lucinda dickey was pretty likable in this film she's nicely muscled and curvy has great cheekbones and some athletic to her movements and you can actually suspend belief enough to accept that her character could do some of the feats she pulls off in the movie she can almost but not quite carry this thing one extra start for her participation and good energy br br naturally sho kusugi is in here and he pretty much dominates the last 10 15 minutes of the movie and just to show you how 3rd rate and uninspired g g movies are the director and editor inter cut the last climactic fight between kosugi and the bad ninja scene with numerous reaction shots of dickey and her boyfriend watching the life and death battle with an expression of mild bemusement i'm serious for all the emotion and reaction they show to the proceedings they could be looking at a sea turtle in an aquarium at i can only imagine how dickey must have felt when she saw the finished product she probably wanted to run the editor through with a katana for real because those reaction shots make her look like a complete idiot br br an enjoyable waste of time but it definitely is a waste of time maybe if you are a sho kusugi fan or even a linda dickey fan you'd find it worth your while
0	this is by far the worst movie ever made i have no doubt i have seen such crap as manos space mutiny and whatnot and i can honestly tell you that they do not hold a candle to science crazed br br science crazed has no plot something about a guy making a woman pregnant via turkey and the child born hours later is fully grown and ready to kill of course being a newborn it takes him about an hour to kill people the director loops footage constantly and takes about fifteen minutes to set up an awkward death there is about a page of dialogue for the whole movie however the dialogue arrives about a minute after it is spoken br br sample scene the monster is walking down a hall we know this because there is about ten minutes of looped footage of his feet in between loops we are treated to two women working out repeat ad nauseum for about 20 minutes when the monster does show up no one moves and everyone looks like deer in headlights as the monster takes another 10 minutes to get to them to kill them by the level of the acting you would guess that the people are already dead br br i know my description doesn't seem too bad but trust me i can not fully describe the pain that is science crazed br br stay away and boycott all video stores that carry it br br
0	a montage prologue quite obviously manufactured by the blessed maniacs who actually chose to distribute this thing tries to convince us that the comic impact of this staggeringly incompetent bit of nothing is entirely deliberate don't you believe it this is to lloyd kaufman as andy warhol is to herschel gordon lewis it is so in its project of torturing its hypothetical audience that it seems like some kind of misanthropic art installation only it can't be because it is so completely bereft of self consciousness as obnoxious and ugly as things or frozen scream this manages to up the ante by recycling itself with a maddeningly bald insistence that has to be seen to be believed a hitchcock style shot by shot analysis of say the attack on the girls might yield twenty edits and perhaps three minutes of footage only the sequence is ten minutes long you want to believe that this started life as a slightly more bearable short subject except if you took away the repetition what's left would be far less fascinating eg when the does enter the room he only inspires extended highly apathetic utterly blank stares from his imminent offscreen victims repeat this scenario about four times in marginally varied settings bridge these with perhaps thirty lines of dialogue total offer up actors even more hateful and lethargic than those in the above mentioned classics and grace us with a monster comprising gauze ketchup and one yellow spock ear and you've got a movie too mind boggling to refuse a working definition of bad i'm proud to own it
0	this is horrific no really this is bar none the absolute worst worst i hesitate to even call it a in' movie it is a ninety minute visual root canal the plot is practically non existent a mad scientist who looks like the frontman from 'the impregnates a woman in his secret lab a lawn chair in what i think may be a garage via an injection of within hours she births a full grown monster who then goes on a rampage thats the whole movie the death scenes these are poorly set up take forever and the acting how can you mess up screaming the victims stand there while the growling wheezing congested freak advances on them and proceeds to limply strangle them for about three days the sets are cheesy the lighting for most of the movie consists of a single yes a big honkin' flashlight the sound quality is poor theres only about 40 words of dialogue for the entire movie and the acting is generously described as wooden footage is shamelessly recycled to pad out the movie and the special effects would make any bbc sci fi production shake their head and proclaim they didn't even try the 'monster' is some nameless in a 3 halloween rubber mask with a few bandages slapped on in its encounter with the lone cop of the movie the cop fires invisible bullets that apparently travel so slow the monster can dodge them at five paces don't see this movie no really thats not a dare don't see this movie the director should be shot the writer should be chained to a giant rock where his liver will be devoured every morning by ed wood enough rentals and there could be a sequel don't let it happen
0	and i may be being generous the overwhelming majority of the movie consists of looped footage the shambling monster two women exercising the shambling monster again a bunch of people in the pool the shambling monster again none the worse for wear despite having been injured you get the picture i restrained myself from yelling get on with it already on several occasions br br and it doesn't help that the footage they used was poorly produced the sound is disconcertingly out of sync with the image and in the one scene where they tried to get artistic with the lighting and camera techniques the lighting guy holding the flashlight that provides the scene's only illumination is clearly visible in the shot br br my hope is that the production was the victim of some horrible disaster in which the original audio track and most of the footage was destroyed but they decided to release it anyways cobbled together from the editing room floor in memory of the heroic crew members who gave their lives trying to save the real film the one with the plot and the interesting dialog sadly there's no evidence of this and i'm forced to conclude that in the immortal words of joel and the bots they just didn't care br br
0	as stated by others this is a ludicrously horrible movie not a film it is not bad in a funny way just painful to try to endure don't waste your time br br erika eleniak is pretty hot but there is one scene where she is in a bathtub and you can see the wrap covering her breasts under the bubbles also she's getting fat br br the fight scenes are so bad as to be unwatchable if you know or care anything about martial arts or even decent choreography and the editing effects are abysmal br br there is no payoff it goes nowhere and sucks getting there
0	following the world war ii japanese attack on u s forces at pearl harbor the kids leo gorcey as bobby jordan as danny connors huntz hall as david gorcey as ernest morrison as and bobby stone as skinny want to serve their country but both the u s army and navy reject them as too young still wanting to knock off about a million japs the boys attack an asian clerk who turns out to be chinese the unfortunate incident does however lead the gang to help uncover some really nasty japanese and german people br br if too young is defined as under twenty one only mr jordan and mr stone would be rejected for military service but it's possible recruiters were turned off by the office manners displayed by mr gorcey and mr hall let's get tough was made during what the script accurately describes as open season on japs for this and other reasons it hasn't aged well it's a wasted effort but the regulars performs ably with tom brown moving the storyline along as jordan's spy brother br br let's get tough 5 29 42 wallace fox leo gorcey bobby jordan tom brown
0	propaganda pro american war effort film that came out in 1942 has the east side kids getting tough against any japanese they spot in their own neighborhood when they learn they're too young to enlist ultimately they learn they were mistaken in their mistrust of some individuals but also happen to stumble across a spy ring they then set out to bust the film is harmless enough in its fashion although some may well take offense given how innocent asians really did get singled out during the second world war overall though it's a pretty generic effort and both leo gorcey and huntz hall would have better moments the best of which tend to come here when they ad lib
0	let's get tough is one of those movies that people probably regret years later that they made full of awful racist jap talk and jokes this east end kids story details how the kids want to join the military to defeat the japs since they're too young they decide to clean the town out of those dastardly japs they find one throw fruit at it without anyone doing anything to stop them and he pulls a short sword out to menace them the cops say to stop annoying him he's only chinese he's on our side when the kids go back to apologize the chinese man's dead it's all part of this huge jap and german spy ring the kids see to it that this is stopped at all costs i'm sure all of this was fine when it was made 1942 but viewed now you realize of course that this is clearly a product of it's time full of stereotypes german and japanese funny how the east end kids have a black kid in the group and he's not spared either gee whiz
0	documentary content amazing man amazing movement he started amazing stories most of them yet to be really told br br celluloid treatment nike ad sorry ain't got nothing else to say about this but that you can say all you want about the dire circumstances in the favelas but if you attempt to support that claim with flashy and romanticized images and camera work of that life the humbleness necessary to show this life as an outsider filmmaker goes out the window and with that goes the legitimacy of the narrative besides that the time space continuum in the film is all off and i'm not necessarily against that in films as a tool but here it serves only to confuse the viewer into wondering what was said when thus leading me to the question is this a documentary or a docudrama br br blogspot com
0	i'd have little to add to bull's eye comment here but as the first brazilian born raised and living in rio de janeiro in a neighborhood just a few miles away from the of depicted in the film to comment on u s financed rising here on imdb i get mixed feelings on the one hand it's good that the dire situation of brazilian favelas are getting more attention from filmmakers and the media both from brazil and abroad since local governments seem to have given up a long time ago one the other hand it's incredibly frustrating that rising turns out to be such a missed opportunity for enlightening non brazilian audiences on the issue because first time directors jeff zimbalist and matt who are from the u s and understandably on the matter turn the biography of group leader anderson into a glamorous in this superficial one sided under researched and misleading documentary good intentions muddled results rising looks like a tv ad is shallow as a prime time tv interview and biased as a promotional video br br rising feels uncomfortably phony for a brazilian viewer and not only because of its hype visual treatment of a bleak reality and its misplaced feel good happy ending city of god is an obvious reference here with cog actors and jonathan cameoing for no apparent reason other than hype rising is allegedly a documentary about the group and its leader anderson but beware when you see the scenes shot in favelas overlooking the beautiful rio shore line you might as well be warned that the home of and anderson is located in an area of rio far away from any beach strange choice of location to say the least br br rising is probably confusing for non brazilians who won't know many of the interviewees and the film won't tell them either and will have to wait for the closing credits to find out that many of the songs on the soundtrack are not by the band though you'll get suspicious when you start to hear pink martini of all people they won't know either that important issues were simply left unmentioned why does the film push the notion that is a one man project why not acknowledge the many partners who supply it with substantial financial and support like city council private brazilian corporations multinational recording companies and international without which might not even subsist why not state clearly that is still plagued by violent drug wars and that its dwellers still live in constant fear of attacks by traffickers and cops why not state clearly that many of the archive footage clips showing police violence and corruption did not take place in how and why did the kid richard finally join why on freaking earth wasn't he interviewed once again at the end of the film br br as for anderson himself the film leaves a lot of loose ends for the viewer what's the story about anderson having two mothers is the baby he holds in his arms his son why is he inspired by shiva is he a buddhist why does a woman appear on the beach when the films mentions anderson's miraculous recovery from the accident is he a follower why not let him explain the contradiction of starting a group that fights drugs and simultaneously praises bob marley if is also a pride building movement for black people from favelas why are the girls in the band limited to booty bouncing routines no you won't get any answers to these questions either br br instead the filmmakers are interested in turning anderson into a composite mix of pop star malcolm x gandhi and christ check out that last image of the statue of christ the redeemer atop hill immediately after showing anderson miraculously walking after his surgery and that's the worst thing the filmmakers could do to anderson and his cause turn him into a special chosen one by the time they show his surgery scar you're ready to believe it's a mark from god br br because what's remarkable about anderson who's the most ordinary guy you could ever meet is that he helped change his environment not by being special but by copying and adapting winning projects like the movement in among others to his own community with strong support by friends artists intellectuals politicians businessmen and the media if you're not fluent in portuguese you probably won't notice that anderson isn't particularly bright or articulate unlike his sharply witty partner josé junior as much as he isn't particularly talented as a singer lyricist or musician yet his ordinariness might have been the film's true inspirational core to show that anyone with idealism perseverance and steady support can in fact contribute significantly to his or her community no need to be jesus incarnate because what really matters is the movement not the guy see haven't we had enough of personality cult br br by the end of rising you probably won't know much more about favelas than you did when you walked in you'll just have seen what some of them look like
0	remember those old kung fu movies we used to watch on friday and saturday late nights when our babysitters thought we were in charge well this movie plays exactly like one of those movies patsy biggest claim to fame was the love interest to mel gibson's character in lethal weapon 2 and this performance was one of the reasons why she's never made it big she's a terrible actress br br in lethal weapon 2 i thought she was cute cute enough to check out some of the other movies she'd been in including loves music loves to dance another big let down which i obviously was not impressed with either but as attractive as she is to my eyes my soul screamed at me to turn it off because she played another cheap predictable role and done it very badly br br in this movie kensit stars as a comedienne and not a good one either who's working the clubs of france couldn't cut it in her own homeland so she's making their ears bleed who's down on her luck but even worse the french government wants to throw her out because of an expired visa or maybe they just caught her act but she gets married to this casanova who is just as down on his luck and the predictability begins terribly is there any way to give this movie a negative rating 1 out of 10 stars is over rating it
0	possible spoiler alert though there's not much to spoil about this film i saw project a part ii not having seen the first movie i don't think i missed much project a part two is not only the worst jackie chan film i've seen to date yes worse than fantasy mission force' this film is one of the most unwatchable films the world has ever seen it's right up there with plan 9 from outer space' on the sleep inducing scale the plot is twisted up and like a 50 foot ball of yarn the cat's been playing with and finally left for dead the if you could call it that seems to have been written by an annoying high school freshman who despite how many people tell him he's not funny is determined to get his lame humor out no matter how painful a movie is made and this movie is painfully bad the plot involves jackie chan as a navy officer recruited by the police force to round up all known he rounds them up in the first half hour of the movie and i prayed for a quick ending which i didn't get why the movie bothers to progress from this point i haven't a clue the movie drags on and on and on with no purpose no plot and attempts at humor that fail so miserably they make carrot top look like a comedic genius the kung fu in this movie is lame and forgettable there's better kung fu in that movie about the 3 ninja kids project a part ii is neither an action movie nor a kung fu movie it is however a complete waste of the talents of jackie chan and maggie cheung who have made films worlds superior to this as jackie chan repeatedly escapes certain death i enter blair witch' mode asking and wishing is he going to die now so the movie can end an example of how ludicrous this movie is jackie chan is handcuffed to another man a gang of pirates that look nothing like pirates throw axes at jackie does jackie grab one of the wayward axes and break the chain on the handcuffs no you see that would spoil the gag of him being handcuffed to another person if you have a friend who laughs at everything i encourage you to watch this movie with him or her and watch as even they won't get a chuckle out of this film if you're an insomniac this movie is sure to put you to sleep do not operate heavy machinery while watching plan a part ii possible side effects include headache strain and death by boredom 0 9 stars
0	this lame harold lloyd sound film has nary a laugh in it and makes one wonder if this lloyd is even the same one that made all of those delightful and hilarious silents br br lloyd's boyish likability becomes fey and limp when we can hear him talk and a sluggish restrained pace replaces the zany antics of his silents lloyd plays a young son of a missionary who grows up in china and then finds himself transplanted to contemporary new york city without a clue as to how life outside his chinese village works he finds himself an unlikely victor in a mayoral election and quickly draws the ire of all the government organizations because he refuses to look the other way in the face of rampant corruption when he's framed in an attempt to bring him down he decides to play just as dirty as everyone else and stages a fake execution of every crook in nyc as a scare tactic this darkly satiric ending feels out of place next to everything else in the movie but it's the only part of the film that comes remotely to life everything else is a dull bore br br i don't like having to admit that a harold lloyd movie fails because i like him so much but i don't have a choice with this one br br grade d
0	if one were to return to the dawn of the talking picture one would prophesy a bright future for harold lloyd unlike his competitors he was comedic actor trained on the legitimate stage not a performed raised in the purgatory of the music hall or vaudeville circuit he had a good voice which matched his image moreover from 1924 on his silent films had incorporated sequences based on sound gags lost on the audience e g the bell sequence at the fall frolic from the freshman and the monkey sequence in the kid brother yet lloyd's sound features consistently failed at the box office once the novelty of welcome danger had lloyd blamed his fall on many external sources but never realized that the glass character's enemy was not sound but the great depression pre depression audiences giddy with optimism may have rooted for this ambitious go getter in whom they saw their surrogate depression audiences despised him as the person likely to on their mortgage and throw them in the gutter compounding this problem of character choice is lloyd's perception as an insincere glad hander sincerity of course is a subjective appraisal but it is undeniable that lloyd despite his own tragic upbringing could never play a convincing down and outer perhaps this is because he feared returning to that state permanently the cat's paw fails for these reasons but it alone suffers from the revelation of lloyd's pro fascist agenda many film scholars believe that lloyd was prompted to make this film because he saw the presidency of fdr as a dictatorship bent on soaking the rich and soft on crime we should remember that he was not alone in this feeling demille had directed this day and age a pro police state drama the previous year we should also remember that america was founded by tax protesters and continues to be motivated by those who want something without paying for it tcp suffered because it treated fascism lightly in a comedy and because its release was particularly ill timed given the events in germany in that year the production code of 1934 would ultimately curtail the glorification of vigilante justice and reaffirm the rule of constitutional law cumbersome as it might be the ideal of the benevolent despot the good intentioned all powerful leader who brings about a utopia once freed of the checks and balances on this dates to classical antiquity for this reason totalitarian regimes fear laughter even though it acts as a safety valve ironically the mere existence of tcp a film which the democratic experience of the country of its origin shows that america was secure enough to accept criticism one sees no parallel criticism in hitler's germany ussr or mussolini's italy but can one laugh at the gallows humor of pending fascism lloyd's unnuanced film is skewed to the right and might have been written by dr goebbels himself if he'd had a sense of humor of course it posits an alternative history in which a chosen one restores order and lost honor by any means necessary and does so with good nature and fun impending fascism approached by the left is of course chaplin's the great dictator this latter film has the benefit of being set in another country and based on a thinly veiled actual persona and events the great dictator produces few laughs today because it under estimated the extent of human evil but it succeeds despite its artless and inappropriate speechifying because it has the distinct advantage of being vindicated by history lloyd however should be credited for two things first he neither made any further pro fascist films nor produced any subsequently hypocritically pro allied films during the war second he never sold tcp to television the post 1945 world had seen the face of fascism and it wasn't amusing
0	while this isn't an all time classic comedy it is a pretty good little movie to watch if you catch it on a rainy saturday morning with not a lot else going on right then br br harold lloyd plays ezekiel cobb an american coming home after growing up in china where his dad was a missionary he has come home from china to find an american wife and plans to return to china to continue his father's work cobb unwittingly is recruited to run for mayor of his corrupt home town when the existing political machine that controls the town realizes that he would make a perfect patsy to run against the current mayor who also is the head of the town's underworld they figure the bumbling stumbling cobb has no chance to win and therefore the current mayor continues to run the town and run his schemes which makes them all rich br br lloyd isn't doing the physical comedy here like he did in his silent films he does a convincing portrayal of cobb with a reserved understated dignity the acting was good from all involved and the story and script were also quite good br br being made in 1934 the film does have some rather racist language when talking about the chinese and it also has a typical black character from that era but these stereotypes aren't nearly as mean as i've seen from other films from that time br br although not close to being lloyd's best film this movie does entertain and lloyd is very good as cobb you won't be blown away by this film but it may be enough to peak your interest in lloyd and make you want to see more of his work
0	i heard the stories of the ravers in the movie and thats great but that is only 1 100 of the movie the problem with this movie is the cheesiness i never really got the plot or why the guy was stealing girls that makes no sense but hey why they were in a club randomly was curious also many parts of this movie make no sense but overall i was interested it was confusing on many levels maybe i am just not indie enough for this movie but judging from the b looking end scene they ran out of money just cut some stuff in and forgot about the plot its low budget and appears so i like the fact that they used little special effects which were bad but they used none that were quality i would say this film is the quintessential bad script with alright production it is definitely not as random as many movies i have seen but the pieces of the puzzle just don't make sense together in effects i would give exception to the final battle when all the effects went 1950's on my ass sparks out of models and the like watch it if you like an unintentional comedy from an action movie mystery science theater has a candidate
0	me and my friend read the summery and watched the trailer and were very interested and excited to go rent this movie bad idea we thought a movie with actors that influential would have been a sure hit but our expectations fell extremely short first of all the trailer and summery are misleading to the point of lies the movie started out slow for the first 1 1 2 hours reminder its about two hours long and when it finally started to gain momentum it sucked plus the plots were very hard to follow it confused us because it kept skipping from one story to another in random order the characters where not very realistic when it came to reality sure the mum and son could be actual people in reality but everyone else seemed to be one extreme or the other if your a person who likes sick twisted unusual movies then go for it but we advise not wasting two hours of you life you cant get back no one told us that
0	i'm thinking of some things for this movie first really is a very bad movie this is really superbad the film looked very promising in the trailers but fell flat maybe the original idea was good but between a bad script and bad acting the movie became boring and empty my advise is don't waste 2 hours of your precious time you have been warned this is the first movie i rated 1 star at imdb com second none of the characters are likable you really don't care what happened to them third the villain is very easy to identify the grandson kills his father sodomizes the friend's son get the maid pregnant smothers his grandfather like jt says if you like evil with no retribution this is your movie nothing more to say
0	this movie would receive a much higher vote from me in general and i will talk about why but first and foremost it receives four stars and should stay at four stars because of the directors ridiculously tasteless portrayal of rape and sexual assault not far into the movie oyama sexually assaults a woman he rescued earlier and while she briefly becomes somewhat miffed by his actions this attitude only lasts about five minutes before loving adoration sets in and carries her character through the rest of the film i know many will argue that it's not that important in a kung fu beat em up and as a fan of the genera i can't say that it's all that unusual but that doesn't stop it from being completely tasteless every time i see it br br what i will say in this movie's defence however is that it's somewhat refreshing to see a martial arts or even action movie of any sort that offers no actual hero for the viewer to get behind oyama is portrayed as a rapist and murderer a societal outcast whose only student becomes completely mentally unbalanced before being gunned down by the police the final shots of the movie leave one with the feeling that oyama himself is poised for a major breakdown and no longer seems to care for the woman he earlier assaulted into loving him and has since followed him with puppy dog like devotion br br whether this was truly the intended message of the movie or not one can't help but feel a little hopeful that oyama might be on the brink of suicide by the time the movie is over this is a rare emotional treatment from the martial arts genre and its interesting to see a film that leaves you with a sense that its violence is not to be celebrated if only karate bullfighter had treated the subject of sexual violence better either by creating more emotional depth and recognition between the two characters involved or by leaving it out all together this would have been a much more interesting film
0	a very disappointing film from oliver stone which unlike his recent epic j f k fails to stimulate any sort of real emotion talk radio is about talk back host 'barry a very loud opinionated man who manages to upset a lot of people and yet still draw an audience most of whom mind you just want to ring up and abuse him his boss in the movie alec baldwin sums up his character very well by saying he's just a shoe salesman with a big mouth and as barry eric bogosian gets death threat upon death threat the final outcome is almost inevitable br br this is the sort of movie that usually has something very powerful to say however talk radio fails to make a serious comment and remains a frustrating pointless film br br thursday september 17 1992 video
0	the most remarkable thing about talk radio is how bad it is the voices all have a phony reading from a script ring to them an evening with an annoying loudmouth at a dallas radio station is told with the of a glimpse into hell stone tries for an existential revelation and gets unintended comedy instead whenever a caller makes a profound empty point about something stone shoves the camera at one of his character's face as they are stricken with some traumatic realization that is never revealed to the audience bogosian overacts throughout in one of the most irritating performances ever smeared onto celluloid underrated classic give me a break
0	the 33 percent of the nations nitwits that still support w bush would do well to see this movie which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of 1794 as strikingly similar to the post 9 11 socio political landscape maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a they deserve it's really a shame that when a politician ruins the country those who voted for him can't be denied the right to ever vote again they've clearly shown they have no sense of character br br what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can't help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism execution and murder self defense and patriotism his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he's helped create sound like any belligerent retarded yale cheerleaders you know of br br blows the slovenly off the screen as sympathetic as plight is it's comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he'll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine
0	i've just been at the cinema in down town prague watching this film br br not due to the poster i found very old fashioned heroic br br style not due to the high level starring which remind me that most br br of those high starring french films are usually pathetic but just br br because there are not so many films in my french mother tongue in a br br city like prague and because i love adjani depardieu and br br cyrano then i decided to write up this small comment because i think br br i really don't agree with the comment main stream on this film on imdb br br i was not disappointed the film just look like the poster the br br characters are just as stupid as they look like for a while i br br thought adjani would be like a caricature just a funny character br br you can laugh at no she is not for example when she decides to tell br br depardieu she is the one who murdered the fat one she killed at the br br beginning of the film then come the violins in a big fat pathetic br br music which should make you cry and realize character is a br br deeper person as she looks like maybe this was humor at the 10th br br level but i am sorry my sense of humor is not that high if i want to br br see some funny french film on the wwii i watch once again la grande br br it is definitively more fun i have also read on imdb br br that lemoine is making a great performance in this film i have to br br say i have never seen a so bad acting well i have never seen any ed br br wood's film nevertheless the film is good filmed with a lot of good br br very costly scenes like the one with the pantheon in the morning br br when the german army arrives at paris or when the refugees settle down br br on a bridge in bordeaux i think is a good filmmaker but br br that he does better with a good script it was easy with cyrano he br br had not to write the dialogs br br i give 1 10
0	billed as a romantic comedy set against the early years of wwii it fails to deliver the problem is that while beautifully photographed it has no consistent story line or narrative starting as a murder mystery it offers no hope to its actors as it meanders through recent history depardieu is wasted in a trivial role he obviously is not comfortable with playing adjani cannot carry the picture the hero is not obviously an imitation of a hitchcock wrongly accused role it lacks balance neither heroic comic nor suspenseful br br this could have been a good film i am reminded of the lady vanishes which did combine suspense romance and comedy in a serious film dealing with fascism
0	can this film be considered as a film imagine the situation somebody puts a handy cam over a tripod and in front of a sea promenade and film people walking or jogging along it then he places the camera in a beach buys some ducks in a pet shop open their cages and let them run in front of the camera later he just films the water surface and the sound of birds and insects in an absolute darkness is it an experiment or just an insult to the audience intelligence what would it happen if any unknown director did a film like that would we mark his job with 10 i always disappoint directors who believe that can do everything they want once they became famous
0	coming from kiarostami this art house visual and sound exposition is a surprise for a director known for his narratives and keen observation of humans especially children this excursion into minimalist cinematography begs for questions why did he do it was it to keep him busy during a vacation at the shore br br five 5 long takes consists of you guessed it five long takes they are the title names are my own and the times approximate br br driftwood and waves the camera stands nearly still looking at a small piece of driftwood as it gets moved around by small waves splashing on a beach ten minutes br br watching people on the boardwalk the camera stands still looking at the ocean horizon and a boardwalk people walk across the camera frame their faces too far and blurry to make them interesting eleven minutes br br six dogs at the water's edge the camera stands still looking at the ocean horizon with a sandy stretch of beach nearby far away at the water's edge six dogs not doing much just relaxing sixteen minutes br br ducks in line gaggle of ducks the camera stands still looking at the ocean horizon near the water's edge dozen and dozen of ducks stream in single file from left to right i assume that kiarostami released them gradually the last two ducks stop dead on their track and suddenly a gaggle of ducks rolls quietly from right to left i assume kiarostami collected the ducks and re released all at the same time it is not the first time that he deals with the contrast between organized and disorganized behavior eight minutes br br frog symphony oops i mean cacophony for a stormy night the camera stands over a pond at night it's pitch black except for what appears to be the reflection of the moon on the undulating water it is a stormy night and clouds race to cover the moon the screen goes dark what remains for us is the cacophony of frogs howling dogs and eventually morning hit me on the head if this was done in a single take i saw this segment as a sound composition put together in the editing room and accompanied by a simple visualization twenty seven minutes br br except for the mildly amusing ducks this exercise in minimalism left me cold a film for kiarostami admirers br br i thought i would rate five a five but four is what it deserves br br the film is dedicated to ozu
0	recap simon leads a little team of special agents that has specialized in finding and returning missing people against all possible odds their latest mission is about the granddaughter of a friend of them she seems to have been caught in the web of a particularly brutal criminal and everyone that has gone looking for her has gone missing but now the librarians are on the case br br comments this is pure b action through and through the key phrase for this is unlimited supply there is unlimited supply of ammunition they don't have to reload once there is an unlimited supply of bad guys so the heroes have something to shoot at there is an unlimited supply of breasts many of them bare in an vain and as always failed attempt to distract from the plot holes and there is an unlimited supply of bad acting it is almost like erika eleniak's performance shines in this what about that and actors that don't seem to care more than the paycheck and why should they when no one else seem to br br and as in most b action movies there are an unlimited supply of bad gunfights but these almost seem to be of a ridiculously bad kind i think i saw more realistic gunfights when i played cowboy as a kid br br but then again i didn't really expect much either how could i from a action movie named the librarians and it actually delivers about what could be expected 90 minutes of more or less bad action with some scenes to connect the dots between but i am unsure if i can call it entertaining it didn't keep my interest very long br br 3 10
0	well i generally like iranian movies and after having seen 10 by kiarostami the night before i was expecting a great movie i was very disappointed this is by far the worst iranian film and one of the most boring asian movies i have ever seen if you have never seen a kiarostami movie before watch ten instead if you want some good iranian movies you may also try aka the apple this movie is divided in 5 parts and only the fourth featuring some funny ducks is worth watching if this is the first iranian movie you see you probably won't want to see any more i don't blame you but you will miss some great movies
0	i believe that this movie was a terrible waste of my time and i would know after watching it 5 times in class this movie does not show what absolutely perfectly happened during these times no one can truly say that these things happened to the letter if anything the only good part would be the actors even tho that they were really really crap they were reading the script without expression quite boring i would rather watch play school so i would definitely like to never ever see this movie again in my whole life it is a complete waste of time unless you want your time to be wasted and if you would like to see an unrealistic view of what happened back in 1981
0	i suppose that in 1997 hollywood wasn't quite at the point of openly celebrating homosexuality so one might want to give some credit to those who put this movie together for having shown a little bit of courage one simply wishes that credit could be given them for having put together a really good movie and in my opinion in out doesn't qualify on that count it's the story of howard brackett kevin kline a small town high school english teacher who on the eve of his wedding is by a former student who happens to win an oscar and who then has to go through what can only be described as a period of self discovery as he comes to terms with being homosexual to me that was the first problem with this movie howard didn't really have to turn out to be gay the movie would have been funnier and perhaps even more thought provoking had brackett remained defiantly straight in spite of the stereotypically gay aspects to his life and the town's belief after the oscar speech that he was gay in fact i thought that identifying him as gay given the presence of those stereotypes might actually have been rather insulting to the gay community as well as to straight men who like poetry and believe in dressing neatly br br kline was decent enough in the role and largely carried the film aside from him most of the other cast members although fine actors were people not really noted for their success on the big screen folks like tom selleck and wilford brimley and bob newhart are good actors but not big movie stars i actually thought that the funniest if very small role in the movie was that of the super model sonya played by an actress named shalom harlow speaking of stereotypes i loved her oh so stereotypical model line i promised to do that photo shoot this afternoon i have to shower and vomit in the end what really turned me off about this movie was the ridiculous ending starting with the graduation ceremony and to be honest even if someone decided that the graduation was really necessary the movie should have ended there rather than proceeding on with the totally unnecessary nuptials at the end br br basically i got a few chuckles out of this but nothing more 3 10
0	maybe i expected too much of this film but at the very least a comedy should be funny and this one has very few amusing moments it manages to be insulting to homosexuals heterosexuals women the obese and probably several other groups as well the scene at graduation where everyone claims to be gay is one of the most distasteful i have ever seen br br tom selleck and matt dillon are ridiculously miscast and kevin kline seems bemused most of the time br br other reviewers compare the film to will and grace but at least will and grace is funny
0	in out made me want to vomit i have never seen such a shameless film it seriously wanted to say that being gay is something wonderful and joyous but has no idea how to say it to me this was not a comedy unless cruel sick jokes are something to laugh at when a victim falls for it br br from what i saw this film had four 4 major flaws starting with a matt character as he announces to the world that is former teacher howard brackett kevin kline is gay never mind how unbelievable it is that matt dillion character won an oscar for what looked like a serious role on the edge of a crack up but why would he say such a thing after all this was never an issue with howard's students his friends family nor his nobody so why would he say something like it when it wasn't true more to the point why doesn't the movie supply us with an answer as to why he said it the reason is because there is no answer and for the convenience of the plot none is provided the second b flaw is with the fact the film seems to have forgotten what homosexuality is the attraction and sexual relation to members of the same sex in this movie being gay is based on liking barbara streisand musicals and being passionate about literature it's all based on stereotypes br br both of these flaws are met up again at that must be seen to be believed graduation ceremony matt dillion finds out about the commotion going on in that small town and the film looks poised to let us know what made him say such a thing when he arrives to the ceremony he says nothing and i wondered why in the world he then came there at all he didn't solve anything then when all of the audience stood to announce they were gay i was so moved i wanted to throw up those folks were standing up in defense of howard being gay by mocking all of those stereotypes what the film forgot is that it was using those stereotypes to show why howard was gay they filmmakers just shot themselves in the foot but wait there's more br br during the ceremony c howard appeared to be on trial to lose is job as a teacher because people believed that he would influence his students to be gay what the film was trying to say is that homosexuals never recruit and that he wouldn't influence his students but did we not see tom character endlessly pressure howard over and over again even to the point of kissing him unexpectedly to come out of the closet when in my mind there was no closet to come out of from that the film clearly show that homosexual are capable of recruiting the film again then shoots itself in the foot br br and d when howard came out of the closet did anyone not notice how the screenplay shut him up for the rest of the film i counted only three lines he had afterwards yup to his parents hi there to a student and are you ready to tom selleck before the last vomitous scene i might be low by one but the point is he is not allowed to tell us what made him decide he was gay i wanted to know what was in his head because i never for once believed he was gay br br as bonuses the movie also includes several truly offensive scenes one in which howard is asking a priest in confession for advice about what to do for a friend him who is engaged and has not yet had sex with his fiance does that make him gay he asks the priest oh yes he's definitely gay uh huh or what about the scene when all the old ladies are gathered around telling howard's mother that she doesn't need to be sad about her son's deep dark secret because well everyone has them then one the ladies confessed that she's never seen the bridges of madison county funny no becuase the film shows that it is insensitive and has no idea how it can be to family to have one of its members announced that he she is gay i know i have several friends that are gay and none of their families took it well at all that was a poor way to the whole situation br br the last straw for me was the last scene that gave they appearence that tom and kevin were getting married the camera panned down very slowly to the front of the church when it wasn't what you thought i had been thoroughly disgusted by that point and i never could forgive that sick joke i have nothing against films about being gay or homosexuality philadelphia and longtime companion were very honest and true in what they had to say in out is just screaming for political correctness but has no idea of the corruption at its core what i gathered from the film is that if you are 99 straight and 1 gay meaning if you have the doubt you are definitely gay it's like gayness is becoming a dominant trait in genetics in reality if everyone told you over and over that you were worthless and stupid you would eventually believe it too wouldn't you this is what happened to howard brackett about being gay i left the theater sad and angry angry the whole weekend in fact this was a seriously sick and cruel film the worst of 1997
0	well where to start describing this celluloid debacle you already know the big fat nada passing as a plot so let's jut point out that this is so pc it's offensive hard to believe that frank oz the same guy that gave us laugh riots like little shop of horrors and bowfinger made this unfunny mess br br so this guy doesn't know he's gay till this actor points it out ok sure if anyone ever says i'm gay i'll know the truth even if i currently like girls more than george luca likes a dollar br br and how to know the true nature of my sexuality well if i like classic dancing and barbra streisand i'm gay if i dress like a blind man in a hurry with half my shirt hanging out i'm straight oh sure br br and here's the big cliché of clichés no matter how you look there's always a very attractive hollywood actor who'll adore every bit of grease under your skin or a top model who'll love your zero iq your butt ugly face and your pointing out ears if all those gay common places weren't enough to get me angry this did in real world looks matter folks and i know for sure br br i see it coming now you'll say relax it's a comedy don't take it so seriously if being a comedy gives anything carte blanche to suck out loud i think the world has a serious problem wouldn't be much better and funnier to make a movie to those old tiresome clichés instead of magnifying them over and over again br br so one of the absolutely worst movies i've ever seen 1 out of 10 if giving this rating has something to do with my sexual please let me know i'm interested
0	this movie's basic premise is that everyone in the world can know that a person is gay except for that person and that a man who likes show tunes has good taste and is neat in appearance must be a homosexual yes the movie is funny in parts but the basic premise is to homophobic and insulting that the entire movie crumbles into something that is quite painful to sit through the performances particularly joan cusak and kevin kline are very good
0	i found this film to be extremely homophobic the main character doesn't know he's gay until he realizes that he likes barbra streisand and has a limp wrist i was so offended that after the screening at the toronto film festival i went up and spoke to the screen writer to complain about this film this is the sort of film that needs to work to have banned
0	terrible below par not bad good brilliant br br warning minor spoilers br br homosexuality these day's is hardly the taboo subject it was over forty years ago however it must be said that perhaps more so in america than say over here in the u k it can still be a touchy subject just look at the whole debacle of in the some years ago in the us it's with 'in and out' that writer paul taps in to the small town mentality of middle america and the way the press in the us as well as in the uk make such a big deal in outing a celebrity you need only look at when will young and stephen of came out of the closet br br the movie centres on howard brackett kevin kline a high school english teacher in his home town the local people are preparing themselves for oscar night as one of the nominees cameron drake matt dillon came from their town and was a former pupil of cameron who plays a gay soldier in a vietnam epic wins the award only to out howard as being gay during his acceptance speech this could not come at a worse time for howard who is just day's away from marrying his fiance and fellow school teacher emily joan cusack as you would expect the media reaction is cataclysmic and turn's life upside down not only does he try to convince his family and friends that he is not gay but evade sleazy news reporter peter malloy tom selleck br br although this was billed as a screwball comedy it's clear that and director frank oz are also attempting to be satirical you only have to look at the early scenes at the oscars and the way the people of home town as well as the teaching board of the school react to his outing br br sadly the film doesn't live up to the promise we see early on in the movie this is a pretty flat attempt to make social commentary out of a wacky comedy a good cast is sadly wasted on a script that never really delivers the amount of laughs and is no where near as insightful as it thinks it br br kline gives us the same kind of endearing performance that he gave us in his earlier comedy making howard an instantly likeable character cusack too is good value as howard's weight obsessed fiance while tom selleck play's very well against type as a gay news reporter bob newhart is a joy also as the principal of the high school where howard works it's great to see him on the big screen for a change it's a shame that it had to be this br br the performances as good as they are can do little to rescue the movie from being a rather dull affair while a couple of scenes do offer some amusement namely the inspired scene where howard attempts to make himself seem more manly by listening to a self help tape there is little to enjoy and when things can't seem to get any worse resorts to a sickening finale that lurches in to over the top sentiment i also couldn't help but feel that my intelligence was being insulted malloy appears to be too sleazy a character to become the man who put's his ethics before getting a good story while finally come to the rescue in the film's climax seems at first to be too self involved a character to care a jot about what happens to his former teacher after all it's he who caused all the trouble in the first place br br 'in and out' isn't exactly dire but when you consider the likes of better work like 'a fish called you can't help but feel that here is a great talent being sadly wasted br br robs rating
0	i'm rather surprised that anybody found this film touching or moving br br the basic premise of the film sounded to me like an excellent if provocative idea for a movie about a rare sort of relationship but one if i can judge by the real life examples i've known is extremely deep and loving br br however the film is cheaply scripted poorly scripted and although it has a number of very pretty looking shots i didn't find it to be anything special br br probably the biggest problem is that it is far too short and poorly composed to give its audience time enough to invest emotionally in the characters we don't really care about any of them and so their stresses and obstacles don't really touch us br br i think a remake from the screenplay up with some character development by some really good writers could improve it greatly it is instructive to compare this film with brokeback mountain which the screen writers took to far loftier levels than did the author of the screenplay screen writers who were clearly conscious of how to write a classical tragedy and carried out their task with care planning and superb craftsmanship however people only seem to remake those films that don't need it you're not really missing anything if you skip this one i found it very disappointing indeed and it is only saved from getting a 1 star from me by virtue of the daring and gumption it took to make a film on this sensitive subject
0	like a terrible cancer raining out of the sky i wandered into this crock on some movie channel the other night being a fan of bad movies and actively engaging in the purchasing and viewing of said bad film i was intrigued by the idea of a genuinely terrible looking action movie coming from modern times after that wore off though i found my hands inexplicably turning against me grabbing at anything in range and stabbing about my head and neck something sinister was in that tape err where was i anyway this ranks among the more embarrassingly bad pieces of film i've run across william forsythe can't play more than one character and that character is always a walking joke even when set into a comic background and given things to do and say that are supposed to be funny ala deuce he's laughable in the wrong way erika eleniak is much the same having starred in her fair share of terrible movies and done terrible jobs in all of them she doesn't fail to help scum up this one classic b movie villain guy andrew divoff does a respectable job but barely even has any scenery to chew on even reliable standby for b movie action daniel bernhardt fails to deliver anything bordering on entertainment as for the film's own merits the plot is lame the script just like the action and the plot movement is both dull and well stupid for lack of a better adjective lord knows they didn't put any effort into it why should i br br anyone who has seen enough movies has seen some bad ones and anyone who has seen enough bad ones can learn to appreciate them but there is simply nothing here to be enjoyed unless you are among the most bad movie tolerant and simply feel so inclined as to test your mettle before you do though take it from me this one isn't even terrible enough to be enjoyed unlike say some of the more ludicrous italian zombie films a fan of b movie action would be much better off checking out most any of other films or pretty much anything else that has ever been put to film for that matter america simply is not the place to go to for action it seems especially not now if you have a craving check out anything from over the seas films like heroic duo or the slightly less normal along with anything else in the awesome keita amemiya's cannon will provide a lot more fun and way better action than your apt to find elsewhere especially here
0	stay the hell away from this one no really i'm serious i know you might think this is a fun campy cheesy hong kong action style b movie i did but trust me it's not in fact the only thing accurate about that description would be the words hong kong and then only used in a strictly geographical sense br br yes donnie yen has co directed it jackie chan has a cameo the guy ekin cheng from storm riders plays the lead it got vampires it should be good or at least fun charming and action packed once again it's not br br i could digress on why this movie sucks i could dissect it hack it to tiny shivering pieces but where to start there's so much to hate br br to make it easier and to give this hate fest some let me say that i'm usually a big fan of hog kong cinema the heavier drama stuff as well as the more lighthearted action and or comedy the really good movies as well as the really cheesy ones i can sit through hours of bad subtitling jokes lame enough to make first graders roll their eyes i can handle lovers as chaste and celibate as a convention of nuns that and pretty much anything else the average film goer would bang their metaphorical toes against on their way between action sequences also hong kong or any other origin i love it when a movie goes from just being bad to bad enough to be good br br but this arrgh it's just horrible stupid unwatchable garbage so far from being funny or charming it's actually painful so derived of action it makes a bergman movie look like the texas chainsaw massacre br br why why waste such an opportunity this could have been so much fun
0	i saw this movie in blockbuster and thought it might be a good sunday evening movie when there is nothing else to do so i bought it used 3 dvds for 25 although it was cheap my money would have been better spent on a nail to drive through my foot br br the film started out nicely kinda dark and mysterious i was always enthralled with vampire and samurai movies as a kid i thought the combo would be really cool the first fight scene was pretty cool i was excited for the rest of the movie then the movie took a serious nose dive br br i understand that this was a big hit in the east i guess because of the twins i don't see it though this movie aside from the first 10 minutes was absolutely horrible so many movies in this genre have the potential to be great and blow it terribly this is just another casualty br br chan's role in this film doesn't make any sense at all complete silliness he probably made a few bucks off it though br br the only cool thing in this movie are the swords they use nice idea br br i wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone
0	the twins effect is the worst movie i've seen not only is the support weak but the characters as well i'm sorry to say to you edison fans but is by far the weakest vampire i've seen in my life i'm sorry edison your role in this movie was disappointing edison does not fight whatsoever in this movie and i'm sure if they didn't have in the movie the plot wouldn't be much different the main plot in the movie is not explained nearly enough and the entire movie focused too much on helen and growing relationship i mean who the hell was and why did they need his blood yeah he's the prince right so what br br certain scenes in this movie were just plain stupid yeah the action was great but the entire outline of it was stupid in one scene towards the end duke says that is the strongest of his brothers yeah it would seem so now that he's full grown why would you wait until he's grown up to attack another scene was with jackie chan one of my personal favorites in the scene jackie asked helen who were the creatures that persistently followed them how can you be so naive as to not know that they are vampires people are dying around them with bite marks on their necks surely the news would be on it faster than you can say vampire br br the characters were yet another mistake in the movie helen played by charlene choi is the girlfriend of what kind of girl would not be scared of vampires especially if it is your brother's job to kill them i can bet you that you would not find such a brave girl as helen if you searched your whole life helen is annoying bitchy and is a total drama queen in the movie she tries too hard to be different and in the end fails miserably one of the weirdest and most disturbing characters i've seen in any movie why would you bite someone's neck especially if you're not a vampire it's very odd that her reaction to confession doesn't turn him off played by edison chen is another stupid character in the story how degrading for a young actor as himself to play in a movie with such a poorly constructed role he does not stand up for himself throughout the movie and does not fight although i'm a fan of edison i wouldn't want a man who lies on the ground the whole time gypsy and reeve are my favorite characters in the movie their love is pure and sweet gypsy is gorgeous and does not try too hard like helen reeve played by ekin cheng is wise and seems to be the only person that makes sense in the movie a plot failure was the death of reeve the movie had absolutely no substance yet it doomed itself by removing one of the only likable characters another character was duke the story didn't focus much on him and therefore made his desire to obtain rock seem irrelevant br br it's very sad because towards the end of the movie i was forcing myself to watch because i so desperately wanted to see fight the end was so abrupt because the whole time i was expecting so great to happen who's the supposed vampire prince does nothing for the movie and i'm sure if he were taken out the movie wouldn't be much different i highly recommend you to not waste your time on this movie as i have i was greatly disappointed if you're in search of a great movie why not watch lord of the rings or pirates of the caribbean likeable characters with a well written plot
0	at first i thought it was bad because i had great expectations for this movie but after giving some thought it is that bad i was almost caught up in promotion of bad stars in bad movies new generation of actors and actresses not to mention bad script writers are bringing the industry down at the moment im still trying to figure out how it gross so high normally you cant lose in a movie with donnie yen and ekin forget jackie he's past his peak but then i shouldve figure it out when twins was on the cover it is cheesy campy very corny i try to laugh from some of the jokes but not only is the effect very minimal but the jokes are very recycled and not funny im sorry i bought the movie the only reason why some people think it is so good is because they are brainwashed into the hype that the twins are cute and everybody likes them and that everything they make is good and funny and that if you like twins then you are up to date br br sigh i miss the good hk movie days when jet li and stephen chow movies dominated the box office br br movies from mainland china are much better than this and they are shot for lower budgets
0	to identify this movie as a vampire movie would be technically correct simply because it will suck the life right out of you br br vampire effect is an insult to movie buffs everywhere the plot is almost non existent the make up is just plain awful and the acting is just not there br br i have to wonder if jackie chan owed someone a huge favor to be convinced to appear in this film br br my wife picked up the movie at the rental store because it had a picture of jackie chan on the front as though he was playing the lead and thought that a good jc flick would be fun to watch this movie was interesting to watch in the same way that you can't help staring at the car wreck when you drive by you realize very quickly the movie isn't going to get any better but you keep watching wonder just how bad it will get
0	twins effect is a poor film in so many respects the only good element is that it doesn't take itself seriously other than that this is not really a movie but rather a merchandising tool for the film's two stars popular pop idols in their native hong kong br br the film itself is poorly constructed and acted the direction offers up some silly martial arts which is odd since the action director and supposedly co director is donnie yen like many hong kong films geared for the teen audience the major fanbase of actors like the twins the two girls who stars in this film and ekin cheng there is so much bad music to prod the audience into believing certain scenes are funny clever etc br br the final conclusion it's all for naught even as a fan of hong kong movies this is a poor film not funny enough not serious enough and just generally too bubble gum fake for its own good br br 3 out of 10 br br go to http www nixflix com for a more in depth review of this movie and other foreign films
0	now really can u call that a movie i knew some of the movies that japanese people do are good for nothing but this bad i mean i fell a sleep three times at this movie no horror at all some tiny percent 0 2 0 5 comedy action let's just admit that it has some but the scenes are poorly filmed the actors are pathetic none of the actors did a good job in it's own role the were not convincing the script is also awful i mean this movie may be great really but for the 60's in not 100 sure i recommend not to see it unless you want to get so bored as i did i can't quite figure hot this movie got it's rating it's over over over rated this is a personal opinion of course i don want to offend anyone but who could like this crap so i hope this helps someone not to loose some time enjoying this movie nevertheless it's your choice
0	this movie reminds me of harry potter not the style but the marketing strategy there may be part 2 part three until one day the product life cycle of course on the condition that the part one has a commercial success so many things seems to be hidden and thus the story looks quite incomplete the action design is boring set design is ok but not fine perhaps edison chen would be a big star one day he really looks charming even on big screen the most impressive is still anthony wong 4 10 br br
0	the movie starts off with reeve ekin and his assistant fighting same vampires this scene is probably the best out of the entire movie the rest of the movie unfortunately is cheesy highly unrealistic and a buffy the vampire slayer ripoff the ending also sucks big time br br some moments such as the scene where gypsy and helen played by popular chinese duo band twins charlene gillian fight over a stuffed teddy bear are particularly cringeworthy the storyline is also lame surely they could have come up with something more scary than a book called day for night br br some good parts though jackie chan and anthony wong make the movie bearable with their comical roles however the good bits just end there charlene gillian from twins have never been able to act well and annoy you to pieces and the friendly but wussy vampire role was unfortunately given to edison chen who is a talentless pretty boy br br rating 4 10
0	oh man talk about the effect of advertising apparently all that you have to do to enjoy box office succes is title your movie after a revered 19th century novel horrendous acting directing and cinematography in this sham of an effort
0	i'm not going to bother mentioning any of the plot this is strictly a b movie on its way to obscurity the shock to me though is seeing what has become of some of the actors in this film erika eleniak never anything you'd call a thespian anyway seems to have morphed into anna nicole smith in her big period daniel bernhardt i almost shed a tear he's always been a favorite of mine because of his martial arts prowess as seen in the bloodsport series also b movies but if you like martial arts eminently watchable here he is a shell of his former self sure he's older but doing the mercenary thing and not even looking interested i just don't get it don't these people invest william forsythe is another heavy that i've always liked but his last several roles are what you would call mailing it in i'm not going to even mention mr reynolds his gig here amounts to a throwaway nothing more the only winner is andrew divoff as usual a creepy evil villain with a sandpaper voice that can milk the best kind this is a movie you watch for laughs there's nothing else to it
0	1st watched 2 18 2007 4 out of 10 dir leon leonard fair adventure movie based on a novel by the author of moby dick fame herman melville this movie is about the captain of a ship who had stolen the eyes that were extremely rare black pearls from a native tribe's god sculpture and hidden them somewhere that only he knew about before leaving the island of he got very sick and was on a secret voyage to go back to the island to retrieve the pearls for himself while others like his daughter thought that he was going back to be treated by the local medicine man others didn't know the reason for the voyage a stowaway actually knew the real reason for the trip to return the eyes to their god the silly part is that the pearls were hidden very close to the statue and all this time the natives ran their tribe without their god having eyes causing them all kinds of problems along the way we are treated for some reason to a short underwater nature show with an electric eel fighting a local octopus i guess only herman melville knows what this was all about once they get to the island the captain dies but passes the whereabouts of the pearls to his daughter but she also gets the sickness curse as well one of the bad guys finds out where the god is housed and convinces the daughter to go there and steal back the pearls but at this point the good guys find out what's going on and a fight ensues i won't tell you the results of the fight or the ending i'll leave that up to you to find out if you want as i said earlier the movie was ok but some very silly things that i've already mentioned lessened it's impact i wonder if that new pirates of the caribbean got some of it's plot from this one hmm… black pearls a curse i well it doesn't matter those elements didn't make for a very good movie in this case or the other it seems they would learn they're lesson but with the money rolling in on that newer movie i'm sure they won't oh well
0	we were waiting in line to see the good girl an excellent movie starring jennifer aniston when some lady came up with this cheapo mock twenty dollar bill advertising manna from heaven come see this movie she said you'll love it br br she then introduced us to the director of the film now this should have been our first clue i mean in how many cinematic situations do you have the director of the film standing out in the lobby begging people to see it is this a christian film i asked not really caring one way or the other i love jesus no shame in that no she said defensively what a load of crap br br this movie is bad so bad and it's not only because of the obvious christian agenda but because of the terrible dialogue acting that alternates between wooden and and the obvious lack of an editor the film is way too long had it been an hour and a half then maybe just maybe i wouldn't have had to visit the suicide prevention center after seeing the movie br br actually i lie see after an hour of this garbage we snuck into swimfan at least with swimfan we know it's garbage before going in to see the movie we know to brace ourselves and swimfan has hot half naked people the only thing half naked in this film is the desperation of the stars involved whose obvious lack of script offers is anything but hidden and the actress who plaid the nun it's called a personality get one br br the people shamelessly begging for ticket sales in the lobby told me that if i liked my big fat greek wedding then i would love their emphasis not mine manna from heaven right more like if you like glitter you'll love manna from heaven and mariah could actually outperform any of the clowns from this flick if that's not an insult then i don't know what is br br i've enough go see indie films but don't see the bad ones this is definitely one of the bad ones manna from heaven is in need of some divine intervention
0	the opening scene makes you feel like you're watching a high school play but i've seen high school plays with better acting every line was delivered so obviously that i felt like i was watching actors work instead of seeing characters i found the character development to be poor and the acting very forced i found that 25 minutes into the movie i really didn't care what happened anymore because the plot was overly obvious and i was bored i kept hanging in there waiting for the film to redeem itself but it never happened sister theresa was overly sweet even for a nun yet appeared impulsive and slightly manipulative all in all i was mighty disappointed
0	this could have been a very good film a very interesting look at ancient tradition and oral history but it should have been a short subject as it is it moves at a snail's pace sure that's part of the life being portrayed but this was unbearable i fell asleep watching them make soup and that was a highlight
0	the most famous thing about this movie is that this was the first time garbo talked in a motion picture aside from that if you want to call it that this is a movie that doesn't go beyond creaky melodrama with garbo trying her best not to fall asleep br br the plot involves greta garbo returning to her father after 15 years abroad her father who is a captain on a barge is happy to see her even though she's acting a bit cagey she soon falls in love with a grizzled seaman who also notices that something a barrier if you will is holding her back br br anyways the two fellows don't particularly like each other and soon come to blows over garbo when she diffuses the situation by revealing her big secret which is no surprise to us if you've read the video box damn you mgm garbo is nothing but arms in this movie she acts and acts flailing her arms about and gets grating quickly the two male leads are alright probably the best performance comes from the classic silent actress marie dressler who plays the drunken captain's even girlfriend what a performance it's too bad the tagline couldn't have read dressler talks
0	mild spoiler in the second paragraph br br anna christie was garbo's lackluster 1st talkie she and dressler look like the only people who know what they're doing in this movie the old guy who plays garbo's dad george f marion in the film is soooo ah all he does is stumble around drunkenly in a totally fake way and yell about dat old dah sea he blames garbo's past his whole life and everything on the sea he comes across as stupid x 10 charles bickford is matt the rough 'n' tumble sailor garbo falls in love with and he's fine in his role but nothing really outstanding br br the best part is when garbo unleashes her terrible secret on bickford and her dad finally marion stops talking about the evil of the sea and beats his head and fists on the table in perfect time with bickford then soon he goes on a tirade about the sea br br i had to practically force myself to finish anna christie it's too melodramatic in many parts and creaky there are many good early talkies but this is not one of them if you haven't seen garbo before try something else before anna christie like camille or grand hotel
0	anna christie greta garbo returns to see her father chris george f marion after 15 years he is the skipper of a boat and she stays to travel with him during this time she meets matt charles bickford and they fall in love matt and chris don't see eye to eye and anna has a secret to confess br br what a boring story it starts badly with george f marion and marie dressler playing drunks in a bar the scene goes on forever and they are both terrible its also hard to understand them in fact its difficult to understand the whole cast i missed whole sections of dialogue between bickford marion and garbo because it is incomprehensible garbo is obviously something special as you are drawn to her every time that she is on screen and her presence gives this film the 4 stars that i have given to it but nothing really happens its a boring story with atrocious accents you'll do well to stay awake
0	this movie is way too long i lost interest about one hour into the story saratoga trunk tells the story of ingrid bergman who is an the child of a prominent new orleans man and his mistress after her mother dies in paris bergman comes back to new orleans to her father's legitimate family and to blackmail them she meets gary cooper who is likewise seeking revenge against the railroad tycoons who cheated his father out of his land in texas she draws him into her schemes and the movie climaxes at a saratoga resort long and boring but worth watching if you are a bergman or cooper fan the midget provides the only bright spot in this meandering story
0	the film begins with ingrid bergman and her two freaky servants arriving in new orleans from paris apparently years earlier her mother was involved in a scandal and ingrid returned in an effort to irritate kin who would have sooner forgotten she or her mother existed that's because she reasons if they are shocked enough they'll pay her off to get rid of her then with this money she will leave new orleans and seek out a millionaire somewhere else as she poses as a countess along the way gary cooper shows up and looks totally out of place as a love interest br br it's amazing that this film wasn't the reason that ingrid bergman's film career plummeted her performance and character were that bad instead of the classy and demure female she usually played in films she is probably one of the most annoying characters in film her fake contessa was shallow demanding unpredictable and stupefyingly dumb how she was able to vamp any man seemed a mystery as she seemed less vampish than just plain nuts i am not exaggerating to say that she behaved at times like someone with a combination of a severe mental illness and a personality disorder and all these together make me think who in the world would fall in love with this mess frankly i couldn't stand watching her histrionics and narcissistic behavior and she looked more like a guest on the jerry springer show than a leading lady confusing awful and overacted are words that come to mind when i think about her role br br the rest of the cast is frankly overwhelmed by bergman's ranting and hysterics while gary cooper is generally an excellent leading man he is dominated by her and just looks lost and oddly they cast two total weirdos as her entourage flora robson and jerry austin ms robson is best known for her portrayals of queen elizabeth i but here for some odd reason they coated her in makeup and the end result looked much like the love child of a cigar store indian and aunt jemima her face was very wooden she sported odd eyebrows and she dressed like a slave as for mr austin he was a dwarf and while this shouldn't be held against him his role was written like he was a court jester a very very thankless role for someone who is vertically challenged overall the rotten acting writing and limp direction make this one of the big stinkers of the age nearly as pointless and dull as such famous turkeys as parnell and swing your lady
0	based on the true story of two young americans who sold national secrets to the soviet union in the height of the cold war falcon and the snowman wants to be both suspenseful and philosophical and winds up falling short in both departments it's less le carré than who cares br br timothy hutton stars as christopher boyce a former seminarian who disgusted by watergate and the middle class values around him is probably the wrong guy to be hired by a company running spy satellites for the cia sean penn plays his drug dealing pal lee who makes himself courier delivering secret files to the soviet embassy in mexico city an offbeat synth jazz score lack of sympathy or emotional attachment for anyone and lots of scenes of guys getting angry in rooms all combine to what could have a decent moral dilemma thriller br br it's really penn's movie despite the second billing his character gets to talk turkey with the russians while hutton plays with his pet falcon hutton looks like they woke him up five minutes before they called action with penn it's a whether you get a brilliant performance or an over the top one here it's a bit of both but more the latter especially in the second half when lee switches from coke to heroin he screeches he snorts he crashes russian embassy parties he gets pummeled with telephone books he spits at himself in a mirror a big he must have been saving for a paparazzi i don't know who my friends are anymore he cries out it's exhausting to just watch him br br penn seems to have modeled lee somewhat on dustin hoffman's ratso rizzo from midnight cowboy complete with overly nasal line readings and constant eye shifting john schlesinger directed this film as well as midnight cowboy but he seems to have had another hoffman film in mind the graduate throwing up scene after scene of boyce and lee poolside trying to decide how to live their lives in their gilded cage too bad no one suggested plastics br br from the opening shots news footage of american decline juxtaposed with boyce and his bird falcon makes clear it is a message movie though the message itself is far from clear probably because the characters never come into focus is boyce supposed to be an idealist or is he just a mercenary hutton and schlesinger don't seem to know which makes it harder for us meanwhile opportunities to establish some suspense like boyce stealing documents from the top secret black vault where he works or lee playing games with the russians are interrupted by jump cuts to scenes of the pair with their families and friends it's the normalcy of the story that schlesinger finds interesting but it's the least interesting aspect for us br br good stuff it's interesting to see a film that works the 1970s vibe so early as this one referencing maria muldaur and tang dorian harewood memorable in full metal jacket has a nice turn as paranoid colleague gene who shows boyce how to make margaritas with a shredder but has some serious 'nam issues beneath his partying exterior macon is also fine in a totally different way as the no nonsense boss who gives boyce his high security job david suchet as the russian embassy official who deals with lee makes for a fascinating blend of menace and br br but falcon and the snowman stands or falls on the the question of the two title characters and neither the actors nor schlesinger are able to mine much in the way of answers worse after more than two hours in their alternately feral and catatonic company you don't really want answers you just want those credits to roll
0	ok imagine that every state in the us nay every country has exactly the same trees growing and ground foliage imagine also that a monkey camp so far off the beaten track you had to do the first half of the approach by river has a beautifully perfectly straight road leading up to it imagine a world where you have to wear a full biohazard suit to collect a floppy disk then you just drop it in a ziploc bag and transfer it to your pocket with no precautions as soon as you get back to the office a world where two nine year old girls are happy to give lots of blood without complaining this is the world this movie is set in br br on top of that it's one of the most cliché ridden pieces of excrement it's been my misfortune to witness in many a year br br i liked it
0	this belabored and sloppy spy melodrama featuring two buffoonish one idealistic one drug addled california kids dealing secrets to the kgb never seems to get enough steam up to sustain any tension and suspense before it dies a very slow death over two hours later john schlesinger's finished product gives the impression that he was asleep in his director's chair most of the time as the film lags and the actors sleep walk save for the highly annoying over the top performance of sean penn br br childhood altar boys and friends chris tim hutton and penn devise a plan to sell secrets to the kgb when chris lands a job that allows him access to top secret government materials disillusioned by what he sees as us meddling in foreign affairs the idealistic chris and the drug hungry make contact with the russians and begin to funnel them classified materials when chris decides he wants out things begin to unravel at a lackadaisical pace br br the eighties were not kind to distinguished director john schlesinger in the 60s and 70s he had a series of critically acclaimed films in both england and america but then came honky tonk freeway in 1981 and it marked the beginning of the end the falcon and the snowman more or less put a lid on it lacking the suspense of marathon man and the quality performances hoffman voight christie jackson finch olivier he had coaxed from leads in the past falcon goes in circles most of the way br br sean penn chews scenery from start to finish in such an obnoxious fashion you find yourself encouraging his torturers to do more to him tim hutton is governed by his limited acting chops and most of his scenes show a need for more rehearsal time lori singer as hutton's girlfriend plays it mute most of the way with schlesinger content to film her vapid expressions when she does emote you understand why only david suchet as the kgb handler with a piercing eyed introspective presence and restraint acquits himself well
0	i have seen shallow grave years ago and that was one of those movies i kept in memory for a very long time it was intense from beginning to end and with plenty of sudden twists but all of these made sense br br i can't tell the same about dead bodies above the title is a subtitle that claims it to be even better than shallow grave this is a big lie br br dead bodies looses strength and gets far less convincing during the movie br br two supporting characters for example turn out to be a whole lot less innocent than they first appeared to be that could work as a surprise but it didn't surprise me i could see it coming minutes before and that is a big difference with shallow grave br br another thing i have to mention is that characters in this movie often respond not very realistic they behave like that more often when the movie gets to it's end br br i would have found it far more interesting if some of the characters would have stayed completely innocent not knowing what is going on it would have been better for the contrast with for example tommy and his friend who have to carry a huge secret with them br br but no for some stupid reason the makers of this movie decided that all characters should show their darkest sides it does not work in a movie like this br br the end felt much like an open end it left me with an unsatisfied feeling i expected a whole lot more of it br br at first i would have given this movie six stars because it is not entirely a bad movie i liked watching it most of the time br br but occasionally i saw some really poor acting and unrealistic scenes and because of the disappointing open end i stick to four stars this time and because it turned out to be a mistake that i have spend my time and money to it unlike shallow grave i will probably forget dead bodies very soon it is just not such a special movie br br the makers could have done a far better job with this movie it is a shame that they did not
0	this film was produced by producers releasing corp prc among the so called poverty row film studios of the 1930s and 40s so you can imagine how little money was spent making it br br the music is forgettable cast member young does exhibit an operatic quality voice but is sort of a discount deanna durbin the imdb database doesn't show any other film appearances for her so let's hope she was able to move on to some kind of position in grand opera br br the opening credits for the print recently broadcast by turner classic movies indicates this film has been preserved by the national film museum this immediately begs the br br are their resources so plentiful that they can afford to preserve junk some low budget or b musicals of that era have redeeming features which make them worthwhile this film has none br br in my opinion skip this movie it really wastes an hour of your time
0	this was on tv last night i painfully forced my way through it and barely made it through first of all except for leroy hilary and possibly coco none of the other students we are supposed to care about have any discernible talent it's like had no standards just sign on the dotted line and you're in br br the story lines were grating and obvious doris was just impossibly awful the gay guy was such a thrown away cliché funny how that school had only one gay guy right i liked the leroy character but calling your teacher an obscenity and then vandalizing the school should have sent leroy packing lisa looks like she'd rather be anywhere else and since she wasn't any talent i wonder why they kept her br br i would have rated this one star awful but the music wasn't that bad and i did like the premise it just would have worked much better if the students had been attractive and actually had some talent
0	my wife and i both remembered this film being a lot better than it is when we rented it last weekend we wondered if we were watching the same movie we had seen 22 years or so ago we both agreed that we were probably remembering the tv series which in its one hour segments was compelled to actually wrap up plot lines this movie leaves many loose threads as has been mentioned by others here basically every main character's story line is left unresolved br br gotta like the title song though
0	fame did something odd it was not only a musical that was created originally for the screen most are based off of broadway musicals but it spawned a tv series and a broadway musical let me correct that sentence fame is not a musical musicals have song numbers in order to advance the plot or to show characters' feelings the singing in this music is not used to do either in fact there's no use for it at all people just randomly sing to fit in with the plot and that's not the type of musical i know br br the so called plot of fame has an onslaught of characters who are all introduced at once last time i saw that in a movie gosford park it had disastrous results who audition for and get into new york high school for the performing arts all of them are in for different reasons i e acting singing etc quote unquote drama unfolds as these middle aged people pretending to be teenagers go through their four years br br my largest complaint is that the high school is supposed to be selective after all it's a free college and they can't let everyone in so how is it that some people who are really bad get into the college obviously so that drama could ensue between all of these different people and why is the person top billed not even in the movie until near the end for no reason at all except to make us feel uncomfortable there's many unsettling situations that these untalented people get into yet you can't feel bad for them because you don't know who they are these relationships occur between people whose names you don't know and these characters realize things about themselves throughout the course of the movie yet you don't realize that because you don't know what they were like in the first place br br as for the singing it pops in randomly and is supposed to be humorous and does nothing when the title song is sung it's played in the middle of a street and before you can say ferris bueller everyone's in the middle of the street dancing wildly and off beat to it the song itself is fine but the whole scene like the whole movie is unnecessary fame is an unpleasant movie to say the least i would say more but most of the movie has thankfully gone out of my head just don't see it you'll be doing yourself a favor br br my rating 2 10 br br rated r for language
0	no matter what you've heard fame is not a good movie it's not worth the investment of over two hours to watch stereotypically troubled teens dancing singing learning and staring at girls in the dressing rooms br br every cliché finds a cozy little home in this movie there's a gay teenager looking for acceptance that would have been great if it had been treated as anything more than a secondary plot point there's a ghetto kid who has too much attitude what was i surprised and guess what they all want to become big stars finding fame and fortune and they'd all be willing to crawl over their own mothers' smoking corpses to get it br br oddly enough this film is remembered for its music but in actuality the only moderately good song is hot lunch jam which is still too cheesy to be of any real quality the two most popular songs are nothing either fame is meaningless fluff drowned out by the sheer spectacle of a massive dancing in the streets scene and i sing the body electric what in name does that even mean is just an incomprehensible joke br br bad acting tasteless dialog and hack direction it is after all from the director of evita are only marginally helped by michael appropriately ordinary camera work but cinematography alone cannot carry a movie especially one as uninspiring and pointless as this
0	there were very few good moments in this film only a couple of characters were fleshed out and not that well there were plot holes big enough to drive a truck through the pace creep ed along like an old man there were many moments that the film never came back to like coco stripping what happened to her how about sister is she better now what about leroy we learned absolutely nothing about him what about the electronic piano guy how about the rich girl that got an abortion what happened to her that was an interesting subplot br br overall this is not a good movie and i recommend another musical that was in this film let's do the time warp again
0	i just have to say that this was the third worst movie i have ever seen right after the attack of the murder 3 and starship troopers 2 it wasn't just dialogs or the paper walls or even the guns shots which just disappeared with no holes in the walls it was the horrible acting no wonder that i have never seen these actors before they all probably slept with the director s i think i'am being nice to this movie now but that is only because i'am to tired from screaming at the movie just saw it my advice is to buy as many dvd's of this movie as you possibly can and burn it so no one ever can see this horrible waste of time money and film ever again
0	seems like some of the previous reviewers has seen another movie than what i saw earlier tonight actually this movie is the reason why i registered at imdb sure bobbie phillips can fight and for that i give this movie a 2 but the rest of this movie is just pure crap the acting is bad the plot is bad the camera angles are bad and the effects are bad sure the actors are in physical good shape but they cannot act sometimes i enjoy watching bad movies for the laugh but this movie had no charm and after i saw this movie i was filled with regrets for seeing it sure if you would like to see mediocre fighting without anything else then this movie is for you if not then stay away from this film ps sorry for any spelling mistakes i am just tired as a cause of this movie
0	i've been hearing a lot of this new bird flu that has killed dozens of people in south east asia over the last three years apparently it's on the hold of mutating into something very contagious and millions upon millions of people are going to be wiped out in a global pandemic just thought i'd mention this in case you haven't got round to writing your will yet br br i'd also thought i'd mention it since i was watching something called carriers tonight which wasn't about naval warfare but opens with a scene that's a cross between outbreak and an episode of the x files i saw many years ago i thought i'd be watching something with added resonance after hearing the stories about the danger posed by bird flu but after the not unimpressive opening carriers descends into a cheap and cheerful tvm and like every other tvm you'll see the lead characters are female one of which is a ballsy authority figure while the other lead female is a mother of young children it goes without saying there's a sick child subplot too br br what is irritating about the tvm format is that it overwhelms the potential of what could have been quite a good film if it was made for cinema there's a fairly gory scene of someone coughing blood all over a nurses face and a very impressive jay walker getting run down stunt but these bits are quickly forgotten as the mood descends into family sentiment since this and just about every other tvm ever made was made for an essentially female audience
0	42 100 often referred as tarzan with clothes on but it's not at all in the same league as his far superior tarzan series basically the jungle jim series became a tarzan replacement for johnny weismuller after he started getting too out of shape for a loincloth in jungle jim he is fully clothed it can't compare to the tarzan series in any way not in acting screenplays or quality of production it's pretty hokey stuff this one is the first the best in the series and that isn't saying much too much stock footage is used and it is so obvious the score is overdone and the plot is lame and the production is so poor it makes it hard to watch at times
0	silly comedy casts an embarrassed seeming ray milland as a british officer in world war ii europe escaping german confines and taking up with a man hungry gypsy woman played by marlene dietrich slowly paced overlong and miscast the leads are far too old for this type of juvenile fodder although marlene shines in her solo moments it took three scriptwriters to adapt yolanda book for the screen but this material must have already seemed dated by 1947 it smacks of something ernst lubitsch might have turned out in 1939 the scenario is musty and the stars have absolutely no chemistry together from
0	hollywood has made a lot of strange movies over the years but none stranger than this why this movie got made i will never know nor how paramount could have thought it would sell any tickets in 1947 it is the strangest mix of genres i have seen in a long time a movie that truly does not know whether it is trying to be a serious war drama or a viennese operetta comedy br br it tells the story of a british spy trying to get a poison gas formula out of germany in the days just before ww ii began ray milland a fine actor is stuck playing the part like an escapee from monty python all very exaggerated english prep school dialogue in germany he meets a gypsy marlene dietrich who helps him to travel under cover as of course another gypsy she plays her part like the typical viennese operetta gypsy caricature as do the other gypsies in the movie but there are also nazis who are not funny at all and then milland finds he is starting to think like a gypsy and that is not treated as a joke sometimes the music is for a light comedy sometimes for a drama every time the nazis show up the film score plays wagner which is funny by itself br br this movie could have been a comedy or it could have taken the plight of the gypsies seriously and done a serious job of showing how the nazis treated them both are hinted at in this movie but neither pursued what we are left with is a truly strange mish mash of genres that must have embarrassed everyone except the director involved br br bizarre
0	why is it that instant noodles aren't instant this was the perplexing problem i placed in the lap of the one legged angry he angrily retorted that noodles weren't his bag equally i replied what bag he looked further perplexed br br some of you will be wondering why has the only one lower appendage br br the who we shall call 5 for data protection reasons injured his toe how i hear you ask i will proceed as we have learnt from the review of donkey punch 2002 irene via sly nudges and dirty winks etc tried in vain to teach the slight peculiarities of to all the angry 5 who is known only for his violent tirades against democratic principals during the post revolutionary years of the now united states of america and it's consequential affect on the mind sets of it's population in the post modern empire that now exists through the invasions of countries smaller than it got carried away in a river of violence due to his lack of comprehension of according to an eye witness he sprung around like a feckless banjo string at mardi gras wielding a stick with nail through it after the struggle that ensued 5 were each found to be missing their left testicles 3 were discovered spooning beneath a bush and 5 had the nail stuck in his big toe br br a lifestyle is as modest as a nuns with only rudimentary health care facilities at ft above sea level when the first aid hut was opened only an for a tin of spam and some knickers were found 5 hopped around like a dark on a noose in agony until irene burst forth like a cock from a hen house and suggested soaked his ailment in llama spit 5 agreed to the procedure to sedate him a bottle of 100 yr old was produced some say it was left by an angry scotsman who is thought to be an ancestor of the angry one under the influence the toe was bathed until dressed with slightly soiled and some blue tack some of you may feel that this procedure wouldn't do the any good and you would be fully vindicated for holding that view only four days later gangrene set it and a week later the leg was removed through the use of even tighter elastic bands
0	to soccer fans every where stay away from this movie it was so lame acting lame script lame soccer and no directing i rented this movie during my stint in asia and was appalled that this was considered one of the better singaporean films it was just nonsensical and thoroughly boring there are thousands of rich exciting stories in asia why write a bad story about over the top and stereotypical singaporeans
0	okay so i'm singaporean and i would like to say that it's time to stop stereotyping singaporeans and making such films some of the actors actresses actually have talent but sadly it wasn't shown much in this film i was fidgeting in my seat when i watched this being quite young at that time my parents dragged me along to see it honestly i could say that i was going to fall asleep and there was this arrogant westernized boy whom just got on my nerves overall a boring film and a general waste of the actors' talent i have seen better singaporean movies than this chicken rice war was good however i cannot believe that this one would be considered a better singaporean film sorry i wouldn't recommend it
0	1 thing this movie sucks big time i was into singaporean comedy when rice war came along but this time even singh well done acting cant pull this one of a total failure of following shaolin soccer next time do ur own thing
0	even though i tried to avoid german films recently positive reviews lured me into renting this one there i stand fooled again by german media which has been hyping domestic flicks over and over again to me it is no wonder no one abroad wants to see this crap the idea to make this film is no idea at all i guess some fool read a women's magazine article about speed dating in short the characters which are none dialogue and content are so stunningly trivial trite and cliché ridden i continued watching because i could hardly believe what i saw btw to call the flat theses mechanically delivered by the figures certainly from the aforementioned magazines dialogue would be simply incorrect acting is so over the top i can't remember worse than that on screen in a long time you have to guess the director had has no clue at all amazingly distributors and producers around the country are still wondering why german films with rare exceptions generate no interest world wide why because it's waste of time and money
0	well i have to admit that this movie brought some occasional laughs to my face ok but that does not make it a good movie most of the characters are terrible stereotypes and truly unconvincing not all of them give great acting performances but some really try but fail because their characters are badly written the perfect example is julia she changes her eating habits from one talk to the other on one talk she does not drink alcohol on the next she is allergic to champagne she feels too beautiful for most people in fact she is but still ends up with the perfect fit concerning the looks and refuses to give some more realistic guys a chance and so on the end is very cheesy although i like one of the final scenes when everybody finally stops talking and the director gives us a chance to catch our breath again is basically a movie that offers some cheap laughters mostly because it is about sex and relationships i assume and maybe some short entertainment still the whole picture is one big stereotype and nothing is really special about it
0	this feels like a feature lenght treatment of a comedy routine that could have also been told in a ten minute short also technical credits are par the film really feels like a film school diploma project br br the cast is a mix of seasoned stage pros and talented newcomers but the problems is the superficial scrip their lines feel constructed exactly like cued tv show material br br the director fails to take his protagonists seriously therefore we are not touched by their problems and conflicts br br the film has been cleverly marketed and offers a unique selling point but in the end the film disappoints on all levels
0	i've watched the first 15 minutes and i can tell that there was no consultation with any military type personnel judith light's charactor an officer has her hair down past her shoulders one of the first officers that greets her as she walks in to the medical facility she works at is so overweight that his pant pockets gap no there was no military advising them on this movie even an ex military enlisted could have assisted here
0	not finding the right words is everybody's problem in this vaudeville type urban comedy they don't know what to say and they don't know how to say it which is why they embark on the potentially humiliating enterprise of pre arranged speed dating unfortunately they all come across as cardboard characters rather than real people the story follows a conventional three act structure getting to know the sizable cast in their sorry single lives the actual dating circuit and a final stretch of romantic fallout showcasing some of the new found couples' follies because it's all so predictable i'd say that as a narrative is a failure as a comedy most of the time it's too goofy to be really funny thumbs up to von she stands out from the soap opera crowd as the aloof independently wealthy miriam great makeup on her too heavy eye shadow meets skin tone lip gloss creating a brooding and bohemian yet girlish effect thumbs up also to stefan as the bavarian love machine and as the hot they bypass the communication challenge by way of the timeless body language of copulation
0	i saw that this movie was coming out and could not wait to see it i have to say i was very disappointed with it this would have been better as a mini series the whole show seemed very rushed they did not explain things very clearly at the end they showed john paul ii alive and well and the next scene he was dead never any explanation as to what happened we all know what happened in real life i think abc dropped the ball big time on something that could have been great in all i think this movie was a blur it seemed like a drunken monkey jumping around from one point in john paul's life to another point never explaining how or why things happened such as when his older brother leaves it was never explained that his brother was a doctor and that is why he left home also when his father dies all we see is his father lying on the floor and that was that i was very disappointed with the over all movie
0	the people at abc forgot to do their biographical research so many scenes were just plain wrong the actor playing was very rigid there was no personality there it is very very obvious that this movie was on the bottom of the programming totem poll the move is so low budget the script is terrible conversations like you must follow the rules no the people are starving lame plus the movie was jumping like crazy from event to event in order to fit it into the two hours terrible a better use of your time would be to watch a pbs documentary on also cbs put out a miniseries on that is better than abc by far was a wonderful man and it bothers me to think that my grandkids might get a hold of this abc movie and think that that is what he was really like
0	this was without a doubt the worst movie i have ever see yet once i started it was just like the really bad car wreck on the side of the road you can't help yourself you just have to look my eyes the acting was awful the production was awful the filming was awful awful awful awful i was glad the priest got chopped would have loved to have done it myself because of his poor acting i mean suck acting to the tenth power i would have cheered if chris had just axed the lot of them before turning it on himself and what was with that freaking wig from hell on his head i sincerely hope no one got paid i mean if getting paid were to be considered here they should be paid to never attempt another film project again everyone that was involved never never again that was just a huge piece of garbage that i am embarrassed to say i just had to keep watching until the very end don't watch it it's about an hour and a half of your life you will never get back and then you'll have to spend time registering on this website so you can write a comment like i am doing now which you must do as a catharsis in order to survive the of having viewed this film and i use the term film loosely here
0	just saw this movie yesterday night and i almost cried no it wasn't because it got me utterly petrified no it was absolutely horrendous sometimes you see movies that make you wonder what will become of the human race in the near future this movie is one of those it's as though the writer actors director et al just came together and copied and pasted scenes of their favorite horror flicks zipped it all together and said hey here's satan's whip after seeing this movie i could not help but be tormented by the sight of people whom call themselves actors waltzing around like they're some kind of talented artistic interpreters do not be fooled they suck don't bother wasting your time or money
0	sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes sometimes a real gem will present itself this unfortunately was not the case with satan's whip br br written and directed by jason satan's whip attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film with no real pay off at the end i'm guessing that the black white and blue cinematography must have been for a reason however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on the story in itself is not that bad and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic this combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real red gore made satan's whip one to forget quite quickly i will give it a 4 rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time
0	this is a little slow moving for a horror movie but the quality is better than you might expect for a director's only effort on imdb the camera work and lighting were both surprisingly good and the acting – although variable – is better than is often found in indie genre flicks br br as the lead robert field is rather stiff which is especially unfortunate given that his character claude is the film's narrator as well as the centre of its action however it was the entry of christopher brandon that i considered the turning point of this film – and not in a good way a twist is introduced in a clumsy fashion and slow moving becomes drawn out and overly wordy br br on the up side pete barker is consistently entertaining as father william he's the easy stand out in what is a fairly ordinary offering while the first half hour caught my interest i ended up feeling quite disappointed in the way things played out
0	no idea how this is rated as high as it is 5 8 at the time of writing but this movie was absolutely horrible the acting wasn't entirely bad but it really had no point whatsoever and the overall quality was poor its obviously a b movie or a c if such a thing exists and it looks like it was made over a weekend at a friends house or something im all for low budget movies and i generally watch any i come across but this one is really really bad i mean like the bad i don't know what else to say but trust in this as i have indeed sat thru this horrible horrible movie and i can save you the effort don't bother seriously just don't
0	silly and violent thriller that is a rip off of 'deliverance' but without any charm and intelligence the plot is ridiculous and the cast seems to be tired and anxious to be free of this obnoxious entry this movie is a solid example of a bad plot and a very very bad idea all the way it's a shame to see good actors like thomerson and james make a living in a mess like this
0	i've seen comments from turkish people which i'm not saying this movie is fantastic and accurately portrays turkish life all i have to say is turkey must be one of the most boring and depressing places in the world because in my opinion that is exactly what this movie was to me if i were turkish i think it would have had a greater impact but if you're not from turkey i would advise you not to waste two hours of your life on this br br distant seems to lag on forever many scenes are painstakingly long with little or no purpose i don't understand the director's objectives in even including many of the scenes it is pointed out that the director used his own car apartment and friends in making the movie well guess what it shows it looks low budget the acting is poor if it's a cultural thing then so be it i just don't understand the purpose of basing a movie on this story it's unbelievably boring
0	how can you make a joke about mafia it is not the kind of subject to laugh at a near movie cannot make me laugh because i am comparing it to jane austen's mafia mafia wasn't a good movie but hoods is really worse in mafia there were some good jokes but in this one there are maybe two or three that make you smile not too bad actors but very bad scenario we sure prefer something serious like the godfather i give it out of
0	bad ambient sound lots of shuffling loooong pointless scenes eg guy sees interesting woman in lobby manages to stay there and watch her under the guise of waiting for the building supervisor to get a package says nothing stares creepily more shuffling and other irritating ambient noise wait wait wait guy says nothing woman looks frightened or at least slightly disturbed about it and rightly so manager comes back with package guy goes up to the apartment with the package br br another example the guy and his host sit around watching bad tv more ambient noise and shuffling wait wait wait wait guy wanders off to bed if you can stand to sit through any more of this movie you get to watch them watch tv again later br br if you want a story any dialogue entertainment or a well crafted film look elsewhere
0	don't get me wrong i enjoy art house movies low budget flicks character studies and foreign movies unfortunately i couldn't enjoy this one glacial pacing complete lack of plot and characters that you can't dislike enough to hate but you can't tolerate enough to like br br for me distant was like watching the cutting room floor footage of a reality show all of the scenes which were deemed too uninteresting which would normally not make the final cut were the only scenes included a camera in my apartment with two of my friends ambling around for hours does not an interesting movie make br br distant certainly makes the watcher feel that way long stretches of no dialogue nearly 10 minutes before the first word is spoken from the credits can be made to work 2001 comes to mind but for me something else compelling needs to happen to draw me in br br if you're the kind of watcher who can sit through a movie and be content with movie analysis perhaps it will work for you however if you're somebody who chooses to watch movies to relax expand your mind or be entertained you should probably look elsewhere
0	there seem to be many fans of this movie here but i found it boring slow meandering and pointless and i watch and enjoy plenty of art house and independent films so i wasn't expecting an action movie i didn't sympathize with either character the guy from the countryside was a bad guest and didn't seem to be trying very hard to find a job and his relative in istanbul was humorless and closed off emotionally br br in an interview on the dvd the director says that the movie is about a common situation in turkey the person leaving in the countryside because there are no jobs and coming to istanbul and staying with relatives while trying to find work that in itself is interesting but the movie wasn't
0	this movie is about a depressed and emotionally constricted man has a distant relative move in with him in his apartment in istanbul as time passes their relationship becomes more and more strained until finally he begins yelling at his house guest who is out of work and doesn't appear all that eager to find work that's most of the movie in fact the problem is that although emotionally constricted and depressed people are very withdrawn and non communicative they don't make for a very satisfying movie that's because most of the time he and his just stare into space and say nothing i think all these flat moments could have been shortened to make a 30 minute movie i certainly wouldn't have minded
0	i can't think of anything i repeat anything positive about this movie the whole 1 hour 45 minute movie could be shrunken into a short 5 minute movie in most scenes there is absolutely nothing going on and it seems just the camera was left on recording on purpose only to increase the time of the movie all you see is someone in the background walking around or watching tv with no specific subject or even talk what so ever i just feel i've wasted 105 minutes of my my family's and my friends' weekend for nothing if a movie is poorly made or the scenario isn't great that's whole another story at least it leaves you something to discuss about but about distant i just have to call it a movie because it was motion pictures recorded by a camera br br if you haven't seen it imagine a 105 min long movie based on two three lines of story what will you end up with 5 of content and 95 of fillers that's exactly how distant was at least for us actors did a great job acting roles that had nothing special in them they barely talked or showed any special emotions i picked up this movie in the comedy section of a store relying on what i read on the back of its cover i'm still wondering what was funny in it other than our face after watching the movie
0	i should live this film but i don't it won international awards it is foreign i usually like such films it is slow moving again something i like and it has no gratuitous sex or violence the problem is that it is boring we have two friends from the same village in turkey one successful the other not the unsuccessful one comes to istanbul to stay with the successful in an attempt to get a good job at sea both live lives that are unfulfilling pointless and petty br br well it isn't the first time this kind of film has been made i didn't see anything new being added to this tired theme there are long takes that are just someone standing and looking at the sea or sitting in a coffee shop or watching tv i do understand that this kind of thing is there to show the emptiness of their loves while it does do that i got the idea in the first 15 min i don't need to be beaten over the head with it for the rest of the two hours br br the symbolism is also a bit heavy handed the plate of live type fish with one off the plate and flopping around in its death throws symbols are best when they are not obvious but are there in the background creating a mood just slightly below the viewer's awareness br br the film is so apathetic that it doesn't even rate a score of 1 so i gave it a 2 to rate a 1 takes a talent at being bad this film didn't have that much energy
0	i was fairly lost throughout most of this film and i am the one who usually understands the works of such enigmatic cinema greats as david lynch twin peaks fire walk with me and darren aronofsky pi not to say that northfork doesn't make sense on some level it just doesn't combine to form a wholly coherent film as time passes from watching the film its themes and intentions become clearer but during my initial viewing i was really confounded and i find that this is the major fault of the film its lack of direction the plot centers on the town of northfork montana in the year 1955 the town has been emptied and will soon be flooded to make way for the creation of a hydro electric dam the major problem is that not all of its inhabitants are willing to be evacuated and relocated a group of men are hired to coerce the remaining residents out of the town before it will be drowned and for the most part they succeed amidst some fairly odd situations and townspeople simultaneously the film tells the story of irwin a very sick young boy or is he a fallen angel whose adopted parents gave him back due to his illness to the northfork orphanage that they adopted him from father harlan nick nolte cares for the dying irwin but irwin imagines or does he that a group of angels including daryl hannah and anthony edwards have arrived in the desolate and empty town looking for a fallen angel irwin has scars on his back and on his head and he tries to convince the angels that his scars are where the humans amputated his wings and halo oh yeah and during all of this there is a strangely surreal walking animal on stilts that roams throughout the backdrop of the landscape there are a lot of other small events that happen in the film but none of them end up amounting to much more than momentary intrigue one can appreciate the artistic quality of the film it's obvious that the filmmakers cared deeply about this film and its rich cinematography but the film still tries too hard to be different and then gives up and whimpers to an end without making much of a statement like i wrote earlier it becomes clearer long after viewing what has possibly taken place in the film irwin is dying and so is northfork and in coping with his own loss and death irwin has most likely created characters from ideas he gets from the objects that surround him at the orphanage to console him as he is abandoned and his life nears its end but then again maybe he really is an angel and he has found his kind and can now return home i must emphasize that there are some truly beautiful moments in the film heartbreaking vivid and full of loneliness and sadness unfortunately the film as a whole just ends up feeling disconnected and somehow incomplete
0	this is a good time to say how good i think of this site it gives me the opportunity to feedback all the frustration i lived for two hours awaiting for something to happens for something to be said to be shown to be insinuated subtly for a symbol an idea whatever no just long endless violins alternated by a tired piano tired voices tired actors and bored characters and situations boring is the long death of the mind and this movie is from that point of view a public enemy how many thousands of live hours will be still stolen to another thousands of innocent spectators i don't claim for my money back just for my time and the time of persons i invited to watch this thing oh god
0	first the easy part this movie is pretentious crapola br br it put me in mind of magnolia and then i thought wow somebody made a movie even dumber and more irritating than magnolia br br i know nothing about the polish brothers but this film seems to have been made by someone who learned a lot in film school but knows nothing about storytelling the trite plot elements and sledgehammer symbolism are bad enough but the dialogue is just pathetic br br detailed comments would just be a laundry list of failure the parts that are supposed to be funny or satirical are not the parts are nice coffee table pictures with mediocre music the emotional parts are simplistic br br the worst thing is that the movie shows no love at all for the characters except for a little cornball dignity in the priest br br i still can't believe the respect some people have given this picture
0	usually i'm the one criticizing the twenty something neanderthals for not being able to appreciate a film unless it has plastic t ts gunfights and car chases however in this case the film might actually have been improved with a few of those additions at least i wouldn't have gotten bored after an hour and changed channels br br i don't mind surreal and i certainly don't mind having to pay attention to find subtlety or hidden meaning but there should be some point to the whole thing i didn't get the feeling that even the writer or director really had a broad vision of anything but were instead just so self absorbed in their own pretentious visions that they became deliberately scattered or perhaps they just got confused themselves either way i don't care it bored the crap out of me for just over an hour with no saving grace br br although a whole pack of other viewers have filled up this site with excited ravings about the alleged symbolism and masterful cinematography i must respectfully disagree perhaps i didn't mince through enough film classes to appreciate some inspired techniques not visible to mere mortals br br or perhaps this movie was just crap br br i give it a 1 and file it next to ishtar
0	hoods doesn't deliver the goods this half baked mafia comedy boasts a stellar cast including joe mantegna kevin pollack joe pantoliano jennifer tilly and seymour cassel along with a number of faces familiar to those who watch crime movies but it is truly a misfire if there ever was one writer director mark malone best known for writing dead of winter for bonnie clyde director arthur penn has penned up a pedestrian potboiler that has an ailing but vengeful mob boss louie seymour cassel dispatching his son angelo joe mantegna of house of games to whack carmine it seems that a rival mob fire bombed one of pop's warehouses in the opening scene and wants payback trouble is that nobody has a clue as to who carmine is in any other mob comedy such a complication might be amusing but here is just plain flat angelo and a carload of including his best pal rudy kevin pollack of spend half of the time trying to find out who carmine is neither rudy nor angelo want to perform the hit so they track down a crazy mob hit man charlie joe pantoliano of bad boys to do the dirty deed before they can convince charlie to make the hit they have to locate him and charlie's slutty wife mary jennifer tilly of bound reveals that he is locked up in a mental hospital our misfit heroes cruise out to the mental hospital and break charlie out about half of the movie is over before they discover that carmine is a kid in short pants vincent berry who is bland and harmless indeed carmine has the only decent line in the movie as our brainless bunch of heroes wheel away from his house with him in the backseat to take care of business carmine warns them that they need to get him home in time or his father will kill him charlie tries to ice the urchin but he cannot instead he reconnects with his feelings and wants to go back to the mental hospital so he can report the good news to his doctor meanwhile after charlie decides not to shoot carmine the kid gets his paws on the pistol and pops off several aimless rounds angelo and he struggle over the automatic the pistol slips out of their collective hands and hits the ground goes off and blows a hole in chest now keep in mind that rudy never wanted to shoot the kid in the first place and angelo and he argued over the wrong headedness of the hit so rudy winds up on the ground with a fatal wound while angelo struggles to stop the bleeding talk about a dull death scene angelo is conflicted himself because his father ordered the hit and angelo fears that dad will do him in if he doesn't execute orders there is a flashback subplot about angelo's father teaching him how to handle a gun that provides some insight into angelo's reluctance to pack a gun br br there is nothing remotely redeeming about this depressing comedy with a downer of an ending things gets worse and if you last through this 90 minute nonsense you'll see what i mean the comedy is largely laugh less good actors wallow in sketchy roles that aren't even funny perhaps director malone was trying to do another comedy like the gang that couldn't shoot straight if he was he missed by a mile big breasted jennifer tilly shows cleavage and snarls through a couple of scenes with mantegna but she doesn't do much of anything else she's the stereotypical slut who doesn't even get naked a paycheck is the only way to explain the presence of such a talented cast otherwise this picture is pathetic from start to finish initially i had hoped that this might be a ransom of red chief knockoff where the kid drives the nuts but no such luck here of course the biggest surprise is that they have to kill a kid but it's not the kind of a surprise that makes you want to watch it up to its resolution br br i actually bought this movie on a canadian dvd it contains only the most basic special features if you hate previews that give away the plot don't watch the trailer if you ever meet joe mantegna one of your first questions should be why he helped to produce this yawner it is neither hilarious nor dramatic there are no quotable lines and none of the characters stand out as either interesting or sympathetic the seville dvd presents the movie in full frame with no subtitles or closed captioning
0	like 'singin' in the rain' girl' has a trio of two guys and a girl in girl' phil silvers genius is the comic relief he corresponds to donald o'connor's funny man part in in the rain' in cover girl gene kelly's love interest is rita hayworth and in it's debbie reynolds that's where the comparison ends br br whereas singin' in the rain' is a classic american movie musical girl' is mediocrity incarnate the story isn't very complicated rusty parker rita hayworth is a dancer in danny low rent nightclub in brooklyn rusty decides to enter a cover girl contest sponsored by a wealthy publisher john who made an unsuccessful play for grandmother years ago introduces rusty to broadway producer noel wheaton who makes her into a star danny feels slighted when rusty starts showing up late for rehearsals at the nightclub and decides to close the club down and go on the road entertaining the troops along with his sidekick genius at the last minute with rusty at the altar with noel she realizes the error of her ways and runs back to danny they live happily ever after br br gene kelly has the least developed part in the movie all we find out about him is that he owns a nightclub and is madly in love with rusty and wheaton act like besotted teenagers toward rusty and phil silvers delivers some thoroughly goofy but unfunny shtick the most interesting aspect of rita hayworth's performance is the scene in which she gets drunk this foreshadows what happened to her in real life anyone who has read her biography will learn that she disliked hollywood away for a normal home life which she could never attain but eventually began drinking and ended up with full blown alzheimer's during the last years of her life br br almost all of the songs in cover girl are old fashioned and not very tuneful gene kelly has only one really excellent dance number and that's the scene where he dances with his ego' earlier the trio has another number which is a pale precursor of 'make em from 'singin' in the rain' br br the most annoying thing about girl' is the way in which rita hayworth is put up on a pedestal a couple of decades later raquel welch had the same problem both actresses later in their careers would always try and find scripts that showcased their acting abilities they wanted to be known as and not girls' unfortunately girl' is an example of how hollywood used to exploit women for financial gain
0	it seems ever since 1982 about every two or three years we get a movie that claims to be the next officer and a gentleman there has yet to be one movie that has lived up to this claim and this movie is no different br br we get the usual ripped off scenes from i want you dor the instructor gives the richard gere character his overdose of drills in hopes he'll quit the gere character comes back for the girl the gere character realizes the instructor is great etc and this movie is as predictable as the sun rising in the east and is horribly miscast on top costner plays his usual wise teacher character the only character he can play and you really get a sense of his limited acting abilities here kutcher is terrible in the richard gere character just miscast with acting skills barely a notch above keanu reeves br br the main problem with this wannabe is the two main characters are so amazingly one dimensional you never care for either in the least and when character finally turns around just like gere did in you just go so what the movie leaves no plot point unturned and seems to never end as if to say oh wait we forgot to close out the girlfriend story or the what happens after he graduates story or the other six plot points in the movie what's more baffling is the great reviews i see here the general public's opinions never cease to amaze me
0	this is the most boring pretentious and stupid film i have seen in a long time i saw it at the academy in beverly hills and there were quite a few people in the lobby who had left the screening and were seeking refuge there all were solemnly shaking their heads and looking as though they had been to a funeral what a waste of time and money even worse are the critics who gave this pretentious blimp good reviews what's with them are they just afraid they won't be considered hip were they bribed this film is staggeringly bad don't take a date to it expecting to have an in depth chat at the cheesecake factory afterwards if going to see this film was your idea she'll you and hold it over you the rest of your life
0	is what is wrong with indie films for all of their hard edged commentary and attacking big subjects studios won't this is the sacrifice we make for nearly two hours i was subjected to the torture and pain of a film that starts by wandering like a blind man in a new place and ends without covering any new ground and thankfully dies br br there are parallel stories that detail a dying town and a dying boy two men dressed in black one of them james woods must coerce the remaining inhabitants of northfork to leave before a dam opens up and floods the town the other story has a boy returned to the priest nick nolte that gave him to the parents he is dying and is visited i guess by angels among them anthony edwards with bizarre spectacles and daryl hannah in a bizarre costume reminding me of the pirate shirt from seinfeld br br though this is the plot it is not what the film is about the film is about nothing it does nothing says nothing goes nowhere and has nothing interesting to show perhaps by design more likely an after effect of the pretentious surreal david lynch wannabe we're an important artsy film can't you see style of direction the entire movie is filtered through a gray bleak backdrop that i suppose fits a film about death instead it simply makes the film that much harder to watch br br if you want to see a film about men in black see either 'men in black' films neither too impressive but compared to they are lifted to 'citizen kane' status if you want to see a film about a boy dying watch oil ' if you want to see a film that has the destruction of a town through water watch 'o brother where art thou ' if you want to watch a film better than ' there are hundreds if you want to watch a film that is worse there are only a handful 0 out of
0	pretentious storytelling such as this always uses the same technique 1 throw opaque unstructured threads around to perplex the audience 2 deal only in big' topics such as life death and god 3 make it appear profound with scenes of life death sky etc 4 depend on an intellectually weak audience to give you the benefit of the doubt 5 and finally laugh all the way to critical acclaim br br this movie is pretentious faux intellectualism at its boldest not only do these filmmakers not answer any questions they're afraid to pose the questions to begin with the film is held together by wisps directions are raised and dropped awkwardly pop cultural references are jolting and arbitrary there is so little to point at that any critical stabs will miss br br critics who found an intellectual base to this movie are afraid to admit the truth they have no idea what this movie is about good news neither do the filmmakers satisfying attempts at answers to profound questions about human existence demand wit intellect poetry and genius sadly this movie demonstrates none of these traits
0	what symbolism exclaimed a woman as we exited the theater after viewing the polish brother's paean to ingmar bergman some symbolism is there all right but not much northfork adds up to some fine acting weakened by dreary cinematography that fails to make any coherent statement and a muddled story that irritates rather than enthralls br br northfork is a town facing extinction after a new dam goes into operation it's the early to middle 1950s and a squad of identically dressed state agents all looking as if they had just answered a casting call for the untouchables have the job of relocating dwellers who fail to appreciate both their immediate peril as well as the proffered bounty for moving an exciting anti development movie is always a possibility but let's get real rural is one of the greatest advances in bringing decent living conditions and a boosted economy in american history can be built without forced relocation not in this country br br but this film is less about the plight of homeowners than it is a fantastical creation of a dying young boy's escapist imagination nick nolte is the priest who tends to the lad and much of what he says might have been interesting if the sound was clear enough to hear br br alternating between the black suited evacuation agents working for land when the dam creates that valuable and a phantasmagorical collection of weirdos the film develops neither theme coherently or even interestingly br br the cinematography is poor a washed out subdued and depressive color permeates the whole film to little dramatic purpose there is no reason for this vast terrain to be depicted so bleakly indeed a contrast between largely untouched natural beauty and the massive and grim solidity of the evolving dam and power plants would have been very effective br br 4 10
0	the frustrating thing about a movie like this with a true potential for greatness is that it almost enjoys being heavy handed we speak of allegory of metaphor but the truth is there's no getting around the fact that there is absolutely no plot or real character br br at a certain point we most know who the people are even if we never understand where they are going the sheer pretentiousness wore me down every time i tried to grasp a truth in this film br br call it beautiful great and awesome i just call it cheating all style and no substance sure it's a matter of taste but i would never take a confusing modernist pastiche of symbols and splashes over the spiritual clarity of jean cocteau or renoir but if it works for you i'm all for it art is a personal thing i guess
0	i tried to be patient and open minded but found myself in a coma like state i wish i would have brought my duck and goose feather pillow i apologize to all of the great actors in this movie maybe it takes a degree from mit to understand the importance of this movie
0	if this movie had a point i never discovered it a very depressing movie which supposedly is about the final evacuation of the residents living in a dam site area on the northfork river in montana the problem is that there is no actual northfork river in montana there are several north forks but they are branches of other rivers which divided into north and south forks br br the opening scene of the movie is a coffin bobbing to the surface of the lake but the scene is never tied into the story and the viewer is left to speculate as to its meaning but much is left to the viewer's speculation in the movie another example is when a team of dam employees responsible for the evacuation of the residents arrives at the dam headquarters another group of people are departing some remark which is almost inaudible is made about these people which makes no sense whatsoever and there is no followup in the movie to explain it br br the movie is butchered into several stories and the film keeps switching back and forth between stories which is quite disconcerting and the stories are weird in one of them the occupants of one property refuse to be evacuated because they are living in a home that is built like noah's ark br br another senseless story centers around a sick orphan who is dying and somehow he is sharing his presence with a house full of ghosts and in an orphanage with a priest at the same time if anyone can figure out what the ghost story was about the author must have explained it to them br br the scenery was stark and the sun never shines there are snowy mountains in the far distance i guess the purpose was to set the mood the time period is set by the fact that the all drove ford of the 1946 48 era although the events are supposed to have occurred in 1955 the acting was mediocre when i saw the billing for this movie it said that darryl hannah was in the picture if she was i didn't recognize her but i surmise that she was the ghost lady
0	this is one of the best looking films of the past few years the fact that it was done on a virtual shoestring 1 8 million or so they say on the dvd they infer that they ended up with even less financing makes it all the more impressive not simply the photography but the design and particularly the locations eastern montana which are at once authentically american and otherworldly br br too bad there isn't a coherent movie to go with it an extremely promising setup of the last 48 hours of clearing out a rural town in 1955 before it will be flooded for a dam is washed away with pretentious mumbo jumbo alluding to angels and a dying child and what is presented as the real world is hopelessly arch note to the polish brothers the coen brothers are funny you are not br br no doubt many cineastes will find northfork 's abundant symbolism and as marks of some sort of profundity the sort that sophisticated types wrestle the night away with in while the braindead masses watch charlie's angels or something sigh if you insist br br in the meantime recommended only as a case study for filmmakers for its' impeccable technical credits and photographic beauty
0	there is nothing i hate more in a movie than pretentiousness and this is one of the most pretentious films ever made it's self consciousness is obvious in every frame see what a profound sophisticated film we are making the director and screenwriters seem to be saying to us and to themselves they say see how we can bore and confuse the audience even more i would rather watch the worst film by ed wood or edgar g ulmer than something like this at least they were giving us honest trash and at least their films in their own atrocious way were entertaining this film is about as entertaining as a root canal without anesthesia and thus is tantamount to torture br br have these screenwriters ever heard the word 'story ' it doesn't appear so they have a concept they are able to create an atmosphere and they were able to assemble an excellent cast and elicit good performances from them and for what to bore us for an hour and 45 minutes nothing really happens in this film the only exciting part and this lasts only about two minutes occurs when one of the soon to be evicted homeowners starts shooting at the state employees who come to tell him he has to leave but nothing comes of it too bad he didn't keep shooting until he hit the screenwriters the only redeeming features of this film are the acting and some beautifully photographed scenery toward the end 3 10
0	most of the films i really like are art house fare and seldom appear on the box office top ten lists that said i found northfork utterly incomprehensible i have no idea what it was even about writing in the new york times about a different film stephen holden once observed that some people seem to think they can throw just anything up on the screen and have it work as a fairy tale i thought of that review several times while watching northfork br br on a scale of one to ten i gave it a two
0	jefferey dahmer was one sick guy there's not much to say about him that hasn't already been said except that the many documentaries and films made about him are probably better than this one it's ridiculously cheesy it's so cheesy a guy who posted the whole film on youtube added some to make the viewer laugh br br carl crew who's he stars as serial killer jeffrey dahmer who's killing spree began in 1978 with a young guy dahmer just wanted to be friends with a finally in 1991 with a man he wished to have sex with and eat br br i didn't bother to watch the whole film through it's basically a documentary that shows all the attacks dahmer pulled off before he got caught and since this film was made in 1993 one year before dahmer was bludgeoned to death by a fellow inmate the death of dahmer isn't shown but it probably would've been as cheesy as this cheese fest br br 1 10
0	a professional production with quality actors that simply never touched the heart or the funny bone no matter how hard it tried the quality cast stark setting and excellent made you hope for fargo or high plains drifter but sorry the soup had no seasoning or meat for that matter a 3 of 10 for effort
0	keys to the vip is just another one of the horrible t v shows that you can and will see on this station the show is terrible with guys claiming to be real players competing against each other there are two of them competing in each episode in stupid games where they try to get girls at a bar to talk to them get girls numbers and so on the judges are four other guys who also claim to be expert pick up artists but they also seem like just huge d bags just like the contestants the show is not funny at all and not even interesting it is just boring watching these guys desperately try to convince us what awesome players they are talking even more about the four judges than i am about the contestants nothing funny has even happened in the shows i have watched and the shows are obviously rigged do you really think they have invited all these people to the club got them to sign releases and get them on tape while these guys carry out the same stupid games with them it's not reality at all it is just stupid it probably even tapes in the day time somebody else on here wrote how they knew somebody on the show and it was all fake well yeah that is obvious it's a fake show and even with actors it's still not funny one of the worst shows i have ever seen
0	this show is pathetic i can't even begin to imagine how anyone with an iq greater than that of a can of split pea soup that's past its expiration date can willingly sit through this garbage for an entire half hour it is one of those rare shows that is so mind numbingly awful in every respect you can honestly say you are less intelligent simply from watching it i conducted a study and found that the average person loses 10 iq points for every fifteen seconds they watch this show that is second only to another comedy network abortion 19 221 iq points per second lost and pretty much a tie with girls will be girls keys to the vip owes each and every one of us an apology whenever i watch this travesty of a show i feel sad for society how is it allowed to continue
0	this show just sucks i don't think i even need to say it or why because judging by the number of comments already i am just repeating everything keys to the vip is like turning on your tv and having it throw poo at you that is exactly what it is like i am not even exaggerating even a little bit these guys are so stupid not funny and not smooth with the ladies that it's not even funny its stupid i sat through four episodes and i want my two hours back where do they find the contestants because they are obviously deficient mentally if i was the man who came up with this idea for a show and put it on tv i would do the world a favour and jump off the tallest building i could find how does garbage like this get on tv especially the comedy network shouldn't a show on something called the comedy network at least be a comedy show or maybe be funny so often
0	after having seen this show a few times i am thoroughly offended as a female that there are so many stupid women out there that fall for this bullshit im a little more mature than some of the players in this show but am still appalled that the whole dating game has been boiled down to a gameshow where goofy dudes can score points on their lame ass attempts to pick up chicks if young guys are watching this and using it as a learning manual don't save yourself the effort and hire a prostitute if all you are after is a piece of ass maybe there are girls out there with the same mind set but some how i don't think so
0	1 men over the age of 25 that refer to themselves without irony as having game or being either a player or a baller gentlemen from here on in it's a swift descent into starring in your own real life version of a night at the roxbury br br 2 saying the v i p the term v i p in and of itself isn't bad but when preceded by the it instantly becomes part of the douchebag dictionary this goes double for white people br br 3 people that make tv shows based on stuff that they don't know isn't cool and then go on imdb posing as fans right moreover one of whom is from the united states hey me too to bitterly insult members of their potential audience for inevitably thinking their show sucks minus 1 additional demerit point if they employ any variation on the oh snap nice one bro justification that if you don't like the show you obviously can't get laid br br 4 canadian hip hop r b sensation a random addition to the list at first glance but at the end of the day gets the gas face for the simple reason that his particular brand of low rent american aping uncool and general aqua velva dovetails with the overall sensibility of keys to the v i p br br 5 last but not least keys to the v i p for all the above reasons and more
0	it's too bad these guys the so called judges are such jerks even the nominally sensitive ones it's the self congratulatory tone that really makes me sick though these guys don't have any perspective on their behaviour i think the real problem though is the quality of the contestants not a single smooth or truly charming one in the lot they pick the most pathetic girls out of the crowd because they're the only ones these guys have a chance with let's see some real players trying for a truly unattainable girl and maybe you have a show otherwise you have a revolting half hour of self love and real sexual tension takes two
0	yeah that's what the station disclaimer states after the commercials for this show some scenes may be disturbing to some viewers br br it is beyond disturbing the validation of this whole display of ego framing and chauvinism is in the fact it is on the comedy channel yes a comedy true and true a joke to see these go through their rigid charade really spells out what is wrong with society especially the meat market bar scene both sides the male and female are equally as weak and desperate to be among this superficial atmosphere the club is obviously one of those cigarette corporation sponsored plastic coke scenes these people do have a choice and that is what makes it even more of a joke br br these slick try too hard they glisten with their own groove grease that's ok it's a lesson on video tape for the new generation of how not to focus on a potential heart interest hopefully that facade will crumble along with the bush harper administrations problem is who's lined up after these characters fade the bastard children of the one night stands
0	though it pains me to some degree that i'm bothering to christen the comments board for this new series mainly because i'd hate to give the false impression that there's actually any semblance of public interest in it i feel compelled to throw in my chips on this one br br to put it simply never before have i felt so persuaded to root for a tv show's swift and merciless cancellation based solely on the merit of its promo ads and in case you're wondering i'm a dude br br listen comedy network though your existing original programming is already shall we politely say of a quality i'm looking at you girls will be girls you have truly outdone yourselves on this one whoever green lit this thing could not be further out of touch with what's cool right now br br best of luck
0	this is possibly the worst thing i've ever seen on television first i'm pretty sure it takes itself entirely seriously and i tend to be pretty good at recognizing satire second it displays aristotelian levels of chauvinism in one of the ads for it one of the describes women in terms of quality third every contestant i've seen on it six i think was a dim witted meathead of the variety likely to possess a facebook with boning u or women entered under here for to paraphrase roger ebert this doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel nor deserve mention in the same sentence as barrels the closest thing to a redeeming feature i've experienced with regards to key to the vip was having a female friend reassure me that the male cast were indeed the opposite of attractive in both physical and mental terms
0	possible spoilers br br i've read up on dahmer a little and saw the new dahmer film with the same name at an earlier time this movie here concentrates rather much on the victims and killings too little on dahmer himself the film called dahmer had the opposite problem it was too little about his crimes and too much about himself br br i did not find the acting to my satisfaction it had a certain amateur feel too it especially the probation officer it also seemed as if the dahmer acting got worse every time he played against the probation officer actor but i might be wrong about that br br what annoyed me a bit was that some of the scenes were quite disturbing but that the filmmakers seemed to try and show the real deal about what he did anyway that is ok but what i then don't understand is why the guy who ran away from his flat while dahmer was out getting beer was not depicted being naked since that is also how it happened it's not a big deal but it just eats away further on the movies quality that such details are left out what wasn't shown either or not even really hinted was dahmers sexual obsession with the dead again i don't mind they didn't show it but at least they could have mentioned it or built it in to the movie somehow br br conclusion i think the really good dahmer film is still to be made a movie that incorporates not only dahmers crimes but also who he was and why he did what he did i think that 1 5 or 2 hours are just not enough to grasp the complexity of it all this movie was just a cutout excuse the pun of dahmers life and personality and does not give you any to good' insight into his life or personality br br 4 10
0	this is just what we need a show about the people nobody likes in high school or in university man or woman people others and congratulating themselves for doing so is exactly the opposite of intelligent thinking and this show is just disgusting for doing exactly that br br so four men sit in chairs and watch two other guys try and pick up women to have sex with them and in the end one of the two wins great just f n great i'm also supposed to accept these four douche bags as being judges of people's game the term game has got to be the most moronic thing to come out of modern english since the term bling bling added to the fact that these men are called the experts just makes me want to throw up whats left of my respect for modern culture these are not god damn role models they are the result of mtv culture coming to bite us in the ass if you enjoy the bullshit spilling out the sides of this monstrosity then you probably think paris hilton and spears have talent its not true and you should be ashamed of yourself for thinking so br br and for all those people who will say that i would like this better if i got laid or that i'm just jealous go screw yourself because its obvious that a real girl certainly won't
0	game huh game i'm not even sure the bloody hosts of that particular reality game know what the term means let alone the bloody players in the game br br an aspiring would look at that and think hmmmmm what the flying fork was that useless excuse for a demonstration of seducing women i've seen my neighbours dog seduce women with more panache than that and it is one ugly bloody dog and its main approach tactic is to frenetically hump legs br br i challenge the frustrated chump hosts of that show to a show down a demonstration of their so called pickup ability can they deliver if one is to view that piece of un reality drivel then you would realise no these mentally masturbating suck me darling boyfriend wanna be hosts of queer eye or something similar not that there's anything wrong with that are unable to un shrinkwrap their penises long enough to provide a demo of a real pickup br br as you lovely north americans say 'nuff said br br a message from down under with love
0	4 son my game mad yo i cant wait 2 get on dis show and roll up in da club n do it real style wit mad models n bottles son br br no i'm just kidding this is a sad show created by and for the enjoyment of sad men men who are so neutered by modern existence that they channel their frustration into the clubs where they eke out fleeting self validation preying on chicks in hopes of getting their little touched to try and dull the sting of loneliness and make them feel even if just for one night as though their seat on the board of the sausage party of toronto is a little less permanent br br i read some comments on here saying that this show represents canadian tv's finally stepping up to stand on a par with american tv or well that's not aiming short at all it's like yes pat yourself on the back canada you've finally cracked the elusive formula for such groundbreaking american content as studs change of heart and the fifth wheel see the real brainchild here is meets candid camera onto the pitch genius and there's nothing that that thin line between fratboy camaraderie and latent homosexuality like a group of grown men taping each other on hidden camera admiring each other's game up in the club the man love on display here is so palpable they should really consider it keys to the steam bath br br on a side note how interesting that the folks who gave this show such glowing reviews seem to have registered an imdb account for the express purpose of doing so i guess i'm guilty of employing the same means to do the opposite here my personal favorite is the one enthusiastic reviewer that claims to hail from the united states who gushes that now it's clear that the talent in canada has the ability to produce american quality television br br smooth br br but why even bother manufacturing online buzz you can't really get cancelled after all you're on the comedy network in canada baby the viewing public will go on ignoring your show for years to come in all likelihood you'll be just fine coasting comfortably along that proverbial plain of mediocrity with the majority of the comedy network's original programming
0	there were two things i hated about wasted the directing and the script i know i m opening myself up to ridicule but stephen t kay s direction is too much like a like a well like a mtv pop video it s shot i think on digital video against an intrusive soundtrack often out of focus and often with rapid cross cutting if you re not a teenager you ll find many segments of wasted unwatchable due to the stylistic approach as bad as the directing was it was the script that yanked my chain the story is told through samantha a poor little rich girl who spends much of the film talking through voice over strange how the voice over never seems idiosyncratic enough to have come from the same character telling us of the pressure of her exams the pressure of home life her social solitude and it s all this that led her to take drugs it s for similar reasons like parental break up that her two male friends i thought she was supposed to be lonely to start taking drugs oh poor little sammi in her nice house and her problems how my heart bled for you and your chums not what wasted doesn t mention is that no matter what someone is addicted to be it drink drugs nicotine or chocolate that person has to work at becoming an addict they re not a victim of external forces they re an act of free will both traffic and trainspotting made this point very well people become addicts because they want to to portray them as victims in any way is wrong patronising and very possibly dangerous br br by the way if mtv are anti drugs will they stop playing videos from stars who freely admit taking drugs
0	wasted is just that a waste of time mtv is churning out made for tv movies at quite a clip nowadays a friend of mine recommended this and i rented it needless to say i will not be pursuing anymore from her anytime soon this movie shows the rollercoaster of drug use the problem is you really don't care about any of the characters due to lack of and their own self discipline this movie is in a word annoying to watch from the terrible camera angles to the quality of dialogue and pacing the format tries for realism but comes up distracting if you want a true scope on drug use watch requiem for a dream
0	good lord br br i'm going to say right off the bat i only watched 20 minutes of this movie as i am a hardcore eraserhead fan the what you can't watch a wierd black and white movie with little to no dialogue defense does not apply i simply can't watch terrible weird black and white movies with little to no dialogue br br this movie is what happens when you give an angsty goth child with no talent and nothing to say a camera and budget and let him her put as much meaninglessly offensive imagery on screen as possible it was clear from the start that this film should have been 5 minutes long assuming it should exist at all shots that should last a few seconds drag on for minutes because the director has i just love the sound of my own voice syndrome and refuses to cut to another shot until the entire piece of footage has been viewed from the moment the girl in the mask started masturbating the corpse of god the opening scene of the film joy i knew it was only a matter of time until i turned off the tape after at least 10 minutes of a different corpse being pulled around twitching on a rope by a gang of cloaked mystery men i knew it was time to give up rarely do i give up on a movie i sat through the entirety of blair witch 2 book of shadows albeit not happily this did not deserve the 20 minutes i gave it br br if you're an eraserhead fan do not let simple minded comparisons to said film con you into renting this piece of amateur trash allow me to refer you to tetsuo the iron man for a watchable and enjoyable piece of incoherent black and white weirdness
0	directed by e elias begotten is an experiment with a few interesting ideas that don't quite succeed in what they were trying to do the film is a 76 minute ultra slow questionably effective irritating experience that tries to present an intriguing philosophy about the creation of the earth and human nature br br it opens with god presented as a chair bound psychopathic man who tears open his stomach using a knife from the guts blood and human waste mother nature emerges she proceeds to impregnate herself with the dead god's semen later she gives birth to the son of the earth a retard who is constantly abused a group of cannibalistic people whom i believe to be the representation of mankind br br begotten takes a twisted and disturbing look on the origin of life demonstrating the self destructive nature violence lust and greed that have become a trademark for mankind the problem in the movie come from two points one is that the film is just too slow in it's exhibition what we get is a good thirty minutes spent on showing how the son of the earth is constantly shaking naked on the ground while at the same time being molested and tortured by mankind such tasteless prolonging gets boring pretty fast and lacks the punch in delivering a blow to the viewer's senses br br another point is visual appearance and sound the grainy inverted black and white low frame cinematography enchants the disturbing factor of the plot but such novelties often work in only short periods of time then gradually begin to lose their effect as the audience becomes accustomed to the look the audio suffers from the same problems it's constant repetitive and similar sounds become annoying so fast i had an urge to turn off the volume begotten loses it's charm shortly after it begins it tries to be original and creative but it fails to expand on the ideas hinted by the vague plot instead it repeats the same scene again and again br br the conclusion is that begotten is stuck in one moment even though plot wise it tries to move forward the visuals and audio remain the same throughout showing the same action in a slightly different way with just slightly a different sound a gimmick cannot alone make a movie it also needs pace and variety something seems to have forgotten
0	begotten is no doubt someone's attempt at originality but what we have here is art in its most morbid grotesque form so for that begotten has my respect but to be realistic it makes no difference what this abomination is about but for the record br br in the ultimate in incoherent horror we begin in an unknown time in an unknown place right off the bat we are plunged into the psychotic nightmare that is begotten a god is seemingly depressed mutilating himself with a razor i mean really trying like hell to end it all it takes a while why wouldn't it after this ultra morbid introduction something is happening something is rising from the corpse say hello to mother earth what does she do well she gives birth to a thing the thing would have probably preferred to stay in the womb but that's life the psychotic nightmare realm of begotten welcomes the thing the only way it knows how the thing along with mother earth is mutilated by unknown hooded assailants with evil intentions being the only clarity available from this point on things drag as they've never dragged before interesting grim images with a totally decent soundtrack is the high points of the remainder not to give the impression that i don't recommend this evilness because i do but only once and only for people with an appreciation for the dark side br br from my description it may appear that i don't get begotten trust me i get it and yes begotten is art if i've ever seen it everything in this film regardless of how unrelated it may seem is significant that perhaps is the only thing that makes begotten art with that said most of us require some form of entertainment value and this is coming from someone who enjoyed the chooper probably the most intriguing first five minutes i've seen in a film but let's be realistic the next 7 hours and 55 minutes would put one in a coma that is unless it's just meant for some kind of psychedelic purposes in that case never mind but how would one rate such a uniquely boring masterpiece depending on how much your attention span can take it should be either 1 or 10 any other number just wouldn't make a statement it hurts to do this but as far as entertainment value goes begotten just ain't it 1 1
0	i have watched this movie over and over since it first came out i was fifteen and even then i knew it was cheesy it had such great potential and i constantly rewrite the script in my head the ruined what could have been a good drama i loved the fact that it was shot on location too bad that the characters were underdeveloped it's like they wrote a first draft of a script then made the movie right away at fifteen i could have written a better script some scenes and dialog seemed to come out of nowhere and you were left with a lot of unanswered questions and was it just me or did it seem like lobo was sexually attracted to his cousin grown into some kind of woman and the way he was always touching her would have an interesting plot twist elena working for her drug dealing cousin who is also a perv too bad they missed the mark on this one
0	anyone remember the docudrama threads it's a drama documentary which shocked britain in september 1984 whilst not exactly wholly entertained by mick jackson's nuclear holocaust horror film i could respect it unfortunately i can't respect this docudrama broadcast 20 years later which deals with terrorists letting off a radioactive dirty bomb in the centre of london br br the problem i have with it is that director daniel percival production values are far too good when in fact this would have benefited from rather cheap production values the cinematography is superb but in this type of speculative drama do we need superb and well lit oscar standard cinematography what we certainly don't need is a musical score as the survivors of the blast slowly stagger out of the smoke neither do we need vaguely well known cast members did anyone else sit there asking themselves hey what was he in i know that face several times i know i did and it's very distracting br br perhaps the biggest production flaw with dirty war is that someone decided to make it a docudrama with too much stylistic emphasis on the drama in threads the action cuts away from the action in sheffield umpteen times and becomes an edition of horizon on the effects of nuclear war before cutting back to the fictional protagonists again and threads is very effective because of this here the information presented suffocates the drama which drowns in expositional and totally unconvincing dialogue the characters in the teleplay aren't really characters they're just cyphers there to inform the audience what happens when radioactive material is exploded it would have been better for the action to cut to captions to convey this type of information ala threads the worse thing is that director daniel percival used the same technique as seen in threads a couple of years ago with his docudrama about smallpox he should have used the same style with dirty war br br i should also lay my cards on the table and state that while i don't consider most muslims are terrorists i am getting slightly fed up of tv productions like the hamburg cell the grid and dirty war having to point out this fact to me by me over the head with it which is somewhat typical of patronising pc attitudes in tv companies nowadays br br i managed to miss the studio debate that bob mentions here but i have also heard it discussed elsewhere and i can't help thinking it makes better viewing than dirty war itself with its heated arguments between differing factions of the political spectrum if dirty war is remembered twenty years from now highly unlikely i know it may well be remembered for the discussion it caused more than anything
0	the secret life starts with the worst possible narrative intro the crimes committed by jeffrey dahmer are too horrible to make a film about okay so what are you suggesting that we shouldn't bother to continue watching as the film won't be accurate or bloody anyway and they were right too the film isn't the least bit shocking and contains almost no blood or gore at all although i think that's mainly due to the low budget production values and not because of dahmer's crimes being too horrific basically the secret life jeffrey dahmer is just one sequence repeated over and over again young pitiful and mentally confused jeffrey picks up victims always males as he was a homosexual kills them and then talks about how it wasn't his intention to hurt them and about how lonely he is this gets boring really quick and even the admirable performance by unknown actor carl crew can't save this movie from being a total dud still this version is much better than the pretentious and hopelessly muddled dahmer that got released in 2002
0	highly suggest not to watch this film 'tv' if not mentally mature enough the film create quite realistic simulation with the steps how they prevent from terrorism if such touch wood incident happened london suppose a lovely and chill city while these kind of wars still going on just wasting the time and money for study and living every time passing around p square the feeling really obvious uncomfortable actually i don't want to vote the scored means nothing just 4 'fill in the blank' br br only and positive thinking cities encourage better economy and investors to keep investing time energies and money
0	dirty war br br aspect ratio 1 78 1 br br sound format stereo br br emergency services struggle to cope when islamic terrorists detonate a so called 'dirty in the middle of london br br daniel frightening movie uses all available evidence to dramatize the possible effects of a radioactive explosion in the heart of the uk capital using the kind of documentary style realism which has distinguished this particular subgenre since the 1960's in essence the film reveals a catalogue of flaws in the british government's current strategy for dealing with such terrorist outrages and carefully honed script co written by lizzie vents its spleen against mealy mouthed politicians who would rather maintain the economic status quo than tackle this issue head on the film covers all necessary bases and makes the salient point that this kind of terrorism is practised by a tiny handful of fanatics who have tarnished the islamic faith with their reckless disregard for human life though viewers won't be reassured by the subsequent scenes of devastation and horror not merely a drama the film acts as a warning against complacency either that or its just another post 9 11 tactic you be the judge
0	words almost fail me to describe how terrible this irish vanity project funded by canadian both federal and really is br br there's a sudden appearance by a nice looking canadian woman kathy who in real life was a star athlete in alberta for no other reason to ensure canadian content credits also indicate that certain calgary pubs were of assistance br br everything here is poorly filmed and at least third hand chunks of poorly digested trainspotting lock stock snatch and reservoir dogs are the most obvious steals avoid like the plague unless you fancy one of those campy so bad it's almost funny nights in front of your telly
0	the film moves along quite well but the acting direction and editing leave a lot to be desired the characters are mostly lifted from other films and the vinnie jones lookalike is straight out of gone in 50 seconds the comedy gangster movie is a genre that should have lots of contrast the stupid dealers in lock stock and the shoot out that leaves everyone dead you should never really know whether to laugh or just sit there in shock this movie had the right elements but it is too easy to sit there like a person knitting and tut at the small details that should have been fixed somewhere along the line and once belief has been one just become increasingly critical a pity cos it was a brave attempt and although clint eastwood is famous for saying that'll be ok for a scene he puts the work in before he shoots and he is clint eastwood here a bit more imagination with the camera and and a bit more coaching and rehearsal for the delivery of the lines would have made a big difference
0	i've sat through less painful operations than the time i spent watching this film br br if you give it a try thinking it's going to be something in the vein of a guy ritchie flick think again the production dialogue acting script film work and plot were about the worst i've ever seen in a film my fave part in all honesty was the closing credits in all the history of cinema has there never been a better excuse for turning off the tv and going out and doing something better with your life br br have root canal work done rather than wasting your time and money on this
0	this film really misses the mark on most fronts the accents are laughably weak the acting amateurish and the comedy weak at best br br they've got a great idea it could have been particularly enjoyable but for the reasons mentioned above br br the writer seems to think by putting the word f ck into every sentence it'll make it funnier and the main character just seems to try a little too hard he's no brick top thats for sure br br next time at least get a cast that can keep the accent for the whole film br br it's a crime to compare this to films like the business lock stock and snatch
0	sorry this movie was a bad made for tv movie are the rest of you on drugs when you watched it i thought the hair make up and characters were poor 2 dimensional types the story is doubtful especially since all of the main characters are dead or nearly dead i think it's not well acted either what was up with that hair on the main guy in the turtles it looked glued on badly and the sideburns looked like they were going to fall off at any moment it didn't feel like anything new was revealed in the story of the band and how the members met other bands and people i laughed all the way through it frank zappa looked stupid so did mama cass and so did the beatles they were made out to look stupid and ridiculous also the other band people like jim morrison donovan also took a big hit at looking stupid too kind of terrible if this is how you remember these people it's a poor history lesson on music it's fictional the way it was made
0	unlike most reviewers here i hated this movie simply because the writer director's bloated ego was in the way of an otherwise potentially interesting topic too many film fans equate self to 'film genius ' but i don't buy into that cult of personality a film should be about its subject not its director unless it's a woody allen film of course spoiler which is just as well save your time there is nothing brilliant about of showing you the foot long porn star's you know what in the last frame that's actually called a tacky maneuver that screams film school br br the flick has achieved 'great film' status based on its indulgence and pandering to the audience – which first and foremost is the writer director but the rest of the audience should look down on the surly brutal nature of the porn biz too the flick had an aloof angle to the porn industry looking down on each and every player it could bash no matter just love your writer director love those four minute steadicam segments which are supposed to show the energy of the moment but somehow had all the verve of an off switch love the story no matter how dull it is about the gee whiz rise and sordid fall of a porn star but look down on it too of course while the subject has the potential to be fascinating – innocence money degradation beauty your worshipful writer director somehow managed to make it all look again dull partly because of its run time here is something your auteur hero didn't try giving the characters dimension or soul anything at all to give a hoot about aside from genius that paul is of course but i'm not buying i don't buy into indulgent hacks with astounding hype br br another overlong auteurist hack piece with fifty times more hype than quality i know some of you agree the rest will see likely see this indulgent flick again not my problem
0	the original isn't by any means a must see movie in the genre in fact if it weren't for it's chilling first 25 minutes there wouldn't be any logical reason for watching it the remake takes those 25 minutes and turns them into a mediocre 85 minute teen horror flick br br now i don't have anything against pg 13 horror movies but the tendency surrounding them is getting lame when you see the pg 13 rating you expect a movie filled with false scares teen t v or music stars and a plot that has been used for several times don't even ask for gore or violence br br i know that it's not correct to compare both the original and the remake but i think that it's necessary to do it because the whole idea of the new one is based on the beginning of the original the tension that is felt through the first movie is not present by any means in the remake not even with the amazing settings or great use of lightning no tension suspense thrills nothing the movie goes too slow before it gets a little interesting and that's when the stranger appears the chasing sequence is probably the best part of the movie because at least there's a feeling of what will happen next but that's it the situations that set up for the climax are predictable boring and lack of suspense the original has merits for having suspense in the most important scenes and also for a chilling climax for the most important scene of the movie br br now i understand that this is a pg 13 horror movie but if you pay respect to the original why change it's most important situation the children are not supposed to survive after the ending i felt like this movie was pointless so the baby sitter was playing cat and mouse with a wacko that's it then the sequence at the hospital was plain stupid and worst of all it means that a sequel may be on the way br br camila belle is the best thing about the movie she delivers a cute believable performance she needs to pick better projects although this role will gain for her thousands of teenager fans br br please don't watch this movie some people say that in order to support the horror genre we are supposed to support any movie that comes out i don't necessary agree if we ignore movies like then the producers of horror movies will understand that we won't accept crap we want good horror movies not lame flicks filled with false scares br br watch the original when a stranger calls instead because it's first 25 minutes are way better than the whole pointless remake
0	when a stranger calls belongs to the group of this year's remakes with movies like poseidon just over the horizon director simon west con air helms this updated version with plenty of relative unknown casts which signals either the death rate is high it isn't or that established stars are steering clear from a potential turkey br br clocking in at a relatively short 87 minutes it's primarily made up of two acts the first which takes a full one hour is the setup our heroine jill johnson camilla belle chalked up 800 minutes of talk time on her mobile phone do the math and as a lesson in responsibility her parents had confiscated her mobile and grounded her to pay off her debt she works part time as a babysitter and looking after the wealthy kids is her first stint br br the huge mansion gets a full tour treatment as it is where all the action will take place plenty of rooms makes for good hiding an indoor pool sized aquarium pond to get wet in for the wet t shirt treatment and check this out motion detector lights which you just know will contribute to the scares with the manipulation of lights and shadows naturally prank calls red herrings are aplenty which chalks up this runtime but most of them fall flat in the suspense department br br there's a minor trend emerging with actors being the unseen providing and acting through their voice instead recent attempts include edward norton in kingdom of heaven and hugo weaving's v for vendetta here lance henriksen does the honours for the anonymous nameless psychotic killer but it just falls flat why the script doesn't give him much dialogue most of the phone calls made were of the silent mind masturbatory nature which i felt was a waste they could have also casted some unknown instead and the job will still get done br br the second act where the main action takes place is too little too late and the bogeyman well is purely a bogeyman those expecting blood and gore will be disappointed as basically it's a one woman show to hold your attention in the first hour eye candies always succeed and this act will have her resolve everything in double quick time ala rachel mcadams in red eye don't expect any form of character development nor subplots that will engage br br the ending tried to be too smart for its own good and came across as a cheap way to end the movie there's not much of goodness to highlight from this movie no scares no thrills no enigmatic villain and plenty of security flaws especially with that door alarm the only thing it's good for is to provide a number for 4d
0	this movie has been done before it is basically a unoriginal combo of napoleon dynamite and sordid lives there are some funny bits but otherwise it is a cliché bore it is a good first film attempt and the director who also stars in and wrote the feature shows a lot of promise but the writing was kind of choppy and the story was not very original i swear i had heard some of the lines in other films however the acting was very good and the film was shot in an interesting way it is also refreshing to see gay themed movies not be so bogged down with political correctness and tired stories of angst the main character seemed fairly well adjusted for a gay teen in rural texas so no saccharine coming out drama here
0	simon west's remake of the 1979 horror classic is a pathetic attempt to bring old school thrills to a contemporary audience starring talented teen camilla belle when a calls fails to even elicit a shocked or even surprised face poor attempts at scaring the audience range from blurred coats that look like people to building the tense music up for a cat running out of the shadows the plot follows jill johnson belle a teenage girl that has to pay off a bill to her father via babysitting she is invited to work for the night at a house by the river and thinks it a perfectly easy way to make cash but little does she know a stranger lurks in the house and constantly harasses johnson via the phone a pathetic excuse for a film
0	this is so overly clichéd you'll want to switch it off after the first 45 minutes the beginning is very interesting with a fair going on and someone gets killed this movie would have been better set on this setting br br so jill johnson is a depressed with boyfriend issues i don't see the point of adding her breakup with her boyfriend occurs in any of the events in the story br br since jill has come home late her father sends her to babysit for the in their glamorous home in a deserted lake the kids are sleeping and the maid is cleaning another empty house to the side for their son who's at college ok br br after about half an hour of her stalking around the house by herself she gets a couple of hang ups ooh scary ones to which her friend comes to the rescue to come up with a couple of high school lines about 'love' and whatever friend leaves and goes to her car to which then she drops her keys uhhh then the music she fumbles to pick them up and gets into her car which of course doesn't start how cliché'd is that so she disappears d jill alone again uh most of this movie is with her by herself so there's not much dialog so more hangups she calls the police who say they cant help her but call back if she has any more problems br br so then she suspects that her boyfriend is calling or her boyfriends friends are calling they have been but only once like thats supposed to be scary much oh and did i mention her friend just now comes on caller id and some creepy man voice comes on she gets all freaked out and shyt br br yeah so skip that she see's the light in the house of the son go on so she runs through the woods with music as her companion and goes in br br ah its so boring i cant continue
0	while babysitting at an isolated colorado house a teen girl is terrorized by an elusive murderer on the telephone br br remake of the 1979 semi classic horror film basically takes the opening 20 minutes of the original film and stretches it out to fit an 87 minute time span so it's pretty needless to say that the plot of this remake is pretty thin there's little in the way of originality or interest in this movie there's a lot of camilla belle wondering around a dark house wondering who's calling her and encountering all kinds of false scares it all gets repetitious and routine after the first 30 minutes and never manages to muster up much in the way of suspense or chills it certainly never reaches the intensity of the original film especially since it wimps out and changes one important plot point from the original i guess we have the pg 13 rating to thank for that br br on the plus side there's an impressive set design and some dark atmosphere unfortunately there's not much going on around it to save this remake from being sub par belle's performance is pretty mediocre too br br it's just another unimpressive remake br br 1 2 out of
0	this movie had potential to be a good little high school thriller instead we got a bore fest about a whiny spoiled brat babysitting the problem was there were too many unnecessary things a fight with the boyfriend random friends coming over to be killed it was obvious they were just killing time the main character was bland and uninteresting camilla bell had no emotion during this movie she was just there another problem was the fact that the killer was not a threat the children survive so it's obvious they are going to let jill survive the only reason this got a four was because the last ten minutes when the killer finally comes out is actually exciting br br 4 10
0	that's pretty much all i can say about this flat and uninspired remake of the 1979 carol kane vehicle camilla belle isn't much of an actress and she brings no energy and vitality to the role of jill johnson the babysitter harassed by an anonymous phone caller br br but if you're looking for some great home architecture and interior design ideas this movie provides more inspiration than anything you'll see on tlc or jill spends nearly 90 minutes wandering through the house of the rich doctor and wife for whom she's providing her sitting services searching for the origins of strange sounds and things that keep going bump in the night as she lurks around corners and peers down hallways we get to see a beautiful master bathroom with his and hers sinks that look like roman tubs a huge kitchen with incredible back lit glass shelving and the piece de resistance a self contained and coy pond that feature a self watering system br br because the movie isn't compelling enough to draw us into jill's fear we're distracted by the grandeur of the house which isn't something you should be doing when you're watching a thriller even as jill is pursued by the faceless maniac we cringe because she's breaking valuables and messing up the coy pond not because she's about to get murdered br br the movie plods along as predictably as most teen slasher movies and the ending is anything but original by the time it was over i just wanted to find out where the heck that house was and if it was real never mind jill and the kids she was babysitting br br 2 stars both for the house
0	what should have been a routine babysitting gig at a secluded lake house turns into a night of terror as high school student jill johnson camilla belle receives threatening phone calls from a sadistic stalker while trying to stay one step ahead of him br br the first 20 minutes of the original film were pretty good but it was all downhill from there the remake takes those first 20 minutes and stretches them into an 80 minute feature film that's a good idea because its eliminating everything that made the original bad however if they wanted this film to work more effectively then they should have hired a better lead actress better director writer etc there's no suspense everything can be figured out long before it happens and it's a very dull film since not much happens at least there isn't much to sit through since its less than 90 minutes br br if this premise were to work then the lead actress has to give a realistic performance camilla belle gives one of the worst performances i have ever seen and throughout the whole movie she seemed to be reading her lines you get a lead role in a hollywood film that will be viewed by millions of people and you give no effort at all why did they hire this girl sure she's pretty but she can't act at all yet i suppose this won't matter to the target audience who will most likely eat this film up the rest of the cast is bland and forgettable especially the woman who plays the maid rosa even the stranger was lame and his lines on the phone were not effective at all br br this movie reminds me of last years disappointing horror film boogeyman that movie was a bunch of cheap scares and false alarms and when a stranger calls is pretty much the same jill enters a room because she hears a noise but its just a false alarm like a cat or the maid this type of scene happens over and over again until finally after about 50 minutes the stranger appears he has to be one of the lamest killers ever he carried no weapons and didn't seem to pose much of a threat the ending is bad but it matches the rest of the film so it doesn't really matter the film is directed by simon west and he is really bad at building up suspense he was using every cliché he could think of and the results weren't very good the house was amazing and i'll give the film credit for that it was an isolated house so it was pretty creepy but that's about the only good thing this film has to offer in the end if you're not a teenage girl then you should skip the movie rating 2 10
0	this movie is bad really bad so bad it made me want to shoot myself in the forehead i hated this movie first off the plot went absolutely nowhere and anything shocking about this movie was seen in the 30 second teaser trailer secondly anyone who saw the original in 1979 knows that it was a bad movie too and completely unworthy of a remake by far the best part of the movie is the house it takes place in which is not saying much for the actual movie there were parts in the movie when the music gets very suspenseful and you're positive someone is around the corner and it turns out to be the maid or the cat but when someone actually is around the corner it is impossible to be even startled because you've been expecting it all movie so save yourself the money save yourself the time save yourself the headache and just watch the trailer there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie not in the theater not on dvd not on tv never
0	this starts out interestingly as there's a carnival right next to someone's house with an oil rig right there too and some kind of store front church across the street with a neon jesus saves sign all right in one tiny area now that's pretty dazzling if improbable and then we go right into the movie which takes improbable to new levels of course this is a lame remake of the 1979 thriller starring carol kane as the babysitter jill johnson now jill is some chick that ran her cell phone minutes up so high her evil parents are punishing her by making her work it off probably something that the audience this movie targets can identify with jill is taken to this huge and fancy house on a lake in the middle of nowhere of course by her dad to babysit for the family the children are already nestled all snug in their beds when jill arrives and the housekeeper is still there huh she couldn't babysit of course despite the remote location one of jill's friends pops by one whom with which she apparently has issues as in boyfriend stealing or something anyway of course the alarm in the house goes off for no reason and then calls from someone start coming in calls from someone that wants to kill her of course jill calls the cops and since there hasn't been any actual threat on her life they blow her off but tell her to call back if there's anything else they can do for her check out the scene with jill calling her friends at the high school bonfire pep rally or whatever it's supposed to be it looks like some kind of burning man festival there's all kind of contrived scares in this including the cool cat chester who of course pops up here and there one of the horror movie clichés there is i will admit that i dozed off at some point during this and did i miss anything hard to tell or care really this is one of those films that makes me wonder how bad the remakes of amityville horror house of wax or the fog could have been anyway from reading online reviews it seems like the folks that were the most scared by this were 12 year old girls and i can only assume that from statements like it made me pee pee my pants well one can only hope that this will put an end to hollywood remakes of films that weren't exactly stellar to begin with but don't bet on it 2 out of 10 and i'm being overly generous
0	once in a great while i will watch a movie that completely surprises me one that comes out of nowhere to be a bit of rousing entertainment one that is pure fun from beginning to end well folks when a stranger calls is not that movie it is an unbelievable stupid and far fetched remake of the much better 1979 horror camp classic our lead heroine jill is forced to babysit after going over her cell phone minutes and is harassed by telephone calls from a mysterious caller every cliché in the world is used here from the stupid cat jumping out of a hidden spot to the car that won't start to the killer can be anywhere at anytime this movie is bad not even bad in a so bad it's good way more in a so bad it's boring way skip this godawful film and save your movie for something else you'll thank me later trust me on this grade d
0	i'm starting to wonder if all these pg 13 horror movies are just glorified screen tests for young and emerging talent get a first time screenwriter an inexperienced director a few tv actors looking for their bigscreen break and see what they can do 'when a stranger calls' is a little better than most such recent offerings but is still completely by the book riddled with plot holes and genre clichés br br the story is unbelievably simplistic the slim 87 minute running time is heavily padded with inconsequential friends and a pointless cheating boyfriend the killer is devoid of even the token motivation of jason or michael or even the original movie's killer and as a result is never particularly frightening the police behave in such an unbelievably ineffectual and lazy manner as to verge on professional misconduct simon west brings the same attractive banality to proceedings that he managed with lara croft but his style of directing is decidedly generic possessing no of real talent or vision the performances are routine dark hallways replace genuine horror and the scares are of the tired cat in the closet variety br br the cinematography and production design however are above average for this kind of film the house is beautifully designed all dark wood and glassy reflections and there are a few moments that are of visual interest br br though lacking an ounce of dramatic originality it acts as a reasonably satisfying 'dark house' thriller and maintains interest longer than most of its ilk
0	i wasted enough time actually watching this chore of a movie i don't want to waste more writing a big review not once did i so much as crack a smile all the jokes were boring forced and lacked any kind of wit i kept saying wheres the punchline almost every single character was an obnoxious stereotype and all the situations were clichéd and half the time there wasn't even any kind of solution things just happened to get to the next scene for the life of me i can't understand how this got as many good reviews as it did if you like clunky acting and poorly composed film making fat girls is the movie for you
0	before stan laurel became the smaller half of the all time greatest comedy team he laboured under contract to broncho billy anderson in a series of cheapies many of which were parodies of major hollywood features most of laurel's films are only mildly funny and even less funny for modern audiences who haven't seen the original movie which laurel is parodying fortunately and lampoons a movie which is still well known 'blood and starring rudolph valentino 'blood and was released only nine weeks before this parody giving you some idea of how quickly broncho billy's movies were ground out edited and distributed br br various sources including imdb state that stan laurel's character in this film is named with a final 'o' i've screened a print of and with the original titles in hobo type font so i report that laurel's role is actually cried vaseline with an 'e' but i agree that is funnier laurel copies the elaborate sideburns which valentino wore in 'blood and he should've made them longer and there's a parody of dressing scene from that movie which made female movie goers swoon in 1922 a named carmen in the original film is parodied here as caramel a girl i'd like to sink my teeth into br br this movie like the original apparently takes place in spain yet there's a prohibition gag laurel uses a distinctive hat tipping gesture here which could have become a trademark for him like hardy's distinctive necktie but i've never spotted it in any other laurel film there's some amusing dialogue vaseline tells the other to a bull for me ' when vaseline becomes a successful a lackey tells him 'the bull is without sir' which is funny but i was disappointed that laurel didn't reply what ' br br there's one funny moment here which almost certainly wasn't planned when vaseline shows up for the bullfighter auditions laurel into the and before you can say he tosses a bull over the fence where it lands with a thump near the other the bull is obviously a fake but the gag is funny anyway and aye there's a title card with a joke about 'throwing the the serendipitous moment occurs when laurel repeats the gag and vaseline slings a second bull over the fence this one lands on its butt and balances upright for just an instant before toppling very funny if somebody planned that gag in this quickie comedy i salute the unknown and the tech man who rigged the bull to land in that position more likely it happened by luck and the director and editor were smart enough to keep it in br br during the silent era whenever hollywood made a big budget feature film which was set anyplace where the people don't speak english it was a common cinematic device to show a piece of text or an inscription in the local lingo then dissolve to a shot of the same text in english i was surprised that this low budget comedy spent the money to copy that device here we see a notice board outside the with a message in spanish then it dissolves to the same text in english unfortunately the photography in this cheapo movie is so dark that the effect is wasted br br the actresses in this movie are attractive including broncho billy's wife leona anderson and stan laurel's common law wife mae the latter briefly does a pretty dance mae had danced in stan's vaudeville act i was surprised to spot charlie chaplin's half brother wheeler in a brief role since chaplin had nothing to do with this movie in and laurel gives a funny performance that's quite unlike his later familiar stanley character but this film is much less funny than his brilliant work with oliver hardy my rating just 3 out of 10 trivia note twenty three years later in stan laurel's very last american film 'the 1945 he again played a spanish bullfighter with his spanish voice post dubbed coincidentally that film used stock footage from 'blood and not movie but the tyrone power remake and is funnier than 'the but not much
0	one of the many silent comedies stan laurel featured in before he teamed with oliver hardy and is a ho hum hokum the story is badly disjointed though this could be because of the modern day edit and the humor itself is not at all inventive br br potential plotlines are started and ignored for instance stan's promise to make fillet de sole pay for what she's done to him never comes to fruition stan's character doesn't seem very centered either but this is a common criticism of his work before he developed of laurel hardy fame so it might be that i was just expecting to see this shortcoming br br i strongly believe that all the silent films should be preserved and viewed and i'm glad this one is still available it's just not a great film
0	worst movie i have ever seen 90 minutes of excruciating film making all the ingredients to make this movie a true work of crap bad acting bad directing bad storytelling bad makeup bad dialogue bad effects and bad reasoning behind certain actions taken by the characters it also threw in a terrible naked shot of a dumb blond and a breast shot of a stupid asian girl and both attempts were just scary since these girls are ugly some good horror movies came out of the 80s but this could never be considered one of them kevin tenney also committed one of the greatest sins in storytelling he introduced characters at the end of the movie an old man and old woman i would vote for it below a 1 out of 10 but the voting system doesn't work that way apparently right from the title sequence i knew it would suck and i would return my dvd but best buy doesn't refund dvds or products as they call it or so my receipt says i have the dunwich horror and that was truly god awful but i still feel that night of the demons an obvious evil dead rip off was far worse than dunwich horror this is just like the howling how in the hell could sequels get milked out of this anorexic cow save your money and get the texas chainsaw massacre just don't get any of its sequels though or the evil dead or dawn of the dead night of the demons is a very very very bad investment every second of it was just maddening excruciating pain for the audience because the whole movie all around was horrible do yourself a favor don't see it you'll be saving some brain cells
0	and you know why because they thought or at least made horror fans think that a bunch of obnoxious foul mouthed screaming teenagers some stupid demons where do they come from what is their purpose who knows and a dark mansion are all you need to make a horror movie needless to say they were wrong you also need a script some logic some rules and some invention this flick does have one scene that lives up to its reputation the lipstick scene of course and a couple of funny moments the kid brother's description of his mother's cookies linnea quigley's don't look at me scene it also has more profanity than any movie i've watched since i last saw reservoir dogs literally every fourth or fifth word is a f or a b then again when a movie begins with four false scares in its first 5 minutes you know not to expect anything resembling good filmmaking 1 2
0	dear friends i've never seen such a trash movie as night of the demons 1988 it seems that the director kevin tenney had the intention to copy classics like the evil dead by sam raimi 1978 or george a romero's return of the living dead from the same year the cinematography was lousy the movie was very dark so i had to turn the brightness control to the maximum indeed horror pictures have to be dark but not the way like night of the demons the entire movie was ridiculous no suspense worse actors except alvin alexis in the role of rodger and horrible make up effects an average vote of 5 stars for that movie i can't believe this perhaps the users were pleased about the tits asses and pussies of the actresses they were indeed worth 5 stars regards hans dieter
0	when i first saw this i thought bits of it were fairly scary but the horror is a little undermined by the fact that the teenagers are so irritating that you don't really care what happens to them there are some genuinely good moments such as angela's speech about demons and the briefly seen demon itself is effective but this really doesn't stand up to repeated viewing or close analysis it's all pretty tacky and cheap looking and often downright silly pornography and unfunny wisecracks all too often replacing horror the music is excellent however and the epilogue is certainly amusing but this film doesnt have much to recommend it just comes across as another jason type stalk and slash fare
0	it's difficult to decide whether this movie suffers from crap dialogue or if it's just made to appear so by crap actors in any case it suffers from storywriting which is mediocre at best br br although made in the late '80's the first part of the movie plays like a 60's teenage screwball comedy barring the absence of any actual humour especially the part of the 'good girl' which is as annoying a doris day figure as you could hope fear for including the slightly whiny opposition to anything 'fun' her friends want to do the net effect is after a while you start to hope she'll bite it so you don't have to listen to her voice anymore br br some profanity and gratuitous nudity plus some really 80's style clothing is your only clue that this movie was made in the 80's oh and some pretty passable music too br br storywise it's pretty formulaic stuff a bunch of horny apart obviously from 'miss nice girl' teenagers decide to celebrate halloween night by throwing a party in a haunted house partying and fornication ensues along with an ill advised which kicks off the demonic possession spree which is the subject of the movie after this the only suspenseful part will be trying to guess in which order the characters will expire you're sure not to care whether or not they will the actors are so bad that becoming demons zombies dinner actually improves their performance somewhat and the ridiculously cliché dialogue is so annoying that you squirm in your seat br br this flick ain't nuthin' special unless you think cheesy is kind of 'special' for example the demon head which occasionally appears is so screamingly fake that you wonder if it's a 5 year old trick or treating br br this is not to say there's nothing enjoyable in the flick some of the music isn't half bad and the first of our insipid scooby gang to get possessed performs a marvelous and really sexy dance routine at one point before she turns nasty br br also and i don't know why towards the very end of the flick i actually managed to get somewhat involved the suspense lacking in most of the movie made a late appearance and i started to squirm out of unease instead of annoyance which is what a horror movie is supposed to do br br i cannot bring myself to give this movie a rock bottom rating since by some inexplicable miracle i don't rule out being possessed by demons i was actually a little creeped br br don't pay money to see it though it's hardly worth your time yet alone hard cash watch it on youtube while it's there
0	this film is about a party put together by the high school scary girl per the illogic of these sorts of films she gets permission to hold the party at a house which used to be a crematorium a dubious place long shut down and locked up apparently the history of this piece of property is one of those town secrets best left unspoken of among proper folk though the legend does get whispered about among the young br br why was this crematorium really shut down what actually happened there in the past br br i like these kill kill kill films of a supernatural nature as long as there is something in them not copied from a hundred other films the highlights of this film are a petty theft 7 11 robbery by distracting the clerk with a vivid view the changing clothes scene by the good girl witnessed by her jerk younger brother the eventual demise of the ugly neighbor who hates the holiday the spooky mirror scene and the concept of running water being a barrier against the supernatural the best part of this film is when the possessed party sponsor dances to bauhaus in front of the fireplace that scene rocks
0	this film contain far too much meaningless violence too much shooting and blood the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars
0	by the time this movie came out in 1996 director mark lester had been making tight sharp little b action pictures for more than 20 years he was responsible for the great truck stop women from the '70s and several other little gems unfortunately he's also responsible for this dud it's a shame to see the talented and still smoking hot theresa russell wasted yet again but she's still the best actor in this picture eric roberts shows up for a while does his eric roberts thing then goes away a not altogether unwelcome occurrence in a picture with eric roberts in it frank stallone actually isn't bad which should give you an idea of how truly pathetic this picture is as has been mentioned by other reviewers the action scenes which is the reason a picture like this gets made in the first place are almost completely illogical and unrealistic in addition to being somewhat inept other than some vintage clothes and a few old cars there's no feel whatever for the 1930s the era in which this film is set a by the numbers script with irritating lapses in logic and little historical accuracy this isn't a documentary of course but the filmmakers could have at least tried for a little authenticity and performances that range from grade b to grade school relegate this cheap little quickie to the 4 00 a m sunday slot on hbo which is just where i saw it
0	the premise of the film was very promising sort of a gay napoleon dynamite type of film and to be fair there were some funny moments and funny lines but it really wasn't very good overall the script and dialog felt like a local sketch production full of clichés and scenes that were predictable br br however there was enough that was amusing that i stuck around to see how it finished since there were hints that something special happens at the end but it seems that either the film ran out of money or the writer ran out of ideas because the ending is extremely abrupt almost skipping directly from what looked to be the key conflict in the film to the final credits br br overall it was very disappointing but not completely unwatchable
0	it's too kind to call this a fictionalized account of the barker gang they got the names right but that's about it br br russell is still hot i'll grant you that but this is not the real ma barker who basically took care of the boys by cooking and assisting when they moved around the country not by planning or participating in the crimes i think it would have been far more interesting to present the real story of a middle aged woman caught up in the criminal activities of her children and their cronies br br i also have to agree with those reviewers who found the shoot out scenes to be totally unbelievable the barker victims were a combination of the innocent and of the law enforcement agents who pursued them but they definitely did not mow down half a dozen fbi agents every time they were cornered on the other hand as several recent books have related the fbi of that era emphasized the idea of agents coming only from legal or accounting backgrounds to the extent that many agents had very little law enforcement or firearms experience they were not the well trained agents that we picture today br br but the worst sin of all is that the movie is basically a bore nobody changes nobody grows we know the end of the road is ahead we just don't know which shoot out it will be br br only for die hard russell fans
0	is this movie as bad as some claim in my opinion yes it is i wasn't going to comment noting that quite a few comments have already been made ranging from 'awful' to not nearly so bad ' however i can't resist br br what do you make of a movie that has on the dvd cover the phrase the real story of ma barker and her boys and the standard any similarity to actual persons disclaimer in the credits i'm not naive but in this case it's a pretty relevant observation regarding this movie br br several comments knock the performances they are pretty awful roberts russell milano and stallone have something like movies and tv shows listed between them they can act or at least perform br br however the dialog is not to my taste and quite unintentionally funny at times the story arcs didn't seem to be anything but the barest minimum required to string specific scenes of violence and melodrama together br br direction and screen writing has to be faulted giggles after seeing ma barker's violent temper and finishes with take the girl what ever you think of acting abilities some screenwriter wrote that line or reaction and or some director shot it and said that's good enough no need to retake that that's credible ' one footnote i did pick up my copy for 1 99 or 2 99 in a grocery story discount bin the running time is shown as 91 mins and i note that the running time is listed on imdb as 95 mins i don't know what 4 minutes i'm missing but i acknowledge that if those 4 minutes were of the right sort of person in the right sort of situation my rating might soar to 3 or 4 out of 10 as i saw it 1 10 is what i must vote
0	wow pretty amazing that something this bad could actually be made i am giving this movie a 2 because it is so bad it has a certain car wreck kind of appeal its so bad its comical and that does have a certain entertainment value plus there is a bit of gratuitous nudity and that is always appreciated br br so where do i begin the acting is beyond awful its like you are watching a high school play being filmed theresa russell must have done something really bad to have been forced to make this movie and her acting reflects how happy she is to be in the middle of this mess br br the rest of the cast is simply silly with the casting of dan cortese as an fbi agent the cherry on the top of this piece of crap his acting actually had me laughing at loud br br as for the screenplay and the directing c courtney joyner and mark l lester should simply be taken out back and shot
0	some people may remember ms russell from films such as black widow which had some appeal and critical acclaim boy she must have really needed a rent check when she signed on to do this dog br br yes there will be those who like the gratuitous violence and nudity but one must sit back and wonder in retrospect what possessed anyone to spend money and time to make this in the first place i just saw this movie on one of the hbo's and i can't believe they picked it up br br in 1996 ms russel didn't have the physical attractiveness she did earlier in her career but come on having her play ma barker her sons all look like they could be her brothers it's also creepy in that you think there are going to be incestuous relationships occurring thank goodness there aren't hope that doesn't count as a spoiler with eric roberts and alyssa milano added into the cast this one is b movie 'straight to video' all the way br br the scenes between purvis and ma barker either in person or on the phone are a primer in terrible terrible acting oh wait i forgot terrible terrible writing as well chalk this one up to experience a bad experience
0	as a i got the michigan jokes very funny make fun of pontiac ann arbor all those lame suburbs of detroit yes yes i've heard these jokes a million times i'll give them credit for accurately depicting the lameness of grosse pointe it couldn't get more white did you hear those lovely michigan nasal accents where the girls talk so fast you can't understand one word that comes out of their mouth nose as much as i love michigan i hated this movie br br i have never met one person from grosse pointe that i liked listen to that awful live band and that annoying and horrid background music what is that one of your gross pointe band probably wow what a great detroit scene you guys have over there funny how people from grosse pointe always say they're from detroit they're so white and rich they wish they had something to complain about br br anyway this movie blows all the way from the lame jokes about girls in thongs to the terrible character development oh wait a minute you mean the entire basis for a character is that he says the f word a lot what a deep personality great job grosse pointers and i love all the sexist lingo like how the narrator calls the first girl who gets killed that we never even hear speak a naive b tch that's really lovely br br and those homemade masks with the marilyn manson contact lenses are really great and i love how it made perfect sense as to why the bikers came by and killed people and how their narrating master had such a obvious role in the movie the main boyfriend dude was so boring i fell asleep looking at him the three idiot guys or was it two or four how can i tell they all look and act the same were so desperately trying to make me laugh but beavis and butthead already got out my butt humor laughs back in 1994 and what's with the gay jokes no wonder this movie sucked everyone involved must have some minor problems with their masculinity eh boys br br the only saving grace to this film was the main girl despite what the other people on here have said she actually was a good actress teenage girls talk the way she talked they really act the way she acted her acting was very natural and believable i really thought she was a grosse pointe convenience store employee maybe she is and yeah she had big boobs most the women here do michigan is the state in the union you know in all aspects br br so those of you who think this is a representation of detroit it's not it's the suburbs of detroit they are very white and full of aimless teen angst limp yes is from one of our suburbs and 75 baggy khaki pants all the way lame rich kids who are mad because they have lots of money and nothing to complain about and they make bad movies too br br
0	evil never looked so bad they meant it br br when a buddy of mine picked this dvd up at a half priced book store i didn't know what to expect i mean based on the title i knew it would be worth a laugh but i didn't realize how laughable it would really be br br the first time through i missed some of the dialogue if you could call it that because we were all too busy poking fun at the plot of the movie it seemed like it was written in filmed in less than a week and they hadn't the budget to go back and fix some of the minor flaws wait did i say minor i meant the exact opposite for instance the main character is credited as but several times throughout the film he is referred to as 'john' br br if the plot holes aren't enough fun for you take a look at the acting nobody seems overly concerned about the zombie raids in their state including the mother of the main character who is missing for days while she sits in front of a fireplace reading a book br br the constraints that the budget puts on the movie are equally as hilarious maybe they didn't have a permit to film wherever they were because during the big motorcycle chase scene the characters are obeying all traffic regulations the zombies who had just killed twenty or so people actually stop at a stop sign coming out of a parking lot i don't even do that but then again i'm not a biker zombie the ending of the movie looks like they just ran out of money it ends so suddenly that it leaves you wanting more on second thought it ends just soon enough br br so if you're looking for a good time with your friends seek out this movie it's a great unintentional comedy
0	i rented this pile of sewer waste hoping for a few good laughs with a title like zombie bikers from and with dead alive productions stamped on the front cover you would think that this could be a funny gruesome film but no this is the worst movie i have ever seen and yes i have seen all of the police academy movies the story this is a joke within itself and the dialogue are atrocious the make up of the so called zombies looks like they used one of those two dollar make yourself look like a zombie' kits that you buy at k mart br br i would rather watch beverly hills 90210 while listening to the backstreet boys and be whipped by a novelty birthday card model than to sit through another single minute of this pathetic excuse for a dvd honestly i could make a better movie with 3 some popsicle sticks and a slinky i feel as if 90 minutes of my life were stripped away from me and taken to the land of i know that tagging on the dead alive production doesn't guarantee a great flick but you do expect to get your moneys worth br br the only thing that made me happy save returning the horrid mass of elephant feces was that it wasn't titled biker zombies from i feel for detroit folks that wasted their hard earned money on this one unless you have been lobotomized … do not buy rent if you must … but … you will regret it
0	ouch no real need to say anything else this movie actually had me contemplating suicide as a huge fan of the wonderful genre that is zombie movies i found this to quite possibly be the worst attempt i have ever been privy too the film never actually seemed to go anywhere what was the point to it all i am left feeling hopeless and lost hell this was so bad i cant even justify bashing it anymore i'm just gonna go hang myself in the closet ok now i tried to submit my comment but the server will only accept comments that are ten lines or more so here it goes bad horrible no where near enough gore no tits how can you have a zombie movie without tits as a matter of fact the female lead had one hell of a rack and the only reason i watched the film to completion was in order to maybe by chance get a glimpse nope of course there was one line that does deserve mentioning a line i am looking forward to using myself someday when i just feel the need to get my face smacked this hog isn't going to smoke itself this movie is bad so bad
0	recognizing the picture of the diner on the cover of the dvd made me realize that this was a local movie the word detroit in the title furthered my and i did some looking up of things and yes a local movie it was br br so i picked it up someone i knew actually knew some of the producers director dont remember which and said the producers directors got people to pay to be in this movie br br brilliant what a great idea the movie makers get some capital to do the movie with thanks to their cast and crew then the investors cast crew others get some of the profits i'm imagining br br profits br br um anyways this film totally underwhelmed me the special effects were special as in special children who ride the small buses to school the acting was very amusing not intentionally however there's a great line where a guy says well this bone aint gonna smoke itself as a pickup line unfortunately that is the only fun part of the whole film the story well i sort of followed it about 3 5 of the way in then everything stopped making sense and as we were sitting there watching it it suddenly ended i mean as in no resolution of anything like they ran out of time sorry folks out of time goodnight br br we sat there baffled and booing and threw in another film then about 20 minutes later a neighbor of mine showed up with one of the guys from the movie we threw it back in and he the actor gave us a running commentary which was awesome because he totally ripped on the movie br br what more could you ask for br br the most absurd scene for me was a motorbike chase scene were it was so dark that it could have literally been a guy running past with a flashlight and not a motorbike at all that and the jaw droppingly in your face sudden ending is enough to make you howl in pain the zombies looked less like zombies than my coworkers do and i dont work at the morgue either br br so i recommend seeing this if you can get someone from the movie to come over and give you a running commentary as to all the things that went on behind the scenes and make sure this person hates the movie because that just adds to the fun br br otherwise give this one a pass rent something like if you want a jaw droppingly bad in a funny way movie
0	i'm big into acting writing and directing but not famous yet my friends and i frequently rent bad movies just for fun and a good laugh but when we went to the local family video and found a movie called biker zombies from detroit we knew it was gonna be the worst movie of all time and it was biker zombies from detroit has no script they can say they do have one but they're liars there was a 4 minute scene of just two guys riffing about women and sexuality and you could tell it was improvised and if they're going to improv it should be at least decent but it wasn't and you could tell by the two actors screwing up lines and saying stuff that didn't even make sense br br to give you an idea of how terrible and retarded this movie is here's the beginning a girl flicks a guy off he punches her in the face and beats her up then rapes her then we see zombies who attack and they both turn into zombies br br this is the beginning of the movie not to mention the lead zombie voice over that carries through the whole movie trying to be sinister and thought provoking but sounding like marylin manson having a conniption fit br br worst movie ever bottom line folks but watch it if you like movies with no script no plot bad acting bad editing bad music and over 100 f words used in the movie br br if this can hit video stores my future films are gonna win oscars
0	fat girls is among the worst films within the indie gay genre br br the premise is promising an average looking gay teen is trapped in a repressive small tx town his only kindred spirits are the other village hs misfits the class 'fat girl' a naïve immigrant from cuba and the sensitive drama teacher so far interesting in theory this plot line creates a decent setup for an appealing coming of age story with a built in audience the thousands of gay men who grew up in small towns across america and experienced this adolescent anxiety first hand peppered with a dose of self deprecating humor br br unfortunately rather than a nuanced dramedy ash christian approaches his autobiographical subject matter with a poorly executed attempt at irony and dark humor the result is a cast of unlikeable derivative two dimensional characters which the viewer cannot but help feel indifferent toward sabrina fink is a quasi goth bitter navel she is such a prickly unsympathetic person there is little doubt as to the reason for her friendless condition the chemistry between her and rodney christian registers zero this may have been bad casting but is more likely due to a screenplay which is simply consequently one is left wondering when there is such a non existent bond what could possibly warrant their near constant companionship throughout the story br br sabrina's newfound boyfriend rudy de jesus and rodney's mother judy are among the most exaggerated of the clichéd stock characters ripped off from dozens of other films rudy is the horny immigrant nerd lifted directly from every raunchy adolescent comedy ever made within the realm of tv or film judy is the born again obsessed with jesus talk and big hair just when you thought the tammy faye thing had been done to death christian inserts a scene where judy's mascara is running with her tears is there anyone in the civilized world that can possibly think this tired old stereotype gag is still funny after seeing it ad nauseum for 20 years br br in addition to the failed attempts at sardonic humor there are many puzzling story inconsistencies rodney considers himself a fat ugly loser however he simultaneously manages to participate in casual and regular impromptu trysts with the ubiquitous school jock hunk ted miller although these liaisons are devoid of emotional fulfillment most gay teens filled with raging testosterone just like their hetero brethren would find this to be a rather enviable arrangement given the more common alternative of involuntary celibacy br br rodney finds an object for his affection in bobby an exotic transplant from england against all believable odds the lad not only happens to land in this tiny tx hamlet but is conveniently openly gay to boot like sabrina bobby is an icy angry smart aleck and the viewer is left head scratching as to his magnetic appeal br br much to his delight rodney is invited by his new crush to the town gay bar where bobby claims to be the dj upon arrival the boyfriend to be promptly leaves rodney solo and heads off to another area of the bar for a quick encounter with a rather handsome young man this is yet one more of the ridiculously inexplicable plot elements since rodney's feeling as an outcast are supposedly derived largely from his lonely existence in a parochial town as tiny as the town is they have openly gay students at the high school a secretly bisexual football captain lesbian moms a gay teacher and it has a gay bar downtown by attractive men no less apparently the place is not so backwater after all br br ten years earlier todd edge of seventeen covered nearly the same material with a much more creative honest touching and humorous film
0	any movie should have an idea simple or more complex it needs one the problem with fragata it's once more that when he decides to make a movie he so anxious to do whatsoever that he forgets this main detail and as result we have the characters doing whatever without any justification behaving without justified reasons they are simple puppets going along the movie on the flavour of the wind it's boring and sad to see them appearing and vanishing like cards being discarded in a game fragata always seem to have talent in advertising is own work and that leads you to see what he did but in the end there's always a big disappointment it's not enough having a movie full of the hot pink magazine stars especially when half of them can't act they only pretend to be funny here my only good point goes to the actor mendes one of the few non stars' he makes the effort to establish some credibility and in such a messy movie without any direction of any kind i give him the credit for trying hard but this movie its worth to check out as a manual of how to not do a movie and if previous works where bad this one it's a masterpiece in achieving the title of awful in few words just check it out it will make you good and if you homemade your family movies and always feel bad with your work so just spend 30 minutes looking to this so called professional work your home made stuff will look like powerful hollywood flicks compare to sorte nula
0	who reads these comments may think we may have in hand a great movie i am portuguese and i'm ashamed that this film became a blockbuster in portugal it can't really call this cinema the direction and mise en scene is basic even ron howard does better the script is bad and pretentious a really bad tarantino the cast is covered in tv stars models and reality show stars that don't no nothing about acting when you put in a movie this ingredients of course that the fans of this kind of tv shows will all go see i am also surprised that people who make comments here in imdb say that this movie is a masterpiece i thought that this site was only for people who truly like cinema and understand a little bit of it all the movies made to be blockbusters in always use the same ingredients and are always awful if you think this movie is reasonable please don't say your love movies and cinema
0	terrible there's no way to get around it a script at the level of one from some mexican soap opera a choice and use of the places of shooting that make the movie labyrinthine and at the same time repetitive and monotonous with disastrous performances of almost the entire cast the references to tarantino's work so poorly made are more an insult than anything else i suspect that was not for the shameless and plot unrelated exploitation of generous curves nobody would take the effort to go watch this film to any theater br br these are the kind of films that make me have no desire to watch portuguese cinema
0	some films are so badly made they are watchable purely for the cringe factor disciples made me cringe so much it was uncomfortable i watched it all disbelieving what i was watching wasn't anyone aware how bad this was whilst they were filming mix the most hammed performances from the most wooden actors an abysmal script were every comment from all of the 'actors' sounded like it came from the same character and the most hurried editing that tried and failed bigtime to give the film a forced pace all these combined into a film that will rob you of a few hours of your life and give nothing in return avoid at every cost
0	this tvm seems to have polarised opinions amongst the commentators on this page so perhaps i can settle everything by saying this is a very stupid not very well made television movie how bad is it it's a teleplay that can't even decide what its name is because while everyone in america calls it linda it's known in britain as lust for murder and it's usually a bad sign when a movie has to change its name and can i also point out that it's not a tongue in cheek spoof as somebody else claimed br br i will be honest and say the plot is rather sound linda and paul cowley meet another couple called the jeffries who they get on very well with they get on so well that they go on holiday together make up your own mind if there's some wife swapping going on and paul sees his wife kill the jeffries after that the plot takes a shock twist br br writing the above paragraph i have suddenly realised the large amount of potential the story had and i won't say anything to put you off the premise it's just that when the story continues after the events i've described things become more and more unlikely and bizarre not only that but the production values are fairly unimpressive with the actor playing paul cowley doing a very wooden voice over that irritates while most of the scenes exterior and interior look like they've been filmed on a foggy day
0	years ago i caught a fairly well made tv movie entitled linda it was made in 1973 and starred stella stevens in the femme fatale title roll imagine my surprise when over ten years later i once again saw the same story unfold on late night tv however it was this 1993 version starring virginia madsen don't get me wrong i can handle remakes even obscure ones but this badly written and poorly filmed retread made me feel sorry for both madsen and co star richard thomas unlike the original the dialogue here is cliched making me wonder why did they bother to re write it second the camera work is very heavy handed and the the film stock is poor at times i felt reminded of the student film competition at the beginning of christopher guest's the big picture finally the cast looks either bored madsen or suffering thomas in fact the only one who seems like he's really enjoying the work is ted mcginley of course with his perfectly hair and capped teeth he's really stretching himself from his previous work on the love boat bottom line to borrow a critique from opus the penguin in bloom county br br this movie does for film what jonestown did for kool aid br br
0	what an uninteresting hodge podge it could have been something more but no imagination seems to have gone into the script or the direction a man is framed for murder by his wife and her lover the conspirators do a pretty thorough job of making him look guilty but the man richard thomas whose psychiatric records reveal him as stable and unimaginative manages to escape from jail beat it to the beach house and secretly record a conversation between them in which they reveal their guilt then he accidentally drops the tape recorder with all the evidence on it into the sea water but manages to retrieve it he shows a heck of a lot of creativity and improvisational skill for an unimaginative guy if you ask me br br the tape is now damaged goods but it's enough to break down the wife's lover and he sobs out his confession bad people are punished good people are saved br br the location shooting is impressive the beach house is nothing more than a wooden exterior thrown up on the grounds of fort fisher battlefield on the cape fear peninsula the house was torn down immediately after the production wrapped br br it's a pretty place unfortunately it's a little hard to see because someone seems to have shot every scene through a pair of pantyhose stretched over the camera lens it's all very fuzzy and for all the natural splendor of the location the viewer never gets a real sense of place of what the sand feels like of the texture of the gray bark on the stunted evergreens br br the acting is okay but the performers have nothing much to work with the best performance as is often the case is given by dick olsen as a sleazy but not unsympathetic defense lawyer virginia madsen radiates infidelity with every beat of her eyelashes ted mcginley is within his range as an immoral weakling br br the musical score neatly blends the ominous with the mysterious and is effective if you want to hear the original from which this was ripped off rent hitchcock's vertigo and listen to bernard hermann's suspenseful theme br br i can't think of any particular reason to catch this one except utter boredom
0	usually i start my reviews with an explanation of how and why i watched the film i'm reviewing with this i simply cannot explain i needed to be awake early for work the next day so the last thing i wanted to do was watch a film that i didn't know anything about but something kept me glued to my comfy futon as i watched this heather graham vehicle oh that's right boredom br br graham plays a bohemian nut case who seems more obsessed with her marriage vows than the guy she married played by luke wilson when her hubby decides to set off in search of better things work women and scripts presumably begins a fanatical quest to find her husband and free him from his spiritual wheelchair it sounds like i'm making this up but sadly i'm not in reality this is little more than an acting exercise for graham as she gamely gives this phoebe from friends role a work out oh and goran er visnjic is in there as well for some reason br br the tv schedules had this down as a comedy but i failed to find a single laugh anywhere it struck me that this was a personal journey for lisa krueger the director and writer in the same mould as girl interrupted but even that had more laughs than this graham's character is simply too self centred for the audience to care about and i felt sorry for the hen pecked husband as he bravely fought for his freedom from his clearly mental wife very little of this film made sense as characters simply appeared in the story as though they were standing around waiting for graham to turn up like the extras in the truman show in fact the only positive note i can produce from my scribblings was heather graham nice baps and that wasn't because i was too tired to enjoy the film br br in truth it's very difficult to think of anybody to recommend this film to graham purists a very small number of overall movie goers i think you'll agree will have to be committed to watch this dross and possibly hippy students who collect american indian dream catchers will take something from this i was amazed that the average rating at time of writing was 5 0 that would make this film as good as die another day and gothika in my book and that simply ain't right committed is a quirky oddball mess of a movie that neither entertains or enlightens it's complicated pointless and simply too boring for my tastes and probably yours too don't even think about watching this
0	more of a character study then a movie committed is yet just another relationship romp with the trimmings specifically made for a young target audience the direction seems very basic with obvious dramatic irony and a classic case of the lost loser versus the clueless committed committed is watchable at times and there is a small feeling of originality from lisa krueger br br committed is completely aimless for the first twenty minutes we get to know but the movie picks up when her husband disappears sets off to find him br br some parts are strange other times the movie drags the second half is more humorous as we see spiritual antics take a turn for the more intense the annoying guitar music is awful but perhaps a necessary evil as committed offers very little anyway an average movie hampered by some completely pointless moments committed 's only asset is heather graham and patricia velazquez
0	horrible waste of talent not even worth watching when there is absolutely nothing else to do my hope against hope is that the actors at least got paid well anyway if you're a fan of heather's or luke's you'll be really disappointed by this big budget student film
0	i checked this out at the vancouver international film festival and was not impressed br br the only area of the film i enjoyed was the commentary on film making for the most part this film seemed random and somewhat fantastical i don't say that in a complimentary way however and just silly it was as if he was mixing fantasy with everyday life which may sounds intriguing in some films but the fantasy merely seemed needlessly perverse br br my criticism of this film is not upon the actors rather the story itself i found it boring and narcissistic i wanted my money back but considering it was a film festival that wasn't about to happen
0	committed stars heather graham along with casey affleck and luke wilson its the story of who is determined to find her ex husband who is in the process of a mid life crisis br br committed was not at all what i expected it was lacking in comedy which was ultimately the genre it was beyond stupid and un realistic casey affleck delivered a reasonable performance graham's recent roles have been lack luster and this is not an improvement br br graham's most recent role was blessed which i also found misleading and didn't appeal to me at all br br pros affleck br br cons predictable unrealistic poor acting and not a comedy movie
0	from what i remember seeing of this film it was not good i always say that if a film is good and can keep you attention throughout the hardest of moments example a tylenol cold sinus war than it is a film that has done its job the fact that i was asleep for most of this film only proves the fact that it could not keep my attention and ergo it did not complete its job why did i fall victim to the tylenol cold sinus when i had a film in my arsenal br br to begin committed did not make any sense the acting was poor and the overall story left more doors opened that just couldn't be closed i am thinking of the moment when i swear i saw affleck and graham brother and sister in this film kissing that didn't make any sense then there was a scene with affleck and his roommates indicating that he was sleeping with one of them almost breaking up a perfect lesbian couple i suppose this was to show that most are not as committed to a relationship as graham is but for me it just was nothing more than filler i have this suspicious feeling that the director of this film was sleeping with affleck his acting in this film was atrocious i mean i have never seen him do any good acting but this was by far the worst oh i just had another moment during the battle come through my mind and i confirmed it with imdb com what was john stewart doing in this film that was yet again another moment when my eyes were opened just for a moment in one of those battles that seemed to last forever br br and frankly it's heather graham we could care less about her after a while she's just not interesting she's just bland boring and basically stops acting after a while while they desperately start throwing wacky characters into the mix to revive the movie it just doesn't work and instead of just calling it a day they start throwing more characters into the mix so now it's just weird tedious boring and really really long luke wilson's slow drawl acting style slows an already crawling movie to dead halt why exactly were these two married committed is a truly terrible film the kind of hip comedy that leaves you staggering out depressed and bored br br grade out of
0	committed as in heather graham being committed to saving her husband marriage and then being committed to a psychiatric ward in failure to do so what a clever clever use of words br br one of those meaningless wanna be philosophical films in which narration is a series of oh so wise observations that verge on poetry 90s club poetry better known as chit poetry oh it's so je ne sais quoi written directed or by a woman lisa krueger whoever the hell you are this is a pointless lethargically directed road movie full of new age nonsense and characters that are meant to be interesting but are merely seen before or just plain dull the latinos in this movie as part of the poor urban minority are typically glorified in all their mysticism obsessed as a spiritually superior people which is the highlight of this film's political correctness br br the whole affair is lifeless and ceases to be so only when occasional good cast members appear kay place baker wilson on the other hand we have casey affleck who is one of the very best examples of why nepotism is on par with first degree murder as a crime i have rarely seen a more apathetic actor a skinny ugly moron who goes through his lines in a sleepy manner almost as if he were uttering them in a half awake quasi dream plus that weak voice one of the weakest male voices i've heard in my life he must have gone to the tobey maguire lethargy school of acting to cast this idiot in anything speaks volumes about any movie i e about any director or producer hence lisa krueger is a talentless waste of space we've also got that moron who had the lead role in the mst3k spoofed werewolf i think his name is goran but i'm not sure check out his ridiculous accent and the dumb speech
0	i saw this film because did the score a real disappointment annoying trendy scenes with urban hipsters and their cliche hip lifestyles cheesy stereotypical mexican border culture mystic grandfather with the rattlesnake and potions granddaughter in her mariachi style restaurant a few laughs but hipper than thou and sorely lacking in vision and basic filmmaking talent
0	a ditzy girl yes ditzy is about as complex as her character gets won't take no for an answer and does quirky things to get her husband back it's too far fetched to be believable with such flimsy characters going through the motions but not far fetched enough to be fascinating in the way that say being john malkovich was so it ends up boring br br
0	i saw this film right in the middle while going through a breakup it was about 3 in the morning and i was battling insomnia with a quick snack it wasn't too bad at the time but every time i have tried to watch it since i can't get into it like i did that night br br at the time i thought it was cute and i loved the variety of characters though they totally could have done better than goran v in my opinion but the one thing that kept me watching was heather's character and her sad commitment to her husband who didn't want her anymore which made me feel sorry for her and root for her at the same time considering i was in a similar situation at the time perhaps that's why i liked her so much not a bad film but you pretty much have to be somewhere near the character romantically in order to appreciate it and let's hope you never are
0	one of the worst movies i've ever seen yes i know i'm not the target audience target audience is females either college age or middle aged or any aged i guess i'm none of these so the makers don't mind if i don't like it but that won't excuse the fact that the dialogue and the plot are horrible the main character phoebe goes on a journey to europe to find out what happened to her sister faith who committed suicide phoebe is an inane character that i hope no one identifies with faith is also a character with very little believability wolf is the only person who seems to be somewhat reasonable as i said the dialogue is boring and uninteresting the plot does completely stupid things at times the absolute worst is that phoebe and faith's father is an artist but his paintings are completely dreadful there is nothing new interesting or refreshing in this movie if your a guy you will pray for the ending if your a chick you might be able to sit through it but you will be unimpressed
0	the films' producers are hoping that cameron name will help sell this picture unfortunately nothing can save what has already been captured on the screen despite some beautifully shot european locations and some solid production design elements the film fails mostly due to its awkward unbelievable romance between brewster and eccleston an filmgoing experience
0	this movie attempts many things but never really accomplishes anything the plot time travels meanders and weaves along without really satisfying it left a hollow is that all feeling at the end unless its free to air and there is nothing else on forget about it
0	i wanted to love this film so badly i really did but it was a horrible disappointment br br i read jennifer novel in 1996 and was enthralled by the story in fact it remains one of my favorite books of all time mind you the book had much more depth than this movie in plot and emotional resonance it made you care about the characters it painted a complete picture of phoebe unlike the utterly poor characterization of the young girl in the film br br though beautiful and showing some promise in her burgeoning career jordana brewster was as flat and hollow in this performance as was the script and christopher eccleston wolf was just an awful choice for the role of wolf both physically and what an awkward looking couple wolf should have been more of a dark brooding character and more physically alluring like he was in the book what's more the chemistry between the two actors was painfully forced br br cameron diaz however deserves utmost praise for her performance she took an impossibly mediocre script and gave her character life a real spirit she is simply gorgeous and her careful mannerisms make her very believable as a hippie it's too bad her talent was squandered on this forgettable film br br in the book to movie category this is a dreadful translation almost as bad as message in a bottle with kevin costner but don't get me started on that one br br i am not usually so harsh in my critiques but i was so disappointed here because i really cared about the story and wanted to see it told right it did not deliver br br
0	this would have to rate as one of the worst films of all time the film screened at the italian film festival in melbourne australia after the screening not only did i want my money refunded i wanted the 1 5 wasted hours of my life back too i have a very broad tolerance level when it comes to the indulgences of some european film making but this is one of those films that is selected for festivals based on the reputation of the filmmaker alone this film is proof that while such selections may satisfy the egos of the film maker and the selection panel there is absolutely no joy for the audience there is no character development whatsoever the plot is a garbled mess the style is nonsensical the shot selection is appalling and the editing is worse by the end of the first reel you'll wonder if you walked into the wrong cinema and by the end of the third reel you'll be begging to be put out of your misery this film is an abomination
0	what a waste of time i expected better from cameron diaz i guess it wasn't really her fault for being in a terrible film the film does not capture the beauty of europe and wasn't successful in leading the audience into suspense or wonder weak attempt at storytelling and narrating dialogue is dull and wasn't able to convey what i sometimes think simplicity is beauty no love energy electricity on screen too bad 1
0	what a shame what a terrible shame the table was set the candles were lit the guests had arrived and then br br well nothing really just pretentious drivel it could have been great ok maybe not great but it could have been very good all the elements were there but at the end of the day the bottle was empty no lightning how that happened is a mystery with everything at the director's disposal br br the story was quite brave although it certainly needed considerable work with possibly several finishing rewrites to fix the story and tighten up the characters a lot the only thing that was consistently and constantly and unnecessarily tight was the cinematography but i'll get to that but the direction was lousy the acting was just that a c t i n g with a heavy side of cheese and lots of ham and then the cinematography br br well that was something to behold but only if you are in film school's cinematography 101 how to never ever use a professional movie camera under any circumstances obviously the student had fallen asleep through part of the introduction and only heard use a professional movie camera then blissfully back to la la land as the sentence finished off br br what can i say amateurish and pretentious to the last i can only see this film meant to appeal as a chick flick because it's supposed to be sad but then falls flat and just ends up being 'sad' as an excuse for a movie so that even those wouldn't be fooled by this br br ps i felt bad for miss diaz she's a lot better at her craft than what this film allowed her to be even though she was totally totally miscast actually i feel sorry for everyone in this movie except the director and you guessed it the cinematographer i say against the wall for them when the revolution comes ' ok not really after all it was only a movie but perhaps a good tar and feather and running out of town might be more satisfying or at the very least a lot more entertaining br br
0	this film should have been much better than it was christopher eccleston is an excellent actor but even he couldn't rescue this tale of a young woman searching for the truth over her sister's death spoiler warning in effect the truth is that the older sister played by diaz is just a spoilt selfish and shallow girl who took too many drugs not much of a twist and not that interesting either the film is also with far too many flashbacks and voice overs and lacks dramatic pacing all in all this is definitely worth missing not to be recommended
0	i was suckered in by the big names rob lowe mario van peebles burt reynolds and the fact that it was an independent film unbelievably slow beginning 35 minutes two dreary songs and a botched rip off i didn't care about the characters and the plot never tempted me to even pretend it could be realistic i can't believe this is what makes it to the screen i loved watching this film because it felt so good when it was over
0	directed by albert pyun in his awful but strangely hypnotic style crazy six is yet another jewel in the crown for this decade's upscale hugo haas jess franco stylish overdirection incoherent plotting time outs in the middle of action sequences for torch song performances all these seem to be signifying traits for our man pyun most interesting is how he always gets top notch b movie casts compared to wynorski or some of the other video directors ice t rob lowe mario van peebles the very strange burt reynolds ain't a bad cast though they often look a bit confused check out postmortem mean guns omega doom for more top notch pyun mayhem
0	don't waste your time and money on it it's not quite as bad as adrenalin by the same director but that's not saying much
0	i am not afraid of bad movies i like bad movies i enjoy mocking them in the company of my friends we're all quite good at it in fact that being said let me tell you how much i hated this movie br br to begin with it was incomprehensible rob lowe attacks some people they capture him but he escapes in this big ol' shoot out there's this singer whom we think died only she didn't unless maybe there are several of them who all act and look the same cue burt reynolds to come in and question the singer he looks like he's just wandered into this movie off of the walker texas ranger set and is darn confused then rob lowe dies only he doesn't and the worst thing is there's not enough dialogue or action that doesn't involve killing people or attempting to to even make fun of this movie and don't even get me started on the random chihuahua then there was the fact that it was supposed to be about the old power structure in eastern europe falling apart we didn't know where we were all the accents were apparently eastern european and what were burt reynolds and rob lowe doing there in the first place br br i desperately wanted to tell the people at blockbuster what i thought of this movie and to get my money back but since i'd gotten it as a special only 99 i decided against it what i want to know however is how the director got the greenlight to make this darn movie and what the 'stars' were thinking when they signed on
0	do yourself a favor and stay away from this film minus 50 billion out of 10 if you want hard boiled action don t rent it if you want a good independent film look elsewhere br br i never thought i d see burt reynolds in such a crappy movie it has the thinnest plot line ever van damm flicks should win an academy compared to this one br br rob lowe once again prove why he is not the hottest actor in the world even hasselhoff would have made a better drug addict than him i do not want to bore you with more facts about this crappy movie except to say that you are better off renting anything by hulk hogan or dolph this should prove my point if you get my drift br br
0	this movie was a monument to inept filmmaking on a colossal scale i'm a huge burt reynolds fan but even he was horrible in this film the only redeeming quality of this film was the chick that smoked all the time she was kind of attractive to look at otherwise what a waste of time and energy
0	what is the story what is it on the screen at first i must say do not touch this movie it is for your own best it sucks and really what is the story in the beginning it seems okay but after ten minutes it all gets worse and that is not all you can hardly see what it is on the screen it is too dark all the time br br do not touch
0	i agree that this film is too pretentious and it is not easy to know where it is going i have been teaching literature and film for many years and i find this film to be one of the most over rated according to some of the previous reviews here br br however let me remind you that this is the same director who has di il di mia madre my mother's smile to his credit a gem of a film br br was he trying to outdo fellini's 81 2 here the scene with the dogs which has also been pointed out is absurd and excessive – just one example others would take too much space and some reviewers have already noted them br br overall a most frustrating and annoying experience
0	rita hayworth is just stunning at times and for me the only reason to watch this silly film despite the overdone 1940s lipstick rita was one of the all time glamor women of hollywood in fact for a couple of years i can't imagine anyone that looked better except maybe elizabeth taylor in her prime br br anyway the co star of the show gene kelly does not play his normal likable at least the kind of guy we all know him from in singin' in the rain here kelly's danny mcguire pouts much of the time phil silvers who i loved on tv at sgt bilko is so stupid in here as genius you will just cringe listening to his dumb jokes and they are stupid br br the visuals are good with great technicolor which almost looks terrific you get to see a lot of pretty women in here too not just hayworth unfortunately the story isn't all that much it centers around hayworth deciding about a career choice along the way we get the normal shabby treatment of marriage and we get an insultingly dumb ending all in all an unmemorable film except as a showcase for hayworth's beauty
0	it's been said that some directors make small budget pictures look like blockbusters albert pyun makes small budget pictures look like high school a v project films this film was pretty much lacking in all departments practically every scene drags on excessively the experimental lighting and camera work is terrible rob lowe apparently equated being scruffy with acting and the poor drab euro pop numbers stop the movie to a dead halt on the plus side burt reynolds does a pretty good job with what he's given which isn't much mario van peebles is surprisingly decent and ice t puts in another of a long recent string of b movie gangsters not pyun's worst work urban menace but certainly not his best mean guns
0	do not watch this movie or if you are really mad at anyone you can give this as a this is the worst movies i have ever seen do not watch this if you do remember that would be a self destructive action it is a shame that this is not voted lower
0	i saw this movie a time ago because some of my friends wanted to rent it and i got voted down i tried as best i could to get the story because some had said that this would be a movie that would be for rob lowe that pulp fiction had been for john travolta well we can all see that he not only failed but he fell the way down this is actually the worst film i've ever seen and i've seen a great deal of bad movies it's just not even worth seeing for free on tv
0	crazy six is torture it must be albert worst film even blast and ticker are better i can´t believe how boring this film is how this even got greenlighted i saw this movie about 3 years ago and the only thing i remember is how bad it was this isn´t good bad movie it is simply bad bad bad bad bad movie br br 1 out of 10 ½ out of
0	the worst movie i have ever seen i didn't even watch it all i just fast forwarded it to burt's bits and then the end he is the only reason to watch this i have to admit to owning a copy as i am a huge burt fan stop laughing and needed it for my collection i wouldn't care when this movie came out i had a nightmare renting ti as my local store only had 2 copies and fans of all the various stars always beat me there imagine my disappointment when i sat down and watched this movie there are just no redeeming qualities about this movie absolutely nothing what so ever to like about this movie this movie became a running joke between myself and a mate burt's worst rob lowe's worst worst hour and a half of my life
0	i'm actually too drained to write this review bad movies always do that to me but i feel obligated as if it's my civic duty to warn anyone who might be considering purchasing or viewing this god awful mess of a picture please please just take my word this is one you'll want to stay away from it's so boring and dull so insipid and uninspired such a poor excuse to assemble any familiar talent burt reynolds wasted despite his best efforts ice t is barely in the film and when he does appear on screen his performance is so restrained and muted that it becomes crystal clear that the director perhaps intimidated by ice's intense stare didn't know what to do with him rob lowe as the title character has never displayed so little on screen charisma mario van peebles should be ashamed of himself his performance is in the saddest sense possible a joke surely satan himself signed mario's check for this film the plot is as weak half baked and annoying as all the music involved the utterly boring club song seems to continue on literally for the first third of the movie the film's look will prompt one to seriously wonder if the director of photography was also forced like one of the film's forgettable female characters to smoke crack from a pipe duct taped to his mouth and if you're looking at least for stylized shoot 'em up type violence you'll get none here this film i assure you i promise you has absolutely no redeeming qualities please i implore you avoid this flick don't put it in and get suckered into believing that its pace will pick up it'll get better and evolve into a decent denouement it won't it don't it can't it sucks now you have been warned and i can now go to bed it's 3am please forgive any resulting errors this admonition might contain knowing my conscience is clear because i've done my civic duty for my fellow man
0	yeah that's right if i were to ask my friends this question what's the worst movie you have ever seen they might reply something like armageddon can you drill the hole shriek plan nine from outer space the medallion scooby doo etc no don't get offended by this by thinking you have seen something that might be in the same department of naturally produced human fertilizer that this movie is in if the worst movie you can think of is let's say so bad it really pisses you off then you know nothing my friend br br crazy six i remember the day me and a buddy of mine went to the local video store to rent a movie both of us had already been through most of the movies in there and on the new movies shelf we see it staring at us wow there's some good actors here man says something about mafia lets just get it and get out of here this was without doubt the worst movie mistake in my movie loving life it was also the worst mistake for everybody else movie lover or not br br watching this movie is as fun as watching a glass of ice cold water or ice tea until it reaches room temperature watching this movie will make you dream an eternal dream of death if death is just blackout light and nothing and then you realize you are just staring at your tv monitor not staring you are actually paying as much attention that is humanly possible this is no joke br br this movie is the perfection of making a bad movie it's not the kind of bad you can watch point and laugh of its the kind of movie that is so bad you actually have no chance of ever get out of your memory unless perhaps you use electric shock therapy to clear out the brain hey that might be something similar to how i remember me and my buddy felt after watching it br br best regards from me to you albert pyun br br
0	do not rent this movie i ended up buying the previously viewed tape of this for 4 00 that was close to the price of a rental so thought i might as well buy it i'm tossing it out after i finish this review the movie which stars lowe is a music video with few lines of dialogue slow moving shots and poorly done editing i thought i'd be seeing a mindless action flick which is what i wanted to see i didn't even get that this movie is an exercise in slow moving shots no script close ups terrible edited and a poorly developed plot i can't believe that is actually ends with a scene in which they think the audience cares about the characters by the end of the movie we still don't even really know who they are believe the hype stay away
0	crazy director yeah you need to be crazy to make a near movie rob lowe was bad in his character ice t is always bad and burt reynolds had nothing to do in the movie crazy six is an unknown movie with some known actors this is pretty weird a bad movie with some good actors in it it looks like the bad movie did an influence to their performance it did crazy people i give it and a half out of
0	honestly i didn't really have high expectations for this movie but at the same time i was hopeful having it be directing by albert pyun one of the more well known b movie auteur's didn't exactly raise my hopes i mean how many albert pyun flicks rank that highly yeah exactly but still the movie advertised a decent cast rob lowe burt reynolds pre reborn stardom ice t and mario van peebles br br it all amounts to squat however as the movie is so boring and moves so slowly that the energy just seemed to drain right out of me the longer it went on it runs over 90 minutes but it's telling a story that could have been told in 30 minutes flat i don't know what pyun was going for here i mean the movie drips artsy like style but it's a blur at times and maybe i'm an idiot for expecting more from pyun this time around here he seemed to actually have a budget and a potentially great cast for the material but it's all wasted crazy six isn't much of an action film it's not much of anything really br br i guess what's the saddest here is the fact that i found the end credits the most entertaining part of the movie the music score is actually half decent with some smooth female vocals too but the rest is a complete waste and the less said the better avoid
0	the film made no sense to me whatsoever good actors favourite he was great in uomo but that was made by giuseppe a great italian director as opposed to the mediocre one who made this effort but awful rambling script terrible editing and a director who seemed to have no idea of what he was trying to say and ended up saying exactly nothing load of rubbish but the sort of film that certain intellectuals whom it was my misfortune to have known in the dim and distant past would have loved it and unfortunately italy has no monopoly on these they can be found everywhere and probably acclaim this as a great masterpiece i never thought much of as director i remember seeing his first film fists in the pocket or some such title in rome when it was first shown close on 50 years ago i was living the time all the usual raved about it but it left me pretty cold i didn't think he was much of a director then and still don't age has certainly not improved him and this film must rank as one of his worst
0	this is the worst movie ive ever seen and i have seen lots of movies me and my friends rented this one a evening man we had lots of fun this movie is the worst most boring crap ive ever seen but it makes you laugh u will lay on the floor rolling around to get some air you wonder why just rent it and check for the keyboard playing girl at that sleazy russian bar my mother would make a 1000 times better movie about her the cats
0	i bought this movie for about 2 5 dollars at a local flea market i thought that with the cast present in this movie ice t rob lowe mario van peebles are all ok it would be pretty good boy was i wrong this movie annoyed the hell out of me almost every scene drags on too long the scene where rob lowe is watching this girl singing and dancing in a bar lasts forever it was one of the worst scenes i have ever witnessed in a movie the rest is no either my guess is when they finished the movie they only had 30 minutes of film so they made everything last longer br br conclusion the current 1 9 rating here on imdb is right on the money this was one of the worst movies i've ever seen go watch some paint dry for 1 5 hour instead of watching this br br if you want to see some better movies made by this director watch with christopher lambert ice t or with charlie sheen instead
0	the story overall though quite graphic is actually decent and reasonably interesting to readers however the movie was absolutely dreadful the story was good but the acting was terrible i was crying the whole time because i knew i could never get my spent time back don't see this movie if you do bring a pistol with a bullet in it and a few bullets if you're going with friends i feel sorry for everybody who had anything to do with this film i also feel sorry for everybody who had to watch the film avoid this film at all costs and if your mother forces you to watch kill her hahahahaha see i'm a psycho now turned me into a psycho
0	i had to read i know why the caged birds sing in my english class and we watched the movie after finishing it after watching the movie i regret seeing it completely took away any of the impact the book had the scenes made no sense in their sequences the acting was horrible and it seemed as though the screen writer never actually picked up the book but opted for the cliff notes instead i was outraged at how the movie ended almost half of the book was cut out and certain aspects were extremely important to maya's growth as a person if you have read caged birds this movie will ruin the experience of the book so i warn you not to see it
0	a ridiculous movie a terrible editing job worst screenplay ridiculous acting a story that is completely br br if god was going to decide if movies should continue to be done judging by this one the entire world movie industry would now be dead br br a wonderful movie to show that cinema should not be done by people who think they can make movies br br i am still wondering who are those two girls who show up in the movie for over half an hour and are never introduced to us br br
0	you would probably get something like this i'm translating movies for a living and this is the first movie in my 5 year working experience that i found offensive to my intelligence of course there are stupid hollywood movies about drunken teenagers on a spring break but those movies don't even claim to be serious works of art but when someone strives for greatness and poetry but delivers a muddled and often ridiculous story a bunch of disparate scenes pretentious dialogue then you get the worst kind of a movie that some other reviewer very accurately defined as pretentious crap to those who find this movie intelligent or even masterful i can only say it's your intelligence and your imagination you obviously used to try and make some sense of this pitiful attempt it's in our human nature to try and make sense of things br br one more thing i can tolerate political incorrectness very well i'm all for artistic freedom and suspension of disbelief but the slavic female character was just too much i wish someone told the director that it's kind of ridiculous even in an unrealistic art movie to portray a slavic woman as a half articulate dishevelled creature connected to the forces of nature probably due to the fact that she had spent her entire childhood looking at the stars and milking cows on a three legged stool
0	first i don't see how the movie is on any best list or how it won any awards compared to la pianiste which is also on a best list la pianiste is gold this movie lacked so many things on so many different levels but i can't quite explain why i disliked it so much the lead actor was annoying i felt as though i never knew what was going on and i was bored even though this was supposed to be some worthwhile life change that pierre was starting i wanted it to end as soon as possible why did it have to be his sister and cousin ugh and why did get mean he just turned mean and also was it me or did i miss the whole purpose of what that guy in black was all about who were all those people playing music in the big basement of the big warehouse why did they have all that weird equipment and the guns and all those extra rooms for people to live in i mean this in all seriousness but does incest happen a lot in french culture european culture i took 5 years of learning about the culture and i never heard anything about that
0	french cinema sucks down with all these visions with their my god am i cultivated distinguished attitudes pestilence to conceited symbolic film language and impervious i'll no longer have a mind for that carax did you ever think about that a dialogue in a film could be natural and vivid maybe i'm too common to understand you or had it been your task to confirm all the clichés of a frenchman the world can have guillaume the to be comes to his home palace mme deneuve not in the picture plays the flute here am i darling in this moment i knew that she's in the bathtub and we ll see her lying in there soon don't misunderstand me i'm not prudish and the sex scene was the climax of the film but this is in berlin we say what means something like a self satisfied and the worst seen that often in french movies i can tell other example she beautiful and willing is looking at herself in a mirror combing her hair and her wild bearded dirty young guru into the room breathless shouting there's no escape there's no escape forty years after and what's new what's exciting about my god there's that woman and she loves and admires you what would be more natural to be happy with your life and when you're not please explain much better why born french means you have to live a life in extravaganza no escape is that the point
0	the movie contains a very short scene of deneuve in a bathtub she looks absolutely stunning for a lady age 56 but this is the only saving grace of the movie otherwise it has a mindless unmotivated script and the lead actress has none of deneuve's appeal the director apparently watched too many peter greenaway films and x comes across as a student's imitation of the greenaway style without any of his inspiration
0	i'm accustomed to being patient with films because i've generally found it usually pays off but a few works take tedium to new levels and enter the realm of provocation last year at marienbad comes to mind well x ain't no last year at marienbad i can count on one hand the number of films i've walked out on over the years x achieved membership in that august group in my defense i believe i made a valiant effort to stand my ground hoping things would turn around however i finally threw in the towel just shy of the 90 minute mark quite respectable under the circumstances x does not come anywhere near living up to the promise of carax's earlier work after a 10 year hiatus that must have been bitter for him indeed melville is still spinning in his grave
0	we were excited to rent this one after reading a few reviews and seeing that it scored so highly here well we got it home and could not believe what we saw its basically comes off as if its written by some hard up perverted old guy who could not help inserting his sexual frustrations and fantasies into an anime film that really lacks in plot and humor the main character is all over the place one moment he is like an immature little kid the next moment he is mature and intelligent then heroic then a perverted stalker br br the worst part is all of the out of place sexual content i have no problem with sex and dig a movie that has some good sexual energy but this is just presented in a way that is creepy nipple slips close ups of a girls crotch many times in white panties or a swimsuit it was totally out of place and it seemed as if the person who wrote it was trying to live out some fantasies through his cartoon characters br br we were expecting something of a mature nature but we just kept looking at each other and asking what the heck the point of this was besides jiggling cartoon boobs and poor dialogue if you want to see some cartoon characters cleavage and this is for you if you are looking for something beyond that this movie was empty the characters and dialogue were just plain irritating br br
0	pretentious claptrap updating herman melville about a young man's vaguely incestuous relationship with his aristocratic mother getting transferred to his long lost sister who has been raised by gypsies or something like that – not that anyone really cares to unravel its multi layered plot decked out with pornographic sex scenes pseudo symbolic imagery the siblings swimming in a river of blood and other bizarre touches a gypsy child repeatedly insults passers by in the street until she is anonymously beaten to death the deafening music of a rock group utilized in the demolition of old buildings considering the source material and the presence of catherine deneuve who at least gets to bathe in the nude i was expecting a lot more from this one apparently there's an even longer tv version of x out there…
0	it's difficult to express how bad this movie is even in the 1950s when intellectual searching for the meaning of life was fashionable and beatnik rejection of physical comforts clean clothes haircuts etc was a common reaction to the smug middle class mores of both the usa and western europe this movie would have been a stinker the plot is a mishmash of several dei ex machina if that's the correct latin grammar the acting consists of deadpan stares broken by occasional hysterics by the male lead as well as the females the gratuitous view of catherine deneuve's or somebody's breasts are worthy of a budweiser commercial the repeated orchestra rehearsal in the abandoned building is i'm sure heavy with meaning in the director's mind but to me is just one more stupid symbol thrown into this meaningless movie i'm ranting because my time has been wasted watching this scam excuse for an art flic the scenery is beautiful and the sex scene is hot but underneath his clothes this king has no substance
0	i enjoyed carax's les amants du pont and was therefore expecting this film to be of a similar standard well the first 10 minutes were ok but then it disintegrates into a rather pretentious journey of a young man looking for the essence of life a sad disappointment
0	i won't lie i rented this film because it was an arty film with some possible explicit sex i got that scene and catherine deneuve's briefly shown breasts but the rest of the film is just the usual long pretentious european art films with lines like did i have a mother or father i don't know paraphrased usually delivered in long soliloquies br br if you are curious about the transition of art to porn might be an interesting look with use of the fast forward button i was still too slow
0	spoilers br br oh sure it's based on moby dick totally obsessed and it destroy's him it's a total folly the movie starts off rather well but by the end of the film everyone else is destroyed and the main star's mind is a blank br br the supposed half sister is never convincing some very poor lighting effects music is interesting but little else it took me over a month to finally finish the darn thing i suppose if you like being john malkovich you might like this but where as bjm was a great movie that i just didn't want to watch again x is a movie i just hate to high hell the only possible excitement in the film is the incest sexual scene towards the end of the film hopefully yer not thinking of catherine either br br this movie is severely boring depressing and poorly directed not highly recommended if if you like french movies go watch crimson rivers instead br br 4 10 br br quality 5 10 entertainment 1 10 replayable 0 10
0	this movie is so unreal french movies like these are just waste of time why watch this movie even i did not know why what the well known sex scene of half siblings although the sex scene is so real and explicit but the story it is based upon is so unreal what is the use of it then can you find easily in life half sibling doing such things br br did i learn something from this movie yeah some people are just so fond of wasting time making such movies such stories such non sense but for those who like nihilism nothingness in life or simply a life without hope then there you are you've got to see this movie br br only one worth adoring though catherine deneuve she's such a strikingly beautiful woman
0	i wish depardieu had been able to finish his book and see it become a dazzling success at least he'd have wound up with something br br the film struck me as pointless rambling and very stylish like some other recent french films not to knock it most recent american films are pointless and rambling and have no style whatever we should be grateful i suppose for photography that evokes a european city in the midst of a wind blown continental winter and for elliptical conversations that challenge our ability to understand what's up br br but there can be too much of a good thing golubeva is found stumbling around near the sea in the middle of the freezing night carrying on in a bad accent about dreams and such there are a few sequences of dreams that include things like swimming in a river of blood you'll love it if you're vlad the impaler lots of people die catherine deneuve dies in a suicide by motorcycle i don't know why young girl dies too and i don't know why she dies either she gets slapped in the face falls to the pavement and dies br br there is supposedly an explicit sex scene too i'll have to take their word for it because although it is stylishly photographed it is stylishly photographed in almost complete darkness don't worry about the kiddies being shocked they'll probably be asleep by this time anyway br br depardieu isn't a bad actor as we see him deteriorate from a carefully groomed handsome young man well handsome except that his nose can't seem to get out of his way to a limping murderous hairy physical wreck we feel sorry for the guy golubeva has a wan pretty face with enormous half eyes and wide cheeks like a doll her next movie should be a remake of lewton's i walked with a zombie then there is this mysterious guy who leads a band i guess it's a band as far as i could make out the band is made up of about a dozen drummers and a dozen musicians playing electric guitars every viewer will find the resultant sound interesting but listeners fond of easy listening might not enjoy it if you don't like the music there's a payoff involved because the sinister composer and leader gets whacked over the head with depardieu's walking stick br br i must say i found it barely worth sitting through and it's a too at times it was like waiting in your car at a railroad crossing while a long long freight train rumbles slowly by sometimes stopping entirely i wish it had had a few jokes
0	i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which was actually written not spoken in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here or else has so much disdain for everyone especially the viewing audience that he can't be bothered letting anyone in on the joke br br some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique bizarre films because they do so with élan and unique personal style e g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story e g kieslowski and david cronenberg's later less bizarre works in x carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it well here it is the pacing is erratic and choppy in particular continuity is often dispensed with superfluous characters abound e g the gypsy mother and child most of the performances are overwrought the lighting is often poor particularly in the oft discussed sex scene unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list goes on br br not to be completely negative it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions i liked the musical score even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhol's of the '60s much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings and even well into middle age deneuve shows that she still has 'it' her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn't sink into bathos br br there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as x more charitably experimentation is admirable even when the experiment doesn't work but carax tries nothing new here the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly crafted tripe at this early moment in the 21st century one is left asking with the exception of jean pierre jeunet are there any directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating 3 10
0	this has to be one of the worst films i have ever seen br br we are supposed to like and be rooting for an arrogant know it all trashy bank robber played by dale robertson and a coy tease played by the extra ordinarily beautiful linda darnell in a fire engine red dress she must have been into that bodice br br a senator in the film thinks native americans and whites should try to come to an understanding the bigots however win the day i could barely sit through the endless dialog of bigotry that issued from the other characters mouths br br except for wounded knee and dances with wolves there are few films that give a positive portrayal of american indians and very few old westerns do this one is exceptionally bad in that regard br br the romance between robertson and darnell set my teeth on edge as he came swaggering in forcing a kiss on her while she plays the old hard to get game br br there are scenes that are unintentionally humorous such as the characters obviously not really riding in or on a stagecoach in several shots br br a puzzlingly humorous incident in the storyline is linda character going to great lengths to purchase tickets for the stagecoach only to then demand a horse to ride minutes later for no apparent reason br br another humorous scene is when the stagecoach comes to a screeching halt at the sight of a cowboy hat lying beside the road and not only that but then all the passengers pile out for a look see br br 1 star
0	scenarist frederick fox's sometimes memorable dialogue and a study cast of old pros cannot save this lukewarm western about whites pinned down in the desert by a band of bloodthirsty cheyenne indians other than his occasionally catchy dialogue you won't find any surprises in fox's screenplay about this run in between whites and indians the characters in dakota incident generate only minor interest certainly not enough to make them stand out as much as some of fox's choice dialogue unfortunately good dialogue is fox's only contribution because this conventional little withers with a lackluster ending that contradicts its previous 80 minutes the ending is as contrived as they come and lacks credibility most of the characters are sympathetic but some just plain lack common sense br br dale robertson is appropriately tough and as outlaw john banner one of three bank robbers who has to shoot it out with his low down no account partners veteran western character actor john doucette rick largo fares the best of the badmen while skip wasted in an inconsequential role as banner's brother frank banner later dies from an indian arrow doucette tries to gun down banner at the outset of in the action but our left handed gun toting hero fakes his own death tracks down largo down later and slaps leather with him in a town called christian flats naturally largo bites the dust this time but banner makes an interesting discovery one of the passengers on a stagecoach from christian flats to laramie turns out to be none other than the bank teller from whom he stole the money not only is john carter john lund on a quest himself to find banner but also he wants to clear his own good name with the bank that has issued wanted posters for his arrest evidently the authorities have mistaken and enlarged carter's role in the robbery carter is prepared to take banner to laramie and turn him over to the law but banner has other ideas about laramie banner's ideas change when he crosses paths with amy clarke former twentieth century fox beauty linda darnell who wears a bright red dress and still packs quite a bosom as everybody else here has mentioned in their reviews republic studio's brings out the red in everything from fetching outfit to the blood spilled on the ground the problem with director lewis foster's handling of this run of the mill oater is that everything bogs down after the stagecoach loses a wheel and our heroes hole up in a dry wash to defend themselves against the cheyenne the good guys and the cheyenne eventually run out of ammunition but dakota incident never runs out of clichés ward bond has several interesting moments as a politically correct politician who defends the way of the by the time that this 88 minute dust raiser concludes you'll feel like you've been trapped in a gulch and menaced by marauding cheyenne yourself
0	on halloween a town is terrorized by a lunatic with a big pumpkin for a head bad acting compromised mostly of local talent and laughable special effects makes this one baaaaad b movie queen linnea quigley looks embarrassed to be a part of this one and even her considerable charm which has helped so many of her other films can't help this one pass this cheesy flick if you are looking for a good halloween horror film and rent night of the demons which also stars ms quigley
0	dakota incident has to be one of the strangest westerns i've ever seen not good but definitely strange br br a driver less stagecoach rides into the town of christian flats with all passengers killed it's scheduled to go on but very few for obvious reasons want to risk the on the warpath out there but linda darnell regis toomey john lund whit bissell and ward bond each have their reasons for going on and dale robertson who killed john doucette in a gunfight after doucette and skip shot and left him for dead in the desert is so anxious to go he's willing to drive the team br br of course the attack the intrepid group of passengers if forced into a dry wash for cover who will live and who will die is the remainder of the film br br dakota incident came at the very end of republic pictures before herbert j yates pulled the plug on his little studio westerns were their specialty but normally of the kind roy rogers made this would not have been a rogers product br br in fact it's beyond belief the characters aren't ground in any kind of reality whit bissell is taking back ore samples from his claim but robertson discovers it's iron fool's gold toomey is a guitar playing cynic who goes mad from thirst darnell is after a cheating manager of her's but really doesn't know what to do when she finds him lund is looking to bring in robertson who committed a crime he took the rap for but has to bring him in alive for that he'd require help but doesn't have any br br but the worst is ward bond who's a united states senator on his own peace mission to the in real life bond was a most right wing individual and i'm not sure this wasn't some kind of a caricature of what he would perceive as a liberal he's really quite the fatuous fool but i think that might have attracted him to the role br br i tried to get into dakota incident but couldn't and the ending was a bizarre fantasy to say the least br br give it three stars for the cast involved
0	this might have been an excellent flick however as many other people think so do i it is poorly done due to the languages transfer if the entire movie must be read then it kind of takes away from the movie and becomes something else it does have an excellent rating as far as i am concerned and i couldn't wait to rent it but once i did it was a real let down out here in boardman ohio i could not find an english version to anything similar this movie was also compared to dark hours and this we will not get to watch in boardman ohio it is not available so i guess we will never know how good the movie actually was
0	there's something rotten about this film and basically the way it turns a sinister and twisted character into a hero by exploiting our sympathy with his admittedly horrible situation like many who have lost hope chooses suicide the fact that he has been contemplating it for more than 26 years probably makes his condition worse but the belief that we should do whatever anyone asks even if it means ending a life is in my opinion profoundly wrong what a contrast to the uplifting example of the scientist stephen who suffered a far worse condition for far longer yet with the morals upside down the film revels in hero worship and the people who disagree with are painted in simplistic idiotic terms there's little room for subtly especially in the encounter with the priest deliberately manipulating the real life encounter which was with a much younger priest in that way i suppose the film is on a par with triumph of the will the insidious idea is that everyone should have to right to take their life when they feel they cannot live it anymore it makes no difference whether you are physically or psychologically damaged there are people evidently who believe you have the right to choose the same people are likely to make a case for abortion its all part of the current trend to get the suffering or sufferers out of sight brush it under the carpet mammy will say its ok and we all feel very happy with ourselves so we go down the slippery path of believing that some lives just ain't worth living and then we'll decide that as some people can't really decide for themselves then we'll bring in the state to decide for them enter adolf hitler straight from that other oscar contender der untergang hitler of course believes that he carrying out exactly what nature does in disposing of the weak under his regime there were forced abortions among the weaker strains the mentally handicapped were quietly put away and the jews were humanely liquidated by using gas he would have applauded this film and why not for it is in line with his philosophy some lives are just not worth living i differ from ramon hitler and all the people involved with making this film human life is sacred it is not a right it is a gift and an obligation nobody chooses to be born then who can choose death its not about religion its about protecting the weak and helpless something this film does a lot to undermine
0	great another foreign film that thinks it's fellini on top of that we have to have more propaganda about murdering disabled people br br i see no reason why we have to be inundated with these thinly disguised euthanasia commercials br br i found nothing redeeming about this film what can be redeeming about a man without the courage to carry on in spite of some adversity it does not take courage to commit suicide that is the action of a coward sharing this wish with his woman simply inflicts her with the same illness he has if this had been a film about a man's courage to go on in spite of his problems similar to the jill kinmont story that would have made it a great film br br if you're interested in seeing true courage check out the movies about jill kinmont the former skier who was disabled after a bad ski accident
0	bardem is great actresses are great but amenabar did not have to do it like this it is ok that he defends his position on the euthanasia an extremely delicate issue but doing it like this makes him lose his point the movie is a false offensive to the intelligence full of tricks and even sometimes extremely boring some scenes are advertising material more than a movie women are incredibly attracted to this mind sick man who wants to make someone to kill him not understanding the implications of that he seems not to care about no one and thank them for their caring love and attention i think that amenabar might have make people think about this issue in a different way but the way he chose to do it i believe is not correct he could have make his point more powerful exposing the other side of the coin without mocking it
0	first i would like to admit that bali was not my cup of tea this movie was evidently not targeted toward the masses it's the type that critics would enjoy watching the hype and publicity were quite misleading br br i was expecting something very dramatic like devdas understanding that the story and time period demand it i found the movie extremely slow paced br br i'm a die hard aishwarya fan and i regret to say that i thought she was miscast the role of bali required an actress who can portray herself as subversive not innocent and naive everyone else gave a good performance depiction of the human condition does come across the celluloid to give the movie an interesting theme
0	for the people who have compared this trash to the brilliance of david lynch etc please listen to your carer when they say dont use other people's pc without their permission br br this is complete and utter poo there is no art here this is some person trying to make a name for himself with a cluster of gross out ideas which he was not clever enough to enforce into one main idea so instead he went for the easy option br br any one with half a brain could sit at home and conjure up some controversial images to shock viewers but it takes a person with true imagination to be able to make it into a movie people want to watch br br i am a lover of shock cinema i have seen or own pretty much all you can get and i can strongly advise to anyone who loves the world of movies to steer well clear of this garbage br br this one is only for people who like to over analyze what they are watching or for the 17 year old first time drinkers who dont know any better br br 0 10 br br
0	critics are a strange kind of people some of them are common people like you and me some of them are not when a critic say cruelty is beautiful i wonder where they did grow up what's beautiful with filming a field some clouds or a tree with an old camera if you can't do it with style and capture the mood of the environments for sure can't i've seen kids do better footage than manage to do in cruelty but that's not the worst part the worst part is the whole recording i refuse to call this a film is just a bad excuse to picture nudity and extreme torture rapes of both sexes masturbation sperm pissing cannibalism child murder and much much more i love gore splatter and i love horror this ain't neither of those this is utter crap and if my comments make just one single person skip cruelty it's been worth it always remember that your life won't last forever don't waste two hours of precious time on cruelty you've been warned
0	i´ve seen this at the fantasy filmfest in cologne and left the cinema halfway through this movie with a bunch of other people so maybe i´m not the right one to comment on it but i think the fact of leaving s c is reason enough to do so s c is a different film people who need a coherent narration characters or a plotline won´t find anything in this one it´s supposed to be an experimental film relying on the power of images but these images have no power they are so forced in their intention of simply grossing people out that they have nothing else to say the gibberish of the off narrator is simply boring the visuals are cheap ok the effects are good but if that´s the only thing why care film wants to be shocking and thought provoking instead it is boring and annoying in its non creativity note not every movie without a story is art and there is absolutely no creativity in breaking taboos anymore especially not if everything is executed as bad as in s c i´d suggest director hussein should either visit a psychiatrist or a filmschool before he mistakes crap for art again note i never want to see a baby getting slashed during birth again
0	this film has to be one of the most boring films ever made the only thing i liked is using argento esquire lighting in most of the scenes the music is awful and the pace is so slow that you can watch it at the speed and even then it would be slow the story doesn't exist it doesn't even have any shocking scenes br br it is classified on this site at least as a horror but it's not it's a sort of an art film exploring the dark side of the human nature if you are into that kind of thing and can stand the slow pace then watch it but i'd rather recommend you something japanese e g ichi the killer i think that the only reason this film was never in theaters is a fear of audience committing collective suicide caused by the huge amount of boredom generated by this movie these 80 minutes of it's length would've been better spent watching the paint dry br br i gave it 1 10 simply because there is no 0 in the pull down menu
0	i can not believe i even wasted a netflix rental on this complete piece of crap how long did it take to make this film 15 minutes on a budget of what fifteen bucks i can spend a few hours with my sony camcorder and come up with something better than this treacherous lump of bile and it's even available on dvd a very sad thing to think classics like the stepfather have not been released on dvd but this chunk of steaming dung makes it to the format here's hoping my rating of one one one one makes the overall already pathetic rating of 2 5 go down
0	you know i always fancy disturbing or strange movies especially when they get shown at the fantasy film festival in hamburg germany but subconscious cruelty was probably the worst film i saw this year will this comment contain any spoilers br br no because i just did not understand this movie but well what can you expect from a flick that was introduced to a festival crowd we the guys from the festival know that not all of you will watch this one until the very end br br i like splatter movies and i also like movies with a strong graphical language but this there are a lot of bloody scenes in this one but why what is the director trying to tell us is he saying that we lost all morality and all religious feelings or is he saying that incest will always end in a disaster who knows i do not br br if you want to watch a movie that keeps you thinking for quite some time watch it but don´t expect to think wow i got the message i did not get it
0	looking for something shocking okay fine the imagery is that that's about it this film attempts to make deep connections with the audience through various symbolism and just ends up being annoying i am not quite sure if the director's purpose was to truly portray some sort of deep message to his audience or if he just sought to shock the hell out of them with gore sex and violence i am thinking that it was probably the first but in the failed attempt it simply ended up to be a piece of artsy garbage with lots of blood some obnoxious characters and an over reliance on religious symbolism if you're looking for some independent film to critique for its attempted use of metaphor have at it if you are looking for a gore flick that will make you queasy and uncomfortable here you go if you are looking for a film that will irritate you to no end because you realize that in the end the message was stupid the movie was stupid and you will never get those minutes of your life back this is surely the film for you
0	i rented this movie from a local library without having any prior knowledge of the book it is based on or the movie itself purely based on the chance that it's one of those rare overlooked gems that one can discover from time to time and really enjoy br br unfortunately this is not one of those movies i am not sure if this is a movie driven by sentimentality or worse deliberate agenda but certain elements of it made it impossible to immerse it is supposed to portray a struggling immigrant worker community which tries to cope with the difficult realities of their life that is a fine premise and it could have made for a gripping story but the execution just made me alternate between getting annoyed and amused at the ridiculousness of it br br here we have a community of simple farm workers who migrated to the us in search of employment and who get used and abused repeatedly by evil white men and when i say evil i mean evil all white people in this movie are sinful racist sadistic abusive devils whose sole purpose in life is sexual depravity intertwined with exploiting the poor immigrants it would be a sad story if it wasn't so unintentionally grotesque and therefore hilarious br br the portrayal of the immigrants is also a poster worthy example of exaggeration except that it goes in the opposite direction the immigrants are saintly clean and could serve as ointment for boo boos and the world over i couldn't help but laugh when i saw these field workers presumably digging in the ditches all day with their notoriously clean clothes and chiseled hair cuts from a top notch hair salon a little restraint and a more unbiased hand at the helm could have made this a much better movie evoking some intended emotion rather than sarcastic snickers
0	what should have been a dramatic tale of life on the river murray turns out to be a silly soppy romance about an english refugee sigrid thornton with aussie accent who falls for the larrikin first mate john waters of a paddle steamer br br the first half of this four and a half hour mini series shows some promise but it soon falls flat as it becomes predictable and thin some real verve and spark was needed in the plot to give the movie some life gus mercurio's early exit didn't help as his character seemed to me to be the only interesting one br br perhaps the longer t v version has more depth because this video translation certainly lacked it br br sunday june 27 1993 video
0	okay i agree with all the barney haters on this site i think barney and his friends are all ugly looking and obnoxious and the show is very lop sided and unrealistic br br but the thing that ticked me off the most is how barney presented gays lesbians and on his show when talking about same sex parents and relatives that wouldn't be so much of a problem if the creators of this show didn't use so many derogatory stereotypes of homosexuals i mean not all gay men wear mascara and love the colors purple and pink and not all lesbians are ugly and manly looking with a bosom that sags to their abdomen as a bisexual female i just think this is terrible for a children's show if this were south park i wouldn't mind it because south park is for people who can distinguish fantasy from reality a lot of people who watch barney are little kids or handicapped people who can't usually distinguish fantasy from reality br br and now that i think about it barney sort of comes off as an ugly gay stereotype himself let's see he doesn't have a girlfriend he's pinkish colored and wears clothes with sequins yes it's true on it if you claim to be for the rights of gay and bisexual individuals then stop making a mockery out of them in front of people who don't know any better if barney went black face and ate fried chicken and watermelon at the same time the show would be pulled off the air before you know it br br i give this show a negative one out of five don't show your kids such hateful crap there are children's shows out there that are so less insulting
0	i was a little to old for this show i was 6 when it first came out first off when i was a young child there were a few children's shows that were on sesame street which i did watch and learned from but other than that there wasn't much else my cousins were all born a few years after me 7 years was the first one more came latter barney was a very big part of what they watched when i first saw this show i told my grandmother how it doesn't teach anything just uses magic to fix everything i was 9 at the time how many 9 years old have any idea what is really going on with a tv show more and more that i saw or heard what the teachings of barney were the more and more i told people how bad the show was the funny thing is my parents who had a young child in the mid to late 80's which was me by the way they agreed and said the same thing as i did the sad thing about this is my cousins who are older now 13 and such still agree with what they saw its not cheating its creative its not right to think differently than what someone tells you to its o k to steal if the person wont find out or mind that it is gone lets be honest with ourselves barney is out to make money not teach children anything the more flashy the program the more inclined children will be to watching it children are stupid not because they are not educated they just do not know any better second barney put on a show and parents bought it i never believed that tv could affect people the way barney does if you have a young child read to them watch a show that teaches them numbers do not let them get involved in this show barney is like smoking once is to much smoke a few and your hooked let your kid watch this show they are hooked and one day their kids will watch the same crap and buy the same crap you bought
0	when i was a younger oh about 2 i watched barney for the first time and liked it but back then i didn't exactly have a brain either and now i look back and see what a horrible show barney really is first of all everything on that show is creepy barney the main character is a horrendous 9 foot tall talking purple dinosaur that teaches 13 year olds about imagination shudders b j i know what your thinking about his name is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be cool but in fact he is the exact opposite after watching a few episodes with b j dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap and making a few no so funny jokes i wanted to scream baby bop oh oh god vomits oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever she is a green triceratops it's a dinosaur that carries a yellow blanket her remarks of hee hee hee and barney's praises cries of 'super make it hard to sit through each episode as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners br br and that my friend is what makes this show truly horrible
0	i didn't watch this show that much when i was little and i think i only watched 1 episode which was about railroads i believe because i liked trains and still do even then i thought it was a baby show i mostly watched arthur the songs are pretty weird too and i don't think it's that educational either they just sing some dumb nursery rhymes this is a dumb show any adults who like it are crazy if you want some good kids shows watch something like arthur mister rogers neighborhood or even better pee wee's playhouse i thought sesame street was boring when i was little but even that is better than barney trust me this show is pretty dumb there are other kids shows that are better than this one i can see many of the reviews here that a lot of people don't like this show now there are some mature people i hope they take this show off air soon
0	being a child of the 1980s i grew up with numerous educational as well as programs or both and continue to learn so much from them now that i admire the wisdom of those who worked on them after learning that sesame street to name the best example was not solely responsible for the fact that i could read at an adult level before i could walk it only increased the level of disgust i feel not only towards the lyons corporation and its product but those who defend them too as if i had faith in those we assign to protect us or our children to begin with the fact that barney friends still pollutes our airwaves after more than a decade later is a discredit not only to the fcc american commerce and its makers it is a discredit to all of humanity in a world where i can be harassed without recourse by the police welfare services and child protection agencies simply for being born different to those in power yet broadcasters are allowed to pump this drivel into my home uncontested you have to ask what is wrong with people br br you see in a world where we are expected to behave like adults and account for ourselves what we say to our sons and daughters is of importance because it will often have consequences long after we are gone not only are our attempts to make our children more normal more alike more think alike potentially devastating what we end up teaching them to be normal has a big part to play too so the question becomes one of what barney is teaching our children to be normal apart from lessons such as that we are not good if we do not have good feelings or that someone will change the rules to make us happy when we come up short other shocking things we are shown on the barney show include barney molesting children the issue of child abduction and child molestation is a big one in our society and has been ever since we started trying to pretend it was not but that would qualify as one of the most inappropriate ways in which to present the topic br br so far i have only mentioned the inappropriate and emotionally damaging lessons barney himself presents adding to the problem is the children shown on the show i use the word children loosely here as the range of ages shown goes as low as three years and as high as fourteen yet no difference in emotional response is shown at either extreme fourteen year olds react to barney and his proposed situations in the exact same way as five year olds experts in childhood and adolescent autism especially consider this an incredibly foul thing to expose children to adults on the autistic spectrum who faced increasing problems as their needs were not only not met but flat out ignored have a tendency to watch this and feel an urge to do the kinds of things with barney that would make fourteen year olds cry as irreverent and sick as shows targeted toward the elder child market such as you can't do that on television were they stamp all over barney by demonstrating that not only do different ages respond to the same thing in different ways so too do different people br br so in response to i have to say that i hope like hell they do not have children for every time i see a parent showing their child this drivel it gives me an overwhelming urge to report them to the police for child abuse and i speak as a man whose entire upbringing was dominated by abuse they might sing about manners loving caring or sharing but the examples they show are not only so as to be the opposite of educational they are so devoid of realism as to become dangerous as the light triton has already pointed out the kind of lessons children learn from barney are that people do not vary feelings must be suppressed at all costs and rules are entirely arbitrary when compared to the lessons that variation is what makes the world go around and even the most bitter feelings have a purpose that television taught me as a boy it still boggles the mind that the authorities have yet to step in and yank this trash off the air if a parent did to their child what barney does around the world they would face criminal charges br br hence i gave barney my favourite two out of ten score that i give to all rubbish with absolutely no redeeming value in a world of adults that know how to properly respond to their children it has no place
0	barney is that idiot dinosaur who didn't go extinct with the other dinosaurs many eons ago instead he sings stupid songs and has stupid morals about life that are 100 worthless and or extremely dangerous that is strangers are your friends you haven't met yet the reason why i say he's evil well on youtube there's a video of a barney song about toy balls when it's played backwards it comes out as we'll all come hang you let's stab the knockers don't believe me see it for yourself i also read on another review that they are now reading out pc folklore and fairy tales now that is just stupid with a capital s i mean really anyways i don't recommend letting your kids watch this filth as it contains stupid morals like strangers are your friends as said before there is never a reason to be sad and if you are sad eat junk food being an individual is taboo magic can solve all of your problems and heaps of other ridiculous crap
0	jack o 1995 was a really bad movie we are talking snoozefest x 100 no entertainment value whatsoever no budget no gore z grade actors etc etc this film was an awful addition to the horror movie industry and shouldn't have been made the only reason i purchased this movie was because i knew linnea quigley was in it and sure enough she does her obligatory nude shower scene which is lovely yes br br but as for the film itself i fell asleep at the 40 minute stage and had no desire at all to finish it it's just bigtime lame ok br br i love horror movies i'm an avid fan a massive fan i love low budget horrors i love it all but i hated this rubbish so i think that will tell you all you need to know about jack o br br i give this movie 2 10 the 2 is for the 2 minute linnea shower scene the movie itself is a total zero
0	i am not lynne bates my names is but lynne is my mum i'm just using her account barney and friends or barney as it is called here in england is the corniest show ever i never really liked it it had been about for 3 or 4 years when i was born so it was nothing new my friend however loved this dildo of a show i was about 6 and i was at his house once and he had a barney vhs tape playing on the tv i turned the power off and he burst into tears grow up its a talking dinosaur for sake anyway i happened to catch the barney movie on tv later that year and i loved it i got the vhs of it a few months later and i wore the tape out i loved it so much i gave that tape away a few years ago now but i loved it at the time but the show my god the show was bad several kids fell victims to because of this butt plug of so called entertainment never again never again its not just me who hates barney either 85 of all the comments on this show are bad and and just look at the amount of you tube poops and videos that take the mess out of barney are on you tube and don't get me started on blow job bj why the hell would the producers dare give a character such a sexual name yet another subliminal message in a kid's show and that baby bop is the worst thing since osama bin laden all in all i give barney and friends minus 1000 out of 10
0	barney and friends is probably the worst kids show that i have ever seen it teaches kids nothing the songs are corny it is not educational and the characters are just plain i am not one to disagree with those who hate the show honestly i have seen more negative than positive reviews for this show 75 of the reviews are negative and there are some really mature people this show contains no educational value or age appropriate educational material whatsoever more reasons why i dislike this show is because of the crappy plots cheesy dialogue horrid special effects and the abysmal story lines besides it says that you should eat junk food if you are sad and that strangers are your friends saying that is a model of what preschool television should be as expressed by yale researchers dorothy and jerome singer is a load of crap they don't know what they're talking about i would never recommend barney to anyone te reason why some kids keep crying for or get addicted to junk is because of this show poisoning the minds of children everywhere for people parents children who seek real preschool mater switch over to nick jr and watch super why instead it's far more better than this turd and five tv once had the nerve to put it on but thankfully took it off i highly advise everyone to keep far away from this show as possible parents i highly advise you to keep your kids as far away from this show as possible they'll thank you later br br bottom line don't bother wasting your valuable time with this stupid show it's utter garbage 10000000000000 10 grade z avoid like the plague br br thanks for reading
0	that someone could have conceived this nonsense and then got it produced is incredible that it actually aired on television and advertisers actually paid to be associated with it is mind boggling this stomach wrenching excuse for kid's programming is almost too vile to comment on i've burned yes burned any barney tapes that people have given my son to find this awful programming in my library was an unpleasant surprise and where tell me where do they get those smarmy kid actors have their parents no sense those kids will be on drugs before they're teenagers geez the final insult is that i have to add this extra line to the review to get it on imdb
0	barney is just awful as many of the other reviews on this show say i'm not one to disagree with them i won't because i hate this show just as much as they do they use kids that look like they're in sixth grade cheesy plots horrid dialog and really crappy special effects not to mention that big purple dinosaur himself he makes every other kid show look like award winners sesame street has won awards that i know about br br please just watch sesame street thomas the tank engine or even the teletubbies avoid both this and its movie which i also reviewed they are both extremely crappy and are inappropriate to anyone even little babies
0	ok when i was little and i mean like 2 or 3 not 6 and 7 barney was one of my favorite shows i then grew out of it and threw all my old barney tapes away so one day as i'm flipping through channels i see that barney now takes place in a and i thought um huh is this the right show once i realized it was i freaked why did they change the show's setting from a school to a ever since then the show has been absolutely terrible and the only reason i'm giving it a 2 is a because i'm nice b because of riff and c because in the old times the show was tolerable now i just hate it hate it br br 2 10
0	barney and friends the dora the explorer of the 1990s br br ok i'll admit it as a kid barney was my ultimate hero i had my barney plush toy and i used to watch the same barney episodes over and over on videotape maybe cause it was so sugar coated and mind numbing br br however by the time i turned 7 i started to hate barney everyone at school would dis barney and i went along with it mainly because it was funny and it's what little boys do but a few years later i discovered something else about barney that i will never forget br br a person known on the imdb as angel did an essay for school explaining the dangers of watching barney and he or she posted it in the message boards a lot of those dangers made sense br br barney is a dinosaur who can magically come to life during a day at school he is supposedly educational or so sheryl leach barney's creator says but really all i can remember him teaching me is that magic can solve anything which is not true br br to end off this comment i'd like to tell you a little story there was once a young boy who watched a particular episode of barney one day he was alone when a stranger lured him into his car and drove away with him i don't know the outcome but it's safe to assume the child died but why was he abducted in the first place because he watched the barney and friends episode titled a stranger is a friend you haven't met yet br br 0 10
0	i hate you you hate me barney stole your suv with a great big bunch and a kick from me to you wont you say you hate me too jingle bells batman smells grandma had a gun shot barney and made him pee and now there is no more barney the moron now why the heck would come up with a idiotic show like barney so what i'm saying is barney is a retard from the underground world and the kids on this show are like 12 years old if i were them i wouldn't believe this stupid idiot called barney now producers why do you believe this crap that barney says they are always happy that is stupid they should be sad sometimes am i right bottom line barney is so stupid who watches that ugly creature
0	i don't get it i just don't get it barney and friends has been lambasted by millions through the years and i will admit i was one of those any child who watches this show doesn't realize that what they're watching is just a piece of trash barney is very annoying and very selfish add baby bop and it gets even worse add b j then you have a very creepy television nightmare then you get the children they're old enough to know what barney is trying to teach them what are they doing there in the first place it would be funny if barney and his friends appeared on the jerry springer show that would certainly be one of the wildest moments in television history even more significant is that this show marked the beginning of the end of public television as we knew it as we have seen less and less of the more informational and interesting public television programs that aired in the 1970s and the 1980s what a big difference a selfish son of a gun makes when this show leaves pbs a big sigh of relief will be felt among millions of people but a huge dent will have been made in the annals of television history a message to barney himself you may not realize it but your days are numbered br br in a nutshell there are other choices better choices
0	barney teaches kids nothing here are some 3 reasons why you shouldn't let you kids watch this show 1 barney teaches kids that we should think exactly like each other to get along br br 2 barney teaches kids that you shouldn't be sad and if you feel sad eat lots of ice cream 3 if you make people pity you they will give you what you want when you want it br br barney is just a fat doll who told kids strangers are your friends he should not be trusted and he is high every day he constantly giggles do not watch this show your kids will thank you when there older
0	okay you hippies are probably wondering what i have against an education and informative show like barney well i have a lot of hate against it for these reasons br br 1 it teaches that having a personality and individualism is immoral no one on the show has a personality everyone dresses alike talks alike acts alike and dances alike even in the episode called being an individual kids try to tell barney about what they like and everyone on the planet should do what i like do you wanna teach your kid that being an individual is wrong br br 2 a stranger is a friend you haven't met episode while seemingly harmless the show's producers that it could also be extremely dangerous for young children in fact several young barney lovers from across the u s fell victim to pedophiles who were using the show's friendly message to lure children away from their parents the episode has since been pulled but the damage had been done so called innocent mistakes in programming like this one clearly show why parents need to watch television with their children br br 3 if your not happy all the time you are a bad person no one seems to show any other emotion but happiness no matter which situation they are in if the child's parents get mad or sad for some reason the child may think of mommy or daddy differently not a good message at all br br 4 magic solves everything seems like every problem is solved by magic at least in shows like fraggle rock it teaches us that magic can backfire at it is best to solve problems on your own does barney teach this no of course not there has to be magic in there and the problem is a lot of two year olds cannot tell fantasy from reality and might think their parents siblings or relatives can use magic to solve everything yet become confused when they cannot use magic and think they are weird another boner pulled again br br 5 barney makes no distinction between stealing and sharing he has even specifically said that stealing is okay if the person you steal from doesn't mind kids can learn that if you really want something stealing is a perfectly acceptable way to get it this is not something that need authority figures to tell them br br 6 if i just have the right thing i can solve all my problems whenever the kids have a problem barney gives them whatever they need to solve it the message being sent here is don't try to think to solve this it's too much work and the solution probably wouldn't work anyway just use this because of this children could stop thinking through things barney said it was too much work and become dependent on the right object the right shoes the right food the right computer the right exercise machine this is obviously a good message for the barney marketers but it's not good for br br 7 the message that cheating is okay in another episode the children are involved in a contest to carry a peanut on a spoon without dropping it one child puts peanut butter on his spoon and easily wins the child is then rewarded for his creative thinking when the child in fact bent the rules and changed the game so that he could win this teaches that cheating is good you win and people think that you are creative when in real life you will often be disqualified or worse and severely disliked by other competitors who played by the rules br br 8 do the kids in this show eat anything else besides cakes cookies and candy that teaches that it is okay to eat tons of junk food and avoid healthy food despite barney's so called health food song other than that everyone in the show eats junk food no wonder there are so many obese kids in america and europe br br and finally br br most other kids' television shows teach creative problem solving well without having to resort to magic barney could also have done that but instead decided to use the method that was a best for the marketers and b took the least time and money for scripts it's a blatant sellout that shows just how little the lyons group actually cares about children br br that is my rant for you all
0	ok i could only find three reasons to consider this film worthwhile considering the extremely low budget br br first there was linnea quigley and rachel carter actually the two of them gave me four good reasons to watch and watch i did br br the only other reason to watch is that a lot of was filmed right down the road now i didn't know this beforehand but i saw an orange county car tag and said wow this was shot in florida br br i was impressed by the flashback to the past and the ancestors of the young kid but that was really it the killings by the pumpkin man were pretty lame with the exception of the biker br br if you want to see quigley and carter ok but return of the living dead will give greater thrills
0	used this documentary to push a stereotype of punks this documentary is biased and guided not objective the cutting techniques that jump from interview to interview may be used to take the spoken word of interviewees out of context when you watch the film the sticking idea that comes from the interviews of the punks is that they are pretty dumb band members and other punks seem to be of low intelligence and unable to explain their motives or give detailed or coherent answers or even answers at all i highly doubt that if some of those who were interviewed knew what was creating or saw the final product would allow themselves to be included in the project this film puts punks in a bad light by making them seem unintelligent and simple minded film should not be taken as a representation of the l a punk scene if you want to see a good punk documentary watch another state of mind featuring youth brigade and social distortion
0	this is a film with a lot of potential well done and acted with a rather week and inconsistent script a young woman with two children moves to her mother's cramped apartment because the husbands flat on top of the workshop where he cuts up stolen cars is aggravating their son's asthma husband ends up in jail when an ex pat's stolen car is traced to his shop ex pat ends up being kind generous and naive and rather cardboard and we learn next to nothing of him but ends up with the girl who trades up despite being sexually satisfied only by her husband i expect this film to be successful in czech where it will be welcome due to its obvious premise them ex pats may have money they may even get our women but they're old soft and our women want to be satisfied we may be poor but now if only could keep satisfied so she would not need to play with herself or if he already had an existing family in italy but that would complicate things
0	seeing this movie in previews i thought it would be witty and in good spirits unfortunately it was a standard case of the funny bits were in the preview not to say it was all bad but the good bits were in the preview br br if you are looking for an adolescent movie that will put you to sleep then watch this movie
0	frankly i met real han su ying before and seeing her portrayed by an american actress which has no resemblance of anything chinese makes my head spin while i am watching this movie why can't hollywood get nancy kwan instead at least its more true to the story cos for goodness sake dr han su ying is chinese i know cos i have meet her in person br br and looking at the whole cast so few asian faces in a movie about a asian love story makes me wonder too br br i think the acting is good but without real asian faces in a asian love story makes the plot so corny and a whole load of baloney br br its just like another movie i know of ' the imagine my eyes pop out when i see john wayne as genghis khan br br and to make matter worst how on earth can a man born an bred in mongolian come up with a alabama southern accent and a cheap imitation of anything asian br br good grief br br i am not surprise that one day i will see dr martin luther king jr being played by one of the boys from the black and white minstrel show br br would love to see that br br and laugh the whole roof off br br cheers
0	this film looks great and that's about where my praise ends love is a many thing came out in the very schizophrenic year of 1955 when candy coloured nonsense like this co existed with trail blazing artistic fair like kiss me deadly as a trend toward smaller socially conscious films like on the waterfront and marty established itself in the mid 50's other directors felt the need to stick with the unchallenging pandering melodrama that classifies so many other films from that decade and love is one of the latter br br this is the kind of 50's movie where the technicolor is used to its garish utmost and the lighting is invariably high key even scenes taking place in a dark room or at night are brighter than the average sunny day i never want to hear the theme song again as it's played frequently enough over the course of the film to last anyone a lifetime and i certainly don't want to hear it sung by the shrill ear piercing choir that belts it out over the end titles jennifer jones and william holden are passable but really anybody could have played these parts jones' role is horribly written her character is incredibly inconsistent and it seems as if whenever her character is required to make a decision about something the screenwriters flipped a coin to decide what that decision would be br br people will undoubtedly tell me i'm taking this film too seriously that i'm unromantic etc but i loved all that heaven allows released the same year and just as cornball in its own way except that douglas sirk is able to turn melodrama into an art form whereas henry king director of love is not br br i'm usually able to enjoy bad melodrama but in this case i was just bored br br grade d
0	this love story between an american journalist and an eurasian lady doctor does not contain much conflict since she is largely westernized having studied in london nor any fireworks since she behaves rather restrained what little interest the story manages to raise is knocked down further by their wooden dialogs they are supposed to be two cosmopolitan intellectuals but talk as if the words are put in their mouths by a hollywood hack who is not much of one himself the movie also suffers from an amazing lack of realism a completely deserted beach in crowded little hongkong overrun by a million chinese refugees and a presumably accomplished american journalist in his 40s who doesn't know what a is hollywood ideas finally the song after hearing it an estimated twenty times throughout the movie starting right with the credits it tends to loose some of its emotional impact sorry to say
0	it's valentines day and we decided to stay in have a nice dinner and watch this movie on tcm instead of going out we're in our 40's 50's love romance and are both softies but this movie just bombed for us it's hard to imagine that it was nominated for oscars etc but i guess that was then the cinematography was beautiful but for the most part the movie as a whole is terribly dated jennifer jones' character made so many references to her being that we started counting and after a while we were giggling every time she said it add to that the theme song played incessantly throughout the film and we couldn't wait for it to be over so we could watch the evening news
0	horrible all i can say is that is movie was horrible i came to watch this movie half expecting some good acting all i got was a horrible movie this movie deserved to stay on the cutting room floor i do not recommend this movie to anybody i have seen better by the actors
0	so many films are now in a genre described as comedy thriller as was this one a fine cast interesting premise but what an unpleasant film to watch into films then either saving grace or lock stock are far more enjoyable films rating just 2 out of 10 roach clips
0	though stephen gyllenhaal is a good tv director with a few good full length to his credit homegrown is just a mess in its script and direction despite performances from billy bob john lithgow kelly lynch jon bon jovi jamie lee curtis and ted danson a cast this good couldn't save the film br br will know that jake and maggie are in the film but you don't see jake very well and maggie's only in it for 30 seconds as babysitter tipping off lithgow's character about a bust it's not even a lowbrow pot comedy as the film was intended to be it just wasn't funny
0	warning might contain spoilers br br i just sadly spent 5 bucks on this movie on amazon and i wish i never spent it i have never seen suck horrible special affects or acting i mean jack 0 is just a laughable monster and his costume looks like something u could buy at a halloween store or make yourself the acting is just horrible especially sean kelly i mean come on he is so pathetic with his little lines come get me low i laughed so hard on this its just stupid i mean the movie is so awful they had to put a few minutes of nudity in it just for people not to shut it off low i think the most laughable scene is when the woman sticks a butter knife in the toaster and gets electrocuted i mean come on that looked so fake and the dummy i could buy that at any halloween store or make it myself well i recommend not watching this cheesy movie cause it will be time you will never get back
0	i usually don't consider turning a movie off unless it's really bad homegrown is a movie i wish i hadn't even turned on the plot is interesting but the acting and writing are too low key i didn't care about the characters any movie that has drug use and gratuitous nudity as its highlights is not worthy of praise the characters spent their time getting high and believe me that's the only way to sit through this movie
0	i think homegrown is a bit of a misnomer for this movie more like plantation grown but it doesn't have quite the same ring to it my guide described it a comedy but the pathetic travails of these hapless buffoons is not my idea of a belly laugh more in the genre of the farcical thriller drama the characters developed well enough an all star cast made it oh so promising just a shame the plot was patently absurd ted danson provided a fine cameo as did jamie lee curtis in her walk on part jon bon jovi has this amazing ability to measure content in the front seat of his car i guess if you imbibe a few beforehand you should be able to sit through this one not for the gun shy paranoid types though
0	in efforts to make a somewhat comedic yet serious movie about the art of growing marijuana stephen gyllenhaal director fell a few bong rips short of a good movie while the cast is nothing short of amazing this movie is extremely hard to sit through the acting of billy bob thornton ryan phillipe jon bon jovi hank azaria and kelly lynch couldn't even save this movie from failure it would be wiser to flush three single dollar bills down the toilet then to check this movie out at the local video store br br
0	hardware wars rips off everything in star wars but if you are planning on doing any parody you need to do it just a bit better than this not that there is anything wrong per se with hardware wars but if you spoof do it well or not at all
0	this film is cringingly bad you can tell that all the actors are embarrassed to be associated with such a truly terrible movie there are obvious budget constraints but with a little thought and attention to detail the movie could have been so much better for example check out the scene where mickey first goes to the mortuary and is talking to his friend the pathologist whilst the murdered taxi driver is lying on the slab you can actually see the corpse breathing what couldn't they afford to hire a half decent extra that could hold his breath for a 2 minute scene
0	for me this is not a good tv show animated or otherwise it is however annoying to the nth degree there are a few reasons for this in no particular order first the intro of one of the most pointless and annoying characters ever batmite this character serves no purpose for the show whatsoever maybe it is intended as comic relief but it doesn't work out that way next up the joker i thought it was really ridiculous to have his character let loose with that ridiculous laugh after almost every sentence talk about repetitive this gets old really fast also don't think the had the right actor to voice the character it just doesn't sound at all like the joker should sound lastly they made robin look like a complete dork other than these problems the show isn't that bad but these are big enough problems to drastically lower the likability factor for me the new adventures of batman is a 3 10 at best
0	seriously reality charity tv these producers must think that the masses are full of non thinkers br br these shows are called reality which means they are suppose to resemble something real with truth or facts br br i suppose the characters are really acting in all the pathetic ness br br at one point i wonder if these type of shows decrease or increase the collective unconsciousness br br we live in a world that already contains individuals that are not authentic br br is it necessary to promote an inauthentic way of being
0	the action was episodic and there was no narrative thread to tie the episodes together and move the story forward the plot plods along with few exceptions e g graham greene the acting was uninspired and pedestrian at best the actors seemed to have something on their minds other than the scene they were in it is boring to observe a man driving a car through the semi desert country of this movie's setting whether he drives poorly or well such scenes are typical of the level of tension in the video so there was nothing about this video to engage or draw the observer in to make him or her care about the characters and the out comes i am doubly disappointed because i rented this movie based on the reputations of the executive producer redford and the writer of the novel on which it was based hillerman i note that the jewel box reports that funding is provided by pbs and the corporation for public broadcasting as well as carlton international i would hope that this video was as disappointing to them as it was to me and my wife to the point that they will not fund any more disasters coming from the same source
0	there is no esperanto in this movie br br i watched this movie specifically because imdb lists esperanto as one of the languages used but imdb is mistaken about the languages used in this film there is absolutely no esperanto at all it's almost all english with a couple of words of navajo do not watch this film if you're looking for esperanto movies other options instead are delight with clark gable which has a bit of esperanto incubus is all esperanto although completely mispronounced and there are some esperanto street signs in charlie chaplin's the great dictator there was supposed to be some spoken esperanto in gattaca as well but i never heard any br br aside from that the other reviewer is right this movie is a complete mess br br spend your time elsewhere
0	i like wes studi especially adam beach but whoa is this movie a load of pretentiousness ponderously slow overly cryptic to the point of not because the plot warrants it but because there is almost no plot even less in the way of characterization this is almost like one of those creaky old charlie chan mysteries the cheaper monogram studio versions with lots of red herrings oddball characters like the old ex senator with the checkered past who is now a recluse loads of people getting killed over d'art that you wouldn't look twice at in the mall great scenery though pretty hair on the redhead too although i never did figure out what she was doing in this at all neither could my wife sheesh at least the old b movies had the decency to be short
0	three delinquents disturb the tomb of an ancient warlock who after summoning jack o a less then menacing pumpkin headed figure to dispatch said hoodlums continues on his sworn vengeance to kill every of the family that offed him that includes young sean kelly and his horror loving family of course it's up to sean to find a way to save the day br br such a stupid low budget b movie the acting's atrocious and the plot isn't much better throw in a extremely lame killer a possible pedophile who laughs way too much a couple of stereotypical cardboard cutout couple and you have this film in a nutshell not really worth your time save to see how superbly well linnea is aging br br eye candy linnea quigley is always good for some t a and she doesn't disappoint here with a lengthy shower scene rachel carter also gets topless although it could be a body double br br my grade d
0	i am shocked and amazed to find reviews short of miserable for this horrible film i rented this movie or feces whatever you wish to call it with several friends and after thirty minutes we had to stop watching just listening to the dialog left a horrible taste of sour milk in my mouth this film was about as intelligent as an ass pimple i hope i never see that bra less raggedy anne look alike julianne nicholson again it was like watching the most putrid pilot for a sitcom that will never make it to television but instead of being a quick but painful 30 minutes all i could bare this was an excruciating 90 minutes
0	this movie was so stupid i could not bare to watch the rest of this movie to think that the spoiled bitch suggested to see other people then walks right into another relationship 5 minutes after the agreement was made i really felt sorry for the guy but then again for a guy like that to even consider letting his fiancé see other people to go along with her grand idea well i'm sorry but he deserved what he got and she was definitely not the best fish in the sea either he can do way way way better she had no tits to hips no nothing and you had to have known that she wanted this right from the start 5 years how on earth did they last that long
0	i rented this film because i enjoy watching things with lauren graham in them well she was the highlight everyone else seemed complete separated from the picture you kept looking around you at those watching the film with you going what however she provided some clarity as she was the only normal character in the picture which actually isn't saying much for the film personally it was too far fetched for me however i am glad i rented despite the fact i would never want to own it i still feel that lauren graham proved to be a strong actress and even thought she was not the main character she seemed to steal the movie my husband and i were happier and cared more about her character ending up with josh's character than we were about the two main characters
0	before i took a job as a reviewer i never went to films like this and thus remained blissfully unaware that at the soul of the hollywood film lies a deeply woman hating spirit that thrives on putting its knocking little knees on the silver screen for all to either empathize with or revile or is this just a particularly bad year an ugly trend br br here we have yet another seemingly sweet innocent beautiful woman turned lethal weapon the kind that cautions us that beneath every pair of batting eyes and nesting instincts lies a wild eyed beast guaranteed to make everyone's life within 50 miles a living hell br br this month's specimen is jewel valentine's liv tyler whose simple dreams include having her own little house a backyard fountain and a mondo home entertainment system unfortunately randy matt dillon in his first film in 3 years the dim bulb bartender she picks up at one night intending to rob is less materially oriented the kind of guy who drinks beer out of a toilet he prefers to down in his dead mother's house with few creature comforts save his collection br br in that same low rent bar the devil in the red dress also bumps into randy's cousin carl the highly amusing paul reiser a lawyer with an ego the size of st louis when things go south within hours enter the widowed detective with a heart of gold john goodman the result three men sustain big bad crushes on the leopard clad progeny of steven tyler and bebe crushes that make them do things that common sense would normally like get involved in the first place br br multiple points of view and flashbacks patch together the front page news about how easy it is to fall victim to one's libido especially if you're male as each of these men relates his perspective to a confidant his desire to possess the jewel colors the truth' of the situation about 70 minutes later things come together in a reasonably amusing way but it's amusement from the same source that tells you that the stuff on the popcorn actually tastes like butter br br is the first film by norwegian commercial and music video director harald and his pedigree is clear during some of the fantasy segments including one about a car wash soap and a hose that you can probably it's also the debut project from the production company owned by michael douglas who's found his niche as a in a bingo parlor br br dillon and tyler are unlikely to win any gold statues for this one though given the one dimensionality of their overdone film noir type characters you can't really fault them several minor roles drag out unexpected guests reba mcentire plays carl's psychiatrist and andrew dice clay doubles as both the hoodlum utah and his even scarier brother finally an outlet for all that aggression br br this film unwittingly speaks volumes about the dynamics between men and women or men and their mommies but ultimately you'd probably find more lasting psychological truths in a bugs bunny episode i will say that it's better funnier more sophisticated than other recent gems like but should we really have to choose what to see based on what ranks lowest on the scale
0	'it's supposed to have got good reviews' says the g f if so i can't find them she goes off to sleep and i endure michael douglas as a good ol' boy now there's a new one matt dillon all screwed up john goodman losing his cool paul reiser running around in bdsm leather oh it's a riot all right br br the hitch is you're probably going to lose interest pretty soon on liv tyler plays the femme fatale and critics complain she might not have the register for her part but it's immaterial this movie is not about character development in fact i'd go so far as to say there's no character at all what you're supposed to appreciate here is the plot br br no one is 'bad' in this movie some people wonder why all these 'stars' even in here for goodness sake sign up for such a junky project odds are they thought it would be fun maybe they did have fun who knows hey maybe they got paid good too br br but you have to fork over money one way or another to see this turkey and that's probably not a good idea
0	this is one of those star filled over the top comedies that could a be hysterical or b wish that you had gone to the dentist to have all your teeth pulled instead unfortunately one night at is a classic b br br goldie hawn recently commented about town and country that it's a big problem in hollywood that they start with hiring the actors and putting together a deal before a script is completed you have to figure that not only did they go into this picture without a complete script they also mangled it daily maybe we need to send cards and letters to the heads of all the studio that say it's the script stupid br br this is also one of those movies where you find yourself feeling sorry for the actors most of the way through they're working their asses off trying to make all this seem hysterical but they know most of it is going to be accompanied not by belly laughs but by the sounds of the crickets you can hear inside the silent theatre br br is it an unmitigated disaster not entirely there are some smiles along the way mostly due to the efforts of the actors i probably would have gone out of the theatre thinking eh it was okay so why the undeniably hostile tone in my review the ending if as it's been noted the rest of the movie is just all a setup for the ending then it misses spectacularly i really wish i could speak specifically about it but i hate people who give too much away even in warning suffice it to say that as soon as you see john goodman behind a bent over paul reiser nothing given away here it's in the trailer get the hell out of the theatre and go out thinking eh it was okay the rest of the movie is tacked on and creatively bankrupt and you'll be appalled that there will actually be people laughing at this mess br br if you loved there's something about mary or meet the parents both great movies then don't bother to see this movie go have those teeth taken care of instead
0	this is one of those star filled over the top comedies that could a be hysterical or b wish that you had gone to the dentist to have all your teeth pulled instead unfortunately one night at is a classic b br br goldie hawn recently commented about town and country that it's a big problem in hollywood that they start with hiring the actors and putting together a deal before a script is completed you have to figure that not only did they go into this picture without a complete script they also mangled it daily maybe we need to send cards and letters to the heads of all the studio that say it's the script stupid br br this is also one of those movies where you find yourself feeling sorry for the actors most of the way through they're working their asses off trying to make all this seem hysterical but they know most of it is going to be accompanied not by belly laughs but by the sounds of the crickets you can hear inside the silent theatre br br is it an unmitigated disaster not entirely there are some smiles along the way mostly due to the efforts of the actors i probably would have gone out of the theatre thinking eh it was okay so why the undeniably hostile tone in my review the ending if as it's been noted the rest of the movie is just all a setup for the ending then it misses spectacularly i really wish i could speak specifically about it but i hate people who give too much away even in warning suffice it to say that as soon as you see john goodman behind a bent over paul reiser nothing given away here it's in the trailer get the hell out of the theatre and go out thinking eh it was okay the rest of the movie is tacked on and creatively bankrupt and you'll be appalled that there will actually be people laughing at this mess br br if you loved there's something about mary or meet the parents both great movies then don't bother to see this movie go have those teeth taken care of instead
0	i'm afraid i only stayed to watch the first hour of this movie as it really seemed to me to be mindless tv trash and a waste of talent liv tyler plays a sumptuous beauty but her acting skills are not yet sufficiently developed to give the part any real kick as she slowly seduces a bartender into a life of crime it is difficult to feel any real concern over any of the characters even john goodman delivers his weakly comic lines with an absence of panache as if the witless humour needs to be recited slowly in case anyone misses the joke the ending is supposed to be good but the starter and main course left me with no appetite to find out
0	horrendous comedy in which a beautiful crazy woman liv tyler comedically destroys the lives of three men matt dillon paul reiser and john goodman dillon hires a hit man michael douglas to kill her what is happening to comedy the year 2001 has produced some of the worst comedies ever saving silverman sugar and spice freddy got fingered etc etc this is one of the worst there's not one repeat not one funny moment in it the jokes are either stupid unfunny smutty or real sick also there's a strong hatred of women in this garbage the only main female character tyler is constantly used as a sex object also extreme bloody violence is thrown in at the end the only bearable moments come from reba mcentire as a psychiatrist and andrew dice clay in two roles both psychos dillon goodman and reiser have hit an all time career low with this the only way to go is up and poor tyler she quit doing intelligent gutsy independent films for this and douglas what was he on when he agreed to this an utter piece of crap to be avoided at all costs
0	one night at wants you to think it is a hip and clever black comedy it pushes its quirky characters and outrageous situations at the viewer like a crack dealer making overtime the premise is about a gold digging woman named jewel who dates men to get them to steal and sometimes murder so she can have all the worldly she so desperately desires you know this wouldn't be a bad strategy if she chased after rich guys this film really wants one to believe that a foxy con artist would waste time dating bartenders and andrew dice clay please that major flaw in jewel's scheme is really the only entertainment to found found in this stinker and that's unintentional watching it it is not hard to believe there could have been a good movie inside it somewhere one night at just could not decide what direction it wanted to take so just sat in the middle of the road like a dead it tries to be sexy but no clothes are removed on camera and the few scenes of body head are dreadfully pedestrian there is one recurring scene where a hitman is asking the played by matt dillon about how the sex is with jewel it seems like matt doesn't know neither do the viewers why was he dating her anyway one night at also wants to be funny sorry bizarre coincidences and misunderstandings didn't even work on three's company what's worse is that this movie really seemed like it was going for a dark atmosphere to accompany its comedy kind of like a sophomoric coen brothers film but its shallow script could not play subtlety nor could its lackluster sledgehammer in any shocks what the audience is left with is a film that seems to busy trying to please everybody and just losing any appeal along the way
0	my mother and i rented this gem a few years ago while she was here visiting for thanksgiving i have rarely laughed so hard this is a typical low budget horror movie with dumb special effects a worse plot and even worse acting but are you really expecting a classic when linnea quigley receives top billing i thought not br br since this movie does have some entertainment value i give it a 3 out of 10
0	i give this piece of hollywood trash 1 out 10 seriously i mean i like comedy as much as the next guy i also can take just plain stupid comedy and actually sit back and laugh with it but this film had nothing to laugh at or with br br i like nearly all of the actors in this film so i thought i'd overlook what many people told me about it my fault for not listening i was just mortified at how stupid this script was just ridiculous and not even in a funny way the only funny scenes were in the previews that everyone saw in the theater when seeing other movies or on tv i was very disappointed and i really would like to know why these otherwise relatively good actors would read this script and then still sign up to be in it bad decision on their parts br br major spoiler br br okay here's my biggest question on this film if the characters are looking back on this story of jewel liv tyler after the fact then how can paul reiser have gone to a therapist remembering the past he dies in the last scene by being crushed by the dumpster can anyone answer me that major goof on the part of the film makers nobody noticed this
0	i don't usually watch hollywood dribble but i was dragged along with some friends to see this one which turned out to be amusing in places but totally devoid of any originality don't worry you won't have to think tarantino like storyline leaves enough over obvious hints for us to correctly predict where this one's going about fifteen minutes before every twist i sat there worrying that the film was building up fairly nicely for a hollywood flick but that it would have nowhere to go at the climax and boy were my fears realised ymca couldn't save this one but liv tyler almost did i suppose being male and in my twenties helped but she delivered a really good performance obviously she didn't have to do much except look absolutely stunningly over the top sexy but what she did she did well is certainly not going to go down as one of hollywood's great successes or should i say shouldn't because the mainstream american film industry is not going anywhere at present and hasn't for a decade at least save the odd hit like american beauty titanic and saving private ryan and even those had major flaws but if you're a teen male do yourself a favour and see liv she is one hot chick rating 5 10 see also anything by quentin tarantino any american teen film over the last decade anything with sex as its main selling point
0	probably one of the worst movies ever made i'm still trying to figure if it was meant to be fun but for sure i had no fun at all maybe the movie lost something during the english italian translation dunno for sure i miss the guts to watch it again in original version br br my rate for it 2 10 and i feel like i'm being pretty generous let's say 1 point is for liv cause she's a nice babe and the other point is for those decent actors that got trapped into a worthless useless and pathetic movie br br take care br br alex
0	the intertwined points of view can come up as a good idea in some movies here it is a total mess br br but the total mess begin with the story a video clip wants to shoot a light comedy with a pernicious noir like female character she is gorgeous and no men could resist to dive and crawl and suck her toes she is all the more looking as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth br br the movie does melt away in its own pretentiousness being smart funny good looking at his best white trash only please
0	this was really the worst movie i've ever seen anyone who has seen it will know what i'm talking about i saw it on starz so thank goodness i didn't waste my money please everyone don't waste your time i'm really suprised this wasn't straight to video
0	wow i watched one night at yesterday and all i can say is wow br br here i go major spoilers br br would you like a summary of the plot just to see how stupid and pointless this movie is i would never tell anybody to watch it unless i was out to inflict pain upon them anyway here's a glimpse or a huge chunk of the plot br br randy works for a bar he meets up with this woman named jewel who convinces him to surprisingly have sex with him her ex boyfriend ends up trying to rob them and gets killed randy and his cousin and the detective at the scene of the crime all fall for jewel she being the mascot of stupidity uses every one of these guys to get what she wants involving a dvd player randy hires a hit man to kill her and eventually the detective is killed by the ex boyfriend's psycho brother and the hit man and jewel take off br br seriously that's it i left hardly anything out except for a few more sex scenes and a nearly pornographic scene of liv tyler as jewel using a hose to flaunt her sexuality br br what was the point of this movie to be honest i think it was so that the producers and directors could show off their male urges which i think is absolutely uncalled for and just plain stupid when i watch a movie i want a plot i want characters i don't care about sexy woman flaunting anything they might have something should happen in a movie for goodness' sake this is as bad as fight club br br it gets even worse john goodman is the detective devoted to the higher being i myself wondered why goodman would play in something so outrageously pitiful as this but then i remembered that he was in o brother where art thou as well his reputation just went down a notch br br liv tyler was an amazing actress in the lord of the rings series in this movie she is nothing more than an unintelligent slut who wants nothing but her way her reputation has gone down seven or eight notches to me br br i am amazed simply amazed that people would work so hard to make something so stupid the music is absolutely crappy having ymca play while john goodman's character is being killed doesn't really fit the characters are totally unlikeable the plot is one of the most stupid ever conceived by man and to top it off it doesn't even fit into any genre the closest it gets to is pornographic comedy if it was even supposed to be funny which it wasn't br br i think i'm done ranting now but let me just assure you that nobody in their right mind would ever ever want to see this movie unless they lust for liv tyler as much as the characters do that is
0	i saw a great clip of this film which i'll talk about later and then the cast list and thought i might as well give it a go basically a down on his luck bartender randy matt dillon his cocky cousin carl harding paul reiser and murder investigation detective john goodman all have something in common they have seen the girl of their dreams whether married or not and they would do anything to please and be with her even die all three met saw her one night at the bar that randy worked at they have no knowledge of each other but all three cannot stop thinking of femme jewel valentine the lord of the rings' liv tyler all three are telling their stories to someone they hope will listen to their pretty intense and revealing stories randy talks to hit man mr michael douglas who co produced the film carl to psychologist psychiatrist dr green reba mcentire and to priest father jimmy richard jenkins they confess all details of what they have been willing to do their sexual contact with her and eventually they are all brought together in one place all intent on being with her and all involved with the final shootout that leaves one dead one running away and eventually dying and one stunned and the unexpected guy she chooses but at the same time obvious cos it's sex obsessed douglas also starring andrew dice clay as utah elmo and sandy martin as bingo vendor woman if i had to pick a favourite moment it would definitely be what was mentioned at number 11 along with cool hand luke on the 100 greatest sexy moments where tyler copycats the woman washing the car with suds all over herself and in front of goodman very sexy apart from that not the most memorable film okay
0	i'm watching this horrid film as we speak it is possibly one of the worst movies ever aired in my house i'm sitting here with 3 friends and they agree its not scary its not funny its not dramatic it contains nothing appealing whatsoever we are 49 minutes in the movie we've only seen 2 critters only one person has died this movie is one big letdown nothing about this horrible horrible movie has made me want to watch the rest i'm getting a movie hang over i hope that everyone who had anything to do with making this movie dies i don't just mean the actors i mean the director producers the presidents from the studio that financed this movie it is in full the worst movie ever it should make the imdb worst 100 movies of all time at number 1
0	anybody who thinks this film is great desperately needs their head seen to it strikes me that this film was made as a joke it has no good points whatsoever the props cost about 10 and the entire set looks like it could fall down at any time why do films like this get made in the first place this also had two of the most annoying characters i have ever come across in the young boy on the spaceship and the redneck from the twentieth century this film is almost as bad as cool as ice starring the incredibly talented vanilla misunderstood ice
0	quite possibly one of the greatest wastes of celluloid of the past 100 years not only does it suffer from a painfully and enormously predictable disjointed script but it's clearly a carbon copy of alien ii within five minutes i had correctly predicted who would die and who wouldn't and in which order the special effects are laughable there is a scene where one crew member is mauled unconvincingly by two that look like a pair of teddy bears and the sparse humor is misplaced and dire there are better things to do with a vcr remote than use it to watch this movie
0	if you are in search of a masochistic thrill rent this movie and show it to a group of your friends sober this movie is just plane lame but there not completely without value the brief tits are nice and there is one victim's death that is funny as hell other than that this is straight garbage but it is still better than grim or
0	it hurt to watch this movie it really did i wanted to like it even going in shot obviously for very little cash i looked past and told myself to appreciate the inspiration unfortunately although i did appreciate the film on that level the acting and editing was terrible and the last 25 30 minutes were severe thumb twiddling territory a 95 minute film should not drag the ratings for this one are good so far but i fear that the friends and family might have had a say in that one what was with those transitions dear mr editor did you just purchase your first copy of adobe premiere and make it your main goal to use all the goofy transitions that come with that silly program anyway some better actors a little more passion and some more appealing editing and this makes a decent movie
0	i'm a big fan of the first critters movie the second episode is good but it's not as good as the first critters the third episode is a little bit boring but lovely and what is this what a crap it's stupid and really really boring it's the worst of the series i can't watch it again because i felt asleep at the first watch and evil side that's one of the most horribble moments of the movie in the first 50 minutes we can't see the little furry monsters that's the reason why the audience fell asleep at the beginning of the movie br br it could have been much better br br 2 10
0	after 30 minutes mostly fast forwarding deleted it off my recorder the first critters movie was self consciously fun the conversation between the critters just before granny blows them away off the porch for example this film just limps along waiting for someone to shoot it and put it out of your misery br br i can't imagine anyone who worked on this turkey being proud of it br br one was fun four just was awful don't bother even if the alternative is watching reruns of a tbs 700 club fund raiser you'll at least get some good laughs there and the alien makeup is more believable grin
0	didn't the writer for this movie see the other three i loved the original i thought 2 was the best i tolerated 3 it was ok nothing special but i hated this one who dare they kill off ug this was certainly not the ug who had been almost like a brother to charlie in number 2 remember his speech charlie said you wouldn't just leave me on earth would you ug replied charlie bounty hunter saying that he was now one of them now how dare the writers ignore this special bond between them and turn him into a baddie who get's killed by charlie in a particularly awkward scene just because they realized the movie was getting boring in fact for the first 20 minutes we get a new cast and have to wait this long until we again find out what happened to charlie who was the hero we've been waiting to see i kept waiting saying come on when's charlie going to appear angela basset must be doing her best to deny she was ever in this turkey moving it to the future eliminates the possibility of ever seeing a sequel with the original cast or in our time i think the writers decided that their movie was going to be the last and they could do whatever they wanted this movie is totally out of line with the first two and it didn't even seem like it was written by the same people who made 3 3 at least had humor and could easily be seen by younger children 4 is just ugly and mean spirited eric dare is particularly cruel and unnecessary i hated this movie hated hated hated it i hated the fact that anyone could like it and i hated the fact that it ruined what was one of my favorite camp classics i give this a one start simply because imdb com won't let me give it a zero
0	trying hard to fit into the scary space comedy genre this film falls down in two of these it does indeed take place in space but it is neither funny or scary the plot is dismal and the one joke concerning the intellect is overplayed to death saying that paul as ethan angela bassett as fran and brad dourif as al bert make the best of their ham script the homo esque relationship between ethan and al bert is hinted at but never explored whilst the attempt at sexual tension fran and rick is so crude as to be laughable all in all this is a turkey that is best suited to late night tv preferably whilst do the ironing
0	small spoilers i just bought the dvd of this movie yesterday i saw it with my friends and i couldn't believe what had happened br br in the first 3 movies the critters at least had a sense of humor especially the 3rd movie but not only did the critters barely ever make an appearance they weren't funny they never made me laugh i must admit that the story did start off nicely after an hour had gone by i remembered that the critters movies were always very short so i thought to myself where the are the critters they were barely in this movie if that didn't make me mad enough the boy named ethan was sitting on his bed after charlie had murdered the ship and he knew that the critters were still on board in the first movie the brown family was scared out of their minds but here ethan didn't even care it was as if the critters weren't even a threat br br now what i'm about to say next may ruin the ending but i'm going to say it anyways in the first movie at the end they had to face the giant critter for a final battle in the second one there was the great ball of critter in the third movie the critter with his fave burned did a from sonic the hedgehog and was going to attack the little kid but at the end of the fourth one which is what made me the the bald critter charges toward ethan and ethan kills it as if it were nothing br br now something that i really don't understand was what happened to ug he was one of my favorite characters in the first two then after 50 years he's evil that was very disappointing not only that but wasn't he a faceless bounty hunter why was he still johnny steele plus he seemed to have a different personality he seemed much smarter and not as monotone like in the first two br br being someone who actually enjoyed the first two critters movies and loved the third one i give critters 4 a 2 10
0	this is a disgrace to the name of all of the lovable and laughable saga why do the writers feel the need to make the movie unbearable to watch by all quality standards the critters are cute and adorable as ever but deadly behavior has been transformed into that of a killer baby they aren't as terrifying gruesome some what spine chilling and funny as they were portrayed in the movies before i used to love their porcupine shots but now it is hidden as if it was thought to be repetitive and boring and what is with the killing and not eating i thought this movie would have been cool but everything was so wrong why did ug have to be evil and killed by that which is known as charlie this movie sickens me disgrace disgrace
0	critters 4 starts i quote 'somewhere in kansas a replay of the last few minutes of critters 3 1991 as the recurring character of charlie mcfadden don keith is about to shoot the last two remaining critter eggs in the universe which we are informed would mean the extinction of the entire critter race which is against some sort of intergalactic zoological law or something like that charlie's bounty hunter friend ug terrence mann is now known as counsellor is a top ranking official at the intergalactic council orders charlie not to shoot the eggs but instead put them into a pod that will land nearby very soon the pod does indeed land nearby very quickly charlie does indeed put the eggs into it but he is also caught in the pod which i presume ally freezes him as it's never really explained critters 4 then informs us that we are 'somewhere in saturn quadrant where a salvage ship comes across the pod drifting in space the credits have barely finished critters 4 is already stealing entire ideas scenes from aliens 1986 rick anders decides to claim the unidentified to them anyway pod try make a bit of cash out of it with the help of his crew ethan paul fran angela bassett al bert brad dourif bernie eric the pod is successfully recovered they get in touch with the intergalactic council counsellor say to go to an abandoned space station where a trade will be made for the pod it's contents also specifically tells rick not to open the pod so in true horror film tradition rick opens the pod thaws charlie out the critter eggs which hatch kill rick escape into the space station br br co produced directed by rupert harvey i thought critters 4 was a pretty useless film rounds the critter series of films off with a whimper rather than a bang the script by joseph lyle david j is both predictable clichéd the space station with an unstable reactor that will blow up in a few hours the protagonists only means of escape being early on so they are stuck the race against time to save themselves the constant bickering arguing amongst the crew people splitting up the loser who turns into a hero saves the day yawn a lot of plot devices seem to come straight from aliens it rips off star wars 1979 with a tacky waste compactor scene the characters are no better you probably won't give a damn about any of them while the other critter films could be described as comedy horrors part 4 cannot it appears to be deadly serious throughout critters 4 is also incredibly slow uneventful dull it's over 30 minutes before the critter eggs hatch after this brief sequence it's nearly the hour mark before their seen again why make a critter film barely feature them it can't be because of the expensive special effects as they look like glove puppets anyway oh how can a mere hours old critter operate an entire space station set a course for earth how do they even know what earth is why did rick want to open the pod anyway what is all that stuff about with the female scientist a rubber alien thing that is mentioned only once why do the intergalactic council want the critters so badly why only send four men why is this perfectly good looking space station totally deserted again critters 4 looks cheap throughout with bland dark unimaginative sets it even steals footage from android 1983 for it's ships space scenes critters 4 was apparently so low budget that the filmmakers couldn't afford any optical effects the ones it takes from android look seriously dated for the most part only two critters are used although some more start to hatch but it's pretty late in the day when this happens for most of the film they are barely seen the effects for them are the worst of the entire series forget about any blood or gore as the critters only kill two people during the 90 plus minute running time which just wasn't enough to maintain my interest the acting is pretty poor as well with angela over the top melodramatic reaction to seeing a few critter eggs particularly cringe worthy to look at critters 4 it is as cheap unspectacular a production as you could hope to not see the ending of critters 4 has the universe finally being saved form the critter menace lets hope it also saves us our local video stores from the menace of a part 5
0	i haven't seen this movie in years the last time i did i was really drunk after 5 pints of tenant's at my local witherspoon's but even then i though it was quite awful this movie is pretty terrible compared to the other critters movies the first two were quite good 3 was quite crap but miles better than this the story takes place 53 years after 3 were charlie the bounty hunter from the previous movies is found floating in a pod in outer space by a crew of some kind of space miner em people and taken on board once on board the last critter eggs left in the galaxy which charlie has brought with him from earth crack open and we then have critters on board the space ship cue an obvious 'alien' rip off and a lot of terrible fx and you pretty much have this movie in a nutshell only good thing is when we are re introduced to ug or so we are lead to believe who is now a villain and wants to preserve the critters instead of destroying them
0	sending the critters to space does seem like an entertaining idea but was there really any need for a third film much less this fourth one a film with brad dourif can't be all bad can it well maybe in this case this cheap sci fi effort stars returning lovable klutz charlie the reliable don keith who is about to eradicate the last two remaining eggs of the species when ugh terrence mann tells him that he's about to break some sort of trans galactic endangered species law so at ugh's request charlie places the two eggs in special holders inside a space pod unfortunately for charlie the damn thing takes off for space and he's trapped inside the smoke under his feet places him into hibernation stasis and he awakes 53 years later inside a decrepit br br space station as captain rick with fat cigar rude alcoholic malevolence and greedy to the core is blasting open the space pod trying to see what possible novelties are inside for possible sale or trade rick unbeknown est to him lets out the two critters who feast on his flesh you see rick and his crew found the space pod drifting and had intense dollar signs flashing in their eyes so they dock it ugh reports to them now in a fine prominent position as counselor that money can be made if they dock at a space station under the organization once the crew dock they find that this station is in ruin with many corridors in bad condition but what's worse is the station computer angela angela is a real thorn in the side to the crew because she has been left without proper maintenance for some time it takes some little tricks to get doors to open and close not to mention the elevators and computers brad dourif is al bert pretty much the impresario of computer functions and is pretty much the real leader of the group for he is the most level headed and intelligent he seems to be a father figure to ethan paul who just wants to make it to earth to find his father this story though doesn't necessarily reach it's zenith bernie eric dare is primarily in the film to be a druggie victim for the critters to munch on in the film charlie after one critter enters rick's mouth and eats away at his throat yuk becomes the crew's guide in understanding what they are fighting against the film has some elements i found rather confusing or for a better word ridiculous the two critters grow in size quickly are somehow able to coordinate a ship for earth not to mention grow themselves to massive size in this laboratory in the space station the crew are able to tap into a log from a dr mccormick anne ramsay whose badge is found in a coat thrown to the side for which ethan discovers her access card which shows signs that was looking into creating a species to exterminate worlds and people knowing this bothers al bert who wishes to leave angela and her bleeding station for greener pastures things don't work out that way because well meaning charlie thanks in part to al bert's ancient colt 45 kills a critter which had got on board but in firing several bullets hits major guidance systems in the ship so many repairs on in order but they halt them when ugh and his storm troopers dock at angela and prove they are not what charlie thought they'd be ugh is a changed man and charlie realizes that he is completely evil and his mission is to preserve the for purposes of a cruel nature representation of corrupt corporate governmental types this betrayal is what changes charlie he has perhaps grown up a bit a wee bit and now understands that some people just change for the worse charlie and ugh will come to a face off over those critters will the crew be able to escape a space station which has set auto destruct this film really doesn't exploit the critters as much as the other three films i believe we can clearly see this as the true end to the franchise the first film was a hoot a really entertaining romp but by the time this sequel cam around the critters just wore out their welcome the cast however do give the film a boost the critters do get to feed a bit but their plans of global domination is under developed their role in the film isn't established to the greatest heights i said to myself you have this enormous space station with unfortunates trapped on board could you not take this idea and run with it sadly they don't
0	during my childhood time i have seen the first three critters movies and enjoyed 'em they were fun and entertaining horror comedies perfect for adventurous horror loving kids i have never seen critters 4 so i finally decided to check it out my verdict forgettable and pretty bad flick with strikingly low body count the script by joseph lyle and david j is both predictable clichéd the plot rips off alien and star wars and the sets look bland and murky the tone of the film appears to be deadly serious throughout making it slow and dull critters 4 was apparently so low budget that the filmmakers couldn't afford any optical effects the ones taken from android look seriously dated 4 out of 10 one to avoid
0	if you are looking for a cinematic masterpiece this ain't it if you are looking for one of those awful movies that are so horrible that they are actually good then this may be for you there are so many unintentional laughs in this film that it could almost be considered a comedy let's start with the opening titles that say jack o and then add the word lantern as if the viewer wasn't able to figure out the movie was about a pumpkin by the giant pumpkin shown on both the cover and in the opening scene of the movie after that the movie goes in about 20 different directions none of which make much sense jack o is everywhere he's in people's houses in the woods and yet he doesn't ever seem to do much of anything he does make a few kills but the long buildup to those killings is so poorly acted and constructed you almost wish jack o would take out his rage on you the viewer other than that the plot consists of poor acting gratuitous nudity and a ridiculous plot line the acting in this film is among the worst i've ever seen in my 35 plus years of movie watching the boy who is the lead in the film the director's son has about as much emotion as a corpse and just about all of the other actors actresses are just as bad for numerous reasons especially the bug eyed lady with eyes bigger than saucers but having said all this if you take this for what it is that is a steaming pile of dung then you will get a few laughs from this movie what i also found amusing is that the makers of the dvd saw fit to release a 10th anniversary version of this movie as if the original wasn't good enough and someone actually had the idea of making a behind the scenes mini film which is also included in the 10th anniversary edition i'm not sure why i'll give this 3 smashed pumpkins out of 10
0	now this is a real turkey by the overrated director franco who gave us such classics as las vampyros lesbos yes i think that bad films can be great fun i adore the hilarious howlers of doris wishman and ed wood jr but this one proved to be too much for me it is the first film i rated 1 where should i start the screenplay is idiotic to the utmost the dialogue is unbelievably bad the directing seems to be nonexistent the best music cue used repeatedly in this film was taken directly from the movie der 1964 and it's boring poor shirley eaton and george sanders in one shot sanders reads a popeye comic while his henchman torture a girl this aspect is probably the intellectual highlight of this movie the only thing that baffled me was that franco promptly showed female nudity whenever i thought the movie would gain from it this is real directing skill still i'm afraid that a movie in which actors pretend to shoot with machine guns by shaking them is not really worthwhile
0	take the secret agent james bond craze of the sixties mix in some concepts from sax rohmer's female fu manchu femme fatale and stir in some twisted revisionism by director franco you have the man hating lesbian or the 7 secrets of better known as the girl from rio in the usa recalling that man from rio which has nothing to do with this yes this does take place in brazil we must give it that or sumitra as she's also referred to is like an evil version of modesty blaise played here by actress eaton with that familiar coy smile which most of us first became acquainted with in goldfinger there are numerous close up shots of her staring off camera slowly opening her mouth probably while watching something unpleasant however she is doubled in her key lesbian scene she controls an entire army of female warriors colorfully costumed and rules a city called or something just outside rio de janeiro these concepts which previously appeared in the million eyes of sound terrific but despite some intriguing set design visuals it follows the same campy atmosphere of for example the very dated some girls do which came out around the same time and which also featured a female army at first glance the sight of all these armed females usually lined up in a row catches one's interest but after 15 minutes or so you realize there's nothing else there beyond just setting up the visual br br the plot follows what seems like a secret agent a male arriving in brazil with 10 million dollars he catches the attention of the local crime lord sanders hamming it up as an elderly bond type villain who sends dark suited thugs in bowler hats to accost him this sets everything up for a 3 way conflict between the agent the crime lord and the mysterious the crime lord wants secrets also keeps various prisoners in glass cages maybe that's one of the secrets this sounds exciting but there are problems which go beyond just a slow pace there are many shots which could have used a lot of tightening one shot of an arriving airplane for example stays on the craft as it settles to a near stop as if this had never been captured on film before there's a similar approach to a typical sunset as if there's something unusual about it the fight scenes are very substandard as if the filmmakers had to use the first takes to add some production value there's a scene of the real rio carnival about midway through i'm guessing there were various budget problems especially evident in the climactic battle where fake sound effects and smoke cover up a lot of bogus action such as the lack of even real looking guns it calls to mind those times when kids use plastic guns and pretend bullets are being fired falling over unconvincingly there are touches of sadism such as torturing a character to get answers and female nudity an early depiction of such after some restrictions were lifted but mostly you'll be rolling your eyes hero 3 villains 5 femme fatales 5 henchmen 4 fights 3 stunts chases 3 gadgets 4 auto 4 locations 6 pace 3 overall 4
0	there are certain scenes in this film like the hero's first meeting with super villainess shirley eaton where it seems to be on the edge of breaking sexual taboos and doing its premise females want to rule the world by making men slaves justice but it never dares to the result is a film with no sexuality and some tame violence despite the choppy plot the film is not overly bad until its climax where its amateurishness runs rampant terrible editing overuse of stock footage worth seeing only as a curio 1 2
0	the clever marketeer is he is jess franco naturally also cashed in on the huge temporarily success of psychedelic spy movies like mario bava's ultimately sensational danger franco is the ideal man to shoot a similar film as he could freely insert as much sleaze kitschy scenery and absurdly grotesque plot twists as he wanted to and he partially understood this very well as the girl from rio revolves on a man hating organization led by a funky dressed lesbo that plots to turn all men into obedient slaves unfortunately for them at least the diabolical plans conflict with the daily business of a feared crime syndicate boss played by george sanders all the right ingredients are well presented yet this is a surprisingly weak and unsatisfying adventure movie the plot is rich on imagination but seemingly only on paper as the action is quite tame the film is also very colorful but not too bright and especially shocking was the total lack of vicious sex there's a bit of nudity sure but too few according to normal franco standards all the characters are sick in the head so the least i expected or hoped for were more perverted undertones or frenzied themes franco obviously had a bigger budget as usual to work with and i must say he spends that money well on more convincing set pieces and talented cast members particularly the veteran actor george sanders village of the damned psychomania is one of the best players ever to appear in a franco production too bad even he can't save the girl from rio from being a huge letdown a legendary euro smut filmmaker like jess franco could and should have done more with this concept shame shame shame
0	nothing i dislike more than a kung fu movie that plays for laughs it is the main reason i can't stand jackie chan or his he was not always a clown i must add my young auntie is slapstick martial arts of the worst kind it is a perfect example of how the subgenre was brought down to the mud by endless silly antics and childish behavior unless you are 5 year old i really don't understand how anyone could find this kind of film funny but humor is indeed a very subjective thing personally i think this type of approach did permanent damage to the beloved subgenre i did think leading lady kara hui was very good here but i had such a hard time sitting through this one that i could not enjoy her fine performance if you don't mind all the silliness you might enjoy it i know i didn't
0	el padrino the latin godfather while this seems to be a straight to dvd video type movie my copy obviously looked cropped so maybe this flick had a limited theatrical run and the title character appears to more of a gringo than moi i am half pretty typical rise and fall of a movie with the a list of b list actors robert wagner drug lawyer kathleen quinlan crusading judge tiny lister mob enforcer gary busey child rapist brad dourif white power jailbird stacey keach bereaved governor pacula bereaved milf faye dunaway crusading lawyer and make as an uncredited party guest this movie is pretty lame i only watched it to kill time before the skins game the only thing that saved it was jennifer tilly as a crazed latina drug dealing assassin she was over the top and sexy skanky that it was fun to watch her scenes not worth renting or seeking out d
0	a little while ago i stumbled upon this dvd while browsing netflix and with such an impressive cast decided to give it a go br br never before have i seen a movie try to be a new version of an existing great movie scarface and failing so spectacularly br br the main issue seems to be a complete misunderstanding of what the story should be in scarface tony montana was the self proclaimed bad guy his spectacular rise and eventual downfall wasn't sad it was a great and the only logical ending to someone who lived such a life br br damian as director writer and lead actor sees kilo as some sort of hero or at least a complicated guy however he doesn't want to do the grunt work of creating a realistic sympathetic character he was raised by a white mother except for the six months of his childhood where his father a gangster himself showed him his life for reasons never fully explained or even really mentioned he decides he wants to be a drug dealer and actually drives to the bad part of town approaches two dealers and says hey i'd like to buy some drugs he drops his father's name and in apparently no time they are not only rich the two guys who are supplying him are acting to him for reasons again never explained br br wants you to feel bad when his character is sentenced to prison when a police informant lies about him however since he's dealt large quantities of drugs before why should one feel sympathy for him going to jail for it this time the most obvious case of wanting to be the good guy is in his prison execution of a white supremacist rapist played by gary busey in scarface tony montana kills someone in prison because he pretty much has to in order to elevate himself it's done he moves on but in this case they ham handedly have to make busey not only a rapist pedophile but also a white supremacist a little overkill don't you think i won't go into detail in this regard too much more but their desperate message of please like me i'm a complicated gangster fails on every level try as they might i didn't feel bad conflicted or sympathetic when his buddies are killed following a shootout his wife is also killed shortly after she called him out on being a lousy father and during an attempted escape when he decided it'd be ok to ride right next to a car filled with gunmen while his wife is in the car and his eventual demise br br suffice it to say his acting can be fairly summed up as lousy his only achievement bringing the term wooden to starry new heights busey should be credited for actually putting effort into his ridiculous role tiny lister did well stacy keach is playing his warden from prison break role robert wagner is coasting for a paycheck faye dunaway while a touch dramatic still turns in a performance better than this movie deserved brad dourif is in the film for about two minutes and does what he can and to give the film credit it does one up scarface in one way jennifer tilly now holds the title of most ridiculous attempt at a hispanic accent sorry robert loggia in short this movie had an interesting premise but a poor story arc unsympathetic characters and hit or miss performances i'd advise mr to ease up on the forced sympathy next time really we don't need to like your character we just need to be interested better luck next time
0	it's amazing that this no talent actor got all these well known stars to appear in this dismal pathetic cheesy and overlong film about a low life gangster who looks white but is half mexican much of the acting is bad and many of the well known stars in this trashy movie are given a script that seems made up by a 16 year old i'm sure this movie is the career low point for actors such as dunaway wagner keach tilly and busey who i'm sure are very embarrassed that they ever appeared in this turkey of a film i doubt many people have ever heard of and after this terrible movie i'm sure he will disappear into oblivion where he belongs
0	what is the deal with all these ethnic crime groups copying italian mafia related movies we all know the godfather as in don vito corleone now we have this mexican one which is just a strait out copy i cant see why other ethnic groups have to mimic and imitate italian mobsters but it sure makes them look silly they sure seem to be italians i would much prefer to see mexicans perform there own ideas and like to see there own culture and the way they do it instead of copying ideas from the godfather trilogy apart from that the movie was disappointing seeing mexicans acting and trying to be italians is not my thing after watching this i'm now going to watch the real godfather so this movie can be erased from my memory
0	i'm a sucker for mob gangland movies so i rented this movie this movie is a complete train wreck with all the big name actors in this film i can not believe how bad it was it was so bad that i began laughing hysterically towards the end of the film the actor better known as zues or the big dude from the ice cube movie friday does an incredible overacting job throughout the film first thing i told blockbuster when i returned the film was to remove this garbage from their shelves do not rent this movie unless you want to waste two hours of your life if they come out with a sequel i wonder if it will be twice as bad as the first i will be more cautious when renting so called movies
0	i hope this group of film makers never re unites
0	some weeks ago at a movie theater i saw a movie poster of el padrino 2004 with the tag the latin godfather how lame have we become i thought latin just because he is a mexican let me remind you that anything latin comes from or is related to italy so the original guy in the godfather movie is more latin than the mexican godfather and this is why we are called latin american people because we speak spanish a language based in the latin language that originated in rome now italy so to place a tag in a movie poster like the latin godfather is not just ignorant of course if we are trying to related this movie to the original godfather but a desperate and uncreative attempt to get some credit by copying the title of a movie classic now about the movie i just hate overacting so from 1 to 10 i guess is 3 the most
0	a friend of mine decided to rent this thing lucky it wasn't my money pretty much wasted my time though a story that could have been interesting is completely wasted by incredibly bad acting and horrible editing directing maybe it could become a classic because of all the weird over acting gary busey's character for example all the over acted characters were actually the only thing that made this movie a little interesting as they grabbed your attention for all the wrong reasons obviously where the movie in itself failed miserably in short a waste of time and money br br 2 10
0	a great gangster flick with brilliant performances by well known actors with great action scenes well not this one br br it's rather amazing to see such a wide cast of well known actors that have many good movies in their filmographies in such a movie without doubt this may be one of the worst they could possibly appear in br br first of all the plot is as you'd expect it from your average gangster biography nothing new nothing fancy in it the way it is told makes the movie look a lot longer than it is when i thought the two hours should be almost over i was quite surprised that only 45 minutes had passed br br the action scenes look a lot like those from 80ies tv series the a team for example it's just that in the 80ies esp with the a team those scenes were far more sophisticated than those in el padrino it's especially fun to see the guys point their guns in the air and still hit something not to talk about people that take cover behind car doors which later look like they've been shot through br br the acting fits quite nicely to the action either you get the same reaction to everything that happens dolph lundgren style or it's so overacted that you may think it's a parody but unfortunately it's not br br my advise is to stay away from this movie any other gangster movie is better than this one
0	well i'm a huge fan and follower of elizabeth berkley i bought this on dvd off of ebay for my boyfriends birthday we sat down to watch it and it was so boring i don't remember laughing once it's only on for about an hour and half and it seemed to take forever to end elizabeth is great in this though maybe it's just because i'm a big elizabeth berkley fan though if she wasn't in it i wouldn't have watched it but every time she came on my face lit up unfortunately even elizabeth couldn't save this film just the overall story and awful comedy makes this a film you'd rather miss than waste an hour and a half of your life it's a very forgetful film
0	this movie might be o k if not for all the language in it i think that the storyline itself isn't bad but i would be too embarrassed to let my wife or kids see the movie i know that kids will learn all the swear words along the way eventually that's true but parents should not assist them in the process by letting them see and hear the stuff in the guise of entertainment br br i used to quite like robert loggia he has a distinctive gritty quality with that rough voice of his but in the last few years all i have seen him do are roles with a lot of language in them if we had an award for over use of the f word he would have to be a contender unfortunately i think he's now lost me as a fan when i see his name on movies in future i will be thinking twice about picking up that title br br look i'm no prude i use language sometimes too in extreme circumstances but when we're watching a movie it is for the sake of e n t e r t a i n m e n t something which we hope will bring us some joy and escapism i do not want to be reminded of what's happening out on the streets in any big city these days and it's a hassle to have to wonder whether or not a movie is alright for my family to watch br br i like matt modine too but it's a pity that he has associated himself with a picture which has let his image down like this he probably did an o k job in the movie but i turned off about 1 4 of the way through after having had my ears assaulted once too often by others in the cast why can't these actors just say no when these scripts ask them to carry on with this gutter language once enough actors especially the big names kick up a fuss about it the writers will stop putting it in the movies br br i'm sorry but i cannot recommend this picture it's a pity too because i think it would probably have been alright if it had been made well enough for decent families to watch thank god i only wasted 2 00 on it
0	what happened to mathew modine's career i can still recall when he was considered an a list actor br br was it cutthroat island the final nail in the coffin of a once promising career wow this guy must really hate renny harlin's guts br br this movie wants badly to be a comedy but fails to deliver any laughs the characters are caricatures and badly drawn ones at that but still what pains me the most is seeing mr modine taking up on this kind of roles next to actors so far away from his caliber i mean at the time when he was making movies like birdie he could never in his worst nightmares have imagined that in the future he would be acting in movies with a hick humping a cow that just had her anus stapled shut and maybe whats even worst next to elizabeth berkley
0	despite this being one of john cusack and demi moore's early films it is one even hardcore fans can miss unless they absolutely have to complete the collection i have rare moments where i can handle better off dead but this movie is ultimately worse i am just not a savage steve holland fan and he did both movies so if you don't like the cheesy random comedy and amateur animation steer clear of this one fyi even for the demi moore fans she can't sing and the 80s synthesizers did not save her there are too many predictable twists and too easy jokes i suppose if you want mindless entertainment or something you can leave on in the background and ignore while you do something productive then go for it otherwise don't watch this movie if john cusack or demi moore couldn't save it you know it's got to be bad they are the only reason i didn't give this movie a 1
0	savage steve holland wrote and directed his second film one crazy summer with john cusack and curtis armstrong again in a supporting role cusack and bobcat goldthwait are recent graduates headed to cape cod in order to stay at goldthwait's grandmother's for the summer along the way they bump into demi moore being pursued by john and a motorcycle gang soon the three are united in trying to save a house from being turned into another lobster restaurant by a conniving spoiled family that considers work a dirty word the film contains several funny vignettes like the millionaire dollar radio contest gags and the godzilla skit br br like holland's first film better off dead john cusack adds immeasurably to the film otherwise this is a dud of a film filled with contrived situations and idiotic characters as opposed to quirky moore even sings a few bars in a nightclub with some horrible synthesizers goldthwait's gags wear thin after awhile and armstrong never was an actor of any caliber to appear in anything except grade z stuff the tow truck twins are extremely annoying and obnoxious instead of the endearing underdogs they're obviously meant to be this is more of a hit or miss kitchen sink comedy which could have used a better script and direction 1 2 of 4 stars
0	this is beyond stupid br br two high school graduates travel to for the summer and find situations there that are absolutely revolting br br demi moore co stars in this one as the film was in 1986 was ashton kutcher just a babe in the woods at that time br br moore's grandfather has died and his home is on the verge of being sold to ruthless people with a father and son who bring a new meaning to the term mean br br bobcat goldthwait with that obnoxious voice is in the film as well as two brothers who make dumb and dumber look more and more intelligent br br the writing is absolutely ridiculous highlights of the stupidity are where one person says to the other did you ever notice that when people die they go in the papers br br i rest my case
0	i hated the book a guy meets a smart dog gets a virgin girlfriend and all the while they're being chased by a hit man and a ape beast thing both of whom want the dog dean koontz really can't write i read the book at my sister's recommendation i should have known better when i saw this mostly out of a morbid curiosity i actually found myself criticizing it because of the fact that it was untrue to the book even though this is a book that its impossible to make a good movie of i figured at least if they're going to make a film adaptation of the worst book i've ever read the filmmakers might as well be accurate they turned the guy and his virgin love interest into a boy and his mother for some reason that bothered me most of all even though i seriously doubt keeping it a guy and his chick wouldn't have made it any better quite simply bad book bad movie don't see it
0	wow what a movie if you want to blow your budget on the title and have it look real bad ask the guys that made this movie on how to do that they could have spent the money on a good rewrite or something else or they could have spent it on beer when they made this movie at least it would have come out better
0	okay my question who's the idiot that wrote this movie giving it the same name as dean awesome book its terrible nothing like the book you got the dog and the watcher but there the similarities end might be good if you haven't read the book though but it disappointed me really br br they should make a new one and let koontz write it now that would be a good movie i'll say it again this movie disgusted me absolutely disgusted me it was terrible it was absolutely nothing like the book i would never again watch it
0	i couldn't agree more the book is one of dean best novels and this film is a total travesty i watched about half of it then threw the tape in the bin in disgust i have no idea what the idiotic director was thinking making this piece of crap but i would rather poke my eyes out with a sharp stick than watch this useless movie again everything about this film is just wrong first the main character is changed from an ex marine to a high school kid why second the love of his life in the book becomes his mother in the movie hem i bet freud would have something to say about that lol the dog is cute enough and the best thing in the movie and completely outcast everyone else also a main character who helps them in the book betrays them in the movie there really is nothing good to say about the film except that at least it's relatively short at an hour and a half or so if anyone hasn't seen the film yet do yourselves a favour read the book it is so much better than this worthless waste of time
0	corey haim plays a kid who teams up with a dog to take out a giant troll and osa hit man michael ironside with a 30 30 and homemade bombs which plays plausible considering haim oh and he also protects his mother and girlfriend as well in this watchable yet disappointing adaption of a decent story corey haim is terrible of course but the movie's sheer momentum as well as ironside's imposing presence make this at least a modestly effective film still the plot is ridiculous and it would've been nicer if we could've seen a monster or at least more gore at least it's something different also it's fairly likely that this film will be the last teen movie for awhile to show a teenager making pipe bombs br br matt bronson 2 5
0	corey haim is never going to be known as one of the great actors of his time but at least in movies like licensed to drive he was more in his element lowbrow humor br br dean book watchers was one of his earlier works and still probably his finest to date sadly this magnificent tale of a brilliant dog a deranged mutant and a genetic experiment gone wrong is butchered horribly the acting is so lifeless you might think you're watching a zombie movie only the dog gives a respectable performance and if you want to see a decent movie about a dog you'd be better of watching the incredible journey cujo or even c h o m p s okay maybe not c h o m p s br br if you've read the book avoid this movie at all costs if you haven't read the book read it and avoid this movie you'll thank me later br br a somewhat better translation of a dean koontz book is the capable thriller phantoms
0	dean book watchers is one of the finest books i have read sadly the movie is a sad caricature of the book the disillusioned middle aged hero and the lonely spinster with whom he finds a meaning to his life are converted in the movie into a couple of silly teenagers the stoic security agent and the conscientious sheriff are combined into a farcical villain you get the picture the moviemakers have taken a moving tale of love horror and adventure and converted it into a z grade horror flick aimed very poorly at the teen market br br buy the book and enjoy many hours of reading it will be far far more rewarding than watching the movie br br
0	i still find it hard to believe that a fine if overlong novel by dean koontz was transformed into this utter excrement br br this movie is so bad it's disgusting boos to all who participated shame on you br br p s the fact that sequels have appeared just goes to show how little taste and discretion remains in silver screen land
0	this was a film based on the novel written by the modern literary god that is koontz i refuse to believe that studio bought the rights to this movie for anything using the genius' koontz name ever since my sight became poor enough to require large print i have been unable to read this book as i had at least twice a year since first reading it i missed the book greatly and was unable to find it in large print br br i was hoping by renting this movie i would at least get my vicarious watcher's pleasures but this movie was a travesty because of subtle plot points it is my belief none of mr or most decent authors for that matter books can be crammed into 1 2 hours of film br br it will be the wise network cable or other wise who buys the rights to this novel and makes a multiple part television movie i e mini series of this book the right way br br one a star out of five would that i could go lower
0	it is hard to believe that anyone could take such a great book and and make such a terrible movie br br imagine king kong being recast as an organ monkey and fay wray's part being played by a young boy how about elton john as rambo this movie is even worse than the tv remake of the night of the hunter br br by using the title watchers and dean name the makers of this movie should be sued for fraud by readers of the book who expected a reasonably accurate adaptation of the book br br read the book i have never talked to anyone who didn't like it another good book is the winner by david
0	every time i think about this film i feel physically ill to read such a great book and later discover there's a film of it was a great feeling years later and imagine my joy at switching on the sci fi channel and finding it starts in just 5mins up go the titles and then if just a couple of things had changed ok everything is changed numerous characters are removed entirely new rubbish ones are added the main hero is shrunk and de aged by about 30 years and hilariously his girlfriend wife is now his mother even the dog is reduced to sub lassie capabilities this is truly appalling cinema at its absolute worst i would quite happily remove my own toenails with pliers rather than sit through another horrific viewing and i urge anyone thinking of watching this please don't if you own a copy burn it now right now and think how much better your life would have been had this celluloid insult never occurred
0	based on the excellent novel watchers by dean koontz is this extremely awful motion picture that probably shouldn't be viewed by anyone not since the running man have i seen a book butchered so far beyond recognition the difference however is that the running man film was still enjoyable as an amusing action film laden down a million catch phrases this film… nope nothing remotely amusing in fact if you love the book as i do you'll hate this bastardization even more br br warning contains spoilers i'm basically going to tell you the story here almost in it's entirety why because you dear reader do not also need to suffer through this okay for me because i enjoy watching crap because i like complaining about sh tty things now on to the nasty this film revolves around a boy and his mother running away from the government and a mutant monkey creature soldier which escaped from a destroyed government genetics lab with a super smart golden retriever which the hero calls trust me in the novel this story rocked i'll get to that later anyway the hero is none other that dreamy boy child corey haim oh i'm not kidding our hero runs around voice and all trying to convince his mom to help save this dog from the evil government which him and made him genetically ultra smart the monkey creature referred to as an god help us is also a genetic stew of a creature built to be the ultimate fighter on battlefields of the future michael ironside total recall starship plays a badass is also in this film and no i couldn't figure out how anyone convinced him this would be a good idea he plays a government agent with the hunting the dog and creature oh yeah here's some he's also a creation from the government and the same lab and lo and behold spends most of the movie being a prick and killing all that killing is supposed to be done by the monkey soldier instead of a rockin' kick ass creepy horror film we have a rectal hemorrhage of a teenybopper horror flick the dog's intelligence is discovered all too conveniently and believed easier than we believe we can see clouds by looking outside breakdown br br change from book to film br br lead character travis turned from man to boy child br br man's love interest in book nora is now his all her depth and character growth is completely gone br br johnson black man is now white mr ironside this matters as the character's strength was built on his heritage in the book br br relationship between two authority figures completely ignored now kills the guy who was originally his best friend br br one principle character in the book is now totally absent the immortal that hunted the heroes maybe this is supposed to be ironside but then why is he someone else br br dog never receives deserving name of einstein in the movie br br no part of the book took place in a high least nothing that had strong bearing on the plot br br takes place over a matter of days rather months like the pacing br br corey haim's girlfriend in the movie appeared in no more than two chapters in the book and they never met in the book br br character of johnson is no longer cool headed instead he's a total asshole that bullies his way through people br br hero travis was part of delta force military segment specializing in hunting terrorists instead his dad who is never seen in the film was part of that group br br perceived intelligence in the monster now totally absent br br subplots involving soviets and the mob completely gutted out of the story br br these are just the most obnoxious changes and the one's i could remember off hand and a day later br br the good br br eventually after 90 odd minutes of pain and mental anguish the movie ended br br didn't hurt it didn't help it br br michael i like him br br the dog is still fairly likable br br wacky totally 80's title screen br br the bad br br okay the writing for one is extremely awful br br the direction is so half assed that anyone watching the film will feel superior to everyone involved in it br br the acting is crappy and weak especially from corey haim br br loose weak watered down story br br the monster looks just pathetic that is when we are actually allowed to see the bloody thing its head is gigantically over sized the yellow eyes that were so much a part of the thing in the book are seen for no more than two seconds instead of a lean powerful fast intelligent killing machine we have some jackass in a puke ugly monkey suit forced upon us br br absolutely no character development br br even the violence and gore are done poorly for f ck sakes this is supposed to be a horror film usually violence is at least done well br br the ugly br br the idea that dean koontz whored out his brilliant novel to become this filthy f cking piece of sh t brings me dangerously close to vomiting all over myself and anyone near me there are movies worse than this headache inducing as that idea may seem but so far only alien vs predator at least to me is a bigger travesty and more painful disappointment br br memorable scene watching the end credits start br br acting 3 10 story 4 10 the novel was really good this is just terrible atmosphere 5 10 cinematography 4 10 character development 1 10 special effects make up 4 10 nudity sexuality 0 10 violence gore 4 10 music 5 10 direction 3 10 br br cheesiness 7 10 crappiness 9 10 br br overall 3 10 br br i would recommend that no one watch this movie ever except for a few extreme die hard horror only if you haven't read the novel instead i would recommend that anyone interested in this avoid it entirely and buy check borrow the book br br www residenthazard com
0	ugh pretty awful br br linnea quigley gets top billing but her character doesn't have a big part who is her character supposed to be anyway the little boy's aunt another user commented on her getting nude in a shower scene while there was a shower scene in the movie it was a head and shoulders shot perhaps there are some alternate versions of this movie br br quigley does have a bigger part than john carradine cameron mitchell and brinke stevens though carradine shows up briefly in a robe reciting vague dialog no other characters are in the scene with him though he's sort of composited in or else there are over the shoulder shots unquestionably belonging to someone else there's also a really bad photo of him in a cameo it looks like a bad and a decent picture of him in a family bible he conjured up jack o originally or something like that br br cameron mitchell briefly shows up on a tv as a tv horror host brinke stevens is in the movie he's showing the coven in which she runs around a cemetery in a robe evidently there's more of the brinke footage as a bonus feature on the retromedia dvd double feature mark of the witch the brides wore blood br br jack o what's it about darn if i know a little boy is told a story about a pumpkin headed demon killer and he and some other kids are scared by a woman they think is a witch for some reason she follows him home and offers to help his family with their haunted garage for halloween put your hand through a hole and feel eyeballs that are actually grapes etc the pumpkin headed killer shows up several times to hold onto branches while he watches people or hold his scythe in front of the camera and pose with it for a while sometimes he manages to do more than just stand around holding things and actually kills people br br there are also some flashbacks to a western or prairie family with the little boy playing the little boy in that family too ancestors of his i think i think they figure into jack backstory but i'm not sure how br br the little boy is ostensibly the main character but we don't really learn anything about him except that he wears glasses has nightmares and will fight bullies even if he'll get beat up in the process more time should have been spent establishing his character i couldn't have cared less if he died br br not recommended not even for halloween
0	so many bad reviewers it made me wonder what people are thinking while watching a simple flick made by a quite bad director did you all expected a super hit flawless movie no way you already can see raj kumar loves multi starrer movies all of his earlier works where multi but no one was flawless take the first jaani dushman for instance so many flaws but still good fun anyways sticking to the movie the movie jaani dushman is a hindi fantasy film about a snake who can take any form which takes revenge for the suicide of its lover on the people who caused it its quite good with a great star cast but i think it could have been much much better for instance take the script can't say its flawless for example take the ages br br do 40 48 yrs old still study in university br br there are many many more i won't list more but there are dozen more a solid 5 5 is good for this one br br 75
0	no words can describe how awful this film is its like the director literally took a s in a roll of film and sent it out to the viewing public br br the acting in this movie is horrendous the plot is so dumb and the deaths of each character is laughably bad some stupid scenes include akshay kumar pulling a gun out of nowhere to kill a hologram yes a hologram akshay kumar carrying a bazooka around the town bedi getting beaten up by a poorly animated skeleton bedi and double penetrating how did they think this was straight also i'd like to point out that the animations are absolutely terrible the scene that supports this statement is when has the motorbike and somehow gains the glasses the shopping job looks like it was done in microsoft paint br br the best parts in this movie are with sunny deol this man is so strong that he makes even god feel scared in one scene he literally breaks open a jail door by kicking it chuck norris' round house has nothing on that he is even so powerful that he can fly from london to india in a matter of 10 minutes overall this movie is perhaps the most poorly made movie in the universe if you were to watch it watch it for the hilarity that ensues throughout btw this movie is supposed to be serious
0	oh if any day u wanna see a supernatural thriller turning out to be a comedy watch this movie br br this film was a shocker as it had so many actors in it but what they do and how they fit in br br the handling of the college scenes is like a school play where each person comes talk and then the next person comes infront br br okay reasons to laugh at the film 1 akshay suneil aditya kapoor arshad as college students 2 akshay carries a gun in college 3 some pathetic stunts and sfx br br there are several more flaws like why doesn't the snake save his lover from being raped and comes in so late also why he doesn't kill all of them together there only br br but afterall they have to make a 2 hrs film so hence you have a movie br br the movie is painful to watch the film was directed by rajkumar who was an expert making such films in the past and had a successful record of films like jaani dushman 1979 and rajkumar wants to help his son's non existent career right from 1992 ke dushman 1993 and 1996 all flops he tried hard to promote his son and he also casts big stars so that his son gets noticed sadly nothing could help his son's career br br the film has several comical scenes like the death scenes how the actors after being bashed by the snake are so fit to fight him again and the climax br br direction by rajkumar is bad music is bad br br that brings us to the cast akshay kumar ordinary stuff he has nothing much to do rather then stunts suneil shetty awful the worst debutante award goes to him he gives cartoon acting a new meaning terrible arshad nothing to do kapoor bad aditya irritates sunny deol is comical in the scene when he comes to save lol ordinary akshay's pair kiran kumar raza are as usual raj hilarious for wrong reasons the girls are awful which brings us to this guy has a huge physique he is even more stronger and taller then akshay kumar sadly he comes across as poor man's akshay his voice is awful his expressions are painful the only thing he has to do in the movie is wear glasses and make an evil face bedi is awful
0	friday the 13th meets the matrix as with all of these stupid horror movies everyone knows who has been killed and who will be killed next but do nothing to prevent anything all with the added cgi action effects from the matrix hasn't the world seen enough matrix
0	i am ashamed to admit in public that i even held the cover of this movie once this is an absolute reason why one should research on the movie before seeing it the of this movie have called us all fools and gullible losers with too much time on our hands br br based on the mythical indian shape shifting powerful cobras and rebirth the story takes us for a painful ride college going 40 actors now really are the target of their former friend who was in her former life a cobra but is now a ghost and her pathetic eternal powerful boyfriend cobra killing machine boyfriend who thankfully hasn't been seen since now do you need to know more br br i vote for studying for the upcoming test in school rather than this movie give it a pass if you are sane if not then you'll probably enjoy it
0	if you have seen this movie then you will know that it is one of the worst bollywood movies ever made bollywood is known to copy hollywood movies who would of known that they will copy terminator 2 the difference between both film industries are hollywood spends millions and bollywood spends 100 thousands average thats the problem with this film if you want to make a t2 style movie then do it properly the director added a bogus fantasy storyline about a reincarnated snake who finds his long lost girl in the previous birth dead by 2 guys but the blame goes to 10 people she suddenly reincarnates into a ghost and together they want to kill the 10 people they blame for her death not to mention the reincarnated snake guy or villain has some kind of super powers he can transform into anything he can fly disappear fire power wind power you name it he has it he even gets and survives the style you are probably wondering how he survives its best not to ask and its best not to waste time and money on this movie its best just to forget this film even came out i think its a shame to use a big for this outrageous movie with a nonsense storyline
0	hi this is the worst movie i have ever seen in my life the day when i watched this movie i was having high fever but still i watched the movie with lots of patience and after watching the movie i felt like repenting because i wasted 3 hrs for this stupid movie i could have taken rest rather then watching this movie and i was really surprised that how come actors like sunny deol akshay kumar etc acted in this movie br br i don't understand if directors don't find a good story to make a film then why do they remain as directors why can't they sit at home and spent their time at home br br i request to all directors that it will be good for them if they request audiences either by mail or by media newspapers radios etc to send them a nice story if they don't find any good story for to make a film i request again to all directors please don't make such films
0	an insane assault on viewers senses this is a mish mash of assorted hindi and english movies poorly done the name carries over from a 70s' multi star cast which the 2002 version also boasts of the story is taken from the 70s' dutt roy starrer and visual effects taken a horrible attempt from the matrix terminator 2 and mission impossible ii br br set in a college environment shetty akshaye kumar college kids is the victim who mistakes a fatal assault on her by two students as a collective effort on the part of our heros as it turns out is a cobra nag snake reborn as a girl in this life and her mate from the previous life now a super powerful all and any shape assuming nag is out looking for her in this life appeals to him to avenge her violation and murder br br so begins the mad killing spree where the avenging lover starts singling each male of the group with increasing powers and tricks with successive attempts the effects are extremely cheap with computer generated skeletons morphing bodies and motorcycle stunts completing the farce br br carry over from includes raj playing a catholic priest who provides temporary relief to our boys with a more religiously correct multi religion the original only had an om sunny deol plays love interest in her current life and the ultimate saviour against the all powerful br br music and songs are below average br br avoid if you don't fancy cheap thrills
0	ok i would give this a 1 but i'm gonna give it a two because i laughed while watching this film first of all i can make a much better movie than this one in a week the special effects made this film look like a joke one shouldn't make such films with horrible special effects because then people won't take it seriously the acting and direction was also horrible the screenplay had many plot holes and the whole film wasn't believable at all this has to be the worst indian film ever the songs were also bad the acting was bad and artificial need i say more don't watch this movie unless you are curious to see how bad it is that's why i watched it i am going into film and i wanted to see how bad a bad film can get trust me i watched one of the worst films in history if not the worst film
0	this movie made me laugh so much it was a bloody joke to tell you the truth so unbelievable and the worst plot ever the acting as well was bad i don't how come so many popular bollywood actors and actresses took on to do this movie the script must have been somewhat of a joke the visual effects in this movie was painful to watch i believe that a kindergarten kid could have done a better job of the visual effect and a monkey could have done a better job of coming up with a plot br br the plot has numerous attempts at copying major hollywood movies like the terminator but it fails miserably i laughed my head off seeing this movie a total disaster in indian cinema history
0	in halloween three friends seek an ancient cemetery in the suburb for fun and remove a cross from a tomb where jack o was buried many years ago by the farmer arthur kelly the evil creature is unleashed kills the trio and seeks the descendants of the kelly family for revenge br br the cheesy jack o is a combination of a terrible story with awful acting i was curious with the name of john carradine in the credits and i can not imagine how a relative authorizes the use of archive footage in such a bad movie showing a total lack of respect with the name of this great actor it is impressive how bad the acting is shifting the film to a comedy instead of the proposed horror genre this is the type of movie good to see with a group of friends drinking beer making comments and laughing a lot my vote is three br br title brazil jack o – do halloween jack o – demon of the halloween
0	this movie beats everything out there well depends on what you are looking for it could be a 10 or a 1 on the scale this movie is in a complete league of its own i don't think any movie could possibly come close to it i am not sure what the director intended to make it as a thriller or a comedy if he did think he was making a thriller then he has by a stroke of luck created one of the best bollywood comedies of all time you have to see it to believe it a matrix terminator a host of other movies rolled into one along with a storyline dating back to 1980's hindi movies with a a mythical snake which can turn into a human br br its an ideal movie if you are sitting with a bunch of friends with alcohol on the side planning to laugh at the movie i am not sure whether to give it a 1 or a 10 on the basis of flipping a coin i have decided to give it a 1
0	i usually give sequels the benefit of the doubt and go easy on them but very poor the exact same as what happened in the first film happens here again the exact same only they wanted younger kids to be able see it this accounts for the repeated presence of bugs bunny but why they threw in one 'f is beyond me br br they didn't even bother to change jackie mason's character from dangerfield's let me explain in caddyshack rodney dangerfield played a boorish real estate owner who enrages the uptight members of country club in this movie jackie mason plays a boorish real estate owner who enrages the uptight members of country club a big effort they made to change the content of the script huh no i don't think so a very unfunny dan aykroyd shamefully copies bill murray's character he even goes after the gopher now more like a gremlin in much the same fashion as murray did br br there is not a laugh to be had a sample of the 'comedy' in this film jackie mason is getting ready for a hot date with dyan cannon he is in the bathroom is his robe he moves to the door to get dressed in his bedroom door handle breaks off wow that's the best they can do eight years to think of a completely new sequel and that's all we get i could have pulled a better script out of my ass br br see it only if you're a die hard fan of the original it's the only way you'll find any kind of laughs in it everyone else steer clear
0	this film should never have been made it stinks it's awful it's no good it's bad it's terrible starting to see a pattern here jackie mason is certainly no rodney dangerfield gone were ted knight and bill murray who along with dangerfield were essential to the first film it seems that the three of them the stars all knew a stinker of a script when they saw one the one who didn't have the good sense to bow out of this was chevy chase who stuck around but was extraneous to both films in my opinion this film is quite simply not funny nor does it have any other endearing qualities this thing relies heavily on anti semitism to work and it works to it's detriment i hated this thing a waste of everybody's time
0	have you heard the theory of cloning redundancy where a copy is poorer than the original caddyshack 2 is a perfect example of that they try to duplicate everything from the first movie now in a few cases this work robert stack is actually a little better than ted knight when they play essentially the same character i actually like randy quaid who is no more or less offensive than bill murray in the original but jackie mason is no rodney dangerfield and worse of all demonstrated once and for all that dan ackroyd is one of the worst comedy actors of all time there is very little that i like him in and nailed the coffin shut on his comedic career as far as i'm concerned he seems to feel the same sticking more to like driving miss daisy and hosting factor other than that it's mostly been there done that for caddyshack 2 watch the original twice rather than each version once and you'll get more for your rental money
0	this is quite possibly the worst sequel ever made the script is unfunny and the acting stinks the exact opposite of the original
0	this movie sucks it's horrible if anyone liked it those people should get there heads examined jackie mason's character sounds like a retard that guy who tries to kill the gopher is a loser and he sucked even though chevy chase was in this movie he wasn't funny this movie had crude and unfunny jokes and did not have rodney dangerfield ted knight and bill murray even though jackie mason's character had the personality of rodney dangerfield's character mason's character sucks rodney dangerfield was funny he should have returned i don't care about ted knight but bill murray should have returned also the original caddyshack was murray's career performance if he was funny in the first he could have been funny in the second br br final comment i recommend this movie to no one this movie sucked it has sucked it sucks now and it will always suck br br 2 10
0	when a hardworking entrepreneur is rejected from a prestigious country club he starts a battle between the members and eventually buys it from ty webb chevy chase and turns it into a theme park golf course in which everyone can join br br this is by no means a good movie but it is still slightly amusing at times almost all of the comedy is cheap slapstick and bad jokes except for chevy chase chevy chase plays one of his greatest roles as ty webb for a second time and plays it great he is not only the funniest character in the movie he is the only funny character in the movie even dan akroyd fails to bring humor to this film which aspires to be a great sequel to a classic comedy but falls to rubble with others shown on comedy central the movie might have been better if ty webb chase had a larger role but instead he was reduced to a minor character and the star became jackie mason who they should have brought back all of the cast and made a sequel the right way this is a perfect example of what not to do when making a sequel to an already great movie overall caddyshack ii is humorous but a large mistake br br i do not recommend this movie
0	i have vague memories of this movie being funny br br having seen it again either i have changed or i was thinking about a another film altogether br br it seems as if we are supposed to be sympathetic to jackie mason's character however nothing in the movie actually engenders that emotion its notable that he is really the only person accorded tender dialogue with loved ones no one else's character is allowed to rise to the status of even vaguely human br br i don't even like golf but as the film went on i found myself really rooting for stack and the club guys really hoping they would repel mason and chevy chase
0	caddyshack ii is one of those pictures which makes you ask 'why ' as in 'why was it funded ' 'why was it made ' and 'why was it released into the public domain ' br br to say the least it's a bad film it serves little purpose but to underline how superior its prequel was by setting an almost identical set of characters against each other in a similar storyline as a 'new money' land developer attempts to buy out the golf course sanctuary br br right off the bat making the follow up a whole 8 years after the original is somewhat bizarre i mean if your going to cash in on highly successful picture such as the first one then you have a window of a few years to do so but leaving it 8 years means that the formula is hardly fresh enough to simply do a follow up or poor imitation as this is so your sort of obliged to reward fans of the original by giving them at least reference to if not indeed actual contributions by the actors who made the first one so memorable but there's little if any of this br br instead we get cheap imitations okay the passing of ted knight in the interim years would have made it impossible to bring back the memorable judge but robert stack's inclusion as young' a fellow wasp elitist akin to the character is unimaginative and seriously lacking in the sort of anarchic frustration that made knight's turn so watchable jackie mason's is a feeble attempt at recreating the non stop wisecracks delivered by the al rodney dangerfield character of the first while dangerfield's role was endlessly quotable mason's is completely forgettable br br bill murray's laughably ridiculous groundskeeper and his war of with the pesky local gofer is substituted for his ghostbuster's co star dan ackroyd's role as the militant tom who's high pitched voice just splits your sides with frustration as opposed to the intended laughter br br randy quaid brilliant as cousin ed in the national lampoon's vacation series is quite the opposite here playing unstable lawyer the looks of disbelief shown by the actor's looking on at quaid's character's intended to be hilarious acts of inappropriate violence echo that of the audience your not laughing your just asking 'what the hell is he doing ' br br chevy chase shows up all be it occasionally and wisely rather fleetingly considering the disaster that's perpetrating itself around him as club pro in the films only direct reference to the original not withstanding the golf course itself that is with his deeply tanned skin and loud hawaiian shirts chase looks like he's just got back from a lengthy summer vacation and needs a paycheck he distances himself from the events in the actual picture enough that he takes little of the blame and leaves with some all be it little credibility still intact br br jessica as mason's daughter takes over from the role of the original as teenager struggling against class divides sounds ridiculous doesn't it at least in the first danny an irish catholic from a blue collar family and his laughable attempts to make inroads into the white anglo saxon protestant dominated world of the golf club mover and shakers was played out to some memorable set pieces such as being dismissed by the resident bishop as well as being mocked by the offspring of the local yacht club embarrassment of her father's inability to fit in is hinted at being because of his jewish roots that aside it may also have to do with him being a classless moron but such are swept aside though i stopped caring long before they were resolved at the end of the day noonan was trying to get ahead in life miss biggest problem is getting the hob at the local golf club to like her multi millionaire father so that she can get a date with the club's prodigal white kid or so i gathered br br anyway in summation its poorly written badly scripted with lame set pieces and wastes a lot of talent indeed kudos if you were able to sit through it to it's conclusion it really is a penance there is that question mark though of why did so many of the original actors not return as opposed to being replaced by performers who on paper at least looked their equals maybe they just weren't asked or perhaps i suspect they actually read the script stick to the original
0	after watching caddyshack 1 i'd heard there was a sequel and decided to look it up the movie seemed pretty bad and i told myself to stay away but stupid me gave in and actually bought the damn thing all the reviews and everything bad you've heard about caddyshack ii are true the movie is simply worn of ideas and the lamest plot and jokes i've ever heard the gopher the acting the whole movie really is bad randy quaid was funny though br br just stay away from this movie as much as you can is all i can really say i deeply regret watching and buying the dvd but not sure which was the worser decision just stay away as much as possible
0	this thing it shouldn't be called a film is almost worse than manos but you just have to see it it's hilarious if you see it at video store rent it if you see the 10th anniversary edition yes there is a special edition for under 10 buy it if your friend has it borrow it you just have to see this the acting is so bad and the gore is is so fake after viewing this you'll be asking yourself why did they make this insult of the art of film that's assuming your face doesn't melt off like the in raiders if you manage to see this be sure to vote this movie as 1 awful so it can make the bottom 100 it really deserves a spot there i'm surprised it's not number 1 right now
0	watch this movie only to truly appreciate how good the original is i'm not real hard to please but this was one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br it hurt me deeply because i like chevy chase jackie mason and dyan cannon the writing was just terrible i thought chevy would have at least ad libbed some better stuff than he did there was hardly anything to laugh at in this movie i went into it wanting to enjoy it i wanted to laugh but nearly cried br br in the beginning credits it read special appearance by chevy chase this worried me from the start chevy is actually in more than i thought he would be it's more than a special appearance too bad the appearance wasn't special mason's character would have been a good secondary character but got old as a main i would rather have seen more much more of dyan cannon at least her character was fun if not well written i also missed the teen sex scene mr gopher went from being cute and innocent to a pesky rodent that deserved to be blown up jonathan silverman is the only character that interested me and we didn't see enough of him br br i take it back try to watch half of this movie then remember the alamo the maine and caddyshack i
0	br br it sucked br br i returned the video after watching half of it not funny br br just a cheap and desperate attempt to cash in on a very very funny original junk forget it don't waste your time etc etc
0	caddyshack ii does no justice for the thin plot thin actors exception of randy quaid the only thing that is decent with this movie is the soundtrack maybe this movie should have been destroyed when the script was written
0	why is this one no good when the first one rocked try the fact that they attempted to replace rodney dangerfield with jackie mason please that's like replacing the beatles with wierd al randy quaid is the only one that saves this movie from a zero br br however don't let this stop you from watching the first movie which was outstanding
0	why was this movie ever made they have tarnished the original caddyshack with this crap i was only able to watch half of it and i didn't laugh once at least i didn't pay to see it because it was on t v but i won't get back that hour of my life that i spent watching this dreadful mess there wasn't one original star from the first except for chevy chase and he probably regrets doing this film jackie mason was supposed to be the outrageous funny buffoon like rodney dangerfield was in the first but jackie mason wasn't funny at all jackie mason is no rodney dangerfield if you want laugh watch the first caddyshack if you like terrible movie's then this you're movie this movie stinks like a barnyard in july avoid at all cost
0	this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room but kept thinking foolishly that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right you lose we win yay this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny after that beat them the head with this movie until the tape cracks and if you're even considering renting this turd or worse yet have i have one thing to ask of you didn't you even look at the cover i mean with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is oy vey this movie sucked
0	caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield ty webb is funny being the only character from the original most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original henry wilcoxon for example except for the funny lawyer peter blunt being played by randy quaid every line he says reminds me of the originals humor especially the scene at his office i don't go in for law suits or motions i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f ing baseball bat make a bonfire with the maybe roast that golden retriever then eat it and then i'm comin' upstairs junior and i'm grabbing you by your brooks brothers and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a do we have an understanding his small role however is dan who is obviously no replacement for bill murray his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny its just stupid overall caddyshack ii is a good movie but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it
0	when i first viewed this movie i didn't know the title of it i realized it had chevy chase in it with the same name he had in caddyshack so i had an idea this was caddyshack 2 at the end of the movie when i did find out it was caddyshack 2 i was disappointed they could have done better dan akroyd i thought was bad the whole story was bad call this movie by another title but don't call it caddyshack 2 you give that great movie a bad name jackie mason's daughter when i first saw her looked like his wife how old is this girl geez how about making this movie a little believable i thought chevy chase was good
0	caddyshack ii is nothing compared to the original caddyshack but there are legitimate reasons for it 1 rodney dangerfield was supposed to be the ace of this film but he didn't like the script wanted to change it his request was denied so he didn't do the film 2 it was low budget bill murray had grown to superstar status ted knight passed away in 1986 and chevy chase the so called ace of the first movie although it was rodney all the way be on more than 5 minutes because it would cost too much to pay him but you had dan aykroyd robert stack randy quaid and jackie mason all serviceable substitutes who none had their best performances
0	i saw caddyshack ii when i was ten and i mostly laughed because of the horse scene i should have realized that the movie was as empty as i can't come up with a good comparison it's stupid and not even really funny the cast members from the original who chose not to star in this made probably the best choices that they ever made in rejecting this why oh why did chevy chase return and how on earth did jackie mason robert stack dyan cannon and dan aykroyd get involved in this swill i bet that every person who had his her name even remotely attached to this junk e g the caterer is ashamed beyond redemption so all in all it's beyond dreadful terrible and everything such avoid it like you would the ebola virus
0	this is without a doubt the most hilarious movie i've ever seen seriously if the makers of this movie are ever discovered they'll put guys like jim carrey out of a job rent jack o tonight believe me you won't regret it
0	every time i watch this movie blood comes gushing out of my eyes yes you read that correctly i've watched this wretched foul thing more than once br br caddyshack 2 went wrong for so many reasons harold ramis dialing in a script and abandoning the direction duties rodney dangerfield wisely walking away from the project because they wouldn't allow him to tinker with the script bill murray showing excellent judgement and not being part of it and a puppet being pushed forward as the feature player of a cast who deserved much better br br i can't help but think of dyan cannon in this and wonder why she's perpetually laughing and smiling the only conclusion i can draw is that she is indeed the face of pure evil stay with me a moment she must have been watching as the film came together and revelled in the untold agony that it would inflict on countless soon to be extremely sorry movie goers who would have this film inflicted on them she may also have been extremely drunk that's what i need to be right now to wash the foul taste of this complete and utter failure out of my mind if i'm lucky it'll be washed out forever br br i have seen this film several times i blame several of them on childhood and being a very dull and dim witted boy who apparently had no aesthetic sensibility perhaps puppets are just funnier when you're a kid no the muppet show is funnier now guess i was just dull caddyshack 2 is that rare kind of film that is so extraordinarily disappointing on so many levels that you convince yourself after the end credits that it couldn't have been as bad as all that it was it is it will only get worse with time br br my reasons for going back to this film mercifully are becoming fewer randy quaid is limited in his role as jackie mason's lawyer his opening scene isn't bad and brought out my only chuckle we see him a few more times but it becomes as tired as the rest of the movie and descends with unfortunate rapidity from incidentally amusing to vapid wasteland randy quaid acquits himself well and this film owes him big time because if there was reason to watch this film as anything other than a torture tactic he was it br br maybe that's the trick of the movie it has enough potentially endearing qualities that people watch it are horrified at what they've done to themselves but later because the pickings were so slim can remember only what did actually amuse them years later they unwittingly watch it again and the cycle repeats br br jackie mason takes a lot of the blame for this film but in fairness i'm not sure he deserves it he's really trying out there but it is impossible to not to notice that he spends the entire movie doing a rodney dangerfield impersonation that's who the movie was written for but i'm not sure even he could have saved it ultimately this fails miserably through terrible direction bad editing shall we count continuity errors and a rehashing of the same story with none of the wry humour or heart that made the first film endearing br br dragged kicking and screaming up to a three out of ten instead of two by randy quaid's bulldog determination it isn't even bad enough to laugh at i've definitely seen worse but trust your memory this one is a dog if you've never seen it you've made excellent life choices and i salute your excellent judgement
0	maybe like most others who have seen this film long after it's premiere on television i wanted to see many of my favorite actors in old and obscure form which is exactly what 'slow is except aside from the nostalgic value the movie itself is not very good br br eric roberts plays former reporter jacob ash hired by a gerald raymond j barry a rich artist to investigate the whereabouts of his estranged son brian who had been living with his mother laine beverly d'angelo for the past few years in a phillip marlowe esquire fashion jacob ash narrates what would become more than just an investigation into the whereabouts of brian but once jacob tracks down laine his discoveries break open wide a whole lot of trouble perhaps because events in the film move too slowly there is never much suspense to this little thriller not even by the end with the finale routine of revealing the culprits and their motives br br however as said before this movie is probably one that will draw attention for it's then relatively unknown cast of actors which include both a very young eric roberts as well as the adorable johnny depp who plays laine's stepson donnie that may be reason enough to give it a try if you can find it
0	this movie has one of the worst lead characters ever i say this because he is made out to be the hero when in my opinion everything he does in the whole movie screws up people's lives and causes problems he can do nothing right yet the movie makes him seem like the cool dude everyone should be looking up to he has temper tantrums at all the wrong times he has all the wrong stances on things that end up making people mad at him and getting people killed he is too nosy too pushy too macho too assuming makes all the wrong decisions and has no common sense br br it's about a private detective hired by a successful painter to find the woman and son that he walked out on years ago the detective finds the woman and what he thinks to be her son however all kinds of things happen to make this story full of crime drama and twists it's made for tv what do you expect br br anyhow the movie is fairly entertaining johnny depp is very young in this one and has an awful 80's haircut he chews gum and tosses a soccer ball around for about 5 minutes and that is all we get to see of him br br for some reason the out of print vhs version of this sells for 40 in online it must be for johnny depp collectors only it couldn't be because of the plot it couldn't be br br
0	this really is the worst movie i have ever seen for a while i made a habit of watching lousy movies including battlefield earth delta force commando and starship all of these movies are cinematic gems compared to br br there isn't much point in summarizing this piece of junk i think it's more beneficial to summarize my reaction to the movie which is as follows i become furiously angry and i want to rip the tape out of the vcr and burn it after roughly 80 minutes of play br br i rate this movie a 0 but imdb does not let one rate a movie less than 1 i give it a 0 knowing full well that i am saying any movie that has any score above 0 is infinitely many times better than this one that's really how bad it is
0	my brother plays moose in this film although most of his scenes were left on the cutting room floor the funniest line is the movie is nothing wong with stat so anyway this is filmed in portland or where we grew up the dance club is was called up front fx what i loved about this movie is that the main character who is not named on the box because bolo brings more clout is supposed to be a police detective a great opportunity to drive around in a red convertible porsche i need to get a copy of this preferably the director's cut so i can see all the scenes my brother is in the only scene he is in is the beginning when they are in the dance club he got the spot because he was dating this cheerleader from a semi pro football team called the oregon it is interesting because his name comes up as the first entry in imdb fame has him fortune not so much
0	me and a couple of friends went to rent some movies one day we picked one each and one of us picked lets just say that from now on we never let him pick a movie this movie sucks
0	i saw this on sale new at my local store for 6 and said hey an action film with that guy from bloodsport and enter the dragon directed by the guy who did enter the dragon and it's cheap so i bought it oops this is possibly the worst film i've ever seen and i've seen some doozies br br you know how movies which are intentionally campy like evil dead ii and dead alive are awesome you know how movies that are supposed to be serious but turned out so awful that you have to laugh out loud and watch them again like lionheart an old van damme film or john carpenter's vampires are pretty cool this film manages to be neither of those i don't know what the filmmakers were thinking but it looks as if this movie was made with no time to shoot no budget for anything and no script to speak of while i'm on the script note i should point out that bolo yeung has no lines in this movie the only reason he gets first billing on the box is the fact that he's the only actor in the film that you'll ever recognize unless you're a jackie chan fan in which case you'll recognize the bad guy and you'll want to call him giancarlo br br what's also sad is that this film is from '92 by that time t2 judgment day had come out so you know that the era of 80s campiness was over but not quite after this you'll think 80s chuck norris films high school comedies and jason freddy sequels were works of sheer genius br br things to know br br 1 nobody in this film can act for beans the closest you get is richard norton looking appropriately rich and cocky and bolo yeung looking appropriately mean and cocky everything else is dreadful br br 2 the martial arts scenes are forgettable just many instances of white guys with lots of muscles taking off their shirts yelling running at britton lee getting kicked by britton lee getting punched by britton lee then falling down even the final showdown against bolo is disappointingly short and about as creative as the design of my running socks and equally stinky br br 3 the rest of the action is pathetic too the guns look like they came from the toy department at k mart and indeed they fire with the sound of a when someone gets shot they bounce around a little bit then lie still with of brownish red liquid on their clothes britton lee apparently gets shot in the side but you don't see it at all then later that day you see the wound i've had paper cuts that were worse than that br br 4 of course then the girl dresses the wound then they kiss then next thing you know they're lying in bed talking after sex huh what believable development of the love interest as well as any kind of character development at all are overlooked completely in this film remember how bruce lee's characters didn't need to have sex with anybody to be cool br br 5 the car chase is by far the worst i've ever seen it looks like the director was sitting on the curb with a hand held camera as the two cars weaved down the road doing oh i don't know about 30 miles an hour don't try this at home kids these people are professionals hah br br 6 really bad writing here's a scene for you lee is being followed so the girl follows the followers to warn lee but her car is too slow so by the time she catches up lee and the bad guys are out of their cars and there's a gunfight in progress lee has killed two bad guys but the third is shooting at lee when the girl almost runs lee over so the bad guy runs away huh then the girl's car stalls and she can't start it she tells lee she's involved now and she's coming with him he points out to her that they can't leave her car there because the bad guys will trace it to her she somehow convinces him that he should decide how to deal with this problem so he shoots the gas tank and blows up her car and remember later that same night they have sex huh br br 7 if you look closely in more than half of the nightclub shots the dancers are very much out of sync with the music the dancers are also all way too co with each other apparently in the '80s all people at dance clubs took dancing lessons there is a girl in the dj booth with a microphone but she never does anything except dance the bouncers tell people who are fighting to take it outside without moving their lips in one scene the only bouncers lee and stevo pass by are just inside the entrance but with their backs to it also apparently if you're a major character in the film you can go straight to the head of the line br br 8 lee notices the first time he is being followed but he doesn't notice the second time even though it's the same guy in the same car the girl however notices bad guys get followed twice but they never notice br br 9 lee is worried the bad guys will trace the girl's car back to her even though they have already seen him show up where she works twice the girl proceeds to leave her child at work in the care of a friend while she is off having sex with lee do not learn parenting from this film br br can't think of more gripes right now you get the idea is so bad it ain't even funny it's sad
0	while i agree that this was the most horrendous movie ever made i am proud to say i own a copy simply because myself and a bunch of my friends were extras mostly in the dance club scenes but a few others as well this movie had potential with bolo and the director of enter the dragon signed on but as someone who was on set most every day i can tell you that robert clouse was an old and confused individual at least during the making of this movie it was a wonder he could find his way to the set everyday i would also like to think that this might have been a better movie if a lot of it had not been destroyed in a fire at morning calm studios i can't say that it would have been for sure but it would be nice to think so i was actually surprised that it was ever released and that someone like bolo would attach his name to it without a fight oh well also look at the extras for pro wrestler scott levy aka raven he was a wrestler in portland at the time nice guy very smart
0	1 bolo yeung is in the movie ten minutes altogether including when he's serving iced drinks to his boss 2 a lot of street thugs looking like junkyard keepers get instantly overpowered by the asian superhero who talks like an illegal alien just out of the back of a manure truck 3 thug let this to me shirt off gay model like muscles hee hap hap he's dead on the floor with his neck elbow chin or balls broken 4 cheap semi sex scenes where the white broad come out of nowhere digs the asian superhero 5 norton former c action movies star does nothing but pose as an eccentric trendy weapon smuggler who traffics white slutty girls hand picked at a night club where they willingly follow some idiot posing as a millionaire snapping at them you reap what you sow 6 yes the local police captain is involved and yes the first butchered cop is the former patrol teammate of the super hero 7 action scenes are fake like a hee haw chinese tries some spinning kick b skinny leg of chinese to the throat of negro thug c finishing death move to his head too much like walker texas ranger fake action 8 end titles finally br br utter rubbish those people are good enough only to be stand ins or body doubles in other c movies and be credited at most collectively as stunt crew provided by the county prison
0	the acting was bad and the plot well i don't think there was one br br some fat blonde chap who is always dressed in a dinner suit kidnaps a sort from a nightclub i think he then kills a copper pointless fights then happen kidnapped girl is put in cage on a boat why tough uncompromising martial arts trained cop turns up speaks bad english and does stuff that does not make sense its utter tripe but he does have a nice car christ on a bike this film was a waste of 90 minutes
0	when you watch low budget horror movies as much as i do you get to where you can tell who was involved in creating the movie as each film maker adds his own flavor to the cheese such is the case with jack o when i watched this truly awful movie i was left with the undeniable feeling that fred olen ray was involved maybe not as director but in some fashion and as i researched i found that i was correct only fred and a of others could write something this pathetic and this movie just reeked of fred olen ray unless you like fred olen ray and god only knows why anyone would avoid this movie if you're going to rent an olen ray pic rent hollywood chainsaw hookers it's the only bright shining star in olen ray's dark cheesey universe of terrible movies
0	the hero john is going after some drug dealers who kidnaps girls for some reason on his journey he uses karate and kung fu moves and i don't believe he got hit a single time during the movie this is crap
0	this is a piece of celluloid crap you can tell when you are watching a wanna be mafia film and this is it this made no sense at all didnt start at the beginning of his life were all over the place and the term godfather didnt even exist until puzo wrote the book then the real mafia borrowed the phrase and made it their own after the movie this piece of claptrap would have one thinking that the phrase representing the mafia don was used back in the 20's when these people were only called don outside of the original godfather movie if you want to see another decent mob flick check out puzo's the last don part 1 part 2 sucked
0	robert montgomery myrna loy farce about loy irene and her fiancé played by reginald owen stranded in labrador when their plane crashes that's really what should have happened to this highly predictable film montgomery lives there while he is waiting for his fiancé br br surprise montgomery and loy are soon attracted to each other the scene with the bear is so contrived we knew it was a tamed bear all along br br complications ensue when clara shows up loy wants montgomery to tell clara that they should part ways when he refuses she wants to leave at once br br you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how this will end out with all that snow it's just too cold for anyone
0	if you haven't seen the war at home let me tell you what you've been missing it's a show about ethnic diversity and sexuality that could have only been edgy and funny in the 60's where america has grown in it's acceptance of race sexual preference religion etc this show seems to argue with that progress it's a backward step in america's evolution br br for example one of the ongoing jokes of the show is that the white daughter is dating a black kid from school this is obviously hilarious seeing as how you can't see that type of relationship at any mall in america i've lived in both small towns and big cities so don't give me some type of red state blue state excuse not only is this the joke but the father who is supposedly not racist finds this disturbing and asks his daughter repeatedly to break up with her boyfriend which opposes his he may sound like a racist but he's just dumb character br br if this isn't enough a second running joke is that one of the sons and soon to be metro sexual is ambiguous in his sexual orientation the audience learns over and over that he isn't gay but the father isn't convinced so he constantly avoids his son afraid perhaps that his son will hit on him as all gay men are nymphomaniac wild men who can't control their will the father always comes to some acceptance of his son once per show but usually goes on avoiding him in the following episode br br the only way this show can cure itself in my eyes is if the continuous exposure to these unnatural occurrences in life open up the father's eyes a little but that may be too much to ask and besides with jokes like these i'm sure we'll have hilarity in episodes to come like episode 13 father votes against women voters and episode 14 my muslim neighbor is a terrorist br br please drop this show fox we're living in a different world from the one your execs grew up in
0	i cringed when i heard the first canned laugh track in the first few seconds of the show but yet i gave it a chance you know when someone offers a line which is only slightly amusing and you hear an obviously fake laugh track explode in uproarious laughter that it's a show aimed at morons who need to be told yes it's funny go ahead and laugh br br ugh i couldn't stand this show as it revealed itself i can't speak for everyone after all some people actually like that idiotic show stacked which makes me wish to vomit i can imagine those who like stacked might actually like this drivel too some people still get a kick out of the old pull my finger gag to me this show is just about as witty and just about as original br br the themes were old and tired the jokes were lame and hackneyed the characters were ones we've seen everywhere before and the worst of any you might imagine br br so if you like things like burping words and neighbors who say pull my finger you might actually like this show otherwise pass it by it's stupid and not in a clever or original way this one is about as old and tired as any show has ever been at its premiere
0	this is easily the worst most offensive piece of crap on tv i'd love to completely ignore it but fox has stuck it into their sunday lineup forcing me to find something else to watch between american dad and family guy the dink head male star guy is just about the least evolved pathetic excuse for a human i have ever seen on tv nothing on the show is remotely funny and pretty much everything on it has been done already and much better by other shows br br it's obvious that their strategy is to ram it deep and hard into the sunday schedule and hope someone starts liking it but i have to break it to ya fox thats the wrong hole the scam not worked on me i simply look elsewhere but come on you freaking boneheads this show freaking sucks and it sucks even worse when compared to the rest of the fox sunday lineup br br they cancelled arrested development for this steaming pile
0	the actors actresses on this series are ok but the scripts have been absolutely horrible this family is so dysfunctional that they are not even funny in fact the scripts illustrate very often how not to be a parent the scripts are so bad they make homer simpson look like a better father than this one br br anyone who is becoming a parent if you want to see what not to do with your kids this show is the perfect guide i think the garbage this show feeds us is beyond words br br michael rapaport has seen much better material in his career including his role in hitch they need a strong lead in better much better scripts than what i have seen to this point br br if you think this is generational my teenager even turned off one show of this because they thought it was horrible
0	this show is just another bad comedy which will probably be cancelled after two seasons it's not just that the jokes are sexist racist homophobic they're also not funny and clichéd in the first episode the father said something along the lines of ' i wish women didn't go out and get jobs and have the same rights as men blah blah that really helps attitudes huh then he was making fun of his son saying he was weird what parent says their kid is weird so overall this show is boring unoriginal offencive clichéd and most of all not funny yeah american dad's offencive but it does also make you laugh and is obviously taking the micky thats the difference
0	i would label this show as horrendous if it weren't for the fact that it's on the same network as arrested development because it is on fox and getting renewed while ad got cancelled br br it is absolutely beyond words how atrocious this show actually is but let me try and describe it take an extremely low rate archie bunker and have him spout out humor that would have been out of date if it were on married with children then take great plot lines from ad son has an ugly boring girlfriend and dumb them down so the idiots who watch sitcoms can understand them br br if you watch this i will have completely lost respect for you as should your family however if you are a fan you should love fox's new comedy 'til death looks like real funny cutting edge stuff i mean married couples not getting along brilliant
0	i finally managed to sit through a whole episode of this show i was very very tired clearly previously i would always have to turn it off because i thought it was that bad watching a full episode convinces me that it really is that bad i couldn't even tell you what happened but i distinctively remember not laughing for people who think this is the new all in the family or married with children have you ever actually watched those shows they are well written and well acted and most importantly funny this show is not funny you might think so if this is the first sitcom you have ever watched i cannot see who else would i echo all previous sentiments about arrested development etc it's probably my own fault for getting frustrated with television and not watching it thereby allowing the stupid people to dictate what actually stays on the air
0	i bought jack o a number of months ago at a blockbuster video sale and at the time i wasn't expecting anything outstanding from it upon watching it i realized i not only got less than i could have ever bargained for but a whole lot more as well it seems strange i know and it is but it's perfectly fitting when you consider that the utter weirdness that is jack o br br the movie follows a young boy named shawn kelly somehow thru ancestral ties he is marked for death at the hands of a demented scythe wielding pumpkin man this pumpkin man was killed by shawn's great grandfather uncle cousin etc and now that the villain has been resurrected shawn's death is apparently crucial to his hell bred mission of vengeance anyway much horror ensues as jack o hacks his way thru various neighbors before battling shawn to the finish br br i'm not so much here to discuss the plot as i am to determine who may find any worth in this movie i can honestly tell you that jack o is one of the most poorly made movies in the history of time the acting is deadpan except when it should be the script is apparently a 1st grade group project and the production budget must not have exceeded 150 some of the most laughable death scenes are carried out in this anti thriller and they're all the more humorous when you realize director steve actually seems serious in his movie making br br and yet i heartily enjoyed the film i can call it a terrible horror movie yes but i can also say i had a great time watching it with my friends and have watched it several times since that fateful first viewing many people including some of my friends will find this movie intolerable and needlessly time consuming and that's understandable if you're like me and enjoy ridiculously bad horror movies that take themselves seriously you'll find jack o an instant classic which is also understandable br br that's why it's so hard to rate this movie if i were rating jack quality as a film i wouldn't give it anything in fact the studio would owe me stars yet if i were rating it's on the basis of pure enjoyment i'd give it an 8 or a 9 i'll give it a 4 so to be somewhere in the middle i recommend everyone go out rent this and form their own conclusion
0	how is it in this day and era people are still dumb enough to think that other dumb stuff is smart maybe dumb people like watching stuff that makes them feel smart such as 'the war at home' it's even dumber than the dumb people who watch it there are no jokes only half jokes and slight gags that barely even warrant a tiny internal smile the acting is your typical unsubtle idiotic standard sitcom flailing limbs type acting and why oh why did this crap replace arrested development well you gotta hand it to fox they know that they need to have stupid shows to attract all the stupid viewers you see the reason arrested development wasn't massively popular was because it was so smart it was so smart that it made dumb people feel bad about being so dumb and of course if a dumb person encounters a smart person the dumb person will hate the smart person most of the time anyway either that or try and off of the smart person if you like this show and are one of the dumb people i truly cannot fathom what it must be like not to have open eyes and open minds i cannot fathom what it must be like to be mindless laughing drones influenced by every little thing basically people who laugh with a laugh track are parrots trained obedient mindless parrots maybe i shouldn't insult parrots by comparing them to you you know who you are if i seem like a in this review it's because i'm so annoyed at ad being canceled
0	you've seen the same tired worn out clichéd sit com stories characters stories 1000's of times this excels at sucking more than others first and foremost there isn't a single character in this show that's even remotely likable in particular michael dave gold is by far one of the biggest asses ever to grace a television screen ever repugnant comes to mind if in real life a father was this unlikable cruel and just generally unfit to parent would be your only option to call the remaining characters stereotypes would be too complementary if these characters ended up on life support the line to pull the plug would be light years long how this show finished one complete season much less 2 is a mystery fox cancels arrested development and keeps this on the air you tell me the terrorists aren't winning
0	how can stuff like this still be made didn't seinfeld arrested development the office etc etc kill this old fashioned unfunny crap off apparently not br br i'm actually quite a fan of michael rappaport and have enjoyed his various cameos and supporting roles copland friends but in this he sucks but anyone would struggle with this script br br my wife enjoys it but she's brazilian and if you've ever seen a typical brazilian sit com you would understand why she would think this so funny br br just to demonstrate how predictable the show is and to prove a point with her i guessed what the next 3 or 4 plot developments lines would be while watching it for a while and was correct almost word for word i felt very smug this annoyed my wife as she hates it when i do that can understand why but i felt good so screw it
0	this show drives me crazy it goes against everything a family should be even if it is intended to be a comedy the show is suppose to follow dave and vicky gold michael rapaport and anita barone as they raise their three teenage children hilary larry and mike a good premises for a comedy yes but it does not mean it will be a good show br br i don't think i've ever heard cruder talk from parents to children and vice versa the only talk that seems to be in the show is control of children by the parents and sex i know that sexual intercourse is usually a subject talked about by teenagers often but it is brought up in nearly every episode with no point to it the one episode i was just watching involved the parents giving their daughter hilary a car not once do you think they are related in anyway by the way they talk to each other and how the parents talk about how hilary is like their slave br br the show fails on the comedy level the most i haven't laughed at this show once in the numerous times i have attempted to watch it and i'm a person who gave such films as animal house and dumb and dumber very high marks michael rapaport is a very good actor and why he choose to ruin his career by making this piece of filth show is beyond me br br parents make sure your children never and i mean never watch this teenagers you'll probably get a laugh out of this just for the blatant sexual references but nothing comes out of it and afterwards you feel rather empty br br 1 1 2 5 stars
0	i grew up watching sitcoms such as seinfeld roseanne simpsons etc etc in other words mainstream television over the years many sitcoms have come on the air and of those a very small percentage are smart and funny the war at home is a prime example of the majority of modern american comedy br br i give the show a 3 out of 10 because it is what it aims to be a comedy but it doesn't seem to go out of its way to be a good comedy a good comedy should have you swept off your feet with its big jokes you shouldn't be able to see them coming and in i see just about every joke coming the characters are probably the most simplistic and horrible stereotypes i have seen yet on screen and the acting isn't very good save for the father who portrays a stereotypical beer drinking sport loving american idiot perfectly br br poor acting unbelievable characters and jokes that don't catch you off guard detract from this show to a point of where it is unwatchable if you don't have cable and would like to see a comedy worth watching try boston legal it is more worth your time
0	what was he thinking how sad an actor as tremendously talented as michael rapaport who stole our hearts in mighty aphrodite and fascinated us in ill town has sunk to this pathetic level the writing on this sitcom is the crust left on the bottom of the barrel after it has been scraped shame on all involved there is a trend major movie actors that are no longer hot merchandise are turning to tv often with disastrous results reference the on cbs and nbc however abc has a hit with boston legal hip writing and great nostalgic use of bill shatner to waste michael rapaport in this all in the family rip off is an insult to viewers and mostly michael himself
0	a stupid show in the vein of the rest of them with terrible music and a laugh track that must be from i love lucy i got rid of tv because of shows like this but picked up the 1st season at big lots for 3 00 should bought the van damme movie instead br br if i was a conspiracy theorist who believed that a small group of people are working against real families and keep coming up with this drivel propaganda in order to undermine family values i would point to this show married with children family guy etc but i'm not so i won't br br btw i'm not christian love the simpsons and peep show i watched two episodes and thought that if shows like this are popular who are they popular with then i remembered all those of the people of walmart that have been circulating around the web and thought ah ha it is no wonder our culture is a joke around the world when this is prime time
0	i'm one of those for punishment when it comes to sitcoms these days i still will check them out every once in a while my observation is that most of them aren't very funny even the ones on major networks that are getting high ratings i just don't get who is finding them gut busting funny while a few have made me crack a smile none of them made me laugh out loud i usually change the channel after a few minutes now on the fox network they churn out new shows like changing your underwear for some reason they think they can make a good sitcom wrong dead wrong they have beat this dead horse so much it is to the point of hiring just anyone they can find to write a crappy pilot with bad dialog and just churn them out let's take a brief look at the latest piece of junk that fox has churned out called the war at home br br i watched about 5 minutes of it and that was generous in this particular episode the daughter is mouthing off to her parents doing the i'm an adult now rant the dad gets fed up tells her ok fine go ahead and do whatever you want if you screw up it's your problem to which she replies well i guess your mad but hey at least i didn't get aids cue the laugh track no way that can be a live audience unless they have been paid to applaud such garbage i found the crack about not having aids to be in such bad taste well hey at least i don't have to watch any more of this crap take a hint fox stop wasting your time with sitcoms ok well you have the simpsons but it is now getting really old and tired as well
0	what fox's fascination with dysfunctional families made up of mean obnoxious spoiled kids and parents who are determined to be cool as opposed to being a parent i'm sorry i don't get it the one episode that i was barely able to stomach watching involved one of the kids demanding a bar with the intention of getting thousands of dollars in gift money of course the idiot mother decides that her precious little junior has to have the biggest and bes test party of all and has no problem dropping 20 grand on the big event the ditzy brain dead boy crazy teenage daughter bounces back and forth between wanting to be jewish and then catholic when she see's the cute religious tutors br br the one borderline heartwarming moment in the entire episode was when the putz of a father who has been convinced the entire time that the bar is solely a money making scheme see's the son studying his hebrew lessons and is momentarily duped into thinking that perhaps his conniving offspring is being sincere about the right of passage into manhood this warm fuzzy feeling is immediately ripped out of his chest when he informs junior that since he has not yet had a bris a certain procedure needs to be performed the bar is called off and the mother is out several thousands of dollars when the kid refuses to comply br br this show is garbage and i am saddened that i shall never get back the 23 minutes of my life i wasted watching this piece of crap because nothing else was on tv
0	i watched the first episode of the war at home because i thought it was worth replacing arrested development boy was i disappointed it should be clear to everyone that this show was blatantly ripped off of grounded for life titus and married with children since they are all similar in plot and overall mood the so called punch lines are all repetitious and formulaic even more those punch lines aren't even funny at all to me they're more along the lines as being crass and crude the main character dave gold acts like a white trash thug who thinks he's being funny and cool which he's not even hillary dave's daughter said so in the episode strip br br in the episode dream crusher hillary wanted to be a singer but was actually pretty bad dave and vicky then gladly decided to crush her dreams by telling her she sucked after that she then wanted to be a child psychologist and planned on going to harvard after telling dave and vicky so and left the room the two of them began mindlessly mocking her also in the first episode dave said of black boyfriend does she actually think we're gonna let her go out with this guy i'd rather drink my own urine that line has to the dumbest line in the history of television and dave is constantly making fun of larry his son when he breaks the fourth wall because he thinks he's gay and is a geek also let's not forget that he also made fun of larry's fat girlfriend dave is the father he's supposed to stand up for his son no matter what the war at home is without a doubt the worst tv show for family that clearly explains why the show should be canceled since it spreads a racism and homophobic agenda it's like the show wants to be funny for always putting in that stupid laugh track every time someone says something but the lines are all somewhat forced idiotic and pathetically juvenile br br another reason why the show's horrible is the acting mike rappaport and kyle sullivan are terrible terrible actors rappaport has to always move his hands around when he's in front of the camera he not only does this on this show but he also did that during his time with boston public sullivan talks and acts like some kind of robot every time he acts he also did this in malcolm in the middle br br so to wrap this whole thing up you all got your reasons of what's wrong with this show 1 it's unoriginal 2 the acting sucks 3 it's not even funny 4 all the jokes are the same 5 has lousy script 6 the characters are pitiful and unlikable 7 the dad's a rip off of archie bunker br br fox needs to take this trash off the air because anything's better than this
0	i've always loved horror flicks from some of the usual well known like the exorcist to some of the more underrated like black christmas or just before dawn but who are people kidding even calling this trash a b movie it's straight up bottom of the barrel z grade the acting is the worst ever on film really i've seen better on an episode of the young and the restless spoiler lookout for when the woman comes to tell them about the legend of jack o she pauses sometimes for a matter of seconds as if someone is flashing her cue cards and she's struggling to read her lines a riot br br oh and besides the bad acting absolutely no gore or f x and jack o looked like a plastic lit pumpkin watch linnea quigley in night of the demons or silent night deadly night far superior flicks
0	this film seems well made and more efforts should be made to promote films by women that aside this film is also profoundly disturbing in that it justifies the manipulative and psychotic machinations of a character that is profoundly disturbed if you've seen any of the promotional material you might think this is a poignant film about a relationship that's reached its end but none of that suggests how really disturbing the central premise is br br a woman threatens suicide unless her soon to be ex agrees to relive here most treasured memories of their relationship when told how unfair to say the least that such a threat is tessa the purported protagonist suggests that life's not fair br br huh this character also uses tears to manipulate her former lover into staying and coaxes him into sexually oriented behavior which she initially denies as a motive all the while assuring him this isn't sex br br reverse the genders have the leads played by tracey gold and brian austin green and this could air in feature length on lifetime with a title like hostage to obsession there is no medically accepted definition of sound mental and emotional stability that would encompass behavior in this film br br props to kristen thomson for playing a border line psychotic manipulative ex to a t perhaps too well because there is no well adjusted person male or female who could watch this and not have shivers run up their spine
0	there are shows and films i've seen and subsequently read reviews of on imdb com that i've disagreed with and been happy to accept that there has just been a difference of opinion br br reading positive reviews of this filth merely puts me in mind of a sinister conspiracy involving tv network employees being ordered to browse the internet posting unconvincingly positive reviews for programmes they themselves are responsible for br br how else would one explain a review that this show is sure to become a phenomenon a full year after it's become clear its going to be nothing of the sort br br i won't waste words describing this mess but suffice to say if you enjoy wives who emasculate their husbands husbands who emasculate their sons children who are disrespectful jackasses towards their parents and absolutely no other threads of behaviour or subtext to characters that are basically just unfunny one liner spewing automatons then watch this show br br i on the other hand have some seinfeld dvds to get through br br futurama cancelled titus cancelled arrested development cancelled the war at home renewed br br no justice
0	i have been living in istanbul for 24 years and i a 39 years of experience would suggest do know what istanbul has gone through all those years br br faith akin is still quite young born in 1973 and falling in the great mistake of being orientalist when looking at turkey just as his other movie gegen die wand did this movie seriously lack contemporary urban turkish life and misleads the audience when giving out quite false clues as to the geographical and cultural spreading of istanbul br br anyone who could speak turkish could easily attest that many underground bands groups depicted in the movie for one are so miserable and their members cannot even speak a proper language that they cannot be taken as of the contemporary turkish music much less a piece of crap which many turkish listeners even do not know about at all br br we turks have long been accustomed to westerners who look at turkey with some orientalist point of view trying to fit the actual turkish image into their mind molds what is new in this movie is the fact that now a turkish originated director faith akin is making the same mistake looking at turkey with some false western glasses and scrambling to depict it as if he understands better all of a vain effort br br just ask any turkish friend of yours what sort of a musical documentary is this without mentioning the names manco ibrahim and many others who have shaped so far the real music we are listening today br br faith akin has a long long lesson to learn before babbling away and confusing other people's minds with false images about the contemporary turkish music
0	what can be said about a movie that makes two hours seem like three weeks the hero starts out in japan goes through an identity crisis saving a shinobi makes a voyage to america saving a slave named sam engages in a little wild west action saving a french japanese native american named julie goes hunting pirate's gold and then heads back to japan to fight a war the film obviously has no clue where it's going at any point in time i think the director modeled each scene after the last movie he'd watched if you're going to watch this film i suggest renting the subtitled so you and your peers can openly discuss how dumb the movie is without speaking over the movie potentially missing another dumb plot twist br br movies the director was watching during the making of this movie an american tail goes west star wars indiana jones the goonies teenage mutant ninja turtles kung fu vampire hunter d the ten commandments br br notes of interests most fear inspiring line of all time about 90 minutes or 19 days into the movie the lead character has just bested an american villain and just as one heads to the vcr to end the pain the hero proclaims let's go back to japan and the agony continues for another week
0	above all you must not take this movie seriously it takes itself seriously unfortunately but that can't be helped this anime ninja flic has to be the crowning achievement in spoiling what could have been an endearing if unoriginal story with bad plot twists ridiculous time killing cutscenes and one outrageous guest appearance which will either make you laugh or groan or both like me br br while i'm typically a fan of ninja samurai anime ninja scroll and to name a few this one has to be the exception for the record from a technical point of view of its time this movie was very well animated and constructed it is just the plot that stunk the authors of this movie clearly decided for what rational reason i don't know that they could somehow make up for the lack of a script if the character halfway around the world in search of a treasure that he learns his father fought and died for in the process he saves a black slave named sam meets a french girl who is living in an apache village makes friends with a ninja clan whose members then try to kill him meets more family members then he knew he had in the weirdest places and circumstances and whom all subsequently die at some point in the movie br br even so far these ludicrous plot twists could be excused but then come the two guest appearances 1 after having a cliche showdown with two cowboys meets a man who introduces himself as mark twain at this point you're probably saying what the this meeting serves one purpose it entirely discredits a movie which tries to add to itself an educated historical background i found it disappointing that the authors went to all this trouble to research the 1860s us and didn't manage to realize that mark twain's real name was samuel clemens 2 when finally finds the treasure it turns out that it used to belong to captain kidd i can hear the groans of disgust now br br finally there are the running scenes these scenes show various characters running with the landscape moving behind them for several minutes and there are a lot of them it is these scenes which make this movie 2hrs 12 min to seem to last a week and a half br br if you and your friends are looking for a bad subtitled movie that just asks to be made fun of this is it feel free to poke fun at every possible aspect of it and have fun just don't take it seriously 3 10
0	i have no idea who these others are but this movie is plain awful they have to prop up joe pesci when he is a minor character bait and switch movie just like the studios did with adam sandler and jim carrey etc the dvd i watched states this obscure gem revolves around joe pesci's mob character who is a hothead that start a war etc etc joe plays the part of joe he does not even carry a gun plays a character and gets spoiler whacked so much for the movie revolving around pesci the only halfway memorable scene was a bad attempt at comedy when they passed gas while waiting for a score if you watch this movie after reading this i warned you please stop and do not lose 87 minutes of your life
0	bad news for anyone wanting to film a full length parody of a lifetime network movie the makers of a deadly encounter have already done it albeit unintentionally all of the lifetime tropes are there a divorced mother in peril from a deranged stalker an unreliable ex husband who of course cheated on her while they were married and a police department that dismisses her complaints forcing her to stand up for herself especially jaw dropping is the scene where the heroine after enduring a break in and the attempted murder of her mother by her seemingly ubiquitous stalker decides to relieve the stress by going shopping having seen first hand the harassment of a co worker by some creep she met at church i know stalking is not a joke but it certainly is in this movie
0	warning this may contain spoilers br br first of all i watch a lot lifetime movies and realize they are just that lifetime movies some are great really some are good and some are bad unfortunately this movie falls into the latter category it actually started out with some potential single divorced hard working mom who gets out of work at 2 00 am cuts a guy off while driving home from work and let's just say he doesn't take it too well the stalking begins immediately with phone call hang ups and escalates to her home being broken into and completely trashed so she goes to her mother's for the night and the next morning her mother's car blows up this seems to be just a pain in the butt for our heroine who deals with it by going underwear and jewelry shopping so the police put her and her son in a local motel for safe keeping and what does mom do she goes off to work leaving the kid all alone at night in a strange motel room and tells him to order a pizza i couldn't believe it then it really gets stupid and the ending just made me angry because it was so ridiculous and typical too bad because it seemed to have possibilities
0	ok so she doesn't have caller id when you are being stalked you get it and no cell phone when you are being stalked you get one if you are one of the few full time working parents that is the head of the household that doesn't own one already this mom gets a big zero in the parenting department so her mom is in the hospital and she decides a shopping trip will help her out just a stupid movie glad i have tivo and a ff button on the remote and what is with the 10 line minimum i just don't have that much to say about such a bad movie i guess i can ask why she keeps opening packages that she has no clue who they are from the son really didn't add much to the movie either the cops were a big ol zero too now get to the nearest verizon and get the darn cell phone
0	more is yet another addition into the countless pile of 60's druggie trippy junk avoid at all cost terrible acting equally moribund script the only thing to enjoy is pink floyd's wonderful soundtrack which is too good for stereotypical waste like this
0	like many other people i've heard about more and i wanted to watch it due to the music that was composed by pink floyd i must say that i was truly disappointed not because of the music but the movie in itself it's a boring insipid movie that lacks rhythm where does this disappointment come from according to me from different things first of all the movie's subject the drug links up badly with the idle sunny atmosphere of the movie this one should have taken place in the sordid areas of paris and should have gave birth to a dark and helpless climate for example moreover it's supposed to tell a descent into hell but this descent is softened and barely sketched out barbet schroeder doesn't insist enough on the dramatic side of the story you could have wished a little more of madness cutting on another hand schroeder doesn't succeed in gaining the audience's emotion and adherence in front of the two main characters' distress you watch carelessly their trials with drug whereas the two main actors they're perfectly inexpressive and hardly evolve during the movie especially farmer at the end you only retain the beauty of the landscapes bathed in sunlight the film created a huge sensation when it was released in 1969 nowadays it br br seems dated the hippy culture is nothing less than a faraway memory
0	man this movies sucked it appeared to have like seven different plots going on at once and they all made little to no sense the special effects costumes and all that stuff were beyond awful the acting was particullary bad everything seemed so forced especially the lines from the woman with the huge eyes and the little kid his noooooo as he gets is so unenthusiastic it's laughable a good portion of this movie is rather funny anyway the one woman's death where she shoves a knife into a toaster gets electrocuted and magically turns into the skeleton dummy in the world had my friends and i laughing for a good ten minutes br br bottom line if you're into watching really horrible movies seek this one out if not run for your life
0	great music but ain't these people pathetic a true period piece of the trippy sixties and it left me depressed the director paints the wrong side of the life and it stings as a nest if the culture of the time led people to do these things it appears to me that it was all a journey of no discovery only despair i tried really tried to like this film but these people aren't anywhere on my page yes it would be nice to see the world go away for awhile but i always plan to come back drugs aren't the cause of these characters' downfalls it's their lousy attitudes – these guys passionately drink their cup of poison they cheapen their lives and in the end cheapen the journey that is life has romance ever been so dark br br cheers interesting scenery wonderful soundtrack by pink floyd br br caveats dated drugs depressing thoroughly unlikable characters they aren't flower children br br only for the curious since most packages swoon the pink floyd connection rare floyd tracks many will have never heard before as fm ain't what it was br br rating two stars
0	the only reason anyone remembers this steaming load of fecal matter is because it was scored by pink floyd or as they were known then the pink floyd stefan a really annoying eurotrash hitchhiker hooks up with american model estelle and they proceed to get high and naked throughout the whole movie br br and the point of this is what exactly that drugs are bad or only heroin horse is the problem becomes that you don't give a crap about the characters and for that matter even pink floyd wasn't up to their best work when overdoses at the end you are almost glad to be rid of him because he was so annoying
0	ok well i guess it was worth my time sitting through this once but i won't be watching it again there are several things about this film that irritated me br br first man i really hated the characters i had the same problem with sid and nancy i have a hard time spending a fair chunk of time following characters who i really don't care about and can't relate to it's not that the actors or the writing were technically bad it was that the characters were written in such a way that i just had contempt for them and as the movie went on i almost wanted to see the sky fall on them and this leads me to the second problem and a question which i think is at the heart of this movie was the intent to simply document this generation and these types of bohemians who were i guess wandering around europe in the 60s was the intent to criticize and lambaste them or was this film some kind of a warning my final assessment of the film that is to say in determining if there was anything salvageable here at all hinges on this question br br regardless these characters are really unlikeable and as a consequence it's hard to really give a crap about the plot or what happens to them if this was some sort of statement on this generation then the film becomes a little more tolerable it is clear that schroeder is not some kind of geriatric establishment square so the way he proceeds here carries more weight than say the countless stupid aip films set in or concerning the 60s counterculture br br at bare minimum this film has two things going for it first the soundtrack obviously i like how is used here and others have mentioned it too as it takes the forefront in the movie i am guessing that if you are a pink floyd fan and want to see it for that reason nothing you read here is likely to stop you from watching it anyway it wouldn't stop me either the curiosity of hearing pink floyd in a movie may be enough to just barely get you through this br br secondly there is some nice scenery ibiza looks like a nice place to visit maybe i'm just sick of looking at los angeles new york and chicago in films but european films which take the time to actually show us europe the beautiful or the ugly mostly beautiful here are always welcome br br but i really see no particular genius here no revolutionary camera work not even a moral tone message sensibility or plot that has anything new to say perhaps what was revolutionary about this was merely that it came from a guy like schroeder a film critical of a mindset that at least in part made his movies marketable to that extent it is an honest film there's no glorification of the abject excesses of the 60s here which is perhaps something you might expect in fact the portrayal of the characters in this film closely mirrors the somewhat distorted in my opinion modern cultural memory of that generation br br oh yeah bunch of yawn nudity and sex here nothing new if you watch these kinds of movies from this time period i guess it was considered novel or provocative or something at the time i don't find it offensive or titillating i doubt you will either rather it just extends the running time of an already tedious film in its own way this particular use of sexuality in movies of the time especially european ones has become a bit of a cliché but i guess in hindsight you can't blame them they were just in that decade able to get away with it and i suppose i'm guessing here the very presence of this kind of graphic sexuality was a political or social statement in and of itself that being that sexuality was a part of life that this generation wasn't going to be all weird about like their parents were br br should you watch it if you're a pink floyd fan sure i guess it's worth a watch in any case the valley is a better film i went into this movie expecting largely what i got if you don't normally watch these kinds of arty avant garde films and don't know what to expect this is bound to be annoying as hell this is a normal healthy reaction br br if you're not a pink floyd fan i'm not sure why you'd spend your time here i noticed one fellow who left a comment did enjoy this movie quite a lot so maybe i'm just missing something i don't need guys running in slow motion from fireballs special effects explosions or anything like that to enjoy a movie but i do need some kind of handle i need to find something to like about a movie and generally i need to sympathize with some aspect of the characters' plight barring that some novel film making will work camera work and so forth here there's just nothing to hold on to except for pink floyd's magnificence which is just enough to make this tolerable at bare minimum if you're a pink floyd fan to begin with you'll like the bit with i promise
0	specks of white and various shapes a beautiful nude random images that is what this little experimental short film is br br it's kind of interesting to think how in the early days of film such images could be transferred onto film but despite my love of a lot of surreal images and films and a fascination with the bizarre this film just didn't do it for me br br i'm not sorry i watched it but if there is any underlying meaning in it i don't get it visually it is not that outstanding in my humble opinion as an example of i suppose it would fit in quite well since it seems to reject any semblance of logic or reason though i would have preferred that it do it in a more visually interesting way br br but to each his own
0	it's nice that these three young directors have produced films with good productions values and decent acting there's some good work here br br unfortunately they suffer from what much of modern gay cinema recycled plots too familiar devices i have seen the pool setting way too many times in gay male films and hackneyed scripts most egregious of all is dorothy whose preposterous premise is that a cute young guy will have trouble getting laid in nyc due to a shortage of identifiable gay guys in his vicinity br br in terms of cinema these shorts play like tacky little gay afterschool specials not a lot of imagination in their writing or execution basically they follow a point and shoot shot reaction shot master shot convention which becomes painfully dull after five or so minutes there's hope for queer cinema in the works of todd haynes sadie benning and the late great marlon riggs but not here these films are incredibly middlebrow singularly whitebread and their values basically pander to a gay bourgeois sensibility which is probably why they play so well at gay film festivals
0	i have never before voted 1 for a movie on the imdb but for this one i am sorry the scale doesn't go down to 10 br br all i can say this movie is that i saw it in a sneak preview and it was my worst movie experience ever i don't mind the stupid jokes i can live with the silly story but when i see those dumbly grinning main characters with their pseudo foreign speech only germans will understand what i talk about i felt i kind of loathing i never thought i was capable of if they had left them out the thing may actually have been acceptable br br there's not much more to be said about this one you may laugh once or twice because it's so ridiculous but that doesn't make it any better it is definitely not funny br br if you live outside of germany be happy and rejoice that this awful work will most likely never make it to your cinemas br br if you do live in germany avoid this movie at all costs
0	this is one of the worst movies i've ever seen not only that it is a comedy which isn't funny but it's also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects br br the two heroes with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot that they touched each others genitals all the time but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the heroes which finds its climax in showing how and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their joyful lifestyle but i hadn't expect anything better by director michael bully who also made two not funny tv shows a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie but and stefan had been just a little better in some of their stand up programs for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra who is very beautiful to me
0	now don't get me wrong i love seeing half naked chicks wiggling around it's part of the fun of a moroccan restaurant ogling the belly dancers but it doesn't make much of a plot br br my first major problem is the music i have the feeling that when ann rice wrote the vampire lestat the cure was more the style of the music he would have liked though i could be wrong i know relating to current goth music might have seemed like a good idea but they did a horrific job incorporating it lestat was an actor with presumably a pretty good singing voice that they chose jonathan davis to be his stage voice is heartbreaking br br second and someone else said it mashing two very intricate books into one crappy movie is a bad idea lestat could have been a movie in it's own right and a damn good one if done right i honestly don't think queen of the damned lends itself to a movie very well though i would love to see a movie that incorporates a creation story there's too much how to word this inaction in the book for it to be a very interesting movie and the retelling they did soiled it pretty badly now mind you it's been a long time since i've read it i always thought lestat tale of the body thief and the devil were much more action packed and would have made better movies br br i know a lot of people hey myself included who like a lot of cheesy vampire crap that thought this was absolutely the worst of the genre to be a major motion picture i tend to agree with them there aaliyah had a nice body though
0	even if i had not read anne rice's queen of the damned from the vampire chronicles i probably would still have thought this movie was just awful br br it was tasteless plot less it made absolutely no sense at all i sat for a while pondering the plot from the book and the longer i thought of it the worse it was to associate it in any way with the prior chronicles film is ridiculous as it is ridiculously inconsistent with that movie let alone the book the bare few ideas taken from rice's genius in the vampire chronicles were butchered and ridiculed br br it is an absolute insult to anne rice fans everywhere and such a pathetic excuse for a legacy in being last film truly it's an insult to aaliyah fans as well br br possibly the only compliment can be paid to the sound effects as well as some of the graphics good as they may be it is still not at all enough to make me regret the time spent watching this movie as a matter of fact i signed up for this membership for the sole reason of communicating to people bothering to look at this film 7 years after the release as it may be to not waste their time or expect much beyond disappointment
0	this is definitely the worst vampire flicks of all times i started to watch this right after interview with the vampire and i was thoroughly disappointed not only did this movie's script have as big as the grand canyon the movie seemed to jump from one scene to another leaving the viewers thoroughly puzzled the vampire lestat played by stuart townsend was terrible having a good body does not make you an actor the end of the queen was too easy and sudden insulting the viewers intelligence i'll give this one star because aaliyah actually tried her best in this movie and the soundtrack is pretty good other than that i would advice anne rice to take an ax and start hacking those who destroyed her brilliant story
0	i bought this out of curiosity how did john carradine who died in 1988 and cameron mitchell who died in 1994 make appearances in a film made in 1995 thanks to the miracle of unused film can footage that's probably been sitting on a shelf somewhere for ten years that's how you can tell because the film stock used to shoot their scenes doesn't match the film used for shooting jack o the curse of ed wood lives on the good thing for both carradine and mitchell is that this is exactly the kind of movie you'd expect to find on both of their filmographies same goes for scream queens linnea quigley brinke stevens and dawn wildsmith br br the setting is crossing on halloween and some kind of curse is released when dumb beer guzzling teens disrupt a grave the result a hulking killer with a scythe and a big plastic pumpkin on his head he it goes after the wholesome kelly family for revenge and kills others who get in his way the father opens a haunted garage for the neighborhood kiddies the son ryan son of the director has one continuous perplexed facial expression for all his scenes and one hilariously badly acted dramatic scene lying in a grave at least he's a kid the mother's eyes about pop out of her head while she strains to read her dialogue there is also an annoying woman who shows up to explain things who seems to be trying to phonetically pronounce all of her dialogue br br so what about the name actors you see stevens wildsmith and mitchell briefly on a tv screen they're used to pad out the time linnea has a bigger role as a babysitter and she does exactly what she can with it her enthusiastic performance helps a little bit there's also one out of nowhere laugh when an ultra conservative couple who watch a rush limbaugh clone on tv bite it the woman slips on a rug and stabs a toaster with a knife she's electrocuted and the end result looks like a flame broiled muppet br br all and all pretty entertaining stuff i wasn't bored
0	of the damned '' is one of the worst adaptations of a book to a movie that i already saw the only thing that i like in this movie is the soundtrack anything else besides that since i am a fan of marilyn manson chester of linkin park and wayne static of static x br br there are so many mistakes and so many bad choices that i don't even know how to start so many stories were cut like the twin's legend one of my favorite armand and daniel's relationship and even louis is not present to mention a few the plot was dead first they should have made a movie of ''the vampire because it is the second book after ''the interview with the and not of they tried to squeeze in a single movie so many informations that you finish not getting almost anything unless you read the vampire chronicles br br so many meaningful characters doesn't seem to have a real importance in this movie it is pandora's case for example br br the actors that they choose to play all the characters doesn't match with many of anne rice's descriptions specially marius that is suppose to be a beautiful tall imposing blond guy with blue eyes like lestat stuart is also far from being like lestat i didn't understand why they changed maker to be marius instead of magnus as well br br with the was an awesome movie i loved the actors and tom cruise as lestat was perfect and far superior then stuart townsend i am sad that tom cruise declined the chance of playing lestat again only antonio as armand didn't match with armand's looks but anyway far superior from this crap movie called '' the queen of br br anne rice was so picky about interview that i didn't get how she just sold the rights for this terrible production
0	i remember all the hype around this movie when aaliyah was killed being a fan of ms rice's novels my first thought was how can they do queen of the damned without doing vampire lestat first br br having finally seen the movie now i can see how they did it if you have read these books imagine taking out the gory parts from vampire lestat cramming marcus and marius into one character and removing everything to do with beginning the wolf hunt his violin playing the theatre of the vampires and also louis claudia and gabrielle then in the last 15 minutes cramming in queen of the damned br br what we loose is a very important piece of character his inner agony of having to kill to live the fact that he carefully tries to select killers as his victims and his love hate relationship with louis armand gabrielle and all the other vampires br br also important to the story is that we loose the story of the twins which is the genesis of ms rice's vampires and while i am sure the cannibalism was to intense for showing on the screen they could have done something closer and showed us more of ancient egypt br br even worse we have this love interest thrown in between jessie and lestat the vampire chronicles is basically an american story for those that do not know is another form of hentai japanese porn comics but in it is about gay male relationships told by a female while i am sure many men object to the gayness of the characters in this movie they went to the far extreme the opposite way for instead of lestat killers he goes after young female groupies br br and the other flaws in logic and storyline are vast at the beginning lestat emerges from a century long sleep then later on asks marius how he made it through the 1950's in red velvet marius has no idea who elvis is and says he slept through that period makes you wonder how lestat knows about 50's fashion and music since he slept through the same time period himself and nothing is ever even mentioned about louis claudia or gabrielle i think that is a huge shame is like seeing snow white and the 3 dwarfs br br overall the movie i thought was really bad about the only good thing about it was the soundtrack most of the acting was poor the accents drove me up the wall and all of the really in depth parts of the book were removed leaving us only with a hollow shell kind of like after he was sucked dry br br if you want to see a good modern vampire movie get lost boys the original interview with a vampire or even some old episodes of dark shadows let this one rest in piece with a stake through the heart of garlic around the neck and a vial of holy water in the mouth br br in ending remember that before aaliyah was killed this was intended to go straight to video no theatrical release was planned it is obvious now why this was it is only sad that somebody as talented as she will be remembered for this dog of a movie instead of something where she really might have shined br br i rate this a 2 on a scale of 1 10
0	i'm usually not inclined to write reviews about films i don't think deserve a mention but in the quest to grow as a writer and film critic i feel it is important to express my thoughts when i don't like a film queen of the damned is one of those films br br anne rice's popular horror stories of lestat a bisexual vampire first took to the screen in 1994 in the successful an interview with a vampire starring two of hollywood's biggest heavyweights in tom cruise and brad pitt the film's stylish aesthetic and gothic mise en scene captured the audience while it may have been a case of style way over substance there was something about it that worked despite its i have never been that enamoured with the vampire genre in general br br since that time brad pitt and tom cruise have gone on to much bigger things it's likely both would have roared with laughter when asked to appear in a sequel they would have been laughing even harder when they saw the final outcome queen of the damned typifies the type of cr p hollywood is content to put out at a low cost with the hope of earning a quick buck thanks to an average soundtrack and big marketing campaign aimed at 13 to 17 year olds br br needless to say this film is terrible from the start lestat now played by brit stuart townsend of shooting fish fame awakens from his dark grave to the sound of you guessed it nu metal he freaks out some confused musicians and joins their band under the that he only appear at night what with the sun burning his skin and all during the day br br jesse marguerite moreau a student studying the paranormal vampire studies 101 perhaps tries to find out if lestat really is who he says he is along the way she falls for him something to do with her odd past but has a little competition in queen aaliyah a vampire demon queen who is returning from the underworld to acquire lestat as her chosen king br br the film is shamefully self yet its campy tone leaves some room for its depreciating humour anybody who sees this film for anything but a good laugh needs to see more films in general watching townsend is enjoyable he knows the role is utterly over the top and does his best to walk the tightrope between utter hamming and serious acting the late aaliyah is unfortunately terrible in the title role she has minimal screentime and what she does have she does not use to the fullest the poor makeup and special effects do not help at times she sounds like she's talking through a br br it is rumoured that this film was heading straight to video until untimely death last year with the possibility for people to see her final film warner bros put this out to a general release otherwise this would have been one of those movies you see on the shelf at video shops but avoid because you can tell it is going to be simply terrible br br no doubt films like this will continue to be made look at the spate of teen rom com rip offs around or the spoofing of that genre itself with films like not another teen movie if there is a market to exploit hollywood will do so br br the biggest issue i have with this film is not the film itself hollywood is about making money so if there is a market for this film then they will pursue it that's business but what concerns me the most is that people will actively go out to the cinema and pay money to watch it i guess that's the biggest argument in the world of cinema is film art first and entertainment second or is it the other way around the only people who can decide that is the audience if you like and are intrigued by good films stay clear of this turkey
0	why did they unleash this movie upon us it seems as though they set out to make this movie a total slap in to anne rice and every self respecting vampire chronicles fan it ignores the ground work laid down by interview with the vampire mutilates the plot of the novel and has stuart townsend stumbling around drunk br br stuart is not our lestat our brat prince our adventurous rebel with the sense of humor stuart is a second rate boring rip off of dracula in black leather he did not read the books or know the character is he illiterate tom cruise is dyslexic and still he made a point to read the books and know and love lestat br br don't kid yourselves it is not a stand alone vampire flick it's trash plain and simple
0	i should have known when i heard anne rice left the project that the movie would disappoint me i couldn't have predicted that years after it's release just thinking about the movie still makes me angry the novels are amazing and while i understand much gets lost in the translation to screen this movie was a great big middle finger to her original work i hope one day someone tries again the right way starting with the vampire lestat they change the roles and looks of major and minor characters alike for no good reason they destroy history the acting of the queen is exaggerated to the point of comedy but i just can't bring myself to laugh the charm and allure of the novels just isn't there the movie is a bad excuse to cram as many musicians and dark imagery as possible into one movie hoping the teeny of america would lap it up part of the appeal of the first movie of louis' story is that he is caught between his humanity and his curse lestat is supposed to take over and display the magic and excitement of the vampire world thank goodness i read the books first or i'd have never touched them after this movie
0	this film was basically set up for failure by the studio one anne rice author of the book offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio two they tried to stuff 2 in depth novels in to a 2hour movie br br i maintain the only way for these two books vampire lestat and queen of the damned to work in a live action form would be through a mini series first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the 1700's to the 1980's and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character lestat the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed br br lestat was not cruel and vicious to all he was not wanting to go along with plans marius did not make lestat lestat did not love jesse or make her lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light marius was not after david nor the other way around every character was completely represented wrong basically same names different story br br if they wanted to make a vampire movie fine even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels fine but don't back into the theaters off the success of rice's great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love br br if you haven't read the books you won't understand the film really if you have read the books you will be insulted that being said i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it catch 22 must see it will hate it
0	i thought this movie was too absurd for me to finish watching it the premise was too silly and predictable i didn't make it far into the movie br br let me see she is obviously older than the cabbie unless she is a lot younger than she looks he is black and she is white she makes more money than him he is only a cabbie that's 3 of society's most statistically failed unions all rolled up in one and we are supposed to pretend they have a chance in hell she would be better off marrying the guy she doesn't love br br i only watched it partially because i love as an actor his acting was superb hers meh it was ok but the premise is too silly didn't see the end couldn't make it there so i don't know if it ended differently from the way i predicted the ending would be i can't imagine any black woman liking this movie there is something sickening about watching a black man catering to a white woman like that and an old one at that please not in the real world
0	my daughter liked it but i was aghast that a character in this movie smokes as if it isn't awful enough to see product placement actors like bruce willis who smoke in their movies at least children movies should be more considerate i wonder was that intentional did big tobacco sponsor the film what does it take to ban smoking from films at least films intended for children and adolescents my daughter liked it but i was aghast that a character in this movie smokes as if it isn't awful enough to see product placement actors like bruce willis who smoke in their movies at least children movies should be more considerate i wonder was that intentional did big tobacco sponsor the film what does it take to ban smoking from films at least films intended for children and adolescents
0	i want to say i liked this film i really do but when it boils down to it it was just far too boring it starts off looking promising and even once they get inside the mines the creepy atmosphere and mood is great the problem is the monster or lack of it as people have said it's a stop motion monster but that's not the problem stop motion can look great if done properly the problem is that we don't see enough of it and we don't get to see any deaths this is meant to be a horror film so a lack of monster and a lack of deaths equals boredom there were some scenes i liked such as when one girl is using her camera in the dark and the monster is coming towards her there are also a few other creepy scenes but they are far too few to hold your interest and definitely not worth watching the film for it's a shame because i can see that had it been handled correctly it would've been an effectively creepy horror flick the saddest thing is that films like this will never be made again because film makers over polish their films these days and rely on crappy cgi effects
0	some movies are just … unlucky these are the films that obviously thrived on a lot of goodwill and a handful of potentially great ideas but simply didn't have the budgetary means and or professional cast and crew members at their disposal to make it happen the strangeness definitely belongs in this category you really want to like it but even the most tolerant and undemanding 80's horror fanatics will have to admit the film barely reaches the level of mediocrity due to its atmosphere of cheapness clumsy stop motion effects and dark cinematography the strangeness has a fairly original plot and setting okay it's similar to the boogens but i sincerely doubt that director david michael hillman intentionally ripped off a fellow insignificant 80's b movie and the players deliver enthusiast performances even though they're all miscast an assembly of amateur go on an expedition to explore the infamous gold spike mine many years ago several miners mysteriously died there and the place has abandoned ever since but there's supposed to be too much gold hidden there to remain closed forever shortly after they descended into the mine the group members one by one encounter the slimy ruler of the gold spike mine a lovecraftian monster with tentacles and an incredibly cheesy way of moving forward throughout most of its running time the strangeness is a boring and incompetent mess that is difficult to follow due to the complete lack of lighting the characters are uninteresting and the mine remains a mystery because the only lighting effects come from the helmets of the there's very little action or horror to experience in the first hour but director hillman cleverly grasps the viewers' attention by showing bits and pieces of the monster at regular intervals as soon as you catch the first glimpse of the monster's tentacle you're doomed to keep watching till the very end the creature is realized with stop motion effects which i usually adore and worship but here in this case they look extremely weak and pitiable the person responsible for the special effects should have paid more attention to the work of ray the death sequences largely occur off screen and there's very little suspense throughout the whole movie a horror flick with a setting like this should benefice from claustrophobic atmosphere and unidentifiable sound effects but the strangeness lacks all this the biggest trump of the film is unquestionably the beautiful appearance of blond actress terri she resembles a as much as i resemble mother theresa but she surely looks good in her tight white top and beige pants
0	i had known brad at florida state u in the early 70's when he was an inspiring inventive writer who i thought was headed for greater glory br br and that is why i rented this video well well well the time has not been kind to mr i suppose the pressures of making a living makes higher aspirations expendable another flower whose bloom has come and gone un noticed in the summer breeze amen there is nothing more to say and nothing more to add a sad epitaph to a once blossoming career as stated above but it is the price one pays for chasing shadows without a firm foundation or goals for oneself in life because this movie has no goal no purpose and i kept telling myself what happened to creativity his once shining genius gone gone years of neglect has deteriorated his once shining mind
0	a group of 7 gold prospectors head into a mine that was recently opened back up after an earthquake of course they don't pay attention to local legend that something is down there and killing people this low budget 25 000 horror flick has a slight cult following and i'm not exactly sure why unless it is because it is so obscure i'll admit the last half hour is pretty entertaining but the hour getting there is pure torture lots of walking and talking and our titular strangeness doesn't appear until 45 minutes in even in the extras co writer chris huntley admits it commits the unforgivable sin of being boring i would forgive them if they were strict amateurs but this group graduated from usc so i would hope they know an exploitation film should be exploitive anyway like i said the last half hour is cool as three survivors battle the stop motion monster and there is a cool john carpenter like score i wanted to see more of the monster but it is literally on screen for 45 seconds br br even if the movie isn't the best code red dvd has given this great attention you have interviews and an audio commentary by director melanie anne phillips producer actor mark and co writer huntley the tales about how the film was made are pretty fascinating and inspiring like a cave set being built in a backyard even more interesting are and usc student shorts which are actually all better than the feature production huntley was a pretty talented artist and it is a shame he didn't go on to anything else has worked steadily in hollywood as a visual effects and camera guy the film's vhs is kind of legendary for how dark it was and i'm sure this is much better however you still get scenes where the only image are five helmet lights bouncing around in the blackness safe to say the original my bloody valentine is still horror film set in a mine champ
0	this extremely low budget monster flick centers around a group of mine exploring an abandoned gold mine in order to see if its worth reopening they get trapped after a cave in and find they are at the mercy of a strange slimy creature which seems bent on knocking them off one at a time the word that most came to mind as i watched this movie was the script and acting is terrible the stop motion monster effects were unintentionally funny and since the bulk of the movie takes place underground lighting the sets convincingly looked like a logistical nightmare all that being said however for some reason i felt this movie failed not from lack of effort but maybe from either a lack of budget experience and or lack of creative inspiration the whole thing came off like it was either a college project or a first film made by amateurs i have a certain amount of affection for films like that even when they completely miss the mark i guess what i'm saying is i give it an b for effort and a d for actual results not insultingly bad as some low budget monster movies i've seen but still not worth seeing unless you have a lot of free time on your hands i'm voting it a 4
0	my boss at the time and showed it to us at a halloween party at our office he is the chris huntley that co wrote and acted in it he knows it's bad we know it's bad and we all agree that the monster looks way too much like a vagina to be coincidence maybe it was from a experiment gone wrong br br it was a very low budget and the actors were all friends so what you have here is a case of hey gang put on a show br br nobody got hurt and it was a first attempt nothing wrong with that it gave us all a good laugh and it's a great film to watch with friends and make fun of
0	a ridiculous movie a terrible editing job worst screenplay ridiculous acting a story that is completely br br if god was going to decide if movies should continue to be done judging by this one the entire world movie industry would now be dead br br a wonderful movie to show that cinema should not be done by people who think they can make movies br br i am still wondering who are those two girls who show up in the movie for over half an hour and are never introduced to us br br
0	you would probably get something like this i'm translating movies for a living and this is the first movie in my 5 year working experience that i found offensive to my intelligence of course there are stupid hollywood movies about drunken teenagers on a spring break but those movies don't even claim to be serious works of art but when someone strives for greatness and poetry but delivers a muddled and often ridiculous story a bunch of disparate scenes pretentious dialogue then you get the worst kind of a movie that some other reviewer very accurately defined as pretentious crap to those who find this movie intelligent or even masterful i can only say it's your intelligence and your imagination you obviously used to try and make some sense of this pitiful attempt it's in our human nature to try and make sense of things br br one more thing i can tolerate political incorrectness very well i'm all for artistic freedom and suspension of disbelief but the slavic female character was just too much i wish someone told the director that it's kind of ridiculous even in an unrealistic art movie to portray a slavic woman as a half articulate dishevelled creature connected to the forces of nature probably due to the fact that she had spent her entire childhood looking at the stars and milking cows on a three legged stool
0	first i don't see how the movie is on any best list or how it won any awards compared to la pianiste which is also on a best list la pianiste is gold this movie lacked so many things on so many different levels but i can't quite explain why i disliked it so much the lead actor was annoying i felt as though i never knew what was going on and i was bored even though this was supposed to be some worthwhile life change that pierre was starting i wanted it to end as soon as possible why did it have to be his sister and cousin ugh and why did get mean he just turned mean and also was it me or did i miss the whole purpose of what that guy in black was all about who were all those people playing music in the big basement of the big warehouse why did they have all that weird equipment and the guns and all those extra rooms for people to live in i mean this in all seriousness but does incest happen a lot in french culture european culture i took 5 years of learning about the culture and i never heard anything about that
0	french cinema sucks down with all these visions with their my god am i cultivated distinguished attitudes pestilence to conceited symbolic film language and impervious i'll no longer have a mind for that carax did you ever think about that a dialogue in a film could be natural and vivid maybe i'm too common to understand you or had it been your task to confirm all the clichés of a frenchman the world can have guillaume the to be comes to his home palace mme deneuve not in the picture plays the flute here am i darling in this moment i knew that she's in the bathtub and we ll see her lying in there soon don't misunderstand me i'm not prudish and the sex scene was the climax of the film but this is in berlin we say what means something like a self satisfied and the worst seen that often in french movies i can tell other example she beautiful and willing is looking at herself in a mirror combing her hair and her wild bearded dirty young guru into the room breathless shouting there's no escape there's no escape forty years after and what's new what's exciting about my god there's that woman and she loves and admires you what would be more natural to be happy with your life and when you're not please explain much better why born french means you have to live a life in extravaganza no escape is that the point
0	the movie contains a very short scene of deneuve in a bathtub she looks absolutely stunning for a lady age 56 but this is the only saving grace of the movie otherwise it has a mindless unmotivated script and the lead actress has none of deneuve's appeal the director apparently watched too many peter greenaway films and x comes across as a student's imitation of the greenaway style without any of his inspiration
0	i'm accustomed to being patient with films because i've generally found it usually pays off but a few works take tedium to new levels and enter the realm of provocation last year at marienbad comes to mind well x ain't no last year at marienbad i can count on one hand the number of films i've walked out on over the years x achieved membership in that august group in my defense i believe i made a valiant effort to stand my ground hoping things would turn around however i finally threw in the towel just shy of the 90 minute mark quite respectable under the circumstances x does not come anywhere near living up to the promise of carax's earlier work after a 10 year hiatus that must have been bitter for him indeed melville is still spinning in his grave
0	pretentious claptrap updating herman melville about a young man's vaguely incestuous relationship with his aristocratic mother getting transferred to his long lost sister who has been raised by gypsies or something like that – not that anyone really cares to unravel its multi layered plot decked out with pornographic sex scenes pseudo symbolic imagery the siblings swimming in a river of blood and other bizarre touches a gypsy child repeatedly insults passers by in the street until she is anonymously beaten to death the deafening music of a rock group utilized in the demolition of old buildings considering the source material and the presence of catherine deneuve who at least gets to bathe in the nude i was expecting a lot more from this one apparently there's an even longer tv version of x out there…
0	i felt compelled to write a review after seeing the only review which gave this film a suspiciously high 9 10 rating i say suspicious because it looks less like a review but more like a publicity statement perhaps the filmmaker himself or one of his mates has written that review naughty naughty br br i watched this movie on the propeller channel on sky tv expecting it to be truly awful the special effects used were to be honest very very good for a low budget film and some of the acting wasn't that bad either but most of the acting was really awful but well done for trying as i expect most were pals of the filmmaker br br i think the filmmaker has done really well by trying to punch above his weight i did find some of the film funny because it was trying to be super cool when it just wasn't br br if you don't take this film too seriously and watch it whilst drunk with some mates you might well have a good time but probably not in the way it was intended this film is no way a 9 10 but worth watching for a laugh bearing in mind it was made on a very very low budget and in fairness due credit to those involved in it's production
0	it's difficult to express how bad this movie is even in the 1950s when intellectual searching for the meaning of life was fashionable and beatnik rejection of physical comforts clean clothes haircuts etc was a common reaction to the smug middle class mores of both the usa and western europe this movie would have been a stinker the plot is a mishmash of several dei ex machina if that's the correct latin grammar the acting consists of deadpan stares broken by occasional hysterics by the male lead as well as the females the gratuitous view of catherine deneuve's or somebody's breasts are worthy of a budweiser commercial the repeated orchestra rehearsal in the abandoned building is i'm sure heavy with meaning in the director's mind but to me is just one more stupid symbol thrown into this meaningless movie i'm ranting because my time has been wasted watching this scam excuse for an art flic the scenery is beautiful and the sex scene is hot but underneath his clothes this king has no substance
0	i enjoyed carax's les amants du pont and was therefore expecting this film to be of a similar standard well the first 10 minutes were ok but then it disintegrates into a rather pretentious journey of a young man looking for the essence of life a sad disappointment
0	i won't lie i rented this film because it was an arty film with some possible explicit sex i got that scene and catherine deneuve's briefly shown breasts but the rest of the film is just the usual long pretentious european art films with lines like did i have a mother or father i don't know paraphrased usually delivered in long soliloquies br br if you are curious about the transition of art to porn might be an interesting look with use of the fast forward button i was still too slow
0	spoilers br br oh sure it's based on moby dick totally obsessed and it destroy's him it's a total folly the movie starts off rather well but by the end of the film everyone else is destroyed and the main star's mind is a blank br br the supposed half sister is never convincing some very poor lighting effects music is interesting but little else it took me over a month to finally finish the darn thing i suppose if you like being john malkovich you might like this but where as bjm was a great movie that i just didn't want to watch again x is a movie i just hate to high hell the only possible excitement in the film is the incest sexual scene towards the end of the film hopefully yer not thinking of catherine either br br this movie is severely boring depressing and poorly directed not highly recommended if if you like french movies go watch crimson rivers instead br br 4 10 br br quality 5 10 entertainment 1 10 replayable 0 10
0	this movie is so unreal french movies like these are just waste of time why watch this movie even i did not know why what the well known sex scene of half siblings although the sex scene is so real and explicit but the story it is based upon is so unreal what is the use of it then can you find easily in life half sibling doing such things br br did i learn something from this movie yeah some people are just so fond of wasting time making such movies such stories such non sense but for those who like nihilism nothingness in life or simply a life without hope then there you are you've got to see this movie br br only one worth adoring though catherine deneuve she's such a strikingly beautiful woman
0	i wish depardieu had been able to finish his book and see it become a dazzling success at least he'd have wound up with something br br the film struck me as pointless rambling and very stylish like some other recent french films not to knock it most recent american films are pointless and rambling and have no style whatever we should be grateful i suppose for photography that evokes a european city in the midst of a wind blown continental winter and for elliptical conversations that challenge our ability to understand what's up br br but there can be too much of a good thing golubeva is found stumbling around near the sea in the middle of the freezing night carrying on in a bad accent about dreams and such there are a few sequences of dreams that include things like swimming in a river of blood you'll love it if you're vlad the impaler lots of people die catherine deneuve dies in a suicide by motorcycle i don't know why young girl dies too and i don't know why she dies either she gets slapped in the face falls to the pavement and dies br br there is supposedly an explicit sex scene too i'll have to take their word for it because although it is stylishly photographed it is stylishly photographed in almost complete darkness don't worry about the kiddies being shocked they'll probably be asleep by this time anyway br br depardieu isn't a bad actor as we see him deteriorate from a carefully groomed handsome young man well handsome except that his nose can't seem to get out of his way to a limping murderous hairy physical wreck we feel sorry for the guy golubeva has a wan pretty face with enormous half eyes and wide cheeks like a doll her next movie should be a remake of lewton's i walked with a zombie then there is this mysterious guy who leads a band i guess it's a band as far as i could make out the band is made up of about a dozen drummers and a dozen musicians playing electric guitars every viewer will find the resultant sound interesting but listeners fond of easy listening might not enjoy it if you don't like the music there's a payoff involved because the sinister composer and leader gets whacked over the head with depardieu's walking stick br br i must say i found it barely worth sitting through and it's a too at times it was like waiting in your car at a railroad crossing while a long long freight train rumbles slowly by sometimes stopping entirely i wish it had had a few jokes
0	i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which was actually written not spoken in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here or else has so much disdain for everyone especially the viewing audience that he can't be bothered letting anyone in on the joke br br some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique bizarre films because they do so with élan and unique personal style e g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story e g kieslowski and david cronenberg's later less bizarre works in x carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it well here it is the pacing is erratic and choppy in particular continuity is often dispensed with superfluous characters abound e g the gypsy mother and child most of the performances are overwrought the lighting is often poor particularly in the oft discussed sex scene unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list goes on br br not to be completely negative it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions i liked the musical score even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhol's of the '60s much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings and even well into middle age deneuve shows that she still has 'it' her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn't sink into bathos br br there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as x more charitably experimentation is admirable even when the experiment doesn't work but carax tries nothing new here the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly crafted tripe at this early moment in the 21st century one is left asking with the exception of jean pierre jeunet are there any directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating 3 10
0	i must in light of the of praise for this flick from viewers assume once again the role of the turd in the punchbowl as lowell used to say i am scratching my head at the sheer number of laudatory comments the african queen this ain't the period flavor is wonderful yes the acting is fine but no actor no matter how great can bring life to the seemingly endless stream of perfectly tedious and insignificant party and dinner table conversation here and i care not how much of it is taken from joyce's text imagine spending an hour and a half as a fly on the wall at a christmas dinner of a not particularly interesting group of people it's not clear to me that it's a family as one person suggested having to listen to their mundane table talk and you have the essential experience of this movie absolutely nothing happens and nothing important is said but it is said at interminable length as i said the popularity of this movie is a mystery to me speaking of mysteries watch a good one rather than this
0	some guy named karl learns how to live on even after death through telekinesis he's interred in a mausoleum that same night julie meg tilly has to spend the night there to get into a group called the sisters and karl's power is in full bloom br br silly movie i saw it in a theatre when i was 21 and was generally bored the pg rating should have tipped me off this is a horror movie for kids one real stupid scene at the end has a corpse breaking through concrete to hit a young guy for starters corpses are put in head first making it impossible for the corpse to use his arms and there's no way anybody is going to break through concrete when you're noticing silly mistakes like that the movie is not doing its job br br it has two good scenes two of the sisters are attacked by floating corpses crowding them in at one point one of the sisters punches a corpse in the stomach her hand goes in the body and she can't pull it out that scene has stayed with me every since and there's a cute little bit involving a corpse and a toothbrush at the end which had my audience laughing but the rest of the movie is a dim dull memory for kids only adults will be bored i give it a 3
0	i saw this on a cheap dvd release with the title the entity force since i enjoy cheesy 80's horror films i thought i was in for a real treat sadly the film is mostly boring and you're constantly waiting for something to happen it does eventually get somewhat interesting but this is in the last quarter of the film it's a case of too little too late when the action does happen it's not that great what we get are dead corpses along the ground and chasing after the girls in the mausoleum it's not the absolute worst i've seen but you can do a lot better i would only recommend this to die hard collectors of cheesy 80's horror
0	i really did not want to write a harsh review of this movie because i genuinely appreciate how hard it is to make any kind of movie on an incredibly low budget let alone attempt something as ambitious as a sci fi br br however this movie is truly awful the acting is among some of the worst i have ever had to endure and as a fan of low budget movies that is a pretty serious accusation to make there are plenty of aspiring actors out there who would work on a deferred payment scheme if they believed in the movie and what the director was trying to achieve i'm sure the actors did their best as did everybody else involved in this production but it simply was not good enough to pull off something of this magnitude br br then there is the dialogue very poor indeed there is no excuse for that i got the impression the script was hastily written on the back of a beer mat after some epic boozing session i hesitate to use the word but that's exactly what the script is i had no empathy with any of the characters indeed they grated on me with the result that on more than one occasion i wanted to thump a couple of them mr has overstretched himself by taking on too many roles clint eastwood he is not again there are talented people out there willing to work on deferment if they believe in the project br br much has been made of the special effects in this movie for the money they are exceptional if somewhat overused it is like someone said i have after effects and boy am i gonna use it whoever did the cg work was among the most talented of this crew br br quite simply the money was not available to make as ambitious a movie as this attempts to be kudos for attempting it but unfortunately it fails to reach its heady goals in far too many ways br br i salute everyone involved with its production i really do but for their next effort they either need to get a better producer or lower their sights to something more manageable br br in conclusion i cannot recommend this effort to anyone other than the most enthusiastic of film students or habitual insomniacs if you want to watch a true masterpiece of low budget sci fi films try the student made dark star by a certain mr john carpenter
0	i received a copy of this film from a friend for my 21st birthday which he had obviously picked up for 99p from a bargain video bin br br never have i been so frustrated when watching a film it was tedious adam west was wasted literally and in retrospect i cannot recall a single thing about it my lack of enjoyment grew to such an extent that the second the credits rolled we smashed up the cassette and hung the tape around the living room just for good measure we set fire to the cover
0	when you look at the cover and read stuff about it an entirely different type of movie comes to mind than what you get here then again maybe i read the summary for the other movie called instead as there were two movies of this title released about the same time with both featuring plots that had key elements in common however reading stuff about that movie here i know i saw this one and not that one and that movie is even less what one would imagine a movie with that title would be about i will be honest i expect more of a zombie type picture and you get that in this movie to some degree however there is more stuff involving the occult and strange powers as the opening scene of the people being taken away by the coroner at the beginning of the film will attest to the movie also has the old theme of kids going somewhere they do not belong to have some crazy party in this case it is in fact a mausoleum the other movie i do not think really has that key feature playing that prominent role in the movie and i see the score for this one is higher too still it was just not the movie i was expecting
0	i had never even heard of one dark night until someone mentioned it on a horror message board here recently and reading into it i gained interest due to meg tilly's involvement and recognizing that it was an early gig for friday the 13th vi jason lives director tom unfortunately sad to say it's nothing special the premise has a familiarity to it a college girl must survive the night in an old mausoleum until morning in order to join a sorority that girl is a young meg tilly as julie who wishes to prove to her loving caring boyfriend steve david mason daniels that she can make his cruel conniving ex girlfriend carol's robin evans sorority regardless of the tactics she pulls in order to see her fail along with carol's gang is kitty leslie always with a toothbrush in her mouth and leslie elizabeth daily who doesn't really wish to cause julie such trouble while leslie insists on leaving julie alone as she remains in the mausoleum carol and kitty plan to torment the poor girl meanwhile steve searches for her while julie carol and kitty encounter an evil they couldn't possibly imagine the corpse of a recently diseased psychic vampire whose telekinesis was of a dangerously powerful degree will seek to drain them of their very lifeforce the only one who can help these girls is the dead man's daughter olivia melissa newman who is equipped with the same psychic power he has br br i think what many will find exciting is the unusual evil that threatens the girls in the mausoleum it's certainly different than what you normally see in the slashers that were out at this time like adam west's character he was the cynical husband of olivia who found the idea of her father's power ridiculous i had a really hard time adjusting to the tacky plot and i personally never found anything within the film to get excited about the mausoleum to me never really was that spooky it doesn't really achieve the same kind of eerie quality phantasm captured and the corpses which are used to attack the girls are laughably unconvincing there is one great scene where a corpse's face melts away i have a soft spot for low budget films from this period of time but i just never really could find a reason to get involved when you have this unsatisfying undead corpse shooting electric bolts from it's eyes causing other bodies to break free from their crypts to obey their master it's just too silly to take seriously carol is your typical blond bitch wishing to punish a nice girl who is dating a former flame steve is your typical squeaky clean all american boyfriend handsome and tender who becomes the hero seeking to save his girl from whatever sinister forces are at play to make up for the small budget director tries every trick in the book to thrill the audience using a series of ooga effects such as corpses which pursue young girls chairs which shake and tremble doors that slam shut and objects levitating by themselves the film obviously has it's fans and i am glad i had a chance to see it but i was a bit disappointed that one dark night wasn't the horror sleeper i hoped for adam west has a very small role as the concerned husband hoping his wife will snap out of her depressed state regarding a father who had nothing to do with her melissa newman is the troubled olivia recognizing that she must stop her father once and for all or else he'd continue to prey on the living donald is an associate of olivia's father's who informs her of what he was i wasn't particularly blown away by tilly's performance here she was basically scared most of the time but she'd get a chance to prove herself to a greater degree from this point onward this will undoubtedly be of some value to those who watched it back at that time for nostalgia purposes it might seduce fans of movies from this era
0	threadbare horror outing has an innocent teen meg tilly appealing as always attempting to get in good with the popular clique at school despite the fact they seem to hate her outright and letting herself be subjected to their sorority like initiation spending the night in a creepy mausoleum despite the complete absence of originality this low budget thriller manages to come up with some decent special effects and has several good performances particularly by robin evans oozing campy viciousness as the leader of the girls the script isn't razor sharp but it has enough quirks to make the proceedings somewhat bearable from
0	i've seen foxy brown coffy friday foster bucktown and black mama white mama of these this is pam grier's worst movie poor acting bad script boring action scenes there's just nothing there avoid this and rent friday foster coffy or foxy brown instead
0	i really tried but this movie just didn't work for me the action scenes were dull the acting was surprisingly poor and some of these characters were too stereotypical to even be funny pam grier tries but when you have nothing to work with even her considerable talent cannot prevent a disaster even by the standards of this weak genre this film is pretty bad
0	when pam grier made coffy in 1973 it was an exciting though flawed film the plot was gritty and satisfying even if the acting was often amateurish it was so successful that american international pictures decided to rehash the formula the following year with foxy brown not a bad film but certainly almost like coffy ii now only a year later the studio had apparently given up on creating anything new for ms grier as sheba baby was essentially the same plot from coffy and foxy brown yet again because the idea was so recycled and because the acting and acting are so tired and low energy it's really scraping the bottom of the blaxploitation barrel br br exactly like these other films sheba baby begins with some local black mobsters pressuring and eventually killing someone pam grier loves in the past it had been drug dealers and pimps now it was mobsters trying to run all the loan companies and pawn shops out of town so they can corner the market and like the other films pam is a one woman hit squad dispensing justice and a good butt and like the other films there is a cat fight between pam and a white lady right in front of mr big and like the other films mr big is a white guy pulling all the strings and like the other films she is captured by mr big and like the other films he doesn't immediately kill her but gives her ample opportunity to escape here leaving a knife conveniently lying around and like the other films she eventually gets free and kills his jive br br while this formula did seem interesting in 1973 by this film it was frankly a predictable bore even if you hadn't seen the other films it still was bad because the action was so slow the punching and kicking seemed so slow and staged the same could be said for the gun play in one scene four guys with machine guns an ar 15 and shotguns attack pam responds by opening fire with a 357 revolver and killing 3 of the 4 and getting the other to surrender even if she's a good shot she was rather slow and the guys just seemed to wait until she killed them plus even a world champion shooter or rambo couldn't have succeeded with such one sided odds after all these guys had very impressive weapons and they were already pointed at her when she cleverly whipped out her pistol and easily dispatched these professional hit men br br in addition to slow and lame action scenes compared to any other film the movie has many logical gaps that show the writing was terrible but the studio just didn't care in one case her boyfriend williams knew about the yacht and nu at the end of the film but pam never told him how did he know about this in another the cops approach a boat filled with hoods and the hood immediately open fire however the cops had no evidence anything was happening and the crooks began firing with little provocation and the crooks had 30 caliber machine guns and other amazingly powerful weapons but in many cases were killed by cops wielding snub nosed br br the bottom line is that this is a great example of been there done that a whole lot better i love blaxploitation films but this one is just too dopey and slow to merit watching except by very devoted fans of the genre
0	sheba shayne pam grier receives a telegram informing her that her father may be in trouble sheba a private investigator and former cop goes to her father's aid but someone will stop at nothing to run her father out of business an attempt to show their muscle goes awry and sheba's father is gunned down in cold blood these guys have messed with the wrong woman br br if i had to describe sheba baby the best i can come up with is pam grier lite with some really bad acting for a pam grier film sheba baby is incredibly tame it's nowhere near as violent as some of her earlier films gone are the over the top images of pam placing a small revolver or razor blades in her afro pilot martin and his crew can't hold a candle to some of the real villains pam faced in her previous movies it's strictly by the numbers and almost has a made for tv feel as for the bad acting the baddies that pam faces off with are as unnatural sounding in their delivery as i've seen as a result characters like pilot don't come across as threatening as they should or need to for the movie to work br br that's not to say there aren't moments or elements in sheba baby that i didn't enjoy pam in a and pam brandishing a spear gun it's just that when compared with pam's other films like coffy foxy brown and even friday foster that the movie fails br br one final observation maybe i'm just more sensitive to these things post 9 11 but i don't remember a time even in the security lax 70s when you could take a suitcase full of guns on an airplane when sheba flies to her father's aid she's got an arsenal packed in her luggage
0	below average action melodrama in which the lovely ms grier plays a private eye who comes to the aid of her father rudy challenger and his partner austin stoker of the original assault on precinct 13 whose loan business is being threatened br br i'll be frank i agree with the few other user comments for this movie sheba baby has a less than satisfying script direction that isn't particularly distinguished action scenes that are moderately entertaining at best and one of ms grier's more nondescript supporting casts although there's an important supporting role for martin also a familiar name in i get the feeling that this routine movie may have been put together quickly merely to cash in on her then enormous popularity br br it sure was cool seeing stoker again although ms grier doesn't have as good a role or dialog as she has had in other films although she is doing what she does best and that's playing a sassy sexy sister on a mission of vengeance br br non stop soul funk soundtrack is enjoyable at the very least br br mostly recommended to those who wish to see everything in the pam grier film repertoire br br 4 10
0	talk about rubbish i can't think of one good thing in this movie the screenplay was poor the acting was terrible and the effects well there were no effects i can't believe the writer of this movie did identity everything in this movie made me sick to start to finish br br the front cover of the video box shows a showman with shark like teeth and scary eyes i looks like a scary villain but like the old saying never judge a book by it's cover the whole villain looked like a cardboard cut out one part in the film a girl gets killed by a salad tongs terrible the setting was bad enough like they could of set the whole thing in but no a tropical island instead br br i took this movie as a spoof which i think they wanted it to be but the only thing that made me laugh in a bad way was the tacky effects you can argue that i haven't watched the first one but seeing this i would be safe if i wouldn't attempted it br br the biggest joke in this movie is the effects the snowballs looked like they were home made and that carrot was a complete embarrassment if i would of guess the budget of this movie would of probably be between 8 to 9 pounds fifty the producer in a last minute panic must of grabbed the actors for the street gave them the script told them they have 6 minutes to practise these lines and shoot on a island br br lastly the acting in the film was painful it was like the actors forgot their ordinary lines and made them up the way through br br in conclusion i give this film 0 stars out of 5
0	i went through great efforts to get this movie after reading the comments on this site i really don't have time to write reviews but i felt this was my duty as a sci fi horror buff this is only the second review i have written the other was for dracula 3000 now to the point this movie sucked plain and simple i kept wondering if i was watching the same movie as those who wrote all those lovely comments i have seen movies with bad effects bad acting bad sound you name it and i've seen it but this really sucked i don't care how much it costs or didn't cost to make movies like this and dracula 3000 should be banned and the whole cast and crew arrested and jailed for time murder by the way did i mention that this movie sucked i mean really sucked the plot was non exist and the acting was weak it seems like the writer saw pitch black and got upset because he didn't think of a plot like that first so he decided to make his own ripped off version but instead the suck factor took over and possessed him don't watch this you'll have more fun if you pull down your pants and sit on burning coals
0	jack frost returns with an army of styrofoam balls that can only be foiled by being shot with super loaded with margaritas how's that for a plot the film hinges on such a ridiculous premise that it barely raises an eyebrow when characters are killed with bbq tongs and are impaled by carrots you might even say the whole movie is skating on thin ice ba boom tish br br admittedly there are some fantastic one liners including a remark about the murderous coconut shark br br fair enough times are hard but that does not excuse the willingness of the actors to take part in such utter tripe br br for those fans hoping to see jack frost be prepared to accept him as merely a phallic carrot creeping up the beach with corny voice over commentary
0	hello it is i derrick cannon and i welcome you to the first ever review show my movie for this week was debatable what route what movie what excellent four star epic would i choose guess what i decided to pull a one eighty and go the other route i've decided to review a movie so atrocious that it totally killed what could have been a very unique concept the movie i will review today is jack frost two revenge of the mutant killer snowman the stars in this movie include christopher allport as sam eileen seeley as anne marsha clark as marla david allen brooks as agent manners sean patrick murphy as captain fun ray cooney as the colonel and scott macdonald as the killer snowman himself jack frost br br it's hard to believe that this movie was in the same series that gave us the incredibly funny jack frost loved the carrot scene but it's even harder to believe that this is the exact same cast the movie was ruined for me as soon as they arrived on the island and captain fun was introduced what was the point of his character and how did he fit into a horror movie the only possible reason i could see was that they wanted to give us a character that was total killer snowman fodder sam seemed more paranoid then he did in the original his babbling about anti freeze was one of the most pathetic display i had seen in a movie his wife however was one of the few bright spots she played her role as the main woman to a hilt she was a voice of reason in film of pure idiocy the scene where she figures out how to kill the snowmen was one of the most anticipated parts of the movie ray macdonald once again did a great job as jack frost despite what he was given if it wasn't for such weak characters he could have been immortalized like chucky freddy and jason laugh if you must but when it comes down to it jack frost had spunk he had humor and most importantly he had an vicious streak br br this movie could have been so much more it could have been a continuation of a great franchise instead any plans to make a jack frost three have been canceled br br this movie gets a two out of ten for me and it's lucky that it even gets a one
0	i remember when i first heard about jack frost i was in video at miranda with my family on a monthly video hiring tradition it was at this time that i worked up the courage to venture over towards the horror section of the store browsing the various titles i finally came across jack frost the cover was enough to convince me that the film was beyond my viewing pleasures years later the film disappeared only to be replaced with the inevitable yet unnecessary sequel i once again ventured to the horror section and picked up the case only to come to one conclusion the film would be but not intentionally br br jack frost 2 revenge of the killer mutant snowman quite a title follows off where it's predecessor left it sheriff sam is seeking counseling after his ordeals and jack is now in the form of anti freeze to escape his past sam and his wife head to an island hotel where he is in the company of a wide variety of slasher film stereotypes including busty female models thick headed sports jocks and caribbean staff however jack is released from his liquid grave and is back to his icy methods he heads over to the island and proceeds to kill anyone that would prove to have an awesome death only sam can stop him br br let me just say that this is a straight to video film so it's bound to be bad but this is terrible even in the eyes of other over the top films the camera work is poor using a camera that would make a soap opera look majestic half the actors look like they've come out of a porn shoot and the other half look like they've come out of a retirement home but in actual fact they've actually come out of an asylum there is an extensive use of special effects used in the film which tends to alternate between bland puppetry and cgi that can be bettered by an infant and the death scenes are mostly off screen showing us little of what has happened to the hapless yet deserving victims but the film is most memorable for it's killer one liners such as there's something that needs a little christmas stuffing and i know pronounce you officially f ing dead ultimately the whole purpose behind a film like this is to make a popcorn flick for those friday nights of boredom and even it fails at that to make a sequel to a film that was a poor slasher with a concept that a child would find unbelievable must've taken some nerves of or a total frontal lobotomy to director michael thanks for wasting my time to everyone else… avoid like arsenic
0	jack frost 2 the worst horror film i have ever seen why 1 the premise is well beyond ridiculous 2 the damn thing doesn't even have legs to move on 3 it escapes after being completely submerged in anti freeze first film 4 get this it travels all the way across an ocean of salt water to a tropical island to get revenge on the sheriff that did him in the first film 5 killer snowballs i have yet to be drunk enough to see ginger dead man so as of the writing of this jack frost 2 hold the distinction of being the stupidest horror film ever even surpassing the of it's predecessor if you can believe that
0	jack frost 2 is out of the question i'm actually surprised people are allowed to make these sort of movies br br as sam and his wife take to the for a relaxing christmas jack returns to kill off the fun and take on a revenge with inbreeding br br don't take a at this film at all most people say its a laugh with your mates but its a waste of time if the people who made this film can get a job by doing what they do they can at least take the time and effort to write up a better story especially the cheesy character names
0	this is the worst film i have ever seen bar none from the flimsy looking poorly lit sets to the laughable acting to the infantile plot and shoddy drawn out action sequences this film is so bad its hilarious for about ten minutes after which you will be reaching for the remote or the power socket to end this film non experience although it was obviously made with the entire production and acting collective tongue rammed in cheek please god i found jack frost 2 so dreadful as to be unwatchable for more than a quarter of an hour if you have not had enough of it after this time you must be indulging in drug abuse
0	why did i have to go out and buy yes buy jack frost 2 revenge of the mutant killer snowman maybe it was a burst of temporary mental derangement but i'm guessing it's because i kind of enjoyed the first jack frost it was a silly but funny horror comedy which had some okay effects by screaming mad george that and the fact that on the back cover of the sequel there was this nice picture of this guy impaled by this giant icicle coming out of his mouth with a lot of blood and all so i thought if it's as idiotic as the first and has some nice splatter gore in it it should be fun right well i was so dead wrong br br let me first say that the movie deserves some credit for having an immensely insane and retarded plot i mean a mutant killer snowman on a tropical island that spawns mutant killer baby snowballs which can only be killed or harmed by bananas as much as i love the premise i really hated the movie first of all while the first jack frost looked like an actual movie seemingly being shot on real film and all this sequel has the look and feel of a third rate soap opera it has this way too slick shot on video look the lighting is just plain awful bright white spots for the day look and stupid colors like blue and green at night the acting well don't even go there the dialogues range from stiff to extremely senile that jamaican man was just moronic saying man after every sentence and when it comes to the voice of the killer snowman all i could think of was a seventh rate chucky from child's play spewing dumb and supposedly witty one liners before he kills someone br br the best joke was were one guy asks why are you talking to your watch and the best scene was undoubtedly the one with that beautiful asian chick popping up out of nowhere and taking a swim in the pool totally naked thank god for that oh yeah and that little scene over the end credits with those two japanese dudes on a miniature ship being badly dubbed had me laughing too but the worst thing about this movie was where was the gore and splatter action everyone is talking about there were plenty of occasions to show some decent gory killings a lot of people were killed off in original ways here but all off screen like i've read in many other comments there were indeed nice set ups to a head explosion a crushed body eyes being poked out tongue ripped out but on the crucial moments the editor cuts away to some blood splatters on the floor or nothing at all that frontal shot of that british guy being impaled from the back cover of the dvd wasn't even in the movie i only saw that particular killing filmed from the back meaning i didn't see sh t i was waiting throughout the whole movie for that to happen and then i get to see nothing what a let down could it be that i saw a cut version of the movie that would be a shame 'cause only a decent amount of splatter fun could have saved this movie if you ask me seeing a lot of killer snowballs reduced to bloody pulp just didn't cut it for me speaking of those snowballs they were done very poorly they made munchies look like state of the art 'animatronics' but i guess that was the whole point of it at some point the special effects crew even turned to some laughably bad cgi boy you really have to see it to believe it best is to not see it actually 'cause this flick is just too bad okay i did laugh with it for it kept getting worse and worse just stick with the first jack frost 1996 and you'll be okay just bare in mind that it's a pretty silly horror comedy but fun in it's own right br br it's funny but writer director michael cooney somehow must have realized that he was a pretty bad director after jack frost 2 and then focused on writing turns out he then wrote two pretty good thriller screenplays for the i inside starring ryan phillippe and identity starring john cusack so the man seems to have some talent after all br br now it would be far too easy to give jack frost 2 the lowest rating possible so i say one point for that naked asian babe doing the skinny dipping and one point for those completely retarded snowball babies way to go mr cooney
0	horrible movie this movie beat out revenge of the living zombies for the worst movie i have ever suffered through what the were the morons who made this film thinking was it supposed to be scary because man let me tall you it wasn't it was so dumb it wasn't funny we all know that tropical islands are the natural hunting grounds for killer snowmen and those stupid baby snowballs stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid fake snow and lousy actors oh and frost looks nothing like he does on the box do not waste your time rent it and destroy it
0	please if you're thinking about renting this movie don't if you're thinking of watching a couple of downloaded clips don't if i had my way nobody would even have to read this summary br br the acting despite being one fo the high points of the movie was still pathetic the director was probaly a sadist the witty one liners were something you'd expect from a room of highly paid anti social 7 year olds that eat paint chips for breakfast br br the problem with this movie is that it tries to be a movie like evil dead 2 do not under any circumstances associate these 2 movies in that it's so bad it's funny but it also tries to be funny at the same time and fails so overwhelmingly to do so that your sense of humor is left too crippled to do anything but set off your gag reflex in an to save itself br br i could go on for much much more detailing just how awful it really was but i think it would strip me of my will to live just to continue to think about it if you need me i'll be off trying to boil myself so that i might feel clean again
0	if you like bad movies and you must to watch this one here's a good one not quite as funny as the first but much lower quality a must see for fans of jack frost as well as anyone up for a good laugh at the writing
0	i pride myself in being able to sit through everything i think if i've paid the rental fee then i'm going to at least watch it i have found the exception to this rule the planet i don't know what the exchange rate is but reading through the other comments i can only guess that must be around 150 i'll date myself but this movie reminds me of the old steve reeves movies of the 50's he was a bodybuilder turned actor he was in these really awful italian dubbed movies that starred reeves as hercules or some other muscle bound hero as a kid watching them you couldn't quite articulate why these movies stunk you just knew they did mike mitchell is the new steve reeves that's it that's what this really was a new telling of an old italian spaghetti sand and sandals movie and i kid you not where was reeves born glasgow montana this movie isn't so bad that it's kind of fun to watch it's just plain bad
0	in all it took me three attempts to get through this movie although not total trash i've found a number of things to be more useful to dedicate my time to such as taking off my fingernails with sandpaper br br the actors involved have to feel about the same as people who star in herpes medication commercials do people won't really pay to see either the notoriety you earn won't be the best for you personally but at least the commercials get air time br br the first one was bad but this gave the word bad a whole new definition but it does have one good feature if your kids bug you about letting them watch r rated movies before you want them to tie them down and pop this little gem in watch the whining stop and the tears begin
0	alright we start in the office of a shrink and apparently not a very good one the main hero from the first jack frost is in the shrinks office out random rhymes about jack frost gee alright my brother is yelling it off '' anyway back to the crappy movie br br the shrink has his speaker phone on and is letting his secretary and her friends listen in on this heroic insane sheriff i suppose he is supposed to be the hero from the first movie but he looks nothing like him yadda yadda yadda they laugh at the poor sheriff yadda yadda now some people are digging up the anti snowman yadda yadda now we're in a lab with some type of doctor people i don't quite see how this has to do anything but their poking the anti freeze evil killer mutant snowman with needles heating it shocking it adding strange and bizarre chemicals to it the whole nine yards nothing alright they give up and leave it in a fish tank one of the doctors leaves his coffee on the top of the tank the janitor walks in cleans stuff bumps the and the coffee spills the tank which makes jack alive br br behold the power of mocha now somehow he is in uh i believe the bahamas but it looked more like hawaii but it couldn't be hawaii unless they spent all of their budget on the dang air plane tickets bah i wont spoil the rest of this rotten movie so you'll have to rent it and watch it your self er i wouldn't suggest doing so though sheesh
0	jack frost 2 was a horrible terrible sadly pathetic excuse for a sequal to a great movie the original was a low budget comedy horror film about a murdered who was turned into a snowman after an accident with some toxic waste and the snowman went around murdering people and avoiding blow like the plague this however was a far cry from the quality of the original it seems like this even had a lower budget because for some reason after an hour into this film i still hadn't seen the snowman some revenge he's getting if he's always in the form of ice cubes with a cheesy voice over and a little shake of the cooler he rests in to give animation to the character disappointing to no belief even for a fan of bad cinema
0	may contain spoilers br br clearly who ever made this film must have had a lot of connections i just can't see it any other way what really surprises me is no one used the name allen smithee and more surprising everyone involved didn't use this name br br anyhow where to begin the bad dialogue the crummy costumes the sorry looking film stock the unintentional comedy the over the top characters and more inconsistencies than george w bush's college career i don't know what was funnier the guy losing his arm because of a snowball or the slow motion scene where all the baby jack were getting killed also one of the great lines of all time was uttered in this film how do we know it's him like there's another mutant snowman who can talk and kill people with snowballs a great camp film but a very bad film overall
0	this movie sucks did anyone notice that the entire movie was shot in like 2 rooms there are never any outside shots and if there are its obviously film taken from somewhere else this movie blows hard painful to sit through too stay far away
0	yes in this movie you are treated to multiple little snowmen on the attack in apparently a very warm climate so yes this movie is definitely not to be taken seriously it is in fact a much worse movie than the original as at least with that one the whole production looked like it cost more than a couple of bucks and a video camera to make it has its funny moments but really playing off the cheapness of your movie and making that be your intended laughs is kind of weak film making if you ask me you can not come up with a good story your effects are going to really be bad hey let us just make the movie look as bad as possible with horrible one liners and we have our movie the first one at least had a somewhat credible story as the snowman in that one attacked during the winter and not what amounts to a resort it also had better effects too this one is just a step or two ahead of hobgoblins as far as the monsters are concerned and you really want to be more than a step a two above a bunch of hand puppets still it makes up for all of this with a super ending that depicts a great sea vessel being taken out by the mighty frost actually i am just kidding but really it was the funniest part of the movie
0	ill conceived sequel the absurd idea of having the killer snowman on the rampage at an island resort where there is no snow or cold weather brings back the spirit of the psychopath returning thanks to a scientific experiment providing foreign elements which life to his molecules it's the best i could do to explain this preposterous concept br br i could go into depth about how he winds up at the island in order to slay numerous tourists but i simply find no reason to bother because it'd all be so exhausting anyway the filmmakers think it wise to kill off the pretty girls not ten minutes after their arrival i mean seriously why worry with even introducing them to us if we can't enjoy our eye candy no longer that this br br the snow anvil murder scene takes the cake ice icicles from the beach's sand so that a victim can fall on them oh and another girl is stabbed with a pair of weenie tongs br br look i get what's coming to me when i sit down to watch a killer snowman movie such a ridiculous supernatural slasher will either tickle your oh it's such a wonderfully cheesy horror movie or have you pondering why the hell you're wasting time with such nonsense jack frost has the power to freeze water then how were they able to melt him in the first film and causes the island resort to snow one sequence has jack freezing pool water encasing a swimming model under the sheet result being her drowning with nowhere to escape oh there's also a recreation of the tongue stuck to the icy pole bit from the christmas story dude br br i gotta hand it to the cast though they're real troopers for trying to make this wretched material entertaining christopher allport perhaps unwisely returns as sam to face his old nemesis as does eileen seeley as his wife the attempts at tongue in cheek humor for me at least fell flat but the cast soldiers onward trying to make the most of a very difficult situation with spirited performances they do their best to rise above the pitiful premise and woeful dialogue br br a development occurs which increases the danger towards those still around to face off with jack his genetically altered water molecules thanks to the introduced foreign elements allow him to withstand anti freeze and even worse he now can reproduce through indigestion jack hacks up what appear to be snowballs which hatch to reveal little snowballs with black eyes mouth and sharp teeth the killer snowman costume and little snowball puppets introduced later in the film might produce belly laughs if you are in the mood for such shenanigans but i personally found this junk rather hokey that's the purpose behind it i suppose cheap guffaws from those willing to embrace this and unbearable the snowball offspring is an obvious homage to gremlins where we get a bar scene where the little bastards are celebrating in number over terrorizing victims at the resort the weapon against them bananas it's explained that when jack went to kill sam in the first film both fell in a truck bed full of anti freeze an icicle emerging from jack's belly was penetrating sam's chest when he pushed them out a window into the truck bed and i guess in their being being linked by the icicle jack inherited sam's banana allergy or so this is what we are led to believe and in doing so both merged in a sense br br phew such a film as this defies simple explanation it's a film with effects and plot so terrible one might find the presentation enjoyable because of it's many failings
0	having already seen the original jack frost i never thought that jack frost 2 would be as absurd as it is boy was i wrong then again a pix movies have a way of showing unbelievably bad material even worse than you might expect i believe this is the first a pix sequel and it may be an indication of what to expect in the future more a pix sequels br br it's hard to watch this without laughing especially during the later parts of the movie in which jack frost's offspring which are essentially snowballs with eyes arms a mouth and sharp teeth start killing people with the typical comedic dialogue and silly voices to go with it they are shown both as puppets with a stick underneath to move them and as computer animation which i have to say looks very cheesy the computer animation surprised me as the first jack frost had no such effects br br i'd strongly recommend that you see the original jack frost before seeing this one both of which it would be preferable to watch with a group of friends to get the full amusement out of it and because it would make more sense sense being a relative term br br now only if there was uncle sam 2
0	the poet carne disappears didn´t he disappeared with prévert and is followed by the judge carne the director wants to give his own vision of a youth that he doesn´t understand and he doesn´t want to it´s a long way from the wonderful les enfants du paradis
0	this episode had potential the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly rings is somewhat interesting and when she explores the noise there is genuine tension and fear but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had br br first of all the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction e g it's funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind this door has serious damage to it that wasn't here a minute ago the door opened by itself without me touching it etc given these supernatural phenomena plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room wouldn't she take some before entering it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the lights also while in the haunted apartment she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide just unplug the phone the phone company doesn't need to be involved walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed br br finally showing the phone scamper across the floor like it's alive was just comical if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card he could've done it in a way that didn't look cartoony brave little toaster anyone
0	this movie was awful plain and simple the animation scenes had absolutely terrible graphics it was very clear to see that this film had about the budget of my grocery bill the acting was just as bad i've seen better acting in pornographic films i would seriously like the hour and twenty minutes of my life back in fact i registered on imdb just so that other people don't get sucked into watching this like i did don't get me wrong though i love sci fi films this one seemed more like the intro to a video game i'm glad i only spent a dollar to see this one the story line reminded me of the movie pitch black a prisoner on a ship in outer space escapes oh my goodness what are we gonna do i would not even let this play in the background of my house while i was cleaning bottom line here you can do better
0	although i could sum this pathetic episode of night gallery in two words those two words being horse manure i am obligated to write a minimum of ten lines this is a very sophomoric episode not worthy of the standards of rod serling but rather an inept attempt at some sort of ironic black comedy the premise of giant rodents inhabiting the moon a lifeless orb to be sure is totally ridiculous as is the construction of a giant mousetrap i suppose we are to also assume that the moon is made of green cheese and that is how these absurd creatures survive i can only assume that this episode was presented as a filler to supplant the other two episodes first aired on that date all in all a waste of film actors and air time
0	this space snippet was kind of dumb i guess it was supposed to be a shocker unexpected ending but imho it was just a huge letdown joseph campanella and the rest of the earthbound actors do a great job in this one their performances are not done justice with such a silly ending though how this ending could ever have made it through any kind of review by the producers is beyond me the other comment on here is not correct the tongue in cheek vignettes only came in during the second season this thing was supposed to be taken seriously the producers and writers could have been a little more creative with the ending to do the rest of the episode justice
0	okay so when a friend of mine told me he was supposed to direct and i thought heck i got to check out monster man and see what its like maybe i can get a part in it but when i popped it into my dvd player and and tried to choke down the first 45 minutes of nothing but bad bad i mean horribly annoying bad comedy from that fat ass thinking he's funny not to mention how the director spent on the pointless desert road trip i cam to the conclusion that these guys didn't have a clue of what they were doing and missed the boat by a long shot the story had potential to be somewhat different than the usual bs you see on the blockbuster hollywood video shelf put out by lions gate these days but they surely messed this one up why put so much time and effort in shooting annoying bad acting and bad jokes why not shorten the road trip and put more of the plot in the movie the writing was so bad that they had to cut out a lot of the movie or maybe the director didn't shoot enough of the horror and gore that they had to find filler to make the usual 84 minutes all in all and i'm being easy here maybe because a friend of mine is the bald redneck in the bar scene that gets his skull crushed when chasing the three leads out into the street i will give it at least 1 star for trying and the gore kill scenes weren't that bad again they tried too bad lions gate could have created a cool franchise from this idea but failed i don't recommend paying to rent it maybe you can find a cut down version where the movie starts from the hitch hiker scene crap
0	what an absolute joke of a movie the case for this film would have you believe it is duel meets jeepers creepers meets texas chainsaw massacre three good films in their own right and you would think using their blueprint mm couldn't go far wrong well that's what i thought and i was very very mistaken br br we follow two college students as they travel miles across the desert to reach a wedding they pick up a girl no she doesn't get her clothes off then they get chased by a leatherface rip off in a monster truck whom they aptly name f aka monster man br br the monster truck i will admit is a very cool vehicle but the less than suspenseful chase scenes ruin it's potential br br so mm decides he's got a bit of a grudge against these guys and chases them for a bit they loose him for a while and stop at a bar full of amputees then they go to a motel where lead character adam sleeps with hitch hiker sarah though they both wear underwear then they are caught by mm taken to his home where they escape death and try to kill mm but fail hence the set up for the sequel apart from a minor 'twist' that's it br br if you can get past the first 2 minutes – where adam's friend harley pops up from hiding in the back of adam's car to try to scare him with no explanation as to how harley even got there how long ago or how adam even failed to realise – without thinking you hate it already then you may just enjoy this film br br monster man has very poor cinematography and direction which is immediately off putting this is the kind of movie that you'll be able to pick up as one of those films in a box set of 20 horror movies that you've never heard of br br what is so irritating is blockbuster stock so many of these poor quality films that are shot on digital by some amateur film students and that's exactly what mm is though imdb states this particular director was born in 1961 br br the acting throughout this film is atrocious the script which the writer obviously considered to be funny is irritating and childish you get the impression only one draft was written before they started shooting in fact the script is do dire a lot of the film seems improvised full of those boring un entertaining conversations that are only funny or important to the actual people involved imagine you filmed yourself and your buddies having a conversation sure points are funny – to you but mostly it's trash that's what the script for mm is like br br don't watch it for the gore either – it's fairly minimal and there are much better gory films out there bad taste evil dead et br br jeepers creepers 1 2 even with their cheesiness and plot holes are far superior to this film compare the intro of jeepers creepers to the intro of monster man and you'll see what i mean
0	now don't get me wrong i love bad movies no i adore bad movies troll 2 ouch painful manos the hands of fate just watch go guru the mad monk is that traffic noise in the medieval background ok so that's clear but this is one of those films that was quite obviously trying to be something better but didn't make it why not well it would be easy to blame the plot but heh we've seen worse there weren't too many holes and heh i know there's not a lot of originality in it but then that needn't kill a film the effects aren't bad if you completely ignore the last scene the monster is ok the truck quite menacing so where did it go wrong well i'd love to blame it on the look a like harley so i will comedy and horror are difficult to mix well bad comedy and horror even worse and there's the problem i loathed this guy from the moment he stuck his head up literally the continual of the overly meek adam becomes annoying so annoying that you lose belief that the mildest of people wouldn't react by pushing him out of the moving car door and i thought it was the monster bits that the director was meant to have trouble convincing us of why are bad movies fun well you have great fun poking holes in them laughing at the script all the howlers etc this film doesn't make the coveted category of 'worst movies' because its just bad due to being annoying nuff said don't bother go watch anything else and you'll be a better person for it i promise fade to chants of
0	wow where do i begin after suffering through this wretched 1 00 rental thanks a lot family video i just had to make a few comments i did not bother to write down the names of the 3 actors in the film but hopefully you will know who i am talking about br br a monster truck terrorizes the countryside and chases two college aged buddies to their doom they encounter a hot girl wearing slutty clothes i mean this just sounds fantastic in theory i was laughing hysterically at the dvd box while i walked it up to the girl behind the counter at the video store br br acting the hot girl played by aimee whatever is visibly laughing through many scenes where she is supposed to be scared the other two major actors in the film the fat prankster and the vanilla straight guy are both terrible the fat guy thinks he's jack black he's not the other actor our hero over emotes and misses all his cues and comes across as some generic character you might see in a made for nickelodeon movie about skateboarding in the early 90's look i don't expect great performances in movies like these but at least the actors can make an effort to not be annoying you can be an incompetent actor but still be agreeable i e john wayne at least that aimee gal is attractive br br script holy who thought this dialogue was funny i wouldn't have the nerve to play this out in front of my grade school drama class much less pitch it as a film script unfathomably bad more on this later br br production ok this is the one place where the film definitely succeeds production quality is amazingly high the look of the film is very good apparently the only talented person who worked on the movie was the director of photography br br ok here are my biggest gripes 1 the guy driving the car never drives faster than 25 miles an hour br br 2 the guy driving the car is well out into the country before he realizes there is a fat man in a mask in his back seat he is supposedly meticulous about recording gas mileage and keeping his antique car in good condition but he does not notice a jack black impersonator in the back come on br br 4 characters never change their clothes there are two hotel scenes presumably showers are available to our characters yet over the 3 days this movie takes place none of the characters bothers to change their clothes br br 5 comedy lighthearted slapstick comedy does not mix with horror period you can't have our characters running away from a monster truck one second and the next second have them verbally jousting one another with some dopey light comedy music playing this kind of pacing virtually ruins any tension in the movie movies like evil dead 2 which mix comedy and horror understand that tension can be loosened yet never completely eliminated with humor monster man doesn't get it br br i'm irritated that what could have been a very funny horror movie was ruined by a director who thought he was a lot more clever than he really was oh well
0	heard some good remarks about this film as being very gory and but it's neither obviously the screenwriter wanted to do a scary horror film but at the same time inject some teenage comedy for the young target audience scares and comedy seldomly result in good films the same goes for monster man br br not really funny nor scary or overly enjoyable on any other level br br 39 years of age i've seen my share of horror movies i have seen good ones and terrible ones but the crop of films released these days are so frighteningly mediocre it bores me to watch 'em the acceptance these days for bad films like this is what really annoys me let's face it they produced a lot of crap in the 70's 80's and 90's but they were regarded as such then as well today they're regarded as good entertainment bollocks
0	last night i am sitting in my tv room beer in hand bowl of pretzels on the tv tray i decide to put the movie monster man into my trusty vcr expecting a fun filled gory crash bash of a movie what do i get instead one of the most silly stupid predictable films i have ever had the displeasure of sitting through and what's even worse all during the i use this next phrase loosely sex scene the girl keeps all her clothes on i'll make this summary short sweet mix dude where's my car about a good 1 2 of the film with a very watered down hitcher add a redneck version of the antagonist from i madman as the primary villain finally some incoherent black magic mumbo jumbo you'll kind of get a clue how rotten this movie is it's also utterly predictable throughout the only notable factor to this buddy movie disguised as a horror film is that some of the moments between the 2 guys even though the hero is one major annoying geek the other is a jack black clone are kind of funny just mediocre funny i e like most of snl skits other than that monster man is a monster mess 3 10 this one i'll be handing out at halloween time just hope after the person views it i don't get my house egged or worse
0	i would like to know who conned the producers of this movie to pay for its production that is a genius of sorts this movie somehow held my attention for about two thirds of it until i realized that it was going nowhere fast i think the music managed to make it seem like something was going on but nothing really was it was not scary the dialog was poorly written the first 90 minutes should have been covered in about 15 minutes this would have been a moderately acceptable twilight zone or outer limits episode br br at this point i'm just mad that i wasted all that time that's a couple hours that i will never get back br br i hope these comments save someone from wasting their evening take a nap or hit the gym instead or if you want to be scared turn on a cable news channel
0	i completely disagree with the previous reviewer this movie has amusing moments but hardly a laugh riot unless you really think sipping from a septic tank and heads exploding in a vice are a laugh riot in fact the only reasons i gave this a 2 instead of a 1 are because a two of the actors are decent b the soundtrack is above average with some tuneful pop songs thrown in for contrast and c the monster truck is pretty terrifying br br other than that this is a movie with some intermittent creepy or interesting ideas which are overwhelmed by unrelenting crassness crudity and vileness the former best friend character is one of the most annoying i've ever seen and the small grace that the hitchhiker character had disappears in yet another contrived twist ending that makes little to no sense at all br br a waste of the lead actor who shows some nervous charm and the aforementioned actress portraying the hitchhiking character
0	i've got 10 plus year old computer games with better special effects plot is choppy and very predictable most of the actors seem like extras with no experience everyone has scottish accents it's like watching a crew of from star trek without the personality or charm needless scenes of people putting up tents tents with all of the supposedly high tech equipment actors looking like they were not sure the camera was on them nothing to make you care if these people survive or not looks like it was made in someone's backyard and garage using low end equipment nothing seems original or even slightly entertaining do not waste your time
0	fans of horror comedy will like this one others might get quickly annoyed and shut it off it's sort of a buddy film with over the top violence and gore deliberately stereotyped characters and a lot of craziness br br it looks to have been made on a budget of about 100 by a bunch of fraternity guys after a big beer keg party there's a lead who's a frustrated nerd and his loudmouth prank pulling friend who mocks him about 30 times per second there's a cool monster truck chasing them for hundreds of miles which is the highlight of the film whenever this thing and its gnarly mask wearing driver appear it's a great scene there's a mysterious girl who randomly appears in their back seat and plenty of giant guys in overalls hanging out in red neck bars the nerd's friend never shuts his and gets them in one mess after another their arguing got on my nerves but other aspects of the film make up for it br br sight gags poking fun at several psycho tormenting and trying to somebody films are everywhere take your pick which one is riffed the most hills have eyes saw and jeepers creepers were some that i recognized br br it's enjoyable insanity if you're in the right frame of mind sensory dulling brewskies with your friends can make viewing this more fun it's a good bet that's the condition of the movie makers when they put this thing together
0	some of the greatest and most loved horror movies have a wicked sense of humour but when a film comes along that isn't as original as the classics but just goes at it for laughs then a bunch of po faced wanna be critics completely slag it off this film made me laugh aloud several times this is testament to the way this film was approached and it shows the two main leads look natural and believable together and this really helps this film you root for them the whole way and laugh along with them everyone has friends like both of these guys another highlight for me was the monster truck it's awesome intimidating and really well shot taking inspiration completely stealing from loads of films the most obvious being duel jeepers creepers and probably in reference to the jack black alike co star orange county but really you can pick any road trip gone wrong movie and find a reference here but so what it's not trying to win any oscars just give the viewer a good dose of frights and laughs and on that score it's a 10 obviously it's not getting a 10 i give real sensible reviews and scores unlike 99 of the people on imdb there is no way this movie can get a zero like so many lazy idiots give to too many films and as fun as it was it ain't getting a 10 either it's just a good fun movie for anyone with a sense of humour and a liking for scares you really can't get anymore simple than that
0	this dvd is barely 30 minutes long and has dull interviews that reveal that the average has an iq of around 30 but these aspects are the least problematic here br br the real trouble is that slipknot is one of the least talented metal bands to ever sell over 100 000 units of their crap the only reason i say one of the instead of the is because system of a down are even worse much like ed girlfriends this band's music is pieced together from age old metal clichés which are to be found in both their image and their ultra dull music in fact their image is kind of fun their videos are like snippets from cheesy horror films hence they fulfill at least some purpose as entertainment br br their music however consists of nothing of quality whatsoever just a bunch of gimmicky heard them a million times before played solely at the guitar neck riffs that are in no way related to each other and yet are randomly grouped together to form songs that have no cohesion no highlights no nothing but if the riffs are truly bad then the vocals are even worse singer has a stereotypical hence uninteresting evil growl the kind 90 of all metal bands today have but that is nothing compared to when this deluded hick starts trying to sing still what could one expect rule no 39 of the nu metal handbook says quite clearly you will alternately growl and sing ignore the fact that the two styles don't mix well because most of your fans are so tone deaf they will love you even if you into the microphone slipknot are at their absolute worst when their singer starts belching out melodies br br but back to their image it's stolen copied ripped off nicked borrowed taken without asking from none other than mr bungle you've never heard of them of course you haven't you only listen to nu metal and mr bungle is quite far from that and beyond any anyway they too wore masks grotesque horror ones similar to those of slipknot i might add in the late 80s and early 90s this band whose frontman is mike patton from faith no more never hit it big because their music wasn't directed toward the average music fans to put it mildly br br so basically slipknot aren't even original in the image department they have nothing at all new to offer hence will be forgotten in several years once the masks become boring to the legions of their zit faced fans which is when slipknot will be forced to compete in the music market solely with their generic music br br speaking of mike patton it's interesting that a number of nu metal bands often site his singing as a major influence predictably and thankfully patton is not flattered by this and has denied being in any way proud to have been an influence for one of the worst metal sub genres ever br br having said that enjoy this short dvd and the cheap thrills it might provide to the untrained ear and bored eye and then polish those slipknot posters because in a few years no one will be taking care of them the poor dears br br having seen corey in the documentary get thrashed i finally understand why he wears a mask he is a blue eyed baby faced ginger looking like dave younger brother not exactly scary br br for more of my music world rants go to http rateyourmusic com collection fedor8 1 br br please punish me hard very hard by clicking no below that'll teach me
0	here's why this movie fell very short of its potential i don't read much so i don't care what the novel was like 1 i think brendan frasier copied his encino man from lambert's tarzan it was stiff and while his tarzan call was a little more realistic he had no humanity 2 they screwed with the story maybe that's how the book goes but for as long as i can remember the first utterances of tarzan were me tarzan you jane jane is the first human tarzan encounters i did like the natives a bit more than the midget in weismuller's version but those bows and arrows were a bit cheesy 3 tarzan is primarily a love story i'm sorry but the love interest enters over an hour into the picture that qualifies her for a supporting role at best supporting roles and leads don't fall for each other not enough screen time sorry not only was andie mcdowell's over pathetic most likely because her strong southern accent couldn't be masked the chemistry scale between tarzan and jane was a whopping 0 i never believed they loved each other which made the belgian dudes closing voice over quite frankly silly when tarzan sees jane for the first time in the jungle he feels an urge if you will a feeling he's never felt before jane brings out the humanity in him and he brings out the untamed side of her its this chemistry that the story of tarzan not that lord dying wish is to keep his land whole and that johnny boy is going to do it for him even a good face lift couldn't help this movie it needs massive internal reconstruction oh and could we possibly shoot more in the jungle or at least use camera angles that don't show off the sound stage like qualities of the place final judgement 4 out of 10 sorry tin man and by the way if you want to see real acting drop lambert and check out leonardo dicaprio
0	a female friend invited me to see this in the theaters br br after half an hour we walked out and went into the next multiplex yeah we broke the rules in time to catch the beginning of against all odds br br i remember too many apes dancing around saying very little about the characters or introduction to the story captured either one of us or was even memorable it just dragged to the point of being painfully boring and believe me any excuse was good enough to spend time with this particular friend br br the production values were excellent good photography and lighting but this was a major studio release and we came to see a movie not an art gallery it seemed like ralph richardson and andie mcdowell were going to be wasted in such a poorly written film br br perhaps if you make into the second hour there is something worth seeing i do not have so much patience with my time 4 out of 10
0	i am very interested in animal children and i have read many rice burroughs novels but this awful movie couldn't keep me interested nor could i stomach all the absurd unrealistic scenes i only managed to sit through the africa part and john's first few days in scotland let's talk about and the actors in ape suits looked like extra large chimps rather than great apes there is a difference they did not move with the grace that a wild animal would for comparison see some of the better planet of the apes movies where they trained their actors to move in simian fashion the apes eat large of meat not a common ape practice as far as i know i am a sucker for animal stories but the script did not make me care about the apes the great white hunters of the expedition that finds john clayton are entirely the parents of clayton were shipwrecked on an ocean beach but somehow it is a very long trip down the river to get to the coast give me a break let's talk about 'slow' even the folks who think this is an excellent movie admit that it is not an action movie far from it it tries to be a character study unfortunately the downright silly part predominates i did not read burroughs' tarzan books but many of his other series they were packed with meaningful action and heroic purpose this film just isn't there
0	this is my opinion of this movie expressed in its dialogs br br to be more serious i can't say this movie is a bad moment but i didn't enjoy it either br br first i was simply indifferent couldn't get my mind into the apes world even though the make up are very realistic the constant screaming was irritating may the film have changed apes for cats and it's a cult movie for me in relation to my fondness of the latter br br the second part is more interesting with the talent and freshness of then newcomers macdowell lambert but i felt alienated all the story is located in a big british mansion no matter how luxurious is it it was like a prison for me br br at last it could be a good adaptation of the burroughs' story of tarzan i don't know having never read the book or seen the disney br br in conclusion i don't have any good moments to remember so one viewing would be enough for me br br i should have guessed my boredom after the endless freeze called overture at the beginning what's the meaning only the director knows it
0	i've read through a lot of the comments here about how this movie sticks to the book i don't think any of them have actually read it edgar rice wrote about a dangerous african jungle and apes were killers and hunters we know differently now and this movie portrays apes in a more modern view i've never seen a tarzan movie that even comes close to edgar's vision maybe one day hollywood with trust talented and respected authors to tell the story so if you've never read the book and enjoy a good story about feelings and a fluffy bunny view of wild animals maybe a good cry see the movie i hope john carter of mars get's more respect than tarzan has we miss ya edgar
0	the incomparable paul naschy horror film icon of spain lends his talents to this entertaining if not scattershot film what begins as an action flick ends up a horror story all i can say is just sit back and enjoy the ride br br paul naschy plays a cold hearted hit man hired by some shady japanese diamond hunters one of which is his flame who is carrying his child to swipe a cache of diamonds from a belgian businessman when the deed is done the allure of the diamonds is too tempting for paul to dismiss so he kills his japanese cohorts his girlfriend whose brother paul killed vows revenge and chases paul through the forest shooting him up and leaving him for dead however paul is found by an egghead with two horny daughters and brought to his estate to recuperate br br at the estate the two daughters silvia and hernandez fight for paul in his weakened state with the busty silvia determined not to lose out to the sweet and prim but things get hairy for mr naschy who begins to see the ghost of the daughter's long dead mother on the estate grounds couple this with the japanese lass looking to finish the job of killing paul and he gets pulled from two sides br br story the story goes a number of ways and doesn't fully satisfy the script builds up a fight for paul between the daughters but silvia whose character seems assertive and volatile simply lets win in the paul naschy sweepstakes without putting up a fight personally i would have preferred the ghostly apparition story to the revenge seeking of the japanese woman br br violence you get gunplay a blown up babe and pigs eating some poor schmuck alive gore hounds will not be letdown with this naschy flick br br acting paul naschy as always is fun to watch but he does spend a bit too much time in bed recovering from his wounds starring with him again are the luscious silvia and the beautiful hernandez who teamed with mr naschy in the little gem the craving both girls do a fine job br br nudity you get very brief glimpses of both and hernandez but they are strategically placed keeping the naught bits covered full nudity is supplied by the two lesser appealing actresses the japanese woman chasing paul and the african maid that works for silvia and
0	this is just a long advertisement for the movie the death tunnel although it is an interesting history of the waverly hills sanatorium the whole ghost theory is up to your interpretation more ghost orbs which you can duplicate with dust in front of a flash camera and the mist is just someone's cigarette smoke lit up with the camera flash i couldn't see any shadow people until they drew an outline around the blurry distortion of the image no scientific explanations were suggested for the phenomena only paranormal perhaps these are only events one would have to see to believe so be sure to make plans to visit the sanatorium on your next vacation in louisville kentucky
0	i really didn't like this film it was boring and didn't interest me that much at all i'm more of an action girl and it had none i went and rented this movie because of the other comment that was left but was totally mislead don't get this movie unless you like the dessert and plenty of boredom i just really didn't like the movie it wasn't my style but it could be yours you would just have to watch the previews or something but it's my recommendation if you're a girl don't get this movie this scandinavian production draws on some of the observational strategies of godfrey koyaanisqatsi allowing us to reflect on patterns and phenomena of human and natural existence from both intimate and sweeping viewpoints this just isn't for me
0	sorry but jacqueline hyde get it jack l and hyde jekyll hyde has some of the worst acting this side of hardcore porn not to mention a script apparently written by a first grader with learning disabilities br br jackie hyde inherits an old mansion by a grandfather she never knew she had guess who yes an inventor of the special formula that slowly takes over one's body and mind yes that mr hyde br br despite some nice skin scenes this film fails to register any feeling or emotion other than uncontrollable laughter br br as much as poor jackie tries she just can't stay away from granddaddy's special formula and the result is an hour and half of wasted time
0	it was like someone was trying to make a scary video game and a documentary at the same time the historical aspect was great everything else was horrible the plugs for the directors other movie that seemed to happen every other minute the video of the actual ghost hunting was edited like a scary movie rather than an investigation they had haunted house music and sound effects that would distract you from what was happening thanks for wasted 2 hours of my time when there was evidence it would fly by most of it was just people talking about the place the episode of the show that went there absolutely destroys how this show was i am so upset with sci fi channel for playing this i haven't watched it since it aired
0	how is this a documentary much more like a walking ghost tour one might take in any given southern city quotes were generously dropped throughout without the first effort at identifying the source george orwell was the most identified br br documents were referred to without ever being produced in any form flat out fraudulent shots depicting period film stock were spliced aside historical film reels with no separation from reality and self promotion film reels which were entirely unrealistic and improbable for the time at hand were dropped in as if trying to ape blair witch hoping to drum up a spook house on what would otherwise simply be dead real estate br br is this not in some way a great disrespect to actual victims of tb a dance on their collective graves for the sake of commercialism the line between actual footage and manufactured self service is so thin the of doubt so played down the scientific boundaries so blatantly ignored how could this possibly be listed in my tivo as documentary br br it's a vacation promo and at that it fully succeeds br br hell i'd visit the joint if i could locate it on google earth not scary said a previous poster not too serious either says i fascinating story flimsy film making
0	basically this was obviously designed to be promotional material for the movie produced by the same horrible director which happens to be even worse than this documentary and absolutely the worst movie i've ever seen so avoid it at all costs br br as for this documentary it's entertaining entertaining and blatantly misleading most of the historical looking footage is most likely just that historical footage from completely unrelated events that were sadly cut and pasted into this documentary to make it more dramatic than it would have ever been otherwise there's no doubt that waverly is a pretty interesting place with plenty of it's own fascinating history but manufacturing a documentary to market the locale and the related production is for lack of better words appallingly useless br br and yes i've lived in kentucky my whole life and i have visited the location numerous times waverly hills deserves respect and there's nothing respectful about this lame documentary
0	the first film i saw from these people was children of the grave and when i heard that this one was coming on i thought it would be good to watch mostly because waverly is a real place that is rumored to be haunted this documentary film was awful there was too much fake commentary from the producers directors camera men they needed to keep their faces out of this film waverly has been rumored to be haunted for a long time yet if anyone in doubt about it watches this film they will no doubt start to believe that every story about the place is as fake as this documentary the paranormal proof was horrible and almost non existent i have heard better from high school students with tape recorders in a bathroom they tried too hard to make things scary and the end result was that nothing was scary not the stories not the blurry too dark to see anything videos not the pictures not the tape recordings children of the grave was bad as well but at least it had some substance and a little bit of a creep factor the only reason i am giving this a 3 is because the history portion of the show was very good and informative learning about how the hospital came about the daily life there and how it ended was the only thing worth while in this 2hr piece of crap
0	i watched this after seeing death tunnel this being without question the worst movie i've ever seen in my life so you can understand i went in rolling my eyes a little at seeing the directors and producers of that cinematic gem being in charge of this one first of all i thought the director and producer were the same guy they both are kid rock meets dawg the bounty hunter i watched the taps investigation and i am not a skeptic i think taps is the closest one will ever get to a scientific method in the field that was cool and believable i do believe they are haunted br br but this like the reviewer above mentioned like taking a tour okay a tour fine but the investigators and group leaders seemed to make a pretty penny and have a financial investment into whether its haunted or not so when they have fantabulous stories i have to take it with a heaping of salt br br as someone else mentioned i could make out whatever they wanted me to see in the picture about 50 of the time the rest of the time i couldn't make out anything also without any context to the photos time of day type of camera moisture in the room dust particles which 75 are what the orbs are weather and a ga other factors i cant accept them i also cant help thinking that some might be doctored br br why would that band keep the numbers from the door vandalism also during the taps investigation they tried to dig up the death certificates of those nurses and they only found one which was ruled accidental people didn't want to officially proclaim suicide yet when one of the guides was mentioning this he said yep and its marked suicide it really felt like the guides to the haunted houses here in october br br i did however like the interviews with the patients and staff from the old hospital s that really gave it a lot of perspective and a personal touch i'm also glad that they mentioned that the staff had the best of intentions and weren't some ghoulish wardens they weren't the best methods but its all they had they were desperate to stop the disease
0	i am very into waverly hills and first watched death tunnel the movie couldn't have been much worse then i heard that the documentary was coming out and got excited thinking that since it was a documentary it would be more serious and not have the horrible special effects wrong the same guys did the documentary and ruined it with effects instead of producing it raw the way a documentary should be waverly hills doesn't need help with goofy effects its fine just the way it is tours are 20 00 per person and 100 00 for 8 hour overnight investigation per person minimal group of 10 for overnight investigation tours must be set up ahead of time awesome place for the ghost hunter
0	let me preface by stating that i have lived in louisville kentucky all of my life i grew up about ½ mile from waverly in the we would pull our down road and cross dixie highway to go sleigh riding on waverly hill many times during the winter of 76 77 we would climb into the tunnel to warm ourselves the place was still being run as a geriatric center at the time we would go all the way through the tunnel up the hill to bang on what we thought was the door to the morgue i have to be honest the only sensation we felt was that we were getting away with something we should not be doing i would have to say we went up that tunnel over 50 times that winter nothing stranger than teen aged boys acting stupid ever happened i love the fact that it is getting attention after all these years one evening when i was young we looked out our front porch and it appeared that the entire hill was on fire there was an older hospital on the hill that burned down it burned for hours while the entire neighborhood sat outside and watched the thing that gets lost about waverly is that many people survived tb there let's face it…the doctors back then did everything they thought was correct to save people it took a lot of guts for people to work there knowing how contagious tb was too much is focused on those who suffered i also have traveled into the building several times in the early 70's we would go and visit shut ins in the nursing home through a church youth group by the way the doors there were not prison like steel doors with chains and as portrayed in the film they were wooden and too open it did smell of urine and feces and you saw the occasional open gown associated with patients with dementia it was true that it was closed by the state in the early 80's a lot of that may have to do with the age of the building or the right guy wasn't paid off this is after all kentucky the part of the documentary that turned me off the most was the piling of bodies into a cart if i am not mistaken it appears to have been holocaust footage that was added for dramatic effect it left me with a sour taste in my mouth for the filmmaker i am a skeptic when it comes to ghosts i do believe that many around here truly think the place to be haunted waverly for me however symbolized a fun place for adventure for a boy with a sled
0	i love watching a good gory giallo unfortunately solange is definitely not one of them it's long very long the story is tacky and makes very little sense even if it's very obvious the script spends so much time on the killings and the girls but it spends almost no time at all on the killer this leaves a big hole in the story we might get to see a bunch of young women showering together but we get zero characterization of why the killer decided to murder those girls yes what happened to solange is terrible but we still pretty much left in the dark over when why did the boring killer decided that it was worth going through the effort of offing those oh so naughty girls it's all so contrived that i couldn't get into it one bit br br as for the look of the film again boring nothing memorable about it the actors boring the script laughably boring the whole torrid love affair between the teacher the blond and the student was really embarrassing what planet are they living on the music boring skip it
0	solange is not a great italian thriller get ready for the spoiler the main suspect the professor didn't do it but is it really a spoiler no because you know that he couldn't have been the murderer from the very beginning he and a student witnessed the first murder so there is absolutely no suspense as to whether or not the professor is the killer there is a long tedious build up to the final explanation of the mystery the solution is interesting but it comes out of nowhere the rest of the movie and it's not a short movie is just not exciting enough to hold your interest even in the tradition of wrong man accused it fails because the police never seriously accuse the professor and the killer is never after him dull dull dull
0	first off just to say i didn't get the edition i thought i would i chose the italian version over the r2 but what actually arrived was a uk release from 1998 claiming to be a special edition i never knew there was a uk dvd release but the promised were not actually on the disc just a couple of duff trailers anyway as to the film itself just as i was recovering from night train murders my second genital mutilation thriller turns up in the same month this time in an italian uk nubile schoolgirls are being offed and teacher fabio testi unhappily married but nailing one of his students becomes the main suspect joachim fuchsberger is the detective on the case sorry to say i was less than entranced it was watchable but more than equally miss able and aside from the aforementioned gruesome nature of the crime the surprise killing of cristina galbo which was actually spoilt by the dvd cover telling me about it grrrrrr and a surprise twist that cast the victims in a new light i thought this was very routine put me off the two sequels though with karin hannibal brooks baal and camille i spit on your grave keaton
0	even with it's low budget this movie could have been worth watching if there was a story to tell here it started out pretty good and fairly engaging and believable the actors and characters were interesting although there wasn't much character development my favorite scene was when they were all eating their rations some seemed to hate it and some seemed to think it wasn't too bad the story starts out very airtight and then br br and then it dipped into a little horror which is usually a death sentence for most sci fi suddenly no scientific basis for any of the goings on no real believable end game for the villain no real explanation of what's going on generally if a movie has to use the f word for every other word it usually spirals down from there too i still get offended believe it or not i often wonder what inspires people to make bad sci fi isn't there a universe of fantastically good stories out there don't people feel like they are wasting their time and everyone else's when they put out stuff like this why do we get so much mediocre sci fi like this no female actors characters either none at all this had the makings to be another predator but alas fell far far short br br my final comment poor editing and finally too low a budget to build a real campfire what gives br br my advice for any low budget sci fi movie production companies out there make sure you got a good story before you start and edit out bad special effects it's better we see nothing than something that looks fake or ridiculously fuzzy
0	being a science fiction fan from my early childhood long time since i always hated implausible plots it's a pity that most authors of science fiction stories for children do not show this kind of respect for their audience i always suspected them of thinking children are to dumb to realise so we don't have to strive the writer of science fiction 2002 is no exception the story is about a boy who is instigated by his new friends to spy after his parents because they think that the parents are aliens as intriguing the idea sounded to me as much was i bored by its realisation it seemed to me that the filmmakers had exactly this one idea and tried to stretch it over the ninety minutes by dunking it into a dark stylish and painstakingly slow atmosphere the only thing that kept me in my seat was the question how do they manage to get out of this implausible rubbish and then bang they did not even try so if you are looking for good entertainment for both children and parents go and watch 2002 instead
0	first of three aztec mummies film is the only one that to the best of my knowledge was never completely dubbed into english the film was chopped up and used in pieces by people like jerry warren in other films he combined it with another mexican horror comedy with lon chaney to make face of the screaming werewolf and it showed up in attack of the mayan mummy and elsewhere the longest of the three films a good chunk of this film makes up the two later films which use this as a basis of flash backs the plot of this film has a scientist conducting a past life regression experiment which causes his subject to travel back and discover hidden chambers in an aztec pyramid the group as well as a sinister figure known as the bat hope to use the information to discover hidden treasure instead they discover a living mummy who has other plans long and long winded this film has way too little action to sustain its 80 minute running time worse the mummy doesn't even show up until an hour has passed probably the least of the three films its easy to see why this film was cut apart it's the only way to fashion a non sleep inducing film watching the film late last night i found myself fighting to stay awake it was a tough haul and i found that i ended up scanning to the point where the mummy showed up given the choice i'd take a pass and watch the second two films
0	after watching the first movie in new aztec mummy collection it's difficult to believe how excited i was about the set and how upset i was when the release date was pushed back i've watched a lot of mexican horror in recent months some great – the curse of the crying woman some entertaining despite obvious flaws – night of the bloody apes and some cheesy – pick any santo movie one thing that all these movies have in common is that none can be called dull well that's not the case with the aztec mummy it's been awhile since i last watched something so sleep inducing i wasn't hoping for or expecting a great movie but at least entertain me the aztec mummy takes every situation that could be interesting and sucks the life out of it through repeated scenes of people doing nothing and then extending those scenes for what fells like an eternity i guess that's what happens when you make an 80 minute movie with only 30 minutes of material padding extraordinaire for example for anyone who has seen the movie what purpose does the bat have other than to bring a masked wrestler type to the screen and to extend the runtime by 15 or so pointless minutes br br i can only hope that the other two movies in the collection are more entertaining than this one
0	i've just seen this film in a lovely air conditioned cinema here in bangkok and since the temperature outside is hovering somewhere around with very high humidity my was not wasted br br failing that i haven't seen such a piece of extremely well made junk in a long time this is the kind of film that provides a test of taste as it were anyone who claims to like or love it goes immediately onto the same list of tasteless phonies who still go around talking about the superiority of british television at least the gormless old broad in the wheelchair was good for a few guffaws br br pseudo profundity and fat lips while characteristic of much french cinema really do not a good movie make i'd rather watch independence day 10 times in a row than sit through this stinker one more time
0	i only bought this dvd because it was dirt cheap and it seemed interesting in its own special way special meaning retarded the movie turned out to be quite uninteresting boring camera work nothing really driving the story and of course the acting is horrible it wasn't even bad in a campy way it was just plain bad there are actually a handful of great lines of dialogue but for the most part its awkward and weak all i could think about while watching this was that this could actually be a good movie if the script was given a major overhaul if it were written by someone who actually understood drug culture and if some decent actors were cast i wouldn't recommend weekend with the babysitter unless if you plan on a career in film and want to learn what not to do in a movie
0	this movie is not worth the time it takes to put it in the vcr or dvd player michael dudikoff and lisa howard are two bounty hunters in love yet they are total opposites she is ambitious and organized while he is laid back and totally scatter brained br br in this movie bad guys are chasing jersey character this opens the door to bad godfather impressions ludicrous fight scenes and tony curtis playing the most effeminate looking mob boss i have ever seen the ending has to be the most unbelievable scene i have seen in a movie in quite some time i would believe the terminator even the matrix has a better chance of possibly being true than this ending this movie just reeks of cheapness the script had to have hit someone as being totally ridiculous yet the green light was given for this piece of dung to be made and let loose on on unsuspecting public i watched this movie with several other people who all agreed that we had been cheated no one in the group could say anything good about the film except that it was over
0	love sublime says the title another blurb during the promotions of the film talked about inner vs external beauty well in this case the beauty you decide inner or external is provided by scantily clad or is that scantily dressed undressed zeenat aman who the director raj kapoor called a volcano of talent while the film was being made one can't accuse him of sarcasm of course after all he was promoting his own film br br the paper thin plot is about a woman with a disfigured face who has a er well proportioned body a great voice thanks to lata mangeshkar with whom the hero shashi kapoor falls in love he doesn't want her face only her voice the acting is desperate and even the 4 is because of the music with lata mangeshkar giving some good numbers the rest is of course bunkum avoid save your money inner beauty vs outer beauty you need not be an einstein to figure out which one the director was concentrating on
0	aussie shakespeare for 18 24 set with blood blood and more blood and good dose of nudity this will not be for every one on may levels to violent for some too cheap for most done on low budget they try and do there best but it only works sporadically and this macbeth just seem to be lacking its just not compelling although there is some good acting on the part of most you don't get into there heads especially the best performance came from gary sweet and the strangest mick molly if your into shakespeare then see it but if you like your cheese mature you will love it it not a bad film but it not that good either sam would of loved it that is if it was filmed as a western i was expecting a lot from this as i loved romper but this is was a vacant effort
0	geoffrey wright the director of romper transplants shakespeare's macbeth in the contemporary criminal underworld of melbourne australia the result is a semi awful piece of cinema sam is macbeth and walks around looking very self conscious and bored victoria hill who wrote the script with wright is lady macbeth and she's neither awful nor good lachy hulme who plays is the only actor in the cast who exudes any kind of authority the rest including gary sweet are wasted and misdirected shot on hd by the late will gibson the movie's visuals lack character everything is too clean and too deliberately lit wright's direction is uninspired in the extreme and the action sequences are confusing and inept marketed erroneously as the most violent australia movie ever the film is violent at times and reasonably bloody but it fails to deliver a single impactful moment slow moving and terribly pretentious this umpteenth silver screen version of the classic play is the personification of wrong headed
0	if you want a horrible interpretation of macbeth then this is your answer filled with archaic english language in a 21st century australian setting this film lives to disappoint and leave you scratching your head but that isn't all br br not only is there sophomoric action sequences but there are plenty of scenes where the female body is displayed the witches played by actresses that resemble school girls more than witches put on a soft porn display with macbeth in a unremarkable display of affection welcome to stupidity and depravity all at the same time br br its a wonder why this project was green lighted so much for modern cheesy movies d
0	going to need to take a deep breath for this one br br terrible special effects that tried to reach far beyond the limitations of the budget blatant and unashamed plagiarism of other sci fi movies like pitch black terrible acting endless slow motion scenes of characters walking aimlessly across sand dunes meandering dialogue that does nothing to further the story characters wearing turtle neck sweaters on a desert planet with two suns a cargo ship staffed by a camouflage wearing crew of gun toting soldiers why exactly would you need forest camouflage in space anyway some of the worst casting choices in the history of no budget film making a steroid swollen captain who comes across more like a muscle beach jock than a trustworthy commander and a convict who looks and acts about as dangerous as a bunny rabbit 70 minutes in length 35 of which could have been trimmed out if the director had any concept of compression of time through editing br br i won't go on suffice it to say that while some components of this awful movie can and should be forgiven due to it's low budget the bad conception laughable plot holes and snore inducing script are unforgivable on any budget the end result is a tedious dull waste of time sorry guys i hate to be so harsh on an amateur film but you've no excuse for turning out this kind of work
0	recap not entirely familiar with the shakespeare story of macbeth but my wild guess is that this is pretty close to the original only set in present time it tells the story of macbeth a member of a crime syndicate in melbourne he is a valued hit man and in the favor of leader duncan but he and his lady has higher ambitions than that and plan the murder of duncan and any competition of the throne this is a story of betrayal and cold brutal death br br comments very interesting idea i must say to use the story but change the setting to present time but still keep the original dialog it sets a huge contrast between the classical poetic work and the violence promised to be extremely violent it is a promise that it keeps but not in the notion i imagined it is very bloody indeed but the violence is slow not just figuratively speaking that it is calculated which it is too but also literally a lot of action is actually slowed down to slow motion and that is what brings the movie to its knees br br what could have been a unique strength the contrast between the superfluous and poetic dialog and the extreme violence now turns into something else entirely now both slow the move down painfully much so much that it actually becomes dull and boring at times br br also i can't figure out the context the three witches act within set to present time and reality i figure that such magical witchcraft had no place in the movie apparently it does but to me it seems completely out of place not a subplot but a complete sub story with it's own rules completely different than the rest of the movie seems completely out of place surely it must have been possible to convert that part too to something modern drug induced hallucinations perhaps which i suspect that the director hints at but then he has left way too much witchcraft in it to be believable now they only bring stretches of the movie that is clearly beside the story and i just waited for the real movie to begin again br br a clear disappointment but maybe something for shakespearean buffs br br 4 10
0	this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that's holding it back br br awesome talent outstanding performances particularly by victoria hill but a let down in practically every other way br br an adaptation of sorts it brought nothing new to macbeth no setting it in present day australia is not enough and essentially completely failed to justify its existence apart from let's face it completely unnecessarily paying homage to the original work if there's one body of work that has been done and done and done and done it's shakespeare's so any adaptation if it's not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work br br and that's what this macbeth fails to do as it was done this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever it's the same piece that we have seen countless too many times before except with guns and in different outfits br br apart from the fundamental blunder no other way to put it of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue one of the more moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end during which i completely tuned out even though i was looking at the screen i never thought i had a short attention span but there you go br br i suppose the movie succeeds on its own very limited terms but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with br br a shame an absolute shame
0	the play macbeth was written by william shakespeare between the years of and ever since then many other versions of the play have been produced including remakes completed in 1948 1971 and 2006 akira kurosawa even directed a japanese version of macbeth in 1957 entitled the play starts out with king duncan hearing about the success of two of his generals macbeth and banquo in a recent battle with the irish and the norwegians after a quick promotion from duncan macbeth instantly gets an uncanny feeling for lust greed and power and does everything in his power to gain access to the crown even if it includes murder br br geoffrey wright tried creating his own version of the famous play in 2006 by setting it in the modern melbourne underworld just imagine a lowly macbeth slaying hundreds of soldiers with an ak 47 and rapping his own rendition of low at the same time just kidding about the latter but one thing he does do is utter the traditional shakespeare and he keeps it going throughout the whole movie that's right shakespeare meets ghetto it's all you could ever hope for not… the newest macbeth is rough and violent enough to match up with any other modern day action film but it lacks decent acting the right lingo and a good technique of camera work br br the modernized movie starts out with macbeth sam who works as a hit man drug dealer for duncan gary sweet a drug lord from melbourne australia after being promoted to the of by duncan as the three witches had predicted aspiration starts to take over macbeth as he sets his eyes on the throne after promoting macbeth duncan invites himself over to macbeth's house for a night of drugs and alcohol before the festivities begin lady macbeth victoria hall talks macbeth into killing duncan to take power over the throne after the bodyguards are drunk and everyone's asleep macbeth sneaks into duncan's room and stabs him to death after his murder macbeth takes all of duncan's belongings including hid title and crown just as soon as he thinks he's got what he wanted he finds out that it will take more than bribery and running away to solve his problems br br one major flaw of the movie was the acting a once seemingly flamboyant and empowered macbeth suddenly turns into a sissy and he looks like a sad puppy dog throughout the entire film i don't really know if this was or wright's fault but either way one of the two should have realized macbeth was a king not a knot on a log that took everything his wife had to say literally like i said earlier macbeth should have been rude arrogant and spiteful but when his character changes over to a drug lord he changes personalities as well i suppose on the other hand lady macbeth really knew how to nip it in the bud when it came to recognizing and personifying her character she didn't seem quite as spiteful as she was in the play or the 1971 version but she reminds macbeth that compared to murder anything else he could possibly do wouldn't quite match up br br another thing i found distasteful was all the nudity this fluke had to be wright's fault the witches didn't do a bit of acting unless you call parading around in your birthday suit acting at one point in the film i started to wonder if i was watching macbeth or unique positions vol 2 br br don't get me wrong when i say i find the shakespearean dialogue out of place it's spoken flawlessly but when it's spoken by an australian gangster it's just really weird when macbeth starts to kill people off he first lets them know by talking to them in ye olde english macbeth contains plenty of action blood gore and nudity to last anyone a lifetime you forget all the positive facts though when you start to think to yourself okay what in the heck did he just say in that last sentence at some points in the movie i don't even think the actors themselves knew what they were saying the new age ness of the movie could have easily been pulled off it weren't for the and the br br the camera work was just simply fair for me one thing i could not stand was the constant pacing back and forth between characters the camera technique used gave off that blair witch sort of vibe and made me throw up a little in my mouth matt reeves tried to attempt the same concept of camera work in clover field but it just doesn't work it makes me want to get out of my chair and look around for the little barf bags they have conveniently planted on every seat in the airplanes br br looking back on it all the macbeth holds one positive plenty of action other than that the movie contains nothing more than uninspired acting correct english usage and stomach turning camera work the soundtrack holds one or two of the same songs but each song is edited or remixed differently for every scene there is never a variation of interesting or captivating media used from now on out directors should leave the dangerous drug underworld to al pacino and robert deniro future renditions of macbeth should be created just as shakespeare intended the play to be 400 years ago i would recommend using medieval clothing ye olde english swords and shields and a soundtrack prepared by enya but either way the modern macbeth makes you yearn for some good folk music a camp fire and a
0	macbeth is one of the most frequently told stories in cinema and has been translated many times in numerous theater and celluloid settings originally written by william shakespeare in the early 1600's macbeth tells the story of betrayal among royalty and one man's quest for power director geoffrey wright romper tries his hand at updating macbeth by setting it in the contemporary melbourne underworld a film where the characters substitute swords for guns ala baz romeo and juliet and royal for gangsters macbeth is a gritty violent but critically flawed film br br macbeth sam works for king duncan gary sweet after being elevated to the of by the king as was prophesied to macbeth by three witches macbeth starts setting his eyes on the throne one night the king comes to stay at macbeth's house and lady macbeth victoria hill talks him into killing the king to assume power macbeth kills his master and then assumes his crown but success has it's downside as macbeth soon finds out when he has to go to hideous lengths to protect his murderous secret br br ok first things first the film's major fault is sam his portrayal of macbeth is in a word boring i honestly didn't care about macbeth while watching the film i had more sympathy for victoria hill's lady macbeth because she bothered to act at least sits sullen and wood faced throughout the entire film i felt like he was doing his best impression of johnny george jung character from blow but without the charisma i have never seen in a film before so i'm not sure if it was his or the director's fault but either way the glue that should have tied everything together into one cohesive unit is weak br br the dialog is good but when matched up to the geoffrey wright's australian gangster motif seems a bit out of place paced action sequences mixed with long musings creates pacing conflict within the film i understand that this is macbeth and that the director wanted to use the original dialog intact but hard fast action scenes following a three minute soliloquy tends to get annoying if not a bit pretentious br br the camera work is highly stylized and for the most part it works well one thing that i found annoying was how the camera would slowly jostle back and forth almost constantly i don't mind shots like that it's just overdone it's passes beyond the realm of being cool and stylish and instead becomes irritating other than that the art direction and cinematography is fairly well done br br for all of the good qualities macbeth possesses stylish direction shakespearian dialog a strong soundtrack supernatural nude witches the weird sisters and good helpings of brutal bloody violence all of these strengths are forgotten when one considers sam uninspired portrayal of macbeth the role of macbeth was essential for tying everything together and in this respect geoffrey wright and sam failed miserably making macbeth a forgettable foray into shakespeare
0	the story of macbeth was one of the most successful shakespeare ever wrote this may be due to some features that place it close to the slasher genre murder murder kill kill gallons of blood a tense sexual relation between the main characters etc more than this the original play is very appealing taking into consideration the length it's only half the size of hamlet and the focus on macbeth for whom we are constrained to care in spite of his bloody nature the play would seem ideal to base a movie on not so lengthy it gives the directors the possibility to explore it's many levels a good actor can play the role of his lifetime the film has deep meaning in any historical period unfortunately this has not been the case with macbeth polanski's version comes quite close but it insists too much on the medieval period welles' film is too personal with an interesting twist towards totalitarianism the 1990 or so tv version is too shallow this 2006 movie is no exception it is very far from a shakespeare film but it is interesting to see how the director understood the story and where he places it in contemporary life no knights in shiny armor but gangsters in shiny cars a lot of drugs and trippy music replace the dread of night in the original play the idea of macbeth is so simple that to take and implant it in modern day life doesn't need shakespeare at all the worst part in the film are the lines most of the poignant scenes of the play such as the dagger scene are trimmed so much they seem pointless replacing the knocks in the door with doorbells and horses with cars seems funny if they wanted to make a movie about power and its temptation they could have done it easily without shakespeare this macbeth seems to be a looser with a brain injury not a valiant warrior brave and ambitious that wants power so much he is prepared to to kill and who gets caught up in a net of fears and despair the movie doesn't make clear what drives lady macbeth to madness it doesn't give a reason why some of the characters should fear macbeth and his terror since there is no hereditary ascension to the throne what with no throne and all and it places macbeth in an awkward position since the leadership of a gang is as far from kingship as this whole movie is far from any shakespeare in conclusion we have two superimposed ideas that never quite meet making this a film that's ultimately pointless stand not upon the order of your going but go
0	an interesting concept turned into carnage br br my first seeing feature from geoffrey wright romper when i first took interest in it it seemed at the time an interesting concept br br shakespere aussie film gothic setting melbourne gangland br br a very odd mixed that turned into a disastrous piece of aussie cinema that gives my country a bad name br br pros interesting concept br br cons waste of a good cast stuffed and stupid plot crooked camera angles not much variety of locations crap use of shakespearian diologue br br overall australia's worst attempt of a shakespere film stick to baz or romper warning that film is dangerous
0	a very hyped up slick edgy reinterpretation br br they've fallen into the because it's modern it has to be hyped up slick etc trap br br romeo and juliet carried this idea off much more successfully but i really think it's time we move beyond the two extremes here period piece vs edgy film br br just because this is a modern retelling doesn't mean the movie has to look like a magazine ad or have anything to do with drugs or guns br br if the trappings were as subtle as the words macbeth would be a far more powerful film as it is read your shakespeare read it out loud ask your oxford dictionary some questions skip the film or don't but you've been warned br br sorry for the super long review imdb made me do it
0	i just caught farewell to the king on cable and maybe it's just because i'm a girl but i thought this was on the craptastic side the script and direction are pretentious once i found out john milius was responsible it all became clear the supporting actors actually weren't bad james fox was outstanding the biggest disappointment was nick nolte who i usually enjoy once he goes native he starts speaking a very stiff stilted english and half the time he seems kind of distracted as if he'd just smoked some of the bounty of rain forest and then the end what the just happens to be on the same boat as the botanist by the way had the botanist dumped the girlfriend or what the boat just happens to run conveniently close to an island ripe takeover by a crazy anglo ex army deserter
0	the story of farewell to the king is intriguing an american deserter i had the impression he and his 3 comrades were only trying to escape capture in the philippines as their desperate escape by raft to borneo is not your classic desertion but no sooner do they come ashore when they are discovered by the japanese nolte's character a sergeant has only moments earlier walked down the beach alone and was not noticed and incredibly no one noticed his footprints in the sand which would have led the japanese right to him but anyway nolte is taken in by a tribe of and becomes their king after defeating another so he's out of the war then the british commandos show up and want the tribe to assist them in fighting the japanese br br unfortunately nolte's incessant hamming ruins an interesting story instead of acting like a former soldier thrust back into the war now with a tribe of warriors under his command nolte acts like he was raised by the tribe he speaks as if english is almost a foreign language rarely using contractions he makes sweeping gestures when he talks and acts like he is one with nature as if he was raised in the jungle br br there is plenty of action and many interesting scenes with the british interacting with nolte and the tribe but nolte's character is never believable it always looks like he's overacting he needed to be a little more of an american soldier and a lot less of a as it is he comes across not as a regal king but as a lunatic who has forgotten who he really is but that is not the intent of the film as the script has him being admired and trusted by the british commandos there is never any suggestion that the british thought his behavior was strange he is simply viewed by the british as the leader of the tribe thus it always seems that nolte's character isn't fitting in with what's supposed to be happening in the film br br another actor might have done a great job with the role delivered his lines believably and made it an outstanding movie but nolte ruins the film by hamming up every scene and appearing to not understand what his character is supposed to be br br what a waste
0	this world war ii film set in borneo tries so hard to work on so many levels it is a shame it fails on all of them br br nick nolte is an escaping american who witnesses the executions of his comrades by the japanese he wanders deep into the jungles of borneo lost cue nigel who finds nolte's adopted tribe nolte now looking like robert plant has become his tribe's new king he defeated a staunch warrior in a bloody battle and had a telling tattoo on his chest a dragon now before you go out and get a painful tattoo and a one way ticket to borneo things are not going well in wants the tribe's help in fighting the japanese who are invading the island he teaches the natives how to use machine guns and a whole lot o shooting begins as the tribe becomes more successful they run up against a new squadron of japanese who are not like the others this squad the villages they conquer in order to keep their strength up talk about your sushi and they move through the jungles even quicker than the tribe since we know the outcome of the war we know eventually the tribe triumphs but with heavy casualties here come the spoilers is injured and returned to civilization he gives the location of the kingdom and nolte is captured then goes through the trouble of releasing nolte and the end credits roll br br direction is certainly adequate but the screenplay here is rather vague in its motivations it presents story ideas then abandons them in order to get to the next story idea nolte is awful as the soldier turned king desperately trying to channel the spirit of marlon brando's colonel kurtz he talks about freedom and the beauty of the jungle and the richness of his people and you will not believe for one second the words he utters he is often unintentionally funny especially his initial bug out in the jungle and he spends the rest of the film sounding like a hippie nigel spends the movie looking at nolte like he was raquel welch the vague homosexual undercurrent between the two goes beyond friendship not quite to sex and settles into an unspoken relationship that must have had the natives talking br br often stands around and has an internal conflict repulsed at the tribe's but basking in nolte's attention his fellow straight laced british servicemen go native faster than the bounty landing party in tahiti but all i saw concerning borneo is that it is very humid and has lots of green br br the climactic betrayal where gives away nolte's location is completely devoid of any reason there is not one thought given as to why does this except to keep the film going i was angry when by chance and nolte end up on the same ship going to the philippines the ship happens to run and runs to the hold to free the freshly shorn nolte no goodbye kiss but says farewell to the king explaining the title br br if you were fighting a war and an enemy squadron was eating your allies would that not freak you out this elite japanese squad is not shown enough although their eating habits are so horrific i would become a conscientious right away the same type of ghostly enemy was handled much better in the 13th warrior br br other types of interesting ideas are dropped what about the fact that then modern technology brings about the deaths of so many backward people why did king nolte let the brits use his subjects without too much hesitation why can't hollywood find a decent actor to play general douglas macarthur br br in the end farewell to the king is a letdown not anchored by a strong lead and trying to be too many things without thinking and exploring its options i cannot recommend this one br br this film is rated pg13 for strong physical violence strong gun violence some gore some profanity some sexual references and adult situations
0	i was excited about this movie after reading other reviews what a disappointment there are so many ways that this movie is bad the computer graphics were lacking to say the least i found the acting stiff and unbelievable watch the sand as the lost e pods what an original name are found where did all the tracks come from i immediately recognized portions similar to other movies ie alien pitch black come on one huge ship to transport one prisoner and what is with the prisoner does he speak can he speak i kept waiting for something to tie the bits of the story together but it never came if this movie was made on a low budget it shows the only part of the movie i liked was when it finally ended i don't mean that i liked the ending i didn't i just liked the fact that it was over a trip to the dentist would have been more enjoyable in my opinion don't waste your time on this one
0	other than john this movie was absolutely terrible the lacey chabert and andrew love story was as clichéd as possible full of unbelievably bad lines about how her parents wouldn't ever let them be together and super hammy longing looks none of the emotion had any depth or reality whatsoever the two accented characters dean edwards as rupert and whoever it was playing the gun expert once they saw how bad the accents were couldn't they have decided to just drop them and rewrite a couple of lines to avoid giving the audience headaches apparently not i don't even know where to start with the editing particularly the sound editing if you hate obvious over dubbing as much as i do don't watch this that being said was great off the bat i'll admit that i'm a huge office fan and that's why i rented this but he's quite entertaining as the off the wall friend with crazy ideas he's got a clichéd role but he still manages to make it as entertaining as possible the ending was awful just flat out terrible the idea of the robbery gone awry had potential but floundering around after being shot all the way to his studio to fall ontop of a painting of chabert which looks nothing like her is the most cringe worthy scene
0	this very low budget film is fun if you're a john fan but is otherwise disappointing at least it was short so i didn't feel like i had wasted too much of my time john's scenes are funny enough but the attempted 'deep' scenes with lacey chabert are pretty nauseating it starts off seeming like it could be a funny movie but some of the characters are just so outlandish while the others are far too serious that it just falls flat don't get me started on the ending it was totally implausible and didn't even fit with the rest of the movie i will say that i wasn't bored though which is why i rated it above a three fans of john will enjoy seeing him with a and stockings around his head and eating cheez its oh and make sure to check out john's deleted scenes they're better than some that were actually included in the movie
0	i have to say is the only reason i even watched this film he is good however everything else about this film is so far below average that it's not worth the time and effort spent viewing this film br br this film has loads of technical aesthetic issues namely shot selections framing camera movements within monologue sequences extremely bad editing probably due to the total lack of fluidity in and between shots and overall terrible acting except for br br it was far too theatrical in acting and presentation to develop any sort of suspenseful moment in this film which is surprising because it's all about a bank robbery which should be at least somewhat exciting br br how does a film this bad get made and then released and then distributed br br kind of reminds me of a c film student's thesis project probably not even that good though
0	i found this movie to be okay br br on paper this movie has everything a person may want romance comedy drama a bank robbery a unique cast great music and storytelling br br in reality this movie ended up being mostly garbage and i'll tell you why br br a this is my biggest problem the editing this movie has by far the worst editing i've ever seen short of local car dealership commercials the editing could've been done better by a deaf patient tapping away at imovie with a a dead cat there are scenes where two characters are talking to each other and you can see their lips moving and the audio video isn't in sync because its clearly dubbed why was it dubbed i don't know its english dubbing english the voices were done in a studio elsewhere in certain scenes could they not find a boom mic they're not expensive jesus even i own one and i don't make films br br b andrew performance lacked it really didn't seem like he wanted to be a part of this project and his acting was the equivalent of a skit performed by d a r e for schoolchildren at least john showed some enthusiasm br br yes john is the only reason i rented this flick and its the only real reason worth watching he's did a good witty performance and he was the most three dimensional character dean edwards' character was quite thin as was whats her face br br final word if you're a fan of john this is worth your time if not don't even bother the editing
0	so i got this from the rental store where i work before it was released release is 8 21 just watched it today and now i'm speechless they could have had a decent movie here but they screwed it up in some painfully obvious ways br br first of all the parts with john were funny and are the only reason i gave it above a 3 but they are broken up by bad acting and terrible serious reflections on life between the main character andrew and his girlfriend the annoying lacy chabert it would have been much much better as a straight comedy ala lock stock and two smoking barrels br br i wanted to like it because i think is funny and want to see him do well the story wasn't bad either just not very original but the directing and a lot of the acting was terrible i swear they had trouble keeping peoples faces in the shot and just went with it anyway br br their carelessness is showcased when the gun expert corrects another character and says that a dirty harry gun is not a 357 magnum but a 45 it was as everyone knows a 44 magnum br br so see this if you 1 really like john 2 like to watch low budget and poorly directed movies or 3 have too much time on your hands this is me
0	ten years ago i really wanted to see this movie on the cinema but i missed it and then forgot about it oh boy am i glad this movie didn't get to ruin my teenage eyes back then br br i saw it yesterday and seriously this must be among the 10 worst movies ever made and i'm talking about movies which has had too much attention such as those wonderful trailers on tv and too much money spent on actors and the making of the movie br br the script sucks and the acting sucks even worse do i need to say more br br please hollywood no more arnold
0	i did not enjoy the film eraser whatsoever it's awful acting boring storyline and average special effects made this an annoying arnie film as it had a mountain of potential with other action films of the time eraser fell very short
0	why do they keep making trash like this because it makes money that's why eraser is not so much a film but a string of action set pieces strung together it's well filmed but predictable and it's all been done before only better this is basically a nineties version of
0	mild spoilers br br with the exception of the terminator and total recall i don t think arnie s action adventure movies are up to much they re better than his comedies for sure but that s hardly saying much the problem i have with his all action blockbusters is that they re overblown and lacking in any sort of morality br br morality i mentioned in my review of terminator 2 the scene where good guy terminator blows the kneecaps off the swat team are we to think that because the hero maims people doing their job instead of killing them we will admire him in someway this is the problem with eraser when james cann s character is revealed as a traitor within the us marshal department arnie s character john kruger goes on the run with a witness he s protecting but in several later sequences kruger kills a fairly large amount of working with the villain are we take it they were all traitors too surely many of them were honest men who were trying to stop kruger because the bad guy told them kruger was the traitor it s a rather uneasy thought that kruger killed several people who were trying to genuinely up hold the law br br despite costing one hundred million dollars the special effects t all that impressive look at the scene where kruger lets go of the jet wing and scrambles to put on a parachute it s obvious as the action intercuts that it s a stuntman who s doing the free fall sequence while arnie is in a studio in front of a blue screen eraser is also a film that has unnecessary cgi featuring killer alligators not only unnecessary cgi but unconvincing cgi too there s also a few plot holes like in the opening scene involving a couple of witness protection people that the mob has caught up with kruger opens a car trunk and pulls out a couple of bodies and starts a fire thereby throwing the mob of the scent kruger is next seen rearranging the dental records via computer of the couple he s saved it would be logical to do this but would all the couples dental records be kept on computer most importantly of all are we to believe the us marshal department keep a freezer full of bodies for such events br br so they re you go a typical arnie thriller long on unlikely set pieces and short on intelligence and it s interesting to note that eraser didn t make much of a profit at the box office as the production costs almost outweighed a potential audience figure after eraser arnie didn t do much more business at the box office save for terminator 3 rise of the machines which was an event movie and it ll be interesting to see if he ll be remembered as a politician rather than a movie star
0	you get an hour and a half of braindead i have to save the world action all the way one liners and a woman somewhere in the equation this time he plays a guy who help people in the witness protection program to quote the cover of the movie he erases their past to save their future this have to be cool i bet younger people will like it though but it is a little over the top for my taste and the one liners are really something else and i don't mean that in a good way after killing a crocodile he manage to say you're luggage if you are in the right mood you may enjoy the movie and as far as braindead action go this is not very bad but almost before the movie starts you know exactly what is going to happen but if you like these kind of movies you will probably enjoy this one i rate this movie 4
0	it is ok movie if it would be done by high school kids for their friends it is way below limits be called professional there isn't plot no actors' play and visual looks like you see it through the plastic film i was so glad that i have ff button on my remote worked really well i understand that everyone need to start somewhere but it shouldn't be reason to bring it to the public if you have concerns about quality and budget open water was made on and more than half went to the guy who provided the security in the ocean and trained sharks and that movie looks 100 times more professional and it was an event in the indy film making
0	i love how everyone treats this show like it was the next great american sitcom i watched five episodes of this abomination and the only person that came close to an actual teacher was the old guy that sort of loved and hated his job the rest of them were just pretty people trying to read the lines written by people who never actually went inside of a real classroom i loved how every episode consisted of the two idiots one who got laid and the other who didn't getting into some form of zany trouble that indirectly involved their students the british girl who thought she found an likable quality in the main idiot but in the end was somehow shocked that he turned out to be a jackass the hot chick that was there for the particular purpose of being hot and the principal and her lackey that served to somehow move the almost non existent plot forward i loved how almost all the teachers on this show were very young but i ask you to think back to your high school days and remember the teachers that you had did they look like that or did you go to the high school that had middle aged people teaching in it that is the high school that everyone else went to the show lacked any form of research into what goes on in schools in public schools principals do not have the power to higher and fire teachers the school board does but in every episode that i watched the principal made threats to fire her teachers think back to your history class or think of any history class did you ever see an incredibly hot british chick teach an american history class no did you ever see a teacher's lounge that is so huge that you could actually play basketball in no br br teachers could have been a great show had it actually of based itself in some form of reality what makes teaching funny is the stories that you get from interaction with students and the teachers find it funny because they deal with the students day in and day out the overemphasis on their lives outside of teaching just made it another four camera sitcom that had unrealistic people in an unrealistic environment saying unrealistic lines and i'm sorry i just didn't buy it the show could have modeled itself after other currently successful sitcoms and used a single camera format and it should have centered more around the teacher's relationships with their students and not with each other br br it gets a star for trying and a star for the hot chick she was really hot br br in the end it was a failed sitcom that will go down in history as a hacks attempt to understand a profession i only hope that if they make another sitcom based on teaching that they learn from their mistakes so that a monstrosity such as this never touches the television screen
0	these writers are trying to re create the characters they have on scrubs in a different occupation however the characters they are stuck with have no charisma or acting ability not to mention the writing seems poor and effortless these guys are trying to create something that would be good if the writing wasn't so disgusting which is leaving the shows only lifeline to be two attractive teachers that that are barely keeping it alive the humor in this show seems like it is trying to target an audience with an i q of 40 or below another reason why this show is becoming a failure could be that the writing on the show scrubs is excellent and this show has to follow it up leaving the viewer in an odd position not knowing whether to cry or to just lose hope in new sitcoms all together this is just my opinion but i think these guys should stop now before they humiliate themselves anymore than they have already
0	tim taylor is an abusive drug addict he's a coward and a child and has absolutely no redeeming qualities as an actor or a person the only film with him in it that is enjoyable is galaxy quest and that just because his character a boozed out washed up actor from a former hit tv show was so close to real life for him the rest of the cast is equally bad i hate the mother and the actress that played her patricia richardson she sucks ever cliché is there the stupid woman who is fat and likes opera and only cares about her children while in real life she's proclaims family values and gets divorced after having twins and the child actors were about as interesting as a root canal
0	honestly i don't know why this show lasted as long as it did ah well humor is subjective eh but yeah this show is incredibly unfunny if you ask me tim allen is annoying jill is annoying the boys are annoying al is annoying the neighbor is annoying it's just more annoying then funny the plots are all the same tim makes jill mad and has to make things right again and the latter seasons less said about them the better who the hell things cancer would be good for a damn sitcom yeah great idea jerks so yeah home improvement isn't a very good sitcom i'd recommend you go watch news radio or seinfeld if i had to give this show a rating i'd give it a 1 10 seeing as it never made me laugh once ever so yeah it's still better then the nanny though
0	this show disturbs me it takes up slots on nick at nite that could be reserved for the fresh prince or george lopez even full house and roseanne they're all better than home improvement first off the mother jill annoys me so much she is an whiny baby and i really despise her brad is a fat toad and he is annoying too and the youngest brother i don't even know his name i don't notice him at all that's probably not the actor's fault though it's probably the writers' tim is just a stupid ass although jill is definitely my least favorite i don't like any of them the only reason i gave this stupid show three stars is one star goes to randy as the middle child he is still a pesky little brother but an older brother and i like his fun character the other star goes to al as the chubby friend his character is likable other than randy and al this show sucks
0	ok look this show is the worst show on nick night i love so many shows on nick night and i love them when this show came on to nick night i was so annoyed it's such a boring show and it is corny out of all the times i've watched i found one episode slightly funny this show has some of the most unfunny and stupid jokes ever this show sums up to terrible give props to fresh prince of bel air and george lopez this show is boring and not the least bit clever this show should have been canceled much earlier i don't think it deserves to be played on nick night alongside some great classic shows this show is lacking cleverness good jokes and style
0	i enjoy watching robert forster that was the main reason that i rented this movie i also wanted to see a story take place out in the middle of nowhere where the characters could work off of each other really well with no distractions br br i found the movie to be dull i couldn't get interested in the characters i couldn't get interested in the story which seemed to meander nowhere br br after watching this movie for an hour i turned it off i will rate the movie 4 out of 10 this falls well below the mandatory 7 rating that makes a movie worthwhile to watch
0	coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other better movies yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist ha ha who goes on a killing spree in the desert the film is unusual but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience it becomes alienating and off putting with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating an admittedly bravura finale many quirky bits of business and forster looking great in the nude make this a curiosity item nothing more veteran movie director irvin kershner produced and maybe should directed as well could paul chart be a pseudonym 1 2 from
0	two stars br br amanda plummer looking like a young version of her father christopher plummer in drag stars in this film along with robert forster who really should have put a little shoe black on top of that bald spot br br i've never seen amanda plummer in a good film she always plays these slightly wacky characters in films that don't quite add up and she does so yet again in this one br br firstly we have two young women sisters who don't resemble in the slightest who allow themselves to be picked up separately by questionable men along the br br amanda's character sandra does at least have a good reason for allowing dr jake robert forster to pick her up in the first place she has been run off the road seemingly by a maniac and her car is pretty much destroyed br br warning spoilers ahead br br however as we go along we realize dr jake is not playing with a full deck any more than amanda is he makes every decision based on the flip of a coin br br when dr jake and amanda arrive at a motel who do we see but the maniac's car and what does amanda do but get inside his station wagon and start snooping around what her motive was for doing this is never clear considering the man is apparently dangerous and might try to kill her one would think the last thing she would do is place herself in such a precarious situation br br not only does she snoop around but she finds some money and takes it br br shortly after this we have several other things that don't add up br br dr jake with amanda as his passenger runs out of gas and the two of them abandon his car and begin walking one would think crossing a desert he would have checked his gas gauge this seems a very unlikely thing for him to allow to happen then later he is seen driving the same car when or how did he get the car back br br dr jake tells amanda he knows she has taken the money now how would he know that he didn't see her do it as far as i know and she didn't tell him she did it br br then later we have a character named santini david thewlis the man who was driving the station wagon give the two of them a lift and i'll be darned if he doesn't know amanda took the money as well how would he know that br br it loses credibility at an alarming rate the further we go br br when alice amanda's sister fairuza balk gets in the clutches of the killer and decides her fate on the toss of a coin one would think she would be very very careful that the coin she swaps for a trick coin would definitely be the trick coin but apparently it isn't br br it's jarring things like this that destroy any credibility this movie may have had
0	i'm glad i never watched this show when it came out br br i just wondered why it lasted 4 years it reminds me of the terrible 80's with fake people fake clothes and fake music how did i ever survive growing up in this era br br the acting in the majority of episodes i have watched are forced this makes for very boring shows the plot lines are not very interesting as the old twilight zone shows the old show inspired the imagination and made one look forward to the next show br br stick with the old twilight zone shows and spare yourself the pain of watching garbage
0	this movie is proof you can't just go to a and read descriptions of films and pick one and give it a try br br while i'll give 'em great credit for having produced a film with halfway decent special effects on such a low budget and at least a halfway decent script and story line unfortunately it was only just that halfway decent br br if you like movies where things aren't all neatly wrapped up and don't mind low budget effects you might like this film honestly it wasn't really my cup of tea i should've just gone to bed rather than spend my time watching br br for a better science fiction movie produced on an even lower budget have a look at primer
0	this was amongst the worst films i have ever encountered the cinematography was dull with long tedious shots like a camera on a tripod filming a stage play interspersed with dramatic angles that made little sense to the content on screen the editing was terrible scenes matched together with the delicacy of a butcher the plot hinged on the viewer being familiar with the historical night in which mary shelley wrote frankenstien the acting was forced with the type of character development that left you with an intense interest in seeing each of them die horribly the sooner the better
0	i managed to see this at what i think was the second screening in the world a few days after its opening at the dublin international film festival while i was attending another film two nights later at the same theater i saw brendan gleeson paul and the rest of the cast crew at another promotional screening of studs br br i have to say that i was bitterly disappointed with the film i was by no means expecting a masterpiece but what was presented to me i believe lacked all the crucial elements of the genre it had set itself into before i continue two things i accept that some filmmakers like to subvert generic expectations here this is simply not the case secondly i know that it was based on a play which i haven't read but have been informed that it isn't a shimmering piece of literature but this does not excuse the massive narrative problems that permeate the film br br my main problem with the film is the script forget that it was based on a play as a sports comedy it simply doesn't work the down and out team are trying to win a football cup few of the games are shown when they are it is very short and we are not given any satisfaction due to any of their sporting achievements having read so far you might assume that it is not a strict sports film but a psychological study of the relation between a charlatan of a manager and his hopeless team it certainly does not achieve this i'm not even sure if it was aiming to any attempt to shed light on the history of any of the characters is hackneyed and peripheral overall i found the script lacking in many respects br br i do think the performances and the music were good and technically the film was well made but aside from those points which should be expected from any irish film at this stage i left the theater feeling very disappointed br br my judgment may seem harsh but i do think there is some hope for a strong national irish cinema in the near future and this simply does not back that argument as studs has become a recommended dublin film i was part of the audience at that screening most people would seem to be disagreeing with me so that means you should probably make your own judgment of the film
0	this is a poor film it certainly belongs in the how not to make a feature film category story direction acting and style are all flat as a pancake story consists of five – yes five – football matches spread out over the film's duration each one more boringly filmed than the last as a dysfunctional amateur football team go from strength to strength that's it that's the plot it's hard to know who this film is aimed at it's too banal for football fans and there's nothing in it for teens nor grown ups there's nothing in it for women either there isn't even a single female character it's dreariness wears you down as the team play game after game after game after game after game the story such as it is dialogue and mannerisms seem lifted from a bygone ireland with all the actors spouting cod theatrical dublin accents it doesn't have to be seen to be believed avoid at all costs can someone give me back my 90 minutes high point the credits at the end low point too numerous to mention brendan gleeson is in this film
0	making a film for under 1 million might be a triumph for a line producer or an accountant but doesn't do anything for the audience the balance sheet might have been pretty but the viewing experience was poor br br what will be a triumph for irish cinema is when people realise that production values and the script can't be sacrificed br br i don't understand why people expend the energy it takes to put a film together when the production quality is worse than a low grade tv show br br the deficiencies of the plot have been mentioned in another review on this site and i totally agree with what was written what i would add is that the film skimmed the surface of several genres without ever settling in one of them the film would have benefited from either going the direction of a straight out comedy or social political commentary br br my overall impression was that the film was rushed thematically under developed and visually not up to standard on a positive note the performances and music were very good
0	having watched the first scene i realized the acting was so bad that it couldn't possibly pick up later superficial and artificial with frequent attempts to look professional through references to technology the way a five year old tries to make it sound as if he knows what he's talking about br br the second to second storyline is completely unrealistic and just about every single decision the screenwriter did was the kind you expect from a below average grade school student the overall storyline was as unoriginal and predictable as a pack of sausages the few attempts to make the dialogs sound intelligent was limited to neurotic apologetic behavior a ten year old might like it but it would take a five year old to accept the lack of realism how does advanced cell function allow someone to bypass a code lock by touching it as if with a magic wand pick out one out of 100s of voices through a ventilation system thereby ripping off superman and repair a home computer by just sensing whats wrong instead of looking for faults actually that scene is a neat example the fault was that one of the cooling pipes aluminum ribbons on the was broken the way it would look if a exhaust pipe on a engine is ripped off by an explosion this is something that can't happen and if it did it wouldn't prevent the computer from working there is no electrical current passing through this ribbon but when he without doing it himself his arms worked by autopilot because the cells in his body was super efficient put a push pin into the rip a desktop with icons appeared on the screen immediately without booting br br and so it goes all the way like when he escaped an interrogation room in the nsa headquarters by lighting a lighter below a fire resulting in open doors throughout the building naturally nsa didn't predict this sharp witted approach to escaping nor did they put any guards outside his room or anywhere else to guard a living walking breakthrough in military so he walked out and got a cab examples like this one are not only numerous there is in fact just about no single scene that makes sense br br also the so called great effects were terrible he threw a basketball back to a kid in the park and the kid was thrown back 20 feet into a tree no acceleration or but constant speed and height like a motorized trolley i'm sure if i paused and looked for the cables that kept the posture of this kid the way only cables can they probably didn't know how to or bother to erase them completely if someone is thrown that far into a tree they would at least say ouch or rather be hospitalized with broken bones but the kid was just just confused and amazed br br moronic that's the word for every creative decision made throughout the entire production i'm going to put the director's name on my own personal blacklist someone as poorly skilled as him cannot improve i feel like demanding compensation for having wasted 45 minutes of my life for watching it and the time it took to write this although it felt therapeutic it was traumatic to realize how little it takes to get a pilot approved the only excuse a slightly intelligent person could have to watch this voluntarily would be imprisonment or lobotomy
0	caution several spoilers br br someday somewhere there's going to be a post apocalyptic movie made that doesn't stink unfortunately the postman is not that movie though i have to give it credit for trying br br kevin costner plays somebody credited only as the postman he's not actually a postman just a wanderer with a mule in the wasteland of a western america devastated by some unspecified catastrophe he trades with isolated villages by performing shakespeare suddenly a pack of bandits called the the self declared warlords of the west descend upon a village that costner's visiting and their evil leader gen bethlehem will patton drafts costner after much misery and numerous efforts to break costner's spirit he escapes thus ending a lengthy section of the movie that could have been told better in a three minute flashback br br we now finally get to the major premise the escaped costner finds an abandoned mail truck and delivers the letters to the nearest town hoping to get some food under pretense of being a postman a number of the village people led by young ford larenz tate want to get in on this postman act which does not sit well with bethlehem and his bandits and costner finds himself the unwitting and unwilling leader of a band of at war with the br br the idea of the versus the bad guys is not as ridiculous as it sounds the depend for their livelihood on the fact that the villages they prey on are isolated from one another the can destroy any one village but could not stand against all their victims united to unite the villages must communicate with one another and a working mail system would thus be a big step toward putting the out of business so it really makes a lot of sense that bethlehem would get medieval on our heroic mail carriers unfortunately eventual defeat is not the result of the villages uniting against him but instead your old standby cliche the one on one brawl between him and costner nor is there even any real attempt by the communities to use the mail to work together to solve their problems all the mail seems to be the standard hi aunt debbie stuff played for maximum sentimental value br br the postman is one of the most predictable movies shot for shot that i have ever seen now i don't purposely try to ruin movies for myself by straining to figure out what's going to happen next but here we're talking about the kind of predictability that requires no effort i just knew what was going to happen next whether or not i wanted to know after a lion is prominently showcased eating people a bandit seeking the escaped costner ventures into the bushes after a noise and we are then shocked when the lion eats him a bunch of villagers are rounded up and shot by a firing squad and one of the villagers sings out some famous last words right before being shot to my immense lack of surprise a covered statue is unveiled to show exactly what everyone knew was going to be there costner bending to pick up a letter from a cutesy kid we saw earlier in the movie a man tells bethlehem that no sir you can't just take my wife bethlehem runs the unsuspecting sod through though he is the only person in the theater who is unsuspecting br br but it is rank cloying sentimentality that really undoes the postman olivia williams playing costner's lover abby is worst served she pours her heart into the material and gives her very best effort to make it sound natural and sincere she tries so hard it's heart breaking but nobody could ever have made the lines i have a gift for you postman you give out hope like it's candy in your pocket sound like anything but the syrupy pap that they are another example is the scene where a mounted costner thunders past a little boy ignoring his proffered letter only to turn around stare at him for what seems like five minutes and then thunder back to pick up the letter why didn't costner just pick it up the first time no real reason it's just an artifice that tries and fails to give us a feeling of elation by dashing the kid's hopes and then restoring them br br schmaltz and predictability unite at the end as the statue of the postman is revealed i sat thinking please don't tell me they're going to show the statue and then cut back to the scene with the cutesy kid surely that is too saccharine too obvious for even this movie then alas the music swelled and we did indeed cut back to the dreaded little boy smiling as his letter to his maiden aunt is whisked away and i held my head in my hands and thought somebody shoot me it felt like having thirty pounds of apple pie rammed down my throat br br gen bethlehem is a more humanized villain than normal your standard issue post apocalyptic villain is the meanest toughest s o b in the valley bethlehem is shown to be a little nothing of a man inside who tries to make himself feel important by beating up on others although some menace is thereby sacrificed bethlehem is credible in a way most villains aren't unfortunately will patton overacts and although we are told early on that bethlehem utterly destroyed his last challenger in five seconds of hand to hand combat actual fighting skills shown at the end of the movie are absolutely ludicrous br br the acting is otherwise pretty good costner has done better but his razzie was an as mentioned olivia williams is very impressive larenz tate as ford does a sincere and credible job james newton howard's score is competent though short of the epic standards the movie was going for but it's not enough to save this film br br rating 1 2 out of
0	its incredible to me that the best rendition of this amazing story remains a cartoon made by walt disney in the 1940s but its true here another clumsy attempt sputters confuses and alienates would be viewers with admirable effectiveness while successfully antagonizing those of us who have actually read the story irving's original work is short by any measure and making a feature length film is bound to be a challenge one can either completely rewrite the story a la tim burton which is a discussion for another time or pad the bust line of the old girl with unintended detail the latter is what is attempted here and if i may say pitifully so unimaginative and thoroughly modern new facets to character personalities such as religious in crane or wanderlust in good old bram bones ruin the story's intent and betray a severe lack of talent by the filmmakers by the time the tale's famous climax approached i had completely lost interest its the kind of film where you expect to see a stagehand smoking in the background
0	the depiction of crane's character was so terrifically unlikable my wife and i were hoping that the horseman or some other character would not only cut off crane's head but do it slowly and painfully br br i mean this brent carver guy played it over the top like he was on broadway and he was such a relentless jackass that we had no sympathy for him whatsoever br br i could go on with specific critiques of how this movie failed but i prefer to not devote the energy br br just skip it and go for the johnny depp version either that or rent the haunted pumpkin of sleepy hollow animated it is quite good entertaining for kids and adults br br better yet read washington irving's original story
0	crap i accidentally watched this film thinking that it was the swimming upstream that was released in 2003 i seriously regret wasting an hour of my life sitting through it shame on whoever gave this junk an award i thoroughly loathed this film in fact i didn't see it through to the end after an hour i could no longer stand it i am disgusted that people are amused by such a lousy script which tries and fails to rip off a dozen other human interest stories and such ba ad acting painful i rate it 1 star out of 10 an amateur could make a much much greater movie
0	i also made the mistake of thinking that i was going to see the 2003 swimming upstream with rush this was worse then a lot of student films that i have seen the script was forced the acting was subpar and the editing annoying it was so slow that i just managed to force myself into staying but i always give a movie a chance so i suffered until the very end apparently there was a memo out about this movie because my friend and i were the only ones in the theater why didn't somebody send me this memo that is why i'm posting as a warning to others thinking of shelling out good money to see this i just hope that you actually got to this page and didn't get trapped like i did by looking at the wrong swimming upstream p s sorry to the cast and crew if you are reading this i know that you worked hard to make this i know what goes into making a movie keep trying
0	i think its safe to say that if you only really watch box office standard films or any premium production don't bother with this film as you will hate it if you are an overly critical film buff don't bother either if you love science fiction films and don't care what capacity you get a glimpse of the future in then you'll be mildly entertained it is very obvious that the budget for this was super super low but what they have done with the money is worth a pat on the back some of the burning fire scenes were pretty bad and the evacuation scenes were terrible but it is quite obvious that they had some good support from a computer perspective as the planet scenes and the alien images were quite inventive the dialog is down right hilarious but acting not altogether poor as for the story well i'm not too sure what actually happened at all to tell you the truth
0	let me preface this by going on record i am a huge george clooney fan and i love john in 'the office' well i was and i did br br this was the world's worst hang nail and it took minutes to rip it off the stupefying boredom was interrupted only by my frequent efforts to read my watch and estimate when it would be over br br every funny scene was in the previews all three of them there was no real story no character development and the script was just plain bad i've had a that was more enjoyable br br the title should have been bad this movie is a lock for a razzie it should get a whole slough of razzies i want my money back
0	this is defiantly a dvd rental movie i'm a big fan of the cast members but the storyline never really grabbed me don't expect oh brother where art thou in any way shape or form funniest part in my opinion is when the war hero explains what happens over in the seems like they were trying to copy some of clooney's funny facial expressions from oh brother where art thou but you could kind of tell they were trying for that john was the bright spot and was solid throughout renee zellweger plays the part of a zealous reporter willing to do whatever for the story overall it's a movie worth watching at home
0	ok where do i start i saw a screening a couple weeks ago and i was shocked how bad this movie is sure if you just love beverly hillbillies and green acres bad acting and you think they are the best tv shows on air then you will definitely love this movie me personally i really like george's work and he is very talented but comedy is not his forte some people are natural in comedy and i am sure he is great funny to work with personally but comedy he can not pull it off on the big screen it was a cute movie but would i pay 12 00 to see it h ll no now that i have seen it i would not recommend it to anyone to spend their money george buddy i love you but please don't do any more comedies this script is lacking a lot great concept but just didn't do it
0	leatherheads is an apt title however a leather strap would be more useful to self oneself after purchasing a ticket to watch this noxious attempt at entertainment clooney's attempt at self deprecating humor comes across with a quiet thud as his demeanor implies that he is anything but perhaps with another actor playing the clooney role the movie might be marginally palatable sorry george i doubt there will be any oscar nods this time george clooney is definitely a fish out of water when it comes to comedy unless you are referencing to his politics anyway only the most ardent of clooney fans will enjoy watching leatherheads everyone else will long for the days of the silent picture
0	check out the two who review leatherheads these guys are old school hollywood and a hit on youtube they always give an insightful and fun review they have movie comparisons that are really interesting and they have a banter back and forth that is endlessly entertaining they know movies collectively they have been in the biz for practically a century lorenzo is a well known screenwriter and marcia is a famous producer all of their insight on movies always leaves you with something to think about see what they think about clooney's latest br br http www youtube com watch v 2
0	how many times must i write the words boring and not funny on this page until i get to ten lines george is about original an actor as from the little rascals although that is probably a slight to how many times do i have sneak into these overpaid actors crappy films before i will learn that there is but one law in the movie industry take the money and make a movie even if it is crap they spend millions making this movie but can't take a few moments to watch the end result and renee should stop taking the illegal drugs she is on and seek medical help for the facial problems she is sporting at least i hope its drugs as she is quite unattractive whilst talking out the side of her mouth this movie was neither funny nor dramatic and these hacks should just stop making crap like this george and renee you should be ashamed of yourselves and stop being stop stinking greedy
0	i thought this movie was going to be good it absolutely wasn't despite the oscar winning lead actors i may have laughed once and i never heard anybody else in the theater laughing renee pancake make up was very unbecoming everybody seems to be trying so hard in this movie running around in imitation of slapstick but not pulling it off i think perhaps the movie must've sounded good in development but something got lost in translation were the roaring 20's really like this i think not everything seems a tad artificial randy newman's score was annoying the film is in sepia tones just like every other movie that takes place in the 20's or 30's there's just not that much originality here
0	a lot of the negative reviews here concentrate on the historical accuracy of this film ok it had about as much to do with the actual nfl as your average war movie has to do with an actual war or a western has to do with the true old west so i think we should give them an artistic license pass on that one br br the problem here is the director clooney apparently thinks that making a screwball comedy means a do stupid things b mug for the camera and c take stupid scenes full of mugging and stretch them out way too long screwball comedies need a fast pace not necessarily frenetic but moving briskly along at all times here things drag and drag and drag after you watch this movie it will make you appreciate how brilliant mack sennett was when he pretty much pioneered the genre with his keystone cops after 90 years you would think that directors would have studied the old masters and learned a thing or two maybe even improved on things a bit but no it's as if someone had watched an automobile pioneer build a and nearly a century later paid homage and improved on the concept by cobbling together a child's wagon with square wheels br br i've enjoyed several of clooney's movies i consider him a gifted actor but very few actors can competently direct themselves clint eastwood notably took a while to get the hang of it clooney is clearly at the bottom of a very steep slope the movie becomes more watchable during the very few times he is out of the frame but when he's in the picture he makes himself the centre of attention in the fight scenes his mugging is so obnoxious you wish somebody would thump him for real br br if you are making a screwball comedy and want some romance thrown in you need to develop some chemistry between the male and female leads clooney and zellweger have all the chemistry of pair of dumpsters sitting in a parking lot no spark no sizzle not even a post mortem twitch zellweger who has also turned out some pretty good movies must have traded her botox injections for oak giving a stunningly wooden performance she might just have pulled off the tough broad in a man's world act if just once while trying to out testosterone the guys she had looked into the camera with a little half smile and twinkle in her eye but no she kept her up tight to the very end br br of course the biggest sin here is that the movie simply isn't funny doing stupid things is not the same as slapstick doing stupid things very inventively like the stooges or very athletically like buster keaton can be hilarious but otherwise it's boring and well stupid i think i got one good laugh out of the entire movie br br avoid this one i saw it for free on cable and still wanted my money back
0	tries so hard tries to be light hearted tries to be a comedy tries to be a love affair let's see it tries to be a 'his girl by way of 'the by way of 'it happened one night' by way of a dozen sports movies alas trying isn't doing and the movie is as soggy as the last game's field br br a fan of movies would watch the big fight scene in the speakeasy between the and some soldiers and realize that the fights that john ford staged with such style and verve and humor in movies like 'the quiet man' or or 'the may have seemed easy to do but obviously aren't i would bet george clooney thought channeling john ford would be easy as well how hard could it be masculinity run amok punches bottles broken over heads an imperturbable piano player just put it up there on the screen with some happening music sorry it takes a master to make fight scenes flow br br movies aren't wished into existence humor is hard romance is hard slapstick a lost art br br i once read that you never wanted to sit too close to a ballet performance something about not wanting to prick the fantastic bubble of the performance by hearing the thuds of the dancers' feet or the grunts of the lifts this movie is like that all strain and good intentions handsome actors nice sets but it thuds through its paces rather than gallops like the original galloping ghost red grange who the movie is loosely based on
0	i cannot comprehend how this picture was allowed to be made it is mostly if not completely inaccurate so much so that the main character does not even resemble how history has him look physically this movie made me go on the internet and go through my books to make sure i remember nero's personality correctly for god's sake i have a book that lists nero as one of the most evil person's of the world and the movie made me feel bad for him i must say character seemed close to my understanding of her both physically and psychologically although the actors all did a good job the movie was terrible and i'm sure i will not watch any others made by this sorry team
0	i think that you can not imagine how these people really work before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there i actually thought quite the same as you do but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long that really is no easy work and also the actors which in your eyes may be terribly bad are really great people and a lot of them really can act i don't think that the material given to them can really show that as i think this material isn't very good but they are truly good so i don't think that you before you haven't seen these guys doing there work can judge over them and i shouldn't have judged over them as well before i met them but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it so please do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven't seen them doing there job
0	sorry if i disappoint anyone about what i am about to say to this made for tv movie but i paid money for the movie and turned out this movie is disaster the directing is really awfully bad but after i looked up its information here i realized there might be reasons for the low quality of directing and producing maybe they don't have budget but anyway ang lee's sense and sensibility had little money too but it turned out a hit the director in this movie did really bad job in telling the story and the movie couldn't even keep up a rational continuity in itself it keeps pulling me outta scenes maybe someone need to work hard on story line board the dubbed sound is also awfully bad my god normally i would appreciate every movie because behind it lie ideas and imaginations of an individual but this time i am just mad i really wanna hit something hard just don't do the job if someone can't fulfill it to its best bad arts its' not even art what is it really hurt people
0	nero is the second movie of the series of six productions named i have already unfavorably commented the first one augustus this second tv movie produced and broadcast last weekend by the italian state owned network has the same defects in addition contains a considerable number of historical errors some examples nero is a child and calls him nero nero at that time is name was claudius he was named nero after his adoption nero did not meet when he was young as in the movie but after his marriage with octavia and his nomination to emperor when becoming emperor his sons where not adults is one month old and octavia one year old and many many more if you are fond of ancient roman history you can find yourselves other examples series will continue with four more movies titus marcus aurelius and the fall of the roman empire finally
0	for a good take on the roman empire watch the excellent bbc produced miniseries i claudius this just sucked the acting was pathetic and you could almost see the actors looking at the camera hans matheson was irritating cheese factor was so high that it promotes constipation with repeated viewings even caligula was tame i think this film was silently supported by religious groups who shall remain nameless the overt tones of christian favoritism and persecution were blatant if that gives any hint stay away what ever you do the running time is so long that i was able to read harry potter's first book faster than the time it took to view this tripe br br italy has done better don't let hans cute face fool you he is not a great actor he is a great bore
0	nero as the title of the movie is in germany is a another attempt to show one of the most interesting roman lucius better known as nero although this attempt at least tried to show a more historic accurate nero than the amusing but completely fictitious nero peter ustinov played in quo vadis it still is a major failure and to those imdb commentators who still believe that and propaganda is true please read a book about nero that was published less than 20 years ago nero did not burn rome this is proved he did not murder he did not torture kill and for pleasure he was the first emperor who banned the gladiator fights the movie still shows a lot of mistakes errors and is by the way made in a really cheap style especially the sets were cheap and unconvincing the palace looking like some villa the city itself looked like well like a cheap set the acting was between good and sub par the music nearly insignificant and the movie soon deteriorated after nero became emperor to a rushed bad edited mess without any clear narrative structure so there still is the potential for an epic biography of nero that shows the true nero who was one of the best who ruled rome despite the lies of et al
0	perhaps we are too much attached to great spectacles when we hear of antiquity brought to screen perhaps we expect too much from these films however if we as viewers are offered far too little what happens then br br that is what i thought after seeing by paul marcus a part of the production series on the roman empire augustus by roger young the first movie included at least peter o'toole but what does this movie include br br hardly anything accurate the historical errors are so serious that the movie changes facts and constitutes rather a distorted image of the roman empire than the true history throughout the movie we see nero young young man during the allegedly long reign of caligula young man during the reign of claudius and finally during his own historically 14 year long reign and he dies the same according to the movie nero born during the reign of lives for more than 40 years but looks to be in his late twenties when he dies continuity combined with made up history is the biggest problem of the movie which makes it hardly logical not to say reliable nero loses his father is raised by slaves at that time his mother is exiled by caligula later however she suddenly marries emperor claudius who already has big children with freshly married to him at these moments of the movie we see schmid nero's mistress all right it is historically accurate yet no source proves that she played such a decisive role in the rise of christianity in rome in the film she is not only a devoted christian but even a witness of st paul's miracle he brings a young girl marzia back to life besides there was historically nothing like nero seen on the court of caligula since nero was born in caligula's 4 year long reign a d 37 41 i understand that movies may change something but such an error makes the script absolutely unreliable and many many other shortcomings concerning content that are hard to but after 30 minutes of watching this film i doubted whether i was watching a historical movie or a total fantasy br br as for its artistic features which supply us with entertainment they are equally lame as the history here is the performances are artificial the cast simply have beautiful faces but weak acting abilities perhaps i am too much attached to peter ustinov or charles laughton in the lead but hans matheson does not fit as nero at all he could have some of the good moments as an actor but never as the infamous roman emperor is he an artist who burns rome for a song is he a cynic who disguises the love to his relatives is he a cruel ruler who sacrifices the lives of thousands of innocent people for the sake of alleged justice none of these he is just a young man who does not know how to rule and in the long run begins to release the fire burning within himself john is out of place in this film as caligula and absolutely inferior to other portrayals of the character elisa is only sexy as yet she could have been much much better the costumes are inaccurate and the sets do not amaze low budget results in low effects and consequently low entertainment br br but what made me most angry in this movie and as a result i give it 1 10 are some moments that are absolutely unacceptable br br the death of and st paul's talk with nero at her dead body br br claudius' mention of the current conquest of britannia on the feast and soon his death he conquered britannia while was his wife much before his death br br killing laura morante nero's mother br br nero's arguments in the speech to the senators br br finally nero's death a calm day at the lake and an indifferent suicide that leads to a moral said by let us forgive him br br all in all this film is a waste of time and is absolutely unneeded as yet another production concerning the roman empire it's better to make one good film in 30 years than ten minor little ones in 5 years 1 10 should not have been made at all
0	what a disaster normally when one critiques a historical movie it's always fun to point out the inaccuracies that slip in usually added by the writers to create more dramatic situations however is a whole kind of animal in this movie you strain to find anything at all that is confirmed by the historical record amidst the farrago of nonsense and fiction presented as the life of bad boy artist emperor br br and it's a pity because nero is one of the most fascinating of all the roman his life was filled with enough tumultuous events and interesting people to make a really good movie the producers of this mess chose another route which leads only to head scratching on the part of any informed viewer br br just a few examples br br 1 nero is depicted as an 6 8 year old boy when caligula has his father killed for treason his mother and sends the boy to be raised by slaves in the countryside ten years later the story resumes just before the assassination of caligula facts nero was born about six months after caligula began his four year reign and was only three when he was assassinated nero's father died of natural causes was briefly exiled for bad behavior not treason and nero was not raised among slaves but had the typical upbringing of a young member of the imperial family br br 2 okay according to the writers nero is now about 16 when his great uncle claudius becomes emperor in fact he was about to turn 4 engineers the downfall of the empress and marries claudius who adopts nero then he goes off to conquer britain and is poisoned by soon after his victorious return nero is declared emperor although he's still perhaps only 18 or 19 years old fact claudius conquered britain in 43 a d two years after beginning his reign he lived until 54 a d nero should have been 31 years old by then by any normal chronology but in fact succeeded to the throne at age 16 br br history tells us that there then followed the five good years where nero ruled wisely and well under the tutelage of the philosopher and the commander this is shown sort of except that portraying the roman senate as opposing nero's good measures is false opposition to nero only commenced when he started to show signs of insanity and began killing senators for real or imagined treason br br 3 nero's mother is the controlling sort who murdered her uncle husband to make her son emperor after a while nero tires of her meddling and decides to kill her in the movie he sends his henchman to stab her to death all true enough but the reality was so much better was a survivor and didn't go easily nero tried three times to poison her but as an old poisoner herself she was savvy to all that and he failed then he tried to crush her to death by collapsing the ceiling of her bedchamber but that also failed next he sent her on a voyage on a ship that was deliberately constructed to fall apart and sink as it went down she jumped into the sea and swam to shore finally he had her stabbed to death now showing all that would have definitely improved this movie br br other errors abound nero's lover was not a childhood slave friend she never repudiated him and there is no evidence that she became a christian nero did not commit suicide by slitting his wrists while sitting beside a lake etc etc etc br br the sources for nero's life are primarily the roman historians and both of whom were of the class hostile to him and his memory but the evidence indicates that he remained very popular with the common people unlike one of the final scenes where he is pelted by the mob with vegetables as he leaves the city to commit suicide br br why did the writers and producers take an inherently interesting story with plenty of good stuff for any movie and make this piece of crap oh and did i mention how cheesy the sets and costumes were lol br br one star because there's no way to rate it lower
0	i just attended a preview screening of this film a masterpiece of documentary film making it was not totally absorbed with its subject the film becomes incapable of leveling any sort of critical commentary with regard to ms faye cloying and sappy the only redeeming quality of the film was its use of puppets in an attempt albeit a failed one to structure some kind of narrative but the creepiest experience occurred as the closing credits rolled the audience rose and applauded like moths to flame americans in the 21st century are still drawn to the narrative of the misunderstood monster is getting rather tired
0	this documentary attempts comedy but never quite gets there for me camp maybe the more apt word that everyone will agree on and have a hard time avoiding in any review is kitsch it dripped kitsch it was as if the film makers had worried their viewers would take the movie too seriously and so they bent over backwards to insert kitsch and proclaim we're joking around here see br br in short i felt it was trying too hard for example the sock puppets that introduced each scene were to me annoying when i'm sure they were meant to be amusing or at least ahem kitsch ey br br do not however avoid this movie based on my complaints just be ready to revel in kitsch rather than having it thrust at you unprepared if you're interested in lighthearted fare you could do far far worse at the very least the facts surrounding the rise and fall of the bakers make this interesting and worth a view at best of like minded kitsch lovers will hoot and holler over choice bits throughout the film
0	plankton or creatures from the abyss as i'm positive it's more commonly known as filmed under as the title creatures from the abyss appears over a moving image in the same font type as the rest of the credits starts with five 20 something kids mike clay rogers his girlfriend margaret sharon sisters julie ann wolf dorothy loren an annoying idiot named bobby michael bon whom decide to all fit into a small rubber boat head out to sea don't ask why as i don't know oh the complete idiot bobby left the petrol behind never thought to tell anyone so it comes as no great surprise that they end up stranded out at sea without any petrol for the motor to make matters worse they become trapped in a thunder storm discover a dead body floating in the water shortly after their luck seems to change when they come across a yacht potential safety in a flash everyone boards the yacht begin to explore first of all they find a scientific lab with various fish specimens computer equipment then down below they find fully furnished luxurious cabins they find a chemist deran sarafian who appears mad can't talk they eat fish from the fridge which makes dorothy puke up green vomit beetles slugs they learn that these fish are living 1000's of years old have been contaminated by toxic waste dumped in the sea that they fly mutate bite are generally unpleasant to be around i really can't be bothered to go on with this plot outline so i won't here's what i think br br this italian production was produced directed by under the pseudonym al i'd hide under a different name if i made a film this bad too i think plankton is quite simply one of the worst films ever there are so many things wrong with this film it's difficult to know where to start first the script by richard is total crap it makes no sense whatsoever is so slow dull it was torture for me to sit through why would five people just simply set sail for the middle of the ocean on a rubber dinghy barely big enough to fit them all in what were they planning on doing exactly why do we often get point of view shots from these fish creatures but they seem to be totally invisible to the characters as they are never shown on screen even though they are right next to a character how do these fish get around the boat as there is no water for them to swim in people's actions reactions to things are all wrong they constantly split up they make bizarre decisions that simply don't make any sense in the situation they find themselves in some of the dialogue is as awful as anything i've heard i could go on all day about all the plot holes ridiculous goings on but i'll run out of space if i do the fish creatures themselves look awful a mixture of rubbish rubber puppets some really bad stop motion animation at the end the scenes where they interact with the human cast also look terrible with some bad super imposition i have heard a lot of comments saying that plankton is gory don't make me laugh forget it there is virtually no blood or gore in plankton whatsoever there are a couple of slimy scenes when bobby transforms into a fish monster while having sex with julie but it's pretty brief he doesn't kill her he just sort of drips slime on her grows a couple of tentacles a fish head comes out of his mouth later on julie's vagina starts to drip some dark slime but that's it we never get to actually see what happens to her or what the slime is dorothy has a fish creature come out of her back off screen control her but again we never get to see what happens to her while margaret commits suicide a very brief shot of a plastic harpoon stuck to her forehead easily the grossest scene is when dorothy pukes up that green stuff with what looks like beetles slugs in it that's it only one person actually dies on screen for the most part plankton is quite tame as exciting as watching paint dry i nearly fell asleep it's so boring i can't see how anybody can like this total crap i just can't the acting is awful the dubbing is awful the characters are awful i hated all of them plankton is predictably crap as well with an estimated budget of only 250 000 all i can say is where did the money go the sets are monotonous dull with one lab a few cabins the special are bottom of the barrel stuff including the most fake looking exploding boat ever the cinematography is bland the music sucks there is zero atmosphere or tension as a whole plankton like it's name sake is as low in the food chain as it could possibly be i hate plankton it's awful in every single aspect of it's overlong 86 minute duration do yourself a favour avoid this one at all costs unless your either a masochist or insomniac
0	boasting some pretty good rick baker esque special effects and deran serafian in a small role this pretty lame italian movie deserves some recognition gets some credit for still making gore flicks while most of the other italian directors ruggero deodato sergio martino lamberto bava and enzo g castellari have moved on to lower key tv movies as for plankton it's half piranha half the thing with people into monsters raping women and causing general mayhem the ultra grimy sleazy and over sexed feel of the film makes it hard to enjoy only available in italian language work prints floating around
0	i watched this movie only because i was under the impression that i was going to be treated to a cheesy horror flick i mean look at the tag line they're men turned inside out and worse they're still alive does that not scream cheesy horror movie to you and the then there's the title itself what a perfectly apt title for a horror movie i thought unfortunately i wasn't aware that the real title was properly translated the island of the br br so about an hour into watching this i realized that this was not a cheesy horror movie at all it was a cheesy adventure story about slimy fish men from atlantis men turned inside out no there was nothing of the sort i was grossly disappointed br br damn you misleading taglines i want those 81 minutes of my life back
0	being a fan of bad movies i was thrilled to find a 3 pack of cr ppy horror at best buy today the set was cheap and included a terrible film called the dark that i actually remember seeing in the theater br br the remaining 2 were equally as bad creatures from the abyss being probably the worst of the bunch since they were all bad that isn't saying much but its stupidity bad acting terrible effects and retarded storyline actually made this one a lot of fun to watch i was rolling on the floor with each new plot development the discovery of the abandon ship the missing crew the realization that there was something terribly wrong it was great of course everyone's favorite scene seems to be the sex scene omg i almost lost it between that an the monster cam i have to say i enjoyed this film a lot br br i am a fan of bad movies so i enjoyed it but in all fairness i did have to give the movie a 1 it was awful but if rubbish is your bag at least rent this one yes the bad pun was intentional
0	this movie is highly improbable read the other reviews to see why br br i would say that most of the characters were plastic but they didn't even afford themselves that little luxury they just act like cardboard cutouts of course they had to get real surfers for the surfing contest roles so that's a crap shoot whether they can act at least didn't give a crap and just went with it but lance fuhgeddaboutit br br the one character who rang true was portrayed by gerry lopez who didn't really act he was himself pretty much he's quite accustomed to stomping people the only reason i gave this movie a 2 instead of a 1 was because i was laying out a newsletter on my laptop when it came on some cable channel late one night that saved me from having to pay full attention to this silly little time waster no way i would go out of my way to watch it
0	i am astonished at the major comments here for this ok surf film it really stems from the california dreamin school of barnyard to beach antics and isn't really plausible the idea that the lead kid learn to ride a board so well in a concrete wave pool that he beats the real surfers at their game in the real ocean is just plain silly in australia where most urban teens do surf this film was laughed at audiences took it all with a grain of sea salt made in the 80s but with its heart in the 60s it is fun to watch and looks and sounds good but it is not a in a classic class at all even the actors didn't this we're seriously in liquid bridge or ride the wild surf or beach blanket bingo land here oz stars like and big wednesday hero gerry lopez are drafted in to add head nodding recognition to our farm boy's wave prowess but it only made the crowd in the cinema guffaw it is for 10 years olds who do not question much it's not even in gods hands and that was silly too
0	this movie is one big stereotype the acting except philbin harrison is awful and the horrid script only make things worse i must agree with another review that the local characters sound ridiculous as a matter of fact so do the caucasian characters 3 stars out of 10 for 1 philbin 2 harrison 3 surf scenes 1 2 out of watch aloha summer and or beyond paradise for hawaii done right especially bp which i found to be entertaining and brilliant
0	one of the worse surfing movies i've ever seen this movie is so bad i don't know where to begin okay let's start with the premise some dude from the mainland who barely knows how to surf travels to hawaii and enters a big wave contest which he more or less expects to win a good analogy for those who don't surf would be a that of a grossly overweight chain smoker slapping on a pairs of running shoes and entering the la marathon with expectations of winning no way and the contest is held on the north shore which conjures up images of 15 foot waves but contest day the waves are maybe 6 foot the acting what acting if you must see this woof see it on tv don't waste your money renting it if you want to see a pretty good surfing movie granted it is flawed but that's another story rent big wednesday
0	i was lucky enough to grow up surfing in san diego not the biggest waves in the world but it was a hell of childhood i'll tell you that and i have seen a lot of so called surfer flicks in my life after watching north shore for the first time just now all i can say is thank god i never saw this as a kid if i had seen this and mistakenly thought that this was a realistic portrayal of the surf scene i would sold my board and totally gotten into i don't know accounting or something br br seriously this movie has a as much in common with real surfing as top gun has was real military life the acting is terrible the music is worse the cinematography is iffy at best and oh my god what was laird thinking wow do not see this movie it sucks if you want a real surf flick see riding giants hell watch surf's up instead of this seriously sucks sucks bad sucks real bad br br ps had to change my summery from wtf to wtf because apparently we are supposed to whisper on this site no yelling d
0	this film has the language the style and the attitude down plus greats rides from a world champ and the great jerry lopez john philbin as turtle has the surf pidgin down and the surfing scenes are still the best ever a true classic that can be seen many times peeples is a babe and laird hamilton shows the early stuff that has made him the world's number one extreme surfer
0	the bad news the canadian version of beast in the cellar released by maple pictures that i saw was of poor quality dark and washed out it appeared to be dubbed haphazardly from a vhs tape it even skips at one point due to some missing frames br br the good news this movie is so bad that the poor quality of the dvd detracted little from my viewing enjoyment this horror movie fails to build tension and lacks scares it is a horror film while most frightening films have limited dialog beast in the cellar is a so much so that a character will repeat something we have just heard said by two other characters presumably all the chit chat acts as filler for a very low budget unimaginative movie unfortunately the dialog isn't campy enough to make it worth a watch
0	one thing i have noticed about british horror movies from the 1970s is that they don t hold up to repeated viewing theatre of blood is a case in point as are all those amicus anthology movies add the beast in the cellar to the list br br much of the drama of this movie revolves around the build up of a plot revelation at the end once you know what the revelation is this becomes a rather flat film it does open with a fairly good hook but after that we re treated to long boring sequences of two old ladies making small talk correct me if i m wrong but how many people watch a horror movie expecting a couple of old ladies making small talk the only sort of interest to be found in the beast in the cellar is the anti smoking stance some people have mentioned that this is an anti war or anti military film but watch carefully and you ll see that everytime a lights up for a fly puff he gets killed rather strange considering attitudes to smoking t nearly so hysterical as they are nowadays
0	the plot' of this film contains a few holes you could drive a massive truck through but i reckon that isn't always top priority in horror two elderly sisters in rural england keep their brother in the cellar since more than 30 years now he escaped and started a killing spree focusing on militaries that are nearby we only did we thought was best for him' they keep on repeating and – strangely – all the army officers love these women and don't doubt their sincerity even though 5 of their men died i don't know whether to find the revelation near the end suspenseful … or tedious in a way this film reminded me about arsenic and old in that black comedy classic two half insane siblings mother their goofy younger brother as well yet they do the killing there the old ladies in the beast in the are by no means less crazy though the horror' in this early 70's film is very amateurish and cheap but there are a few neat attempts to build up the tension too many old ladies' talk about the good ol' days though and that rarely is something you seek in a horror film with such an appealing title flora robson who may be recognized by classic film buffs plays one of the sisters she gave image to the queen of england is the legendary errol flynn swashbuckler film the sea hawk
0	ok by the time you read this i might have stopped crying this movie was so horrible as to be quite vexing the creatures are kinda cute but the only really good thing about the movie was the growing attachment among the prisoners and their guard after getting marooned on this daffy island even seeing barbara bach with her hair all was no payoff for buying this sterling bit of poop she goes about with a whispery i've never used my voice before that just don't wash when one is screaming bloody murder hey the leading man was cute too but i'm still not assuaged this is a cry into your beer ripoff of the good ole island of dr moreau poor richard johnson who was surely born for better things is just unrelievedly bad as the bad guy i mean how bad can a bad guy be ask richard johnson joseph cotten tries hard not to look embarrassed as he staggers through his cameo appearance in the name of all that's holy don't rent this darned bomb
0	i remember viewing this movie when i was a kid i recall it terrified me immensely and it stayed with me all these years i spent a couple of years trying to find it online didn't remember the title only the storyline after searching and searching i came across a vhs that was being sold on e bay i was excited and when it finally arrived i jammed it into the vcr and couldn't help but feel a bit nostalgic needless to say i was slightly disappointed this wasn't the movie i remember watching as a kid it was boring at times and i found beryl reid's incessant extremely annoying both performances by reid and flora robson were good overall but the movie wasn't scary i think any movie is worth viewing to form you're own opinion but sometimes well
0	crash is supposed to be a film about racism in los angeles but in fact it's just a bunch of coincidences between several characters that connect each other during one day in one of the biggest cities of the world who the hell is going to believe that there are unrealistic situations one after the other on the other hand this film pretends to show racism between asians iranians latinos blacks and whites but the big error relies on a pre establish racism coming from the writer mainly because the white characters in this movie are usually portrait as people with a better social economical status than the rest of the other races iranians are poor just like the asians and latinos as always are portrait as housekeepers police officers or with a very low profile job like a jesus don't you guys think it's about time to change these stereotypes same with blacks portrait as gang members with the exception of a black tv director who was the only fresh character for me this movie sucks so hard that makes me so disappointed about the kind of cinema coming out from hollywood these days always with stereotype characters no realism whatsoever nothing to identify with it's simply a big waste because this could have been a great opportunity to show latinos koreans iranians and blacks from a different perspective
0	given this film's incredible reviews i was expecting something truly exceptional it certainly starts well with witty and sharp dialogue and a fine cast in place a series of robert altman style interwoven stories reel the viewer in with some compelling scenes i found it gripping entertainment right through to the second half of the film when sadly it collapses like a pack of cards a series of ludicrous coincidences and right on messages stack up until i'm left deeply disappointed and wondering what all the fuss is about paul haggis has tackled the subject of race in la and that alone seems to have elevated this movie to a new level of interest given that most of the academy voters live in la and have experienced racism to some extent this film is sure to have an impact on them that means the oscar for best picture will go to the race movie or the gay movie let's hope it is the latter because brokeback mountain is a bona fide masterpiece that deserves recognition
0	this movie is bad just bad in absolute terms bad br br the dialog jumps off the screen and slugs you in the face with its thoroughly artificial banter and then defecates on your ability to detect even trace amounts of subtlety br br racism is bad racism in los angeles can be especially bad i live in the city of angels i can attest to that what is so terrible about the bigotry in los angeles is its insidious nature it creeps at you with a knowing glance or a swallowed word until just at the edge of a full on fist fight it almost never comes right out and says why did he have to be black br br i can see quite clearly that the car are black the detective's partner is hispanic the da is white as long as there is film rolling through the projector i can let the visuals music and words take me to that conclusion without just telling me the conclusion characters emote and we read between the lines to make the connections and conclusions br br that is a partnership and trust between filmmaker and audience that trust is raped by this movie br br a good film pulls you in directions as an audience and it steers you with cues to drive to a point this movie beats you down with its point and insults you and your intelligence along the way my unanswered question is why did we as a society say collectively thank you
0	okay it was very good but best picture please not even close munich was better capote was much better good night and good luck was much better brokeback mountain well that should have won the academy voters seem to act like the current day democrats please just a little of everyone but don't dare take any concrete positions that's why we have a complete moron in office in the us br br this has been the worst aa presentation and forget 1987 since way before that hollywood is so afraid of it's bottom line that it can't be set straight many voters apparently didn't even see brokeback mountain get real and get with it br br this was the most pathetic year since i have been watching in the mid 60's and i was only two br br wake up whoever you are hollywood is mainstream and that's what happened to the box office in 2005 king kong the last star wars film another batman film a re make or whatever of charlie and the chocolate factory and much more to come in 2006 br br at least there were original best pictures i e munich but heard that one before capote great katherine keener should have won even though now we know reese can sing like a cash carter etc syriana was a much better picture than crash that film has been done since the early 1960's and we have to make that the best film what a horrible oscar night and a horrible year to end with in 2005 and another boring year in 2006 at least the bafta for best picture went to brokeback and what about the horrible song that won pathetic i think we only have about 20 years left as america or the usa before someone comes in and changes up things a bit maybe it will be china since they own so much of this country or india because they have all the high tech jobs and are the largest democratic country in the entire world br br america has become the land of the fat the pathetic and the stupid trash can be found in more places than florida west virgina south dakota and in the mid west br br drive through a local mcdonald's or burger king for goodness sake order all you want until you get a heart attack put yourself out of your misery
0	i had gone to the movies expecting to see a great film based on all the word of mouth and terrific reviews the minute the opening sequence started i knew i was in trouble the music and credits were trying so hard to evoke emotion i wanted to puke all i got from this film was clichéd characters contrived dialog and an unemotional script director writer paul has managed to get great reviews with his manipulative self righteous writing but it doesn't fool me some performance were good don cheadle is always good i think terrance howard is slightly over rated but he was decent ludicrous was way too on the nose he should stick to rapping brendan fraser was fine jennifer esposito left no impression what so ever i find nothing interesting about her sandra bullock is always the same in every movie she's just okay matt dillon was very good and i enjoyed watching him work ryan philippe was good as well but as far as the script and the lousy directing this is actually one of those movies that is so annoyingly bad i actually took the time to write about it i would not recommend this film to anyone what a waste of time
0	through its 2 hour running length crash charts the emotional anguish of its 10 odd ensemble of characters when faced with the sometimes blatant and sometimes latent forms of racism underlying in american society that and the emotional anguish of one of its audiences sitting near the front and desperately trying to make sense of what movies have become these days br br the era we live in has become so complicated not only do we reject modernism even the not very enthusiastic flag waving of post modernism ideas is always being shot down by what post post modernism that aims to destroy all these ideas all in no part thanks to the great ideas of those great but i digress this has nothing much to do with the what the movie is about but rather what the movie is br br sure it seems hard to earn a living in a hollywood that has to cater to a market that is so post post post everything that cynicism has become more than just a motto in life it has become part of everything we do and part of everything we think of whether we like it or not and so a new studio product is born indie films which once were energetic and idealistic in its defiant experimentalism now seem to be as equally adamant as hollywood films to sell to indie film markets an indie film must sell at sundance before becoming and so nothing is simple anymore even what constitutes a good film becomes so murky whereas in the past filmmakers just wanted to entertain people and tell a good story and in these seemingly simplistic attempts the greatest of films are borne filmmakers nowadays have to make films that are good first and foremost films have to make people think have to be meaningful has to be provocative raise questions yadda yadda yadda what it all boils down to is a subversion of the hollywood movie system but this subversion seems strangely similar to the formulaic similarity of hollywood films the countless ways of differing to essentially be the same product br br and i haven't even begun on the film yet maybe i've become too picky on films i see these days maybe it's because of my primary need to be entertained rather than say be when seeing a movie but hell this movie is one big load of crap and i'm repulsed by this movie not just because it follows the how to make a good movie good 101 to the t characters spout eloquent lines and are sooo witty like they're gifted with the speech of god it raises issues about racism and life confronting racism in america it has moments where everyone discovers more about themselves and more about other people not to mention the fact that once you hear the ambient new age soundtrack of women singing in high registers in foreign languages you know you're in for all of the above traits br br and something about the aforementioned point about it raising questions about immediately compelling issues like racism pisses me off big time like all post post post post post everything movies it doesn't contend with just having a message about this issue because oh our audiences are much to intelligent for that these days in this post post post post world our audiences want us to make them think doesn't want us to put things so simplistically and then they will go into existentialist crap and say that's because life itself isn't simplistic ha ha ha what other common drill do we here then the audience need to think about issues rather than have them fed to them okay okay and okay so the film makes it a point to pound the audiences with these non messages and since they're not exactly a message it's so decidedly subtle and subtle means good right so we're being hit again and again with this well written subtlety with the eloquence of rhetorical prose and as if the irony is not steep enough we have character the only character who seems to not take all these racism discussion bullshit seriously being into one of those irritatingly meaningful characters where he learns something in the end giving meaningful looks and pauses where audiences are supposed to something about themselves too' um yeah how i wanted to see an incredibly racist film right after this man br br to cut the long bullshit short i guess i wouldn't have taken issue with the film if it wasn't so bloated in its self importance the angst that forms the entire movie felt more like white boy whining than actual spike lee ish anger it's so tim robbins and sean penn the type that wants to wave flags about when the only thing they don't realize is the flag they're waving is their hole ridden underwear plus it's become so trendy in the post post post post world to be completely subtle about it nothing is simple any longer in its best efforts to actually be good provocative and ultimately human it's become neither imho just another indie crap from an indie director that wants to make a name out of himself as a credible indie filmmaker now at least hollywood is more simple and sincere in its
0	is probably the word i'd use to try and start describing this film i only watched it because it had a good rating on here and i was so let down br br basically the film is about racism in a post 9 11 america and the director went at it with a sledge hammer there was no subtlety in the film at all and it felt as though they were trying to achieve a kind of magnolia feel to the film which is never a good idea as that film was three hours of tedium and confusion only for it to start raining frogs at the end br br all in all a huge disappointment
0	this movie was offensively pc predictable and clichéd i couldn't imagine a movie that better exemplifies the myopic narcissistic preachiness of today's hollywood if you haven't seen this don't bother watching it if you have show some courage and tell people how awful it really is my wife a minority in her own right was offended by the inherent and racist message of the film this movie has nothing to do with the real world and has little if anything at all to add to any discussion about racism in this country instead it's the kind of cheap sensationalist crap that is promoted as deep and challenging thought what kind of a bubble do you have to live in to think that this is at all impressive
0	crash is overwrought over thought and over baked a great example of how to make a pompous and self important film with a message haggis tries too hard to make his point and in just about every category of the film it feels very much in love with its own sense of social relevance and has all the subtlety of a jackhammer to the skull sure race relations affect everyone and there's a great deal of ambiguity to the issue but the universe of operates to suggest that we are all victims to our own perceptions on race it's a tiresome thread that repeats itself ad nauseum and wears out its welcome within the first 30 minutes i found the outcomes of the characters unsurprising and forced and the film took forever to sputter out and die the fact that this film is in the top 50 movies on imdb is a testament to the public's willingness to get suckered by hollywood malarkey br br indeed if you want the real crash go check out the one by david cronenberg dark twisted and original this film plays as preachy tiresome and masochistic
0	yes the video cover of this movie made me want to watch this film as a child it was called on this particular cover with the tagline men turned inside out it even featured this warped looking skeleton on the cover as well that made all sorts of cool gory images run through my mind perhaps some sort of movie about some strange virus that caused a person's flesh to burn off maybe a movie about undead zombies that are more bloody looking than what you usually get a science experiment gone incredibly wrong and now strange men with the flesh dripping off their bones go on the rampage yes all these thoughts ran through my mind one that did not was fish guys on some island with virtually no gore and all bore this movie is really more like the island of dr moreau than anything else and quite frankly that movie bored me too it is way to much scientist and not enough killing for my tastes these films are to much figure stuff out and not enough blood for my tastes yes i know i have strange tastes but i can not help it i like my horror movies either really bloody or fast moving and exciting this movie is really neither
0	jacqueline hyde starts like any other normal day for individual jackie hyde co producer gabriella hall until her boss robert donovan fires her for taking personal calls at work however it's not all bad news as the call she took was from a lawyer informing her that her grandfather malcolm bennett has recently died that he left her his mansion fortune why doesn't stuff like that ever happen to me sigh very excited jackie heads on over there makes herself right at home while looking for the thermostat late one night jackie stumbles upon a secret room where her grandfather stashes the bright red formula that he invented that allows whoever drinks it to change their appearance being a bit on the porky side jackie finally settles on the glamorous jacqueline blythe however jackie's better looking alter ego starts to take control br br written co produced directed by rolfe kanefsky i thought jacqueline hyde was complete total utter crap from start to finish it's as simple straight forward as that according to the opening credits jacqueline hyde was by the classic robert louis stevenson novel 'the strange case of dr jekyll and mr frankly if mr stevenson could see what was being done to his story here he'd turn in his grave for a start i think jacqueline hyde was is intended to be a horror film the imdb certainly lists it as such but there isn't any horror in it at all apart from just how bad it is i would say that jacqueline hyde is more a soft core porno than anything else extremely tame with it why sit down watch this softer than soft porno crap when you can watch you proper hard core stuff that actually delivers the goods why that's the question i ask here it's not even good porn either besides being far too soft it's dull boring the not worth mentioning sex scenes are few far between the most intelligent aspect of this film is the title which would have been quite clever if not for the fact that another film used the jacqueline hyde 1998 title during the last century judging by the imdb's plot summary it sounds a hell of a lot better than this piece of rubbish this is one of those films you have to watch yourself to see just how bad it is but just hope that you never get the opportunity br br director kanefsky was obviously working on a low budget but that's not an excuse these days shot on a digital camcorder the film looks cheap the few instances of cgi look like they came from a nintendo gameboy the final 'shocking' twist has probably the worst morph effect i've ever seen is pretty good for a laugh as is the scene when jackie's breasts grow via more terrible cgi that's another thing the film takes itself far too seriously the subject matter sucks is far too predictable makes for a poor film but maybe if the dialogue had been intentionally funny with some dirty porn talk the film might have been more fun to watch alas it isn't so it isn't forget about any decent horror violence or gore as there isn't any apart from a surprisingly bloodless decapitation at the end br br technically jacqueline hyde is home made film type stuff the photography is of the flat hand held point shoot variety the music production design special effects are of a suitably low standard to match the script the acting was awful seriously this is bad br br jacqueline hyde in my opinion a load of crap there is not one positive thing about this turgid film that i can think of any proper film lover will have an almost impossible time trying to find any redeeming value in this crap definitely one to avoid
0	terrible writing highly contrived from a do gooder who knows absolutely nothing about race relations in l a or the usa in the present day the gushing positive reviews are a mystery to me but could only be provided by folks who think that someone's good intentions should be applauded regardless of how shallow simpleminded and just totally unrealistic the results are if you want to see a film which deals realistically with modern day l a race issues the movie you need to see and probably already saw is pulp fiction there's more honesty and realism regarding race in any two minutes of that film than there are in the full 4 hours oh i'm sorry it just felt like 4 hours of this stinker br br if anyone ever needs proof that the path to hell is paved with good intentions then this is the movie for you
0	the good the acting were great especially terrence howard and thandie newton terrence howard should have been nominated for best supporting actor instead of matt dillon br br the bad i'm a visible minority non white and i have experienced some form of racism in my life but despite my life experiences and the movie's subject matter i would definitely not say that this movie is the best of the year in fact it's far from it i have problems with this movie both from a moviegoer's perspective and from a visible perspective some of my problems with this movie are br br 1 poor character development or none at all just because we saw extremes in a character for example matt dillon being a racist cop and being a good caregiver to his ailing father that does not mean in any way that the character is well developed yes i admit that in a big cast ensemble like in this movie it is quite difficult for every character to be well developed but that does not mean that at none of the characters should be like that br br 2 the dialogue seems really contrived to the point that i'm really surprised this movie won for best original screenplay they should show this movie in a screenplay writing class not because it's good but to show students and future screenplay writers what not to do i just felt like i've been hit by the head over and over again how bad racism is i get it br br 3 the plot seems so coincidental it is laughable what are the chances of a black car robber running over an asian guy who also happens to be a human trafficker while entering his van and that same black car robber ended up carjacking that asian guy's van several hours later after he brought him the hospital only to find out that the several asians being trafficked inside the van just to show you that the black car robber has a good side after all or what about that scene where a prejudiced upper class white woman who fell down the stairs and all her prejudice and hatred vanished into thin air if it was that simple why don't we throw every racist in america down the stairs so they will have a change of heart br br 4 i think my biggest misgivings about this movie is the unrealistic view of racism as someone who has experienced racism in my life the realistic view of racism is that it is hidden rather than in your face i've been refused to enter a supermarket because i'm not white did the store owner said because i was not white no he said the store was closing even though there were a lot of people shopping inside did he yell racial slurs no racism in america is more hidden some cab drivers probably won't stop to pick you up because you're non white but that does not mean that they will try to run you over or get out and say racial slurs if a chinese woman rear ended me i won't be saying blake blake learn some english bitch on the other hand if i was a chinese woman and i accidentally rear ended a mexican woman i won't say mexicans are bad drivers in front of her face that's not how things work instead i would give out my insurance info say sorry and go home and tell my fellow chinese friends and family that mexicans are poor drivers and make fun of them behind their backs that is the real racism it's hidden and not in your face br br anyway crash is not original unlike what some people may say the interlocking and interweaving story lines plots and characters have been done before magnolia is a movie that does this much better than crash did and yet it was never nominated for best picture at the oscars it had a stellar cast julianne moore william h macy phillip seymour hoffman who won best actor recently tom cruise etc it really boggles my mind how crash was even nominated for best picture
0	what a disappointment the story line is so simple the good guys sometimes do bad things and the bad guys sometimes do good things dressed up into a racial setting to make it seem clever sophisticated and meaningful it isn't it lacks any subtlety br br everything that happens is telegraphed and then gone over again in case you missed the explanation br br for a film like this to convince and move the audience it has to be represent the ambiguity of the characters and their motivation and actions not simply present it as a series of 180 degree changes in each character's actions br br half way through i really wanted to waste no more time on it but i thought i would stick with it in case it improved big mistake i should have stopped then it simply got worse
0	i am amazed anyone likes this film i never walk out of movies but my friend had to physically stop me from leaving the theater during this insulting disaster the white characters are saints and the asian characters are practically nonexistent and worthless to the story they exist only as objects surprise characters of other races fare much better the twists and turns were laughable and predictable but if you're reading this you know that already paul haggis is a hack hollywood can't even do multicultural movies right do yourself a favor and watch a much more honest take on race relations harold and kumar go to white castle
0	i wrote this as a two part review part two has spoilers br br part 1 br br no this isn't that one about the sex with car accidents this is the one about racism in l a you know the one where everybody is a racist and race is the topic on everybody's mind at all times race br br its like the movie has a form of turrets syndrome where race is the constant theme race racist racism race relations relay race br br paul haggis made a movie which took the structure of magnolia which was used to show the disconnect of people who are tangentially connected and then screwed it into a mental vomit about racism in america race in the 24 hour period we have 7 stories running parallel all connected and about race the first hour people say ridiculous stuff and do absurd things in an effort to be real about racism in america br br for example the story with ludicrous and larenz tate provides the comic relief too bad the first half of their story is lifted straight from the bonnie situation in pulp fiction racism their section is the quentin tarantino section where instead of being cool and talking about foot massages and religion the characters talk about race and racism constantly br br the other good thing about it is the mexican story when the mexican guy is talking to his daughter he gives her his invisible impenetrable cloak to protect her from bullets decent writing but that's only because the writers have had daughters and know what they would say in his place br br the rest of the stories are extremely ludicrous the hindi does not act in any semblance of realism the scene where he's trying to get the lock fixed and the mexican tells him he needs a new door is abbreviated and stupid why would anybody act like that is it realistic nooo it reminds me more of the convenience store clerk from the doom generation six dollar sixty six cents girly if i ever watch the second half of the movie i hope his head is shot off and his head starts coughing up relish br br i haven't mentioned race in over a paragraph race racism race for the sun better then there is the black guy who wants to be white matt dillon who has a chip on his shoulder against blacks ryan phillippe who looks beautiful and does nothing and various other bad actors acting badly with bad dialog when matt dillon the black producers wife could i help it if i was cracking up when philippe is second guessing his writing up of his partner for racism can i help but crack up the movie is so funny when it is being racist racist racist i tell you br br now mind you this movie was nominated for best picture best director best screenplay and best editing besides a nod to matt dillon who actually did attempt to do a decent job who was paid off for that one i have no clue br br don't see it unless you feel like being preached at about the racism in society through a bad and unrealistic script from 2 white men over fifty who have no semblance of reality or interaction with real society in any way shape or form br br d br br part 2 br br the second half of crash takes any and all story lines in the first half and spews them back out in a sort of redemptive the world is a big coincidence kind of way and it is in fact one of the worst ways to do it br br take 1999's magnolia people weren't conveniently tied together over and over again they were just connected in a strange way that happens more often than you think you know somebody who knows somebody who did something that you knew somebody else was also involved in crash takes this wrapping into a serious extreme br br the stories are lined up so everybody meets again are there only 5 on the lapd force aren't these people working weird shifts dillon and philippe were a late shift then an early one the next day and why did tate have to be the murdered hitchhiker wouldn't it have had more emotional tension as well as realism if it had been somebody we had not been following all day long like phillippe just picks up a random hitchhiker and then freaks out be freaking out br br eventually in the second half the touching invisible cloak scene is used to get the hindi to shoot the daughter it ticked me off and made me feel dirty not that the hindi shot the daughter but that they created a beautiful touching scene and then had it be the direct cause of people tearing up it really ticked me off at the writers not the scene br br the whole movie is fake and totally uncalled for the coincidences are far too many and they require an extreme suspension of disbelief unlike magnolia which was connected mildly this had connections upon connections upon connections which were just so over the top the only good part in the second half was when sandra bullock falls down the stairs she doesn't die though she should have i cheered when she fell br br the worst part about the movie is it pulls a magnolia not just in structure but it has a montage over the song in the deep where you see everybody being depressed magnolia took this and had post modern commentary on it by having all of the characters singing along to aimee mann's wise up unfortunately magnolia came out in 1999 while crash came out in 2005 its hard to make commentary on a movie which won't be made for another 6 years but it happened somehow br br utter waste of my time br br first half d second half lowest grade ever overall f
0	i can not believe the positive reaction to this movie i had great expectations for it and was disappointed first of all they used every cheesy racism cliché in the book it was so predictable for instance from the second the young latino guy showed up you just knew that he would be a really nice guy because he looked like a gangbanger matt dillon's character has been played a million times a cop who had been hardened over the years and would see the light to some degree by the end of the movie the predictability hardly ended with those characters a phenomenal cast was wasted on a weak script the morals of the story were pc to the max there were a few clever twists but not nearly enough the dialouge was embarrassing at times it wasn't all bad i just can't believe this movies high score so far it was somewhat entertaining just a little insulting to ones intelligence i admire what this movie was trying to achieve but it fell well short
0	spoilers br br one of the worst films i've seen since last years the village an insult to anyone of any intelligence at all poorly written and astonishingly contrived nobody especially in los angeles talks the way these characters do no subtly at all if the point of this film is to say that we all have a little bit of bigotry in us he does a horrible job of stating the obvious not only was his point clearly base but every character in this film was amazingly stupid the car jacking scene almost made me walk out along with the rescue and oh lets not forget the white off duty rookie cop picking up a hitchhiking black thug and i could go on and on awful just awful
0	i agree with what so many others have said about the shallow and offensive nature of this film's examination of racism it is baffling to me that so many people seem to have been fooled by its pretentiousness i want to comment on the matt dillon character as an example of what's most infuriating about this movie here we have a man who contrasted with the film's underlying message that we're all a little racist effectively rapes a woman in public cruelly humiliating her husband and deliberately goading him to make a move that as he well knows will lead to his arrest or even death he does all this after pulling the couple over without any legal cause but because as we come to understand they are black and wealthy and he is a hurt little boy who is now the police and can therefore do as he pleases this behavior is not a little racist this behavior is evil it is disturbing to me that this extreme of racism is held up next to another character's behavior spouting her paranoid stereotypes about gang violence to illustrate that everybody's a little racist later we're spoon fed some tripe about dillon's poor old dad and how black folks drove him into the poor house is this supposed to explain or worse excuse this behavior and is dillon's character meant to redeem himself by committing the utterly unmotivated and unbelievable laughably coincidental act of saving the woman he sexually assaulted the very night before please the fact that so many people seem to feel some kind of self congratulatory admiration for this film makes me feel sad about the shallowness of our understanding of racism and our apparent lack of commitment to condemning and ending it
0	the film's tagline is you think you know who you are you have no idea i reject both the suggested idea that i have no idea who i am and the inferred suggestion that this film tells me who people truly are if people in real life are really like this then man we're screwed br br a bilious film that i walked into late and left prematurely a film which is so wrapped up in its goal of becoming the race film of all time that it loses sight of the very tools a film must use br br the rules of hollywood are such if you show something in the first half it must be used in the second half thus the gun that the daughter worries about her father buying will somehow find its way into the story in the second half the rules of hollywood are to make dialog 'real' a concept which changes with every decade is this 'real somehow less ludicrous than the 'real of kevin smith ten years ago the rules of hollywood state that we set the scene and as action rises the camera moves in closer to the faces in this film primarily so we can see the supposed shame humiliation and transcendental realism of the characters the strings increase the frame rate slows down and our heart is meant to break br br this film is as crassly manipulative as it is vapid i have my own prejudices against l a which i freely admit so to combat this prejudice i will not say that this is a natural situation stemming from the location but rather probably from the author and director the writer paul haggis already showed a taste for polemics over humanity in his million dollar baby which at least had a director who understood how to make the vision of the film bring out the best of a script's ideas now that paul haggis has his own hands on the camera it becomes obvious that not only does he not know how to write true natural human drama he does not know how to photograph or direct it as well paul haggis comes from the land of tv let us not forget the land of diminished expectations br br everything is as obvious as a tv movie simply presented for simple minds haggis drills into us over and over again that while on the surface people may seem to be awful they have secret pains hidden this is a nice idea but so presented that the whole juxtaposition of bad good has an amateurish feel structurally the film is broken up in the tradition of magnolia and other earlier films the editing is as typical and conventionally cinematic as could be if there is a dramatic movement such as a door opening or a car driving past between the subject and camera the editors use that extreme movement to give the cut that occurs there a more kinetic quality the problem is that other than the drive to keep things moving there is very little intelligence and thought behind the cuts everything is kept by the books not only are the puppets of this hideous racial punch and judy show ineptly handled but even the curtains are lowered and raised with incompetence br br the film tries desperately to present reality but there's just no talent whatsoever some of the actors are good some of the actors are bad and all of the performance get muddied together brought down by the low low aesthetics of the film we have cinematography which is technically clear we can see the scene we have a clear understanding of what is happening however not only is the cinematography unremarkable but it is thoughtless camera work and framing which believes that it actually is inspired the result is little stylistic flourishes which one recognizes but do not actually add anything to the drama or pathos for example and this is a spoiler as a father holds his dying child the father might be shot too i didn't stick around to find out the camera sees his face and gives us the famous vertigo track zoom the vertigo shot it was at this point that the film became hysterical and i just had to leave i had to leave because it was so bad i left because i was in the middle of a crowded theater and i wanted to express to the audience that i was sick of hollywood 'art' which is full of sound and fury yet signifying nothing in the bard's own words i hate to waste such good shakespearian references on something this remarkably bad
0	i saw this movie partly because of the sheer number of good reviews at netflix and from it i leaned a valuable lesson not a lesson about ethnic diversity however the lesson i learned is don't trust reviews br br yes racism sucks and people are complicated but the people who actually need to see this movie are going to be the ones who are the least drawn to it and least affected by it if they do see it the only reason that i can think of for the number of good reviews is that it's being reviewed by people who aren't used to thinking or who've seen their first thought provoking movie and somehow think that haggis invented the concept in fact he basically made this film which should be called racism for dummies as emotionally wrenching as possible seemingly to give people who don't spend a lot of time thinking the impression that they've discovered some fundamental truth that's never been covered in a film before zen and the art of motorcycle it's not an after school special for the unthinking masses cut into bite sized overwrought ham fisted pieces to make it easier to swallow without too much introspection br br it's as if they portrayed everyone as being the worst possible extreme simply to make us happy that we're such good people because we don't identify with the characters let's face it people nobody identifies with these characters because they're all cardboard cutouts and stereotypes or predictably reverse stereotypes it's well acted even if the dialog is atrocious and cleverly executed so much that you don't think to ask where's the beef until you can tell the film is winding down the flaming car scene was well executed like much of the movie but went nowhere in the end br br the messages are very heavy handed and from the behind the scenes blurb the producers were clearly watching a different movie because there is very little to laugh about in this movie even during the intended funny parts i have to stress that this is not entertainment more like a high school diversity lesson call it the blood on the highway of racism they could even show this in high schools if it weren't for the side nude shot of jennifer esposito br br in this film everyone's a jerk and everyone learns a lesson except for michael pena who gets the best role but the most predictable storyline br br this is a bad film with bad writing and good actors an ugly cartoon crafted by paul haggis for people who can't handle anything but the bold strokes in storytelling a picture painted with crayons br br crash is a depressing little nothing that provokes emotion but teaches you nothing if you already know racism and prejudice are bad things
0	it's exactly what the title tells you an island inhabited by shipwrecked doctor claudio cassinelli and crew land on the island they're either picked off by the or roped into working for treasure hunting lunatic richard johnson cassinelli discovers that johnson who believes he's found the lost city of atlantis has been keeping disgraced scientist joseph cotten and his daughter barbara bach hostage for 15 years so the can uncover a treasure trove beneath the sea cotten of course is a complete madman bach and cassinelli have great chemistry this insanity was directed by sergio martino and is not surprisingly without merit it's fast paced reasonably well acted and the look pretty convincing though it's unlikely anyone could prove that these things don't look like actual there's an excellent music score by luciano
0	i get the impression that i was watching a different movie to the majority of other people i know who have seen this film it's not really that i found the film offensive or anything just that the script was unbelievably amateurish for a film that had obviously had a bit of money thrown at it i really respected paul work on the million dollar baby script and was bitterly disappointed to see how bad this script was it was clear to me that it was desperate to be the version of traffic but i don't think traffic was really a film worth ripping off in the first place br br the worst feature of is the way it shamelessly spoon feeds its audience does think we are so dumb as to require a shot of the blanks do need to see the phone book sitting on dashboard address in black can we not be left to make in logic for ourselves br br i also had a major problem with the dialogue which was so 'on the i have heard one critic say that the quality of dialogue is deceptively high because even though people may not speak this way they certainly do think this way that is irrelevant it is the job of a script like this to utilise dialogue in a way that helps add to the characterisations and believability of the in this case highly implausible situations that are set up these characters all speak using the same voice and all they ever talk about is racism br br surely the purpose of a film like this should be to promote the fact that race should not really be an issue in these situations but by making it the sole focus of every scene doesn't it become innately racist itself characters walk around spouting their philosophies and conveniently statistics on race relations as though they're regurgitating extracts from the research essay they've just written it's utterly unconvincing and obvious br br a film should reveal its meaning gradually not slap us in the face with it in the opening scenes and then never let up i can see that intentions with this film were honorable but dare i suggest that by directing his own script he has not been able to identify and therefore overcome its flaws i really hope that writer directors will be really careful in future when approaching this style of narrative it has been done well a number of times but getting the balance between the personal and the political right is very difficult and robert altman will not be outdone in that department
0	this movie is bad br br this movie is really bad br br this movie is might as well be half a minute long and shown 200 times in a row because you'd get the same effect br br the phone rings man a answers the phone and gets annoyed by man b man a curses off man b and then hangs up the phone repeat br br this is the entire movie br br do not watch this movie trust me
0	this movie was horrid and at the end made me wonder why someone went to the trouble to make it now it was not all bad i have studied film and this film was put together very nicely and had very good cinematic everything with interesting angles to very nice lighting and excellent camera work i wish i could have seen it back in school because it would have made a good film to write a paper on but since i have graduated and lost most of my film pretentiousness i have realized that a film should be entertaining above all this movie was long and boring and i'm not sure when it finally got to the point that it was worth my time br br
0	dumb meaningless movie should appeal to southern rednecks teenagers with iq's bordering on retarded and the average bush supporter noble willingham plays the lead in this simpleminded script for what it is and uses a generous dose of eff this and eff that and sobs the ending which i anticipated to save this hollow story was the biggest letdown leaving me hanging and wondering why br br it's a story of cat mouse or more like bully vs victim br br don't waste your time unless you like hearing the phone ringing every 2 minutes and constant cursing and screaming throughout this 123 minute piece of dumpster droppings
0	i must begin by saying that this is one of the most annoying films i have seen in my entire life annoying factor number one never seeing the son's face for the entire movie and the infinitely more annoying factor that incessantly ringing phone nothing but listening to the phone ring over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over you get my point the old man was being harassed but the viewer was too at first the film was interesting to me but it deteriorated very quickly the film may possibly have been good as a short but was definitely not enough to maintain anything approaching feature film length i guess what i am trying to say is that the message about racism which finally put in an appearance during the last two scenes of the movie is secondary to this old mans being harassed who cares to sit and watch what is really nothing more than an old man spouting obscenities at someone prank calling him if you've never seen a movie that just gets under your skin and drives you crazy check this one out
0	i recently watched this film on the sundance channel and it kept me interested from the start however it seems to take forever getting itself where it wants to go and in the end i felt somewhat cheated in a nutshell noble willingham of walker texas ranger fame plays a boat salesman who starts getting harassed by telephone from a man claiming to be his son according to the mysterious caller willingham has a dark dirty little secret that affects the son and he the son is enjoying reminding him of it i won't spoil anything for anyone but for me three things kept me from liking this movie a great deal one the movie has more foul language than goodfellas scarface casino and glengarry glen ross combined 99 of it is spewed from willingham himself it didn't take long to wear me out with constant four letter words two i simply could not believe that anyone would answer the telephone that many times especially when one knows that a crank caller is on the other end of the line no matter where willingham is in the movie whether it be at work home a diner etc the phone rings and he always answers it spewing venom at the son and then hanging up only to answer it again when the caller calls back in about ten seconds how many of us would do that now i realize that we probably do not have a movie if he doesn't keep answering but i just could not suspend disbelief on that particular matter three and this is the most minor of the criticisms why is the director so opposed to showing us the man a k a the caller son most of the time he's just a redneck sounding voice on the other end of the phone i could have lived with that one if other things had fallen into place but since they didn't it's just one more to tack on i do give the movie credit for being a somewhat original idea and for holding my attention with suspense from the beginning but that's about it do see it if only one time however if you're like me you'll be saying triple k marine in your sleep for a night or two after you finish watching it
0	no way this overly simplistic script with basically one character should be interpreted as feature entertainment in reality it has about enough material for an eighteen minute short and even that would seriously tax your attention span zero characters beyond noble willingham are developed the never ending closeups of lips and telephones are sleep inducing and the script is so underdeveloped that a chimpanzee could have written it in fact this whole sad thing shouldn't have even been put on film a tape recording would have been more than sufficient to put you to sleep definitely not recommended merk
0	this film is a very bad example of uninspired storytelling which tries to hide behind an facade trying to shock the audience with unmotivated violence against women to cover up for it's lack of psychological depth of the characters internal conflicts everything in this movie is pretentious from the thank you's to bela tarr at the beginning to the photography the acting music the story editing when suddenly without reason you are forced to watch close ups of charismatic looking hungarian country people in their boats while the soundtrack is trying to persuade you that this is supposed to be a dramatic moment although they are only on the way to the funeral of the local alcoholic thats one thing putting completely unmotivated rape scenes as a shocker is a different thing for which i absolutely have no comprehension this movie is trying really hard to enter a certain genre of artistic east european drama kind of films but lacks the subtlety observational skills and soul that other directors have
0	hungary can't make any good movies fact this is a great example of that br br first of all the term plot does not exist in this movie it's seriously weak even tho a lot of people would argue with me on that sure it's about a taboo but that's about it there are endless possibilities which could have been really great if used but they nearly skipped everything i think the whole movie is just an excuse to show pictures which are the only decent things in this whole pile of awfulness br br the acting is just plain shitty there aren't many lines so you would think that the actors have great facial expressions or mimicking abilities but no in fact 86 of the time they suck and that's when they don't say anything if they say even a single word you'll start tilting your head saying that's damn unrealistic but than again this is partly the fault of the writing there's also no emotion in most of the dialogs br br the editing is sometimes ok but most of the time illogical and just worsens the whole picture it could have given an emotional push yet it seems the editing in here is all about putting cuts after each other br br someone please explain it to me why critics say this movie is a masterpiece calling this an art isn't gonna make it better sorry but you failed live with it even tho you probably won't care about my or any other guys opinion your child
0	i recently watched this movie because i'm a big kinski fan but oh my god don't get me wrong i love this guy but in this movie his whole acting is just simply a refusal to work but fortunately he isn't the only one to blame first of all the complete storyline is totally weak dealing with a gunmen looking for a murderer while kinski is stuck up in jail for a crime he did not commit that's all all the dialogs and characters are so bad it's making you scream but maybe that's the fun of it all if you know the kinski biography it's obvious that kinski didn't care about those movies at all especially all his italo western roles he just took the money and that was it again this whole movie is totally weird only for hardcore fans of the genre
0	i saw this movie as part of a billy graham program the church i attend was part of a community wide outreach to present god and christianity to our community hartford ct usa i was one of the counselors who helped attendees who were invited to come forward and make whatever kind of religious profession they wanted and to follow up on them after the movie as such it did what it was supposed to do and i personally found it to be a medium to strengthen my faith in god i also found it to be very helpful to those i counseled i especially like the work of kim darby in this movie and the parents the were in a way a little overdrawn no one says to their child if they think that he or she may be the parent of an illegitimate child something like the did oh no no not that isn't exactly what they said but the audience i saw had a laugh at whatever it was they did say and also at the son's emphatic no mom not me don
0	second husband is an amateurish attempt at psychodrama with more to fault than to praise the plot is hacked the story monotonous the acting poor the execution second rate etc not worth the time unless maybe your a relative of one of the actors pu d
0	usually a movie that starts bad stays bad in a descending pattern this bad movie started to seem to get better before going into a steep dive the acting save for the male antagonist was awful the plot was essentially a set up for the final main scene which is probably good as performance art but it was wasted in this movie not sure why this movie was made
0	this movie is so mild i tried not to expect anything greater from this film but still it was a big disappointment the basic idea of the story is interesting and potential this could have been so much better the characters are really simple no depth at all it's a shame that previously talented performers and didn't make the already poor characters any better the director just don't get the watcher emotionally involved at all with this piece of cr p br br and the the chase sequence at the end of the movie that's hideous br br why there had to be so stupid and old solution for that situation br br it's too much used element with even more terrible way of filming it oh no
0	hitting the ground running the film begins with three murders in a row no plot no characters no motivation the second murder happens off screen and that victim's severed head is actually used to quite efficiently bludgeon the third victim to death this is a high point but the are obviously smart enough to lead with strength soon they're covering up botched dialogue scenes with detective voice over and shooting endless snappy repartee in ugly wide shot by now this betacam production's horror atmosphere is rapidly giving way to an insurance infomercial vibe with the monumental and rather endearing plainness of the leads skewing things further in that direction cop investigates meat cleaver guy slaughters repeat climaxing early with a memorable severed finger in the salad gag only how the hell did the fingers get in the salad and wasn't the blood cult's purpose to collect the appendages they severed when the gore stops making sense you know you're in trouble and without spoiling the big nonsensical twist ending just take my word for it the fascinating incompetence of the first scenes gives way to a deep cathode tube smashing impulse the basic reaction is to try to put it behind you and get on with your life
0	what can i say this was hands down the worst movie i have ever seen in my life and believe me some of my favorite movies are admittedly horrible the acting was amateurish the sets were boring and the camerawork was shoddy and sophomoric this whole movie seemed like a college final project i had to keep convincing myself that it was done by a teenager to make it seem somewhat good the most disturbing factor of the film is that it's not even film at all it 's shot on video that was extremely distracting on top of all that the dialogue is simply disastrous and the plot line is so basic it makes my eyes water not to mention they steal from at least four other horror movies in the first 20 minutes or so if there were such a thing as zero stars this movie would get it br br the only thing scary about this movie is how bad it is
0	let me see i've seen every film lou ferrigno has made i've seen batman robin twice i've memorized the dances in breakin' 2 electric boogaloo i've watched unfinished blade runner rip off student films yet this film is the most painful thing i've ever seen br br this was the first movie for the straight to video market so you can thank blood cult for all of those mysterious michael dudikoff films at your local blockbuster you should know that this isn't even high quality video this is consumer grade this is you father's video camera he never uses this is what you have to look at for 90 minutes br br i won't bore you with plot details since i'm getting sleepy just thinking about it but i will tell you that watching this movie is a form of torture i only watch this movie when i am angry at myself so i recommend this film if you are suicidal or if you are up for a mighty challenge br br if you happen to rent this film god have mercy you will know what you are in for from the first 10 minutes this is when you are hit by the usual horror film intro you know the drill there's a lot of suspense and build up before some girl dies yes you've seen it before but not like this this is the most boring intro i've ever seen i honestly believe that you could get a camera off ebay for ten dollars grab the bum that most smells like gin and candy and tell him to film your mom cooking dinner and it would be more interesting than this intro it bored me to tears i cried like a baby br br another one of the things that makes this film so unbelievably painful is its actors yes i've seen bad acting trust me i've seen 4th grade productions of oliver twist with more realistic dialog the lead actor makes me ill the supporting actress is a train wreck of a human br br i will not even comment on the boyfriend true horror br br so rent this movie if you can find it you'll never be more depressed that you spent 3 dollars on anything else
0	spoilers the killer in the movie doesn't wait a second as we see him sneaking into a girls shower and hacking her to death taking her severed and bloodied arm as he makes his getaway we then get this official looking prologue as if were watching a true story stating that a number of gruesome murders were committed in the late fall of 1985 in a small mid western collage br br grandfatherly looking and hearing impaired sheriff ron is baffled by this murder and later when the murders of local collage students all women continues his run for state senator is in jeopardy with him bumbling the investigation at every turn there's at least two times when says that they'll never be another murder as long as he's on the case and within minutes another murder happens br br finding a golden amulet at the scene of each murder the sheriff's daughter the collage librarian tina finds this reference book about indicating that the amulet is a symbol of a witches cult that originated in the early 1700 just after the salem witch trials this cult was out to avenge the 19 accused witches hung by the local townspeople back in 1692 and they went out at night killing men and women of authority and taking off with a body part when the body parts would form a complete person they would be burned in an occult midnight bonfire ritual br br you never get a handle to what's exactly happening in the movie blood cult not just because it's totally disjointed story but it's ever more outrageous and grad school level acing especially by charles ellis playing the sheriff ron getting himself into more trouble then even the on the loose killer could have gotten him into the bumbling sheriff ends up with his head busted coffee spiked as well as almost burned alive after being dismembered the only reason he wasn't is because he seemed to have dreamt it all up while under the influence of some strong and unnamed drug br br there's a weird dream sequence in the movie suggesting that a number of highly respected members of the community are members of the witches cult that's responsible for the sorority murders the movie doesn't bother to explain at all if the dream that the drugged sheriff had was a dream or actually a real experience on his part by dropping the whole thing as if it were cut out of the movie br br getting out of the hospital and staking out the collage sorority house while munching down a bag full of mcdonald cheeseburgers sheriff finally comes face to face with the killer find out to his shock and amazement that not only does he know who he or she is but he's also willing to let the killer escape br br the very first straight to video motion picture and it shows not only would no one it their right mind be crazy enough to pay admission at least with the video you can tape over it thank god to see this disaster but no movie house owner would dare play it on their screen without the danger of the outraged patrons in a justifiable show of righteous indignation tear the place apart
0	nuts in may may be one of the worst films i have ever seen if ed wood was still alive this would be the type of movie he would be doing to say this movie is bad would be the understatement of the century but how bad is it really well here are two levels of bad i go by it's so bad it's good or it's so bad it's god awful this film falls into the latter section what little unintentional humor it has does not make up for the slow hard to understand boring majority of the film br br summary spoilers br br two middle aged anglos take a trip to the countryside for some r r and camping there they met ray soon to be jim i'll explain later who's tent is next to our main couple throughout most of the movie the two leads go sight seeing on the beach at a rock quarry and other exciting locations in between these adventures they talk endlessly about the environment vegetarianism fossil collecting the duty of a proper citizen and proper diet all thing i want to see in a comedy they bore anyone who will listen to them the dialogue is not only bad but the pacing in some scenes is so slow i sometimes felt like off scenes would go on forever and just when it begins to build up and something is about to happen the scene ends half way through the movie i thought to myself nothing is going to happen in this thing it is truly a movie about nothing br br the characters are annoying and constantly repeat things at one part i felt the director was playing a cruel joke on his audience the scene i am referring to is the sing along scene in it our two brits play some of there music for us actually it was the same 4 four lines over and over and over and over the idea was to get ray to sing along with them but ray knew as well as us that they are the worst songwriters known to man this scene was beyond tedious by the fifth time the song was played i started to question the existance of a merciful god br br words can not describe the awfulness of this film the first thing that strikes you is the indecipherable british accents that most of the cast has remember the thick scottish accents in trainspotting times that by 10 br br towards the end our tree hugging incoherent couple get into a fight with some of ray's friends that have complete disrespect for the rules of camping our hero becomes so incensed that a climatic battle ensues between our hero and the head hellraiser to settle their dispute the two men engage in a stick fight that's right a stick fight now this is where the humor starts i laughed so hard at the ineptitude of it all that i thought this may make up for the other 80 minutes after this battle our hero runs behind some bushes to cry his eyes out and the other man calls ray over by calling him jim for some unknown reason br br a stick fight a crying nature loving 40 year old and a character name change 3 4 into the movie ed wood would be proud br br though i was again forced to endure the last 10 minutes which to sum up ends with a long take of a pig why who the hell knows at one moment we see a pig grazing and the next the credits start to role over the screen one of the worst endings to a one of the worst films of all time
0	i don't know who financed it or why but this want to be vampire flick is really awful it tries to be hip and appeal to the young mtv generation audience but it is just downright laughable the acting is horrible and the directing is horrendous i heard the budget was 600 000 i want to know where all the money went
0	hi y'all br br i bought this on dvd from england you see i have one of those multi region players i thought it would be fun to get a cool movie to show to my friends well surprise to amy jo johnson she's barely in the movie although she is on the cover it's really difficult to imagine how a film this bad got made in the first place perhaps someone has a trust fund br br oh it's about vampires who live at the beach
0	this version is very painful to watch all of the acting is very stilted but especially that of norma shearer who is still acting as though she were in a silent movie instead of a talkie check out the 1937 version with joan crawford robert montgomery and william powell which is much more entertaining
0	ok let's see a handsome young stranger is new in town and walks around on the local boardwalk he meets a pretty girl meets up with the obnoxious leader of the local hip young vampires club is dared by them to follow them into this cave gets into a conflict over the pretty girl an epic fight ensues br br no it's not lost boys although you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference since i think even some of the carnival music is the same do you have to pay royalties for sampling a movie even the ending of this stinkbomb is ripped off from lost boys the make up is below par even for a low budget thriller the characters are one dimensional and just exactly how many oh i had this horrible experience scenes of teen angst does one movie need the humor is flat and stupid and everything else is sadly predictable yawn br br the only scary thing about this turkey is the promise threat of a sequel an idea that hopefully every distributor in the country will drive a stake through
0	i saw this film at temple university i cannot imaging that anyone will ever see this film in a theater projected on film the acting is similar to saved by the bell the tv show the plot is simple and unimaginative the sound recordist likes the sound of wind and the dp needs a light meter vampires vampires vampires br br don't waste your money
0	stupid government once again attempted to create an inexhaustible and indestructible soldier and of course the experiments went terribly wrong burdening us with a half man half mutant who pukes an awful lot and squeaks like a little girl whenever he's upset lance henriksen stars as the honest scientist who immediately quit the experiment upon hearing it was a military project but he returns bringing the whole family with him when he finds out his beloved guinea pig has gone on a killing spree mind ripper certainly is a watchable horror movie but it's very unoriginal and features pretty much every lame cliché you can think off including the estranged father rebellious teenage son sub plot yawn the characters are like wooden puppets the dumbest things are being said and done and there's a completely pointless dream sequence coming from the monster there's a handful of interesting gory scenes to enjoy and some of the isolated desert locations are effectively eerie lance henriksen is adequate as always even though this is yet another inferior production he stars and giovanni ribisi surely deserved a better motion picture to make his debut in for some reason this anonymous 90's thriller is also known as the hills have eyes part 3 is it because it handles about members of the same family being terrorized in the desert is it because wes craven was once again involved as a producer this time or maybe it's because the monster gets bald near the end like the freaky michael berryman in the 1977 original who knows who cares wes craven probably financed this project because his son co wrote the script and it's always moving to discover that your offspring is equally untalented as you are not recommended
0	a scientific experiment designed to create a superhuman being has gone wrong the creators become trapped in a remote desert outpost pursued relentlessly and mercilessly by their own creation james stockton the scientist whose research was used despite his protests to create the monster is called the outpost to help undo the horror that now lurks somewhere within the dark halls james together with his son and daughter soon find themselves trapped inside with the others trying desperately to survive and with the outpost sealed from within there is no way out the outpost mind ripper is highly unoriginal the sets are pretty claustrophobic and there's a bit of gore however as a horror it fails miserably on almost all levels there's zero suspense the script is weak and filled with big holes and the ending is extremely predictable so called master wes craven produced this one i wonder if he is happy with this trash joe directs without any style the acting is horrible only lance henriksen can act at all ok i'm a big horror fan and was bitterly disappointed avoid it like the plague it's just the same old boring crap again
0	this is wes craven at his worst this is the very worst horror if you can call it horror you will ever watch esp from one of the masters of horror wes craven poor direction poor acting poor set poor atmosphere makes this the biggest pile of rubbish ever the bad guy is totally unconvincing you couldn't even feel sorry for the guy the gore and horror involved in the film is laughable it's just plain rubbish the only good points i can think of is it stars natasha gregson wagner giovanni ribisi and lance henriksen but not even that cast could stop this from spiralling out of control and into one of the worst horrors ever if you still ain't watch it yet don't bother you'll only hate it
0	why a film maker with a track record like wes craven would want to lend his name to a tedious collection of cliches like this is anyone's guess and if he did stump up any money for it all of £50 judging by the looks he should have been banging on the director's door for a refund the minute the film was released there are many alien rip offs and this is one of the worst even the reliable lance henriksen saddled with a character dumb enough to allow his kids to wander around a dangerous government lab can't save it as a cure for insomnia this rates a 10 as a piece of quality film making forget it
0	spoiler mind ripper hmmmm i had just watched the nightmare on elm street movies and had just found out about giovanni ribisi i thought giovanni ribisi hadnt done any horrors so i checked into it i saw the outpost mind ripper i checked on my tivo for it there was an air date on sci fi so i was set i got my pop corn ready came in and set on the couch and what the hell is this a freakin bold guy in blue sweat pants running around yelling nothing is scary about this movie at all if anything its funny funny how low the budget is funny how predictable it is funny how bad the acting is and funny how much money it didnt make ok giovanni ribisi is a good actor but this movie is dumb it is so stupid they killed him at the end and then they go on this plane and the monster is on it they shoot him in the head with a shotgun and it falls a long way to the ground and br br gasp the killer ending its still alive scary sucky fat sack of crap waste of 2 hours br br bottom line you have somewhere to go and you need to kill some time mind ripper isnt the suggestion i'd rather sit out naked in the snow than watch this movie a second time br br overall grade f
0	i really loved the millenium series starred by lance henriksen which is why i bought the film obviously at some level it was a mistake mutant monster films are usually very bad and this film is no exception br br the basic idea itself is not totally judged to fail well nevertheless this film would never have been a success even with a good director actors but the way it turns out this is just a b class movie the scenes that are supposed to be scary seem more funny to me and the critter is not credible at all br br however watching this film with group of friends in restless mood makes this film shine as it is so unintentionally hilarious
0	the only reason i saw this movie was because it had giovanni ribisi and it was supposed to be horror don't be fooled this movie has to be the worst horror film i have seen it's about these people who go to a secret location which has a monster in it the monster is a man with a deformed face running around in blue sweat pants who has a craving for brains some people die some people don't in the end they throw the monster off of a plane and then fly away happily but oh no the monster is still alive after falling out of a plane go spend 2 hours some other way like watching paint dry on a wall trust me it's more entertaining than this crap
0	a 'wes craven movie from 1995 directed by joe clayton and starring lance henriksen a group of scientists save a dying man they find by their desert stranded government outpost by injecting him with their experimental virus of course one of their colleagues goes overboard and the virus transforms the man into a near unstoppable monster with them trapped inside lance henriksen plays the morally offended researcher who leaves the project before all this but returns after receiving a call for help to save the man pre unstoppable death machine mutation br br deciding to combine two trips in one he brings his family along with him they're going on vacation afterwards and proceeds to give them entry to the top secret government facility thus putting them right in the middle of the chaos within in case you can't tell this one relies on the viewer to work with it a little and put aside some petty see major and blatant details br br overall though watch able with mild bits of enjoyment note the outpost is commonly known under the title 'mind ripper'
0	i found this early talkie difficult to watch and i'm a norma shearer fan it's not her fault but the primitive production values of this film would cause any viewer to become bored 90 of the movie is filmed with medium shots and it's very similar to watching a dull play
0	i truly was disappointed by this film which i had high hopes for it seems to have been rushed out to take advantage of the success of screwball comedies at the time including mgm's own lady which featured two of the same stars and the success of william powell and myrna loy three years into their pairing they were still attractive to watch and filled with fire in their scenes together but a weak screenplay and rushed premise destroys any chance of it being a great followup to the previous year's lady and the two thin man movies they had done prior to this double wedding tells the story of a clothing store manufacturer myrna loy who is intent on dominating the life of her sister florence rice future brother in law john beal and her own servants which include sidney toler and mary gordon when the independent spirited william powell comes into her life having distracted rice and beal from loy's constant control loy meets her match sounds good so far right yeah an interesting premise falls short sad to say because loy's character is so one dimensional it is hard to even like her let alone see powell fall in love with her which we know will soon happen it's another attempt to put a career minded woman in her place by changing her views on her what kind of life she has been leading something hollywood did often during its golden age when loy says she doesn't have time to both run her business and have a man in her life its a groaner br br fortunately other than powell there is free spirited jessie ralph on board a salty wealthy older woman who helped loy start her business she has an acquaintance with powell and can see immediately through loy's cool claims that she loathes him rice and beal are a boring couple and the whole premise of powell getting between them is senseless then an ex wife of powell's shows up which really isn't necessary at that late point in the story and the final wedding scene where a crowd of people try to get into powell's tiny trailer is a weak attempt to bring some farce it is funny though that powell keeps getting hit by items meant by loy to hit edgar kennedy with those chuckles are most welcome since there are so few others powell and loy would do better in two later screwball comedies i love you again and love crazy which are sophisticated witty and fun this film attempts to be all three but ends up a sophisticated bore
0	think you've seen the worst movie in the world think again the person who designed the cover of this box should be accused of false advertising the cover makes it look like a good scary horror suspense thriller but no what we have instead is a movie that makes a noise every time a credit flashes across the screen the biggest name in the entire film is probably casper van dien who hardly has a part br br i voted a one for this one only because i couldn't vote any lower if i could vote something like negative five thousand trust me i would have so for now i'm going to give 1 2 out of 5 just because it ended
0	this is horrible even for a tv movie i can't believe it took three people to write this movie i am not familiar with the novel on which this film was based but it has got to be better than this i'd rather watch a full house marathon than this stupid movie i gave it 2 out of 10 stars only because it was made better by commercials
0	is a tv movie so it's bound to be pretty dire especially as it's a supposed horror film this young girl is haunted by dreams as she arrives in a small town where there was a murder of a woman one year before she is amazed when everyone in the town thinks she looks exactly like the murdered girl the townsfolk are amazed when she keeps entering dream like where she reveals accurate details about the murder and murderer because the police got it all wrong apparently thinking that they are in danger of being found out the murderers there are two of them start to hatch a plan to get rid of her before she gets to the real truth by this time you will have probably fallen asleep and why do the makers of the film have the making' machine on full throttle in the dream sequences
0	while watching this movie you notice right away the cheesy elements of a standard tv movie though through out the picture the plot changes if you are bold enough to say this movie has a plot are by the book and unoriginal and with every one the movie kept getting worse br br candace cameron bure famous for her role as dj tanner on the hit tv show full house is not very convincing as a possessed twenty something trying to avenge the death i believe she is fine actress just not in the thriller range br br the filming was trashy and like i said the plot stale though watching it i knew i was in for automatic cheese i had no idea how much worse this film could get br br i highly do not recommend this movie unless cheep filmaking and poor writing is what you looking for
0	i remember flipping through channels on hbo and saw this this my friends is one of the worst tv movies i've ever seen there is no excitement in this film br br the story starts out with drew summers candice cameron bure driving to a small town while in a trance she stays with a couple who coincidentally had a daughter named laura who looked exactly like her and is played by the same actress even the townsfolk agree that they looked alike thing is laura was killed over a year ago her boyfriend went missing around the same time she was murdered making it look like he had killed her br br while settling in this town for a while drew starts to have visions and nightmares these visions and nightmares might prove that the boyfriend of laura isn't the killer after all throughout the film you find out that ray sr denis is the one that raped her frequently over a period of time and killed her br br the movie is too long and very boring the film just drags on and on and on and on amazingly i saw another tv movie after this called cloned 1997 which was good but i'll review that one later br br i give this movie 1 star out of 10 avoid this tv movie it is not worth your time this is the worst tv movie of 1997
0	matthew aldrich this is a name worthy of remembrance this is the individual that took fingers to keyboard and came up with one of the worst scripts of all time cliché predictable an insult to the public's intelligence br br is he the sole of blame of course not renny harlin took this abysmal excuse for a script and made it into a movie sam jackson and ed harris actually read it or not and chose to star in it culpability abounds br br this is the denise richards of film scripts there aren't enough razzies in the universe to give proper recognition to how truly horrible this writing really is br br in all fairness samuel jackson's profession is incredibly novel and the manner in which it's presented is highly creative but at the end of the day it's all just trimmings pretty trimmings br br package it any way you want garbage writing is still garbage writing
0	tom jackson is a retired policeman who now works as a crime scene cleaner upper in his latest job he cleans a new crime scene and destroys evidence and isn't aware the crime hasn't been officially reported uh oh this can't be good br br you hear about cleaners all the time but usually when a mob or gangland hit is involved when bodies etc need to be removed and the area cleaned up this one is different in that tom works with the police to clean up after the police have done their investigation of a crime scene hey someone has to do it you know the police won't the movie makes that quite clear and it is up to the family to get the area cleaned up br br this is almost a good thriller but a side plot involving tom's daughter palmer makes this story somewhat awkward i guess they had to fill in some time oh they brought this side plot around to connect with the another side plot but it was still a reach and awkward see br br this was almost a good thriller because there was a noticeable lack of tension suspense and the pace was somewhat draggy the music didn't help either as i noticed the music was more appropriate for watching people take a long journey you know journey music get it ha br br the acting by all was excellent in this almost a good thriller br br violence yes sex no nudity no language no
0	i normally don't try and second guess a crime thriller but cleaner was just entirely too predictable samuel l jackson playing the character tom along with his profession created an interesting twist in the beginning of the film however that was about it without even thinking i knew where the plot would be taken and within 30 minutes i had already figured out who the killer was rather then trusting myself and having seen several films that make a i watched to its completion what a disappointment i was right from the beginning br br the casting of characters was a good as well as the acting from jackson and harris except for eva mendes from the starting gate she didn't play a believable character in correlation to the script and this ruined the entire plot too soon maybe this was a directing mishap or just weakness in the story itself her role as ann should have shown more emotion and distress for the situation that was building around her this would've made the build up a bit more compelling and the ending more dramatic nevertheless cleaner is watchable not memorable i've seen episodes of csi that were more thrilling then this
0	request you to not watch this movie it starts with a promise and as it goes on you crave for the movie to end predictable not entertaining at all wasted movie save your time and watch better thrillers the synopsis sounds good and that is why i watched the movie but it was way too predictable with nothing to give you a start no great suspense no great direction nothing phenomenal with the acting shy away from this low rating nothing to write about this movie so i am filling up the remaining lines of text so you can imagine how much a time waster this movie is really irritated at how good a premise that was and how bad a screenplay was written out of it
0	you'd hardly know that a year later mgm put norma shearer in the divorcee which glows with mgm technical know how how far they came in one year cheney is a very stagey early talkie the camera hardly moves shearer is her usual charming self and rathbone does well in a romantic leading role they are all very careful to speak clearly and slowly into the microphone source which does against a naturally flowing dramatic scene but the play is a sturdy and fun so one can enjoy oneself if one's expectations are not too high oh by the way the plot involves a ring of upper class jewel thieves who infiltrate themselves into society to prey on their victims there are some clever twists in the script and true love conquers all an oscar nom for best screenplay adaptation
0	it starts really interesting the story develops around the main character who runs a cleaning business specialized in cleaning up crime scenes as a former cop he runs into some strange situation when one job does suddenly vanish furthermore he discovers some relation to an investigation into police corruption his columbo feeling is justified the deeper he gets into the background of the story the good actors jackson ed harris eva mendes play in an suspenseful story with some twists but only up to the last 25 minutes up to here 7 of 10 stars spoiler suddenly the movie looses its touch and in the end there is a completely unnecessary shoot out involving the 14 year old daughter a betrayal of friendship and a not justified righteousness out of the character development why not having giving up his investigation for the sake of the friendship or having the daughter discovering some facts or many possible much better story finishes are imaginable a truly wasted ending
0	not even original in the plot ho hum there were a couple of angles that could have been quite interesting but the film follows the path of 90 of hollywood movies i don't really get samuel jackson's acting most of the time in his other films but he was rather good in this film he rarely yelled and went much further in his character rather than reverting to an in your face anger i liked eva mendes as usual and even though she is great eye candy she proves herself to be much more than that as an actress luis guzman was actually really good also except that i disliked the change of his character towards samuel jackson at the end of the film how can one's character center around a dislike for a former cop and then turn into lollipop land within a split second is there no original thought left in hollywood
0	a plot that is dumb beyond belief however that said it must be admitted the lead actors go at their roles as though it were shakespeare and that is as it should be it isn't their fault the writer seems to be in a coma br br hats off to what is really a very cunning performance by joanna she proves that just because it isn't on the page doesn't mean a role can't be seized and dug into and she does so with gusto good for her br br ditto to christine elise who is called upon to be little more than confused and weepy but goes way beyond what is asked of her by the script br br and to grant show as well a graduate of daytime and prime time soaps ryan's hope melrose place he is always versatile and underrated his primary drawback seems to be his impossible to ignore good looks he is a sturdy well grounded actor capable of much more than he is generally given the opportunity to do br br the rest of the cast is basically window dressing br br the direction is adequate and the script as i alluded to is fairly idiotic br br watch this one to enjoy three good actors in the leads taking delight in performing some much needed scenery chewing it's fun
0	i had high hopes for this one after reading earlier reviews but it was so slow and the plot so basic that well i wondered if i had read the wrong reviews br br please a boy meets girl next door at 11 and both aspire to love and being basketball legends grow apart but watch each others progress guess what both get scholarships to same university and become lovers again until his father is caught out playing around with a younger woman our young hero unable to cope has lapse in court concentration but some how decides to go pro and drop studies and guess what is picked up by lakers dumps the heroine because she was not there for him during this emotional period so for 5 years they go their own way she returns from spain having lost the zest for the game and our hero is getting married in two weeks mom tells her that she should fight for her love so she professes her on going love and challenges him to a basketball shootout he wins he marries she wins he loves her well he won but decides to dump other girl for our girl the end has her playing basketball and he has baby duties sorry 2 is my high score my partner she scored 0 for a soapy story for those who read mills and boon
0	one of the most boring movies i've ever had to sit through it's completely formulaic just a cookie cutout of a movie you could predict about every scene in the movie just from knowing the genre as this movie adds nothing new the dialogue is never funny interesting or intelligent the acting is weak and the soundtrack is annoying basically everything looks to have been done by an amatuer filmmaker nothing fresh memorable or entertaining in this movie combined with the fact that it is long gives it an easy thumbs down sorry fans br br overall grade f
0	the acting in this film was of the old school corny and stiff irene dunne is luminous and comes off the best even though she has some very unnatural lines to say still her ability to convey emotion comes through br br old movie buffs will find at least some redeeming qualities in this film through observation of cinematic technique of the 1930s otherwise it is not really that worthwhile
0	the ealing comedies constitute their own specific sub genre in the history of film they were wry droll reflections on british life in the late forties and early fifties they are always amusing but i feel it is misleading to characterise them as comedies they are breezy and good humoured rather than laugh out loud funny however the best of them are laced with understated satire and shot through with an occasional dark streak kind hearts and coronets and the ladykillers br br i have an affection for all of them but the lavender hill mob is probably the one i have most difficulty with compared to the others it seems somewhat perfunctory to me it is an outline sketch for a movie but one that needed to spend a lot more time in development before it was ready to go before the cameras br br everything about it is a bit undercooked for example nobody is given any real context or background henry is simply a dutiful drudge whose secret dreams and hidden ambitions go unrecognised while albert is a frustrated artist forced to prostitute his talent by making gift shop trash for a living this establishes a motive for their crime but nothing that subsequently happens is a consequence either of their characters or their plan br br other characters are introduced but play no real part in the story the elderly resident in henry's guest house could with her love of detective stories have been made an unwitting thorn in his side but is merely used as background similarly the various policemen who pop in and out of the action are simply there to keep the plot ticking along br br as a result the movie is driven entirely by its contrived plot devices which i find both frustrating and faintly irritating the not very ingenious robbery is accomplished with minimal problems despite albert being prevented from carrying out his part in the plan by sidney clayton the gold is then smuggled to france without mishap everything would have gone smoothly if it wasn't for a minor hitch lamely based on the french pronunciation of the letter 'r' which results in six of the gold eiffel towers being accidentally sold to some english schoolgirls br br this leads to a series of frantic chases as henry and albert seek to retrieve them these scenes are well executed but at each point the conspirators are frustrated in their pursuit of the schoolgirls by a series of wholly accidents it is as if god is deliberately intervening to give them a hard time this kind of plotting always has me grinding my teeth br br when they finally track the last eiffel tower to a police academy exhibition and snatch it from under the nose of john police inspector why is he there anyway all shreds of plot logic are abandoned the final car chases are then simply filling up screen time until we are returned to the framing device with which the picture began br br the movie doesn't even bother to tell us the fate of albert stanley holloway sid james and shorty alfie bass br br this genial little caper has the professionalism of the ealing team behind it so it is far from being a bad movie i suspect most viewers will find it considerably more enjoyable than i do and why shouldn't they but i cannot help thinking there was a much better movie waiting to be made if only more time and effort had been expended on fleshing out both the characters and the story br br by the standards established by ealing lavender hill mob is a missed opportunity br br ps one curious footnote is that audrey hepburn gets a credit for her single line early on but archie duncan remains anonymous despite his much more substantial contribution i guess she just had a better agent
0	i watched this movie based on the good reviews here and i won't make that mistake again br br the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy but you don't see what it is flashback 12 hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen when the ending is finally reveled you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn't happen and means nothing to what you have been watching the only connection these people have is that they have all had a bad day but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom br br if this was supposed to be a crash clone it's a complete failure
0	a nicely evoked 1930s setting provides much interest for a viewer in the early 21st century unfortunately london belongs to me has little else to recommend it besides lashings of quaint english charm all of the problems rest with the deeply unfocused story the main plot concerns the actions of young lad richard attenborough the problems he gets into and how the community in which he lives bands together to save him from society's laws or something the main issue here is that attenborough's character brings everything upon himself and quite frankly is guilty of almost every accusation brought against him so it's baffling why the film and all the characters have so much sympathy for him he's treated as a victim of circumstance when he really really isn't and what's more he isn't shown to have very much remorse for his actions only caring about getting away with things he didn't mean to do alastair sim gets a lot of screen time in a subplot that has absolutely nothing to do with the main plot line and you wonder what he's doing there though sim is as always superb you know there's a problem with the structure when the main plot impacts constantly against the subplot but not vice versa and following a sedate pace and a careful build up the plot completely falls apart in the last 20 minutes with a deeply unsatisfying and unexplained conclusion which doesn't even show us if attenborough's character has developed at all from the previous proceedings the film doesn't end it just stops br br the acting direction and the general feel of the film can all be commended but unfortunately the story and structure of the piece jars constantly a last point of trivia alec guinness based his performance in the vastly superior film the ladykillers on alastair performance in this film right down to both the characters having almost identical first scenes
0	this was the most god awful movie i have had to sit through 30 minutes into the film and i couldn't take any more seriously do not bother with this one unless you are a sentimental nut job or one of those pseudo arty types that like this kind of tripe so that they may feel more cultured boring although the acting is fine the kid is just plain irritating some scenes are a little strange with very weird close ups i don't know why they did the whole movie in black and white but whatever effect they were hoping to have failed miserably there was just nothing to watch and although its a sad tale supposedly its just so stupid that its hard to feel any sympathy for the characters
0	as a physicist talk about and gets my heart racing however i found this presentation too slow and not packed with enough information for the interested layman who is most likely to see it if you have more than a passing curiosity in this sort of stuff go to the library and check out some books you will find they explain current scientific with far more detail while at the same time filling you with more of a sense of wonder than this movie does also to set the record straight hawking is not considered the greatest mind or the world's smartest person as commonly asserted even among the user reviews here at the imdb hawking himself has commented that it is rubbish it is just media hype they needed somebody to fill the role model of disabled genius at least i'm disabled to be fair he is probably a genius but among history's greatest scientists people like einstein newton and many others easily are even more highly regarded this is not to disrespect hawking who is a undoubtedly a great scientist but rather not to disrespect others who have done even more than he has anyhow see the movie if you are truly into science but if not i think it would be boring for you
0	i saw this movie on the strength of the single positive review and i can only imagine that guy is a shill br br the acting of the female lead is actually quite good but the entire film is just so excruciatingly boring i could hardly bear to sit through it this is the very definition of dullness br br so far this film is rated as 8 out of 10 on 7 votes that must mean the director director's girlfriend producer actress and drinking buddies have given their own film a 10 br br for the rest of you who simply want to be entertained or enjoy a good story avoid this br br this man on the street shall give it a 2 out of 10 br br fda note while this movie can be used as an aide to obtaining a good nights sleep no medicinal value is implied or offered
0	this film is about a grieving wife who lost her husband through suicide she is tormented by her son who refused to speak after that br br child grief is rarely explored on film so it is refreshing to see a film like addison's wall however due to the very nature of the film there is no tension or drama apart from a few key emotional moments everything in the film is very plain the abrupt ending that does not solve any mysteries certainly do not help the film to be more watchable addison's wall could have been much better such as exploration of the contents of the wall a more intensive care program to help addison to go through his trauma instead the film feels very unfinished and non engaging
0	this movie tries to say something profound i'm just not sure what it was too much is left unresolved in the end for me to figure out the main point a couple scenes really have me wondering what was left on the cutting room floor i don't think the wall was very well developed i never got what was actually going on there when the mother finally unveils it i just couldn't make any connection to the boy's silence what was the point of the boy not talking was he just delusional or did he acquire some sort of power what was the scene with the burnt girl all about another power the boy has or what i don't understand how that developed any character or moved the plot i got the bully bit but what happened to the dog did the dog come back or did mom get rid of fido for good somehow br br there were several additional plot elements that were more clutter than use like the radio talk show in the background discussing the iraq war i think that was supposed to create some sort of comparison to the grief and insecurity the mother and addison were experiencing but for me it was distracting and strained i didn't buy the link very much i also found the teacher getting on addison about not saying here for roll call a bit much the mom seeing the doctor was pointless how did it serve the plot was that to show how desperate the mother was getting or was it something about the medicine that i didn't get was that the dad coming back in the last scene or just some guy so did writing on the wall work what happened to the dog
0	conclusion very but very very boring yet i watched till the end hoping for some upside down effect but the end was worse because it was nothing the old black white game didn't helped at all it usually helps psychological movies but this was not the case the script the plot etc were linear had no substance nothing in going when you deal with psychological you deal with analysis therefore with details that unity diversity formula there was no essence no detail just a story there are many stories to tell but something makes them unique and hard to forgive with the tools and creativity of movie makers well this is not the one
0	a depressed creepy teenager does many bad things to a socially active older lady who does not like to use shades or drapes in her windows he steels assorted things from her peeps at her does prank calls and plays assorted unpleasant tricks on her oddly he keeps none of this a secret from her at first she does not seem to care one way or the other that he is bothering her then later she seems to begin to respect him for his cruel fevered activities br br there are some illogical items to note one is that the guy peeps into the night through a pane of glass from the more brightly lit side in real life such a thing would not happen the more brightly lit side of a pane of glass acts as a mirror he would be able to see exactly nothing also everyone out in the night would be able to look inside at him sitting in his well lit room br br one other illogical item is that the creepy teen takes a job as a milkman and his one and only customer each morning seems to be the lady he is picking on easy work if you can get it br br i saw a short film about love at a public showing by the end there was not a single open eye in the house a short film about love is the foreign language movie for those who do not like reading subtitles not only are there very few words spoken in the film but much of the movie is silent a certain rest in peace
0	this is an excruciatingly boring slow moving movie we can feel some sympathy for the socially and sexually inexperienced and awkward but the motivations of magda are pretty hard to see and the ending at least for me was inscrutable br br maybe it's about how we all need love but i'd get more out of a good busby berkeley br br i'm told that comments have to be at least ten lines so i'll add that in the background are some interesting shots of the relationship between polish citizens and government employees and institutions i wonder if it's meant to portray this before or after the fall of the communist government br br finally watch for the clever way the men from the gas company investigate whether or not there is a gas leak in stove
0	surprisingly kieslowski's this movie is disappointing to me because of the sometimes weird and sometimes cliché script that also seems a work of a poor observation sometimes there is an isolated young boy he lives with one of his relatives but he is lonely and every night watches a woman who lives across their building it seems that he wants her he is one of the youths who are not good at communication with the opposite sex however he likes that woman when the woman comes to his house with a man gets pain then we understand that kieslowski tells us a story about an isolated young boy who needs a female to flirt or who falls in love with a mature woman he does not do something else because may be he knows that it is his salvation one day he stops that woman suddenly he seems a shy boy but proves that he is not so he explains her almost everything she lectures and refuses him everything is so realistic like the other kieslowski films no problem the problems start when visits her the story of a lonely young boy who falls in love with a mature woman but an unrequited love turns into the story of a lonely young boy falls in love with a mature woman at the beginnings the woman refuses but after a short time she starts to change her mind this u turn makes the movie cliché firstly the personality of is weird or a result of a poor observation i disappointed with this character this is my opinion and i will try to tell why when he goes to her house magda treats him very friendly she asks what do you want from me to kiss me to make love with me to go out with me at this point i remember the people who say she is a femme fatale see returning to the scene rejects all the proposals why because he is shy i don't think so but his communication is blunt ok after the leg scene at home some events make the movie misses its aim i think that the aim of the movie is should have been according to the story to show us there are some people who suffer from lack of endearment and to save from this situation is not easy owing to lack of communication and being aloof especially for men i mean that at this point what does the movie say it is blurred and disappointing it is seen that he is not hunger for love or a female or sex then what and the suicide attempt scene support this weakness so that he touches her legs he wants to kill himself by the way as i mentioned before some say magda is a femme fatale totally not she endeavors in order to make happy does she avoid having contact with him no does she insult him no does she amuse him no and does she deceive him no she has some troubles with her ex lover so she is not o k however she does not take revenge for it from she is not an angel but not a femme fatale also
0	would a different translation have made it or scarier are the subtitles too compact to convey the nuances of the original language does it even matter you may have heard that great actors can make reading a phone book exciting well this is an opportunity to judge for yourself br br if this isn't about homosexuality murder dismemberment psychopaths insanity deviant psychology then it is about acting acting helped along with lots of dialog so enjoy the acting or muse about how titillating the dialog actually is br br for english speakers twelve angry men might be a better choice there's a bit more interaction and you can judge if the acting is consistent with the dialog you don't have to wonder if you're missing something br br i would recommend andy warhol's empire to those who like this film
0	for me this movie is essentially like a feature length pilot episode for a tv series it reminds me particularly of the british remake of the tv series starring kenneth brannagh people interviewed by the police are hardy and often as bitter as the weather the lead investigator has huge family problems investigations invariably lead to cruelties of the distant past and the plotting is labyrinthine with strange occurrences and subplots making sense only at the end both have excellent cinematography br br the plotting of jar city is extraordinarily reminiscent of a standard uk or us crime series effectively you could take the plots of any of the episodes of touch of frost and transplant them on top of the bleak locale in this movie and have an effective sequel br br really the script couldn't be more obviously from the cookie cutter you get even the most familiar of motifs such as the police going to the local prison to interview a manipulative and dangerous psychopath who inevitably explodes at the end of the interview br br i'm absolutely convinced that this is scones and jam for many folk but i feel it needs pointing out to people like myself who do not go to the cinema to watch television what i felt a keen lack of was message the movie takes as its theme the genetic studies in iceland in genetic terms have remained largely isolated from the outside world presenting a great opportunity for scientists to study their genetics lots of information concerning the heredity of the population has been kept and many genetic diseases unique to iceland can be traced effectively in a population that has refrained from and is remarkably genetically homogeneous it's like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle of the london underground map instead of a jigsaw puzzle of a field of daisies a company called decode genetics attempted to set up a database carrying all the genetic and hereditary information for the entire population of iceland due to privacy concerns this project was terminated and at the end of last year decode genetics went bankrupt in iceland the episode is a rich topic for debate br br but in this movie genetics and medical science are not there for sake they're there for weird atmosphere br br it's a grisly movie if you are interested in that and there's often a morbid focus on food to accompany events like a coroner who eats lunch in between incisions the most queasy for me was when the lead inspector devours a sheep's head unfortunately for me this occasionally became farcical the movie attempts the rather delicate task of mixing the grisly with the sentimental and ended up providing unintentional humour towards the end this is the equivalent in cinematic terms of attempting to prepare if you're not well qualified deft of hand and sharp of eye you poison the client this rather novice director should have lowered the on his performance br br i walked out of this movie feeling rather bad about myself and about life in general
0	why spend a moment slogging through this awkward and self conscious movie every now and then after an hour of tedious plot and amateur acting we start getting bits and pieces of the big band swing that made tommy and jimmy dorsey separately and together the great musicians they were occasionally in a jam session with art tatum with tommy dorsey and his orchestra doing marie and a standout jimmy dorsey and his orchestra bob and helen o'connell singing green eyes we get a complete song br br unfortunately the movie is in the public domain and the dvd transfer is just as bad as the acting my copy has only four chapter stops that means you can get arthritis in your fast forward finger trying to speed through to where the good stuff is the swamp you're moving through is hollywood's version of the life and battles of the two tommy superb on trombone and jimmy superb on saxophone usually couldn't stand each other in 1935 they finally split with tommy starting his own orchestra each had greater success alone than they had achieved together they reconciled when their father died in the forties which is where the movie ends they later managed to tolerate each other in the orchestra led by tommy as the big band era faded out in the fifties tommy died in 1956 at age 51 vomiting in his sleep after booze pills and a big meal jimmy died of cancer at 53 in 1957 jimmy was hugely talented and from all accounts a reasonably easy going guy tommy was hugely talented and from all accounts often an overbearing jerk but good music makes up for a lot of faults and the big band sounds the two created helped define the swing era br br they play themselves in the movie and we see them develop from tykes with child actors to grown men battling and yammering at each other the movie is lumbered with not just their two parents played by those hollywood irish clichés sara and arthur shields who just want their boys to get along with each other but also with a major sub story involving a romance between janet blair as a childhood friend of the who becomes a vocalist with them and serves as a nearly full time mediator and enabler and william as a piano player blair is not bad at all however if you want to see why she never became the star she quite probably should have become just look at the films like this one that her studio put her in no wonder she left hollywood simply takes up space br br how bad is this movie other than when we can actually hear the play well here's a song written especially for the movie and given to blair to warble it's called to me br br to me you're the rose of a rosary the rise of a rising sea the glow of a star br br the rose of a rosary the movie doesn't get any better than this and it can't get worse still if you like the and if the price is right well in hindsight i'd still not buy it the highlight for me is and o'connell singing green eyes you can watch them on you tube for free you'll also find there quite a bit of each of the i wish i'd known
0	clifton webb is one of my favorites however mister is not one of his best his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality in addition the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine clifton webb does his best with a poor script edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a like low voice unusual for someone of his age however once you've heard it you've heard it and you don't need to hear it again unfortunately he is in the majority of the film's scenes i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up since he has a lot of scenes in this film this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film there were and are so many talented child actors it's a pity this film doesn't have any of them in it still clifton webb in the traditional broad hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing
0	i have to agree that the movie is not the best i've ever seen but i would like to make mention that the actors portraying tommy and jimmy dorsey were the actual dorsey brothers as actors they were wonderful musicians the movie based on their famous split would have been better had professional actors played the parts many movies made during this time frame took advantage of the popularity of big bands most often the movies were not that good because musicians are not actors by trade most of the movie going audience didn't go to see tommy or jimmy dorsey playing themselves they went for the plot and the music i've never been much of a dorsey fan but the music is good even today br br i have to comment on a previous post regarding the actors who played mom and pop dorsey and that their accents would be considered extreme by a dublin audience arthur shields and sara were actually irish actors both born in dublin you might remember mr shields as the reverend mr in the quiet man and ms as mrs monahan in cheaper by the dozen
0	upon writing this review i have difficulty trying to think of what to write about nothing much happens in this film the storyline is a south asian woman who falls for an english londoner the problem is he and his friends have had a racist streak at the same time her friend at work is unknowingly to her having sexual relations with her brother and it just escalates from there the problem is that this movie is very predictable as soon as all this stuff has happened it's all pretty much standard it drags slightly even though it's only about 90 minutes long this is more of a chick flick than anything else so if you're male i do not recommend this film to you
0	i find it difficult to comprehend what makes viewer's feel this is a powerful movie i would guess that the main intention of this film would be a character study and the effects of racism in a british community it is therefore all the more disappointing that all the characters are two dimensional and the acting is at the level of a college performing arts course i'm always sceptical of improvisation another word for being too lazy to write a decent script i was embarrassed by the performances and sat in an audience who laughed when they surely were supposed to be moved by the story racism is a serious issue but i think a subtle approach in cinema works far better than laying it on with trowel
0	that's what i kept asking myself during the many fights screaming matches swearing and general mayhem that permeate the 84 minutes the comparisons also stand up when you think of the one dimensional characters who have so little depth that it is virtually impossible to care what happens to them they are just badly written cyphers for the director to hang his multicultural beliefs on a topic that has been done much better in other dramas both on tv and the cinema br br i must confess i'm not really one for spotting bad performances during a film but it must be said that as the heroine's slutty best friend and wasim as the nasty bullying brother were absolutely terrible i don't know what acting school they graduated from but if i was them i'd apply for a full refund post haste only in the lead role manages to impress in a cast of so called british talent that we'll probably never hear from again at least that's the hope next time hire a different scout br br another intriguing thought is the hideously fashionable soundtrack featuring the likes of snow patrol ian brown and keane now i'm a bit of a music fan and i'm familiar with most of these artists output but i didn't recognise any of the tracks during this movie apart from the omnipresent run b sides anyone we get many many musical montages which telegraph how we're suppose to feel these are accompanied by such startlingly original images as couples kissing by a swollen lake and canoodling in doorways this is a problem as none of the songs convey the mood efficiently and we realise the director lacks the ability to carry the emotional journey to the audience through storytelling and dialogue alone br br the ending is presumably meant to be just desserts as everybody gets their comeuppance and there is at least one big shock in store but i remained resolutely unmoved because the script had given me no one to root for it's not enough to tackle a hot button issue you have to actually give us a plot that hasn't already been done to death and individuals who are more than window dressing as it stands this film is a noble failure with only the promising lead actress and a few mildly diverting punch ups to save it from the bin 4 10 must try harder
0	i recently rented this film on dvd and thought it would be an interesting choice seeing as i am both from the north of england bradford and also interested in film making however it soon became apparent that this film seemed to lack a decent level of development script wise the characters were weak and often stereotyped and the story lacked substance the subject matter could be an interesting basis for a film however the delivery of this appeared naive and unfocused br br the ending felt as though it was casting judgement on the characters punishing and rewarding where the filmmakers felt necessary this felt a little awkward and silly and seemed at odds with the 'realism' used in the style of shooting for me the film dealt with the characters and subject matter in a rather heavy handed and clumsy manner it felt as though the writer had already decided how he wanted to end the story and set about crow barring everything else in to fit it br br another point that i feel strongly about is the watered down ken loach feel the film had i get quite upset that uk film financiers can't see that there is more to british films than it has become almost a safe option film is an infinitely wonderful playground for imaginative ideas and it is not being exploited by uk feature film producers there is a lot of talent here in the uk it's unfortunate that most of these individuals end up either making music videos and commercials 100 of the time or they go to america br br love hate would have worked better if it had been cut down to 30 or 60 minutes and appeared as a one off tv drama
0	i really enjoyed candid camera with dom deluise and i was surprised to see that after the years suzanne somers have the co star of the show but that was the only positive side of the show the whole studio the intro the hosts all that give the new meaning to the word pompous br br well that would be ok if the materials weren't so cr ppy i mean come on the best you can do is show few men that have problem with getting ketchup out of the bottle suzanne somers walking with halloween basket in july ice cream place that sells only vanilla i've seen few episodes and each time it was horrible they were posing like it's the greatest show ever and then fill the time with scenes so dull that i really felt embarrassed to watch even the people in them looked bored and that just can't be good
0	in new york in a morning close to christmas an upper class father and mother go in their bmw to a private school to see the play of their daughter then they go shopping and later they return to their fancy apartment in manhattan in the night they move to a simple apartment in a dangerous neighborhood where they prepare drugs for distribution on the christmas eve while buying the christmas gift for their daughter the father is kidnapped and his wife desperately tries to raise a high amount of money to pay the requested ransom r xmas is a deceptive movie of abel ferrara the lead characters do not have names are anonymous and maybe his intention is to tell that in the breast of a neighbor family in your building may have drug dealers or that drug dealers may also have families and may be loving persons or that there are many dirty cops probably worse than the criminals or is it a simple apology to crime whatever however this humanization of criminals is a horrible message and i really did not like this movie in brazil for example many drug dealers and criminals help their communities due to the absence of the state in poor areas and slums but this procedure does not make them model citizen in this movie we see a loving upper class family in the day providing drugs as means of living but the destruction of the members of other families is not shown in the story and it is impossible to feel sympathy for any characters in the end i wished all of them dead my vote is four br br title brazil do gangs of the ghetto
0	r xmas peers into the lives of a middle class married with kid family of distributors during the christmas holiday season there's no story here just a disjointed collection of events ferrara seems to get off on the juxtaposition of the holidays and home life with narcotics in nyc jumping back and forth between each the players appear to be and now and then making for an unconvincing watch overall a poor effort not worth the time d
0	good actors good director well acted well directed but where's the movie did they have an script or just improvised it all at least it is a short length movie only 80 minutes including credits nothing seems to happen in this film nothing at all a couple of small time drug dealers caught in small time troubles but you'll never get a clue of what's happening nor even what are they talking about in some sequences of the movie tons of f 's and motherf 's but nothing else br br for the people who love abel ferrara's films such as the funeral 'r xmas is going to be a big disappointment as it's been for me what was he thinking about did he really think that this was a good movie and if he didn't then why did he made it
0	the whole movie seemed to suffer from poor editing every scene seemed to take forever to unfold and when they did i felt like i had waited a long time for very little to happen i guess i missed the whole point of the movie either that or there wasn't one
0	i just watched this movie on bravo and it was absolutely horrible it has the plot of a shannon tweed movie without the nudity the premise was interesting enough a winning lottery ticket in a secluded area and people who have reasons why they want the money the characters were trite as were the observations on human nature and greed br br for a movie called class warfare it had very little to do with class differences other than the first 20 minutes and the predictable ending this movie could have done a lot better if there had been more characters with motivations to get the ticket and was a who done it br br the acting wasn't fantastic but it's hard to seem believable with such a terrible script lindsey is very cute and i'd like to see what she could do in a better production with a better script she's probably the only reason why i sat through the whole movie br br
0	'r xmas is one of the only films i've seen where i can almost say that simply nothing happens i felt as though i watched a drug dealing middle class couple with child walk around eat smoke converse excuse me swear through most of the film and i don't believe i'm missing the point i think this film was well directed well acted although the husband's performance was rather wooden and the constant feeling of impending doom around every corner certainly kept the viewer involved but when the dust clears your left with zero just a boat load of fade outs i didn't want car chases gun violence beatings etc in fact i'm sick of violence but my goodness let's at least get a bit deeper into all these characters let's get to know each of these corrupt officers a little better not just show glancing shots of them as street thugs why was the dialogue so juvenile everyone spoke as if they were in junior high i believe even this side of our human race can say something other than fu sh etc the pacing and the storyline of 'r xmas i found quite interesting but the execution was plain and simple empty 4 10
0	i don't know what has happened to director abel ferrara ever since the body snatchers remake he seems to have lost it king of new york and the bad lieutenant remain two of the best films of the '90s searing of a decade gone wrong with films like 'r xmas whatever that means and new rose hotel he seems determined to disgust and bore his former supporters this film has no life in it while he gets excellent performances out of his actors in all of his projects the result of this mishmash of ideas just doesn't jell whatever the point is that the new breed of drug dealer is more or less the same as any other upper middle class new gets lost in the mind numbing script and boring direction br br i saw this opening night at the 4 plex in downtown l a in the lobby while buying tickets i was surprised and delighted to see it filled with a large racially mixed group of men and women in their twenties and thirties then they started into the theater but it was the theater that was featuring 8 mile not 'r xmas the theater showing 'r xmas keep in mind this was opening night had a total of 4 people watching it myself my wife and two others br br way to go abel br br 2 10
0	i caught the north american premiere of this at the chicago international film festival i was beyond disappointed from the mood in the audience i wasn't the only one br br the film takes a long time to get to the conflict and then refuses to resolve it opting instead to tell us the story is to be continued is it a spoiler to reveal that a movie has no ending i consider it more of a warning this is at best only half a movie and not the good half
0	the whole movie was done half assed it could have been a much better movie but that would have required a re write and different actors compared to traffic this was a wreck i am just glad i didn't have to pay for it br br spoiler br br what was the point of having crooked cops getting arrested to share the guilt of drug dealers and make them feel better pu the parents were scum driven by greed and didn't even consider the harm they were doing as pointed out by ice t br br 2 out of 10
0	awful awful awful drab unimaginative predictable and with all the usual suspects exactly the sort of film the irish film industry shouldn't be making and with the added bonus of a treacle coated ending a sickening example of how talent originality is by passed in favour of an almost aggressive mediocrity yes the children are sweet yes it almost looks like it's done professionally but this is film making by numbers a direct smash and grab on what the director obviously thinks is a film which and despises the audience it's quite amazing that working title would pour into this rubbish but then they paid for love actually don't waste your money
0	br br i used to think reeves was the worst actor in hollywood i not so sure anymore willy gives some stiff competition with his i'm made of plaster performance in this movie br br combine that with the fact that there is almost no plot and not a single likable character and it's pretty hard to recommend this turkey br br natasha tries her best but even julia roberts couldn't save this flick from obscurity br br avoid it unless it's really late and there's nothing else on oh heck in that case just read a book
0	brief marital infidelity comes back to haunt loving wife grace needham portrayed by the always sexy nastassja kinski br br she had left town and her depressing husband to embark on a trip to sunny miami where she was pursued and ultimately seduced by julian grant a handsomely evil and manipulative business executive who is portrayed very well by william baldwin why do all of the baldwin brothers play evil people so damn well br br the seducing of grace took place as the two drank champagne on a deserted beach they reached privately by grace admitted she drank too much for her own good and revealed the many problems in her marriage julian gained her confidence by claiming he would never allow those types of problems to occur if he had a relationship with grace julian's manipulation continued as he described a lost at sea fantasy involving the now uninhibited grace who sat near listening to his every word and becoming more and more engaged with his romantic dream br br his manipulation paid off as a few subtle nudges led to grace's soft kisses paused momentarily by her pulling back as if suddenly thinking to herself what am i doing i'm a wife i'm a mother i have a real life real responsibilities sure the two of us have talked about being together lost at sea but that is just a fantasy look at what we're doing here the consequences are real we're really alone on a secluded beach am i going to let this fantasy really happen ' br br she succumbs to the dream as her kisses became more passionate the once guarded grace who used to respond to men's propositions by saying i'm married enjoyed watching as julian her shirt leading to more kisses body caresses and her climbing onto julian's lap she smiles kisses moans laughs and frequently looks up at the sun throughout what unfortunately was a brief love making scene in which everybody seemed to have most of their clothes on br br while i thoroughly enjoyed the look of illicit passion on grace's face as the once devoted wife was being thoroughly satisfied by having sex with a man that clearly enjoys manipulating others i will say that on the whole the scene was undeserving of the movie's r rating br br julian returned home to find her husband rejuvenated from his securing of a high paying job and she is excited about being able to return to a normal life where she can once again be a loving wife and caring mother br br but the evil julian grant reenters the picture and is not willing to give up so easily on grace grace has a plan to rid her life of julian but will it work br br obviously i don't want to ruin the remaining story line for you however i will say that i always enjoy movies involving sexual pretense by a wife especially when she exhibits uninhibited attraction and behavior that is normally reserved for her husband but in actuality is seeking revenge against the antagonist this movie would have been much much better if the movie had included more of that in the story line my feelings are if the movie brings it up then the movie should finish it and this movie definitely brought it up unfortunately certain constraints in the story line prevented this from being significantly pursued there are many other movies available that succeed with that very point and i'll include their titles in the recommendations portion of this section i'm also open to receiving emailed suggestions of other movies that contain a good story line involving sexual pretense on the part of a seemingly devoted wife br br overall nastassja kinski and william baldwin are both very good the movie is not
0	we've seen a story like this before a wife in marital troubles played by nastassja kinski engages in sex with a stranger william baldwin and then wants to go back to her life with husband and girl when she returns home she finds out that her husband has finally found a job everything seems bright however kinski finds out that her husband's new boss is actually the stranger who still shows interest over her and seems to do anything to get what he wants what to do say nothing br br i didn't really like the movie while it wasn't just bad it clearly lacked that something maybe it should've focused more on what's going inside kinski's head nothing to say about the actors themselves i guess baldwin was a good choice for the role of the obsessed boss but the characters seemed somewhat stereotypical acting the way you would see characters acting in your everyday tv films finally the ending totally ruined what could have been an interesting plot br br in my opinion the movie tried to look cool it had a bit of shaky camerawork here and there some stills fast cuts and glamour but in the end i think it fits spelling productions much better same goes for the music otherwise it didn't look that bad br br some might like this but it definitely wasn't my cup of tea to be fair i don't usually watch much this type of thrillers this one felt too long even if it was just an hour and a half long i think it could've worked better as an hour long episode in some tv series there was absolutely no need for some of the scenes especially the shower scene br br my advice try before you buy
0	fc de only reason for existence is it's local popularity it has caused this sitcom to run for over 15 years and still counting br br it deals about an amateur soccer team with the emphasis amateur every storyline deals with the same subject some misunderstanding that takes ridiculous and predictable proportions to get resolved in the end br br the show's been running for over 15 years now and the production probably decided not to change a winning team which means that the show has had minor changes over the course of years besides a couple of actors getting replaced they nearly all left by themselves rather than being thrown of the show the humor hasn't changed a bit over the years and it was already outdated when it first aired in the first place br br i guess you have to be flemish to get this and over 60 years old to enjoy such an old fashioned tv show as this
0	i know it's a movie but when it comes to portray real life in any matter it should be as faithful as possible i'm sorry but el isn't as accurate as it seems nor is the dominican republic depicted as it really is in fact it shocked me to see that the filming location for santo domingo was actually cuba and incredibly enough movies with cuban themes havana the lost city bitter sugar the godfather part ii were actually filmed in santo domingo so what happened here why did they shoot the movie in cuba instead of the d r the spanish dialogs with the cuban accent are horrible those are not dominicans on the historic level would have never been hanged he might as well been shot decapitated or died from the inhumane torture he'd been receiving then thrown his body in the caribbean sea but would have never ordered death by strangulation his sick mind wouldn't have allowed it br br acting isn't delivered as expected harvey keitel looks like he's just expecting a paycheck i prefer the leading actress in deep blue sea the rest of the cast would have been excellent in some cuban movie and the same goes for the selected shooting location br br i suggest la del chivo the feast of the goat from bestselling author mario vargas llosa directed by his cousin luis llosa it's a bit more realistic with dominican history the character is very well portrayed and the incident is treated very briefly in this movie
0	despite the fact that this was a made for tv movie and an obvious one at that ie cheap looking class warfare left me wishing i could get my money back and considering this lame production was partially funded through canadian dollars i might just be entitled br br what made me sit through it in the first place was seeing actress lindsey who i've watched for the last couple years in her role as goody goody mara lewis on the soap opera guiding light taking a turn at playing the bad girl for a change br br surprisingly she does quite well as kristen a spoiled rich b tch who suddenly finds herself dirt poor but with a conniving streak and a twist of fate that will possibly change her fortunes back around the twist of fate is provided in the character of richard robin dunne a socially radical outcast who discovers that he has just gone from having nothing to winning 23 million on a lottery ticket now put richard kristen her jock boyfriend jason wade carpenter and their camcorder obsessed mutual buddy graham dave together for the weekend in a remote cabin cut off from the world by storms and just guess what unfolds br br the film suffers from both the story and and motives too much everyone is pretty one dimensional and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that some things and some people are going to go very bad very quickly i don't think this is that original a plot and it doesn't go out of it's way to make itself anything more the acting is ok is spot on as the manipulative female lead and dunne is very good perhaps a little too good at times but no one else is worth writing home about the only other real credit i can give the film is the one twist i didn't see coming towards the end not the very end though that one is so obvious it hurts regardless i sat through all of it and lived to tell the tale so i can't say it was a complete write off br br 4 10 a something to watch when nothing else is on type movie
0	i have rated this movie a 1 10 and have done this in good nature this movie is not as it seems and i don t get the point of it take the first joke for instance their's that sign at the beginning to start well that was ok but then they start having some guy talking about the hood and then he dies then theirs the other guys who talks then he dies after the other guy says people don t get to their birthday with out dieing and he gets a cake now then he dies br br the jokes are just stupid they are t that smart and i would have thought they would have been better from some one like the directors of scary movie br br shawn wayans written by marlon wayans written by phil written by br br but it sucked and i hop next time they want to make another comedy they make some good jokes not lame ones
0	going by the good words of my friends i hired this movie hoping that it would at least equal the laughs of the similar movie house party but i was very disappointed and very bored br br falling asleep while watching a movie is never a good sign i don't know whether this didn't appeal to me because i don't live in da hood or if i'm not black but it's probably one of the two br br it tries to spoof a few movies only coming up with a couple of laughs but in the long run it fails miserably miss it
0	ok i will make this review short and to the point for those people whose mental capacity is perfect for watching this movie everybody knows of motion picture association of america's ratings g pg pg 13 r and nc 17 for the purposes of this movie i think the should create a new rating standard iq 20
0	mild spoilers br br this movie was filthy and stupid it could have done well without the constant humping and nude sex it was also very profane i think that they had a good story developing but they messed up the whole thing by overdoing it
0	menace is not funny it tries hard too hard but rarely brings a smile there is no acting just mugging one of the main characters wears a stupid grimace on his face the entire movie no doubt as the less talented wayans brothers starred wrote and produced the film they were entirely blind to their lack of talent br br menace consists of a series of unfunny one joke skits the punchline can be seen a mile off but you have to wait until it all unfolds no zippy one liners or snappy dialogue here just one scene after another building up to the joke the jokes themselves are juvenile loc dog the one with the perma grimace talks to a beautiful woman but then she has bad breath and then she picks her nose and then wait for it remember you must always w a i t she farts how funny is that ten year old boys may find it funny as they won't have heard the jokes as many times before alternatively if you like watching movies completely drunk or stoned then you will be able to follow along and may even find it amusing the challenge will be getting drunk enough to reduce your mental state to the level of the movie without passing out
0	now i know that a lot of black humor pokes fun at typical black things like for example gold teeth but that doesn't mean that they always are funny don't be a menace is an example of this the urban movie certainly lends itself for satire the problem is that wayans and not only try satirize the typical culture they also belittle valid statements that are made in urban movies such as boyz 'n' the hood or menace ii society personally i think that the makers of this movie should get their heads away from the bowel movements of their white masters besides this the movie in itself is terrible it's absolutely not funny the jokes are racist instead of satirizing the urban movie genre the moviemakers show their views of the urban ghetto blacks now there are some other jokes in this movie but i believe this to be the main fare br br in conclusion this movie is crap and the makers should use their talents to make a constructive comedy satire movie they have examples in men with black hats which was made before this movie and friday
0	the is one of the worst spoofs i have ever seen for one main reason it isn't funny i laughed a handful of times the acting is bad the script is worse and why those guys had baby in their hair i will never know and you can tell this didn't have much of a budget to work with and it openly hurts the film they had a good idea going in some parts but it never really came to past and what was the point about the lead being older than his dad 3 out of 10
0	i don't understand the humor in this film i also found it offensive on how koreans were depicted in that film despite how it is actually just a caricature of koreans in those areas first the actors are japanese and they make the most rude expressions of koreans in that film it disgusts me on how these people are expressed i felt anger just watching that one scene and how they were so badly made out in the film the humor lasts just for one laugh and then you don't understand why it's even funny it's crude humor with the most disgusting representation of society there i found it to be an offensive film overall maybe it was just because i never lived in the hood or saw any hood movies but i don't intend to either
0	when i heard they were making this i was happy considering the first film was pretty good if a little on the short side br br but then i remembered some of the disney sequel disasters i have previously watched im looking at you little mermaid 2 br br anyway i watched it and unfortunately i was very disappointed the best thing about it is the animation is superb it really has that special polish that the proper disney films have br br apart from that the rest is disappointing the storyline is seriously all over the place one moment its about something then completely changes to another storyline and then changes to another completely different storyline it reminded me of how the family guy movie was like 3 separate episodes turned into a film br br i laughed perhaps once at the most was very funny in the original film but in this he just isn't funny at all br br stay away from this film unless someone lends it to you for free br br 4 10
0	ewww a disney sequel that is rubbish who would have thought it actually quite a lot judging by the comments here and they aren't wrong i actually looked forward to seeing this awful film based on my liking of the original and therein lies disney's whole cash in mentality shovel out any old junk on the back of a success and people will go for it don't think they are that cynical ask yourself this then how many disney films have sequels and then how many of those sequels spawn a follow up a significantly lower number br br new groove is just another example of this the plot is laughably simplistic and drawn out even more annoying was the increased number of out of place items and scenes an old folks home for example and god forbid an aztec version of the boy scouts worse yet opposing leader has a completely bewildering over the top english accent for no reason whatsoever an accent that was after a very short while intensely grating on the nerves br br there are a couple of good things the animation is very nice and the voice talent do well with the sub standard dialogue they are given especially warburton in the lead role but other than this there really is nothing to recommend it sure little kids may like it but there is little to amuse mum and dad whilst they sit through this tortuous maiming of the original concept br br avoid this monstrosity with the same zeal you'd use in avoiding a pack of ravening man eating lions
0	the man with the golden arm the movie is a decent career vehicle for frank sinatra but fails abysmally as a good adaptation of a fantastic book you always hear about how books are changed when they are made into films things are cut out dumbed down etc well you can't even say they changed anything with the movie they just told a completely different story the characters and setting are the same sure but not the ambiguous characterization the depth of the men and women of polish chicago in the book as for the setting it's become merely a play stage complete with the unnecessary supporting role players walking all too down the claustrophobic interior exterior streets the movie is a dumbed down completely different take on frankie machine and drug addiction when this happens frankie sparrow all lose their psychological edge frankie's drumming a modest dream in the book becomes his full passion in the movie probably because sinatra is a musician and drug addiction is treated as shlock the acting is decent especially the louie who is more menacing in the movie than the book but it's just a shame this kind of movie can be heralded as a classic alongside the book it is based upon the real story of frankie machine the movie just goes to show hollywood get anything right without dumbing it down and adding a happy ending in this case they just changed it completely an important and realistic story into hollywood fluff i'm sure as hell biased because i read the book first so i can't really treat the movie honestly by knowing how good the book is i actually thought about turning the movie off and i never do that just so i wouldn't get its silly plot confused with the beauty of the book but this is an overrated film and while it's not so bad the book should come first as it was the first and it should have remained the only story of division street and frankie machine
0	who in india is often compared with prominent world film makers and is regarded a genius in film making has yet again proved that he can only make the frames look visually good without offering much food for thought forget about pure cinematic pleasure that can be derived from cinema as a very old form of art br br while i would not like to claim and portray myself as someone who has seen all the beautiful movies made around the world still any thoughtful and a bit educated film goer can identify that his films do not contain innovative ingenuous plots does not contain lingering effects afterward and mostly contain ridiculous ending and a lot of melodrama seen profusely in indian movies br br overall has successfully confirmed my distaste for his films once again br br sorry for those who on this board were claiming otherwise my suggestion to you watch some beautiful cinemas made around the globe
0	this coming from an adult who happened to come across the first one expecting a movie aimed towards children and was surprised at the adult humor that was in new groove the character i liked most of all was so i was thrilled when i heard of the sequel sp featuring non other than br br i just watched new groove it took me two days because i had to shut it off i was so bored halfway through it i finally watched the rest of it the next day and unfortunately the 2nd half was every bit as lame as the first br br being a disney film i was expecting to have some musical scenes however this one was filled with them and they were not amusing the great thing i found about new groove was that it could be appreciated by a wide audience from toddlers to adults new groove in all honesty did nothing for me nor my girlfriend and we both loved the first it is really aimed towards young children the comedy is pretty childish the musical scenes are not very well done and the plot itself is extremely corny br br save yourself some money and rent this movie if possible because its definitely not worthy of a second viewing i was extremely disappointed and shocked at how thrown together this film was they actually managed to make a character not funny in this film that is amazing in itself br br obviously every ones opinion differs but i am very easily amused i usually enjoy sequels sp even when others discredit them mostly because i loved the first so much i needed more of the characters and no matter how bad the plot was i would enjoy the film i cannot say the same for this one i never would have thought i would be turning it off half way through due to pure boredom br br buy at own risk
0	this is the worst waste of time i've ever experienced not even close to the first one the story line difficult to follow plot was weak at best the whole thing looked like three stories trying some way to tie them together and make a movie it had a few good lines here and there and the attempt at the message was admirable but they went from houston through new york to get to dallas it was really hard to tell over what period of time the present time took up the movie was just over an hour and it felt like we had sat there watching the movie all afternoon points for being honest but a son should not have to do all that felt he had to do do your self a favor watch again
0	what we have here the standard disney direct to dvd sequel where i would expect cots are cut in all areas resulting in an okay animated movie that falls well short of the original that is not to say that this is a terrible movie it is just that it is a very mediocre movie full of the preachy messages intended to show children the virtues of friendship and being nice to one another and unless done subtly which it is not here can quickly become grating for adults the film has a very thin plot line with trying to win the approval of his father and ending up finding the true meaning of wealth and success this has it's comedy moments but is really nor enough to carry a full length film
0	another direct to video movie from disney that is essentially perfect for the kids the problem with new groove i find is that everything that made the first movie a fun great ride is replaced with a more sad and sombre film in this movie learns a great deal of lessons at many others' expenses it takes away much time that could be spent at creating a more enjoyable film br br new groove deals with two stories returns for payback and one ms hopes to defeat camp counseling championship this all leads up to confronting his father and his disapproval over his son's direction in life br br from lord of the rings to michael jackson's thriller new groove recycles every bit of time that it allows to entertain its viewers if you loved the original or are looking forward to the upcoming tv series about i recommend to his loyal fans
0	i really liked the movie 'the new groove' but watching this was like coming home and seeing your wife having relations with a llama seriously this movie was bad it's like club dread after super troopers i am supposed to write 10 lines but i don't even know what else to say i laughed a couple of times but only because i was drinking a movie like that should at least be funny when your drunk it was not maybe are just funny and regular cartoon people aren't either way just stick with the new groove if you want a funny cartoon llama themed movie line 10 is this line right here
0	this might sound weird but i only got to see the first movie the emperor's new groove a week ago and only because of one episode of the tv show i simply adore character but isn't that bad either anyway eventually i decided to watch the second film just so i would've seen it hoped it would be as good as the first one but i'm sorry to tell this but the more the humour got american the more i yawned i agreed with when he started crying seeing all the cheesy footage br br still younger kids and probably veterans too will love this movie to bits if they like the old school moralising disney that is but i just had expectations that were an eensy teensy little bit hell of a lot higher than they should've been is a lovely character being good hearted and dumb all at once but it were and in drag that woke me up at the end of the movie i'll ignore rudy for as far that's possible br br anyway great movie just not my style and as they say you always have to be true to your groove
0	the emperor's new groove cast returns for disney pictures follow up but this time the spotlight is on voiced by patrick warburton who is no longer eartha kitt henchman has started a new life and is very happy with his role as chef of his own restaurant things go merrily along until gets word that his john mahoney is coming for a visit is worried because he knows that his life won't impress his one thing that he has always wanted and never received is a thumbs up from his dad a flurry of blunders and a gigantic cheese explosion in the restaurant leaves our likable hero very deep in trouble and anxiety to save the day a little help from his friends br br other voices tracey ullman david spade john goodman malick april and green
0	but of course i was wrong br br now i never expected to like the first movie i'm not sure what's up with disney's marketing group but it seems that every trailer they make for an animated film ends up turning me off as too childish or silly or stupid and yet the movies themselves are usually anything but and no movie looked worse to me in the trailers than the emperor's new groove which is why i was quite surprised to actually find myself quite enjoying that film when i finally broke down and saw it i entered with zero expectations and came out pleasantly entertained br br despite disney's track record with direct to video sequels i had nonetheless hoped for a better experience with here but in the end i was nothing but disappointed and unfortunately not exactly surprised that i felt that way there's almost no humor targeted towards adults the original songs are uninspired and sickly cute the animation while not bad still doesn't come close to emperor which was no lion king to start with br br the main plot as such is astoundingly minor and is comprised mainly of a sequence of mini plot flashbacks in fact the while thing felt more like a sequence of pilot episodes for a saturday morning cartoon series than a well conceived single entity br br david spade gets about four lines throughout the entire movie and there isn't exactly a lot of john goodman either so overall we're just left with far too much of patrick warburton's who was entertaining as a secondary character in the first movie but is completely inappropriate as the main lead here br br although kids might find it somewhat fun the only thing new groove managed to do for me is make me want to go back and watch the far superior original
0	the emperor's new groove was a great twist for disney it wasn't a musical it had clean fresh jokes and no political twists it was just a darn funny movie br br new groove on the other hand is tired and weak my 3 year old still loves emperor's new groove but fell asleep during there really isn't any really conflict that in the first movie lead to all of the wacky adventures because of the lack of conflict it almost seems like the animators threw out the writers and just made the storyline up as they went along br br i kept waiting for something to happen that would make the movie fun and still am
0	thinking that it could only get better was the worst assumption i ever made br br drivvle does not describe this movie appropriately enough br br not only is the plot thin but i get more emotional acting from my pet fish br br it was a shame to see pete postlethwaite whom i respect as an actor trying to do the best with the little he had to work with br br i think that a cardboard cut out of stephen baldwin would have done a better job and in fact have been more animate br br avoid at all costs this could really be hazardous to your health
0	this is the story of a maniac cop who for some reason has it in for a young college stud and his mates after they report him to his supervisor who in turns suspends him pending psychiatric evaluation he finds an opportunity to psychology torture them when on a bet the kids hack into a department store's security and unlock the door only they get locked in the store along with the weirdo murder and mayhem are afoot and the kids are running around trying to survive until morning when they may be able to escape br br game' would have been a successful cat and mouse psycho thriller probably if it was set in a different location the thought of psychotic cop chasing around a bunch of innocent teenagers in a department store just didn't work especially when he comes face to face with his flinching prey quite frequently and yet does nothing serious quite often there was no real confrontation as would be sufficient for this kind of story and may've worked better if say for example the teens were loose in the neighborhood and left to fend for themselves against this weirdo especially if that took a few days while he makes them increasingly paranoid although granted even that is clichéd br br what a shame too that it could not have been a better thriller considering a funky cast of young australian characters even a light hearted adventure despite the madness of the villain interspersed through the picture might have even made it a more satisfying picture instead it started out fresh and sure did have plenty of action sequences but wound up verging on the ridiculous
0	the basic idea for this movie was good but there was no real character development and the pacing was slow maybe because i saw it in a sloppily edited pan scanned video version it went straight to video in france
0	george sluizer of the vanishing fame he made both the haunting european original and the hollywood remake directed he shouldn't really be blamed for this confused poor movie because all the problems lie in brendan somers script it's ill focused and lazily written for instance the killer hangs around a nightclub waiting to pick up a victim any victim and starts talking to a teenage girl cut to the next scene where she tells the villain i've told you everything about myself tell me about your life unfortunately the girl has told the baddie her life story off screen and is a terrible example of the screenwriter not being able to bring a character to life through dialogue i know for a fact how bloody difficult this is but for a screenplay that is produced the writer should have tried harder br br it's difficult to explain the message of the film at some points it feels like it's trying to be a british natural born killers the media's voyeurism with crime perhaps it even influenced the infamous video game manhunt but the script isn't witty enough to carry this off when you've got a sex scene that doesn't progress the plot or characters or hint of subtext you know you've got a badly written screenplay and is a badly written screenplay
0	a group of tourists are stranded on snake island after an unfortunate accident with their boat they are forced to spend the night and as you probably suspected it isn't called snake island because it's just soooooo much fun to say it has a history of people disappearing one by one because of the large snake population which is just what happens with these poor dumb souls this is a very boring and typical movie with tons of off screen snake attacks and lousy performances from nobody actors the only somewhat entertaining scene was an absolutely unnecessary and forced strip scene which ain't anything couldn't see in a pg13 rated movie folks if you are into snake movies than check out but don't torture yourself with this crap
0	i will not vote this movie as an awful one mainly because i kind of like it i was one of those summer days that i was so lame to do anything and decided do rent a movie in the stupid section of the videostore besides that i didn't slept in the nigh before and the movie got me awake let's just start the autopsy ok the movie haves a strange plot first is isolation there is an expedition they get isolated in an island because there is no gas on the boat something like that there is not a single convincing performance on the actors part so far the main problem starts after the isolation idea the pov of a snake then another then another then snakes that change then false spooks a lot of them and when we believe the movie is going on a good way for a b flick keeping the suspense it fails because after ten or eleven spooks we don't get carried away the one scene that all is the scene when we witness a drunk lesbian show watched by snakes that seem to dance after this it's becoming not a horror adventure but a comedy driven movie the adventure part is discarded also br br for me the problem in a movie is the third act it is the one section that just drives the movie for a already guessed conclusion or if it succeeds we don't noticed it like a ninja smoke in our eyes well snake island haves a bad conclusion it all comes to a the ending with a confront persecution and escape sequence it was predictable in the moment i rented the dam copy the other real problem is concept concept is very important it is the reason you believe in dinosaurs coming to life or a corpse full of stitches that just wants to live the main concept about snakes that want revenge after decades on torture by the human civilization well hmmm just doesen't glues on the wall one thing you will enjoy if you watch it with an opened mind is the more b z sequences naked lesbian girls some amateur camera angles the braindead homage with the grass cutter the black dude doesen't die first and thats all if you want to see snakes black dudes and comedy and you prefer bigger budgets go and see on a br br hasta moviegoers
0	a wide variety of snakes stage an uprising on tourists invading their island due their captain's boat damage the few remaining survivors who aren't caught vulnerable by the snakes will attempt an escape mission their goal to flee to available boats which can get them safely off the island br br presented straight faced with injected doses of visual humor featuring lots of snake gags wayne crawford's snake island features plenty of different breeds of the predators in striking position ready to attack their prey star william katt as an author researching snakes for a forthcoming novel has fun in his role along with writer director co star wayne crawford as the tourist boat captain as put upon heroes who stare down a most serious crisis kate connor is crawford's attractive love interest a lawyer on vacation the other cast members serve as either tourists or crew mostly fodder for the snakes br br as in many other movies of this type director crawford features live snakes with computer generated ones and the violence is really tame crawford even incorporates the point of view technique with the camera as the eyes of the snake as it faces the potential victim with the actor looking directly into the camera never to be taken seriously the tongue in cheek approach was probably the best way to shoot snake island because the premise is just too ridiculous to accept on it's own br br the effects and suspense scenes rarely work because crawford is often unable to successfully stage the sequences where humans face off with the snakes the snake attacks themselves also never happen on screen one or two tops or are so limply presented they leave little impression that's a no no for a genre such as this fans of katt will probably want to check it out because he does provide some facial comedy that establishes the overall tone of certain scenes where he must defend himself against the snakes the cgi scenes where we see a large number of snakes in a general area aren't very effective which remove the realism crawford might've attempted to establish there are plenty of better horror films featuring snakes as the aggressors than snake island surprising moments of nudity relegated to a scene where the tourists and crew unwind after a long day with the bubbly not knowing what danger lie ahead
0	now we know where they got the idea of snakes on a plane to put it bluntly do not pay to see this movie if you really want to waste 90 minutes of your life then either catch it on cable or get it as a free pick from netflix or blockbuster do not pay to rent this if you do pay to rent this then you are one stupid individual the acting was awful the plot was awful everything was awful except for the snakes whether they were real or cgi generated they did look pretty good but that being said still this movie has to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen even the nude dancing scene was pretty bad that i actually fast forwarded through that don't sat i did not warn you
0	i really don't think it's necessary that i write a review on a movie with a title as derisory as snake island but even in the abstract confines of its own genre this hit a new low so my anger must be known the only reason why i even bothered to watch this unbelievably bad movie is because i knew it was going to be bad it was really late at night i could not sleep and in the past really bad movies would drain the energy out of me and make me long for slumber it became very quickly very early on that this movie was going to be awful but it condescended below even those expectations br br the movie was directed and written by wayne crawford who also stars in the movie as a tourist guide on the african river who ends up having to strand his team on a remote island called snake island until another boat comes down to pick them up they hang out get drunk and then become subject to the onslaught of poisonous snakes who are on a mission to purge their island of human beings br br if your jaw dropped at the last sentence of my second paragraph don't bother to reread it you got it right the first time frankly i prefer my creature features when the creature s just attack the dumb humans out of hunger not because they have some kind of a mission these aren't mutant snakes they're not giants like what you see in anaconda they're just ordinary everyday african snakes like and they have the brains to form armies take up causes work together to trap people understand our language and even dance did your draw drop again well it's going to drop further amount midway through this awful b movie about the part where i'd already given up the human characters start drinking around a campfire and then all of a sudden they break down into some kind of an orgy and while they dance nude and such the snakes hunting them all of a sudden stop and start jamming along to it the combination of this scene and the scene where we discover that snakes some the most roguish creatures on the planet have formed an alliance against human beings for some oddball reason proved just too much for my poor brain and just when i though the filmmakers couldn't take it to an even lower level the snakes started to sing br br the people in the movie well let's just say that never before have i rooted for the creatures to kill everybody off so quickly i just could not stand it any longer br br i really don't think i need to keep going on you get the picture if there is anything that makes snake island any different from its other rivals it's that it does dare to try to be even dumber and that's not a complimentary achievement continue to subject myself to these really bad movies i guess i'll never really know but snake island hits a brand new low it's a cheap trashy excuse for a motion picture that makes anaconda a brainless snake movie look as brilliant and sophisticated and thrilling as steven spielberg's jaws you have been warned
0	don't waste your time one of those cool looking boxes that you pick up at blockbuster on a hunch but not even worth that you will not say it's so bad it's good just it's bad the greatest american hero is a writer who rents a cabin on african island called snake island some other tourists are on the boat that drops him off but they are not staying on the island they just stop there to let off the writer then the boat is stranded there and in true hollywood originality the one and only radio on the island is busted so they start walking around and see a bunch of snakes like hundreds of them which really became annoying and you knew the plot would go nowhere it's not like there ever was one main snake like a giant mutated snake or an extra poisonous king of all snakes instead there are just a bunch of ham and egger snakes of all kinds of breeds their only goal then was to escape the island as opposed to having to conquer the enemy because there were so many snakes you knew they couldn't possibly try to kill them all and they didn't try i've seen a similar movie where a town was haunted by snakes and they lead all the snakes into a cave then blew it up at least then you get the feeling that the good guys killed the bad guys and it was a normal ending in snake island by the way every single character was shocked to see snakes on the island it's named snake island for a reason there was no plan other than trying to get gas for the stupid boat oh they never do get gas by the way they just happen to find another boat on the island already gassed up
0	i usually like movies about animals or reptiles turning against the mean old humans who threaten their environment but i have to say snake island was a major letdown br br the premise is interesting a group of people including a writer numbly played by william katt goes to an island called duh you guessed it snake island and what the island lives up to it's name that is one thing i will give this movie there are snakes lots and lots of snakes of all sizes and kinds so that part of the movie in fairness lives up to its name but the writing acting and directing is soooooooo lame it is almost painful to sit through br br the characters are so unlikeable i was begging for the snakes to finish these horrible people off to put us all out of our misery there are a couple of scenes that are so surreal and ridiculous they have be seen to be believed snakes gyrating to really horrible disco music while 2 women dance together and a scene with a snake holding some inane dialogue with one of the actors it's beyond absurd i think the writer was trying to be funny but this just came off like some weird lsd trip br br i remember william katt years ago back when he starred in carrie what a hunk he was not that he was ever a major star but to be reduced to this garbage i feel for him br br avoid this movie like the plague unless you are really into movies that feature lots and lots of snakes and really horrible humans
0	snake island is one of those films that whilst one sits and watches its amazing level of stupidity makes one wish the film camera had never been invented the real reason why plan 9 from outer space will hold onto its honoured title of worst film of all time for a while to come is not so much because of how bad it is it is because of the fact that it is the most entertaining bad film you will ever see snake island is the other kind of bad snake island is just so bad that it is excruciating a stupid premise combines with a script that was written by monkeys tapping one key typewriters onto transparencies that were then overlapped in order to resemble dialogue to make the most obvious problems here filmed entirely on location in south africa the environments in which the film takes place are about the only element that can truthfully be considered well realised many shots involving snakes consist of close ups so surreal in appearance that one begins to wonder whether said snakes are cgi puppets or real snakes that have been fed really hard drugs br br william katt stars if you can call it that as an author traveling to an island resort on what appears to be a river ferry coming along with him is an assortment of very generic poorly defined characters it is all a matter of random screen writing as to who survives to the end but katt certainly appears to be contemplating firing his agent the rest of the cast seem to be from the home and away acting school where any contemplation of an unpleasant plot point is accompanied by open mouthed gaping and darting one's eyes about in every direction the foley effects are often worse with one memorable scene where a double barreled shotgun sounds like the rather flat sound effects that used to accompany gunshots in such games as meanwhile snakes continually explode or jump about at random it would have been more accurate to call the film snake holocaust br br of course no z grade horror or sci fi film is complete these days without gratuitous scenes of nubile women in a state of undress as every woman in the cast almost gets their clothes off the film starts to become less snake island and more snake island orgy but like all the worst piles all there really is in this case is a lot of setup with no real payoff the sex scenes never eventuate and the deaths of characters are so flat so uninteresting that the entire film becomes pointless unless you consider watching william katt running through a muggy forest wearing ill fitting cricket gear and smashing snakes in all directions with a cricket bat a payoff for the record i don't i used to think that anaconda was the worst film ever made about predatory snakes i was so very very wrong at least anaconda had a snake one could be afraid of if they suspended disbelief for quite some time some of the snakes shown killing the human cast are no bigger than the from some pairs of combat boots i have worn br br so we so far have the checklist for bad horror films running along nicely the unrecognisable lame cast are accounted for as are poor audio and visual effects the dialogue is so wretched so ill timed that i have seen better writing and delivery during some of the school plays i have acted in many moons ago unfortunately where snake island falters in this respect is the area fatal to all bad films in essence it forgets to be so bad that it is funny it is so bad that it stops being good after the opening credits and becomes painful the second that the cast start to speak compared to william performance in snake island jon voight's performance in anaconda was as oscar worthy as russell crowe's in gladiator not that voight or katt are necessarily bad actors but with material like this you're hard pressed to say a single word naturally listening to some of the lines here was like being the victim of a violent crime one's mind tends to blank out the experience primary as a self defense mechanism br br because of the aforementioned failure to be entertainingly bad i gave snake island a two out of ten my special score for films that are so bad they cannot possibly be good but not bad enough to entertain it is all just so boring or pointless that one might as well be watching the test pattern the proper way to spell crap is s n a k e i s l a n d
0	i have never fallen asleep whilst watching a movie before br br i did with this one br br avoid at all costs give your time and money to a worthy cause instead
0	i'm not going to lie and say i don't watch the show i do but it has a lot and a lot of flaws 1 the boarding school is perfect the drama is at a minimum everyone is so nice to each other you know lets give that a reality check its impossible that any school is perfect like free for everyone big dorm rooms mini fridges if there was a school like that in real life almost nobody there would be a virgin for one two everyone there is so rich and its weird how nobody has anything stolen yet 2 characters really unrealistic first things first who in they're right minds talk like they do they talk like a perfect teenager would secondly logan reese matthew underwood is an extremely rich boy hot teenage boy my question is why isn't almost ever girl in that school all over him he's rich and hot now a days all those girls would be after him even if he was a jerk also chase is the most stupidest person ever he is this shy teenager who claims to not be in love with zoey and over reacts to everything that involves zoey she must be blind not to see him in love with her br br come on nick i know you can do better than that please
0	zoey 101 is basically about a girl named zoey who transfers into an all boys boarding school during the first year that they integrate girls into it that raw plot line is i'll admit a pretty good idea although this show was meant for children a five year old could probably point out its fatal flaws first zoey is a cliché character her being super popular super attractive super smart and there s nothing wrong with her no girl is like that it feels like the show was put the spotlight on jamie lynn spears and increase her fame dana who appeared at the beginning of the first season is just plain mean however in my opinion she was probably the most realistic character of them all which is sad seeing that dana is never nice nicole is too peppy and acts like a complete airhead but mysteriously gets straight a's lola seems to be able to fool anything with her emmy deserving acting skills quinn is supposed to be super smart and although she is able to create the most unrealistic things she is also made out to be weird and she never gets any guys although she is both beautiful and smart while zoey lola and nicole get guys and they're all beauty and no personality chase and michael are very similar and i even sometimes get them confused logan is unrealistically rich and hands out millions like they're dollars nobody's that rich i've also noticed that every character on the show is mean to that stacy girl who does nothing but act nice to them that's not funny that's mean and it just influences young girls to act mean to totally nice people finally the school itself adds the frosting to the unreal cake by providing the students with 5 star amenities such as a scenic location sushi bar hot lounge equipped with free soda machines pool jacuzzi movie theater and the allowance for boys and girls to freely go into the other dorm rooms at most boarding schools if a boy were to go into a girl's dorm or vice versa they would be expelled br br in conclusion zoey 101 was poorly written and should have spent a few more years in the drafting process
0	zoey 101 is such a stupid show i don't know if that's because the snooty jamie lynn spears is the prissy star of it or what but i just know that the show sucks it's about a girl and her brother who go to a boarding school the jokes in this show are extremely dull and unfunny and i hate every single character except chase and lola heck the jokes on this show are so unfunny that they make jack black look like monty python this show is without a doubt one of the worst shows on nickelodeon it's right down there with avatar and danny phantom in the pit of shame and if this show was a person with any honor it would hang itself in shame br br 1 10
0	this is a children's tv series about a mary sue who is at the same time mean and bitchy i couldn't bring my self to sit through 3 episodes of not to mention that jamie lynn spears can't act to save her life what message does this show bring to kids if you're not perfect like zoey you're unworthy br br it's absurd how character is exactly the type of person who would be despised in real life yet she manages to become so popular then there is chase who is basically a lovesick puppy who worships the ground zoey walks on then there is the fact that all the other characters seem to have been dumbed down in order to stop them from outshining zoey i'm sorry but the characterization in this show extremely unrealistic
0	this was another one of those shows that i watched to root out the positive elements and because i've been a nick fan for years some of those would be the stage sets b plots guest stars and a few of the main actors that were good i dabbled in the show through high school as i quickly grew to despise jamie spears along with the other chicks in the show that can't act the only characters i seemed to like were dustin quinn stacey michael logan quinn is a perfect outcast that eventually started to fit in stacey is a complete oddball dustin gets put through a bunch of strange random situations and michael is kind of the comic relief right hand man of logan there's a remarkable difference between the execution acting quality of the b plots that involve them and the a plots that showcased a bunch of screeching girls and an iconic miss perfect repeating bad lines and obsessing over guys this show would have been great if the main plots contained the quality of the side plots but the main plots just don't deliver anything when it recently came back in reruns and i tried to watch it again i was more calloused towards the girls' abysmal acting and had to change the channel however i will give the previously listed characters credit because they did make the show more or less worth my time
0	i strongly dislike this show i mean like basically everyone at that school is perfect and rich and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school isn't that just a little weird anyways jamie lynn spears cannot act she always has the same facial expression which really annoys me she is basically emotionless and all the guys seem to like her br br and shouldn't chase tell her he likes her its not that hard really none of this show is real life and she isn't a girl like me because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school do not have designer clothes and do not live by the beach br br fake fake fake
0	okay people i have to agree with almost everyone else's reviews here the characters are stupid they're all stereotypical and yet have nice clothes and are always skinny br br don't even get me started on jamie lynn's role as zoey zoey is a pretty popular tan blonde young teen who everyone just loves she has a rebellious great personality that everyone agrees with no matter how dumb or extreme it is most annoying of all her voice is so darn bubbly and obnoxious omg br br take for example the first episode the moment she steps onto the huge campus everyone seems to love her the boys want to ask her out the girls want to be her friend etc thinking she's all that the episode plays out with zoey always being the center of attention she is the so called best player of the unofficial girls basketball team confident and has everyone pity her when she weakly gets hit in the face oh boo hoo br br my favorite character by far is this whole series is a girl that appears much later into the show lauren or something who is the only person ever introduced in the show to hate zoey br br and zoey doesn't even seem to be very loyal to her friends sometimes in one episodes she even calls her friend a freak without ever apologizing and doesn't show the least bit regret in doing so br br zoey is always the best br br desiging professional t shirts and which become a big hit br br coming up with very elaborate schemes by herself to teach a single person a lesson br br flawless grades br br taking the blame for stuff that wasn't even related to her just so everyone else could be happy br br coming up with a commercial that was so good it was put on tv the list goes on and on br br ugh she has no acting talent she's always the perfect person she acts snotty and rebellious and preppy and ugh can't stand her br br not only that but everyone in the show always has great clothes even the nerd her wardrobe is better than mine and mine is pretty freaking decent br br no one cares if everyone at loves you zoey and would do anything for you even if it meant giving their right arm br br but regardless of these cardboard characters the plots are creative not everyday things they're interesting and amusing the humor is usually good natured and fun but the characters are so paper flat that it's hard to enjoy it br br this show would be really good if dan put a bit more time thinking of the type of characters he wanted because they are so typical so boring that's it's lame and stupid br br point no one's the least bit overweight everyone has stylish clothes zoey is the definition of mary sue the story lines are well thought out and the humor is laughable but again i want to emphasize that the characters taint the show watch the show if you must but don't say i didn't warn you if your eyes start to bleed
0	i actually belong to the demographic zoey 101 specifically is trying to target so i can see that as much as it tries to be relatable to people my age the premise is simply too ludicrous for an average person to relate to the show revolves around the wealthiest boarding school in existence and the lovely incredibly tan attractive gang of one sided characters who inhabit it as is the tradition amongst kids networks the cast is an array of skinny white kids with the token black guy of course br br the story lines all revolve around zoey and her gang of friends stumbling upon or creating some sort of minor dilemma such as not wanting to attend gym class resulting in zoey devising a scheme to save the day for all her friends there is generally a b line revolving around either a one sided guest character or placing supporting characters in completely unrealistic situations such as having a hive of wasps in a dorm room and no one noticing these plots often play off stereotypes such as any character who pulls good grades in math must by default completely lack social skills the majority of episodes have the continuous and overused will they won't they chase zoey dynamic br br the characters unfortunately are all incredibly one sided there is zoey the perfect girl with a solution to literally everything chase the constantly lovesick still but rather endearing best friend michael the token black guy kudos to christopher massey for managing some genuinely funny one liners lola the theater chick meaning she dies her hair and 75 of her dialogue is about her dreams of stardom despite the fact that she never does anything in the actual theater logan the womanizing narcissist dustin the spazzy little brother and quinn the science geek the few words i spent on each of these characters sum up each character entirely br br zoey 101 does manage to be entertaining at times but the serious flaws in the system of values it promotes are a major turnoff zoey who is set up as the obvious role model and quasi feminist crusader and who is on the surface portrayed as flawless still manages major character flaws for example when lola was first introduced she was believed to be a goth girl zoey tried to use this as an excuse to kick her out of their shared dorm room for being freaky br br as for the acting it is quite clear that jamie lynn spears landed this role because of her name not because of talent although she has definitely improved as time goes by it is clear she is not a born actress which greatly affects the quality of the show as most of the plot lines revolve around her character the supporting cast is surprisingly good especially considering the material they have to work with they deliver quite a few good one liners for comic relief if the plot hasn't yet ventured into obscurity br br all in all zoey 101 is a flawed view at high school life and anyone past their limited too years shouldn't expect much from it
0	this show sucks it was put on fridays on roller coaster and whilst it undoubtedly destroyed the running theme of friday programming i shall judge it rationally still i think it sucks it really is super lame zoey and her stupid friends are weak characters and the pot sucks and is really lame br br the lame and pot sucks and i reckon the dialogue and joes are weak the weak humour and lame sucky characters suck and the whole show is frankly a disappointment not worth watching it sucks and is really really lame it really has to be one of the lamest shows on tv really not worth watching i mean how lame weak and sucky can a show get before it gets axed
0	really this has to be one of the most stupidest attempts to get people in my age group's attention it's about some preppy girl named and her friends that attends boarding school boring all she ever does is whine and complain and acts like a spoiled idiot i remember this show came out in 2005 i was 13 going on 14 and even then i thought it was pointless the only episode i ever liked was when the boys hid a camera in the girls dorm that's it anyway i just don't understand why nickel oh my bad nick feels the need to syndicate this sorry poor excuse for entertainment serious this decade is becoming a joke every year and it gets worst and worst what's with this generation br br anyway r i p nickelodeon 1979 1998 2005
0	if b movies tired and corny scripts and golf carts dressed up as some sort of futuristic mode of transport are your sort of entertainment you'll probably enjoy this otherwise forget it the topless though completely irrelevant did give a few seconds of amusement
0	blond main character always believes in everyone and when you stick together you can do anything shy guy best friend with curly hair rip off of wants to be a movie director has a secret crush on zoey spanish best friend rip off of miranda weird smart girl quinn rip off of and the popular stock up prep logan rip off of kate and little brother max annoying rip off of matt br br zoey is the semi popular girl with 2 best friends the only thing it's missing is the funny little cartoon lizzie mcguire has and hillary duff was a lot cuter jamie lynn spears looks more like a tooth pick in a tube top
0	i first watched this show hoping for a few laughs good acting and good plot sadly i got none of those things br br first off this show is completely unrealistic how can someone go to a boarding school that's super hip awesome location and barely any rules plus a sushi bar a sushi bar no school has a sushi bar and what's up with the huge ultra cool ultra hip dorm rooms this doesn't happen in boarding schools everyone in this show seems to be perfect zoey looks perfect has the perfect friends never has to do homework and is super popular sounds more like a villain to me i hate how they use so many cliques in this show example dana the skater chick she is completely ignorant and wears edgy clothes the jokes are old sooooo old too i wouldn't watch this show if i were you it's one of the most horrible shows i have ever watched and i hope it gets canceled soon rating 1 10
0	first i want to clear a common misconception it is not unrealistic that the school zoey goes to gives students at my school those in grade 7 and higher must have apple this is payed for in the entrance fee moving on this show is very annoying it has boring predictable plots and bad acting often in the show it brings girl power to a new high with girls beating guys in everything they try but that is not the worst the worst is that girls are nevertheless all portrayed as being focused on their personal appearances and screaming whenever they are happy except for the one smart girl who is portrayed as a freak who is obsessed with ugly boys and science however this show is very addictive i do not know why but it is although the most recent season has been so terrible bringing the stereotypes boring plots and bad acting to extremes i never thought were reachable so i am no longer addicted thankfully
0	imagine this a high school except it's boarding school and the kids don't have parents around oh and it's in malibu and the kids are all thin white and gorgeous with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the weird outcast and there aren't any reasonable rules like how they have co nuclear weapons in their dorms coffee stands a sushi bar and a complimentary laptop per student br br here's the story a girl zoey brooks attends a formerly all boys school absolutely perfect in every possible way she is smart pretty thin athletic creative and everything a perfectionist wants to be almost all the boys in school want her and every girl wants to be her friend she's the one everyone comes to for advice the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan and is just wonderful too bad none of this makes her likable br br are we supposed to believe that if we don't even come close to perfection we're bad people in the show nothing's her fault and if anyone contradicts her they're portrayed as the bad guy logan he may be a jerk but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time br br her loyal group of blind followers are chase the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her michael the token black guy and the only decent actor on the set lola a wannabe actress and anorexic snobby airhead quinn the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff and logan the rich jerk who has a soft side yeah this show basically spews out stereotypes br br what ticks me off though is that they all try to pretend they're normal kids they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can't afford they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis hardly have homework and suntan almost every day wow they have it hard any other problems i'm too good looking rich and stress free i guess zoey 101 what's the 101 for anyway is nick's attempt at trying to portray teens realistically except they caught a glimpse of reality didn't like it and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills br br but hey at least the set's pretty
0	i have seen about five or six episodes of this stupid show and most of them i was forced to watch and i did not like the episodes i saw what happened to dan schneider after giving us such awesome shows like drake and josh why did he decide to create a stupid show like this my problem is not just with dan it is also with the guys who nominated this show for an emmy were they drunk that day or what's the problem drake and josh didn't get nominated for an emmy but it's way better than zoey 101 the makers of this show should be ashamed for the existence of this show let's just hope the pregnancy of you know who will affect the show or better yet it'll cause it to get canceled
0	this television show is stereotypical and far fetched in many of its aspects br br first of all the setting all of the characters attend this unbelievable boarding school with painted stylish dorms the campus seems to have no reasonable rules for instance the boys are often seen in the girls' dormitories and vice versa but this may be simply because the dorm adviser a silly character that basically bores the viewer instead of amusing them as i assume her purpose is supposed to be sits around and does nothing i have friends in boarding schools and they laugh at many aspects of the school in this show br br next the characters i was so disappointed to discover that nickelodeon wasn't creative at all with the personalities in this show they all represent on characteristic which is exaggerated to the extreme zoey is supposedly perfect in everything she does looks grades sports guys judgment creativity etc michael is the jock logan is the arrogant jerk who basically does nothing aside from aggravate all the characters as well as us poor viewers nicole is the preppy idiot who knows nothing but somehow maintains straight a's dana was the tough girl quinn is the unrealistic 'smart kid ' whom they consistently make fun of chase is the guy who is afraid of confessing his 'true which really aggravates me as the show continues and that new girl lola or something is just another clone of nicole br br the main two characters that aggravate me the most are zoey and quinn first of all i just do not understand character she was obviously created to be the 'perfect' character as i said above but she seems to be the most flawed out of all of them in most of the episodes she creates a problem then has to fix it what's frustrating is that we are supposed to love her and think she is amazing when they haven't even created a very realistic character to begin with br br quinn on the other hand bothers me because she is exaggerated to the point at which her character is absolutely insulting the impression i get from nick concerning her character is that 'geeks' and are people to laugh at to criticize to mock in the spring break episode they did a year ago they introduced two more who the characters had to make 'cool ' i found this highly offensive and stereotypical what kind of message is nick sending to these kids is it don't do well in school don't get good grades don't study hard you'll end up being a geek and we will mock your profession in future television series because that is definitely the message i get from these poorly constructed characters and it is an awful message through and through br br all i can do is hope that nick one day realizes that by putting down the intelligent folks in our world they are not doing anyone any good
0	the only time i ever actually laugh while watching this show is when i'm making fun of it jamie lynn spears only got the acting job because of her big sister and i don't think anyone could argue with me on that there is no expression in her face ever even when she smiles just watch the show and you'll see what i mean now let's talk about the show zoey 101 is one of the most unrealistic shows i've ever seen as a lot of people have already said zoey brooks is absolutely perfect everyone loves her she's a straight a student and all the boys think that she's hot is a boarding school full of rich kids that gives all their students flat screen tvs and laptop computers serving kids sushi from the sushi bar in one of the newest episodes zoey is completely clueless and thinks that chase is not in love with her and acts as if she doesn't even want chase to love her then when she into chase's dorm room to prove her friends wrong she finds chase kissing this girl named rebecca zoey of course freaks out probably because she likes the attention from chase anyway only watch this show if you have nothing else to do and the only thing on television is zoey 101 you can at least have fun laughing at how unrealistic it is
0	for any fan of nickelodeon who used to watch the network in the 80s and 90s there was always something good on you had entertaining acts like you can't do that on television you had weird but good shows like pete pete you even had cartoons that taught morals like doug but just like disney nickelodeon has fallen down the tubes limiting their demographic to shallow preteens and giving us poor excuses to come up with new innovative shows as i tried watching zoey 101 i just shook my head in disgust br br the setting couldn't of been more fake than this one each character attends a boarding school called pacific coast academy boasting everything that a spoiled child wants a sushi bar everywhere flat screen tvs in every room cool dorms to hang out etc the kids in this show are rarely seen in class and there doesn't seem to be any real teachers it looks more like a place that you would spend on a nice summer vacation rather than to work and study while preparing for college br br the characters were also a factor that turned me off every episode consists of boy problems situations that they caused themselves and troubles that should be solved each character is a stereotype zoey jamie lynn seems perfect in anything she does and each of her friends ask her for help when they feel they are in grave danger only leading her to have no other side i've been through school and i can tell you nobody is like that chase is dumb logan plays the arrogant tough guy quinn plays a nerd who is highly unrealistic in what she does michael is an idiot lola is a clone of nicole dana is just well a tough person why not use some originality something that is unique for these characters and different from other personalities is being stereotypical the best the creators of this show can come up with instead these actors are dull personalities with the sense in that there is a lack of creativity involving their roles there is nothing here to be amazed or surprised at br br not only that but the show is clearly for the intent of aiming for kids of adolescence facing a stage in that they must evolve from being a child to being an adult through that period they must learn to study on their own make their own decisions and do what's right for them zoey 101 contains nothing of those values in this case we are supposed to believe that looking good and having a stereotypical personality is all you need to succeed i'm sorry but that simply isn't true people can't expect things to be handed to them like the actors in this show are and just let those things sit there if i expect things in zoey 101 to happen in real life then i would be living in a fantasy world locked away in a dream house nothing in this show relates to those who face health and money issues neither does it relate to kids wanting to learn something meaningful br br so in conclusion zoey 101 is a show made by nickelodeon that only falls flat on it's face it displays a horrible message for kids and i highly think the show itself is simply inappropriate for them sure it doesn't have morbid violence but it teaches everything to make a kid act and look stupid a horrible show and should be forgotten with the rest of the garbage nickelodeon has been making in recent years br br 1 out of 10
0	i've seen this programme a few times and the more a see of it the less i like it jamie lynn spears was approached to do this because of the fact that she is britney's sister and i'm sorry to say that that in the show is obvious they've created the character zoey to be everything people want to believe jamie lynn is clever original smart pretty popular etc the characters around her are only there to make her look better by being smarter then them more popular than them more wanted by boys then them there is nothing original about this and it's poured with money so every kid there has the coolest of fashions and stuff i also have to say for a 13 year old girl or however old she is can't be much older she wears very mature clothing those short skirts are too short it makes young people want to wear them and all that make up this adds to the rising problems of why young girls get into so much trouble the only thing i will say is that the opening credits are sung by jamie lynn and given her age isn't bad at all much better than her sister anyway when it comes to vocal ability sorry it's too mature and yet too dumbed down it's poorly acted with predictable story lines and there is far too much stereotyping going on too
0	shopping sunny skies beaches boarding school for rich teenagers and perfectly happy endings welcome to the life of zoey brooks and her friends zoey brooks is portrayed by jamie lynn spears the self proclaimed actress who got her claim to fame by being the younger sister of the international pop star britney spears with her lovely blond wig in the first season and an attempt at hiding her monotonous country accent it's confirmed that nickelodeon has indeed gone to the dogs with nepotism when kristin the actress who portrayed dana cruz in the first season left the show all hope vanquished as she was the only decent actress the female casting is a complete disgrace but the male casting has potential for a teenage media if they continue to pursue jamie lynn spears as the picture of perfection very many people will have to lower their standards with hope they will soon find that you can't make a career out of nothing jamie lynn spears is useless for acting singing and anything else she attempts for that downward spiral she calls a career there is no wondering why she is a self proclaimed actress critics would most definitely proclaim her as something other than that
0	planet earth has suffered a terrible environmental disaster so humanity now survives underground split in to different religious cults what caused the catastrophe i have no idea why is humanity split in to different ecclesiastical factions i have no idea since the surface of the earth can no longer support human life how are the humans able to grow crops in order to feed the population i have no idea what sort of producer thought this screenplay deserved to receive funding i have no idea br br shepherd is one of these films that creeps up late at night on cable channels the sort of film where you consult the to see if it has any merits the number of people who've on shepherd on this page hasn't yet reached double figures and this is a film that was released nine years ago perhaps the people who have never seen it are the lucky ones br br as for the rest of the plot it's very routine grumpy former cop boris dakota whose wife and child died several years previously meets a woman and her child and it's up to him to save their lives almost like a futuristic western throw in a former wrestler who now runs the god channel a fascist christian bloke who's trying to snuff out boris a ventriloquist some t a for the sake of it and you've got a mess of a film i guess after seeing this neil marshall's doomsday is possibly a masterwork of cinema in comparison
0	this show makes me and many others hate their lives let's face it zoey is perfect she's bland pretty gets good grades everyone goes to her for advice she's popular she goes to an amazing school with amazing rooms reasons why i gave this show a 3 1 the acting is horrible sometimes i just want to hurt the people who put these untalented actresses especially victoria justice on television 2 the characters are unbelievable and mismatched you have your typical popular girl a peppy shallow stupid stereotypical girl who is portrayed by a horrible actress then you have a typical jock guy who is somewhat normal and actually nice then the stereotyped smart girl who is a freak and obviously does not fit in with the perfect popular friends of hers then a stuck up rich pretty boy that would be happier gazing into a mirror all day then the wanna be actress who is played by another stinky actress and last a normal nerd person guy 3 the plot is boring and lame 4 i hate how spoiled these characters are can't they just be normal 5 everything ends up perfect for them and we all are reminded of how much our lives stink
0	right where do i start i cannot even imagine to comprehend this preteen pathetic excuse of a show picture this a boarding school where kids whose parents are rolling in money simply chuck them in there so as to jet around the world themselves it could not get any more diabolic than this br br if you taught these kids shall not even upgrade them to the term teenagers because they hardly even act like sane were self centered think again about 23 minutes choked full of their so called problems boy troubles and the like br br the heroine of the show of course zoey played by britney's polly pocket little miss i'm all that sister jamie lynn spears has obviously much to learn about acting however i will give her some face because her superficial one dimensional character does not allow much room for depth she plays pacific coast academy's sun moon and stars crusader fighting for the plight of all women equality of all genders br br perfect in everyway always with her two loyal sidekicks nicole the daffy bimbo who obviously has too much of daddy's cash and tough chick dana who proves a hard nut to crack both left the show in seasons 2 and 1 respectively not that i blame that but horror of horrors in comes lola who deems herself the greatest actress since natalie wood with green feathers in her hair and fake tan she is even more rude than zoey herself if that is even possible and even more dumber than nicole and hell we know that cannot be possible br br this show like all the sorry excuses for television programmes nickelodeon has been spewing out since 2000s is a prime victim of stereotyping get girl next door and dense to her best friend's feelings for her zoey a great albeit inarticulate at times best boy friend chase a cool arrogant ladies man logan a boy and clothes crazy girl who is not very bright nicole the one whom everyone thinks is weird just because she is extremely smart the nerd quinn the over dramatic annoying yet super thin malibu picture perfect model lola and the tough yet soft inside woman dana now where have i heard these characters before i am sorry but what is so wrong with having a personality just because quinn is passionate about science and actually cares about her future and doing well in the academic aspect in which the rest should be concerned about as well she is weird and a nerd lola at the beginning of the series proved to be a potential great character with her sassy ways and different outlook in life zoey just had to go get out your pitchforks burn her at the stake she's going back to weird town and all that jazz so much for womens rights unfortunately lola just became nothing more of another oc clone in all its anorexic glory probably so as to not outshine her mistress br br but hey the 2000 generation of myspace whores seem to love it with the chase zoey typical fairytale romance the tension between adamant hot logan and kick ass zoey or dana whichever to your liking and the pretty people please this show exists to remind us that people do not like realism they prefer a pretentious shallow and vapid lifestyle sorry to break it to you darlings that will not happen unless you have a major trust fund and parents to cushion you
0	when i first watched with my sister we thought it was a piece of garbage no one is that rich and lives at a dorm off the pacific coast in the show zoey is a mega popular rich girl that everyone always go to her for advice zoey is always the one with the good idea and everyone agrees with her no matter how stupid her idea is she is always perfect at everything including her perfect figure and she is such a freak she talks about like she knows what they are when she sees that her friends are eating chocolate she confiscates it and another thing that ticks me off is that she is always chewing a piece of spearmint every time you look at her and everyone wants something do with her for example in one episode that logan guy bid 4 000 to have her and her friends cheer for everything he does in his pathetic life and her friend nicole is an overly perky freak that screams a lot and lola dresses like a hoochie houdini lady 80s called they want there bushy hair back might as well shave off the hair chase this show sends a bad message to kids everywhere to make them think that if they don't have the latest i pods and designer clothes they will hate themselves br br this show is a big thumbs down br br we hate you jamie lynn br br best wishes ryan and kara l
0	this is the absolutely worst show in the history of nickelodeon first of all no boarding school has a sushi bar flat screen tvs and gives every student a laptop this makes the show so unrealistic and boring the plots are pointless and incredibly boring the actors are so bad it makes me want to take my own life i really hate the fact that in the show zoey is the most popular girl in school and the prettiest and smartest and gets the best grades without doing any work she never has any real problems and every guy wants to date her she is so perfect there isn't anyone like that also i hate that everyone would do anything for her and everyone picks her for every team or club it is so annoying quinn is so obnoxious her experiments are pathetic pointless and fake chase is such a wimp he says he loves zoey but if he told her it would ruin their friendship how pathetic michael tries to be funny but he never accomplishes anything nichole is so perky and screams a lot she is never seen doing any work or studying but she is a straight a student lola thinks she is an actress but she sucks excuse my language need i say more i think no for your own good stay away from this show at all costs
0	i have tried to like this show i really have but i can't find a reason why anyone would like it the story lines are weak the acting is weak and unbelievable every cast member seems to have been picked up off the street at random and it seems to me that the whole show is just a vehicle for jamie lynn spears to be able to move on to movies every episode shows zoey as the girl that every girl wants to be her best friend and that every boy wants to date she's always perfect and no one is like that in real life how can people relate to a character that is just a barbie doll jamie lynn's acting is fair but she is not a strong enough actress to have the lead role in a series all the show's fans are just young girls who don't know any better i'm sorry if you think my comments are too harsh but if you can find a meaningful and deep moment in this series that isn't quickly directed to a beach party please accept my opinions and find something worthwhile to watch
0	i was looking forward to watching this movie and it does contain very interesting perspectives from iraqis all over the country not just in major areas br br however as the film went on and as it seemed to become increasingly more one sided i started wondering who had edited the film to get several hundreds of hours down to just 80 minutes obviously decisions had to be made br br i would have really enjoyed a film that showed how everyday iraqis felt on all sides of the issues but with the newspaper headlines in contrast to what people were saying and with everyone in the movie having the same opinion at the end i thought it was obvious that the editing was done with a pre conceived bias br br it could have been such a great film
0	well there's a few things about this movie everyone should see it you see the nation of iraq like you've never seen it covered by the media and shot from a perspective that is hardly considered by most americans where the movie has its main audience however all that glorious stuff in mind lets take a look at a few other facts of the movie there were 150 cameras handed out to the iraqi people most all of which view the war and subjugation of the occupying forces as a growing pain for the bettering of their nation and in comparison to saddam it is simply a feeble scratching at the skin also netflix as its main distributor advertised it before the fun election we just had by sending out a mass e mail to its entire roster to see the film many of the what should be labeled as opinions played out as facts listed off by the interviewed iraqis are wrong if one is to review the red records of abu ghraib tortures it wasn't henchmen who were being tortured it was a fine mix of a 80 90 innocent civilians and 10 20 rightfully detained people never was it disclosed that any of that 10 20 were henchmen or curfew violators in addition the arab world really has never listed as one of their opponents more correctly it is the usa's 6 billion dollars a year to our military bases in saudi arabia and our interest in oil i agree that the media is a complete distortion but this film shows that same distortion i'm afraid that the iraqi people that this film represents have been edited to speak with a yankee voice yes its true that saddam is a puke and that his removal many see for the best its true that some iraqis actually get paid a good wage just as its true that no iraqi people have control of their most prized oil and us corporations do nor does it mention that 20 000 civilians have died due exclusively to us artillery still 15 of the country which once had running water and now does not nor does it mention that from 1993 2003 un sanctions purposed and authored by the usa government killed over 200 000 iraqi civilians nor does it mention that democracy in when people decide the government not a massive war machine that sends the message 'be killed or i am afraid that the cutting room floor must have quite a bit of iraqis that aren't so happy with the occupation just as the vast majority of the world was not for the war in fact the america britian spain and the rest of them are not carriers of democracy they turned their back to it when they saw how full their pockets could be hurray saddam is out of power but i'm afraid that no iraqi is yet in power corporations are in power the media is in power read do your own research and don't let them blindfold you
0	just do a little research on the making of this film something so simple as a google search it was funded by the us army and promoted just in time for the elections it is a great idea but i'd much rather see a documentary not something edited by the bush administration and told its reality the timing of the movie's release its tone and the fact that ms l promoted it raised questions about the intent of the movie according to ms l managing director joe gleason he and his colleagues also deliver key targeted messages about the war in iraq to specific wrote eartha was the left leaning art house crowd one of those is the government hiring documentary filmmakers to the u s population nobody involved with the film is willing to say who initially put up the money for the film or how they ended up represented by the army's pr firm
0	a feminist tract in which if you the viewer believe that i wild animals are seldom tamed by singing but instead attack kill and eat the line that never attack unless provoked was a hoot unless provoked means that it sees flesh ii homosexuality is both immoral per se and its acceptance almost always associated throughout history with signs of a society's dissolution and decay iii few women are bisexual in this one virtually every woman is presented as having no preference for men or women iv divorce is far worse than infidelity v land is there for human beings to use develop and enjoy vi it is as incumbent upon a mother of an adult son to keep in touch as it is upon the son vii a mother raising her son alone is an unfortunate and real tragedy for the child viii the of a parent for worthwhile ideals is a good and healthy thing ix adults continue to bear a responsibility for their sexual behavior no matter their age and the duty to engage in this most intimate and giving of acts only within the most intimate and openly sacrificial of relationships marriage believe me you are not going to like this film essentially it's a howard stern sort of fellow who is brought down by a jane fonda sort of woman think the electric horseman it's ugly stuff because the values the ideals of the screenplay are all so harmful br br i share the other objections about the odd things in the writing a why would this man lose every girlfriend he has because he refuses to reveal that his mother's death and funeral caused him to be unable to keep dates with them it's a mystery why he just keeps saying it was personal when faced with angry and disappointed women huh br br b there's an enormous inconsistency i e the screenwriter wants to have it both ways by telling us that the protagonist's mother loved the father with everything she had and then later we're told that there was only one great love in her life her lesbian girlfriend br br c the underlying legal assumptions are nonsense we're never told that the has any right to live at the property merely that she shall determine the timing of the sole title and right to occupy the property yet somehow the film makes it appear that the is the rightful occupant which is crazy try to think of any of any will who uses the property before the will's are fulfilled it doesn't happen br br d the assumption throughout this film is that women are equally drawn to men and women it's just absurd thus we're told i that penelope ann miller's character is dating other men near the end of the film after having been with the for five years and before that in a fulfilling relationship with the protagonist ii that the protagonist's housekeeper after being devoted throughout her adult life to her kind husband is now dating another woman iii that one girlfriend upset with the protagonist would now therefore like to try a woman br br iv that a male transsexual is eager to date the protagonist v that mary kay place's character naturally looked at other women in college and they looked back she says with an idiotic flip of the head br br this is all just ridiculous br br i agree with others about the sound of the dvd i had to keep it at maximum volume and repeatedly rewind to understand names phrases br br this is a film by someone who really despises traditional heroics by any man hates the notion that a man is needed to raise a child loathes the idea that there is any necessary connection between marriage and sex the film is out to preach and that kind of propaganda of false messages doesn't sit well
0	subject matter worthwhile acting fair some of it plot ridiculous br br details sound goes from high to nearly inaudible music is not altogether awful but mostly is dialog and characterization are laughable the main character's process of discovery is blindingly obvious to everyone but himself and the writer apparently animal scenes are just plain stupid singing moon river in an off key forgotten lyrics silly duet to a herd of wild boars for hours as one example finally the wet t shirt contest is so over the top silly that it has to be seen to be hint the who wins is not a well i'm not giving that away
0	first of all let me start by saying that i have been a devoted follower of c thomas career ever since the outsiders and the hitcher he was an up and coming star in the 1980s with hits such as soul man also the future was bright for this young actor and he had the potential to go on from there and really assert himself in hollywood put it this way tom cruise had a bit part in the outsiders while howell had the lead look at cruise today but picking material like this drivel will only denigrate career even more if that was possible why does he pick stuff like this a small part in a major movie would be of more benefit to him than this rubbish br br essentially the story here takes place in a post apocalyptic world where everybody lives underground where chaos reigns howell is a shepherd protecting the flock of various religious leaders by killing off any undesirables he's a hit man in other words br br the sets are so bad they wouldn't look out of place on a thunderbirds episode the use of slow motion needlessly repeats itself throughout the movie but is well backed up by bad acting and bad is a kind word here no continuity scenes that are thrown in for no reason whatsoever vehicles that looked like they were made from a corn flakes box and a directorial style that bordered on stupidity oh yeah and the storyline was pathetic too br br i hate writing bad reviews about films especially those in which i really like the star but this film is so bad i don't believe for one second that anyone could have been proud of it i am not a filmmaker nor am i a director but i would hide my head in the sand if i'd spent whatever amount of money and time on this movie br br in short this was a monumental waste of time and energy and i would not recommend anyone to ever see this film it came free with a dvd player i bought but i still turned the thing off halfway through because i was embarrassed for howell come on c give yourself some credit and wrestle yourself away from these non hit wonders and try to knuckle down and get a good part however small br br 1 10 and only because there is no setting for 0 10
0	despite the solid performance of penelope ann miller this movie was an awkward mess the lead character's american accent was ridiculous and he never seemed comfortable as a result there was no chemistry between the two actors and i'm still not sure what ann margaret was doing there
0	the sound in this movie is a nightmare that is the best i can say for this movie any chance of a good story is lost once this films starts the premise of the film sounds good a playboy who comes to terms with the people around him the plot is predictable and very dull the wet t shirt contest may be the worst scene i've ever watched and is almost worth watching in a mystery science type of deal the sound is at times hard to hear and the main actor seems to not know how to speak clearly his accent makes him very hard to understand the only bright sport is the acting of penelope ann miller her role is underdeveloped but she plays it well in short do not waste your time
0	mgm tried pairing up and coming young men with the divine one to give them exposure and try them out as leading men gable and garbo had chemistry in susan but it was a lousy film here in inspiration there is no chemistry whatsoever between garbo and robert montgomery and the script is poor as well what were they thinking the modern fast talking wise crack snapping montgomery and the long suffering garbo it is a tale like camille young student falls for woman of the world and is repelled by learning of her past rejects her takes her back rejects her you get the picture garbo is completely believable as a top parisian artist's model and completely at home although bored with her life at the top of society amidst her artistic friends and their loose morals suddenly she is fascinated by this innocent she finally gives up her life for him and sinks into poverty only to be rescued by him and set up in a house of her own ironically he intends to marry and keep her on the side so much for his pure moral ethic of earlier br br the scenes are incredibly dull and boring and nothing much happens only marjorie rambeau as lulu is able to inject life into the proceedings with such lines as unfortunately weak women have strong appetites and odette where is thy sting br br only for garbo fans
0	i had looked forward to viewing this movie it seemed anyone who had seen it loved it i was completely disappointed the acting was so overdone the script seemed like the writer had gathered 25 different scripts from various movies and randomly chose dialogue and pieced them together to form one script br br spoilers was any cliche omitted in this movie there was a hit homosexuality prostitution a serial killer a fire numerous godfather wannabees the main character in love with the prostitute cross dressing torture by the police hannibal style mutilations i could go on and on br br line's like the godfather wannabe to the prostitute br br ben i don't want u to work anymore br br ben kim who would pay the rent if i didn't work br br unrealistic scenes we never saw a single policeman during the serial killer scenes yet when the main character disappeared his father was taken in by the police and tortured for weeks br br the only way i can make sense out of this whole movie is if the version i had scene was severely edited from the original i definitely do not recommend it and would greatly enjoy discussing it further with anyone who would care to do so br br
0	this movie has the feel of a college project over it who wants to do a blair witch project meets saw theme but it isn't successful the cinematography is poor and the acting even more so the characters in my opinion doesn't come off as being credible at all the editing of the film isn't really working as intended either there are a lot of poor effects which i believe are put in there to try and add a horrid effect but to me it just gives me a feeling of indifference br br i would stay away from this movie unless you are a dedicated movie freak who likes to watch different and indie horror movies however i believe this movie is not worth watching for the average person you will get no pleasure out of the poor effects and the handycam feel which this movie on it's viewers
0	the guy mentioned to sue for the 1 5 hours wasted of his life i cant disagree on that one the movie started as some kind of class project cam thing and ended up in a dark room whenever the girls where fully nude there magically appeared light all over i know i dint write the script or having anything to say about it but this one is like a bad remake copy of saw with a bad ending to think of a man who actually wrote this story sick this is really a shocking movie cant say ist horror cause its not its mere the brutality and the violence that made me sick it really is frustrating to watch a movie without ending its like bang in your face the movie is done now you can go home br br cons cam lighting i think is was supposed to overdone sickening br br cons real in your face acting was good in my opinion it sucks you in br br overall the movie is not my taste of movie the wanted us to know that these things happen and the man wrote his own little fantasy if you ever saw the movies saw they all had a moment of comfort in it something to hold on to this one does not maybe its just me that im too soft but this movie made me tremble and the story is real short sick man kills girls slowly but the actors sucked you in this movie every blow every scream you could almost feel it br br and to be honest i was to quick to judge about this one its a terrible movie no its not its an overdone example of reality this is a real as it could get but don't watch this movie if you expect great mystery or a real plot or even some kind of story man gets girls in a dark room and kills em one by one thats really it
0	from reading the back of the box my first thought was that this is probably a knock off of saw 2 i couldn't be further from the truth it seemed to me like they gave somebody with a camera phone and 10 00 and told them to make a movie the plot didn't exist and neither did the acting it was almost as if i was watching a silent film about grass growing it didn't surprise me at all to find out later that the entire film was improvised by the end of this film i had lost the will to live and i may have gotten aids just from viewing this piece of cinematic crap it was about 70 minutes that i could have spent doing something that was less painful like jumping off of a building
0	overambitious and shoddy and at times too darkly lit dark reality's scenario is not even close to being original dark and dank basement kidnapped prisoners fearful survival carey alisha tells her family and friends she will be backpacking across europe she doesn't make it out of town she is grabbed from a rainy sidewalk drugged and awakes chained in a dungeon she eventually realizes she is not alone and upon meeting a few of her fellow captives there is different thoughts on survival her cell mates start dying off one by one can she garner enough strength and courage to see daylight again others in the cast laila rachel oliva eva arthur bullock and jen parker
0	this movie will give me nightmares i will wake up drenched in sweat screaming i didn't make this film please don't blame me i honestly think it would have been more entertaining to watch a fat guy eating lard in his moms basement for a hour or two than to watch this crap i understand money was tight but goddamn what the hell were they thinking there was no thought plot or effort put into this this movie needs a warning please for the love of god don't fund the drama department a the local jc on an other note these are the least likable characters i have ever seen and i have seen movies with hitler in them so lastly take my advice the next time you even think about renting this just pop a few hundred and let the sleep come
0	maybe i saw a cleaned up version but other than a few flashes of breasts i'm not sure what over the top nudity these other commenters are referring to br br all in all not as bad as i was expecting by the previous comments although the end leaves you wondering wtf it was dark but not so much that you couldn't make out the scenes and i think it just added to the creepiness and the terror of the situation br br film quality could have been better but the acting was pretty decent br br all in all a decently creepy and yes brutal movie with a disappointing ending
0	i say flick because this doesn't deserve the appellation movie and certainly not film i regret paying for the rental and although i've never walked out on a movie before this would have been it had i seen it in a theatre a society living underground in the future oooh that's original lots of burning barrel drums unexplained ambient light shining through windows an ungrateful woman and her shock muted son the list goes on and on c thomas howell affects the husky voice of the stereotypical loner you know like eastwood's been done to death he needs special sunglasses to remember his wife and child yet in the flashbacks he's the same age talk about a poor memory i stared incredulously when the little boy abe randomly pushes a code into a door and it opens no tension pithy religious what religion under overtones saddest of all i expected better from roddy piper br br quite possibly the worst movie experience in my life
0	i know if i was a low budget film maker i would probably be checking this page to find out what people are saying about it so i really hope the creators of the movie actually read this i think you should find a way to repay me for the hour and a half of life i just wasted watching this garbage please stop making movies about something you probably fantasize about just stop making movies all together you are one of the reasons it is so hard for indie filmmakers to make it big do the world a favor and get a job a mcdonalds or something so you can do something productive with your life i feel like calling blockbuster to complain that they actually carried this film in their store
0	my girlfriend and i are really into cheesy horror flicks especially ones with lots of unnecessary nudity when we saw the box cover for this movie at blockbuster we thought it would be a perfect movie for the night we began watching it already not expecting it to be great but thought it would at least catch our interest 20 minutes into the movie we realized that the pace would not eventually pick up and that it was an incredibly boring movie we tried to get into it but the plot made very little sense even after reading the back of the dvd box over and over again the film was shot very dark and it was pretty annoying to try to figure out what was going on in each shot each violent scenes were very hard to make out and you never get to actually watch the violence you're expecting this is definitely a film without motive that was shot poorly and very drawn out each scene was about 20 minute of the same thing and i felt i got the point after the first 5 skip this film and re watch another freddy or jason flick and you'll be way more content
0	this movie looked like it was shot with a video phone it had very little plot and unnecessary nudity the movie never really came together or made much sense and for a movie like this of course there were some unnecessary boob shots the director was obviously trying to make the movie subjective and different but it just never gave enough information on what was even really going on even in the end i was left with a mixture of anger and confusion confusion from the lack of plot and anger because i wanted my two dollars back from blockbuster and an 1 5 hours of my life back they should have a payment program for people who accidentally rent this movie
0	the not the best movie in the world that was an understatement i personally didn't like this movie at all not because of the story line not because of the graphic violence and the nudity the nudity didn't really need to be in it it did nothing for the story except maybe the girls were going through a rough time and being naked probably messed them up even more but one of the things in the movie that i hated was that it was sooooo dark you couldn't really make out what was going on i think if it wasn't as dark and you could see where they were then it might not have been so bad all you know that its a basement somewhere you see no house no road the killer in it all you could see was half his face for about 5 seconds i wanna see some stuff in a movie it gets boring after 20 mins of pretty much darkness and all you see occasionally is a flashlight or a wall then you will hear the girl sobbing there was nothing that really stuck out to me that was good about the movie maybe the suspense in the first 10 mins of the film but not the suspense of how the movie is going to end but the suspense of will i get to see anything in this movie but a few naked bodies and various flashing lights but honestly people this was a saw meets blair witch project wannabe both top notch movies and both with the correct lighting to figure out what was going on forget this movie if you can see if your a blind person you might wanna rent it to hear the screams if your into that sort of thing but then again if you are blind your probably not reading this either so anyway bad movie
0	i have to start out by saying that the actresses and actor did a fine job for what they worked with the problem in dark reality is you had a poor director who tried so hard to be innovative and evocative he ended up trashing up the film from start to finish you can tell the film reel quality itself is low but the poor lightning and shaky camera only hurt it further by obscuring what is going on the sound is muffled and often times not understandable i'm sure huston the director would argue this was to induce a state of panic in the audience but he had more than ample material in which to do it having to result to camera and lighting the way he did was a sign of over the top syndrome br br the story is good a basic sadistic female kidnapper story that avoids cliché by keeping the girl's in a state of despair the whole time for good reason billy bob from silence of the lambs treated his victims better than the biggest problem with the story is that dead people constantly harass the lead character in her mind and by the second time they showed up i was fast forwarding as this was attempting to destroy the only decent part of the film br br in the end the way the director pieced it together showing random blurry things and constant barely viewable scenes not because of horror because of the lighting angles and camera ultimately destroyed this film huston was obviously trying too hard and if anything it resembled a bad film school project if you want to see a decent story then it's all right but be warned the film quality is enough for most to turn it off
0	8 days no script that's what the dvd tells you is how the movie was made it's shot in blurry video that's occasionally used to good effect but it's really partially naked women sitting around in a room for most of the running time it is very well acted and this helps a lot but the killer only shows up once in a long time and the girls women sit and mope they don't try to escape or do anything too interesting so the whole thing grinds to a stand still after about 20 minutes would have been a good short maybe even powerful even for eight days they do very little why because they had no script how many movies have been made without scripts not too many i wonder why that is how many great movies have been made from bad scripts not too many why is that working against this major problem the direction tries and does some interesting things but with what is essentially nothing topless girls shot in dark grainy colorless video sitting around will keep some going for a while but not for the short but too long feature length actors again deserve praise if only there was a script br br also the video quality or lack thereof is really low end they try to use it to advantage and at times some shots look they are from miami vice the recent movie that is but that's not intended to compliment miami vice or this failed venture
0	dark reality is a saw like movie that is slightly decrepit while the plot and story are good there is a little too much unnecessary nudity while i feel the film was technically well done the acting was spotty it was just a little too dark for my mood while i was watching it it basically says that there are a lot of missing people out there that will never be found and are perhaps being tortured by sick i feel that some information on the captors and their reasons for being so sick would have helped some it came of as a snuff film just made for the violent content if you like to see women beaten tortured and killed then this is for you if you're looking for something a little and more expressive and reasoned skip this one
0	br br in japan and elsewhere in europe new technology is enabling filmmakers to bypass the closed shop of the hollywood mainstream and avoid ed wood like visible low budget production values to produce compelling films what a shame that in the uk we can find examples such as name of many a video game where brain dead attempts are made to imitate so many films and console games beloved of teens that themselves are cheap of clichés abound like testosterone fuelled check out a bit of the synopsis br br set in futuristic london it tells the story of a team of virtual reality virus exterminators faced against the ultimate internet virus br br go back and read that quote again avoid guffawing and try to find a single original idea in it this should have seemed a tired sad concept in 1993 never mind 2003 ah but there is more the has already caused planes to crash infected the air traffic control centre etc it has been developed by a 'child genius' and manifests itself as a scantily clad athletic jiggling discount lara croft imitator who does a great line in snarling and cod martial arts moves straight out of the playground the living product of adolescent fantasy oh and she is accompanied by 'predator' like sound effects to emphasise her remarkable powers br br the whole thing has a 'futuristic' vision of stunning originality the building filtered with aftereffects to look somewhat green the budget does really show which in this day and age should not on the whole a pointless mess of cheese ham and cliché that roger corman would have left on the cutting room floor in his most shameless desperate moments shame that such an alleged labour of love delivered nine minutes of wasted celluloid br br
0	misguided miscast murky interminable lunacy given the high gloss mgm a budget treatment kate hepburn plays a bride who comes to suspect her rich handsome husband robert taylor is not the dreamboat she married but a psychotic killer mgm's attempt at a hitchcockian thriller is doomed from the start by a turgid muddled ludicrous script and the idiotic casting of hepburn as a jeopardized woman fearing for her life who could ever imagine hepburn afraid of anything louis b mayer forgot to tell vincent minnelli he was directing a thriller not a musical taylor is embarrassing only robert mitchum also cast against type as a good guy retains his dignity in a quiet low keyed performance karl freund's ravishing cinematography creates images of eerie beauty and was wasted on the wrong film end result parnell of the 1940s
0	undercurrent features a top notch cast of wonderful actors who might've been assembled for the perfect drawing room comedy alas they are pretty much wasted on a view' potboiler and a paper thin one at that katharine hepburn is indeed radiant as a tomboy old maid who finally marries but her husband is deeply disturbed and harboring dark family secrets director vincente minnelli has absolutely no idea how to mount this outlandish plot concocted by edward from a story by thelma and the friendly first rate cast including robert taylor robert mitchum and edmund gwenn is left treading in murky waters from
0	okay now this movie is a piece of work it's full of stupid jesus and that would render most human to question whether or not they should be movies at all big names like roddy piper and david carradine draw you in but take it from me this movie sucks the story is incomprehensible and lacking completley in intellegence the sets and costumes come of as a cross five and a bondage flick i'm sure theres porn with better
0	the casting and direction in undercurrent is more insipid than inspired in this noir clunker that fails from the outset to get off the ground robert taylor's wooden style poses a roadblock almost immediately for the highly affected kate hepburn and it's bad chemistry from the outset br br naive and innocent ann hamilton hepburn falls for handsome airplane manufacturer alan taylor and rushes to the altar with him she soon finds out there is a lot she does not know about him as alan becomes more remote she delves further into the murky past and ann soon finds herself living a nightmare instead of the american dream br br undercurrent resembles a few hitchcock plots but vincent minnelli rapidly establishes he is no master of suspense hepburn is no shrinking violet and she is a hard sell for a character more suited to the reticent styles of teresa wright or joan fontaine minnelli never really succeeds in getting kate to defer in desperate fashion to taylor's limited abilities as an actor her attempts come across as silent gish while taylor's wide descent into madness takes on restrained bela lugosi robert mitchum completes the miscasting as the sensitive brother talk about piling on br br cinematographer karl provides some highly stylized noir interiors but minnelli and cast utilize the atmospherics meekly and the tension remains tepid with minnelli far from his forte musicals and hepburn's victim role fitting her like a bad suit undercurrent drowns all involved
0	take a few dark and stormy nights fog coming in from the coast obsession and doubt two brothers who have a mysterious connection based on hatred a suspicious disappearance a shoe in the night silently grinding out a glowing cigarette butt and finally a tremulous heroine who finds herself threatened as much by her own doubts as by one but which one of the men around her sounds like we might have a good 80 minute noir instead under the direction of vincente minnelli and with two a list leads katharine hepburn and robert taylor undercurrent becomes a nearly two hour matinée melodrama a long slog of threatening angst amidst the perfectly groomed and dressed cast when you glance at your watch half way through a movie and with a sinking heart see that you have another hour to go both you and the movie probably have problems br br minnelli in one of his earliest non musical movies doesn't lay on the hothouse approach as heavily as he later was known to do still what is basically a simple story of greed murder and obsession is turned into an endless katharine hepburn vehicle hepburn shows us in carefully lit close ups how to demonstrate fear love anxiety giddiness happiness doubt suspicion and terror robert taylor is more or less along for the ride br br hepburn starts the movie as the tomboyish ann hamilton an energetic young woman in slacks who helps her father with his inventions their housekeeper is determined to get her married when dr hamilton decides to sell an important formula to alan robert taylor it's love at first sight is the smooth handsome dynamic inventor of the distance controller which was vital in the war and which has turned him into a hard charging millionaire manufacturer he's a captain of industry as one of his many washington friends says ann hamilton now ann may still be a bit of the tomboy but her husband shows her how to dress and how to be a successful social hostess for all those congressmen and judges her husband knows she learns fast and eagerly they both are obviously and blissfully in love br br but wait the is about to gnaw ann realizes she knows nothing about her husband's family none of his employees or friends seem inclined to talk about them to her when she learns bit by bit that alan's mother died in the old family home in while seated at the piano or that he has a brother michael who has disappeared alan becomes very quiet and sometimes goes into a rage he always apologizes but wait once more did his mother really play the piano didn't she really die in bed wasn't michael caught taking money from the family firm and alan sent him away all this plays out against the exquisite hotel suites the manicured country home in with the horse stable and the tasteful ranch house by the sea everyone in the movie except employees are dressed to the nines there are exclusive cocktail parties and intimate dinners for twenty even in a black and white movie minnelli can't help but give us dining tables filled with crystal and china tasteful and elegant furniture and lots of gowns br br by the end of the movie when all is finally known when ann on horseback is chased along a high extremely well designed mountain trail by the bad guy on another horse when she is threatened with death by boulder and her pursuer finally meets death by horse it's a relief even robert mitchum who plays michael is unable to bring much tension to the movie what might have been in lesser hands a taut little b movie instead with the a list is just an overwrought melodrama too big for its bones
0	if you enjoy sitting in the dark both literally and figuratively for ninety minutes then this is the movie for you br br a waste of actors resources and audience time ultimately a waste of space don't be tempted by the resume there is nothing of any further substance beyond it the film lacks all of the basics that you might expect from the genre plot character development denouement the cast may perhaps take heart from the knowledge that in this instance their efforts will be entirely forgettable and given time their careers may perhaps improve br br absolute tripe
0	this is by far the worst film i have ever seen it has next to no plot and the plot it does have is very scattered the story line is lacking in both content suspense and subtitles as what would appear to be story line is in russian the set appears to be only one room with various lighting effects and at the moment you think something good is about to happen you are let down by the total lack of acting drama suspense horror gore story line and mythology the directing style has been done to death the fisheye camera it would seem that the only action in this film is within the last 10 15 minutes and the action is made worse by the actors inability to portray the suspense correctly the only interesting thing about this movie was my dog barking at the surround sound
0	val kilmer is almost nowhere in this film lucky for him he plays maybe 30 seconds of screen time and his role is completely irrelevant after seeing the film i couldn't tell you what role he plays in the film ok they suck you in the first hour by immersing you in dark underground tunnels spooky movies filmed in dark underground tunnels easily suck most people in to last the first 30 minutes to an hour then you will begin wondering why am i watching this i remember thinking how easy it must be for a director writer to use dark underground labyrinths to make a film simply film people wandering around in dark tunnels and you have instant suspense but that is where this movie goes no further we all wonder what goes bump in the night but there is nothing out there in the dark in this film but more darkness the story is even worse apparently there is an underlying story to the film that i learned of after watching the film but the film uses such poor dialouge that it never came across clearly during the screening i still don't understand what the writer director meant to say some children trapped underground by a misled sister in russia why are they in our time the same time as the characters are they ghosts br br this was an absolutely horrible film that drew me to write my first imdb review to warn others to avoid it
0	it seems that there is great potential for the story line of this film to be something worth watching the acting was flat and the story lacked depth there was too much reliance on camera work which had some high points i have to agree with the other negative comments i only wish i had read them before buying the dvd the film may be worth watching for free and you are bored to tears before hand there could have been a lot more plot development with why there are homeless in moscow i e post soviet rampant drug usage i e increased heroin trafficking from afghanistan more development of why the resurgence of russian orthodoxy after the fall of the u s s r the archaeologists themselves or even more into the struggle against nihilism
0	this movie is total dreck i love val kilmer and was very surprised earlier this year by felon a good movie the entire dvd box is misleading val kilmer while being billed as one of the main people in this film is in the movie for about 2 minutes even the summary on the back of the dvd is not entirely true this could have been a good movie but the direction was horrible and the plot was about as thin as a sheet of paper usually when a movie is this horrendous you can sit back and laugh at it this film though is so bad and boring i actually fell asleep to it which i never do during a movie avoid at all costs
0	wow where do i begin i rented this movie because it sounded like something i would be interested in watching with a name like val kilmer starring in this film i thought how bad could it be this has got to be the worst film i have ever seen with such a big name attached to it i was wondering why it slipped through the cracks and i never remember hearing anything about it when it first came out it starts out pretty good and is somewhat reminiscent of the intro sequence in the bourne identity but after the initial 30 minutes or so it goes from bad to worse and then it ventures into wtf land if you haven't seen this do yourself a favor and don't rent buy it unless you are a masochist or on a quest to see every val kilmer film out there there are many more titles out there that are more deserving your time this film if you can call it that is a bona fide waste of time i want my 82 minutes back
0	i can't remember the worst film i have watched total waste of actors and audience time if you prefer sitting by your tv and think when will be this film over then this is the right film for you maybe this film is recorded to make people believe that moscow has some mystique past but i must say i have not expect anything else from rade serbedzija but i have expected more from vincent gallo the film lacks a plot character development denouement entire movie is about underground tunnels and how they are mystique i must be fair there is some camera effect but even that is too poor over and over are the same pictures total waste of time
0	while in madrid i was able to see a screener copy of this film wow gallo is amazing in it very unusual performance he gives aside from gallo's genius the film however is a dull a film i have ever seen in my life and at times is so poorly done it borders on laughable i am also a val kilmer fan so he was part of the reason i made such a grand effort to view the film the problem is val is really only in one scene having his name in the cast as the lead is an insult to my intelligence and to the rest of the cast i have only seen stranded of the directors other films both films are far far below average but both contain very interesting vincent gallo performances if you are as much as a gallo fan as i then see this film regardless of how bad it is if you do not like gallo then there is zero left to love
0	i am so disappointed after waiting for 3 years for repeats the dvd of the original masterpiece series darkplace i couldn't wait for this series the first episode just ended and i am appalled everything that was great about darkplace has been erased here pretty much worst introduction canned laughter this takes the original point of it away and just renders it nearly unwatchable one joke about eyes the audience was good the rest i can hardly remember it feels like a poor quality knowing me knowing you i hope this improves as the series goes on otherwise i shall be seriously disappointed back to darkplace br br you are the most compassionate man i ever known and i know god
0	if they had a zero out of 10 i would of entered it everyone involved in this film should be ashamed of themselves taking money from the public i don't know how films like this get released video or pay channel i am disappointed in vincent gallo val kilmer was in it for about 8 minutes so i can't get that mad at him only the person who listed him to be the star in it it is like marlon brando in superman there is no plot except gallo searching and finding his friend in the catacombs why they were searching for the gates of hell only the director knows they should of kept this film in moscow and burned it for fire to keep all the homeless extras warm for the night there is nothing more to say about this film that all the other reviewers have written i wish i could forget this movie it hurts my brain
0	i was hooked in by the premise that the show was about demons from hell and a doorway to hell what i didn't realize was that i would be watching some guys run around tunnels chased by small children who may may not have been demons for the entire movie sure there was some dialogue in between and great underground scenery but the lack of a plot developed characters any twists or development in the story at all was sorely lacking oh and out of interest there were no special effects the entire budget was spent on actors salaries sets and lots of time running around with a camera underground br br the ending was one of the typical lackluster boring endings that makes you say i endured this film of boredom for that if you want to see demons and a doorway to hell i promise you that you would be better off served watching the trailers to the game london which while shorter than this movie at 5 minutes pack more dialogue character development action plot and satisfying conclusions than this br br the second star is for effort but overall a low score for failing to make a movie that stands out and for promising in the tagline much more than what was delivered
0	moscow zero stole my money and i want it back this is a horror movie not thriller not suspense a horror movie yes this movie is a horror horrifyingly bad after many years of lurking here at imdb i am actually moved to set up an account just so i like at least one other reviewer here can warn people do not watch this movie it will steal your soul or at least your desire to live in a world that makes movies this bad or at least an hour and a half of your life if you are not wise enough to hit the fast forward button br br seriously i'd love to hear the director's voice over on an enhanced dvd there's another horrifying thought to see what the hell they were thinking the producers had to assume there were enough suckers out there to fall for the val kilmer name to make this film at least break even in international distribution br br i actually had the misfortune to pick this to watch on movies on demand which provided no subtitles to the russian dialog not that it mattered much straining to hear the russian translate it in your head if you can only to find out how dull it is just adds insult to injury br br i will give this movie a 1 because i cannot give it a lower rating and because it did achieve one remarkable thing it somehow made an almost entirely subterranean movie not feel claustrophobic now that's a dubious achievement br br here's your spoiler and the ending holy mother no pun intended it's like they ran out of money and just decided to stop filming the climax of the film literally happens seconds before the end and is solved by the simplest escape i have ever seen on film exercise your simple escape mechanism too if you find yourself watching this the off button
0	the gates of hell opened up and spit out this film then closed again br br watching this movie makes me appreciate other movies i have seen like all other movies nothing makes sense in this movie br br it would really take too long to mention all the plot problems in fact except as a warning it really isn't worth wasting some of the nearly infinite space available on the internet writing about this film br br from now on i will check imdb before watching any film br br hot darn imdb is forcing me to write more about this film i guess i should warn you about edison force while i am at it but if you had to chose between the two pick edison force
0	the gate to hell has opened up under moscow a priest played by vincent gallo goes to the city to find a friend who has gone missing in the tunnels under the city in an attempt to find the gateway wandering around underground he and his colleagues have to deal with the tunnels inhabitants both human and demonic good idea with a good cast of second tier actors goes nowhere much like the tunnels that are its setting i've watched this twice now and i still have no idea why this is suppose to be scary when not a heck of a lot happens other then people talk about the evil and we see shadow forms nothing is clear and honestly i didn't see the point of it all other than provide a pay check for those involved second billed val kilmer is in a couple of fleeting scenes that don't amount to much other than to allow him to be billed as in the film the idea is really good the performances are fine the script goes nowhere take the advice of several of the characters in the film and don't cross the river to see this
0	this line is a good summary of this movie if you have read it and watched 20 minutes of the movie you will know exactly how the rest of the movie is going to behave some researcher named pronounced are searching for hell in the underworld of moscow however he seems to have disappeared and his friend oven follows with a team to search after him could they have find a more boring plot some bad actors looking after an old man in the underground the acting is very bad the romance really feels pointless and untrue often there is no good reason for the way the characters are acting nothing is scary and most of all there's not happening anything interesting in the whole entire movie they just walk asking some gang leaders and other guys about the way walk some more complain some finds the old man and then they run and finally finds the way out of the underground br br the only thing that provides me from giving this movie the lowest of all ratings is the atmosphere if you just want to see a movie for that this may be a good choice it's dark and it's mystical and murky however the rest of the movie is really dull you just sit there all the time waiting for the movie to begin or something to happening it's actually happening some things but they are not very well performed for example i didn't really notice when one of the characters disappeared and i swear i wasn't sleeping or something and i don't understand what's dangerous with these children they just run around in the underground together scratching it walls with sticks i suppose it is meant to be scary in some way br br just watch this movie if you are in immediate need of some murky atmospheres
0	i suffered the watching of this movie at festival last month if there would be a possibility of a movie to avoid its existence this should be the first in the list maría isn't a director she is just a dumb woman that pretends that holding a camera with the hand and shout action makes her a professional film maker what a mistake the movie itself is pointless and a total waste of good actors that could be doing something better in another project val kilmer does nothing but place his face in front of the camera his character don't have specific weight in the movie the same thing can tell about joss ackland vincent gallo or joaquim de almeida it's a shame the way rade serbedzija's character has been written warning spoilers br br he spends most of the time alone in the tunnels talking with himself in the way now i'm doing this now i'm low of bats i'll search in my bag now i'm turning left now i'm turning right only to bring the audience a clear idea about his actions it's simply nonsense and proves the lack of talent of the director end of spoilers br br the usual joke about this piece of garbage among the audience was that the title of the movie itself brought the clue about the rating everyone should give it zero
0	i never made any comment here on imdb but as i saw this movie i cant be quiet i just set up my account here only because this horrible movie in two words this movie is pure crap the movie has no sense at all nothing makes sense in this movie watching this movie was pain all the way i don't understand why val kilmer agreed to do this movie he plays a minor role as a gang leader says few words and he is there like 5 minutes total br br i bought this dvd based only because of val kilmer name on the box and the interesting pictures on the cover br br as was stated in other review moscow zero stole my money and i want it back the title of the movie itself brought the clue about the rating everyone should give it zero
0	this may not be the worst movie ever made but it is absolutely the most boring wonder why it is shot mostly in the dark and mostly with vincent gallo walking away from the camera or looking down because he doesn't want to show his face for actually agreeing to being in this movie i liked his early stuff but the pretentiousness of the brown bunny and then being cast in this drivel knocked him down a peg in my book and val kilmer i actually want to send him a sympathy card the doors to this actually the casting was the only reason i watched this movie and val doesn't even show up until the movie is more than halfway over simply a sad movie
0	there are good movies and there are bad movies and then there's moscow zero a film so utterly bad it makes spending a month in solitary with an insurance salesman an attractive entertainment alternative br br with an incomprehensible plot about the gates of hell opening within a labyrinth of tunnels under moscow the film is a mess of repetitive and nonsensical shots of a little girl running through tunnels red lights floating about and strange wall shadows none of which serves to mount any fear or tension but instead elicits the reaction of here they go again with the girl or lights from the viewer br br directed by maría who for reasons i can only conclude as shame was billed as luna the movie stars vince gallo as owen an american priest who travels to moscow in search of sergei rade serbedzija a friend and colleague who has gone missing in the tunnels he enlists the help of a series of locals who with the exception of are all portrayed by spanish actors trying with limited success to russian accents br br along the way they cross paths with members of some sort of underground leather coated religious mafia headed by a portly val kilmer whose career seems to be in such free fall that he's resorted to appearing in dreck like this and henchman sage stallone sly's son who seems to have been cast merely so the stallone name can be included in the film's marquee br br apart from watching the troupe try to navigate their way through the tunnels with the aid of a comically drawn map and repetitive shots of them being followed or eluded by a pale faced young girl not much else goes on throughout dialogue routinely switches between english and russian with actors frequently taking turns in each language and entire conversations are uttered half in one and half in the other with the only apparent reason being they felt like it adding a frustrating dimension for the viewer over and above trying to figure out the crazily cobbled together story br br about the only thing moscow zero gets right however is its title which could only have rendered a more accurate description of this movie if the word moscow had been omitted
0	some spoilers a soap has some wonderful moments to recommend it when charlotte and veronica get close to intimacy is a beautiful low key truly erotic scene i also loved the music score and the soft muted cinematography i'm not clear if the curious stop and start structure of the film comes from it being digested originally in serialized form the announcer describing the action in sections is quite annoying my biggest problem with this film is its rather absurd depiction of a and her life of course she has to be shown as a what else scatterbrained impractical absurdly frilly girly completely hopeless when it comes to dressing and incapable of making any interpersonal attachments in the world moreover she's always shown with two days growth of beard for some bizarre reason as if to emphasize how tawdry her life is and she's waiting to get gender surgery when she seemingly has done nothing else to forward her transitioning in truth the character resembles a drag queen not someone in the midst of transitioning br br these are typical fantasies of people from the outside who really aren't connected to the film's of surgery is a way of people who are going through transition not impressed with this aspect of the film in the least at the very least why not have the character played by someone who really is i thought the male actor portraying veronica was okay but no better than that much better was the woman portraying charlotte a very complex character full of energy self loathing desire and contradictions if she was so fascinated by someone with female energy a charlotte could go out to a women's bar in two seconds and find it yes she was drawn to veronica but more as an abstract idea of someone with male female characteristics a gentle touch but with a good punch not as a unique person yes what a soap says about love is often lovely and moving but that doesn't mean an already stereotyped minority has to be stereotyped some more in the process br br this film also proves that danes are lousy dancers for such a promising premise better executed in a film like different for girls the final film is a letdown
0	sit in your basement with the light out for an hour and a half that's about the same as watching this subterranean search for the devil's door an american researcher owen vincent gallo travels to moscow and gathers a rescue team to search for his friend sergei rade an archaeologist who has disappeared in the catacombs beneath russia's capital city they will be shocked to discover subterranean dwellers thriving in the dank and dark complex system of caves and tunnels the searchers will come upon the gatekeeper of hell val kilmer and will strike a deal to continue their venture only to succeed in being scared almost witless when realizing they are among walking dead also in the cast joaquin de sage stallone joss ackland and julio
0	after watching this film i decided that it was so awful that i must join imdb and write a review to warn other people of the pit falls of renting buying this film to be fair to the film there is only one good section to this film and that is the end credits cause then you know that this crap is well and truly over i watched it to the end in the hope that i may get a little bit of pleasure out of the film just tunnels more tunnels and an old man talking to himself if you watch this film too many time so will you as for val if he keeps selecting films like this he may as well kiss goodbye to his acting career there is no point in even writing about what is in the film as that has already been done keep your money and sanity and keep well clear
0	in moscow the priest owen vincent gallo hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend sergei rade serbedzija that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city br br i bought this dvd based on the name of val kilmer and the interesting pictures on the cover i am totally disappointed since this film is one of the worst movies i have ever seen i do not understand how val kilmer accepted to participate in this production there are two shameful reviews in imdb promoting this movie and they are typically fake written by users with only one review in this site there are two possible ways to see this boring and awful film my wife and i many times because of the monotony of this pointless story and we used the rewind button of the dvd to repeat each lost scene however the correct way should have been the use of the fast forward or the stop button to end this crap faster my vote is one br br title brazil dark city
0	the plot in this movie is very thin and there is not much acting val kilmer i don't know why he agreed to do this movie plays a minor role as a gang leader in short the movie is tedious to watch br br one guy who sort of resembles an archeology religion professor is exploring a subterranean area of moscow that has some history connected to railway construction and the bolshevik revolution a church tragedy in that history makes the exploration spiritual and spirits of a malevolent intent haunt the underground ruins a friend of the professor decides to find his friend in the underground and hires a couple of russian guides the entire movie is based on this plot and contains much repeated footage of the underground and some camera effects much like those seen in day watch night watch etc
0	i like 50s sci fi movies a lot i like the really good ones such as the day the earth stood still when worlds collide invasion of the body snatchers and many others and sometimes the really bad ones because they can be really funny and great to watch with friends such as plan 9 from outer space however when a sci fi movie is bad but not bad enough to be fun it really should be avoided this movie is just such a film the posters make it appear as some sort of sexy she beast is attacking mankind whereas the real plot is a lot less interesting a woman is married to a womanizer she is contaminated and begins to grow to a huge size and decides to track down this worm and kick his tail and that's about it also many of the special effects really stink especially the gigantic papier mache hand that comes into the room to grab the wicked hubby
0	a woman as rich as she is insecure has a history of alcoholism and nervous breakdowns helped no doubt by a smooth talking gigolo husband who openly cheats on her naturally nobody believes her when she claims to have been accosted by a giant man who stepped out of a giant satellite much to the delight of her husband this could be the incident which finally puts her away for good br br from the very opening scenes with it's ludicrous news broadcast and ridiculous satellite encounter you'll probably be convinced that the only redeeming value of this movie is that it is so bad that it is funny although not too far off the mark this is most definitely not true br br unlike most movies of this genre this is not really a sci fi or a horror film but actually a serious drama which intelligently incorporates a sci fi scenario into the plot it's not a good or even mediocre drama but it will exceed your expectations if you weren't expecting any legitimate drama at all the acting is surprisingly good for such a low budget effort and most importantly it is well edited and excellently paced it is never boring and manages to generate more than a little interest in seeing what will come next nevertheless this is still a movie strictly for those who can't pass up the chance to see a 1950s film with a title like attack of the 50 foot woman
0	i’d been interested in watching this ever since it was cited as the worst film ever on an entry devoted to 1950s sci fi cinema in a british periodical from the early 1980s entitled “the incidentally the leonard maltin film guide also awarded this the unenviable bomb rating when it came out on dvd last year i became interested in purchasing the camp box set in which it was included along with queen of outer space 1958 and the giant behemoth 1959 however since recently acquiring queen on dvd r i had put paid to the idea br br happily i’ve just stumbled upon the film on divx – however the print wasn’t culled from the warners dvd which is said to boast a surprisingly pleasant looking transfer but rather a muddy tv not so much that the detail is lost in other words it was like watching the film in sepia as opposed to black and white anyway to get to the matter at hand i have to admit that in a way i was disappointed the film didn’t prove to be the laugh fest i had anticipated all this time maltin calls it actually i found it quite engaging – and thankfully brief at a little over an hour in length some undeniably amusing bits remain though – such as when the old nurse starts screaming her head off at the sight of the 50 foot woman and when the deputy almost runs over his chief and the leading butler in his enthusiasm to be of assistance in such an unusual case neither did the special effects hit me as being the maltin again on film – though certainly embarrassingly bad br br o k so the idea that an alien in giant sized human form clad in cave man rags and radioactive to boot coming to earth in a big ball shaped spaceship and apparently after the prized necklace is utter nonsense – and his quasi transparent appearance does it no favors at really it’s the human story that holds our attention relatively speaking the character of the philandering husband isn’t very interesting but his two women are wealthy but nagging alcoholic wife allison hayes and ambitious girlfriend yvette vickers also involved in the narrative are faithful servant already mentioned a couple of cops one of them as noted elsewhere being amiably goofy and as many doctors one of whom is named dr cushing and another a specialist who’s called in when hayes starts growing in size after being exposed to radiation br br of course the film could be seen as the reversed female version of the incredible shrinking man 1957 – though it be fair to compare the two further as the jack arnold richard matheson classic is far more psychological intellectual in approach actually hayes doesn’t seem to be that bothered with her and in fact takes advantage of it in order to teach her husband a lesson however her rampage – exaggerated in movie posters of the era – is rather quaint especially when considering that it only occurs in the last ten minutes or so when not shown the damage caused by her enormous but highly unconvincing hand especially when lifting the puppet that’s supposed to be her husband she’s mostly seen walking in long shot and almost from behind with her size even inconsistent in proportion to the buildings she passes by still demise via electrocution when she bumps into an electrical cable is competently done br br finally i followed this with its 1993 tv remake with daryl hannah as the titular creature – which i rented specifically for this purpose
0	i saw this movie because it had a giant person and was labeled as a monster movie i do not understand why it is called a monster movie the movie is a drama i was expecting a lot of destruction but what did i get most of the movie was relationship problems and people thinking that a woman was a loony because she saw a spaceship crash with a giant inside for an unexplained reason the action started a few minutes toward the end since the woman was killed isn't that murder couldn't they have done anything else besides murder her if you watch this because you expect it to have action because it is labeled as a monster movie don't watch it it is not a monster movie it is a drama
0	this is the kind of movie that begs to be shown on tv at 3 or 4 in the morning if at all br br no doubt the film makers responsible for attack of the 50 foot woman thought they were making a pertinent statement about women and philandering and the dangers of the demon rum all wrapped up in a sci fi allegory br br or maybe it was a tax write off br br either way attack proves best for the viewer under the following circumstances a extreme intoxication b seen on a double bill with any of those jacqueline suzanne movies maybe once is not enough or c just a night when you feel insecure and the world around you is a little too perfect pop in attack and you'll feel great guaranteed br br it's good for a laugh at the expense of the hokey script the rubbery special fx and that four eyed sheriff and i think the last line should be engraved in a monument somewhere in washington d c it's just that memorable br br four stars for attack of the 50 foot woman buy a copy mail it to gloria steinem she'll love you for it
0	this is a fair movie good for one off viewing the plot itself is fairly well worked for a picture of this kind which is a pleasent surprise as is the acting which although a little hammy is better than normal for these types of flick br br the 'special effects' are hilarious a translucent giant and a blatantly polystyrene papier mache hand wobbling unconvincingly on a bit of wire br br definitely to watch once for kitsch entertainment value br br 5 10
0	i know that trey parker and matt stone really hate celebrities and spoof them in every single episode of south park if not showing them then mentioning them and they love to mock and joke and make fun of themselves too but i felt this mockumentary went too far br br for one thing the most common running theme in the documentary is that they're episodes are meaningless pieces of crap they put out just for the money obviously that's completely untrue if you even bother to watch any episode and the constant you know i learned something today 's said at the end of almost every episode by the main characters the creators are also depicted as pompous arrogant asses who only care about money including a supposed to be funny but isn't scene involving isaac hayes delivering lines for chef over the phone and trey parker yelling and screaming at him for sucking and hanging up i guess it's supposed to be funny but the pretension in it just really made it cringe br br the way they interview employees working for trey and matt shows the duo as tyrants who push their employees to the limit all just for money in the end completely untrue obviously and all a joke but it's just not funny it's disturbing even though it's just a joke
0	this film which i rented under the title black voodoo should be avoided i was expecting a blaxploitation horror flick but what i got was a very dull standard ghost extracts in this case the ghost was that of a religious cult leader who tried to refuse treatment but who's plea was ignored and he died in an operation the result his spirit nurse sherry and forces her to commit acts of murder the only voodoo connection was to one of the three black characters in this case a blinded ex football player who's mom practiced voodoo the film is very slow and very dull there is a very standard ending that provides on excitement followed by a horrificly stupid ending warning spoiler br br in which a woman actually manages to defend herself against murder charges by saying she was possessed this movie is slow and bad in a non funny just stupefying way avoid it at all costs
0	br br the amplified dispassionate female voice could have been leona in heat but no it belongs to allison hayes as nancy archer the 50 foot woman of the title in the most infamous role of her film career allison's performance literally rips off the roof in fact make that a couple of roofs br br jaw droppingly tacky is the tale of nancy a neurotic boozy heiress and her loveless lothario husband harry william hudson who also co starred opposite the amazing colossal man nancy has a close encounter of the third kind in the desert with a bald giant from outer space who wears a mini skirt and gladiator sandals and who has a thing for nancy's jewelry what he does to her once he's carried her off is probably best left a mystery but soon nancy starts to grow br br treading into the center of town on tranquilizers tightly wrapped in nothing but the bed sheets the buxom heads toward the low rent saloon where harry is having a few laughs with a floozy named honey yvette vickers the confrontation turns ugly br br the poverty row f x make the alien giant and nancy appear to be transparent due to incompetently transposed images you'll understand why director nathan changed his name to nathan on the credits was no stranger to directing giant creatures human and non having also directed the deadly mantis the 7th voyage of sinbad jack the giant killer plus several episodes of tv's world of giants and land of the giants br br a lot of laughs for all the wrong reasons
0	i know a lot of people like this show and i apologise to people who think this show is awesome but it is the worst show ever created sure i'm sure i would be a big fan of this show if jeremy clarkson wasn't on it i mean i think that testing out cars and doing things like seeing whether a car can beat a aeroplane is awesome but jeremy clarkson is just pathetic here are the reasons i hate this man he thinks it's cool to trick speed cameras that measure your average speed by taking measuring your distance and time by driving down the road and then resting for two hours he clearly thinks that he is better than richard hammond and james may he's got my best friend saying pathetic things he screams at kids just for taking a picture of him i'm sorry top gear but jeremy clarkson is a freak
0	the films of the science fiction channel sci fi channel have become boringly predictable the seem low on budget originality and plot br br in this creation the government is out to get a bunch of and recruits a poor soul by devious means to help there is plenty of over worked recycled twists on evil government organization theme black coats shadows short meaningless lines make these one dimensional cartoons br br daniel kim stands out as a good actor in a small role he brings a bit of the style of his angel character to the role it is hard to miss the link that his crusade character was a telepath and this is a film on was this a sci fi casting move to try and draw fans from the other show who knows thankfully he is a decent actor and a pleasure to watch br br the movie is definitely low budget it reflects the sci fi channels current model of canadian location few well known characters few effects and woefully terrible plot and character development one would think they believe science fiction fans will view anything labeled scifi br br if you want a good telekinesis movie check out the fury 1978
0	if it weren't for the editing out of curse words and a superimposed blur when one character give another the finger it would be easy to mistake this low budget snoozer for a sci fi channel pilot the plot about the government's attempts to destroy a group of it originally trained as military weapons ends ambiguously enough with the hero himself gifted in pursuit of a telekinetic survivor bent on revenge alas the movie is talky boring predictable and even devoid of interesting special effects top billed louis gossett jr has a minor role as the evil government bureaucrat who originated the program and now wants to eliminate all traces he walks through the part and it is hard to understand why he bothered other members of the cast do a decent job with a script that demands little
0	this movie is the very worst that i have ever seen you might think that you have seen some bad movies in your time but if you haven't seen this one you don't know how terrible a movie can be but wait there's worse news the studio will soon this masterpiece i'm being ironic for all to see the only things worse than the plot of this movie are the effects the acting the direction and the production bill rebane the poor man's ed wood not that there is a rich man's ed wood i like ed wood's movies though manages to keep things moving at a snail's pace throughout this film it opens with the capture of a baby bigfoot a sorry couldn't help it by a pair of unlikable hunters who are killed by the parent this causes the entire town where the hunters lived to go on a bigfoot hunting jihad this is pretty much it for the plot nothing even remotely interesting happens and we the viewers are never able to care about any of the characters if one is interested in the films of rebane i would recommend almost any other over this however as i said it will soon be rereleased by troma in order to bore a new generation of filmgoers
0	this movie is in all likelihood the worst film ever made it is certainly the worst that i've ever seen and i have seen a lot of bad movies br br in this nothing at all interesting happens throughout the movie one could literally start the movie take a short nap and then wake up secure in the knowledge that nothing interesting has happened while you are sleeping and i have seen this movie three times staying awake throughout i feel i should be congratulated br br the movie goes as one might expect according to a formula with no variation hunters capture baby bigfoot get killed by parent and the nearby town goes into a bigfoot killing frenzy this is surprisingly boring for a troma release br br so please do yourself a favor and skip this movie if you have to see it you will understand why
0	the capture of bigfoot is one of the silliest and worst movies of all time i love sasquatch and bigfoot movies but this one is just a sheer waste of one's time terrible terrible terrible i watched this movie last night and it was all i could do to finish watching i understood that this weird crazy man wanted to capture bigfoot but that was the only thing that made sense in this movie it did have some amusing parts though there was this very cheesy and corny disco club with very bad disco dancing that seemed to go on for far too long in the movie i think the director was trying to fill time the worst thing was the way the bigfoot looked the obvious man in a suit looked like a pink faux fur bigfoot it was laughable if you want to see a very bad bigfoot movie then i suggest that you purchase this movie personally i wasted my time and my money on this one
0	bill rebane's the capture of bigfoot is one of the most awful horror movies ever made a greedy owner harvey olsen richard kennedy decides that he wants bigfoot captured at all costs however local game ranger dave garrett stafford morgan learns that the bigfoot used to live in peace upset by a geological expedition and sets out to protect the creature there is nothing even remotely interesting in this piece of crap the film is extremely dull and filled with horrible songs and cheap special effects no gore no suspense just gigantic boredom avoid this horrible junk like the plague
0	its a sin how these things are made but then again we wouldn't get to see the best dummy scene ever filmed ahhh the beauty of low budget bigfoot flicks you lean to see the beauty the more you watch them thats if your brain doesn't melt first as i said before this has the best dummy scene ever words cant express it you have to see it for yourself wonderful lines such as smells like flesh human you will know this one when you see it the creature makes a blah blah sound and the scene where the baby gets shot will make you cry with laughter you will be rewinding it has a car chase chase a bigfoot folk song as well as a disco song it dosn't end there while watching the credits a friend noticed wardrobe provided by k mart you ask how could you even get as far as the credits and then watch them i could only explain this as a sort of shock to the brain you are so mentally exhausted you cant move and also i guess you have to know who was behind the mess all that being said this is a must see especially if you want to punish yourself mentally its a keeper
0	zero stars out of br br endless descent has absolutely no redeeming values whether it's the ridiculously bad acting the laughably awful special effects the incompetent direction the stupid script or the gratingly annoying musical score it's the kind of pitiful production that makes me wonder how a movie like this could even have the slightest consideration for being greenlighted by a studio in the first place br br i don't think i'm going to delve into the plot other than to say it's about a bunch of people who are trapped under the water and have to kill a lot of fake looking creatures br br let me go more into detail as to what is so awful about this flick first of all the acting is simply horrendous jack scalia is ten times worse than sylvester stallone a feat that is hard enough to accomplish as it is the supporting performances aren't really any better and what is with actor luis lorenzo the guy who plays the cook francisco he has a high pitched voice and an accent that sounds appropriate for a comedy not a sci fi horror film br br the special effects are even worse the creatures range from weird looking eels to giant starfish and the effects look like something you would see in a muppet movie and i don't believe i need to delve further in this issue br br director j p simon has slight cult status because of all the terrible films he's made i'm sure some will enjoy endless descent in an ed wood type of way but i don't even think it's that good everything he does is shoddy especially the camerawork the man cannot direct a movie that's all there is to it br br this was the last of four films that took place underwater and it sure does make leviathan and deep star six both bad films in their own right start to look masterful in comparison either way just stick with the abyss
0	if you take the films mad max beyond thunderdome and the movie steel dawn with patrick swayze you will have a pretty good idea what the film is about the only problems is that the film lacks the production values of either and represent mainly cheap copy of the former two true the film has plenty of action but asks the viewer to suspend belief no one can shoot a 50 caliber machine gun by holding it in his hand and miss everything to boot nor can you shoot at a group of people with an automatic weapon and miss the whole bunch there is also a problem with poor editing when the school bus flips over it is easy enough to see the cannon used to do the job and the lady driving the truck through it is superfluous since she had more than enough time to stop the truck if you are interested only in mindless action and violence then the movie is easy enough to watch but don't expect anything on paar with thunderdome or even the somewhat cheap and tacky steel dawn
0	an awful b movie at best with video quality similar to dead alive i challenge anyone who is a aliens james cameron 1986 movie fan to count how many times either lines or almost entire sequences were ripped off from the first two alien movies to make this classic piece of garbage br br cast members such as r lee ermey and ray wise were the only two actors with any talent and the lead jack scalia was really absolutely horrible i think they cast him for his massive chin i was also annoyed with the stereotyping of the only black male on the set john bey who must look at this movie and just wonder look him up sometime as he has done a lot of interesting movies br br but on this movie the script as i said earlier was a rip off of aliens tweaked and turned into a submarine thriller it included such lines as i got a bad feeling about this and kill me as one crew member is infected by one of the mutants and his belly starts doing the alien hop just before it pops out of his stomach there is also a rip off of the classic get some via bill paxton we also have a bunch of navy grunts running through caves with creepy popping out of walls even the explosions of the mutated creatures is very similar to the popping of aliens as they charge marines in the movie aliens and the kicker is that some of the mutants spit acid as opposed to having acid for blood there are many more major examples so if you want to see this script done well watch the first two classics alien and aliens with sigourney weaver you'll have a more enjoyable time br br the plot could have been interesting and done better if not for confusing sequences in the start of the movie and generally poor editing camera shots were pretty dull and honestly it wasn't very hard to stop watching it and walk around the room to get a snack or check email many of the interactions between characters made little or no sense and went nowhere more often than not the whole command structure between crew and capt was poorly done i'm not even sure if there are captains in the military that have full control over nuclear subs in general this just shows that there was little research done for background information to make the movie seem at least a little respectable and there are many other similar examples like dive depth etc br br if you like horrible movies or are a big fan of alien and aliens and want something to just laugh and shake your head at then this movie may be for you as for me this one is going back on the shelf permanently
0	it's difficult to find anything worth of praise with this movie it's not the worst picture ever made but that's not saying a whole lot the plot is quite incoherent and unbelievable it seems that the producers wanted to make a space movie but decided to make it underwater to cash in at the success of the abyss in some scenes it seems as if the story indeed was set to outer space initially the sub has a landing gear the technicians are worried of a rip in a rubber diving suit at the depths of several kilometers where the pressure would crush the diver and the suit like an empty beer can br br the movie starts out okay with planning of a recovery of a lost naval sub after that the movie takes a plunge along with the siren 2 br br effects are so so the screens are all done on commodore 64 remember this is 1990 not 1983 the sub is controlled like no other sub ever instead of control consoles the officers have keyboards with which they enter long number sequences to control various functions of the ship the interior of the ship isn't too convincing either br br the final scenes leap from awkward to absurd welcome to the fifties you can check your suspension of disbelief at the door br br i fail to see enjoyment factor here the movie is neither good nor hilariously bad mst3k style until you get to the final scene it's like eating a slightly bad apple
0	if you like poor se some bad acting and a total lack of credibility this is a movie for you so a really cheap looking movie but i liked it anyway why because i like those kind of movies i can't help but smile when i see these kind of movies what were the producers actors director and se people thinking when they made this film don't expect an abyss or alien just a very low budget horror adventure movie br br there is one nice splatter moment when a guy's head is shot off but for the most the horror is pretty tame the final monster is pretty cool too br br it's only 73 minutes long so you can t go wrong there maybe you can pick it up at your local videostore or watch it on tv i'm sure you will have a good time watching it br br but don't say you weren't warned
0	i love juan piquer simón he's my absolute favorite bad movie director and throughout his whole career he incompetently tried to cash in on simply every successful contemporary trend in the horror and fantasy genres after the big hit that was superman j p made his own and hilarious supersonic man he picked in on the violent slasher movie madness with the insane pieces and he really over trumped himself with the return of e t the unofficial and downright laughable sequel to spielberg's sf blockbuster the rift is obviously inspired by the series of profitable underwater monster movies like the abyss and six from start to finish you can amuse yourself by spotting all the stolen ideas and shameless rip offs of these and other classics when a completely new and fancy type of submarine vanishes near the deep rift a second mission with u boat designer hayes on board is sent out to investigate what really happened to siren one in the dark depths of the ocean the rescue mission discovers an underwater cavern where the government secretly experiments with mutant sea creatures the monsters are quite aggressive but there's also the danger of a government enemy among the crew members the rift is a forgettable film but it nevertheless has some ingenious – though very dodgy – monster models fans of blood and gore won't complain neither as the beastly attacks are quite gruesome and merciless the acting is very wooden although many of the cast names can definitely do better it's advisable that you simply enjoy the clichés and gory effects in the the rift because if you start contemplating about the screenplay you'll find that it makes absolutely no sense
0	on this site i've often lambasted the americans for not knowing how to write comedy but while they've never produced anything of the quality of towers' or 'the fall and rise of reginald they have also never to my knowledge made anything as bad as this the nadir of british comedy br br on my richter scale of comic awfulness it rates only behind the truly execrable 'are you being as the worst comedy show in the english language with bad acting annoying characters and humour that i'd grown out of before i left primary school unfortunately it was part of a large crop of shows back then along with 'dad's army' 'it ain't half hot mum' and 'allo that relied on ridiculous situations and familiar catch phrases to keep audiences amused br br michael crawford proved later on that he's a talented performer but personally i'd rather be sentenced to a month of watching than endure a single episode of this drivel which makes me ashamed to be british
0	'til there was you is one of the worst films we've ever seen it fails in every respect jeanne tripplehorn was better as an actress in waterworld in comparison this film is when a character stumbles once or even twice in the course of a film one can understand it but character falls trips stumbles so often that she might have a bit of jerry lewis in her in her defence each prat fall was probably blocked choreographed and rehearsed and rehearsed although this is bad enough for a film the actors dylan mcdermott and jeanne tripplehorn seem to spend most of the plot going out for a smoke or trying to find a place to smoke if the film was a diatribe on having no place to smoke ok but it isn't br br however long this film runs it is too long by 10 minutes past the running time br br oh jeanne tripplehorn almost acts in a public forum meeting you almost see her break life into the character oh it's almost as convincing as her scene yelling at michael douglas in basic instinct hmm on second thought not really br br this is a film to avoid at all costs unless you need a cigarette and are trapped in nicotine addicts anonymous or forced to watch outtakes of hooper burt reynolds and even then toss a coin or go to sleep
0	from the beginning 'til there was you was on the right track setting up for the big finish where it would all come together but the thing is it didn 't i found the ending extremely disappointing but maybe in someway it was the right ending a little more realistic you could say judge for yourself
0	the film has weird annoying characters strange unexplainable slapstick and an insurmountable amount of dialogue about smoking the movie has a contrived plot of a bitchy empty headed woman's jeanne tripplehorn search for love although who would ever like character personality or reading of the dialogue i really cannot say except that she likes to smoke br br sarah jessica parker gives an interesting character performance who likes to smoke dylan mcdermott does his best to look pretty and soulful as he smokes and hey what is jennifer aniston doing there oh she's not really in it enough for anyone to care about her but she likes to smoke br br this is a waste of anyone's time i don't even know how i was able to sit through as much of the movie as i did i can't even believe i spent the time to write this except to warn others of its banality anyone need a cigarette
0	this was truly horrible bad acting bad writing bad effects bad scripting bad camera shots bad filming bad characters bad music bad editing bad casting bad storyline bad well you get the idea it was just just what's the word oh yeah bad
0	if this film becomes a holiday tradition i am going to have to hide for christmas for the rest of my life how do you even think of comparing this with 'a wonderful life' it was absolutely awful the boy singing made my toes curl and what on earth was the deal with his hair emmy worthy performance please granted lucci did ok but an emmy i think this film is a waste of money the fact that they stuck so close to the original story pretending to give it a modern and retro touch made it even worse it lacked enthusiasm and persistence on all accounts lighting wardrobe make up it seemed everybody wanted to go home just a big no from me
0	as other reviewers have noted this movie is a cross between i e stolen from stories we have seen before specifically this looks like clint eastwood in high plains drifter inserted into mad max remove clint's cigar and replace with a cigarette remove his horse and give him a high tech motorcycle and voilà an updated drifter in this movie the hero is even more blatantly a savior than high plains drifter now our hero has long brown hair suffers a wound to his left side and his entry into town is preceded by a plea for salvation by the surviving townspeople a pretty transparent reference to a second coming i watched the movie on a hot humid morning sleep was impossible and upon arising at 4 30 am there was nothing else on tv so the movie served its purpose while unoriginal with characters that are almost comic caricatures the movie is still somewhat entertaining at least at 4 30 in the morning
0	meek and mild edward g robinson as winkle decides to quit his bank job and do what he wants open a fix it repair shop behind his house mr robinson is married but childless he has befriended local orphanage resident ted donaldson as barry young donaldson is an eager workshop assistant and sees robinson as a father figure robinson's nagging wife ruth warwick as amy is unhappy with robinson's job choice and to return matters to her idea of normalcy their lives are further disrupted when robinson is drafted br br the war also disrupts what might have been an interesting story as robinson's character struggles against a domineering unsympathetic wife possibly filmmakers are showing how war can save marriages and positively redirect lives robinson and donaldson are a likable team robert mitchum has an inauspicious bit part the ending trick played by ms warwick and donaldson is predictably staged
0	although i do not recommend this film neither do i recommend reading this review without first seeing the movie though i have not given away the ending or most of the plot twists this movie would be best viewed without any prior information it's hard to pinpoint the chief problem with the film donnie darko as there are many to deal with richard kelly in his first feature film seems to have collected enough scenes of adolescent rage late night stoner diatribes self righteous justifications and inoffensive banal philosophy to inspire twenty teen angst dramas then mashed them into a single two hour package with a sci fi twist the result is deeply distressing for all the wrong reasons the film attempts to lead the audience down convoluted paths without any sense of symbolism or meaning to make them sympathize with one dimensional characters and above all hopes that they will ignore the underdeveloped plot full of loose ends by hiding it under a veneer of cgi effects and neo surrealism the main character donnie darko is a young man committed to therapy misunderstood by his friends and rendered hostile and disaffected by his suburban life we are meant to feel that he is more intelligent than his schoolmates although sometimes that is a difficult assumption to make for example when one of his friends comes up with an absurd theory about the smurfs and donnie counters with a theory of his own his friend complains about donnie acting all smart speech however is no smarter than that of his friend just angrier the only clear evidence of his intelligence is his principal's description of his standardized test scores as intimidating ' but given the director's slant against simple of human elements as shown in the fear love sequence this is a poor substitute for character development donnie takes prescribed drugs to combat mental problems which are not addressed directly in this film in fact the entire issue of the drugs is understated and one of the first chances the director has to redeem the film is lost the ambiguity of strange destiny the possibility that all of this may be a product of his imagination is pushed into the background making the film 100 percent science fiction this would not be a bad thing in itself except that the science behind the fiction is very shaky the explanations of time travel are weak at best sounding like detached uninformed rambling we get the idea that the film's writer once read a book about time travel or a few chapters and can't quite remember how it worked but was sure that it was really interesting and wanted to work it into the film the scientific portion as a result depends more heavily on expensive computer animations than actual development of the theories involved at one point a teacher discussing time travel states that if he continues to speak on the subject he'd be fired apparently no further explanation is needed dealings with a visitor from the future lead him to commit several vicious actions the justification for these actions is a tricky business he damages his school but it's okay because his school doesn't treat him like a person his punishment of a creepy self esteem advocate somewhat similar to tom cruise's character in magnolia results in the man's public humiliation but should the audience believe that donnie is some sort of avenging angel striking out against ignorance and debauchery he himself seems ignorant of the effects of these actions until after the fact aside from these flaws the film is riddled with flat uninteresting generalizations of humanity the story is set in 1988 just before the bush dukakis election and the director touches on this point during the film the focus however extends exactly this far gruff blue collar father is voting for bush while his free spirited rebellious daughter plans to vote for dukakis there is nothing even remotely resembling a political statement here simply a statement of the obvious the former are not necessary to make a good film but the latter should be left out likewise heartfelt speech about not being able to lump all human emotions into the bland categories of fear and love this doesn't ask the audience to make any great leaps of understanding everybody knows that there are more that two human emotions and particular emphasis on this fact is worthless mr kelly gives homage to several symbols of 80's pop culture in his film e t stephen king the smurfs back to the future at it's heart this film feels like the director's homage to himself a collection of his own experiences interests personal heroes and adversaries affirmations and roughly stitched together by untrained hands entire songs are played in music video format to the characters actions seemingly because the director likes the songs characters who have little to no bearing on the plot including the archetypal bully fat girl and right wing idiot teacher are given unnecessary focus because the director really wanted to pack them in somehow the awkward mess that is donnie darko leaves us wondering if mr kelly has enough ideas left in his head to make another film or if he has wasted all his creativity in one pointless cluttered meandering effort br br my rating 1 10
0	how to qualify this film simply horrible it is badly done with poor dialogues reeves played as bad as ever and cameron diaz competed with him do not waste your time watching such a film although a big waste of money has already occurred to make the film
0	warning spoiler this movie is absolute crap it is not entertainment i haven't the words to describe the disgust that i felt at the end br br this is a badly made movie about the scum of society during the whole movie i kept waiting for it to get better it didn't instead it just kept getting worse and worse br br when i see a movie that is as bad as this one i always try to find at least one good thing to say about it in this case it proved impossible i have not one good thing to say about it how bad did it get well here's an example towards the end dan akroyd smothers and kills vincent d'onofrio while reeves and diaz watch this is not entertainment
0	i don't remember too much about this movie except that there was a distinctly gratuitous destruction of lamps almost every fight scene included the unnecessary and wanton destruction of useful light fixtures even if outfitted with cheesy '70's style shades to keep with the time setting of the story on one occasion raucous lamp destruction takes place in a domestic fight scene between the brothers in both the living and dining rooms of their mother's house with fixtures in both rooms being taken out yet the most malicious destruction occurs moments later in a office and includes but is not limited to the toppling of a fixture with a ceramic horse head base which is consequently disintegrated and the severe denting of a shade as a guy falls back into it during another fisticuffs fight later that lamp is toppled as well when the guy is shot incurring further damage to the plastic coated shade br br while this movie encourages a particularly wasteful attitude toward lamps one should keep in mind that lamps regardless of their cheap construction or gauche top heavy appearance are still valuable for the illumination that they provide however if you ever feel the need to vicariously smash a lamp i would highly recommend this movie
0	i want the 99 minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie the acting was horrific i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d'onofrio i will never look at them the same again keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise everyone knows they never could act thankfully only dan attempted an accent his accent was a disaster as expected i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read
0	a waste of time talent and shelf space this is a truly abysmal film what are big leaguers like keanu reeves cameron diaz and dan aykroyd wasting their time being in such rubbish petty criminal reeves turns up to his brothers vincent d'onofrio wedding and ends up leaving with the bride a comedy thriller romance i honestly do not know reeves is wooden in the lead and casting dan aykroyd as a cop is so dreadful it has to be seen to be believed only bright spot from a dark dark tunnel is diaz and even she isn't that good rent out something else everyone involved with this mess should hold there heads in utter shame and prey that it gets lost in oblivion in the years to come
0	ok if i was in the rental store and someone asked me if the movie was worth the three bucks for the rental i'd have to say no the plot was implausible i've come to the conclusion that keanu reeves can not act he can at times be painful to watch though my wife thinks he's cute dan aykroyd who is usually great was even a little disappointing as the crooked cop on the plus side the plot because it is far fetched is unpredictable cameron diaz was good
0	this was without a doubt the worst movie i have ever sat through and that's saying alot because i've seen my share of horrible movies br br but i have never seen a movie in which every single character portrayed was an unintelligent loser seriously there was not one respectable character in the entire script how fitting that the plot was equally lame lacking any intelligence whatsoever br br i can't believe that keanu reeves and cameron diaz would even consent to participating in such stupidity and while i haven't seen all of their other movies i've always enjoyed their performances until now it's not that the acting was bad just the entire story line was moronic
0	what a waste of talent a very poor semi coherent script cripples this film rather unimaginative direction too some very faint echoes of fargo here but it just doesn't come off
0	i made it about 8 minutes into steel frontier before i turned it off then glutton for punishment that i am i watched some more the next day today i had to iron a pile of clothes so i decided to finish the movie and that was its own punishment here's what i don't understand robert rodriguez and shane each spent 7 000 on their debut features and created two remarkable movies yet here we have two directors with arguably way more money and they churn out a huge steaming pile of crap let me see if i can figure out the logic it's 'road but it's like a future western we'll get the cheapest 'actors' we can find we'll have my mentally challenged cousin write the script and we'll spend the budget on a bunch of explosions we can't lose br br seriously i don't think even the mst3k guys could improve this but if you insist on watching it i recommend getting very drunk first
0	during a lifetime of seeing and enjoying thousands of films feeling minnesota is absolutely the worst major film with a list stars that i have ever seen bar none this movie totally fails on every level it's poorly photographed and edited there's uninspired acting the kind where the actors appear bored out of their minds just collecting paychecks perhaps and worst of all the script appears to have been written under the influence of some unpleasant substance found only in sewers i can't even begin to comprehend how the writer director could ever have found anyone to finance this project let alone attract any of the stars that it did i truly wish i could get back the time that i wasted watching this piece of garbage if possible i would have given this film a grade of zero better yet a negative number
0	feeling minnesota is one of the worst films i have ever seen it is also one of the most disgusting films ever made it has to do with a woman who is forced to marry a disgusting mob man at the wedding she meets his brother they have sex in the house after they eat the cake than decide to run away together the other brother of course comes after him guns blazing and he kills his wife wakes up to find her corpse in the bathtub and buries her he than seems to become friends with and they try to get money together because someone is blackmailing them because he saw them and the body this loops about and several characters dies or come back to life but it never comes together with anything that could be called a good plot the performances are horrible by pretty much everybody cameron diaz keanu reeves and dan the direction dialogue and visual effects are just horrible a disgusting and horrible movie
0	j j jameson from spiderman 2 quote crap crap br br mega crap it pretends to be an homage un intentional to the coen brothers done poorly br br there is no real mystery to the plot br br diaz's performance is totally uninspired br br the quirky characters don't really work br br there are a lot of duh moments br br i love black comedy but this film isn't funny br br in my view it wasn't worth the electricity br br there are many films in this genre which are much more entertaining br br i hope you find this review helpful
0	it hasn't even been two years since i first saw this film and yet i can barely remember a thing about this movie needless to say i found it to be very forgettable of what i do remember nothing stands out as particularly good a talented cast is wasted in what i suppose was meant to be a dark comedy but if that is the case it fails miserably at best this film is mildly interesting at worst the seemingly omnipresent overcast skies are more interesting than the storyline if you like watching films where it always seems damp and cool then i guess you may find something to like in this picture just try to ignore what else is going on because it is barely watchable
0	the first time i saw this film it was with this cute girl i was attracted to we had a lot of fun laughing at it and generally making fun so my impression was that it was terrible but watchable for value then as part of our anniversary we watched it together again on video as it turns out the movie is just terrible and unwatchable it's amazing how cute girls can change the way the world looks
0	feeling minnesota is not really a road movie but that's still the best i can generate a road movie does not primarily depend on a great story line and since the plot of this movie is truly pathetic it does fulfil that description to be interesting such a movie must rely entirely on moving and intriguing characters and on the chemistry between them unfortunately the staff of feeling minnesota fails utterly in producing this excitement br br the presentation of the characters is unsatisfying and confusing i can for example not figure out whether keanu reeves did grow up in the house of his mother and brother or not it is said by his mother tuesday weld that he must live with his father but nothing in the film suggests that it ever happens the same goes for the rest of the characters i never get to know them they appear irrational and no real explanation is given to why they do so br br the bottom line is that i leave the movie without any feelings for the characters except dullness and perhaps a tiny kick of attraction for the cute cameron diaz
0	feeling minnesota directed by steven and starring keanu reeves cameron diaz and vincent d'onofrio the strained relationship between two brothers sam d'onofrio and reeves is pushed to breaking point when arrives at sam's wedding and makes off with the bride freddie diaz a former stripper marrying sam to repay a gambling debt owed to night club owner red lindo writing and directing debut is a frustrating mess full of hateful characters and lacking coherence putting keanu and diaz in the same movie should at least provide some eye candy but even cops out on that score grudging his actors up with little positive effect very poor
0	first of all i think the casting and acting were excellent the problem is the story there is basically no story here worth telling and thus basically no movie here larry has done lonesome dove and i can't fault the original though it probably didn't need sequels he did hud with paul newman which is one of my favorite movies is supposed to be a country singer but the only song i hear him sing is an old buck owens song the movie makes a big deal out of chicken farming character has a good wife and it's utterly stupid of him to stray from her the incident with riding in the sliding cage is utterly stupid maybe people do that for fun in some parts of the country but i never heard of it
0	celebrity singers have always had a tough time breaking into the movies the cinema is littered with failed attempts and one can go on and on speculating why john never made it big as an actor instead of taking small parts in heartfelt projects dives right in playing the lead in falling from grace which he also directed and the results are as awkward and unbecoming as that title story of a famous singer returning to his hometown in the sticks opening up old family wounds boasts a screenplay by larry but the meandering film goes nowhere slowly the supporting cast is decent including kay lenz whom it's always nice to see mariel hemingway and claude akins who share the one really strong scene in the picture as for john's acting he doesn't look particularly comfortable despite apparent efforts to make him look at home he seems to be ducking the camera most of the time and he never connects with the audience in an immediate way 1 2 from
0	i love john's work as a singer but the movie was dull and 'no worth the time' to view br br i thought he did an 'ok' job at acting his part when he says your having an affair with the ol' man to his co star i kinda chuckled at his facial movements or lack thereof br br i would suggest the movie if you like john's music but not as a saturday night video br br if you love his music then the video has a little music from him in it but not much br br so so at best
0	i just finished watching dog watch i thought parts of the movie were hokey with more than a few implausibilities the acting wasn't too bad and the plot wasn't bad but as the saying goes the devil was in the details br br some examples br br 1 the bleed through on charlie sam elliott bandage was shown to be coming from the back of his hand while it was his knuckles that were bleeding br br 2 would a detective dispose of his murder victim from a very well lighted area this seemed very silly to me br br i am not unusually picky about a movie but in my humble opinion this one is definitely not recommended by me
0	i honestly fail to understand why people love this show so much a friend of mine watches this and since i like sci fi i tried to watch along since the plot of the show sounded promising but in truth it really is a very boring show the only thing that will keep you awake during this show are the video game like cgi effects and the complete overuse of muppets note that i call it muppets because they actually really look like muppets not like the aliens they should be br br speaking of which the muppets and make up effects are horribly overused in this show you have this guy who could be best described as a alien dwarf hybrid you have a pale girl who looks like a cheesy vamp girl you've got a floating potty mouth frog alien it just feels very unnecessary and furthermore even to the point that you feel distracted from the whole storyline about a lost astronaut br br every episode is also too much of a stand alone the creators of this show directed this in such a way that every episode almost feels like a whole other show at least up until the point that you see the main characters muppets again that is the whole plot about the main character getting back to earth is way to much pushed to the background at points the acting is also quite bad br br conclusion if you want good sci fi just look somewhere else this isn't even real sci fi to begin with in my opinion since the show is more aimed at fantasy elements with all the puppetry and weird dreams going on and if you just want to see muppets then i suggest you watch the muppet show and feel glad that this abomination of a show has come to a end br br by the way doesn't anyone have with the concept of a living spaceship thats right doctor who started that concept almost about 30 years ago this show is like a collection of 'sci fi' leftovers scripts and events that were abandoned for a good reason only to be picked up by this horrible show
0	much praise has been lavished upon farscape but i don't think it's that good it certainly has a distinctive look but it lacks just about everything else story purpose direction excitement you name it i'm a big sci fi fan and i make it a point to watch all the sci fi shows i can i've almost finished the four seasons of farscape and at this point i'm not very satisfied the show does have a few good things most notably claudia black who's sadly missing from the first few episodes of season four but they are very few and very far between as a whole the show is marred by a lot of very silly stuff such as fantasy elements rather than sf ditto and many many episodes esp in season four are unspeakably messy and very poorly structured and one just feels that it isn't going anywhere it's mostly just non directional adventures with thin long running plot lines which develop painstakingly slowly well sometimes it's a little bit tighter but it only lasts for a very few episodes at a time br br effects wise there are a few impressive things here and there esp out in space occasionally but the show seems stuck in the same style of effects which frankly gets old fast outlandish and unconvincing puppet aliens mar the show a great deal and i've come to prefer by far the episodes where regular human looking characters are the focus br br i think the peacekeepers are by far the most stylish and intriguing and interesting figures on the show they succeed in being a convincingly alien culture despite their all human appearance there are a few really cool episodes with them esp in the first season where crichton masquerades as a captain and invades and eventually destroys one of their secret bases such episodes can reach a rating of 8 out of 10 but i cannot award the show as a whole more than a 4 rating br br aside from the peacekeepers which themselves are somewhat too single mindedly totalitarian and militaristic to be really nuanced the show simply doesn't offer anything important or significant that you need to know or want to see otoh it does contain a few good ideas and is not a total loss br br this is just my opinion of course but as a seasoned sci fi fan i think it counts for something and may be of help to others there aren't a lot of good sci fi shows out there but star trek any series and especially the new battlestar galactica are definitely better than farscape but if you're a huge fan of mediocre sci fi shows you may well like farscape too br br my rating 4 out of 10
0	this film had a couple of funny parts but for the most part made me want to go ahead and change dvd's and watch malibu's instead which i had in my own collection at least i would know there was something funny coming up and give me something to look forward to br br i was disappointed in this very low budget film and i do not judge a movie by it's budget it just lacked originality and was too predictable i would not rent or even watch this film again and i am usually a repeat offender of film the actors were forgettable the story was half thought out and it left me with an insatiable urge to get my laugh on i ended up watching jamie kennedy's white boy gone gangsta to have the comedy itch scratched
0	the fact that this movie is bargain basement quality is a real shame but back in the 1940s that was about the only type of film made for theaters catering to black audiences due to segregation so while mgm warner and all the other big studios were making extremely polished films tiny studios with shoestring budgets were left to muddle by with what they had and from seeing this movie it's obvious that a lot of energy went into making the film even if it is a pretty lousy film aesthetically speaking some of the actors weren't particularly good especially the french guy the sets were minimal and the plot totally silly but the film also had some good music of varying styles from classical to jazz to rhythm and blues this is thanks to many talented but pretty much unrecognized black performers br br now as for the plot it was totally stupid and silly but still watchable in a kitschy way i loved seeing tim moore from the amos 'n andy tv show in drag as he made the absolute ugliest woman in cinema history this includes the bride of frankenstein and many others this is probably due to the fact that when not in drag he was a pretty ugly but funny guy if the man pretending to be a woman actually looked remotely like a woman i doubt this movie would have worked as well seeing this ugly and rubber faced man with a cheesy wig still being ardently sought after by three suitors was pretty funny br br this isn't a great film but from a historical point of view it's fascinating and excellent viewing for young adults to know what america was like for blacks in this era a very interesting and funny time capsule
0	there's potential in there with tell no one a curious and intriguing plot and a french take on a very american story but for me the opportunities were not exercised here br br although i liked aspects of this film there were three prominent failings which pulled it right down to four out of ten br br firstly it's a silly clichéd murder mystery a particularly contrived murder she wrote or bergerac being french doesn't eliminate this problem it's just silly and in french at the same time it's full of implausible coincidences br br secondly the transition from the us to france seems to have failed chronically this french doctor hanging out on the streets of a french city with his new homies and their suvs and then there's the car chases br br but thirdly and mostly it's just too darn long to me a film needs a good reason to be significantly over 90 minutes and over two hours takes some serious justification this once didn't have it
0	it's unfortunate that many of the other detractors of this film seem influenced by prior biases i e anger at the gay characters thinking french thrillers are bad etc i will admit that i'm unfamiliar with the novel but as a film after about 45 minutes i was rolling my eyes hopefully i can explain in writing my complaints eloquently enough before i get sick of spending anymore time on this film over the 2 hours of its running length 2 hours that felt like 3 don't get me wrong i can sit through hour and a half silent films 3 hour epics i don't have a short attention span nor am i so jaded by the mtv generation that i cant appreciate a subtle and slowly building film here goes my grocery list of complaints first off the ending yes it had a scooby doo esquire character explains everything at the end now i actually think for this movie this was necessary the film had so many plot twists emotional revelations new facts surfacing and being discovered one reviewer said it well yes it is a very logical story but without the very essential back story their childhood stories the relationship amongst the 3 parents the relationship amongst the two lovebirds and the son of the big man it just doesn't feel right i felt cheated i won't throw in too many spoilers here i could name specific revelations that i thought were unnecessary but according to the reviews on here there's a lot of people who seem to really love this so i don't want to give anything away i personally can't stand soap operas the complexity and twists and turns for me snuffed out any impact the final revelations could possibly deliver by the end i seriously didn't care there weren't any gaping plot holes necessarily this seems like it could make a great book in writing it is perfectly logical but if i'm supposed to believe this is reality something doesn't sit right with the pieces that have been haphazardly inserted too often i felt crucial characters we were never able to get to know were thrown in to further complicate the plot increase the emotion and develop the mystery the acting i had no complaints about the directing eh not bad but the plot and especially its development severely lacking sorry to those that felt this was a perfect thriller but i couldn't get into it i gave this a 3 simply because i don't want to seem completely unfair and it did have moments of slight intrigue and excitement br br major spoiler and i have to mention it but when the father is making his revelation to alexandre and just when you think the plot couldn't fit in another twist your father didn't die in a hunting accident i almost died when was the father at all developed or even really mentioned much in the back story are you serious like the already complex plot involving characters from all the families and their relationship to one another wasn't enough does the protagonist need another emotional more than he has already been fed sorry i had to throw in such a spoiler but that just bothered me as much as i've ever been bothered in any film
0	i walked out of the cinema having suffered this film after 30 mins i left two friends pinned in by a great fat bloke to endure the remainder br br as soon as the opening sequence of the film unrolled i sensed something was wrong and it wasn't long before i to stop myself from hiding under my seat cringing in embarrassment i'm not one for walking out of films however bad as they usually have some redeeming feature but this one suffered from a catalogue of bad directing bad acting bar character the impeccable jean rochefort according to my friends awful editing in terms of theme and meaning terrible soundtrack and image correlation that seemed to make an art out placing the wrong peace of music over the image and scene at the wrong time the worst crime was its overall insipidness and unbelievability a result of the aforementioned atrocities why was it so awful i do not want to waste more of my time explaining i'd say go and see it for yourself but i don't want to fill the coffers of this project any more than necessary oh the screening did possess one redeeming feature my friend over the rows of seats in silhouette with his umbrella hooked over his arm as he tried to steady himself more pathos tension entertainment in those few moments than in the 125 mins of this sadly dire effort
0	sorry but i usually love french thrillers e g chabrol but this was a glossy shambolic mess the fact that it was based on a harlan cohen book is telling because rather than being a french film strong on psychology and character it's more like a john grisham esquire roller coaster ride by numbers with ludicrous plot twists flashbacks that update previous flashbacks a predictable villain as soon as his name is mentioned you think 'hmm he'll be the bad guy ' and sets of mysterious stereotyped characters who seem to inhabit different movies by the end i was laughing hysterically at the unevenness of the film's tone the scenes where the lead character is being helped by two streetwise shady characters are unintentionally hilarious the utterly baffling plot the absurd coincidences and strokes of good fortune e g guessing the password for an email account and yawning uncontrollably thought i must have the 1hr 50min running time as it seemed to drag on for 3 hours 50 minutes
0	first off if you want to make a good film don't cram all your exposition into the last 10 minutes the viewer is expected to be bewildered for nearly two hours only to have father explain everything to alex very late in the film to make matters worse the scriptwriter decided it wasn't enough to have the basic mystery solved but adds in a completely unnecessary murder that we knew nothing about involving alex's father br br there's some serious motivation issues with characters also father's choices don't seem to make sense once the film is over why didn't he just kill philippe's father and be done with it instead a complicated plot to obscure the truth is concocted but one which ensures that everyone will be in physical jeopardy for years including the completely innocent photographer who gets murdered by philippe's father's thugs although alex is a doctor whom one would think is relatively bright he chooses to flee the police during which he not only his own life but those whom he involves in a nasty pile up on the freeway why was friend so keen on keeping her promise to margo once all the crap hits the fan for alex and are we to think that father would rather kill himself rather than go to prison what about his wife did he consider her wishes those are some of the main problems br br then there are some nasty details like why was her father there the night of her faked death how did he get a hold of the body on such short notice and get it back quickly in order to bury it with the other two alex's friend bruno seems over eager to be part of the mayhem in which he and his friends have to kill for alex notwithstanding the perceived debt he owes alex for saving his son's life what good would the photos of margo do they don't implicate philippe at all and why would margo have the safety deposit box key handy that night for her would be abductors to take did i miss some other things probably minor irritations of mine include the fact that although alex is a doctor he smokes like a fiend which makes his marathon run away from the police even that more impressive also when he is riding in the convertible with his lawyer neither of them is wearing a seat belt how bright could they be
0	according to most people i know that saw this film and to the reviews i've read this was supposed to be a hugely entertaining thriller that oh so needs to be seen by more people i didn't expect this film to blow me away but i certainly didn't expect to find this movie mediocre at best which is what it is br br i'm no stranger to french films being both french and having studied them as a student so i'm aware of the clichés and corny plot twists that can go unnoticed by english american audiences there are some great french films that should have been given widespread international release but this isn't one of them br br to begin with the plot is both far fetched over complicated and too smart assed to be entertaining so you really feel every minute of its 2hr and 5min run time and by the time everything is finally revealed you are beyond caring the main character himself is lacking any real charisma or even acting talent to keep your attention fixed mainly on him and his journey anytime close to the crap ending so by the time you've even considered swallowing the main plot twists it's begun to dawn on you that you've wasted your time i actually remember switching off before the credits actually began to roll after the film's climactic reunion that was the point in which i was sure i had almost completely wasted my time by the way br br the film is not at all the worst thing i've seen but it seems completely overrated for instance i read somewhere that it beats all the bourne identity films in terms of suspense or even that it has to wall i can safely say some people are hyping up this frankly dull movie br br 4 10 is a generously considerate rating for this film i feel and since i have seen some complete and utter stinkers i'll therefore save the 1s 2s and for them
0	although the story is good and portrayals what i expected of sam elliot my dvd copy contained almost unbearable synchronization problems the dialogue was almost 3 seconds behind the lip movement throughout the whole film br br i would therefore be very careful in purchasing any dvd of the film without checking for the problem br br i would also follow the recommended censors particularly in relation to language and drug usage br br this film could become a silent classic cop movie and with the above cautionary notes i can recommend it to prospective viewers
0	martha plimpton has done some prestigious movies working with river phoenix and harrison ford but she was never able to expand her limited tomboyish appeal into the same class as say molly ringwald this film which was barely released is just an extension of her late '80s early '90s attempts to find a screen persona which was identifiable to moviegoers and it represents another failure plimpton plays a troubled young woman who finds out on her 21st birthday that she was adopted and worse than that was actually abandoned as an infant on her parents' doorstep she sets out to find her biological mother and father but the viewer has no clue why she'd even want to would simple curiosity give her this much determination unattractive material given sitcom handling it starts off on the wrong foot and never recovers plimpton gives a sour surly performance but hector elizondo and mary kay place are fine as her adoptive parents 1 2 from
0	let's not kid ourselves this atrocity is not plan nine or cat women it is bad period the performances vary from drama school theatrics marla english to a care less' walk through tom conway the photography even in a good print is so murky it is occasionally hard to see what is happening the real problem however is the aimless pointless nearly plot less story and the leaden direction at a brisk 77 minutes it still feels endless br br the screenplay is especially inept there are two story lines that only intersect at the very end of the picture tom conway is trying to create a super race using voodoo and modern science although there is little science in evidence which he can control telepathically he is keeping his wife prisoner for no discernible reason meanwhile a couple of petty crooks and a white hunter type guide are trying to find the village in which he is working in the expectation of gold and jewels when they finally arrive tom conway decides that one of them the woman is the perfect subject for his experiments she is turned into a monster kills conway natch and then reverts to normal she sees a gold statue half drowned in a boiling pool tries to retrieve it and falls in the water and apparently drowns the white hunter rescues the wife in the final shot we see the supposedly drowned woman emerge as the monster again threatening a sequel now that really is a scary thought br br the aip producer samuel z arkoff in a lecture included on the dvd prides himself on spotting the teenage niche market and satisfying it with ingenious low budget movies however it is difficult to see how anyone could think this rancid concoction would satisfy any sort of audience what appeal do they think it could possibly have the monster appears so rarely that it could hardly be called a horror film the jungle action is tepid and tedious there are no teenagers in it and no characters that teenagers could be expected to identify with br br the producers exposed 77 minutes of film but they didn't make a movie this is a con trick and arkoff should be ashamed of his association with it
0	this 1950's howler is so bad it's unintentionally funny tom conway portrays dr gerard a scientist who is turning natives into a monster using voodoo his poor wife played by mary ellen kay is being held captive by her wacko hubby who has no time for her but threatens to kill her if she leaves him along comes marla english as a greedy murderess who has already killed a man to find treasure in the jungle her idiot boyfriend portrayed by lance fuller is along on the safari they hire touch connors later renamed mike connors of mannix fame as a guide english is a terrible actress but hey no one else in the cast were turning in academy award winning performances either touch i'm sorry i can't even type the name without cracking up i mean what the gave the only half way decent performance of the bunch and that's saying a lot the monster is only seen briefly and the ending is predictable to say the least i would say this movie falls into the it's so bad it's almost good category of movies it's good on a rainy night when nothing else is on the tube
0	let's face it this is a pretty bad film however if you go in ready to make fun of it you can survive the experience okay you'll scream in agony a lot african jungle fun in a dopey kind of way br br tom conway who spends most of the film wearing a funky chapeau is using the local witch doctor and mad science to create a perfect being it looks like a varmint that has been on a six week drunk and is in a sack dress ugly is being kind but it won't kill for him because he's using a good girl as his subject he needs a bad bad girl br br marla english and lance fuller are two petty crooks in search of african gold acting lessons for ms english should have been at the top of the search list she's a bad girl and lets everybody know it in a performance worthy of a junior high school play mike touch connors is the white guide english fuller con into leading the expedition br br english conway finally meet and it is a match made in hell she is the perfect subject to become his voodoo creature because she'll do anything stress anything to get what she wants you will do anything to stop the agony of this movie at this point br br what made this movie interesting for me was conway wearing that funky tribal hat headdress floral piece still trying to figure out what kind of dead animal it was guess he thought if he pulled it down low enough over his eyes nobody would recognize him br br truly bad cinema
0	full disclosure i was born in 1967 at first the premise tickled me after all if you were a teenager growing up in the age of reagan a trip down memory lane was worth a laugh or three pop rocks atari and rock 'em sock 'em robots loved 'em not despite the fact they were goofy but because they were goofy and silly and fun but when vh1 decided to make the series i love last tuesday i knew enough was enough goes hal sparks have nothing better to do than read from a teleprompter how idiotic are wait let me check hmmm no no it appears he doesn't snarky snotty uber hip posturing has its place but enough already
0	big fat slob 'uncle played by john eats a lot of candy visits the sane members of his family for a week in order to baby sit two cute kids gaby hoffman and culkin and a pretty but snobby teenager jean louisa kelly the shenanigans begin when buck makes breakfast and then tries to sleep in a bed two sizes too small for his blimp of a body br br mostly dull but peppered with two or three funny scenes including buck trying to get a word in edge wise on the telephone with his angry girlfriend amy madigan and his meeting with a very disgusting clown br br candy looks like he weighs 600 pounds
0	of the four main players in here john candy jean kelly amy madigan and macauley the only one i've never heard about at that time was the one that annoyed the heck out of me and ruined the film well she must have done a decent job of acting to make me want to throw her and the vhs into the garbage pail i am referring to kelly in the role of teenage brat tia russell ironically six years later she played a stunning and extremely likable role in the person of morgan in mr holland's opus br br candy as usual is fun to watch as buck russell or the title character uncle buck few actors were better at playing a lovable hapless slob than candy i enjoyed his character in here but i cannot watch that spoiled teen girl more than once also in the first few minutes of the film the little boy miles says the word g damn how bad is that having a six year old kid saying the lord's name in vain on film these hollywood people are such sickos no wonder many of their child actors turn out to be mentally screwed up being a case in point
0	you have to hand it to writer director john hughes with enormous success behind him in the misfit teenager high school vein he managed to branch out into other areas of comedy finding in the bargain a great ally in comedian actor john candy here goof off adult candy becomes a better person after agreeing to babysit his brother's kids it's a surefire formula designed to please both cynical teens as well as their parents and it isn't any wonder the film was a winner with theater audiences still hughes relies almost completely on candy's charm to put the scenario over and one may eventually grow tired of the repetitious gags with the star front and center the kids are sitcom smart the other adults shapeless blobs and amy madigan is too intense too hyped up playing uncle buck's girlfriend later became a tv series which is befitting since the material was already television perfected 1 2 from
0	i'm seeing a pattern here if you see a movie on mystery science theater 3000 chances are if you go to imdb com there will be hordes of lovers of the film yet it was picked to be on that tv show because it was sooo bad i'm sorry but i read a lot about x m as being some landmark sci fi film that stressed realism well if that is the case i could write for several paragraphs about how even with 1950's knowledge this movie is utterly flawed gravity might be the first obvious observation or as mst3k did as a skit selective gravity also what about when they are plunging to their death and they are just standing there looking out of the window um would'nt the ship being upside down effect that scene i would like to think that they started with good intentions and that it ran over budget or something but i think this movie was just plain cheese as in the from under type just compare this to when worlds collide which was released in 1951 to see the true place where this movie ranks there's no comparison the movie gets a 2 or maybe 3 on its own its not even funny to watch on its own it gets about a 5 or 6 as a mst3k episode as there is no action or much to make fun of just bad bad bad oh did i mention it's bad
0	i completely understand the historical significance of x m but that doesn't make it a good movie to begin with the plot or what there is of it is dull and lifeless five astronauts blast off for the moon – they get knocked off course and end up on mars huh – cavemen looking martians throw rocks at them – they return to earth and meet a fiery death – the end believe it or not but this pithy plot description makes it sound much more interesting than it really is to make matters worse john character dr karl feels it necessary to give long drawn out speeches on everything from the nature of man to the dangers of nuclear weapons it's just a thrill a minute sarcasm intended br br looking back at x m almost 60 years later i would call the portrayal of women funny if it weren't all so sad and misguided there are a number of examples i could cite but there's one exchange of dialogue just after take off between the male chauvinist pilot floyd played by the irritating plastic haired lloyd bridges and dr lisa van horn the only female crewmember and the constant object of floyd's often creepy attention that illustrates the film's attitudes toward women quite nicely br br • floyd i've been wondering how did a girl like you get mixed up in a thing like this in the first place br br • dr van horn i suppose you think that women should only cook and sew and bear children br br • floyd isn't that enough br br i think floyd should have stayed behind with the cavemen
0	this time the beastmaster marc singer returns only to face off a new enemy wings hauser however due to an annoying teenager kari they are transported to the future where they then duke it out lots of lame fish out of water jokes ensue you honestly don't get sequels this rotten to the core beastmaster 2 is a painful movie to behold the references and hipness date the film badly this was made in 1991 and really who wants to see the beastmaster in the present times also of note is wings hauser who's embarrassing performance is easily the film's best asset singer looks awkward is irritating and the whole 1991 slang just makes the movie downright unwatchable this is easily one of the worst movies ever made br br 1 2 out of 4 awful
0	to call x m a science fiction classic is due more to its release date 1950 its savvy ability to capitalize on the publicity for destination moon and the appearance of actors who would later star in television as sea hunt's mike nelson dad and wyatt earp br br the movie itself is bad enough to be good fodder for mst3k and is best viewed with commentary from joel and the robots this is the type of movie best suited to added riffing from the mst3k characters something preachy slow paced poorly scripted and full of painfully bad acting while unintentionally funny stuff like plan 9 from outer space don't lend themselves to satirical commentary because the movie constantly upstages the hosts really bad and dull movies like x m are ideal so add some stars to the rating if you are watching the mst3k version br br the basic story has the crew taking an unplanned right turn at the moon and ending up on mars what they find on that planet are the remnants of a human like civilization devastated by an atomic war only one martian is shown in close up a normal looking woman who is blind or at least has no pupils in her eyes the men look like the goons in the old popeye cartoons they scamper around the cliffs and throw boulders at the crew with amazing accuracy especially if they are supposed to be blind of course none of this is ever explained as doing so would require some sign of logical analysis from the writers of the screenplay br br the scenes on mars are presented in something called sepia color to distinguish them from the rest of the b w movie if this has you thinking wizard of oz you will be disappointed because it is just black and white stuff with a slight brown tint added to the print in post production br br in keeping with the moronic sexism of the movie the icy female scientist screws up her fuel calculations both coming and going her failure to measure up to the men causes her feminine side to surface and she and mike nelson coo sweetly to each other as they face their doom insert sound of gagging here br br the real stars of the movie are the reporters at the command center so much so that mst3k was inspired to specially salute these unheralded heroes the intrepid squad of are featured for the first 10 minutes of the movie then take stations about 12 inches behind the technicians and monitoring equipment in the command center later they are called upon to ask the moronic questions needed by the mission director to expound on the movie's already too obvious message br br the dvd has an extremely low audio level is not captioned and is accompanied by a trailer although you will be thankful that it is only 77 minutes it is still about 60 minutes too long as any 30 minute episode of the twilight zone has several times more content than this entire movie br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
0	although it can be very tedious at times this movie is really not all that bad the acting is fairly well done if stereotypical and the production values are pretty high considering some of the sci fi movies that were to come later in the decade br br my biggest problem with this film are some of the very outdated characterizations in it there's the guy from texas the professional scientist and worst of all the woman scientist who finally realizes her womanhood for a film seeking to make a statement about mankind it loses some of it's impact by reducing its characters through sexist stereotypes
0	i bought x m on dvd in a two pack with destination moon now i see why the distributors did that no one who had ever seen this movie would buy it on its own br br i cannot fathom what school system turned out the reviewer who claimed that is great in its predictions of how space travel would take place launch straight up and then do a 90 degree right turn and circle faster and faster until you reach escape velocity i don't think i recall that from the apollo program never mind that the astronauts should be weightless once they shut off the engines gravity changes directions every time they pass through the hatch to the engine room going to the moon but missed it no problem it's just a hop skip and a jump with a helping hand from divine providence and you'll be at mars and ok if you want to put life on mars given the state of planetary knowledge in 1950 it was a forgivable convention for the sake of the storytelling but can you make them look at least a little alien these martians looked like extras from the cast of 10 000 b c i can accept some scientific mistakes but this wouldn't pass muster with an above average second grader br br and that's aside from the screaming plot holes 12 minutes before launch as you're reminded of constantly by the nagging p a voice saying x minus so many minutes the astronauts are giving a press conference i guess the time crunch is why dr didn't change out of his coat and tie before launching into space and how handy that even though they were planning to go to the moon and had pressure suits for that they brought hiking gear and rifles just in case they ended up at mars they're lucky they landed anywhere since apparently the method they had developed for landing was to have dr e look out the window and tell the pilot lloyd bridges to tweak down the every now and then note to the designers of the 2 how about giving the pilot a window seat br br ditto the previous comments on the casual sexism that had eye candy dr lisa osa doom them all by repeatedly screwing up her fuel calculations but hey that was the early '50s she was there to fill her sweater not a useful function br br x m is notable for being one of the first of the first films to say ohmigod we're all going to blow ourselves up with these here a bombs but one can note that about it without wasting 77 minutes watching such dreck by the way that message might have had a bit more impact had there been some money in the budget for actual sets of the martian city ruins rather than just matte paintings br br i can appreciate good bad sci fi for the unique way the future used to look and for the inherent if condescending humor you can find when when we look back on the naivety of audiences 60 years ago but this film must have been insulting even then x m isn't even suitable for an mst3k style lampooning sometimes bad is just bad br br anybody want to buy a dvd used only once i swear
0	minor spoilers br br first i must say how rare and charming it is to find a movie with such basic messages in it nuclear war will inevitably destroy all of civilization and women are for making babies it is absolutely incredible how well formulated the plot is to hit in these two points as with a golden hammer essentially everything about this movie annoyed me the casual sexism the character whose sole trait was coming from texas the mysterious choice of dying mars orange and of course the flawed science of it all then the martian woman screaming as if she had just noticed that she was blind what was that however i will give it credit the fifties did spit out some sillier things but not much
0	wow this was a real stinker this early sci fi flick has nothing going for it than pure camp there's so much scientific mambo jumbo in the dialog it's laughable the female character played by osa is just a plot device for the male characters to serve sexist remarks during the entire length of the film watch this one with your girlfriend i guarantee it will make her blood boil the only good thing is the musical score which expertly build the moods of the film the special effects are rather crude but not bad considering the vintage of the movie with some good b stars in the lead roles the acting isn't too bad but the lines they are given must have given them quite a challenge the challenge of not laughing their heads off
0	i like this movie and have watched my copy twice since acquiring it a few weeks ago but you have to view it in the right context br br i haven't checked on the dates but i bet this movie came out after and certainly around the same time as the collier and walt disney of the vision of spaceflight being promoted by w von braun this is reflected in the attempt to seem factually correct and scientific however whilst certain ideas are put across step boosters for example roughly correctly other things are hilariously wrong br br for example we are told that a rocket ascends to an altitude and then turns ninety degrees to enter space like reaching the top of a flight of stairs and turning onto the landing then we are told that by turning in the direction of the earths rotation the total velocity of the ship is increased accordingly br br this is an hilarious misunderstanding of what really happens most space launch centres are located as near the equator as possible where the earth and anything on its surface is rotating at roughly a thousand miles per hour including any rocket departing to space in an eastward direction the same as the rotation of the planet of course if the ship turned to travel once in space its speed in relation to the surface of the earth would be greater but it would add nothing to the actual velocity of the vehicle in this movie as air speed br br similarly we are told that the travellers only feel free fall or when they reach some thousands of miles from the earth outside of the planets gravitational field again comically incorrect most crewed spacecraft travel no higher than a couple of hundred miles up but as long as they and their contents including crew are travelling at an adequate velocity that their momentum in an outward direction balances the pull of gravity they will orbit in free fall of course travel far enough from earth and even a slow object will coast outside the earths gravity well but in order to leave earth orbit outwards towards the moon for example requires the attainment of escape velocity around twenty one thousand miles per hour so the vehicle will have already attained orbital velocity and by definition br br but the movie has vastly more hilarious stuff than this someone decided it would be more fun if they missed the moon due to a technical problem fell asleep for a few days and then woke up to find they had accidentally gone to mars the captain then to the effect that this must have been divine intervention at which point any pretence to being scientific is torn into little pieces like confetti and thrown upon the wind amid the merry dance of an increasingly barmy plot br br the strength of a film like this in fact is in illustrating how far we've come not least in attitudes to women the patronising drivel heaped upon the female crew member is both hilarious and also shocking to think that such attitudes were so recently normal br br as i said at the start i find this film very entertaining as a late night lights out romp through the romance of travel in outer space from the perspective of the days before it had actually happened an antidote to the cold routine of spaceflight as it has now become in the twenty first century br br i won't reveal the ending it is both brave and shocking for a movie of this vintage and character
0	i first saw this when it came out in the theater though only 13 at the time i was an avid reader of hard science science fiction stories the technical gaffes of the film are burned into my memory br br some of the following may have significant spoilers br br even as a youngster i knew the premise is silly the rocket takes off for a lunar mission in a cosmos where there is always a gravitational effect on the crew though loose objects float as in zero gravity and because of that the cabin the area with the controls whatever they called it was to maintain the correct orientation so that when they landed why didn't they land standing on their heads and where at least in near earth space the rocket engines had to be running continually with propellant combusting away without an when the engines quit the rocket stopped dead in space and couldn't start going until a phd chemist determined it needed at a little this time the rocket recalled it had momentum and the next thing our heroes know they're near mars even a 13 year old nerd knew such a minimum energy trip would take over 200 days br br they land find the air was breathable though at the time scientific data revealed that the pressure even if the atmosphere were pure oxygen would be too low to do any good they decide to camp outside the ship and even build a campfire they come armed even though they were supposedly going to the moon where firearms wouldn't be needed br br they get a sight of a collapsed civilization encounter stray martians who look just like people develop an anti nuclear war philosophy and those who survive try to get back to the home planet and die in the attempt by crashing on the earth to do that would require such a long orbital period they'd have died of starvation long before approaching their destination br br the film it preceded destination moon used real science most effectively even though their rescue with the oxygen tank forgot about the moment arm from the tank's center of gravity to the output nozzle this film showed woeful ignorance of even the most basic science only the most technologically illiterate should think of it as a science fiction film it's on a par with the old flash gordon serials where their took off from their and climbed in spirals and whose engines were always on br br the story on this one i considered banal and i can recommend this only as a film to be shown to students for them to pick out technical gaffes
0	x m should be viewed by any serious movie buff for the following reasons br br 1 it is one the first and the few movies not to have a happy ending doubtless the effect was more profound in post world war ii america than it would be today but nonetheless the sad ending adds to the film's message br br 2 it is also one of the first movies to deal with space travel in a serious fashion using space as a valid setting for drama the lack of scientific background notwithstanding the movie stands on its own as dramatic fare it's not so much a space drama as it is a drama set in space br br 3 the anti nuclear war message is delivered in a serious manner that is not lost in sfx involving large grasshoppers men or animal the effect of martian society from nuclear devastation is starkly and frankly presented the fact that the survivors from the expedition crash land and as such are unable to preach the lesson learned on mars adds another element of sadness to the tragic ending br br sterno says take a ride on x m
0	there is a phrase by the experimental filmmaker nathaniel who says some films are structured like a camera mounted on the head of a dog who goes down an alley sniffing everything along the way br br that's how this movie is the structure is kurosawa started out as a baby then he became a kid then a young man then a movie director then he started making then he grew old the end the word 'masterpiece' is used a lot in this film to describe kurosawa's output without explaining what makes his films so good great just because the off screen narrator reading a script says that a film is a masterpiece are we supposed to kiss his rear end and accept that a certain movie is one of the great works of art of the 20th century and one more point the voice of paul scofield is used as the voice of kurosawa when excerpts from the director's memoirs are being read off screen he brings pear shaped shakespearean tones to the text but why him if you were making a documentary about billie holiday would you use dame judi as her voice
0	on the cusp of being insufferable somehow i stayed just slightly interested but was it because i truly wanted to know what the secret was which i should say is pretty damned obvious or because i hoped scarlett johansson would put on a more sexy outfit this movie is poor and what's more it's a disgrace to all the lonely alcoholic southern literature professors out there travolta wants his oscar so bad he is willing to cry drunkenly in the bathroom after urinating blood sorry pal you were more believable is staying alive not everyone can pull a peter fonda in ulee's gold if you want the against type brave anti hero oscar you have to um actually act not just pout on screen stop this director before he she name is vague on gender directs again
0	this is the greatest example i can think of to prove the theory that when hollywood runs out of good ideas they make an awful sequel and ruin the first one now don't get me wrong i absolutely love the first beastmaster i even liked the third one pretty good but this movie is atrocious i am a huge fantasy sword sorcery movie fan and i hated to see such a terrible sequel made to such a classic as the first beastmaster so why do i hate this movie so much well where do i begin first of all the whole idea of the movie is ridiculous dar and his evil older brother who was nowhere mentioned in the first movie huh cross over into our world via a handy dimensional time portal gate ya see earth just happens to be on the same parallel plane as world whereas with the first movie you're led to think the movie just takes place in the past but with this one you're shown it's a completely whole other world altogether that's just one of the many things i hated about this sequel it didn't work with masters of the universe and it sure doesn't work here either movies like this should take place and stay in their own time line and their usual surroundings for christ's sake what's next hercules in new york er uh bad example moving on br br after a device called a neutron detonator to use as a threat against his enemies to rule his own kingdom so it's up to dar his ferrets his eagle and his tiger not a spray painted one this time to go off and save the world but along the way they have the help of a young cool and hip senator's daughter who gets caught up in this whole mess and she show's dar around l a takes him for a joyride in her bmw and helps get him out of tight situations here and there how convenient right and speaking of convenient i found it awfully convenient and easy for to sneak into a highly guarded military base and get away with a stolen highly destructive nuclear weapon even with half the u s army and l a p d after him waaaaay to easy even for an evil barbarian sorcerer from another world there are sooo many plot holes in this i don't know where to begin like why did go to the l a zoo for at the end of the movie he absolutely has no reason whatsoever to go there and wouldn't that be like the last place you'd lure your greatest enemy who just so happens to have the handy ability to control animals br br and don't you just love these kinds of movies where the police are portrayed as total idiots and even with half a dozen cops firing at one guy they still don't manage to hit him the police in this movie belong in the police academy series they are about as useful in this movie as reading glasses are for the blind even the title of the movie makes no sense beastmaster 2 through the portal of time they never actually went through a time portal because the movie isn't set in the future of world it's set in a parallel world along ours in the astral plane so they never actually go through time only a dimensional world along theirs so no actual time travel is involved at all this movie tries to come off as funny and it does not because of the humor but because it's just so bad and that's putting it mildly the acting dialogue plot characters and ending are all so cheesy it's hilarious what more can i expect from the guy that brought us return of the another bad sequel sorely missed here is don wonderful directing and serious feel of the first one avoid this stinking piece of garbage like the bubonic plague and stick which the first one and maybe the third one if there's nothing better on t v
0	the director does not know what to do with a camera too many options and she always always always picks the wrong one she let travolta take charge and he controls the movie from the beginning to the end the characters are not developed maybe because we need to watch them singing no pace at all sometimes too fast sometimes too slow miscasted travolta ok johansson she is too grown up to be a 18 even if she is really 20 br br the happy ending well it looks like that there must be one so the story is sad but not too sad travolta doesn't know how to play a guitar but the director doesn't look she cares too much that he is totally out of synch br br the idea is the only thing that is great but how she developed it well it is simply full of stereotypes and lines heard too many times br br too bad another missed chance
0	this overheated southern gothic has a few decent moments but is too often spoiled by a novice director piling cliché upon cliché and a star who apparently decided to take it upon himself to turn the picture into his personal showcase rather than allowing writer director gabel to update inge or williams as a sort of contemporary midnight cowboy meets lolita tearjerker br br close your eyes listen to the exaggerated southern accents and try to decide if you're witnessing a feature film or an acting class full of eager amateurs br br johansson is for once tolerable i e less pouty than usual though by no means good is decent though a little too pretty boy cute to be believed and travolta chews the scenery as never before with the help of a decent editor and some directorial restraint his performance might have been really touching as it is he and almost everyone else is too unlikable to ever move us past the point of boredom or revulsion kara unger is perhaps best of all had her role been developed beyond a few lines she might have even found herself with a best supporting actress nomination br br pic is almost saved by leonard cohen style growling theme song decent production design and locations and continual reference to literary works which has earned the otherwise standard screenplay reviews such as poetic also helpful are a few old pros in the cast like sonny shroyer and perhaps most importantly soderbergh cameraman elliot davis whose fine work will no doubt be credited to the first time director who ten or twenty years from now may actually learn how to direct br br but probably not
0	this movie is an incredibly self indulgent character piece that assumes that the mere impression of a story is as good as an actual story it was utterly painful to watch and had i not been suckered in to buy the dvd because of john travolta and the positive buzz i would not have finished watching it br br this film lacks anything resembling an interesting premise and seems to rely on weighty and frankly heavy handed characterization there is one altercation scene between and bobby long in which a tv is destroyed that when played out is incredibly flaccid and ill timed br br i found myself caring less and less about the characters as i watched it it was probably very fun film school wise to make it but it is just awfully boring to watch a indulgent and pretentious film school project you should not waste money on
0	what a waste john travolta and scarlett johansen deserved better than this to start at the beginning jt was horribly miscast in the lead here the role called for someone who could convince as a broken down anti hero someone who could look haunted and defeated billy bob thornton would have fit the bill or even al pacino but jt is just too alive and looks to be having too much fun also surely someone who has been through the mill to the extent character had would have suffered some physical effects the character presented to the audience looked as if he could start as tight end for the oakland raiders scarlett faired little better role wise where was the pain and conflict of what should surely have been troubling development and as for the plot well none of it makes sense the characters leap from one frame of mind to another seemingly without cause and certainly without explanation the pace of the film also leaves something to be desired namely pace this is a very slow film not that i have anything against slow films as long as they are heading somewhere the pace only picks up towards the very end when it shifts from a slow dirge to a frantic race to pack in as many tired clichés as possible in this it succeeds the only thing missing being something involving a small dog 3 out of 10 for this one purely for gabriel performance he was the only member of the cast who was a well cast and b able to convince in his role all in all a terrible disappointment and a real waste of a couple of hours
0	i attended a screening of this film travolta came to do a q a after the film ended it was a small screening room in tribeca out of courtesy to him i did not walk out which i wanted to do this is film making at its worst to start the script was poorly written the writer writes in one voice the dialogue was stilted and clichéd how this writer director got scarlet johansen john travolta and lions gate entertainment to back her on this is the only brilliant thing she accomplished in this fiasco br br i do in fact recommend this film to all aspiring screenwriters directors and filmmakers because when you are told that you are wasting your time and it will be impossible for you to reach your goals hey just look at this crap and say to yourself if they can make this then br br ps travolta did a great q a though he was at ease spoke freely and was a down to earth nice guy the director writer stood on the sidelines when john tried to engage her in the conversation she stood back like a piece of wood and never joined in i looked at her and i thought how was this person able to successfully pitch to agents studio execs top talent when she can't open her mouth at a screening of her own film the conclusion from a few of us in attendance was that she must have strong family connections in the business br br after you watch this you should follow it with guy ritchie's zero star masterpiece swept away with the most unintentionally funny and worst performance by wife madonna she's so bad and looks so bad in this film i figure this was her his way of getting back at her for all the abuse he takes from her at home
0	veber is not renown for his outstanding directorial skills in fact nobody cares as long as they got the laughs quite a few here to be honest scattered in the whole process thanks to depardieu's half wit characterization and the dialogue veber puts in his mouth br br but this is not enough to make a great comedy since there's no movie outside of the usual veber premise a tough guy is doomed to team up with a very naive character in la or les there was a real story going on over the fire vs water proceedings le diner de cons although it was a play managed to create a real suspense about the next catastrophe would cause in tais toi the backstory about the vengeance is both redundant and too weak to arouse our interest plus the heavies are lame both on screen and in the script br br now what's wrong veber wraps this up creating no action no rhythm instead he uses systematically and ellipses maybe he met william goldman in hollywood and the really stresses that lack of nerve and a backbone in the story br br so you'll have to be content with depardieu's performance
0	reading the other two comments i had to wonder if i had seen the same movie br br perhaps life is drastically different in australia but wow call it sci fi or fantasy but people just don't act like this br br i couldn't pass up this review without commenting on it myself it gets better after the first half hour but i doubt most could make it that far br br yikes
0	the parallels between this film and captain walrus an independant film shown at the team projection film festival in 1994 are so blindingly obvious that any praise for sally marshall is not an alien must be viewed with the knowledge that it is riding on the success of another work br br in captain walrus two young boys geoff and roger played by dean turner and brett allen respectively examine the bizarre behaviour of their new neighbour britney played by louise farley as the two boys watch through their telescope they observe the repeated visits of a man in uniform who they call captain walrus played by peter sargent however the emphasis in captain walrus is on the pointless and somewhat power hungry actions of the neighbour britney and less on the friendship between the two boys br br a critical success at the film festival the plot of captain walrus has obviously been appropriated and rehashed in order to give the australian film community another notch on the belt with regards to children's product although sally marshall is not an alien is a fine film and a credit to its producers its leaves something to be deserved
0	in the past 5 years i have rented some bad movies completely on purpose see i aspire to be a movie reviewer and as we all know there are horrible movies released every year anyway about 3 months ago i rented this one i watched it all the way through and cried profusely this is one of those movies that is so freakin bad it makes you want to puke it actually put a sick feeling in my stomach i've seen lots of bad movies mystery science theater 3000 anyone but this one takes the cake the plot was hard to follow the lighting horrible and the sounds almost inaudible if there was a negative rating on the scale here this movie would be at 11 for me this may seem odd but i highly recommend it it's something you have to see for yourself but don't say i didn't warn you i don't think this review could get any more precise so i'm done now br br
0	i've heard that this move was put together by a bunch of high school students as a high school art or theatre project it's not too bad unless you lived near in the seventies or knew someone involved in the making of the movie this is pretty awful most of the actors are clearly not actors but locals who volunteered bob wilkins the original host of creature features on in oakland appears but only for about a minute some of the monster effects are done with stop motion animation and some with a man in a monster suit and each works okay on it's own but there is no continuity between the two watching without dialog you'd assume that the movie had 2 monsters i guess the most aspect is that even the main characters who i assume are the kids behind the movie cannot even pretend to act these kids must have been involved in theater in some way to want to do this project but they display zero believable emotion in front of the camera
0	truly flatulent script and i was very disappointed with marc singer for agreeing to be in it br br i actually walked out of the theater about 15 20 minutes into it and demanded my money back i have actually walked out of a movie only 3 times in my life i am 43 years old and this is the only one that made me mad enough to demand my ticket price back if i could have i would have gotten a refund on the popcorn too this was a truly lousy movie and there is no excuse br br for one thing how does someone who was raised as a pre tech barbarian learn to drive a car in california driving a car is a somewhat tricky skill and in california even i should know i live there
0	this is the result of the town of california making a home movie and subjecting the rest of the world to it legendary in some circles as the biggest cinematic turkey this movie is rightly thought of as a bad movie part comedy part giant monster horror movie this movie is full of non actors not acting the plot has something to do with a giant monster being created from the garbage and pollution in the area and going on a rampage the monster which we don't see until the final 20 minutes is rather cool looking but isn't cool enough to warrant watching the preceding hour of boredom frankly even hardened bad movie lovers are going to have a tough time getting through to the end this is a stinker
0	it is real easy to toast roast flay and otherwise burn this film for all of its abundant flaws it was made by high school students and faculty and a whole community it shows sure i could examine the script which is just ridiculous a monster created from the garbage of a growing californian city starts eating garbage and taking garbage cans all over the city soon this huge beast with wings no less begins to destroy buildings and even plays the beauty and the beast act with a young high school girl fortunately for her there is a gang of guys her former boyfriend nicknamed the penguin and the town drunk out to help her the direction is awful the production values just dreadful the acting non existent and the pace sluggish the movie is hard to sit through period however that being said it is also a miracle of a film when you consider that this thing was crafted by an entire community you can see all the collective effort from the actors the actual mayor and actual firemen and policemen to the area location shots used i also was really amazed at all the local businesses credited at the film's end with helping to finance or contribute in some way to the film when you look at the film from that perspective it is indeed quite an achievement i didn't know anything about it before i sat down and watched it now that i have found out something about it i am impressed but make no mistake i have no no desire to sit through it again
0	this is a very bad movie however i read that it was made by a high school teacher so maybe i should give it at least a tiny bit of praise for it's ambitious yet awful special effects here is the plot a monster emerges from a pile of trash and pollution in the town of california and embarks on a destructive rampage i'm about to spoil the big surprise about what the monster looks like so please read the rest of this at your own risk you have been warned the monster looks sort of like a giant two legged fly wearing a gas mask in some scenes the monster is an actor wearing a costume in other scenes the monster is created by stop motion animation the acting is terrible the dialogue is terrible the special effects are terrible the plot is predictable stay away
0	i'm giving it a three instead of the lower number it deserves because of its history a full length movie made by high school students it shows too but that's part of the charm and appeal get ahold of some of the stuff george lucas did at ucla this is better maybe due to being a group effort br br a monster made of toxic waste and too much garbage these kids were way ahead of their time starts ravaging the town of during a high school dance the monster destroys randomly leaving garbage and smelly footprints br br the movie has local tv and radio people the mayor the samuel high school principal and a whole bunch of the high school students and their parents not to mention the mayor's daughter as the ingénue br br dumb yeah fun yeah great screen writing c'mon they're untrained high copy that comment for the acting cinematography directing et cetera br br is right next to san jose in the heart of silicon valley maybe one of the graphics geniuses there will update the video somehow now there's a challenge
0	if corky st claire in waiting for guffman had directed the citizens of blaine in a horror movie with comic undertones the result would have been very much like the monster br br to be generous this was the longest hour and twenty minute movie i've ever seen to call the pace glacial is to be kind br br almost nobody associated with this project ever made another movie with the exception of ben who did the really admirable considering the budget special effects he went on to do sound for movies like munich and several other big budget projects the narration is by veteran voice over actor paul frees who probably donated his efforts br br when you're watching the opening titles and see the unified school district listed as one of the producers you know you're going on a long strange trip br br pollution at the down dump in california becomes so toxic that it creates a monster remember that this is 1975 and ecology was a hot topic just a few years previously moviegoers had been treated to godzilla vs the smog monster br br so far so good the monster is a winged creature at least fifty feet tall and has the capacity to tear the town apart instead it steals garbage cans br br central to the premise is the idea that this monster can prowl a small city and leave eight foot long footprints behind but not be noticed by anyone there's a nicely conceived scene where it walks through the middle of a carnival at night but somehow nobody notices br br the only person who sees the monster until the final scenes is george the town drunk all through the movie i hoped hoped hoped that george would be torn to shreds on camera but this didn't happen drat in fact nobody gets killed george supposedly sacrifices himself to save priscilla he's tied to a helicopter to lure the creature george smells worse than garbage and the monster is attracted to the scent br br the nominal leads are a group of high school students there's pretty priscilla and her nondescript boyfriend and some bad boys who surprise surprise whip themselves into shape to help defeat the monster in the final scenes br br the monster is involved in four main set pieces he attacks a browning ferris garbage truck and leaves it beside an elevated highway but nobody notices he walks through the carnival again unnoticed he tears up a building nice miniature work and nobody sees him but george then he attacks the high school during a dance and grabs priscilla and carries her off just like a certain very tall ape has done several times most recently this past winter br br there are plot ideas that come out of nowhere and are dropped local citizens picket at city hall because they want their garbage cans back an elaborate secret weapon for tracking monsters is flown in by private jet examined and forgotten br br so why did i watch the whole thing because these people were having so darned much fun i had the idea that the firemen were firemen the businessmen were being filmed in their own offices priscilla may well live in that suburban tract house and scenes of people in their yards may well have been in their own yards br br they may not be great actors but they are real people nobody is stunningly good looking in fact i'd estimate that four out of five of the adults on screen wear glasses since this is the mid seventies we see some really bad clothes and some of the men have awesomely bad facial hair one dignitary being interviewed before a meeting at hall has such a loud tie and that you think he's on his way to play in the music man br br and that got the movie two extra stars zero for the story two points for the sometimes decent special effects and two points for the fact that people in the community actually got together and did this they can actually say they've performed in a movie despite lots of stage experience and working behind the scenes in live television i can't say that and i'm happy for them br br remember those great old movies with mickey rooney and judy garland at some point somebody would say let's put on a show aunt edna has all those old clothes in the attic and we can use uncle ned's barn then they'd do shows' with sets and costumes that would cost well into seven figures if duplicated today br br that's the spirit that the good people of had for this project and bless them for that
0	so this guy goes into a psychiatrist's office for his first appointment after the paperwork is done the psychiatrist says i'm going to show you ink blots tell me what you see in them well says the patient looking at the first one i see a man and a woman having sex on seeing the second one he says i see two women having sex on seeing the third he says i see two men having sex on seeing the next one he says i see two men and two women having sex the psychiatrist puts down the the so he says we'll start by discussing your my says the guy and you with all these dirty pictures that's how this movie strikes me
0	the most impressive thing about cinema' is its title an anagram which is very nearly also a unfortunately it only works in american english since in britain is spelt differently br br i've always found the dilettante man ray and his artistic efforts to be deeply pretentious and i've never understood why his work attracts so much attention apart from his which he invented by accident and which are merely direct contact photo prints his one real contribution to culture seems to be that he was the first photographer to depict female nudity in a manner that was accepted as art rather than as porn but surely this had to happen eventually and there's no real reason why ray deserves the credit the critical reaction to man ray reminds me of the story about the emperor's new clothes br br back in the early 1960s the second season of 'the twilight zone' opened each episode with a shot of revolving concentric circles in black and white there's an image in cinema' which is so similar i wonder if 'twilight zone' borrowed it from this film the main difference is that the revolving image here is a black and white spiral indeed if ever there was any movie that deserves to be described as a spiral this one is it throughout cinema' we're treated to shots of a revolving disc containing words in french moving in a spiral the effect is vertiginous and the texts about incest and eskimos are nearly dada in their meaninglessness i did laugh at one clever sexual pun br br the emperor is naked folks and this movie just barely rates 2 points out of 10 au
0	pretty terrible but not entirely unwatchable another review mentioned predictable and that's almost an understatement you can make a game out of guessing what the next line will be every character is either stereotype or archetypical the good guy in a bad situation the struggle between older and younger priest on acceptance and discipline the repressed sexually emotionally deprived woman returning to the small town after failing in the big city engaged to the feeble minded beau from youth the unredeemable bad guys two lost boys looking for a sense of family they're all here and none of them with even the remotest spin of something new from the first few minutes you can figure out exactly what will happen by film's end the story isn't entirely lame but direction acting even from a cast with some talent everything is thrown together without skill as to the storyline we've all seen it before in a movie called sister act this is also one of those films where inattention to small details show up in an even more glaring light as example the nurse and our hero drive into town but park several blocks away from their destinations post office and hardware store yet both walk across empty parking lots for no apparent reason or the passage of morning to night during a scene that seemingly should occur in no more than half an hour the movie is filled with that kind of stuff and then tags on an improbable denouement
0	this movie about a man on the run for killing a mobster is the kind of film you can watch entirely on fast forward once you know who's who and not lose a thing it has an attractive cast but the plot is a virtual writer's guide to cinema cliche and boy does the dialogue
0	this opens with the company credits informing us it s by world international network i knew i d seen this company credit before but couldn t remember where but knew it was at the start of a really bad movie i d seen so i seriously thought about changing channels only thing was i d seen every film on the other channels which is one of the problems of being an imdb reviewer what the hell i thought it won t really matter if wanted is good or bad because i ll still be able to review it for this site br br as i expected wanted wasn t all that good it s a plot i d seen so many times too many times before involving a fugitive on the run a bit like the incredible hulk tv series without the shirt ripping jimmy crosses the mob in an entirely contrived way and goes on the run and in an entirely contrived manner finds himself working at a catholic reform school have you noticed an oft used description in the last sentence entirely contrived is the answer let me repeat for the hard of thinking that this is an entirely contrived film where everything relies on coincidence another problem i had was the reform school run by the church it s far too compassionate and kind i m led to believe these type of establishments make alcatraz look like a country club i m saying this is a fact but when the head priest looks like the spitting image of donald rumsfeld you do feel there s a large amount of sugar coating going on br br to be honest despite the ridiculous plot twists etc wanted isn t really a bad thriller though it s a terribly good one either i never really had the urge to switch it off no matter how contrived it became which is an under hand compliment to the movie
0	i love the first and third but this one was an abomination it was almost as horrible as 'the never ending story 3' for the same reasons they took a fascinating fantasy world of barbarian tribes farming villages witches supernatural creatures and a cult of religious fanatics using a pyramid and thought it would be funny to mix in our materialistic pop culture world of rock roll sushi i think thats what it was and flashy sports cars these two worlds do not belong together i do not want to see a bunch of ancient barbarian looking people dancing to some rock song on the car radio i have a sense of humor but this is just stupid this is what hollywood does to good fantasy movies when they run out of ideas don't give up though the eye of is much much better that one i gave a 10 this one portal of time i give a 1 believe me i don't always give such extremely high or low ratings i just tend to comment only such movies
0	i think i've finally seen the worst movie ever made and it hurts me to say that as a big fan of indie cinema gay or otherwise i had high hopes several minutes into the film however the sheriff appeared and has my vote for the worst actor of this or any other century his performance and the dialog he was forced to perform caused me the unusual step of stopping the dvd in its track hours later when i screwed up enough courage to press the play button again it was no better br br aside from the sheriff and his cartoon racist deputies the film has an attractive cast for whom i felt genuine sympathy since they had such a miserable script the idea behind the film is fine using lynching of gay men in the new south the same way it was used on black men in the old south leaving strange fruit hanging from the trees br br with an accomplished writer and director we might have had a movie instead we get fake detective work platitudes about homosexuality and a cliché with a the one good white man trying to save the day br br i have no doubt that racism still flourishes the fbi is currently investigating a white school bus driver in the back woods of who forced the black kids to get to the back of the bus but this town is a cartoon and it is hard to believe anything you see or hear br br there a few subplots in a weak attempt to try to make the main character more three dimensional but for the most part they also fail miserably br br for the truly masochistic the dvd contains some deleted scenes that will leave you running for cover br br the is probably the first movie that makes me believe that writer directors should have to pass a test and get licensed before they can make a film although i would look forward to seeing several of the cast members in better films i would be hard pressed to witness anything else from this director
0	horrible writing directing and acting the writer director has portrayed southerners especially southern law enforcement as ignorant backwoods homophobic and racist a very popular yet ignorant stereotype that the film industry loves to perpetuate the acting or overacting and the writing came across as amateurish and low budget the plot line is the same old stale hollywood story of the mean 'ol racist and homophobic rednecks who are ultimately defeated by the enlightened people from yoke br br i was raised in the small louisiana town where this movie was filmed and looked forward to seeing the film but was immediately disappointed during the first few minutes of the movie the start of the film depicts a gay bar located in the swamps of louisiana how ridiculous a concept there are a lot of gays and gay bars in south louisiana but no gay bars in the swamps or small towns of louisiana we then are introduced to the sheriff who uses the phrases in the worst southern drawl and overdone performance ever then there is the scene where the local police are watching porno on duty in the police station i could go on and on about the horrible cheesy acting or the stale stereotypes or ridiculous scenes br br this director and his crew were welcomed into this small friendly town and shown true southern hospitality the townspeople of lake arthur and the state of louisiana were only to be insulted and degraded in the final editing the good people of lake arthur were excited and enamored with hollywood being in town not knowing that in the end they would be portrayed as ignorant racist and homophobic country bumpkins in a low budget amateur movie that went straight to dvd my advice skip this one or watch it on late night cinemax if it ever makes their rotation
0	this is a movie with an excellent concept for a story but that got sidetracked but a large number of clichéd sub plots hackneyed and unrealistic portrayed characterizations and performances and some frankly implausible and highly coincidental and not to mention convenient as plot points to move the story to its inexorable finish br br the lack of anything that marked the lead as actually gay other than some coincidental references to crow bar or that he's gay was troubling it wouldn't have hurt to actually show him do something even if it was just meet a friend for drinks br br it's worth checking out and has it's merits there isn't much even now a few years after the movie was released in the way of movies that feature both a lead that is gay or a significant gay plot line and that is also about african americans for that it's worth checking out i wouldn't look too hard for it and i wouldn't waste my time looking for it to own this is a rental and not a premium rental at that
0	i too had waited a long time to see this film as far as i know it has never been released in australia so in the end i found a copy on the net and ordered it through there weeks after my order confirmation it finally arrived and i was extremely excited to finally be sitting in front of my tv ready to watch a film that sounded so interesting and controversial and filmed in an area of the world where so many good movies are what a disappointment within the first few minutes i realised i'd ordered a b grader but was still full of expectation i convinced my son 18 to watch it with me as i love sharing when i find a movie of value with good underlying statements and or story lines about half way through he got up and said he couldn't stand watching it any longer it was so predictable and amateurish i agreed but watched to the end the acting was atrocious even for b grade standards the stereotyping also predictable and i feel for the good folks of lake arthur who must've cringed after seeing the film depicting them in such a way no doubt some racial prejudices still exist in many parts of the world not just the states but really in this day and age i doubt they'd get away with all the ridiculous presented in this i had to double check the date the film was made as their attempts at gimmicky filming of the more gruesome scenes was something i'd expect from a high school student's first attempt at making a film like i'd like to see this film put into the hands of experienced scriptwriters and film makers its an old tale but one that could still pack a punch if dealt with professionally so disappointed after such a long wait and with such high expectations the soundtrack was probably the only thing i enjoyed
0	i went to see this 3 nights ago here in cork ireland it was the world premiere of it in the tiny cinema in the arts centre as part of the cork film festival br br i found strange fruit to be an excellent movie it is a bit rough around the edges but for a low budget movie that is to be expected in general the acting particularly from the main lead kent is wonderful the cinematography and direction excellent and the script hugely entertaining and thought provoking with some nice set ups and witty dialogue br br the ending was a bit sudden with no conclusion given to characters and events once the finale came to its gripping end but perhaps that's what the filmmakers were going for it certainly did make the movie more unsettling i did like the fact that the main character never came to terms with his mother on screen it leaves you wondering whether or not he ever will as in real life sometimes these things are never settled this was a good choice to leave it unresolved rather than sentimentally wrapping it up br br taut and suspenseful throughout strange fruit is a hugely ambitious debut and i have high hopes for what the writer director kyle will unleash next he and his colleagues are a talent worth watching br br i hope strange fruit gets a wider release soon as more people deserve to see this movie an above average thriller with some original and insightful twists on homophobia and racism in america's deep south br br highly recommended 7 10
0	i was totally disgusted with this unnecessary sequel to the poseidon adventure a movie which i have given a great comment about br br this film is unbelievable from the word go i agree why were no other rescues boats around and helicopters the one that rescued the original survivors had just flown over the boat that michael caine sally field are on that was the only rescue crew hard to believe br br the acting is generally poor and the show looks cheap i really hated the waste of talent from some good actors br br don't watch this film unless you must catch sally michael as lovers br br
0	a good script or director couldn't fix br br the original adventure' was a story of human courage triumphing against terrific odds and personal tragedy the survivors were led by a charismatic figure of great spiritual strength who would take anything god threw at him br br the follow up tries to recreate the mix but fails through a formulaic script and pedestrian direction irwin allen may have been a great producer of disaster flicks and done a fine job directing the action scenes in but he just can't bring any human depth to his characters if the characters aren't credible any danger they face also falls flat br br the script also tries to copy the original too obviously so we have peter boyle doing the ernest borgnine thing by being tough and obnoxious but he has a tender heart karl malden is the red buttons influence and is terminally ill for good measure slim pickens does the comic relief for shelley winters and so on br br to make the story more contemporary we have a rogue arms dealer ready to flog weapons grade plutonium to the highest bidder a really nasty piece of work who ruthlessly abandons wounded men the actors playing his henchmen were presumably paid as extras because they don't seem to have any lines and has a woman shot in the back what a cad thank goodness the french rescue services made the hole in the hull twice as large as in 1972 and on the other side of the propeller shaft so he could he get his goods out and while we're on the subject how did they get the crates to the oh forget it br br i actually paid good money to see this when it was released given the film's current reputation this may seem odd but it actually got quite mixed reviews at the time some said it was junk some said it was as exciting as the original never mind nobody can be right all the time
0	4 oscar winners karl malden sally field shirley jones michael caine great character actors telly savalas and peter boyle 1 hour 54 minutes of sheer tedium melodrama and horrible acting a mess of a script and a sinking feeling of good lord what were they thinking br br irwin allen was just trying to cash in on the popularity of the original classic disaster film with a grade d minus script the actors were obviously just in it for the paycheck as well the horror the horror br br how insane are the characters that caine savalas malden and field are playing go into a potentially deadly sinking ship that's 1 on fire 2 hot from steam 3 slippery from water and oil 4 boilers that are exploding every 5 minutes etc all for the love of money greed 5 they have very little equipment not even a pair of gloves or work boots in sight much less a grappling hook rope etc br br stupidity br br what were they thinking br br peter boyle overacts so much that i just wanted to smack him stop it and what's the deal with the bad toupee also there is no way you can believe his character was a ww2 veteran br br caine field and malden find all that gold and money and they are happy whoopee we're rich we may not live to spend it but hey br br and yee haw it's the great character actor slim pickens br br survivors galore jack warden and shirley knight too br br the final dramatic sub plot about that scary plutonium never really went anywhere it's like they forgot sort of lots of holes in the script br br this film has an illness that the strongest pill couldn't cure i'm surprised alan j name wasn't on the script i'd be embarrassed to have penned this one br br oh the insanity oh the humanity oy vey br br the horror the horror br br it's like a bad two hour tv movie br br at least the sets were made from recycled material from the first movie br br the script needed to be on the compost heap
0	this film is in a dead tie with the original for worst film ever made i think this one may be slightly worse if anything spoiler alert here are these survivors on a ship that's been for a long time improbable no impossible the whole premise is so laughable as to not be funny there are some pretty big names in the film and even they couldn't save this sorry thing i find it truly a waste of good celluloid after seeing this i also unfortunately decided that it had been a waste of my time don't bother with this one or the original for that matter i gave it a 2 mainly because they throw votes of 1 out
0	awkward disaster mishmash has a team of scavengers coming across the overturned s s poseidon hoping to loot it before it goes under for good irwin allen's sequel to his 1972 blockbuster the poseidon adventure arrived in theaters seven years later never mind that nobody cared anymore why give us such a shoddy production filled with dim characters and miscast actors only to trash the memory of your biggest hit one might end up feeling really sorry for michael caine sally field peter boyle jack warden karl malden and shirley jones were it not for their lost at sea expressions good for a few stray laughs there's a moment when saintly jones is tempted into taking some treasures just for herself and she timidly starts stuffing her pockets that is an unintended hoot the film was a career for all concerned most especially allen who never quite recovered from this from
0	if you are ever in the mood for a truly terrible film it would be hard to find something that could even compare to this i have spent a lot of time watching a lot of terrible movies just for the sheer joy i get from it and man this is one of the worst this movie was so bad i had to buy the third online that one wasn't as bad which is amazing since it was straight to video this is one of those films that is hard to comprehend how it was made in the first place i mean someone had to actually have read the script or many scripts i'm sure they made several drafts and said yeah that's it here's some money actually they probably just wanted to make a beastmaster 2 before they even had a script then went with whatever they had ack horrible so if you are a fan of really bad movies watch this one it is a true classic and film doesn't get much worse than this and if it does please let me know
0	the first 20 minutes were a little fun because i don't think i've seen a film this bad before acting script effects etc the rest of the running time seemed to drag forever with every cliche in dialog used to no effect these people seemed to not really like horror movies or how to make them or any other movie there's no adult language a bit of brief nudity and no gore except fake blood smeared over no open wounds etc it would have been rated pg in the early eighties and pg 13 nowadays i'm not sure how it got an r rating or if it really did i saw the american international release titled hospital of terror i've seen 100 horror films in the past 12 months and this is probably the worst film i've ever seen here's an example of how bad it is there's one scene where something green comes through the door i'm not sure what it's supposed to be but what it is on screen is some kid's green crayon scribblings i'm not exaggerating super imposed over the film semi moving inside the door then its supposed to do something to nurse sherri to possess her i suppose i could not believe they had the lack of pride to show this embarrassment
0	wretched talk about botched beyond the poseidon adventure is bad in every respect michael caine and karl malden decide to tow the wreck of the eponymous ocean liner with a really creaky tug boat they're challenged by ruthless telly savalas and his gang of machine gun toting goons this part sequel part remake has caine malden and another group of poseidon survivors making a similarly dangerous trek out of the sinking ship among this group are shirley jones slim pickens peter boyle shirley knight and slim pickens jack warden plays a blind man surely you'll wish you were blind after seeing this mess sally field is particularly annoying as a stowaway on board caine's tug br br disaster master irwin allen not only produced this one he decided to direct it as well
0	sequels well there are many reasons to make 'em but what went through irwin allen's mind to come up with such a boring idea is beyond all logical matters there are so many open answers to this movie that it is ridiculous like the poseidon which is a ship with passengers on is drifting on the sea and just michael caine with his and an evil telly savalas discover the boat well at the beginning the french marine are circling above the wreck with their helicopter but as a sinking is a daily thing they just fly away what am i trying to say hmmm michael caine goes on board with sally field and he might pick up everything he sees diamonds if there wasn't a telly savalas who is looking for weapons on the ship my god why in fact am i wasting my words on here it's ridiculous and knowing that both field and caine were involved makes you think what went through their minds when reading scripts certainly not diamonds
0	maybe here in sydney we are all poop side down and as a result we get to lap up like this s eek in classy theaters released here in 1980 this hilarious all tar drama was greeted with howls of delight at the session i attended in fact the audience were so into the ludicrous antics on screen it played like a rocky horror session within 5 minutes we all knew it was a real disaster the tug boat scene where you can see the buckets of water tossed in from off set after that it was every patron for himself and the cinema rang with advice cheering for bad acting and oo reactions the gunfight in the hold among the crates is especially idiotic and allows drunken viewers with friends in altered states also watching to contribute appropriately i call these films with michael caine his holiday house films as i always reckon he agrees to do them because he has seen a house he likes and doesn't want to spend his savings like jaws 3 or 4 or whatever it was called
0	i accidentally caught this in the middle flipping channels i immediately recognized almost everyone in the cast groovy haircuts aside and wondered what kind of film could attract such a cast of both past and future stars having not seen the original i guessed it might be the poseidon adventure since it was obviously on a ship in distress was i wrong i cannot for the life of me imagine why any of these great or promising actors and actresses would allow their name to be associated with such trash there is no story the performances all looked forced the characters a parody of the usual disaster movie roles that are suddenly brought together by an event and start pontificating about the real meaning of life at the level of bumper sticker philosophy br br it is only worthwhile to see the unusually awful performances by such greats as sally field michael caine et al they must have needed the money badly can we blame the director
0	but other than that there's almost no redeeming social value to this sequel to the original poseidon adventure where the heck are all the people from the original including the rescue crew michael caine undergoes his most humiliating performance to date although he later trumps himself with jaws 4 down the road slim pickens is just embarrassing as a stereotyped texas and generally you just have to wonder why did they bother irwin allen's last stab at cashing in on the disaster craze i guess
0	being stuck in bed with the flu and feeling too rough to get up to find the remote i actually watched this abomination from start to finish how many people can say that and for any who can what's your excuse my god has there ever ever been such a total mess released by a major studio there is not one second of genuine tension in a supposed thriller the script is inept and ludicrous the sets look like they were leftovers from a low budget tv movie and the cast what were they thinking sally field gives what is without doubt the worst and most embarrassing performance of any academy award winner in history her irritating nasal whine and stupidly perky behaviour in what is meant to be a life threatening situation are truly asinine it's a wonder she didn't use all her future earnings to buy up and destroy every print of this turkey michael caine who now pontificates endlessly on the art of screen acting even running master classes for would be thespians should be taken out and shot preferably by one of telly henchmen angela cartwright an actress i usually like and whose name isn't even in the opening credits poor soul is ten years too old for her role and her horrible matronly yellow prom dress must haunt her nightmares to this day slumming it are karl malden and shirley knight hopefully they collected a big pay packet to assuage their involvement the whole film is a series of bad scenes but one that especially sticks in my mind is the explosion which results in the ceiling if an upside down ship's deck can be termed as such collapsing and a load of empty cardboard boxes falling through ooh how scary really really terrible
0	stodgy drama starring pat o'brien as a washed up reporter who turns up at his ex boss's house to ask for money to fund his son's operation only to find him dead on the floor since o'brien knows the identity of the culprit he offers to take the rap in return for the money he needs a decent premise is wasted on a film that pretends it has surprises twists and turns even though it really doesn't performances are rotten across the board the movie dresses itself up as a hard boiled american noir but the mix of dodgy accents doesn't work and the story is hardly gripping and it contains possibly the least attractive screen kiss of all time
0	a washed up reporter called bart pat o' blackmails gang boss heinz webber george for the money to pay for his son to have a life saving operation in return he agrees to turn himself in for the murder of his editor whom the gang killed in order to prevent an incriminating story being printed about them br br typical poverty row b pic of the time directed for far more than it's worth by terence fisher who within months of making this would become one of the leading british horror film directors at the hammer studio the script is far fetched and teen idol tommy steele guitar in hand was drafted in to sing a poor rock and roll number called the rebel at a coffee bar that acts as a legitimate front for the gang's activities
0	another eli roth in the making self promoting bad script writing excuse for a horror director victor is as far from the new horror icon as mary poppins reference to the disney score what is going on here you have marilyn manson opening and closing this piece of crap and chitty chitty bang bang all through it can this even be called horror horrible yes but horror is a stretch david lynch should sue them for stealing the elephant man prosthetics please stop these fan boy want to be directors now the video directors already have enough competition breaking into the film industry getting online and talking about how great your movie is does not make it true stop the insanity i work in the industry and yes these films are fun to work on but rarely ever entertaining to actually watch
0	this movie is one of the worse examples of hype people who read imdb comments might be tempted to view this total waste of time as i was by false tag lines like a throwback to 80's horror and what not this movie sucks from the acting to the directing to the story horrible all across the board and i really like good horror films i am not at all a snob this sucked for reference i loved the grudge 1 and 2 black sheep planet terror texas massacre the beginning the others the ring jason x slither planet terror and really hated the ring 2 texas chainsaw massacre re make wolf creek the hills have eyes re make hostel 1 and 2 and this movie gore doesn't trump fun or originality
0	this one kind of is like an earlier movie from 1987 masters of the universe based on the cartoon he man basically you have a great old world and they for some reason have to have nearly all the action of the movie take place on modern earth well i guess it is not so modern earth now and that it is an ancient world now of strangeness and a den of good times gone by well i guess i can figure why they did in fact place nearly all the movie in modern times in this and that movie to save money on costumes and sets it is a lot easier to recreate what is going on in the present than a strange world like that of in he man or an ancient world with cults and strange pyramids sacrifices and strange creatures that hug you to death this movie is forgettable and not very entertaining your first clue that it is not going to be the best movie in the world is that robert z'dar is in it the only thing this one has going for it is the animals which are not as prevalent in this one as they were in the last marc singer is back and it is sad to seem him in this state the guy was a fairly good actor reduced to trying to make a sequel to a movie that really did not need one and even if it did it came five years to late
0	i don't understand what the big hype was about this film all the horror sites were saying that this movie had all the essentials of an 'old american slasher' flick that it would satisfy your needs even though this was similar to an old american slasher flick my needs were still not satisfied br br my big problem with this movie is that we are now in the 2000's not the 1980's 1980's horror is the past and should stay in the past horror movies have changed so much that older movies now look cheesy and unrealistic even though they are fun to watch they don't offer the same realistic blood thirsty gore that the recent films offer br br hatchet is cheesy unrealistic and down right awful if we wanted to watch an old american slasher flick i can just go back to the friday the 13th series nightmare on elm street series or the halloween series i must admit the movie is better than some of the horror movies being released but it is among the worst the jokes are not funny and the actors are horrible br br i would personally stay away from this movie and never look back
0	i first heard of this movie at the flashback weekend in chicago 2007 for the nightmare on elm street robert englund was really talking the movie up and he was great in his part of hatchet the same can be said for tony todd knowing this is a low budget first time director writer it delivers every bit as much as the big budget and also cameo laden 2007 remake re imagining br br technically it falls short in a couple of places the alligator attack seen was shoot too dark when it happened the dark head of the alligator against the swamp on to the black pants became almost invisible the mood music in the swamp scenes was too loud in volume and canned like a bad sitcom and just like 2007 someone is smart enough to have a gun but of course shooting the killer is only a pause button for the killer the ending well as soon as i saw where it was going i knew what was going to happen not very original br br the highlights of the movie are the characters and their interactions unlike 2007 we got to meet the people and care what happened to them ben joel moore who is also the lead of spiral the sulking lead and marcus not another teen movie as the best friend and funny man to root for during the movie shapiro joel murry dharma greg jenna and misty mercedes mcnab of buffy the vampire slayer the series angel the series and the addams family movies give a convoluted reason for topless women mr and mrs played by television regulars richard grounded for life step by step as the older couple that you know don't stand a chance even the tour guide shawn parry shen is a fleshed out character i hope to see more from all involved in this film but i think it will play better on home video than in the theater sorry
0	harry knowles has a quote right on the front cover of the dvd stating the next icon of horror really i have heard a lot of hype surrounding this one but wasn't totally convinced however i am a die hard horror fan and will give just about any horror movie a chance no matter the budget or the rating cause ya never know where your gonna find the next gem not here not hatchet hatchet is poorly conceived poorly acted and un funny just because you have the actors who played freddy jason and candyman and a buffy chic topless with tons of gore does not make you an expert on horror sorry i don't even want to describe the plot because it is so idiotic honestly my money is on rob zombie there is a man who knows old school horror forget this trash
0	like the blair witch project before it hatchet has garnered its own fair share of publicity from the bottom on up as an avid reader of fangoria magazine the full page ads are hard to miss even after its middling theatrical run the film is bound to subsist solely on the hype surrounding it and will probably turn into a cult item at some point with a myspace url and a mighty if puzzlingly subjective promise of preserving so called old school american horror hatchet will draw a lot of curiosity seekers with its dvd release where that claim is emblazoned on the disc itself perhaps it was the large print blurb from ain't it cool news on the ads that caused me to approach the film with some trepidation it seems that harry knowles and his minions will approve of any film for vip passes and free food but hatchet makes me question what writer director adam green's idea of old school american horror really is based on the evidence here it means the insipid late '80s rip offs of friday the 13th and deliverance the characters are obnoxious stereotypes black chris tucker type survivalist chick topless bimbos requisite old couple asian tour guide whose interactions are marred by painful trying to be hip dialogues and mostly obvious stabs at humor not quite as bad as cabin fever but still the script has too much padding the rustling bush scene for example and hatchet winds up as typical as any postmodern slasher of the last decade with its only distinguishing trait an expertly calculated hype machine i'll give it some faint praise for the gore if you can wade through the padding in between kills the red is definitely a thing of wonder and the only real reason to watch this
0	am a hardcore horror thriller fan when i was for good horror flick to scare me on my weekend night grabbed hatchet with impressing blood stained hatchet movie poster added to average ratings in imdb but i was wrong after watchin this crap no characterisation sick dialogues with sexy babes bared boobs i got the feel of watchin porno certainly and the which so called main theme or suspense of the story sucks big time and here comes the clown funny mask to scare think users rated this movie went nuts it deserves 1 out of 10 i give 2 for bare boobs babes n soundtrack it has
0	a terrible movie that is amateurish on almost every level a boring and derivative screenplay filled with stereotyped characters played by embarrassed actors for a director lacking the most rudimentary understanding of his craft the whole thing stinks it plays like a slasher movie from the early eighties down to the crappy score and ketchup sfx but without the childhood nostalgia that is required to look fondly on such dross one of the worst horror films i've ever seen definitely the worst that received a mainstream theatrical release i've never walked out of a film in my life had i been unlucky enough to see at the theater it would have been a first avoid at all costs
0	saying this movie is worse than on your own diarrhea is a generous understatement the only thing more pathetic than this reprehensible piece of garbage of a movie is the getting paid by the producers to register a bunch of accounts to post fake appraise br br if watching a poorly acted suspenseless snoozer of a movie about sloth from the goonies kill people in a fashion that completely ignores every law of physics pulling on an unrestrained person's legs causing them to be ripped from the torso is your idea of a good movie then knock yourself out br br no carbon based with a functioning lobe would consider in a million eons that this movie is scary or entertaining
0	is it just me or have all horror movies become nothing more than titties slapstick and an over the top villain who cannot be killed this movie had no point whatever happened to the days of a person being able to escape from the killer as in hostel and at least make the killer a little more realistic victor crowley was the worst killer i have ever seen he reminded me of a demon spawn between quasimodo and leatherface it was over the top that while victor was lying there on fire no one thought to finish the job and the ending was the biggest disappointment of all reminiscent of the soprano's finale i had to agree with the fella behind me when he blurted what the f if i could give the movie a negative score i would have taken care of it
0	let me just give you guys some advice if your going to watch this movie just to see a bunch of unlikable characters get slaughtered in a dozen different ways then you are going to love this movie because everyone dies a horrible death beyond the gore however there is not much else br br where should i start the characters do not appeal to the audience as there are no back stories for any of them there for i didn't feel connected to any of them in fact i didn't like any of them and i was so sick of them that by the end of the movie i was rooting for the disfigured creep to kill them all which he did by the way br br bad acting i mean i didn't get it take the asian tour guide for example first he spoke perfect english then after their little tour boat thing sunk he somehow got an accent out of the blue then later on went to speaking normal english br br one of the worst endings for a horror if you can call it that after the monster human mutant thing kills almost everyone he is killed by the last two remaining idiots or so they thought the monster human thing is finally killed when the beauty and the geek stick a pole through its heart nick it was hard to tell and presumably it died right in front of them within arms reach but later on it comes back and kills them wtf i mean why didn't it just kill them when he was right next to them i mean it was just way too retarded it was like the writer didn't know where he wanted the story to go or he was a few minutes short of 80 min so he added some more retarded twists to the movie so people can get 80min worth of crap instead of br br what i didn't get was why didn't they just kill the damned thing while it was unconscious instead they just walked away from it like idiots and left it so it could come back and kill them the only reason i gave it a 4 was because of the gore which was actually the only thing that i watched this movie to the end for that and to watch them all get killed no i'm serious
0	it's important to check your expectations when you see hatchet the buzz that has been generated on this site far surpasses the real impact of the movie what may help someone about to see the movie is to realize that it is not supposed to be scary it is pure camp and an attempt at fun it is not funny just campy don't expect something like shaun of the dead nor something like friday the 13th part ii through infinity br br hatchet does possess passable actors the cinematography is straight ed wood creature effects and make up are silly probably on purpose gore and blood is something between romero and dead alive hatchet is a movie of it's between shaun of the dead and leslie vernon it's between campy and comedy there's a difference it's between ultra violent and violent comic book br br instead of capturing the essence of american horror or whatever other silly jargon that has been used to describe the movie it tries to capture something between seminal american horror like friday the 13th and new horror like shaun it thankfully stays away from torture horror br br in the end hatchet is between a bad movie and a decent movie br br i think it is happening more and more that people involved in movies are flocking to sites like imdb to rate and comment on the movies that they are involved with at very least there is campaigning going on for people associated with the associates to leave positive feedback and ratings there is no other reason for this movie to have stared out in the high with 600 votes and quickly fall after wide release this movie is on just better than the horrorfest releases and should not be so bloated
0	mr bean is just a bunch of unfunny slapstick humour it is the most shallow humour tv series ever made in history the scenes are often disgusting and the horrible canned laughter sends chills through the spine mr bean is a selfish and rude character and one can only sympathies how pathetic he is it is incredible that such a tv series of low quality can be sustained for 5 years it is a complete waste of time to watch even 1 episode and one can't help but to express disgust and pity why rowen had portrayed himself as such a 2 dimensional unfunny and ridiculous character or pity yourself why you had even bother to watch an episode watching this is an aggravating experience
0	this is one of the worst films i've seen for years the storyline has potential that is never realized the actors are a poor choice but considering the screen writing their talent isn't wasted i really wanted everyone dead as quickly as possible so i could get out and watch something else unfortunately i did stay to the end and had a laugh at the murmurs of people moaning about how crappy this is there wasn't booing after all this is england just gentle moans about how crap that was then i look on imdb and see people have given it 10 out of 10 i really just cannot see how those people are able to give that score they must be a pr company working with the distributor there's a hilarious set problem towards the end of the film when in the graveyard and the hick attacks look out for the dodgy scenery that rocks when touched supposed to be a brick wall the blood effects are waaaay ott the film feels like everyone is making a spoof horror except the director
0	i read the recent comments and couldn't wait to see the movie however after sitting through 80 minutes of predictable suprises that didn't even make me jump and unrealistic villain i was left hugely disappointed i thought cartoons were the only movies that were still only 80 minutes long i thought this might be because of the edits to make it 'r' rated but the original only contained ten more minutes of kill bill type blood when blood sprays out like hoses reality loses appeal add in the killer who's supposed to be a ghost but can rip someones head off from the jaw ala king kong with the t rex lives through everything and has an ending similar to that of the sopranos finale and you quite possibly have the most over hyped movie in the last year after watching the movie i felt like i had seen countless movies with the same plot and method and also felt largely unsatisfied i dunno what everyone else saw in it but if you want a good horror movie this weekend see halloween it's definitely worth the 10 when it comes to hatchet let's hope the next one is based on the book
0	any horror film that casts robert englund freddie kruger then kills him in the opening 5 minutes before the opening credits have even run should be instantly viewed with nothing but suspicion br br tony todd candyman as a swamp tour guide his james earl jones voice impression is hysterical by the way i don't know or care if he was trying to be funny but i was laughing at it sadly his role was all of 5 minutes long as well more reasons for suspicion and quite rightly so br br mercedes mcnab aka harmony from buffy angel i had to look her up to see what i remembered her from but she gets semi naked marcus the token black guy not another teen movie is filling a comedy role that really isn't required in a horror movie unless it's intended as a spoof br br joel murray bill murray's brother pete from dharma greg plays shapiro the guy shooting the gonzo video with the 2 cute girls as they take a spooky swap ghost tour the 2 lead male characters meet up with some other folks and get run on rocks and have to leave the boat so their now all isolated in the swamp at night in the rain br br once the real story of victor crowley has been told his make up looked like sloth from the goonies we have established he is dead well you aren't coming back from being hit in the skull by an axe once the old guy is attacked despite pulling her gun and having a very clear shot it takes marybeth more than 30 seconds to actually start firing at a guy who is hacking an old man apart with a hatchet is she stupid thats 29 second too long in terms of plot there really isn't one i don't class undead psycho as a plot sorry and the pacing is really bad as well you have a killing some running away some light relief then some slow dialogue before beginning the cycle again br br after an extremely long scene investigating a wobbly bush with a raccoon in it victor appears again with some sort of power tool and kills the dark haired porno girl he also manages to slice the tour guide in half with a shovel once misty is left on her own to keep lookout for ben i felt it was pretty obvious she was going to be the next to die i was right but you don't get to see it br br film makers rain will not burning gasoline ok idiots obviously after the 2 near misses in the cemetery marcus was next to die and ben was hurt in the foot with the spike but they managed to find a boat after impaling victor on the spike br br she's pulled into the water by something unseen he's trying to save her then she's suddenly pulled into the boat by victor and is screaming and the movie abruptly ends br br yeah just like that no clue if ben was dead he seemed to be missing an arm and no clue if marybeth was going to survive and what happened with victor br br it's an awful ending and no doubt my verbal attack at the film makers got the last review deleted so much for free speech eh
0	some of the reviewers of this film were extremely generous with praise i personally was disappointed because due to those reviews i was optimistic as the opening credits began to roll br br the all too familiar story line goes like this deformed boy and his father live out in louisiana swamp local boys ridicule and torment him local boys start oh sorry i mean victor cabin on fire with him in it dad attempts to rescue his son formerly known as eddie munster meets the elephant man but accidentally puts a hatchet through the kid's head instead victor becomes a murderous ghost who hunts down unfortunates who enter his domain oooo scary br br one thing i appreciated about hatchet was that it never took itself seriously and some of the gags even made me laugh the thing is i've grown tired of the hollywood polished b horror slap sticks i like to laugh and i enjoy a good scare but this film didn't deliver a solid dose of either as for crowley being the next michael jason or freddy pumpkinhead has a better chance
0	this was the typical women prison movie i thought the women were very sexy and the outfits were great all the camera did was focus on the women and the women were always in provocative poses for the camera and they were always scantily dressed which i loved this is your basic prison breakout movie of the 70's all i can say about this film is that it's extremely cheesy but the women are gorgeous and their butts are great
0	this film was the one of the first of the 70s women in prison film genre this movie was incredibly violent with lots of sadistic torture being inflicted on the inmates the film takes place in the phillipines which looks like a horribly ugly country no doubt the producers used this factor to their advantage to emphasize the gruesome situation that the prisoners were in br br blaxploitation movie queen pam grier has the starring role in this movie she plays blossom a renegade who gets thrown in the vile women's prison on trumped up charges her boyfriend played by sid haig tries to rescue blossom he and blossom are part of a political guerrilla faction and incarceration was orchestrated by the corrupt government br br pam grier and sid haig stand out amongst the otherwise lackluster cast the film itself put way too much emphasis on violence perpetrated against the prisoners their captors just used them solely as objects of their sadism this got boring real fast this movie could've used more interesting plot lines and subtlety this is not one of roger corman's better pictures the many women in prison films that followed this one were much better all around i'd recommend the big bird cage only to pam grier fans
0	tim curry was the reason i wanted to see this film and while of course his appearance is always entertaining he's basically wasted in it the rest of the cast doesn't fare too well either in this remake of an early zombie movie that has extremely graphic effects that are totally unnecessary to quote a popular axiom sometimes less is more
0	this turned out all right and looks interesting however as it goes on the attempts at creating emotions between the characters is so inept that it really turns the horror off and is an insult to serious viewers the story this is based on i walked with a zombie is probably much better although unfortunately i haven´t seen it yet ritual looks so exciting and could have been a great movie about zombies and voodoo but in reality it has turned out very poorly which is a shame it´s hard to say what is wrong with it i guess there are just too many inept scenes and it is hard to believe for example in the between alice who is called alice like the girl who supposedly inspired lewis carrol to call his heroine alice and the younger brother absolutely nothing has been built up between them and then in the end they get married anyway this looks great and it was worth a look but the movie is just so poorly performed 3 10
0	i can barely find the words to describe how much this piece of trash offended me why is it that american filmmakers always go out of there way to portray as a bunch of backwards ass bush babies and worse yet cast people to play who sound utterly ridiculous when they try to imitate the accent we are not all extremely dark we do not all walk around carrying machetes whether for work or protection we do not walk around naked in our homes and we do not practice voodoo we are doctors lawyers architects businessmen and women musicians actors and filmmakers i am sick and tired of watching all of these portrayals of as a bunch of wearing who do nothing but sit around all day smoking weed on a beach or shooting guns in the air when we're not living in our tree houses yes we wear clothes yes we have electricity no weed is not legal on the island and chances are we speak better english than you the worst part is this isn't just me being angry and bitter these are actual answers to questions that most who have traveled overseas have been asked at some point read a book before you assume what's it's like in another country and worse yet decide to make a movie about it br br welcome to the land where all we do is murder white people and beat our bongos drums tales from the crypt has officially sickened me along with the entire crew of people who worked on this garbage especially the writer
0	alice a new york doctor gets her license suspended when she treats one of her patients with an drug resulting in the patient's death without a job alice is forced to go to where she tends to the brother of a wealthy white landowner the brother thinks he's a zombie and is deeply involved in the local people's voodoo practices and rituals ritual is a mediocre horror flick the action is pretty dull the plot twists are silly and there is no suspense there is a bit of gore as someone is killing off white people with a machete but not too much the cinematography is decent however the acting is truly woeful definitely one to avoid 4 out of 10
0	starts off with fulci playing a version of himself writing down some ideas for how people could die followed by a fake looking cat eating what is presumably a brain the copy i watched was dubbed in english which i always hate but i was particularly disappointed not to get to hear fulci in his own voice br br fulci is in a sort of feverish state working on his latest horror movie his stomach turns when he sees things that resemble effects from his movie and he starts to that he is witnessing acts of horror he visits a psychiatrist who hypnotizes him and unfortunately he does not have his improved mental health in mind i was reminded of the psychiatrist played by david cronenberg in clive barker's 1990 the shrink in this one is played by david l thompson who is pretty bad probably a real life friend of fulci's he has a big toothy grin when he kills people though this may be fulci's black humor at work which i thought was pretty poor too br br the movie is composed of a lot of clips from fulci's movies either as if fulci is on the set directing them watching recordings on tvs or witnessing the acts i've never been too much of a fan of clip shows in tv series and i also think things like charles band's full moon entertainment cutting their old films down and putting three such cuts together as new anthologies are pretty lame i guess they need to make money br br the shrink in cat in the brain makes reference to the theory that violence in movies begets violence in real life one of fulci's co workers talks about having a documentary crew follow fulci to see what his life is like lots of self referential stuff like this br br in the end some of the characters sail away on a boat named perversion
0	i was invited to an early screening of the movie about four months before it was released i had to watch the film and later fill out a packet on my thoughts it was the hardest thing to sit through on earth the show just crawls by and you quickly begin wishing you were dead the thing is there are two types of mormon films the good ones with actual good stories and the crappy ones that just plain stink saints and soldiers now there is a good movie but with these wannabe comedies the writers and the actors just try too hard basically they try to be funny when they are not no wonder why there is such a small target audience for these films they're filled with 'inside jokes' that aren't funny to begin with and they just try to poke fun at average things it's the story that makes the movie and the stories for these movies are just weak i bet you can guess what my packet looked like when i was told to fill it out after the movie
0	i attended the premier last night the movie started out with a bang perhaps due to pre premier excitement the audience laughed for about 15 minutes then most of us spent the rest of the time fighting off sleep this movie can not be compared to spinal tap or any of guest's work unless you want to say sons of provo is a wanna be gone awfully wrong it just fell flat it died it was painful the story went nowhere the jokes were bland even if you were a mormon and could get all of the inside jokes it felt like a waste of time there were two redeeming qualities acting was spot on and the songs were very clever for an lds audience only so my recommendations avoid the movie and if you are mormon buy the music cd
0	this movie was very disappointing and except for a few moments wasn't fly at all more than anything it was just flippin' stupid the music was frickin' bad and the plot played out like a byu bowl game – very predictable avoiding embarrassment by scoring a late game flurry of a rally that falls short and leads to a loss in essence the half childish half naive will the movie's and his religiously confused brother danny we'll just call him a democrat treat kirby the movie's sweet spirit the 3rd member of their hapless mormon boy band like crap until the man and father figure of the film the stage manager jill has a talk with will and straightens him out believably will's personality changes 180 degrees and he's instantly the mature and self aware leader of the band this would be a cute perhaps funny 10 minute roadshow gig but the fact that the movie is 93 minutes long really sucks the life out of you if you watch it to the end my advise – take the money you'd normally spend to rent this show and either burn it in your fireplace or flush it down the toilet – more entertainment with much less time commitment if you want to watch a better movie of the same genre get saints and soldiers – not a comedy but an infinitely better show actually kirby has more funny stuff in saints than he does in sop
0	i just can't imagine any possible reasons why madsen and hopper wanted to be in this movie after reading the script they got blackmailed maybe or are they that badly out of money the main problem with the movie is that it's boring the conversations between madsen's and hopper's character are pointless just like the bored chatting between two buddies while drinking beer on a saturday night you never feel for any of the characters although madsen's psycho killer is very likeable comparing to the other characters hopper always was a good actor and madsen does a fine job as the serial killer otherwise the acting is almost laughable there are about three scenes in the whole movie where something is actually happening each of them last about three minutes although the talking and thinking about murder and the nature of murderers scenes would have been interesting if they were scenes in a book the whole concept would've been interesting for a novel but a movie just can't bare with a story with that much inner thinking and so little action
0	i think it's two years ago since i have seen the movie and till this day it's the worst film i have ever seen the only thing i thought after seeing this movie was that it was made for some tax reason so after all this time i finally spilled my gut and now imdb says i have to fill 10 lines with comments br br sorry you must provide at least 10 lines in your comment please return to the edit window or use the back option if this isn't a new window br br please there is nothing to say anymore br br sorry for some bad english
0	i admit it now this is one of the lamest films ever made but in mr defense the not really scene wasn't all bad br br and you gotta love the effort of going all the way to sweden just to find a sweet swedish 15 year old blonde have her speak swedish posing as the jewish mother of henry dennis hopper br br what makes this scene so perfect is that father answers the blonde swedish speaking jewish girl in german br br the best actor actress of all in the film must be the nun who takes care of mother this is a woman who has had no experience whatsoever of acting but still puts in the most convincing performance of all br br all and all this flick is nostalgia for me personally it is after all what gave me a posting on imdb s database d br br like a movie star
0	the worst movie i've ever seen i still don't understand what dennis hopper and michael madsen intend to do in maybe they had bills to pay the best and cult part happens during a flashback which brings us during wwii when a nazi officer hide his jewish wife that's the beginning of a typical serial killer life it seems to be directed during the beginning of the 80's but then appears a new amazing this movie was directed in 2001 i'm quite sure that it took less than two weeks to do that movie i heard that dennis hopper's wife asked for divorce after she saw that picture and michael madsen's mother had a heart attack when the actor admitted to be the man under the yellow baseball hat pathetic
0	hopper has never been worse as if he felt as this movie is worthy of only a grade b performance and he delivers a rather good one outside of madsen and hopper the acting is horrid you've seen better at your local high school the sound and at times the editing and camera shots are low end of b movies the scene with the peeping tom is of movies greatest gratuitous nudity scenes i've ever seen it doesn't even come close to fitting in the movie the script was probably a great 10 page outline but when it comes out to a full length movie there are more holes in it then the dead bodies madsen left behind i do have to say hopper dressed in a nice suit driving the hummer had me laughing out loud but i don't think that was the intent yes there is a little style and hopper can always draw my interest however the interesting plot concept never pays off and you are left wondering why you wasted your time watching this
0	i thought choke had potential but i thought it could have been a much better film it had some interesting twists and turns but some of them seemed kind of pointless when showing background on the two main characters some of that really seemed to go awry most of it was sort of useless and didn't help the movie at all this was also not dennis hopper's finest hour however the main saving grace of this movie for me was michael madsen his performance was excellent in this movie he almost makes mr blonde look like a nice guy all in all it was watchable still i was left thinking some things could have been done differently these things would have made the movie much better in my opinion
0	a blind person could have shot this movie better seriously the director is clearly a novice he must be dennis hopper's coke dealer or something to convince him to be in this movie i felt so embarrassed for dennis br br to john the director please retire from directing your contribution is not needed nor wanted the medium of film is stronger without you you are terrible at directing stick to bagging groceries or something br br this movie should've bypassed straight to video and gone to the trashcan i'm a dumber person for having seen this movie do not see this movie if you respect yourself and respect the of film
0	what do you do with all the material that does not make the final edit of a film you might keep it aside in case a director's cut or extended version is released one day you might sell some it as stock footage to be used in a part of another film you might just bin it or you might collect it accumulating more and more from each film you make and then use it to make another film disregarding coherence or any sense throw a very primitive skeleton of a narrative into it and line up a number opportunities nay excuses to slot in your celluloid cast offs excuse the abjectly nonsensical nature of the plot by framing it all in the mind of a horror film director and you've got yourself an awful film this can all be done with just a few days shooting and idiots like me will waste two hours of their life watching it and then come on here and try to warn others away the whole chain of events is one big waste of time
0	like most everyone who views this movie i did it for the stars michael madsen and dennis hopper the two are extremely underrated and sadly because of that have to headline a lot of crap in this film hopper plays a guy who accidentally kills a blackmailer and is offered help from the mysterious madsen br br the film actually isn't as terrible as it could have been i've seen both in much worse both independently and working together lapd horrible film the direction was pretty poor and the script needed a few re writes but both give the best performance possible with the material offered also the ending is pretty strong so you can tell the story had potential but when a glowing review of a film is it could have been much worse it doesn't say much for the film itself br br all in all this is one that can easily be skipped if neither of these actors draw you in but if you're a fan of either or both give it a watch they both give strong performances that outshine the obvious flaws of the film trust me there are much worse options out there
0	i'd like to start by saying i would not go see this movie again if they were giving out popcorn made of solid gold and the ticket granted me eternal life this movie was terrible i can't give this it a truly honest rating because there are no negative stars the acting is absolutely terrible this movie is a travesty based on the classic the most dangerous game if you really want to torture yourself for 90 minutes rent something like gigli at least j lo provides some better scenery ben should pacify the ladies viewing it i'm not upset about the 7 i paid to see the move i'd just like the 90 minutes of my life back br br can you give me my time back samuel l jackson changing lanes
0	at times when i watch this movie i start to think that the people who made this movie were on drugs what's wrong with this film i'll tell you bad plot bad jokes bad acting and flat out characters everything just bad br br the movie is about pest vargas a two bit scam hustler who is given the chance at 50 000 to survive for 24 hours by a german hunter who kills people for a living so now pest must think of ways to out think this hunter before he gets killed br br i know what your thinking what the hell is this a another wannabe ace ventura trying to get money really this plot is just dull and confusing at times it changes the story plot and you get lost during the film br br as for the funny scenes this film i had a straight face oh yeah i did smile a couple times but nothing laugh out loud besides the jokes are corny and seen before it's like watching ace ventura meets dumb and dumber but bad br br as for character development it's dry and flat you don't learn much about the main character pest all you know is he's a annoying scam hustler but that's it he doesn't change his image or be a little smart just corny as for the german hunter all you is that he's crazy and wants to go back to germany really you start to wonder why is this guy living on an island if has money to go to germany the hunter's son himmel fares better but not much he's really a coward and is snake obsessed for reasons by the end he stands up to his father and sides with pest br br as for the acting no only were there any memorable but just over the top for example john is so over the top with performance and dosen't fit in his role he's out of place as for jeffery jones who plays the hunter same thing but gives a stereotypical performance as well as for the rest either just no used enough or just over the top br br overall bad comedy that you'll find for 2 00 at k mart
0	i actually joined this site simply to write in about this movie i was sitting in my living room and this movie came on one of the local channels i made it about an hour through before i simply had enough curious to see what the general movie opinionated public thought of this movie i looked it up on this site i was absolutely shocked to see that there were an overwhelming amount of people that thought it was great i needed to have my say and here it is this movie is absolute garbage it was a chore to sit through the jokes were uninspired rehashes from other better shows and movies and leguizamo's manic portrayal of this obnoxious character should only appeal to age ten and below that actually may be a stretch even for that age i'm all for slapstick ridiculousness but there isn't even the faintest hint of wit or cleverness i have an idea lets take bad uninspired obvious jokes and play them at twice the speed now that's funny ha ha br br movies that you should see that take silly humor and add comic timing and originality the marx brothers' a night at the opera monty python's the meaning of life south park bigger longer and uncut and the list goes on don't lose an hour and a half of your life on unmemorable crap br br by the way i can only assume that the reason that david bar katz the other writer did very little in film after this movie is because he was instantly blacklisted i'm actually impressed that leguizamo was able to recover after this mess
0	obviously the comments above that fawn over the movie were made by someone who's on the crew i don't recall ever seeing a movie that's more insulting to the talented actors or the audience watching in my 30 years of watching movies this is the only one i have ever walked out of bad humor bad jokes bad gags bad editing bad plot etc br br note to producer it's never funny to hunt humans based on race great that you tried to be politically correct by incorporating all races but you're still hunting humans based on race and that's sickening
0	this was the worst movie i have ever seen i have to admit i didn't watch it from beginning to end as cleaning the toilet was more entertaining br br the 'star' was the most unpleasant character i've ever seen neither funny nor attractive in fact creepy and obnoxious are far too complimentary br br it is painful to watch there is no acting especially not from the star who behaves as a doped up mentally deficient take off on one of those loud mouthed black actors br br as horrible as it is to watch one of those can't shut up black actors watching a puerto rican one is even worse br br the name of the movie is descriptive he is the pest this movie is a must miss
0	this is a terrible movie don't waste your money on it don't even watch it for free that's all i have to say
0	john leguizamo must have been insane if he thinks this was a funny movie i laughed more times watching remains of the day pathetic plot unbearable acting horrible music michael is a maniac
0	just to save you the 3 or whatever it costs to rent movies at your local video store and the anguishing hour and however long this movie is here's a simple plan go over to a friend's house talk them into renting the pest for you watch the first 30 seconds or so and then make up some excuse to leave the opening sequence is really funny definitely worth watching unfortunately the other 99 of the movie is horrible without the shower scene at the beginning this is one of the worst movies of all time
0	i was unfortunate enough to see this movie at a friends' house what an utter waste of time what an utter and complete piece of crap this movie is absolutely nothing is funny in it from the shower scene to the insulting and degrading portrayal of germans there is no plot the acting made me gag and at the end i personally wanted to beat john leguizamo with a stick i thought john woo movies were bad this movie is officially the worst movie that i have ever seen
0	dr lucio fulci lucio fulci is a director of gory horror movies who is starting to feel the effect of having filmed too many bloody scenes he visits his local psychiatrist to see if he is losing his marbles this proves to be a bad idea since the shrink is actually a crazy murderer responsible for a spate of grisly killings seizing the opportunity to make fulci his fall guy the loopy nut doctor the horror hack into thinking that he is responsible for the recent series of murders br br on the surface cat in the brain appears to be a fantastically gory treat from spaghetti splatter god lucio fulci chock full of chainsaw dismemberment axe attacks and various other bloody killings the film certainly spills enough for even the most hardened gore hounds but when one looks closer it turns out that many of the gruesome scenes are lifted from earlier movies mostly fulci's own remove these from the equation and one is left with a nifty basic plot idea that is totally wasted some welcome nudity and dreadful performances from fulci himself and david l thompson as the psycho shrink br br as the film progresses it develops into an incomprehensible mess with the gore footage inserted randomly with no attempt at working it convincingly into the story if you've seen fulci's touch of death and ghost's of or mario bianchi's the murder secret then you've already seen the best bits of cat in the brain before br br after much bloodletting the film wraps itself up rather quickly leaving the viewer feeling bewildered and somewhat cheated watch the film if you're a fulci completist but i would suggest seeking out the films from which the 'good were taken
0	this movie is pathetic in every way possible bad acting horrible script was there one terrible editing lousy cinematography cheap humor just plain horrible br br i had seen 'the a couple weeks before this movie and i thought it was a dead ringer for worst movie of the year then i saw 'the and suddenly 'the didn't seem so bad at all br br bad bad bad excruciatingly bad
0	obviously this one doesn't aim for the brain the so called humour is based on farting and every cliché about any ethnic genre you can imagine gays included of course as long as they are not wasp and a latino this besides john leguizamo does have talent and charisma but in such a self indulgent movie it is a definite waste what the point in trying to out jim carrey jim carrey himself the pest of the title could then be this movie almost as funny as bergman's finest prepare to be annoyed not amused
0	the sole reason for someone wanting to see this film would be because of john leguizamo i remember the previews and it looked to be another second rate comedy but the fact that mr leguizamo starred tried to redeem it his name how known it was at the time or not tried to sell it br br i was pretty disappointed with the performance of leguizamo his days on house of an in living colour clone were his tip top there is a fine line between wackiness and idiocy and we'll just say that leguizamo crossed it tenfold he looked like he was trying to be too outrageous and crazy for the camera as a matter of fact i'll say that he tried too hard madcap humor spilled over into stupidity and the film was spoiled i can't say i blamed him if you were given this opportunity you'd try as hard if you could right your eagerness cost you dearly though mr leguizamo br br the pest follows in the tradition of any comedy film and plays the race card and more no group is left out from being poked fun at blacks latinos whites jews koreans germans homosexuals and the blind are among those singled out again here things get too overboard and too much tries to get spoofed in too little time the resolution of the film takes all of five minutes to clear up and move back to normality br br when you have a film and you're going to bypass plot and reality for comedy's sake just make sure it's funny or all you have is 90 minutes of senseless film which would sum up leguizamo's pest quite nicely
0	i am almost tempted to demand my money back from the video store this movie plumbs the depths of inanity and is almost completely unwatchable i never bail out of a film early but this was painful to view a thorough waste of celluloid my vote 1 10 it would have been zero
0	what a turd i like john leguizamo but man this is bad i thought spawn was the worst movie he had been in but i was wrong i like all types of comedy from stuff like ace ventura 2 to american werewolf in london this is a piece of trash
0	ok i'm normally pretty open minded about movies i can normally see a good side to a film which has been totally pandered by others this is an exception br br i won't waste to much energy telling you what happens but think along the lines of bill and ted meets the worst police academy movie out of all of them and you won't be far off br br the thing that really got me about this film was the stupid purile racism that was evident throughout the general theme of latino black guys cool white guys lame is slightly amusing for the first couple of jokes but when the same joke has been reiterated for the time not an by the way it gets both tiresome and offensive br br i spent months waiting for the laws of karma to get back at john leguizamo for this film i had almost given up hope when the 'my vh1 awards' were screened live in the uk what followed was mr leguizamo performing the rare feat of a comedian bombing on stage you'd have to be a complete sadist to laugh at him ahem ha ha ha
0	a friend of mine who has a mysterious knack for finding and horrors liking bad movies recommended i watch 'the pest ' at the time unaware of just how truly pathetic his taste in movies was i decided to give it a try br br bad mistake br br the story although clearly ripped straight out of any sixth grade english textbook as far as the manhunter theme goes would be amusing under the right conditions good actors writer director wardrobe and so on and so on to almost no end clearly these factors are absent br br 'the is supposed to be funny i think i say think because i let crack nothing more than a slight smile throughout the whole film not a guffaw not a laugh not a chuckle not even a grin a smile at best and that happened so rarely while watching this film i even remember how often i did smile maybe 3 or 4 times at best br br so do yourself an immense favor never watch this movie avoid at all costs
0	i can't believe that there are people out there who voted 10 for this garbage have any of you gained access to a computer in the madhouse where you are undoubtably kept or is there a special colony where especially crass people are secretly imprisoned that i don't know about br br if i was to say what i really thought of this film none of it would get published br br to begin with its 'star' is a no talent idiot who acts like a bad impersonator of jim carrey who has enough angel dust up his nose to resurface the sahara desert his name will be a total guarantee that i will not watch a future film with him in it even if he plays a rock hidden by a crowd br br as for the 'plot' one more crime that we can chalk up to the nazis is that they were so awful that they can be considered fair game as 'baddies' in tripe like this mere criminals and murderers would have the audience on their side in a trice br br to the people who made this movie give up making films and if not then confine yourself to making advertisements where your efforts will at least have the virtue of being fleeting in duration br br finally a criticism of imdb why don't you have the facility to vote for a film or perhaps not to express my contempt for this tripe i would then have to vote double zero or something
0	there is a famous short story about a man who becomes the prey of a safari hunter who has lost interest in hunting anything except humans its quite good and its been done and redone in film and tv many many times some are notable but this urbanized version that injects the tired old racism themes just flat out stinks leguizamo's slapstick is almost as weak as the unfunny script chaplin this guy isn't there must be people who find a dwarf who cant stop dancing funny i mean i suppose it is funny in a pathetic freakish way but its just not enough to carry a movie you have the usual nazi or neo nazi whatever the heck we are supposed to think type villain who's son of course is gay german accents get the picture
0	un funny and un entertaining possibly the worst movie i have ever had the misfortune to watch think goes to ' humour done even worse myself and my girlfriend sat through it just to see if it could be as consistently dire as it seems in the opening sequence yes it is avoid at all costs
0	out of 15 people i loaned this movie too no one finished it it was so awfully not good just awful she sits in a chair the whole movie she's in a closet the chair she's sitting is nice i can't think of anything more to say but 10 lines of text to print this up my friend nick thinks this is a great movie because he can give it to his friends and not have to worry about those calling him back he's passed it around as a gag movie for 10 years which is how i got it then i tried to get my friends to finish this awful awful piece of crap to no no one could finish it takes boredom to a whole new level they could use this in iraq instead of water boarding please send copies guantanamo bay cuba makes great xmas gift
0	only watched this to see joe morton in an early role and honestly wished i hadn't bothered he can and has since done much better than this crap cannot understand why anyone finds this kind of stupidity funny but each to his own it is an absolute mess and not funny in the least no wait one line only was funny where mr kent joe and his family are having dinner with this nut job as he's been invited for dinner lord alone knows why pest to mr kent you know what it's like dog you've been there mrs kent not lately joe's expression was funny but that's it one line does not make a great comedy and this tat is so far away from being funny it should be consigned to the nearest trash cart it's only good enough for that joe morton glad to see you don't appear in rubbish like this anymore you are far superior and a great great actor
0	i have seen many movies over the years and i am a big fan of comedies br br but this so called comedy almost reduced me to tears it is without a doubt the worst movie i have ever witnessed the worst br br i remember hearing about this movie from a friend and decided to view it if i could i could turn back time i would i will regret for as long as i live the time i wasted watching this rubbish br br the storyline is so insane it just makes no sense at all and leaves you confused there is a scottish mob and a german who are after vargas john leguizamo the scottish mob after 50 000 dollars and the germans after his head br br in trying to escape the pest takes the form of many disguises but in doing this we witness some of the most annoying worst mind numbing acting dialogue and sounds in cinema history this movie annoyed me so much by the end i was full of aggression i was so angry that i had wasted so much time watching a movie that would surely drive depressed people to almost certain suicide i mean how can there be hope when a movie like this can be given permission to be made br br i know people have their own opinions but the most shocking thing about the pest is that people actually like it why what is funny about a man that is annoying from the very first second to the last a man who cannot act who has an annoying voice and confusing face br br i sat through it thinking the movie would get better surely it would it did not usually you want the good guy to survive but i wanted the germans or the scottish mob to find and kill the pest anything to put me out of my misery there is nothing funny interesting or normal that happens in this movie its just plain annoying and confusing the jokes are dead even before they are told i feel sorry for the cameramen who have no say in how the movie is made but actually have to film this drivel i wouldn't be surprised if they are receiving counselling br br if you want to remain sane and part of society my advice is to never watch this movie i'd rather lock myself in my room for 5 weeks and go without food and water than watch this movie again br br i don't think i'll ever hate anything more than this
0	imagine diane from cheers the self centered over character now imagine she was trying to make a film movie this would be it if you just looked at some of the shots without any sound you would think hmmm this could be a good film br br now if you turn on the sound and listen for anytime at all you quickly realize that the person that made the film knows nothing about films beyond what they read in a book i was continually thinking is this thing a foreign film it was that bad br br if you don't remember cheers then think of mr beans holiday remember the defoe character that made the horrible movie well imagine that horrible movie without mr bean saving it that is what this movie is i'm not saying anything about what the movie is other than it is an attempt to make a dark moody film about a hit man going back home at least that's about all i could get out of it
0	film noire is a genre that requires a certain level of tact cleverness intellect and imagery this movie has none of that though they really tried hard with the imagery br br it's the kind of movie that your cousin marky the dump truck driver who's always talking about how he's going to make it big in the movies someday would make br br the dialogue is wooden and lifeless the visuals while obviously expensive to make are the work of a director who has tried to be clever and failed miserably due to a severe lack in cerebral ability the acting ranged from sub par to just plain bad the story might have been salvaged by a real writer and director but i suspect that such people would not have touched it with a barge pole br br about 1 4 of the way through i noticed striking similarities with the scene in where viktor desperate to be rid of his actress makes the world's worst movie i figured i'd check imdb to see if a similar effect has occurred in this movie and to my surprise it has i'd almost be tempted to give a 2 out of 10 just because it's exposed the pretentious groupies but i won't it's that bad
0	this is the first time i feel the need to comment on imdb to write some sort of a review and as it so often happens it's not because of a really excellent film but a truly appalling one br br take the narrating style the youngest might relate to the max payne video game series a cast of virtually which is not a bad thing in itself poor dialogs some dark scenes but not many enough and make a film out of it don't worry about the bad acting the length way too long the lack of immersion the lead character has to be one of the lest interesting i've seen in a long time couldn't care less if he died or the often ridiculous solutions they find to certain problems the lead character finds himself in br br i wouldn't have written anything if it hadn't been for another review here giving it 10 stars i gave it four but maybe three is closer to what i feel about it not only do i not wish to see it again but the mere thought of it takes me dangerously close to wanting to kill myself oh and a so called noir film is nothing without a good soundtrack not the case here the ending song sounds like it was more suitable to a western movie br br it's not romance it's not action it's not noir it's not good that would be my review if it weren't for the minimum of 10 lines
0	this was such a terrible film almost a comedy sketch of a noir film the budget was low compared to a blockbuster but still higher than most but its where they've decided to cut costs that is totally weird some actors are at least competent while others look like they just been dragged off the street one of them being the lead actor hes so very bad that i cringed when ever he said anything he talks through the entire movie then there's the weird costume choices at the start of the movie all characters are wearing 1930's clothes they drive a classic car but the background is a modern day thats blatantly state of the art and the costumes and some settings continue to follow this 30's film noir theme then bam in drives a brand new with 24 inch wtf same thing again when a guy has a night scope on his rifle you get a shot down its sight hes aiming at a guy with an mp5 and tactical gear on in a even stranger contrast the locations are brilliant and seem to have cost more than the rest of the entire film the camera shots angles a very good and show these locations brilliantly in the scenes the director has a keen eye for a good looking single shot but no idea how to do much else br br people who should be shot for this br br the writer the director the casting agent the costume designer br br people who should be tortured to death for their monotone monotonous nails on chalk board voice br br anton the lead actor writer producer if you ever seen the movie hostel i wish that would happen to this guy but he doesn't escape
0	the fifth collaboration between marlene dietrich and director josef von sternberg blonde venus is a film that looks great while it's playing but fails to engages the viewer the plodding storyline of dietrich being torn between two men becoming a mammoth cabaret star and fighting for the custody of her child is jumbled and often feels like bits of three separate films half baked together dietrich is unwisely cast in a rather passive reactive role for much of the film and her character remains aloof from viewers while herbert marshal is unconvincing as her ill tempered husband and cary grant is largely wasted as a suave suitor who dashes in and out of the picture the film does contain some intriguing set pieces the hot voodoo number is the high point that are impressively surrealistic for this era in hollywood although it proves to no avail in such a dull incoherent film
0	well there were some great creamy smooth facial shots of marlene along with her shocking gender bender outfit plus her not to be missed from ape into human being but overall the generally unconvincing plot and dated acting not to mention the less than engaging tunes coming from miss dietrich's baritone voice did little to ensure blonde venus a permanent place in my mind's pantheon of memorable films cary grant still in the throes of cinematic infancy seemed as though he was forever looking to find himself while herbert marshall was probably never anything but herbert marshall from the day he was born until the day he died naturally from an historical point of view blonde venus was fun to watch so long as one was able to put aside great expectations
0	the seven collaborations between director joseph von sternberg and star marlene dietrich were so distinct in look and tone and so different from anything else going on at the time they almost seem to constitute a sub genre of their own like any genre they have their outright masterpieces as well as their absolute turkeys time to send blonde venus back to the farm br br after the seductive hits the blue angel morocco and shanghai express in which miss dietrich established her screen image as cabaret singer cum prostitute someone at paramount decided it was time for marlene to play a mother there is nothing wrong with that in itself as an actress she was up to the part it's just that nothing else about the format has changed it's like the blue angel plus a kid fair enough the story of a woman who drags her child along on her sleazy escapades is a sound premise for a tragic drama but that's not the way this is played dietrich's journey is played as some kind of adventure using her wits and accomplices to stay ahead of the law this is not some cheeky example of pre code – it is just bizarrely distasteful br br although we may be able to accept marlene is a doting mommy there is absolutely no way we can buy sternberg as a director of warmth and poignancy in spite of this being one of the handful of pictures for which he also took a writing credit sternberg simply fails to get the story arc the film's emotional payoff is supposed to be the eventual reunion of the family but even at the beginning this is not established as something worth getting back to as usual interiors are dressed and shot to look like either brothels or insane asylums the home is actually quite a creepy dingy environment and it's a wonder little johnny wasn't wetting the bed and asking to sleep with the light on br br but as anyone familiar with them will know the point of a dietrich sternberg picture is to make dietrich look fabulous and in this respect at least blonde venus is a success marlene is introduced emerging from a forest pool in a bright shimmering close up and even when she is reduced to rags the camera still loves her the same cannot be said for the rest of the cast whom sternberg tended to view as mobile pieces of scenery the normally likable herbert marshall is here reduced to a moody grouch lurking in the shadows even the suave and lively cary grant becomes just a boring background blob and does not seem nearly interesting enough for dietrich to run off with br br the only standout moments in blonde venus are song and dance routines especially the renowned hot voodoo number where she parodies her own surreal stage persona by emerging from a gorilla outfit but even these feel like they have been cut and pasted from a different film fans may hail it as another masterpiece as they are wont to do but for the average punter it is a massive disappointment audiences of the time did not lap it up as they had her earlier hits and this heralded the beginning of the end for heyday a year later there would be a new queen at paramount – mae west
0	you know i've been in some towns where the girls weren't all that pretty in fact i've been in some towns where they're downright ugly but it's the first time i've been in a town where there are no girls at all i am sure the fans of great classic remember this phrase that belongs to vin one of the truly magnificent seven from the first movie br br now i'd want to re phrase him here you know i've seen some movies where the plot isn't all that good in fact i've seen some movies where the plot is terrible but that's first time in my life that i saw the film where there isn't any plot at all br br ok maybe my above statement is little bit over the top but honestly how one can call the plot a crap that is going on in this movie the bad guy oh don't ask me to give you his name because i don't remember and his not even somehow close to who's name and character is unforgettable is trying to build the church in the name of his late sons that were killed in some battle and this bad guy is kidnapping poor villagers to force them to build the church br br first of all how big must be church to have to force hundreds of villagers to build it is it some egyptian pyramid or something but ok let's stop here about the plot and absolutely forgettable character of a bad guy and let's say few words about the seven itself br br yul good old chris always calm always silent talking less but talking wise is gone unfortunately oh no he's as calm as he was but now he's calmness are so fake that you just don't buy it imagine he meets a good old friend chico who he must rescue after so many years and there is just a few hi hello and not even handshake as far as i remember honestly it looks more like meeting of two strangers in some internet chat rather then meeting of chris and chico that makes new chris more look like robocop or terminator rather then our beloved wise br br i won't stop here talking about other characters there simply aren't any imagine if strong actor like yul brynner is so much fake forgettable then what will be other characters look like br br there still are some attempts to give us a background story for each one of them for example one is women favorite guy second is a man with dark past who's wife was raped and killed by indians and he since then is killing everyone and everything that is moving but non of these characters are making any sense or non of them can take your heart br br i remember i was a little child and when o'reilly charles bronson's character died in the first movie i was crying here i just didn't care about each one of them even if whole of them with all the crew of the film would die it seems i wouldn't care more br br so please go and see this movie i recommend it because you won't have the other chance to see something worse then it
0	i classify this as the worst movie of all time br br if there ever was a movie i would wish upon my enemies this would be it the plot is ridiculous there are only 2 characters and the coincidences between these characters just completely strain belief br br these factors combined to make this an extremely boring movie br br my wife and mother walked out on the movie about 15 minutes in i figured that a movie this boring and slow must have some cool interesting plot twist and a was quite disappointed when nothing exciting materialized br br i briefly considered sending the filmmakers a bill for my 2 hours of lost life
0	the great yul brynner who won an and who has starred blockbusters such as 'the ten among lots of others ended his remarkable career with cheap backlot movies such as this one and such indeed one should take pity on seeing him making his very best to make this idiotic thing stand gone were the days when he was surrounded by steve mcqueen james coburn charles bronson eli wallach in 'the magnificent and walked around under the famous elmer bernstein soundtrack it's difficult to make a living out of being an actor sometimes
0	i could have done with the seven gunslingers just staying away this sequel should never have been done the first did it all and better the plot was a turkey the acting was turkey the direction production camera work all turkey whoever put out this junk should be tarred and feathered may they not return again
0	b kennedy tried to make a sequel by exaggerating and gargantuan leftist western not as leftist as the g kennedy sequel that came after this one br br this is the ugliest film of the two ugly looking it is slapdash b kennedy made it without having the genius for that hundreds of hundreds of mexican hundreds of women a desert barren landscapes a largest scale br br everything in this clumsy sequel likable only in a weird way is phony br br the movie itself is very ugly looking brynner who made the best part in the first film doesn't look good at all in this one br br rey plays a priest he will be a political leader in the next sequel of the franchise br br it is true that when you have that many characters you may not need a very interesting storyline sometimes e g brynner meets mcqueen then they pick other or b spencer meets coburn etc it's fun to see where and how they'll meet the rest of the crew etc but you need at least these several characters unfortunately burt kennedy's installment is not very good at that br br return of the seven 1966 begins with a bullfighting vin and chris meet there they decide to rescue the third survivor of the original who belongs to a huge group of 300 abducted by the mexican bandits we find out the name of appealing petra chris must constitute again a small here we have a dirty dozen chooses his men from the convicts another member of the commando is a womanizer who will take good care of the wives left without husbands the sexual humor is especially displeasing and distasteful in this film it strives to seem smart and spicy it is simply boorish and dumb and gross br br the choosing of the members of the small army was one of the greatest joys in the mcqueen film unfortunately in the first sequel there is the most unmemorable of the three crews assembled under the magnificent name br br robert fuller makes a lousy vin oates is the smiley womanizer br br in this attempt a mexican revolutionary leader has a gargantuan kidnaps 300 and uses them to build a village and a church in the memory of his lost sons useless to say that this insane mexican revolutionist doesn't equal wallach's part in the first film b kennedy bets exclusively on camp and stuff ugly landscapes a thunderstorm gargantuan lightning a desert a huge battle between the emancipated and the revolutionary of course return of the seven 1966 completely abandoned the good sense of the mcqueen film br br what is particularly shocking is that this sequel came quite quickly after the original everything changed meantime in the way of making westerns br br both the sequels look weird
0	the original title always struck me as a rather overblown definition for a bunch of gun toting saddle tramps still their screen presence was at least underscored by a top quality group of actors to support yul brynner most were movie stars in their own right br br however this first sequel was a pale imitation with a group now composed of largely b and c list players who were more mediocre than magnificent it was a similar set up had to recruit yet another team of gun toting saddle tramps to sort out the mexican problems again another tyrant was giving them grief br br with the originality and freshness of the first movie now spent this remake had little else to offer the budget was evidently very limited this was reflected not only in the cast but also in the below par script which borrowed much from the earlier classic it was also more than half an hour shorter than john sturges' original yet we still had a reprise of the agonising and moralising that made even the first a little turgid at times however here there was no decent acting action or location work to balance things up was less expansive it failed to convey the broad sweep of landscapes that were a great part of the original br br generally it just lacked imagination the first movie had been a smash hit and this pedestrian sequel was evidently put together as quickly and cheaply as possible in order to cynically cash in on former success and it shows there's very much a 'made for tv' feel about it br br not recommended
0	this movie had potential the script was not bad and it presented an interesting dark atmosphere with themes of suicide patricide regrets and as chris says 10 years of going nowhere it's a sharp contrast to the original which was bright humorous and even the bad guy was lovable br br it's a very interesting change of tone and if they had developed the characters more maybe i would've liked it br br but instead they waste far too much time on gratuitous and ridiculous battle scenes poorly edited together at one point you see a horse fall and 5 seconds later you see the same scene again but not many people would notice that since there are already 2 dozen horse trips i'm not exaggerating and by then we've already dozed off br br which leads me to the title of my review this film was extensively cut due to animal cruelty so chances are if you decide to watch it you'll get the watered down kiddie version there's a bullfight where the matador stabs the bull and suddenly as the crowd erupts cheering there's no bull just the matador in an empty arena like wow maybe the bull was a jedi i dunno more likely the scene was cut br br later there's a cockfight scene where in the original version one of the birds gets horribly mauled before a crowd of cheering mexicans this was cut but we still see enough to get pretty annoyed br br but by far the worst scenes are the horse throws one after the other you see horses' legs get yanked sending thousands of pounds of horse onto its head in one scene a horse gets thrown and then while it's squirming on the ground in paralytic convulsions an explosive goes off right under its neck br br this film was made in 1966 when hollywood was just starting to animal brutality on film this is probably one of the last flicks where you can see it happen so if that sort of stuff it floats yer boat check it out you'll get a mild thrill but if not you'll either be irritated or flat out bored
0	return of the seven has a few good action scenes and elmer bernstein's score is as rousing as ever nevertheless it's a boring film because it simply fails to involve us emotionally mcqueen's absence makes a really bad impression and the fact that his character here is played by a different little known actor is odd in a bad way the characters are not developed so we don't connect with them and we hardly care when some of them die this sequel is a passable but poor imitation of the original
0	i'm not sure this film could ever match the first one even if it starred the original seven notwithstanding the fact that four were killed it just doesn't have the spark and chemistry all the actors seem tired and look as if they are just going through the motions to get their paychecks br br it's interesting how yul brynner is magnificent in the original film but stiff and unconvincing in this sequel yet when he stars in westworld and futureworld in the 1970s his character in the same matching black pants shirt and hat evokes the same mystery and presence of the 1960 film's chris adams br br there's nothing in this 1966 flick to make it worth watching even on cable
0	i don't mind sequels sometimes they're better than the original however many times the originals are best left alone especially when you can't duplicate the cast one of the big reasons the magnificent seven was such a hit was the very popular cast br br this is hardly the magnificent seven when only yul brynner returns as one of the members of that famous group in the magnificent seven with six of the seven guys absent and replaced by much lesser known actors this loses its appeal in a hurry in other words except for brynner these guys have no charisma this is a like a championship sports team fielding all substitutes except one br br brynner is good once again fun to watch fun to hear with that distinctive deep voice of his but the story not just the rest of the crew is lame this movie should never have been made in the original we cared about the seven in here we couldn't care less
0	this was a hindi movie hindi horrible reasons cheap dialogues cheap special effects cheap directing stretching a 2 hr max movie into 3 hrs br br spoiler little bit br br specifically for this movie 1 dialogues are not funny they are cheesy and cheap though akshay tried his best acting for which i admire him comedy was not funny at all i laughed only 3 times during this movie 2 first half of the movie was useless to the story of the 2nd half the 2nd half was the actual story movie the first half was time pass build up 3 the characters are not developed properly at all paresh rawal is smart in the first half an idiot in the 2nd half rest of the movie we don't really develop any feelings or caring for akshay and govinda their characters are stupid nothing more they do not seem to struggle in their difficulties jokes are funny but they are not funny in a very serious scene the characters of the gang and the drug smugglers are cheesy and have been used in last 20 movies there is nothing new about those characters again they are shown to be stupid for being funny however stupid funny when stupid is the norm throughout the whole movie the only character that made sense was that of lara dutta with a real story 4 special effects were crap at the end ppl r off the ladder of a fire truck you notice that they are not actually on ladder in air secondly ppl start to fly off when the ladder starts to move around ppl can't fly off a ladder when its moving they fall directly to the ground due to something called gravity 5 the whole movie was dubbed all the dialogues were recorded after the movie the actors' lips hardly to the dialogues br br there are probably many other reasons why this movie was crap but i can't remember them look at this masterpiece of crappy indian movies by non intelligent even stupid director yourself and you will agree with my review ppl who like hindi movies please increase your expectations for decent quality in hindi movies br br let me say that not all hindi movies are bad i like some i did not like this one br br 1 5 10 1 5 for the effort by akshay and lara
0	bhagam bhag was a waste of money and time big time i wonder y govinda did this movie govinda dude m your big fan u have to make right decisions now in choosing movie i wonder he had any role in that movie govinda's role could be given to johnny lever akshay kumar steals the show here akshay dud u rock u have created space in everybody's heart all over the world lara dutta u guys deserve better paresh rawal is good at his witty overall there were few scene where i laughed otherwise i was just wondering y the hell did priyadarshan made such a stupid movie anyways lets wait and watch upcoming movie
0	this is possibly the hands down worst movie every made that actually took itself seriously and not as a result of the acting because being an actor i have to say that rickman and stowe had to be at their best just to escape needing electro convulsive therapy after the principle photography wrapped being one of the 57 people that actually saw this movie in theatrical release i have to say i have never before or since experienced a movie where the movie ended credits rolled the house lights went on and no one moved from their seats about five minutes after the house lights went up people started coming out of their comas to look around and i think most of us thought okay we get it that was a joke right they are going to show the real movie now eventually after the handed out disguises and we swore an oath of secrecy to never admit we were there we felt that it was safe to leave praying that we would not be seen leaving the auditorium i have seen some pretty bad movies in my day i have cinemax for goodness sakes but i am still bitter that i will never ever be able to recover those two or so hours of my life that i lost watching closet land
0	rs 30 is all i paid as rent for the dvd of the movie and believe me it is not worth it br br bollywood directors think that showing fools is funny well it is not please grow up br br here goes a dialog from the movie tum ko to tumhe br br plot is useless criminals and police alike running after fools that is it bhagam bhag br br well it lived the title i had to run away from it i switched over to star movies and watched home alone 2 instead and had a good laugh
0	if you're a sane person and you have seen films before then you cannot tolerate this piece of for more than 20 minutes and if you do stay there longer then it won't be because you'd expect akshay or paresh not govinda please but because you value your money too much and you want at least a short nap on the plush seating in the multiplex in return of the money they robbed you off its hard to believe that the director who gave us a cult film like can fall to such levels alright he's repetitive but now he's coming out of all third rate storied and expects us to laugh because he's brought in paresh rawal and akshay kumar no sir this ain't going to work now especially with this stupid script of yours even comedy films can have meaningful scripts lage raho munnabhai anyone br br govinda doesn't have much to do so can't comment akshay kumar was boring paresh rawal cracked some of the worst joke possible lara dutta had real scope for acting in this one but she fails miserably the only high point of the film possibly is tanushree's acting but she's there only for the first 10 minutes br br i don't think this film is worth any more space probably not even this much so final warning don't watch it
0	i was all in awe of the film looking at the promos and went to watch it the film was horrible to say the least br br the first scene is good and till they go to london things are funny but slowly the pace slackens and they is nothing funny about it br br the manoj joshi subplot is funny at places but is unwanted and adds to the boredom br br the drugs part is funny especially the monologue of govinda br br the film goes on and on aimlessly just like a small kid has written it br br the interval brings a twist in the story but by then i lost hope br br the second half starts okay but the way things are handled makes a mockery the entire arbaaz jackie angle is half baked also how come people don't identify them br br the climax is quite funny though stupid br br priyadarshan is not at all in his elements from this film he started doing craps and his films got bad and bad music is good signal tere bin stand out and too camera work is good br br akshay kumar has white in his stubble and looks old but he acts well though this role he has done many times yet thanks to his natural comedy acting things look bearable govinda looks out of shape bad and his act except monologue is boring too surprising from govinda seems too much pressure on him to comeback and priyan fails to utilize him paresh is okay in parts but overall just repeat act manoj joshi is funny at places sharat is okay shakti kapoor is great jackie looks overweight and acts in his sleep arbaaz khan is bad lara dutta shrieks to glory but fails to act
0	i saw this with high expectations come on it is akshay kumar govinda and paresh rawal who are all amazing at their comedy i was really hoping for a laugh riot sadly that is not what i got at all br br unfortunately nothing in this movie really made me laugh out loud there were times when i chuckled at one or two things but nothing really made me laugh in short it was badly attempted comedy and in a way a bit of a hera pheri wannabe br br out of the three main guys i think paresh role was the most powerful it wasn't the biggest role but it certainly stood out more than govinda or akshay their performances were okay i guess nothing special just mediocre though govinda stole the limelight from akshay in more than a few scenes lara dutta and tanushree dutta also make appearances in this film and both of them were pretty bad lara's role did not move me or make me laugh and tanushree character just got on my nerves the music seems to be the only good thing about bhagam bhag my favourite song is tere bin followed by which i really liked signal and the title song bhagam bhag are also worth a listen br br you either will like it or you won't and judging by the poor comedy and lack of direction i don't think you will
0	after three hours in the cinema hall the strongest impression garnered was that their is something amiss what was clear was that the directors forgot to direct the actors to act and most importantly the script writer to write shouted without reason and made one cringe the script moved on and on with lots of avoidable twists and turns ending in now too familiar priyadarshan theory of converging actors at a single point this theory worked well in hera pheri and hungama but somehow managed to irritate this time so did the habit of every actor's incapacity to answer asked of them directly simplest questions such as what is your name would be repeated n times br br finally what was amiss was that the director forgot that his audience have something called intelligence
0	okay you have br br penelope keith as miss herringbone tweed b b e backbone of england she's killed off in the first scene that's right folks this show has no backbone br br peter o'toole as ol' colonel cricket from the first war and now the emblazered lord of the manor br br joanna lumley as the ensweatered lady of the manor 20 years younger than the colonel and 20 years past her own prime but still glamourous brit spelling not mine enough to have a toy boy on the side it's alright they have col cricket's full knowledge and consent they guy even comes 'round for christmas still she's considerate of the colonel enough to have said toy boy her own age what a gal br br david mccallum as said toy boy equally as pointlessly glamourous as his squeeze pilcher couldn't come up with any cover for him within the story so she gave him a hush hush job at the circus br br and finally br br susan hampshire as miss polonia teacups venerable headmistress of the venerable girls' boarding school serving tea in her office with a dash of deep poignant advice for life in the outside world just before graduation her best bit of advice i've only been to nancherrow the local stately home of england once i thought it was very beautiful but somehow not part of the real world well we can't say they didn't warn us br br ah susan time was your character would have been running the whole show they don't write 'em like that any more our loss not yours br br so with a cast and setting like this you have the re makings of brideshead revisited right br br wrong they took these 1 dimensional supporting roles because they paid so well after all acting is one of the oldest temp jobs there is you name another br br first warning sign lots and lots of backlighting they get around it by shooting outdoors hey it's just the sunlight br br second warning sign leading lady cries a lot when not crying her eyes are moist that's the law of romance novels leading lady is dewy eyed br br henceforth leading lady shall be known as l l br br third warning sign l l actually has stars in her eyes when she's in love still i'll give emily mortimer an award just for having to act with that spotlight in her eyes i wonder did they use contacts br br and lastly fourth warning sign no on screen female character is mrs she's either miss or lady br br when all was said and done i still couldn't tell you who was pursuing whom and why i couldn't even tell you what was said and done br br to sum up they all live through world war ii without anything happening to them at all br br ok at the end l l finds she's lost her parents to the japanese prison camps and baby sis comes home catatonic meanwhile there's always a meanwhile some young guy l l had a crush on when i don't know comes home from some wartime tough spot and is found living on the street by lady of the manor must be some street if she's going to find him there both war casualties are whisked away to recover at nancherrow somebody has to be whisked away somewhere in these romance stories br br great drama
0	with knightly and o'tool as the leads this film had good possibilities and with mccallum as the bad guy after knightly maybe some tension but they threw it all away on silly evening frill and then later on with maudlin war remnants it was of course totally superficial beautiful english country and seaside or not the number one mistake was dumping knightly so early on in the film when she could easily have played someone a couple of years older instead of choosing someone ten years older to play the part they missed all the chances to have great conflict among the cast and instead stupidly pulled at the easy and low cost heartstring elements
0	quite what the producers of this appalling adaptation were trying to do is impossible to fathom br br a group of top quality actors in the main well cast with a couple of notable exceptions who give pretty good performances penelope keith is perfect as aunt louise and equally good is joanna lumley as diana all do well with the scripts they were given br br so much for the good the average would include the sets nancherrow is nothing like the house described in the book although bizarrely the house they use for the dower house looks remarkably like it it is clear then that the dower house is far too big in the later parts the writers decided to bring the entire story back to the uk presumably to save money although with a little imagination i have no doubt they could have recreated ceylon br br now to the bad the screenplay this is such an appallingly bad adaptation is hard to find words to condemn it edward does not die in the battle of britain but survives blinded he makes a brief appearance then commits suicide why loveday has changed from the young woman totally in love with gus to a sensible farmer's wife who can give up the love her life with barely a tear less emotional than brief encounter gus a man besotted and passionately in love is prepared to give up his love without complaint walter mudge in the book turns from a shallow unfaithful husband to a devoted family man jess is made into a psychologically disturbed young woman who won't speak aunt biddy still has a drink problem but now without any justification the dower house is occupied by the army for no obvious reason other than a very short scene with jess who has a fear of armed soldiers whilst miss mortimer's breasts are utterly delightful i could not see how their display on several occasions moved the plot forward the delightfully named nettlebed becomes the mundane dobson the word limit prevents me from continuing the list br br there is a sequel which i lost all interest in watching after this nonsense and i wonder if the changes were made to create the follow on story it is difficult to image that rosamunde pilcher would have approved this grotesque perversion of her book presumably she lost her control when the rights were purchased
0	i was shocked to read all these wonderful comments about this movie because i hated it i stuck it out to the end but it was painful especially having to listen to that voice of the child as 1 remarked even though the girl claimed to be from chicago she didn't have a chicago accent it sounded more like she was trying to imitate a ny accent but failed at that as well i was so confused that i was waiting for the punchline of all the wonderful actors who could have played that child why did they select this one and why force her to talk like that it wasn't even just the accent it was the script the monologue created for her the reason i even selected this movie was that the plot idea appealed to me this era in history the type of characters that are poor and uneducated the setting and the love triangle as far as i'm concerned it could have and should have been much better i was just soooo relieved to read that at least one other person felt the same way that i did about this movie
0	days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen in no way shape or form would i recommend it to anyone unless you're trying to put your kids to sleep or god forbid give someone an aneurysm if i could go back in time and do one thing i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters why days of heaven's plot is simple but extremely vague long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with the climax of the story does not touch you by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone the only things working are your eyes and unfortunately your ears who must listen to the sound of linda the little girl in the story who talks like a man i am now dumber for seeing this movie don't let it happen to you
0	closet land is a nasty piece of work with superb actors nothing more or less happens in the movie besides the unending abuse of an attractive woman prisoner by a sadistic police official the setting is minimalist this might be considered soft core s m porn because the drama is devoid of all reference points such as time place and political context since what happens is cut adrift in a fantasy futuristic environment the abuse becomes purely personal the pornographic aspects are justified by being a warning about the evils of totalitarian government but because there is no real context for the torture of this young woman we come away disturbed but having learned nothing br br what is the point that torture exists in the world that abusing prisoners is bad that dictatorships abuse innocent people we know that already closet land has echoes of such works as darkness at noon and but both those works were made by competent artists whose work had historical context and depth of meaning this work is amateurish and the dialogue sophomoric a definite thumbs down
0	before i begin a little correction imdb states that richard gere is 180 cm tall wrong i passed by him 10 years ago and he can't be an a bigger than 165 i'm 183 and he looked like a child next to me br br should have been called an appropriate title to complement malick's previous and much better movie badlands this movie shows that not all directors have as their prime objective to entertain in fact some of them have as their main objective to show wheat in all its splendour br br the movie is depressing and relatively uninvolving with the obligatory tragic ending nothing more than an average and predictable love triangle drama with the male two thirds of the triangle not surviving the movie praised for its visual quality while it does have that realistic 70s feel to it there are limits to how spellbinding wheat fields can be you can shoot them with 1500 mm cameras for all i care but they are still wheat fields br br gere who at first seems miscast as some kind of lower class factory worker turned worker is quite solid while brooke adams appears distant and cool for most of the movie making one wonder just how much she loved either of the two hunks but for those looking for a movie that displays all the glorious colours of a field of wheat look no further you've found your dream br br if you're interested in reading my biographies of richard gere and other hollywood intellectual heavyweights contact me by e mail
0	lovely music beautiful photography some of scenes are breathtaking and affecting but the dramatic tension is lost in a film that is so poorly edited it is hard to know what exactly is going on at times the dialogue is incomprehensible then there is richard gere he's supposed to be a factory worker who gets into trouble and gets work on a farm we see dozens of sweaty and dirty in the hot sun then we see gere looking like he just wandered away from a calvin klein ad sam shepard another glamour guy is supposed to be terminally ill but he looks great nice try but it just doesn't work brook adams try hard but she gets lost in the scenery the real star is the girl
0	don't believe the hype br br i had to see why all the critics fawn over this movie i have seen it and still don't get it the plot is thin very thin after the movie was over i still did not know the female lead characters name and one of the two male characters did not even have a name in the credits he is credited as the farmer i did not care about the characters so i did not care about the movie br br the scenery and cinematography were brilliant but so is the stuff on national geographic or the discovery channel br br i can not recommend this movie to anyone
0	now don't get me wrong i love a good film and after watching the thin red line and loving it i was eager to track down terrence two earlier films and having just watched days of heaven my enthusiasm to see badlands has virtually disappeared br br i have noted much rave about the beautiful photography but i saw this film on a terribly old vhs tape which made it look pretty awful all i can say is i hope the photography was superb because it would have been one of the only things of interest in this film not since the replacement killers have i fallen asleep during a film this film felt so long and it wasn't the editing was choppy and disjointed the storyline non existent the voice over was an incoherent ramble the characters weakly developed and the whole thing was uninvolving i know that malick was uncertain of how to do the film he consequently shot a heck of a lot of footage then spent around two years editing in an attempt to piece it all together this is very apparent on screen everything looks chopped up every time a scene seemed to gain some momentum or some character development it would obtrusively cut to boring scenes of people doing boring things it was as if someone had tried to cut together a story out of stock footage of people farming the few good points are the music and the chase scene near the end but those things are no where near enough to maintain interest i would normally let a bad film pass by without being too vocal but when it is so highly over rated something must be said br br maybe a farmer would like it
0	i have seen this movie twice once a few years ago in college and again this past weekend although i absolutely despised it the first time i decided to give it another chance terrence malick is clearly a well respected director and it seems that the imdb viewers at least think very highly of the film but unfortunately it seems my tastes haven't changed at all br br where to start for one thing linda narration is horrific her voice is so irritating with that horrendous new york accent please don't try and convince me that talk that way they don't she herself admitted to just sitting down and talking about random things which does not make her a talented actress she's not even acting i came on imdb expecting to see her ripped apart since her performance is just so utterly laughable but people actually seemed to like it she's simply unappealing in every way i kept hoping malick would just kill her off br br the other actors were fine but certainly nothing special adams was probably the strongest in the cast but she also had the only decent part except the old guy he was pretty good br br speaking of acting how could shepard's character be so ridiculously stupid he bought the brother and sister act because uh why would he buy that bill and abby took every single opportunity to be touchy feely as though they didn't realize that their lives depended on acting in a very platonic way it was just completely unbelievable and finally after a considerable amount of time the farmer suddenly realizes that oh my god they're together then he goes after bill with a gun but instead seems to trip into bill's hand and ends up with a mortal stab wound br br speaking of which the fate of the characters was similarly stupid and dare i say lazy of course bill has to die could it be more boring than getting shot in a pond by a pack of cops abby goes on with her happy life getting on a train and feeling really content about the way things worked out and the irksome narrator randomly finds her deadbeat friend and they wander off into the sunset but it's okay because malick never gave me any reason to care about the characters anyway br br as for the plot this film drags along endlessly with no real plot twists or development i can't believe it's only 94 minutes long i could have sworn i was sitting in my seat for a solid 3 hours the sudden locust disaster was like throwing the bible in my face i'm totally fine with metaphors and allusions but this was completely over the top clearly the message was don't marry for money or bad things will happen to you very original br br i understand that days of heaven like all of terrence malick's films is meant to be a piece of art and i will certainly agree that the cinematography is simply stunning and the magic hour shots add a unique aura to the film but i need more than nice pictures to enjoy a film and this one just didn't do it for me
0	i will admit i didn't pay full attention to everything going on in this film but to be honest i don't think it would have mattered basically local sidney fiddler sid james persuades the incompetent mayor frederick bumble kenneth connor of to hold a beauty contest to improve the town's image they face opposition from women's augusta june whitfield trying to sabotage the contest but they do have publicity agent peter potter bernard bresslaw and palace hotel owner connie joan sims soon enough the young beautiful wannabe models show up including hope springs barbara windsor paula perkins valerie leon dawn brakes margaret nolan debra sally geeson and ida downs eastenders' wendy richard when the girls have cat fights it does draw away regular residents but after quite a while of some plodding not that funny innuendos and william jack douglas having over active twitches it does finally reach the competition and it's just afterwards i couldn't be bothered also starring patsy rowlands as mildred bumble peter butterworth as admiral joan as mrs dukes david lodge as police inspector angela grant as miss arnold ridley as pratt robin as larry patricia franklin as rosemary jimmy logan as cecil and dad's army's bill pertwee as fire brigade chief charles hawtrey had obviously quit the carry ons but where's kenneth williams i suppose seeing babs and young beautiful looking pauline fowler in bikinis but for comedy value this fails miserably and the overuse of the whistle just gets on your nerves pretty poor
0	this is definitely one of the weaker of the series of carry on films it lacks the usual fun and sparkle and even the cast seem embarrassed by the poor dialogue by the time this came out the series was in terminal decline and boy does it show if you're coming fresh to this series avoid this one till near the end
0	the opening scene of the beach at while amusing in itself unfortunately provides a suitable metaphor for the film insipid and washed out it is actually not as corny as most of the others in the carry on series but maybe because of that doesn't really deliver much fun it's a fair bet that the title will appeal to fans of the benny hill show but those looking for attractive females in bikinis and miniskirts while they will see some in this will probably enjoy some of the other titles in the series such as carry on abroad or carry on up the jungle more the emergence of early 1970s feminism is used as a plot device which seems rather self defeating
0	i consider myself a fan of jess franco and his trash movies but nearly every time i see one of them i just see missed opportunities and plots that don't play out well this film is unfortunately no different the film certainly had a lot of potential as franco has fused the intriguing theme of the classic film 'the most dangerous game' with his usual brand of trashy sleaze but the plot here gets lost too often and it takes an eternity for franco to get round to the main point of the movie with this being a later franco film you might be forgiven for thinking that the director would have got better but actually i've found that the opposite is true as this and the terrible 'killer are two of his very worst films the plot focuses on a stripper and her sleazy boyfriend the pair is invited to a private island by a rich woman and her lover however they soon find that they haven't been invited there for social reasons as they are 'released' on the island so that the wealthy woman and her friends can hunt them down for sport br br what attracted me to this film was the front cover and the fact that it was directed by the king of sleaze flicks you'd think then that i'd be pleased that the movie features a plethora of sex scenes and general sleaze but i'm not the reason for this is mostly that the sex and sleaze in the film is really boring and most of the time served only in giving me the condition known as fast forward however my inclination to see everything through to the end ensured that i had to lump it there was a time when i didn't think girl on girl could possibly be boring but i have since been proved wrong the only positive i can pluck out the movie really is that the soundtrack is quite catchy and despite it being silly foreign pop music actually blends quite well with the sex scenes i did enjoy the last ten minutes as that's when the plot finally got going but it was a case of too little too late and unfortunately this is a severely lacklustre film on the whole i only recommend this film to those who feel they must see all 180 franco movies everyone else should watch vampyros lesbos faceless or she killed in ecstasy instead
0	i know jesse franco is responsible for a wide variety of films and i mainly go for his horror films as lousy as they are at times i guess it was morbid curiousity that drew me to this and i wasn't even curious enough to finish it maybe it got better towards the end but unless you're into lesbian sex scenes of which there's plenty then you may want to take a pass so what exactly can you say about a movie that features a woman that pees in a bowl on the kitchen counter while standing up just never you mind what that's used for later you probably don't want to know if this sounds intriguing to you then that's your problem but then again you might just like this movie i myself am no prude i've seen plenty of disgusting movies in my day but at least they were done well and this isn't sometimes too much is just too much bleah
0	this movie includes 2 well known actors i have previously enjoyed watching there actions are great and each action is heart felt but it makes me think these 2 were thrown into a speech drama class at college for the first time and told for one to act dominating and constricting to the other in a room without allowing her to leave and the woman to be truly innocent and treat her with enough mind humping to drive the audience into tears for her release br br the only good part is the acting abilities the plot has the same ruse as hitlers influence and i started to hate the protagonist for that but all of this could have been done within 15 minutes in my opinion so to drag it out for over an hour was just pure punishment for all who watched it br br
0	i only came here to check terror hospital for an alternate title so i'd know what not to pick up not only do i get the original title but i come to find terror hospital is one of seven more aliases this one is a real clunker movies like this can usually be forgiven for any number of reasons mostly unintended consequences of the feature on every level of production that result in at least a mild form of entertainment mostly amusement this has none of that instead the viewer is witness to redundantly unnecessary and way too convenient for the situation exposition and drawn out scenes of characters warily moving from room to room and all this is half of the film forget trying to figure out where anybody is or who they are during darkened or nighttime scenes too you probably won't care anyway there is also a random car chase sequence that seems quite dull when compared to some of the old driver's ed movies i er i mean sat through and watched way back in high school really we're talking about mysticism possession and a killer on the loose here not a bad recipe for trash cinema unfortunately there's nothing here to make it even good trash when joined to the aforementioned the bad acting and not so special effects are just that bad acting and not so special effects this one's just trash pure and simple leave it on the rack at the pawn shop or in that box at the yard sale there's a reason its there
0	when i started watching this i instantly noticed that i couldn't understand what anyone was saying i turned up the volume with background noises now booming out i could hear the voices just what are the actors saying is the movie not dubbed are they speaking spanish after some confusion i realize that it was english at least i think so the amazing jess franco has placed the microphones too far away from the actors as a result we cannot completely hear what they are saying he's done this before but maybe this is mr franco's intention by not knowing what people are saying we are thrown into some mystery about what is going on and are left with more visual clues maybe it's just me but i would have liked to know what was going on how about a few hints the basic premise i refuse to call it a plot concerns a young american exotic dancer named paula played by amber newman who has a boyfriend who gets her invited to a small island owned by some sleazy rich people it is somewhere off the coast of spain for this visit a large cash payment is promised to paula which the boyfriend gets he then escapes from the island only to return later why pay close attention to the scene where the boyfriend opens paula's us passport though his hand tried to cover it up you can see the actress' real name amber newman printed below the photo on the bottom of the passport anyway back to the story there are some other sleazy rich beautiful characters visiting the island all with ambiguous motives we witness sadistic games are they real or fake and unappealing dining scenes but the food must be good as a phony french chef prepared it there is a young woman servant who runs around naked and never speaks is she really mute and do we care of course all the women are mostly naked throughout this film oh well we can at least be thankful that the 50 and overweight men remain clothed in addition to the abysmal sound quality what i have always marveled at about jess franco is his amazing ability to film beautiful naked women in such a way that leaves the viewer completely turned off this film is no exception – i needed fresh air after watching it br br in conclusion i am happy to report that regardless of what mr franco can dream up i am still attracted to women
0	don't be fooled by the other reviewers although this film contains an impressive array of talent the material they present leaves a great deal to be desired nat king cole's 3 numbers are pretty lame and not even close to his later efforts though he does impress with his piano playing is not a bit funny though i remember her as a very entertaining talk show guest from my youth actually the best performances are from a couple of fat guys who impress with a lively tap dance and a four tops takeoff and the jazz band itself especially in the number featuring the bass player the print itself is pretty poor quality and the wonderful butterfly mcqueen is totally wasted in the wraparound plot
0	wow umm this was a very how to say it different type of movie it calls itself a comedy but it wasnt really out loud funny at all it was insane if you are willing to accept that 3 people survive a calamity of a global scale why not 4 or 5 and why did it suddenly end without anything happening they could have made this much better by simply having another element in the plot such as a dumpy female for the ugly dude or something ahh br br i dunno watch it it wasnt that bad sorta funny at times i guess br br schneider
0	the only reason i rented the movie was to see jeri ryan in it omg that was the most boring pointless movie i've ever seen how lame i mean really give me a break after voyager i'd hope she'd be offered better roles br br if i were one of the last people on earth i would not still be living in a travel trailer in the dessert this is just such a bad movie the thing about the indian tribe and how he compared it every 10 seconds really really got old poor jeri better luck next time
0	after wasting 2 hours of my life watching this movie on late night television i went back and reread some of the imdb material to remind myself of why i watched it in the first place in hindsight the only thing that i can think of is that the genre generally appeals to me but this movie was a total waste of effort it fails on every level and to see that it's described on imdb as a comedy really leaves me at a loss i don't recall more than a couple of chuckles there are more laughs in any episode of law and order than in the last man seriously br br too much of the characters' interaction just didn't seem to me to have any foundation and was therefore very unlikely unbelievable br br if it hadn't been for the almost gratuitous bikini shots well what can i say avoid this movie like the plague or tape it and just fast forward to the bikini shots do not spend even 1 to rent it though
0	hypothetical situations abound one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead left in the streets in the stores and throughout the landscape sans in the middle of a forgotten desert one lone survivor attempting to rekindle his sanity takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert all alone he hopes for more but with nobody around he is left with white underwear and a passion for a local indian tribe – until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence alan a man of the book is left on earth after an unknown disaster thinking he is alone he begins living life his way – until jeri ryan appears like she would in any dream out of the woods disheveled and unhappy to find the final man alive to be well like alan anyway they try to co exist fail get drunk and before creating the ultimate dystopia they run into redneck raphael played by newcomer – dan montgomery jr bonds are torn confusion sets in a couple becomes a third wheel and the battle between physically inept nerd vs brainless jock even with nobody left on the planet it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise br br using a variable film technique ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled the quiet earth which i will be viewing next oddly which he never gives any credit towards with a borrowed story i guess he does a decent job of it his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride borrowing yet again from other film director's techniques to attempt to find his own he opens the film interestingly enough but fails to answer any direct answers sure the final days have arrived but could there be a concise answer as to how or better yet why these select few survived a beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film the juxtaposition would have been like shawn of the dead but instead left us feeling like we were watching a made for tv program listening to the audio commentary i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made and his passion nearly sells the film but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn't as happy with his overall final product there were mistakes ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out while this does make for decent independent film making it sometimes feels cheap and in case it was the latter br br i must admit david portrayal of alan hooked me he played that wimpy school nerd adult role very well he was funny to both watch and listen to and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer he was a key player in keeping the film together alas i cannot say the same for the rest this was dan montgomery's first film and it was obvious – i mean – really really obvious there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance but alas it wasn't the case then there was jeri ryan she pulled into her character near the end of the film which to me was the culmination of the entire piece of art she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end confused again she fell into her character by the end giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured even as the commentary progressed all that she contributed was a laugh giggle or ohhh look at that color moment while her beauty may sell tickets one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful this was her first film so can i be too harsh br br overall this film felt like it was missing something i though the idea was strong – the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists jealousy cannot be killed by bacteria or bombs maybe because it is consumed by and we as a race will always want what we cannot have ralston is not a surprising director his techniques are flawed and pre used but he does know how to make a low budget comedy i think our idea of funny is different so that is why i couldn't find myself laughing at many of the bits he found hysterical his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film which was lower than average his film was loose meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled i e anything with wings survived which overall harmed the intensity of the film this was a comedy but it could have been much darker and much much funnier for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film as we learn from their commentary all he was there for was money – the was in essence the bank for the last man don't get your hopes up for any classic avery moments br br don't expect more from ralston – and that is how i will end it br br grade out of
0	i saw this movie in part because of some positive comments here on imdb after wishing i had those 90 minutes of my life back i feel it's my duty to get on here myself and say please don't bother watching this movie br br i can't argue with the actors efforts they did what they could given the material but that material is dreadful the pace was deadly slow meandering and you saw everything coming about an hour away and then it took forever to happen the dialogue was boring pointless not funny at all the characters were all completely unsympathetic and the cinematography was in my opinion very low quality the cliché of character uses home video machine was used to very bad effect br br yes jeri ryan is a cool person don't let that sucker you into wasting your time on this film
0	how do stories this bad get made that's not a question it is a statement br br here are my problems with the film br br 1 much of the story development was predictable and boring my emotions ran pretty much in a flat line throughout there wasn't really much to draw the viewer into the film br br 2 the characters were decidedly uncharismatic one was a loon another was confusing and the third was pretty damned boring there was absolutely zero reason to be drawn to these people even though i knew it wouldn't happen i kept hoping that they would run into someone else someone more interesting br br 3 the physical environment was uncomfortable for me a trailer in the desert the desert is a place that most people would prefer not to visit how is it that these three people end up in the desert br br 4 and in the same desert did the writer really expect me to believe that the last three people on earth would manage to find each other within the span of a few weeks out in that desert br br 5 was it really necessary for ms ryan to be in two scenes that required a swimsuit hey she looks great but it was pretty gratuitous br br okay so if i thought it was so bad why did i give it a 3 i am trying to be as objective as possible even though i found alan annoying i have to say that david did a very credible job of portraying a neurotic nerd the character reminded me of a few of albert brooks more annoying roles jeri ryan tried to do something with sarah but it just wasn't written very well okay so she was supposed to be a confused dysfunctional woman but why what did it add to the story her mood swings left me feeling like i was being jerked hard one way and then another and then another br br i don't often walk out on films but this one had me contemplating it several times stiff predictable boring proceed at your own risk br br my 2 cents
0	about five years ago my friend and i went to the video rental store to get something to watch my friend saw space truckers on the shelf and so we got it once we got home and started watching it we realized what an absolute piece of crap it was a beer can floating in space a guy taking a dump in a toilet a guy with a mechanical dick who tries to arouse a women by saying whizz whizz wtf the dumbest stupidest most retarded horribly throne together piece of trash my eyes have ever been exposed to my friend and i still refer to it as the worst movie we have ever seen only one other movie has come close to its crappiness and that would be the stupid jackie chan flick the if you eyes ever see this piece of junk on the shelf at your video store proceed to do the following 1 take it off the shelf and throw it to the ground 2 stomp on it for at least 30 seconds 3 proceed to set it on fire in a contained facility bathroom stall 4 lastly take it to your local hazardous waste management facility immediately so that it may be properly dealt with br br stay away from space truckers
0	if you're one of those people who doesn't really like sci fi because of their sometimes far fetched ideas and surreal world perspectives you better stay away as far as you can from stuart gordon's space truckers it truly is an absurd space adventure stuffed with eccentric characters colorful kitsch and ludicrous plot twists in all probably never would have cared for this film if it wasn't for gordon's name on the credits this guy comes pretty close to being a genius in the horror genre with undeniable milestones like beyond' and on his résumé apparently stuart gordon likes his humor as twisted as possible he already went completely over the comedy top once with re animator but with the slight difference that the bizarre humor was effective there something that isn't really the case for space of the gags lead nowhere and the entirely exaggerated atmosphere only works in small doses in the end all that remains is an occasionally amusing but completely unnecessary mess dennis hopper and charles dance or at least a semi charles dance are always a joy to look at and the still stunning barbara crampton has a small role near the end of the film crampton was stuart gordon's regular heroine in previous horror films the story of space truckers is as silly as they come dennis hopper plays the self made loner who's fed up with his job who wouldn't be when you're transporting pigs across the galaxy for a company named he sees his change to flee while bringing his muse to earth they float into space pirates and find out their cargo is meant to wipe out half the universe stuart gordon wisely returned to making horror again after this little escapade since space truckers he already made the sublime king of the ants' and the absolutely brilliant
0	the best scene of the people across the lake is the genuinely creepy nightly opening scene featuring a house a murder a lake after that it's pretty much downhill from there on as far as the horror is concerned a family mom dad sister younger brother is fed up with the mildly dangerous environment of suburbia and decides to go and live near the titular lake from then on the film features too much lame happy family related doo doo near the lake with occasionally some corpses popping up here and there the couple of scenes where they discover the bodies are pretty convincing in terms of creepiness but they are in shrill contrast with the rest of the goings on featuring just every day life stuff of the family settling in the truth to the matters the mystery as to who's doing the killing is learned too soon leaving only the family unknowing and the viewer yawning during the unexciting finale featuring a discovery in a basement and running around the house like if this made for tv thing suddenly remembered it was supposed to be a horror film it's not really badly made the content story is just not interesting enough the only highlight in the cast is barry corbin though his performance character is just a bit too goofy to be taken serious blond cutie tammy lauren the daughter might be a recognisable face for avid horror junkies too as she also starred in wishmaster 1997 and made for tv outings like i saw what you did 1988 the stepford children 1987 she hasn't got much to do in this film though but watchable if anything
0	k one day my father picked up a movie with a cover got home with my mom and we were like yay lets watch this new movie we never saw before ok so it started interesting start cool robots and disgusting gore eek on a strange planet actually it was pluto wasn't it blablabla i could tell the whole story but i rather not point wtf never ever pick up a movie with a lame ass name and seriously don't ever i mean ever judge a book by its cover err tape it looked like an interesting movie however it was a slap to the face for sci fi movies its disgusting i mean it was so bad i just started laughing i swear it to be serious i cant describe the stupidity it killed more then a million brain cells of mine i can't even write a descent critique its that bad argh and i wana prepare you for something cough cough mechanical cough cough sorry just had to say it its so funny think of it as a or a parody of sorts for sci fi movies its classic batman laughs but in a new packaging what the hell was this director thinking
0	there is only one word that describes this film bad i have no idea why this movie was even made or how they got dennis hopper to star in this film stuart gordon is a better director than this and hopper is a much better actor the film is plain stupid i did like the square pigs idea and there was an interesting love scene involving a cyborg other than that avoid this film at all costs
0	at one point in this waste of celluloid charles dance as some sort of meant to be funny cyborg bad guy says if i had an anus i'd soil myself br br quite
0	you've got to be kidding this movie sucked for the sci fi fans i would only recommend watching this only if you think armageddon was good
0	okay br br i realize that there are some doubting thomas's out there i was one of them but then i saw this masterpiece of celluloid br br all i can say is that the scene in which george wendt gets sucked out of the spaceship by his a left me trembling i sometimes sit bolt upright in my bed screaming like an old man on a table thinking about it if the director is reading this i would pay to be an extra in the sequel
0	i'd never heard of this film before i caught it on the telly last night i do hope it was never given a cinema release as this would be an insult to the silver screen and movie goers alike br br was it supposed to be serious was it supposed to be funny why the outrageously basic plot does anyone actually care br br awful film br br 2 10
0	oh dear br br i love science fiction but this er 'movie' just puts space flicks to shame every sci fi film i've seen over the last year has been disappointing to some degree and i'm now seriously reconsidering what genre of movies i actually like in future maybe i'll watch romance flicks from now on br br spoilers alert and thats not saying much br br this flick is so insipidly dumb it rivals battlefield earth and baby geniuses in sheer badness the special effects are obviously fake the big mac truck looked stoopid with its roller coaster seat restraints the killer robots looked like a more idiotic version of the power rangers a huge fat guy is sucked out of a port hole window butt first and space truck school wtf br br mr hopper can do better than this what really stunk were the two good looking young things who accompany him and run around in nothing but their underpants for an entire two thirds of the flick the obligatory 'sex scene' snicker between our young heroes was so poorly performed i nearly choked on my tonsils laughing at the tv screen br br the only character worth mentioning is the pirate ship captain cyborg mad scientist he oozed the word grotesque and was predictably sleazy but i believe he could've been much more menacing he does and says things which are quite funny all the best scenes involve him so for the captain i give this movie an extra point br br but this flick is so bad it'll make you want to hurl abuse at the tv or maybe throw your tv out the window it may even kill off a few brain cells and put you into a catatonic state br br conclusion i like the way the captain struggles to walk around on his peg leg when its obviously a fake peg leg i would've given it 0 out of 10 but since he cracks me up with his stoopid antics this flick gets 1 10
0	dennis hopper must've been really hungry to do this movie atrocious special effects very poor writing cheesy dialogue stupid looking killer bio robots never mind the blatent disregard for science the awkward scene with the 2 young leads taking their clothes off the best part of this movie was the pull start cyber penis on the wacked out cyborg pirate captain 2 out of 10 stars because i'm in a generous mood
0	i must admit that this is one of the worst movies i've ever seen i thought dennis hopper had a little more taste than to appear in this kind of if this is supposed to be funny then i gotta look around for a new sense of humor if you're thinking of buying this movie you'd better think again
0	square pigs as a way of efficiently utilizing cargo space is the one and only clever moment in space truckers believe it or not dennis hopper has done worse see the american way but this movie is way up there on the cream of the crap scale i think the best way to describe the viewing experience is that space truckers will please no one too cartoon like too be taken seriously an almost total lack of humor and poor character development virtually assures disappointment the beer and popcorn crowd might tolerate one viewing but all others have been warned to avoid space truckers for all of the above reasons merk
0	it's been over 30 years now but i still remember that this movie was the worst i've ever seen i would have thought that in this length of time something worse would have been filmed but i was mistaken i just finished watching starship troopers and it came mighty close but it was still more entertaining than poor cow
0	cheaply made poorly acted and unimaginatively directed flight to mars still is entertaining despite what its has going against it a flight to mars is planned with five people three older gentleman cameron mitchell as a newspaperman and one female scientist obvious love interest the ship the spaceship gets there and finds that very human like martians live there and have technological advances that would make earth blush but all is not rosy in the subterranean cities of the martians here shown as some caves and a few rooms the martians are a dying planet and one faction wants the earthlings to fix the ship only to take it away at the last moment and then for an attack on earth and another faction wants to talk peace and see if they cannot persuade earth to give them living space the special effects here are pretty lame even for 50's sci fi standards complete with slow moving rocket ship pastel neon alien garb where the women wear shorts that would make many blush except the men of course and little less offered cameron mitchell is the journalist and is affable if nothing else marguerite chapman is beautiful in very short shorts but adds little acting range the rest of the cast is filled with some older sci fi veterans like arthur franz and morris doing serviceable jobs this isn't a premiere sci fi film from the golden age by any standard but it is very watchable and zips by at fast pace
0	obviously influenced by the success of pal's destination moon and x m this one just doesn't make the cut limited special effects a thin story line result in a production that even the half decent cast can't save just no believability here no one seems surprised to encounter martians much like earthlings etc etc pass on it
0	early 1950s sci fi directed by lesley special effects of course are very primitive but pretty good in comparison to what else was out there then drive in movie double feature fare still interesting enough to watch two leading men arthur franz the brilliant young scientist dr jim barker and straight talking and earthy newspaper reporter steve abbot cameron mitchell are joined on a manned flight to mars by carol stafford virgina huston another scientist and two other space experts richard gaines and john litel upon landing on the red planet the space travelers encounter inhabitants that appear friendly and mentally advanced in actuality the martians are led by morris who has the idea of conquering earth to their civilization there is a beautiful martian chapman that dr barker intends to take back on the return trip she is the movie's redeemable element
0	it is said that there are some people out there who actually admire movies well and why not monogram studios lived on a kind of cost plus basis cost plus enough to pay the rent and buy a pizza and a bottle of robust every once in a while sure they're cheap but let's face it they're coarse fast philistine vulgar but exhilarating they have no pretensions at all they're designed to divert the audience for an hour or so at the bottom of a double bill so what if john wayne gallops through the wild west along a road lined with telephone poles this isn't art it's entertainment br br take this movie flight to mars at the beginning when we're first meeting the characters a man might introduce his female companion abruptly avoiding any tedious subtlety professor this is my fiancée and assistant who is a rocket scientist and a beautiful woman she loves me but is growing impatient with me because i'm always wrapped up in my scientific work perhaps you could steal her from me marry her give her the babies and the picket fenced home she yearns for if necessary i will die on this journey to see her dreams realized also she likes it a little rough it saves a lot of writing and shooting time doesn't it that's what people mean when they say a narrative is fast this one was shot in five days why should we have to hint about these things i mean what the hell is this a cheap sci fi movie or henry james actually this is a particularly well funded example of a monogram movie it's in color for one thing to be exact you can tell it's not any other color you'd recognize and look at the cast the female lead is as is usual with monogram but the male leads are definitely up there on the b list cameron mitchell as the reporter yet to hit his stride as a male lead which come to think of it he never really did and arthur franz as the pipe smoking head scientist the pride of perth new jersey and for science fiction fans how about this pair of aces both morris and john litel there's not really much point in describing the plot in detail the five crew members crash land on mars where they find an underground civilization inhabited by organisms whose evolution was with ours right down to their having five digits and willowy babes in short skirts and they picked up english from listening to our broadcasts american broadcasts that is judging from their speech they're led by a sinister cabal who try to hijack the space ship build many imitations of it and colonize earth they do not succeed br br the special effects aren't very special the men walk around a couple of spare sets wearing black costumes with stylized lightning bolts emblazoned on their chests and scarlet capes billowing behind them their names consist exclusively of english the martian who falls for arthur franz is named alita with an indo european diminutive appendage and she already knows what kissing is br br overall i found it as snappy as it was intended to be but dull too the story is that of any buck rogers 1930s serial once the earthlings and the martians meet and it's established that they have a common language and that the martians have a sinister agenda that's it in two hours even an indifferent screenwriter could turn this into a story of nazi spies in world war ii the plot is done by the numbers the dialog has no sparkle the acting is pedestrian br br however dedicated aficionados of monogram productions should enjoy it after all jean luc goddard the french egghead dedicated a bout de soufflé to monogram so they can't have been all that bad
0	there's nothing particularly unique or interesting about this run of the mill low budget sci fi flick regardless of its origin the film is loosely based on a novel by leo tolstoy the plot and overall themes of this film are in no way remarkable or original the science is weak at best and unfortunately the film fails to even involve compelling action sequences br br the plot begins with a manned space flight to mars and though the main plot doesn't really get rolling until the ship lands most of the most interesting scenes occur en route unfortunately as soon as our interplanetary travelers touch down their previously interesting interpersonal relationships speculations about and the meaning of life and everything interesting about the film all give way to an only remotely coherent plot concerning martian revolutionaries environmental problems and not very convincing webs of deceit br br there is nothing very remarkable about the production quality of the film either it's passable and most of the acting is though slow ok cameron mitchell is actually pretty good and plays a likable character i guess the best quality of this film from my perspective is its fashion sense the martians have very nice outfits if this film had a point it might have been much more interesting oh well
0	this movie is poorly written hard to follow and features bad performances and dialog from leads jason patric and jennifer jason leigh the premise believable but weak undercover narcotics agent succumbs to the drug underworld deserved better than this lili fini zanuck flop the competent supporting cast sam elliott william sadler others was not enough to save this film br br in addition this movie also contains the absolute worst love scene in cinema br br moreover the soundtrack is vastly overrated specifically the revolting sappy without substance tears in heaven by the otherwise legendary eric clapton br br rush is wholly unenjoyable from beginning to end br br 2 of 10
0	the performances rate better than the rating i've given this work simply because i will not support a movie which shows any child or mentally challenged person how to obtain cook and inject narcotics into their bodies br br this is a disgusting film which serves no purpose in the world but to glamorize and attempt to legitimize the narcotic lifestyle it bears convincing performances which add to my disgust what were these people thinking i could not enjoy a movie such as this it's enough to make someone who has never done drugs think about it and those who have and have redeemed themselves consider reversion i'm surprised it doesn't make every clean junkie who sees it fall off the wagon br br there's nothing good about this movie which stands more as a how to get strung out docu drama this is the epitome of what's wrong with hollywood br br utterly disgusting br br it rates a 1 3 10 from br br the fiend
0	i preface by stating i am a big fan of and not one of patrick therefore i watched this to see her performance and of course it was excellent i do not feel the director was adequate for the film as several very bad choices were made re shot angles blocking etc if the director was trying to give it a realistic feel they failed and lost some good performances because of it nearly always felt that the camera was way too static too far from intense facial reactions and so many times when the action depended on the intimacy of lead characters the dialog was slow and plodding this easily could have been resolved by cutaways or changes of camera angle but the impression i got was that the budget was too small and only one camera was used i also got the impression that perhaps scenes were shot multiple times and the energy coming from the actors was used up
0	i don't care what anyone says this movie was crap the only thing it had going for it was camera work which was very well done as for the dialogue i have heard so many people talk about it sucked too yes it was honest and true to life but so what i can hear anyone talk like that on the street or in a fast food joint what made the dialogue good in movies like pulp fiction and gosford park was the fact that it is written dialogue that takes time to think through another thing was that the director should not have put himself in the picture i believe that the male character could have been a lot stronger but instead it seemed weak in fact the movie seemed to revolve around the male character and then he completely disappears in the last twenty minutes the girl in the film i found completely repulsive not in appearance but in her needy needy ways saying she is in love with a guy and actually getting jealous of him the next day what a crock of crap final thing the sound was terrible and i hope it was only something that plagued my theater instead of actually being on the final cut of the film there was a constant buzzing sound during several scenes and it was actually taking away from the talking going on the one good thing again was blood's job as the dp but the actress that played the main guy's ex girlfriend did a very good job as well these two things couldn't save an ultimately terrible movie which i refuse to call a film br br 2 10
0	yes pigeon and coburn are great and it's interesting to watch them although coburn seems rather restrained and dull here it's enjoyable to view seattle victoria and salt lake city of 1970's and the period cars and clothing that's all the good in this boring film the dialog is incredibly bad as is most of the acting ray and sandy's motivations seem forced and unlikely i've seen this training to be a pickpocket routine several times before there's a long build up leading to nothing better to catch an episode of streets of san francisco or one of the many great crime caper movies to name a few there are bedtime story remade as dirty rotten scoundrels the lavender hill mob the grifters paper moon the sting and best of all house of games
0	now i loved lethal weapon and kiss kiss bang bang but i cannot believe shane black wrote this pile or that david morse and john c mcginley are in it i screened it for a film festival awful everyone was laughing it's preachy and heavy handed not to mention stupid also it's surprising how little l a looks like cambodia the entire idea of time traveling through post traumatic stress disorder is kinda dumb imagine born on the fourth of july mixed with the butterfly effect 2 i used to sequel as the example to really show how bad this movie is but directed by michael bay's 2nd unit director that bad the 2 stars are purely based on the production value
0	a cheap and cheerless heist movie with poor characterisation lots of style stoic emoting think chow yun fat in a better tomorrow and some cheesy clichés thrown into an abandoned factory ready for a few poorly executed flying judo rolls a la john woo even the squibs look awful at no point in the proceedings does it look remotely like america three wonky old cars do not a country make the mustang even has a wobbly right front wheel the plot such as it is is so derivative and predictable that the ending is like a mercy killing it couldn't come soon enough even the jewellery from the robbery looks like the cheapest junk costume jewellery available the awful dialogue and hopeless overacting by everyone who gets shot top off a real waste of space and time worth watching if you want to know how not to make a cliché ridden low budget movie
0	harrison ford playing a playing a cop in a crime thriller the perfect ingredients it seems for top entertainment with harrison back to his indy and han solo best protecting a witness from ruthless and merciless murderers how easy it is to be fooled if the film concentrated on the main supposed themes of crime and suspense instead of putting up and shoving ice creams in peoples faces it possibly could have been more worthwhile unbelieveably predictable with the best method of of a foe is with corn
0	this movie was not that good at all here is the first clue and that it is not gonna be a strong movie harrison ford's name not only appears first but it is also bigger than the title the music was nominated for an oscar what the heck was that that music was probably the most annoying thing in the movie the acting was sub par at best except the amish boy he did a decent job for being so young then you have the story which was weak and a little over the place and it won for adapted the music was horrid i know i already said something but it was really bad the premises was real good and it should be remade well that's all i really have on that br br your average movie guy br br
0	the plot in petites certainly left this viewer dumbfounded br br spoiler br br in the space of 48hrs or so character has an affair with a teenager loses his wife's affections attempts to seduce scott thomas is rejected by her goes on to grope yet another female character in the back of a car and then is finally shot for his trouble br br end of spoiler br br wha br br the only saving grace in this flick is kristin scott thomas similar to charlotte rampling she seems a natural to star in french cinema my hope is that one day françois ozon may cast her in a part where she can show her true talent br br there are some fine french films such as the remarkable le colonel chabert begging for a dvd release yet this is the tripe that gets chosen br br avoid this one br br zzzz
0	the distribution was good the subject could have been interessant and comic whereas he described the wandering of an old non credible communist looking for loving sensations instead of this the atmosphere is nor lively nor heavy
0	the obsession of and is not enough to make a good film pascal should have remained in our memory as a brilliant film theorist back in the it was not necessary to take the camera the result is quite frustrating it´s a pity for his excellent leading actors
0	i happened to see this film on a flight from paris to boston and it reminded me of the food on the plane generic tasteless and obscure the french cinema seems to have lost its footing these days and this is a good example of how a motley script can waste brilliant actors while some may find the of the script to be in line with the dictates of euro post modernism the whole project seems more like a post mortem on the death of euro cinema's golden years and truly fabulous talents one is vaguely reminded here of bunuel but without the charm or wit
0	daniel bruno in petites is a middle aged model of his pierre in christian vincent's la separation of 10 years ago in both films youthful confidence in left wing ideology and love mutual metaphors crumbles into paranoia manifesting itself as trapped aggression in pierre and desperately comic womanizing in the more recent bruno br br unfortunately for auteuil fans the actor has become reliant on a uniform world weariness not unlike johnny in recent l'homme du train acting it ain't and becomes rather frustrating as the film progresses pascal doesn't help as the writer director of the project his sequencing of episodes overlaid with connecting symbolism fail to mask the film's lack of rhythm i was particularly furious that the dramatic romantic backdrops of were made virtually redundant by a cameraman who was obviously shivering in the cold br br scott thomas almost rescues the show with her female counterpart to bruno beatrice she dramatizes the dizzying contradictions intended as bruno in a character of increasing complexity to the point of becoming surreal cannot sustain this though and the flagging plot demands beatrice to even out into another bourgeois mannequin in doing so shows then denies scott thomas the oscar cabinet br br all the characters' into the bourgeoisie may be a viable and indeed tragic outcome but in this case it's a cop out of a cadence unlike the brutal painful denouement of la separation a serious disappointment 4 10
0	good idea shame about the actual movie would of liked it to be a bit more scary and explain more about the characters and who exactly the evil woman was if she was torturing those kids why were they helping her kill and not helping others kill her its a bit of a come down from malcolm in the middle br br i think it would of benefited from being slightly longer and going into more detail with the characters although after about an hour i was wondering when it would end br br would of been better too if the actual characters that killed them were not in reality it sort of made them crap looking and what happened to the frankie character he fell into a bed of wild roses so should of been safe however the computer game showed him as game over ie dead next thing he appears with that irritating blonde lass to rescue the guy afraid of fire who i noticed had no qualms about flipping the lighter when demon lady was after him br br too many inconsistencies in this movie to really enjoy it however might make you think twice about playing that new computer game
0	seriously if you want to see a cliché horror movie you have to see this one i guess it contains all the scary parts where nothing happens the nerd type who actually isn't killed boy and girl coming together and surviving facing an old child fear etc i can go on i wanted to see this movie cause i tought the mix of a video game and a movie would work out guess i was wrong which makes the movie more bearable it is only so if you are bored it might be a good idea although i rather stay bored why absolutely not see it frankie aka malcolm is just irritating as the nerd type i could smack the guy and it is so sad he didn't die earlier and in the end he even comes back see something else
0	i have one word focus br br well br br imdb wants me to use at least ten lines of text okay let's discuss the fine points of focus i don't know about the rest of you but in my first year of film school they taught us a lot of useless crap like all be famous avant garde filmmakers but they also taught us how to do this crazy thing called focusing the lens it was amazing you give a little twist and wham everything is clear as a bell the person who shot what alice found needs to learn a few things about the finer points of focus lighting too this movie is not only completely out of focus it's also lit like the corner of someone's basement br br don't even get me started on pacing or plot they could have trimmed about ten seconds off the beginning and end of every single shot br br but who cares about that anyhow there is not enough lurid in this movie to make up for the utter lack of regard to film's best friends focus and lighting br br words to the wise
0	stay alive is a bland horror movie about a video game that kills people the same way they die inside the game the friends that play this game soon figure this out and then realise they must defeat the blood countess from the video game or accept their fates we've had video tapes in the ring a deadly website in feardotcom now it's onto video games stay alive does some things well the character development is quite a bit deeper than it usually would be in a horror movie we really see into some of the characters feelings and past and get to know them all quite well so the audience may gain some emotions for them the film is also very suspenseful tense unnerving moments are frequently played through the film accompanied by unsettling creepy music there are plenty of jumps and jolts for the viewer this can be ideal once or twice but these false scares that hollywood seems to enjoy overplaying in horror films nowadays wears thin in stay alive the camera will tend to provide sharp angles or quick flashes in order to give viewers a very quick glimpse of a demon or witch and try to scare them with this sudden burst on the screen why the gore is obviously very weak because of the film's certificate the script to stay alive is very cheesy and quite laughable and the characters tend to play it too melodramatically and confusingly also clichés come in from every direction for instance people wandering around on their own in search of a strange noise or if they have spotted a figure in the dark they will go and investigate it however the computer graphics used for the video game segments are rather impressive and look colourful and sharp working well with the other parts of the film but overall there is just not enough to hold out on with this film stretching at just over a hundred minutes it won't be a battle to stay alive but rather stay awake
0	honestly i was a big fan on 'stay alive' trailer when it got released even some months before i kept on telling my friend how this movie has a great story plot and perhaps a good one anyway this movie is somewhat below my expectations br br the plot has a great potential but how the story unfolds along with the acting directing and bad cgi this film is a disaster the ghost doesn't make any sense and including the killings its all just too hurried creating a sense of in the audience's mind br br this film could be scary for some audiences but fear in a sense of shock due to the sound effect etc rather than enduring fear due to certain valid factors in the movie br br you should re consider watching this movie
0	stay alive stay alive stay alive i am called the attention it was the trailer and not the cartel br br the topic of the movie centred on a video i play that was created by a countess to kill the people and to live eternally is acceptable br br first that quite bad movie of horror the blood sees more or less sparked spread gossip these scenes is bled they are the more bad br br but actually indeed that bad is this movie very very bad but bad in all the aspects br br i do not recommend this movie to anybody trailer well movie bad br br i do not deal since as like they spend consume money and time doing these senseless movies and too bad
0	a mediocre at best horror flick that deals with dumb not so horny teens who discover an evil video game gasp is killing those who die in the game double gasp this movie is the sustained mystery of the mystery gang in scooby doo i was waiting for them to pull off a mask of one of the villains i could deal with this for 40 minutes even as a movie on sci fi but going all the way to the theaters come on people the effects were very mediocre this whole scenario is something of crummy two but director uwe boll since this would be his cast as always the great thing about video game systems is the glorious power button i'd suggest using that mid viewing 1 2
0	i could tell this would be a bad one from the trailer but the lure of the dvd box got me to rent it anyway boy was i right br br also for some reason the dvd version is very fuzzy and unclear at times in terms of video quality it appears as if they shot the whole movie with a 20 year old camcorder it looks so bad i really did not like the plot and after watching the movie i was very let down i will not tell any spoilers but let it be said that the end was so bad that i laughed it has been done so many times before br br the whole story seems like something that came out of a middle schooler's english paper if i had to peg one movie as the worst horror movie i've ever seen this one may just be it i can't believe they actually released this film it really isn't worth the rent or a penny of anyone's money unless you want a good laugh at the movie's expense
0	stay alive has a very similar story to some asian horror films which include technology on the story some of this asian horror films are one missed call ringu and pulse so the idea of stay alive is very clichéd and obvious but the filmmakers behind it did not know how to put something new or interesting to the clichés in stay alive this film is totally crap but a very big crap all the elements of stay alive belong to the worst class of films shallow characters nothing of suspense stupid which makes laugh and light violence it's easy to note that the is incapable to create something original or disturbing i do not wanna loose more time writing about this pathetic film i just give you an advice do not see this film i really hated it
0	this movie was not very good in my opinion while not a complete waste of an hour and a half luckily i didn't have to pay for it it just wasn't very scary there were parts where i jumped and a few minimally violent gory scenes but overall only someone easily frightened would consider this movie scary br br the overall writing and acting were very weak the characters never evolved or grew as people even at the end the lead guy whatever his name was didn't man up and had to be rescued from the fire at the last minute the plot also had inconsistencies the police officer who was killed was not murdered in the same way he died in the game the girl october mentioned that in order to kill the evil demon lady you had to read something from the correct text funny how they never bothered to do that and still managed to escape the malcolm in the middle kid died in the game but didn't die in real life also making the game play by itself was very weak writing it would have been okay for the brother's death just to get them playing again but you are supposed to play a video game and stay alive and 3 people die before you play again why do you even need the game if you like movies like the ring and thing its scary and fun watch this movie if you know someone like that you can watch it with at laugh at do it if you like horror movies that make you laugh out loud and you have the opportunity to watch this movie for free do it otherwise stay far far away
0	i tried god knows i tried to like this swiss cheese of a movie but the story was too full of holes some big enough to drive a horse drawn carriage through the acting overall was even and the characters endearing enough that you regretted they died off like recently sprayed roaches scattering off to die their own gruesome deaths overall however it was not really very scary afterall we have seen spooky quickly moving figures in the background since the brood why back when and it was scary then just briefly this film just never resolved the basic plot points and thats the writer's job naturally you would expect the director to pick up on the fact that the story did not make sense like who's was the secret room behind the wardrobe why did the blood hungry ghost not die when she received the nails as prescribed by the book they read earlier why did the computer say game over for frankie's character even though he lived the list goes on and on i don't really feel comfortable recommending this film as its makes you feel like you wasted your time and there was not enough payoff in truly scary moments
0	the plot a group of young people with ridiculous names hutch and october are brought together by the death of their equally ridiculously named friend loomis after the funeral they decide to divide up their late friend's belongings among them is a video game called stay alive the group decides there's no better way to show their grief than to all partake in a little virtual bloodshed but the more they play the more they realize the connection between the game and the death of poor ol' loomis br br the production this film is just another entry into the latest hollywood craze of low budget pg 13 horror aimed at cashing in on the junior high school crowd the direction is sloppy to say the least with quick music video style cuts that make the action difficult to follow the dialog is so bad that it actually kills brain cells the plot itself is so full of holes that we never even learn where the game came from or why those who play it die br br the idea behind this film although not entirely original had some promise but the poor execution on both sides of the camera make this one big dud br br if you've ever got a craving for a killing someone in a video game makes them dead in real life horror film take my advice and skip stay alive for the superior
0	i was not very excited to see this movie in the first place but a group of us decided to go see it on opening night i felt like getting up and walking out and attempting to get my money back 20 minutes into this film i felt that the movie was very boring uninteresting and not true in many aspects including gaming i tried my best not to fall asleep during the movie as i watched one of the worst horror films i have ever seen the scary movie series was scarier than this movie the sad attempt to pull in a gothic girl an overworked business man and 15 year old geek and some random guy into a video game that kills you is a bad plot to begin with then they try to throw in a very horrible love scene where the main character kisses another girl after saving her 10 minutes after his girlfriend was murdered the theater was packed when the movie started by then end a little over half of the people had left before it was over if you feel the need to waste only 1 hour and 16 minutes of your time seeing this movie prepare to feel cheated
0	really average is the only word that comes to my mind when you see this br br the acting was average maybe a bit above average the camera usage was average actually below average the picture was so shaky and the colors were grainy and blurry the plot was a good one but moved at such a slow pace and wasn't put to good use br br this could've been so much more if it didn't go at a snail pace and we saw more into the characters backgrounds br br all we see are flashbacks here and there of alice and how her home life is so bad her mother is a working class woman trying to make end meet for her and her daughter we see a flashback of her of when she was in high school and her friend says to her tell your mom to make some better food and everybody says it's your mom yeah that's embarrassing but why would you run away from it br br i could definitely see if her mom was a drunk or somebody was abusing her but nothing was her home except she was embarrassed by it how immature br br we're not even given a glimpse of what the couple's lives have been like except that they've been prostituting for awhile and the woman forgot her name gave her baby up when it was 9 months old this really could've been so much more it could've had alice who was abused by her drunk mom go down to florida with her friend but then becomes a prostitute or something along the lines of that other then the real plot of this movie that is alice a girl with a home life of probably 90 of america's population working class runaways to florida but then gets sidetracked by turning into a prostitute br br i don't see why it won an award at sundance it must've been up against some really weak competition to have won that one award br br also to me alice's boston new england accent seemed forced it didn't seem genuine i should know i was born and raised in boston but now live in georgia br br 4 10 not really worth your time in my opinion
0	talk about false advertising i wasted an hour and twenty five minutes watching this piece of crap and there was not one leisure suit not one platform shoe no pointy finger dancing and not a single disco ball i watched it on a saturday night and ended up with an awful fever but it had nothing to do with the music br br seriously with or without john travolta this movie sucked br br from the opening scene you will be asking yourself the question where did that rope come from and will it please hang me too from its unabashed bias against the driving abilities of the pennsylvania dutch to the shameless promotion of the apparently everlasting capacities of laptop batteries to the cheap horror effects lifted directly from japanese cinema this is the worst film to hit theaters since the grudge
0	after the mysterious death of an old friend a group of teenagers find themselves in the possession of stay alive a horror survival video game based on the gruesome story of known as the blood countess the group begins to play the grisly game and soon they are murdered one by one in the same method as the character they played in the game as the line between the game world and the reality disappears our heroes must find a way to defeat vicious blood countess stay alive is an incredibly poor teen slasher flick without any iota of suspense writer director william brent bell doesn't have the damn clue how to make a watchable horror movie the jump scares are irritating the blood gore level is almost non existent and the story doesn't make sense the dialogue is utterly bad and the acting of all involved is embarrassing stay alive is easily one of the worst mainstream horror flicks of 2006 stay away from this stinking turd
0	a group of young adults open a plain of escape for the spirit of elizabeth when they recite her poem from a video game supposedly representing a séance the only one who dies in the game is miller adam goldberg who also is found dead the same way he perished in said video game while the others' characters didn't die in the video game their reciting her poem has instead unleashed the video game into reality with walking cgi characters stalking and killing each of them one by one they must follow certain methods using a mirror and nails to defeat and save their skin br br if this premise sound stupid that's because it is the characters are ho hum rejects from bad wb television shows this time allowed to spout profanity this flick follows the slasher rules but doesn't show much violence or gore it stays pg 13 safe with most of the death taking place off screen there's a scene where the true hero and heroine are running from video game characters pursuing them yes it's that bad nothing at all to recommend good looking cast including sophia bush as the appropriately named october
0	in the ring it was a videotape a website was the problem in feardotcom the danger in pulse came from computers and phone and one missed call guessed phones in stay alive the piece of technology that causes all manner of problems is an online game those who play it wind up dead soon afterwards how clever br br directed by william brent bell who and featuring an unimpressive cast of twenty somethings that you might have seen before but probably can't remember where or what the hell their names are this is an extremely derivative piece of film making aimed squarely at the pg 13 horror set seasoned scary film watchers will no doubt find stay alive extremely tedious highly predictable and not in the least bit frightening br br the poorly developed plot follows a group of gamers with extremely daft names october loomis hutch and who attempt to unravel the mystery behind the deadly game before they too become victims eventually they discover that it is the evil spirit of the legendary countess elizabeth who is killing anyone who dares to play and that their only hope of survival is to continue with the game to the end br br with a story as dumb as this viewers should expect a film with loose ends aplenty not one iota of logic who made the game how and why is never explained very little in the way of scares or gore and a dumb closing scene to leave the door open sequel
0	bad bad movie when i saw the synopsis i was expecting something like ring only with video game instead of tape nothing of the sorts happened i'll admit idea is interesting and could be turned into a good movie but this is not it br br first of all choosing real life person countess is stupid move that adds absolutely nothing to the story anybody even vaguely familiar with her story would begin to wonder why and how did this hungarian end up in this movie choosing a generic vengeful spirit would be much much better br br then there is whole you die in real life as you die in the game concept as i said before interesting ring like story but instead of developing it into good story line it sort of just flows along with no explanation given why did this game became such as it is why it was created and so on waste of good idea br br and finally this movie doesn't even have gory of funny parts that can if not save at least make crappy horror movies watchable death scenes are too quick and acting is too wooden to be funny br br avoid if possible
0	aside from frankie chattering too fast to understand malcolm in the middle flashbacks this film still cannot conjure up a scare the idea with the countess and the history surrounding her placed into the story was fun but the plot and many side plots just don't tie together plot synopsis murdering ghost lures victims through video game toss in some blood and a special effects and you've got yourself another bombed out would be horror flick the ghost cronies resemble the ghost in the ring two far too much the acting and constant and dramatic change in everyone's emotions is unbelievable save your money
0	i haven't laughed so much in a theater in years the only problem is that it was not the intent of the movie to make my throat raw from laughter br br this movie is absolutely overflowing with bad cgi absolutely terrible duologue absolutely terrible acting and enough geek references to make the whole thing come off as nothing but complete cheese br br as a gamer and a geek type girl myself i did recognize all of the obvious game references in this movie as well as the geek stuff that was just thrown into the background as eye candy the poster the t shirts from com and j list com and that didn't redeem the movie at all br br the only thing that might have been good at all were the ghost children type characters that were purposefully badly done in cgi to make it look like they were from a game and who were obviously stolen from japanese horror movies br br to be honest it was hilariously bad and something i'd expect from a midnight showing of a made for tv b grade sci fi channel movie don't expect more than that and you'll have a great time just don't get a soda or you'll spit it everywhere when you get great lines like why did you bring that game into our lives why
0	a group of teenagers discover a bootleg video game but once they start playing it they each start dying just like they do in the video game as they become addicted to the game they need to find a way to beat the game's central villain the blood countess before she kills them all br br the premise does sound a little stupid and familiar but this film could have still been mildly entertaining however this horror movie is not scary at all it's actually more of a comedy than anything else the film takes itself way too seriously and the movie is not a lot of fun to watch sure there is the occasional laugh but for the most part the film is very dull pg 13 horror films can still be good like the ring or cry wolf the ring and stay alive aren't really the same type of horror film though stay alive is more of a slasher movie and since its rated pg 13 the death scenes are very tame it should have been the movie's main sell and since it had an interesting concept the deaths could have been really good unfortunately the studio wanted a bigger audience and the film had to be altered br br the acting is a complete joke and most of the cast give awful performances jon foster is not a very good leading man he lacks charisma to really engage the audience or for the audience to care about him his character isn't unlikable just very bland samaire armstrong actually gives an okay performance though a little too bland to truly stick out frankie probably gives the best performance in stay alive that's an honor on the level of being the best player on the houston texans sophia bush is absolutely terrible as october her performance feels so rushed and so fake the most annoying character in the movie is phineas played by simpson his character is so unlikable you will be rooting for him to die br br in fact most of the characters are pretty unlikable so that makes it even harder to become interested in the film it's just hard to feel sorry for some of these annoying kids and it's a lot more fun to watch if you want the characters to actually survive the only real good thing about the movie is the atmosphere it's a little old but it still kind of works the film is also really short so it's not too much of a pain to sit through i wouldn't really blame the cast though because they were working with an inexperience director and writer the direction is not very good and the screenplay isn't much better stay alive is actually not the worst horror film of 2006 that honor would go to when a stranger calls stay alive is still a missed opportunity though in the end this cheesy and lame horror film is better left on the shelf rating 4 10
0	this was probably intended as an arty crime thriller but it fails on both counts there are few thrills and not enough substance the plodding pacing makes it hard to sit through and the occasional action scenes are too sloppily edited and confusingly staged to offer much compensation at least the level of acting is high
0	the word honor should be erased from the of all nations it aggravates male dumbness and is responsible for the death of millions of innocent people anybody who does not agree should not care to continue reading this comment br br as can be expected with these screenwriters yakuza is an engaging crime thriller with quite a lot of respect for the ethnical background against which it is acted out friends of gore and violence will not be disappointed either but especially towards the end violence becomes somewhat pointless redundant and downright silly contrary to other reviewers i found robert mitchum's performance not very good this is an actor who definitely did not improve with age he looks like a tired janitor it does not go too well with the part and his air of detachment which made him such an impressive screen presence in earlier years comes through as either confusion or lack of interest ken and richard jordan are very good as man of honor and young intelligent feeling thug respectively br br the best way to stand this movie is seeing it as a tragic comedy things are set in motion by the mitchum character's asking the character a favor based on wrong assumptions the error quickly becomes evident but the sense of honor demands they must not back off so they start sneaking around shooting in all directions wielding swords and wrecking their friend's arty apartment although the guy pleads with them it please all through the corresponding fight bodies start piling up and the story ends with mitchum's character making his point if you give him your little finger i will give you mine well it's the least he can do can't he so he pulls out a knife takes a resigned breath and starts sawing off said extremity outside the frame luckily it was a moment which probably should have been solemn it just made me laugh br br the use of locations is very good in this movie i particularly liked the scenes filmed in and around the international conference hall on lake an interesting futuristic building by architect the kyoto protocol was signed there to me the presentation of architecture seems better here than in sydney pollack's more recent documentary sketches of frank o which is about architecture and nothing else
0	this is one of those movies i watched and wondered why did i watch it what did i find so interesting about it being a truck driver myself i didn't find it very realistic no i've never used a nor have i ever seen nor heard about one traveling around the country in a brand new seventy thousand dollar rv either br br same thing about a pimp whom has never sampled the lady in question until the end of the movie and well he still really didn't and only getting 50 bucks 'a cut' when the prostitute gets 200 00 well 150 00 after his cut yeah br br i still laugh at the lot lizard comment made them's lot lizards they'll screw anything with 20 bucks and some are men dressed as woman or something equally as weird meaning we're better then them as we may still be prostitutes but we get paid better br br other then that it's just a story of a young woman whom wanted something more from life then a dead end job while living at home she's 18 remember and embarrassed by her mother basically doing the same thing dead end job at least she had a roof over her head and a job she turned five tricks on the road i wonder if the 750 00 she made was worth it i'd guess not
0	this adorable dog called various names during the film is seemingly loved by the whole town but he's alone he is friends with two children cindy and paul played astonishingly bad but their father won't let them have a dog then benji meets tiffany another adorable dog they instantly fall in love and it leads to a hysterical montage of the two of them frolicking in the grass drinking from a fountain in slow motion no less also benji lives in the cleanest abandoned house i've ever seen then the two kids are kidnapped by the most inept unfunniest kidnappers i've ever seen and wouldn't you know it they hide the brats in the exact house benji lives in br br wow was this bad a huge hit for some reason in 1974 which led to many sequels which i will not see the film is just terribly acted with humor so unfunny and badly done that you just stare at the tv in amazement the film also has a song that is played nonstop during the movie so much that you want to scream it was inexplicably nominated for best song at the oscars it didn't win yeah the dogs are adorable and much better than the human actors but i need more than cute dogs to keep me interested br br you might think i'm being a little hard on a kids film but i saw it with my 5 year old nephew within 20 minutes he was bored silly and basically stopped watching i kept watching in hope that it would get better it didn't really lousy but very patient kids or dog lovers might like it br br note to parents it's g rated but a dog is viciously kicked a few times you don't see it you just hear it and the dog survives but this might bother real young kids
0	the dog can act unfortunately nobody else in the cast of this sordid faux children's film can a stray yet very clever dog insinuates himself into the lives of two children much to the chagrin of their bitter and cold hearted father in what can only be described as dickensian the evil widower forbids his children who may or may not be mentally challenged from playing with benji neither the children nor benji obeys soon the children are kidnapped and benji has to help the police find them it's only then that the old man realizes that benji is good not bad br br tom lester whose only previous acting experience appears to have been playing the dim witted eb on green acres plays one of the kidnappers so does the regrettably over utilized deborah previous screen triumphs include beach blanket bingo and the woeful it's a bikini world she also played both gidget and tammy in the past and here attempts to obliterate her good girl reputation by playing it bad br br stay away from benji he's a dog and this movie is a dog
0	if you are like me and observed the original benji phenomenon from afar finally seeing the movie for the first time 30 years later you may be shocked to discover how truly awful it is and more mystified than ever about its popularity back in 1974 br br my judgment is not entirely objective as i tend to have a favorable bias toward children's films and for that reason cut them considerable slack on the other hand i have always hated this particular dog a feature on the last couple seasons of petticoat junction never a great show the dog less early episodes were at least a nice showcase of beautiful actresses and the introduction of the dog cut into their screen time br br benji is an 86 minute mega dose of the dog following him on several daily circuits through the town of mckinney texas if this sounds boring you would be advised to give benji a wide birth and to never let your remote control fall into the hands of a benji fan if there are still any out there br br unlike my dog skip monkey business or because of dixie the human actors in the cast are extremely weak big peter breck plays the standard stern father and just seems to embarrassed at the idea of appearing in something this lame br br if one of your children of any age appears to be finding benji entertaining you should consider cutting back on their medication br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
0	you know the movie could have been a lot better when the animal in this case a little dog is the best actor on the screen the acting in this film is so bad so amateurish by dog got embarrassed watching this he rusty our golden could have done a better job than the people in here br br by now this is almost a trite story kid finds animal pet is not liked nor wanted by one of the parents but the pet winds up saving one the kids and is now a hero and an official member of the family sound familiar br br i remember this movie being a big hit but never got around to seeing it until the mid '90s on vhs i was shocked how bad it was why so much fuss over a film was it because there was so much sleaze in the early '70s that a nice family film stood out in the crowd possibly there wasn't a whole lot of wholesome entertainment in the decade of the '70s plus a lot of people are suckers for cute little animal stories who could resist this cute little dog not me but the movie i can resist it's a grade b storyline with horrible acting br br recommended only for small dog animal lovers and i mean lovers because even the average pet owner will fall asleep trying to watch this film in this day and age
0	beloved tale of hero benji higgins the dog who is many different things to many different people in his busy day benji grabs breakfast at the house of two young children has a chat with an officer of the law chases an old lady's cat and reminds an aging café owner to start on the day's special helper to some amusement to others he is companion to all br br trouble arises when his young friends are kidnapped and taken to the abandoned mansion that he calls home from here on we know only benji can save the day br br plot is routine from writer producer director joe camp and he does tend to over do the slow motion effects audiences though will find it hard to resist the lovable little pooch and kids of all ages are sure to adore him cast were never going to be anything but background to benji br br not what you'd call inspired but fun family fare academy award nominee for theme i feel love br br saturday july 13 1996 video
0	a man is pulled off a london street and taken to some foreign country where he is tortured as a terror suspect dull banal film bored the hell out of me more an idea then a film i was half way into this 77 minute film when i realized i had no idea who anyone on screen was it was as if they took every other similar film and pulled out all of the ideas and put them in one place with out the real notion of character certainly its well acted with passion but there is no emotional center there is just an everyman of sorts which the filmmakers feel is enough its not and while the story presented id in theory important as a warning the film is too dull to convince anyone of it especially if one has seen the other better films of a similar ilk rendition with reese witherspoon for example
0	for those of you who have a few kind words for this film i suspect you didn't see it when it was released as parts the horror br br it was a dreadfully boring movie it missed the mark in at least three ways it wasn't good enough to be scary it wasn't bad enough to be funny although mst3k took care of that and even in 1979 the plot was unoriginal br br earlier contenders are the resurrection of zachary wheeler 1971 it's the same idea clones as spare parts the movie is entertaining and it had a fine cast another is sleeper 1973 yes the woody allen movie remember the flattened nose and clones 1973 the last two plots aren't as similar to as the first one but they predate br br they are also several fiction books from decades earlier that deal with the idea although often the word clone isn't used
0	how many english 101 student's versions of 1984 must america endure gosh this is a great book but kind of a downer i know i'll write one just like it where everything works out okay i'll also replace orwell's old used up political insights from the thirties with my own insightful informed opinions form the 1970s think think political insight evil politicians i'm a genius and there will be clones that they make of themselves for some diabolical reason i'll work on that it'll work no it won't bob sullivan writer of this story this really is all you're fault you could have stopped them early and said guys with our budget and acting abilities i was thinking romantic comedy or we could move away form taking ourselves so seriously and make a campy spoof this tired familiar genre of movies did you do that though bob no you didn't and you've had 28 years to think about it br br i don't mean to be so spiteful i'm sorry i yelled at you bob you've obviously had to live with this mistake a lot longer then i have some blame really should go to ron smith who helped you adapt the screenplay he could have stopped you at any time you were young and naive and he took advantage of you now he wrights the plots for video games and you bob well who knows what you do i'm sorry if that sounds harsh bob but that's the way it is you were sold upriver by the hollywood hotshots as if ron wasn't enough michael bay also saw your movie and without even asking for rights or anything added some explosions to your concept and turned it into the island that i think is the most disgusting part of all that with a little eye candy your script could of easily been good enough for a major hollywood production which i'd of hated just as much as this movie and not felt sorry for you at all br br i'm sorry things worked this way for you bob ron and michael walked all over you leaving you a withered shell of a man who's height of movie writing greatness will be a joke on mystery science theater 3000 don't focus on that though bob because karma works in mysterious ways and one day they'll pay for what they did to poor little bob sullivan
0	this film was sourced from my friends mum who worked in a charity shop she gave it to us along with a load of other unknown cassette tapes the film itself is a bit rubbish there are a few notable bits to laugh at like the bit when his girlfriend gets her head drilled into but in general the film is bland when i saw the trailer for the island i couldn't help noticing the similarities may have been the inspiration for that film all in all don't bother watching this film as it is dull and boring we enjoyed it so much when we were 16 that we named our band after it another sign this film is a bit crappy is the shots on the back of the video case don't actually appear in the film weird
0	tepid poorly produced 70's made moore because of today's headlines nonetheless this film is worthy stink fodder because of acting absent direction and silly 70's clothing sadly the moocow remembers when clothing was all the rage this has the same sort of feel to it that some better 70's sci fi moovies namely westworld and logan's run while the premise interesting rich people clone themselves to keep a ready supply of body parts to keep them alive theoretically forever the film makes the mistake of saddling us with richard tim donnelly a clone who is at once both boring and irritating hollow acting by donnelly doesn't help but fits right in with the rest of the cast even such b as dick sargent bewitched tv series ghost with 1 000 000 eyes keenan wynn dr strangelove the dark laserblast and peter graves beginning of the end killers from space it conquered the world provide only the moost tepid performances produced directed and edited by a bunch of nobodies it's no surprise that fails to horrify anyone in the least much less keep anyone's attention truth be told there's nothing in the feeble flick that even schlock fans would love wanna see some bad funny 70's films put on anything by greydon clark is no bonus the moocow says even the mst3k version is a yawner so proceed at yer own risk 8p
0	kazuo komizu who hasn't made one decent film directed this notorious shocker and should be ashamed that it was a hit upon its japanese release br br yes it does feature scenes of rape gore and dismemberment but so what it has the style of a bad american porn film shot and badly photographed by ed powers dirty debutantes and is incredibly slow br br it seems to have earned its notoriety based on its roster of anti social acts br br there is a huge difference between this and horror that is well produced br br just because someone likes their cinema a little wet does not mean they'll accept crap like this on the contrary that kind of fan myself for example tolerates even less crap than the average punter out there because he's seen so much and has become overly discerning it's a shame production companies don't realize that br br one reviewer here commented that the film's near obsession with gang rape is one of the factors that killed it i disagree the subject matter is never the issue the issue is how that subject matter is treated in entrails of a beautiful woman it is treated so unimaginatively that it is boring br br personally i like graphic depictions of psychopathic behavior with an intriguing context if the material is well directed freshly photographed and aesthetically pleasing this horror pink hybrid is woeful
0	parts the horror is not that bad of a movie i have the mst3k version of it on tape and it is hilarious but its still not the worst film the have ever done i would go so far as to say that it was better than 80 of the movies they have made fun of the concept could have worked if they had a better script more money and decent actors it could have become a classic if it was not so boring and had a bit more excitement sadly it was botched in production and ended up on mst3k
0	the only reason i'm even giving this movie a 4 is because it was made in to an episode of mystery science theater 3000 the horrible direction is only slightly overshadowed by the characters complete inability to act the lead is an actor i have never seen in anything else and it shows no chemistry with the love interest and so bland you almost don't care what happens to him dick sargent was not convincing as a villain least of all this guy was suppose to be super evil he was more annoying then anything peter graves was the only person the movie that wasn't awful his part was small and even he couldn't compensate for his co stars lack of talent in 2004 someone tried to make this mess all over again it was called the island i personally didn't see that movie but from what i understand its the same movie if you want to laugh at this movie get the mst3k episode its really funny full of bewitched and biography references it makes this movie finally watchable
0	i'll say this first the film would've been a 70s sci fi classic if it had been executed a lot better br br that said let's examine the plot it starts with peter graves or is that clarence running for president then cuts to a goofy college campus like full of in goofy trucker caps and headsets and retarded athletes who all act like they're perpetually age 8 it then shows one guy apparently going to america having a party then taken to a medical lab where he is drugged wrapped in a plastic bag and then prepared as if the doctors were bagging vegetables for steamers packs okay actually he's being put on ice so the doctors can extract the organs they need br br it then cuts to another dopey man thinking the place he's living in is a bit strange after a beer can of all plot devices possible he finds in a river makes him look suspicious damn those beer cans he and some equally stupid love interest of his feel they need to get to the bottom of it all so he makes her stay behind as he escapes through what is basically a large college administration building with some evidence he discovers on the way about cloning and how he's a part of it br br he escapes his after being shot some and an old reporter guy helps him find his 'father' the man he was cloned from it just so happens he's a clone of the brother of peter graves after debate about what to do with him and his evidence he goes back to the facility to find his girlfriend who has been lobotomized in the meantime to be even more stupid harmless and ready to host a talk show according to the sol crew he is captured and put into cold storage just like his nazi build retard friend from the beginning of the film br br meanwhile a confrontation at graves' brothers house results in several deaths including graves' the reporter guy and his wife are killed in the middle of an exciting conversation by a bomb it seems the conspirators have won to some extent br br then peter graves turns out to be able to survive being run through with a metal poker by the miracle of cloned parts and giving another for me' speech just as reporters confront him about the cloning thing br br definitely mst3k fodder but on the low end of the spectrum as far as overall badness goes
0	parts the horror is a horror all right there are of course the bad fashions of the late 70's there's the really bad acting from dick sargent to peter graves and then there's the clones themselves their days mostly consist of running jumping cycling and wrestling with each other when they're not doing that they learn about america not the band america or the song by neil diamond but an america where they go on to become part of a greater society but they're given some strange drug then they have all their bodily fluids drained general ripper was right and they are placed in the freezer and await thanksgiving or christmas when they will be out and roasted at about 450 degrees or so oops that's not what happens but it would've been a lot more interesting than what's shown mario of super mario brothers fame makes a delightful cameo as a doctor who bickers with dick sargent
0	in a tv movie 70's kind of way it's one of those movies that show up in the wee hours but rarely because more modern late hour schlock movies bump it off it has likeable performances by graves and wynn generally it's just a harmless little piece of nothing that doesn't offend too badly nothing good a lot that's mediocre
0	this film is a mediocre low budget flick i've seen much worse on mst3k let me assure you but this is still a pretty crappy film br br the film is about a top secret government facility in which clones are used to give organs to politicians it's an almost orwellian society actually almost but not quite effective br br the film starts to roll downhill when the head clone tim connely of fame falls in love with a female clone breen who appeared in this and at most four other films and this was not her first film they begin to suspect something after finding a beer can in the nearby river the plot starts to unravel the clone receives no answers from either the head scientist dick sargent from or the a computer which supposedly knows everything so he breaks into the main building and in a scene hilariously destroyed by mike and the bots finds out the truth including a clone video which eerily shows the exact same method that was used to clone dolly five years ago and this film was made over twenty years ago about he breaks free pursued by two guards he has one hell of a time breaking through the two foot high fences though he has a considerably harder time climbing up some boulders from there it continues to slide also appearing are peter graves beginning of the end' it conquered the world' as the presidential candidate and keenan wynn dr once upon a time in the west' and tuttle ma barker's killer psycho' as the elderly couple who help after he escapes br br the mst3k version was priceless one of the best episodes ever br br four stars for the film 10 for the mst3k version
0	the movie was actually not that bad especially plot wise but the and hairy actor they chose for the leading role was a little chintzy in the acting department i would have chosen someone else the idea of going to america was very ingenious and the main character questioning everything that he'd ever known made him somewhat likable but not very much so when there's a pasty blob for a leading actor br br the storyline was interesting it brings about the question of how the subject of cloning will be handled in the future certainly cloning wouldn't be allowed for the purposes in the movie but it's still a valid argument even for today clones are still people right br br the movie wasn't particularly special but it still is a lot better than some of the cheese released during the 70s let us not forget the giant spider invasion i give it a 4 since it didn't totally stink but the mst3k version makes this movie a 10 i still like dr super mario you'll like this movie but it won't be your favorite
0	i have never seen this movie on its own but like many others who have already commented i saw it as an episode of mst3k really terrible 70s television schlock but someone saw its potential because it's just been turned into a 125 million flop called the island br br and to the person who asked whether there were any good movies made in the 70s i want to remind her that it was a golden age for american film with directors like robert altman and martin scorcese first coming into their own not to mention little things like star wars 1977 just a reminder that the 70s were far more creative than the 21st century has been so far
0	i have now suffered through parts the horror br br to have the word horror in the title of this movie is an insult to real horror br br the story was about a cloning central owned by the the man they grow clones for harvesting organs from the clones later on for the original humans in need of transplants one clone escapes the government gets angry and kills all involved but the story somehow leaks out anyway br br it is truly shameful how a movie with potential is destroyed by amateurs such as the only thing he genuinely succeeded in doing was to weave in the concept of human rights and the very philosophical aspect what makes a human a human and would it be ok to grow clones for organic harvesting sadly mediocre actors have been chosen and the plot has left town until the very end in where a pathetic attempt is made to sum it up br br but what disturbed me the most was the introducing of new characters lacking actual relevance for the plot despite that feels the need to kill them off in a bad explosion which only sir coleman francis himself would be proud of br br the setting was interesting how thought that pulling out sheets of plastic and running water over them would make a believable river is beyond me but i guess if you were to compare the setting to coleman francis' gray pasty oatmeal of a setting this film would win br br perhaps coleman has changed what bad movies are for me 3 10
0	the premise of this film is the only thing worthwhile it is very poorly made but the idea was clever if not entirely original it's a shame the other aspects of the film weren't better the acting is especially bad
0	this program was shown in an early morning time slot on space a cable sci fi station i am amazed that anyone would pay for this or broadcast it it is incredibly amateurish br br the entire show is a sequence of short monologues or scenes performed on a set that looks like a closet with a bunch of circuit boards taped to the wall there is very little continuity between scenes and no plot a typical scene revolves around some lame joke or special effect and is only a minute or so long the dialog makes little sense and the special effects look like photoshop filters the actors are all adults but i have literally seen high school plays with better writing and sets this program is an embarrassment br br perhaps each scene would work as an a filler between shows instead of commercials stringing all the scenes together makes the limitations of the material extremely obvious
0	like most other people i saw this movie on mystery science theater 3000 although it received some well deserved barbs it's one of the better films to be featured on that show br br the premise is better than even your average hollywood blockbuster these days it poses some interesting moral dilemmas although the score is sometimes obtrusive it also provides a few lovely moments when richard is walking by the river watching the movie you can see where a lot of plot developments probably looked very good on paper richard's discomfort in modern society is an interesting problem to ponder and the ending probably would have been a nice '70s style if the preceding affairs hadn't been so goofy br br unfortunately the movie is visibly cheap making the flaws all the more obvious the clone farm is very obviously a college campus and a beer can serves as a major plot point lena and richard have zero chemistry we are supposed to believe this is a meeting of kindred minds but there doesn't seem to be a brain cell between them the cranky old couple schtick also gets real old real fast there are also some mistakes that can be blamed on bad directorial choices such as the decision to hold a climactic conversation out of reach of any audio equipment whatsoever br br in all a noble effort but is nonetheless best viewed on mst3k
0	this is a great premise for a movie the overall plot is very original interesting and something to think about however poor production an obviously small budget acting from the main character and several side actors really detract from this would be classic an up and coming producer should try to this story and give this basicly half hearted atempt a proper release
0	this movie had an interesting enough plot about clones and organ usage but it fails as the lead actor is so annoying and whiny you want him dead not that anyone else is very good in it either but when you hate the character that is supposed to be garnering your sympathy the movie just fails to work funny enough it looks like a movie is coming out in the near future that has a plot that mirrors this one with more action and a better cast still though i won't be able to think of anything else but this film if i were to watch it this movie has a super dumb clone that is somehow smart enough to figure something is wrong with his camp where people bicycle at one mile per hour and wrestle for no reason the counselors tell them that when they are ready they go to america but our hero has his doubts so he snoops around and learns the awful truth which sends him on the run from the bad guys who shoot and hit the guy repeatedly he goes on the look out for the man he was cloned from peter graves is in it and so is dick but they add nothing to this movie which looks like something that was made for television on the plus side though when the island comes out the makers of this film can proudly say we thought of it first
0	the beginning of this movie had me doubting that it would be little more than a typical b sci fi flick but as it progressed i began to get interested and i saw the whole thing through the premise is interesting original and has the makings of making a classic alas it instead ended up a mediocre movie done in by the usual factors which turn a potentially good movie into a bad movie bad acting low budget etc i'm interested to see how this would turn out if it were remade with good actors and a big hollywood budget
0	'you're in the navy now' is painfully bad very likely the worst movie gary cooper ever made it's supposedly based on a true story but the incident which inspired this film doesn't seem to have enough plot to sustain a feature length script br br i saw this movie on local television while i was house sitting for my mother in law in long island new york there was a raging blizzard outside and i was literally snowbound if i'd been able to get out the door i definitely would have stopped watching this movie br br there are some interesting names in the supporting cast notably charles bronson under his original name lee marvin harvey lembeck jack webb and jack warden forget it everybody stinks in this movie even the usually reliable millard mitchell is awful lee marvin and jack warden are onscreen so briefly there's no point in your watching for them br br gary cooper plays an obscure naval officer who is assigned to command a ship which is powered by a new experimental steam basically the whole ship is a giant cooper realises that the assignment is not a prestigious one if it were it would have gone to a better officer br br cooper was a good actor in dramatic roles but he simply had no ability for comedy he made several bad comedies and this one is his worst jane greer has always bored me and she bored me more than usual here this ship went down with all hands and sank without a trace have i mentioned that this movie stinks i'll rate 'you're in the navy now' one point out of 10 toot toot
0	i saw this film shortly after watching moonlight valentino with elizabeth perkins gwyneth whoopi goldberg and kathleen turner there are a lot of similarities between the two films they both have great casts and good acting they both have stock characters of sisters who are very different an offensive stepmother a woman friend confidant an emotionally unavailable father a dead mother and a surprise lover both films have the characters experience life changing realizations and both films suffer from a kind of 'love conquers all' sentimentality they both add a little titillation with cameron diaz in black underwear and a partial back shot of gwyneth paltrow naked br br both films seem contrived as if the writers of the works the films are based on did market research and said ok there's a market for stories about relationships between women so i'm going to write about two sisters with an offensive in other words instead of the drama emerging from the truth of the relationship the relationship is invented to fit the dramatic situation it seems forced the characters don't seem real the relationships are unbelievable br br the resolution of the tensions between the characters is simplistic with simple apologies completely whisking away years of acrimony leaving everyone feeling warm and fuzzy ever after it's just not real romantic fantasy br br the characters in in her shoes are a little more overblown than moonlight valentino especially the stepmother part is so evil that it is difficult to believe that the father would stay with her or even marry her in the first place br br if you liked moonlight valentino you will probably like in her shoes as well enjoyable performances in both in fact the actors bring depth to their parts that goes way beyond the contrived sentimentality of the scripts
0	poor shirley maclaine tries hard to lend some gravitas to this mawkish gag inducing feel good movie but she's trampled by the run away sentimentality of a film that's not the least bit grounded in reality br br this was directed by curtis hanson did he have a lobotomy since we last heard from him hanson can do effective drama sprinkled with comedy as evidenced by wonder boys so i don't know what happened to him here this is the kind of movie that doesn't want to accept that life is messy and fussy and that neat tidy endings however implausible they might be might make for a nice closing shot but come across as utterly phony if the people watching the film have been through anything remotely like what the characters in the film go through br br my wife and i made a game of calling out the plot points before they occurred e g the old man's going to teach her to read and then drop dead bingo this is one of those movies where the characters give little speeches summarizing their emotional problems making you wonder why they still have emotional problems if they're that aware of what's causing them toni collette a fine actress by the way and one of my favorites if not given a lot to work with here gives a speech early on about why she buys so many shoes and never wears them spelling out in flashing neon the film's awkward connecting motif at that moment i knew what i was in for and the film was a downward spiral from there br br grade c
0	this was supposed to be set in the bible belt of northern ireland well as someone who grew up there and was a child in the era depicted in the film it just didn't ring true the accents were all over the place anything but county derry the church didn't resemble any i have ever seen the church of god is a pentecostal denomination but the one in the film was certainly not pentecostal the elderly minister at the beginning was dressed in the robes of the church of ireland anglican and no c of i would call itself the church of god the minister was often addressed as reverend they may do that in some parts of the world but i never heard it when i lived in that area ministers were addressed as mr br br this film was very badly researched and cast fairly typical of irish cinema annoying a film can have a great plot but if it doesn't look authentic it is rubbish
0	for a country that has produced some of the world's finest dramatists and has such a rich musical heritage it has always been a source of bewilderment to me why so much of ireland's home grown cinema has been so appalling perhaps because by its very nature those talented in the field of irish cinema have been quick to abandon their native shore for careers in britain or america colin farrell is a recent case in point and that the really successful irish directors that have continued to work in ireland and with irish subjects have made their films with international money and an eye on the international market i am thinking particularly of jim sheridan and neil jordan who alternate between films with an irish setting and projects filmed abroad br br however is very much an irish film even if two of its principal actors are english it's certainly well made of its kind and might have bucked the trend that irish films aren't really very good paddy breathnach's i went down written by the brilliant young playwright conor mcpherson is a crucial exception unfortunately this tale of fundamentalism set in a fictitious irish town presumably in the north of ireland judging by the accents mid ulster bible belt if you ask me and presumably in the recent past the fifties the sixties is so over the top that it really is quite ridiculous br br nothing in the film rings true and you can't help feeling it's writer has been strongly influenced by flannery o'connor and that the whole thing might have made more sense had it been set in the american bible belt and not in ireland where even the most extreme protestant fundamentalist was never quite as loony as this it's all meant be to be grim in a grand guignol kind of way and it certainly is though i was more prone to giggles than at the right reverand matthew antics he has the ulster accent off pat and there is nothing wrong with his acting or indeed that of daniel mays as his brother gerard as his father or eva as mays' wife but the script is so appallingly derivative that good acting can do nothing to save the film so rather than a step up the ladder for irish cinema is i'm afraid just another nail in its coffin
0	the film is visually stunning from the dusty interior of the church with the lighted stove through the street and the run down garage to the blaze that is the climax of the film it also has a wonderful sense of time both 1950's the film's opening and 1960's all of the performances are top class especially mathew macfadyen as the psychotic preacher and gerard as the father who finds his own intolerance terrifyingly magnified by his son what a pity then that the story is so ridiculous for a start in concentrating on the relationship between gabriel and his family it utterly fails to show how he has managed to hold so much influence on the community in the church we see five or six of the main characters at the front and another two or three at the back but the rest of the congregation might as well be mannequins they show no sign of hearing him heeding him or dissenting from him at the cockfight nobody says yea or nay when he disrupts the proceedings but neither does anybody applaud or condemn when caroline throws a pint over him a situation that results in a stone thrown through the pub window is mysteriously resolved by the onset of labour pains secondly which isn't actually a town but a tiny village seems to lack some essential services such as police and fire service murder can only be dealt with by a family member with a crowbar residents watch an inferno that threatens to engulf the whole town as though they were at the cinema for that matter everyday things such as telephones and newspapers are conspicuously absent the rural community is strangely devoid of farm animals or wheat fields and most puzzling of all for a 'typical' north of ireland setting there is only one christian community not even a couple of to season the mix even if you're willing to suspend disbelief the story itself is pretty threadbare a pale imitation of an a j melodrama and the music well it's beautiful for the first two minutes but when the same four chords are repeated non stop for 90 minutes it gets more than a little irritating my advice watch this with the sound off
0	the opening of morte a venezia resembles a duran duran music video with classical music and this is the highlight of the movie br br in terms of what theo br br in terms of everything but especially excitement i doubt if there's ever been a more sluggish slower moving movie than this one yeah okay it's a european art house movie so i wasn't expecting charles bronson to massacre hordes of bad guys but even so i did expect some substance if not an actual plot br br the film revolves around professor gustav von visiting venice gustav visits venice and goes on a gondola gustav eats in an expensive restaurant gustav looks out of his hotel window and if it's excitement you want gustav has a flashback br br bad enough if this was the entire movie but it gets worse because gustav notices a pretty boy teenager so you've got a middle aged academic lusting after some teenage boy he has seen some old queen is becoming obsessed with a stranger great idea for a movie i don't think so either and thank gawd it remained a yawn fest instead of some sleazy precursor to gay porn br br i notice a lot of people who praise this movie have tried to it i can only be monosyllabic and unpretentious in my view and say that the only subtext i could relate to was the physical and emotional disintegration of gustav but it wasn't caused by the effete beauty of the teenage boy it was caused by watching such a boring and ostentatious movie
0	once again the posters lied to me br br the marketing of this flick was deeply at odds with the content when i read the synopsis for this movie i was expecting to see a of grotesques every man jack of them bloodshot and bloated by alcohol peppered by heroin needles and bent double with chronic masturbation into such a den of vice would come the clean shaven hero shining gabriel instead the movie was the complete opposite of what i was led to expect br br the first few minutes of the film showed us that is a simple little place full of poor people doing the best they can whether fiddling a little to make ends meet drinking to forget the pain or watching cock fighting chickens not penises to while away the boredom in other words the townspeople were desperately ordinary br br the only deliberate grotesque in the piece was gabriel the brainwashed presbyterian preacher played by macfadyen whose face is built in such a way as to suggest a permanent air of bewildered fury if i were kind i would suggest that the rantings of the preacher were a witty comment designed to make us despise gabriel and his faith unfortunately brian kirk is so inept a film maker that you quickly despise everyone in the movie leaving the audience to fret their way through eighty plus minutes of dark hackneyed tedium my only respite from this waste of celluloid was a game of guess the accent broken up with rounds of spot the location are we surprised that ends up stealing his brother's child and suffocating his father of course not he's a bible bashing preacher and therefore psychotic all the townspeople stand around looking shocked at the end of the movie but i suspect that they've just realised what a turkey they've put their names to br br the northern ireland film and television commission have a budget to spend but there are better projects than this feeble enterprise the only kind thing i can say in favour of this movie is that it has managed to replace superman returns as the worst film of 2006 one hell of an achievement br br v2
0	i have a lot of respect for mr argento's work but this film lacks many of the qualities that make his films really unique the opening to the film is great and sets you up for the possibility of a really scary horror film what occurs for the rest of the film lacks structure or purpose and does not build into much there are some good performances though and a lot of great atmosphere the end of the film is weak considering everything this builds up to where there should be some grand climax of huge proportions you instead get a very typical conclusion that too many other bad horror movies use making it feel like they just needed to wrap it up a couple of scenes are very memorable for their imagery but in the end the film does not gel to make a really good movie unless you feel you must see everything this director made i suggest passing on this one
0	in the same way lamberto bava was a substandard of his father mario who was an extremely overrated director anyway michele is a substandard director in the dario argento mold the church has at least one thing to recommend it the incredibly detailed art direction but absolutely nothing else the film is long winded filled with one dimensional characters and almost put me to sleep several times there's a fine line between 'art' and crap ' and while the church isn't completely worthless you'd be better off watching something else br br 3 10
0	i had always eyed italian horror maestro dario argento's efforts as producer with a certain suspicion and these were only confirmed after my fairly recent viewing of lamberto bava's terrible demons 1985 the fact that this was supposed to be its third installment did not sound promising at all but i decided to give the film a rental regardless now that we're in full halloween swing i checked out the theatrical trailer on the anchor bay dvd prior to viewing the main feature – the undeniably striking visuals had me intrigued to be sure but then the film proper which makes no more sense than what's presented in that frenzied two minute montage and in retrospect can be seen to have wisely compiled most of its highlights proved a definite let down br br opening promisingly enough with a medieval prologue straight out of alexander nevsky 1938 it goes downhill fast because it relies too much on surreal imagery at the expense of narrative consequently several characters randomly take center stage throughout – with the insufferable male lead succumbing to the dark forces early on the sinister looking bishop feodor chaliapin resulting a mere red herring the mysterious black priest gradually assuming heroic qualities the leading lady is for whatever reason preyed upon by a goat shaped demon culminating in a sexual rite conducted in front of the other cultists lifted all too obviously from rosemary's baby 1968 and a reasonably impressive 13 year old asia argento as the rebellious but likable daughter who emerges as the only survivor by the end incidentally the older argento also co wrote the film's story and screenplay along with director and under a pseudonym after they apparently fell out with dario in the early stages of production original helmer lamberto bava and prolific genre scribe dardano sacchetti whom i met at the venice film festival in 2004 br br the extremely muddled second half of the film then sees a group of people – including the inevitable teenagers but also a doddering english couple whose constant bickering is given an amusingly nasty punchline – similarly shut inside a building in the grip of evil spirits the church being the burial ground of a satanic cult that this horror outing is likely to dispel memories of luis bunuel's sublimely surreal the exterminating angel 1962 you see in the end the film is all the more disappointing though sergio gruesome effects at least are notable given that i had thoroughly enjoyed the only other title i'd watched – cemetery man 1994 which i own via the r2 se dvd that said i'd still like to catch his debut feature – stage fright 1987 – and the director's follow up effort to the church entitled the sect 1991
0	let me get this straight the church has a safety lock down mechanism to keep the spirits from leaving but the ultimate solution is bringing it to the ground maybe i'm missing the plot maybe this guy is from the ed wood school of film making or something this movie is about as useless as the church itself hey maybe that's the point that whole rosemary's baby esq segment was hilarity i can go to my corner halloween costume shop and get better drag than that the entire film needs to be remade properly there were so many things that were played down so many things that could have made me jump out of my seat and through the ceiling i'm not sure if the fault lies with the writing or editing but what i saw should not have this high of a rating
0	master of italian horror dario argento is called a lot of bad things by non fans and is deserving of absolutely none of the backlash in fact every time i hear something bad about argento i think they're really talking about michele he just doesn't get the same amount of attention because his films were never as successful in theaters in fact his best film 1994's cemetery man was probably his least successful or just didn't get the attention he felt it deserved because after that he left film and went into directing television he's never gone back so people really don't know how inferior his other films are because by the time they've seen them they're already fans of the italian horror aesthetic which means you have to accept the fact that they make almost zero sense and are usually very unattractive films this is where the church stands out from the pack because visually it's so cheap and ancient looking you can smell the dust but it has its' charms too though they are few the camera work is truly arresting and the music score is hugely elaborate and grand br br since argento is the reasons people have seen soavi's work all i don't know anyone who caught the church before argento's suspiria and deep red is a bit of a hack sort of like an italian mick garris the utmost example of a director preferring style over substance the flaws of the church are constant and plenty the film opens with a somewhat interesting prologue showing knights on white horses charging through a peasant village akin to those you see in any robin hood adaptation in some long ago century these scenes are intense enough energetic and get quickly to the point then we cut to the present where the film's style takes over yeah the movie is okay to look at and for about 35 or so minutes in the present 1980's wherever italy the movie is just interesting enough to get us to the slowly revealing horror elements so now we know the purpose of the film is the build up of it's horror and it's a decent build up for the most part but as the movie approaches the halfway point we realize the movie's driving by and nothing is happening br br the plot is very simple i think two people working in a church one as a of books and the other as a of the building's wall artwork discover a scroll scripture that the man thinks will lead them to some kind of buried treasure or priceless artifact that he can sell and get rich off of so he follows his only to uncover a force underneath the church that has him while he's slowly becoming a demon who will make everyone else so while he is doing his demon work someone he passed the force onto kills himself in a manner that traps everyone in the church while the demon spreads onto everyone leaving a black preacher and the little girl who sneaks out of the church every night to go clubbing as the only 2 people who can stop the plague from spreading beyond the church walls that probably sounds action packed and soavi's style is far more lethargic than argento but never before have i seen an attempted surrealist film this agonizingly boring i kid you not absolutely nothing happens in the entire film i've seen expressionistic or impressionistic i'm no film school super grad films before but most of them actually show things happening john carpenter's halloween for one br br it follows pretty closely in the footsteps of lamberto bava's demons films since argento co produced we're shown to a location where a bunch of people gather one turns into a demon all the others are isolated that person infects everyone except a couple survivors then the demons either get out infecting the world or the survivors get out when the demons die this film puts all those same elements in place except unlike argento's work nothing happens okay a few things do happen but only one bizarre sequence has the panache of much more fun demons films a random woman's neck is impaled by a demon using a section of fence he rips out of the floor what's bizarre about that you wonder it happens in front of about two dozen people what do they do nothing she dies her head blood in closeup but all those people don't even notice though it happens in plain view and no less than 8 feet away from them maybe 4 people notice the demon running up to stab anyone he can as he runs toward her so they duck out of the way she's killed and in the shot after she dies everyone is just sitting around being quiet while a boy plays a saxophone i kid you not that's what happens that's more than logically incoherent it's plain stupid br br the scene is suggesting that the woman just sort of disappears and no one saw her death they all just up and forget about it and this 15 second thing is absolutely the only event that takes place in the movie i'm not saying it's the only violence gore or murder we see it's not it's just the only thing we can tell is happening for example in one scene a beautiful woman sees herself in a mirror looking old and ugly she starts clawing the skin on her face off but when she reappears minutes later no scratches people are devoured by fish and their faces are squashed by subway cars but later they turn up as totally unharmed members of a possessed cult in a scene that commits the ultimate horror heresy copying a famous scene from roman polanski's 1968 masterpiece rosemary's baby the greatest horror film ever made shot for shot even if argento did that i would be furious
0	i was initially interested in this film after reading a synopsis and seeing a few striking screenshots and the promise was there for a gripping horror film of the dario argento style admittedly i must say that argento's films have occasionally been rather incoherent and some feel like a handful of visually impacting set pieces loosely strung together with a vague connecting plot br br since argento is credited as writer for this i have to say i'm not really surprised even his masterpiece suspiria when examined exhibits the same tendency to string along sometimes unrelated scenes purely for the aesthetic impact however suspiria also had the benefit of a singular main character and clear antagonists as well as scenes that contributed ultimately to the eventual resolution br br the church on the other hand has none of these things it has no main character no protagonist whatsoever it furthermore has no real plot to speak of and no crescendo no climax no denouement and no resolution it is a completely hollow incoherent work that views as if argento sat down and thought 'hey that would make an interesting scene visually let's do it ' the film is a series of these scenes br br initially it might be interesting and soavi's direction is excellent i must say cannot be faulted for the material as it is made as compelling as possible however such good direction calls attention to the horrible failings of the script and there is absolutely no sense in it the attempt at a central unifying plot is nothing more than plagiarism of carpenter's film prince of darkness events happen solely because the script wishes them to and reactions to those events are completely implausible the narrative flow is irreparably damaged after a point simply because there is no ability to suspend disbelief it's too ludicrous added to this are numerous factual errors that are so glaringly showcased that it becomes embarrassing br br if it had been more overtly artistic and edited down into a different work it might have been chilling or tense if it had been fleshed out into an actual cohesive narrative it might have been gripping but it was none of these the best it managed was confusing and at times infuriating plots are introduced but never followed characters are forgotten about and altered arbitrarily no logic is ever applied to any situation it might have been scary or interesting but to elicit that sort of feeling takes more effort on the part of a screenwriter much more br br all in all the church is not worth viewing for anyone but total enthusiasts of italian horror that is more style than substance this is argento's style at its worst and it is a strong justification for the usual criticism
0	i understood before watching this film that it would be a low budget gore film but even by those low standards this film doesn't cut it br br the problem isn't so much that the filmmakers had a low budget or had bad acting writing directing sound music and editing i expected all of that to be bad and it is br br the biggest problem with this film is that it didn't even do a good job on the guts and gore most of the 'action' takes place off screen and all we get to see are the after effects which look very fake even by the standards of low budget gore films br br there really is no excuse for the gore being so poorly done peter jackson made the equally low budget 'bad taste' at about the same time and he somehow was able to make much more convincing guts and gore than was shown in this film br br a failure on just about every level i can't recommend this film to anybody steer clear of it br br br br
0	is this supposed to be serious i hope not this is one of the most pathetically hilarious movies i've ever seen given that i picked it up for a buck on the bad movies shelf it sure lives up to its spot in the shop what can i say the gore effects are spattered pun intended all over the place some looking quite real some looking like a teddy bear that's had an accident with a bottle of tomato sauce the music is some of the most horrible i've heard the acting is one of the most amusing elements must i continue don't bother unless you've seen every other pathetic horror movie in the shop and this is all that's left
0	emotionally insecure tom russo asbestos felt reads the secret diary of his sexy wife courtney and is dismayed to discover that the love of his life has apparently been sleeping with every bloke she meets this shocking revelation sends poor tom off his rocker and he proceeds to wreak bloody revenge on the men who he believes have been his old lady br br in my experience really really bad films can often be as much fun as really good ones and no film featuring a decapitation by machete enhanced ceiling fan should ever be considered completely worthless but even though killing spree very occasionally manages to entertain with its inventiveness and cheap and cheerful gore i found that the terrible direction awful production values ugly cinematography muffled sound dreadful lighting mind numbingly tedious and daft narrative which includes a really dumb plot twist that is telegraphed from the beginning plus a pointless zombie finale nasty synthesizer score inane dialogue and thoroughly amateurish acting all served to make this effort from writer director tom ritter a virtually joyless experience
0	i was entertained to see that some of the reviews here were topped with spoilers the joke in my family is that the only part of this movie that isn't given away on the back of the box is given away in the title perhaps i am just a dense american 17 year old who wouldn't know art if it bit me in the leg but i prefer movies that have at least some words this movie makes the second half of 2001 a space odyssey down right chatty this movie is just so slow it isn't even art it is merely boring we follow this creepy guy who is following this boy around venice the end was incomprehensible until i read the end of book a movie shouldn't make you refer back to the book it should be able to stand alone this movie has no way to stand it doesn't even have the bones of a plot to lean on
0	this is a hard film to rate while it truly deserves its 3 or perhaps even a two for an al adamson film it's exceptional and practically adamson's very best that's because unlike many adamson films there are times when nurse sherri almost looks competent but being an adamson film you know that sooner or later that crappiness must rear its ugly head br br the film begins with some bizarre cult leader of a huge congregation six trying to resurrect a dead guy who looks like he's made of blue cheese however in the process the cult dude has a heart attack and it taken to the hospital he apparently dies but it also seems like many of these hospital scenes are missing and a few of them appear much later in the film in other words when you see the film he appears to have possibly recovered only to hear later that he'd died because the guy is the b f f of satan however his evil soul can't die and he comes back to both haunt one of his henchmen and to possess nurse sherri br br now sherri is obviously a very disturbed lady demonic possession or not at times she acts like a zombie and at others she's violently homicidal so i ask why didn't her boyfriend a doctor think this was perhaps problematic in other words after trying to kill a patient he neither gets an exorcist nor commits her to the booby hatch oh and speaking of boobies this movie is not the breast filled sex romp its title and posters would indicate while there are a few bare breasts here and there they are irrelevant to the plot and only seen very briefly 1 2 second or so in all but one scene so if you are a perv this movie is not for you though a few places in the film such as the nurse undressing for a patient make it look like the film might have at one time been designed as a porn flick br br if you are a bad movie fan however there is enough to whet your appetite some examples of incompetence are the inability of many of the actors to deliver lines that aren't zombie like and i am not even talking about sherri especially noticeable is one of the very final scenes i have never seen and heard some stilted acting and dialog in my life and this includes ed wood's films there are also a few more cheap touches such as the bad animation of the green stuff the doctor finding a murdered nurse yet continuing to investigate in a house where walls are covered in blood i'd get a cop better yet an army of cops br br so despite these problems why do i think it's good for an adamson film well the story isn't all bad and he was able to build tension very well many false alarms early on made my heart race a bit also the car crash while irrelevant came off pretty well and was practically big budget for adamson br br overall not a good film and one most people would be bored watching however fans of adamson or inept films will like it it does deliver some entertainment in a cheesy manner that will provide a few laughs
0	wow another kevin costner hero movie postman tin cup waterworld bodyguard wyatt earp robin hood even that baseball movie seems like he makes movies specifically to be the center of attention the characters are almost always the same the heroics the flaws the greatness the fall the redemption yup within the 1st 5 minutes of the movie we're all supposed to be in awe of his character and it builds up more and more from there br br and this time the story story is just a collage of different movies you don't need a spoiler you've seen this movie several times though it had different titles you'll know what will happen way before it happens this is like mixing an officer and a gentleman with but both are easily better movies watch to see how this kind of movie should be made and also to see how an good but slightly underrated actor russell plays the hero
0	i know that many people will have automatically given this film a rating of 1 just because it doesn't have the huge budget and top of the line special effects that they are used to i however knew what i was getting myself into when i popped this into the vcr br br i don't think we get much more low budget that this unless we are filming a family reunion the lighting is awful sound quality is at times incomprehensible and the acting is ultra bad by almost all involved but this is still a fun movie and the plot is interesting enough it centers around a fellow named tom russo asbestos felt who has been down on his luck with his job he is very protective of his wife and does not allow her to work putting even more pressure on himself as he begins working more hours we see him slowly transcend into madness and obsession and he becomes suspicious that his wife cheating on him and begins to brutally murder the various men most repair guys that he feels are responsible br br i must say that the gore effects are extremely cheap but fit with the overall tone of the film the brutal ways that tom russo comes up with to murder these men gives us an idea of just has mad he has become the pacing of the film is also very good and there is rarely a boring moment the ending really doesn't follow the rest of the plot of the film as it seems to want to go from a psycho slasher film to a dawn of the dead wannabe but it is entertaining nonetheless and i must give tim ritter credit for wanting to use an unconventional ending br br i can honestly say that i enjoyed this film but it is by no means a good film if that makes sense it's budget is its main stumbling block and the consequences are almost too much to overlook i do not recommend this to people who are totally spoiled by the big budget movies and who can't have an open mind to ultra low budget films you simply won't enjoy it for others and fans of gore i say give it a shot you will find at least something redeeming in it br br my grade d
0	ordinarily i love these stranger within thrillers some good examples are fatal attraction single white female and audition done well they can be a lot of fun and worth an hour or two of solid shocks and scares of course the opposite can be true done poorly they can be tedious and stupid the hand that rocks the cradle is one of the latter br br the claire annabella sciorra and michael matt mccoy are welcoming another member to their family but busy claire is persuaded by michael to hire a nanny one day a woman named peyton flanders rebecca shows up and because she seems perfect the hire her of course once she shows up their idyllic life is slowly unraveling br br this film suffers from a plethora of problems but the biggest one is the handling of the villain peyton is never believable part of this has to do with how she's written and how she's acted the things that she does that are supposed to put us on edge are so contrived that they're laughable de doesn't help much she portrays peyton as two different people while it's true she's supposed to be the perfect nanny while hiding her psychotic tendencies de performance creates a divide between the two facets of her character br br the other actors are good however annabella is terrific as the asthmatic claire sciorra is very natural in the role but unfortunately the script lets her down matt mccoy is almost invisible however julianne moore is delightful as claire's friend marlene moore is a firecracker but unfortunately she's only on screen for a total of five minutes br br curtis hanson is a good director but you wouldn't know it from watching this dud the film has a few decent shocks but it's poorly paced and the climax while generating some tension is actually kind of laughable that being said he's working with a script that at best could charitably be called pathetic br br trust me when it comes to stick with fran this one should have gone to the direct to video bin
0	piece of junk would've given it a 0 if i could have animation is good but not quite good enough storyline is absolutely the most ridiculous i've ever come across and that's saying a lot this 'movie' tried so hard to be interesting but failed miserably it's almost as if the writer started one story then got another idea and attempted to mesh the two together don't waste your time on this believe me you'll be as ticked off with yourself as i was the only actor of any note in this was james woods and his part was peripheral at best i'm all for doing stuff that is edgy that pushes the envelopes but this simply didn't cut it
0	predictable unmotivated pointless caricatures contrived actors did what they could actors clearly indicated they were embarrassed to do this not one emotional connection real sequence from film who you sic the police sic you can't do that stevie hang up the phone sic jesse got a sh t load o' drug money you can't go involving the cops sic i'm not so sure stealing money from criminals is a crime even if they arrest him at least he'll be alive sic listen to me stevie this ain't handled right jesse's gonna end up dead now hang up that f in phone sic best friend starts to load up guns brother hey you doin' no answer hey i got a family to worry about keep in mind his child is sitting right there watching ish all of this then more and more and more exposition br br notice how in the above sequence at no time do the police on the other line say hello hello uh we can hear everything you're saying we're sending someone over there right now br br embarrassment for all oops
0	this film is bundled along with gli le colt lo and both films leave a lot to be desired in the way of their dvd prints first both films are very dark occasionally making it hard to see exactly what's happening second neither film has subtitles and you are forced to watch a dubbed film though il del does seem to have a better dub personally i always prefer subtitles but for the non purists out there this isn't a problem these dvd problems however are not the fault of the original film makers just the indifferent package being marketed four decades later br br as for the film it's about the assassination of president garfield this is a major problem as van johnson looks about as much like garfield as judy garland in no way whatsoever does he look like garfield he's missing the beard has the wrong hair color and style and is just not even close in any way trust me on this i am an american history teacher and we are paid to know these sort of things the real life garfield was a civil war general and looked like the guys on the smith brothers cough drop boxes plus using some other actor to provide the voice for johnson in the dubbing is just surreal never before or since has van johnson sounded quite so macho he was a fine actor but certainly not a convincing general or macho president br br in addition to the stupid casting president garfield's death was in no way like this film it's obvious that the film makers are actually cashing in on the crazy speculation about conspiracies concerning the death of jfk not garfield garfield was shot in washington dc not dallas by a lone gunman with severe mental problems not a group of men with rifles however according to most experts what actually killed garfield over two months later were incompetent doctors who and and to retrieve a bullet to no avail and never bothered cleaning their hands or implements in the process in other words like george washington who was basically killed by repeated bloodletting when suffering with pneumonia he died due to malpractice in the movie they got nothing right whatsoever other than indeed president garfield was shot br br because the film bears almost no similarity to real history it's like a history lesson as taught from someone from another planet or someone with a severe brain injury why not also include ninjas fighting robots and the greek gods while you're at it aside from some decent acting and production values because the script is utter cow crap i don't recommend anyone watch it it's just a complete and utter mess
0	i think this movie had really bad production value the lack of acting makes me think they should mark it as an early docudrama it may have had no money available for its making i feel bad that it was a ruff ride into the major league for jackie robinson br br i believe he was much better than many of the white players of his day he had to be really great to break the color barrier of the time no getting around that this was a really bad movie br br wish there was more info about its makers they may have been limited by the quality of actors that were willing to take on the project maybe no money to get good people
0	me being one was probably having a brain fart at the time for renting it anyone who actually buys it will enjoy using this as a coaster perhaps a frisbee this is a dvd i actually found up front where the kids could get to it since dvd's don't seem to be in the position to be put in that tell tale back room with all the big box vhs tapes are i find it rather annoying they stuck this up next to a disney film yep going from dinosaur to erotic ghost has shown what we all think of disney right i stooped that low just yet there's no acting in here the only thing interesting is the old 1973 movie trailers for ancient erotic films that i'm amazed have escape from being burned to hell br br 1 10 if imdb allowed zero's it'd be 0 10
0	at last here's a movie that does as much for the reputations of the men of greece and russia as gigli did for the those of mr affleck and ms lo from the edge of the city details the sad and sordid lives of some young russian émigrés who live in and around athens and spend their time burglarizing cars getting laid pimping woman émigrés and prostituting themselves but we're not gay because we don't do you know and if we do it's only once or twice with the same guy there is hardly anything here you have not seen before and better only the athens locale adds a little novelty even then there's but a scene or two that's scenic writer director constantine 3 steps to heaven offer a relatively generic 95 minutes in which the standout moments involve how stupid sexist and from the looks of things pretty much irredeemable most of these guys are interestingly the gayer the guy the more redeemable he appears what really rankles is the treatment of the women greek and russian males would seem to give the italians a run for their money regarding that famous madonna whore complex has life in greece improved much for women since the time of plato and socrates one has to wonder br br if i seem to be equating russians and greeks in this review i apologize but even the non émigrés pictured here the cab driver for instance are creeps according to another review on this site the film a hit on its home turf was actually submitted by greece for an academy award for best foreign film what this says about the state of greek movie making i hesitate to ponder
0	let me tell you a story br br one day on the streets of athens a film director bumped into a male prostitute and decided that the world just had to know his story because you know he's deprived and he takes his shirt off a lot and so on br br this film is the result of his revelation repulsive depraved homophobic misogynist but of course filled with pretty guys with their chests showing if this is your idea of a good film then enjoy if not avoid it like the plague br br it's put me off ever going to greece that's for sure
0	it has a bit of that indie queer edge that was hip in the 90s and which places an explicit sell by date on the visual style characters are uniformly apathetic and farcically deadpan street hoodlums in greece wear new clothing out of the box without or stains they all appear to visit the same marine hair dresser all uniformly exhibit the same low iq when making their dispassionate underground business deals when things go wrong its all because they aren't real greeks they're pastoral sunshine boys caught in a strange night city world makes a big whine about disaffected immigrants but never bothers to actually investigate the problems with russian kazakh albanian cultures if had the proper perspective on this project it might have made a wonderful bel ami production the fleeting glimpses of toned boy beef is the only spark in this generic small time mobster programmer
0	this movie is horrible you won't believe this hunk of junk is even a movie was better then this and was pretty frigging bad too a bunch of stupid teens crash in a desert find an old run down bungalow and end up fending off horrifically badly stop motion animated spiders pardon my french but the acting was bad as hell the person who wrote this probably didn't even know what a spider is because he had the spiders living in a colony serving an alien queen ripoff queen spider spiders do not live in colonies this movie is a piece of crud at the end the marines suddenly pop out of no where and kill all the spider without even being called if you see a copy of this movie at a video store it in gasoline and throw a match at it
0	this pointless film was a complete disappointment none of the characters is likeable in the least so you watch what befalls each without really caring what was worst was renting this movie at a gay owned establishment only to find that this story of male hustlers was filled with homophobic young men engaged in plenty of scenes of straight sex and not one single scene of gay sex
0	i watched this last night on sundance altman must be the most hit or miss director of note ever this show despite its star power is utterly non compelling and its political insights which i as a proud liberal in no way disagree with are shallow and clunky and seem ripped from the headlines of usa today despite the fact it's coming out of the mouth of someone as esteemed as mario the drama as such is not very dramatic and the comedy is not funny the only points of interest really are seeing how new yorkers live their lives and the loyalty of a cast and crew to a show that keeps insisting has some cult following from 1988 sometimes it seems like altman's sole contribution to cinema has been the art of having all your actors talk at once the effect of which is one feels depressingly like they're a stranger at a wedding
0	altman is very proud of the fact that people in his movies talk over each other because he says people do that in life well people also cough burp go off on tangents etc the point is that just because people actually do something doesn't make it compelling cinema that's one issue br br the bigger issue is that this just isn't a very clever or direct or hitting or relevant satire in 1988 or 2004 garry trudeau is still living in the 1960s and thinks everyone except a small core of republican elected officials is a 60s style hippie liberal i mean the guy still trots out in his strip a character that is a complete anachronism yet trudeau still employs him as if he is representative of a large stripe of american youth br br don't get me wrong i am a conservative but i'm not saying that this is bad because it's got a liberal bent it could take a liberal tack and be funny and relevant but it's not it is mainly a vanity piece with a bunch of prominent celebrity liberals including the odious repellent ron reagan jr at times it feels unscripted and the rest of the time it has a snarky air of self importance and aren't we oh so clever ness br br someone said that this show insists it has a cult following i think its cult status is more wished for than actual i'm certain there are two or three people out there who taped all the original episodes in 1988 and still have them but if that is the standard then every show ever aired is a cult classic to some degree if tanner didn't have the names altman and trudeau attached it would be another forgotten hbo production from the 1980s instead it's presented as hard hitting incisive political commentary from guys who are at the top of their game the reality however is about as far from that as possible pat paulsen's presidential satire is more relevant than tanner ever was and he's been dead for a decade
0	this video has audio that is meant for someone to hear during their sleep and the same can be said for the video br br morgan and his wife pretending to rough it at minimum wage jobs with a camera rolling and his little poo complaining give me a break they are both rich they are sitting in their fake 350 month apartment filming this with their 1 000 month each video crew of 12 br br i used to respect morgan but now his 30 days experience is nothing more than trying to fool any volunteer viewers who are willing to be fooled br br c'mon morgan you are being filmed doing a 6 00 an hour job and you are being paid by naive employers who don't see those big cameras filming the whole thing and we aren't to think they aren't paying you under the table
0	i have only seen the minimum wage episode yet i have no intention of watching the others how can that be morgan starts theatrically complaining about his awful situation living on minimum wage right at the beginning of the episode and the complaining never stops ever luckily for the viewer his skinny girlfriend is just as annoying as morgan if not even more annoying br br and then to top it all they go to the movies and buy bottled water for 2 50 and after that go to a restaurant to eat out all the while they naturally complain about being poor br br i don't care if the other episodes may or may not be better than this no one should be forced to watch this crap
0	i saw the episode about living on minimum wage it went as far as an oprah appearance for the said episode it's bad enough people struggle making ends meet week to week then having this hypocrite exploiting the problem i didn't appreciate the constant complaining from him or his significant other throughout is how any people have the power to pay their medical bills from the er sure he shows that the bill is high but he paid the remaining balance from his own pocket after wards from his harrowing experience how many poor people have that type of privilege after 30 days to pay off their bills instead they are starving and robbing peter to pay paul complaining throughout the episode isn't a humbling thing for him the movie and restaurant scene is appalling another privilege he has that poor people don't
0	an independant film that from the back of the box promises twists adventure and an emotional adventure we will never forget this film also fools us into watching it by flaunting rachel lee cook with a starring role after the first twenty minutes you realize that this movie is going to give you nothing the story goes on aimlessly revealing nothing new or important to keep us interested all three disturbed characters have only small of back story to force us to care just as you reach the end everything about the story is altered and instead of helping the audience catch up you are left with no idea and more importantly no interest in why the director who also thought it would be a good idea to co star seems to come into the film with no prior experience or knowledge of useful filmmaking the entire piece looks like a college art film crafted by a freshman film student trying to hide a lack of true talent
0	pretty dreadful movie about several unbalanced young people in a car starts off reasonably well but becomes more bizarre and hard to swallow as it progresses rachel leigh cook is the sole highlight in a tender and sexy performance but i would recommend this film only to die hard fans of the actress
0	when you're used to lana turner in the postman always rings twice and compare it to this low budget low talent low quality film well i was just embarrassed for ida lupino's more like talking and non piano playing scenes when the first non singing scene started and all the people just stared flatly at her i was positive they were all going to roll their eyes and start leaving or at least talking among themselves she stinks c'mon let's get out of here the actors are flat emotions are deflated and ida is a real spoiled bi throughout just a 100 turnoff this was like betty boop on conscious sedation meets a gas station attendant in ville usa the story was flat the music was flat the acting was flat her chest was no never mind i felt sad for the rest of the actors perhaps if the right actress was to have been given the lead role and the men actors had more emotion then the film could have had a chance sorry for offending those of you who thought it was out of this world i wouldn't have minded if it stayed out of this world
0	20th century fox's road house 1948 is not only quite a silly noir but is an implausible unmitigated bore of a movie full of unconvincing cardboard characters it is blandly written by edward who also produced and is surprisingly directed by jean negulesco from whom one would expect a great deal more miscast is ida lupino in the leading role lupino a lady who was capable of exuding about as much sex appeal as a blood orange is here under the illusion she is rita hayworth playing the part of a sexy bar room torch singer handsome cornel wilde as her lover is as wooden as usual and totally wasted is the talented celeste holm who's role is little more than a bit part then we have richard widmark who has the most ludicrously written part in the picture when we first see him he is a nice o k guy who runs a thriving road house then suddenly and for reasons that are not sufficiently made clear he becomes insanely jealous of his manager wilde when the latter tells him that he is about to marry lupino you see widmark wanted to marry her himself but 1 he never proposed to her 2 they never had a relationship they don't even have anything that resembles a love scene together and 3 without telling anyone including lupino he has obtained a marriage license wow so how widmark was to achieve something like wedded bliss with lupino after such a courtship is anybody's huh well when widmark goes to pieces over the whole affair so also does the movie i am sorry to say from here on the widmark character turns unintentionally comical his losing his marbles so early in the proceedings is totally implausible and unconvincing he finally goes over the edge becomes completely deranged and with a few tommy udo he laughably goes gunning for poor cornel wilde before biting the dust himself br br and if that isn't enough of a mess of a movie for you the picture is also marred with a constant use of studio sets and indoor exteriors there's not a single outdoor shot in the entire movie added to this 95 of the film takes place at night br br besides an interactive press book and a photo gallery the extras also includes a featurette widmark lupino at fox whatever prompted such a documentary is beyond me as far as i know they were never before together in a movie at fox or anywhere else however this featurette is hosted by such heavy hitter know alls as robert osborne eddie muller rudy and a few others who amazingly heap praise on this wearisome and cringe inducing affair all i can say then it must be me i guess but road house up to now was a forgotten and buried noir and as far as i am concerned it should have remained so br br fox would do better if they issued dvds of superior and thus far elusive widmark movies like down to the sea in ships 1949 and the colourful red skies of montana 1952
0	my wife and i watched this after it off of encore action this past week it has to be the worst horror flick either of us had ever seen predictable dialogue my wife and i were guessing the lines before they were spoken hokey special effects a screenplay that drifted all over the place i think the part that was the most annoying was the stereotyping of the various characters in the plot not to mention the gratuitous sex scene between two of the young heroines in the movie neither of which had any real purpose other than to bare certain parts of their anatomy for the cameras this movie should be categorized as comedy not horror as the villains of the movie spiders were stop motion animated and not believable in the least i can't say that i would have done a better job making a film myself but it was very amateurish and wasn't even a b movie somewhere closer to a d movie or f if that is possible i think even science fiction 3000 would have to pass on this one
0	this movie earns its 3 for lousy writing poor technical merit and continuity problems some people have given this movie a 10 and perhaps that is okay if you are simply scoring it for its fun factor however technically this is an inept movie serial from start to finish produced by 3rd rate writers actors and crew that really was true of nearly all the serials because they were meant as low brow entertainment particularly aimed at the kids and there's nothing wrong with that but high art it ain't spy earns a lower than average score compared to other serials because it is of even lower quality and has major continuity problems even for a serial it was common for a serial to have a cliff hanger i e a moment at the end of the episode that looked as if the good guy dies but miraculously survives when the next episode began but in this film it's much hokier and ridiculous you would literally see the hero die in the last episode but in the next they re shot the scene and showed he actually didn't die even though they clearly showed him buy the farm in the last one again and again in spy he seems to die but in the next episode they show it from a different angle and he somehow avoided death even if he fell 1500 feet into a river fell into a buzz saw or whatever br br watch this movie not for its quality but either for a good laugh or to learn what it was like to go to the movies on saturday mornings decades ago
0	i've seen about a half dozen of the low budget poverty row b westerns that ken maynard made in the 1930s and i am consistently amazed at how poor an actor he was how did he ever get to be a leading cowboy actor they say that he could ride pretty well back in the silents but he doesn't do anything particularly impressive in these later sound films still maybe he got the leads because he was big and could ride br br phantom rancher isn't as bad as some of the other ken maynard films i've seen but it still isn't much some of the other characters refer to him a couple of times as a young fella where it appears to me that he's just as old as the other older actors br br and if that's not silly enough there's a rather significant script problem in this film at one point one of the characters makes a remark about how the phantom had prevented the poisoning of a well something that hadn't happened yet just a couple of minutes later we then see that particular scene no it wasn't a flashback at first i thought perhaps that when treeline films was doing the dvd transfer they might have reversed two of the reels but in those days film reels contained approximately 11 minutes of film and the whole reversal only took about 3 or 4 minutes tops everything else was in a logical order so it looks like that was a genuine continuity problem in the original film maybe that's one reason why colony pictures didn't last very long
0	what was this a zucker brothers movie i don't mind a little humor in my holmes i'm a big fan of billy wilder's the private life of sh but this version of the sign of four feels like a grand guignol esque episode of murder she wrote right from the opening credits that are of the worst possible kind a montage of scenes from the movie as directed by mel brooks ian richardson is a fine actor and certainly looks the part he's a dead ringer to those drawings from the strand but his interpretation of the character is all wrong and overly humorous from the silly smile he frequently sports i thought the drug holmes was into was cocaine not weed to his expressions of comical stiffness in the carnival sequences not to mention that when he disguises himself as an old man he is so over the top that despite the fine makeup we instantly recognize him david healy is an unmemorable but given the circumstances acceptable watson and is not too much of a buffoon at least not more than the rest of characters cherie excalibur plays mary in an exaggerated ingenue fashion straight out of a 1930s vaudeville br br story wise there are some pointless additions like giving tonga vampire teeth an appetite for raw meat and a carnival pit as a place to live turning him into a reject from island of dr moreau and we are even denied the pleasure of discovering the mystery alongside holmes as we are well informed of everything way before holmes finds out and this is full of tired clichés not only we get the infamous catchphrase elementary my dear watson which as any will know conan doyle never ever wrote but we are exposed to such blatant commonplaces as having hindi music pop out of nowhere when holmes goes to see a white guy in hindi clothes br br bottom line in britain in the eighties two rival tv companies attempted to create a long running series of sherlock holmes adaptations and produced initial tv movies as potential pilots one of them starred ian richardson the other starred jeremy brett thankfully the one that got its way through multiple episodes was the good one br br 3 10 travesty
0	the original story had all the ingredients to make a thoroughly gripping film but failed miserably in this version as even cherie was a pale imitation of what she was to become so much so that i suspected that she must turn out to be an accomplice right to the end sherlock holmes was turned into a warrior quite unlike anything every suggested by sir arthur conn doyle in fact it was doctor watson who showed what little common sense that was going the boot blacked midget from the islands looked as though he could not fight his way out of a paper bag and what the villain was doing taking tea in baker street for a denouement was beyond anything that the old scotland yard could ever have dreamed up so consign this tv film to their black museum please
0	i have always had this morbid curiosity when it comes to notoriously bad and unpopular movies i also have always enjoyed so bad it's good flicks you're looking at someone who actually liked recent cheese filled kid flicks like catwoman and thunderbirds 2004 br br so i watched this and it turned out that all the critics are right about this one it's a major flop but unlike a lot of flops it isn't even enjoyable on any level not even just to make fun of it's just one boring cringe fest after another all the way through br br i had been warned i didn't listen i am a fool br br don't be a fool don't waste time and money on this pile of trash
0	i rented this dvd because i'm a big science fiction fan but this thing i won't call it a film because it was obviously shot very quickly on video seemed like they made it up as they went along i'm still not sure what it was about there's these guys dressed up in some weird s m outfits and i guess they're from another planet anyway not much makes sense in this low low low budget film if it was their first film i'd cut them some slack but i think it's like their 5th film and it's really really bad br br very bad acting not one good actor is this movie this director must have been out of his mind to even work on a horrible film like this don't waste your time or money on this dvd please people don't it is not even worth the 99 cents i paid to rent the dvd in fact i'm going to tell them the dvd was messed up to get my money back i don't believe in giving anything at all a bad review but i must here my advice to anyone involved in this sinking ship please find another profession to get into how could you make a rotten movie like this i would give this negative stars if possible it's that terrible
0	i don't understand how this garbage got on the shelves of the movie store it's not even a real movie it was unbelievable me and a group of friends decided to watch this one night and it was just the stupidest thing any of us had ever seen i couldn't believe it we watched the first 15 minutes in utter awe that somebody actually thought of this and then made it into a movie are they on crack my guess is yes in huge doses i highly doubt that anyone could ever like this trash is this supposed to be sci fi or comedy or what i don't thing the idiots who made this even care they just decided to make a movie about nothing and see how many suckers they could trick into watching it well we put something on film so let's take it to the movie store and see if they actually put it on the shelf no no no this is not movie making the acting is like watching wooden puppets moving around and reading from a book that's how bad it is i feel like going to the movie store and complaining and getting my money back nobody should have to endure this crap so i am here to warn you do not rent this movie it is the dumbest thing you have never seen
0	that's what me and my friends kept asking each other throughout this entire flick we couldn't believe how stupid it was i think somebody shot this on their camcorder at home and snuck it into the movie store and put it on the shelf as a joke to see if anybody would ever pick it up well i guess the joke is on us br br i guess i should have come to this website first and read all of the reviews it has gotten every single one says this movie is horrible stupid and on and on and boy are they right although it did provide some pretty good laughs me and my friends were pretty drunk because it is so stupid we just can't believe somebody was dumb enough to make such a crappy movie i swear this had to be made in the 70's before they had good technology for movies and stuff because every scene looks really crappy but when i looked on here it said it was made in 2001 what it sure doesn't look like a movie that would be made today but i guess that's what you get when you use a camcorder and shoot home movies using strobe lights and really fake looking lasers and use real life people from your home town instead of actors or even aspiring actors btw some of those chicks or were they drag queens we couldn't tell were so fugly even my drunk horny college buddies wouldn't touch them with a 50 foot pole br br so there's absolutely no appeal to this movie at all bad acting bad writing bad directing bad special effects bad bad bad don't waste your time or money on this one you'll be completely disappointed
0	this whole movie is just so terrible it is a complete mess the story is just so stupid i can't believe somebody actually sat down and wrote about this and thought it would make a good movie the acting is quite possibly the very worst out of any b movie ever made i've seen a lot of sci fi type b movies before and some of them are actually pretty good some of them however like from venus should never have been made br br some movie makers think that just because they put something together and somehow got it on the shelves of a movie store that they have accomplished something that it is good and should be watched by people this is not always true and it is definitely not true of from venus this film loses on all accounts horrible acting stupid plot very weak special effects ugliest costumes ever non realistic dialogue bad direction etc you can just tell this film only took about 20 to make and i may be giving it too much credit there i urge you to stay away from this train wreck of a film for your own good
0	this is such a crappy movie i have no idea how it got on the shelves they must have paid the movie store to make them put it there seriously the story makes absolutely no sense unless you are on some seriously heavy drugs you would definitely have to be on something in order to watch this total piece of garbage so much so that you would not care what was on the tv because you're almost in a coma the writing sounds like it was done by a 5 year old and the acting is worse than grade school plays the hideous special effects they were trying to do look so stupid what did they spend a whole 5 to make the entire movie it looks like it oh my that scene with the old woman who has an 80's hairdo and the ugly girls in the rubber suits me and my friends laughed so hard did someone actually think it was a good idea to make this into a movie i find that hard to believe
0	i usually love these movies give me a good old b movie any day but this one was simply awful the acting was terrible almost to the point of my turning the movie off completely i thought i saw the all time worst but this one is right up there with attack of the killer tomatoes in all honesty it was the acting that did this film in for me br br i found the actor's to be clumsy and the lead male female were extremely dull this movie had absolutely nothing going for it i may be asking a ridiculous question here but why the nudity and sex scene did the producers think nobody would watch if they left them out i think they were probably right oh where is price and the tingler when you need them
0	oh my god it just doesn't get any worse than this i always love silly little sci fi b movies that are so stupid they are funny and i thought that this would be one of those but this was just so stupid i found it absolutely deplorable that it was allowed to be released what were these people thinking they are obviously not real filmmakers and i really hope that they have gone back to their day jobs after realizing that this is the best they could do the acting and the not so special effects were nowhere near the standard of even the lowest budget b movies and what is with the men dressed up as women could they not find any women that wanted to appear in this crappy thing no probably not br br i would give this a 0 if possible it does not even deserve a 1 for awful do not waste your time and especially not your money on this horrible loser of a non film
0	this was so poor i had to turn it off in the end i have never watched such a pathetic film i love b movies and was looking forward to more of the same but was sadly disappointed br br this has the worst acting plot direction writing etc of anything i have ever seen in my life br br my advice to anyone thinking or watching buying renting don't go there
0	i can tell by the other comments that nobody could ever actually enjoy this trifling piece of crap that's the same way i felt br br the whole time i was watching it i was horrified that anyone could make a movie this stupid what is the world coming to i guess it is my fault for sitting through the entire movie ugh but it was like a bad car wreck i couldn't look away br br if you are a kid under 8 years of age you might like this movie otherwise stay away from it at all costs it's the stupidest movie i've ever seen br br everything's stupid the story script and especially the acting everything while watching the movie you'll either turn the tv off and think how can a movie be so sadly stupid or keep on watching from curiosity to see if things can get more stupid than this they can't br br these movie makers if you can call them that need to seriously go back to their day jobs not one of them has an ounce of talent and i highly doubt you can make a living churning out such horrible useless garbage that no one in their right minds would ever want to see br br just drawn out b s don't waste your time
0	watching this movie really surprised me i have never found myself to stop watching a movie in its entirety because 3 dollars to rent a movie is a good amount of money and darn it i should at least watch the whole thing and get my moneys worth i made it through about 30 minutes of this absolutely crappy movie when i thought to myself i am now a little more dumber after watching this movie i can't believe that the director and actors in this movie actually had that low of respect for themselves to allow this to be released br br there's nothing i can say that hasn't been said by the other reviewers but even in the worst of films there are usually one or two decent performances not in this piece of pathetic garbage i've seen better acting in high school plays every and i mean every 'actor' is bad beyond belief and what's truly amazing is the uniformity of the badness gosh it must have been the director where did they get these people br br this is possibly one of the worst horror movies i have ever seen although entertaining in places due to its laughable script and even weaker acting and i use that term very loosely it is unfortunate that this film was not consigned to b movie hell for all eternity what could have been a good idea has been ruined by an ultra low budget poor sound and effects and actors who probably earned their wings in children's television and poor children's television at that br br please stay away from this movie not even worth a minute of your time
0	no movie i've ever seen before has even come close to being as boring and stupid as this hunk of junk and i have always been a big b movie fan after viewing this total piece of crap though i can honestly say that this doesn't even come close to being a b movie br br no one in this movie could act if their life depended on it the script is so stupid i don't think i've ever heard anyone talk like this in my life the writer should go spend a few years studying real life people to see just how they act and talk even then they would not be able to make a watchable movie because it is so obvious that no one involved in this movie has any talent driving them at all br br i could make a better movie with a digital camera and some monster toys also forget about any sexy scenes the women in the leather outfits are so grotesque you would sooner puke than get turned on br br avoid this pointless drivel unless you want to be bored out of your mind
0	this was a very disappointing movie i would definitely call this the worst movie of all time br br the acting and writing were poor and the jokes were not funny br br i don't see why on earth this piece of crap was even made i'm not a picky person and i can enjoy stupid things but this is just way too stupid and just plain awful br br avoid this wretched piece of garbage at all costs
0	i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this b movie in it's entirety br br all i have to say is save your time and money this has got to be the worst b movie of all time it shouldn't even be called a b movie more like an f movie because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie the story is not interesting at all all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it's almost funny almost br br the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit br br this movie is supposed to be geared towards men but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end they try to appear sexy in those weird horrible costumes and they fail miserably br br even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs but this is just too painful to watch
0	i let a friend talk me into viewing this movie and all i can say is i want to kill that friend br br that is an hour and a half of my life i will never get back and i will forever regret it br br if you've also had the bad luck of seeing this movie you will agree with me that this is absolutely the worst movie ever made ever br br if you've never seen this movie and are thinking of seeing it let me save you a waste of time and warn you do not watch this movie it sucks br br everything in this movie fails the attempt at comedy and sexiness it just comes off as stupid trashy and disgusting try having women in the movie who are actually attractive and sexy and not fat ugly and gross to look at br br the acting is laughable as is the writing obviously this was made by total amateurs i can't believe these people were allowed to make such a stupid movie isn't there a law against that there should be br br there are a whole slew of good b movies if you are into that sort of thing but do not waste you time on this crappy wanna be movie br br peace
0	this is without a doubt the stupidest movie of all time br br i don't know who i'm angrier at the idiots who made this or my video store for actually carrying this piece of crap br br i can't even begin to name all of the things wrong with this horrible wanna be movie br br all of the dialogue sounds like it was made up on the spot and the acting is the worst i have ever seen in any movie ever br br there is nothing about the script that would appeal to any decent person in fact i don't think they even had a script they just made up everything as they went along and you can tell br br the women i e men dressed up in drag trying to look like women in the costumes looked so ridiculous i guess they were trying to be sexy but not so much especially that old woman disgusting br br there is nothing scary about this movie the only thing scary is that somebody else might actually rent it and have to watch it br br no brain required for watching this you must be a total loser to want to see this movie br br don't forget i warned you
0	as you can tell from the other comments this movie is just about the worst film ever made let me see how many different words i can use to describe it boring unbearable laughable lousy stupid horrible br br i could go on with such descriptions but you probably get the point br br i would have given this a 0 if possible bad acting bad directing bad production bad plot br br this was made in 2001 and it looks more like 1965 very low budget boring plot horrible acting really bad special effects etc br br i rarely ever see a sci fi film i absolutely think is this bad i mean this is pure garbage it has nothing going for it either as far as a b movie this is the very bottom of the lot br br i think i would be more entertained by staring at a blank piece of paper for 90 minutes junk like this gives good low budget b movies a bad name this makes ed wood movies look good br br the thing about watching direct to video movies is just when you think you've seen the worst you see something even worse br br dj perry is a horrible actor and has no individual characteristics that make him stand out br br avoid this waste at all costs oh the humanity
0	this is one of those movies that you watch because it's bad such a movie that you watch just to see it's shitty craftsmanship supposedly a horror i cannot imagine how anyone can be afraid of a claymation bug especially one that is translucent in nature where you can see the actor's legs behind it br br even with no budget a little bit of attention to detail and even an attempt at making this movie believable would have sucked the fun right out of it as they would have had to replace all of the actors and the entire story with it if i had nothing to make fun of while it was playing i would have stopped it after 10 minutes and put on some quality show like bob square pants har har har br br i strongly recommend that brett piper get with quintin and really pump out some feces br br
0	this is just the same old crap that is spewed from amateur idiots who have no clue how to make a movie gee maybe that's why it is a straight to video wanna be movie br br i guess it is my fault for actually spending money to see it one of the worst decisions i have ever made what a waste i usually like b movies some of them are actually quite good but this is just too ridiculous and stupid to even be funny br br the losers that made this junk deserve to be put out of business for wasting everyone's time and money making a movie that obviously doesn't even deserve to be on film these so called movie makers have absolutely no talent br br stupid plot horrible acting especially the drag queens what sicko would actually find that sexy lame writing if there even was a script seems like the kinda bull someone just made up on the spot br br what is stunning about this movie is its utter lack of anything well done at all br br how much attention to detail would it take to insure that every frame of a film would be so far below any reasonable standards i don't think it would be possible to make such a bad movie intentionally and it is inconceivable that sheer bad luck could produce such consistently awful results br br anyway avoid this stink bomb at all costs
0	it's tempting to view this film as a daring avant garde experiment i like to think that the director was trying to see if it was possible to take all the conventions of comedy film and produce something that was completely utterly entirely unfunny br br the answer to judge by from venus is a resounding 'yes' this may not be the worst film i've ever seen but my brain seems to have repressed all memory of the others this horrible flick hovers just on the borderline bad enough that the thought still causes pain but not quite so bad that my internal censors have obliterated it from my consciousness br br it's difficult for me to imagine what the director and the cast thought they were doing when they made this or why they went ahead and released it once they'd made it i doubt anyone involved with it earned very much but surely between them they could have got together enough money to buy up all the prints and have them burned br br this is a movie that has nothing whatsoever to recommend it it's not even enjoyably bad it's just a non movie in which nothing interesting happens i gave serious thought to taking it back and demanding my money back which is not something i've ever done before br br don't even think about renting much less buying this horrible non movie
0	words cannot express how poor this film is br br there is no plot the acting is appalling basically the whole film is a joke br br with a running time of 97 minutes it's about 96 minutes too long br br it might have been ok as a short sketch on a comedy show but the premise is way too flimsy to work for that amount of time without boredom kicking in br br avoid this one go rent a good movie instead
0	this movie was so stupid i couldn't believe what i was seeing as i was watching it it was like a huge train wreck i couldn't look away because it was just so horribly awful i can honestly say i've never seen anything this bad in my whole entire life it was so cheesy and the acting was just so deplorable that i just kept thinking this just has to be some kind of a joke right nobody would actually make a movie this crappy on purpose right i really hope this is all just a bad joke and these people don't actually expect people to watch this with a straight face and i really hope the people who were in this movie were doing terrible acting on purpose and don't actually believe that they are good actors the drag queens are pretty funny to watch though and so are the cheesy special effects straight out of a bad 80's sci fi movie br br only watch this if you've already seen every other movie in existence first and there is nothing left to watch at all i would give this a 0 if it were possible
0	to have to actually own up to making such a horrible movie actually i'm more embarrassed that i sat through the whole thing it looks like an old 80's sci fi movie complete with super fake looking special effects queer imagery and very cheesy dialogue maybe that's the way they wanted it to look maybe they think it's cool to do movies in 80's fashion like it will come back in style who knows br br if you think the promised eye candy will save the film you're in for a disappointment the so called babes are manish and downright ugly they can't act at all i don't understand why they couldn't at least get good looking chicks if they want babes with no talent but i guess when you're making a film this stupid you don't get very good choices hot chicks aren't just lining up to do this kind of pitiful crap
0	if you want to see how to ruin a film study this one very closely in fact it is so bad that people should buy it for that reason alone especially note how most of the scenes look as if they were knocked up in about 5 minutes realism escapes this movie on every level the overall impression is that someone was given a below average script wannabe actors an average director and absolutely no budget whatsoever with a formula like that it just had to be doomed br br i rented this once and i swear i got stupider watching it if you are a humanitarian buy this horrible horrible movie and burn it unwatched as a favor to the world it has no discernible plot bad acting and then tosses in something about evil ugly women just to really cap the whole thing off i would suggest watching paint dry before this stupid waste of a tape seriously the paint would be better i wish i could give this negative 10 stars
0	this movie was just so utterly horrible that i couldn't get through the entire thing without turning it off it was just that bad when i was watching it i kept thinking it looked like some really cheap film made back in the 60's or something with those terrible looking special effects but then i realized that this was just made in 2001 br br the dialog and the acting were really very horrible and the plot was almost non existent i didn't think anyone would go back to making films that look so cheap and old i'm not sure if they did that on purpose or if they really didn't have any budget for this movie at all it really looks like it was shot on someone's camcorder at a local person's house or something maybe they thought they were being retro or something but it just comes off looking really cheesy br br i really don't know how anyone could ever actually enjoy watching this br br 0 out of 5 's
0	this has got to be one of the weakest plots in a movie i have ever seen br br however that is not all that this movie is lacking this movie has the worst acting writing directing special effects you name it it's the worst ever br br i highly advise you to spend your time on worthwhile movies and not waste your time on this garbage br br i do agree with an earlier post that the women were definitely men dressed up in drag and that did give me a laugh i keep trying to figure out if they were being obvious about it or if they were actually trying to be sexy women br br anyway there is not much else in this movie that is worth watching br br to sum it up horrible acting horrible script horrible idea for a movie an hour and a half of my life i want back right now
0	when i first saw this i thought it was a joke all i could think was you get the 8mm camera i'll get my little brother's monster toys we'll make a movie why would anyone in a modern time like 2001 make a sci fi movie like this it looks like it was made in the early 80's with actors that are as wooden as a cigar store indian a script that was written by the director's 4 year old son a camera that was stolen from a burning pawn shop poverty row special effects and to top it off a director that thought making this crap would make them famous the end result wasn't spectacular complete with scrappy dialogue and continuity from venus must have been fun to make and i'm sure everyone involved had a blast with their silly little movie br br a 2 out of 10 for a valiant hopeless effort br br
0	in spite of its high minded ambitions film must be seen as a failure it's one thing to create a world which draws the viewer into feeling the tedium and angst experienced by the protagonist which i think is what was attempting it's another thing entirely to make a film that is itself tedious and meaninglessly episodic despite beautiful cinematography at a haunting location and a wonderful score the film never lures the audience in too much is unintentionally funny the phony sound of dripping water in drago's quarters for example or the silent movie mugging by some of the actors or simply confusing why exactly does drago want to leave the fort the first time for the film to succeed as a coherent work
0	i watched this movie based on the comments of a few that said that is was bad but funny but you need to be warned that this movie has the worst special effects ever produced they make 1950s science fiction movies look like works of art this is funny at times but annoying for the most part and to compound the problem with the seriously pathetic special effects is the total lack of logic that characterized a majority of the events depicted one of my favorites is where three of the characters drop hundreds of feet into a tunnel created by the and arrive to find it fully lit the have also managed to hook into the power grid very impressive but this is just one example and for what its worth the music sucks the acting sucks the two cute girls are annoying the obnoxious guy is annoying the so called handsome lead man is a geek and the black girl who fall for him is a fool her father is the worst actor i have ever seen i am not sure the brief moments of humor can possibly make up for the experience
0	skip all the subjective this is a great film reviews and read the imdb trailer or the back the kino which includes both versions of this flick which i'll paraphrase to the tune of sci fi score by george antheil the camera goes on a sleepwalk through b movie hell all photographed by will thompson who did 'plan 9 from outer space' 'maniac' you don't know whether to laugh at the film or with it so if you like self produced b or c grade noir wannabe actors and effects with pretensions of surrealism this could be for you otherwise get a copy of a modern low budget expressionist masterpiece
0	the movie is about a day in the life of a woman who is going insane to show that she is mentally ill she overacts a lot and the narrator tells us she's going mad along the way she goes out with a fat guy who looks like he could be orson welles' brother and he later takes a header off a building in one of the only interesting moments in the movie br br this is a strange little film that is very cheaply made and it sure shows the film was shot without sound probably using 8mm or some other cheap type of film and had some sound effects and an overbearing narration added later in fact the narration was the most obtrusive and unintentionally hilarious i have ever heard and it is said in such a silly and over the top manner you'd just have to hear it to believe it as a result of these cost cutting actions it's not surprising that the film is bad though the idea of trying to make this sort of film was pretty original plus it's very hard to make it through the entire film
0	my friends and i have just finished seeing a preview of this new australian film everyone who was in the cinema agreed what was the point of this film there was no good story to follow the characters were undeveloped and the plot seemed unmotivated i find it bizarre that this film that probably cost in the high millions got funded and made it serves no purpose to the drama community its adds nothing to the palette of australian cinema it really was a waste of time creating this droll unemotional piece of work and more time really should be spent work shopping scripts and creating good stories not creating a mess like this hugo weaving and rose byrne were ok but severely hampered by a bad script pia miranda's character was unnecessary and abstract from the plot and her lines were average at best a true waste of talent the saving grace was geoffrey simpson cinematography which like most aussie films was superb br br come on guys think about it next time please br br 4 10
0	in the only act of commonsense they have ever made the film television office refused to fund this film the producers kicked up a big stink in a blaze of publicity took their production to victoria apart from the lost work for technicians were lucky not to have been involved br br the film fails on just about every level the post modernism fails the casting fails what is rose byrne's character all about which 1 dimensional snarling nasty did hugo weaving channel what the hell is pia miranda's character doing and the story is a clichéd mess of contradictions in fact the story runs like a dragged out prelude rather than a complete plot line br br it might have had a chance if the pop culture meets depression style was better thought out and executed if the casting was quirkier if the style was less serious if just about everything was different br br apart from the usual excellence in costume design cinematography like most australian films the film is just a total miscue br br at a reported budget in excess of the tender hook is a symptom of the malaise of the australian film industry the wrong people and the wrong projects are getting funded compare this mess with noise under or cedar boys under and you get the idea the tough interesting films are struggling for funding and the flabby overblown projects with name casts are getting the bucks br br the funding bodies who invested in this deserve to go the same way as hugo weaving's character at the end of the film
0	the tender hook or who killed the australian film industry case no 278 this sorry excuse for a period drama takes a cast and idea with potential – rose byrne pia miranda hugo weaving in a jazz era gangster drama – and turns it into a sloppily paced and executed soporific weaving is a boxing promoter and gangster and functioning illiterate for no apparent reason he's given to singing bob dylan and leonard cohen songs before bouts how post modern how stupid anyway there's a boxer art matthew le who becomes latest protégé over his unfortunately aboriginal stablemate luke carroll br br flapper moll iris byrne makes the goo goo eyes at him sexual tension under the surface miranda plays daisy a friend of these flower girls stick together who keeps turning up in scenes unannounced they practice dancing together and talk about hooking up with guys in the 1920s i stopped counting anachronisms after that there's a subplot involving japanese beer and a backstory of broome pearl fishermen i don't know what it was all about for some reason that is not exactly at all explained byrne puts cocaine in art's lemonade thinks he's a drunk and sacks him byrne plots and schemes to help him out again she's a big one for the plotting and scheming most of which causes trouble two gunsels portly ronnie john batchelor and russian donnie tyler debate bumping off when he realises their part in one of schemes but ronnie wimps out when he sees crying a lot of practically incoherent scenes get in the road of the film finally ending br br director jonathan spends a lot of time working with cinematographer geoffrey simpson creating some pretty images but utterly fails to generate a sense of style which might have compensated for and decorated the wispy pathetically script unfortunately sense of film grammar the lack of structuring of the scenes and exposition is stunningly incompetent in an early scene daisy suddenly appears in the car with the protagonists how she got there and indeed who she is seems to have slipped mind there are many more examples of this sloppiness where he chases poetic he achieves only wan irritation he gains awkward performances from actors who are normally reliable badly miscasting weaving and leaning on byrne's ability to project a kind of haunted doll like humanity whilst saddling her with an incomprehensible character br br it might not matter so much if the story had more substantial characters and stronger plotting preferably not stolen from a dozen old noir films and festooned with sprinkled pop culture quotes but it doesn't it's boring
0	whenever i see a video like this i have to ask myself how it was financed hbo or showtime or whatever must pay for the production company to go through the motions to hire someone who may or may not actually speak english to get high and hammer out something approaching a plot to pay strippers with terrifying boob jobs to bounce up and down on grossly waxed torsos to find people to design and light sets to purchase the rights to cheesy techno music etc but i have to imagine this has to be a vanity project for whoever's serving as executive producer he had to have nailed all of those girls right and not wrong about the spanish looking girl but to call the cops stunning is awfully generous in fact i'd go so far as to call them something much closer to hideous or fugly watching these women writhe around sometimes clearly high on pain killers was so far from erotic that my testicles actually ascended inside of my body gross br br why waste time with this when there's so much freely available hardcore porn on the internet i wonder whether the of internet video will slowly kill the softcore video industry one can only hope right
0	there's nothing wrong with softcore but this one is pretty clinical lots of nudity but it's all fake of course it's always fake it's a movie but you know what i mean there's no sexuality or erotica it's all random nudity and poor acting of lust and sex with each other br br part of it is of course your personal preference these women clearly have some body issues with their piercings tattoos and silicon not to mention that overly plastique look so if that's your thing great you get to see all that here br br i don't think anyone's expectations are very high when looking at a movie title such as this but for many people it would be pretty much like looking at cyborg they almost seem real but it's really more creepy
0	it is amazing what you can see if you wake at 2 am and turn on the telly i didn't know they showed films like this i immediately thought of roger corman who reused locations for movies or used other films locations for his own movies br br the makes of this film could just move the camera angles and add some time and they would have an xxx film br br there was no story just minimum dialog that led to stripping and sex i bet there wasn't 100 words in the whole film but there sure was a lot of very large busts and hot lesbian action there was male female action too but it was only about 25 of the movie br br another interesting thing came to mind in watching this film that may interest those who are buying hi def dvds sony refused to license betamax to adult film makers and adult films came out on vhs you can guess what happened to beta max as the adult film industry makes millions of videos sony has again refused to license blu ray to the adult film industry and they have just signed a deal with you can guess which high def system will disappear
0	air bud 2 golden receiver is a very bad rehearse in making a sequel in the course of a single year the first film was cute cuddly and charming the idea of a dog playing on a basketball team is quite far fetched but he defiantly pulled off enough stunts to save the concept even the human story had some explanation to it josh's father was killed in a plane crash so he is sad and the audience becomes emotionally involved as well br br now for the poorly made sequel it is terrible this is the worst kind of bad sequel the kind that changes the good ideas and turns them into bad ones the kind that changes the main plot piece in one way this time the k 9 plays football instead of basketball no madder how much time is spent in mind over matter benefit of a doubt walk into with an open mind of an attitude you have with a film like this there is no positive thinking when it comes to down right bad film making br br the sequel stars kevin zegers as josh who is in eight grade he lives with his mother and little sister in a seattle suburb in the first film the human story involved him losing his father in a plane accident which the audience can relate to most people know what it feels like to lose a close loved one br br in this movie the emotional plot is a bit more complicated josh's mother is dating once again he and buddy his dog who can play basketball don't like this at all why if i were in his shoes i would love to have an extra parent in my life especially one this nice the man's name is patrick sullivan and josh's mother jackie met him became he is a local veterinarian for buddy br br the animal story is too simple josh is influenced by his best friend to try out for the school football team the timber wolves the team itself looks like something from america's funniest home videos the can even catch a ball without tripping or plummeting into each other so when bud shows up one day he proves he can play as a receiver for them and is no doubt the team's best player br br buddy's extremely cute in his football costume oh he is enough to melt the heart the dog is the best in this movie as well too bad there wasn't enough stunts done by him to draw attention away from the fact that no one ever asks any questions about a dog playing off a school football team br br there is a very bad sub plot about russian circus workers that like stealing amazing animals of course they try to catch buddy but their dim minds are ruled over by the animals and end up doing what looks like a home alone scenario to them br br air bud 2 golden receiver is much more goofy than the first too the russian kidnappers add a bunch of slapstick that i have to admit made me laugh at the stupidity of it all there are way too many sequences that detail a screwball nature and too few scenes that depict the true reason why people will see this movie to see a dog play football br br the performances were also quite the embarrassment i liked gregory harrison and robert presentations but the overall acting grade would be equivalent to a d kevin zegers and cynthia stevenson were absolutely pathetic br br there were a few hilarious moments near the end by a couple of football announcers but that isn't even worth mentioning will children enjoy this movie perhaps but even they will grow weary when the heart felt discussions become too long and deep they will most certainly complain that the dog didn't get enough screen time in and loath over the fast changing script and protest against the boring performances and argue that this movie is trash in comparison the origami al air bud as i did br br i suppose that they will think the dog is adorable
0	this is without a doubt the worst sequel i have ever seen i've seen plenty of them to make that conclusion the plot is simply ridiculous i can catch a ball run around a field too why can't i play in the superbowl yes i know this movie was intended for children but there are just some plots that even children can realize are totally dumb unrealistic the first air bud movie was pretty good but this one was a total crash disney is loosing it if i controlled who won the razzie awards i would give this one a couple have a nice day
0	36 100 this is not to be confused with the decent arachnophobia this film is a very low budget and cheap rip off of that movie this one is so bad it actually does have some entertainment value on that level there are numerous unintended i think laugh out loud scenes i wasn't expecting much from the film and it was actually worse than i had imagined it would be br br it's a cliché ridden and predictable direct to video mess fortunately it doesn't take itself too seriously the acting as expected is not quite oscar caliber the special effects are poor worse than i would have thought they would be poorly edited and the score is intrusive
0	warning some spoilers included though it is a documentary br br i bought this documentary because i like the work of the directors d a and chris which includes moon over broadway com and the war room all terrific documentaries i would highly recommend watching this ultimately boring and account from 1988 tour i realized they had nothing to work with when they went to edit this film together the band members were certainly less than forthcoming on camera hence undoubtedly the contest to add fans on a one week bus trip was added to liven things up a bit really now i mean c'mon who thought a concert film of a synth pop band with three keyboardists and a singer would be a good idea granted i like music and martin gore writes good melodies but seeing them in concert never seemed like it would be interesting and this movie is proof positive unless you are a huge fan of mode stay away from this documentary it's a complete waste of time
0	as a massive fan of dm it goes without saying that i have seen this film numerous times however i watch it purely for the concert footage the rest of the film is um pretty dreadful sad to say br br famed rock music film director da followed mode around on their late 80s music for the masses tour which promoted the superb album of the same name the title 101 derives mostly from the fact that the concert material included is from the 101st and final concert of the tour at the pasadena bowl but is also a reference to the movie being a on the band and how it ticks ie mode 101 amidst footage of the quartet playing live and exploring america is a second story thread covering a group of dm fans who've won a competition to meet the band go on the tour in their own coach bus and attend the finale gig br br now as i said above the concert footage is great mode are here on top of their form as stadium rock gods which was a somewhat unusual achievement for an band back in the late 80s though the film catches the band before they recorded their 1990 masterpiece violator there are still countless excellent tracks seen and heard here eg behind the wheel the majestic never let me down again everything counts just can't get enough from the vince clarke years shake the disease and many more br br when mode are onstage they are brilliant when they are not they're well very boring nothing even vaguely of interest happens to the lads as they check out the us in the dying days of the reagan administration as an example the probable highlight of the material is a visit to a country music store to buy cassettes not exactly thrilling stuff i know all bands don't have to be wild and reckless idiots but these guys make the mormon choir look like br br the only real excitement comes from various clips centring on the band's lead singer dave comes across in 101 as being mildly psychotic talking about a violent power inside himself he can't control recalling a bizarre rage attack involving a taxi driver and so on there's one point in the film where he throws a prima donna tantrum at some poor guy backstage truly embarrassing the man clearly had issues back then which thankfully have been resolved songwriter martin gore and keyboardist andy fletcher are presented as very articulate clearly massively talented but also utterly colourless men while the somewhat enigmatic fourth member alan wilder is the only one of the quartet who pulls off the rock star persona with any sort of aplomb br br and as for the tour' thread well it's unwatchable dross let's not kid ourselves maybe it's just because it's all so very late 80s but the gaggle of young devotees do little for me but raise a feeling of irritation they are to a person singularly shallow and vapid people whose antics are banal when they aren't hide your face cringeworthy let me reiterate nothing happens in the footage that isn't onstage that is of any interest nothing endless scenes of kids spraying their hair arguing pointlessly changing their clothes getting lost in cities on the way to gigs and finding their partners in bed with another competition winner makes me wonder just one thing if cure fans were this mind bendingly dull back in '88 89 the love the youngsters have for the band is something i can definitely relate to and is at times infectiously joyous but if what we see was the most interesting stuff out of what was filmed of them then i'd hate to see the outtakes br br but the music is all that matters and in this regard 101 excels the pasadena concert one of their all time best gigs makes the film worth seeing the recent dvd edition of the movie comes with a bonus disc containing what remains of the unedited concert footage a good 80 of the performance and thus makes the dvd an absolute must for fans the audio commentary by the band minus wilder who left mode in the mid 90s on the first disc is also oddly far more interesting than the film itself br br as a document of the boys from during their idol period mode 101 is invaluable but if you're looking for excitement you're better off getting the accompanying double live album now available in super audio cd format
0	the plane is a 747 jumbo the cockpit is located on the upper deck on a 747 in the movie the pilots do not climb the stairs in the 1st class cabin to reach the cockpit they walk to the front of the 1st class cabin and through doors into the cockpit what a gaff the front of the first class cabin has a for jackets and a tv screen beyond that is the radar dome before takeoff a 747 is shown to commence the taxi to the runway on take off the plane is shown to have only two engines 747 has four engines who was in charge of continuity on this movie during the early part of the flight the front of the plane suddenly includes toilets another farcical gaff after that the front of the plane becomes the rear and vice versa at this point i stopped watching absolute rubbish
0	i would have given this film a one star vote had it not been for the laughs i got out of it some of the dialogs were just plain so lame that they make you laugh how could some one have actually talked like this not to mention the fact that the bodyguard majors antonio sabato jr flew a 747 like a pro and michael team of whiners were able to dig a trench filled with gasoline and blow up a huge boulder in the nick of time did anyone notice the lame tribute to fantasy island with the guy saying boss the plane to michael pare just as the 747 comes in sight br br the only saving grace were the cute girls and even cuter female hijackers not to mention that the main hijacker deserved to die the lame death that he did for being such a joker imagine escaping from being tied up just to shot by a crossbow hello br br the poor pilot probably died in the plane while everyone was eating steak and having rum just for laughs they should make a sequel to show us how they all spend the night in the midst of a category 3 hurricane on neptune atoll did i hear michael pare calling it the best honeymoon resort in the pacific now that would make an interesting movie
0	maybe this movie was actually intended to be satire like 'airplane' but it failed at that as miserably as it failed at being a 'thriller' i don't understand why they couldn't have paid an actual pilot a couple hundred bucks for a little technical advice hell i would have done it for free this magical aircraft managed to morph from a to a to a 747 in an hour and the power levers worked backward and the dialog sounds like it came out the back end of a kid's game of where everyone spoke different languages i actually rewound the tivo and watched some of it a second time to see if it was really as bad as i thought at first it was
0	i have seen three other movies that are worse than this one plan 9 from outerspace side hackers and the dreaded blair witch project there are so many technical errors in this movie that regardless of a decent plot the movie just isn't believable br br let's start with an train with no skirts or handrails between cars the killer walks up behind his victim as she moves from car to car and just pushes her off the train br br in one scene a killer sneaks into a woman's apartment he wants to sneak up on the woman to kill her so what does he do he turns up her stereo if i heard my stereo suddenly get louder i'd be concerned he kills the women by throwing an electric hair into the tub i was amazed to see that an electric hair with a five foot cord could be tossed ten feet and remain plugged in plus the apartment looked modern enough to have ground fault outlets in the bathroom and the victim was still electrocuted br br the boeing 747 is one of the most well known commercial airliners on the planet so this part really amazed me first the cockpit was not even close to a real 747 and second it wasn't on the top deck of the plane i watched in utter amazement as the pilot and co pilot where was the flight engineer walked right past the spiral staircase and headed forward the nose of the airplane br br i was also amazed that bullets wouldn't penetrate an aluminum serving cart good thing for our hero or bathroom doors but would penetrate the ceiling causing a fuel leak that exited through a small hole in the fuselage huh watching three guys lengthen a runway by 100 yards in less than a week was pretty amazing as well br br i didn't check was this a movie of the week or something it was terrible
0	you have to see this i could not stop laughing about the stupidities i saw in this movie even late after the event there is maybe a million of individual mistakes and stupidities in this movie the acting is bad the story is so predictable and flat the effects are like 50 years old the supposed thriller is nowhere you will not enjoy the movie but you will laugh at it and enjoy laughing at it a long time after it we had a great time after the movie truly me and my friend spent entire 40mins long bus trip home chatting about this movie like we have seen next oscar winner sadly we were talking about all those bad things we had just seen
0	my suggestion this movie was really intended to be a comedy wasn't it if not the producers directors actors hair should really choose another career now the guidelines of my submission requires a minimum of 10 lines how in the world can i add any more to this hmm let me see oh yes the beginning of the movie was quite hilarious with the crash landing scene too bad that the plane didn't hit the tanker truck a bunch of martians would have scrambled out from the wreckage obviously hiding and decided to take over the world planet and make a better movie now that would have been a great beginning br br t
0	i can't believe that someone actually paid to have this film made stupid unrealistic and stereotypical right from the take off of the massive 747 the pilot pulled the back to increase speed then you have 5 armed persons with semi to fully automatic weapons firing without so much as one bullet the walls of the pressurized cabin at 38 000 feet then once below in the belly of the plane a stray bullet hits a fuel line and we see the fuel leaking from the side of the plane the acting was just horrid and forced there just didn't seem to be any direction i have seen some pretty horrid b movies in my lifetime but with the names that were in this film i was extremely disappointed
0	the idea that anyone could of concocted such a trite cliché yet comical movie is shocking the final 20 minutes of this film are comical glory with six men digging enough trench in 10 minutes to light the runway with gasoline for a 747 while a supposed perfectly lands the 747 in a leading one to question the misnomer of calling this movie crash landing br br some of the dialogue was equivalent to rubbing sandpaper in my ears while the only aspect that saved this movie for a 1 was the plethora of attractive women filling the screen a large portion of the time not exactly a for this pathetic excuse of a movie but my mute button finally received a workout br br view at your own risk 2 out of 10
0	i picked this up because having spent time in the albany region of new york i knew a couple of people in the movie and i happened upon it by chance the attempts at comedy are lame the compulsory girl on girl scene is sickening the plot is nonexistent the acting is among the worst i've ever seen and don't even get me started on special effects i realize this is a very low budget film made by a small independent company but if you're going to do a sci fi horror flick with giant bugs don't make the giant bugs completely unbelievable people want to see giant bugs that's half the fun right there and if you're going to make the giant bugs completely unbelievable at least get the actors to make some sort of tongue in cheek allusion to that fact you idiots these aren't them you've captured their stunt doubles be prepared to waste two hours of your life that you'll never be able to get back
0	hilarious i would have sworn ed wood wrote this terrible i loved every frame bad movie aficionado's this is your trophy i will watch it again words cannot explain how entertaining this movie is career must have dipped low but i really think he's heading in the leslie nielson direction he was perfect for this terrible just terrible you'll love it get some friends lots of beer and you'll have the time of your life it's an mst3000 party waiting to happen enjoy it is worth the rental you like the colombo type cop and the comic relief coroner the bad guy will have you on the floor laughing he's also in another pare movie komodo vs cobra and he's just as good there i don't know what the budget was but they'll get it back because this film is destined to be the best unintended comedy of the year
0	what a disappointment a perfectly good hunk like antonio sabato jr and nothing but embarrassing drivel coming out of his mouth i cringed at 95 of the dialog it would have been better to have made the character a mute how antonio sabato and michael pare could speak those lines without losing control of some bodily function is beyond me if michale character prefaced or ended just one more sentence with the word i think i would have thrown the iron through the tv set i love to multitask especially to get through bad movies must have been a lean year for both of them to sign up for this movie washing cars for a living would probably look pretty good to them by now and the bad guy if he was so bad why didn't he just shoot all those rich college kids instead of promising toilet breaks even the title was a misnomer a landing' means the plane actually crashes and doesn't just land without even a token fire or anyone being injured instead of landing safely the plane should have crashed and burned just like the script br br this movie is a stinker
0	this movie is so bad it's worth seeing this movie will have viewers lapsing in and out of a coma within the first 10 minutes it all started when a bunch of writers came up with the idea of a jetliner being hijacked and a passenger who can fly a small plane has to land the beast however they know it's been done before many times so to make it different let's do it very badly major masters has his name pirated from 80's movie to live and die in l a from character played by willem dafoe that saved 10 minutes in writing and production time the plane is supposed to be a 747 that plane has a unique silhouette even in the dark with its characteristic forward hump on the top just ask the late ronald reagan who lamented this point when them shot down kal 007 in the eighties yet when the plane takes off it's clearly not a 747 looks more like a this well researched film also forgets to include the seat in the cockpit and replaces it with two comfy rumble seats no need for a flight engineer on this complex plane heroine is played by perpetually pouting gloria lynn berg after tying up the hijacker despite several bus loads of people on this jumbo jet nobody bothers to watch this guy who almost killed all of them he's just forced to amuse himself br br the crippled plane leaking fuel from all the hijacking shenanigans won't make it back to hawaii so masters will try to land at an air force base located on an island only the 300 feet too short four army guys with little the kind you rent to take all day moving a load of horse manure to the back of your barn are gonna clear a 200 foot wide and 300 foot long swath through the jungle in 20 minutes no need for a bulldozer here where can you find guys like this these guys could make a highway between los angeles and las vegas in 3 hours equipped only with tablespoons a compass and a duck br br after that hellish obstacle is fixed masters will try to land the plane as heroine pouts away hijacker giggles to himself and unsupervised gets free to make more trouble he is finally subdued in a most retarded manner that i can't tell you but can you say moby dick br br there are so many retarded scenes in this movie the wounded captain is parked prone on the bar on the plane while masters who supposedly can barely fly puts the plane into 60 degree banks and 20 000 feet per minute drops the pilot should be french kissing the ceiling during these challenging stunts but doesn't budge an inch br br i think that if they had picked different actors to play the parts this moving could have been way better if we need a pouting heroine in the movie why not pick better known actress bernadette peters who seems to be perpetually pouting as well besides she can sing and the busty well aging peters could feature some gratuitous cleavage shots now with the singing angle this could be a hijacking let's land the plane movie musical cast luciano pavarotti as the pilot they can sing a duet in the cockpit prior to the hijacking and there's no way that tubby tenor would fly up to the ceiling as masters works his magic on that big bird in keeping with the musical theme masters could then be played by andrei that peters can sing with as he lands the plane not only is he totally blind but only knows a couple of words of english now that's a plot think of the edge of your seat conversation between masters and the air traffic controller br br atc sir please throttle back to 180 flaps set to 25 degrees maintain heading br br what br br atc sir arm spoilers now confirm brake pressure at 250 maintain descent at 500 br br what br br the hijacker could have been played by the late great rodney dangerfield who can spew a plethora of his one liners as he sits tied up and unguarded i get no respect my wife is into group sex yeah she screwed me in front of the judge and jury get the idea br br missed opportunities the movie has your standard crying and moaning passengers that are never developed woody allen could have been at the back offering one of his neurotic monologues she said i was great in bed i told her i practice myself a lot now this is a movie br br also according to similar movie executive decision where lazy eyed steven segal is mercifully killed at the start giving that movie a chance have massive up top the plane was introduced in 1969 so who knows what has accumulated in almost 40 years up there my uncle has old clothes a sled magazines and all sorts of stuff in his wouldn't it have been cool if masters opened the trap door and saw a teary eyed chevy chase in a woman's watching old super 8 movies of his childhood just a recommendation br br so give it a chance and as u lapse in and out of consciousness imagine how great this movie could have been if i had my hand in it
0	i should have gone without seeing the movie after reading the review here i saw the whole movie by fast forwarding and ended in 25 minutes though its a low budget movie it could have been made better br br the movie starts more like a thriller and in few minutes it tells you that you should switch off immediately and why was the movie named crash landing when it was landed so well in such a bad climate br br without any acting all the characters where just moving or doing like kids br br and should not forget to comment on the joker the main hijacker who would have been more suitable if this movie was a full time comedy
0	this film was embarrassing in its clichés poor acting and generally low production values it starts out badly with the long haired 3 star general calling the hero masters major when he is obviously wearing the silver oak leaves of lieutenant colonel but what was most distressing was the crew of soldiers on neptune atoll how out of touch with any kind of reality can you get they were all experts on flying a 747 and the scenes of the soldiers digging the ditch were beyond comical br br warning this film is dangerous to your intellectual health watch at your own peril
0	i gave this film a 2 mostly because it does actually have an ok cast but the film itself is just so insert unusually rude word beginning with the sixth letter of the alphabet ing pointless that i felt bad that at the time i voted for it its lowest vote was a three br br very predictable plot two do well musicians have no money and plenty of money problems however when a friend leaves a bag full of money that belongs to drug dealers in their care they of course spend it and then the fun begins br br not an original idea in this whole film
0	if you're not a fan of the 80s and you need to be a particularly strong fan or of one of the two leads there's nothing about this film to recommend br br the story as others have said is dull almost an afterthought to the basic notion of the characters and the idea of making a slightly manic comedy i watched it to about an hour hoping it would turn a corner a twist would occur or it would somehow kick into gear but no it's not unwatchable it's just dull it goes by it goes by with bits of running around madly lingering shots of feet at strange angles bits of shouting madly but i didn't get a real feel of energy or manic fun it just came across as forced needless to say also there was nothing to laugh at particularly a bit of mild amusement here or there but nothing more br br don't be fooled by the mention of feminism by the way all it means in this case is that almost all the principal cast is female if anything it's actually cloying two female leads fine excellent the drug dealer is female okay their landlord is a landlady alright their friends are female okay the only other person we particularly see who lives in the same building oh female i wasn't on the lookout for that but after a while it felt like a conscious decision had been made to have the film cast that way and it felt again a bit forced and cloying br br on the plus side if you are a fan of 80s fashions and culture there is plenty to see and if you're a fan of helen slater she's fun and enjoyable to watch there's also some screen time for carol kane which is great but not enough br br overall 3 10 if you're a huge fan of the 80s helen slater and carol kane you could maybe stretch it to a 5 because of them although there's still the fact it's a comedy which isn't funny which hinders it substantially if you're not a fan of those things you might as well make it 0 because there's nothing much else to enjoy here
0	i want to say that i went to this movie with my expectations way too high i thought it was going to be funny because it's the sequel to bruce almighty which was really funny and it stars steve carell who is an excellent comedic actor but boy did it sucked br br the movie is advertised as a sequel but it really has nothing to do with the original since the only people reprising their roles are morgan freeman and steve carell but steve's character is completely different he is no longer the jerk he was in the first one here he is a nice guy the story is different and the actors are different and it's not funny br br all the actors involved steve carell morgan freeman wanda sykes john goodman ed helms and even jon stewart in a very crappy cameo have talent but none of them seems to use it and it looks that there in the movie just for the money br br now the plot is obviously shaped after noah's story but there are so many wrong things with it i don't know where to start i guess the big problem is that in the everyone around evan thinks that he is crazy despite all the things that are happening to him he grows a huge white beard in two days he gets help from animals from all around the world he builds a giant arc in a few weeks in real life people wouldn't be mocking these guy after that they would be saying he is the new noah br br also the special effects are good but what the hell is the greatest movie flood ever filmed doing in evan almighty did they really had to waste such good special effects as filler for this crappy movie br br jim carrey seems to be a smart guy since he has stayed away of three of the worst sequels ever made son of the mask dumb and and now evan almighty br br this was a giant disappointment and tom should be ashamed of himself
0	this film is definitely up there with the worst films i've ever seen probably in my top 5 of worst films i laughed once and that was when br br evan im building something evan's secretary i hope its a barber shop br br that was literally the only time i laughed in this 'comedy' awful compared to bruce almighty which as a big jim carrey fan wasn't even that great br br this movie lacked the humour of having god's powers and was more about family bonding id class it solely as a family movie definitely not a family comedy br br seeing a bird poo on someone's shirt is not hilarious neither is a beard that grows back instant br br i didn't even think the special effects were great the animals looked really stuck on it was like watching a film which hadn't been together properly br br 2 10 film avoid
0	evan almighty 2007 steve carell morgan freeman lauren graham johnny simmons graham phillips jimmy bennett john goodman wanda sykes john michael higgins jonah hill molly shannon ed helms cameo jon stewart as himself strained 'sequel' to bruce almighty with carell's jerk anchorman evan baxter leaving tv to begin his stint as a freshman congressional rep has his hands full when god freeman reprising his holy role jim carrey wisely avoided the demands he build an ark like noah and the hilarity ensues or should have the godforsaken sitcom y script by steve oedekerk joel cohen alec is absolutely lame and only carell's amiable persona transcends his vain evan into something resembling a human being the end result is a lot of bird poop gags and overall bloat reportedly costing 175 m for the cgi f x sykes steals the show as evan's sarcastic assistant unfunny dir tom shadyac
0	in a way you have to respect it's clearly meant as a tribute to the big bug movies of the fifties and while the special effects look terrible at least the film doesn't feature cgi however on the other hand you can't respect the film too much because it's a load of rubbish the acting is terrible the special effects as mentioned are impossible to take seriously and once you've seen one giant spider being blown up you've seen them all so it gets boring rather quickly the plot follows a bunch of people who are unlucky enough to be in a plane crash after a meteor shower they go to the only house in the area which just happens to be a house where a man has a huge spider he used to use as a circus attraction coincidently around the same time the meteor shower has caused more giant spiders to rise from underground all the characters in this film are poor caricatures none of them have anything even resembling a third dimension and they will soon begin to thoroughly bore you you've got to feel for director brett piper as he clearly didn't have much to work with for this film but that doesn't make worth a damn and overall there are better giant bug films than this and therefore doesn't get the seal of approval from me
0	was this supposed to be funny this is one of those films that just doesn't work the first one bruce almighty with jim carey had some very funny moments this one had none br br steve carrell who was brilliant in bruce almighty fails to deliver here his performance is very ordinary and he can't carry it off like carey did br br the one good thing about this is i only paid 1 95 to rent it it's a movie for children very young children who have only seen about 4 films or so in their short lives br br it's interesting to note that where jim carey stars in a film and they make a sequel without him that it's usually a huge turkey anyone remember son of mask imdb worst 100 films of all time avoid this one movie lovers
0	evan almighty continues the mainstream bruce almighty franchise this time with newsman turned freshman congressman from buffalo evan baxter steve carell at it's center a wholly innocuous and not even really self doubting man god morgan freeman decides to enforce some sort of quest upon baxter in order to illustrate the importance of kindness so that baxter can change the world aka pay it forward br br think of evan almighty as a wholesome derivative of gentlemen ' baxter is not a con but his colleague congressman long john goodman wants his unquestioned support on a bill that essentially is harmful to the environment and well meaning baxter knowing the importance of networking and visibility is willing to support him br br in addition with the new job comes more responsibility and baxter is in a sense vilified for not spending enough time with his family br br so god decides to give evan baxter some guidance by forcing him to become the modern day noah his orders build an ark except while it may be mildly humorous to see baxter's transformation to the weirdo with a beard o there doesn't seem to be much point to this whole thing which becomes abundantly clearer when the climax of the film fizzles spoilers if none of the population is killed by the flood then what was the point of summoning the animals or at least the ones that obviously weren't from suburban virginia or more importantly if all baxter had to realize was that long's projects faltered in their quality then why did he have to build an ark br br so although a comedy like this needn't be a hysterical laugh riot it was certainly one made far less enjoyable as it was crammed with far too many homilies and not all from morgan freeman and action that seemed intended for a film of more epic events
0	the creative team behind evan almighty really should have been able to make a better film starring one of america's favourite and helmed by ace ventura pet detective director tom shadyac one expects a higher laugh count than the picture provides hell even steve oedekerk who wrote and directed last years atrocious barnyard and attains a writing credit here has done better work the fact of the matter is that evan almighty isn't the worst picture of the summer season but it might well be the most disappointing the title and creative team behind the picture suggest this is a sequel of sorts to 2003's bruce almighty that picture had jim carrey in the lead and whilst both steve carell and carrey are both funny guys it's the latter who's better suited to this sort of material i've heard that carrey was offered this sequel before anyone else but the actor declined he saw no other places for his character to venture thus shadyac moved over to carell who ever since an amusing bit part in the 2003 original has been gunning for stardom after sleeper hits the 40 year old virgin and little miss sunshine the man has become big business and so it's him rather than rubber faced jim who leads this production into theatres the story see's evan baxter steve carell having been elected as a congressman and thus he and his troop move house and state so evan can find success with his job his wife lauren graham and three kids have doubts but overall show a supportive side towards evan who himself looks at the future with optimistic eyes however things start to go belly up fairly fast god morgan freeman appears to evan stating a flood is coming and that the politician must build an ark initially ignoring the encounter evan is quickly granted some robes a beard that refuses to stay shaved and animals are beginning to appear two by two evan then begins to put the boat into construction but the neighbourhood aren't happy and neither is a fellow politician john goodman anyone expecting the wacky laughs of some of tom shadyac's other films will probably be left completely cold by this movie ace ventura liar liar and hell even bruce almighty where largely very funny pictures but all of those projects have one thing in and thats jim carrey's presence shadyac hasn't made a worthwhile film without carrey at the helm he's worked with robin williams eddie murphy and now steve carell but still only carrey seems to meld successfully with shadyac carell after the disappointing box office and critical mauling won't be desperate to work with the director again and with carrey now doing more serious projects shadyac had better find a new comic muse fast carell himself is fairly dull here whoever felt that his bit part in the first movie despite being quite amusing deserved a full length feature should be taken out back and shot i expect after bruce box office draw it was universal studios themselves but you know when a quality comedian can't do anything with a character then the scren persona is a dud and thats exactly the case with evan almighty lauren graham isn't any great shakes as evan's wife nor do any of the children strike the right note freeman lets it all hang loose as god in another amusing and chilled performance but he appears to sporadically to carry the piece indeed the most consistent source of laughter is evan's secretary wanda sykes and creep co worker jonah hill both made me laugh twice as much as any other character in the project writing has been worse barnyard but also better ace ventura when nature calls than his work on this production his script does have genuinely funny moments but it's also full of cloying family moments and the humour is never weird or indeed offensive enough the film takes tame and easy swipes at religion when it ought to rip the concept to shreds indeed the opening church sequence in the simpsons movie shakes religion harder than evan whole 95 minute run with a bit more daring and heart this could have been a far better picture i don't doubt that the core family audience will be mildly entertained by this film but if they'll be satisfied is a completely different question there's a line between being watchable and being worthwhile a line that evan almighty is always on the wrong side off maybe when you're feeling bored and the films on cable you can afford to watch but i can think of plenty better ways to spend my time and indeed more importantly my money than tuning into this mediocre comedy
0	oh mr carell how far you've fallen after a glowing moment in little miss sunshine steve carell's choice of films is beginning to contrast starkly with what has come since although the 40 year old virgin was entertaining it was dwarfed by his sunshine character hoping to find something that'd get me to spew popcorn from my nose i decided to rent evan almighty and see what possible guffaws might await me here not much br br given the trite and clichéd script the entire film felt forced and unemotional poking a bit of fun at flagging family values and the current u s administration's take on the environment evan almighty also tries to put a profound biblical moment into humorous terms but fails miserably br br nearly every person on earth knows the story of noah and the ark god's wrath was sent down with 30 days and nights of rain which flooded the entire planet while noah his family and two of each of his creatures on earth rode out the in relative comfort via the gopher wood ark it was a huge moment in human history if you believe the biblical text br br so why would god appear to one man and ask him to build an ark that would only carry the world's animals for a few minutes after a dam break the simple answer is that he never would too much emphasis was given to u s government policy and not enough on world events making evan almighty a terribly myopic and centric film although designed as a comedy it really never reaches anything approaching belly laughs maybe a few grunts and a smile but little else br br john goodman cars pulls in another forced performance as the despicable congressman chuck long who's only goals are to create development opportunities on protected national land even the strong presence of morgan freeman 10 items of less as god can't help mop up this soaking wet disaster of a film br br the only funny moments are between carell and the animals especially as evan learns what animal magnetism is really like birds literally flock to him sheep herd around him lions take pride in being near him please forgive the puns br br the special effects were fun to watch but were brief with good reason the flood was interesting in that the ark was obviously guided by his hand and shoved in just the right direction br br but other than that you're in for little more than an insult to common sense and intellect
0	the only way i can feel good about having handed over these precious minutes of my life is everyday telling someone how awful it was and even if i say it once a day every day for the rest of my life i will not fully get my point across just dumb br br there's a difference in movies like this and movies like elephant or fat guy goes two of my other least favorite movies the latter two were terrible yes but that was that evan almighty takes a strong cast and attempts to kill them all wanda sykes jonah hill john goodman and steve carrell why god why all these people have much better talent now every time i see any of them i will think of this terrible movie br br the only reason i gave this a 2 instead of a 1 was when i saw the movie there was a mentally challenged elderly woman who thought the barrage of bird poop and getting hurt by tools while building jokes were so funny that she didn't stop laughing the entire time nearly stroking out at several times
0	this certainly isn't a comedy i don't know what it was marketed that way as a serious movie it lacks any sort of substance unless you're fresh out of sunday school or needing your noah fix you'll find yourself bored to tears br br the supporting cast took away from what little of the movie was left lauren graham plays an empty housewife with no real depth his children don't really add anything to the movie they seem to be around solely to brood about their absent father at the beginning jonah hill plays a creepy internet addict that doesn't come off as humorous br br i found the original to be a decent movie disappointed that this one didn't really go anywhere
0	the only redeeming feature of this movie is steve carell like john wayne i've never seen steve carell stretch too far as an actor but it doesn't matter he always plays his one role perfectly br br as marty feldman once said comedy must have internal consistency you can have 4 men on stage sitting in garbage cans and that's fine but if you bring a fifth man on stage who isn't in a garbage can you must then explain to the audience why he is not also in a garbage can br br why doesn't evan accept his role as a messenger of god why when he does accept it is he so profoundly embarrassed by it why isn't anyone more impressed with the way that animals follow evan around they are explained away by the unthinking doubters as trained animals possibly from a circus there's a terrible flood at the end and most everyone we see hops on the ark and is saved but surely thousands of people would have been killed by the flood there is no post disaster emotional atmosphere at the end instead most of congress has finally seen the light and is about to prosecute the lone bad congressman for profiteering br br i gotta admit i also liked the fish in the aquarium reacting to the presence of evan
0	if like me you enjoyed the first film bruce almighty my advice to you is not to get your hopes up too high in fact disregard any hope you possess for this movie if you are above the age of 12 and have any film sense at all br br without giving too much away the story sees evan bruce's nemesis co anchor from the first film move home with his family to the suburbs to change the world with a new political path what follows is a rather far fetched and quite storyline which is obviously set out to target young children as the main target audience unlike it's predecessor evan almighty is a family orientated film with the ambiguous genre of 'comedy' tagged upon it's misleading position of 'sequel' to which some would regard a modern day comedy classic that can be enjoyed by a slightly more mature upscale audience br br generally speaking evan almighty comprises itself of terrible cinematic values the acting omit steve carell and morgan freeman was rigid and many of the characters were seemingly thrown in to use up the unnecessarily large budget issued for the production additionally the cast includes acting legend john goodman who makes an appearance as a heel and is seen just a few times in the movie's entirety i didn't quite buy the character though and thought the storyline from which he was involved in lacked depth even for a family comedy every other character in the movie especially the wife and kids deserve a mention for their acting so cheesy it could fill a king size be warned though it is the typical americanized associated with many mainstream family orientated films so i'd advise you defend yourself with the nearest grater in sight br br it may seem the movie is worthless thus far however it does have some promising aspects the cgi was outstanding and it was clear that a lot of time went into modelling the ark and producing water effects and animation of the computer generated animals towards the end the particles renders and textures used were aesthetically stellar although part of me couldn't help but think these were undeserving to a movie with such poor ideals and were in my opinion 'too good' for this piece of cinema and carried the movie throughout br br overall i view this film as a disaster in terms of continuing what was a franchise with huge potential but unfortunately it fell short to a bad conclusion in the almighty series and approaching the end of the film i had set my expectations high for an epic and somehow meaningful finale to make up for the mediocre content i had so far witnessed this wasn't the case and i was deeply disappointed and confused come the closing credits as i sat discontent i couldn't help but think the movie wasn't anywhere near as as i hoped for in many ways the film reminded me of a watered down night at the museum as it showed similar styling and characteristics but unfortunately was leagues below even that br br i give this movie 3 out of 10 as it is watchable but it's definitely one to be avoided if you have to see this film be prepared for disappointment as is the best you could hope to obtain in watching the said production
0	although i'm not too much of a religious person i still had relatively high hopes for this movie as it does have the amazing steve carrell and its prequel bruce almighty was actually a creative and clever christian themed comedy however evan almighty comes nowhere near this originality and freshness that the original has and can't decide whether it's a comedy or a sentimental movie about faith and family values if it had chosen one clear path of which of these themes to focus on it could have lived up to its potential but instead the result of mixing the two is a film that has a very flat and dry sense of humor cheesy dialogue and motifs that attempt to give the movie profundity but instead practically insults the intelligence of the audience and also a very confused and clouded presentation of the movie's opaque message it was very obvious that evan almighty was very poorly written there are numerous plot holes and elements in the movie that make absolutely no sense for example although a large variety of exotic animals from all over the planet swarm to evan as he builds the ark for their salvation from the flood is their inclusion really necessary when the only flood that happens in the movie is downtown washington d c and a suburban neighborhood meaning they are at no risk of being wiped out the filmmakers it seems lacked the originality to modernize the bible story whatsoever and instead just had it take place in a present time without changing anything to the plot leaving many elements that just don't add up such as this and make it obvious of the idiotic motifs and writing within the movie overall this work is tragic in that the acting talent of steve carrell and wanda sykes isn't exhibited because of the bland characters they portray and that it was so poorly written that it skews and clouts many of the film's attempted themes and makes a mockery of the first film finally evan almighty also is an insult to the brilliant actors in it and any halfway intelligent moviegoer in that it fails both of them miserably
0	well i watched this film expecting to be rolling in the aisles how wrong i was the film was moderately amusing at best and irritating at worst the slapstick comedy styling of building an ark with archaic tools laugh no i didn't i'm very disappointed given steve carrel was the lead i've watch the office us religiously cracks me up immensely i thought 40 year old virgin was good but evan us why on earth did he accept this script and as for morgan freeman he's old enough to know better br br so the idea seemed reasonable the actors i had every faith in but the execution was nothing to write home about and the ending well it seemed as if they had run out of money or ideas this for me was one of the most contrived endings i could have imagined they took a biblical story and dumbed it down to a cautionary tale on localized environmental issues not even global issues but a local bill yawn br br in summary reasonable start got gradually worse and for me it was all washed out by the time the credit's rolled
0	angels and demons 3 out of 10 clearly something bad has happened to ron howard i don't know what exactly but something has gone very wrong br br howard has always been a decent workman director while he will never be mistaken for an artistic savant both cinderella man and apollo 13 were excellent films parenthood was pretty good and even angels and demons prequel sequel the da vinci code was a fun romp in addition none of his films have been downright awful note i have seen neither how the grinch stole christmas nor his newest film heidi montag says no to plastic whats more howard managed to hold this quality is such devise genres as star driven oscar bait a beautiful mind star driven costume drama far and away star driven revenge fantasy ransom and comedies about prostitution and mermaids night shift splash br br angels and demons is at its center a poorly directed and shot film scenes are too dark camera angles are all wrong the actors block each others shots and the whole affair is often out of focus this makes the telling of an already confusing story even more muddled br br dan brown gets picked on a lot but i found the da vinci code a fun readable romp so sue me the movie version of the da vinci code kept the same where are they going to next vibe of the book and added an attractive cast and attractive location shooting br br angels and demons however takes place in the claustrophobic confines of vatican city and since howard wasn't allowed to film in many of the real locations we end up with a lot of running around a cgi back lot the entire film is as if rick did a vatican city special and instead of actually visiting the holy city and pointing his camera rick had to use lego bricks and a second hand art book with all the tits erased br br while the da vinci code had what i still think is an intriguing central mystery again sue me demons and angels story consists of a plot by the roll eyes now to destroy the vatican their idea was to take positions in schools for the deaf around the world and raping every student in the ass repeatedly oops my bad apparently the vatican doesn't need any help on that one br br anyway their plan is to infiltrate europe's large kill the head priest and steal three vials of anti matter this begs more than a few questions can the create anti matter can you capture the anti matter once created why is the eu collecting it perhaps they fear a godzilla attack why is the head of anti matter gathering a vatican priest now once they get the anti matter they are going to use its incredible destructive power to take over the no just kidding unfortunately the haven't quite grasped that pinky and the brain level of sophistication just yet instead the current pope has just died and it's time the top seeded cardinals for the final four pope tournament are all kidnapped and the are killing them one by one seven style they being good sports however are leaving clues at every murder like some latin themed riddler oh and the last kidnapped cardinal has the anti matter and if he isn't found in time rick will have to go straight to venice next year to see decent frescoes if only there was some latin themed batman to save the okay the story is truly awful and it is poorly told but maybe this is one of those films saved by great performances a true character okay you know where this is going tom hanks gives an incredibly wooden performance and simply looks awful he is also to old to play the character by about twenty years his love interest israeli actress has zero chemistry with either hanks or the screen ewan macgregor plays the personal assistant cabana boy as an irish man who looks like he is about to break into a musical number at any moment providing no one steals his lucky charms br br on the plus side stellan skarsgård puts in a fine turn as head of vatican security and as far as we know no deaf children were raped during the making of this film which puts it ahead of its vatican critics in at least one area
0	this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message but the message was a cliché hopeless mess to begin with this movie falls on shameless environmental point even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet br br in sitting through this i couldn't help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes her character gets frequent cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit br br far from the brilliance of bruce almighty evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan's ark but by the end we learn that the ark was completely meaningless and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark flood and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god yes god was trying to influence politics
0	i very much enjoyed bruce almighty but the minute i found out that there was going to be a sequel without jim carey i knew it was bad although steve carell was hysterical in the first film the babbling scene is one of my favorites and in my opinion deserves an emmy for his role in the office he is pretty weak in this dull comedy i'm curious how much work the script writers put because we could just as well do without the story but even if we discard the huge plot holes why did elephants and lions come to aid evan when the flood only concerned that particular area of washington the film is simply not funny i did not laugh once and as far as i remember a comedy is supposed to make you laugh or giggle at least not this one br br there is small hope however evan almighty has family written all over it and maybe a family viewing might be enjoyable kids might be entertained by the variety of animals and the silly jokes but for me evan almighty simply doesn't cut it br br i give it a 4 10 and hope that carell will be more careful when choosing his roles in the feature
0	the biggest problem with this film is that it's nothing like bruce allmighty the first film played upon every fantasy of being able to control ones surroundings as one sees fit evan's experience though is entirely different he has none of the control that jim carrey fools around with and instead the story centers around the power of belief now this would have been fine since the first film was preaching the same message the problem is that the sequel does it's preaching at the expense of the comic relief and to add insult to injury it also throws in politics into the plot you get the distinct feeling that there is a clear message with this film and it's main objective is not to make you laugh to sum things up this movie is failed mixture of eddie the distinguished gentleman and charlton heston's the ten commandments i'm not sure if steve carrell is at fault here you get a sense that it's his character that limits his abilities as a comedian the former news anchor evan baxter is not supposed to be funny he's basically an antagonist made into a protagonist which in this case only adds to the confusion of what this movies message is supposed to be about
0	this was a flick doomed from its conception the very idea of it was lame take a minor character from a mediocre pg 13 film and make a complete non sequel while changing its tone to a pg rated family movie i wasn't the least bit interested then came the trailer not only did it only confirm that the film would be unfunny and generic but it also managed to give away the entire movie and i'm not exaggerating every moment every plot point every joke is told in the trailer it's like a 3 minute cliff's notes version of the flick so obviously i wasn't gonna pay to see it but once it hit dvd i thought sure i'll watch it for free maybe steve carell can save it br br nope br br i'm still baffled as to why he signed on for this he must have owed someone a favor the jokes were all so flat and obvious and the director obviously asked him to go for very broad comedy style like the original bruce jim carrey but it's just not funny the studio obviously tried to cash in on the success of 40 year old virgin complete with several of carell's past co stars a reference to the flick on a theater marquee and another musical closing credits sequence but even the talented carrell can't save this his co stars don't fare much better with people like morgan freeman jonah hill and ed helms just wasted wanda sykes isn't wasted she's just a waste in anything she does and her horrible one liners and reactions just make you wish people would stop giving her work br br the story itself is just predictable and lazy it pounds you over the head with obvious foreshadowing like evan's disregard for the environment drives a gas guzzling humvee opts to use wood from endangered trees for his house hates animals and by the end it's just over the top preachy on both faith and the environment br br why the movie was made at all is puzzling enough but i really don't understand how it reportedly became the most expensive comedy ever the only real effects work is the presence of all the animals and the integration of those into the scenes is some of the worst and most obvious blue green screen work i've ever seen maybe the rental of the live animals on set cost a fortune who knows but whatever it was that cost them so much it didn't translate to quality that's for sure but hey it wasn't the worst film of the year by far there's still plenty of worse duds like norbit and death proof
0	i hated this film simply put this film is so bad that i almost want to disregard ever watching it and never again mentioning it but on the other hand i can't resist a good bashing and if there's one thing that evan almighty does for the audience it is that it brings out the best criticism br br the film a sequel to the much funnier bruce almighty starts out by reintroducing the audience to evan baxter a mere supporting at best character in the original film that's right this film shows no jim carrey or jennifer not even a small cameo appearance you know your film is bad when the guy that agreed to do ace venture when nature calls won't even have a short walk on role but somehow they manage to keep morgan freeman as god while sitting in the near empty theater bored out of my mind at the lack of comedy i couldn't help but wonder how much money it took to secure freeman for this film then it hit me an hour ago it's just a throwaway role that takes up all of 20 minutes in the 100 minute film god just pops up in between scenes to tell evan to build the ark sure i know morgan freeman won't look at this film in a year and think it's as good as his roles in the shawshank redemption and million dollar baby but it's easy money br br where was i oh yes the plot sometimes it's so hard to keep focused on the plot when you realize that you gave more thought thinking about the plot than the writer of the screenplay did anyway evan steve carell has apparently left his job as a news anchorman for a job as a congressman yeah with no transition in between he never turns to his wife and says i think i want to be a congressman it just happens within the first five minutes and you are forced to deal with the big transition well as a congressman he is to partner for a bill proposed by john goodman's character when suddenly god appears to tell evan to build an ark no hey how you doing how's the weather bit just i want you to build an ark evidence of bad writing evan determines that god is giving him clues to build an ark after noticing a fan hold up a sign saying genesis 6 14 when he's walking past his son whose watching a televised baseball game br br that's basically the plot of evan almighty there are some random supporting cast members that do their best at creating comedy but they don't do very well because they aren't given hardly any screen time it's just your basic run of the mill family building an ark film oh and also there's that obligatory scene where a father has to cancel his hiking plans with his kids and wife because he becomes busy with work they walk off disappointed but they understand as do all the other times in film this has happened just once would i love to see the youngest kid turn to his father and kick him in the chins and tell him you're a real bastard for canceling your plans with us i'm going to turn emo now there's also that drama that you'd expect from the father with his family when they realize the wife actually the three kids have no problem helping dad build an ark that he's gone crazy and he claims god wants him to build a big boat but don't worry his family decides to stick with him oops i just spoiled the drama br br another problem with this film is that there is hardly any good comedy going on i know the decision was made to rate have this be a pg film to get a bigger crowd reaction but i don't think i'm in the minority when i think that family humor is more than just guys getting kicked in the nuts and animals crapping maybe i'm wrong and that's what quality family humor has been reduced to and if it is please bring me more adult comedies so i won't have to sit through anymore of this crap pun not intended br br the ending is extra cheesy all of a sudden the film takes a dramatic cgi filled turn that makes me shudder to think how it is a terrible waste of cgi i bet it was expensive too finally after all that waiting we are told why god wanted evan to build an ark and boy oh boy i hated the reason why i'll spare the details but it was like watching or reading a murder mystery and having the killer turn out to be the person who walked behind the main character for one second and had no lines br br oh and then there's a nice touch at the very end the song gonna make you sweat everybody dance now plays over the credits and we are then subjected to the dancing of the cast i don't get it they spend 100 minutes unsuccessfully making a comedy and then they wrap it up with a thriller i swear i haven't been that scared watching steve carell dance since well never there you have it folks evan almighty is the scariest film of all time br br all in all i thought it was a wasted experience i'm baffled at all the talented actors carell freeman and goodman appearing in this bore fest alongside lauren graham the woman from gilmore girls that has yet to prove to me that she can act her way out of a paper bag but most of all i'm surprised at my will power to actually sit through the whole film without walking out br br rating out of
0	'a comedy of biblical proportions ' those masters of hyperbole the movie tag line writers at it again the sequel to 2003's bruce almighty raises barely a chuckle the only thing which raises my interest in this movie above total indifference is its dogmatic christian undertones sorry make that overtones br br steve carrel ignoring jim carrey's good sense to decline a role plays evan baxter the smug news anchor from bruce almighty who has just been elected to congress with a new life in virginia and the stress of moving into a house the size of the acropolis the pressure of all the change takes its toll on his family his wife lauren graham evidently airlifted in from stepford and three sons jimmy bennett graham phillips and johnny simmons who do a stilted job of looking sad to a piano accompaniment pray for the family to become closer and almost out of guilt so does evan br br in what must be the greatest shock of all time god morgan freeman actually shows up but does the whole pesky 'working in mysterious thing all over the place by telling evan to build a noah esquire ark in preparation for a great flood instead of just giving him a pool table or and x box or something and in true mischievous deity style he also forces evan to grow a beard long hair and wear worn and tatty robes now back in the day i'm sure razors were hard to come by so the beard was somewhat of an inevitability for noah but i'm almost certain it had nothing to do with spirituality same with the robes a massive construction job is surely made all the more difficult by such impractical clothing couldn't god have conjured up a pair of steel toed boots and a hard hat for the poor guy apparently not br br to paraphrase bill hicks i find the idea that god is messing with us somewhat unsettling and so does evan who fights him every step of the way and who wouldn't god essentially gets him fired drives away his loved ones makes him a laughing stock and at one point actually threatens him of course god turns out to be right and the rational hard working family man who was getting on fine by himself is forced to eat a large slice of bittersweet humble pie it's almost as if to be left alone by god evan had to tolerate and humour him what kind of message is that br br evan almighty does have a highly commendable environmental slant with the underlying theme being that the federal government is blind to the damage being done to the world around us it is also the first film ever to offset its carbon and this should surely be considered a landmark achievement by a hollywood studio were it not for the trite condescending banner of american christianity flying high above it evan almighty could have been an inoffensive family movie with a praiseworthy environmental record but with its confused religious dogma and relentless 'blind message it ranks as one of the most repugnant movies of all time
0	well for this abomination of a film i wasn't expecting anything good i find steve carell annoying and bruce almighty was pretty good but there is absolutely no reason for it to have a sequel somehow this film was even lower than my expectations even when i didn't have any br br does anyone remember the disney movie noah with tony danza well let's just say that evan almighty completely ripped it off in way too many ways for the movie to remain justifiable actually evan almighty was had the exact same plot outline as noah with the exception of a few technicalities it was nothing but a carbon copy of a far superior movie that was actually funny br br another thing did anyone get sick of wanda sykes' stupid unfunny redundant one liners that were literally in every single scene it was completely ridiculous and just dragged the movie down more and more br br despite the fact that i basically had already seen the film ten years earlier noah evan almighty has to be the most predictable movie i've ever seen i figured out the entire movie from beginning to end within the first five minutes and eventually realized that it was ripping off noah left and right br br in conclusion if you're a little bit unsure of whether or not you want to see evan almighty and are already sick of jonah hill playing the same role in every single movie he's in liked bruce almighty and don't want to see a predictable dry unfunny movie with steve carell trying to act like jim carrey then please don't see this piece of garbage
0	one hundred and seventy five million dollars is a hell of a lot of money to spend on even the biggest summer blockbuster not even michael bay had a budget that big for transformers so exactly how universal pictures spent that much cash making evan almighty is a mystery they certainly didn't spend it on the script for one thing as the film is not so much a classic comedy as it is christian flag waving and bar one or two quiet chuckles you're most likely to spend the duration wondering where the budget went or why steve carrell felt the need to slum it in a decidedly average movie at the exact moment when his star profile has begun to rise br br a sequel to the jim carrey comedy bruce almighty this film sees former supporting character evan baxter carrell moving up the ladder into the main player slot the story opens with him leaving the news desk to become a public official and moving to washington with his wife and three generic sons slightly weird primary school moppet spirited middle schooler and sulky teenager evan's bid to change the world through politics however gets a spanner in the works when god morgan freeman appears and asks him to build an ark br br in other words it's an updating of the old genesis story with evan fighting off cynicism and naysayers to build the immense boat unfortunately while the premise is reasonably promising it sadly does not provide many laughs there's a bit of fun to be had in the early going where evan's straight laced mp tries to juggle the demands of public service with the unwelcome packs of animals that follow him around and a beard that resists all attempts to shave it but as soon as he accepts his divine mission the film takes a nosedive br br from this point on it turns into a message movie evan begins preaching with alarming regularity and morgan freeman keeps turning up to offer kind wisdom while gently prodding his chosen in the right direction without evan's resistance though the only trace of comedy left comes in the form of a few rubbish animal feces jokes and john michael role as evan's exasperated right hand man higgins may show the same rich comic potential that he did previously in arrested development but his enthusiasm cannot save the sinking vessel especially seeing as carrell has all but placed his formidable improv skills on the back burner br br in some respects it's slightly similar to the passion of the christ but unlike mel gibson's movie which encouraged everyone to believe in god through blood letting and guilt tripping evan almighty tries a more gentle approach the movie simply tells us that we should have faith in god because he has faith in us unfortunately this movie is just as likely to make you laugh as the passion is carrell is on autopilot the jokes don't exist and wanda sykes makes a bid to become the most annoying person on the planet it might be sweet but somebody just tossed 175 000 000 overboard
0	although i enjoy steve carrell's work evan the almighty like so many other overdone films turned out to be a lot worse than i hoped it would be br br this turned out to be a cheesy family movie the kind that employ famous comedian to improve their image but ultimately fail to deliver br br the usual carell's dorky humour is almost absent from the movie and though he did make me chuckle a few times there was nothing hilarious about him in evan the almighty br br his 3 kids although were probably somehow important for a biblical character were really quite useless in the movie and terrible actors even his wife was somewhat of a third leg for such a simple storyline br br spending so much money on making a comedy was a huge mistake although carell's career might profit from this movie there's no real reason to go see it br br if only there was a little less of his family a little more of carell molly shannon and maybe some other snl cast it could have actually been a lot more entertaining br br 4 10 for a few chuckles here and there
0	this picture is a bad and blown up rip off of the michael short film extinct from 1995 while michael idea was original and perfect for a short film setting a sound of plot was poorly adapted from story and not fit for a full length feature film one would expect from a major hollywod studio the tragic flooding situation that ruined the sets in prague was just one bad link in a long rusty film production chain in this case for a studio to release such a product it is a shame especially for warner brothers a studio which broke new effects grounds with shows like babylon 5 in 1993 on television visual effects for television shows pioneering cgi in episodic television in the mid nineties were way more sophisticated than what is brought to the screen in this picture in cases like this sad as it may be can the film
0	i had neither read any of the books nor seen the first movie so after receiving passes to a preview show i had no expectations br br and was a muddled convoluted film lacking direction or any believability there was very little character development and i never found myself caring about the plight of the protagonists the reverse was true i was more interested in seeing how the antagonists would succeed as the first half of the film was almost exclusively focused on why the are who they are br br the film jumps from location to location with little explanation or reason and expects the viewer to believe that everybody in the movie is an ally when they first meet any analytical mind will realize this is highly improbable br br the climax is extremely cliché and leaves you asking what happened and wondering why nobody considered some of these points it feels very tacked on and unnecessary br br the actors are not particularly believable in their roles mostly because i found it difficult to believe that scientists professors and men of the church would act in the manner that they do without regard to the consequences of their actions events that happen are not plausible in the slightest and the pace of the movie is questionable with the characters jumping around while on a tight schedule and i had to question how the protagonists manage to get from location to location on time every time br br the most pleasing part of the film is the cinematography i found it a beautiful film to watch but it was such a mess that i found it would not be worth paying to view in theatres
0	i bought this on vhs as terror hospital and when i got home i checked imdb and was like omg it's the legendary nurse sherri so here's another one from al adamson who had clearly learned some minuscule amount about film making since the blood of dracula's castle days where that earlier effort is a more or less totally lump this one mixes it up a little adding a definite element of variety and surprise amid the incompetence sure half of the movie is a blind post op football player shooting the breeze with his stacked nurse but at any moment we might be cutting away to the cackling disembodied head of the satanist mastermind or nurse sherri running a farmer through with a pitchfork or a wee bit of abstract student film quick cutting to go with the pulsing blob effects in the possession scene or the most gratuitously half hearted topless bit ever or god knows what else i forget to be honest as dumb ass pieces of sh t go this one runs toward the high end congrats al
0	this is a pitiful movie what makes it even more pitiful is the time effort and money put into a super predictable script and action br br it's about some kind of monsters by the way and some kind of insects don't expect an explanation of the plot there is none that might work if there was something of interest or characters we could care about there isn't everything that happens to any person is as predictable as the other movies sci fi channel does br br don't try to understand what some of the characters are saying they speak gibberish especially the annoying lead woman whose accent is a sort of thick british that is harder to understand than any old british movie you may have seen she's unintelligible br br a lot of money is spent on some great sets and scenery and that is the major crime of this movie because it just isn't worth it
0	what could have been a good story was destroyed by the ludicrous time travel scenario if something was altered in the past that changed evolution and humans never developed the time machine would never have been built if something from the past was brought into the present it would have no effect on the past br br i really wish film producers would run their ideas past an actual scientist before finishing the script even if you suspend reality and assume time travel is possible you have to stick to logic br br otoh ben kingsley seemed to be having a great time with his over the top performance all of the other actors seemed to be doing the best they could as well it was the writing that left them twisting in the wind br br back to the future handled it better
0	i generally won't review movies i haven't seen in awhile so i'll pop them in or rent them to give a full and fresh take on the film in the case of 'a sound of thunder ' i remembered my vow of never seeing this movie ever again so i'll just go on memory in fact i haven't thought of how badly made this movie was until i read someone else's review and remembered the experience i had back in 2005 when i actually saw this in the theater my movie buddy forced me to see it though i wasn't interested and wow later on i forced him to see 'basic instinct 2' in the theater reminding him he made me see this crap so i guess that made us even i certainly had my share of deep laughs at the movie's expense of course which didn't make him happy as he really wanted to see it the time travel butterfly effect film had so many bad graphics the loudest chuckles from me was whenever they showed the dinosaur god i loved seeing that dino and them actually being scared of it – it was hilarious or just simply ben kingsley it's great kingsley can remind us on how human actors can be going from 'gandhi' and 'schindler's list' to uh this even a meryl streep can do a 'she devil' from time to time so they're forgiven for months i pulled an mst3k with my buddy consistently referencing this movie to any low rent sci fi film or kingsley flick yes the movie would be a great movie to see drunk or otherwise inebriated horrible over the top acting special fx that even the would turn away and ridiculous plot twists the biggest disappointment was that the razzies didn't even nominate this film for any award
0	my friend recommended this movie to me is should have known not to watch it because my friend is kind of a video game nerd but the name and the cover made it look good for some reason i was so wrong i mean first of all what is up with their suits and the acting it seems like they got the people off barney except for ben kingsley and why was he even in this movie did he think it was a comedy but i have to say the special effects were pretty good but that was like the only good thing in it i mean seriously the movie is worse than pearl harbor and thats actually an understatement everyone must have thought oh i am getting paid so it doesn't matter if its the worst movie in the world i would understand why someone would make this kind of movie if they were directing acting producing writing and getting their hopeless life best friend to do filming and editing probably one of the worst sci fi movies ever one truly jacked up film
0	i don't want to seem too much of a nitpicky but if the accidental death of a butterfly by a time traveler caused such an enormous change in the timeline how could that be since the butterfly would have been incinerated by the blast of the erupting volcano anyway and how could time travelers keep going back to the same moments and not keep meeting up with their prior and later selves who were also at those same few minutes in the timeline it seems there would have been quite a large crowd standing in front of that dinosaur charging br br while i can accept the idea of a time wave i seriously doubt the wave would have caused only a few changes as the wave passed all changes that would have happened would have happened at once during the passage of that wave so scratch the idea of the city starting to become overgrown with jungle and why jungle at all the location of the city would have still been at the latitude and it was before and would have had vegetation appropriate to its geographic place on earth br br and an endless list of other illogical inanities br br this flick is a weird combination of some fairly decent production values and totally ridiculous plot holes and factual errors br br too bad a terrific story idea that was botched up with silly science br br sigh why why why why why spend all that money on production and not even bother to proofread the screenplay to see if it made some sort of actual sense
0	this movie was really bad plain and simple how a movie like this gets wide release is a wonder to me br br it's a decent idea but it just didn't flesh out edward burns is a decent actor though i liked his small role in saving private ryan br br let's get down to the big issue here br br the visuals were so incredibly bad i thought i was watching an old dinosaurs in 3d point and click adventure demo on windows 3 1 i mean i've seen cut scenes in console games from pre 2000 that have better looking dinosaurs than this i mean heck the original tomb raider t rex looked better than this one br br the lizard monkeys were laughable i thought they were some sort of ripoff creation from killer instinct i've seen better sock puppet monsters now that i think about it br br you know there's a ton of made for tv movies that are better than this how does a gem like scifi channels the shining get such a small audience but this load of cgi easy to make 4 gets put out in the open i don't care if it's a ray bradbury story
0	bloody awful there's just no other way to put it in fact it's so bad that the only reason i'm wasting words on this is to warn off other reasonable viewers who want to be intelligently entertained you'll lose i q points watching this come to think of it it's not even suitable for mindless viewing because of the irritation factor there's no guilty pleasure in watching something this incompetent br br reasons to avoid it br br 1 horribly scientifically inaccurate to the point where this isn't sci fi anymore it's just sloppy lazy fantasy br br 2 it sports fx that are cheesy beyond belief not even cheesy kitsch that's a wink and a nod like vintage doctor who but just cheap and shoddy to the point of being insulting the fx are so bad they're not even laughable they spent about a dollar fifty on this not more br br 3 the direction is so weak and mindless that the only way the actors could make it through to the end of shooting without becoming terminally depressed was to sleepwalk through their roles although catherine mccormack made some effort anyway probably on principle and despite the director moreover this isn't peter only bad film his flubs vastly outnumber any barely salvageable ones of which timecop was the last such and that was 15 years before this writing he's had nothing halfway decent since end of days was just as slapdash arnold was the only draw and he needed much firmer direction than provided just keeps making it more and more pointless for anyone to consider giving him more work br br and finally br br 4 ray bradbury's stories deserve far better treatment than this refusing to watch this film sends that message not that hollywood is particularly listening br br watch at your own risk if you do and it turns you off movies altogether you've only yourself and to blame because you've been more than adequately warned
0	a sound of thunder one of the greatest short stories ever written by one of the grandest grand masters of fantasy ray bradbury what a great story br br but what a vomitous movie br br in bradbury's science fiction short story a company called time safari offers big game hunters the opportunity to go back in time and kill dinosaurs rule number one is stay on the path a floating metallic that ensures no interaction with the prehistoric environment during a hunt a man steps off the path and inadvertently crushes a butterfly when the hunting party returns to the present the world as they know it has drastically changed though there are paradoxes in any time travel story bradbury's tale was a quick jugular stroke a parable of the ripple effect br br a sound of thunder was published in 1952 according to wikipedia the most science fiction story of all time and illustrated chaos theory darwinism and the butterfly effect which would only be coined in the 1960s by edward lorenz in bradbury's story the wonder of time travel was overshadowed by corporate greed in turn overshadowed by the mortal danger to humanity's existence itself br br while in the movie a sound of thunder directed by the uneven peter capricorn one 2010 odyssey two a clutch of bad actors goes through the time portal again and again to try to rectify their mistakes like an excrement version of back to the future the movie has nothing to do with bradbury's powerful tale except the initial jolt of the time traveling prehistoric hunting party egregious liberties are taken with bradbury's story baboon faced reptiles plants overrunning chicago's concrete time waves rippling through the city cgi insectoids for which bradbury should sue the pants and underpants and ass hairs off the filmmakers br br novice writers thomas dean donnelly joshua oppenheimer and gregory should start a big balls agency for thinking they could actually add elements to a ray bradbury story that would improve it how do these guys walk in a straight line with balls this big ben kingsley is the corporate owner of time safari with a so bad it looks like a edward burns is his lead hunter travis and catherine mccormack who was in braveheart is the scientist with the best breasts br br i can't possibly relate the hundreds upon thousands of egregious stupidities and asinine pieces of dialog but here is just one spoken by david oyelowo as some kind of scientist he refers to the pleiades star cluster the seven sisters they look like stars don't they but each of them is a whole galaxy uh no idiot scientist they're actually uh stars br br those three morons who rewrote bradbury's story forgot they didn't know anything about physics or astronomy or writing br br best part of the movie is catherine chest straining against her disheveled one size too small blouses br br review by the cucumber for movie mania
0	the acting was terrible the cheesy fake cheap green screen effects were ridiculous and the creatures were absolutely retarded the only good thing about this movie was the concept and the laughs i got from watching such a bad movie then i became pretty angry because i realized i wasted 4 bucks on renting it why would a movie like this ever be in theaters i know this movie came out almost 5 years ago but does anyone put any effort into making movies anymore i am just writing random things to fill up space because i need ten lines of text in order to publish this review this next line should just about do it there
0	i wish i could use the time travel machine to jump back to the moment i considered seeing this movie and make other plans instead i saw a free screening of a sound of thunder so i can't complain about the price but i wish i could get my 103 minutes refunded the acting was mediocre and the special effects were deplorable people shouldn't make movies about dinosaurs if they can't afford to make the prehistoric creatures look as good or better than those in jurassic park spielberg spoiled us edward burns as travis was the movie's only saving grace i noticed that females under 18 rated the movie the highest and the only explanation is that they over burns the whole time the whole long 103 minutes this movie should have been over in about 80 minutes it just dragged on and on and on don't waste your time or your money on this far fetched flick
0	this critique tells the story of 4 little friends who went to watch angels and demons the movie on the first night it came out even though it was a school night because angels and demons is worth it two of the four had read the book of those that didn't a guy was wearing pink skinny jeans this was the least eventful part of the evening after watching the abhorrent angels and demons br br the movie starts out in a lab where the antimatter is being created while another process is going on and apparently someone knows about it or something notice how very confused i am i don't get what happened they were just making the antimatter finds her own father dead what the symbol sent to langdon is a printout not a burn on someone's chest they take out the x 33 scene they take out kohler they pretty much take out and the connected to it they take out the and replace him with some religious british dude they take out the diamond they take out near rape scene they take out fight with the now british dude on crack they take out the press dude following them around they take out the death of the fourth cardinal they take out the fact that the becomes pope they take out the grand scheme they take out langdon's being in the helicopter and landing on that island toward the end they take out the fact that father was a scientific priest they take out langdon's fun and most unfortunately they take out sexual appeal br br other than the movie completely losing focus of the details the movie is acted horribly one must admit though there were some good things for example the sistine chapel recreation must have been extremely difficult and it was extremely well done the explosion scene was mind blowing other than that screw this movie for ruining the book for the people who didn't read it
0	synopsis in the year the rich are able to travel back in time and hunt a live dinosaur for a huge price sonia rand catherine mccormack has developed a machine that can take people back in time charles hatton ben kingsley has taken this technology and opened a business know as time safari anyone with the money can travel back millions of years and shoot a dinosaur dr travis edward burns leads his team together with the big game hunter on a floating to a spot where they can kill the dinosaur the trip protocol is that they must stay on the and not disturb the land or anything creature around them unfortunately for the human race one hunter steps on and kills a butterfly this insignificant act causes major impacts to the earth's climate and creates new species of animal life the course of evolution as we know it is now being changed by time waves travis and sonia try to stop the changing process before it becomes permanent and man becomes extinct br br comment the movie was a little slow and the concept of going back in time and changing things was a little overdone the death of a single butterfly causing the tremendous changes in the world's atmosphere and evolution is simply ridiculous they changed the skyline of chicago to look modern but the new cars of the future were silly looking you can wait to see this fantasy on dvd warner brothers pictures run time 1 43 rated pg 13 4 10
0	this movie reminds me old b movies but not in a good way br br when i saw the first scene i thought it was going to be a spoof of one of those early sf films the terrible acting the plastic props and the noticeable visual effects gave me that impression br br but no the movie is really that bad the story is a complete nonsense the effects are below the level of a tv production even the editing is a mess br br the only thing that kept me in the theater was that i wanted to know the end of the story although i was pretty sure it was going to be silly and it was br br there are better ways to spend your time and money
0	i'll start by admitting that i enjoy many movies that have low ratings on this site i find that if i can see what the creators were trying to do i can find appreciation for their work sound of thunder was a story that interested me i wanted to see what angles the filmmakers would attack in telling the story by and large they attempted to create an entertaining movie the plot was contrived but most action movie's plots are ed burns doesn't know how to carry a rifle but still holds his own well as an action lead considering he isn't asked for much the main problem destroys the whole movie is the horrible cgi it is totally unacceptable for the animals and backgrounds to look soooooo very fake aside from that the animal conceptions could have been really good as could the action scenes but failed because the production failed this could have been a really memorable film if they had only finished it it really looks like they meant to go back and fix all the horrible cgi but ran out of money and still released it save your money because someone failed this movie i give it three stars because it really could have been good but was totally failed somewhere i can't say it enough
0	man i went to this movie because of the great preview it looked like it had a great story and nice special effects br br boy was i wrong i wanted to walk out of the theater because of those horrible special effects a cartoon dino of cart board would do even a better job then this the story was fine if it would have been taken on by a big movie producer who would in some more money to make the effect more life like the only thing i liked about this movie where the plants that pop up everywhere br br even worse where the cars in one scene 2 characters walk along the street if you watch those cars you'll see the following taxi car motorcycle tri pod big bus and about 4x in a row br br and then there is the butterfly death that would set the whole evolution changes in to progress if that guy didn't step on the butterfly the next dino would have eaten it anyway so that's absolute bull then if you change something in the past the future will be different in the same instant not in those time waves they made but hey if the future changed in a split second the movie would be even worse but more realistic though this is just one of those movies you should see when you want to have a great laugh i spend way to much money on this movie in the theater and then they tell me this movie had 80 million dollar budget where did all that money go
0	ray bradbury run and hide this tacky film version of his short story from the 1950s about time travel and the effect it might have on de evolution is not well known from the theatrical run did it have one and exists now as a dvd on the shelves released during a slow week br br what looks to be a fancy sci fi thriller form the opening scenes quickly fools us as the computer generated graphics are re run unaltered throughout a film that is supposed to be about different back in time where a major company sells macho guys in the chance to hunt dinosaurs by paying exorbitant fees to travel back in time to prehistoric jungles one slip of the foot butterfly while on one of these ventures and the course of evolution is altered with resultant time waves rolling over the planet changing everything to man eating plants and beasties of course there is a pretty damsel who knows how to reverse the process and a hunky man to risk his life to act on her orders and everything is eventually ok br br yes that is the story and the most surprising fact about this poorly scripted abysmally acted mess of a film is that it attracted some fine talent to portray the comic book flat characters edward burns all buff and hunky is our hero du jour ben kingsley is the requisite bad corporate guy sporting a ridiculous white wig catherine mccormack is the know it all woman creator and as an evil one all are superb actors and should have known better than to align with this flop and the saddest thing is that for those who like this genre of sci fi monster thrillers the creative department sold out with some of the corniest animation to hit the screen in a long time a must miss grady harp
0	in a future where an industrious travel agency uses time travel technology to send wealthy clients back in time for explorations to the age of dinosaurs the future is inexplicably changed when one of their clients breaks the cardinal rule not to stray off the path in an attempt to fix the damage done a seasoned time scout edward burns teams with the inventor of the technology catherine mccormack br br the premise is pretty good and engaging it may have a few flaws in it but it could still make for an interesting movie unfortunately a sound of thunder fails to really hook the audience in it suffers from a number of problems and it takes itself way too seriously so it's hard to actually have any fun while watching the movie personally i thought the script was the film's biggest problem the were more plot holes than expected and the movie was kind of lazy in explaining things i was hoping for a more in depth look into the butterfly effect but the film was more escapist fun than anything else that's okay with me since 90 minutes of mindless fun is still a nice way to spend an evening however all the fun this film offered was unintentional and lame there were a few scenes that kept me entertained but i was pretty bored br br the acting isn't much better since most of them seem more interested in a paycheck than anything else the only person that gave a good performance was ben kingsley he kept the first half of the film enjoyable and he seemed to be having the most fun as well edwards burns was pretty pale and bland i don't think he has what it takes to be a leading man however he could make for a decent supporting actor catherine mccormack was just really annoying and not very believable i haven't really seen her in anything else but she could have potential the rest of the actors also give bad performances though most of them are relatively unknown so it shouldn't effect their careers too much br br looking at the message boards most people are complaining about the special effects there's no way to them and they are terrible all the dinosaurs look really bad the lizards part monkey part dino while a creative idea become stale after awhile and they are most likely to encourage laughter rather than fear the green screen work just looks awful and unprofessional i was really wondering what director peter was trying to accomplish here he fails to deliver the suspense action and thrills and makes this movie a long sit for the most part though the film is pretty harmless and it's far from the worst movie of 2005 hopefully they will remake this film in the future there is potential in this project but for now this is the best we got in the end unless curiosity gets the better of you there is no reason to see a sound of thunder rating 4 10
0	yeah sure the movie its visuals already did looked horrible and not very promising but the premise and the cast looked good so i still sort of expected to be entertained by this movie this however unfortunately wasn't the case the premise is good but the story is filled with improbabilities and is logically flawed br br this movie is potential flushed down the toilet the main plot is interesting and somewhat original it's good enough to make a good adventurous movie out of would you think this movie however fails to entertain and i think that that is this movie biggest flaw perhaps it takes itself too serious and a little bit more humor certainly wouldn't had done the movie any harm instead it now is nothing more than a lame and cheap looking movie filled with the one unlikely event after the other that also steals a bit too much from other more successful movies jurassic park obviously br br the characters also don't help to make the movie any more compelling or at least interesting to watch i still think that edward burns did a fairly decent job as the main lead the rest of the characters however really get muddled in into the movie and they get very little interesting to do the movie rather relies on its visual which are extremely poor catherine mccormack also plays a very irritating character basically all her character does is complain and talk about how right she was and the rest oh so wrong her character just isn't a likable one and the rest of the characters well i already have forgotten their names i think that that is saying enough about them it certainly is true though that ben kingsley's performance alone makes this movie worth watching he is really excellent in his sort of villainous businessman role but from the moment when he disappears out of the movie the movie really goes downhill rapidly br br visually the movie is extremely poor it has some dreadful looking cgi effects and they couldn't even get the more simple 'blue screen' effects look convincing in the movie the sets are also awful and cheap looking like they can fall over and break down every moment br br the movie never gets tense exciting or adventurous since the story is brought in the least interesting and engaging way possible it's a very distant movie with distant characters that fails to impress there are plenty of action sequences but all of them are so ridicules looking and far from believable that they never get tense or good enough br br so basically this movie is lacking in everything that is needed to make a genre movie like this one a good and successful one it's sad to see how low director peter has sunk to the last couple of years after making some good movies in the '70's and '80's br br 4 10
0	time travel is theoretical so i can give the script some leeway br br i also understand the concept that by changing just one variable you can potentially change the way history unfolded br br what i cannot understand however is the way the change in time unfolded we are subjected to a series of which progressively retrograde planetary evolution while this is a convenient plot device as it allows our heroes enough time to resolve the problem it makes no sense whatsoever surely if you change a variable and that variable has significantly or even completely altered planetary evolution then by the time you come back to the future the evolutionary process has already been established and there would be no need for waves after all why would a change that happened 65 million years ago need to wait until now to be effective the fact that the moth was projected forward in time may give it some credibility but the life of that moth 65 million years ago was significantly altered ergo any change to evolutionary history would have begun then and not be dependent upon a return to our current time br br to solve the problem the team goes back in time to prevent the change in variable from ever happening by doing this successfully we see that the changes to evolution never happened and that no one even remembers the events surely what works for the solution should work for the original change i like a good rollicking sci fi adventure but unless it is set in a galaxy far far away it needs to have at least some grounding in theoretical possibility to make it truly entertaining br br good premise bad plot reasonable acting and in all fairness just a twist on jurassic park br br not on my watch again list
0	what a waste of great acting talent this is a shame because with catherine deneuve mathieu amalric emmanuelle devos chiara mastroianni and melvil not to mention others less well known in america that's a lot of acting talent to waste this film by arnaud was a terrible disappointment after having enjoyed his kings and queens and this film left me completely bored and frustrated to the point where i actually left before the movie ended the movie wandered around its central storyline involving catherine deneuve's illness getting sidetracked by every peripheral storyline and supporting character that appeared on screen the movie also gave us too little character development to understand why the different characters disliked each other so much this was a story of family dysfunction so that the dearth of coherent narrative became even more critical finally the soundtrack which ranged from hip hop to bach to midsummer night's dream was at odds with the emotional temperature of the movie and further obscured any emotion the viewer should have been feeling at the time the photography the director often began scenes with a mainly dark screen where our only sight is through a small opening making feel as if we are watching through a peephole that then expands was also pretentious and inscrutable
0	i can't remember the last time a movie was so boring that i walked out the weatherman and the island were both so bad that i thought about it but i even stayed to the end in those this movie was incomprehensible not funny and just went on and on and on like some other commentators i wondered if parts were just french humor that i didn't get or if the characters were serious i finally just gave up and tried napping because i didn't want to disturb my husband if he was enjoying it but he noticed and let me know that it was okay if i wanted to leave and out the door we went he would like to know how it ended if lived or died etc i don't even care
0	an extremely fast paced exhilarating interesting detail rich book its a huge shame that the film had none of these qualities not only was tom hanks' mild mannered portrayal or robert langdon laughable but the name changes to key characters huge deviances from the original story line and poor irish italian accent from played by ewan mcgregor made for the worst book to film ever br br as a huge fan of a d the book i had high hopes for a more lavish true to book detailed movie where it would start and finish just as the book did leaving me wanting more br br all the film really did was depress me within the 1st 10 minutes br br what was impressive was how the sorry i couldn't even finish that sentence without laughing br br in short was the token hottie a very second to audrey tatou and there were some very nice br br i would recommend reading the book to understand that if ron howard must insist on making another book to film i would be happy saving my £6 40 for a kfc zinger meal and some chicken wings far more entertaining and deeply more satisfying
0	tedium as only the french can do it i checked my watch for the first time 7 minutes in and with minutes left i also considered walking out i won't even try to discuss the incoherence of the plot or the inability of the characters to be personable because at about 1 hour in i realized none of this mattered it was not merely self indulgent or pretentious it was a vacuum a soul sucking vacuum this film has no saving grace no enjoyable character nothing funny and nothing sad it isn't smart enough to be drama and there's no moment that's in the slightest bit farcical the most intriguing thing about this movie is how it has managed to get mostly glowing and positive reviews i was tricked by those reviews but you don't have to be gentle reader all i want for christmas is my three hours back
0	this film promised a lot so many beautiful and well playing actors but with a plot that had virtually nothing to say so many potentially promising conflicts between the family members that could have been developed and elaborated but it was all dropped and not taken care of there was no story to be told just a show off of acting technique beautiful scenes that were all empty but again the acting was excellent so many of the individual scenes were entertaining but as you became increasingly aware of the lack of underpinning ideas even the acting lost its sense so from the promising start you became increasingly disappointed as the non story went along
0	maybe the subject was good but put down to a script it fails in pace maybe the author was trying to obtain something slow paced like alien but instead of being haunting this movie turned out just boring technically good anyway a pity for the lack of tension
0	i just got done watching this movie and i have to say it was a good film i loved some of the good guy's and i loved the killer robot but the movie had some in it br br the name's of the people in it was kind of stupid i think people should of sued the maker's of this movie for how lame it was at the end the first half hour was good but then it just dragged on and on then i was happy it was over but still loved the the killer robot and some of the movie's good guy's in it br br i think it was the best two buck's i have ever spent because i do like stupid b movie's like this one and come on it is a b movie everyone
0	in a nutshell skip this movie it's that bad in short this movie is about a weapons factory where secret weapons are being developed because they make bad things they aren't popular so to speak a new female ceo comes in to clear things up and make sure the reputation of the company will be improved she does this by leaking company confidential information to the press do you believe this furthermore she starts to fire people she has never seen incredible uh a pacifistic group tries to destroy the company's mainframe because there are the blueprint located of those secret weapons this mainframe is located in the bottom of the building hidden in a kind of vault of course the movie would not be complete without the mad scientist and a robot which is the ultimate killer machine which resembles like an 'alien' from the alien movies the mad scientist likes the female ceo br br the mad scientist instructs the robot to kill everyone and so protects his job rise in chain of command and make the movie interesting the pacifists team up with the ceo and another person of the board of directors to escape from the robot further down the line they agree to blow up this evil computer mainframe whilst avoiding the robot they also discover that the factory was developing a part man part machine soldier they can erase a persons memory and replace it by a veteran soldier's one one of the pacifists is transformed in such a soldier and will hunt the killer robot i guess the mad scientist also wrote the script of this movie this super soldier looks and acts much the same as robocop though not as funny br br it boils down to this people are running being chased by a killer robot are hurt by it but they do not seem to troubled by that besides limping a bit and of course the female ceo is the leading character of this movie and cannot be killed i e survives every attack explosion you name it i won't bother you by the chase let's skip to the end they have lots of weapons yes the pacifist too and they know how to use them when they're at the roof of the building they empty all there weapons upon the killer robot they step into an elevator which is used to clean outside windows and then the female ceo knows some magic as well at the roof she was complaining about being out of bullets and like magic the gun is reloaded this way she can shoot the cables and let the elevator plummet 70 stories or so and let it stop right above ground surface by pulling the brake and to top it all off the police is waiting there for them the robot jumps after them and kills the cops hilarious no the robot chases them down the vault where the mainframe is and when finally the robot is so close to her that he can touch kill her it stops because the mad scientist did not want her to be killed a better name for this guy would be the idiot scientist although he is the one who made this movie watchable at this moment i was already pulling for the killer robot to finish them all of so the movie would end br br i cannot believe that this movie rates this high and this is why i wrote this comment avoid this movie like the plague it's a monster and i'm not talking about the death machine
0	this is the worst film i've seen in a long long time never mind the fact that so many useful things keep appearing on this island how convenient the acting is beyond poor from the outset its like one of those really badly scripted soft porn films on channel 5 a complete waste of time and i cant remember the lead actors name but i cant believe he still gets work i've never seen him act i've seen him in lots of films but i've never seen him act here are a few of the blaringly obvious errors apparently petrol lighters still work even when they've been soaked in sea water also according to this film you can walk into the sea naked but come out wearing bikini bottoms i'm guessing the camera man and editor were students there are plenty more errors but i'm ranting now besides its no so much the errors as the cast the script and the whole film avoid at all costs
0	by far this has to be one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life i watch practically every movie that is on at night either showtime hbo cinemax etc three aka survivor island keeps you in as much suspense as watching paint dry only to let you down even more miserably if you want to feel like you just wasted what seems like an eternity on the worst film ever created then by all means watch this movie i must have screamed at a minimum 900 times from the idiotic twists if i had 4 hands i'd give this movie 4 thumbs down br br in my personal opinion i believe the only people who would like this movie are those with terrible morals
0	how much do i love this film now i'm not a fan of bad films but i do love a film that is so bad it's good this is one of those juan pablo di pace has a great butt looks fab on screen and definitely doesn't make a bad turn at his acting debut i believe billy zane is suitably mean and moody though i still constantly feel that there is something more in him i felt it in titanic the look on his face when la winslet spat on him for example totally broken shocked and put down fierce kelly brook is a pretty face no seriously i think that's it it's worth catching this to see one really hot guy some big bra fillers from brook nasty growling from billy laugh at the dialogue revel in the scenery and madness of the whole affair i'm gona go watch it again now yes i bought it
0	first off i just watched a movie on showtime called survival island it says it was a 2006 movie with billy zane and since i like him and couldn't sleep i thought i would check it out looked interesting watched it and decided to look up on the imdb who was this new face juan pablo di pace and omg i could not believe it this movie has been renamed three and will be a new movie it is playing again in 1 hr and 30 mins on showtime channel again and this date is may 28 and or florida time you can check your showtime listings by title and see it i wont get into details so you can see the movie but at one point there is a lady in a white bikini that goes into the water taking it all off you see her naked body when she runs back out of the water you see her bottoms on funny there are a lot of other mess ups too i can't believe by coincidence i decided to look up this movie go figure wonder if the people renaming it sold it to some movie studio to put out but it is already playing on showtime ha ha good laugh i give it 1 1 2 stars c d movie
0	three is a seriously dumb shipwreck movie masquerading as a psychological thriller it's closest relative is the monumentally superior dead calm also featuring billy zane dead calm provided well drawn characters to root for in the form of sam neil and nicole kidman's grieving parents attempting to re define their relationship on an ocean cruise they end up being terrorised by zane's adrift psycho killer it provided sharp increasingly suspense a scary feeling of claustrophobia in open seas as the cat and mouse game of life and death unfolded br br three suffers from poorly drawn characterisation the audience doesn't care what happens to any of them a stupid and unnecessary voodoo plot device a total lack of suspense or excitement and some thudding hammy performances from the principal players zane in particular goes way over the top in an irritatingly mannered fashion in dead calm he was menacing wired and seething with barely controlled sexual violence here he is bombastic petulant slimy and unravelled and where does he get his seemingly inexhaustible supply of dry cigarettes and cigars and how come his lighter stays full of juice for over a year ms brook is very picturesque stunningly pretty but both her chest and rear appear to have been wildly over inflated by some sort of life raft pump they do however succeed in acting with more skill and conviction than the rest of her dramatic actress in the purest sense of the term she is not the guy playing the voodoo manuel the third component of this sorry triangle could have been replaced by a lump of driftwood no one would notice in fact judging by his complete lack of ability to deliver dialogue in any meaningful or dynamic way driftwood represents a potential improvement in the casting stakes excuse pun br br plus sides the scenery is nice and the cinematography above and below the water is credible br br i'm guessing this had a very limited if any theatrical release or went straight to rental and retail dvd the reason for this is it's not very good if you want something decent along these lines get dead calm it was made by people who knew a bit about cinema
0	i went into the movie expecting a little action mixed with a strong story line i understand that changes between written works and movies must be made for many reasons br br the changing of the relationship between the scientists they were father daughter in the book the director of was eliminated thus causing the scene between the and the director to be changed to the and the head of the swiss guard in the office br br ron howard made sure to get his dad inserted as a cardinal with a hayseed accent but missed all the symbolism both and the ascended to the heavens in the helicopter with hanks character landing in the river and the priest landing upon the chapel in what was described as a christ like image br br at some point this film needs to be remade by a director who is up to the job
0	thankfully i watched this film alone enabling me to fast forward through the worst scenes aka most of the film actually ok some of it is not all bad with partially good photography even some of the under water scenes and at times not too bad directing but it still doesn't save the incredibly poor script and way worse acting additionally when i don't find the movies hottie to be all that even the wannabe sexy love making scenes get dull really dull and for the drama you know it's always a bad sign when you get to dislike all of the characters so much you really don't care who lives and who dies br br if you still haven't gotten tired of the reality series survivor you may find something to your liking in this movie if not stay well clear
0	what the heck is this about kelly jennifer seems to drop all moral behavior as soon as she arrives to the island she finds this juan p manuel existing and exotic though she witnessed when he slapped his ex in the face which he also justify later on in the movie right or wrong these two guys are the first to find each other on the island kelly are totally lost in every sense and the great juan p can fish and built a somewhat house mr handyman they seem to have a great time then billy zane jack characters husband shows up and of course two days without knowing what his wife has been doing whit this gorgeous juan p he is a little bit jealous billy z is the stereotype rich guy and maybe not the nicest man in the world he dislikes juan p for hitting his girlfriend at the pier who can blame him hes also is arrogant but he paid loads of money to rent that boat and juan p who is the waiter everything cant even fetch him a beer whit in 20 min wouldn't you be upset yet billy is probably the guy you want to punch in the face if you meet him but at the same time he is not to be blamed for suspicious about the scuba goggles manuel has kelly and billy just lost some dear friends how convenient he just happens to have them no matter what however for some strange reason kelly likes this girl hitting manuel and starts to hate billy for being jealous ok billy is overreacting thats for sure but kelly isn't doing much to convince him either she spends more time with juan p and even wants him to sleep with them since hes been so nice and even though manuel yelled at her and calling her things for asking him some intimate questions but kelly is so forgiving yeah right and then she starts to have sex with this juan p it should be said that kelly and billy seems to have a working relationship before this island incident at least they have intimate sex on the boat and talks like people do when they like each other now you can think that this scenario is possible but for real is it are you cheating your husband after two days on a coconut island just because hes jealous and acts like a drunk in the bar i wouldn't disagree if there relationship was really bad but the director doesn't give much hints if thats the case for christ sake juan p hasn't really shown himself being a good person catching some fish and built a wood house to get into someones panties is that showing a good side not trying to befriend husband in anyway which would be very simple by letting them be alone most of the island time simply be respect he doesn't care about their relationship and kelly cant figure that one out he just want to have sex with kelly character is just not trustworthy if she was stranded with billy and another attractive girl wouldn't she be upset or what or maybe she is billy zane plays a not very nice person and juan p isn't actually much better if you really think about it and poor kelly is so confused and believes having sex with juan p will solve everything because her husband is so strange and so aggressive towards poor juan p so for all of you who reads this what do you think about it if you where the kelly character would you consider cheating on your husband knowing one day you'll be back in real life and all of a sudden billys maybe not that horrible person after all hes just too jealous and if you where billys character what do you say is he totally wrong in his behavior and juan p character what do you guys really think of him one thing is for sure exist ps the voodoo thing is so totally wrong here what the heck was that about seriously anyone tell me
0	it is playing on showtime right now but is going to be released as a movie called three or has been released for 2006 mess ups include a supposed nude body comes out of the waves with her bottoms on you can have fun finding the others it was a decent stranded hungry cold crazy person video but that is about it and of course what would a movie be without sex the lady has a nice body and the men are pretty but the story is the same as swept away or a savage is loose type with some blood wonder if the movie studios know they made a big booboo and already released this show and now gonna release it as three billy zane should have worn a top hair piece or shaved his head completely juan di pace is awesome and there is a couple good sex scenes there is a voodoo woman that loves the character di pace plays and in real life her name is di pace too not aware of any connection but probably kin or married
0	if you make a suspense movie it is kind of important that the villain not be more sympathetic than the victim and this fails miserably it was so terrible and frustrating to watch that i was actually moved to register and comment ok so the husband is rich and cocky there are worse vices and the cabana boy and wife display plenty the husband is a jerk because he um didn't approve of the cabana boy physically assaulting that woman the witch one which had absolutely nothing to do with the plot btw the cabana boy threatens the husband and repeatedly attempts to seduce the wife he then forces himself on her which the woman finds so hot she stops thinking rape and starts thinking she wants him uh huh the misogynistic inferiority complex thoughts the director displays are just revolting it is one thing when a fine film like american psycho deliberately tries to get us to empathise with the villain but in survival island i felt like i was watching a movie about ted bundy but the director failed to make him unlikeable and instead made us hate his victims what was he thinking
0	did anyone notice when miss brook went skinny dipping she left the water wearing white bikini bottoms and yet had previously taken it all off to join cabin boy this could have been a good film without miss brooks phony accent and a year on the island please how come that kelly looked always clean and ready for a fm photo shoot what started out with premise turned in to soft porn and billy zane come on you cant be that hard up for film offers check out dead calm also when the people took her away how come she scoffed her face and after all that time didn't feel like throwing up i suggest billy find decent scripts kelly stick to photo shoots and cabin boy play the son of zorro in a future sequel
0	yes bad acting isn't only one thing to mention bad script not so bad music unfortunately br br nice girl and nice boy with perfect bodies and super teeth just isn't enough for me and for you too br br first thing in the morning after crash they go to swim to the sea to have some fun smiling br br they find everything in the sea i mean things like fishing net knife scuba dive things ropes bottles husband br br stuff are you kidding stupid they are so happy on the island they are going to die and they are happy love peace love just stupid br br terrible skip this one please
0	i can only assume the previous posts came from execs at the production company br br attended the uk premiere last night zane and brook attended they probably knew i was gonna be there and are undoubtedly stars but what a turkey of a film i felt sorry for them at times when the audience erupted in laughter at what were serious 'thriller' scenes br br but perhaps i was missing the point perhaps an element of tongue in cheek was intended if so pure genius if not career genocide br br on the plus side zane always shines and brook can actually act a little as the other half said as we ran out the cinema avec broken ribs they can be forgiven for this film as they both seem like nice people the scriptwriter however should be marooned
0	a holiday on a boat a married couple an angry waiter and a shipwreck is the reason to this films beginning br br i like boobs no question about that but when the main character allies with whoever happens to have the most fish at the moment mostly by having sex with them and playing the role of the constant victim my anger just rises to a whole new level take two guys a husband and another man put a pure bombshell woman in the middle of them ad a deserted island subtract all her moral issues ad a whole bunch of moral issues to the men and mix it in a big bowl of arguments fish and a zippo lighter and you will come up with a piece of junk movie like this br br the acting is i would say good there are some bloopers but not many as far as i could see the main female character makes me sick this is due to her lack of moral values the man with the most fish get's her attention even though one of them is her husband she sees no problem with being unfaithful with manuel the other man because i must do it to survive how can you justify having sex with another man for fish when your husband is away and he won't even benefit from it the female character has absolutely no problems to justify anything that she does if she doesen't get approval for her actions she's a victim br br i recommend everyone to see this movie this is the kind of movie that will make just about everything else you see this year a pleasant movie experience
0	how pointless hideous characters and boring film saved by brief sex scenes mad witch gorgeous desert island and brooks body the plot is tenuous the characters are shallow and unlikeable having said that i did manage to watch it all mainly because i was totally transfixed by the jiggling and kind of hoping that her character would come good in the end the film was well shot well directed but perhaps the casting let it down in some ways disappointing really summed the review up in the first line but this website dictates that you need to write 10 lines minimum it would be better to spend the time watching another film
0	a complete zero out of four one worst sums up awful actually more words come to mind ridiculous third rate and terrible this is one of amitabh's worst movies ever he prances around in a cheap leather jacket and equally cheap tinsel foil zorro style mask with what appears to be wings on the sides br br the movie is set in ancient persia or arabia and is characteristically un historical for an indian movie as stated above a leather jacket from k mart with straps did not exist 400 years ago unless all my history teachers were wrong br br rishi also does his patented cross dressing in this movie far from being funny it is very embarassing to watch what could possess the son of the legendary raj kapoor to flay the memory of his house like this on screen br br on the plus side if you want a real laugh go ahead and watch this film the glaring inconsistencies in the plot and costumes are no match for the awful dialogues and shoddy acting
0	angels demons br br the movie is directed by ron howard he has had also made famous movies like the da vinci code cinderella men he directed also the famous tv series 24 the most famous actors are tom hanks the da vinci code the green mile forrest gump … ewan mcgregor cassandra's dream moulin rouge star wars the phantom menace … br br in the begin i was shocked because they changed the beginning from the movie so big because they changed the father of in someone else silvano bentivoglio argenziano another change is that robert langdon tom hanks never goes to the it was nice that they could film on location in the br br then movie goes on they are spectacular car races in rome an i also like the part in archives very much when they destroy the work of galileo it was funny it was also funny that they where locked in the archives the second time they get in robert langdon destroyed half of the archives and when they bust out the electricity get br br i found it very stupid that robert langdon not went in the helicopter but that the ewan mcgregor gets in alone another detail is that in the movie the is an adopted son from the pope in the book he is the real son of the pope br br when i should give the best acting performance then i should say who plays inspector the worst acting was from the assassin who was played by nikolaj lie i think he was underachieving because in adams apples he played br br i think the whole movie is underachieving because director ron howard made some many stupid changes i would rate the movie by 4 10
0	if there's one word i can associate to this movie its it must be embarrassing to everyone associated with the movie to actually watch it in a theatre everything the script screenplay dialogues song lyrics direction shoddy lousy br br saw this movie when i was a kid liked it then mainly because it was a fantasy a superhero movie its a not so explored genre in hindi cinema the attempt deserves credit but that's all there is to it sashi kapoor seems to have been in a great hurry in making the movie can't understand the reason behind casting foreigners as hindi speaking characters who can't even get the sync right nothing to say about the dubbing the screenplay is terrible the editing even more if one follows the dialogues closely one can detect grammatically wrong sentences which completely alter the intended meaning nothing special about the music br br the biggest embarrassment must be for the censor board there are a couple of nip slip scenes in the movie one of which is absolutely clear so much so that i can't even think of a metaphor the director missed them the editing team missed it and the censor board missed it too so much for the no indecent exposure on screen motto the officials probably fell asleep while watching the movie br br can't think of why amitabh went with the role it might be because he was a good friend of the kapoors but the role hardly has anything for him with wonderful roles in hum and behind him he couldn't have followed it up with a worse one there are a couple of heroic scenes really worthy ones but otherwise they're embarrassingly unbelievable arrow catching for instance it probably could've been better with cgi but it was '91 br br dimple and sonam do not exactly set the screen on fire kapoor and rishi kapoor give an inspired performance but their scope is limited amrish puri is his usual self in the role of a fairy tale villain letting out the villainous laugh every now and then br br on the whole an interesting concept could have been a lot more better
0	post 1988 after the disaster gjs amitabh's films lost the quality they had earlier br br barring main hoon released in 1989 which was a great film rest all films were craps mostly except hum 1991 later in 1991 br br this is another of the crap amitabh films people rejected in early 90's br br the film he did like a friendship token to shashi kapoor who directed the film and he didn't take a penny the film also had rishi and dimple again not paired each other after br br the film came in 1991 when bachchan had 4 releases and 3 flops amongst them br br came 2 years after toofan and both supernatural films which were rejected this is another type of crap bachchan wears a mask and a type outfit and performs magic changing 1 person to a donkey etc of course being 1991 you can excuse the special effects but the film is too bad to be watched br br direction by shashi kapoor is not good music is bad br br amongst actors amitabh had become too old by 1991 and looked tired his acting is okay but not on par with his best rishi is okay dimple is alright rest are forgettable
0	this movie was a thorough there was no development of the story viewers were thrown into the story without explanation and left to fend for themselves in trying to work out what was going on the action sequences were okay but confusing they weren't the matrix and they weren't crouching tiger this movie is best left to cable tv where you don't have to pay to see it or convincing a friend that they should hire it and then go over and watch it as a huge jet li fan i expected more how can someone involved with once upon a time in china put his name to this one
0	i wanted to dog this movie but somehow i can't find it in myself to do that br br exhibiting a duality of fighting styles it's li vs li in a somewhat decent battle for supremacy br br this is one of those movies where the story carries the performances li's acting is extremely amateurish hesitant and stiff for most of this movie right up to the very end at first i tricked myself into believing he was just doing that for one of his two characters you know to show a difference in personalities but it appeared to be inexperience or a lack of talent it did get a bit better more relaxed toward the end but that wasn't enough to save his performance jet li's acting does improve as his career moves forward i don't hate his acting i just hated him in this br br i also have to say that the effects were very b class effects what effects there are br br the story itself had great potential it was uniquely creative daring and fresh unfortunately either the budget was not ample enough to accommodate better lighting effects film quality and some acting lessons or the director just did not care enough to bother with these little details he also did not bother with the science in the science fiction a fact which was a great detractor to this film br br the fight sequences were a bit one sided as he seemed to give more to one character and little to the other but all in all the story line made for a very enjoyable attempt br br as enjoyable as this was i couldn't help but think all the way through that this was just one of those movies that you can't help but watch it for what it should've been rather than what it is br br it rates a 6 0 10 on the b scale br br that's a 4 2 10 on the a scale for having a good plot from br br the fiend
0	i didn't want to write this movie off on the reviews and critics in the western world i mean how wrong have they been about asian cinema that has now become a staple diet of the hollywood remake monster plus jet l is pretty damn cool and he's made some interesting movies in asia so with an open mind i was surprisingly averaged out by this movie br br there are good points the story is very clever using m theory as a base to bring forward the plot that there are multiple universes each with their own versions of worlds and most likely you each time one of you is destroyed the rest share the energy and power amongst them the idea that someone might try and purposely become the only version of themselves in all the universes to find out if they become a god br br there's also jet li and he's not a bad actor and pretty nimble as a martial artist plus jason statham who is an all round good actor as for the special effects some of them are really cool a mixing of bullet time and slow motion with normal speed very cool to watch in places br br the bad points well statham's accent is appalling and some of the effects aren't as comparable as others so it's quite apparent that money was spent on some of the main shots and not on others that were probably deemed as too short on screen or they just plain ran out of budget br br a big sore point for me is the close cropped camera action that hollywood has long favoured something that jackie chan has often talked about filming fight scenes close up serves two purpose it gives greater emphasis on a single punch or movement making it look harder and more real than it really is and it also hides what is going on around the camera lens for example people holding a fake arm or the face of a stunt double etc br br what chan always said was that he tried to open out the camera and show the audience what was going on let them see the people fighting properly rather than a close up of a face and a fist cutting to someone falling into frame showing the whole picture is more effective and it's more impressive br br so the close cropped shots were just more annoying than anything you failed to see the impressiveness of li's fighting skills and you found it hard to see some of the action slow the cuts down and pan out the camera hollywood directors the biggest problem was the story though despite having such a strong base on which to build they seemed to loose the sense of the plot and concentrate on the action scenes there are some serious plot building and explanatory moments that are just totally overlooked and covered in the space of a few sentences yet these could have formed some excellent and complex character development br br it just all held together too weakly and not enough was made of the story all in all not a great movie and it's potential was badly spoiled
0	unspeakable starts in los angeles with jim roger cline his wife alice noll arguing as they drive along in the pouring rain unfortunately jim crashes the car his daughter heather leigh silver ends up dead while alice is turned into a wheelchair bound vegetable devastated by the death of his daughter jim starts visiting prostitutes he then kills them because of voices in his head erm that's it really br br written produced directed by chad i hate unspeakable as a film there are some films you occasionally see that move the as it were in regard to everything you watch thereafter some films are so brilliant that all other's will be judged by it while other's like unspeakable for example are so bad that it sets a new cinematic low this is truly one of the worst films i've ever seen i am seriously surprised by the largely positive comments on the imdb although i'm not surprised the the low overall rating on the main page i not sure if i missed something but for a start unspeakable has no plot it has no story a lot of it seems almost random there was nothing in unspeakable to maintain my interest or entertain as a result became a test of endurance to get through to the end the film tries to be shocking with some limp scenes of sexual abuse of a rent boy by a priest there is a scene in which a disabled person craps herself it splats on the floor her dodgy male nurse starts feeling her soiled genitals legs underwear if anyone can find such crap entertaining then i'll just cut my wrists now the character's are some of the worst i've had the misfortune to know the dialogue is hilariously bad with some it sounding like it came straight from some dirty faggot porno of the worst kind it doesn't work as a horror as it's not scary in the slightest it's absolutely hilarious frankly insulting to claim that it is trying to be a serious drama about someone suffering a great loss attempting to cope with it overall i just think it's a pointless rubbishy badly made piece of crap from troma br br director films like some badly made documentary the special effects are terrible are of the 'let's pour tomato ketchup on our actor's face the audience will be convinced that they died a gory death' variety there is no graphic violence at all apart from a suicide where someone sticks a knife in their own mouth considering the amount of prostitutes in unspeakable the nudity levels are kept to an absolute minimum br br apparently unspeakable had a budget of about 20 000 all i can say is where did all the money go oh a quick note to the filmmakers if your going to record sound live make sure you don't have your actor's deliver their lines next to a main road that half of los angeles seem to be driving up the acting sucks period br br unspeakable is in my opinion total crap it's probably not the worst i've ever seen but it's right down there i can't remember seeing such a awful film recently one to avoid unless your a masochist or insomniac
0	i cannot believe that this is a film that i did not like i usually find that i am open minded about all sorts of stuff but this flick is just well bad br br i could deal with the subject matter if the script and story were better i could deal with the acting if the camera work was better or if the characters were better established i think it mostly boils down to script and direction though br br it was just bad br br i want to give this the lowest rating but i don't believe in that at least this guy got off his tail to make a movie so he gets four stars just above the average rating which this has so far
0	i really wanted to like this movie because i love troma and loved the trailer and loved ghouls another of films it did have some almost good moments like the oldies love song playing over the car crash scene and a scene near the end where the protagonist gets some closure but on the whole it was just boring and mildly unpleasant br br the unimaginable shocks that came up with were really predictable and worn out poop murdering prostitutes incest could have still been good but poorly done unsure whether it was trying to offend amuse or both ultimately did neither br br in conclusion we watch troma movies because we want films with heart this film did not consistently feel like it had heart there were some good scenes but ultimately it was dull and unpleasant
0	from troma which is my favorite movie company is a messy horror film that can be interesting but very dark and twisted br br unspeakable starts with a family in a car they get into an accident which leaves a daughter dead and a mother deformed the father eventually goes crazy and slashes prostitutes he sees his daughter in other people he kills for her meanwhile his now deformed wife is being raped by her orderly these are sick people br br unspeakable tries to be sick and disturbing and it does manage to do that as a good horror flick this is not most troma movies have a sense of humor to them but however this one doesn't
0	as a child of the 80's like so many of the other reviewers here i hated the original v and v the final battle i own both on vhs and never hook up the vcr to watch them i do remember not liking this short lived series very much but i couldn't remember why so i rented the first disc by the third episode i had my memory refreshed it's terrible the writing is beyond horrid it's not even fun they had a lot of material to work with here but it seemed like they just didn't know what to do so they turned it into of our lives with lizard aliens' how cool and full of potential is the concept of elizabeth the all they could think of to do is grow her into a whiny boring teenager to compete with her mother romantically marc singer looked less embarrassed to be in beastmaster ii than he did when he was trapped in this drivel point is whether you're one of the younger folk who's just discovered v or one of us older sci fi fans looking to rediscover some old fun spare yourself and skip this
0	i'm a historian this movie is so wrong it hurts tried to watch with an open mind but if you're going to delve into a movie or anything for that matter of this nature at least do some homework regarding history locations church protocol et cetera stop playing to the dumb audience please there are those of us out there that actually put on our shoes and venture out to the theatre when something of this nature worthy of a theatrical release comes to town a little research all i'm asking but then again the book it's based on is somewhat of a joke in itself so basically they took a novel with many errors and decided to make it into a screenplay pour millions and millions and millions of dollars into it and make an incredibly promoted world distributed theatrical release and at no time have anyone take the time to do a little research on the lot of it i know several of my colleagues who would have done it for just the credit alone or at least given it to a body of students as an assignment for several weeks to research various aspects… or just pay someone knowledgeable a couple of bucks just to run through it because trust me there are plenty of starving historians out there who would have jumped on the opportunity if it had presented itself
0	an epic story of hope constrained by budget and limited artistic ambition seeing as terrence malick produced this i expected something haunting and lyrical instead we get a typical norwegian co production revolution with al pacino anyone where quite possibly good intentions are scuppered by a dreadful screenplay and where many of the characters are reduced to stereotypes the me tarzan you jane english dialogue between the non english speaking protagonists is particularly cringeworthy – one could speculate whether nick nolte and tim roth ad libbed their own as they almost sound like real people the story is loaded with implausibility we are expected to believe that can speak a smattering of english after having spent his entire life living as a peasant slave his vocabulary but unfortunately not grammatical command increases impressively in the refugee camp without the benefit of night classes coincidence is rife i wonder whether an hour or two has been edited from the first third he tracks down his mother in ho chi city almost immediately after bumping into his thirty year younger half brother who nonchalantly recognises him mum gives him a gold or something similar of great value as they part but this is never referred to again his relationship with me dead inside ling is supposed to provide the obligatory love interest but feels as artificial as leonardo and cameron in gangs of new york br br the voyage in the rust bucket of a boat does convey a sense of the appalling conditions that human trafficking entails indeed the only time the film is remotely exciting and unpredictable is the jerky hand held footage shot from the bridge during choppy weather conditions incidentally a boat cruise from malaysia to new york via the cape of good hope and the african coast without stopping for fuel or supplies is certainly an epic journey the beautiful shot of the new york skyline echoes malick's use of magic hour but i want to know why the coast guard didn't show up perhaps they were watching the super bowl or something of course manages to track down his blind old dad on a remote farm in texas with the same flair he displayed in ho chi city i was impressed at how nick nolte could wander around digging fields and feeding horses on a large ranch without the aid of a guide dog or white stick for demonstration of how a story about the travails refugees could be structured and shot on a small budget check out michael far superior in this world
0	my wife and i never got into the movie we thought it was way to and to many subtitles i understood they needed them for vietnam but took to long to get out of asia she wanted it off i said it's going to get better it never did yes they had a tough time trying to get to america but i wanted to see him looking and finding his dad not at the end but forming a relationship did i mention it was i love to watch a movie to feel good not sad at the end i know they don't make many good movies now days i think action movies are the only ones to watch i have been renting a lot from netflix and now blockbuster maybe 20 are worth seeing i don't kneed realism or facts just a movie thats fun and makes you feel good gary
0	thursday june 9 9 egyptian theater saturday june 11 2 00pm uptown theater br br being loved and belonging is essential for most children those born to vietnamese mothers and gi fathers often found neither the beautiful country is the story of one such child rejected by his rural village then struggling to find his american father the film begins with green and wild country but descends into grimy sweaty ugliness and boredom the considerable talents of tim roth and morrison are wasted in pointless and ill conceived roles aboard the rusting freighter carrying and is dying brother across the ocean with what appear to be stock shots of stormy seas new york city offers slave labor and cliché characters while very uneven from it's start the great curiosity of this film is the final segment nick nolte is given top billing among the cast i jokingly suggested he would probably be in the final scene only and was not far from the truth as the journey brings to texas and his father the film takes on a serene and austere simplicity a tenuous cohabitation these two men together into a family of father and son the ninety odd minutes of garbage we have just watched is rewarded by a profound and subtle performance from nolte as they slowly interact the credits rolled and i was surprised to see the names of badlands executive producer edward pressman and west texas native terrence malick
0	the beautiful country is a big disappointment it doesn't come up to my expectation a tall muscular guy is a son of an american gi and a vietnamese woman during vietnam war we were told that that he was treated less than dust in vietnam in the early 90s so he to america to seek his american father br br sounds like a heart broken material maybe but showing in this film i find myself having a hard time to connect to emotionally because the film is full of cliché and i simply don't understand or believe him the writing of this film is a total failure the plot is full of holes it grabs some events on a needed basis trying hard to stir the emotion of the audience we are not that stupid and it doesn't work that way let's see what the film is trying to do so you don't feel boat trip yeah he was on a boat is hard enough let's have a storm over night and let the ship shake a little still not touched fine get a little kid to suffer the heat the hungry the sickness the violence with the adults on the boat hopefully that will do the trick to touch the audience still not touched you heartless sob let's ok i don't want to give any spoiler of the film but you get the idea br br the film is really long and slow it never tell us why didn't go to find his mom and dad until the moment in the film when he left to look for his mom and dad what has he been doing the 20 some years before he went to saigon to look for his mom and guess what he has the luck and everybody will tell him where to find the person he is looking for and he will find anybody without a scratch i really think the department of homeland security should hire those vietnamese who helped the beautiful country which one both vietnam and america seem hell to
0	an epic story of hope constrained by budget and limited artistic ambition seeing as terrence malick produced this i expected something haunting and lyrical instead we get a typical norwegian co production revolution with al pacino anyone where quite possibly good intentions are scuppered by a dreadful screenplay and where many of the characters are reduced to stereotypes the me tarzan you jane english dialogue between the non english speaking protagonists is particularly cringeworthy – one could speculate whether nick nolte and tim roth ad libbed their own as they almost sound like real people the story is loaded with implausibility we are expected to believe that can speak a smattering of english after having spent his entire life living as a peasant slave his vocabulary but unfortunately not grammatical command increases impressively in the refugee camp without the benefit of night classes coincidence is rife i wonder whether an hour or two has been edited from the first third he tracks down his mother in ho chi city almost immediately after bumping into his thirty year younger half brother who nonchalantly recognises him mum gives him a gold or something similar of great value as they part but this is never referred to again his relationship with me dead inside ling is supposed to provide the obligatory love interest but feels as artificial as leonardo and cameron in gangs of new york br br the voyage in the rust bucket of a boat does convey a sense of the appalling conditions that human trafficking entails indeed the only time the film is remotely exciting and unpredictable is the jerky hand held footage shot from the bridge during choppy weather conditions incidentally a boat cruise from malaysia to new york via the cape of good hope and the african coast without stopping for fuel or supplies is certainly an epic journey the beautiful shot of the new york skyline echoes malick's use of magic hour but i want to know why the coast guard didn't show up perhaps they were watching the super bowl or something of course manages to track down his blind old dad on a remote farm in texas with the same flair he displayed in ho chi city i was impressed at how nick nolte could wander around digging fields and feeding horses on a large ranch without the aid of a guide dog or white stick for demonstration of how a story about the travails refugees could be structured and shot on a small budget check out michael far superior in this world
0	if i guess your will you let me go through asks william a tim robbins that keeps on acting like if they told him a fantastic joke and he is attempting not to laugh br br he is trying to get to a forbidden area the woman stopping him continues blabbering your is carrefour br br how did you know the lady asks surprised he answers in the name of wisdom i was hearing when you weren't talking br br yes this defines the movie this precisely it doesn't matter if carrefour is road conjunction in french or if the future is coldly bureaucratic and mixes languages or if samantha morton has nothing nothing of spanish maria gonzalez being her name in the film with her irish scotish whatever tone br br it's boring and dull if you fall in believing there are multiple symbolisms you will buy the most bizarre sickening love relationship ever set in a future that may well be in seven seconds i can guess this movie's it will be painful
0	many times the description full of sound and fury signifying nothing is used and is right on target unfortunately code 46 lacks both sound and fury a bit of fury would have been greatly appreciated tim robbins character william is so lacking in passion that the idea of his falling instantly in love with maria samantha morton seems almost absurd these folks are so passionless that one begins to wonder if perhaps the water supply of this future world has been dosed with thorazine there is a brave new world sort of atmosphere to the film that is helped along by every scene being shot about 2 3 stops overexposed unfortunately this technique gets tedious and rather hard on the eyes the cutesy mishmash of languages also grows tedious when there seems to be no apparent reason for its existence many futuristic scifi films are criticized for being all flash and no substance this film has neither flash nor substance its a code 6 all the way
0	i like to think that i can appreciate a movie that is a bit out of the ordinary and i certainly love a good movie that makes me think br br if you like out of the ordinary movies that make you think then look elsewhere this movie is so bad and so disjointed that the only thing you will be thinking after it is over is how it is possible you wasted 90 minutes of your life watching this br br a movie of this kind needs a driver to get buy in from the viewer why are we interested in the main characters what motivates these characters through their existence why do they make the decisions they make this movie makes a very weak attempt at doing these and fails in the process there is no chemistry between these two actors both of who are superb in their ability to be comfortable in any role so why did they fail here i strongly feel that they didn't know what their motivations were either and when an actor doesn't know their audience can't follow br br in sum i have seen macromedia flash videos that offered more in the way of provoking thought at least i have more interest in the morphed hamster who likes the moon than why this married family man would risk it all for a code 46 violation
0	there is nothing worse than science fiction crafted by folks who don't have a feel for it grasping at a concept which wouldn't be so terrible by itself a future where cloning is common enough that it is necessary to make it a crime for you to breed with someone too close to you genetically the screenwriter proceeded to allow his ill suited imagination to run wild br br when tim robbins' character was able to guess a security guard's computer password simply by getting her to tell him one thing about herself i knew i was in for trouble this ability was later revealed to be due to robbins having taken an empathy virus viruses being used to grant instant or nearly instant skill upgrades to their users robbins' love interest complained about her own experience with such a virus a mandarin chinese language virus which allowed her to speak chinese but as she complained she couldn't understand what she was saying okay first off empathy no matter how intense isn't esp without incorporating some sort of true mind reading aspect like an empathy virus which actively releases into the vicinity infects nearby people picks up bits of their memory then departs for the original host which is as you can probably tell a smidgeon on the impractical side you can't justify being able to determine a specific detail like someone's password just by listening to the things you didn't say nor can you acquire the ability to speak a language without understanding what you're saying the virus can't infect your vocal cords and translate for you on the fly because a virus can't think to give you the power to speak chinese such a learning virus would have to modify your brain it would have to encode the knowledge among neurons and once it's in there it's yours you certainly understand what you're saying because you have to to use your own brain to perform a task you must understand that task for the most part unless of course they movie is suggesting that the virus was deliberately designed to put in place some bizarre multiple personality mental schism where some sub personae of yours functions as a built in one way translator br br the of languages spoken by the characters is decent enough although nowhere near remarkable enough to warrant all the love other reviewers have given what's more all the multicultural in the world can't make up for a simple frustrating fact the dialog stinks it's slow it's plodding and it's unnatural again i'm sure adherents have convinced themselves that the dull strangeness is simply the result of an inspired genius creating a truly futuristic and therefore subjected to linguistic drift form of speech i disagree good dialog is good dialog in any era and the same goes for tripe br br lastly i'll revisit the central concept of the movie the banning of sex with yourself widespread cloning is a nice classic sci fi topic so is global warming leading to ecological devastation which code 46 also incorporates unfortunately the two don't go together if you have an ecological disaster cutting down severely on the available living area you don't run around cloning people you have population problems enough as it is you don't add to them by cranking out re issues regular old fashioned sex and birth provides all the population you need and cloning of any sort would be ruthlessly suppressed br br to be fair the movie wasn't all bad it had some nice cinematography perhaps if i had watched it muted i could've enjoyed it
0	i thought this film was a poor effort by the british film council fell flat as hey come on tim robbins is an old guy and here is this beautiful young woman who falls straight for him as well like lost in translation its really hard to suspend disbelief in this context it's a good looking film but lacks punch when tim robbins is pretending to be psychic it looks like he has a small migraine he looks uncomfortable and life less the part where he is screening suspect employees at sphinx is laughable if an investigator came to my factory the last thing i would do is tell him about my freckle fetish it's obviously over intellectual clumsy the city is as it is a convenient backdrop they obviously picked the most futuristic city they could shanghai as a backdrop but the city never really comes out and effects the characters as in for example blade runner where the characters of the city often intersect the story slow as a wet week no chemistry real dramatic high points so so plot
0	firstly i loved the book more so than the more popular da vinci code and although the film was not well received i liked it and bought the dvd however there is no chance that i will ever want to watch angles and demons ever again br br the film barely resembles the book in fact only the general premise of the story is there br br from the very start of the film i was disappointed in the book robert langdon receives a call and fax from maximilian kohler director of who finds the body of father can't remember the name and then requests langdon to come using the super fast plane in the book the only people who knew about this technology that the father and daughter team had created were themselves and the in the film however there was a massive team involved so the tension was never there how did they find out etc br br leaving out or rather changing this whole part of the story was a massive mistake and was in my mind what made it a poor movie it changed everything that happened from then on when the was confronted in the locked room it should have been maximilian kohler who shot the video from his wheel chair the commander rushed in to get the but was shot by in the film it was the commander in the room and was shot err i think i got this right but i was bored and can't really remember the events in the film br br there was no love interest between and robert and in the book she wasn't at when he arrived and was indeed was flown in from her research work in the book all four of the were killed but in the film the last one of the four survived the fountain in the book was kidnapped and robert had to rescue her and it was they that killed the assassin at the church of the not blown up like he was in the film by the the bit where robert was confined under a stone coffin was not there saved by his mickey mouse watch alarm ok in the book we are led to believe that langdon bailed out of the helicopter fair enough to say that this was a bit far stretched but it was important in the film because he had to race back with the film there was no mention of how and her adopted father became involved this was also important in getting to know the character of br br in all one of the worse films i have seen i would have left early but my brain went numb and i lost the use of my legs temporarily a really really poor attempt and not one of ron finest in fact how he will get work again is beyond me i want my money back
0	spoilers spoilers br br i saw this movie last night at a screening i started out already liking tim robbins and loving sci fi the first third of the movie was very cool the score was good the cinematography was interesting the film maker's vision of the future was realistic yet starkly interesting nonetheless i remember thinking to myself this is the most intelligently done sci fi movie i've seen in a while then they just couldn't keep it together br br although from the outset there were a number of more rough around the edges issues with this film namely the editing and later some of the writing plot development these issues were forgivable they became unforgivable once the movie sort of lost all momentum around the half way mark and then the film just got tedious when you realized that it wasn't going to go anywhere at all br br robbins could not breathe life into his character but did the best he could his female counterpart her name escapes me now was good in her role br br the main reason for the meandering of the movie seemed to be that the film makers could not decide whether or not to do a sci fi movie or a futuristic love story they ended up with neither br br good br br some of the cinematography grainy it felt like 21 days later some times br br very fitting for a futuristic movie like this br br i dug some of the location shots br br the music was cool br br the film makers vision of the future was realistic but still cool and interesting br br i liked the interactions with the other minor characters in the movie br br some of the writing was interesting early on br br the girl who played maria gonzales name can't recall she was good br br spoilers below br br a few questions comments br br i felt that a lot of the futuristic things in this movie were convenient to fix a patchwork story namely viruses obviously the virus they gave her at the end of the film that made her physically 'afraid' of him was just there so that they could stick in another sex scene and then she could uncontrollably report him for code 46 then they take him away and erase his memory and the movie ends classic 'dream cop out ending if you ask me ties up all the loose ends very neatly if you just make it all a dream right br br was robbin's character naturally good as intuition or was it the virus br br why didn't they explore the myriad of issues surrounding the girl being a clone of his mom that could have made some interesting story br br at first i like the from across the globe in everyone's speech but it became intrusive especially since their accents were not convincing i get it the future will undoubtedly be racially and culturally more androgynous but it started feeling like an at t global networking commercial by the end of it br br if they were how could they have gotten busted for code 46 br br was never well defined sometimes it seemed as trivial as a visa and other times it was as vital as life or death again loose definitions allow them to use it for gluing disparate parts of the plot together br br okay i'm starting to get to negative about it so i'll stop there were some cool scenes and interesting things about this movie but that only gives it a 4 10
0	we're in a not so distant future globalization seems to have reached a high point languages mixes with each other although english prevails over the rest races have merged human is a fact and all the territory seems to have been divided in two zones the one for the valid and the one for the non valid a brave new world in huxley's style in which people are genetically filed and blood relationships are strictly forbidden for health reasons the code 46 of the title in such environment two souls that are destined not to meet fall in love with each other br br winterbottom had an important story with quite a big potential a nice recipe that he ruins giving it a so slow rhythm narrating it in a so weary way removing any emotions coldness that's all code 46 transmits coldness and boredom not even the presence of samantha morton and tim robbins both of'em play their roles wonderfully nor the visual and sound power of some sequences can do anything to save the movie what a pity br br code 46 what could have been and never was br br my rate 4 10
0	if you are a weirdo who thinks it's romantic and wonderful to have sex with a woman who is the genetic equivalent of your mother get her pregnant and then have sex with her again once she's had an abortion and not tell her that she is related to you then you would like this movie br br nevermind the fact that the guy is married and has a son at home it makes it even more disgusting and deplorable that he has no conscience as to what he's doing he can't do right by his job his family or maria he's a loser there is nothing romantic or positive about this movie it is vile and incestuous br br it moves slowly and it leads nowhere for over the first half of the movie i couldn't even finish watching this pathetic excuse for a 'romance' i'm glad we didn't waste our money in the movie theater on this one 0 10
0	i just finished watching this film and think it is one of the worst films i have ever seen it was so boring that i found myself zooming through it at x2 speed and finished it in less than 30 minutes i was not just disappointed but angry that i had wasted my money to rent it it ranks within the top five of the worst films i have ever seen and i've seen thousands of movies the plot was very confusing had i not first read the dvd sleeve cover prior to renting it i would have been totally lost throughout this film i would not have thought that tim robbins after having made such good films as shawshank redemption would have agreed to appear in this film
0	the film disappointed me for many reasons first of all the depiction of a future which seemed at first realistic to me was well built but did only feature a marginal role then the story itself was a weak copy of lost in translation the middle eastern setting man with family meets new girl overseas karaoke bar the camera movements and the imagery all that was a very bad imitation of the excellent lost in translation which had also credibility this movie tries to be something brilliant and cultural it is not i wonder why tim robbins even considered doing this film the female main actress is awful did she play the in minority report and why do you have to show the vagina in a movie like this lost in translation didn't have to show excessive love scenes r rated just for this this movie isn't even worth watching it from a videostore
0	i was initially excited about this movie and fully expected it to be a combination of and farenheit 451 unfortunately i was continually disappointed in the lack of depth and interest of the plot and subplots midway through the movie i divulged into poking fun at the characters and sets to avoid having to turn it off i did enjoy the premise of a future with merged cultures and separation of the and have nots what could have been an artful and intelligent look at the future is morphed into a plodding semantic scifi channel midnight flick with horrible acting cheap sets and a final gratuitous shot of tim robbins vagina maybe he should stick to his socialist political ranting it has all been downhill since shawshank
0	this movie was released in all major cinemas in australia i watched the movie on the weekend of 7th aug and i thought is was absolute nonsense and i am using that word extremely how it got released to every major cinema no idea the plot seemed simple enough about the world being divided into and people needed identity cards and the actor tim robbins playing an investigator who goes to shanghai to investigate a employee stealing id cards which turns out to be the actress samantha morton br br you think from that summary the rest of the story should but it doesn't it just confuses the audience even more with different storyline that don't relate br br if you thinking of seeing this movie let me save u the trouble do not get this movie
0	i found code 46 very disappointing i thought the concept was good and therefore had great potential as a movie but found that it didn't deliver code 46 lacked thought and structure and the storyline didn't flow well i thought that tim robbins character wasn't well developed for eg i thought there should have been more info and thought put into his family life and not have it completely ignored as i felt it was when they were first in violation of a code 46 it was suggested that they were not to know that they may have been genetically linked but all the technology was available to them he took her fingerprint and therefore genetic details when he was investigating the fraud i constantly found myself waiting for something to happen and the story line to develop and yet it never did i felt that the film had great potential to be intellectually stimulating but turned out to be the opposite code 46 tried to be too clever and in the end just ended up lacking imagination i would not recommend this film to anybody the only good thing about the film was that it was relatively short
0	interesting concept that just doesn't make it i watched the whole movie but had to read imdb comments to find out what code 46 meant if when it was explained in the film i must have been in a coma or possibly brain dead by then i only watched it for tim robbins the fact that i did not know any of the other actors should have been a tip off we all have to start somewhere but this film should not be it as to the 'anti empathy virus holy utility belt batman where were the joker the riddler etc also why are the women all so damned ugly if i want to see less than plain stick figures i'll just walk down the street the best part of the film was the car crash it was totally believable and not over the top like most movie crashes
0	bad dialog slow story scenes that drag on and are absolutely pointless i can't believe this much money was invested in such a poorly written film the directing and acting couldn't save this bomb either br br 50 through the movie and you're still waiting for it to start they lay the foundation with the opening preface and then spend the next 40 minutes setting up nothing you watch 40 minutes of footage that is absolutely directionless in an attempt to do what i have no idea br br much of this film is like watching a really bad french movie where nothing ever happens and the characters are just sort of dull lifeless and living without purpose or care br br avoid this film at all cost anyone that recommends it is setting you up for disappointment and you will undoubtedly question their taste and depth
0	ron howard and his editors only had one job to do follow the guidelines of the book which was rich mysterious moving and highly cinematic in its approach br br what they did they changed everything and i mean everything what is left is something that has no right being called angels br br i really love the book and find it very hard to see it being treated this way br br i wonder what was the opinion of dan brown himself for this film br br i really have no patience to sit down and right the 1 000 000 changes they made it is pointless
0	code 46 is one of those scifi movies where the government controls who you are allowed to love and in fact will punish you if you try to procreate with the wrong person the haves and the have nots live in completely separate territories the powers that be can remove your memories etc we've seen this stuff before but that's ok no movie is 100 original this kind of premise is always fun to contemplate unfortunately just imagining such a future is more interesting than actually watching code 46 the characters are boring and rarely say anything interesting maybe that's commentary on a dehumanized future but it's still dull to watch it's sloooow br br at times the imagery is nice but usually coupled with its evocative soundtrack just looks like a glorified perfume commercial code 46 also sometimes uses the kind of television camera work that i find annoying you know two characters talk as the camera artlessly floats on one side two seconds later it's floating on the other side of them in a vain attempt to keep your attention br br my friends liked this movie if they tried to get me to watch it again i probably would not do so unless they agreed to pay me 50
0	apparently i am swimming against the tide of the glowing comments on this film i have not seen it since i was 4 or 5 years old but there is one thing i remember distinctly br br the was terrifying nightmare inducing terrifying with the creepy music and the little girl and kangaroo running hopping away for their lives br br as a kid i also remember the animated hobbit no worries watership down didn't blink an eye dot and the kangaroo it still haunts my dreams and i have several friends the same age who also think it was massively creepy maybe we can get a group rate on therapy br br in short one freaky film for its time
0	apparently this was an award winner apparently someone had a gun against his her head and was force to nominate maize the movie br br or this must have been a mistake br br this is the most unwatchable movie ever made the screening and the editing is the biggest horror of this movie two little girls get lost in a cornfield and get stalked by someone who can be heard laughing under his rubber mask the little girls run into their hero dad and then runs away from him w t f the hero dad in the movie keeps losing track of them in the few minutes of watching this br br the girls obviously weren't trained actors and had no common sense to them they were so annoying and so infantile in the movie it not even remotely comedic hearing them scream over and over again like a broken record was the reason why i got up and left you can't even listen to this movie without nearly going into convulsions br br i can puke a better award winner than this garbage
0	what can be said about this truly one of the most mind numbing experiences of my life your brain will attempt to shut down as part of a primal impulse of self preservation i was left shattered from the experience of watching this 'film' and i took a good two hours to fully recover this movie now joins revenge of the boogeyman and zombiez as part of the hellish trinity of horror films i certainly do not mean this distinction in a good way i mean this in a terrible way a terrible way br br this film has no redeeming features everything is appalling artless camera work endlessly presents us with the ugliest setting imaginable i e lots of corn lots of mud the story is beyond stupid the script there a script the villain is severely unscary and wears yellow wellington boots the kids are annoying the lead man is charisma free and it has the audacity to go on for 100 minutes utterly without merit on any level this is akin to torture normally such a statement would be an exaggeration meant for comical effect not in this case i'll even say it again – this is torture br br at the end i was in a state of paralysis this was brief thankfully but once i recovered i decided i had to watch the 'making of' featurette i had to understand maybe there would be a reasonable explanation for this atrocity was it all an elaborate joke i watched the first 2 minutes of the 'making of' featurette and discovered that the writer director was to put it mildly somewhat misguided i also discovered that because i had taken time out to watch the first two minutes of the 'making of' featurette of dark harvest 2 that i was an idiot not a pleasant voyage of self discovery life sucks br br highly unrecommended
0	the idea for the movie wasn't too bad a horror film shot in a corn maze on halloween the bad part was the shoddy camera work the ten million shots of puddles and corn and the hour and a half long walk this guy took in the maze oh i'm sorry the maize i picked up this movie because it reminded me of a corn maze near where i live and i thought it was a cool idea for a movie but taking everything into consideration it seems that your average joe could take the same idea and run much further with it bill acting wasn't too bad in fact i would say it was pretty good but the lack of talent from his co stars didn't help his efforts here's to hoping his next movie will be easier to swallow
0	this movie was really funny even though it wasn't meant to be the acting was stupid and so were the voices pretty much all it was was some guy walking around a corn maze for an hour and a half they threw in this stupid super natural thing that made it even dumber it wasn't even like a normal movie this weird creepy music was playing almost the whole way through the movie what is it with corn maze horror films children of the corn was really scary i thought and i thought this would be something like it but really it was just stupid the main character guy just walked around aimlessly yelling for these two little girls and then at the end he like kills someone or something it's worth seeing if you're with your friends because it's really funny how bad it is but if you're looking for a horror movie then don't waste your time
0	this movie was horrendous it had absolutely nothing to do with dark harvest and the dvd was very misleading because it showed a scarecrow and a scythe neither of which appeared in this movie br br the beginning was a jumble of random scenes that most of which had nothing to do with the movie except that they sort of show that the man is psychic but not too well br br after the first 10 minutes of the movie there is an hour of just the man character looking for his daughters it gets vaguely interesting when the daughters meet two girls who died the year before but that's the extent of it br br and why might i ask was this movie rated r there were two drops of blood and 4 curse words and how on earth did it get into a video store this movie was poorly acted poorly filmed poorly written and overall horribly executed
0	my friend zac rented this movie free of charge since his mom works at a rental store i still feel ripped off since i won't ever be able to get those 100 minutes of my life back having watched the first dark harvest the night prior to this viewing i expected to at least see a crappy remake of the first film wrong br br there isn't a single scarecrow in the movie unless you count the one of the cover of the box nor are there any real death scenes the movie got its r rating from an 8 year old girl screaming god d n at her father br br there is no amount of tequila that could make this movie bearable believe me we tried
0	if you are looking for the feel good hit of the summer dark harvest 2 might just be your ticket the production values of this movie are extremely high looks as if it were filmed with a sony and edited using imovie especially the sound effects they sound straight off of a spooky halloween sounds cd the scarecrow from the cover although he doesn't appear in the movie and otherwise has no relevance is terrifyingly realistic from beginning to end you'll watch as a man aimlessly searches for his daughters through a pun intended maize at the climactic ending of the movie you'll see well you'll have to watch for yourself br br what i'm really trying to say here is don't come within 1000 yards of this movie i rented it because i thought it would be a campy sort of troll 2 funny but it's not i cried after i watched this movie because i realized i had spent money on it and i found the 4 i spent on renting it i actually fell asleep for 20 minutes and still knew what was going on
0	if you want to enjoy the money you would spend to rent this money go buy a bag of ice and watch it melt that's more entertaining than this movie br br bill shame on you br br or if you wanna see this movie plot go in a corn field bring two of the most annoying little girls you can find run around for a couple hours having the girls scream as loud as possible then send me the couple bucks you woulda spent br br i enjoyed the first dark harvest after watching the sequel i'm going to cry myself to sleep
0	the implausibility of the plot has been noted by several commentators particularly the immense amount of trouble fr mckenna would have had to have gone to and the sheer impossibility of some of the calculations he would have had to have made including that langdon was going to decipher each clue in minutes mckenna is branded a few seconds later he is giving orders and a few minutes later he is running literally around in charge of operations in real life he would be in shock and as usual in thrillers the assassin doesn't kill the heroes giving as his only lame explanation that they were not on the list of those to be killed as though every other innocent bystander he shot was i have always used independence day as the hallmark of a truly awful film us president jet plane and beats off aliens ha ha and this effort runs it close for such an implausible film angels and demons contains a remarkable number of predictable incidents who didn't laugh knowingly when the assassin went to get his reward in the volkswagen i felt like shouting you are going to be blown up who didn't know that the heroine was going to find a body in the lab who didn't spot the baddie technically also the film was awful the dialogue was more often indecipherable than clear while the races across rome to the next church were accompanied by deafening music moreover many scenes looked like mud the one redeeming feature was the shots of rome and what looked like the vatican an achievement because i am sure that the vatican officials would not have wanted this dross shot in and around st peter's and the interiors were convincing rome is a magic place and i enjoyed seeing it fleetingly
0	this has to be one of those times you come across a movie with a neat cover my first impression sweet full moon crows a scarecrow holding a scythe ok my impression i had watched scarecrow on tv a weeks ago perfect a nice slasher film to start the evening with wrong absolutely wrong i think 5 mins in i was gonna take it out but thought i wasted 3 on this so ill finish it wheres the scarecrow well im guessing its the legs of the fisher man wearing heavy duty rain boots you see that every so often i was watching this thinking ok when are those brats gonna run into this dude at one point i thought they died but no i mean their still alive i only chuckled at a few parts cause of how badly staged they were one was the zoom in part at the start the director actor writer says remember i had that feeling well i have it again and it was either a zoom in or zoom out to hell i'm checking back but i guess the scene was supposedly shocking i mean whats more shocking is his wife had the same shocked look ok she believed him im sorry but yeah i didn't know he was psychic until i read the movie box to make some sense out of what i witnessed not only that they used pictures to make you think this movie is at least clear br br the other thing that made me laugh a bit was the scream in the camera to make it scary ok filming a girl close up screaming into the camera for 5 mins right i laughed cause of how pathetic it was these kids cannot act like the rest of the people in the movie br br to top things off the scythe must have got lost or something cause seems the bad guy had just a stick not even an ax someone should axe the dam production film br br don't fall for the picture this movie is a piece of sh t i watched the trailer and guess what it has br br girls where are you talk to me and corn
0	the first dh wasn't that great but i really didn't expect it to be but this horrible movie was just beyond criticism i really try to look on the bright side and give movies like this a chance but i just could not find a real good thing about this one i appreciate what bill was trying to do but this movie was just soooooo boring the story of the movie really isn't that bad in fact it's somewhat original but the movie form is really as bad as a lot of people say in my opinion this one ranks right up there with the off season and dracula 3000 i know a lot of people really trash and put down movies like this but i really can't think of any other good things to say about it
0	after sitting through the trainwreck that was the first dark harvest movie i couldn't leave bad enough alone upon seeing that there was a sequel or rather what i believed to be a sequel i had to increase my pain level seeing that this had nothing to do with dark harvest that should have been a good thing we didn't get any killer scarecrows in this one instead we got a jackass walking around a cornfield screaming out little things like girls and can you hear me every so often plus we got two four if you include the two girls that the director wanted the same effect as the twins in the shining obnoxious little girls who couldn't act and the cherry on top of this mess would have to be the corn cop i should have known this movie was going to be terrible when the dog got an opening credit how i managed to stay awake through this movie i'll never know
0	this thing oh god this thing i can't even call it a movie a movie is something that does something goes somewhere has some semblance of a plot or something i don't know how i'm doing it i really don't first i say dark fields is the worst movie ever and i thought it was then pirates of ghost island proved me wrong and now third time in a row another film goes above and beyond the call of duty to prove me wrong br br sighs ok dark harvest ii the maize lord this is awful let me break it down for you man senses daughters are in danger through some magical psychic powers he got from his act ii popcorn apparently and races to find them in a corn field of course this is the cornfield in all of existence being the size of the cornfields from jeepers creepers children of the corn and signs combined the main character whose name is shy awesome name btw then runs through a corn field finds some ghost girls talks to them and runs through a corn field digs a while and runs through a corn field and the incredibly sad thing i'm really not leaving anything out that pretty much is the entire movie the only thing i may be leaving out is how he gets chased by two policemen who want to arrest him for i don't know pretending to be an actor i didn't care by this point he gets away and the police are by the killer offscreen holy crap there's a killer apparently yes there is as he's introduced nearly 4 5 into the movie but wait then he runs away for a while and there's you guessed it more running through the corn field and digging then there's the ending where he saves his daughters huzzah br br the biggest problem with this movie is it's boring it's incredibly inhumanly tremendously boring i can't explain how atrociously dull this thing is nothing happens the characters are as appealing as a root canal and it's just an hour and a half of nothing the only good thing that came out of this movie was that me and my friend may have found enlightenment due to the near nirvana state this movie put us into after the effects of the drugs in our brain had to kick into overdrive to keep us alive during the ensuing insanity i found hugging a wall much more enjoyable and my friend found a new passion for laughing hysterically while flopping all over the floor as if he having a seizure this is the sort of insanity this movie brings it's not just bad it's bad for your health the cover looks awesome with a picture of an awesome scarecrow killer that i would totally consider dressing up as for a horror con but this was the most misleading box ever don't let it fool you too do not watch this movie watch a better corn movie any movie about corn is better just don't let it get you don't a 0 out of 10
0	just above the box i am typing in now i was required to pick a number between 1 and 10 and rate this feature film unfortunately there is no option for a number less than zero and i have to put something if i had my choice i would just put nothing no number because there exist no digits that express the worthlessness of this movie br br if you do decide to watch this film even after reading all of these horrible reviews make sure there are no sharp or blunt objects in the area this will help prevent you from trying to kill yourself in the middle of the film br br i don't know how this film was released to the public it should be locked up and guarded 24 7 somewhere in fort knox i am angry that this film was even available for me to watch i feel cheated by humanity i had no idea humans could be this cruel stalin saddam and hitler got nothing on this douche bag br br do not be fooled by the movie's cover 1 there are no scarecrows no one knows why there is a legit looking scarecrow on the front 2 none of the characters on the back of case are even in the stinking movie 3 the tag line says something about new moon more victims there were no frigging victims no one even died we don't know if the dam cop died and i'm assuming the killer didn't die because it sounded like he was being hit over the head with a frigging ball bat br br do yourself a favor and stay away from this movie it wasted about 4 hours of my life that's right four it took an hour for me to watch it i fast forwarded thru the 4 minute zooming scenes that reveal nothing in the plot i stared at the television for about an hour after it was over contemplating my life and the direction it was heading after watching this crap and then i began to cry for the next two hours because i know someone out there will unfortunately see this movie and there is nothing i can do to stop it
0	this movie was horrendous it was sorta like accidentally watching a gay porn waiting for the girls but they just don't come i waited for almost 2 hours for the damn scarecrows they just don't come instead it's just some dumb ass wandering through a dead cornfield with a camera it's a mix of blaire witch and some bad episode of the twilight zone and the best part is that as of october 23 2005 they started filming a sequel please don't be fooled by the box even though it looks exactly the same as the first dark harvest it's not lions gate bought the rights to the maize the movie and had the brilliant idea to release it as the sequel to the original dark harvest which i thought was funny the only thing they had in common was they were both shot in a cornfield this movie not scare the crop out of you like the first one so just stay away
0	my friends and i have often joked about movies being in real time but this movie really is they will literally show 4 minutes strait of nothing but a guy digging in the dirt with his hands it has no plot and an incredible amount of gratuitous screaming i honestly don't believe that it won an award for it's alleged suspense if you are like me and saw the first film and loved it for it's horrible acting accidentally hilarious one liners and all around low budget ness it won't matter this is so bad it's bad memories might even rub off and taint any good memories you have of the original you would be more entertained if you were staring at a blank screen
0	well me sideways i haven't seen a home movie this bad since the abysmal 13 seconds or half caste someone should take away this guy's sony handycam this movie proves that just because you can make a movie on your camcorder for 20 doesn't necessarily mean you should br br i remember that one of the things that robert rodriguez wrote in his book rebel without a crew was that when you set out to make a no budget feature you have to use whatever assets you have at your disposal rodriguez says that you should take an inventory of all the locations and props that you can beg steal and borrow from your friends robert rodriquez was friends with the mayor of some town in mexico so the mayor let him shoot all over for free what you got in el mariachi was a movie that looked like it cost much more than the actual budget br br i'm sure that the director of this movie has a copy of that book and he took that advice to heart in this case he was apparently friends with a guy who owned a cornfield where they put on a haunted house every year seems like a pretty good location for a scary movie but it's hard to keep a cornfield interesting for 90 minutes not a single installment of the children of the corn series spent more than a few minutes in the cornfield hitchcock only spent about ten minutes in one in north by northwest take a hint fella cornfields don't make for riveting cinema it would have been good if the director would have had more friends with more locations because this thing gets pretty tedious after the first 15 minutes this movie looks like it cost about 30 or whatever it cost in admission to the cornfield maze br br apparently he couldn't even find anyone to act in his movie so he cast himself big mistake here's a thought if you really want to make a movie get an actor so as far as assets go it seems like the cornfield maze is the only thing the poor guy had maybe he thought that was enough in fact i'm going to go out on a limb and say that i know he thought that was enough because the movie before it captured the coveted honor of being the sequel to dark harvest was called simply the maize the movie maybe this he's already planning the maize the musical or even the maize the mini series br br our jack of all trades and yes the master of nothing part of that saying is definitely appropriate here plays a psychic dad who can tell when bad things are going to happen think of the character from the dead zone but not anywhere near as good an actor as christopher walken or even anthony michael hall psychic dad has a premonition that his two daughters who are at the corn maze with mom are going to be killed he rushes to save them from that point on the whole movie is spent watching dad run around in a cornfield looking for his two daughters he finds the two little girl ghosts from the shining and he helps solve the mystery of their murder br br shot on a 200 handycam the director cast himself edited on imovie improvised story if that's not enough to keep you away from this a maize corny catastrophe consider this as a final warning the whole movie takes place in a cornfield boils and ghouls here's ghoulie guru's tip on how to save some money and still feel like you've seen this movie next time you see a cornfield stop the car take a flashlight and go run around in there for like 90 minutes
0	my spoiler is in my pants because thinking about this movie made me so angry i crapped myself br br once you finish watching it you stare at the tv set in confusion and horror then there's a soft tap on your shoulder and a voice hisses you will die in seven days you turn around and one of your best friends is standing there with a look of absolute hatred for the one that suggested this movie when you were in blockbuster br br i won't lie this is the worst movie on the face of the earth i saw it with 5 of my friends all 18 year old guys and these were our reactions one person actually began crying and punching himself one person screamed and passed out one person stood up and staggered out the front door to reappear more than an hour later one person simply blacked out this one was me one person started babbling incoherently as if he had both cerebral palsy and syndrome one person went into a sort of catatonic trance and did not respond to our voices for more than twenty minutes br br the movie really is that bad there's one part where the retarded cameraman actually trips while holding the camera but the producers decided to leave it in seriously you can hear him grunt and swear when he hits the ground there's only one special effect and it's special in the same way that a retarded kid trying to solve a cube is special the camera rotates so that the on screen action action n some dumbass lost in a corn field for 80 freaking minutes does a barrel roll br br under no circumstances should it be watched and the movie itself even warns you of this fact do you know what the tagline on the back is some warnings should not be ignored i honestly think that the release of this movie to the public is a sick practical joke on the producers' part that's not to say however that you should pass it by if you see it at the movie store it would then sit on the shelf for some other poor sucker to see rather buy every copy of it you can get your hands on and mail them to people that you hate
0	this is by far the worst ever 'horror' movie no make that any movie i have ever watched shame on block buster for even carrying this type of crap i never ask for a refund on any movie but i think this will be a first br br the movie is so bad that i had to stop after just 15 minutes of watching it br br i had more fun watching any of the fuzzy youtube movies than watching this piece of dropping br br the marketing dude for this movie must have some type of silver tongue to move this thing into an establishment as blockbuster
0	why did they not follow the book i am really sad and disappointed i was so looking forward to seeing this movie however if you have read the book maybe recently it might be very difficult to remain objective my wife had not read the book and she loved the movie br br reasons for the disappointment are 1 involvement gone with the wind such a shame there is a very small part at the start where the antimatter is created but even that does not stick to the facts why not the fact that father was burned with the first brand which is how langdon got involved would have been a perfect start to the movie 2 story line between the deceased pope and completely gone this completely screws up the motive for the stealing of the antimatter 3 story line between langdon and completely non existent br br all in all too flaky storyline and cannot understand that dan brown allowed them to put his name against it maybe i should revisit this film in 10 years time when i cannot remember the excellent book anymore fat chance on forgetting the book i am afraid br br really sorry for the negative review which was spoilt by expectations
0	this movie was so bad i don't know where to begin apparently neither did the filmmakers it starts off with a guy in his mid thirties to late forties watching tv the news tells of a corn maze that's open for halloween he has a vision of god knows what and rushes off the save his kids who are walking into a cornfield maze and are somehow linked to this vision how you ask i don't know and as i said before neither do the filmmakers they're simply visions of people's feet how did he get these visions it's never explained we're just supposed to go along with it he enters the maze to find his two daughters who are lost inside and twice the girls he's looking for walk right past him one time they actually run into him what does he do does he chase after them no he stands there like an idiot calling for them when they just ran past do the girls stop no they run off then ask was that dad then someone dressed as demon jumps on the star the dad character he beats him up in a pathetic fight only to find out he's a worker at the haunted maze the police are called and after finding the star which is a really bad term to use they cuff him they cuff his hands in front of him so that he can find something to pick the lock with which he does first off anybody who's ever been arrested knows that cops cuff your hands behind your back and secondly why does this average guy seem to know how to pick the lock on handcuffs well he eventually gets away from the cops who give up and leave after a the star's wife sets off the siren in the police car as a distraction by the way it's now night time and all the workers running the maze have seem to have left once the sun went down leaving a man who attacked one of their workers and two missing children in the maze considering it was a slow night that these are their only customers why not besides the cops apparently have better things to do as well by the way the star who goes by the name of walker we figure out it's his last name a name in which his wife even calls him by somehow he knows there is something buried in the middle of this cornfield maze and starts digging i say because i couldn't figure out why he started digging in the first place he finds a what does it mean nothing to anyone who watches this but to him it's some sort of clue to a crime somebody killed their kids in his vision and i guess that's what he's going on real detective work and by now he knows there's a killer loose in the corn maze one he somehow knew was there from the start of the film which is why he's looking for his girls every time we see the killer or rather the killer's feet we hear a weird robotic sound like a sci fi reject toy that changes a persons voice to sound mechanical why do we hear this sound is it in anyway related to anything again who knows certainly not the filmmakers the peak of all the bad acting and bad dialog was when walker yells out hey you mr bad man i'm gonna get you another time his wife is attacked by the bad man at the entrance to the corn maze which like i mentioned before is oddly empty of any employees or policemen the bad man calls walker on his cell phone to tell him that he plans on killing his wife and kids and him as well walker can only reply with hey hey before dropping his phone and running off with no one on the other end to talk to the killer drops his phone too he drags the wife a few feet then leaves her alone for the rest of the film losing the first opportunity to hold true to his treats if this script wasn't written by a child i'd be surprised opps it wasn't it was written directed and produced by the same guy and not only that he also did so much of the crappy camera work as well where we get random shots of feet walking through the muddy maze and meaningless shots of the cornfield that waste 90 of the film time in the end walker uses the cuffs to cuff the bad man who also seems to know how to pick locks with the same metal object that walker had picked it with apparently there are lots of small metal objects just laying around this cornfield but after the killer insists he's still going to kill the kids walker kills the bad man and everything is right with the world again now in reality this makes walker a murderer he's killed a man who supposedly murdered his own daughters and was trying to kill his he knows this not because of proof but because of his visions he never found a body nobody else knows this guy was even in the maze and the he gives it back to the ghosts of the two dead girls no proof so he kills a man without any tangible reason i can't imagine what the filmmakers were thinking with this one it must have been a way to cover up a of funds for the production company i would rather watch the blair witch project five times than see this film again the actors should be ashamed the director producer writer cameraman should also be ashamed in fact the entire production company should be ashamed if there is anyone associated with this film please reply what were you thinking
0	only adding to the chorus of people who deemed this to be i will state the following without repeating the obvious flaws plainly stated by some of the other commentators the film is shot on video what type of camera i don't know but the cameraman had it on autofocus all the time so that any slight movement makes it go in and out of focus in many of the scenes the actors themselves go out of focus for their scenes this alone screams amateur br br i also noticed that out in the 'middle of the you can hear the sound of the gasoline generator that is powering the lights loudly br br also what is with that single lighting source that follows and many times 'leads' the actors when they walk around it looks like a newscaster with that 'on camera light' that follows the people around like a spotlight there was no 'credit' for lighting design dp and i know why the saw no need to have someone who actually knew what they were doing lighting this picture note i didn't say film so be prepared for a single glaring spotlight as the sole source of for most of the movie br br this is probably the most technically inept production i've ever seen commercially released i bought this title because i like bad cinema usually it's so bad that you can laugh at it this is just so bad that it's unwatchable plan nine from outer space is citizen kane in comparison to this title
0	this is the worst movie i have ever seen as well as the worst that i will probably ever see i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously just be forewarned br br this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it its just plain bad bad bad bad bad br br this movie is the equivalent to having a pet rock as your friend you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen unfortunately it never does at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into lion's gate completely deceives on this bombshell no this is a disaster after watching this film you would swear george w bush had his hands all over the making of this film yes its that idiotic br br stay away unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time its probably how lion's gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe
0	anyone can make a movie these days budget production value or experienced crew don't have to stop the self described director from realizing their dream these days br br respect for the craft of film making or even just respect for any film aesthetic are no longer prerequisites for actually executing a film br br director bill must have thought he struck gold when lion's gate decided to market his original film as a sequel to a film he had nothing to do with br br i personally find lion's gate far far more in error than in regard to dark harvest 2 being made available to the public lion's deceptive marketing of this film should be investigated by the state attorney general's office and lion's officers should be in sulfuric acid and kerosene for their utter disregard for film film making and good sense br br as for the film itself it's not even worth commenting on
0	completely agree with other review br br i watched this movie for about 5 minutes i looked up the one review on another site and found that it wasn't even a real sequel this was after i slowly backed away from the tv with remote in hand jaw dropping lower and lower br br the quality of the filming is beyond low budget it doesn't even look like a freaking movie if i were watching 'home video' footage from a documentary i would expect it br br in summary avoid avoid avoid boooo lion's gate br br completely ashamed of myself for watching 5 minutes and i hope that i've saved others from renting or owning it
0	besides the comments on the technical merits of the production or lack thereof the acting is absolutely horrible what is really scary about this movie is that i actually own a copy of it of course it was in a bargain bin and had been renamed as dark harvest 2 and after having seen it i can understand why it was in the bargain bin they should have paid me for taking it out of their inventory br br the majority of the movie if you want to call it that is spent by a frantic father running around a corn field maze looking for his daughters because he has a premonition that something is going to happen to them i suspect that the camera that the girls were playing with at the beginning of the film was probably one of the production cameras for this fiasco in the maze he runs into the ghost of some children which are poorly done and the movie goes horribly south from there br br i can see why they renamed this movie otherwise they would never have gotten rid of them absolutely one of the worst movies i have ever had to sit through and it wasn't worth the 2 i spent on it
0	a guy with the unlikely name of shy walker looks for his two daughters in a cornfield for an hour and a half that's the entire plot with across the board bad acting of course walker wanders around a corn maze maize i get it hahaha not funny and yells girls where are you about 1000 times for some reason whenever he runs by a pumpkin a chipmunk sounding voice laughs as if the pumpkin is laughing at him yeah ok his daughters scream for most of the movie even when there is no reason to scream maybe because they are still stuck in this awful movie twin girls straight out of 'the shining' show up every now and then most of the corn maze looks the same so walker's search gets very old very quickly the filmmakers realize there is nothing going for this movie even the music is repetitive so they try to make things interesting by spinning the camera around really fast filming upside down inserting smaller pictures of the same shot at different angles using red lights to make the corn look scary and rotating the camera 360 degrees at least i'm assuming these were done intentionally but it's likely just examples of incompetent film making more often than not when walker is wandering through the maze you can't see his face i guess the kid holding the camera can't look up that high this movie gives you a new appreciation for the original 'dark harvest' which doesn't have anything to do with this movie except for the fact it also features a cornfield don't be fooled by the r rating walker says the f word three times and now we have an r rated horror movie ugh the scarecrow on the cover doesn't even show up in this movie and when you are wishing that those cheesy scarecrows from the first movie would come back you know things are bad instead we get a guy in yellow boots chasing our hero around unfortunately he is dressed similar to mr walker so i didn't even realize he was being followed for a while i figured out the identity of the guy in the yellow boots long before walker did the movie is almost over by the time he puts 2 and 2 together natch the end of the movie drags on and on and just in case it isn't slow enough there's some slow motion the last sound you hear besides your own laughter is very poor sound dubbing in case you can't tell this is the worst movie i've ever seen at least they didn't end with the promise of another sequel
0	this is absolutely the most stupidest movie ever produced in front of a camera i cant believe i was enough to rent this piece of junk i have seen some bad movies in my time but this takes the cake ice cream and chips too omg i still cant get over how bad this thing was the acting was a joke the plot was non and the camera work had to be done by a 3 year old child i have never seen a movie take so long to go nowhere i mean the whole movie could have been shot is less than 30 minutes i guess this guy had some extra time on his hands like 3 hours and an extra 60 bucks in his wallet and decided one night hey lets go make the stupidest movie ever made and they did just that give me a break i'm heading back to the video store right now to get demand my money back anyone else who has watched this piece of trash should do the same
0	i rented dark harvest the first one because it looked like a cheesy monster on the box type of thrill ride scarecrows also freak me out the movie had an effective title sequence but what followed was pretty lame flat bad lighting acting editing direction recently i noticed that dh 2 the maize had a pretty extensive ad campaign i thought maybe the first one was marginally successful so they upped the ante on this one a bit possibly delivering some bigger budget scares and fx from the killer scarecrows well there are no scarecrows in the video not a problem the problems start in dh 2 with a title sequence that looks like an unfinished concept with strange shapes and bars wiping away titles and whatnot as far as the actual photography every time the sun shines in a shot you'd have all these blown out whites confirming that you're watching some ultra low budget mini dv project that some filmed at his uncles farm the acting was not acting at all the cheap rip off of the shining twin girls was below freshman film student standards the editing was extremely amateur and lazy the sound was jarring and choppy e g every time the editor would cut to a new shot you'd here the sound change perspective with it it's as if someone gathered their friends and family actors took a video camera out in a cornfield for three days put a light on top of it for the night sequences no joke that's what they actually did burned through some tape stuck the footage in their computer cut a very rough version tossed in some music bypassed any imaginative sound work or mixing burned it directly to dvd and threw it on the video store shelf any horror fan should be insulted by this type of direct to video work that is void of any skill or style just because a person owns a video camera and is able to get somewhat of an image on tape doesn't mean it should be released to the public if i could give this a rating lower than a one i would
0	no just no that's all that needs to be said br br summary a random guy is in a cornfield for some reason i'm not sure but it's his duty to run around inside the next great thriller br br a five year old could make a better movie just filming an or even just grass growing seriously br br you can't say it has bad acting because there is no acting you can't say it has bad writing because it has no writing you can't say it has bad cinematography because there is no cinematography you can't say it's a bad movie because there is no movie if you don't believe me go watch it just don't say i never warned you
0	i went to see this movie tonight trying to keep an open mind i had hoped to enjoy a movie that i expected to be different from the book there were considerable differences from the book much like the changes made in the code i went to see the code with the same thought process and managed to enjoy the film in spite of the changes from the book it was still enjoyable filled with action and the process of deciphering the symbols was interesting and mentally stimulating unfortunately angels and demons disappointed on almost every level throughout the movie symbols are found and figured out quickly without any interest for the viewer they blow past the various symbols so quickly that we had no chance to get a look at them and appreciate how they work the final symbol which was the most interesting and creative one in the book was replaced with the crossed keys symbol in my opinion that was a missed opportunity to focus on and spend a little more time on the symbols which is what the langdon character is all about overall this movie is a very poor interpretation of the book and fails at the attempt to be an action movie thriller 4 out of 10
0	the film opens with a cult leader attempting to resurrect a dead member with his followers chanting for his rebirth as the sun strikes upon them in the desert bill roy believes wholeheartedly in his power and gets so worked up that he collapses with what appeared to be a heart attack unable to keep him alive all those involved doctors and nurses are sentenced for attack with demonic spirit invading the curvaceous body of nurse sherri big chested jill jacobson targeting each one using her as a tool of vengeance forced against her will with no memory of inflicting such harm host body murders selected victims fortunately fellow co worker nurse tara marilyn begins a rather blossoming romance with a blinded patient marcus washington prentiss once a star football player whose mother was a practitioner of voodoo through marcus' knowledge passed down from mom tara finds out about possession and how to possibly save sherri before she murders everyone unknowingly meanwhile lover dr peter desmond geoffrey land worries about her present condition and welfare br br well this was my first al adamson film and i must agree with his detractors that just from this film alone it seems he holds them together with paper clips and elmer's glue the animation with which we see the spirit take control of sherri is beyond awful and rather laughable a little soft core nonsense as filler some demonic possession thrown in the mix sherri actually speaks in another voice when she's possessed with naughty nurse behavior the three nurses focused on in the film all are quite sexually active and free spirited and a little bit violence gore the film is essentially shot in tiny rooms with dull dialogue from a rather mundane cast the sexual situations aren't that hard core and al often shoots them without revealing all that much the film looks embarrassingly cheap and there's an absence of thrills although the chilling score which sounds like something from dark shadows does help a little bit jacobson and mary kay pass as nurse beth who seems to be a nymphomaniac if she'll even screw a nutty patient always complaining of illnesses he really doesn't have with enough chest hair to declare him a neanderthal aren't bad looking and adamson's story line although frail is somewhat coherent it seems he rarely directs films which are overall the movie looks like it cost 5 bucks and adamson just can not overcome the budgetary restrictions or in my opinion create an unpleasant enough atmosphere due to a sometimes plodding narrative and tedious scenes which do little for the story john f goff has the role of the hospital's psychiatrist who wants to commit sherri not believing the idea that she was possessed he constantly bickers with peter over her i watched the unrated lost version which i guess is the real version to watch of nurse sherri
0	i couldn't even i mean look okay br br wow br br not even a bunch of my drunk friends trying to make fun of the movie could enjoy themselves in the least bit br br i can only think how how do independent film makers everywhere go years without getting noticed or even their lives and con artists like the guy who made this get a dvd on a shelf it seriously looks as if some guy with a home movie camera went out with some guys he met at subway and made the worst thing he could think of br br hey guys give me some ideas start with a corn field and work backwards well you've gotta have actors straight out of high school and some broken corn stalks with shreds of clothing attached and boobs thanks guy i'm sure that you and windows movie maker will be side by side on your next anxiously awaited project
0	this is definitely one of the best kung fu movies in the history of cinema the screenplay is really well done which is not often the case for this type of movies and you can see that chuck in one of his first role is a great actor the final fight with the sherif deputy in the is a masterpiece
0	this is a very very boring and uninteresting action film and without chuck norris it would have been unbearable plus the low budget shows big time some of the fights were good but the story is laughable and there no menacing villains at all the dialog was laughable i had some trouble finishing this film but chuck norris made it somewhat bearable i really have nothing more to say since i was only paying half attention because it was so incredibly boring however it did pick up a tiny bit towards the end the direction is terrible don does a terrible job here with lousy photography an awful pace and overall the film looked dull there is no gore the acting was terrible chuck norris is very good here he kicks that ass and he made the film almost bearable chuck rules george murdock is terrible as the main villain and very unconvincing terry o'connor is decent here and had okay chemistry with chuck michael is decent as chuck's brother overall it's quite simple avoid out of 5 chuck saves it from the bomb rating
0	i bought this chuck norris dvd knowing that it was one of his earliest films and it shows we all know that he will never win an oscar for his acting but that's not what we watch him for although there have been a few earthquakes in california since this movie was made there never was any desert or hills between hwy 99 and i 5 billy was supposedly crossing over from 99 to 5 along 120 a distance of less that 15 miles i wish that the writers producers and directors of these movies would at least look at a map as a truck driver who spends a lot of time in california i could tell right from the start that the geography was wrong however there are worse ways to spend an hour and a half so grab your doritos and an adult beverage and enjoy a trip back in time
0	i work in an office on weekends and there is a tv that only gets one channel so i don't have the option of turning to something better i keep it on though because it provides a little background noise sometimes i get a decent movie show not today today i got breaker breaker the city looks like a third rate set which of course it is all the actors and bad guys look like they just graduated from stuntman school i have seen better dramatic enactments at a carnival the special effects flames at end of movie are more fake then michael jacksons masculinity even the horse at the end of the movie was a terrible actor a badly acted badly shot badly written movie
0	ever want to see a movie where chuck norris takes the bad guys aside and calmly discusses with them the errors of their ways until they see the light and with tears in their eyes they shake hands right the wrongs of the world together in peace and harmony and forever end the reign of evil in the world br br well forget it br br breaker breaker instead goes right for the drop kick as our truck drivin' man chuck steers his big rig into the small backwoods town where his little brother is being held by a corrupt judge and his even more corrupt law men br br chuck karate kicks chops slices and cuts every baddie in sight until not an evil doer dares raise his head a lot of fights are in slow motion for excitement purposes but just help pad out the movie to fill 86 minutes br br and there's a lot of fights here which leave just about 15 minutes for plot development and that's about all the plot you get but what did you expect calm discussion br br one star for breaker breaker and that's a small 10 4 good buddy
0	ok with this film there are a number of ingredients at work br br first put in loads of hillbilly truckers good ole boys who have secret desire to take law into own hands second put in evil hillbilly cops controlled by a texas bred outlaw third put in karate fighting trucker played by chuck norris fourth put in a chump teenager as norris's nephew captured by evil hillbilly cops fifth show chuck norris fighting in slow motion br br now mix all together and what have you got br br you guessed it one very mediocre movie
0	i caught this movie a few years ago one night and it was one of the funniest movies i have ever seen however since it is supposed to be an action movie i cannot give it more stars since the humor was unintentional br br chuck norris plays a truck driver who comes home from the road to see his family and within the first five minutes the conflict arises which leads chuck to seek vengeance for the rest of the film good thing too the sub par acting by everyone involved was starting to get old very fast actually the judge was pretty good but i can't really describe what makes him work you'll have to check it out for yourself br br and the custom van chuck norris drives is hideously classic
0	in terms of quality movies this isn't one of them it's actually the first chuck norris movie i've seen and i was left pretty underwhelmed the fight scenes are slow and don't have a lot of variety norris just uses a lot of roundhouse kicks on all the bad guys coming after him which makes the fights pretty boring the movie also is quite short but for some reason the movie doesn't even seem finished when it ends it's a pretty anti climatic ending all the same though i've watched a lot of bad movies and this isn't one of the worst that i've seen it's worth a watch i'm guessing especially for norris fans there's also nothing like seeing a group of rigs hurtling down the desert which in my opinion was the highlight of the movie
0	saw this used dvd cheap and got it for a chuckle i had recently also found the octagon on dvd and bought that one to reminisce having seen it in the theatre as a pre teen and loving it at the time the problem now with going back to these american karate films is that i've since then seen so many hong kong and thai action films in which the fight scenes are long fast and jaw dropping i'm thinking particularly of fights like jackie and benny the jet at the end of dragons forever or tony circular stairwell fight from the protector the hollywood kung fu offerings are just not filmed right and even make someone of certified skill such as chuck look awkward at times and what's worse than a fight going into slow motion then you know it looked crappy at normal speed so they slowed it down for effect it really highlights how ridiculous an opponent looks as they stand and just wait to get kicked in the chest br br poor chuck he just has no intensity in this film nor does he project any righteous menace compare that to his former co star bruce lee who had charm and attitude to burn when bruce would square off against some opponent s you could nearly see the air around him crackling with what was about to happen in breaker breaker chuck seemed to accidentally be kicking people with complete nonchalance when the judge comes to see him in jail and sentence him to death chuck is staring off with a sad look and i thought ok he's doing that eye' focus thing and is going to grab the judge by the throat and get out of this but he does nothing except look up with a doe eyed stare terrible and while the dvd case gives you hope listing a run time of 1 hour 5 minutes it's actually 1 hour 25 minutes so there's 20 more minutes of viewing pain br br for great fight action go watch jackie chan in the first police story the fight in the shopping mall at the end is pure gold
0	personally the book was a very well written amazing thrilling piece that was not brought to justice to the movie watching the movie at 12 01 in the morning to see that major parts of the book were left out frustrated me seeing that it affected the different outcome of the movie there was something to be desired out of this movie but all in all it lacked in plot br br for someone who has not read the book i could see how this movie would be seen as inviting and entertaining with its controversy and suspense however to a dedicated reader who has read it seven times i did not see the strong connection between the two both the movie and the novel br br with major characters missing such as maximilian kohler and the abrupt turn in plot with the survival of the last cardinal in the the plot of the movie was slightly strewn thus leading to a different take in the conclusion of the story the too was portrayed as a common white man compared to that of in the novel where he was portrayed as a muslim his motives in the book are predominately based his ties with the however in the movie his motives are based on money and seemed more like work than some personal tie to the task at hand
0	save some very early norris breaker breaker has nothing to offer which can't be found ten fold better on any broadcast channel a pathetic attempt at film making this is one of the worst films i have ever seen in spite of that i did watch it thumbing the fast forward button because the acting was so awful it was comical of course the film is supposed to be an action drama but turned out as a treatise on how not to make a movie everything which could be wrong with film is on screen in this dog if you happen across it give it a peek it's so bad it's funny
0	i've always been a fan of chuck norris for what he's accomplished and his movies for while i had been meaning to watch this film but for whatever reason didn't have chance apparently i didn't miss much this has to be one of chuck's worst films so this trucker billy is given the chance to make his delivery but on the way he is and forced into a town where a foolish local corrupt judge trimmings murdock who runs the whole town has him arrested and phony charges brought up on him he denies the charges and makes a run for it the local hick cops beat him and he disappears but now his brother jd john norris another trucker goes looking for him he soon finds that the town is run buy the loser judge and that his brother is nowhere to be found not long after he begins to beat off just about everyone in town in the meantime the female of the film calls on local truckers on a cb radio and they all come rushing into town demolishing it lol with there big rigs eventually norris finds his brother and beats off more thugs br br this movie was pretty bad it actually starts off ok and you feel great when norris starts to smash some of these local corrupt cops because there such losers but there is virtually no story the acting is bad and the ending … well it doesn't really have one the judge has his house rammed into by a big rig and you never know what happens does he live norris never even gets to trash him in the meantime norris takes on some thug cop at the end who cares norris also manages to take on everyone in town gets his hand broken and shot in the side and goes on to keep fighting come on this movie was apparently made to cash in on the cb craze of the time why there was one is beyond me they barley even use the in the movie adding to this the movie near the end seems to drag on and you wonder why it's not over yet this movie is bad but if you're bored and need something to watch it will pass the time as far as norris he went on to make much better films than this 3 out of 10
0	breaker breaker has chuck norris as a truck driver and a karate master talk about juggling two disparate careers he gives a load he can't deliver to his younger brother michael and then when the young man doesn't show up chuck goes looking for him br br what young has got himself into is a speed trap run by judge george murdock who comes from the roy bean school of jurisprudence of course norris deals with matters in the usual chuck norris way and when he gets in trouble the call goes out over the cb for all the truckers to come and help their good buddy this speed trap known as texas city has a bad reputation and the drivers are only too happy to help a pal br br chuck's of course quite a bit younger and with no facial hair in this one he's got the tight lipped look of a man who realizes the academy won't be looking at this gobbler george murdock is overacting outrageously as the judge roy bean wannabe br br this one is strictly for the fans of chuck norris
0	br br summary not worth the film br br as an avid gone with the wind fan i was disappointed to watch the original movie and see that they had left out many important characters luckily the film on its own was a wonderful piece when the book scarlett came out i read it in hopes of following two of my favorite literary characters farther on their journey together while the book lacks any true quality it remains a good story and as long as i was able to separate it from the original was and still is enjoyable however i consider the six hours i spent watching the scarlett miniseries to be some of the worst spent hours of my life any of the original character traits so well formed in margaret mitchell's book this series also turned the story of the sequel into one of rape mistrust murder and relationships that even the book scarlett stayed away from the casting for many of the characters refused to examine the traits that had been so well formed in both the original novel and film and even carried through in the second book and again leaves out at least one incredibly crucial character in the novel scarlett o'hara butler follows her estranged husband rhett butler to charleston under the guise of visiting extended family after coming to an arrangement with rhett she agrees to leave and proceeds to reconnect with her o'hara relatives in savannah eventually she accompanies her cousin a passionate leader of the brotherhood to ireland to further explore her family's roots that go deep and is eventually named the o'hara the head of the family while her duties as the o'hara keep her engaged in her town of scarlett ventures out into the world of the english landowners and instantly becomes a sought after guest at many of their parties she having been scorned by rhett time and time again eventually agrees to marry luke the earl of fenton until rhett comes along in a clichéd night on white horse type of a rescue the scarlett miniseries fails even to do this justice raped by her fiancé and scorned by her family the series shows scarlett thrown in jail after she is blamed for a murder her cousin committed br br i heartily advise anyone considering spending their day watching this to rethink this decision br br
0	this movie was nothing like the book i think the writer of the screenplay must have wanted the job of writing the sequel to gone with the wind and been turned down this was his or her way of getting their ideas in anyway the only similarity between this movie and the story it was portraying was the names of the principle characters and the location of the main action none of the events that are shown in the movie happened that way in the book for a gone with the wind fan of both the book and the movie this was deeply disappointing if you loved the book scarlett don't watch this movie hoping to see it played out on the screen they only share the title in common
0	margaret mitchell spins in her grave every time somebody watches this mess fine costuming and sets can't even begin to overwhelm lackluster performances by joanne whalley as the title character and the ever bland timothy dalton as rhett even worse than the acting and perhaps partially explaining it is the script which is astoundingly cliched and predictable add to that hellishly bad script a score that'll have you cringing and you've got a disaster i wouldn't wish on any viewer scarlett is just amazingly lousy and i can't imagine how it ever got made much less made it to video
0	alexandra ripley wrote a horrible sequel to margaret mitchell's masterpiece book published in the 1930's margaret mitchell's heirs sold out their rights and for big bucks allowed alexandra ripley to write a piece of junk book even worse than barbara cortland romance novels i was a huge fan of margaret book and the fake sequel by alexandra ripley was written just to cash in for money br br although i always admired the acting talent of joanne kilmer and timothy dalton this is a really terrible film the script is horrible and full of clichés ann cameo as belle watling is so awful i wanted to slap her br br the only worthwhile thing in the movie is sean bean who gives a masterful bravura performance as the sexy feral villain lord fenton sean bean's performance is along the lines of the man you love to hate and portrays an unsafe sex symbol br br but sean bean is only in the first half of the movie so you then have to be tormented with watching an incredibly long 6 hour movie with an insufferably boring script br br don't waste your money on this film unless you are a hard core sean bean fan and just watch it for his wonderful performance
0	i am insulted and angry over the idea that a sequel to with the wind' should ever have been undertaken having expressed that i have no problem with the quality of the acting or the actors in this film the performers are talented people whose talents were wasted on this piece of garbage the hype surrounding this book and film just happens to be an exercise in futility i think it will go down as one of the misguided films of hollywood i don't believe that the beloved characters created by margaret mitchell should have been soiled by the ideas and interpretations of another writer the film and the book should be on the list of worst ideas conceived in the world of publishing and film making the sad thing is that people actually made money off of this tripe
0	but not this one i always wanted to know what happened next we will never know for sure what happened because gwtw was margaret's baby i am a lifelong fan of gone with the wind and i could not have been more repulsed by the movie i did compare scarlett to the original gwtw because any film worth following gwtw needed to be on the same quality level as the first rhett was cast beautifully although no one will ever compare to mr gable i am also a strict vivien leigh fan she was scarlett she fit the bill not another actress in this lifetime or another will ever fit the same shoes but with scarlett the job could have been done better not enough thought went into finding the proper scarlett that was evident br br overall something to look to but if you want to know the what happened to scarlett and rhett i suggest writing it yourself or finding fan fiction this movie is not worth the time
0	as an avid gone with the wind fan i was disappointed to watch the original movie and see that they had left out many important characters luckily the film on its own was a wonderful piece when the book scarlett came out i read it in hopes of following two of my favorite literary characters farther on their journey together while the book lacks any true quality it remains a good story and as long as i was able to separate it from the original was and still is enjoyable however i consider the six hours i spent watching the scarlett miniseries to be some of the worst spent hours of my life any of the original character traits so well formed in margaret mitchell's book this series also turned the story of the sequel into one of rape mistrust murder and relationships that even the book scarlett stayed away from the casting for many of the characters refused to examine the traits that had been so well formed in both the original novel and film and even carried through in the second book and again leaves out at least one incredibly crucial character in the novel scarlett o'hara butler follows her estranged husband rhett butler to charleston under the guise of visiting extended family after coming to an arrangement with rhett she agrees to leave and proceeds to reconnect with her o'hara relatives in savannah eventually she accompanies her cousin a passionate leader of the brotherhood to ireland to further explore her family's roots that go deep and is eventually named the o'hara the head of the family while her duties as the o'hara keep her engaged in her town of scarlett ventures out into the world of the english landowners and instantly becomes a sought after guest at many of their parties she having been scorned by rhett time and time again eventually agrees to marry luke the earl of fenton until rhett comes along in a clichéd night on white horse type of a rescue the scarlett miniseries fails even to do this justice raped by her fiancé and scorned by her family the series shows scarlett thrown in jail after she is blamed for a murder her cousin committed br br i heartily advise anyone considering spending their day watching this to rethink this decision
0	it is difficult to imagine how the engaging dan brown novel angels and demons could misfire as badly as this film version here are ten reasons why the film was a failure due to the spoilers please do no read on unless you have already seen the film br br 1 in the film there was no love relationship between robert langdon and worse still there was not even any chemistry between the two leading actors br br 2 the breathtaking locations in rome as described in the novel were not realized visually in the film i am aware that director ron howard encountered difficulties in filming on location but there are superior photographed depictions of rome on the history channel than in this film where the eternal city was presented in eternal stock film footage the great art works described in the novel were only briefly depicted in the film the magnificent sculpture of the ecstasy of st teresa was only momentarily glimpsed and the west relief in vatican square was not visible at all br br 3 the most tasteless choice made by the film maker was in the depiction of the deceased pope who actually resembled the beloved john paul ii in the novel the pope is clearly fictional with no resemblance to any real pope br br 4 one of the most colorful and important characters of the novel maximilian kohler director of was cut out of the screenplay br br 5 there were numerous instances when the lines of dialog were inaudible due to extraneous background noise br br 6 there were moments when the faces of characters were not visible due to the shadows and chiaroscuro film lighting this technique worked in the godfather films but ron howard is no gordon willis br br 7 the college of cardinals was quite a motley crew with one of the speaking in a southern drawl this dude would have been more at home on a texas ranch than in the sistine chapel br br 8 the crucial relationship of the and the deceased pope was not defined in the film this relationship was central to the theme of science vs religion and the relevance of the to the plot against the church br br 9 in the novel the character of was an unforgettable villain in the film that assassin character's role was a cardboard cutout villain br br 10 as a whole the filmmakers did not trust the workings of the successful novel br br in the novel langdon makes an impossible fall out of the sky and into the river in ron howard's film it was the movie itself that landed in the
0	i've read the book and was expecting a good movie the first time i saw it i'm afraid to say that i was disappointed the movie did not follow the book and made many changes that i did not like br br one of the changes that i did not like the way that lord fenton was portrayed it made no sense to make him out to be a bad man the way that things ended between lord fenton and scarlett was a lot different and their whole relationship was too intimate br br there was also a lot less confrontation between scarlett and rhett in the movie than was originally written in the book the movie sent the two in two completely opposite ways and they did not seem to cross paths often enough to make it seem like there still could be love between the two a fine movie but i believe that it certainly could've been better than it was had it more true to alexandra book
0	as everyone knows nobody can play scarlett o'hara like vivien leigh and nobody can play rhett butler like clark gable all others pale in comparison and timothy dalton and joanne whalley are no exceptions one thing that i really couldn't get past was that joanne has brown eyes the green eyes were the most enhancing feature of scarlett's good looks and in this sequel she has been stripped of those br br the movie as well as the book had several lulls in it the new characters weren't all that memorable and i found myself forgetting who was who i felt as though her going to ireland did absolutely nothing whatsoever it could be that i'm only 11 but i saw no change in her attitude until the last say 10 minutes when rhett told her she had grown up if rhett hadn't told her that i would have never guessed that there was any change in her attitude she really loved cat her baby she likes this child best because she had it with rhett her only loved husband still if you've read gone with the wind you would see that children make no difference in scarlett's world br br quite frankly it seemed to me like there was way too much going on without rhett all anybody cares about is whether or not rhett and scarlett get back together and scarlett took way too long to get to that it is virtually nothing compared to gone with the wind but then again what isn't if you have read the novel you will like that better than the movie br br i would watch it just because it is the sequel to gone with the wind regardless of whether or not it's worthwhile it may not satisfy you entirely but it will get you some of the way there
0	if you really loved gwtw you will find quite disappointing the story those who may think this is just about a romantic story and the south will be probably satisfied with this decent tv production i consider an important miscast the choice for scarlett but let me say that considering the novel nothing good could came out of this br br i've read gwtw more than 20 times and i can really appreciate the adaptation mrs mitchell did for the film it took me some time to understand how good the ending was scarlett knew for sure she was going to recover rhett since she always got what she wanted but there was no kiss in the end br br then alexandra ripley came to fix this by showing us exactly how perfect and mighty scarlett could be and of course describing in detail how exactly she gets rhett back even when she had an important affair with someone else nothing could have been further from mrs mitchell mind i am sure br br the story between these points is in my opinion just a long and boring ride made up to tie ends showing off costumes and scenarios just to give us an obvious and totally unnecessary ending br br if margaret mitchell could came to live again she would die one more time at the very moment she'd find out what scarlett became after gwtw br br sure it's not fair to compare this to the original but this is not gwtw fault isn't it is it any good if i don't compare it to the original maybe sorry to say i don't really care br br i would expect little more compromise to continue someone else's suberb work otherwise don't even try
0	the danish bladerunner is boldly stated on the box are you kidding me this film is a complete drag when i'm thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen i usually pause the vcr so i won't miss anything not this time i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge just so i wouldn't have to go back why the hell is there not one scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work it's one of the premises of film is that our hero who's a hacker has a little to help him the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future when he loses the assistant in the movie he's helpless and can't get into any computers he's a hacker it's like saying that you can't drive your car if you don't have your lucky driving cap on i won't even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock
0	a desperate attempt to make a film noir sci fi thriller but the movie falls short it has no believable plot some of the key actors were a joke not lars bom he is cool i did like the access restriction by though i finished it on principle but went home with the feeling of having lost two hours of my life
0	i think the cards were stacked against because right from the start there was this itchy feeling like something was wrong but i couldn't quite put my finger on it then it hit me dubbed for a little while they managed most of the lines either as voice over or off screen with just a little hint here and there until it became painfully obvious this is the kind of dubbing that grates on the nerves with nothing even remotely funny about it i hate dubbing but at least however misplaced martial arts films badly dubbed tend to have a sense of humour about it br br what i wanted was a film about a hacker doing actual hacking and stuff like that maybe like a reverse side of the table of the movie hackers being about the person trying to keep them out instead about the people trying to get in what i got was some poorly written nonsensical at times murder mystery with a ton of bad chase sequences a supposedly inept hacker who was neutered without his little ego and a director who obviously didn't know how to handle a camera i just wanted to reach in there grab the camera from the guy and shoot the dang thing myself the editing wasn't much better the acting well i guess if the lead guy didn't have such a bad script to work from he'd be at least watchable the main bad guy was ok too but pretty much everyone else was a joke dubbing didn't help but the acting was pretty bad even taking that into consideration br br before i get into more bad let's perk up to a few good things well one or two despite the rudimentary graphics i rather enjoyed the stuff what little there was of it and would have much rather watched a movie mostly about in and around that than the tepid surroundings outside in the 'real world' the falsifying thing seemed kind of cool but ended up being rather useless in the scheme of things the heart gadget which reminded me of guillermo del toro's was interesting though as a plot device ripped directly from the pages of escape from new york it was horribly conceived in the long run there's one point where the bad guy is unconscious and our hero is right there why didn't he try the bad guy's thumb print then since the heart device was thumb activated nonetheless some interesting gadgets and cyber stuff if only they could have been utilized better br br now who here dares compare this movie to blade runner both films take place sometime in the future and there's some kind of off kilter type of romance in it sort of in both films there's the investigation of a murder but i've seen many a film with a murder at its center that are nothing like either blade runner or identity for instance that's about where the similarities end period there is no comparison just as there wouldn't be between blade runner and hackers ridley scott is a brilliant director with a great mind for art direction and knows some fundamentals of film making like where to put the camera is cheap and not just because of the budget it's cheap because of bad writing and because it more often than not takes the easy way out like writing in a character who barely appeared in the first place to save the girl in the end to get her to point b by herself without the hero so that he could do his thing very convenient or the attempted sympathy factor for a character we have no reason to care for or inane things like the car set up to stall them just enough for someone to get away br br it tries to be hip it tries to be exploitive it even tries a twist ending that's not the least bit surprising and it tries to be thrilling but a bunch of near identical chase sequences bad writing editing horribly shot bad acting etc does not a thrilling movie make
0	is a murder mystery these movies tend to be popular br br and the 6 9 rating it currently has suggests that it has been too br br unfortunately this movie has no redeeming qualities whatsoever br br a few non spoilers for instance include a 5 minute scene br br wherein the main character eats an apple and another 3 minutes br br where he breathes br br in case you were wondering this is not in fact art neither is it a br br commentary on humanity which from the title it seems it is trying br br to be it is in fact boring there are numerous attempts in this br br movie to say something about humanity one might think to br br how would i comment on humanity and the most br br obvious and boring answers will of course be sex love and death br br not that these options are uninteresting when done well just that br br they are the canonical options for sex this movie does its best to br br make it unattractive and disgusting in your first five minutes br br hence this is not a spoiler you will see the bloodied vagina of a br br murdered 11 year old girl it's a murder mystery remember later br br on a few people throw themselves at each other and have what br br the director would like us to believe is raw sex but in reality it's br br contrived and overly symbolic but worse yet so br br i enjoy being disturbed by movies this movie showed me why br br disturbing movies usually show something inside of someone br br their humanity which they did not know existed and are a bit br br scared of tried to do just this and failed and i walked br br out of the theatre not disturbed but disgusted thinking that i had br br wasted my time in the theater despite having seen the movie for br br free
0	although this movie has a slow dream like almost mesmerizing pace and an interesting though possibly not entirely accurate description of a rural french criminal investigation practices and personnel i find it ultimately impossible to recommend i think this movie is simply a setup piece to advance one person's the director's one presumes disgust with heterosexuality certainly human sexuality in all its forms can have their revolting moments no denying that but to choose the bad uniformly at the expense of the good as this film does at every turn suggests a warped sensibility at work in short if you enjoy watching homo eroticism masquerading as compassion and the depiction of heterosexual lovemaking and the female form in a hideous and degrading light then this movie is for you i don't and it wasn't
0	this french film is supposedly about a creepy dim witted cop who investigates the rape and murder of a young girl in a small town however the film is really about nothing and it takes forever to say nothing if it takes a character ten minutes to walk from point a to point b the film spends ten minutes showing this walk and these are the action scenes there are also static shots that last for minutes making the viewer wonder if he accidentally hit the pause button on the remote the script has enough material for a 20 minute movie the movie lasts seven hours or so you do the math the actors were apparently amateurs and it shows note to self never see a dumont movie again
0	just had the misfortune to see this truly awful film br br think of that scene in magnolia at the end with the slow pan in on that woman now remove the pan add breathing and unshaven men to the mix and you have what the entire 2 and a half hours of humanity was br br the inspector is a true dolt not even a dolt just a dim witted slow moving simpleton how they ever solved a crime is beyond me br br obligatory sex scenes are awful and br br eventual villain of the piece he raped and killed an 11 year old girl is signposted very early and no surprise unless your are similarly dimwitted br br uninspiring camera work br br the director was there saying that it is up to the audience to provide their own interpretation on the proceedings i assume he also meant provide their own dialogue there is bugger all adding to its boredom level inventive camera work just static shots totally stripping away the obvious beauty of the landscape the film is being shot in and plot br br truly awful br br 0 out of 10
0	i'm not in favor of death penalties but in this movie it couldn't happen fast enough just to end the movie i don't understand why this movie is rated as high as it is it fooled me into a bad night
0	i can't remember when was the last time i have been so terribly disappointed by any movie probably i expected too much happening in a way you can expect action in dogma style movies of course but there is just nothing going on in here luckily i was watching it at home and could switch channels whenever the silence and dumb numb faces started to kill me and that was very often it really isn't too much of a pleasure watching ugly people who don't talk and move slowly stroke pigs and french kiss men not to mention ugly bodies having explicit sex if only it made any sense the whole murder situation is ridiculous seems like it was only created to show one more vagina since zero characters are capable of actually solving the crime having only four pseudo developed characters and a movie going nowhere it is pretty soon obvious whom the director picked as a killer and that makes no sence either despite all the boredom and suffering i must admit that it somehow touched me in an unexplainable way maybe you should check it out yourself though i don't recommend it
0	the main character has suffered a loss of his wife and child in the pre film past he deals with with by just shutting down emotionally too long a movie too much time spent on inexpressive face too much road time one of the of tv filling time with moving cars trains etc long scenes of him doing trivial sometimes totally inexplicable trivial actions with neither reason or emotion his best friends joseph and domino are not much more their relationship based on sex this film perhaps gives new meaning to the phrase gratuitous sex domino and mother are the two characters who display some emotion but not much it is hard to tell with all the characters in this movie is it indifferent acting indifferent writing or simply indifferent characters portrayed by good writing and good acting characters in this film talk very little to anyone it's little wonder their emotionally isolated which is all the more bizarre because it's clear they live in a neighborhood where the people are friendly and know each other
0	a trio sit at a restaurant table and stare into space later they lean on a rail and stare across the channel at england a man works a hoe repetitively in his garden only his head and upper torso visible on the screen a man and a woman watch another man peeing against a stone wall each of these silent shots lasts for roughly one full minute absolutely no information is imparted that could not be given to us in about one quarter of the time the editor must have been half asleep i know i was br br the movie open with a startling shot of the raw vagina of an obviously dead body one's gorge rises but then the policeman exchanges a few words with a neighboring couple and begins to tag along after them and the case is forgotten for the next half hour while and his friends trade unfunny insults with each other and with strangers eventually the thread of the case is picked up again but proceeds slowly almost aimlessly following the stylistic pattern already established br br sometimes in movies like this the location shooting provides a kind of atmosphere that compensates for the dullness of the story but not here the houses of the french village are attached to one another in long rows the house fronts abut the pavement directly with no steps the fronts show virtually no decoration and are pretty much indistinguishable the flat are featureless what might have been one of the more interesting episodes a visit to a stone fort on the coast bores the trio until they begin behaving like and are asked to leave br br the acting is minimal nobody seems particularly anxious to say anything no jokes are made nothing amusing happens the policeman has a face almost as interesting as randy quaid's the babe a tall hefty blonde looks like the kind of shot putter on steroids that the east germans used to field at the olympic games br br i sat through more than an hour of it before giving it up maybe i'll take a crack at it some other time unless i've missed something or unless it turns into some deranged monty python routine towards the end i don't think you'll get much out of renting it
0	i saw this film at the edinburgh film festival and would not recommend it it is two and a half hours long during which nothing much happens at a wading through porridge pace br br the main characters are gormless and totally lacking in charisma or personality no one smiles at all during the film neither would i if i had their lives and although domino seems to have a healthy sexual appetite she doesn't seem to enjoy sex at all br br the whole experience is depressing and ponderous the director lingering over each scene in a way that drove me crazy rather than striking me with the beauty of his technique br br too many questions were left in my mind why does he sniff the algerian man's head why does he levitate what is he looking at over the fence why does he kiss joseph why did we go and see this rubbish rather than ordering another bottle of wine in rouge
0	european films may be slower paced and less plot driven than american films but this takes it way too far it also show a whole bunch of drawn characters doing inexplicable things it's not fantasy it's not even surreal it's just awkward and bad br br what's the message here that people in france are pensive and gaze a lot that they like to watch other people having sex they they spontaneously scream or touch a stranger on his neck do not wear a watch when seeing this film as you will be astonished at how little is explained or learned over huge stretches of time br br this is the story of a police superintendent who is deeply troubled by the brutal murder of a little girl though actually he seems troubled before then he is not merely upset at his own personal tragedies but apparently mentally quite slow behaving very much like a learning disabled six year old child he stares blankly a lot walks with arms rigid like a little kid speaks in meek simpering tones behaves quite oddly in all of his interactions though no one seems to notice or care even when it is supposed to be police business he's not a troubled cop more of an picture andy kaufman's character on taxi but without the humor he is not only not believable as a policeman he is not believable as an adult that he won an award for this interpretation of his character is truly amazing unless he was playing the part exactly as written and the fault lies with the weirdos who scripted this thing the plot is clearly secondary do not expect to see anything remotely like what police would do if a little girl was found murdered this not that important though the implausibility of their behavior is sort of insulting the problem is that the rest of the film makes no sense either that leaves the long lingering close ups of fields vegetable gardens people's faces etc the ending struck me as especially ridiculous totally unsupported by the events leading up to it unless you think what's the worst way this film could end br br there is lots of sex and nudity which is supposed to mean something you want vaginas you'll see vaginas not to worry it's art it has deep meaning what i am not sure and the protagonist despite his innocent weirdness seems to have some sort of homoerotic neck or fetish br br finally the subtitles are in white and frequently appear on a white background very hard to read many of them on the other hand there isn't much dialogue so this isn't a big problem there is also very little sound not even ambient sounds you would expect to hear in the film contributing to the emptiness of the whole experience the old woody allen would have had a field day parodying this work br br that this is an award winning film is sad i would hate to see the losing films br br enjoy
0	the director infuses this film with false depth by repeating a gimmick throughout the film every single shot in this movie is 3 times longer than it needs to be you could easily cut out 1 5 hours of this agonizingly long 2 5 hour film without eliminating one word of dialogue one image one event or bit of movement br br this was one of the most gratuitous wastes of film i have ever seen other reviewers have called it pretentious which is an understatement is pseudo intellectual trash designed to be anti hollywood so that the cannes judges could assert their independence from the oscars br br the imdb reviewer states unlike hollywood movies which usually force the audience into overdrive this forces the audience to slow down and look at some of life's tiniest and most mundane features in great detail you would have to be catatonic to stare at some of these images this long and move as slowly at these characters this isn't real life unless you are heavily medicated br br finally i felt that portrayal was a sad rip off of peter sellers' masterful gardner he uses the same facial expressions and postures he even gardens in many respects there are parallels between these two movies the main difference being that being there moves along and doesn't rely on shock and gimmicks to create a meaningful experience while questioning various things we take for granted in life
0	this two and a half hour long film was shown recently at carnegie mellon university at a 10 pm show there was a scheduled 1 am show after that but wondered if anyone was going to stay awake to see that until 3 30 am the opening scene is of a man walking in a field and it lasts four minutes of movie time it is an ominous sign of what's to come a good minutes more of pretty much the same there is a scene of a man and a woman against a wall standing in the sun it is repeated 15 times with very sparse dialogue occasionally these very long slow sequences are interrupted by shocking stills such as a close up of female genitalia shown for one full minute of film time audience crowd laughing in the last 20 seconds as to say what's the message the story resembles dostoyevsky's novel the karamazov brothers in which a cretin falls in love with a woman of easy morals in one of the rare instants in which the crowd was laughing more in desperation to try to justify having been there already a full two hours to see nothing happening was when the statement by a british tourist that he couldn't see things clearly since the train was traveling at 180 miles an hour was translated by the translator with automatic switch of units of measure from english system to metric system to they couldn't see things clearly since the train was traveling at 300 kilometers per hour what was amazing about this movie is that the quality of cinematography reveals that alot of money has been spent on it this was no film kitchen 8 mm experiment it was carefully planned structured acted montaged yet i got so little out of it some comments on the excruciating detail such as the of a key chain on a door just opened okay it was noted but what was the purpose some people in the audience walked away after the first hour the rest remained out of curiosity there must be something happening at the end there never was and maybe that's what the film is about all the movies at the theater are action packed this one wants to be different there is nothing happening
0	the premise of the movie had much going for it however despite the novelty of models selling off someone else's furniture to live the high life this movie has nothing going for it the characters are cardboard the dialog is so painfully scripted it's hard to sit through and if there were any jokes in the movie i missed them marilyn monroe's walking into walls because she doesn't want to wear glasses is completely unbelievable not funny grable's stupidity is also too ham fisted to be believed bacall's gold digging is so forced it's annoying to listen to why anyone would want to sit through this is beyond me
0	maybe in its day this movie was special but five decades later it seems quaint just another cinematic relic of the dreadful 1950s stereotypes abound in this fluffy story about three female gold diggers who set up shop in a manhattan penthouse in an effort to attract wealthy husbands br br i don't mind the shallow theme but the film's premise is lame and the execution is worse it's a romantic comedy but i found little to laugh at the plot point about an extremely bimbo is about the only clever element of the story overall dialogue is flat and so too is the delivery and the script structure is disconcerting the plot keeps jumping back and forth among the three ladies it's as if the writer couldn't quite blend the ensemble roles the result is a plot that seems choppy br br marilyn monroe was a good choice for her role but lauren bacall was too old for the role she played and betty grable with her squeaky voice and awful hairdo was just plain annoying br br color cinematography is conventional but there were lots of shots using rear screen projection contributing to a dated look the visuals are made even worse by costumes that reek of cheesy 1950's glamour they are just awful viewers must endure a fashion show a plot point that amplifies how the film's director was smitten by those trashy glad rags br br and then there is that orchestra in what is arguably the worst film opening in cinema history the first part of the film has an orchestra playing some dreary sounding tune at first i thought i was watching the introduction to coming attractions but no it's actually part of the film and the orchestra plays on and on and on it has nothing absolutely nothing whatever to do with the story what were they thinking br br i enjoyed marilyn monroe with her breathy voice as she bimbos her way through the plot but the film would have been far better if they had dumped the other two ensemble roles dumped that orchestra enhanced the comedy dialogue and downplayed those gaudy cheesy costumes
0	first a warning 'how to marry a comes prefaced by an apparently random five minute orchestral performance of 'street scene' a gershwin lite piece treated with the full pomp and ceremony of well gershwin sitting through it takes some patience if you have the dvd rest assured you can skip forward you won't miss anything br br the film itself is one of the perpetual disappointments of 50's hollywood a movie so bolstered by major star power opulent mise en scene and perfect high concept that failure seems inconceivable the title alone is perfect generation after generation however are forced to ask themselves how is this so limp the script is an albatross about the production's neck a dead smelling thing that chokes everything and everyone before they can really spark to life there are no comic situations just isolated moments that play for laughs whenever an actual comedy scene threatens to develop the movie quickly moves on to other less interesting things a case in point the scene where the three leading ladies each bring a date to the same fancy restaurant one of them short sighted refuses to wear her spectacles out of vanity one of the dates is married a classic hollywood farce set up surely complete with mistaken identity angry wife and probably a pie in the face for somebody well no instead we cut between the three dates as the ladies react to things their partners say hit the punchline and cut to the next limp joke if in doubt have marilyn walk into a wall where's billy wilder when you need him br br the three stars are almost a perfect diagram of the life cycle of the classic hollywood screen goddess this was one of marilyn monroe's breakout films and the camera just eats her up even though the script gives her nothing to do she's so luminescent she almost seems newly hatched lauren bacall on the other hand had been a major star for nearly a full decade and she knows how to dominate the screen even when in frame with monroe she gets the only thing passing for a real role and delivers the few good lines with a cynical snap given the right material she could have brought this thing to life she's a curiously ageless actress when she lies about her age in the film and claims to be forty it isn't instantly ridiculous and far less girlish than her co stars giving her a convincing authority betty grable was far from ageless and had a good eight years on her co stars putting her near the end of her hollywood career there's an air of desperation about her at times stranded on screen with nothing but a toothpaste smile and a few scraps of comic timing unable to play her real age but fooling no one as a contemporary of this new sharper generation of actresses relying on the same old schtick that had served her throughout her career for marilyn doubters seeing the two juxtaposed in this movie helps to throw monroe's subtlety and yes intelligence into sharp relief she's also lumbered with the dead wood in terms of male co stars although all of the men even the great william powell are guilty of lazy performances she's unable to strike any comic sparks off them better to have given her role to the under utilised monroe who could be funny all by herself and left grable with the repetitive mr magoo routine br br that the movie is as enjoyable as it is can be put down to the luscious hollywood production the sort that renders even the twee likes of 'by the light of the moon' watchable but somewhere buried beneath the flabby jokes and professionalism lies the rough outline of a sharp cynical comedy about the business of marriage that bacall could have made sing and new generations of movie viewers will sit down with 'how to marry a in expectation of that movie ready to be disappointed all over again
0	i think i would probably not hate this movie if i spoke polish i selected the english version at the first menu but it gave me polish dialogue with english subtitles just as the polish version did maybe the dialogue was so disjointed because the person that did the subtitles could not translate it into english very well to exacerbate the issue some of the dialogue had no subtitles at all the acting was pretty bad especially the female lead who was melodramatic about everything one scene that bothered me was when a german woman was caught stealing and as the mob was jostling her around her shirt opened and the director showed close ups of her naked breast for the next 15 20 seconds i couldn't see how her breast added to the drama of the scene or the film maybe the director was trying to increase the numbers of teenage boys in the audience much of the film takes place in an extermination camp liberated by the americans first the american uniforms did not look anything like u s army uniforms second none of the extermination camps in poland were liberated by the americans i would think that a polish film director who turned 19 in 1945 would know better than an american born in 1966 that all six extermination camps were liberated by the russians all in all it's just not a very good film if you don't speak polish
0	this show can most accurately be described as tv bubble gum it's chewing it has a good taste to it and it lasts a long time but like bubble gum it can leave a bad taste in your mouth after a few too many chews br br this show features very simple questions that take the form of simply games like hangman guessing a simple phrase or guessing items on a short list callers are the contestants and anybody can play br br the questions though are terribly easy there's some techno music pumped into the background that's fashioned into a continuous loop it never seems to get old but it never adds much to the show anyway the hostess however regardless of which one that it is extremely personable pleasant enough to watch and can make some very amusing facial expressions i rather enjoy that british woman br br but there's nothing to this show it's simplistic and uncompelling although it can be entertaining if absolutely nothing else is on
0	the female hot numbers on this show are breathtaking they can also talk like there's no tomorrow otherwise this show would go into the toilet quickly how much money do they make on all the people who text in with that hope to be called back to win 100 oo or whatever boy now that's a scam can i buy stocks in this money maker let's face it with the technology of now thousands of people could be calling every minute and with ten thousand channels and nothing worth a crap on thousands of people watch this show oh i know this answer is probably a super common line among the listeners with these super hotties constantly saying the needs callers i think it's a bunch of b s frequently someone who does get through sounds amazed that they're actually talking to the host many of them sound depressed and worn out by probably waiting so long and trying so many times to get on and score some pocket change wow the producers must be just raking it in no wonder there are so few commercials commercials are only on to give time for more primarily losers to text in and wait and hope and dream and fantasize about what winning enough money for a tank of gas and a dinner at mc something i only watch it now then on my brothers tv because he likes to watch it when he's on the computer i'll sit there for 15 to 20 minutes and look at mel one of the looking women on tv and laugh at the scam that's in front of me then i have to leave even if i don't people who have an active life can only take this show in extreme moderation mel get yourself into the movies or tv sitcoms or something many of us are infatuated with you even with the super cu ties i'm amazed this show is still on
0	is extremely boring this is the basis of the show mel or ask extremely easy questions that a 2 year old could answer at an extremely slow pace this show lasts for 2 hours and they probably only play about 10 games in that period people may like this show because the hosts are eye candy but they're hotness completely is destroyed by the fact that they are so friggin annoying br br during the show they mention that we need more players a million times the top 5 surveys that they do probably takes about 20 minutes out of the show this show is probably one of the worst game shows ever made one of the reasons they probably don't have callers is because the show is so cheap with the money the most money i've ever seen them hand out was 210 i wouldn't be surprised if this game show is canceled by the end of 2006
0	it really amazed me to see that someone would take so much time to assess such a bad movie the beginning of the film had some truth in it the partisan af was started in 1943 when two communist pilots from the croat af deserted together with their observers in 19 and 33 respectively the aircraft saw some action in strafing and hand bombing but didn't last very long one crew was killed and the other survived the pilot being killed later while flying a spitfire vc the real partisan squadrons were established when raf detached two of its yugoslav squadrons of spitfire vc and hurricane respectively manned by ex yugoslav royal airforce pilots and allotted them to tito's forces on the island of vis even those were never engaged in air to air activities but strictly for ground support so the film was one giant cow manure to put it mildly and the lowest point for its otherwise not at all bad director by some quirk of fate i was present on the filming of the last sequence of the movie when dozens of german aircraft were destroyed yugoslav trainers used also in the flying sequences on the military airport the pyrotechnics were impressive and the scotch served lavishly by the film crew was even better otherwise the film was a shameless lie was and frequently joked about by the contemporary audience
0	throughout the 1950s and into the 60s 70s and even into the 80s a slew of war films were produced in the former yugoslavia glorifying the heroism of the partisans – civilians who turned out to fight a guerrilla war against the invading german forces who's generally only known in eastern europe directed quite a few of these partisan stories unfortunately only a handful of them were ever exported to the rest of the europe and the united states battle of the eagles is a rare low budget look at the formation and exploits of the partisan air force br br marshal tito decrees that a partisan air force must be formed to combat the german luftwaffe in the skies over yugoslavia a group of former pilots join forces with two small and begin raiding enemy bases and convoys over the course of several months more pilots and planes join the ranks eventually forming a formidable air force maybe it's history or maybe it's fable – whatever it is it sure isn't convincing but a cast of great actors sure try to make it work br br the film opens strongly with a well shot german air raid on defenseless partisans the nuts and bolts of the plot come together almost immediately and for a short while the audience is treated to a rather patriotic series of scenes then the action starts and this title quickly becomes yet another low budget by the numbers adventure all of the characters are familiar clichés major played by a well meaning bekim fehmiu is our typical patriotic heroic leading man he blasts away at strafing planes with a machine gun and even has an aerial duel with the villainous a completely predictable and corny climax with an equally predictable outcome the rest of the partisans are familiar the battle of is a a hotshot playboy hell river is voss a veteran flyer who comes out of the woodwork now that his country needs him and the day that shook the world is a young messenger boy who moves up through the ranks eventually becoming a seasoned combat pilot the characters and their stories are familiar to any war fan and doesn't try to build upon these stereotypes the cast does a fair job and despite the two dimensional script every player is engaging and fun to watch in particular has some great moments – when he's going to take his first flight as a gunner and later when he is forced to land a plane after the pilot is killed the plot merely consists of a string of air raids against the germans and subsequent acts br br handles the action sequences competently with a mix of actual footage and miniature effects unfortunately the miniatures are so cheap and false looking that the transitions between actual aerial photography and toy planes are jarring and laughable some of the strafing and bombing scenes look shockingly real while dogfights involving scale models complete with action figure pilots are just plain pathetic sometimes smoke puffs from the machine guns are so big that the smoke engulfs the entire model plane worse the editors often superimpose shots of fighters over real footage although the aircraft are usually in proper perspective they're surrounded by a distracting glow which hinders any attempt at realism all of this action is set to an incredibly familiar and annoying score by br br battle of the eagles also suffers from a very poorly edited english language release to begin with 28 minutes of footage is missing – cutting the film from 130 minutes to a mere 102 the missing segments were carelessly excised and the cutting looks very sloppy music cues are abruptly cut off and scenes are abandoned before they are resolved in the last third of the film the story falls apart and only some badly needed action scenes can try to save it from total incomprehensibility then there's the all of the scenes revolving around the partisans are dubbed in english rather poorly however yet several lengthy scenes remain in german without the benefit of subtitles the film might have made much more sense had the german language sequences been excised instead of crucial scenes revolving around the partisans br br on the plus side handles the outdoor footage quite well there is never a moment where the audience feels like they're on a soundstage in particular the german luftwaffe bases are expansive complete with dozens of messerschmitt fighter planes and extras costumed in leather flying jackets the scenery is fresh and green and isn't afraid to shoot scenes with extremely wide angles or from far away simply to convey the scope of a battle or long trek a german ambush of a partisan unit early on in the picture stands out as does a sequence where and escape from an enemy base br br as it exists on home video battle of the eagles is just another of many stories about the yugoslav partisan movement there is nothing to set it apart from the rest of the crop and the terrible special effects and drastic editing put it a notch below acceptable try to avoid this one unless you can find a full length copy
0	this movie was a dismal attempt at recreating a crucial time in english history the film version of cromwell's growing involvement in the war is marginally accurate but the overall historical accuracy of this movie was way off this film implies that the war was started over religious differences but the civil war was in no way catholic versus protestant both sides were protestant cromwell was never present at the battle of nor did he ever save the day the did not win the battle ended in a draw br br as another reviewer has noted cromwell was certainly not one of the five members who were to be removed from the house and arrested br br overall this movie was decent the producers tried way to hard and it didn't turn out so great br br definitely could have been better
0	hope floats with sandra bullock is a real disappointment the story starts off ok her husband cheats on her and she finds out on national television so she has to rebuild her life here it could have gotten interesting or built up in a story line but you become so bored with it she moves back with her parents and harry jr who plays justin begins hitting on her the two have no real chemistry at all yet your supposed to get the impression that justin is in love with her the movie ends the way you figure it will but you wish it hadn't ended like every other kind like it they had a good start with this movie and could have turned it into something watchable but instead its a movie that you definitely want to miss
0	everyone i know loves this movie but i am afraid that i don't i hated this film so much that i had to turn it off mid film because of the repulsion way too much time is spent on and emotional bedlam the point of the bullock character being devastated by her divorce is jackhammered into the viewer's head excessively enough already and why didn't we hear more about her ex husband he is portrayed as nothing but a suit who comes by once in a while something must of made her want to marry him what was it what is it about him that makes her so devastated upon their divorce more time could of been spent on that rather than yet one more shot of bullock lying crumpled on the bedroom floor the dialogue is stilted cliched and terrible much like one of those corny abc afterschool specials or something there is no imagination or creativity about anything in this film it is all very predictable and therefore boring this movie also goes into overdrive on the factor very stupid and not funny like it was supposed to be this is just another one of those horribly done i am woman hear me roar films much like waiting to exhale if you want to see i am woman hear me roar films that are truly entertaining original and well done then see gas food lodging or ruby in paradise skip this crap i give hope floats 3 10
0	although normally my preference is not for romantic dramas seeing this film left me a little short br br it had promise the characters and relationships could have been explored much deeper than they did yet the story seemed not to understand the direction it wanted to take br br the and parallels within the story especially the three generations of women in the family had a lot of potential but somehow didn't fully extend itself it could have made the film much easier to relate to and attach to which is the aim of any film about lost love and life regained br br imho i think the film suffered from a lack of direction in the writing although harry jnr and sandra bullock did try desperatly to breath a little life into otherwise flat character outlines br br it's not that this is a bad film some parts leave you understanding the reasons for various plot developments its just that this film is underdone and a little flat overall
0	i didn't like watching ds9 compared to other star treks even enterprise but i didn't like babylon 5 and now i know why they are the same show i just read the old news that paramount stole the idea from the creator of babylon 5 but they chose not to sue for a reason i don't know or care but seeing as a star trek series is based off another even nerdier show is just to much to bare now i will condemn anyone who even mentions the ds9 when talking about the series original tng and voyager are my favorites in that order before i didn't understand why everyone thinks ds9 is great and i didn't but know i know it's also because the captain has a real anger problem and i hate people that act cool but freak out out of no where and he seems to on every episode
0	the expert starring jeff speakman is the definition of dull br br dull characters dull situations dull direction dull actors dull cinematography dull music br br i don't really understand this movie is it supposed to be an action movie it's almost as if speakman wanted to be in a serious movie but the level of acting and writing found in the expert is below your average tv drama and there are some typical speakman pummeling bad guys scenes here and there but the main aspect of the movie relies on some sort of believable drama which is totally wrong for speakman or is so badly directed that it just doesn't work with the action star in the end this confused movie looks and feels very nondescript and bland the worst aspect of the expert is the music the composer is a jerry goldsmith wannabe with his pompous and melodramatic score which simply doesn't belong in this kind of dull movie it's as if the producers knew they had a very dull product on their hands and they asked the composer to make the film feel more compelling and dramatic with his score which makes the entire movie look even more confused goofier and dull br br don't waste your time watching this even if you're a jeff speakman fan
0	some people like to tell you that deep space 9 is the best of all the star trek shows because it stresses character development and continuity and features a more complex background and ongoing plots in some ways this makes it more satisfying but in many ways the show fails entirely br br the series starts out as a soap opera on a space station with two entire seasons of generic science fiction stories balanced with banal subplots about the characters the characters are a good bunch and most of the actors are decent but i think the writers tried too hard to make them normal by normal they actually mean ordinary and tedious br br at the end of season two we are introduced to the dominion who hang around menacingly for a while before finally going to war with the good guys in season five this is the main story arc of the show but it only takes up a fraction of the entire series we still get lame stand alone episodes heroes still get stranded on weird planets for forty five minutes and there's an awful lot of low brow comedy featuring the greedy goofy ferengi a lot of episodes are merely dull and some are unwatchable br br the dominion main villains are bent on galactic domination for the convenient reason that well they just don't like anyone the entire war is presented with a naive lack of moral complexity and imagination impressively space battles appear with great frequency from season three onwards but these are carried out in ludicrously simplistic ways such as two huge of super advanced starships flying right at each other and blasting away the writers of ds9 including the talented ronald d moore later of battlestar galactica fame spiced up their monotonous show by starting a war but at heart it is still a pedantic soap br br ds9 remains a very frustrating experience the continuous story is too flat and obvious to be really gripping and the characters never truly develop in interesting ways babylon 5 and battlestar galactica both fulfilled the promise made by ds9 and did everything much better for star trek stick with the original and the next generation
0	a family of dirt farmers moves out west br br the head of newest motley brood is named he works at the mill sawing lots of lumber though who in hell he thinks he's cutting all that wood for is a mystery because none of the folks in all of township have enough money to buy a splinter much less a two by four br br running the town is the a rich but stupid clan that relocated to these parts in order to rake in all that dough they make selling eggs for eleven cents a dozen they have two children a boy and a girl whom between them have only one saving asset nellie is hot and it's fun to spy on her when she takes a bath in the br br the town preacher is also the village idiot because he thinks he's really something special to this backwoods covey of country when in reality they can't stand his boring sermons and the only thing they pray for on sunday is for him to fall off the nearest cliff as soon as possible br br the town doctor is a dinosaur who saw his better days about 20 years ago but he hangs around anyway so he can give free breast examinations to the old hags that live in town unfortunately the only time these ancient hot mamas get down on their knees is to pull a loaf of bread out of the oven to give to the doc for his services but that's ok with doc because he knows these old give good bread br br bringing up the rear of this colorful collection of country cow chips is charles' wimpy wife and their three girls 'carrie' and 'half mary is another hot chick who all the guys sneak a peek at whenever she takes a shower or a crap carrie is an annoying little kid but stick a cookie in her mouth and you won't even know she's there in fact where is she oh there she is she's in the yard playing with a pack of cigarettes how cute half pint is the town's youngest screw up she may not have a brain or any kind of a body to speak of but she can spit farther then any boy in the whole freaking school br br it's a great town grove where someone is always falling off a roof or getting run over by a wagon wheel and it's beautiful too made up of one building the church school house town hall pool room ah it gets a little hairy on the prairie but that's ok especially when mary is taking a bath in the that's when you can see how hairy it really is
0	a few words for the people here in cine club the worst crap ever seen on this honorable cinema a very poor script a very bad actors and a very bad movie don't waste your time looking this movie see the very good or any movie have been good commented by me say no more
0	i don't see why everyone loves this film so much true it does have good intentions and meaning but you cannot compensate for such a poor script woody allen is a brilliant filmaker but i'm afraid this is just a piece of garbage it's extremely predictable and the subject matter is all too visible i happen to be a huge woody allan fan and love most of his work but this i cannot recomend
0	that was one of the worst movies i've ever seen why would someone make a movie about getting away with murder mr allen again plays the only type of character that he's able the sexually stunted man who can't get the girl get a clue allen there's a reason that's the only character that you can successfully portray stir clear of this movie it's a waste of time unless you want to know how to successfully murder someone i feel sorry for the actors who say 'yes' to woody allen look at his cast and tell me how many of those people are still working my respect for all of the actors who work for him immediately goes down because they chose to participate in the film
0	mario from europe is the only user who has posted a comment so far and covers the major points to the film yet again another difficult film to purchase in the uk i had to go through midnight video who have a swedish branch i went to the post office and bought by mail order this and a similar title at only a title br br this film goes under many a k a's depending on when and where it is marketed i had previously purchased the bloodsucker leads the dance which you will find if you search on imdb under people and input krista nell the actor who plays the count on his private island in the latter film had his words dubbed from italian into english by an actor with an unmistakably mournful and rather tired sounding voice i smiled when i heard this same voice dubbing on the english soundtrack as the police inspector who is investigating the murder of the prostitute killed in the in the subject film my choice of course was to see another outing by the delicious krista nell br br there are quite a few rather inconsequential sub plots in the movie involving blackmail extortion sleazy affairs with mothers a motor cycle chase resulting in a gangland hit a by a client's motorcycle friends sleazy photography cross dressing by transvestites etc which give a flavour to this film summarised in a word sleaze but artistic sleaze the aforementioned contributor liked this film but the lowly rating suggests other imdb fans did not albeit without explaining their wheres and personally i thought there were too many subplots and not enough put into the main story and the relationship of these subordinate characters to the central plot and the development of their screen characters also a professional film editor was sorely needed as some of the scenes appeared to last far too long having made their point so that the film appeared to drag in places e g the scene of the dancing transvestite krista nell appears in one fruity scene with a client but this too is but a vignette and i was left wanting more from her the director and the screenplay br br i love the political incorrectness shown in older films this is 30 years from its making e g smoking in offices and the way some characters react to each other in the office i would suggest 4 10 as a more realistic rating and i have awarded it as such
0	the production year says it all the movie is a marauding mess of politically correct feministic drivel of a so heavyhanded symbolic variety that comes across as ridiculous today every scene has the purpose of shedding light on one of the burning issues of society mainly the role of females in the working community the role of women vs men women as sex objects consumerism politics war etc every scene is commented upon by the inner dialogue of one of the main actresses or by turning the scene into a surrealistic joke i have no reminiscence of any plot or who the main characters actually were it is the sort of movie where consumerism is mocked by having a couple make love in a furniture store sales window while the sales agent delivers his speech or where a revealing interview of a stage actress turns into a striptease act for of course the offensive gentlemen of the press is the equal to a raunchy club audience then we move swiftly on as we need to see war erupt in a peaceful forest we need to see multiple inflammatory feministic public speeches being drowned in the male blowing of cars horns or rioting crowds and of course we need to see cinema newsreels of stalin and all the other usual suspects you get the idea but all this does not matter at all the movie is an unsurpassed piece of eyecandy for any male ingmar bergman aficionado a movie boasting leads bibi harriet and at the height of their beauty makes this reviewer surrender completely and just drivel – and also delight in watching them so generously use their acting skills in a movie i had never heard about before today it is hard to believe how especially the face of bibi owns the screen every single time she appears the cinematography is gorgeously orchestrated bw often revelling in an overexposed dimensionless and you just never grow tired of watching the performers how absurd that a movie made with so much consideration for the feministic agenda tirelessly advocating that women should not be viewed as merely an object of desire has nothing better to offer the 21st century viewer than a parade of stunningly beautiful babes as mentioned i am not complaining i could rewatch it tomorrow
0	good cinematography good acting good direction cannot justify a story that is not and cannot be acceptable to any society amitabh has often used the media to make this junk sell able by saying that if such an incident happens then what i would like to ask him if such a thing happens for your own child or your grandchild say girl child then what will you do i think every parents will have to take special care before interacting with any 60 year old neighbor if you have one jia with you such films should be banned and discouraged otherwise you inspire more more cases such acts are villainous and villains in films are punished that should be the moral of the story and not glorify their act or them
0	nishabd means wordless this must be the condition of the script before the shooting of this film started and therefore throughout this film cries for content what you go for is an unusual love story between a 60 yr old man and an 18 yr old girl and what you get are very usual very common events that neither excite nor surprise so what we are left finally is with picturesque locations of kerala shot brilliantly by cinematographer amit roy and camera friendly histrionics of newfound khan this does not cover up for lack of a concrete script producer director ram gopal varma who has such a good track record of films needs to pull up his socks as far as mr bachchan goes i don't want to discuss him in context of this film br br while reviewing i am feeling loss of words i am left speechless rather wordless br br personal opinion this film can be compared with an equally bad film released some time back called black i don't see the difference between the histrionics of lead characters in both the films what did you say just now that was a world class cinema blah blah and i don't have any taste well take a walk no i don't mean literally but actual one to the theaters showing this film because in that case you might find this film an oscar level material
0	this movie is stupid and i hate it i turned it off before it reached half i hate this movie amitabh sucks in this movie i wanna throw eggs at the person who directed this movie this movie is stupid and i hate it i turned it off before it reached half i hate this movie amitabh sucks in this movie i wanna throw eggs at the person who directed this movie this movie is stupid and i hate it i turned it off before it reached half i hate this movie amitabh sucks in this movie i wanna throw eggs at the person who directed this movie this movie is stupid and i hate it i turned it off before it reached half i hate this movie amitabh sucks in this movie i wanna throw eggs at the person who directed this movie this movie is stupid and i hate it i turned it off before it reached half i hate this movie amitabh sucks in this movie i wanna throw eggs at the person who directed this movie
0	oh well i thought it should be a good action but it was not although jeff speakman stars there is nothing to watch only two fight for almost 1 5 hours yak a lot of talking and everything is so artificial that you could not believe it the plot is clear from the beginning if you want good action don't rent this movie
0	this is by far the most pathetic movie indian cinema or any cinema has come up with it is totally a piece of crap the story line odes not hold any water it is shameful that such a respectful actor has stooped to such a low on making such a disgraceful movie the little respect he had is lost forever he should have retired longtime ago instead of making a fool of himself and loosing all the self respect i would not recommend this movie to any one furthermore i would suggest that amitabh should retire already i wonder how imdb has given some recommendations to this movie there are no movies so horrible that any recommendations could be made seeing such movies as devdas in the same line as this movie does a grave injustice to a decent movie its overall i could say shameless
0	and the worst part is that it could have been good but something horribly wrong first thing first they should not have cast amitabh bachchan in this film at all he is too much of an icon to tackle such a delicate and controversial topic let alone the role itself br br secondly ram gopal varma ought to be ashamed of himself for taking the classic story of lolita and turning it into a pathetic predictable slut fest his lolita is named jia played by newcomer khan and when we meet her she is devoid of any inkling of stolen innocence or that delicate naivety that one would normally associate with the complicated tale of the original lolita who in the original story gradually becomes nymphet varma's jia is already a whore with her eye on the prize even even before the camera meets her and he exercises no chastity in the way his films his leading nymphet from constant panning shots of her crotch to on her vulgar gestures and mannerisms mr varma makes sure he has left not one person in the audience less than uncomfortable with his voyeuristic pedophile camera angles br br oh and let's not talk about the non existent chemistry between jia and her so called friend ritu bachchan's character's daughter these girls are supposed to be best friends yet look like worst enemies even before anything goes wrong between them nothing they do together is believable until they become enemies maybe mr varma should have worked on that aspect of his script rather than focusing on destroying any credibility amitabh bachchan might have had left as an actor br br the worst part of the movie is perhaps the subservient portrayal of the character of bachchan's character's wife her role was so underwritten and ridiculously wooden that it's impossible to actually feel any pity or concern for her i actually felt like reaching into the screen slapping her for not reacting like any normal woman would instead she just stood there looking irritated and helpless as i imagine much of the viewers of this film might feel after watching this train wreck of a film watch at your own risk
0	amitabh and khan raised great expectations by their press conferences though it was quite easy for the critics and the fans too that after all this much hyped ram gopal verma factory product is going to fall flat on it's face in all the probabilities why because was so immature and childish and bacchan mixed up guilty and unsure they themselves didn't know what the hell they were talking about to the press keeping up with the tag line that some love stories are not to be understood or some such rubbish why the title is nishabd ramu needs to refresh his knowledge of sanskrit as vidhu vinod needs to study tagging in line another glorious flop of the year comparison with the sweet hearts and is inevitable as the so called plot line is supposed to have inspired by them but sadly ramu has hardly made any serious effort to delve deeply into the psyche of the aging and the young ones is lolly pop sucking the ultimate indicator of the innocence and contrary to that streak of childishness the leg show at the dining table with a vijay that is bacchan in that role bursting into squeals of shameless laughter incessantly after wards this girl is in fact at her seductive game luring poor vijay to think she is in love with him the legs too are skinny enough and that act of putting the water hose through the legs is down right obscene it's beyond any one's understanding how can a girl coming as a guest to some body's house can be so brazen brash and over powering and why the hell that stupid wife played by remarkably well though scripted poorly and characterized unrealistically encourages her own husband to dance with a sexily saying young girl that part of vijay trying to gain some to his humdrum life is absolute bullshit because apparently it seems that he is happy as he is with a well settled life and a hobby to recreate this reminds of blame it on rio the older daddy and his young love superbly played by michael caine bacchan looks terrible in close ups and over all where as kevin spacey and jeremy irons looked debonair and handsome which is why the young chicks some times get attracted to older men for their charming persona compared to the vulnerability of young boys of their age only good thing about this movie is those green sprawling land scapes winding roads and pleasant cinematography no substance or even any sparkling show of emotions drama or even intriguing stormy sex like in lolita this shallow movie has no wonder fallen flat on it's face and had to be wound up from the screens during first weeks next time round before mindlessly copying any such theme from hollywood ramu should do his home work and bacchan should think twice you can not fool all the people at all the times mr bacchan
0	good attempt at tackling the unconventional topic of may december romances however the treatment is totally unrealistic sure sixty year old men can and do fall for younger women but they're usually adult women with whom they share common interests and values and viewpoints not neurotic immature near underage girls of course there are exceptions and they come close to being called pedophiles sorry rgv but it's not credible that a sane and accomplished would throw away a comfortable family life and become a joke to his peers all for an 18 yr old that doesn't have a practical thought in her head and that behaves like an unstable escapee from a mental institution you don't have to have a phd in psychology to see that amitabh's character is seduced by sex and that the young woman has unresolved abandonment and daddy issues br br as for the recurring scene of vijay perched on the edge of a cliff contemplating suicide that's about as close as he comes to having anything in common with by behaving like a smitten teenage boy br br on a positive note the actors did a good job and cinematography good
0	this movie did not give mr bachchan justice he is a great actor and i was very disappointed in the movie and there was not much plot to it matter a fact this is the first movie i have ever been disappointed in with him in it it starts out with her coming to his home with his daughter and he is a photographer he takes pictures of her in the garden has she's hosing herself down he is a sixty year old man that has nothing to do but to take pictures of this girl the movie makes no sense the whole movie is about her chasing him around and her telling him how much she cares about him then his daughter falls and he has to take this girl around places so she is not bored and is daughter finds out i just didn't think this movie was up to bachchan's standards he is better than this movie i always pictured him as an upstanding person and then i seen him in this movie and i couldn't picture him in this movie the movie didn't hold my interest at all i couldn't wait until the movie was over and you won't either
0	there is nothing wrong with showing an old man falling in love with a young girl lolita did it american beauty did it br br but they did it subtly they did not make it so apparent from the start that the director is gearing them up to make them fall in love with each other not as naturally as two people would age no bar but forcing them to be around each other as if they were supposed to fall in love br br all in all there should have been chemistry it would have solved the biggest problem people with reservations against the subject would also have been engrossed and perhaps convinced it would have become the perfect love story no matter the br br i found it difficult to believe character at times what i found more difficult to understand is why vijay a photographer and an artist who seems serious would have had an interest in a girl so frivolous unless he himself has some hidden in himself which did not come out at all br br there is a lot of use of dutch angles or angles in which the frame is tilted it is generally used to show something unnatural or something that might lead to something that is not right so rgv is himself calling the relationship unnatural br br the camera angles background score editing and even the juxtaposition of shots and emphasises and their relationship is the indian audience so dumb that we need to be told something in 10 different ways for us to understand especially when the two of them were dancing together it was apparent what was happening what was the need of slowing the scene down with dramatic background music i feel the subject was very well chosen but verma should not have made the film with the fact in mind constantly that this is a controversial subject if it is then handle it delicately why don't you
0	the worst thing i have ever watch br br the movie is pure trash all the things is bad on this movie the direction screenplay arts cinematography cast or anything else br br may i say more br br the main character is an boy it has to have 20 years of age approximately but the actor who plays the role looks like 30 years old in addition he is an very bad actor br br the editing tries to save it but with that very bad material in hands they can't do miracles br br as i said the cast is poor the text is poor that it doesn't help the actors br br i learned how to do not make a movie
0	i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all br br in this case however i have to say it was bad i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second br br there was no proper storyline i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces br br the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these 3 pieces is scary half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third a 3 year old kid would have been able to put them together br br this movie was bad br br dominic
0	keep away from this one the worst thing is the appalling story there seems to be an intent to convey some subtle spiritual love friendship message but it is so pathetically devoid of any substance you can't help but cringe in addition the majority of screen time is a far below standard story of thieves criminals and our hero es dealing with some alien time travel artifacts i know you are asking for trouble when dealing with time but the story is more full of holes than usual also you have cheap sets bad acting and some of the worst music arrangements in the history of the moving picture overpowering cheap abrupt and disjointed all i can say is man alive this film is bad
0	this horrible action – sci fi movie is a crap i have just spent 90 minutes of my life watching one of the worst movies i have ever seen the story does not make any sense there are lots of flaws in the screenplay the characters are badly developed the unknown cast is horrible the lead ham actor seems to be too old for his role i was induced to buy this vhs which has a magnificent cover and see this crap due to the illogical imdb user rating and some ten stars reviews i have just checked the authors and each one of them has just one short review of l i n x issued in imdb and nothing else why are they promoting such a garbage my vote is one br br title brazil l i n x l i n x lethal connection
0	jeff speakman never really made it beyond the lowest ranks of martial artists turned actors lower than don the dragon wilson for example and with vehicles like the expert you can see why there are three major problems with this movie 1 the plot or should i say plots are all over the place there are some characters who get a lot of screen time but serve little purpose 2 there are only 4 fight scenes in total some of them completely unrelated to the main plot and some taking place in the dark 3 the music score is overzealous and overbearing strange as it may seem this is really the most annoying thing about this film the score persistently tries to convince you that you're watching some sort of grand epic instead of the low budget limited action film you are indeed watching with all that said at least there's james brolin around to lend a touch of credibility 1 2 out of 4
0	ok enough already this is a terrible piece of television the camera work is appalling do i have to remind you of the crunchy gravel so loud you can hardly hear the actors speak lady bertram has the most annoying voice in the entire world anna massey is 'acting' in such an unbelievable fashion and the lack of chemistry between fanny and edmund is beyond beyond also the bertram girls aren't pretty enough and the guy playing henry crawford is awful to say the camera work is dodgy is an understatement i watched this adaptation over christmas and i think under any other circumstances i would not have been able to endure this and certainly would have not been able to justify the wasted time br br i am a fan of faithful to jane adaptations so i could not bear the film adaptation or the recent pride and prejudice movie but see any other adaptation instead even emma is better than this
0	total crap br br i was kind of excited to see this as it is the only film version i have seen of mansfield park i suffered through the first four episodes but when it came to the proposal scene between henry and fanny i snapped and had to turn it off whoever employs this le lady has got to be both blind and deaf cause the woman is the worst actress i've ever seen in my life the whole thing is just bad bad bad i don't know i just don't know why people who write jane austen screenplays seem to be incapable of giving her work the respect it deserves
0	i always try not to be harsh while criticizing something that i didn't like but after watching this mini series i was so disappointed that could not help my irritation on the one hand it is true that series stayed faithful to the novel and of course i found that very nice but on the other hand terrible casting poor acting especially of key characters – like funny price impression of stage play i mean theatrical way of acting makes you irritate from the beginning to the end i am sure with this budget even if it was low could have been done something much better and worthwhile it is up to you to watch this series but personally i don't advice you to spend your time on this disappointing
0	this is a big disappointment the main problem is the acting le is pretty poor as fanny and the rest are not much better everybody is very stilted and unnatural also the camerawork is very 1980's ie cramped and jumpy compared with the likes of 1995's p p for example br br the script is if anything too faithful to the book and there are some cringe worthy expressions that should have been cut br br in every way this is far inferior to the recent film version which though it took huge liberties with the book seemed far more faithful to the spirit of the book and was far more enjoyable
0	this movie is about a young girl who goes to live with her rich cousins falls in love with one of her cousin and reject the advance of a amoral suitor who brings trouble on the family after seeing the 1999 version and reading the book i decided to watch the older version i found it did stay true to fanny character in the book but it was also boring character fanny character played by le was lackluster she often appeared to be about to faint i also did not like robert who played henry crawford i could not imagine him being interested in fanny or her cousin maria jackie smith wood who played mary crawford was okay but the wig she wore was so ugly i lost interested in her acting and i kept staring at her wig i kept expecting it would drop off her head i could also see a slip of her real hair under the wig
0	okay i haven't read the book yet but i have to say that the lead character was miscast how can i say such a thing haven't read the book you ask it's simple as a viewer of this miniseries i grew irritated by the mannerisms gestures and look of the lead character fannie price it's one thing to be a good person but it's quite another to be a stick in the mud creature who disdains from looking anyone in the face or otherwise meeting their gaze apart from the overdone susan b anthony profile she seemed resolute in refusing to look at another person the scene where edmond is pouring his heart out to her she is looking straight ahead the whole time forcing him to do the same as a result it was just awkward and i just couldn't fathom anyone being in love with her let alone both henry and edmond many have said it was true to the book if that is the case i find it hard to believe that jane austen would create such a character as her lead heroine it's possible to create a character who has been put upon by others and succeeds in earning their trust and endearment but the portrayal of this character in this miniseries just didn't do it for me
0	the whole exercise is pointless why make the film at all the lighting is ghastly but the sound is just a joke like a high school production whoever put the budget together for this film should be drawn and quartered for allowing it to be made without the proper budget for with equipment fit for recording br br so much dialog is unintelligible due to losses in echo or the lack of proximity to the mic economy should have been made on any other area the whole production is lifeless and just lame with such amateurish half arsed production it lacks warmth clarity and has no design to it
0	this version of mansfield park while being extremely accurate to the novel lacked the compassion i felt for fanny which is crucial and central to this jane austen story this was due to the total lack of acting ability by the actress le she had no appeal and at times appeared to be either lost in space or out of her depth the scene she has with her uncle where she breaks down in hysterics was hysterical she badly overplayed that crucial scene and i actually felt sorry that henry crawford ever cared for her br br the polar opposite is the portrayal of mary crawford by jackie smith wood what a wonderful actress in a very difficult part to make that character witty and self centered selfish yet vulnerable to love br br i have always loved fanny she is mild mannered but with an implacable sense of what is right and who she thinks is worthy of respect and admiration the fanny in this adaptation is too meek and subservient with hardly a thought of her own until near the end of the series as much as i wanted to like this fanny i just could not br br i suggest skipping this version of mansfield park for the real thing the novel fanny will not disappoint you will love her
0	for everyone who has read this book fanny price ends up maturing into her own woman a beautiful woman with a brain le looks like she is on medication terrible acting she just ruins it henry is a little tall for his character he is also too effeminate mary crawford is brilliant edmond is a little too old mrs norris is hysterical ok this casting decision works rushworth is also perfect yates looks too effeminate also but le is simply horrid this is not a good character for her poor fanny i would recommend this movie only because it includes an almost complete textual account of the language austen uses in the novel the 1999 version is much more fun but terribly incomplete if they could redo this version with a better suited actress for fanny it would be fabulous
0	here is another low quality movie from the disney company there is no more disney spirit the story is boring all emotions are fake it is not cute or moving disney company was at a time a sort of magic company which provided dreams for children it is now all about making money shame on the people who exploit disney name for their personal benefit it is the fall of an empire and by the way pixar is not disney
0	an american werewolf in london had some funny parts but this one isn't so good the computer werewolves are just awful the perspective is all off it's like seeing them through a distorting mirror the writers step on the throat of many of their gags american boy says to parisian girl is there a around here instead of just leaving it at that they have to have the girl sigh and respond this is paris
0	as an avid disney fan i was not totally impressed by this movie certainly not motivated enough to catch it in the theaters i am however so glad that i caught it on dvd and watched the special features br br you must check out the moose commentary the entire movie can be viewed with commentary from and the comic relief moose of the story who are voiced by rick moranis and dave thomas two veterans of the famous second city comedy troupe ad lib in character for an hour and a half about a movie that they are clearly fond of i laughed the whole time the enjoyment i got from this commentary completely made up for the tepid reaction i had to the film itself do yourself a favor and listen to it
0	being a great fan of disney i was really disappointed when i watched this garbage the animation was pretty and the backgrounds were amazing but i believe that good animation does not make up for a weak script and weak story i'm gonna have to disagree with the people who say it is not suitable for children yes there are some deaths in the movie but isn't death something that children should at least be exposed to but i digress the script is riddled with bad puns and lame jokes the kind i could expect from most dreamworks movies the music was soppy the morals forced and forced without any charm whatsoever and the characters would burst into song at totally inappropriate times the characters were also cold and i really couldn't muster up any form of emotion towards them bar irritation i am a great fan of jungle book aladdin and new groove but this disney movie was a total and utter waste of time do not watch it
0	the animation is great i'll concede to that but disney perpetuated every stereotype we have been trying to overcome for the last two generations and the names i mean come on sitka cheesy takeoff of those are real places where real people live and the real people these real places were named for are probably struggling out of the earth seeking vengeance over this trite little flick disney you're based out of california florida right amidst the rest of the states that still treat us like a foreign country if you can't stick to what you know at least hire and or work with people who know what area you're trying to maybe then it wouldn't be so insulting
0	recycled and predictable plot the characters are as memorable as the story line we came in few minutes late and only saw the end of the opening scene which turned out to be a good thing since it was too intense for a 3 and a 4 year old overall a disappointment
0	man kills bear man becomes bear man bear meets bear man bear stays man bear after meeting bear the end seriously that is the entire plot to this movie yes i simplified it to an extreme but you get the picture i just wish i maybe had not have seen it br br the 'man alluded to is a native american indian that kills a mother of a cub and while that can be touching it certainly lacks to really draw in on the potential conflict between the two parties plus there was a certain misuse of the two moose in the film but that is beyond the point br br overall very much under par certainly needed a lot more to be entertaining maybe more laughs from the secondary characters and more drama between the two main bears thats what separates bad films from the good ones d
0	4 out of 10 br br a somewhat unbelievable storyline with some haunted house type shocks that really don't fit in br br gary performance is very erratic not so much the quality of the performance but the consistency his character does not behave in a consistent manner sometimes calm relaxed methodical thoughtful sometimes violent loud almost crazed it's just not believable br br have many 80s movies dated badly will they be more enjoyable 20 years from now br br
0	the blame of this terrible flick lies with the director martin campbell after viewing a few of his credits in later years this must have been one of his first directorial gigs he had a more than decent cast to work with but unfortunately he had no idea what he was doing there were scenes that made absolutely no sense at all where was his head was he on drugs i was looking forward to this movie just because of oldman bacon maybe it was a short shooting schedule and campbell just had to bang it out i can't imagine that the story that campbell directed even came close to the story that the writer wrote oldman bacon along with the rest of the cast must have slid under their chairs if they went to the screening as one poster pointed out karen young did do a pretty good fight scene with bacon she really did 'let loose' it's unfortunate that i have to fill in more space just to stay within the guide lines of what the imdb requires because i really don't have anything more to say about this uninspiring film one does not have to be forced to be a when criticizing a terrible flick and wish that the imdb would change the amount of words to fill up a critique
0	in this film gary oldman plays a defense attorney who was formerly a prosecutor he is a bit tormented but is more or less playing a regular guy rather than some sort of figurative or literal monster funny thing is he doesn't quite pull it off i guess you can't quite get to normal from there kevin bacon was sufficiently creepy the scene in the park was way too long with way too many false scares and the odd sex scene with oldman and karen young seemed to have come from a different movie although the rest of the time miss young did just fine this film suffers from oddness trying to cover up the predictability and failing don't bother
0	terrible psychological thriller that is almost painful to sit through every aspect being awful br br the combined talents of top actors kevin bacon and gary oldman are totally wasted and though they give good performances one wonders why they bothered the script from mark kasdan is a complete mess and martin campbell has the narrative jumping all over the place but if you're unable to follow it take it as a blessing there are far too many pointless crazy scenes that just don't make sense jerry goldsmith's music is not much help either br br even if there was potential in the plot director campbell's approach has utterly ruined it avoid at all costs br br monday february 26 1996 video
0	the only thing that makes this one watchable is corey's performance as the lunatic killer on the loose what remains is a most impossible tale of revenge and matrimonial discord during the walkie talkie scenes i had the feeling that cotten was squeezing a sweet potato and not a communication device another interesting thing about this one is that alan hale the skipper from gilligan's island is not yet so fat and he can still lower his arms below his waist other than that there isn't much to recommend here
0	this film probably would have been good if they didn't use cgi computer generated imagery for the werewolf scenes it made the creatures look fake and the werewolves looked cartoonish cgi is great for certain effects like the in jurassic park or twister but when we see a film where the creature must look completely real cgi is not the way to go look at an american werewolf in london no cgi just makeup and a mechanical creature and what you come up with was more realistic than what was shown in the sequel this film did offer a few gags that was fun to watch and the humor in this movie seemed to have drawn me in but it's nothing more than a film that i thought was o k and that's not good enough in my opinion an american werewolf in paris doesn't hold up to the original
0	respected western auteur budd boetticher is woefully out of place with this choppy modern day cops and robbers story that suffers from a strong lack of emotional believability boetticher seems to have rehearsal time and settled for the first take as leads joe cotton and rhonda fleming put little effort into their roles delivering lines flatly and without energy br br mild mannered employee leon foggy poole works as an inside man on a bank job that goes bad and gets his wife killed in the process he escapes from prison and immediately sets out to kill the wife of the detective who killed his hundreds of cops are mobilized to keep him from getting to the home of the intended who has been moved to another location but wouldn't you know in the films final moments we have foggy trailing feet behind the victim who thought somehow that taking a bus back to the house was a sound move while a company of cops observe and bicker over what action to take sound preposterous you should see it it's all of that and more br br lucien ballard's camera work does a decent job of bringing noir to the suburbs but the editing is lackadaisical and shapeless and it drains the film of its suspense and pace as poole wendell corey is the best thing in the film managing to evoke great sympathy as he transitions from gentle soul to murderer these attributes aside killer uniformly fails in construction and execution making its message clear go western old budd
0	first i must point out that the role wendell corey played was exceptional usually corey was relegated to supporting roles but here he is what helps carry this very limp film without him and the character he played the film would have been a lot worse hardly a 2 or 3 br br so why did i hate the rest of the film so much well one of my pet peeves is when characters act too stupid to live you can't base major plot points on the assumption that your major characters are completely stupid unless having a brain injury is part of the plot of course but this is exactly what happens in this film wendell corey is a crazed man who has murdered three innocent people and they know his next target is joseph wife so what do they do yep they provide really inadequate police protection and a plan that makes no sense at all no marksman and guys with shotguns that are so far away they probably won't stop this madman and if this isn't bad enough the marked woman inexplicably runs away from her hiding place and walks right into the worst possible place she could be is anyone that stupid i hate when movies have such dumb characters in fact i found myself rooting for corey since i felt the idiots deserved to die for their behaviors in addition to these clichéd characters there was also a bit player who fainted sure seeing your husband shot might cause someone to faint however in real life this is a rare occurrence people rarely faint unless there is a medical reason so combining this with the above character problems is a real nightmare for people who are looking for realism something film noir movies must have br br all these serious problems are even more infuriating since wendell corey's character is amazingly well written and conceived it was his chance to shine as an actor too bad the rest of the movie was so limp that corey and the basic plot idea are sunk this is one film that could really use a remake but this time without brainless characters
0	great actors good filming a potentially interesting plot and what should have been good dialog nothing else is good about this movie perhaps the writer or director thought they could make a thought provoking film out of annoying characters who are as deep as a cup of coffee br br within 10 minutes i disliked the portrayal of kim by feeney so much that it became a distraction while kim is supposed to be an unsympathetic character i am not sure i was supposed to want to commit acts of physical violence upon her the first of many bizarre things that happen is that wes david strathairn goes from i am missing 50 00 to she stole 50 in about 3 seconds it was quite implausible since she kim never had access to his wallet nor was she a master pickpocket there simply was no rational reason to suspect her most people have lost misplaced money and assume just that we lost it same goes for kim later all very unrealistic behavior in what is supposed to be i think a look at real people the character of kim was at minimum suffering from a bipolar disorder wes had huge inadequacy issues nancy was just boring and matt was delusional particularly about music i actually turned this off about 2 3 of the way through however to write a valid comment i forced myself to turn it back on hoping that something would come together in this movie no sorry it was still bad make it a point to miss this one
0	i saw this as a kid before it had been yanked from the rotation and even then it left a bad taste in my mouth there were some competently worked out gags but making slapstick villains out of american citizens who'd been interned in camps strictly due to their race was amazingly tasteless br br moe himself might have wanted this one buried he was a liberal guy in his autobiography he told of visiting a town in the segregated south where he saw a black man get off the sidewalk to avoid passing too close moe stepped into the street to show it wasn't a problem and the man then got back on the curb then off again finally the man told moe nervously that if moe didn't stop trying to share the sidewalk with him he might get them both lynched br br another thing there are exploding ostrich eggs but no in the film so the title should actually be if anyone cares the on me
0	the on me is undoubtedly the most controversial film in the stooges' 23 years of shorts the reason is understandable by today's standards this film can be considered racist for this reason it is rarely shown if ever on television br br let me just state that for the record the japanese seen in the film were not soldiers they were japanese americans sent to a relocation center during world war ii they were treated and shown as the evil enemy in this film by all accounts including the us government who made an apology and in the 1980s japanese americans during world war ii were as loyal and hardworking as any american their imprisonment during this time is a dark blot in american history br br there are some stooge laughs in this film but the memories of how japanese americans were treated during this time sullies the entertainment value let's not confuse the loyal japanese americans with their representation in this film as evildoers loyal japanese americans and the world war ii era evil empire of japan are not synonymous 2 out of 10
0	i have just written a comment to aces high 1976 and that remind me of this film which i watched as kid when it was released since then i have watched it only once and that was more than enough as kevin well says it is a complete waste of time apart from the dog fights which are nicely done the rest is a sequence of badly patched scenes with actors struggling with a lousy script and equally lousy direction i do not remember the silly german accents mentioned by kevin in his comment but that is another pathetic mistake if corman tried to make more convincing the characterization of the german pilots why didn't he use german actors or have those parts dubbed on the other hand is good example of the appalling hollywood style of film making with their villains so clearly identifiable not only by their cruel actions but also by their grotesque accents br br talking about cruel actions the ridiculous scene were lieutenant hermann goering murders english nurses during an attack on an is an absolutely disgusting piece of propaganda done with historical hindsight if you want to a see a factual moving very well acted and directed film about the air war during wwi watch aces high 1976 or that wonderful classic the dawn patrol 1938 you shall not be disappointed
0	took a chance to see if perhaps a really good wwi film had slipped my notice this isn't it john phillip law and don stroud are both stiff in their acting and miscast for their roles the dialogue is dumb or non existent the flying sequences are okay but pretty repetitive compared to the terrific blue max this movie should never have been made watch george peppard james mason and andress in the and you get why that movie is one of the best war films ever made and this isn't recently released on dvd and brown is presented as some great 'lost classic' from the 70's i resold mine the day after i bought it don't waste your time or
0	as a flying and war movie buff this ranks at he bottom of my list it is historically completely inaccurate and the cast sounds and acts like they just stepped out of a high school play the acting script direction production standards and casting are all garbage the only saving grace is some of the flying sequences if the people they portray were fictitious i might rate it a 2 but if there is one thing that annoys me more than anything else in movies it is pretending that this is history and that the great people they are trying to be actually did this its almost as if they tried to write in as many notable ww1 personalities as possible there are many good ww1 flying films and this is not one of them
0	i don't see the sense in going through so much trouble to make a movie like this and then throw the history book out the window there wasn't a single accurate detail in that movie other than the fact than died which i was grateful for at the end so i didn't have to watch any more movies like this are an insult to anyone who knows anything about wwi aerial history br br i'll skip the obvious that they were flying in 1916 because the blue max did that too or that 209 squadron was flying se and will attack other parts for one thing they call the d iii an 'old at the beginning for another they have voss goring and wolff all in the only one who was in that was voss and he joined after died wasn't held to blame for death erwin who collided with had swerved to avoid a british plane that was chasing when received his head wound it was while attacking a fe 2d two seater and he did not crash into the trenches and have soldiers fight over him and no werner voss did not die that day he died september 28th in one of the most epic battles in wwi br br manfred was short not like the actor who towered over everyone else his brother lothar was never in either he joined the squadron when manfred was in charge of 11 br br there's so many other glaring errors in historical fact that i'll let them go except perhaps the worst one the death scene in the movie manfred is out maneuvered by brown and then shot down making a perfect landing brown got off one burst at while was chasing may and the facts amassed over the years overwhelmingly show that was killed by ground fire not by brown br br the only value in this movie was the chance to see the flying scenes themselves which were as good as 'the blue max' other than that i won't watch it again and i paid 30 for the tape
0	i found this movie at the flea market for cheap i was so psyched because i thought it was a skateboarding movie i got home put it on the previews rules and the opening scene with the old guy rolling down the street on the skateboard was awesome at that moment i realized it was a post apocalyptic movie but i still had high hopes for it this movie was awful a friend of mine was stoned out of his mind when we watched it and even he thought it was horrible and a waste of being high i kept falling asleep during the movie because it was so boring and the music was utterly awful i don't know if during the apocalypse all the good music and all the music that is only kind of crappy is destroyed and everyones memory of how to play it is wiped clean but i think i would rather die than have to endure that crap also what the hell was up with the tv studio i can only assume that this movie was adapted from an old greek play with the names and title but some plays are not meant to be adapted into a futuristic sci fi setting or at least not by the people who were involved with this movie if you are forced to watch this movie i can only suggest bringing a hand gun and finishing yourself off before the end it would be a good movie to kill yourself too everyone will understand why
0	an american werewolf in paris wasn't really that good compared to the original the original didn't use computer effects for the werewolf and they looked more realistic the werewolf effects in this film looked too cartoonish most of all the movie did not have enough for me for a horror film to enjoy
0	art house horror tries to use unconventional aesthetics to cover the fact that this is just another serial killer chiller which ultimately relies on pornographic combinations of teen sexuality and violent gore the suburbs come across about as well as they do in every piece of australian writing book or film since 1960 surprise surprise the suburbs have a dark underbelly and the plot is as contrived as any you've seen the neighbours would never know about this guy one of the filmmakers says about joel character but he was completely plausible as to what he was serial killers don't all have patches over their eyes and scars down their cheeks they look like the guy next door another trader in pornographic violence who sees a serial killer in every street but the real insignificance of this film is in the fact that it's a genre film that nobody saw backed by substantial funds including some from film finance that's government this got a run at the underground film festival in melbourne and had to rely on kindness for a very short release season what is the doing funding genre flicks even if they are 'arty' and aesthetically unconventional why are these nasty movies acolytes beautiful punishment no through road being made in the first place richard co encourage their creators to believe they're giving the masses what they really want as opposed to what the culture elite in government funding think they want the truth is that these brutal and forgettable nasties earn far more critical acclaim and win far more obscure awards than they're due
0	wow they told me it was bad but i had no idea br br we've started a tradition we found one copy of this movie and we just pass it from person to person whoever has the movie watches it and then passes it to someone else deemed worthy of seeing this unique creative horrible movie hopefully it'll travel 'round the world a few times br br it's painful really painful it's even beyond so bad it's funny well okay sometimes it's so bad it's funny but most of the time it just gives you that feeling that there's something sucking at your brain from the inside br br wow watch it then pass it
0	i cannot see why anyone would make such a movie from start to finish this film is really really bad br br the characters are all very shallow terribly acted and downright annoying there is absolutely nothing going on below the surface at all with either characters or plot br br the 'humour' if you can call it that is aimed at an adult audience i presume from the language and nudity although it comes across as mainly toilet humour and would have problems even drawing a smile from a half witted 16 year old br br i would recommend avoiding this excuse for a comedy it has nothing whatsoever that would appeal to a film fan non existent laughs and a plot that barely exists lead me to ask why has this film been made why why why br br i expect in the fullness of time to see this film topping the top 100 worst films
0	as much as we might welcome a film that deals with people who have different challenges in the area of romance i cannot shake off the feeling that this movie was intended as a direct to video grade c porn movie in which either a the actors backed out of doing the explicit scenes or b the producers ran out of money to hire for the inserts an amazing thing if it were true br br i had to go back to blockbuster to figure out why on earth i had rented it which was due to an admittedly amateurish gullibility regarding the cover blurbs which seemed to imply a john waters style humor fest with a sexual theme okay i laughed a couple of times and it definitely has a sexual theme although most of it can't be described as stimulating in any way but on some movies you might rewind to make sure you heard the dialog correctly on this one you fast forward because you already know what they're about to say but there's nothing to fast forward to so just fast forward past it on the shelf
0	ed wood rides again the fact that this movie was made should give any young br br aspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have thought of using to br br line a or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watching this br br movie made me realize that boa vs python was not that bad after all it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film it is understandable why this director has so many aliases there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br br make your toward your tv set's cocoon of cheese that surrounds it
0	poorly acted poorly written and poorly directed special effects are cheap best performance is by yvette but that's not saying much story is a confusing mess about corporate greed leading to sabotage of a space station and an attempt to rescue those stranded aboard br br there is little suspense and even less action there's one car chase that's not bad but the rest of the movie is simply a waste of everyone's time
0	rented this from my local video store it was titled black horizon i guess someone felt this was good enough for a 2004 re release br br micheal dudikoff is not a ninja in this movie one of the major flaws of this film right off the bat another major flaw would be that ice t's action scenes are stolen from other movies particularly the first scene of his rescue which is directly from the wesley snipes movie the art of war with ice t edited in i hope they paid for that footage br br the plot is awful the special effects had little effort put into them love those wires holding them in space the acting is wooden also love those new york russian accents ice t being in the movie is pointless these guys also forgot the fact that there is no gravity in space but i guess they weren't worried about it br br micheal dudikoff should go back to doing what he's good at and make american ninja 6
0	i really should have learned more about this movie before renting it it was one of those movies where you keep watching it figuring it's got to get better then when it ends you feel stupid for having wasted precious time in your life that you can never get back ice t did his bad guy thing and well that was the highlight of the evening the pictures of the shuttle looks like it was done with a little toy inside of a box and the scenes were funny because you could see the strings attached to the space suits the script was lacking and the car chase scene with the guy bleeding and going unconscious was incredible because he drove better than i could have on one of my best days all in all i have seen worse but this sure isn't one i'd recommend or want to remember
0	i rented this movie because i am a huge dudikoff fan i figured it couldn't be that bad boy was i wrong at the 15 minute mark i was the others to let me rip the dvd out and fling it back to the rental store but they refused they swore it had to get better br br they were wrong this movie was lacking everything the actors delivered their lines with as much emotion as a comatose rock the plot was ridiculous and i was offended that hollywood assumed people were dumb enough to enjoy it none of the characters interacted very well with each other ice t gives one of his worst performances here br br after watching footage of the wrong plane bad guys standing up to get shot and clips being emptied and missing everything i wanted to scream and bang my head on concrete the movie hit its plateau of ignorance when the people on the space station used an elevator to travel space suits are not needed and there is gravity in space regardless of what real astronauts may say br br i didn't finish this movie and hated it i don't want to finish this movie this is slow suicide i could feel my cerebral planning to avenge the torture i put it through
0	i knew it was going to be awful but not this awful as it's one of the most boring movies i have ever seen not a damn thing happens all the characters are dull and the story is stupid and incredibly boring plus the ending is especially lame the only reason i rented this piece of crap because i am a big fan of michael dudikoff however he is wasted here and looks extremely bored and shows no emotion what so ever plus i cheered out loud when the movie was over it's like the movie had no plot and it was all about nothing and ice t is god awful even though he is ok in some stuff plus dudikoff and yvette nipar had no chemistry together at all there's one scene that the director tried to make emotional but he fails miserably as yvette nipar didn't really show all that much emotion however there is a decent car chase scene but that's not enough for me to recommend this god awful film plus the dialog is atrocious avoid this movie like the plague not a damn thing happens please avoid and trust me on this one you may thank me afterwords the direction is horrible fred olen ray does a horrible job here with shoddy camera work laughably cheap looking set pieces terrible angles laughable use of stock footage and keeping the film at an incredibly dull pace the acting is terrible michael dudikoff is nowhere near his usual amazing self he looks extremely bored and shows no emotion what so ever his character is also extremely dull as i can't believe he signed on for this piece of garbage he also had no chemistry with yvette nipar dudikoff still rules ice t has barely anything to do and also looks bored and he didn't convince me one bit is not very good here he had somewhat of a wimpy character i didn't like him yvette nipar is pretty but was really terrible here she didn't show much emotion and had no chemistry with dudikoff and as a result i didn't give a damn about her character art owen marsh kathy katharine marsh and the rest of the cast are bad as well overall please avoid like the plague fred olen ray and steve should be ashamed of themselves bomb out of 5
0	the russian space station with a crew of four russians and two americans is threatening to re enter the earth's atmosphere in a matter of days russia asks for help in rescuing the stranded crew and nasa scrambles the space shuttle atlantis the nsa also have an interest in the a prototype microwave power source being tested aboard and organise for one of their men to be placed on the mission br br that's the plot onto less important things the space station and the shuttle are the same blatantly obvious models used in 'memorial day' and 'dark and a handful of other films i suspect the model effects are so obvious throughout the entire movie and make the film look very 1960s the sets are a little better but are far too '80s for what is supposedly a brand new station built by an american company which later comes in as part of a conspiracy to destroy and the and claim the insurance the script has a few good moments including farewell and the little spiel at the end but is otherwise fairly bland and sub standard the acting is okay the only real standout performance comes from alex who offers up some of the film's better dialogue michael dudikoff is surprisingly one of the best parts about this film ice t is ice t 'nuff said the film offers a few surprises though that i don't wish to spoil br br certainly one of the better low grade contemporary set sci fi films of the last six years but not the best the film is watchable but the special effects and plot will probably put a lot of viewers off rent the other sci fi film instead
0	there is really but one thing to say about this sorry movie it should never have been made the first one one of my favourites an american werewolf in london is a great movie with a good plot good actors and good fx but this one it stinks to heaven with a cry of helplessness br br
0	admittedly you can put a model airplane against a black background and call it sci fi and thats enough to get me interested so if you are like that black horizon will at least get you interested before you watch it the best part of the movie is when they rehash some actual footage of a shuttle launch br br the movie plays like the naked gun series spoofing cop dramas with bad clichés and bad acting unfortunately i don't think they meant to be funny the actors really are made of cardboard the dialog really does suck so well just have to laugh at them and not with them br br on a side note it is rare to see a movie that takes place half in outer space half on earth and doesn't mix in the expected extraterrestrials and supernatural events i really do ache for more realistic drama based on our space endeavors
0	what a clunker br br it must have been made for tv or cable br br look forget the screenplay forget the bunch of forgettable actors excuse me continuity the nsa whatever or whoever he is an agent takes off in an f16 is shown in an chucking his guts up and later the aircraft shown is an phantom oooh wish that i could be so cavalier br br apart from the male actors the women are wasps blue eyed and long legged and eventually get to cry about the heroes who save them even when a solid weld could save most of the cosmo astro the blond drops the welding tool duh br br as an sf movie one out of ten as a movie per se 1 2 that's a half point they should have ditched the space station and headed for mars br br major raspberries
0	this is one the worst movie i've seen and certainly worst movie has made i can't believe person who has created movie like teen can create utter crap like this br br plot of the film itself is really faulty that zeenat has to search meera and get her to help her husband avoid death penalty in arabia common logic says if zeenat cannot search meera easily so won't the government so zeenat can safely forge signature or thumb print and produce it before the another silliest thing is shankar has given incorrect address in his passport so indian government officials cannot get to the address but after sometime meera gets suitcase through government wow doesn't it make well networked in india more than indians br br makes a slightly more than cameo in the movie with role of chopra who is eyeing meera and seeks father in law girish this guy is just wasted 's help to get her as a keep br br cannot speak hindi and he has been assisted by other guys to translates the english dialogs he writes in hindi this time it seems that his aide was in serious intoxication when writing dialogs like ki leap of honesty within minutes to our worst nightmares meera not only takes this honest leap she taps her feet to do ka dance of honesty br br one of the only bright spot movie has is its cinematography and really nice hues but since bollywood has learned the thing called post production almost all the movies have vibrant colors and nicely blended backdrops so no big deal br br conclusion is that making a cheesy movie is not limited to chopras or johars or barjatyas and all are ready to get affected
0	i have read the other user comments and i am happy someone has compared it to the original by kamal called released in 2004 br br the original had a tight story and no loopholes as described above about the indian govt not having proper records or even bad shoots and bloopers br br the story is great and a touchy one and well described by others but sadly taking credit for it as his own story is a sad thing and amounts to nothing other than plagiarism br br i guess he has been affected by so called inspired syndrome br br he must at least give credit where it is due br br i liked some of his older movies but now i suspect if any of them were originals after all br br here is a link in imdb for the original masterpiece http www imdb com title comment i recommend everyone to see the original even with subtitles if needed to know what class direction and class acting is all about
0	tom gilson was my brother so i went to see the movie and i never looked at it again in all these years sorry it was bad i'm told i have to write 10 lines so i'll put a little trivia in tom and tuesday weld were to be introduced in this picture and tom was told to take tuesday to the premiere but tom said no he was going with joan collins and he did and because he did only tuesday weld was introduced i found this very funny back then and still do the movie while the concept was a funny one and the actors in it were impressive but some how it just did'nt come out funny the continuity was abstract at best it was like i was watching 2 different movies at the same time each running into the other sorry bob gilson
0	this is total swill if you take the devil's rejects and suck all the good out of it and add a lot of twisted kinky bondage parts a few rape scenes and like one or two sincerely horrifying scenes and you'd get this movie people are calling this a ripoff of the hitcher but i don't see that at all even the worst hitcher ripoffs are still better than this the main problem on display here is that there's really nothing here besides a few of the director's fetishes being showcased like circus exhibits is all you need out of a movie shots of girls being abused and tied up cowering in fear well then rent this movie br br however i'd rather just watch a good movie which this is clearly not the sad thing is there are some really good thrills waiting to be uncovered here but only a few for instance the suspense at the beginning before the bondage nonsense started pretty damn good if you ask me and the scene where the hitchhiker kills the nympho girl can't remember names is chilling very brutal in a way challenging even the devil's rejects for unbridled fury how come the rest of the movie can't be that good huh i really need to stop renting stupid crap like this closing message just let this gutter trash die and forget it forever not recommended
0	about the spoiler warning it's not may contain it does contain spoilers readers beware br br okay first i need it to be known that i'm not bashing the actors they're just working with what they're given the problem was the script it was horrendous there was nothing believable about it at all sure when you have a movie based on a murderous hitchhiker there's going to be the bad mistake here and there that puts you in the terribly horrific movie worthy situation but these girls just made stupid decision after stupid decision the only girl smart enough to ever try and call the police was the girl added towards the end because he'd already killed one and hit another with a car speaking of hitting her with a car why the hell did she try and outrun a truck rather than run to the side like a normal person also does the one who wrote the script honest to god believe cops are not going to investigate a door covered in blood frankly it wasn't suspenseful either the only suspense i was feeling was the frustration at just how retarded the girls were well this rant has gone on way longer than i meant to for such a bad movie so i won't bother to touch on the end besides the fact it's unrealistic and lame
0	this movie was disappointing for at least one of two reasons the suspense created disappeared because of horrible acting or lack of direction from the director i don't know it was like a tasty bubble gum that seemed to run out of flavor yet you continue to chew on it because it once tasted great like most thrillers the hitchhiker had promise yet failed to deliver when it had me bright eyed and ready to turn the volume down i was watching the movie alone in the dark this so called thriller simply came apart like it was made of lego transforming into something else it simply ran out of gas and left me staring at a made for tv like style movie with one exception it was probably rated r
0	ok i went to this website before i watched this movie read the comments got pumped cause they where all pretty good for a b flick watched it and was completely disappointed the main characters wannabe lone rebel straight out of the mid west act was sickening to the stomach and don't even get me started on the two cops i mean there's a bloody door right there in plain view check it out the plot was completely predictable the editing was rather limited i swear the editor was even dozing off near the end when he was cutting this movie and the direction was clouded by bad cinematography now please don't get me wrong i love b flicks some are really good br br want to watch a good b rated flick br br dave recommends br br high tension br br http imdb com title
0	first the current imdb plot description seems to be misleading the movie is about a group of girls who pick up a misogynistic hitchhiker who plans to kill them all they stop at a small motel where he holds them hostage but develops an intense attraction for one of the girls violence ensues br br i picked this up by mistake thinking it was the other 2007 movie the hitcher not that the hitcher is any better and i was looking for a crummy movie to watch anyway but this was almost unbearable at times i think i could have vomited on a piece of paper and come up with a better plot than this br br i can't even count how many movies i've seen with virtually the same storyline so this was almost painfully predictable at times but what really made it awful were a few scenes that well let me give an example at one point a door is covered in what is very obviously blood and two police officers at the scene because of a 911 call are looking at it from 30 feet away see a man also covered in blood walk out of the door agree that it looks suspicious but decide to not investigate further br br but however ridiculous it may be the movie was never boring was well produced directed and acted complete with good special effects gratuitous nudity and violence i probably would not recommend actually spending 90 minutes of your life sitting down to watch this movie but it turned out to be perfect to have on while i cleaned my basement also highly recommended for fans of crummy movies and would be a good movie to watch with friends when you plan on doing more talking than watching
0	this is a title in search of a movie it's a pitch that sounded lucrative to some studio executive and the rest be damned when this film was made there were still two things that cgi did not do at all well people and fur furry people were thus not destined to look good when rendered by computer this is the only example i can think of where effects for a well funded sequel took a giant leap back landing well behind those of the original movie for the record the design of the werewolves doesn't help a bit the film makers apparently couldn't decide between quadruped and tried to do both and wound up with a creature that looks equally awkward either way the transformations are anatomically nonsensical and the end result with a relatively high forehead and short snout looks like a cross between ron perlman and a hyena but back to the crass part this is a movie which exists purely to cash in on its i am not a fan of original film but boy does it look good in light of this if you thought some of humor was forced try some of the excruciating attempts here the bubble gum scene the corpse humor the dog that you know you'll just have to watch that bit yourselves thomas everett scott is on vacation in europe with friends and decides to take a break from acting the ugly and jump off the eifel tower in the middle of the night this leads to him rescuing a young woman delpy julie it's not worth this just to become a star in america ask rutger hauer from jumping to her death she turns out to be part of a cult of werewolves who are plotting to i'm not sure something bad ghastly french stereotypes gaping plot holes a muddled ending no matter the studio cared only that the title would likely fool millions of american werewolf in london fans into handing over their cash for the most part happy to say they were wrong
0	this movie is watchable but nothing special four girls on a road trip to vegas foolishly decide to pick up a hitchhiker because he is cute they all end up staying the night at a motel in the middle of nowhere and the hitchhiker's psychotic issues with women become apparent br br the characters are clichés there is a married responsible woman a slutty party girl an unsure bride to be and a man hater who just got dumped the hitchhiker is genuinely nice until he goes crazy br br there's not nearly enough gore and way too much rape i enjoy slasher horror thrillers a lot and this one did nothing for me the ending was just as lame as the rest of the movie br br on the positive side the actors did a great job with that they had to work with the dialogue isn't awful and overall i was impressed with the cast having never seen or heard of any of them before and the plot wasn't out of the realm of possibility although i really doubt any woman in this day and age would pick up a hitchhiker no matter how attractive he is so i wasn't groaning that things didn't make sense br br overall the hitchhiker was well acted and made sense but wasn't very interesting there are a lot of better movies in the same genre that i would recommend over this one rest stop the devil's rejects texas chainsaw massacre even the hitcher remake do yourself a favor and skip it unless you don't have any other options
0	i can't believe that i actually sat thru this entire film a friend rented it because the jacket made it sound good in it's defense the jacket was correct there was a supposed haunted room that someone slept in overnight from the jacket it sounded like this was on par with freddy jason or maybe the shining it couldn't be farther from the truth br br if you are a fan of minimalist and or surrealist films you may enjoy it if you're looking for a good fright movie or a couple of thrills go rent jason vs freddy iv you'll have a much better night
0	spoiler ahead the mummy lon chaney jr is on the loose in a new england college town searching for a college student ramsey ames who is the reincarnation of his beloved princess ananka dull slow even at 65 minutes it moves slower than the mummy indifferently acted but the ending is worth waiting for the mummy gets the girl and she ages rapidly as the both slowly sink in a swamp this is i believe the only time in a universal monster movie that the monster got the girl that aside this is amateur night probably the worst of the mummy sequels and that's saying something
0	lon chaney jr returns to lumber along as the mummy kharis seeking his mate whose soul now resides in the beautiful host of descendant ramsay ames andoheb high priest of arkan george zucco leaves yousef bey john carradine in charge of kharis to continue their evil doing ways tom robert lowery must find a way to save his beloved from certain future mummy terror br br routine predictable entry in the kharis series proves that nearly every film follows a specific format formula the city is threatened by a skulking one armed corpse masked in wrapping who seems to have been gifted with superhuman power to choke the life out of able bodied men who are restrained with relative ease by a mere from kharis frank reicher who saw kharis in action and knows a great deal about egyptian history in the previous film the mummy's tomb proves that anyone who happened to survive a previous encounter with the mummy is sure to die if he returns in the next flick well produced but lacks originality that would set it apart from the other films in the series sadly carradine sleepwalks through his role as the evil yousef bey embarrassing script mistake has kharis who is known for donning a crippled lame right arm carrying an unconscious with both arms for long distances with no ill effects one aspect the shocking climax where tom's attempt at heroism doesn't go according to plan as kharis holds his damsel in distress hostage lifts the film from the doldrums slightly
0	perhaps the weakest film in the kharis series despite the presence of john carradine miscast as an egyptian high priest and george zucco as his predecessor hilariously afflicted by a bad case of disease supporting lon chaney jr as the titular creature if indeed it was him under the bandages as his contribution is negligible at best it's a watchable 60 minutes in itself i guess but the standards have considerably lowered when compared even to the two previous entries and the end result is strictly routine and not at all memorable just about the only interesting feature here is the fact that the female lead happens to be the reincarnation of princess ananka mentioned a great deal in earlier films but never actually seen
0	if at all possible try to view all five of the universal mummy films in order not so much for the continuity between films but for the very evident lack thereof of course it goes without saying that the original boris karloff classic the mummy really shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as the so called sequels all of which come off as campy or cultish br br this time around it's revealed that the mummified remains of princess ananka have made their way to the united states and once again as your eyes deceive you kharis the mummy didn't really die for the second time in the mummy's tomb but is alive and searching for his lost love princess ananka with the help of the rhetorical nine tana leaves during the cycle of the full moon to complete the mythology kharis needs a caretaker ably filled by a gaunt john carradine as yousef bey entrusted with the task by george andoheb high priest of arkan br br kharis and ananka are to be returned to their final resting place in the hills of arkan in egypt but as we've seen before being entrusted with the duty of a high priest is a sure bet to end in failure with carradine's character falling for the reincarnation of ananka ramsay ames it's shocking to see yousef bey and the bandaged one come to blows over the gorgeous br br riddle me this in both tomb and curse lon chaney portrays the mummy with a limp right arm folded helplessly across his chest when he encounters the fainted he lifts her up in both arms with no problem as soon as he puts her down his right arm returns to it's crippled position once again br br the ending of the film is most notable the monster gets the girl but it's a short lived victory as the mummy and his kidnapped bride succumb to a swampy grave an ancient egyptian curse is fulfilled the fate of those who defy the will of the ancient gods shall be a cruel and violent death
0	look some film has got to the be worst ever i suggest it may be india song when i saw the film in 1976 it was playing at the carnegie hall cinema a place frequented by people who care a lot about film from about the halfway point people were simply flooding out of the theater my girlfriend wouldn't let us leave but by the end the theater was virtually empty i kept telling people as they left that the good part is still to come and it was the good part was the screen at the end that said fin it was the only good part i am still annoyed by this film 24 years later it was pointless stupid and derivative marienbad part 2 see it only if you want to spend an endless two hours learning to distinguish between merely bad and simply awful
0	i felt as though the two hours i spent watching this film may have been better served by perhaps going to the local used bookstore and looking for old fashion magazines and halston ads or perhaps by watching paint dry those two would have at least engaged my mind a bit more than india song the most frustrating part of sitting through this was that i could see what moods atmospheres were trying to be created and the notion of these could have been interesting if they had been fleshed out more instead what happened was a presentation of an incoherent silly chain of with the same scenes rehashed over and over to beat some sort of point into our senses br br i was loathe to devote more time to this film by writing any sort of review except to perhaps warn other folks against this waste of time
0	extremely boring i don't care how many avant garde bones you have in your body this baby sucks and don't go and see it because i mentioned that save it for warhol's empire it's far more entertaining i have seen other films that were far better so i am dumbfounded why this is considered a masterpiece as an art historian i have had to consider radical works by marcel chris burden and damien hurst and in these artist i can still see artistic intent even quality and an entertaining aspect in the rendering of their art as for india song it's not even soft porn nin was almost here g rated slide show of sex and a voice over that does not relate to the slide show movie pure crap and not even campy sadly just a bore and a waste of 2 hours to add insult to injury the print i saw was faded and scratched to hell harvard film archive if i want to see entertaining boring i watch bunuel yes india song hold your head high to late modernism and be truly bored watch a 70's porn film with all the good parts cut out and turn the sound down you'll get india song but with better cinematography and none of the annoying music or the screams of the vice consul
0	imagine watching a slide show where the projector lingers on every slide long enough for you to completely memorize it three times over now imagine that the images in the slide show consist entirely of mundane scenes – a small park and empty tennis court a piano now imagine that the people running the slide show are having a frustratingly slow semi lucid conversation about events that only occasionally relate to the slides they're showing you great – you've just imagined the entirety of the film india song ' br br the film is an agonizingly slow montage of images that do little except to simply scream out look at me i am profound ' with such blatant self importance that the images themselves and the movie as a whole are rendered not merely bereft of profundity but comically bereft of profundity the visuals could easily have been replaced by a series of static images as described above since it is so rare that there are actually people on screen and even when they are the people actually move only slightly more often than the furniture they never speak or interact in any meaningful way – they just stand there looking at each other and occasionally crying the most energetic moment in the entire first hour of the film is when three people walk across a parking lot in slow motion in fact the visuals could easily have been left out entirely as the story is told completely through narration the story is about a woman who hates india because it's hot and hates people don't hate india because it's hot this point is covered several times it is also about a man who feels that he is entitled to sleep with the aforementioned woman since she will sleep with anyone who asks her to but he doesn't get to sleep with her simply because he never asks and he's very upset about this so he stares at her as a single tear runs profoundly down his cheek later on he stares at his bicycle as a single tear runs profoundly down his cheek actually you don't get to see the single tear running profoundly down his cheek when he's staring at his bicycle but you know it's there anyway just because that's the sort of film this is br br at best the narration becomes background hum serving as a perfect compliment to the coma inducing visuals simply staying conscious through the entirety of this film would require a supreme act of determination to watch it and actually come away with a serious and meaningful idea of what it was supposed to be about would induce the same sort of migraine as trying to read lengthy technical documents in the dark this film is perhaps the greatest monument of pseudo artistic pretension that man will ever know
0	you will likely be sorely disappointed by this sequel that's not a sequel is a classic but this movie is about as far from being a classic as you can get what a joke special effects that aren't very special horrible dialogue non acting and a laughably ridiculous subplot quickly and unconvincingly not to mention fleeting tacked on with about a third of the movie left did i mention the story is less then lame there's no way this was supposed to be serious horror movie yet it's to stupid to be funny in any good way the rating it currently has 4 8 10 is too generous if you ask me my rating for an american werewolf in paris a 3 5 10
0	this film has an amazing cast mgm took some of its finest character actors and starred them in a film with the usually adorable margaret o'brien lionel barrymore edward arnold and lewis stone star as three greedy old bachelors who live in the same home while they have amassed a fortune over the years they also have been selfish jerks one of them has an idea to donate some property in order to buy themselves a good name sort of like carnegie but it turns out the property they want to give away actually belongs to o'brien and since she's an orphan they volunteer to be her guardians so they can give her property away and look like great br br there also is a goofy subplot involving fairies led by the wonderful character actor henry davenport and since o'brien is irish as evidenced by her outrageous accent she and the little people make up much of the plot frankly i absolutely hated this portion of the film and wished they'd just dropped it entirely instead the story could still have been about sweet margaret melting the mean old men's hearts this would have worked but the little people sheesh overall the actors try very very hard but the silliness of the plot and the deadly earnest way they tried made me cringe i noticed a lot of people liked this film i guess i'm just an old grouch i found the film horrible difficult to watch
0	shameless waste of my time as a viewer this is one of the worst films i've seen in ages please do not rent it as you will regret doing so guaranteed i wonder how kathleen turner ended up in this she is a legitimate actress and people would perhaps be attracted to this film because of her but it really is better to act as if this title was never made it should not have come into existence
0	prince of central park 2000 is so utterly bad it was a pure waste of my time and i can't believe i actually watched the whole thing please do not watch this movie if it's the last thing you do
0	the auteur of prince manages to take an excellent cast a decent story a mediocre script and carefully assemble them into one boring monotonous amateurish mess in spite of a strong central performance by frank the prince this disjointed film wanders aimlessly from scene to scene painfully disintegrating into hash the result brings a sigh of relief at the end where the tears of joy should be a sad waste of time and talent and a good example of how not to direct a film br br
0	the evil gang in this movie were called the savages hence the title but minor would have been a better name for this sorry mob of weak actors trying to look dangerous whenever they wanted to kill someone they generously rode their bikes very slowly so that their intended victim could easily avoid them or push them off their bikes their leader had a bad limp but still thought he could take on the hero and win as for karen black she didn't seem to know where she was for most of the film
0	ben stryker an ex green beret stops off at a little town called to visit an old friend tick rand soon after riding into town on his suzuki and settling in a motorcycle gang known as 'the who's led by tyrant invade and finally take over the place stryker doesn't want to get involved but that changes when he friends become the actual targets br br is there anything good to say about this scuzzy item tough call as the only fundamental reason to watch this low budget car wreck is for the tremendous b cast the crew managed to get hold off for this project while i don't think it's a complete botch job it's not terribly good either now what a cast lance henriksen being the main character he strangely doesn't have top billing but the final one karen black george kennedy richard lynch bill forsythe mickey jones and leo gordon now what went wrong with this scummy low budget bungle the shallowness of the material is too one dimensional that it heavily borrows ideas from better movies namely mad max and comes up with a complete mess of ideas that just don't gel and could have been better thought out the clichés that are used can be manipulated into a good viewing despite being predictable but savage dawn seems to let it rush all by without letting the viewer soak it all up the cast are mostly wasted in nothing roles a bleached blonde henriksen is capably solid and even with his commending presence that provides an enigmatic glow to his character he doesn't get up to hell of a lot and sometimes goes missing in action too much sideline action but when he did kick some ass the good times flowed karen black's hissing performance is a very odd one and is all about the screaming and cursing although she does get into one memorable catfight with claudia flirtatious vixen character katie a wheelchair bound george kennedy roams around aimlessly until the final assault and richard lynch looks embarrassed as a wayward priest town mayor in a very redundant role an on edge bill forsythe simply chews it up as the head honcho of the notorious biker pack br br the junky story written by william milling and max bloom has that cheesy comic book and very much is influenced by the western genre just look at the villains for that how they came up with their names is mystery maybe they drew them out of a hat it's pretty second rate material that more often moves onto one lacklustre scene after another unfunny comical elements are chucked in and as well a bit of sleaze tacky exploitation that doesn't get gritty enough and the deaths are quite laughable a clumsy script is filled convoluted details and unbearable trite simon spotty direction was by the numbers and tepidly laid out one or two intense scenes can't makeup for its tortoise like pacing and many cack handed stunts the cardboard sets had down 'n dirty look but lack that organic sense the gravel like cinematography by gerald was better handled when the main focus wasn't on the town but on the desolate backdrop like the beginning and ending climax of the film with some neat camera touches pino clunky music choices are drowned out by its own incompetence br br savage dawn is a forgettable quickie midnight movie that's a definite misfire for most part there are better and more convincing exercises of the same ilk out there
0	talk about a bore snore this 3rd rate biker film was putting me to sleep as soon as the opening credits came on the screen the shame is that the cast included many fine actors among them george kennedy karen black leo gordon richard lynch lance henriksen and william forsythe br br a take off of the western classic high noon this is basically the story of a former u s army green beret henriksen trying to get someone to help him rid a one horse town of a gang of creepy bikers br br everyone tries but the script is on grade school level sad to see academy award winner kennedy in such a comedown from his out standing performance in cool hand luke br br if you have trouble sleeping at night this would be a perfect movie video to rent you'll be sleeping in no time
0	okay here is a really short review this movie blowed i wish i could just have a review that stated this simple principle but i must bore you with more bad review type words like 'horrible' and ' it's the type of film you watch when you are drunk or are stuck on a desert island with nothing else to do here's the premise the vice president is captured by a terrorist group at a play off hockey game and only van damm can stop the madness truly truly terrible but then again i didn't pay to see it the first time around and only my dad felt the absence of girth in his wallet after this movie i hate the fact he is a republican and all but then again he did spare me the horror of paying for this piece of garbage okay that is now enough space to be recognized as a review so i bid adieu
0	don't pay any attention to the rave reviews of this film here it is the worst van damme film and one of the worst of any sort i have ever seen it would appeal to somebody with no depth whatever who requires nothing more than gunfire and explosions to be entertained br br seeing that this is directed by peter it has made me realise that peter has no talent as a director but is very good at filming explosions and the like however movies need other elements as well for example a story this one didn't have one this might explain the awfulness of some of mr more recent films hardly any better than this one really br br one can't help wondering how some people ever were put behind a camera
0	a clever overall story location for a story action is respectable the children are annoying and their motivation is unclear the leading villain was a nice change but could have been better i love you was more overplayed than you complete me but at least van damme got a chance to show a little tenderness one of van damme's better movies
0	hello people br br i cannot believe that shades from that thing you do took this role i don't think cory feldman would have taken this role this movie was a fuming pile of dung save your money and time and see every one of the top 250 i swear i wanted to slap the lady at blockbuster silly for permitting me to rent this stay away br br mr
0	the only thing in sudden death that outdoes the amount of non stop action is the incredible number of plot holes what with that and the sheer amount of contrivances one could hardly call what's left a storyline to say the screenplay has borrowed from the die hard premise would be to make the world's most blatant understatement br br here we have a troubled hero working in the huge pittsburgh indoor ice rink as a fire marshall on the night of the seventh game of the finals series he gets tickets so he can treat his estranged children to the deciding game and of course spend a little time with them also catching the match but for political reasons is the vice president of the united states raymond j barry when a bunch of incredibly well organised mercenaries capture the v p 's box and demand hundreds of millions in government money our hero darren mccord has his plans more than slightly put out br br each time a new one of these formula flicks is made it seems that all we get in the way of innovation is nastier bad guys and more and more spectacular and gruesome ways in which the good guys dispose of them director and his screenwriter have gone over the top not that this is an original sin in trying to make us loathe the wicked terrorists the horrible baddies go about shooting the secret service the security and the civilians both old and young with gay abandon and with scant regard for the relative threat of each victim br br van damme engages in plenty of cuffs and gunplay heroics and death defying stunts the script asks little of the musclebound european almost everyone else has walk ons apart from powers boothe who seriously overdoes his under written shallow role as the cruelest meanest old ring leader there ever was br br there's a lot of clever cinematography and enough explosive special f x to keep anyone awake but really that's all this action flick has action though there are some nifty sequences nothing could be called outrageously brilliant br br saturday february 10 1996 greater union melbourne
0	this is a pale imitation of the die hard franchise that just sucks the low ambitions of the movie are clearly on display when the terrorists hold the vice president hostage and he has to call the white house to beg them to transfer some money in most movies of this genre the president is kidnapped or held hostage because after all he or she is the most powerful person in the country with finger on the nuclear button etc etc would most americans have really been worried if dick cheney had been kidnapped the honest answer is probably not why the terrorists would choose a stanley cup final to carry out their operation and why despite many explosions around them the audience inside the hockey stadium is oblivious to the situation are unanswerable questions let's just say this film is really hokey not hockey those who liked the film and found it to be exciting should get a life
0	a cheesy b crime thriller of the early the story is droll the characters wooden allison hayes and lane are the only two that make it an eye catcher but one short shot only a few frames long shows an el train crossing the river on the state street bridge of the 6000 series pullman built cars painted in their original 1950 paint scheme as they were delivered when new in 1950 for traction fans like me that one short take makes the picture worthwhile i think films like this one detour d o a with edmund o'brien the fugitive with harrison ford and others of the film noir genre big city crime dramas make it interesting if for nothing other than the fact that i know chicago and san francisco intimately and recognize most of the street locations other wise it's a really droll boring film
0	'this life' is truly as bad as it gets its cast of mercenary lascivious ruthless duplicitous shallow characters are intended as a reflection on its post eighties setting and i have to admit in this regard it is an accurate creation unfortunately it leaves me nothing to sympathise with or care about and i regard it as just another step toward the television premium rate phone in scams astonishingly bad cheap reality and 'celebrity' saturated television and other cut and run attitudes that have destroyed this medium and indeed much of british society sounds exaggerated i don't think it is in this regard programs such as 'this life' have indeed been as influential as they are often called
0	normally i wouldn't even stoop to viewing trash like this but since role playing is a dear hobby to me and such was the subject of the film i did it was garbage in so many ways that i do not know where to begin i would rather sit through the plan 9 from outer space marathon than watch another minute of this vomit at least plan 9 didn't have an agenda how the media could capitulate and irresponsibly represent extremist agenda as fact is beyond me it is a scary time when a whole group of people can be unceremoniously trounced with no defense and no real facts presented i know this commentary went more social but it couldn't be helped as this movie begged it imagine a pro nazi film being reviewed strictly on film merit won't happen as it sits the people who made this film are themselves and should perhaps move into a communist enclave where propagandizing is accepted
0	the producers of this film should be sued for the misrepresentation of copyrighted materials namely the advanced dungeons dragons players' handbook fear and ignorance breed the sort of mindless propaganda that inspire garbage like this film if any of you have any doubts about the innocence of dungeons dragons why don't you go to your local hobby store and see about sitting in with a gaming group so you can see for yourself that d d is nothing to be afraid of
0	not confusing in the sense that gee this movie is really complex and thus hard to follow but confusing in the sense that gee this movie really has no idea what it's doing br br dream of a warrior is a hong kong south korean collaboration but it's all utter nonsense a movie about parallel universes mixed in with time travel mixed in with love story mixed in with silliness br br the film has the type of concept that boggles the mind again not boggles the mind because it's so great and complex but boggles in the sense that it's so ridiculous and one can't conceive of anyone ever coming up with such an awful premise to begin with br br nothing in dream of a warrior makes sense and that's because the whole movie should never have been made it is quite awful the only saving grace is the actress who plays the female warrior not the female lead br br 3 out of 10
0	i had no idea what this movies was about it jumps from plot line to plot line erratically linking incoherent ideas with one another it simply doesn't make sense br br the chopped up time line doesn't help either we start in present day get a flash back to the past and then return to the future only to go back into the past br br this movie is also filled with horrible sappy lines and cliché themes such as princess and the pauper you cant have me even in my death lines you don't even love me enough line cliché to the max br br fighting scene were horribly corny lighting was constantly misplaced which offset the cg with the actors you could tell some of the backgrounds were clearly cg br br although the society in di moon was quite interesting br br i wouldn't really recommend his to anyone avoid if possible br br if you found this comment hard to follow the movie would be equally as bad
0	it's a pity to throw away such a good idea the main idea of the movie is travel into past lives which fortunately is not a time travel but a journey inside man which has nothing to do with the past or the future maybe they shouldn't be called past lives at all in the film now that i think of it another minus i guess it's all in the present in a different space very interesting without causing much religious distress br br however the music is totally repetitive melodramatic sentimental and out of place not to mention western there should have been more variety and more thought on where there should be music and where there shouldn't the flashback romantic scenes take a lot of space and running time and are totally unnecessary the acting is not bad although the language has kept me from understanding better br br i believe the idea needed a little more thought developing and the inside scenes could have had better background settings because in many cases they seem unreal as a whole i would say that this movie leaves a lot to be desired
0	i and my brother are very big asian movie fans so when finding this movie hidden in a shop i bought this one on dvd because it sounded very promising and i couldn't wait to watch it so i watched this movie with my brother and i must say in the beginning it was very promising both of us really loved this brutal ball scene in the first scene but i guess that was all there are some interesting fights but it is not a action movie as it claims to be instead it's a love movie with the cliché of love so extremely played over the top even shakespeare would vomit on this title sorry for my language by the way the characters act like being picked up from the street and given for playing in this movie br br well i and my brother watched it to the end because we thought it can only become better but heck it never did this movie challenged place 1 on my and my brothers worst movies ever seen list only followed by fantasy mission force do not watch this either
0	one of two movies i have actually thought about asking for money to stay until the end most movies have at least one thing that is worth staying for even if it just to laugh at how bad it is i never found it for this movie nothing was good from the script to the very bad effects the worst movie i have ever seen
0	decent action scenes but the movie is saddled with a slow convoluted storyline nearly non existent dialogue that leads to minimal character development and a seriously horrible storyline br br did i mention that the storyline made no sense but in its defense the action scenes were impressive enough even if they leave you scratching your head as to why they just happened br br there's not much else to say about the movie it's a slick mindless action adventure that makes no sense whatsoever it's like watching a worse version of the matrix and skipping all the storyline and dialogue
0	a sadly inferior precursor to who's afraid of virginia woolf this film drags on and on occasionally reviving your interest only to put you through more and obvious but patently overdone plot points br br it may list as 111 minutes but feels like three hours of painfully wasted time
0	this is the slowest film noir film i've ever seen very weak script only provides opportunity for jack palance and rod steiger to deliver exceptionally well lines that were made for an acting audition palance and steiger both affirm they are indeed serious actors who can portray their respective roles with power emotion and drama the story itself moves at an incredibly slow pace mostly taking place in a living room the director obviously moved the actors around in a circles as they delivered long lines to keep the slow pace from becoming noticeable to the audience the action doesn't pick up until the last ten minutes of the film if you're one who's looking for more depth in a crime drama this one's not for you
0	the big knife a movie about the dark side of the hollywood motion picture industry is ironically far more like a filmed play than a film itself apart from a few very brief expository scenes all of the action takes place in the living room of the film's hero played by jack palance he's a movie actor who wants out of his contract with his studio because of the lack of redeeming qualities in the films they put out his on again off again wife ida lupino is also fed up with the studio not to mention her husband's philandering ways unfortunately for them both the head of the studio rod steiger is a real bastard he has blackmail material to force the increasingly tortured actor to sign a new contract but it's only a matter of time before he pushes the man too far br br this film is not i repeat not a film noir rather it's an exceptionally theatrical sitting room melodrama the plot proceeds at a snail's pace and is so intricate and confusing that it is in violent disharmony with the static setting and carefully contrived blocking of the actual scenes the acting is overwrought in the extreme and veers sharply between out and out histrionics and softer but no less unsubtle soliloquies that are obviously meant to be poignant but come across as pretentious twaddle especially in the hands of the woefully miscast palance aldrich was obviously going all out for a stylized something here but i doubt even he knew what it was and certainly the audience never does br br i think the main lesson here is that films and plays are very different mediums what might have worked in a play did not come across as even remotely natural or plausible on film the result a big waste of time there's little to enjoy here
0	i've tried to watch this film 3 or 4 times but i just can't get past the fact that everything about it is just awful i'm sure it was a courageous move by somebody to cast jack palance as the protagonist but there is not one single fiber of my being that believes that he could act at all much less act against type br br yes i understand that clifford odets was a brilliant author but it's not evident here this odd and forced mish mash of 50's hipster dialog seems to any genuine meaning which explains why none of the actors even the good ones steiger ida lupino shelly winters everett sloane seems to know how to deliver their lines it's as though they don't understand the meaning of what they are saying and in the meantime wendell corey and palance stage a terrific contest to see who can be more stone faced br br the direction is amateurish and completely overwrought the physical interaction between the characters is as stilted as the dialog br br and can we discuss that hideous set it's so busy ugly and contrived that it adds to the robotic disconnected quality of the characters the dialog and the portrayals br br this film seems to suck the energy right out of me it looks like everybody took an overdose of valium each morning when they arrived on the set it takes a pretty lousy movie to make rod steiger and shelly winters look bad but this one succeeds br br i can see that it might have been effective as a play on or off broadway where intellectuals and beats could have congratulated themselves for appreciating the power of the plot and the artsy flourishes of the pseudo hip dialog
0	the quality you're likely to remember after viewing the big knife is how claustrophobic it is it's pacing is sacrificed to a uniform texture of dialog it's talky in the extreme modern viewers will feel every point has been made and then some but the movie will still not move on or do the viewer a favor and change the scenery it's very inert at the 45 min mark i was sure i had watched two very slow hours my beleaguered response was good god where is this going it feels like odets was paid by the word br br this is a good place to note the decline of drama from it's high point in the 40s through the conceit laden projects of the 50s and 60s until actual filmic merit was rediscovered in the 70s only to vanish again here we get show offy conventional emotional outbursts from steiger lupino et al and camera moves pre arranged to meet over practiced blocking this is due to the rise of the method the regrettable trend of sacrificing every other merit of film to grant actors their most selfish wishes great acting ho hum has killed thought in movies br br jack palance's forehead pompadour retract and thrust forward every time he reacts to something it's disturbing br br this is awfully boring stuff
0	it is extremely rare that i see a movie from 1955 that i don't love noir sci fi drive ins i dig it all the most robert aldrich is a director who has done plenty of excellent work and most of this cast has fine performances under their belt so what went wrong br br when i used to work in the independent film world we used to talk about something called actors' movies actors' movies are movies that are unwatchable to anyone but other actors actors like actors' movies because they get to see acting which is to say completely over the top melodrama actors love to be given the chance to totally let loose give it all they've got and they get a great satisfaction from watching other actors do so in many interviews with actors they say he was a great director he never interfered with me in any way actually that's the opposite of good directing because the whole point of having a director on the set is to keep the actors from making fools of themselves which given the chance they will always do br br apparently robert aldrich forgot that on this project or maybe he was ill or maybe he thought there was no hope for saving the script in the first place so what the heck whatever the case here is an example of a lesser known movie that is best forgotten the characters pontificate and generally ham it up all the way through one thing i can say is realistic it's set in hollywood and everyone acts like their petty problems are the most important thing in the world doesn't make it fun to watch but it is realistic what isn't realistic is that a producer so desperate to keep his star under contract is going to go out of his way to him in almost every conceivable way including requiring him to engage in illegal activity but this and other plot contradictions merely carry along the melodrama increasing the opportunity for hand wringing and shouted accusations br br i did manage to get to the end of this film which makes it no worse than a 3 out of 10 in my book but why test your own endurance when there is so much else available to rent
0	killjoy 2 surpasses the first movie by just a little bit the stuff that improved in here was the acting the killjoy make up and story this one is more of a gore fest it doesnt have the supernatural elements like the first one did in this installment killjoy kills his victims in more normal ways he doest set them on fire and he doesnt shoot them with bullets that were in his mouth the only thing i didnt like about this movie was that the ending was a little half assed in fact it was half assed they killed killjoy in a very cheap way i would strongly recommend this to anyone who like horror movies seriously the first movie was good but the second is better 9 out of 10
0	i really hope the makers of these movies read these reviews so that they know that people just dont want their movies they are just trash and an embarrassment to the killer clown genre of horror whether or not this was better than the first doesn't matter cause both just plain terrible i'm surprised they didn't learn their lesson from the first movie stop now warning to horror movie watchers dont watch rent or look at the boxes of urban horror films and above all don't buy them
0	suburban kids meet the forest killjoy is better in this part he is more wicked and stronger as well nevertheless most part of the acting is bad as well like in the first one sometimes the characters say things to each other that do not make sense and are not convincing i made an error to watch this one sober you'll probably enjoy it more if you are not if you did not already stop loving clowns after the first movie you definitely will after the second br br problem kids and their watchers are on their way to a camp in the forest and what a coincidence their car broke right in the middle of a forest and at night that's just their luck they find a house and one got shot one of the watchers stays behind why i do not know and the rest eventually finds another house in that house a voodoo priestess lives but she is not responsible for the resurrection of killjoy who is it then well you better watch the movie and find out for yourselves
0	i just don't get it why call this a sequel to the film american werewolf when it has absolutely no connection with it whatsoever the first film was funny and scary with ground breaking special effects if memory serves the oscar category for special make up effects was created for this movie paris is none of these things awful effects and not much else do not see this movie rent the original werewolf in london instead you'll be much happier
0	thats not saying much this killjoy film has better cinematography and is more professional looking than the last that doesn't mean it's more professional sounding that horrible last film was about gangsters killing a kid and then being haunted by a voodoo clown i thought the guy that played killjoy in the last one was a bad actor but wow this killjoy is honestly the downright worst actor i've seen in any movie and i've seen a lot of movies last movie the clown came in about 15 minutes in this one's shorter and the clown doesn't even come in until 40 minutes in and it's only 65 minutes long i give it a 2 because the acting from some characters is ok
0	the first killjoy 1 but here's the review of killjoy 2 br br contains spoilers so beware readers br br oh my oh my my my i'll start off with telling you that i had no hopes in the least bit that this movie would be good considering that killjoy the first movie is without a doubt the worst movie ever made the sequel didn't have much promise br br as expected it didn't deliver br br the deaths were even lamer than in the first movie there was absolutely no eye candy whatsoever and every single prop looked so fake that i wouldn't be surprised if they had a kindergarten class make them br br look i don't even know where to begin hm for starters the movie wasn't even feature length it was only an hour and eight minutes long 68 min but then again ending it early was actually a reprieve in fact that's the only reason that this movie wasn't as bad as the first because the first was longer br br usually i don't give spoilers in reviews but since i don't want any of you to go through the torture of watching this waste of film i'm going to spoil away not that there's much to spoil br br let's start with the ending killjoy is the killer ever it takes explosions firebombs guns etc to kill all of the normal serial killers in horror movies guess what it took to kill killjoy a f ing glass of water no lie in the end a girl picked up a cup of water and threw the water on face then killjoy started screaming and they tried to make it look like his face was melting by putting dried rubber cement on his forehead then he laid there and the people went to sleep br br now let's hit the acting very terrible not even one person was believable in the least bit i don't even know what to say other than it looks like they just hired a few hobos living on the streets to act in this film br br seriously i honestly doubt that they spent any more than 100 dollars total to make this movie they had nothing most of it took place in the woods which wouldn't have cost them anything to film on the actors weren't giving in any effort whatsoever so it's blatant that they were probably working for free they didn't have any kind of special effects or nice props and they probably used ketchup for the blood hell who am i kidding they probably didn't even spend 100 dollars they probably spent 3 29 on a bottle of ketchup and that was it a f kin' movie made with a budget of 3 29 br br for bob's sake they couldn't even afford to rent a cop uniform in the end after killjoy dies the girl wakes up and says where is he and the main woman replies he's gone then suddenly some fat goofy guy with scars on his face pops out of nowhere with a cell phone saying you have a phone call the girl answers and says oh hi mom and smiles then the fat goofy guy walks along to reveal that it's a police officer however he's wearing khaki pants and a regular button up green shirt with a lame badge on the front pocket hell it was probably the badge that the director got when he was in safety patrol in 3rd grade then they all got into a tan blazer and drove off as the credits rolled they couldn't even get a police cruiser so they just got a tan blazer f kin' lame killjoy didn't even have the ice cream van that he had in the first movie br br killjoy is without a doubt the most flamboyantly gay slasher ever if there was a slasher that wore hot pink spandex and carried a rainbow flag he still would not be as gay as killjoy killjoy isn't funny either and believe me he did try to be br br the only good thing about this movie is an extremely lame threat given by one of the delinquents somebody makes a comment to some boy about not passing third grade to which the boy responds i'll show you third grade in a threatening manner that has to be the absolute worst threat that i've ever heard i'll show you third grade br br this movie doesn't even work on a so bad it's good level it's filth unless you did something bad and you are feeling so guilty about it that you want to punish yourself severely don't watch this movie br br just remember if a flaming homosexual clown with a huge black afro tries to bore you to death with gay jokes and attempt to kill you at the same time just throw some water at him case closed br br final rating 1 out of 10
0	both killjoy 1 and killjoy 2 stunk but the first was better the special effects in this movie were not special at all even though the killings were better in this installment they were not anything to brag about one thing that was worse in part 2 were the characters they changed emotions suddenly and some of their lines were just dumb for instance one character quoted you better have some r e s p e c t or you'll find out what is means to me once i heard that line i figured it was of the worst i've ever heard another thing that i hated about this movie was the fact it was too short a successful movie has to go more than one hour and twenty minutes like killjoy 2 if full moon makes part 3 of killjoy that would be stooping to the lowest level they can possibly go overall 1 of 10 br br
0	br br this movie sucked the first one was way better no one from the first has returned in this dumb sequel and in some way that is a good thing because of the bad acting but the characters in this film are not even better killjoy in the woods come on give me a break i'm suprised friend the blair witch didn't show up to make a cameo bad acting bad story and just plain out silly and boring don't waste your time
0	i am sorry but this is the worst film i have ever seen in my life i cannot believe that after making the first one in the series they were able to get a budget to make another not that the budget could have been much this is the least scary film i have ever watched and laughed all the way through to the end actually i can't believe we watched it to the end but i think it is because we couldn't quite believe it
0	some would argue this is better mainly because of the acting but it is indeed far worse for reasons that outweigh the improvement br br the source from which all the problems stem the story aside from one of them people being shot point blank with a shotgun in the chest and surviving for hours without medical attention there is a bigger problem nic the gangsta with the golden heart is willing to do anything for the friend he just met that day and that includes asking an evil spirit for help ce ce who comes out of nowhere with a past in voodoo is willing to summon killjoy so long as nic can hook her up the acting while improved is still horrid these people couldn't convey emotion out of a paper bag the script doesn't help them either stupid lines and i can only assume no direction from the director this script was read like shakespeare in high school with a teacher whipping them as they went br br while this movie if you can call it that at its 80 min run time thankfully is perhaps even funnier than the first because of all these things it is definitely more painful to watch 1 10
0	there is a fantastic song in killjoy 2 that goes on about how clowns are usually really nice and fun but killjoy is a killer i don't recall the song in the first movie but when singer fernandez sings yeah killjoy 2' is sounds like the 2 may have been added in for this dire sequel the film is much worse than the first movie and that was really bad this time the cast including the usually excellent debbie rochon have given up trying and director tammi sutton creates no tension and presents merely a dull and steady film full moon pictures produced this during their phase none of which was very good but none so bad as here
0	it would be wrong and reprehensible of me to advise you to watch killjoy 2 you must have better things to do washing the car throwing stones in a stream but at the same time it's nowhere near as awful as you probably think it is it's almost a proper film which a lot more than most straight to dvd sludge can manage killjoy 2 is helped a great deal by trent manic turn as the eponymous clown he throws himself into the role with such fevered abandonment that he almost tips the scales in the movie's favour but of course it takes more than one man in big shoes tammi sutton gives the most entertaining director cameo since roger corman in creature from the haunted sea and the whole thing is nearly destroyed by the rushed sugary ending all over the place and almost good fun
0	i have never seen the first killjoy film and i have also never heard a good thing said about it so i see killjoy 2 in the local blockbusters and pick it up and look at the back starring trent haaga and debbie rochon it boasts now being the massive troma fan that i am there is no way i'm not going to rent this film out how can it possibly be bad with these two oh how wrong i was even trent and debbie cant save this excuse of a film from being as bad as it truly is trent quite frankly stinks as killjoy although this probably is more the fault of the writers giving him some of the worst one liners in the history of film debbie does put a solid performance in but it isn't enough the kills are terrible as are the gore effects for example check out when the guy is supposedly impaled on something or other and just to top it all off the ending is just amongst the worst i have ever seen in movie history the film doesn't even work on a so bad it's good level avoid like the clap br br 2 10
0	i have never seen the first killjoy film and i have also never heard a good thing said about it so i see killjoy 2 in the local blockbusters and pick it up and look at the back starring trent haaga and debbie rochon it boasts now being the massive troma fan that i am there is no way i'm not going to rent this film out how can it possibly be bad with these two in it oh how wrong i was even trent and debbie cant save this excuse of a film from being as bad as it truly is trent quite frankly stinks as killjoy although this probably is more the fault of the writers giving him some of the worst one liners in the history of film debbie does put a solid performance in but it isn't enough the kills are terrible as are the gore effects for example check out when the guy is supposedly impaled on something or other and just to top it all off the ending is just amongst the worst i have ever seen in movie history the film doesn't even work on a so bad it's good level avoid like the clap br br 2 10
0	take an utterly stupid story couple it with unprofessional performances 2 bit graphics add ultra lame comedy bits and you get this film i thought the original was bad but at least that story was simple and straightforward though idiotic may nobody produce another in this series
0	one day i thought to myself what is the worst possible thing that could happen today i answered my self with a simple oh it already happened i rented killjoy killjoy 2 on dvd well what is there to say the budget was not large enough to rent a police uniform the movie cuts out sex scenes and death scenes there is one funny line that i can remember and the acting is far worse than the first one there seems to be no lighting on the set the woods somewhere and the killer clown known as killjoy who makes leprechaun look like the exorcist is less than spectacular this time he is not portrayed by angel vargas and is completely changed as a character from a crazy irritating clown to a different kind of crazy irritating clown that says child a lot somewhere between freddy krueger and a blade of grass lies this version of killjoy somewhere between a pile of dirt and a pile of s t lies killjoy 2 it's badness is underrated this movie does not have any redeeming qualities except the song at the very end over the credits which at provides some enjoyment killjoy 2 is not even really a movie so much as an exercise in tension killjoy 1 is at least good enough to be considered as the worst movie i have ever seen minor spoiler let me describe one of the supernatural kill scenes a girl is locked in a wood shed of some sort maybe an outhouse when killjoy peers in through a hole he has some small chattering teeth like the ones you can buy at spencer's gifts and he does something with them maybe winds them up then he holds them in his hands and says a terrible line which can't be written on imdb from what i gather of this scene not from what is shown by the movie the teeth went into the outhouse and killed the girl in some interesting but way and then came back to killjoy if i were those teeth i would have run run far from killjoy so he could never ever get his hands on me again killjoy 2 is hopefully the last killjoy we will have to endure even as a fan of movies others would say are very bad i think that this film could unify the human race and create world peace if it were promised that this film and anything reminding us of it would be destroyed i give it 2 10 simply because the creators succeeded at making the pictures move
0	killjoy 2 is the same as killjoy 1 bad acting bad characters annoying clown bad lines you name it honestly i'm not all that surprised that more people haven't seen this movie the only reason i watched killjoy 2 is because i wanted to think that the filmmakers learned from their mistakes they didn't this movie is just as bad if not worse than the first one that clown that goddamn clown i hate him i hate him so much and i don't hate him because he is a good villain i hate him because he is annoying beyond belief i hope that the filmmakers realized after trying and failing again that this movie is the last thing we need is a killjoy 3
0	i really don't know why i agreed to watch this movie but like a complete fool i did and for that i deserve to be shot i had seen the original killjoy well i say i have seen it i started watching it but found it that bad that i ended up watching it in 4x speed to get it over with and get rid of the annoying dialogue but i said i would watch it and i did even if it was in 4x speed br br to cut a long story short killjoy 2 kicks off where killjoy left off by this i don't mean the plot i mean the complete and total bag of dirt known as acting and cheapness i have nothing against low budget movies in fact i kinda enjoy them they are something different from mega budget blockbusters but this film is just terrible the acting is diabolical and the script well i think you could of given stevie wonder a pen and paper and he would of produced something much better this movie is just annoying not to mention the annoying laugh the clown has which is so obviously dubbed i didn't make it through this movie anyway about three quarters of the way through it was time to turn it off and throw it through the window it may of been a rip off to buy as a dvd but as a frisbee it was a mega bargain br br please for the love of mankind itself do not watch this muck it is possibly the worst thing i have ever seen and considering some of the muck i've seen thats saying a lot br br my rating on this movie would be nailgun to the head 10
0	cops logan alexander and debbie rochon escort five black juvenile delinquents cross country and end up stranded out in the sticks when their van breaks down after a deadly run in with a racist white trash bitch with a shotgun played by the director the survivors take refuge in the house of a blind voodoo priestess one of the teens senselessly uses a spell to call up killjoy who finally shows up about midway through this bore in a subpar make up job and bigger 'fro that looks like it could slide off his head at any moment he then proceeds to kill off the stupid characters while spouting some of the worst one liners heard since hee haw was canceled br br the acting from the teens is terrible the dialogue even worse the fx stink and it looks a lot cheaper than the first film although i enjoyed him in his earlier troma films trent haaga trying to imitate jim carrey here is awful and no match for the hyperactive overemoting of angel vargas in killjoy 1 which at least had a few dumb laughs br br yet another nail in the coffin for full moon studios whose reputation as a fun direct to vid franchise has completely vanished since the trancers puppet master days
0	chuck norris stars as danny a cop who took down a hulking serial killer however when said killer escapes danny knows he is the only one able to stop the terror however danny harbors a secret he knows that it was sheer luck that got the terror arrested and even more luck that danny survived now a final battle is waged but is danny ready right there in my description tells what the problem of this movie is norris is playing a wimpy hero who still suffers from psychological trauma in the hands of a better actor this concept would be interesting and could make for a great thriller in the hands of a norris thriller it just makes it ridiculous and hopelessly also on board is american steve james and ron o'neal but any attempt at character development is defeated by the atrocious script also there is hardly any action and i always preferred a norris movie with more fighting and less talking given the rating on this website i must not be alone br br out of 4 bad
0	this film could cure sleep disorders thats how bad it is the story dragged and the bad guy is not that scary you will not even see this one on tbs reruns this film made me wonder about chuck film choices he work on a real dog with this one
0	this was painful i made myself watch it until the end even though i had absolutely no interest in the plot if there was one my patience was not rewarded the ending was even worse than the rest of the film chucky walks into the hospital with a priest and his concubine says i do how vile can one movie be
0	well the hero and the terror is slightly below average in my opinion yes chuck is a real martial artist and kicks some butt in this film but it is rather slow and the acting in my opinion is for the most part subpar although i think steve james does a decent job like my friend ryan i was confused as to why the psychopath chose to go to the theatre at the end of the film rather than to go after norris's girlfriend until than the killer had only killed women oh well i guess it wasn't as predictable as i thought definitly a film you can pass on
0	well the hero and the terror is slightly below average in my opinion yes chuck is a real martial artist and kicks some butt in this film but it is rather slow and the acting in my opinion is for the most part subpar although i think steve james does a decent job like my friend ryan i was confused as to why the psychopath chose to go to the theatre at the end of the film rather than to go after norris's girlfriend until than the killer had only killed women oh well i guess it wasn't as predictable as i thought definitly a film you can pass on
0	for a norris movie this is pretty tame for an action movie it is kind of dull and as far as predictability goes my friend and i almost had every turn of this movie nailed it was nice that the killer's every moves were not telegraphed by the cliche's of 80's action movies but come on the only non predictable move defies the plot and the set up of the editing mainly it is said rather early on that the killer jack o'halloran whom is one of the few slightly known actors only kills women yet he all of a sudden stops his m o and kills men huh i guess it can be construed and rationalized some way but why is the movie edited to show that he is going to kill women br br yet again i'm sure that there is a reason i e to build suspense but why spend the time watching it when many other suspense movies are vastly superior br br fans of renegade may enjoy the small cameo by branscombe richmond as victor but his brief appearence cannot save the movie and even a vote of 4 seems generous br br
0	tries to be funny scary tense and romantic and fails in every respect the acting is average at best but mostly stupid the special effects are not enough to make up for the stupid plot devices and the chemistry between any character is juvenile br br if you don't want to be mad at yourself don't pay money to see it
0	this is simply another bad chuck norris movie norris plays a cop on the trail of a twisted serial killer of women he put the guy away three years before but the guy somehow gets through the bars in the nut house he's in by using what looks like dental floss then the killer escapes in a cleaning van and drives it over a 400 foot cliff and survives to spend time around a theater undergoing renovation irish jack o'halloran is the best thing in this movie but like in superman ii he doesn't say a word somehow that's supposed to make him more menacing ron o'neal of super fly fame and steve james are wasted playing the city's mayor and norris' sidekick respectively the film also contains the idiotic subplot of norris and his girlfriend having a child out of wedlock it's so 1980's when coupling norris' serious acting turn with over the top musical cues signaling every forthcoming scene in predictable fashion the film becomes a chore to sit through the build up while searching for the killer in the theater is interesting enough with norris crawling through the shadows to discover the hideaway but the end fight is disappointing after beginning in such a promising way it's yet another disappointment from cannon films and it plays like a movie made for television of 4 stars
0	hero and the terror is a fairly dull thriller a la no real character substance predictable plot and boring for a thriller i found this movie slow in working up to its pitiful climax as it just seemed to drag along until chuck's wife's baby is born and then it drags on from there until it reaches the end which i can hardly remember already even though i only saw the film 10 minutes ago br br i give this film 3 out of 10 for the first 10 20 minutes
0	i picked this film up from the local family video on sale for 1 50 which was probably the first sign it wasn't going to be good watching it with 2 friends neither of them even wanted to finish it because of how awful this movie is i strangely couldn't stop watching it but this film is definitely a textbook case of how not to make a movie br br the plot is simple enough and sounds great chuck norris has nightmares about a serial killer he put behind bars the serial killer escapes and his nightmares begin to become reality once more serial murder norris roundhouse kicks this sounds like a great film br br and some of it is pretty good the flashback scene where a man breaks a ladder with his teeth is intense a scene where a van off a cliff and gets crushed is amazing and i learned how to break out of prison using nothing more than gun powder and dental floss but there is plenty wrong with this movie br br one the editor is a moron when making an action or suspense film you have to keep the energy moving there are far too many scenes that are not crucial to the plot left in this movie slowing it down and distracting from the overall story at least 10 minutes could have been cut and the pacing would have improved and the film would be slightly better two the sound guy is a moron apparently somebody tried to film most of this movie in an area where you can't get decent sound so most of the dialog is voiced over killing the stereo and not lining up with mouths also the music is far too dramatic in some scenes three the casting director is a moron they cast billy drago as a psychiatrist billy drago is a great cult actor from brisco county the hills have eyes and others and would have made the proper serial killer or some sort of villain his character is so vanilla that drago's skills are wasted four the writer is a moron two plots are in this film the hunting of a serial killer and the romance between norris and his pregnant girlfriend every time i saw that woman on screen i wanted to claw my eyes out and sure enough she never figured into the other plot making her story completely pointless br br will i ever watch this again maybe but unless they remaster this film at least a dozen times you never should not recommended
0	when i was young i was a big fan of chuck norris i just begun getting out all his old movies on video so i can see them through adult eyes i remember that i really liked this one in particular and thought it was one of his best now that i'm a little older i can say that although it's thoroughly average i still consider it one of his better films in an acting stretch for him norris plays a cop haunted by his participation in the arrest and capture of a dangerous serial killer movie serial killers are all the rage nowadays and people would like to think of them as a wholly 90s invention in contrast it's good to see where the current infatuation has sprung from most obviously action movies as well as stalk n' slashers of 70s and 80s while norris attempts at both humour and any form of human compassion are ham fisted and laughable nobody could kick someone in the head quite like chuck being a big fan of steve james also i can recommend this film ditto for genre legend billy drago as well as seeing mitch from the blue brothers in a supporting role not great but it's better than anything norris did in the 90s
0	if anyone at national lampoon is reading this please stop the crap your pulling out of your bum really now why the hell are you doing movies like these they're not funny and watching it for the sexual content is a complete waste of time really it is such a horrible movie you may want to shoot yourself while your watching it i am serious here guys it makes and kumar go to blah blah blah look like an actual good movie and we all know that h k is one of the worst movies ever made it really sucks it really does how bad it is well even losers that actually like national lampoon shall hate this movie they'll want to murder the director i swear to god i hate you national lampoon die already die
0	i love movies in this genre beautiful girls toilet humor gratuitous nudity so why didn't i like this movie no movie like this should add even the slightest confusion to the plot who's who where is the money it's not se7en just make me laugh maybe it's me but i never felt this frustrated watching american pie movies or any other more modern national lampoon's movies this movie has no flow that keeps me smiling waiting for what's next instead i find myself stopping to think why did they keep that scene i do not recommend this movie if you are expecting van wilder think again the only fun i had watching this movie was guessing what movies the actors were in when they were kids 2 10 generously
0	this movie was like a gathering of people that had been in other movies and they decided to make a really bad movie it had a dude from detroit rock city a girl from the cosby show that dork that kissed the chick and bought that sausage was in sorority boys and there was more ok that doesn't make a bad movie in itself that was just something i noticed the whole thing with the hooker and the french girl having the same name was dumb and the thing with 37 people writing these notes and if you think they are going to get mixed up shocking enough you called it and the purse thing that was just plain stupid it was so bad that i watched the movie in two parts and still only made it to the 50 minute mark if you are watching this and expect van wilder or a movie like that don't
0	this was the worst movie my wife and i have ever seen the only concessions is that we did not pay to see it at the movies as we rented this on dvd from the video store simply no plot worth mentioning i only watched it 5 minutes ago and already i have forgotten annoying characters played poorly by two bit actors and if this was suppose a comedy i am still waiting to laugh in fact the only laugh we got out of the movie was that we joked with each other that we agreed it was truly awful br br put simply this movie was quite utterly pathetic and i warn others to not waste their time a travesty of the national lampoon name rating 0 10
0	look at the all the positive user comments of this movie then check to see how often each one posts user comments they post once it seems companies are probably paying for services which post junk pro movie comments on imdb br br this movie was awful the plot was stupid the acting was poor the jokes weren't even funny the movie included minor nudity from what looked like porn actresses but none of the other characters br br it was clear from the first 15 minutes that movie wasn't funny there was some slapstick here and there but most of humor was supposed to be derived from the characters talking behind each other's back and spreading rumors this isn't even done well every joke is obvious and you see it coming br br the movie is worthy of fast forwarding or better yet not watching br br i regret watching this movie and if i could charge the studio and distributor for 1 5 hrs they stole from me i would
0	a stupid teen supposed comedy that revolves a serious of misunderstanding including but not limited to a hooker being confused with a foreign exchange student girlfriend beating a girl loving a gay guy and the straight guy that loves her and bitchy none of the following is funny or even amusing nation lampoon's use to be hilarious back in the day now the name is sadly synonymous with crap and this one is no exception i use to think was kinda cute when she was on boy meets world but it seems she let herself go and yes i know she has a name but into she does anything else worthwhile she'll stay as br br my grade d br br eye candy kati gets topless bliss relies on a body double
0	i had been wanting to see an american werewolf in paris for a long time because i loved its predecessor but this film didn't impress me as much as an american werewolf in london actually to be quite honest it didn't impress me at all br br tom everett scott and his dude pals are wandering paris and in a preposterous stunt off the eifel tower rescuing wolf babe julie delpy from death before you've time to work out if the constant mugging and lumpy dialogue is meant to be the stuff of comedy a full moon has hit and the brats are being chased by dreadful cgi werewolves down parisian sewers br br the script is disgustingly poor the actors were made to make this film they're horrible performances match the status of the movie from start to end this movie is never entertaining engaging or even slightly watchable i had trouble watching this whole film without throwing up my dinner to be quite honest br br the action scenes aren't exciting the jokes aren't funny and the werewolves aren't scary in short miss out or be haunted forever br br i rate an american werewolf in paris 2 out of 10
0	the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it but i soon learned that i had been duped i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip american pie deal but i was wrong this movie is one of the dumbest i've seen in a long time the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building go out and get or road trip instead i can't believe national lampoon put its name on this don't buy it don't rent it don't waste 2 hours of your life on this
0	this movie actually hurts to watch not only did i not laugh once i ended up getting a serious headache at times i felt so sorry for the actors involved the best way to sum it up is to note that among sex comedies it is probably the least funny and least sexy of all time i'm only sorry i can't give it a vote of less than one to give this a rating of one is an insult to every movie that scores two or better br br now i see that they're filming a sequel hearing that someone is actually paying these people to make another movie convinces me that there's just too much money in hollywood raise their taxes making a sequel to this movie may very well constitute a crime against humanity perhaps an international tribunal should be convened or u n sanctions applied to the filmmakers br br in short it's a really bad movie really really
0	i have little to no interest in seeing another awful movie that totally lacks anything new creative or funny abusing the national lampoon tag how ever something caught my eye in the cast of this movie i see danielle name i'm a big fan of boy meets world but the movies shes in are awful more so as a fan i'm not rewarded by seeing her terrible movies with the treasure of bare breast so this is where my question comes in br br has anyone seen this movie and if so does danielle get naked in it would save me the 2 hours of my life i would never get back watching this terrible movie thanks a lot
0	me and a buddy rented this movie the other day at first look it seemed to be another teen movie which was also what we hoped for being fans of simple horror and comedy br br it seems that the movie is designed to disappoint the viewer as much as possible it quickly into something that holds a lot of potential unfortunately it never quite leaves the ground we had watched it for something that seemed like 1 hour when i finally half sleeping managed to say dude this movie sucks it was only 35 minutes actually dude agreed br br the problem is the movie is simply not funny it was undoubtedly supposed to be funny but it failed it failed in a way that made me sad it kind of reminds me of myself i had the potential to be anything i wanted and instead i ended up watching cheap horror funny movies all the time i pity the makers of this movie from the bottom of my heart its so sad all that potential and nothing
0	when i went to the video rental shop to get a movie i saw this one and i immediately thought it would be funny the picture made it seem like a classic comedy type involving teenagers such as road trip which i thought would be worth watching when i turned the move on i was disappointed as the jokes were awful and cheesy the only bit which the director may have thought would be funny was somebody slipping over on a wet floor this is not a joke and would not make people laugh i actually considered turning this movie off coming to half way through i was annoyed with this movie as it was just a waste of time and money renting it out not enough care was taken making this film and not enough time and work put into it i found the acting to be quite bad as well the only time i laughed was at the extremely bad actions done which were really not funny i rate this film a 1 10 i hope you found this comment useful
0	worthless movie a complete waste of time and nothing what i expected it to be the packaging makes it seem as if it is of the american pie genre it isn't rather it is a ridiculous stringing together of coincidences that makes the movie seem more like a writing exercise let's try to see how many mix ups we can write in to make what should have been a bad snl skit into a full length feature presentation what is remarkable is that the director's based on their commentary on the dvd take themselves completely seriously i have been a huge fan of the movies that national lampoon lends its name to up to and including van wilder with this one i feel completely cheated in fact i feel duped i was expecting a van wilder like farce to relive my college days but instead was served an hour and a half of garbage what lead to my ultimately unmet expectations well for starters the fact that the cast all appear naked with an enormous sausage covering what must be covered on the cover of the dvd add to that the imagery on the back of the case as well as the description and you mislead people into thinking this is a movie that it is not to make matters worse the movie starts off as one might expect it too with half naked drunk college students feebly trying a photo stunt but ultimately this has nothing whatsoever to do with the movie in fact i didn't even realize that the people in that opening sequence where supposed to be the characters in the movie until i was told so by the directors in the commentary don't get me wrong i love plot twists and being surprised by movies but i hate the fact that this movie tries to pawn itself off as something it is not ultimately it does itself a huge disservice artistically though most likely not financially because it sets its audience up for confusion and disappointment simply because it neglects to deliver what it advertises br br in short do not rent this movie based on what you see on the case it is not your usual national lampoon movie the only thing funny about it is the fact that many of the actors have appeared in other movies and tv shows that make their involvement here entertaining
0	this has to be one of the biggest misfires ever the script was nice and could have ended a lot better the actors should have played better and maybe then i would have given this movie a slightly better grade maybe hollywood should remake this movie with some little better actors and better director sorry guys for disappointment but the movie is bad br br if i had to re watch it it would be like torture i don't want to spoil everyone's opinion with mine so my advice is watch the movie first see if u like it and after vote do not vote before you watch it and by the way have fun watching it don't just peek watch it 'till the end
0	this movie can best be described as a very long episode of a very bad sitcom how many vaguely humorous misunderstandings can you cram into just one movie notes are misplaced bags are switched conversations are misheard people get mixed up situations are misinterpreted and somewhere along the line people are supposed to laugh about something the writers are really struggling to keep everything going which makes the dialogues feel really forced if anyone in this movie acted like a real person all this would be resolved in around two minutes or so and everyone could go back to their lives but they have to keep the misunderstandings going at times this movie also tries to go for some juvenile laughs but all those do is remember you about how funny american pie was the scene with the nerd telling the hooker who he thinks is a foreign exchange student to eat his sausage goes on forever not one second of it is funny i've got to give this movie some credit though because of the subplot about stolen money it's not as boring as it could have been it also has a laugh here and there but then sadly goes back to yet another character misunderstanding stuff overall this movie is just way too lame
0	jeez when i heard this movie was a national lampoons i thought it was going to be awesome but i really got a say it was a rather disappointment i have seen the most movies they've made from christmas vacation to van wilder and this movie is the worst movie in their name really bad actors and a to much intense movie this movie is probably good to watch if you are watching it with a crowd of worked up people and the ability to laugh at it but if you are into good comedy's like i am i do not suggest this movie i would much rather watch van wilder a second or third time than to watch this movie you have been warned
0	national lampoon's dorm daze is easily the worst movie i have ever seen and i've seen the movie kazaam anyone reading this who thinks this movie was good in any way shape or form has no idea what a good movie is and should never watch another movie again because they are indeed so stupid br br its hard to name everything wrong with this movie first off the plot is all over the place and can't follow all the multiple misunderstandings very well at all the acting is awful to say the least and the whole thing was poorly made any and all who worked on this movie should not be in another movie of any kid ever again br br it is too hard to sum up this movie in just a paragraph or two because it is so bad but for anyone out there reading this please do not watch this movie if you want a good movie to watch go turn on anything else on television even u s a has better movies than this br br friend
0	well what can be said about a horror comedy that features neither horror nor comedy there are no characters in the film but much too many plot lines all underdeveloped and mostly superfluous br br the computer generated creatures look bad a bit like disney versions of oversized rats without a tail the walking dead are the biggest rip off apart from the title the shall look like the dead in movie but are far removed they just look like bad actors with of plastic and bull's blood added br br two plot lines really showed some promise the love story and the company story but failed as miserably as the director the writers the sfx department the production and the actors
0	i was completely bored with this film melodramatic for no apparent reason every thing just becomes so serious and people are swearing with really dumb expressions then there is a serial killer who apparently can kill one person to get the title of serial killer well the serial killer likes butterflies and is illustrated by sound effects you might hear in the dream sequence of most modern films br br why oh why i no idea it really really wants to be scary but i think in this universe scary equals talk a whole bunch and add dark ambient noises just for the record this is in no way is a horror film its most definitely a thriller barely really movie makers nowadays need to do their homework before making horror films or at least calling a movie a horror film it makes me say in too may words ironically acolytes you take forever to say nothing
0	the palestinian situation is fertile and as yet largely fallow soil for film making 'divine intervention' tries hard and gives us an insightful peek into the almost surreal life of those caught up in the troubles but the film amounts to little more than a handful of admittedly lovely visual jokes thrown onto celluloid while the links between them become increasingly obscure as the film progresses a missed opportunity to say something more coherent about a very topical issue
0	br br won't be long on this movie the first half an hour was one of the most boring i have had to face since i've started watching movies the story didn't advanced nothing was explained about any of the characters it felt like a non movie a lot of people had already left the audience at this point br br a lot of the scene were totally unjustified and unexplained br br the director should have studied film a bit more to know that each sequence each scene has to make the story go forward he never did that br br the supposedly funny moments were contrived and only a few people laughed people with a weird sense of humor i guess br br prize of the jury in cannes 2002 don't know what the jury was thinking about probably the correct effect br br i would have loved to love it the disappointment was therefore even bigger br br you have to see it to believe it but wait for the video
0	this is like a school video project and a propaganda film that puts the whole class as well as the teacher to sleep br br utterly boring long silent yes silent strings of unrelated video clips br br instead of this movie watch the paint dry or the grass grow it will be more interesting unless you enjoy seeing arabs being malicious to everyone around them br br the director should be embarrassed of this lame waste of film br br it deserves a one for the movie quality a zero for the ridiculous propaganda message and a negative number for the script or lack thereof
0	a brazilian cable television is presenting this month in its cult channel i saw the trailer and listened to the advertisement and decided to see this movie indeed it is an absurd boring pretentious dumb pointless disconnected crap about the conflict in the middle east and together with they certainly are the worst movies i have tried to see i really wasted forty three minutes of my life watching the first half of this crap highly indicated for torturing enemies how can this movie be awarded and nominated to prizes inclusive in cannes my vote is one awful br br title brazil divine intervention
0	i was very concerned about this film it was scheduled to play at a jewish film festival and was reported to be very hostile to israel while using clever humor and irony br br i was relieved that the film was not a diatribe however as a work of film it was deeply disappointing the film was full of random events some of which eventually connected most of which did not some of the events were very clever and funny but some were merely random and pointless br br there are repeated scenes between two lovers where they sit in a car and play some game perhaps in some cultures this is erotic but it's like watching thumb wrestling after the third time it really became tiresome br br i have always found david lynch to be gratuitously bizarre using strange stories and images to cause audiences to think that he is so sophisticated that they don't grasp his work in fact there is nothing to grasp the same is true here the stories do not add up to anything and there is not much of a political point being made in one scene a boisterous israeli soldier humiliates palestinian drivers at a checkpoint that's news br br i don't understand why this film has garnered controversy nor why it has garnered attention it is an inferior work and seeing it was a waste of time
0	i really wanted to like this film for all sorts of reasons the subject matter is inherently interesting and is probably the major issue facing the world today and has thrown up fascinating works e g linda grant's when i lived in modern times usually from the israeli side of the fence also a bloke i like told me he thought it was the best film he'd seen all year so with such a recommendation br br however i actually found myself nodding off at points admittedly i was tired and the cinema seats comfy but i found it too much hard work trying to identify with the characters once i'd got my head round the idea that it was a series of vignettes i went with it but this made it disappointingly like a sketch show rather than a film i liked the concept of a restrained almost silent mise en scene contrasted to these utopian moments the sexy girl the red balloon and the ninja muslim fighter but personally i think the film has been over hyped i'm not saying narrative and plot is everything it's definitely not but even a little more dialogue would have helped
0	this was one of the most dishonest meaningless and non peaceful of the films i have ever seen the representation of the other of the israelis was racist backward and unfair for one the song played on e car radio when pulled up alongside a very right wing israeli driver was i put a spell on you by natacha atlas the song's style is quite arabic but it was released on an israeli compilation cd and i have even heard it on the radio in israel many israeli songs as well as architecture foods and slang are influenced by arabic culture and there is no reason an israeli jew would be offended or angered by a nearby car playing that song the way e s appears so calm and collected with his sunglasses and cool glare via a long still shot is meant to force the viewer into seeing the jew as haggard and racist and e s as noble and br br i have traveled all over israel and i have never seen an recruitment poster since service is mandatory but in the film not only is there a recruitment poster but it depicts a stereotypical image of an arab terrorist and the words want to shoot this is an extremely inaccurate depiction of the mentality of the majority of israelis as well as israeli soldiers and such an advertisement wouldn't even exist on a random israeli highway in including it the director aims to convince the audience that israel is a society of anti arab racists hell bent on murder br br the ninja scene was gratuitous and needlessly violent a hollywood style action scene involving israeli soldiers shooting palestinians would be just as unwelcome in an israeli directed film as the ninja scene should have been but for some reason images of an unrealistic non comic and violent scenario manage to elicit applause from the audience since the director has smeared the israeli side so much beforehand that any shot of israeli soldiers being killed would be welcome the director shows absolutely no attempt at building bridges portraying the other as human or working towards peace violence is made to be the only solution this is furthered by scenes of exploding tanks falling guard towers and other random acts of destruction one of my best friends serves in the israeli military and the targets in firing ranges are never arab women dressed in black or any other quasi civilian on canvas soldiers at checkpoints are instructed not to fire at the head of an approaching palestinian unless it is clear that their own lives are in danger the method according to my friend is to provide a warning shout fire into the air or around the area and then if all else fails shoot in the leg and then interrogate and arbitrarily targeting a woman in the head as shown in the film is not the proper procedure br br besides these inaccuracies the directing style was also poor repetition became repetitious and no longer captivating symbols such as the balloon with drawn on it are forced outside any plot structure or effective integration in the setting the balloon is palestine penetrating and regaining jerusalem and it is created for no reason by e s the ambulance being checked for permits by israeli soldiers followed by subsequent israeli ambulances flying past the checkpoint is an overly overt claim of an israeli double standard by the director the attempt by the director to show life in nazareth as dreary and pointless is done with overkill showing the routines of random people over and over again even with a slight change each time and emphasizing that not one member of the cast ever smiles and is minimalist in dialogue almost screams out the purpose of such scenes the dreariness of life without allowing much room for personal interpretation by contrasting one section of the movie daily life in nazareth with the second section the checkpoint between and israel the director subtly blames this dreariness on israel but never provides any direct evidence as to why such blame can be properly argued br br i spent hours trying to figure out why music ended abruptly and began abruptly and why many modern fashion show like and metal action tracks were included in the score i still cannot come up with an answer i felt that the music was out of place in this film the contrast between more silent scenes and intense scenes was actually annoying and not affecting or thought provoking i can understand if the director intended for the music to provide some comic aspect to certain scenes but i found that there was nothing comic to be found in israeli soldiers shooting at targets or fighting a ninja or a woman having to suffer another walk through a checkpoint albeit defiantly in fact i was tempted to close my ears during intense scenes and annoyed by the lack of a score during quiet scenes whatever the director's intent it provided only an displeasure throughout the film br br this film has no legitimate political message because it provides an inaccurate and extreme representation of the other and neglects to actually address any issues it is a propaganda film because the director intends various symbols styles and scenes to draw sympathy for the palestinian side while displaying the israeli side as cruel and inhuman without exception the vibrant atmosphere of an action packed hollywood scene or of intense music is displayed in every act of violence by palestinians against israelis such that the almost inevitably positive and thrilled feelings the music and cinematography elicit from the audience are directed to one side there is no thought reflection or deepening of the understanding of the conflict by the audience emotions are simply pulled to one side and kept there in a good vs bad cliché scenario i believe this film lacked the depth quality and power of other palestinian films such as paradise now and wedding in the galilee
0	it's not plot driven ok it's not a character study fine there's no action alright there's no point hmmm br br maybe it's supposed to represent the boredom and absurdity of living in and parts of israel these days in a state of violence petty disagreements deep rooted hostility etc but mostly it's long long scenes of nothing happening or things which look like they're dripping with meaning a checkpoint tower crashing to the ground an balloon floating into jerusalem a crouching tiger women bullets into a halo but when you try to derive some meaning there's no there there br br bonus you can watch this film in fast forward and it will make absolutely no difference except that it might be slightly less boring
0	did i waste my time this is very pretentious film in the beginning you will think there's something going on but by the time some 30 minutes go by you realize nothing is happening i waited for another 20 minutes and by then i was so frustrated that i started reading reviews on imdb and realized that the director has wasted precious time of so many people br br unbelievably boring pointless film stay away so many good soundtracks i will give one point for the police inspector joke because that worked for me i laughed for a long time but otherwise a very bad film stay away 1 on 10
0	how many monster tree movies can you see in a lifetime well i'll go out on a limb and say one this movie is better watched late at night with a 12 pack of beer the sound off and you and your friends making up the dialogue br br on a pacific island a young man is sentenced to death for with the evil americans seems his loving wife has been sleeping with the witch doctor and they set him up to die so the can be king well he vows to come back and wreak revenge br br before you can shake a stick the goofy natives run to the american scientists' hut screaming come br br it seems the young corpse has done just that as the walking tree monster yes his revenge is terrible and so is this movie it seems that these natives cannot run from a lumbering tree so he tosses them in quicksand rolls them down hills etc pretty soon the new king wants to trade his woman or kingdom for an axe or a chainsaw br br general problems with this movie are numerous the comedy relief is an obnoxious woman with a cockney accent like this movie needs comedy you want her to die upon her first appearance the leading lady is whiny the leading man is a boor the acting is wooden pun intended the dialogue is stiff and lumbering the natives have brooklyn accents the monster suit is pure giggles br br while this is a bad movie it still is fun to watch it gets a 3 on unintentional laughs alone your dog may rate it just a bit higher but only if the tree wasn't mobile
0	this dvd is missing its calling as a coaster this is a great example of why no one should ever go see a sequel with a different director writer than the original two hours of this turkey left me begging for exorcist 2 reruns br br no legitimate laughs not one decent scare the script was just a mess and i felt bad for the actors who had to perform it they must have had sick relatives at home or monster coke habits or something br br the original was a makeup effects landmark so naturally the producers of the sequel thought it would be a great idea to to scrap makeup fx and do cg werewolves instead these cg werewolves had me laughing a lot harder than any of the comedy it was just a total miss if ya want a night's entertainment go rent the original again or go take a film class and make your own horror film you're bound to do better than these fools did
0	may contain spoilers br br a luckless south sea islander is executed by other caucasian looking natives after he befriends visiting scientists tod andrews and tina carver the meddlesome scientists dig him up and find that he has taken the form of a humanoid tree he comes to life and goes on a rampage and sure enough that fifties boogeyman the a bomb is blamed for this aberration to state that this particular monster walks like it has a stick up its a would be redundant suffice it to say that the critter lumbers along like the film itself throwing his enemies into some handy quicksand and giving the main characters one more thing to make stupid comments about paul blaisdell created the tree man suit and it's hardly his best work over the years this flick has been to many comments like to hell it can go personally i think it's the best walking tree movie i've ever seen
0	i know it's not original but what the hey what else can be said about it i feel unutterably silly just paying any attention at all to from hell it came the movie makes the important political and social issue of fallout from atmospheric atomic tests seem a matter for joking and dismissal not the concern and alarm being raised by scientists all over the world at the time
0	native chief's son is wrongfully accused for the death of his father the evil witch doctor orders to execute him he then comes back as a murdering tree well what can you say about such a film if it was intended to be a horror film there obviously was some sort of bad judgment involved and for a comedy it still isn't funny enough i don't know why people make films like this i guess you have to be in a really silly mood to watch it or you might want to see the incredible monstrous tree which gives a new dimension to a slow death or maybe you want to check out the great acting skills by all involved ms or the dialogue and screenplay which were strangely ignored at the academy awards that year br br shouldn't we try psycho analysis on that tree maybe its mother was afraid of oaks 2 10
0	i saw this movie one time at a kiddie matinée at the north park theater in san diego in 1959 when it was released and i was 11 it was one of three features that were shown that day br br i have not seen it since but have wanted to because i am a film buff and appreciate the terrible along with the great good and average films br br what i remember most vividly is that the more sophisticated audience members consisting of children between 8 and 15 howled with laughter at the tree monster br br a triple bill at a theater showing 3 adventure films is something an 11 year old does not forget but i can't remember the names of the other 2 films one did star george montgomery and david farrar br br update the other 2 films in this triple bill were much better they were 1959 with george montgomery and david farrar starring and the angry red planet 1959 with gerald mohr and naura hayden staring ms hayden has written a couple of books on health and fitness also
0	huge waddling grimacing tree trunk menaces fake natives on a pacific atoll looking suspiciously like southern ca reaking and revenge unlike the silly stumps in navy vs the night monsters the is actually a full grown man tree well grown in 2 days moost have od'ed on those miracle grow spikes it comes not from hell but from the grave of a fake native greg palmer the zombies of mora tau murdered by the native elders for hanging out with those awful american scientists the scientists include dr william arnold tod andrews hang 'em high beneath the planet of the apes and professor clark john mcnamara war of the colossal beast rounding out the cast is linda the parent trap as the obnoxious mrs the obvious comic relief spurting out an obvious fake cockney accent a stellar cast indeed because his vacant wife korey played amateurishly by suzanne love's a helps set him up declares his revenge on her and all of the elders then the dopey american scientists the tree bring it back to life in the name of science allows it to slowly amble about the island killing off everyone who has done him wrong of course we all know that evil monsters carry off fair maidens so the grabs plucky female scientist dr terry mason tina carver hell on frisco bay waddles off with her vine ally a good shot with a hits a knife lodged in the and it falls over dead into the quicksand this laughably foolish is one of the all time cheesy howlers the is arguably the slowest monster in moovie history right up there with the clanky over built robot from robot monster vs the aztec mummy and the slow carpet monster from creeping terror try not to laugh as you watch the toss fake natives down hills into quicksand dodge spears and lumber slowly about the island shady writing wooden performances and sappy direction all point that this pulpy fertilizer has far bark than bite this tepid pile of wood chips was the last hurrah from long time editor turned director dan milner who quickly vanished into well deserved obscurity following this film you herd it through the grapevine from the moocow first from hell it came is a compost classic 
0	there are a number of movies that my high school friends and i used to joke about they are mostly the campy works of the 50's that showed up on television on the late show this was one of our favorites the soul of a fallen native being brought to life in a tree stump with a scowl on its face now my friends claimed that if you looked carefully you could see the thing had shoes i never saw this what is most striking to me is that the natives seemed to be white men with black grease paint on their faces some looked sort of italian they also spoke with the strangest timbre that didn't seem to fit their situation like the mummy movies the mobility of the thing didn't seem to offer much of a threat in a confrontation one should only have to walk fast i guess it's the old element of surprise if you see this don't take it too seriously be happy that we have a battery of old horror movies that gave us such joy
0	after looking for this for months and then accidentally buying it cheap it was disappointing i heard about it on a dvd r site and it sounded crazy br br but no what i got was a pretty bad martial arts movie the kung fu ing wasn't too bad but the rest of the movie was pretty awful and made the movie seem really really long much longer then it's 85 minute runtime br br on a positive note the ape was funny for a couple of seconds especially when i think they took the only close up of it's face from another movie and the black guy who pops up half way through was funny because of the one line he said which singlehandedly made all black people look like complete simpletons br br but it wasn't enough sadly br br 4 10
0	for me it's a case you'll never understand if you didn't live it so read this to know why would i have such unlimited anger br br i heard a lot about bruce lee my father loved him my mother who hates any minor shot of violence loved him and how she talks till now about his the big boss aka fists of fury and the experience of watching it at the egyptian movies 1973 with all the gigantic success further to that i watched a real good movie about him dragon the bruce lee story 1993 so i found myself crying where are your movies bruce br br i went to the video store and it was dumb move you'll know why and waw i found a lot of bruce lee movies i selected one named bruce lee in new guinea br br i did it to myself and watched that one oh god please forgive your servant i harmed myself but with no intended decision i wouldn't do it if i knew its evil damaging its mythical level of hideousness br br after that i didn't understand at all what's the big fuss about bruce lee as a great immortal star why anybody would care whether he is here or there this hero whom i've watched is not that gifted and not that genius and of course is not that sexy br br until my father saw this star and he asked me to pause at any of his close ups and after he examined his face a little he told me in a very definitive way this is not bruce lee so i became too confused to ask who's this silly guy anyway br br it was 2001 2 years after my first entry to the imdb database therefore i tended to it immediately to know who the hell is that man and i discovered the truth he isn't bruce lee no my dear friends he is bruce li br br and what a huge so huge difference i just want to know who can love that bad clone or god forbid love his repulsive movies i watched 2 of them and couldn't bear finishing the third br br after that i ignored all our video stores because its cheap cunning writing on the posters that this is bruce lee and i've got the original the one and only bruce lee who is such a great star indeed and oh boy he certainly had the right to immortality and no less
0	bar hopping seems to be trying to be about the stereotypical bar tender and lay shrink serving up pearls of wisdom followed by example vignettes played out by the cast however this turkey is a jumbled mess with a script full of simple minded cliched nonsense hard to follow herky jerky flow unsatisfying and not worth the time d
0	occasionally funny but generally boring i did recognize robert from welcome back carter aka epstein as the ex celebrity criminal there is a knee slapping gut busting scene with the french lady having a bad reaction to american food s baio s kellerman and tom arnold are billed but have only minor roles you never get to know the characters and it's hard to care what happens to them not recommended
0	the odd mixture of comedy and horror sometimes works and sometimes doesn't had the main male character been a little more interesting the film would have been as well a trio of young americans visit paris run into a beautiful werewolf and the problems confound from there br br numerous logic holes make the possibly intriguing story difficult to take
0	the breadth height of the scale of this movie overwhelm me about a week ago i posted a commentary on the 1926 silent epic maciste in hell referring to it as staggering then i encountered the bros blood red planet wow br br it's all about the scale of the thinking behind it the bros and colleague john mcbride were thinking so big that the musings of arthur c clark stanley kubrick's 2001 a space is lucky it was released thirty two years before this sweetheart as a matter of fact kubrick had it easy with a budget actual actors and major studio backing for his little star trek ripoff and all that arthur c clarke had to do was write the damn thing what's so hard about muscling around a typewriter the brothers on the other hand had to think radical outside of the box and quickly they recruited a half dozen of their friends colleagues including a hot lookin' chick bought a bunch of colored raided old office supply dumps for every keyboard monitor and hands free phone headset they could find got everybody identical black made off with every tin in the county learned enough 3d modeling texture skinning to animate a couple of space ship fly bys spent a couple hours drumming up a script executed what is easily the most frightening space monster puppet since that horrible little monster jabba the hut carried around with him was fried by r2d2 spent literally days working with a vhs camera and an to shoot edit their film and came up winners this is the best d i y direct to home video fan movie space epic i've ever seen and in proportion to the amount of talent resources at the disposal of the filmmakers dwarfs even logans run or battlestar galactica the original series as being a chilling look at our future right down to a newscaster wearing a mis matched ill fitting 2nd hand suit as a species we are doomed br br seriously for a minute though it is a vast improvement upon such later epics as the dinosaur or alien predators which is funny since it was made before either of those masterpieces somewhere along the lines the started taking it easy on themselves this film is executed with a certain conviction that gets you to believe that you really can breathe in a vacuum wearing a dust mask and two biker squirt bottles and the scene where the alien beast consumes a miniaturized crew member made me immediately think of where i'd seen that before godzilla vs the sea monster where the giant rampaging monster crab skewers two and eats them on camera that made me cry when i was a kid br br this made me cry as an adult because here i am wasting my time trying to be some sort of critic or writer or writer critic and these guys get to have all the fun actually making a real feature length sci fi epic with lots of cool colored lights a hot chick and a talking slide projector named kal one of the flight crew even gets to wear his black space baseball cap backwards glower with his goatee like that clown from metallica is this supposed to be a joke no it is an epic statement about humanity from humanity and for humanity that deserves to be seen by anybody who has the capability to not take any of it too seriously look for it on a 2 disc box set called galaxy of terror in your favorite discount cutout dvd bins which is probably where it belongs but how many of us can say yeah they have a couple box sets of our movies for sale at best buy br br 4 10 anyone lacking in a sense of humor might want to try silent running or maybe tron but someday an alien civilization on the other side of the galaxy will intercept a transmission of this movie and decide that we actually are not to be messed with good work guys
0	this film is a hodge podge of various idiotic cliches for instance boy meets spoilt rich girl and gets her to fall in love with him by harassing her in college an over used backdrop in recent indian commercial films a male chauvinistic glorification of sexual conquest the climax is predictable having been used ad nauseum in several other films as with many other recent commercial hindi films the film abounds with the incongruous insertion of songs which probably contributed to the film's success more than anything else
0	stealing time actually dates back to 2001 when it was mysteriously titled rennie's landing which explains how director marc was able to afford this cast of now established television movie actors in what is obviously an extremely low budget production about ten minutes into the film you understand why this thing never got a theatrical release after it made the film festival rounds several years ago br br its recent distribution by franchise pictures probably reflects a perception that the rising popularity of certain cast members can be milked to recover some of the modest production costs although not a great addition to anyone's resume young actors have done worse things when they were desperately seeking acting work of any kind br br peter ethan embry scott foley and charlotte play college friends who do an early big chill reunion and compare war stories about the failure of reality to measure up to their dreams br br unfortunately nothing else happens absolutely nothing yes alec dreams about a liquor store holdup and a bank robbery which are then cheaply and lamely staged to completely inappropriate music it is the least suspenseful bank job since w c fields was the guard in the bank dick br br if anyone can point to any moment in stealing time where something actually happens i would like to know about it because as far as i can tell not a thing happens in the whole film perhaps through incessant visual reflections is trying to say something profound about taking control of one's life before it is too late like st elmo's fire the movie is littered with every profound thought ever uttered by a young adult who has left the ivory tower to experience the real world for the first time br br i felt was going for a kind of howard hawks young professionals in action only angels have wings motif then again i'm sure i was reading much too much into the film after all things actually happen howard hawks films br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
0	this movie is a waste of time though it has actors who have the potential to do something decent the acting in the movie is sub par and has a cliché point you never know what's going to happen tomorrow so live your life to the fullest and do what makes you happy that sentence saves you from wasting hours of your life on this movie people who like this movie are the same people who would enjoy sitting for two hours before finding that the entire movie was a dream sequence if the most important part of the movie isn't even going to happen at least make it enjoyable to watch and captivating there's a reason this project didn't make a theatrical release and though indy films can turn out very good this one does not even come close
0	i found this film to be a bit too depressing i don't mind dramas but this was a bit too much for me luckily there does seem to be somewhat a decent outcome i suppose it was well done i'd watch it again but it's nothing to rave about
0	as many have detailed here with a level of seriousness that i find amusing this is not br br a film cue dramatic music br br it's just a so bad it's good totally surreal jackie chan stunt for all the women fighters are totally kick butt and jackie is definitely put in his place br br this is the movie you want to see with some good friends on a sunday afternoon surrounded by munchies ready to roar with laughter cheer on the good guys boo the bad guys and continually yell what when something totally bizarre happens great fun
0	yet another lo wei production to completely waste the talents of a young jackie chan to kill with intrigue is a strange mix of wuxia melodrama supernatural action and plain old school kung fu fighting that is pretty dull despite featuring several surreal wtf moments and lots of laughably bad dialogue br br in an effort to protect his pregnant girlfriend chin chin from the killer bees a gang of ruthless killers that are about to attack his home lei jackie chan pretends to be a heartless cad driving her away and thus saving her from danger br br during the attack relatives are all killed but he is left relatively unharmed by the gang whose leader a scar faced woman seems to have the hots for him then goes in search of chin chin whose safety he has entrusted to his close friend chu chuk br br during his quest to find his true love befriends the head of a courier company whose precious cargo has been stolen by the leader of the evil 'bloody rain' clan eventually after being injured in a fight against members of the nasty clan a fun scene with lots of silly weaponry and then nursed back to health by the scar faced killer bee who shows her love by burning his face ultimately learns that he is a lousy judge of character his friend chu chuk is none other than the power hungry head honcho of the 'bloody rain' clan who has plans to marry chin chin himself br br cue the drawn out climactic battle with getting kicked in the face repeatedly before eventually choking his traitorous ex pal to death with a scarf br br even die hard chan fans will find this one a chore to sit through with only the final fight managing to showcase some of the star's amazing acrobatic abilities fans of general asian weirdness might dig the spooky appearance of the killer bees at the beginning of the film with one character inexplicably demanding back his severed hand or the moment when three men float through a window to attack our hero but for most this film will have very limited appeal
0	early jackie chan film where there is no sign of the chan persona we know this is chan in a full on traditional revenge tale of the sort that was cloned and re cloned by countless producers and studios all through hong kong taiwan and mainland china its a very serious story that shows none of the humor and warmth that would catapult jackie chan to super stardom its also clear from watching this that had he not reinvented himself odds are we would never have known him because his career would have been painfully short as a film on its own merits this is a good looking but pretty unremarkable movie i was watching it in the midst of an all day marathon of martial arts films and it would have blended together with every other film that i watched that day had i not noticed jackie in the film honestly i don't think the film is really worth bothering with there are too many other better variations except if you're interested in seeing where jackie chan started
0	director lo wei was known to read the racing papers and take naps on the set tells us something about his approach to film making huh the reviews i've read fall into two categories 1 this is a film so bad it is funny or 2 this is a film so bad it is boring br br so let's get to the point we all agree on this film is really bad br br i vote for category 2 the story is almost incomprehensibly complex and it is further shredded and twisted by the remarkably poor camera work and editing yet lo wei was so in love with it that he slows the pacing so we can all have a long look at it whether we want to or not br br maybe lo wei was upset the day or two this film was made he just wanted to make everybody suffer cast crew and audiences alike br br spare yourself the agony
0	i watched part of the first part of this movie and tiny little bits of other parts maybe i'm mistaken but i don't think this movie is really worth watching the odd characters and happenings does catch your attention and is rather interesting but there are bad things in it as well and some gross things the magic and mythical side of it turned me off and for most christians this movie would not be very suitable or worthwhile to watch
0	i was a fan of the american werewolf in london movie and so was curious whether a 16 year later sequel could be done with french language and local re cast major supporting and minor characters tonight i watched the edited for fox network version that was some sort of curious hybrid of several hyperactive sequels the screenwriters and directors pay homage to certain of the key plot concepts tourist gets wolf bite full moon comes out boy meets girl boy becomes beast boy dies heroic death after help from ghost victim for me the oddest aspect of this formula teen horror special effect ride was the casting of the school teacher love interest of the tv comedy ed as one of the werewolf's clueless victims who is more or less totally unsympathetic in the scripted lines they handed her i haven't seen another horror flick that this movie is a vampire fighting flick titled blade but i guess that parts of its plotline must explain how villain werewolves they're are threatening the good werewolf pair during a long part of the movie there is also a final conflict in a paris subway train a la speed this 1997 studio product is an odd hybrid of a film since considerable technical effects are shown for scary purposes but the authentic terrors of the original have been completely undermined in my opinion such an odd re write of the werewolf legend and movie mythology my suggestion to those considering this at the video store go for a classic top of the line thriller instead alfred hitchcock's psycho
0	this tatty am adaptation scrambles through the plot of dickens' wonderful book replacing the emotional impact with hurried transitions and any exterior locations with drawings it's not the fault of the actors and the production team that the budget is so low of course but you have to question the point of making this in the first place when there's neither the time nor money to do it justice michael scrooge is far too gentle at the outset making his transformation lack power and this isn't helped along by a lack of reaction from him as he watches the visions the other actors range from acceptable clive paul to non committal bernard lee to seeming like they're about to forget their lines john le mesurier it doesn't even score points for effort to be honest
0	when i think bollywood i think of lite feel good musical dance numbers with gorgeous outfits on the men and women and catchy tunes horror thrillers mystery and suspense don't come to mind though and this to my western eyes is like an abstract comedy br br i think it would have been a better movie shorter even if the writer and the director had made a definite choice either gone for outright thriller horror comedy mystery supernatural suspense or musical romance instead of an awkward mixture of them all br br i'll have to say more than once i thought the director must have seen i know what you did last summer and tried to give it a bollywood twist my first film was bride prejudice which i thought was acted well br br this seemed like what a western audience would consider a straight to video cheese fest br br the acting was over the top at times it felt like they were intentionally trying to parody western thrillers but when you saw them try to inject the dramatic crying screaming or fear it felt out of place br br the viewer was left wondering when one of the actors would wink at the camera more than a few times when the audience was supposed to be horrified we could only snicker a the absurdity br br i watch a lot of foreign films and even though i don't know hindi i have to say they did a poor job subtitling the film sometimes it was difficult to read the white lettering against the bright background br br the villain was particularly amusing at least to me because he came with his own mood music the supposed surprising twist actually felt like a cop out br br the lead couples were handsome pretty enough and the musical numbers made it worth my rental fee i'd suggest it to someone as a musical comedy but i'd tell them to just fast forward the rest of the movie because it wasn't worth the effort of reading if you're determined to read a whole subtitled hindi flick then check out the superior romantic drama london' br br but i was not scared unless that's really what they think is horrifying in india 1 out of 10 for what it's being touted as 6 out of 10 for it's unintentional quickness ability to illicit lots of laughs and it's musical dance numbers enjoy
0	ramsay – the kings of comedy or was it horror whatever wake after years of hibernation and yes i did get scared no not because of the horror element of course i am not that squeamish but because rats were constantly dancing on my feet in the theatre where else do such movies run br br so check the plot a man is repeatedly stabbed choked to death stuffed in plastic and dumped in a pool but he still returns to take revenge now was the film a thriller or a horror that itself is the suspense for you to discover and the end turns out to be another mask mystery remember those trademark ramsay undercover agents – men wearing some stupid horror masks only here the mask is of a human i suppose no more detailing is required to skip this flick br br tends to get over dramatic and theatrical forgetting the difference between cinema and tv soaps a cheaply and dressed in her typical pink lipstick looks like … uh you know what br br the background score is a straight lift from alfred hitchcock's psycho not a single department of the film whether technical or creative is worth commenting novelty lacks both in story and execution br br certainly your senses
0	to call this film a disaster will be an understatement i don't even know where to begin i have questions though and lots of them i would like to know who conceived of this script who gave them money to make this film who was in charge of casting and costuming they should all be sued i saw this film in my local library's catalog and i thought hey great i had just seen the two fog movies that hollywood had produced and then realised that bollywood had a version unbeknowst to me that it would turn out to be a total and utter crap fest br br the fog is a film about four friends actually just one of them but you should know that there are four friends one of them is a beauty queen played by india's 1st mrs world and the director spares no expense at letting you know this the script even claims that she the character's name is has aishwarya rai eyes kareena kapoor lips and rani mukherjee hair feel free to barf if you want to at least at this point you haven't seen the film unlike poor me br br anyway receives a death threat one day from one of the uncle who tells her to drop out of the contest so that his niece would have a better chance of winning but boyfriend doesn't allow her to do this and thus she participates in the pageant and wins this causes the crack cocaine sniffing uncle of her former college classmate tanya to come after her but with the help of her cousin drowns the culprit and they enlist both their boyfriends in the task of getting rid of the body it's tough but they eventually get around to doing it br br in a scene that borrows from hollywood's film diabolique the pool where the dead body is hidden is drained only to reveal that the body is missing and this begins a conundrum of whodunit and where is it by the time the film is over the film successful steals scenes from 'i know what you did last summer i still know scream 1 scream 2 scream 3 murder she wrote episodes and not to mention columbo and scooby doo' shameless i tell ya br br inconsistencies and problems within the film include but are not limited to br br 1 a scantily clad answers phone calls three times from her would be killer the camera shows her drop the phone off the hook yet the phone is able to ring again each time and she picks it up to answer br br 2 tanya tries to kill herself because she doesn't win the beauty contest wtf even aishwarya rai who is ten time more beautiful did not attempt suicide when she didn't win miss india br br 3 in the pool scene the kids who come to retrieve the ball that has fallen into the pool conveniently disappear as soon as the police arrive and the ball disappears too br br 4 the cliché blue contacts lenses of the killer change from blue to brown in the drowning scene yet when his corpse surfaces again his eyes are blue br br 5 nobody who dies in the film is mourned strange especially for indian society br br 6 when jumps into the dirty murky pool an underwater camera shows us his actions and miraculously the pool is transformed to olympic size and is clean and clear as day br br 7 sexy belly dancer performs a pseudo orgasm drenched song and dance number about coming of age that would have been cool for some bachelor party but they were celebrating pageant win hello br br 8 kunal sameer and can neither dance nor lip synch properly but don't blame them just accept that there was no choreographer for the dance numbers br br 9 nothing within the film was choreographed it was like they just told the actors to show up and do whatever the want br br 10 the film played out like there was no script either that or the director was high and drunk when filming this junk br br 11 when picture was published without her consent in a magazine she flew to the police headquarters to have the photographers arrested yet she receives death threats and never bothers to alert the police br br just to mention a few of course this film was a painful experience for me and i advise everyone to skip it by all means necessary and possible bollywood should be terribly ashamed of this kind of film making
0	i supposed i was actually expecting a bollywood remake of the fog from the title but this is actually more of a bollywood remake of i know what you did last summer with some elements of scream kind of sort of and not a very good one either apart from a couple very entertaining song dance numbers this is pretty terrible it's obviously got a decent budget yet it's wasted on reheated leftovers that weren't that tasty to begin with a young woman is threatened by a creepy guy to not enter a beauty contest because he wants his sister to win she thankfully doesn't look as creepy as her brother but she enters anyway and wins and of course the creepy guy comes after her and is killed after which comes a rousing game of hide the body of course the body disappears and no one seems to know why but someone knows and they're waiting for the end to reveal a ridiculous plot twist interspersed with all this tired rehash are a few nifty dance numbers especially the celebratory dance number at the party for the girl who won the beauty contest it's highly colorful it's well done downright fun and utterly wasted in this terrible film i would much rather watch an old ramsay brothers movie than this piece of crap although someone has deemed that these don't need to be made available for the most part which is a crime in itself but not as big of a crime as this film i took one for the team watching this one so take my advice don't bother 2 out of 10
0	legend has it that at the gala hollywood premiere screening of 2001 a space odyssey about 20 minutes into the film rock hudson yelled out would somebody please tell me what the hell this movie is about well i have rock beaten by about 19 minutes 59 seconds this movie made absolutely no sense at all who were those people where were those people what were the rules of the game called quintet are there any rules to quintet were robert altman and his cohorts making the movie up as they went along what was paul newman thinking when he signed on to this maybe ol' fast eddie saw zardoz and thought well if connery can get involved in a futuristic film that makes no sense so can i maybe the good stuff is on the cutting room floor and all we get to see is the incoherent stuff also did all the cast get to keep their individual funny hats you never saw such bizarre looking hats all in one place in your life quintet just confirms what i've always thought when altman's good he's superb but when he's bad he makes stuff like quintet
0	quintet marks the only venture of both paul newman and director robert altman into the realm of science fiction it was said of newman that he could not do comedy but he tried until he finally scored a real success in that genre with slap shot but the failure of this film left him gun shy and he never tried it again br br this is one of the biggest downer films i've ever seen it's a futuristic ice age brought on by who knows what but presumably it's a nuclear winter even during the ice age of thousands of years ago the parts of the earth still sustained animal and human life but apparently not here seals have survived and paul newman is a seal hunter on the outside br br but hunters do need a little r r and newman goes to a futuristic city where things are so boring the natives have some kind of game played with six people and it's a kind of russian roulette to win you have to kill five other participants in your game br br it's a sad turn to see what man has come down to which is one of the reasons i just could not get into this story the atmosphere is bleak the story is bleak the people are bleak it's all so bleak no wonder this thing came up short at the box office br br it's a film that just about everyone thinks is never going to be on the top ten list of paul newman films including me br br this is man's future what a bummer
0	the best thing i can say about quintet is that it's not quite as bad as i remembered it being on my first viewing br br but that doesn't mean it's good br br this weird sci fi thriller is not quite like any other movie i've ever seen which i guess at least gives it the stamp of novelty but it's a borderline disaster of a movie and one of the worst robert altman ever made on the dvd special feature about the making of quintet it's clear that even altman didn't know what the hell the movie was supposed to be br br it's set in some distant future when the world is in the grip of another ice age the film was shot at the abandoned site of the montreal expo '67 and i do have to admit that this gives the movie some interesting production design elements even if much of it looks like it's being filmed in an iced over shopping mall paul newman looking zonked out and absolutely disinterested in anything going on around him and brigitte fossey play drifters who wander into this futuristic city looking for newman's brother soon newman is caught up in a deadly game of quintet which all of the bored inhabitants play for lack of anything better to do and the rules of which are never made clear to the audience all we know is that the object of the game it to kill everyone else you're playing with and remain the only person alive this gives these nihilistic inhabitants their only thrill because as one of them says at one point in a soliloquy only by being near to death can one appreciate being alive br br the movie is slow ugly and actually uncomfortable to watch due to its unrelenting it's almost as if altman was purposely setting out to make a movie no one would want to sit through there aren't characters oh sure actors walk around speaking lines but none of the lines really means much and the impressive list of international actors altman assembled for this register not a whit only bibi gives the closest thing to a memorable performance as could possibly be found in a movie like this but nevertheless it does succeed in establishing an atmosphere even if that atmosphere is one of pure awfulness and it is oddly fascinating in the way that watching a man slowly starve himself to death would be fascinating br br altman really hit a dry spell after nearly a decade of superb films quintet followed close on the heels of the atrocious a wedding and was followed in short order by the not bad but mostly forgettable a perfect couple the by all accounts terrible health which i've never seen because it's not available anywhere to see and the disastrous popeye thank god he rebounded br br grade d
0	the things that i find irritating on screen the things i nitpick about and annoy the people who try to watch movies with me are those moment where the writer director set designer on screen caterer or whoever doesn't think it through to the end and by a single act of omission or commission undoes all the other work done by everyone else who has worked on the movie that moment of wait a bloody minute what just happened that stops the narrative dead in its tracks not that this film's narrative needed a lot of stopping because anyone who has ever seen it will know that narrative drive has pretty well frozen solid before the end of the opening shot there are several of those moments in this movie and you get so long to think about them too the film is two hours long and the scripted dialogue probably ran to five pages there's a lot of time to ponder its deficiencies br br the movie is set in a frozen earth another ice age has set in and the whole world is dying it's cold very cold it's actually very cold on the screen the movie was shot in canada in winter and there are icicles and real snow and people's breath misting from their mouths in every scene time and again we are reminded how cold it is people wear big hats and layers and layers of clothes and waddle around like over dressed people must have been a horrible shoot my nitpick comes in a sequence when our hero checks into a room of a hotel woken up in the middle of the night by voices coming from the room next door he overhears a conversation of vital importance to the meagre plot through an large grill in the wall dividing the two rooms i'm not questioning why there is a convenient grill in the wall between the two rooms what got me annoyed was the fact that the grill had not been blocked up by the long term tenant with the noisy visitor if you are trying to keep warm the last thing you need is a huge gaping hole in your wall that leads into an unoccupied unheated room trust me i live like this i watched this film sat on my living room sofa under a duvet with a hot water bottle my breath was misting as much as the actors' if that whacking great hole was in my wall i'd block it up with something maybe not the best choice of movie to watch in an unheated room in midwinter but boy did it make me notice the lousy insulation in the film
0	quintet is definitely not a film most people would find amusing or even interesting for that matter there is no scene dialog acting or plot development that would light a spark the icy world is one thing but muddled plot is something you really can't bear the characters are not only three dimensional they're not even one dimensional there is no emotion and there is no sense in anything that goes on there is a world encased in ice where nobody is doing any meaningful work except playing quintet and the rules to the game are never even hinted the homes are not heated even there is electricity but who and what produces it there is wood but there are no animals except dogs so where do clothes come from or shoes for that matter since apparently there is no industry and everybody is dressed as in 16th century europe which is in odd contrast to not so futuristic backdrop the entire movie seams to be stuck inside altman's imagination and he never bothered to share his ideas or his vision with audience desolation or hopelessness have nothing to do with lack of appeal to this movie the world of george lucas's thx1138 is no brighter place and characters are no more fun but the story has it's path in quintet there is no obvious or even hinted path and in my opinion it doesn't even provoke thinking about the idea behind it all as for example similar film john boorman's zardoz it's not even done in altman's unique style so it doesn't appeal to his fans either and i'm one of them all in all robert altman had a dream and he woke up without telling anybody what it meant not even to him
0	perhaps i'm being too generous when i give this film two and a half stars out of five but there was an occasional moment however as an american werewolf movie this one is a missed chance there are no real plot connections to the superior original to speak of but the story is similar in some ways to london br br possible spoiler warning american kids go to foreign country one falls in love with a beautiful girl another one of the kids gets slaughtered by a werewolf in the same night that one gets bitten and despite his undead friend's warnings by the light of the full moon he sprouts fur fangs and claws br br but there are some differences in the story for one the girl is one of the werewolves second there are three american kids and third there's some weird werewolf cult intent on taking over the world as crazy as it sounds that last one wasn't a joke spoiler ends br br the films suffers from many things first the weak acting drags it down immensely tom scott's performance is amatuerish at best and he and julie delpy who plays his love interest don't seem to have any chemistry together at all second a weak script that seems to be all over the place many elements of suspense and dark comedy that made the original one great are missing in this one and whoever said that eating out the heart of the werewolf that bit you will change you back human last i heard this wasn't part of werewolf lore at all third terrible special effects the werewolf effects are done with computer animation which works for things such as dinosaurs ghosts and space ships but seems choppy fake and artificial when used for furry creatures like werewolves br br however there were a few things that saved this one from total there's one hilarious scene in a paris cafe when andy scott is having coffee with delpy he drops a bunch of condoms on the table and tries to pass them off as chewing gum by chewing and blowing a bubble also the soundtrack a very cool mix of alternative rock bands like bush and smashmouth although none of the songs have the word moon in their title like the original movie the soundtrack is great nontheless and another funny scene when a rotting corpse played by julie bowen attempts to whistle and her eyeball pops out had me laughing out loud br br but as a whole this film seems to lack the wit and suspense of the original and the overly contrived ending doesn't help it out much either br br 1 2 two and a half out of five stars average
0	robert altman's quintet is a dreary gloomy hard to follow thriller where you finally give up after awhile because it's so complicated br br i remember seeing this at my local twin on opening weekend with a full house by the time the picture ended it was less than a quarter full never have i witnessed such a mass exodus without there being an emergency to drive people out that should tell you how bad it is i believe it to be the worst film ever made involving such major talent in front of and behind the camera
0	the earlier review is pretty much on target which altman was not with this film i haven't seen it since its original release but i have seldom spent two hours in a theater feeling as miserable and disappointed as i was with this film if some pretentious community theater attempted a sci fi version of a ingmar bergman film it might come off like this i can't bring myself to give anything altman has made a 1 but this is probably the nadir of a career that has had some remarkable highs and lows i would have walked out but as a paid film critic i couldn't think about that the next time you envy movie critics
0	this movie was sooooooo sloooow and everything in it was bland the acting the plot etc it was such a disappointment since the description looked so good do not be fooled this movie is not worth the time it takes to watch it
0	watching quintet is not unlike watching a group of people playing a word game in portuguese or some other language you do not understand you get the idea that they are playing a game and if you watch closely enough you may just begin to understand the rules but why bother since it is clear you can't join in and you wouldn't want to if you had the chance br br director robert altman is not one to beg an audience to like his films let alone understand them sometimes he lets you slip into the picture to be a part of the crowd like in m a s h nashville and a wedding films so full of and orchestrated chaos one or two more bodies in the scene wouldn't make much of a difference and other times he seems to resent the fact that someone might even be watching his film as in images or three women where the stories are almost personal monologues made for an audience of one altman with quintet altman seems to purposely dare anyone to become involved with the narrative br br you can't depend on altman to do the logical or the expected which is sometimes the thing that makes his films so remarkably iconoclastic but sometimes doing the unexpected isn't daring just dumb for instance in quintet we are introduced to a young woman who is apparently the last person on earth capable of getting pregnant and she is indeed with child this last ray of hope in a decaying society is almost immediately extinguished altman doesn't even wait until the end to play his last depressing card in this elaborate nihilistic and pessimistic tale he lets us know how empty and meaningless life is right off the bat brave maybe stupid definitely devoid of a purpose he tries to build a story on a rapidly melting iceberg all the while reminding us how pointless the effort is br br for the record quintet can at least claim to be prophetic the story is centered on a treacherous game played by the various bored characters it is a form of tag the assassination game a handful of people target each other for elimination each as a would be assassin and each as a would be victim two or more can form alliances to kill a third as they die off new targets are assigned whoever lives wins all of this happens at some exotic inhospitable wasteland it is to a great extent an extreme sci fi version of survivor minus the commercial plugs and faked reality br br it is not a bad concept for a sci fi epic a post apocalyptic setting a microcosm of the world the cast is pointedly multinational a game where no on can be trusted or least not for long and where no one really wins literally a cold war a steely eyed director with a taste for dark humor and violent invention could have a field day the mystery in quintet is not in the game or how it is played but in why it exists it all if the game quintet is a metaphor for life then altman seems to see nothing in the material but a chance to show life to be an empty meaningless game a conclusion as obvious as it is untrue given the lively albeit cynical nature of the rest of his diverse films i don't believe that altman believes in quintet either and if altman has no faith in his material why should we
0	altman's quintet has to be considered more than just flawed as so many other reviewers have pointed out the ideas behind the film even some of the choices in depicting those ideas ought to work and yet very little in this difficult film does the partially fogged camera lens i remarked to my wife that it has to be the most distracting directorial conceit i've ever seen never allowed me to get into the film's world br br in general there are serious problems with the mise en scene employed here it's clear that no small amount of thought went into factors like costume and production design but neither is very effective in evoking a believable world perhaps it is a matter of scale the film is so stage bound that i laughed out loud once it was mentioned that five million people lived in the city yes i understand the constraints of the film's budget matte paintings here and there might have helped in all the most disappointing altman film i've ever seen great ideas and grand metaphors do not always come through in art it's just part of the game
0	in a up and down career with all sorts of movies this is altman's one try at science fiction and it clearly shows that it's not his forte br br the film is practically incomprehensible it seems a disastrous combination of experimental theater pretentiousness and a major studio trying to jump on the post star wars bandwagon not that this film is at all modelled after that one but you can imagine that the studio signed on hoping for a much different paul newman sci fi film the story is nonexistent the characters remain strangers to us all the way through br br altman has packs of dogs feeding on dead bodies throughout the movie obviously straining to make some sort of point but since the movie is so poorly thought out starting with the lack of plot on up it really isn't about anything at all br br the production designed is confused the photography is undone by the blurs on the edges and the score is terrible however quintet does have one redeeming feature not only is the movie clearly filmed out in the snow and ice but the interiors are kept cold as well you see the actors' breath in every scene you really feel the cold
0	wow i thought eskimo was the most awful and embarrassing first sex movie ever but i had forgotten that germany always tries to compete in this case the well known german film producer was successful in producing even worse crap is stupid not believable and predictable and above all not funny it's almost a tragedy that so many kids went to see this in germany and i'm afraid also austria br br tobias 19 looks too nice to have no girlfriend and too ripe to be 15 and his character is too dumb to be true tries real hard to make us believe that he doesn't know anything about sex but that doesn't help seems to be made by someone who watched al bundy and took him too seriously br br the best actors in the movie are sissi and stefan who play semi liberal parents and are stand up comedians who are not particularly talented in movie acting still their performances are the best' and in comparison br br a complete failure
0	seriously all these satan comes to earth movies always involve the catholics why doesn't lucifer ever mess with the other denominations br br the plot is that played by former jason vorhees kane hodder has a plot to become human but wasn't he always a demon by getting this young girl who is his sister pregnant with his child except maybe she isn't his sister the plot isn't clear on this and they inter splice these scenes where he is seeing a shrink about his problem br br the lead girl gets pregnant while still a virgin with an incredibly creepy scene of her father giving her a exam to prove her hymen is still intact her sister played by a washed up and looking much worse for wear denise crosby concludes that this is a sign from heaven praise be br br well the demon baby takes mom's body for a joy ride and picks off in order a truck driver her friend's boyfriend and her friend all being watched by an ex military priest whose mission is to kill the baby when it is born we discover that is actually a catholic cardinal who is running the whole thing br br the ending is pretty much incomprehensible and if you could make it that far straight through you have a stronger stomach than i did i paused the film a couple of times it was so awful
0	this movie was by far the best ever i think whoever shot it with the sony hand held camera was a genius and the special effects were spectacular especially the chicken breast heart thank goodness this movie only cost me a dollar to rent also the green toxic boob discharge was amazing i could have shot this movie with my friends in high school i would not recommend this movie to anyone you might want to kill yourself instead of watching it i also feel like this was a move for porn stars trying to make it into the legitimate movie business give it to her
0	just to save you money and time i will go ahead and tell you that this movie is absolutely not worth the match and gas it would take to burn it don't waste your time as a matter of fact you would be better off forgetting you ever thought about watching it i have seriously seen better b movies in a language that i can't understand who ever gave permission for this to be made needs to be the only positive thing i can say for this movie is that with a new script and the right director and actors it could be a great story let me break it down a virgin gets pregnant by a demon the baby while inside her womb wants to feed on people they try to make up for the fact that this is possibly the worst movie ever made with cursing and pointless nudity all in all totally not worth the dollar it took me to rent it
0	god that sucked you can't end a horror movie with a happily ever after family setting i was kind of ambivalent going in to the final act but my god he didn't have to kill the girl she didn't die the ghost father appears with a cure which makes no sense because his spirit would have been liberated after the yank kid killed all the bad werewolves what a hunk of junk this is the worst horror movie i've seen in a long time and i've watched a lot of horror movies this is a slap in the face for landis and everyone else involved in american werewolf in london i hope that this ruined the career of every one in it bar julie delphy and cgi kind of new and chic back in 1997 but today it just looks drab compared to the artful prosthetic makeup work of london anyway i'm done i hope i've scared a few people of get the original instead or failing that the howling or failing that watch american idol reruns just don't watch this mess
0	i just watched that movie and was pretty disappointed i didn't expect much to begin with as the premise of the movie doesn't suggest greatness anyway sadly it doesn't even manage to deliver just as stupid entertainment the main problem is probably the acting while i've seen far worse actors in far worse movies the story would require some people to act out as violent maniacs some others as people caught a in really stressing predicament and they fail to deliver that although i watched the german release i watched with the original audio so it's definitely not just bad voice overs or anything like that added to that the german dvd release seems to be cut the killings are all pretty much left out meaning that except for a few semi gory scenes closer to the end the german release doesn't deliver as a movie for gore hounds either can't comment on that for other releases of course the plot has some stupid moments thrown in here and there and the beginning is just hilarious ever heard of a demon visiting a psychiatrist too bad the movie takes itself far too seriously if it was filmed as a horror comedy and changed a bit here and there accordingly it might have worked better the ending is just a huge disappointment br br if you've got really nothing better to do and just can't stand the boredom anymore you might and it's really a weak might consider this movie if there's anything else available to watch or do pick that alternative
0	a man comes to the office of the psychiatric dr joan claiming to be the demon kane hodder the torturer of the 13th level of the hell and he would like to tell weird things he tells that he had made a deal with lucifer to become human again he should knock up his virgin sister mary elizabeth alison brie on the day that their mother died and she should kill six people and deliver the anti christ and then he would escape from the pit and reborn when mary elizabeth gets pregnant her stressed and abusive sister catherine denise crosby does not believe that she is virgin but their father and former albert martino james callahan examines his daughter and sees her intact hymen meanwhile the church discovers the truth about mary elizabeth's pregnancy and sends the priest and former military father anthony eddie velez to spy mary elizabeth she is dominated by the fetus and forced to kill a truck driver lars jorg who is the lover of her tenant and friend jennifer and jennifer herself and eat their hearts and drink their bloods but she believes that she has nightmares however during the she realizes that she is carrying a monster and she asks her father to stop her pregnancy but it is too late br br the awful born is a b movie actually a z movie that believes that is a great movie the result is a pretentious and disappointing production with an incoherent and absurd story without humor and terrible acting and direction the plot is a complete mess there is a priest that is a hit man and former soldier a demon in existential crisis going to a psychiatric a father that examines the virginity of his daughter two female demons succubus that stand naked like a statue with both hands covering their sexes a character that is a slut and only exists to expose her beautiful body there are many scenes with free and cheap nudity but the worst is the acting the unknown lead actress alison brie is histrionic with ridiculous voices and grimaces sorry ms alison brie but i hated your annoying performance i have not recognized joan who has a good performance since i still had the image of her youth denise crosby performs a hateful character and like everybody she got older but she is still a good actress i believe that if the writer and the director had included some dark humor and assumed that this movie is a b movie the story might have worked better and better my vote is three br br title brazil o anti cristo the anti christ
0	this must rank as one of cinema's greatest debacles i was wandering europe at the time and had the misfortune to stumble upon the crew making this movie in what was even then one of the world's idyllic unspoiled settings i was enlisted as an extra and what followed was an exhibition of modern day debauchery forget all the accusations you've ever heard of peter mayall's intrusions on this rare piece of french life geoff reeve and his cohorts embarked on a level of revelry at the restaurant at les beaux that left the slack jawed in disbelief they were quite simply awful uncultured and undeserving of french hospitality
0	it's weird this film you get the impression that the makers of this snooze fest spent more time in the local bars than on set in fact it's a surprise not to see harry alan towers' name on the credits it certainly has the flavour of one of his tax shelter productions but here the motivation behind the project seems to be for all involved to enjoy a prolonged stay in provence despite the fact that the film is supposed to take place all over the region les and the area around it stands in for almost everything br br david birney makes for a spectacularly colourless hero as michael says at one point you're a walking cliché what is doing in this is anyone's guess for some reason the most interesting character played by rampling is sidelined whereas regardless of the book she should have been the central figure because she clearly has the skill to carry the movie which would have been dull anyway but at least we'd have got more of something pretty to look at br br all in all a pointless affair that is only worth watching to see how action less an action movie can be
0	a lot of alistair maclean's books have made it onto the big screen some of them the guns of fear is the key where eagles dare have been translated rather well some pass ice station zebra the secret ways have been passable enough a few river of death bear island the way to dusty death have been pretty rotten caravan to is another movie based on one of maclean's popular bestsellers but alas this is yet another that deserves adding to the rotten list peopled by uninteresting characters who get into uninteresting situations and escapades caravan to is an absolute failure both as a thriller and an entertainment its only semi redeeming qualities are a that it is filmed on very attractive provence locations and b charlotte rampling looks utterly ravishing with fully nude scenes to boot as the main female character br br disillusioned american drifter neil bowman david birney is travelling aimlessly through france when he meets british photographer lila charlotte rampling they decide to accompany each other and during their wanderings make the acquaintance of mysterious nobleman duc de michel the duc persuades the pair to aid him in protecting and escorting hungarian scientist michael bryant who is sought by various shady parties because of some information that he is carrying in his head kept secret from bowman and lila is the fact that has discovered a secret formula for using solar power as cheap economical energy the hungarian needs desperately to get his formula to new york but hired guns have been put on his trail to capture him – presumably so that he can be taken back to some ruthless criminal lord and tortured into revealing his priceless secret which they can then sell on to the highest bidder bowman and lila find themselves and their terrified fugitive on the run in the french countryside from their deadly adversaries br br the film seems terribly cheap and amateurish almost like an ultra low budget independent film made by a non professional cast and crew yet a fair sum of money was actually thrown at the film and all those involved have at various points in their careers done much better work therefore one has to assume that the film is bad simply because it has been written acted and directed with a distinct lack of care and interest the pacing is deadly slow and the plot points become so laborious that the viewer has to put in too much effort to keep up with the story performance is uninvolving and rampling only creates a stir due to her nude scenes – the character itself is an absolute bore and the actress looks rightly bored by it for those who manage to stick with the film right to the very end there is an unusual scene featuring some deadly rodeo clowns and a fierce bull which while not particularly exciting or well executed is at least different to the norm caravan to is a very disappointing film in most respects and once more a strong novel by the prolific author has suffered during its transition onto the screen
0	it's a shame that such a lame plot should be hung on such picturesque locations with some documentary style reportage shoved in for extra length a shorter film may have held the tension a little more and a more charismatic lead may not have mangled his lines so much the female lead also was not allowed to do enough resulting in a pretty but boring affair it builds towards the end but the lead actor's own redemption is too little too late and should have been revealed earlier in the film not awful just a pity unexciting but nice enough to grace tv schedules of the early hours
0	of all the adaptations of books by alistair maclean i feel that this qualifies as the worst but don´t blame maclean it would appear that all that this film shares with the novel is the same title we have no suspense no sense of foreboding of mystery no chance to really empathize with the main characters we spend the entire duration or at least i did waiting for charlotte rampling to shed her clothing for charlotte this appears to take a remarkably long time still a glimpse of charlotte tits really can´t save this disastrous film maclean has once again been kicked into the gutter to endure the sniping of those bitter hacks and nit pickers who would appear to blame him for all the ills that befall attempted filming of his books poor old alistair must have crawled into a corner and whimpered when this one came out at least bear island which also uses the maclean name but apparently none of his novel was a little exciting the excitement here is in waiting for the final credits
0	proof if ever proof were needed that hammer should have left their vampires firmly in the victorian age after all vampirism is all about repressed sexuality so the concept is irrelevant in 1972's london with its thirty something pretending to be randy teenagers br br remember by this time hammer was floundering badly the public had tired of the drawing room horror of the 1950s and 60s so the studio was trying everything to bring them back including ample nudity lust for a vampire et al and updating their characters neither of which apparently worked as hammer was pretty much resting in it grave just two years later shame br br but i still have a great fondness for the classic hammer period from 1957 1965
0	being too young to have experienced the hammer films when they were fresh and new i am discovering their hallowed horror films as i find them on dvd i know it was almost a decade and half between them but it's hard to see much of the magic in the original hammer dracula in this late entry to the christopher lee series the original hammer vampire story had lots of atmosphere and a terrific story to get involved in lee was a great dracula a vibrant vampire if that possible in the early outing but here he is nothing more than a cardboard character that mostly stands around and looks threatening the young people talk like cartoon characters even though my aunt lived in england during the 1970s and she says people actually talked with those awful clichés i had no interest whatsoever in who lived or died amongst the younger crowd they were all pretty terrible characters anyway i did enjoy seeing a young and charismatic caroline munro but she leaves the story too early lee and his historic nemesis peter cushing add an air of authenticity to the film but they can't draw blood from this empty film it's d o a
0	though i had sort of enjoyed the satanic rites of dracula 1974 i knew i shouldn't expect too much from its even more maligned predecessor surely the least of the hammer marcus on the audio commentary for the creeping flesh 1973 even goes so far as to call it the studio's nadir the film really flounders due to its totally and now embarrassingly dated updating of the myth the modern day setting actually suited satanic rites rather better even if truth be told it's still vastly preferable to dreck like dracula 2000 2000 or van helsing 2004 br br despite christopher lee's bashing of the film he still cuts an undeniably striking figure as the undead vampire even if he appears very little and is inexplicably confined to one setting likewise peter cushing delivers his usual committed performance the only other noteworthy acting job in the film is that given by christopher son of director ronald as johnny alucard even if that's only because of how unbelievably hammy it is unfortunately the two best known female members of the cast both of them horror regulars stephanie beacham and caroline munro can't rise above their physical attributes br br the camera work is by dick bush who had shot the blood on satan's claw 1971 and for hammer when dinosaurs ruled the earth 1970 and twins of evil 1971 but is perhaps best known for his longtime association with ken russell which manages some nice atmosphere throughout especially during three crucial sequences the carriage ride scuffle at the properly gothic beginning the hysterical black mass sequence followed by the resuscitation of dracula and the final confrontation between lee and cushing's van helsing
0	once upon a time there was a great american film which combined horror and comedy with equal thrills this film featured clever direction groundbreaking special effects and superb comedic and serious acting it was entitled 'an american werewolf in london ' sixteen years later the long awaited sequel was finally pinned onto the poster board outside your local theater surely it would have at least some of the thrills of the original think again 'an american werewolf in paris' is an incomprehensible mess from start to pitiful finish the problems begin with the leading man tom everett scott's performance is stiff and tiresome from the outset he seems intent on proving that all young people are simpletons in his defense not even a seasoned shakespearean thespian could have extracted a good performance from the juvenile and witless dialogue at one point one of scott's deceased friends who's soul is doomed to walk the earth after being carved up by one of the werewolves is finally able to leave for the afterlife he then quips to scott and his friends guys see ya ' what a memorable goodbye julie delphy soon shows up as scott's mysterious european love interest basically she's a french girl playing the french girl it isn't much of a stretch but all this stupidity isn't even the most disappointing thing about the film the special effects such an integral part of the superb original film fall far short in this flop the werewolves look like cartoons and no matter how well you sculpt a cartoon with sinewy lycanthrope muscles it's still hard to get scared of a cartoon so instead the vacationing american gang led by the ultra weak scott keep finding excuses to return to the werewolf's catacombs lair here it's much easier for this incompetent special effects crew to keep the computer enhanced creatures or absurd beast masks under the cover of darkness some have said that if you don't look on this film as a sequel it's not as bad by comparison i disagree this film can not stand on its own and is even more of a disgrace when compared to the brilliant original if it doesn't want to be looked on as a sequel it should not have borrowed most of the title from the 1981 film i don't care how much you love werewolves or how much you worshiped 'american werewolf in london ' as i myself did this one is simply not worth wasting your time guys see ya ' terrible 3 out of a possible 10 t h
0	veteran british television director alan gibson's dracula a d 1972 qualifies as one of the least appetizing entries in the hammer studios series about bram stoker's immortal bloodsucker actually this represented the first time since terence fisher's memorable horror of dracula 1958 that christopher lee and peter cushing fought each other as mortal enemies they would reprise the same roles a few years later in the final hammer dracula the satanic rites of dracula further it was the second to last dracula for hammer in which lee performed as the infamous for the record dracula a d 1972 was the seventh hammer dracula br br the exciting prologue from prepares you for something vastly different than what the rest of this disappointing horror flick yields eternal rivals count dracula and his nemesis professor lawrence van helsing are literally at each other's throats atop a runaway carriage in london's hyde park for a vigorous opening scene that makes everything else look comparatively anticlimactic the carriage crashes and dracula emerges hugging half of a wooden wheel with its shattered embedded in his chest of course christopher lee has to grip this broken wheel against his body but the imagery is striking enough in its own way to pass muster the count expires and so does his opponent van helsing however one of dracula's disciples snatches the count's ring and scoops some of the vampire's ashes into a vial for safe keeping br br don screenplay hurtles the action ahead a hundred years to swinging london in 1972 we meet a smarmy young man johnny alucard christopher of no blade of grass who loves to raise hell with a group of hippies that crash parties and drive the british police with their antics alucard happens to be the descendant of one of dracula's servants now alucard has the count's ring and a vial of his blood alucard chooses the sight of a desecrated church to arrange a black mass he invites his trendy friends among them laura super sexy carolina munro of the spy who loved me marsha hunt and jessica van helsing stephanie beacham to attend this black mass because it offers them something different not surprisingly they resurrect the count and the evil bloodsucker sets his eyes on jessica meanwhile after laura's body is discovered drained of blood scotland yard inspector murray michael coles of doctor who and the solicits help from van helsing's modern day offspring peter cushing dracula wants to exact revenge on van helsing by taking the latter's granddaughter as his bride tracks down alucard they fight in his chelsea apartment and the young vampire drowns in a tub of water remember running water is just as lethal to vampires as sunlight and crucifix van helsing finds dracula in the deserted church with his daughter awaiting the count van helsing and dracula tangle van helsing flings holy water into dracula's face the vampire falls into an open gravesite with a stake awaiting him and he decomposes again br br the chief problem with dracula a d 1972 is that we don't get enough of lee as the count though we do get considerably more of cushing as van helsing furthermore scenarist don houghton keeps dracula confined to the ramshackle church and never allows the vampire to venture out into the city despite its low budget dracula a d 1972 could have been a lot better the scene where the contemporary van helsing has to jot down alucard and spell it backwards to get dracula seems almost laughable you'd think that he'd know about this backwards spelling trick unless you are afraid of horror movies this one will make you yawn occasionally gibson presents us with a superb close up of dracula with his bared fangs and blood shot eyes but this is about as scary as this chiller gets and that isn't saying much
0	the idea of bringing dracula to contemporary times isn't bad after all it might revive the series a bit by injecting a new story element into a series that hammer has all but exhausted in a long series of generally excellent movies however because the present day turned out to be the crappy early 1970s the results were pretty silly and looked more like love at first bite a deliberate comedy seeing christopher lee in a film filled with 70s hip lingo and electric guitar chords and laughable rock music just seemed beyond stupid to make matters worse the acting is much more over the top here with an intense and silly performance by johnny alucard i also thought it was really funny that it took van helsing's grandson to notice that alucard is dracula spelled backwards no one else figured this out for themselves wow what cunning br br so because so much of the movie was bad why did it still earn an almost respectable score of 4 well when the story came to the expected showdown between van helsing peter cushing and drac christopher lee it was exciting and ended very well additionally and i know this will sound very sexist but if i had to watch a bad film at least stephanie character wore some really nice outfits that revealed her ample talents so to speak so at least it was a pretty film to watch br br by the way the film ends with the phrase may he rest in final peace at the end though this was not the final hammer dracula film with lee he returned for the satanic rites of dracula just a short time later and it was in many ways even worse than this dud of a monster film
0	if you first saw this movie with mary of the fourth form then it's perhaps possible for the haze of nostalgia to encourage your charitable side if not it doesn't stand a chance the young things' is complete nonsense people may have used the occasional word you'll hear here but not huge of them in sentence after sentence it doesn't so much date dracula ad 1972 as blow it to pieces from the moment anyone under thirty opens their mouth it's impossible to take the film seriously and as for it being a laugh it's not even a smile the idea of throwing dracula into modern times is a good one and worthy of a far stronger script than don houghton can provide the river thames and chelsea male are no match for puppet bats model castles and terrified extras but you can't help but feel that with better writing it would have been so different
0	film starts off great in with a violent bloody fight between dracula christopher lee and van helsing peter cushing dracula is impaled and dissolves to dust van helsing also dies somebody gathers dracula's ashes and buries them in the grounds of a church cut to 1972 here's where the film falls apart br br we are instantly hit over the head with loud bad 70s music horrible fashions and silly dialogue when this was made hammer was losing money and decided to try anything to get a hit putting dracula in the 1970s was not a good idea the fashions music and dialogue date the movie horribly we're introduced to a bunch of annoying kids in their 20s who decide to have a black mass for a giggle naturally they have it at the church now abandoned and naturally revive dracula it's a good thing a descendant of van helsing is around but dracula goes after his niece stephanie beacham in revenge br br lee and cushing are great as always in their roles and whenever they're on screen the movie gets a much needed shot of energy the opening and ending battles are the highlights of the film although the ending is spoiled a lot by playing lousy 70s music also the main ringleader of the kids is named johnny alucard christopher a truly stupid name that dates back to the 1940s the film also has scream queen caroline munro looking absolutely great the film is well directed and pretty well acted but the plot is stupid the constant barrage of 70s fashion dialogue and music gets annoying real quick and i was basically bored silly br br most hammer fans agree this was one of the worst dracula movies it's followup rites of dracula was the worst and the last hammer dracula film this gets a 2 just for cushing and lee
0	in this desperate and thoroughly silly attempt to keep hammer's dracula franchise alive despite having lost most of its power long time already our legendary vampire is brought back to life in the swinging london of 1972 exactly hundred years after he was destroyed by his archenemy van helsing an occult disciple named johnny alucard get it get it gathers his flamboyant friends in an abandoned church among them van helsing's great granddaughter jessica and performs a satanic ritual that resurrects dracula in a haze of smoke dracula's only mission is to wreak havoc upon the entire van helsing lineage and fragile jessica is the ideal victim to achieve this this is probably the only 70's film that goes immensely over the top in trying to look 70's film considering the previous six dracula films were all set in the victorian era director alan gibson really wants to stress the fact we're in the 20th century now and thus he stuffs his film with insufferable hippie characters hideous 70's fashion trends and awful 70's music christopher lee and peter cushing seem hopelessly lost in this setting and their performances regretfully show it the opening sequence a flashback and the showdown climax are fairly enjoyable but everything in between is painfully boring and the complete opposite of scary the greatest elements in this series of films have always been dracula's dark castles and the exhilarating coach races and obviously this installment lacks all of that luckily for the fans hammer studios contemporary released other films revolving on vampires that are much better the vampire lovers twins of evil the legend of the seven golden vampires … not recommended
0	title dracula a d 1972 br br director alan gibson br br cast peter cushing christopher lee stephanie beacham br br review sometimes movies can be time capsules that transport you back to any given time in this case our time capsule is hammers dracula a d 1972 which transports us back to a time in which austin powers would have felt right at home br br the story is about these group of kids were not a gang were a group that love to hang out at a café shop called the cavern one day johnny alucard hmm strange last name wait it spells dracula backwards a new member of the group offers the group a new way to get their kicks he offers them a night of black mass and black magic to which they also say sure why the hell not it could be fun so in no time flat the find themselves resurrecting count dracula from the ashes br br this movie opens up with a swinging party at some rich doofuses home he knows non of the people at his party yet there they all are partying the night away in his house doing drugs making out and dancing on top of tables the filmmakers made sure that this sequence was completely engulfed in whatever young people considered cool at that time everyone says words like way out and groovy and they finish many of their sentences saying all that jazz so yeah its pretty evident that this is the 70s to top it all off there's a band that sounds something like jefferson airplane i mean you'll be drowned in all things 70s and as i watched this i kept asking myself how the heck is dracula with his black cape and get up going to fit into all this and thats exactly what happens old dracula feels out of place amidst all the partying and the rock and roll and drugs many of the scenes in the film are great but sadly the music they decided to add to the proceedings doesn't fit at all and completely takes you out of the mood of things something horrifying or scary will be happening on screen and suddenly a bunch of loud trumpets and start to beat and your just completely taken out of the horror element that sucked out the atmosphere right out of this movie for me br br but all in all putting all the distracting 70s music aside an illness that satanic rites of dracula also suffered the movie was pretty good but i will mention this the story was just a re hash of what we had seen before in taste the blood of dracula in fact the story is damn near identical lets see a young lad inherits ring and ashes check he then decides to bring dracula back to life with the help of some people who know nothing about what they are getting into check black mass to bring dracula back in a desecrated church check the list of similarities goes on and on so this movie ain't very original if you ask me br br there are a few things that make this movie worth while though for example the fact that the movie is a time capsule to london in the early seventies makes the film entertaining i kept giggling and laughing every time someone spoke in 70 jargon i couldn't believe some of the clothes these people wore and the cars they drove it made the movie fun for me but we are here to get spooked were here to see drac kill a few virgins and take his revenge on the house of van helsing did we get any of that well yeah there's a few good sequences squeezed in there to satisfy old school hammer fans first off there's the black mass sequence which was above all things satanic they mention the name of many a demon and lots blood is spilled that sequence was awesome but it was messed up by the music in its most crucial moment then there's actual resurrection which ill admit was great from a visual standpoint some mist comes out of grave and slowly but surely christopher lees silhouette and face emerge from the fog cool shot i loved it we have a cushing and lee face off at the end and i couldn't help to laugh at one point when dracula hurls a piece of furniture through the air i laugh because he has done this in every single film since horror of dracula its this hammer tradition where the characters start throwing candle sticks and chairs at each other and i think to myself aren't their more exciting things to show then a bad guy throwing a candle stick at our hero oh well anyhows demise in this one is very similar to all the other hammer before it vampire gets slaked and then we cut to a series of frames until there's only ashes left br br all in all an unintentionally funny hammer dracula film its trapped in the 70s and though that makes it a fun watch and its not as horrible as satanic rites of dracula it still doesn't gel well with the dracula universe we had come to expect from hammer br br rating 3 1 2 out of 5
0	after seeing the previews awhile back i looked forward to seeing steve martin in a comedy that i thought might be a keeper unfortunately i was wrong problem was the previews were the only funny parts to the movie the rest of the movie was pretty much a bunch of junk scenes that have been done to death and characters we've all seen a thousand times br br this movie was proof positive that if you put enough cash on the table you can talk anybody into anything steve martin is a favorite of mine but this one was a big clunker the only actor in the movie who was worth watching was eugene levy he was the best of a mighty lame group
0	being a long time steve martin fan it hurt to see him in a movie with such a cliched script the screenwriter must have just rented some videos and taken a piece here and a piece there it certainly is about the least imaginative movie i've seen in a long time i knew exactly what was going to happen in each scene as soon as it began the african american stereotypes and slave references are pretty offensive as well but the thing that was the worst for me was to see martin in a movie without a trace of wit he probably is one of the most intelligent actors and here he totally sold out to a totally dumbed down script he must be behind in his alimony to be in such a lame effort
0	the previews were so funny that i couldn't wait to see this movie i just got home and i have to say i couldn't have been more embarrassed at this movie yes there were times where the jokes were funny but the stereotypical roles were painful joan plowright is a fine actress but the scene with the negro spiritual was just in poor taste needless to say the laughs were few and far between in the movie house for a largely white crowd i was one of a very small handful of blacks
0	very serious spoilers br br this movie was a huge disappointment there are so many problems i dont know where to start so i'll talk about what is good about the film br br the cast was great steve martin delivers a really funny performance of a middle aged upper class uptight white guy queen latifah plays a big beautiful urban black gal and eugene levy well he pretty much plays himself add betty white and jean smart and you have a great cast everyone played their parts really well and if watching these guys for 1 75 hours is worth 8 to you then you wont be disappointed br br but the movie makes a lot of serious mistakes first of all there are enough racial stereotypes and racial jokes to offend everyone all the white people are uptight bigots all the black people are ghetto ebonics speakers the blacks are hip cool with it and poor the whites are nerds stiff and rich except eugene levy he is clearly taken with queen and speaks the lingo so nicknames him a freak so if you're a white man and you like black women and you know street slang you must be a freak the movie is littered with overt racial slurs towards the black cast members and in return the whites are depicted as morons and boobs br br putting the race card aside lets look at the major flaw in the film they destroy character she comes to martin's home under false pretense but martin takes a liking to her anyway she's supposed to be wrongly accused of robbery martin takes up her cause 3 4 of the way through the film we find out character escaped from jail so our sympathy for her goes out the window br br there is no real plot the movie plods along from scene to scene with showing up in some place where she's not supposed to be like a country club or martin's house and martin trying to hide her thats the running gag then in the last minutes of the film they decide that they're going to finally deal with assertion that she was wrongly accused of bank robbery martin goes under cover as a homeboy to extract a let's face it unusable confession from ex boyfriend and everyone lives happily ever after br br finally but there is a lot more wrong with this flick this movie appears to be a hodge podge of clips from other movies the premise is clearly borrowed from another martin movie the house sitter where goldie hawn comes to live with martin and shakes up his stodgy middle class life martin and meet online ala got mail the whole quirky nanny fixes rich man's life goes as far back as the sound of music and mary poppins br br i wouldnt see this movie again for free
0	woeful and unnecessary sequel to a bonafide classic an american werewolf in london was indisputably a gem of a movie humorous demented with just a dash of romance and so very very british it made me want to stand up and sing god save the queen every time the movie ended then came this abomination you know you are in real trouble when the leads are so utterly unlikeable you are glad when they are slaughtered and actually start cheering for the tell you the truth folks i only got about half way through this cgied travesty before losing the will to live and turning it off absolutely pitiful and a putrid waste of anyone's time
0	c'mon let's put aside the sophomoric humor that we can find in racism and be honest it isn't funny i was appalled at the fact that the two main stars would agree to do a film that was so offensive and so detrimental to race relations and i'm not referring to the obvious black white commentary in the movie but to the slams towards other ethnicities such as betty white's characterizations of the hispanics should we just chalk up her agreeing to do this movie as a sign of senility is she too old to distinguish comedy from stereotypical trash or is it the fault of the writers how about the third assistant makeup person nope the fault is with us for perpetuating this kind of crap in the guise of comedy that hollywood will continue to feed us until we have the decency to say enough is enough racism is for real and it isn't a laughing matter we're all different let's celebrate that diversity not poke fun at it and promote divisiveness
0	steve martin has always had my respect for being a very funny comedian and a pretty good actor and i loved planes trains and automobiles and bowfinger but bringing down the house definately isn't one of martin's funniest works and it doesn't even seem as if it's trying to be which is just plain sad br br i don't know maybe i didn't like this movie because of the fact that i rented it along with harry potter and the chamber of secrets and phone booth both of which are excellent films or maybe it's because i'm used to so much better from martin or maybe it's just because i'm in a frickin' bad mood today regardless this film just wasn't very funny or entertaining and i never managed more than a smile or a weak chuckle at the film's gags which is really a shame since the previews of this comedy were so promising i was expecting bringing down the house to be an all out comedy bash and i certainly expected more slapstick comedy and inter racial laughs from martin instead we're to seeing queen latifah jiggle all over the screen trying to do her best with her totally uninspired character the funniest thing in this clunker is eugene levy but even he doesn't get the screen time he deserves br br i would've really liked to enjoy bringing down the house but i didn't and i'd find it very difficult to recommend it to anyone but the most die hard steve martin fans skip this one and rent planes trains and automobiles instead br br you'll have a much better time
0	4 out of 10 br br this film was neither funny as a whole nor was it even worthing investing any kind of emotion into the characters eugene levy is probably the most funny the rest of the cast do their jobs but the story never really gets very deep and there are a lot of holes in the plot that never get filled this just wasn't very much fun despite being funny at times br br
0	hollywood will stop at nothing to make money on a film even if they have to keep dragging out stereotypes and putting them in the most impossible and stupid situations this effort is a clear example of that and i really do believe in my heart that a film like this is racially irresponsible story is about a divorced lawyer named peter sanderson steve martin who has been chatting with a lady on his computer and when he finally meets her she turns out to be the opposite of what he was expecting charlene morton queen latifah is a stocky black woman who has no intentions of dating peter but instead wants him to look at her case where she was convicted of robbery he wants her to leave for good but she keeps popping up at inappropriate times and to save his job he reluctantly agrees to look at the facts involving her case br br spoiler alert br br peter has his kids staying with him and charlene turns out to be helpful in raising them but suddenly a news bulletin announces that an escaped convict named charlene morton has broken out of prison peter tells her to leave when the fbi comes snooping around but he figures out that she is in fact innocent when her old boyfriend shows up and threatens him br br this film is directed by adam who keeps things moving at a nice pace and it is a good looking film technically speaking but the script is just so improbable and every character is a stereotype to the point that a 1970 film called the landlord is clearly more in tune with race relations than this mess i have always been a big fan of martin and i think he's one of the most talented persons around but he loves to work constantly and at times just seems to pick any script handed to him on the other hand i've always had a problem with latifah and the way she into the life of martin is so over the top that she instantly becomes ingratiating basic premise that hollywood loves to use is the hip black person showing uptight whitey to loosen up and then pass on some street logic that will help them with their lives that's basically what the story is here but of course they have to let martin dress black and overact like a retarded eminem because hollywood knows that this is what viewers want well i was pretty much insulted by everything in this film and it's not because i don't have a sense of humor but unfortunately for hollywood anyway i use logic and common sense when i watch a film yes i enjoyed eugene talking jive but are we really suppose to believe that he would be instantly attracted to latifah i guess weirder things have happened and how many times does a main actor get shot only to be saved by something in their pocket wouldn't a cell phone shatter if struck by a bullet even if your the most die hard martin and latifah fan i wouldn't recommend this i know i've said this before but this isn't an attempt to make a good film it's an excuse to try and make money
0	steve martin looks like he's had a face lift something very strange about his face i usually like anything steve does but this movie comes off as trashy not funny didn't think charlene encouraging him to be rough with his wife was a good message to be sending out to teens watching this film
0	this was one of the worst films i can remember seeing i am sure i have seen worse though if that me slamming it br br the humor isn't funny there are stupid stereotype jokes that again aren't funny i was a captive audience on a plane and viewed this film it was a complete waste of time i enjoyed martin in earlier films but not this one same for queen latifah she was excellent in chicago and in set it off she was good too but this role was horrid br br i mostly credit the failure to the bad writing of the script i feel strongly you can't save a formulaic unfunny script with decent actors this movie as a case in point still all involved should have been wise enough to not participate in this film i am just amazed that something so bad can get greenlighted made released theatrically and promoted
0	talk about your wild life barely a b movie but what the hay corny sci fi and lesbian sex from the mind of writer and director cody jarrett a cheesy slice of fun a chemical company is dumping waste that is causing mutants in a fish farm the hot kristi russell stars as dr barbara michaels an agent sent to investigate this environmental dilemma she just happens to enter a lesbian relationship with bartender trixie shaffer and their love scenes are about as good as this film gets a man size frog incites chaos causing a car crash raping the chemical company boss's daughter raping a girl under the bleachers at a football game stiff arm tackling a runner in the football game raping a nun all before being shot twice in the chest after an antidote was found all ready the special effects well not special a guy in a rubber frog costume without the genitalia to prove himself tough do you still want to watch it go ahead but bribe any witness to secrecy
0	i was truly looking forward to this title it sounded and looked fun the idea of someone making a cheesy 50s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs but instead this title only bores first off there is almost no in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment i have to sit through 75 minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the humping a bare breasted chick why on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue creature from the black lagoon stuff i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the going on a killing spree or it maybe escaping a silly trap something exciting geez have fun with it be creative who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick my advice to the filmmakers keep going your concepts are good but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired have some fun with the creature put the humor in the action and most important put more creature in a creature movie
0	i had high hopes when i went into the theatre having seen the trailer i was as hyped as the next person to see great talent participate in the making of a story with a beautiful premise br br however it's disappointing to see this talent laid waste by the poor composition of songs the words are chunky and cheesy probably because it was composed with a more western theme i wouldn't find it difficult to imagine the same melodies with french or english lyrics in mandarin they just sound strange br br the musical items were also cut together badly far too quickly to be enjoyable and the shots of the actors looking anguished lasted far too long br br the special effects are the next disappointment suffice it to say it is highly obvious where the special effects start and stop br br it's not moulin rouge and it's not in the mood either inspite of the occasional and very similar slow waltz theme altogether and hour too long to tell a simple story
0	the only thing romantic about this movie is the pain and anguish of romance if you are expecting this cinematic adaptation of another nicholas sparks novel to follow the surefire formula of previous films such as message in a bottle nights at and a walk to remember think again nobody dies from an accident trying to save somebody else and the romance here doesn't transform these characters if anything it makes them even more miserable than they were br br a soft spoken special forces army sergeant john channing tatum of g i joe has a memorable two week fling while on leave from the military with an impressionable college girl savannah curtis radiant amanda of mia who is spending spring break in south carolina savannah doesn't drink smoke but she tells john that her head is filled with profanity inevitably john and savannah topple madly in love with each other and launch an endless exchange letters of love letters that are sleep inducing by any standard is off in the world serving the military in some godforsaken corner of the globe while she is away at college perusing his letters in class just as they are getting hot and heavy between them suicidal terrorists crash planes into the world trade center john along with his buddies in a wave of patriotism without discussing the option with savannah br br meanwhile another guy shaggy but likable family friend tim henry thomas of e t the extra terrestrial who has a autistic child named alan becomes the object of sentiment she is the kind of girl who helps build houses for the less fortunate and wants to start a summer horse ranch for autistic children she delays what seems forever before she finally contacts with the eponymous letter indeed she dumps him for a man with a disease later she confesses to john that she knew the sound of his voice would have broken her resolve to marry tim so she doesn't make that fateful call predictably john agonizes over lack of communication during a routine mission our hero takes a couple of terrorist bullets in the back and winds up in germany while all this is transpiring is trying to come to terms with his own coin collecting father mr richard jenkins of step brothers who suffers from syndrome it seems that his father is on his last legs after john gets out of the hospital the lead female character lacks a shred of respect and her betrayal of amounts to a pretty low blow his father and commander keith robinson are the only sympathetic characters in this long distance romance br br dear john gives new meaning to lethargic love stories yuck
0	i can't honestly believe that this is a sequel or follow up of john landis classic comedy horror movie from 1981 i suppose you can't really describe it as an original werewolf movie either since the bare bones of the story steal elements from the one set in london an american tourist visits a famous european capital he narrowly survives a werewolf attack that kills a colleague he embarks pardon the pun on a sexual relationship with someone in the medical profession he turns into a werewolf he's visited by apparitions of his dead victims etc etc and reading the previous line i've just discovered how much the storyline has in common with the original that it seems very similar indeed the difference lies in how enjoyable and entertaining the landis movie is br br with this paris based movie there's no scenes that really stand out there's no naked man waking up in a zoo wondering how he's going to get back home with no money or clothes there's no bizarre dream sequence of and there's no spectacular climax does try to be funny but is there anything more embarrassing than failed humour i'm thinking of the scene where andy mcdermott has to convince someone he's got chewing gum in his pocket and not condoms perhaps the biggest difference between the two movies is that there's no poignancy involved with this dubious follow up you really do feel sorry for the protagonist's fate and dilemma in the london movie here you just feel andy is nothing more than a cypher going through the literary motions of a script there's also a large number of plot holes visible is this the first time the lunar club have carried out a massacre if not then aren't large numbers of corpses with their hearts torn out been reported in the world's press why haven't the police got leads br br everyone else has mentioned it and so will i the visuals are poor look at the jumping scene at the tower it's painfully obvious that it's achieved via some blue screen projection while the werewolf transformation is done by some very cartoonish cgi i won't put anthony waller in the same bracket as stephen sommers as a director who totally ruins a movie because of an over reliance on cgi the major problem with is the screenplay coupled with a high degree of expectation from those who saw the 1981 movie classic but i would have preferred the rick baker type special effects used for the transformation to be fair it's reasonable to speculate that perhaps the budget didn't stretch that far but at the end of the day this is a fairly poor horror movie that didn't need to be made and dog soldiers is much better entertainment
0	ok it's watchable if you are sick in bed or have nothing else to do the suspension of disbelief required to get through this movie is significant though first in today's modern society do you believe college coeds get that committed to someone in that short of a period of time even if you are a virtuous habitat volunteer who likes autistic kids and the 2 week romance blossoms into a letter exchange that leads to john's conflict of whether to re enlist right after 9 11 01 really he asks her what to do every guy we know was not gonna be sitting on the sidelines after those towers came down my husband was one of them and i love him and am proud of him for going john's character is so flat he's nearly expressionless the entire movie he's good looking but not spec ops he seems unsure not confident quiet instead of a hell raiser no tattoos gets into a fight with the preppy boys that is nothing more than a pushing match really walks around without a cover on his head nearly the whole movie and there are military technical flaws everywhere epaulets upside down the war scenes are dumb john and another guy heading off on their own huh then other guy gets shot and john drags him 10 feet and starts giving buddy aid before securing the area or back up arrival or even having their backs against cover it's a gunfight for god's sakes you don't stop fighting until its over heck i wanted to shoot john in the back back home when the truth is revealed and she spills the wine we hated her for removing her shirt in his presence wth break his heart and then tease him into adultery she's a head case best part of the movie is when he drives away from her at least he had some self respect and honor there overall unbelievable story and we generally did not care about these characters or their love dismal
0	i was extremely excited for this movie my expectations were under control because i read the book first sooo i expected differences what i didn't expect were how great the differences were starting off by the characters physical appearances like channing lack of tattoos n amanda not being a brunette lol but i let that go the character developments were not there at all you didn't have time to love amanda character and you couldn't feel for her or for john when they first separated i thought the two weeks were rushed and i hated that she left first then him it took the emotional separation away and why did they change tim from the book why did they make him a dad instead of a brother and why did they make him sooo old looking and the movie lacked that intense moment when they find out what happens at the end didnt want to spoil it lol but for those who watched it u know what i mean and did they change the ending in the book it was heartbreaking and emotional and it emphasized on channing character's decision did they twist it it just made it look like a rushed ending it was terrible thats what disappointed me the most the ending of the book should have been exactly the same
0	today being president's day my wife and i had the notebook dvd checked out at our local library it's a movie released in 2004 that fell beneath our radar as we are big movie goers i'm a published author with hopes of screen playing my first book i'd noticed references to the notebook in reviews of other movies which is why i brought it up about us watching and this morning provided the perfect opportunity we both really liked it it made my wife cry we could relate to many things in it with our own continuing love affair and even i fought back choking up br br this afternoon after lots of chores yard work and eating we decided to actually catch a matinée when we got to the theater having seen most of the current batch of films playing we elected to see victoria day which for some reason was not at the theater even though both imdb and my phone movies showed it playing there so instead we looked at the poster for dear john and that it was written by the same writer as the notebook making it the obvious choice as we enjoyed so much br br what a disappointment first the characters did not have the same believability or sense of empathy as and we kept commenting throughout all the similarities two dozen or so quickly causing us to realize this movie was nothing but as another reviewer commented a poor man's notebook it had a real feeling meaning the sparks simply threw a story together based on the exact template of simply to make a quick buck not only that after the improbably 'dear john's john' for the wimp cancer patient we ridiculed the movie with each passing soapy stupid line all the way through to the end there were only about 6 of us in the theater during this 4 monday matinée and my wife even told me to keep it down so i wouldn't ruin it for the others it was so bad br br seeing this on the heels of ensured that the rip off similarities were vividly recognizable and sparks blatant cheap attempt at template writing painfully obvious we only wish we could've seen victoria day instead no matter how bad it might've been after seeing this poor entry to cinema and oh for the last 30 minutes i kept saying don't give that cow the coins don't give that cow the coins
0	ok let's start with the good nice scenery channing tatum is easy to look at amanda has nice hair that's about it how much of this movie went on the editing room floor probably the plot action good dialogue and point terrible acting horrible choppy dialogue let me tell you how bad it is my friend who always cries at movies got to the part that was meant to evoke tears and she laughed so hard we thought she was crying the movie seems to want to take a stab at too many issues war loss autism cancer but fails so miserably to cover any one topic satisfactorily make sure you have something to munch on and your cell phone to return text messages
0	after reading the reviews i am so relieved to know that i am not the only person who was very disappointed in this movie i am a huge nicholas sparks fan have read all of his books most of them more than once of course i loved the notebook and a walk to remember i haven't yet seen message in a bottle or nights in so i can't comment on those br br but i did go see dear john this past weekend and i was terribly upset the movie was not good at all when looking at the movie alone and not thinking about the book at all it was still a terrible movie i did not get the rush and range of emotions from this movie that i have got from other movies i enjoyed especially the notebook i was not smiling and laughing and crying and worried and scared ever from the very beginning all i could notice was how they changed everything the only thing about this movie that is similar to the book is that there is a guy named john who is in the military and a girl named savannah who is not the part about his dad being obsessed with coins is about the only other part that went along with the book everything else was totally off first of all in the book allen was tim's little brother not his son why they had to change that i don't understand it made a lot more sense how it went in the book when tim was just a little bit older than savannah and they grew up together and allen was inspiration for wanting to work with horses and autistic children that didn't happen in the movie ugh and in the book they spent a lot more time together than just those initial 2 weeks and then the 1 night why did they leave those times out i could go on and on and on but then i would run out of space so basically if you are a great fan of nicholas sparks don't waste your time or money on this movie just read the book again because it's terrible and nothing like the book
0	i was talked into seeing this by a girlfriend john was a good guy sweet sensitive and looks great with no shirt on i thought it was a love story about both of them but it was mainly about his reactions to her letters savannah was a likable character at the start of the movie but once she dumped him i lost respect for her she said it tore her apart being away from him and it was hard he was the one a million miles away he was killing people and the only contact he got was through her letters she didn't have it hard she had family money and he had a tour of duty i was so frustrated at the ending when he forgave her he was too much of a sweetheart i would have waited the 3 years and welcomed him home with open arms
0	the only reason i rated this film as 2 is because channing beautiful however the whole film lacks emotion and was boring to watch usually i adore a good romance but this was just a waste of time i didn't shed a tear despite it containing sad content it just wasn't acted very well at all i'm no film critic but i just advise girls to avoid this really unless the only reason you're watching it is to see channing tatum lol the rest of the film is rubbish and if he wasn't in it not that his acting was any good i would have stopped watching much quicker it's a shame really because if the right actors were chosen for this film it could have had the potential to be a real tear jerker if you're looking for a good cry or a film for a girly night in give this one a miss
0	i was looking forward to seeing two bright young actors appearing in dear john but it was very slow moving and i felt that both the screenplay and the direction hampered the flexibility of the principle performers i usually do enjoy film adaptations of these novels ironically i did think the movie did an excellent job of depicting realistic military action br br the cinematography was very good at segueing through love letters focusing just enough on a key word or phrase in each letter i felt that channing tatum became bogged down in what became a very hang dog series of expressions in response to loss
0	this movie had the potential to be a very good movie in my eyes nicholas sparks is a great romance author and this movie had every chance to be just as great as the notebook but whats sets the two apart is the notebook had a dream team of leads in mcadams and gosling but here the balance is thrown miserably off by the inept acting of channing tatum br br i felt a lot of the scenes were uneven purely because of his performance a lot of the emotion in various scenes is lost because he cant act leaving an awkward and uneven situation amanda given a great performance only to have tatum drop the ball and the mood is lost and the scene cant recover br br this story deserved to be cast right but what it got was a pretty boy who cant act tatum should stick to what hes good at movies that are more about his physical ability albeit horrible like gi joe step up and fighting the less he talks the better br br try not to think of me as a jaded hater of channing tatum i went in to this movie with an open mind because i've been surprised many a time by the likes of adam sandler in reign over me i gave the same chance to tatum i didn't view him here as the sum of his past roles purely just by his performance in this movie which sadly was a letdown
0	having read this story a while ago i was very excited to see the movie i read the book again it is one of my favorite nicholas sparks books what i think what makes the story is the relationships that was the down point for me in the movie because i think the relationships were poorly expressed in the movie i have no idea what the point of changing main characters roles tim's and alan's characters the movie didn't at all capture john and relationship maybe if you haven't read the book you might like this movie but i thought it was so dull compared to the book i thought channing was a great pick for john but i had a feeling he was going to bring all young adults out to watch it so i think it was more geared towards them the ending cuts the whole point of the book out so i was also unhappy with that i was hoping the movie was more like the notebook or a walk to remember and the way they captured the books i do feel like i wasted a friday night out and 10 bucks on a sappy love story not at all the story i was expecting to see
0	let's describe larry as an interviewer a complete in every way possible he laughs at all his guests jokes he asks the most boring questions and he would never dare contradict them he hits me as the type of person who wants to be liked by everyone friendly boring harry he probably owes his success to being a dream interviewer for celebrities because they don't get bombarded with what we the people want to know and have a right to know let's put it this way he interviews as if he's in a red country 02 10 2 for the guests that come on the show yet it all seems pointless when larry starts asking his mind numbing questions such as what's it like to be a mother followed by the usual answer along the lines of being a mother is the greatest thing that ever happened to me it's wonderful but tiring
0	the movie starts in spring 2001 a soldier named john channing tatum falls in love with college student savannah amanda while on break within the space of two weeks they fall madly in love with each other but he has to go off to war and she has to go to college they do but keep in touch by writing to each other then 9 11 happens he wants to she wants him to stay home what will they do br br hysterically bad romantic drama the leads are attractive tatum is certainly a handsome man with beautiful green eyes and a hot body he's introduced walking shirtless out of the water after surfing but he can't act is a beautiful woman and she tries but the dialogue here is horrible when i saw it me and a friend of mine were fighting hard not to laugh out loud at some of the romantic dialogue at the beginning it was just horrible for the first hour or so i was either bored by the ridiculously predictable drama or amused by the horrendous romance then after that first hour tragedy kicks in and i must admit had me in tears however the filmmakers go out of their way to make sure that you're crying with death funerals and meetings with people breaking down in tears how can you not cry this would have worked if the acting were better tatum's face never changes expression not once he always had a blank look on his face was a little better but not much to make it worse tatum and had no sexual chemistry on screen at all they barely looked like they liked each other let alone love each other there was some beautiful photography of the carolinas but this is a boring and stupid romantic drama a 1 all the way and i usually love silly romantic dramas like this
0	i suspect this board will soon be full of comments from over emotional people praising dear john as a pearl and a rollercoaster ride and all the other vacuous words this film's target audience typically employs br br i am most definitely not this film's target audience but i do not dislike romantic dramas either as long as they are well made so here is my objective take on the flick br br it is not good br br it's not a bad movie either but the plot meanders development stagnates where it should've been moving forward right around the middle to be precise and as for the ending it almost felt as if they had run out of ideas so they suddenly said hey let's just film a last scene real quick put some sentimental string soundtrack over it and end it that way even amanda beauty could not save this channing tatum too gave a good performance but you can only do so much with a flawed script br br speaking of the music it is unbearably predictably and kitchy from the smokey voiced irritatingly high pitched female folk singer schtick surely chosen to appeal to the majority of college age girls that will go see this movie to the overused shimmering strings and piano combo it only annoys anyone paying more attention to the film as a whole rather than to his own feelings the film has a good beginning and the major conflict that launches us into the second act were all promising so was part of the second act itself as the story unfolded then the film just dropped the ball beyond that i'd have to give spoilers br br dear john is not a bad movie but it doesn't work as it should either if you want to see a truly moving film about prolonged love waiting to be reunited go watch notebook which was truly superb
0	may contain spoilers br br an innocent trailer park or maybe la white kid witnesses a terrible childhood tragedy relating to drugs and violence an unprofessional but dedicated police partners try to take down a high end club drug ring only to be fired and chewed out by the the drug lords high priced attorneys the plot thickens as more people come back to seek vengeance and justice with a predictable ending the only memorable part was a walk on by ron jeremy br br if i was in a movie theater i would have asked for a refund i feel sorry for the poor actors in this movie it was just awful and painful to watch the worst part was the cinematography were the director kept flashing back within the same scene so the sound would not quite match and no it was not a codec nor dvd problem but an intentional technique two stars
0	the action scenes was quite good but the plot of the movie i would have to give it a score of 1 out of 10 it seems that the producers and director of this movie didn't thought about it carefully br br it doesn't give much value and values to it's viewers except for it's violence the entire story was about revenge a boy witnessing a rape and murder i would even recommend it to be banned those who watched it you've just lose some money if you're thinking of watching it watch something else i would ask for a refund if i was on a movie theater so for you guys and girls out there reading this article please don't waste time
0	this movie serves up every imaginable greek stereotype in one particularly galling scene the tycoon says i'm just an ignorant peasant as the grandson of greek peasant immigrants who passed on a legacy of wisdom and love to their children and grandchildren i found this movie contemptible and odious
0	i am ashamed of myself that i actually went to the theatre to watch this movie when it was first released while i suppose its thinly veiled depiction of the aristotle onassis and jackie kennedy story is well enough done it's a movie that should never have been made in the first place hence my low rating br br the film chronicles the tale of a wealthy greek business shark called theo who woos and wins the lovely young widow liz cassidy of a slain american president sound familiar yes everything except the names br br the cast is not to be faulted anthony quinn plays the greek tycoon to perfection and at least it's some consolation having just read that ari himself requested quinn for the role jacqueline bisset is of course beautiful and sophisticated in the part of for all intents and purposes jackie and james franciscus has the all american good looks of the president br br i haven't seen this movie since it came out nor do i wish to see it again i seem to recall a fair bit of bad language and some general crudeness otherwise i suppose it's a sensational and supposedly intimate glimpse into the jet setting lives of the rich and famous frolicking aboard their yachts beaches pools etc yes the scenery of the greek islands is spectacular the best part of the movie br br of its type it's okay i suppose there are no end of tv movies about the kennedys which i confess to occasionally tuning in to and not to my credit this is basically just another far better to allow aristotle and jacqueline kennedy onassis to rest in peace
0	i saw the greek tycoon when it first came out in 1978 i found it extremely boring i thought it was no better than a travelogue except for one thing for the first time in my life i realized why it would be good to be rich seeing the scenery off aristotle yacht and getting my first real peek into the lifestyle of the rich and famous opened my eyes to paraphrase martha stewart it was a good thing funny i don't remember the sex scene i hadn't seen the movie since it was on the big screen and found the lovemaking session with the mistress memorable this time maybe because i was younger and single back then it was no big deal
0	the photography is accomplished the acting is quite good but in virtually every other department the greek tycoon is a dreary bore taking its inspiration from the real life love affair of jackie kennedy and aristotle onassis the film is a glossy but absolutely empty soap opera of the kind that can be found on tv all day long viewers who embrace the whole celebrity magazine culture paparazzi photographs and gossipy stories about the rich and famous will undoubtedly find much to whet their appetite here but those who prefer films with a bit more substance and craft and quirkiness will find the 107 minute running time a butt numbing slog br br american president james cassidy james franciscus and his beautiful wife liz jacqueline bisset are in greece on official business a ridiculously wealthy greek shipping tycoon theo anthony quinn catches sight of liz at a party at his elegant manor despite the fact that both of them are married to someone else there is an immediate attraction between them later at a private party aboard his yacht makes his desires known to liz some while later president cassidy is assassinated whilst out strolling on a beach liz is shocked and saddened by his death but it isn't long before she seeks comfort in the arms of her greek lover eventually the two of them are married and their love affair becomes a favourite talking point for the world's newspapers magazines photographers and wags br br it is somewhat amusing to note the vigour with which the producers of this film denied that it was a dramatisation of the kennedy onassis story they wanted the film to be seen as an original story rooted in fiction but anyone with a brain can see from where the movie is drawing its inspiration even aristotle onassis himself knew the greek tycoon amounted to his love life getting the hollywood treatment if rumours are to be believed he actually had a hand in approving anthony quinn for the role j lee thompson isn't really the right sort of director for this type of movie – he's better suited to action fodder like the guns of and ice cold in alex – but he the proceedings with an uninspired professional quinn is very watchable as bisset looks lovely as the object of his desires franciscus uses his toothy smile and a façade of integrity to make for a believable politician their performances are good on the surface but there's little for the actors to do on any deeper level similarly tony photography gives the film an elegant surface sheen as it moves from one exotic locale to the next but the merest of scratches proves that there's nothing behind the film's glossy exterior
0	it must be remembered that the gammera movies like many of the first series gozilla films were in fact aimed squarely at kids little kenny and his cohorts are living out the daydreams of the kids in the audience they get to run around and play with top secret stuff while the adults stand by and allow it they get to cavort with monsters and even when the bad guys enter they are never in any real danger br br perhaps the first gammera film is an aberration because the child does get punished and is put into danger but the rest of the series is pure wish fulfillment br br as one critic said these aren't failed adult movies but successful kid's movies
0	more of a frisbee like turtle with fangs that go up like a wart hog more battles with people in bird suits that look like people in bird suits a ping pong ball space ship two naughty boys who know how to do everything including getting on board the space ship more tiresome music more gamera is the friend of children stuff i remember when and rodan came out the movies were a lot of fun because the monsters were actually a threat to people now they are just a parade of silly costumes with very little behind them the adults are all ridiculous and moronic like in american sitcoms the kids are the bosses when in reality they couldn't think their way out of a paper bag these monster movies must be the japanese means of these little above all however is that after seeing three of these movies with the same plot over and over check the stock footage the ultimate conclusion is that they are boring if you haven't see this one don't bother
0	larry is a perfect example of the democratic party in the united states of which he is a staunch member king used to be somewhat fair and unbiased and had a variety of guests on the party used to be centrist too but that was another era now like larry it's far left br br at least 90 percent of all the guests on king's show in the past year or two are liberals who sit there and bash president bush and every conservative they can think of night after night bill one of the more viscous ones is and you can look this up the most frequent guest in the history of king's tv show you can count on other outspoken left wingers to be on king's show each week but don't hold your breath waiting for a conservative they are few and far between br br king was also one of the of the media overkill that all began with the o j simpson trial night after night after night that's all you ever saw back in the mid '90s whatever latest gossip on anna nicole smith or the petersen murder case or paris hilton britney spears or some other tabloid subject you can bet larry will beat it to death sadly all the other networks do the same thing now larry was a leader in that regard br br king also has the nerve to sometimes give advice such as on marriage i am not kidding i 've heard him say it the joke is that he has been married and divorced a half dozen times this man has few scruples believe me when it comes to morality he is clueless maybe that's why he has dr phil on to explain some facts of life to him regularly larry will nod but he doesn't understand any more than when billy graham used to talk to him br br king also is becoming famous for the softball interview meaning he asks no hard questions that is a lot due to the fact that most his guests are of his political persuasion people know being on king's show is liking having an hour public relations gig br br what all this has meant is a serious decline in ratings the past five years people see through him and his liberal and tabloid tv mentality and switched over from king and cnn to fox news
0	a rather lame teen slasher from brisbane while the plot hinges on a fairly decent idea the writing is profoundly lame and two of the three main teens are absurdly wooden the problem is that for the kids to go through with their plan they have to be far more reckless than shown but if they were that devil may care it would perhaps be hard for them to be likable so they end up being neither really in fact i only started enjoying the film when i started wishing for their death one of those movies where in about a thousand places the most sensible option would be to call the police i realise we wouldn't have a movie if they did but it would be nice if we could believe that they actually wouldn't avoid
0	gamera vs was made lazily and much of it suffers as a result br br space aliens try to take over earth and are stopped by gamera so they send another ship that manages to kidnap two young boys the aliens then take control of gamera and get him to attack mankind br br first of all i must say that i really enjoyed the monster fight at the end between gamera and looks like a big squid with a beak he has no energy and does not shoot any rays out but he can close the on top of his head to make a sharp pointy so overall this is not a bad monster for gamera to fight and is decent really injures gamera badly by stabbing his underside of his shell with his pointy head and i am surprised gamera was able to survive this br br unfortunately gamera vs decided to use footage from previous gamera films to fill time for this film they re show the battles between gamera and and gamera and when the aliens look at past battles however when they show gamera's battles with they show the battle between gamera and in the city first then they show the final battle between the two after they show re used footage of the final battle between gamera and they show the first battle between gamera and talk about showing the battles in non chronological order they did not even need to show the first battle they should have just stopped after they showed the final battle between the two br br another issue is that they decide to re show footage of gamera attacking cities when the aliens order him to attack tokyo so they show the scene from gamera vs where he destroys the dam after the show scenes from gamera the invincible which is a huge issue for me mainly due to the fact that gamera the invincible was in black and white using stock footage from a black and white film in a color film is really lazy and that is not a good thing br br also the dubbing is bad once again the two little kids are not that annoying but it would be nice to see a gamera film that did not involve little kids br br so the over use of footage from other gamera films is a to this film the final fight is awesome so basically i recommend skipping to the final ten minutes and watching this film the rest is something that has already been seen before
0	destroy all planets winds up settling for all by film's end as a space monster resembling a giant squid falls to the reptilian furnace known as gamera actually gamera is saving earth right from the get go knocking out space ship 1 even before the first set of film credits roll the scene switches to a japanese scout camp where we meet a pair of meddlesome young heroes jim and who take part in gamera's exploits after being kidnapped by the aliens and beamed aboard their ship in an electrified bubble shield br br it's pretty startling to see the boys convince a scientist to let them operate a newly invented submarine that might be defective previously boy genius had wired the unit to run in reverse direction of it's controls but dr dobie didn't think about checking that out as a possibility at least that prepared the boys for interfering with the alien space ship's controls by playing switcheroo with a bunch of triangular blocks br br when boss alien says the hang on to your seats for rehashed footage from earlier gamera movies where he battles and gyaos these take up quite a bit of screen time but are no match for the fast forward button if you want to get on with it for the longest time addressed an invisible crew and when they finally appeared they were orientals who could fly imagine that br br seeing as how these movies were made for a juvenile audience it's surprising to see how gruesome some of the scenes are gamera drawing blood comes to mind and how about the pair of space crew members being decapitated when squid tentacles started emerging from the headless bodies i made a connection to the 'alien' films having the individual units merge to form the giant was a neat device br br i guess the appeal for young kids might reside in identifying with the two young heroes who make friends with a giant monster move around pretty freely on an alien space ship and get to have whatever they want with the help of alien telepathy technology seeing as how the movie was presumably made by adults it could have been a simple case of wish fulfillment
0	having been a godzilla fan for many years gamera was to me a cheap knockoff to capitalize on the success of toho's 1 kaiju star attack of the monsters was for me at the time 1975 an almost painful viewing experience br br last weekend i attended the annual godzilla fest known as g fest where carl craig one of the stars of gamera vs made an appearance of course they featured this movie it was one of the most hilarious bad movies ever made of course you have to be in the right frame of mind to watch it in one scene for example the boy scouts held prisoner on board the alien space craft manage to escape by distracting the not too bright aliens when they realize they ve been duped one of them says that's funny i think those kids lied to us not even plan nine from outer space can boast that kind of dialog br br this may not be godzilla or even gamera 3 but this one is a decent enough time waster if you watch it in the right frame of mind br br however if you want top quality kaiju entertainment check out the recently released gamera 3 br br rating 1 2 out of
0	yeesh talk about craptastic this thing is brutal horrible voice dubbing even more horrible acting and no discernible plot apparently there are some great chase scenes but the problem is you have to get to that point first and i just couldn't the 20 or so minutes i endured felt more like a root canal than a movie i suppose i could have fast forwarded it and i recommend you do the same unless you have very extreme pain tolerance or your a masochist i don't fall into either category i still have a migraine from this thing so i'm about to perform some dental surgery without anesthetic just relive the migraine bottom line horrendous 0 10
0	sorry folks this is without a doubt the worst film i have ever seen sometimes when a movie is really bad you can joke about it and have a good laugh like plan 9 from outer space this movie is so bad you can´t even enjoy it on an ironic level
0	the evil is about a big house where a bad spirit is foolishly unleashed to torture all inside what a washout of a movie there's not a single scary scene not one richard crenna overplays a nothing role there's some animated ghosts a disfigurement by power saw and a ghost rape after nothing special happens for almost the whole movie the evil gets personified into victor buono great where did the filmmakers get the idea that buono is scary he looks like he was on the bum for a guest starring paycheck to pay his liquor bill by then its too late to turn it off because the damn thing is over i felt like throwing the videocassette out the window please avoid this junk hopefully it will never see the light of dvd and will fade into obscurity
0	i actually saw the evil on the big screen i saw it as part of a double feature during the early 1980s don't remember the other film when i was in my mid teens the film is bad cringe worthy bad embarrassingly bad the effects are atrocious you can clearly see the cable pulling the black girl across the floor there's absolutely nothing scary about it in fact i laughed throughout the film br br the story tried to create this big built up for the climax when we're suppose to finally see who's responsible for all the evil goings on and we see greasy victor buono who's as scary as an overstuffed twinkie seriously what where they thinking buono who was a villain on the batman tv series is one of the hammiest actors ever to grace the big screen and i just cannot imagine anyone being remotely terrified of him br br the evil is all but forgotten now for good reasons but it's actually a very funny film and i wish i could see this turkey again just to see that black girl being pulled across the room by an unseen force with that very visible cable
0	this is a by the numbers horror film starring richard crenna and joanna pettet as a psychologist duo who purchase and old mansion and invite a small crew of friends and patients to help clean the place up unbeknownst to them the mansion harbors a cellar door the gateway to hell if you are in the mood for a clichéd horror film then look no further but if you want something inventive then this little film won't appeal to you br br violence rather subdued albeit the scene where a guy cuts his hand with a saw rather gruesome mind you fans of inventive deaths scenes will not like this as every character seems to be electrocuted in some fashion br br nudity nothing to speak of mary louise weller adds the good looks but her character was underdeveloped br br story cliched but view worthy nonetheless this offers nothing new to the genre but the casting of victor buono who is about as menacing as a department store santa seems to have attracted a few viewers br br acting the best performances are by crenna and pettet with the other actors simply phoning in their roles the screenwriter fails to develop any characters outside character and seemed to have forgotten about mary louise weller animal house who disappears for about twenty minutes and only resurfaces to be electrocuted like everyone else in boring fashion
0	victor buono as the devil surely somebody must have been drunk when that casting decision was made that's not the worst part of this silly mish mash of sundry haunted house devices but it gets my vote for being the funniest part of it while the film is by no means terrible it doesn't even approach other 1970's haunted house flicks like amityville horror the changeling and the legend of hell house the evil can be entertaining in spots but don't expect to be scared it's better approached as what it is a silly horror film made all the sillier by it's over serious approach
0	know it is impossible to keep all details of a book in a movie but this movie has changed nearly everything without any reason furthermore many changes have made the story illogical a few examples 1 in the movie paul really meets before he dies in the book poirot only gets a letter telling him he is afraid to be killed this is completely stupid because if plan would have succeeded poirot would have known that the dead man would not have been poirot was in the morgue when mrs identified the victim 2 the movie has combined two persons into one cinderella has been removed by the movie the girl hastings falls in love with and the ex girlfriend of jack are one person in the movie why for god's sake 3 hastings finds the victims cause he is such a bad golf player totally unfunny and stupid 4 the movie tells secrets much too early for example at the very beginning so you know things you shouldn't know 5 the murderer gets shot at the end by a person who doesn't exists in the book perhaps because the person cinderella who stops the murderer does not exists in the movie 6 the book is very complex the movie takes only about 90 minutes sure it is difficult to include all the necessary details but it is impossible if you include stupid things which were not in the book and have no meaning e g bicycle race
0	every time i watch larry king live he rolls out the most softball questions for his guests he rarely gets any useful information because he doesn't ask the hard questions this comes from his start on radio br br king established himself on the radio and basically has not changed one bit of the format for television except for his talking head being visible he becomes like a puppy for his guests the only time he really gets useful information from them is whee they volunteer it or a caller to the show actually asks a hard question br br larry is a nice fatherly type of interviewer this means he should not have a prime time show on a major news network if you consider cnn one i don't because of the history of cnn br br copying ie cable new network was started by ted turner as an alternative to network news in that it could broadcast news 24 7 when it first started the only tv competition was from nbc abc cbs because of this cnn copied the format of their competition achieved respectable ratings br br this worked fine for cnn until they got competing networks which were innovative provided better fresher news coverage in response to the heating up of competition cnn went into denial panned its competitors who were eating their lunch ratings because cnn wanted to resist change this didn't work very long their ratings began to plummet br br now the copying news network is trying to re mold itself by re inventing itself by copying the leading news network format unfortunately this show represents a big piece of the problem it is 21 years old showing it's age very badly br br sorry to say king needs to be moved out of prime time or scrapped altogether
0	rarely have i seen a work of literature translated so badly to the screen the hysterical cast of b movie and sitcom extras simply make the characters seem like bad jewish stereotypes the worst of all is melissa gilbert who you hate from scene one and never develop any sympathy for performances like this should be noted and used against actors who wish to work again all in all a seedy low budget made for tv film of the sort that gives made for tv films a bad name
0	this is truly a re make that should never have gotten out of the stable it has two casts that are acting in entirely different strata at the top of their game are joan plowright and maximillian schell every nuance of the franks is in plain sight at the rock bottom are melissa gilbert and doris roberts i cannot imagine how schell and plowright manage to play so well when gilbert and roberts are working their anti magic gilbert ruins every scene she's in it's like father knows best in the ghetto she's ann frank light her run at helen keller was thin but not awful this is sacrilege doris roberts makes mrs van damm merely annoying she is a completely inappropriate choice to play the sexually hungry woman whose flirtatious dissatisfied presence caused so much trouble in het this needed to be played by a woman who could convince us that she at least remembered what it was like to voluptuous her weight is not the problem joan plowright could have played this part beautifully roberts was on a career high when this was made getting lots of press and many opportunities her performance here displays her weaknesses as an actress shamefully br br james coco and clive have most of their scenes with gilbert and roberts and strong though they are they are completely incapable of undoing the damage done by their partners is a wily actor capable of the kind of iconic performance given by ed in the original film he gets no support from gilbert she drain the color out of every scene br br i've read with dismay the comments by those of you who grew up watching this version filled with attachment to these performances it's a lesson in how the version you see first to you it makes me reconsider my attachment to some inferior products i loved in my childhood i encourage you to watch the original it has very few weak spots and it's head and shoulders above this mess
0	i saw and have the original 1959 black and white that stars shelley winters and millie perkins and no matter how many times i watch it i can't help but not to cry br br this version was obviously a set like the 1959 was but there were so many mistakes in layout spiral staircase items that did not exist in that time period existed in the film doris roberts sad to say cannot play drama she a comedic actress and that will not change james coco was a horrible mr van and mr resembled a college professor of mine rather then the dentist he was supposed to play in the original film anne walked the gauntlet to go to peter's room that seemed to take her more then a minute in this crappy remake it took her under 10 seconds the first reviewer was correct this remake is just that a remake what was the director thinking casting comedic actors in a drama role like that i'm sorry but james coco cannot play drama max schell was better in deep impact then this movie the cranky mrs frank was just that cranky i couldn't stand her referencing and comparing to the 1959 version i like her better she did a better job of being the overwhelming mother out of 10 stars i give this remake 3 don't waste your time get the 1959 version and a box of kleenex
0	as a devotee of ms frank i remember being so excited that the play was being re made for tv that is until i saw it this film is a prime example of how important casting is and how directing plays such an important part in creating the sense of purpose the casting of any central role is crucial to a production of this sort shows like auntie mame and man of la mancha are totally dependent on the charisma of the lead actor and in the cast of this movie the whole thing is destroyed by the atrocious casting of melissa gilbert in the lead role there is not one single moment that ms gilbert even comes close to inhabiting the sensitive mature spirit of anne ms gilbert is white bread throughout the movie the only time i was close to tears was during the reading of anne's most haunting line i still believe in spite of everything that people are truly good at heart this is spoken by ms gilbert so rushed so lacking in conviction that she might has well and achieved the same effect film and dance legend marge champion was the dialogue coach for this production she should have refunded her salary despite ms gilbert ruining diary other performances are satisfactory for the most part special kudos to joan plowright as edith scott jacoby as peter and clive as mr schell does not have the deep rooted soul and spirit as otto as does the creator of the role on stage and film joseph schildkraut but he's okay doris roberts and james coco as the van are relatively superficial in their parts they're shrill and bombastic but again only on the surface this could be due to the fact that the pacing of the project is way too rushed as noted in previous postings this film clocks in 45 minutes shorter than the film version the difference owing to the pauses for dramatic effect which apparently is necessary to propagate the appropriate mood for the story this is not mandatory viewing especially for youngsters learning about anne frank for the first time stick to the original film version and or even better the tv production of anne frank the true story starring ben kingsley which is the closest thing to capturing the heartbreak and reality of anne's situation ever filmed note especially appalling is the fact that melora marshall who plays anne's sister margot is not included in the opening credits along with all the other members of the secret annex she's listed in the post credits along with the actors playing and mr if i was ms marshall i would have sued
0	is beautiful enough vanessa is beautiful enough i liked the storyline but i went in with the expectation to see lots of energetic hot salsa dancing i was disappointed there needed to be more dancing especially salsa
0	the only good part of this movie was the ending you know the part of the movie where the lights come on and you leave to go home no no that may be a little harsh the dancing in the film was sensational but unfortunately that is where the plot ended as long as the cast was dancing and not talking the movie went along well as for debut not too bad but hopefully his next film will have a little more depth as for going to see the movie wait for the rental or tv do not make the same mistake i did and pay 8 50
0	this is truly abysmal i just got a copy of disco beaver from outer space after hearing good things about it and i have to say this was just so incredibly unfunny and bad it will leave you numb and mystified how this ever got made br br i mean what was it is it that this is typical late 70's humor i don't think so this is just so bad and believe me i don't mean so bad it's good either this is a collection of extremely unfunny skits as if you are watching cable tv sure enough this was an hbo program and to think this may have been considered groundbreaking is scary br br there is one somewhat pretty girl in it and there is some old nhl footage of the ny islanders hockey team which is fun to see even though i am a lifelong ny rangers fan but they even mess that up as they try to get some humor out of two hockey players scuffling on the ice as if they are dancing and even worse reverse the videotape of two hockey players fighting to make it look like they are having sex oh how funny in one slight bit of cleverness there is an interview a hockey player named chico who resembles ny islander chico but they even blow this by having him wear a rangers jersey well maybe that was intentional who knows br br the bottom line is disco beaver is just so blatantly horrible so unbelievably bad you will definitely feel cheated after watching this and wasting almost an hour of your life you'll wonder what possibly made the makers of this garbage think they had something funny here and you'll also wonder why these skits can't even come close to the worst saturday night night slop incredible just incredible
0	i found my tape of this long forgotten 'show' besides the theme song beaver from outer space' this show is barely watchable you will be flipping through channels just like the couple flipping through the tv channels this is a parody of tv br br the beaver is cool the homosexual dracula the chick discussing her experiences and the lady with the overly big lips discussing homosexuality show us everything that is wrong with tv it is all bad just like the beaver from outer space who seems to be lost in this new world you will be too out of
0	why does this piece of film have so many raving reviews br br this is amateurish unfunny and annoying br br the only memorable thing here is the corny title song br br the production values are low and the comedic if you want to call them that ideas are weak they seem like leftovers of leftovers from snl that even they would not dare to have put on the screen br br i'm beginning to thoroughly mistrust imdb ratings br br this is light years away from kentucky fried movie not even in the same galaxy br br it's not even possible to write 10 lines about it br br ok another good thing ugly street scenes and ugly people something one doesn't get to see a lot in todays tv and movies
0	this is absolutely nothing like the wwf and the era' of the wwf i have always been a dedicated wwf fan and i never took a glimpse of its competition now i rue the day that i wanted the wwf to take charge at the least the wcw would try something new and radical all the time instead of keeping up as a mask of the actual intentions of the show and this holds true to ecw as well the wwf has always been about hulk hogan andre the giant and other old wrestlers like so and the era' only happened to catch up with the radical ideas of the competition the wwe is the same trash as it was before the attitude era only dumbed down and the wrestlers are terrible the brand split is mind scrambling and the story lines and are non existent the wwe is so bad that it ceases to even be a former shell of itself by pushing characters and wrestlers into the main event suddenly and by retaining barriers of creativity sure the show shakes the brains of sweet innocent and easily brain washed children and meager lousy pariah stupid people of the internet wrestling community that actually consider the company anything good anybody that even shudders and rests on the thought that this show and product is good can go straight to hell
0	to be fair i didn't see a lot of this show probably because it wasn't as good as the original m a s h but i seem to recall them moving it around on the weekly schedule some shows just aren't worth the trouble of following around every week but i really did try at first so it wasn't all bad maybe i just kept expecting it to improve but i can't give this show a 1 in all honesty i can't give it any more than a 2 either br br it wasn't mash i'm not going to type those stupid 's every time and it was trying to be mash without putting forth any effort like it would just magically happen well guess what no magic the best i can do here is to compare it to other shows br br trapper john m d was a much better show by far however they should have called it b j m d because pernell roberts looked exactly like an older bj but nothing at all like trapper john keep everything else the same just change his name and the name of the show presto after mash wasn't the only sequel to completely bomb and dishonor the original archie bunker's place was a lame follow up to all in the family it had no heart no conflict no depth – all of the things that made all in the family so memorable likewise mash was funny because the doctors were reacting to the impossible absurdity of war remove the war and you remove the drive for 99 of the humor potter can't yell at for wearing a dress because isn't wearing a dress because he's not trying to get kicked out of the army because he's already out of the army because the war is over breathe all of the jokes became forced because there was no motivation for anything the least motivated was the viewer to stay around and watch the show br br and from what i remember the whole show seemed to be potter and mulcahy just standing there unnaturally facing the audience like a trio of vaudeville performers it was reminiscent of good times where they spent 90 of the show standing behind that couch and talking to the audience trying to make it look like they were having natural conversation they weren't and it felt even less natural on after mash br br another random tidbit i recall is that the people who made mash never got any royalties from the spin off the studio used the absurd excuse that after mash was really a spin off of the movie mash which they owned and not the tv series nice try but mulcahy was the only one of the three in the movie and he was never deaf i guess studio execs will do anything for a buck anything other than make a worthwhile sequel that is
0	wow even american idol and so you think you can dance have more adult stuff now than wwe at least the auditions has a number of people abusing the judges and here is wwe plodding with one of the worst moves in tv history by changing itself into pg now when i switch sometimes to see what's going on this is what i get br br 1 the ugly midget sharing his space with the main for apparently no reason except for thrilling the young fans and of course beating chavo guerrero a capable wrestler in every match br br 2 a guest host every week to spoil the of fun which was otherwise present all these host are cheap b grade celebs trying to catapult to fame again by cracking horrendous 5 year old jokes and making silly references br br 3 time and a female wrestler forgot her name most probably eve giving lessons on various street words sob which are neither street nor cool they were fun before stealing stuff and being loud mouths br br 4 the divas are clad in unwatchable outfits tying their best to look sexy smart and powerful by the way i hate this catchphrase remember when torrie trish and sable were there those were the times plus these divas are bad wrestlers which adds to the misery i have seen some old matches of wwe in vintage collection and the divas over there were professional not amateur br br 5 pg move restricts so many things almost no blood during matches dx being terribly irritating john cena doing even more of his patriotism act crowd containing many children who are so annoying almost no heels etc br br 6 and yeah why keep so often one in every month have they lost it no actual feud or rivalry is ever created and the ones that are done look fake and just till the ppv gets over ones br br 7 vintage michael cole and a few of his quotes br br ladies and gentlemen you are watching the longest running television show in history every week br br the brutal and vicious assault by he doesn't use it for anyone else randy orton legacy br br a vicious attack on stephanie triple h's husband br br wwe is now almost towards its demise hope vince gets up from his slumber and does something bring back the tv 14 or attitude era 2 out of 10 for the current state of wwe
0	there is the thrill of low budget film noir and there is the frustration of meandering uninteresting movies made on the cheap this one falls into the second category br br the spot is the name of a nightclub the film is about a policeman whose father has been killed by gangsters he heads out to track them down br br maybe it was the bad print maybe it's me but i felt i'd seen this a hundred times most of those times better than it is here br br it has promise too the cop is fascinated with a woman who plays records she introduces over juke boxes they then meet now though this was made well before i was born i have seen that kind of juke box and it is incredibly fascinating when i was a teenager i wandered into a bar that still had such a device i always liked juke boxes in bars or diners but this one was different you talked to it and a sultry sounding female voice talked back to you that is addressed here but dropped into the general uninteresting stew br br the movie has one thing going for it in a small role it features the very young anne jeffreys what a beauty she was and doubtless still is
0	get smart should be titled get stupid there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye as for anne hathaway what is she doing in this film she's a good actress but is just plain terrible br br the writing is pathetically lame there is not one funny clever or witty line there is not one good sight gag br br the directing is terrible comedy relies on timing someone should tell the director that every line that is supposed to be funny and isn't is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i've ever seen br br 0 stars
0	i have never seen the tv series or the previous movies probably that's the reason why i didn't enjoy it much boring and just not funny sums it up nicely br br considering the budget the movie seemed to have it's embarrassing they couldn't do an even passable job br br we went to the cinema with no at all and the hope to see a somewhat funny movie that wouldn't be too taxing on the mind my friend fell asleep halfway through the movie and i spend the next 2 hours hoping that it would finally pick up a hope which died with the end credits
0	what a sad surprise br br being a die hard fan of the original series starring don adams i was really looking forward to this poor fool me this is sillier and more brain dead than a monkey's bottom br br to say it was bad would be a severe understatement it is was the worst movie well first 30 minutes of one i have seen for a long time i couldn't stand more than the first half hour preferring to watch my hard drive de fragment br br i can tolerate bad bad is o k sometimes even cute but up with contrived hollywood crap and this has to be the worst in many years i will not put this movie is a gross insult to the collective intelligence of humanity my five year old daughter could have written better and she is not even i'm really tempted to try watching the rest of it but i'm afraid i have better things to do like making pizza dough and watching it rise br br what a sad disappointment no i'm off what a swindle as mel once said piece of shirt
0	yet another tv show becomes a movie steve the office carell plays dimwitted agent maxwell smart in a movie that's so bad it makes the worst movie you ever saw become the second worst movie you ever saw the seventh rate story if you can call it that has a megalomaniac trying to take over the world it is so unfunny it is absolutely pathetic about the only thing anne hathaway does as agent 99 is look good she seems incapable of doing anything else bill murray has the fine sense to limit his screen time to about 90 seconds and a few faces from the tv series turn up in very small roles movie is supposed to be part thriller and part action film it is neither even though i really was not a fan of the tv series at least it was light years ahead of this piece of hit all this does is drag it through the dirt and cheapen whatever good memories we had of it thank god don adams is not here to see it keep it up hollywood keep making crappy movies like this and keep 'em to the multiplexes on a weekly basis no wonder the film industry is going down the tubes this movie is so rotten it's not even good for laughs if this movie were a newspaper it could be used to line the bottom of a bird cage there is absolutely no reason to see this movie a root canal is more enjoyable than this rating zero minus five stars unless you are a masochist stay away better still do what the title says get smart and save your nine bucks you will be able to buy about 2 gallons of gas with it put it in your car and be thankful you did not waste it going to a multiplex to see this bomb
0	don't believe the hype if you have high hopes or have anticipated this movie to any degree you may be disappointed even the hilarious and talented steve carrell can't save this poorly written over long silly spy flick for the purists fans of the original tv series this movie bears little resemblance to the original characters and influence agent 99 and maxwell except for their names are simply not the same characters there are several isolated references to the original but not enough to convince this fan that it is anything more than a poor shadow of the tv version for those not familiar with the original tv series you may not be disappointed but chances are you will be bored there are a few cheap hollywood political shots as well really pathetic and oh so typical for an election year we left after the first hour and weren't alone some left after 20 minutes
0	this movie is in the same league as ishtar lots of wasted talent who let this bomb escape when sigfried says an example has to be made in reference to a nuclear bomb i said please let it be this theatre don't waste your time not even worth a free rental and where did they get these shills to fill the comments section on imdb i can't believe that anyone who has ever seen the original series enjoyed this stinker steve carell is not a physical comedian if they removed the comedy and made it a straight action movie it could pass what the heck was the purpose of the dance scene also the fat jokes and references were tasteless this movie never missed a chance to go for the lowest common denominator and scenes just ended it seemed as if no one thought them through just awful save your time if not money and give this movie a pass
0	in yet another miserable attempt to make a quick hollywood cash in of one of televisions greatest masterpieces peter segal has created a monster taken out of context if one did not know brooks' work before viewing the movie would be a lame big budget film that isn't sure if it wants to be fat joke and stupid comedy or just an ordinary action film with nothing to move on however as a young generation who just recently spent two months obsessing over the five seasons of get smart the 60's tv show this movie pained me from the moment i entered and saw steve carell dumbing down the part the backstories agent 99 getting plastic surgery and 86 as an analyst who was formerly morbidly obese shames the complexity of the original duo and paints a flat boring of them it seems the screenwriters unable to be truthfully funny in both dialogue and situation fell back on lame set ups for don adams famous lines flashbacks to fat camp references to carell's part in the office in the interview style camera angles they have and a female chauvinism that falls flat on its face br br for those who have seen the original the writers of this movie thought they'd include some memories they mention herbie fang now a worthless tiny furry dog that carell covets the shoe phone the cone of silence and his classic red car and the doors and phone that the show the classic music is back but now everything is updated generally for the worse cone of silence is now some weird blue telekinetic force field control headquarters are right under a museum that preserves past the movie lacks any creative random tech and replaces it with crossbows in swiss army knives lots of the humor in the movie is carrel hurting himself or another character being hurt whether it be carrel spending two minutes shooting himself accidentally with the crossbow or getting punched by security guards or throwing up in airplanes in the original smart would insult a big foe attack him with no success and try to buddy up with him before getting pulverized in this one he attacks without success and gets pummeled it seems the screenwriters didn't understand the humor was established with the dialogue and not the pointless violence it's like they took the names from the show and cut out all that made it good in the first place br br the poster hides carell's face beyond that of the movie likewise shies away from anything that could make it good they intertwine the classic music with the over dramatic action and romantic music in big budget films whereas the original fed off a campy feel this one replaces quality with massive doses of cgi explosions and pow sound effects i was really looking forward to this as i finished the original series just two months ago and it ranked in my top five shows of all time however this was a massive disappointment the credits say they collaborated with mel brooks and buck henry but in all the things i've read on the internet they were largely left out of the writing process in conclusion if you want to waste your money on a cash in with little value and no respect to its namesake go for it but be prepared that the ride is not how you remembered it br br ps i almost forgot the george bush humor they mention falling asleep at fine art president's working for their vice pres and appreciating tackles over solving real problems if you're into hearing the same jokes you heard 3 4 years ago in big budget movie form chuck your money here
0	this movie sucked the problem was not with the cast i think the cast was great lots of good talent lots of great acting but the script was terrible it seemed to be mostly just a frame work in which steve carrell could do his improv and that is what he does best but it just didn't work here the script was hard to follow the story was non sensical and scenes were random and lacked direction also much of the action was extremely contrived and poorly thought out it was a good effort but as max says they missed it by that much i am shocked to see how many glowing reviews there are for this stinker here on the imdb obviously the movie producers are getting people to write lots of positive reviews on their movies and fill up the entries on the imdb if you read the positive reviews and compare them to the negative reviews it is pretty clear which ones are genuine reviews from normal users br br this movie was full of problems and jokes that just didn't work i loved steve carrell in anchor man and i like his comedy and style but i will tell you that i never once laughed while i was watching this movie yes i had a couple of light moments a couple of chuckles but no real laughs nothing that struck me at all br br spoiler alert one ridiculous scene was when max had his hands binded on the airplane and he goes to the bathroom to try to escape he uses his special swiss army knife but instead of just using the blade of the knife he tries to shoot the binding with his miniature crossbow and as the crossbow miss fires and shoots little arrows into him over and over again almost putting out his eye max doesn't give up or try the blade instead no he just keeps shooting himself with the crossbow what was he really expecting to do with that crossbow it seemed to be the worst option on the knife to try to remove the bindings it just made absolutely no sense br br that is a good example of the typical circumstances in the scenes that made up this movie they were ridiculous poorly thought out poorly motivated and made of pure nonsense and that was truly distracting br br as i said this movie was a big let down and i recommend you avoid it a note to the imdb you should do something about these phony reviews that people are leaving it degrades the authenticity of the site
0	rose – does anything actually happen in this episode it introduces our two leads a slow witted grinning idiot of a doctor and an utterly un interesting companion there's no plot to speak of childish humour mixed with some extremely bad pacing and incidental music what else is there to say really br br the end of the world – a marginal improvement in that we see our first outer space scenario subsequently brought down by poor contemporary humour paper thin logic very poor pacing and tired sf clichés br br the unquiet dead – best episode to date showing what can happen when someone knows how to structure an episode write interesting character dialogue and integrate an intriguing plot let down solely by the doctor and rose br br aliens of london world war three doctor who degenerates into farce what more can be said penelope wilton brings the proceedings a little gravity trying her best in dire circumstances some poorly written and out of place soap opera elements come to the fore in these two episodes and a return to poor pacing bad plotting and cringe worthy humour satire br br dalek – not great however still far above the rtd fare to date the pacing and script are all fine though the doctor and rose still irritate the effects and menace of the dalek are introduced well the finale however took an interesting premise that reduced the doctor's most notorious foe into a cuddly touchy feely mess and turning a previously un seen menace to a blue rubber squid that looked like a child's toy br br the long game the first rtd script to show any plot even if it was in a clichéd 80s style still it was marred somewhat by his usual over reliance on juvenile jokes placing it too far in the future to make logical sense and again poor pacing not as bad as his previous efforts but instantly forgettable br br father's day – the initial premise could've been vaguely interesting but common sense and logic abandon this episode from the very beginning also we are treated to a whole episode of soap opera before you start thinking this is all about characterization remember there's a big difference between lame soap opera and characterization on the plus side it does prove rtd isn't the worst script writer so far br br the empty child the doctor dances this started off in a mediocre way with some cringe worthy moments and some illogical mistakes that even a primary school pupil wouldn't make well lit windows in a blackout anyone after this the first part takes a more interesting and sinister turn florence truly steals these episodes showing us what an interesting companion could've been like she could also act instead we get the annoying and politically correct captain jack as the new companion the conclusion was a little hasty but sufficient the pacing and script improved with a reasonably good storyline making these two episodes quite atmospheric and intriguing br br boom town i have to be honest except for a few examples i had been so disillusioned by the current series that upon seeing the trailer for another episode i gave up and didn't subject myself to the torture br br bad wolf reality tv arguably the worst facet of the modern media is basically used as the premise there's no subtlety whatsoever do we get any interesting social commentary as in the likes of the running man or truman show no of course not this in an rtd episode so they're basically here to cynically try and pull in the audience of said shows once again logic goes out the window as we're placed 200 000 something years in the future rtd tries pointlessly to shoe horn in some 'over story here with no relevance other than it's own existence and when the villains are revealed at the end they make empty threats and the doctor grins once more like an idiot for the climax faster paced for the most part than other efforts this has one or two interesting moments otherwise another lacklustre instalment br br the parting of the ways the big finale more of a damp squid literally all of the dalek menace set up in is brought crashing down as they become rather pathetic so many plot holes riddle this episode with typically poor contrivances daleks want to harvest humans as daleks but then vaporize entire continents dalek's can vaporize said continents but not destroy the tardis in space the tardis is now indestructible and can land anywhere even over people so they can be saved in it this ability can't be used to easily destroy the dalek 'god' the daleks can vaporize entire continents but don't just nuke satellite 5 to destroy the doctor and instead let him play around the doctor is a pathetic coward without the conviction of his actions after eradicating his whole species to try and eliminate the daleks these and many other holes aside we are treated to the lamest dues ex machina solution ever conceived joined with a near pointless story arc br br so what can we say about the new series all in all br br would this have gained a second series if it were anything other than doctor who with rtd behind it would most of the episodes have been seen as anything other than un original and forgettable if they were anything other than doctor who and had name attached i think not br br some people would have us think we can't say anything against rtd since we owe him for bringing doctor who back to our screens however this at the expense of good characters and stories personally i'd rather not have a poorly planned ill conceived product churned out at that price i'd rather wait till someone could come along and make a genuine effort for the most part this is the kind of puerile rubbish that gives sf a bad name marring what is otherwise the most creative genre
0	the audience sat in silence through almost the entire film with only a few rare occasional chuckles the character of maxwell smart was so inconsistent i felt whip lashed when it is convenient for the plot smart behaves like a master spy at other times he acts like an imbecile they lift many classic lines from the television series but they don't work in this version the classic missed it by this much is funny if it is spoken with attempted braggadocio by someone who is an obvious failure but it loses all humor when spoken by someone who is qualified to a slightly lesser degree many of the other characters move at a dizzying pace from skilled to cartoonish incompetent siegfried the main villain would seem to be intelligent but he makes decisions that make no damned sense at all still none of the characters in the film is as incompetent as the writers of this mess i am utterly depressed that so many imdb users think this was good
0	br br after the wit and liveliness of highway 61 and roadkill i expected this movie to shine but it was as bloated and self deluded as the hard rock stars it parodied the pace dragged not helped by an over long hallucination sequence the characters were flat and unmemorable and art is no jello i had to poke myself to stay awake
0	this is a poorly written and badly directed short film pure and simple what is interesting and keep me watching to some extent was the production values shot on video it appears with a bad script and bad direction one would think it would also have horrible production value that is what the viewer expects when they watch a film that is terrible and shot on video but not in this case they spent some money and it shows it keep me very mildly interested to see what was coming next just to see br br probably the worst short film i have seen that looked big budget hollywood even though it was shot on some sort of video format br br instead of spending the sum of money they must have spent for some rather impressive set design it would have been nicer to see a better executed story with some good direction but then again how can we expect new filmmakers to do this when even hollywood won't
0	poorly directed short film shot on hi def or betacam it appears it screams student film video all the way the premise is limited in scope and the short actually feels a lot longer than it runs some interesting acting moments and some decent production value but not enough to lift this film from the hole it has fallen into
0	this film had some funny moments louie the main character was well cast along with some other decent supporting characters the opening shot of the movie set the tone but the direction and story went downhill from there aside from a twist at the end interesting and funny also i wish this film had better direction and a more developed story without giving any of the plot away the whole idea is better good i just wish it was executed better in this short film the potential was there but it just didn't deliver the goods
0	it is sad what they are letting into film festivals these days i had to sit through over twenty minutes of this dreary short that wasn't funny at all to get a good seat for a feature film that i wanted to see at a local film festival the festival paired this horrible short with a great feature i am just glad the feature was good otherwise i would have not been a very happy camper br br for a comedy short film it got no laughs the title says it all
0	directed by the same jin that put and com a once promising online film community temporarily out of business and off the net because of his directorial style and method of filmmaking on his next film girl's best friend br br the hole suffers from this look at me i am a filmmaker style of filmmaking that is becoming the near standard in today's hollywood to the detriment of content br br the hole actually starts out with a unique concept but that concept and the promise of captivating content soon is destroyed by the look at me directorial style of filmmaking br br there are some funny moments that still shine through the pretense but it is a painful short to watch br br how sad it is when the new breed of filmmakers choose not to be a servant to the story but rather try and dominant on and off screen heck they don't care as long as they get their studio deal house on the beach and a new car content and presentation are secondary issues br br the real sad part of all this is hollywood embraces the look at me attitude so much that the whole aesthetic of filmmaking is changing rather than present a story in a straightforward way that puts the story first today's directors are getting experimental i e look at me br br is it me or am i the only one that was really put off by opening minutes of swordfish that movie went on to rise above directorial attempts at look at me filmmaking unfortunately this short film by mr does not br br 3 out of 10 rating from tv
0	comedy is a hard beast to conquer fails on all accounts as a writer and director some things like making movies that are funny just need to be left to the professionals 1 out of 10 awful it wasn't funny i tried to laugh but it just wasn't funny i wasn't the only one no one else at the chicago festival was laughing either at least at the showing i saw simply very bad sorry
0	this was an awful short film that tries to be funny in a dark way but wasn't funny at all say at a film festival in chicago it really is what the title says and i simply wasn't into it at all the bad storytelling was what did it in if you re wrote it and re shot it it might work this attempt fell in the hole horrible filmmaking
0	anyone who sees this film will notice that the makers threw a lot of money at this film it's interesting they titled it the hole the production values are good for a short film the hole tries to look big budget and does in some ways but is hampered by the video format it was shot on i speculate if this was shot on 35mm it would look incredible and would elevate the content somewhat many hollywood movies look good and that's enough for an audience regardless of story and content br br my honest opinion 3 out of 10 for this effort maybe next film will deliver
0	i a huge fan of when it comes to doctor who series and still am but i was very disappointed when i began to watch this new series br br children under the age of 15 or even better under the age of 10 will probably will enjoy it the best and possibly new fans who haven't seen any of the original series but as far as fans of the original series will find this series missing much of the charm the made the original series so great it took david tennant to get me to appreciate how much better christoper was as a doctor in the 1st season br br i would only recommend this series for people who haven't seen much of the original series people who are under 15 and extremely die hard who fans everyone else will just get a laugh and mumble curse words about russel t davies screwed up one of our favorite tv shows
0	this short film doesn't get there cliche' and not very funny attempt at dark humor humor isn't funny enough to get you interested and the protagonist isn't likeable so you really don't care about what happens anyway producer spent some money on this flop and it shows in the production value which is the only saving grace
0	really for a short film that looks high budget this is just a candy coated piece of cr p it tries so hard to be hollywood but even hollywood stories have an okay story sometimes money wasted on an effort to be hollywood waste of almost a half hour of any viewers time for the short film buff look elsewhere
0	well i like to watch bad horror b movies cause i think it's interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie i always compare this movies to for example some spielberg's works and again and again don't understand the huge difference in what i see i like ed wood's movies cause it's so inept it's very funny but people the chilling is not funny and is not even interesting it's extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable there's no acting no screenplay no direction no thrills and not even blood it's extremely inept amateurish film it's definitely the worst movie i had ever seen and i had seen a lot of worst movies believe me i warned you 1 10
0	the chilling directed by and jack a is one of the worst zombie flicks i have ever seen why linda blair the exorcist witchery appeared in this stinker is beyond me the plot is really dumb the frozen bodies at a lab are revived after lightening strikes and turned into cannibalistic zombies the characters are completely one dimensional and stupid the zombies look horrible and there is no gore avoid this cheap piece of trash like the plague my rating 1 out of 10
0	woof pretty boring and they might as well have shot it in black and white it was so colorless br br the movie starts with rolling text explaining and asking whether god or satan is behind it there are some protests outside a lab some people rob a bank and many of the robbers and guards get shot the father of one of the robbers i think arranges to have his son frozen there's a lot of jumping around in the beginning from scene to scene introducing characters without us knowing how they relate br br there's a power outage and the containing the frozen people get struck by lightning and they emerge as zombies they're all wearing silver like suits and their skin is dark green and wrinkled no idea why they look so bad being frozen evidently didn't preserve their looks and they have silver eyes they go around killing people sometimes lurching like zombies sometimes moving like normal people br br linda blair keeps showing up every once in a while to what purpose i'm not really sure i think her character works at the lab but she's not very important to the plot and her role is very small br br the movie ends with some freeze frames with text captions that tell us what happened to the characters next which are pretty silly
0	as to be expected there's a pretty good reason why this film is so obscure and unknown in spite of dealing with the always popular premise of zombies and starring the 80's b movie queen linda blair namely it sucks the chilling is trying enormously hard – way too hard – to be a story with depth and factual background whereas it should have just been a light headed and gore packed horror flick about frozen zombies it takes an incredibly long time before anything remotely interesting or significant happens there's a lot of drivel about which i learned in my physics class is the study of products and their behavior at extremely low temperatures so naturally in this film a bunch of people are studying the behavior of human corpses when deep frozen needless to say this is extremely boring until two dim witted night watchmen decide during an electric power failure that it's a good idea to put the metal constructed cool cells outside at the heights of a thunderstorm the are struck by lightening obviously and the bodies spontaneously defrost and come to live to go on a murderous zombie rampage the chilling is a boring and surprisingly for a late 80's effort at least gore free horror film that doesn't even use up a quarter of its potential all the painful attempts to build up an atmosphere of suspense and eeriness fail tremendously and i can't think of any reason why the zombie attacks had to be so bloodless even in spite of the low budget available they could have done better the set pieces make up effects and costumes are pitiable the research lab for example looks like a proper apartment flat whilst the zombies couldn't look less menacing with their green faces and foil wrapped outfits how linda blair managed to get involved yet again in such an embarrassing low budgeted horror flick is a complete mystery she's attracted to lousy b movies like bees are to honey
0	i'm all about the walking dead but my mind is still unsure of the walking frozen dead sadly the chilling didn't help me make up my mind this is really slow with nothing happening for the first 45 minutes making me hit the film enhancement button several times by the time the well designed zombies show up it is too late and the director two are rumored to have filmed this has no idea how to shoot them haggerty blair and donahue all look tired embarrassed recovering in some fashion i will give the film credit as it predates the t2 ending with villains being frozen by liquid the shriek show dvd offers an extended promo reel from back in the day that runs 8 minutes long and i would actually recommend that over watching the flick in its entirety
0	when i decided to try watching a movie about zombies i wasn't expecting a whole lot that's exactly what i got and then even less aside from a shortage of special effects squibs and a severe lack of any acting talent the chilling also sports the absolute worst script i've ever seen made into a movie i had to stop the tape numerous times during the first 45 minutes in order to repair the damage done to my intellect for witnessing such atrocious dialogue as there is found here br br furthermore the collection of characters is so formulaic and one dimensional it's ridiculous the corrupt doctor his assistant played by linda blair we know she's his assistant because he repeatedly refers to her by that title the recently widowed businessman with a heart of gold who develops a romantic interest with blair's character his criminal son the blair character's alcoholic abusive unemployed boyfriend whom we are introduced to in the most contrived use of a flashback and of course the rough tough bearded security guard who becomes the hero br br apparently the preserving fluid which some lab uses on its bodies is highly naturally resulting in disaster when all of the lab's containers end up outdoors in a remarkable sequence of events during a lightning storm on halloween night no less as for the zombies themselves if you enjoy watching people in green latex masks walking around in aluminum foil suits then the chilling is the movie for you the zombie action is very weak at its best the zombies' primary killing method seems to be grabbing people by the shoulders and shaking them to death the businessman and the security guard do most of the zombie fighting including a highly suspenseful scene of re freezing the undead with liquid let me tell you the steel mill scene in t2 has got nothing on the chilling in portraying an enemy getting frozen in his tracks like that br br how linda blair ended up stuck in the middle of this piece of dreck is indeed a mystery true her career didn't exactly skyrocket during the 80s sadly but this movie is an embarrassment for her the script doesn't even have the decency to put her to any good use the most that her character is given to do is shriek out things like here they come do something hurry the only thing i can figure is that poor linda was compensated for her work on this film in rations of food the hero is played by grizzly adams himself dan haggerty in this picture he faces stiff acting competition from his beard and the security dog and he does his best to outperform them both br br the only frightening part of the chilling is the introduction which brings up the factual elements of and suggests that the film you are about to see could happen in your own community as i was counting the number of times a few of the names are repeated in the closing credits i was floored to suddenly see get credited fortunately it was only for the movie's sound production 1 10
0	the combination of dan haggerty elves and linda blair exorcist is enough to make any horror fan excited about this movie and once you see the cover art to this film of a frozen zombie coming out of their chamber you'll think you were in b movie horror heaven at least that's the way i approached this film but boy was i in for a shock br br i love horror movies i love b movies as well nothing makes my day more than a cheesy little film about zombies monsters murderers that sort of thing but to say that this movie was lacking is an understatement this movie was pure trash you'd think the zombies would look somewhat like what the cover art of the box displays but instead you get actors with masks that are clearly sold at any halloween display counter furthermore the script is beyond pitiful our main character joseph suffers the loss of his wife and son and seeks solace in the warm hearted mary played by blair not once do you see any sign of sadness or discomfort on the part of joseph's character instead we see the head of the labs a man named dr miller eager to get the dead bodies and experiment with their organs there is no emotion or anything to make you believe you should give a damn about anyone in this film br br all and all very disappointing all the elements to make a great horror film were there you had your zombies your decent actors and your story but the lack of good writing and little if any sense of direction screwed this one up royally overall 4 out of 10
0	this has to be one of the worst movies i have seen i tried to like this movie but they managed to mess up practically every individual aspect that pertain to this film cheap dialogue no character development no tension not enough story to pull you in no action apart from some really cheap scenes it seems they tried some things on the set and said to each other hey this looks rather cool why not put this in there after which the director probably said yeah yeah this is genius and got back to snorting coke or something when it comes to acting i think the only person that tried to make the movie worked is but in the end it is all for nothing cause this movie sucks 2 10
0	from the weeks and weeks of promotion for this abc's the one was supposed to be the real world meets american idol we were to watch these singers perform compete and see how they lived together in a house as well the drama the tension br br where does one begin with this atrocity let's start with the judges who were known as music experts on this program experts implies they have expertise andre at least had a pedigree he was in charge of motown records for a time the other two eh kate hudson's uncle who could have been labeled mr weird beard he dyed his facial hair three distinctly different florescent colors i wonder how scary he would have been with a black light and the paula abdul wannabe who did something i didn't think could happen she was even more gushing and cloying than paula she then over corrected and became harshly critical after the first episode the farce of critiques that these three offered was a true joke and an insult not only to the process of finding the best singer but to the audience that is now quite savvy already having done this numerous times on fox br br there was the host george was no ryan in fact he was as lackluster as can be he actually sucked what little energy there was in the program dry how he got that job was the second biggest mystery of the show br br the first was how did they pick the 11 competitors for this program this was literally a talent free talent show ok perhaps that's an exaggeration and granted the performers all have to be relatively close in ability because if they were not there wouldn't be a contest if only one person was good there would be no suspense so i get that they all needed to be comparable but they all should have had some chops additionally the judges were running a singing academy so the program was part fame as well clearly these performers desperately needed those lessons but you need some extremely talented people to teach those with little talent to be talented and that definitely wasn't what was happening here br br it seemed in casting the show the priority was on the homelife elements as all of the players were very attractive to look at in equal parts to how badly they but the filmed segments in their house were so chopped and sliced you couldn't get into the stories that were starting to happen so the show didn't capture the events there either br br as badly devised as all of that was the one had an incredible unbelievable fatal design flaw built into the results that made it completely laughable br br the audience phoned in their votes for who they liked the best just like on ai but then after the audience vote was revealed the bottom three contestants were forced to sing a final song the music experts based on that performance chose one person from the three to save for the following week and then the contestants who were safe got to vote for who they wanted to keep from the remaining two sending the remaining contestant home br br the design flaw was that the contestants had the final say i mean if you were in a music competition and you wanted to get as far along the path as you could would you vote to keep the better singer or would you try to get rid of your toughest rival any first season viewer of cbs's survivor could answer that one and that's exactly what happened on the program the person who had the better potential was lost and the contestants voted back the one who had no talent at all on top of that the contestant who was just saved from the bottom by the experts was also allowed to vote against the remaining two it was a complete farce br br maybe if they let the contestants vote first at least the experts would save the better of two evils to finish but this just confirms how not ready this show was for broadcast how unsatisfying the whole process was to view and how misguided the producers were in attempting it
0	if you like soap series you might like this film i recommend this film to fans of dutch soap series like or even american stuff like the bold the beautiful if you don't like that stuff stay away from this movie it has the same kind of visual style the same quality of acting direction and writing the film was a big hit at home territory but wasn't sold anywhere else outside holland and belgium pretty strange for a commercial film like this br br maybe it says something
0	proud as i am of being a dutchman i'm truly shocked by flicks like these why why this cheap acting why this storyline that just sucks why a dozen sequels why o why they add a lot of hot dutch chicks in an effort of saving this movie from redemption and guess what all the underaged in holland go and see it i was forced to watch it at a party all the girls were going crazy when entered the screen all the guys took a another beer and grumbled but the thing that really bothers me is the fact that this kind of flicks are the only sort of movies dutch filmmakers can produce apart from van god los and lek this doesn't prove our superiority to other countries it doesn't add anything to our imagination it just f ks up the brains of little 13 year old girls johan i hope you will burn forever
0	ok let's start with saying that when a dutch movie is bad it's really bad rarely something with a little bit of quality comes along lek here in holland but not often costa is about 4 girls going to spain to go on vacation party get drunk get laid u know the drill it's also about the world of clubbers or pro's who're trying to lure the crowd into their club br br i'm not sure how long it took to write the script but i suspect somewhere between 15 minutes and 20 minutes because you're watching a bunch of random scenes for 90 minutes long nothing and i mean nothing is believable in this movie it's almost too for words what happens with the storyline suddenly the movie transforms into a sort of karate action thing with a one on one fight with 'the bad guy in black' and cliche car chase scenes trough a watertank car can it be more cheesy also the words character development and casting are unfamiliar to the makers br br after having seen traffic 3 days before this i fell from sheer brilliance from a piece of art to this this is film making at it's saddest and don't start about low budget because even with a low budget you could write a better script it almost seems that the film makers were too busy partying themselves to make a decent movie br br anyway the chicks in the water at the end made it up a little bit but for the rest of it don't waste your money on such garbage
0	this might very well be the worst movie i've seen in my life normally i don't watch movies like this however i was forced to watch this at school what a torment br br the story is as average and boring as it can be boy meets girl at the spanish coast boy and girl fall in love but the love between the two seems impossible and everyone and everything is against their love at the end of the movie the film becomes some kind of weird kung fu movie were the guys in white fight the guys in black awful br br the action is so bad that it makes you laugh the dances in the film that i think are supposed to be cool are so simple and laughable that even i can do them and georgina verbaan is possibly the most irritating person i've ever seen on screen br br johan is on his way of becoming the dutch ed wood his movies are so bad that they make you laugh br br victor however gives a surprising good performance and also acts ok br br so please for your own sake don't watch this movie however if you like watching soaps this might be very well worth your time br br yuk br br 2 10
0	firetrap is yet again another bad action film about a guy who yada yada yada and happy endings and fire and burning and overacting and bad suspense and predictable and just don't see br br dean cain got stuck playing superman on lois and clark and can't get any good roles anymore so i don't know if he is a good or bad actor br br this isn't good br br why can't anybody stop that bad people who keep making these things ai swear they just s them out on a conveyor belt and hope they are good they need to make a guy whose job is to just burn the movies that look bad just have a bucket of next to him and dump the cases in then at the end of each day light it and go home
0	dean cain the one time super man plays max hooper the super thief he can break into any company and steal any thing for the right price unfortunately his latest heist ends him up in a high rise in which someone else has set a fire to hide their own attempts to steal the product now the thief finds himself having to be the hero rescuing everyone in the building unfortunately the other thief is still in the building and the f b i c i a are outside waiting for max br br the movie is barely passable dean cain is a fun actor and has done much better with more improved material but here he is saddled with a weak script and pretty poor direction
0	this film was so bad it became enjoyable if you want to see a soap opera cast decide to do an action film this is for you overacting irrelevant incidents implausible dialogue it has it all the main character has a split personality and can not make up his mind whether he is thief a loving father or a hero who will risk his life for others he is plausible in none of these roles this sets the standard for many of the other characters the boss of the company whose building is set ablaze displays the same unpredictability and so does his wife and the punch line who has taken the chip beggars belief i found myself laughing heartily and for that reason i recommend you watch it
0	another stinker from the pm entertainment group and thankfully one of their last br br is effectively a very low budgeted remake of 'the towering i don't mind low budget b movies as long as some effort is put into them there is no effort whatsoever in is stars who is an absolutely terrible actor seriously he has all the acting abilities of a porn star but he turns out to be the best actor here and that's saying something the rest are just a bunch of no hopers given the boot from various daytime soaps the special fx are just rubbish shots showing the burning building from the ground are among the worst i've ever seen the fire looks like someone scribbled an orange pen at the front of the camera on top of that there is not one character you actually root for you hate everyone and hope they all die well before the 90 minutes are up br br the script is embarrassing the red are signposted well in advance someone else has mentioned this but 'the scene where the janitor fights off a blazing fire the building with his broom hilarious or same janitor going into a room marked material' were these scenes supposed to be tongue in cheek somehow i doubt it br br the one good point and only one good point was there was a fair bit of action in amongst the daytime soap dramatics which kept my attention but so little care was given to everything in the film i can't recommend it watch 'the towering instead br br 3 10
0	i am in awe of the number of people who consider this film to be decent much less great do the majority of people even have basic standards for a film they watch i just don't know anymore br br this commercial cinematic product doesn't really deserve the respect of being called a film to call dean cain talented is a gross injustice to anyone who actually has talent i have had a lot of respect for lori petty but most of that has gone right down the tubes at least her role was extremely small maybe she had a bill that desperately needed to get paid br br the ignorance i saw while viewing firetrap was amazing let me start out by getting this off my chest if you can't show fire realistically then don't show it at all okay it's an embarrassment to all involved when you show lame effects that don't even come close to simulating an actual burning building br br some interesting tidbits 1 a janitor opens the door to a large storage closet and finds the entire room engulfed in flames what does he do he tries to put out the fire with his broom 2 the same janitor who knows the building is on fire later comes across a door marked hazardous materials his brilliant mind tells him that it would be a great idea to open said door big mistake 3 a woman is giving a fantastically generous donation of 100 000 to a greyhound rescue fund but she's wearing a fur coat to the charity event they're holding wouldn't people who care about animals kinda frown on that sort of thing 4 several of the people in the movie are forced into a vault of some sort with massive steel walls that even an electromagnetic pulse couldn't penetrate yet they have a spacious air vent leading right into the back of the thing that anyone could crawl through that sure seems like a lapse in security br br i could go on and on but i have grown tiresome thinking about this lame movie our hero whom we are supposed to be cheering for is a career criminal who early on tries to kill some police officers what a swell guy if the general public wants to waste their minds away on this drivel then more power to them i just wish i could have it erased from my memory 1 10
0	ugghhh this is exactly the sort of pre code film that could incorrectly convince the viewer that films from this time period are lousy and they are not it's just that this particular film is horrid horrid because while the film tries very hard to be hip and adult it also is so hopelessly old fashioned dull and hokey that i was torn between laughing at the film or just falling asleep this is a unique combination to say the least br br so why exactly did i hate it so much well the film is incredibly sleazy but has no style and the film is meant to shock but lacks subtlety and takes too many ridiculous turns to be believable the film begins with a cliché a hooker with a heart of gold dorothy is a prostitute and she appears to accidentally kill a man shortly after making her escape she meets up with an old boyfriend who insists on marrying her he doesn't realize her profession seeing this man's innate goodness she determines to change her life and stop living the wild life this is tough when she hides out on a fictional caribbean island here alone and waiting for her man to return there is nothing to do and the place is infested with super horny and totally unappealing men in fact this portion of the movie is so dull that the audience might have a hard time staying focused the men on the island are so by the presence of that they perpetually seem on the verge of raping her only to be rebuffed because she isn't that sort of girl any more frankly i got very tired of all these salacious scenes there is simply too much eye rolling and tongue wagging to make it seem anything other than a very bad film and looking at all these ugly horn dogs was just annoying and stupid br br but wait it gets a lot worse the man she thought she killed shows up on this tiny island what are the odds and he tries to rape her as well however he's not to be dissuaded and she ends up shooting to save her new found virtue while the jury on the island is about to acquit her she rushes back into court and lies telling them she meant to kill the man and it was premeditated because even if she's acquitted she knows the evil jailer will have his way with her when she is sent to jail for a gun possession charge given that the jailer himself gave her the gun to set her up her rushing into the court and saying she was guilty seemed really really silly why didn't she just tell them the twisted plan supposedly she did this in order to preserve her virtue but to admit to killing someone so people will think you are a virgin so in order to avoid a short jail sentence and once again the threat of rape she doesn't consider telling the court that he is trying to force her into a sexually compromising situation the jailer has promised to rape her when she is locked up and just before she is taken to the gallows in order to avoid the rape the boyfriend shows up in time for her to send him off and the credits roll br br impossible situation and coincidences abound coming so often that the film is just dumb combining this with all the sexual innuendo this makes for a bad and sleazy mess of a film which will only appeal to the most die hard fans of pre code films all others beware this is very sticky and silly from start to finish
0	no surprise except in how quickly abc reacted to the dismal ratings according to published reports variety the show garnered the worst ratings in the history of the abc television network br br and i quote abc's music talent competition the one opened tuesday night to cancel me now ratings br br the article went on to say that the show received a shockingly low 1 1 rating 3 share in adult 18 49 and 3 08 million viewers overall br br that makes it the weakest premiere for any reality show on any network and also below all series bows in abc history br br from the first moment i saw the commercials for this i knew it would fail we don't need another american idol clone but abc should have given this show a fair chance to succeed
0	the comments for commune make it sound like a very interesting film one that i would be deeply interested in unfortunately the producers didn't see fit to include closed captions for the hearing impaired and deaf that leaves me and countless others like me who depend on closed captions to follow a movie completely out br br this is inexcusable for any film produced in the year 2005 in a world where all manner of handicaps and disabilities are accommodated it's infuriating and ironic that the ever sanctimonious entertainment industry fails to demand that all productions and movie theaters be closed captioned
0	this old stinker makes the flash gordon movies look sophisticated it's so terrible i love it and i wish i could find a tape but none of the catalogs i've checked list it the rock band leader who calls himself commander cody must have loved it too because he named his band after it
0	i guess if you like watching dudes get pumped up to outrageous sizes this is right up your alley otherwise it's an exercise in ego i don't need to do either anyhoo it's of historic interest i guess to see how these muscle positive and brain negative chumps got that way before after and in between steroids but otherwise this isn't going to influence many guys and as for women well i'm not one so i can't say
0	this is an old dark house movie a young couple creep around a weird mansion said to be run by satan where they run from and into one after another of an ill assorted crew a lady in distress an ape an ape man a midget various odd looking people and for some reason two chinese they end up in a throne room where the hero is required to play a price is right sort of contest involving a climb up seven steps with seven illuminated footprints hence the title for my taste it's too much of the same thing the creeping around fun house corridors is amusing for a while then becomes repetitive by comparison with harold lloyd or buster keaton or laurel and hardy doing the same bit in two reels it isn't truly funny it's not frightening either and apparently wasn't intended to be the household is too absurd most films in this genre balance the comedy with a genuine threat and usually two one that the characters are led to believe is real and another for which it's a cover here the cover isn't to be taken seriously and neither is what covered a few moments of fun emerge from the mix but it's rather heavy fun the novel on which the film was based was a straight thriller and i think could have been played straight to better effect and still could be
0	i usually love teen high school genre flicks but this film was really lacking in originality the only premise this film has is four friends cheating their way through high school and the strain it puts on their friendship there's just not enough depth in the story or the characters to keep the viewers attention for the full length of the film the acting isn't all that bad although the actors don't really have much to work with as the dialog is tripe and cliché' after watching this movie one must wonder how on earth a producer could come across a project like this and think i must make this film no wonder it couldn't get a theatrical release andrew is a hack avoid or burn
0	thought i just might get a few laughs from this long drawn out film but was sadly disappointed this film is all about losers who spend most of their time trying to get a passing grade with out even trying to open a book or accomplish anything the film also portrayed teachers and the principal mary tyler moore mrs stark labor pains 2000 as complete idiots i know this was suppose to be a comedy but it never made me laugh and i thought the entire film was a complete waste of time however all the actors gave excellent performances and had the hard task of trying to make this film an enjoyable and entertaining film just plain studying and getting good grades for college is the only way to go
0	i figure this to be an alternate reality teen flick more precisely a ferris bueller type character as the leader of a cheat ring yeah i know it's not meant to compared to ferris bueller at least not in a oranges to oranges way but it will none the less br br bottom line it's galaxies away from even being even a minor classic it is watchable though only if you're not expecting very much that said the main character has some charm but the premise wears thin because the writing just isn't clever the movie just did not deliver enough laughs twists or tension to keep my interest br br to be honest i did continue watching watching with hopes to see if anything suddenly clicked it didn't so stylish as it is i wouldn't recommend this movie btw it seems odd to see mary tyler moore as the principal she's truly miscast i hope the paycheck was inordinately big
0	so what can i tell you about this movie if you cheated a lot in high school you do recognize some br br this is the best thing i can tell you about this film br br if you like american teen movies maybe you also like it br br but i don't see this kind of movies as something funny sorry to say but if you are older then 10 years i shouldn't advise you to watch this br br because there is one shot with a couple of beautiful women girls in this movie i'll give it a rate of 2 br br so deal for yourself good luck
0	totally un funny jokes that fall flat amateurish acting with one or two exceptions boring characters and dialogue that's at best mediocre after watching this movie one must wonder how on earth a producer could come across a project like this and think i must make this film no wonder it couldn't get a theatrical release
0	i'm generally not a fan of high school comedies they rely heavily on humor in bad taste and rarely stray far from clichéd story lines and characters and downright dull dialog however i've had my share of guilty pleasures particularly when i was still in high school myself seeing the oh so recognizable teacher figures get their butts kicked always cheered me up and an occasional laugh could also be the case these movies only work if at least one of the characters is an instantly likable one this was not the case in especially not the protagonist of course it didn't help that the actor in play was one of the most irritating no talent arrogant kids i've ever seen in a comedy br br to act in a comedy is no joke it's hard to be funny the delivery has to be just right or the material goes to waste in this case there wasn't much good stuff to begin with and the jokes that were half funny were screwed up professionally by the cast br br this movie felt 3 hours long the director never heard of pacing obviously stay away from this one there are many other enjoyable teen comedies out there such as 10 things i hate about you who's your daddy and superbad
0	the one is a very aptly name show mostly because it comes close to being the only network shows on in prime time that barely more than one person is watching br br when i first heard of the one i thought to myself another sing song show we don't have enough of those and then proceeded to strap on my helmet and run about my home hitting my head on blunt objects and sharp corners because in all honesty the constant year round pain and suffering inflicted by having only one or two talent based reality shows running just isn't enough we needed another one and not just any one the one the one with slightly less attractive contestants with slightly less talent the one with slightly less of a point though it's hard to imagine a scenario in which that's possible the one with pointless footage of the contestants when they're not performing included because i care what johnny sings a lot does in his off hours i really do now you may be thinking hey on the entire continent of north america less than 4 million people watched the first episode doesn't that mean this show sucks well to that i say less than 4 million people in north america have syphilis so sometimes low numbers bring good news now don't they think about it br br in the end the one may be horribly unoriginal a show that even the airing network couldn't be bothered to promote because they too realize how absolutely worthless it is but it's still not syphilis yay
0	andrew cheats is his fictionalized true story about four high school friends who maneuver to cheat on tests the quartet are supercilious school hating trevor as handsome davis his likewise good looking pal matthew lawrence as victor their chubby school hating chum henson as sammy and crooked martin starr as the adults include high strung north point principal mary tyler moore as mrs stark and pornography loving father griffin dunne as mr davis the high jinks begin with mr and mr lawrence supposedly urinating on a teacher's grade book put this one at the bottom of the pile and be thankful it doesn't go on anyone's permanent record br br cheats 2002 andrew trevor matthew lawrence henson
0	i watched cheats a few years ago with my friend he hyped it up as a great funny film that is one of the best comedies ever i think he was on crack or something i just recently learned that this film was not released into theatres i can understand why perfectly br br the basic plot involves a group of guys who cheat on pretty much all of their assignments in school to get good grades that is the main problem of this film is that the morals are all bad there are other teen comedy films where students do bad things but it is most often stuff that does not take place at school so i think that the concept of having a whole movie that basically has kids cheating on everything is pretty bad br br i did not like the characters in this film either the main character guy is a completely smug arrogant idiot who is not a good protagonist actually i am not sure if you could say that there is a protagonist due to the fact that they all are cheating at school which is wrong the other supporting characters were not funny at all and basically the cast blows in this film br br this film has a bad message and even worse acting and characters there are other teen films that are way better than this film so you do not have to see this one and that is a good thing because i do not recommend this film at all
0	i wouldn't call myself a big fan of the genre inventive silliness so i might not be the best audience for this show although being a critic i do have a sense for what i personally like and dislike this being the later br br lack of humor is a big turnoff when it comes to comedy things can be catchy cool and perky for about 4 minutes and after that you start getting bored unless its the badger animation from a couple of years ago this is the exact opposite with a stiff script and all overacted voice overs its just plain silly and very very boring to be subjected to unfortunately since it did have a big market ahead of itself and a lot of potential br br a waste of time
0	i love oddball animation i love a lot of asian films but i didn't love this particular product of japan the are supposedly an american family they're all mannequins who have moved to japan and they're somewhat a 50's sitcom type family with slightly more modern sensibilities at times the dvd features several very short episodes like less than 5 minutes each and i did not find it to be either funny or entertaining not even in a weird way i'm not sure what the appeal is of this i did pick up on some satire here and there gosh who wouldn't but satire is usually somewhat humorous isn't it and nothing i saw or heard rated even a little smirk i picked this up used and it certainly sounded appealing but i guess either i'm missing the point or it's just plain lame the box even says it's hilarious right there on the front but i beg to differ 2 out of 10
0	the year still has three weeks to go but unless a really horrendous turkey shows up before then passion of the mind may be the winner of my lousiest movie of the year contest an interesting idea badly executed and for that matter badly acted demi moore is very good at curling her lip and smoking cigarettes but is that all she does and why so many cigarettes did and myers or one of the other bad boys of nicotine have some of their illicit profits invested in this production it's confusing silly and moves at the frantic past of a arthritic earthworm i gave it a 3 should have been a 2 br br
0	before i speak my piece i would like to make a few things clear 1 i am a chick who's not into chick flicks kate leopold and someone like you are extreme exceptions hugh jackman's ass 2 i only picked this one up because i am a fichtner fangirl who looked forward to see him in a bathtub 3 i am not a demi fan though i think her performances in immortal and a few good men were sublime and have earned places in my vid library also i think she's a little crazy no way is she not still sleeping w br br if this is a character study of an unfulfilled woman living dual lives of independence and happiness then i'd say we have one narcoleptic melodrama marty literary agent makes 6 figure salary lives in an upscale manhattan penthouse easy for her to read several hundred manuscripts and fall asleep at her desk for some highly suggested nocturnal escapism or perhaps stepping through an portal she has the career the looks a cool car a great pad now where are the man and kids in steps our boy aaron some real escapism what are architects they're artists who can do math dreamers that make real money aaron gives marty the dream of security and fills a void where she obviously has no self confidence br br on the other side of the coin there's marie still living out her schoolgirl fantasies while she muddles through motherhood her children are her career and life but what about marie does she only exist through her children in waltzes william a parisian stranger who helps her focus on the one thing she has lost touch with herself br br a supposed journey of self discovery and late a coming of age thrown in some with angst and some resentment to marty marie's own mother this gets a 3 10 all i could say is thank god for the multimedia division i wouldn't waste my 2 99 at blockbuster on this put it toward a harlequin blaze title
0	i went to see passion of mind because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances i e sliding doors me myself i etc br br but this was the worst one i've ever seen i had to force myself to sit through it i didn't even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me br br the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains though each was kind of sexy and appealing br br there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex maybe the magic shouldn't be explained for this genre to work br br originally written 5 28 2000
0	i had the misfortune to catch this on a flight recently i had the bigger misfortune of having it played on my return flight as well obviously attempt to get some arty cred the movie is a shambles because of her lousy acting ability a better actress might have made this work but a simple look at the face of moore shows the emptiness within at least she's not ruining american literature this time out
0	this movie defines the word confused all the actors stay true to the script more's the pity because the acting is fine but the script is a confused pastiche of pseudo psycho analytic random ideas the pacing is mind numbingly slow and the soft focus lens cinematography gets on the nerves quickly i give it 4 out of 10
0	enough talent and sincerity went into making this film that i wish it turned out better everyone is clearly doing their best to be true to an intriguing premise but it's too deep a vision too involved attempt at disentangling mental delusion to survive a transition to the screen it is an attempt to capture the dimensionality of gossamer patterns on celluloid the result is muddled and slow i give it a 10 for effort but a 5 overall
0	poor second string feature from universal pictures about a mama's boy movie actor doing criminal investigation work for the military fending off the advances of the brash young woman he's been assigned to romance robert montgomery directed and stars in this adaptation of the short story come be my love and his acting performances of this era are unrelievedly lazy the plot is sappy predictable stuff and writer robert carson has given all the really funny lines as usual for films of this period to the feisty black maid it's always nice to see ann blyth and jane cowl in support but they can't do much with this hokey material from
0	just saw the film tonight in a preview and it's a film for kids only it does not improve or add to the original disney film in any way there is a corny scottish pastiche style throughout not helped by weak writing where motives are lumped in by the and acting that is uneven and often unengaging despite what reads like a decent cast i have no problem with the wee dog although there is a certain skippy the bush kangaroo see below quality about his shots br br for those that don't know skippy was an australian kids' tv series from the 1960s where the kangaroo would be an essential part of all the stories it is said that to get poor old skippy to act they stuck an elastic band round his muzzle that he then tried to get off with his paws sort of appearing to be communicating with the human actors bobby has a similar range and you just don't buy his series of heroic rescues at all br br advice would be to take kids aged 8 12 below that they might be scared above that if they or you love it good luck to you but this is strictly cardboard cut out film making for the undemanding it's a missed opportunity since there is real pathos and cuteness in the story of bobby and this film fails to deliver it
0	living in edinburgh and have a great thirst for history i was very put off by the taken wrong breed of dog for a start owner old jock was an old single man who came to edinburgh and died a pauper in lodgings not like in the film at all for anyone coming to edinburgh and hoping to see sights of the film you will not find the graveyard in princes st gardens there were a few moments were a tissues would have been great the actors were fantastic at padding out a rather flimsy script i don't feel the poor wee bobby actually got enough screen time possibly due to being lost at one point all that said the film was fine and any 8 yr old will enjoy
0	greyfriars bobby was not a bobby was a skye terrier a highlight of my childhood day trips to edinburgh was to go to the monument to bobby i grew up with the story of the valiant and loyal little dog as every child in my generation did and i remember lining up with my mum outside the cinema with many many other dundee children and their mums to see the wonderful disney film how could a movie based on such a wonderful story have been made using a for heaven's sake that's like making a movie about the life of robert burns for instance and portraying him as an englishman i say give bobby back his breed
0	but like the disney film of two generations ago this film fails as well in the accuracy department but at least disney used a skye terrier br br is the true story to mundane for movie producers i don't think so there is ample documentation to accurately portray they true story instead of the fictionalized accounts we have had to suffer through br br some day a movie will correctly portray bobby's owner john gray as the edinburgh policeman that he was and correctly portray bobby's license a being paid for by the lord when that happens i'll be at the theaters
0	they have taken a story dear to the people of heart a true story and changed it as hollywood has done before to many a tale the end result is a movie however well done for those how do not know the story yet totally different and inaccurate the original movie of this tale that walt disney himself oversaw used the right breed dog that is crucial for this tale and did not make that john grey was anything special he was a poor shepard who died in poverty at the inn if you like the story watch the disney original for a better heart warming story it's a shame the cast and the potential was there for a terrific remake of a classic tale read the book for an accurate occurrence of the story and if you really like it you can visit the real in edinburgh
0	like another user i got this cheap i thought 85 £8 although not worth that amount of money it is a total classic that i like the other users first saw when i was a kid and was looking forward to seeing again some 20 years after the story is amazingly thin which is why it might have worked for kids but all the radio language and trucker stuff makes up for it it'll look good on my dvd shelf in years to come first viewing 1980 10 10 second viewing 2002 4 10
0	the plot a trucker kristofferson battles a corrupt sheriff borgnine by getting his fellow truckers to band together and form an unstoppable convoy that stretches for miles and soon creates a national media frenzy br br the negative the film's setup is weak and the ending even weaker it has all the good ole boy trucker clichés without adding anything new in the process it ends up making smokey and the bandit look brilliant and inspired kristofferson is much too laid back for a leading man role and cannot carry the picture borgnine's character is portrayed awkwardly at the start he is made to look like a real jerk of a sheriff who overacts to a minor contrivance that starts the whole thing rolling then at the end he is made out to be a little more sympathetic and even secretly siding with kristofferson which doesn't work at all in either case jackie gleason is a much better actor for this type of role the worst part about the movie though is director peckinpah's attempts to throw in a message' into this silly action flick that does nothing but slow it down and bomb in the process br br the positive the only good scene in the whole film is the fight sequence inside the truck stop restaurant director peckinpah puts a funny spin to his trademark 'slow violence and the result is amusing unfortunately he starts putting all the action into slow motion during the rest of the picture until it eventually becomes tiring mcgraw is always a pleasure to look at but unfortunately she is given very little to say or do br br the lowdown if you've read the synopsis than you have essentially the movie the song that this movie is based on is pretty good but the movie adds nothing to it and should never have been made this is all very uninspired stuff for such a maverick director br br the rating 3 out of 10
0	this film goes into my worst films ever made file i have a copy of this film which i watch when i want a good laugh and this isn't even a comedy i am disappointed that such great actors agreed to be in such a piece of garbage this film is inaccurate in its portrayal of hockey offensive to canadians and i wasn't even all that impressed with the acting even the story was a bit weak if you have never seen this film you're lucky if you have i'm sorry
0	the game of hockey i play and watch has something called speed which the actual hockey scenes in this limp movie never even come close to capturing add to that a storyline that is cliché predictable and stupider than stupid with some of the lamest '80s music numbing your senses in every scene and you have youngblood oh keanu as a french canadian yeah whatever gimme and the anytime one out of ten
0	another awful movie about hockey i if never watched hockey and saw hollywoods version i would hate the game this movie doesn't make canada look that great either i can laugh at it and not take it too seriously all the same this movie is awful with every thing you can put in a 80's movie in the end don't even watch it on tv 4 10
0	after the turning point of night must fall robert montgomery for the most time came into his finest films and performances here comes mr jordan they were expendable the lady in the lake ride the pink horse the saxon charm june bride even some of the failures he was in were interesting enough to be still watchable rage in heaven mr and mrs smith but montgomery wanted to do more and more production and directing work in 1949 he made what would be his last movie performance he played collier lang an egotistical movie star who is dragged into helping the authorities do an investigation about a young girl's boyfriend br br apparently my view of this film is a minority view most of the views given are favorable about it i thought it was a dull witless script with ann groupie heroine not very appealing as a character she admires montgomery as a star and this helps when he is called in to assist the authorities but after awhile i found there was no chemistry between them the script was also devoid of much fun although montgomery and roland winters did try the only thing i recall to this day as a joke point was that taylor holmes is the wealthy father of blyth and he is an admirer of winston churchill so he always dresses up as churchill and we see him wearing a floppy broad hat smoking a large cigar and painting holmes' bald head helps in the disguise that was the most memorable joke from this film not much of a real memory br br montgomery went into early television and finally won the attention and respect he always had deserved in motion pictures his last contact with the movies was his direction of the gallant hours about admiral william bull halsey starring his friend jimmy cagney it is a far better film than this for his overall film and television career i will give this mediocre film a 4 that strikes me as generous
0	give me a break how can anyone say that this is a good hockey movie i know that movies tend to do a pretty p poor job of portraying hockey to the general public and yes this was made back when the u s hadn't embraced our sport to the extent is has today but really i have played hockey all my life and have watched even more and this my friends is sheer lunacy the scenes on the ice were stupefyingly bizzare the particular instance to which i am referring is the sword fight er i mean the stick fight at the end of the film during which everyone is just standing around and watching not with fascination that this is actually happening but in wonder as to who will win the duel between youngblood and his nemesis yes the story off the ice is a little better i do stress little br br i don't know maybe there is no point in going on i mean let's face it the film is right hockey is just one big battle on ice oh yeah with a little piece of rubber bouncing around occasionally into what is loosely termed a goal youngblood is either appalling or hysterical i can't figure out which maybe someone else will have more luck
0	i should know better i've seen too many of rob lowe's early work to expect anything good from this movie even if it is about hockey br br here we have yet again another tired sports theme kid has potential for greatness has the apparent to go far if his cocky attitude doesn't screw things up and boom he comes out of it as that helluva player kind of champion is that all that can be said of sports movies surely there must be other feats that athletes undertake br br nonetheless this movie has got to be one of the biggest everybody's interactions are just downright silly and not in a stupid funny kind of manner and i can't think of any ancillary qualities that could enliven my position not the actors certainly not swayze who plays lowe's reluctant mentor not the story not the music and very little from the skating sequences br br normally i'm a sucker for 80s movies even if they do tend to be a little fishy i e north shore the karate kid but this doesn't even make for good 80s trash for a good 80s sports movie check elsewhere there's plenty of them out there
0	this movie is terrible a true hockey fan would have to assume that the people that appeared in and produced this movie never played or watched a real hockey game i got this hoping that it would be a guy movie but the only people that would probably enjoy this movie are females between the ages of 13 17 the hockey scenes are terrible playing like they're 5 years old diving at shots that are 10 feet wide of the net etc it's so difficult to predict the end of this movie though for those who have seen it who would have guessed for those that haven't seen it don't waste your time br br i figured it out less than halfway through the movie to call this movie a drama is ridiculous
0	speck was apparently intended to be a biopic related to serial killer richard speck there is however not much killing to be found in this movie and none of it is explicitly shown the most disturbing scene in the entire movie is perhaps when speck stomps one of the eight unfortunate nurses to death in her own bathtub yet even this is merely implied and not shown save for a few unconvincing downward thrusts of mr leg the most entertaining part of this movie is most likely the voice over which should be a testament to the mind numbingly boring nature of this movie every aspect of this movie is horrible unless you have a fondness for boredom don't bother this movie only clocks in at 72 minutes but it feels like an eternity
0	where to start with the true story of richard speck a killer of eight nurses in the 1960s director keith has worked on a few of the extremely low budget full moon releasing movies such as birth rite and here works from a script by at the time full moon regular don adams whilst the film seems like a accurate portrayal of the horrendous crime the script isn't great perhaps because the real ramblings were not terribly interesting despite the care that has been taken to make this authentic it wreaks of a cheap cash in of the acclaimed cinematic serial killer movies of the same period such as 'ed filmed in a dirty brown not quite sepia for the most part and narrated by star doug cole the film fails to present the horror of the crime because the narration is irritating the colouring distracting from the story and the crime though gruesome and upsetting to watch is merely that and no editorial work seems to have occurred on what is pretty much a very poor quality camcorder viewing on the events there is no examination of the motivation or of life really just a cheap shot at a gruesome crime released by full moon there is little evidence of full moon's better output here charles band ignoring his own rule that his films feature fantasy killings e g dolls monsters and so on and not quite knowing what to do with this new reality incidentally band introduced a special label for these films called entertainment' band has said that he regrets the period of full moon output alongside tempe entertainment whose creator j r and regular danny also speak very badly of charles band the tempe era features uniform apple mac editing and brutal hand held camera filming very much like a home movie speck retains these qualities and whereas 3 for example managed to use these well speck is merely boring and gross
0	i watched the unrated version of this movie and as a person who has studied the life and crimes of speck closely i must say this movie is a flawed but ambitious take on the real story while capturing the true horror of speck and the murders this film makes the following factual errors 1 speck did not inject drugs at the crime scene as depicted in the movie in fact he was mainly an alcoholic and pill who rarely took drugs via syringe 2 the asian nurse who survived massacre did not squirm her way down stairs and under the couch in the living room as depicted in the movie this would have been impossible in real life she hid under a bed while speck methodically eliminated his 8 victims 3 the movie depicts speck as being violent and brutal with the women as soon as he meets them not true in reality speck was at first calm and gentle reassuring the women he wasn't going to hurt them this is how he was able to tie each of them up 4 the real richard speck was not the deep thinker the movie depicts him to be fbi profiler robert interviewed speck in the 80's and said that speck not only did'nt know why he committed the murders but that he wasn't interested in learning why nor could he shed any light on why speck was known to be of below average intelligence and not the philosopher king who narrates this movie if the story wasn't so tragic and horrifying the voice over would be laughable all in all doug cole's performance is adequately menacing and cold blooded even though i don't think the real speck was so forward in his violence no doubt he was a very violent person when under the influence but he was also known after all for being a fairly slick con man who was able to put people at ease before victimizing them beverly ann performance as the surviving nurse is the finest in the film she is a very good actress if you are at all squeamish do not see this film it's very graphic and disturbing
0	rented this from my local blockbuster under the title speck that may be the way to look for it if you still feel the need to see it after this review br br it's a movie about the serial killer richard speck who killed several nurses in chicago in the sixties watching the movie one gets the feeling that it follows the crimes to the letter unfortunately that doesn't make for a good movie br br another problem i had was the near constant music letting us know that this was a scary movie and some god awful narration letting us know what's motivating speck the acting was average for this type of film to give credit where credit is due the movie is very beautifully photographed for my taste your mileage may vary br br over all if you're interested in the subject matter it may be worth your time
0	after matt dillon's phenomenal performance in crash most will probably rush to pick up a copy of factotum to see if dillon is for real or simply got a lucky rebound from a great script br br well factotum certainly has its moments but the plainness of everything will most likely turn viewers off however nothing should be taken away from dillon his performance is wonderful and full of excellent deadpan humor proving he's a solid actor with significant chops it's just a shame about the directing and script br br the story is about henry hank dillon and his refusal to conform to anything resembling normalcy he quits or gets fired from jobs in mere minutes only to find himself back in a dreary pub meeting even women while trying to write a novel we never really know what the novel is about except that it involves everything cancer movies you me br br skipping from workplace to workplace and constantly returning to jan lili taylor the haunting a loser girlfriend who's just as dispiriting as himself hank tries vainly to discover what his life is supposed to hold for him whether he ever learns what that is is up for interpretation some may say that he never does while others might argue that his life is simply a path to obscurity br br regardless there's not much substance to factotum even with matt dillon's fine performance the story meanders through hank's life without much thought given as to where to take the audience and that's a shame dillon's performance would've shone even brighter if given a decent script
0	some twenty or so years ago charles bukowski was a hero of mine i blindly accepted the image that was created by intellectual types and seen in various films of course i never got to meet the intellectual types that prescribed bukowski as a hero they usually could be found safely behind the counter at hipster video stores and record shops these people hardly talked and when asked a question usually sneered and nodded in some vague direction they were useless when it came to locating a specific title but their shelves were always stocked with strange and unique titles to be inducted in the secret hipster club i believed i had to shed my bourgeois up bringing and espouse the counter culture br br my introduction to bukowski started with the movie barfly the late 80's film that starred mickey rourke and faye i was a fan of rourke at the time he also embodied a sort of modern male fantastical anti hero a brooding intellectual type at the time this appealed to me hero scoffed at convention a mid 30's tramp who lives life with no ties answers to no one oh and to be recognized as a genius by a hot female literary snob icing on the cake afterwards i read post office and hollywood the later being bukowski's take on his experience with the film now allow me to fast forward to the latest film based on bukowski's book factotum one which i read and enjoyed bukowski takes the form of in this novel i often wonder where bukowski ended and began 20 years after barfly the fictional movie bukowski is still the same i have watched about an hour of the movie and i have yet to see signs of the facade cracking here is why factotum bukowski was my hero is handsome played by matt dillon he has clean neat hair styled but not over the top when dillon smokes and writes he looks cool goes from job to job ignoring and or fighting with various bosses he screws two floozies one of whom he lives with walks out on only to return to with little repercussion is his own man and we never see him emote he's a sterile one dimensional 30 something james dean archetype factotum lies to the viewer it does so by haranguing the idea of a man a writer without consequence a poor man who's suffering for his art what could be cooler than that now let's say there are some truths to factotum in that the events took place what the audience is missing is the pain that existence maybe the point of this movie and most movies is that for 80 mins we need to escape the world that's filled with consequence and pain and take up vicariously with an anti social womanizer that smokes talks drinks with detached coolness one who rejects conventional behavior of job and family my hero used to be movie bukowski long ago that would have worked it was easier then now i have yet to claim a hero things are not as easy hipster logic and movie renditions of counter culture icons offer no solutions or even ask questions
0	a boring movie about a miserable loser that's factotum in a nutshell matt dillon plays henry alter ego of author charles bukowski upon whose novel the film is based as we meet he may be a writer but he's certainly not a successful one he floats through life getting fired from one menial job after another and not caring a bit the fact that he's always drunk may have something to do with his not caring he meets a woman jan played by lili taylor and a relationship ensues moves into jan's apartment and now instead of getting drunk by himself he can get drunk with somebody else good times eventually he's had enough of this relationship so strikes out on his own unfortunately he still can't hold down a job so soon enough he's broke at this point marisa tomei shows up and for some reason her character laura decides to rescue this miserable drunken loser whom she doesn't even know we soon meet some of laura's acquaintances and the film veers off into a sort of bizarro world with this rather eclectic bunch soon enough tomei and friends are out of the picture and once again we're left with and his drinking and his miserable little life there's some more time spent with jan but mostly there's just time spent being a drunk loser and then the movie's over and not a moment too soon 94 minutes of absolute monotony and it seems infinitely longer as the movie drags on nothing happens nothing ever happens if you want to spend an hour and a half of your life watching matt dillon drink then this is the movie for you if you're looking for a compelling story well developed characters or any entertainment value whatsoever then you've come to the wrong place dillon's performance actually isn't bad at all too bad the movie which surrounds him is in fact rather bad
0	less than two hundred and fifty years ago the last of the great pirates wrote their names in blood and fire across the pages of maritime history this is the story of a buccaneer captain whose name for one short year struck terror in the hearts of and merchants from the ports of the caribbean to the trading houses of london br br hmm that opening to the film sounds like we are in for one hell of a swashbuckling pillaging ripper of a movie doesn't it well it's not tho it's not totally without value as a curio piece out of 20th century fox anne of the indies is adapted by philip dunne arthur caesar from a short story written by herbert sass direction is by jacques tourneur the score is by franz waxman and harry jackson is providing the technicolor photography jean peters is in the titular title role of anne aka captain providence and support comes from louis debra paget herbert marshall thomas gomez james robertson justice br br originally meant to be be based on true life pirate anne bonny the film ultimately turns out to be a tale of a woman seeking identity and finding herself in the predominantly male led world of piracy and sea based shenanigans filled with clichés and over familiar set pieces the film also suffers from a cast that is largely misfiring peters gives it a right good go and paget lights up the screen with effervescent beauty while robertson justice although underused actually looks the part and doesn't overact like the rest of the male cast does some reviewers have desperately tried to dig deep into the film to find intelligence and hidden meanings purely because it's tourneur in the directing chair but there is no depth here this is merely a job for tourneur a professional one granted but its thinly plotted and actually lacking swash to go with the buckle in the action stakes br br disposable at best 4 10
0	this was a decent movie for the first half too many cheap boo moments but the tension builds the bad guys are creepy and everything seems to be setting itself up nicely the kids are not particularly deep but hey that works for teens br br then it just gets ridiculous and tries way too hard the why in the world would he they do that moments overwhelm anyone's capacity for suspension of disbelief the twist involves too many ridiculous coincidences and the title comes from a late attempt to philosophize some meaning into the film that goes nowhere and is quickly dropped there was laughter in the theater at moments that were in no way supposed to be funny br br great premise but just badly written and doesn't hold together some very nice shots but they're hard to enjoy while you're rolling your eyes
0	doesn't mean this movie is good i was really frustrated by it on many levels it's kind of the tip of the hat to bukowski hey i've read that guy in college let's see what matt dillon does with him and i like matt dillon i thought he came close to looking a little like hank but mostly just the cheeks i have to care about a character though and there just wasn't much here to care about i think time might be cruel to bukowski and that bothers me a lot because the writing was solid in a sort of post counter culture time hard to sit through scenes that went nowhere and a soundtrack that made me want to vomit i ask for very little got less
0	this movie has some good lines but watching dillon's less than masterful rourke impersonation just left me wanting to see the original i like marisa tomei but she's no faye dunaway br br also in my opinion the number one movie rule is to make the lead character someone you care about you might not love the character but you should care what happens to him this is achieved in barfly with the hilarious running gag about the fights with eddie the bartender the main fight in factotum is when completely unprovoked he stalks up to the lily taylor character in a bar punches her to the floor and calls her a whore br br the whole thing just didn't work again some great lines some laugh out loud funny but as a movie overall it's a fail mediocre attempt at reinventing something that was brilliant and you can't get past that next let's remake breakfast at tiffany's with kate hudson
0	clearly this film was made for a newer generation that may or may not have had an inkling of charles bukowski's work the autobiographical henry character in bukowski's stories was brilliantly portrayed to perfection by mickey rourke in 1987's also starring faye dunaway anyone who has seen should certainly see to get a better look at how bukowski wrote his character lacks the greasy seediness of bukowski's screenplay and the fearless hopelessness of his loner hero the inadvertent humor that bubbles through in the dark desperation of misadventures doesn't work for dillon as it did so admirably for the overweight filthy blood soaked rourke rourke's character makes the pain and pleasure of the previous night's a place setting for yet another grueling ugly day in the life of a drunken misanthropic unknown writer dillon's character misses these marks in favor of a strutting handsome relatively clean looking wanna be writer that scarcely passes for any moment in that of story dunaway's sleazy heroine wanda is the perfect complement to the ne'er do well henry the women in can't hold a candle to dunaway's and the use of more profane sexual subject matter in proves to be more of a crude distraction than a tip of the hat to bukowski's raw and unapologetic portrayals of dysfunctional relationships i was stunned at how many of the exact same scenes were used in marisa tomei buying all the stuff and charging it to the old man is an exact rip off from br br if you want to see the best bukowski stories on film see and 'love is a dog from hell' which also goes by the title love'
0	i have waited a long time to see this movie ifc finally ran it one night i thought it would be something like barfly from barbet schroeder wrong this film doesn't recreate that underworld of chintzy dirty smoke filled character filled bars you associate with his stories it also fails to capture that bukowski attitude that mickey rourke did so well in the above mentioned film that natural smart ass attitude fans of charles bukowski will enjoy seeing scenes from his books on screen but those unfamiliar with his books could get the wrong impression about his works this film looks like just another 'movie of the week about a drunk and his relationships if you want to get a better idea about charles bukowski's world watch barfly
0	in los angeles the alcoholic and lazy hank matt dillon performs a wide range of non qualified functions just to get enough money to drink and gamble in horse races his primary and only objective is writing and having sexy with dirty women br br factotum is an uninteresting pointless and extremely boring movie about an irresponsible drunken vagrant that works a couple of days or weeks just to get enough money to buy spirits and gamble being immediately fired due to his reckless behavior in accordance with imdb this character would be the fictional alter ego of the author charles bukowski and based on this story i will certainly never read any of his novels honestly if the viewer likes this theme of alcoholic couples better off watching the touching and heartbreaking hector or marco di that is based on the life of the same writer my vote is four br br title brazil factotum – destino factotum – without destiny
0	perry mason the case of the glass coffin finds raymond burr defending david copperfield rick blaine like magician peter from a murder charge involving one of his assistants a trick involving a suspended glass coffin in midair goes awry and the body of nancy comes a tumbling out br br nancy was one of six female assistants who work with the act and we learn two things about her first in a moment of drunken weakness got seduced by her and she claims she was impregnated secondly she is living under an assumed name and had a secret from her past br br billy moses who probably never thought he'd be doing such rough stuff back in law school gets to tangle with a couple of good old boys when goes seeking the truth in home town a little more action than usual for ken he almost gets himself killed br br one big flaw in this mystery is simple forensics the medical report should have provided concrete evidence that the victim was killed in such a way that could not possibly have done the deed the police should have been looking in a different direction for the killer br br when you see who the killer is you won't blame the individual but you'll also see how the investigating officer james got it wrong from the start it kind of spoils this particular mason film
0	the idea behind this movie was great the story of a little girl facing abuse both emotional and physical and trying to deal with it and survive what makes the movie fall apart is the terrible use of voice overs and the corny dialog the actors have to point out the most obvious things over and over again also there is very tedious almost funny overuse of metaphors in the voice overs the high point is the acting of the little girl nice try but this one's a stinker
0	an excellent cast who do their best with an awful script inept direction and some of the worst score that i have ever heard more tv movie of the week than serious drama which is sad when one considers that the source material is very serious and very real the film makers decided that instead of building drama and character it was better to just show the most graphic and violent bits and hope that the audience would be shocked into sympathy and caring in my opinion one the most blatant forms of cut and paste film adapting
0	i would have given this movie a 1 but i laughed so hard so many times that i had to give it a little credit in the off off off off chance the film was supposed to be funny a movie so bad you'll think chimps wrote it you'll wish chimps had written it dialogue so canned that only it and the cockroaches will survive the coming nuclear holocaust the movie exaggerates its awfulness by intersplicing scenes from the original carrie a really good film into scenes from this one like intersplicing scenes from taxi driver into baby geniuses do not rent it alone as you will not enjoy the experience you will need someone next to you to confirm the badness of what you are viewing worst actress of the millenium goes to poor poor amy irving as the stone faced monotone disastrously wooden school counselor worst movie of the year so far see also arlington road 3
0	be warned by the line on the back of the box that promotes a story involving over sexed jocks there isn't a thing redeeming about carrie 2 the plot is absurd the acting terrible and the ending all too predictable br br i wasn't expecting a masterpiece but i was expecting to be entertained i wasn't the only way i could rationalize watching this movie was because i was at a relative's house while waiting for my car to be fixed unless in the same predicament stay well away from this film
0	alien was excellent many writers tried to copy it they all did a bad job or almost but dead space is the worst alien copy because of the bad actors the bad special effects the bad scenario and other bad stuff it would take about 3 pages to tell everything that is bad in this film the movie wasn't very long and this is a very good thing the only one you cannot laugh because it is too serious that is a bad thing because in almost each b series sci fi film you can laugh during the whole time it can be terrific sometimes but instead of watching this stupidity just watch alien or event horizon these are much better i give it 1 out of 5
0	the most enjoyable parts of this film were the clips from the original movie the acting was poor and the premise of sexual was revolting the effects were marginal at best there were no stand out performances amy irving was put in this film to try and get a part of the halloween h20 audience the original was much more enjoyable and gratifying i am sorry to say that this is not going to be one of the years 10 best so far it is at the bottom of my list don't bother with this one folks
0	br br i thought that this movie lacked the building dramatic suspense the first movie had this is hard to accomplish when the film takes place over a week the original movie lead up to the final climatic scene over a period of a year and it still was less violent than the sequel one good thing about this film was the movie went by relatively quickly because the plot seemed rushed when rachel's best friend died there was no funeral mentioned in the movie another bring down was the involvement of amy irving all her scenes brought down the movies pace the dialog in this movie was terrible it in no way reflected the way kids talk in conclusion this movie could have been a hit but fell apart after the opening scene
0	if this awful film moved at a snails pace it would at least be moving watching grass grow would be more interesting it was painful to sit through and i only stayed in the theatre to see how all the cruel teens would die where is brian depalma
0	following up the 1970s classic horror film carrie with this offering is like ford following the mustang with the this film was horrendous in every detail it would have been titled beverly hill 90210 meets mystery science theater 3000 but both of those shows far exceed this tripe this film was scarcely a horror film i timed about 3 minutes of gore and 90 minutes of lame high school hazing and ritual wow what a surprise carrie's weird friend commits suicide wow carrie misconstrues her love interests affections wow the in crowd sets up carrie wow the jocks have a sexual scoring contest what this film needed was way more action and far less tired teen cliches this film is totally
0	ok i did think that it would be horrible but when i saw it i was proven wrong emily did a superb job as did jason london sue was under used and under written the meanies were ok dylan bruno and rachel blanchard are definitely the stand outs as for the things the teens do and how people claim it's all wrong whatever my friends and i use the term swank a lot and i have driven a car and had someone steer as i changed it's pretty much all there i've just never been at a after game party in a house that big with it's very own light show the deaths are good the best involves a pair of glasses a spear gun and a pool all in that order i must say there will be people who hate it but i'm not one of them
0	the ending made my heart jump up into my throat i proceeded to leave the movie theater a little jittery after all it was nearly midnight the movie was better than i expected i don't know why it didn't last very long in the theaters or make as much money as anticipated definitely would recommend br br
0	i'd never walked out of a movie before this one i'd entertained the idea a couple of times but this time i did it snuck in to see the end of another movie but had to come back and see the end of the rage while i waited for my friends they told me i didn't miss much while i was gone either i was generally offended by the entire movie in such a grand way that i can't even describe it my gut instinct told me to get myself out of the theatre it was a visceral reaction to a horrible movie the plot centered around the cruel actions of some reprehensible teenagers against vulnerable and troubled others there was no ray of light no or likeable person to provide contrast i found that even the good guys of the movie did nothing for me were silly stupid whiney or just plain ineffectual br br the repetitious graphic suicide imagery was way overdone unnecessary and disgusting not in a i'm easily grossed out way but more in the portrayal of disregard for humanity way and besides the repetition of that scene in slow motion from so many angles the other visual aspects interesting camera work etc had potential but just became annoying sometimes i am a person who loves movies and tries to find good things about them usually i can find some good things to counterbalance the not so good of any movie i'm not saying that this movie had nothing good but i am saying that whatever that may have been i can't remember it with all the other crap that drove me mad i'm really sorry about that too maybe the best parts were the clips from the classic original
0	one of the scariest movies i have ever seen was carrie the first one now as with other movies they have totally ruined the carrie franchise with the rage carrie 2 from the the movie plods along like in a beat up van there are hardly any scares and this movie is chock full of all the various high school sterotypes i e the football jock the bitchy cheer leader the followers and of course the black wearing misfits another sad thing about this show is that you know what's going to happen the moment you see the opening credits sure sure girl gets and then turns into crazed psychic murderer yawn br br been there done that br br even the actors look like they were forced into doing this movie emily is as frightening as a cabbage patch doll while jack london let's just say i didn't pay to see wood act apart from the actors the serve more to irritate than to link up with the first movie br br bottom line if you can beam objects around like carrie then for the love of god beam yourself out of that theatre
0	could be considered some mild spoilers but no more than in anyone else's review of this film br br i knew that nothing could conceivably live up to the absolute brilliance of the original carrie which was more of a film about social criticism than it was about setting the gym on fire carrie white was victim epitomized and her story conveyed the helplessness that the truly exploited must feel br br whoever conceived the rachel character for the rage must have completely missed the subtleties of carrie for the audience to genuinely share the victim's rage s he must be a sympathetic character a true outcast who is more a victim of circumstance than of his her own vices rachel is entirely too unpleasant to convey any sort of the emotional depth and connection of sissy carrie and she looks and acts like she should be right along side the and popular that she ends up torching she like the rest of them has a soul that is every bit as corrupt whereas carrie was a complete innocent br br it just doesn't work there's no satisfaction in seeing the pretty children not even the home improvement boy getting offed in this movie's climactic scene and it's so unnecessarily gory there was no actual bloodshed seen in the burning gym br br and there is one person in particular that this movie should not have had the audacity to kill off but i won't say who it is if you've seen the original carrie it's the sort of character who dies unjustly br br at least they did create the connection to carrie appropriately it's explained as it should have been but that and the arm tattoo which was done rather nicely is just about the only thing this movie has going for it br br yet another hideous scream knock off and it taints the reputation of one of the most compelling films ever made br br rating 1 out of 10 i wasn't expecting much but i was still horribly disappointed an unsympathetic character a series of irritating pop culture references thrown in for no good reason and an ending scene that pales in comparison to carrie 's gravestone shocker
0	this is not great cinema the film is cliche ridden and in many places it is a copy of the original carrie the parallels with the original film are striking but with an added improbability about the powers being congenital br br i can't say that i disliked the film because it at least passed a couple of hours but these were passed as one would read an undemanding book on a long train journey that book would not be great literature but would absorb one for a while and be forgotten soon afterwards in that it would blend in with the numerous other cliche ridden books likewise the film was okay whilst it lasted but is perhaps forgettable at least i think it is i cant remember much about it now
0	i am the kind of person who can enjoy a good b movie if it has some kind of redeeming value to it but dead space has nothing to redeem it this is the kind of film that will make you frustrated restless and sick to your stomach br br bad acting lame story terrible effects horrible excruciating dialogue dead space has it all
0	i have an affection for these twists on british social norms and it is rare that one loses me but our betters did lose me a bit it's a tale of social climbers and their joy at breaking the rules but personally i found it a little dull br br i liked the duchess though she whines a little too much and constance bennett amiably fills the role of lady a role that bette davis could have played backwards br br but the movie comes the life in the third act when ernest joins the party he is so lively and fun and in truth probably wears more makeup then lady he gets the last line of the film and it's a gas
0	i want to believe all new horror films coming out of japan these days are edgy and make for enjoyable watching br br spider forest is neither br br it is seldom that i finish watching something and end up off for the waste of time but spider forest was an exception in this regard i was very off the makers of the film succeeded on one level throughout the film i could not stop because i wanted to see the answer to the mystery spun by the storyline i could not stop watching that's why i was so angry when the film finished they dragged me all the way through 2 hours of tedium for this warning spider forest is another one of those japanese ghost stories though you don't realize that going in br br i never want to see a japanese ghost story again they're phony and contrived it's a ghost story has become like a big rug under which to sweep any and all plot holes you have in your story telling
0	this is the one movie that represents all that is bad in the movie business the actors are pathetic and the script is awful the special effects if there are any are so badly done that it would have been better to do it with cartoons instead besides that it's great i think the creators of the movie meant it to have humor but the only time i was laughing was when i saw patrick s with long hair and the colorful costumes that every one had the scenes at the end were good but they were not a part of the movie in the end you will ask yourself why did i waste my time and money with that crap when i could have watched the plants growing or the clouds moving i don't think that i am some critic or anything but this is a truly lame movie do not watch danger of stupidity overload
0	wow that james purefoy looks exactly like thomas jane br br that's the most profound thought i took with me after having seen the rather underwhelming george and the dragon for a fantasy comedy the story was very dull and the effects unspectacular br br the problem wasn't the acting james purefoy makes a good knight and his various side kicks are not bad characters i even thought patrick swayze in this role was a pretty good idea too flat chested piper perabo also had some nice potential i even liked the kid br br but the story and everything that happens and the way it happens was just eh not interesting compared to another recent fantasy comedy ella enchanted which was actually funny this movie comes up terribly short i'm sorry for the decent actors who were in this yawn inducing br br 4 out of 10
0	this movie started with some promise big name cast good looking sets but then it fell apart br br most of the time it can't tell whether it's a serious movie or a comedy one minute they're talking about how there's no joy in killing and the next there is a fight scene set to funny music and funny banter br br some of the acting is pretty bad mainly from patrick swayze and piper perabo she also gets some groaner lines like when i marry it will be about love ugh br br but the worst thing about this movie is that it's just boring not enough action not enough humor not enough plot not much of anything really just a lot of clichés and cheesy moments br br also a movie with dragon in the title should contain a lot more dragons than the few and pathetic cgi dragons that appeared in this movie br br can't the scifi channel show any good movies
0	this movie starts out great and sucks you in most acting is good until patrick swayze with his texas twang everyone else sounds british like even the muslim shows up and proves that he can't act you can live with that until the first fight scene where all they all fall to pieces why does patrick swayze fight baddies with an ax when he just stuck his sword into the ground 5 minutes ago br br there's further of swords a few minutes later and people knowing about other people they shouldn't know about other reviewers mentioned troubled production and it shows br br at the end i just didn't even care about the fight scenes sure the cgi dragon was weak but the storyline was the biggest letdown
0	i saw this on the sci fi channel so i knew it would be bad to start with but i was surprised at how much worse it was than expected the cg effects on the dragon were terrible even for the sci fi channel and the writing was pathetic i couldn't tell if this was supposed to be that stupid as a joke or if it just came out that way the only redeeming quality of this movie is that it's so terrible it's almost funny especially the part where patrick swayze's knight character goes home to his knight father who has retired after losing his legs and is now bed ridden in his armor for the sole purpose of letting the audience know he was a knight the majority of the movie focuses around an enormous dragon egg that hatches into a not so enormous baby dragon with some of the worst cgi i've ever seen this was just awful
0	their purple moment br br aspect ratio 1 33 1 br br sound format silent br br black and white short film br br two luckless nightclub laurel and hardy are unable to pay their bill provoking violent retribution from a hot tempered waiter tiny sandford br br typical l h scenario less substantial than some of their best work from this period but worth a look nonetheless stan takes center stage this time round caught up in a financial dilemma after holding back part of his wages to fund a night on the town only to find out too late that his aggrieved wife fay has replaced his stash with worthless coupons some of the prolonged closeups of laurel as he slowly becomes aware of the unfolding disaster reveal his genius for characterization and mime 1920's morality is represented by patsy o'byrne playing a hatchet faced busy body who takes great joy in alerting l h's respective spouses and lyle to their husbands' bad behavior the ending fizzles but the movie still has much to recommend it directed by james
0	i had a very hard time sitting through this film unless you really are very pro adultery and like to hear people endlessly talking about their sexual exploits i can't see how you could enjoy this film geez most of the main characters behaved like rutting weasels and their bragging about their many infidelities grew tiresome about the only element of this i appreciated was the disgusting scene where the one character was urinating and blood was splattering everywhere because he'd picked up an std big surprise hmm br br if you want a good film watch the sequel barbarian invasions despite the general unlikable nature of many of the characters the sequel is very involving and more realistic well worth your time
0	sex is a most noteworthy aspect of existence it is perhaps the most interesting activity there is between birth and death le de americain studies human sexuality in a dry and boring manner actually worse than being simply boring seeing nude 40 year olds is well unpleasant br br i guess there is some shock value in having adults as old as our parents talk about sex but after twenty minutes this stops being interesting perhaps if the characters were all 20 years younger the film would be more visually captivating br br le de americain is not worth the time
0	the filmmakers apparently had enough money to be able to afford decent makeup effects but not enough for a creature that would move around and attack convincingly we never get a chance to see the monster move from one place to another whenever that happens supposedly the camera focuses on the terrified reactions of the humans that are nearby and when a man is attacked by it he simply seems to be holding an inanimate object against himself so that it won't fall to the ground this is still not the worst alien rip off around the two xtro films are even worse for example it's actually sufficiently entertaining if you've got 68 minutes to spare 1 2
0	a movie that tries hard to say something and generally fails like the fatuous academics that populate the movie it meanders aimlessly substituting endless it seems like forever listening to it conversation for some action or plot direction br br sadly it's one of the best examples of canadian cinema i've seen
0	a lot of people in the cinema enjoyed this film but it only made me feel misanthropic if smug intellectuals bantering about their irritating sex lives sounds ok to you watch it i felt bored but glad i did know people like that the premise of the film was that as with all societies or great civilizations they are eventually doomed to fail according to the female historian character who bores us with this fact america is showing signs of it's decline admittedly she goes into greater detail than me the next part of the film is concerned with the vacuous fatuous and asinine behaviour of her friends and colleagues and the various miseries caused by their libidinous behaviour with a vague attempt at humor a lot of people liked this movie where i watched it i could not relate to it
0	history and experience over the past couple of decades has shown us that intellectuals talking about sex is about the and thing anyone can do but this wasn't quite as obvious back in 1986 basically the idea in this film is that these characters insatiable drive to find comfort security and pleasure in sexual acts is actually the unhealthy motive that makes them so unbearable to themselves which they hide from themselves with more sex this drive is linked to the decline of the american empire as expressed in an early interview within the movie br br so the idea is that relatively detestable people talk about sex and that that talk is supposed to reveal how detestable they are as people arcand at least keeps giving it drive and momentum by doing interesting things with the camera such as isolating most of the characters in single frames revealing their ultimate loneliness and cutting rapidly between them showing how they are more at war with each other than they are at agreement and to give arcand credit this is pretty much what intellectual life is a constant struggle with other intellectuals to stand out even when everyone knows that standing out means standing alone br br but yeah the characters and action are unsexy and kind of pathetic i think this film is much more an aspect of its time than it is something meant to last which makes it kind of dated it's also the exact type of mental buffing in dialog and references to people like susan that makes art house films so unpopular around the populist entertainment moviegoers in all i'll take it anyway it has its place basically among the exact type of people the characters are it's just that it's not really interesting or important to anyone who isn't those characters br br polarisdib
0	i'm rating 'the decline of the american empire' just about below average since it wasn't terrible but also not great i liked the very open conversations from people so incredibly selfish and ugly inside and out that was probably the most original aspect – a dialogue laced sexual small film with people who are extremely far from models that aside it seems ironic that these french speaking canadians have a movie about a neighboring society that well is in when their own actions are their own demise a group of women friends and male friends spend half the movie laughing it up on their infidelities and acceptance of such behavior and the other half intellectually speaking of how powerful they are for their speech and actions these are the normal targets in typical sitcoms the main characters make fun of at parties occupied mainly by college professors sadly it's not their intelligence or mastery of history that disturbs me it's their pedestal made of ego and than thou attitude that pushes me away and not one character could i relate to nor like when one cries i couldn't care less – it's your bed when one complains i barely what made me skirmish was one character uh peeing red another example of playing with fire sure i understand it happens to some people but it was hard to watch and i sincerely hoped the he washed his hands as he had no problem going right back to cooking for everyone on the complete opposite end of the noses up educators they introduce a stereotypical nomad this made me cringe as no one seemed real everyone was as shallow as their laughter on society unfortunately with no one left to root for you're left as empty as these character's souls
0	i saw this movie and was bored out of my mind i am a fan of peanuts but i can't understand why charles schultz let this disaster be made spoilers ahead br br i can't believe snoopy would let his friends sleep on the ground outside in a dangerous situation and go out to a bar and swig a few cold ones without standing watch the story was complete nonsense even for comic strip characters it takes them toooo long to get to france plus once they get to france i had a feeling that the writer i still can't believe it was schultz didn't know what to do once they got there br br peanuts is best made in 30 minute episodes not 80 minute movies br br go home charlie brown you are at your best there br br
0	not bad performances whoopi plays the wise warm role quite well still the storyline and situations can not be believed forced pc stereotypes at times it is good jews and blacks vs the evil white christians ho hum a typical hollywood fantasy the film does have its moments but it is not one that i would recommend to go out of your way to view
0	here's example number 87 of hollywood's anti biblical bias so typical of them br br early on ray liotta's wife has did and women are being interviewed for the position of housekeeper the first interviewee is an old fashioned looking dress mannerisms speech who immediately lays down here strict rules stating that there will be two hours of bible study ever day br br this is said of course to make it sound like reading the bible is the worse punishment you could ever inflict on someone especially a kid once again the bible is equated with stuffy mean spirited people that woman of course is dismissed immediately br br naturally the liberal black woman whoopi goldberg who else is the one who is hired and voilà saves the day br br yawn
0	this movie has been advertised for over three months in greece as the biggest greek production ever well it could be but when you hear of a big production you expect to see something new something different what you get to watch here is a movie with no reason of existence george looks like he didn't really enjoy making this movie his acting is so simplistic that looks almost amateur the sound especially when some of the turkish actors speak english dubbed is full of hiss the thankfully few special effects showing istanbul and athens in the late 50's and early 70's are more like digital paintings than computer graphics finally we see the same boy from 1959 age 5 up to 1968 age 14 but in a miraculous way he becomes a teenager five years later br br so much for the biggest greek production at least one would think that there would be some kind of interesting script to qualify for such an expensive production and all one gets is a love story between 7 year olds who meet again 40 years later oh there is a political side too a couple of ironic remarks about the greek junta of '67 so childish that seem almost forced br br there are of course a couple of good things in the movie most of the actors are great mainly the very good scenery and the magnificent music by but they are so few for such an expensive production br br bottom line is it so bad a movie to tell the truth i don't know i just know that in no point does it justify its huge for greek standards budget
0	world war i gets a glossy sepia tinted makeover in jean pierre jeunet's relentlessly whimsical a very long engagement jeunet's trademark style consists of mechanical almost clockwork like narrative construction garnished with lavish chocolate box production values and seasoned with faux naive humour it's an approach that worked pretty well with his previous picture the romantic fantasy amelie thanks in no small part to the inimitable contribution of audrey tatou in the title role applied to vastly more sombre material jeunet's method backfires rather badly br br tatou crops up again here in a variation on the same sort of sweetly off beat character as amelie she's an orphan who lives quietly with her aunt and uncle in an idyllic rural setting determined to trace what became of her child sweetheart gaspard ulliel several years after he went missing in the war was one of five soldiers court for self mutilation in 1917 at and sent over the top into no man's land as a punishment he's presumed dead by all but who cherishes the hope of finding him the film follows dogged quest to find out what really happened and as she delves deeper she uncovers a sad even shocking story of high ranking corruption and inhumanity must filter the facts from the fictions that arise from various conflicting overlapping or incomplete accounts of what seem to be final hours br br all this should be poignant and gripping but it's more often simply confusing thanks to the visual and verbal clutter with which jeunet pummels his audience there's simply too much going on at any one time including an intrusive narration that adds precisely nothing to our appreciation of the story and characters without a moment's respite from informational overload i felt denied the space to reflect on quest or the room to engage with it on my own terms jeunet's busy camera spirals and swoops and circles caressing every surface contour of his exquisitely designed production but it singularly fails to penetrate to the soul beneath the story's skin the result is deeply uninvolving and worse grotesque the first world war was a particularly dark hour in human history imagine it re created as one of those picturesque commercials for a well known belgian lager and you have the measure of this film
0	the new celebrity deathmatch is terrible they kill off the popular people and make the low budget celebs win i mean andy lil' flip lil flip and lil wayne should of both died lil' flip sucks the fight between lil' jon and lil' bow wow and lil flip was mad corny and short they should of just kill off all of them why did tobey lose to jake and christian lose to adam they are better actors and superheroes they also spend too much time on talking rather than fighting which can bore the viewers everything seems rushed for some reason they can't just make a long fight the old deathmatch is way better
0	how can anyone even begin to like this film is really beyond me br br the idea it has none a guy fell apart that's the idea wow an environment was slowly killing him now that's original and worth watching br br this is the first film i've seen i've heard that he's a genius of mise en scene but i've seen student films with more attention inspiration idea and craft than this this this nothing it has nothing br br each and every shot is too long there's so much emptiness in them the acting's horrible you can see the actors had no preparation at all no understanding of their roles not even an attempt at showing emotions it's so superficial the lines are so that you could removed 90 of them and still have the same crappy film tempo who cares about it atmosphere dynamics that's for pussies one shot per scene 80 of the time people staring unrealistically having no idea how to represent emotions and importance of the moment besides hollow staring at the camera or one another editing all rules of editing have been disregarded with no pa pay off of any kind photography half of the shots have reflection in them and crappy lighting with no stylization of any kind shadows play of shadows who needs that we need a guy pissing drinking hitting his wife like he's like he's acting we need a bunch of close ups of a not so beautiful woman we need an amateurish climax of his capture by an unconvincing arabian torturer this film has so much wrongs that it isn't worth the no budget it had br br frankly i haven't seen a film this bad since american pie 5 yup that bad br br i've just started watching his veronica movie which seems much better based on the first 15 minutes since it does have a hint of directing and artistic idea unlike this crap so i won't argue that clueless but this this film sucks
0	another day this movie requires you to watch it another day to understand it i thoroughly enjoy watching and i was quite interesting in seeing how well julian mcmahon and appeared together following the roles they played in charmed i can certainly praise the acting skills throughout the film even the directing but the plot what happened i am at a loss for words because i am still confused i have to stay loyal to the actors who really did a good job considering the madness of the plot i also have to recommend you watch it because despite the plot madness i would still watch it over and over again
0	this movie was terrible how can somebody even think that this movie was like the ones back in the good old days when tim thomerson was not even in it and to make things worse they used clips from old trancer movies thats just terrible no trancer movie is complete without tim thomerson i love fullmoon films and i have been watching them since i was 4 years old i have been through everything they have done and this movie almost made me lose it now i got a couple of lines to fill so i will keep going their way of breeding new trancers is completely stupid as well as way to send jack back in time what happened to the chamber and finally what happened in the end of trancers 5 where lina says and i quote jack has given me something special and her and some other broad looks at her stomach i don't know maybe a baby is in there there were so many other places of going to but fullmoon the bed
0	okay granted i am a fan of low budget horror which along with it does come the occasional piece of garbage that even the most diehard fan of campy flicks can not bare to stand witness to trancers 6 directed by jay br br first of all the trancers series started back in the mid 80s by charlie band and his empire pictures is basically the franchise that it is because of tim thomerson and his excellent portrayal of trancer hunter jack deth well low and behold due to the sinking budgets of full moon features which despite what people have said have actually brought along very high quality features such as hell asylum and dead rotting thomerson did not return for the sixth installment br br full moon writer courtney joyner returns once again and delivers another below average screenplay which features jack deth played by thomerson in flashbacks which are extremely poorly inserted he has a different hair style like every time he is shown and some laying on a table going down the line into his daughter's body well from here on out you have jo deth acting like jack but its a shame that she really doesn't give off the same screen presence as jack deth did br br the film shot on 16mm is simply put an embarrassment to the trancers name no offense to anyone at young wolf productions i mean i respect you guys for actually wanting to jump forth and do a trancers film without tim but with a little more time despite it being filmed since december of 2001 it could have been better br br however check out full moon's dvd of it which is a double feature with the original trancers and features trailers for the last 10 plus full moon features br br overall i would probably have liked the feature more if it wouldn't have the trancers name but like anything you can judge it by someone's opinion and you must check it out for yourself
0	i know that full moon or any other film studio for that matter could never recapture the fun and cheesy sci fi feeling that was the original trancers ' and with the last two entries in the series having jack deth in medieval times instead of futuristic los angeles it became quite obvious that there really was little hope in reviving the trancers series breathing new life into a film is one thing but taking our main character out of his element and putting him into the past well it didn't work so now with trancers 6 full moon has breathed so much new life into the series that we don't even deal with jack deth any more we now deal with his daughter jo jack is in her body and must go into the past and fight the trancers one more time br br minor spoiler first scene of the film revealed br br to prove how bad this movie is you only need watch the first two minutes of the film when the original jack deth appears on the screen but it's not actually tim thomerson it's clips of him and sound bytes strung together trust me you can tell they're strung together horribly to provide the viewer the last of the true jack deth humor and from this point on things only go down hill having this girl jo deth as our main character while jack deth is supposed to be in her body is the worst idea in the world having this cute young woman act as a rough and tough man isn't the right track at all it doesn't work and it really comes off as foolish br br i'm not going to go into the aspects of special effects and makeup because most reading this know what full moon has become a really really low budget enterprise i don't know what to say about this movie except i really wish full moon could be like it was in the days of demonic toys puppet master and trancers 1 back then while the special effects weren't great the story telling was they made serious b movies for serious b movie and horror fans and that just doesn't take place today with the new full moon studios i yearn for the good ol' days and truly hope that full moon can pull itself out of this horrible slump that they're in right now br br trancers 6 gets a 2 out of 10
0	it is a truism that it takes a lot of effort to make a bad movie this one is no exception br br i am no lover of yanks but their amazingly simplistic view of the world and their ability to reduce everything to black and white as well as make events even fictional ones in novels fit an agenda that bears little or no relationship to complexity of any kind is irritating in the extreme br br wilbur smith is verbose but weaves intricate tales that deserve more than has been delivered by this awful mishmash of a movie br br sad really for those who will never read smith they will be left with a less than decent portrayal of his egyptian series which has to be said is gigantic in its exposition br br the indiana jones movies were snappy to attempt to replicate that by manipulating smith's novels into this production misses out by a country mile br br pathetic except for the photography and art malik
0	after reading both river god and the seventh scroll i can't begin to express how disappointed i was with this film while i agree some poetic license may be admissible this movie is at constant variance with the books doing an incredible injustice to the exciting plausible and wonderful stories written by wilbur smith i can only believe that the writers director and producers of the movie have never even heard of mr smith let alone read his work smith's vibrant characterizations are converted into wooden stick figures all historicity is ignored or discounted the realism of the books has been changed to include phantom monsters more appropriate to a cartoon and why is an egyptian henchman speaking spanish no wonder the movie was made into a tv miniseries did wilbur smith have any input into the making of this movie i can't believe that he did terrible terrible movie if you've read either or both of the books don't waste your time or money watching this money you will be sorely disappointed i assure you br br only a moment of supreme generosity persuaded me to give this movie a ranking of '2' and that only because of the beautiful sometimes spectacular photography
0	well i've read the book first and thought wow would this be cool to see in a movie than i started searching and found there was already a movie made of it i bought the movie a week ago on dvd and watched it they did it awfully wrong at first this kid who isn't any character in the book then the mix between the two books 'the river god' and 'the seventh than nicolas needing funds while in the book he himself is actually the the whole thing about the is wrong also is supposed to have invented the lightweight chariot the whole thing about the tomb is also very wrong there is supposed to be a channel that has some kind of vacuum suction around it the tomb itself was made in a maze with only a possibility to pass if one knows the rules of the ancient boa game there was nothing in the movie about nicolas being english and was a coptic christian in the book not a muslim this list is endless there were only a few things good about the movie the actors which played boris mick and were well chosen the rest were just parodies of the characters in the book was the worst it didn't get even close to the character that was in my head while i wrote the book it is such a shame that such a great book is mutilated in such a bad reproduction i wonder why wilbur smith ever gave his permission for this
0	the movie opens with beautiful landscape shots of the northwest countryside jutting out from earth a freight train crossing fields of hay in the distance billows of clouds small structures by the side of the road a motel or a diner in the middle of nowhere over this plays a languid but mysterious twin peaks piano arrangement and it's all adequately moody and atmospheric in an american gothic sort of way through this however director jon jost keeps awkward frames blocks of letters opening credits with annoying sounds color frames that announce blue numbers that count towards the 12 steps to a conclusion announced in the opening credits it's obvious by the first couple of minutes that though jost is more than capable to capture landscape and ambiance he doesn't care for it he has neither the affection for pacific northwest open expanses that terrence malick does in badlands and neither the time or inclination of twin peaks david lynch to weave mystery and intrigue around a given location br br the rest of the movie is more jon jost frustration with experimental tricks that serve their own purpose the use of split screen is interesting i like in particular how we get the first image of ricky lee split in two one is recounting childhood memories that matter only to him the other is cursing and banging his head against the wall and over the course of the movie the second ricky lee prevails the macho laid back hipster with the shades who is hopelessly self involved and stupid on the other hand the stop motion animation and choice to play most of the movie in voice over narration does not work it does at times because jost writes as good as he shoots static shots of the smalltown american nowheresville but beth ann's monologues delivered in the most flat nasal monotone imaginable a voice that sounds like stephen hawking's computer speech program crossed with a horse whinnying are so grating to the ear it kind of defeats the purpose of trying to pay attention br br each of the couple relate to us their past experiences their small triumphs and follies and doubts and past relationships that went nowhere they say very little to each other and what they say they say with blank faces but they hump like rabbits that seems to be their only channel of communication left open perhaps the only one they can trust with any safety jost clearly picks his main characters in among the naive and delusional those baited by an american dream turned sour but he doesn't place himself above them he's not condescending or smug in his portrayal they may be misguided but they are graced with moments of humanity awkward though they may be we're called to empathize and show affection rather than point and laugh this is the most successful becomes the movie's characters come alive even when their expressionless faces do not even when jost gets in their way with his stilted framing and obtrusive camera games br br then we go back to angry rants about the destructive effects of money played over an inserted shot of a dollar bill we get a weird psychedelic sequence where camera glides under big leafy trees that soon turn red as beth ann repeatedly muses about the redwood trees in the voice over we even get a sudden about turn towards plot and genre as the couple of beth ann and ricky lee smalltown losers with nowhere to go and nothing to hold them back to their dead end lives arrive in california and decide to rob a 7 11 the movie doesn't soar to an emotional crescendo in the aftermath of the botched 7 11 job such as one might expect from a on the run' road movie it slowly screeches to a halt and you look out the window to see it hasn't really got anyplace in particular parts of the ride have been hypnotic and parts almost touching and funny but everything else has been mostly annoying
0	cameron mitchell plays an actor who is dating a young actress who used to date the head of a movie studio she's too young for both of them at a party when he's lighting his cigarette the studio boss throws a high alcohol content drink in his face and he catches fire in the hospital his face is entirely bandaged and he still lights up a cigarette he becomes the resident sculptor of the wax museum and palace where he also lights up cigarettes br br mitchell recovers more or less having really poorly done burn makeup on one side of his face that looks like gray and tape and an eyepatch when mitchell isn't smoking he's killing people well he only kills people sometimes since he prefers to inject them with something that puts them in a sort of coma if he doesn't administer it regularly and he never seems to remember they start to move again a little although they're in a sort of hypnotic zombie state not all his sculptures are people though he evidently does have talent as a sculptor br br the ending which seemed to have been struck from a much poorer print than the rest of the movie is really absurd they seemed not to know what to do and went back to the title for an idea apart from the oddly grainy final shots the rest of the movie is in fairly good shape except for the audio in some scenes which sounds like it was run through a blown speaker definitely not one of the better wax museum movies
0	legendary cameron mitchell turkey about an actor makeup man who is burned by the head of a studio when a drink is tossed in his face as he is lighting up a cigarette reduced to a scarred mess and wearing an eye patch mitchell works at the wax museum he also kidnaps and kills people using a solution which them so he can turn them into displays genuinely bizarre bad movie that defies description watch as the various wax figures try not to move watch as the entire tobacco out put for several southern states is as things just get weirder and weirder its an awful train wreck of a movie and you won't be able to take your eyes off the screen a classic bad movie that will amaze you even as it leaves permanent scars on your psyche
0	the movie is precious and cage is a babe br br but will anyone agree with me in saying that the punk representation in this movie is atrocious br br where's the clash the ramones misfits social distortion the cramps sex pistols anyone the music is this movie is incredibly disappointing at least they play the cure br br plus randy's feathered hair and khakis br br this definitely looks like a movie about punks the way that a bunch of movie industry squares see punks br br although it's a 90's movie slc punk paints a much more accurate picture of the punk rock scene in the early 1980's just sayin'
0	this is a treat for fans of z grade movies here you will find writing and acting bad enough to rival anything ed wood ever produced veteran bad movie actor cameron mitchell is a former makeup man from paragon studios who after a nasty acid in the face incident at a social gathering becomes an embittered mad scientist tm with a rubber scar on his face who takes revenge by kidnapping paragon actors and turning them into living statues in his secret laboratory tm handily located in the local wax museum or are they zombies who do his bidding he's not sure br br happily many of your favourite movie clichés are here check out the villain's lab are those mysterious steaming vats of liquid test tubes of coloured water with no explained purpose yay and what ho do we see spare arms and legs arranged kinda casual like on a wooden rack you betcha marvel at the bumbling detectives acting with straight out of plan nine now enjoy a stupidly tame car chase and hear more dizzy bimbo screaming than you could possibly want raise an eyebrow at the screwy plot line made even more opaque by the totally meaningless ending that seems to have no connection to the rest of the movie br br cheesy trash and much fun for the bad movie connoisseur
0	definitely not a good film but nowhere as bad as some would paint it to be nightmare in wax tells the story of a man having had his face disfigured in a typical flashback scene wreak his vengeance on those directly responsible and those indirectly for the losses in his life most notably the love and companionship of a beautiful young actress cameron mitchell plays the artist with his typical flair albeit limited flair actually i thought he gave one of his better performances what exactly does that mean mitchell wears an eye patch endlessly smokes cigarettes wears a motley tunic and talks to his creations in wax they are not your ordinary wax dummies but rather people still alive controlled by some serum that makes them lose control of all neurological function they become zombies in effect i thought the premise here was inventive if nothing else it has some ludicrous explanation but does serve the plot this is a film of the 60s to be sure with some psychedelic camera work by bud townsend and company the acting is mediocre but mitchell scott brady and barry give interesting turns the wax figures of hollywood's bygone era are done very effectively and most of the location shooting was very credible the end of the film dissipates into something not quite real either another example of 60s cultural cinema or the end of the scriptwriter's creativity i'm banking on the latter despite its many flaws i enjoyed the film the opening scene showing an actor being was effectively done as was a police chase on the waterfront
0	along with his turn in the super sleazy 'classic' the toolbox murders 1978 this is considered the ultimate bad cameron mitchell horror effort it's a little too slow moving for my tastes has zero likable characters in it and not much action until the very end but mitchell's dedicated central psycho performance as vengeance minded whack job vincent is fun not anthony perkins good mind you but definitely fun enough as a spoof of the shallow conceit that is hollywood it's only so so as a horror movie it's also only fair and even as just a simple vintage exploitation picture it's just ok i'm a big fan of the unnecessary gratuitous dance sequence so i was also thankful for the appearance of the dancers who just rule five of them do a crazy hair floor hip shaking' go go dance routine to don't cry look for the rainbow by the t bones watching these ladies bounce around with huge smiles on their faces in their fringe covered bikini top and parachute pants ensemble is a defining reason why i give this a slightly higher rating that usual br br former movie make up man vincent the best since lon chaney goes after people at paragon studios a flashback shows how max black berry a jealous and drunk studio executive flung wine in face right when he was about to light a smoke he's engulfed in flames and dives into a pool but not before scarring up one side of his face and losing an eyeball not to mention his sanity now employed by the world famous wax museum in buena park california vincent uses a special serum described as a mixture of truth serum nerve medicine and special vitamins and minerals watch out to paralyze victims they disappear and the dense detectives on the case headed by scott brady act baffled as new are put on display in the museum vince talks to himself i'm a terribly nice man chain smokes mumbles hisses and describes how he gets excited by the sound of a woman's scream br br he also has to deal with a bunch of back stabbing scumbags and self absorbed witches most of whom will deserve what's coming to them there is also nick hollis morrison a boozy inept museum tour guide who sees a blink but doesn't go to the cops aside from max a real grade a jerk who doesn't even die and the stupid cops the other two lead roles are women and both are pretty atrocious marie morgan anne helm is not your typical innocent heroine this tramp has been engaged to no less that five different characters in this movie including vince max and two of the wax dummies missing male stars i guess she never had time to make a go at the one missing girl for some reason she also begs and pleads in her irritating baby voice for vince to give her a of the head he's designing of the newest missing actor and fiancé number 5 tony deen phillip she doesn't know that vince has already jabbed a syringe in the back of his neck but i love it when mitchell dryly agrees with her demands so you can completely retreat for reality he also wants her to for him which means she's eventually held prisoner in a box unfortunately the box has a hole where her head sticks through so we have to continue getting aurally assaulted by her high pitched whines br br the other woman is theresa victoria carroll one of the aforementioned go go girls she's first seen proving she is thoroughly rhythm deficient by jiggling on stage in a lime green fringe bikini theresa is tolerable before she talks but when you realize her grating presence combines the of lorraine bracco with the airhead mentality of the landers sisters you wish vincent would inject her with the serum as soon as possible unfortunately we're first subjected to a scene of her making endless demands to the studio head honcho and running around in the museum trying to avoid mitchell she and the rest of the characters are completely unsympathetic but function as a way to poke fun at the hollywood system in general i guess and i'm probably giving this movie more credit than it actually deserves the pluses are few and far between but include other than mitchell and the dance routine colorful slightly stylized lighting and a bizarre ending that seems to suggest that will be severely punished for his crimes by spending the rest of his life in his own personal hell married to marie yikes now that is scary br br also in the cast are director john bud cardos also the production manager as a police sergeant james forrest as a film director virgil frye as a statue martin and kent osborne as a bartender many of the people who worked on this one including executive producer and script writer rex carlton also worked on the al adamson movie blood of dracula's castle and other atrocities br br my score 4 out of 10
0	all but the youngest americans are probably familiar with the iconic call of from little timmy or whatever the kid's name was wailing his little tow head off for his border collie friend these same americans may or may not be familiar with the fact that lassie made the leap from television to movies or was it the other way around i'm clearly too lazy to do any research here and the painted hills is one of those it is irresistible to make a this movie has gone to the dogs pun so i won't even though i technically just did but in a way it has lassie playing shep man's best friend gets top billing the dog gets top billing now i'm not familiar with how actors or their agents negotiate contracts but here's how it plays out in my mind br br movie mogul okay lassie in the credits it's gonna be and with lassie as shep lassie movie mogul ha ha kid calm down calm down lassie movie mogul okay i think i see co lead billing lassie movie mogul oh god let go of my arm top billing top billing for you now let go of my arm br br so the dog gets top billing and with the rest of this shell shocked cast i suppose it's understandable we get lovable old jonathan the prospector his young whiny and apparently orphaned friend tommy sketchy loser lin taylor and lovable old religious pilot pete the meat of the plot here could be summed up in a few sentences so i'll save you the actual pain of watching the movie jonathan is a prospector with a dog named shep and his partner dies while he is at his claim he gets a new partner named lin who becomes obsessed with the gold and jonathan for some reason gives shep to whiny little crybaby tommy lin kills jonathan shep sees it and lin tries to kill shep then lin tries to kill tommy then tommy whines it gets cold and shep carries out an elaborate plan to get revenge on lin which he or she does the end br br unless you have a deep unsettling need to see a lassie movie even then there's got to be a better lassie movie than this just avoid the painted hills when it's not dragging on marveling at lassie's limited ability to 'act' similar in style perhaps to keanu reeves always the same facial expression only the body moves setting up the obvious using several minutes of film or insulting native americans everywhere with its white actor in ugh how me running bear stereotypes the painted hills is fit only for lassie fetishists or people who have some kind of connection to prospecting through their days as a grizzled old prospector lookin' fer that vein of glittery gold
0	pretty bad this film about a grizzled and frankly rock stupid old prospector and his i e lassie as well as an annoying kid whose name i can't recall at the moment at the beginning of the movie the old prospector has deliberately buried himself in some sand so that the poor dog will have to dig him out why did he hate the dog anyhoo somehow or other this idiot has managed to strike gold and goes to tell his partner but the man has died and his sleazy other partner is happy to assist old jonathan in digging up the gold the geezer tries to leave is dog with the dead guy's son but not even the retarded mutt wants to stay with this kid there's quaint old preacher for quaint read smelly and the oily guy finished off the old guy surprise surprise and tries to steal all the gold plus he poisons the dog and tries to kill the kid too so i suppose its okay that a devilish and crazy lassie err shep does this the guy in at the end although its pretty disturbing in what is basically a children's movie there are extremely stereotypical to the point of racial slur 'native americans' who speak without using verbs as in me make camp fire type speech and that's pretty much the extent of the cast because apparently lassie's salary was too big for them to hire anyone else kind of dull not very interesting and a tad too dark not a great movie in any way
0	a lassie movie which should have been put to sleep forever that's how i'd describe this painfully dreary time waster of a film so mediocre in every aspect that it just becomes a dull uninteresting mess this is one of the most forgettable movies i've seen it isn't even an achievement as a so bad it's good or so bad it's memorable movie the idea of lassie turning bad is intriguing but so little actually happens and so slowly that you feel your life slipping away while sitting there watching the non actors read their lines off cue cards waiting for their measly paychecks br br it's an empty hollow shell of a movie seriously it's not worth wasting your or your kid's time on unless you're both heavily medicated that's all i have to say br br avoid avoid avoid it will drive you barking mad hahahah get it barking br br sorry i've had a rough week
0	like its near contemporaries the great race and those magnificent men in their flying machines i always associate this film with my childhood especially at new year on new year's day we'd visit my granny and after lunch while the adults talked the kids would watch tv where invariably one of these three crazy race films would be on br br for that reason alone i really wanted to mark monte carlo or bust well but i fear i can't the child not being father to the man on this occasion by which i mean i can see all too clearly its faults and while i was tempted to smile occasionally in truth i really wanted all the competitors to get to the end of the race long before they actually do br br of course it's dated by its stereotyping of nationalities and woman as the weaker sex and i also didn't much care for one or two stray admittedly mild vulgarities which occasionally surfaced more than that though the cast despite hamming it up outrageously just don't sell the film enough tony curtis in a trial run for his yank abroad turn in the tv series the seems too old to be playing the young gallant terry thomas just isn't dastardly enough eric sykes is unbelievable as a dirty minded lothario while gert frobe as an overdone teuton is just weird doing camp comedy when you remember he was bond's best villain goldfinger if anything the come off best susan hampshire is at least engaging as a bright young thing suitably gamine as a posh flapper and although chained to the leash of the script pete and dud offer the most amusement as stiff upper lip army types although even then the carry on team did this so much better in carry on up the pass br br director annakin tries everything to evoke the golden silents with lashings of slapstick mistaken identity capers speeded up camera shots would be dramatic stunts and some light romance but there's no real tension for such a famous race and anyway the race off at the end seems like another br br actually i'd have given it another mark if they'd stuck to the alternative title those magnificent men in their jaunty but in truth the animated series wacky races did this so much better
0	i agree with jessica this movie is pretty bad i'm surprised anyone took it seriously characters are one dimensional even the good guys and especially the bad guys the only merit here is that it's so lame it's funny actually for me there is the added benefit that it was shot in a state park not far from where i live so seeing some local sights on the big screen is a hoot br br the lead character is a off duty cop and makes a big point of lecturing a good guy that vigilante justice is not just a bad idea it's against the law imagine how long that lasts br br most of the movie's northern california characters are blown dried hollywood cheese balls looking like they've never actually been in a fight the story line is totally predictable this film is ripe for a mst 3k lampooning camp value only i'm pretty forgiving of films in general but seeing the old positive reviews i had to speak up this is a dog i give it a 3 out of 10 and then only for laughs
0	i have to say that i had low expectations for the movie before viewing it all the people around said it was great but i perfectly knew what they like they like song which is indeed great they like the amazing special effects which had coasted a lot they like the comedy side of the movie and of course many girls who love affleck who according to my opinion is a really bad actor who tried not to be one failed and now he is nothing and all these things plus the reviews and the ratings i read in internet gave me a clue the movie would be a huge disappointment since i am a big disaster kind of movies fan well i've been right but at least i was prepared br br the movie is really commercial it's been said but i will say it as again we have over 100 million budget we have a romance between hollywood stars ben affleck and liv tyler and many other famous actors who are popular with the fact that they rarely agree on becoming a part of the cast of a commercial movie if their names aren't written with big letters on the screen such as billy bob thornton and steve buscemi which are highly respected actors that i also like a lot they could play many characters in many different kind of movies they could improvise they could turn tasteless lines into hilarious jokes on the whole they could turn small movies into really interesting funny or dramatic motion pictures people love and will always love such as fargo in buscemi's case or a simple plan thornton and to be honest i am really disappointed they took part of armageddon thornton plays a smart and refined man involved in politics if i remember correctly buscemi is one of the members of the deep core drilling team which is sent to save the world by destroying the asteroid which is about to vanish the world br br what i didn't like well i guess i've been already understood i pointed out bad factors the story is dull artless and silly it is so obvious that the movie depends on the effects and the dramatic ending that it's ridiculous at least movies like deep impact and godzilla have something special that might be considered as art at least it ain't that obvious that the movie is made of financial purposes other than that bad performances from all the huge stars the jokes ain't funny the lines are absurd and sometimes they doesn't make sense at all in fact i recently read that on the stage ben affleck has asked bay whether it would be easier if they teach astronauts to drill than drillers to becomes astronauts and bay's reply has been simply shut up which is a really funny story which perfectly shows the desperation br br and enclosing i'll give an explanation why i give 4 to the movie well i like don't want to miss a thing and i was impressed by the special effects which are obviously the only good thing in the movie the first scene is memorable these are the the only 2 good things i liked about the movie michael bay is an average director but the rock and both bad boys were hundreds of times better than armageddon which was is and will always be one big bad movie
0	this should carry a government health warning if you play it in your dvd machine you are in serious risk of opening a rift in the space time continuum and disappearing without trace into it so bad is this 'movie' br br the fact that this movie was so successful is evidence of the true desperate state of modern hollywood cinema and the continual commissioning of films that appeal to the common although i truly dread to think of the common that this film actually appeals to br br i think hollywood were just conducting some kind of proving trials when they made and screened this film i can imagine the executive boardroom meetings at the studio just how bad a film can we actually get away with making and still make loads of money holy cow i didn't realise we could go that bad br br the only films worse than this that i can think of and trust me it is close are die another day rip the bond franchise as i knew it and independence day br br avoid avoid avoid
0	i must say that i wasn't impressed at all probably because i was expecting much more from this movie maybe an accent on religion vs science or on the meaning of life not just a few lines so if you expect something to think about after you see this movie don't it's more psychological than philosophical i vote 4 because of the end it clears up a bit and because i have a great respect for bbc documentaries there are a couple of very interesting scenes that actually gave some sense it was a brilliant idea to add it in a movie related to theory of evolution too bad that this wasn't the main subject ah i just forgot to say that for more than 1 hour the movie is quite boring and in a way cruel
0	i watched this movie about six years ago and i recently did so again if i remember correctly i did not like it at all the first time and i appreciated it slightly more this second time br br this movie is obviously on a big budget the effects are mostly top notch except for one or two impacts and the cast is impressive however there are some elements that destroy the overall impression of the show br br firstly whoever decided that peter stormare should act as a crazy russian astronaut should be fired being a swede and a fan of peter i'm pretty sure he can play a russian character well but his performance in this case is plain stupid both with respect the lines uttered and the acting so something must be wrong with the script i'd like to see peter as a professional russian astronaut instead br br secondly the action scenes that take place on the surface are so intense that it is nearly unbearable to watch it is a total chaos that lasts over thirty minutes with too few moments to catch one's breath in addition to this the events that unfold are simply not credible i'd like to see a much more sensible and stripped down version of this part of the movie br br finally the scenes that involve flying space shuttles are too action biased the shuttles are maneuvering like if they were a couple of migs at zero safety distance while bouncing off car sized ice blocks like ping pong balls the director should watch apollo 13 to learn the limitations of spacecraft like these br br i like the music score because it is dramatic to a degree making it very touching the overall performance of the actors is great apart from the things mentioned above the story is interesting and quite easy to follow br br with some minor changes this would have been a 8 10 movie i'm sorry it isn't
0	dear readers br br i've found in my studies of movies that whenever michael bay makes a movie people pan it and hate it yet they still go to see it and it makes somewhere around 100 million dollars why because michael bay is one of the top five directors of all time standing alongside ridley scott spielberg kubrick and miyazaki michael bay has cemented himself as hollywood's best action adventure director that point is proved with his most panned film armageddon br br an asteroid the size of texas is hurtling towards the planet and the only way nasa can think to take it down is to land a team of men on the asteroid drill to its core and drop a nuclear warhead inside then blow up the asteroid only one person is qualified enough to do it bruce willis willis portrays harry stamper a grizzled hardened oil driller trying to keep what's left of his family together not helping that fact is his daughter grace liv tyler having an affair with his best driller aj ben affleck hired by dan truman billy bob thornton the head of nasa stamper and his team of roughneck drillers train to become astronauts and save the world br br armageddon is a two part movie first there's the funny parts where we meet the gang and wackiness abounds then they get into space and all the comedy gets sucked out the window and is replaced by mind blowing special effects cool music and great serious acting murphy's law goes insane in the second part meaning that everything that can go wrong does in fact go wrong increasing the tension of the film to outstanding levels br br with a cool cast and crew michael bay as director jerry bruckheimer and gale anne hurd as producers and j j abrams as one of the scriptwriters tons of special effects great humor awesome music plus an intro done by mr ben hur himself charlton heston armageddon rocks big time br br signed the constant dvd collector matt macleod br br parental warnings this is not a film for kids the f bomb is used a few times and lots of other swear words are used as well plus there's a strip bar scene and the extremely intense second part might be too hard for a kid to handle
0	being an unrelenting non stop over the top explosive melodrama this movie is one of the worst action flicks ever produced and utterly unbelievable in every way the pace is constantly fever pitched and all the action and the actors are gripped by total hysteria it is nigh unwatchable and a stain nay a blotch on the careers of everyone involved br br the wildly exaggerated attempt at excitement undermines itself resulting in a movie where you just go come on all the time the setting and the events are impossible to take even remotely seriously i can only rate this abomination a 1 out of 10 br br if you want to see a good asteroid movie see deep impact which is intense sensitive and thoroughly engrossing everything armageddon is not
0	the acting was horrible the special effects while exceptional dominated the movie the writing was pathetic and the dialogue was unbelievable and the silly little love story between liv tyler and ben affleck was out of place br br but the worst offense of armageddon was the total lack of scientific reality the asteroid is the size of texas says billy bob thornton er that's 800 miles wide no one in nasa even sees the asteroid until a midday meteor shower wrecks havoc in new york nasa hires a drilling team to join the astronauts and trains them in a week yeah right someone brings a sidearm on the space shuttle with them yeah that's realistic and bruce willis blows up the asteroid with three seconds to spare how disney esque br br how bad was this movie i rooted for the asteroid
0	two movies the fifth element armageddon the same subject to save the world the same main actor bruce willis one difference armageddon is very inferior to luc besson's film some spectacular special effects don't succeed in hiding a labored and globally conventional screenplay several parts of the movie are showing it i think about the president's speech and especially willis' relationship with his daughter grace at the beginning of the movie he tends to neglect and her and this makes her weary then at the end of the movie it's true love and understanding that shine in him on another hand the movie falls in the following trap michael bay takes his subject too seriously of course the movie tries to be funny but the result doesn't work as the humor introduced in the movie is often crude and pretty low level whereas in the fifth element the humor was zany involuntary and enabled to overlook the serious side of the action the movie suffers from two other handicaps it often falls into the ridiculous the russian astronaut and almost all the actors are bad used bruce willis is all the contrary of his fifth element 's character he plays the he man he hams it up and sometimes he's unbearable the other actors are barely credible in their own roles particularly willis' sinking crew it seems that this crew is here just for having fun one of them is taken for being very qualified but he looks like a fool and poor liv tyler she's at the nasa just to be decorative br br when the movie was released in france in august 1998 bruce willis expressed is weariness of saving the world his weariness was probably justified by this spectacular but poor movie
0	this movie has bad writing and bad editing it is difficult to follow what is going on because nothing any of the characters do makes much sense some major calamity occurs every 30 seconds as a result none of the action sequences are at all interesting the movie is two hours worth of throw away scenes which are connected merely by the fact that they share common actors this movie doesn't even have enough of a sense of humor to be a good bad movie
0	i can't remember when i've seen a worse movie the acting was overwrought the dialog trite to the point of being painful to listen to the special effects second rate and the overall story laughable br br i've never wanted to walk out on a movie more and if i'd been alone that's what i'd have done about 30 minutes into it and saved myself nearly another two excruciating hours of nausea inducing dialog and a plot with more holes than a swiss cheese the size of texas i just can't what a miserable experience sitting through this waste of perfectly good celluloid was br br
0	br br i used to like some of the hollywood action blockbusters of the 80s they had icons such as arnie and sly but i think the action movie in the '90s has plummeted to new depths the worst of these i believe was armageddon br br the plot is shamelessly contrived and pulls off the worst cliches as it seeks to excite viewers the melodrama is so cringingly saccharine and awful that you actually cannot wait for bruce willis to disappear from the screen liv tyler who had acted admirably in several fine independent features directed by such masters as bertolucci and robert altman regrettably decided to jump onto the commercial bandwagon this movie the new hollywood aesthetic of grand special effects and precious little good dialogue or authentic melodrama that is the norm these days and i begin to wonder if there is a role in hollywood for screenwriters it seems as though they just employ hacks and committees to write the facile scripts the rest they leave to technology there is not a single piece of grand heartfelt human emotion in armageddon it just feels empty and bland i can think of only one good aspect of this movie and that involves liv tyler's dad who doesn't even make an appearance in the film steven tyler's band provide a theme song for the movie a ballad that really soars and at least tugs at the heartstrings a little when the end credits come up br br i weep for western civilization if people like this predictable cumbersome movie it stands for shallowness lethargy and a decline in the human intellect i would even prefer to watch the eighth friday the 13th
0	first of all i do not look down on americans i know lots of people that are intelligent people from the usa but this movie is so utterly bad that i just had to comment on it br br first of all movies are mostly far from the truth this movie is no exception lots of scene's are so incredibly false for example the departure of the 2 space ships you see them drop off the full tanks in space just a small distance from each other remember what caused the space shuttle to explode in the past just a part that came off in here it is just common to drop fuel tanks that are as big if not bigger then the whole ship what idiot would let 2 spaceships lift up and do that at the same time second of it is that the russian station is a piece of s crap i hate to bring this up to you but astronauts nowadays go to russia since their equipment is much more reliable then the space shuttle is retired and nasa uses it just to pay off the bills and there is no better alternative for it and the list of whoppers goes on and on this is truly an insult to people that do take space travel serious and i know half as much as these guys do but the most annoying part read the whole movie is the propaganda and patriot crap that u get choked with my god i thought i was looking at a cnn business commercial for like an hour the actors solve their petty problems by shooting at each other giving the middle finger to everyone they come face to face with start up fights ignore the police etc etc but when it comes to their love for their country and sacrificing their lives suddenly everyone stands in line to commit suicide for it bomb detonator maybe i lack the feeling of being a true patriot that can sing the national anthem backwards in swahili whilst riding with george bush behind the steering wheel of a golf cart driving in circles until the battery is empty but this movie was too much for me too handle and when i finally got hold and pulled the flag pole and fabric of the american flag out of my i realised that i was glad this movie was finally done i do not know why so much good actors participated in this narrow minded stereotyping propaganda movie but i pity them this represents a country where you can get away with murder if you have money or power as long as uncle sam thinks you are a good patriot where everyone is happy as long as it is another country that has been devastated no one cares
0	like many people in my general age range i remember going to see this movie as a kid in '98 and coming out of the theatre practically in tears it seemed at the time to be one of the most important awe inspiring cinematic experiences of our generation at once riveting action packed funny heartbreaking and truly inspirational really did have everything going on right down to the catchy theme song and sappy tear jerker of an ending br br sweet what were we smoking i watched it for the first time in years last night on one of the movie channels and i cannot even describe it this is truly one of the worst movies ever made where to even begin leaving aside the plethora of laughable scientific errors on astronauts yeah sure thanks for that billy bob i'd have to say the worst thing about it was the remarkable dare i even say unmatched way in which it combined crappy writing with crappy acting there are too many examples of this to even begin listing here but one in particular springs to mind the scene where bruce willis is telling the feds exactly where to go to track down each of the oh so charmingly roguish members of his oil drilling team 'check every bar in new orleans' 'the craps tables in vegas' 'the only black guy on a motorcycle in all to the tune of 'come together' it reminded me a bit of the news team assemble scene from anchorman except serious ben affleck proves once again that he is by far the most overpaid actor in hollywood having less depth range and overall talent than anyone else in the business not that bruce willis liv tyler or anyone else in this godforsaken piece of garbage was much better br br i have to say though i got a kick out of seeing a pre stardom owen wilson get killed off half way through is this the only movie where his character dies br br peter stormare is perfect as the most stereotypical unshaven russian you have ever scene then again peter stormare does seem to have a talent for playing over the top it really was quite amusing how almost immediately after the americans dock with the russian space station which is actually called that in the movie ben affleck succeeds in singlehandedly causing the whole joint to explode in spectacular hollywood fashion i also love the fact that in the end paris is the only place on earth to get destroyed and that absolutely no one seems to care and on top of all that it at points literally turns into simultaneous ads for lockheed martin and kerr mcgee oh how proud i am to be an american br br there's plenty of other stuff to rant about but i won't suffice it to say that this is a really really really terrible movie that i feel ashamed to have ever genuinely liked br br i give it two stars just for the factor
0	i had high hopes going to see this as i always enjoy paul bettany's performances i thought he was very good as darwin and did his best considering the terrible material he had to work with br br darwin's book on the origin of species was one of the most ground breaking controversial and innovative publications ever yet you'd never think it based on this tedious movie it's like a two hour episode of a soap opera in a victorian setting there is virtually nothing about darwin's five year voyage on the to the galapagos islands for example surely of supreme significance to the story as it was from his investigations of the wildlife thereon that he began to form his theory of evolution br br this is just one long dreary domestic drama with darwin portrayed as a slightly loopy eccentric seeing visions of his dead daughter everywhere and being given the cold shoulder by his emotionally constipated wife jennifer connelly's portrayal of emma darwin is nothing short of awful and bears little relation to historical descriptions of the real emma there could have been an opportunity here to present the interpretation of life on earth from either emma or from the local priest as played by jeremy northam a blink and you'd miss it part which is a complete waste of a talented actor to act as a counterbalance to darwin's views but it wasn't taken up br br the story focused too much on endless mawkish sentiment about darwin's grief for his daughter annie and too much time was also wasted in darwin wondering whether or not to write his book eventually i was so bored it was difficult to care br br all in all this was a bit like making a movie about picasso and spending two hours concentrating on him having a fight with his girlfriend and not bothering to mention that he was an artist
0	i remember thinking that due to the cast the subject matter and the director i was going to love this movie br br stepping into the theatre and taking my seat i was like a giddy schoolgirl as my anticipation for the opening scene built br br i was not disappointed with the opening and felt that i was truly going to love this movie br br if you haven't seen the movie and feel that anything that gives away scenes might be seen as a spoiler please stop reading i'm not going to give away anything really important but it might be seen as such so that is the warning br br spoiler may be included below beware br br i think that the first scene that really hit me as just utterly ridiculous was the russian space station scene i mean honestly refueling a shuttle with no real prior warning and then to simply show the station as being so fragile that a simple little mistake can cause the entire thing to just explode br br while all of this is possible it seemed to me to be way over the top i'm not sure if it was just the situation or if it was the cheesy acting the silly view of the russian technology or just the campy attitude of the scene itself br br it only got worse for me after that because then we endure what seemed like 2 hours of constant super loud explosions in space you know that place where there is no sound because it's a vacuum br br but the coup de grace for me honestly was the gun scene spoiler possibility earlier in the movie we see bruce willis tearing apart their land vehicle the vehicle that they will use to drive around in when they get there and to help them drill when he is told that this is what they will be using he is taking pieces off and complaining about it because much of what's on it is heavy and not required for what they are doing br br so then as we are wandering onto the asteroids we see that they have opted to add a massive gatling like gun to the vehicles you know standard nasa fare is to have heavy weaponry on all space missions in case you know aliens or something br br i could have taken the explosive 2 hours the silly russian space station refueling scene the cheesy love scene near the end the bruce willis character being nothing more than most of his other past characters but the steve buscemi going mad and shooting the space gun all over the place and causing havoc damage well that threw the entire thing over the top for me br br save your money and time and avoid this movie if you want a good meteor movie see deep impact if you want a fun space movie with awesome special effects see space cowboys but no matter what avoid this flick
0	spoilers br br this movie is not action packed it's slow and boring it's not funny or exciting it's predictable and plays on cheap sentimentality and vague patriotism the special effects are not imaginative or impressive they are noisy and uninspired br br the acting talent is wasted on hopelessly stupid one liners and clichés these are spouted by characters they ought to just be called gentle giant black man ' eccentric genius who is about to crack ' square jawed hero coming of age ' by the book coward ' luckless gambler who lives by a code of honor ' impulsive and so on br br and the writing how many undramatic countdowns did they think they could fit in this thing does a scene where people have to defuse a bomb by cutting one or another wire even count as fiction anymore the drama of the last 15 minutes of the movie depends on the audience caring if some jerk can put aside his personal differences with ben affleck and say bye bye to liv tyler in time to save the earth all the work is done we just have to wait a couple more seconds for harry stamper the jerk to toss off a few cotton candy lines i know bruce willis is a generally charismatic guy but his harry stamper character is an obnoxious bore i thought he earned the golden he was awarded for this role br br since the movie is so long the plot so obvious and the dialogue so disposable one can't help but notice the lame inaccuracies inconsistencies and plot holes 800 feet into something the size of tx is less than a try walking 800 feet into tx and see how close to the center you are after all the discussion about the artificial gravity on the russian station it appears to be arbitrary once inside actually gravity comes and goes throughout the movie does it make any sense that anyone besides michael bay would give these morons a couple shuttles and send them to blow up an asteroid threatening the earth br br the sentimental phone insurance cola commercial style montages were revolting br br i do like action movies really this one is boring stupid and really stuck on itself it deserves hatred and scorn because it's everything hollywood's most expensive efforts have become a bunch of cheap cliches running from one expensive explosion to another oh yes the whole thing is permeated by a neanderthal conservative outlook on sex politics and so on
0	i like action movies i have a for b flicks with bad dialogue and wooden acting so i've been wracking my brain to come up with one of my guilty pleasures that was worse than this blockbuster i can't you'd be hard pressed to put together a bigger piece of cr p than this bruce willis vehicle br br armageddon is the story and i use that term loosely of a team of super drillers flying off to destroy an asteroid before it destroys the earth realistic not really but who cares it's an action flick i'm not blasting the premise br br minor spoilers br br the movie begins with a couple of scenes designed to introduce the threat and the characters bruce willis is the tough as nails leader of the team and spends his first bit of screen time chasing around ben affleck with a gun for the act of sleeping with his daughter for some reason that didn't make me laugh it was forced like everything in this movie br br the team is called in because they're the only people in the whole wide world who can drill the asteroid okay i'm prepared to accept that premise if it gets us to the action the supposed meat of the movie more attempts at humor with each character going out to do some crazy nutty thing before blast off again lame finally they take off here's where the movie really pi ed me off they arrive on the rock and set to work would you believe it nothing works right and everything has a suspenseful countdown whoah ten nine eight one oh surprise surprise we saved the day again br br and don't even get me started on the jerky camerawork when i saw it in the theater i thought i was going to be sick i can only assume they were trying to cover up the gargantuan holes left by the insipid performances by cutting away to a different shot every few seconds and this from someone raised on mtv mr short attention span himself br br just when i thought it couldn't get any worse wait there's a manufactured tearjerker ending that was so tacked on it made the rest of the film a virtual citizen kane br br summary the witticisms weren't witty the plot well i said i'd let that one go the acting was bad really bad even billy bob couldn't rise above the script which was worse camerawork again bad i didn't even mention the dumbest love scene in the history of motion pictures think animal crackers br br rating 1 out of 10 i'm giving a half point for steve buscemi who makes me smile against my will and another half point for the times i was able to look at the lovely liv tyler and attempt to ignore her acting performance this is far and away the worst movie i've gone to see in the theater ever
0	half of the movie is is flashing lights and shaky camera the rest is made up of predictable characters think science vs government vs authority etc br br what is the worst aspect about this movie is it the cars being thrown around in the first 5 minutes is the horrible accent of the is it the uninspired characters the poorly integrated top 40 hits or the us will save the world vitriol no it's the fact that regardless of the sad ending there is very little suspense in this movie we basically know what's going to happen br br the one good part of this movie american components russian components all made in taiwan
0	i saw this film last night br br and i'm worried i'm turning into one of those left wing liberals they rightly make fun of in south park because i found it hugely offensive am i being ridiculously sensitive firstly there's the old staple that is america being the only country in the world that is physically capable of anything ever br br secondly and chillingly there is the early meteor strike hitting some unnamed – why do they need a name asian country the reaction to this is to look at it as a warning as in my god imagine the tragedy that could happen because you know it happened to asians it might happen to white americans and that would be tragic br br then later on a bigger meteor hits paris our cast on the ground are irritated because this might mean our boys have less time than they thought not much upset in america no mention that a lot of people have died br br then there's michael clarke duncan a wonderful actor wasted never has a black man been so token among a team of hardcore drillers his job seems to consist of standing in the back occasionally saying hey you da man really why did they even bring him it's not like he's petite he weighed down that shuttle for nothing not once does he lift a tool steer a space ship or even help fix anything that blows up br br even if you ignore the russian peter stormare another great actor wasted in a pointless role who seems drunk most of the time and hits things with instead of fixing them because how we do in russia it's pretty horrific br br all cemented of course by the site of blond blue eyed american children all celebrating in corn fields at being saved and everything being all right because all the death and destruction to the rest of the world is irrelevant br br you expect the bad script the dodgy acting the implausible plot fat middle aged men being trained in 12 days to be astronauts including one who appears to be retarded but i couldn't believe the racism and xenophobia implied in the film and the callous disregard for the lives of anyone not corn fed american br br it's a chilling indictment of the attitude of a section of western society to the world br br and it's a crappy film too
0	as a scot i find the idea of macbeth shifted in time and space to america totally moronic i am sure this doesn't apply to imdb users but why are so many americans unable to relate to any film concept that isn't set in their country this attitude does americans no favours in the big wide world out here br br it was bad enough that the wicker man was remade and set in the usa totaly stripped of its cultural context and with a correct gender change for a leading character br br one wonders what next robert the bruce as a new york cop mary queen of scots as a soccer mom juggling kids a career and relationships br br come on hollywood open up to all the other cultures on the planet
0	the cast played shakespeare br br shakespeare lost br br i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses but why ruin something so good br br is it because 'the scottish is my favorite shakespeare i do not know what i do know is that a certain rev hence tried to do something similar in the victorian era br br in other words you cannot improve perfection br br i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie as the saying goes just does not cut it
0	file this one in the how do movies like this get made ' column a seventies drag indie version of macbeth ' adapted fairly faithfully but pointlessly in a conventionally unconventional black comic style the cast gives it a shot with christopher walken phoning in the eccentricity as and with maura tierney rising above the dull script as pat the other actors are wasted as is the audience's time knee jerk fans of this brand of quirk may like it though 4 out of 10
0	the name of bad company's greatest hits album is called 10 from 6 you could have just turned up this album and cut the sound on this movie most of the songs played in the movie were from this album i guess oldsters during the 1970s were probably tired of all the period pieces made then about the 1930s and 1940s that's how i feel about movies made about the 1970s the characters in the movie looked like they were auditioning for danny why is it that movies have to exaggerate the 1970s the only good period piece i liked was freaks and geeks they cut that television show it was exactly like things were in high school when i was there back circa 1980 i was old enough to remember the 70s and no small town was like this it was totally youth dominated there were no reactionaries talking about the hippies and about the inner city of philly that was more the 70s that i remember as a kid this movie was very dull and cheesy at times i was falling asleep i don't know why an actor who was acting during the 70s appeared in this one he was probably trying to lend it some credibility walken didn't even show up until the second half i guess the only true thing about the movie was the baby boomers were are a spoiled lot all the kids in the movie were spoiled brats i don't know what they had against their father
0	the use of the term 'comedy' with relation to this documentary is an insult to the art of comedy and worse yet is the pain that is inflicted on the viewers of this production almost nothing was funny br br this documentary followed a small group of stand up on the road as they travel from town to town to perform in small clubs br br it's interesting to note that their conversations and behavior off stage and on stage are indistinguishable but sadly equally unfunny br br it's possible to understand the self delusions of grandeur which the featured possess but it's harder to grasp the sounds of laughter heard from their audiences these are the same audiences for whom the lame sitcoms on tv are intended br br this was possibly the worst film i've ever watched in my 50 years of movie viewing
0	i wish i could tell you that this film is as exciting as the theories it espouses but i can't another species could have come and mutated while i waited for some action for such a controversial man darwin lived the most conventional life if you didn't know about the mad theories you could almost mistake him for a stamp collector br br the film makers have cast darwin as a dullard which does him a disservice even when he briefly loses his mind due to his tireless it wasn't interesting to watch maybe great thinkers are dull people i don't know what i was expecting a forehead banging eccentric with wild hair and eyes espousing his love of all things simian the glint of madness straining from a furrowed brow a long haired hermit who to animals a head cradling lunatic with eyes lit up like of truth all of the above would have been great this is the movies for scorsese's sake br br but there was none of that no lightning no thunder no wonder no awe just paul bettany and jennifer connelly fresh from the subtle as breath school of method acting i imagine that someone with darwin's ideas had a brain like a speeding train so why did this film just along chug chug chug like a slow winter the disappointment is immeasurable
0	i have recently become a huge fan of patton i think he's the most deliciously original comedian to come along in ages he is refreshing and fearless in his routines which run the gamut of topics from how much bush sucks to the sleazy exploits of 1970s producer robert evans i'm a longtime fan of maria and her wide eyed innocent schizophrenic routine whenever she effortlessly switches her naturally high pitched voice to one that is clipped and throaty i can't help but giggle i liked brian posehn long before i even knew he was on just shoot me and there is something so innately funny about his aging nerd persona all three of these talented unique comedians headline the comedians of comedy a netflix documentary about their u s tour they truly deserve to be stars and this tour gave them the recognition they so richly deserve i thought no i knew i'd like this movie br br but i was wrong instead of the three comics each getting their own routine segments the comedians of comedy is bogged down by meandering and dull documentary scenes that contain no humor no insight nothing of real interest i think there is a total of 30 minutes of intermittent stand up routines total in the 109 minute movie what a rip off come on is anyone really interested in seeing our stars banter in their rv where's the humor in seeing posehn in an arcade and a comic book shop does anyone find random diner scenes particularly funny if this movie couldn't have shown our comics strutting their stuff at least make it about what life is like on the road it's not even about that worst of all the comics never appear to be having real fun admits how bored he is doing a radio interview posehn sheepishly admits to how much he sucks at giving a tour of his home and nervously improvises every time the camera is pointed at her and her humor there is only sporadic br br sheesh these guys deserve a chance to show the world their unconventional amazingly crafted humor that is a refreshing change of pace from the brainless entertainment of mainstream comics like dane cook instead we have to sit through their mundane everyday routines on the road in a substandard bore of a movie whose quality could easily be surpassed by any student film if you can locate any of or performances on dvd by all means do their talent should be a joy to behold not a chore like it is here
0	andy milligan the independent movie maker from new york directs this little treat as his version of the sweeney todd legend sweeney slits the throats of customers in his barbershop and his cohort mrs lovett turns them into meat pies thankfuly i was well informed of the plot prior to seeing this film travesty milligan for my money has to indeed be running in the lead of worst directors of all time race ed wood looks like orson welles in comparison this movie is so bad in oh so many ways let's take milligan's direction for starters the film quality is grainy the sound quality is grainy many scenes look as if milligan was using a camcorder to film the credits say photograped and directed by andy milligan he wants to take credit for ceilings showing up after a death scene how about the atrocious musical score selected for the film the film cuts with one poor transition after another little logic is used in the creation of the plot the story has little to do with the actual legend of todd the murder scenes are plentiful but not horrifying in any way hands legs and other appendages are cut with the skill in which the editing was done choppily and let's take the breast in the pie scene yes it is in there the pie maker didn't know that an entire breast with nipple filled an entire pie crust later we hear from our characters that they have been careful not to get caught for the 200 plus murders they have done obviously they are a couple of boobs not able to keep abreast of what is going on sorry it was too tempting the actors are not too terribly bad to be honest some even have glimmers of talent and all seem to be genuine english articles many non erotic nude scenes are forced throughout milligan seemingly has some issues regarding sex plot strands are left untied the ending is almost unwatchable due to poor camera work i could go on and on did i like anything about the film not much to be truthful i have a high level of acceptance for films of this ilk in terms of low budgets and marginal talent but this film lacks any real purpose other than to be crude and sick
0	as i write this user comment tim burton's interpretation of the sweeney todd tale is making big money at the box office and the film even earned a couple of oscar nominations if i'm not mistaken i haven't seen it yet but i sincerely hope burton didn't look for inspiration and or stylish trademarks in good old andy milligan's bloodthirsty butchers yes even though the title distinctively mentions butchers the main characters in the plot are a barber the infamous sweeney todd and a female baker together they form a vile alliance where he kills the customers in his shop and she processes the bodies into her famous london meat pies in other words an andy milligan premise at his most typical derivative delirious and amateurish i think the imdb rating for this film speaks for itself although the actual story definitely isn't the worst i've ever seen milligan somehow inexplicably attracts sheer ineptitude the production is one gigantic mess with an incoherent narrative structure truly hideous photography poor lighting lousy acting and directing laughable gore and zilch tension or atmosphere more than half of the footage is pure padding and words fail to describe how boring the film is even with a running time of a mere 80 minutes ed wood ted v mikels and bruno mattei you guys need not fear as none other than andy milligan is – hands down – the worst director ever but i don't think he cared maybe if you dispose of a really high level of tolerance bloodthirsty butchers is worth one viewing
0	is the boob in the pie every thing else in it is an abortion a malformed failure of a film at least you can see and hear what goes on in an ed wood movie usually high schools drama clubs do better than this on a routine basis once you've you've seen the breast pie bit you can turn it off and go watch hannibal
0	this is awful you just could't believe it the score is annoying the filming is bad for example sometimes you see the shadow of the cameraman appearing on some actors faces the quality of the movie is ultra bad seems like it was made in the it's terrible there is a bit of blood in the beginning and through the movie but always too dark filmed no gore no effects the director made some better one like blood rites but out there there is a following of the man 'cause searching to find this cheap flick isn't that hard but you have to pay hard earned cash for it surely this will get in my top ten of worst horrormovies ever i don't know if i would call it horror there is too much talking you will get bloodthirsty after watching it
0	the word boring gets thrown around way too often when referring to exactly how bad a low budget horror movie might or might not be i've seen many a b movie many horrible terribly inept b movies some with a production value of a few hundred bucks does ineptness lousy acting worse continuity and embarrassing budgets really make a movie unwatchable some would no doubt way yes most of which are probably huge fans of the matrix well i hate big budget movies so i say no bad can sometimes be funny blood freak sometimes even mind blowing troll 2 but boring will always be unwatchable hey kinda like bloodthirsty butchers which reminds me i'm writing a review for this pile of garbage uh yeah anyway this is one of late british director andy milligan's many alternatives to sleeping pills this one is based on sweeney todd great milligan takes a boring story and still manages to butcher it hey that's pretty funny i said bu sorry i keep getting distracted this isn't exactly easy on second thought i'll make it easy no gore no scares no entertainment just unlikeable annoying people having incoherent conversations that's bloodthirsty butchers oh yeah and something about a barber killing people and something or other about meat pies i don't know it's not important br br for something a little more rewarding from andy milligan there's always the only other one i've seen the rats are coming the werewolves are here yeah you heard me but hows about we forget about this milligan guy all together and pick up something sweet like sick girl or goes to camp whatever you decide just know bloodthirsty butchers sucks possibly even more than any other version of this already lackluster tale and that b movie fans is really saying something 2 10
0	when i bought this film i expected to get a fun 1970's exploitation film instead i got this bore fest by amateur auteur andy milligan ah andy milligan with his tight editing breakneck pacing and wonderfully well known actors you'd almost think you're watching one of his home movies seriously i couldn't even stay awake the first time i tried to watch it the scenes of boring people dragged on an on and whenever someone got killed the film would slow down sometimes it would speed up too making the characters voices sound like chipmunks which was probably the best thing about this film the script actually seemed a bit better than the film and seems more well suited to be in a soap opera than in a grainy 70's sleeping pill where the actors constantly stumble over it's lines the cover said their prime cuts were curiously erotic but thoroughly brutal trust me there is nothing erotic about this film oh we do get to see characters that resemble extra lumpy cottage cheese making out but that's about it and as far as brutal well the viewer is brutalized the most with this here film and another thing
0	you know the story of sweeney todd now most likely thanks to tim burton's recent movie you probably don't know it though from this take on the old tale from andy milligan that notorious sleaze merchant that gave al adamson and ted v mikels a run for their money br br it had to happen eventually in my years of watching horror and exploitation from the 60's to the 80's i'm finally reviewing an andy milligan movie you see from 1964 to 1990 andy gave us many an exploitation and horror movie none of which was any good and barely watchable the bloodthirsty butchers is no exception br br there is dialog and well there is talk and that's one of the things you will find here lots and lots of talk the movie reaches almost manos the hands of fate levels at times as you wait tirelessly for something to happen while i love cheap looking gore effects the violence is too few and far between and in spite of it's reputation the breast scene isn't that shocking br br i love cheap and sleazy exploitation as much as the next trash cinema devotee but bloodthirsty butchers is the kind of bad that mst3k would tear apart mercilessly sadly milligan would die of aids in 1991 and if there is any movie of his i'd say i sort of like it would be the delirious the ghastly ones this is no ghastly ones though it's just bad
0	for the uninitiated almost any andy milligan film is a shock but despite the fact that i've seen many of his films this one still takes the cake for sheer shoddiness br br this is of course milligan's take on the sweeney todd tale done with period costumes but not necessarily period hairstyles in some cases and the usual headache inducing camera work grainy quality as for the gore well the version i saw may have been cut some for there's not a lot for a film with bloodthirsty in the title the best indication of subversive film making here is a meat pie consisting only of some poor victim's tit br br so while i will still treasure this piece of uh work on my video shelf it's definitely somewhat of a letdown as far as content though recommended for only the foolhardy morbidly curious 3 out of 10
0	what a terrible movie this was i made it about 50 minutes into it and started skipping chapters until the end the plot is nothing special and the dialog from the movie deviates from the main story so much that your head will explode out of rage many useless minutes wasted just listening to characters jabber on about something irrelevant to the plot and or something that could said in a shorter amount of time the camera work is shaky and grainy it seemed mr milligan needed to take his finger off of the zoom button i noticed also that at some points during this movie it seemed that andy was having seizures and would uncontrollably shake the camera the splices between scenes were jumpy and didn't flow the murder scenes were nothing special incredibly and laughably fake barely any gore as the title suggests this movie runs about 1 hour 20 minutes and the murder scenes take up about 1 minute total of the whole movie if that what a wretched piece of garbage this movie was andy milligan is in fact probably one of the worst directors to plague mankind with his talentless directing and camera work usually i can make it through really bad horror movies and laugh about it later bloodthirsty butchers however i can't i am just angry i wasted an hour and a half of my life watching this what i wouldn't do to gain it back take my suggestion and do not see this movie unless you plan on falling asleep terrible
0	what a waste of a film once again the film industry does not trust to make a film that could have been just about the man's ideas there is virtually nothing on his theories or evolution instead the most boring story of home life and relationship with one daughter a ponderous script great liberties taken with darwin's life dialogue given to his character that i find hard to believe he would have voiced darwin never gave up his believe in a higher power he may not quite rightly have believed in the established christian idea of god but was not an atheist which this film implies what would have been a riveting and much better film is if they had started with the publication of on the origin of species and constructed a story of the great revolution that entailed and of an amazing cast of characters involved on all sides instead we got a plodding boring drama mostly made up a great injustice
0	hip distinguished doctor james coburn as peter carey arrives to accept a position as pathologist at a boston hospital almost immediately mr coburn beds beautiful jennifer o'neill as georgia hightower while sleeping with ms o'neill coburn is awakened by an emergency involving a botched abortion the fifteen year old who bleeds to death happens to be the daughter of the hospital's big donor dan o'herlihy as j d randall coburn doesn't believe the man arrested doctor pal james hong as david tao committed the crime although mr hong admits to performing illegal abortions on the side while trying to clear his friend coburn wades through a thickening br br the carey treatment 3 29 72 blake edwards james coburn jennifer o'neill michael blodgett james hong
0	not many people remember the carey treatment and i can't say i blame them br br blake edwards did this during his lean years i e between pink panther movies and for a story of a doctor turned detective coburn working to solve a murder in his hospital it's actually pretty forgettable br br coburn is dependable as always and o'neill is beautiful as always but there just seems to be something missing from the proceedings the story twists and turns aren't very involving and even the climax which is supposed to be nerve wracking is gut wrenching instead br br a missed opportunity altogether and an unfortunate one at that since it was based on a michael crichton book br br oh well at least crichton didn't write a sequel to it br br one star carey on coburn
0	esther williams plays a romantically unattached water skiing secretary who longs to stop walking on the water and be some man's wife van johnson and tony martin are her potential choices for a husband despite fine aquatic sequences filmed at florida's gardens this romantic comedy is awfully stale as helmed by plodding director charles walters everything here is made to seem intentionally innocuous which doesn't lend the picture much staying power even esther's big moments in the water are not quite up to the mesmerizing leaps from her other swimming vehicles though they are preferable to the asides with the men both of whom are colorless carroll baker in her film debut as martin's disgruntled ex girlfriend is the liveliest of the bunch flimsy stuff indeed 1 2 from
0	first ifc runs town and country and now this the difference between that stinker and this pink panther rip off is that town and country was watchable this isn't br br i can only surmise that the cast signed up for this so they could goof off in europe on somebody else's dime belushi is especially irritating his scene with candy doing a z grade dom deluise was torture speaking of torture five minutes of the talentless shepherd and i bet the prisoners at gitmo would crack like walnuts br br the real crime besides this being green lighted is shepherd's character a mousy wife who takes a monte carlo casino for a half million bucks if you buy that i have some oceanfront property in arizona you might be interested in
0	1st watched 12 26 2008 dir eugene levy corny comedy murder mystery with very few laughs the movie appears to be based on an earlier italian movie according to the credits but was re written by two fairly popular american romantic comedy writers but this one by charles shyer nancy meyers does not cut it compared to their other efforts the story is about a couple of down and out traveling americans played by richard lewis and sean young who stumble upon a lost dog and hope to make a fortune in reward money after seeing an ad in the paper for the dachsund's return upon trying to return it they see a hand sticking out of a garage door at the lady's residence that they believe is attached to the rest of the dead body of the woman who is supposed to give them the money they freak out and instead of contacting the police and telling them the truth they make out like runaways from the scene expecting to be framed for the murder the other characters in the film are met on a train prior to this and hang around a monte carlo gambling resort doing various things to be pulled into the story the other cast members include character actors john candy james belushi cybill shepherd george hamilton and others after the police find out about the death they start questioning the main characters and of course they have to work thru their goofy lies to figure out what really happened none of the character actors mentioned earlier can bring this movie out of it's mediocre state despite some funny moments mostly provided by the belushi shepherd couple this isn't a horrible movie it just isn't that good there are plenty of average movies out there and this is just another one for the pile try it maybe you'll like it probably you won't
0	this flick which is a k a life in the fast lane is easily one of the least entertaining movies i've seen in a long time i think it was made in mind of the sick twisted and jaded l a women who represent about of the population in the states the characters are all one dimensional even the lead after she stabs her boyfriend in the head with some scissors a cheap laugh is attempted and by sticking a cork in the boyfriend's skull to stop the bleeding oh clever patrick dempsey whose movies are almost always a class act sarcasm plays this devil who changes her life but from what we've seen her life was this series of vignettes to begin with no emotion no laughs no story the only reason i give this a 2 is that jeffrey jones is ok as the priest and there is a bit of style albiet zero substance in the camerawork otherwise one of the 5 worst films i've seen grade 2 out of 10 an f i think that even the most drugged out junkie who would laugh at a toilet seat falling would dislike this film i can't stress enough how much you should stay away br br
0	the imdb plot summary erroneously makes it sound like it is noah taylor's movie when fairuza balk is the central character it is unbelievable how such a cast of established actors could have been in such an amateurish pointless non movie balk breaks up with boyfriend taylor sleeps with the devil i guess played by dempsey and accidentally kills taylor who follows her about for the rest of the movie as a ghost may be the worst movie i have ever seen
0	i just got back from seeing comedian it was alright it kept me looking at the screen its just not the type of thing i like to go pay 7 to see br br now don't get me wrong it'd make a great hbo feature if this were something i was watching on tv i'd be hooked right in it gives an amazing look at what comics go through before and after getting on stage it will interest anyone who likes watching comics br br but when i go to the movies i like to be entertained i'm not there to be educated now i know what its like for jerry seinfeld before he goes out on stage great but truthfully i'd rather just laugh at his jokes than worry about any of that br br one more thing with the bad attitude adams has i'd expect to see him taking my order from burger king before i see his hbo special he wasn't funny he's the kind of person that you love to hate
0	i liked half life i am still it's fan it was frightening intelligent and challenging i don't tell any news it is one the best fps ever made maybe i'm too hardcore half life fan but the so called half life 2 is not half life 2 br br and i have a question is this the next chapter of half life maybe the creators valve thinks so but i don't where are the intelligent enemies where is the frightening atmosphere nowhere i believe they wanted to make a bit different half life instead of another research station story but they didn't just made a very different one they made something that has to do with half life like for example quake does to doom the entire game so unsightly and unreal that it's almost forlorn br br though the physics are truly great and there were a few good level to play the idea to make a revolutionary driven gameplay has utterly failed when you get the gravity gun that can move objects you can expect with rights to use it as a weapon that would turn the schematic fps gameplay upside down the truth is you can't use gravity gun as a real weapon why because the best you can do is throwing boxes and barrels that don't do much damage if you want to keep an object in front of you to protect it can fall from about 3 shots if you want to throw an exploding barrel to your enemy it can explode in your own hand the gravity gun doesn't work as a weapon the best usage is solving some puzzles i ask valve why the truth is you must use your boring schematic fps weapons to the end except for last level weapons are not that made original half life a classic if gravity gun would be always like at the last level a real weapon i'd admire what valve did but not this this is disappointing br br so if you want half life then you are searching at the wrong place maybe you will enjoy it but i repeat it is everything but not half life and even not a faithful continuation of that this is the greatest disappointment of all time valve have shown they can make awful games too they have managed that
0	this film had all the ingredients of a good adventure movie but it revealed incompetence at almost every level br br the presence of roger moore in the cast list is usually a sign that the movie is not going to be anything more than mediocre because moore always has lead roles and he can't act but this movie also had ian holm and lee marvin in it and was based on a wilbur smith book so i thought i'd give it a chance when i saw the dvd for sale in the bargain bin br br it was a mistake the opening scene appeared to start in the middle of a reel with sound suddenly appearing as if the first second of the soundtrack had been truncated the scene showed a at sea with a german crew this bad editing was a sign of things to come but the scene with the was interesting enough to keep me watching the special effects were good and the crew wore the proper uniforms and spoke in german indicating that the director at least paid attention to historical detail i was surprised br br so i kept watching and then moore appeared and my were confirmed bad acting clichéd lines clichéd cinematography and cheap humour but worst of all there is a disastrous attempt to blend the light hearted feel of the film with serious drama and tragedy it just does not work br br the film ends as suddenly and as badly as it started – in the middle of a reel
0	how to take charles darwin's fantastic intellectual journey and turn it into a chick flick his pivotal and seminal ideas and their radical influence on western thought and capitalist society are untouched except for two brief scenes in one of which it is claimed he is killing god pure to make the movie emotional and the rest of the movie buckles to that purpose it consists entirely of melodramatic and long family scenes with overloud music at which one is beholden to cry anyone who actually read origin of species would be vividly aware that there was no breach with god in any of darwin's work to the contrary there was an increased awe and respect and a revolutionary new way of looking at things a good movie about darwin could be educational thoughtful and deeply inspiring even in a religious sense but that would contradict the soap opera intentions of this flick this is a flick that is designed to make people wail in contrived sympathy and then feel transformed although unable to understand why it makes fast use of darwin's great name only as marketing clout as one would drop a famous name at a party to create an impression sad that the sets and costumes are so good production values except for the writing were obviously high see it if you want to weep for the loss of intelligence in american literature
0	acolytes presents an interesting mix of original concepts in screaming teen cliché horror with a more thriller like pacing in some ways acolytes is very successful but in many other ways the film fails miserably br br overall acolytes avoided the typical archetypes of the naivety and innocence of youth of endless horror films in the like of cabin fever texas chainsaw massacre and countless other films where unsuspecting and relatively naive and innocent teenagers have sex run around screaming and one by one are plucked off by some sort of monster instead this innocence is replaced with pride retaliation and arrogance the characters had several opportunities to save themselves from immanent death and despair but failed to do so due to their own personal demons in the end you were left with the feeling that there were no and perhaps are no innocent victims br br as the name implies the film also touches greatly on following a leader or authority this was used in a direct sense of if the main character would become like the serial killer and was also used less directly throughout the film following a central figure is a reoccurring theme throughout the film br br through all this the film makers also incorporated a lot of cliché which i suspect was intentional and gave the film a unique mixture of depth as well as shallowness which i found intriguing this perhaps inadvertently plays well with the characters who are at first appearance very shallow but as the story unfolds it becomes obvious that they are at least the two main male characters quite complex br br technically the film has a lot of problems however the cinematography which is typically regarded highly i find rather sophomoric and over stylized utilizing formulaic 2 3 approaches far too many transitions i felt were also over stylized the use of symbolism was not only vague but also greatly over used br br the plot was poorly planned and relied exclusively on misinformation in order to achieve a rather hokey twist ending which was poorly resolved and leaves viewers confused methods used to resolve the climax are cheap and ill prepared motivations are routinely unclear and major plot points remain untied in the end br br overall the film's relative originality themes and thesis are lost in a maze of poor technical execution over stylized imagery unclear motives obtuse and unnecessary symbolism and cheap twists maintained only by a lack of or entirely incorrect information br br if the film were better executed it would have been excellent however acolytes receives only two stars in my opinion
0	it seems incredible that the same decade which brought star wars to the screen such unutterable tripe as this and many other movies i am reminded of the similarly lavish but equally wretched outlined elsewhere br br whatever motivated a list actors to sign on for such wastes of celluloid is frankly beyond this writer they must have been very very desperate to be perfectly candid roger moore's appearance in any movie is the kiss of death although extremely handsome in his youth his entire acting career has been predicated upon an ability to raise one eyebrow every emotion from a to b is conveyed by this simple stratagem his were the dog days of james bond lee marvin on the other hand has featured in some very worthy outings perhaps most memorably your and 'the dirty he has a comic streak but he is much better when he plays it straight br br the excellent ian holm is a throwaway hardly recognisable blacked up as a mute african everyone else just turned up for their pay cheques br br the only plausible and watchable element is the german cruiser it looks like a very large model but it is believably massive and appears authentic as do its crew the rest isn't even hokum the childish comedy jars with the brutality and violence in a story that meanders clumsily about as if the script itself had had too many whiffs of lee marvin's gin here is a director who simply doesn't know where he's going there are hints of 'the african queen' a snatch from 'the pride the and one or two other rip offs from movies who's titles don't come readily to mind br br strangely i have seen it 3 times each occasion it has been shown on television when i have been laid low with a cold or the flu perhaps that is influencing my judgement but not much br br compare it with any indiana jones movie and you will see what i mean br br i have given it two stars one for the battleship and the other because it finally comes to an end though heaven knows it takes long enough to do that br br time for another i think
0	this western musical comedy is not one of the best of the genre i have seen i found it much too slow it just plodded along to the inevitable end i also found it disjointed i couldn't wait for it to be over randolph scott is the headliner here and lloyd bridges also stars but for my money money edgar buchanan is the best of the bunch buchanan appeared in many westerns in his day many times providing comic relief as he does in this picture i also liked ann dvorak as rita otherwise though i can't think of much to recommend this movie the movie is based on a novel by ernest who also wrote the novel stagecoach which was mad into a movie of the same name in 1939 and remade in 1966 and again in 1986 the 1939 version of stagecoach is in my mind one of the best movies ever made anyway as for town my vote is a 3 10
0	five years after the us civil war western folk are more concerned with the age old war between and cattle ranchers the cattlemen herd their wares from texas to the trail town of kansas there the cowboys find not only big money but also big confrontation with tall in the saddle marshal randolph scott as dan mitchell tries to keep peace in the town mr scott has experience between trail hands and saloon patrons he also juggles the town's finest looking women sexy saloon singer ann dvorak as rita and pretty church lady rhonda fleming as sherry boozy county sheriff edgar buchanan as bravo trimble offers more comic relief than sharp shooting assistance br br town begins with some promising symbolism and contrast gunshots interrupt scott and ms fleming singing a hymn in church then the camera switches to ms dvorak sexily singing her saloon number which causes a man to fire his gun in pleasure after that it really becomes quite a standard western it is somehow duller than it should be but not quite awful young lloyd bridges appears as one of the leggy costume is the film's greatest asset in it she is a real mover br br town 1 11 46 edwin l marin randolph scott ann dvorak edgar buchanan
0	so this is where columbia's head of their short subjects unit got his directorial start eh yeah it's none other than mr jules white who is credited or is it rather exposed as the director of this entry into mgm's dogville series given co credit as co director is one zion myers whose name is heretofore unknown to us mr meyers was no doubt the guy who controlled the four legged thespians and was responsible for training and acting in short he must have been the dog trainer on the set br br the title of this comedy short is no doubt a play on the mgm feature of the same year the big house which starred chester morris wallace beery robert montgomery and a stellar cast in support we must plead ignorance in regards to this title not having seen it up to this point sorry schultz but there are many of the doggie gags that relate to what we've read about the movie not to mention some particular character specific gags for example we observed a canine convict who st st stuttered and deduced correctly that the bow wow actor was mimicking character comedian roscoe ates we later cross checked with the cast of the big house and presto his name is there brilliant deduction one fit for holmes watson br br the practice of lampooning popular features was already a tried and true practice in the realm of the comedy short it was one that seemed to draw no objections from the producers and copyright owners of the major films but rather quite contrarily received heaps of approval after all imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery besides any producer would welcome even some seemingly irreverent parodying as for the movie itself we found it to be interesting in a sort of perverse manner seeing so many of man's best friends being so artificially animated into one long and boring sort of anthropomorphic gag seemed very tiring to we who make up the audience i mean just how many were made to bark needlessly in order to achieve the illusion of br br when it comes to pets or animal companions as the politically correct crowd prefers we are quite eclectic favoring not only dogs but also cats and we don't enjoy seeing any animal exploited in such a non funny extended play format br br as incredible as it may seem the step that mr jules white made from mgm's shorts to heading up columbia's 2 reeler production would seem to have been not only a tep up in the area of finance but al o in the tic content we never thought that being producer director for the likes of such luminaries as the 3 stooges andy clyde and hugh herbert as well as some who certainly had seen better days such as charley chase buster keaton and harry langdon would be a step up cinematically br br in case we haven't made our point yet we're officially panning this one so view it at your own risk we warned you br br note we read excellent accounts of both the big house and the laurel hardy send up pardon us hal roach mgm 1931 in both mr laurel mr hardy by john mccabe 1962 and the films of laurel hardy by william k everson 1967 both books have our most enthusiastic endorsement br br note the prison picture became a genre of its own all owing a debt to the big house in pardon us laurel hardy hal roach and its director did a first class spoof the first of many for a prison comedy became a required theme for so many a screen funny man to come
0	well i am so glad i watched this on hbo instead of paying for it in the theaters or video store the movie has some points but if you want to make it a worthwhile movie i suggest that you become what the main characters are called stoners br br 2 10
0	there no doubt in one mined that this movie is stupid and unfunny joke but tell the truth it is quite entertaining if you re first time viewer and try not to analyzed anything over all the movie have a very good ideas but badly written br br the story of the two losers waking up to find out that they can't remember what happen to them the day before only to find out later that they are after by the angry twin girl friends aliens transsexual stripper aliens nerds and some gangs members br br isn't it like the bourne identity yeah yeah i know how can i compare the two movies but what the hell they both have no memories peoples were after them and so on br br anyway the movie is stupid and is only for the viewer that like stupid movie br br reason to watch · loads of young talented actors · very stupid after all you know it a stupid movie why not make it extreme br br reason not to · if you like to analyzed then forget it · talented young actors turn bad · good plod turn really bad br br rating 4 10 grade e br br br br 'dude where's my car' wait what do you expected from ashton movie i think almost every people got the same answer for this guy 'a really stupid movie' apart from 'that 70s' shows' this guy really has nothing to offer his fan he should thank the series for his reputation 'dude where's my car' is one of his trademark somehow his film is even worst than adam sandler's movies can you imagine that the movie is really non sense no story line and no nothing mara jennifer garner alison sweeney and s w should not have wasted their talent on this garbage they even came up with dude where's my car' this shows how the movie companies are dying of making money rather than quality br br max 4 10 br br recommendation borrow it from your friends or just forget about it
0	well dude where's my car might be at least a novelty as one of few hollywood films that seems to have been written cast filmed edited in less than a day i honestly can't believe this got made or that i allowed my friends to make me sit through the entire thing the jokes are too stupid and predictable to be dumb funny and the actors involved don't seem like they would be capable of pulling off any kind of funny had the script actually provided it oddly enough unlike most mindless slapstick comedies this movie actually has too much plot every scene seems to introduce a new moronic and uninteresting subplot of course they were obviously going for moronic but it doesn't work on any level whatsoever there is only one aspect of this film i enjoyed from the old show salute your shorts has a very small role this is the role that will turn him into the next richard gere though you just watch
0	i just finishing watching goliath awaits that i ordered from my library i remembered it vaguely from years ago and wanted to watch it with my son anyway the movie was less than 2 hours running time and i thought it was much longer when i first saw it the back of the vhs box states that the goliath a nazi file whose secrets could destroy the free world forever the divers were supposedly on a covert mission to retrieve the demonic document there was nothing even spoken about retrieving this document also the box says that the bestial ship's insatiable boiler feeds on human blood that would make this a horror movie and there was also nothing revealed in the movie about this i can't remember the details when i watched this years ago on tv but could the back of this box actually be true maybe the 3 hour movie revealed more details br br just wondering if anyone knows anything about this
0	i know i know it's difficult if not paradoxical for there to be such a thing as believable fantasy but to me there is also such a condition wherein too much unbelievability with or distracts from my overall opinion of the movie the latter was the case for me with regard to goliath awaits not only did i have too many unanswered questions concerning the storyline but some of the acting too i thought was a bit over the top maybe though it was the writing asking them to recite too many trite predictable cliched over reactions others have said enough about the plot i just wish that it was done and i think that it could have been more convincingly p s this is a fresh comment about this film i just finished watching it a couple of minutes ago not a recollection from years ago
0	there ought to be some kind of prosecution to punish producers from financing screenplays this stupid i feel that some kind of of bad film might prevent more films this idiotic from being made sure it has an interesting cast of characters but i don't think i've ever seen a more cardboard performance from an entire cast as in this uniquely crappy piece of crap that director ought to be punished somehow for not eliciting at least some kind of performance out of these people so detachment is a theme no really they'll beat you over the head with this one it doesn't mean every character has to recite their lines as if they on npr did i mention this movie was crappy lastly i'm not sure what connection one's memories would have with terminal bone cancer but i'm reasonably certain if you were totally brain dead your cancer would continue to grow regardless this movie is an insult to cancer patients medical professionals and non retarded people oh and lastly fly because they produce a sufficient amount of lift for their mass by beating their wings just like every other flying insect i absolutely despise people presenting false knowledge as fact next time do a little research before using an imbecilic misconception as a premise for an entire freaking movie just kidding believe in jesus
0	i can remember reading that darwin had a pivotal experience in the galapagos islands seeing the vast range of animal life there and intern penned his theory of evolution not according to this movie it was inspired by the british countryside ok and as john cleese would say right i also did not think that darwin was a man suffering from deep personal conflict and someone who suffered dark reveries and flights of anguish according to this film he was it is sad that he apparently lost one of his daughters to illness but i don't think him losing a family member would have impacted on the mans scientific abilities very much well not according to you get the picture i think there is nothing worse than when science gets turned into fable and to an extent this film comes off as trying to debunk evolutionary theory by saying it came from a man who was emotionally unstable which to me is just plain gross i think charles darwin was the soul of scientific enquiry cool and calm and always thinking logically this film seeks to dramatize the undramatic and sensationalize clear headed scientific exploration it is like a tale i would not recommend it
0	i rented this movie because elijah wood has done some good work and i thought this might be an overlooked treasure it was not a treasure i don't know if this was straight to video but it should have been straight to the dump br br elijah wood fans will like the fact that he appears shirtless in a much too brief shower scene but no sane person would like this script imagine memento played by teen actors but ten times more confusing and a hundred times less plausible case in point janeane garofalo plays a caring psychologist apparently keeping the chain of mediocrity alive' br br as if false memories and mind over matter medicine weren't hokey enough the movie also hinges on one of those unexplained psychic twin bonds that keep the plot moving and the audience baffled this same twin bond creates a few too many contrived love scenes between wood's character and the girl from she's all that who plays the saintly sister of wood's angry cancer victim friend br br adding to the of this screenplay wood's other friends are a mentally challenged cancer victim and kidney a young black boy afflicted with a mysterious kidney disease kidney's dying wish comes true when dr garofalo gives him his own walkman this character's hackneyed function in the story is matched by his on again off again relationship to walking usually bound to a wheelchair kidney has several inexplicable scenes showing him pushing others around in it br br characterization may be one small detail but it is indicative of this film's many other flaws the bumblebee flies anyway is definitely bumbling but it never flies
0	terrible acting terrible script wholly unrealistic the bumblebee flies anyway exemplifies the cliches and sentimentalism that movie studios love to cram down viewers' throats elijah wood is unimaginably bad in the primary role and the plot points are contrived and sappy cook's and wood's relationship is laughable at best but the worst element of bumblebee is the script this is some of the most mind numbingly bad dialogue i have ever had the misfortune to hear actually crawling inside my ears and stinging my eardrums would be preferable to hearing elijah wood robotically spit out his pseudo profound lines i wish a bumblebee project would be performed on me so i could mercifully have no memories of this stinker
0	an annoying and talentless american documentary maker learns of a legendary br br south african monster the half caste tradition says that it is a half human half leopard creature with the closest parallel being that of the werewolf of european tradition rather than focus on the creature the film follows the meanderings of the film crew there is little action or suspense until late in the film this problem is exacerbated by numerous irritating characters generating a ceaseless amount of even more irritating talk the basic premise is wasted since it is sidelined by the inexplicable focus on the documentary crew br br perhaps the director was influenced by the approach of the blair witch project 1999 or the last broadcast 1998 regardless the film fails on most levels avoid at all costs
0	i remember seeing this at my local blockbuster and picked it up cause i was curious i liked movies about mythological creatures i like movies about werewolves vampires zombies etc this is based on half caste a half human half leopard creature that preys on the people of africa br br the movie is horrendous the actors are terrible there is no script whatsoever it's all improvised the whole thing is filmed at night because they say that is the only time you ever see it it's obvious bull bleep they film at night to make it scary but they have failed to scare me after the first person was killed i put this back in the case and took it back to blockbuster one of the most boring movies i've ever seen br br now you are probably saying i have no right to review a movie if i haven't finished it well this is one of the films that didn't deserve to be watched all the way through br br 1 star out of 10 this is really bad
0	probably the worst movie i have ever seen it is so cheesily filmed the focus is not even on this supposed real half caste it is more on the crew coming from hollywood to make the movie no cinematic significance whatsoever and if i could take back the almost 1 1 2 hours that i spent watching this film i would feel much better br br at first it starts out giving you the impression it will be filmed somewhat generically like an actual hollywood production however then they go into the narration of the story and it's filmed so f ing terribly it's supposed to be a take on blair witch project really since they pretty much use what you would think is 'real camera footage' it's not don't be fooled br br worst movie i have ever seen on the positive side it has like one semi scary scene in it and the visuals of the half caste weren't too bad looking at all don't rent
0	this movie was a big disappointment the plot sounded great about a half human half leopard creature in africa that becomes the subject of a documentary by young american adults when many of the crew members are found dead the 2 survivors are taken into questioning i wouldn't even call this a horror movie since most of the movie is actually about the mis adventures of the aforementioned narcissistic 20 somethings which include sex and smoking animal dung to get high isn't as entertaining as it sounds trust me you rarely get to see the creature and the main actor who also happens to be the director screen writer editor and producer is incredibly annoying br br i was finally so annoyed by the never ending dialogue that i fast forwarded to the end i had guessed the ending in less than 10 minutes into the movie and i was right thus this awful movie is utterly predictable too as if it wasn't bad enough moral of the story avoid movies that are acted directed edited produced and written by the same nobody and avoid this movie unless held at gunpoint
0	i swear i had never seen such a bad movie as half caste is not only because it just makes no sense is a huge piece of and self confidence that makes me puke br br sebastian in spanish has a similar pronunciation to which means out of life and happiness makes here a one man army movie thinking he is sam raimi or the boys who directed the blair witch project this is the blair project with an expensive low budget br br the story a couple of american filmmakers that go to africa to make a documentary of the half caste is just no sense the way of filming inserting high speed shots with slow motion shots just your stomach more than the stupid lines what the hell is that dialog about bestiality or the lame performances by the way i don't believe this cast or caste is american they all look european to me br br to finish this just say that the filmmakers made an intelligent move about selling the movie they put a fake award achievement as most original film and a nice cover in spain the cover had the half caste image in negative so i feel now unhappy because i can't demand my 14 euros back
0	you know those movies that are so unspeakably bad that you have to laugh half caste wasn't one of them which sounds good right but no it's not it's not a bad attempt at a horror movie that's fun to watch because it's lame or not well acted or has bad special effects or anything else like that no half caste is just plain boring they don't even make an attempt to be scary until the last 20 minutes are so it's just kids running around in the african bush country and getting high off of elephant dung for the first 75 of the movie and it's not even funny the last 20 minutes though are hilarious i have no idea what happened but it was really fun to watch that cgi leopard rip out the throats of all of those white guys i couldn't tell apart anyway if you're in the mood for a bad horror movie don't rent this one because you'll go to sleep before they get to the fun stuff if you do accidentally rent this movie i'd recommend fast forwarding to the end and skipping any scene that happens in daylight you won't miss anything you won't have any idea which character is which or exactly what is going on even if you do watch all of the back story
0	in this horrible attempt at a blair witch mockumentary a bunch of people go to africa to investigate a creature called the half caste it's pretty obvious that there was no script to speak of and that everything was improvised that can work if you have good actors which this film didn't br br this movie tries to gain points for originality by exploring a more obscure myth and an exotic culture as a result there are a lot of scenes out in the bush where characters do quirky african stuff like eating elephant dung there is also some pretty good footage of lions eating from a national geographic perspective but there's not a single scare in the whole movie br br if you've seen cannibal holocaust or the blair witch project this movie will hold no surprises for you and you can probably watch better lion footage on the discovery channel br br definitely a half effort br br a note to the filmmakers guys do us all a favor and next time save the how i spent my african vacation home movie for your family and close friends nobody else wants to see it
0	this film is what happens when people see like in this particular one blair witch project and say hell people running around with cameras acting slash documentary themed no i can do it and start out with a lame idea make up a terrible script and get a bunch of talentless actors and start shooting a film plot is that in africa there a a breed of man like animals who hunt and kill humans the locals think that it's a demon or a evil spirit but our wild bunch are in africa to get some proof of there own no need for more words on the plot this movie get's a 1 out of 10 and i am trying to find something good to say about this movie but after a long time thinking nothing nada zero null
0	this could have been a great movie with plenty of educational potential for teachers around the world about evolution biology the creative work in science research and darwin's life but it is not br br the screenplay is mostly historically inaccurate and transforms a true story into a mexican soup opera melodrama while it is true that darwin gradually lost his religious beliefs this was in great part due to his findings during the voyage of the and not solely due to the loss of his daughter he was certainly disturbed by his loss but that did not made him literally insane delusional and detached from his friends and family the such portrayal of darwin is an invention of the script writer thus it cannot be used in any way as place to learn a bit about darwin's life and psyche according to most historians darwin had the theory ready by the end of the voyage and kept it from going public because he wanted to develop further the consequences of it and check against more data in the movie it is an imaginary conflict of darwin with his religious beliefs and the mental illness that he developed after his daughter's death that kept him from going public br br the movie brings a modern situation the vs scientists debate into the life and times of darwin thus it is anachronistic it depicts thomas not as a man trying to develop further understanding of biology but as someone eager to kill god in his own words from the movie and destroy the church who would accept the theory of evolution for such purposes and not because it was a synthesis of plenty of disconnected data is presented as a very arrogant and insensible person a combination that i interpret was an attempt to ridicule active atheists who speak up against religion in real life accepted darwin's ideas after publication only gradually and before the work of darwin he thought that there was not enough evidence to support evolution his first support of evolution was published one month after the origin of species became public he was agnostic but did not think it was necessary to kill god only thought that there was not enough evidence to believe in the supernatural the debate vs scientists appears throughout the movie and catch phrases such as it is only a theory are part of the discussion of course no such dispute or catch phrases existed at that time in fact the anglican church published a positive review of the saying that they saw god's work in evolution in some sense quite in fact in contradiction to the way that the clergy is portrayed in the screenplay br br another awful aspect of this movie is that it gives the wrong impression to the general public that scientific research is done by a solitary crazy man who just writes a lot nothing could be further from the truth the conception of the theory of evolution was the result of thorough observations of living forms by darwin during five years in the hms and was developed gradually as it can be seen from darwin's notes of the voyage even though the voyage was the sole most important part of darwin's life to the conception of origin of species the voyage is briefly mentioned only once at the beginning and no attempt is made to show that the book came as an elaborate analysis of observations to make it worse darwin is shown performing a single experiment pigeon breeding to test his theory and in the end quits it and i'm not really sure whether such experiment did actually occur br br great disappointment it is not in any way a homage to darwin and science
0	aside from the gunfight scene i felt the movie was a waste of celluloid robert duvall kevin costner and annette bening could have played those roles in their sleep the dialog was marginally tolerable and there was plenty of it no one sat together quietly in this movie the plot was all over the map as if they could not decide how many themes to cram into the story there was no subtlety at all foreshadowing hit you between the eyes and they led you by the nose through most of the story i think they added all the dialog to make sure you didn't miss anything and the editing really needed tightening up each actor's screen time was more quantity than quality again too much dialog br br the entire story took place over the course of a few days but everything that happened took on epic proportions much like how day to day happenings seemed huge to you in high school but in the grand scheme really weren't that important yes the bad guys beat up and killed they beat up button they killed the dog all things which would get boss and blood up but the importance was diluted by all of the deep meaningful conversations which dominated most of the movie these guys worked together for 10 years and they're just now talking about this stuff the only time there wasn't much dialog was in the gunfight scene which is probably why i liked it br br finally someone give annette bening a the wispy strands of hair around her face that were i suppose to make her look a bit more romantic actually made her look a little deranged if she worked outside the home it would have made more sense plus why wasn't she married already there seemed to be several kind and gentle her words single men in town aside from the marshal and his cronies in fact none of the bad guys seemed to want her either a usual plot device in other movies she stayed cooped up in the house most of the time and really didn't seem to have much connection to the people in town makes you wonder br br in all the movie was entirely too long too chatty and too contrived for me it felt like a star vehicle with lots of screen time for the big stars but not enough character depth to interest me despite all of the dialog
0	cult purchasers are unquestionably familiar with the term video nasties this was a notorious british list containing all the films that could bring to society if viewed by irresponsible audiences dramatization for gore buffs this is an excellent checklist as it contains inhumanly cruel and disturbingly realist movies faces of death cannibal holocaust driller killer as well as outrageous and ultra sick horror films the burning nightmare city the toolbox murders keeping this in mind it's quite unusual to see night of the bloody apes listed among the other nasties it sure is the blood and violence are so poorly presented i can't imagine anyone would be offended by it and the silly plot about a desperate doctor transplanting a gorilla's heart into the chest of his dying son isn't exactly what you would call disturbingly real neither all that remains is a fairly amusing pulp horror flick with awful acting and pointless sleaze the man ape make up effects are laughable and there's no tension or atmosphere to detect anywhere enjoyable only if you're in the right mood in other words the few sequences showing detailed matches of lady wrestling which one of the lead actresses does for a living are very cool
0	acclaimed argentine horror director emilio directs a script from jack curtis and antonio ross cheesy and ridiculous are in the mix for the method to the madness a doctor's son is nearing his early death until his desperate father transplants an heart into his chest as expected things are going to get weird when this young man turns into a mask wearing monster and roams the beaches scouting out nice looking party girls to make his slaves when heroin is injected his beauties become zombies the monster summons his dazed minions with strange organ music so bad well it's just bad in the cast jose e moreno alberto mauricio de ferraris gloria prat and gina
0	dr wants to save his son julio who's dying of heart disease he decides a heart transplant with an ape will cure his son no i'm not kidding he does the transplant and somehow his son changes from a frail guy into a muscle bound man with a dime store mask that sort of resembles an ape naturally he gets out kills men tears the clothes of women and wreaks havoc this is all inter cut with the boring romance of police lt arturo martinez and lady wrestler lucy we also get pointless female wrestling sequences that add nothing to the plot it all ends by copying the end of king kong this is obviously a pretty stupid movie the plot makes little sense there's the gratuitous female nudity a staple of any exploitation film and very graphic gore that looks laughably fake except for the open heart transplant still this does have merit the whole cast takes everything dead serious and actually aren't too bad as actors also the dubbed in dialogue was for a film like this well done and interesting with surprisingly good dubbing also i saw an excellent dvd print with bright strong color which helps we're not talking a classic here but an ok exploitation movie
0	this film was a mexican made horror film from the late 60s it's not that good but really not so bad either there is plenty of schlock and it is padded pretty heavily with nudity and violence but it had a plot and at least tried to keep to it even if the plot was the same damn frankenstein inspired don't tamper in god's domain b movie fare there was some padding mixed in with the female wrestling but it was made in mexico and wrestling does seem to be popular in mexico br br the plot is that a doctor wants to save his son who is dying from leukemia the other doctors have given no hope for the poor guy but dad has the idea of transplanting a gorilla's heart for his son's to save his life i don't know i'm a lawyer not a doctor the transplant works but sonny boy ends up becoming a man ape who terrorizes nude women and kills anyone who gets in his path there's also a subplot involving a cop and his girlfriend who is a wrestler this really didn't add too much but if they wanted to throw in some masked female wrestlers here's a good reason to do so br br the film was kind of cheap but not too bad for a b movie of the day the plot was basically just recycled and there were a few things that weren't tied in that well however this film is kind of fun in its own way i don't know why maybe because it's a mexican horror film and sticks out in my normal bad movie diet i guess it may be because it's a mix and mash of some very weird things br br watch it if you like cheesy foreign films nudity and female wrestlers
0	the following review is one from the wrong side of the tracks meaning two things you will hear nothing but praises coming from me and don't be fooled by my rating i also could tell you that this review contains no spoilers but technically that's a lie br br well screw the review i'm just going to ramble a bit it has been a while since i had so much fun with such a bad film and if you cannot enjoy this piece of utter drivel then you simply have no sense of humor first off this movie was meant to be taken seriously and that's the main aspect were the fun is coming from the story a doctor's son is terminally ill daddy doctor decides that a hart transplant must be the only way of saving his son so in true mad doctor style he decides that the heart of a gorilla will do the trick of course the gorilla heart is much too potent for a human so sonny boy transforms into this hideous ape man that immediately breaks free and goes on a killing and raping spree because that's simply what any horny beast would do isn't it the make up of our ape man is hilarious there's simply no other way of putting it the guys' face looks like a turd i'm talking human excrement here the solid brown kind beautiful the gore in this flick is wonderful too aside from real footage of an open heart surgery we also have incredibly fake but quite nasty looking blood gore effects a decapitation an eye gouging a throat ripping the of someone's skull it's hilarious and indeed it's quite incomprehensible why night of the bloody apes ever made it to the notorious uk video nasties list because all of the nasty things portrayed in this film are simply too ridiculous to be taken seriously oh and there's only one bloody ape running around in it too by the way so needless to say that la is a much more accurate title for this terrifying and convincing tale of science gone horribly wrong br br when not trying to shock with poorly staged acts of bloody violence or random portrayals of female nudity this movie manages to be highly entertaining with ingredients like nonsensical dialogues cheap cardboard sets plot stupidity and incredibly bad acting just a few random examples maybe about the sets one can clearly see that the set designers just used the same walls doors windows etc over and over again to be build various different interior sets e g one side of the hospital room the window side where the unconscious wrestling girl lies looks suspiciously similar like the window side of the basement laboratory from where ape man escapes the set designers also took one of the side windows from the laboratory made it a bit larger and just placed it in the conference room of the hospital all the walls in any building are the same grey ones then there's the setting of the park clearly shot in a studio you can see on several occasions that the grass is loose whenever there's some struggling fighting raping going on the grass just shifts and shuffles and you can see the grey concrete from the studio floor beneath it br br just a few random lines that come out the actors' mouths br br in the conference room where all the doctors are debating the disappearance of unconscious wrestling girl a disappearance that would of course mean bad publicity for the hospital daddy doctor intelligently utters we find ourselves in a situation that is difficult br br during that same debate a colleague doctor cleverly remarks a sleepwalker any sleepwalker gets up hereby providing a solid excuse for the disappearance of unconscious wrestling girl br br after our investigating detective through the amazing process of his own logical deduction concludes and tells his superior that the murderer must be a half man half beast his superior answers that it's absurd adding the line it's more probable that of late more and more you're watching on your television many of those pictures of terror truly one of the best lines of the movie br br other sources of laughter br br the two scenes were daddy doctor and his igor like assistant kidnap the gorilla from the zoo and unconscious wrestling girl from the hospital these well thought out acts of abduction are like taking candy from a baby br br daddy doctor speaks to god a lot doesn't he br br sonny boy calling daddy doctor papa on more than one occasion br br an old lady screaming aaargh a dead man a dead man a dead man a dead man br br the plot periodically stops to wallow in scenes of women wrestling only to go on again and do nothing with that concept sure daddy doctor replaces sonny boy's gorilla heart a second time with that of unconscious wrestling girl but do you think something spectacular happens after that like ape turd man growing breasts or something trying to rape men this time our leading living wrestling beauty norma doesn't even go into a climactic wrestling contest with ape turd man near the movie's finale but ape turd man does start to show some motherly love near the end almost and i say almost in true king kong style i e the top of a building and people on the ground pointing and screaming br br okay i think that's enough now i chipped in more than my two cents here rational rating for this sleazy piece of hilarious dreck 2 10 rating from the wrong side of the tracks 8 10 go see this film people it is well worth it
0	this is another notorious mexican horror film however while the original spanish language version is quite tame all sorts of gore and nudity were inserted for the english dubbed variant prepared by who did similar duties on the curious dr 1967 71 and like the u s version of that film had previously been available on dvd through something weird image br br i watched the original first and while no great shakes it was fairly engaging especially with a plot as familiar as this one was a doctor goes beyond the call of duty in attempting to save the life of his terminally ill son he even has a hulking game legged assistant played by carlos lopez who had essayed a strikingly similar role though in a more sinister vein in the curse of the crying woman 1961 i know that several mexican films mingled horror with the libre wrestling genre but i had never watched one myself this element is present here in fact the heroine is a wrestler but the two styles are perhaps thankfully kept apart that said the wrestling sequences are competently done with some of the moves proving highly amusing br br the doctor's son is transformed into a monster looking like the incredible hulk with mud splashed over his face after having had an heart transplanted into him but then when this is replaced with that of a comatose female wrestler he stays this way and grows a pair of fangs to boot shouldn't he realistically have turned into a transsexual though i guess that wouldn't have been very interesting the climactic rooftop sequence in which the monster kidnaps a child and meets his demise at the hands of the police is reminiscent of the ghost of frankenstein 1942 my favorite unintentionally funny moments in the film however occur when the doctor trying to comfort his son tells him that he'll soon be cured only to turn his back soon after on the verge of tears and also the impatient look he gives his crippled assistant as the latter staggers slowly into the car when they're about to chase the monster who has escaped from the lab br br the alternate nude scenes work for the film these were actually done by cardona himself for a mexican version entitled horror y sexo but its reputation is largely based on the added material showing over the top violence such as an eyeball being gouged out of its socket a and even a person's head being torn off there are also several graphic operation inserts which however give rise to a goof while it's made clear that only two people are involved in the operation we see a third pair of hands constantly holding an oxygen mask to the patient's face br br the film is also said to be a loose remake of own black and white horror film doctor of doom 1962 but since i haven't watched that one i can't say how much of it was actually pilfered for night of the bloody apes
0	oh how i laughed during those first couple of scenes this silly little film about an 11 year old who carries a gun steals cars robs stores burglars houses extorts money from other kids burns houses shoots rats buys drugs distributes drugs to his mother and his friends and then kills a guy what a great comedy but it wasn't intended to be a comedy it was intended as a social drama how can this be the events in this film are absurd and ridiculous the characters are all stereotypes right out of a 4 year old's comic strip induced immature imagination the dialog is laughable people talk like morons it's a very dumb film br br the first scenes are indeed very funny for all the wrong reasons but the unintentional hilarity of the idiotic premise runs out after a short while and after that the laughs come only rarely by that time the viewer can't believe what he is seeing and is alternately amazed and bored by what follows if he has at least half a brain cell br br a short film but feels like an eternity the film actually is a seriously intended attempt to show the world of a young degenerate while imitating movies vastly superior to it like fun there is just such an air of phoniness about everything the kids the adults everyone lacks credibility both in their actions and dialog the kid in the lead mugs his way through the film as though he had seen all the jimmy cagney movies at least a hundred times and typically enough the kid isn't portrayed as a reservoir of evil but instead as a misunderstood little artistic talent but of course every young hooligan is misunderstood society made him bad poor child br br the film is embarrassing a collection of stale occasionally hilarious clichés put together to make a movie that lacks intelligence and meaning the intellectual level of the film is zero
0	this is not the true story it is the darkest possible fiction derived from the events it endorses suicide morose obsession with death a totally gratuitous at organized religion in general and the anglican church in particular and generally provides a nihilistic pointless world view from which filmgoers i suppose are intended to walk away richer in their poverty and more hopeful in their hopelessness br br utter trash though attractively performed by a capable cast that anyone would suggest this is a true rendering however is very much false advertising you want the real story rent tale' that's the real story see if you can find any correspondence between the facts presented in either case i only found one the girls who made the original photographs were pre pubescent
0	against my own better judgment i went to see this film today and god i wish i hadn't awful the first film looks like a classic compared to this it's that bad these guys actually make paul ws anderson look like a master storyteller in fact this is what i'd expect an alien and or predator film to look like if it was made by uwe boll this movie actually offended me and lord only knows what would transpire if ridley scott or hr giger were ever forced to watch this piece of crap i can't understand how any fan of either franchise could like this film br br truly i don't know where to begin i mean the first was poop but it at least a semi interesting story and setting and occasionally some genuine tension it didn't take itself overly seriously and it could at least be semi enjoyed on a purely leave your brain at home basis but this one it felt to me as though the people behind it thought they were making the next horror masterpiece one after the other was a contrived scene in a dark room or corridor with creepy music playing essentially bashing you over the head saying be scared now as james cameron once said you can't be told to be scared you can only have your own senses heightened the guys that made this film obviously weren't paying attention because they tried everything in the book to force you to be scared rather than letting you come to that level yourself it's a cliché for internet nerds to say god i was so bored from this movie and felt like leaving well this is exactly how i felt even in the middle of the action scenes they took this film totally seriously which removed any possibility of enjoyment even the gag about how governments don't lie to their people was played without a hint of irony br br as for the characters i knew going in that the human characters were going to be completely pointless to this film but seriously if they're going to be on screen at least have them doing something that is relevant to the story i don't care about this guy being beaten up by his boyfriend i don't care about the mother who's own daughter doesn't even know her boo hoo a pair of night vision goggles for a present give me a break or the released criminal just trying to make a decent living and set an example for his brother what a guy hell even the obligatory hot chick in panties moment was more contrived than usual i get the feeling they expected the audience to be so shocked at the ending as well as seeing come out of kids expectant mothers being raped and the like that that would make up for everything i don't think so br br then we move onto the stars of the film and again very little to write home about were the aliens well designed i wouldn't have a clue because you can never see the damn things all you see is one of a mouth a head a tail or a really dodgy cg outline climbing a wall and barely enough to actually process that it is in fact an alien before mr i cut marilyn manson and nin music videos think i'll do the same thing here editor goes at it with the slice tool also notice how hack action directors always set their films at night and in the rain hmmmm the predator could've been fighting giant sea monkeys for all we knew yes the predator was more impressive this time around and i did think some of the new weaponry was cool but that was about it also since when does a predator sound like a dinosaur from the lost world there were a couple of things that i kinda liked though one was the use of sound effects and music from the original films i also giggled a little bit at get to the chopper although other references were stupid the main character's name being dallas give me a break i also liked the visual fx for the vision as well as how the hybrid alien looked certainly beat the one from resurrection but really those are the only positive things br br overall i found this movie inane pointless insulting and above all else offensive to the vision of the original creators of both creatures that they've left the door open for another one leaves me almost depressed br br if they had any decency they'd remove dan ron and hr giger from the credits of this film they've done nothing to deserve this
0	man with the screaming brain is a story of greed betrayal and revenge in the a small bulgarian town william cole wealthy industrialist winds up with part of his brain replaced by that of a russian cab driver the two couldn't be more different but they share one thing both were killed by the same woman brought back to life by a mad scientist william and form an unlikely partnership to track down their common nemesis br br bruce campbell returns to the b horror movie genre that gave him his cult status this time not only in front of the screen but behind the lens unfortunately for this time around the laughs don't deliver and campbell has to resort to what he does best to try and fill the gap in this film br br as a fan of campbell who has the movies the books and the action figures i was hoping for another hit to add to my collection although after seeing this film before the purchase i am glad that i don't have the pleasure of adding it br br the film first goes wrong in the story which at first sight seems like harmless fun but turns out to be boring drawn out dribble which is a sad thing to say because it was written by mr campbell himself the comedy never really hits it only makes us scratch our heads it seems that campbell ran out of things that are funny and resulted in giving the audience what we've already seen him fighting himself br br ted raimi the brother of evil dead director sam raimi is undoubtedly the highlight of the film he brings a freshness to it and an entertaining time when the film really needs it it helps if you are a fan and have been following these stooges from evil dead to xena which is why i felt compelled to like this film br br campbell's experience as a director from directing episodes of the tv series hercules is apparent campbell makes the film work well enough even with the low budget in the end there aren't as many things going for this as one would hope for but the fans of campbell will stick behind it no matter what unfortunately for this fan i won't
0	mmmm a previous summary says if you like aliens and predator you will enjoy this film i could not disagree more this film pays no respect to its weighty lineage and has reduced two of the best loved sci fi strands to little more than a teen horror slasher movie it has none of the tension or foreboding present in previous alien or predator movies and there is no discernible lead character i really did not care about any of the characters and i positively yearned to see the stereotypical cast die as soon as possible in the vain hope something better would replace them it really takes super human incompetence to have two of the most fearsome creatures ever invented positively fail to make a gripping thrilling movie only watch this if you want to see how not to do it
0	if you like me enjoy films with plots and convincing actors then alien vs predator requiem is probably not the way to go in summary alien lands in typical american town predator lands in american town both have a bit of a fight us government blows up town some people get away i'm sorry i think i might have spoilt the ending its easy to criticise someone who's being critical people cry out i bet you couldn't do any better i bet i could having made this film watched it and then turned to congratulate each other with a pat on the back and a job well done there must surely have been the spectre of lunacy in the room
0	holy crap the beginning picked up where the first one left off good start then it goes downhill from there you it looked like as if you were watching tv and you keep on switching between this teenage soap opera a predator movie and some crappy detective show the characters that are introduced in the first ten minutes don't have anything to do with each other until the final 45 minutes or so the characters of the teenage soap opera and the actual alien story br br then for the end the producers were quickly running out of money and decided to end the movie so they decided to drop a nuke on the city br br p s what the crap is the deal with the cameras being so zoomed in you can't tell what's going on seriously movie makers do a good job with fight scenes and make it to where we can see the fight
0	where to start i think only three other films have led me to post a review on imdb and all of those were positive as for this br br mind blowingly hideously tragically embarrassingly catastrophically stupidly irritatingly completely and utterly beyond awful br br i am stunned this got made never mind given a theatrical release i think i am literally in shock br br i'm no snob i didn't expect beautiful film making or intense character depth but this is truly beyond a joke we simply must demand more from the films we see br br avoid like the black death
0	this is the worst movie i've ever seen and it takes the price of the rotten movie of 2007 which is made by me anyway this movie misses every single ingredients of a good movie i mean come on the actors had a bad performance the story is just crap i'm really really disappointed they could have done better stuff than this piece of junk i've just wasted my time and my money on this movie i wish that the production company could give back my money anyhow i'd high expectations on this movie and i've got disappointed i don't recommend anybody to watch this so if u wanna waste ur money on something do it on some thing else than this piece of junk
0	if you are a fan of either of the two origin franchises aliens predator duh and even if you liked or disliked flick in 06 you will hate this movie the innumerable plot holes flakey and unbelievable human characters terrible special effects and even worse directing and fight scenes make this one of worse films i've ever seen br br one of the hundred huge plot holes included the alien hybrid going from chest to full grown bad ass in seconds it takes off on an onboard predator ship killing spree and wipes out a ship of before the ship even breaks earth orbit as if in the first we saw a ship of sr hunters drop off three juveniles hunters going on an earning their stripes hunting party and then in the end saw them picking up the honored body of the juvenile that was left over at the end of the flick are we expected to believe that the single chest hybrid killed all these sr hunters before the ship even broke orbit also and this was extremely cheap production value on the director producer's parts jars and jars and jars of face huggers somehow magically appeared aboard the ship even though the entire temple complex and queen alien were destroyed in the flick these face huggers end up playing an part in movie of course and how about all these face huggers becoming full grown aliens in a days time what a joke although there were many many more plot holes i don't think imdb would appreciate me filling up their servers by writing them here br br on the flakey and unbelievable characters well where should i go boys and girls where to start almost all of these goof balls are cliché people from other films or tv shows the town bad boy who left to avoid jail time but shows up just on the day everything happens to save the day where did i see that oh yeah last season on jericho then there's the 20 something town sheriff a former trouble maker himself who was best friends at one time with the bad boy where did we see that oh yeah jericho and walking tall then there's the generic soldier with no rank coming home from some generic war front that isn't met like a long missed loved one and hero at the airport or bus station but at her own front door by her daughter and husband and who is this soldier what did she do in the army air force marines navy coast guard we don't know because the movie never tells us but she was some kind of soldier airman marine sailor that knows how to drive a stryker infantry vehicle and magically a helicopter this character is just a generic copy of every coming home service person except that she brings home a set of night vision goggles to her daughter that cost several hundred dollars these are things soldiers have to sign for and don't just bring home ugh br br the special effects and fight scenes are what pi sed me off the worst though these are the things i enjoyed the most in the first movie watching and aliens go at it the way this was filmed though the action sequences were so dark and filmed so close up that you couldn't tell what was going on you couldn't see who was doing what and what was going on as they were fighting it out all in all these hundreds of items are going to kill this franchise and the no one is going to care anymore about seeing their favorite sci fi movie monsters and can only guess that the series will go down from here as producers won't like dump millions of dollars more on a sequel
0	i am not even willing to vote a single star for this crap but imdb have zero as rating option worst movie i have ever watched story of the movie 1 predator ship crashes on earth 2 one alien and some face huggers are released and they start killing humans 3 one predator arrives on earth and he starts killing aliens and humans 4 then one human jet drops a bomb and kills human aliens and predator 5 some humans find the shoulder canon of the predator 6 the end directors should consider money back to the viewers if still you want to watch this movie download from some torrent site and say thanks to me for saving you money all the movie has been filmed in some dark corner of the earth you see just dark shadows even in action scenes too much violence i didn't expect it from a fox movie
0	anyone who watched alien vs predator must've known that the conventions of the alien were not exactly adapted for the film amongst some of the unusual elements the rapid growth of the aliens over seemingly a matter of minutes aliens with extremely long tails and so on however the idea of the predator species providing the impetus of city and temple building to create a hunt for would be warriors sounded so appealing that i couldn't resist br br i had hoped the end of the film would not be the impetus of this sequel and unfortunately i was wrong for those who forgot how the first film ended the dead predator had an alien burst through his chest which carried the traits of both br br for this film i'm going to just go through a list of good and bad traits br br the good lots of gorgeous people especially the men br br the bad lots of gorgeous people get munched by both the mutant predator alien and the predator br br the good an interesting idea of the predator planet br br the bad an inconsistent scale of a town its a small town without many opportunities but with a very sophisticated read big city sewer system and homeless is it a small town or a city the police force is one sheriff and three deputies or so i counted br br the good um br br the bad why do these mutant aliens predators grow so fast in a matter of five minutes they seem to grow to their full size i mean c'mon what are these things chia pet aliens and while we're on this subject why is it that an alien inside a body mutates but an alien in a human's body doesn't does that make sense br br the good still thinking br br the bad why would only one predator come and why does it pour acid over all the remnants of the aliens but it decides to murder a cute deputy and then skin him and hang him upside down i mean so much for being incognito br br the good ah i'm stuck i guess there's lots of loud sounds br br the bad how do these mutated alien predators procreate apparently they find a pregnant woman and in a kiss type of motion they deposit several offspring into the woman's body yeah just what you'd like to see eh pregnant women having their bodies explode into mutant aliens as if the previous way wasn't gross enough i mean there isn't even an alien queen br br the good did i say that the guys in this movie are gorgeous br br the bad when a nuclear device blows apart buildings how does a helicopter manage to survive the blast and how tacky is it for one of the passengers to mockingly chide the pilot i told you not to crash i mean given the nuclear fallout when he wakes up in the morning he'll have no hair left br br i could go on and on but i think you get the message mutated alien predator bursts through dead body grows over the matter of a couple of minutes kills all the predators and manages to get crashed on earth more mutant alien predators are created while one measly predator comes to earth to destroy this new mutant species predator kills humans mutant alien predators kill humans humans kill humans sucks to be a human in this movie eh br br if you're impressed by lots of bangs and bumps you'll love this movie br br if you liked the first i suggest you skip this sequel
0	is an awful movie the dialogue was pointless the acting was pathetic it had virtually no story line and you can't really tell what the hell is going on half the time due to the continuity errors and plot holes br br but you will love it anyway because it pushes the boundaries on gore violence death destruction and chaos they even kill children and unborn babies in this movie you will be sitting there thinking oh my god that is disgusting and they surprise you by killing the chick who always makes it out alive' when the predator and aliens are fighting in the hospital br br it's like the movie industry has said we know what we did in the first alien vs predator movie was was bad so we're doing it again but this time we're getting help from psychopaths with vivid imaginations it's predicable moronic and down right pointless but you will be thinking about it for a while after you see it
0	i loved the blood and gore the kind of violence is what alien and predator movies are about which is no one is spared this truly answers the question of how it would be like if aliens were on earth the answer to that is simple we are screwed the effects were beautiful how ever there are some real problems with it br br 1 the acting was horrible on the part of the human characters side witch almost put me to sleep because of how dry and boring it was which really interrupted the flow of the movie and was very annoying the writers could have done sooooooo much better the good part was the alien and predator acting which i thought was done very well for the most part br br 2 the size of the predator ship was much smaller then how it was in the first movie this i scratched my head on br br 3 predators having their mask on while still in the ship this upset people and i cant understand why its not a plot hole like most people make it to be so i say to you people calm the hell down its no big deal if it will make you feel better remember they did have face on bored in storage so that could be a good reason why br br 4 predator firing its plasma caster inside the ship i thought that was rather stupid on the predators part but then i began to think if it was a younger predator that panicked br br 5 the hunter and his son almost instantly arriving at the crash site after it fell several miles away at least they didn't bore us by showing them run through the woods for 30 min so be happy about that br br 6 why did only one predator go i thought this was odd but then i thought that it was because he thought it was only one that he was dealing with and not an outbreak br br 7 why didn't the predators in the ship self destruct well if people were paying attention one did but he was killed before he could completely activate it br br 8 the unlimited blue melting goo i thought that was rather dumb br br 9 predator hiding evidence with the goo but skins a cop that was also dumb br br 10 the black out well come on people an alien and did fight it out at a power station br br 11 being half face hugger queen this really ticked me off i am an alien and fanatic i know for a fact that aliens do not do that just like they don't give birth like a human does like they showed in out of all the comics games books and the movies 1 2 and 3 clearly shows their behavior they need a queen to lay eggs the eggs hatch into face face infect host the parasite pops out and kills host and grows into a drone if it infects a human a with a predator and runner with any kind of four legged animal and then after living for years upon years then they molt into a a mini me queen that does not lay eggs i can go on and on but i wont but that scene alone nearly ruined the movie for me if the directors are smart they would go back and edit that by making a face hugger infecting the pregnant women br br any way if you are going to see this movie just go see it for the aliens and predators and when the scene comes up where the infects that pregnant women close your eyes so you don't have to see that insult to the alien and universe
0	lets get one thing out of the way i am a huge bruce campbell fan i have the evil dead series have the action figures and have seen bubba ho tep i am a fan of cheesy laughable horror flicks and know how to appreciate the whole it's so bad it's good deal br br i wish i could say the same about this movie i watched this movie with high expectations i wanted it to be good campy something from the bc we have all come to know and love it started out promising enough but after the first 20 minutes i resided to watching the rest of this sorry excuse of a movie as if i had just been shot with tranquilizer darts br br the idea itself isn't a bad one two men don't get along both killed by the same psycho woman half of one man's brain is transplanted into the other's head they argue disagree and the comedy ensues br br what killed me is how extremely unorganized and boring it was it had potential even as a camp flick to be so much better than it was the plot was boring even bruce's zany physical slap stick couldn't make it work br br word's cannot even properly express the ridiculous robot that bruce's wife's brain ends up getting put into easily the worst looking robot i have ever seen anywhere even for a b movie the whole idea is dumb br br what the hell was going through bruce's mind when he made this steaming pile is beyond me why ted raimi didn't go running to his big brother asking him to slap some sense into bruce and not to mention some lessons about making an enjoyable movie on a budget is beyond me br br shame on you bruce
0	this movie made me watch paul w s anderson's and enjoy it i am not even going to dream of comparing requiem to any of the alien or predator series' movies this is a horrible teenage b horror footage set in an american small town no one cares about br br at least had heaps of handcrafted art carved into the movie sets it had bags of eye candy not previously seen in any of the original movies but was ruined by unconvincing characters acting br br requiem takes bad acting to the lowest imaginable level and it also lacks in every other department just as much it's a sacrilege to include alien and predator suits in this kind of rubbish
0	ed wood is rolling over in his grave he could have made a hundred cult classics for the price of this waste hole the worst script in memory it makes x men 3 sparkle like citizen kane the most amateur directing pre k cinematography the cheesiest special effects i'm talking about friday the 13th sequel territory and throw in a pointless revolting deeply disturbed maternity ward sequence the lack of any talent or sensibility that put this garbage on screen is astounding that the industry might reward anyone involved in this celluloid cess pool with future projects ought to be cause for serious alarm
0	my qualifications for this review i own all the alien and predator movies i have and have read almost all the books i can find that are related to this series br br i can safely say this movie is a stinker save your money don't waste your time if you like mindless action mindless gore no plot to speak of like being taken by hollywood see the movie br br if you are a serious alien series fan send a message to the over stuffed over paid suits in hollywood 20th century fox don't give them a penny br br this movie has so many plot holes in it you could sieve pasta through it read the other negative reviews to get the big picture it has all be said accurately so i don't have to repeat them br br the characters in this movie are cardboard you want them all dead and the movie doesn't disappoint almost all of them die even the hot bubble headed blond do you feel sorry for her nope no plot no character development who cares the predators are now idiots too they scan everything but their own dead warrior they are suppose to be a high technology society right in the predator movie they scanned the soldiers and the girl to determine who was armed trophy kills in they scanned charles and let him go because he had cancer major plot hole br br also the r rating is because they have kids in the movie that get a face hugger lots of gore and violence and there is one hospital scene where a very large pregnant women is injected with chest she is implanted by the hybrid alien with 4 or 5 eggs in a mouth to mouth love scene orgy and they all hatch in say 30 seconds sensational gore a plenty nothing more these scenes are laughable not serious it is almost like the violence happens and the alien looks at the camera and waits for applause a thumbs up or a nod of some sort br br the aliens in this movie are all on performance enhancing drugs they develop fast and spread quickly all over the town tons of them everywhere in record spawn time pathetic because it does not stick to the series story line and adds nothing to the aliens aliens predator continuity br br i have noticed the positive reviews are written by people who love the gore laughable as a movie as a continuation of the aliens franchise and the development of the aliens vs predator franchise this movie is a cheesecake cliché at best if you have faithfully followed this series all the rules are broken and the aliens and predators are reduced to comic book characters br br there is not one fantastic memorable action scene there are almost no special effects worth remembering there are no brand name actors the plot is as thin as onion paper that ultimately ends with a we have two choices to get out of this mess the hospital or the center of town i just about wet myself the center of town means everyone is going to get nuked by big brother who somehow knows the town has been infested because they have an in the air that can see the infestation on a radar screen in special effects red spots i just about fell out of my chair special effects red spot alien radar on an over middle america i am splitting my gut laughing br br having to get to the helicopter pad made me choke on my popcorn has anyone played a game called zombies you have to get your playing pieces to the helicopter pad to win i almost wet myself laughing br br the ending is enough to make you shake your head in wonderment who did 20th century fox hire to write this script oh oh ask me a grade 5 student there really can't be any other answer oh yes there can be another answer low budget cheesecake sci fi br br the ending col stevens takes the predator pulse rifle to ms francoise yip she tells him that the earth is not ready for the technology it represents col stevens knows doesn't want the technology to use on earth you are kidding me right ms who is ms the corporation she is in the movie exactly 2 seconds and yet in her infinite far east wisdom she says the world is not ready for the technology seriously the brothers dweebs as directors who is responsible for this hemorrhage abortion of a movie they are the doug and bob mckenzie of directors and yet fox entrusted the flailing alien franchise to them they are touted as special effects experts and yet the movie is all low budget special effects hmmm i see a pattern laughable br br this movie is only made to empty your wallet it serves no other purpose it has no plot it has no main characters worth mentioning it is disjointed it does not adhere to any of the character principles established in previous movies it does nothing to advance the franchise the special effects are lame minimal and low budget and it has no ending to speak of it is low budget and strictly designed to take your hard earned money nothing more br br save your money either watch it on tv where it will very quickly end up buy a bootleg or miss this bleeding altogether there is a reason why fox did not preview this movie to the critics the critics would have eaten this mess alive and no one would have gone to the theaters to see it jr giger the original creator is at this very moment leaning over a toilet spilling his lunch br br 20th century fox this movie is a stinker it is as bad or worse than alien 3 you insult us br br flush now
0	when i saw alien vs predator a few years ago i have to say as stupid as a sequel it was it was still somewhat enjoyable now there are unfortunately a shortage of good movies out in the theater lately so my boyfriend and i decided to just go ahead and see what aliens vs predator requiem was about so we saw it a couple nights ago and i have to say that there was absolutely nothing thrilling about this horror sequel it took a completely different turn from the first movie it's not a bad idea that they took alien and predator and put them in the up class suburbs but from the idea of the first one explaining their reasons for existing this was just an average and predictable horror sequel not to mention a story that keeps introducing new characters every scene where i wasn't sure who to keep in mind on who was the main character and why so i couldn't really keep up with the story br br from what i've gathered of course the predator and the alien are up in space having to deal with the stuff of typical sit com neighbors they're just beating the lights out of each other and they decide to why not go ahead and take it out on some earthlings so they crash and alien is taking over the suburbia utopia but teenagers including a troubled couple who look like ken and barbie a female marine and her daughter among others are going to make sure to kick some space butt that is if the predator doesn't get there first because he is ticked off at the alien i guess for starting the party without him lol just kidding actually for killing some of his friends br br aliens vs predator requiem isn't the worst movie by any standards it's still pretty cool with a lot of the visual effects and the fight sequences between alien and predator are so cool to watch like the first sequel of alien vs predator the cast is the thing that ruins the film and just seems like they were not well developed i know it's horror but the original alien and predator films had characters that you cared about and wanted to win but it was a semi decent sequel that i would say is worth a look for some fun especially for ken and sake br br 4 10
0	turd pie br br take x2 franchises par boil for 5 mins stir in mixed cardboard characters non actors work best add 2 tons of clichés then bake in your plot hole microwave until bored serve with a sprinkling of dawson's crack not a typo br br voila money spinning brain rot for the emo world of generation br br looking for the keys in drain was the best bit br br aside from the first 5 mins its one of the worst films ever made br br utter utter nonsense
0	this film and the 1st film both all over the whole aliens and predator franchise br br they are awful films badly acted badly scripted and terribly directed they just seem like someones desperate attempt to make money off of the good name of the original aliens and predator films but instead of delivering a well thought out quality production they came up with the br br the original alien aliens predator predator 2 films were great they redefined the horror thriller genre by inventing these insane and yet still believable creatures who took the role of the 'serial killer' as opposed to a human br br these films are just milking the franchise and do nothing but darken its name br br the aliens vs predator comic books were brilliant and had a great story they were true to the alien predator mythology didn't crap all over the original stories etc why didn't they make the comic book into a great film because hollywood are idiots thats why
0	if only i had read the review by alex sander sic on here rather than looking at the rating of over 6 from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration alien was a fantastic dramatic and well made horror sci fi predator was a great sci fi action mess about i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw versus it too has an average grading of over 6 stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site br br stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you br br right from the beginning this film was ridiculous no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why from then on it gets really ridiculous i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out i couldn't here br br a father and son are hunting in the woods the damaged ship crash lands to from the view given i would calculate at the very least 10 odd miles away through thick woodland the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible dumb redneck muppet br br an edgy thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless dull now cop friend from the bus when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective crazy nasty jock type american sportsman not a scottish man oh the cute not cute boy is the ex brother by the way yes they're clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child br br guess what happens next i won't tell you much more about the actual smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe br br the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late the aliens are boring the predator alien is ridiculous the action is at times exploitative gratuitous disgusting nonsense the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers oh i was shocked alright shocked at how low some people will go to get what a scare some shock to titillate the perverse what if you really wanted to shock titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them the characters have no depth and neither does the plot it's filmed and paced badly it's acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you if you haven't seen it then well please make your own decision br br ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about 20 seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout
0	starting where the last left off an alien chestburster emerges from a dead predator on a predator spaceship and causes the predator space ship to crash into modern day colorado where it breeds several more aliens which start to cause havoc the predator race sends down a lone highly experienced and armed predator to clean up the mess our human characters are caught in the middle of the intergalactic battle br br the biggest problem with this movie is the pacing this movie moves along way too fast the opening credits have only just rolled and already the predator ship crashes into the earth after the alien grows to full hight a hunter and son character are introduced but before we even get to learn their names they are both killed then we see the predator home world and the lead predator flies off to fight the alien infestation and all this happens within the first five minutes this unnatural pace does not let up for the entire movie the national guard comes into town but within two minutes are all killed without even getting a good look at a single ones face the manager of a pizza store gets one scene of character development only to be killed off the very next time we see him once again without even learning his name random hobos a coffee shop waitress and chef are killed again without learning their names one moment our main characters are at home the next running around town the next in a gun store the next in an and this random set jumping over and over just doesn't ever let up leaving the audience no time to settle in leaving them grasping for straws br br another problem is the settings and time frame the movie is set in modern day colorado every other alien and predator movie was shot in enthralling settings such as industrial space ships guerrilla war zone alien planets and underground labyrinths now comes along r set in a small modern day american town with set highlights including a sporting goods store parking lots pizza shops and little girl's bedrooms i mean were they actually trying to make the movie look as dull drab and uninteresting as possible it's hard to perceive these monsters as frightening creatures when they are standing next to a shelf full of or hiding in the bushes outside little girls bedrooms br br continuity is a big issue with this film the alien series was set in the future no human had even heard of an alien before the first film and the aliens not only had never been to earth but if they ever did reach earth humanity would be destroyed this movie ruins that entire concept by being set in modern day with average joes seeing the aliens all over the place and by the end of the movie humanity is not destroyed not even suffering what could be considered minor losses it pisses all over that entire concept of the other movies attempts to maintain continuity are made with massive deus ex the predator just happens to carry around a bottle of unlimited magic blue liquid that's just to melt away any bodies with just a single drop the army at the end of the movie just happens to go to overly drastic measures and drop a nuclear warhead that just conveniently erases all evidence of the aliens existence despite the fact there were many survivors of the incident who are witnesses and many more bad attempts are made at filling up impossible to cover plot holes br br also for a verses movie it has unrelenting bias in favor of the predators for the majority of the film a lone predator manages to kill dozens if not tens of dozens of aliens all at mêlée range while barely gaining a single scratch while the aliens just get slaughtered left right and center like clay pigeons merely waiting their turn to be killed by the predator without putting forth any effort to defend their selves this movie should not be called alien vs predator as much as it should be predator massacres aliens i mean how can you have two species battle it out with suspense and tension when one is portrayed as being vastly superior to the other br br the characters in this film are amongst the biggest flaws not only do they pale in comparison to the characters from the previous alien and predator movies but even as a stand alone movie they are bland dreary and even at times cringe worthy the characters in this movie consist of i kid you not horny couples wanting to get laid pizza delivery boys blonde bimbos high school bullies children and a blatant copy and paste job ripping off ripley and newt the worst and most cliché possible ideas for characters not only that but all of the aforementioned characters are acted by teenagers while the casting of teenagers is an obvious attempt to pull in younger audiences its only effect is to make the movie look and feel like a typical teenybopper slasher porn movie with actors who are too young to have learned how to give a convincing performance with them mostly having completely blank facial expressions delivering monotone dialog not only this but these characters do some of the most cinematically retarded things ever such as using predator guns commenting the powers out when it has been for hours following dumb plans to get out of town rather than just walking out of town somewhat quickly and just so many other idiocies that the movie actually had the audience in my theater sighing out of frustration br br in the end this movie is just a horrible b movie something deserving of the direct to dvd category the fact this movie was a theatrical release me as every part of the movie just ranks of amateur work
0	with this movie i was really hoping that the idea was to make up for the hashed together ineptitude of the first and yet to my horror requiem is far worse than i could have imagined br br my hopes were up in the opening moments of the film inside the predator ship and i almost breathed a sigh of relief when we finally saw the predator home world a throwaway digital matte painting but still nice to finally see it and then of course the humans if such poorly written characters can be referred to as such are introduced br br one must wonder why it seems to be impossible for fox to make a good film out of aliens and predators at the very least the supposed filmmakers could have done their homework br br characters are set up in the same manner in which we would expect from the worst friday the 13th sequel the pizza delivery scene was cringe inducing as was every other scene of character interaction that followed it bimbos and teen non actors do not make for a real film they make for a cheap flick and alien 1 3 and the predator movies were good because they were produced above the concept remember that the 1st alien is a b movie done as an a movie the brothers really missed an opportunity that could have been rectified by simply knowing their alien predator roots in both the alien and predator films we are introduced to characters that are part of a larger group alien refinery workers aliens marines alien 3 convicts and in the predator films we generally follow a main hero part of a unit predator arnold special forces predator 2 danny glover police and it's easy to see where the filmmakers of both franchises started to go wrong in alien we have pirates or something we have explorers with guns and of course in r we have teen slasher clichés what is there to identify with here in concept the idea of a convict returning to a small town and a war vet returning seemed a set up for a first blood type of action hero but like many things it was never paid off br br the film making is equally devoid of rhyme of reason there is no sense of forward momentum to the action just small sequences that build the most minuscule levels of tension or interest only to cut away just when they're getting interesting taking the audience out of the movie at every turn the action scenes themselves though much ballyhooed in the trailers are so darkly lit it is literally impossible to tell what is going on during the fight scenes when they finally occur basically the movie is hindered from many levels bad actors combined with poor direction and an atrocious screenplay which as a screenwriter myself i noticed seemed to hit every wrong note and cliché that only the most untalented writer devoid of ideas could have hashed together the writing if it can be called that is not even direct to video quality nor does it demonstrate a shred of respect for the established lore of the previous entries in the series why does the all the sudden have the ability to shoot alien embryos down a pregnant woman's throat to use her as an incubator for more than likely because the brain dead screenwriter needed a way to have more aliens for the predator to fight and given the accelerated growth time even more so than the first as quickly as possible why must meaningless small talk between cardboard cutouts on sticks meaning the supposed characters substitute for real character development remember a character is defined by what they do not say why is the sheriff leading civilians to a cache of guns isn't he an officer of the law how does the bimbo of all people know where they are why does the wait for the predator to very slowly remove his mask before it attacks why are the aliens still falling into that nasty series post alien 3 habit of hissing all the time to let their prey know to run how on earth did this series devolve to a character saying people are dying we need guns how this writer even works is beyond me and reflects badly on fox's already destroyed artistic reputation it's like everyone involved in the making of this film suffered from a mental impairment or really are that inept at every level of the film making process br br the effects are pretty lousy this time around the aliens look like men in suits and adi is just getting lazy with their creature design the aliens look like modified leftovers from alien resurrection with that same bulky musculature around the arms as if they did not learn from that movie that it was not a good design nor a good one to recycle again everything is shrouded in such a state of darkness not to create mystery or atmosphere but simply to hide how bad the creatures look and just like in stan winston is sorely missed when the fake looking predator face is revealed br br there are too many faults to list so i will just say this do not waste your money on this movie fox is beyond caring about the fans as this cheap and trashy film is clearly evidence of i felt bad having taken my girlfriend to see it though it was free and apologized to her profusely after this is one die hard fan who is done with the franchise br br note to fox what we really wanted wasn't a mindless slasher flick it was a film adaptation of the original which was better than anything you've produced for this franchise post 1993 br br signing off
0	i was only fourteen when i first saw the alien movies and i immediately came to like it original terrifying and classic sigourney weaver was the perfect choice for the female hero character and she would have deserved a statuette for her act in 1979 something everlasting was born than the immortal series continued with a nothing less legendary movie than the first was a different point of view but i think this part was the most stressful and unique of all this was my favourite unfortunately the last one was a failure in many ways it was strained illogical with full of meaningless massacres i didn't like it at all but i never thought that a worse part would ever be made in the future well as it turned out in 2004 i was wrong alien vs predator was a bad break and it should have been directed by a more talented director or should have never been made at all but when i saw alien vs predator requiem i was totally shocked moreover devastated when i sat down and decided to watch it with full of doubt even than i had never thought that such a bad movie could be made without a screenplay without a director and without actors i don't understand how can a film be made because this film misses these three terms what you get is a nice massacre show without a story but with a lot of annoying and boring dialogues waste of money and waste of time this movie is rather impudence than honor to the fans of the both sides alien predator shame
0	i enjoy b movies i think bruce campbell is a very watchable actor i love how he delivers his lines 'evil dead 2 and of were great movies i liked time' however i don't know if i'll ever watch this movie again and i bought it now after saying that i bet the commentary tracks and special features will be worth watching this movie just has far too many holes for me to actually enjoy even as a cheapo movie first off ted raimi was annoying just flat out annoying there was nothing to his badly acted written character that hasn't been done better a thousand times before the directing sadly was sub par and the choice of some shots yikes i don't expect woody allen or james cameron here but campbell did not deliver br br i did not purchase this thinking it was going to be an oscar movie like hall' but still i'm disappointed i would have been happy with or 'the rhino brothers' i got much less by the end of the movie there were no scenes that popped out to me no dialogue that resonated within me even 'hostel' had a classic line for sake i do not recommend this movie
0	i'm sorry to say that this movies was one of the biggest disappointments of the year following one of the biggest disappointments in movie monster match up history you would think that they would learn from the mistakes of the previous incarnation the sequel falls into many of the same traps the plot line was completely forced the dialog was so bad that the film might be better on mute and the action was contrived and far from the heart pounding brilliance of each monsters original films the best part of requiem is in fact the trailer which as you go through the movie end up realizing that almost every single death and every really cool shot in the movie was already shown in the trailer which leaves little to be revealed and little to be excited about i gave the movie an extra star for letting see the extra hot female in the almost nude the movie played out like a color by number sci fi monster fest which also played into the fact that nothing was a surprise when it happened because you'd seen it a thousand times before the main failing with both these movies is that the creators thought that setting the films in our time would make us be interested in the story more as if it may one day happen to us but what drew people in when they released the arcade game back in the day was that it kinda took place within an over the top futuristic version of the alien trilogy time line which allowed more of a suspension of disbelief this is where the future movies need to draw inspiration from because to be honest seeing a waitress killed by the alien we all have feared since childhood just really doesn't do it for us lets take the series back to its roots learn from the former masters and don't mess with a winning formula by trying to make a new vision' we liked the originals for a reason we want to see that again lastly the ending is the real wtf moment of the whole film spoiler after the big climax the survivors are ambushed by special ops soldiers who justify their horrific actions by saying 'we were following and then turn on a dime and start acting all nice and are turned into saviors then after the long pull back with one of the survivors looking ominously into the heavens we cut to the most bizarre cliffhanger i've ever seen with characters you never saw in the rest of the movie save the government dude then with all the subtlety of a punch to the face they reveal that there will be yet another film with the hint of a plot line that would make a sci fi channel original movie blush and turn up its nose so in summation if you have to choose between this movie and doing any other activity on the face of the earth skip the movie and do the other thing instead
0	there was a time when the alien series was a success with even the third installment alien 3 showing promise under the guild of a fresh and young david fincher the first predator was a box office hit mainly due to its story in peak star arnold schwarzenegger and director john die hard the films alien aliens alien 3 and predator were all highly successful and created massive followings among general film fans and science fiction fans alike arguably predator 2 and alien resurrection should have signaled the end for both franchises but studios were undeterred and saw the opportunity to pander to the rumours among fans and combine the two step in paul w s anderson alien vs predator and now the brothers strauss visual effects graduates not even directors or writers the problem was that by allowing such profound and revolutionary creations of the sci fi genre to fall into the hands of firstly a mediocre director and now directorial has led to nothing more than profanity epitomised by incompetence upon witnessing alien vs predator requiem die hard fans will feel sick to their stomachs that this series could have got any worse br br one example of the cinematic deterioration of this franchise is in the opening scene and is likely to cause nausea among fans the film begins with an alien making its way onto the predator ship spurting from the predators chest growing in to a full grown and bringing down the predator craft which now seems to have far less predators on it than it did at the end of alien vs predator and all this occurs with the ship still in earths atmosphere once the ship has crashed quickly resorts to cheap plot methods and basic narrative conventions it makes no venture at utilizing any of the twists or subversions served up in the two original films the wearisome plot progresses with tedious pace punctuated only by the near rousing conflicts of alien and predator and when that runs the risk of boring us we are treated to either an alluring blonde in a bikini or rapid gunfire is plagued by an endless array of continuity errors and plot holes with little or no narrative elucidation i e members of the public an elite military unit or the predator not adhering to laws established in previous editions this is a film that has a complete disregard for its predecessors it breaks some of the most fundamental rules of a sequel and in doing so one gets the feeling that it is trying to set itself up as a stand alone feature independently the film has no heart no conviction and no soul and with reference to the other films lacks even the most basic continuity this is exemplified by the over arching narrative of the film as it undermines the basic premise of the first alien because if the species had been encountered before then those in the first alien film would have been more proficient and not so ill prepared when encountering them br br on a cinematic note the film is close to being dire i felt urged at some points to shine a torch at the screen the lighting was so bad through utilizing such gloomy and dark effects the audience may feel as though they are being cheated out of some the action – which is ironically its purpose and also indicates the films lack of budget as with all science fiction one scene normally surfaces as being the most memorable in this instance it is probably the hospital impregnation scene as it ever so tenuously draws on the themes of the original alien by it the directing is poor performances weak and the script rotten is the product of a conveyor belt system of film making in which ideas and techniques are assembled by ineffective people and then the finished product distributed among cinemas this is personified by the absence of gory death scenes and drawn out blood battles because the certification will not allow it – a lower certification achieving a larger target audience was purely a business venture and nothing more
0	the production value of can be described by one adjective awful br br the script is ridiculous even in the fictional area of what are the good for on the ship why is the predator cleaning up all signs of his influence and than wasting precious time with and even presenting the body of an insignificant human cop why is the predator alone why is the predator himself only on earth but on his home planet why does the predator make his job so uneasy for himself by hunting down the aliens rather than bombing the whole countryside like the humans do in the end why is the predator dropping more more of his few weapons rather than collecting them to keep them together after using one in the end he is even dropping his armor before fighting the in hand to hand combat what a bad plagiarism of the first predators final fight between and the predator the gestures are so exaggerated that he is moving more like a japanese sumo than like highly skilled extraterrestrial safari hunter as one can see immediately the whole story is a mess but it gets even worse because this botched up job is filled up with boring patchwork of senseless interludes like a lengthy pizza ordering episode or some detailed information about the criminal past of the two brothers dallas ricky the sheriff is of course the friend of these two criminals who he puts regularly behind bars not convincing absolutely superfluous for the plot br br in addition to that the cast of actors is horrible compared to the high class of directors actors of the former aliens or predator movies is an embarrassingly bad piece of crap br br at last the action of the movie is really poor there is not a single scene of action combat in which the audience can see the whole set each and every fight is filmed in short shaky bursts with close up zoom at nearly full darkness that results in an atrocious experience for the audience because one can mostly see nothing but a dark shaky screen br br i suggest the two directing brothers to buy themselves a steadycam and get a lesson in modern cg so that the next film contains some visible action of visible figures and might not need to disguise their bad directing abilities in such a manner br br i would advise anybody even die hard fans against watching this film prefer the first one or the original aliens or the original predator films but avoid disappointing yourself by wasting your precious time on this failure
0	this entry doesn't contain a spoiler it doesn't have to the movie is as predictable as the sunrise the element in the first alien movies was the suspense that something could happen this was so in the first two predator movies though less prevalent requiem has totally removed the element of suspense and replaced it with blood and gore you know people are going to die well duh it is a movie but you know who is going to die and when they are going to die and where they are going to die before it happens the directors should take a lesson from hitchcock who said suspense is not a time bomb going off under a table suspense is a bomb not going off under the table what's the sense in going to a movie when you know exactly what is going to happen and when if you really really want to watch this movie wait until it comes out on video and then rent it but by no means would i ever buy it
0	the review on the main page admits that the movie is horrible but that you should forgive it because it is nicely violent no you shouldn't there are spoilers at the end of this review but how i can spoil this rotten movie i have no idea even if you are a die hard alien fan like i am wait for the dvd it isn't worth a 3 99 rental either but you'll be much less inclined to truly hate this film if you pay that than 12 bucks or better per person plus concession purchases at a theater br br in the theater i watched there were exactly two laughs both by a girl sitting next to me other than that there was total silence throughout no or that was bad ass nothing imagine being a patient on an operating table and just being given the anesthetic now you know what you'll feel like in the theater after the opening scene of br br what was the budget on this movie like war of the worlds mi 3 and other f x driven movies the director seems far more involved in what the cgi people can come up with than developing characters or a plot spielberg has tried and failed at this several times usually with tom cruise sure the movies make money but should they war of the worlds and minority report had the budget to pay for a decent script tom cruise et al and ss himself but were still awful i'm sure wasted 90 of their budget on cg and had no choice but to hire any actor that would say yes even though the casting agent would have done better by going to the supermarket and picking actors at random br br there is no tension developed in any scene so we are never close to being surprised who cares who gets killed we didn't know any of them we all know what happens when the lil aliens make their corporeal exit we all know the blood is acid in alien aliens 3 resurrection and even the directors make use of the fact that the aliens can think can hide and can lay traps this director decided that the ridley scott james cameron and others were idiots for developing characters you actually want to see either live or get killed in this installment you will never care who lives or dies not a kid a parent a pregnant woman the characters serve only one purpose in this movie to die the opening scenes establish the fact that the movie is going to be a predictable joke the character development scenes mix clichés bad humor and bad acting and numb the viewer to the point where we really don't care if they get killed so long as they die in never before seen ways but they don't the director tried to make something different from those who preceded him in the alien franchise but only succeeded in the good parts of the first films the human protagonists and stealing the rest from other recent sci fi films br br there is not one original use of the either the alien or characters the actually has little trouble killing aliens by the dozen even though the last movie led us to believe that revered the aliens as such a deadly foe that they used the killing of one as rite of passage the is never really developed as a fearsome creature its ability to inject parasites into a host is ripped from several different movies most recently probably was hellboy where dismembered tongue injected eggs into hellboy or doom where the mutated creatures would leave their tongues behind after they speared a victim's throat br br simply put we aren't given reason to care about anything in this movie there is violence but it doesn't shock or surprise and is nothing that hasn't been seen in any of a hundred slasher flicks the cg is ok and both species of alien are made to look and move as they have in movies past but since the characters are never developed and the acting is so bad we kind of hope that they all die the little girl was probably the best actor of the bunch but sadly we aren't made to care whether or not kids women or anyone else lives or dies we just want the movie to end eventually it does but not before another stolen plot line from resident evil 2 has a nuke aim way to wipe out the infection and not before yet another stupid scene that is supposed to open the door for further sequels but does it in a movie filled with bad scenes the worst may have been saved for last br br sorry for the repetition but everything bears repeating bad script no plot unoriginal action scenes uninspired direction abysmal acting decent f x that were wasted because of the many flaws br br i don't mind going to an indie film and being disappointed the actors and directors and crew are probably getting their careers going and working on a shoestring budget for a movie with this type of budget and hype i feel cheated along with disappointed this movie is a painfully boring waste of time from the opening scene to closing credits sad to say that a preview of hellboy 2 was the best part of and didn't even look that good
0	i really really don't understand how that movie could get a rating bigger than 4 here on imdb it's simply a huge mess and i have to admit that i actually liked 1 close to no story okay i can live with that but at least they got to the point pretty much at once 2 does not after the stupid premise has been presented there is well over half an hour of stupid and unfitting teenager clichés dumb as hell dialog and close to nothing else except for a few alien scenes that feel like an excuse to have that first half of the movie and predator scenes that make you ask yourself whether those guys making the film even watched any other predator movie or just didn't care enough to be bothered br br after that that crap fest finally gets to the point where the predator starts attacking the aliens or at least pretends doing so and boy is that predator stupid blind and deaf it's awful how he even managed to earn that stuff he has is beyond me he misses with almost every shot only notices aliens when they're right in his face or if it's absolutely necessary for the script so that he can move where he has to be he even gets caught on surprise by puny human teenagers and deputies all of the time what's that guy supposed to be after the first hour of that abomination i was more or less constantly shaking my head at every scene close to no scene in this movie passes by without unbelievably stupid dialogs stupid predator actions or stupid lack there of or stupid actions from our heroes br br then that thing finally ended to my surprise not only me and my friends didn't know whether to laugh or to cry but everybody i overheard leaving the room was half crying half laughing about those 1 1 2 hours they just wasted br br don't watch never
0	i love b movies but i like to be aware from the beginning that i'm watching one i can't believe someone could mess up a movie about aliens and predators so bad br br aliens and predator are awesome this movie made a big joke out of them the creators didn't take this movie seriously at all i am throughly disappointed in how the strauss jerks handled this film they made a mockery of amazing characters it's like they were trying to be serious in the beginning then their writers got high and gave up almost nothing was continuous the main characters were awful and were not aliens or predators i am so ridiculously sad that no one takes alien and predators seriously anymore these characters are icons of american pop culture and the creators of this movie showed no respect to the original films they should not be allowed to cash in on the names of the previous films and they should be ashamed of themselves
0	from what i understand fox was embarrassed they released a pg 13 alien predator movie not so long ago it was not well received by any means br br not exactly sure where to go next seeing as they thought anderson was the best director for the franchise and they had produced a true sci fi gem fox turned to it's small but knowledgeable group of monkeys for answers br br these monkeys were by no means veterans of writing sci fi flicks but had seen burton's planet of the apes remake and house of the dead br br their first task hire actors fox gave them a reasonable budget but the monkeys wanted to save the money they hired fifteen tv actors shortly after br br now the script the monkeys wanted to save more of the budget so they wrote the movie themselves leaving out important aspects of the two franchises was the easy part thinking of great new lines for the general audience to remember years down the line that was more difficult they butted heads awhile and came up with a truly award winning screenplay equipped with cliché characters idiotic decisions an gaping plot holes br br fox was pleased thus far with the results but wanted to see what was to become of the to the film the aliens and predators the monkeys again wanted to save money in the budget so they decided to trash the great robotics used in the otherwise terrible original and go with the man in the suit alien seen in the old films the actors playing the aliens had trouble fitting into the suits as they weren't properly sized by the monkeys so they their plastic heads throughout the film with honor as for the predators the monkeys decided one predator was enough this time around again saving budget to fight the hordes of aliens that seemingly come out of nowhere br br but what about the effects you ask come on now people they may be monkeys but they clearly knew cgi would play a key role in the film without diving into the budget the monkeys used a standard final cut program and cut and pasted some very nice fire and spark effects throughout putting red and green filters over the camera lens provided some excellent predator visions br br the setting was something the monkeys thought long and hard about if this was to be on earth in colorado of all places they needed to make it realistic this was where they admitted they might have made a mistake see the monkeys didn't have proper training in this department so they thought turning the lights off in the city and having the movie play out in the dead of night and in the rain was the right thing to do they simply forgot people like to see the creatures instead of looking at shadows and rain the whole film to add insult to injury the monkeys accidentally filmed all the fight scenes incredibly close so no one could see what was fighting or who it was but again rookie mistake br br the rating fox told the monkeys to make the movie r rated that was easy without showing how many of the injuries or deaths actually happened the monkeys made a habit of showing the carnage after the fact it was simple the viewers got the gore they desired and the monkeys didn't have to film the majority of action shots involving that violence br br some of the actors originally had questions concerning the screenplay why does a blue liquid the predator has endless amounts of magically disintegrate whatever he wants it to and nothing more than that why is an ex convict driving around in a police car the entire movie why did the monkeys forget to show a full body shot of the aliens why does a clock play a more memorable role than any of the main characters the list of questions just kept growing but the monkeys ignored them and finished their masterpiece br br fox was thrilled with their work so thrilled that they opened the movie nationwide on christmas day and even spent a few bucks advertising it the week before it came out the monkeys had successfully made another installment in these cherished franchises br br but some ask what ever happened to the budget the monkeys forgot to use they put it towards their next film aliens vs predator vs hulk hogan they knew the general public would be upset with the title but they have since released this statement br br to the people do not worry about our upcoming film it will be rated r and will have violence br br and everyone lived happily ever after the end
0	this frothy romantic comedy is based on the kind of story i loved as a teenager but now find rather distasteful in the case of may september attachments doubtless what is on the mind of the elder party is either lust or an inability to face the reality of aging or both and the younger is most likely looking for the kind parent that she or he lacked as a child these underlying agendas seem more pathetic than romantic to me now there is also something rather predatory about them br br dick powell looked a bit embarrassed as well he should at playing the elder lover in this silly story he was at fifty attempting the role of a thirty eight year old man romancing a teen ager but young debbie reynolds was a knockout pretty and saucy and full of vinegar as a misbehaving seventeen year old presented as a kind of gift to the morally upright and honest screenwriter as a subject for him to study her spirited performance wrung from me a better rating than this film would otherwise deserve anne francis was cast as powell's beautiful but brittle fiancée and handled her small role deftly br br some of the dialogue was quite amusing too so it's not a total washout br br 5 10
0	a ridiculous comedy given an arms flailing direction i love one of the comments here couldn't be made today well neither could the philadelphia story without a car chase or two nonetheless does that mean the picture is worse for the wear for being old fashioned i don't think susan slept here was good for any generation and it should fester peacefully in the memories of debbie reynolds buffs there is no sparkle in this story of a screenwriter who latches onto a much younger girl for dick powell makes his farewell screen appearance in what must have been an embarrassment to him reynolds is pallid produced by one harriet parsons who gives her famous mother louella a number of inane plugs 1 2 from
0	i just saw this movie last night at a midnight sneak preview screening i work for an independent theatre chain in colorado it's one of the perks i'm sorry but this is one of the worst movies i've ever seen i know that there are some bruce campbell fanatics out there who like star wars die hards will string you up from the nearest tree if you dare speak any ill of their beloved cinematic icon nevertheless campbell this particular work from the chin is a celluloid black hole br br before you make any assumptions that i'm some hoity toity film buff who only watches real movies like ladies in lavender and sideways think again i'm a huge fan of b movies and bruce campbell in particular his trademark character ash is one of my favorites and his portrayal of the aging elvis in bubba ho tep was phenomenal br br but hey b movies still have the potential to be bad and not in that good campy way we all love and that's what watching this particular one was like for me and my fellow co workers with the exception of that one tracking shot where bruce runs through the square and scares the kids there were no laughs to be had overall we found the story to be mind numbingly stoopid the pacing like and the so called humor dumber than a bag of hammers i'm sorry but ted raimi's character was not comic relief he was just plain retarded believe me we all went into this really wanting to like it but left feeling incredibly disappointed and robbed of two hours br br if you absolutely loved this movie plan to see it multiple times want to marry and have kids with it etc that's fantastic we all like what we like so you get no judgement from me but don't go questioning the sense of humor or fan loyalty of those who aren't having multiple orgasms over campbell's latest cinematic coupe this flick was a steaming turd sandwich in my humble opinion and as a true campbell fan i'm allowed to say that
0	susan slept here turned out to be dick powell's swan song as a performer on the big screen of course he directed some more films and appeared frequently on television until he died it's a pity he didn't go out with his performance in the bad and the beautiful br br frank tashlin has done so many better films i'm still not sure whatever possessed him to do this one the premise is absolutely laughable br br dick powell is a screenwriter who's looking to do more serious stuff than the fluff he's been writing he had an idea for a film on juvenile delinquency so two friendly cops in herb and horace mcmahon deposit 17 year old debbie reynolds on his doorstep she's not a really bad kid and they don't want to put her in the system so they give her to dick powell at christmas time br br i mean is there anyone out there who doesn't see a problem the term comes immediately to mind additionally powell has a girlfriend the young and sexy anne francis why debbie reynolds is any competition here is beyond me br br susan slept here got one oscar nomination the song hold my hand sung by don cornell in the background was nominated for best song but lost to secret love br br powell and reynolds do have some funny moments together and moore as powell's factotum and les tremayne as his lawyer also get a few laughs br br but it's not enough
0	this movie is simply rubbish i have to say i am an expert of rubbish movies i reserve the 1 rating for movies that are rubbish but funny but this film is just tedious and certainly not crappy in a funny way but crappy in a crappy way it gets a 2 so those of you out there can distinguish between the ones that will make you laugh and the ones that will make you fall asleep there are scenes in this movie where the actors are looking at something their expressions are of amazement and there wide eyes and slack jaws tell the audience that what they are looking at is going to be profoundly amazing this simply isn't it's just a cupboard or even more desert it has to be pretty god damn awful for me to walk out let me tell you i walked out and so did quite a few people
0	if you suffer from insomnia then radiant would be the best way to send you into a 7 year coma the film is so preposterously overwrought and mundane that it's hard to imagine that director steve could overlook such obvious dullness br br the story has an exiled doctor who we never get to see move out into the desert to create a vaccine that will cure all diseases by filling the hosts full of antibodies that can combat any infection yes just like that episode of futurama the don't work and the human guinea pigs become infected with a virus that kills within 48 hours br br not wanting to be caught by the government guys in masks the group head into the desert for cover hoping that the sunshine will kill the virus all of this is narrated by michael the only one of the quartet immune to the infection and it's the most boring narration ever they could have cast someone with an interesting voice but instead we get someone with less vocal personality than clive owen br br on top of this the editor insists on fade cutting more than half the movie giving it a weird dream like feel and increasing the audiences desire to go to sleep it's no surprise that half of the audience walked out of this i was not one of them for some reason but i bloody well should have br br the ending is supposed to be shocking and clever and foreboding but it's plain and simply not a relief yes but not dramatic in the slightest br br the utter cheapness of this production and muffled sound that renders a lot of the dialogue unintelligible cripples what could have been an interesting sci fi story if it had better actors cooler locations and a sense of urgency as it is radiant is a snoozefest
0	the movie starts off promisingly enough the use of imagery and simple short clips convey the bigger story which would normally need a considerably higher budget than the one here however it did start to worry me as it continued combined with another overly husky max payne type voice over the movie was starting to look not so good i hoped it was just the introduction to the story br br the story is what really caught me and took me to this movie the idea that a research scientist has created a virus that actually protects the cells it infects from other infection was an interesting scientific idea then that subjects who had the most bizarre disorders sought out the scientist and offered to be his human experiments made me think this could be one very good small movie yet the introduction hadn't gone well br br there did seem to be a change of pace as the movie turned to recorded interviews with the four main characters in the movie the test subjects although the acting wasn't superb there seemed to be a lot of scope for character development throughout the movie and the recordings were done quite well with a varied mix of characters however these faded through the movie they weren't used again after a few brief clips and i did feel that there was a missed opportunity to provide some great character development by reflecting back to them however it wasn't to be br br the imagery becomes increasingly disconnected from the story often repeating to represent something that is still happening this and repetition is reflected in the annoying and distracting commentary it began reciting words one after the other short meaningless sentences and reciting none too relevant or interesting scientific ramblings if there was something to be described four or five words would be used it was too long repetitive circular looping you're getting the idea br br now this could have been to reflect the confusion and of the character slowly becoming caught up in his own thoughts rambling due to lack of food and water what it actually did was to cause me to totally switch off to the voice and by the closing stages of the movie i found that i hadn't been listening to some of the ramblings br br a number of times that an event occurs the camera shows all the characters one after the other for their reaction which seems to be somewhere between confused and thoughtful there are repeated fades from the same scene to the same scene for instance a character sleeping fades to black then fades back in on the character sleeping again look we know the character is asleep we know time has passed please move on overall there are just too many atmospheric cuts and long hanging shots to fill time br br the acting was not bad and the characters were okay but not exploited and developed when they were interacting there were some truly cringeworthy moments for example when one of them asks if they are hungry the camera looks to each of them and returns to a group shot they pause look to each other turn back to camera and say slowly no it raised a snigger or two their dialogue was slow glossy and either it was missing altogether or totally unnecessary there seemed to be no middle ground where the dialogue hit spot on br br however there were some good scenes but they were really hard to find unless you viewed them in isolation and this is what it almost looks like has happened with this movie the film has been looked at as a series of scenes and not as a complete story br br nowhere is this seen more than in the main storyline the characters are infected with the virus that has been killing the animals the one that was being engineered for them we're told that it develops in stages to something dramatic and so that is what we expect what we get are the characters eating loads together all throwing up once together water pouring from their mouths in unconvincing streams then they all fall asleep these are the phases which all happen really early in the movie then they all say good together when asked how they are and that's it that's the virus done nothing else happens br br there could have been so much more done with this movie so much more developed with the virus and it protecting them from all manner of harm it could have explored a serious change of these characters as it infected and took over them it could have developed these characters shown them making decisions and doing things that connect back to their character shown in flashbacks to the interviews br br the ending isn't even confusing intriguing or thought provoking it just shows something that happens and that's it although in the long drawn out style with the irritating voice over above it i really struggled with this movie and watched a number of press members walk out including one famous tv critic leaving within the first twenty minutes i stayed but regretted the lost time
0	this movie is about a group of people who are infected by a powerful man made virus they are pursued by government men into the desert br br the premise of the film is quite interesting but is hampered by the fact that the delivery is extremely boring at no point does the film engage with the viewer on any level granted the miniscule budget is a problem but is not the reason for the film's failure much more at fault is the very po faced delivery there is a great deal of narration but unfortunately the narrator has an annoyingly over dramatic voice very little seems to happen to these people and well before the end you will be rooting for the government men the sooner they kill the protagonists the sooner the movie will end a much better title for this film would have been four people run about in the desert with some stock footage of a helicopter overall very tedious
0	bob clampett's 'the hep cat' is a distinctly average cartoon only really notable for the fact that it was the first colour looney tune previously looney tunes were all black and white while merrie melodies were in colour the tale of a singing dancing cat's attempts to woo a lady cat and a dog's attempts to catch the cat 'the hep cat' lacks the trademark energy and pace of most clampett shorts to be fair clampett doesn't have a great deal to work with warren foster's script is embarrassingly thin and while he has spun straw into gold with other cartoons clampett doesn't manage it with 'the hep cat' it's often said of clampett that you can't mistake his cartoons for anyone else's and it's generally true but 'the hep cat' is an exception there's flashes of clampett genius such as the chase scene in which the cat stops to ask the dog hey are you following me when the dog confirms that he is the cat simply says oh and the chase immediately resumes unfortunately there's very little of such brilliance on show here knowing who directed it 'the hep cat' is a bitter disappointment we all have off days and this was clearly one of clampett's
0	just watched this today on tcm where the other reviewers here saw it br br sorry that i was the only one to find davies a weak actress with a truly awful attempt at an irish irish american or otherwise accent as she's the star it was sort of hard for me to get past that especially as the other reviewers have said that this was her finest performance br br another particularly terrible davies performance was in marianne 1929 which i also watched today in this film given a 9 of 10 rating here her accent switches from that of a correct french woman to an odd combination of italian and swiss br br interestingly in tcm's one hour bio of davies captured on film the true story of marion davies 2001 film historian jeanine basinger claims that one of the things that you note about marion davies in her sound work is how good she is at doing accents of course this bio also includes commentary by fans make of that what you will br br davies was a very attractive young woman and by all accounts a terrific comedienne in real life br br and because a part of her anatomy added immeasurably to the real life answer to joseph character's search for the meaning behind kane's final word in the opening scene of the great citizen kane she's earned her spot among the great stories if hollywood's history br br but i think welles mankiewicz got it right for the most part with the susan alexander facsimile of the real article br br don't bother voting as to whether you agree or disagree with this post as i really couldn't care less
0	while this isn't one of miss davies' very worst films it is pretty bad and it's sad that in a revisionist fashion recent imdb raters have deliberately over inflated the scores on some of her films to make up for her being slighted in the past or so it seems for years conventional wisdom has been that davies was a terrible actress and only got the roles she got because her beau william randolph hearst bought her way into hollywood this certainly is the image created in orson welles' citizen kane it is true that hearst did use his considerable wealth and clout to build davies' career with all this money it's not surprising that she made some excellent films and it isn't surprising that people got snippy due to all the extra attention she got sleeping with the man who finances your films is bound to get noticed however despite this edge she also made a decent number of bad films and i think we really need balance when it comes to the scores of her movies after all no rational person could believe that as of today 1 5 08 peg o' my heart and two other davies films recently shown on turner classic movies the girl and marianne deserved the exceptionally high scores ranking them higher than such films as high noon ben hur the best years of our lives and all quiet on the western front in fact marianne would now rank as the fifth best movie ever according to imdb with a score of 8 8 considering most people out there don't even know who marion davies was and most of her movies were financial disasters this is a serious problem however she was a much better actress than citizen kane implied and initially broke into films before she began sleeping with hearst br br what sets peg o' my heart apart from these two other movies is that marianne and the girl were pleasant little films while peg o' my heart is in some ways just terrible much of the reason was the terrible miscasting of marion while her french accent in marianne was cute in peg her irish accent just sounded bizarre not particularly irish plus and perhaps i'm mistaken but her continual use of the word 'ye' makes her sound like she should be doing shakespeare not a film set in 1933 ireland also there was a bizarre insistence that marion should be the consummate multi talented star so they had her not just act but dance and sing the singing actually fit the scripts in some of her films but here it seemed out of place and seriously detracted from the film it just seemed like you could almost hear hearst shouting out see she is a great actress look at her sing and dance sadly marion just looked uncomfortable and out of place in many of these scenes but for me the biggest problem was the idea of having 36 year old marion playing such a youthful role it was obvious that the character she played at the beginning of the film was supposed to be like the ones mary pickford played in the teens and twenties complete with the pig tails and plucky attitude miss pickford could carry off these roles even though she too wasn't a girl any more but here marion had put on a bit of weight and looked at least 30 no offense she looked fine for her age but she did not look like a teen br br oddly with the millions that hearts spent on marion's career he never realized that the most important thing he needed to spend his money on was a good script and one that fit marion's talents believe me i have rated several of her films very high i especially adore show people but here she just couldn't help but flop this film was a turkey
0	i've watched a number of and sub rosa extreme movies lately and have found a lot to like about them br br this movie seemed a lot more slight than all the others i've seen perhaps that's because this is a comedy horror movie rather than straight horror and perhaps it's also because the humor didn't register with me very well br br it's a little less than seventy minutes long and the credits begin as the last ten minutes are beginning there are some outtakes goofs and behind the scenes stuff going on while those credits roll br br movies do tend to be short and tend to feel padded out in spite of that this is no exception with some scenes that tend to go on too long br br the story involves a poor kid in california who'd been picked on by all his classmates he'd had one shoe stolen and unable to replace it he was dubbed due to an obsession with pirates his parents gave him an eyepatch for christmas with a christmas tree emblazoned on the eyepatch br br many of the classmates are killed and the few who remain gather together to decide what to do they're picked off one by one by who stalks around to the sound of sleigh bells ringing br br the characters are pretty much all broad stereotypes like the nerd named etc there's an odd scene in which a kinky couple has sex the woman is handcuffed and blindfolded the man wears a large paper watermelon slice over his head this reminded me of some of the stranger sex scenes from director rinse dream br br the picture quality is good and there are a lot of extras but basically a pretty silly movie br br oh well i guess you can never have too many christmas horror movies still there are a lot of other needy holidays
0	first off i saw another reviewer said this movie was fantastic well nothing could be further from the truth this movie is complete garbage a moronic horror comedy that is not even slightly funny don't take that mean that it's so bad that it's good because it's not it's a total waste of time and money br br here's what i see in this waste of a dvd a group of friends get together on a weekend get drunk and then decide to make a backyard video they grab mom and dad's video camera and start coming up with scenes on the spot they all get a big kick out of watching themselves mug for the camera they figure if they think it's funny then everyone will think it's funny well they're wrong this backyard home video is garbage the acting and comedic gore effects are lousy but i guess that's to be expected since this is nothing more then a home video br br on the bright side i guess the fact that this crap got out there gives hope to anyone out there who wants to make a movie if these people could get their movie made and released on dvd then anyone can br br 0 10 save your money
0	guys what can i tell you i'm bulgarian i can't remember how many times i talk to americans and let alone that they don't have a slightest clue where is bulgaria but they say things like there's a war going on there right or i've never imagined that in a place like bulgaria people have internet go watch bruce campbell's the man with the screaming brain i was curious about this movie cause 1 i'm bruce campbell fan evil dead trilogy and the adventures of brisco county jr 2 the movie was shot entirely on location in bulgaria the second after alien apocalypse which is also nearly unwatchable 3 i enjoy nice b movies br br well the movie presents our country like a never ending gypsy town where they raid your car wave around illegal guns and you can get killed any moment and bruce's line bull bulgaria is more than offending br br ted raimi and stacy make a great team bruce does his special beats himself up and that's all nothing more to see here br br give this movie 10 just because of bruce's cult status but it doesn't deserve more than 3 waste of film
0	my review is divided into questions that you really should ask yourself br br 1 plants eating people have been done hundreds of times it's been used by nintendo in everything from mario to zelda to metroid prime it's been used in plenty of low budget 50's movies on par with the lowest of the godzilla franchise and this brings it to a whole another level of cheese with plants that talk i've known no one who walked out but i know a lot of people who absolutely broke out in hysteric laughing during parts of this movie i was one of them doesn't the horror genre deserve something a little better than this pile of laughable crap br br 2 the characters easily could have been copy pasted from hostel or wrong turn or wolf creek or any other movie with collage kids with bad luck yet it's called characterizing when the movie takes hours of your time to tell you clichés that hundreds of characters before have had don't you ever wish a movie had characters that weren't just forgettable pieces of meat with legs br br 3 this was not gory a guy cuts his skin off oh my not a guy gets his legs broken oh my gasp not i have shown movies like this to my mother who hates everything to do with horror because it makes her sick and she said i've seen pg movies worse than that why was it rated r so why was it rated r br br 4 here's the only plot the movie book has collage kids drink have sex get naked cruse bleed and eventually die this is possibly the most typical example of a cheap thoughtless horror movie yet people call this mature what the br br 5 i do not think i have ever seen something less original sense i watched a beautiful mind br br haven't you ever sat there and wished the horror genre easily the most diverse genre out there would do something well diverse something truly original br br i just wish more horror movies would have actual horror not just cheap collage parties put on film with a few splatters of fake blood tossed around br br 1 10
0	if you value your life in any way shape or form you will do yourself a courtesy and pass by this seemingly interesting movie on the dvd rack br br i know what you're thinking i saw the preview and it looked great however buyer beware i fell into the same trap one of my friends expressed certain reluctance to watching this movie but i forced her to sit it out oh how i regret that decision br br like most horror movies the movie starts out cheerfully in a sunny mexican resort where two couples are lured to an ancient mayan ruin by a fellow resort goer upon arrival they are disturbed by the appearance of two jungle people who are all but oblivious to their greeting shouts as if this isn't ominous enough the tour group casts aside large plant growth and declares an unused path consumed by wildlife a perfect route to their destination i guess it wouldn't be much of a movie if they utilized rational decision making and turned around just then but well this wasn't much of a movie anyways br br after some hiking the the resort goer brought a friend stumble upon the ruins and at once their doubts are dispelled by its beauty and history that is until frantic tribal people emerge from the jungle armed with a vengeance for no reason in particular shouting in an indecipherable language since when are brutal verbal assaults assuaged by calm patronizing language don't ask me but nonetheless the cast tries anyway to no avail obviously suddenly the sixth trail member dimitri is punctured with several from the mayans and all hell breaks loose a gunshot finishes the job and the horrified travelers retreat quickly up the ruin br br now if there was ever a plot to this movie it ended here the introduction took at most 20 minutes and it was unfortunately the best 20 minutes of the movie on top of the ruins the now realizes they are stranded by murderous locals and proceed to make countless good decisions one of them being to use a withered rope to lower one of their members into the bowels of the ruin needless to say the adventurer is seriously hurt and then trapped within the ruins and the two girlfriends are gravely injured trying to rescue him br br the rest of the movie continues with no real horror only only blood and gore as displayed when one girl yanks a plant growing within her out gushing of blood and then again when somebody's legs are cut off only to have the same plat from within the girl strangle him later br br my only satisfactions in this movie were observing the very attractive jonathon tucker playing jeff mcintire grow increasingly more frazzled and distressed and sitting long enough to ascertain that almost all of the cast dies a horrible gruesome death their simulated pain seems an adequate compensation for the time suck that was this movie br br supposedly the storyline goes that the ruin is an ancient house of of dangerous spirits with an evil flesh eating plant to ward off and consume unlucky visitors unfortunately i got no such warning from screaming bloodthirsty plants and the only evil thing relating to this movie that i am truly horrified by is the script writer
0	the ruins is to as deep impact was to armageddon a worse version of a mildly entertaining movie except much much worse one of the characters is supposed to be going to medical school so why are they all retards you can't keep cutting best line form this movie this is an awful movie i like horror movies but fully appreciate that most of them are terrible but had a bit of high hopes for this movie after seeing the reviews on imdb the situation they are in is stupid and how they handle it makes them stupid it is awful the one thing that makes it somewhat palatable is its cool australian backdrop despite the fact that they spend the vast majority of the movie in one place
0	i have not seen such a stupid dumb movie since quite a while it absolutely has no logic no horror doesn't scare you no suspense not thrilling i mean i didn't find even one part of the movie appealing br br i don't know what they were thinking when they made the movie you watch the whole movie to find out that there is a plant that can walk around drag human dead bodies and eat human flesh not just that but it can also talk i e imitate sounds like a cellphone ringing or human talking so its like the plant makes the noise of a cell phone ringing so they go after the cellphone and find out its a plant how intelligent of the plant to setup an ambush br br this clearly is the creativity level of a primary school kid bad
0	it had potential it really did but there is so much about the movie that was ridiculous and laughable i'm a horror movie weenie and i thought it was stupid as did my 13 year old i was expecting to be at least creeped out and yes the gross factor of the vines squirming in the people was there however the lead up to getting to the ruins is just dumb dumb dumb br br i mean really who goes on a hike in a jungle with a total stranger with a little water and a few snacks in flip flops no less puh lease better still who goes to a foreign country and leaves the tourist area without an interpreter or being able to speak a bit of the language are these people complete morons br br the brother isn't heard from and he doesn't call for assistance who doesn't do that he just finds some greeks and americans to go on a little search and find
0	i was really disappointed with this movie i had heard some great reviews about it and unfortunately missed seeing it in theaters as a result of this i was really excited to see it when it came to dvd i thought that it was going to be a high paced horror movie with a lot of scary surprises but instead it was a snail paced predictable movie it dragged and dragged without a climax in it and after all the difficulties that those people went through to try and escape the ending was completely frustrating i gave this movie two stars for one reason this is not your typical horror movie with one central bad guy slashing a bunch of people to death the story makes this movie unique and provides a change for people who watch a lot of horror movies even though i don't like this movie i recommend that all horror fans do see it at least once you may surprisingly like it as for this horror fan all i can say is that i hope there isn't a sequel to this forgettable movie
0	the movie started off o k a couple of tourists on vacation in mexico having a good time decide they should go on a hike they uncover some hidden trails and end up and this huge temple like fortress angry villagers show up and try to deter them from climbing it but because of the language barrier people get shot and the tourists end up climbing the stupid thing turns out the plants are evil blood thirsty things that the villagers won't go near so they guard the temple so the tourists can't get off there are a couple of scares in this movie but nothing really makes sense i mean they're plants don't bother buying or renting the d v d wait till it comes out on cable
0	plants in an ancient mayan pyramid structure killing all who come close yes it is weird as the travelers do not figure it out until everything starts doing crazy and in a movie like this i just wished it went absurd and had marching bands being attacked by plants wielding machetes br br anyway a group of people from america vacation and go into the mountains with a couple of other newly made german friends who know about the place when they get there mayans began shouting at them and hide on the structure and when there thats when the plants decide to take them out mimicking cell phone noises humans and ancient mayan dead people br br nothing was really scary about the movie and was not even entertaining not even the weird ending could save this piece of crap i kept looking for something really good to happen but nothing oh well f
0	when i saw 6 0 on imdb i was rather impressed and excited to watch this movie as a 6 for a horror movie should be rather entertaining at first i thought it was going to be some disturbing unseen evil force having not read the book to terrify the audience but it turns out to be something rather mundane killer plants regardless i am a rather open minded individual when it comes to movies so i thought perhaps the movie would bring some kind of breakthrough spin on carnivorous vines br br unfortunately it failed to meet my expectations due to the excessive amounts of cliché and lack of any originality to top it off the female lead character continues to annoy you off with her stupidity unless the movie is intentionally a bad b rated movie that is entertaining in the hilarity of badness no movie should ever ever ever have a main character irritate you if one expects the audience to care about the character such roles should be reserved for secondary characters characters were undeveloped the monsters plants in this case left unexplained and clichés were dripping all over br br the only thing that is mildly effective are some of the bloody gory scenes although the gore pales in comparison with movies like high tension or ichi the killer consistently failed logic such as why would a character not watching the top of a rope during a second attempt at descending into the ruins when it just snapped and almost killed someone even if minor adds up and just continues to anger the audience the movie could've saved itself by using characters or some kind of story device to or redeem idiot characters who just did something stupid or at least let the character recognize or regret her own mistakes but to continue to allow idiocy to preside will certainly cause the audience to abandon all care for the character in turn taking away the terror of the movie br br overall this is a poorly done movie an example of a well done movie involving pretty twenty something's getting killed is the texas chainsaw massacre remake and the prequel too that certainly instilled fear and had much less character logic flaws in summary if you have a lot of time to kill go watch it if there's nothing else otherwise don't waste your time with this sub par flick and go see something actually scary and highly satisfying like the hills have eyes remake
0	i have to say that this movie was not what i expected even though i have not read the book the fact that plants can one bait and then wait for a killing to happen only to have it drag off a corpse for lunch is about the worst scenario anyone has come up with with the title ruins you would think that out of 3000 years that some kind of deity or ancient animal or god would be the culprit this is like another movie primeval where you would think it was something strange that villagers fear the most but not a crocodile either way this film was like that it entices you to think about ruins of mayan or inca folklore resulting in awakening and old god or the people had another agenda for sacrifice or something to that effect but plants come on is there nothing else producers can come up with to wow a crowd as for this movie it will hit the 'b' list in no time i have to say that some of the gore was excellent to see but it didn't make up for the rest of the film and a plant mimicking a cell phone sound or peoples voices is just too much to be believed i am a fan of horror films but i am not a stereo typed fan who relies on just gore or mechanical effects i do rely on great suspense and whats the next scene going to bring for more suspense the thing had a better story line than this did even the ring had me jumping for more but the ruins is just that ruined for using a plant to coax victims into killing or be killed by the villagers the premise was alright for the villagers to keep it at bay with salt and such but still a simple blow torch and lots of napalm can easily do the trick to end those pesky plants with a flesh eating disorder
0	my brain was screaming why do you keep watching turn it off and go to bed but couch won out and i watched until the predictable ending i guess when it's bruce campbell i need to give it a chance br br i find it hard to complain about a low budget movie purely because of the low budget time and time again we see low budget movies proving that a good story good writing and good acting are enough to make a good movie ted and bruce got their start on just such a movie but they didn't seem to learn from sam that it takes a bit more than slapping it on film to make a movie br br it's sad too because bruce has always been a favorite after the 70's and 80's i just can't believe movies this bad are still being made bruce i'm really disappointed
0	the scariest thing about freshman director carter smith's new horror movie the ruins is the closing credits that list comedian ben stiller as one of the executive producers what was stiller thinking when he sank his bucks into this chiller about cursed carnivorous that creeps up on its victims and devours them oscar nominated scenarist scott b smith of a simple plan adapting his own bestselling novel sticks steadfastly to the standard clichés and conventions of all twentysomething scary sagas where reckless youth do everything but tote signs begging the forces of evil to eat them were cretinous characters not enough to contend with in this nihilistic nonsense we're treated to yet another film where american tourists find themselves in jeopardy simply because they are americans furthermore unlike really good horror movies that explain why the monsters have a need to feed the ruins provides no explanation for the supernatural shenanigans of its villainous vines br br the set up for the ruins resembles the 2006 horror movie where slimy south americans trapped brainless american and harvested them for their internal organs indeed generated some legitimate thrills and chills the ruins spawns nothing in the way of either thrills or chills a malicious that suddenly lurches on camera to snarl at our heroes is as close as it gets to a thrill br br the rest of the ruins borrows from another movie the descent a superb 2006 chiller about a bunch of babes plunged into a nightmare experience when they get lost in warren of caves inhabited by albino mutants with a blood lust for murder a couple of other movies that served either intentionally or unintentionally come to mind too they are the straightforward 1968 hammer horror classic the lost continent about murderous vegetation that menaces innocent bystanders in a sea of derelict ships and the roger corman cult class the little shop of horrors 1961 about a new york florist that grows a man eating plant in his shop br br the ruins unfolds in the scenic sunny mexico where four frolicking american college kids eric shawn of the x men movies stacy laura ramsey of the covenant jeff jonathan tucker of sleepers and amy jena malone of pride prejudice are wrapping up their tequila soaked spring break stacy loses a prized earring in a motel swimming pool but a helpful teutonic twentysomething tourist mathias joe anderson of copying beethoven recovers it and the group embraces him as newest best friend these people live to party and they have already made friends with a trio of greek tourists mathias tells them about his wayward brother who has accompanied a cute female archaeologist to a remote mayan pyramid that isn't listed in any he offers to take them with him and they accept br br first rule of horror movies if nobody knows about the place where you're going you'd be well advised to avoid it since they have only one day left and they haven't done anything adventurous our two couples along with their spanish speaking greek friend newcomer dimitri decide to follow mathias and check the pyramid out they catch a bus into the interior of mexico and look for a taxi to take them on the next leg of their journey a cabbie glances at their map and warns them to stay away second rule of horror movies when the natives warn you to steer clear you steer clear a crisp twenty dollar bill helps him change his mind and he them off to their destination and then he in a heartbeat br br no sooner have our heroes found the mysterious mayan pyramid covered with that looks suspiciously like a variation of mississippi in the jungle than superstitious natives appear they know that the pyramid is haunted and they kill without a qualm when he tries to dispel their fears the remaining protagonists scramble to safety atop the pyramid while the paranoid natives surround them to prevent them from escaping eventually the vines slink out to greet our heroes and eat them at this point the ruins turns into bug the recent and ridiculous ashley judd schizoid movie about insects that get under your skin before long our heroes are carving each other up in a futile effort to extract the vines from under their skin one particularly gruesome scene shows the americans off the german guy's legs to save his life by comparison it makes the tortures of the spanish inquisition look tame br br the ruins ranks as just another vine mess with nothing to redeem it
0	this movie was really awful it was not in the least bit frightening or even startling i went to see it with a bunch of friends and by the end of the night we were saying the ruins ruined my night br br i would not recommend seeing this movie in theaters renting it or even watching the movie on television by accident it is an absolute waste of an hour and a half br br the plot was nearly non existent the characters were horribly underdeveloped and they gave no back story whatsoever for anything that was happening and then left it completely open at the end as if preparing for a sequel
0	god where do i begin from start to finish i could not help to hate this movie vines vines that make cell phone noises oh yeah i'm so scared i'm going to rid the weeds of earth come on people the plot went nowhere when the group discovered the ruin and the village people no pun intended came to warn them and weapons in front of their faces don't worry amy jena malone was there to take pictures that whole scene really had me wondering why she didn't take pictures of her beau jeff johnathon tucker sawing off mathias joe anderson legs when the idiots first threw down the rope after mathias how the rope was at least ten feet from the ground but how it eventually was able to be a mere two to four feet from the ground i cannot begin to cover everything that was wrong about this movie there is just too much to cover i will say the graphics as far as the gore were terrific but it amounted to nothing since the acting and script were so terrifically bad
0	i saw this movie with very low expectations i didn't know a lot about it so i wasn't sure if it was going to be worth it br br the story did an ok job of getting you curious about these ruins they travel to the suspense continues when the mayans show up and force them to stay at the ruins br br then the movie turns from somewhat suspenseful to pointless the amount of gore found in this movie did not balance out compared to whether it was truly necessary or used more for shock value br br the fact that they didn't make any attempt to fight the vines from hell they had fire and didn't try to burn it nor did they try to cut it with a knife to see if they could destroy it or not they quickly jumped into a victim role and their helpless attitude was not real it reminded me of the old horror movies where the people just scream and yell and don't have half a brain to try to fight back
0	i watched the first 10 minutes of this show i think i'm gonna barf now one worst shows on tv it's not even funny it's so lame it's disgusting i gave it a second and third change couldn't even make it through five minutes don't waste the time this is one of the many shows that need to go bye bye speaking of regular night time shows that need to go all the shows on cbs all the shows on abc all the shows on fox and joe buck all the shows on the new cw network all the shows on nbc accept the law and order series all the morning and afternoon talk shows all the court tv shows and every reality show out there every stupid game show period the end all the home improvement shows and all the media news all it is is a 24 hour loop of bad news yes i do have favorites monk the law orders thats it for me
0	my name is earl 2005 br br review for i have seen this br br this is something else first off how is this rated so high i cannot understand that this show is filled to the top with either annoying people stupid people or just plain unlikeable the gags are hideous br br i saw one episode where the wife of earl's brother wrapped and washed herself with dead fish not kidding that wasn't funny that's repulsive then she and earl's extremely stupid brother and i mean stupid then had sex i nearly threw up br br this has to be one of the most desperate attempts at comedy in a long time jason lee is a talented actor but is trapped in a helpless role in this horrible comedy br br earl is now in jail for this current season let's hope he gets the chair just so this show gets put out of it's misery br br the last word this show would be funny to people who think larry the cable guy is funny to the rest of the world not a chance avoid like the plague
0	it seems like people are attracted to shows that showcase pathetic lives that have no purpose what so ever to me i give my sincerity to nbc for their dire efforts to make new changes in television making laugh track free shows they seem to always find big success like the office when i first started to watch it seemed to me that it could have potential to be a smash hit but after a couple of episodes i really felt like going to church and donating every penny in my entire bank to pathetic people showcased in these lowlife poor disgraceful areas and the end where they show earl and the brother in bed together it just seems to me that this show is trying to show the bad side of life like street beggars or people who struggle to pay the rent and have no sense of what the real world of normal people in society are like i just seem to always be disgusted when i watch the filth the people in this show live in it's like venice beach in california beautiful but so many hobos believe me i'm no rich guy middle class and not a clean freak either a bit sloppy but it just seems to me that the show just can't seem to get off of all the gruesome schmuck people out there who have one leg i just wish that they would show a little more class not all filth and poorness and trailers and just below average life it just seems to depress me to me this show is nothing more than a showcase of what not to do in life what not to be it also shows me that education is the most important thing you can have because apparently these two don't have an ounce of smarts this is a schmuck u
0	after i couldn't ignore the hype about the show i started watching season one and it struck me as really good and i was hooked for about 5 episodes then it started to spiral downwards why first ethan is scripted to act as a complete idiot confirming that very obviously by spewing out semi random stuff in great expectations of it somehow becoming the next best joke br br jaime pressly's got stunning looks but if she thinks stretching lips to explore parts of the face to which they normally never go to and making strange grimaces to accentuate everything she says is hilarious she's way off track maybe she thought her character would be too flat faded and she wanted to make it colorful and spicy but made a flood of colors overkill of spices and screams out loud for attention and it hurts my eyes ears and intellect br br i really really wanted to love this show like i said the premise is great comes from the same shelf as the fabulous destiny of amelie poulain and jason lee is doing a pretty good job here along with some of the other actors but there is no way no how i would get in' and forget that this is just a show because pressly's and surreal extreme characters abruptly wake me when they show up it's worth to note that their characters and acting would be fine if this wasn't a 70 something part series and if they didn't get that much screen time
0	with the plethora of repetitive and derivative sitcoms jamming fall summer winter and spring line ups it's nice to see a show that sets itself from the lot in more than one area br br takes an unusual approach it's not about the daily musings of an eccentric family zzzz nor about the other boring stuff you see everywhere in sitcoms the show is about this small time white trash thief earl who scratches off a lottery card and scores big time right at that moment took it away from him overtime he learns that that unusual incident was probably because of all the bad things he's been doing so he sets off on a mission to right every wrong he ever did and he's got all his deeds on a paper br br this is a brilliant premise for a sitcom thankfully it landed in the right hands the execution of the show produces extremely satisfactory results you get an innovative comedy that is genuinely funny and really touching at many times you can't help but fall in love with earl's sincerity and randy's simple mind good heart and observations on life wild flamboyant personality and mellow demeanor that really him to you very easily br br when you combine the show's innovation with its genuine humor good heart interesting characters and well written dialogue you really have a keeper with shows like this and the incomparable the office nbc is obviously on to something did they finally free a cubicle or two for quality assurance let's hope so and let's hope for more quality shows like these will occupy the line ups shows that'll make both us tv viewers and nbc executives stop crying over the long gone days of nbc's golden days frasier seinfeld friends
0	i agree with the comments regarding the downward spin the last view shows have been a little better but surely the writers need some more direction i think the characters are still interesting although sometimes they spin into the white trash things a little too much subtlety and nuance goes a long way on shows like office i would think the target audience is somewhat similar being they are both on the same night and lineup one would think that karma and the whole eastern religion thing is a big enough topic to bring some different and interesting shows but they only scratch the surface of the subject in my opinion it shows the contempt that many people have in hollywood about the level of intelligence of the masses we can handle more heady content it has been proved before in many other shows
0	i'm 35 bruce was the man in evil dead and i still love to watch and it was cool also to see him as the king two or three years ago in bubba ho tep in which he showed versatility and great acting talent but this screaming brain adventure is certainly not for bruce's early fans either i'm getting too old for this or i'm just not part of bruce's target audience anymore i'm positive kids age 9 to 13 will love this film but this over extended matinée sci fi comedy contains about 5 minutes total of interesting moments and the rest is cheap kids slapstick humor campbell better talk seriously with sam raimi and get their brains screaming together for a last evil dead reunion picture to get back my interest at least there would be a good director behind the camera sorry bruce this just doesn't cut it for me take care
0	other than cop rock and that show where the kid dies from eating a spoiled hamburger he found under the bed this has consistently been the worst and dumbest show to survive prime time if not for jason lee's unjustifiable success in film this show would have never made it out of conception if pitched with a relatively unknown as the lead br br the concept is terrible moron redneck hick spends his lottery winnings to redeem himself with the white trash of his past is it funny periodically but not consistently is it stupid each and every single episode br br i've seen a lot of great shows come then go before their time yet this blunder has survived longer than i ever could have imagined the dialog is incredibly unfunny as are the episode themes every episode for someone with an iq over 100 is an absolute struggle and the icing on the cake jason lee's annoying voice narrating each episode if it weren't for the state's southern culture and rednecks of the south this show wouldn't have an audience br br if you're a moron and need a show completely lacking humor yet overflowing with bad taste bad dialog and dimwit characters failing at life well then you're probably an actor on this show
0	have you seen all the big adventures of last few decades if you have don't bother with this one as you've already seen most of the scenes already and i can guarantee that those scenes were originally in much better movies br br the story i'm sure that true storytellers will never forgive me is childish and stupid stupid in a way that making it play in a mortuary would result in a bunch of angry walking dead every character is based in a cliché and well they're nothing but the cliché and yes again all you need to be a hero is to be american br br at least in finland they advertised this to be the kind of movie the dvd was made for maybe i should sell my player then br br 1 10
0	another awful movie from hollywood this time a female helps the revolution in a central american country yeah yeah yeah hey lets make a movie without any sense of realism at all i am so sick of movies like this one the actors and actresses are lousy the effects are cheesy and the dialog horrible and suddenly i see john rhys davies as the evil president from gimli to hugo louis ramos i bet he is very proud of this well i shouldn't have expected much of this movie and i didn't and i am glad cause this sucks bigtime i wonder what kind of people who like this movie my guess is younger people aged 12 16 and i guess some people like because of kristin dattilo well i am in neither of those group and i hate it rating 2
0	infamous for being brought to you by the digital effects team behind independence day is even more of a spectacular failure just from being juxtaposed with this ridiculous mess of a film starts off with a brainless premise and goes completely downhill from there a wealthy soon to be married couple in beverly hills are the subjects of this idiotic story claire's fiancée has taken off on a business trip right around christmas so she decides to spontaneously fly to switzerland so they can spend the holiday together i especially love that her initial reason for wanting to go was because he had left some documents at home that she thought he might need she grabbed them up and yelled after him while he drove away concluding that her best bet would be to fly to the other side of the planet rather than call his cell phone i refuse to believe that a couple living in such a cavernous mansion as theirs were unaware of the existence of mobile phones br br so up until this point the movie is unbelievably bad but check this out this is where it starts to get bad she gets to switzerland and when she can't find her husband she gets some cake and calls her friend to whine about how unfair it all is this woman is not an action hero and she is definitely not a german indiana jones for crying out loud she is an overgrown cheerleader a pampered sorority girl whose outdoor experience is probably limited to digging her spike heels out of the ground when she gets tipsy enough to wander onto the lawn during a wine and cheese party out on the bluffs br br she gets a tip that her fiancée is in south america so she like totally flies there to get him once there this moron thinks she's going to go into the jungle by herself sniff out the enemy base and rescue her poor helpless boyfriend she laughs off a comment about the danger of going in there then freaks out later because she finds out that there are battles going on you never said anything about battle br br there is one point where claire and some journalist that she met up with drive this huge truck across a bridge that is hundreds of feet high and hundreds of feet across and suspended by two by fours literally there are thousands of thin pieces of wood tied together with twine and these morons decide to drive over it not only does it crumble under the weight of the truck but claire manages to fall off of it falling hundreds of feet and landing on her back in the shallow river below later she recalls the event laughing it off like oh maybe it was only a hundred at least she wasn't twirling gum on her fingers br br what is truly sad about this catastrophically bad movie is that they even managed to coax a terribly performance out of the tremendously talented john rhys davies a real indiana jones veteran there is a lot of nonsense about an uprising at the end of the film where we meet an extremist rebel leader who when we first meet him has such a thick accent that he rolls his r's like he thinks he's in a commercial then later he talks like some guy they pulled off the streets of venice beach unbelievable br br the special effects are negligible the team that brought you independence day by the very fact that they were involved with was simply going through the motions throwing together some matted and blue screen shots i have to believe because they just had nothing better to do the story is astonishingly bad and kristin dattilo who many other imdb users cite as the only reason to see the film doesn't put the slightest effort into her performance maybe she thought the digital effects team behind independence day could superimpose some meaning into this mess br br and given how far they've fallen maybe they thought they could too br br they could at least have tried
0	this movie is just as bad as it gets if you like logic or the lack of it la national treasure and bad acting as well then it could be a movie for you br br otherwise spend your time in the sun and your money on a beer br br actually it looks like a bad produced promo or demo picture to promote the people involved ie actors special effects and so on they produce really bad exposing of their lack of talent br br in a case like this the film company should be ordered to pay back money to the costumers that are not satisfied with the product br br it is really lousy
0	so we're supposed to find it funny that this woman travels all the way to the jungle to the warzone just to find out why her fiancée didn't travel to switzerland or are we supposed to take it seriously it's not even remotely funny clever or entertaining it's stupid and so is the movie the lead actress is one of the most annoying characters i have ever seen in a movie even worse than jar jar binks dialog tries very hard to be funny almost all the time but it never is the number of funny jokes is somewhere between zero and nothing and as for the plot did they even once bothered to explain to us what are the rebels fighting for other than being anti government i guess that didn't matter to anyone neither to the rebels nor to the characters who just blindly flew to the battlefield don't waste your time is neither funny nor entertaining
0	it didn't feel like a movie and was thankfully short under it felt more like a commercial of in computer graphics most of the special effects are great to be sure but that don't a great or even a good movie make not saying it's absolutely worthless viewing since it's possible to see what are the possibilities in cgi or gci or what ever it's called br br as i read somewhere you can't fix it in the cutting room a bad story and non directed actors can't be fixed in the cutting room or even with the most magnificent special effects things can be improved in the cutting room if they have a real director and material to work from br br however they thought this could be sold in usa is anyones idea since usa is the crooks br br and isn't it sooo typical of low budget stories they have to create an imaginative country south of mexico br br well well i it 2 just because of the special effects the rest is absolute trash
0	i went to see this film over matchstick men in fact buying the tickets to matchstick men and going to the other because it looked like a fun movie with action romance thrills jungles and exotic locations they had all that but so do a lot of movies with a conception of story br br all i can say is why why why why did they not just make it a straight narrative instead of some sappy flashback story br br here is all the movies from what i've seen the film was derived from of course indiana jones and romancing the stone but also true lies proof of life that old 80s tom selleck movie bananas woody allen and hero from the use of digital extras br br ps the only scene in the movie that was cool is when the central character finds her room blown up
0	just saw around here the only line they came up with to sell it is from the fx team behind independence day i think that says a great deal no talk about writers directors actors br br it's a cute little adventure story set in a banana republic in mid america but the storyline is thin br br all the way through the movie i kept thinking about how much this movie looks like the cut scenes from some action computer war game although the fxs are nice they all too often are visible much like the cut scenes in cgs style like br br you almost instantly know that that particular truck backdrop bridge castle or jet fighter never existed the look is smooth and nice but not up to the standard we have come to expect of action adventures today the movie is lacking a lot of obvious on location filming br br the acting storyline is below average and the fxs are nice but not up to feature film standard i am not surprised this thing went straight to video dvd br br
0	the of this movie is maddening one moment it's making fun of latin americans american tourists and banana republics in general the other it wants to be touching with burned villages and orphans even the serious revolutionary hero becomes a parody of a revolutionary at one point but the comedy parts aren't even funny because it's so obviously stolen from star wars yes star wars the hero is basically a rogue with a heart of gold add to this stereotypical sounds effects latin americans who speak english with one another and a villain that just disappears from the story and whats the point it's basically revolution propaganda with no resolution and no planning because there is just no way these people can lead a country the us government are bad guys but who'll make money producing this not some poor farmer that's for sure
0	written by directed by and starring the champ of camp bruce campbell easy on its easy to tell this is a budget on a shoestring affair filmed independently in bulgaria all i can really say for sure is that silly is not always funny campbell plays an affluent american business man with a cheating wife antoinette byron and trying to close a business transaction before he is murdered he hires a cabbie to drive him around a strange little town not knowing that his wife is on' with the taxi driver within moments of campbell being bludgeoned the cabbie is killed in the same location a mad scientist stacy keach proceeds with an experiment putting the cabbie's brain inside the american's head with massive stitches on his forehead campbell breaks free and roams the streets looking for his wife all the while he is arguing with a strange voice inside his over sized head campbell contorts his rubbery face making silly expressions as he argues with himself thus bruce is doing what he does best and no doubt his many fans will be pleased i get the impression this must have been written as a straight comedy rounding out the cast are ted raimi tamara and watch for this on the sci fi channel
0	i caught this on ifc last week and i thought it was typical of the indie short subject film heavy on style little on substance and originality does it comes as any surprise that a coming out film stars an unusually attractive and blond to boot boy with 70s shag hair and too cool for school clothes plus this film wallows in late 1970s chic which works for some sofia coppola's the virgin suicides comes to mind but not for this director br br another reviewer compared this to harmony korine's work and i agree yet i don't view this as a positive thing what has he done lately anyway is really just a waste of time and energy for all involved if you happen to see it late night on cable turn the channel and watch something else instead
0	if you are 10 years old and never seen a movie before maybe this film may be entertainment for you but if you've seen several movies this one will be a silly fully cliched cheap and predictable for you don't waste your time with this
0	this is the kind of film that i am wondering why anybody would have considered doing it from the beginning this is the kind of movie that i cannot understand how people put money in it how the rental store can put the dvd on its shelves this is the kind of movie i blame myself for having rented it br br there are good class b movies and i do not reject the genre when they are good they catch the interest with the action they have characters written well enough and acted well enough so that you can care about them the effects in some of these movies support the film in many cases and you may like them for the originality almost nothing is true in the subject and the script is at the level of cheap comics just a cliche the effects are cheap and i do not care that the film is low budget you can do a lot with low budget but you need some talent there are so many continuity and other directing errors as in ten other films you do not care for the characters you do not laugh and at the end of the film you are left wondering if the parody was intentional or not the only quality i could find is the scenery there are some good locations worth a much better film br br 2 10 on my personal scale the worst film of the year so far
0	i obtained this little piece of on the videoasia tales of voodoo dvd label quite where the voodoo is supposed to fit in i have no idea indeed i would not usually connect voodoo with indonesia anyway let alone with wips br br i know and love wip movies i have seen most of them i could not therefore resist this little known gem from the description given to it on the cover br br it is appalling you cannot have a wip movie if the women keep their clothes on even in the shower although it gives a nod to the exploitation genre wip without nudity is like a big mac without the beef br br as my gym teacher used to say on the whole i'd rather be at the disco
0	while it's one of two movies on tales of voodoo volume 1 there's no voodoo or anything supernatural in it the box labels it hell hole but the screen title is escape from hell hole the title is confusingly similar to hell hole 1978 aka escape from women's hell hole a group of women bathe in a river and seemingly the worst thing they have to worry about is a peeping tom who they easily overpower no nudity in this or any other scene however br br a woman named drives up in a car and seems to be known and liked by all the women she invites to come and live in the city with her and her uncle m g once they get there it becomes clear that m g wants to take virginity m g runs some sort of house of prostitution and he's either in charge of a corrupt branch of the military or runs a paramilitary outfit or prefers for his guards to all wear military style uniforms br br the women who refuse him or otherwise make trouble get put into a prison gets sent there the women get tortured and sometimes possibly raped by the guards br br various unsuccessful attempts at escape or rescue are made but inevitably fail despite the obvious advantages the women have they outnumber the guards vastly and relatively few of the guards have automatic weapons most have semi automatic rifles or handguns br br wip genre enthusiasts may like it and the fact that it was made in the philippines gives it some novelty but otherwise eh
0	virginal innocent finds herself at a house of prostitution run by ruthless pimp mg winds up incarcerated in private prison after she refuses to make love to him of course and worldly top con helga join forces and plan to escape maman blah uninspired direction and dull talky script thoroughly undermine any trashy vitality this flick needs in order to qualify as a pleasing piece of babes behind bars exploitation junk the sluggish pace painfully drags throughout there's no gratuitous female nudity whatsoever the girls don't even show any skin during the obligatory group shower scene the expected torture and degradation are both extremely tame and tepid the moderate crummy gore likewise fails to impress and even a ridiculous catfight sequence ain't nothing to get excited about thomas pedestrian cinematography the laughably lousy dubbing the excruciatingly overlong 102 minute running time the sappy theme song and cornball score add further abject insult to already appalling injury only some decent last reel break out action offers a little relief from the otherwise overly abundant stultifying tedium a complete yawn inducing dud
0	it was only the second year of the academy but already they were voting politically jeanne brilliant performance in this creaky early talkie had to make do with an oscar nom and the statuette went to the worst performance ever to win mary pickford's in coquette the only existing print was a work print without music or final editing but wherever it's shown stuns and captivates with her beguiling powerful performance she is so convincing on the witness stand that while we know she is lying through her teeth we did after all see her kill the man we in the audience find ourselves like the jurors believing in her innocence before we suddenly catch ourselves that is great acting the film needs to be made available on video so that the world can enjoy this terrific performance again one silent of exists in archive print man woman and sin and her only other talkie jealousy is lost so this is the only document we have of her run to see it when it first came out of the archives to be shown in nyc in the early 70s the village voice printed a full page review worshipping the performance
0	while it was nice to see a film about older people finding each other and falling in love and the performances by andrews and garner were not bad this picture poured on the and schmaltz at every turn every curve in the plot was in view from a mile away
0	i'm a massive fan of prison dramas which is reflected in oz being my all time favourite american tv show i guess the appeal lies in a type of smug voyeurism of wanting to see bad things happen to bad mens' bottoms but i found don siegel's riot in cell block 11 to be rather disappointing okay i knew since it was made in 1954 it would be devoid of bad language graphic and gang rape but even so it's a rather weak film compared to prison portrayal in earlier movies like each dawn i die and white heat the problem lies in the preachy tone of the movie with riot leader dunn being something of a prison reformer yeah that sounds ridiculous since he's a violent anti hero rather than some limp wristed tree hugging do gooder on a salary but that's what he is in essence he wants to see prisoners rehabilitated to rejoin society rather than being made to suffer there's also a problem of making a b movie with such radical themes quite ironic that siegel would later make dirty harry where the only good criminal is a dead one and that is the cast isn't very good with emile meyer as the being especially irritating in his performance like i said a disappointing movie
0	when i first saw this movie i said to myself hey what the heck it sounds like a good movie why not rent it so yeah i rented it and went back home to see it when i inserted it in my dvd player i was shocked br br well first of all no one told me it was a mexican movie and was spoken in spanish good thing it had subtitles br br second it was nude nude nude since i have no background whatsoever in mexican movies you could see my shock when i saw it gasp covering virgin eyes noo br br third predictable to say the least but actually being it predictable was no excuse to me in liking movies because i don't seem to care if it's predictable unless it's way over the top br br fourth how heidi and were reunited so cheesy br br fifth how the movie ended it was a bad bad ending how mr van der sudden approval to the mayor's election was because her daughter knew how to throw the party blah blah i was hoping that he wasn't that easy to accept it the director might have just rushed it br br after all of this bashing of the bad stuff the good stuff's are here to come the movie was actually quite hilarious at some point with being clumsy in the kitchen and all attitude valentina being poetic with words what i really also like about it was the song that valentina made with her girl friend that's all and for the other stuffs that i haven't mentioned they were just so so
0	adela is a rebellious teenager with the attitude that she is right and everyone else is wrong she needs to be the center of attention and she'll act stupid to make it so with her attitude she gets sent to charm school br br there she meets the typical characters in today's cinema the nerd the clumsy one the stepford housewife and the sexual minority things happen and in the end adela learns her lesson so to speak the plot tries to carry a deeper meaning to the state adela is in but utterly fails to deliver at least i didn't buy it so what you are left with is superficial interaction within the same stereotypes you've seen in a million movies before plus the director seems to have a breast fixation adela flashes her boobies a few times too many at least i can't see that they are relevant to the story br br so the film is ok but if you are like me and don't like to watch a teenager pissing people off and making a behavioral u turn in an instant which i found very unbelievable think twice before watching
0	as a bruce campbell fan for nearly two decades i was thrilled to have an opportunity to see his latest film on the big screen with the man himself in attendance unfortunately man with the screaming brain was itself a disappointment br br set in bulgaria where the sci fi channel makes its saturday night original films man with the screaming brain is a curious mix of '50s b movie horror body switching comedy violent revenge flick and overdone slapstick with a touch of romantic reconciliation if that doesn't make sense well neither does man with the screaming brain campbell plays a pharmaceutical company ceo who visits bulgaria with his estranged wife in an inexplicable attempt to invest in the former communist country's half finished subway system the two fall in with a former kgb agent turned cab driver and all three ultimately meet their demise at the hands of a vengeful gypsy woman br br a local scientist stacy keach and his goofy assistant ted raimi who have developed a technique to allow tissue transplants without the possibility of rejection steal the bodies and place a portion of the cab driver's brain into campbell's damaged skull also they put his wife's brain into a robotic body they just happen to have at hand br br campbell escapes and with a hastily skull and the voice of the cab driver whose transplanted brain tissue controls the left side of his body echoing in his head sets off to find and kill the gypsy his robot wife does the same br br but first there's an attempt to emulate steve martin lily all of me when campbell's two personalities battle for dominance over a restaurant dinner just as he was playing his own evil hand in evil dead ii campbell is adept at making his body appear to be inhabited by more than one mind br br at times screaming comes closest to another steve martin film the man with two brains as it also takes a silly approach to '50s sci fi clichés however it tries too hard for too little result and that goes double for ted raimi's semi comprehensible bulgarian oaf who gets entirely too much screen time nothing against raimi it's just that he's better in smaller doses br br in the end it's neither outrageous or funny enough to satisfy as a spoof nor is it serious enough to enjoy as a b movie pastiche i was glad that campbell had already left the screening by the time it ground to a halt as i feared having to say gee bruce that was really something br br perhaps the best praise i can give it as a film is that at least the images stuck to the emulsion and it was twice as good as alien apocalypse
0	i can't believe i actually bought this movie it sucks where i live mexican movies mexican movies are never advertised or even available you can't find them in the regular rental places so i had to buy it i really like mexican movies they bring me closer to my roots and my people and they are way different that what your normally used to but this one was soo predictable your could guess what was going to happen i'ts not a horrible movie it just wasn't worth what i paid for it jaja but if you have time and are truly bored then yeah u should watch it but if you love mexican movies and love theater itself then don't watch it it'll be painful lol
0	mal is not a movie is a bad episode of a cheesy badly conceived soap opera br br the acting is not a bit better of that in soap operas i guess the writer and director has seen too many mexican soap operas and can't conceive anything remotely different br br give it up go back to your soap operas so that you have an audience to please br br stop waisting our time and money and giving a bad name to the once respectable mexican film industry br br it is not an ok or good movie it's a mediocre soap opera
0	why why why on earth no one tells the truth about this horrible horrible movie i still wake up in the morning and ask god why he didn't stopped me from seeing this revolting comedy i cant believe i paid to see this offense to my cinematographic taste i'm starting to think that the 5 stars it has is because of martha 's nudity and all the men who cant buy a porn film and avoid seeing this i will call it thing cause call it film is an insult to the mexican film industry the characters are a huge cliché the acting causes involuntary laugh and the script is well i cant believe a human being wrote this and just when you thought you've been tortured enough the last half hour is so painful that i wished to ripped my eyes out the only good thing i can say about this abomination is that it only last 90 minutes that would feel like centuries but still really avoid the pain
0	makes invasion usa look like apocalypse now this one can only be recommended to us skinheads john birch supporters or militia members the message is very simple let's shoot them all gooks commies latinos everything that isn't american br br besides this is badly acted badly scripted badly interpreted incredibly stupid but no fun at all this movie could be used as a device by cia torturers oops sorry there can't be any us torturers because they are the good
0	with no dead heroes you get stupid lines like that as this woefully abysmal action flick needs to be seen to be believed william sanders is saved by his buddy harry during an extraction in vietnam but gets himself captured by the enemy fast forward ten years and harry is now a brainwashed russian operative with a mind control implanted in his brain his new russian superior is ivan played to the obscene hilt by nick nicholson who might i add not only doesn't attempt once to speak with a russian accent but resembles more a gas station attendant in kentucky with his stained teeth what is even more absurd is the fact that he was also the dialog coach for this film soon william is re recruited by the cia to hunt harry down he teams up with barbara a freedom fighter who has infiltrated el salvador camp and soon the both of them are blowing up half of south america some scenes are so jaw droppingly awful that it's a wonder why this film doesn't have more of a cult following one such scene is the sudden lovemaking in the jungle by william and barbara accompanied by the most inappropriate background music i've ever heard who would strip completely nude in the middle of a south american jungle there is a rape scene that uses the end theme from blood on satan's claw as well no dead heroes is the magic bullet movie champion of all time as one shot leads to multiple kills in one scene harry his rifle from behind a rock and kills seven guys i had to rewind it and count hard to find film that has recently gotten the full hd treatment by mgm track this movie down and watch it for the sheer silliness that ensues
0	brained stupidity that the cartoon bullwinkle made fun of a quarter century beforehand no dead heroes proves that you can rip off a good movie the manchurian candidate without copying a single sliver of quality from the object of your plunder the acting barely registers on the cable access tv scale the plot is less nuanced than an old sgt rock comic and only boris j style bad guy mustaches are missing from the commies this movie achieves the unusual feat of being too bad too stupid to be enjoyed by anyone with thumbs
0	this movie is the worst thing ever created by humans you think manos is the worst movie ever it doesn't even come close to this garbage i dont even know where to begin the russian commander and the rebel chic are the worst actors ever to appear in a movie they make the sister in troll 2 look like meryl streep the goofy faces the chic makes while she's in kung fu training have to be seen to be believed then there is the music during the prison break the totally out of place love scene the stupid song that plays during the out of place love scene the fake castro the fact that everybody has either a headband and or a on some part of their body the goofiest rape scene ever filmed and the worst acting ever put on film this movie deserves to be more well known among bad movie fans definitely the worst movie ever made
0	totally brain dead actioner made in the philippines this belongs to the mode of filipino movies which tried to pass themselves as american films on the international market after a rather dull beginning the movie takes off and never disappoints again it is actually a rip off of the worst movies chuck norris ever made an american prisoner in vietnam is brainwashed by the soviets who implant a in his brain so he is programmed to kill the pope then the president of the usa one of his old buddies played by b movie stalwart max thayer is sent to stop him utterly ridiculous action scenes putrid acting nick nicholson's performance as the evil soviet commander is a must see and implausible plot make up for one of the cheesiest action pictures ever bestowed in the general public
0	as a native of new orleans i can state that almost everything in this movie from the atrocious dialect to the highly creative manipulation of crescent city geography is horrible this is another one of those big hollywood movies that decides to stereotype new orleans as 1 a city full of french sounding idiots 2 a city full of people who sound as if they've just returned from blanche summer home 3 a city of drunkards where every day is mardi gras 4 a city of deep mystery where almost everyone practices or is a victim of voodoo i admit that maybe we are a city of drunkards although every day is not mardi gras the big easy is one of the worst films about new orleans i wouldn't recommend it to anybody
0	new orleans is nothing like how it is portrayed in this br br debacle of a film quaid's attempt at speaking with a cajun br br accent by the way hardly anyone speaks that way in new br br orleans is terrible plot elementary and mindless this br br picture refers to itself as a mystery but a mystery involves a br br gradual process whereby a viewer is given clues and twists throughout a film there's none of that here big br br easy tries to get by on trite new orleans stereotypes br br don't be fooled the real big easy is nothing like the town br br that quaid barkin bumble their way through
0	it's so fake the plot seems like a generic adaptation of the average blaxploitation film the common themes of blaxploitation like racism oppression and fighting for the integrity of your community are outlined so simplistically shallowly and the jokes aren't even funny dolemite does these stand up monologue comedy routines that are really painful all the people around him deliver this canned laughter even the soundtrack sounds like it's the funk for far better comedy in a blaxploitation try coffy friday foster with pam grier for a more realistic experience try black heat
0	young fake accent was difficult to accept at times br br the show was billed as mystery suspence but should have been listed as a romance br br don't rent this one if you are sleepy it will knock you out
0	licence fees to watch this trash and pay for it with hard earned cash humourless no hint of laughter god knows how it won a bafta br br we've now been subjected to eastenders for twenty years when oh when is the great british public going to see this awful soap for what it is crass pap this programme no more depicts reality in the east end of london than everyday life in beirut and never has done br br the eastenders i know the real ones are kind courageous hardworking and loyal and one of their greatest attributes is humour it was the eastenders who went through the worst of the london blitz and still stuck two fingers up to hitler and what do we see on our screens for five days of the week including an omnibus nothing but a bunch of moaning wailing dead from the neck up wimps who seem to do little else than sit in a pub all day sniping at each other what a great advert for britain that is do the writers actually believe this garbage they're pumping out obviously the woolly minded section of the public does but then i've heard that apparently anyone can be brainwashed into believing anything
0	the other lowest rating reviewers have summed up this sewage so perfectly there seems little to add i must stress that i've only had the cockney filth imposed on me during visits from my children who insist on watching the sunday omnibus my god it's depressing like all soaps it consists entirely of totally unlikeable characters being unpleasant to each other but it's ten times as bad as the next worst one could be the reviewer who mocked the 'true to life' bilge spouted by its defenders was spot on if anyone lived in a social environment like this they'd slash their wrists within days and i can assure anyone not familiar with the real east end that it's rather more than you'll ever see here take my advice avoid this nadir of the british tv industry it is evil
0	if this is classed as 'real life' of london then the producers must be on different planet br br it is the most depressing suicidal dark dingy dross on tv br br everyone is fighting everything has nasty under tones running through it nothing is done for genuine reasons br br if you want a real life picture of people in london or the uk then this programme is by the farthest from reality br br there is not one good word i can say about this programme the only certainty is that will be a great big fight over christmas dinner br br even the characters are totally unbelievable
0	this soap is worse than bad it's poisonous of the many television shows that have had a corrosive influence on british society over the past twenty years eastenders is the prime example for two decades this show has celebrated the oaf the thug the wide boy the tart the the violent the sexually the criminal the ignorant the br br how many times has someone or other remarked that eastenders mirrors life life on which planet exactly br br it's written about working class characters as imagined by middle class people who have taken a course in creative writing eager to show to their middle class peers how familiar they are with the working class they dream up the lumpen rabble that is the citizenry of eastenders br br this has a toxic effect on some minds less well equipped than others to handle fiction and so we find members of the real population assuming the attitudes and demeanour of the inhabitants of br br thus it came to pass that eastenders mirrors life but only after life had been hoodwinked into mirroring eastenders br br other soaps have followed in footsteps filled to their stinking with ugly potato faced shaven headed pot bellied characters scowling at each other and issuing threats constantly this is the proletariat as perceived by the writers who produce this trash the writers will grow rich on the proceeds of such output and will go on to enjoy the finer things of life in their rarified meanwhile the burgeoning number of new tv induced drones will proceed inexorably toward cultural bankruptcy br br and there you have the new priests and the new creatures of the early 21st century much of this is due to the immeasurable power of that illuminated of dancing in the corner of your living room it's your fault gentle reader that's what you chose as the only window through which to look out from your prison
0	i think this programme is a load of rubbish all they do is argue and slap each other across the face and they call this acting these people get paid lots of money for this and most of them can't even act to save their lives also the story lines are awful and after watching it for a few minutes i am bored with it i like the way that harry hill takes the mickey out of it on his tv show 'tv e g the weak joke the princess and the pea isn't exactly shakespeare is it that had sonia and naomi in stitches i don't see how that is funny i think this is a waste of everybody's money for their tv licence so this can be shown 4 5 days a week isn't there anything better than this
0	i don't know how people can watch this the only people who enjoy watching this are those who have no feelings and emotions and enjoy watching people die houses burn down car crashes babies die and cast members being killed off every week its the most absurd thing on television and i still don't know how it pulls in the ratings its so depressing i can imagine the writers sitting down and saying 'so who shall we kill of next week then' or house shall we torch in a months time ' br br its the most depressing absurd and most stupid thing on tv at the moment and i cant understand peoples motives for watching this depressing pile of crap anymore
0	it must say something about the state of our nation that this programme is one of the most popular currently screened br br the is peopled by such a miserable untrustworthy amoral spiteful unrelentingly dour group of characters as can be imagined everyone is stabbing someone in the back everyone is attempting to commit adultery everyone is trying to cheat someone that or they are being stabbed cuckolded or swindled nobody is cheerful nobody laughs nobody has a blinding stroke of luck or a really nice day it's hell with cockney accents br br i suspect this programme must be sponsored by the it's perfect viewing for the depressed it doesn't cheer them up what it does do is present a whole community of such terminally despondent sad arses that viewers are moved to believe their lot really could be worse they might be living in br br apart from the above as a representation of london's east end it is pure hokum the programme makers have evidently never been across town the first thing you encounter on the mile end road is a colossal mosque and this pretty well defines the racial majority of the population white british londoners are a dispersed and rapidly diminishing minority a large advertisement hoarding presently near the bow road and sponsored by tower hamlets health care boasts that out of ten members of the community can now see their doctor more ten healthy smiling faces beam down at the observer in confirmation eight of them are dark skinned br br what's more i used to work with a bunch of anglo saxon dare i say cockneys a few years ago and i can tell you that a more obnoxiously racist experience i've never had each day was like an oswald moseley rally they couldn't pass 5 minutes without denigrating some other race or nationality than their own and in terms that were repulsive and obscene and were the small change of conversation in fact their entire and extremely limited stock of adjectives fixated upon sex organs and their application alf garnett was a paragon of liberal virtue in comparison br br any programme that purported to represent london's native east end caucasians in their true nature would be completely unfit for broadcast even after the 9 o clock watershed imagine a ku klux klan script written by quentin tarantino and you'd be somewhere near the mark but when they weren't being inveterate bigots they were at least extremely cheerful br br i don't know how such a soap opera came to be this imaginary castaway island of white misery has absolutely no bearing upon real culture whatsoever and if you're of a comparatively sanguine disposition it will quickly reduce you to tears of grief comparatively ordinary actors pretending to be comparatively ordinary chronic with cockney accents what's the point of that br br dull dreary unrelentingly and ethnically preposterous the most popular programme of an apparently diseased and dying nation br br avoid it like the plague
0	i've watched this film about thirty years ago and it stuck in my mind until now when i came across it on dvd i didn't hesitate too long even more because i have a predilection for early belmondo flicks but what a bad surprise some movies should be allowed to resign from public exposure to preserve a certain memory and not to shock audiences br br widely hailed as one of chabrol's rare cynic works the only lasting impression i got from re watching it is boredom some movies really do not age in style but what about movies which didn't have any sense of style at all br br the flaws in the script uninspired acting presumably due to the lack of direction a sort of production design which doesn't deserve its name less than mediocre photography and last but not least the worst editing job i've seen in ages make this one truly hard to stand br br my impression was that there was a bunch of people with too much money and equipment but obviously no idea or any skills at all it really comes as a surprise that this one didn't abruptly end chabrol's career don't blame it on the overall bad taste of the 70s this one is crap in its own right and a worthy contender for the most useless waste of celluloid ever
0	speed which i believe is direct copy of the hollywood movie cellular i haven't watched this one gives an impression of a test match which is very exciting in first four days but then gets in a very boring draw at the end i have watched this movie today on 12th january 2008 on rented vcd it's release date is 19th oct 2007 but still fortunately for me i didn't know or heard much of this movie before except that it is a flop at box office so in this situation when i watch the movie i feel that this movie could have been a very good movie but then the director again falls in the trap for bollywood traditions and has wasted a very good chance br br off course as a bhatt movie it must be copied from somewhere else but now days it doesn't matter for me if i haven't seen the original movie i just found the main theme much similar to of time' and in the movie sanjay suri is shown an intelligence agent but his wife thinks that he is a chef this brings back the memory of 'true lies' the only new part was the use if the phone but that too i found out now is taken from movie cellular so when a movie is made with the mixture of so many other movies it's future is quite clear br br the things i like about the movie is its pace as the name suggest the things really happens fast and there is not much time to think about in between the scenes but this breaks in the last 20 minutes of so where the movie goes in traditional bollywood style of br br the plot of the movie is also quite interesting three stories going parallel one after the other one of the kidnapping of urmila the other of the trying to help urmila and then the plan of murder of prime minister these three stories gets mixed up naturally with each other as the movie continues br br but then the very ordinary acting and unnecessary extra style has killed the spirit of the movie except sanjay suri none other makes any impression this goes even for urmila who is always promising in movies due to this ordinary acting some scenes doesn't really convey the feelings that director wanted e g the scene at the end where urmila leaves all hope and cut the phone should have made a good impact but instead we just wait for the end of that scene br br other than acting some unnecessary love for style the movie showing so cool villains is good for hollywood movies not for bollywood the background of london is also only for making style and not much intelligent advantage of this background can be seen especially at the end all those were utterly unnecessary may be director has an impression that the climax in hindi movies must have such fights they look unrealistic increase the length of the movie and make sure that the people are leaving theater before the movie ends br br over and all i find the movie once watchable if it is coming on tv or you can get it on rent its ok but then again make sure that you have the remote and forward button handy next time when the movie is on tv you can safely watch other channels
0	i love the so called blaxploitation films and have seen dozens some such as cotton comes to harlem shaft and hammer have excellent production values and are very entertaining while many others are very cheap and silly but still entertaining such as brotherhood of death or coffey however dolemite manages something rare for the genre it's just cheap and silly and not the least bit entertaining it's like blaxploitation made for very very stupid people br br years ago i saw a takeoff on the dolemite films on mad tv and unfortunately the real dolemite isn't any better like the parody the acting is just atrocious rudy ray moore has all the charm and charisma of a piece of balsa wood he can barely read his lines and his karate is a joke with his kicks obviously missing the target again and again as for the rest of the actors many might be even worse my favorite was the fbi guy who couldn't even remember his lines and really struggled to get them out yet they didn't even bother to re film these scenes in fact so much of it was inept that i had a hard time figuring out whether the film was intended as a joke br br if you think that despite horrible acting and action that there is something worth seeing about this film you're wrong even for the perverts out there hoping to see some skin will be disappointed the naked women in the film really do look like hard luck prostitutes and there's nothing remotely sexy about their sagging bodies i think looking at old people naked reeeaally old people naked is no worse than looking at these ladies and as for rudy ray he has man boobs no black super hero or anti hero should look that bad naked for goodness sakes put on your clothes people and come up with a script that doesn't look like it was written by winos br br fyi apparently there are actually sequels to this film i can't imagine watching them so you'll just have to find someone else to review them i have watched plan 9 from outer space teenagers from outer space and robot monster but i just don't think i can bring myself to see another dolemite film they are that bad
0	welcome to the world of bhatt the man who was once successful and got several hits with small actors like and also the multistarrer awara paagal deewana and his one film with aamir ghulam br br one sneak peak about this films are that all are hollywood remakes and some decent ones like the once which worked br br speed is a remake of cellular and that too a terrible one br br a look at the stars we have the once saleable but now out of work urmila and sanjay suri then we have the flop khan and others br br the film could be a decent thriller but many problems are there the storytelling has several cringeworthy scenes like hijacking a mobile company and many more and the stunts too are laughable while the twists in the end are too laughable the film also took a long time to reach the theatres which looses it's spark br br direction is awful music is outdated br br khan screams makes faces etc what he does always urmila is good in her part sanjay suri is not that convincing tries hard in a negative role and he is okay is horrible and he makes you laugh in a negative role surprising the same director gave him his only solo hit sophie is horrible tanushree is a non actress
0	wait till you watch this one i mean even after reading this review no other movie till date has sucked more than this one one thing i wont understand is that when you are ripping off some english flick why to add your own creativity with the amount spent for making this movie the producers should have considered buying rights for cellular to be dubbed into hindi and released the movie they might have gotten some profits that way i guess if there was a chance to rate this movie with a 0 i would have done it and the most pathetic performances come from tanushree datta and the girl who played the sidekick to i don't know if my problem is that i have seen cellular much earlier than this movie but that cant be a reason to support this movie i could go on for hours but neither i have the time to discuss about this useless crap of a movie not i want to remember those awful scenes from the movie br br please stay away from this flick
0	this is a rip off from cellular br br bad casting br br bad direction br br bad music br br and the list goes on br br well there was no direction since story scenes and setting were lifted straight off of other movie br br even fight sequence is copied one with the mace was from kill bill and another one with fire hose was from either a jet li's or jackie chan's movie i am not able to recall the name of this movie br br stay away from this cheap imitation and try to see the real thing br br cannot expected something original from any of the bhatts any more
0	actually i am not narrating the main plot in this comment but with just 2 3 sentences i can make it a spoiler ok here are these br br speed is just a 85 conversion of hollywood flick cellular into bollywood by using the software bhatt title has no match with the story only it goes in the thriller direction just that it doesn't deserve even a single star for its imitation imperfect casting poor standard and predictable story undoubtedly now i can say that bhatt is slowly vanishing away from his director status as no any matured audience will appreciate his recent works including this beside him too making his outlook as cartoon comic type who knows how long will he last in the film industry more sometimes the standard in the performances and cinematography look like lower than a c grade movie but most supportive role was played by khan which was somewhat identical with chris evan's role as ryan in cellular with innocent face sanjay suri has no contribution in the movie as he has nothing to impress that's why those who have already watched cellular i advise you never to waste your time again with this imitation sack
0	i happened to catch this on tv and wanted to watch because i remembered the spin magazine article upon which the movie is based i was very disappointed first if james belushi is the lead actor in a movie it should be a sign that it's not exactly an a list production gregory hines was a world class dancer but sadly not a great actor br br in fact all of the acting in this film is either flat or hammy which can only be blamed on the director who is this film's weakest link charles seemed to be trying to ape oliver stone's jfk in portraying the alleged conspiracy to cover up the real child murderer s but without the benefit of a good script an a list cast or it must be said the talent it just doesn't work br br it's a shame that such a worthy topic for a film did not get better treatment
0	what offends me most about the critics following this film is the mentioning of this film does not contain one innovating element if by you refer to pathetic action scenes overacting gluttony in violence blunt humor and a script beyond intellectual belief then is something swedish film can do without br br how röse and karlsson can agree to 'act' in this poor excuse for a film is a mystery to me and how eva röse after the making of this film can be seen at breakfast tv promoting it just disappoints me br br this film doesn't contain a story the script is illogical stiff and last but not least just plain bad these two young directors have put together a quite disgusting boy fantasy containing violence comic strips and trivialized psychological portraits i wouldn't be surprised if the scene of dd masturbating in the kitchen over a micro wave dinner actually is put there to describe the everyday life of these two overgrown cinematic nerds that pose as directors br br i wouldn't show this movie to my worst enemy
0	and it's only january still i'm sure of it br br by far this is among the worst swedish movies i've ever seen and to be honest swedish movies ain't that good in general it have been claimed to be original and perhaps it can be seen as that for people who never seen a english speaking movie for us who have been to the cinema the last 10 years it can't help but to feel like and stein have been sitting down one weekend going through the most successful movies from the last years and tried to squeeze it all together in to one swedish package what can i say the outcome can just be poor first of all the story is just weak to begin with even worse when it's not just a poor story it's a wish to combine to very poor stories first a failed try to make swedish action la matrix and then combine it with a really bad moral story and if you thought it could not be worse you'll notice all the cool stuff that just have been thrown in there for absolutely no reason at all more than in a bad way trying to show that sweden also can do hollywood movies which we can't nor should try to for example the main plot is tried to made deeper by letting youths play a computer game called storm having absolutely nothing at all with the story or for example how there is a internet side about storm while all the sudden it just is the main characters consciousness really i don't think even stein or can see a point with three quarters of the movie more than just trying to show off poor extra effects for the actors i've got to admit eric ericson does a pretty good job except he does the same job the whole movie through even tough storm tries to be a movie about the personal development of dd he does not change one bit in his way of acting jonas karlsson well to be honest i thought he was a fairly respected actor but judging by storm really he just have to be ashamed of this movie his character and his scar lastly eva röse is just beyond critic both her character and her acting the only reasons storm succeeds of not getting a 1 10 is for eric ericson and what can i say at least it tries
0	and also a wonderful beginning a real quick start it keeps you yearning and waiting for is about to come unfortunately the high adrenaline dries off quickly but most certainly after half the movie is over br br and it's a shame because this movie has really good ideas and explores many of them thoroughly but that is also one of it's faults by exploring too many things it get's mixed up into to many things so in the end you're too confused to follow any plot or characters it's very dark and moody but that doesn't help much if it's also genre hopping just to try to fit any and everything in it's story
0	i do not understand why anyone would waste their time or money on utter trash like this don't get me wrong i love a good western notice i said good this is just trash br br the acting is horrible val kilmer must know someone or owed a favor or something for them just to use his face and name in this ridiculous piece of crap br br to those of you who enjoyed this movie i am making a list of you're names to ensure i do not watch anything you suggest our tastes are definitely different yet it is your right to voice your opinion no matter how far off base it is br br i gave this movie a 2 just in case they do throw out all of the one's and not count them just bad in all
0	dead man's bounty the film's american title has the look and feel of a classic italian western the cinematography costumes and sets look great the cast is rugged not a pretty face among them at the beginning i was preparing for a pretty cool movie but what i eventually witnessed was an absolute disaster br br the script was perfectly dreadful there was no suspense whatsoever and very little action or worthwhile drama br br despite looking great the cast spoke english with heavy european accents that were often unintelligible br br the final nail in it's coffin was the broad streak of pretentiousness that paints most of the picture focusing heavily on the character of the barmaid who's featured in a couple of very awkward sex scenes also her speech near the end was pretty repugnant br br the only novelty comes from the stunt casting of val kilmer in the role of the dead man continuing his recent string of doa performances
0	dolemite is the touching story of dolemite gotta love blaxploitation film titles an ex con who probably should still be in jail he gets in trouble with cops friends drug dealers women prostitutes and society in general he's just not that likable a guy neither is the movie though it's still hilarious and worth watching br br the flimsy premise is that dolemite played with as much enthusiasm as star rudy ray moore can muster is in jail for a crime he claims he didn't commit when a drug hit or a drug bust or drug something is about to go down the warden releases him to stop it or help it or just watch it not very clear all i know is that i was unaware that the justice system frees convicts in order to allow them to prove their own innocence my ignorance i guess br br the plot is convoluted and unimportant basically dolemite goes around killing people usually with very poorly choreographed karate having sex and cursing out people sometimes even rhyming too the joys of the movie are its total incompetence and its total indifference in the matter br br i stopped counting the number of times i saw the boom mike after it was in one scene for the entire duration about two minutes of film i stopped questioning why the warden was looking down at where dolemite was sitting even after he stood up and walked around when they cut back to the establishing shot and dolemite was inexplicably sitting down again i stopped wondering why dolemite dressed like that when he got naked on the street to change because he didn't want to get in his car with the ugly read normal clothes the jail gave him and i stopped wondering where he learned karate when he his hand on a guy's stomach and somehow cuts him open the only time i was ever remotely nervous and tense was when the disgusting flabby white mayor is walking around totally naked with nothing but a towel hanging around his neck which just barely covers him up you keep saying cut away cut away cut away but by the time they do you are already emotionally scarred br br the movie is ridiculous in every way imaginable moore as dolemite is either funny cool or both if you're on the lookout for a bad movie you have found it with dolemite
0	the only reason i rented this movie was that val kilmer rarely stars in a bad movie there is of course a first time for everything in many ways this movie proves that oaters aren't as easy to make as we think especially by foreign directors the only one who got by with it was probably sergio leone but even his movies lacked that something innate to our american psyche and panache american actors in clint eastwood and henry fonda did help i can see now why they changed the original title from summer love to dead man's bounty that itself tells me the producers and director didn't have any core understanding about a western other than those standard shoot'em up scenes and violent themes i suppose we can say the same about american directors attempting to make a polish movie while failing miserably in the process
0	this is said to be the first polish western and is written and directed by piotr known in the u s as dead man's bounty this film uses some strange visuals to tell a story that is short on dialog val kilmer plays a corpse and some scenes are through his dead eyes some awkward visual situations are actually comical in a sick way my favorite is a young man building a gallows chops off one of his own fingers and actually hangs himself testing the strength of the rope a cowboy known only as 'the stranger' karel roden finds a dead man kilmer that he thinks is a wanted man he takes him to the nearest town to collect the bounty he ends up losing the corpse and the potential bounty in a gambling game with the town's drunken sheriff linda and has the few townsmen turned against him when he has a dalliance with the barmaid he manages to escape sure death and leads the small posse on a dangerous 'wild goose one scene has the stranger tending to a scalp wound by with gunpowder and a match the corpse rots chained to a hitching post as the sheriff finds out that there is no bounty to be had this movie also known as summer love has a haunting theme song sung by john davidson nevertheless this western is like watching a train wreck there is just something that tells you not to look but you do
0	i mean come on now my countrymen have started to make westerns is it not enough that our cinema sucks already now you need to infect english language movies with polish acting and no sense whatsoever please stay away from this movie do not waste your eyes on it a 5 year old baby could make a movie that makes more sense i am from poland and i am ashamed this title might actually be watched by you please i am begging you do not watch this movie and if you do do not judge polish people and polish movies based on what you see there we had some good movies in our history and we had some bad ones but this one it is like nothing worse that i have seen in my entire life keep away
0	sure you get to see some boobies but if that's all you're looking for in a film you get more mileage from youtube i just paid a dollar from because i saw val kilmer's name bad move plot didn't dialogue was shoddy characters undeveloped at best somebody said cinematography was alright but don't expect too much this movie moved very slow and ended without grace blacklist i spent much of the movie wondering if some event or color scheme of things was symbolic i never actually rewound to figure it out because nothing was ever explained in the end no twists it also left many questions that as it turns out i had no desire to hear answered one of the worst movies i have ever seen
0	as most of you i've watch a lot of great movies in between those we often either voluntarily or mistakenly also find those movies that are so pointless that we think of reasons as to why anyone would make it this is exactly what i can say for dead man's bounty br br the very least i can do is try to warn some of you if you enjoy being entertained by a motion picture because of the story acting and intensity than you might want to chose something else now it's not all bad in fact if all you want is creative film editing and unique angles along with original music ambient than you might think it's ok as someone that values movie plots acting and being entertained by a film the truth is i thought this movie was so terrible beyond words i could easily find a spot for it on my list of worst movies seen in a while br br as for having val kilmer in this the truth is he was casted probably as a favor to the director as a fan of some of kilmer's films i can't understand what his motive for this was the movie seems part western part romance in the end i'm sure most of you can agree with me that it simply is a rude waste of our time in case you haven't seen this movie my recommendation would be to avoid it completely
0	i wish i would have read more reviews and more opinions about this movie before i rented it a waste of money a waste of time very little dialog the dialog was hard to understand in every way the storyline and plot were both weak the only thing that was nice at all was the cinematography br br the characters were interesting at the same time you will spend so much time trying to figure things out because of the lack of dialog that you will be rewinding the movie a lot br br do not watch this movie it was a mess and will leave you feeling like a mess br br you will say what the heck was that when the movie ends
0	i had never heard of dead man's bounty when i saw it at the dvd store a few weeks ago and i thought i had stumbled upon an unrecognized gem since it had val kilmer in it in a truly unique role sadly it wasn't more than ten or fifteen minutes into the movie that i realized that this is a disaster of epic proportions the first clue you will see of how genuinely awful this movie is comes near the beginning when you have a bunch of in an old saloon laughing like a bunch of hyenas in a scene that goes on about five times too long it's unbelievable how bad it is and sadly it doesn't get any better br br val kilmer is featured prominently on the movie's cover box maybe to trick you into thinking that he has a role in the film but unfortunately his bizarre role as a dead man is overlooked in favor of focusing on a bunch of half wit crooks and the most inept of a unique town sheriff that i've ever seen in a movie he's played by linda who is unable to or uninterested in covering his polish accent immediately making it impossible that the movie is meant to take place in the american old west br br does poland have this type of frontier past i don't know my knowledge of polish history is not my strong point but i can tell you this the sheriff as he is known in the movie is the worst representation of law enforcement that i can ever remember seeing in a movie he is introduced in a truly ridiculous scene where he is wearing some kind of blindfold and a roomful of men take turns punching him in the face before they start hitting him he explains that they can each hit him once and then after the first round they will each hit him again and if he can identify who is throwing the punches they lose what the hell is this crap i am completely at a loss to explain why a scene like this would ever be put into any movie br br throughout the movie the sheriff continues to appear more and more beaten and bruised and drunk and battered until ultimately he does nothing but show up occasionally stumbling on screen and mumbling the you see there is a lot of talk and preparation for a hanging the details of which are as meaningless as the rest of the movie br br it takes place by the way in a town that consists of nothing more than two ramshackle wooden buildings facing each other across a flattened bit of dirt that is more of a path than a road my understanding is that it is a part of poland that is supposed to look acceptably enough like the american southwest where none of the characters except maybe the dead guy could possibly have come from br br i have heard that val kilmer accepted the role because he was intrigued by his unique role and also by director minimal use of dialogue in favor of a reliance on cleverly timed juxtaposition of images in unique visual montages br br yeah whatever br br seems to me that was unable to overcome what must have been the truly satisfying feeling that he must have gotten when he was offered the role personally i would really feel that i had reached quite some level of success if someone approached me and offered me probably a few hundred thousand dollars to come and lay still for a while i like to think that he didn't even read the script for this mess because if he did i am at a total loss to understand why he accepted the role br br at any rate the movie opens with a man bringing in the corpse of a man played by kilmer seeking the reward soon he finds himself embroiled in a ludicrous love story involving the town prostitute the alcoholic sheriff and lots of mayhem involving a series of stupid stupid characters br br there is also a extensive and preposterous lack of understanding of american rituals in one scene a man cuts a cherry tomato in half and squishes the halves into kilmer's eyes for what reason i can't imagine and then later a man makes a short speech over kilmer's corpse in which he explains that he was one of the finest men we ever had and then he proceeds to lop his head off with a shovel what the hell br br not convinced yet here are some more reasons not to watch it in one scene the sheriff appears to be covered with ash except for the perfectly clean areas around his eyes and what can only possibly be described as bright red lipstick a man gets a head wound that his head and body in blood in a daze he it with gunpowder smart near the end the sheriff appears to have a broken arm sitting at the bar he puts a rope around his neck and connects it to his injured arm and uses his good arm to pull on the rope lifting his shaking beer glass in his bad arm to his mouth rather than using his good arm to drink also smart br br why doesn't he just use his good arm i have no idea that like everything else in the movie makes no sense whatsoever like the title summer love are you kidding me avoid this mess at all costs br br in the meantime here's something for the imdb goofs page – br br errors made by characters possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers this movie got made ha
0	i didn't hate this movie as much as some on my all time black list but i consider it a total wast of film jeremy irons iron jeremy ron jeremy think about it scene one is very good all the rest are crap
0	i saw this film while i was in france and i must say that it confused me it is a story of a jewel thief and a young singer who each end up in morocco at the same time run into one another and form a connection simple enough well the problem is that this is the sort of film that has ambiguity in both chronology the film is not played entirely in order and in reality did what i just saw really happen or was it only a dream given those parameters as well as the film being bilingual it was really hard to follow and i was not sure as to what happened at the end i imagine some deep artsy types could understand this film better than i could and it may require more than one viewing to understand
0	this is the type of film that makes you question your past admiration for a particular director before you stop and remind yourself that there are very few people whose body of work doesn't contain a few clunkers br br the casting in lelouch's films is of utmost importance because he puts the viewer into such intimacy with the characters the actors have to bring real screen magic to live up to the intensity otherwise it is just hollow br br none of the actors in this film had any of that screen magic in my opinion br br jeremy irons and patricia fell far short as the leads irons is a talented actor but he was wrong for this part lovable rogue didn't suit his strengths his brand of charm also hit a false note for me here persona is too decadence tinged to fit into a lelouch love story br br although i would hesitate to pass up any opportunity to hear an english accent i also think an american actor would have worked better in this role so many of the songs that sings are so closely identified with the of the particular lyricist that it seemed kind of discordant to then have jeremy irons playing the love interest even though logically it really didn't matter it still screwed up the flow of the movie somehow at least for me br br of course it would have had to have been the right american i think george clooney would have been great in the part and he would have brought the screen magic in spades brad pitt could also have done a really good job delivering his particular combination of charming and edgy br br i was also very disappointed with patricia in reading about her i've learned that she has a hugely successful career as a singer and many fans so what do i know but i found her screen presence as a singer very boring she was actually a much better actress in her speaking scenes than she was a singer in those scenes in which she had to interpret and sell a song nothing she sang moved me she was pleasant but bland br br in contrast someone like kate hudson who is not a professional singer and has only voice coach french still would have handled this part a million times better not to mention all that stunning french talent out there that could have been tapped into it was wrenching watching patricia take up screen space when there are so many charismatic french actresses who could have been cast instead br br the music was so important in this film it could not really work without the music working and since delivered so poorly in this respect the movie never really had a chance br br lelouch sealed the fate of this movie when he cast patricia
0	i was subjected to this terrible excuse for a made for tv movie i only watched it because i don't have cable and my only other choices were golf college basketball or local news the plot is very generic and has no substance that i could see not to mention it had a major flaw in my eyes the main character dr is a washed up astronomer who believes that an asteroid named nemesis will strike earth causing all life to cease he bases his belief on his discovery of cave paintings by an i'm sure i spelled that one wrong the paintings show an apparent timeline showing significant events throughout history such as the building of the great wall of china all of the events are shown in perfect chronological order and the very last picture on the timeline is earth being destroyed now to me if the painting showed things that had indeed happened why would the great doctor believe that he could somehow change what was going to happen all that aside the movie moved along with extreme formulaic precision there was nothing in the movie that surprised me at all the actors were not very good and on a few occasions i just felt that they didn't even take the movie seriously to put forth enough effort to try to convince me that the characters were worth caring about the whole movie was cliche ridden and a downright waste of time and money i'd recommend armageddon over this piece of crap any day at least armageddon has some good acting compared to this not to mention the eye candy that is liv tyler now that i think about it golf isn't that bad
0	well i like patricia she is a beautiful lady and an extremely gifted and versatile singer her acting in this film is more than competent and from my point of view about the only redeeming of this film she very gently captures the essence of the lonely singer with a very serious problem however what i tremendously dislike about the film is the shameless product placement for a well known french chain of hotels the other thing is that the story seems to meander for way to long without really deciding what the film is about and what it wants to be on a positive note you may argue that the film is not predictable but you could also say it's plainly boring because of the lack of cohesion there are some nice shots in the film you can't help thinking that all the parts just don't add up to anything at all it really is a pity really shines in this film
0	i do not see what is the whole deal about this movie patricia sings yes and that makes the film charming but singing is not enough i mean if you want to get all benefits of this one go buy patricia's cd and enjoy the plot is simple if to omit the dreams the main characters seem to love each other instantly and as well instantly forget their other acquaintances relationships appear almost mandatory and the little detective story thrown in just makes things worse what at first appeared to be a perfect movie ending is first screwed up and then comes out as just a dream i measure movies by how well i would remember them and for this one i already started to forget the details
0	i kept waiting for this film to improve but this is the worst kind of escapist movie a spun sugar confection that sinks under the weight of its own ponderous self importance the pace stumbles on like a legionnaire stranded in the sahara the absence of good dialogue leaves the appealing stars with little to do other than look good in white linen irons plays yet another moneyed charmer who's had a touch of the sun is a pleasing singer but not much of an actress luckily the script does not often call on her to emote away from the jazz club microphone all the enviably relaxed pretty unnecessary characters take turns masticating the scenery with an air of weary sophistication the whole exercise comes across like an interminably long ralph lauren ad br br if you're past forty and believe is the key to sophistication you may well mistake this piece of cardboard for a baguette well if you liked this movie you probably felt smart for appreciating godard's leaden de l'amour and you may even have sat through le divorce without cringing
0	this game is from a genre of games that tried to capitalize off of the whole inspired trend walk around talk to people solve puzzles the puzzles themselves are absolutely horrible but i'll stick to the acting itself which is only slightly better if you're looking for a convincing performance from any one character you won't find it here but this game is worth buying if only to witness the truly hilarious performance of christopher walken his acting is so horrible in this game that it seems like he's imitating someone who happens to be impersonating him he's a caricature of himself br br so buy this game if you're masochistic a walken fan or simply want to hear the f word a lot
0	this program would be useful for training hardened felons basic human emotions beyond this purpose the show has no value other than to fill bandwidth that would otherwise go in the electromagnetic spectrum i feel a greater sense of suspense and anticipation listening to a computerized voice chip endlessly droning out the products of a random number generator fortunately the helpful and frequent music cues will tell viewers how they're supposed to feel in case they are unable to fully the predictable and shallow plot line i did find amy to be a superficially positive character as she is a role model to young women that they can serve in traditionally male fields unfortunately her totally subjective approach to the law is guided solely by whatever capricious personal guidelines amy elects to employ resulting in amy's trials more closely resembling appeals to the personal mercy of a tribal despot than a true administration of justice this show is unpalatable in any amount although this is to some extent mitigated after two episodes by the brain's god given filtering processes by which the show will thankfully leave the same imprint on the viewer's memory as a television tuned to a dead channel at maximum volume
0	although this film has had a lot of praise i personally found it boring there are some nice sunsets and the characters are believable but the story of how they even if very unusual by our standards is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first as the tolerance of the various men is stretched we see their characters develop the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting it is a rare glimpse into the hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one's eyes open for
0	we don't know if darlene loves all three gentleman certainly they are wary of one another yet they live together viewers might surmise that the feelings of rivalry between the gentleman and the feelings of all of them toward darlene might make for an unbearable home life br br in the eerily beautiful rural brazilian landscape emphasized by the frequent use of polarization and the use of stock anything might happen and the alternatives for any one of them save perhaps may not be alluring enough to encourage them to change their circumstances they seem to bear the intolerable because it is familiar the unknown frightens them into complacency toward a fate which is more challenging than their characters can utilize thus it crushes them rather than strengthening them the web in which they are caught is made of the sanguine filaments which bind us all perhaps the sadness i felt after watching this movie has to do with it's portrayal of the inevitable fading of our youth's bright colors in the unforgiving light of time the three children will enter the world fated to relive their parents lives to one or another degree well filmed and portrayed the story is tragic in it's essence walt disney it ain't
0	i have to say that this movie was really quite awful the acting was average the pacing of the movie was terrible as well as the soundtrack and cinematography i found that i was bored in most parts of the movie and the cliché lines did nothing for me the two boys that played the main roles looked terrible at times and did'nt pull off the emotion that was needed in the movie the little girl was creepy at times and looked like a doll which was scary the ending wasn't satisfying although the movie to be over the ending didn't make me feel anything for the characters this movie was boring and did nothing for me i recommend this movie to no one
0	this 22 minute short short of a precursor to the later much better rock and rule features two folk singer mice who are going nowhere the female mouse jan signs a deal with the devil to become a hit rock star so it's up to daniel mouse to save her soul made in the late '70's this has all the trappings of said decade crap music crap clothing and hair style awful folk tunes this cartoon is featured on the second disc of the 2 disk collector's edition of rock and rule it also comes with a making of that runs almost as long as the show itself br br my grade d
0	this film was bad was it meant to be a comedy as i couldn't help laughing the whole way through it what a waste of two hours donald sutherland was wooden not that he was alone everyone else was just as bad and how miscast was linda hamilton
0	this is better than the early cronenberg horror films but nothing more than your basic what is real story the videogame theme has been told before too nothing original is left except the weird cronenberg atmosphere which is not that strong here with the amusing sexual references and shore's dark score the story never grabs your full attention it just flows forward event after event with boring pace rating 4 10
0	i clicked onto the encore mystery channel to wait for the movie i wanted to see island of dr moreau i caught only a few minutes of shadow conspiracy an old man runs to meet charlie and grabs him by the arm suddenly an assassin in a bright rain coat taps the old man in the head with a side arm from across the street after waiting for c to turn around and look the a tries to shoot c and clearly misses c was a much easier target the old man couldn't have run far duh there is a chase and c is on an elevator a is on the roof so he tries to shoot the cable which is parallel to the a he hits and the cable impossible later this time with a specialized rifle the a lines up on c from maybe 50 meters but is to stupid to notice a motorcycle coming up and taps the rider instead how does charlie get his parts does daddy go to the producers and say look my kid needs work it reminds me of his stupid sit com all the actors are good except yup you got it i usually have to 2 or 3 minutes of that waiting for c s i to come on let's see what can i do for the next hour i know i'll trim my toenails much better use of my time
0	i would have liked to put 0 5 but unfortunately i can't who can write so bad scripts i saw the movie five seconds and knew the bad boy would be sutherland needed to pay his taxes when you see how good he was in redford's movie ordinary people and others br br though i don't like it but i had no choice i saw the movie in french but i know that hearing the real voices of sheen sutherland and hamilton would have not change things except maybe making it more pitiful br br what makes me sick is that people earn their living making this bad stuff i forgot to speak about mr waterson far away from the woody allen's movies he once used to play in br br we had another movie on another french channel a silly james bond with brosnan i am not talking about the real bonds with connery please it's the end of holidays wake up
0	funny thing charlie sheen donald sutherland sam waterston and stephen lang have all had incredible performances who can forget sheen as the callow naif in wall street or sutherland as the the cynical korean war surgeon in mash waterston and lang have both also had successful tv and film careers law and order killing fields de niro's tribeca etc so what in the world would any of these fine actors be doing in a stink bomb like this br br shadow plot of a washington coup d'etat is not really that bad unoriginal maybe but not that bad sure it's been done seven days in may a fine film but with a little tweaking it could still have been entertaining br br shadow main problem is in the execution early in the film sheen political strategist extreme ridiculously and implausibly resolves a potential public relations gaffe by blackmailing a congressman later gunplay with lang's mute hitman tearing up half of what is supposed to be georgetown is explained on the news as gang wars has anyone remotely associated with this film ever lived a day in washington sheen is about 20 years too young way way too young to be so senior in a white house administration sheen's response to avert a political crisis is so ladened with false machismo he looks as though he attended the david hasselhoff school of acting and when was the last time gang wars spread to georgetown we're talking about a section of washington where citizens voted against having a metro stop so that they could maintain their exclusivity br br i agree with another reviewer that this film would have been unbearable without the fast forward button i taped it off hbo a year ago and then took 3 separate viewings to plod through it br br in summary don't buy this film don't even rent this film if you see it at blockbuster run away as fast as you can
0	would you be surprised if i told you this movie deals with a conspiracy no how about if i told you the ringleader was a shadow puppet what you don't believe me ok yes i made that up it's too bad this movie could have used a sense of humor i understand charlie sheen doing this at the time another movie equaled more money as for donald sutherland and linda hamilton why don't even get me started on stephen lang he was so much fun as the party crasher in 'the hard way' and now this junk br br ah no matter everyone involved should feel ashamed if you aim to make a bad movie and succeed it's twisted but i seriously doubt that was what they were aiming for here flat out the story stinks and we're actually supposed to take this yak seriously makes you wonder if this movie even had a glimmer of hope seriously i doubt it and in an industry so tight with the purse strings how this got green lit in the first place is beyond me maybe even more scary is how this dog pile made it's way to theaters br br oh sam waterson how great you are in law order why are you here yourself to the role of the president of the united states who might i add gets to be shot at by a remote control biplane controlled by the gonzo assassin then again this is a masterpiece of work from george p cosmatos who's directing credits include rambo first blood part ii amongst other gems hmm case in point
0	rarely have i seen an action suspense movie that was so boring none of the action scenes are exciting the story line is nothing special and except for a couple of actors the acting is bad charlie sheen platoon major league stars as the white house chief of staff who gets himself in the middle of a conspiracy that wants him and more people dead donald sutherland a time to kill fallen plays a friend who he tells everything he can and linda hamilton linda hamilton terminator dante's peak plays a reporter who gets involved in the situation charlie sheen is ok as the star donald sutherland is a good actor who gives a good performance linda hamilton gives a poor performance with a bad movie i can actually like it if it has a good ending but this movie has a very cheesy ending with some almost laughable stuff
0	i still wonder why i sat through this entire thing it only had about 3 minutes of actual entertainment the rest of it was just a total bore the acting isn't that great and the action scenes are soooo cheesy it's not even funny i kinda wish i could say something good about this film but i can't think of anything right now there probably was somethings in it some can enjoy but the ending of it is gotta be the dumbest idea ever what type of person would get a little toy remote controlled helicopter with a burned in machine gun in it to assassinate the president this idea could have never been done in the first place let alone have anyone dumb enough to try it i guess the writer must have been to obsessed with the toy car scene in the dead pool but actually tried to make this look serious
0	this film starts with a pedestrian setup before blundering into the standard sort of suspense action where an office worker keeps beating up trained secret service men etc br br i couldn't say the acting was bad there were some good surprised faces by hamilton and sheen but then i really wouldn't have to br br risible finale did at least give me a good laugh for my pains still if my life was flashing before my eyes i think i would fast forward this 90 minutes br br i have to write two more lines of text just to get this thing published yes very resistant suit that sheen wears i made a special promise to myself never to watch a film this bad again
0	this all looked quite promising an up and coming presidential adviser is framed for a series of murders as he has been tipped off that a conspiracy is going on within the white house it stars the excellent donald sutherland among several capable actors yet very few people have a good word to say about it br br the whole thing really needed some depth you can pick up the idea that the president is being too left wing with his ideas and some within the government want him dead to stop those ideas being carried out conrad appears to simply want the country to be governed his way rather than the way of the elected leader br br however the action scenes had a few logic holes the sewers and elevators already mentioned and the rather haphazard assassination method and linda hamilton's character is completely uninspired her 'the president's my father' was ludicrous that would make the president about 10 when that happened worse still was her predictable final scene with bishop br br they could have made a challenging inventive political thriller but either bottled it or failed they could've gone to town on special effects but the good ones were wasted they could have achieved so much more in general this was barely worth the £1 it cost me
0	my take routine political thriller with mediocre action scenes and predictable twists br br a rarely seen political thriller which made a very poor box office response i managed to catch the shadow conspiracy on tv just now and while i was glad that i satisfied my curiosity to see this rare film i didn't exactly feel this film was all special considering the box office response to it shadow conspiracy is not all quite as bad as critics and the public reacted to it but still ain't very good to begin with and everything from script to direction is pretty predictable charlie sheen plays the presidential assistant who finds himself caught up with assassins and chases a lot of them when he discovers a deadly conspiracy which lurks amongst the white house staff after a professor is murdered sheen aids the help of ex flame reporter amanda givens linda hamilton to uncover the traitor and unlock the conspiracy of the title br br but this script written by adi ric gibbs are pedestrian as they come not much differing from other white house conspiracy thrillers as in absolute power and murder at 1600 some considerable talents donald sutherland ben gazzara and stephen lang try their best on a routine script but rarely saves it from predictability of the script not to mention a ludicrous scene which involves a toy helicopter which seems far too silly and out of place in this serious political thriller the shadow conspiracy has its moments i'm sure some of which are much to under appreciated director george pan cosmatos serves up some decent chase scenes but none of which lifts this routine thriller of which there's not much payoff or surprises br br rating out of 5
0	this film is bad it's filled with glaring plot holes characters who are ruled by stupidity bad acting and above all a poor script which has been done before in many many films only better i feel sorry for donald sutherland i just hope he had to do this film rather than wanted to miss it
0	okul the school is a result of a new trend in turkish cinema having used the same stories over and over again new generation directors finally come up with different ideas of course it doesn't mean that they are all grand i think okul is one of them it is supposed to be a scary movie but it is not it is not successful on being scary either so what is it actors are so average especially deniz is pretty annoying with the teacher role i am sure it could have been better if it was tried on harder maybe concentrating on one topic such as making it scary or vice versa but directors have missed the target this time out of
0	this movie is filled with so many idiotic moments that you wonder how it ever got made for example they get into the sewers from the capitol and while they're in the sewers you can see signs pointing to various government buildings and then they come up in the middle of the street i highly doubt that government buildings would provide public access through the city sewer system anyways i gave this a 2 instead of a 1 just because of its comic value i laughed the whole way through at the idiocy of everyone involved in this movie
0	1st watched 2 25 2002 4 out of 10 dir george p cosmatos predictable action thriller where any frequent movie goer could guess what was coming next charlie sheen is the good old boy to the president who just happens to be not liked by the rest of the presidential staff of course he gets involved in a situation where he's framed over and over again and he has one friend in the white house played by sutherland who naturally doesn't stay that way for very long his other friend is a reporter played by linda hamilton who has very little to do or say in this meaningless role and of course his biggest and bestest friend is the president himself sam waterston who stays his pal till the end despite everyone else being killed around him brainless yet action packed meaningless despite loads and loads of acting talent all pretty much wasted
0	they make everything too easy in this film it sort of reminded me of indiana jones where he hides on the outside of a submarine during an ocean crossing everybody knows everything that's going on it's just real easy to get anyplace you want in the white house i don't even know why i watched half of it because i like charlie sheen and donald sutherland i expect the usual ability to dodge bullets from every angle and be able to run faster than a motorcycle usually it's faster than a car in a garage or a it was silly mostly and i didn't even know then had a ten story elevator in the white house anyway anything conspiratorial is always interesting
0	mst3k fodder it's so bad it's actually worth seeing just for that reason there are some hilarious things in it such as the mysterious device the bad guy is seen working on for the whole movie that turns out to be this tiny helicopter that flutters around carrying and firing a machine gun without so much as a wobble but is brought down by a bag of balloons the kind they release at political conventions many other wonderful touches of that sort stars charlie sheen there's one scene where he spends five minutes recording a conversation only to drop the in the river by accident if they'd cast emilio estevez in the part that never would've happened
0	i just saw this on a local independent station in the new york city area the cast showed promise but when i saw the director george i became suspicious and sure enough it was every bit as bad every bit as pointless and stupid as every george movie i ever saw he's like a stupid man's michael bey with all the awfulness that accolade promises br br there's no point to the conspiracy no burning issues that urge the conspirators on we are left to ourselves to connect the dots from one bit of graffiti on various walls in the film to the next thus the current budget crisis the war in iraq islamic extremism the fate of social security 47 million americans without health care wages and the death of the middle class are all subsumed by the sheer terror of graffiti br br a truly stunningly idiotic film
0	this movie is not worth seeing at least not at a cinema the story is hard to follow and understand it starts with 10 minutes of something happening 3 years earlier it's hard to know if this movie is trying to be a comedy or just is so bad weird that it sometimes seems like it american sirens and lights on swedish police cars is just one example the acting of persbrandt and bergqvist is good as usual but i think jenny acting as jasmin acts very poor zara acts pretty well she's not been seen as an actor in swedish movies for a long time if you still want to see it wait until it's released on dvd or is shown on tv
0	this movie features several well known actors which i usually like so i had at least modest expectations when i rented this on dvd i was highly disappointed in fact i walked off for some snacks somewhere during the last half hour and somehow i ended up in the kitchen rather then going back to the tv the actor performances where poor pretty much all across the board and none of the atmospheres in the movie felt very convincing virtually all scenes had that just a movie feeling to them i just sat there waiting to hear the director calling cut followed by the crew having a little chat about the scene before moving on to the next br br since the movie is about gangsters most characters are tough and mob like the problem here is just that this whole bad boy attitude is played out so poorly that it just feels like a joke the constant guitar drilling soundtrack really tries to emphasize this atmosphere too but when the same track is played the 18th time it just adds to the already strong feeling of the whole thing just being fake br br maybe it was just a really really bad script maybe it was just poorly executed i'm no movie critic in fact i consider it rare to see something that's really good but this was just plain bad no matter how objective and forgiving i'm trying to be not recommended not even as a rental
0	where do i start lets list the good things about this movie first br br 1 mikael persbrandt is great as the gangster thomas this is the only character you will actually care about and he's a bad guy never does anything bad and is generally a pretty likable guy 2 is always great he's a bit toned down here but he is quite funny still 3 the movie looked pretty good by swedish standards good use of depth of field and lights br br now the bad this is by far the worst script to make it into the big screen ever the acting by everyone else was pretty bad and over the top the direction was horrible a totally meaningless story totally unrealistic characters and events and 1 5 hours to long during emotional scenes pretty much everyone in the theater laughed people just started walking out during the course of the screening br br there's no way to actually summarize the story into something coherent so i wont even try every cliché ever conceived is in there and in all the wrong places i'm sorry to say this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen in my entire life br br watch it for a good laugh but try not to pay any money for it br br r
0	after seeing this film i did not want my money back i wanted my time back i wanted that hour and a half back in my life it was the most amazing hideous torture to know that i had squandered precious minutes of my life on this dreck i am scarred for life and ever since this film entered my life i have had trouble sleeping i am trying to suppress the memories really i am but they make me want to burn things br br
0	this is a really mediocre film in the vein of buckaroo banzai the cast runs around like mad max wannabes and they seem to be sharing a joke that they do not want to share with the audience wheeler nicholson is one of the those guilty pleasure actresses you are delighted to stumble across in films but she isn't worth the price of rental space maggot starts an electrical fire and burns a vote of 4
0	i was not expecting a classic but at least a funny film there were only a few scenes that makes you laugh but nothing more you don't scare it is full of american teen slasher cliches and you can guess what will happen easily br br but it tells much about a senior student in a turkish high school pressure of student selection exam oss that 3 hour exam determines which university you'll go and thinking about the exam when a ghost is after you is not exaggeration the movie is bad don't waste your time to watch it
0	i got this movie in a bargain bin hoping for an amusingly bad flick boy was i disappointed except for avon you see the movie is indeed horrible but so horrible it isn't even laughable the plot oh wait there is no plot i suppose you could say it's about the main character rising up in the ranks of street fighting at the end of the movie the directors decided to either not make any more sense or more likely died and had a monkey finish directing the movie don't read if you don't want the ending spoiled although the ending doesn't really spoil anything the main character somehow ends up in a room filled with mirrors a la enter the dragon and then gets real angry has stupid flashback and hits a mirror the end br br the only redeeming factor of this movie was scene he's talking to the rival street fighting boss and says something along these lines completely deadpan do not worry about him anymore sir i have killed him in a sophisticated manner i him i hm we went to a disco we was a lot of fun and then i killed him at which point the boss says good work avon you're number 1 and avon says number 1 the scene continues with avon continuing to say over and over the next scene is of a dead avon floating in a pool intelligent i think not br br lastly i own the homeboy version of this movie meaning the title on the box i own is homeboy it shows a huge guy holding a giant gun and screaming this never happens in the movie this man is never in the movie high quality br br note i am new to this reviewing but hell yes i am going to keep it up
0	i saw bogard when it was released in the 70s it was one of those pictures that received an x rating for violence we snuck into our local grindhouse and saw it anyway pretty good picture lots of blood from the street fights although the cheap sound effects for the punches took something away from it and lots of sex i remember one of the early scenes when bogard meets this pretty brunette in an apartment she is showing him without saying a word he picks her up puts her in the and nails her from what i remember the picture sailed from that point on so when i found out bogart is also called black fist and was available on vhs i ordered it online i was very disappointed black fist is bogard edited for television so many of the scenes i remember were missing i wondered if indeed this was the same picture
0	i think i win the bargain contest for this movie since i got it as part of a martial arts movie classics dvd collection with 50 movies for 20 bucks which means i paid something like 50 cents for the chance to watch the black fist version of a movie that was released as bogard br br for a basic revenge flick black fist isn't too bad even though it is obviously hampered by a low budget one of my informal rules of thumb for watching a movie is that if the lead actor is better than his production and screenplay the movie automatically gets at least three stars that is certainly the case here lawson has some presence and some charisma and probably deserved a better film career than he got br br the street fight choreography the ostensible reason for the film really won't to impress anyone who has ever in a martial arts school or even just been punched in a schoolyard fight i only spent about two years learning basic kung fu but even i would never fall for the front stamp kicks arm drags and roundhouse punches on display here but the atmosphere is good dust and blood and shouting crowds and the actors put some feeling into the fight scenes br br less believable is the plot dawson's character leroy is portrayed as a street smart sharp young man who goes looking for work as a pick up fighter in illegal street matches yet he is surprised and indignant when he has to pay off the cops excuse me but i was raised in small town iowa and even i knew from watching hard times with charles bronson that the cops have to be paid off for this sort of action and that the guys who fight needed the in order to get their matches and that the were worth the money so you have to watch this movie with a sort of willful suspension of your critical faculties in order to accept it as a black brother being repressed movie most of the other non black fighters in the stable get punched in the face for the same deal too yes br br the movie suffers from a short attention span the director obviously didn't have the budget to film some of the scenes he needed so he had to fill in the gaps with some fairly ludicrous exposition scenes the i him i him and then i killed him scene just doesn't work along with voice overs and montages that are clumsy and unconvincing this is especially true with the whole romance angle which seems to have been filmed as if it were an afterthought this is a little shoddy when you consider that the death of wife's death is supposed to fuel his drive for revenge br br but once the movie switches all the way from young fighter rising through the ranks to the revenge theme it picks up a little steam and plays with a little more conviction i'm not sure that the final payoff is worth the buildup roger ebert calls this sort of thing a long drive for a short day at the beach but it does tie things off in a reasonably satisfying way br br if sylvester stallone had made this film with a real budget and the same cast slicker sets and costumes and himself as the hero people would have hailed it as the next rocky which goes to show you how circumstance and chance can play havoc with would be filmmakers' dreams br br worth seeing once for various decent shots and lines and to watch dabney coleman embarrass himself in a role that is beneath him
0	this movie is overrated to say the least it's not good as a comedy and it's not good as a serious film either the pacing is far too plodding for the former and there is too much lame slapstick for the latter the only laughs come from some of bud spencer's reaction shots when he becomes exasperated by his brother's behavior the dubbing is excellent but the full screen framing is appalling 1 2
0	very interesting to find another reviewer who had the exact same reaction to this movie as i did it was a heck of a lot better when i was 10 or 11 years old br br seeing it more than 30 years later it's still okay but it only mildly held my interest what seemed hugely funny back then was only mildly amusing br br also things that were astonishing to me as a 10 year old came across as just silly for example in one scene trinity is walking along and fires his revolver behind him and kills two men without even looking in fact he doesn't even bother to look and see if they're dead because he knows he hit the mark um yeah right br br in addition a lot of the dialogue sounds quite wooden sorry but 35 years later it hasn't really aged that well br br although it's been a long time since i've seen that one as well probably a better terrence hill film than this one would be my name is nobody
0	i am testing myself to watch 3 bad movies in a row to find out if watching 3 bad movies in a row could give me amnesia i have a dubbed to english version of this movie now let me go down the points music score bad quality but at least it suits story it's about a guy who goes to a town and he meets his sheriff brother and they fight for farmers land from a major and he allies with mexicans to drive them out and trinity and his brother try to teach them to defend it the final climatic fight scene will confuse anyone about who the are the good guys conclusion better than i thought but i need to continue with this i am next going to watch the dolph lungren and jean vanne damme movie universal soldier pray for my sanity
0	from the late teens to the 1920s stan laurel was a solo act in films during this time period laurel was definitely not among the upper echelons of talent and his humor isn't nearly as good as contemporaries such as lloyd or keaton however for second tier short comedies he did create a decent niche as far as the quality of the films go they varied wildly some such as dr and mr were terrific whereas most were of average to below average in quality br br frozen hearts is an odd film like many of the films he made for hal roach and distributed by during this period the costumes were absolutely first rate and the film looked very nice however despite this and having support from the likes of james finlayson one thing they forgot to include in this film was humor none of the jokes seem to work and the film looks almost like a drama not a comedy only the really silly intertitle cards betray the type film it's supposed to be br br my advice is try to see all his laurel and hardy films and then see the solo films in addition to dr try seeing the and mud and sand two of his more tolerable solo shorts
0	i purchased this one for a couple of dollars at the local video store as they cleared out their tapes in favour of dvds i doubt they'll be replacing this one somehow br br i couldn't say that it's one of the worst movies i've ever seen but it's very dull no real cannibal scenes me me lai is not naked enough of the time only about 4 or 5 times and she's not the thai goddess that i expected either so two of my reasons for watching this movie were knocked out br br there is some severe animal violence here for those that enjoy that sort of thing a great fight between a and a large snake gets quite bloody animal torture as well some of which is real and some fake thankfully the fake is somewhat funny but the real is just a little sickening br br generally speaking it's a 70s film overly long under developed not as deep as it would have liked to have been but it's something different right one and a half stars
0	no shortage of female flesh but still not interesting at least is capable of so far greater probably peaking at spasmo and starting with kiss me kill me br br the hard gore r2 dvd release may be cut at 86 minutes but this movie contains one act of cannibalism and one victim a scene with a native girl who is brutalised and by the cannibal tribe we are warned of and who later set fire to some huts arsonist holocaust firestarter anyone br br certainly not a cannibal flick but was there ever a decent one made avoid
0	ruggero deodato is often credited for inventing the cannibal subgenre with jungle holocaust in 1975 but director umberto usually acknowledged as a deodato rip off directed the man from deep river 3 years earlier in 1972 is it a worthy start for the genre well not really br br a photographer accidentally kills a man in self defense and while retreating into the jungles of an asian country is captured by a native tribe who hold him captive force him into slave labor and eventually accept him when he marries the chief's daughter throughout the whole film i never felt this was a horror film it was more reminiscent of a drama like a man called horse which i liked better ivan rassimov is pretty good as the photographer but it is me me lai as the chief's daughter who is memorable and great i have always been a me me lai fan ever since her breathtaking performance in jungle holocaust and she is never given credit for her acting chops because she hardly speaks in her films she is still very talented and charming lots of real animal mutilation is the one thing about deep river that could make it a horror film but even that doesn't execute well br br the man from deep river is good to see for those who want to see what started the cannibal subgenre but as an entry in the genre is easily eclipsed by deodato's entries and even lenzi's own later entries recommended only for completists and me me lai fans
0	this short was director del lord's last and only shemp short the problem it was quite weak and the cafe scene was pretty much a carbon copy of a curly short busy buddies 1944 the interrogation scene was pretty funny and the beginning part of the cafe part but there are a lot of plotholes in this short for example why are the stooges hiding in the garbage can when the police come in the remake of cash and hash 1955 director jules white fixes this and the reason for the stooges hiding in the garbage can is because there is a gunfight between the police and the armored car robbers the scene in which moe is having trouble with the oyster was done before with curly in dutiful but dumb 1941 the spooky house part wasn't all that great except for the hilarious scene on the outside of the spooky house to top it off the ending had no sting to it rating c
0	storyline drags drug smugglers a beautiful women and a determined cop nothing not already done a hundred times before the boat will be well worth the wait amsterdam is the perfect city to pull it off the canals and put you on the edge of your seat i would say the same as did the car chase in bullitt very intense
0	looking and sounding like a cheap porno without the sex this is the first in an impressive string of stinkers from producer or in this case director geoffrey reeve br br and it's a doozy laughable on just about every level br br some government agents i think are professionally murdered in amsterdam and a considerably less than charismatic block of wood interpol agent who i assure you is not named louis is sent in to investigate by walking around a lot to ensure the tax dodge financiers get their money's worth for the plane tickets to shoot on location br br the wannabe hard hitting attitudes to drugs and depiction of prostitution must have looked laughably outdated even before the celluloid dried but the script at least is very obliging in that it explains exactly what's happening regularly in horribly contrived were you followed oh no of course not no one outside washington even knows you're here yet despite this the plot somehow remains confusing by the time a sinister vladimir putin lookalike priest no less than from from russia with love up to his pulpit to deliver a sermon your brain will have switched off which is unfortunate because you'll miss our hero pinned to the ground during a fight struggling to reach for a plank of wood only to later realise he is in fact sitting on a loaded pistol and him shouting you at his friend's murdered corpse and the leather bound go go boys the morris dancing and the hilarious torture sequence all of which provide ample laughs only the climactic boat chase impresses it's an exciting well directed sequence that really has no place in this movie such a glaring anomaly is explained when the credits roll reeve had nothing to do with that sequence thankfully everything goes back to business as usual for the ridiculous spit out your drink twist and warehouse shootout br br unless such a wretched thing as a geoffrey reeve completist exists and you're one of them i wouldn't bother with this instantly forgettable nonsense
0	i have to say this this is the first movie i'm reviewing on here i didn't finish watching i mean i couldn t continue no matter how adamant i am for watching things until the bitter end 'the ballad of the sad café' proved no match to this viewer vanessa redgrave stars as the strange woman in town who does things like walk through the river with a full set of clothes on anyways a long lost relative comes to visit he's a midget and… well that's as far as i got what the heck was the point of all of this i didn't even bother to wait for michael carradine to come on as i was already pummeled senseless by the combination of the slow script and having to deal with a midget in a dramatic role i call this coffee table cinema the type of cinema that appeals to just a scant few of you but the others just stay away
0	this movie was ridiculous from the start let me save you all time from watching this movie a woman who sells corn liquor to the locals takes in her cousin or nephew and he convinces her to open a café downstairs from her home she does and she and the cousin become close there is a scene later where she is locking lips with him later the woman finds out an old boyfriend is coming back from jail and its tense between them leading to a down and out fist fight in the café the woman's cousin nephew is enamored by the man the ending was awful the story was awful and if i could get back the time wasted on this movie i would appreciate it a definite skip
0	the ballad of the sad café worked hard at its image but when it came down to crunch time it was left standing in its own self created dust br br one cannot image saying this out loud but if vanessa redgrave's amelia were to fight john wayne or even clint eastwood my hard earned dollars would have to go to redgrave her portrayal of amelia was as close to perfection and consumed with more detailed dedication than most actors are willing to give to any multi million dollar contracted persona redgrave gave amelia this soulful drawl that was a blend of her own unique voice and a hard earned woman from the south to the average viewer this could be construed as annoying but as the film progressed it became her – miss amelia transforming this stage beauty into a roughneck it was redgrave's performance as well as her interaction with the other characters that made this film stand tall – but not the tallest the others following her performance were needed but not stellar as we moved past the murky cliché image passed on by every set designer hired for the post depression south job the minor characters felt like poster board the image was needed to set the scene but the characters of the town had no other purpose take for example rod steiger's vision of some old wild spoken preacher his scenes alone will make any viewer question the validity of this off the beaten path town the main two players who surrounded amelia battled with charm for the admirable top scene stealing moment but due to the lacking direction – it just seemed faded the most absurd of the two albeit both rank high among the questionable sanity line is cork hubbard who plays cousin who shows up randomly one night his character is never quite defined he lacks true motive and his loyalties remain uncertain he plays no vital role in this film outside of forcing us the viewers to question his sanity and honesty can you create a character simply by sticking out your tongue flicking your ears and punching your chest and head finally there is the other end of the absurd – keith carradine callow's close ups of this tormented man build character but our lack of understanding between him and amelia causes his purpose to flounder these were the characters as cliché southern as they were – some stood forward and attempted to create an absurdist period piece and i cannot argue that they failed br br where ballad of the sad café failed to rise above mediocrity was in the cinematography and narrative this film was about amelia and her need for other souls in her life the audience's level of comfort with the arrival of her midget cousin was entertaining – one couldn't help but wonder if he was honest or merely a confidence man attempt to leech off a warm heart cork character is never quite understood but we do accept him with brief shots of him and amelia doing small things together it is his idea that transforms from a recluse businesswoman to a bona fide café owner the problem is that director callow never quite takes us to that dramatic take level between cork and redgrave – is the man crazy or does he represent all of family i needed something from callow that brought these two out of the david lynch esquire relationship that they had then our pool gets even deeper with the addition of carradine as love interest using the technique of a flashback within a flashback we see the two wed but never consummate their love – which anger against their love drawing him into the world of madness why was amelia so angry why was there no connection between carradine and redgrave why was this even in the film with the lack of focus towards these characters's connection the eventual scenes between the two made no sense – throw in choice and it just gets completely discombobulated while there were a few beautiful choreographed scenes that callow created the inability to transfer his characters from point a to point b i lost focus interest and my care for the characters plummeted when i didn't understand the ultimate question – why br br overall the ballad of the sad café began with a bang but ended with a very small crack of a firecracker my emotional feel of this film swung up and down up and down and eventually stayed further down mainly due to the lack of understanding of the motives of the characters redgrave did a phenomenal job as amelia and while the other characters outside of the random steiger tried their best i just didn't quite understand who they were their motives were so muddled that when the emotional ending finally occurred i was apathetic director callow seemed to have been lacking importing connecting scenes that would allow us to understand the dynamic relationship between all of our main players callow created some beautiful scenes where faces seemed to overlap the scenery which allowed us to focus on amelia – or carradine but nothing was explained or developed the film played out with anger discover happiness flashback anger anger anger fade out without the comparative this transformed from distinguished period film to actors playing parts in front of camera it was a shame because sad café had the promise it just couldn't deliver br br grade ½ out of
0	how do you make a totally unappealing movie out of a story by one of america's most famous authors watch this film and find out maybe i am author carson mccullers but i was impressed by the heart is a lonely hunter and was hoping for something memorable here too forget it br br vanessa redgrave looks like a man with her short haircut and clothing i never found her much to get excited about in almost any movie anyway rod steiger as a preacher how insulting is that unlikable characters one after the other well maybe that's the book too and i am being unfair to this film i am not familiar with the story other than what i saw on screen and this was so unappealing a movie that i could never recommend it to anyone br br it's just one backwards person after another in a backward town outside of some nice cinematography here and there there is nothing to recommend how anyone could sit through 100 minutes of this is amazing br br i didn't even go into how bad this is directed there is good news this was the only film simon directed
0	when one considers that carson mccullers is one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century it seems that it needs a very great lack of talent to be able to ruin one of her stories but this movie shows it can be done how do actors ingratiate their way to becoming directors wooden unsympathetic totally out of sync with the poetic compassion of writing my jaw dropped with horror and disbelief that such a mish mash of a movie could ever have found finance and backers the only redeeming features are some moderately good acting although that said vanessa redgrave seems to permanently render much the same performance whatever character she plays and some good cinematography in places but otherwise it is a bitter bitter disappointment and it could and indeed should have been a contemporary masterpiece simon callow should hang his head in shame and stick to acting
0	arguably the most disgusting thing to come out of australia since predictably distasteful comedy with barry humphries in a dual role as boozy australian diplomat les patterson and undercover agent dame edna so many bodily function gags that even the farrelly brothers would have been sick and several gross out moments especially the effects of the horrible h e l p virus only for fans of extreme toilet humor oh and that´s the neverending story ii not the mad max george miller who directed ½ br br
0	the brilliant australian comic genius barry humphries had a rare failure with this uneven and occasionally distasteful comedy which was snatched back from release after only a few days drunken lecherous australian diplomat sir les patterson accidentally sets an arab potentate on fire at the un and is posted to his tiny country as punishment arriving just as a palace coup puts a new leader american soap star on the throne sir les with the reluctant help of dame edna both played by humphries almost accidentally foils a scheme by the new leader to release a deadly disgusting aids like virus on the western world joan rivers has a cameo as the female president of the united states her desk plate reading president rivers extreme bad taste mingles with slapstick and usual scathing satire in a film which is more enjoyable in it's many funny parts than taken together as a whole dame tv fans may be puzzled by the presence of a different madge sadly one who lacks emily perry's wonderful drab comedy magic in the role the film was written by humphries his third wife diane and directed by the mad max man himself george miller for die hard humphries fans like myself essential all others beware
0	it's a shame barry humphries infamous sir les patterson character had it's film debut in this under cooked spy comedy br br this film reminded me of the beatty hoffman stinker ishtar 1987 humphries should have learned from the mistakes that film made if your going to change gears on a concept don't use spies like ishtar the first 20 minutes or so offer a promise of something different it would have been great to see the anachronistic and boorish patterson around in the world of australian politics one of characters even point out that patterson is of date with the current times you'd think could of had a field day making commentary on the hawke government i can just picture a scene with patterson and in a drinking contest but instead of a film that might of been clever and even a biting look into that world we get patterson running around the world as james bond trying to save the world from bio chemical weapons that runs out of steam before the half way mark br br disappointing
0	contains spoilers br br but if you weren't dropped on the head as a child and then used as a football then you'll agree with me that this is one of the worst and yet hilarious series ever made round a woman who as a young girl was beaten by her father who also killed her mother she spends her time drawing but wait for it then she becomes her superhero drawings and goes on to fight crime therefore being drawn by pain so clever the story itself is actually ok but it's just how it's done jesse the writer and director has no idea how to write a script just listen to a monologue featuring the 8 year old version of the hero and it sounds like it was written by a 30 year old man while her dad who sports a great moustache just walks around the house all day while looking angry just showing how bad the characterisation is especially the bit where he gets angry in the first episode and begins repeating the phrase no more while holding his wife's head before killing her using the marble work surface the following bang sound effect and just his terrible acting as all he can convey is angry just is brilliant including after where he goes to beat his daughter using his belt which is all done with him moaning and looking angry in slow motion the episodes themselves could contain easily a good clean script ranging over 5 minutes but oh no jesse doesn't want this little jesse is out post modernism as if he'd just eaten donnie darko and then himself to death pointless camera jerks all at weird angles overly repeated lines and even pointless sequences just muddled up every now and again to fill the overlong episodes in conclusion the idea isn't bad it's just how it's done also there is a great character of a fat guy on a bench who doesn't come up enough and is great i just wanna hug his lil chubby cheeks cause they look so soft the character development is non existent as the main character just says the first philosophical sounding thing that comes to her head although they all contradict one another but all in all mainly s t br br indiana jones 4 however is much better type into you tube as well the results may make you weep at the beauty of the world also you'll hear a lot of cheap sex jokes mostly gay ones
0	it's saturday it's raining and i think every movie should have at least one comment so i just watched the crime doctor's courage all the way through it's a murder mystery with a typical cast of characters and a couple of the usual suspects each with their own possible motive for the crime the story starts abruptly and the viewer is thrown into the plot with no character development or storytelling whatsoever i guess that's not too surprising for a b movie of this period there are also some moments which look and feel like this is pre wwii but perhaps that is due to the writer's background in radio shows br br the crime doctor is the sleuth who happens to be visiting california for some r r from his psychiatry practice on the east coast he hooks up with a mystery novelist friend with whom it is implied has been along for one or more previous mystery solving capers the novelist occasionally fills the role of sidekick to our sleuth aka dr watson and also occasionally lightens things up with a bit of comic relief sort of br br there is also a somewhat simple but not quite bumbling police captain who at times is annoyed by the meddling sleuth and then there are the mysterious a brother and sister who are dance artists at a night club the dance is sort of an interpretive dance that happens to be one of those moments which feels more like the 30's than the 40's though the story location is california the appear to live in a castle br br there was one plot element which managed to keep me somewhat amused but i won't divulge any more than that because i always enjoy movies more when the story is discovered rather than known in advance even though i can think of many many b films which would rate higher and it is difficult to say that watching this one is time well spent i have not seen any other movies from the crime doctor series so i can't make any comparisons
0	to start i'm not a person to rate movies that i haven't seen nor am i a person that rates movies 1's when they don't deserve it this movie was really that bad the basic plot was extremely formulaic and while it wasn't great the plot deserved about a 5 the part that really bothered me was anything referencing swimming in the film i compiled a short list of things wrong with the swimming aspects of this film br br 1 no character development 2 no sense of time 3 completely inaccurate swimming scenes which include a a team of six swimmer going to something called both nationals and regional with no mention of how they qualify b this same team going to whatever the hell this meet was without swimming a real meet at any point in the film c the rival program goes from being a high school to a club team back to a high school and then a club team again d in the scene where ellis is interviewing for a job the banners show high school state wins and placements at nationals yet the team consists of anywhere from 5 to 12 swimmers depending on which of the 3 meets are happening e a team of 5 guys and a girl win nationals regions whatever f said girl wins a men's 100 butterfly event g in this race said girl beats two guys from a team that the previous year was in the top 3 in the nation h the announcer changes a race from the 200 breast to the 100 breast back to the 200 again in the span on about 45 seconds i in the final relay the which is being in a 50 meter long course pool one swimmer is seen doing two flip turns j in this same relay the teams anchor swimmer freaks out and steps off the blocks prompting an inspirational pep talk which lasts for about two and a half minutes or about 3 times as long as the leg would take at a national caliber meet k the movie begins in the month of july or august assuming that ellis was applying before the school year started and the pool was to be closed in 3 months so assuming these things both hold true the swimmers went from not being able to swim to winning nationals regional whatever in less than two as the pool had to be cleaned and the kids didn't start practicing for a while l i'm sure there are a couple hundred more i'm just trying to block them out of my memory 4 throughout the film there is not a single mention of a swimmers time 5 if you're going to have a movie about swimming it would be a good idea to hire extras that know how to swim well 6 the scene where the kid is kicked underwater is physically impossible br br that being said all the swimming scenes were way too slow swimmers had horrible technique and the idea of being able to qualify for a national meet within three months of learning to swim is just insulting to swimmers everywhere br br ok if you still don't believe me let me say that this movie is one of the 5 worst films i have ever seen and this is coming from the guy that owns gigli soul plane manos the hands of fate skullduggery and any number of other total piece of crap that have been put on film please don't go
0	inspired by a true story tale is full of 1970's feeling but is disjointed in the telling this is the tale of a black college swimmer who ends up in at a closing rec center in a bad neighborhood and somehow puts together a swim team the film staggers around blindly for the first half hour until terrence howard as our hero gets the kids into the pool it picks up at that point by becoming somewhat engaging though it still staggers about there is a good story in this and its clear why howard and bernie mac took part in it but the script is poor and most of the direction seems intent on making it feel like instead of making us feel anything for the story br br not the disaster that some reviews made it out to be it instead suffers by all of the recent sport true stories coach carter invincible glory road etc which at least knew that you have to at least work with the story to make a movie as opposed to just letting the audience suffer because its true
0	it's important to keep in mind the real meaning of the phrase inspired by a true story when watching pride it's sort of like you could save up to 50 which can quite literally be translated to you can't save more than 50 it all sounds great until you realize that the lower part of up to is zero similarly inspired by a true story means that someone heard a story and it made them think of this one the only certainty is that the real story and the one you're about to see are not the same thing br br there is a real jim ellis that began coaching the swim team at the philadelphia department of recreation in the early 1970s but i have a feeling that the real jim ellis must not have been able to conceal some feelings of disappointment at the way the movie turned out clearly it takes wild liberties with the story of his life and i just picture him responding to the strange looks of his friends who wonder why the movie is so much different than the man they know br br at any rate one thing that he will surely be proud of is that he is portrayed by terrence howard one of our finest actors who starred alongside bernie mac who despite the lack of an original and powerful story still gives a heartfelt and moving performance br br the movie takes place in 1970s philadelphia a time and place where racism was the norm not the exception and the educated and professional jim ellis who is also an accomplished swimmer is having trouble finding a worthwhile teaching position until finally relegated to a falling apart recreation center which he is assigned the task of cleaning up before its demolition we can certainly understand his feeling of br br when we first meet the maintenance man bernie mac he is a disillusioned who sits in his office surrounded by piles of junk that touch the ceiling and watching daytime tv on an old dusty television set needless to say when jim shows up to start cleaning the place up and clearing it out is not exactly friendly with him he knew his rec center was being closed and all his anger about that transferred quite smoothly onto jim br br given his past as a college swimmer jim takes a special interest in the pool which he cleans and fills and brings to top shape a group of black teenagers who play basketball just outside the rec center take interest in the pool when their basketball rim is taken away and the heat remains stifling and soon the group have a developing swim team on their hands which they enter into a citywide swim meet to call them underdogs of course would be something of an understatement they're unorganized unprofessional insufficiently trained and have no idea how to behave at a swim meet br br that doesn't matter of course the movie is your standard underdog sports story so the first athletic outing is totally unimportant as anything other than a learning experience a catalyst to drive their much harder and much more focused training that will lead up to the final athletic outing the one that matters by now the only thing a sports movie has going for it is that the protagonist s do not have to win at the film's climax we only have to understand the meaning and significance of their effort br br sadly the movie has all of the character development of an old seagal movie the good guys are the good guys because they're just supposed to be and the bad guys are the nasty white swimmers who laugh and and make racist jokes at our team oh and there's one scene where one of the white guys kicks one of the black guys underwater while in the middle of a race i didn't know it was really possible to kick someone underwater like that but you get the idea of how deep the character development is br br we understand that this is the group of kids that jim ellis turned from kids hanging out on the streets doing nothing with their lives and into an organized and competitive team of swimmers but other than that we don't really get to know anything about who they are br br but the biggest problem is that the only real statements that the movie makes are that effort and organization lead to success and racism is bad both of these are so obvious that when a movie is made with them alone it ends up feeling empty and unnecessary racism was so much more powerful in america in the 1970s that it feels like an enormous loss that the movie dealt directly with that issue but didn't really say anything about it it's sort of a feel good movie but when it's over and you realize how much it should have said is much bigger than what it said the feel good sensation turns into a sad disappointment
0	after some internet surfing i found the homefront series on dvd at ioffer com before anyone gets excited the dvd set i received was burned by an amateur from home video tapes recorded off of their tv 15 years ago the resolution and quality are poor the images look like you would expect old re recorded video to look although the commercials were edited out the ending credits of each episode still have voice over announcements for the segway into the abc news program nightline complete with the top news headlines from the early 1990's even with the poor image quality the shows were watch able and the sound quality was fine br br to this show's credit the casting was nearly perfect everyone was believable and really looked the part their acting was also above average the role of jeff metcalf is played particularly well by kyle chandler most recently seen in the 2005 remake of king kong the period costumes were very authentic as were the sets especially the 1940s kitchens with vintage appliances and décor the direction was also creative and different for a tv show at that time for example conversations between characters were sometimes inter cut with conversations about the same subject between other characters in different scenes the dialog of the different conversations was kept fluid despite cutting back and fourth between the different characters and locations that takes good direction and editing and they made it work in this case br br as i started watching this series again i suddenly remembered why i lost interest in it 15 years ago despite all the ingredients for a fine show the plots and story lines are disappointing and confusing right from the start for one thing the name of the show itself is totally misleading when wwii ended in 1945 there was no more fighting so obviously there was no longer a homefront either curiously the first episode of the show homefront begins in 1945 after the war had ended that's like shooting the first episode of gilligan's island showing the castaways being rescued the whole premise of the show's namesake is completely lost i still held on to hope with the possibility of the rest of the series being a flashback but no the entire show takes place from 1946 through 1948 additionally this series fails miserably in any attempt to accurately portray any historical events of the late 1940's by the third episode it becomes obvious that this series was nothing more than a thinly veiled vehicle for an ultra left wing political agenda the show is set in river run ohio near toledo however the show's ongoing racism theme makes it look more like jackson mississippi than ohio part of the ensemble cast are dick williams hattie winston and sterling macer jr who portray the davis family much of the series shows the davis family being discriminated against by the evil whites to the point of being ridiculous and totally absurd if not laughable the racism card has been played and over played by hollywood now for over 40 years we get it we're also tired of having our noses rubbed in it on a daily basis the subject of racism is also unpopular with viewers and it is the kiss of death for any show as it was for homefront the acting talents of williams winston and macer were wasted in their roles as the stereotypical frightened angry black family the wildly exaggerated racism in this series makes it look like everyone in ohio was a kkk member or something the racism issue could have been addressed in this show in a single episode with a simple punch in the nose or fist fight in which a bigot gets a well deserved thrashing and leave it at that devoting a major portion of the series to the racism thing gets really old really quick and its just plain stupid br br in yet another ridiculous plot line the big boss of a local factory ken jenkins is portrayed as an ebenezer scrooge like character who is against pensions and raises and is unconcerned about acid dripping on his employees the workers revolt and take over the factory in a blatant pro communist propaganda message to the viewer br br personally i think this series had great potential the writers could have easily placed the timeline in 1941 – 1945 as the title suggests and shown the hardships of food and gas rationing and working 14 hour days at war factories of course the loss of brothers sons and husbands fighting overseas would have also added drama the situation was also perfect for writing in special guest stars as military or uso personnel passing through their town during training or en route to europe or the pacific the possibilities for good story lines and plots are endless but no the writers of homefront david assael and james grissom completely ignored any relevant or interesting plots instead they totally missed the point and strayed into a bizarre and irrelevant obsession with racism and left wing politics it would be unfair to the actors to condemn the entire series but the plots and situations in which they were placed are total garbage
0	hideously bad movie purportedly about a who wants to be a writer and the incidents that make up casino life moves at a snail's pace dull dull dull virtually everything about this movie is amateurish and unconvincing with one very notable exception the performance of clive owen who is like a rolls royce purring through a slum advice for the casino sequences were allegedly provided by a professional but judging by the way in which they are handled they were completely ignored by the director while casino staff may very well be a different breed to the rest of the world they are nowhere near as witless and booooring as the characters presented in this script odds and ends are thrown into the script in an attempt to provide it with convincing background but would appear to have been jotted down in a list on a cocktail napkin for anyone who makes a living in the casino business as this writer has for the last forty years this is a poverty stricken depiction of their world which even in the farthest and most obscure reaches of england has never been this wanting an appalling insulting mess of a movie that plods and plods and plods along to an idiotic and unconvincing ending american critics loved it
0	this low budget film about a writer who goes to work in a london casino has an awful script wooden performances and not much to recommend it of course it will appeal to highbrows for whom mainstream is a curse word and who automatically add 20 iq points when they hear a british accent apologies to jeff foxworthy br br the script is full of holes has he written a book yet or not cliches relationship trouble she works days he works nights and provides so little insight into such basics as character motivation that it requires a voice over narration just to move the story along br br in an attempt to keep the audience from dozing off it includes a street fight scene that is about as realistic as a high school production of julius caesar br br if your idea of scintillating dialogue is i'll see your ten and raise you twenty then run to see this movie otherwise save your money br br
0	i respect mike hodges and liked get carter immensely for it's bleak outlook but the just seems like a particularly dull itv drama br br the reserved cold acting isn't just the preserve of the lead character it's spread to the entire cast meaning there is nothing to contrast owen's character with br br none of the characters evoke any kind of feelings at all except boredom the ending of the film is also untidy at best br br the camera work etc is fairly good but if you want to see hodges best watch get carter don't bother with this uninteresting unimaginative through emotions he covered better 20 years ago
0	this was one of the most contrived tedious and clichéd films i have ever seen and yes i've seen pearl harbour even the likes of gina mckee couldn't act their way out of the appalling dialogue it has been described as 'art house' this can only be a euphemism for dull dreadful and quite frankly artless why is it that when a film is devoid of plot critics feel it deserves to be called art but far more baffling why did america love it without you this film would have remained on the shelf where perhaps it belonged
0	warning contains spoilers br br i felt no sympathy for any of the characters incl the main one who gets over the death of his girl friend v quickly but it's ok as he shacks up with an ex prostitute from the casino he works at the main character is portrayed as this wonderful intelligent writer who gets drawn into a web of deception all the while there is running his monologue of the book he is writing i can't say i would buy the book a much better premise perhaps would have been if the voice over which annoyingly cuts in to narrate any bit of the film that you might not have understood via his book would've had 52 different to represent each card in the deck but i digress in the end there was a twist whereby the main character has been setup by someone close to him but as i disliked his character so much by this point i found it impossible to like anyone in this film the characters are all one dimensional zombies that i really didn't care and was glad the film was over br br plus points the english actress from er doing a dodgy south african accent minus points an irritating film
0	this film is a third rate attempt at a compelling moody thriller and fails miserably on all three counts it just about managed to keep my attention as the protagonist was seen slowly and predictably breaking all the life rules he had conveniently set himself at the beginning of the film br br but it's in the last 25 minutes or so that things really start to spiral a vaguely plausible plotline and that's being generous becomes completely rediculous as suddenly new characters appear from nowhere and random and events are never explained br br this wouldn't be quite so bad if the scripting wasn't so cheesy the acting so wooden despite a strong british cast and the direction so uninspiring this is not an example of good british film making nor indeed should it make tarantino bat an eyelid at least not in comparison to his earlier work br br my advice in this case if it's hard to get hold of don't waste the effort if you're a brit like me and it's in your local video shop steer well clear perhaps head to the video entitled american beauty now that's an example of great british direction
0	first of all the genre of this movie isn't comedy it's more of a drama br br i had low expectations on the movie and still they didn't come up them as some of the other reviews point out there are some nice music in the movie but if you want to listen to good music i suggest spend the time looking at some concert recording with bon jovi or crue it'll be more quality time br br last if you want to watch a good movie in this rock'n'roll genre i recommend almost famous
0	independent film that would make hollywood proud the movie substitutes good looks for good acting a cryptic plot for a good story line and self absorption for character development may be i missed something go see it for yourself
0	weak direction weak plot unimpressive music i wonder why is there in the movie world in the first place she tried to reveal a lot of her talent mostly skin but failed to impress br br music wasn't that impressive as well only one song was worth listening to br br the title well they tried to justify the title of the movie in the end but it didn't make sense br br there were many unwanted twists and turns in the story which made it more boring however if someone's a dino fan please go ahead and watch it
0	emraan hashmi post murder did some good roles in bhatt films but other director just made use of his kissing and naughty image br br is one of them and it came after aaa jawani diwani in a row and i was already fed up of him and such roles br br the film has a nice twist at the start i felt like an abbas mustan film but then it turns into a routine film with sudden love sudden jealousy and a bad climax br br makes a terrible film music is saving grace camera work is fabulous br br emraan hashmi just repeats his act of his earlier films and has 2 expressions throughout dino looks stiff talks as if he is practicing hindi and does okay in some scenes is expressionless and irritates
0	is an awful movie the script the story the acting are all simply laughable dino plays a man who pays emraan hashmi to seduce his wife yes this is as ridiculous as it sounds both and hashmi offer incredibly and unsurprisingly bad acting plays the aggressive capricious and angry wife she is good looking but has zero acting talent the film has one hit song called which is composed and sung by himesh reshammiya i never could understand the hype around this song as i never found it particularly good though it is catchy the film is supposed to be a thriller but instead it just looks like a comic strip thanks to the terrible direction and writing avoid this cheapo at any cost
0	i often wonder how movies like this even get made and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them br br with it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along adding twists and turns when he liked no matter how ludicrous they were the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as jo sheena roy hai fashion hota hai and yeh versace hai madam yeah right br br every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped acting was awful lycra for and awful suits for a stocky emran locales the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion screenplay etc etc just one word rubbish br br for those people who love hashmi and his movies watch it as for me i'll never get those two and a half hours back the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent
0	what movie is this a horrible movie with the old boring concept of infidelity which has already been achieved by the bhatt camp the movie emraan hashmi and dino the movie has no base it just goes like this dino an are married and living in a rich mansion however dino doesn't like to the heart as he wants only her wealth he loves someone else tara sharma so he bribes emraan to have an affair with so that he could catch them and finally split up with how boring however emraan falls in love with and vice versa lastly when gets imprisonment for killing emraan dino pretentiously tries to save her showing his false love to her on the other hand does not understand this and feels that he loved her truly so she lends all her wealth to dino finally dino comes out of the police station and goes with tara with all the wealth what a fraud the songs are good and are the only thing good in the movie now the individual ratings out of 5 emraan 1 2 dino 1 2 overall acting 1 2 direction story music 1 2 final rating 1 2 poor performances and poor casting music good i rate the movie 1 5 10 dont waste your time
0	not a good one not at all br br this installment revolves around a descent of the original murderer inside the amityville home who must face his past to rid himself of the nightmarish terror of amityville itself br br it's basically nothing my bet is that this film was made for some extra fast cash to buy a boat or something because this one's just ridiculous thankfully it doesn't kill or ruin the series but it just has no effect on the series at all br br i'd have to say that just the fact that it is constantly referenced to the old infamous house is probably the only thing that makes this one slightly more bearable than the amityville curse
0	at the rate these movies are ploughing through the artifacts from the amityville house it won't be long before we get down to the but for now it's a mirror that's causing problems for more cardboard characters in this sixth entry in the series a homeless man hands it over to artist hairdo ross partridge who then has strange visions and discovers some unpleasant revelations about his past this mundane horror trundles along at a dull pace leaving us waiting for a build up that never comes as the various goings on lead to a dumb finale bland and lifeless with ropey acting and huge hair not helping matters
0	oh dear this sequel has a mirror this time which houses the evil spirit of a psychopath which murdered an entire family with a shotgun in the amityville home the mirror captured the entire ugly incident of the horrified family who had no time to prepare for their uninvited guest the mirror is given to a photographer keyes ross partridge by a bum who just so happens to be his lunatic father and the man responsible for killing the family and it's evil soon terrorizes those in a loft such as painter pal suki portrayed by julia nickson soul where he lives when they look into it soon keyes is having nightmares looking through the eyes of his father as he guns down the family in cold blood worried that he might follow in his footsteps soon he sees other occurrences through his father's eyes like that terrible day pops bashed his mother's head against the floor of an institution or experiencing a moment inside the cell as doctor's administered a drug to immobilize him br br pretty solid supporting cast who deserve better than being stuck in junk like this such as david naughton american werewolf in london as the proprietor of the loft with which keyes lives richard roundtree as an eccentric sculptor artist terry o'quinn as a psychologist detective and especially lin shaye as a hilarious ditsy rather strange secretary nurse in the asylum the one which held father soon to be closed down br br rounding out the film the sexy leggy lala as supportive girlfriend barbara howard friday the 13th the final chapter as naughton's betrayed wife he was on the verge of starting an affair with soul jack as the sadistic fiend who attempts to provoke his son into killing innocent people as he did and robert a nightmare on elm street 2 freddy's revenge as a rejected lover of nickson soul who meets an unfortunate demise while ripping apart paintings as a revenge for his dismissal br br this film is a poor special effects movie merely using the amityville title as a cash in the franchise has never been that great to begin with but as each sequel was green lit it grew worse and worse after the third film furniture from the infamous house become possessed items tormenting folks the cast try hard though but the material a mirror causing chaos and murder through supernatural means is lacking in quality and the rather mediocre special effects don't help matters o'quinn as little as he has to work with shows why he's such a great actor he can even shine in excrement such as this all's not lost you get to see always wearing super short skirts or her man's shirt in panties showing off her legs throughout hey you have to find a silver lining somewhere believe it or not amityville a new generation was the seventh film in the franchise coolest part of the film were the portraits of demons painted by nickson artist perhaps inspired by the evil mirror after looking into it
0	'a new generation' is the third amityville entry to base its plot around writer john g jones's premise of an item taken from the long island house that causes spectral misery and death for its new owners first a lamp then a clock and now a mirror however this is also the first amityville since 'the to directly tie in to the real life events that started the whole series this time around keyes terry robert partridge an artist is given a macabre looking mirror by a homeless man one day soon enough people around him start to die eventually leading to his discovery that the mirror once hung in the amityville house indeed on the very night a man named franklin sonny in ii' murdered his entire family unfortunately for terry his discovery of the mirror isn't entirely coincidental and he soon learns the truth about his past a truth he's kept buried since childhood br br this 7th installment in the often worn out franchise is something of a disappointment for me things were starting to pick up with the silly and uneven yet entertaining 'it's about time' and given how much this film tries to draw upon its roots not the first episode but the source material itself it should have been better than it was br br however three trips to the same well with yet another evil artifact from the amityville house with yet another explanation for the malign paranormal visitations is wearing on me to say the least one of the biggest weaknesses of the amityville franchise is the steadfast determination by each set of producers to completely ignore every other episode in the series on the one hand it's perfectly reasonable that they don't want to be tied to someone else's continuity but at the very least they could maybe acknowledge story lines that have already been done and just possibly not repeat them over and over again br br there's also something rather plodding about the way in which the story unfolds doubtless due to the inevitability this repetition fest brings since you already know what's going to happen the carefully paced build up is simply slow and tedious or maybe it's just tedious anyway director john probably could have done more to heighten the tense atmosphere associated with the mirror rather than simply having it flash red and emit chattering 'evil' voices which lacks any kind of subtlety there were times when characters seemed fairly unfazed by its otherworldly qualities if they don't take it too seriously why should we br br which is a shame because 'a new generation' has a more than capable cast i was going to hold off on watching this until i saw the name in the credits she captivated my attention just as she always does and if anything i was annoyed her part wasn't more extensive terry o'quinn was equally charismatic and again underused partridge himself in the lead role clearly fits the early 90s over coiffed lumberjack shirted square jawed hero type and while i'm not sure he really gave it the gravitas needed it's not as if anyone here is performing ibsen br br the sets are also worthy of note from the dramatic artwork filling room to the claustrophobic corridors featured in flashback supernatural sequences getting the look of these right is especially important given how certain sequences are repeated throughout the film to simulated fragmented memories clearly is more of a visual director rather than either an actor's director or one of horror unfortunately it is meant to be a horror film after all br br 'a new generation' sees the same race being run for the third time in 4 years add to this the lack of direction where it was really needed and the whole effort fails to stand as tall as it should however it should be acknowledged for its strong ties with the source material and some good actors in not necessarily their finest hours honestly the ideal person for this is someone who hasn't seen any of the sequels past 'the for whom the story won't be such a massive deja vu trip
0	80's sleazy glam rock is like 90's house music or current it's boring and has no ideas or ideals the only thing that makes it a bit 'cult' nowadays is that it's a long time ago so we can laugh at its too bad 'rock star' has no laughs at all as it must be one of the most boring movies of recent years br br chris mark wahlberg is singer of a steel dragon tribute band when he's kicked of the band at the same time the real steel dragon singer is kicked of as well he becomes the next lead singer you already know how this is gonna end up at that time with chris losing it with sex drugs and r r and forgetting about his long time girlfriend manager emily jennifer aniston br br there's way too much boring music in this standard formula packed excuse for a movie and should be avoided for it at all cost watch the over rated but still more fun almost famous instead or even better a movie about real people playing real music having real emotions that thing you do br br what a stinker 2 10
0	well at least this was the last sequel that i could find at blockbuster because this movie was just downright horrible i mean i can understand how hard it would be to get rid of an evil house we're talking starting a horrible fire flood etc but a mirror how hard could it be can it be to get rid of a mirror this was the most horrible movie that could've put the title of amityville into the picture br br well a group of friends who are pretty much from the start are a bunch of freaks one of them is a photographer of some kind and buys a haunted mirror from a homeless creepy guy teaching me a valuable lesson don't buy things from homeless creepy guy of course the horrible deaths and chaos ensues this group though i can't imagine anyone missing them br br please skip amityville a new generation i've already got a few complaints about my generation so i think this was a premonition not to sound so crazy p but believe me this is horribly acted not well thought out and not even scary i feel so bad for the original writers of the amityville horror they must be crying every time person witnesses this film br br 1 10
0	there isn't enough space to explain the many ways this movie is a disappointing mess silly special effects and an incomprehensible plot are the least of this movie's problems the film looks like it was conceived in the mid eighties and just until it could finally be made in the early nineties the mullet headed hero complete with fashionable miami vice three days shadow beard the ham fisted slams at ronald reagan it would be funny if it didn't take itself so seriously as it is the movie is just pathetic i actually feel sorry for the poor actresses who wasted their fine nude scenes in this awful movie
0	movies just don't get worse than this horrible plot terribly timed pathetic characters and effects and yes this is using b standards br br and for the guys nothing this movie is a terrible let down couple scenes that could have been great but you get nothing but build up with no delivery br br this movie appeals to no one horrible movie it had bad plot acting b flavor special effects and everything else plus no nudity or for guys or the girls
0	the fact that a film is on dvd doesn't guarantee that its quality is very good the fact that a film's quality is threadbare doesn't mean you shouldn't buy it this review actually applies to 2 films paired on a single dvd br br the plots of these films are of little consequence they are of interest only to people who collect holmes films … anybody who merely wants a few of the better offerings would do well to purchase some of those made by jeremy brett … or in a pinch basil rathbone there are a few other very good holmes films featuring good actors on a one shot basis – such as seven per cent solution or private life of sherlock holmes in any event these films are considerably less estimable br br here we have a pair of films featuring some of the best actors to do holmes even if the results tend toward disappointing this appears to be the only disc with these films on it although deadly necklace appears by itself in the same version on other discs br br sherlock holmes and the deadly necklace dates from 1962 although it neither looks it nor sounds it some who have seen this may be surprised to learn that it was produce by hammer studios not that hammer hasn't turned out some really schlock stuff but where christopher lee was concerned they usually did a better job the print a direct transfer from a rather worn 1 1 33 copy in black and white the quality of the color suggests the original may have been in color and the snipped ends of the film's aspect suggest it may originally have been 1 1 66 or more br br the film is set in the early 20th century – not improbable since holmes was still working then and didn't actually die until 1957 however the script is not adapted from any actual doyle story it involves an egyptian necklace and professor moriarty shows up as a world famous archaeologist as well as the prince of crime the plot is melodramatic and banal br br the biggest defect of this film is that – for whatever unfathomable reason – hammer filmed it in germany it was nonetheless filmed in english it was then dubbed in german and then re dubbed in english so what you hear isn't lee nor any of the other original actors but a bunch of unknowns – not that outside of lee i doubt anyone would know any of the other actors this is too bad since lee see his hound of the baskervilles makes a quite decent holmes as it is his voice double is condescending and plain as bread pudding with no nor cinnamon br br the music for this film is primarily jazzy in a possible attempt to be period too bad nobody thought of ragtime as it is the music doesn't relate to what's happening on the screen and often is at odds with the action br br the other film is sherlock holmes and the speckled band from 1931 starring a young raymond massey the quality of the picture and sound is fully up to that of the 1962 effort and in fact a bit better massey makes a quite respectable holmes although he certainly doesn't own the in the way rathbone did and brett does the other thespians who take part in this production are unlikely to be of interest to modern readers the acting – as is true of many films of this period – owes a lot to the post victorian stage and to silent films br br it should be noted that while the deadly necklace is available on dvd by itself the speckled band is available only with the former film br br there is very little else to be said of this film the settings seem to be an odd combination of the 1890s horse drawn carriages and the 1920s electronic devices such as a primitive taken altogether it's an interesting curio and a sufficient to buy the dvd with the pairing rather than a dvd with deadly necklace only
0	and atmosphere this film has but so unfortunately does the print i just viewed raymond massey provides a laid back sherlock holmes almost comically so in early scenes in his which he trades in for a garb to investigate the creepy mansion of dr lyn harding what wasn't clear to me was why would have wanted his stepdaughters dead if as in the case of helen angela baddeley he didn't want her to run off to get married he would have accomplished the same thing by having her dispatched br br other abound as well after setting an early wedding date with helen the fiancée is no longer heard from for the rest of the picture the presence of a band of gypsies at the time of violet death provides merely a diversion and what could have been an interesting murder tool a poisonous snake is diluted by the fact that it was not a cobra the musical renderings of the indian man servant notwithstanding br br stewart competently portrays holmes' aide dr watson though he takes some getting used to if nigel bruce is more your cup of tea as lyn harding is sufficiently menacing a trait that would be put to good use as holmes' nemesis professor moriarty in two later films 1935's the triumph of sherlock holmes and 1937's murder at the baskervilles br br with repeated and an unsteady camera it's surprising that the story line isn't more disrupted than it is it's integrity is generally maintained even if one stretches a bit to fill in the gaps i guess that would be my main complaint with the film as mentally bridging some of the jump cuts in the picture proved to be a real pain in the
0	this show demonstrates the depths to which uk tv pre watershed drama has sunk with these dull scripts mediocre acting poor plots awful dialog one is forced to watch a dvd of any old er episode to see excellent hospital drama br br none of the actors employed on this show seem to be able to actually act br br if you want low quality but easy to absorb soap opera style tv this is the show for you personally i like something with more meat on the bone sadly as with all other uk licence payers i'm funding this dross
0	may 2nd someone clicked 11 nos and then proceeded to do 15 more on my previous 15 comments almost as funny as this turkey br br may 1st br br as i write this i'm still very much under the impression of what must be the funniest thriller i've ever seen i've got a major case of the giggles but i'll try and calm down it's kind of hard to write when your nose spills snot and the mouth sporadic drool onto the keyboard br br a pair of young women who just returned from a vacation take a ride on a shuttle bus a couple of young guys join them but the bus isn't really a taxi service it's a kidnapping vehicle don't snicker its driver has been part of an organized white slavery gang who snatch young women from airports and they've been doing it for five years don't laugh five years on the same airport without the police or even the fbi ever getting any wind of it no giggling please apparently dozens of women go missing on in the same exact place for years and years and yet no one notices a trend is the fbi that incompetent the world of shuttle seems to consist of three types of people easily blonds dumb comatose invisible fbi agents and omnipotent psychotic gangsters who hate sexy blonds with tattooed br br the driver has barely stayed alive on this one mission and yet he's done this for i repeat five years without being killed or losing one of his limbs stop laughing did i mention that the driver is immortal need i mention it we all know that movie psychos have immortal dna you can stab them bounce them against the walls of a bus repeatedly caress them softly with a hammer prick nine inch nails into their ears hell you could stick a hand grenade into the average hollywood psycho's mouth and he'd still escape with only minor scratches no the driver is not satan or even a minor demon but just a regular hollywood psycho with better survival abilities than the biggest meanest sewer cockroach br br the basic plot outline a guy loses all the fingers on one hand in a silly scene a magical bus that reads and obeys minds the passengers try to escape they fail they get hurt they sulk they argue they try to escape they fail they get injured they argue they try to escape they fail they get injured they try to escape they fail they try to escape the manage to snatch the gun from the driver alas they do not kill him because the golden hollywood rule of gandhi like pacifism prohibits them from doing it no giggling one of the other passengers turns out to be part of the gang stop laughing he is played by an actor who studied in the rob zombie john travolta school of over acting silly mugging he threatens rape later on one of the gals hits him with a crowbar over the head about a dozen times very hard only seconds later does he regain consciousness yep he survives immortal remember he gets killed a little later no idea how though he is not supposed to be the argue they try to escape one of them escapes alas the psychos are just far too god like in their powers not to re capture their prey the game starts all over again the passengers try to escape they fail they sulk they stare into the void they get hurt they try to escape they fail they get hurt br br you get the picture br br frankly i believe that a drugged heavily disorientated inebriated snail would have escaped these captors with ease there were so many opportunities at one point these bumbling psychos remember five years even send one of the into a grocery store she leaves a message to the police however yeah you guessed it this fictional fairy tale u s city has no police br br and just as you thought the movie couldn't get any dumber not even if luc and brian de palma joined forces to lend a hand with the script it does the girls are kidnapped in order to be sent to some remote island and this is achieved by transporting them as cargo apparently this fictional america has no fbi no police and no border customs either it does however have immortal criminals with more luck than twenty lottery winners one blond had her chance to kill the driver and yet she failed how is it that victims in these dumb thrillers never try to finish off their immortal adversaries once they have them down on the floor and injured i guess i answered that one myself they're immortal so why bother trying she must have thought br br so why was one blond gassed to death and the other one boxed and shipped alive complete with a kitty litter box and the funniest photograph since demi moore's primary school pictures could it be the tattoo i think they killed the prettier one but that's just me was her tattoo that ugly br br could it be that i don't care why should i search for logic in a movie made by imbeciles for imbeciles besides how can i even think straight when i'm laughing so hard half the time br br naturally this being a 21st century horror thriller the mobile phone doesn't work perhaps this invincible gang control not only the fbi the police and the customs but satellites in space too br br do i have to spell it out there are far easier ways to kidnap people and far more intelligent people who should be making movies give an idiot a camera and he'll lay an egg every single time that sort of answers the eternal riddle of which came first the egg or the bird brained director
0	waste of this nasty little film is one to avoid its like a cheap badly plotted cross between saw and a few other recent films about kidnap why the writer wrote this is obvious he has no soul and did it to try and me some money the twists were obvious when those in peril could escape they did the obvious and didn't etc only good thing about it is i've discovered 1 new actress worth watching peyton list don't watch shuttle though there are too many better nicer films to watch rather than this that will make you miserable and think less of the world spend your time more wisely watch good films do some exercise cook a nice meal anything but waste your time on rubbish like this
0	just saw this film at the fantasy filmfest berlin i am not impressed br br as far as the story goes too girlfriends return from their mexico vacation while waiting for their luggage they get to know a couple of boys who then take the last and of course wrong shuttle bus to the city on board is also one other older man so weirdly portrayed that you instantly guess that he is one of the bad guys the other one is the driver br br the shuttle takes them into industrial wasteland and then one after the other goes done a little blood some cut of extremities some violence mostly playing with the fear of the girls in the end after some ups and downs heres and there's some not too new scary moments everyone is dead but the driver and the girls the girls end up in some garage where one of them is killed after confessing that she had slept with the other girlfriends boyfriend the other girl which is the conclusion is sold by the left over kidnapper yep weirdo got killed in some cargo box to asia a freight harbor being the final picture first story tons of loopholes questions you ask yourself loose ends and a conclusion that is not a good revelation but a total disappointment i can't see how such a unprofessional looser is supposed to have abducted dozens of women as is indicated by a drawer full of drivers aha second acting mediocre at its best br br third scare factor ok but i am bored by torture as a means to nothing but itself trade with humans could be a good reason for a horror flick but it's not used as one just as a background br br fourth music and sound some nice tries but the sound possibilities of the industrial landscape warehouse garage and truck sounds have not been really explored music would have been worse without it but apart from that some pseudo moving synth string theme for emotionality when the girls reach their final destination ok i guess br br verdict avoid it
0	shuttle is was more than a boring movie that had an interesting start but after half an hour it ended in the worst imaginable way i ever could imagine this movie has lost its story if you can call it a story after half an hour all the next scenes are totally out of proportion the driver is some kind of superman because he survives every attack with gun knife etc even after stabbed in his leg he was able to put her in the box but what a coincidence that there was a box in that garage i really felt sick and misled when the movie ended it could have been such a great one if the story was far more better in my opinion even a kid would make a better story and why shipping the girl with water and food i quit with counting the plot holes about halfway through and when the movie reached its almost admirably sick over the top final twist i had completely given up better say throw up the worst thing about shuttle is actually that it can not be even more worse that worse maybe writer director anderson will learn from this lesson and provide us with a decent thriller next time think the better he'll move to a different genre i keep my fingers crossed but from now on i will read the comment on his future movies first before looking a waste of time
0	well how and where do i start to describe this utter nonsense imagine the morals of a cheesy hollywood western throw in a lavish helping of the most trite soap opera storyline and try to dupe the kids into thinking its cool by dressing it up to be about something 'contemporary' this film is all package and absolutely no substance br br it starts with promise young men dreaming of becoming rockstars and engaging in the kind of excessive hero worship everyone can laugh at after that it all goes downhill quicker than a with no brakes the scene involving the first gig with steel dragon is one of the most pathetic pieces of i have seen in a long time the singer appears on stage for his debut and falls down some stairs will he get up and sing or will he stay there on the floor and not sing who cares by now it gets worse but i don't want to bore myself by having to remember it in all its excruciating detail if you watch it after this review its your own fault
0	this is about as stupid as it gets br br a classic case of two dimensional characters who always act exactly contrary as to what a sane person would do in the same situation it reminds me of a scene in scary movie where carmen electra flees from the killer there are two signs one marked to safety the other one to sure death i am reciting from memory br br and just like in scary movie the characters always run into the direction marked sure death br br why oh why did the girl start the fire in the teller booth and hold the door shut did she prefer to die in the fire instead being killed by the guy why oh why after cutting and overpowering the driver did they sit him in the seat and have him being watched by the wounded guy instead of plain shooting him or at the very least knocking him out he was running over their friend and killing him a minute before yet they have scruples why oh why a hundred things more br br if this movie were a road you could not drive a single yard because of the holes everything is so far fetched it's starting to physically hurt at times br br add mercilessly overplaying actors and a small budget to that and here's what you get looking at the rating and the comments i get the feeling those people have been watching an entirely different movie br br the one thing missing really is the infamous red toolbox from while she was out a movie that is about similar in unrealistic plot and stupid behavior of the characters
0	this movie is stupid made by stupid people the plot i suppose works well enough for a horror movie but the actions these characters take is insanely stupid like incredibly non sensical stupid to the nth degree basically the whole movie consists of these 4 idiots being captured repeatedly despite having many many easy ways and opportunities to overcome their captor it does not make one lick of sense and is not entertaining whatsoever stabbing yourself in the eye is more is more rational and probably more fun than watching this br br spoilers the ending is hilarious the only good part of the movie i nearly died laughing at the end that whole stupid movie and it ends with the dumb girl getting shipped off in a crate to white slavery in asia hilarious i thought it was a totally awesome ending to a really sh tty movie
0	i hate guns and have never murdered anyone but when even half of the events that take place in happen to you or close ones and you find a gun you shoot your attacker three times five times whatever makes the pulse stop on them and increase on you i think even god would say good call in a very 'hostel' type film but more realistic – as this really could happen to anyone well if you're a pretty young woman that is – was a decent film though on the long side a few good shocks always call aaa even just to change a tire basically just one surprise but for the most part you could see things coming and aside from the typical tie him up instead of the previously mentioned shooting him the most annoying part was the revelation towards the closing from one best friend to the other getting past those it's enjoyable for what it is basically we have two unsuspecting females traveling alone from mexico home wow that's original and one lost her luggage preventing them from leaving the airport until late and after an obvious foreshadowed sign language scene they enter a too good to be true half price shuttle ride clichéd jocks previously introduced con their way on the shuttle to join what appears to be alan stunt double from 'speed ' from here it's obvious what happens i did mention it was a 'hostel' knock off but still i didn't find too much horrible yet nothing spectacular though it would've served the audience better with roughly 15 20 minutes deleted i would recommend if you have almost 2 hours to kill and are into sick horror
0	the beginning was decent the ending was alright br br sadly this movie suffers from complete and utter shallowness of the characters unrealistic confrontations fight scenes lack of anyone intelligent outside of the shuttle this makes for an awful middle screenplay br br stuff to look for overly obvious foreshadowing fast healing cuts overly smoky fires fun delayed reactions br br i did give it a 4 not a 0 because the start of the movie had some nice elements of happiness and basic character development the relationship between the main dark haired girl and her fiancée is touched upon briefly and the placement of the blond friend's impact on that relationship is present though awkwardly so the business discovered at the end is becoming more mainstream and decently done though as another commenter pointed out not unexpected br br viper
0	i had a hard time sitting through this every single twist and turn is predictable you're sitting there just waiting for it waiting for it and yes there it is just as you predicted at the very beginning of the movie or 10 minutes out et cetera br br smart writing no br br torture porn no there's no nudity other reviews calling this torture porn are most likely written by people on heavy drugs unfortunately there's no torture and no nudity yes no nudity br br there's no suspense at all in this thriller the only good part about this movie is the ending but i'm not going to spoil that br br i'm giving it a 2 10 a 1 10 would be a horrible b movie this movie had better acting
0	brainless film about two girls and some guys they meet in an airport getting on the wrong late night shuttle bus and ending up in a whole world of trouble great twists and turns are totally and i do mean totally wasted in a film with a plot so incredibly stupid as to defy description what is going on in a general sense is okay i mean the idea of a guy kidnapping unattended girls for nefarious purposes is a good one the problem is that the details are so beyond belief that i would be shocked if you don't turn off the film in utter disbelief gee a guy who is suppose to be taking you home doesn't go any of the ways you know and you stay on the bus it get worse from there think of every bad choice and this film has the characters make it even to the point where they could just walk away but never do whats annoying is that some of the twists and turns might have worked if there was something intelligent before it but there is almost no intelligence anywhere in this film okay maybe there is the end the end is clever the end is the sort of thing that should freak you out it should be the oh moment and become a classic of horror cinema instead it just lies there among the stupid ruins of a stupid movie one of the most brainless films of the year
0	perhaps spoiler well i ve seen it at the film festival in cologne and i have to say it s ridiculous sorry author and writer and whatever but it is the worst try making a good movie i ve ever seen if u ve got 5000 times the possibility to get away from your enemy and u don't do it its getting boring there are in the movie witch gives u the impression that they are forgotten e g a in front of a security cam they are asking for help and a somebody sees it and the police than there is a cut and nothing the killer gets a shot in his head and 50 secs later he is behaving like nothing happened no its no zombie movie and finally the final the big end which we were promised hmmmm lets say take a little guy who always wanted to give the world one of the best endings in history so badly that everything goes wrong im not going to vote 1 because the actress is beautiful
0	shuttle is an indie thriller about four young adults who get a ride late one night on a shuttle bus from the airport to find out that the driver is a sadistic psychopath br br although some of the sequences of scares and it's unconventionally interesting plot work some aspects just don't the bad dialogue and unlikeable characters gives a good reason to not care for them but often the suspense works and asks you the question of what would you do and usually what you would do isn't what these idiots on the shuttle do br br if you're expecting a mindless bloody horror film you'll be mistaken this is a film that causes you to use your mind but unfortunately not until the end br br four out of ten
0	ok this will contain spoilers now i have never seen such a large pile of poop since the laxative feed mix up at the elephant enclosure in the zoo it has more plot holes than moth eaten lace and as for the 'realistic' plot line well sexual slavery is a dreadful and very real world wide problem and this pile of bilge utilises this plague as a plot device to titillate and tease shame on everyone involved for that piece of questionable judgement but back to the film if you were going to kidnap people from an airport some of the most secure and camera happy places in the modern world by the way then why plant a stoolie on the inside of the van who does bugger all until the plot needs a twist just wait until you are out of the airport pull the gun handcuff the passengers drive calmly to the warehouse and kill the guys job done on the passengers side on at least three occasions the good guys have the bad guys incapacitated and are armed waste them once in a movie it can just be acceptable not to put a bullet in the bad guys skull but come on three times and after he's killed most of you also the guy is willing to put down the gun to stop a scarred cheek but kills a girl for a yeast infection that could be cleared up with 20 dollars worth of drugs i could go on and on about the amount of holes in this but i won't waste any more of my time suffice to say that i have rarely been so insulted by such a dreadful piece of drivel and as for the real problem of sexual slavery girls go voluntarily to new in distant lands and are abused raped and often killed by the gang master who meets them off the boat plane and takes their passports and freedom this s t is an insult to anyone whose life has been affected by this do not waste your time
0	hi today i looked this film because of the medium 5 6 imdb rating i thought it would worth viewing also the comments here were quiet good but after start watching this movie i quick realize that this movie isn't anyway near a 5 6 its just boring you can describe the movie with some words also its just the standard horror movie story with all the standard horror movie scenes i don't know why people still like those films or why they vote such films better then a 1 3 in imdb just some examples br br bunch of people arriving from somewhere or going driving to anywhere they meet somehow on their journey strange people but hey maybe they are just nice so hang out with them then a very important scene for every horror movie oh my cell phone isn't working oh oh mine too is that strange but we don't need them so enjoy our ride our strange person is a strange psychopath better we all sit back and scream a while till he starts cutting parts from us or killing some of us after a while the bunch of victims get a weapon or chance to escape ofcorse they never think about running away or even kill the psychopath if they got the chance they just talk about what to do until the psychopath got his weapon back with any of the handful of standard tricks they got in those films and all running back as usual screaming some more to kill oh and in the end it gets really exiting sometimes the bad guy wins sometimes some of the victim can escape wow great movies ok if i never ever saw a movie of that kind i would say it is a movie which can be watched but if anyone ever saw any movie of its kind it should be just a boring waste of time because nearly everything in the movie you know before you even watched it because it every time runs like the standard horror movie mmm maybe there is a windows program out there 2 0 you can just pull some adjustment buttons and get the new shuttle jeepers creepers kind of movie
0	this is the movie that is somewhat based on the exit of rob from british metal gods and how the band replaced him with ripper owens who used to front a priest tribute band originally titled metal god this movie could have been something great instead someone in an office somewhere who knows little to nothing about metal music decided to water it down from the title change of metal god to the middle of the road 'rock star' to the lame soundtrack this movie plays out badly having spent most of my life in a professional metal band i was really looking forward to seeing this i was very let down by several points of the film the soundtrack is very not metal for one and the ending of the movie is lame as well the movie does have a few bright spots in the writing and acting but as a whole it fails in the end because 1 a movie based on a metal band should have a metal soundtrack 2 there is nothing metal about marky mark or jennifer aniston if bon jovi warrant def and poison are your idea of 'heavy go see this movie if iron maiden judas priest dio black sabbath are your idea of metal see this movie for a good laugh
0	i found an incredibly frustrating film to watch it starts quite well and moves along briskly until the first which is a doozy after that it becomes very lazy and underwritten as a story it was the case of the plot driving the characters and not the characters driving the plot if you hate film where you can't understand why characters do what they do you will loathe particularly the last act is odd and seems to occur in a world without common sense also at the end one of the characters confessed a past misdemeanor to her friend rather than generating sympathy from the audience most people started to giggle this was probably because the of the story was a complete idiots finally there is an ending which just seems tacked on to be 'shocking' and comes from the horror cop out school of 'people are bad audience so just accept it without any br br is neither good or bad but mediocre and annoying
0	don't pick this one spoiler alert the plot of this aggravatingly bad movie is four friends are talked into taking the shuttle from the airport by a very zealous driver on the shuttle with them is a rather milquetoast looking business type br br shortly into their trip the driver of the shuttle takes an off ramp and some lunatic driver tries to run them off the road the end result is they get a flat tire the driver gets one of the people on the shuttle to help change the tire and the jack slips and the guys fingers are crushed between the tire and the shuttle it's at this point that the driver reveals himself to be a kidnapper and he has taken all the people hostage br br now the movie gets extremely slow and tedious as the characters do one lame thing after another one of the men is killed trying to escape even that lacks any suspense finally it is revealed that the milquetoast business guy is in cahoots with the driver when milquetoast guy kills the other male friend by slitting his throat br br there are a couple of attempts to escape by the women milquetoast is beaten over the head with a tire iron yet he survives br br the driver is also beaten and somehow survived a head on collision with a fence at high speed while kneeling next to the steering wheel somehow he didn't go through the window or even get seriously injured with a collision with windshield yet the woman driving the shuttle is knocked unconscious yet she had a steering wheel to protect her and he had nothing between him and the windshield br br he is eventually able to subdue the women and get them to an underground garage that is a front for human trafficking one of the women is killed the other one stabs the driver in the leg with a good sized piece of broken mirror and shoots him in the head yet he is able in what should be a severely weakened state severe blood loss two head injuries and a large leg gash to drag her out of the shuttle drag her to a large crate throw her in and get it locked all the while with her fiercely fighting him br br now some people admire the message of the movie about human trafficking and how it is going on today this is a serious problem but making an extremely boring movie about the topic does not entitle it to a higher rating
0	in order for a thriller to elicit fear suspense or any emotion the story must be believable there is nothing believable or realistic about this film the protagonists have several opportunities to escape or turn the tables but manage to screw it up every time the antagonists who supposedly plan this out and customized their shuttle specifically to trap people sure left a lot of improvisational weapons laying around there is actually one scene where the smart girl has a gun to the head of the main bad guy and decides to scold him instead of pull the trigger this was a thoroughly predictably brainless thriller every character was one dimensional the victims were the usual gutless brainless sheep that deserved to be slaughtered is there anyone on this planet capable of writing an intelligent thriller
0	i'm very disappointed first of all the german synchronization is bad maybe in the original version with subtitles it would have been better but the whole movie looks like if the director saw luna papa and black cat white cat and tried to produce something in this style too but failed in every aspect it's an incongruent mixture of a weird unbelievable story and very childish gags no atmosphere no life extremely primitive sex humor i voted 2 because 1 is the worst and the other point for she's really cute sorry i like movies but this one is really superfluous
0	come on fantastic drama on screen are you joking folks i wouldn't put horrible molly gross to play even in school play where did these people learn acting borrowing some papers from their neighbors actor terrible plot awful acting heh why do you take us for an imbeciles what can i say more i understand this is an tv production and the acting is not supposed to be the one from citizen kane but nevertheless they should try it harder in order to earn their money and apart from that what can be said in 10 lines for a simple movie like this u wanna article in the morning paper to say what worse film in the decade ok you want it you got it
0	i'm watching this film as i write this it's about 45 minutes into the film and there's been so much back and forth and empty drama i don't quite see where it's going no facts just enough to leave you making assumptions the acting of main daughter is painful how did this ever get made not the best of lifetime films
0	i know this is a made for tv movie and the acting in made for tv movies is usually sub par but it's absolutely horrendous in this film sometimes acting gets so bad it's laughable but in this case it's so bad it's sickening
0	this was intolerable spoiler 1 protagonists avoid the pointless disclosure of agonizing truths to their loved ones lest they surrender said status and assume the roles of antagonists spoiler 2 the writers would have us believe that the exposure of multiple transgressions by the presents a threat to and provokes a response by the primary victim of the transgressions spoiler 3 until the final 15 minutes i was anticipating a score of 6 to 8 out of 10 instead it was kind of like discovering that lieutenant columbo's dog is the real murderer the story just wasn't credible and i don't think the world's best director could have saved it without massive editing
0	this is a terrible film angie dickenson is a class act and always does well but she does not get many roles any more and she must have needed some money to do this film by the way she is on screen less than 10 minutes oooh wait there is one redeeming feature in this film meg foster has a small part in this film now meg has been on the screen for 35 years and is not particularly great but she has the scariest eyes of any actress i have ever seen by name you probably don't know her but one look at her eyes and you will recognize her to summarize the acting is horrid the story bad and even the filmography is dreadful a screen going to black every time the director wants to change scenes is pretty moronic watch any thing else but this even mr ed reruns
0	i was just watching a forensic files marathon on court tv the episode was identical to the plot of this movie right down to the incest secret and the affair with the sister subplot i don't recall any based on a true story disclaimer but the case does have mow written all over it apparently it chronicles the real homicide of ruby morris by her husband earl sentenced to 25 years to life for her murder just goes to show you truth can be stranger than fiction because i thought the lifetime plot was contrived and a more than a stretch insofar as believability goes i'm with the other posters who said the acting was bad i didn't notice it with all of the players though it was really the lead character the daughter whose performance was bad
0	i don't know any idiotic rock'n'roll cliché not used in this movie rock enroll life is only sex drugs and parties and tons of supermodels trying to ride with you say it to stupid young boys the filmmakers seemed to have read too much or motley crue stories i have seen everyday life of usual rock band closely and there are nothing to do with reality in this movie if you are successful enough your life is touring touring touring its means that you are mostly in a bus and trying to sleep just sleep because you must be fresh sober and clean in evenings after live you have a little time to discharge your stage excitement then you have a bit time to have fun but its not any luxury or dream artistically this film was zero stupid characters and idiotic dialogs the ending of movie was funny main character left heavy metal band and formed a grunge band yeah what a moral real 90s
0	i don't know why this has gotten any decent reviews as it could be the weakest horror comedy i've ever seen englund is just in it for a cameo and his performance is as unnecessary as most of the lame attempts at jokes and scares the direction is terrible and the acting is worse it seems like every year producers are trying to make another evil dead but these weak unoriginal attempts are just stepping on the memory of a true horror classic br br whether its filmmakers saying this isn't a remake but its an 80s throwback which is just as unoriginal in my opinion hatchet or people trying to plug this with other horror classics its still misleading and wont make up for the lack of scares horror comedy or even a decent movie for that matter br br avoid at all costs
0	after viewing still life a short film directed by jon i was genuinely excited for his feature film debut jack brooks monster slayer still life had perfectly captured the essence and feel of an episode of the twilight zone and i was eager to see what could do when taking on the horror comedy genre the campy nature of the name and promotional materials suggested something along the lines of evil dead or army of darkness a fun gory 80's style horror flick with lots of monsters while that was what was going for he utterly fails at capturing any of the fun or entertainment value these movies had br br the problem with jack brooks monster slayer is that it completely lacks an understanding of what made these horror comedies that it tries to evoke so great in the first place two thirds of the running time is primarily devoted to the film's hero jack brooks a plumber and college student as he goes to class and attempts to deal with his uncontrollable bursts of anger there's nary a monster in sight for the greater part of the film barely even a drop of blood or the slightest attempt at anything horror related even if evil dead or dead alive had subsequent amounts of the gore cut out they'd still be entertaining jack brooks isn't it's plain boring which is the worst thing a film of this nature can be jack brooks himself is not all that interesting at least not enough to warrant the amount of screen time he's given all one needs to know about him is revealed in the films first ten minutes and from that point on whenever he's not beating the pulp out of a monster and he rarely does he's not worth watching the movie goes nowhere following him around on psychiatric sessions and scuffles with classmates br br eventually things do pick up jack brooks battles a few monsters some heads are crushed a few humans are slaughtered and then it's over just like that all within the span of about fifteen minutes it is a good fifteen minutes the monsters are all fairly inventive and done entirely in camera and there's some great gore gags the best being a zombies head crushed in but after sitting through seventy five minutes of pure tedium fifteen minutes just isn't going to cut it br br that's really all there is to it i could ramble on about the acting which is fairly well done especially horror icon robert englund in a non traditional role and how the creature prosthetics are a nice throwback to the days when films didn't use cgi but it really doesn't matter jack brooks monster slayer is utterly boring and while jon obviously does have the talent to create a good film once again the last fifteen minutes are killer and still life was amazing – check it out jack brooks completely misses the mark it has its successes acting make up but those don't change the fact that it's not very entertaining at all the screening i caught this at had the director and cast in attendance one piece of information i picked up was that a sequel was in development and that this time it would focus more on fighting monsters as opposed to the creation of a hero my advice skip this one and wait for the sequel
0	i fail to understand why you would give this film anything over 4 fair enough it does take me back to the 80s and to the 'good old days of horror comedy' but that genre has not got any better since then it is still so low budget low tech bad acting bad story line not at all scary and not funny enough in fact there is not much good i could say about it the so called monsters are just hideously bad i mean we have gone back in time to when they used to make the monsters out of plasticine and shoot the scenes fame by frame i really fail to understand why someone would invest any money in order to make this script to a film but i guess it might have been almost ok if it had been a bigger budget film br br recommendation would be please do not make the mistake of wasting your time on this unless if you wish to get tips for a bad halloween make up personally i enjoy independent films and anything outside the box but this just did not do it for me in the least
0	jack brooks' quirks are at first somewhat charming and lend to the deliberately campy feel of the beginning of this movie br br i found myself getting angrier and angrier as i was duped into seeing this one through to the end in hopes that the payoff would be worth the super tedious wait br br the climax can't begin to make up for all the setup time br br normally one might expect shallow characters from this genre but the fact that the wait time before action index is so high should mean that the meantime would be devoted to some interesting character development br br not so br br while not without its initial charms this movie ultimately infuriates and disappoints br br wish i could get all that setup time back to it into something that pays off
0	though a fan of shock and gore i found this movie disappointing to say the very least the effects and puppet work were impressive yes and the humor was well timed but something was missing see the first act of the film is spent establishing nuances of jack brooks' character despite the fact that everything we need to know about his aggression is delivered within minutes of the first title cards as for the narration and many of the flashbacks needless br br the pacing during the second act was tedious most of it is focused on freddy krueger eating then vomiting then eating some more then flailing his arms and saying something snappy or rude all the while the schlock is punctuated with brief scenes of jack discussing his rage problems with a therapist definitely the entertaining scenes in the film excellent dialog worth plenty of laughs then without warning jack decides to kill a few monsters and then it's over br br all in all as a throwback to 1980s horror movies jack brooks monster slayer has loads of potential but is purposeless and plods on without conflict or adequate resolution br br hopefully these issues will be addressed before jack brooks vii jack goes to hell or jack vs ash go into production
0	if there's one thing i've learnt from watching george romero's creepshow it's that if you stumble upon an mysterious old crate that someone has obviously gone to a lot of effort to hide just leave well alone there's probably something nasty inside br br obviously professor gordon crowley robert englund's character in brooks monster isn't a romero fan 'cos he busts open the old wooden box he finds buried in his yard only to ancient demon that possesses his body initially causing him to eat and vomit rather a lot br br when the demon eventually erupts from body during chemistry class and begins to transform the students into hellish flesh tearing beasts it's up to plumber jack brooks trevor matthews to try and stop the foul creatures armed only with a length of pipe and fuelled by a lifelong hatred of all things monstrous br br the dvd packaging for jon low budget monster flick promises one hell of a fun ride offering cheesy thrills and spills of the kind one might expect from your average 80s creature feature toothy critters rubber monster suits gruesome gore and absolutely no cgi —and for the last 15 minutes that's exactly what viewers get non stop splattery effects a silly tentacled jabba style demon thingy and mucho macho monster mashing br br it's a shame then that the rest of the film's running massive 70 minutes or mostly spent following jack as he goes about his boring everyday business plumbing visiting his shrink going to chemistry class and upsetting his girlfriend if you think you might enjoy a film that focuses primarily on coping with childhood trauma and anger management buying spare boiler from a hardware shop and the chemical properties of sodium then this is the film for you but if it's a massive dose of monster mayhem you're after then i'd advise looking elsewhere
0	it's embarrassing i had like 3 minutes on my way to a job to stop at the video store and it was 2 for 1 night and i was really intrigued by the half nekkid pic of the 'star' br br i guess this film shows what the new york film school and sir daddy's fortune judging by the bio of this clown in the lead can do for you and you and you cause that's about what we have here and in addition a photoshopped pic of the lead actor with someone else's body in a still image that doesn't happen anywhere in the movie it's weird cause in so many ways it had money thrown at it obviously low budget money buckets but from the outset when all the extras are laughing in their scene of terror it doesn't bode well would have maybe had some charm if it had been done for 2 cents in short order i skipped scenes and fast forwarded to see the image on the box that was all i really cared about strange why don't i just rent a porno or something but wow there is bad acting that's funny i guess and bad acting that's just bad robert englund is pretty pathetic in this along with everyone else it does make you appreciate the more not so straight to video horror that's out there blah most of which i wouldn't bother with shoulda watched uh hellraiser 3 if i wanted to see an 8 pack i would imagine horny old gay guys with 2 minutes in the video store are going to be the principle renters of this and they ought to start a class action suit
0	jack brooks trevor matthews is a college student with some severe anger issues his family was brutally murdered when he was a child by a monster and now he takes out his anger on everything and everyone br br so when his professor robert englund begins to show signs of he learns he has to control his rage and use it for good instead of evil and fight the creatures that have been haunting his nightmares ever since that fateful night br br truly earns its b rated rating but what was cool about it was that it didn't focus on crappy b rated cgi graphics in fact 0 of the film was cgi the monsters were actually decently put together and although the storyline was lacking it was somewhat watchable if for only one time
0	i've seen many horror splatter monster movies in my life and of course also a lot of monster movies from the 50's and 60's when i first stumbled over this one i thought this is from the 60's until i recognized it's from 2007 br br in fact the character of jack brook is interesting and the acting all in all is for a splatter movie quite good but i expected a splatter movie and not a drama story about a aggressive plummer the movie runs 80 and i think the first kill is after 65 minutes although it takes hours to explain the story the reason where are the monsters come from takes at least 3 minutes the we have another 20 minutes boring dialogue and finally a in my opinion not that well managed splatter sequence although we have robert englund starring here i only recommend this one to real hardcore horror fans
0	from the point of budget 2 cad isn't very much when you look at the animatronics puppetry in this film that alone being the reason for the 9 week shoot i was really keen to see this film and had hoped to catch it when it came out instead got it on dvd recently my main problem is it's just not funny at all it's better than tenacious d which hasn't got a funny bone in it's body but this was a truly disappointing film br br trevor matthews is a very strong physically performer but his acting sucks rachel gives what is possibly one of the most irritating and none funny performances i have ever seen the only really big star in this is david scott who's artwork for the monsters is fab his special effects work is the main reason this film is worth watching loved the cyclops and troll and and the prof monster was straight out of the henson library br br if you watch this it won't be the biggest waste of time but if you are looking to see this for a great horror comedy romp don't bother
0	no emotion bad music and i am a reformed eighties metal guy so i would be vulnerable to some good stuff everything is half done the brother is a parody there is nothing to hold us in except to see what horror from the eighties they'll pull up next the tour manager tries to bring a humanity to the thing but isn't given enough time wahlberg is okay and aniston is slumming we know she didn't need the money is this the only role she could fit into her summer break surely she must slap her forehead every time it pops up on vh1 which is only slightly less often than ozzy does it barely qualifies as a tv movie it's just hard to believe that it was actually released theatrically
0	it's dreadful rubbish i liked 'how do you want me' 'father ted' 'green wing' and bill bailey's standup act but i file this with 'hippies' and of the apes' the re imagining under 'great pedigree went badly wrong' my guess is that it appeals to the same people who like and i' it's overwritten but to little end a ish air pervades it and bernard black is simply a less camp withnail and i thought it was self indulgent even before dylan moran became the writer but the set up such comic potential that for the first 2 i didn't even notice that it wasn't in the slightest bit chortle worthy br br the things they are saying doing should be funny but somehow they don't manage to register as more than mildly amusing or i can see how someone writing this down might have thought that this would be funny what i am trying to say is that the situations remarks are mildly humorous and yet too mundane gentle self consciously surreal to be worth creating for and depicting in a sitcom br br life is too short avoid
0	with my two stars i will probably make it to the head of the imdb it list for this apparently tremendously popular tv series br br not least because of the enthusiastic comments on this website i decided to purchase a dvd edition of the series because i usually find british humour suits me just fine i gave up in the middle of the second instalment – and according to other comments the bits were already through br br so now i know according to another comment that i definitely lack a sense of humour but then i had to laugh like crazy while watching and re watching fawlty towers to which black books is – albeit faintly – thematically related why the different reactions it might be a mere generation thing and yet the differences can be pointed out br br both fawlty towers and black books are set in businesses which are meant to sustain their owners financially both businesses are not successful but seem – by a miracle – to survive fawlty towers is funny because the protagonists have to deal with situations they cannot cope with the lies in the fact that they make a serious effort to succeed and while laughing one also feels sorry for them black books has no situations it's just there and the owner passes his time feeling sorry for himself if a situation threatens to arise it is quickly away it is remarkable how fast and how often a subject is dropped and the protagonists turn to something entirely different to produce an additional joke telling jokes – and not very good ones seems to be all black books is about why a bookstore a hardware store would have done the job just as well br br no stop wait it's a bookshop because below the veneer of rudeness vulgarity and arrogance the protagonists are supposed to be delicate and cultured they are not some lowbrow gorillas but bumbling semi intellectual losers hey they are like you and me the manner in which the series makes that claim is the only way i can explain its success there is nothing remarkable in the protagonist's actions what's special about them is their economically unrealistic living conditions many viewers maybe envy them for that protagonists that narcissistic and vapid convey a sense of belonging and companionship seems to be a trademark of the time the first world is presently living in br br recently i watched also a fairly new british tv comedy show i found it uproariously funny it is often quite tasteless or xenophobic – but always with a purpose and hitting the bull's eye in its social criticism the humour is mainly created by situations or by characters with a purpose the low ratings in imdb might indicate that this brand of humour is not in keeping with the times but i am glad it's still alive and kicking and hope it will continue to do so
0	i am a german student so sorry for eventually mistakes i'm working on it br br the stylistic very interesting converted and with effective sound effects accentuated platitudinous action of the drama deflect in no way from the horrible bad actors insincere and unnatural moves and expressions of feelings and makes so the relatively weird and senseless story less better just the typical slasher genre with in this case very odd action many by plays destroy partly the main story and let the viewers up to the end into the dark create weirdness and let surmise the senses of actions and the point mere for sure its an hit for slasher fans but not for me but although the interesting style of cinematography and adeptly use of light is turned out well br br so not the best one
0	think of this film as fan service a wet dream for the slasher genre admirer we start off with a gory prologue which is pretty much unrelated to the rest of the film flash forward nine months and the real meat of the plot begins the virginal mandy lane is coveted by every jock and nerd in her school and gets invited to spend a weekend at a ranch by three guys who think they can get lucky and two bimbos obsessed with their weight and boob size so you have a bunch of young students in a house in the middle of nowhere on a dark night who want to do nothing but have sex do drugs and drink booze the only other company is a hunky ranch hand who may or may not be suffering from gulf war syndrome hmm potential future suspect maybe br br so as you're probably by now all the house guests end up being slaughtered in a variety of bloody ways and for a change the black man isn't the first to die there are some conventions that still hold up though like the scantily clad babe being chased by a car in a field or the lights going out mysteriously in the evening as our 'heroes' unwisely separate to tackle the problem even down to the so called shocking twist at the end the movie is like an old 80's horror updated for the noughties and on this score it succeeds br br unfortunately it also inherits a lot of the problems of the films of that era too namely the paper thin characters and the predictability of the whole enterprise people get cut up shot bludgeoned etc but because of their innate hatefulness to the audience and stupidity in getting themselves in these situations it's hard to care as the bodies stack up someone gets murdered one of their friends goes out to look for them alone bang they're brown bread rinse then repeat maybe one day we'll get a screenplay with plausible intelligent likable characters who make rational decisions but still end up being outwitted by a genius killer until then we have to tolerate teenagers with the i q of pond life being picked off by a deranged hoodie oh well 4 10
0	looking at these reviews and seeing all these high ratings leave me to believe that large amounts of red corn syrup will please just about any brain dead idiot this movie is beyond useless all the cliché's of a slasher film without any substance i am sure i could go in to details about the movie but why bother when you can sum it up obviously everyone wants mandy lane and she apparently wants none of the guys throughout the movie you will see this br br when she stops being friends to the typical boy trapped in friend zone loser he goes ballistic and when she goes on a road trip to the middle of no where of course he begins to hunt them one by one sounds decent so far right but what made this movie suck beyond belief is when you find out that not only is her loser friend the killer but she is as well the plan was beyond ridiculous lets together kill all our friends and then kill each other they give no reason why they wanted to do this and given mandy lane's goody too shoes demeanor it makes you scratch your head even more as to what is actually motivating these characters to do anything they are doing it's sad this movie had lots of potential but the director or writer apparently can't relate to the audience in anyway
0	i read about this film on line and after seeing the generally positive reviews it has received and viewing the trailer i decided to check it out for myself what a disappointment it starts out well enough the opening scene was actually pretty tense but from there it's all downhill i can see that the filmmakers were trying to do something different with this movie but by doing so they took all the enjoyment out of watching it those choices combined with the c s i editing use of music and montage lack of suspense scares or humor really drag this film down there's too much foreshadowing and to many subtle clues so when the first twist arrives early on you already know how the movie is going to end i gave the movie three stars because i think the cast did a good job other than that i can't recommend this movie
0	i was only cautiously enthusiast when renting all the boys love mandy lane as i instantly remembered hearing reading a wide variety of opinions – both positive and negative – in the short period of time between its brief cinematic release and the distribution towards videostore shelves supposedly this was the most ingenious and refreshing new horror film in years with non stereotypical teen characters and unpredictable plot twists for a change okay the basic concept may perhaps sound reasonably innovative but inevitably the screenplay quickly reverts to the same old and irritating slasher clichés and once passed that point even the nifty stylistic trademarks can't save the film from dreadful mediocrity the opening sequences are indeed terrific and literally bath in a moodily melancholic ambiance which actually makes it all the more painful to witness the film sink towards the ordinary level of rudimentary slasher flick after the sublime intro showcasing a drunk macho kid miscalculate his jump off a rooftop in order to impress the titular beauty all the boys love mandy lane turns out to be just another textbook and uninspired horror movie about a bunch of idiotic kids getting stoned and horny on a secluded ranch before getting killed off by a not so unidentified maniac the film's entire pretentious set up collapses faster than a ramshackle house of cards we never get a proper explanation why mandy herself behaves so frigid and haughty towards all her admirers because she grew up an orphan perhaps oh boo hoo the boys soon enough illustrate they'd settle for sex with any random bimbo and not exclusively with the divine mandy and the final twist – albeit undeniably offbeat – is just plain senseless the middle section of is rather boring and doesn't even offer any genuinely horrific excitement shotgun killings please or authentic rancid sleaze my generous rating 4 out of 10 entirely goes to the grainy and unsettling 70's filming style with faded colors bizarre but beautiful photographic and the surprisingly marvelous soundtrack director jonathan levine opted for the classic bobby song sealed with a kiss to play during the trailer and end credits whereas i initially was convinced the film would inevitably feature barry cheesy love song mandy
0	all the boys seem to be sexually aroused by mandy lane all the girls seem to be jealous of mandy lane but nothing seems to become of it and this viewer wonders why mandy is beautiful and a magnet to every boy she meets but we never get to know mandy or any of the characters in the film mandy accepts an invitation from her student friends to go to a secluded ranch three boys and three girls drink and drug in the film the teenagers drink booze like its water and take drugs to experience a psychedelic trip and there is absolutely no sex in the meantime the teenagers disappear one by one but the others are all drunk and high nobody including those watching the film cares or is at all concerned nobody including the audience seems to give a damn a fellow student is the instigator of the entire event there is a security guard garth dashingly and handsomely played by mount who guards and protects the ranch midway through the film the killer is revealed the tension is suddenly released like air let out of a balloon the events are completely predictable and the film just completely fizzles out mandy meets her match but we don't ever know why and at the end of the film there is still no sex does mandy hypnotize the boys or does she simply bore all of the boys and girls to their deaths this absolutely confused viewer can only conclude that mandy wishes to get rid of the female and male competition by killing off the manipulative girls and the nasty boys br br is mandy worth all of the attention the director jonathan levine seems to think so but this viewer does not the able cinematographer darren provides some stunning images but in fact his focus seems to be on garth who is quite the stud not all of the boys love mandy or do they if you want to be bored enough to find out how this film winds up my advice is to sleep midway through film until you see the temptress mandy and bulging crotch but don't wait for anything to happen yep you guessed it mandy remains a virgin and there's still no sex i rank this film a 3 out of 10 but not because of mandy why because all of the girls love garth and all voyeuristic eyes seem to be on garth in a compromising position but unfortunately girls and boys this film never seems to get beyond a disappointing and incomplete sexual fantasy mandy goes to a secluded ranch and nothing sexual ever happens the audience is led to horror on a ranch and cannot help but wonder why
0	how could this get a 6 0 rating are we as horror fans so used to horror films being so utterly bad these days that when one comes along that has some and i repeat 'only redeeming quality's we get much too excited and give a rating that is just a wee bit too high the director has a certain visual flair no doubt about that but in between some decent shots he forgot a good story mood or scares it had a very slow first act lazy killing scene's annoying and flat characters and a very stupid and very unbelievable twist and what's with the portrayal of american teenagers in so many of these kinds of films do they always have to be this stupid irritating and so mn superficial i don't remember teens being like this when i grew up here in holland all things considered in can't give this film anything more that a 4 out of 10 rating
0	i finished watching mandy lane about an hour ago and felt the urge to come straight home and get up here to warn anyone that's about to spend money on the dvd don't br br the supporting characters are shallow the failure of acting is higher than that of matthew mcconaughey movies and up until the end twist the plot is everything but obvious in nine out of ten you can see the next scene coming 5 minutes before it starts the whole movie is more or less without motive or message and the half way revealing of the murderer just plain out kills what little interest you might have left at that point what could have saved this shallow tedious movie is some decent splatter or at least gore worthy of the genre slasher it fails there as well br br if you need a background movie to a party that you can jump in and out of without missing anything i recommend buying all the boys love mandy lane br br if you're looking to sit down and actually concentrate your eyes on the screen for more than 15 seconds i don't
0	here is another great film critics will love the problem is that it is not a very good movie br br the films premise is simple nine convicts escape a prison after the tenth one goes crazy and tells them where the treasure is br br the first half has a lot of slapstick some of it very broad while the second half is a character driven descent into fantasy and melancholy br br the two halves simply don't mix individual scenes do work very well the guys crashing a friends house who has a new filipino bride is hilarious while a later scene with the big guy working in the restaurant tugs at the heartstrings they simply don't mesh with each other br br the movie as well is missing entire set ups one scene shows the guys desperately looking for change under a deserted vending machine to buy a snack the very next scene has the whole crew in drag sitting down in a restaurant where did they get the dresses and wigs the crew includes both the big guy and a midget how did they get all the clothes and money to buy the meal and most puzzling is why are they in drag they are clearly guys in drag and lets face it is there anything more memorable to witnesses than a big guy and a dwarf eating a meal dressed as women i mention the big guy and the dwarf because besides the old guy everyone else seems to blend into each other in fact they wear matching white throughout most of the movie the movie has very little character development in the first half and as a result the second half really lacks an emotional punch as we are often trying to figure out who is who in their individual payoff scenes br br speaking of a drag the second half has all those wonderful sweeping camera shots and big emotional moments and great symbolism that makes a great film it is also excruciatingly slow which makes for a boring movie br br 9 souls is a big disappointment the reviews gush about a great film and it's in there somewhere good luck finding it yourself
0	i saw the trailers of this movie and found the cinematography and what was presented interesting i saw the imdb rating and 6 8 confirmed it to be an above average movie thus went to see it br br the story is about mandy lane amber heard – a beautiful girl in high school who is a subject of male sexual desire mandy's friend michael welch provocation to another fellow student to show his love for mandy leaves the fellow student drunk and jump down to death nine months pass and mandy is invited for a summer weekend to a secluded ranch by her teenager friends – three girls and three boys go there there is a security guard garth mount who works at the ranch during the first night itself the killings take place – one by one the members of the group are killed who is behind the killings i wont tell here to spoil did i like the movie no after usual interesting opening – the movie takes a downward turn with every unfolding of event by half time when the killer is revealed one looses all interest in the remaining proceedings there is a last twist in the tale to shock viewers but rather it made me shake the head in dis belief and laugh all this for suspense amber heard acts and plays her role well as a shy and conscious girl – who is aware of her beauty and men's desire for her the remaining cast are usual – nothing to say about there are so many movies made of teenager boys and girls going to a secluded place and slowly someone killing them one by one – that it does not interest me anymore br br director jonathan levine tries hard to make the movie interesting by using contemporary chat talks of teenagers loaded with sexual overtones but does not allow the movie to rise above the mundane br br the only and the most appealing saving grace of the movie is its cinematography by darren – who captures beautiful picture perfect images stars 3 out of 10
0	back in 1993 sega released a dull lackluster video game of one of the biggest films of all time quickly realizing their mistake they hashed out a different version of the game claiming it would be bigger tougher and better br br neither were both were slow boring games br br you can choose to be either dr alan grant or a raptor both have their problems why would dr grant go around killing all those army guys just what are they doing in the game and why a raptor be killing other raptors weird br br obviously not learning from their first mistake sega really dropped the ball on the original release and the so called rampage edition one of the slowest sluggish and dullest i have ever played
0	i love the jurassic park movies they are three of my all time favorite movies br br and i hate this game if there was one game i wish i never own for the super nintendo was this one br br how can a game based on a classic movie be just too awful and to make it worst i was scare of this game when i was a kid br br how dumb was that but then again i was a kid when this game was first out br br the game play in this game is just odd one minute it's a action game and then it's a shooter what in the world is wrong with making up your mind when making a video game br br the sound in the game is just terrible to listen br br the music is just too sick to listen to br br the in the game don't work most of the time br br jurassic park the game is just a waste of time and money and won't be a classic br br avoid at all cost
0	now that's it's 2008 who really has a care in the world about a guy like db sweeney even back then he wasn't a big deal br br two tickets to paradise is an outlined story that's well and true where three friends hit the road under each of their personal circumstances again a proved plot the problem with this film other than it's 'so bad it's title is the script br br cliché after cliché three guys do the same things you've seen in every other road movie and blow up white's house br br john c acting job is superb especially compared to that of the late db sweeney's his career is dead hence the late though i hear he's moving to tv good for him also john c likely has the least awful character in the film br br the score is so generic it actually feels like you're watching a third rate film from 1993 or jeff anderson's movie now you know also set me back a few years but at least that was more entertaining i mean yah i guess i enjoyed parts of it but the nerdy guy is annoying db tries to be this cool failed guitar player with some rough influences like some of the worst of classic rock who has some strange relationship with a stripper and john c is a gambler who's wife and kid leave him after the death of his father as well as a visit from one of his henchmen br br i keep thinking up ways to make this movie better but i think burning the script would have been a healthy start br br but as i've hinted this whole time it's not the worst movie ever and any chance i have to see mcginley in a starring role i'll take it hopefully he starts getting some better projects
0	i started watching this because i was looking for a nice comedy for my sunday morning then i noticed that this was going to be a road movie and i decided to actually watch this br br first 15 minutes were awful but i wanted to give this a chance because i never judge a movie without watching it throughly then things started to get little better this seemed like a nice road movie about friendship but then the movie started to get horrible predictable cliché twists and when the movie was over it left you feeling like you had wasted your time did this have anything to say why did they even make a movie like this and i wasn't expecting a modern citizen kane but still i have several ideas how this movie could have been improved br br so take my piece of advice leave this alone and go watch a real road movie there are many of those i won't make the directors of those movies seem bad by putting their names on this review br br 1 10
0	this movie was an all around uninspiring film it was a non moving story that definitely does not get you thinking anything other then where is all the strong moving material the other critics say about the film the 3 main actors are good and there is a few laughs but once again it becomes another movie that you keep watching in hopes of it getting better and it just doesn't i watched this movie last night and wished that we hadn't wasted our precious time while baby is sleeping watching this film br br i plan not to recommend this to my family and friends as well as obviously anyone looking to rent it i was pretty much non impressed with everything about this film
0	unforgiven is clint eastwoods last tribute to the once great west but whilst i thought this was going to be good and raise the bar for future westerns to come i was sadly mistaken unforgiven though simple in plot it falls flat on characters and emotions and i would certainly say that unforgiven is eastwoods worst film to date eastwoods himself seems too old to play the part of acting and directing which also adds a downfall to the overall look of the film br br all the characters seem rushed and ragged around the edges especially eastwoods character the acting doesn't seem to flow and contribute to what the characters are feeling the direction is poorly misled by quirky shots so overall unforgiven is not eastwoods best and by far one of the worst westerns around
0	and now for another point of view i didn't like it i didn't finish it in fact i know that unforgiven is ranked by some as one of the greatest westerns ever made i know that it stars and was directed by clint eastwood one of the icons of american cinema i know that it won a bunch of oscars still i didn't like it i don't like westerns and that's clearly a matter of taste but i also don't admire eastwood's acting he is not and never has been a leading man he is no burt lancaster no paul newman no john wayne in this film alone he is dwarfed by richard harris and gene hackman they are both actors no eastwood is a tall guy with a reedy voice who usually plays tough guys here he plays a retired tough guy when i see him on screen i see a man at his acting then there's the anti western western plot it is too obviously intended to inject contemporary values a respect for the role of women blacks native americans and single parents a disrespect for violence and drinking the wholesomeness that comes with marriage including interracial marriage and small adorable children into a century in which those values weren't necessarily accepted at least in these ways by promoting those values the movie comes across as mannered if not preachy then there are the hoary movie stereotypes prostitutes with hearts of gold the kid who can't shoot straight the city slicker new to the wild west the sage brush shimmering on a summer afternoon with a musical accompaniment in major chords finally there is the pacing of eastwood's direction i gave up after an hour eastwood was still riding north chatting with morgan freeman and the kid who couldn't shoot straight sixty minutes after the plot driven by the slashing of a prostitute was set in motion it was way too slow somebody had to find these elements uncompelling i am afraid it was me
0	when i heard disney had the rights to underdog i figured at the very least it would be a cool pixar partnership affair and we'd get a great adults kids film like the incredibles alas i forgot how disney must dumb down classic material for today's dumbed down youth what were they thinking underdog was a product of the 60's your prime fanbase is in their 40's and 50's why would you it to 5 year olds it should have been done ala roger rabbit half animated half real instead we get characters like riff raff a wolf dumbed into another dog underdog can't have an energy pill as we're now so enlightened it would obviously be a steroid or drugs reference the only good casting was patrick warburton as cad because he actually sorta resembles the cartoon version otherwise old school underdog fans should avoid this like the plague it is what next a live action version of the go go disguised as a re history lesson my advanced apologies if disney jumps on this
0	only three words are really required for this review piece of crap br br if you enjoyed watching the cartoon as a child you will find this movie to be a complete waste of your time and money the best thing about your two hours in the auditorium will be your feet sticking to the floor br br yes they do use all of the names and catch phrases the even name the dog in reference to the dog being boy in the cartoon they name the love interest polly but she isn't miss sweet polly br br my wife and son drug me to see this they should have drugged me to see it br br the original underdog was voiced by wally cox the ultimate nerd this one is voiced by someone with a smart teenager that knows more than all the adults attitude br br as a stand alone movie it is awful as an homage to underdog it is even worse it is not an homage it is not a retelling of the story it is not an updating of the story it is purely an attempt to cash in on a known title and create merchandising the next time i go to the store i fear that i will see underdog toys pajamas towels sheets clothing etc mcdonalds and burger king probably fought over the kid's meal rights for this br br the worst part of this movie however is the soundtrack they do the underdog theme song to rap read that with a silent c at the beginning great now that we are going to destroy something let's go all the way br br i knew that it would probably be bad before i went my fears were confirmed when i arrived at my local 12 plex and found that they opened it for the first day and first showing in their smallest auditorium and one of only four without stadium seating even the theatre people knew it was going to be garbage save your money on the tickets and invest it better by going out and buying the original series on dvd it will be more entertaining and have better production values
0	the idea of nine stupid prisoners escaping and going on a road trip sounds pretty good for a movie especially because it's meant to be funny and i guess heart warming in some weird way the problem is the movie was very rarely funny and often just seemed pointless and needlessly gross it was as if jokes or interesting scenes were being set up again and again but no one bothered finishing any of them there was just no payoff also the movie was just brainless and had the crooks meandering across japan even though they left so many crime victims alive that it's impossible to believe they wouldn't have been caught almost immediately especially since they continued to keep using the same stolen camper for days on end and as far as being gross goes i just didn't need to see scene after scene after scene of guys peeing along the side of the road plus believe it or not there is a scene where four of the guys are out raping sheep br br all in all i really hated this movie and it's a shame as i almost always love japanese films just not poorly made and uninteresting ones like this one
0	i was browsing through the movies on demand and saw underdog for free and it was only 82 minutes long so i decided to watch it i wasn't expecting much but it exceeded my expectations of being awful everything about the movie was cringe worthy the dialogue was atrocious including many terrible puns the jokes were also terrible i found myself yelling and flipping off my television screen while i was suffering through this trash it hit its target audience very well but i don't see how anyone else could enjoy this film it made me very angry and nearly cry because of everything terrible this film had going for it br br the only enjoyable thing about this movie was being able to give it a 1 10 after viewing it i beg you to avoid it at all costs i understand the fact that its made for kids but there is nothing likable about it at all
0	i remember seeing the very first trailer for underdog back last march i also remember at the time smiling to myself ever so slightly sure it was a cheesy idea but i genuinely thought at the time the concept might work hell it couldn't be any worse than the disappointing cats and dogs could it then by december and i suddenly remembered the film i realised how likely the film was to suck the fact it had been delayed in the uk made it seem inevitable it would be terrible but the horrendous reviews just made me realise it was nigh on impossible for the movie to be any good still i swallowed my feelings and went to see the film with a friend today as i entered my screen i was mortified it was the very first time i'd be seeing a movie with a friend and being the only two in the screen little did i know for what i was about to endure underdog to put it blunt is horrendous it really is imagine how bad you could think this movie is and then prepare yourself for a movie even worse that is just how pathetic the movie is while it aims to entertain kids it just seems an embarrassing mess that seems to insult kids rather than allow them to enjoy the movie matters cannot be helped by the fact that the story is beyond lacklustre the acting is generally poor and the movie just feels like an over long tired and downright boring saturday cartoon after a brief five minutes where i thought the movie might be passable the movie just suddenly seems to die and then limp on towards the already sign posted finale i'm just amazed the movie was actually ever released it's an embarrassment to disney hell half their straight to video sequels are better than this what's even more terrifying is the fact the ending leaves room for a sequel br br so lets get onto the acting cracks knuckles okay let me be honest jason lee is decent his voice suits the canine and had he have been given a decent script he might have made the performance work however with such a dodgy script he just seems to flounder in many ways it reminded me of bill murray in garfield murray did what he could with what he had but what he had wasn't enough to make it passable then we get onto the human actors and well the majority of atrocious alex plays the friend of underdog jack my biggest concern is that anybody would even take him seriously in an audition the scene where he gets to fly with underdog is perhaps the most cringe worthy scene in the past few years just because his acting is so poor not once did i believe he was a real person in fact part of me is still convinced he was a robot made specially for the movie james belushi seems half dead in the film he has nothing to work with no decent lines he just seems to wander around the set waiting to become relevant to the plot which the writers try to do towards the end but do it in such a poor way its laughable thankfully peter is the one redeeming factor of the movie he is great as dr and seems to be having a laugh in the role he steals every scene he is in although that's hardly difficult when he shares screen time with the extremely annoying patrick warburton the rest of the cast are even worse especially taylor momsen she just needs to end her acting career right now br br underdog also fails dramatically in terms of delivering anything like a funny scene when the funniest scene involves underdog biting a can and causing dog food to explode everywhere you know there is something drastically wrong this could be easily ignored if the movie had decent action or a good story alas the movie is even worse in both of these terms the effects are so ropey that any scene where underdog flies just seems absurd and the dog uses his powers to such little effect that you frequently forget he has superpowers what's the point in making a film about a super dog if the damned dog never appears super the final fight also verges on embarrassing purely because its ten minutes of nothingness the dog flies other stuff happens some stuff gets chucked about all of this is irrelevant as this stuff is happening for the sake of stuff happening the script as well is dodgy at best and downright pain awful at worst when someone says look its a plane no its a bird no its a frog yes you read that right i just wanted to burst into tears there and then actually i wanted to walk out by remained compelled to see whether it could get any lower than that point this happens near the end so it doesn't thankfully br br overall underdog becomes the worst movie of 2008 at this early period and is actually just as bad as last years epic movie luckily for underdog meet the spartans arrives over here soon and i expect that to be even worse so in case you didn't get the point of my review avoid the film at all costs if you want to see a movie with a dog then watch cats and dogs buy a real dog if necessary just do not see this
0	good things out of the way first br br voice acting was fine but jason lee being awesome himself that really is no surprise br br peter also did fine for what trash was given to him he acted the part shockingly well and so did patrick warburton the moronic assistant now it was idiotic character but he acted so extremely well i actually liked the character better than the protagonists the lines given to him were childish but witty br br however alex did awful and hope he never acts again his scream was so disgustingly fake silence silence in the scene where he hears the dog talk an oh no impossible would have sufficed in place of the pathetic fake scream br br and then there was the girl and her female dog that chased patrick's character cad on the roof at first this makes sense she's a reporter a school reporter but still an inquiring mind regardless but why why the hell did she carry her dog around that was worthless and the damn dog didn't even say anything other than a heartless oh underdog her presence was extremely unnecessary br br overall the script was pathetic the only reason i give this movie a 3 is his assistance and voice
0	god i never felt so insulted in my whole life than with this crap there are so many ways to describe this piece of crap that i think that if i said everything that came to mind i would get banned by this site br br how do i begin well for one it doesn't take knowledge of the original series to know that this movie is a slap to the face of people who've seen it the biggest butchering of a theme song ever made is here from a metal version to a freaking rap version what were they thinking how does underdog and a electronic heavy musical style match the story is so basic that i will do something i don't usually do and not even give a summary just think this a dog gets superpowers fill in the rest that's how predictable this movie is and then comes the jokes please kill me now this style of humor that might not even get the kids laughing it's that bad well expect that punch line after the sneezing that was slightly funny br br but what surprises me the most is why jason lee ny name is earl patrick warburton emperor's new groove and jim belushi according to jim are all here in the shows movies i mentioned the actors in my opinion do a good job and excluding lee are the best actors in this movie but that says very little the rest deserve golden nominations for this crap i am very sad to see such good actors buried by this disaster br br all in all this is just as bad as which i reviewed as well and again my head would explode if i saw anything worse than this
0	starring james belushi peter alex and jason lee underdog is a true hero's tale here is the story of a regular playful little when he is dog by a megalomaniac midget hell bent on destruction something freaky happens br br our quirky little neighborhood pooch gains extraordinary powers he can run as fast a cheetah fly as fast a superhero and has the power of thunder he is no longer he is underdog – the best crime fighter in the animal kingdom the city cannot sleep until underdog it of the evil midget dr simon and his cronies br br if you fancy some really light hearted entertainment with all the clichés of superhero action flicks then this one is for you as for quality entertainment this one is strictly for the juniors those of you hoping to enjoy the comedy of the fast fading star james belushi a word of caution this is not one of his finer works
0	jason lee does well to give this doggy movie fleeting promise but it's not enough to distinguish it from any other bland family comedy br br this live action cg enhanced adventure sees a shamed police dog jason lee transformed into a super dog via an accident in the lab of scheming scientist dr simon peter underdog sets about saving the city while attempting to keep his identity secret a challenge given that he can both talk and fly br br the odd gag raises a smile but human sidekicks james belushi and alex as father and son are as dull as the predictable storyline one for kids too young to have seen superman or spider man or even shaggy
0	i didn't like underdog i mean it was really unnecessary and needed a big face lift and then it would have been maybe passable but for the main part i didn't like it this wasn't like any other kid movie its one of those movies that wanted parents who grew up watching the cartoon to come with there kids to come see this i am neither of them so the film didn't appeal to me in the slightest i had some problems with it like i don't think jason lee was the right voice for underdog it made it him sound sloppy and really unintelligent then it was really predictable which makes you feel tired and mad the humor was really what made me mad it was just to unfunny and somewhat pathetic the one thing that bothered me the most thought was how almost everything out of mouth was sarcastic or rude the acting was passable but needed a little improvement if you have kids they might enjoy it but if your not a kid by all means see it you might like it unlike me 3 4 stars out of 10
0	story of the creation of underdog and adventures battling simon bar sinister in a live action format first we have picked up off the street and brought to a science experiment lab where simon bar sinister works he fights back when sinister tries to inject him with a chemical and accident occurs he gets superpowers and the lab blows up wounding sinister on the street runs afoul of riff raff another dog and gets picked up by jim belushi who was a guard at the lab belushi's son discovers that has all these powers and eventually becomes underdog who will once again battle sinister br br once you decided that under dog was going to be a real dog you've sort of limited yourself as to whether the film was going to work or not for me the film half works and half doesn't the part that doesn't is all of the stuff where you see the dog as a dog with his master some of the repartee is funny but it just drags on and on as we get introduced to sweet polly and her mistress and we go through all the typical lets see what you can do stuff its a deadly 20 or 25 minutes and effectively kills the film its painfully dull and feels like it takes forever to get through it which considering the film is say 75 minutes sans credits is something you don't want to do br br the parts that are good are anything with simon bar sinister peter is a blast and anything where underdog goes into action some how somewhere they managed to find a way to be both true to the spirit of the cartoon and to update it of course i could be wrong since the middle section is so dull but i think not since i do look forward to catching the end of this again on cable br br as a whole its probably as awful as some people have said but if you can wait for cable where you can stumble on the good parts this is an okay cartoon to film adaption but wait for cable really
0	when underdog the cartoon debuted in 1964 at the age of 7 i was hooked immediately he was top dog pun intended in my book that is until batman premiered on abc a year or so later even when it was clear that disney was going to make a live action version of the once popular saturday morning cartoon it was equally clear to me that it was going to be a piece of crap even reading the reviews in the papers seemed to confirm this however i made it a point to a never attempt to write a review unless i have seen the movie from start to finish and b never to spend one red cent on a movie that i'm almost certain i will hate br br thanks to youtube i a am fully qualified to write this review and b it only cost me 84 minutes of my hard earned time br br it also proves my point namely that this movie is not merely a piece of crap it's a steaming pile of dog droppings it resembles the tv series in name only even though they almost got it right with simon and cad br br all in all underdog is a huge waste of time and money which thankfully i didn't have to spend br br rating 1 2 out of
0	let me start of by saying that i never wanted to see this movie in the first place i had to watch it one day and i figured that i guess i can lighten up and enjoy it for what it is and it might turn out to be entertaining what i got going in with that expectation was one of the worst movies i have ever seen bar none first of all there was nothing humorous in the least bit the creators expected humor to be laughable passable if they include sarcasm in every line that comes out of mouth and use scene after scene of bland played out aspects to charm the audiences light hearted side while still making them ooh and ah for more with boring action scenes and insipid lackluster performances that made me want to yell at everyone in the audience that was enjoying it the acting was dull the humor was tedious and the characters plot felt like they spent about 10 minutes creating their entire personalities which gave the uninspiring actors actresses no range on how to portray their characters with the least bit of depth this movie is plain and simply awful in every field and really only kids under the age of 10 will be able to enjoy it which even though that's what age range it was aimed at that does not excuse it for being so poorly daft and causing me to feel so parents spend your money on up wall e the chronicles the water horse or hotel for dogs for the best recent family kids flicks or even alvin and the chipmunks is better than this filth
0	critics love this movie i personally found it senseless and tasteless this is the millionth time i've fallen into the critics love it trap and came out wishing someone would throw boiling hot water on my testicles because it was less painful than watching the movie there are many scenes that are completely unnecessary a warning to animal lovers don't see this movie if you don't want to see sheep killed and molested br br if you want to see a good asian film see afrika if you want to see a film about escaped convicts see the gene wilder richard pryor classic stir crazy avoid 9 souls like the plague
0	they did it again ripped off an old show's title then destroyed the nostalgia with boring re imagined stuff the '60's cartoon was one of the funniest of its time a good natured satire of super hero comic books the character was drawn as 1 2 way between animal and human the way mickey mouse is here they use a real that's about the same as making a mickey mouse watch with a real rat br br most of the clever schtick that made the original show funny is missing from this film instead we get a clumsy ex police dog who's even dumber than cad and some pet owners who add nothing to the story cheesy effects the dog talking animation is embarrassing poor scripting a stereotyped dwarf playing simon bar sinister the gravelly noise box guy they hired to voice underdog is painful you'd think they'd at least gotten a voice impressionist to approximate wally cox's humorously distinctive voice for underdog but no there are at least a few affectionate references to the source material such as the rhyming lines which lift it to a 4 br br only small children that love dogs may enjoy this everybody else should get a dvd of the original cartoon series watch this only in desperation
0	when i first became a father about 5 5 years ago i was prepared for many of the sacrifices i'd have to make i knew i'd have to change diapers and take them to swimming lessons and attend many a freezing santa claus parade but i wasn't ready for the kind of sacrifice i made last night this in my humble opinion is cruel and unusual punishment br br underdog is bad it's not quite karate dog bad but it makes the shaggy dog feel like pulp fiction if underdog were a television show i'd recommend flipping on by not even the presence of puddy and the voice of edwards can save it bow wow br br it was also just about the best 80 minutes i've ever enjoyed james was seated to the right of me and michelle to the left and i spent more time watching their reaction to this talking flying mutt than watching the screen at 5 and 3 years old they were the target audience and this movie nailed the target there's a scene where underdog loudly in another dogs face and michelle thought it was the funniest scene ever captured on film when underdog was flying into outer space james was literally at the edge of his seat mesmerized the kids absolutely loved underdog and that's why i was there that's what last night was all about br br unless you're accompanying someone under the age of ten you have no business wasting a second of your life watching this brutal film but if you are looking to kill 80 minutes with your four year old i won't judge i had a blast
0	this is the worst movie i've ever seen boring illogical terrible don't waste even a minute in your life to watch this crap i hope the directors won't make any other movie because this movie them the movie seems to be created in one or two days with some friends of the directors if we can use this word for these 2 guys they use only camera in hand many scenes are in darkness and nothing can be seen lots of scenes 80 of the movie are with conversation only there are movies like vampire vs zombies which you can laugh on but this one is simply bad no point to making such movies please stop jason horton and shannon don't make more movies
0	rise of the undead starts as some huge nuclear type blast rips through an unnamed american city a few people survive in a building by leaning on the door so it'll stay closed keep the nastiness out they argue amongst themselves for ages then a monster thing arrives from seemingly nowhere begins to kill them of one by one br br written produced directed by jason horton shannon one has to say rise of the undead is terrible the script takes itself very seriously but makes little sense the first thing i asked myself was if there's this huge nuclear blast type thing going on outside destroying the entire city why are these people i'm watching still alive why is the building they are in still standing then i asked myself when was something actually going to happen the entire first 20 minutes is set in one room actually that's a bit generous it's more of a corridor as the main character's argue then it turns into some return of the living dead 1985 rip off with a government created virus which turns people into zombies before one of the most abrupt pointless seemingly random plot twists i've ever witnessed which renders most of what has just happened a complete waste of time then for the final 30 odd minutes rise of the undead turns into some strange sci fi type thing as something which resembles a ball of energy floats around killing everyone was i the only asking what this floating ball of energy thing is where it came from getting back to what was happening outside what was the reason again oh that's right we are never told rise of the undead is a mess the character's are awful aren't even given names the twist about halfway through will have you tearing your hair out in frustration the dialogue sucks nothing is explained there's virtually no story here the final 10 minutes maybe a bit more of rise of the undead features no dialogue whatsoever the film just suddenly ends br br director's horton were obviously working on a low budget the entire film is set in about two rooms three corridors the photography is awful they use annoying colour filters seemingly at random sometimes it really does look like rise of the undead was shot on a camcorder there's no special effects there's some fake blood splashed around but no actual make up effects to speak of there are some cgi shots of the city being engulfed in flames which look alright but the floating ball of energy creature thing looks terrible there is one baffling shot early on where two people are sitting against a corridor wall talking for some bizarre reason their heads are cut off at the top of the screen just their lower bodies from the neck down are seen yet nothing else is happening in frame they are not moving there's no else there but for some strange reason their heads are cut off the top of the frame as they talk to each other it's quite an odd thing to watch actually br br with an ultra low budget of about 10 000 according to the imdb shot in two weeks i have to congratulate the makers for getting rise of the undead finished distributed but that's where my congratulations stop because otherwise this has awful production values is set in about three corridors which are located somewhere in new orleans in louisiana as that's where rise of the undead was shot the acting sucks so i won't dwell on it br br rise of the undead sucks it sounds like a zombie film but in all honestly it isn't everything about it is sub par i know the filmmakers were working on a low budget but that's not really an excuse as far as i'm concerned definitely not recommended
0	with the terrible acting the awful dialog the multitude of bad humor the crappy plot and over terrible film this has to be the worst film i have ever viewed in my life and i'm the king of finding bad movies for the effects they just threw fake blood on people and things didn't spend the time to create wounds and make special effects worth anything most people making low budget horror flicks at least do something like of tissue or something to make a wound the dialog was far from even decent and the acting was without direction or effort they just threw some actors on a set and said have at it i swear i've seen better films from my film i class at school how did this ever get a dvd release
0	i can't give it less than a star i tried at this moment im not sure if im halfway through it or not but i stopped actively paying attention around the time part of it was revealed to be a dream or not or maybe it was i think viewers who posted a comment that didn't include the descriptions horrible or awful or made me want to swallow a bullet are probably being nice because it is an indie film don't listen to them listen to me there is no nudity in the movie skip it i needed ten lines to submit this warning so i will also say that the goth girl that some users have described as hot is fat she has fat elephant legs
0	do not be misled this is not a zombie movie take it from a guy who loves zombie movies and who rents them all the good and the horrendous yes this movie has an extended zombie sequence but it's basically an artsy fartsy exercise in existentialist dread which is a long way of saying it's boring if you've worked hard all day and want to spend a couple of hours being entertained rent something else br br rise of the undead has cheap special effects mediocre acting and crummy dialogue all of that is understandable in an indie low budget film and i can forgive such flaws as long as a movie has an entertaining story to tell unfortunately rise of the undead hardly has any story at all moreover the acting is not laughably bad so much as non existent all of the actors seem to have studied at the buster keaton school of wooden faces would it have killed them to show some emotion and no yelling does not equate with emoting the one character who actually had some pizazz was killed off first granted there was another character who briefly held my interest he looked and acted like kyle mclachlan channeling norman bates but it was too little too late br br the filmmakers seemed to have forgotten a tiny detail film is a visual medium that means lighting your scenes well enough for the viewer to actually view what's going on and all those artsy jump cuts and close ups might have seemed cool at the time but all they did was make watching the film jarring and confusing there is nothing wrong with telling a story in a simple clear fashion just look at george romero's low budget night of the living dead to see how it's done superbly and i know these folks had a small budget but if you can't hire the equipment and technicians necessary to actually make the dialogue audible then just go ahead and make a silent movie then those buster keaton wooden faces might actually work br br i will say this for the film the zombies were creepy unlike most zombie movies where the undead are shown in all their decomposing glory the grosser the better the zombies here were just shuffling bloody faced people it actually worked to make them more like us and therefore scarier that's the reason i gave this movie 2 stars instead of 1 br br the sad part about all this is that despite all of its flaws rise of the undead does not insult your intelligence the filmmakers seemed to have actually wanted to make a smart scary original movie and it's a shame that they failed so miserably if they could just forego the too fancy editing buy a few extra crank up the dialogue and come up with a real story that actually goes somewhere then i think they have the talent to make something really good br br trust me do not waste your time on rise of the undead
0	hey i'm a fan of so bad so good movies but there's nothing so bad so good about rise of the undead it's just so bad and that's it no redeeming cheese no unintentional humor nothing boring apocalyptic zombie the undead a few people with hardly any make up nonsense with lame special effects if you can call those effects dumb plot and annoying actors they also have the nerve to rip off and quote from other better movies resident evil dawn of the dead night of the comet and managed to put me to sleep on the side however it was rise of my eyelids once the end credits rolled though my advice save your money it's not even worth a rental unless you want to p ss off and or put some people to sleep then go ahead and give it a spin you've been warned
0	so you've seen the romero movies yes and you've seen jacob's ladder right and the later hellraiser movies okay now let's make a movie out of all three only let's just jam everything together and make a whole big mess of it sounds like a good idea br br this movie is terrible absolutely god awful yeah it's an indie flick who gives a crap is that a pass to make filmic excrement the film attempts to establish credibility by focusing on character interaction that much is evident unfortunately for the writers they're not good at character interaction this isn't night of the living dead the characters are shouting their inane lines at each other in a vain attempt to be caught by the microphones on set the dialogue is never interesting for a movie that focuses so much on character interaction you'd think the characters would have something more to say than what are we going to do i don't know well we've got to do something well what are we going to do i don't know we should leave let's just accept our fate no we've got to leave well let's leave then no maybe we should stay br br this isn't exaggeration there are exchanges in this film that reach that level of redundancy and inanity br br the worst thing about this movie half of it is a dream and it really has zero purpose nothing in the dream has any relevance to anything in the rest of the movie the writers couldn't decide whether to make a zombie movie or a monster movie and so they just made both it's patently ridiculous the cheapest trick in the book and it's maddeningly insulting especially since i'm pretty sure they ripped off the idea from jacob's ladder which handled the concept a hell of a lot more competently than these jokers could ever hope to do br br and then there's the editing years of watching mtv and playing horror themed video games must have inspired the filmmakers but it's surely a sad thing they didn't realize what made the choppy editing and in those pieces of media effective in the first place in this film you will be confused often and not in the good david lynch way but in the bad wait i thought she just got killed no then who the hell was that wait who is that guy where did he come from how did they get here kind of way it's constant and consistently bad br br this movie is a laughable piece of trash and should only be sought out if you want to get trashed with a few friends and laugh at it br br and as a final note as for the comedy people in other reviews are talking about it's all unintentional there isn't a single intentional piece of comedy in this film it's all supposed to be a big serious character study because the filmmakers want to have credibility in their horror concept sadly their pretensions don't match up to their ability
0	ok i gave it a 3 just because they obviously had no money to make this film but i feel it might deserve the 2 3 rating it had when i got here i'm actually helping to raise it's rating despite being bored for the last hour and a half i will save the 1's and the 2's for the higher budget pieces of crap at least the makers of rise of the undead didn't waste that much money they did manage to waste 90 minutes of my life br br the movie is too claustrophobic for me the entire movie takes place in the same building in dark rooms and hallways with a setting like this there should have been more action or character development but there is just a lot of meaningless talk i didn't get to know any of the characters there is a schoolgirl and a goth chick but we never find out much more about them none of the characters seem really likable br br terrible movie made on zero budget no scary special effects no suspense really nothing interesting at all here folks i admit i downloaded this from the net it was free but i am throwing it away br br sorry to the filmmakers better luck next time this one is more like a soap opera than a zombie movie
0	you have to acknowledge cimino's contribution to cinema he gave us both the most over rated film in history the deer hunter and the worst film in history heaven's gate and before you start with the 'it's bad but not the worst ever' let me explain br br for 20 years i listened to the critics and avoided heaven's gate actually this was not hard because you are hardly bombarded with opportunities to view this film then a few days after seeing the 'final cut the making and of heaven's documentary i stumbled on a used 9 99 dvd of the long version my advice after minutes is to seek out the most negative review ever written about this film you will find a wide selection and imagine that the reviewer is cimino's devoted mother and that she is doing everything she can to put a positive slant on her dear son's movie then you will have an idea of just how big a mess cimino made br br while pretty much everything is wrong with this film what ultimately tips the scale to make it the worse ever and a classic 'less than example is its shameless distortion of history although the association did send a group of gunmen to johnson county and did have a list of targeted names the actual facts of an interesting historical event are hopelessly exaggerated on the morning of april 9 1892 nick ray and nate champion were besieged and eventually killed by an army of about 50 cattlemen and texas hired guns who had come to johnson county to clean out rustlers the citizens of the county then besieged the who finally were arrested or rescued by the army women did not actively participate in the fighting and aside from ray and champion there were minimal casualties after all these were not assaults and there were not wagons of immigrants riding in circles around the of regulations early westerns to the contrary this was a film making device and not an actual tactic of the indians and weeks prior to the arrival of the a number of johnson county residents were hanged without trial including jim the keeper of a modest road ranch and his wife ella watson who cimino resurrects as his two leads and he even shows living to a ripe old age br br there is no movie making sin greater than fictionalizing history if you are going to play fast and loose with historical facts then change the names and locations to protect the unsuspecting audience members who might go away from a film believing what they saw actually happened fortunately so few people saw this film that the damage was minimal perhaps it is harsh to blame cimino for his distortion of history he could probably escape blame anyway with an insanity defense the film provides plenty of support if cimino was insane during the production of heaven's gate it would explain a lot of things but my vote goes to of directing talent' instead of insanity br br there are some good things about heaven's gate you can actually see on the screen where some of the huge budget went expensive sets beautiful epic camera shots artful dance sequences isabelle huppert a strange casting choice that actually worked gives an agreeable and likable performance although most of her scenes are extremely boring that tends to happen when the director forgets to give the viewer any reason to care about the characters the dialogue is generally solid if rather ordinary br br but don't fall for the crap that this film experiments with storytelling by carefully crafted moments of character interaction with textured pageant like explosions of communal action this implies that there was a method to cimino madness is another word for when a filmmaker gets so lost in his project that a coherent story is no longer possible the simple fact is that there is no evidence cimino storyboarded a single scene or made any attempt at control or organization what it looks like is that he just turned his dp loose to stage action and to get an endless selection of colorful shots 1 5 million feet of loosely staged scenes then he tried without success to pare this down and fit everything together in post production br br the final battle scene is genuinely hilarious as wearing perhaps borrowed from a 'fiddler on the roof' touring company throw countless sticks of dynamite at the unfortunately each explosive falls just short of the target and explodes harmlessly after you see this happen 50 60 times you can relate to the woman the one who looks like something out of 'the grapes of who puts a huge gun in her mouth and pulls the trigger this is probably what cimino's mother did after writing that review br br so believe what you have been hearing about this film since 1980 it is a sloppy disconnected poorly paced and historically distorted mess of value only as a 'how not to make a film' example for film historians and as a source of amusement to those knowledgeable about the actual history of the american west
0	begins with a horror movie icon killing a director and then his servant before he is laid to rest this icon who has some christopher lee qualities to him then continues to haunt those around him when a group of horror film society students steal his corpse from the mausoleum he is in br br the first ten minutes is well filmed good writing and lots of potential for murderous mayhem but the film drags in the middle although thankfully not as much as house of death and never really gets that initial spurt of energy back br br lots of the deaths are confusing as they seem to have people just falling over scared when they see a floating coffin or other odd things twice we see poisonous gas being used but the box promises that this horror star will be the embodiment of all the monsters he has played boy is that false advertising unless he spent his career playing boring old men who take naps and watch matlock br br the general principle of the film is decent horror society kids stealing a corpse of a dead icon a modern equivalent digging up vincent price or peter cushing would make a great film maybe a remake is in order if that wouldn't be too disrespectful sometimes theory doesn't come across as well in application and this film offers that example br br the only redeeming quality of this film besides the beginning is the brief appearance of a very young jeffrey combs i saw him and thought that's jeffrey combs but felt i was mistaken as the box never mentioned him but sure enough combs was present a note to this movie's film makers mention combs on the cover of the dvd you'll sell more copies if if you would be deceiving customers if you're a jeffrey combs die hard check out this early role otherwise i cannot offer this as a great selection for a horror movie marathon let me suggest intruder or popcorn as those are both pretty decent and will stand the test of time
0	alas another costner movie that was an hour too long credible performances but the script had no where to go and was in no hurry to get there first we are offered an unrelated string of events few of which further the story will the script center on randall and his wife randall and fischer how about fischer and thomas in the end no real front story ever develops and the characters themselves are artificially propped up by monologues from third parties the singer explains randall randall explains fischer on and on finally long after you don't care anymore you will learn something about the script meetings three endings were no doubt proffered and no one could make a decision the end result all three were used one after another after another if you can hang in past the 100th yawn you'll be able to pick them out despite the transparent attempt to gain points with a dedication to the coast guard this one should have washed out the very first day
0	zombie movies are hot i love 'em can't get enough why i would purchase a film of this caliber goes without explanation i just really love zombies surprise this really isn't much of a zombie movie low budget i can handle being duped just irritates me br br a group of horror film clichés hold up in a warehouse lab who knows what to escape a fire storm outside panic yelling low light and eventually zombies ensue br br i kind of feel bad for the film makers as it is obvious that they really thought they were putting together something good a serious scary horror film it isn't far from it it's a boring mess of wooden acting cheesy fx poor lighting excessive dialogue and over editing br br things first go awry when it takes a good 10 minutes for the characters to ever sit down and start to figure out what is going on it gets worse when another 20 minutes go by and they are still sitting around trying to figure out what is going on all of this is littered with non acting and bad dialogue br br finally some one gets attached not by a zombie though and hope flickers just a touch before the characters are again lounging around whining the only emotion any one every generates about how much this sucks me too guys me too br br finally zombies are in the mix but no one watching cares any more i think there was some blood and gore tossed in but i was too busy praying for the credits to roll to notice and when the screen finally did fade to black i felt even more cheated by the pointlessly 'cube' inspired ending br br i will give credit for trying very hard even if it failed miserably that and the punk chick was very hot if totally under used br br can't really recommend this to anyone save for film students looking for 'no no' pointers br br 4 10
0	i'm not sure what the appeal of this movie is but i couldn't find it it's a really long barely credible hardly lucid conversation between three guys on one set br br it doesn't move anywhere the characters are just totally bizarre the underlying plot equally so it's lost on me definitely a walk out movie br br the one thing that keeps you from walking out is the ever unrealized possibility that it might have some kind of point or meaningful climax and the fact that all irritation aside at the banal personalities they're acted quite reasonably but you have to brace yourself for endless dialog wishing on many an occasion that teach would just shut the up for a moment
0	this movie was beyond disappointment well acted story that means nothing the plot is ridiculous and even what story there is goes absolutely nowhere it truly isn't worth a nickel buffalo or otherwise pun intended
0	this movie was terrible it was so very terrible br br most annoying was the way the trial was conducted the defense attorney is allowed to ramble on and on when questioning a witness without the prosecution making any objections he attacks the children brought to give testimony with cruel and repeatedly yells at them that they're lying these just aren't things that they subject children who have been sexually abused to the trial is silly and it ruins the whole movie law order has spoiled me for courtroom accuracy ness
0	this movie was total cheese it stank the only thing good about it was the acting other then that nothing noteworthy at all br br big time spoilers coming up don't read anymore if you have not seen it br br this movie is centered around a family whose happy and wonderful lives have been shattered as a result of their younger son and later as they find out older son have been molested by their daycare providers although they are called liars in court and the defense attorney is a real prick the jury finds them guilty and convicts them br br in the end all i can say to the director is the next time you wanna make a movie like this do it differently
0	ugh yes it's exactly like the mess or the horrific arrests in washington in the movie the mother keeps aggressively questioning her little boy over and over and over until he finally tells her what she obviously wants to hear the court investigators and therapists repeat the pattern the questioning itself is sexually creepy a relentlessy repeated assault in its own way br br the moviemakers throw in a doctor talking about physical evidence of abuse maybe to justify the film's point of view that two to four year olds never make things like this up well they will if every adult they know is asking them to the way this piece endorses such discredited interrogation techniques makes watching it an exercise in frustration for anyone who knows what it takes to get a successful prosecution in real life br br they also add a special arrest incident towards the end to prove their case no parallel to this fictional incident ever occurred in real life can't say more here without turning this into a spoiler but you'll know it when you see it br br yes children are abused sometimes by paid care providers but to watch a movie which affirms the ludicrous hysterical accusations against so many totally innocent people to watch re creations of the trials that ruined the lives of countless children as well as the lives of the accused i didn't think i'd last until the end it's just too sad and made more so by the writing team's seeming endorsement of the abusive paranoid questioning techniques that started what can we call it the bonfire of the br br no one i know has ever been accused of child abuse thank heaven but my 12 times over great grandmother was accused of witchcraft and killed for it mobs filled with what they think is holy anger are just as dangerous now as three hundred years ago sensational drivel like this these accusations of satanic abuse are cropping up all over the country there must be something there so tell the jury that just eggs them on br br and whoever thought it was a good idea to have kids under ten some of them under five play these roles it's traumatic to watch them delivering their lines how much more traumatic was it to act these parts the commitment to fight child abuse apparently doesn't apply to themselves and what were the child actors' parents thinking melinda uncredited at least in the version on the a e network in 2005 but i think it was friel and teddy brian bonsall were terrific professionals or not though they were too young to be exposed to this material much less to be paid to act it out despite ruthlessly exploiting these real life children do you know the muffin man got an emmy nomination for directing which just goes to show how crazed things were back in 1989
0	it is is very sad to see someone of the calibre of george c scott in a low budget thriller which would have been better if the original novel was written by graham greene and directed by someone somewhat more experienced in the genre not to mention a better cinematographer there are so many missed opportunities with the scenery and carnival merely glossed over rather than captured to locate the movie solidly in the exotic setting of the novel br br elsewhere in the viewer comments on this site one very astute observer complained about the variety of diabolically bad accents in this film ever since i saw george c scott as rochester in jane eyre i have prayed for him never to ever accept again a role which required him to assume a british accent just every now and then he could just possibly pass for british or a very british sounding south african played obviously by an american actor i can stomach meryl streep's extraordinarily laboured accents both british and australian at least she gets it right even though with every utterance she demands that we marvel at her skill well i am sorry that mr scott is no meryl streep and it just destroys the illusion like having michele yeoh speak excruciating mandarin with a strong singaporean accent in crouching tiger etc br br peterson acts no differently than what we see on csi except he is still very handsome and more or less slim in this movie he is the harrison ford of tv same old expressions for every emotion every situation no on second thought ford has two perplexed pained and happy i have never seen a smile on mr csi
0	what is wrong with also known as deadly currents though what the for the name change is i have no idea can probably be summed up where a woman says to her lover br br keep it down baby i'm trying to sleep br br it's not the dialogue that's the problem or the way it's delivered it's the fact the actress has has a central european accent nothing wrong with that until it's revealed her character is from philidelphia in the united states this what struck me about this thriller while watching it the way accents don't match their characters apart from the philly woman with a german accent we see a south african with an english accent a local police chief who sounds like he's an irishman impersonating a gestapo officer and worst of all george c scott playing someone who's either dutch or british with an accent that sounds like it might be american tinged with south african you soon give up following what's on screen and end up concentrating on what nationality a character might be due to the strange way they speak it's interesting to note that this site hasn't given this movie a country of origin with so many different actors from different countries you do feel that this was produced by the united nations br br even if you're not curious about accents or dialects you'll probably have to give up following the action anyway because is plot less things happen like a boat exploding and a hostage situation and the hero being recruited as an agent for south african intelligence but you're left scratching your head wondering what the heck this is all leading to i was lost
0	is a foreign intrigue drama set on the title caribbean island which involves a retired sea captain and bar owner scott and a cia field operative petersen the film has numerous bad guys foreign agents and thugs skulking about the pair of protagonists all something scott has which they want and are prepared to kill for a lukewarm low budget tv flick is spiced up with a couple of babes and use some carnival street parades as window dressing little more than fodder for the bored couch potato c
0	strangers with candy overacts in all the wrong context the situations are just not funny with the cheesy voices and bad low brow comedy timing the clear attempt at dry black dark humour is obvious and it fails to deliver on all elements of a good joke br br with a high cringe factor and low laugh ratio i was shocked this show went pass the first season i personally like scrubs the office 30 rock trailer park boys pulling peep show simpsons family guy and i know what your thinking these shows aren't weird at all so some other good shows i've seen are jam garth marenghi's darkplace the book group asylum and snuff box which are original with dry black dark humour satire and are all at least 5 10 br br garth marenghi's darkplace especially is cheap looking overacted and weird however the context is thought out and works to make it really out there and entertaining too
0	i watched this last nite with an open mind sorry to say it is still bad first the movie is too and you can't hear what people are saying the accents are bad especially richard what is the french chick doing in this film miscasting at its worst walken's makeup is strange the harvard scene is useless and not needed character is unlikeable and i wanted him to get killed and go away meanwhile the walken character gets killed too early and easily despite the makeup the settlers are all stupid get organized you bunch of hicks people are coming to kill you john hurts character provides some humor buts thats all br br i have nothing good to say about this excessive piece of crap the only good thing is it ruined the director's career and killed united artists br br still crap after all these years
0	i attempted to watch this and was highly disappointed don't expect intelligent and insightful humor ala amy's brother david amidst this dreck it is the polar opposite but if you're into poop fart and boner jokes you'll be in seventh heaven this is bathroom humor aimed i assume at those who've had several which can only explain why many ecstatic reviewers have heralded this crap as the best television writing ever i assume that those who hate such simpleton humor were unable to watch long enough to care to submit a review but i am just sending out a warning shot to those unaware viewers who are looking for high end comedy the characters overact the shock factor is set to 10 and the laughs are set to zero unless of course you seek juvenile low brow humor br br i made it through 40 minutes praying the whole time it would turn the corner toward worthwhile entertainment but alas it just got worse and worse and beware of amy's ever present and hammy overbite expression it will set your eyes rolling it was nice to see cameos by recognizable comedic actors i enjoy but i can only assume they agreed to participate as a favor to the sedaris family br br to those who loved it i'm sorry this is my opinion it was so bad it inspired me to write my first review
0	necessary roughness 1991 was a bad comedy drama that tried to hard on every level to be a serious film about college football a lot of current and former superstar athletes appeared in this production during one of the film's comedic highlights other than that it's a very mediocre movie they should have just stuck to making a straight out comedy filled with no realism instead the film makers try to play both fields and they end up on the short end of the stick when will somebody make a decent film about college football that's funny and realistic br br not recommended unless it's for free on t v
0	this movie is allegedly a comedy so where did all the laughs go did the forget to put them in on the version i watched as a football movie it is mildly entertaining i guess just a stick in the mud with no discernible sense of humour or maybe this movie just isn't funny it is also annoying with that way over the top you're a winner musical score and the odd thing is the team sucked through most of the season only winning the last two games and the last game meant nothing since they were not in the playoffs so what is the point are they celebrating mediocrity i don't see it if anybody knows please let me know anyway this movie isn't great or even very good i'm giving it a low 3
0	this movie was on the pay channels today and i had nothing to do so i had it on this has to be the worst football movie ever made this has to be one of the worst movies period the premium service on the cable system has a rating system and they gave 2 stars out of 4 this movie isn't even a half a star bad acting scott bakula sinks as usual larry miller sinbad couldn't act if he tried rob schneider's one liners completely stunk fred thompson should be embarrassed that he was even in this movie the only saving grace for this movie was the hope you would see kathy ireland nude in the shower not even close a complete waste of time and of film if we could give a negative number minus 9
0	this movie was such a waste of my money it was disgusting as well as disturbing honestly i would never recommend this movie to anyone who thinks of a movie where a girl blows her dog seriously it was a waste of my time i kept watching the movie hoping it would get better and a plot would emerge but that never happened i'd rate the movie an f this movie should have been rated r for its disturbing nature i would never let children of any age see this movie this movie sucks this movie is horrible this movie was a waste of my time i could have spent the night doing some worth my time instead of renting this movie this movie was a waste of gas money to get to the store and definitely a waste of two dollars to watch it pretty much no one should watch this movie this movie should be banned and burned
0	if one wants to have a character in a movie have a disturbing sexual encounter that would shame that character in later life the only thing left that an audience would see as shameful was bestiality and now it has been done judging by some of the other comments even that did not succeed that well i cannot remember one funny scene though i have to admit i had to turn it off before it was finished i did watch a part of the director's commentary and it appears he was as surprised as anyone that the movie was doing well if you want to get the same feeling you get from this movie but only cheaper stick your head in a pile of manure and breath deeply
0	i am not so old that i can't remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells br br from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades br br if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was 15 years ago this movie is worse it was not even funny by accident it is sad pathetic and a total waste of time may hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood
0	bobcat goldthwait should be commended for attempting to do something different with this surprisingly heartfelt film a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of being honest about everything melinda hamilton stars as amy a girl who has had oral sex with a canine in the past on a lark she struggles with telling her fiancé john of course the truth does rear it's shaggy ugly head the film deals with the fallout of said escapade the movie is well acted by all save for perhaps jack as dougie who never really felt like he mashed well with the picture and the film while solid enough seems to miss it's mark a few times every single person in the film struggles with massive hypocrisy and all our a tad hard to relate to bobcat should be commended for doing something different as i said before but different does not always equal good and this pales ever so slightly not to own directorial debut the criminally misunderstood shakes the clown br br my grade c
0	not a bad concept i just wish they had taken it in another direction its a movie that tries to be interesting by shocking you with bestiality to begin with which works for most people with weak stomachs but besides this there's not much to this movie its not funny nor is it romantic so please somebody change that label and since i already knew that bestiality is actually legal most places and a million dollar industry i wasn't really shocked but most people do not know this and i thought that how the movie evolved after the secret came out was just disappointing because it could have been one of those shocking eye opener movies that would teach the ignorant about a fetish that is very much a reality for yes i did my homework hundreds of thousands of people so if you like watching bad movies that you can daydream about how you could make them better while watching them than sure have fun doing that
0	this film is totally unbelievable the only way a girl would perform this act on a dog is if she had serious mental health issues or had a long history of sexual abuse or was under duress yet we are asked to believe that an otherwise 'normal' healthy female just got a bit bored and 'made a little mistake' and oops had a sexual encounter with a dog what's more it never had any detrimental affect on her ever again except when she tells someone br br not she was raped by a dog or the dog did something she couldn't resist she actively initiated oral sex and completed this activity with a pet dog of her own choice she wasn't on drugs or anything she just like it' br br the rest of the film seeks to put this action in a light of 'hey it could happen to anyone she's only being honest' br br but really for this to be believed we have to believe that this is a woman who is capable of doing absolutely anything if she 'just feels like it' think about it could she have considered the rights and wrongs of this action before carrying it out if she had she would have stopped in her tracks human beings have instinctive boundaries for reasons if we are now to start considering bestiality as a 'cute' little aberration what is next child abuse yet the 'heroine' is portrayed as a hard done by nice girl who had one moment of aberration if she had been forced to carry out this act by an abuser the story might have made more sense and i would have been able to accept the storyline but there is no way that anyone carries out the prolonged activity required and referred to even once if there is not some deep disturbance that requires a great deal of psychiatric help this is no way a one off happening in an otherwise perfect life br br i know this is just a film but it is through behaviour such as this via the media that society becomes and more and more awful realities become possible br br i could imagine an abuser showing this to a child to persuade them that it isn't such a big deal and then moving on with their agenda it could also be used by an abuser to underline to a child not to tell about the abuse because look how people will react to you if you do br br this is not about truth the director wants people to think it's about truth this is about degradation and how easily people the viewing public can be manipulated into accepting the most appalling concepts if wrapped up in the right way the watching public are being manipulated degraded and laughed at br br this is a film in which the actors and the viewers are being humiliated and made fools of in a very sophisticated way by a clever but extremely disturbed film writer br br this film appears to me to be being used as a vehicle for the creator of the film to get off on the excitement of playing with your mind in an abusive manner i don't know whether it is conscious on their part but it is the most classic example of mind f k that i have ever encountered br br i hope that this doesn't offend anyone too much but if you watched this film i don't think there is any room left to be offended by anything any more
0	i have just recently seen heaven's gate after i watched this 3 hr 40 min epic western that's not a western i read the book by steven bach after considering all events and the movie itself i still think this movie is a complete waste of time i believe that when someone tells you to watch it they are in fact trying to bore you to death if for some reason you can enjoy this self indulgent over thought truely bad movie i have to ask why though this isn't a reason to hate it it is historically way off it pretends to be about a situation that happened in wyoming called the johnson county war simply the cattle of the time wanted to kill all cattle thieves and claimed they were all you find that you simply do not care about these people and hope they all get killed because at least then something would happen everybody in the movie talks about things that happen and it is never shown after you sit though this giant waste of time you wonder how someone could actually make a 4 hr epic in which nothing happens oh and by the way the johnson county war was not a war it never happened the johnson county war in fact was called that because it almost happened in actual fact 2 people died i can't warn you enough off this movie however if you're like me the the idea of watching a movie that ruined careers and put united artists on the for sale lot sounds like an interesting case to study then by all means watch this terrible movie with no sub text and a lot of photography which is lovely sometimes
0	first off i want to say that i lean liberal on the political scale and i found the movie offensive i managed to watch the whole doggone disgrace of a film this movie brings a low to original ideas yes it was original thus my 2 stars instead of 1 are our film writers that uncreative that they can only come up with this acting was horrible and the characters were unlikeable for the most part the lead lady in the story had no good qualities at all they made her bf into some sort of a bad guy and i did not see that at all maybe i missed something i do not know he was the most down to earth relevant character in the movie i did not shell out any money for this garbage i almost wish peta would come to the rescue of this awful offensive movie and form a protest disgusting thats all i have to say anymore
0	inuyasha was awful this show was incredibly over hyped but this is nothing but a tedious bunch of anime clichés the characters are annoying and lifeless the story line is boring and endless i think that it could have be something interesting if it have a better writing but it seems that the writers of the show have more intentions in show inuyasha and his stupid friends fighting with some monsters and then crying for his tragic love triangle with and and a lot of circles around the same thing again and again the script is cheesy and dumb and the animation is poor the character design it 's very ugly i don't know why everyone love it all have the same face big eyes tiny noses a line as the mouth and the typical anime haircuts i find inuyasha incredibly boring and dumb this have to be one of the most over rated animated shows ever made
0	don't kill me fans but i have something to say about this br br pros well the most mildly interesting season that i've watched out of all the seasons that are out there of inuyasha just has tobe the arc unlike the rest of the seasons i personally think that this one has more of a real plot line and those mercenaries good god they're such likable characters shame they were killed off of course i would write a 15 page essay one why i like the so much but that would be boring for some of you so this series actually does have some likable characters i'll miss poor poor psycho little boy br br cons outside of arc the series was overall boring repetitive and some of the characters are extremely irritating for example she overreacts too much to my taste she acts like from elfen lied inuyasha he's a loud mouth dog demon with a huge sword what's so unique about him he has adorable dog ears tch is all talk no action and very cocky has just got to be the wimpiest villain that ever existed in the anime world and they have some color but they just seem to stand on the sidelines too much but what bugs me the most if the fact that they have absolutely no common sense at all rumiko takahashi has done a lot better then this i've seen it before br br if you like series with a lot of action no annoying love triangle no over repetitiveness this is not for you then
0	to be entirely frank the popularity of this show saddens me inuyasha is certainly not terrible it has a few good moments the occasional flash of clever humour and unlike so many animes dignity however it is utterly lacking in the essential elements of a worthwhile story from the start its premise dooms it to be stereotypical the main plot centers around collecting the pieces of a shattered jewel before they can be possessed by evil and is as one would suspect a totally generic epic fantasy affair the story follows a familiar pattern of fighting off various enemies for pieces of the jewel and is thus quite predictable lacking in complexity and easy to lose interest in but as so many animes have shown a poor premise can be rescued by deep realistic characters sadly no one rescues the story of inuyasha the main character is the stereotypical anime heroine and far too reminiscent of akane the main character of the original comic author's previous work ranma 1 2 she is kind to other females but treats many males especially her love interest with unfair unabashed unjustifiable brutality inuyasha is a tough on the outside but sweet on the inside type and is the lamentable stock character of the pervert br br the flaws continue with what happens to this plot and these characters namely nothing despite constant action the story does not progress despite regular romantic moments neither does the main relationship despite ample time the characters never really change and to add a cherry to the sundae of mediocrity all this stagnation is stretched into approximately 150 episodes br br my final criticism of this anime is the animation while certainly not ugly it displays almost disrespectful laziness on the part of the creators the animators seem to take joy in long scenes of inuyasha jumping through the air with wind whistling in which they have little to do but move a background br br in short with all the beautiful animations of the world at one's keyboard perched fingertips there is absolutely no reason to watch inuyasha
0	may or may not contain spoilers br br inuyasha is not a good anime it's actually very overrated why there's absolutely no story line no plot and the show just drags on and on and on that's because there are more side stories and fillers than episodes that make the plot progress and the fillers are just the same stories being repeated over and over again the same episodes seem to go with the same plot sensing a jewel shard a worm slime tentacle demon thing pops up inuyasha says wind scar iron soul stealer etc and kills the demon they get the jewel shard and then we just repeat this scene 160 or more times br br besides the repeating of episodes there's the repeating of comedic devices and they're not funny anymore wait they never were sexual harassment is not funny viz rated the series older teens 16 i have no idea why they rated it that there's nothing bad about it except for the so called funny sexual harassment which is kind of suggestive and that could get you arrested these days br br now this is how we know inuyasha is overrated the videogames they all sucked especially the mask game i played that at my friend's house it wasn't anything interesting the game was slow boring and it had nintendo 64 like graphics in a magazine it got a rating of 4 10 saying this role playing game is slower than moving up a cocktail straw then there's all these stupid inuyasha toys action figures trading cards stickers and coloring books coloring books we thought inuyasha was 16 maybe not but after being a member of inuyasha groups on msn about half the people on there were 10 to 13 i guess inuyasha is a little kid anime after all i think that just a small bit of editing done to this show it could be shown on toonami there are over 40 manga volumes i can only help but wonder how many miles of forest that have been cut down to make them sad br br then there's the music the music is so annoying we hear the same 5 songs every episode after 10 episodes the music gets really annoying in other anime they have music to fit the mood and we don't hear some songs very often there are about 15 different inuyasha soundtracks don't waste your money on that garbage br br and how do you think i know all this because i used to be a fan of inuyasha i feel ashamed of myself i'd rather watch kim possible or pokemon instead sadly those two shows have more romance between the two main protagonists than inuyasha will ever have
0	rossini once described rival composer wagner's work as having some wonderful moments and some awful quarter hours inuyasha it seems can also be described this way it has many great episodes but in between them are countless filler episodes the entire series consists of about 175 episodes of which i'd say at least 125 are filler or some sort of subplot i didn't bother to count and i wouldn't be surprised if that number were in fact higher though br br some of these filler episodes are actually quite enjoyable though many are quite silly or dull nonetheless the constant digressions start to wear thin after the first few seasons as the plot ends up progressing at a labored crawl for most of the series character development too slows down greatly and by the later seasons the cast has become quite resulting in increasingly stale jokes particularly those concerning the monk who's ironic traits start out as mildly humorous but grow tiresome when the jokes associated with them appear repeatedly br br however all of that isn't to say that inuyasha is a bad series it just isn't a great series the way neon genesis evangelion for example is generally considered to be as something to watch at the end of a hard day it is nice but it could never be confused with high art
0	let me state this right from the start i do not hate this show i actually quite like some aspects of it in fact when i first started to watch it i quickly became hooked i was just starting to come out of the whole anime is for kids stereotype and the mature elements of the show had me intrigued br br unfortunately after seeing the whole series through and a few of the films i can say that my overall disposition has changed and it falls into almost all of the pitfalls that plague bad anime seven or eight friends and myself started watching this series on tv by the end only one friend and i were still watching and neither of us liked it br br allow me to explain the plot for you you can skip this paragraph if you don't want to know is an average high school student who one day falls into a magical well near her family run shrine when comes out of the well again she has been transported back in time to the feudal era of japan she meets up with many other characters and they form a group of five or so companions who set off on a journey of revenge justice groping in one characters case overall they are trying to recover the pieces of the sacred jewel shard which enhances the power of demons who use it br br while there are many many side stories and story arcs there is no were near enough material to occupy episodes the only story arc that is interesting enough to watch is still sort of dull the band of seven after the half way mark in the series or maybe even before it becomes painfully obvious that the plot is frozen in place and whoever made the series decided instead to put in dozens and dozens of filler episodes br br these episodes have little to no impact on the story and rarely even on the characters in some cases some characters who had an important role in the story will disappear for dozens of episodes at a time many episodes follow the exact same cookie cutter patterns as the stories before it inuyasha shoots wind scar at enemy deflects characters gasp in horror enemy turns out to have barrier characters spent three episodes trying to kill enemy before finally fires sacred arrow at him and he turns to dust br br also major spoiler the conclusion will be revealed the lack of any conclusion makes it seem like you have waisted 83 hours br br major spoiler over br br the animation itself is above average and in some cases excellent even so reused animation cells plague most action scenes and it is very hard to ignore them when it is clear that the exact same boulder has flown past a character five or six times in a row br br on the brighter side however all of the characters are very well developed and the romances between some of the characters were truly captivating also the character designs appearences were brilliant and at times among the best i have seen particularly with the band of seven there is definitely no shortage of opportunities here even so i found myself hoping that a character would die just so there would be some sort of movement in the plot and some of the humour in the show between characters is used again and again one particular joke sit boy is found within the first five episodes and you can literally expect it to be used again and again for the remaining episodes br br although there are some good aspects of the show and it is easy to see why it has a huge following the series seems to be dominated by obsessed fan girls who drool over and inuyasha br br bottom line definitely worth checking out but not worth watching the whole series the first 30 episodes are very clever original and enjoyable for anybody but after that it simply becomes dull and tedious watching a tv show should never feel like a chore but somehow this series accomplishes just that don't expect much from inuyasha because you will only feel let down
0	oh man this series has to be the worst possible anime i've ever seen in a while br br it started out new exciting and fresh and i really liked it then was a good female role model for the show and inu yasha was funny and hot headed br br then it just kept falling more and more downhill as the series progressed and i'll tell y'all the reasons why warning spoiler alert br br okay they basically destroy inu relationship with early on by reviving his 50 year old dead girlfriend who's drippy sappy and a total waste of time br br they introduce a pervert named who's supposed to be a sort of religious figure for the show which really bugged me 'cause it was out of place and stupid then they introduce a demon slayer named whose only purpose in life is to try and fail to save her brainwashed brother br br the big bad of the show while starting out as a really good bad guy lost his touch after a while he got pretty old pretty fast and it bothered me that he was the only baddie in the show who did anything br br the characters all became wooden and unemotional and then the ending of this terrible series was a disappointment to any anime fan out there nothing happened never got killed or defeated and inu yasha never fully fell in love 'cause he was still all in love with his 50 year old dead chick plot holes were left open the animation got worse and worse as the series progressed and nothing changed in the plot i mean they dragged it out to over 150 episodes and nothing changed in the plot at all and they expected me as well as other fans of the show to be satisfied i was disenchanted disgusted and annoyed as crap i at least had high hopes that there'd be a good ending to the series instead all i got was a dragged out commercial for the manga br br seriously if you wanna see a good anime about swords and stuff like that i strongly recommend that show progresses and goes somewhere plus it has really good animation too br br but stay far away from this bland excuse for anime as best as you can
0	will there be please coming an end to hyping movies that are dealing about social conflicts or other human disasters okay care is about care is about perverts misusing boys in a school and how disgusting it might be if it's a movie with a poor script and made with bad playing actors then it stays a bad movie care is a movie that could have been but is it because it was a i don't know but everything seemed so limited that it comes over as some cheap movie that will be seen by some housewifes and fathers who decide not to go to bed there are so many unanswered things in this movie the relation with his mother for instance or the death of some abused boy from which we know nothing more care should have been much much better
0	the film is nothing else than an exposition of nudity has anyone noticed that all three main female characters appear naked it looks like the only winning bet for portuguese filmmakers is to include some if not a lot of nudity of the local stars together with slang which otherwise in the nowadays portuguese society is repulsed with horror if you watch advertising for portuguese films at portuguese tvs they all have included a hot scene from the movie i'm not saying by any means that portuguese society is alienated just that the movie industry does not seem capable of finding others ways of success going back to the movie there is nothing left from the spirit of the book which is a masterpiece the film could have been a good one had there been emphasized the real idea of the book of actuality at any time and not the strictly erotic part it had almost all the ingredients but the chef was awful
0	the film heaven's gate was a good view although still tedious at over 4 hours but the film took great license as usual with hollywood james chris christopherson and elle were actually married in real life their main contribution to the johnson county war was to start it by being hanged well by starting it i mean it came at the beginning not the end here's the real scenario james and ellen watson were secretly married because one homestead could be given to each family by filing as single individuals they could get two homesteads they chose on crazy woman creek actually controlling the water above the land held by a powerful member of the association he offered to buy them out repeatedly which they refused br br although characterized in real life as the owner of a brothel cattle kate and a prostitute herself and also in the film there is no real evidence that was true it is known that she bought many head of sick cattle nursed them back to life and was later accused by the association of receiving the cattle in trade for lewd in the end she was accused of rustling an act almost certainly untrue so much for this part of the myth of the american west which is a de gook of myths spanning a time period of about one hundred years br br in real life she and jim were surprised one day by several members of the association taken in hand and promptly hanged those perpetrating the injustice were never brought to trial but that was the first link that led to the murder of nate champion and the start of the johnson county war br br quite different from the hollywood version which shows her shot at the end br br other than that i think the main problem with the film was the editor who could have made the action a faster pace by more skillful editing
0	as you might not know de is one of most rightfully celebrated writers he was witty he spared no one in his critics and must now be rolling in his tomb and that's not due to this movie being bad which it is but as a result of the treatment dispensed to one of his masterworks o crime do padre it's treated like cheap throwaway trash br br when it was publicized that this was to be a modern and urban take on the book i feared for the worst normally modern in these contexts means taking the liberty to take the p when doing an adaptation to half arse it in the shoddiest possible way and so the moral and social dilemma of a priest having a secret forbidden affair are substituted by extra long passages of people dealing drugs and singing hip hop for no particular or pertinent reason to the plot it's just there like it might very well not have been br br oh and there's lots of sex so you can at least be counting on that when you put this on remember how every movie in the 80's no matter the genre or the tone always found a way to sneak in some nudity if it was a thriller and they had no need for it they simply found a way that when they were capturing a felon he happened to be in bed with a woman that would prance around screaming naked of course when the cops in ahem gratuitous is the word i think not that there's anything wrong with nude scenes but here they make the creators of this movie look desperate simply because there's nothing else to the movie it's totally devoid of what do you call it dramatic content
0	i was not making big assumptions on the fact that this for sure was a very very free adaptation from the work of de and i must say that this free adaptation form the book as a lot of possible good ideas and characters the problem is the way that is done without any care without any taste just a rumble of bad taste clichés everywhere the script is so fake and the characters so unreal that's makes petty seeing nice actors as and others lost themselves in a net of whatever except cinema or storytelling for my surprise the newcomers jorge and bravely stick in their performances but you can see them lost like a drifted boat without any direction and talking about direction this seems to be something totally missing on this the director everything is bad taste the frames are whatever and whenever the use of hand camera without any justified reason the light design that should build environments doesn't exist and no excuses that the all point is a dark real story the problem overall in this trying to be film is that as no taste or very very bad taste it's sad to see jorge and melting away in such fake and gratuity sex scenes painted here and there trough out the movie like closing narratives holes or used as fakes transition motives maybe carlos da silva should see the 2002 carlos carrera adaptation of the same book of and get the felling of how to build a true movie
0	i saw this film yesterday on tv i had just finished reading the book in which the movie was supposedly based in the opening credits it said this is a free adaptation of de novel i should have turned off my tv at that moment br br vera idea of free adaptation is turning a story about church's influence over people and the hypocrisy of people claiming morality at the end of the 19th century into a story about sex in fact the only thing she adopted from the novel was the sex part which was only mildly referred in de novel and of course the name of some characters br br as of the characters in the novel and joão eduardo were victims of church's influence was seduced by father and all the time she was controlled by him joão eduardo her fiancé was by the priests because he dared to criticize them in this movie seduces every one she meets and father is just another victim joão eduardo is a dealer of drugs and illegal weapons br br vera sacramento has turned a novel which criticized moral costumes of an epoch and turned it into just another movie with lots of bad sex even worse her story was completely empty of ideas two wasted hours de surely did not deserve this
0	i turned this off within the first five minutes it's very sick and disturbing the moment i turned this off was when the beautiful white horse was let into the slaughterhouse and it's skull was punctured by a small tubed instrument this creature was lying on the floor in a state of shock before it died the narrator said the animal dies instantaneously it didn't i don't agree with graphic realism towards animals insects or any living creature i was very disappointed as i had just watched 'eyes without a face' which was a brilliant movie and this short film was attached which spoilt my night as i couldn't hurt a fly never mind watching this savage documentary br br reading other reviews on this page i had noticed they used words such as aesthetic this is not art or beauty i can imagine that the documentary would be very articulate and profound but not aesthetic
0	well its ten year's on since this film was released and the sands of time have not improved it one bit again like the other comments made the aussie film makers should have a little more drama rather than middle class aussies riding around beautiful places on there bikes with not much in the was of dialog middle class is not funny nor is rich there is also a mish mash of cast why is a young woman going to marry a man old enough to be her father it escapes me it's such a shame about this film looks like a wonderful place to holiday thou anyway its an hour and thirty mins of my life i will never be able to get back lifes to short to watch this movie
0	this appalling piece of tripe was conveniently loosely based on a true story that involved two family members of mine played by jack thompson and jacqueline mackenzie br br this film is offensive besides the fact that it wasn't a particular good film anyway it does not in any way capture what it was like to lose such a close family member and completely omits those who were really affected by the true life tragedy br br as for the director he managed to cash in on a family's misfortune for the price of a porsche br br if i could have given this a zero i would have br br avoid this film at all costs
0	the brief existence of the sex pistols and the making of this film after the controversial groundbreaking english punk band's break up both happened before i was born however i started listening to their only album never mind the b s here's the sex pistols in 2003 when i was a teenager and quickly became a big fan i didn't see the great rock 'n' roll swindle until 2006 but saw it a couple times that year and thought it was pretty good certainly not great but pretty good even if i could only remember bits of it and didn't see how it all connected seeing it a third time nearly three years after the second i didn't care much for it at all i'm not even sure what i found so good about most of it in the first place can't remember now br br this film is a mockumentary in which sex pistols manager malcolm mclaren tells his side of the story of the band and its members guitarist steve jones credited here as the crook drummer paul cook credited as the tea maker bassist sid vicious credited as the gimmick and john lydon a k a johnny rotten credited as the collaborator mclaren claims that he created the band and even the genre of punk rock as a scam to make money he tells much of the story to helen wellington lloyd a k a helen of troy in various places where they go together it's basically a hodgepodge of mclaren talking pistols songs live footage of the band fictional scenes often silly strange ones several cartoon sequences etc all put together in one film to tell the pistols manager's side of the story in a bizarre way br br it has been well proved that mclaren is a liar i know many have already pointed this out including band members themselves he was not the driving force of the band he didn't create them nor did he invent punk rock and the sex pistols weren't even the first punk band though they were unique the band members were the ones who made the band what it was the filth and the fury a much more believable film about the band from julien temple who made this film is told from the point of view of the band members who contradict mclaren's claims however the dishonesty of the great rock 'n' roll swindle is not my biggest problem with it if it were actually entertaining which i used to think it was to a certain extent i would be able to overlook that like i obviously used to be able to do during my third viewing apart from sex pistols songs some live footage and at least one mildly amusing cartoon sequence it was pretty dull i found the who killed bambi song mildly amusing at first but it got tiring very quickly br br is this mockumentary worth watching for sex pistols fans it seems a good number of fans would say it is not to learn about the true story of the short lived but groundbreaking 70's punk band but for entertainment that was once my opinion on the great rock 'n' roll swindle after the first time i watched it i couldn't remember a thing mclaren said and by the time i saw it the second time i was aware of what the pistols manager was using this film to imply but could still barely remember anything i heard him say obviously other aspects of the film were what i found impressive now after my third viewing i can definitely remember some of the things mclaren says but it still wasn't 100 clear like most of the film i guess his words are not that memorable probably because of the way they're presented if you're a pistols fan i guess it wouldn't hurt to give swindle a try but to me for the most part it's just an incoherent boring mess that tries to be funny but fails
0	from the epicenter of the cultural globe four working class teenagers attempted to change the world through music and fashion it was the final attempt to do so last century and they failed before the dust had cleared band manager and sex shop proprietor malcolm mclaren spent the money the sex pistols had earned to make a mockumentary about his own role in their success the film was called the great rock 'n roll swindle take the hint and consists of very little footage of the sex pistols actually playing music and quite a lot of footage of mclaren effectively calling the audience idiots br br cod surrealist nonsense in which guitarist steve jones is a detective on mclaren's tail soon dissolves so he and drummer paul cook can jet off to rio and spend time with great train robber ronnie biggs ready yourself for the spectacle of three very unappealing men dancing naked to a hideous irony free version of was a gas a song about killing jews for gold in bergen concentration camp and another song sung in ronnie's tone deaf whine which includes the lyrics god save myra hindley god save ian brady lyrics that johnny rotten would have considered distasteful the sid vicious scenes are few and idiotic jumping out of bed in a thong with a swastika over the testicles to sing some bad boy biker song from the '50s playing into to the punk's a joke theme of the movie in an attempt to turn sid into james dean i'm surprised mclaren doesn't take credit for death too the redeeming scenes are those of sid in paris and the infamous performance of my way the punk rock zeitgeist right there mocking an adoring audience before shooting them all no need for an entire film just watch that clip on youtube br br from julien temple's far superior and more enjoyable 2001 documentary followup the filth and the fury we were given a more balanced honest view of what transpired in '78 but there were also a number of scenes that i would have liked to have seen in swindle as fury was basically a of the same material one was an animated sid complete with sid's voice acting you f betta out alright or i'll slice you open a still of which appeared on the cover of the something else 7 inch a snippet was shown in fury but i don't know what context that originally appeared was it in original prints but removed after sid's death was there more fury also shed light on the film who killed bambi which would have been the mock hard day's night movie mclaren was originally intending to make it starred sting as a member of a gay new romantics group and looked a damn sight more entertaining than swindle br br sod swindle a swindle if you must rent the filth and the fury and revel in music's failure as a world changing polemic
0	not only is the great rock n roll swindle thoroughly inaccurate but when it comes down to it not much about it is interesting or even entertaining malcolm mclaren apparently squandered the majority of the sex pistols earnings on this waste of film which makes it that much more obnoxious the intention from the beginning was to create a monument to the genius of mclaren who to this day takes full credit for creating punk music creating the sex pistols and at times even writing all the songs viewers follow mclaren to various settings where he tells his story to his sidekick a female dwarf and simply takes credit for one thing after another one particularly irritating scene has mclaren in an abandoned airplane hangar waiting for a plane being hounded by reporters and giving them their big story the most entertaining elements of the film are the animated short pieces however even these reek of mclaren's overbearing self importance br br even as a farce this film doesn't work little about it is entertaining except for steve jones who is surprisingly decent as a pseudo detective type person 20 years later julien temple who wrote and directed this film also directed the sex pistols documentary the filth and the fury while that movie is much better and more interesting than swindle it still is full of temple's artistic flourishes that just don't work like interviewing band members in shadow as if they are some kind of crime witness trying to hide their identity an interesting bit of trivia film critic roger ebert was one of the original scriptwriters for the movie who killed bambi which eventually became swindle
0	to this day malcolm mclaren is telling anyone daft enough to believe him that the sex pistols were his idea and that the band members were his puppets to be used to make him money there is a good reason for him doing this namely that he is a liar br br here are some real facts br br mclaren was actually approached by the band to be manager not the other way round br br the pistols were a proper organic band and not created by mclaren or anyone else jones and cook were childhood friends rotten and vicious went back a long way too this is something that has led to unfair criticism of the pistols down the years as they have been likened to manufactured boy bands br br the band and no one else wrote the songs recorded them played live created the publicity and gave the interviews br br mclaren did not instigate the bill incident the pistols only appeared on the programme because queen had pulled out according to the band mclaren was cowering in the back in case arrests were about to be made br br johnny rotten walked out of the band he was not sacked br br far from the sex pistols john lydon rotten actually successfully sued him in the 1980s for control and a considerable sum of money some of the evidence used by lawyers was from mclaren's boasting in 'the great rock roll this would suggest that mclaren is none too bright despite his affectations br br the and subsequent pay offs from a m and emi were again not engineered it was merely the way things panned out br br mclaren boasts about the money he made from the band if he had been competent he could have made a great deal more it seems he even organise gigs properly br br mclaren's claim at the start of the film that he invented punk rock can be disproved in about ten seconds the pistols were not the first punk band merely the most high profile br br this is a terrible film the only parts worth watching are the genuine footage of the band later put to much better use in 'the filth and the fury'
0	the operative rule in the making of this film seems to have been never make a 1 minute scene when you can make it a 10 minute scene this was a principle set right from the start with an interminably long portrayal of the graduation of the harvard class of 1870 the point of that scene i suppose was to introduce some of the primary figures in the story and give a bit of their background which is somewhat effective when comparing the idealism of the harvard graduation ceremony to the realism of life in johnson county wyoming but it just keeps going and going and that sets the stage for a film that features repeated stretches of mind numbing nothingness made even worse by the fact that i found a significant amount of the dialogue to be almost incoherent in the end i couldn't even watch this in one sitting i got through about half of it and had to set it aside for a couple of days before i could drag myself back to see how it turned out br br my reaction to this movie in many ways is a shame because there are positives here the performances are generally of a high calibre especially from kris as christopher walken as champion and isabelle huppert as ella the basic story interspersed as it is around that ever present mind numbing nothingness is potentially interesting focusing on the efforts of immigrants to establish themselves in johnson county and a local cattle company's efforts to stop them by killing a number of them in collaboration with the government and the military there's also some absolutely breathtaking scenery shots having said that the whole thing could frankly have been done in half the time and should have been in the end all those potential positives are washed out by again the mind numbing nothingness that the movie seems to revolve around seriously 2 10
0	i will not spoil your surprise by mentioning any of the hideous plot lines i'll just say that this movie suffers from poor animation over acting obvious tag lines… these are some of it's good qualities if you are deserted on an isolated island and the only link to civilization you got is this movie throw it to the fish i can't tell you how much i'm sorry i saw this horrifying ghastly movie speaking of which this movie supposedly a horror movie cannot be classified as such for the simple fact that the only horror in the movie is the playing capabilities of some of the actors br br take care
0	there is only way to describe this movie br br so bad its hilarious br br the acting is so bad i laughed my ass off throughout the male lead in this movie trying to use a gun is so ridiculous you would think he was trying to copy a toy action figure i know this sounds ridiculous but when you see it for yourself you can't help but agree br br the monster looks like a cgi guy trying to recreate the clay monsters you get in old sinbad movies br br in short this movie is good for only one thing a really large laugh at how bad movies can get br br if you want to see bad acting bad script and special effects gone wrong br br this is the movie for you
0	the acting was flat at least none of the actors sounded like they'd just got the script that morning and the film and sound quality made me think of the 70s movie of the week bombs the only thing that told me that it was indeed not a 70s movie of the week was the reference to dna testing but for me being eastern orthodox the most egregious thing about this film was the total of the religion romania is 88 orthodox but you'd never know that from this movie father soren is irish and i'd have known this even if i hadn't seen the actor play the irish pub keep michael sullivan in star trek voyager's episodes the bishop was wearing roman and for the record not even orthodox bishops wear their unless they're saying the especially if they live in a monastery about the only non paraphernalia i saw was the 3 bar cross on the door of the church and even then i had to squint to see it the first reviewer said the producers had done their research well if that's true they messed up on the religious aspect of the film
0	this movie is like porn with all of the good parts removed it's like all of the porn stars that didn't want to fulfill their obligations banded together around this awful trite useless piece of gargoyle abstinence br br this is a helpful movie if you're in the mood to torture a loved or no longer loved one it's important that if you choose to use this movie as a method of torture that you put in earplugs and put on a blindfold to keep yourself from going insane br br if i had a choice between this movie and the 700 club i'd choose girls gone wild br br overall better if you've been drinking but only because it becomes a drinking game of epic proportions
0	gargoyle starts late one night in as a peasant girl daniela travels along in her horse cart minding her own business when from the moonlit clouds above a living gargoyle swoops down attacks her she manages to escape the gargoyle happens upon a castle of some description where an angry mob of local villagers a priest are able to put an end to the gargoyle or so they think cut to present day bucharest where two cia agents ty griffin michael pare jennifer wells sandra hess are about to negotiate the safe return of the son of a rich american ambassador from his kidnappers in pursuit of one of the kidnappers griffin loses him on the roof of a building but finds a large pool of blood no visible signs of what happened to him meanwhile dr christina durant kate her colleague richard barrier jason are renovating a church when the church labourer gregor informs richard that he has found some ancient relic the two investigate find a cave with lots of slimy cocoons one very angry very much alive gargoyle who wastes no time in killing them both griffin wells are on the case when they are reported missing soon realise that local legends of monstrous gargoyles are true with a local priest named father soren planning to flood the world with them br br co written co produced directed by jim wynorski under his usual pseudonym jay andrews gargoyles is yet another masterpiece wynorski can add to his credits not the script by wynorski ion a g lawrence bill munroe is crap is unexciting dull is as simplistic as you can get for a start i would like to know if there was only one gargoyle left who laid all those eggs because i'm pretty sure it couldn't have made itself pregnant how did it survive in that hole for 500 years what did it eat how did the priest know it was there why has no one else ever figured it out why did the priest want to flood the world with them to rule it the gargoyles are hardly going to take over the world then let some priest just rule it like a king if they did what would be left to rule much like the guys who wrote gargoyle i don't think he thought it through that well did he whichever way i look at it whichever way i approach it from whichever angle i try to figure it out from no matter how many times i try to square the circle gargoyles just doesn't make any sense they story has huge plot holes lapses in logic isn't that great to start with anyway the character's are dull clichéd the action repetitive unexciting while the film as a whole is a real bore to sit through people do illogical things everything that happens is far to convenient like when the priest is try to convince griffin that exist one just suddenly shows up attacks them the cave full of cocoons is such a rip off of aliens 1986 it's embarrassing the ending was lame the bit on the large ferris wheel at the fair was funny though when the guy mocked the boys fear of heights forced him to get on it br br director wynorski cuts costs steals footage from other films in fact the best scene from gargoyle is a car chase through bucharest but it was taken from the jean claude van damme action film maximum risk 1996 there are no shocks scares or atmosphere the special effects are terrible the cgi gargoyle looks like it belongs in a computer game has little interaction with any living cast members there are lots of scenes of people looking up to the sky trying to appear scarred there isn't even any worthwhile gore to make the thing watchable there is one awful decapitation that's it br br technically the special effects are awful but otherwise it's passable the romanian locations look suitably romanian gargoyle went straight to video it shows with a pretty cheap look feel to it the acting isn't up to much personality bypass victim michael pare makes for the dullest of dull heroes br br gargoyle is a crap film it fails at everything a decent creature feature should strive to achieve a total waste of 90 minutes as far as i'm concerned one to avoid
0	you know that commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he's trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink that's a great metaphor for this movie i kept watching even though it was really difficult but keeping in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth i should have spit it out when i had the chance br br the premise is corny enough to be fun for the first time in like a thousand years gargoyles have returned to romania and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead it's up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok unfortunately the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles br br in the end this movie feels like a poor man's van helsing if you check your brain at the door this might get you through a dreary monday night i gave it 3 out of 10 stars
0	this is just one of the hundred million movies where the directors try to shove too much drama into a movie that's not dramatic at all like in the beginning the part where the monk dude shoved the arrow into his own hand then shot that same arrow into the gargoyle five minutes later no sense whatsoever br br the only thing worse than the plot line is the cgi which would be greatly rivaled by a homemade flash movie the actors look like they're doing their hardest to portray a bunch of 70's robots the dialogue makes so little sense it's not funny br br many things just happen with no explanation as to how or why such as a lady suddenly wandering around a zoo that had shut down hours ago and when she sees this thing flying towards her her first reaction is to take a picture rather than what she does a full ten minutes later power walking not even running like her life depended on it which obviously it doesn't br br overall not recommended makes me wish they still did new episodes of mst3k
0	i don't think i'm spoiling anyone's experience of this film by telling you not to see it if you have anything better to do like clean under the stove it gets dirty under there and you've gotta clean it sometime br br i think the movie suffers from a lack of sex and violence though there is one car chase stunt that looks so dangerous it could only have been filmed in a country where life is cheaper than beer gargoyle 's heart is in the right place but its aspirations are conservative it is at least not pretentious but i had a great time acting in it playing the perennial idiot in the horror movie who says what's down this hole and dies for his hubris plus i got to meet michael pare every film junkie should work with a b movie staple at least once before death and romanians are the loveliest people i've met literally the loveliest walk down the street in if 7 of every 10 women aren't absolutely beautiful you're walking down a street i didn't come across and be consoled by the fact that at least 5 of the 10 are available for drinks br br part of the film was shot in casa radio an abandoned unfinished classic communist bloc cum georgian nightmare originally intended to house kgb propaganda i e radio not so free europe the building's five stories tall and takes up a city block best of all while its facade radiates big state solidity it resides near the city center like a post apocalyptic ruin in a jungle of burdock and peopled by dozens of gypsies and scores of wild dogs construction on casa radio was suspended when and his wife were executed on tv in 1989 and still there are gaping holes that drop from the sun baked top floor offering surreal vistas of a modern quarter mile stretch of concrete roof decorated with jutting rebar and old car parts overlooking a crumbling ancient city all the way down to the damp creepy sub basement which doubles in the film for the gargoyle lair no american style or warning signs for br br since the demise of the soviet union casa radio has hosted several non union film shoots including highlander iii it is attractive to producers because it's a cheap location massive in terms of scale and available space bizarre looking and free of insurance headaches as it's still state property plus no one complains if you don't clean up after your production anything left is interpolated into the resident construction of their shanty town in this actual urban jungle br br an assistant director was bitten bloody by a wild dog during the shoot of gargoyle the apples provided by catering were pressed into service by cast and crew as projectiles in order to keep the prowling dogs at bay i too was bitten by wild dogs in once in a bar and once in a city park i also survived two car wrecks in two weeks both in taxis and neither of which was seen by the drivers involved as grounds for stopping the cars br br geek note the sci fi network or channel or whatever was one of the backers of this film the smaller the budget the more producers on set so it's a little weird that nobody had a problem with the original title gargoyles until it was almost time to show it on the network even though sci fi already had an unrelated series of that name the title was changed sometime relatively close to release as i have a color corrected copy labeled with the former title
0	going into teaching mrs tingle all i wanted was a fun enjoyable teen comedy that would entertain me for it's running time despite a rather good first half hour the film quickly subsides into a dull clichéd mess that's about as entertaining as pulling out your eyelashes with pliers rusty pliers at that 'scream' writer kevin williamson wrote and directed this movie and proved that scream may well have been a fluke most of the elements of this movie have been seen a million times already in other films and while it was ok for him to steal elements from other movies in scream due to the fact that it's meant as a slasher tribute here it just looks like he's completely ran out of ideas the plot follows the cleverest girl in school played by katie holmes after being caught cheating along with two of her friends the three decide to take the teacher that caught them hostage in her own home however this isn't just any teacher it's mrs tingle the meanest bitch in school she isn't taking being tied to the bed lying down either as she begins to play mind games to turn her captors against each other br br the plot is very similar to the 1997 flick 'suicide kings' and a whole host of earlier films it's actually not a bad idea for a movie and if williamson could have populated the film with interesting characters it could have worked really well the character of mrs tingle is the most interesting in the movie but she's massively one dimensional and like all the other characters in the film is merely a caricature the acting is largely diabolical with the exception of helen mirren in the title role she's suitably evil in the role and while she doesn't have a lot to get her teeth into she clearly enjoys herself playing the central figure the teenage cast isn't worth mentioning with only katie holmes standing out and that's only really because of her star profile not her acting talents williamson has draped nearly every scene in dull soft rock music which would be really annoying if the film wasn't absolutely terrible anyway honestly this movie does have a few moments that are rather good but basically if you want to see a good example of the teen comedy this isn't the movie that you want to see
0	ridiculous thriller in which a group of students kidnapped their bad and neurotic teacher mirren just to prevent her action against them interesting premise could render a good movie but this one is just lame and far fetched boring with an ending embarassing just to say the least mrs mirren tries to give some dignity to this misfire but even she a good actress no doubt about it could save this garbage i give this a 4 four
0	the director spent a lot of time making the scenes look real right down to the historical photos and all the sounds of the old west bustle too bad the producers and writer director michael cimino spent zero time on any of the historical facts of what the johnson county war was really about a lot of the war was over how public lands should be used for grazing the cattlemen didn't want the poor sheep on the land to compete for on this cold windswept plateau the entire epic makes no mention of grazing sheep which was one of the most important reasons for the war br br the worst scene is the battle between the peasants and the hired killers the peasants are shown circling the gunmen like a bunch of indians would do in much earlier hollywood movies the true fact is that johnson county sheriff william red angus with a posse of 200 to 300 men intercepted the gunmen and trapped them in a barn at the ta ranch i doubt any women took part in the siege br br ellen ella also known as cattle kate watson and her second husband james were hanged by a lynch mob about three years before the johnson county invasion ella was never a prostitute this was a spread by the wyoming stock growers association in order to discredit her the fact that the plot makes her out to be a brothel madam only serves the interests of the br br i object to the use of names of real people in a plot that is so obviously fiction there is no fact in the events time lines or backgrounds of the characters why michael cimino would use real names of people who were loosely connected with the johnson county war and events leading up to it is beyond me br br the movie could have been much more interesting if it had dwelt on the political ramifications of the federal government intervention in a state government's affairs and what happened after the gunmen were saved by the calvary some effort was made to prosecute the cattlemen who were responsible by the johnson county attorney but since johnson county could not afford the court costs and the governor of wyoming amos w barber backed the the charges were eventually dropped br br overall i think the movie was just an excuse to show isabelle huppert naked for much of the three and 3 4 hours of running time on the dvd version
0	it is such a shame when actors and actresses of high quality get involved with pure crap probably because they were offered a great deal of money not one of helen mirren's better career moves the acting of the teens is simply appalling not helped by a script that is in parts simply inept br br most of kevin williamson's work is above average box office dross but this is really below par br br this is the sort of movie that you watch on tv when there is nothing better on and you have had half a bottle of wine to drink and are waiting for the pizza to be delivered so you can drink the other half
0	the only reason i watched this movie a second time was to learn the name of the second banana girl playing opposite katie her name is marisa never heard of her before she is lovely captivating with an animated face and cute bod she is highly watchable she's got real more than a passing vibe of grace kelly with youthful exuberance i think she is irish in gene pool my favorite female dna so it makes some sense that she would resemble the most beautiful irish american the movie is unremarkable katie is classic beauty in the flesh but marisa is the one you follow with your eyes in 1999 when this movie was made she was around 25 years old in her prime this reminds me of another silly worthless movie with the only redemption being the pretty girl in it it was career opportunites with the first time i saw jennifer or grease ii the first time i saw michelle pfeiffer
0	you know i'm getting really tired of all the generic music being used in these type of movies see jawbreaker disturbing behavior etc every scene of genuine tension here and there is some is immediately undercut with some cheesy pop tune completely diluting the suspense why do they do that to sell some soundtracks of course but in this case mission unaccomplished did anyone buy the cd br br and yeah ms mirren attacks her role with zest and relish with some cheez wiz to add kick but what are molly leslie and vivica doing here their roles they're so underused that i cannot use characters here have no purpose in the storyline so i can't figure out why three well known actresses had been cast br br oh and the ending is so unbelievably hackneyed and irresponsible the kids get off scot free and act as if nothing happened all smiles at graduation they're criminals people no consequences for their actions kidnapping assault grade tampering nothing br br little things too was tale about her husband true what's with the crossbow would the virginal katie character loose her cherry on a whim like that great message guys why did go to her home how did kate's academic nemesis walk through the door at that exact moment how do students even obtain teachers' home addresses what's with jeffrey tambor on what basis did fire tingle she's bloodied battered and held hostage by students fer sake br br oh well i'm spending way more thought on the script than mr williamson apparently did so i'll stop here br br 3 10
0	i made it about halfway through this movie and at that point realized that i absolutely didn't care how it ended it is basically a bland teen comedy that i only watched because i like helen mirren who is in fact very good as an impossibly cruel teacher br br the basic idea of the movie or let's say the first half of the movie since i don't know or care how the second half goes has been done before most notably in 9 to 5 and a comparison between the two shows how thoroughly tingle gets it wrong you need to feel things are spiraling out of control in a way that makes you feel events are inevitable and you need well defined interesting characters who you care about and you don't have that not the worst movie i've ever seen but it never grabbed me for a second
0	this absurd movie was about a goodie two shoe teen girl that really wanted to be valedictorian but finds her obstacle in a teacher name mrs tingle katie holmes who plays this goodie two shoe is faced with the biggest dilemma of her teenage life when this classmate guy of hers comes along with the final exams sample that should help them nail mrs test mrs tingle comes along catches holmes the classmate guy and her best friend with the sample of her final exam convinced that the three of them planned on cheating on here exam mrs tingle enthuses on her opportunity to ruin holmes once and for all with allegations that can take away any chance of holmes passing her class and the classmate guy who apparently has his eye on holmes always wondered why she never gave him the time of day he's an idiot feeling desperate holmes and her friends visit mrs tingle in the middle of the night to try to dissuade her in believing that holmes was planning to cheat it all backs fire somehow when the classmate guy points a bow and arrow at mrs tingle threatening her to make things right for holmes mrs tingle fights back but ultimately ends up as holmes and her friend's captive br br during mrs tingle captivity under holmes they do everything from tying her up and gagging her in her own bed to blackmailing her with false pictures that they took of the unconscious coach in bed with mrs tingle i found myself cringing when the kids were making themselves at home in mrs house eating up her food and going though her private work at one point holmes found mrs grade book and purposely changes the grade in her favor the grade of her challenge for valedictorian the end played out like a childish attempt to bring back the comedy that was sparingly in the beginning of the film resolving on pure irony slapstick and absurdity br br this has to be the most unlikable and wickedly evil character holmes would ever play in her entire life i wanted to help mrs tingle get free to really dig a grave for holmes she was manipulative selfish and conniving she even slept with the classmate guy despite her best friend's overwhelming interest in him and she didn't like him from attempting to ruin her challengers grades by seizing mrs grade book to taking her best friend's man you would think that holmes would get what she deserves in the end right unfortunately she obtains everything her heart desires showing that being wicked manipulative selfish and whining can get you what you want br br mrs tingle was suppose to be the character you didn't like they didn't bring me to that point once to believe that she was this woman that needed to be taught this lesson she was like every other strict teacher who even gave valid reasons for her resentment of the next generation personally i felt that her opinions about young people were validated with holmes and her friend's actions every time i kept hoping she could get free to call the police and nail holmes they kept her tied up in bed ate up her food like a bunch of pigs drank up the woman's wine messed with her personal belongings and we're suppose to believe that she didn't deserve to take a bat to each of their heads and the classmate guy has to be one of the most disliked characters in the history of film forget idiot we need a new word for him that isn't in the webster's dictionary he brought the major trouble into life then made things worse when he came into mrs house uninvited behind holmes and corners mrs tingle with a bow and arrow i was thrilled every time mrs tingle had a chance to slap fire out of him or choke the wannabe actress best friend br br if you're a teen out there and want to see when a teen's manipulation and wrong doing can get him or her the world see this unfunny caricature filled unintentional film noir
0	i heard this movie was even warned me it was terrible but for some reason probably katie holmes i still watched it when it came on national tv watching kevin williamson films means torturing his scenarios aren't funny definitely not scary and not the least bit creative teaching mrs tingle breathes the same irritating atmosphere as his brainless series dawson's and it's probably meant for the same target group as well before the credits even started 5 people already wanted a hug and they stated that eerie i love you' sentence it doesn't get any better as the soundtrack is filled with annoying pop rock and the storyline is ultra thin three students on the verge of graduation get caught cheating by the teacher in school every high school has a teacher like that you know… to save their skin they try to convince mrs tingle that it wasn't their intention to cheat but this attempt goes horrible wrong the typical high school humor is completely lost on me the overdose of sentiment is pathetic and the acting with the exception of helen mirren is abominable i'm sure katie holmes can act – that's a fact proven by her role in the – but she urgently needs to stop accepting frumpish girl roles as said before the only positive comments goes out to the brilliant casting of helen mirren as the shrew it's like kathleen turner in serial mom' the role suits her perfectly and you can't imagine anyone else playing her other than that this is avoidable teenage nonsense
0	history teacher mrs tingle seems to have it in for student leigh ann watson who has her heart on achieving a writing school scholarship she receives another low grade from tingle which doesn't help when one of her classmates luke steals the paper of the final history exams and pops it in her bag mrs tingle finds it sticking out she threatens the three that she will go to the principal about it but he's not available so before she reports it the next morning leigh her friend jo lynn and scott head to her place that night and try to convince her not tell the principal however due to stubbornness that find themselves reverting to drastic measures to stop this getting out br br wasn't fan of it when i first saw it and after another viewing i'm still not one writer kevin williamson was on a roll after penning the successful contemporary teen horror films 'scream 1996 ' 'i know what you did last summer 1997 ' 'scream 2 1997 ' and 'the faculty 1998 ' he was riding the success also not to forget the tv show creek but this project would be the final bump the difference there compared with this entry was other then writing the screenplay he was also making his debut in directing the strange thing though was that i found his direction to be competently done but material he stormed up to flavourless and tired it seemed to get caught in playing both a black comedy and straight out thriller without making it gel the script is cluttered with quick wit on going gags trivial stretches and gimmicky references towards other films but the problem is that it's too watered down with so many contrived developments and sappy moral currents disrupting the flow the fractured script had to be more strong and potent since it's a small scale production that feels like you're watching a stage show because of its mostly confined sets it tries to play mind games with the characters but these moments are there to only serve the story's poor progression into a puddle of stupidity and senselessness the film's ending takes the cake williamson's polished direction is sound but more so in a pedestrian way and therefore it lacks suspense and the pacing even with its taut surroundings can really plod on you eventually feel it after the halfway mark and it shows up how minor the story is the performances are tolerable enough although if it weren't for helen mirren's classy icy portrayal of manipulative prowess as mrs tingle and a buoyant marisa we would have been stuck watching a vapid goody to shoes katie holmes barry watson is modest in his slacker part and molly ringwald has a lesser role the soundtrack packs enough energy but i found it terribly overwrought and shapeless in its choices br br watchable but mechanical all round
0	sorry for any spoilers that this contains but if you want to read on anyway i really wonder why so many people are so high on kevin williamson let's just take a quick look at his work as a screenwriter shall we there's scream 1 and 2 plus the story for the next one which i think are pretty funny but very overrated besides by making scream into a franchise it ceased to become a parody of horror movies and simply became another one then there's i know what you did last summer which is essentially the same movie again he co wrote halloween h20 but even he had the sense not to take credit for what he did on that monstrosity then comes the faculty which i can only say was god awful lots of fun to make fun of though don't even get me started on the ridiculous soap operatic dawson's creek i could rail about how bad that is for hours so then we get to teaching mrs tingle first of all there are tons of little implausibilities in this one for example in most high schools that i know of the valedictorian is not the only one who gets to go to college this idea that katie holmes's character would never go anywhere unless she was valedictorian was absurd haven't you ever heard of financial assistance damn it also i don't think you get expelled from high school or don't get into college because of cheating on one test there are a bunch of other ones but i'll skip to the big one now the ending really bothered me they committed a crime but it was ok because the teacher was a bitch great do you know how many of my teachers i could kidnap based on that logic i'm sure the police never took any statements to find out the whole story either that sure wouldn't be necessary helen mirren was good she added some nice flair to a character who as a previous commenter noted had no reason for anything she did and has anyone else noticed that katie holmes absolutely can't act her self righteousness became incredibly annoying you wanted me to fail blah blah blah her last two scenes with mrs tingle were the worst the only reason i don't regret losing 8 25 on this disaster is because she got beaten up a bit no wait i do regret losing the money it wasn't real and she survived mr williamson if you're reading this you've made the same movie some violence and or scary stuff offset by wise ass kids who make sarcastic jokes and references to other movies just a few too many times now i count 6 so for not including scream 3 and whatever follows it and i would really appreciate it if you would stop otherwise i might just have to kidnap you and threaten you with a crossbow ok
0	this isn't a dreadful film merely insipid the plot is deeply flawed and implausible it tries to be a number of genres and fails at each it fails as a comedy as a suspense thriller and as a horror movie it almost succeeds as science fiction the direction is uninspired and katie holmes cute cherub face that she is should be modeling teen clothing not acting the only thing that keeps this movie from being a 1 out of 10 is helen mirren her performance is fabulously nefarious and is almost worth suffering through the rest of it her ability to from imperious to faux sympathetic to deviously manipulate and control her prey shows masterful range other than marissa delightful exorcist rendition mirren is the only reason to see this movie a solid 3 0
0	mr moto's gamble has a fairly straight forward plot when a boxer is murdered in the ring with a mysterious poison it's up to the even more mysterious mr moto to solve the case br br i'm shocked at the number of positive reviews for mr moto's gamble on imdb because to me well i found it extremely disappointing i enjoy mr moto and i enjoy charlie chan but i can't say i cared for this mish mash of the two for those unfamiliar with the story behind mr moto's gamble it was originally intended to be a charlie chan film but when warner backed out some of the scenes and action were rewritten for peter lorre and mr moto as i indicated the end result left me underwhelmed mr moto is not chan he's more mysterious he's more athletic and he's more exotic so trying to put moto in a chan film is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole it doesn't work and listening to lorre moto try to deliver one of chan's trademark euphemisms just ends up sounding silly add to that the fact that almost 10 minutes of the already brief 72 minute runtime is made up of boxing scenes something that i never seem to enjoy and you end up with a movie that i couldn't help but dislike if i have to say something positive i would point to the performance of keye luke but even he's not near enough to save mr moto's gamble in my eyes br br sorry but a 4 10 is about the best i can give this one
0	now infamous western that was at its time the biggest budgeted disaster in hollywood history i was lucky enough to see the full 220 minute version at a theatre in 1990 it was truly staggering how bad the film was br br they had a great cast a story based on a true incident a fight between foreigners and americans in the 1800s magnificent scenery so what went wrong three words director michael cimino he was so full of himself after the deer hunter he went out and made this god awful western he's not totally to blame his previous film the deer hunter was considered a masterpiece and united artists gave him free reign to do anything they let him all alone and everything went wrong the cost went barreling out of control and cimino insisted on redoing sequences again and again until they were perfect br br first off the sound is horrible entire sequences go by and you can't make out a word the characters are saying for instance jeff bridges' character is introduced during a dance sequence but i still have no idea who he was the dialogue in his introductory scene is incomprehensible that's the director's fault he should have made sure the dialogue could be heard some scenes are shot with so much dust flying around you can barely make out what's going on the story line doesn't make a whole lot of sense and cimino took great liberties with the facts in the real story only one person was killed cimino turns it into a massacre there is some admittedly beautiful sequences here totally destroyed by lack of story and incomprehensible dialogue also the bad sound was not the fault of the theatre all the prints sound that way br br this garbage effectively closed down united artists and was the end of cimino's career a textbook example of a director so full of himself he doesn't realize what he's doing jeff bridges has said this is the worst movie he ever did this is from a guy who made tron a definite must miss br br there is a pretty good book called the final cut which details the whole disaster this gets a 1 i wish imdb had negative numbers this deserves it
0	having spent the six years previous writing and producing luc returns to the directors chair with angel a i'm a huge fan of and quite liked the prospect of a black and white french film from the same chap br br andré is a liar and gambling addict owing money to almost every loan shark in paris unable to repay his debts and fed up with being held over the edge of the eiffel tower he decides to kill himself he happens to do so at the same time as a mysterious woman who he decides to save determined to thank him she begins to help him fix his own life br br the film starts with some laughs which run well throughout the visuals are quite nice and work well with the sights of paris but that is it that's all the film has got going for it and these mere two facets can do nothing to hold back the torrent of terrible film making the movie unleashes though i can't hugely fault the main character his inconsistencies are close though the eponymous one is ghastly a terrible screen presence and bitterly annoying the plot is ridiculously inconsistent itself and at times bizarrely silly particularly the ending an ending which completely bloodied the fledgling redemption engendered by the scenes immediately prior to it perhaps the most ridiculous scene i've had the ignominy of observing it is stupid indulgent melodramatic and considerably too awful to be so bad it's funny the overall premise of the film could conceivably have once held potential but it is brutally massacred by the terrible implementation of its ideas the film really was a task to watch and one which had me screaming at the screen the whole way through br br massively and immeasurably flawed angel a is just plain bad though its occasionally fun dialogue manages to draw out chortles at rare intervals by the end it is clear that this film is nothing more than repugnant
0	angel a is a change of pace for monochrome mawkish and rather mediocre it is well photographed on location in paris although subtitle readers should note quick fire dialogue and good cinematography may make for frustrating viewing br br this film is no wings of desire or wonderful life despite its shared themes heavenly intervention suicide angel mortal relationships ensue does nothing to enlighten or inspire us even the well acted teary moments rapidly descend into toe curling sentimentality br br the film's flawed ideology irritates an angel whose message of love and respect for self is constantly undermined by her own violent and promiscuous behaviour a happy ending which negates the hero's supposed journey from helplessness to self esteem and independence br br verdict quite nice to look at but confused moral and philosophical messages tarnish the film precisely where it should shine 4 10
0	this is a really obnoxious show it is in fact an example of how low television has fallen since 'reality' got in style tanya is pretty but she is also extremely rude and has awful taste is a house show the place for sex appeal apparently some males like the show because they find tanya attractive the other boss is not pretty but he's fully as rude and also has awful taste it is unfortunate that so many houses have to be shown while someone is still living in them most of the people who are allegedly viewing these houses before changes are made should be moving into brand new houses or completely empty ones so they will not be insulting anyone most of them like the 'crew' need to be taught manners i can imagine how awful the british show is since the british reality shows tend to be even worse when it comes to manners and taste br br what happened to the arts and entertainment channel when it started out and for some years afterward it was filled with treats now it's one big trash machine
0	says that baltic storm is banned in sweden that is not correct instead you can buy the film almost everywhere like in gas stations shopping malls internet of course and so on often to a very low price because this movie is so bad and nobody wants to see it despite all the tricks to keep up the interest the movie only appeals to conspiracy theorists psychos and other persons living in la la land and those who knows the truth br br working on a museum with the estonia disaster as a theme i have meet them all i have heard about every theory that exists like cocaine smuggling weapon smuggling biological warfare nuclear smuggling red mercury aliens the russian the american the estonian the swedish and the finnish intelligence often in different combinations br br some normal persons have asked why we don't show the film a question only asked by them who haven't seen this terrible nonsense movie br br once again baltic storm is not banned in sweden it has some entertaining qualities but what a hell is donald sutherland doing in this movie
0	i have to admit i picked this movie just for the cast and while sutherland scacchi and prochnow were as usual great performers the rest of the movie was such a let down it feels like it was put together by a team of adolescents with low level scripts that is scripts lacking any depth awful photography and editing and hilariously lousy score i can't believe i was able to watch this seemingly long movie until the end the sad thing is this could have actually been a great political thriller given the interesting plot all the potential was there to make it a hit that is two main ingredients are there a great story of national conspiracies and a great core cast even though many other actors are pretty much soap opera quality but maybe i'm missing something until then it's still not worth more than a 3 in my opinion
0	controversial german journalist jutta who herself got divers to the estonia wreck put this silly thriller together to save her investment br br donald sutherland is of course always watchable but he's only in three scenes he delivers his material perfectly as you can ask from a professional also the main lead jürgen is at times very good br br the rest of the cast is however bad the actress that plays the swedish minister secretary or whatever she was she seems not listed in the cast is extremely bad br br the script has some nice ideas and the story is actually kind of interesting the final screenplay should have been re written a couple of more times though some scenes are plain ridiculous especially the end scenes br br the film is almost 2 hours which is about 45 minutes too long presented as a 60 minutes tv film this could have been really interesting as a two hour feature it's pretentious boring stupid and plain out silly br br jutta might be a good journalist her ideas about governments using estonia to transport military items from estonia to sweden have been concluded as true recently when the swedish military officially said that they actually used the ship estonia for this but as a film producer she sucks br br the director the writer and the actors suck more br br i give this film 3 10 i would've given it a 1 if it wasn't for the fact that the story is quite interesting at times donald sutherland is in it and it has real stock footage br br but we don't even see the boat sink what kind of movie about a ship that sinks is that like a werewolf movie without werewolves
0	i admire the effort of trying to reach out to the rest of the world with this tragic story however the movie is done so badly that most people i know couldn't sit through it the movie was relevant to me since i lived in estonia when these events took place but it is written horribly and fails to capture the attention of someone who knows nothing on the matter the music choices do not flow well with the movie it seems as if someone just turned a cd player on in the background to put the actors in the mood the acting well what acting the only people acting are jürgen prochnow and donald sutherland even though prochnow seems uncomfortable in this role as far as the relationship development goes between erik jürgen prochnow and julia greta scacchi it is like watching a train wreck there is absolutely no chemistry and it is painful to witness their sincere moments this is not a good movie there is a difference between trying to get a message out could've been a documentary and trying to make a good movie this is a failure and anyone here who says otherwise makes me wonder if they are trying to promote it as a matter of fact as a native of estonia i am offended by this miserable effort this tragedy deserves more than just a homemade low budget ghost chase excuse of a movie this could have been much more
0	this music is totally out of touch with the film showing up now and then as wagnerian bombast and lone ranger hurry up otherwise nonexistent the acting outside of the two principals is nonexistent it would have been an excellent student film the russian soldiers are just models trying to act the constant interruptions with wow explosive camera angles and clips of pieces of people were quite irritating but that's just a personal feeling the story line isn't worse than others actually not worse than most completely ignoring logic and reason and reality at least nobody walked in front of a machine gun for three minutes without being hit the three top level bad guys were campy
0	much like brass caligula the people who made this movie can't tell the difference between explicitness and eroticism no build up at all just throw naked women on the screen no it doesn't work that way if close ups of female genitalia aren't your thing prepare to be looking away from the screen at many points i often did the all women are whores at heart mentality of the movie is offensive and the story is by turns absurd and boring the escape is the most boring part but halfway through there is a random scene that pops out of nowhere and involves one of the female prisoners and one of the male guards in a nude wrestling match which she wins with a couple of judo moves although the choreography of the fight is bad the whole scene is undeniably memorable in fact that scene and the nice cinematography are the only two reasons i give this film out of 4 instead of 0
0	i've come to realise through watching this sort of film that i don't like them very much caged women is yet another 'women in prison' film and like the most of the rest of the genre the plot is completely forsaken in favour of simply showing nude women now don't get me wrong i love nude women but i also like there to be some sort of plot thread to go with the nudity and since this film has only the basic 'women are in prison' theme running through it aswell as the essential escape of course i got a bit bored before the end the film is good because there's barely a moment in it where the women are wearing clothes but that's about the only positive element director and writer ha ha erwin c dietrich delights in showing close ups of the naked female body but it's never very erotic the director was the producer on a number of trash flicks including some directed by jess franco in my opinion he should stick to producing as his writing talents are non existent and he doesn't seem to know how to film a sex scene this sort of material is rather dry a lot of the time but i reckon franco could have made more out of it overall this might suffice for people that are really into this sort of stuff but i can't say i enjoyed it
0	this is the movie that pretty much sounded the death knell for the auteur in hollywood at over 40 million bucks heaven's gate is so poorly conceived and executed it would take a lifetime to break down every area of failure what really me the most about it is that technically it's very bad an unforgivable sin for the money that went into it john hurt's commencement speech at harvard is inaudible as is a conversation between kris kristofferson and richard at the train station some people seem to think cimino intended this as a style he didn't it's just bad sound recording the characters are not particularly well drawn except for the four or five leads in the climactic battle scene it's difficult to tell who's the bad guys and who's the good guys even on that level it's impossible to enjoy the movie the casting of isabelle huppert as the town madam is a joke her french accent renders the whole character a fraud the acting is generally stiff without any range or depth of feeling even christopher walken is bad john hurt's character is the only one with any swagger or vitality although hurt in his 40s playing a fresh faced harvard grad with bags under his eyes is patently ridiculous br br i guess to say that it's overlong is overkill the roller skating sequence could have been easily cut the cockfight scene is rapidly becoming a movie cliche and the final scene on board the ocean liner is right out the twilight zone having rod serling appear before the camera at the end to explain what we just watched would have been the perfect finale actually those scenes in and of themselves are not bad but cimino has not earned the right to include them because what he's given us as the meat of the picture is so incompetently bad the editing is poor especially in the grand battle climax at one point the same explosion with the same wagon wheel flying from the blast is used three different times i wish could i say something anything nice about this movie a great scene a great performance even one memorable line of dialogue but i can't it is all just one big unholy mess about the only thing i did like was the cinematography and the montana locations which are stunning even cimino couldn't screw that up this is a long boring bad movie by all standards and the people who say that it gets bashed only because of the cost are just kidding themselves 1 2 out of 4
0	another example of the women in prison genre this is not exactly a genre known for quality films but this is a notch below most a bunch of women are taken from the where they work to a prison on a rocky island once there they are subjected to lots of poorly directed sex and atrocious dialog for a film with an astounding amount of sex and nudity there is really nothing erotic about any of it the sex scenes are awkwardly acted and some scenes like the shower scene seem to drag on and on that said there are at least some minimal production values on the w i p scale i would put it above fur but below chained heat
0	i'd love to write a little summary of this movie's plot but there simply isn't one if you just take a look at the plot keywords for this title you pretty much know the entire content of the film sex breasts exploitation female frontal nudity and women's prison 80 minutes of pure sleaze and nothing more escape of the island women an alternate title that isn't even listed here clearly wanted to become another notorious and controversial woman in prison classic but it totally lacks the brutality of one wip flicks are meant to blend graphic sexual images with shocking violence but the violence here has just been replaced with more sex director erwin dietrich surely can't compete with specialists in the field like jess franco or joe d'amato and he should have sticked to making ordinary soft core flicks the only aspects that slightly look like cult cinema are the resemblance of the tyrant president with fidel castro and the group rape of a minor girl by soldiers the girls are ravishing though and the ibiza filming location looks very enchanting
0	yet another gay film ruined by asinine politics final speech just about sent me running out of the theatre with its bumper sticker epigrams read the comic book it was based on for a much more entertaining experience
0	how much can you really say about a condom with teeth the plot was really out there but it was something campy to see on a friday night the story has a lot of unexpected twists and it's a great way to offend all you're conservative friends
0	how i wondered why i hadn't seen this in theaters or even a single commercial for it and then after i saw the movie i realized i was duped hardcore i am a big transporter fan and a big blade fan so when i saw this i imagined some killer fight scene between two lots of gunplay a whole bunch of stuff instead i got the ryan phillippe movie with a brief cameo by statham and snipes the guy that does the audio and video in the crime lab got more screen time than wesley it was like renting a jackie chan movie expecting a bunch of kung fu and getting erin i expect bad movies from hollywood but actors like snipes and statham should treat the fan base better
0	bank heist cop thriller sounds ok right br br chaos looks good nicely framed good production values high concept action heist br br but br br the plot has the unique achievement of being both smart and blatantly implausible in the how we actually got the money mode and in the who done it and why section at the same time br br in ryan philippe shouting is not seriously not either tough or scary and he is especially not tough or scary when throwing a tizzy fit honestly his great outburst is the only really funny scene in the whole film must make him thrilled that he turned down the role of anakin skywalker and is now doing this br br stratham is normally good as the tough but silent hard nut with the self deprecating humor but here the extra relationship lines are so laughably bad that even he looks uncomfortable saying some of the clichéd mush required more silent seems best br br snipes is actually ok in a typecast way but another nail in a talented actor's coffin he needs an actor's role not an action hero rehash perhaps that business with his taxes will allow him to break that mold and the public and critics will let him on the sympathy vote it would be good if he wasn't so typecast all the time br br the lines these guys speak when they're not doing the plot development and detective work can be summed up in one word br br the film feels all out of whack and it never gels i found it irritating for the first 45 minutes and the tighter last part was passable it should could have been good but it just can't redeem the awful lines the overwhelming score and the general level of irritation with the levels of plausibility br br overall i nearly didn't make it through incredibly irritating and ryan please please please get rid of the
0	the film chaos takes its name from 1988 pop science explanation of chaos theory what does the book or anything related to the content of the book have to do with the plot of the movie chaos nothing the film makers seem to have skimmed the book obviously without understanding a thing about it looking for a theme to united the series of mundane action sequences that the flimsy string of events that acts in place of a plot in the film in this respect the movie resembles the canadian effort cube in which prime numbers function as a device to the audience so that the ridiculousness of the plot will not be noticed in cube a bunch of prime numbers are tossed in so that viewers will attribute their lack of understanding to lack of knowledge about primes the same approach is taken in chaos disconnected extracts from books are thrown in make the doings of the bad guy in the film seem fiendishly clever this of course is an insultingly condescending treatment of the audience and any literate viewer of chaos who can stand to sit through the entire film will end up bewildered how could a film so bad be made rewritten as a novel the story in chaos would probably not even make it past a literary agent's secretary's desk how could at least hundreds of thousands and probably millions of dollars have been thrown away on what can only be considered a waste of time for everyone except those who took home money from the film regarding what's in the movie every performance is phoned in save for technical glitches it would be astonishing if more than one take was used for any one scene the story is uniformly senseless the last time i saw a story to disconnected it was the production of a literal eight year old among other massive shortcomings are the following the bad guy leaves hints for the police to follow he has no reason whatsoever for leaving such hints police officers do not carry or use radios dupes of the bad guy have no reason to act in concert with the bad guy let me strongly recommend that no one watch this film if there is any other movie you like or even simply do not hate watch that instead
0	i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience in other words the creators planed to make comedy not drama at the end i realized that mr tony was earnest about this movie it's a pity because the dialogue is ridiculous the acting is poor and lifeless the story is a fishy tale poor ryan phillippe despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance what to say for jason statham lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction for this reasons i vote 3 10
0	obvious tailored vehicle for ryan philippe it seem the studios were hoping he could play a lead tough cop and not look like he's eternally 16 he can't br br heavyweights jason statham and snipes serve as bookends to phillippe but when they're not on the screen phillippe flounders his shallow acting style has nothing to bounce off of br br the script is a typical late 20th century potboiler good cop bad cop with a ridiculously predictable plot and dialogue lifted out of 1970s tv cop shows such as the streets of san francisco snipes reprises his role as the eternal black hat villain playing a slightly less crazed madman than his demolition man role however there wasn't much for snipes and statham to chew on statham's character announces he'd given up nicotine and caffeine something this movie badly needed injections of br br truly forgettable moment ryan phillippe on buddhist dogma galloway are you a buddhist dekker no it's just something i picked up along the way
0	i went to see this because of snipes statham but honestly chaos is terrible this movie has absolutely nothing going for it it should not have been made br br don't read this review if you don't want to read spoilers cause i'm going to address a lot of plot holes here br br first of all the opening scene it's the great big event that made the two semi lead characters statham and snipes turn crooked but it's boring and mundane only at the very end we get to see what really happened and by the time you won't care anymore also this whole event where one bad guy and his hostage get killed is hardly big enough news to fill hundreds of newspaper articles as referred to in the movie br br then the bank job it doesn't get off the ground for any second the bank robber makes some un needed references to chaos theory which has nothing to do with the whole story by the way the way statham gets summoned is very 'die hard with a vengeance' but more boring then the things that happen in the bank are strange and pointless what's with the safety deposit box there seems to be some plot unfolding there but then it doesn't why go through the trouble of stringing up two people when it leads to nothing it involves a lot of preparation and it's used for nothing at all why doesn't the swat leader listen to the officer in charge when he tells them to stand down br br and this is only the first 10 minutes it keeps getting worse and worse br br the whole romantic love interest story with the 'he wasn't just a better cop he was a better man' remark to finish it of is painful to watch it's just pointless why would statham's character point out the change in camera position in the footage reviewed from the bank this essentially leads to finding the that will get him all the money why go through the trouble of forging some guys signature and killing him but then not kill the guy that can identify you br br i could go on for ages really but it's like this movie is pointless the whole script is a mess the 'smart' references to chaos theory are really laughable and quite pathetic the plot 'twists' can be seen from miles away and the lead characters seem to be making mistakes all the time it is really painful to watch a movie like this where the audience is taken for granted as dumb popcorn crunching people of which the director hopes they won't see all the plot holes and the over all ridiculous script the scene' at the end only adds to insult it is really really not a good movie in any way br br people who come to see an action film don't get what they come for people who come to see a cop buddy movie don't get it people who come to see a smart thriller don't get that in essence everyone gets the same a huge disappointment and a waste of time and money do yourself a favor and skip this one
0	let's see what annoyed me most the extra long dance scene in the beginning watching people twirling around so much i got dizzy without even showing where the music was coming from all part of a college graduation that had nothing to do with the rest of the film or perhaps it was the fact that each scene lasted about fifteen minutes longer than they had to what a drag this film is and the most annoying aspect is the bad guys are so bad so obviously horrible that it seems as if the director were making this film for second graders these people are bad these people are good whenever a movie has its agenda heart on its sleeve i am beside myself there's a scene in a rink that seems totally out of place long drawn out love scenes with the main character and a russian prostitute that seems more like a rock star and his sexy groupie john hurt's character who is part of the overlong beginning scene drinks and disagrees with the overdone villains his death scene could very well be the stupidest in history and i hear everyone even the haters of this film talk about how gorgeous the cinematography is i think it looks washed out watch days of heaven if you want to see gorgeous this movie is even worse than the anti hype it's pointless the epilogue showing the main character in a yacht was almost as dumb as the prologue the battle scenes are tedious and dizzying this movie is really bad avoid it unless you love bad movies because this is the king of them
0	seeing the names of the starring actors statham snipes and phillippe i thought that the movie should at least be decently funny or interesting instead all i got from it was not just boring 92 minutes but the frustration of knowing everything that was about to happen and hearing tons of lame and shabby bad cop phrases br br the main problem is that the movie doesn't have a good story to begin with and when you have that than no one can help you not statham not wesley snipes not even john mcclane could save this movie it could be cool for the kids if they aren't over 12 years of age because they don't care so much about the story and there are some big explosions in the movie
0	those people who told me this movie is good shame on them this film is for an audience who has no problem to watch everything especially when it's all about tough guys guns chasing heists i 'd compare this movie with the inside man the same loss of time i'm tired of copy and paste movies and i'm discontented but what can i do fans of that types of movies are much more if you want to watch good movie from that type i will recommend to you lucky number slevin i'm not mean i just dislike this movie weak actors weak script weak action probably someone else will like it many people many tastes however for me chaos is tasteless
0	frankly i'm amazed to see that this movie is getting relatively good reviews i'll be completely honest and say that the only reason i even got through it is because of ryan phillippe and not for reasons particularly connected with his abilities as an actor though i think over the last years he has proved himself to be a better actor than his first major roles in the late 1990's indicated br br as far as action suspense movies go this movie fails in nearly every respect the acting is ok i guess but the script is absolutely horrible and makes very little sense a fact which the filmmakers try to cover up by adding absurd references to chaos theory as if it would convince anyone that the film is actually 'clever' but then again judging from other reviews some were don't be fooled the script is a boring derivative mess and no other element of the movie makes up for it wesley snipes has probably never had a less interesting role in a film and statham is a thoroughly dull actor br br not recommended
0	this is the award that made me lose all respects for the br br if such a distinguished panel can't see or care about the obvious story telling problems of battlestar galactica then what worth is their award the answer not much br br award winning shows should be examples of creativity and excellence neither of which are in evidence in bg in this episode or any other that i've seen br br shooting in drab video is not artistic it's just cheap shaking the camera is not creative it's vomit inducing and lazy as can be br br all bg has shown is how corrupt most award giving academies really are and how easy it is to buy awards with a lot of pr money
0	it may have been thrilling for an audience in 1946 but the movie is now a bit boring i had a hard time sitting through the whole thing and it was very predictable i mean we know from the beginning of the movie that welles is the nazi war criminal and i'll give you one guess as to whether he is caught and appropriately punished in the end br br not worth watching it's sad that welles only made three movies worth seeing in his long career kane ambersons and a touch of evil
0	i though that it was hard if not impossible to watch and not because of the horrors it depicts but by the way they were depicted imagine what costa gavras could have done with this true horror story what i object to is the idea the need to denounce which i subscribe to is enough what about showing it to us with the power of powerful cinema i feel that the eagerness of the filmmaker maybe even the justifiable anger didn't allow him to see it clearly from a cinematic point of view or if this was a cinematic point of view i mean a choice then i didn't like it at all i was more disturbed by the way the movie was shot than by the movie itself well intentioned i'm sure but unfortunately that's not nearly enough
0	warning this review may contain spoilers br br the idea behind the character of danny jet li is a good one young boy is taken by hoodlum and raised to behave like a vicious pitbull controlled mainly by whether his collar is on or off his neck br br however the writer did not know how to deliver this idea within the constraints of believability br br he has danny meeting a blind pianist sam morgan freeman who has to be the most trusting fool a man ever was along with his nit wit endlessly babbling rather unattractive step daughter victoria kerry condon i was stunned by the way when i learned victoria was supposed to be 18 she looked 25 or 30 to me br br amazingly there is no romance between danny and victoria br br when danny turns up again wounded what does sam do but take him straight home danny is out for 2 days but do these nit wits take him to a hospital nooooo i don't know if they even called in a doctor br br now danny is obviously not a mentally stable person this is apparent from the get go yet sam takes him into his home where both he and his step daughter could have been seriously harmed or even killed by this rather strange young man br br why morgan freeman took this insipid role in this asinine film i can't even begin to guess surely mr freeman is not that desperate for a paycheck br br then we have bob hoskins as bart the gangster who owns danny now you talk about a son of a gun that's hard to kill the car bart is in gets riddled with bullets that would have rivaled bonnie and demise we think he's dead but no br br then we have another car accident and yet again ol' bart escapes unscathed br br in addition to that we also have danny fighting half a dozen tough guys at a time plus a scene where danny has decided he doesn't want to fight any more i don't care how much a person doesn't want to fight when it is down to the wire of you fight or you die i think anyone would fight br br as i said in the subject heading this film is about 40 miles outside the boundary of reality as we have come to know it it's not just a case of suspending belief it's completely beyond that br br furthermore i never did understand why danny's mother who turns out to be a nice lady rather than the prostitute bart claimed she is became mixed up with bart and his gang and got shot maybe that was my fault i got distracted right about the time that scene came on but it seemed highly unlikely she and bart would have ever crossed paths br br 4 stars out of 10 and that's being generous
0	apart from the beautiful imagery thanks to new zealand cinematographer alun this film is not worth seeing br br the storyline is so fragmented and lost that it's hard to know what is going on at any given time and just when you think you're following then the direction changes again like a lost bi polar puppy dog br br the musical score is awful relying too heavily on extremely emotive pieces that try to force the audience into feeling a certain way as if the instruments were acting as an emotions queue sheet — 'feel sad here' 'feel shocked here' 'feel scared here' on top of that the repetitive samples used over and over again leave the audience on the verge of laughter br br gone are the days of silent film where musical instruments were the sole portrayal of voice — but you wouldn't think so while watching river queen br br the voice over was so over utilised that one has to wonder if this film really even needed any accompanying imagery it could have easily been a radio play although even then it would be hard to follow the story br br and the stolen ideas from jane campion's the piano are too obvious to overlook not only are the beach and forest shots almost identical to those in the piano — perhaps some of this comes down to alun camera work on the latter — but the voice over feeling and levels too are strikingly close and who could forget when holly hunter's character has her wings clipped in the form of her index finger being cut off by sam neill does it remind you of when has his amputated and surprisingly too with an axe i thought so br br all in all i cannot recommend this film for viewing unless you wear some ear and just go with the scenery in mind
0	river queen's sound recordist should have been fired in this day and age there is no excuse for poor recording on the set mumbling voices was the end result and the cinematography was average to fair at best the story had potential and i feel sorry for the overseas actors who must have known they were on a turkey shoot while they were filming its obvious that the movie was suffering from el cheapo budget syndrome and the scene where is procreating inside the house while a battle rages outside is just too stupid for words br br i noticed a few shortcuts taken on the protocol side of things but this was probably due to movie length time restraints etc all in all i wasn't impressed with this movie the river has many beautiful spots but this movie gives us a cold drab and claustrophobic image with none of the beauty the movie needed more sunshine and better camera angles less on screen confusion better sound recording and more thought needed to be put into what the movie goers would be seeing on the big screen br br hats off to all involved though for completing what must have been a very difficult shoo i have the utmost appreciation for anyone who can make a feature film sadly i did not enjoy this one
0	wow i just got one watching this br br how crappy post production is on this movie br br i kid you not i literally could've done a better job myself br br all of post production is flawed all of it whoever cut this film should be banned from the film industry br br that aside the script was a trainwreck absolute br br not to mention jack bauer and his patchy the pirate in spongebob accent wtf is his character doing there but to me the biggest flaw of all was character development dynamics dialogue wow i cant believe how bad it was br br i give this movie a 2 out of 10 1 for samantha who is a great actress too bad the production made everyone look like amateurs out there br br the other 1 goes to cinematography which was indeed good br br other then that my friend this is one bad movie br br i don't even feel like making an elaborate post on this it was just horrible production poor actors didn't know what they were getting into
0	the recent death of stephen bach one of the producers of heaven's gate has raised the specter of at least a partial resurrection of the reputation of the cursed film moreover the original release the long version was recently shown on tcm exposing the film in probability to its largest audience ever br br i saw the film when it first came out at a packed screening in a 3rd avenue cinema across the street from i think it was released on a friday and withdrawn on the following wednesday maybe that wasn't a fair release but it was and is a terrible film seeing the full length version recently confirmed that judgment and with some thirty years more experience watching and writing about films i am better able to articulate why br br first there is the dreaded phrase mise en scene whose definition is at the same time so simple yet so amorphous that it puzzles even after being defined basically it's everything that happens in front of a camera for example a crowd extra will be given a piece of action say just walking by on the sidewalk and a spot to start from when the assistant director yells action the extra will go through their action if there's another take the extra will return to the start spot and go again on action all of the extras do this then say a cab drives up to the sidewalk and the star gets out and embraces another principal while all the while the crowd extras are doing their thing this is mise en scene in the theatre they call it blocking but cinema is far more multi dimensional br br the importance of defining mise en scene is because when the french critics developed their theory of the auteur the opposite of an auteur was a en scene even more referred to as a traffic cop an auteur was intimately involved in the meaning of a film and through the director's body of work a theme or themes discerned the en scene was basically a company man rendering in film what had been handed to him on paper it is the difference between say john ford and sam wood br br the second point is how the director michael cimino got into the position of directing films cimino first gained prominence directing the first million dollar tv commercial this depicted a chevrolet floating down the grand canal in venice this commercial never appears on any lists of greatest tv commercials of all time and is notable solely because of how expensive it was and how utterly exaggerated it was the effect is like that of a three year old girl brought out to entertain company who gets her biggest response when she flings her dress over her head cute for a three year old embarrassing for a thirty year old so cimino was praised early on for spending a huge amount of money for some over the top image and so he learned br br his first film thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 has a scene where clint eastwood and jeff bridges are passengers in a lunatic's car that drives back and forth back and forth until it drives off the road and the driver opens the trunk full of rabbits which he proceeds to shoot one by one i had the feeling that if the producer eastwood hadn't stepped in that the scene would have lasted until every rabbit had been killed br br which brings us to heaven's gate i guess if one watches the film on a dvd in snatches like a mini series it can be impressive this is because scenes are directed with such a dense mise en scene that each scene is like an encyclopedia it's just plain exhausting to sit through nearly four hours of this its like sex at some point it just becomes a whipping there is the opening 40 minutes which takes place at harvard brilliantly photographed at oxford it is something of a non sequitur i personally favor the artistic way of unfolding a story as opposed to the more commercial now i'm gonna tell you what i'm gonna tell you of most films however the whole preface adds up to only one line kris kristofferson and john hurt went to harvard together now twenty years all of that time money and effort not to mention all of the audiences' attention and energy just to deliver this almost useless piece of information br br then there's the scene in the street between kristofferson and which just goes on and on with a populated city of background extras and horse drawn vehicles in the background in continuous motion to deliver a tiny bit of expositional information it's just so exhausting there is just one scene after another like this it's like trying to eat a thirty pound pizza then there are these long conversations of inconsequential details and unintelligible witless dialogue which go on and on and are exhausting and boring br br of course any single scene excerpted looks brilliant overall it's a rich piece to spin praiseworthy articles about seen in snatches with the possibility of fast forwarding through the boring bits or turning it off if feeling mise en scene whipped it's basically painless but don't let anybody tell you it's a good film when i saw it in 1980 there was a guy sitting in front of me who commented on the scene where kris kristofferson is on his horse and he turns one way and then the other and does this about six times that's symbolic he said of he doesn't know which way to go that is basically at its kernel the basis of every pro heaven's gate critique br br watch it if you must but be forewarned this is not a film whose time has come this is a stinker which will smell for all time br br heaven's gate is historically inaccurate in the extreme i recommend the book of the plains by mercer on the johnson county war
0	this is by far one the most boring movies i've ever seen and if you don't believe me go ahead and watch it for yourself br br the movie starts of slow the storyline makes no sense at all people fighting doesn't make any sense i could not make sense of what they were talking during the movie in most cases i didn't even bother it does nothing to keep you watching the movie the only plus point would be the cinematography new zealand looks awesome everything else just plain sucks br br the actors try their best to keep us awake but unfortunately you will go to sleep instead br br do us all a favor even if this gets on on demand don't watch it
0	for weeks i had been looking forward to seeing this movie only to find myself hugely disappointed after wards in my opinion the only good thing 'river queen' had going for it was the amazing scenery used as backgrounds the story line was all over the place samantha's character sarah was very difficult to understand and what on earth were all the many close ups of her face for it brought absolutely nothing to the story if there was one at all a better actor for the part of boy could also have been selected to me it sounded like he read his lines straight of the script while shooting his scenes overall a real shame as it could have been such a good movie
0	wait wait wait wait wait wait what this movie is terrible absolutely terrible 1 the only reason kiefer sutherland is on the cover is to sell it to kiefer fans only to have their hearts broken he kills one guy gets shot and dies before half the movie is over not to mention he was only in the first 10 min and then disappeared until the point which he died why put him on the cover if his character blows 2 where are the epic battle scenes promised in the preview on the back cover 3 it was way too confusing i mean whats up with the girl she had to narrate the movie to try to get our attention she failed 4 if kiefer dies in a movie it fails now i am going to go watch 24 this movie fails
0	i was really looking forward to this movie but sadly it didn't live up to expectation br br a good movie has the audience identifying sympathising with the main actor unfortunately this was very hard to do with samantha morton br br the storyline seemed very disjointed and didn't flow as it should could have done br br keifer sutherland appeared to be little more than window dressing and made me wonder why he agreed to play what appeared to be a bit part beautiful scenery and the acting of tem morrison and cliff curtis was about the only plus br br maybe by being a kiwi i set the bar higher for locally made films maybe the change of director supposedly hard to work with main actor has biased my opinion br br maybe i'm just trying to make excuses for a movie which could have been great br br a lot of which still does not explain why this movie just lacked anything special br br it could have been great it wasn't
0	a good example of reversed politically correct racism where white men are presented as senseless brutes who're only there to be massacred and their aboriginal adversaries as noble heroes superior both in their appearance and abilities apart from making the story dull this also prevents the neutral viewer to identify himself with one or the other side it's just too simplifying the repetitive score is incredibly annoying as is the voice over the characters lack any depth and the viewer is soon lost between questions like who is this character and what the hell is that supposed to mean photography is wonderful though and on the whole there's a lot of atmosphere to it but nice shots of misty landscapes alone don't save this movie the dvd box uses kiefer sutherland as an eye catcher in fact his character could have been played by anyone else because it's basically just an empty shell like most non characters and disappears anyway around halfway the film but if you are eager to see jack bauer in a kilt that's your kind of movie
0	this was one of the dullest movies i have seen in some time i'm in my late 40s and watched it with my son in law early 20s and son 17 the scenery was beautiful but the story was a bust we watched about an hour of it and turned it off i spent more time on my during the hour that we watched it than i spent actually watching the movie i gave it a 3 because i enjoyed the scenery and cinematography otherwise i would have given it a 1 i'm sure there are people who are really into the art of it all who will find my review appalling but we're all entitled to our own opinions right i couldn't figure out if this was supposed to be a chick flick where the focus was on the mother or if it was supposed to be a movie for guys with the focus on battle and adventure in my opinion it didn't succeed in either
0	with an interesting premise in the conflicts between europeans and indigenous peoples sometimes the battle lines were not so clear this should have been a good film but the story is sabotaged by the director's overriding infatuation with his own cleverness twinned with a very poor script br br yes the natural setting is beautiful and yes the movie is authentic to its 19th century historical setting but the filmmaker keeps gilding the lily over and over again adding layer upon layer of over the top musical accompaniment not to mention a completely unnecessary voice over to the soundtrack that ultimately overwhelm the viewer and by calling attention to themselves take away from the story br br to me it was clear the director with his microscopic closeups and the endless of the musical motif of danny boy of all things was trying to make a new zealand version of an epic sergio leone film something on the order of once upon a time in the west but given the earnestness of the story most of leone's westerns were tongue in cheek not to mention that it's no longer 1968 he succeeds in making a parody of one br br too bad
0	reading through most of the other reviews i tend to agree with most of the comments the one thing that i would add is the disjointed way the movie has been directed and produced i think that some of these new wave movie makers think that they are being clever using unusual sometimes jerky camera angles and flitting from one scene to another it goes down well with these movie festivals and with some of these indie type critics but it spoils the movie for me i noticed in the reviews one comment saying that none of this movie makers films have become blockbusters this would maybe prove my point as the film has that to feeling that makes you wonder why such a beautiful film appears to be lacking a smooth flow as for the comment about kiefer sutherland being a big name to put on the poster i would bet he cringed when watching the final cut this is a story with real potential spoilt by trying to be different in it's production worth watching but not many would come back for a second view
0	set in the mid 1800's when the british is clearing new zealand outback wilderness to establish colonies the daughter of a british army surgeon sarah samantha morton falls in love with the son of one of the leaders the is an indigenous tribe and a dangerous people for the europeans to deal with by the time sarah's child which she calls boy is born his father is dead by the age of six boy is kidnapped by his father's family and sarah will begin her search for him with a man kiefer sutherland who is deeply in love with her br br two time oscar nominee morton is definitely the star of this movie sutherland is a total waste also starring are cliff curtis stephen rea morrison and david this movie is rated r for some sexual content and violent battle scenes i find the title river queen very misleading and the dvd cover with sutherland only and making you believe he is the leading star should be a crime
0	as the above suggests i was ultimately unimpressed with this movie it is lovely to look at the scenery is lush but the detail of the story in particular the characters are totally unbelievable films don't have to be believable but films like this with a political edge and social commentary do br br similarly i have no problem with commercialism as such but once again films like this shouldn't be making casting decisions purely based on box office draw this is absolutely the case with sutherland who is frankly rubbish as doyle his accent was far from authentic but he fell into the biggest trap of all his accent is his performance and we end up with a caricature of with no personality outside of his nationality i find it totally implausible that anyone involved thought he was the best man for the job all in all this is a clear case of commercial interest over quality and when you're trying to be the mission this kind of thing wrecks your chances of success br br speaking of accents there were a couple more problems one being the striking modernity of boy's accent which acted to dispel the feeling of being transported to another time more surprising was samantha morton's much lauded irish accent which was variable to say the least her voice meandered between strong north and soft south even in the voice overs where i would've expected any such discrepancies to be picked up br br however these are minor gripes compared to the motivation and actions of sarah she never seems at home with the english and almost instantly at home with her son and his tribe the dilemma between the life she knew and the life she if offered just seems like a no brainer perhaps a lot has been lost in editing perhaps this was meant to be a three hour film or a mini series where these things could've been fleshed out but i can only judge what i've seen br br now the biggest problem sarah's morton relationship with doyle sutherland is incomprehensible the fact is that her affection for him is not conveyed in any way until her having to choose between him and her son the conflict she goes through at this point was frankly ridiculous and killed the movie for me br br as you may have guessed this movie didn't work at all for me but it is top notch to look at you really won't see anything more stunning in terms of scenery there are some good performances and my wife liked it
0	i watched the minute version and have to say that dollar for dollar it it probably one of the worst films ever now i am not saying it's the worst film ever but if you look at a ratio of cost over how much an average person would enjoy it this is a very very bad film br br i would say that the single biggest factor making this a bad film is the writer director michael cimino rarely can so much blame be placed on a single person had he not been so self indulgent a film just as bad could have easily been made at about 90 minutes saving the studio millions br br the film begins with a completely unnecessary prologue that's supposed to be set at harvard the scene is huge but completely without context you have no idea exactly what is occurring nor do you know why the students in particular john hurt are behaving so i find it very hard to imagine a commencement going like this in 1870 and it looks a lot more like 1970 this is a half hour where you have no idea what is happening who the characters are or their motivations br br the next scene is 20 years later inexplicably the two harvard grads hurt and kris kristofferson are in wyoming so they went to the best school in america and now one is only a law man in the middle of no where and the other is well what is john hurt in the film he just appears here and there and seems to be either a jerk the prologue or a pathetic and pointless drunk who hangs out with murderers even though he is apparently against them his entire character made no sense they never explained why he was a brit living in the middle of nowhere it was impossible to hide his accent why he bothered to come along with the hired army if he was so against their wicked plan nor why he would risk his life for a cause he didn't believe in at all as for kristofferson his excellent acting and better defined character made his character more believable though having him move to wyoming and risk his life for a prostitute made no sense at all br br this brings up the worst aspect of heaven's gate while the scenes are way too long and needed trimming the worst part of the film is that the characters were like cardboard john hurt a wonderful actor with nothing to do in the film jeff bridges and many other big names are there but you have no idea why in fact other than kristofferson isabelle huppert as a hooker with a heart of gold quite the cliché and perhaps christopher walken everyone is completely one dimensional it's hard to imagine a movie this long where you don't know or understand the characters br br much of the film also seems anachronistic who would have thought to have a giant roller rink constructed in the middle of no where in 1890 i am sure that just getting the basic supplies in this region in the west would have been very very difficult and yet we are expected to believe that trains filled with roller skates and lumber arrived instead of food maybe if they hadn't spent a bazillion dollars building and the roller rink the farmers could have afforded to buy food and avoided this war over cattle and what's with the guy on roller skates with the fiddle what did this have to do with a land war br br the most obvious problem you are left with is that it's a film where very very little actually happens until the big battle late in the film there are lots of scenes of filth and flat nothingness so much nothingness that by the time the battle occurs many audience members would have left or are now so hostile to the film that it's inevitable that nothing could salvage the film br br as for the final battle it was done reasonably well but had problems first this minor skirmish on the prairie lasted longer than the d day invasion second while details of the actual events of the so called johnson county war are a tad sketchy we do know that the characters played by huppert and kristofferson never actually were there as they'd both been hung before the battle third i can't believe that cimino actually killed animals throughout the film especially during the final battle while i am far from a bleeding heart about animal rights his need to use animal guts and actually kill some of the horses is a low point in cinematic history watching and knowing that some of the horses died to achieve cimino's vision for the film is very sad br br finally after the big battle we have an epilogue while it is blessedly short it also seemed completely unnecessary and vague we see kristofferson on a fancy yacht so we can assume that he's finally putting some of that harvard education to work for himself we also see a woman who appears to be one that kris looked at a couple times during the prologue most importantly nothing is said and you have no idea what the final outcome i read up on it myself and found that the film often got the facts wrong br br overall to say the film is long and needed tons more editing was like saying wwii was a minor tiff well i've certainly seen a lot worse but if you factor in the cost of production i truly think it might just be one of the worst films in history br br finally when a film has this much explicit nudity i warn parents however as no child could sit through this film even with a promise of sex the warning is not necessary
0	my parents used to rent a lot of horror movies when i was a child we loved watching them even when they were bad they made for some enjoyment this was one such movie kind of hard to review as i have only seen it the one time as a child but it is not anything i want to track down again so i can do a more in depth review the story has some old horror actor legend dying i seem to remember he acted a bit like an over the top vincent price without being likable and classy he commits murders and dies but what is this is the movie over already no as some kids for some reason snag the body and are prepared for a fun night of being killed by the ham from beyond the grave i remember the murders were nothing all that special after the first couple and i remember this movie was rather disappointing seemed to have a good premise but it just failed to deliver the goods as more cool kills were needed and that super horror actor needed to add a bit to his repertoire
0	river queen attempts to pack a complicated sweeping historical narrative into just under two hours there are some breathtaking battle scenes and the scenery is beautifully captured however the film did suffer from some poor leads samantha morton sarah especially came across as unconvincing there seemed to be an indecisiveness about how the role should be played as a helpless waif tossed by fate or as a strong determined character with a clear view of her destiny kiefer sutherland's character private doyle seemed to be pointless and for the most part unintelligible irish brogue needs a little polishing on the other hand cliff curtis morrison and as sarah's son boy were well rounded and believable br br the last 20 minutes of river queen came across as particularly compressed and rushed it seemed as if they decided they had to tie up all the loose ends before 120 minutes were up e g how on earth did know how to find sarah and doyle no explanation and very unsatisfying br br i did go to this movie with an open mind i hadn't read or heard anything much apart from its troubled production what i experienced was a mish mash of new zealand history beautifully photographed but ultimately disappointing
0	this is the 1990's tv show not the movie from 1979 it looks to be three episodes totaling just under 90 minutes before watching i thought it was one of the movie versions and i noticed right away it had a tv show feel to it i didn't care for it too much i just felt the story wasn't there and there wasn't much in the way of excitement or drama i was looking at the time elapsed on my dvd player frequently as i was really bored i also thought some of the dialogue was to put it politely not good plus i thought the acting left a lot to be desired but that's just me however it is good clean wholesome family entertainment there's certainly nothing offensive here kids will likely enjoy it for me the black stallion is 4 10
0	this was a very nice concert by the one and only mj the choreography was excellent and the costumes were decent the vocals were okay i have to admit that his vocals were crap on human nature and billie jean you couldn't hear him half the time the other songs make up for the singing the highlights of the show are jam smooth criminal i just can't stop loving you she's out of my life thriller billie jean the dancing not the singing black or white man in the mirror the concert was almost perfect if it was anybody but mj it would have been a 9 it is a must see i wish i was born then so i could have gotten a ticket to the best concert of 1992
0	the film itself is only a compilation of scenes which have no inherent meaning to someone living outside of russia i won't deny that some of the images and techniques were quite revolutionary at the time filmed 1928 but the problem with the film is that it has no interest to the intellectual or common man we are merely watching an arranged form of pictures ranging from a one arm man beating a horse to a toothless soldier in the war everything in between is awkward haphazard and quite unnecessary it would have been possible to invent a forum which kept the viewer interested but this would not be it although the method of the director is quite brilliant br br in all one should view this if they are an art student on hallucinogenic drugs or a student of pre cinema
0	while i have seen and enjoyed similar movies to this one that were silent films about the russian revolution such as potemkin and ten days that shook the world i did not particularly enjoy this one this was mostly due to the annoying and artsy way that the director chose to shoot the film while potemkin excelled in its editing style this movie used similar techniques with a lot less finesse in some places the editing seemed very choppy and amateurish plus and this was truly annoying the use of zombies throughout the beginning of the film and late in the film really was over the top what i mean by zombies is that to illustrate just how depressed and oppressed the ukranian peasants were the people stand like mannequins in many scenes and they stand like this unmoving for a very long period of time while the evil capitalists and of the masses walk by gimme a break this movie is a wonderful example of style over substance and it's only a movie for those who enjoy or can overlook the overindulgent direction br br by the way the dvd for this film is improved somewhat if you leave the audio commentary on this makes the movie easier to follow and gives a few interesting insights
0	i was prepared for a bad movie and a bad movie it is so i guess i shouldn't complain twentysomething tom gay poster boy robert has so many issues he doesn't know if he's coming or going i wouldn't have stayed but for the pretty girls serious anna no nonsense angie emma sarah as the star of the movie within the movie and then there's tom's soul mate wild eyed margarete jana she reminds me of béatrice dalle and gina gershon if you've got to remember these are fine memories she looks good even in the most ridiculous outfits and i mean ridiculous even by berlin standards i wonder whether i'd have liked this movie when i was the characters' age my guess is i wouldn't watch out for indie idols and max of der marie performing as street musicians feeling no pain
0	when i first read about berlin am meer i didn't expect much but i thought with the right people the right locations the right music and fashion you could at least make a trivial movie about the hip berlin everyone seems to be talking about but failed it's so ridiculously it's a complete misrepresentation of what it is going on in berlin's so called scene of course it's not all about but you should expect more from a movie that's being sold as the definite berlin movie br br and apart from all the credibility stuff it really is a bad movie mediocre acting and a rather boring plot interestingly some of the actors have proved in other movies that they are actually quite talented so it really must be poor directing skills br br don't bother watching berlin am meer unless you are 17 come from some small town in western germany and want to move to the big city after you finished school then you might actually find it enjoyable and totally cool
0	when i first heared that there was going to be the world is not enough video game for the nintendo 64 i was so excited when it finally came out i was one of the first ones to rent it i rented it for 7 days and i got through the whole game the game was to easy and gave out too much hints a dissapointing sequel to goldeneye take my advice and do not rent this game br br sure the guns and gadgets are cool but one gets tired of a watch lazer that looks like it was taken right from goldeneye with the exception of being a red color instead of a blue color a poor excuse for a dart gun horrible stunner and a stupid grapple hook that can only attach itself to things that are yellow and black br br i think that rare should of made this game instead of ea who should stick to games there good at making like sport games and should clear of first person shooters and let the masters do the work
0	man this thing bites i am sorry i ever sat down and watched it friedkin was insane for making a film attempting to win over the viewers sympathy for this lunatic if it were up to me i'd have made the audience hate that low life instead of getting all misty eyed over him he killed people quite grizzly i might add too and friedkin wants you to feel sorry for him because he's not right i say friedkin can forget it i hate the guy this movie is partly based on and hope they did wise up and give his sorry butt the juice in a nut shell don't waste your time it's sick and perverse
0	from the brilliant mind that brought us the exorcist and cruising rampage is unfortunately more like the latter it's an overall messy movie that has a major made for tv vibe going for it the whole film pretends to hinge on the question what if the 'boy next door' was a serial killer but instead it winds up being an uninspired courtroom drama and meditation on the the insanity plea and death penalty that makes little sense the movie is very loosely based on the richard trenton chase case a few facts here and there to make a fake character and a different outcome one of the main points of the film seems to be that ending the life of a terminally braindead child and ending the life of a murderer are somehow sometimes you just have to choose says the lead character yeah sometimes you have to choose to pull the plug on your tv
0	it is unsettling seeing so many people giving outrageously high ratings to this film some of the praise uses such twisted reasoning and transparent agendas that betray a simple love of anything that is in any way critical of the u s that it approaches hysteria br br heaven's gate is a bad movie it is fundamentally awful endless scenes using elaborate shots that serve no purpose muddy dialogue murky no sense of any theme aside from excess br br the high rating of this disaster is a product of revisionist history and temporary shifts in perception br br for some perspective watch lawrence of arabia before watching heaven's gate you will see just how aimless and lost this film truly is the issues it may have been trying to deal with are lost in a miasma br br i have no problem with films that are critical of the u s per se but when a terrible film gets such undeserved praise purely because of that element that's worth challenging br br the film is worth seeing for two reasons curiosity and as a cautionary tale for young filmmakers br br i saw this at home for free imagine the torture of being in a theater and sitting through it for 4 meandering hours
0	every once in awhile i'll remember that i've actually seen this bizarre fiasco that's a cross between whatever happened to baby jane sunset boulevard the lana turner lsd movie the big cube and the manson murders which also took place in 1969 but maybe before this so called movie was made there are some descriptions of the plot already here so i won't go into it but it's worth noting that miriam hopkins plays a parody of herself a chattering ego maniacal fading actress perhaps she thought she was making a movie that would be as successful as one of the bette davis horrors the old gal hopkins never stopped working so you have to hand it to her she shows a little too much flesh in this movie something davis and crawford would never have done and there's a scene with miriam in the actual tacky hollywood boulevard christmas parade which must have been filmed xmas 1968 br br gale is old old old it's just shocking how wrinkled and awful she looks john garfield jr looks a bit like his father but not as interesting i think one of the three stooges is the tour guide at the beginning if it's not one of the stooges it's somebody br br i was astounded to come across this thing in the form of a commercial videotape given to me by a friend who knows all about junk like this it's amazing
0	when i typed savage intruder into the imdb's search engine one of the options it came up with was savage garden international video collection the story so far 1999 the only reason i mention this is because i'm a huge savage garden fan you should do yourself a favour check some of their music out like affirmation or to the moon and back rather than bother with this average pot boiler sorry i just wanted to say that anyway savage intruder starts with a bizarre montage of what looks like mgm musical premiere footage a few spinning portraits which have no meaning whatsoever in the long run it's late 60's hollywood amid the glitz glamour a serial killer is at work selecting ageing actresses killing them dismembering their bodies a young man named vic valance david garfield as john david garfield hops off a tour bus looking for employment when it stops at the house of a now retired actress katharine parker miriam hopkins who was 'one of the biggest stars of the motion picture' but now lives in a big house with an elderly housekeeper named mildred florence lake a personal secretary leslie blair gale sondergaard a young maid named virginia wing katharine has recently broken her foot needs a personal assistant gives vic the job slowly vic charms his way into affections more importantly her large wallet vic starts to turn katharine against the other employees but vic isn't what he seems vic is a drug addicted loon who gets greta pregnant while still having sex with katharine greta threatens to tell katharine spoil vic's devious plans but she has a close encounter with an axe no one in the house is safe as vic brings drugs sex rock 'n' roll party's gardening to the parker mansion while his sinister plan starts to become more more apparent br br written produced directed by donald wolfe i thought savage intruder was a bit of a mess but a mildly entertaining one at the same time the script is all over the place it can't really decide what it wants to be savage intruder suffers from an identity crisis the film starts with the discovery of a severed head limbs straight after another woman dorothy is killed by a mysterious unidentified figure but then it completely ditches the slasher film elements that it has just built up never going back to them savage intruder then becomes a sort of feel good film as vic befriends katharine shows her how to enjoy life again having an implied sexual relationship with her it's actually disgusting to think about as she's old enough to be his grandmother katharine stops living the life of a recluse gives up the alcohol as vic appears to make her happy as they go to party's together hold for friend like she used too this part of savage intruder wouldn't look out of place in a disney film every so often the tedium of the feel good stuff is interrupted by vic shooting up having silly hallucinations about his mother chopping her hand off with an axe he has sex with great at one point as well then after greta has been murdered savage intruder becomes a bizarre horror film as vic is revealed for the loony that he is savage intruder just doesn't flow properly as a film in my opinion as it mixes various genres with little success similarly the murder mystery elements don't work are frankly a bit of a puzzle why go to great lengths to conceal the killers identity during the murder scenes but then make it perfectly clear who is committing them throughout the rest of the film anyway vic as a character didn't work for me either one moment he's a cool calm clever devious con man then next he's a stark raving loony why kill all his other victims but with katharine try to con her what makes her so different if it is because she has money why not go after her to start with so many questions so few answers some of the 60's dialogue is pretty funny to listen to these days like when vic offers greta a painkiller in reality hard drugs greta says what do i need a painkiller for vic helpfully replies because your a pain wow this guy knows how to charm the ladies or when katharine suggests that vic do some gardening ask's do you have green fingers he replies no but i'm good at grass there isn't much gore in savage intruder some severed limbs a couple of decapitated heads there is also a fairly impressive shot when someone has their hand cut off with an axe which is probably why it's repeated three or four times the silly looking drug hallucination scenes need to be seen to be believed technically savage intruder is ok the location filming in the grandiose mansion hollywood hills probably give it a better look than it deserves the acting is average as is the rest of the production overall i'd say savage intruder feels like it tries to be a murder mystery that unfortunately gives the killer away as a result just doesn't work it's a mildly entertaining one time watch at best a complete mess of a film at worse you decide which
0	that welles said was that he's been in decline his whole career br br there was an interesting story here unfortunately welles seemed completely incapable of telling it instead he was trying to tell a bunch of different stories about about clifford irving about his pompous view of critics and experts oh yeah and trying to jump start his current girlfriend's career by giving her unneeded screen time oja honey when they told you to sleep with the director they didn't mean one washed up like a whale on a beach br br welles was probably trying to cash in with a bunch of footage of clifford irving as irving was becoming a household name with his role in the faked auto biography of howard hughes unfortunately it means the subject of his film didn't get the time he deserved and he was probably the more interesting story br br the great tragedy of orson welles was that he peaked early and then spent the rest of his career sputtering finally doing wine commercials and awful documentaries
0	orson welles' 1974 documentary f for fake examines trickery and fraud mainly focusing on two men who have been exposed as frauds themselves clifford irving is a biographer who wrote the allegedly fraudulent howard hughes autobiography yet at least it seems purports his innocence the other main subject of the film is artist de a man who has spent his life painting fakes of famous masterpieces sometimes selling them to museums as real works by the original artists interspersed among these stories are bits where welles does magic tricks to illustrate points etc and he also addresses the fact that his career began as a fraud when he first lied on his resume and then created a radio sensation with war of the worlds br br i really wanted to love this film and find it profound since i am such a welles devotee but i couldn't bring myself to do it part of the problem lied with the fact that it was not just non linear it was completely scattered while i appreciate stylish editing and quick jumps and zooms particularly when used in an unusual format such as a documentary there was simply too much of it going on in f for fake they created a distraction as opposed to lending style if the story had been more clear and comprehensive i think that the editing probably would not have been as annoying the scattered storytelling was made all the more obnoxious by the fact that these were truly interesting subjects particularly de his artistic fakery brings up the topic of fraud in the art world and who is truly able to determine the authenticity of certain works and if the works are not authentic what does it say about those who admire the pieces in museums this is one documentary that i would say to at least give a shot but don't be afraid to turn it off if you're not enjoying it it is certainly the most discombobulated documentary i have ever seen it is a cross between a documentary an art film and experimental film none of which is properly represented or isolated i don't have any lesser opinion of welles after seeing it but it certainly in my opinion doesn't stand out as a glowing specimen in his oeuvre 4 10 shelly
0	there was absolutely nothing in this film that hadn't been done better in a hundred other films it was barely worth the trouble of watching through to the end even the bad language sounded tired tom mccamus a very fine actor was particularly disappointing here
0	this movie is exactly the same as ridley scott's someone to watch over me which is a classic it stars tom berenger and mimi rogers and the bad guy from the fugitive it's a quality movie with good direction and great acting this movie is the polar opposite it's the same plot just minus any good acting and adding tv movie direction i do have to say i like the interaction between lowe and the woman she's hot and their romance is believable on many levels unfortunately that alone cannot save this carbon copy of the classic ridley scott film br br usually crappy tv movies have some redeeming quality that makes them watchable at the very least i think for me this film's redeeming value is that rob lowe and the lead female have chemistry that and i was able to watch and compare the plot to another quality film
0	looking all of 29 years old rob lowe is a detective in charge of a murder investigation br br when the husband of a society woman leslie hope is found dead police suspect the rich chick might have something to do with it enter rob who immediately falls for the pretty widow even though he claims that he's just trying to be rob is such a good cop he is able to sneak some of her incriminating love letters into his coat pocket before he accidentally throws them into the fireplace monotonous murky drama with an endless drone of background music br br this is a good substitute sleeping remedy if you've run out of
0	what can you say about a film that makes the erotic witch project look like the english patient again the plot and characters are secondary but the plot is almost an exact copy of br br four buxom sorority sisters and a goofy male guide enter a forest to look for the bare wench and the women become sexually charged the bare wench leaves porno devices and a blow up doll just like in they get lost the doofus gets lost and the girls find their way back to their hotel there they reenact the end of the blair witch project as cameras are dropped and the guide is seen playing a game integral to the thin plot br br at least three of the sorority sisters here have unnaturally large breasts full of dimples and stretch marks along with the rather obvious surgery scars the one natural gal here is humiliated by the director in a very unfunny and overlong end credit segment outtake scenes where she could not get a line right is played over and over again ad nauseum br br julie strain shows up in a fright wig to play the bare wench this one scene seems to be added later since no one could possibly be credited in the cast with shooting it in the background as the women cavort and stroke you can see someone's picket fence this may be director jim backyard br br this is just bad stuff the lesbian love scenes are kelvin degrees cooler than the erotic witch most of the lovin' consists of the four women mashing their eight collective breasts together i think they are trying to form a silicone based that would rescue them from this bad career decision no such luck if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then the makers of the blair witch project should be really really mad br br this is unrated and contains mild physical violence strong profanity female nudity sexual content and sexual references br br
0	bare wench is another softcore parody of the blair witch project i think there's about two dozen of those things out there it has 5 very attractive women which includes nikki fritz julie smith and julie strain and one dorky guy whose only purpose is to provide comic relief br br okay so i'm thinking cool great looking women having softcore lesbian sex with each other very 10 minutes or so this should be real good br br unfortunately the producers blew it there is nothing in this video that actually qualifies as a sex scene there's a couple of false starts but the majority of the action is just the women posing for the camera i guess once the producers had spent their money on the women and spent more getting them to remove their clothes they didn't have any money left to get them to actually do anything and i guess they also used up all their alloted nudity time too early because towards the end of the video there is a huge amount of pointless dialogue that is obviously being used for no other reason than to pad out the run time you're a liar no you are you go into the cave no you go i think we should go home well i don't this goes on and on and on forever br br there's way better stuff than this
0	after watching this movie i felt as if i had just eaten a box of stale chewy cracker jack only to find no prize inside this movie has real promise porn stars in a skinemax feature unfortunately someone forgot to tell the producers that we like some t a in our t a flicks sure we get a few quick flashes and a couple of bathing in the creek scenes but where's the sex how can you have four girls sorority girls no less in this type of movie with only one pitiful 5 second lesbian scene good night usa up all night provides more titillation look we don't watch this type of movie for great cinematography screenwriting or action we want to see some kink what a letdown
0	attention possible spoilers br br this film is so lousy that it actually becomes funny the director has put in all the clichés that have ever plagued b series movies the stupid bimbo nice rack getting caught again and again by the bad guys chief villain smirky and revealing his plots before they happen so they can be ruined and who of course bullied killed the hero's father in an unclear past a side kick in the person of a policeman small bald and whose only preparation for the last battle another cliché is returning his baseball cap rim backwards etc br br the film's end really tops it after the chief villain dies when the hero stoneface jack or whatever throws him from the roof of a building ten stories high they walk out of the building which from the exteriors looks three stories high only and very much like your regular city hall br br when they exit the building the side kick can't walk being that his right leg appears to be wounded how nobody can tell ten minutes earlier he fell down shot in his shoulder and his feet were fine there is no further explanation for the inquisitive mind of the viewer who would be curious to know such trivial things as where is the villain's body which should lay near the building and why is there no police or even curious folks gathered round the said body br br i could go on forever with the list why does another one of the bad guys claim to have invented martial arts when he gets his ass kicked in no time why do bad guys in general make silly movements when attacking why does the hero look so is there anyone really thinking yes these characters and this plot makes this a film to remember and the actors suck our hero and saviour of the day wears the same expression on his face the whole film that disgusted trying to be cocky smirk must be some copyrighted feat of him br br also thinking that until now 12 of the people having rated this film gave it a 10 makes me full of fear inside they might have been serious and then we're doomed
0	wynorski films are always this is just another case in point out of the five naked women shamelessly flaunted here maybe one has real breasts and that's a strong maybe no humor no gore just boobies boobies boobies and some tepid softcore lesbo action but know what for fifty cents less than this video rental i could have rented legitimate porn do i feel cheated with wynorski always so i prepared myself for a letdown as one must always do
0	well this may be one of the worst movies ever but atleast there are some nice t ts in it the movie is a very bad spoof of the blair witch project and should be watched only by those wanting to see some t ts and no point other than to flaunt them
0	i give flashdance a lowest rating of 1 out of 10 because it's nothing more than a series of music videos with a movie short surrounding the music videos in order to clock in as a feature length film since when does that count as film jennifer beals plays alex owens an aspiring 18 year old dancer who incomprehensibly has a job as a in a pittsburgh steel factory not a line of work most older women find their way into much less 18 year olds fresh out of high school meanwhile at night she works as an exotic dancer who never actually takes off her clothes in a greasy spoon bar called yet looking at the well choreographed and well polished dance routines the girls do every night at you would think they were working at the best casino on the las vegas strip br br alex ends up having a predictable romance with her boss nick hurley michael who is about twice her age after resisting nick's advances because going out with the boss isn't a good idea she wastes no time in going all the way with him after their first date alex and nick make no effort to hide their relationship on the job which makes no sense given how it is likely to look to alex's co workers br br when beals isn't being doubled for the many dance sequences in the movie her character spends most her time throwing temper tantrums alex's dream is to get an invitation only audition at the prestigious pittsburgh conservatory of dance inexplicably when her boss boyfriend helps her get the audition she's been dreaming of she's throws one her tantrums she angrily tells nick she isn't doing the audition because of his intervention and then gets out of his car in the middle of a busy tunnel this is just one scene that leaves you wondering what the hell the makers were thinking when they were making this br br of course alex does eventually get her audition at the conservatory she puts on a dance routine before the conservatory board that is so ridiculous that you would think it was in a movie marketed to the mtv generation oh yeah it is a dance routine in a movie marketed to the mtv generation br br i don't think i can judge whether or not beals can actually act well on the basis of what i saw in flashdance this is because the character she is forced to play is so poorly written that i don't think it is a fair litmus test of her acting abilities br br you have to hand it to the makers of flashdance though this movie is proof that the poorest film making can be covered up by a slick marketing campaign in this case a best selling and award winning soundtrack and music videos for said soundtrack in heavy rotation on mtv if they had devoted more of their energy to the writing of the script then they might have been able to come up with a plot and a story with characters that i cared about instead what we get are stock characters put in ridiculous scenes any viewer with a functioning brain can't take seriously a truly forgettable film
0	if it wasn't for the terrific music i would not hesitate to give this cinematic 2 10 but the music actually makes me like certain passages and so i give it 5 10
0	this movie was jerry bruckheimer's idea to sell some records no seriously it was the thinking behind it is that if you made a film full of pop songs you could stick the tracks on a lp sell it and make even more money for the studio you could also release a few tracks as singles and intercut the promo video with clips from the movie so that when mtv play a track you're actually getting free advertising for the movie this is a good business deal but an artistic disaster because many of us still have nightmares about hollywood movies from the 1980s and i rate the mid 1980s as the poorest time in artistic terms for american film making and flashdance opened the door to this let's make a 90 minute pop video instead of a movie type film making br br jennifer beals plays alex owens a dancer who works as a to make ends meet and right away logic disappears with this career choice welding is a fairly sophisticated trade it's not something you walk into and learn in five minutes there's other gaps in logic like ballet dancing and being somehow similar ie if you apply to be a ballet dancer and do some hot dirty the male judges might want to meet you after the audition but you won't get the job it's kind of like saying that screen writing novel writing and play writing are somehow the same when they're not br br but i guess none of this mattered to jerry when he asked director adrian lyne to make the movie actually lyne almost makes a very sexy movie is very sweet and innocent looking fortunately i out why her face is brightly lit in close up while her silhouette is darkly long shots except when the camera cuts to close ups of her heavenly toned body that's because a body double is used most of the time and frequently the body double is a man i bet there's a few naughty boys who are feeling guilty not to mention slightly disgusted to know that
0	i'm a dance teacher and was looking forward to some good dance routines in this film how sad to have been subjected to such a painful experience br br i had major problems with jennifer beals and her character i found alex extremely repellent face is so young sweet and innocent and this very incongruous with alex's very disturbing lewdness especially in that disgusting restaurant scene she also has the temper tantrums of a toddler it is very difficult to believe that nick would keep coming back to such a moody teenager after her frequent rantings and ravings especially after she opens the door of a moving car and chucks a stiletto at him opting rather to walk home in the middle of the road with only one shoe and what about after her idiotic behaviour after the night at the ballet in fact the whole romance was very disturbing the 30 something year old man going after a girl who looks about 16 yuck br br as for the dancing i'm afraid this 80s style is totally dated what on earth was that tv dance sequence about in the club who was supposed to be dancing i wasn't even sure if it was a woman or a man in drag and even that famous final sequence is pretty disappointing especially given the context of an audition for a ballet company the camera shots of her leap actually ruin it's effect because you can't see what she's doing and what on earth was she doing when she went past each of the panel pointing at them and as many other comments have pointed out she would never get into a ballet company on the strength of that audition perhaps that's why they don't actually say at the end whether she was successful or not the closure is the fact that she overcame her fear in the end of the i actually thought the best sequence belonged to cynthia rhodes penny in dirty dancing you could see that she was a real dancer and her acrobatics were very impressive this is of course if you can get past her appalling costume and makeup br br there were two good bits in this film the ballet dancers stretching when alex goes for the first time to apply for an audition they look so lovely and classy and at least this helps to underline the difference between her current dance career and the one she aspires to the other good scene was the break dancing in the street i also liked the ice parents they were funny br br some other random points who was hanna and how did alex get to know her what was an 18 year old doing living in a converted warehouse all alone how did she afford that lovely barre and all the furniture where were her family was that scene in the 'nude' club really necessary the person who wrote in their comment that it was something like a disney film needs their head examined and anyway what happened to the ice skater br br many people said the film was poor but they liked the message don't give up hope keep on trying and your dreams will come true watch the little mermaid instead
0	when i first watched this movie in the 80s i loved it i was totally fascinated by the music the dancing everything however i recently watched the whole thing again on dvd and i was completely struck by how extremely stupid the storyline was how it contained holes inconsistencies and frankly a whole lot of crap and how horrid the dancing was i mean in a realistic world she would never have gotten into that ballet repertory the whole thing was quite pathetic the character developments also lacked in depth i think that this was very much a product of the 80s the film does not hold up today
0	flashdance is one of those awful stupid movies that you actually kind of enjoy just because they're so crap i just watched it on tv my friend and i were amazed at how dopey it was it's true that don simpson and the other producers came up with the idea of a fairly cheap lowbrow flick with lots of sweaty bodies to help sell a soundtrack of admitedly catchy pop so flashdance is an odd sort of pioneer the first mtv movie adrian lyne started out in advertising and it shows because flashdance is almost a commercial for itself you've already decided to watch it but the movie has this weird panicky undercurrent as though it's frightened that you might change your mind at any moment it keeps selling itself to you over and over all the way through using slick commercial style editing and glossy close ups of jiggling breasts the story is wafer thin i honestly can't think of another film i've seen with less plot and it never makes much sense but its a very contrived calculating movie so it feels consistent people say it's dated but flashdance was always rubbish viewers in the early 80's knew it was just cheesy t a but it does work in its own silly fashion there's soppy romance for the chick flick crowd and stacks of oily writhing female bodies for their dates all set to a pumping disco beat how could it fail it helps that the dialogue is pointless so you can grab a popcorn without missing anything major and if this sort of thing isn't your cup of tea you can always laugh at the dance' on display the scene where a stand in for jennifer beals on stage in front of a tv with a fan in it and a face full of white clown make up had us in stitches a genuine guilty pleasure
0	i was a sophomore in college when this movie came out and i had never actually seen it until last night i finally decided to watch it because i like good dancing and because the movie had such cultural impact after seeing the movie i am completely baffled by how it had any effect other than putting people to sleep br br the story is pretty preposterous when you think about it does anyone actually buy the idea that that beer joint full of gnarly old steel workers and teamsters could keep their clientèle with the high concept dances that those girls were doing they would have all been over to faster than you can say performance art can you imagine the reaction of the real life versions of that audience to that bizarre tv watching no theater dance thing that she did please br br it seems plausible to me that there could be a woman that worked in a steel yard and was also a dancer after all both are physically demanding jobs but i didn't buy for a second that that girl worked in a steel yard and i didn't buy for a second that i was looking at a real steel yard steel work is dangerous you don't keep your work area looking like a junk yard and not end up loosing a limb i love some of the inane shots like when two welders are sitting in the big corrugated tubes welding what the hell are they doing in there or when she is cutting six inches off of a rusty steel bar with a cutting torch she was obviously board and just started cutting random things up br br but story holes like that can be overlooked if the movie is fun or at least stimulating in some way flashdance doesn't offer anything to balance it however br br the dancing horrible it is the spastic twitch and pose style that ruined american musicals until well are we really over it yet the sensuality that the movie tries for is ruined by jennifer complete lack of personality i mean i am a 42 year old male and when she was supposed to be eating lobster my only reaction was to think that she should get a lobster bib br br you can't really get behind alex and her dreams because her character is so stupid and shallow the dog had more going on than she did br br the love affair is flat it comes across as nothing more than a boss with the hots for one of his workers zero passion br br even the final scene where she dances for orville and some other stiffs is unsatisfying because the panels reaction is so unbelievable what serious dancers wouldn't roll their eyes at alex's lame cheerleader routine in short the movie had nothing but leg warmers and large oh yeah there is a good chunk of nudity when alex rescues her friend from being a useless erotic dancer a laughable bit of hypocrisy other than that the movie is a waste of time i wish that the mst3k crew were still in business this would make good fodder for them
0	spoilers beware flashdance is a fair movie in my opinion some things do confuse me about it e g jeanie asks alex how long it took for her to get so good at dancing alex replies about 25 years isn't alex supposed to be 18 and some things do fascinate me about it i loved the spins overall though it intrigued me when this movie was made i wasn't even born i didn't really experience the eighties i was born in '85 and i have to wonder sometimes alex would just run in place a bit or throw herself all over not really dancing just banging in to things tossing her head back and waving her arms was this considered dancing back then if it was i'm not sure i could've it the spins the flip the fluid movements were great but some of it my neighbor's toddler could've done better also if alex is a during the day wouldn't she be tired after a hard day's work when she doesn't go to work for nearly a week wouldn't she be laid off living in a warehouse i can almost see it but not quite it doesn't seem right that she's a owns a warehouse house and is trying to get into ballet none of it really makes sense i shouldn't be too judgemental considering my own background but please maybe jennifer beals is too feminine for me to see her as a i don't know but either way they could've picked a better actress the actors were fine i even liked the romance you make your own decision but mine is rent it once don't see it again it isn't worth it
0	i think vampire movies usually are wicked even if the film itself isn't all that good i still like it 'cos its got vampires in it but this stinks it really does give vampire movies a bad name br br for a start the cheapness really shows i'm not usually that bothered about low budget films one of my favourite all time movies is el mariachi which only cost but i hate this the actions a load of crap as well resorting to a wobbling camera which gives you headache br br theres not much more to say other than don't watch this i bought it for £1 50 as it was an ex rental and i feel cheated out of my money even for that low price
0	i registered with imdb com just so i could comment about this movie my god what a steaming pile of horse crap this was it shouldn't even be touted as a real movie this is very deceiving this is a 15 year old's film project at best the acting is terrible but even good actors could not save this the dialog is probably the worst part of this movie who the hell wrote this crap and that constant joke coming from the chubby lesbian about kaye being a damsel in distress got old real fast god i'd rather have a camel take a wet dump in my ear than watch this crap again do not rent this movie if they gave you the movie for free do not watch it smash it with a hammer even if smashing this video caused you to lose your hollywood video or blockbuster video account it would be well worth it this is an abomination i suppose i have said all i can about this without being redundant any questions email me
0	this movie obviously had good intentions at the end there is a dedication to someone named kellie who as a viewer i can only assume found herself in a situation similar to the one the movie depicts perhaps she made the wrong choice that dedication is the only redeeming quality of love suicide br br the movie becomes unbearable from the opening sequence once the viewer is already that irritated only about five minutes into the film it's pretty much going to be downhill after that which it was i know the film was low budget and the camera shots were actually pretty good unfortunately everything else was horrid the acting the plot the sound quality the picture quality the acting i'm sorry but the acting is horrible beyond horrible it's as if the actors are trying to act like people acting that's the only way i can think to describe it as i watched i actually pictured the script with the stage direction in my mind none of the movements were natural and none of the characters' reactions to one another fit in short the timing is way off the timing of the entire film is way off i'm no director so i know the limits of my knowledge but i really feel there had to be some way to convey the passing of time until they explained about graduation not being too far away i was under the impression that the first portion of the movie had taken place over the span of a week a month at most br br all that being said it's really a shame this movie truly could have been powerful with a little tweaking all the moments in the film in which we are supposed to feel something are obvious but only because the set up is obvious which is a bad thing the moving scenes totally fell flat for instance when kaye's brother takes his hat of his head and puts it on hers we should feel the understanding he has for her the innocence and of the love of her brother somehow it just doesn't come off that way there are so many more scenes like this for example all of the fight scenes and all they do is take away from the movie all these things put together love suicide comes off as one long cheesy low budget commercial
0	my friend and i rented this movie for 3 99 at blockbuster if i'd have known how absolutely horrible this movie was going to be i wouldn't have paid a cent i had no warning for this bs the acting can't even be called acting the inevitable sex scene is awkward and you can tell that both girls feel completely uncomfortable doing it and the male villain god who couldn't tell he was going to attack emily and the musical cues my lord this movie makes me want to cry never rent this in fact if you happen to look upon it gauge out your eyeballs this movie isn't of god it's from hell i'm just gonna take the last couple lines to write blah blah blah cause i really don't want to continue on with this review
0	i loved heavenly creatures and make it a point to catch it whenever it is on br br so imagine my delight when i discovered love suicide while browsing netflix echoing heavenly creatures an easy choice to the top of my queue it went br br i watched it last made myself comfy and waited what i thought was some crappy preview of a stoned high school student's prank film project i laughed out loud once or twice thinking that just lowered the bar of straight to video turned out to be the movie horrible acting amateur direction weak dialog i usually enjoy low budget films there is something tangible and real about them because they cannot afford the superficial stuff to distract from the meat acting the direction the plot the story i would liken it to a student who hasn't studied for an exam goes in knowing he is going to fail and just puts his head on the desk and sleeps br br in someone else's hands the plot would have serious potential br br do not expect magic or even a cult classics like say polyester or showgirls at least there you learn to expect bad acting br br love suicide went from bad to worse to the worst movie i have ever seen
0	ok i don't want to upset anyone who enjoyed this film but it was a really bad movie just the way the scenes were edited and the acting it made me cringe at some points i really tried to enjoy it but it was like a student film they must have had the smallest budget i really liked the story line to an extent and the characters were likable but the film on a whole was just awful also why is it that in almost every film with lesbian characters one of them has to either commit suicide or die or turn straight this is so sending a wrong and unrealistic message i gave it 3 stars and everything considered i think that was very kind of me only watch this film if you want to laugh at how bad it is
0	yeah i made it all the way to the end it was pretty hard though br br sometimes i was wondering if there was even a director on set the acting well i don't even know what to say i thought the girl who played emily tried her best with the boring sometimes wacky and sometimes predictable dialog br br i know that it was low budget but the hollow sound and the lighting unfortunately made it look and sound like a 100 minute long audition tape br br i'm not even going to talk about the ending br br the best thing about the movie was the music br br that being said i do not recommend this movie to anyone even for lesbians who don't have many movies to watch overall this is nothing to waste your time on if you're looking for a sad lesbian themed movie check out the children's hour lost and delirious or high art those will all leave you depressed and gloomy but you won't have to suffer cinematic hell in the process
0	this movie has good intentions at least in the message don't be afraid no matter how tough it can be fear will kill you in the end it's a good message but the container is so flawed that the message gets squashed by bad acting complete lack of credibility in the feelings dialog that's delivered as if it were read out loud stereotypes instead of breathing living people br br it abuses from effects such as slow motion to compensate for a complete lack of credibility in the acting and thus a lack of emotional force br br the suicidal part of it still reminds me of a low budget film from the pre 90s when lesbians seemed to have at least on celluloid an utter incapacity of live good happy lives and a tendency to get caught in over the top dramas that often involved separation death or prison br br had it focused on the rewards of living life according to how we feel it and not according to how others think we should live it it would have being less dramatic more inspiring but it doesn't it focuses of pain on loss and leaves the message at just a theoretical ideal br br i can't see how this movie can be an inspiration to anyone to come out or overcome fear and rejection br br if you're looking for a really good movie that talks about overcoming fear and daring to live what you feel go back to the magnificent desert hearts even better read the novel
0	hmmm started well like a hybrid of x files first wave unfortunately if the mere notion of da lost time machine is preposterous to you then the final between one man with a pistol and 4 16th century monks armed to the teeth with automatic weapons will seem positively ridiculous equalled only by poor acting poor script and screenplay or in other words giggle factor 5 captain
0	forgettable pilot that never really explains why nostradamus is really important to the plot of this movie but rob estes plays a a hunky cop who happens to be nostradamus for some reason and who battles time travelling medieval monks that run around with guns and set people on fire to start the apocalypse oh yeah there's also a sexy fbi agent who happens to be a and is trying to get rob to believe everything before it's too late too bad they couldn't predict a better plot yawn br br
0	i just finished watching disappearances at afi fest 2006 with about 30 other people in a mostly vacant 1000 seat auditorium the festival programmer after seeing the lack of audience started his opening comments with well at least a few of those attending the festival have good taste in film well mr programmer after watching this film i must answer back no we don't and either do you this back woods period piece follows young not so wild bill as he and his mystic family dangerously run illegal canadian whiskey across the border during america's prohibition the old time outlaws kris kristofferson and company not only need the money to save their ramshackle vermont farm but want to introduce little wild bill to the virtues of manhood br br although handsomely photographed this adventure story lacks what makes films of this sort good tension and believability kristofferson's lackluster performance and dry monologue reminds me of a dream i once had where al gore was playing the role of willy wonka i just didn't care and when wild bills mystic grandmother appears out of thin air to give him advice it just didn't fit yes i almost fell asleep more than once br br gary farmer does do a good job as the cameron frye in ferris bueller character brother in law of big bill while the teenage chris mcdermott does uses those piercing blue eyes to his acting benefit br br but overall expect to see jay cravens disappearances playing at a block buster 2 bin near you
0	don wilson stars as jack cutter ooh real tough name a vampire slayer who goes up against a vampire army you see the story is a little different because vampires can't be killed with silver crosses or sunlight but rather through snapping their necks how convenient as it cuts down on the budget and it's here cutter runs into a reporter melanie smith of trancers iii fame night hunter's action sequences shake for no reason during the fight sequences and although it's meant to emphasize the mood it just makes the movie more jarring what is worse is that these fight sequences are botched beyond belief as wilson's martial artistry is disguised by disjointed editing of course the most interest comes from the fact that indeed this predates blade however the problem is that this was done on a small budget and that it had don wilson in it it's from roger corman and basically this turkey is a movie most people would pay not to see i unfortunately am a bottom feeder and i cater to the section of the store looking for gems in this line of work you always run into turds with night hunter i just may have the world's turd br br 1 2 out of 4 awful
0	like the previous poster i am from northern vermont and i was inclined to like this film however not since red zone cuba have i seen such a confusing plot the things the people to bootleg make no sense two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car uhm why then they meet two others and drive up at night in to the bad guy's hideout in a luxury packard wouldn't just two people in a truck make more sense then parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch the four fall asleep when they in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out of course they're spotted and shot at losing some of their precious cargo in the process then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border again why i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s canada border patrol which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now br br and don't get me started on the last half hour which made no sense whatsoever br br the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years
0	i watched this movie so that you don't have to i have great respect for kris kristofferson but what was he thinking he did this for scale br br at least the film's title practices truth in advertising since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film adding to the confusion kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn't sure if genevieve character really existed this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story br br the making of feature was far more interesting than the movie itself it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie even as the film is being shot br br to it's credit this movie is visually pleasing and doesn't in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over too bad the money wasn't spent on a better project
0	ok so i really like kris kristofferson and his usual easy going delivery of lines in his movies age has helped him with his soft spoken low energy style and he will steal a scene effortlessly but disappearance is his misstep holy moly this was a bad movie br br i must give kudos to the cinematography and and the actors including kris for trying their darndest to make sense from this goofy confusing story none of it made sense and kris probably didn't understand it either and he was just going through the motions hoping someone would come up to him and tell him what it was all about br br i don't care that everyone on this movie was doing out of love for the project or some such nonsense i've seen low budget movies that had a plot for goodness sake this had none zilcho nada zippo empty of reason a complete waste of good talent scenery and celluloid br br i rented this piece of garbage for a buck and i want my money back i want my 2 hours back i invested on this grade f waste of my time don't watch this movie or waste 1 minute of your valuable time while passing through a room where it's playing or even open up the case that is holding the dvd believe me you'll thank me for the advice
0	the movie plot seems to have been constructed from a disjointed dream there is not enough realism to hold the viewer's interest the vermont farm scene was a failed opportunity to show the way farms were set up and farm families lived which would have been interesting and entertaining there was little if no research into the whiskey bootlegging trade of the period the costumes of the canadians looked like something from the french revolution totally unbelievable the fiddle playing was good and of the time period but chris's motions while supposedly playing were unbelievable the owl's appearance was a never explained mystery and the train disappearing into thin air was too much i couldn't understand how a live trout got frozen into the ice and why two men in the wilderness without food would release the trout a good food source
0	could possibly be the worst film ever made at least plan 9 from outer space was funny i can't believe they talked someone into actually putting up money to make this thing complete waste of celluloid before i saw this crap i had some respect for i guess somebody needed a tax write off please in the name of all that which does not suck stop whoever made this before they suck again this movie should be avoided by all people who are not on lsd or my crazy cousin that insists we're part native american if you are in the woods and an owl starts talking to you see a psychiatrist it is not necessary to make a movie about it
0	this well meant film falls just a bit short and unfortunately in too many areas br br the scenery is gorgeous with vistas of north central vermont providing the setting for this mid century tale quebec bill endeavors to go back to his whiskey running past in order to save his farm br br going back and forth between scenes of magical realism and straight forward action this film rarely hits its stride br br kris kristofferson as quebec bill seems pretty stilted or else it's his lines or else his cross of yankee and quebecois accents anyway he just comes off as a low key blow hard his dialogs with gary farmer's character do sparkle though william rat is solid charlie mcdermott shows some real potential as young wild bill but his part's not large enough to carry a scene and he never steals one luis guzman shows up on lake with a fine stand in performance by lake willoughby as a monk with a hood accent who knows and then there's an oracle like her namesake she channels yoda as she intones lines like you will marry a quebec woman just too weird and nowhere near enigmatic enough br br the end gets really choppy again a bad mix of magical realism and the concrete and yoda never provides an answer we can understand
0	during production this series was titled to the moon' a title that everyone on set at the time thought was cheesy enough then word came through that it had been retitled for the moon' as if this the addition of this new word would evoke heavy metaphorical meanings involving the relationships and aspirations of the characters this same heavy handed lack of subtlety and understanding is clear throughout the very fabric of the entire series and the same tired and boring love triangle storyline is actually stretched out over 7 episodes any television program that decides to use the 'love storyline for even a single episode is pushing it but to smear it over seven episodes is unforgivable there are reasons to watch however with the scenery of the isle of wight certainly providing a beautiful setting and the seemingly effortless performance of lynda hitting all the right comedy marks this however is not enough a number of performances are noticeable especially when placed against the static and emotionless wasteland which jonathan kerrigan refers to as his face i have already mentioned lynda in the role of mother' yes thats as far as character development and back story goes but i was impressed by the actor maurice roeves who is by far the most experienced actor in the cast having appeared in everything from classic movies such as richard attenborough's 'oh what a lovely war' and 'the eagle has and tv including baywatch city the bill eastenders cheers doctor who in the 80s star trek and even going to hollywood with stallone in judge dredd whose performance reminded me very much of actual teachers i have met often incapable men whose lives are tinged with a very sad streak it is refreshing to see that roeves is still getting work having also appeared in the 1998 british film 'the acid house' and even more recently alongside the wonderful maria bello and sean bean in 'the dark' the standout reason to watch this series even though his appearances are very few another actor who tries his hardest to elevate the program is ben miles in the role of the sex mad 'typical man' brother once again what an original character as with roeves the cv says it all after elevating this miles has since appeared in the hollywood movie for and the 2001 star studded film 'the affair of the alongside brian cox adrien brody christopher walken and jonathan pryce unfortunately the fairly capable actors i have mentioned are resigned to relatively small roles in comparison to the dramatic driftwood that is kerrigan and todd both of whom seem to have been in casualty for too long and haven't yet learned to act even the tolerable frances grey is made to suffer in the presence of such theatrically fetal mannequins and unfortunately for her the lasting memory i have of her from the set is of the ad asking for another take of a relatively complex shot because during the take she subconsciously her knickers out of her crack ' familiar faces appear in each episode child actors from cbbc programs and dramas such as point 4 children' and other regulars from commercials such as mr ben's they'll remember me for this lynda 'the lady' and others that i don't even want to remember each episode tries to with such as teenage pregnancy disruptive pupils and rocket building things that grange hill was doing better when my parents were young overall this series was a disappointment and a wasted opportunity to craft a genuinely interesting and well developed drama series unfortunately for them they took the easy route both in the writing and for the most part in the casting i would recommend both road' and 'the street' to fans of good drama the latter in particular which managed to achieve this if you like the isle of wight don't for the moon' reach for the holiday brochure instead it probably contains more character development
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0	spoiler ahead br br i suppose that you shouldn't expect much of a made for tv movie but this one was especially bad the plot was a good idea but badly done the acting wasn't especially good and the ending of the film was just terrible the main character was perfectly normal all the way through the film and then suddenly when we find out that she was the killer she just turns into a mentally challenged psychopath it's completely pathetic br br there is only one reason really to watch this film yasmin bleeth although haven't we all seen her in a swimsuit before don't bother even watching this waste of time if you want a film about the world of beauty contest then watch drop dead gorgeous instead it's only an infinite number of times better
0	a wacky chick' flick a beauty contestant winds up dead and the usual suspects are rounded up another entry in the vein of the texas cheerleader this is an average example of its type br br yasmine bleeth turns in her usual wholesome girl performance and jill clayburgh does a good job as her stressed out slightly obsessed mom br br some mildly funny moments listening to the vapid self serving pr coming out of mouths i'd like to own a restaurant so i can give left over food to the homeless ' br br you have to ask yourself what people are using for brains when they think a cheerleader spot or beauty crown is worth killing for br br
0	pun intended this low budget action horror vehicle for don wilson's ability to kick things is the stuff direct to video fare is made of br br the plot wilson is a humorless vampire hunter who comes under fire from local law enforcement after he is forced to slaughter creatures of the night in view of the public police chase him vampires chase him he responds by kicking a lot br br there is a little more to the story but it is so inconsequential that i honestly can't remember it i think people actually spoke in the movie but that's up to debate the plot is nothing more than a set up for wilson to kill as many vampires as possible in the running time usually by kicking them br br the technical specs are in a word anemic little color treating amateurish use of lighting simplistic use of camera and angle blood and gore is noticeably limited odd for this type of film the most hurtful of the filming foul ups is the jarring shift to super shaky cam during each and every fight scene if the camera begins to bounce around like a reese monkey on speed then you know don is about to start kicking everything in sight br br all in all this is the kind of bad movie that can be made good with a few friends and a lot of cynical humor otherwise do not watch unless you really like to watch things get kicked br br 3 10
0	this movie started out cringe worthy but it was meant to with an overbearing mother a witch of a rival and a hesitant beauty queen constantly coming in second there was some goofy overacting and a few implausible plot points she comes in second in every single competition all of them unfortunately the movie suffers horribly from it's need to well be a tv movie rather than end at the ending of the movie an amusing twist in which the killer is semi plausibly revealed the movie continues for another twenty minutes just to make sure that justice is done of course now that the killer is revealed she suddenly undergoes a complete personality shift her character gets completely rewritten because the writers don't need to keep her identity secret any more the cheese completely sinks what otherwise could have been a passably amusing movie
0	no it's just a cheap 1940s serial using the good name if you are a fan of the comic book you will be greatly disappointed they have radically changed the character no shield no no fighting the nazis no wings on the side of his mask and most importantly captain america is now a district attorney and no longer a gi br br dick purcell as captain america don't look too closely when he changes into his costume it is pretty obvious that he was not in the best physical shape when he made this serial can you say flabby it is also very obvious that a stunt man is performing most of the action here almost every chapter has an obligatory fist fight that is shot and performed in exactly the same way the villain is rather bland and although he uses an alias the scarab he doesn't wear a disguise of any kind the story is repetitive and very simple the effects are laughable and the action is average on the plus side we have sexy lorna gray as the d a 's assistant and the good captain gets to ride on a cool looking motorcycle in one early chapter overall ok but nothing special
0	the story of the bride fair is an amusing and engaging one and it is to the filmmaker's credit that he sets out to portray rural with the same respect ordinarily reserved for coast dwellers it is weird though to find an independent movie the brainchild of a single person that is as and cliché ridden as a committee hollywood potboiler br br the portrait of rural people is intended to be affectionate i think but these characters don't ring true to me i have had quite a few meals in small town diners but never overheard a debate on the merits of different nineteenth century english novelists one might suggest that writer director has no more experience with rural culture than the coen brothers and considerably less satiric verve
0	i'll say one thing for herman usa it will probably always play well to minnesota audiences i can't imagine that there's another place in the world where a reference to the fast life of or a line like i knew there was something wrong with iowa guys would bring down the house i actually quite enjoyed the first hour or so basically a bunch of lonely country boys take out a personals ad and find their town beset with willing female suitors is suitors a gender specific word it ain't progressive to be sure but it's sorta charming in its own right pity that the filmmakers felt the need to tack on a contrived subplot about a conniving golddigger and her violent husband overall it's just too cloying for its own good but you've got to give some props to a film with the guts to give a guy with kevin build a nude love scene i will always applaud the depiction of people who don't meet the usual standards of beauty as sexual caring human beings but that's not enough to redeem herman usa to paraphrase jello it's nostalgia for an age that never existed
0	my mother took me to this movie at the drive in when i was around seven years old which is thirty years ago she had no idea a family movie would be so violent my clearest memory was of the boy's father's face of pain as he was stabbed in the stomach and killed this image haunted me for weeks i had learned that i lived in a world where a person might stab my father at anytime how could i stop them how could my father protect himself you must realise that this stabbing is not fantasy to a seven year old it is as real as witnessing an actual event and has no place in a child's innocent mind it is sad that we still do not understand the impact that bringing violence into the lives of our children has both on our children and our society if only parents would protect their children from images of violence with the same vigor that they protect them from images of nudity and sex
0	the story has little to do with jack london's original novel i thought the acting was very unnatural the dubbing was done very sloppily and the story itself contains a fairly large number of inconsistencies and loose ends apart from that the pace of the movie was horrendously slow at some parts
0	this movie features roaches as super flesh eating killers this may have been the first movie where roaches were the primary killers though not the first movie where roaches are killers damnation alley featured a scene with killer cockroaches and creepshow had a story that had them in this one they are the star not as good as it could have been this one doesn't have all that many kills in them i could be wrong on that point however because i have not seen this one in quite some time the roaches have gone killer and this very strange research lady is in town to study them yes she is quite strange as at one point she has her hand in a box on the killer roaches and she is like they are biting my hand and she says this in almost a state of ecstasy there is also one super big roach near the end of this one like in so many insect films not a great movie but worth checking out on a night you are bored out of your mind
0	the nest is really just another run horror flick that fails because of the low budget the acting is ok and the setting is great but somehow the whole film just seemed a bit dull to me the gore effects are not the best i've seen but are fun in a cheesy sort of way the roaches themselves are just regular cockroaches that bite people the nest reminded me of a much better film called slugs if you liked the nest then slugs is a must see as it's ten times better also worth noting is that lisa who plays elizabeth was in another run type film called deadly eyes aka the rats which is about killer rats as you may have guessed br br if you enjoy these types of horror films then you may want to give this a watch but you'd be far better off seeing slugs which is far more interesting and gory
0	worst movie ever its not clever or funny or thought provoking 84 minutes of bad actors doing their best with an awful script br br acting was so bad that you can see the dead people breathing br br maybe the writer director combination believed they were quentin tarantino or something you know make a movie about nothing still cool but failed miserably br br i hope the writer never makes another movie ever not everyone is born a writer sometimes we need to count our losses and go back to being a bathroom attendant or whatever br br please don't watch this movie even on mute with the stereo going its still a painful 84 mins
0	honestly people who gave this movie a ten would have given 100 for pulp fiction this is the level that we are dealing with here br br the movie isn't bad but no way is it like omg the best movie since pulp fiction some people have incredibly low expectations for movies even those of indie variety personally i found my interest in the movie waned after the half hour mark the plot defies logic and belief you have got to hear the part about why the wife did what she did in order to save her husband yeah right i guarantee that you would walk out of the theatre thinking hmm now that doesn't make sense at all this is one movie in which you really need to suspend all logic and belief br br those who said that the music score is good were probably listening to their mp3 players it absolutely killed the movie in some parts br br in conclusion watch the movie only if you have nothing particular important to do i give this a three because there is one long sex sequence in the motel which is decent
0	this is really a terrible film by any of the regular plot storyline acting effects direction i could go on suffice to say it's poor however it has a certain appeal many totally out of context sex scenes appear it's fun looking for the batman references umm that's it poor really don't bother
0	i should've realised it was a sign of things to come when the trailer for this film bored me br br having watched several indie films on the strength of the reviews on here and subsequently finding that my view is completely opposite to those other reviewers i began wondering if it's possible i am watching completely different films from these people or are they perhaps friends family etc of the film makers trying to 'big up' their work hmmm br br are you interested in seeing an homage to pulp fiction and 11 14 except done with worse actors a silly score undermines various scenes and unbelievable jumps in logic if not then skip this film br br here is my open letter to two of the players in this film br br alfonso morgan please please please stop trying to 'be' samuel l a la pulp fiction no one can do what he does as well as he does br br director please come up with something original it does you a disservice to churn out this stuff pretending to be quentin tarantino br br simply dire and i really cannot see how anyone could say this is a good film it is a disgrace that people have somehow managed to put a score of 8 5 on this the same as films like pulp fiction or goodfellas it is no where near these movies a 4 or 5 would be a more reasonable average rating i give it a 3
0	this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen thank god i saw it for free i would have hated to waste my money on it br br first off there isn't a character in the movie that is in any way likable michael caine comes close but even he is pretty flawed the rest of the commandos are made up of disgusting ex cons there are the two gay arabs and three guys who try to rape a red cross nurse and the leader who has no trouble sending his men off to get killed so he can escape br br the mission is anything from suspenseful they are to blow up a fuel dump sounds exciting right well the footage follows them through endless and fixing flat tires yes you read that right the suspense is whether they will run out of spare tires we actually watch them change something like 12 flats on the way that's how incredibly exciting this movie is br br they get to the fuel dump to find that it is a decoy so nothing to blow up and at this time for some very convoluted reason the british army decides that they don't need these guys anymore and radios their whereabouts to the germans to kill them br br so now at least we'll have an exciting race to freedom nope instead they decide to blow up a different fuel dump to create a diversion but when they get into the place they set off a trip wire and the germans come to get them calling out their names over a loudspeaker br br really weird if the germans knew where they were and where they were going why did they let them get all the way into the dump before springing the trap instead they wait until they get into the fuel depot and set all of their charges yeah right that would happen br br so they blow the dump the leader sells out all of his men except for michael caine since he's been offered 2000 to bring him back alive br br ok so the men are all betrayed and killed and michael caine and nigel davenport survive the british troops come in with tanks and they decide to go get rescued since they are wearing german uniforms they wore them to blow up the dump they tie a white flag around a stick and walk out into the road br br some british guy walks up them and machine guns them to death credits roll br br yep the two heroes of the movie die due to a random act of violence br br it's almost like the movie suddenly ran out of budget and decided that's a wrap kill them off and we'll go home i wasted 2 hours of my life watching this tired unimaginative and totally unrealistic movie that ended with a of a bomb
0	it's great to hear the 3 or so comments that point out what wives' signifies for women the title alone washes away any supposed equality women have in the media industry or society reducing them to two dimensional cartoon caricatures of how men think women should behave it is a post modern moronic farce it might as well be called who stays at home and knows her place' br br on one hand it could actually be some sort of parody on the u k 's gutter trash press representation of celebrities and the role they have in maintaining a patriarchal society so women can undermine stereotypes by acting like those stereotypes and own the image that has been created for them by mens desire nah that would be to ironic and clever i also sound like i should be praising it br br zoe is simply too camp and over the top to be taken seriously just like an even cheaper cruella de ville she just needs some maniacal condescending yet at the same time self laugh to show off her true acting range oh she does right anyway it just about sums up whom this is aimed at either who think its an up roaring send up of vaudevillian proportions or people who think its 'real' finest actors omg stop watching this afterbirth of a pantomime and get a life br br its utterly sexist and is of such low quality that maybe those who enjoy it think they are in on the joke do the actors really care or understand what they are communicating its so demeaning to women and men they are not all self centred selfish football loving materialistic jerks who think women are nothing but another trophy to be put on display for the public it's so humiliating i am sure ms would easily stand up to them in her real life and twist them round her finger as so easily done in wives' br br but of course its doesn't really matter i mean its only a t v programme after all so please let it stay axed it's dreadful and will only be looked back on in the same disbelief that 'prisoner cell block h' was so fondly remembered for br br how did it come to exist it sure ain't subtle or complex it could only come from the same mind set who read magazine and think its alright to look at soft porn and do as many women who bow to their will and chant patriotic and racist comments whenever their football team losses wins it's totally crass
0	what was the aim here i started to have a look at it but then i realized that it had no aim poor acting no action and no story i ended up listening to it while i was surfing the web reading about david beckham's 250 million dollar us soccer galaxy contract do not rent this don't borrow this not worth a down load i've seen so many films that i could sense that this was going to be crap from the get go br br war films should be accurate and if possible have some artistic merit and actually not feel like christian melodrama this film pales in comparison to any that i've seen before i must say that iam truly disappointed at this film
0	i saw this movie today on the big screen and i can honestly not believe some of the comments made by people on here i was really hoping to be touched by this film but wasn't br br i'm ex australian army and very patriotic towards this great country but i feel this movie no way does justice for us and those soldier who fought at this battle br br the movie is poorly filmed i thought the acting was terrible they were not believable and they didn't give me any reason for me to care about them people are saying this movie was graphic there were a couple of graphic scenes but i found most part very weak the war scenes were very short and only last a couple of minutes br br overall a weak film that doesn't do these soldiers any justice
0	for all its wonderful images for all of its good intentions this just comes off as yet another disgustingly one sided over glorified self promoting propaganda br br the message is simple all japanese fighting on the track were sadistic malicious f sticks who enjoyed gutting every last aussie troop cutting their throats before beheading them not only does pick up on gallipoli 's only flaw that the enemy are faceless nameless and apparently inhumane but manages to prove quite the opposite to weir's masterpiece instead of giving us a perfect film with one flaw we have a horrible mess with one redeeming feature br br let's start off with this we're without any comfortable adapting to the characters introduced to these apparently quite laid back two dimensional people who we never ever get to sympathize with we're kept at such a distance that even when we could so easily relate to the characters they find a way to keep us away that alone is a sickening feature as it drives us from the very plot helps the horrible pacing to leave us with a lasting impression and makes it so much easier to see the contrast between an overtly sentimental ending and an otherwise lackluster body of a film br br in other words it drags us through a painful journey not just for us but apparently for them and just as it should end we're thrown into another eye roller of a skirmish that ends faster than it began so for the as yet still uninformed when it should end it starts up again only to end when we expect more s it's just a confusing and agonizing pace br br which brings me to the ultimatum this is meant to educate us on the events of the track it doesn't come close not only does it detail a very small insignificant part of the campaign sprinkling a little on top in an attempt to make it relevant but it succeeds in doing the one thing a film as important as this should be does it makes us not care br br honestly my eyes were constantly glued to my watch the entire time the audience around me all proudly australian bickering as they came in about how great the film is going to be groaned moaned and whined in disappointment as every one of the painful ninety five minutes droned on for a short running time it felt like apocalypse now difference being that apocalypse now was a good film and deserved the three hours it got and on to the point where suicide could wholeheartedly be an alternative should it be mandatory for this film to be watched br br though considering how much the tv has been advertising this trash i'd say it is mandatory in a subliminal sense of the word br br watch if you like pretty images though you'd do better watching the constant gardener or gallipoli anyway since they have superior cinematography and actual plots br br overall
0	a totally pathetic attempt at movie about sacrifices of australian soldiers during the new guinea campaign total waste of money even if you only see it on dvd thankfully the video store provided a free weekly hire with the dvd else it would have been a complete waste of money probably made by arty types and full of the symbolism that today's socialists seem so into frankly this movie is an insult to the memory of the brave chaps that never came back somebody please provide the funding to make a decent movie at least the equal of saving private ryan hopefully the will put as much distance between itself and this movie as possible the story needs to be told from all sides the australians the locals the japanese although getting the latter to tell the truth about anything that happened during the second world war is highly unlikely basically its rubbish don't see it don't buy it walk away
0	this was like watching the trailer of a up and coming movie except that there was no movie coming up the film is so unsatisfying and obviously unfinished as to be almost laughable the subject of this film is over a very short time frame and frankly nothing much actually happens in the 90 odd minutes of screen time i was hoping for the definitive australian film about our soldiers in wwii and how they fought against incredible odds in awful conditions this is most certainly not it br br having said that the acting was great and locations authentic this could easily have been a great movie given a lot more money and time instead it isn't even mediocre and i cannot recommend it at all
0	from all the bad comments about this movie and add them up i feel the same way it may look like the australians are weaklings instead they were brave soldiers in this film it was very terrible and too graphic i didn't see enough heroism just more cowardice which is ashame because its nothing from what i read we don't need the extremity of violence like that we can use our vivid imagination of what they went through it's like saving private ryan where the nazi is pushing his knife slowly in the soldier for example mel gibson is a over extreme director for his movies not because of the violence but for the level of historical inaccuracy letters of iwo jima was one of the war films that was close enough to history although i could be wrong except flags of our fathers and bridge of the river kwai you're better off reading it its an insult to the victims and the fallen if you don't tell it right and the movie drag on for too long there was nothing interesting about the dialogue and not enough retribution from the aussies to kill japanese soldiers just read history on the internet mags and in books movies always kill the sense of realization what they did to pows in singapore and the philippines was just dreadful to civilians it just makes me feel proud to see goodies beat the baddies but movies like this ruin it
0	was inspired by events on the track during ww2 when australian militia slowed and ultimately stopped a push by 10 000 japanese soldiers to move and capture port what they really mean is that the movie is set in this time period but is fiction and everything that happens is just a jumble of standard scenes from other war films the first hour is just one cliché after another some of the scenes are simply there to be able to draw us into a feeling that this conflict was horrific beyond compare when there appears to be little evidence of this both sides fought hard to control the track and no mercy was shown by either side both sides suffered from shortages and the terrain was a great leveler in this conflict as the japanese got closer to port their supply line grew and this ultimately led to their downfall on the other hand as the australians retreated closer to port their supply line decreased some of the scenes appear to be straight out of the handbook on standard scenes to include in any war film the film was misguided and highlighted the youth of the production team at a time when australia could have done with a great film about one of australia's best moments the film is a shallow disappointment
0	you have to see this movie it's a big footnote in the history of film when this film was made american film industry reached the bottom of sucking see this movie laugh and feel sorry for yourself for wasting the last 2 hours of your life it's the worst acting i've seen and even worse directing the villains laugh like they're taken from a clown circus and if the guys who did scary movie want to do a parody on superhero movies they only have to take the script from this movie and do a remake called black scorpion iii the threat of really really bad movies who in some way manages to lure the production companies into a sequel suicide
0	there is no doubt that the trail depicts a truly great event in australian military history the brave defence of australia against the cruel barbaric japanese army this film fails to take into account the story of the fuzzy or the new guinea natives that the australians used to help them carry out there military operations the film also fails to give a credible account of the australian soldier and his behaviour in this event it is more like an uninformed contemporary view of what is was like br br again the australian film industry has failed to give this important chapter in s history the film it deserved this is film making at its worst with arbitrary cinematography bad scripting and dialogue no character development and cliché jungle warfare scenes br br it fails to imbue the audience in any meaningful perspective other than the japanese army were ruthless and cruel murderers of an ill equipped and badly trained group of australians fighting in a jungle br br the film failed as most australian films do to attract a significant australian audience in fact they stayed away in droves br br i am not going to join the usual parochial garbage of saying its great because its an australian film i say either do a great job or just leave it to some one who knows how this government funded film is just another failure by australia's wealthy and spoilt rich kids br br i am giving it zero stars because its an insult to the descendants of these truly great australians and their enormous sacrifice what a shameful waste and disrespect and i know this review will provoke more negativity from the movie show crew and most reviewers but i have a right to my opinion and that's what australians fought for our freedom and that includes freedom of speech and the right to express an opinion
0	first off i'll give this movie a low scoring 4 out of 10 it was nothing more than a wannabe film i felt very let down watching this film i was lead to people it would be more drama and more facts about the true story it's based on instead i spent over an hour watching middle aged mean break the law and take drugs br br it's like football factory but with no real storyline and not a good ending after watching the film i was left wondering what was that film all about if you like films with no real storyline and a lot of drug taking and swearing then this is the film for you br br i'm a big fan of mob and gangster movies but this film did not live up to the hype i can see where the writer was trying to go with the film but it never reached it's destination one of the worst british films that i have ever watched if only the movie had more of a storyline this would have bad an excellent movie
0	oh dear just what we need another essex cockney garbage effort chronicling the rise of the uk hooligan rave gangster who did of course follow west 'am east essex style didn't anybody tell you that they won the world cap and then of course the inevitable decay into uk rave culture underworld blah blah blah why how and who would want to fund a film like this i do not know but lets pray that it was from private financiers lets see ex drug dealers merchant bankers we all know what to call them and the rest of the rather than publicly funded means hopefully with the recession we will not see the like of this again if we do we will be calling the death knell for british films and of course we will all be able to blame britains number one mockney country gent wannabee gangster guy ritchie
0	having had more than a few mates suggest i check rise of the out i eventually got round to it last night undoubtedly the story colton leach has to tell and did so in his autobiography is a compelling tale of one mans ascent from terrace boot boy to connected underworld villain this film sadly compromised in quality by appalling accents and woeful acting ricci in the lead role of leach does a reasonable job of conveying the transition from thuggery to serious criminal but his accent is all over the place as his voice provides the stories narration it is something that after ten minutes was driving me nuts terry stone as tony tucker provided the unintentional comedy with an ill fitting wig or the worst barnett going dialogue that was so expletive riddled it bordered on juvenile and an over the top in line delivery reducing tucker to parody what troubled me most about this film was that the events leading up to the shooting in essex and the formative years of leach are of genuine interest to crime fans and fans of football hooliganism so to have this story sabotaged by a lack of credible accents and acting left me feeling an opportunity had been missed roland and frank harper provide the films only source of authenticity on the positive side some of the films pacing and construct flowed well and kept the attention the violence was well choreographed and aside from an over reliance on projectile red syrup for blood was on the whole realistic if you enjoyed the film then it is worth checking out essex boys telling a similar tale from fictionalised viewpoint and also featuring billy murray
0	watching this movie all i could think of was maybe it gets better but after 20 minutes i couldn't watch it any second longer i don't want too wast to many lines about this but really its a complete wast of time all the actors say is c nt this that if you are still going too watch it don't say i didn't warned you maybe if you are an hooligan or something you might think its a tribute to your hobby again film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures the field of film as an art form and the motion picture industry films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects
0	i am a big fan of british films in general but especially gangster movies unfortunately this film was shockingly bad i think its pretty depressing that this film is getting any good customer reviews the idea that this film is gritty and realistic is laughable i have read and heard fist hand quite a lot about the real life events shown in this movie and they have nearly all been glorified with over the top violence etc the only gritty true to life event in the whole film was the range rover murders where some overblown bouncers got rubbed out for messing with people they could not handle this film is a disgrace to british cinema it has no plot and no decent acting and just relies on being violent gritty and realistic as some people like to put it the sort of people who made this film should not be allowed near a budget or film camera just as the sort of people this film is about should not be given the opportunity to tell this pathetic violent little tale of no consequence
0	this is possibly the worst of the cockney gangster genre that has blighted the british film industry since mockney guy ritchie unleashed lock stock and two badly acted barrels this true life story of carlton leach who has everything that is wrong with this genre a truly awful script that consists of people screeching cant cant and i'll kill ya ya cant ad nauseum the acting is uniformly dreadful with the two most recognisable cast members being two former soap stars quite out of their depth for some reason the film assumes we have heard of these people and i can assure you anybody north of essex hasn't and that we should be interested in some low lifes story why this isn't goodfellas despite the blurb on the dvd cover the story centres around a football hooligan turned bouncer turned gangster who's friends end up getting shot boo hoo the fact that these people are totally unsympathetic is the only minor plus for this film in all of the action scenes it seems that the camera was tied to a piece of string and whirled around while people pretended to fight and the story of somebody most people have never heard of and nothing really interesting happens too is a complete waste of time people talk about how violent the film is as though it's the sign of a great film and although many great films have violence in them this is just an excuse for the fx man to show what he can do overall this film is a reminder of why the british film industry is defunct and the sooner we stop funding these pathetic abortions the better
0	blame guy ritchie the late 90s success of ritchie's cliché ridden lock stock and two smoking barrels triggered a series of pitiful gangster movies from which the genre never really recovered sadly rise of the the true story of essex hardnut carlton leach isn't likely to reverse that trend despite a decent lead performance from hartnett the film falls victim to all too familiar east end stereotypes they're either busy blowing someone's brains out or shagging a scantily clad blonde br br from fearsome football hooligan in the eighties to a key figure in the criminal underworld during the nineties charts rise through the ranks of thuggery leaving the for nightclubs leach becomes a bouncer where he's given carte blanche to kick the crap out of anyone here he gets in with notorious gangland leaders pat tate fairbrass and tony tucker stone and begins to realise gang warfare ain't what it's cracked up to be br br there is fun to be had deconstructing writer director julian laughable join the dots patois as every sentence seems to start with an 'i'm gonna or 'you or on occasion 'so then i only went an' typically concluded with a mandatory ' the direction too smacks of sadism especially the obvious glee gets from filming violent scenes in close up and in the case of the bloody shotgun to the face denouement in br br director use of the classic rise and fall gangster narrative isn't what will condemn to big screen obscurity nor is it the fact that half way through the film annoyingly sidelines leach in favour of the events culminating in the infamous shooting of tate and tucker it's sickening appetite for scatter shot violence that ruins the film whether it's a brick in the face or axe in the head during a vicious attack on a train it's all unnecessarily prolonged doesn't so much pack a punch as leave you feeling violated and more importantly robs you of two hours of your life you won't get back
0	this movie could have been great it is not in my opinion the storyline is fragmented the editor appears not to be able to choose between a guy ritchie style of storytelling and a more straightforward one there is a great emphasis on excessive violence including torture too much so if you ask me the characters are very shallow and stereo typed i would have liked to see more depth there it is hard to identify with the main character as a result the movie remains shallow as a whole br br the movie says it gives the spectator an inside view of the british criminal underclass more in particular the essex underclass football hooligans steroids cocaine heroine and violence lots and lots of violence violence resulting from paranoia and fear in general in this movie no one seems to use his or her brain we're looking at a bunch of animals in clothes like i said there is not much of a plot and the storytelling leaves a lot to be desired br br if you're a male below 30 like gore and hardcore violence and think that's entertaining than this is a movie for you if you're looking for a movie portraying real people with a well developed storyline suspense and depth well you can skip this one
0	'rise of the follows the unrelentingly cruel journey of gangster carlton leach and his associates through drugs violence sex violence guns violence and did i mention violence br br protagonist carlton leach ricci member of the i c f inner city firm a group of football hooligans turned professional gangsters guides the audience through the events leading to the 1995 rover in which three gang members fell victim to particularly vicious professional 'hits' success as a doorman and talent for locating aptly violent friends to control unruly punters at a local nightclub launches him into the company of notorious drug dealers and gangsters benefiting from the 80s 90s rave scene and drug culture br br opening with brutally realistic shots of the dead men the viewer is left thirsty to understand what happened but left wholly unsatisfied the next 2 hours meander through a series of countless character introductions each of these basically establishes yet another typical man' shows him assaulting usually undeserving victims before probably coming to an even nastier end what little emotional understanding the audience is allowed to form for a few of the characters for example a family man blamed for missing drugs is quickly destroyed when they are either anti killed or their storyline left unresolved the hints of a plot introduced in the beginning are inadequately concluded with vague impressions of how the murders occurred as the events are slotted into place with little reward for persevering with the hazy muddle of previous events br br this film has been made with a standard formula in mind for an audience who prefer violence and nut' slang to an actual storyline 'rise of the borrows too much from factory' leaving out the good bits demonstrating no moral ramifications of hooligan subculture or establishing empathy with the protagonist the violence although brilliantly shot seems excessive and implausible because no one is around long enough for the audience to form an emotional attachment the implication that the gangs are untouchable by the police is fair enough but machete wielding regularly committing blatant murder in public places pushes the imagination of even the most willing viewer the audience are left bewildered as to the relevance of many key events and developed characters that had no knock on effect on the eventual conclusion attempted is further destroyed with a substance called which the turkish mafia use to coax honest answers from unwilling individuals this is not the genre in which to invent psychologically unrealistic drugs and renders the interrogation almost absurd br br the actual scenes of violence before becoming repetitive hold some tension spliced with rapid flashes of colour or the end of a film reel seamlessly choreographed brawls coupled with obligatory but effective shaky hand held camera work saves the film but unfortunately the plot or lack there of limits it to a niche demographic br br in essence the events this film is based on aren't deservedly represented and an adequately sequential storyline is sacrificed for stereotypical characters and an unoriginal plot this film has a place in the market but if you like a bit of brain with your brutality this one isn't for you br br http www com
0	there is part of one sequence where some water rushes into the sunken plane everything else that happens in this movie is stock footage for airport 77 you can even make out jack lemmon and christopher lee in some of the shots a total rip off well almost by definition there may be more stock footage in this film than in plan 9 from outer space br br all the new material actors sitting around in an airplane set talking is bland and terrible on every level dennis weaver is totally wasted in a career low movie though that's true for everyone other than this films director fred olen ray who uses one of this many necessary fake names in order to keep working br br there is a level of scant professionalism that makes this film such a waste of time it would actually be better if shot by someone with no technical knowledge at all because ray has just enough knowledge about how to put together a scene in the worst old school tv fashion that this film like most of his films is totally devoid of life the worst kind of hack work the worst kind of film boring br br this type of film is a waste of money an affair where the crew on all levels are ghosts hoping to get whatever scant pay check they can and that no one will see or know they appeared participated in this rip off there are so many people who want to make movies it's disgusting to see ray burn up the money given to do nothing more but fill time br br his commentary track is interesting in that he has to start it by explaining that he is really fred ray as he isn't credited on the film itself that tricked me into seeing it don't let it trick you
0	the motion picture association of america has seen fit to advise potential viewers and this is particularly useful to parents and guardians that this film which is hereby titled frostbite is given a r rating the r rating has specific information which allows any person who not knowing anything about a film to know something about what this film provides the r was instituted for sexual content including nudity and perverse dialog language crude sense of humor and drug use there is no reward in viewing such a film though it would be useful to know if this could be removed as a possibility at all i would as this reviewer remove such a possibility this is a film whereby merely a 1 was not the equal to a number as it did not qualify as a film to be counted in fact such as this purpose is with this film so should such a purpose be with this films place at all this is a unwholesome and undesirable that should of been given a much stricter interpretation because at no point is conduct or language suitable for viewing and this kind of film may wish for a blacklist rather than a stricter definition as to its content it is suggested hereby that the stricter definition would allow it is hereby put forth a criminal charge it may any way irregardless of its rating this is a unsavory world which would damage any persons viewing this film as its purpose is to commit an offense it is an offense and it is offensive in its purpose there is no sense of humor in the film but a depraved and indifferent purpose as to its undesirable underpinning without reservation this is a do not see list and perhaps not entirely necessary to say to any adults considering but to any whose interests concern the environment to which there children grow up in do not allow nor provide any young person the viewing of this film it is unfriendly society often sends the wrong message when these kinds of problems are in the public domain let this not be one of those times
0	this movie is beyond horrible avoid at all costs i want my hour and 20 minutes back br br not funny at all you can watch this movie without laughing or even smiling once swears spill out of the speakers like a waterfall each one getting more annoying as the last and not contributing to the comedy or plot general comedy not this movie in general br br all in all its a lame a 5 watered down typed out cold ish movie but tremendously awful the movie focuses around two groups of a city and how obviously dumb is that where the two opposites have battles with each other story is much like a 4 year old's bed time story without all the swears and stupid jokes br br movie 1 10 because you can't give any lower scores
0	after a while i realized it was just my iq slowly dropping frostbite is one of those pathetic movies where no one and i mean no one is even trying i rooted for the dorky hero to die inside that trashcan how did he even manage to fit in there anyway traci lords the queen of b movies was horribly unfunny and ripped me and my friends off by not showing her boobs a single time br br the characters though i use that term loosely are people so exaggerated and one dimensional they might as well have used cardboard cutouts the jokes i use this term loosely as well are simply hilarious a guy's fart causes an earthquake our hero gets a butt by traci lords oh god i can't breathe the blind guy uses the f word repeatedly this is too much br br say what you want about the acting but i thought adam did a pretty good job at playing a mentally challenged apart from that the sole source of entertainment value here is boobs i think i counted three maybe four pairs throughout the entire film scattered over maybe five minutes of screen time that's five minutes worth watching out of 83 minutes of unfunny trash don't watch this watch barb wire with pamela anderson at least there was plenty of nudity and action in that trashy flick r 26
0	this movie is just downright horrible the movie was only an hour long and for about 25mins of the movie was just useless random clips that don't even connect to the movie the storyline is completely retarted my 5 year old cousin could probably write a better script i don't understand how someone could fund the production of a film like this horrible this is definitely the most horrid movie i've ever seen in my entire existence i think the casting director just took some random kids from off the street to act in this movie the directing acting producing and writing for this film are all really bad i feel bad for the people who wasted money funding this garbage u couldn't pay me to watch this crap again
0	i can't actually think of one good point in this film the story is absolutely terrible the acting is as blunt as a carrot and the script is so bad it makes you want to kill yourself ok fine if you love and you have to love it to understand you might enjoy it microscopically better as it has large mountains and some cool moves but apart from that it is terrible it has some absolutely stupid ideas and it is racist with both black and white people insulting each others races the only time you will laugh is when you are laughing at the stupidity or you are feeling embarrassed for the film i have seen a lot of films and i have to say that this is the worst film i have ever seen if you have this film i would suggest you take it back to wherever you bought it from and get you money back
0	what makes this movie so damn bad is it the lame sub par juvenile humor could it be the horrid trendy suck ass music perhaps the uninspired go nowhere story or maybe even the fact that traci lords gives her worst acting performance ever and to add insult to injury keeps all her clothes on throughout the length of this steaming turd sandwich regardless no matter what the reason this film sucks the fact remains that it really really does i have never wished i could be watching a movie with dean cameron in it instead of what i was watching in my life but ski school is a masterpiece of comic genius compared to this travesty br br my grade f br br eye candy nesbitt buffy tyler and suzanne all unleash their tits br br where i saw it starz on demand
0	after watch this movie i was surprised that someone had like it i think this is the worst comedy i ever seen ever if you think you had already seen the worst comedy made wait for watch this crap not funny at all ok one or two laugh maybe but you have to be really high the acting is terrible and the story doesn't exist even if you like and i really do you will hate this movie ok ok you can see some nice babes some nice tricks and some beautiful mountains but that's all watch a porno set in the mountains instead because the acting and the story line might be better sometimes in imdb i read bad review about some movie and at the end they are not so awful but this one believe me is pure trash don't waste your time and money in this one
0	i guess if you like snow boarding you may get some enjoyment from watching some nice scenery and some nice tricks but that is all the film has to offer the story line is non existent and any jokes that may have been in the film were not funny even on a sympathy level i also disliked the characters the main actor adam tried his best and for a comedy like this that doesn't have to be much but when surrounded by so many other bad actors he had no hope of making this film good but i shouldn't be too harsh on them for all i know they might have great skill but with a script that i could have written in ten minutes what ever skills they had were ran and hid for fear of appearing in this film my advise is don't watch it i wish i never did
0	on this quagmire of mediocrity you are so much better than this br br simply put frostbite is worthless bad acting and i use that term loosely minimalist plot sophomoric humor and lackluster there's not even a sufficient display of feminine to spark the prurient interest of socially inept but red blooded males br br top gun had spectacular flight sequences to goggle at days of thunder had heart pounding racing action even point break had scenes to its credit frostbite has none of these it's not worth your time my time traci time carmen nicole's time nor the time of anyone involved with this destruction of celluloid that would have been perfectly usable on something worthwhile had it not been wasted on this fodder for the recycling center br br the world will be a better place when we forget that frostbite ever existed
0	about 20 minutes into this lame excuse for a movie i realized it reminded me of one of those annoying people at work who're always telling really lame jokes or doing extremely unfunny things because they think it's funny and are trying to entertain everyone br br this film is billed as starring traci lords she's not that bad of an actress but her lines aren't funny and she's not the star br br the acting is some of the most god awful i've ever seen except for lords the girl who plays casey and maybe the colonel who seems oddly out of place i can't imagine why a retired military colonel would want to start a academy do those even exist br br the budget would've been better spent coaxing these women into doing a full length porn feature br br freddy got fingered currently has a 3 5 score frostbite has a 2 7 i'm baffled these two movies are within a 1 0 to each other is the godfather compared to this garbage br br 1 10 stars
0	submerged is definitely not the worst movie ever it does have its flaws such as borrowed footage crazy script and non existent special effects these are the worst but it also has some good points too the acting is surprisingly good there are lots of familiar faces whom you probably know if a b movie fan like me br br i was very glad to see brent huff playing one of the heroes knowing him mostly for his 80's action films and i must admit he is not a bad actor at all fred williamson maxwell caulfield tim thomerson get some limited screen time but are believable in their parts the eye candies in this fred olen ray movie are yvette nipar and nicole eggert both looking very sexy and very mean michael bailey smith adds some muscle to the background as a navy seal unfortunately the only cast member who in my opinion is completely out of place is coolio he doesn't act at all talks like he didn't even read the script and being a badass in the beginning of the movie gets shot like a wimp a hour later not a good choice br br to sum this movie up this is not such a bad choice for late night entertainment if you can get over the special effects thing so many guns so much fire and not a single wound on anyone coolio's annoying performance and the recycled footage from airport 77 you might like this no brainer after all
0	the movie starts out with its most intelligent joke and goes downhill from there pun intended after that there's lots of potty humor and sexual situations the beautiful women were the best part of the movie swear word puns are not meant to be central idea jokes but they try it here the battle between the two groups in the local town and is an old tried and true setup so how could it go wrong well there is no reason to envy the nor any reason to feel sorry for the so we can forget the central plot the situational humor is all toilet or sexual aimed at teenagers but only garners giggles no true belly laughs br br the only thing that salvages the comedy for this movie is the character humor with the blind man providing some rehashed but seldom used setups and the black bar owner providing the formulaic street or hood humor br br ok forget the jokes there has to be some killer shots since this was a commercial enterprise unfortunately there was only 4 seconds of backdrop action that might be inspiring the rest was all b grade tricks or worse the big moment where the main character rides the goat a man killer ski run did provide one shot where a small avalanche eats the stuntman this was the best of the boarding in this movie any serious fan will be disappointed with the quality of the stunts in the movie br br as for the technical aspects of the movie the soundtrack was average which surprises as those documentaries are regularly filled with quality tunes you can catch a lot of editing mistakes and even though it was shot on a ski mountain the majority of scenery shots failed to convey any sense of true size br br overall it might be worth watching if you have managed to turn your brain completely off and you like silicon breasts even then you wont remember a thing from this one two days later br br is still waiting for it's definitive comedy you'd do better to watch a documentary for sure
0	the opening screams zero budget the titles whooshing in look like my grandson was let loose with imovie the dvd box gives the impression that you'll be treated to the old days of '80s boobie movies nope hardly any nudity from a flick that stars traci lords this movie really did need the nudity too instead you get a lot of lords pointing through a shirt however they seem to be activated by hot steam that's odd in my world the headlights go on in the cold br br the plot is pathetic the blind guy is just is a joke and not a funny one his antics are so forced and predictable he trips over stuff and you see him bracing for the fall he needs to work on his physical comedy br br most of nudity comes from a hot tub scene that looks like it was shot months later and inserted in to get a distributor and the nudity is not worth it br br it's just a matter of time before starbucks over that not even funny as billy arrives in town for the first time they come across bucks he comments wow they have these everywhere this leads you to believe it's a parody on starbucks but surprise behind the counter of this location is herself apparently she loves coffee so much that the owner of this huge chain decided to work in a tiny cold town br br the only thing this movie has going for it is the warren miller footage yep this is all warren's stuff so if you want to see great action get a warren miller flick leave frostbite alone br br there is nothing good about this movie there is no reason to rent it or buy it and if a friend offers to loan you a copy for free hit him and end the friendship
0	i saw this film 2 weeks prior to going on a holiday so for me it was really just to get my mind in mode for my holiday the film boasts some sweet skills throughout the films in the action scenes these moments were great a bit like watching extreme sports channel sadly the story was quite honestly awful the acting was generally alright with a fairly small cast this film is apparently comedy at least it tries to be comical but it seems like the comedy and the storyline was written by a teenager the story lacks any depth or purpose and the comedy struggles to be anything more than a small snigger a few times during the movie it might be worth renting just to see the action but then again there are plenty of movies out there that are totally devoted to stunts and don't feature a un funny badly written story
0	while the film has one redeeming feature namely some striking shots e g the shot of the sheep hanging from the tree the scene of the funeral procession on the raft or the scene of the boats leaving the village which seemed influenced by the scene when the warships approach in the fantastic fellini satyricon these were more photographic than cinematographic and would have been better appreciated hung on a wall in an art gallery than embedded in a painfully slow paced film that comes in at a whopping minutes and suffers from terrible dialogue extremely poor character development over acting uninspired symbolism and heavy stylisation this is the first film i have seen by angelopoulos and his reputation having preceded him i expected a lot better but can honestly say that this is one of the worst films i've ever seen and i won't go out of my way to watch any of the director's other work in the future the four friends i went to see it with agree
0	i can pretend no knowledge of cinematography or mr angelopoulos but i know greece and i love her people in july my 14 year old son and i traveled to turkey in search of some remains of the neighborhood where his great grandfather lived until the great exodus of greeks in 1923 reading the summary of the film refugees from odessa i thought that perhaps i might learn something more about the forced migrations of modern greeks if i did not have a home in rhodes had i not been to greece 28 times in as many years were i not familiar with dozens of islands and cities in greece and if i had never enjoyed the friendship of these ebullient life intoxicated people i might have believed that this had something to do with modern greece as a professor at a new jersey state college let me assure you that i am familiar with the history of the period covered in the film indeed my wife's uncle was murdered by the communists during the communist grab for power my mother in law lived through the italian invasion and german occupation barely these characters on the screen speak greek they listen to greek music but who are they no they are not even vaguely greek of course they are not people at all but simply allegories they are that which the artist invents when life does not entirely fit or is inadequate to his perception of how it was or should have been all represent some aspect of post wwi greece that greater outside forces consigned to a fate they didn't deserve as we joked in the late 70's in america the revolution didn't happen for an ideologue artist this is no joke it's in fact grounds to put us through two and a half hours of torment and it's all because the various powers soliloquy of guards in different colored uniforms didn't allow the generation after the aristocrats of 1919 to follow the call of peace and freedom the music of nikos and his fellow musicians i e the movement the cause this dark surreal revisionism smears the true and heroic efforts of the greek people to sustain their lust for life through the tragedies of the 20th century to achieve more than any of their balkan neighbors to have become so politically evolved and globally integrated
0	had i known to what i was submitting myself i would have fled from the theater the film is dreadful in the literal sense of the word despite striking images intriguing locales and a subject matter that might have been fascinating the film is dead br br i was unfamiliar with this period of greek history and prepared to experience a great film the hand is heavy it is not enough to see a train going by we must watch it from afar we must watch it car by car we must see the smoke we must see it slow down and we must see it stop the director's approach is didactic likewise the characters that he creates never develop they never change they are so stereotypic that we wonder are they meant to be everyman is there some point to this allegory it is the most pretentious film that i have seen in a long while
0	this must be one of the most annoying arrogant poser films i've ever seen what a waste of budget and actors angelopoulos has reached new levels of pretentiousness it is clear there is virtually no plot even if this part of greek history is material for great movies he simply had some supposedly symbolic actually shambolic scenes in his mind and he built a whole movie around them death is the main theme and is repeated ad nauseam along with and the like which should only be a vehicle for the movie but unfortunately it is the movie itself a totally incoherent result which can only leave you saying huh or oh dear every two minutes br br there is no character development at all nada zilch i'm usually complaining about some movies having two dimensional characters but oh boy he managed to create one dimensional characters this is irritating for us and degrading for some of the actors he even managed to make one of my favourite greek actors giorgos seem wooden br br and going to the core of angelopoulos film making no we're not idiots we do not want chewed food please someone tell this guy symbolism has to be subtle theo do you really underestimate your audience so much or you're simply incompetent personally i think he tried to make a greek underground no matter how he tries he can't reach kusturica br br only saving grace photography costumes and the music
0	i feel conflicted about this film it is one of the most beautiful films i've seen and provides insightful looks into a lost culture there was an early scene of men in caps and moustaches sitting around a table with a woman serving and an accordion playing that brought tears to my eyes just because of the way it captured a way of life that must be incomprehensible to many today it presents the lives of the characters as being inextricably bound up with the life of the village another lost concept in today's world symbolism is always fun but it seemed a little dated the fatal flaws of the movie to me were the lack of any compelling dramatic drive and a total lack of humor i never felt like i knew any of the characters beyond very basic universal things like grieving over the loss of a loved one etc the people were stick figures in the director's tableaux involving natural disasters war etc the film was just one beautiful tragic scene after another with no involving narrative thread and no humanity as a result it seemed very abstract irrelevant to the lives of real people in the end i was too bored to finish watching it
0	yes dumb is the word for this actress i know many have mentioned her beauty but this viewer found her empty headed and boring to watch with her bleached hair lip gloss and not so perfect body watch her walk away in those jeans showing a rather large butt her butt spreads beyond her shoulders what does that tell you as for the leading man played by gorgeous mark humphrey he was perfectly cast a charmer however he and lancaster just didn't match she was out of place opposite this good looking guy good acting by susan glover as the sister angela had a small role and was okay but the film's director philippe gagnon wasted too much footage on lancaster after a while you got tired of looking at her and watching her dull acting ability and what a bitch of a wife she was snooping on her husband being obnoxious to him and just a plain spoiled brat was happy to see her hit with the dart gun i thought it might be the end of her but alas the script tells us otherwise after torturing myself and watching this loser again i still came up with the same criticism lancaster is boring to watch this time around her hair folks her hair constantly in her face constantly tossing it back became annoying i question the writer alexandra reason why a good looking wealthy man like philippe would even bother with the likes of a bimbo like allison when there were so many attractive intelligent women with class to choose he picks this nothing is this the rochester jane eyre thing oh well it's all a matter of taste i guess this sarah lancaster is not my cup of tea folks
0	i was pleasantly pleased with the ending i just saw this movie yesterday and was going to turn it off but changed my mind it was not at all the direction i thought the story would end on thats about all positive i can say about this film all of the actors are especially the lead while she is an attractive young woman she'll never make it big the writing direction and acting are wooded sort of like what you would see on daytime soaps the filming locations were very clever in making you think it could be anywhere instead of blatantly tipping off it was in canada as this was shot entirely in canada i'm assuming the entire lot was which is not entirely bad as some recent tv productions cold squad stone are quite well done
0	this film has to rank down there with ed wood films a terrible script and bad bad acting br br a machine gun fight in front of plate glass windows minutes go by before anyone is hit and nobody has cover not one window ever breaks you'd think after a fire fight like that the big u haul truck might be riddled not a scratch br br do cia agents and government contractors shout top secret information at a stand up cocktail party with hundreds of people around br br there isn't one actor you care about everyone is shallow and basically unlikable br br a hawaii bound 747 flies out of los angeles and crashes twenty minutes later in the pacific in 100 feet of water a short time passes when the stewardess announces to the five other passengers they only have two hours of air left on a 747 br br the next day the rescue teams show up and amazingly the six passengers are still alive br br a movie that starts out mediocre and goes from bad to worse br br
0	one of the last surviving horror screen greats conrad dies and has his body placed in a mausoleum with televised before death snippets of the great conrad greeting you as you visit unfortunately for him and his captors conrad's body is borrowed by a gang of four boys and three girls and taken to a huge manor where they drink with him toast him dance with him laugh with and at him and then put him to bed in a casket which just happens to by lying in a room upstairs news of the missing body reaches widow and her friend who happens to be proficient in the black arts and she holds some kind of ceremony that brings conrad back to life so he can in his own words get an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth well is an interesting bad film sure it is cheap the sets look like they were borrowed which i am sure they were the special effects and blood and guts are done liberally and with little credibility the acting is average to below average with a few exceptions jeffrey combs of re animator fame is in tow but really he does little in this rather thankless role as a horror obsessed teen that needs to steal a dead man's body for kicks none of the kids except the pretty girl playing meg is any good talbot plays the friend of the with withering interest also look for the big i mean big guy that plays the policeman that is porky himself of porkys fame but thankfully for all of us one performance does rise above the material ferdy mayne an oft overlooked actor from germany who had christopher lee features and did star as a vampire in the fearless vampire killers does a more than commendable job as the aging horror icon in public life and a real demon of a man in private life conrad in a bad human being in life living solely for his own pleasures and we see him kill twice before he is even dead obviously none of the swinging teens at that point mayne is able to look very regal speak very elegantly and convey menace with ease if for no other reason one should see for his performance i do however believe that when they showed black and white clips of that they used christopher lee footage anyone have any thoughts anyway one can guess what happens and it does indeed goes out and goes after the kids that disturbed his peace again the formula is trite and overused the acting for the most part is anemic and the direction oh so ridiculous but mayne gives a good performance in a sea of ineptitude definitely worth a little peek watching mayne keep popping up on screens in his mausoleum brought a wry smile to my lips each time
0	since i am required to write minimum of 10 lines and this garbage deserves not only a single one i'll start with the following 1 i voted awful for this dreadful so called movie br br 2 let me explain why these turkeys mr david produces are shot mainly in my beautiful homeland bulgaria just in btw for the illiterate people around this country is in europe based north to greece and has absolutely nothing to do with mexico and uruguay some years ago nu image has invaded our country and started making crappy mostly direct to video releases why here because here they pay derisively low fees to the bulgarian crew and to the bulgarian actors most of them distinguished ones which are in many ways better than most of their american colleagues personally i am ashamed of that fact the reason is of course the of the americans involved and their wish to get most if not all of the profit actually it would't be so bad if only the production wasn't so filthy and pale there hasn't been a good picture shot here for years at present nu image is being sued here over the very questionably purchasing of our national cinema production centre called films no doubt about it there has been corruption there has been deceit there has been a lies in this recent purchase the bulgarian cinema is dead long live the bulgarian cinema
0	proof if ever more was needed that an action movie irregardless of its budget can look better with more setups or cameras closer shots and many more cuts the generation has moved on to john woo deep fault could be better for a work over in the cutting room ray
0	this is an awful movie from just about every point of view since much has been already pointed out in previous reviews let me just focus on serbs and delta force guys in this movie br br 1 the uniforms that serbs wear are not serbian and helmets are wrong too br br 2 the actors who play serbs are not speaking serbian not even a language close to serbian unlike in behind enemy lines where the czech actors did their best to speak the language and add at least a bit of credibility to the movie br br 3 the gray bearded serbian general looks and acts like a moron firing his gun whenever us soldiers call his name br br us soldier give up br br gray bearded moronic general fires his br br us soldier come out br br fires his br br us soldier you're surrounded br br fires his br br prop guy excuse me mr gray bearded moronic general see we're out of blanks and i sent the boy to buy some more but he's not back yet br br click br br 4 since when does the army issue to the delta force i guess they couldn't find enough working in bulgaria but there were plenty of old and practice blanks maybe they should have went for some they are cheaper and wouldn't have hurt the credibility of the movie anyway br br 5 in the scene where a officer is hanging on a rope while talking to a rocket scientist he is holding his finger on the trigger all the time no sane person with any weapons training or just plain common sense would ever do that i guess the actor figured that his coolness level increases the longer he holds the gun that way br br this movie is such an insult to common sense
0	as a huge fan of the original operation delta force i thought i'd pick this film up i figured it couldn't be too bad however here's a list of things i learnt from watching operation delta force 4 deep fault br br the delta force despite being the elite in american armed forces are mostly mildly overweight men in their late 30s and early 40s br br the delta force despite being the elite in american armed forces carry standard police issue pistols or ak 47s on their most important missions br br the delta force despite being the elite in american armed forces haven't learnt that during stealth missions wearing bright red ski jumpers and running around in open spaces aren't exactly going to keep you out of sight br br when you drop a molotov cocktail into a tank it explodes externally like a grenade br br when you get hit by tank fire you can run away although the smoke caused may present minor difficulties for breathing br br you can die from one standard gun shot but you can also live despite being hit multiple times by a sniper rifle and a few times by an ak 47 br br in hand to hand combat members of the delta force despite being the elite in american armed forces are regularly pummeled by railroad attendants br br if bad guys are approaching you while on a slow moving train there's nothing to worry about between the 4 of them they can't manage to figure out how to get an automatic weapon to fire automatically let alone hit anyone from 5 metres 16 feet with at least 50 attempts between them br br if you're short on actors just recycle them the bad guy from operation delta force 1 plays a good guy called mac in operation delta force 4 and the guy who played mac in operation delta force 3 now plays skip lang a different good guy br br it's not ok for the delta force to shoot an unarmed terrorist even if he's attempting to reload his weapon to kill you br br grenades explode on impact with the ground when thrown by members of the delta force when thrown by non delta force personnel they explode at exactly the point where the delta force members have thrown the grenades back at the bad guys br br tanks can drive faster than standard trucks br br and personal armies use the exact same chopper that the un used in operation delta force 1 br br when a chopper arrives a bad guy in that chopper cannot see you if you lie face down br br shooting someone multiple times in the chest will cause minor damage stabbing that person in the knee will kill them inside 5 seconds br br the delta force steal cars from old people to get around when in foreign countries because the us military do not provide them with any means of transport this may also explain why they caught public transport br br as you can see this is not really the finest moment in film making but it's good for a laugh
0	some spoilers br br there's nothing in this movie that you haven't already seen browsing the net nothing is shocking about this film in the film a man sodomizes a goat there's a bulldozer decapitation and a lesbian's face gets burnt off all of these scenes of extreme violence are so fake it makes one wonder why anyone would even want to resurface this piece of trash i simply cannot believe i spent hard earned money on what certainly has to be the worst film ever made don't let reviews fool you this film would be a shame for anyone to own except maybe prisons who want to torture inmates for a real exploitation classic look to bloodsucking freaks or even the more recent doom generation island of death sinks to the bottom of the movie toilet and needs to be flushed out of existence
0	i believe that this was supposed to be shocking or something all that i can say is poor goat this flick is so poorly done that the parts that should shock and revolt you come across as laughable at best the characters are so lame and 2 wait 1 dimensional that i applauded each sick death all except that poor goat br br
0	i kind of liked the film it's just that the characters run around with no real point to their craziness as i was saying poor goat the goat was while the guy was pretending to grind on it i would have liked the rape scenes to be more graphic not the one with the goat though jane ryall who played celia only did this one film she was very nude throughout this crazy couple who killed and tortured many people ended up in their rightful places i almost forgot about the gay transvestite couple who are also picked out for being sinners if you like crazy off the wall stuff then this is your film 3 10
0	i'm a big time horror fan and i bought this movie from all the hype it was getting on the message boards well let me tell you i don't know whom was giving it all the hype but let me speak on a few things br br first of all this film is not a lot of things it is not scary not suspenseful not overly gory not overly sick except for one season maybe not beautifully scored at all br br the premise of the movie is that a couple flee to a small island in greece because they have done a little naughtiness in london we don't even know what they did but it is presumed that they killed someone br br spoiler alert br br the male lead kills a few people out of his perversion of cleansing the island of perverts oddly enough the killings are cheap the characters are cheaper and the effects suck br br there is one part when he rapes a goat because his wife wont give him any in the morning but even that is done without any care for how it is shot br br end of spoilers br br the end of the movie is about the only thing that isn't totally predictable i especially enjoyed when the herder farts on the husband anyway if you can rent this and have 2 hours to waste go ahead it's nothing better than a processed cheese sandwich on moldy bread br br 3 10
0	nico banned movie was quite disappointing in my opinion the movie is about a couple who go to a greek island to kill of all perverted people apparently you know you got something pretty sick when one of the first scenes include a guy having sex with a goat and then killing it off br br but things only get worse from that point as all scenes pretty much look alike they meet some people so they either kill or have sex with them preferably both br br the ending is ok allright when the couple turn out to be brother and sister and she is just letting him rot somewhere but overall one would have expected more no substance here i'm afraid br br 3 10
0	island of death is not really a good movie by any standard but it is a curious one imagine if natural born killers had been made 20 years too early as a greek eurotrash porn film that's what you get here the quaint story of a young sociopathic british couple cutting a deadly swath through the population of a lovely little greek island br br i'll spare you a detailed breakdown of the plot it's not really important except to set up increasingly perverse or violent sex scenes followed by disturbingly brutal murders often lovingly photographed for posterity by our charming young couple it could have been brilliant in its own sick and nasty way but instead br br instead i found myself impatiently checking the run time and chapter index to see how much longer the parade was going to last sluggish pacing and listless bland acting turn even vilest into and connecting scenes into an eternity of dull plodding ah well you can't win 'em all
0	this is a terrible movie that only gets worse and seems to never end the acting was bad the plot was worse and the special effects seemed to have been created by a 5th grade science class dennis weaver is such a great actor and should have never taken such a part my advise don't watch this movie
0	director nico has made a cynical cash grabber by his own admission that is too cynical to impress anybody but a sophomore genre fan br br the most extreme confronting genre pics to paraphrase a character in videodrome have a philosophy that is what makes them dangerous br br island of death's philosophy is to throw many shocking elements into a cinematic mix and stir slowly the result is a dish with no taste but an ugly appearance br br not to be confused with brilliant who could kill a child sometimes called island of death effort is set on a greek island which is a stage for various forms of slaughter a little bestiality and some wholesale perversion br br everything moves at a pace and the violent set pieces are poorly directed br br touted as the movie that the censors didn't want you to see i'd hazard a guess that the censors never saw it they simply read the until their knees jerked upwards
0	how on earth were these guys given funds to make this movie the lack of script is one thing but the cinematography makes you want to weep a hand held camera can be of great value to the look and feel of a movie but in that case you need a photographer who knows what he is doing i am well aware that the actors are amateurs but it's of no defence since the director might be the least talented one ever directing in sweden it would be a shame for the industry if he or any in the team for that matter is given money to make a film ever again this movie simply provides fuel to the argument that too many movies are made in sweden each year
0	i saw recently saw this at the 2007 palm springs international film festival and i can't believe that this is official submission to the 79th academy awards to be considered for best foreign film producer anna anthony last year also had official submission for best foreign film with i wasn't personally a fan of but at least it had some production value to it this could have been shot as a high school film project as a short film it may have worked but as a feature film it is as lost as it's characters this is a story about five twenty something friends who live in a small swedish town and have no goals or hopes or ambitions for the future and like to live in the past of their long gone childhood actually isn't like some remote northern swedish village it's a popular summer resort with a population of city and townships of almost 40 000 and lies between two major southern coastal swedish cities of and the characters are likable enough guys but if they were high school age kids with a bleak or confused attitude about what they plan to do with their lives i would undoubtedly care about them more they are however long past the point where they should be making plans to deal with adulthood if they want to stay in forever than certainly there must be some jobs in the tourist or fishing industry instead of just riding bicycles drinking smoking pot and occasionally painting a house maybe if they hung around with a girl or two in their circle of friends of which girls are absent from this film altogether which doesn't make sense makes his directorial debut and co wrote the film along with the cinematographer of which i use the term loosely fredrik the acting isn't too bad i would give this a 4 5 out of 10 but despite it's submission for consideration for the academy awards i would not recommend it
0	this is an admirable attempt from first time filmmaker ham tran offering little glanced perspective dealing with vietnam war victims struggling for liberation but plays out as a glorified history special with clunky self consciously informative dialog and sub par acting even a relatively impressive budget with attention to detail will not spring to life this sagging albeit historically worthy melodrama paying no mind to the often distracting disconnect with the actors to the reality of situations on screen and you should be left with an informative if somewhat impersonal educational lesson in vietnamese post war history
0	chances are i'm gonna spoil valuable plot points while writing this and because i can't determine and don't really care what you think is a valuable plot point then if you are thinking of watching this film and have an issue with learning such things then i suggest you hop right on to the next review you know i don't mind the cult films being filed under the cult section and people who believe it can go there and get their fill of the reality i mean is it too much to ask that the overtly pseudo christian propaganda films be filed with the other special interest movies br br i couldn't have been more flabbergasted had pat robertson made a porn movie or would that be br br it was bad enough that there was an insufficient count of kicking and punching in this it was bad enough that the same story has been done repeatedly in much better ways it was bad enough that it wasn't filed under special interest with other cult films it was bad enough that it somehow is receiving nods for being realistic as if we live in the world where towns get possessed by the and the really profound and nasty evil isn't done by human beings usually in the name of religions based on the god of abraham it was bad enough having to simply shut the thing down because people were complaining so loudly that it was awful br br no the really bad part was when one of our guests stood up after we finally had to just turn the damn thing off and declared i for one would like to see something really violent or pornographic now just to get that out of my head preferably both if you have it and we had just met her
0	my friends and i are always on the lookout for chuck norris films to just bash and make fun of one of our favorites so far is i went to a wal mart christmas shopping and i came across this movie in the 5 99 bin i had to get it i had high hopes for this movie and although being absolutely hilarious at times we agreed that bells of innocence is the worst movie we've ever seen made produced thought up etc who the hell would think this is a good idea not only is it confusing at times but the acting is just hard to watch the man who plays oren has acting i can compare to my own vomit and chuck took a dive on this one he's not the greatest actor but this was terrible and what kind of names are oren conrad and come on people if you honestly thought this movie was at all watchable great for you because it was hard for me and i seriously had a headache and stomach pains after watching it i'm telling you now if you haven't seen this movie don't for the love of god please do not subject yourself to such a horrible 90 minutes of your life
0	this is another one of those fundamentalist christian movies that hit you over the head with religion like a sledgehammer you know you are in trouble when the setup of the story is completely ridiculous three men are flying to mexico to deliver bibles this makes no sense since the church is protestant and most mexicans are catholic protestant and catholic bibles are not the same the catholic bible has books in it that are not in the protestant bible i also find it difficult to believe that churches in mexico would not distribute bibles to them i can understand if they were going to a place where christianity is in the minority but mexico is far fetched if you cannot believe the setup of a story then you don't the rest of the story either a movie about religion can be entertaining but not this movie
0	boring rank nefarious plot some of the worst direction i've ever come across inane acting and horribly clichéd the movie ends with one of the main characters waking from a dream what's with that even jr from dallas couldn't survive that lame twist br br you have what can only be described as an inappropriate relationship developing between a main character and a young girl which is ostensibly meant to be fatherly but which comes off as perverse you have freshman community college movie school special effects with loopholes the size of the kimberly hole this is like children of the corn meets passion of the christ imposed on an endless loop of government administration training video by the end of it if you aren't contemplating ending it you have no brain br br don't bother
0	when you watch the making of with this dvd they tell you what is attempted here they are retelling the bible story of good versus evil trying to preach it to a main stream movie audience in a modern society such as ours this is where the film fails there are way too many sheep depicted in this movie people are too empowered for this type of preaching today br br as far as the acting directing technical functions they are done ok chuck norris actually is ok as an angel as the unpredictable appearance of norris as an angel is no more absurd than tommy smothers was in the 1960's sit com
0	ok chuck norris has shown up in many an entertaining movie over the years this is not one of them i won't even bother trying to get into the plot about a bible shipment gone wrong the acting of the main characters is so wood like pinocchio would have done a better job the synthesizer based soundtrack is even worse than the one in deathstalker whereas traditionally low budget spooky movies are often trying to catch their audience by adding plenty of graphic violence this one is trying to catch an audience by throwing religious mambo jumbo at the spectator the plot boils down to different versions of the bible
0	boring ridicules and stupid submerged is a waste of time the shootouts were a joke real people do not just stand out in the open with out any cover hoping to get shot first so many things wrong or bad not worth the effort to list except one major flaw at 500 mph for 20 minutes about 166 miles west of l a and the water is deep even at that none of the people would have survived the decompression from being subjected to of water pressure for more then 20 hours when they were brought up just a awful
0	this is by far the worst movie i have ever seen what were they thinking stop preaching to me already this is why all of us watch walker texas ranger and wont admit it to our friends terrible acting and a extremely phony plot while the movie is unfolding the story stops and the actors start preaching to the audience the director somehow believed the two meshed well it looked like crap when i saw the title at my local blockbusters it looked interesting their should have been a warning on it saying it was religious instead of the false advertisement of an action adventure first time in a long time i stopped a movie and couldn't tolerate finishing it
0	normally i don't like chuck norris films i appreciate his work as a martial artist and his fight scenes are usually fairly well choreographed chuck is undeniably one of the martial arts greats so in my local used bookstore i found a film i hadn't seen before and took it home br br while the acting in this movie was worse than most norris films i was hoping to see at least one fight scene i quickly began to realize that this wasn't a typical norris film rather it was a christian film destined to illustrate the good will win out paradigm br br there is really nothing on the packaging to indicate that this is a christian film with the exception of the label goodtimes entertainment which i had never heard of before i'll certainly keep that in mind the next time i see a film from that company br br i don't have a problem with christianity i do have a problem with sneaky proselytizing if someone is going to make a religious film at least have the good sense to indicate to the viewer that such is what they will get the only redeeming part about the exercise is that i spent only 3 25 to spend 97 minutes to watch a great martial artist not fight at least it was during supper time and i spent some of that cooking and eating br br in short if you're looking for a mediocre martial arts film and not hoping for much don't bother with this film because it doesn't even offer that
0	ok i'm 26 so i've been thru all the action heroes 80's hype and chuck norris along with seagal van damme and the rest of the guys were my childhood heroes fighting the bad guys shooting dozens of bullets from one round only i saw the advert of this movie on tv a couple of days ago chuck norris was throwing some fireballs from his fingers whoa 'that is a must see crappy movie ' i said and indeed it was only a lot lot worse it is very difficult to see all the movie stuffed with some religious thoughts ridiculous zombie like monsters who serve satan all the idea of a plot set in some forgotten community which represent whole mankind it is a load of christian wet dreams br br i've nothing against christianity even in the movies but this one lacks taste it lacks almost everything that connects with a common sense c'mon chuck norris playing an angel whose job is to look after little town where satan lives the whole plot is so damn straight and boring not mentioning its silliness yes it's not stupidity anymore we're talking silliness like like a retarded child's joke make altogether terrible movie made as far as i suppose for elder people very much devoted to catholic church because young viewers laugh at almost every scene technically it's incorrect the fx are worse than the ones you've seen in early 90's in tv series the plot seems very stupid actors could be easily exchanged to cardboard stands not mentioning the music which as far as i've heard was played on a childish toy piano i've seen a lot of movies even the worst ones the ones from the imdb bottom list like 'space or 'manos hands of fate' but believe me nothing compares to this ridiculous terrible horribly acted quasi movie which brings some students' prank movies to my mind rather than regular production avoid it at all cost avoid it there's even nothing to laugh at chuck norris has officially finished his movie career
0	i recently had the idea to make a short film featuring a man who is hit by a car and wakes up thinking that he himself is chuck norris this meant that i would have to do extensive chuck research and find out as much as i could about the man i later find out that he is not in fact a man but an angel sent from heaven with a face like that who could ever doubt it i have watched more chuck norris movies in the last four months than any one person should i am proud to say that bells of innocence ranks pretty close to the top of the all time worst list i spent most of the film wondering if i could return my copy to the local wal mart without the receipt which i had been biting down on to keep myself from swallowing my own tongue the biggest reason why i chose to purchase this film was that it not only had chuck in it but his son mike i was anxious to see if mike was a chip off the old can't act his way out of a wet paper bag block i came to the conclusion a long while ago the chuck norris is one of the worst actors in cinematic history for one simple reason the only character he ever plays is himself chuck norris no matter what movie no matter what situation he is always chuck norris the one thing that he holds over his son is that he is consistent mike doesn't seem to understand how human emotions work in the scene where he is talking to the little girl about his dead daughter he seems to be extremely happy maybe this is because he actually pushed his daughter out into traffic as depicted in one of the oddest flashbacks of all time his actions confused me throughout the film making it very hard for me to focus on what little plot there was the other two lead actors were just as painful to watch as the son of norris the guy who constantly wants to eat or tell a stupid peacock joke was simply one of the most annoying characters that has ever graced the direct to video screen the only thing i remember him being in other than this movie was an episode of walker texas ranger in which he plays an equally annoying character maybe chuck owes this guy something the other guy which is the only name i can think of because he was so forgettable was your average christian fanatic i don't have anything against christians in fact i am one but this guy was just too much for me to round out the story you have a multitude of townspeople who love to call people friend and a couple of villains who don't seem to be able to decide which one of them is in charge not to mention the creepy kids who remind me of the dollar store version of every other group of creepy kids in movies all in all the movie is possibly one of the biggest failures of all time on more levels than chuck norris can kick people's asses despite being one of the worst actors of all time i still can't get enough of chuck maybe he really was sent from heaven
0	this is quite possible the worst movie ever made i know people talk about how horrible ed wood movies were plan 9 but this movie makes plan 9 look amazing br br chuck norris makes a cameo for what reason i have no idea perhaps to ruin his movie career aside from chuck norris the movie's cast consists of extras in daytime soaps and mike norris that's right chuck's son br br this director doesn't even have a resume and i have no idea where the plot or screenplay originated this must've been green lit by a horrible southern baptist minister that somehow had a 3rd cousin that owned a studio which i'm sure has since been shut down br br i don't really know what else to say about this movie i would like to give you a plot summary but i'm lost there is something about jesus and satan some eternal battle other than that there are indians and a bunch of freaky kids that don't know how to act they're just awkward and should not be on camera i don't know what was going on most of the time but i know the movie was a great laugh mike norris pushes his daughter on her bike into the street somehow but in the shot he's in the middle of the park so somehow she learns to ride her bike with speed equivalent to that of the flash and gets hit by a car or bus i don't know but she's dead this is actually the funniest scene in the movie i know that sounds sick but once you see mike raise his hands in victory and then hold his head and scream in terror you'll understand it doesn't show the daughter getting hit or anything you just have to assume she got hit by some vehicle but the movie's not clear so maybe it was completely unrelated and she died from cancer anyway after that the movie gets really confusing and i have no idea what really happens i am a christian and i have no idea why this movie was made i don't see any value for this movie in a religious or non religious sector this is probably the first thing they show students in film making 101 this is what you don't want to do br br just see it you'll hate it and me for suggesting that you see it
0	i gave this movie a rating of 1 because it is by far the worst movie i've ever seen in my life this movie was made in 2003 and i've seen movies made in the 60's with better special effects i wish i could go into detail but words can't describe how crappy this movie was i could have done better with a home video camera and 20 i pray that chuck norris never makes a movie again now if you think i'm downing this movie because it has a christian theme you're wrong i like the fact that il' chuck decided to make a movie that at least attempted to make god look good but why would he make poor viewers like me suffer through such a crappy movie this whole film can be summed up in 3 words re damn diculous
0	wow this is anti christian bias big time this is based on a stephen king novel and he written this kind of bias before and then hollywood exaggerates it even more in this film we see a protestant minister and a catholic priest both act like fools and be profane at the same time of course the devil has taken over the town so maybe his influence is into these guys too but they are typical hollywood portrayals they never show a minister who talks and acts like billy graham or your local minister or priest and another given they make the satan character the most interesting of the film br br max von sydow plays the devil and makes him a likable guy ironically von sydow has played a number of these roles after portraying jesus in the 1964 film the greatest story ever told you wonder why actors are so screwed up they don't know if they are god satan or anyone in between br br ed harris who played a lot of unlikeable roles up until the last few years is appropriately cast in this story he and the rest of the mean spirited characters in this film do not make it fun to watch br br from what i've heard king's book is even darker and more sick than this hate filled movie but better constructed frankly who cares king and hollywood deserve each other
0	i am a fan of ed harris' work and i really had high expectations about this film having so good actors as harris and von sydow is always a big advantage for a director but if the script is bad what can you do i really think that needful things is the worst movie of harris' filmography and that getting involved with it was a huge mistake anyway i've seen much worse movies in my life but needful things was a disappointment because of the waste of acting talent the story as an overall seems too unbelievable and fake i don't know if that is because of the book 'cause i haven't read it but if the script was so bad i can't see the reason for filming it maybe it was the commercial success of king's books or the need for low quality movies for the vhs era of the 90's whatever the reason was though this movie was a very bad choice for anyone involved
0	based on a stephen king novel needful things provides the intrigue and eeriness to keep you in your seat a mysterious man max von sydow comes to town and soon becomes the most talked about citizen could it be that the devil himself has set up shop as an antique dealer in a small town in maine von sydow is masterful and dynamic in this role that dominates the screen also starring are ed harris and bonnie bedelia harris is steady and bedelia is deserving of your attention also in support are j t walsh and amanda plummer not the best nor the worst adaptation of king's horror on the screen
0	this movie is based on a stephen king novel in which mysterious new shopkeeper leland gaunt max von sydow offers each citizen of castle rock the item he or she most desires but there is a heavy price to be paid for these local sheriff alan pangborn ed harris is soon forced to deal with a variety of brutal deaths and suspicious circumstances br br below average for stephen king cinema i can see why some people would think it was boring it plods along without offering genuine scares and forces the viewer to spend time yet again with a bunch of repulsive losers whose hatred of each other is spooky br br i do enjoy the novel and don't believe that this lackluster movie does it justice there are too many unfortunate changes from book to screen br br von sydow makes gaunt much too charming we're supposed to be scared of gaunt at the right times not amused by him i also hate it that the sheriff's primary deputy ray is written and portrayed as such an annoying barney fife type moron star ed harris looks as if he was forced into doing this picture by his agent but professional that he is he really sinks his teeth into his dialog bonnie bedelia as love interest polly and amanda plummer in one of her standard mentally unbalanced roles come the closest to creating characters who are likable br br yet it is also foul and mean spirited br br although i'll be darned if it didn't feel a little cathartic watching a bunch of unlikable movie characters tear each other to pieces the climax has some good explosions br br i often give movies a better rating than they probably deserve but in this case i feel i should really be honest and just say 3 10
0	okay i just had to sound off on this one like a tremendous mental gimp i've just sat through this film in its entirety br br you'll note that the trivia section of imdb points out that portions of the raising of the 747 were borrowed from airport 1977 this really doesn't scratch the surface virtually all exterior shots of the plane skimming the ocean landing in sinking and even the at rest shots are borrowed from airport '77 all of the raising shots are pulled from '77 including most of the interior flooding clips with the exception of dennis weaver's drowning i couldn't help but wonder if olivia dehavilland might come floating by at any moment or maybe a dead tom sullivan another eye roller dennis weaver's name in this film is stevens which is to compensate for the fact that airport plane is owned by the stevens corporation headed by jimmie stewart of course br br this is a veritable of actors who don't work much or at least haven't worked in a while which might have been the first clue that it was going to be a real stinker br br i've rated this film a 2 it's quite worthy of a 1 but if this film can't offer any other redeeming quality at least somebody helped coolio max caulfield eggert and dennis weaver make their car payments that month
0	star rating the works just misses the mark that little bit in between lagging behind the pits br br based on another of stephen king's lengthy novellas this takes place in the sleepy little new england town of castle rock also the name of the film's production company where a new antiques store the titular needful things has opened the owner and proprietor leland gaunt max von sydow hides you might say a devilish secret there's an item in his store that everyone in the little town wants a small cash price upfront is first required before a far more sinister price is asked for as suspicion hate and madness tear the town apart it falls to police chief alan pangborn ed harris to restore order and save the town from a terrifying end br br i read the novel of needful things earlier this year and was eager to watch the movie adaptation again to compare them like that was going to be any contest but it had been deleted on video and dvd and i couldn't find anywhere to rent it from so i was happy when i finally found it in a flea market whilst on a shopping trip br br it's one of the cruelest ironies that king novels are generally the best to read but when they get adapted to screen nine times out of ten they are complete junk as is the case here the material that makes his books great simply doesn't translate into a movie script very well for some reason and i suppose there's always the question why bother watching this when i could be reading the book again instead br br i appreciate that some are simply too lengthy i e it the stand to be made into a complete screen work with all the situations and characters included but there's no reason this one couldn't have included all the material from the book as a result a lot of key characters from the book i e ace merrill are not included at all and we have some terrible character development that means we don't care about the characters that are involved since they are so stripped of depth and motivation for example we have one character from the book keaton who murders his wife toward the end yet we were shown no build up to hint at any reason that he didn't get along with or hated her and so it has no impact when it happens unlike in the book where there was a lot of depth invested and it really involved you to find out what happened to the characters involved all the material in the script to fill in the cracks if you like is really stupid and corny and the typically goofy stuff that gets included in king adaptations like this br br most of the film's problems are that it deviates so far away from the book but there's also some terrible acting from a cast that obviously can't feel for the daft material they're being asked to perform in the 90s a lot of king's work started skipping the cinema and just being made into made for tv video territory rubbish like this must surely hint at why
0	the book was one of stephen king's best the movie was pure rubbish it was painful to remain in the theater until the ending which wasn't even the same as the book i guess that this is the result when you try to cram 10 pages of story into every minute there is no good reason to watch this movie
0	needful things was one of my favorite stephen king books but this movie is one of the worst book to film adaptations i have ever seen they changed so many things around that it made me sick even the concept of the book being deception things not always what they appear reminder throughout the book was not shown in the movie althogh it was enjoyable as many stephen king films are but as many stephen king films this one did not follow the book and became a piece of hollywood trailer trash 2 10
0	reading the book i felt once again drawn into castle rock needful things being the final part of the rock trilogy and the plot was a variant on the demon comes to small redneck village type story king likes to tell the characters were all described in loving detail and it made both a good psychological and gory horror the film on the other hand is awful gone are the character interactions and clever plot and replaced by a story that tries to be exciting but misses by a mile if you haven't read the book then you might enjoy this else avoid at all costs as with most films of king's books
0	may contain spoilers horrible just horrible i loved stephen king's novel and this is just a horrible adaptation of it they change the ending they change the plot they changed alan character from a grieving husband to a happy fiancé if you are a fan of stephen king's novel stay away even if you are not stay away br br the book was awesomely dark even for steve king an 11 year old kills himself in the novel a middle school principal is found with child pornography in the novel this is nowhere near as good as the novel br br this movie is my least favorite film of all time i hate this film with a vengeance
0	after the lush inspiring aerial shot in fast motion in the opening of the movie this slipped into utter boredom and a one tone note right till the end br br where to begin well i'll start with the characters i really enjoyed them in the book here they all were types and one dimensional morons that either had victim or asshole written on their foreheads from the get go how any one didn't see through the store owner gaunt in a hammy and out of place performance by is beyond me br br this film lacks in thrills suspense and in some sense yes entertaining values it stretches itself for far too long with not a lot of pay off why introduce too many annoying should die quick type of characters and then forget about half of them half way through in the book practically everyone that went into the store met a grisly fate here besides one of the only decent scenes that translated well from the novel the fight between and nettie was a letdown and didn't have much balls i'm sorry but after one off screen death a boring shoot off and some bickering and then a couple explosions just didn't do it for me the brutality and mean spiritedness from the book was sadly missing the explosion of the church scene was so over the top and badly executed all of sudden the entire city was in a brawl it made no sense and characters that weren't introduced all the way through suddenly are who are these people and why should i care br br the story is all over the place and none of the scenes had momentum i thought ed harris and bonnie were good actors in this but the movie gives them not enough substance for me to give a damn amanda plummer was credible but too pathetic to really be sympathetic in the novel she was a sad and depressing character here it was a too one note j t walsh was entertaining but the role was far from interesting or layered too predictable br br the soundtrack was too classy for the material it was supporting it stood out like sore thumb easy there buddy easy something a little less theatrical i'd assume would have worked br br i will admit some of the gore it did manage to have was good enough i guess the director seemed to hold back a lot of the times though if your going to make a movie that reaches the 2 hr point be sure to have far more going on then this disaster of a adaption of on of kings better novels br br i often found myself laughing at scenes that were suppose to be taken seriously ed harris speech at the end or the character hugh priest in general and was bored and uninterested most of the other time personally the director should have done so much more with this story his approach is too tame and hides behind too much crisp cinematography to ever come off as a decent movie the movie looks good but not the look i think this story deserved i mean this dude helmed alaska not a good sign br br i'd rather just read the book as you should too as if it is far more entertaining layered character development grisly violence and mayhem a nasty sense of humour and far more oomph this is a butchered version that has not much to offer br br out of
0	took a very good book and completely butchered it nothing was as it should have been some of the best parts of the book were missing including the major point of the whole book simply the worst adaptation of a stephen king novel ever this movie made the mini series for it look good
0	christophe lambert once said he was still making movies only to make good and easy money when i see his latest releases i can believe that br br beowulf is all in all in the good part of the crap movies there are some good thrill scenes indeed the actors themselves aren't too bad but the plot is silly the mortal kombat like music has nothing to do here the ending is really s y br br really the only good thing about it is that me and my friends could laugh about how uninteresting it was i even wish i wasted my money on something else br br
0	bad acting combats are very awful 3 4 second between each text bad music bad effect and always the same plan during the movie if you want laugh go it 2 10 for the fool laugh
0	i like christophe lambert as an actor he has played in several good movies highlander subway greystoke but i can't even think he has played in that movie the story is nearly nothing the special effects are very bad and the actors also to resume the movie i have only one thing to say it's the first time that i go to watch a movie and want to leave after 10 minutes
0	this movie was one of the worst i have ever seen not including anything by or with pauly shore i couldn't believe that a film could actually be this bad br br coolio has to be the single worst actor again not including pauly shore to ever star in a movie the temptation to hit the stop button during this movie was huge in fact if there was a throw in the trash button on my vcr i would have been inclined to press that br br do yourself a favor and do something more interesting than watch this movie like watching the grass grow or watching golf on tv
0	this was one of the worst movies i have ever seen the only advantage seeing this movie is that the next movie can't possibly be worse it's childish as hell but children aren't allowed
0	br br i've seen this movie during a festival here in munich with a huge crowd of real fantasy fans at about the middle of the movie one part of the audience was sleeping and the other part was boring dialogues badly choreographed fighting sequences a terribly dumb story and even worse special effects well at least the actors hadn't much to do except for looking concerned or in case they were female showing their breasts in the right light even otto who was among the audience admitted afterwards that ge could understand the disappointment of the viewers be warned folks of the cheapest fantasy movie ever
0	once i heard that the greatest and oldest preserved germanic heroic poem was transformed into a film it almost became my obsession to see it the first glints of its appearance i caught never disappointed me a futuristic interpretation with lambert our favourite highlander and tomb raider to be in leading roles seamed appealing though some doubts came to life an important female character in beowulf two hours ago i saw the film after i had read the director's name my world fell apart as i said from that point on there was not many surprises first and foremost the film has nothing to do with the original beowulf if we disregard a couple of violently and pointlessly stolen names if they had not stolen the names and declared it to be a new story it might have passed as an f class action stupidity with nice costumes and scenography this way it is simply a crime an attack on a legend and its ideology as well as on common sense ok let me be positive for a second apart from the general electro goth atmosphere which is nice it also has good music that was it for both the positive part and this comment
0	without doubt this is the worst movie i've ever seen br br poor acting poor script poor direction and poor production br br why did they even bother this entire movie was total nonsense suspension of disbelief can only carry so far but this pushes the limits completely br br for a movie with no humour content the audience laughed disturbingly often
0	another b movie for teenagers based mainly on cgi effects industrial soundtrack and some medieval imagery it's a pitty that the legend for beowulf is used in such uninspired manner i am a fan of christopher lambert but i have to admit that he is getting worse as an actor and his movies too rent it if you are teenager only
0	good accompanying medieval swordplay also the movie looks sleeker than most b movies but let's face it quake or doom has more atmosphere br br bad unintelligent plot no acting and totally unbelievable universe i am usually able to see the potential of even very bad movies heck i love a good b movie like split second and the likes but this one has has nothing but boredom and cliché to offer totally predictable from start to end oh and i forgot the lousy special effects they look more like an old playstation game than anything out of myth the use of a classic poem to sell this sucker offends me br br conclusion quite simply boring if you want to see lara croft buy the game it's way sexier
0	christopher lambert attracted me to this movie what a waste the plot has more holes than my string vest the special effects were not very good it did not take much to figure out who the creature's mother was and the creature owed more than a little debt to predator anti this movie could have been done a whole lot better it does raise one interesting point however when is hollywood going to discover the rich vein of european folklore out there just waiting to be mined
0	beowulf is like a very bad game no characters no story no real dialogues bad fights it's probably the worst movie in the history of cinema it's deadly boring a lost of time i'm really sorry for christophe lambert who visibly doesn't know how to choose a role if someone suggests you to see beowulf believe me run like mad
0	renting this direct to video film i was not expecting an amazing piece of cinematography not to say just because a film is in cinema it will only very loosely following the story retold in the epic poem this film provides a unique take on the tale of monsters and super humans the general photography can be summarized as conflicted with its mixture of mediaeval and post apocalyptic reminiscent of mad max with a rock and techno soundtrack to boot one comes away feeling a bit off the fight scenes though unbelievable are entertaining and christopher lambert possesses some of the most interesting weapon combinations i have ever seen on film though often a tad unfathomably inefficient the special effects used for the monster grendel are surprisingly effective and are one of the few highlights br br christopher lambert delivers an average performance as beowulf it will be nowhere near as memorable as highlander but at least it wasn't as poor as fortress the supporting cast is rather neutral br br if you're looking for a good action adventure story with a complex and engaging plot i would not suggest this film however if you want a flick that is of little substance full of campy battle scenes and a somewhat predictable plot find a copy of this
0	this movie is painful that's probably the best way to describe it it's 93 minutes of your life that you will never be able to get back well actually it's more like 86 minutes because there is no way anyone would want to sit through the credits in this stinking pile of dog feces immediately you can tell the movie is from the producer of mortal kombat due to it's thumping and annoying techno soundtrack this drains the few laughably enjoyable moments this movie can give you the rest is drained by the completely uninteresting and annoying characters the freddie prinze jr school of acting acting abilities of all involved including the miscast christopher lambert and the non existant directing did i leave anything out of course i did let's not forget about the suicide inducing script with it's funny dialogue oh yes and let us also talk about how they shamed the original poem with this sad and useless futuristic medieval translation the costumes and weapons were those giant pizza cutters i kept seeing are just plain stupid that's the best way i can describe them and the last culprit of the night is the always awful cgi when will filmmakers learn that cgi sucks when will we see the wonderful effects used in the 80's probably never but films like this and star wars episode 1 the phantom menace make us wish that they would bring them back in closing avoid this movie like the newest freddie prinze jr movie then again if you like freddie prinze jr movies then you deserve to sit through this horrid excuse for filmmaking
0	among the many accolades here for this production there was one individual whose comments asked if he she were the only one who wasn't that enthralled by it i e giving this film 3 stars however the comment went on to indicate an overall liking of the story and other production of same well this person isn't the only one who didn't like this production include me but there i part company even with him her if you put a gun to my head and asked me to make a choice between your shooting me or watching this flick again i'd watch it certainly but i'd probably spend 10 seconds thinking about it i'd much prefer being locked into solitary confinement or having to watch paint dry on a wall though further i wouldn't want to see this story again anytime anywhere or in any alternative presentation sometimes you feel like comedian george pair of brown shoes when the rest of the world is a tuxedo and this is one of those for me i liked angela lansbury in a favorite movie of mine long hot summer and while not a huge fan of the show enjoyed murder she wrote but here i not only didn't care for the story or other aspects but i found angela's squealing squawking singing and everything else about her over the top performance perhaps the most annoying presence in any movie or presentation in any other media i've ever experienced it was like an unending continuation of audrey hepburn's equally over the top cockney at rex harrison in the earlier portions of my fair lady but that was incident to the plot presented for light comedic effect and mercifully brief this was anything but brief and to me seemed as if it had gone on for about 10 hours einstein's layman's explanation of relativity at work if i hadn't been with friends with the necessity to remain my viewing would have been brief i laughed though at the seinfeld episode where elaine pisses everyone off because she tells them how much she disliked the english patient my friends somewhat regarded me the same way when i interrupted their waxing over this movie give me some dragging fingernails loudly over a chalk board anytime instead
0	ha ha first of if you've never seen a dimension film your in for a real treat known primarily for super low budget horror slasher films beowulf was no exception br br however this video was more in the style of ultra cheesy i missed the k r a f t label on the side br br consider the anachronisms something out of place and time br br we had candles armour swords br br yet we saw telescopes soled shoes cigarette lighters loudspeakers electricity body bags aluminum foil tins and spoons forks br br not bad for something that takes place in like the 8th century br br this is not a horror film is a horrible film its very laughable its really a comedy made to look like a horror film i couldn't stop laughing br br christopher lambert the highlander series must have really taken a tumble in his career if he's working for dimension films br br i've learned my lesson though i'll be looking at the film studios on the videos a lot more closely now br br rated no reels out of five if you want a good laugh though its hard to pass up on this piece of work br br this move had some cleavage in spots i especially liked the blonde br br wayno br br
0	what uh br br this movie is so dissociative and messed up that i literally lost a bit of my sanity after it was over i will never be the same person again i'm trying to put my finger on what exactly is so completely insane about it it's not just the hilarious techno music or the outside of time medieval blade runner wild west highlander setting or the weird cgi grendel monster that looks like a man made out of animated sausages or even the grendel's mother monster which looks like some alabama table dancer who grew claws and tentacles when she stayed in the tanning bed too long all of those things are weird but what's really the strangest thing in this movie is the acting i simply can't explain this script is obviously hellishly silly but the actors exude deadly seriousness through it all lambert is always weird and usually kind of boring but for this one he's gone into dolph territory i can't help but just start laughing every time he talks br br i will give this movie some credit for being completely scatter brained and crazy as opposed to conservative and boring i'll always take a bizarre disaster of a film over an utterly mediocre one br br warning if you are planning on watching christopher lambert as beowulf be prepared to spend several hours thereafter wandering the streets in some kind of nightmarish hyperactive catatonic daze it's true when i was done with my beowulf spirit journey i woke up in the middle of the siberian tundra in a puddle of blood and milk there was a dead wolf lying next to me and i later found i had a handful of human teeth in my shirt pocket my vhs copy of beowulf was sitting on a hastily constructed stone altar nearby enshrined with candles and wilted flowers the tape told me to walk i rose and i walked
0	the future of fantasy never looked so dark christopher lambert gets to fight the evil demon grendel in this grim looking trashy fantasy epos epos i said er there's only one location so you can't really call it an epic adventure can you the location is a medieval futuristic 5 inch tall castle so how did they manage to cram in all the actors oh i get it those where special effects a miniature silly me br br here's some reasons why you might want or not want to watch this motion picture br br lambert gets to do his sword swinging tricks over again like he did in highlander br br the sets and costumes are amazingly cool if you're a 12 year old br br has a voluptuous pair of knockers which she likes to show off through out the whole movie br br er christopher lambert has white hair br br every time they start fighting this over the top raving techno soundtrack gets going so why are these medieval slayer dudes fighting while they should be dancing br br they don't have electricity in this castle but they do have speakers installed which seem to work fine so where's the i guess they borrowed it from the techno dj who delivered the soundtrack br br watch it for the climax in the end which features an outrageous cgi creature coming straight out of any playstation 2 survival horror game br br if all this got you interested then go watch it at your own risk but don't tell anyone i told you to i strongly suspect pinhead visiting the set while shooting because this movie has no soul anyway if you want to see beautiful really show some skin then watch paul verhoeven's hollow man
0	i've heard many things about beowulf maybe because i'm from romania and a good part of the movie was filmed here in my country and i expected a lot from this film at the end i was disappointed it is not as horrible as other users said but it's definetely bad it's all about a monster killing people in a 6th century castle and lambert the one who comes to kill him lambert is good as he is in all his roles but the rest of the characters suck and the action isn't too good either plus maybe the only thing that could've saved this film the special effects are also very bad the monster looks awful not scary but awful oh and another bad thing the music the movie tries and manages to create the 6th century atmosphere but all the action sequences are presented on rock music which is very very bad i mean action on rock works perfectly on a movie like charlie's angels where that's the perfect way to shoot your action but here that was a very bad idea br br vote 4 out of 10
0	we screened this movie in a club as an example of how classic literature can become twisted into some of the most awful movies of all time just the fact that the back of the box proudly proclaimed the plot to be set in the techno futile future should have been enough of a hint i think that word describes the movie itself because no matter how much technology they tried to use to save this movie the effort was completely futile not to mention that our club advisor told us that it allegedly couldn't get a distributor for two years br br this cinematic failure is littered with cheesy cliche dialogue that's worse than angsty teen poetry beowulf's character changes halfway through in a way that is in no way credible and whenever he's in an action scene he's constantly flipping like a hyper gymnast there is even as they say a token black guy whose attempts at humor are completely out of place and of course the daughter of the leader of the outpost grendel is terrorizing is a total vixen a vixen whose breasts are exposed throughout the entire movie a vixen who wants to fight the creature yet she never puts on armor and her weapon of choice is a little carving knife and despite their dire situation she still dresses up for dinner in a dress with a see through skirt that exposes her short shorts underwear there are a couple scenes that could pass as soft core pornography and in the second scene they even reuse footage from the first i thought the portrayal of grendel was bad enough but then came the end of the film which featured a display of cgi that might be decent for the 80s but is totally ridiculous for a late 90s venture i could go on but you all should watch this film for the fully laughable effect yourselves br br the other club members and i did manage to have fun watching this by taking a cue from mst 3k and mocking it the whole way through i'm still reeling from an extra's weapon a perpetually spinning pizza cutter on a pole
0	im sure he doesnt need the money for a life saving operation or transplant in all honesty i think this review qualifies as a better movie than thanks for listening
0	this movie came highly recommended but i am not sure why i am not really and adam sandler fan though apart from in 50 first dates where he departs from his usual angry man routine damon wayans is an undercover cop and adam sandler is the guy he pretended to be friends with for a year in order to bust him naturally sandler is rather angry about this betrayal cue angry shouting and silly facials from the king of variety they end up on the run and of course they become friends again after a big misunderstanding involving sandler shooting wayans in the head he survives thus he is bulletproof need i go on you will work out what is going to happen if you do watch it anyway when our dvd player kept pausing hey it was 80 from the supermarket ok it was commented that the player knew the film was boring and was refusing to play it
0	i saw it on video predictable horrid acting film flubs what more can be said this movie sucks the actors are annoying to say the least this was suppose to be a comedy but there was only one funny moment other than that is was painful to watch for me br br 1 out of 10 pass
0	i haven't for a long time seen such a horrible film i hoped that at least adam sandler could be funny hopeless seems like some teenager have written it's script and he's daddy pushed this so far that someone agreed to shoot it movie world could be better place without this whatever it is
0	bulletproof is quite clearly a disposable film the kind where bullet riddled good guys and bad guys are everywhere so much so that you really aren't supposed to see them as human the yawns between the lines from wayans and sandler are extensive indeed they try hard but alas and persona itself does not a good film make jimmy caan plays a nifty villain but he's always had that redneck edge at the ready my favorite's scene is the repeated clips of a tv ad in which caan reveals the virtues of america can be shown to the world by having 2 cars in every garage aside from that it's a buddy movie with guns for brains pass on this one
0	some aspects of this production are good such as the performances of angela lansbury george cris and sal but am i the only one who is distracted by the horrible performance by betsy joslyn as johanna she is terrible she the songs with her screechy voice and overacts in a role she clearly doesn't understand i also think the chorus isn't up to snuff they drag the tempo and make the worst facial expressions overall i think this production is okay but sweeney todd can be so much more if done correctly this production doesn't come near the level this material demands the concert version with george and patti is much better
0	drug runner archie moses introduces his friend rock keats to his boss drug kingpin frank colton unknown to moses keats is actually an undercover police officer during the bust on colton's factory moses accidentally shoots keats in the head he survives the wound later arrests moses dodging colton's hired assassins the duo must overcome their mutual hatred to survive br br adam sandler's films are usually a hit miss affair with his comedies either loved by his fans or hated by everyone this one is not as stupid as his other films but still cannot overcome a lazy script the direction is incredibly patchy with fast paced action sequences giving way to slow comic exchanges between sandler damon wayans some of the action scenes – flying a plane with no engines a car chase at night through a forest – are quite absurdly contrived the acting is the standard for this genre with sandler wayans making a good pairing in short the film is dumb but fun to watch br br grade c review by m k geist
0	my age 13 br br keats played by damon wayans and archie moses played by adam sandler are the best of friends and have been for a year what moses doesn't know is that keats is really jack carter an undercover cop who is waiting for the right time to bust moses and frank colton a major criminal who moses is involved with when colton and moses find out that keats is a cop colton wants to kill moses but he gets away after shooting carter in the head which does not kill carter moses is found by the cops and is taken for proof of colton's wrongdoing but when the cops including carter are about to escort him across the country on a plane all the other cops are killed and moses and carter are alone in the desert carter has to stay alive as well as take moses in br br a fairly average action comedy bulletproof has a fair plot but a lot of the film is just plain stupid for a comedy i found most of the jokes entirely unfunny but as an action movie it has a few fairly good action scenes not being a good fan of either adam sandler or damon wayans i found the acting and therefore the characters well below par the climax isn't really great and the film is so unrealistic it is not entirely bad but also not too good and it is far too short running below 85 minutes i though there was another 15 minutes left before it ended but there wasn't and the film felt too short overall not a complete waste of time but i still wouldn't recommend bulletproof br br australian classification ma 15 medium level violence sexual references medium level coarse language br br rating 56 out of 100
0	this film has a really weird mixture of genres toilet humour and action in one it doesn't really pull it off it should have stuck to one genre the best thing i can say about the movie is that the dog in it is cute br br the most disturbing sequence is in the middle of the film when moses sandler and carter wayans decide to stop off at a hunting lodge motel i'm not quite sure what the point of this sequence is it just seems gratuitous in the extreme the proprietor of the hunting lodge charlie is a very nerdy looking guy for some reason moses starts a conversation with charlie about porno jacking off homosexual sex sex in a threesome charlie's photo of his wife appears to be charlie dressed in drag there is no reason for this really juvenile dialogue and scene anyway the whole scene seems to be directed to the moment when a naked moses ends up with carter's gun up his butt and charlie sees them through the window it all reeks of school boy humour about homosexuality horrified and titillated all at the same time which i don't find funny at all br br i have a friend who is always raving about adam sandler movies this is the first one i've seen after this i'm not sure i want to see any more br br btw this is my husband's account he's seen happy gilmore and he tells me it's quite good maybe i should give sandler just one more chance br br countess
0	kate is a jaded young woman who has trouble meeting and dating guys throughout the movie you get to meet several of her loser boyfriends and throughout the movie you are subjected to kate's cynical negative outlook on love and relationships this negative viewpoint is continued throughout and presented as ultimate truth i had a real problem with this why would anyone want to be taught about love life and dating from someone who is obviously so messed up it would work if that was the joke but it is not for the jokes in the movie which are neither funny nor original to work at all you have to believe what kate is saying that all relationships inevitably end up with bad or no sex that the highest level a relationship can evolve to is when you are able to fart in front of your partner you get the idea br br there is no movie in recent memory that comes close to upsetting the stomach as much as love sex why did the filmmakers waste their time on such trash every joke in love sex is something that i have experienced in another movie or in my own life there is nothing original or creative about the story the production or the style it is cynical dumb and pointless mind numbing
0	to keep from being bored during love and sex first i tried to think of all the movies this was of breaking up with russell crowe and salma hayek though that had a more original ending about last night with rob lowe and a lot of tv shows br br second was admiring just how gorgeous janssen is so i couldn't believe for a nanosecond that she could have a problem getting a date she is certainly in line to give julia roberts a run for her money literally and wasn't julia in some movie with this same plot or other br br third was trying to figure out why the writer director bothered to give jon character the jewish name of adam levy he even refers to eating a ham sandwich br br fourth was trying to figure out why some critics had given this a good review which is why i was in the theater br br originally written 9 2 2000
0	ordinary decent criminal is sad because it is obviously trying to succeed and equally obviously hasn't a chance in hell of making it apparently owing to the absence of a clear sense of purpose a abysmal failure at droll irish comedy with spacey as a thief who enjoys the cops and his competition becoming a sort of folk hero in his own mind this flick manages to be mildly amusing when it's trying to be funny slightly more than boring when it's trying to be interesting and forget sentimental or poignant or endearing though it takes shots at those qualities as well ordinary decent criminal has a clumsy screenplay naive direction journeyman execution thin story poor casting mediocre acting and eventually becomes lost in itself and sinks into a mire of hopeless mediocrity pass on this one d
0	this film is really quite odd clearly certain events portrayed identify the main protagonist as the dublin criminal known as the general but almost everything else is just wrong we are not talking of a distortion of ancient history but a complete distortion of irrefutable documented facts the question indeed is why the garda are shown as latter day keystone cops his gang as non menacing and the man himself as well kevin spacey almost pure fiction anyway why bother to try to give a semblance of realism having said all that it is a poor exercise any way you want to look at it not worth a second of anyone's time
0	i was really looking forward to watching this film it had all the ingredients of a great tongue in but it just didn't come together at all kevin spacey's accent was tolerable except that sometimes he forgot to use it and i would rather not have had to listen to linda fiorentino's pale attempt she and helen were totally lacking in charm and personality thankfully their screen kids had loads so you could find at least some members of his 2 families endearing you could have strained spaghetti with the plot and i'm sure that the script was written by some adolescent schoolboy in a high school english competition that said when i wasn't cringing i was smirking so it wasn't a totally wasted 90 minutes i did find the of kevin's face on the painting very clever and quite funny maybe i'm being a bit harsh but i was expecting a bit of quality viewing and it just never came
0	one of the worst excuses for an irish accents i've heard from a truly great actor too its a bad irish accent not to mention a dublin accent which is completely different anyway the film is loosely based around the story of ganglord martin cahill and its done much much much better with brendan gleeson in the title role in the general
0	ordinary decent criminal is sort of based on the exploits of martin cahill already the subject of john boorman's 1998 film the general cahill had a rough upbringing in a slum area and graduated from petty crime to armed robbery with honours he justified his criminal career by pointing out his poor background at every opportunity this is a common excuse for criminals that conveniently overlooks the thousands of slum dwellers who don't turn to robbing post offices and selling guns in order to make ends meet cahill made fools of the police and local authorities not to mention the ira which earned him a sort of folk hero status as well as making him many enemies however he was basically an amoral self serving thief br br my primary problem with is that the protagonist is made out to be a lovable irish rogue kevin spacey does a good job portraying michael lynch with a blend of oily charm and quiet menace but the character is too amoral and selfish to be seen as any sort of hero even an anti hero br br the film is well shot and well acted by a fine cast but what lets it down is the script writer gerard can't make up his mind is he writing an irish lock stock or a grittier treatment of martin cahill's thieving career that's the problem when a writer bases his central character on a real person br br it's also unfortunate that followed the cinema release of john boorman's the general which was a more accurate portrayal of martin cahill's story cahill was a cunning thief who knew the value of good publicity so it's not surprising that his exploits got the movie treatment br br what is surprising is that a studio was prepared to take cahill's story and give it a happy hollywood style ending kevin spacey's charismatic thief michael lynch gets to ride off into anonymity on his motorcycle in in the real world martin cahill was executed by the ira just to prove that no one makes fools of an out dated and corrupt para military organisation and gets away with it br br the real cahill would never have walked away from his notoriety because it bolstered his man of the people self image having michael lynch give up everything to avoid death in is a cop out ending to a weak and shallow movie
0	i finally got hold of a dvd copy of this production and was with curiosity since i had read so many people praising it to the skies particularly angela lansbury's portrayal of mrs lovett i saw the tim burton movie a few months ago and thought it over the top and overly bloody thankfully this version is not so horrifying gory but it suffers dramatically in too many other ways for it to be in the least satisfying to me br br to begin with the casting george is adequate and at least shows some expression as opposed to johnny depp's unending wooden face in the movie angela lansbury is quite simply annoying at least she has enough power in her voice to get the point across as opposed to helena bonham carter's piping and expressionless little girl's voice but subtlety seems to be only a word in the dictionary to ms lansbury one cannot be drawn into the story when one of the main characters spends her entire time mugging and winking in a look ma i'm acting fashion and being far too aware of the audience this is not something that is typical of stage productions heaven knows i have been a regular of many productions at the for many years and stage actors do not behave in that fashion as a rule at least those who want to continue to find regular employment do not br br betsy joslyn oh dear oh dear oh dear did anybody besides me notice that she can't sing this role even vaguely appropriately and her playing george daughter is just creepy considering that she was married to him at the time isn't she supposed to be a sweet little sixteen year old yes i realize that this is what acting is all about but not once did she convince me that she was any younger than about thirty five and the phrase mutton dressed as lamb seems to have been coined just for her her butchering of green finch and bird had me gnashing my teeth and ready to turn off the dvd player at once that song was done so well in tim burton's movie and this was a sad shock the song requires the vocal range of julie andrews in the 1960's and a purity of voice that is only comparable to that of a boy soprano any vibrato at all kills it dead and ms joslyn spent the entire time warbling so hard that i thought she was about to fall off of her ladder because she was trembling so much from the effort at sustaining notes with a voice that is a mezzo at best let us pass over the spectacle of her vibrating at least a quarter tone flat on at least three of the higher notes this is quite simply not a role and perhaps a discerning director should have told her that but the fact that she was married to the star might possibly have tied the director's hands br br cris was adequate but again obviously far too old for the role and there is zero chemistry between him and ms joslyn which makes the whole subplot fall completely flat i am reminded a little of past stage productions of wagner's ring cycle where due to the vocal power required for the singers to bellow over the sound of a full wagnerian orchestra they would have to cast based upon ability to penetrate vocally as opposed to any appearance or acting ability or even a good voice which is why you have the caricature of the massive mountainous viking horned with a triple chin and a beard when the libretto calls for an ethereal beauty who is eternally young and bewitching the casting of the juvenile leads is exactly like that if you close your eyes you can almost believe in mr anthony but as soon as you look at the screen the illusion is shattered and at no time can you ever believe in ms johanna for me the rest of the production was completely lost because of three out of the four major characters were so obviously miscast i cannot give a proper review of anything else because they were so distracting that they spoiled the rest of the production i really can't understand why people rave about this badly shot and self conscious filming of a stage play surely there's more to camera work in the theatre than just a camera down in the front row if i want that i'll go to a decent play preferably at the festival where at least they work together for the production and aren't constantly mugging for the camera i give it three stars only because the quality of the production apart from the antics of lansbury and joslyn seems adequate if not spectacular br br probably the best thing one can do is buy the soundtrack of the film and a cast recording of this play and then combine the two to make a bearable whole that's what i'm going to do and try to forget that i ever bothered to rent this wholly unremarkable production
0	after the general a film that romanticized the life of dublin gangster the general to such heroic proportions that it made the average dublin person sick along come kevin and his attempted portrayal of mr lynch or martin cahill aka the general the acting is so bad that this crime drama becomes a comedy for the native dub and a tragedy for the kevin spacey fan in short is the movie worth a look no unless u like bad acting with hilarious 'proper irish accents ah sure to be sure to be the story is ripped off from the commercially successful 'the general' which despite is glorification of a well known dublin animal in martin cahill is still worth a look on a domestic scale because it shows real working class dublin and on an international scale because of he true irish acting and killer cast including john voight all in all 'ordinary decent criminal' is anything but a decent film avoid
0	well br br first of all as many reviewers have pointed out this is a rip off of the martin cahill story first represented by the bbc and by the john boorman film the general which is a great film and far far superior to this one br br speaking as a native british person the supporting cast to kevin spacey was really good in terms of british and irish acting talent especially peter but it was totally wasted the characters were c p and as for kevin spacey didn't come across as a loveable rogue but as nothing really substantial or significant br br not a lot to redeem this film the best bits are the gags and tricks nicked from the other films it rips off compare notes on this film and the general i'd be interested to see what others think br br
0	kevin spacey is my favorite actor of all time he is without a doubt on other's lists as well when it comes to great actors he even pulled off a good irish accent in ordinary decent criminal as well but kevin spacey as a mafia leader or even a burglar i'm not so sure he could go that far the movie to me just didn't make any sense and the some of the story just didn't feel solved to me br br i know once again that imdb is going to make me write ten more lines but i'm not so sure on what i could say about this movie because i am still trying to figure it out silly isn't it but i'm pretty sure that more than a few of you imdb users have been in the same predicament as i am in right now where you just want to say a line or two about a movie but now you have to do ten lines wow that should do it d br br 3 10
0	kevin spacey is without a doubt one of the best actors of the 90s after his performances in the usual suspect se7en and american beauty you expect more and more from him that is why ordinary decent criminal is a huge disappointment br br michael lynch is the most artful criminal in dublin who is never in a bad mood his next heist becomes an obsession when his partners start questioning michael's ability to plan everything perfectly although this is the only thing he does when he isn't playing good father at home br br i guess it's partly my fault for not paying enough attention to the thousand plot details which sadly turn out to be the essence of the film i gave the movie a chance by calling it a parody and well parodies are always funny no matter what they spoof or how they do it so it wasn't after all a complete parody on purpose it's just a different con movie that desperately tries to be funny and fails br br unlike some of his colleagues ordinary decent criminal depends too much on story development and logical continuity forgetting what's the main reason the viewer has picked this kind of movie to be entertained this is definitely not entertainment it includes one of the most ridiculous scenes ever the introduction of michael's two wives i don't know whether it's some kind of a mindless metaphor or strange dark humor but the chicks are sisters remember spacey's character has kids br br ordinary decent criminal is complex and confusing you are not waiting for a funny scene instead you carefully follow the dialog because there is a big possibility of losing yourself into the boring pale universe the film has inhabited br br let's go back to spacey i wonder in what condition he has been signing for that movie it's not miscasting but something much worse an insult to his work in american beauty released an year before ordinary decent criminal the character michael is eccentric and talkative spacey is almost pathetic at times the only cure for this is thinking of lester and roger br br writer gerrard should definitely re consider his screen writing abilities and be more objective this time because the dialog is very weak and the scenes are often pointless and we are still talking about a comedy br br ordinary decent criminal is a really bad crime comedy which does not deserve your attention
0	an oirish film not made for an irish audience with fiorentino and spacey each of a half decent oirish accents the powers that be had but one choice force the irish actors to adopt equally bad oirish accents reducing the whole thing to the lowest common denominator
0	i'm a big fan of kevin spacey's work but this is a sub standard film if you think it looks interesting or you saw it and liked it go and check out john boorman's the general it is basically about the same guy but is far superior in every way and doesn't suffer from the hollywood
0	the german regional broadcast station has shown both the general and on saturday i've seen the general and i thought it wasn't very bad but not very good too but yesterday i've seen and i switched it off after about an hour although kevin spacey was the main actor the movie was totally confusing and seems restless the general told the story straight and ordered but just wanted to be cool there is a reference on the guy ritchie movies lock stock and two smoking barrels and snatch but doesn't have the coolness of these movies br br so in the end i would rate it 3 of 10
0	this film is terribly bad kevin spacey is a really great actor he shines in la confidential american beauty usual suspects 7 etc but this is truly rubbish he came nowhere near a decent irish accent maybe he should have practiced it with kate hudson while she was doing about adam to irish people this film is laughable and even worse its quite irritating for several scenes i think the producers made this film hoping the target audience non europe would had never seen or heard of the 'general' or martin cahill and be enthralled in an intriguing and entertaining story total crud
0	i have seen many possibly too many straight to video no budget slasher films and have developed a taste for the good ones or the ones that are less sucky as ridiculous as that sounds hahaha dr chopper is what i kindly like to refer to as absolute crap nothing about it is enjoyable the acting sucks the characters suck the killer sucks the gore is minimal and sucks it is about a group of college friends who drive out to a newly discovered family cabin owned by the parents of one of the kids it is meant to be a relaxing retreat but little do they know that a deathly ill former plastic surgeon gone bad along with his two female assistants search for usable tissue to save the doctor his name is dr chopper since he rides around on a motorcycle and of course chops this is just a terrible movie not worthy of anyone's time enough said
0	low budget films like this just give me hope as an aspiring screenwriter in other words if there are people out there who are willing to finance a piece of schlock like this than there's certainly much more than a glimmer of hope for someone like myself who can actually write stories this film is right up there or should i say down there with the ed wood's of the world the story if you can call it that and the dialog not to mention the sophomoric acting is a travesty toward the genre itself someone should have driven a stake through this stinker while it was still just on paper it follows that since literature has pretty much been killed off that film should follow in order to have a good or even just passable movie you must have at the very least decent writing the legendary curt siodmak springs to mind they used a lot of his stories for low budget films way back when but they still come off today as good serious entertainment i e brain the cast for this work should seriously consider going back to work at their respective hamburger joints or shoe stores and forget about any future feeble attempts at appearing in front of a camera avoid this one like the plague itself
0	this movie moved much too slowly for my taste the concept of the story is refreshingly different in that it explores the family dynamics of living with a mentally retarded family member in a way that i have not previously seen on screen however the execution of the concept was flawed each character was developed fully within the scene of her first appearance then one had to endure the feeling that each character was treading water the rest of the way that is each character about awkwardly in her interpersonal relationships with others in the movie which i found to be a form of emotional and social retardation i suppose this has artistic merit given the irony that the story centers around an intellectually retarded individual surrounded by way above average intelligence friends and family the acting however was well done without exception i agree with other reviewers that the cinematography was beautiful in summary i think the film has strong artistic merit because of the fine acting and cinematography but fails on an emotional level due to the shortcomings described
0	stupid horror film about five 20 somethings 3 guys 2 girls going to this place in the middle of nowhere what they don't know is dr chopper and his female assistants attack and kill anybody who ventures in their woods they use their body parts for some experiments or something also five college girls and two lesbians are thrown in to be killed off and show some cleavage br br pretty desperate the story is confusing and boring the gore is laughably fake dr chopper and his assistants overact terribly there's some dreadful black humor in here and people just stand around while their friends are being attacked or just stand there and let the people kill them br br this was pretty insulting there are a few pluses a twist an hour in was pretty good and the five young actors are actually good chase hoyt is great as reese butch hansen is ok as jimmy ashley mccarthy is also good as tamara and robert adamson has his moments as nicholas best of all is chesley crisp as jessica she was excellent some of the dramatic scenes between these five were well acted and interesting unfortunately the dialogue wasn't really there for them i'm giving it a 4 for their performances but nothing else here is worth mentioning hopefully these actors will get roles worthy of them
0	this movie sucked on so many levels ever seen the dentist this movie made the dentist look like a masterpiece i do not recommend this movie to anyone unless of course you are really really really really really bored then maybe it was so corny the killer reminds you of the grandpa from the monsters except he has goggles on when jessica said i want you to meet someone my inner bitch i thought she was going to kick his butt however all she did was throw a gen trash can at him i was very disappointed and when the ranger had the crying scene about his wife i so felt the pain behind his tears not so before watching this movie grab a blanket and a pillow get comfortable because it is very relaxing
0	first of all i'm upset there's no choice of a 0 out of 10 br br i was bored tonight and while flipping through the channels i see dr chopper with there being nothing else on i decide to watch it expecting it to be just another crappy horror movie with a similar plot to cabin fever br br man was i wrong dr chopper made cabin fever look like it should have won numerous academy awards may i remind you cabin fever contains a scene of a little hick boy doing roundhouse kicks off of a porch screaming pancakes characters who leave their dying friend in a tiny shack to bleed to death and shawn from boy meets world mistakenly fingering a hole in a girl's thigh br br so needless to say dr chopper was a big smelly pile o crap it wasn't even funny crap it reminded me of a horror movie i had to make in 8th grade called the campout except for the fact that the campout had a better script we wrote it about an hour before filming better actors plots bloody scenes and camera work i was hoping to get some laughs out of a poorly made horror film but instead i could only watch in astonishment as i thought to myself was this made by 8th graders br br the acting was horrible the events and different little subplots were thrown together and didn't make sense and the gore and violence was very minimal i liked how that from a small stab wound people died instantly and the only weapons the killers had were small pocket knives if you're going to make a horror movie at least give the killer s an insane killing device br br also what the hell was the point of the sorority girls hazing their pledges good way to bring in some scenes of girls running around in their bras even if they have no relevance to the story whatsoever and i must say my favorite line was when the blonde says to dr chopper i'd like to introduce you to someone my inner bitch her inner bitch then proceeds to grab a garbage can throw it at dr chopper miss and back up in terror of the killer br br well that was a long one but i felt that i needed to express my feelings on how absolutely horrible this movie was i know that everyone has their own opinions but if anyone rates this movie higher than a 2 they should be shot to hell br br seriously
0	ugh bad bad bad but i have seen worse which is why i gave it a 2 instead of a 1 just got finished watching this movie and i thought it was about as rotten as the flesh on dr face the worst line of the movie had to be i like to introduce you to someone meet my inner b tch which consisted of the lone survivor of the fantastic 5 group throwing a trash can at dr chopper and then falling on the stage second worst line i'm the park ranger that's gonna f ck you up what this freak ain't even a cop did anyone else notice how everyone instantly dies from the magic gut stab no one dies that quick from a gut stab i know this cause i see them frequently in the operating room except super park ranger dude had like a bucket of blood poor out of that wound writhes around on the floor some and then comes in for the finale to take a parting shot at dr chopper while inner b tch lies cowering on the floor and if that don't beat all he doesn't even have the decency to die then like everyone else inner b tch helps him limp outside and proceeds to tell him not to die while she runs for help cause he's like her only friend left alive now since when did these two become friends i don't think a frantic meeting in the woods where he tells you to head for the city qualifies as getting to know you time but whatever br br only watch this movie if there's nothing else own and you have nothing else to do with your time
0	i paid 2 00 for this piece of crap i want my money back it is a d grade horror movie that isn't so groovy br br there are many many floors in this film including the acting the lack of actual horror the lack of nudity which besides the starting nurse porno outfit and the still breathing nude corpse flash there is none br br the sound track maybe is the best thing because it has some upbeat sorta guitar riffs tracks br br there are your usual typical characters the jock the jocks woman the nerdy guy who looks more like a jock the rookie cop ranger who has the biggest gap in his teeth i wanted to slip a few dollar coins into that gap or go for a field goal the mysterious fella and the pure girl br br the make up was pitiful with side views of dr chopper showing a clear make up line and natural skin tones the cover art to the dvd is clearly photoshop enhanced to make the cover more enticing as dr chopper looks like an old the scraggy women that hang around dr chopper are not explained and or look convincing like the rest of this movie br br the plot twist was very predictable and the abundance of bad looking fake limbs was laughable what did they think um throw some limbs around and some fake blood and you have a horror film br br dr chopper himself is the most stupid character created i've seen in a while though original i believe that the creator of this film was strained for ideas and possibly tried to use the rhyme doctor and chopper bike and thought bingo ill make a crappy movie about that br br i've seen worse before but this is just plain bad everything about it is bad the lack of suspense the lack of actual horror or character development the lack of a decent storyline the only thing good about this film was when it finished this film doesn't fall into the category so bad its good for me either br br overall 2 10 the director writer editor should know better
0	possibly one of the best most horrible b movies ever as in it's so bad and random it's kinda hilarious and i don't know how to feel about it reminds me of cabin fever there's just something about that kid jumping off the porch doing karate and yelling that's intriguing since a lot of people have already outlined the plot and everything all i'm going to do is sum up the quality of the movie with one quote i'm the park ranger who's going to f ck you up yeah enough said if you're looking for quality or a really scary movie i don't recommend it but if you like these sorts of films then i guess you would enjoy it i don't know how but i guess some people would
0	this movie is by far one of the worst b movies i have ever seen there are no plot twists at all though the acting is decent the storyline is terrible there are also many mistakes in the movie and it was bothersome to watch for any of you who like horror movies slasher movies or even b movies i don't recommend this to anyone at all most of the movie is focused on pointless killing in ways that aren't even worth discussing this movie could very well be compared to a crappy remake of jeepers creepers which too wasn't that great of a movie for anyone who wishes to spend a day at home watching poorly made movies this one takes the cake
0	the acting was very sub par you had costas acting like triple h's dumber forest ranger brother a scott mcmahon look alike as his who i guess your supposed to care about but there is no emotional involvement anywhere you have the stupid lesbian not that i have any thing against lesbians i don't just stupid ones who keep running around in a punisher like shirt and a grunge like hat who keeps asking if anyone saw her dead lover br br the villain could be scary and there is a morality tale somewhere about trying to fight age and death but it is lost in this movie costas hurst points out to the soon to be victims the way back into town while obviously there are city lights behind him br br also a mispronunciation of ed gein but pronounced it as a citizen of wisconsin we have had our share of monsters gein dahmer and mccarthy but if your going to use it pronounce it right br br god why do i watch all these terrible films oh yes i am a glutton for punishment and i watch these so you don't have to
0	dr chopper starts shortly after teenager robert adamson mum has died he is still cut up about it but every cloud has a silver lining in this case it appears that his mum owns a log cabin at lake the self proclaimed 'friendly place for happy people' that she didn't tell him about so nicholas together with his girlfriend jessica crisp three friends jimmy butch hansen reese chase hoyt tamara ashley mccarthy head out there for a fun weekend unfortunately things don't go according to plan the cabin turns out to be little more than a run down shed their neighbours turn out to be dr chopper ed brigadier his two nurses who go around killing anyone they meet to use them in horrible experiments br br going straight to video dvd dr chopper was edited directed by lewis this film seems to be having a hard time here on the imdb with some pretty harsh reviews while i think dr chopper as a horror film is pretty worthless i don't think some of the criticism i've read is entirely justified the script which takes itself very seriously is credited to ian holt whether he likes it or not who has a role in the film as detective crocker according to the imdb cast list although i can't remember any character of that name maybe he was one of the cops at the start anyway the basic story is alright i suppose although it's a tad dull lasts for too long it's typical slasher fare with some sort of evil character running around bumping off our annoying american teen cast you know the drill by now besides some brief undeveloped nonsense about dr chopper using body parts to replenish his own deteriorating body there's not much story here the script seems to exist solely to invent situations for girls to take their tops off there's the inevitable sex scenes there's a sequence where some girls have to complete a sorority house initiation topless there's even a couple of lesbians here as well one of whom is seen without her full compliment of clothing oh when i say topless i mean they aren't wearing any tops but they all keep their bras on so you may want to bear in mind there isn't any actual full frontal nudity in dr chopper at all so there you have it really it's an average story that has a mildly surprising twist at the end which is wasted is populated with poor clichéd dumb character's that exist only to showcase some cheap gore scenes girls in bras to be honest i expect a little bit more from my films but then again maybe i'm just being picky br br director does ok actually this is by no means the worst looking film i've seen although it still looks cheap there's no style here i didn't think it was scary there's no atmosphere either the gore is restrained restricted to some dead bodies severed limbs there's nothing new here or any particularly convincing special effects dr chopper is also one of those films where character decisions motivations are ridiculous br br technically this is a little rough around the edges but is reasonably well made on what was probably a really low budget the forest locations are suitably isolated although the cops office looks like someones front room the two nurses outfits at the start look like stripper outfits the acting is alright it could have better but i've certainly seen worse br br dr chopper indeed features a doctor who rides around on a chopper motorbike but unfortunately that just isn't enough to satisfy me despite it being a reasonably competent production the lack of any real gore nudity or a decent plot sinks it without trace
0	i started watching this because i thought it was a really shitty porno as i kept watching the only thrill i got from this movie was finding out what the name of it was so i could look it up and rip on it i just finished it and have considered ending my life knowing that someone actually made this movie br br for the people who commented on this movie as having a good script and great acting my words of wisdom for you are that you probably have no friends because you were in the movie you are probably wishing you had all that time back of your life that you wasted on making this movie br br there is no way that this is a serious movie there was an old guy that gets stabbed and it doesn't even hurt him at all and when everyone else gets stabbed they drop dead br br it was probably important that these people killed random people and ate them and also hung out with an 80 year old man that wanted to put the parts into his body br br my favorite part was when the old man found the or however you spell it because that made the movie seem very intellectual and probably helped to reach the older crowd br br what really blew my mind that they decided to throw in that random scene about the college girls going into the woods looking for fake skulls br br if you do attempt to see this movie you should probably fill up your bathtub and drop your hairdryer in it and be ready to jump in br br this is a must see for anyone who believes there life could not get any worse because this will help you realize there are people out there the makers of this movie who are even more pathetic and are going no where in life
0	i wasted 35 minutes of my life on this turkey before i gave up the main character is completely clueless and astoundingly unsympathetic but there is no humor in his blundering as soon as he arrives in germany the screenwriter pulls the old there's only one room in the hotel you'll have to share a room with a pretty girl stunt come on at least you could let them develop their relationship a bit first watch it happened one night to see how to do it right or any of a thousand movies since then br br the acting is consistently third rate and the improvised dialogue should have been left on the cutting room floor it meanders with no plan at all despite the fact that the film telegraphs the relationship's destination from the moment greta is introduced br br the first song in the boardroom is mildly funny but badly sung the rest of the songs well to be fair i only heard those in the first half hour are just pointless and awful most of the singers are painfully out of tune but not in any intentionally humorous sort of way
0	20 years ago dr chopper yes he is driving a chopper as well as chopping people up disappeared when the police found dead bodies at his clinic since then people have been disappearing around lake or something and dead bodies parts of bodies has been found all over the place turns out dr chopper needs body parts to stay alive and has been taking them from strangers like pair of lesbians and 5 sorority girls on their initiation you get the picture traveling through lake when a bunch of teenagers decide to go camping they are bound to clash with the doctor br br well if you wanna waste some time this is the right choice acting varies from really bad to mediocre with the girls tripping and falling all the time for no apparent reason every chance of showing skin is taken but without actually showing anything at all the same goes for the special effects who are pretty pathetic with every slash filmed in an angle so you cant see it but there are a lot of body parts in the movie all drenched in blood probably to cover up how sad they really look the plot is pretty faulty and dialog rather sad only time i laughed was when dr chopper said howdy when trying to be scary don't watch this one if your not a freak even then i would recommend you to watch something better
0	if there was justice in the cinematic universe director lewis would never be allowed to set foot on a movie set again it would seem inconceivable that anyone who spent two full decades in an editing room where ls started his movie career could be so utterly devoid of any sense of pacing or dramatic staging but this film is damning evidence br br as bad as it is it is fascinatingly so from the opening scene where a nurse is clad in a costume appropriate only for a porno film or a skit on a mexican variety show the viewer is compelled to see just how low it can go the answer isn't far away as in the next scene we move to a funeral parlor where the next stunning fashion statement comes in a sexy off the shoulders black dress worn by one of the mourners br br aggressively inappropriate costuming isn't the film's only flaw the dialog is a treat for connoisseurs of bad writing you turn my tears into wine is a sample gem the actor deserves an oscar for delivering that one with a straight face br br the director reinforces every cheeseball scene with what is possibly the soundtrack score ever recorded which veers from embarrassingly maudlin in the dialog scenes to cheesy wannabe in transitional scenes br br the script introduces characters with no rhyme or reason and story beats are doled out as if with a broken br br let's not forget this is a horror film though our characters find themselves in a forest wherein lurks dr chopper and his two scary who are supposed to be some kind of but look exactly like valley girls with fake blood beneath their shags i've honestly seen scarier make up on eight year olds out trick or treating on halloween br br and again we get a whiff of the costume designer's handiwork as valley ghoul one prances around in a pseudo victorian while her buddy wears a nondescript ensemble that might have been almost fashionable in less hip corners of the 1980s br br dr chopper makes the big fashion statement though looking like a cowboy who got lost in the woods on his big black harley clad from head to toe in black s m leather br br if this sounds intriguing by all means check it out there is plenty of side splitting and belabored dialog like the precious elephant's graveyard scene or the intellectual discourse on br br to be fair the cinematography is good considering what was put before the camera and the actors strive with wildly extreme results to make something from a scrap heap of clichés and inanities you do have to wonder if they were really really stupid or just blindly desperate not to walk off the set after catching one glimpse of the ridiculous looking villains with their 99 cent store weapons
0	i enjoyed the beautiful scenery in this movie the first time i saw it when i was 9 is kind of cute for kiddies in a corny way it reminded me of on sat mornings its swedish backdrops make it easy on the eyes don't expect older kids to be interested as the live action animation is way behind the times and most older kids will get bored this is definitely an under 10 age set movie and a nice bit of memories for those of us who were little kids in 1974
0	travolta thurman the rock vaughn keitel and so on one should think that this star parade of great actors could really heat up this movie but no travolta takes on the role as chili palmer again but this time we have already seen the gangster who tries hes luck in the hard world of movie making its not funny anymore this is a typically problem in hollywood they think that if the first was good the second will be twice as good no the first was original the second cant be hey hollywood try to understand originality cant be duplicated you got to give us a new twist not just the same movie again made with a bigger budget i constantly found my selves hardly laughing when i was watching this movie but still it got a lot of cool actors like harvey keitel james woods vince vaughn and the rock and for that and that only br br 4 10
0	i went to the cinema slightly apprehensive i came out seething with anger at the garbage passing for a film i had witnessed the actors particularly travolta should be ashamed of themselves for their participation in this clearly the only thing in their minds was the pay cheque never mind the debasement of their talents and us travolta needs to go back to doing some more look who's talking movies as he has sunk back to the level of his pre tarantino work it comes to something when the l w talking sequels are better than this one travolta is no longer the king of cool but the king of corn michael caine himself admitted to doing bad movies for the pay cheque should follow suit if he has any self respect
0	this movie is such a waste of talented people and hollywood budget it made me think everyone in the movie was paying off a favor by being in it because they were all out of place and wasted talent in this horrible trash pile of a film it's a contrived plot that is just pathetic unrealistic and not even close to fun or interesting the only thing that kept my interest was the numerous big names in the movie that kept popping up for no apparent reason and who had no acting or good lines to contribute to the mess of a film i kept expecting it to have some good stuff since all of these people had been cool in other films but it never came through this film should be shown in prison as punishment but that would be cruel and unusual you will be shocked to see so many recognizable faces parading around such a horrible pathetic script with flat lines and horrifically bad acting this movie reminded me of another complete waste of time with lots of recognizable faces big trouble 2002 which also went off the readable scale on the suck o meter
0	i really wanted to like this movie the previews looked marginally funny but i figured they put most of the funny stuff in the previews in this case they not only did that but they twisted the clips so that they appeared much funnier than they were in the real film i like john travolta uma thurman vince vaughn the rock cedric the entertainer etc so i wanted to like this movie but it just never seemed to do anything br br i saw get shorty and did not particularly care for it too slow and unfunny for me this movie is certainly no better and if anything is worse there were a lot of opportunities for some good comedic moments but it took none of them br br the acting was okay but even john travolta seemed toned down cedric was okay but he was too reigned in to be really funny vince vaughn and the rock were pretty good and ready to be funny but they just let it all pass them by i wish they had been given a chance to follow through with the funny things they set up but instead it just kept going back to the same old thing and back to just setting vaughn and rock up to be funny though never allowed to really deliver that punchline or comedy br br overall this was a very disappointing movie and i am glad i only saw it on video at least it was cheaper than the theater
0	despite john travolta's statements in interviews that this was his favorite role of his career be cool proves to be a disappointing sequel to 1995's witty and clever get shorty br br travolta delivers a pleasant enough performance in this mildly entertaining film but ultimately the movie falls flat due to an underdeveloped plot unlikeable characters and a surprising lack of chemistry between leads travolta and uma thurman although there are some laughs this unfunny dialog example which appeared frequently in the trailers kind of says it all thurman do you dance travolta hey i'm from brooklyn br br the film suggests that everyone in the entertainment business is a gangster or aspires to be one likening it to organized crime in get shorty the premise of a gangster going legitimate by getting into movies was a clever fish out of water idea but in be cool it seems the biz has entirely gone crooked since then br br the film is interestingly casted and the absolute highlight is a delivered by the rock whose character is an aspiring actor as well as a goon where he a scene between gabrielle union and kirsten dunst from bring it on vince character thinks he's black and he's often seen dressed as a pimp this was quite funny in the first scene that introduces him and gets tired and embarrassing almost immediately afterward br br overall be cool may be worth a rental for john travolta die hards of which i am one but you may want to keep your finger close to the fast forward button to get through it without feeling that you wasted too much time fans of get shorty may actually wish to avoid this as the sequel is devoid of most things that made that one a winner i rate this movie an admittedly harsh 4 10
0	travolta and thurman deserved a better movie this one is very secondary in all aspects not a single fresh idea but the biggest problem is this film's ridiculous philosophy a gang of black rappers after all their criminal activities and even killing people are becoming almost positive mickey mouse like heroes performing on stage and giving away awards at the ceremony perhaps this matches the real life but showing it as a quite normal happy ending is beyond my imagination what's wrong with shooting a couple of bad if they are not politically correct the show must go on that makes me think that hollywood writers have a big problem with separating good and evil even if the genre supposed to be a black comedy
0	get shorty out of sight jackie brown and even 52 pick up folks were finally getting elmore leonard right making good movies out of his work so despite my students' warnings about how bad this movie would be i couldn't resist renting it i thought how bad can it be oy what a mistake especially right on the heels of reading the book which was lame and too self referential too relative to the rest of elmore leonard's books still the book was better than the movie leonard again trumps the weak and unskilled screen writers who try to take over his book the dialogue written for steven tyler was painful to watch and the lyrics to the character linda moon's first song my middle schoolers write with more depth sad sad sad why even give it a star because harvey keitel and uma thurman are still fun to see on screen and andre 3000 didn't make a complete fool of himself
0	simply awful i'm including a spoiler warning here only because of including a jokes from the movie there is nothing else to spoil as it is already rotten this dross was made during what must have been one of sellers' for a few dollars more periods when he'd participate in any crap for a few bucks i'd seen this as a 15 year old high school student in 1972 and loathed it then no need to view it again after 35 years i remember it now as one of the top five worst movies i'd seen as a kid as i recall sellers had more of an ongoing cameo role than a lead here but even his presence couldn't the stale jokes lame plot and infantile repartee one ongoing theme revolves around sellers' use of his fingers in one scene he holds up his open hand to a group of medicos and by folding down his fingers enumerates the groups for which a hospital exists the interns the nurses the administrators etc until only his middle finger is left up whereupon he says and the patients har har in another scene to avoid costly lab tests he dips a finger into a urine sample and sticks it into his mouth to check for sugar then the interns gathered around him to do the same which they do he then advises them that he'd placed his middle finger in the urine but sucked on the index finger and admonishes them to pay attention hee hee the only reason that i remember this and this movie and am writing this review is that a friend told me an even dumber version of this 'joke' today if yu you gonna luv dis if not see with george c scott came out the same year 1972 for some genuine marvelous black medical humor better yet read 'the house of god' by samuel and if you can see the movie version of it which has never been released please make a copy and send it to me i'd love to finally see it
0	conrad ferdy mayne a hammy cult icon dies from a heart ailment not before disposing of an ungrateful assistant and tv commercial director both of whom disrespected him with showers of insults his body is removed from his mausoleum by some film students they wish to invite him to dinner they are quite big fans what these kids including a young jeffrey combs don't expect is that will be resurrected by a medium to wreak havoc on those who removed him from his place of rest br br the list of violent acts include pulling one guy's tongue out setting a woman on fire elevating a casket which crushes a woman's face decapitates one fellow and another guy alive in a coffin a really weird soundtrack and pesky fog wraps around ghoulish activities br br silly hokum from troma is limited by a very very low budget and slowwwwww pace the film feels a lot longer than it is the film isn't really that gory and we can hardly see much violence because the film is often too damn dark at times is an ominous presence yet at other times he just looks real silly
0	uma and travolta were very good together but unfortunately when they left the screen the movie was nothing but a bunch of very boring and wordy secondary characters wrapped in some extremely bad writing occasional glimpses of greatness like the dance scene between uma and travolta quickly eroded when the likes of harvey keitel and similar uninteresting thugs came on and the white dude who tried to act black got very very tiresome after way too much exposure in the picture he weighed down a fairly good performance by the rock the only secondary character who you couldn't wait to see leave the screen bad dumb plot the writers clearly couldn't figure out if they writing to generation x or the 12 15 year old rap crowd and the combination turned into a film that kept me staring at my watch
0	i really liked get shorty but this movie was completely disappointing as a sequel first of all travolta does not in any way resemble the chili palmer from get shorty he merely half assed this performance as he has done in all of his more recent movies he totally isn't smooth or have the mobster presence about him that makes you kinda root for him throughout the movie it just seems like travolta rolled out of bed and decided he was good to go for acting in this movie the plot just wasn't exciting or clever there really aren't any highlights that happen the only thing that resembled entertainment was watching christina perform and the rock was funny but anyways long story short this movie was trash and i had to force myself just to get through it
0	although i think the reviewers who hated this movie have encapsulated exactly what it does wrong everything i had to add my two cents if you'd like a long version of how terrible this movie is please read the review by br br here's the short version shameless use of the actors' names to propel the plot as opposed to using their talent no one brought their a game to this blatant commercialism i guess pepsi can afford to stick an advertisement or 40 into a movie now and a plot that was so convoluted with rock star clichés that it was totally ridiculous br br let me put it to you this way i was thinking of world' the whole time i was watching this movie but i wasn't laughing anytime you try to throw in steven tyler to help your movie plot along you've got serious problems br br please warn your friends and family this movie sucks
0	this movie was an embarrassment thurman looked like she had some kind of disease and john travolta looked like he was walking in his sleep i was expecting this to be a so so sequel to get shorty not a half baked remake of the exact same movie except that some of the character's have different names and clothes br br i would not recommend this to movie to my worst enemy i feel like i was ripped off and hollywood has once again tricked me into seeing another horrible sequel i also suffered through alien vs predator br br the best thing that i can say about this movie is that it has my vote for the worst movie of 2005
0	ok i was bought this a few ago by my brother in law who took me to see get shorty in the cinema which the both of use were uber impressed with and watched both get shorty and be cool one after another i have read reviews of people that had not seen get shorty and thought this film was quite good i just think its another way for film companies to cheat the paying customer all i have to say about this film is wtf after nearly 10 years and chili palmer had become a pussy the script was basically the same they teamed up travolta and thurman after their success of fiction threw in a couple of big stars plus a shed load of nobodies and thought that it was going to be good vince vaughn's character was just annoying despite me being a fan of both him and the rock both of the actors were way under utilised and unrealistic basically i am glad that this was bought for me as a present as if i had paid money for it i would have been super annoyed
0	chili palmer is tired of doing movies and know wants to do some success in music being half mafioso half expert negotiator he wants to rise in the music market however know everyone is like him and making the good singer linda moon to record a hit will be harder as expected the first part is funny and filled with irony this one falls into the easy jokes and has many less good moments only the two women uma and are decent in their part most of the film is done with histrionic character excessively exaggerated a little is ok too much is disgusting and the only one that one could save is the gay bodyguard who at least is coherent the rest are too much idiot the most surprising thing is the fact that the movie is not boring everything happens so quick and there are so many things happening that you do not have time to get bored if you want to follow the movie it may insult your intelligence a lot and the movie is bad yeah but well it's not boring
0	i saw a 12 45 a m show last night and i would've walked out 20 min in but there was nowhere to go blatant product placement juvenile script so much talent gone to waste gay bashing what didn't they do the movie is also insanely long we got out at 3 as a person who rarely pays full price at the movies imagine my chagrin doling out 22 for this self indulgent mean spirited nightmare plus 2 parking i woke up today still feeling depressed and haven't been able to shake it all day i love vince vaughn and he seemed straight up lost in this thing as was i when cedric the entertainer is the high water mark a man so un entertaining that he has to call himself the entertainer so you'll understand what it is he thinks he's doing you have a serious problem also the appearance of robert pastorelli is down right creepy since he died almost a year ago march 10 this should give you an idea how long they've been polishing this turd this movie is mean to the bitter end we stayed just to make sure they didn't give robert an in remembrance which they didn't save yourself save your money save your soul
0	sometimes when i hear an a list cast will be bunched up together for 2 hours in a movie i hope and pray that it is good not for the sake of my 10 bucks or 2 hours but for the sake of these actors' careers in the case of be cool everything went to waste br br in the beginning of the film john travolta aka chili palmer and a music executive played by james woods are driving in a car talking about movie sequels and how most aren't good if you look passed the fact that this scene was shot the same way quentin tarrantino filmed his car scene in pulp fiction and listen to the dialogue you can't help but ponder whether this is 1 a disclaimer to the audience that this movie is going to suck or 2 an attempt to get the audience laughing at the sheer humor of 2 people talking about sequels in a sequel oh the irony in case you were wondering choice 1 is correct the cool and slick chili palmer from the first and good film get shorty is revived to play a mobster gone music business pro he steals a young hot singer christina from her ghetto pimped out jewish manager vince vaughn and turns her into a singing sensation of course a movie about an ex mobster can never be complete without new mobsters causing havoc this time around the mobsters of choice are russian played by american actors who cannot act russian if my entire family hit them upside the head with their russian bare hands br br as a russian i wasn't so much offended by the way this film portrayed russians but instead as a writer i was more offended by the horrible dialogue this film tried too hard to get the audience to laugh it turned potentially good lines into a redundancy the russian black and gay jokes were the same ones only a couple of hundred times after calling the rock's character a f he plays a gay bodyguard to vince vaughn and cedric the character a n he played a black rapper with an entourage who threaten those who don't play his tracks with guns i wanted to walk out of the movie theater because it was painful to sit through if this was get shorty none of this would've even needed to be in the film to build up drama or a really bad laugh br br what lacked in this film that didn't in get shorty was hot attitude he's a completely different person in this sequel for one thing the old chili would've had more dialogue john travolta doesn't have more than 20 speaking lines in be cool because he is out staged by the repetitive lines and the hundred and two cameo appearances by the most random celebrities i won't ruin the shock by revealing all of the cameos for those who actually plan to see this movie please don't but i will say that it will forever amaze me that these people agreed to be in a film of such inanity br br what was even more stupid was the very lame dance sequence with travolta and uma thurman she plays the widower of james woods who luckily gets killed in the first 10 minutes of the movie tarrantino never made pulp fiction for an idiot like the director of be cool to mess around with this dance number was boring long and just plain throbbing the black eyed peas playing in the club with a total of 10 people didn't make the scene any memorable br br there were so many plot holes that i left the theater asking myself why everything about this film was a big question mark i just didn't understand the point to anything i couldn't even explain to you why the russians were after everyone or why this film was ever made because i'm baffled all i took out of this movie was that everyone in l a has a sidekick and the only way this movie was probably funded was through all of the advertisements by diet coke yahoo honda insight hybrid t mobile even the herself is in the movie and the bad screenwriters guild plot holes stupid dialogue too many random cameos horrible acting even by the pros and a not so entertaining attempt to mimic pulp fiction makes this film the worst movie of 2005 and it's only the third month of the year
0	if pulp fiction and get shorty didn't exist this might be an ok film when i say this i mean that nothing from this film is it's own unless it's another bit of terrible dialogue or a cliché full scene all the lines like 'i won't say more than i have to if that' from get shorty seem to appear in this rubbish sequel all the cameos like steven tyler's are acted terribly and are not needed and as for christina man don't get me started sadly some of the coolest actors and actresses like john travolta and uma thurman seem like they are trying to be down with the kids and hip and have nearly ruined there reputation because of this film and frankly i think the best acting is from the rock who plays alongside one of my least favourite actors vince vaughn the man tries to be funny throughout with him taking the mickey of how apparently rappers talk cedric the entertainer and andre 3000 play another terrible double act i personally think the background actors were better than cedric and andre and the only funny part of the acting of cedric andre and the rest of there gang do is the way there trousers are down to there knees so you can clearly see there boxers and the only reason i find this funny is because lots of people actually do that so in conclusion this film tries to be funny and fails miserably it doesn't have any new material comedy or coolness throughout as it copies every other film and finally the only reason you should see it is if you want to compare how bad it is to it's brilliant predecessor get shorty oh yes i forgot to mention there is a big cliché at the end
0	i rarely give ratings less than 5 but in this instance i must weigh in elmore leonard is a great writer with many wonderful complex books original characters crisp dialogue invigorating plot twists films based on his books go way back to hombre paul newman mr bronson and out of sight clooney lopez among others even when done so so the films at least have some measure of story essence coming through this one it is simply not a worthy addition to the catalog br br the acting is bad i do not know why because these are very capable people here and the story is handled with stupidity the characters are re arranged the chemistry is missing the actors and actresses are mis cast br br since elmore leonard is a really great story teller i would hope that anyone who does not know his work would be dissuaded from reading his books because they saw this disappointing rendition of one of his stories br br the story is a sequel to get shorty if you have not seen that film do not watch this if you have seen get shorty do not proceed to this br br i saw be cool a few years back and tonight have been re visiting the vid the first time must not have made such a negative impression because i had forgotten how dismal this sequel was br br fortunately i think no less of those who appeared in this film for having done so they probably expected something more get shorty was original and great fun travolta i nearly always like but he is so much better in tarantino's pulp fiction and in the preceding get shorty he was clearly unable to enjoy whatever was going on here br br and i hear freaky deaky another elmore leonard book is in pre production for 2008 release hopefully they can pull it off br br read the books they are almost all great
0	two things are always signs that you re going to be watching a bad movie br br 1 if you re instantly reminded of other movies like the terminator hardware or blade runner during the title sequence br br 2 if there s a death during a sex scene straight after the title sequence br br there s actually a third warning sign and that s a caption indicating lazy exposition warning the poor ignorant naive audience of the dangers of corporate greed guess what cyborg 2 starts with a caption warning us of corporate greed in the future followed by a title sequence that reminded me of the terminator hardware and blade runner followed by a death during a sex scene hey you don t suppose i ll be watching a bad movie by any chance br br as you can guess this is a bad movie it s basically a series of action scenes written around a thread bare plot of a cyborg on the run from a greedy corporate company it s badly written directed and acted and most especially it s badly lit which means it s very difficult to see what s happening on screen though i m not entirely sure this is actually a bad thing the only interest to be had is that it s the film debut of angelina jolie who plays the cyborg on the run and who says the prophetic line they re lovely i wonder if they re real which is something i ask myself whenever i see one of her movies
0	that movie while slightly flawed was entirely entertaining about half an hour into be cool i started to have hollywood homicide flashbacks but guess what this is worse even the dance number is bad i like most of the cast in this movie so that makes me feel bad about writing a negative review of it but i feel obligated the rock andre 3000 and vince vaughn were in a comedy no one else seemed to decide what movie genre they were acting in i feel bad for travolta because he brought the same chili palmer from get shorty to this movie he was totally consistent in the role but this movie is so different from the original that the character sticks out like a sore thumb i was going to give this movie 4 10 because i like the actors so much but there is a conversation in the movie about a certain song that is so asinine i couldn't believe the performers actually said it if you want to go to the movies this weekend there should still be some oscar contenders out there that would be a much better way to spend your time
0	the first 10 minutes of the movie makes fun of sequels and pg 13 movies these are the 2 reasons the movie is so bad they constantly reference a movie called get leo which is the movie in a movie version of get shorty every time they do this you will be really angry travolta isn't very cool neither is keitel however the rock and vince vaughn are hilarious they aren't the kind of funny you would expect to see in an elmore leonard movie though if you haven't seen get shorty you will probably like be cool if you liked get shorty you will leave the theater wanting to kill the director and screenwriter wait for the dvd
0	i'm a fan of get shorty this is the sequel for the movie that needed no sequel br br chili is back but rene russo is gone without a peep unfortunately game was played out in the first movie and rather than find an interesting personal arc for him they just have him stand around repeating lines from the first movie it's pretty tepid travolta looks old here it's like they move people around him because his bones are getting creaky his pink lip gloss and the blue eye contacts are very weird the 2nd bad role is edie played by uma thurman she's a music producer a role that requires her only to be the female reuben kincaid hey these kids have a great new sound in any scene she strikes the wrong pitch or emotionally or both it's painful to watch despite it's plentiful problems be cool gets better after a very unpromising start br br i certainly got my laughs out of it vince vaughan running around on fire cedric the entertainer ludicrous the rock a t shirt that says widow on it but it offers no great memories after it's over it's a helium light love fest from the first frame there's no one as pricelessly idiotic as gene hackman in the first movie it's just about doing good in the world for a couple of kids who deserve a chance beyonce the rock ho hum the first one wasn't preachy br br working in repeatedly gags lines from the first movie is annoying as is the dumb concession to the rock's wrestling fans he raises his eyebrow twice as are the droll inside jokes steven tyler saying i'm not the kind of singer that make appearances in movies ar ar br br the all star spectacular line up is part of the problem the first movie wasn't burdened by stars br br for a buck rental let's call it even
0	john travolta reprises his role as chili palmer hollywood gangster who now turns his eye to the music business using his negotiation skills he tries to run an independent record label with the wife of a murdered friend played by uma thurman and try to get his young singer christina a hit record br br before i saw this sequel i had heard that it was a terrible film however be cool is still an enjoyable comedy even if it's not as good as the original the movie focuses on the music industry this time around instead of the movie industry the music business is portrayed very poorly in the movie and they use a bunch of lame stereotypes i can't tell if this was the intention or not since get shorty did a nice job of spoofing the movie industry the same can't be said for the sequel and the attempts just come as lazy br br an impressive cast is what saves the movie from sinking the best performance is given by the rock and it's nice to see him in a different type of role vince vaughn also gives a funny performance though he started to get annoying before the end surprisingly uma thurman gives an average performance and i was expecting more from her john travolta returns as chili and he does an okay job his performance is kind of dull though christina gives a horrible performance and she's also not that good of a singer cedric the entertainer gives a good performance though he isn't in the film for very long there are also a bunch of cameos including steven tyler and james wood br br f gary gray directs and he does a poor job he just doesn't handle the film very well and the movie is kind of a mess there was also a ton of product placement and it got annoying after awhile also at minutes the film is too long and there are a lot of slow spots the film needed to be edited badly and it clearly wasn't fortunately for the film the actors are able to rise above the weak direction and script and they deliver some funny scenes sometimes the film tried too hard while other times it was actually pretty funny compared to the original the sequel doesn't measure up well however be cool is a fairly harmless and forgettable comedy in the end be cool is worth a rental and that's it rating 6 10
0	i laughed twice watching this movie and in case you were wondering i wasn't having a bad day nor was i subjected to anything else that would've skewed my opinion while watching this cinematic bowel movement this movie is bad i wanted to enjoy it and i just couldn't with all of this talent you'd think this would've been at least watchable right wrong br br let's play sucked and didn't suck john travolta very likable though obviously buried under too much makeup i found him to be enjoyable to watch didn't suck br br uma thurman after kill bill 1 and 2 the girl deserves more than this atrociously written character this character's big moment was showing someone how to operate a t mobile sidekick sucked br br vince vaughn the done to death role of white guy who thinks he's black goes to vince money vaughn is this character template still considered to be funny i love the guy but i want to see him in something better than this it felt like he was slumming sucked br br cedric the entertainer this guy is good he delivers a great monologue after being called a racial slur you can probably guess as to what it is that was probably the best part of the movie he was funny and truly elevated the material he was given just with his presence didn't suck br br harvey keitel sucked due to a phoned in performance br br james woods sucked but not his fault actually yes it was reminded me of his role in casino for some reason i don't like manic james woods i like slow burn james woods victim of bad writing maybe andre 3000 sucked but he went down swinging i think he has potential as long as he's not being directed by a hack on his next picture br br christina she's absolutely beautiful and obviously talented but this movie isn't going to make her a star didn't suck but needs a better vehicle for her talents that isn't directed by a hack br br the rock this should have been the role that catapulted him to movie stardom but as directed by f gary gray winds up sadly mishandled in this movie the rock projects this charisma that makes him so likable that i wound up feeling sorry for him he tries really hard and while he doesn't succeed completely he gets an a for effort from me this guy is not afraid to embarrass himself and go completely against type playing a gay bodyguard with his eyes on stardom i really want to see him make it big he has what it takes as long as he's not being directed by a hack br br which brings me to what i feel was the weak link in this production i might as well just come out and say it right f gary gray's direction was about as solid as really bad diarrhea wow it was bad who had the bright idea of letting this guy direct the negotiator was good but what else on his resume convinced people that he was the man for the job between his direction and the atrocious writing i'm willing to chip in for both culprits to get a nice lead salad to the knees wanna see john and uma dance i might be able to think of another movie with those two that i could recommend watching instead of this not worth the ten dollars and fifty cents it cost me to get into the theater br br this movie could've been okay and it wasn't even just okay br br rating out of br br p s from black eyed peas is noteworthy to mention sizzling
0	back in 1995 barry directed a movie that ended up on many critics best of lists by the time the year's were being printed in entertainment publications the movie was get shorty and it gave lead star john travolta his second big hit in as many years after pulp fiction put him back in front of the lenses based on a novel by elmore leonard the film focused on wise guy chili palmer travolta and his attempts to break into the movie business i for one was completely captured by the diverse characters and crisp dialogue of the original so much so that when i heard there was going to be a sequel i seemed to forgo my usual shivering that occurs when a studio tries to rehash what was a good idea over ten years later the sequel also based on a novel by leonard is this time directed by f gary gray who's italian job in 2003 was one of the years highest grossing films couple that with the cast now expanding to include uma thurman harvey keitel cedric the entertainer the rock vince vaughn and james woods and you have all the makings of a great continuance in the exploits of one of the more interesting characters of the 1990's this time round we pick up as chili travolta is leaving the movie business after being disappointed in both himself and the industry for participating in the making of a sequel to his successful first film thanks in small part to his friend tommy athens woods and the misfortune of his death chili decides to look into the lucrative and dangerous music industry this first leads to the famous viper club where chili meets singing sensation linda moon christina who as lead of an upstart trio can belt out tunes like whitney houston that is the whitney before bobby brown started bringing home the small packages of sugar linda is under contract with vaughn who with his overly apparent gay bodyguard elliot wilhelm the rock plan to ensure linda fulfills the final five years of her contract even if that means putting chili on ice so with linda's future in the balance chili weaves an interesting web which will include a record producer thurman a gangsta sound mixer cedric the russian mob the police lead singer steven tyler and a whole lot of angry gun pointing woo that sounds exciting so why wasn't it be cool tries too hard to well be cool but the result is a film that unlike the original has no heart and no soul be cool feels instead like it was directed by a saturday night live producer as there are individual scenes or skits that don't string together over a whole movie take for example the scene where travolta and thurman dance together for the first time since pulp fiction as black eyed peas performs live in the background the scene is forced and should have ended up on the cutting room floor instead it is coupled between two other needless chapters that do nothing to push the story forwards with any real thrust the concert and the rock's trip to a boot shop are also prime examples of individual moments that don't amount to much of a movie when put together but those aren't the only issues with the sequel which could probably be renamed product placement with the amount of 2 ways and diet that seem to stare at you more intensely than serious look the story contains just about every stereotype imaginable and each one has just enough screen time to become slightly offensive or embarrassing whether it is the gangsta entourage or the gay muscle guy that has a movie poster of sylvester stallone's on the wall no characters is above offering us anything we haven't seen many times before and in much better films with the magic all but gone from the first film we end up with an inferior product that is the second film in the past six months ocean's 13 being the other that cram a bunch of stars onto a marquee only to end up as a movie that no actor would bring to an open audition be cool was a major disappointment i so wanted it to be the get shorty of the new millennium and i ended up with a film where the outtakes must have been a gas but experience left me with a stinker
0	get shorty was an excellent film it was funny and had the perfect balance of highly comical acting and a serious plot be cool is like some cheap knock off trying to pass for a sequel john travolta as chili palmer seems to have forgotten that he was ever in the mob he plays it like he's a bored movie exec rather than a bored movie exec who used to be a shylock uma thurman great in nearly every role she's ever played comes off as strained and confusing is she supposed to be ditzy or clever the chemistry between her and travolta is strained and uncomfortable other than that just add every movie cliché you can think of a well educated rap producer by cedric the entertainer an inept gangster wannabe in andre 3000 the girl with heart soul and a good set of pipes in christina a gimmicky black dude wannabe in vince vaughn and a stupid celebrity cameo by stephen tyler the only funny part was the rock who invents his own new cliché as a gay samoan bodyguard actor wannabe probably the biggest crime is the plot it makes no sense get shorty was clever with chili playing one group against another and coming out on top but this film tries that with about a million different characters and even chili doesn't seem to know what's going on fans of get shorty be warned this is a very different very worse movie
0	blindingly stupid guff from the formerly talented john hughes who'll soon be making a film with the sperm from 'look who's talking' if his stars get any younger he recycles the 'home alone' formula yet again to produce this idiotic comedy in which a baby makes his way around chicago while inept kidnappers joe mantegna joe pantoliano and brian haley try to catch him along the way enduring much tiresome slapstick if mantegna and pantoliano can't find a laugh somewhere in your movie then you're in trouble but the laziness of the movie is most glaring in the scenes where crowds of people fail to notice a baby crawling around on the pavement utter nonsense
0	this was painful recently given away as a free dvd with a british newspaper this british belgian co production from 1977 could've fooled me it looks ten years older than that at least is quite deservedly obscure and if you make it past the half hour mark consider yourself a trouper the combining of animation and live action is ropey at best and downright dreadful at worst which makes you wonder why it was decided to even attempt making the film in this manner when clearly the technology wasn't really there harris is no more than a human prop and the animation is some of the most flat and lifeless i've seen with the obligatory moments especially where the animation of the brainiac type character is involved that rendered countless cartoon features from the late sixties onward instantly dated the screenplay by don black provides a convincing argument for the usually resilient lyricist to stick to what he does best and the pace is so slow that even the very young will be bored as for adults stick to jonathan swift's original novel
0	peter hunt started out as a very gifted film editor and got his first stab at directing when he helmed the james bond film on her majesty's secret service considered by many bond fans to be the best of the series other titles in his filmography include epic scale adventure movies like gold and shout at the devil both adapted from wilbur smith novels gulliver's travels is an odd one on his list of films it seems strange that a director of hunt's style and expertise would choose to direct a film of this kind a half live action half animated retelling of jonathan swift's classic satire the film looked twenty years out of date even when it was made and in all honesty it simply doesn't work and there's not a damn thing that hunt with his usual eye for fast paced action or star richard harris who can usually enliven the most stilted of roles can do to rescue this one br br gulliver richard harris is a brilliant medical student living in 17th century bristol his father norman shelley wants him to go to london to make his fortune but gulliver prefers the idea of receiving rather less pay but a heck of a lot more adventure as a ship's surgeon aboard a ship called the during a voyage the is blown off course during a storm and hits a reef the ship sinks and everyone is lost apart from who finds himself washed ashore in the kingdom of when he comes round gulliver finds that the strange land where he has washed ashore is populated by incredibly small humans no taller than his toe to them he looks like a giant they persuade gulliver to help them in a war against another race of tiny people who live on an adjacent island but gulliver doesn't like being manipulated for purposes of war and devastation so he makes plans to br br harris is left to carry the entire film here his first couple of scenes involve other actors but once he is shipwrecked in he spends the rest of the film striding over knee high sets and acting alongside his animated counterparts the idea of mixing live action and animation was not new at the time but it certainly hadn't been done a lot a few disney movies like song of the south so dear to my heart and pete's dragon had tampered with the idea but it was still pretty much in its infancy gulliver's travels is not an especially well animated film but the scenes showing interaction between harris and his cartoon co stars are at least competently done occasionally the film tries to be true to its satirical origins there's one scene where we learn that has gone to war with its neighbour because of eggs and the point seems to be that wars can begin over the most ridiculous of things but at its heart this is very much a kids' film and the satirical overtones are barely dwelled upon everyone involved has done better things during their career – gulliver's travels might fill an otherwise empty afternoon but apart from that it is a forgettable and underwhelming experience
0	2 glass shadow stars elias koteas as colton hicks rhymes with kicks a karate instructor who helps a cash jolie escape from her creators who look to detonate her and destroy a rival company along the way billy drago and karen shepherd show up to the duo while jack palance is there to deliver guidance to the duo on the run one of the things that is quite shocking about the cyborg franchise is how the series has managed to have quite prolific and off beat actors in the cast the original had jean claude van damme and don't know her well she was in a bunch of 70's pornos this one has jack palance elias koteas billy drago and angelina jolie the third one has william katt zach galligan and malcom mcdowell okay so cyborg 3's cast isn't that impressive i've never seen cyborg 3 but i did see this on sci fi channel and must admit i wasn't impressed actually strike that cyborg 2 is an often lovely looking movie it's shot with excellent style and the visual detail make this easy on the eye however cyborg 1 was the same way indeed the movie was directed with a certain amount of style slow motion and music that made it all easy on the eye unfortunately like the first this one doesn't have any new ideas or anything resembling a plot or texture most of the ideas are taken from blade runner and max headroom so for various reasons the movie doesn't have much to offer beyond it's look another aspect is the terrible acting karen shepherd and billy drago are absolutely terrible and angelina jolie isn't much better elias koteas and jack palance come off fine but seriously palance is playing a cyborg warrior and koteas is a karate instructor i guess on the positive side you can't accuse michael schroeder of not being ambitious with casting still the movie is dull and i for one lost interest in the story fifteen minutes in also why did they tie it in with cyborg anyway it has nothing to do with it's predecessor which this manages to be worse than br br out of 4 bad
0	i had watched this on italian tv as a kid and recall being fond of it – in view of its mixing live action with animation however it was universally panned at the catching up with it again after all these years i have to admit that the critics were right br br what must have seemed wondrous to a child's eyes is actually very poorly done not to mention boring for a fantasy adventure fatally both star ex young man' richard harris and director action expert hunt are ill suited to the material at least michel score with lyrics provided by scriptwriter don black is serviceable – if not exactly inspired by the way a number of well known personalities are featured among the voice artists on this british belgian co production julian glover bessie love murray melvin robert graham stark and this being his last film work michael bates br br while the essential plot points of jonathan swift's classic novel gulliver becomes the pawn in a war between the little people of two neighboring countries and on escaping ends up in a land of real giants do emerge here it's done on a strictly kiddie level with stereotyped characters though thankfully little intrusion of the comic romantic variety – which renders the whole venture somewhat pointless outside of its intrinsically experimental nature since max and dave fleischer had already done a splendid feature length cartoon version of the book way back in 1939
0	the 1977 animated live action hybrid version of gulliver's travels or rather ' since he only gets as far as didn't get much of a release and it's not too difficult to see why michel legrand comes up with some catchy tunes but they merely inspire lyricist don black to the likes of one simple fact remains no one here suffers from growing pains ' richard harris once again over indulges in his passion for excessive makeup toning down the eyeliner for far too much foundation this time in an effort to hide the fact he's at least 25 years too old for the role but at least he perhaps inappropriately reduces his larger than life tendencies for a performance made up mainly of patronising whispering the belgian animation looks only slightly better than early morning french children's tv but peter hunt's film is not nearly as bad as it sounds – the use of real model sets for the animated characters harks back to max and dave fleischer's 1939 version while a couple of moments of satire do remain although it's definitely aimed at the youngest of children
0	a terminally dull mystery thriller which may sound pretty sound theoretically but plays out very poorly the ludicrous script is full of minor spoiler people dying and then coming back to life when the plot requires them to and the director doesn't seem able to work up any energy and suspense the gooey sequence that kind of explains the film's title is the only halfway memorable one in this tiresome film 1 2
0	just once i would like to see work given to a decent screenwriter director and producer just once br br this is a good attempt by jean leclerc and chris sarandon and an even better attempt by victoria tennant but everything else is pure unadulterated garbage the screenwriter should be shot for bastardizing work this way and the director please br br the story is a well written story but the screenplay is quite dull unbelievable and horribly executed the only elements which work are the performances by leclerc sarandon and tennant br br on a personal note i really wanted this to work i adore novels but they have never given them the attention backing and talent they deserve if they put the same money into work that they shovel by the barrels full into king's koontz would quickly rise above but alas without powerful people who believe in his work i fear he will never get the chance br br as an adaptation to the novel this movie was a total suck fest as a stand alone movie it wasn't that bad though extremely weak in many places with huge plot holes and terrible stiff unprofessional dialog which never should have made it to the final cut this movie failed miserably to live up to its potential had they followed the original work by koontz a bit more closely and invested a decent amount of production money this could have been a far better endeavor br br however all i can manage to see in this is how good it could have been and wasn't br br it rates a 4 3 10 from br br the fiend
0	i actually saw the movie before i read the book when i saw the movie i was upset because i wondered why dean koontz had made such a bad book movie the movie was confusing and didn't have a flow at all it was choppy and made me want to throw a rock at the tv i couldn't connect with the characters at all so i didn't care about what happened to them normally i love the characters because i can relate to their personality or problems then i read the book and loved it i often re read the book and the movie is collecting dust i wish someone would make a koontz movie that follows the plot of his books then the movies wouldn't suck so much do not watch this movie unless you need to waste money
0	unfortunately koontz seems doomed to die without seeing a decent adaptation of his work whispers follows the original book very closely seemingly until the production company ran out of money all of the sets in the first half of the movie were meticulously recreated from the book something which has been lacking in many other koontz films despite its other numerous downfalls i continued to watch in anticipation of some really great scenery wrong by the time the detectives show up at the crack head's apartment in the book the movie is out of funds and one of the most suspenseful scenes from the book is ruined where the book offered grisly discovery a search and a chase through the guys apartment the movie offers the backseat of the guys car br br let's face it koontz writes without a budget in mind because imagination is free if a koontz novel ever gets made into a decent movie no one will go and see it because they have been let down so many many many times before this is why dean frankenstein is now just frankenstien if you had seen your work butchered that many times you'd get out early if it looked like happening again
0	one of the dumbest movies in the history of cinema wait i take that back this movie can't be included in any category related to cinema it belongs in categories like waste turds or similar categories ironically it's even about two garbagemen the movie is men at work a lightweight crime comedy starring the estevez sheen brothers from 1990 setting aside the asinine and implausible plot line bad acting bad dialogue poorly executed stunts and slapstick continuity errors and high rate of no name actors never to be seen again all in all it was a pretty bad movie anyway at its core i mean it was the kind of movie that might be good for one thing you can watch it about 200 times learn every line and in a campy kind of way repeat them back and forth in public with your wasted friends thus securing your status as the biggest dorks in your tenth grade class br br to make matters worse i actually submitted an imdb trivia entry along with this bad review to the movie's imdb web page if only because i spotted a silly little punk music joke that apparently nobody else spotted yet about the surfer statue i'm so conflicted about why i should even waste my time submitting what looks like a supportive trivia note when what i really want to do is blow up acting career no wait he's already done that himself thanks dude i'm so glad i wasted only time on this not real money for that matter can i maybe have at least one tenth of their budget anyone other than this director emilio could have made two or three much better movies with just what they spent blowing up cars carefully placing bikini clad bimbos in the background and beating up useless extras henchmen in mat suits i'd mention writing credit but it would be a stretch to call this screenplay writing it's more like crayon scrawled cartoon ideas and charlie sheen if you're reading this i assume m a w must have been made during the part of your career in which you were a coked up hooker loving hollywood brat who had not grown up yet oops sorry i guess that part of your life isn't over yet get well soon you half a man such a promising talent so wasted … oh look there's that word again
0	i thought i had seen this film before as the plot summary sounded familiar however when i watched it one afternoon in need of some mindless but amusing entertainment i didn't recognise anything if i had seen it before i must have blocked the horror of it from my memory br br this film is dreadful and it shows its age in fact it looks older than it is more like a mid 80s moronic comedy whilst i am a fan of toilet humour and can see the funny side of many things this is comedy at its most puerile and homophobic the plot is as thin as a supermodel which wouldn't bother me if only the film were funny br br there is only one amusing line in the whole film spoken by the character louis looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy in fact louis is the only likable character and that's not saying much james and carl are the type of irritating immature men that a sensible woman would run a mile from their practical jokes about as humorous as the war in iraq the character of susan wilkins is colourless looks like julia roberts but lacks her charisma and there is zero chemistry between her and carl though it may be unfair to blame the actress as i don't know what she could have done with such a poorly written part and the villain is neither funny nor scary nor memorable br br there is good trash and bad trash this is trash that definitely should not be recycled
0	i know i loved this movie when i was 12 14 years old now that i am 24 i watched it again and i wished i hadn't because all the things i laughed at when i was younger is no longer funny so this is an hour and a half without fun for me the jokes were lame not funny or just too childish so the same thing i loved about the movie when i was a kid is now the things i don't like about it besides not being funny it is not actually believable at all the evil character is very poorly done but i guess that is the kind of movie it is and the last 20 minutes of the movie is pretty lame with bad fighting sequences and so on but if you are young you will probably love it i rate this movie 4 10
0	writer director emilio estevez shows a definite lack of talent here with this un redeemable supposed comedy the script is completely hopeless let alone the fact that it is unoriginal and badly worked the comedy just does not work when estevez isn't using poor taste sex jokes he is borrowing used gags and re doing them very poorly you would think the teaming of estevez and brother charlie sheen would be cool but it isn't br br the entire cast is uninspired and unfunny never managing to raise a laugh and barely coaxing a smile from their audience do yourself a favour and leave this one on the video shelf br br thursday june 25 1992 video
0	this movie is a cyborg in and of itself half nonsense half lifetime original movie br br as a cyborg this movie has but one objective to make you wish that you had spent the duration of the film in a dark room punching yourself in the testicles br br unlike many people i did not rent this movie because of angelina jolie i'll explain why i rented it shortly i am not a big fan of ms jolie's though i will say that her performance was stellar her blank stare and robotic acting really did have me believing that she was an android hooker if anyone has a clip of her on 'inside the actor's explaining how she prepared for this role please send it my way i'll make sure to use it when i try james lipton for crimes against integrity br br so what drove me to rent this movie one would think that it was the hope of seeing angelina jolie's nipples but it wasn't no the reason behind this rental rested solely on one of the images on the cover of the dvd that of jack palance's face half of his face was robotic when i saw that i imagined legions of slowly marching through a fiery wasteland laying waste to any humans that were foolish enough to resist in my mind's eye every member of this unholy army of had a red glowing eye a red glowing eye that looked at humans and saw only meat they were to be the architects of oblivion a cold steely apocalypse a nightmare from which humanity would never awaken it's a beautiful image that i will cherish till the end of my years br br like most things in my life the actual movie did not live up to my expectations no there was only jack palance and the only visible enhancements that he had were located on his legs sadly those enhancements didn't really enhance anything that is unless you count walking like a victim as a super power at least their was a scene where jack grinning like a trigger happy alzheimer's patient got to shoot the hell out of some people i was waiting for him to yell i'm damn tired of paying too much for prescription medication unfortunately any outbursts of geriatric rage were few and far between br br what the movie did have an abundance of was a poorly developed love story about a man elias koteas a k a poor man's de niro and a cyborg angelina jolie a k a demon spawn of john voigt oh man can the love between a romeo of flesh and a juliet of silicon ever be able to last it can if you follow jack palance's simple advice you have to taste each other's time br br yeah i'm not sure what that means however i am sure that i do not want jack palance to be the one to explain it to me i sure as heck don't want him to show me as an experiment i suggest that you ask your significant other if he she thinks that we have reached a level in our relationship where we can begin to taste each other's time
0	i was duped into watching this by the many friendly reviews here boy are they way off mark to give this 9 to 10 points and call it one of the best movies of the is just unjustifiable the big problem here is lack of pace and a paper thin plot it's like slapstick on prozac everything trundles along predictably and listlessly the plot is weak to begin with two garbage men peep on their foxy neighbour witness a murder and unravel a waste disposal conspiracy and the movie never manages to go much further there are some amusing situations and decent acting but that's not anywhere near enough to save this jalopy of a movie br br it's simply a comedy that doesn't get its fat ass off the ground so why waste your time
0	this is one of those movies that i watch every time it's on not because i like it but because it's so bad i can't take my eyes off it like battlefield earth or 3000 miles to graceland the first time i watched i kept waiting and waiting and waiting to laugh and didn't get my chance until about 3 4 of the way through the movie when they strip the harassing cops to their undies and handcuff them in the park in a unflattering position beyond that the jokes aren't funny the characters aren't funny their mishaps and missteps aren't funny add it up it's not a very funny movie not even at a slapstick level and what's with the reggae soundtrack it's a movie about two white garbagemen and the music is all reggae seems out of place don't it if you like a good trainwreck this is for you if you like a good comedy look elsewhere
0	this movie is bad as we all knew it would be most times i usually love the bad 80s early 90s trash can comedy haha no pun intended i list ski school career opportunities hot shots summer school and many more made around this time this even has the classic yet forgotten comedy of dean cameron aka ski school section 8 instructor and party maniac for summer school but this movie is just to slow it takes almost 30 min to get going and we have to sit through pointless dialog between to half wits the sheen boys e c and yes i can hear the bloggers dieing to trash me with obviously you don't watch 2 and 1 2 men well charlie was not at the level he is now during this flick not that he's anything worth watching now charlie only shines when his co stars support him and emilio isn't anymore than an overused wonder bra offering little support actually this movie was written by emilio and it shows it has no real ending come on emilio even the ski school 2 writers barfed out an ending no idea how any issue brought is solved no hot babes no swearing to lighten the bad plot characters acting i'm now tired of this tirade just save your time and watch the movies i listed above you'll enjoy them much more
0	this 'documentary' sheds absolutely no light on what it would be like to be backstage during the hard knock life tour granted i wasn't there but watching this film didn't make me feel like i was and for a film like this that's not exactly a compliment the whole time i watched it all i could think was what are they leaving out when it's all over the only rapper you feel like you have some insight into is and that's mainly because he just talks about his dogs a waste of time br br 3 10
0	try not to see this one i thought it was going to be good because i'm a fan of cheesy 80's films and i've enjoyed quite a bit of linnea quigley's work i was wrong i should have said no and watched gigli instead which is probably a far better film i guess my biggest problem with this film was its attempt at humor nothing about it was funny or even close to funny the acting is bad even for the queen of cheesy 80's films there is no story just random clips i guess i shouldn't hate it so much because it was just made as a fun and silly piece but i didn't have any fun and i wasn't entertained once i even had to fast forward to the ending to get through all of the crap i'm sorry but i don't find zombies doing aerobics funny
0	maureen o'hara is always beautiful and appealing here she plays an actress terminally ill we don't know with what it is a bit of a precursor to love story in that respect br br william bendix is good as is most of the supporting cast john payne is meant to be grieving but he seems to sleepwalking the girl who plays the child he and o'hara adopts does her best with a contrived plot device of course adopt an orphan she will live on after the passing of your wife it's a sweet movie but it doesn't feel sincere i was hoping to be moved i was by o'hara's gentle performance but i don't like to feel manipulated
0	before miracle on 34th street maureen o'hara and john payne made this this this film i was going to describe it but can't find words for how badly this film turned out the subject matter of adopting a child and maureen's illness are both very serious and sensitive issues but that notwithstanding this could have been done a whole lot better than it was it was so extreme in its portrayal that it didn't come across as real at all probably its problem started with a weak script br br another example of a screenwriter taking a novel and writing a weak movie see my review of a stranger in my arms the beautiful o'hara was often saddled with clunkers like this another being forbidden street britannica which i may review eventually br br if you have any emotional ties to this from childhood you'll be kinder to this rather lifeless colorless and lackluster film but for something along the lines of this maybe you can find its tv movie remake it has to be better it has to be
0	oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies i don't even remember how many i've seen maybe it sells but not to me not scary at all the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these also the pulling of the kid i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies cellphone scene is also nothing new the of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked i mean it lacked all ok this is for kids 14 16 who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique we'll let me tell you there's a million of you d this is one of them 3 10 i've seen worse but you won't be missing anything by not seeing this
0	oh gosh i'm really fed up with all these generic japanese horror films about long haired female ghosts and ghostly kids ghost train is no exception it is clearly influenced by ringu ju on shutter and pulse two years ago i was into such modern ghost stories because they usually managed to give me some goosebumps unfortunately there is nothing fresh or interesting in ghost train in fact the film is really boring noriko goes missing in a subway tunnel like an elementary school classmate nana must investigate a mystery of multiple disappearances with the help of a youthful train conductor and another disappeared child's mother the film offers some mildly creepy moments however the cgi effects are laughable and the climax is illogical skip it
0	i've been watching a lot of asian horror movies lately but this one has to be the worst so far it started out interestingly enough but lost momentum after the first 15 minutes of the movie the added drama scenes flashback sequences and serious plot holes left me hanging what really happened in the tunnel just something terrible who started all the killing if it wasn't the ghost what did she want returned to her no answers whatsoever overall not very scary at all and the movie makers need to come up with a lot better ideas than this br br one positive was the cute actress but that's about it br br not recommended
0	as a sci fi and casual angelina jolie fan i thought this obviously low budget movie might be worth a look maybe it had a few scenes or a storyline that would make up for all its other faults plus it might be interesting to watch angelina as she was embarking on her star bound career br br oh how wrong i was one thing i learned at 18 angelina jolie couldn't act so to make her comfortable the producers cast this entire movie with people who couldn't act seeing this jack palance who can actually act decided to overact watching 10 minutes of this happen is enough to burn your eyes out br br to the horrible acting and overacting add a nonsensical script insipid dialog bottom of the barrel cinematography in fact add bottom of the barrel everything br br the story features angelina as a cyborg programmed by her corporate overlords as an assassin she escapes the corporate hq with the help of her combat instructor the corporation sends bounty hunters after them stupid stuff happens the end i would tell you more but i didn't want to waste my life watching this dreck br br i implore you this is not worth watching its not even worth thinking about watching save yourself the pain and move on
0	well it is a monogram quickie from the dreaded period of the '40s when poverty row studios put out a good many horror films that are almost unimaginably dull so i was expecting the worst br br the story concerns a doctor who has been working on a way to restore life to the dead through the use of a room full of non utilitarian electrical devices which spark nicely there is a dog's heart hanging under a bell jar and twitching fitfully which we are informed is proof that his method is perfected br br a brief discussion of the metaphysical implications and mention of an important plot point precede the inevitable death of a young man who is revived in a rather undramatic sequence undramatic even with the sparks the important plot point is that a convicted murderer is being executed just at midnight which turns out to be exactly when the young man is revived it is no surprise that the young man is very different after his experience apparently amnesiac and with a strange desire to visit the haunts of the underworld and become acquainted with certain gangsters br br it's hard to explain why this all is not completely unwatchable but perhaps it suffices to say that it's mildly interesting and contains several murders and a couple of interesting characters towards the end it even begins to move along with a bit of real tension and a confrontation that is downright hitchcockian spoiler br br i have to warn of a very very bad ending a tagged on unnecessary pain in the ass sorta ending after the plot resolves rather effectively br br you know the sort of thing it's all a dream never happened
0	black friday did this plot so much better which is why it is remembered and the man with two lives is just a forgotten potboiler shed no tears was it's working title and it would have been a better one as he was a thoroughly evil character for most of the film br br philip bennett is newly engaged when he is involved in a traffic accident dr clark edward keene has been involved in some experimental operations on animals bringing them back from the dead his colleagues urge him to try his operation on phillip who has died as he is operating a dangerous criminal wolf is going to the electric chair and trans migration of the soul occurs when phillip awakes from the operation he has the soul of he is a changed person he is rude to his family and starts to hang around old haunts he takes over wolf's old gang going by the name of philip bennett he also romance's wolf's former girlfriend who smells a rat bennett as wolf is determined to even up scores and starts to eliminate his enemies bodies pile up including the girlfriend and a policeman then his own family begins to fall victim br br but i hate those bad dream movies you always feel let down this film would have been better if he had stayed in character as and had a final shoot out eleanor his fiancée would have ended up sadder but wiser with his brother br br edward norris the star had a big career mostly in b movies br br not really recommended
0	a young man recently engaged to be married is the victim of a traffic accident and dies as a result of his injuries his father desperate to revive his son agrees to let a scientist friend try his experimental soul process to save him after the young man returns to life the father and fiancée notice a dark and violent change in the young man's behavior leading them to believe something went horribly wrong in the revival process according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br at one point edward norris as philip bennett is asked what do you think this is boys town mr norris should know since he was in boys town the man with two lives is more like black friday minus karloff and lugosi you do the math this film might have been a contender with a re worked script it does feature an intriguing final act after a tepid shoot out hang in for the drama to pick up with a well played scene between star norris and pursuing detective addison richards as george bradley br br the man with two lives 1942 phil rosen edward norris eleanor lawson addison richards
0	as a writing teacher there are two ending i never allow my students to use then i woke up and then i got run over by a truck i am now going to add then i got a bump on the head i feel it's utterly unfair to use these tricks to cover up a lack of imagination the whole issue of could have been handled with some intelligence and craft yet in this film they either couldn't or wouldn't do that i'm not saying it's totally worthless but it is so predictable in its progress except for the stupid ending there are even gangsters who go to the police to get help from this guy they should have done him in immediately it's just a forgettable borderline horror sci fi film with nothing new to offer
0	this started out slow then got worse the best parts of this were all seen in the previews br br bad apple has the feel of a pilot if that's the case tnt should save their money
0	could someone please explain to me the reason for making this movie sad is about all i can say this movie took absolutely no direction and wound up with me shaking my head what an awful waste of two hours noth should be ashamed of himself for taking money for this piece of garbage
0	i have just wasted my saturday night watching this crap i saw the names of chris noth mr big from sex the city robert patrick from x files the decadent elliot gould colm meaney and mercedes ruehl on the credit a very reasonable imdb rating 5 6 and many good reviews in imdb for my total surprise the film is horrible the characters are badly constructed the story tries to be funny but it is totally silly the character of mercedes ruehl is amazingly stupid for a professor of princeton so i decided to investigate the credibility of the good reviews and i found that most of them are made by imdb users with only review therefore relatives or friends of the cast and crew or people hired to promote this garbage my vote is three br br title brazil without return
0	chip is an absolute genius and the end result of the projects are truly amazing the co hosts do a good job i particularly enjoy watching the project come together the end results are much better than when they came off the assembly line what with the mechanical and cosmetic advances of today however i do get annoyed somewhat at the fact the projects seem to be the property of the already rich and or famous it's too bad the ones getting overhauled can afford the undertaking let's see now vince neill of motley crew gets a car make over for his buddy hello if he neill were a true friend he would have paid to have his friend's car restored what a joke another episode shows a middle aged seemingly well to do gal getting her '56 caddy named betsy done the husband of 30 years was behind it all the couple looked like money was not in short supply what a shame i guess the lunch pail guys like me will have to save for the day that will never come i happen to own a ford project chip will somebody pick me
0	so many great actors so little worth watching but with a script that misses so much of what made the book special i don't hold it against anyone on screen though flawed the book was one of grisham's only that i truly liked especially how it captured the flavor of a deep south small town a slightly different world to a coastal such as myself i also loved the matter of factness naturalness of what occurs in the book in the movie characters are given a nobility of personality that seemed so stilted the villains and foils are flat and 1 dimensional but as with so much of joel schumacher's work genuineness and authenticity are conspicuously absent and every point must be delivered via sledgehammer to the midsection so preachy stilted and superficial about so horrendous a tragedy i wish someone would do a remake and get the story a little more right
0	regardless of whether the predominant social message of this film that vigilante justice is acceptable is justifiable i was more insulted by mcconaughey's closing statement in a courtroom drama the closing statement of the defence attorney is pretty much the crux of the film and when the issue is as difficult to resolve as this one the statement is really being delivered to the audience as well as the jury this basically implies that the audience consider the rape of a white girl to be a more horrific crime than the rape of a black girl i for one find this very insulting as for the rest i found the acting reasonable with the exception of sandra bullock who seems to be playing her usual bubbly self doesn't really work in a courtroom drama but what's the point when the film's message is as poor as this one it tells you that vigilante justice is fine and accuses you of racism if you disagree
0	it's a kinder gentler cyborg movie with a love story awww it's not as bad as it sounds the action when it is there is decent and jack palance elias koteas and angelina jolie are always dependable it's the fact that this is a sequel to the terrible jean claude van damme film or is that the capper to the masters of the universe trilogy i'm still confused about that either way there was really no need for this movie what was there a need for angelina jolie she may play an assassin robot that can explodes mid coitus but what a way to go and even though this is her first movie she still has the presence that made her an award winner
0	this movie endorses self justice it grants freedom to a black man who killed the men who raped his daughter and in the end he gets of scat free despicable enough as this may be there is also adultery in this film the character has the hots for the bullock character and the film has some of those stereotypes of trial films like the important news brought to the court in the nick of time that make every aesthetically demanding film goer such as me sick i really cannot believe that someone liked this junk it is a film so bad and holding up false ideals that i am unable to put my critic in an eloquently pleasing way when will the american people wake up and find out that they are being manipulated 24 7 by films like these that turn reality into some bs where there is justice for all if only they take it into their hands this cowboy attitude just makes me sick and in my eyes it represents everything that is wrong with america
0	i have not read a time to kill by john grisham and perhaps that would have helped understand the film better but perhaps not i hear this is the most faithful grisham adaption yet and if that is true i can see why so many publishers turned down the novel when grisham introduced it as his first work br br a time to kill is one of those films that is seriously confused and wants to do too many things at once it wants to be a suspenseful crowd pleasing thriller and at the same time a film dedicated to exploring certain social and moral questions let's face it those two types of films do not go together in hollywood which is why dead man walking had to be made independently br br the story involves a young lawyer named jake matthew out to defend a black man named carl samuel l jackson from murdering two hillbillies that brutally raped his young daughter the day before the trial carl hid in a closet in the courthouse and when the rapists were brought through the building he charged out and shot both of them dead to help out with the defense jack accepts the help of a former law student sandra bullock who proves that her role in this film was totally unnecessary and put in the film only for marketing purposes br br meanwhile one of the rapist's kid brother kiefer sutherland was angered that a black man killed his brother and decided to act out a revenge all of this leads to a shooting in front of the courthouse a kidnapping a brutal beating and race riot i'll admit that all of this held my attention greatly throughout the film in addition to the courtroom scenes what i later objected to was the film's handling of ethical questions and its use of formulas in the plot br br the main question that the film constantly asks over and over again is whether a black man gets a fair trial from a white jury sure they can but that doesn't mean that the man has to be acquitted in order for the trial to be fair this film however doesn't seem to think so besides that there several gaping holes in the plot used for conveniences for example there is an unknown character called mickey mouse who is a member of the klan and for reasons unknown is helping the members of the defense team escape from serious dangers of the other members of the klan after bullock is kidnapped by sutherland and company and left for dead in the wilderness this unknown person comes and saves her and we never find out who he is and why he is helping out the people he should be terrorizing br br and speaking of the sutherland character's reign of terror it's amazing how witless the police and the bullock character are in stopping him throughout the film there's a scene when sutherland becomes a sniper from a building across the street from the courthouse and tries to shoot jake as he comes out shooting one of the guards instead now you'd think since there are dozens of police around it would be easy to surround and capture the sniper no such luck from what we could see no one seemed to even care that a sniper was still on the loose even after bullock was rescued by mickey mouse she never ever mentioned who her kidnapper was nor was it even questioned why was this simple the sutherland character was needed throughout the film to add continual suspense although logically he should have been out of the picture br br besides bullock's character there another thankless character he is jake's assistant played by oliver platt there seems to be one reason for his character to be in the movie to supply a number of one liners for the audience in my opinion one liners show a major weakness in serious films when used it demonstrates that the filmmakers are not confident that the story and dialogue alone are enough to keep the audience's attention and so use them to make the audience laugh to reassure everyone that they are watching an entertaining film br br but enough of the film's many minor problems what about the film's message here it is clear that carl is indeed guilty of murder we saw how he planned for hours to murder the men who raped his daughter the lawyers argue that it was temporary insanity etc that caused him to kill in desperation jake asks the jury to close their eyes as he recounts the rape in detail as part of his closing after describing everything that took place he adds on one final line the girl is white we then see members of the jury with tears in their eyes br br in the very next scene a girl comes out yelling he's free he's free wait a minute do juries base their verdicts on their emotions or on the facts most of all why weren't there any scenes that showed the jury and what they were really thinking after their emotions worn off i'll tell you why they couldn't show the because no jury could acquit a man of such a crime no matter how much the closing touched their hearts what is the message that someone is justified in killing if it is a form of revenge for a previous crime done to them br br this film should have had the courage to say that murder is not ok in this situation because in reality there would not be an acquittal but since dollars were at stake the filmmakers were more concerned about sparing the audiences' feelings than they were about presenting a responsible message if people start killing as a form of revenge the makers of this film should be held responsible what a socially irresponsible film this is
0	first things first though i believe joel schumacher is at best a mediocre director and more often as here downright bad the lion's share of the blame for this ugly travesty of a film must go to john grisham whose novel this is based on br br set at an undetermined point in time the 50s the 70s now the film opens with the rape and murder of a child by rednecks so caricatured that their purpose seems to be to reassure racists that at least we're not that bad … cut to the bad guys arriving at the courthouse when the girls father samuel l jackson fearful they will get off on some technicality guns them down in cold blood before the trial br br the setting is a 'deep south' that probably never existed the few black characters live in shacks and seem to pick cotton the dyed in the wool racists kiefer sutherland is a cartoon version of a are laughable in their villainy the set piece is the trial for the defence are the good guys a milquetoast lawyer played by matthew mcconaughey as though in a coma his assistant played by sandra bullock's breasts she doesn't seem to serve any other narrative purpose and donald sutherland as the requisite drunk lawyer who sobers up to fight the good fight for the prosecution kevin spacey goes through the motions of being demon spawn while in the town at large crosses are burned witness are intimidated and the local citizens don't seem to br br some of the reviews here claim the film immoral since surely samuel jackson is a killer and should trust to the forces of the law rather than get off on a feeble heart tugging piece of oratory by matthew mcconaughey to be honest objectionable though the underlying message vigilante justice is good might be everything about the movie stinks the characterizations are pitiful the acting leaden the direction plodding the screenplay and the dialogue almost verging on parody peter menzies lush 50s technicolor cinematography is pretty but derivative br br and it goes on for nearly two and a half hours br br what's left to say this is a waste of minutes of anyone's life it is tedious vacuous and hammy and almost as an afterthought it is morally repugnant
0	there are other reviews here expressing similar views but i still feel impelled to add my comments the film is generally well made from a technical point of view apart from possibly being too long the acting is mostly very good although kevin spacey isn't given much space to explain his character's motivation apparently ambition rather than racism and sandra bullock's only function seems to be as eye candy which she admittedly manages very well br br at a fundamental level the film's heart is in the right place in being opposed to racism and i get the impression that it tried to set out to be some kind of definitive treatment of racism perhaps why so many famous names agreed to be in it however it seems the writers bit off far more than they could chew i haven't read the book so i don't know how much of that is down to grisham the biggest problem as many others have said is that it ends up advocating vigilante justice aside from the fact that i don't agree with that position i don't think that such a view actually helps the anti racist cause at all it's more likely to be applied to acquit white defendants who kill black victims at the end the prosecutor invites the jury and the audience to imagine that the raped girl was white but follow that through and imagine the defendant to be a white man who murdered black rapists in the end the message seems to be that it's ok to kill someone as long as you hate them enough it's also convenient that the man killed was presented as totally evil and his guilt was in no doubt which removes any of the moral ambiguity likely in a real case br br samuel l jackson gives an excellent performance but unfortunately this also undermines the plot he comes across as someone with considerable integrity but it's hard to believe that he would be willing to hide behind an insanity plea and indeed he doesn't when push comes to shove we're presumably supposed to think that it's because he faces the death penalty but in fact at one point he's offered a plea of manslaughter although if you blink you might miss it why not take it given that he must know his chances of acquittal are slim or if he wants to make a stand in court why plead insanity br br there are less serious flaws too the medical experts on whose testimony the case supposedly rests are jokes both are discredited for highly implausible reasons and neither of them offers any real psychiatric diagnosis the message seems to be that expert witnesses will say whatever they're asked to say and shouldn't be believed the fact that the injured policeman supports jackson is moderately plausible but still a bit convenient and what if he had died i find it hard to believe that the kkk would march down the street in broad daylight other apparently serious crimes riot arson kidnapping attempted murder go by without any visible attempt to detect or prosecute them and the scene where the dog comes bounding back is ludicrous br br my final reaction is to be left feeling rather dirty as though i must be a racist because i disagree with the resolution it may be that the film intended to explore different viewpoints and leave the audience to decide but if so they seem to have forgotten it by the time they got to the end the film did make me think about my views read what other people thought here and add my own opinion so at some level maybe it succeeded but i worry that it may have re highly views in some people which i hope is the opposite of what it intended br br final thought try watching law and order it covers issues like this with much more depth in about 38 minutes of screen time
0	a time to kill is based on john grisham's first novel the one he wrote before he was famous and the one that didn't skyrocket him to fame that would be accomplished by the firm that's why this movie didn't get made until much later after grisham was off churning out meaningless books with the movie dollar signs fresh in his head unlike most of those this book was actually about something it had meat it had weight and it had heart br br but it also had a fatal flaw and this fatal flaw gets translated into the movie namely a time to kill sets you up br br here we have a black man jackson on trial for the murder of two white men who brutally raped and tortured his 10 year old daughter we have an underdog lawyer mcconaughey battling the big bad system to save his client and oh by the way the whole thing is set against the backdrop of racism in mississippi complete with hooded kkk men burning crosses br br in other words we're supposed to sympathize with carl lee we're supposed to believe that a father who loves his daughter is justified in killing the men who raped her we're supposed to feel the injustice of a system where a racist all white jury could judge a black man who was just trying to avenge a brutal crime we're supposed feel like we're standing alongside the people chanting free carl lee br br but the racism issue is a smokescreen and the whole thing is contrived carl lee was a vigilante yes there were mitigating circumstances for what he did but the fact remains that he wasn't innocent this would have been true no matter what his skin colour or the skin colour of the assailants of his daughter the judge the jury or anyone else br br and what's so heavy handed about this film is that it paints anyone who believes carl lee should have been convicted is a racist the message seems to be that if you believe that the law shouldn't be taken into people's own hands then you might as well be burning crosses on a lawn somewhere wearing a hood br br this isn't the first time a heavy dose of sentimentalism is inserted into a story like this and it won't be the last as a movie a time to kill stays pretty faithful to the book and the acting isn't half bad but it played the hand it had been dealt really even a good cast can't elevate bad source material
0	this is the worst kind of film br br the plot is ludicrous the characters are unrealistic stereotypes who never look like they believe it themselves are white people such monsters that they will continue to call two white child rapists in their 20s good boys and need to be persuaded that this might be grounds for provocation are black people universally inspiring do the ku klux klan really stand outside court rooms shooting at lawyers with nobody intervening do judges really think that a fair trial can be conducted when the jury can hear a mob outside shouting kill him do black people really stand shoulder to shoulder with the klan waiting to hear the verdict do wives really take several months to realise that their husband might be defending a man from unfair hanging because he knew might have done the same thing do juries really acquit people of murder because they feel sorry for them do lawyers really use a defense of sanity in order to persuade people that their client was temporarily insane br br worst of all any high minded principles of this film were lost to the completely exploitative and gratuitous use of sexual crime to titillate the audience was the subject of rape let alone child gang rape really in competent hands here is it really a subject that belongs in hollywood hands and if so why the completely gratuitous kidnap and stripping of sandra bullock and the completely pointless statutory rape charge against one of the witnesses seems like the director didn't feel that strongly about sex crime after all br br this was taking the excellent plot of to kill a mockingbird and making a crass shallow tasteless money spinner from it shame on them
0	normally i would applaud a movie that tries to do something different or original in a genre it is obvious that this movie is some sort of parody on ninja movies and i really did my best to enjoy the movie but i just couldn't the jokes aren't funny enough i've seen my share of japanese movies and most of the times i like and understand the humor used in those movies red shadow is just silly the characters that are portrayed in this movie know that this isn't a serious movie and show that all is about the fun look at the characters from parodies like hot shots or scary movie everything they do on the screen is done with a straight face and never fall out of character and because of this certain scenes become funny and hilarious in red shadow the actors never achieve that the shadow supposed to be very skilled and deadly sadly the actors don't do their best in convincing us of their talents they don't do things with a straight face the jokes would have worked better if they did the bad choreography of the action scenes also damaged the viewing experience for me i like humor in martial arts movies as long as the action is good red shadow just fails in that department so what is left to be enjoyed well the music techno was uplifting it had to be as the action it self never is exciting and there are some short dramatic scenes that are good but simple the use of humor lack of story and depth make me think that this movie is meant for children but i do wonder if children actually would like this movie waste of time
0	what can you say after watching this movie that is if you had the interest and concentration to see it to the end i was left speechless due to the amazingly dull story annoying situations where one american equals that of a fifty or more iraqis and boring dialogue i think that if this movie has something to teach it probably goes like don't screw with us or we'll come and kick your butts plus this film truly encourages and votes for killing masses of foreigners in the name of war i got the image of tackling chess pieces out of the playing board except now it's fast and there's not so much thinking and on top of that no character there has any spirit then how can you care at all what happens to any of them excluding war movie fans with no taste i wouldn't recommend this to anyone there should always be something more interesting to do
0	bad sequels this one's a real one when the first movie was very very bad you have to be fool to make a sequel worse actors worse scenario worse special effects worse movie this is history bad history i give it 0 and a half for laughs out of
0	can anyone give me a reason why only one american dies in this movie and when he does it is supposed to be a very emotional scene yet when the operation delta force team kills hundreds of russians in slow motion action scenes or thousands of arabs also in slow motion action scenes you are supposed to cheer and say take that you non american monsters i know i used slow motion action scenes a lot but that is because every action scene in this movie is in you guessed it slow motion every last one of them and this squad should be called invincible slow motion bullet dodging force since they seem to have supernatural powers that help them to dodge bullets and if this supernatural power fails they have some kind of regeneration superpower which is all they need to kill the complete non american army that stands between them and victory by this point nobody cares since they have been put to sleep by another laughable slow motion action scene that is if they are not laughing out loud at the bad acting cheesy dialogues and incredibly poor story which is what i did the cast is made of unknown actors which will probably remain unknown since they don't even play characters they are just playing guys with guns and lets not forget superpowers the only quality is that the special effects are surprisingly not that bad although they are in slow motion for a tv movie but it still sucks and at the same time is so bad it's good ok maybe at the end it gets a little too repetitive br br 25
0	i kind of had somewhat high expectations for this movie i've always thought that tom lesser known movies ie runaway and coma where well above the ones he had more press for maybe the producers should have had a little more knowledge about former major league baseball players who became stars overseas the majority were players too good for triple a baseball but not exactly major league i admire the idea of putting character in versus the cliché of having play in the minors sad to say this movie much like the title of the post is stranded at third by a movie that seems to be running on autopilot i wouldn't mind seeing a sequel and hopefully the producers would learn from the mistakes the premise is just way too unique to be left alone with this uneven flick
0	let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts and i do indeed know they exist i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there br br what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this people forget there is more than one bible thousands of religions and beliefs and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible not everyone believes in god and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion br br religion does not make everything fact one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time slavery is ok and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances none of this oh that was the old testament and now we have the new testament if the bible is the word of god and cannot be changed there should be no changes or versions religion is full of misinterpretations mixed facts and people who so blindly follow it that there is no other way the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic or they themselves cannot explain the discrepancies properly and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher br br but anyhow onto the review i am a decent fan of ghost hunters and when i heard this show was coming soon i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential as much as i like watching ghost hunters i do not like some of their members and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted yet cannot explain anything that is going on just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up does not mean the camera filming the show did not i am glad they are skeptical but it's like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not if ghosts were that easy to capture it would be known as a fact not a belief it's more of a right place at the right time kind of thing as well as if there is something there what makes you think it's going to perform for you this show is kind of silly it's usually boring and there is lots of talk lots of psychics yet hardly anything happens the main guy's filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to or is basically not needed br br also the reliance on psychics is too abundant as i believe very few of them are actually gifted silvia brown is one i definitely believe in but most are sometimes hard to believe br br i really wanted to like this show but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed
0	this show was rushed and relied heavily on surprise cuts to commercials when it came back from commercial the noise or surprise was something simple like a mouse this is a pure rip off of ghost hunters and it attempts to go beyond them and fails miserably also what is with the directors log thing is this star trek it just ruins the novelty of this show which wore off quick the only reason it's been watched is that people want to laugh at the pure anti climatic nature of it they never find anything and most likely never will funnily enough they always point out something that is the thing they are hunting and guess what it's the local radio station's tower light that is blinking red
0	i give this nonsense a 2 instead of a 1 because there is a worse show called haunted homes but this kid and his buddies conduct their investigations like total idiots they assume that there are ghosts from the get go and if they ever find rational explanations behind the experiences they have to be drug kicking and screaming into admitting it but beyond that the show's whole format is incredibly annoying even though a lot of it seems scripted the college educated kids who make up the the cast can barely speak english but still insist on trying to use big words they obviously don't understand and head investigator ryan's ridiculously self important voiceovers make me just want to throw the tv through the window and he looks stoned all the time in short this group make the guys from taps on ghost hunters look like mit scientists
0	even if ryan wasn't such of an annoying person this would still be bad i said even if where do we begin directors log you will have the urge to snatch his tape recorder and pound it with a hammer or punt it into a lake a haunted lake of course oh how i wish dead time was more literal as opposed to what they refer to it as but alas no death maybe a pillow out of place or a humming noise oh wait thats the cat i actually expected to see some sort of evidence or at least something to verify their escapades don't worry you wont see anything you that you would not see on a normal day br br an entire season and what do they have to show for it um nothing no in fact they have less than nothing they have a waste of time they took my challenge the do something for the paranormal challenge now in this you actually do something for the paranormal you could say go on camera and say i love the paranormal so much i'll draw stick figures of ghosts or i love the paranormal so much i'll film hot co eds pretending to be ghost hunters you would be wasting film but wasting it for the paranormal or you could say i'll mess with a demon but don't say it's name you might get hurt and you know god doesn't like that that would be quite a thing for god but he wouldn't like that so don't do that so i asked them to waste time for the paranormal and they followed suit they went into an old building looking for it was a waste of time it made no real difference at all it had no effect we learned nothing new it was a waste of time and film br br there amazing detective work is just so uncanny well we found your problem a cat died here so were going to psychically communicate with that cat and tell it to move on kind of throw some at it and it'll be ok directors log captain log star date 2 oh i mean directors log i just brought on a few new investigators a couple 8's and 9's but this chic is a 10 um yeah we have a new case strange things happening focusing on one of the children were going to investigate now we will bring is a psychic we haven't told them anything this is tv trust us
0	i am a fan of the paranormal and i love ghost hunters so when this show first came out i decided to give it a try i could barely sit through one episode the show is so obviously staged i mean come on every single episode involves someone being possessed or involves a demonic force trying to kill the family another huge flaw is that these guys never debunk anything when i watch ghost hunters they find evidence and try to disprove it and if they can't then it is evidence on this show they find a voice or a piece of video evidence and they are very quick to call it a ghost this completely ruins their credibility unlike taps and ghost hunters who actually know what they're doing honestly if you're interested in the paranormal and want to watch a show about it watch ghost hunters
0	i was very excited when paranormal state first came on a e i thought that it may bring some more interesting ghostly evidence the production value looked good and i really love the logo then after about few episodes in i started to feel that this show may not be looking for evidence but had a strong religious agenda br br it seems like every case they investigate has some big powerful evil demon that can't even make a teacup move on camera yet everyone is terrified then comes some power of christ ritual that saves everyone br br also there is very little focus on other members of the team the entire show focuses on ryan and he feels like one of those people that hands you pamphlets about his church on the street br br has paranormal phenomenon and demons become the new missionaries of christianity scaring people to convert really this should be on a christian network i was very disappointed
0	i was excited to see this show when i started seeing the promos on a e i've been fascinated with ghosts and the paranormal since i was a kid and love catching ghost hunters when it's on scifi channel i've tried to watch three episodes of paranormal state and only use up my time commenting on it because it's so bad and perpetuates the notion that anyone who believes in the paranormal is a gullible freak paranormal state is beyond cheesy cheesy director's log voice overs that will leave you wishing for captain kirk cheesy teasers going into commercial breaks that are taken completely out of context everything paranormal on this show is automatically assumed to be evil and the work of a demonic spirit then come the psychics like in poltergeist you almost expect the team to leave and say this house is clear i very much appreciate the ghost hunters approach where they go in to disprove claims then take away what they can and they are almost always reassuring to the client if they find anything that haunted does not equal evil paranormal state is not so bad it's good it's just plain bad didn't a e used to stand for arts entertainment the art part has long been gone and the entertainment factor is now waning as well
0	there really are no redeeming factors about this show to put it simply its just terrible absolutely dreadful it's just a dreadful reality show not only that it's dreadful fiction br br imagine this a bunch of overly imaginative teenagers get together one night and go hey let's make a paranormal show just like ghost hunters and whatnot so they grab a camera harass local residents and film random landscapes behind a painfully trying to be dramatic yet failing monologue this show is basically a bunch of teenagers running around with a home movie camera trying to make a really bad horror documentary the only difference is this show actually has a budget and writers a wasted budget and terrible writers br br oh the problems how do i count thee well first off let's talk about this from a personal level i am not a total skeptic when it comes to the paranormal i am willing to believe in whats paranormal and whats not and i'm sure there are a lot of people who feel the same so if you're going to do a show about the paranormal you have to do a good job convincing the viewer that what they're seeing is either paranormal or not because the viewer can easily believe otherwise i hate to compare but i don't see why not at this point take ghost hunters for example in ghost hunters you can tell that the cast is leveled with the audience they're not totally skeptical yet they're still willing to keep the possibility of any paranormal anomalies in mind they have to look at something and be willing to say this is possible that its simply nothing and with that in mind they set out to try and prove themselves wrong they use technology and several other gadgets along with constant moderation to determine what is paranormal along with bearing the fact that what they may be monitoring could be nothing in mind not only are they trying to convince themselves what is real and what is not in the process they are trying to convince you that element of doubt is not present in paranormal state strike one br br in paranormal state the cast simply says there's this spooky place and its haunted so we're going to find some spirits and immediately you know and saying to yourself okay convince me otherwise the cast is not professional in their interviews in fact sometimes it seems like they're just harassing local residents of these so called haunted areas they have no real evidence to back up their claims besides assumptions and theories and the best they can must up is somebody who claims they can contact the dead with no one ever backing up who this person is and how valid they really are they could have easily just picked some random person off the street and said pretend you can contact spirits for our show and went at it in the episode this just happens without any convincing evidence towards the end of the show they bring this sort of individual out where he does a random painfully scripted reading of a supposed area of how something is haunted in order to convince its audience very very poor effort i feel that one of the main problems with the show is that it feels scripted during one of the episodes the cast gets attacked by one of these paranormal anomalies at times in an attempt to be dramatic these sort of dramatic sequences would make any skeptic laugh and even those who are on the fence realize what they're watching is just a bunch of tabloid esquire trash if the show's aim was to try and convince their audience that these paranormal events are real they're doing a horrifically poor job at doing so strike two br br however there is always the counter just one last viewpoint to see if the show is actually worth something what if the show isn't trying to convince you that these paranormal events are real and are simply trying to entertain you with good fiction it even fails on that level as well if the show's creators were trying to craft fiction to entertain its audience the writing is too poor and even on a fictional level it fails to convince the audience that its cast members are really experiencing the unknown in all its full horrifying glory the writing is simply not compelling and even dare i say boring strike three br br so what remains of this show is simply a bunch of teenagers who are too willing or too gullible to believe in the paranormal simply because its simply much more amazing than reality who set out with a camera a bad script and bad actors to generally just make a really bad horror documentary thats all the show is at this point there is no reason to see it not even for the entertainment factor and there's no reason to care about it to be blunt its lame there are absolutely no redeeming factors about this show
0	the atmosphere in this show is great there's plenty of excellent buildup but thats where this show fails there's way to much build up for nothing you will constantly see a creepy set up that makes it feel likes something really freaky is coming right out of the corner and then nothing over and over again nothing you hear plenty of stories of people talking about freaky events but you see none they show up at these peoples doors talk about their deep and emotional pasts set up lame equipment and find nothing there is nothing on this show thats leads me to believe in anything paranormal i laugh every time they need to exercise a horrible spirit that we as an audience have seen nothing of they get rid of the spirit that never was and everything is put in a neat little package a show that looked so freaky and had such great potential leads up to one thing nothing
0	paranormal state is an interesting show for most paranormal believers i enjoy watching what the team has to say and what they find however i know that the entire show along with it's build ups and story lines are completely set up they go to real haunted locations and i suspect that they speak with actual witnesses i commonly feel as i watch it that i am not watching non fiction but an actual movie that is contradictory to reality i personally would not advise or recommend anyone to watch this show unless you are a basic scare seeker br br interesting show stick to ghost hunters
0	this movie stinks majorly the only reason i gave it a 3 was because the graphics were semi charming it's total disregard for a plot and the lack of even insubstantial surface character development made it seem like just a bunch of nice drawings this is by far the worse anime that came out of japan i can't believe they actually put their names on this garbage what a rip off selling this thing for 20 if you haven't seen this don't bother if you have i pity you
0	this show paranormal state has an almost project feel to it as in you're watching a 'documentary' that's actually just a scripted movie made to look and feel like a documentary br br my biggest problem with the show is their 'go to' outside advisers of the warren's who were made famous for their of the amityville murders which were shown to be completely fraudulent just based upon the police reports of the family's deaths such as the eldest daughter actually having been involved in the entire thing to the point of possibly even helping with some of the deaths then there's the way they constantly jump to blaming demons for everything not to mention how haughty the group is about what cases they take they don't want to help those who need it most they just want the weirdest cases that will get them the most press and attention br br they're complete frauds plain and simple
0	this show is absolutely ridiculous yes of course its fake but it is agonizing to watch i personally know more creative film influenced minds that could make this seem real the young lead male couldn't be more unconvincing he line reads everything he says are we really suppose to believe he knows what he is talking about there is a plethora of ways to blair witch this show up fear does not breed from what seems cool and computer generated nor does it generate from such proverbial lines as what was that did you hear that also there are real convincing psychics out there that don't just want to be on screen another duh factor is how do these producers think we are actually going to buy that paranormal activity will just magically happen within the 2 possibly 3 days if we are lucky they film i don't think so a 2 week at one site would be more convincing it is also disarming that they think including nasa radar checks and that show fancy bs really make us scared and ie exorcisms should not be staged like the film the exorcist when are they going to get it right possession of the devil or other evil spirits influence people differently they don't just snarl and lower their voice like linda blair or around like courtney love on a drug binge as stated better on psychic ability would aid this show greatly we want to see and hear everything that flashes before them not cut away to other story bs on a final note shooting stars do not generate interest when you showed fake pictures of ufo's ahead of time might i stress again the young dark haired man that hosts this show is absolutely down right awful avoid this show for fright watch old unsolved mystery episodes not the new ones the recreation got it oh so wrong but that is for a different blog
0	when this show first aired i will admit to being intrigued by the premise and the setting with an open mind i watched the first two episodes and naturally dismissed it as being destined to run for a half season at most i happened to be watching a e recently and witnessed an ad for this garbage and i could barely contain my surprise i truly hope people are watching this for a laugh and not taking it seriously the characters are truly some of the most ridiculous and outright laughable on television scripted or otherwise it's obviously generating ratings so i must give the creators credit for establishing and maintaining a fanbase but i seriously hope no one is watching this under any pretense of seriousness
0	for awhile i was hooked on shows like ghost hunters and destination truth and stuff even though i thought they were full of crap i found them interesting and entertaining and that's why we watch entertainment tv it's fun to turn off your brain and believe that every shadow caught on camera is not just some shadow but some insane asylum tormented spirit or something so long as you can snap back to the real world later br br that being said enjoying paranormal state requires more than merely shutting your brain off it requires you to consume lead in large doses on a regular basis during your childhood then suffer repeated head trauma then take up huffing paint in your teens then you have to get high drunk and watch br br paranormal state is beyond the pseudoscience which i can enjoy with a degree of critical thinking that you'll find on ghost hunters which i still find to be reasonably interesting and entertaining program it's pseudo everything br br the show follows the adventures of a group of students from penn state university not to be confused with university of pennsylvania lead by ryan as they take it upon themselves to exorcise demons and spirits using ceremonies from whatever religion seems most dramatic at the time ranging from catholic exorcisms performed by college coeds to spells cast by socially awkward to native american cleansing rituals to their credit these are performed by native americans if you believe in or you're catholic or a follower of a traditional native american religions i think you'd want their cleansing rituals performed by someone who isn't a maladjusted college student with some free time i don't remember the scene in the exorcist where the priests threw up their hands and said it's no use call up an after school club from the state college this one is too much for us they've probably read the wikipedia article on exorcisms the show is frankly insulting to the intelligence to the viewer the show's opening title sequence has ryan talking about the paranormal research society saying that when he came to penn state notice you don't see any shows where the host says the same thing but instead of penn state he says when i came to mit or after i got my theoretical physics degree he found other people with similar interest in the paranormal he says they are sometimes warriors i remember when i used to pretend i was a warrior and i fought ghosts i was six then the emotionless ryan brings out the flamboyant and obnoxious chip coffey who pretends to go into and become possessed by cussing at the cast awesome i thought people had learned some sense about how ridiculous the idea of psychics and mediums is after crossing over went off the air the show takes itself way too seriously as this small group of societal misfits pretends they are battling against some ancient cosmic evil production values are low stories are boring and unlike ghost hunters which will occasionally catch something anomalous although likely explainable but interesting nonetheless on their equipment ps requires you to believe that the noises and creaks that they hear are evidence of demons ghouls and possibly the only thing scary about this show is that there are people out there that take it seriously the only thing paranormal about it is that the people on it are able to make each episode while keeping a straight face br br call me jaded but i feel like the great mysteries of the universe and the afterlife are too great to be solved in a half hour tv show by a journalism undergrad at a state school br br all that being said i highly recommend that everyone watch this show at least once if for no other reason than the sheer entertainment derived from watching a truly terrible movie or tv show or you can make a drinking game out of it i think the second would be preferable
0	i initially tuned in to paranormal state because i more or less find the paranormal search genre to be interesting tv if nothing else br br i really enjoy ghost hunters because well over half of their investigations result in total debunking and find most haunted to be hilarious with its use of mediums and frumpy british women with paris hilton day glo eyes fainting from fear demonic presences all shot in lovely night vision green br br paranormal state has none of this appeal it feels like it was cobbled together from leads that ghost hunters rejected the episodes ranged from trailer trash families and single mothers with emo adolescents sitting around and scaring themselves to an interview with a 5 year old about the monster who lives in his room the monster goes we are told all of these people calling upon a college club to solve their problems the whole show is about ryan and his partner his enormous ego he leads his troupe of doe eyed coeds around except when a case is deemed too extreme and orders them to remain at the hotel hahaha better leave it to the pros ie himself br br the unwitting comedy of this show is all in how gullible the participants are ryan spins his tales of being hunted followed etc by a demon that he first encountered when the catholic church recruited him to assist on a case sorry but the catholic church has people who can do that they don't need the day shift manager at to chip in his 2 cents br br this show is awful shame on a e for bankrolling this silliness trying to follow in the footsteps of some much better paranormal themed shows it's almost unintentionally funny except that ryan is so arrogant and devoid of charisma that watching the show long enough to mock it isn't worth the trouble
0	i have to agree with the other two comments i waited over a month to see this great new show a e had been hyping what a disappointment the show is pretty much all about ryan his voice overs are campy not creepy it sounds as if he is talking into a can as of the second episode which is roughly 30 minutes or so if you take out the commercials he is being chased or followed by something that he knows is demonic he can't say the name anytime someone needs to convey that name they write it on a piece of paper and hand it to someone else not particularly informative or entertaining or believable for the rest of us why can't he say the name supposedly it would give the demon more power funny i always thought demons wanted to hide their true identities if you know the exact name of the demon doesn't it make it easier for you to cast them out now the next episode which airs in just a little while is titled exorcism so is ryan in need of an exorcism already not to say that it couldn't happen but the show so far has not given any evidence or proof of anything i can tell ryan that if i were a small child hell if i was an adult and someone gave me a little bottle of holy water to chase away something that was terrifying me i would look elsewhere for help besides which if you don't use holy water blessings etc in the right way don't you risk just further infuriating whatever is already mad at you i will probably watch tonight but if these episodes are as ridiculous as the first it will probably be the last time i watch it
0	i suppose i should be fair and point out that i don't believe in ghosts that said i'm very interested in the subject and i enjoy a scary story as much as the next guy i am a fan of ghost hunters because they at least try to give their investigations a scientific angle even early episodes of most haunted had a camp entertainment factor to them paranormal state has neither of these qualities the cases themselves have the potential to be interesting but as with so much reality tv these days it suffers from poor acting and silly scripts the makers of the show freely admit that writers guide the stories i hear they are even going to shoehorn in a romance subplot to appeal to the young female demographic the show has many other flaws too as others have stated the narration quickly becomes like nails down a chalkboard over the top visual and audio effects quickly become just as irritating i'm willing to suspend some disbelief for the sake of entertainment but this whole demon with a vendetta story arc is just ridiculous given that the producers of this show are also responsible for brain dead fodder like mtv's laguna beach and newport harbor i suppose this is really no surprise if you are a die hard fan of ed lorraine warren or a big reality show junkie i guess you'll find much to like in paranormal state for the rest of us i recommend you avoid
0	i am a pretty much a sucker for those ghost hunter shows from the cheesy mockumentaries like discovery channel's the haunting to scooby doo reality shows like ghost hunters when i saw promos for a e's paranormal state i knew i was going to watch especially when paranormal state was juxtaposed against a weak monday night football game br br by the end of the pilot of paranormal state when the main character in this reality dance macabre gives a creepy kid a bottle of max von sydow holy water and reassures him by telling this boy that he too had a unspecified bad experience as a child with things that came out of the closet and the catholic church gave him a holy water to fend off the things coming out of the closet i knew i should have given monday night football another shot br br the shtick behind paranormal state is a group of penn state students all got together and started their own ghost hunting club or society or super adventure club and they run around pennsylvania researching the most terrible hauntings and the lost plot to an m night movie br br the they is kind of a misnomer really paranormal state revolves around a lion named ryan who would probably be running penn state's yearly anime convention if it wasn't for this show he is often accompanied on investigations by hot co eds and some other people seen in the credits but rarely caught on camera hey are they ghosts too br br this is ryan show paranormal state is his vehicle as we like to say in the biz and oh what a dull ride in a vehicle he can be br br did i mention ryan narrates the entire episode of paranormal state in a star date less director's log voice over almost immediately that gets annoying because the obvious intention is to give ryan's ghost hunting some gravitas but his filtered monotone does nothing but provoke grunts and laughs seriously every serious intonation sounds like the radio chatter from a call of duty video game br br the investigations the plot that each episode revolves around are interesting on the surface no haunted or restaurants to be found in paranormal state this is a show about fearing the unknown like a good catholic boy and by god they give you stuff to fear br br small children are harassed things loom in the dark voices encourage the living to kill and the aleister in me rubs my hands of the two episodes i watched each revolved around violent nasty hauntings tied to violent nasty deaths br br maybe br br maybe not br br everything in paranormal state is short handed into half hour dog the bounty er ghost hunter blocks every time there is an interesting shred of evidence the murder of a family in a farmhouse in the 1800s the proof is waved in front of the viewer like a con artist trying to convince you a stack of papers currently under your nose is proof of that ten million coming from nigeria and then yanked away before you can get a good gander br br at least with sci fi channel's ghost hunters there is a somewhat over exhaustive need to trot out every possible shred of evidence and present it to the viewer that could be a rat farting cold spots in a house and orbs that even the ghost hunters themselves discount as dust it is a sort of scooby doo like approach that makes ghost hunters almost believable br br whereas paranormal state claims to have but gives the viewer a ten second video clip of a wave file in garage band with no audio yep see an evp right people are claiming to see dark figures in the basement well we will just go and see about that while leaving the night vision camera on an enthralling stationary shot of the living room ryan the intrepid leader of this pack of penn state graduates is claiming to see visions of a demon's name he knows and that might be involved in a paranormal haunting but he can't tell us the audience or his team of out because he can't you never say a demon's name out loud ryan informs the wide eyed co ed who dare inquires br br well how very very convenient for you especially since this is a television show where the audience cannot read your mind br br paranormal state is all turn and no prestige the audience gets told what is supposedly happening but you never see an ounce of proof that the creepy kid is seeing dead people not even grainy video of a chair moving or a black blob running between prison cells nothing you are just told what happened by ryan in yet another mechanical voice over br br if you are going to try and spook me dress it up a little if you are trying to sway me show me a orb or a blob and have the fat chick who works days at hot topic tell me why that black orb is really the spirit of an ax murderer and if you want to make me watch a ghost hunting show give me something besides trotting out lorraine warren by the second episode br br paranormal state is weak sauce not really worth watching unless you are hard up for tv time or just have that thin of a dvd collection or unless you want to know what really happened in that closet with the holy water
0	okay sure this film will never win an oscar citizen cane this film is not but why does every film have to be scrutinized when was the last time you saw a film that was funny not becuase it was good but because it was goofy doesn't anyone remember roger corman king of exploitation br br well i had fun i liked the cheese just go in not expecting to think and prepare to throw popcorn at the screen
0	like another ticket buyer i saw a nice cute poster about this film it's five star review and awards won thought what the heck let's by a ticket for myself and my two sons bad idea the movie was not a family film it was gratuitous and it contained nothing worth watching
0	i'd have to agree with the previous reviewer this film has awesome animation but has problems throughout the rest of the movie br br plot holes are huge dialog barely explains the concepts of the plot the main plot points aren't even fully explained until the last five minutes of the film the characters state the obvious while failing to explain the more confusing points of the film there are characters that pop up and have importance in the storyline that are never explained most of them have names that are only mentioned once and it is exceedingly confusing to a viewer br br don't waste your time with this movie unless you are in it for a good laugh and how dumb it is
0	why what a disgusting joke of a supposed movie from the poster it looked like a cute movie what a disappointment who the heck is the male lead he looks like an old retarded retired reject cop i am a cop and i can tell the man can't act go back to being a cop no screen presence why did they show his bare ass so as if he is mel gibson hell no put the filmmaker out of business this guy has no business making a movie i seriously doubt women or gay men find him attractive whoever cast the film is a no talent hack who cast no talent hacks in the lead it's great that us white guys are alway getting the asian women but why an ugly white guy why not dean cain or brad pitt as the white boyfriend why to asian women like ugly white guys or black guys in what i see don't get it must be low self esteem br br the only hot girl who can act in the movie was the kate holliday why was there one hot white chick among all the rest of the ugly asian chicks who think they are hot and can act br br only two actors in this movie the host of the poetry at the end of the movie and the one hot white chick in the massage house tl young and kate holliday should have been the leads in the movie br br the asia character was ridiculous looked like she was trying too hard to be some kind of ghetto sexy black girl key word here is trying br br gina you can't act and you are not hot enough physically for this kind of role you need to play character roles and be more humble in your self presentation br br i think the actress is gina i looked her up on the imdb and she is a great asian actress if that is the case i don't want to see what the bad asian american actresses are br br no wonder hollywood doesn't have asian american actors if this is the best they got they were supposedly winning some kind of asian film award give me break it looked like they just made a movie for the sake of putting a bunch of asian girls in them they aren't even hot gina you are not hot stop trying play character roles and improve your acting you are not a leading female type br br if this movies makes money pigs can fly sorry for being so blunt but i feel that these actors actresses need to either get better or work on their craft for the exception of the two actors i mentioned who should have played the leads i say this in love for all the asian lead girls in the film please do what your parents say and go and be doctors lawyers and engineers and do acting on the side for fun hopefully that is what you are doing now i am not trying to be mean but hoping this will be read and push you people to either get better or go do another business there was not even a message ethically in this movie br br i would not be surprised if soap girls was secretly funded by members of the ku klux klan special department of asian american hate propaganda of the klan br br otherwise asian people must hate themselves seeing this film makes me as the viewer grateful that i am not asian you folks are pathetic have some self respect you asian people
0	the director has no clue i know that is the obvious comment maybe we should delve into the story the relationships how about the quality of the actors br br the story is well idiotic would be a simple yet honest answer br br the actors are they tried very hard can they be faulted for the director's choices br br all i can say is br br why was this made br br well isn't this an embarrassment to the korean american film industry br br should we be selective about who we support br br am i being too harsh check it out for yourself
0	i agree that this film wasted my time and my money the poster mislead me to thinking it was a different type of movie i should have known given the unprofessional look of the poster someone should sue for false advertising
0	i enjoy films of various kinds and qualities whether it's your typical standard hollywood action movie or your oscar season tear jerker movies that meet a certain standard will almost always be enjoyable for me br br in soap girl i received nothing but confusion first we meet maya a massage parlor worker who seems to attract all the customers in the parlor a virgin poet named harry comes in one day and they fall in love after that there are various twists and turns thrown into the plot which seem to lead nowhere br br although many have commented on the controversial issue of an asian prostitute being exploited by the white man keep in mind that this film was made by an asian director who wanted to bring light to the issue but whether he succeeds or not does not matter for the issue at hand is whether the movie is enjoyable or not br br for me soap girl fails to meet the standard i expect from movies it was hard for me to get involved emotionally with this movie given the loose plot and the mediocre acting worse it seems as if the director wanted to make a drama when the tone falls more towards comedy br br a movie such as soap girl which fails to trap me into the magic of cinema will always leave me bored throughout the movie i couldn't help but think what is this really about a movie has to answer that question before it is made if not what you'll end up with is an empty push to captivate the audience br br grade d br br
0	from an artistic standpoint the movie fails to entertain or provide any moral resolution the plot is hard to follow if there is one at all the acting is tough to stomach the dialogue is cliche and clearly written by somebody who doesn't know english only the cinematography was worth watching in this movie although you can still see flaws in the picture br br as an asian american female the movie angered me because it proved how narrow minded people can be politically speaking putting asian women in such disgraceful roles should be outlawed perpetuating stereotypes of asian prostitutes is not only bad for the self esteem of asian women but also to the country as a whole i feel for the lead actress who played maya and the exploitation she must have faced in playing such a role br br as americans please avoid this movie art should be used to develop our tolerance and respect for one another not hold it back
0	i recently went to a free screening of soap girl where the filmmakers were present before the movie they around laughing taking pictures i was excited to see them dressed up in real life and couldn't wait to see the movie on the big screen br br during the movie the audience with laughter it was clear to me then that they weren't laughing with the picture but at the picture this is purely a grade b movie with no logic behind it throw in some nudity some blood and you have a movie br br after the movie i approached a bunch of the filmmakers and asked them why they wanted to make this movie they all acted so serious like they were serious filmmakers they each told me something different to make a controversial movie a funny movie an uplifting movie a socially responsible movie everybody mentioned something different it was clear to me that none of the filmmakers knew what kind of movie they were making and they were now trying to recoup their money by this movie any way they could to get people to see it br br let me warn you don't buy into the hype unless you seriously have nothing else to do it might be worth a film student's time to study how a film should not be made otherwise you are better off saving two hours of your life
0	the worst movie i've ever seen in my life from the amateur directing to the porn quality acting it looks like a home movie somebody decided to shoot becuase they had nothing else to do with their time br br unless you have no hope left in life absolutely avoid this crap br br
0	i hadn't heard of soap girl but i saw a poster with a five star review from film threat outside the theater so i figured how bad could it be well i soon found out my god this film was awful the most wooden acting i have ever seen outside of a porn flick absolutely agonizing dialogue i just can't understand how this was made and why anyone agreed to be a part of it and i find it completely unfathomable that this was actually being shown in a theater and money was being charged to see it how did this happen and most importantly what the was the guy from film threat thinking
0	this film may be great but it is a complete ripoff of bill forsythe's comfort and joy c j is one of the sweetest films i've ever seen without becoming diabetic br br it's ok if you do like it but realize that everything in this film is a direct rip off br br the original is http us imdb com title i can recommend almost anything by forsythe local hero gregory's girl that sinking feeling i better go rent some tonight local has a young peter capaldi and an old burt lancaster br br unfortunately he's given up film making after some really crappy hollywood treatment sad
0	it was definitely worth viewing i don't regret that but also it was kind of ordinary something that i would expect from a movie titled like that love story was nice to watch humour was involved but nothing surprised or spooked me shooting tough guys etc ain't worth it any more
0	it's perfectly ok that people dies in an animation but there are just way too many death in this one start from the very beginning the story is all around battles fights death and revenge it goes on and on for entire one and a half hour it was interesting at the beginning but i grew very tire after before the show was half way through unlike other animations this one is lack of humor there are not many interactions between the characters either the good thing about it is the sword fight scene looks pretty good and the characters look nice
0	most of the other posts beat this movie up and deservedly so i've just got to chime in on the technical ineptness of the film makers it would have been nice if the director had at least had lunch with someone who knew what a gun was because he had no clue br br spoilers ahead you have been warned br br stupidity br br spec ops team assembled from various military units whose members have never met each other before br br maybe two people in the unit had weapons that used the same magazines parts ammo etc br br the sniper school instructor uses a sub machine gun pistol caliber as opposed to a rifle which we would assume she would be more proficient with br br one poor team member's night vision optics weigh more than the rifle does you can tell when he handles it that it is seriously top heavy br br the team leader sends out a team member to challenge the skeleton man when they first confront him challenge a 200 year old reanimated native american skeleton with a long spear and an attitude riding an undead war horse with a severe nosebleed i think not bubba br br bullets do not spark when they hit trees mr director a couple of people have already mentioned this br br the teams air support consists of a ubiquitous black helicopter only this one has a couple of sidewinder missiles underneath someone forgot to tell the helo crew that the skeleton man doesn't fly and they are over the american heartland where there won't be any enemy aircraft they should have carried some air to ground missiles instead br br the air to ground consists of a door gunner with a semi auto ak 47 or 74 needless to say he only hits dirt should have brought a belt fed light machine gun br br door gunner later finds out that a grenade launcher is pretty useless as well br br a wooden arrow from a freaking recurve bow does not down helicopters mr director br br i pretty well could not take anymore after this point about 30 minutes and gave up you seriously need a morphine drip to make it through this flick it is just that painful
0	i like so many others on here bought this movie at my local wm in the two for 11 00 cheap o bin i love cheesy b horror and sci fi movies and this one definitely fits in that category pretty much what everyone else on here said is dead on yes it was bad but that was to be expected the main problem i had with this movie is that it was just basically boring i mean serious yawn o rama the acting was bad the costumes k mart skeletor outfit circa 1982 were worse and the editing was awful no continuity whatsoever mr skeletor ultimately dies in an explosion of sorts uh although he encountered multiple explosion throughout this move i guess the last one just took its toll on him apparently earlier encounters with this military group cough took its toll on his horse it would change from red to black throughout this crap fest even for a b movie do yourself a favor and skip it the only good it serves me now it to add to my dvd collection hopefully no one will recognize it when they look through my movie collection thumbs down big time
0	dear scifi channel how have you been how was your summer i've been ok but i feel like our relationship isn't the same anymore and we're growing apart i don't understand why you don't love me anymore i've just finished watching your scifi channel original skeleton man and once again you've shown a blatant lack of respect for my feelings by killing off every hot girl in this movie i mean i understand that you're just in this for instant gratification all you care about is producing a movie where people get sliced and diced by a homicidal indian spirit creature legend whatever so you really don't have time to put some thought and effort into anything else like finding a costume for skeleton man that doesn't make him like the gay lover of skeletor from he man seriously his robe looks like a satin blanket sheet and his skull is smooth as a baby's behind he almost looks like a killer halloween costume for a 6 year old as he marches through the wilderness on a homicidal rampage so we throw you a bone because we're not looking for oscar winning performances intriguing plot or realistic character reactions to the situations at hand because we realize that even though michael rooker caspar van diem and all the girls are supposed to be trained special ops agents they are all mysteriously transformed into keystone kops who can't shoot or see straight whenever skeleton man appears and we also fully expect that nothing bullets explosions electrocution nothing can kill skeleton man until there is one minute left in the movie and we need to find a way to tie things up neatly we expect to see blood and guts but you have a knack for taking the least attractive actress in the entire cast and making her the only female who survives and quite honestly i think you do it just to me because this movie as silly as it is has the potential to be a so bad it's good classic and just killing off all the hotties ruins everything and forces me to lower its rating all i ask is that once just once you take my feelings into account and let the sexiest girls survive the movie please
0	like many this dung heap caught my eye while i was channel surfing it's a horror film set in the woods it has a stupid title but hey michael rooker is in it and he has been a part of some great horror flicks i know he wouldn't steer me wrong ugh the most insulting part of this is that i actually watched it i see director johnny martin is a stuntman well this stunt simply sucks and how he got some of the actors to do this watery bowel movement is the biggest mystery of all i can understand casper van dien but shame on you mr rooker your good name in the horror community has been forever tarnished and your agent should be fired immediately i'm sure this nugget of fecal matter is available on dvd but if you enjoy the 99 cent menu at mcdonalds you'd get more for your money there
0	oh god why didn't you give this money for charity i thought i saw the lowest crap by now but i was wrong who did this script anyway a retarded who did this cast i can't believe that there are people that spend money and time to do garbage like that i was under the impression that i'm watching a porn movie only without sex scenes that bad was the so called acting did this film have a director i believe not and i'm convince that everybody had upon them a page with some lines and red it in front of the camera i can't explain myself how all the characters in this garbage died without a fight nobody can do lower than this please erase it even from imdb bleah
0	i got this in the horror six pack from echo bridge home entertainment this one is not the worst movie ever made but it still sucks in fact this movie sucked so hard i don't know how i'm gonna write this review especially since 1 i popped it out of the dvd player because i couldn't even watch another second and 2 hurricane friggin' ike is coming and god knows how long 'til it take for me to get this review done br br the movie starts off with a scientist and his wife the scientist receives a valuable artifact and examines it when this supposedly urban legend known as the skeleton man kills him and later on his wife then br br i'm sorry but there's really not much else i can say about this pos except don't bother i'm currently using the disc as a coaster and if you see this you might want to do the same casper van dien and michael rooker must have needed cash badly br br ps i'll pretty much be reviewing the movies in the boxset and might do a new review on ghoulies iv
0	skeleton man was okay for the first 5 minutes but as soon as the so called special force agents hit the screen it went down hill faster than a fat kid on a sled br br the opening makes us think we might have a corny yet fun horror flick on our hands but no the film makers ruin any hope of that when the special force agents show up i wish the screenwriter took a different route and had the skeleton man chase down some dim witted teenagers until one of them finally gets the upper hand instead the skeleton man chases down some dim witted special force agents and offs them until their captain finally gets the upper hand br br i know the whole stalking of dim witted teenagers by a killer thing as been done before but it would of been more suited for a movie like this br br when the skeleton man finally does meet his so called demise in a building that blows up the captain of the special force agents is asked the following by a police officer outside of the building what the hell happened in there my answer to that question who the hell cares
0	you got any beans beans is good you just eat them and you go i couldn't help but laugh at that bit of dialog beans are the musical fruit you know the more you eat them the more you go toot toot toot br br hmmmm ok i can understand why the actors were in this because they needed paychecks to pay their bills with but i'm not really too sure what the intentions of the director and the writer were even after watching the making of documentary in the dvd extras br br mike rooker gave this a performance it really didn't deserve i've seen him in other movies much better than this one what would have vastly improved this movie was to throw everything out keep rooker and instead made another entry into the substitute franchise rooker would have made for a terrific substitute teacher who instructs naughty and morally impaired youth regarding the error of their ways and how they can become more useful and productive members of society br br casper you really shouldn't be just pushing through the like that as you could get poison oak whoops never mind i guess poison oak is the least of your worries now well at least this time your croaking wasn't done by the tail of giant python there are few things more embarrassing than being skewered through the chest by a giant snake at least the death scene in this movie had a bit more dignity to it as well as a more liberal smearing of karo syrup and red food dye nothing says sad and tragic death like the liberal use of karo and red dye br br first time i've seen a monster wear a shiny cape with a fur collar ruff first time for everything i guess just to be nitpicky though if this was an indian ghost how come it looked exactly like a monster out of european culture and folklore wouldn't the monster have been more sort of more br br while i did watch this all the way to the end credits i don't realistically believe that i could in good faith recommend it to others
0	this may contain spoilers br br where to start on this particular empty wasteland well it would have been nice if they actually had a plot acting talent decent dialog suspense humor hey even gratuitous sex would have helped this flick unfortunately there was only a lot of gore even that wasn't done well shooting automatic weapons and missing br br there seemed to be no reason to attach the basic premise a native american cursed to protect the bodies of the tribe he murdered with his being tracked down by a federal special ops team who dressed in civvies most of the time involved violating one of the basic rules of conduct in a horror movie separating from the group so you can be picked off one by one you'd think this team would know better especially because they are actually the third team sent to investigate the other two teams disappearing without a trace when they finally realize they're being picked off they make one of several stands and fire their weapons only to hit the trees a whole lot tree shot scene repeats endlessly in this movie to save money br br when they're not shooting trees they're tracking this spirit who leaves no trail who knows how they're tracking it and spouting a lot of macho bs by the way did i mention that most of this team are women interesting listening to them talk tough not very entertaining but interesting br br all in all you can find better movies in the bargain bin at kmart
0	was this supposed to be a comedy the black cape and skeleton mask are hilarious there is like zero plot the movie starts out with an archaeologist and his assistant they make a small mention of their dig site being cursed and then lo and behold in drops halloween costume man dressed in the shiny black cape with a skeleton mask face holding an axe so he kills off these two people then we cut to the woods with a bad imitation of predator only the commandos are being hunted down by halloween costume man who is now riding a horse more commandos show up but these people are supposed to be disguised as a hiking group yeah production probably ran out of commando costumes can you say low budget anyway they come upon a lone old indian guy sitting in the woods he's just too funny and he starts babbling about something but you really don't know what he's mumbling about so they flashback to some indians getting killed none of it really makes sense and then we go back to our commandos where more of them get killed and that's really basically the plot it's so laughably bad you just can't really look away because you want to see just how low it sinks you could make the same movie with a camcorder a halloween costume and a bunch of your friends with fake guns don't see this thing if you want a horror movie if you want a comedy maybe or just skip it and get something like the real predator
0	well ok i've seen wrath of the ninja br br it isn't something that i would recommend to people who aren't seriously into japanese fighting movies this is a sort of japanese fighting ninja movie with a complex plot it's about these 3 old ninja schools that had these 3 swords of sorcery i saw the subtitled version not recommended by the way it's easy to miss something and i didn't really keep up with it all it had some good scenes tough but in general it wasn't much to my liking
0	i don't get it the teenage leads in horror star supposedly all are devoted horror fans yet when their favorite idol conrad passes away they dig up his corpse and do all sorts of disrespectful stuff with it like disco dancing it around the house and throw food leftovers at it that doesn't sound like something real horror fans would do now does it i'm a big horror fan and i immensely idolize departed icons like vincent price peter cushing and boris karloff but it would never come to my mind to ridicule their memory no wonder conrad comes back from the dead – admittedly after a séance – to wipe them all off the face of the earth mr already wasn't known for his friendliness in life since he occasionally killed the directors that disagreed with his visions and even after his death he suffers from a tremendous ego even inside his tomb there are video messages to possible visitors and the group of teenagers will vividly experience that he also enjoys the murdering business outside his film sets horror star a k a and body snatchers is a pretty lame 80's horror flick but there are a handful of cheesy gory highlights to enjoy the film mainly suffers from its own stupid plot since no one – not even a film school student – is stupid enough to steal a recently buried corpse and actually think he'll get away with it and there are too many tedious moments to struggle through conrad's video speeches from beyond the grave are overly talkative and definitely undermine the tension but on the other hand his killing methods are pleasingly inventive one teenager enjoys the experience of getting cremated alive and another one jeffrey combs in one of his first roles loses his head in a delightful decapitation sequence in the absolute messiest sequence a poor girl' head is crushed by a coffin writer director norman thaddeus vane wanted to bring homage to vintage horror cinema and he obviously how to make film look sinister the locations and scenery are great but vane lacked the necessary funds to provide his film with a proper continuity and editing job the acting performances are overall decent with ferdy mayne imitating christopher lee and jeffrey combs delivering the most memorable roles horror star can hardly be called a must see or even a good film but it's worth tracking down in case you're an admirer of enthusiastically made b horror
0	a delta force army unit assigned to find a batch of missing green beret bad asses not known for going completely missing will be in a fight for survival against a cloaked skeleton man the supposed spirit of an ancient indian warrior who was revived when archaeologists disturbed his grave the skeleton man rides a horse and has the ability to propel to and fro using a type of dimensional portal and seems unaffected by bullet fire and explosives the skeleton man's horse leaves no hoof prints and he can ride from behind and around his prey silently the film's point of view through the skeleton man's eyes looks at his prey with a different color in other words he's not seemingly human so how can captain leary michael rooker as grizzled and intense as ever and his gang of would be commandos stop this menace for some reason the skeleton man murders employees of a nearby chemical plant what are the skeleton man's motives for slaughtering endless human beings and why is a blind indian living in the forest our commandos inhabit spared if the skeleton man as a human slaughtered his entire tribe to prove himself br br as completely stupid as it sounds just unbelievable horrible this is the kind of film that can brain cells casper van dien gets second billing in the credits just under rooker yet is saddled with a ridiculously underwritten character who exits the film quite early rooker deserves better than this if i were an actor i wouldn't want this movie in my resume the skeleton man is a reject knight from a de film he has a spear which can merely knock certain people down while exploding the head of a woman on impact an arrow shot from the skeleton man's bow actually destroys the propeller of a chopper plane for nearly 99 of the film bullets are shot at the skeleton man and he can go in and out of that portal thingee yet at the end all of a sudden he becomes vulnerable to attack oh and the horses also change as the skeleton man freely moves through the forest from that portal the film is written and edited by clowns the attack scenes are poorly constructed and the characters who are supposed to be experienced pros make really bad decisions throughout this film the mind boggles with this film good for some laughs and some gore scenes make this hunk of pure crap watchable as a trash movie
0	i saw this on sci fi and in retrospect i'm not sure how i actually managed to watch it all the way through this is utter trash it's not a b movie it's a d movie at best br br basically this grim reaper looking thing on a horse and sometimes not on one goes killing everything in it's path somewhere in the mid west of america a load of people are missing infact murdered and a bunch of mismatched spec op soldier types go looking for them the best part of this movie i'll tell it now is there's some really cute girls let me now spoil this by telling you that all but the least cute one get their heads either chopped off slashed apart or hit so hard with a mêlée weapon that the head explodes off that's no spoiler the gore in this movie is over the top and really grotesque it serves no real purpose either br br here's what's good the sets look ok the actors sometimes act ok the outfits and props some of them are decent br br everything else that you can think of sucks a lot of the badness is in the editing some times it just switches over from a rapid action scene to a real quiet and dormant scene sometimes the characters do non understandable things and they're always splitting up but not even in a way that the viewer can follow looks like they get split up without realizing it amongst themselves but they also all seem to know that they're splitting up all the time and are ok with it even tho they're in a really dangerous situation and there's bodies all over the place and people are dying right and left nothing in this movie is the least bit plausible most of it is incoherent and confusing and i don't really get how this immortal indestructible bad guy killer was able to be stopped in the end and frankly i don't care too much stupid hilariously bad nonsense happens during this movie and i don't really care to list it all here and they're all so serious throughout the whole ordeal when it's almost laughably bad just awful br br this movie is a complete waste of time there's no excuse for watching this unless the only channel you happen to receive is scifi and you're bound to a chair in front of the tv but if you're not bound you're better off doing a crossword throwing a frisbee or even just thinking there's lots of much better b movies that you can watch br br my senior year in high school my friend and i in visual communication and deign class made a long movie trailer type deal for our own movie there was no full movie just a really long trailer and we did a better job of filming and editing the piece with premiere it was better work than this movie that really says something about this and i'm puzzled and troubled as to why sci fi would show anything like this when there are so many good low rate movies they can show br br the only movie that i've ever endured that was worse than this is raptor island another brilliant scifi work though it had smoother and more followable flow than this movie but this comes very close and is definitely 2nd on my list of worst movies i've ever seen
0	a whole lot of the people that have seen this are confused obviously the original title of joe would've put things into better perspective for much of the viewing audience i have personally experienced the condition of often accompanied by a really bad hangover after a weekend bender and it is indeed a lot like the movie skeleton man a dry scummy film that provokes regret for recent choices and begs for a hot shower br br it is unfortunate that the choice of skeleton man for the title was by the distributor probably the work of some meddling hollywood no nothing studio exec who just didn't get it and not joe those of us who have seen the film know that the skeleton man is actually joe a skeletal manish apparition not a true skeleton man the deception of the folks marketing this film is unforgivable and for that alone i cannot give this film a high rating imagine this when future filmmakers get together to create the true definitive skeleton man movie and need a title they will be totally screwed and we are all as serious fans of the genre diminished for that br br joe could've become a horror movie icon right up there alongside madman black claw mansquito humongous nature boy billy morty the wooden doll the the moon beast bloody bill the driller killer mickey rooney and so forth but he will always be remembered as a sword wielding caped tackle dummy skull face tied to the side of a horse skeleton man wannabe br br that's too bad
0	as a helpful warning for others i believe skeleton man is actually worse than raptor island i have been using ri as an example of the worst original movie presented on the sci fi channel but sm is the most laughably incoherent and wretchedly designed movie i have yet seen yes i did watch almost the whole thing coming into it about 35 minutes into it it drew me in with its pure ineptitude what was sci fi thinking once skeleton man and the surviving platoon leader or whatever he was i'm not good on military unit terminology reached the chemical plant the movie moved into a zone of impossible nonsense that was almost mesmerizing i had the same idea as another viewer who wondered if more than one movie had someone been edited together to make one terrible whole
0	i have very few to add to what all the other reviewers already made more than clear this movie is awful beyond awful in fact so insufferable that they have yet to come up with a term to describe the awfulness that is skeleton man in case you expect your movies to feature a minimum of logic and plot you should stay as far away from this as humanly possible sure loads of people are getting killed by this skeleton puppet wearing a ridiculous cape but nobody ever bothers to properly explain what he is where he comes from or why he's so angry with the world he looks like a crossover between skeletor from masters of the universe and the horseman from sleepy hollow and runs amok in some godforsaken wilderness the setting of skeleton man is another totally retarded aspect for nearly half an hour i assumed that the movie took place at a small isolated island but it simply plays at the mainland where fancy highways cross the forest and power plants are located at the end of the woods huh why does everybody pretend to be trapped when there are like a million escape routes anyway after a couple of totally random killings a special commando squad led by poor washed up michael rooker arrives to come and hunt a monster they don't know anything about really hilarious is how every member of this squad introduces him herself as the expert in a certain field we have a sniper specialist a tracking genius a drill instructor yet they all die before any of them is able to demonstrate their supposedly masterful skills the horror gods must really hate casper van dien as he's present again as well portraying an heroic soldier who steals a truck for no apparent reason crashes on the highway but somehow gets catapulted back to the middle of the woods to die there right that makes sense furthermore the characters steal cool one liners from predator the horse constantly changes colors helicopters are brought down with bow arrows ordinary bullets cause trees to explode and completely pointless vietnam flashbacks haunt michael rooker i say we all combine forces and vote this pathetic flick into the imdb bottom top 100 asap
0	the scientist charles and his wife or assistant marissa receive some objects and a skull from an ancient indian cemetery and while cleaning a vase they are attacked and murdered by a mysterious being the skeleton man then a military squad commanded by captain leary michael rooker seeks out two groups of four soldiers each that vanished in the jungle they face the skeleton man shooting him while he kills each soldier then the skeleton man goes to a power plant and captain leary explodes the facility destroying the supernatural being br br i bought skeleton man on dvd expecting to see a funny trash but i found an awfully boring annoying and senseless crap with shoots and explosions the imbecile story is totally disconnected and does not make any sense and the military team is composed of imbeciles insisting in shooting the supernatural skeleton man until they are totally slaughtered their leader is also the most stupid with the blow up of an entire facility in the end to destroy the supernatural rip off of the extraterrestrial warrior predator on dvd it is possible to use the fast forward button along the movie and reduce the suffering of the viewer my vote is two br br title brazil skeleton man
0	as i write this no user reviews are in yet but there are 17 votes with a 4 8 average so apparently some people thought this movie had its moments i didn't notice any and even if i had i don't think i could have stopped rolling my eyes for long enough to appreciate them br br a common debate among movie buffs is whether major mistakes in science police tactics and the like so common in b movies should detract significantly from one's enjoyment i tend to fall into the yes that's a reasonable reaction camp especially when the mistakes are central to the plot with this movie i look forward to reading how anyone can defend this mess they completely botch pretty much every aspect of military tactics and strategy police tactics weapons science folklore common sense and human behavior outside of b movies that is in short i can't think of any non trivial thing they got right br br any movie would have its work cut out for it when its central premise is a supernatural spirit impervious to all small arms able to disappear into another dimension at will and yet apparently vulnerable to simply a bigger explosion they don't make ghosts like they used to combine this premise with every detail being wrong and you have a memorably bad movie
0	this ranks up there as the worst movies of all time no research or thought at all went into this movie action scenes were thrown in at random intervals which made no sense in the context of the movie items appeared and disappeared at random etc it's obvious that this was directed by a stunt coordinator who should go back to his old job the skeleton man rode a horse throughout the movie which amazingly could change color at will either that or someone thought the audience would all be and not notice blood would be on the actors in 1 scene and the very next miraculously disappear and then reappear seems that everyone connected with this movie forgot to check for inconsistencies
0	although casper van dien and michael rooker are generally relegated to b movies even they are above this movie it fails to convey even the slightest sense of excitement fear or dread unless you count the dread of sitting through the rest of this garbage the direction is amateurish with annoying cuts and jerky movement that hides the fact that the killer is no where near the victims when he attacks and what a killer he is a cheap skull mask and a black hood i liked him better when he was fighting he man this is one of the laziest jobs of character design i've ever seen i mean it's skeletor and he's on a horse this is supposed to be some scary supernatural creature how are we supposed to take this seriously all we get is scenes of this dude riding around the woods on his horse which he can barely stay on interspersed with scenes of soldiers shooting randomly into the woods thinking they can shoot a ghost occasionally skeletor will shoot someone with an arrow or ride by and stab someone revealing how corny the effects really are i generally enjoy sci fi channel fare on a basic cheese level but this film is too inept for any level of enjoyment where's dolph lundgren when you need him
0	if you like to get a couple of fleeting glimpses of cleavage on some attractive women there may be a second or two of enjoyment from this film if you enjoy seeing poorly conceived and executed action scenes there are plenty if you are both blind and deaf i still advise you to not have this film on in your presence it is surely the worst or very close to the worst film i have ever seen and it does appear that there was some money spent on it talk about throwing money away as an editor i would hope that the editor s of this movie never again be allowed to edit a film book or even a post it note as a writer i would hope that the author s never again be allowed near even a broken crayon you would think that i am not recommending that you view this movie not so tape it so you may stop your pain when you need to and educate yourself as to how bad a movie can be
0	hard up no proper jobs going down at the pit why not rent your kids diy pimp story without the gratuitous sex scenes either hard core or soft core therefore reads like a public information film from the fifties give this a wide miss use a barge pole if you can
0	my wife and i enjoy bad science fiction movies some movies are so bad they are good mansquito was one of those that one was bad but it had some redeeming qualities it makes you wonder how a self respecting actor approaches lines like hey mansquito br br this one is so bad it has now taken its place as our standard for bad it isn't just a bad movie it really stinks there was the coed strike force the indian that rode around in a black cloak and used a sword for crying out loud he shot down a helicopter with an arrow br br we tried to laugh at this movie but there were no points at which it didn't rise above pitiful we couldn't come up with any redeeming features except for one those were the words the end br br there seemed to be no plot no character development and no point to the movie someone in hollywood needs to be fired
0	to be honest the movie was so horrible that i loved it never in my life have a seen such a terrible movie i was in shock i mean i don't even know what to say br br the characters couldn't even keep their own guns one minute a guy had an and his friend had an mp5 then in the next scene they switched guns don't ask trust me i know my guns and i will never understand how they got from a place that looked like vietnam to an arizona highway to my backyard and then to a chemical plant in california that is what i took from it br br why would you be afraid of a guy in a halloween mask wearing a trash bag for a cape and shot plastic arrows at you how is that frightening i wanted to swallow arsenic halfway through the movie i love how the skeleton man randomly decided to go on a killing spree at that particular day but hey whoever made this movie should be shot in the knees and fed to a mound of fire ants br br good day
0	thank god for dvr and the high speed of it's fast forward even with that i couldn't sit through any more of that travesty when they came across the old indian asking for beans i gave up and erased it is this the best that scifi channel can come up with for saturday nights how about some old classics instead the idea of a coed special forces unit was bad enough it seems like they wanted to save money by having everything filmed out in the woods what more can i say it was so awful that i don't think i can come up with enough lines to qualify for space to review it but it looks like one more line will do it save your time let alone your money on this dog of a film
0	wow where to begin with this one well if you enjoy laughing at the utter failures of filmmakers then this one is for you i bought this movie for 5 bucks because i never pass up an opportunity to laugh at b movie god casper van blunders and boy was this one of them it may have been enough that this movie contains the single most lame movie monster ever this thing which is supposed to be an indian ghost looks more like a plastic candy bowl skeleton that you put on your front porch on halloween he dons a cape that is clearly a garbage bag complete with what appears to be a bucket shaped bonnet over his head at some points this is a man in costume at others it is clearly a plastic prop placed on top of a horse this monster has the uncanny ability to see with predator vision a clear rip off and can miraculously appear after throwing his spear sometimes the spear cuts people sometimes it doesn't this thing also manages to down a helicopter with a single arrow wow this makes a much sense as when the kid blows up a spaceship with a firecracker at the end of critters this creature is impervious to bullets but somehow dies at the end of the movie at the end of his killing spree which we never really find out why he is on he gets blown up this is an incredible feat for we had already seen this thing blow up 3 times in the film but i guess this last time was the charm br br and don't even get me started on the lameness of the other characters first of all what delta force unit employs women last i checked the military still disallows women into combat situations also this unit is undercover why what possible reason would they have to be undercover and they're not even good at it i guess no one would realize that they were military if they didn't have on uniforms but they were all carrying machine guns which incidentally change sound effects throughout the film at some points sounding like air rifle bb guns and at others canons there is one part when the skeleton man throws some construction workers from a catwalk and you can clearly see the pad that they fall onto at another point michael rooker falls down a hill that is clearly flat ground they tilted the camera slightly to give the appearance of an incline but he is clearly pushing himself along in this fall scene then when he is helped back up the hill the rope is flat and when it shows the woman at the top of the hill the rope goes upward from her grip not the way it would look if she was pulling someone up a hill rooker actually has a line that says i'm not going after him i going after it what that is quite possibly the dumbest thing i have ever heard and i watch these bad movies as a hobby the saddest part about this quote is that you can tell that everyone involved in the writing production of this film thought that it was so bad ass believe it or not compared to the rest of the dialog this is good br br the acting bad the makeup really bad these characters either had scars or wounds that liked to change sides of their face maybe these are alien scars that like to run around on your face yeah i think i'll make a movie about that attack of the alien scars that move around on your face that villain would be more intimidating than the skeleton man and the film would probably be scarier
0	where to start some guy has some indian pot that he's cleaning and suddenly skeletor attacks he hits a woman in the neck with an axe she falls down but then gets up and is apparently uninjured she runs into the woods and it turns out there's the basement of a shopping center out there in the woods she meets a utility worker and skeletor attacks again luckily like any good utility worker he's got a gun and shoots at the guy doesn't work everything starts on fire br br cut to some people walking through the woods even though they've been hiking together for some time they sit down and introduce themselves to each other wouldn't they have probably done that when they first met anyhow they're undercover delta team members undercover i suppose because that way they don't have to pay to dress them in uniforms the cute girls are various things such as a sniper school instructor and oh i can't remember the rest it doesn't matter eventually they all take their guns out and immediately start aiming them at various things anyhow they meet an old indian who is sitting out in the woods he wants beans you know like pork and beans he mumbles some stuff i can only assume that it's the premise of the movie i relied on having heard the premise from the commercials because you can't really understand anything he says br br so they walk around the woods some more all the dialogue is a load of quasi military macho bs i mean all of it as in every single word like this reminds me of when we were in kabul or this reminds me of when we were in skeletor attacks again let me give you a rundown of a basic attack one of the female characters is behind a tree and she aims her gun at the approaching guy on the horse for some reason she doesn't fire but yells several times for someone else then as skeletor approaches she jumps out from behind the tree so that skeletor can stick her with his spear then everybody starts shooting the bullets cause sparks to fly from the trees apparently the folks who made this movie never shot a tree with a bullet they don't make sparks br br then casper van diem is all of a sudden driving a semi truck trying to run over skeletor he misses and the truck slides to a stop van diem is injured apparently he slid across the seat and bumped his hip on the window crank or something so he crawls out of the truck and it explodes later he's in the woods dying and everybody says a bunch of quasi military macho bs they meet a couple guys in the woods and blow their undercover status by immediately identifying themselves as being from the army they beat on the guys for some reason then they go away br br some other stuff happens people mumble the camera shakes etc br br i think it comes to an end eventually br br my theory is that the sci fi channel is getting a little annoyed with everyone bashing their movies so they put this out to remind us all how bad movies can really be like you think our movies are bad well you haven't seen bad here's bad okay now that we've got that out of the way the rest of our movies are pretty good in comparison right br br well it's just a theory
0	this movie tries to rip off predator but that movie is much better this movie has truly terrible special effects and a mindless plot the team that enters the forest to find the cause of the disappearances of military and scientist is a combo of rough and rugged male delta commandos and pretty but tough female rangers none of them are too bright all the characters seem to be more than willing to run off into the forest alone and headfirst into a spear or sword and their death some of the pyrotechnics are very big and must have cost a bundle but the close ups of the creature are laughable as are most of the death scenes every cliché that the writers could think of was used if you're looking for a mindless slaughter fest this may fill the bill the night i watched this was very slow so i sat through the whole thing i have to admit that it's been a while since i watched something this bad there is very little to redeem this movie i'm amazed that junk like this gets produced
0	this was so bad i want god to give me an extra two hours of life having had to sit through it br br first off the acting was uniformly bad there was barely a plot unless shaggy dog story with a guy in a rain poncho and skeleton mask instead of a dog counts br br the editing was was all over the place and the slow mo shots of the gore red corn syrup flying through the air doubtless flung using a spoon got irritating after the tenth time and infuriating after the hundredth time br br i like michael rooker he's done some good work this was not good this was less than good and by that i mean that it sucked hard br br for god's sake don't watch this movie
0	wow i thought eskimo was the most awful and embarrassing first sex movie ever but i had forgotten that germany always tries to compete in this case the well known german film producer was successful in producing even worse crap is stupid not believable and predictable and above all not funny it's almost a tragedy that so many kids went to see this in germany and i'm afraid also austria br br tobias 19 looks too nice to have no girlfriend and too ripe to be 15 and his character is too dumb to be true tries real hard to make us believe that he doesn't know anything about sex but that doesn't help seems to be made by someone who watched al bundy and took him too seriously br br the best actors in the movie are sissi and stefan who play semi liberal parents and are stand up comedians who are not particularly talented in movie acting still their performances are the best' and in comparison br br a complete failure
0	one of the worst movies i saw in the 90s i'd often use it as a benchmark when viewing other films at least it wasn't as bad as caro diario three absolutely pointless segments all featuring the director playing himself and he's not that interesting a whole segment about this hypochondriac going to the doctor another that features him riding around the countryside on his scooter for three interesting minutes and another fifteen torturous ones br br the only redeeming factor was that the scooter scene was set to keith concert' prompted me to go home and rediscover that marvelous album the best thing you can say about the director actor egotist is that he's got great taste in music
0	this film is boring boring boring boring and boring it's not the worse film i ever saw on the contrary but how shall i put this it's boring there is some very nice scenery and some clever dry wit but that's about it if it was advertised as a travelogue i would rate it a 7 but it's supposed to be a film with a plot some drama and for god's sake a point or a satisfying conclusion br br i read some of the comments on this board about this films and i wondered if they saw the same movie as i did br br see this film yawn at your own risk one thing for sure it really is rated correctly g rating which most stand for god awful boring
0	this ultra low budget kitchen sink yawn is the kind of film that can only be made in the uk in that anywhere else in the world the fact the a market would need to exist before a green light would be given most probably self funded this is clearly an attempt to redress important issues but ultimately undermines its point of existence in that the question needs to be begged who would ever put money into distributing this and secondly if a market audience doesn't exist to watch buy or rent this film why would anyone bother in the first place my opinions may sound unfairly harsh on a first time director but this is the kind of film that only goes to undermine the commercial viability and quality standards which have only just kept a british film industry in existence reviewed in edinburgh 2 out of 10
0	tandem is an odd slice in the japanese pink genre as it has the requisite sex scenes and misogynistic tone that is all but required for these types of films but also throws in a disjointed drama dark comedy storyline that seems like it'd have been better suited for a different type of film   br br the film starts with two lone guys at a restaurant each daydreaming about a previous sexual encounter one is a mutual subway groping the other a pretty typical for this type of film semi rape scenario the two pervs meet and start talking after one lends the other a cigarette they hang out for an evening and talk a bit about their respective sex lives the film is inter cut with flashback scenes of both of the men's interactions with the women that are central in their lives the two men have a falling out and the film ends on a weird but predictable note   br br i really don't know what to make of tandem it sorta comes off as a soft core couple' type of anti buddy film but doesn't really explore the subject matter to any satisfying degree there's also not much of the typical extreme sleaziness often so prevalent in these types of films so i can't really figure out what the point was i also cant quite tell if the film was supposed to be funny depressing or both  i think that tandem could have had some potential as a more serious drama film with a dark comedy edge but as a soft core sex film that tries to be too 'smart' for its own good it just doesn't work   can't say i hated this one but can't say there's anything notable about it either 4 10 
0	oh boy i really trashed manhunt in space i think this deservedly rates worse than manhunt it goes nowhere and growth was more exciting than this tripe br br poor she's so misunderstood smug rocky struts around and thankfully there's no mention from about his gay nightlife there's a lot more talking a really awful to watch space marriage on the rocks and crappy space effects cut outs then there's bobby you decide who's more annoying bobby or the personally i'd jettison them out of an airlock into a black hole not before first subjecting them to killer flesh eating alien mutants br br at least there's she's just a cosmic girl
0	i bought this movie for a couple of dollars at a clearance warehouse sale one day when just looking around the cover looked pretty good in colour but the movie is b w i wish they wouldn't try to trap us with coloured covers on b w movies but it's a common thing to look out for br br when i watched it i was pleasantly surprised it turned out to be better than i expected i was disappointed that it was a b w but the effects are pretty good certainly better than say invaders from mars which has crappy effects and it is great to see john banner in something else apart from hogan's heroes br br overall this movie isn't too bad for a b grade and certainly worth the two dollars from a nostalgia point of view it isn't my favourite sci fi but it's not my worst either it's o k
0	by all appearances this serial could have been made any time since the mid forties the cardboard sets the moon kings with lightning bolts sewn onto their you know the drill this one is a rocky jones adventure featuring the space cop's dealings with the insufferable bitch queen of planet a commie planet that won't join the united planets when the noble of intergalactic reason announce that is on a collision course with this other vaguely slavic planet bitch queen decides to blow the other guys up rather than evacuate her land this introduces a moral to the effect of the greatness of a nation is not in its land but its people which is hammered home five or six times in the climactic the constant nasal ranting about provides relief from some seriously wanting space effects is this a tv show
0	there's not really that much wrong with crash of the moons basically it's a few episodes of rocky jones space ranger merged into a film it is extremely dated however treatment of is a good example of this one has to remember that it was geared to be shown to children in the 1950's in this respect it succeeds if you like children's sci fi from the 1950's go ahead and take a look at it you'll see john banner in a pre sgt schultz role he does a pretty good job in it all in all i'd give it a 6 out of 10 not great but not bad
0	i can't say i was surprised at this atrocity when i watched it a couple months or weeks ago can't remember i saw it as a two part episode of zoey 101 because that's how they showed it here in canada br br i was incredibly annoyed at the makeover a nerd thing it's just an example of how unaccepting superficial negative biased and stereotypical the people in the entertainment business is and frankly i'm extremely peeved it wasn't at all funny a nerd is a stereotype and it makes people very offended br br secondly the people in zoey 101 don't have real problems logan has a big house he has a famous dad he has everything and zoey is rich too they never have to deal with the things that today's tweens and teens have to do deal with such as peer pressure and stereotype problems also the actors are horrific jamie lynn spears doesn't deserve to be in a television show as successful as zoey 101 what is wrong with the world she doesn't have any talent as an actor in fact she's worse than britney the chase and zoey thing was incredibly predictable i mean how could the show go on with zoey and chase dating what other problems could they possibly have except for the fact that chase doesn't get the girl he wants everything is perfect the absolute worse 48 minutes of my television watching life ever 0 10 and that's being generous
0	oh my god this is so idiotic completely pointless offensive and repulsive why do the writers have such a problem with actually getting zoey and chase together we all want them too in normal shows there's actually more than one plot conflict in the show wow what a concept also you cant even tell the zoey 101 episodes apart from each other because the same thing happens every time quinn exploits dustin for some weird thing nicole is giggly and stupid zoey is just kinda there chase slobbers after her all the time but she amazingly fails to notice and logan is a jerk repeat quinn exploits dustin for some weird thing nicole is giggly and stupid zoey is just kinda there chase slobbers after her all the time but she amazingly fails to notice and logan is a jerk repeat it's like a shampoo bottle and the end of the movie omg again so pointless nothing happens it's like they specifically designed it so that the movie could fit between any two episodes of the show and the show would go completely unchanged after the movie plot
0	this movie is awful the script is stupid and of course chase doesn't tell zoey he doesn't love her like every episode ill never understand zoey 101 the show also why the heck does logan's dad act so retarted and its only about zoey and chase what about the other characters its always the same in every episode quinn makes and invention something goes terribly wrong with the invention and brother always gets involved in it if you haven't seen it don't waste an hour watching this cuz you'll be wasting your time this may be interesting to an eight year old well 8 10 but i imagine older watching this retarted film but what can you expect from nick
0	oh god why is it that nickelodeon has such a hard time producing even a half decent movie i mean this movie might have been good but it was br br a too short b rather superficial stereotypical and insulting to some c ultimately pointless br br first of all the dress up the nerd to look cool thing was very consumerist very superficial very pointless and very insulting it has the stereotypical nerds stupid faces glasses never kissed vacations with his mom etc well maybe the reason that guy has never kissed a girl is because he's gay does that mean that all gays are nerds and what's wrong with being friends with your mother br br the worst part by far was the ending the whole drama of the movie revolved around zoey finding out chase loved her and blah blah blah and then when chase finally decided to tell her br br a he didn't tell her in person because right as he was about to the typical distraction came along b he tried to text message her but her fell into a fountain and died before she got the message br br the end br br how lame is that i mean why is it that cartoonists just can't change anything in the series so many of us would like to see these two get together why can't we see it i mean are the producers really that uncreative that they can't think up new problems to go with changes in the series so they have to stick with the same plot and outlines and make as many episodes as they can just using those after a while it gets dull and frustrating br br i wanted to see some actual romance in here darn it br br okay i'm done with my rant
0	this is one of crichton's best books the characters of karen ross peter elliot munro and amy are beautifully developed and their interactions are exciting complex and fast paced throughout this impressive novel br br and about 99 8 percent of that got lost in the film seriously the screenplay and the directing were horrendous and clearly done by people who could not fathom what was good about the novel i can't fault the actors because frankly they never had a chance to make this turkey live up to crichton's original work i know good novels especially those with a science fiction edge are hard to bring to the screen in a way that lives up to the original but this may be the absolute worst disparity in quality between novel and screen adaptation ever the book is really really good the movie is just dreadful
0	first of all i just wanna say that i'm a very big naruto fan i love the anime and the manga stories also the first movie just confirmed that naruto is all about great fun great action great story but then came the 2nd movie i was very hyped because the first movie turned out great but it didn't satisfy me one bit the story was lame action wasn't all that great especially compared to the anime series same goes for the quality of animation i found it very poorly could the story get any lamer any where's the of naruto not once does he turn demon i mean come on my advice is see the series until episode 140 then it's just fillers and then read the manga because that's still great ignore this movie and hope for something better in the future br br all and all i gave it a 4 just because it's naruto
0	i just watched congo on dvd in most cases i love these kind of movies but this one is different it made me write my first comment for a movie on imdb i was amazed how such a team of experienced filmmakers could come up with this movie as a result you can see there was a lot of money for this production but you can't make a good movie if you don't have a good script and as a producer frank marshall gave us plenty of great movies to watch he never should have tried to become another spielberg this one shows how hard it is to make a good movie maybe you've got all the ingredients but if you can't cook stay out of the kitchen if can make a suggestion don't spend your money on this one if you want to see it watch it on television first and make up your own mind
0	congo is probably the worst big budget movie of the 1990s it is so bad that it is watchable over and over again a bunch of folks with different agendas probe deep into darkest africa where they encounter a temple of riches just like in king solomon's mines but with cannibalistic gorillas guarding those riches on their side the humans have a talking gorilla named amy who helps save the day at one point or another so much for the plot the dialogue throughout is witless the acting almost uniformly atrocious certainly campy tim curry and ernie hudson are both on hand to assure the ham factor and the special effects abysmal wait until you see the cannibalistic gorillas and the lava oh yes did i mention there's a volcanic eruption to top off the big finale laura linney of all people is along for this of rides what could she have been thinking this is right around the same time she appeared with richard gere and ed norton in primal fear a movie that helped guarantee her stardom
0	this was a highly hyped movie prior to its release but turned out to be a dud i never talked to one person who ever liked this movie i agree i didn't like it either perhaps one big reason it wasn't a box office success was that it had nothing but unappealing characters in the story br br for awhile there i don't know if this is still true i hadn't any movie in which laura linney or dylan walsh played anything but annoying characters br br that and a stupid story make this film a big disappointment especially considering that big buildup did the filmmakers with dialog this dumb really think this was going to be a hit
0	if you can make it through this flick without laughing out loud at the screen you are a better filmgoer than i br br count the logic lapses common sense leaps and credibility stretches betcha need more than two hands br br p s if one more film uses a location that is clearly ucla and claims that it is a different university in this movie's case berkeley i'm going to lose it
0	i love bad movies showgirls plan 9 from outerspace so on and this movie fits right in don't believe anyone who tells you this is good film it's downright awful tim accent moves from german to portuguese to hungarian there's a person in a gorilla suit who is supposed to be able to communicate using a glove that interprets the sign language there is a scene with a killer hippo that moves around a river like a great white shark there are people hopping up and down mt as if there were escalators installed on it this thing is laughably ridiculous so ridiculous i was rolling on the floor it is totally implausible i loved every minute of it
0	anyone who has seen the piece of steaming smelly poo called congo understands my title and i feel for you this movie wasn't just bad it was painful the book was stupid the script was even dumber and the cast was terrible dylan walsh rumor has it julia roberts dumped your ass cause this movie blew so bad huge diamonds killer gorillas talking gorillas hmmm sounds like a hit oh tim accent is so bad in this movie i would prefer being deaf i recommend this movie to bulimics looking to purge after a heavy meal or patients who just need that one more reason to die if this is faithful to the book i would say lets have us a good old fashion footloose book burning and destroy every copy if future generations look back and find this garbage how would we explain ourselves listen to the others who hated this movie don't watch it run away do not watch this movie if you think it is full of action or suspense or cool effects you are wrong if you think it blows more cock than nicole ritchie you'd be right so if you still are going to watch crapo i mean congo i say do it after you just took 50 tylenol pm
0	the book while not particularly great was decent but this movie completely changes it a lot of the elements of the story are consistent between the book and the movie but dr ross' character goes from a creatively written character who lives for money and ends up causing the volcanic eruption with her greed to a heart on her sleeve damsel in distress who won't do anything if she even catches the slightest hint that it might be less than noble when movies change the book that much but keep the same name it should be a crime
0	let's see there's a civil war a lost city a talking gorilla some regular gorillas a previously unknown species of killer albino gorilla the most powerful laser ever known to man a lot of diamonds lying mined and loose in the sand attack hippos an active volcano and a hot air balloon packed in a suitcase in a downed plane that's not too much is it i've had more coherent fever dreams and then the romanian guy picked up a bunch of diamonds because this was a lost city that he had been looking for or something but then the mean gorillas that we had seen before came out of nowhere and ate him now somehow the talking gorilla was back from visiting the regular gorillas and as a kind of earthquake or volcano started the woman industrialist doctor built a gun using a laser and this big diamond she had just found in her dead fiance's hand it's a blast if you're looking for more ammunition against the pernicious influence of michael crichton in american entertainment and hence world entertainment and if you keep firmly in mind the extent to which this cynical and half hearted attempt fell on its face at the but sadly the men responsible crichton john patrick shanley director frank marshall probably never lost a dime shame on them and i mean that 1 10
0	congo is based on the best selling novel by michael crichton which i thought lacked crichton's usual charm smart characters and punch well sorry to say but the same goes for the film br br here's the plot br br greed is bad this simple morality tale cautions a megalomaniacal c e o joe don baker sends his son into the dangerous african congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitter or is it laser weapons when contact is lost with his son and the team his daughter in law laura linney a former cia operative and computer freak is sent after them on her quest she is accompanied by gee whiz and a few eccentric characters including a mercenary ernie hudson a researcher with a talking gorilla dylan walsh and a a nutty indiana jones type looking for king solomon's mines tim curry after some narrow escapes from surface to air missiles and some african wildlife they all discover that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall br br the actors in this movie were not talented dylan walsh acts like a pathetic crybaby especially at the end ernie hudson is unconvincing is it no wonder he went on to star in tv films and laura linney is nothing special i think i can safely say the only talented actors in this film had very small roles joe don baker and tim curry an always enjoyable actor although sometimes scarred for life by constantly being reminded of his rocky horror picture days br br this movie also had some other problems including awful direction style cheesy dialogue and a just plain boring plot which was completely hashed when compared to crichton's novel br br not even stan winston's creature effects could save this movie from being a disaster i am deeply disappointed in this movie there was not even a campy quality to redeem itself with it was just plain awful cheesy boring and ridiculous and proves to be one of the worst crichton book to film productions br br 2 5 stars br br john ulmer
0	i'd give this film a zero if i could how anyone could rate it any higher is beyond me until i saw rollerball this was my pick for worst film ever from a major studio with a real budget claiming mangler 2 or leprechaun in the hood as the worst ever isn't really saying much those are supposed to be bad br br tim mom must have needed surgery or something for him to agree to this non sensical garbage i'm really not sure what happened here the novel was great the director frank marshall had a solid track record with alive and arachnophobia perhaps they should have changed the title to 'africa' the cast was good and the budget was there you'd think someone would have bothered to read the script br br you'd be better off watching battlefield earth again than wasting your time with congo makes you long for the return of mst3k
0	i struggle to see the point of this movie it is supposed to be a comedy but i didn't laugh once the storyline is one that could have been interesting in a well made movie but since this is acted by comics the result is totally unbelievable as comedies should be the comic strip series was very hit and miss even withing the episodes and it is fair to say all of the people involved have gone on to do greater things one to avoid i have also just found out that comments have to be 10 lines long the whole point of these comments is to give an indication of whether the movie is worth watching not write an essay gushing about it or taking it apart if you like seinfeld larry sanders the young ones alan partridge arrested development curb red dwarf then you might like to pass on this on the other hand if you like lame jokes such as can be found in friends and dodgeball enjoy watching this
0	publicity got me to the theatre br br advice will take you away from this waist of time br br very bad everything br br do you really want to see a monkey talking with a technological device br br x
0	after a string of successful 'a man and his monkey films' which included the seminal every which way but loose every which way you can and peter's friends the genre fell on hard times in an effort to rejuvenate this once celebrated area director frank marshall brought michael crichton's acclaimed novel to the big screen br br think in the meets minus the box office clout of bruce this is one mans doomed love affair for his talking monkey not helped by bad accents tim curry struggles with a romanian a baboon of a screenplay hungry hippos primates and bruce campbell ape sh t
0	a group of people goes deep into the jungle for various reasons and finally find a lost city where apparently king solomon's diamonds are and a race of super gorilla's now you know you're in trouble when you put fine actors like linney and curry in one movie that stars a talking gorilla and that is just the beginning okay what else br br for an action adventure movie the film is well lacking just that the first hour of the movie they aren't even in the jungle just trying to get there with subplot after subplot something about a local military regime whatever and when they finally do it's just no fun anymore br br the effects of the movie are only so and so and really bad compared to the earlier jurassic park movie br br now the ending the father not caring for the death of his son but just interested in the diamonds uh huh only in the movies folks only in the movies br br a complete waste of talent this jurassic park twister er adaptation 2 10
0	as an avid cinema go er i felt that whilst i was ranking my favourite movies i felt it only fair to rank my most hated films br br i'm afraid i really have nothing positive to say about this movie it is in fact one of only two films that i have ever walked out on in fairness i went back and watched the movie again to give it another chance and sat through it only to wish that i should have stayed away br br the sad thing is the movie has a really decent cast and crew but then even the brightest stars in hollywood cant bring a dead duck of a script to life br br stay away save yourself from this truly woeful 'film' 1 10
0	poorly acted and poorly directed congo unsuccessfully tries to recreate the feeling of jurassic park but the truth is the book wasn't all that great either still the movie's first problem is that tim character was added the second problem is that the talking arm was added the main problem though is that the cast members don't create realistic characters i guarantee that this movie will not make you think that there are killer gorillas anywhere on earth also starring laura linney happy birthday laura dylan walsh ernie hudson grant heslov joe don baker james karen and bruce campbell i'm guessing that they don't wish to emphasize this movie in their resumes
0	it is a shame that such a great book was turned into such a terrible movie i could not wait to see this movie after reading the book it really did not do it justice
0	this is just one of those movies that continually make you groan and that i wished was over the problems are many and the good points are few i feel the main problem with this movie is that it has what amounts to a cheesy plot and they try to make it out to be a epic movie which a movie about super evil monkeys and smart ones that sign just is not epic it is cheese when you have cheese you make the movie more fun granted the final scene with the monkeys and that laser was very nice to watch and more of things of that nature was needed instead the actors are doing such a serious job that you feel the movie just has a corny plot amid all the serious tension the movie is trying to set up the plot revolves around a woman trying to find what happened to her missing ex husband while also searching for some sort of legendary diamonds she uses these two guys who trained an ape to do sign language and now wish to return her to the wild as cover to get into the country and begin the mediocre adventure of a lifetime the only things that make this movie somewhat tolerable is ernie hudson's character and the laser attack at the end
0	i'm really not too sure why people are being so complimentary about this odd movie having said that i did actually sit through the entire 2 hours and can't say it wasn't entirely un entertaining br br i think the key problem is that frank marshall is not a true director and this is clear in the film he is an experienced producer so will have seen a movie made many a time and will understand what goes into the process but i think this is quite different to being able to truly direct a movie the direction was competent but somehow flat and direction less marshall has more experience as a unit or second director and this came through i feel in the finished product it appeared to be a group of sets that failed to really have any continuity in its feel or its character br br fun watchable but good no
0	it's hard to tell if this ham brained b movie adventure is a spoof a homage or just plain bungled but it doesn't work whichever way you look at it based on michael crichton's so so novel it's a nutty mixture of lost cities giant hippos monster monkeys naff visual effects and corny dialogue the first thing that this tosh is the gorilla that can communicate in sign language and needless to say the film doesn't get any better from that point on making all this old rope somewhat worthwhile are tim curry turning in a feverish slice of ham and sporting a bizarre accent that defies identification and ernie hudson who also seems to know that this is all a load of old rubbish
0	congo is another multi dollar adaptation of crichton's works like jurassic park the lost world sphere etc the film raped the book of its true meaning and essence i'll make this short and to the point the scenery is beautiful the actors well it's the best they can do the script try hundreds of pages into an hour and half movie you get a mess in the end but how neat of a mess is what counts and congo falls somewhere below that there were some silly moments like why did the killer gorillas decide to jump into the lava and amy raised by humans surrounded by humans yet can intimidate dozens of killer apes around her what sort of twist of common sense is that which brings me to this if there was an annoying character in every movie amy ranks of one here you see amy is this naive little female ape who can talk with a special backpack and harness strapped to her neat idea but it gets annoying after awhile hearing her talk congo is worthwhile to see and not deplorable but certainly not a memorable film either
0	the comic strip featured actors from 'the young a student based sitcom from the 80's comic strip features included parodies of westerns 'the famous 5' and the professionals all a lot funnier than this having said that alexei puts in a good turn as a traffic cop with ambition and the soundtrack features great music from the era 5 10
0	jonathan demme is such a character oriented director that to see him pulling a brian de palma which is to say aping hitchcock it is nearly predictable when he fails to work up much suspense within this tepid mystery working from a screenplay by david from murray bloom's novel demme attempts to strike a chord somewhere between alan j pakula's paranoia dramas and hitchcock's dangling thrillers roy scheider stars as a retired secret agent mourning the murder of his wife who is now busy dodging bad guys who are out to kill him takes off right away but the script is full of flimsy threads and any excitement dies out quickly there's a visually impressive climax at falls but demme gets little out of his cast and even less out of this bummer of a story from
0	i wish it were last dumb thriller but thrillers are like that they are like children numerous illogical and often annoying they want so desperately to be taken seriously but what is there to take seriously about a child's behaviour or a thriller's plot having seen this particular child i mean thriller i understand why reviewers refer to it as a hitchcockian thriller they might as well have called it idiotic for that's what hitchcockian means in the movie dictionary look it up if you don't believe me even the soundtrack is old school hollywood which is a mistake it doesn't fit a late 70s film and makes it look phony besides how dare they steal de palma's idea of stealing from hitchcock the story is absurd scheider's wife is killed and her killers are never an issue instead first his former employers follow him around and later decide to kill him why do they decide to kill him no explanation perhaps because the fbi is a dark dark organization x files which is very trigger happy about knocking off its former employees for pension funds reasons or perhaps because it's fashionable to want to kill scheider in this movie everyone seems to be after him and while the poor unsuspecting viewer is trying to figure out the mystery by logically assuming that there is a major conspiracy in reality the killer is janet margolin yes the woman occupying scheider's living quarters the one that briefly hinted she was depraved why does she go after scheider at precisely a time when his wife was murdered and he is feeling paranoid and followed by his own ex employers and not a few years earlier or few years after the wife's murder a pure hitchcockian look it up again in the dictionary in case you forgot what it means coincidence and how about that brilliant motive of hers her grandmother was forced into prostitution when she was a fresh off the boat 15 year old virgin in ny and then by a bunch of horny jewish men one of whom tah dah is scheider's grandfather as a result margolin has been playing a hooker in her spare time among other things in order to kill off all the descendants of the men who so cruelly her once virginal grandmother how hitchcockian look it up is that the finale then shamelessly rips off the mount rushmore scene from north by northwest except that the love interest is a killer and she doesn't get saved br br the movie also offers some dubious off kilter dialog and some not so great acting check out the silly and obvious way in which napier follows scheider at the cemetery let's also not forget the moronic plot device of napier reaching for his jacket and holding his hand very suspiciously but it wasn't a gun how brilliant napier in the tower now there's another string of illogical behavioural patterns j demme was is and always will be a director without style without flair and the man who directed philadelphia let's give him another oscar
0	informs us that 14 year olds can be pretty obnoxious and vicious to those who don't know that the film performs a public service otherwise it's a lot of flashy with little or no reason for being i will allow that the camera work is sometimes striking but also that it can be madly self indulgent at other times the actors occupy screen space and screen time but do not compute as compelling human beings i suppose the e mail that flashes across the screen throughout means that you have to figure out which character has which moniker but i simply couldn't tell enough differences to do so and really didn't care anyway
0	i never figured out what the attraction of karen black was she always had those beady eyes and kind of an odd look about her she seemed to often be eccentric or cast as the other woman in this one she is the psychic adviser and expert on the occult to a crummy producer of bad commercials as he learns astral projection he is a mean sucker even without the new baggage apparently this is the avenue to immortality because if you get good at it you can inhabit the bodies of future generations i believe star trek had a plot like this with jack the ripper hanging on for several centuries anyway this guy is really dangerous he has a nice family and makes them miserable he begins to murder friends just because they have an unkind comment for them or he doesn't like them you can see the ending coming from the back row in left field it's a very harsh humorless movie most of it must be taken as truth why are some called but few chosen i found it long and not very satisfying
0	this is a good plot concept so why o why is it such a poor film the acting is terrible and every shock is signposted so far in advance that it is almost laughable by the time it reaches you spend your time and money elsewhere this is not worth watching
0	a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing unfortunately the man discovers while he is sleeping his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br the synopsis isn't entirely correct as it turns out br br anyway the movie opens with a dizzying out of body example of handsome director winston as paul sharpe 's newly discovered astral body experience it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight young andrew as matthew sharpe being a kid draws pictures of the blue man as his murder spree begins handsome detective john novak as stewart kaufman discovers the victims are connected to mr mr novak's investigation leads to the supernatural a prime example of which is karen black as janus with whom fears he is falling in love br br several in the cast perform well but the blue man winds up tying itself up in a knot aka eternal evil its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good
0	the use of astral projection wandering soul to exist outside of body with the result inflicting horrible death crushing the insides of victims leading to broken spine and ruptured organs on those close to the one with such ability is the threat of eternal evil providing karen black as janus with another unique character to fool around with as a woman who influences a commercial director paul sharpe winston tired of his waning marriage and dull career in actuality she's dying and needs his body her spirit potentially harmful to his wife and son his son has a special friend who talks him into things even poisoning himself at one point a detective kauffman john novak investigating the unusual homicides concerning those killed by the benevolent spirit links paul to the deaths and through him uncovers janus soon both realize that janus must be stopped or she'll simply move to another human host what paul doesn't know is that his new secretary is lover both were actually older intellectuals featured in his documentary of astral projection called wandering soul br br director george my bloody valentine certainly creates a weird atmosphere with this movie which contains a rather bizarre premise it seems that paul's boy can see the spirit moving in the shape of a blue man manipulating the kid into disorderly conduct black despite the star treatment rarely is shot close up taking advantage of her face which can produce the type of malevolent evil her character warrants instead she's shot from afar her voice dubbed and she never quite establishes herself with the proper menace which is an opportunity lost in my opinion for some reason despite the intriguing if oddball idea of astral projection causing a spirit to kill folks from within the film just never takes off the soundtrack is very ish and the lighting and sound while at times moody and effective often is quite murky the pacing is a problem also as the story mules along the cast is rather limp especially in the lead his performance erratic at best it doesn't help that there are few characters except paul's wife we could care less about and what really hurts is that paul himself isn't exactly the most lovable person in the world he can be quite difficult and moody his unfulfilled career a reason for such behavior black should've been a more prominent figure in the film yet remains mostly in the background talked about in dialogue between paul and kauffman but rarely does she get a chance to amuse us with her histrionics which is a shame
0	tv director uses astral projection to kill people taking the form of the blue man br br dull uninvolving horror film that kind of just sits there before your eyes and makes you wonder why you are watching it i sat through the film to the end and i really can't give you more than a cursory account of what the film was about because i kept finding my attention diverted by other things br br i can't really recommend this i think my feelings are best summed up by the fact that i paid a dollar for the dvd as a double feature and i feel kind of ripped off
0	i'm shocked that all the hated it ratings are sixes and sevens still above average to me this seems a case of the emperor has no clothes i understand this film was produced on a very low budget in the early 70's regardless it became a struggle to sit through and watch the dvd i saw did have some subtitles but about 75 of the speech is not subtitled some of it is hard to understand the jamaican patois was cool to hear but you struggle not to out' after awhile some of the shots were nice and the realism was there even if some of the performances were not great jimmy cliff did a good job the plot is not bad but quite predictable in the 1 43 film the highlights are jimmy cliff ivan singing for a scene and a couple of shoot outs and a fight probably 15 minutes or so the rest is pretty boring btw near the beginning of the film there are some weird cuts with the ivan character that seem like a editing mistake which made me laugh for a bit one reviewer said this film has been cut so many times that there are few copies of the original 1972 theatrical version out there the ending was kind of interesting showing how the media from a young age influences people it could also be a general comment on the white man's influence on other main themes are poverty corruption church ambition in closing the soundtrack is definitely worthwhile the film much less
0	anna success with' head on' now begins to look like it depended totally on the script and alex dimitriades great lead performance the degree to which this latest the book of revelation is both derivative pretentious and utterly unoriginal except for tristan fine cinematography seems to bear this out br br alas there have already been quite a few aussie movies dealing with such themes some reviled for and or explicit sex scenes in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond and maybe they're worth looking at again after this piece of fluff of course setting the whole thing in the world of ballet and making it all achingly slow and in its choreography like a 1960s dutch ballet experimental number does suggest great art if you've not traveled around much and then only if you never progressed beyond art theory 101 br br add to the pretension appallingly arch dialog you will do as we command and the whole shebang falls onto its well funded face then there are the bits straight from dario argento br br given the lovely but truncated performance by colin friels how about a real city primeval thriller br br all in all with 'the book of the feminist project has been set back yet another decade and with the willing and deeply of male writers like henry miller william burroughs even bukowski collaboration of some collective in melbourne oz suffering from a form of educational and ideological amnesia no revelations await us here
0	the basic story idea of enchanted april is excellent two very unhappy wives meet and decide to pool their funds to rent an italian villa for a month to further defray costs they get two other strangers to come along what makes it interesting are the relationships both before and during this vacation in particular showing how this beautiful setting actually changes their outlooks on life unfortunately this good idea is totally spoiled by two key performances in the ensemble cast that are so bad that they ruin the film ann harding plays the most important role in the film in a manner that makes her seem ridiculous her doe eyed expression and vacant stares really make you wonder if this isn't a zombie movie or she's just meant to be an idiot and to make it worse reginald owen plays a character so obnoxious and bombastic that i was very close to turning off the film he was that awful and unbelievable i noticed that at least one reviewer gave this movie a 10 which is very very difficult to understand sure the film has great ambiance and a good plot but these two glaringly silly performances cannot be overlooked as they undermine the rest of the picture sorry but this film was aching for a re make
0	i was also disappointed with this movie for starters the things that happen to him don't seem too terrible to me sorry male chauvinist pov as is pointedly said by one of the lady captors most men would pay to be in your position to which he replies but this is not my choice ok ok fair point so how bad was it really please let us know but now the kicker he does not let anyone know until after the movie end unseen not his girlfriend not is mentor not the police not anyone in stead he comes up with the brilliant plan of f ck ng every girl he knows so he may recognize the tattoo or something of one of his captors i thought he'd just had enough unpleasant sex during the 12 days of his captivity isn't it time to take a little break from all that for me his to put it mildly ill advised actions broke the suspension of disbelief of the movie i took out a book while watching the last half hour out of the corner of my eye
0	this looks like one of these australian movies done by talented students and funded by the government it is chock full of smart shots of colors and shapes and verbal excursions into freudian psychology to be appreciated by art students and teachers alike but in general it is perceived a stupid mockery of good cinema good storytelling and generally good taste this what happens i guess when art students become so obsessively indulgent pink flamingoes is miles ahead one the same subjects some porn movies from 70s are far more watchable and inspiring book of revelation is not entirely without merits but as an overall experience it is well below average b grade
0	i have to agree with what many of the other reviewers concluded a subject which could have been thought provoking and shed light on a reversed double standard failed miserably br br rape being a crime of violence and forced abusive control the scenes here were for the most part pathetic it would have been a better idea to cover short glimpses of what was happening and let the audience imagine the deed and the victim's laugh with the cops when he aborted his police complaint seemed as genuine as that of the cops no awkwardness no to merely join in i don't know if this was bad acting and or bad directing but someone missed the point entirely as for his half a ed supposed search for his attackers pathetic they should have skipped most of the sex scenes another monumental failure in themselves and had him meet colin friels when he first went to the police the story could have then been drawn forth with good dialog and the occasional flashback and saved by the superior acting and presence colin friels the only reason i watched this movie brings to any project he does br br the only concrete revelation of this movie is it was crap
0	firstly the title has no relevance whatsoever to the movie it started off fine with good development but got annoying when he couldn't tell his girlfriend what had happened to him even his attempt to tell the police failed which just added to the annoyance value there were too many pregnant pauses in the movie that seemed more like filler than anything worthwhile the plot never revealed who did this crime to him although a good plot would have allowed disclosure the ending was nothing short of hey we've run out of budget let's stop it here now if i'd written a novel that ended this way i'd top myself trash trash trash
0	well it certainly stunned me i can not believe that someone made another australian film that's even more boring than somersault the story is implausible the characters with the exception of and characters are unlikeable and wooden tom long possesses a vast array of facial expressions happy and not happy and the sex scenes which could have been very confronting and disturbingly erotic would have been at home in a low budget porno flick br br this is the first movie i have seen in 30 years of cinema going that has had me on the edge of my seat ready to get up and leave br br the best thing about this movie is the promotional poster
0	book of revelations starts very well daniel an egomaniac dancer is kidnapped abused and sexually raped by three masked women br br after that nothing else really happens there is some hint of rediscovery but the movie gives nor explanation nor a real ending daniel reactions after the abuse are very basic he quits dancing has sex with every women around and finally starting a relation with very simple and common woman br br i have seen a good share of art house movies but this has something missing in it br br the main leads are fine but some characters does not seems to be completely defined
0	sure i like some indie films a lot actually i don't always understand them and that's okay not all of them were meant to be understood especially by mainly main stream people like me i'm probably showing my ignorance but i'm still puzzled why 'book of is called that i love those end of world stories and the only thing i could see similar to the end of the world and this film was the torture it took to get through this i'm not talking about the subject matter perhaps i've been subdued from all the other torture porn i've seen it was just the incredibly slow story one hour 15 minute material stretched for nearly two hours major spoilers lie ahead hetero man dancer gets abducted seduced and raped six ways from sunday or in this case 12 days by three hooded women upon his release after his somewhat distraught dancer girlfriend barely flinches other than dropping a glass after wondering which she missed more him or the cigarettes she originally sent him for upon abduction still in a state of reasonable shock he refuses to talk and she goes on to work without so much a hug as if nothing happened and he takes a well needed shower problem as much as he's tormented through the flashbacks to his uh attacks he's as equally aroused granted i haven't been bound and used as a plaything but i doubt i would really be in the mood oh i forgot and how does he try and solve this crime sleep with as many women as he can to try and spot the birthmarks or the criminals had i see where they're going with it – show a gang rape from the male pov fine twist notwithstanding you could never feel for this guy only saving grace was the good acting of the dancer cancer instructor but even she couldn't save the film
0	many questions arise about the making of this film the first of which is why make a film that plays out as little more than an awkward female fantasy it's one thing to leave an audience with issues to discuss about a film's intent it's something entirely different to go into the process of writing a script which fails to adequately address real human issues before they are rendered on the screen br br why the outrageously melodramatic and often comical soundtrack why the excessive and frequently clunky dialogue why is the lead character's girlfriend one of the hooded abductors what purpose is there to turning the lead character's freedom from abduction into a joke by having him complete his mission this is a classic little aussie film moment resort to quirky comedy at the most inappropriate moment why so many scenes where absolutely nothing happens this accounts for approximately 15 minutes of the film which is at least 30 minutes too long why if a man is imprisoned for so many days does he not endeavor to make a serious attempt at escape br br the director who co wrote the script has failed on many counts to deliver a satisfactory story br br dave garver australia
0	here's a couple of paragraphs out of an essay i wrote for university about br br the book of revelation is an erotic thriller about sex power and a talented dancer's struggle to regain his sense of self after being unfortunately raped by three cloaked women the three women that violate him all have distinctive marks on the bodies one has a giant birth mark on her buttocks another has a butterfly tattoo on her lower stomach and the ring leader has a small circle on her breast so he lives his new life in search of these markings and to find them on these intimate places he does what any sane man does when he needs to see as many naked women as possible to solve a mystery he has sex with them an hour and ten minutes into the film and you feel like he has almost had a piece of every woman in melbourne br br the film is a giant chunk of pretentious celluloid it is like drips from every frame at only one point towards the films final climax does give a scene the same energy and strength as her debut feature head on had in droves as like many films funded by the government bodies the film takes it self way to seriously the script and its execution appear to be chores rather then gifts and unfortunately for the talented thespians their brilliant performances particularly tom long as the fractured protagonist are stuck within the confines of a pompous wan k fest
0	while walking to buy cigarettes the professional dancer daniel tom long is abducted and forced to have kinky sex along many days by three hooded women when he is released the director of his company isabel greta scacchi has already replaced him in the play and his girlfriend gives a cold reception to him the disturbed and humiliated daniel leaves the dance company and travels obsessed to seek out the abductors daniel has sex with many women that he suspects that might be the kidnappers br br the book of revelation is a weird movie with a promising beginning that loses the initial power and becomes a sort of too long erotic soap opera or soft porn chic the production is classy the cover of the dvd is awesome but the characters are not well developed and the trauma of daniel seems to be excessive since most of the men would fantasize with the dream situation that he was submitted – to become sexual object of three sexy women the melodramatic development with the illness of isabel does not add any value to the plot the open conclusion is very disappointing and there are no explanations for the motive of the women or the title it is very clear that the screenplay about a man's feelings was written by a woman it was good to see the still beautiful greta scacchi again and her make up in the end is impressive there is a saying in portuguese that could be translated to english as follows if the rape is inevitable relax and come daniel should have done this and spared me of watching almost two hours of a pointless story my vote is four br br title brazil o das the book of revelations
0	the 1935 version of enchanted april manages to be simultaneously tedious br br and perfunctory it is difficult to show the transformative magic of italy shooting in a studio with only stereotypical italian behavior to belabor the transformation of the four strangers fleeing london is instantaneous in the cut from the first day to a week later rather than develop the screenplay flips a switch and the br br characters are different br br the husbands are boring enough in flashbacks without turning up even if their presence does not drive the four women back into their shells and or hostilities br br jessie ralph has the most fun moving instead of entirely chewing up the br br scenery and katharine alexander has some poignant charm out of her br br husband's shadow and away from his hideous droning ann harding is br br unremarkable here with the production code being enforced she had an br br appropriate line in an earlier pre code movie when ladies meet you're br br not worth a minute of one anxious hour that either one of us has given you but in enchanted april can only look hurt rush out and proclaim to her errant husband
0	low budget junk about bloodthirsty cultists in greece headed by peter cushing its up to priest donald pleasance to stop them crown international released this crap in 1978 and it was dog of the week on one of the episodes of sneak previews with gene siskel and roger ebert i forget which of the two dogged it but i see the point crappy movie has the worst peter cushing and donald pleasance performances i've ever seen there is a monster on the video box no such beast exists in the movie instead you get a statue but at least its correct woo hoo br br the cultists look like the klux klowns if a group could exist skip it
0	how can you go wrong with a film that mixes the sophistication of peter cushing the determination of donald pleasence and the bust of peters easy you give them a terrible script to work with br br peter cushing in an evil role leads a satanic cult that has captured a couple friends of donald pleasence donald plays a determined but aloof priest that desires to locate his friends but needs the help of fred from scooby doo to locate them he summons the help of a new york who dresses just like the hero of the cartoon in his task meanwhile the girlfriend of one of the missing people peters joins the search if all this sounds interesting then you like myself were mislead br br it doesn't take long for the trio to sniff out the baddies but their methods of bringing the bad guys to justice are foolish also women will find this a crapfest every time they get on the bad guys trail our two male heroes tell to stay at the hotel even though she can handle herself better than the squeamish priest played by pleasence br br story the script really lets us down no tension is built no worthwhile dialogue is given the stars and you'll need both hands to count the number of times peters is told to stay behind and let men do men work if you're interested in seeing a minotaur on film don't bother we get a statue of a minotaur that spits flames br br violence there are some attacks and a few sacrifices but those of you who drool for gore will be letdown br br acting even though there are three of my favorite actors in this film there is nothing redeemable here peter cushing doesn't have much screen time donald pleasence is clearly aware that he is on the set of a stinker and peters is ill used this should have been much better given the talent involved but then again the yankees lose a game here and there too br br nudity peters takes a bath but you see next to nothing she isn't as obliging here as she was in the flesh and blood show
0	peter cushing and donald pleasance are legendary actors and director kostas was the man behind the successful greek giallo esquire thriller death kiss in 1974 and yet when you combine the three talents all you get is this complete load of drivel god only knows what drove the likes of peter cushing and donald pleasance to star in this cheapie devil worship flick but i really do hope they were well paid as neither one deserves something as amateurish as this on their resumes the story focuses on a group of devil worshippers that kidnap some kids leading another group to go after them the pace of the plot is very slow and this ensures that the film is very boring the plot is also a long way from being original and anyone with even a passing interest in the horror genre will have seen something a bit like this and no doubt done much better the obvious lack of budget is felt throughout and the film doesn't manage to overcome this at any point this really is a depressing and miserable watch and not even a slightly decent ending manages to up the ante enough to lift this film out of the very bottom of the barrel extremely poor stuff and definitely not recommended
0	donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film that always sounds like a terrific plan two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like the flesh and the fiends and from beyond the grave pairing up in a mid 70's satanic themed exploitation flick how can this possibly go wrong well unfortunately it can to my deepest regret land of the minotaur can hardly even be called mediocre and that in spite of the cast the exotic setting the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise in a remote little area in greece more particularly near an archaeological site multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue cushing who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area father the priest of a couple of towns before decides to investigate land of the minotaur is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn't bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details the titular minotaur for example is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance instead the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance his portrayal of rude bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always
0	the devil's men represents what turned out to be one of the last gasps of the occult obsessed horror scene of the 70's shortly before halloween came along tore up the rule book set fire to it and kicked it screaming through a plate glass window br br to cut a long story short a couple of enterprising greek film makers fancy their chances of nailing together a new film franchise featuring the unlikely double act of womanising wise talking american investigator milo and stuffy but kind hearted priest father an exiled nobleman is mixed up in some satanic offering up tourists as sacrifices to an extremely effigy of the minotaur and only milo and can stop him br br or something like that br br the reality is however horribly dull frustrating and loaded with wasted opportunities i strongly suspect that the fledgling film makers blew most of the budget on getting donald peter cushing and brian for the soundtrack onboard and hoped that would be enough to sway audiences in the english speaking world br br it isn't the devil's men looks beautiful with assured camera work and fantastic locations score though basically just a one chord drone that he probably cranked out in an afternoon is suitably atmospheric and the movie is laden with cracking 70's crumpet including that austrailian sort from fawlty towers and uber hottie jane lyle of island of death infamy but there the positives end cushing sleepwalks through it looking like he has a corn cob up his bum and pleasance about trying his best but never quite getting things right to make matters worse the character of milo is appallingly flimsy and unlikeable br br okay so it doesn't look that good but from there the film simply refuses to go anywhere there is an insinuation that the local villagers are possessed but to be fair to them they never really do anything very much other than shuffle about looking glassy eyed perhaps they were just tired just when you are sure things will come to some kind of a head milo and interrupt the baron's satanic party with laughable ease sending him on to meet his maker the statue of the minotaur falls silent and hey presto satan is defeated br br yeah right br br the inane optimism that the devil's men might be the first of a series of films is hammered home by father final line mere seconds before the ridiculously rushed ending br br who knows milo perhaps one day i may call upon you again to help defeat the antichrist br br i'm sure you'll be putting that call in any day now donald
0	my my my peter cushing and donald pleasance must have been desperate for work to have lent their talents to this turkey a horribly muddled story about satanism in modern day greece land of the minotaur aka the devil's men is a misfire on more or less every level imaginable it has precious few scares always a slight flaw for a horror movie don't you think weak performances countless scenes where characters foolishly wander off alone or turn down the opportunity to remain in the safety of a group and some rather irritating editing techniques which add nothing whatsoever to the proceedings i got prematurely excited at the prospect of cushing and pleasance working together 17 years after the flesh and the fiends but this film isn't worth getting remotely excited about it's a huge let down and rather an embarrassment for its much leads br br in a remote region of greece outsiders such as tourists and archaeologists keep going missing and local priest father donald pleasance suspects that something sinister is afoot he writes to his friend new york private eye milo kaye costas asking him to fly out to greece to help him get to the bottom of the mystery in the meantime three more visitors beth ian nikos and tom robert who are all personal friends of father go missing while snooping around nearby greek ruins milo eventually arrives in greece but is initially dubious about father beliefs that the missing people have been snatched for satanic sacrifices milo and father are also joined by laurie peters the girlfriend of missing man tom together they uncover the activities of a minoan devil worshipping cult headed by creepy carpathian exile baron peter cushing these crazed cultists have been sacrificing their victims to a statue of the minotaur furthermore they seemingly cannot be killed by normal means so father has to use a variety of religious artifacts in his fight against them br br land of the minotaur should have been much better than it actually is the plot is so wacky and improbable that it has all the hallmarks of an enjoyably goofy cult camp favourite but the handling is just awful director costas has no idea how to link the narrative together cohesively so the whole thing progresses like it was being made up on a day to day basis he also has no idea how to coax convincing performances from his cast so they are left to embarrass themselves in either dreadfully hammy pleasance cushing or dreadfully amateurish peters performances what's worse is that the narrative makes no sense why would father seek help from a private eye who is utterly flippant about his beliefs how does know that the sacrifices only occur during a full moon how can the minotaur statue speak why is one one of the sacrificial victims instructed during a vision to stab father only to herself be stabbed a few scenes later before getting a chance to carry it out and most baffling of all why does father drag milo halfway around the world to help him when all he needs is a crucifix and and some holy water to dispose of the bad guys these questions and more will pop into your mind during land of the minotaur but alas there are no answers to be had frustrating dumb and disappointing
0	this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell and did so really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivation br br we get cliché snapshots instead of characters one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss who projects an overdone tough guy persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase as in the smallest from a complete american set in a bright sky blue without explanation or apology otherwise it's standard visually one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct
0	this should have been a moody gritty movie which lingered in the memory as an exposition of relationship where the dominant personality only survives because the personality being dominated sees no hope of change br br the acting was intense and skillful the dialogue worked but the movie was irritatingly ineffective too many distance shots that suggested lack of focus rather than a broader picture poor flow the first 5 minutes could have been missed out altogether br br i suspect that with a different edit this movie could have been compelling br br in its current form it is flat formless and tremendously disappointing
0	sure the concept had already been done with alf and the thrust modern society onto one or more out of place characters but i loved both shows and watched them religiously until they ended in 1990 when i learned about scorch i was actually very hopeful for something new as new tv in the 90's so far hadn't impressed me but at least star trek tng and the simpsons were still going br br what i got was a big disappointment the acting was awful but considering the ridiculous dialogue and wholly unbelievable writing i can't blame them too much for what they had to work with there were a few humorous moments but most of the deliberate jokes seemed forced in their delivery the whole production work on the show seemed too low budget for what was on tv at the time in the 80's it would have fit right in br br still it was the first episode and had to introduce the characters and establish the entire premise of the series so i gave it the benefit of the doubt the second episode wasn't as bad and i started to get my hopes back that once it got into its stride the show would improve sadly my vcr ended up not recording the third episode aired i never got to see it and the series disappeared from the tv listings after that all i have now are the first two episodes recorded off the air onto a vhs tape
0	this could have been the best game ever but the game makers just screwed up after 3 assassinations and the ending this is a combination of prince of persia hit man gta and age of empires ii br br yes these four games mentioned above are considered to be one of the greatest games ever made br br you combine the four and you get this game it has all the good aspects of the four games like acrobatic skills stealth assassinations open world and the history for the first 3 assassinations you feel this game is greatest but after the third things seem to get so repetitive that you only hope for the game to end br br i have played this on a pc and the pc version is horrible with glitches and the stupid side missions are senseless br br my advice to all this is a good game but get it either for the or ps3 don't get it for the pc br br lastly this game came from the creators of prince of persia surely the producer is hot but the game is not hot and it is not better than the four games mentioned above
0	i found this to be a tremendously disappointing version of a charming story i thought the acting was on the whole quite good reginald owen did chew the scenery as mentioned by others but i found him moderately amusing in his brief scenes tcm has made an ann harding fan of me and i thought she was fine as usual here jessie ralph had a field day as the old ordering everybody around and frank morgan as always played frank morgan with a twinkle br br for me the problem was the script and or the editing transitions were awkward motivations were murky the movie was just too darned short to convey the story properly i felt completely let down particularly since i had such fond memories of the later version
0	this game was terrible i think they worked too hard on the visuals and didn't do much with the gameplay which is the most important part i mean the visuals look incredible but is the game really fun no i mean it's like hey let's jump off buildings and all i'm doing is holding up and a x the game play just isn't there and i don't agree with what did because they had this hot girl the producer of the game jade raymond and they were like ok we've got this hot girl let's pimp her and if you go to gaming websites you're not gonna see gameplay stuff of assassin's creed you'll see her face with a microphone and it'll be like we interviewed jade raymond about her favorite cookies it's like man shut the f k up who cares apparently a lot of people do because they bought the game and like it i mean compare this game with super mario galaxy a wii game that really doesn't abuse the wii remote but still is very innovative and delivers in the most important part gameplay they were able to do a bit of everything with mario galaxy the graphics were still stunning the music in the game was orchestrated and sounded amazing and that's a game that deserves game of the year not assassin's creed man it doesn't even deserve to even be a nominee for game of the year the hype around this game where it was like oh it's the next generation of gaming really i think not so let me get this straight here because i think the people liking this game are only liking it because they're jade fans so i'll tell you guys jade will not make out with you or anything if you love or defend this game if you want a real game on the ps3 get uncharted drake's fortune if you want a real game for the xbox 360 get call of duty 4 and a ton of other games too and if you want a real game just in all the systems get super mario galaxy i know this comment will be hated by many but seriously pressing two buttons for doing all this cool stuff is that really a fun game the only reason why other games make it more complicated is because after it'll end up being more innovative and fun and this game just isn't it br br 1 3 10 a living hell
0	this is hands down the most annoying and frustrating game i have ever encountered every time you turn around the game takes control of your character or creates invisible walls that you can't walk through the cut scenes leave you in control of your character's movements but only to a slight degree also you have to play the game for about 2 hours just to get past the intro it's terrible i am afraid if i play this game any more i will end up breaking something this game sucks the graphics are good but nothing special the game play however is awful to say i hate this game would be a huge understatement i got it on sale but i want my 20 back what a waste
0	it's 2 stars only because they put a lot of work in making this game look good i played plenty of good and bad games and i think this game has the dullest story i was ever forced to listen the best thing they could have done is to let you skip the conversations but no you must listen to them talking for 10 minutes and just continue doing the same things over and over again climb the building save the citizen go kill some dude it's all the same should really hire someone with some imagination br br i'm a huge fan of prince of persia series first 3 the story was good and you wanted to know what happens next all the time i don't even hate prince of persia 4 but i think anyone who was in charge of developing the story for assassin's creed should be banned to write another thing for the rest of his life br br boring story and same missions over and over again if just one of these two things was good the game would be worth playing
0	the comments already left for this show are way more funny than the show itself and they are all accurate i feel exactly the same way that i am very disappointed at how far rick mercer has fallen when he used to do some really great things on this hour has 22 minutes but now he is just clowning around going places and talking to people he does some bits in the studio about things going on in the news but they are never funny at all just really sad and predictable jokes about headlines most of his show is him going somewhere to talk to people for example this week he is going to a rodeo and the video pieces are all of him making funny faces and acting scared of the wild horses etc he used to be funny but has gotten way less funny since leaving this hour has 22 minutes and that show is also not funny at all any more now that air farce is off the air finally thank goodness mercer and this hour has 22 minutes have got to be next in line for the axe just old tired predictable comedy that almost nobody finds funny any more it's sad really considering rick mercer used to be the funniest man on canadian tv
0	remember when rick mercer was funny 22 minutes was a great show when rick mercer was on it and made in canada was a great show once too talking to americans was such a funny special too but like my friend said rick mercer woke up one day and wasn't funny any more i think that day was when rick mercer report went on the air what is the point of this show rick mercer reads wacky fake headlines shows pictures of bad sheds that people mail in and then spends about 20 minutes of the 30 minute show going somewhere and just talking to people hoping to say something witty or clever enough to get on tv and maybe even make somebody somewhere laugh we're supposed to be interested in seeing rick mercer visit a gymnastics team and then try to do some of their moves and then suck at it on purpose while trying desperately to be funny rick mercer got old or just lost interest or just ain't funny any more even his classic rant bits have lost all their bite and humor you can say that about cbc comedy in general though because how many years have they been sticking air farce on tv to deliver the same kinds of useless jokes
0	this is my first film i'll confess we chose it mainly because we knew this had the enticing prospect of antonio banderas in gay sex scenes br br unfortunately that is about all that this film has to recommend it i consider myself a fairly sophisticated viewer i like european films art films and i am generally able to recognize a quality film even if it is not to my particular taste br br but this film was a complete blank to me the plot was ridiculous the characters lifeless the box called it a hilarious comedy but i didn't laugh once loosly and awkwardly constructed with a lot of pointless dialogue i don't get this at all it seems like an amateurish effort can someone enlighten me
0	i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almodóvar but this would have to be the most disappointing so far this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films and the story just never got me interested many almodóvar regulars appear in this film so it's not like there was a lack of on screen talent but this film just seemed more serious than his other films if there was a comedic edge to this movie i certainly couldn't find it and it made for one surprisingly weak movie
0	i liked all the lilo and stitch movies the tv series weren't that great but i put my opinions of the series aside when i watched this movie and i must say it was bad br br one thing i found disappointing was the animation yes you heard it the animation i found its quality greatly degraded since the first movie its quality was only as high as the tv series' something which i did not expect at all if you're looking for eye candy don't expect anything much here also the animation failed to portray any serious moods even in the supposed sad scenes i didn't feel anything for the character another downgrade from the first movie br br the next was the absolutely horrible voice acting i found it very very unconvincing and wondered why disney with all its riches and glory couldn't afford voice actors with real talent the voice actors' skill were just as annoying as the one in the series i tolerated the one in the series because hey who wouldn't be tired out when made to voice act for so many episodes heck i don't even know how many episodes there are theoretically there are but i just can't believe that however i thought that the voice acting would improve in the movie and i was put down in the face by the truth that what they could do in the series was already their best br br next was the horrible script it was cheesy beyond redemption and the writers just try too hard they try to put some jokes in but i just found them annoying maybe it wasn't the voice acting but the cheesy dialogues that ruined the sound section on the upside the soundtrack wasn't too bad and matched the mood quite well br br fourthly was the problem with the storyline i predicted everything and the storyline was what made the characters so unoriginal and unlikeable all of a sudden you have the aliens get new positions and responsibilities space after the initial hype they realize that they actually didn't like it and miss their old life br br meanwhile the evil villain gets broken out of jail after a very 'action action scene and breaks in to lab to steal his experiment the experiment was then cloned into 100 others and the hamster wants to conquer earth when the main characters find out they try to stop the evil hamster but gets confronted in some cheesy final showdown against the experiment and owns him in an extremely lame excuse for trying to make the series to look cool the characters then give up their new privileges and return to earth to resume their life seriously how many other movies has used that ending already the that storyline was extremely short and formulaic so don't expect too much from it br br so disney has failed in sound graphics and storyline the only charm of the series was the original characters and how they managed to retain the 'feel' of the characters but even that wasn't able to save the movie i tried to like it i really did but i give it a rating of 4 10 another disney failure
0	the story is a turn of the century troupe of actors along with producers and theatre owners have very complicated relationships a resident playwright has written a psychological drama he wants to get a good production on stage but can't unless he convinces a reviewer to revisit the production and give a positive review if his production does not go on then the troupe will put on the doll house recently written by ibsen many different relationships among the principals are explored none of them interesting but the involvement of the characters with one another lead to giving the play by the resident a second shot br br this movie is purely an excuse for the director and his friends to get together and put on a movie the story lines are incoherent to anyone who isn't a buddy of one of the stars the only reason i didn't leave the theatre after about a half hour is that a fat lady was resting a full meal atop her stomach at the end of my row
0	has expanded the limits of john turturro's mediocrity from second rate actor to third rate director writer and producer this film was dreadful it is disjointed and from scene to scene with little flow or meaning relevant to the main story line br br we are served with a smorgasbord of fragmented scenes each a non sequitur to all the others the only thread that seems to run through them is that they occur in the lives of the members of the same theatre repertory company the few scenes that do matter to the plot are so convoluted that you frequently can't tell if the dialogue is from the story or the actors running their lines for the play within the story br br if this story were a person it would be a schizophrenic with personality disorder it couldn't decide if it was a drama a romance a comedy a tragedy a sex farce or a parody of theatre it came closest to being bearable as a sex farce br br turturro was lifeless and impassive as supposedly a complex and passionate writer whose play gets its big chance when the currently running show needs to be cancelled due to the illness of the lead actor susan sarandon gave a good performance as the aging actress trying to seduce for a role unfortunately she found it necessary to go topless which only goes to illustrate that the hardware of aging sex symbols is much better left to the imagination walkin gave a delightful performance as the uppity theatre critic who makes impassioned overtures to a member of the cast beverly d'angelo and ben gazzara also had minor roles br br i gave this film a 2 other than walken's vignette there is really not much to recommend it except that the puppets used in the opening and closing credits were phenomenally lifelike and beautiful avoid this movie like the plague that it is br br
0	enchanted april was one of harry last movies he only directed a few more after this one he had made the maisie movies in the 1930s and 1940s in the opening credits it says from the novel by elizabeth and completely leaves off the author's last name rather odd but since it was von armin they may not have wanted the german association at the time sad to hear it was a flop when it was released with those fun names like frank morgan the wizard and jessie ralph who played w c fields' disapproving mother in law in bank dick two gals in london ann harding katharine alexander decide to rent a castle to host two of their friends but things don't go the way they planned reginald owen plays the husband with multiple personalities aside from a few funny moments it does move pretty slow ralph is the only bright spot here as the overbearing take charge type and the picture is quite fuzzy and out of focus for much of the film the views of italy are all obvious backdrops the only saving grace here is that the turner classic version is only 66 minutes long too bad they didn't give frank morgan a larger role this was remade in 1992 by the bbc as a british film
0	this movie treads on very familiar ground the confusion of art and reality in the life of actors it does not have anything particularly novel or interesting to say on this subject and is in fact rather dull the final scene in particular is interminably tedious seeing the audience crying at the moving acting they are seeing on the screen made me ask who do they think they are kidding br br nevertheless there are some good performances and interesting scenes particularly from some of the minor characters ben gazzara plays an old and slightly touched actor who gets a whole posse of policemen clapping his performance when they come to arrest him br br christopher walken again plays an over the top wacko remember his character the continental on saturday night live an aging eurotrash chasing a young woman around the furniture and trying to get her into bed he does an identical turn in the film chasing his young male prey around an antique table and plying him with champagne br br overall this film was both enchanting and irritating but mostly irritating
0	it's partly bad luck for that it comes out after shakespeare in love as it deals with virtually the same themes of life as art art as life and the magic of the theatre and the same archetypal foibles of theater folk but a whole lot more ponderously br br there are scenes that come alive as a play develops and gets by a writer's life but there's a whole lot of orson welles ish ego in this produced by directed by lead acted by john torturro as a vehicle for his wife katharine with an adorable cameo by their son br br each actor gets his her moment literally in the spotlight but there's so many or set pieces that seem like 19th century parlor games bill irwin talks susan sarandon gets to be a diva christopher walken gets to be a different kind of villain a gay critic the women have to disrobe unnecessarily because this is an art film br br the art and set direction are marvelous though quite dark this should get an award as the best use of a jersey city theater as a set ever in a movie originally written 8 21 99
0	i don't mind the odd artsy film but when they are larded with arcane symbolism and murky dialogue and when it's obvious they were done for the filmmaker's ego rather than the viewer's benefit i get upset i'm not a stupid person yet i simply didn't understand what this film was trying to say or do film is a magnificent form of human communication why do some filmmakers use it instead for
0	best around the middle when most characters get horny and go after someone they haven't had before it is around this point that we get to see susan sarandon's majestic breasts even if through a veil strangely enough beverly d'angelo who isn't shy about nudity doesn't show any at all while aida turturro – of all people – does on the other end of the spectrum the less said about walken playing a homosexual the better the film itself has little plot the dialogs from the theater play and the normal dialogs cross over often and that's not the sort of thing i'd consider a good idea life in the theater who cares occasionally the dialog has something going for it but the film drags in stretches
0	while i'm normally a big fan of john turturro's work as an actor and director is a great disappointment although the film has some charming moments overall it falls flat worst of all the film is confusing where is the movie set italy or an italian troupe in new york why bother making a historical film if it fails to convey a setting if you want to see a well made inspiring historical film also about theater go see tim robbins' the cradle will rock this movie has many pluses including a fine performance by john turturro
0	i went into this film really wanting to like it it headlined a film festival earlier in the year and boasted an all star cast but and you could tell there was a but coming it's a failure of a film outstanding character acting by sarandon and walken is destroyed by editing and the antics of the supporting cast turturro's performance is lackluster and most of the comedy is overplayed the recurring puppet shows are pointless and a few scenes are completely out of place br br that said there are some wonderful moments sprinkled in the film a genuinely touching stage moment several of the seductions and a few of the comedic color actually work out unfortunately they're overshadowed by the incoherent script and some bad acting
0	r i c c o is the stupidest film ever made i can't believe my father bought this crap this film should da never got made if this film was wide known trust me it will be on the 1 spot for imdb's worst the acting is horrible it's scary which it is why it's horror this piece of s had no horror in at at all it's an urban action which is funny because i could of swore it was a comedy when people got shot i couldn't help but laugh i am the only person who reviewed this and i hope that i am the last with this vote only i hope it make it to the 1 spot at the worst
0	a movie this dumb should never see the light of day the acting is lame the violence is just all over the place the sneaking ending is just plain stupid br br it's all about a lawyer who saw a murder done by the r i c c o squad no one has never seen him not even the hit men themselves so he and a beautiful lady are on the run trying to find the leader of this r i c c o squad before they find them br br then the movie goes on to a romance gun shooting and voodoo now how in the hell did voodoo come in this never see this film if your life depends on it trust me
0	adored by fans for his unusually charming creativity and by hollywood for his softball user friendly movie making techniques tim burton tipped the scales too far in favor with his new upset of a cinematic legend sleepy hollow following the quest of crane – played by johnny depp delivering this dreary film's only shining point – to the heart of the mystery surrounding a town's seemingly random and gruesome murders by a fabled headless horseman the story plays out as if it were purposely trying to be repugnantly predictable contrived as a children's bedtime story humdrum character introduction is laced with intended upon exciting non engaging chase scenes which with undeveloped characters fleeing for their lives produce about as much fright and thrill as the nightmare before christmas br br toss in an endless bundle of old trees for ambience and a wide eyed big busted blonde love interest christina and burton has himself a movie that takes the age old legend of sleepy hollow and succeeded in making it like a disney movie without the charm or dialog was choppy and ridiculous severed heads were aplenty and there were enough plot revealing monologues to embarrass the likes of james bond even with the backing of emmanuel the most sought after cinematographer in hollywood today the wonderful acting of depp and burton's astounding name recognition sleepy hollow is nothing to lose your head over
0	i have in the past loved tim burton i loved ed wood edward scissorhands and even mars attacks but i hate this movie the costume drama scenes in the beginning were the sort of poorly done stodgy things that used to plague historical drama 25 years ago then there were all the head cutting scenes which just left me cold and that's the sort of thing that ought to mean something i would think yes there were some nice bare trees and foggy evenings and the horseman jumping out of the tree was a nice special effect but on the whole the movie was just boring and pointless
0	i had been delighted to find that tcm was showing this as i love the 1992 version with josie lawrence jim broadbent joan plowright this film had a luminous ann harding a wonderful performance by frank morgan but others' acting made the film more of a farce then the wonderful unfolding that the later film reginald owen's arbuthnot is painful to watch and you can't understand why his wife adores him i found out after watching the film that it was based on the stage play where the 1992 film is based on the book the original film also felt like it was a snippet of a larger piece and felt incomplete too bad it was such a let down
0	1983's is an odd little film the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic '30s '40s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding '80s slasher genre it isn't totally successful mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors but it still has its moments mostly due to the classy performance than the movie deserves by the late german actor ferdinand mayne who plays an aging old time horror movie star ala vincent price named conrad at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he's shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol' conrad is a bit of a hoity toity prima donna jerk off just when you think he couldn't be any more un likable the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death nice huh conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die still feisty even at death's door he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects br br it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad's grave an after hours visit breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party not exactly my idea of fun but hey these are characters in an '80s horror film logic has no place here the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad's body seated in a place of honor posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic planning to return him to his crypt in the morning in the meantime mrs distraught over the theft of her husband's body has called in a psychic friend to try and reach conrad through a you can pretty much figure out the rest from here since conrad wasn't a very nice guy in life it's not much of a stretch to assume that he won't be any friendlier in death psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students' ridiculously huge house picking off the young grave robbers one by one this is where the movie falls apart endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying hello is anyone there are intercut with occasional bursts of violence we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene which is the highlight of the movie before the last two survivors finally figure out way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing but again we're in an '80s horror film that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad's body back to its crypt where it belongs the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder moans and groans howls etc that becomes severely annoying after a while br br i can't really recommend to anyone who didn't grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the '80s modern horror fans will doubtlessly find incredibly slow moving and goofy if you came of age in that magical decade however you may get a blast of nostalgia from fans of jeffrey re animator combs may also want to check it out as the future dr west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students br br i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the label paired with roy ward's vault of horror and sold at dollar stores because the print quality is terrible i'm told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma which seems appropriate if you're a troma kind of person then will be right up your alley
0	this film had a lot of potential it's a great story and has the potential to be very creepy but of course tim burton doesn't really do creepy films he does wacky cartoonish films and i usually like tim burton's stuff but i thought this film was really weak the best thing about the film and it is actually worth seeing just for this was the art direction the film has an amazing intangible quality to it the script was not good it was boring in parts and confusing in other parts and there was no building of characters i never really cared that people were having their heads lopped off by a headless being i thought johnny depp had a good thing going with his approach to the character but given that the script was weak he couldn't go too far with it and i was very irritated by the attempts at a slight accent on his and christina ricci's parts br br anyway it is sadly not a great film and not worth seeing unless you are interested in the art direction
0	several things become apparent after the first few minutes of this film first the scenery and special effects are incredible the best and if everything else worked as well its austere presence might have made it a great film br br but as soon as the actors open their mouths you suddenly realize that you are sitting in your den watching a movie the story itself is full of and melodrama and the dialogue is some of the worst i've ever seen and as if that weren't bad enough they made a fool out of the protagonist and in my experience you don't want to do that unless the film is a comedy br br bottom line i had a hard time getting into it and i wouldn't recommend it
0	surely this film was hacked up by the studio perhaps not but i feel there were serious flaws in the storytelling that if not attributed to the editing process could only be caused by grievously bad criminal indeed writing and directing br br i understand the effect burton wished to achieve with the stylised acting similar to the gothic fairytale atmosphere of edward scissorhands but here unfortunately it falls flat and achieves no mythical depth of tropes but only the offensive tripe of affectation ie bad acting and shallow characterisation even for a fairytale br br finally not that scary indeed only mildly amusing in its attempts the use of dialogue as a vehicle for plot background was clumsy and unnecessary the mystery of who is the headless horseman would suffice no need for the myth about a german mercenary although christopher walken did cut a dashing figure but not that menacing seeing the head makes him seem far friendlier that a decapitated inhuman nine foot tall spirit as in the original legend br br no real rhythm or universal tone was ever established and not a classic in burtons stilted and clipped as my parting shot
0	the original review i had planned for this movie was perhaps a little over harsh so i'll preface with the good sleepy hollow is a perfectly acceptable beer and pizza or sleepover movie the kind you watch with a good group of people when the mood is light and no one's really focusing on the movie the visual elements are beautiful and it is kinda fun in parts but horror my friends it is not i made the mistake of watching it expecting something to shiver at with all the lights off if this is your intention send me a personal message and i'll offer you a list of alternate recommendations that's a serious offer by the way true horror fans deserve better now my complaints complete with spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers why bother even making a movie based on a classic story if you're not even going to attempt to stay true to the sense feel tone or theme of the original listen carefully between the lines of ill written dialogue and you'll hear the slow churn of washington irving rolling over in his grave i will even accept the big city detective bit but ricci drawing around the bed come now not only is there nothing even vaguely like this in the legend of sleepy hollow but it's historical bunk i don't care what neo pagan axe you have to grind but in the 18th century witchcraft meant selling your soul to the devil in exchange for diabolical powers this whole fluffy white witch goddess worship an' it harm none approach to witchcraft dates back historically about as far as the british invasion parties interested in real old school pagan practices are referred to james the golden bough if you don't believe me this creates such a discordant element thrown into the context of the film that the very framework of the sleepy hollow legend is shattered so we wind up with a totally different story altogether if that was burton's idea i wish he'd warned us in advance also i wish he'd come up with a better story than the rather pedestrian one witnessed here and he might as well have dropped the irving pretensions altogether and at any rate the movie isn't scary not once not at all the warped tree came close but was more than counterbalanced by the laughable effect of the farce comedy bellowing and finally yes i too wanted christina ricci for christmas but god clearly never meant her to be a blonde
0	this movie is the worst ever sorry but this was a total waste of good hours quasi psychology and b actors makes a baaaad horror movie you can say that if you are into bad movies you will adore this one and the hot chick wasn't all that hot there is absolutely no climax to the movie and the worst part is the ending song some homemade thing with these words its in awful condition the world is a mess when heads fall of bodies and girls wont stay dressed the cops they are clueless eating donuts in their car next morning headless body topless bar jesus sorry guys but milks gone bad with this one
0	generally speaking i'm a an admirer of jess franco's film making but for some of this movies i really have difficulties understanding the motivation behind them or even their reason of existence like this sick puppy for example sadomania has absolutely no cinematic value it's poorly made without any sort of plot and featuring some of the most ill natured sleaze footage ever captured on film this is another filthy women in prison film where rape lesbian action and violent torture games are daily routine the guards are crazier than the prisoners and the institution is protected by an impotent governor who only gets sexually aroused when he spots a girl having sex with a dog the girls are all very beautiful and naked throughout the entire film yet you can't really enjoy this sight with all the perversion going on the dubious highlights include a barbaric hunting game you can guess what he prey is a duel to death between a guard and a prisoner and the image of a poor girl having a needle injected all the way through her nipple avoid this sick mess and you'll save yourself the trouble of taking two baths in order to wash the filth off
0	i can't help thinking that this is franco's to the marquis de sade's one thousand days of people in this case women abducted to serve as slaves to a privileged elite check kinky sex check torture including whipping check victims chosen at random to be killed check br br thank goodness franco didn't go the whole hog and introduce cinema audiences to the delights of and indeed another perversion that crops up repeatedly in de sade's tediously long and disgusting saga br br i rather hoped that this film would fall into the 'so bad it's good' category but even the acres of naked flesh and numerous sexual encounters didn't make up for the dismal dialogue dreadful acting elusive plot and just to put the tin hat on it dubbing and english sub titles a belt and braces approach missing from the women's costumes the gave a very professional performance though br br of course i could be wrong about the de sade angle after all i failed to realise that the actor playing the head warden at the was a trans sexual i must pay more attention to the size of people's hands in future br br according to another reviewer the film was banned in the uk well it clearly isn't any more though i fancy that the nipple scene was cut to satisfy the censors on the dvd i watched it was only clearly visible on the spanish trailer which in case you're wondering i watched to compare it with the english one br br the dvd also features an interview with jess franco though you'll need better spanish than mine to understand it unless i'm much mistaken it's neither dubbed nor sub titled and it points out that the person sodomising the character played by franco is wilson disguised using a moustache kind of ironic given that s he had had the requisite appendage surgically removed
0	jesus franco is pretty hit or miss on his films i'd say this was a miss that is unless you're into total sleaze i will say that the man has an eye for a good shot even if it involves topless women with machine guns silhouetted against the ocean this is overall pretty ridiculous and the acting is horrible but the acting is the least of what this is about and what is it about well it's about 102 minutes of lesbianism women picking and shoveling in the hot sun for no apparent reason and just about as much sleaze as you can stand and maybe then some most notable is a scene involving one young woman who is tied to a chair and an apparently amorous german shepherd and while what's going on is merely implied thankfully it is probably a scenario that i could have done without i'd rank this up there with tender flesh as one of the franco films i'd rather not have in my collection although the music is jazzy and fun 4 out of 10 yecch
0	i am a fan of jess franco's bizarre style and a lover even of his films and my personal opinion is that he has besides several very entertaining movies also created a few masterpieces such as the brilliant aka venus in furs of 1969 for example it is however an undeniable fact that the 180 movies this highly prolific filmmaker has directed in his career also include a bunch of big time stinkers sadomania of 1981 certainly is one of these stinkers just an utterly bad and plot less movie with the ability to bore the hell out of you in spite of constant sleaze and nudity br br sure the constant nudity will keep you entertained for 20 minutes but since it keeps going on and on like that one is pretty likely to get bored after a short time the only thing that really kept me watching this was the intensity of the sleaze which is generously spoken slightly amusing br br after couple of newlyweds get lost in the desert on some island they are stopped by a bunch of topless women carrying guns wardens of a local prison camp while the husband is banished from the island the wife is taken to the prison camp a place of torture and sexual humiliation reigned by the sadistic nymphomaniac magda and an extremely perverted governor the prisoners are of course entirely hot chicks most of them blondes the wardens are entirely topless women carrying rifles br br the plot if one can call it that is extremely stupid of course but who is going to watch this for a good plot anyway the only interesting thing about sadomania is the high level of exploitation even for a 'women in prison' film there are probably two short scenes in the movie where we see a woman actually wearing a top the sleaze contains all kinds of sexual perversions from rape to bestiality and some of the torture scenes are really nasty br br it is amazing that a film with this extreme level of sleaze however can still be so boring the sleaze will keep you watching in the beginning but after the first 45 minutes i actually had a hard time not to fall asleep it also makes me wonder why out of all pornstars jess franco chose wilson who was according to most sources a transsexual who had been born a man well maybe for exactly that reason if you really want to watch this make sure you have enough beer at home to sit through it and watch it for the sleaze and exploitation only and maybe for the slight unintentional fun factor don't expect to be highly entertained however it is almost unbelievable how a movie with such a high sleaze level can be so boring i am a jess franco fan and i always will be but sadomania is just bad 2 10
0	ok no one will confuse this with citizen kane but you've got to love a movie where the women are always topless there are a few catfights and some kinky sex as well on the other hand i hope they didn't the guy who wrote the dialogue here's a prime example after one of the captive girls dies br br this is terrible it reminds me of the day zenobia died a relative no my favorite cow i guess they saved some money on the script and blew it on great special effects like that plastic crocodile i will say that it took me three sittings to make it through this fine work of art never a good sign i guess that's what happens after a while when everything looks the same i hope the folks waiting to rent it next didn't get too impatient don't worry folks it's on it's way
0	the final installment in the karate kid series is predictable poorly acted and so bad it borders on the enjoyable but not quite it's just bad in this installment ralph macchio's karate kid is absent already having been in one too many of the episodes the new kid played by hillary swank is the teenage granddaughter of one of mr wwii buddies her parents are recently deceased and her grandmother is unsuccessfully trying to raise this young hellion in steps mr to set things right true to formula there is a group of neo fascist bullies called the alpha troopers that must be put in their place and a new karate move called the praying mantis as i said before this movie is a mess and should be avoided
0	truly awful obviously an attempt to cash in on the star wars craze but there's no excuse for this insipid piece of garbage the storyline gets lost before the middle the characters are forgettable and the kid is such a non talent that all he does is pose for the camera an alien planet they land on is actually the naval in long beach california br br this movie actually made me physically ill watching it br br roger corman has made some good some bad movies in his career but there's no excuse for this one br br 0 10 imdb won't let you score a zero
0	i've been trying to remember the name of this movie for years not consecutively of course i saw it at the local dollar theater when i was 11 and it was so atrocious i almost walked out i think i didn't realize one was allowed to leave before the movie ended anyway it stuck in my mind as just about the worst movie i saw growing up i can finally give it the rating it deserves br br 1 10 that was strangely satisfying
0	this movie is a desperate attempt to ride the of the success of the star wars movies the film uses recycled footage from battle beyond the sars which is another roger corman sci fi turd but atleast this one is better than battle beyond the stars there is no real acting in this film but its a roger corman film what did you expect again the entire soundtrack was done on a keyboard the sound effects are recycled from battlestar galactica there are no special effects because they were recycled rearranged space scenes from another movie the costumes look like something right out of 1981 salvation army salvage the little boy in this film gives one helluva performance and he'd resurface again to star in the sylvester stallone movie over the top i give this movie 3 stars out of 10
0	a roger corman rip off assembled for what appears to be virtually zero budget all of the special effects were originally used in battle beyond the stars and i suspect a fair amount of the props costumes and sets were re used from other sources as well the story seems to have been written around these elements so this isn't really a movie as much as it's a recycling project third rate star wars junk wasn't needed then or now
0	as several posters have hinted this is a sorry star wars ripoff now if you're going to rip off star wars at least do it right battlestar galactica did and there were a few other space operas that didn't do a bad job of it but this is definitely not one of them david mendenhall the juvenile lead actually isn't too bad though he goes overboard on the cute factor every so often vince edwards hasn't improved much as an actor since his ben casey days if anything he's even more wooden than he was ten the other performances are nothing to write home about either even worse are the special effects the best you can say about them is that they're lousy it's glaringly obvious that the aliens are simply actors wearing rubber masks with a little foam or latex slopped on them and the battle scenes between edwards' raiders and the aliens are poorly staged and badly shot a very weak effort from roger corman skip it
0	it took me a few years to hunt down this title a major staple of my childhood almost every trip to the video shop i'd pick out space raiders and watch it three times every time my mother rented it for me it was i suppose my star wars br br it's a shame then that it's such a stinker my memories were so hazy that it offered nothing in terms of nostalgia so i had to take it at face value a crew of space pirates accidentally kidnap a pretty annoying little kid and spend the rest of the movie trying to get him home br br aimed squarely at the under tens it's got unwelcome slapstick very shoddy costumes and make up recycled special effects wobbly sets and poor acting but even with the unintentional comedy it's no fun to see it as an adult where i can pick out not just the technical faults but wonder at how spectacularly the writer and director managed to botch an endless stream of no brainer fun powerful moments that have been seen in a million other sci fi movies and in the hands of anyone remotely competent should have been successful br br i imagine as a kid i probably found it quite empowering there are lots of i can't do this i'm just a kid sure you can you just have to try type exchanges the kid drinks beer etc but even by low budget 1983 sci fi standards this one's pretty awful with a real snoozer of a finale
0	this one hardly compares to the space adventures of its time those being star wars and star trek and while i am no fan of star trek i recognize that this film pales in comparison to the series trekkies ooze over in fact i would place back to the future in better light in terms of space and travel br br the story is of a boy who is captured by space raiders pirates in a obviously fake and unentertaining battle the captured boy befriends the pirates and even helps them and slowly one by one those raiders die off in the end the boy gets to return home and the last remaining pirates escapes gravely wounded br br the acting wasn't that great but what really is obvious is the total lack of interesting dialogue effects and storyline how they even got 80 minutes of this is beyond me br br if you want to take a shot at it because it involves space go ahead but be warned d
0	if there were an for film then this movie would get their most sincere approval if we all recycled our stuff to this degree we'd never run out of anything br br funny how i was reminded of this movie when i first saw i the phantom menace at least lucas didn't recycle his old footage br br this is a dud but it's a nice dud cute in spots i liked when the kid said damn rocks and if you like explosions even recycled ones you will get your fill br br actually for an obviously no budget film it makes out fairly well acting is weak but there is a little characterisation here and there story is predictable but will lead you along anyhow br br this is an everybody chases the kid type of movie which probably will appeal mostly to younger audiences i gave this one a 2 out of 10 br br i dug up my old vhs copy of this film i don't think it's on dvd
0	cheaply pieced together of recycled film footage music and ideas this film cannot really be called well but for me when i watched it as a teenager it was quite amusing i didn't know battle beyond the stars before in retrospect it has got something nostalgic regarding the sf wave of the early eighties and the special effects of this time its trashy old fashioned look and its naivety provide a certain attraction to enjoy this movie i recommend to concentrate on the paternal relationship between the characters of vince edwards and david mendenhall in addition i liked the idea that a bunch of scoundrels discovers its heroic qualities after been unwillingly confronted with the challenge to take care of a child
0	the acting is excellent in this film with some great actors it was fun to see fred as a young man this is not a comedy it's a drama and the apparently comedic instances are pitiful this is not a comedy it's a drama and the apparently comedic instances are pitiful and some of them appear forced and contrived it's in the script though not the fault of the acting br br the 10 line requirement forces me to write some more hmmm loved carole lombard's my man godfrey because it is a comedy and while the acting is wonderful the story line and the script itself wins the day carole lombard is pretty and a wonderful actress i will try to watch fred features
0	in 1984 the karate kid had some charm to it even if it was little more than a poor man's rocky alas producer jerry failed to realize it was best to leave the story at the point where it had ended and convinced ralph macchio and pat morita to make an extra effort to turn the film into a trilogy part iii was the definitive low in the franchise yet someone must have thought the series still had some potential what other explanation could there possibly be for the existence of the next karate kid br br wait a minute next yep macchio's gone at least he was smart enough to stop eventually and his replacement is hilary swank playing a troubled teenager what else named julie pierce now the girl has family issues she also gets in trouble at school said school has a sadistic gym teacher michael ironside as it turns out though one of his students is actually a nice guy and julie falls for him this gets her in bigger trouble than before of course lucky for her she is currently living with mr miyagi morita an old friend of her grandfather who happens to know how to get back at the bad guys br br all those factors ad up to seven clichés and that's just a generic plot summary imagine what the detailed scenes must be like from beginning to end the next karate kid is a tired flat and dull marathon of idiotic lines and set ups swank does thankfully have the likes of boys don't cry and million dollar baby to redeem this disaster but why did morita accept to come back he may have received an oscar nomination for the first movie and was quite enjoyable in the sequels but has nothing to speak for him here even the revival of the wax on wax off gag is stillborn as for ironside he is slightly better than martin kove and thomas ian griffith in part iii but that's hardly a stretch br br so is this picture really that awful not exactly there is one sequence that manages to achieve a weird beauty but when the best bit in the whole film involves a group of asian monks dancing as they hear pop music for the first time in their lives it doesn't qualify as a recommendation to see the rest
0	oddly enough it's fred macmurray who plays the more screwy part in this screwball comedy carole lombard shows a fine performance combining lighter moments with and undercurrent of drama and seriousness br br as usual fred macmurray remains a mystery to me the camera is no fan of his he's not that attractive and he doesn't have the style and panache to pull off this very cary grant like role br br ralph bellamy is excellent as the kind friend coming back to life through his relationship with lombard's character one can only wonder why her character wouldn't want his gentle reassuring love instead of the almost certain doom of macmurray's ineptness but that's hollywood br br the picture almost works but misses the mark primarily due to macmurray's performance it would've been lovely to see grant or even clark gable in his role lombard and bellamy are largely believable and likable macmurray is stiff and makes you want to keep him at arm's length
0	happy days was one of my favorite shows when it aired in 1974 but the critics were quick to show their ignorance combined with a total lack of a sense of humor by slamming this show because they thought it was a cheap attempt to cash in on the success of american br br there were some similarities between american and happy days br br both opened with rock around the clock by bill haley the both took place in a bygone era and both featured ron howard as one of the leading roles but there were also some major differences while american took place in 1962 california and centered around a group of newly graduated high school students about to take that big step into adulthood happy days took place in and centered around a group of teenagers in high school dealing with the joys and tribulations of adolescence br br happy days originally opened with the juke box playing the original version of bill haley the rock around the clock but when oldies became hot thanks to the success of american and the original 1954 version of rock around the clock entered the billboard hot 100 and became a hit again in 1974 royalty payments went through the roof so a remake of the song the correct term is now new stereo recording was quickly substituted br br the current theme song for happy days was then introduced for the second season if memory serves me right br br fans and foes alike agree that this show is escapist liberties were taken and details overlooked making this show less than completely authentic br br this is perfectly fine happy days is supposed to be a comedy not a history lesson but occasionally the writers did sometimes stick their necks out by hitting on controversial topics one episode centered around the cunninghams building of a fall out shelter another episode was about a divorced woman moving into the neighborhood with a dream of starting a new life the topic of prejudice was addressed when howard was invited to the wedding of an old army buddy who just happened to be black in an era when prejudice and discrimination was sadly an acceptable part of the american way of life the issue of the draft even came up on a later episode br br the show as originally set in 1955 one problem that was dealt wisely was with the cast most of them were teenagers and as each year passed it was obvious that they grew older so the series aged with the cast moving the series out of the safe waters of the eisenhower years into the age of camelot all the way with jfk and then into the turbulent later half of the 1960s that along with the writers running out of ideas and later cast members like ron howard leaving the series wisely quitting while they were ahead left me wishing that they had all done the right thing by pulling the plug on this show and quitting while they were ahead that along with the idol worshiping studio audience who just couldn't control themselves every time the great fonzie entered the scene began to wear very thin very fast br br this show originally portrayed the fabulous fifties as we like to remember that era time heals wounds you know everything has its place and though i would prefer hearing the original hit versions over those new stereo recordings those new stereo recordings worked very well on happy days and this is where i find myself regretting my buying the dvd unlike the complete first season dvd the original music on the complete second season has been replaced with different music while it is great that the original episodes were digitally restored to digital perfection the removal of the original music destroyed what it was that made this show so much fun to watch
0	happy days was produced and broadcast from the mid 1970's to the early 1980's and seems to get more ridiculous with age at the time of its broadcast most viewers who grew up in the 1950's were in middle age with families and the scenes at mel's diner probably brought an artificial nostalgia to them the fonz was of course the coolest of the cool although the actor henry wrinkler to this day has never learned how to ride a motorcycle richie cunningham was the all american blond haired kid who would probably be elected student body president was richie's best friend the star of the show has to have a best friend i guess and ralph was the bumbling sidekick to the fonz if not the entire group i loved it when the fonz would beat up on poor ralph and there was mel the middle aged lug who ran mel's diner and of course who could forget the appearance of mork was this really the 1950's ironically films produced during the 1950's such as rebel without a cause and the wild one have gotten better with age and portray the period more honestly than this show which was produced 20 years after the period it portrays br br unfortunately the tv show happy days is not in the same league as rebel without a cause or american for that matter happy days may have captured some aspects of the 1950's with its burger diner juke boxes cool cars and tacky plaid shirts but it is more a nostalgic idealism done strictly for laughs rather than an honest portrayal american had something to say about young americans in the 1950's whereas happy days seemed more about what middle aged people of the 1970's wished the 1950's had been like the result was a kind of watered down fabrication that really has nothing to do with the 1950's happy days is at best a comedy fantasy with some of the artificial culture of the 1950's as its backdrop as pointed out by another reviewer the all american kid richie cunningham would probably have been chastised for befriending the likes of a drop out like fonzie and mel would probably forbid fonzie from entering his diner br br a quick history happy days was originally a pilot called love in the happy days that was rejected for broadcast comedy pilots that had themes concerning sex and romance that did not make it to pilot airing sometimes appeared on the infrequently broadcast show love american style which was often aired in place of baseball games that had out or other unexpected programming and or alterations in short love american style was a throw away show that contained all these one episode comedy pilots that never made it to a slotted debut love in the happy days did appear as a love american style show sometime in the early 1970's but at the time tv executives could not foresee how a show about 1950's young people would be popular particularly during the hey day of comedy shows centering around middle aged people such as the mary tyler moore show and its subsequent spin offs such rhoda the bob newhart show and all in the family how things have changed since now most tv sitcoms are about young people and the industry avoids most shows about middle aged people like the plague br br subsequently one of the young stars of love in the happy days a child actor from the andy griffith show named ron howard got the chance to star in a film about young people taking place in 1959 called american directed by the relatively unknown george lucas whose previous thx 1138 had bombed miserably at the box office even when it was premiered to movie executives again the studios could not see how a movie about young people in the 1950's could become popular because it didn't fit with what had been popular in the past although they didn't realize that much of the movie going audience had been young in the 1950's as everyone knows the movie was a huge hit and studio executives recognized that they had completely misjudged their audience somewhere during the theatrical run of american tv executives realized they had a comedy pilot in their vault that was a lot like american they brought it back with the original cast plus henry wrinkler as the fonz re titled it happy days and the rest is tv history as it became one of the most popular shows of the 1970's br br happy days now seems ridiculous the characters are flat and cardboard never being more or less than what they superficially are the issues they deal with are trivial and their reactions appear mindless and even silly nowadays the character of the fonz seems to be a caricature of well the fonz was the idea to be a kind of parody of marlon brando's character in the wild one looking on the show with fresh eyes i feel the producers really missed out on a great opportunity to present the 1950's with depth and realism that still could be fun and entertaining instead the producers decided on cheap laughs for quick bucks this is definitely a show that has not withstood the test of time american has many of the outward appearances of happy days but it had an edge it had an honesty about the characters and their issues happy days took the look of american but failed to take its heart
0	each year the company called nu produces couple of action packed full of suspense movies this little nugget called iii until i visited this site i wasn't this is a whole trilogy is a great example of the good job the company is doing frank is as mean as always and does a great job as almost schizophrenic android i won't waste any more words since i don't want to reveal the terrific plot and ruin you a couple of great laughs br br rating 2 10 for those hard working man putting together this kind of rubbish must be
0	as other reviews have said another of the countless number of alien clones this time with a great of the terminator thrown in add a bit of the classic sf story who goes there and a insanely stupid plot device lifted from the andromeda strain apparently flashing red lights make rampaging killer unable to detect scared people standing three inches away from them br br ok the story after a sequence of people running around in a space ship and killing each other we get a caption br br 25 years later br br the crew of a relay station orbiting mars due to be relieved in 48 hours detect a space ship on a collision course it's the siberia the ship we saw in the opening sequence not a good time to have taken everything useful off line on the relay station to do some repairs then the approaching ship doesn't deviate from its course and is broadcasting a do not under any circumstances enter this ship warning after a lot of shouting at each other the crew of the relay station patch something together and get the station out of the way just in the nick of time but the ship changes course and rams them any way impaling one of the crew on a stick pointy crew impaler thing the satellite starts to loose integrity bits de lots more shouting and running about in which only two crew people are sucked out into space backwards why are they always sucked out backwards br br after a few the wheelchair bound who is called the only only detectable joke in the whole movie deduces that the siberia is draining them of all their power and they need to go aboard her and switch off its engines they all go on board and take their helmets off do not enter this ship obviously means get on board the ship and expose yourself to possibly fatal infectious diseases one team head for the main computer room where they find a dead frozen guy clutching what looks like an american express card but turns out to be a the other team find some switches amazingly the dead bloke turns out to be the father of the attractive female crew member voted most likely to survive an encounter with a rampaging alien they switch the engines off but this means the ships reactor will explode a spooky point of view shot starts killing people there's some guff about the siberia having discovered an new ore a power source worth millions which mean the more venal members of the crew immediately thrust themselves into danger to get hold of it the pov shot returns with whoosh whoosh walking noises on the soundtrack unfortunately these give you the idea the killer is wearing trousers and the effect is wasted br br after that it's all just running around and getting killed in order of ugliness and acting ability until only the obvious survivors survive along with the cute dog which had managed to lead at least two crew members to their deaths just why space hardened veterans wander into the jaws of certain death looking for their pets cats and dogs has long been a mystery of this kind of movie other stupid highlights include everyone forgetting to act the falling levels of oxygen until reminded by the voice of the on board computer not that the low levels of oxygen in any way any of the impressive fires this load of idiots start if the killer droid id so clever it can steer the ship in a tight curve and have another go at ramming the relay station why didn't it turn off the do not under any circumstances enter this ship warning signal i'm sure if it was looking for more people to kill then yelling go away was not a good way of going about it br br vander is the only person who gets to do any acting everyone else just flares their nostrils all the time while baring their teeth and shouting and pointing guns at each other it that sort of script full of exclamation marks the only thing that kept me watching till the end was the hope that the script demand she take all her clothes off or get wet while not wearing a lot unfortunately it didn't one of the things wrong with this movie apart from it having more cyan put on screen than in any other movie ever is that there was no gratuitous nudity
0	this is so poor it's watchable br br the plot deals with a grizzled spaceship crew happening upon a drifting apparently abandoned russian craft br br in the empty vastness of space the two craft accidentally collide and 'alien' esque fun ensues as a cyborg from the russian ship menaces our crew br br the spacecraft interiors are clearly a dolled up factory set metal walkways boilers piping in this entirely unconvincing setting and the rest of our hero crew grimace grunt run about and continually and repeatedly rack their shotguns without firing them br br the continuity gaffes are what define this movie and they are nothing short of amazing br br stuff appears and disappears the shotguns are racked a cigar gets longer by being smoked the shotguns are racked again just to make sure content of a bottle increases by being drunk from br br the film progresses through the usual clichés by way of intense ham acting poxy camera work and ed wood quality props to a showdown climax
0	well now this strange movie it was listed as a comedy but i certainly found nothing to laugh at actually i am struggling to find anything positive to say about this film oh here i go alex is not bad in the lead role and i did not pick the ending for a change but apart from that this has no great direction solidly two dimensional characters and is not funny enough to be a comedy or serious or dark enough to be any form of decent drama i would really avoid ever having to watch this movie again and think it does nothing to benefit any of the working class characters it is attempting to portray i found it hard to empathise for any of the characters and was not given enough information on the lead character jimmy to believe his motives best avoided
0	the problem with making a movie like this though is that the finale the crème de la creme of the movie the battle between the two souped up ships must be done well disappointingly this scene in is obviously done completely with little model ships in an overgrown tub there's no tension little explanation of what exactly is going on and what the timeframe is of the stand off br br the film takes quite a few liberties with the surrounding story as all true stories do when converted to a movie such as the union traitor and most notably that of betty stuart madsen a virginia belle br br it resorts to making a possibly decent movie involving an interesting story on the to preaching about the evils of slavery it was out of place in this historical drama and was a cheap ploy to bring in the women viewers it only succeeded in lessening the positives about the film
0	but memorable because it includes an actor i actually recognize james is by these types of movies' standards lawrence olivier he's given some decent performances on stuff like highlander and various star treks so it's kind of amusing if mildly depressing watching him degrade himself here okay yeah there's a plot character and his wife are fighting he's having an affair with a movie reviewer while trying to do his masterpiece film and their guest decides to enjoy the wonders of stripping but watching is really the only enjoyment to be found here
0	victor jory never became a major star he is better known for later character roles than for his early leads but he was very handsome and an excellent actor br br his love scenes with loretta young in this romantic adventure thriller are passionate their kisses look very real and very modern br br vivienne osborne is a standout here also she plays a woman with a reputation but the character has a good heart br br the print i saw was not clear but what a joy that rare movies like this are turning up and they are in some sort of watchable condition still intact this is nothing truly special but if one is willing to sift through movies of its era with similarly intriguing titles one is likely to find some movies
0	they missed up the film when the tried to use some one they should of keeped ralph macchio as danny instead of changing it and made more karate kids with him in it and also many people were what happen to danny when they jumped from 3 to 5 and no four
0	i'm so glad i only got this movie for 5 anime is expensive no doubt about that i've had my eye on this one for awhile and finally i saw it on sale i grabbed it immediately and took it home only to hang my head in disappointment this movie sucked i've heard people talk about how gory and violent this movie is it's really not that gory or violent i've watched it three times and i think i've wasted enough of my life on this the demons get a point for being unique and kinda cool at times the sex gets a point since it's almost non stop the horny old man gets half a point for being horny and still having the sex drive and the main character who's name i've erased from my mind gets half a point for the cool design of his gun i saw major connections between this movie and demon city shinjuku both have same style animation that's obvious because of the director both have lame soundtracks which suck like the antichrist and both have terrible endings avoid this movie unless you're into anime sex
0	corny and horrible i was not surprised this short lived show didn't make it i remember fondly when tales from the crypt tried reusing these corny episodes like they were actually scary coupled with bad acting and lousy music i was surprised this crummy showed was ever conceived it never showed up again and one can only be thankful for this circumstance
0	this is a very interesting acquaintance two fisted tales contains three foolish and childish episodes genre isn't actually horror or action more like something in between where's the suspence where's the fun where's the common sense definitely not in here but if you don't expect to get it you don't necessarily miss it br br first segment is called showdown it's a violent absurd western i failed to understand the whole idea of it king of the road is a stupid story starring brad pitt at the time of two fisted tales he was just a pretty face who really didn't know how to act yet luckily he learned the skill later and now he's a fantastic talented actor one of the big ones of the younger generation story is almost ok in all of it's stupidness final episode yellow is the only segment that's almost entirely successful it's foolish but funny we have to thank kirk douglas for that br br this movie is something to watch when you sit in an easy chair and eat popcorn i should know that's what i did if you loved tales from the crypt you'll love two fisted tales too because basically it's all the same i understand these three episodes are actually extremely rare piece of art and very difficult to find anywhere i have the whole package on vhs but i don't think it's a big privilege you'll have to be a fanatic brad pitt fan to search it out otherwise don't bother it's not worth the effort silly crap
0	portrayal of fugitive ex felt entirely natural his demeanor his voice his appearance all of it spoke to when he entered a space i as well as characters on the screen could feel he didn't belong there and that his determination to be there spelled trouble br br i read somewhere that mr actually took kendo japanese swordsmanship training and that would explain his comfort with the katana which showed magnificently in every if you watch the movies from the moment he draws to the moment he the sword you feel as though you were witnessing something inevitably ugly he'd even spin the katana quickly to flick off the blood before it and it would happen in an effortless instant br br nakamura rendition comes across as a rendition it feels as though he were trying too hard to be someone else or tell someone else's story as a result every time i tried to engage i'd lose my grip because he didn't seem to have a firm grip on the role himself as though it were awkward for him br br the swordsmanship in the tv series was entirely old school hollyweird too camera cuts to disguise mr awkwardness with the katana slow action targets sitting still etc extremely bad from a viewer's perspective there was a moment in the episode the castle wall attack when mr nakamura drew his sword like a child it was embarrassing he handled it as though it were heavy i almost fell off my chair br br and let's be frank the story is about an excellent swordsman period swordsmanship is an issue br br realism isn't however the swordplay in the movies was excellent and manga like as was intended i'm sure the baby cart was outfitted with a cluster of automatic rapid fire operated by a 3 year old yes manga style it's how the story seamlessly weaves historical cultural accuracy into basically superhero fantasy that makes the movies captivating read musashi historical legend i couldn't really sit through the tv series episodes they just felt cheap see the movies first and you'll know what i'm talking about
0	i was quite excited when i saw this film in competition at the montreal film festival along with elephant and a few others i thought the issue of american gun violence culture would be treated intelligently and in a fashion compelling for film goers the press release promised in not so many words a red for the gun violence crowd something to make us ponder our nra shoot em up mindset in this country br br after waiting until after 9 15 to be seated for a 9am screening what technical difficulties they would have encountered is beyond me we were finally let into the venue to see the film on dv where did the advertised 35mm print go i think i just answered my first question br br the result is an abhorrent mess we get the gun in a vignette with the most unrealistic i have ever seen and i do know more than a few the film then lapses into irrelevant character development only because the characters are either a stereotyped b losers c stereotyped losers and or d racial caricatures it takes another 30 minutes to get to the plot movement and once we are there we wish for the inane conversations between the couples and or the bikers and pawn brokers br br the film finds it's conclusion but not without leaving any cliché untried i didn't care for the white trash characters who came in contact with the gun and the depiction of the minority characters should have the naacp crying foul immediately all these people would chase after a gun because they are at the bottom of the societal trash heap and would look for an opportunity wherever it was found placing the action a level up would have at least provided some soul searching on the part of the characters br br the biggest problem is the promise unfulfilled the plot outline was great in the hands of a p t anderson or gus van zandt it could have been a powerful piece but due either to bad screenplay direction or both the thing is an unmitigated mess that needs to be ignored at all costs br br my bigger question is who at the thought this was competition material better bury this on showtime at 3am br br art
0	the gun is probably the worst film i've ever saw the comedians direction is very poor the dialogs sounds like they were written by a 13 year old teenager the plot what plot is another suspense in which it is very hard to get into finally nothing in this movie is any good a big thumbs down to everyone involved and particularly to the montreal film festival who presented this movie in competition
0	so this ugly guy with long nasty hair and his girlfriend end up in this house and they argue and argue about his old girlfriend there was suppose to be something scary in it but i didn't see anything scary at all there is some mention of a demon from the sea but that doesn't go anywhere at all i wish it did because then it would've taken the tension away from the jealous love triangle the title of the movie makes it look like it would be a scary and exciting movie but it is so far from it that i couldn't believe it i waited and waited for it to end and was so happy when it did it did not live up to the title like it should have so boo hoo hoo the cover had a cool picture but i shouldn't judge a cheesy movie by its cover
0	how in the name of decency did this film ever get made br br one presumes the subtitles merely say 'awful' on every single frame of this truly dismal effort br br horrendous acting woeful dialogue and the lack of talent from everyone involved in this nightmare make for an excruciating 90 minutes br br overall impression br br a bunch of excitable drama students got lucky with a lottery grant and proceeded to make one of the most painful films ever made br br this makes hammer horror tv shows look like oscar material br br and don't for a second think this falls into the 'so bad it's good' category it's not even that bad br br but the fart lighting scene is probably worth another look
0	the artist daniel king chris john and his mate laura peters lara clancy are invited to move to an old house in cornwall in great britain by his childhood wealthy friend natasha carlton carol natasha has a crush on daniel who is an ambiguous man regarding his sentimental life while alone in the house weird things happen and laura is startled and scared when laura meets the old insane priest gabriel norton brian blessed on the road she is advised to immediately leave the house since evil lived there but the couple stays and has to face tragic consequences br br what a messy screenplay and awful and cheesy movie this devil's harvest is the cinematography and the camera work is not totally bad but the amateurish performances of chris john and carol and direction of james shanks together with the terrible story ridiculous situations and dialogs make this movie one of the worse i have ever seen in the genre i have occasionally seen in youtube a couple of shorts from cinema college that are better and better than the pointless and dreadful devil's harvest in the end it is not a horror movie but a horror of movie my vote is three br br title brazil a do diabo the devil's harvest
0	i just wanted to leave a quick comment as its not listen on here but i have just seen this movie the version i just rented was released in 2005 as far as i know and it was actually called don't go into the attic i only realized it was the same movie as devils harvest upon searching for some of the actors who looked familiar in the movie anyways i'm in ireland so maybe this has only been released over here and in the uk now but thats what its called over here not really like it matters because i would not recommend this movie the only words that spring to mind watching it are cheese cheese cheese my one mark out of ten is purely for the one little jumpy bit o
0	this film is so bad i mean who commissions this stuff and the costume designer deserves an award for making everyone look like they had just stepped out of 1983 a bloke puts a female wig on and fights nuff said
0	i loved the original p h and was somewhat satisfied with ii and ashes to ashes iii then i saw part iv oh boy as a enthusiast i did my best to give part 4 as much credit as i could but it's pretty bad the wedding reception fight right at the beginning of the film is a horrendous mess for one thing the hatfield and mccoy storyline is incomprehensibly stupid and cliché how did the producers get away with using that tired family feud storyline wow unbelievable the acting besides is below average the plot and script are mind numbing the actual editing and cinematography are average as is the directing i mean the movie isn't a total loss as always i really enjoy watching pumpkinhead i love seeing haggis the witch and like watching ghost in action but all three characters had way too much screen time i thought haggis and harley would wind up going out to a supper club for an evening bite to eat and drinks the way the were being so buddy buddy in her cabin the bottom line is is that i wanted all the characters in this puke fest of a plot line to be dead within 20 minutes of the start of the picture where does sci fi get these so called film production professionals from anyway i could do a better job writing a script stone cold drunk i'm sure there was a limited budget and everything but come on see it if your a fan of the other three but just once and then go back and stick to the original two shame on you sci fi
0	i realize it's a small statistical sampling 8 votes as of this posting but 5 9 out of 10 i'm giving this movie a 3 and even that's generous i've tried to watch this movie three times now the saturday night 9 p m premiere on scifi channel and the saturday night at 1 a m and thursday night re broadcasts and i've fallen asleep all three times before the movie ends which leaves me with a laundry list of unanswered questions for example is lance henriksen that strapped for cash that he has to keep playing supporting roles in these god awful pumpkinhead sequels is henriksen contractually banned from doing any non pumpkinhead movies can't the creators of this franchise do better than a monster that looks like a geriatric emaciated alien who walks like he has a stick jammed up his a when are the hick characters in these movies going to realize that handguns and rifles don't hurt the pumpkinhead why don't they try jamming another stick up this thing's a instead and lastly are the writers of this movie so creatively challenged that they couldn't come up with names for the two feuding families more original than the and the mccoys while you're at it why not write a screenplay about a fictional president and name him george bush someday i may have the mental stamina to watch this movie all the way through without drifting off to sleep until then if somebody has the answers please let me know
0	writer director michael hurst's sci fi channel sequel to stan winston's classic horror tale of revenge gone awry has its moments and some decent gore but ultimately falls short in comparison to the original br br i'm pretty sure the filmmakers weren't trying to make a comedy but i caught myself laughing throughout a family feud started over a car accident is the basis for this entry into the franchise the hatfield and mccoy families live in a backwoods town with dirt roads drive pickup trucks drink moonshine and kick each others asses every chance they get just when they thought it was safe to hate each other and live happily ever after jodie hatfield amy manson and ricky mccoy bradley taylor decided to fall in love causing the fit to hit the shan one night the two lovebirds decide to head out into the woods for some quality time while ricky's sister plays lookout but it just so happens that on that very night some of the accidentally kill ricky's sister and catch him and jodie together you know what happens next ricky finds his sisters body and decides to pay a visit to haggis so that he can exact his revenge through the mighty pumpkinhead ye haw also harley lance henriksen is back to warn potential damned souls against using pumpkinhead to ease their pain which really put a kink in the story because harley is supposed to have called on pumpkinhead years before this story takes place but the setting and characters look like dirty pilgrims that somehow traveled through time in order to bring the pickup truck back to plymouth then there's the sheriff rob freeman who has his own ties to the demon and looks like he belongs in a 70's revenge movie instead of a made for cable horror flick br br some of the gore and special effects were cool but instead of sticking to the man in a suit way of thinking hurst used some terrible looking 3d shots for certain scenes one particularly embarrassing shot shows pumpkinhead jumping from tree branches like a badly rendered 3d monkey the cinematography was exceptional and elevated the quality of the movie quite a bit the acting was pretty decent also with the exception of a few poorly executed accents br br family feuds never end well especially when the families involved in the feud have to deal with pumpkinhead i didn't enjoy every minute of this flick but it was much better than most of the movies the sci fi channel spits out maybe it's a sign that the channel is trying to bring the quality of its movies up to match the quality of its original series' i wouldn't waste any coin on a rental but if you get the chance to catch a rerun of it on the boob tube i would say to check it out it's a not so killer film but it rises slightly above the level of trash that makes it onto dvd these days
0	well they've done it again a new pumpkin head film the first pumpkin head film was perfect for its time a dumb gory and clichéd monster flick so heres how it goes some one loses their loved one goes to the witch in the woods gets her to raise pumpkin head and have it murder everyone responsible unfortunately the film makers have deemed it irrelevant to try and do any other than this for the films fourth outing it far more suitable to add some lame romeo and juliet sub plot involving an idiotic family feud over a car and surprise surprise some gory pumpkin head slayings so far so formulaic but it doesn't stop there the acting talent in this flick is dire oh so bad half of them can't even keep up a southern accent without slipping into their native and often posher accents lance is on board so surely he would bring some gravitas to the movies proceedings but no lance merely ambles on screen lets the words fall out mouth with absolutely no emotion or seemingly direction and walks off again i honestly think he just turned up for the money then went off to his trailer to drunk and reminisce about aliens br br this film is utter cack there is no redeeming feature other than it ending credits which signal its all over br br despite the failings of ph bf if you want a no brainer that'll make you laugh for all the wrong reasons watch it br br if you want something with more meat and originality avoid
0	pumpkinhead was in itself a decent 80s horror flick no classic by any means but an enjoyable piece of fluff why then have we now been treated to a fourth film in this franchise is beyond me as in previous sequels there's nothing here to really connect the films except for the monster the witch and ed harley lance henriksen this time out we follow the feud between the and the mccoys part of the film is a romeo and juliet romance as a young mccoy boy and his hatfield lover decide to run away to be together soon however they are torn apart and the boy's sister is killed the boy escapes to the woods and gets the witch to resurrect pumpkinhead for some vengeance the acting is passable at best amateurish at the worst the titular demon doesn't even really show up for almost forty minutes and when it does its a pale comparison between it and the original design overall blood feud fails to impress it may be worth a watch once but certainly not an addition to the collection
0	academy awarding actor sidney poitier of lilies of the field reprises his role as lieutenant virgil from the 1967 oscar winning best picture in the heat of the night for veteran director gordon douglas' tired uninspired sequel they call me mister with nobody the equivalent of rod steiger with which to swap dialogue clearly both bullitt scenarist alan r and robert d webb of cape fear were off their game when they penned this predictable police procedural potboiler the dialogue is drab and none of the characters are interesting not even the chief suspect absolutely nothing remotely exciting suspenseful or surprising occurs in this tame whodunit meanwhile things have changed considerably since virgil was last seen in in the heat of the night he worked as a homicide detective for the philadelphia pennsylvania police department in they call me mister our hero works for the san francisco police department moreover he has a wife valerie barbara of change of habit and a family a young rebellious son andy george spell of the naked kiss and a younger doting daughter ginger wanda spell of hickey and drives a medium blue mustang and his wife holds down the house and hovers over their two children since he doesn't have as much time to spend with them literally there are no surprises in this pedestrian murder mystery indeed the best thing about they call me mister is quincy jones' terrific orchestral soundtrack with a memorable opening theme more memorable than this forgettable crime thriller deserved br br everything begins sensationally enough with a struggling prostitute joy sturges linda towne of the adventurers being bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of her downtown apartment by an unseen assailant apartment handyman williamson hernandez of intruder in the dust enters apartment and finds her strewn on the carpet dead with a bloody forehead he picks up the statue briefly and then puts it back on the floor and reports death to the superintendent of the apartment rice anthony of license to kill and gives and fistful of dollars and sends him packing afterward anonymously notifies the that popular minister logan sharpe martin landau of nevada smith beaten joy to death and was seem leaving apartment captain jeff corey of true grit assigns to handle the case it seems that both and sharpe have known each other for 18 years naturally wife valerie cannot believe that the well known politically active evangelist could have committed such a crime just to give the movie context it should be noted that when and the police study the crime scene they mention the word ' no doubt a controversial term to mention in an early 1970s movie br br questions whom he suspects is either a drug pusher or a pimp explains that he has no records on joy sturges because she was the apartment from another realty company visits the realty company and realtor woody garfield ed of jfk flees and drives off essentially doing an o j simpson until he crashes his car after a lengthy but tame pursuit when proves that woody didn't kill joy he allows him to leave with his disgruntled wife marge norma crane of penelope prepared to file for divorce after the revelation that he paid a hooker to stay in an apartment br br tracks down handyman and clears him of the crime and then he goes after luckily for our hero catches the evil in the middle of a narcotics transaction one of henchmen assaults but dispenses with him briefly before he embarks on a long foot chase after eventually he corners in an underground parking garage and they shoot it out guess who wins br br the scenes in the household are more interesting than his investigation andy runs rampant striking his sister and smoking in the garden our hero wants him to clean up his room when andy refuses pops him three times on the jaw these child scenes could probably never be handled today as they were back in 1970 at the end of the movie as if to solidify the family sequence is seen walking off with his wife and kids there is on confrontation between valerie and virgil about the welfare of their children and how his long hours at work has affected them br br director gordon douglas directs in competent fashion surprisingly for a film released in 1970 the filmmakers never play the race card in one scene when searches a billiards parlor owned by an african american we see a mixed breed of races scowling at the hero when he finds and leaves with him in tow br br altogether they call me mister is a poor follow up to in the heat of the night mind you poitier delivers another fine performance with nuance but everything looks prefabricated all of the sets look fake and there isn't much physical violence one underground parking lot shoot out that doesn't last long and a fight beyond jones' seminal jazz score the only it really doesn't qualify as a major surprise more like a convenient the ending donald the organization followed they call me mister as the second more action packed sequel
0	this sequel to in the heat of the night will suffer in inevitable comparisons to its infinitely better predecessor instead of looking like a theatrical movie edited for television mister looks suspiciously like a tv movie edited for theatrical release with grainy photography cheesy opening titles and sets that look like they're made of plywood the murder sequence has a glaring continuity error the camera shows two hands choking the girl then a shot of a hand reaching for a statuette then a shot of the girl being choked with two hands again and finally the statuette coming down for the fatal blow solving the case should be easy find the only guy with three hands but the shoddy production values can't completely obscure this film's considerable merits namely sidney poitier's performance as the cool detective determined to follow the evidence wherever it may lead even if it implicates a friend martin landau is also convincing as the do gooder preacher activist suspected of brutally murdering his prostitute girlfriend in addition to being haunted by the case is conflicted about his home life but the issues of race and barely concealed sense of social outrage are absent here so is the complex murder mystery that made in the heat of the night so compelling
0	give h g lewis points he managed to incorporate beefy exotic dancers gallons of his notorious fake blood and henny youngman all in one movie the gore gore girls was lewis's horror film swan song and ends with a head being squashed by an automobile oh henny plays a surly night club owner whose girls are falling prey to lewis's standard butchery
0	well this stripped my nerves raw they got that right i first rented this movie back in the 80's when my friend opened a video store that carried every rare movie he could find he also carried all the shock horror and exploitation movies he could dig up and i went through almost of all them previously i had seen blood feast and 2000 maniacs and the wizard of gore they were gruesome especially for the time period and the wizard of gore got pretty nasty the gore gore girls however was the one i remember as being the most disgustingly gory br br i rented it on dvd a little while ago because i wanted to hear the commentary and thought it might have some cool dancing and clothes i forgot that it was made in the early 70's so fashion had kind of gone downhill by then i also realized this was a movie i didn't really need to see more than once it had amusing parts but it was much more disgusting than i remembered i'm very jaded to movie gore but a couple of times i just got too grossed out and had to look away this wasn't a good choice of movie to put on dvd all crisp and cleaned up with better sound and picture quality the commentary is amusing in parts and interesting i think hg said the budget was 00 maybe hg lewis wasn't feeling well that day but he sounded tired overall and also had the nerve to get offended when the interviewer from something wild compared him to ed wood jr sorry pal but you're not exactly martin scorsese yourself br br the extremely thin plot is about a series of murders of topless go go dancers in strip clubs a cute reporter and a really unattractive private detective team up sort of he can't seem to stand her to try to solve the crimes henny youngman owns a strip club a bunch of really ugly murders happen br br i'm going to apologize in advance because i don't want to sound like i need to lighten up but this movie was so misogynistic it p ed me off more than company of men mainly because the main character's and the director's extreme dislike for females and the audience just oozes from every frame it's not just the murders the highly unattractive detective goes out of his way to treat the female reporter like dog dirt at every opportunity for no apparent reason he's not exactly a threat to george clooney like i said and she still follows him around like a puppy she faints upon seeing a horribly mutilated body and he looks distastefully at her then pours cold soda from a can onto her face to wake her up later he calls the police to report the crime no no hurry she just seems to have lost face this guy is the hero you can imagine how the other characters feel about women i could go on and on but you get the idea please note that i am making this movie sound much more politically correct and much more fun than it actually is br br most of the cast are the type of actors you pray will never take their clothes off not too easy on the eyes so don't watch the movie just to see the nudity unless you're not too picky the go go dancers all look like they desperately want to have the scene end so they can get their 10 or whatever the going rate hg paid them was and get their drug fix ok it's not quite that bad there was one dancer that looked like she might have been a pro and also one other cool dancer with a huge afro that didn't look as miserable as the rest but still not too thrilled the only slightly entertaining things were a couple moments of brief unintentional humor such as when a policemen in charge at a murder scene angrily yells get outta here before i have you all arrested not to a bunch of reporters but to some other policeman calmly going about their work they mutter and stroll off though henny youngman is kind of funny though like lewis says he said his lines so fast that they almost needed subtitles i'm sure he was trying to get the whole day over in a hurry so he could get paid and get the hell out of there though he doesn't look like he minded watching some naked chicks br br might be worth seeing just out of morbid curiosity for the era the movie was made it was probably the most gruesome thing on film at the time or if you're really big hg lewis fan and find him or low budget film making by anyone fascinating otherwise if you've seen it once you've seen it and can move on to other disgusting but much more entertaining low budget movies from the early 70's this movie doesn't even come close to say pink flamingos when it comes to the skip the popcorn factor if you've never seen an hg lewis movie i recommend you try blood feast first instead you'll have a much better time br br
0	low budget schlockmeister herschell gordon lewis reaches a new low even for him with the gore gore girls a 'film' snicker that possesses all of his technical trademarks badly recorded sound poor lighting and ott gore this would be tolerable even a bit charming if the film at least had an interesting plot blood feast in all its ridiculous glory is a fine example but girls is a total snooze completely unlikable pompous ass private investigator abraham gentry frank is recruited by a newspaper reporter to find out who's been murdering out of shape strippers you'll stop caring who the culprit is long before these two are wrapping up the case as before the appeal isn't the plot but the creative methods of bloodletting including a girl's fanny being with a wooden mallet and the occasional flashes of then risqué skin but this just isn't enough to elevate the material above tedium
0	i am truly sad that this is the first bad review i've ever made for a movie ever i could stand to watch this movie and it is the second movie in all the movies i've seen that is just a downgrade the first is open water that just had no point whatsoever the next karate kid didn't have any mention of daniel correct me if i'm wrong please and that ending line came as a shock it was like if must fight win then it showed the bird flying around and the pan flute was playing and i was like oh okay so it'll take a while for this next part and then the credits hit the screen br br geez man hopefully i will never have to review a movie in a bad manner again i apologize for those of you who like the next karate kid i really really do
0	say what you will about cinema's wizard of gore herschell gordon lewis it must be conceded that from his first films trashy blood feast and massacre two thousand maniacs to his last 1972's the gore gore girls the man remained faithful to his muse gleefully chopping up the bodies of young men and women for the of the camera in gore gore for example someone has been mutilating the pasty faced and pasty clad strippers at the tops bottoms club and obnoxious ex detective gentry is hired by a hotty cub reporter to assist on the case the film features remarkably annoying and repetitive background music terrible lighting abysmal acting repugnant characters problematic sound and of course some of lewis' patented gross out scenes thus one of the strippers has her face shoved into boiling oil one has her head ripped open another has her face ironed and her cut off and still another has her bum with a meat tenderizer until her entire backside is covered with what appears to be tomato sauce i could be wrong here it might have been the film also throws out some fairly lame humor although some of the lines are pretty funny for example we learn that the real name of slain stripper suzie was ethel a bottle of acid says made in poland on it don't know why but i thought this was funny and some of strip club owner henny lines are of course amusing still this is not the movie to show to aunt ethel or sister agatha it is one of the sickest you'll ever see with only one surefire crowd pleasing moment the title card at the film's conclusion that reads we announce with pride this movie is over
0	i debated quite a bit over what rating to give this one because it's my least favorite herschell gordon lewis film so far other than the gruesome twosome but it has the best acting i've seen in a lewis film however we all know that's not saying much once the movie was done i was happy because it felt like i had been sitting through a 4 hour movie though it was only 82 minutes long i'm trying to see all of films and that's probably the only reason to see this one br br the gore is good as usual the one thing that herschell seemed to get right the acting is just as bad as usual with one exception that exception is frank now would i say that he's a good actor no way but he's good compared to everyone else the story is boring and flat and goes no where and by the end i didn't care what happened just so long as it ended i know this is a cult classic but i didn't enjoy it very much at all i hope you will
0	i love camp movies believe me and the usual gore of gordon lewis don't bother me at all but this is just one of his most stupid movies even more than blood feast i'm not kidding the gore gore girls is about a mad person who kills a lot of go re go re girls of a night club a detective and a reporter tries to find out the big secret maybe the performances here are slightly better than the usual average acting h g lewis films but that is not saying much the camera work is even dreadful br br but at least is kind of watchable with the go go girls acting you going to pass a good time with it and the killings are just absurd in a very very bad way a girl is killed with a wooden hammer punching in her butt and just don't let me talk about what it does with the nipples you going to laugh like anyone with this but the better of all this mess is a scene that i only love of it's the go go girl before being attacked by a lot of feminists dancing in a very american way though is important to note that this was one of the first films that got an x rating because of it's violence br br only if you want lo laugh and pass a good time but only with a lot a lot of beers
0	aside from frank who played abraham gentry an appearance by henny youngman and the last seconds of the movie there really wasn't anything particularly good about this film why it is currently rated 5 3 and adored by some reviewers is beyond me the film is 99 44 crap and exactly what i would have expected from director hershell gordon lewis in the 1960s and 70s lewis was known for making a string of incredibly low budget exploitation films such as blood feast and monster a go go however in recent years he's been christened the father of gore and he has many many fans fans who ignore the ineptitude of his work and only focus on how groundbreaking some of his films were but apart from the liberal use of fake blood and real guts at heart his films are pure crap and don't believe scores of 9 and 10 for his films this would be like putting a velvet elvis painting in the louvre br br the film is about a string of very grisly murders that happen to strippers when i say gruesome it's very bloody and sick for 1972 though by today's standards the special effects look amazingly lame so while some very deviant and cruel murders happen in the film i'd rather not explain them they are from a pretty sick mind and show a particularly sick disregard for women at least they won't you because they were done so poorly it's obvious that in many cases they are cutting apart rubber dolls and mannequins but to have them doing some of the sick acts even if unrealistic is pretty nasty and shows a lot of misogyny br br the only hope in the film as the police are all idiots is a guy named abraham gentry whose mannerisms and style of speech are very close to the stock actor david from the early john waters films while his acting is bad he is so flamboyant and funny that he kept my interest he could be pretty funny and oddly this is the only film he ever made it was also odd that so many women wanted him especially because they just didn't seem like his type br br as for the rest of the folks in the film they are cretins and idiots who could not act in fact i was kind of hoping more would be killed they really had it coming none of their acting was the least bit believable and apparently the director never re shot a single scene as most of the scenes in the film were worse than any of the ones in ed wood's masterpiece plan 9 from outer space in fact for many of the women in the film the only prerequisite for their appearing in the film is that they be willing to take off their clothes now i know this will sound pretty mean but most of them were incredibly unattractive and looked like drug addicts who strip to get their next fix when these ladies take off their clothes men in the crowd give them money to put it back on wow henny youngman should have said that in the film but considering lewis' budgets these were probably the best actresses he could get br br overall a sleazy bucket of bile that manages to be worse than most of the director's other films and that's saying a lot it's violent yet dumb anti women treating them like meat and things to be mutilated and is thoroughly incompetent from start to finish
0	what a lousy movie took me 3 times to finish it the thing i disliked the most was the infantile sense of humor jokes made by a 10 years old child not funny pretty annoying actually for example when the detective cant get a place at the bar he yells she's taking it all off and then they all run fast slapstick kinda' rush so stupid and also a guy sitting at the bar smashing fruit to work out his post traumatic stress disorder on the bar and the bartender is supplying him with more and more fresh fruit thats supposed to be funny and i mean i love good ol' exploitation gore flicks and saw a lot of terrible movies but his one is plain bad and also the gore is not that exciting don't bother i wouldn't recommend it
0	some might remember if having seen the film juno a scene where ellen page has a moment of praise for dario argento's suspiria her favorite horror film jason character then asks if she's ever seen a herschel gordon lewis film and to wit he has a copy of a movie i forget which at the moment and shows it to her at the time i saw juno i had seen suspiria and a few argento films but not lewis now i can see that it's not just another one of diablo cody's pop culture in references but something that actually is an indicator on the tastes of the characters and maybe more subjectively how to judge them based on their tastes in other words herschel gordon lewis's reputation is maintained some many years after he ended making his gore films and it's that of a schlock meister no more no less actually less br br it's interesting then to take argento as a basis of comparison because both filmmakers approach at least in the case of the gore gore girls and well any given argento picture similar material where argento is extraordinarily conscious about his craft getting an audience wrapped up in whatever little story there is by the power of the movement of camera and music and style lewis takes the easy route to get at an audience which is with an immature script and putting it lightly lackluster direction the gore gore girls reveals a filmmaker who isn't interested in entertaining his audience in an actual compelling way as a horror film but as a side show or a brothel he can't direct actors worth a damn he lights like it's a porno movie and for every one possibly clever or funny one liner there's ten that either totally stink or are too clever by half or not clever nearly enough br br that being said perhaps as the best substantive thing to say about the gore gore girls a mystery movie about a detective 2nd rate sherlock holmes guy played by somewhat amusing frank and a newspaper reporter amy farrell investigating a series of murders of go go dancers is that it serves as the template for countless more troma style pictures perhaps this is faint praise however and really the best thing that can truly be said is that henny youngman take my wife please has a few scenes and steals every one of them without having to try much it's sad since it could be the kind of picture that could entertain on an awesomely bad level but even on that score one may laugh more out of embarrassment for the production some of the actors i e that guy who plays the cop my god than out of some guilty pleasure enjoyment br br even the gore itself is somewhat of a letdown at first one thinks that lewis is at least delivering on this end showing these women being murdered in crazy and vicious and exaggerated ways but with the killings it all goes on longer than necessary i don't mean this in terms of shock value for that it's fine but there needs to be something else to really make it stick that showing women's faces dissected and eyes gouged is fine if you're 12 and seeing this as one of you're first 'horror' films it becomes dare i say it dull dangerously dull for such a daring so called movie br br this was lewis's last film until 30 years later an apparently worthy swan song came with a sequel to a film he made earlier brought him out of his retirement from movies and job in writing books on how to make it in business however whatever experience he had coming up to this one doesn't show it's not a failure but it could have been and it's just simply schlock take it or leave it
0	ok i have seen gordon lewis movies before but this one really takes the cake its really gory and gross not to mention disgusting the way the strippers are done in i'm talking bad acting that makes plan 9 from outer space look like hamlet the only saving grace is the late great henny youngman as the strip club owner yeah take my wife please the are real sexy for 1972 i believe they used this same plot again in the roger corman movie stripped to kill in 1987 i did enjoy the earlier h g lewis flick 100 maniacs which was a mini masterpiece of sorts but bad acting no awards here but be aware this is a splatter movie that paved the way for friday the 13th and saw in one disturbing scene a half naked stripper has her butt spanked with a meat tenderizer ugh morbid stuff here h g lewis strikes again 2 out of 10
0	this movie is not a remake of she's all that 1999 br br where is the renewal of the american movie this was probably the worst movie i saw in the last 5 years this and the last movies of schwarzenegger br br
0	of course all this nonsense begs the question 'does a genre as self referential as the teen comedy really need another parody movie ' the woeful 'scary movie' i and ii took the formula about as far as it could go 'not another teen movie' really doesn't have anything either intelligent or shockingly excessive to add br br the plot essentially based on 'she's all that' walks a shaky line between parody and homage 'john hughes high school' everything from 'american beauty' to blues' is mined for references the result is ultimately an unfulfilling viewer experience the downside of giving us a carbon copy plot of 'she's all that' is that we all know where its going anyway and if we didn't then the jokes would be meaningless br br there's extremely little to recommend here the token gross out scene an erupting toilet seems badly out of place here amongst all the 'feel good' references there are moments of humour the song is funny enough and the odd good line is send the audiences way it stinks don't watch it
0	this is a parody that means there are no characters as such they are all plain stereotypes and the movie relies completely on the quality of the jokes br br well there are quite some good jokes in this movie unfortunately they are hidden in a mass of real stupid ones if one expects all dialogues to be absurd the fun wears off br br you see there is american pie 2 my all time favorite teenager movie it contains a lot of real original characters maybe the jokes are tasteless but all the people have some kind of live for example they feel embarrassed if something embarrassing happens that is what makes the jokes themselves actually funny br br not so this movie every scene is clearly arranged as a pure parody so there are no characters at all therefore there is really no room for any sympathy too if you know the original movies you know whole scenes in advance add the fact that many jokes are not funny at all and you have this movie br br the only thing that saved me from getting completely bored where in fact the comments from some teenagers in the cinema where i was watching the film br br ah and my personal highlight of the movie was the very short appearance of melissa joan hart in one scene sigh she is just too cool she can't be real hmm worth a whole movie
0	i can accept the fact this was the next karate kid so ralph macchio can be happily retired from the series and while hillary swank is great for the role the plot to the movie is just dreadful br br mr miyagi's old buddy from world war 2 dies leaving his widow to take care of her rebellious grand daughter when her parents die in an accident the girl has no discipline yet is the hero because the local rotc which i'll explain in a minute has it out to get her you know the drill miyagi takes her under his wing and in the end they beat the bad guys and everyone lives happily ever after br br its hokey its cheesy its the 90's but that's not even the long and the short of it my first case of huh is why is there a military division in high school i thought that stuff went out in the 1960's especially in a public school as much as michael ironside kicks booty in his role as the main heel since when is military involved in a high school my next gripe is that during the prom scene the militants jump to scare the crap out of people why the thing i noticed throughout all 4 movies was at the very end the heels suddenly turn face after all the nonsense they put the main character through billy in part 1 sato in part 2 in part 3 this movie is no different after ned and cronies basically sabotage the senior prom blow up eric's car and threaten hillary swank the whole movie ironside tells them to beat her up and they're like um no if you're gonna do pathetic face turns at least make sure the characters haven't done anything too over the top such as blowing up a hot rod br br as for the rest of the love plot between eric and hillary swank corny but nothing to melodramatic which is a breath of fresh air from the garbage ralph macchio pulled in the first 3 movies br br i will say for its own movie after watching the first 3 movies i can accept it being more or less a spin off but i can't accept the whole military thing way too uncommon for it to be taken seriously now if ironside and crew was a wrestling football team and he was the coach that would have been more believable br br ironside and morita deliver the goods swank is ok the rest are the same as anything the one highlight is when they blow up the hot rod that was cool 4 out of 10
0	this is a stupid movie like a lot of these karate movies it is badly written awkward and sometimes just stupid the action really isn't all there and the movie overall leaves much to be desired everyone here is talking jive doing bad karate and doing a very bad job of acting br br watch for scatman crothers in a small role he is too good for this movie overall jim kelly is good at karate but he is a terrible actor gloria hendry is real bad all of them are there are just so many parts to this film that make absolutely no sense the supposed love running away scene with hendry and kelly what the hell was that they destroyed that man's guitar for no reason br br and then there was the mandatory girls on now what was that they were in the movie for five seconds then you never heard from them again then there is the whole racially charged element of the movie which is cool and all but in this movie it goes absolutely nowhere like i said this is good for a laugh one time but don't watch it again
0	another try another miss france may be doomed for not being able to produce a good horror movie i mean the least they could do was to shoot the movie in the forest of but even the forest is fake it was shot near paris the subject is useless the actors are really insignificant and the text makes you wish you were deaf nothing could save it br br bad to the bone i wasn't warned i want my money back
0	yes absolutely dreadful and this coming from someone who loves bad movies but there's a limit i enjoy all sorts of horror suspense films and have seen some wonderful work from european film makers is sadly not among those those wonderful pieces of film making the camera work is worse than amateurish not the fashionable shaky mtv cameraman needs ritalin type of camera work so many film makers use to camouflage their lack of talent this is simply bad frame composition and terrible image composition the acting is farcical when it is not entirely two dimensional the dialogues are stilted and unnatural even more so than your usual run of the mill horror suspense film delving into pseudo mysticism i think that what put me off the most was the horribly choreographed fight scenes at the end of the film these were bad to the point of being ludicrous i've seen what a small budget can do and it can do wonders this was just bad film making very very sad
0	what should i say i only saw this flick for curiosity and this is truly a shame i grew up in brittany with stories of celtic legends and spent 5 years in rennes the town in which this film is said to take place shame that not any actor nor camera from this flick ever arrived in rennes they could at least have chosen a likely town or a likely forest but nothing even seem like brittany nor rennes and calling it a film about celtic legends is really making a fool of the audience besides those details it could have been a good film but it's crap silly scenario silly characters and no originality definitely to avoid
0	i hate this movie i have never seen such utter complete trash in my life i live in france so it turned out that i was in the front line to watch this awful movie at first it seemed cool kind of like something about a cursed forest that chomps people unfortunately it turned out it was something quite different a good start with a girl that meets a guy and all that whatnot then the girl gets threatening messages in the form of ravens shut up in her bathroom closet ludicrous from that bit and on the movie starts to slide downhill very quickly with a lot of desperate thrashing in the process the movie ends with sacrificial druids galore and ancient ugly stinky creatures coming back from the past to kill a few people many questions were rushing around my head by then why the heck did they bring back that scummy monster do druids look like maniacs dressed in bedsheets why did they even bother making this movie the climax of the movie was so goofy i laughed all the way through it the awful stinky monster does battle with the two young women who appear to be expert kung fu masters and the professor gets sliced in two or something what surprised me was that the monster was so slow and ungainly in battle wasn't it supposed to be a god of war or something anyway the movie in it's death throws was a pitiful sight a brief of the contents of this movie kung fu mayhem druid stones mysterious murders à la thriller ancient prophecies shabby ravens old clumsy war god nutty professor complete and utter diseased worm eaten godforsaken goddam recycled fake wannabe ludicrous sh t things i learned from this movie ancient war gods are lousy at kung fu all young women who study archeology at university in france are kung fu experts professors are so resistant they can survive being sliced in two by a saw mass without any injuries
0	after a few misfires we are still waiting for the french horror movie that the critics will certainly vilify but will launch a new trend not this time doug headline can't be accused of not being in the genre he is editor of a high class fantasy imprint has worked for legendary magazine but why a scenario that uses every cliché in the book except maybe the odious comic relief why make it so predictable even the nods towards argento fails flat it's not even an euro teen movie like the german anatomy much better just a compilation of scenes that barely seems to have any relation one with the other and features lots of plot holes the whole celtic aspect is barely touched and after a painfully predictable the screenplay offers us a boring endless chase in a subterranean which seems bigger than parisian catacombs i really wanted to love this film really but even a mother would not oh and writer was supposed to have a cameo but i vainly looked for him
0	the actresses are cute and the sets while simple quite ok apart from this there is nothing to save from this movie incredibly bad acted dumb to tears dialogues all too expected plot a lot of goofs and inconsistencies for instance a pretty young girl gets hits in the head by a morning star and not only she survives but barely with a scratch to make it short because it does not worth more even the fans of the genre can avoid it
0	in the early 00's production companies had a short lived craze for supernatural genre movies in france after the crimson rivers and brotherhood of the wolf turned out to be hits so several movies were green lit or saved from their direct to video fate however france as opposed to the us uk or italy has little tradition of fantasy b movies and it turned out quickly that bloody mallory or the crimson rivers sequel were ill advised attempts at recreating a kind of magic that had never existed in french cinema in the first place as they flopped producers have gone back to their usual fare derivative farces or the umpteenth self referential tribute to french new wave by a former critic from les cahiers du cinéma br br could only have been green lit during this short window as it serves no other discernible purpose it's your by the book slasher movie mixed with vague mythological element and horror references and you'll find bimboesque female characters a french university looking like a us campus and plot twists so lazy you don't even care because you had guessed it by yourself an hour before even before the movie started br br these elements make all the fun of a 70's or a 80's b movie and you expect them in a 70's or 80's movie however we're not in the 80's anymore and nobody warned director doug headline as this tribute to the slasher movie genre is nothing more than a derivative slasher movie headline himself is no rookie and has been writing as a critic about this kind of pictures since the early 80's but as a first time director he shows a lack of skill and ambition that makes a bore br br when you put together clichés from a movie and hand them to a skilled and inventive director such as wes craven or quentin tarantino you get a scream or a death proof movies that are imitations from old guilty pleasures but also magnify these clichés and add a great deal to them that's called talent and that's why you can't confuse these recent movies with their original inspirations shot decades ago br br takes the lazy path and only reproduces the worst elements from past movies unfortunately for the male viewer the gratuitous nudity is mostly missing there are very strong similarities presumably unintentional between the plot of and the reviled halloween 3 season of the witch as both deal with supernatural druidic evil rituals and some silly attempt at taking over the world on halloween night as even the plot of halloween 3 makes more sense than this one it means that something seriously wrong went with
0	really here the french cinema hits rock bottom and compared to it the least appealing of the american adolescent horror movies the likes of friday the thirteenth freddy and co are masterpieces of the seventh art br br it's all the more infuriating as there were exciting original elements the de and its legends the druids and king arthur all were splendid assets for a dreamlike fantasy and horror film alas filmed as an user aptly pointed out in a fake forest near paris the movie is fake horror fake celtic history fake vestiges you should see the professor who was a wonderful m le in la vie est un long scream for the invaluable scrap which the production probably bought in a dime store fake characters fake excavations br br the boys disguised as druids are unintentionally very funny so are the girls who seem to be experts in martial arts and what can we say of the professors of the monster a ten year old would write a better screenplay than this grotesque farce to think that people can spend money for such drivel when artists are still waiting for a producer br br word to the wise maurice wrote a marvelous story dealing with druids and old ceremonies in his lupin saga called aux a miniseries was made 30 years ago avoid this garbage and try to see it instead
0	i really wanted to like this movie because it is refreshingly different from the hordes of everyday horror movie clones and i appreciate that the filmmakers are trying for something original unfortunately the plot just didn't hold together and none of the characters were likable enough for me to really care about them or their fates br br visually the was pretty interesting the director took a lot of somewhat risky moves like adding in little bits of flash looking animation in parts and really cheesing up some of the special effects such as the light from a certain amulet sometimes this worked and sometimes it didn't but he deserves kudos for the attempt and the cinematography was generally of high quality br br unfortunately when this same approach of throwing lots of things at the wall to see what sticks was applied to the plot the results were not very good the film never really finds a tone that it likes moving from black comedy to family soap opera to 80's witchcraft flick to childhood nostalgia to embattled family slasher taken on their own bits and pieces of each of these elements work fairly well but nothing ever into a satisfying whole besides that large bits of the plot are never really explained i'm not one who likes to have everything spoon fed to me and i like movies that leave things up to the audience to decide but the parts that are left out from the just seem like they either ran out of money before they could explain them or they didn't really think things through to begin with br br i look forward to the director's next project since i think there is a lot of talent lurking under the surface here but i can't really recommend the on its own merits
0	hillary swank is an unattractive piece of work in this unattractive piece of work of a film pat morita desperate for work any kind of work agreed to reprise his role as the karate teacher and bring his brand of karate to the silver screen once again except this time hillary skank swank is the student br br i can just see the hollywood writers getting excited about the idea of having a tormented spoiled brat female take the role from ralph the film does not work on any level and it's boring on every level there's nothing interesting here and not even a lesson for anyone to hold on to the film was made without any thought of making money because it's just so bad br br i would gladly spit on all the actors in this film for having been involved with it and have the writers black listed for their miserable and insulting efforts
0	i only watched this because i saw a couple of good reviews for this so i was expecting at the very least a half way cheesy movie doesn't even deliver that there are so many problems with this flick that i don't even know where to start so i will list a couple of main issues once again spoiler warning just read them it'll save you the trouble of watching this later br br one this movie starts out with and often mentions the mythical folklore of both celeste noir a witch who the main character claims she is the reincarnation of and the mid or something like that an evil man with a big smile who cuts people open with hooks and sells their innards in pies i liked that it was a cute concept anything to do with pies is simply enjoyable but then you watch the movie and it's all about this idiot girl and her boyfriend and what was the deal with him was he psychic did he have powers why did he keep seeing visions that even the so called 'witch' didn't notice and them meeting their insane family not really insane they just argue a lot that's what most of this movie is arguing and they barely touch on the supposed myth ever again except in a couple of confusing scenes that you can't make heads or tails of br br in one scene the main witch related character wanders off and does some sort of ritual by candle light it seemed rather important but absolutely nothing happened after she did it it just wasted more of my time br br and who the hell was that guy with his dog you see him walking towards the house from the very start of the movie with that evil red eyed dog and then he finally gets there and gets killed what the hell was he the mid was his dog possessed did someone kill the dog they never really showed that also any scene involving the vicar was completely pointless and only served to weakly explain the lame ending it was like they had all these interesting character ideas and they all went nowhere the boyfriend who obviously had some sort of powers but never explains them the grandmother who appeared to also have some sort of witch powers but never used them the vicar who ok never mind there really was no point for his existence at all and then there was and her stupid amulet could she really do magic or did she just use it to reflect light and blind people this was a complete waste of time and the only reason i give it two stars at all is because a is kinda cute and b it mentioned pies save yourself the money of renting this and dear god don't even think about buying it unless wasting money is a new fad
0	wow so my boyfriend and i went to the movie store to rent a film i like dumb horror movies so i browsed the variety of terrible films they had to offer while he went off in search of michael moore's so then i found the worst of all of them as i would soon find out it looked good on the cover and the description on the back seemed decent enough the fact that there was an imdb quote on it as a review was proof that it would be bad in a good way so the next night we put it in the dvd player and from the first five minutes we were so incredibly confused br br the movie is utterly incoherent with badly placed time jumps from past to future that leave you asking a major ' the plot has no sort of coherent story other than the vague allusion to a local myth about a murder but this only actually comes into play in the movie in the last twenty minutes of it so pretty much for the first hour you have this random confusing time jumps incoherent plot parents who don't age bad acting bad dialogue a boy who magically changes hair colour and a host of obnoxious characters for you to get bored with br br the movie moves so slow that it's a chore to actually sit there and watch i'd rather be scrubbing the toilets honestly don't bother with it
0	rented free rental thank goodness this as supposedly filmed in ct where i live could have been filmed in a tunnel for all that matter dark ninety percent of time and just an awful attempt at a low budget flick which can be good if done right in a nutshell about a bunch of young adults who witness meteor fall and subsequently fall prey to aliens on a lighthouse island assisted by keeper and wife analysis br br acting dreadful br br writing uninspired br br story done a million times before with different settings br br production values okay lighting for budget br br effects creature digital other horrible very cheap looking br br so you get the gist of it to add insult to injury end credits has bloopers of filming really now who cares distributed under a universal company shocked they would even do so after viewing br br finally as alternative try creep low budget but well written well acted and fairly well creepy
0	i see that the majority of the comments so far have been if not overly positive then at least positive i can not understand that the only explanation i can find is that the people who commented had something to do with the film because this is one of the worst movies i've ever seen it makes boggy creek ii and mutant look like masterpieces of horror the acting is shaky at best and awful for the most part the entire movie is almost pitch black probably so they could shoot it all in the same location the monster looks like something from one of roger corman's worst films and the plot well the less said about it the better br br one to avoid at all costs
0	this movie is so bad but its so bad that i was laughing my ass off for people that like movies do not watch this one for people who like movies good and bad i recommend this one the story lines shaky the script is horrible the acting is horrible to mediocre the soundtrack throughout the movie was corny but i loved it the cool catchphrases were a plus tho ha ha if it can bleed it can die the fight scenes cracked me up it seemed to me like they spent more time on those parts than any other cuz the fight scenes for the most part were pretty clean i almost feel like this movie could have been good if it weren't for the f x no it would have still been a the eye thing was corny and how the chick was eating the guys stomach in the kitchen they coulda done something where shed be actually eating something or at least put more of the fake blood on her face and the lighthouse explosion disappointed me i thought they might have gotten real fire instead of crappy computer synthesized stuff and the ending was so predictable which surprised me when they actually did what i though they might do so overall id say this is a classic as far as crappy movies go its in my bottom 5
0	this has got to be the worse move i've ever seen it was not only boring it was gag me with a spoon dumb where'd ya find the actors on a street corner who did the special effects for god's sakes i could have made a better movie with my cell phone and if that wasn't bad enough you even had extras at the end of the movie so we could see just how stupid the actors are in real life who ever did the makeup for the aliens must have spent 5 at your local used costume store and called it a day and who in the world wrote up the movie description on the back of the dvd case should be shot it's not even 1 8 of what it is described as that description is just to suck people in to buying renting or paying a ticket to see it no wonder there was never a trailer to it ya would have drove them all away br br bad actors 5 br br special effects 5 50 br br fake fire 1 89 cigarette lighter br br time spent watching this movie total waste i should sue ya for my time watching it
0	i like to think i have seen it all ss the one about a family of sabertooth tigers the one about a family of goat eater demon child a child's rubber doll with horns glued on its head several sasquatch flicks none of them good a couple of giant spider insect flicks endless hellraiser sequels endless sequels endless jason sequels a kickboxing scarecrow ax 'em which is actually about an urban street parade recorded on someone's camcorder and so on i watched part of an stv the other night about folks stranded on a desert island kickboxing to the death with a group of badly animated totems i have even sat through dreamcatcher as recently again as last night well i should say i sat through parts of it having seen it in all of its awful glory years ago but nothing compares to predator island about a group of youths trapped on an island during a storm forced to do battle with aliens that arrive in a meteorite the meteorite looks like it came out of a superman cartoon from the 1940s so do the aliens for that matter the photography and acting and directing and writing are all equally bad i turned it off halfway through good luck
0	i carefully checked if there's another movie named as this one and there isn't but i really don't think we all saw the same movie there's no way how can you vote more than 1 for this movie the idea of this movie let's say it's acceptable oh and the acting of dan gordon chris is quite good but those are the only two things acceptable in this project the others are awful it's a very delicate word to describe the acting of the other actors the directing the so said special effects even the way that the crew was filming i don't even like the way that the camera operators were moving to record the scenes this may be the most miserable film i've ever seen i really don't remember a movie lower than this one maybe there is but i don't think so ehh what's done it's done that's the movie and there's too late for anyone to change anything i've voted 1 but my realistic vote starts with a minus in front
0	predator island starts as six friends eric tom dahl chris dan gordon along with heather iris grace kim baker denise melissa roby get invited to spend sometime on kevin's michael father's boat partying in the open sea what could go wrong with such a super sounding idea well for starters a big green meteorite could crash into the sea near your boat an alien life force could emerge from it try to kill all of you then again that's just a ridiculously stupid idea isn't it br br co edited written directed by steven castle i thought predator island was crap it's a simple straight forward as that really the script is of the worst kind you know the sort of abomination that's full of highly annoying teenage character's who do say the most stupid things it's full of clichés is utterly predictable it makes next to no sense things just suddenly happen without any build up or explanation it's boring even at only 70 odd minutes it has virtually no entertainment value whatsoever not even unintentional laugh value the film doesn't really have much of what i would call a plot there's no explanation given as to why or how this alien creature can take over people's minds or why it can be selective in the sense that one moment the person will be 'normal' the next when the story calls for it with no apparent cause they suddenly get green glowing eyes a sudden urge to turn cannibal there's not enough horror in it the so called action scenes are pitiful i really don't want to waste another second thinking about predator island let alone wasting my precious energy typing these words br br director castle doesn't do anything to make this thing watchable the 'special effects' are absolutely terrible this alien creature dude wouldn't even get into a 50's sci fi film the filmmakers even play some blooper footage over the end credits but this has to be the least funny collection of mistakes ever i mean they can't even get it wrong right if you know what i mean forget about any decent gore as there isn't any there's a bit of cannibalism some intestines placed on the unfortunate actors stomach so another unfortunate actor can pick them up pretend to eat them br br with a supposed budget of about 150 000 i have to concede that the filmmakers were working on a seriously low budget that's still no excuse for making such a poor film the whole thing looks very cheap the acting is pretty bad br br predator island is crap i'm sorry but that's the way it is i just fail to see what anyone would get out of it in my humble opinion this probably one to avoid
0	from the opening shot of the meteor falling towards earth you know you're in for something special br br this is an ultra low budget shot on video movie about a group of teens stranded on a lighthouse island with some monsters the story is unremarkable and nothing you haven't seen a thousand times before the acting isn't great but isn't completely horrible however the special effects of which there are a good deal are laughable at best in fact if you can read this sentence chances are better than 50 that you could do a more credible job creating the video explosion and compositing effects in this movie than the filmmakers br br the movie's saving grace if you're in the mood for a grade z turkey of a film is that there's always something happening and it never gets boring and if you like making fun of bad movies with your friends you might just find this worth a dollar rental br br and i must say i appreciated the opening joke that is the dumbest name for an island i've ever heard probably the best moment in the movie
0	the next karate kid is a thoroughly predictable movie just like its predecessors its predictability often results in a feeling of impatience on the viewer's part who often wishes the story could move a little faster despite its lulls and its extreme familiarity however this fourth entry in the series is painless almost exclusively because of the presence of morita he doesn't seem tired of his role and he does inject some life and humor into the film becoming the best reason for you to see it not awful but nothing much either
0	once in a while it is good to see a really bad film like this just so you know how decent an actor keanu reeves is by comparison the premise of this story is good teenagers go out on a boat meteor lands in water aliens kill teenagers what's not to love about that if you're into scream thrillers but i should have known something was up when i read it was only 75 minutes long i thought i hate judging movies by how long they are who says a movie has to be 90 minutes but once i took the dvd home from i was shocked at the awful production quality acting directing of this completely amateurish piece of garbage the only reason i watched it to the end was because i don't have cable tv and i already paid four bucks for it however there was one ray of light the actor who played chris is actually decent and far outclasses this dreck first of all the special effects were cheap and unconvincing then the aliens the costumes seemed interesting rubber suits but since most of the film takes place in the dark you don't really get to see them and hardly any of the actors were convincing enough to suspend disbelief finally i must say that the dvd jacket was made with much higher production standards than the film itself which felt like a rip off so beware of that when you rent other dvds save your 4 and buy a pint of beer
0	the kind of b movies from the 1950's that were schlocky yet so much fun are to what predator island pays homage filmed in connecticut predator island is set on an island called with a lighthouse hell's beacon which is inhabited by only the couple who tends the lighthouse in typical 1950's sci fi fashion after a half dozen young adults crash their boat into the island's rocky shore hideous creatures from outer space invade the island after a meteor hits nearby the creatures start both inhabiting the bodies of their victims as well as devouring them lots of cursing and lame comebacks are the primary form of dialogue in this movie it is so hokey that you just have to laugh at times if you are looking for a movie that is stupid but in a fun way then this one fits the bill br br interesting note i appear in the film as a dead body in the far background of the final scene during filming they needed about 50 extras yet around 300 people showed up for the opportunity they eventually used nearly 200 of them
0	it's incredible how a movie can take so much time and effort and still end up being abominable for those of you who appreciate painstaking special effects and inconceivable detail in every shot you will watch this film in awe simply because predator island contains none of this it is a redundant remake of every horror monster movie in the last two decades now i appreciate bad horror films they have a certain flare for humor in the most dramatic of circumstances however if your goal is to create a memorable work that will thus be engulfed in the cult hall of fame then my first suggestion is to find some imagination creativity plus get some talent oh and a few extra bucks to put into your picture br br one horror film tradition has been to shock the audience with violent deaths and gore however shock doesn't deliver for more than a few seconds to really evoke a satisfying reaction from paying crowd there should b development of characters some identifiable traits i know you're probably saying this guy is not providing anything intelligent to the filmmakers he's just stating an amateur remark well that goes to show you how amateur these filmmakers are br br despite having to go through the horror of watching this movie there was a silver lining the performance by dan gordon as chris is splendid he is given nothing to work with in a script and yet he is able to come out of that film looking like a star out of all of the actors he is the only who believes in what he is reciting he not only provides the audience with someone we can identify with but we also have someone we look forward to watching so we can get through the rest of the film gordon shows genuine talent and the ability to pull off quality work and overcoming a huge obstacle that being the rest of the cast dan gordon is going to be a star hopefully sooner than later that is to say if he can get away films like this that will hold him back
0	this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen the highlight of the movie is a comparison between the smell of natural gas and a dirty vagina br br the acting is pathetic i know acting is hard work and stuff but that's why it should be left to real actors watching these people act is like watching michael j fox perform brain surgery it's shaky at best br br one of the other comments would have you believe that the movie is saved by the acting talents of dan gordon as chris only dan himself or maybe his mother could believe that was good acting br br the special effects in this movie were terrible the worst special effects were for the gas explosion in the lighthouse it looked like someone was shining an orange light up from the bottom of a model constructed from a refrigerator box sure there was a little bit of computer animation layered over top but it didn't help i suspect that the special effects on this movie were created and rendered using a single computer from the late 80s
0	the positive reviews on this page are planted by the filmmakers and their friends this film is amateurish in terms of direction acting in fact in every aspect if the imdb are gonna allow filmmakers to dictate what is written about their films then that is a very sad thing this film has a marketable premise but it is absolutely horrifically made br br film is subjective so everyone has their own opinion but this film is on a par with the work of ed wood but without any of the charm to think otherwise shows bad taste of the highest order br br this is not a personal thing i don't know anyone associated with the film i'm just a film lover who feels that the reviews on this page are completely inaccurate and therefore i felt the need to address the balance and give a more accurate view of the film it's very poorly made and the direction is below even film making by the numbers the acting is the worse ever committed to film the best thing about this film is the poster and dvd cover art beyond that it's not worth the time
0	6 out of the 8 comments on this subject rated this film as worth watching so let me redress the balance br br if this is the best that british independent film makers have to offer then they need to pack away their cameras right now and find jobs in another industry unfortunately for me that was 82 minutes i'll never see again and hopefully i'll save some of you from wasting 82 minutes of your own br br whilst the idea behind the film is interesting it is not developed enough to keep the viewer attached the student characters are bland and uninteresting and quite frankly you won't care about what happens to them the soldiers are practically caricatures of every baddie ever seen in film i kept waiting for captain to twirl an imaginary moustache some of the effects were quite good and showed some imagination but these were ruined by the shockingly bad acting poor script writing and patchy camera work the budget may have been better spent sending the actors and i use that term loosely to acting classes or the thomas brothers to film making school or maybe on a spell checker because the subtitles were incorrectly spelt the fact that the mis were not picked up on and rectified speaks volumes about the immaturity of the whole production br br i can only assume that the positive comments are staged by the film makers either that or they were watching a completely different film i implore the thomas brothers to never give up their day jobs for if they continue in this field they will surely starve to death
0	i rented this film for 5 and felt sorry i did it i wouldn't give a for it if i knew this is the worse movie ever none of the filming locations was in former yugoslavia map at the beginning what the english actors are trying to speak serbian eg pretending they are serbs and they did it terrible bad my first language is serbian and i could not understand what they were about they drove a big jeep in a country where 3 sides croats serbs and muslims are in war and they wrote on it peace 4 sarajevo ha ha how stupid was that don't know why english are making stupid films about war like this one or even if they do why they are blaming serbs for everything when there was another two sides in a war too and we all know they were killing too not just sitting and pretending innocent so they should at least show the whole truth this film also harrison's flowers behind lines the hunting party and few others were total bullshit and that's proved eg the hunting party was biggest loser in 2007 08 spent 20 mil 4 it and they earned 800 000 ha ha what a crap the truth will come out sooner or later proud to be serb
0	i'm sorry fans but i was disappointed with this concert at the cbs television city in los angeles it's decent music wise but the presentation is simply boring big time most of the songs sound the same and lead singer writer jeff lynne is about as animated as a store mannequin he has a pleasant voice but he isn't much to watch he just stands in one spot and sings for an hour and 40 minutes the songs all sound like 1970s 1980s bubblegum stuff pleasant but not exciting br br lynn is accompanied by a very pretty woman rosie but she isn't too animated either the only song out of 23 that creates any excitement is the last one roll over beethoven now if only some of the other 22 songs had that excitement to them this could have been a much better concert dvd
0	wow what's this on the video rental store's shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to 8mm it wasn't a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie br br basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david and his fiancée tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute risa the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city the mystery is solved when in the end tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fiancée which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end br br i didn't like how this had nothing to do with the original 8mm at all the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene otherwise its a totally different movie it made for a lousy love story even before the end is known which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn't believe the words coming out of david's mouth the whole time but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble br br there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the shocking moments of the film which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i counted at least 11 ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative br br david was no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he was the main problem long before the end the actors who played each role were all new to me which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting respect there were plot holes how did david and richard finally impress father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there were cheesy technology moments like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs too because it wasn't even about a last breath nobody really dies but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere but that was a good 10 seconds long out of an hour and 3 4 long movie br br go rent and maybe buy the original it's one of joel schumacher's better and more original films it has everything better about it from this film i wouldn't recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges
0	i'm so sorry but i have to tell this film was the most terrible i have ever seen before i thought that it will be a good film after 8mm what a sell there were nothing interesting in it except the beautiful hungarian women everything might be known forward it's a miracle i didn't sleep trough all i don't understand how might you let make it i'm so sorry but i have to tell this film was the most terrible i have ever seen before i thought that it will be a good film after 8mm what a sell there were nothing interesting in it except the beautiful hungarian women everything might be known forward it's a miracle i didn't sleep trough all i don't understand how might you let make it
0	i had been avoiding this movie for sometime because i viewed it as an unneccesary installment to a series that should have only had 2 parts but after reading some fairly favorable reviews from some imdb watchers i spent 1 50 and rented it at my local video store need i go further when i say this was a buck 50 lost this movie is one of the 10 worst movies i have ever seen first off i realize that noone wanted to see a 33 year old macchio in this film but why could'nt they have had miyagi read a letter or something from daniel san maybe explaining what happened to daniel hell they could have at least made a quick mention of daniel or something but no and to the already bad script they added those stupid monks i thought monks take a vow of silence guess these yapping monks don't take their vows seriously hehehe the training the girl went through in the movie was hurried and stupid and the paramilitary group of young males were a confusing concept to say the least this was far from even being a martial arts movie with the girl only fighting briefly in the final scene and then she didn't even come close to getting hit even once by the male fighting her give me a break she would have gotten hit at least once i guess the writers and directors thought it would be to shocking to see a girl get punched by a male in this one i could go on and on but basically i'll end by saying that this movie was just so bad even the girl they chose wasn't nice to even look at she was sorta butch looking i can only think of a handful of movies that i have sit through that compare to just how bad this flick was don t waste your time on this one
0	star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br david johnathon schaech and tish lori are a couple in budapest on business commitments and staying at a luxury hotel one night they meet an attractive woman at a nightclub and invite her back to their place where they end up in a threesome all is well until david receives some negatives in the mail and he and tish end up being blackmailed but when some people involved in the deception are found murdered things get messy and they are forced to enter the seedy underground world of pornography and hardcore bondage to track down the woman who may hold the key to everything br br whereas the original film dealt with the concept of snuff films this straight to dvd sequel deals with the more wholesome theme of threesomes and sleazy sex it plays like a porn film a cheap piece of titillation with plenty of hot t a action going on if this sounds like your idea of a good film you'll probably like it but you'd probably be more at home in a porn shop than a video store br br this tries to copy the original film's dark and voyeuristic feel but while it does a pretty good job of this it still can't hold up to that of the original's it has an apathetic story with a dodgy narrative flow and compared to cage schaech comes across as interminably wooden br br better than i thought it'd be i suppose and better than your average one of these dvd direct sequels that seem to be coming out a lot these days but really haven't we seen enough
0	this is another one of those movies i just knew i would hate but it ended up not being as bad as one would expect br br it has a lot of t a in it and even the dvd menu is chocked full of women's breast the first few scenes of the movie has a lot of sex and nudity and i was beginning to think there would be no story at all just exploiting nudity for the sake of making money off a popular prequel 8mm br br as i continued to watch there was just more sex and nudity and main characters that i could care less about but then the story started to unfold and i started to see a point to it all and it was a tad better br br it is about a man who's fiancé is the daughter of an and they all have a promising future until nude photos of a menage a trois sex act shows up and blackmail is in the cards the man and his fiancé must now get to the bottom of who sent the pics and how to shut them up br br the movie first of all is nothing to do with part 1 it doesn't even have anything to do with its about a sex video though so i can see the similarities as small as they may be br br the acting is neither good nor bad its just nobodies playing parts anybody could do the films production value is middle of the road and its pure drama yawn br br i did enjoy going along for the ride getting to the bottom of the blackmailers motives i was anticipating answers which is way more than i could say for the first one which i consider garbage this movie has some nice twists too which are always welcomed br br it's not great and it is very slow started but it does ultimately entertain i wasn't on the edge of my seat and i won't rave to my friends that this is a must see but hey if you watch a lot of movies and always seek something new this might entertain you for 90 minutes
0	i believe the production value is ok probably deserves a 4 10 or 5 10 it's traditionally filmed featuring good looking people with model quality and a little class br br but the premise let me annoyed a decent woman would do such dirt i mean she is gonna marry a man who would have sex with another woman br br and what's more serious she is also active in the behavior only in de mind the film also have many aspects that makes eastern europeans seem immoral br br after all it's just movie if it doesn't intend to degrade women in general i will give one more point but obviously it does br br conclusion a nasty piece of crap with a little taste
0	why was this film made what were the creators of this thinking the first 8mm film at least had a plot that made sense and was potentially interesting the first film was about the snuff film industry this sequel is about hold on the porno industry yes as if the snuff film industry an industry in which people are supposedly killed on film for entertainment were at all in the same league with the adult film industry an industry in which people film other people engaging in sex acts and situations for eroticism the idea alone should warn you about how poorly conceived the idea for this film alone is it isn't helped by a lack of plot character acting direction script logic theme or even sound design this is a remarkably boring film that never once held my attention literally nothing works why would a mystery thriller film about the porno industry involving assassination and betrayal work anyway i don't have much of an interest in adult films but i certainly have watched them before why would somebody make a film about the evils of it and that they would make it in a sequel to a film about snuff movies i don't even know if there is an industry involved in snuff film making but i hope it doesn't the idea of a snuff film alone is horrific and only people who are truly sick and bad would be a part of it i don't think that the adult film industry revolves around murder and torture i'm pretty sure that a lot of people make pornographic films for good intentions rather than to hurt and kill people it is never okay to hurt another human being the adult film industry isn't about hurting people it's about creating films that are to me a diversion and a waste of time what is this film trying to say it doesn't work
0	first off the first thing that came to my mind after i finished this film last night was why the title of 8mm 2 because i saw the first one obviously and what did this have to do with the first movie's plot the only thing that was similar was the fact that the couple had to go into the porno industry and that wasn't even needed in the plot because after you see the ending that i will not spoil it just didn't make any sense br br a diplomat and his fiancée are in hungary and notice a woman who is swimming naked in the pool area she's very attractive so when they see her at a club they decide to have a little fun and have a steamy threesome but things get extremely intense when the diplomat is mailed pictures of them all having the affair fearing that it might go public and jeopardize his career they pay off the guy who sent the pictures the diplomat freaks out and kills the guy leading into a murder case he and his decide to find the girl they had the affair with but things just get deeper and darker as they go further into what they got themselves into br br what could have been an alright thriller turned into an unexplained and not well thought out movie which was sad like i said the title really has nothing to do with the first one so don't fall for it it's just a sexual thriller that makes no sense but it's good for those nights alone because quite frankly this is one of those films where it's so close to porn that it might as well be labeled as soft core br br 4 10
0	1st watched 2 9 2008 4 out of 10 dir j s cardone sexual political thriller that doesn't really succeed in any of these areas very well except early on where there are some interesting soft core scenes the movie starts off portraying a couple exploring their sexual fantasies amidst their work environments or wherever and whatever suits their fancy the couple takes an excursion to a retreat and bathhouse where they run into a woman that's willing to be a part of a three some and fulfill some of their fantasies at this point we only know that this couple is well off but we don't know until they return that the fiancé is part of a well to do political family the man hopes to be on the rise to the point of possibly getting a congressional seat after the marriage they then receive a package in the mail from an anonymous source with explicit pictures of their encounter at the bath house and their begins as to how and why they were filmed who sent the package what they want and how to clear their names before any of this gets out this becomes an obsession that leads them deeper into seedier worlds and takes a lot of their time to the point where their friends family wonder what they're doing all day and why they look rundown all the time this movie is interesting at times but drifts into ridiculousness as they personally seek out the problem instead of getting the police involved early on because of their pride this mistake of course keeps the movie going the performances are fine despite the no name cast but the lunacy of the situation overrides and the movie starts to become ho hum about ½ the way through and of course they throw in a twist at the end that defies and challenges everything that happened prior as is the norm these days when they don't know what else to do to spice up the movie this doesn't help this movie one bit though
0	sure this flick set in eastern europe is filled with sexy but it absolutely has nothing to do with the nicholas cage flick 8mm an ambassador's daughter and her fiancée mix it up with a local woman in a threesome that ends up being taped the tape is used for blackmail and the stakes get higher and higher as the couple try to work it out themselves instead of going to authorities br br the sex comes and goes and would be the only reason for renting it i suppose if you like this sorta thing and is quite gratuitous towards the middle when we cruise along the porn scene looking for the other woman i definitely question how it got into blockbuster even with a youth restricted sticker considering how just a hint over the edge of soft core it is oh that's right it's the double standard actual art house flicks like the dreamers and y tu mama tambien get castrated r versions but straight to dvd crap like this get the unrated banner proudly attached whatever br br the acting is horrible the plot is mind numbingly unoriginal but really the worst offense is the idea that this is a sequel to 8mm i'd give the flick a d for a grade and be nice but considering they tried to trick me it gets the f it frankly deserves
0	after seeing the movie in a class of mine and having a talk with the filmmaker i found out exactly why the film bombed the way it did the creators of the movie had no intention to call the film 8mm 2 originally the film was called the velvet side of hell but was changed at the last minute by sony pictures to 8mm 2 without letting the filmmakers have any say in the matter by doing that it screwed them out of theatrical releases and doomed it to a straight to video release with minimal advertising br br again this is from the filmmaker's mouths not mine so i really can't say what is truth and what is hype br br if you look at the film as velvet side of hell it isn't that bad it isn't great but it is not god awful it would basically just be a b movie that likes to show boobs but as a sequel to 8mm the film fails terribly
0	this was made in 2004 for gods sake what happened to our state of the art special effects what happened to our rough around the edges but still good actors the actors in this movie were unbelievably horrible there was one or two that weren't bad but the rest thumbs down couldn't stand listening to the badly written dialogue i mean who the heck wrote that script please don't ever write again special effects don't even get me started on the special effects surely they could have come up with better then fully fake looking green balls of light in the eye sockets it looks so old and lame frankly even the easiest thing to make look real the teeth they looked so fake and stupid i would almost wipe a tear from my eye in annoyance come i cant believe this was even shown to the public
0	ok if you are looking for a fun lesbian romp this is not the movie if you are looking for a fun movie with hot sociopathic characters in the vane of 'cruel intentions' or 'wild things' this is not the movie if you are looking for a classic vampire lesbian movie this is not the movie br br however if you are looking to wast an hour of your life this is your movie it is badly written badly directed badly scored badly filmed it had bad special effects i mean really bad special effects i think that you can actually generate the same special effects in imovie lol br br it really is a pretty bad movie br br the actors were classic starlet beauties however look more like porn stars it is shot like a soft core porn however you never get the money shot and the actors all look bored out of their brains the 'girl on girl' scenes which suck btw were so lame that there hardly worth mentioning go watch the 'almost sex scenes' on youtube cos that's the only reason you would want to watch this movie and even there not worth it br br a wast of money and time don't even pick it up go watch 'cruel intentions 2' instead same movie without the bad special effects bad storyline bad writing bad dialog and bad acting actually i might go watch it now just to purge my mind
0	i thought this movie was going to be a disgrace to the series after all part 3 didn't measure up to part 2 and this one doesn't have daniel miyagi's humour wasn't quite as witty in this one as in part 3 but it was funny enough to make the movie worth watching br br the girl's part was pretty good she's a lost teenager who needs direction i find the plot a little hard to believe that the aunt would simply agree to leave her home and her niece under the care of mr miyagi a man she just met of course he was a friend of her brother br br i did appreciate the monastery one might think from some of my other reviews that i wouldn't have liked the dancing monks but i thought it was amusing it showed that they know how to have some fun now if these were monks in ancient china dancing to pop music that would have been another matter br br probably the most intelligent part of the movie was when the girl thought it was stupid that the monks wouldn't kill a bug miyagi told her that street gangs killing each other is stupid nations trying to destroy each other is stupid but having respect for all life is not stupid miyagi has expressed such wisdom in the other films as well br br i give this movie a 4 out of 10 sure there were some things i liked about it it wasn't as funny as part three and no character could ever live up to sato in part 2 this movie has no re watch value i can't imagine watching it again but it is worth seeing once
0	i thought maybe maybe this could be good an early appearance by the re animator jeffery combs many to old horror movies the troma label on the this movie could be a gem i thought wrong br br is a boring overplayed half assed homage to the fright films of yore the story is an old one young people breaking into a house getting drunk making love and tampering with things that shouldn't be tampered with the oft – recycled slasher film formula is used here this time with a thought to be dead actor named conrad doing the killing in fact the performance by the actor ferdy mayne is the only redeeming quality of this film he does the snooty dracula style character very well but as for the kids its not so good with combs only having a minimal part br br the film lacks entertainment value and only features one cool character and one or two scenes that can hold your attention i do not recommend this film unless you are desperate for something to watch and this is the only movie left at blockbuster
0	i wasn't expecting citizen kane but i was hoping for some extreme guilty pleasure the script is bad but the school exterior shots were obviously done with the same 5 extras on the same day the dorm exterior shots were easily shot during a hurricane br br the wardrobe was swapped around so much i hoped the wardrobe mistress had some good strong soap to wash the panties i know the time but do you think they could have bought a couple of different styles of underwear what oversexed up vampiric hot chick would wear boy leg panties under latex trousers i was relieved to see one appearance of thong in the penultimate scene br br good points the actors were all very attractive and the girls had natural boobs too bad they never took the bras off br br the special effects were neither effective and could only be describes as special if they rode the short bus to the edit bay the final scene in particular is horrifically laughably bad br br
0	i don't honestly know what legal or illegal substance they the writers were on when the wrote this horrid piece of tripe br br the cast sucks the plot sucks the editing sucks the whole premise of the movie is that a girl with psychic telekinetic powers comes across a lesbian vampire sorority you just have to be totally out of your head to watch even 1 minute of this br br the only reason i had to watch it it was on the here network as part of a two picture purchase and the movie that came on after it was the real one that i wanted to see i fast forwarded through the whole thing and was just amazed how stupid this movie was in double speed br br do not rent buy or watch this movie the vampires in the movie don't suck as much as the overall movie and production does br br if you want a good lesbian vampire movie the hunger with david bowie susan sarandon katharine deneuve excellent movie to watch own rent in place of this piece of pure sh t
0	decoteau has to be one of the worst directors working today in any genre and it has nothing to do with his movies usually containing and having guys run around in their matching boxer briefs remember anyone in tight black underwear is satanic and evil and want to suck out your blood soul such deep symbolism here i just sat through the sisterhood to give him his fair shakes i try to watch every horror movie i can and this one had barbara from beyond re animator crampton in it i had previously been sucked in to the world of decoteau thanks to linnea quigley adrienne barbeau and several other actresses i like br br lemme tell you what about the sisterhood like the other reviewer pointed out the supposed plot involves lesbian vampires on a college campus but never has a parade of hot young babes actresses if you want running around dressed in bras panties and bikinis been so boring the movie has no plot no gore no nudity and the dialog is ridiculous and seems like they made it up as they go along parts are put in slow motion and repeated many times to push the running time up about ten minutes of this one consists of characters just walking around on campus oh the excitement that looks more like a hotel resort than any college i've ever been to and the acting is the absolute worst the only thing these girls do well is lean forward and bend over to show off their bodies the cast were so devoid of talent that i'd be shocked to see any of them get a one day walk on role on passions in the future ditto for the guys yeah decoteau squeezed more hot guys in underwear in this one too guys who should be in some k mart brochure instead of trying to act do these people actually have to audition or just show up in dave's office and take their clothes off i think the answer is obvious br br i am willing to give any movie a chance if 1 it's intelligently written well directed original and competently acted or hell even ambitious and stylish or 2 it is chock full of gore nudity assorted trashiness and or it's unintentionally hilarious david decoteau's movies deliver none of that and they do it on better than usual production values for direct to video flicks what a waste so what is the appeal especially with the advent of porn of the soft and hard core variety that's easily accessible to anyone with a computer i simply cannot answer that br br decoteau is a gay horror director and could use his resources to put a unique spin on the genre instead he produces mind numbing drivel without an ounce of talent or intelligence shining through ironically when you think about it his films are anything but pro gay they actually make homosexuality seem seedy secretive and sinister the obviously gay characters in his films are always trying to corrupt seduce and or kill off the innocent sexually confused leads there's no shading here to make things interesting the protagonists are naive and seldom prove themselves to be strong assertive or confident in who they are i would understand this plotting if jerry falwell fred phelps or dr laura starting making direct to video horror films but from a gay director it just goes to show that he puts almost no thought into these beefcake cheese fests
0	pretty br br pretty actresses and actors pretty bad script pretty frequent let's strip to our undies scenes pretty fair f x pretty jarring location decisions the college dorm room looks like a high end hotel room probably because it was shot at a hotel pretty bland storyline pretty awful dialog pretty locations pretty annoying editing unless you like the music video flash cut style br br this one isn't a guilty pleasure this is more an embarrassing one if you must watch this pick a good dance techno album and turn the sound off on the movie you'll see the pretty people in their pretty black undies and probably follow the story just fine br br the cast may be able to act i doubt that anyone could look skilled given the lines plot that they had to deal with
0	what a production what a waste of screen time and money here is what some european so called producer think of a scifi movie take former model alexandra kamp pair a with an us c class actor and get one of film business most notorious producer harry a towers towers then finds some obscure munich based prod house tandem communication bauer and then mix it all up with no script whatsoever and you'll get a priceless gem among the worst movies ever done get a live people and do something else whatever you do no movies please to top everything producers went to south africa for filming what you see on screen is one giant sand hole where the action takes place between extremely bad actors and extremely bad fx that any film student would do better
0	i watched this out of curiosity i enjoyed stargate sg1 and i've watched many of the other tv shows and movies that the principal characters have worked on br br my expectations weren't high so i was surprised to be so monstrously disappointed br br the acting throughout is appalling and the script is worse br br zero research into the bad science that is spouted throughout the movie or into martial arts which several cast members engage in throughout the movie despite clearly having no martial arts training baton twirling does not a warrior make training makes the already implausible plot even less credible the same weapon carried by michael shanks when shot at the side of a mountain causes extreme damage but when shot indoors at the wall made of wicker creates a small fireworks effect without damaging the wicker structure ok i suppose michael shanks fans will be sued to seeing that in stargate sg1 where a staff weapon creates either a surface burn on a main character or blasts a hole in a section of castle wall as required but still a bad cgi snake 'god' eats one of the faithful in the way a dog would eat snakes just don't behave like that br br the basic premise of an amazonian warrior cult on a distant planet is silly at best matriarchal societies have always been based on a lack of understanding that men are required in the process of propagating the species for instance the who didn't figure out the role of men in sexual reproduction until the ninth century at which time the balance of power moved from the women to the men they carry technological weapons and demonstrate some knowledge of science particularly of medicine so the idea that a matriarchal society could exist with this level of scientific knowledge is based purely on the original author's wet dream of course the few references to stellar science made in this movie demonstrate that the author knew nothing about that either except for a few keywords that he must have heard in other movies still it could have been done better like in 1965 for instance which showed matriarchal society with a certain reverence far more believably and even after 45 years it seems fresher than this fetid exercise in stupidity marching a few women around in pouting aggressively and spitting out their lines like a kiddie looking for a fight in a nightclub come on then i'll do ya style seems to be over simplifying the complexities of a matriarchal culture br br the cultural references are so simple 'all hail the snake mother' pretty much sums it all up even the tiniest hamlet shows more cultural variation br br there is nothing clever thought provoking interesting visually exciting or remotely entertaining about this movie the soundtrack is of similar quality br br i can only assume that the few overly charitable positive reviews this movie has received are from blinkered michael shanks fans who will give a thumbs up to anything he's involved in don't be fooled low budgets are not a reason for a film to fail cheap b movies can be brilliant this isn't one of them and there's no reason to inflict this movie on yourself
0	this movie was really bad i mean really really bad the scenes were like from a parody and special effect sucked a lot and it was filmed in 2003 i think this was a great waste of time and money and michael shanks with his from scooby doo' image just made me laugh never waste your time with this picture i really don't know what the director was thinking after seeing the final cut of this movie but the fights were so unrealistic that it hurt my eyes to look on them the cat women' fighters were like sheep just rolling around the scenes and looking frightened around like they had no clue what to do on the scene i think this is a beautiful example of bottom 100 picture
0	rutger fans don't be fooled he only plays a cameo in this movie and that's it this movie loses an extra point for that scam i think rutger has a total of about 2 very short scenes and 2 very short voice overs br br the female lead for this film is way above this poor material in looks and talent she's great this movie is a dog and she's wasted on it the story is of a lawyer hoping for that partnership one day at the firm getting suckered into having to cart the boss' niece across country they have several encounters on the road with various oddballs and that is the vehicle for a variety of skits and the dude that played napoleon dynamite is thrown in the mix as a side character for good measure br br this is a road trip where extreme circumstances put our repressed hero to the test and he slowly winds up loosening up a little bit by the end of the movie ah isn't love grand yadda yadda br br only watch this film if you want to see a hot chick be annoying to a dork in a truck for an hour and half
0	simply put this movies is without any substance whatsoever just take my word for it and save yourself the time it is a complete dud i would say the characters are one dimensional but that would imply there was some sort of character development i thought eric roberts was going to jump out any second it was so close to b movie status br br the girl from that 70's is beautiful but unless you are a stalker type fan of hers this movie has nothing for anyone br br avoid avoid avoid br br this movie was straight to dvd for a reason that being it is a train wreck
0	romantic comedy movies are definitely the most fertile genre for bellow from average movies and source of frustration for viewers this one is a perfect example of this and got a place in my top ten worst movies br br history is far from creative and jokes are weak i found no reason for a single laugh during all the movie characters are plain and the performance of the actors and just good history develops slowly it's tedious and foreseeable ending is also foreseeable and sugar coated br br this is one that movies you watch in a rainy saturday afternoon when you have nothing better to watch in my humble opinion
0	young spinster who doesn't associate with women her own age and is eyed by gentleman from the retirement set invites an apparently mute young man into her apartment on a rainy day nervous and overly polite to hide her own sexual insecurities she is most pleased when the boy makes himself to home in her guest bedroom but not so happy when he begins sneaking out the window at night sandy dennis is not a hapless actress but why she was attracted to these sad sack roles i guess we'll never know based on a book by richard miles and about as far removed from a commercial drama as one could get this lurid material not only attracted dennis but also director robert altman whose work is static at best the narrative seems almost a sex reversal of the collector a tag which may have sold the film rights but which doesn't turn out to be a good idea cinematically even the film's best sequence dennis shopping for a prostitute to satisfy her prisoner doesn't quite come off with sandy acting both ill and indignant whose idea was this plan michael burns is quite good as the kid who uses this frumpy pasty sick woman just for her comfy digs but he's handled too bashfully by altman with lots of strategically placed towels and flesh colored undies altman clearly wasn't ready for a mature picture with adult themes at this point sandy dennis has a handful of very good scenes she doesn't chatter away mindlessly here she thinks before she speaks and she's alarmingly careful in her actions unfortunately the role itself is a bummer with an apparent slide into mental deterioration which seems to happen off screen as such the abrupt finale is maddening and the overall results tepid 1 2 from
0	if only the writer producer star had the slightest inkling of the limits of his acting range and the way he is perceived on screen wearing glasses and a side parting is not enough to make you look gawky and quirky if your face and teeth have been sculpted by various medical professionals to conform to american ideals of generic characterless symmetry erroneously perceived as beauty in this obsessively superficial society he would have cast john heder as the main character instead of attempting to pull a good will hunting and create a vehicle to showcase his his well himself br br the excellent supporting cast lord knows they must be having problems to agree to this is wasted in an agonising perpetual struggle to react convincingly to a main character incapable of delivering even the simplest line with appropriate intonation and believe me he is not short of simple lines to choose from as the dialogue appears to have been composed by a five year old ah wait it's the same person pretending to be a writer as pretending to be an actor it's not often that i don't see a film through to the end but this ejaculation was irredeemable from the outset and showed no signs of improving after the first hour excrement
0	this movie had so much potential to be hilarious yet moving but fell way short of either it had a great story line it just was not executed as good as it could have been the weird hallucinations during his sleep scenes made absolutely no sense and definitely was not needed they made no impact nor did they enhance or lend any understanding of what was to come or happen br br jon heder's character was ok but could have been expanded upon more he played the crappy part he was given at his best the character was funny but again it fell short of what could have been br br character was perfect and her performance was spot on br br in closing the writing was horrible and more often than not made no sense and his hallucinations did not fit with the movie at all this movie with better scripting and directing could have been a contender to national lampoon's vacation as far as funny bad things happening to a person on a trip across america br br instead it was only worthy of a second flush if i would have seen this at the theater i would have demanded my money back and the film br br the only thing that this film did was waste an hour and a half of my life it also managed to make all those involved in the movie look bad simply because the movie was a stinker br br i do not recommend this movie to anyone ever
0	rutger hauer helps along a film that basically can be summed up in the young person finding themselves category and rather obviously so so it needs a lot of help br br the beginning holds a lot more promise of a film that could turn into michael clayton or stranger than fiction it's too bad because i really got hooked into the beginning then like the opening soundtrack it went from great and intriguing to basically nowhere br br it's fun enough with plenty of and interesting characters acted well i'm sure that will be enough for many people the problem is it all feels contrived and empty which ironically is supposed to be the main discovery for the character's self realization not the film itself it's not a self aware film but that the character is supposed to recognize his own life is contrived and empty
0	this movie was made because the concept translates well into a two sentence summary that can be used to lure investors that is the premise is interesting and i mean i rented it based on the synopsis the problem is there is nothing beyond the initial concept there is no coherent plot no fully fledged characters no real comedy no interesting scenery no surprises and no good performances except jon herder he does something with very little it's as if the people who green lit this thing never read the script but only the synopsis and if there were enough people like me it may even have made money br br to the prospective viewer don't waste your time there is nothing funny or interesting to see here to the creators of the film hey you got your film made so what if its not that great most people never get to see themselves or their work up on screen
0	kicked in the head is all about the corrigan character a twenty something man on a quest to find himself and his involvements with a handful of quirky characters this thin and ambiguous story which was written by corrigan has a make it up as you go feel and a screenplay which smells like an uninspired low budget indie in spite of that and some annoying hindenburg scene the film has an off beat quirky kind of charm which may appeal in some small way to people with a similar sense of humor not for everyone not for most but maybe fun for some d
0	despite a great soundtrack and the presence of the ever amazing rappaport and woods this is another one of those moronic comedies where new york throws itself at the hero in an effort by the writer and or director to show what a zany place it is yeah there's some other stuff in the movie that sucks too but that's what's important the trend for new york independent filmmakers seems to be i don't need to be talented i have new york okay to be fair the movie has its moments the flashback bit about why the one guy is called wacky jack was pretty amusing the script isn't a story or a plot it's a bunch of not good scenes tied to each other by featuring the same character br br one of the worst things is that there's no motive behind what the characters do uncle sam has the kid deliver the drugs why if its so important why didn't sam do it himself then the lead character lies his ass off in scene after scene with absolutely nothing to gain from lying the guy falls in love with a flight attendant with neither of them having any reason to fall in love the characters are a bunch of pawns for the writer to move around to see if he can get anything zany to happen br br if you're easily amused or like watching bad indie movies because they make you feel smarter than watching bad mainstream movies watch this if you want to see what a good light hearted crime movie looks like watch takeshi kitano's brother kicked in the head is the perfect example of why so many people hate offbeat indie movies a lot of them suck and a note to the director don't be afraid to excite amuse enlighten or entertain the audience now and then being boring doesn't make you a better filmmaker than the ones who can interest me
0	i for one was actually expecting this movie to be pretty good maybe my expectations were a bit to high but the fact is i love judd nelson in fact he is the only reason this movie is worth watching and really his role isn't all that great the main highlights of this film are raunchy sex scenes and boring dialog if those are the highlights i'm sure your getting a pretty good idea of what kind of film this is there is definitely a reason this was a made for television film only see this one if you have nothing better to do on a friday night or just like to waste money on video rentals save your time and rent the breakfast club
0	this is the type of late night cable flick usually associated with andrew stevens or shannon tweed though unlike most of tweed and stevens' t a fueled vehicles this is lethally dull br br let's cut to the chase the real reason for watching this non thriller is to see shannon breasts anyone who states otherwise is a liar however most of her steamy sex scenes appear to be all smoke and mirrors br br notice that all the shots where her head and chest show at the same time are quick peek a boo flashes the frames where the camera lingers on her nude body there's little or no face attached or she's behind a dripping wet shower door br br all you boob watchers out there know what that means body double br br i must admit though that the finale where is bound blindfolded and menaced with a knife provided a certain fetishistic thrill br br if you find a vhs copy anywhere buy it as all involved are probably too embarrassed to ever let this come out on dvd
0	this is one of those movies that go out of print and are very expensive on ebay this movie is a little known fairly amateurish flick that has the strong advantage of being the only movie that shannon appears in multiple nude scenes looking very seductive i might add it also has the minor advantage of being popular in the fetish shannon and smoking fetish arenas it's a fairly mediocre attempt at a horror drama whodunit movie it tries a little misdirection but you can see what's coming a mile away shannon does a decent job with her role but the woman playing her sister is straight out of amateur night as is husband character avoid unless you're one of the groups i mention above now let's hit ebay and see if we can unload this thing 8
0	with this film being directed by roger avery and quentin tarantino doing the screenplay i was sure this was going to be a gem i was wrong i don't hate this film but in no ways do i like it br br i love roger avery because of his amazing direction in rules of attraction and his screenplays to pulp fiction and silent hill but he made a mistake making this do i really need to comment on tarantino we all know hes a genius br br this movie is just set around a gang robbing a bank but fails due to silly people participating in the robbery br br i'm disappointed in tarantino and avery for doing this film but doesn't change my mind on how amazing they both are everyone makes mistakes 3 10 j d seaton
0	the screenplay is the worst part of this film as it lurches from one premise to the next missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible this film is confusing because the audience doesn't know what the story is i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn't great but this is telly so it was fine i don't mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash avoid this at all costs br br the prologue in particular was so poorly written it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out the prologue was rushed it wasn't clear what was happening ie the russian revolution was reduced to some riots are happening in petersburg with the next scene being soldiers arresting them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the details those pesky communists the prologue is best ignored br br this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is it sets up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film no gone the film assumes she is who she says she is even though there is still no empirical evidence it sets up a melodramatic romance a love so strong it'll believe anything she says okay a soppy romance no because it makes no sense the love interest seems like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic bursting out in wild gestures this also doesn't work because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never got married and she returned to america the love story collapses despite there being plenty of love scenes i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love i find rom com romances more convincing despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they've even spent any time with each other br br it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is and she struggles to prove her identity no the court case is summed up rather than dealt with the bizarre voice over comes back again to fill in the details of a better film br br the funniest thing to consider is what really happened anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together throughout her life she had bouts of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either there's a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a 'one flew over the cuckoo's next 'twelve monkeys' type informant thankfully she vanishes having brought nothing to the story
0	who wrote this flick an uninspired 15 year old br br could have been written by one of the kids who did the columbine shooting br br totally nonsensical not funny all br br plus this the french do not put their flag everywhere you do not walk into a french bank and see the flag displayed like that even on bastille day br br i have nothing against the blood bath thing it's just that none of this is either credible or funny or parodic or anything like that br br ok those who liked this flick will tell you i must be some type of fascist so forget about my comment
0	if you watch the documentary extra you'll note that the director is totally inexperienced and was actually a co worker bud of quentin in a video store put two and two together and you realise quentin is doing a favour for his old bud despite the bud being rather talentless was that harsh well see this film and you'll realise it isn't too slow in the beginning too nonsensical in the middle and too slow to end that about sums it up eric stolz delpy were the only two showing some charisma and actually put in an ok performance but the rest was real bad one instance of plot stupidity was when lead robber accidentally leaves his mask off during the raid so what happens well the other robbers decide they may as well remove theirs too what great thinking the violence was relentless and insane but not in a cool way rather in a farcical way i wondered if this was meant to be a comedy more fool tarantino for having his good name connected to this garbage more fool me for watching it
0	another film to punish us for the crime of enjoying pulp fiction br br if you like watching people get killed by machine gun fire for an hour and a half this'll probably fit the bill fans of the debut episode of aeon flux wherein the title character slays literally thousands of seemingly faceless soldiers single handedly will really go for it br br otherwise it's not exactly a clever movie in fact all it is is an excuse for a bunch of young people to act rude and shoot people sometimes an entire scene goes by and the only thing that happens is you guessed it someone gets shot or to spice things up twenty people get shot first they're just sitting there the next minute they're sitting there dead yahoo br br rough plot a young american goes to paris an american in paris get it hires a prostitute the ethereal julie delpy gets in touch with some old french buddies one of which has aids they plan and attempt a bank heist of course movie convention states that no bank robberies on film go off w o a hitch and this hitch takes up about three quarters of the running time it's like dog day afternoon without the sidney lumet's wit patience or humanity while at the bank things go wrong surprise and the parisian with aids goes wacko with his uzi several hundred times no spoilers here but suffice to say that you're at such an emotional distance from these characters that it's not likely you'll care who lives and who dies by the end of the film br br some have called it stylish perhaps it is but it's someone else's style it's a movie that's already been done and killing zoe is trapped by convention nowhere in the course of the movie does the director roger co winner of the pulp fiction screenplay oscar do anything really original stylish funky or outrageous unless you consider the fact that no movie that has taken place inside a bank has had such a high body count there isn't anything else to set this one apart from the multitude
0	quentin tarantino's partner in crime roger co writer on pulp fiction ventures out on his own q t goes exec prod this time for this over boiled french thriller br br eric stoltz is zed safe cracker extraordinaire who has drifted over to france from the u s at the request of an old friend there he teams up with a motley crew of drugged out hippies who with little or no planning think they can knock off a bank vault full of gold bullion on a french national holiday br br has reworked the robbery gone wrong theme that tarantino developed so well in reservoir dogs only killing zoe is not good enough to survive on the strength of this alone so has thrown in a rather beautiful distraction julie delpy is zoe a student come call girl who entertains zed on his arrival in paris a stunning distraction she certainly is but nothing more br br i guess our director wanted to add a different angle to this basic theme but sadly the move did not help to add the depth his shallow plot so desperately needed there was never a story in this idea which was nothing more than that an idea even the surreal journey into the seedy dives of paris is uninspiring i figure one would have to concede that there was never much of a movie in the story of a bunch of gangsters shooting each other up over a botched jewellery heist either that is until you add intricate characters and snappy dialogue reservoir dogs had it killing zoe did not br br stoltz's strong interpretation of the doubtful zed and jean hughes mad portrayal of the obsessive ring leader do nothing to lift proceedings in short has unsuccessfully attempted to conjure entertainment out of nothing br br friday september 15 1995 astor theatre
0	i have seen this film 3 times mostly because i kept thinking while watching it have i missed something here is there some reason this film was made was it trying to say something and i just missed it well after 3 viewings i failed to come up with an answer br br i guess the worst thing i can say about any film is that it bored me and i did not finish it i will admit there is plenty of eye candy and fast editing and hip music to keep my attention all the way through but is that all a movie should be br br i am not against extreme violence it is almost non stop but it seems there should be some sort of inspiration something that is highlighted by it the word gratuitous comes to mind but it is worse then that somehow in the first part of the film we are all given insights into the motivations of the characters and yes the 3 principles are very good in their roles but the roles are completely unbelievable so in the first part we get to know the characters and in the second part most of em die and use sadistic glee in killing others that seems to be the whole movie and the first part has nothing to do with the second br br for example how could a nice smart guy like zed agree to join a bunch of junkies and amateurs to do a job like this it makes no sense he is portrayed as smart yet he goes ahead with this suicide mission the fact that he survives is totally inconsistent with the rest of the hyper real violence and mayhem so what are we watching here a hollywood romance with a happy ending or a super real super violent blood bath i recall having the same reaction to two other films this director was involved with true romance and dogs br br needless dreck
0	what an atrocity i am not one to demand total verisimilitude from a movie but the plot and screenplay of killing zoe are so artless that i found myself wincing through the entire mercifully short ninety minutes of the film br br readers of these reviews will by now have figured out the plot zoe a call girl who falls in love with american zed is also an employee at the bank that zed will help rob in a high stakes bastille day heist br br the film strains one's credibility from the get go zed and night of magic is highly prosaic and claims to have experienced the orgasm of a lifetime would seem to reflect the screenwriter's lingering teenage fantasies more than any actual on screen chemistry complete indifference when his friend eric throws zoe out of the hotel room hardly sets the stage for their later strong attachment br br in act two eric's band of bohemians drug addled losers leading a marginal life of petty crime prepare for their big heist with a night on the town here roger main goal seems to be to prove that he knows something about drugs a secondary thread involves convincing us by endless repetition that eric is really really glad to see his old friend zed again really glad eric's devil may care over the top flamboyance and affection for zed isn't even remotely believable check out for example his phony bemusement at discovering a dead cat in his apartment building development of the characters who will accompany us through the rest of the film is an afterthought br br the heist is a disaster understandable since the plan is laughable and the criminals are complete amateurs this is where continues to pay tribute to his idol quentin tarantino by showing that he can be more violent than violent in reality though he's just more boring than boring to build up the excitement there is an extra security guard hidden inside the main safe this was boring in video games and it's boring now br br zoe is taken hostage during the heist but despite our expectation that she'll play a pivotal role she just sits pretty or more precisely fails to do anything with her in literally the last five minutes she springs to life breaks the hostage situation and saves the grateful but still dazed zed from suffering any consequences of his crime why she doesn't mind his involvement in the crime or why she gives a damn about him at all is impossible to tell after all she's had no chance to see that he's any more decent than the rest of the gang br br throughout the dialogue is stilted and phony much of it is in french as a native speaker i can that it doesn't ring even remotely true eric's sugary sweet discourse rapidly alternating with tough guy boasting is meant to be at turns charming and scary but is instead just grating meanwhile his scaredy cat accomplices are more scooby doo than thomas crown when eric is gunned down in a ludicrous example of excessive force we can all breathe a sigh of relief like the bank hostages we will soon be freed from this miserable ordeal
0	let freedom ring was probably made with the best of intentions but it sends out a curious mixed message in the final product br br the folks at a western town where the railroad is coming through are overwhelmed by the arrival of immigrant railroad workers working on the railroad being financed by robber baron edward arnold there are a few ranchers and farmers whose land stands in the railroad's path and these folks are dealt with summarily by arnold's hired men one man who won't give in is lionel barrymore whose son is coming home from harvard a lawyer and ready to take up the cause br br only nelson eddy decides the best way to fight is to go zorro on the bad guys but other than charles butterworth no one knows he's the wasp a very interesting choice of names by the way br br what arnold's done is used the tried and true methods of the political bosses of the east getting the immigrants to vote nelson's idea is simple if the immigrants only knew the truth about what a bad guy arnold is they'll vote with the original settlers and knock out the alien urban political machine in their midst he kidnaps newspaper editor raymond walburn and takes him and the press to a mountain cave where some subversive newspapers are printed and distributed br br the railroad workers are a real mixed bunch of immigrants not the irish working west or the chinese working east as history has it it's a real united nations working on arnold's railroad the workers are kept in line by foreman victor mclaglen and nelson has the unenviable task of beating some sense into him like john wayne did in the quiet man br br of all the films that starred jeanette and nelson and they certainly have come down in history as a duo this was the worst of what they did at mgm nelson is about to be hanged along with barrymore for crimes that are undefined at best but certainly nothing worth being hung for and virginia bruce who plays the nelson's girlfriend saves the day with a rendition of my country tis of thee that the immigrants join in with in the face of a revolt by his paid for immigrant voters arnold quite rationally packs up and leaves town to build his railroad somewhere else br br i kid you not that's the ending here just what is the message vote with the settlers and lose your jobs with arnold but somehow you'll get by here br br i do wonder some times if 20 years from after the incidents of this film take place and the town as settled into a sleepy backwater of the west while some towns where the railroad has come through that are now cities that the good citizens of that town haven't rethought about what nelson eddy did if they did they're probably running him out on a rail br br nelson is of course in good voice and has a variety of concert and popular pieces to sing including a ballad to the immigrants written by sigmund where else but here the song is a heartfelt tribute from an immigrant who did make good in his adopted country too bad it didn't have a better venue br br the almost platinum blonde virginia bruce i'm sure is dubbed here and i'm sure jeanette macdonald was just as happy she wasn't accompanying nelson on this trip west
0	ultra cheezy soundtrack vinnie tries really hard very tiring script that flashes between past and present cheap editing saw the boom twice don't bother ultra cheezy soundtrack vinnie tries really hard very tiring script that flashes between past and present cheap editing saw the boom twice don't bother ultra cheezy soundtrack vinnie tries really hard very tiring script that flashes between past and present cheap editing saw the boom twice don't bother ultra cheezy soundtrack vinnie tries really hard very tiring script that flashes between past and present cheap editing saw the boom twice don't bother
0	famous as the british film so bad it had to be given away for free with a newspaper the quality of this sub children's film foundation thriller can be guessed from the abnormal number of 10 10 votes it gets and the large number of rave reviews from posters with no posting history and no other reviews to their name the regulars know what this mean the gullible might be conned if they do dip into the waters of this one they won't last long before it drags them under technically inept with the boom mike getting into shot or the reflections of the crew visible it just goes on forever in a forgetful sub davinci code on 5 a day way the end is just insulting but don't worry it's not as if you'll get that far
0	spoilers follow and i haven't even seen it br br let me guess the murder is related to the evil property developer wanting to develop the riverside and dickens was murdered because he was trying to uncover a similar dastardly plot if anybody who's seen it could let me know if i'm half right you'll have saved me the time it might take to watch something worthwhile and the rest of us will know to steer clear of both this film and its enthusiastic reviewers on the other hand it sounds intriguing but if it was any good would it really be given away with a sunday rag and what sort of track record does foley have anyway br br so as a public service i managed to sit through it it's worse than 'swept away' really i've read stories by eight year olds with more drama than this truly awful and i was half right
0	the man with bogart's face sets it self up to mine the viewers nostalgia for the late 30's late 40's film era it fails miserably for several reasons first sacchi while looking reasonably like bogart and even speaking like him on and using his mannerisms completely lacks any of bogart's charisma or acting ability this is really apparent whenever sacchi is not clearly imitating a scene from one of bogart's films second the film does not have the first rate character actors bogart was able to work with there are no peter lorre's or sydney greenstreet's in this one folks sure we are treated to performances by victor olivia hussey and george raft amongst others but they just aren't of the same caliber or aren't given enough screen time or are miscast third the attempts at modern humor all fall through all of the underwear jokes having marlowe almost never remove that damn hat and trench coat even though bogart would have etc just aren't funny and really pull down this film fourth i've never heard a goofier theme song this side of mitchell finally the film's false reverence for bogart and other classic actors work is truly irritating bogart almost never played a straight hero on those occasions he was a hero he played complicated characters this movie makes bogart out to be a trigger happy moralistic do gooder while this may have been true about some film characters bogart's characters rarely fit that bill it's movies like this that make people to the cinema of the past think that all of it is hokey good guy beats the bad guys and gets the girl crap with low production values
0	the riddle was written and directed by brendan foley in what appears to be an attempt to pull the mysteries of the charles dickens' novels into a contemporary story but that attempt is thwarted by electing to use the two periods of time format in which the is unraveled despite a cast of well known actors trying their best to pull off this direct to dvd movie the end product is a long tedious amateurish mess that can only be considered as entertainment if viewers are fans of the cast as remembered from other films br br mike sullivan vinnie jones is a journalist confined to reporting on dog racing events while he dreams of important reporting assignments a series of similar murders happens to include an old friend of mike's sadie vera day who runs a pub on the banks of the thames having just discovered an old valuable unpublished manuscript by charles dickens and has a heart of gold giving sandwiches away to such pathetic creatures as an old tramp beachcomber derek jacobi sadie's murder attracts mike to the role of detective journalism and with the help of policewoman kate julie cox he begins to tie the investigation to clues he finds in reading the dickens manuscript disrupting the flow of this rather simplistic story is the use of flashbacks to dickens' time as dickens again derek jacobi narrates a rather personal story of peculiar murders the parallel between stories and the cross casting among actors may have worked in another's hands but the finessing of this kind of venture escapes writer director brendan foley he draws his story to a close at long last with a tired ending br br in addition to jones jacobi cox and day the film somehow attracted the attention of vanessa redgrave jason flemyng ph moriarty and mel smith their contributions are minimal but happily distracting this is a flimsy bit of treacle leaving the viewer wondering how films of this quality ever find funding grady harp
0	star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br unorthodox journalist mike sullivan vinnie jones away his time winding up the local constabulary and trying to romance a member of police personnel but everything changes when the landlady of the thames side pub he frequents is found murdered and a transcript of an unpublished novel cum confession by legendary writer charles dickens is found as he digs deeper into both mysteries he is plunged further into mystery and danger than he bargained for br br in 1998 former footballer vinnie jones shot out of nowhere and took everyone by surprise with his gangster cult classic lock stock and two smoking barrels okay no one was blown away by his acting ability but his presence as a hard man looked set to ensure a decent career as a movie tough guy but it all proved to be a one hit wonder and all he really achieved after this was supporting role status amongst far more acclaimed actors in films like gone in sixty seconds and swordfish before descending into the realm of straight to dvd hell the latest being this muddled and thriller which might have been okay had he not taken other acclaimed and promising new talent stars like derek jacobi julie cox vanessa redgrave jason flemyng and mel smith along with him what caused him to fall from the dizzying heights of success so quickly apart from maybe being a one trick pony is anyone's guess a dodgy personal life being a possible guess but here he is br br a script as far fetched and incomprehensible as this would have been a task in anyone's hand but with a miscast looking jones in the lead it's even more of a task to fathom jacobi's juxtaposing roles as a former thesp tramp and dickens himself talking directly to the camera through out are obviously hints building up to something and the script is predictable in other areas too add to this cheap looking production values through out and debut director also writer brendan foley has made a bad first impression br br what exactly did i expect with something that came free with the daily mail
0	this film was pure trash not the worse film ever if it were to be broken down the acting was good enough to get the job done but the script was so out there and so stupid that one was left thinking where did my life go even vanessa redgrave whom i love and is the reason i watched this was wasted utterly wasted she didn't even leave an impression the directing was so distant that non of the characters left me much of anything but to see redgrave leave nothing her part was nothing she was good as a mean boss but that was it do depth and she's given depth to small roles see venus and atonement i would not waste my time and was upset to have spent the 5 on this movie i wanted it back no returns skip the film it'll only bring you grief and boredom
0	this movie must have looked when it was being pitched at development stage and getting a redgrave and a jacobi on board must have excited the money men all i can say is that they clearly did not have anything on that week jacobi camps it up in the way that only jacobi can do and i thought that he seemed to more of the actor that he parodied in his cameo role in frasier a few years back vinnie jones is not exactly bad he is just clearly out of his depth as a leading man he is really quite amiable throughout and if this was a pilot for a tv series it may have just got picked up however the and the camera work were appalling quite why this and a press officer from the met would ever work together is never explained it certainly cannot have been because of the sexual chemistry of which there is none there is nothing wrong with a ridiculous and far fetched plot that you can pass off as original but the whole thing is just so contrived that the two stories just do not make sense at all it was like two stories confusingly edited in to one just to make up two hours go watch some paint dry for a couple of hours you life will be more fulfilled than watching this rubbish
0	what a shame that some good talent was wasted this is a tedious and overly self conscious movie that could tell its story in half the time is that derek jacobi under that beard doing two roles gosh who would have guessed br br the emotional payoff a the end was weak and unsatisfying certainly not worth enduring the padded length of the movie for i felt quite let down br br the sound was dreadful first they used stock music second it was so loud during some of the dialog that the words were hard to make out only three sound crew and a trainee there were more people listed in the credits for either the accounting or the legal br br some of the camera work was quite good though and the actors did a good job with a mediocre script br br not a good use of viewing time at least for me
0	the fact that this film was distributed free with a certain national newspaper which i do not care for did to a degree put me off of watching it but as i had come across a copy that a local charity shop was giving away for nothing i felt i could watch it with a clear conscience br br the film does have its moments the evocation of the location is nicely done but it does suffer i feel from a few too many faults firstly vinnie jones is simply not convincing as the journalist whilst vinnie himself is an interesting character the truth is that he simply does not have the range of acting ability to pull off a role like this br br secondly who would carry around with them a lost manuscript that they have been informed is priceless it seemed that everywhere mr jones went this manuscript went with him thirdly the whole dickens aspect of the story whilst appearing to be important gets in the way of what could have been an interesting film of corruption in high places maybe i'm just a bit thick but i really could not see the point of the story within a story dickens style this added nothing to the film and only served to confuse matters when things started to become interesting within the modern day story line br br the one bit of praise i will give the film makers is that at least they did attempt something a little different i am all for british independent films that try to be 'out of left but this is not a 'red road' or 'this is england' what it is is a bit of a mess and an over long one at that yes it entertains in part but in the end it felt like two films merged together to make a whole and failing both by doing so also i can not help think that i have seen something similar done recently on tv by ian banks set in edinburgh with a story concerning sir arthur conan doyle the creator of sherlock holmes
0	i didn't know anything about this dvd when i hired it had a quick look here at the comments but decided to keep an open mind obviously an independent film and low budget but that didn't worry me i will watch anything with jacobi and as always he played his part well what a pity no one else did i had watched a few weeks ago with vanessa redgrave and she was sublime in this she seemed to just turn up to read the lines in my opinion the main mistake was in casting vinnie jones to be honest i saw his picture on the dvd cover but didn't notice that he got top billing a sticker was strategically placed over his name it was watchable and i quite liked the dickens story alongside present day maybe with a more capable actor playing the lead this might have worked better still it was weak
0	whoever saddled this piece of drek with a title like riddle deserves some kind of award there are dozens of riddles here like who conceived such a dire project who funded it who cast it who persuaded vanessa redgrave to share even one scene with vinnie jones and so on the most sane voice connected to the whole belongs to the person who decided very very wisely that this was unreleasable and not even good enough to go straight to video dvd which throws up yet one more riddle why if we rule out serious did the mail on sunday get involved and deign to give it away this has golden turkey written all over it and smacks of being shot in two days in somebody's garage and cobbled on to some library footage of london except somehow you know that someone actually did shoot this on location when it would have been kinder to shoot him herself vinnie jones and julie cox are not even cardboard cutouts more like tissue paper and i swear pete and kate moss couldn't have done worse whilst derek jacobi is a grotesque joke and the plot moves with the speed of the irish team sliding up the cresta run apart from that
0	come on now how did all of these talented actors actresses end up in this mess was it some sort of blackmail lost bet situation vinnie you are a muscle man be what you were born to be br br the hot tub scene the scrabble scene i was expecting to hear the needle dragging over the record sound at any point br br and what was up with him carrying around the priceless dickens manuscript with him let's see i'm drunk at a bar why not pull out the priceless dickens manuscript i'm going to meet some questionable thugs down on the edge of the thames why not take my priceless dickens manuscript br br crapola br br terrible avoid
0	as i'm listening to my parents watch this after i gave up 10 minutes into the film they have absolutely no idea what is going on when charles dickens stared into the camera i half expected him to turn into a demon yes he looked like one unfortunately that didn't happen br br this movie had various reasons i did not finish it one it was unbearably slow i mean seriously it was you can only understand 10 of what is said and the characters were poorly introduced br br if you have an english accent and you like a of talking no action terrible acting cheesy laughs and the same music sound effects played over and over and over then this is the movie for you br br 1 10 completely horrible br br avoid at all costs
0	this movie should have been called the eyes of alexander and they should have done away with the bogart concept altogether the film started out with a lighthearted approach to bogart's legacy and some comical moments with his surgery oriented face but after the first 15 30 minutes it morphs into a more serious thriller where two palm size purportedly laid as eyes into a marble of alexander the great for him and seen by him right before his death so the gems are of great value not only because of their quality and size but also because of the tie to the greatest conquerer the world has ever known being an expert on alexander qualifies me to say that this is wholly and completely a fiction but it makes for a good movie anyway so the film winds around some early silliness and stumbles along with all sorts of alexander allusions in both the foreground and background which i really liked ending with a dated shark attack you couldn't go to a movie in '79 '80 without some shark showing up to menace the audience there is a yacht named alexander's father's young wife a man named alexander philip it's been about 5 years since i've seen the film so can't remember all the details some street names and many others it was fun to watch the film just to try to catch all the background details that the director obviously an himself put in when all is said and done the eyes are retrieved and the camera pans in on them on a bed as the credits roll by kind of a neat ending what would have been more fun would be if they went the indiana jones way and had an action adventure there were many many real artifacts that could have been used to make this more interesting or instance the hand by aristotle version of the iliad that alexander kept with him all his life even on his many journeys across asia would be of incalculable value if found today olivia hussey my all time favorite b movie actress is killed off way too early and should have been the main actress throughout not the girl from the momma's and the though she was herself easy on the eyes if you can find this flick it might be worth checking out for the historical stuff and to see olivia hussey in an extremely funny deadpan humor bit early on but beyond that i'd pass on it for something more entertaining br br yours nick
0	its no wonder this was free with the mail on sunday slow going poor acting and filming camera flare near start of movie is not even artistic straight to video but not in this case why not recoup some of your film production costs by releasing it free with a uk sunday newspaper at least this way you get a captive audience and recover some costs br br i have not given this film a 1 out of 10 due to the effort to pull some old actors out their shell it was nice to see some old faces vanessa redgrave this an't no blow but vinnie jones as a lead and i think he was better in gone in 60 seconds when he did not speak br br this film is dropping in ratings every day i think this will find its true mark at the 3 4 out of 10 in the very near future
0	the only riddle in this film was how it ever got made the british film industry needs to make films people actually want to watch and not look to get money a'la bbc to keep in their life style they have been accustomed to with doing nothing for it br br the film was every thing wrong with british films it relied on stereotypes it had to be about a london were people were either posh and corrupt gangsters or gawd blimey eel types the story script was just pathetically weak to the extent when the police man pulled out his phone and the ring tone was the sweeney theme i just expected it the whole film was a happy shopper sweeney minder rip off br br the priceless manuscript i noted got left behind and lost on a few occasions and is something even i with my limited street wiseness wouldn't carry around in my breast pocket every where to the beach and fights etc saying that vinnie jones is likable which is about the only thing in the film poor bloke br br when derek jacobi walked into the water at the end because he was dickens oh my god what a load of crap and i am being positive here
0	it doesn't surprise me that the makers of this hopeless movie couldn't find a uk distributor and then had to release it as a free dvd with a sunday newspaper the distributors could clearly see what the film makers and the sunday newspaper couldn't that this was one movie that just wasn't going to recoup its costs br br since it's a thriller about riddles it would have helped if they'd picked a lead actor who could enunciate properly rather than the mumbling vinnie jones who appears to pronounce riddle as and it would have helped if the dialogue hadn't been swamped by noisy locations or scenes flooded with distracting and inappropriate music the plot is ludicrous the lost charles dickens story supposedly helps our hero solve a series of modern murders but so would a copy of herge's adventures of tintin since the link between dickens and jones is more non existent than tenuous and we have the ridiculous premise that a would be investigative journalist who lays his hands on a previously undiscovered dickens manuscript would take several days to read it just so that flashbacks to dickens can continue to be played throughout the movie as if they had some connection to it which they don't i mean if you found a new dickens manuscript wouldn't you just go somewhere quiet and read it the film ends with one of those surprise revelations that have become mandatory since the sixth sense but in this case it doesn't so much surprise you as insult your intelligence if the film is suddenly going to turn supernatural at the twelfth hour then revealing that vinnie jones is a robot might have been more acceptable it might not have seemed so turgid if the film had been stylish but it isn't and in several places it appears decidedly amateur there's a scene where a table is laid with a 60's jump cut technique but they haven't made sure that the person actually laying the table is completely out of frame between the cuts consequently you can see things changing at the edge of frame when you're really supposed to be watching things changing at the centre of frame a good rule in movie making is if you don't understand how to do a technique then try something else br br the real riddle is why anyone thought it would be a good idea to make this movie in the first place
0	i could not believe the original rating i found when i looked up this film 9 5 unfortunately it looks like i am not alone br br the film is slow and boring really one of the sad things is that if the film had been given a realistic rating of around 5 or 6 then the expectation would not have been so high br br unfortunately this was not the case so when watching the film and seeing the poor story and acting i am left giving it a 3 10 score br br vinnie jones is superb in lock stock and also snatch and he plays a great hard man however he should stick to this role its a bit like when stallone and schwarzenegger have done comedy films they just don't work br br neither can he play lead actor he plays better as supporting or otherwise when he plays lead his acting talents are too 'in view' and shown up as not really very good mean machine is another good example of this
0	the riddle as a concept is an interesting idea but i'm afraid is miscast vinnie if given the hard man role is his element as in lock stock and snatch in this movie vinnie plays a newspaper sports writer to be precise who during the course of the movie is easily is beaten up with ease and bundled over a balcony by a man who 10 15 years his senior i'm sorry vinnie is tough looks tough and has so to cast him like this is foolish trying to investigate the double murders of a friend and a drug addict found near the thames he takes on the role of policeman whilst the real police are bit part players with flashbacks from charles dickens br br when vinnie is on screen his reputation precedes him he looks tough but does'nt in this part need act tough snarling at the camera in parts if you watch the mean machine he is perfectly cast and believable and does a very decent performance br br getting back to the movie what confuses the matter somewhat is the flashback to charles dickens who is narrating a different story with characters who are also appear in present day these two stories are it appears unrelated apart from the same actors are used br br the sound on the movie especially from julie cox is inaudible at times and not really fleshed out what her role in the movie is short of love interest she starts the film as a but quickly becomes the girlfriend br br the death of the prostitute is sort of answered but yet not answered strip out the charles dickens stuff and you may have a decent movie br br vinnie is slowly becoming steven segal stick to the supporting actor role your'e quite good at it
0	the growth of tax funds and sale and schemes has led to a raft of films that are gathering dust in laboratories and vaults all over the british isles because they seem to be made purely because they fit the financial criteria rather than had any potential audience a lucky few get a week at a small screen in london before going to budget dvd but the riddle distinguished itself by completely bypassing cinema tv or even the rental market to premiere as a free gift dvd in the mail on sunday br br it's all too easy to see why this ended up being literally given away aside from a couple of glitches a boom mike is clearly visible in one shot it's not particularly badly made and while vinnie jones comes over like modern british cinema's version of freddie mills mills as the greyhound reporter who wants to move up to the crime desk and the supporting cast veer from ham to vaguely passable nobody's distinguishing themselves here by being either outstandingly good or outstandingly bad mediocrity is more the norm here the real problem is that like so many sale and tax fund films it's a 'soft' film there's no reason to watch it it exists because the circumstances existed for it to be made but it lacks pace or forward momentum it seems to be aiming for the sunday teatime telly audience despite being shot in scope but doesn't cut it there are a couple of ideas in this determinedly inoffensive tale of a unpublished charles dickens manuscript and a couple of suspicious deaths in modern day but the mystery element is so painfully obvious as is the last minute supernatural twist you'll never guess who jacobi's literate tramp really is what you guessed that you're almost expecting the scooby gang or the double to turn up to solve it br br it's a very misconceived film for all kinds of reasons a few cast members are playing double roles when they shouldn't even be playing one and the whole shock reveal of the truth of the dickens manuscript is completely bungled because it's all narrated in the first person by dickens rather than the supposed character of the novel the main murder in the film is clumsily integrated into the main plot with characters suddenly reminding vinnie that he's forgotten about that one already heralding an increasingly desperate final half hour that sees wicked developer jason secretary puts some in drink so she can have her wicked way with him and leave incriminating photos behind to make you look a git with your girlfriend leading to him having a dream where he talks to charles dickens you're charles what's in a name who offers the somewhat less than likely suggestion that you read too many books but all that's as nothing compared to the finale which falls into utter absurdity with logic and common sense going completely out the window as it plays like some bizarre revenge tragedy with handguns on the banks of the thames with two day guest stars flemyng and vanessa redgrave looking like they'd much rather be somewhere else mel smith turns up in a one day cameo so it's clear that the film's 'names' are mainly there for an easy or to meet their alimony payments the film's final image is so utterly absurd and pointless as to almost make it worth watching though br br one curiosity is a fairly prominent role in the first third for vera day a sort of prototype liz fraser and one time mainstay of 50s british films the barmaid in hell drivers the barmaid in quatermass ii here promoted to pub owner while standup comedian kenny lynch turns up briefly to give the best performance as an old school gangster oh and the late gareth hunt makes his last bow as oh the irony a coroner br br just to round out the package the freebie dvd also included a trailer for the director's other film with vinnie jones bog bodies a naff looking british horror with transatlantic scientists and vinnie in elmer fudd duck hunter outfit terrorized by a reanimated 2000 year old sacrificial victim from the nearest peat bog be i'm hunting i can hardly wait br br the one thing i can guarantee however is that every indie producer in the uk is going to spend the next few weeks trying to find out exactly how much the mail paid for the license to press the dvd they paid prince 000 for his new cd with so many british tax shelter indies on the shelf and with money so hard to find at the moment this could become an interesting fallback market for british flicks
0	ever notice how so many really bad films attract so many 10 10 votes not much of a riddle how that happens but this is not much of a film there are two ways of looking at it being given away in the mail on sunday br br 1 it's free so you can't complain about it to much 2 it's free so it can't be much good br br my vote is number 2 the free dvd in the sunday papers things is a recent trend and some great old movies have been given away they're ones that have been out for ages and have made most of the money they'll ever make so it's a case of anything else is a bonus it's the last stop for old films not the first for new ones so you can guess how bad this must be to skip tv and dvd rental br br the plus points are that vinnie jones does try hard and derek jacobi is good as dickens the minus points are a longer list trying isn't the same as succeeding for poor vinnie and jacobi's other tramp character is talkative ham that's gone off the story is very weak the dickens story does not have anything to do with the film's murders and feels like another movie slapped onto the script to make people think it's a british dan brown without the religion the supporting cast are either there for the money vanessa redgrave must be really hard up or because they are friends or girlfriends of the filmmakers it is also very very long for what it is br br vinnie taking his priceless dickens story with him in his jacket pocket everywhere is good for a couple of laughs but that's it not funny and very not good even for free
0	a pretty awful film i'm amazed the likes of derek jacobi vanessa redgrave agreed to be in it it's like an overlong episode from a poor tv detective series br br the biggest flaw has to be vinnie jones he simply can't act whoever had the bright idea of casting him as a leading man wants their head examining unless he put his own money into the project he should stick to playing thugs looking menacing not speaking br br also was central heating around in dickens times as there were three big behind his desk br br no wonder they gave this away free with a newspaper as no one would pay to see it
0	words fail me for this appalling waste of two hours of anyone's life the story is contrived to the point of complete incredibility br br the acting is leaden and so much of this is laughably dreadful vinnie jones so wonderful in lock stock and two smoking barrels is unbearably awful and unbelievable as mike sullivan journalist br br i honestly can't ever remember seeing a worse film it's only worth watching for the appalling continuity lapses after jones is handed a huge beating he emerges without a scratch on him his girlfriend upends a drink over him and he chases her emerging from the pub bone dry it's quite dreadful made all the worse by the talented actors who appear in it
0	what more can i add this is without doubt one of the worst films i've ever seen terrible acting a daft script tediously slow pace even visible microphones dangling from the top of the screen i could go on but i really can't be bothered i watched this for 90 minutes before the sense of losing the will to live became too great for me br br i can only assume that the first set of comments and votes were from people associated with the promotion of this insult to british film making br br and worst still i had to buy the mail on sunday to get it the only reason the dvd hasn't now been as a coaster is that it now takes pride of place in my top 10 worst films ever collection br br definitely one to be avoided
0	done in a mock documentary style late 60's subversives and supposed detractors of the mainstream government are arrested and given a choice upon sentencing for their wrong doings there is a choice of going to prison for 7 years to life or spending three days and two nights in a southern california desert at punishment park in the 100 degree heat the prisoners are to trek fifty some odd miles to an american flag for their freedom us and state law enforcers will follow two hours latter if the are captured it means prison br br appearing in this pseudo documentary carmen argenziano katherine mary ellen stan scott turner patrick boland and kent foreman
0	well i got and saw this movie based on the rather high score here 7 1 now and some of the good reviews usually imdb is a good guide when it comes to score though in this case i was very much deceived br br the movie is a present day detective story with vinnie jones as the investigator journalist who investigates the death of a construction worker mixed with this is a made up dickens' novel called the riddle set in the 18th or 19th century which also deals with a murder story both story lines are connected through the discovery of an unpublished manuscript br br sounds interesting it could have been however this movie horribly fails in a number of areas 1 acting mediocre at best but it is watchable no worse than your average uk sitcom though for a movie one expects a little better especially with a score of over 7 2 music the music used is simply horrible it distracts and it is annoying especially the pub music and the music which plays in the journalist's apartment 3 storyline this is a big joke there are gaping plot holes everywhere and even the obligatory love story is so unrealistic that it's almost funny furthermore without going into any detail i can safely say that the ending is absurd and one of the worst pieces of acting and storyline of the year 4 camera work at times camera positions and views are distracting and serve absolutely no purpose to the story br br i'm a bit of a movie fanatic and watch on average 1 to 2 movies a day but this is easily the worst movie i've seen in months don't waste your money or your time on this rubbish
0	is one of my favorite books thus i was looking forward to this film unfortunately the film is absolutely horrible the dialog is so bad it sounds like improv half the time the new storyline makes me think they took the book and a couple of newspapers threw them in a blender and used what came out for the screenplay it's a disgrace to the book and independent film making the only reason i even managed to get all the way through the film was my hopes that it'd get better unfortunately it only got worse climaxing in a really retarded ending br br that's not to say everything about the movie is bad the cg is acceptable in a 1990's reboot sort of way which i assume is what they were going for and i suppose you can't go wrong with people getting chopped in half and gushing blood all over the place
0	nickelodeon has gone down the toilet they have kids saying things like oh my god and we're screwed br br this show promotes hate for people who aren't good looking or aren't in the in crowd it say that sexual promiscuity is alright by having girls slobbering over shirtless boys not to mention the overweight boy who takes off his shirt the main characters basically shun anyone out of the ordinary friend sam who may be a lesbian beats the snot out of anybody that crosses her path which says it's alright to be a b ch this show has so much negativity in it that nobody should watch it i give it a 0 out of 10
0	miranda cosgrove is known for her debut in school of rock with jack black and her role as megan in the show drake and josh and she has become a fan favorite amongst the nickelodeon public so it isn't a surprise that dan schneider would create a show just for her unfortunately it ends up being as bad as if not worse than the amanda show br br is about three friends carly sam and freddie who have become idols in the junior high community through a webcam show called carly and sam are the hosts and freddie shoots and puts it up on the internet carly also has an older brother named spencer acted by the hilarious jerry trainor who is known for his work in drake and josh as crazy steve br br well let me tell you this don't believe the 8 3 out of 10 this show received because it is pathetic in nearly every aspect dan schneider probably went through about 5 minutes of studying teenage interests because all i see is him saying ipod aha teenagers love anything beginning with 'i' and a majority of gigs that were used in drake and josh if not then they are just really dry and forced jokes that don't even count on a chuckle such as you want me to turn up the ac to 60 degrees no we want you to turn it up to 60 pickles not only that but if you look closely nearly all the sets in the shows were used in drake and josh and ned's declassified that were simply spit and polished with random stuff to try and make it look different br br the scenes where the show is showing a broadcast of the network is just as terrible as the entire series itself the dialogue in them is atrociously bad which may be accepted by some since it is just two friends playing around in front of a camera but what's the deal with the really odd humorless antics they do like random dancing and it just gets worse from there br br in terms of acting miranda and aren't at their best by far nathan who played freddie isn't believable at times but he does an okay job the person who really steals the show is the humorous prowess of jerry trainor who fits in his protective older brother role very well and his wide eyed loud mouthed acting can make for some pretty funny segments too bad they aren't frequent because that might have given the show an extra star in my opinion br br dan schneider must have made this show for the sole purpose of giving miranda cosgrove her own cable born playground to hop around and spew unfunny jokes and pathetic cue card lines in every direction because everyone else has exceptional talent buried underneath the poorly done script and weightless acting dan schneider did a great job with drake and josh so it's a real disappointment that is such a failure jerry acting saved this show from a 1 out of 10 rating but he alone can't save from being as horrible as it is
0	is all that's wrong with the world all the main characters but brother and freddy are morally bankrupt br br sam damages other people on whim she breaks a kids locker and he is forced to pay a 100 dollars to fix it and all she says is tough luck and moves on to smash freddy's cellphone she just caused at least 300 dollars worth of damage and she is more focused on getting some food what the hell the only time she's every felt guilt is when she made fun of freddy on the show and that's only cause carly the crap out of her br br carly is the i'm perfect everything i do is nice type of girl everything she does is for her own benefit and she is often shown only having remorse for herself what's worse she encourages sam's crap sam ruins some of freddy's clothes she laughs sam ruins a kids grades she shrugs it off br br don't even get me started on the humour the laugh track is played at every moment br br sam he's not that hot carly yes he is sam yeah you're right insane amount of laughter br br the shows humour consists around degrading others and saying obscure words and occasionally bantering on about trivial matters using similar sentences br br not to mention all the 'super cool special techno effects' they do can be done in windows movie maker
0	nickelodeon has gone down the toilet they have kids saying things like oh my god and we're screwed br br this show promotes hate for people who aren't good looking or aren't in the in crowd it say that sexual promiscuity is alright by having girls slobbering over shirtless boys not to mention the overweight boy who takes off his shirt the main characters basically shun anyone out of the ordinary friend sam who may be a lesbian beats the snot out of anybody that crosses her path which says it's alright to be a b ch this show has so much negativity in it that nobody should watch it i give it a 0 out of 10
0	first off i have to say acting isn't very good miranda cosgrove is the main character but is not such a good actress quite frankly spencer her brother is a way much better actor spencer is easily my favorite character because he probably is the only one that knows how to act carly on the other hand tries to act her heart out but sorry it just isn't good sam doesn't even get credit i mean come on pretty self centered eh freddy isn't bad i don't have a comment i must add that carly and her puppet sam change their attitude whenever they go to film a web cast they go shouting out all their lines it's sorta bad influence in a way because carly has a web show and if kids will copy this they might be giving their own information and that not pretty safe br br the only nice things is that it has some funny parts of the show which makes it entertaining at least this show isn't boring it has nice plots pretty strong many kids will like this because they don't look for flaws br br overall this is a bad show but it's not boring
0	first of all i'd like to say i am a teenager so this is all marketed towards me and i can safely say that very poor programing and the fact that it's accepted among both genders baffles me it contains some of the worst attempts at comedy i've ever witnessed with mediocre acting to boot the supposed humor within the show is all based on saying someone's lines again with poor sarcasm poor sarcasm saying bad one liners and well you get the picture also i should mention that i do still watch spongebob which i know i'll get a negative backlash for but that's quality programming with some honestly funny moments in it less we forget something missing wit the show's about a young girl carly putting on a web show with her friends which i can say is without a doubt a nicer version of the internet that's fine but the show's just well not funny at all as previously stated if this is what children's programming has come to today parents show them something that's actually funny spongebob or modern life would work br br also compared to it's show drake josh it's terrible which was implied seriously please watch something worthwhile even for a children's show it's poor
0	nickelodeon has gone down the toilet they have kids saying things like oh my god and we're screwed br br this show promotes hate for people who aren't good looking or aren't in the in crowd it say that sexual promiscuity is alright by having girls slobbering over shirtless boys not to mention the overweight boy who takes off his shirt the main characters basically shun anyone out of the ordinary friend sam who may be a lesbian beats the snot out of anybody that crosses her path which says it's alright to be a b ch this show has so much negativity in it that nobody should watch it i give it a 0 out of 10
0	the actresses bra in a changing room well i guess they are preparing young children for changing room time boys you must close your eyes at that scene a humongous bra which definitely neither of the actresses size dangling and supposedly talking oh don't worry if your son takes your bra then stripping boys a girl pulls down a boys pants to reveal his boxers kids try that at home and in school beating a girl with male briefs nothing wrong the show likes to show underwear panties next actress at an age below 18 in a revealing bikini mom can you buy me one when i reach puberty so many sexual innuendos to learn eg don't doubt my ball skills br br i like to dance with my shirt off br br wet and sticky is very icky sticky and wet make mommy upset br br i just wanna stick my face in this pie and go ' br br i come up with my best ideas when i'm wet br br he sliced my banana br br come on boy let's do it br br you'll never guess where i found this fish br br i'll leave you two to do it br br carly about sam she just ditched to go play with jonah br br you won't get respect if your not erect br br how's it hanging br br what can i say i'm a great ball handler br br watch me spank your daddy br br spencer that's big freddie's mom thank you br br hey could you keep your hands off my equipment br br freddie oh and last night slept with my socks on sam or carly so freddie just my socks br br they wanted no part of me or my br br freddie you know how i feel about you handling tools br br you don't even wanna know where the batteries go br br it's like she stuffs waffle cones in her bra br br spencer well it spread to places freddie where spencer motions for freddie to come near then whispers in his ear freddie ugh br br wow it's just that you've always seemed so willing br br i have to take my daughter to a special doctor br br i send a lot of guys a lot of places br br yeah you've been having all kinds of fun this morning br br i'm looking for some entertainment' br br mom i learn how to say indirectly today all in all very educational for young children lesson to be taken if you want to know more than where babies come from kids watch this show
0	committed doom and peter goes across the pond to take on the american justice system circa 1971 with this priceless piece of zeitgeist paranoia that leans so far left it falls over constantly is pure tourist as he assembles this our gang tragedy with cliché freaks hippies and black revolutionaries pitted against trigger happy cops and military and a kangaroo court tribunal made up of disapproving calcified adults making poor fashion statements talk about a revolution br br in punishment park we have radical youth versus corrupt system as dissenters convicted of crimes are given the choice of imprisonment or a three day trek across punishment park death valley and freedom of course the law enforcement officials monitoring their journey aren't about to play fair and combined with the stifling heat the fate of our protagonists looks sealed br br punishment park has elements of kafka in setting as well as theme trials are held under a large canvas tent where shackled prisoners shout defiance at a hardcore love it or leave it group of such as members of silent majority for a peaceful america who snarl back neither group spends much time listening to the other and the proceedings sometime takes on a teen parent battle over the keys to the car look mostly its just one side saying what's wrong with america the other saying what's right with no one offering solutions for change meanwhile the punishment park martyrs stumble endlessly about the dessert while cops with guns act like twelve year olds it kind of has the look and feel of some of my 70's college film making class when we were younger and knew more then than we do now br br peter has always been on the side of the underdog and the common man against what he perceives as a corrupt powerful few was a strong indictment of military atrocity in 18th century scotland that still resonates war game is a raw sobering look at nuclear aftermath that should be required viewing for all punishment park has its value as well but for other than intended reason vision today is a textbook example of the left in full tilt counter culture 70s paranoia and given the times vietnam kent state the chicago 7 such strident hysteria seemed not that great a distance from the truth but 35 years later the fever has subsided and punishment park with it's unrestrained narrow viewpoint is a pretty silly ride
0	first off acting is so terrible except for the actor who plays spencer cosgrove does not deserve her own show she should have stick with drake and josh the only person i like besides spencer is hes super bad he kicked crews and i liked it br br the episode i hate a lot is i hate that young fan she made me almost kill myself fake is a well word to describe this please don't watch this nothing on tv is good go with classics like family matters good show ban lets all go back to doug nick version only please don't watch i hate oh also nathan is a wannabee
0	the first time i watched this show it was ok there were some funny moments and i laughed a couple of times but this show is getting worse and worse carly and sam's web show is not the least bit funny they play a stupid video from the internet scream at the camera and make some very bad jokes and then the laugh track goes off one problem with the show is that none of the main characters are funny carly is not funny miranda acting is lackluster at best her acting in this show is nothing like her acting from drake and josh her friend sam is very rude and crude and the show is written in a way that makes her look like some kind of hillbilly i mean they make jokes about her mom driving a rusty old truck her mom smashing an old tv with a bat and then there's the jokes about sam failing in school getting detention all the time and running from cops none of that is funny at all then there's freddy who is a computer geek he isn't too funny unless his mom is treating him like a baby the show's only somewhat funny full time character is brother spencer he makes some funny jokes and does some pretty funny things like pretending to drive a space ship while making spaceship noises knocking over a girl cookie table for revenge as they did the same thing to him his material is the only thing worth laughing at aside from the characters other things make the show bad too like the fact that a couple of kids doing a local web show from a seattle apartment is a worldwide hit and got them a free trip to tokyo another thing is that how can a 26 year old single guy with no real job can pay for a 2 level apartment in downtown seattle and raise his 13 year old sister and pay for a room full of camera and sound equipment including a remote controlled projector and a green screen and an hd camera this sounds like it was written by a 10 year old the worst thing is that the show contains some pretty questionable content there are a couple of times when carly remember a 13 year old girl appears on her internet web show in a bikini top wtf then i saw an episode where freddy tells carly and sam that he slept in just his socks the night before i mean wtf then there's an episode where rival blackmails her by taking her website rights and agrees to give her the website back in exchange for a kiss creepy and i just saw an episode where carly meets a boy who just moved into their apartment building and he has some kind of back injury and he takes off his shirt and carly stands there drooling over him i can't believe nick even lets them show that kind off stuff and i can't believe that this was created by the same guy responsible for drake and josh this show is not appropriate for kids under the age of 12 and that's even questionable is just another addition to the long list of awful nick programming
0	is about a teenage girl named carly miranda cosgrove who lives with her artist brother spencer in a loft in seattle carly has a web show that gets millions of views and makes tons of money a year so much money she doesn't even know its a real number her best friend is sam janette who's as predictable as they come she says normal things and beats up neighbor freddie who is in charge of all the technical things for their web show carly shouts every word and looks like she doesn't have emotion sam chases freddie around and freddie screams in one episode carly and her friends shoot the doorman down in elevator and he survives br br i would not recommend this at all unless you like teenagers shouting hurting people and making fun of stuff
0	ever went on youtube well the definite question to that is yes do you see the boatloads of and nickelodeon rants no definite answer br br many people think is a dull and idiotic program and others think it's the best program on the face of the earth i have seen many of the loads of reviews panning in the head and some giving it a bouquet of roses in my opinion is for the kiddies but the show is just awful br br if you did not read the last review here are reasons 1 8 1 steryotypes 2 goofed up drama 3 everything is silly taco truck for example 4 carly thinks she's nice but she's mean 5 anyone over the drinking age is stupid 6 sam is petite but strong 7 no real companies 8 mean teachers br br 9 the just look on the to understand what i mean 10 the also spills personal information 11 almost every famous thing is insulted insults the japanese race benz and man to name a few 12 there are too many jokes sam's obsession of meat freddy's computer pulling his shirt off etc 13 the video games based off the show suck 14 freddy has a lack of masculinity why it's getting unoriginal 15 the show is targeted towards a female audience i also hate shows directed to a male audiences too so i prefer to be for both genders 16 the words and no 17 the overuse of laugh tracks br br part 3 coming in early spring just in time for spring break
0	i watched the halloween episode oh my god i wanted to die the acting was just awful the lines were uttered with absolutely no conviction its a bad idea for a show as well i mean who would watch some web show like that in real life miranda cosgrove was great in a supporting role in drake and josh but doesn't have the force of character to anchor her own show i'm even more upset because her leaving is a major reason why drake and josh ended she was approached with her own show she jumped ship on drake and josh they then decided that maybe they would do a thing with drake and josh moving to college thereby explaining the loss of meagan as a character but drake had already had thoughts of moving on to bigger and better things and he figured if miranda did it why couldn't he the best part of the show was the theme song a catchy good tune in a mire of mediocrity of course drake bell was dubbing miranda's voice for the whole thing and wrote the tune
0	out of boredom and vast curiosity i decided to check this show out today since my four year old niece loves it i should have known that it was a show that only a four year old could like the show was pretty bad br br first of all the show just wasn't funny the laugh track went off at the most inappropriate times which was very annoying especially since none of the jokes were funny the laugh track went off at some point when the one kid who's the cameraman said i'm going to go polish my lense how the hell is that funny the parts in it like meat drumming that were supposed to be funny was just stupid to anyone who's over the age of eleven br br now i have a feeling that four year olds are not the target audience however since i have a four year old niece who watches it this sort of thing concerned me while i was watching it it doesn't show very good behavior in the episode i was watching it shows sam stealing sandwich and pushing her down to the ground just so carly can stand up and do the same thing back to her i would not want to see my niece acting that rude i also don't like the idea of two young girls having a web show where they give out personal information if this was real there would be freaks all over her br br this show would probably be good and funny to someone who's eleven or younger but anyone older than that just stay away from it i'll give this two stars since i guess i can see how it can be funny to a kid
0	this show is just plain awful i liked to watch drake and josh which was great and before that the amanda show also funny but this is just awful in my opinion watching this felt like watching those movies from painful and this is about 3 dumb kids who make a crappy web show while stealing the hole while their retarded brother is making sculptures he has no life the cast is crap megan from drake and josh is carly ahhhhhh a ugly b tch is sam and some kid they pulled off the street plays fred all i saw from this are random jokes that include the brother making a clay film he also played an arcade game called rat genious sam and carly being retards on their web show and fred being a dork the only episode a saw cant remember the title where fred gets bad luck by not an email i find videos on youtube funnier than this junk and why the hell do they get youtube jack fred get to cancel the show with his potty mouth just skip this show
0	again like many other tv shows a certain actor actresses in thrust into the limelight in this case miranda cosgrove having built up her reputation in previous movies series especially by nickelodeon and dan schneider she is now the star of the show gets to sing the soundtrack which she did not write and thus gets even more fame from that wonderful it creates as much imbalance in popularity vs her other co stars especially nathan who is continually thrust into minor rolls in each episode except want to fight music would never have met the charts without this show and her singing the main theme song which was not written by her and other covers such as about you now and stay my baby let's not forget that she lip sync sings her song live too is that how you create vocalist nowadays br br back to the show cosgrove reveals more physically by acting scenes in a bikini hawaiian hula type bra and mentioned bra many times through out bras and seen in many cases though not of the other actresses are mentioned panties have been mentioned once og let us not forget oh my god a come phrase are any of the scriptwriters actors christian granted that the show is not meant to be just for kids i'm surprised at the multitude of mentions of the female especially in the first episode where the phrase pointy boobs were mentioned i'm not sure whether kids would thus refrain from saying that at home in school afterwards br br it's not that i'm against the mentioning or showing of female undergarments which girls will wear but for a show from nickelodeon the people in charge should have realised that kids would get the exposure to such stuff i doubt that other nickelodeon shows have such content in them br br as mentioned is other reviews the laughter track is extremely annoying and unnecessary in many parts for example when the character sam cries how on earth is that a time to laugh it distracts people from getting the joke and is used almost in every sentence br br as mentioned cosgrove is made the star of the show and thus gains the utmost fame and support from die hard fans who even scolded a hotel staff when she is told to keep her noise level down see http www youtube com watch v mccurdy is the second star of the show but she faces competition from cosgrove in the music industry compare the popularity of her new single vs covers as noted the third co star nathan is the least noted of the lot he is portrayed as a atypical boy who suffers the brunt of bullying by a girl and other boys but somehow a wizard at technology his height in early episodes make him a cute actor but unusual given his character's crush on carly cosgrove beyond that isn't breaking into the music industry and as fame grows with each episode falls behind i would bet that he is the least paid of all the three actors br br the content of the show is of course fictional but also lets one wonder how it fits into a comedy series at certain times thus the laughter track is used it also contains several continuity errors how can your father be and air force colonel on a submarine us special forces have their own branches and the air force doesn't use us submarines that is for seals a unique feature is that of allowing viewers to submit their own videos to be shown during or after the episodes but again the videos somehow do not meet the theme of comedy br br once again it is a show that is riddled with mentions of the female undergarments exposure of skin and over used laughter tracks it is a series which thrusts a teen actress so far into the crowd such that her songs actions are excessive supported by her fans leaving her co stars behind
0	first off i just want to say that this show could've done well way better than it's doing now what brought it down was certainly the acting miranda cosgrove who acts as the main character carly looked almost worthy of her own show when she was on drake and josh unfortunately was a big let down not only can miranda not act convincingly enough but she's incredibly stiff when she moves she looks as if she's not sure how the character carly would move or stand in the very first episode at the end when she throws the hat up her arm doesn't ever leave her side from her elbow up even when she was dancing she looked like a stick in the breeze and the singing the theme song was great only because drake had been in it the music was pretty good and miranda's voice sounded fake i have to admit the plot and settings are good unrealistic but hey that's nick they're practically known for stupid lines and characters but wow is the worst of them all
0	if you think hannah montana or the suite life are at the bottom of tween sitcoms then you've obviously never watched is without a doubt the worst show i've ever seen from the lifeless acting to the low budget sets the show reeks of cheapness like last week's chinese takeout left to simmer in your overheated car br br the show revolves around a pretty perky and supposed to be funny girl named carly as she and her friends make a live web show called carly lives alone with her older brother who seriously needs some counseling or something because he's a few cells short of a brain br br the plots of the shows are highly ludicrous and unbearably annoying but having to watch carly and her friend sam do their little show within in a show is even worse they basically show weird pictures and stick things up their nose as the laugh track plays over and over i mean seriously every two seconds the laugh track seems to come on for no reason br br so what's the point of this review you may ask just to ridicule well yeah but i'm also warning you to beware of this show because seriously if i had to choose between watching and barney no questions about it i'd choose barney
0	i loved the first 15 minutes and i loved some of the dialogue in the tribunal which proved to be the best showcase for the director's ahead of its time method acting technique but this movie ultimately disappoints even when viewed purely as a metaphor of the oppressed dynamics that were and are prevalent in the relationship between the us government and its more disobedient citizens it still lacks punch and believability and ultimately left me looking at my watch hoping the obvious ending would happen already br br and for the record despite rampant rumors to the contrary this movie has never been banned in the us i can't comment on the rumors of uk censorship but i'm suspicious hollywood refused to distribute it after its initial film festival showing and i am more than willing to believe the nixon government had some influence on this decision however the fact that it never appeared on american television is merely a reflection of this rather careful and advertising driven fashion of doing business as for the present you can have your very own copy of the dvd delivered to your door via amazon in a few days
0	i no words no words can describe this i will try for the sake of those few brave people who stick knives into their toasters after watching this show br br this cosgrove person her acting is like watching a female gorilla dance upon the nest of highly agitated insects perhaps i exaggerate however i have a feeling that the description fits a regular day of writing this show br br the characters in this repulsive pile of raw sewage are as useless as a small piece of space rock that flies into the sun on any day of the week though heart attacks have not been experienced while watching them act like fools on the cheaply built sets i have no doubt that it will happen eventually br br the main plot of this loudly into the faces of the actors is that of a foolish girl who hosts a live weekly web cast on the creatively titled com with her brainless friends one of which owns equipment that the producers of this show probably couldn't afford her legal guardian is some kind of moron who is apparently her older brother br br i haven't watched all of this show for fear of developing cancer or perhaps a cold but some of the plot points i have seen involve the brother getting stuck in an elevator the doorman of the apartment almost dieing and the world's priest coming for a visit no really br br avoid this if you are over the age of unborn or if you have a history of joining mysterious cults due to mental trauma if you do decide to watch it laugh when the laugh track tells you to as this will drown out the repetitive noise that will eventually put you in a coma if you listen to it for too long br br the show receives a one star rating because the imdb inexplicably has not adopted the use of negative numbers
0	i won't say the show is all bad because there are some funny parts like spencer and a few random incidents but other than that let's face it it's just another dry sitcom that kids are buying into br br miranda cosgrove was cute and funny as megan on drake and josh honestly she is mediocre in and is just not as funny as she tries to be the actress who plays sam seems to be half asleep most of the time and her antics are so clichéd that i would think of them they're not funny just annoying and freddie is okay but not that interesting br br of course the situations are unrealistic but it's not all bad some are bothersome though here are a few br br 1 the girls are 14 and have a web show that gives away too much personal information with a weekly audience of 27 000 wtf with little to no advertising and they can still go on about their lives not being attacked by crazy people br br 2 their web show gets too much praise 100 000 yearly to advertise sneakers a free trip to japan plain white ts performance and so on honestly anyone over the age of 6 would not find their comedy entertaining br br 3 how is it that they are so average yet they own a three story loft spencer does hardly anything and can still afford many basic luxuries and they have all the equipment for a web show 4 all of the adults are idiots all of them br br 5 no 5 foot high girl no matter how obnoxious and tenacious can take down trained cops unless she's muscular sam is skinny and petite br br 6 no one can fall down 9 stories in an elevator and live br br 7 kids can handle finding out about criminals better than cops br br the show is stupid really it seems harmless but making kids think that they can be obnoxious to their elders live alone in seattle when they're only 14 with an irresponsible moron and give out personal information is just wrong br br i'm disappointed to say that my cousin who is 3 enjoys the show what happened to the cartoons when i was her age
0	yes we all know about dan schneider's odd little fascination with making shows with young kids and is no exception see young girls wiggle their toes and stick their tongues out for the camera and wear skimpy clothes and bikini's yes it makes you wonder if these shows were made for teens or for some older degenerate crowd either way the show isn't that good when compared to dan other shows like the far superior amanda show drake and josh br br the show is about a brother and sister carly and spencer living alone and having to get by on their own while their father is off in the army and their mother is strangely absent from their lives carly has a mean spirited friend named sam and they do a very well produced award winning web show called with their little school friend freddie the episodes deal with their lives in and around the web show and their hi jinx at school br br carly is a young all knowing web personality business woman producer played by miranda cosgrove a young actress who relies on talking very very loudly and fast to get her point across and making odd faces her brother spencer is a somewhat mean spirited dim wit and eccentric artist played by jerry trainor who tries a bit to hard to be like jim carrey and whose comedy style seems to be aimed at the young male audience who'd like this type of joey gladstone humor then there's sam puckett an unlikable mean little lying thief of a brat who needs an attitude adjustment played by jeanette mccurdy who clearly wears hair extensions as you can see them disappear then reappear from scene to scene and finally there's freddie benson the web shows nerdy cameraman and technical adviser who has a major crush on carly but will obviously get nowhere with her who's played by nathan br br other secondary characters come and go such as mother grandfather annoying teachers and many of their annoying little school friends to round out the cast most of the comedy is mean spirited like blowing up the doorman as a gag throwing a water balloon at a teacher and knocking over the table of young girl scouts selling cookies all of the adults come off as complete idiots while the children are all knowing and certain main characters have absolutely no morals lying cheating stealing and violence all are acceptable in this children's show created and written by dan schneider yes it's a children's show what more could the young viewers ask for well with dan schneider we can expect to have the young girls dress in tight clothes and bikini's and do some odd things like sticking their tongues out for the camera and eating br br shows like this are just what the young crowd likes though and i guess no worse then any of the other garbage nick shovels at its young crowd there's always fans to be found for anything seen on tv at least this is a bit better then most of the stuff seen on nick like that horrible naked brothers show
0	look i've practically lost all hope in nickelodeon after watching their newest hit the naked brothers band show and is no exception if you haven't noticed is now the 1 hit tween sitcom on television right now after hearing this i decided to watch a few episodes myself to see what the hype was about i have one word to describe this show in general effortless i cannot believe that dan schneider would go this low and make something this crappy it's horrible let me give you the details br br the cast starts out with a girl by the name of carly played by miranda cosgrove carly unfortunately throughout the episodes doesn't really have a personality so to speak of i guess she's supposed to be the average girl in the show because a lot of people have an army veteran for a dad an artist for a brother and a popular teen web show taped and produced with thousands of dollars of equipment and to say the most about miranda her acting is pathetic she sounds like a 3 year old girl with tourette's syndrome on a sugar high half the time br br next we have sam puckett good god where do they get these names played by mccurdy sam is the co host of web show wait a minute if sam hosts the show with carly shouldn't the show be called and sam i bet sam feels like she's been ripped off sam is supposed to be the bully in the cast yeah because every girl bully wears girly skin tight shirts and pants with blonde hair she also i think is supposed to be a tomboy too i would find this a little funny but it's her cliché puns that ruin it the give me a bucket of fried chicken pun is overused way too much give this girl a script and give her a coffee because don't get me wrong acting is okay but throughout half the episodes she looks like she's about ready to fall asleep br br next we have freddie benson played by nathan freddie is the technical producer for carly and sam's show there's not much to say about freddie other than the fact that he's a techno geek and has a crush on carly which never works out here we go again with the clichés does it not stop nathan's acting is also okay but seems to get excessive sometimes he's too boring br br lastly and my most favorite we have spencer played by jerry trainor let me make this perfectly clear if it weren't for him this dirt cluster of a show would be mud spencer is the one who keeps the show alive spencer is the older brother of carly if you had a little 5 year old who was both on a caffeine high and constipated you would have this character summed up spencer also earns money from being an artist hmmm i wonder you would think that a professional artist would make promising sculptures yeah i just love sarcasm his art is pretty much utter crap i mean what kind of sculpture name is merry what that's about as much creativity as a hillary clinton speech on drugs it's stupid br br the plot settings and morals are effortless bags of poop these shows are now telling kids that stealing lying and being an asshole to your parents is a good thing if these are the kinds of awful crappy shows that they're throwing at kids these days then i don't want to take part in watching any of them this is biggest piece of crap i've ever watched on tv bar none nickelodeon i'm through with you end of story 1 10
0	this show is based on the concept that loud obnoxious repetition funny the comedic writing is non existent in fact i face serious repercussions by even comparing it to entertainment of any sort here is the premise two girls accidentally get their shenanigans posted on the internet and hilarity ensues after their initial success they contrive the idea that they should make a web cast to showcase their brilliance br br ok so where should i begin let's start with the laugh track the oft used but never successful reminder that we the viewing audience should laugh according to the foley guys this show is the funniest thing on the planet we should all be dropping loads into our pants because of the brilliance of the humor placed before us the laugh track seriously goes every few seconds it quite possibly scooby doo for the king of laugh track over use br br then the in your face shout at the top of our lungs the craziest grouping of words to seem silly trick is also employed with little to no success whoa and let's not forget creating new words to sound funny trick that is web o licious and poop tastic what the hell br br finally the acting i can't entirely complain here the actors are young and inexperienced but this should and can be corrected by good professional help because of the inexperience nick should be helping the actors define their craft instead in usual nick fashion the actors are placed in front of the camera and told act which for the most part is robotic recitation of lines missed timing and overall epic fail br br the lack of anything in this show makes it a disgusting representation of how not to be funny don't waste your time this show is to all of humanity
0	beats me how people can describe this adolescent exercise as film noir true there's a gun a bottle a dame the lead is a private eye but that ain't what makes the genre folks this thing plays like reheated tv cop show stuff lots of bloody beating lousy continuity with a dash of chinatown memories thrown in pretty hard to watch beyond the first 10 minutes you want contemporary feel watch anything by john dahl
0	i just spent about 1 5 hours waiting for the movie to begin it didn't the story is vague and uninteresting the speed in the movie is absent and the voiceover irritating i can't understand why movies like this one are even distributed
0	this show was an amazing fresh innovative idea in the 70's when it first aired the first 7 or 8 years were brilliant but things dropped off after that by 1990 the show was not really funny anymore and it's continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today br br it's truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen the writing is painfully bad the performances are almost as bad if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts this show probably wouldn't still be on the air i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity i felt i must give 2 stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success as it is now the show is just awful i can't believe it's still on the air
0	i was a huge snl fan back in the days of chevy chase john belushi dan ackroyd gilda and many other memorable stars but every time i've tried to watch it in the past more than ten years i've been very disappointed and sometimes even disgusted with it ten years ago i believed the show couldn't possibly survive since it had become so utterly bereft of the sort of humor i could understand and yet it kept plugging along which i've always found dismaying wondering how in the world anyone could possibly find its lame humor at all funny whenever i've tuned in over the past decade i've never once been glad that i did indeed i've always been annoyed at myself for staying up and wasting my time for me the absolute low point came several years ago when a popular young male actor i liked a lot was the guest host at one point that night he played a big star perhaps himself and in the skit the character i think played by chris kattan again i think ended up in the backseat of a car with him what followed was being forced up and down and up and down on the actor's lap with him screaming hysterically as he was presumably sodomized the audience was laughing their heads off and i'm shaking my head amazed that they could find that remotely funny amazed that nbc would even broadcast such a thing in the years since then i've repeatedly tried to approach the show with an open mind hoping that it might regain the sly sense of humor i adored for so many years but up until just a week ago for me it hasn't done so not even close one exception during the 2008 presidential campaign i thought that tina fey was fantastic and she was the one performer who kept me tuning in but those sarah palin skits while hysterical were still not enough to save the rest of the 90 minutes and i would always regret not turning it off as soon as i heard the familiar it's 'saturday night '
0	you just cant touch the new crop is just awful the jokes are not funny some of the troupe make me want to stop watching tv all together lorne you have let your creation go down the toilet the guests sometimes are good the bands are mostly garbage weekend update seth has to tell the audience when to laugh seth would get a proper reception in a baghdad cafe though make sure andy goes with him the show has about 10 jokes in all and they just keep rehashing them over and over even the segments that are obviously not funny offending people has become the name of the game but they cant even do that right just offensively i am so disappointed with what has happened to the show but now i also know it is safe to go out on a saturday night
0	the person making taffy in this movie was so realistic that person must have been trained so well if i were buying taffy from the store featured in this fine romantic comedy i would demand to be served by the guy who trained the person who played the guy selling taffy
0	nothing to spoil here at all but this could be a spoiler so beware br br special effects were on the level of a video game about five years ago or perhaps of the original star trek the acting was just pathetic some cheesy looking blonde across the desert while a voice in the background droned on and on and on this was the trek and drone half that i actually made it through progress is interrupted by a few fights ships blow each other up for no real reason that is apparent again it's not that there is a real fight that you would expect from a movie more like a cheap video game boi ing boi ing ship explodes next ship apparently some of the ships are looking for the blonde here in the far future ships must be and because many of them pass directly overhead of the stylishly dressed futuristic babe in black but never see her br br then there are a couple of choreographed fights that look like something put on by high school kids again the crude video game mentality is prominent the combatants shift to fight mode by flipping something on their wrists and a loud computerized voice echoes and flashes fight mode that must be a dandy design if you are trying to sneak up on somebody then you go to a big power station which looks just like a current day power line tower and plug in to charge back up lol i'm not kidding you can't make this stuff up it's like watching a freaking video game from about 2000 only the acting is better in the game br br more trekking then she shows up at the city lame sound trek gets even lamer here she gets into a fight with a mech robot of the future who cannot hit her with his big gun even though she runs right in front of him about five feet in front of him obviously robots of the far future are about as useful as toaster ovens in a fight she throws sand in its eyes and beats it to death by throwing rocks at it rofl i was at about 95 of tolerance by that point my nausea circuits flashing red br br in the next scene she ends up strapped to a rocket with some rope i kid you not tied right to the outside of a rocket this is supposed to be an advanced form of transportation at that point i bailed br br this movie is an utter disgrace for a movie made at the present time just a freaking disgrace there was a drippy story but the movie distracted from it somebody droning on about mother constantly br br i gave it a two because there were a few scenes which displayed some pretty nice artwork of a science fiction nature as background unfortunately the plot acting action cinematography and narrative distracted from this artwork and degraded it no kidding
0	and that's saying something no matter how bad a movie gets i'm normally able to sit through it so i can judge the full movie through this one i made it about 20 minutes br br maybe it was the dvd or maybe it was my laptop but i could not hear the dialogue even with the volume turned all the way up sound effects were fine so with the volume turned up to hear the dialogue i was blowing out my eardrums with the effects as much as i wanted to see this thing through i wasn't going to sacrifice my hearing for it br br from what little i could tell about the plot the movie was one big flashback by the main character's daughter it seems the mother a military pilot had to flee her ship because the one person on her ship she trusted turned out to be one of the enemy and now he is pursuing her across a desert planet br br the only thing i liked about the movie was the look of the main character there was something i liked about her hairstyle br br oh well looks like this one is going into the dumpster
0	first i have to say that i don't like since fiction movies at all so much but there are some movies i liked really this is one of the others i've the same opinion like some most others here the film is still going on in my back but the few effects are really not enough to watch the whole time i think what they have done well are the animated sceneries with 3 suns and 4 moons but its the only i liked there are no intelligent dialogs are there but its a great film for everybody who loves lara croft or some other girls in hot pants br br for the directors stop to try again please
0	i'd never heard of zero budget auteur neil johnson before seeing on dvd at hollywood video a few minutes into the movie i realize this isn't a bad thing like many straight to video sci fi movies this is a film dominated largely by overused bad special effects and a constant parade of pretentious sci fi concepts that fail to create a story br br viewers are tortured with a religious sounding text introduction then a spoken introduction followed by a narration by the main character's daughter to me this seemed like a smoke screen to mask a film with ugly visuals and zero character emphasis some people on here seem all too ready to take this film seriously and swallowed it's seemingly new age messages hook line and sinker these favorable reviews must come from the same kind of people who can delude themselves into thinking that things like battlefield earth was a brilliant movie or that is just as good as coke br br those who were lured in by the cheesy cover art can look forward to lousy acting in small doses spaced with long blocks of people not talking rotten computer animated effects in extra large doses and irritating talking computers what you won't get is excitement emotional stimulation memorable dialogue or a good story br br is impenetrable bull and the constant irritant of the narration proves it real science fiction hell real film making is about characters and their dialogue not special effects and dull predictions this is right down there with similar direct to video sci fi like one and recon 2022 if the boredom of strange horizons and alien visitor is something you seek out by all means watch the crap out of this if you enjoy good storytelling and hate fake lens flares you're better off with a real movie
0	i watched the first 10 minutes and it bored me to death so i fast forward all the way through the end this movie must be the worst of all in the low budget sci fi movies category so far bad acting cast directions lara craft custom imitation story plot everything through out the entire movie i think that there maybe only 6 to 7 people in the entire cast but only two of them started in the entire movie i was expecting something like the starship trooper but it was nothing close to it i was fooled by the movie title and the picture on the dvd cover don't waste your time watching this boring and bad movie come to think of it i wonder why did they even bother to put out bad movies like this one
0	i have no idea what these people were thinking when they made this film no plot very limited action and what is with the 3rd person commentary throughout the film instead of running around the planet to shoot on all of these locations they should have spent some money on script writing and actors what acting there was was lousy this was 90 minutes of my life i will never be able to get back i should bill the director for the cost of renting this film to the director and the writers of this film please quit now this film should have a tag on the front of it saying beware of boredom the only good thing i can say about this film is the computer generation it's ok as generation is this movie should never have a sequel ever
0	this movie was rented for free i had no misconception about this being a very bad movie i rented it for thanksgiving because we eat turkey and then the family watches an awful movie so you ask what makes this movie so bad you gave it only 2 stars dialog the lack of dialog makes this a movie perfect for a deaf audience in fact if you rent this just turn the volume down to zero and pop in any heavy metal cd from your favorite artist i know you will enjoy it better the plot of this holiday turkey was so encumbered with tech and geek speak you need a translator for the narrative now for all you people who enjoy good sci fi effects eh they are not much better than video game trailers or cut scenes in cases worse the actors um both of them are not much to look at either they say nothing much through out the entire movie many of the technical aspects will make you laugh like the scene where the hero straps herself to a missile and fires it at the city away it never showed how she landed the scene before that we see a robotic sentry fire at her with a cannon from 12 feet away and he misses multiple shots also we are told that the political division between the antagonist and protagonist is bio tech genetically enhanced humans vs cyber tech machine enhanced humans but both seem to be cyborgs or enhanced humans what told me this was a bad movie at the rental store was the cover that looked like a video game cover art and there was only the one copy good new releases have many copies available
0	i knew it would be a bad movie when i rented it but i hoped for a good bad movie oh well had fun making fun of the endless sand trudging eating camel dung well actually eggplant and weird grimacing acting from i think it was about five actors the dvd needs a director's commentary so that i can find out what he was thinking or if he was at all i can't believe they actually went to england and wherever to film this could have been done anywhere would have been better if they had managed to get her naked the best line of the movie he waiting for his upgrades yup still waiting now that was funny if anyone had more than 3 pages of dialog beyond the narrator shut up already then i'll watch it again
0	the film begins with a 30 minute explanation about the war the human cyborgs battles history and then dumps 2 actors into a gravel pit they run around this gravel pit desert area for about an hour shooting at each other that's it must have cost about £10 00 to make with change avoid br br marks out of ten acting 9 sets 1 costumes 9 direction 50 production 1 titled intro 4 br br i think to improve this film would be to lose the commentary let the watcher decide what's going on remove some of the awful cgi add some techno rave music to it they might just rescue it
0	ok please believe me when i say that this is a terrible terrible sci fi movie its done so poorly that much of the film plays out as unintentional surrealism and its absolutely a 100 waste of time awful but somehow also deeply unfunny i watched this as a double feature with recon 2020 the massacre and although was an incredibly superior film that's not saying much the plot of is so completely convoluted that its impossible to follow the narration is cryptic often nonsensical seemingly endless and thoroughly exhausting literally half the film is scenes of the female lead who looks like brian bosworth walking through the desert the movie actually starts out pretty cool but then into and somehow continues to deteriorate minute by minute absolutely horrible and truly an absurdist endurance test zero stars reviews by flak magnet
0	a really funny story idea with good actors but it misses somehow the actors are older but none of them looked particularly good they needed better make up photography or something it is supposed to be a love story and yet the film had more of the rough look of a street film i liked the cast but i think the performances were rather bland this is where the weakness of the director shows perhaps if mrs spielberg had mr spielberg directing it would have been a much better film
0	let me break down this film for you br br the first fifteen minutes are a showcase for terrible special effects i'm not one to nitpick about special effects but what you've got to understand is that if you can't afford good special effects you shouldn't anchor your film around special effects starships fire blobs of color at each other flaring into stock explosions and careening past moons with polygon counts low enough to count with your fingers you will have no idea what is happening it will not make sense br br the second act involves a woman walking in the desert at this point you will be treated to drab scenery and illogical boring fight scenes nobody speaks nothing interesting happens the protagonist's goals are unclear and are not very compelling this goes on for about 45 minutes br br then in a five minute montage she sneaks into an enemy base straps herself to a rocket tries to destroy a doomsday weapon fails and dies br br none of this has any bearing on the eventual direction of the film br br in the last twenty minutes basically the chick's memories get transferred to her daughter who goes into stasis for a very large number of years learning the secrets of mankind after this we see the first and last five minute segment of human interaction in the film then the new heroine is forced to choose whether she wants to become part of the material that causes the big bang or not you know because when the universe is collapsing you get to decide if you want to be a part of it br br she chooses yes but the memories of mankind survive in a capsule maybe we won't make the same mistakes again huh if you like movies with characters then this is not a good movie for you the lead roles could have been fulfilled nicely by any old wind up toy capable of staying right side up while walking through sand all of the story is told through painfully dull narration br br the film tries to seem deep by throwing together a whole bunch of undeveloped science fiction ideas there are enough concepts here to fuel a number of films but as it stands it's bloated with completely irrelevant details two thirds of this film could have been reduced to a 45 second montage instead the narrator fills in a worth of backstory without ever giving us a reason to care what happens to the characters br br there are good ideas in here but nobody watches films to see ideas ineptly explained people watched films to be entertained this film does not entertain
0	in a world where humans can live forever you spend the entire movie wishing they would die first off if you insist on watching this movie do two things first put it on mute don't worry you miss a plot hell they don't even talk for the first 70 min of an 87 min movie after putting on mute you must now hit fast forward till the main chick dies don't worry even if your paying attention you won't know why or how she died once you get to the good part take it of mute oh how will you know the good part wait for an elevator scene with two morons in space suits with wwii weapons these weapons won't seem like much till you realize that the first protagonist had a laser tag pistol and a of co2 cartridges the only remnants of a plot take place between a glowing ball and a semi hot chick who looks like she was attacked by wolverine after listening to the plot you will wish they went back to not talking of the four people that are in this movie none of them can remotely act not even a little bit you will have better luck witnessing acting at a kindergarten theater br br to comment on the special on the special effects let me just say wow no really you will spend the entire movie saying to your self where did this movie's 1 8 million dollar budget go seriously it will leave you in aw of the magnitude of ineptness the best sets are basically windows wallpaper backgrounds the ships are basically flying wrenches wait some are that kinda look like whales i have never heard so many made up words in my whole life they have buttons on their wrist large that can put them in fight mode and super mode makes them super blurry this will seriously drain their power reserves but they find bits of wires to chew on to regain their strength the explosions were less impressive than my fourth of july i only had sparklers br br so the plot as far as i can figure goes something like this mother is a space ship captain and goes to the desert for a while rides a rocket dies then her daughter 6000 years in the future no i am not exaggerating recalls her mother's memories through some sort of capsule anyways they jabber on for another 10 min and then the cause a big bang yes the same big bang that started our solar system it's explained how she goes back in time or something it does not really matter it happened i guess roll credits seriously the whole script was mercifully on one sheet of paper unless that actually detailed any of the dreadfully fight scenes br br after watching the credits i have now laughed more than i did the entire movie the jobs the created like catering supervisor sarcophagus and then the special thanks to george lucas was just the best br br i really wasn't expecting that much for a movie i paid 99 cents for but seriously some body owes me for this most frequent comment heard after the movie i want my life back you have to admire that some but put time and effort in to this movie but seriously why
0	you see a movie titled what are you going to think space battles with cool as heck explosions and everyone shooting at each other what do you get with this movie well you do get some space battle goodness but for a great majority of the time it's just stupid people wandering around doing almost nothing no one talks what is this nonsense we get a narrators and a ton of british computers but thats about it the main protagonist must be the worst one i have ever seen as she doesn't even have any dialog and sleepwalks though scenes some of the things happening are just stupid like they use a rocket like to go to space for basic transportation planet side why not just use one of those nifty space ships in any case the music is almost non existent with a few boring dull lifeless samples but the main thing you will notice is the atari sound effects the ships use you have got to be kidding me i can also tell that the budget was low because everything looks fake which is not what you would expect from a movie especially what should be a super cool space battle movie i seriously think the budget must have been in the double digits it is so bad making you laugh more than you should at how plain bad it is i am starting to think that they paid the actors based on how much dialog they had because their is very little here if you can't tell already that is my main gripe here as i probably said that like 3 times already
0	today i had a real craving for a sci fi movie and so i decided to check out sadly that was one of my biggest mistakes this year br br i see that the director neil johnson has directed over 500 music videos and i suggest he goes back to that music videos are a perfectly good form of entertainment and not everybody can cut it making movies br br the worst part of this movie is probably the voice over and that says a lot since the special effects are appalling at times voice over didn't work in blade runner and it doesn't work here the first hour or so is spent watching the main character walk through the desert while her daughter tells the story i think the story could have made a great movie but not like this br br the second worst part are the effects they are simply bad and they don't blend into the rest of the picture at all so you simply don't believe in them and absolutely all the frames in the movie has been filtered and not in a good way filtering used as an effect is good 90 minutes of it bad br br and what is it with all the gadgets talking all the time and not shutting up if i had used technology like that i would have gone mad i was just waiting for the guns to blurt out with i am awfully sorry but i seem to have run out of ammunition no stay away this movie is just not worth the time
0	i am willing to tolerate almost anything in a sci fi movie but this was almost intolerable while a few of the special effects are very cool landscapes this is no rather a disjointed weird mother daughter relationship with sci fi concepts thrown in the acting wooden framing and shooting kindergarten film school and with hand to hand combat scenes funnier than any hong kong chopsocky movie this film bores the plot line is convoluted and the devices used to move the plot along narrator unexplained scene jumps and plenty of deus ex machina reinforce the idea that writer cum director is not a good idea save your love of sci fi for something else instead of losing a bit of it here
0	i made it through half of this but was not enough of a masochist to see it all the first half of the film had next to no dialog almost everything was voice over commentary to carry the story the scriptwriter forgot that sometimes less is more and tried to explain several millennium of detailed history in the voice over at the same time he forgot to do any character development most science fiction fans don't require huge amounts of character development but it would be nice to know why the two main characters who survived the destruction of the space fleet together ended up fighting each other br br there are some good things going on in the film the soundtrack was well done some of the computer generated graphics are very good but others were just mediocre
0	so it's a space movie but it's low budget you ask what about the effects the effects are at times good and at times really really bad i mean bad and notice i started with the effects br br there's a story here but it's told in what i think is the wrong order i don't mean a tarantino style wrong order i mean it's told in a completely nonsensical arrangement most of it's about a mother in the future because you know it's sci fi as told by her daughter which is mostly exposition done in narrative from the daughter's perspective only once you're through the first hour and hear paul voice as a computer do you realize how much more tolerable the constant narrative would have been if he'd read it this narrative is so constant and inclusive that the actors on screen hardly say a word for the first hour br br there's also a lesson here for you up and coming filmmakers if you're not doing 2001 and want to have some action this one does then please hire a good fight choreographer otherwise your fights will look like well what's in and notice the title has the word battle in it ugh br br i think this might be the classic scenario of trying to make a movie based on nothing more than a concept and some effects my biggest surprise is seeing the imdb listing this film as costing 1 8 million when you compare it to something like primer which did better with a budget of a few thousand you realize in low budget film making it's all about the story i wasn't expecting much but i was still disappointed two out of ten stars
0	normally i would say i loved this movie not for acting although that was ok not for the script which was so so the reason i would have normally loved this movie is for the intense action which starts from the get go and doesn't end until the final credits roll but the problem with this movie and i felt it was a big problem was the horrible cgi it looks like they ran out of money and couldn't complete the the effects shots a lot of the effects look lime they are in their very roughest form since it is obvious they didn't have enough money to finish the movie they should not have released it i actual found the effects insulting it seems obvious they didn't care about making a decent end product for the consumer if it weren't for that i would give this movie a much higher rating my vote for air panic is a 3 10
0	it amazes me that someone would actually consider spending some money on a movie like this really let's forget for a second that the plot doesn't even give a single hint of originality most of the movies today are based on other movies' stories so a simple lack of originality is not that big a deal br br but i can hardly believe that none of the guys involved in the movie had never even got on a plane before shooting this because let's be honest that would be the only excuse to come up with something so ridiculous to be sincere i think a 6 years old child with a fake camera could have come up with something technically much more believable some examples following br br the scene that really drove me crazy is when the engines turn off when they regain control of the plane when they have to turn them on again the guy on the radio says something like ok push the 1 and 2 buttons on the dashboard now those are not buttons they should not be pushed they should actually be pulled up and toward the pilot that's something only plane addicted would know you say wrong the next scene you can see their fingers pushing the buttons and of course the so called buttons don't move at all not even a single millimeter and note that i haven't even mentioned the fact that aircraft engines are not like cars engine that you just turn the key and the magic happens you have to do quite a complicated procedure to turn them on come on guys you could have faked the movements at least not to mention the hilarious final impact where the plane crashes against every single thing along the runway light poles along the runway what where they thinking and the wings don't even get ripped off it happened to me too once except the plane was made of lego what about the flight attendant she's actually so skilled that she perfectly knows where the aux 1 and aux 2 fuses are in the middle of the wires behind the cockpit should we mention then the guy that can drive an ambulance and fly a plane behind the ambulance using his computer and how did he turn the other airplane engines on br br really i could go on hours with this stuff this is the dumbest movie i've ever come across and i'm including garbage like alone in the dark and other stuff in the list want to do yourself a favor don't watch it
0	i rented this movie because i love and i've watched her on many tv shows and since she's having her 15 minutes of fame nowadays with her new movie i wanted to check out what other movies she has been in br br she's just ok in terms of acting not good and not bad either she makes up for everything by being extremely gorgeous br br rodney rowland was quite a surprise as the hero he provided the only solid good acting in the movie he's a very good actor and should probably be an action star br br besides being ok and rodney being really good everything else about this movie is garbage in its purest form br br a computer hacker hacks into the system of a plane from the ground and using a joystick he tries to slam the plane into a nuclear power plant or something and of course there are the heroes who stand in his way and ruin his game br br this is one of the worst scripts i have ever seen and no wonder it was a low budget flick br br what's shocking is that this movie was made in 2001 and it has way too many similarities to the september 11th tragedies br br why do they make movies like this in the first place br br panic one star a waste of too good actors also a waste of time also known as air panic
0	i liked most of the dialogue i liked the cast i thought it was well acted i particularly enjoyed ellen perfect deadpan performance br br what didn't work for me was 1 the drawn out affair with the younger man too long too seemingly out of character for helen 2 the seemingly endless cinematic cliches mostly visual but including interminable voiced over re readings of the love letter itself its contents should have a mystery 3 a young woman feminist scholar and ironically a fireworks scene no wonder this reminded me of that horrid how to make an american quilt movie 4 the bumbling gotcha cop who smells dope everywhere no cliche there either and 5 a nauseatingly romanticized small town setting br br i would have preferred the film to more persuasively explore the source of or even glorify helen's bitterness to have included much more of character to have eliminated or reduced the various intergenerational artifices and to be a little less uncritical of small town life br br had it been developed as a play first those criticisms might have been addressed before committing the material to this film which unfortunately is decidedly mediocre
0	this show should be titled when bad writing happens to good actors considering most of the players have demonstrated immense talent in other venues e g andre braugher in homicide life on the street and david morse in st elsewhere i'm hoping that the frenetic pacing of the show is adjusted as the series develops along with the obvious cliches and dialogue so absurd i wondered just how stupid the writers imagined the core audience to be we're beat over the head with the main points of this show instead of being left to gradually figure it out almost as if the writers feel that they must spell out that the main character is some sort of avenging angel sentenced to redeem himself from sins both and mortal via butting into his cab fares many affairs watching the premiere required much suspension of disbelief that mike fares would so rapidly spill their guts and he would feel driven to intervene in the lives of utter strangers that he possesses those super cop abilities to be all things to all people weapons expert martial arts master psychologist father confessor and so on ad infinitum pure fantasy what is it about recent televisions shows based in philidelphia that they all seem to be imbued with a nasty ex wife and a very bratty child overdone i wanted to like this show really i did because it had the virtue of having a premise slightly different than many of the clones appearing in this season's fare and it stars some of my preferred actors but i'm afraid this is just another possibly good idea ruined by careless execution
0	it must be a long time ago that i have seen such a bad movie i have to say it is really hard to make a good and or realistic movie about air disaster but this movie was such a waste of time and money also i think this is an unofficial way trying to get a bad reputation on first the cockpit look a lot like an cockpit second you got a stick third using computers to control elevators via fly by wire when i saw this movie i thought like the intention of the film was don't fly with computerized airplanes like use boeing instead they have a direct connection of steering and br br all i can say bad story horrible acting most of the actors worst film trick ever
0	this movie has every cliché of every terrorism or airliner crisis movie br br however it is not entirely unwatchable thanks to good performances by rowland and and maybe br br what is amazingly bad though is the computer animations they try to pass off as live action scenes boy oh boy the cgi scenes in the last starfighter filmed in 1984 are better than these filmed 17 years later the feeling of really sends shivers down your spine br br a pity this could have been a much better movie with a little more budget and taste
0	it s funny how instinct warns you of something for example as soon as the company credits read nu image i knew instinctively i d seen a really crap film by them somewhere before but couldn t remember where nevertheless i just knew judge and jury was going to be crap and it was maybe i m psychic br br mild spoilers br br the opening is rather violent with several people getting blown away for no more reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time i don t know about you but i m geting slightly fed up with exploitive violence onscreen nowadays along with bad language especially if it s spouted by actors as bad as the ones in this movie anyway the plot revolves around the bad dude getting executed and coming back to reek revenge on the man who shot his wife oh did i mention the bad dude and his wife murdered a couple of people on their wedding night yeah he s a serious badass mofo in fact he s so bad and i don t mean the acting i ll get to that in a moment that he s impossible to take seriously and this is before he s executed only to return as elton john elvis a french chef etc i wonder if keith david got paid for this because he looks he s having so much fun on screen that s the only reason he s playing the role what a pity this reviewer didn t have any fun whatsoever watching judge and jury hey maybe the producers could send me keith s fee gawd only knows i deserve it br br i disliked this movie a lot as if you t guessed and my main beef isn t with the stupid plot or the cheap production values but with its attitude to violence if like me you ve had a wine bottle cracked over your head or been kicked in the ribs very hard several times you ll know violence is an obscene painful thing but judge and jury will have you believe that if you re thrown through a window crash through some and fall twenty odd feet onto a table not only will you be unhurt but you ll be able to outrun a couple of rabid devil dogs it could of course be argued that any film starring sly arnie or bruce also suffers from this same dishonest showing of violence but with judge and jury it yanked my chain
0	i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a 3 should have gave it a 2 i gave it an extra star just because david keith's gun was cool
0	so much for judge and jury which lives up to its nonsense title what good is there the lighting is terribly foggy another horror movie you ask well that's perfectly explainable david keith actually does pretty good at disguising clowns chefs and other shenanigans while being the killer who escaped death row but overall despite some new twists it's reasonably stupid has been putting out some ludicrous productions recently and this one only means so much we the jury find this film guilty for its indecent exposure to many of us sitting around believing it's a total waste of our time
0	if this is not heavily featured on every list of what not to watch it should only be because those keeping that particular list are not aware of its existence which as long as that remains so is the acceptable alternative i'm not kidding you this is a bad movie joseph meeker returns from the dead with various vague undefined supernatural powers the most employed of which would seem to be appearing in new increasingly comical looking and ridiculous and never scary or creepy in general when this goes for the latter of those it winds up just being bizarre and attempts at the former just don't work period outfits and stereotypes archetypes and he is portrayed by david keith whom i respect in well at least daredevil doing a more often than not terribly inconsistent which could also have to do with script and often over the top performance a character or two have personalities so unbelievably irritating that they're painful to watch the editing thinks it's considerably more clever than it really is and what on earth was with the red tint for the flashbacks cinematography oh dear framing coverage effective use of angle that one could be attributed some to editing too perhaps please guys stop me when i say something you've ever heard about the existence of as far as the technical side goes this is a pretty lousy excuse for something more worthwhile to put in the projector than film but why stop there the plot is just poor the basic idea's been done and it's been done so much better than this the crow would be one the way it's told is gimmicky and while there is some explanation behind the flashbacks it still doesn't satisfy pacing is about non existent the lead is distinctly unlikeable and there's more personality in a barn door not to mention that those are also considerably less wooden kelly and thomas ian nicholas what in the name of all that is good and just pun intended are you doing in this you were already funny before this on the drew carey show nicholas well i haven't seen you in anything preceding american pie but if nothing else you were funny later on and in those productions the amusement was intentional dialog is the less said the better language is unrestrained and tends to be stupid the violence is shoddily done and they don't even seem to care to try to hide it hinting at it might have been the smarter strategy characters don't get me started why spend so much energy on portraying unexciting at times utterly illogical events the more you think about this the worse it gets it's not even passable as a bad horror flick or a b movie it may very well pass through the rest of the alphabet and go further still it couldn't scare you on the scariest day of your life if it had an electrified scaring machine i recommend this only to people who want to disprove how bad this is and don't say i didn't warn ya 1 10
0	before i begin let me get something off my chest i'm a huge fan of john first film project the film a b grade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit spawned two sequels a spin off br br judge and jury begins with joseph meeker a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called bloody shootout which seems like a poor name for a killing spree – meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store being led to the electric chair there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love who was killed during the shootout expressing his revenge for the person who killed her – michael silvano a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team and ends up harassing his son's coach but once executed meeker returns as a or as kelly calls a hamburger without the fries whose sole aim is to get his revenge which basically means making life a misery br br let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film it is a supernatural action film with meeker chasing silvano using his ability to change form which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad as his moustache a drag queen a clown a stand up comedian a shotgun which fires explosive rounds an invulnerability to death although that doesn't stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for killing meeker's wife br br director john does not seem interested in characterisations instead focusing solely on action scenes which the film has plenty of but that is the film's main flaw since there's nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting is surprisingly good with keith delivering the best performance supported ably by kove as well as paul koslo who plays the washed up cop quite well kelly is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse
0	the main character is a whiny irresponsible study of how to throw yourself a pity party she loses it at the drop of a hat acts pathetic is schizophrenic and left me wondering why on earth she doesn't understand why these 'friends' of hers haven't called her in three years get a clue sister you're a juvenile mess i couldn't stand her or the friends i never felt connected to any of the characters to make the entire movie even more unbearable someone went far out of their way to put the world's most hideous collection of and knitted hats in existence on film for all of eternity this alone should warrant someone be put on wardrobe probation for a decade br br the acting wasn't awful but not really believable either and in the end the only thing that i did care about was the two hours i'm never going to get back don't waste your time go catch up on a dentist appointment instead
0	a woman who deals in art starts to have a passionate love affair with a man named john they make love everywhere they go and they play sexual games the problem i had was that was all they did there was no plot at all to this movie or i just didn't see it the hot erotic passion was the best thing about this movie but i wanted something else to happen perhaps he could have been a serial killer or she could have had a secret i just needed something and all that there was was a bunch of love making scenes not that's it was bad or anything i just wanted more things to happen in the movie perhaps a coworker was sleeping with him too anything i was greatly upset that this was all that there was mickey rourke was so hot back then i wonder what happened
0	i can't really see how anyone can have any interest whatsoever in seeing this movie a woman meets a man he wants to play games she too but only until she realise what she's missing she leaves and that's it really it took 9 1 2 weeks before elizabeth kim basinger left john mickey rourke she should have left him after 30 minutes and ended our misery
0	don't waste your time the plot drags the characters are wooden and uninteresting the motivations of their actions are completely indecipherable kept waiting for the romantic or comedy to occur and nothing happened worse yet the love letter isn't even romantic but sounds like it was written by someone desperate to make a deadline did i mention that the plot twist which we saw coming from 15 mins into the movie was hollywood clever meaning it is intended to shock but given the hollywood mentality does nothing of the sort and instead is vaguely offensive br br it's not even worth the 2 to rent don't bother seeing it
0	the only reason i bought the dvd was to satisfy my curiosity about the scene when liz kim basinger strips to the music of joe cocker you can leave your hat on that was the best part of the whole film not because the scene was any good only the song i am not saying it was a terribly bad film just not that good disappointingly so br br especially when the exploration of male and female sexuality could have been expanded upon instead of expanding on the dangerous side of lust obsession and infatuation and where it can lead to it drags its heels from one idea to the other for example when john played by rourke is able to leave her on the top of the big wheel liz kim basinger is unconvincingly rattled at the bizarre experience courtesy of john's sense of humor but less rattled at his sexual exploits involving the ever willing liz and like one reader mentioned that for a woman to enjoy sex she has to experience the dangerous side is unconvincing this dangerous side is not exploited enough in the film and one gets a sense of anti climax from the view point that it all could go horribly wrong the theme of bondage makes an appearance often but only just takes one to the brink of danger and then all goes well is the film sending the message out that this kind of foreplay is fine if the film was making a point about the pitfalls of bondage and by extension the ugly ramifications of sad masochism then maybe it would make a good moral point instead the film awkwardly jumps from one sizzling scene of rourke feeding basinger and her to another in a film that could have been good it falls flat on its face because it does not expand and extend the themes the film is maybe trying to relate thus for me it doesn't have a plot nor a theme just a mixture of ideas
0	kim basinger and mickey rourke star in this controversial story of a wall street exec and an art gallery employee who hook up and begin a very experimental sexual relationship while the acting by rourke and basinger is ok the flim doesn't allow their characters to truly form allegedly there was a lot of film left on the cutting room floor that delved deeper into the characters and the effects of the relationship on them basinger's character considering suicide that would have made the characters more involved for the viewer as is it is a glossy well produced with mtv style editing piece of soft core voyeurism 4 of 10
0	this is high gloss soft porn a boring soap opera concentrating on one thing sex they actually made sex boring sad to say because i defy you to watch this casually and tell me what the storyline was what this is is an excuse for kim bassinger to show off her great body and for mickey rourke to smirk a lot that's it rourke's smugness is so bad it's sickening and bassinger despite the great figure looks cheap more than beautiful br br kudos to the photographer for some nice closeup shots and some wonderful color but the story is so weak no character development and no plot it's unable to compensate let's face it this movie was made for only reason to titillate male viewers on that level it probably succeeded if i recall it's why i gave it a look being a fan of bassinger's looks but i actually expected a story too br br those trying to pass this off as arty and something deeper than soft porn are only fooling themselves
0	what's up with this movie does mr lyne and his writers think that a sado masochistic fling between two screwed up yuppies can carry a feature length movie maybe if it had some comedic elements which is doesn't at least intentionally or there were some additional dramatic elements which there are not or maybe if it was hardcore no it's simply the history of the affair a chronology of a bunch of r rated trysts ho hum who cares nine ½ weeks deserves every razzie nomination it got it's a loser br br and by the way what's up with roger ebert and his rave review where was his head back in 1986
0	honestly buying this movie was a waste of money it's one of the most boring movies i have seen in my life the only part i liked is the ending but it's so slow that not even the fantastic ending can save this movie
0	it's nice to see julie andrews trying a straight dramatic role here something she hadn't done in awhile but her character of judith wise they didn't try to pass her off as a has the old refined manners and tomboyish hairstyle of yore and andrews enacts 'grown up' as any other actress would interpret frigid it's a surprisingly bland drama set in barbados involving omar sharif not the liveliest leading man around not even in 1974 hoping to make andrews a spy while also slowly leading her into the proverbial bedroom unmemorable outing does have some camp value the james bond like credits at the beginning are a cheesy hoot as for julie she's quiet and contemplative but that doesn't do much for the audience or for the film blake edwards paces the freakin' thing like a funeral from
0	you know that this film is in serious trouble when the best acting job is the support role played by arnold schwarzenegger while this was still relatively early in his career and he wasn't the best actor compared to brigitte nielsen he's sir john gielgud in fact this film proves that the only reason she got much of any attention were her boobs and because she was involved with the incredibly self destructive football player mark so instead of this being her break out film this and a beverly hills cop movie mark about as high as she went in her one note career it was obvious too that the financing wizards gave up on this movie as well because the supporting cast aside from arnold is pretty lame and the script is dull dull dull fans looking for another conan movie would no doubt be very disappointed in this slow and uninvolving film
0	corny and some really bad acting but for a golan globus film about right on par saw this movie back in 1985 mostly because i liked sword and sorcery films what was i thinking arnold is in it playing a high lord trying to make sure an ancient talisman is destroyed before it blows up the world brigitte nielsen is the title character who at the time was sly's girl and a pretty bad actress movie producers like to cast playboy type women who cant act in low budget b movies brigitte cheeses it up as sonya and arnold acts wooden as lord there is also bergman who was in the original conan movie as valeria here she plays the evil queen an obvious camp to her conan role and then one of the most irritating child actors onscreen ernie reyes as prince who should have been slapped hard and sent to bed what a little irritating some of the swordfights arent too bad but the music really sucks special effects are cheap and look very 70's like the explosion of the evil queen's castle at the climax of the movie br br overall a very low par film but b movie film buffs might like it for its campiness
0	after a long hard night being partied away at the walkabout in i needed a pick me up my throat hurt my wallet was empty and i ended up chatting to a drug addict at a bus stop trying to sell me some petrol today i watched red sonja and i can honestly say that i felt much better last night than i do right now brigitte nielsen leads a bunch of ass kicking warriors in various shapes and sizes to recover a green rock from some evil queen whose motives are never fully explained yep it's that good br br red sonja isn't in a genre known for great films until peter jackson came along with a certain oscar winning trilogy in fact the best swords and sorcery film i could think of before lord of the rings was george lucas's kiddie friendly willow perhaps in view of this one should go a little easy on this film but i can't it's poorly written badly acted with the exception of paul smith who's just average and dreadfully put together the film is as convincing as an episode of the flintstones with costumes and scenery seemingly lifted straight outta considering the comic book source material it is easy to forgive the various plot inconsistencies why sonja insists on saving the most annoying kid in this world or that one is bewildering his personality seems to flick from spoilt brat to polite gentleman at the flick of a switch schwarzenegger displays less charisma than a field full of cows and just goes through the motions a perfect actor for his breakthrough role in the terminator br br it's simple to kick a film when you're down but the fact remains that this is not a good film by any stretch of the imagination when nielsen mourns the death of her sister and schwarzenegger tenderly places his hand on her shoulder to comfort her and then blurts out in that distinctive germanic accent she's dead then you know you're in for a rough ride a few smiles were raised at inappropriate points such as the priestesses of a temple who when sent plunging to their deaths in a hole in the ground seemed to enjoy the experience at least judging from the orgasmic moans that seemed to echo around the place if you have to watch an eighties fantasy film that wasn't porn watch willow but never take that as a ringing endorsement for the real thing take yourself to your local multiplex and show peter jackson what a great job he did with lord of the rings trust me 11 oscars really does mean it's a great film unlike bloody titanic
0	possible spoilers as peter jackson has so brilliantly shown in his lord of the rings' trilogy it is quite possible to make good films even great ones within the heroic fantasy genre the genre has distinguished literary antecedents dating back to the mediaeval romances particularly the arthurian legends upon which tolkien and other authors have drawn lord of the rings' apart however it is difficult to think of any other sword and sorcery films which are any good i would agree with the reviewer who said that the best of a bad bunch was ron howard's and even that achieved little distinction other than that of being a merely mediocre film as opposed to a positively bad one red however cannot achieve the even more modest distinction of being simply a bad film as opposed to an appalling one br br as with many of the plot elements in red are derived from the lord of the rings' an evil ruler seeks to gain control of an artefact with supernatural powers in order to achieve an ambition of world domination but is thwarted by an assorted group of heroes the film set in the age a barbaric era in the earth's remote past starts with the villain of the piece the wicked queen making unwelcome sexual advances to the heroine sonja when these are rebuffed not a woman to take no for an answer reacts by murdering sonja's parents and brother in 1985 it was presumably still considered politically correct not only to make the chief villain a woman but also to make one of the main motives for her villainy frustrated lesbian lust br br next move is to capture the talisman a sort of fluorescent green soccer ball with magical powers by slaughtering the whole of the scantily dressed female priesthood charged with protecting it just as they are about to destroy it because they feel its powers have become too dangerous among the dead is sonja's sister her sole surviving relative sonja herself however has not been idle but has enrolled in a martial arts academy from which she graduates summa cum laude and sets out to avenge herself along the way she teams up with a heroic wandering swordsman king resembling tolkien's aragorn prince the spoilt child ruler of a kingdom that has fallen to powers and loyal servant the rest of the film is fairly predictable as sonja and her allies try to overthrow and prevent the destruction of the world threatened by the out of control talisman br br just what is it that makes this film so bad well the acting for a start arnold schwarzenegger as gives the sort of typical wooden poker faced performance that became his trademark at least in the early part of his career complete with heavy foreign accent compared with brigitte nielsen as the heroine however he looks like laurence olivier miss nielsen seems to have had even worse language difficulties delivering every line in the mechanical voice of someone who has just completed lesson three of a teach yourself english by course one wonders if she was hired for the role just to make arnie look good by comparison the other characters while not conducting their own private struggles against the english language are simply cartoonish caricatures especially prince who must be one of the most obnoxious screen youngsters ever br br an even worse fault than the bad acting however is the film's almost complete lack of imagination this is a particularly glaring fault in a fantasy film as films of this genre need to rely on their imaginative power in order to persuade the audience to suspend the natural feelings of disbelief that would be provoked by a fantastic plot when we watch peter jackson's masterpiece we can persuade ourselves at least for the next three hours that we are in middle earth that elves wizards and hobbits do exist and that the fate of the world really does depend upon the destruction of a magic ring when we watch red we are persuaded of nothing except that we are watching a bunch of actors with bad accents fighting one another on a hillside for possession of a lime green football br br this lack of imagination even starts with the film's title the british science fiction author brian aldiss when challenged about the exotic names given to his characters replied that there was little point in creating a fictional alien society with its own distinctive culture if you were going to spoil the effect by calling the hero joe admittedly tolkien was able br br to get away with giving the name sam to one of his main characters but that was because hobbits were supposed to be reassuringly familiar the middle earth equivalent of tweedy pipe smoking englishmen similarly giving the heroine of a tale ostensibly set in a long gone barbaric age a common girls' name like which is how the name is pronounced is about as appropriate as calling her betty' or mary jane' br br the film seems to have been made on a very small budget which makes me wonder why they bothered at all fantasy needs to be done convincingly or not at all it was obviously shot in a remote mountain area with little or no attempt to suggest a distinctive culture the few buildings we see such as the temple of the talisman or palace are obviously cheap sets we learn that capital city has been destroyed by using the power of the talisman but we do not actually see this event all we see is what might be a thunderstorm taking place on the other side of a hill at first you wonder how sonja intends to overthrow an entire kingdom with only a few allies but when you see how small an army has at her disposal it becomes more understandable when an earthquake threatens to destroy the palace you wonder if this is the talisman at work or merely a crew member inadvertently leaning against the set if we can enjoy this film for nothing else we can at least enjoy it for its inadvertent humour a fine example of the so bad it's funny school of filmmaking ed wood would have been proud of this one if it had been shown on californian television the night before the recall election gray davis would still be governor 2 10
0	possible spoilers from dreamworks and director peter chan the love is a romantic comedy that takes place in a picturesque new england coastal village where single mom helen kate capshaw owns a quaint little bookstore one day at work helen happens across an anonymous letter the love of the title that has somehow become lodged beneath the cushions of a reading couch upon reading the amorous prose therein she believes it has been written to her purposely placed in the couch for her to find and for reasons of her own thinks she knows the identity of her secret admirer inadvertently however helen leaves the letter out where her employee janet ellen degeneres finds it believes it to be for her and of course thinks she knows who wrote it circumstances then bring it into the possession of a young man named johnny tom everett scott who thinks helen has written the letter to him and before it all gets sorted out you can only imagine the hilarious situations into which all of those involved have been cast and i do mean imagine because the way this movie plays out the audience gets little more from it than what it brings along itself there are two specific areas in which this romantic comedy fails miserably it simply isn't very romantic and it's not funny and that is a potent combination that causes this film to misfire practically from the opening credits once the setting and main character helen have been established it basically goes nowhere for the next ninety minutes or so by the time you finally find out who actually wrote the letter and to whom you could care less rounding out the cast is tom selleck blythe danner julianne nicholson gloria stuart and geraldine mcewan it's a shame to see such talent wasted on such claptrap as this and looking bad in the balance kate capshaw who usually brightens up the screen just by showing up looks tired here while selleck appears to have just come in off a three day bender that's lasted a week ellen degeneres actually comes away looking the best of the bunch it is said that the journey is often a more heady experience than the destination in the case of the love letter ' however it would have been best for all concerned if everybody had just stayed home in the first place i rate this one 1 10
0	i remember the trailer for this infamously weak spin off of conan i saw the movie years later and laughed my head off unintentionally poor nielson her career never had a chance thanks to cobra and red sonja the plot of the movie is this sonja brigitte nielson hails from a tribe of female warriors who were killed off by an evil queen bergman queen steals the orb the female warriors were protecting and uses it to destroy each town she passes by sonja goes on a hunt for queen and later finds out that killed her parents on her quest she reluctantly joins arnold schwarzenegger an arrogant prince named ernie reyes jr and his bumbling idiotic servant paul l smith together they go on a hunt for queen and the orb the acting is sub par and the action scenes are soso i mean neilson looks so emotionally distant for someone who lost her whole family as well as her female comrades sonja doesn't look at all arnold is playing his usual stoic role and ernie reyes jr what an annoying snot nosed brat he was in this movie the moronic manservant had more personality than these guys the action scenes are the only redeeming moments of the movie even though sometimes they fall flat the scene where they fight the mechanical sea creature made me laugh till my ribs ached the dialog is a hoot also its as if the screenwriter thought that nobody was going to take the movie seriously so he gave everybody stupid lines to work with i can only recommend this movie to you if you like your epic movies extra campy anyone else don't bother
0	honestly this movie is weak very weak only capital character can something she's work like on bad engine so if you like red haired valkyries see that but better find picture of brigitte as sonja and put it on desktop it will save of disappointments well arnold also do his deal but it definitely not best his role other characters bad is not that word sword fights monsters ridiculous plot is really shame why was necessary rape she especially we don't see it br br anyway movie is weak though worse movies exist without main characters it would be just and if somebody even discusses it maybe
0	okay i admit i like brigitte neilsen in an unhealthy way i just have a thing for tall women with swords there i said it br br what's wrong with the movie just about every mistake you can make was made you take a successful movie series conan and you drag it through the mud with a bad script bad casting bad effects and the worst thing of all you put a cute kid in there for comic relief this kind of thing almost killed the indiana jones series ya know cute kids are for disney movies not real movies neilsen at least took the movie seriously even though it seems nobody else did the plot had schwarzenegger repeatedly pulling red sonja's fat out of the fire and that undercut her character considerably a warrior woman doesn't need a dude to get her out of a mess thats her job to not re use the conan character in this movie was a crime sheesh the movie never set the proper mood and its pacing was rather disjointed and sloppy unlike conan the barbarian which had multiple story lines that flowed gracefully when it comes to fantasy movies its okay to have cheesy costumes its okay to have harryhausen style animation its okay to have silly exorbitant sets that make no sense but to have a horrible script is unforgivable br br this movie could have been a classic but the script felt like it was written by a 12 year old
0	recap since the warrior queen raised and slaughtered most of sonja's family she has trained in the art of sword fighting now has taken a very powerful talisman that threatens to destroy the world if not destroyed killing sonja's sister in the process now sonja is out for revenge and to save the world along the way she meets the very conan like but not conan no the child prince and his bodyguard falcon at first sonja declines all help but is later forced to accept it and together they go to save the world br br comments when you watch a movie like this and you think that it is the story that the is the best element in this movie the movie is in big trouble because 1 a movie like this should draw its strength upon good swordfights and effects and 2 the story is really really bad it is simple and uncomplicated and really offers nothing in way of character development or even suspense it is predictable and boring and the obvious couple sonja and has no chemistry at all and the kid is just annoying and most of the scenes is drawn out so long that they become boring though the movie is not very long it has not material enough to fill its time and so back to point 1 the fighting is slow uneventful and really bad it clearly shows most fighters clearly blocking the opponents strokes far ahead of the opponent has even begun to strike in my honest opinion i believe most kids fighting with sticks creates more exciting fights playing knights than this movie did all in all this is a really bad spin off that should be avoided by all who liked the conan movies br br 2 10
0	when dubbed into another language let's face it neither nielsen nor schwarzenegger are really good actors when it comes to dialog and given the campy lines they are supposed to utter this is a loose loose situation any type of voice over is sure to be an improvement and it actually is at least in the german version br br but that is only a minor point the acting is bad the speeded up combat sequences are pathetic nielsen couldn't use her sword to fight her way out of a wet paper bag this becomes painfully obvious when compared to the fluidity of motion exhibited by the kid who has had some martial arts training no doubt and to the athleticism shown off by bergman br br schwarzenegger does his conan thing nothing new here br br some of the visuals are nice i'll have to grant that the dragon skeleton bridge looks cool but more often than not the plaster is all too evident br br overall the movie isn't worth seeing even the is better than this although only marginally i would have much rather seen bergman as red sonja as she was originally supposed to be but i doubt that that could have saved this movie oh well br br 3 10
0	this film was released soon after the conan films a sort of female conan red sonja played by sylvester ex wife brigitte nielsen she's not a very good actress unfortunately as proved in rocky iv and cobra the whole film feels cheap but strangely arnold appears in this film but not as conan although he looks acts and fights like conan from the two conan films i don't know what thats about anyway he only appears about every twenty minutes and doesn't hang around for long maybe arnold filmed this in his time off from filming conan the destroyer or something anyway the film is way to slow and boring for an action film skip this and watch conan the barbarian instead
0	this in my opinion is a very poor movie that advertises arnold schwarzenegger as starring despite him being the co star only to sell more copies obviously taking influence from the similarly themed movies this film fails to prove as enjoyable and eventually fails to entertain at all br br bridgette neilsen stars as sonja a beautiful woman who has been given unbelievable strength by a ghostly figure after her village was pillaged her family killed and she herself raped by the soldiers of queen bergman is a tyrant queen who wants control over the barbaric world and seeks out a talisman protected by sonja's sister to do it after discovering what has happened sonja sets out for revenge and at the same time she must save the world from the wrath of schwarzenegger the master of the talisman sets out to protect her whether she wants him there or not br br the first major problem with this movie is the beginning the events leading up to the point where sonja receives her powers could have easily made a good ten to fifteen minutes of enjoyable film however the beginnings are rushed into what seems like a quick one minute previously ' segment from a television show had they actually made these events part of the story and cut out some of the filler later on they may have been able to start redeeming this movie but unfortunately they didn't i wonder why director richard fleischer has only currently directed two movies since red sonja br br this film also features some of the most annoying characters in history like ernie reyes jr who is a stupid character and just adds an over abundance of camp to the movie which sometimes works but in this case fails miserably he was quite obviously written into the movie for some comic relief but with the overall absurdity of the film anyway this was another costly mistake for br br for all it's faults there were some good fight scenes involving both neilsen and arnie which are worth noting but these are nowhere enough to save this turkey the acting is about as good as it gets for movies of this quality and even arnie didn't seem too bothered about his performance i don't recommend this film at all to me it's a waste of an hour and a half my rating for – 3 10
0	i figure the company that made this movie wanted people to think of the conan movies but unfortunately for the ones who made this one it does just that you will be thinking man the conan movies were pretty cool this one is totally boring and sucks the story who cares it isn't going to help you like this movie more or less as it just seems like a really cheap film arnold doesn't look like he belongs in this one why he agreed to play the role is beyond me well probably for the money i just love the monster in the water that turns out to be a machine lame this movie is just plain and simply terrible
0	i watched this movie or part of it in hope that it would be fun to laugh at how bad it was but it soon became clear that this was just plain silly for one you have the worst acting ever the lead actress nielsen is terrible uninspired and hardly even attractive and she certainly do not look like the female warrior who could easily kick some veteran warrior kings butt but she does and whats with the feminist attitude it's plain hypocrisy for one her family was killed by a women then she joins some warrior school or something so she can learn how to fight men she then joins up with a fat servant and his child king whose city was destroyed by those two characters are just plain stupid and destroys the little of atmosphere that the movie managed to create after this i could not take any more of nielsen painful acting and the stupid clichés and lack of some real action br br schwarzenegger as was the only part of this movie which actually made it remotely watchable br br i liked the conan movie but this is pure crap
0	red sonja is flawed weak and lacking even the camp ness isn't good br br there are only two good things about red sonja the costumes even though the red sonja costume is ridiculous it's ironic that a girl who is even afraid to be touched by men because she was raped still choose to wear so few little clothes even when it rains and the music by ennio morricone still the movie is somewhat watchable but certainly not recommendable br br the story is extremely simple and they didn't even bother to make it interesting the story could have been forgotten if there had been some good action sequences and some humor both are present but are seriously flawed in many ways the movie takes itself too serious and tries to impress but fails completely br br brigitte nielsen is an horrible leading lady i don't know who's accent is worse hers or arnie's and on top of that she can't act there is also absolutely no chemistry between the two characters which makes the love story totally unbelievable even worse was bergman as the main villain who acts more poorly than a paper bag ronald lacey was somewhat good in his role but my god he looked horrible he changed so much since his only well known role in raiders of the lost ark maybe it had something to do with his illness which claimed his life in 1991 and by the way what was with all those raiders of the lost ark actors in this movie next to ronald lacey pat roach terry richards and appeared in a role it seemed like some kind of raiders of the lost ark reunion br br the only times when the movie gets a bit interesting is during the sword fights even though some of them are needless and weak br br only really watchable for the fans of the fantasy genre br br 4 10
0	a movie about a mysterious love letter that puts a small town on its ear should be fun romantic and easy going entertainment instead this movie is more about things not said and not expressed so it gets to the point where you are grateful anything is said at all even if the dialogue is not exactly quotable br br spoiler br br when the relationship that says the most is the one least seen on the screen danner and mcewan you know you're in trouble but those two actresses are a very welcome sight in a movie screaming for some genuine people br br end of spoiler br br capshaw is given the task of creating a character from not much and she is not entirely successful like i said above the theme seems to be repression and i understand that is an element of life and love but i don't want to see a movie about it either at least not this one br br i can't recommend this at all despite the very talented cast who are left to fend for themselves
0	red sonja is a career step in the wrong direction for arnold schwarzenegger having made a couple of sword 'n' sorcery films as conan he had moved onto slightly more serious acting roles in films like the terminator and commando only to make a mystifying return to the sword 'n' sorcery genre for this 1985 debacle it's hard to figure out why he bothered as this is weaker than both conan films in every conceivable department allegedly this was to have been the third conan film but for one reason or another the emphasis was shifted onto the leading female character the titular red head leaving poor old arnold to play an incredibly dull supporting role spare a thought too for director richard fleischer who had given the world classics like 20 000 leagues under the sea fantastic voyage the boston strangler and 10 rillington place in this his penultimate film fleischer also has taken a gigantic career step backwards br br evil queen bergman wants to rule the world and she needs a priceless and powerful talisman to do so she and her brutish army storm a keep populated by priestesses and steal the said talisman massacring the helpless priestesses as they go one of the dead priestesses has a sister named sonja brigitte nielsen a fiery red headed warrior who upon hearing of her sister's death swears revenge upon the evil sonja rides across the land in search of lair along the way she picks up travelling companions in the shape of a boy prince ernie reyes jr and his bodyguard paul smith she also meets the muscular warrior conan sorry i mean who offers to join her in her quest initially sonja doesn't want the help of arnold schwarzenegger preferring instead to prove that she can confront and defeat her enemies alone but eventually she warms to him and accepts his assistance br br red sonja is a staggeringly poor film all the more so when one muses that it was made in 1985 when the sword 'n' sorcery genre was close to its end it seems so simplistic and amateurish that one could easily mistake it for an early example of its kind the performances are poor on the whole ranging from bergman's embarrassingly ott villain to unbelievably irritating spoilt brat to schwarzenegger's wooden and unenthusiastic hero nielsen is slightly better as the heroine presumably full of enthusiasm at the thought of being in her first starring role but she is let down very badly by the stupidity of clive and george macdonald fraser's script the film is riddled with goofs including a scene where schwarzenegger is seen in close up hacking down bad guys but in a long shot in the same sequence there isn't a corpse in sight technically it is very inept too with sub standard special effects and appallingly mechanical monsters there are a few compensations such as ennio morricone's enjoyable music morricone spent a great deal of the '80s providing good music for awful films e g the island treasure of the four and another compensation is giuseppe lensing of the locations in fact much of the time it's a hell of a lot more gratifying to look at the lovely scenery than the actors standing in the foreground there were very few sword 'n' sorcery films after red sonja so in some ways it might go down in history as the film which destroyed its own genre
0	it is sad that schwarzenegger was the best thing about this production especially considering the fact that he had not yet come into his own and was still as stiff as cardboard in his dialog delivery br br actually this isn't as bad as some critics say but it isn't good either it is amusing and does play like a poor country cousin of the conan line making it a conflicted uneven poor work and speaking of poor the quality is terrible due to the era in which this was filmed but that is not the only reason br br the story herein is inferior even to the conan line but moreover it loses itself in the red sonja must be dominated by big strong schwarzenegger ploy and entirely forgets its purpose if it ever had one br br it's entertaining but in a low budget guilty pleasure b kind of way br br it rates a 4 2 10 from br br the fiend
0	sometimes intentionally campy at other times unintentionally silly like in the opening scene where a woman is informed that she has been raped and that her family has been slaughtered just for the sake of exposition this film is ultimately neither funny enough nor competent enough as a straightforward adventure story to be really enjoyable i'll leave you to decide which may be the highlight but the low point is probably the fight with a silly metallic dragon brigitte nielsen was a good choice for sonja with her fresh face and her firm slightly muscular body and i think that her dark red hair suits her perfectly but schwarzenegger gives one of his few colorless performances as 1 2
0	have just seen this film for the first time after purchasing it on dvd br br it comes across as a cheap attempt to cash in on the two conan movies br br unfortunately this film didn't appear to have the same budget as the conan films and hence some of the sets and effects aren't as flash and some scenes seem hurried br br nielsen is ok to look at but unfortunately she couldn't act if a gun was put to her head br br arnie's supporting role looked like it was done as a favor to director fleischer who also directed conan the destroyer maybe arnie wasn't confident that he would go on to headline films like predator total recall t2 etc br br some of the female guardians of the talisman early in the film looked like they were struggling to lift their swords and the looks on their faces suggested they were having great fun making this film i couldn't be so jovial if i was fighting for my life br br all this aside this film required very little concentration to watch and was mildly entertaining i've seen a lot worse two stars
0	in the mid 1970s my nyc apt building was finally wired for cable tv and since showtime instead of hbo was the only premium channel offered showing recent movies i signed up for it being a writer and night owl by nature i soon discovered the channel was showing movies late at night and until the wee hours of the morning i'd never even heard of most of them american independent films and foreign films that had never been given a u s theatrical release many of them had recognizable star casts and respectable directors and thanks to showtime i discovered many first rate films i and other showtime subscribers would never else have had the opportunity to see most of these cinematic were indeed dogs but often so bad they were unintentionally hilarious one night showtime unveiled a little italian made gem called redneck filmed in 1972 given a limited european release in 1973 even though the movie had never been released in the u s the mpaa rating was listed as an 'r' since the director was one sylvio the director who made his name with the glorious georgy girl and the three leads were mark oliver lester fabio testi and telly savalas i decided to give it a try and found myself nailed to my tv screen in disbelief for 89 minutes as i recall savalas and testi played two criminals the former a raging maniac who in one stomach churning scene casually sent a german family to their deaths by nudging their trailer off a cliff thereby plunging to the wilderness depths below so far so bad then out of nowhere testi as the nice psycho and lester all of 14 when the movie was made are seen both nude in a men's room testi sneaking peeks at the kid's body while shaving and poor confused lester fixated on close ups of naked butt as a not yet jaded member of the movie industry and a card carrying liberal i was as much against censorship then as i am today the entire movie made me queasy and being the early '70s when i seen everything in the anything goes movies of that liberated era including the uncut version of altman's that cold day in the park a real jaw until it was trimmed for an 'r' rating and would have spelled the end for altman's career had he not next come up with something called m a s h i still wonder if anyone else except me ever saw redneck and was appalled as i was trashing the actors and movie going audiences is joy maladjusted filmmakers have been merrily indulging in since the beginning of time but leeringly exploiting a highly respected and talented child actor mr lester at a time when he was beginning to make the difficult transaction from child to adult actor and i'm sure his film offers had thereby dwindled to meretricious junk like redneck mr you should be hanging your head in shame incidentally i was soon to make friends with actors who had appeared in future undistinguished efforts they both despised him surprise
0	had clearly not seen the film in decades and his memory is appalling his attempts to paint the mark lester shaving scene as suspect are utterly erroneous as are his incorrect comments about the bad guy sneaking peeks at the kid's body lester is clothed for the entire time the man is in the room and the man barely gives him a glance br br the scene is a crude attempt to show lester's innocent curiosity about the man's body br br like everything in this film it's badly done but nothing more br br even comments about character who casually sent a german family to their deaths by nudging their trailer off a cliff is nonsense it was a single woman she was already dead and she was in a car br br i suggest that review says far far more about his own far from liberal mindset than it does about this valueless film br br the only reason i even bothered to look it up was out of curiosity to see if it was made before or after kojak br br the film is a worthless piece of 70's trash but review of it is the worst kind of slander he wraps up his review in pseudo intellectual facts but the only fact is that he is plain wrong on almost every factual matter he discusses br br i can only assume that saw exactly what he looked for which is disturbing now he can return to burning copies of catcher in the rye
0	i know a lot of people would claim certain films as 'the worst of all time' but i think redneck stakes a claim for this prize a combination of quite dreadful acting from both mark lester and telly savales and plot progression that defies belief br br on telly was he drunk when he acted in this he seems to play a slurring laughing lunatic with no sense of conviction maybe he mixed his medication with his whiskey i don't know br br on mark lester a performance more wooden than a carpenter's workshop his clipped british tones don't belong in this film and his transformation from sheltered teenager to gangster's apprentice in 24 hours is mad and the strip scene with mosquito does not have any relevance to the plot at all perhaps the director likes this sort of thing br br plot logic when memphis and mosquito ambush the car at the beginning why doesn't mark lester's mother do or say anything to get her son out of the car before the loonies drive it off she just lets them all go without saying a word on the other hand redneck has to be seen you won't believe how bad it is otherwise
0	definitely not your typical redneck just never worked for me the movie tells the story of a jewel heist gone wrong and a young boy who is inadvertently kidnapped in the process in their attempt to get away the robbers leave a bloody trail of death in their wake as they hatch a plan to ransom the boy the plan is never carried off as the robbers are more intent on getting to france and the boy is intent on staying with them while i could cite a number of problems i had with the movie i'll focus on the most obvious – the character memphis played by telly savalas from his work in the dirty dozen and heroes to other italian films like crime boss to his most remembered role as kojak savalas was a winner i've always thought of him as one uber cool customer unfortunately savalas is almost unwatchable in redneck did the director turn on the camera and instruct him to act as psychotic as possible it might not have been too bad had his actions been done within the context of a plot i cared about but here he seems to be acting bizarre for sake of being bizarre it's appears to be random lunacy and what's with that accent savalas might have been a lot of things but southern isn't one of them he sounds completely ridiculous even attempting the accent beyond that i found little of interest in the rest of the movie as i indicated the plot never drew me in i just didn't care about what was going on and the notion that the boy is so quickly attracted to the criminal lifestyle doesn't ring true as for the other actors mark lester is almost as bad as savalas and the usually reliable franco nero isn't a whole lot better three name actors and not a good performance between them to make matters worse i believe the director filmed many of the night scenes with nothing more than the glow from his watch to light the shots i couldn't tell what was going on characters i hate a plot i don't care about and a production values that failed – little wonder i've given redneck a 3 10
0	i actually went into this film with some expectations not because i thought the film sounded particularly good but because i'm a fan of italian exploitation flicks and with a cast that sees franco nero and telly savalas starring alongside oliver twist i figured it had to be interesting at least well redneck does have one or two positive things going on but for the most part it's a dull lifeless film that is as ridiculous as it is pointless the plot simply focuses on two criminals nero and savalas who kidnap a young kid oliver the twist in the tale is that the kid realises that he'd have more fun if he gets accepted into the 'gang' telly savalas and franco nero are two actors that have proved they can carry a film on their own on numerous occasions and they do have some memorable moments in this film although really for all the wrong reasons savalas in particular gives a silly portrayal of the 'bad' criminal the plot doesn't flow badly but since nothing interesting happens that's not really a positive point and doesn't save from the film from being mediocre overall i can't recommend this film it may appeal to some for its cult value but it didn't do anything for me
0	this proved to be a rare case of a made with british funding unfortunately the result is undistinguished except by its exceeding unpleasantness and borderline camp approach despite stars and director the former is led by a wooden franco nero and an ultra hammy telly savalas as a couple of would be robbers if anyone is able to believe either actor – who generally exude cool – as a duo of bumbling crooks he's more gullible than i am br br their goes awry ending in murder and saddled with cases of cutlery instead of jewels – however the mismatched criminals see an opening to their dilemma when they inadvertently the son of a british diplomat a miscast lester who even gets to kick trigger happy savalas where it hurts at one point still they never actually ransom him and their sole intent is to cross the border into france tagging along with them is nero's girlfriend a wasted ely soon enough though she's had enough and decides to run away while the others are sleeping the crazy savalas notices this and following the girl kills her in the meantime nero and lester have woken up – the former thinks his accomplices may have double crossed him so he goes on the lam with the boy in tow after a brief spell at a rich old lady's country estate which features totally gratuitous rear nudes by both nero and lester savalas catches up with them they continue their trek where the trio run into a family of german campers the situation degenerates to the point where savalas shuts them inside their trailer and tosses the lot into the river – though he's badly hurt in the process himself typically it all ends with the getting killed just as they're about to reach the border br br the film therefore contains most of the genre's typical elements – sleaze sadism violence chases the aftermath of the opening robbery when the getaway car causes havoc in the city's narrow back streets and even disrupts a funeral procession is downright farcical etc one mildly interesting aspect to it is that by the end lester himself is seen to have been definitely irrevocably marked by the experience – coming to feel excitement when an act of violence is committed
0	this is a movie about people receiving a love letter nobody knows who sent in and nobody knows who it is for a good cast headed up by kate capshaw tom selleck and ellen degeneres this however is a completely dopey plot as an example the capshaw character one of the leading citizens of a small town in new england takes up with an immature college student who works in her bookstore during the summer she chooses him instead of tom selleck the town firefighter who is crazy about her if that isn't the epitome of stupidity i don't know what is just an example of how dopey this movie is watching kate capshaw jog is a pleasure but you immediately realize that she has never a day in her life another obviously dopey part of a dopey movie
0	i suggest that in the future any movie made by the sci fi channel and subsequently released on dvd must say that it was indeed made by such channel as i would not buy this stuff if i had known this fact not that this was all bad but when you have fade out for commercials in the middle of your movie it just ruins the flow of said film this in turn makes the movie rather more boring this one had an interesting story however the light hearted and extremely generic soundtrack distracted one from the film as did most of the bad actors with the exception of dien and linda carter the story vampires are on the attack in south america of course the rules of vampire movies are not in effect which the usually aren't in any of the movies about vampires i have seen lately with the exception of the blade trilogy group of soldiers are sent down to battle said squad another team is sent to meet up with the team and to track down the ex wife of one of the soldiers why she is not just his wife who knows as this part of the plot really goes no where still we get an interesting boat ride some nice jungle scenery and a lot of blood this fact however does not save the film from being way to jerky in its presentation and really dull seeming at times i don't know maybe it was the cgi blood and smoke and whatever they have to make cgi now even though old effects look better and don't cost that much more i mean cheap italian zombie movies could do a bullet hole without cgi why can't we now
0	i like vampire movies i like b movies i love b vampire movies but this one has nearly nothing going for it some of the acting is horrible especially by 3 of the male leads the story is not particular interesting at a relative short 88 minutes it still seems too long and you'll find yourself fast forwarding quite a bit there are an awful lot of kung fu vampire attacks sound cool it isn't when it's done on a low budget it gets repetitive very quickly there is some minor blood and gore nothing to get excited about there some good wire work where you can see the wires it has some good landscapes being filmed in puerto rico br br not worth the rental
0	slayer starts in the south american rain forest where captain hawk casper van dien his men are attacked by a bunch of vampires they barely manage to escape with their lives jump forward six months later hawk is called to see colonel weaver lynda carter who informs him there has been other reported sightings of vampires that his ex wife her dr laurie williams jennifer o'dell has gone out there on an expedition to study beetles worried she ask's hawk to take a squad of soldiers back to south america officially provide back up to captain grieves kevin his men while at the same time unofficially look for laurie not get killed by the vampires who have decided to venture out of the caves into the civilised world br br edited written directed by kevin vanhook this is yet another poorly made sci fi channel original which just isn't very good in any respect the humourless script has nothing going for it as far as i could see it's one of those modern vampire films which decides to pick choose the 'traditional' vampire film lore rules it wants to use like these vampires can be killed with stakes through the heart have fangs but at the same time can freely walk around in sunlight they don't sleep in coffins the film moves along at a reasonable pace but it's all very dull bland lifeless the story is poor just rather stupid the character's are terrible the dialogue is forgettable there's very little here to recommend slayer also tries to have some sort of ecological message as the head vampire claims they are only starting to kill human beings because of their systematic destruction of the rain forest where they have lived in secret for centuries unfortunately there's no conviction there is more like a throwaway line to fill the time than a serious statement there isn't enough exploitation content is a rather unsatisfying way to spend 90 minutes of your time the makers don't even do anything with the jungle setting hell i didn't expect predator 1987 but i hoped for a bit more than this br br director vanhook has made several horror films all of which i have seen have been equally poor i'm sorry but he does nothing here turns in a throughly forgettable looking feeling film there's no atmosphere or tension as for genuine scares forget about it the gore is restrained there are some bitten necks a bit of spraying blood but it's nothing we haven't seen before or has much impact there's also a huge vampire monster creature at the end but it doesn't look that impressive it gets itself killed far too easily br br with a supposed budget of about 2 000 000 this actually had a decent sized amount of money spent on it but it's still a rubbish film it's reasonably well made but nothing special or memorable the acting sucks i'm sorry but that's the way i saw it br br slayer is yet another poor stupid boring made for tv sci fi channel rubbish that i simply can't recommend not to be confused with the rather fine one time british 'video nasty' gore film the slayer 1982 which is 100 times better than this so track that down watch that instead
0	this is a relatively watchable movie 1 after watching ultimate killing machine this one looks good in comparison there are no obvious technical gaffes although the vampiric teeth look odd br br the story line makes no sense let's see an american gi fights vampires comes back to the states and is rehabilitated for seeing vampires his commanding officer is the aunt of his ex wife who happens to be doing some research on the of the south american area where the vampires are huh don't pile on too many coincidences who cares about the head vampire or his daughter or any one in this film the only originality in this is that most of the myths about vampires allergic to crosses and garlic can't come out in the day etc are wrong but they can't be killed except by beheading or a wood wound in the heart yeah right it's obvious they just didn't want to film a dark movie since this is a made for tv film br br it would have been nice for the viewer if they had hired some actors oh they've got lynda carter tv's wonder woman and a big black dude with a tremendously deep voice who snarls appropriately in order to show off his vampire teeth prosthetics but otherwise you would never know they had actually paid people to read these lines br br there is more than enough fight scenes and some vampire biting neck blood but no real violence
0	this is about some vampires who can run around out in the sunlight that are causing some problems down in south america casper van dien is sent in with his team of commandos to investigate the movie opens with van dien co walking through the jungle and there's this huge black guy who just absolutely positively cannot act he speaks all his lines as if he's reading them off the cue cards for the very first time his voice is also so low that well it's positively hilarious great way to get the movie started anyhow they run into some of our vampires shoot them this causes them to appear to die for about 20 seconds and then of course they come back to life van dien notices that one of them was impaled across a tree limb and yells to his buddies to kill them with wood the stunt work must be seen to be believed the vampires are on wires that pull them up trees which is supposed to make them look like they can climb really easily but it just makes them look like they're bouncing around on cords or something br br yeah anyhow later on the huge black dude is down in south america with some guys van dien not included and they're attacked by more vampires it's really too bad these guys never heard of a crossbow because it would seem to be the perfect weapon to kill the little bloodsuckers with but instead they use big old wooden stakes that they try to impale the vampires with by hand the big black dude ends up getting captured and he eventually becomes some big powerful vampire leader van dien ends up battling him later on it doesn't help that all through the movie everyone forgets that if you shoot a vampire they are knocked out for 20 seconds or so which would enable a person to stick a stake in them fairly easily they just try to stick stakes in them in the middle of hand to hand combat yeah not exactly brilliant tactics br br there's a hot babe remember veronica from the lost world tv show yes it's her who also happens to be walking around in the middle of vampire county on some sort of research mission and she also just happens to be van ex wife hey what are the odds it's a shame she's not in the movie a whole lot more than she is will her and casper get back together in the end will van dien defeat the huge black dude who can't act will the circus performer vampires make you laugh through all the numerous action scenes will we hear the three stooges music when somebody does something funny has even lynda carter forgotten how to act in her small cameo she's more convincing in her sleep number bed commercials these questions and more will will be answered if you make it all the way to the end of the movie br br i don't know it might score some points on the so bad it's good scale but that's about it eh it's a bunch of goofs running around in the jungle i guess it's kind of entertaining
0	slayer is a mindless vampire movie with a few twists on an ancient plot special ops team is sent into south america to hunt down blood sucking natives their leader is a real old man who has aged well there's an environmental twist as the vampires are attacking villages because their rain forest and old diet of wild animals is disappearing because of the greedy corporations and farmers lost of fighting and so much blood they just never bothered to wash off the cast for the whole film it looks like they slept in the bloody clothes and caked on blood while each member of the cast brought their own talents it really didn't all click as a film the effects were ok except for the vampires dangling from the buildings on wires if you're looking for lots of blood and violence this is for you
0	man did this film stink it's obvious this film helped spurn hollywood's need to churn out tired sequels to appeal to the masses first of all it came out too quickly and second of all it just didn't have the same hipness which made the original film so successful no new ground was broken and it turned into a rather mundane effort
0	phoned work sick watched this in bed and it was so awful i would have went back to work if i could have gotten out of bed the dog ran off with the remote so i was stuck br br i'm positive hammer was grooming the eldest daughter to become his br br horrendous to watch made me vomit more than what i was doing anyway so there you have it this would be the film that they play in the waiting room of hell before you go in or maybe your stuck in the film for all eternity with the hart kids just remember to take a gun with you
0	first off i would like to make it clear that i voluntarily subject myself to the viewing of terrible movies i have seen what i thought were the worst of the worst in my mind movies could not get any worse than the likes of d e b s leprechaun 6 back 2 tha hood and terror storm until i saw this movie br br the pirate movie without any exaggeration is the worst movie in the world i was informed prior to watching that the movie was indeed awful but i did not believe the allegations believe me when i tell you that this movie is simply an abomination to film br br it starts out with a 3 minute clip of a boat of pirates apparently in the middle of a battle with themselves the end splashes across the screen unfortunately it is not the actual end of the movie the movie is about an unpopular awkwardly nerdy girl named mabel who carries around a ghetto blaster and is attracted to ambiguously homosexual pirate boys she drowns and has a overly drawn out hallucination in which she stars as a scantily dressed skank who falls in love with frederic who happens to have just crawled out of the ocean he might actually be homosexual the pirate king has a ruby and diamond studded it honks and squeaks when he squeezes it br br there is singing in this movie you might have the impression that this is a hilarious musical it isn't trust me they are the worst songs that you've ever heard and by the end of the first original tune you will be searching for objects to pierce your eardrums with br br there are references to other movies in here by references of course i mean obvious rip offs the inclusion of indiana jones inspector clouseau and the lightsaber were in fact anti hilarious br br the dialogue is in its better moments painful to hear the direction is flat out awful and at one point you can see the stunt pad in the scene which isn't very well hidden at all br br in conclusion if there is even the shadow of curiosity in your mind about this movie get rid of it there are times when people want to see how bad something really is but this movie is not worth it put it completely out of your mind and never think about it again if you cherish your mental capacity then i beg of you never ever watch this movie
0	a wallflower is tossed into the sea and dreams herself into a pirate fantasy as a damsel in love with a pirate's apprentice energetic and good natured perhaps but a shoddy enterprise a failed musical send up of the pirates of with a cheap backlot feel wan bubblegum songs and constant leering overacting kristy film career took a real hit after this while leading man christopher atkins cannot get a grip of any particular emotion his voice wobbling about in search of an appropriate tone you have to wonder if that's the best title they could come up with what's the level of wit going to be in the actual script the movie's grease like affection for musicals doesn't gel with its penchant for slapstick a la airplane although works overtime being effervescent and nearly makes the limp handling look endearing for the most part it is an embarrassment 1 2 from
0	the love letter is one of those movies that could have been really clever but they wasted it focusing on a letter wreaking havoc in a small town the movie has an all star cast with nothing to do tom selleck and alice drummond had so recently co starred in the super hilarious in out also about an upset in a small town in which they were both great but here they look as though they're getting drug all over the place i can't tell what the people behind the camera are trying to do here if anything but they sure didn't accomplish anything how tragic that a potential laugh riot got so sorrowfully wasted
0	well now that all of the director productions company's friends and relations have posted their shill reviews after seeing this at various festivals i guess it's time to show reviews written by people who actually paid 10 bucks to see it br br like the director's dear jesse the only other one of his films i have seen loggerheads suffers from a lack of focus and too many ideas crammed into an indie budget i swear this guy might have better luck doing miniseries i kept waiting for the various plot threads to come together but they only intercepted at points blatantly forshadowed in a way obvious to all but the most dense viewer it was like watching a season of lifetime made for tv movies crammed into one long did i say looong sketch on the old carol burnett show maybe an enterprising male suitor could take his girlfriend to see this and then exclaim hey remember all of the chick flicks we went to last year the one about the adoptive mother the one about the gay guy the one about the christian housewife we went to three chick flicks last year so now we have to go see terminator 4 i guess one has to do anything to cast a familiar actor to get funding but what oh what is bonnie hunt doing in this flick she isn't exactly known as a dramatic actress and this attempted performance won't be sending mr oscar to her door i mean speaking of lifetime original movies wasn't valerie bertinelli or farah fawcett available ms hunt has always come off to me as cold maybe she should have played the other mom i wish i would have chosen capote to fill my weekly gay themed indie allowance oh well maybe next week i think there is a good reason why capote is playing at tons of theatres all over the nyc area and this one is playing at only one let the distributors faith in this flick assure to to run in the opposite direction if you don't trust this review
0	at the beginning of we're introduced to three pairs of seemingly unrelated characters to make matters even more confusing we're informed via titles on the screen that the action is taking place in three separate time lines between the years 1999 and 2001 it takes a great deal of time but eventually we come to see how the three pairs are related mark austin a young man in his 20s gay and hiv positive is estranged from his conservative parents elizabeth and rev robert austin br br mark is now a drifter and arrives in beach north carolina a seaside town where he meets george sensitively played by michael kelly a gay motel owner and they eventually become involved with each other meanwhile mark's birth mother grace played by bonnie hunt has come to the point in her life where she has decided to find the son she gave up for adoption when she was 17 similarly mark's adoptive mother also has decided to track her estranged son as she misses him despite the misgivings of her homophobic minister husband br br we're told is based on a true story and that perhaps is its achilles heel director writer tim tries too hard to create scenes fraught with dramatic tension where there is very little to be found take mark and both sensitive souls who have little to disagree about there's some slight tension when grace faces off against an adoption agency director who is forbidden by law to give her any information about her lost son as well as a slight conflict with her mother who denies that she of her when she became pregnant as a teenager no sparks fly either between elizabeth and robert since the good reverend has adamantly insisted from the beginning that he has no intention of reconciling with his son br br is similar to in that the gay couple are the good guys and the straight males for example the beach cop and the reverend are the baddies the biggest letdown of the movie is that there is no interaction and hence no dramatic conflict between mark and either one of his mark is already dead before either the birth or adoptive mother has a chance to reconcile with him br br theme is both a plea for tolerance and an for family members to express their heartfelt feelings before it's too late sentiments are for the most part well intentioned but they do not make for good drama loggerheads moves along at a snail's pace without providing any new revelations or suspense regarding such topics as aids adoption and homophobia ultimately fails due to a lack of originality
0	for many months i was looking forward to this release the previews looked good early reports on the net were encouraging and golden eye and were excellent shooters by the same people it turns out i was greatly misled haze had the potential to be up there with call of duty 4 and other next gen shooters however it looks plays and feels like something from 5 years or so ago i played haze on a tv and was initially disappointed that the game's developers had limited the graphics to the haze universe lacks detail and atmosphere the feeling of they must have really rushed to finish this is always there br br the controls are sluggish and cumbersome and i have yet to find an adjustment for x y axis sensitivity there are many parts of the single player game that are very dark visually to the point where you can't actually see where you are going why not add a torch function like in halo or even better night vision the use of the performance enhancing drug nectar is interesting however just as you get used to it you switch sides and don't use it again why bother i could go on with many more haze faults but instead i'll just say don't bother wait for 2 or play call of duty 4 and try to unlock the gold ak
0	this game is a good looking first person shooter hang on br br but of course a story must be put around this genre so a quite innovative plot about soldiers now driven by drugs to save the world and kill the terrorist nectar is the drug of choice which creates a super soldier br br great now just give us some fun challenging missions throw in some great new weapons and free terrain vehicles that can be driven at our leisure and i will be quite content br br no br br the maker's of this game decide to create a military driven game that tries to make sense of our fears of terrorism and embracing democracy the game has twisted ideals that just re enforce morals that we learned when we were in primary school nothing new is told to us but drugs are bad then pushed in a type of yvan join the navy of how standing up for the common good given rants on normality and abnormality right and wrong we get it let's kill something br br no br br you can't you are forced to endure extremely long gaps of completing bullsh t objectives such as run to helicopter go to group of troops then once this is completed cinematic takes over you sit there for at least half of the game watching little played out by the characters one's you cannot skip but sit and wait sometimes when people aren't even talking we sit and wait for a helicopter to land br br bad game by a laughable group of programmers don't bother making another because i will rather see the movie
0	hercules wound up falling into the same category as many promising television productions that could have been a really great classic only to become a sad joke br br i really like kevin sorbo and his supporting cast but i didn't care for the direction the show took since their movie equivalents either i believe the show would have had a much more successful run if they had kept the same format they did for the movies br br i watched in the beginning and lost interest along the way i did encounter the odd episode afterwards but my attention span towards it was lucky to make it to commercial break
0	return to was a hard film to track down well i accomplished that mission and it had been sitting on the shelf for a good while wish it was kept that way first sam hell is of course not roddy piper he is replaced by a dude with a large face less charisma and this poor actor is very soft spoken for the part sam hell is supposed to be rebellious and awesome here he gets captured three times what kind of a hero is that is replaced as well here by another actress why did we not get different characters here this was stupid lou ferrigno stars in this film and he is not even the hero common sense says let lou be the hero of the film bad effects poor acting and just a forgettable film funny as they take shots at ninja turtles 2 with the whole concert scene in this movie at least ninja turtles 2 was funny and not a bad movie i really wanted to like return to but i just cringed when the fight scenes would commence this film makes turtles 3 look like gold avoid this or you will be the one singing meaner greener talking turtle tv dinner
0	the monster will look very familiar to you so will the rest of the film if you've seen a half dozen of these teenagers trapped in the woods movies okay so they're not teenagers this time but they may as well be three couples decide it might be a good idea to check out a nearly abandoned ghost town in hopes of finding the gold that people were killed over a scant century and a half before you'd think that with a title like miner's massacre some interesting things might happen they don't in fact only about 1 10 of the film actually takes place in the mine i had envisioned teams of terrified miners scampering for their lives in the cavernous confines of their workplace praying that black lung disease would get them before the grim reaper exacted his grisly revenge but instead i got terrestrial twenty somethings fornicating and in one case defecating in the woods a gang of morons with a collective i q that would have difficulty pulling a plastic ring out of a box of cracker jacks much less a buried treasure from an abandoned mine no suspense no scares and a couple of embarrassing performances somebody forgot to tell the writers that fool's gold refers to the genuineness of the gold not the people who are looking for it 3 10
0	director and fx man john carl doesn't have to do much in order to terrify me the sight of his name in the credits alone is enough to strike fear into my heart br br his lamentable straight to video output in the 80s sat on the bottom shelf of the horror section at my local rental shop twenty years later and his dvds occupy the same space it seems that the more things change the more they stay the same you can rely on old to serve up dreck whatever the format and regardless of advances in movie making technology br br in this contemptible offering a bunch of friends travel to a remote town where they discover the secret treasure hoard of stone aka the forty evil claim jumping cannibalistic miner who caused havoc in the mid 1800s before his death cursed anyone who should find his gold and it's not long before the pick axe wielding killer is back bumping off the hapless treasure seekers br br with its dreadful script unimpressive make up effects and scooby doo style villain 'the curse of the forty is par for the course for only genre stalwarts keren black richard lynch and john phillip law lend this movie any credibility whatsoever with the rest of the cast giving performances ranging from bad to awful although i'll forgive alexandra ford who is a complete hottie br br even fans of bad schlock horror will be disappointed since most of the women keep their clothes on and a lot of the deaths occur off screen which is probably not such a bad thing since the on screen deaths are pathetic br br 'the curse of the forty is another in a long list of duds for john carl
0	this was bad enough i really hope that there is no sequel maybe that is giving away part of the plot to let you know that it is open to the possibility but no it really isn't br br there is really not at all special about this movie well the special effect were fairly good but nothing to write home about br br there were some hot babes in her especially elina madison and alexandra ford but nothing to see folks pg 13 definitely not an r that also tells you the slasher aspects were less than spectacular the shovel to the head was the only thing that was unusual br br tame scare fare
0	my mate and i chose to watch this obvious piece of junk purely based on its after nearly 30 years of lousy and rudimentary teen slashers i can't believe that only just now some nerdy horror brainiac come up with the brilliantly witty slogan they axed for it other than that miner's massacre is just as random annoying and forgettable as all the rest out there… perhaps even more the script contains all the typical clichés and features all the dreadfully stereotypic characters you wish a horrible and painful death to the gore effects are computer engineered and thus beyond pitiable and the obligatory big stars karen black john philip law and richard lynch are entirely wasted in spite of their top billing cursed mines and abandoned ghost towns form an ideal horror setting – the creators of my bloody valentine already figured that out in the early 80's – but his dull film simply hasn't got any innovative ideas or even remotely surprising elements to offer bunch of greedy twenty something losers which refer to themselves as friends even though they clearly can't stand each other an ancient mine in search of the gold that is allegedly hidden there of course they unwarily resurrect the zombie miner this way and he just 150 years of rest in order to prepare for a massive teen massacre yay the cast is exceptionally irritating in this one the girls all have impressive racks but refuse to show anything instead they all prefer endless whining and the taking of needless risks the dim witted blokes clearly just serve as screen fillers in her barely five minutes of playtime karen black still manages to make an utter fool out of herself by depicting the most prototypic and hysterical local nut woman ever the zombie has a stupid and very unconvincing face but he looks okay and reasonably menacing when shown in the distant shadow of the moonlight whilst swinging around his pick axe since the best thing about miner's massacre concerns the aforementioned tagline and you can read that on the box in the video store itself there's very little else to recommend here director john carl scored a few modest hits during the eighties like notably the original troll and a fair friday the 13th sequel but it's obviously time to retire now
0	first of all blythe danner doesn't look anywhere near old enough to play capshaw's daughter and in fact she isn't only ten years apart br br i understand this is supposed to be one of those magical moonstruck type supernatural romances but this is beyond the pale very very weak in terms of acting script and direction br br the only one who really shines here is ellen degeneres who makes this film watchable if not really believable herself as she's cast as a bit of a heterosexual sex hound but endearing nonetheless actually degeneres and the skin shots of the young guy capshaw with together make this watchable but no one can really tell if capshaw is really in love with the young guy or not neither the script nor her acting pull it together for us and we're left to wonder how she really feels
0	this movie really sucks sucks really really hard this movie should be in the bottom 100 but it is so bad that almost nobody has seen it to vote for her so many times that it should be at the same time of manos the hands of fate i should have him position 1 awful but the reason for which i put him 2 was for eve the girl of the town that besides some scenes of nudity besides i thought of voting for 3 but like they killed eve i returned at 2 it is that movies like this they should not be financed by anybody since not even they took to the fame or other productions to the actors main great falsehood jaja the history of a mining ghost that kills to and after they put an end to their misdeeds it reappears because with the end they it very ugly br br final score vote 2 for the nudity and the performance of the beautiful eve
0	the monster will look very familiar to you so will the rest of the film if you've seen a half dozen of these teenagers trapped in the woods movies okay so they're not teenagers this time but they may as well be three couples decide it might be a good idea to check out a nearly abandoned ghost town in hopes of finding the gold that people were killed over a scant century and a half before you'd think that with a title like miner's massacre some interesting things might happen they don't in fact only about 1 10 of the film actually takes place in the mine i had envisioned teams of terrified miners scampering for their lives in the cavernous confines of their workplace praying that black lung disease would get them before the grim reaper exacted his grisly revenge but instead i got terrestrial twenty somethings fornicating and in one case defecating in the woods a gang of morons with a collective i q that would have difficulty pulling a plastic ring out of a box of cracker jacks much less a buried treasure from an abandoned mine no suspense no scares and plenty of embarrassing performances give this turkey a 3 for nudity
0	this movie absolutely terrible not only was the acting awful but so was the sleep got while this movie played this movie achieved the all powerful goal of crap i watched this movie thinking my 5 wouldn't b in vein but i was very wrong i guarantee u r better off just reading what i have to say about this unbelievably horrible movie b4 yourself in the way of this dignity depriving movie i give it a negative 1 for trying but no please no don't watch this movie i had friends who joined me for this film shortly after they were no longer found this movie actually will make u end your life please please don't see it i beg of u if u see this movie make sure u destroy all copies because this movie is a spawn of satan
0	curse of the forty doesn't really deserve a long and detailed review so i'll just make some random observations about it br br cool opening credits br br no plot br br is there anyone who's ever seen a horror film before and can't guess within the first 20 minutes who will survive and who will not among this group of walking stereotypes br br hey that newcomer alexandra ford is pretty hot br br richard lynch made up to look about 100 years old and john phillip law have fun tongue in cheek cameos br br karen black has a bigger role but she's not fun she's rather embarrassing br br martin kove is on screen for about 40 seconds but still got his name on the video cover did they pay him for this appearance or was it the other way around br br i hate cheap computer generated effects in horror films br br 1 2 out of 4
0	a group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine but by taking the gold and thinking they've hit it big they awaken a long dead miner who's hell bent on protecting his treasure miner's massacre is a chintzy b horror movie in the extreme you've got all your familiar clichés your group of intellectually impaired teenagers characters going off on their own to investigate strange noises a few pop scares the mysterious sheriff the old lady who everyone thinks is nuts played by top billed karen black no less and so on nevertheless it's done in an amusing non pretentious fashion that makes the film mindlessly entertaining in a so bad it's good kind of way the characters and dialog are what you'd expect from this type of routine and unoriginal the actors all do a decent job though actually seen bigger budget films of it's type with worse acting i know what you did last summer anyone and add a bit of credibility to the film itself the villain in this film the is obviously derived from the creeper from jeepers creepers all the way down to the brown overcoat the hat and the long white hair like the creeper he never talks and is butt ugly to boot the gore is somewhat disappointing in my opinion there are a couple of fairly gruesome moments but too much is off screen and the death scenes are often laughable spoiler ahead there's one truly hilarious moment where a girl gets decapitated by the said villain and to achieve this the filmmakers hid the actress's body beneath the villain's coat with her head poking out and put some fake blood on her neck seriously you could see the outline of her shoulders i think they could have done a little better there even if the budget was low and i'm sure it was but the special effects are cheap but sufficiently effective and for the most part moderately well done for a low budget film either the effects guys or the director seem to have a thing for explosions and fire almost every scene towards the end of the film has at least a couple of characters being burn to death always filmed in slow motion or something exploding be it a car or an old mine cave seriously hasn't anyone ever heard the term stop drop and roll br br miner's massacre or curse of the forty what ever you want to call it is cheesy and dumb albeit entertaining and as long as you don't have expectations through the roof you'll be sufficiently entertained br br i'm feeling generous so i'll give it a 4 10
0	this is an embarrassing nth rehashing of the same plot in the nth bunch of idiots young adult in peril because they are idiots slasher movie of the early millennium this time we get the story of a crazy miner who comes back from the dead to retake his gold from the hands of the we have almost no thrills almost no bare flesh even if the girls are really hot only one of them goes showing her bare ass for a few seconds the usual bunch of sunset boulevard horror stars in cameo roles this time karen black richard lynch john philip law jeff conaway lots of fake blood only the crazy miner resurrected as a zombie is cool enough to leave you stuck well not exactly to the screen till the end don't waste your time if you are not a completist
0	i am shocked to see that this movie has been given more than two stars by some people they must either be kidding or be totally blind for the art of acting directing and other flaws of the movie br br i must admit that i just could not force myself to sit through the whole movie it was just too bad br br the three first characters not including the digger were just awful actors and i mean awful maybe the director didn't care or may be he is a worse director it was like watching a bad school play the movie was of course filmed with a video camera lowbudget not real film and the light settings were not very good either in addition the sound man if they had one must either have been a newbie or a drunk as the sound were amateurish even in one of the first scenes from the kitchen awful acting btw the sound from the dialog was pretty bad for example when the woman moved her head while speaking you could hear her voice disappear and come back it sounded like they had tried to correct that in post production by turning up the volume a bit when she turns her head in addition you had the ongoing irritating buzzing sound from either camera equipment or other sources in the kitchen br br all these in the first 5 minutes or so need i say more br br a good school project or fun project for friends to watch but should never have been released for a real audience especially not for a paying audience this was a rip off unless you have a very low standard regarding movies or just bad taste you are warned sb
0	let me start out by saying i love horror movies big budget low budget big name actors no name actors it doesn't matter and when it comes to judging movies i am very forgiving this movie however is pretty bad br br the actors show little or no emotion when delivering their lines and the acting is worse than many lower budget horror flicks i've seen as the actors get killed off you could care less there is very little gore i have no idea what film other reviewers watched when they say there is good gore in this one because there isn't and the special effects are substandard at best they steal so much from so many better horror movies jeepers creepers friday the 13th leprachaun and it still doesn't help br br luckily i saw this on showtime and didn't have to actually pay any extra money to see it or waste a spot in my netflix queue on it there are so many better horror movies out there and i recommend you see those instead of this big letdown
0	the storyline is a ticked off claim jumper made a deal with the devil to find gold and is forced to protect it forever a bunch of friends find the gold and gets talked by the old miner and they're forced to blow the gold to smithereens in order to send him back to hell br br i mean seriously how did this film not win the oscar for movie of the year what a compelling storyline of late 20 year olds running from a claim jumper straight out of the 1800's i love how in other movies you can't kill the monster but they can knock it out this movie they write the monster as completely indestructible br br the opening of the movie clearly rips off nightmare on elm street part 4 but what the hell not like that movie was a 5 star classic either br br highlight of the movie is when we're introduced to a girl who's never been to school never been out of the town never learned to read or write yet speaks perfect english is smoking hot and wears the latest fashion how did the oscar's miss that br br ok i'm done with the bad jokes this movie is pure crap and only watch it if u have nothing better to do and all the spices on the spice rack are in order already br br 2 out of 10
0	how does anyone keep on seeing horror movies after this one really this one it's so bad that makes me sick and love horror movies but come on who could had remembered to do such a awful movie it as no history it's only a men who chases a bunch of teenagers because they take something from him and what have they took gold it's typical the movie is boring from the beginning until the end and what is karen black who is a great actress doing in such a ridiculous movie like this but what can i say i think everyone should see it because my opinion is my opinion may be you would like i don't think so but
0	this film is about a mysterious love letter that turned 4 people's love life upside down br br the idea of the film is interesting and the film could have been funny however this film is simply what a romantic comedy should not be the characters are inadequately introduced at first so it gets so confusing the supporting characters come and go without adequate reasons as if they exist just for one particular scene and then vanish into thin air the pacing is awfully slow that it makes 90 minutes seem more like 180 minutes br br it could have been romantic and funny but this film spectacularly failed to do either
0	and believe me that's a pretty stunning accomplishment take jolly roger massacre at cutter's cove change the killer from a pirate to a prospector change his obsession from buried treasure to old gold and his color from puke green to deep blue you now have miner's massacre the problem is at least jolly roger was entertaining enough albeit in a so bad it's good way to keep you watching it for the whole two hours there's no strip joint murder scene or any bizarre killings i can't tell you how many times i lost interest in miner's massacre and started doing dishes or cleaning around the condo and the ending is absolutely silly the dude just randomly re appears out of nowhere to kill the local sheriff while the lead actor and actress are sitting in the sheriff's cruiser screaming a truly horrible movie
0	certainly expected more after seeing the cast list but wow br br i think a first time director could have done a better job with this project and the fact that a veteran like john made it puzzles me to no end somehow the budget allowed them to secure a bevy of d list actors whom they succeeded in embarrassing for an hour and a half the unknown actors were just plain awful less steve who does a decent job as axl the story is so bad that it really needs no mention the overall production value seems standard with some above average camera work if you can make it through the god awful slo mo scenes and the painful person on fire sequences i knew it would be dumb i just had no idea how dumb and unfortunately it's time spent that can never be returned to me i suppose if you enjoy really bad b films this might work for you but if you value any story at all this one is simply dreadful a complete waste of time
0	a group of friends receive word from a pal who has found gold in an old mind shaft nearby an ancient abandoned western town of despite warnings by the local sheriff murphy john phillip law old man prichard richard lynch a bedraggled hick who swindles tourists with supposed collectible wanted posters and kooky superstitious aunt nelly karen black to stay out of the mine due to it's notorious legend that an evil coal miner who sold his soul to devil and murdered a priest's jeff conaway daughter will return from the dead to kill those who remove the gold from his shaft these people only see the green not the blood red which could potentially ooze from their slain bodies finding the gold of stone intact they line their pockets and carrying cases prepared for the bright futures that supposedly lie ahead but when you do not heed the warnings of those you consider backwoods the obvious result will be gruesome death stone as we see is lying merely a skeleton near an alter containing skulls lined next to each other as the candles on top of them light up the underneath awaiting it's master with dust particles returning him to a grotesque corpse with demonic exposition his eyes with wrath this hapless group hoping for some fun around the campfire with gold providing them with warm prospects for life ahead will fall prey to the vengeful ghoul and his mean another victim will meet the nasty end of a shovel thrown through the windshield of her vehicle directing it's path straight into her neck another failed attempt to retreat has stone causing a frightened victim to drive his car into a tree his body engulfed in flames as he fails to escape without harm another a local girl searching for her new friends worried about their well being receives the buried into her stomach aunt nelly informs those still alive about the forty and the curse on those who raids his eternal stash and pays the price for relating such information will anybody survive or is the entire group fated to perish at the hands of the zombie miner br br make up effects artist and monster creator john carl directs this supernatural slasher without worrying about logic or strong story telling opting instead to allow his zombie miner to destroy anyone and everyone who happens to be in his path he provides just enough back story and this is feeble at best for the killer allowing special guest star karen black oh how her career has sunken into the abyss to explain to the viewer about him the story given to us has the miner holding a priest's daughter hostage threatening to execute her as the authorities warn against such an action startling enough stone plants that right into her back with the opposition unloading their guns with little effect because he sold his soul to satan retreating to his domain the mine shaft stone sends out a warning against anyone even attempting to take what's his the loot typical of most slashers in general this bunch of twenty somethings are your garden variety victims with little development other than some banter and exchanging of words provides as filler until the undead maniac pops onto the scene to slaughter them they are the usual group from the city trespassing unto unfamiliar territory resurrecting an evil that should remain dormant like many of the later 80's slashers a good deal of the violence is off screen what is on screen the minimal gore is rather mundanely presented and happens rather quickly the ghoul make up for the killer is only shown occasionally he's mostly shrouded in darkness the victims' horrified faces as he catches or chases after them are given more credence than the method of destruction one thing's for certain stunt men were set on fire many times at least three times a character is burned alive by either a lantern or flaming vehicle martin cove has a minor cameo as black's former husband caleb now living with a much younger and dense honey vernon wells of the road warrior and commando fame has the back story role of stone as a human still capturing the same type of menace he specializes in john phillip law seems to be enjoying himself as the rather polite and hospitable sheriff welcoming the outsiders to his neck of the woods has quite an attractive cast of actresses all wearing tight pants and shirts showing off their sleek and athletic figures especially elina madison as easy lay roxann always willing to remove her clothes for greedy jerk hayden rick stephen the ghosts of edendale is axl a rather clumsy foil used as a butt of many jokes including his dump in the woods scene and current unemployment status
0	oh dear oh dear it really gets on my nerves when a low budget pointless horror affair tries to look interesting in the credits by having a bunch of good names pop up in the cast only to involve each one in the smallest most pointless possible roles in this film we have richard lynch in one scene a momentary appearance from martin kove a brief spot for vernon welles slightly more time on screen for john philip law and a little time for karen black this bunch of random cameos does not really add up to much though richard lynch and karen black do raise some of the few smiles of this film with their appearances and its quite painful really as none of the main cast are much good at all i couldn't help but think that if more scenes were filmed with any of the b movie veterans above the film would be a whole lot better but as it is there are just a few tantalising glimpses of good entertainment without the film ever actually attaining much entertainment value of the main cast the only charismatic or likable performances in my opinion were steve as axel and his girlfriend who i believe was played by elina madison never heard of her before but she has some measure of screen presence and is a good looker the plotting in this one is simple evil undead miner goes after those who eek to steal his gold and it should make for good slasher fun especially given that it is directed by john carl who has done special effects for many of these sort of films including having worked on all three of the major slasher franchises halloween elm street and friday 13th and such small gems as mausoleum unfortunately the film is sadly lacking in suspense likability and satisfying gore there are one or two mildly gory moments but nothing worth the effort of watching the film i wouldn't say in fact aside from the above mentioned cameos this entire movie is really quite stale and turgid with characters that couldn't get offed quick enough for my liking and an unfortunate lack of any real interest i didn't even find it fun in a laughable bad movie sense which is rare for me since i love a lot of pretty crummy films i'd say avoid
0	and unfortunately so did i any movie that relies on a bad pun as its tagline or its title should be relegated to the 2 00 bin but we decided to try a second consecutive bad movie for movie night we had a winner in house of the dead go with that one if you want a laughable flick br br some witch jumped into the water after being set on fire by mr miner some guy took a dump in the woods and that same guy grabbed a new girlfriend right in front of his old one i don't remember much else the last third of the movie was utterly insipid and we were all waiting in agony until the end
0	the monster will look very familiar to you so will the rest of the film if you've seen a half dozen of these teenagers trapped in the woods movies okay so they're not teenagers this time but they may as well be three couples decide it might be a good idea to check out a nearly abandoned ghost town in hopes of finding the gold that people were killed over a scant century and a half before you'd think that with a title like miner's massacre some interesting things might happen they don't in fact only about 1 10 of the film actually takes place in the mine i had envisioned teams of terrified miners scampering for their lives in the cavernous confines of their workplace praying that black lung disease would get them before the grim reaper exacted his grisly revenge but instead i got terrestrial twenty somethings fornicating and in one case defecating in the woods a gang of morons with a collective i q that would have difficulty pulling a plastic ring out of a box of cracker jacks much less a buried treasure from an abandoned mine no suspense no scares and plenty of embarrassing performances give this turkey a 3 for nudity
0	seeing the cover of this before i watched it my expectations weren't high especially since it was amongst those other crappy horror movies at blockbuster alongside films like junior br br alright not only does this movie have the brainless stereotypical characters the rich douche bag the bitch the sheriff the that knows what's going wrong in the town and so forth but has such god awful dialogue acting directing and cg effects the stone dude was hilarious spoiler i'll never understand why he bit his finger off out of nowhere when he was holding that chick up hostage br br the premise for the movie is just as atrocious as the other flaws from what i could get from it stone was a gold digger during the gold rush and a notorious outlaw he had a of gold spoiler and put a curse on anyone who went after his gold before he was gunned down by the locals after he killed some girl but not only did he survive he bit off his own finger and ran off so present day a group of clueless morons find out about this gold mine and of course they are warned by locals about the curse of the forty and what do they do as expected ignored the warnings and sought for the gold they get the gold and all sorts of s t goes on thankfully spoiler the bitch gets her head cut off br br that's about it looking at the cover of the film you can tell what kind of movie it's going to be it's just so terrible it's hilarious br br 1 1 2 stars out of 5
0	a group of douche bag teenagers go up to an old mining town in hopes of finding gold nuggets the one hitch in the hair brained scheme is that the ancient supernatural miner whom the gold belongs to doesn't wish to part with his treasure so easily and so begins to dispatch the interlopers accordingly br br literally cliché dialog horrible acting some insanely terrible and a lame unmemorable killer who resembles jeepers creepers without the predilection of young boys naturally combine to make this stinker just about unwatchable even cult legend actress karen black in a small role can't save this aberration br br eye candy elina madison shows badly lit t a br br my grade d br br where i saw it
0	there are spoilers usual slasher film with the story taking place in and around this god forsaken mine outside the almost deserted town of after receiving a letter map and gold nugget from her brother jared shadrach smith clair and her husband nick carrie sean hines drive to the village together with four other friends and armature gold prospectors tori steve and hayden rox ann rick elina to stake their claim br br it later turns out that the fact that jared disturbed the long forgotten gold mine caused the ghost of the notorious stone vernon wells to come back to life and with that restart his reign of terror stone or is about the most ridicules slasher killer in motion picture history stone looks like he was buried for years under a few tons of coal runs around with this hook slicing people in two after doing in almost the entire cast local hermit aunt nelly karen black who's daughter eve alexandra ford was also one of stone's victims tells those still alive that unless they return the gold back to the stone mine the crazed miner will never rest until he kills all those who still have it br br aunt nelly is given just enough time to tell her story before she's turned into a human torch by stone and ends up jumping into a nearby stream the movie goes on endlessly with the killer miner on the rampage looking like he's about as scary as burnt toast and just as dark even those in the film seemed to show no real fear of him in one scene when he broke into aunt nelly's house everyone inside all charged instead of running away him causing the ghost miner to lose his right arm stone spent the rest of the movie with a miner's pick attached to his stump br br besides actress karen black the film miners massacre also has veteran actors john phillip law and richard lynch as the town sheriff murphy and old man prichard passable stuff but nothing special the movie has a predictable ending with the entire gold mine going up in flames the audience given a hint by the makers of miners massacre that the end to this mindless lunacy is nowhere in sight and may very well resurface in the very near future in a possible sequel god help us all
0	seen this one in a sneak preview yesterday and must say it was terrible after the credits i thought hey with this cast it'll probably be pretty good didn't at all turn out that way br br lame predictable groaners terribly simply drawn characters maybe except a little ms lara's and an ending one could foresee 10 minutes into the movie and worst of all it misused a delicate theme handicapped persons for low level and mostly tasteless jokes without ever touching anything but the surface of the issue the handicapped person the film sympathises with the most is the one who is just faking it what kind of message is that and the film doesn't have a thought through ending at all it basically comes down to i love you doesn't matter that you acted like a prick br br to sum it up great cast that must have been terribly bored to sign up for a terrible flick
0	i must be honest i like romantic comedies but this was not what i had hoped for i thought ellen degeneres was having the biggest part which should have been because i didn't like the two struggling bed partners it was awful poor tom selleck he had to act with someone who was that much in the picture while it should have been him and ellen to be in most of the film they were the only believable ones and the only really funny parts starred them not kate capshaw and that everett guy cool that mummy is coming out of the closet i thought that was a nice surprise br br i'm just glad i saw it on the cable and i didn't pay any money renting it
0	alexandra maria lara a very beautiful and enticing woman but not a good actress in all the films i've seen her in she appears to me as the exact same character whether it be in the downfall und der liebe and now wo ist fred she always is plays the young good hearted woman who is a little naive and doesn't know how to handle the things happening to her she disposes of a repertoire of probably five different facial expressions that she works with abundantly i personally have a hard time believing that she could play a mysterious and slightly obnoxious character because it just isn't in here so she's typecast as the nice girl next door which she is but once again she ain't up to snuff when it comes to acting til schweiger same thing the film downright stupid as it was an american movie it would have been a great role for adam sandler who i don't like either i wasn't offended by the fact that this is a film with handicapped people in it i just thought that the jokes resulting from this weren't funny at all i chuckled twice or three times but when i was halfway through it i was just bored and annoyed and wanted this flick to end
0	be very afraid of anyone who likes this film they probably inhaled too many paint chips as a child its so awful i refuse to relive a plot o yeah there wasn't one this movie is a true definition of what hollywood creates for people who don't want to think at a theatre do the bad guys win do the good guys win who cares
0	this movie is absolutely terrible definately a bull t story and even worse acting too bad charlie sheen is involved in something like this since he is a decent actor and has done a couple of really good movies br br the special effects are 'a team' standard with the classical car gets shot and then flips over with a little fireball under the hood br br of course the enemy are portrayed as total idiots and die as fast as they can say ' die evil americans' br br unless braindead movies are you game don't spend of your life on this rubbish pick up 'the or 'apocalypse now' instead
0	i'm a fan of good plausible action movies and i'm a huge fan of the elite military units such as the navy seals finally i'm a huge fan of michael biehn sadly none of those allowed me to really enjoy this movie at the time i gave it another chance more recently when i bought the dvd here's the problems with this movie in a quick list 1 it's a poor mans top gun for example including a virtual music video of the seal team playing golf with a soundtrack of the boys are back in town which concludes with charlie sheen doing an inane chase to get his car back br br 2 this is quite simply a charlie sheen movie when sheen was trying to be famous before he started doing stuff like hot shots reports i've heard indicate that sheen was a baby on the set and it affected the roles and direction the rest of the actors in the movie got br br 3 biehn is the head of the seal team yet sheen seldom obeys him any seal showing the lack of discipline that sheen's character does or who endangered the team as he does wouldn't even have made it through buds training let alone gotten on a team br br 4 seals are cross trained on weapons yet in one part of the movie a seal has to figure out how to use a u s stinger missile br br there are a few good scenes in the movie the assault entry at the beginning bill paxton as god and some of the footage in what was supposed to be beirut at the time overall though this movie is a loser
0	navy seals is an ignorant racist and complacent movie which thoughtlessly uses the middle east conflict as the backdrop for an action flick concocted for a comfortably sheltered american mid west audience the conflict as well as those involved is used simply as cannon fodder to glorify the photogenic young americans who proudly kill arabs for the good of 'freedom' but what is worse is that the film's action scenes are sloppily handled and unexciting which prevents navy seals from working even as a mindless shoot 'em up br br charlie sheen's character hawkins is disgusting obnoxious ignorant reckless and above all racist he refers to the middle east as a 's t hole' and to its inhabitants as heads' throughout the film the navy characters are glorified through the use of the lebanese natives as cannon fodder they indiscriminately massacre these people with a consequence free attitude there is even the tasteless murder of a young lebanese boy who is shot by hawkins hawkins makes fun of his language before shooting him whilst making another humorous quip besides being tasteless this should be unacceptable the film's extreme though predictable pro american stance is also revolting this can be seen when the lebanese american female journalist informs hawkins that terrorists cant be made to talk because 'they are religious zealots ' hawkins then retorts with 'yeah and we are the navy seals ' the implication is obviously that zealots are meaningless next to american military might moreover even after insulting this journalist's racial heritage and treating her like a sex object the script demands her inability to resist this disgusting thug and she still ends up sleeping with him because he is an all american navy seal this marginalizes the journalist's character by making her submissive to the pro american attitude of hawkins despite his insulting behaviour toward her beyond ethics this plot twist also has little credence as drama br br the screenplay is also amateurish most scenes are simply strung together without any thought for mood plot or character development the 'music video' scene at the golf course for example is just shoddily edited eye candy and the two scenes where charlie sheen plays the reckless hero are also pointless in one he jumps off a bridge from moving car just to show his mates how tough he is and in the other he chases down a tow truck on a push bike and drives his car off it neither scene has a follow up anti climax both are highly improbable and neither has any bearing on the plot as a whole they are just candy designed as a vehicle to showcase hawkins' cheap all american heroics and are poor substitutes for character development most of the other plot development scenes are also badly filmed and poorly scripted as in fact this affliction affects the entire movie apart from the african american navy seal and his wife as well as the characters of michael biehn and charlie sheen every other member of the team seems unknown to the audience so that when the climatic scenes roll around there seems to nobody to root for and anybody's death to lament br br in such a film the action sequences can potentially rescue the production but here they don't these are badly directed badly lit and showcase badly performed stunts in fact their direction is so poor that they are almost incoherent to the viewer resulting in not only the scenes being incomprehensibly hard to follow but also in a complete lack of fear and suspense poor lighting only adds to their impotence the explosions look fake gunshot wounds unconvincing and one of the more daring stunts involving crashing a mercedes over a tank looks just like a stunt which has been staged on a backlot and then poorly edited br br the ending of navy seals places the coins firmly on the eyes of this production first there is the obligatory slow motion away from the big explosion that should have killed me' scene with sheen carrying biehn on his back this was obviously the default scene intended to be the star of the movie's trailers then there is the ending itself when the of the seal team wounded and floating in the ocean are rescued by a submarine this submarine had in fact turned for home long before but of course it had miraculously returned in the nick of time topping it all of despite the violent and stressful ordeal and despite the fact that numerous of their colleagues had just been killed with a number of them still bleeding acutely they all manage to laugh heartily while blessing america predictable you can just imagine this ending while watching the opening credits br br this movie indulgently uses the middle eastern conflict as a vehicle for the macho all american tendencies of the movies' photogenic young leads arabs are treated condescendingly and dismissively and their slaughter in the movie is used as a to glorify the use of american military might against an 'inferior' minority group in a consequence free environment the events of 2001 have pointed out that such smug and overconfident trivialising of the conflicts of such minority groups is certainly not a consequence free the middle east can no longer be written off as a s t hole full of rag heads knocking each other off to quote charlie sheen here it is now a place in which involvement can lead to severe consequences today we are reminded that the consequences of such arrogance can manifest themselves quite close to home therefore in the very least navy seals looks pretty foolish these days but this is to be kind this is a highly ignorant movie whose production values and professionalism are equally suspect navy seals is ideologically and artistically a complete insult to the intelligence of its audience
0	note to self never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it great comedian horrible seal this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when in fact they are the most elite form of military in the world charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie but why charlie sheen there are possibilities for a very passionate story here but sheen decides to wreck them with funny comments
0	top gun without the in house animosity or class or money or cruise an excuse for an upwardly mobile cast of next big thing actors to market their ability to lead a matinée this doesn't really have anything anyone can get their teeth into it's a shame because the opening shot of charlie sheen opens out with great promise which is squandered almost straight away with a preposterous wedding set piece barking br br dennis haysbert is a changeable actor for me but in this film he is fine particularly the action sequences michael biehn is a first class action hero but not a leading man charlie sheen is to all intents and purposes the leading man but never quite an action hero there's a stunt cast of hundreds who are also 3 10
0	the contemporary chapter of the u s navy's elite underwater demolition team is called to do whatever they want apparently br br charlie sheen was made an officer already the storyline is unbelievable michael biehn is his immediate c o but he keeps charlie on a rather long leash and one of the guys pays for it early on by getting killed thanks to charlie's patented stupidity the rest of the team spends their spare time committing courts martial offenses mostly an exercise in random gunfire and paper thin ethics these particular seals might be better suited to serving as crash test dummies br br some good action scenes counter the goofy proceedings
0	someone commented that charlie sheen's character should be court martialed for doing whatever he wanted you may be right but that is how truly are i served for several months with a seal team out of norfolk va actually i should say they used our ship to deploy themselves around europe for a couple of months i was the postal clerk on board and everyday these guys would try to get their mail since only one person was allowed to pick up the mail each day we issued one pass to one person each day a different seal would come up pretending to be someone else well after the third time i said no to them until i had proof who they were they went nuts i thought they were gonna bust through my cage gag me and then steal the mail luckily i had not only the president on my side the navy but the federal government us mail that was the only time i saw the seals stopped from having whatever they wanted they were allowed unlimited shore leave where we had to be back on ship at a certain time they killed and tortured a woman in france and the two only got a 1 week detention on ship whereas a seamen was caught stealing a bottle of wine from a french wine shop and he got a court martial is it any wonder why the retention rate is over 85 as a seal you are god so this movie does a pretty accurate job of portraying how a seal acts and thinks unfortunately it is so unbelievable to normal people that it comes off as being fake
0	oh man i hated this movie granted the site locations were great but that's about the only positive thing i can say about it now i'm going to state right at the beginning that i am very critical of the way weapons especially firearms are both portrayed and handled in movies being a war flick portrayal was fine but the shoddy weapons handling in the movie would have never been tolerated by a real seal team the acting was more wooden than my first the equipment carried or lack of it was laughable and the dialogue was shall we say lacking in anything interesting well with the exception of the journalist which was actually prescient watching this movie was comparable to watching with woody harrelson where each scene was so bad you just couldn't turn it off because you had to see if they could get worse with the next scene like they certainly did the scene in the water where after shooting the first of the enemy they blow the damn boat up thereby having to face possible drowning made me laugh so hard that for a millisecond i almost thought it was worth waiting through the movie for then charlie sheen decided to drag the surviving enemy down to the depths of the ocean the way it was filmed with the many camera cuts it looked like they went down about 80 feet nice continuity there before slashing his throat was so damn stupid i was stunned then again so was the whole damn movie i enjoy action movies but not this one note the version i watched was a tv version pan scan i can't imagine that made a difference except for making the whole thing blessedly shorter
0	divorced single mom in picturesque seaside town finds an anonymous love letter and allows it to spur into action her dormant love life pet project for actress co producer kate capshaw who gives a warm nicely modulated lead performance yet this story is so slim and the direction and editing so erratic that a faint dissatisfaction creeps in initially capshaw's helen envisions several of her friends reading the love letter to her an interesting visual joke but the first person they do this ploy with is ellen degeneres who doesn't play a lesbian but who comes off as one because of this gimmick different ideas are flayed about in the hopes that one would stick and the continuity is extremely choppy supporting cast including tom selleck and tom everett scott who mostly acts with his shirt off is very good but they can't save the final act which is disappointing low keyed in a quirky pleasant way but it is blandly good natured nothing more 1 2 from
0	i learned little of significance from this film that i did not already know from cnn and the new york times and i did not follow the enron case obsessively as did some others the film did a very poor job of explaining what business enron was in that might actually have been on the up and up before it started hiding its debts in the entities created by andy it also significantly underplayed the role played by arthur andersen and vinson in validating practices that were afterwards found to be illegal nor did it go as far as it might have in exploring what the investors all those prominent bankers thought they were doing with the 24 hour a day cable networks the discovery channel and the history channel documentaries have i've seen many in the past year that were better than this one
0	as a ca resident i'd like to see the who were shutting down the electricity plants to raise the prices get some jail time too br br i thought the movie was pretty good and has some very informative pieces while they stuck to how enron rose and crashed i found it really interesting however when the movie focused on it's anti bush slant it made me wonder if they were really being accurate br br it's fine to point out any connection the republicans had to enron but the monster was created while clinton was president the ca energy crisis happened under davis's watch both were in office during abuses but neither are held accountable in any way rather many minutes are spent on how bush was friends with lay so what lay played golf with clinton and spent the night in the lincoln bedroom why are democrats given such a free pass in this film i think most politicians are a waste of our taxpayer money so i'm not partial to either party but i hate feeling like i'm subject to someone's political agenda when i watch a documentary yes politicians deserve some blame but i really doubt that the only guilty one's have rs after their names i found no value in portraying the bush's as kay lovers when democrats received just as much enron campaign money as republicans did like i said it weakens the rest of the film for me because it makes me suspicious of the rest of the facts they lay out
0	this movie made my face hurt i don't understand it things just happened inexplicably and they usually resulted in someone bursting into a song and dance number i don't understand how people can laud this film with praise there are b movies and then there are b musicals and then there is br br the songs made me want to run headlong into a wall the only saving grace is that one of the musical explosions turns out to be a musical video which eases the pain yet still fails to justify why it needed to exist the most frightening section of the film is toni creep dance that accompanies her weird song but on the bright side she can manages to find the notes that she is looking for unlike pop music sensations aka and mona wow can we say tone deaf so if you want to question life for about 90 minutes see this film if you hate your life then buy it
0	if you thought herbie trying to kill himself by driving off a bridge in 'the love was daft wait 'till you see him acting horny in this bewilderingly silly second sequel dean jones is back as the driver who competes in the paris to monte carlo rally this time his sentient vw falls in love with another car in the race a driven by julie by this point in the series the energy and charm is lacking even more than in rides again' the movie is overlong and threadbare although it's watchable thanks to the return of jones's typically likable performance a few funny bits and the cast's frantic mugging
0	even disney are guilty of the cash cow disease after the roaring success of the love bug in 1968 the house of mouse cashed in with herbie rides again herbie goes to monte carlo and herbie goes bananas neither sequel capturing the charm and inoffensive appeal of the love bug back in 68 in this one we find race driver jim douglas and his sidekick applegate entering herbie in the monte carlo rally naturally things outside of the race start to take over priorities they get mixed up in a diamond robbery and herbie falls in love with another car the car stunts are of course pleasant and easy on the eye and it would be churlish of me to really vent venom on such a friendly piece of fluff it's just that the film goes nowhere fast and personally now i can see it for the coin motivated piece of work it is still you get to see herbie take a bath foil the baddies and of course dance for the lady in his life so something there for everyone i think 4 10
0	in the last few years of ron miller's son in law of walt disney cum producer reign he churned out live action crap on a stick often starring the very boring dean jones whose entire career was based on that kind of light empty headed fare other horrible films from that same period include pete's dragon the last flight of noah's ark unidentified flying oddball and the dreaded i'll not mention tron because i thought it ambitious and miller was only the executive producer on it so he had little to do with the actual production however he was in full force when this god awful piece of human junk was expelled from the bowels of creativity herbie goes to monte carlo second sequel to much loved love bug tale finds herbie in love with another car who has a brain and heart too there's a race some lame bad guys a diamond and barney fife shot in france the film actually is nicely photographed and the countryside is lovely but one gets the idea the film was made so all involved could have a three month vacation in france the rest of film is a wreck prat falls bumbling thieves wicked german racing competitors and a pretty bouncing feminist all fall under the category of stock supply the biggest insult of the film trying to further develop herbie's lover personality via shakes beeps flashing lights and movements indicative of a horny seventeen year old disney's writers do an injustice to our cute little vw then again i would think it'd be tough for anyone to top helen hayes driving herbie around a skyscraper ledge in the second outing
0	sadly this movie did have potential with such a willing cast but everything was so poorly thought out and poorly executed i don't think i've ever seen any film where every scene just falls flat with a loud thud as it did here also i don't think i've ever seen a stoner sex comedy that didn't provide at least one laugh but this vortex of pain provided nothing but groans and misery the last time i was this stunned at how un funny a comedy can be was with the awful big momma's house scene after scene these movies will turn your brain into jelly silly and stupid can sometimes be funny but here silly and stupid are used as a torture device against the viewer an absolute rock bottom dud
0	if a movie has an unimaginative hackneyed story and bland characters it needs to make up for it by being really really funny you can get away with a lot if you're funny but while there are a few amusing moments scattered here and there in grandma's boy they are so far and few between that they cannot begin to make up for the hack work the film displays in such abundance br br the movie certainly doesn't aim to surprise anyone when alex hides marijuana in his grandma's house in a tea tin you know what's going to happen later on and it does the movie appears to have been written by a committee who did a study of mediocre comedies and grabbed any gag that appeared in more than one of them br br the most interesting thing about the movie is its somewhat unusual setting the game takes place in a video game development company which should be an interesting source for some clever comedy but don't be fooled this is not a movie about video game developers this is basically a college frat house movie in which all the frat boys have been shoved into a big room to play video games br br the way the movie completely fails to think through its setting and use it for original laughs can be seen in the character of j p j p is i think more or less conspired by the creator of doom john carmack at least inspired to the extent that he's an odd genius who makes games br br in the movie j p is a weird obnoxious geek who is despised and jeered by the company game that makes no sense at all if you are one of the most significant people in the history of video games as j p is supposed to be then even if you're quirky and obnoxious people will still admire and respect you on some level if stephen hawking is obnoxious his associates still aren't going to make jun of him to his face br br also game are just as likely to be geeks as j p but in the movie they are basically frat boys it's a fun normal guys against the obnoxious dweebs movie and while that formula has worked very occasionally in the past it is absurd in the setting of a game company if you decide to use an unusual setting for a movie you don't simply cram in all the conventions of movies from different settings into that one unless you're a hack br br about two thirds of the way through the movie i gave up something happened that i knew would result in a series of painfully predictable events and i realized i hadn't actually laughed at anything for the last half hour anyway so i stopped although i did fast forward just to make sure i was right that they would follow the most predictable clichés which they did br br normally if a movie's bad i just say it's bad and then run out of things to say but this movie is such a phenomenally shoddy production that it deserves a long diatribe br br shame on the movie for luring a good actress like linda into it then surrounding her with talentless nobodies i'll give the movie 1 point for giving shirley jones the chance to be the anti shirley partridge though
0	i can laugh at just about anything but unfortunately there is not a single one to be found in this stink bomb i honestly watched this movie from beginning to end and did not even crack a smile i am shocked that sandler schneider spade etc would put their names on this piece of crap worse than the worst that ever came out of the worst that ever came out of former snl players what more can i say how could such tasteless extremely unfunny drivel come from such a pool of apparent talent maybe i have lost my sense of humor not likely but i cannot remember a movie that i have disliked this much in a long time what a waste of 2 hours i will never get back
0	i must say i was really excited about this film before renting it as it was an adam sandler happy madison production and i am usually attracted to that type of silly humour br br there were a few funny moments at the beginning of the film but this film lacked everything that makes a good movie i realize that many are not realistic can still be quite funny but this film was unrealistic and not funny at all the acting was horrible the cinematography was very poor the plot made no sense at all i cannot get over the fact that 3 classy older ladies would even work for such poor writing overall i was very unimpressed with this film and i do not recommend wasting 5 bucks on renting it
0	i am a huge robert taylor fan and i have been trying to find all of his films this is one i did not have but i watched it recently on fox movie channel and was very disappointed i know he was a contract player with little control over his scripts but the acting was as bad as the script victor mclaglen was even bad and brian donlevy was almost unrecognizable considering the relations off screen between taylor and stanwyck it was surprising how little chemistry there was on screen between the two of them but the premise of the film was so ridiculous that the president of the u s would order a navy lt to leave the service secretly to hunt down bank robbers and report only to the president that it made it hard to appreciate anything else about the film the death row scenes were entirely unmoving the only thing worse than taylor's acting was stanwyck's singing she got better later in ball of fire thank heavens
0	generally speaking i don't make negative comments on here but since this is a festival piece i don't want you to waste your time when you could see something else that might not be playing again br br i thought the actors were pretty bad for instance they totally didn't play off each other rather they waited to recite their lines which were pretty poor to begin with the dialogue sounded really forced norman or whatever his name tried or so it would appear to be witty and biting in the lines he chose but just fell really short br br after words he asked if anyone saw the ending coming and some people were all yea and he all but called them liars look there were so many clues the biggest being a briefcase full of cash for a 500 an hour whore i mean the john gave her at least tell tale sign now no you couldn't see exactly what was going to happen but by the time the twist actually occurred i for one didn't even care i was just glad to get out of there i asked him which draft he shot and he said 8 1 maybe next time he will wait to shoot 'til 15 3 cause this needed a lot of work br br but he seemed like a fairly nice guy he is making his own films he'll probably get better and i hope he does not in a snotty way either i mean it i wish him luck just remember this is just my opinion
0	this movie has no plot it was supposed to be that a guy moves in with his grandma and everyone thinks hes a loser and he has to redeem himself but what happens after everyone finds out who he's living with they have a big pot party at grandma's house the climax of the movie didn't even relate to the rest of it that whole plot was introduced within minutes of the movie's end i can see how it could have related to the supposed story that grandma's vg skills redeem him but that just wasn't there br br however the movie was funny as hell and clearly relied heavily on the jokes br br her pussy smells like the great depression he just sucked his first titty yeah for 13 hours it's for you i think it's the devil
0	alright how someone can actually think this movie is awesome is so beyond me i can't even comprehend how someone can find this movie remotely funny the only character it has going for it is the evil super nerd game designer and that gets old after a while this movie is so predictable the punchlines are not funny they're forced you see better acting at the red light district and the story sucks it's so predictable you know exactly what's going to happen even the characters do not react like they should try going to the hot chick that is your boss at work and telling her that you're banging 2 crazy chicks that you live with at the same time her response wouldn't be smile ok let's get back to work i didn't laugh once during this movie and i wish i had never seen it or spent 3 to rent it because that's not even worth it adam sandler produced this movie i have lost all respect for him all his movies are the same his comedy style got old ever since the waterboy came out if i knew adam sandler had produced this before i rented it there's no way i would have wasted my time on it this movie is as bad as it can possibly get from every aspect ace ventura wasn't a smart comedy movie it didn't have a killer plot but it was original and it was hilarious i'm not knocking the movie because it has 'low level' humor i'm knocking it because it sucks it's a piece of hollywood crap if this movie was presented to a production company and din't have adam sandler behind it it would be thrown in the garbage quicker than a used condom if you want a good movie about pot culture watch cheech and chong or if you rent this movie all you will get is a generic comedy that targets 14 17 year olds with loud rock music at every possible cut acting that will make your eyes squint and your stomach turn and comedy that is equivalent to watching your stoned friend eating mcdonalds for an hour and a half don't do it for the love of god this movie sucks treat it for what it is and look past all the hollywood glory behind it hercules in new york used to be the worst movie i had ever seen but it's actually so bad it's good this instead was a very expensive movie that sucked just as much if not more
0	first of all i'd like to say that i really enjoyed this movie however that said i can't say that it was a good movie i went into the theatre with pretty low expectations something i've learned to do i'm glad i did because the plot and development wasn't stellar the jokes were low grade humor but i was in the right mindset to enjoy them br br i wasn't the only one in fact the entire theatre was laughing out loud i didn't hear anyone complain after the movie came to a close i even saw one guy fall out of his chair laughing but again i have to warn you grandma's boy is not a top quality film it is a funny albeit low brow movie and if you go with the right mindset you'll really enjoy it oh and don't take kids to it
0	call me old fashioned but i like movies with plots i thought stoner comedy was just a way to more specifically describe a comedy in which lots of weed is smoked and the people watching it are more apt to enjoy it high grandma's boy however has decided this is a full blown niche and that stoners represent a piece of the comedy pie that need to be reached apparently allen covert star and producer and the happy madison gang were right but that doesn't make grandma's boy any less boring and unfunny they might be completely stoned but the characters are mostly half baked br br alex covert a longtime supporting player for adam sandler first time star is a mid 30s professional video game tester whose roommate has gotten them evicted he could look for a new apartment but then we don't have a movie after trying a couple friends he ends up living with good ole grandma lilly doris roberts of everybody loves raymond she wakes him up a 6 am and has him do chores and soon he's falling asleep on the job and so the new video game sequel might not get done on deadline br br like most people alex deals with his frustration and eradicates boredom by either playing video games or getting high or both his friends co workers all do the same thing most of them are virgins that live at home in addition to loving video games they're all awkward and all with the exception of nick and joel moore only at times their characters aren't funny funny if you're blazed sure i suppose but i can't say from experience br br maybe all we loser guys like is getting high playing video games and awkwardly ogling women with specific attention on their breasts but even so it shouldn't be the driving force of an entire film neither should old women getting high on accident saw that one coming or being the but of gross out sex jokes but that's what happens when a film isn't about anything no conflict occurs until the last 20 minutes outside of the slight problems of being out of pot alex trying to get the hot girl linda to like him and the guys scrambling to finish their levels for the video game deadline br br characters can be the saving grace for these meandering stoner flicks but aside from a lovable doris roberts the aforementioned as the virgin friend who lives with his parents and calls them his roommates and joel moore's skill at making robot noises there's little character ingenuity covert is a run of the mill main character with no comedic dimensions his dealer friend dante is an inept actor and waste of screen time and jonah hill and kevin are written so far into the periphery it doesn't matter br br if you like movies about nothing and watching them in a state of mind and body that enhance that nothingness grandma's boy will likely be just what you're looking for those who need a little more talent and wit to get on board with a comedy will be left unaffected the most i can say for grandma's boy is that it's watchable despite its pointlessness it won't feel like a total waste of time but you'll wish you did do drugs so you could at least have made the most of the hour and a half br br steven c br br visit my site at www moviemusereviews com
0	there's an underlying current in all the positive reviews of this movie it's just a brainless comedy don't take it seriously dude well that's one point of view the other would be why are we accepting exactly the same script the same formula and the same unfunny people in all these comedies br br what you get is a slacker who through some totally unreal circumstances has to change his life always a he overcome a set of circumstances which would only pose a problem to a raccoon or a teenager beat the equally stupid bad guy who is trying to steal the gal he met two days earlier and triumph by remaining a slacker but with more money self esteem on the way somebody does something gross but very illogical this means you the viewer can call someone after the movie and say something like you won't believe it this guy finds the otter drowned in the bucket of diarrhoea the other guy left after he ate laxative then he shines his shoes with it hilarious br br most of the usual names turn up david spade and rob schneider do unfunny shtick but they're characters a russian and i'm holding my sides a waiter in a vegan restaurant adam sandler the king of the brainless unfunny illogical comedy co produces and some talentless nobody called dante shows up yet again the us will have to explain to the rest of the world what this guy dante is famous for cos we are clueless allen covert plays a 36 year old which got the biggest laugh of the night from me he was 42 and looked years older br br did i laugh yes but no more than i would at a tv sit com and i don't have to pay a penny to watch them please stop making these movies
0	positively ridiculous film br br if doris roberts shirley jones and shirley knight persist in these kinds of films they can submit their retirement papers and collect social security full time br br while the idea that a 35 year old swinger who works on video games loses his apartment and his forced to move in with grandma roberts and borders jones and knight this is foolishly dealt with imagine the 3 bags getting high on stuff that grandson alex has left in their home and jones going to bed with someone who may qualify as her grandson br br the video game sequences are as foolish as the rest of the film the assortment of characters that alex works with is beyond belief as he enjoys his weed habit along with the others br br terrible best describes this miserable film
0	what could be expected from any adam sandler produced comedy grandma's boy is predictable and so dumb it is sickening allen covert stars as alex in the film a 35 year old pothead who works as a video game tester and has had to move in with his grandma and her two roommates after losing his apartment some usual plot turns occur he has trouble adjusting to his new living situation which in turn makes him have trouble at work which is particularly bad because he is trying to nail one of the new consultants throw a weird boss almost alien company star really nerdy best friend a few scenes at burnt out pot dealer's place a really big party scene and an original video game alex is trying to finish by himself into the mix you have grandma's boy in its entirety allen covert does make a marginally good lead linda is cute enough for her role as the just one of the nerds office consultant samantha and a few scenes do manage to squirt out a chuckle or two but none of that makes grandma's boy worth much of anyone's time most of the supposed funny jokes or gags or whatever you want to call them are nothing but humor that would make anyone at national lampoons embarrassed to watch joel moore is incredibly unfunny in his role as video game mastermind j p and the entire film actually manages to be boring on top of not funny or substantial well at least grandma's boy did something for someone adam sandler was able to get a few paychecks to his out of work friends david spade kevin and rob schneider
0	honestly this may be the worst movie i've ever seen and i've seen spider baby and not of this earth heck i've even seen 200 motels having just discovered the freaks and geeks series and being surprised at the acting ability of linda i checked out the reviews here and decided this was worth a try that is the last time i will ever rely on a review at imdb i didn't realize that morons were writing imdb reviews while they were waiting for their calls to be answered on am radio br br this movie is so far beyond bad that mere words cannot express the wretchedness of its vomitous state seriously br br watch this movie if you think will farrel is really really really funny if you think adam sandler is a comedic genius watch this movie but please don't breed
0	creating a comedy is like walking a pretty thin tight rope it either works or it does not grandma's boy is one of those movies that does not work it may have a few very funny parts but for the majority it's just a terribly unfunny comedy from the usual supporting characters in adam sandler films sans sandler himself he's just a producer br br alex allen covert is a game tester he's 35 and is the best tester and game player at his otherwise kid filled workplace he ends up getting his apartment and his stuff taken from him for not paying the bills as it turns out his roommate had just been spending the rent money on hookers and not paying the landlord desperate he moves in with his grandmother lilly doris roberts of everybody loves raymond and her two roommates br br that's the basic plot of the film thrown in with subplots about a hot new girl named samantha linda unrecognizable from her days as velma in scooby doo trying to get the to complete a new game as fast as they can a robot like game creating prodigy j p joel moore who works with alex and wears much of the same clothes as neo in the matrix and of course all sorts of sex and drug related jokes that's it br br the problem with the film besides the fact that the real conflict in the film occurs and is resolved within the last fifteen minutes of the film is that it just is not funny it is totally mind numbingly boring and only sparingly funny nothing really happens at all no emotion no real sense of direction and a whole ton of intense swearing you find yourself maybe laughing at a few funny quips that the actors say but otherwise sit in complete boredom wishing you had not even bothered with the film how this film was greenlit and how fox thought it could make money will always remain a mystery to me br br there's just no entertainment value to come from it none of the actors are actually putting in good performances they are just acting like idiots for the camera and hoping for the best stoner comedy has been done before multiple times and on occasion actually works harold and kumar go to white castle and dazed and confused come to mind here it just makes for making the film even less funny than it is already the random inclusion of a monkey and a pair of bare breasts really does not make the film any better either br br other than a few funny one liners this movie should just be out right missed altogether it's not very funny the entire plot is silly it's boring and it just makes for one horrendous film avoid it like the plague br br 1 5 10
0	this movie is on the level with welcome home roxy carmichael for biggest pieces of garbage that have ever hit the silver screen if these guys weren't adam sandler's gay friends this script would have ended up where it should have as some big time movie toilet paper i hate this movie it makes me want to injure people i will admit that i have high standards but honestly i'd rather watch step up 2 the ultra sad part was when i logged onto imdb and read that you pieces of trash actually gave this movie a 6 9 rating this is a testament to all of the retards in our society that will go watch terrible movies that are just hour and a half long dick fart and weed jokes with little to no originality after seeing this rating i would like to suggest tyler perry's house of pain to all of you guys who enjoyed this film you'll see some high quality humor there on about the same level of this abhorrent abomination
0	dorothy does the opposite here she keeps growing and growing i didn't detect any subtext though the incredible shrinking man and other movies of its ilk during the period were parables about radiation nuclear war and other horrors growth is the result of an inept computer robot br br and who operates this computer but lou costello i like some of his movies with bud abbott but though this is a pretty bad movie he does fine without him and gale green is an excellent foil br br green plays the pompous town big shot he is father he is intent on being elected mayor so when his beloved daughter starts having issues he dumps her he doesn't exactly dump her but gives up his battle against her longtime admirer costello br br this is pretty implausible costello is the local garbage collector br br the special effects are minimal and the subplot involving the military is lame in the extreme
0	it's hard to know exactly what to say about this ever so bland and dull little film the story is predictable when not completely laughable it's all a matter of dutiful gestures which as presented here carry absolutely no conviction yes the mgm production values are gorgeous and yes ms lamarr was exquisitely beautiful but she and the great spencer tracy have absolutely no chemistry together and that's the only thing that would have made this parade of cliches at all effective it's my understanding that this movie received poor reviews when it was originally released the passage of time has not improved it
0	i fully agree with the previous reviewer there's no chemistry between spencer tracy and hedy lamarr and the focus of the film is on their relationship hedy lamarr isn't at her best and spencer tracy appears to be naive simple and overly hopeful both in love and life an idealist role that played out best in town' if you can make it through the ridiculous crowd scene by the train station whoa it's rather slapstick and not worthy of any actor in the cast not the best acting on anybody's part miscast and mismatched story is empty and various and disenfranchised input is apparent hedy lamarr is her absolutely stunning herself which is truly the best part of the film spencer tracy can't match the sophistication of her beauty and wardrobe and the film doesn't come off as believable for at least that reason
0	hedy lamarr who may have been kept by more men on screen than any other actress is again the kept mistress of kent taylor society playboy and general all around rat on a boat from the after taylor's given her the brush she tries suicide but doctor spencer tracy saves her from drowning in the caribbean br br tracy's quite the all around medical fellow i guess he never heard the word specialist he runs a clinic in manhattan for the poor and his trip was a sideline into medical research lamarr and he marry and she tries to introduce him into her world and he even becomes a partner of society doctor louis calhern of course kent taylor reenters the picture and the hollywood inevitable happens br br watching i take this woman it seemed to me that the writers were very much influenced by tracy's oscar winning boys town unfortunately his role as doctor karl decker ain't a patch on what he did as father maybe they were trying to give father a little romance in his life in this film so to speak br br tracy and lamarr did not get along too well in fact this film was dubbed i retake this woman because the original director joseph von sternberg walked off the film presumably because lamarr was not working out for him the way marlene dietrich did she did lady of the tropics and then mgm went back to filming this with their contract director woody van dyke who was known for the speed of his productions and a whole new supporting cast was brought in br br fortunately both spence and hedy had better roles in store for both of them
0	i adore hedy lamarr i think she was vastly underrated as an actress during the 40s she was the nastassja kinski of that era and critics didn't take her seriously having said all that this film is a bore when i watched it for the first time i was shocked at the lack of continuity not only in story but in makeup and costumes hedy's makeup changes from shot to shot so does hair length and style reason this thing had so many writers and underwent so many stops and starts it's amazing they ever released it at all her lady of the tropics began filming after this one began yet it was released before i take this woman in fact at the time it was known in hollywood as i re take this woman that should tell you something i'm a spencer tracy fan as well but he is awful here i've read in various film histories that he absolutely despised hedy lamarr and that looks perfectly obvious on film no whatsoever the story wanders around for reel after reel and finally just rolls to an end very strangely i can't recommend this one at all
0	i found this gem in a rack the local video rental store had of tapes which are exchanged among various rental outlets 'the man who down hmm never heard about it the box reads of some japanese fellow who always wanted to ski down everest and actually did it sounds interesting i rented it as expected it was documentary style the first part can be summarized so i always wanted to ski down mount everest this is followed by some footage of preparation for the event lots of preparation footage ok i suppose it takes a lot of preparation then we are treated to a protracted piece on the skier philosophy on life etc more filler follows and i begin to wonder where the skiing fits in to this show more preparation is shown and they begin to make the trip to the mountain more philosophy is shown at last they arrive at the mountain and maybe perhaps he will get around to skiing down the friggin' thing lots of climbing footage later there is a description of the parachute device intended to slow speed on the steep slope finally he straps on the skis and gets ready to go br br he's off he skis about twenty feet and his skis shoot out from under him he deploys the parachute and tumbles in an inglorious bundle for some distance down the mountain and that's that end of story what the heck was that br br ok i can buy that he always wanted to ski down everest made extensive preparations and actually tried it with camera crew in tow it didn't work and he ended up tumbling down and almost killing himself so what egregious hubris would inspire the man to release a film of it and call it skiing down everest perhaps the title the man who's feet shot out from under him and he slid on his ass down everest was just too long for the tape box
0	i saw this film when it came out let me see now this guy who had earlier down mount fuji manages to accumulate the funding and hire personnel to document what sounds on the surface like a bold and daring act to ski down the world's highest peak well and here comes the spoiler what happens see after a large crew of people manage to help him get near the top and a life is lost in the bargain he gets on his skis manages to make it down a very very short way at which point his parachute opens and that's that and instead of burning the footage to hide this amazingly anticlimactic ending to an embarrassing debacle the guy goes ahead and releases it spoiler ends i do admire the amazing courage and effort it must have taken the film crew to get some of the stunning shots they got another spoiler oh yes one of the is killed by falling into a the narrator who is quoting the daredevil skier casually remarks that according to the religion since this man's body cannot be recovered his soul will roam the world forever and never know rest is it worth it the narrator muses yes he answers because it served the purpose of letting this clown ski down everest i can't remember ever seeing a more meretricious piece of celluloid this is one to miss at all costs
0	if you are looking for a movie with beautiful shots of mount everest then you may enjoy this movie just skip ahead to the views of the mountain br br spoiler alert however if you like me believe that lives are precious and not to be wasted then this movie will leave a bad taste in your mouth 6 people died 5 and a member of the japanese party just so that one man could attempt to ski down mount everest br br the question is raised in the movie about whether the continuation of the expedition to meet his personal goal was still worth the cost in lives and he answers an emphatic yes br br the part about skiing is in the last 15 minutes he skis for a short time then falls the rest of the way until he comes to a stop in the snow
0	i'm a huge lover of really bad b movies and i especially love alien scifi movies i say the cheaper cheesier and campier the better a low budget and a hokey idea are fun enough for most bad b movies but this movie is so bad that i really felt embarrassed for the people who made the movie and for the schlocky ad lib actors first off there's no real plot it's all sort of situation comedy if it can be called that the comedy in this movie is more about characters saying in essence look at me i'm in this crazy situation isn't this funny but it's only pathetic because nothing anyone's doing is that funny there's no comedic acting skill nor any kooky plot to carry all the very un imaginative scenarios through this dreary turd br br the bad comedy and lack of anything remotely comical is only worsened by the bad ad lib acting actors saying really stupid things over and over again perhaps trying to ape for catch phrases perhaps just b c everyone in this is so bad really unattractive women being played off as hot chicks and people barfing and passing out in bathrooms br br there was one middle aged actor toward the end of the movie who i could tell had some acting chops and was kinda' convincing in his role he was as out of place as a solid in a weekend detox unit's bathroom corey feldman was filmed for about 3 minutes in total thankfully we didn't have to put up with him any longer and he was filmed off site probably outside his apartment on the way out somewhere he said a few really un funny things about aliens and having sex with aliens and that was the extent of his appearance br br if you value your life and the 90 minutes and years of pain in remembering you'll lose by watching this garbage avoid it if you do a lot of drugs like adam sandler's comedy stylings and thus have no standards whatsoever and are considered mentally slow you might like this movie br br p s i think the people who raved about this must work for troma or something b c i can't believe people can be so lame as to actually enjoy this movie do drugs really ruin your judgment that much
0	this is the story of a news investigator who hates his job which prove why actors even as weak as tom cruise and denzel washington are on the big screen and your neighbors are not br br i'll say this though the better moments show some basis for being really funny not just wacky to keep trying maybe taking some classes and using the time to keep learning how to make a good movie dude where's my car and the scary movie sequence have it all over this college attempt br br the lighting wasn't the production wasn't and the script had moments the conversation from space very nice try unconvincingly executed this reminded me of dark star which is about being lost in space but this movie is just lost br br the talent was the bartender he said so annoyingly that i knew he had to be acting wasn't he now that's acting the mark hammond guy and marty i guess i gave the movie a point for each one of them 3 10 br br ld br br br br my faith http www angelfire com ny5 jbc33
0	this show makes absolutely no sense every week two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening and every week without fail they somehow stumble upon a murder because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder right but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder wouldn't the smart thing to do be to tell the police you know the people who can actually do something about it but every week these two fools go around polluting evidence committing crimes of their own and in some cases causing more murders once they do miraculously solve the murders there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted all the evidence has been sabotaged and you'd think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two wouldn't you yay we've solved the murder now like every other week let's go and confront the murderer ourselves and with no back up tell them that we know about it there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger is there rosemary and is one of the worst shows on television and certainly the most ridiculous
0	may contain spoilers sadly lou last film has the distinction of being slightly better than abbott last movie together dance with me henry this movie isn't all in all outright terrible it is an amusing career misfire dorothy is nice to look at and makes the movie somewhat bearable you can't blame lou costello for this because a major studio released it which meant somebody had to give it the green light in my opinion lou costello was getting over problems of his own losing his son a few years earlier and the unwarranted attacks from the irs if you look at the last 3 4 abbott costello movies you can notice the magic was gone check out dance with me henry now that's a painful movie to watch
0	thank god this has not been renewed by itv br br this series while popular god knows why has a very simple 'look i've found another body behind the flowers bushes trees wherever they are working for the sixteenth time this series' plot the dialogue is so simple it's as though this has been written for children talking down to the viewer and explaining every plot point br br they just to be around when someone does something out the ordinary and no one notices them br br every time they look into and investigate someone's murder they get in the way of everyone else messing up the lives of all including those completely innocent br br they break and enter into people's homes stealing items and evidence even firearms being nosey and getting into people's lives spying on them and going through their stuff they never apologise never get caught or arrested and if they do they can talk their way out of it even though another character who does the same gets put in prison br br they always come up trumps now i know that this is an easy going series but i think that realistically this should not have made it past the first few episodes put simply it's unrealistic br br i think that they have found enough bodies in the both here and on the continent where they are every other week so i do hope it never comes back br br itv should get some action on the screen instead of all the years of humdrum been murdered at the village fair again' type series
0	i saw this film at our crossroads film festival and was looking forward to it because it was filmed in mississippi and starred karen black i was severely disappointed by the clumsy script which never flowed and the apparent lack on the effort of the actors and director to understand anything about the culture they to portray how did lee and griffin become such deep friends in five minutes which of the two were f ing the girl under the tree it was unclear and there seems to be some law in hollywood about southern accents and rarely do you hear anything remotely approaching the everyday sounds of the south despite the awful this must be how they sound just soften the r approach to dialogue so many times the actors lapse out of it altogether especially sounded like a new york street tough during emotional scenes and nobody sounded at all walt character was supposed to have been from morgan city louisiana yet sounded nothing like that city's blend of new orleans and cajun accents the other bothersome point seemed to be an urge by the writer to make us all feel that every man must have homosexual urges inside him before i start a firestorm here and am accused of homophobia i've enjoyed many films with gay love themes notably punks when love comes and b monkey but this seemed to be some man's wish about all young men well tennessee williams has already covered this ground and did a far better job of it so i wonder if the coen brothers can get regional accents and culture dead on in films set in minnesota and in mississippi why can't anyone else what a waste of my time
0	terrible direction from an awful script even the dvd looked muddy and out of focus laughable accents all over the map unlike most of the other commenters i had no idea this was about boys in love in the mud but that fact became immediately obvious from the opening scene and all the lovingly drawn out shots of nude or scantily clad young men usually wet or glistening with sweat looking longingly at each other
0	close but no cigar that's what my opinion of this film is tag purvis both wrote and directed this script which should have gone through a re write before shooting at times laughable because or a corny script this film's shining star is dan jr and the director of photography both of these talents are ones to watch out for in the future my recommendation is to wait until it hits your local cable station and use the rental money on a classic
0	i think purvis starts out to do a gay gone with the wind if so sorry tag it didn't happen it also didn't happen as a gay sexploitation flick i guess i'm confused what are we trying to do here much as i'd like to i simply can't get to where i care even a little about these characters this movie is effective in capturing a taste of the decadence that lives in the south it does nothing to explain enlighten or advance my understanding of a gay relationship or the conflict the protagonist seems to be grappling with
0	i don't understand the many good reviews here i found the photography and scenery beautiful and the two lead actors appealing but there's little else here to recommend this movie most annoying are the fake southern accents and badly written dialog these do not sound like real people to me although it's refreshing to show men exploring various forms of sexuality without the usual labeling and stereotypical character traits most of the story is without motivation or logic the only thing that makes very much sense is the responsibility griffith feels toward his mentally ill aunt grossly over acted by karen black lee is an interesting character who would have been more compelling had the dialog he was made to speak been more natural and his motivations more clear yes i understand that he's a drifter but his actions as the movie draws to a rushed conclusion make no sense at all this movie is worth a look chiefly because it has a nice atmosphere about it but it's slow moving and deeply flawed a serious rewrite and better editing might have saved it as the premise and story outline are promising
0	first of i should point out that i used to love winnie the pooh as a child and i really enjoyed the movie even though i am in my 20's br br but this movie was so bad i was ashamed to have been a fan in my youth br br ok ok i know this is a movie for kids and isn't aimed at people like me anyway but this is my thoughts on the movie for other people of my age br br the main downfall in this film is the itself it has to be the most annoying character i have seen in a child's movie possibly even more annoying then the young child in monsters inc it has the most annoying voice and prattles around singing stupid things and making even more stupid comments i know pooh movies aren't exactly high brow but this was insulting to even a 2 year old's intelligence br br secondly where was the story previous pooh outings had a least a point to the story yes i can see this was about accepting people who are different to you into your hearts but really it ended and i felt like i had watched a 5 minute cartoon on kids tv br br i don't have children of my own but when i do i fully intend to show them quality children's movies like the movie toy story and finding nemo even though they are too childish for me these days i can see how they would be of great appeal to young children not so with this appalling attempt at a movie br br oh and one more thing not enough eeyore he should have his own movie
0	i saw a couple of days ago a nice story based on well known characters created by a a milne although winnie piglet and rabbit are all present in this animated feature the main character is roo this time he befriends with scary who proves to be not scary at all and shows everybody that friendship knows no boundaries and everybody wants and deserves to be happy i love this film and i would love it even more were i 10 or 15 years younger alas i would like to become a kid again to enjoy this story much more but all i am left with is a sense of sadness at the loss of a sort of childishness and innocence of which this movie is i was glad to hear carly simon sing joel provided great score
0	all in all this is a movie for kids we saw it tonight and my child loved it at one point my kid's excitement was so great that sitting was impossible however i am a great fan of a a books which are very subtle and hide a wry intelligence behind the childlike quality of its leading characters this film was not subtle it seems a shame that disney cannot see the benefit of making movies from more of the stories contained in those pages although perhaps it doesn't have the permission to use them i found myself wishing the theater was replaying winnie the pooh and too instead the characters voices were very good i was only really bothered by the music however was twice as loud in parts than the dialog and incongruous to the film br br as for the story it was a bit preachy and militant in tone overall i was disappointed but i would go again just to see the same excitement on my child's face br br i liked laugh
0	very silly high school teen flick about geeks trying to prove themselves better than the rich brats sound familiar this television movie from director rod uncommon valour and some dukes of episodes believe it or not says nothing does nothing and surely will entertain very few br br notable for its who's who of television cast including michael j fox bob denver gilligan and todd bridges different strokes this lame effort barely limps over the line also stars anthony edwards e r br br saturday september 5 1998 video
0	lou costello sans abbott plays a small town self employed rubbish collector and the inventor of a time controlling machine who is secretly courting the niece of the town big shot after a spat lou's girl dorothy runs into a misty cave why it's misty we never learn and emerges as a 30 foot giant is certainly a good sport and she doesn't bother trying not to look ridiculous it would've been impossible anyway yet the screenwriter is really cruel to this character turning her not only into a giant but a nagging harpy as well bosses costello around while creating havoc with the army troops who get called in but nothing funny is done with the transformation trumped by attack of the 50 ft woman the previous year the film does feature lou costello in his final bow but provides little else the special effects are marginal while the script needed funnier lines and the direction pacing 1 2 from
0	final draft a screenwriter james van der beek locks himself into his apartment and succumbs to psychosis in an attempt to write a horror script not a terrible premise but the execution is awful this feels like a first year direction and writing job and probably is the director jump cuts the hell out of everything it's meant to be disorienting what it is is annoying so much so that small chunks of film are incoherent the writing is predictable and doesn't use follow through on most of the ideas it offers bag of oranges it's like they ran out of time and slap dashed it together for the toronto film festival br br this film is not jaw droppingly oh my god it's so bad it's good bad it's boring bad and irritates you for a long time afterward james van der beek is not a terrible actor and keeps the ship barely above water but he's too normal for the kind of psychosis the film tries to offer he is merely a withdrawn guy who one day sees people and hallucinates things then decides to act mildly deranged cause follows effect maybe there's something in the water now lucio who plays his friend is a terrible actor he shares the likeness of chris and is even more annoying a superhuman achievement br br the atmosphere the film provides is good dull gray and somber but as it's the only thing the film achieves it means nothing this film wants to be jacob's ladder or the machinist it isn't even secret window it's the preppy girl in class deciding to turn goth br br not terrible but the sheer stupidity of it will ebb at you i've already put more thought into this critique than the filmmakers did for this br br d
0	in a while 4kids brings new shows to it's company for the past few years they brought pure gold like kirby right back at ya or mew mew power but 4kids has been off catdog is one of the examples br br it's hard to write a negative comment without bashing the show but in truth is pure garbage it revolves around a group who with an over active brain the catch though is anything he thinks up comes bad it may sound good on paper but after watching it you'll realize how far from good this show is br br the pizza guy is an extremely dumb character he's very 1 dimensional there's really not much to him he's hyper active end of story though many feel all the character are a rip off of the south park i think just the contrary from high school is an interesting character and he's able to make me laugh fail to do either of the two br br the cast for the show isn't any better like mom they suffer from lack of character they only stick to one characteristic and thats it the only redeeming quality is the fact that the show can cause you to smirk whether it's that the scene may actually be funny or you may just smirk because how stupid it is br br is a very crappy show from disney 4kids though it does seem to love some fans it should really be left to the kids
0	i come from bangladesh and here c c costigan is a goddess of awesome sex all kidding aside a friend and i were awake in the middle of the night watching movies on the encore action channel when we came across a series of sci fi esquire flicks there was robocop 2 not bad not bad at all then judge dredd stalone almost ruins his career then a movie called lethal target one would think the title lethal target could only be awarded to a really cool and really cheesy rambo knock off but nay what is delivered is what i would like to call a semi softcore semi pseudo action semi sci fi film actually i think i can say that this isn't even a film at all if it wasn't for the main character's sheer hotness my friend and i would've turned off the movie as the opening credits rolled br br i have a few questions to the people i wouldn't even dare say professionals who made this film one in the future why are they using the weaponry we used in 1999 oh wait i get it it's all that they could get their hands on right well then why is the main character wearing what looks like a normal everyday linen shirt and a vest kinda like what people wore in the late nineties oh i get it in space it must have been a fashion statement well then why oh why does the main character pull out a 3 5 floppy disk at one point in the film so that she can some bullshit wtf we've progressed so far that we have space travel but we still haven't progressed past 1 of space br br i guess i'm just asking for too much br br question two let's just say that yes this is a softcore porn then why is there only one real sex scene and why does it last for 2 minutes br br i mean you're taking the reason people are staying up in the middle of the night to see this crap dare i say 'movie' anymore and it down to 2 minutes hell they should've just taken that sex scene and sold it to another porn movie and they would've still made more money off of this crap than they did br br c c is hot and no offense to the actress but she acts about as well as i do and i'm mentally retarded and only have one testicle c c e mail me we'll have lunch i would write more but i've run out of space
0	this was one of the worst movies that i have ever watched the story was about a woman prisoner sent into space to try and save mankind but what it actually turned out to be was that the prisoner was actually put on board a space ship with a nymphomaniac lesbian commander all the story was about was having sex over and over again there was no need for all of this footage only to create a soft porn film of course we had to see the heroin of the movie having sex for about 2 minutes i don't know what all this had to do with the actual plot of the movie except i assume to get men to watch it i gave it 1 out of 10 only because there was no other rating lower don't waste your money or time it has nothing to do with science fiction but rather a movie for young adolescent boys to watch to see t a the creature was shown only more than half way through the movie and looked like the alien in the movie with weaver poor excuse for entertainment
0	its a space flick or at least i think it is you got half naked female prisoners in a space prison and a monster on a space station using a virus to infect humanity through sexy encounters its friggin hilarious the acting is so bad that space nuts looks like an emmy award winning film the story is simple space prisoner gets chance to reduce sentence by investigating a space station that lost contact with humanity she finds a doctor experimenting with women and a angry of alien she fights them so on and so forth its a movie worth seeing it just to wet your pants with laughter if you like real sci fi flicks its a no no but its a great mood setter for the amateur film maker because i can guarantee their film is better than this
0	i challenge you to watch this film and deny the above statement that is if you can stop looking at her practically flawless face she also does a bit of fighting and a bit of shooting but not nearly as much as i was hoping for the film is extremely slow moving and low budgeted though at least they tried to find an excuse for the spaceship being so underpopulated nearly the entire crew is on suspended animation and the ship moves on auto pilot and the heroine doesn't rescue any of them or bring anything useful back home it seems that tricking that evil lady into traveling through space was the only part of her mission that couldn't be more easily accomplished by the missiles that blow up the ship at the end there are also some long but rather tame soft core scenes and a couple of alien rip off monsters that kill about 2 people 1 2 out of 4
0	terrible movie just terrible the start of this movie is like something out of a bad women in prison movie then it moves on to being a b movie version of aliens b movie in this case meaning the addition of gratuitous sex scenes and women in lingerie oh and a lot of the footage is the exact same as used in two other movies by the same company including the women in prison schtick the only thing saving this movie from a 1 10 is that i have actually seen worse movies not many and not much but worse
0	i like science fiction movies and even low rated made for tv bargain bin movies i may still find interesting well i found this one in a bargain bin and brought it as a selection to a movie night with a group of friends br br i was literally that i brought this movie br br right from the beginning the acting is bad the story is bland and the plot is almost non existent all this leads right to what the movie really was a soft core porno graphical movie br br the movie started with a woman prison where the prisoners are all sexy women working in some sort of mine first clue that this movie is not serious attractive women in a prison being forced to do physical labor yeah right whatever p once the plot continued it was overshadowed by pointless scenes of people having sex halfway through the movie my friends and i stopped watching it was so stupid the next day i thought that i would give the movie another chance and watch the rest i watched about another 15 minutes and gave up again br br if you are looking for a decent science fiction or even a sci fi monster movie do not watch lethal target if you want to see a low budget soft core porn that is light on plot then see lethal target
0	this soft soft core sci fi b movie is what you'd have if you took an early fred olen ray film and took out the fun or conversely it's like an uwe boll 'movie' but without as much ineptitude a young nubile chain gang convict c c costigan agrees to pose as a space marshal in order to stop wacky kim dawson's plans of having everyone have sex with everyone else apparently that vile fiend anyone who went into this film looking for serious science fiction well you got what you deserved for not doing any homework on the film at all first of all when did kim dawson ever star in anything other than soft core skinamax level crap for that matter take a look at the resume's for costigan and the director before you take a hissy fit saying you expected something else don't get me wrong for a space action soft core titillation flick this film is still not good but if you expected something along the lines of contact i do not pity you br br my grade d br br where i saw it starz on demand available until december 8th 2005
0	i'm no slouch at finding redeeming social value whatever book or film people want to suppress from huck finn heart of darkness to i don't know deep throat or the latest hostage beheading i sincerely wish they wouldn't i'm not a lover of porn or of violence as entertainment but what of them i chance upon i tend to see camera angles cuts pans lighting rhythms nearly to the exclusion of fear or titillation sometimes even missing filmmakers' or actors' intent even from footage that reasonable people may argue should never have existed i always imagine there's something to learn i wonder more at how a film does than about what it does maybe that's wrong of me wiser but harder than deconstructing unpleasant cinema might be to see cuts pans etc at one with and inseparable from no matter what content i ask myself what horror filmmakers and church architects have in common add in political filmmakers fascist and not all manipulate with light space and sound in order to alter perception and mood how different are their goals how different are the goals of those who film real atrocities for use as propaganda br br when the original all night long trilogy appeared on my shelf i left it unwatched for nearly year curiosity had made me buy it i sampled a few minutes of 1 the day it arrived up to the awkwardly sound effected street corner stabbing that seems really an attack on film viewers' sensibility found it inept but effective i'd have to come back to it certainly but didn't relish the prospect clearly this wasn't the sublime horror of kairo cure angel dust lain the rawer but still traditionally framed horror of the first evil dead trap the overtly political work of koji or even the brilliant crudity of early cronenberg br br maybe that word attack is key attacks not his characters but his viewers i can't watch these at this point in history without thinking of both abu some of which i think i recall was evidenced on video and the hostage videos but also about godard's torturers in le petit to whom atrocity is just a job a fraction of a person's workday and then there's the prolonged northern california news story whose details i barely remember but can't entirely forget because it too entails cinema a duo of serial killers notorious if suggestion isn't playing games with my memory for having videotaped themselves torturing victims br br all three entries are revenge cinema vigilante exercises but i'm attaching these notes because it's the most ambitious and may constitute a turning point for director i haven't seen the entries that followed through the first two offerings i imagined a camera fallen into the hands of one of those fringe kids from middle or grammar school who obsessively draw war scenes or other atrocities or as if one of revenge crazed characters had turned writer director anyone watching these who hasn't seen michael powell's peeping tom would do well to see it but seems to aspire to mainstream protagonist grows carnivorous plants allowing for some typically japanese cool close up nature shots there's also for the first time a film a traditionally erotic sequence female boss sneaks up and begins to caress him while he's peeping at the love hotel's customers finds himself unhappily sandwiched between he's a voyeur the brief thrill comes from the layers of voyeurism there's even a philosophical poetic garbage a garbage voyeur who somehow makes me think of the poem repeated in not at all what it sounds like go go virgin br br i'm getting nowhere with this and it's getting in the way of my commenting other films can't escape the suspicion that a few years on i'll walk into a retrospective at my local film archive maybe hosted by some learned character who's caught onto something i'm missing br br how much does it matter whether the director is or simply gets his lethally muddled protagonists does he even have to understand them maybe a director's job is just to spew it out then let critics and the rest of us hash things out maybe directorial or artistic responsibility is a bogus notion br br my final struggle with this thing had me wondering what on earth a woman thinks watching these overwhelmingly male exercises we put women through this over and over from star wars to et cetera and et cetera and on and on and on and on but is anything quite as male skewed as the all night longs
0	our gang got one chance at a feature film in its 22 year history and this was the best that could be done it's boring forced and pointless and i must respectfully disagree with the other poster on this film the 1994 little rascals remake was better than this almost anything is the kids are subordinate to the civil war proceedings it doesn't feel like an our gang film at all but like a humorless second rate shirley temple clone
0	this film has a premise that is good enough to get anyone talking and a sure fire conversation starter you sleep with someone you dislike or don't know for one million dollars ' while the film had lots of potential poor execution turns it into a b grade soap opera the film has a great lead up and after the proposal is made we are really into the film but then it falls dramatically the last 3 quarters of the film is spent by characters whinging complaining and regretting what they have done the ending was so cliched it had me in tears this has a very similar premise to in vegas' which is far better see that instead
0	obviously a number of agents didn't see beyond dollar signs when they signed up their clients for this 117 minute to the courtesan complex br br sure the film could have been alright had the 1 million been left out of it seriously the amount of the check doesn't matter prostitution is still prostitution and no amount of love conquers all can change the fact that no marriage vows ever meant to imply for richer for poorer for pimping as in fidelity picture the story otherwise though 2 kids flat broke borderline desperate and completely stupid they collide with wealthy business man kids' marriage is strained by imperfect times and the fact that the husband is something of a loser enter mr tuxedo oozing charm and stability a virtual magnet for the ticking biological clock and with him the wife's temptation tensions suspense whom will she choose maybe under those conditions i could actually care as is frankly redford's selfish and manipulative playboy winds up the sympathetic character a woman who will sell herself is just about what a guy deserves who will pimp out his wife the indecent proposition makes the husband a total loser deficient in every positive male characteristic and makes the wife a cheap strumpet seduced by money rather than confused by another potential love a woman devoid of moral center and self respect br br all the impressive talent acting directing cinematography wasted on this film and it was an impressive amount couldn't save it from its splashy but too trashy 1 million pitch line if i see this turkey at one more bridal shower i'm going to roast it or maybe cross it with titanic and pitch the tape in the ocean
0	mind numbingly boring utterly predictable and in the end simply laughable that pretty much sums up the disaster that is indecent proposal starting with a decent premise the whole thing just unravels and becomes a complete mess basically the story boils down to the question would you let your wife sleep with another man for one million dollars here of course the answer is yes because otherwise we wouldn't have a movie quite frankly we'd have been better off if we didn't have a movie br br our married and financially troubled couple are played by woody harrelson and demi moore they go to vegas to get rich yeah that'll work anyhow a billionaire played by robert redford takes a liking to the wife and makes the million dollar offer for one night with the wife he will give them financial security the aftermath of that one night is what the movie is really all about unfortunately nothing in that aftermath is the least bit entertaining the script is so predictable you can say the characters' lines before they do the performances leave much to be desired harrelson would be better off sticking to comedies as this attempt at serious acting completely misses the mark anguish is not something he seems capable of portraying and it is quite safe to say that demi moore will never have to clear space in her home for any academy awards why is she a movie star again in a part that should be full of emotion she conveys none only redford escapes mostly unscathed he's appropriately slimy yet suave and clearly the best actor of the bunch but he can't save this film awful script lousy acting plodding pace zero entertainment indecent proposal is downright awful
0	this was one of the biggest pieces of crap i have ever had to watch i mean seriously how would anybody else feel if they were in woody harrelson's shoes and your wife was even considering it would be a good idea to sleep with the other guy even for a million bucks after all she was the one talking about it in bed and saying how it would be good for them since he can build his house or whatever with that money woody never fully agreed to it until she talked him into it how can you trust her who the hell would actually even consider that if they were married i don't care how desperate they were that's the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard in my life then he flips out on her apparently he had no right to mistrust her other than the fact that his wife just slept with another dude who is extremely rich and handsome oh and wait then he's supposed to apologize to her after she files for the divorce so she can be with the guy she slept with of course woody has no right to say anything to her or mistrust her especially after she still has roy card in her wallet then at the end of the movie she's apparently so in love with woody still and misses him so much that she was not going to leave hobbs until he made some ridiculously stupid story up to try to hint to her to leave and she bleeping thanks hobbs are you bleeping kidding me was she under contract as his sex slave or something i mean what the bleep oh and wait it gets better she bleeping kisses him passionately before she gets out of the car yea she's not a whore oh thank you for letting me go let me go make out with you one last time for good ole' sake smooch smooch smooch even though i'm still married to a guy i left for a rich guy i have never seen such a piece of crap in my life how the hell are we supposed to feel good after that horrible ending what was this movie supposed to represent nothing came out of this this was the most pointless movie i have ever seen in my life two pathetic desperate people if i were woody i would tell her to go drown herself in that body of water they were near apparently he had no self respect what the hell was roy hobbs thinking by taking this horrible role i feel like puking after watching this this movie was so bad it was seriously laughable i want those two hours of my life back that i wasted watching this piece of
0	a good example of the differences between american and foreign cinema can be seen in a film i recently watched on television indecent proposal br br indecent two protagonists david and diane murphy are played woody harrelson and demi moore i'm not sure if it was their total lack of chemistry or that they were not acting well but why we should care so much whether these two stay together was beyond me love affection playfulness attraction – none of these materialized on screen in their interactions together br br since i knew that eventually robert redford would show up it was clear from the beginning that the good part the meat of the movie would be the scenes between him and demi moore poor woody harrelson just could not muster any emotion at all for the film he seemed to be holding back preoccupied with his receding hairline br br ok so fast forward what idiots these two diane and david are for thinking they can win back the 50 000 they owe by gambling no acting faux pas there just hideously bad lazy unforgivable writing of course they lose all their money surprised i know i wasn't enter robert redford john gage in the film – a romantic perhaps emotionally frigid man an updated gatsby a very good role and though not a great great actor next to those two redford looks like olivier he immediately falls in love and lust with diane and we the viewers for once feel it this is how to love a woman not david's way trading gum mouth to mouth with diane on a slimy pier did i see that right as gage redford wears a suit and tie in every scene yes it's meant to instruct the seemingly brain dead audience that here is a rich man but he also looks damn good and by this point the brain dead audience appreciates it other wardrobe symbolism includes david's now ironed shirts at the end of the film signifying resolve getting it together after a long interlude of forlorn wrinkled shirt wearing br br and what is it with california garden parties as depicted in hollywood movies suddenly everyone appears british complete with lacy dresses three piece suits for the men hats hats and of course the parasol yes diane her transformation to rich man's fiancée now complete is there at the auction daintily twirling a parasol though she insisted that she couldn't be bought she succumbed at last to the sexual tension here is where the film branches off into pure americana i mean of course david and diane will end up together my question is why diane was bored with david why not let her ride the robert redford wave and i mean for a good long while how can she pull herself out of the sexual romantic thrall of this sexy older man so easily just because woody harrelson brings his receding hairline to the garden party sits himself down and looks demi moore in the eyes that's just not how it goes he was so weak br br but we must have our happy ending we have to swallow the moral lesson we're not sophisticated enough yet to have it otherwise director lyn tried to make a fatal attraction for the juvie set the br br in addition to garden parties in which there's nary an suv tee shirt or baseball cap in sight such films also feature a reliable public transportation system that connects far flung california cities and how else to symbolize the return to middle class or working class life
0	this story had the potential of a good film the difficult choice of love versus money and the angst and regret of making the wrong one however the movie was ruined by the horrible miscasting of robert redford as the villain who offers 1 000 000 to sleep with demi moore like redford has to pay for it redford's boyish good looks and all american charm just don't cut it as an unlikeable threatening boor redford's acting are insufficient to make his character menacing i can see it now 1 000 000 to sleep with robert redford ok says the lady but you will have to give me some time to raise the money jack nicholson would have been perfect as the sleazeball
0	only saw this movie late last night i remember the hype of it's release and to be honest had i viewed it back then i maybe wouldn't have been so generous i hate hype it can ruin a movie i think the movie glossed over the characters and put too much emphasis on woody he was good too although kept wondering if he was stoned the whole time it never went too deep redford was dark but not too dark and his character let me down in the end to me he should have been more confrontational with demi throwing her out perhaps or telling her that she was paid for after all he would have investigated them before he made the proposal that's not shown in the movie but no one in his perceived position would have made an offer to just anyone he was cruel to the point of breaking them up and the last straw was the house and yet demi fell for him the passages giving an insight to demi and woody's relationship were the best part of the movie there was a keen deepness that outshone the shallowness of john character he really could have been a lot stronger and as other people have alluded i think the movies draw card was redford and they didn't want tarnish his image i say what the hell robert was old in this movie woody and characters were naive in a sense but i think that was very intentional to draw you to their plight and champion their decision but the reality is they were losing their dream home and where did they go las vegas to gamble what little they had left and then accept a proposal from an insanely rich billionaire i found their naivety when redford was seducing them a little too unrealistic the movie could have been so much more and other actors would have made a difference but having said that on late night tv it was enjoyable and i if you don't think too much also palatable
0	demi and woody are married but they're poor they meet robert redford and he's really rich he takes a fancy to demi and since he's a gambling man he makes the couple an indecent proposal one million dollars for a night with the little woman br br at this point you need watch no more of the film because you can put the details together in your sleep of course demi is going to accept the offer if she doesn't there's no first half of the movie of course it will affect demi and woody's marriage if it doesn't there's no second half of the movie and of course everything will turn out okay by the time the credits roll if it doesn't there's no happy ending for the sake of box office br br the absolute best thing you can say about indecent proposal is that demi moore looks good in a black dress as for the rest the script is incompetent the direction amateurish the performances negligible i suspect redford moore and harrelson blush and change the subject every time the film is mentioned do them and more importantly yourself a favor unless some one offers you a million miss it br br gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
0	spoilers throughout br br not good the movie differed completely from the book not that the book was exactly a classic but it really was very good br br i guess demi moore was ok actually i don't really remember to much about her performance one way or the other however the big disappointment wasn't with ms moore br br why did whoever did the rewrite decide to suddenly make the millionaire have a heart i'm referring to him as the millionaire because he also had a different name in the movie then the book version just another change br br people who didn't read the book obviously won't know anything's different but in the book version this guy is much more ruthless as well as complex overall he is also fascinating the fact that such a big change was made in the movie alters the whole plot it was almost like seeing a completely different movie br br i know many movies vary widely from the books but i also thought redford's character was a bit of a wimp this isn't redford's fault he's a great actor and could have played ruthless well but without those qualities he becomes just another dazzled man in love hence the story becomes just another cliché love story involving 1 woman and 2 men that wasn't really the point of the book br br this could have been a lot better even if i hadn't read the book version i wouldn't have liked this all that much but changing so much around definitely takes it for me a few points down
0	this movie received a great write up in blockbusters 'coming i was looking forward to the release date 08 07 02 the plot sounds reasonable the cast alone should have guaranteed a side splitter but whoa there apart from the 'off the wall betting this was quite a bore br br this will never become a comedy classic and i'm afraid it has done no help to the fine comedy reputation of john cleese rowan atkinson now he was quite funny in a rowan atkinson sort of way
0	though the our gang comedies still have their followers i've got to say that their attempt to graduate to feature films courtesy of hal roach came up way short why did roach have to pick the civil war as is subject with all the attendant racism that would follow br br dashing southern cavalier phillips holmes takes in young orphan spanky mcfarland and his young black friend buckwheat thomas after spanky inadvertently exposes a card cheat on a riverboat all is placid and serene in the old south and then the civil war comes to ruin it for everybody br br but even children can charm the worst in the world and there's none worse than those damn yankees they just come south and ruin it for everybody br br criticized though it was for its southern viewpoint gone with the wind did make a good case for the southern cause and the blacks portrayed even though servile which they would be out of necessity are still three dimensional characters hattie mcdaniel would not have won her oscar if it were not so butterfly mcqueen's character of prissy as silly and vacuous as she was has some dimension br br here though is maybe some of the worst racial stereotyping ever brought forth in hollywood the companionship of spanky and buckwheat does show that kids get along racial feelings are acquired not inbred it's not the of the blacks that's objectionable but there total acceptance of it right from that horrible watermelon song sung over the title credits the message of general spanky is a bad one br br yet it did get an oscar nomination for sound recording probably one of the very few hal roach ever got out of the short subject field br br general spanky is far from gone with the wind though
0	if you are a fan of slap stick that has terrible writing awful acting and cliche after cliche this one is for you br br there is far too much to list for the reasons why this movie sucks in a brief synopsis people with a combined iq of 100 journey to new mexico on a race for 200 million dollars and yes they are all apparently super heroes as they can do many things such as jump onto trains that are traveling 80 mph survive numerous car crashes and endless instances of outright cartoonish roadrunner and coyote antics br br if you are a teen or dont want to think for a movie this one is for you not one actor outside of lovitz is believeable at all lovitz saves the movie from a 1 with the hitler bit br br 2 10 save yourself the 2 hours of pain and 4
0	the commercials for rat race made it look too juvenile for me to enjoy but since my boyfriend adores this movie and the soundtrack i finally relented and watched it with him tonight i make him watch david lynch films and all sorts of obscure indie stuff i recently forced urbania on him so i felt i owed him an innocuous hollywood product br br i didn't want to hurt his feelings so i saved my bitching for yeah rat race has its moments but a great deal of it irritated me let's start at the beginning rat race was marketed as a family film so i was a little surprised to discover that the first scene centered around a porno movie i can hear it now mommy what does afro whores mean this scene has no purpose in this movie other than to cram some naughtiness into a pg 13 movie br br and while we're still on the segments in the casino it's pretty convenient that all the characters happened to play within the same time frame the slots that held the gold coins what would have happened if they didn't would those millionaire gamblers just sit around and wait and how did they get those gold coins in the slots in the first place br br but i'm a plot point that's necessary for the movie to exist so i'll press on about whoopi and her long lost daughter they're meeting for the very first time yet throughout their whole ordeal they don't discuss with each other anything about themselves why make their relationship such a presumably complicated one couldn't they have just been say a mother and daughter on vacation together why the business concerning a long ago adoption and why portray the daughter as a hard driving career woman chained to her cell phone who never again needs contact with her business did the screenplay just forget about this subplot and character trait br br this illustrates the main weakness of this movie the characters are inconsistent and interchangeable it's exhausting when everyone is equally zany and with no identifying traits and another thing the events aren't plausible oh sure the characters can do some quirky things but the characters themselves have to be believable take the naked gun another jerry zucker movie for example frank has some pretty exaggerated moments but everything he does is in theory possible in his world jane is also funny but it's a different kind of funny which makes all the difference a character in rat race defying natural laws by leaping onto a speeding train destroys any plausibility the movie may have these clearly aren't real people so why should i care about them br br another problem i have with rat race is a moral one the characters obtain their modes of transport almost totally by theft i know i know this is just a silly comedy and the same actions didn't bother me fifteen years ago when i saw million dollar mystery but there's a lot of in rat race and it bothers me now and i won't delve into the whole airport sabotage sequence other than to wonder if the screenwriters didn't consider the real life implications of such an action was that scene funny before 9 11 br br i'll skip over the distasteful bits concerning the heart the drugging of one's family and the nazis whose buildup and payoff worked better in an episode of seinfeld and move on to complain about the acting rowan atkinson started out annoying and ended insufferable i don't know when i liked a comical character less and the three oscar winners need new agents whoopi came off best but she didn't have much to work with loved the copper perm and purple lipstick though kathy bates' part was shrill but mercifully brief cuba was oh man cuba babe please fire your agent following instinct and chill factor this is your third strike be glad i haven't seen pearl harbor or snow dogs it's time to give your '97 best supporting actor oscar back to its rightful owner edward norton for primal fear an actor of your stature has no business running half naked through the desert and being checked out by a transvestite lucille ball impersonator do you even read the scripts to your movies anymore or are you reaching into a bag and pulling your next project out at random br br there's other small points that bother me how did grisham and the hooker get to the loot so fast but basically rat race amounts to little more than your basic batch of character types being hindered by arbitrary obstacles on their way to a rather underwhelming and inexplicable ending they give the money to charity what kind of ending is that yeah it's the noble thing to do never mind the probability of cross promotion licensing whores smash mouth do they ever say no to selling out putting on a benefit concert in the middle of the new mexico desert but who would honestly do such a thing yes they say it's the journey not the destination that makes a trip worthwhile but there's no journey without a destination if there was ever an example of a wrong happy ending this would be it what a bummer end to a movie that despite my nitpicking here i did enjoy parts of i confess to enjoying the bit with the cow and some of the lucy stuff along with the character with the tongue piercing at first i thought his indecipherable speech would run me up a wall but he grew to be my favorite br br but as far as my boyfriend knows i found rat race quite funny and charming br br
0	i don't know if i'm wrong or everybody that says this movie is good are sincerely i just wanna do a favor to people that has doubts about seeing it renting it or even worse buying it don't do it really br br the trailers and very early previews might seem fun in some way or another but its not funny at all it gets to fall in a series of you're supposed to laugh here scenes that tend to get in really bad jokes bad very very bad acting tasteless scenes cheesy effects this movie has it all all wrong that is br br as final comment the movie would have been funny due to the basic concept but believe me is really way far from that
0	michael comic book stories particularly his work on madman usually are a great deal of fun no budget indy film is the opposite of fun br br worst acting ever coupled with truly horrible dialog makes for a brutal cinematic experience pretty certain understands going on but he's the only one daring you to watch the entire mess isn't enough defying you to watch the entire mess is more on target br br is some kind of movie tie in to red rocket 7 comic book which ironically is mostly unreadable so if your experience isn't terrible enough definitely track down the over sized comics and continue the fun br br felt sorry for who was totally out of his depth attempting a film also felt sorry for myself what an incredible waste of my time and money please buy my vhs copy which is available right now on ebay hurry up
0	2 outta 5 stars br br i have no idea what the title is supposed even less of an idea of what is supposed to be going on in this movie half the time yet it still kept me sort of interested this is low low budget film making along the lines of el mariachi filmed in 16mm and for what it's worth the shots are very well composed and visually stylish directed written by and starring comic book writer artist michael i guess it's no surprise that the film looks good unfortunately some of the acting is beyond bad and the rest is competent at best himself comes off the best but only because he doesn't actually speak much he just strides around looking cool most of the time or running from crazed rednecks who are trying to kill him the sound is also pretty bad almost as if it was unfinished in places maybe they couldn't afford to pay for the music they'd planned to use strange vaguely science plot similar in tone to the man who fell to earth but most of the film boils down to a standard run from the bad guys and kill them before they kill you plot ultimately too oblique to be successful but not without interest for adventurous movie watchers
0	this film coincides with mike comic book mini series red rocket seven and tells the story of an alien who escaped to earth to wait for which ties into the book of revelations and the this is only part of a bigger story if the movie confuses you read too you can easily tell that is used to telling stories with pictures the direction is very good and the effects aren't bad for a 500 budget unfortunately mike used many friends to play the roles and probably didn't have the heart to say that they couldn't act also mike is not showing his writing skills in this movie his dialouge spoon feeds the plot to you and doesn't let you enjoy the characters this was actually disappointing considering his tremendous writing ability shown in his comic books 4 out of 10
0	this film is little more than an ersatz verhoeven the filming is supposed to be tele realistic but is simply sickening the parody disappears after about 15 minutes to be replaced by a story which seems to take itself seriously the brechtian pauses for non existent advert brakes are tedious and even painful undoubtedly there was no actual intention to render this film brechtian it was just an accident which happened like that if you want to see a parody of reality tv watch celebrity deathmatch it's funnier and wittier and most importantly shorter i have rarely felt so much pain whilst watching a film to be avoided like a rabid rabbit
0	i saw this film last night a satire of the reality style programs that seem to be making the rounds at the moment br br what can i say i absolutely hated it about as interesting as watching paint dry and with maybe one or two only slightly amusing moments br br maybe it had something to do with me definately not being a fan of the survivor and big brother type shows but if this had been a video dvd or if i'd been watching at the cinema on my own i would have definately not endured more than the first 5 minutes br br
0	the people who came up with this are sick and twisted freaks how the hell can you exploit people like this tricking people into thinking that this is real which i probably don't doubt that it is i saw this thing for the very first time today series 7 and it made me sick to my stomach i almost threw up i just couldn't stop crying my eyes out for these poor people and if that woman really did have that baby you should all be ashamed of yourselves i have a 4 month old daughter and it is just absolutely appalling that would put a real pregnant woman in so much fricken danger you people are bloody animals and should be locked up for life allowing something like this to put on t v if this so called show is for real then why isn't anyone being put in prison for allowing people to die and not doing a god damn thing about it you all deserve to be friggen hunted down
0	i turned this off about 50 minutes into it whoever the moron was who decided to steal the idea of book battle royal make it into a pathetic reality tv show scenario deserves to be shot br br it has done the film industry a good turn though now directors like william malone fear dot com can say well at least it's better than series 7 this piece of crap dracula 3000 tie for first place in the worst 100 movies ever made br br be warned this is not a 'so bad it's br br this is a disgrace to film makers everywhere br br never see this movie
0	terrible the only way i could even begin to consider it funny is if it made fun of itself amazing it's about an ass that fights crime and he drinks smokes how very funny it's funny because where most people put things in their mouth he puts them in himself and now he's getting sexual service from some lady this show is so great that is what i would have to say if i liked the show though i'm sure you can see the obvious sarcasm i've noticed some people have been comparing this show to 12 oz mouse and squid billies why would you even try there's nothing to compare the other two shows actually have some decent character development in conclusion i hate mcgee i twinge at the name of it
0	despite the potentially fascinating premise series 7 is weak attempt at attacking reality television aside from its bargain basement production values which present an eyesore 10 minutes in the overall tone of the film is misguided several reviewers have attacked the acting in the film but i think the real problem is this lame attempt to make the film into a farce aside from the fact that the jokes are not funny a pregnant woman swears a lot a young girl gets a bunch of guns it doesn't gel with the overall tone of the film had the makers actually made series 7 to bear a striking resemblance to actual reality tv colorful yet hollow edits lame sound effects sweeping camera motions maybe their point would have been more solid or at least more palatable instead series 7 meanders through the already harried world of death and game show you can just imagine the director slapping himself on the back for stating the obvious
0	spoilers ahead but that shouldn't matter since i hope you wont see this one anyway br br if you planned to see this one i have to strongly advice you not to because this was one of the most wasted 1½ hours i've experienced br br first of all this is an complete rip off of the great movie battle royale it is as stupid as watching any lame american tv show like cops or candid camera br br the plot are totally predictable one challenger pregnant and another is a nurse anyone doing some logic thinking understands in the beginning what should happen between those br br the concept is ripped as mentioned before and the movie lacks the violence necessary of making this movie enjoyable i mean the preggo shoots a guy in the back and no blood or not even any trace of the hit in the back br br i could go on forever without finding anything good about it so take your money and get a copy of battle royale instead of watching this piece of crap br br 1 out of 10 too bad i couldn't rate it lower almost makes scream 3 a masterpiece
0	this is possibly the single worst film i have ever seen it has no good features at all br br it looked as if it was made in about 20 minutes with the other time filled with title graphics br br the lead male transformed from deaths door to superman eh you what br br other than that totally predictable and not at all interesting br br i left the cinema feeling cheated br br needless to say i could not reccomend this film to anyone
0	this is possibly the single worst film i have ever seen it has no good features at all br br it looked as if it was made in about 20 minutes with the other time filled with title graphics br br the lead male transformed from deaths door to superman eh you what br br other than that totally predictable and not at all interesting br br i left the cinema feeling cheated br br needless to say i could not this film to anyone
0	to begin with its a rip off of the japanese film battle royal except it's missing the one thing that made br unique balls it's a weak satire at best and as far as the real tv phenomena it attempts to comment on well everyone knows how warped and stupid that genre can be so why was this film made
0	we sat through this movie thinking why is this or that scene in the movie what does this have to do with the plot we hoped that by the end everything would be slightly more clear it was not to be br br i think the director in a fit of pique threw the script up in the air and then some minor and vengeful underling reassembled it randomly with no regard to the scene being filmed possibly with scissors and glue stick br br the film's motifs include communism bad nihilism bad poor parenting bad threesomes bad tv bad coherent scripting bad good it's really not clear br br finally no german water taxi would ever have an unchained staircase that would let passengers fall in to the water the abundant quantity of signs everywhere is testament to this fact
0	man were do i start everything about this cartoon from the episodes to the stories script an animation is to me the stupidest and most annoying cartoon that walt disney television animation ever created and made im so glad that both toon disney 2006 and disney channel to stop airing it in the u s as of this may 2008 br br believe me it's a wise choice to skip this out cast and black cloud of a cartoon if you watch it don't say i did not alert an warn you br br your in for a boring and down right dull and confusing time i wish and pray i never even saw 1 episode of this cartoon buzz of star command if i could i would have the part of my brain removed that remembers watching it yes it is and was that bad
0	i bought this dvd for my young son who loves the movies i never expected it to be in the same league as the movies but what i got was just another lazy disney cartoon way below what i expected from disney pixar the story is unoriginal the characters are dull and two dimensional the animation is below par even buzz isn't that great the movie could have been so much better i especially hated the paint by numbers storyline i know it's meant for kids but even kids know when something stinks to this level lameness br br although i did enjoy some aspects of the movie i really liked the opening section of the movie with the slag mutant monster it just went downhill from there
0	this abomination and the sequel one more time no thanks and the hideous jerry lewis disasters like don't raise the bridge lower the water why not just flush instead drove cinema owners to close their doors rather than be forced to run these films true in the 60s block booking of films was still enforced on hapless suburban and country cinemas this means that in order to get a good film the cinema was forced to run woeful like these i remember well in 1974 keen to screen fiddler on the roof or something good like that i was bailed up in the united artists booking office by some sozzled salesman who waved a sheet of flops before me and bellowing now before we get to that one lemme see ya date these ones first which basically means book these duds and we will give ya a tired hit this is how and why so many cinemas closed forced to screen and annoy their waning audiences with these assembly line failures with lame comedians and bored talent cinema owners exhausted with arguing simply closed sold to a petrol station and saw the cinema demolished these days the same type of films eg i now pronounce you chuck and larry get banished to the 20 seat cinema 99 in a mega google plex instead not much has changed freddy got fingered anyone
0	after reading other reviews on this site we weren't sure if we were going to be able to critique this movie because it didn't sound bad enough however 2 minutes into the movie we knew we were in for another flop no summer is complete without ice cream but this movie served up a melted sour broken bottomed ice cream cone you know the kind that leaves you sticky and dirty and looking for a wet nap the biggest problem with this movie was the plot what was it it appeared to be a psychotic ice cream man driving around the neighborhood that's it nothing else happens first of all what are the qualifications for becoming an ice cream man in this crap town 1 spend several years in the most ridiculous mental hospital known to man this hospital was plagued with clowns graffiti fake plastic and oversized syringes to the head 2 have extremely poor hygiene and a mutant face to scare the kids away 3 make sure your truck is stocked with severed body parts roaches and don't forget the eye whites br br the actors in this movie are pure b movie caliber mixed in with a bunch of unknowns is who other than a trailer trash version of macaulay culkin even his bratty charm couldn't save this kick in the pants there seemed to be no rhyme or reason for any of the murders in this movie the whole concept of the movie reeked who would kill an ice cream man in a drive by shooting gangsters fiends white who we are still struggling with this question br br whoever was in charge of the wardrobe for this movie should be immediately blacklisted from hollywood did they honestly think a pillow under a kid's shirt would make the audience believe that he was really fat did they forget about the arms face legs and all other body parts second of all this movie was made in 1995 yet the wardrobe seemed to be picked from a lame 80's movie evidenced by the big brother's white crotch hugging high water pants br br while we were watching this shotty production we both developed severe cases of add we found ourselves leaving the room to walk around aimlessly at many points it the movie we found that staring at a blank wall behind the t v set was more entertaining than the actual movie we were stunned that this movie didn't make it to the bottom 100 afterwards we took the tape out of the vcr and left it on the black top to melt like a sub standard ice cream cone
0	very strange screenplay by cameron crowe following on the heels of his fast times at ridgemont high has little inspiration and away at dumb gags at least fast times had a fair share of satire and sensitivity behind its slapstick courtesy of a good director amy heckerling and crowe's undeniable penchant for capturing letter perfect teen speak here chris penn sean's brother natch is the goof off who makes life hell for straight arrow eric stoltz and the filmmakers seem to think he's hilarious jenny wright has some good moments as a mall worker but mitchell smith is lost in a head scratching subplot about a teen who seems to be infatuated with a shell shocked ex soldier queasy confused nonsense given a shiny sheen and a soundtrack full of pop rock tunes but characters one would hope to avoid supporting players lea thompson rick moranis lee ving and fenn are wasted in stupid roles from
0	it is often hard to decide what the best film is that you've ever seen since this may vary by genre preferences for actors actresses or even the mood you're in on a particular day having said that this movie is by far in my opinion the worst movie i've ever seen i thought the acting was terrible was there any the plot was just idiotic and the props were totally fakey could a lower budget production be created without being an amateur production i don't think so even the friends i watched the movie with agreed that it was the worst video we ever rented and to this day we still joke about the night we saw this movie
0	this is one of those movies you find when you stay up too late and only have basic cable it's hard to believe this movie was made in '95 considering it looks like something out of the late 80s plucky youngsters with varied home problems face a demented ice cream man who's on a mission to make the best flavor ever soylent cream br br this movie is extremely demented and is only scary in how creepy and absolutely ridiculously gross it is actually the really scary thing about this movie is the nature of the problems these kids face at home the fact that these kids have no escape from their silent suburban sufferings makes any random loony loose in the neighborhood seem like a walk in the park br br the most laughable part of this movie is the fact that the stereotypical fat kid is so obviously a slim pre teen with a mountain of padding under his baggy i guess that either a they hadn't invented couldn't afford a fat suit b the casting director was too lazy to find a pudgy child star or c we are honestly supposed to believe that this child is starving and has an enormously distended belly br br so if you're up at 2 am and need something ridiculous and disgusting to rip on with your intoxicated friends go ahead and take a look personally i'd rather be sleeping
0	first of all this movie is gross to the point of nauseating and my advice is to avoid it at all costs if you ever want to eat ice cream again i tried watching it because it looked like it might be funny but it soon became quite disturbing with the ice cream made out of body parts and surprisingly graphic effects it opens with a boy named greg witnessing the gruesome murder of an ice cream man greg subsequently goes crazy and grows up to be the title character by what appear to be mob assassins there is no explanation for this murder making it the biggest wtf moment in the entire movie other lesser wtf moments include the surreal asylum greg goes to featuring evil clowns a woman speaking in tongues because she has been possessed by the holy spirit what this has to do with anything i don't know and the fact that olivia holy crap has her career tanked this badly hussey is in it br br none of these are good enough reasons to watch it the only reason is for the character tuna who is a skinny kid with pillows stuffed under his shirt so that he looks like a fat kid for some reason this struck me as hilarious i stayed up far longer into the night than i should have watching this movie just to figure out if there was some reason they couldn't use an actual fat kid for the role although i fell asleep before the end i've gathered from other reviews that tuna ends up losing the weight okay so they didn't have the budget to pull this off realistically suggestion to the director how about making the character not overweight br br that's it if the prospect of tuna has not interested you enough there is no other reason to acknowledge this film's existence if disgusting horror movies about ice cream are your preferred source of entertainment check out the far superior the stuff instead
0	i bought this movie at a thrift store months before my friend told me about it when we were talking about dumb movies we've seen once i spotted the cassette i knew i had to have it i watched it that night i could tell it was going to be very cheesy and cheaply done that's what drew me to it i popped it in and i laughed the whole way through i recognized gregory the ice cream man but i didn't recognize his name and i couldn't remember where i saw him later while watching the andy griffith show clint howard ice cream man was featured as an extra since he is ron howard taylor 's brother i saw the credits and i gasped i turned to my mom who was also watching the show and said that's the ice cream man she too gasped this movie is great but only for laughs and it is the perfect example of a cheesy horror flick if you feel like laughing as well as poking fun at low budget movies rent this video
0	clint howard brother of more talented ron stars in this abysmally awful horror comedy about a mental case who serves ice cream to children and kills people striving to be a movie that's of the 'so bad that it's good' variety this film misses that mark by a good mile and instead has to be seen as 'so bad that it's well bad' it's the constant cinema the pillow stuffed 'fat kid' or the sleep inducing 'horror' that soured me on the film i don't know all i know is i loathed the film and this from a guy who has a soft spot for b horror films paul norman choose to continue making films in the porn industry both before and after this his only 'mainstream' film a wise choice indeed as horrible acting nonsense storyline and ludicrous dialog are much much more palatable while seeing a porn starlet do her thing funnily enough this turkey has absolutely no nudity another reason to steer clear br br my grade d
0	a conversation about how jan michael vincent is a lush led me to foolishly re visit this mid 90s dtv entry a kid is traumatized when he sees an ice cream man gunned down in the 1950s and he grows up to be a psycho ice cream man clint howard something happens and people disappear and end up in the ice cream blah blah blah br br director norman credited as paul norman made a career of doing porn before this and went right back to it afterward that is what you get for having all murders happen off screen and for casting a skinny kid as a fat kid and making him wear a fat suit just cast a fat kid also there is a scene where vincent stoically reacts to a group of escaped loonies surrounding him he was either totally drunk and was frightened for his life or the filmmakers captured his have i really sunk this low shame full on despite being low budget trash this did line up a few good names including david naughton olivia hussey david warner and the people court's own doug how you can make a boring slasher with that cast is beyond me
0	the only good thing that this movie created was that it made me hungry for ice cream minus the dead body parts in it the movie is one of the most cheesy i've seen in a long time when the ice cream king dies in the beginning i was laughing so hard because the kid took the ice cream from him and started eating it his mom asked him to say something and should should have said leave me alone and let me eat the free ice cream so i can watch my acting career go down the drain at a young age that seems about right for a line then i wondered why the ice cream prince was behind the bars of his ice cream truck was someone going to rob him of his twenty cents i've never seen bars on a ice cream truck window it seemed pretty stupid you might as well forget about the acting because it is just awful forget about this movie and go down to dairy queen and get an ice cream
0	you can see that if the flick ain't directed by his brother this is the best he can do and sad to say his best just doesn't cut it ice cream man is a very bizarre horror film that's a real blast to watch if you're in the right mood in the wrong mood it has been known to cause people to lash out violently at loved ones so please watch with caution br br clint howard stars does anything really star clint howard though as the evil psychotic bizarre yes all in quotes he's not quite any of these but he's getting close ice cream man who tortures the local children with bomb pops that are really melty and ice cream that has chopped up humans and dogs in them ick br br anyway the plot's really just an excuse to show of the well the um well it's a plot oh wait i know it's an excuse to show off all the loser actor cameos there's jan michael vincent and lee majors ii the sequel as cops tracking the elusive man o' ice cream and even doug appears as a supermarket clerk br br even better than that are some of the bizarre goofs in the film i really like the fact that for some reason instead of hiring a fat actor to play the unhappy fat kid of the group they just make this one kid wearing padding under his clothes and the entire premise that anyone would by scoops of ice cream from a ice cream man who buys ice cream scoops from the ice cream man then there's the entire psychiatric ward scene in which jan michael vincent's acting ranges from mildly interested to bored beyond the state of consciousness these are the cops who also the ice cream man's place for clues but manage to complete gloss over the ice cream truck where of course the various bodies and such are kept oh well better luck next time troops br br howard himself overacts like he's making sure people two towns over can see and hear him it's all just plain dumb and fairly fun to laugh at in the fine tradition of the or gymkata you'll have a good laugh with the right sense of humor i love that one br br
0	technically speaking this movie sucks lol however it's also hilarious whether or not it's intentionally funny i don't know horrible in every aspect it also is the only movie i know of that has 1 a fat kid being played by a slim actor in a very obvious fat suit 2 an attractive 30 something actress playing a character who's supposed to be in her late 60's and 3 the most compliments for plastic yard daisies ever don't take this film seriously just watch it for laughs a great party movie
0	i picked up this movie because it caught my eye as movie with a jewish comedy focus something i had not seen before br br i approached this film with an open mind and was interested in the way it began the opening is well put together and the first half of the film gave me many reasons to laugh and this is good br br however the humor soon became repetitive the plot became confused and strained and i realized i was no longer enjoying the film i have tried to avoid saying this but the movie became rather cheap not a bad thing for a comedy if the humor holds up but it didn't i confess that i may have missed some of the humour not being jewish myself and having little experience with jewish culture however considering how heavily telegraphed the bulk of the humour was in this film it's unlikely i missed much br br the idea is a good one and perhaps if a little more thought was put into it the film would have been watchable all the way through i wish i could give the movie a higher rating but strictly speaking it would have been better as a tv series or as a series of skits there was just not enough worthwhile fresh material for a full length movie br br one thing to say about the casting the lead role looked as if it had been designed with ben stiller in mind but i don't think the movie would have been any more worthwhile if he had been in it
0	wow well you know those shock things they use in hospitals to get your heart pumping again i needed one for my brain after watching this movie it literally took me almost 4 hrs in total to watch because i had to take a break and restart my brain to semi normal functionality every so often i mean this movie goes soooooo slooooow its ridiculous to say that the script had about 10 pages of dialogue would be generous they just don't talk and while talking isnt everything and i admit there were some scenes where only the music was necessary and the music is great that was probably the best part but then go listen to a symphony or something and forget about the movie so many people give this awesome reviews and for its time i'd say the special effects and filmography is quite good but as for the acting or lack thereof it just needed a little something more no shootem ups or sex etc profanity isnt even required but a little more emotion these guys were like stones just sitting there with long faces all in all if you need something to calm yourself down just play the movie dont even start at the beginning if you've seen it before just start anywhere lay down and relax it'll put you right to sleep
0	i saw the star of this movie on the daily show and thought i might tune in the movie premiered on comedy central then went into theaters oh vey br br this makes shakes the clown look like citizen kane avoid avoid avoid at all costs not one laugh not even a grin this movie will make your face come out in pimples and your eyes burst like the last of raiders i can't even think of a worse movie be it manos or ishtar as the pythons beckoned run away run away why did anyone green light this unless they used their own money the horror is that there is not one good line not one good joke and only one bad thing the making of this movie br br i feel that if made properly this would have been hilarious as it is i need a new pancreas for retching so loud damn anyone involved in this travesty
0	this film is dreadful it has absolutely zero laughs hebrew hammer adam goldberg sets out to save from evil santa andy dick perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise while there are some far and few nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent it is laboured hackneyed and ultimately mindlessly boring this despite the fact that goldberg dick and greer hammer's client love interest all have quite considerable screen presence despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck do not waste 85 minutes of your life on this note the music was good
0	the hebrew hammer is a clever idea wasted as the execution is weak as if often the case with iconoclastic humor it relies overly on outrage to generate laughs which simply isn't enough poor taste humor has two elements poor taste and humor and both are needed here but the humor is pretty scarce as a result it is often painful to watch all the more so because of good attempts on the part of the performers particularly adam goldberg as the himself the shaft references are funny though but only to those who know those movies and they certainly don't carry the hebrew hammer br br another problem is that many of the jokes rely on knowledge of american jewish culture and many in the audience will simply not understand the jokes
0	i was expecting to this to be hilarious and it was mediocre at best the only funny character is believe it or not andy dick the timing was just horrible on most of the jokes gags and the writing was bad i mean i know its supposed to be like blaxploitation but it just did work besides this whole genre has been beaten to death already with all the austin powers movies undercover brother it just seems old it also just feels like a rip off from undercover brother which also wasn't hysterical but a lot funnier than this also for an comedy action movie the direction was kind of bland i don't know if this is going to be released in theaters but it definatley is made for tv
0	the title is a misnomer the movie depicts barely one year of the so called marquis twas a hard time for him 'cause he was threatened by the guillotine the quiet joys of the reign of terror br br historically speaking the background is rather sketchy the fête de re supreme failed attempt to create a secular religion his downfall a heaven sent opportunity for showing doctor sinister machine at work full speed br br as far as sade is concerned it's a downright mediocre affair he's waiting in a former nunnery with other nobles a golden cage if you compare it to say marie or scientist fates and he exchanges futile conversations with a young virgin about death love and other trivia there's the obligatory daring scene but you've got to be patient because it's a long time before it comes on the screen and anyway by today's standards can we call that risqué de sade which enjoys one of the lowest ratings of the imdb is at least entertaining and keir dullea was a more credible marquis than the aging auteuil and it featured john huston
0	this is an extremely competent movie technically the camera work and direction are excellent and the acting is fine as well especially the fine acting by daniel auteuil as the marquis i really thought there were no problems at all with these aspects of the film instead i was a bit annoyed by the way the marquis was portrayed as it didn't seem all that honest and seems to be a very view of history in fact in recent years the marquis has undergone a bit of a transformation to a defender of freedom with great insight not the fat sado masochist rapist he really was in a way this is highly reminiscent of the whitewash given in the people versus larry flint where these men are elevated to hero status even if you don't think that the perversions weren't all that bad they included rapes and extreme violence his portrayal in this film as a sexual social worker in this prison seems pretty silly instead of the violent and selfish sade he spends a lot of time carefully grooming a young virgin and slowly helps her to explore her own sensuality what a nice and kind man in fact now that i think about it this performance reminds me of the man maurice chavalier played in gigi but without the singing a cute older man who loves the ladies i strongly doubt the real life marquis de sade would have recognized this character at all br br the film surprisingly doesn't have a lot of nudity though what it does show is extremely explicit only a maniac would let their kids see this as this is a very adult drama it's very well made and pretty entertaining just not all that truthful the director admits that the film is largely fictional in the interview among the special features on the dvd i watched so go ahead and see the film if you'd like understanding it just isn't very good historically during the 18th century sexual were quite accepted in france as they were pretty broad minded so despite what the movie implies it wasn't sex that was the issue it was the violence and rape that was and still is the problem
0	baby boom was bad enough basically making a series of every straight mans nightmare is worse yeah watched a few always made me feel better after a bad day it reminded me it could be worse guy was rich successful single smart man and dating celebs from singers to actresses then his screw up of a cousin dumps his biggest mistake on him in reality it would have been straight to foster care i'm sure this was definitely a chic series oh and what's all the wining about the baby change most the time it's probably a doll besides at that age it's nothing more than a prop anyways br br any case i'm glad it didn't last more than a year
0	at the least some of the sitcoms that churn endlessly out of the us are honestly bad this junk however portrays a heart warming side to a clothes horse acting laughably learnt with glances and phrases delivered in the i'm so important and thin and beautiful fashion in the episode i just sat through someone's job was at risk simply because a colleague had placed a phone call her capabilities off really this is the lowest of the low what kind of damage does this foist on the watching masses seeing only glitzy glam puss people parading around working utterly sick making when the titles rolled i thought oh well it provided jobs for the boys you know who you are
0	i'm at a loss this entire movie made absolutely no sense it was like watching a film for football the camera cutting the pace all so copied i thought the subject was too not serious for them to treat it like it was yes we all know southerners like football and beauty must we be inundated with it as an audience i watched because of lee and jay i was expecting young talent assembled in the style of dead poet's society or similar to remember the titans i was completely put off by the film you didn't get the characters it was character driven but you didn't understand anyone's motivations or their actions for the most part the one kid who's mom is obsessed with him being a football player why is he so silent what's his deal did we really need the scene with him proving his heterosexuality why should we care the movie gave us insights into these kids lives and offered no pay off for caring it just made no sense br br and why show a movie about a team that lost i know it's real life but who makes movies about losers give us some pay off for these guys working as hard as they did with all their conceivable problems darnit we got nothing we got a little blip at the end of the film telling us that mojo won the next year with the 3rd stringer lee why didn't you follow that story what were we to get out of this one the movie led you along but didn't lead you anywhere i just felt like something was missing it felt like a bad genetic cross between varsity blues and remember the titans at least those two movies led you somewhere friday night lights was about a loser team that lost their star player early in the movie the actor who played him was great you were completely annoyed by him which was the point but at least you understood why they made sure you understood him but he couldn't play so why make sure we get his issues br br and the other team in the play offs are we to believe those are high school teens those men looked like college seniors or professional player in their 30s who were they trying to kid i know the other team was to look intimidating but that was crossing the line a little i liked the gritty element of them negotiating with the black team but again how did this fit into the overall theme of the film nothing pieced together the characters knew more about each other than we did and that settles weird with me jay's characters had absolutely nothing to add but he was showcased it was all just a mess not worth a movie ticket or a rental fee
0	having been born and raised in odessa and having graduated from the other high school in the late 70's odessa high school i had mixed emotions about this movie i no longer live in odessa but will always be a texan at heart i didn't like the way that this town of 80 000 plus was portrayed as a dirt poor small town if i'm wrong about this please feel free to correct me but i believe ohs also plays in the town stadium and the home of the panthers sign that was shown at the stadium used to be at the practice field at i would have liked to have seen a little acknowledgment about the cross town rivalry of the big game in town every year ohs vs i am curious why the outcome of the game was altered though i think it would have been just as dramatic if the real outcome was portrayed overall the movie was okay made me a little homesick remembering the good old days of mojo
0	i didn't like this movie for many reasons very boring it was interesting how they thought what the future would look like in this but seriously i was very bored watching this there was hardly any action although the classical orchestra soundtrack was very nice the visuals were very creative whenever this movie pops on tv i feel like changing the station instantly not because it is a bad movie just because i know what i am in for when watching this complete and total boredom it is a movie i saw when i was young but i never got into the science fiction thing because it simply wasn't real just like this movie very unrealistic i never understood half the movie anyway
0	i just saw this movie last night and after reading all the reviews i expected a good emotional sports film what i got was something clichéd and boring yes i thought it was boring i saw the all star getting hurt long before the game i figured maybe they'd wait for him to collapse until ya know the game before the big one but i guess the first game is good enough br br the parental relationships were also very clichéd with the dominating drunk father i will say mcgraw impressed me however and the boy who wants to stay and help his ailing mother br br i especially liked the random girls melissa and maria who were in the movie for all of 5 minutes and placed there simply to get the football boys some action off the field i thought ok now how does this work into the plot again maybe i missed the point beyond well they play football in a town that loves it so the girls throw themselves at their feet point br br the sports action had some good points but most of it was so rushed i think the first game lasted longer than the montage of the entire playoffs and i wasn't so sure about the continuity of the winding down clock in the final game br br i guess i could see this movie winning the espy for best sports film if it was the only one released honestly though i found it to be a boring movie full of people sickeningly obsessed with the for a better football film see remember the titans
0	i honestly expected more from this movie that may have been the problem there was not one time when the camera was still ever on close ups the camera shakes the subjects move and i get a headache the cuts are so often and so fast that the viewer often finds himself herself wondering what just happened look out spoiler alert and at the end of the movie when you expect to have a happy ending after being put through so much useless thought to comprehend what is going on they end up losing to me this was a basically terrible movie wrecked by a camera man with adhd and lack of a meaningful meaningful plot
0	this movie was very disappointing in that several elements of the book were wrongly done the main story is the same but there are several flaws that hurt the movie br br 1 boobie miles gets injured in the beginning of the story in a game at texas tech this means he won't get anything done during the season at all and chris comer comes up sooner on the team br br 2 the game against marshall was lost at marshall the team depicted as marshall was actually high one of main rivals and here is the proof marshall high is the mavericks colored scarlet and silver high is the colored purple and gold look at the jerseys and you will see who it is also the real marshall high's football roster is overwhelmingly black the team shown was racially mixed like high br br 3 only loses to lee by one point in district play lee loses to high and high loses to these are the teams that set up the coin toss as such br br 4 boobie comes back on the team as a reserve to chris comer and after not getting any playing time in the lee game he quits the team completely at half time and never stands on the sideline or goes to any games again br br 5 brian chavez was a tight end and defensive end who wore 85 not a tight end and strong safety in addition boobie wore 35 and ivory christian wore 62 br br 6 the coaches end up liking chris comer as a player more than boobie because he has a better lifting ethic and runs more straight up plays the way the staff prefers him too this is in part why boobie quits the team br br 7 dallas carter is played in austin at darrell k royal memorial stadium where ut plays in the state semi finals not the state finals carter wins the state title but is forced to forfeit due to an player br br the acting is done pretty well but if you read the book you will see these flaws are pretty true i am also tired of hearing all the pc hypocrites out there complain about the depiction of dallas carter's football team the team according to the book is as large monstrous talented and black as the movie shows people say it is a racist depiction but reading the book you see a true depiction of the team the story is very altered giving this movie a score of 3 5 10
0	it was full of plot holes inaccuracies doesn't the time clock stop for injured players or loss of helmets in texas football games and not so much redemption so your dad beats the crap out of you well do something right for once and then he will love you and make it all worthwhile br br either make the movie about a team and its quest for a championship or make a movie about a player within a team and his personal struggle but instead this movie tried to do it all and came up more than a couple yards short the book probably showed the whole story much better the movie should have picked one element of the story and stuck with that br br instead the movie jumped from one character dialogue to flashes of game play and then another character dialogue months later without actually telling you who people were or why they were important the calling his sibling to take care of the mother whatever happened with that because the mother was coherent by the end of the final game does that mean she's not crazy anymore its one redeeming quality was the soundtrack buy that and then watch highlights while iggy pop plays in the background
0	we'll never know the truth about 9 11 and this shoddy movie proves it br br i recently watched a youtube report claiming there were no planes involved in the twin towers' destruction that all the news programs were supposedly provided with same angle shots of the towers from a mysterious source probably the and in that provided footage cgi planes were substituted for real life missiles which actually hit the towers br br it's a compelling video and though i am not a wacko conspiracy theorist per se i am still not sure myself whether actual planes hit anything that day the towers the field the pentagon because there is no plane wreckage available and what about those infamous black boxes none recovered a million other theories abound all of them courting a droplet of truth awash in an ocean of speculation but you'll drown in malarkey before you find anything truthful or worth speculating about in the 9 11 commission report a no budget movie that is trying to close the barn door after all the horses and jihadists have escaped br br writer director leigh scott is obviously a concerned american citizen who wanted to enlighten audiences on what the page report might reveal it would help if his movie had actors instead of a guy who looks like david duchovny a chick who looks like gina gershon a guy who thinks he's russell crowe and another guy who i'm pretty sure is trying hard to be sean bean it would help if his camera operator didn't have if the lighting director wasn't trying to save on electricity it would help if his editor didn't have attention deficit disorder or if the soundtrack wasn't some tuneless new world order and the looping should have probably been inserted when people were actually moving their mouths br br we can't even call this propaganda it's too funny and by funny i mean unwatchable br br you can't squeeze an issue this complex into a two hour film but leigh scott tries anyway including all those sexy catch phrases we've grown to bin intent to attack purchasing weapons from non aggression agreement with iraq attending flight school weapons of mass destruction br br the problem is we know it's all retrospect so every discussion the concerned intelligence operatives have with each other reeks of fake hindsight all crammed into a neat conversation like contrived reverse engineering everything pertinent is mentioned succinctly so that we can shake our heads in wonder at how incompetently all these branches of government screwed up br br there's a ludicrous interrogation scene with a lubricious bimbo beating up on a guy with tomato sauce on his face now that would be considered torture if most guys didn't consider it a turn on br br the tagline is what if the attack could have been stopped by this movie's account and we presume according to the commission report the cia and other underground agencies were all set to capture bin laden and didn't everyone involved with the terrorism reports you mean you actually read these reports is so concerned we just want to slap them for their bad acting br br yet the whole story goes so much deeper than the banal the negligent ku bush klan foisted on the american people after 9 11 we now know that even capturing bin laden before the 9 11 attack would not have changed or achieved anything the wheels were in motion with or without that taliban figurehead whose involvement was the possible figment of someone's fevered imagination to unite america against a common enemy contrary to popular belief they didn't attack us as ron paul tried to elucidate it was a case of middle eastern blowback they were so sick of america planting their infidel feet over there that they brought the war over here so though george w death likes to tout the nonsensical we're fighting them over there so we won't have to fight them over here in reality because we're over there the fight has been brought over here br br the 9 11 attack was not so much about the intricate planning of terrorists as it was the gross negligence of the bush administration who we know without the probing of commissions had all the intel from the clinton administration onwards information about terrorist cells reaching critical mass and their intent to cause chaos but the oil idiot of texas who refused to read his daily and would rather vacation at his crawford ranch than spend one extra day at work the duty he swore an oath to perform protect the american public br br and then the scum who called himself president used the attacks brought about by his negligence as a political hammer against his own dumbed down countryfolk to score a second term shred the american constitution and take america into a fake war on the basis of a lie wmd with a country that had nothing to do with the 9 11 attacks strangely enough the movie never treads near the ku bush klan offering no opinion or judgment leigh scott wanting to remain neutral tell that to the raped and pillaged hundreds of thousands in the fake war on terror in iraq br br out of pure coincidence i realized i was watching this dvd while wearing my bush lied thousands died t shirt
0	am i the only one who thought the point of this film was the graphic violence i knew nothing about leigh scott when i rented it and would not have done so if i had known that most of his previous films were horror films i am not into that at all i was just expecting an informative docudrama of the 9 11 report br br instead i got an almost incomprehensible violent movie the only good thing about it for me was that it made me want to read the report to figure out what the heck this movie was about br br i wrote this because i am shocked that we have become so immune to violence in films and on tv that it was not even worth commenting on by the bloggers whose reviews that i read
0	this documentary was very amateurish it could have been made by college students assuming that it was my grading is as follows content c sound quality f cinematography f acting d soundtrack f casting c a overall grade d br br i found myself getting seasick as we walked down the streets with the characters bobbing up and down with each move of the my mother in law even changed the batteries in her miracle ear and she could not hear the muffled dialog extensive post production editing and cgi would not help this bomb these students would barely pass my course my advise don't waste your time or money for the one a
0	i tried lord help me how i tried but there are just some people almost incapable of creating quality brett ratner uwe boll britney spears and asylum to their credit the 9 11 commission report seems like an honest attempt by the company to advance into a more sophisticated state of storytelling and movie making but for all intents and purposes it comes off as another truly film in their gallery at the opening the disclaimer notifies audiences that all the names have been changed but the names of the terrorists remain relatively the same a man named attempts to learn how to fly a plane with a stone cold grimace that would instantly make anyone uneasy this undercover agent is able to learn how to fly on a small computer and you have to wonder not how he was able to get into this program so easily but on how these people didn't even ask questions because this scene is so far fetched in its presentation and the actor playing this man is extremely over the top and you can see that director scott attempts to mimic paul greengrass with a bright grainy photography that's followed by an awfully dizzying and irritating hand held direction that throughout the entire film attempts to take off from greengrass's gung ho guerrilla film making techniques br br you can sense scott emulating greengrass's technique for realism but it becomes rather lame brained halfway in meanwhile the film comes off less a traffic take off and more a take off on law order in which we'll have the disclaimer notifying us the names have been changed the logo almost reminiscent of the law order logo and then ninety minutes of the actors pumping their chests and discussing politics br br neither of which are ever as compelling as it tries to be and then when the film seems as if its attempting to be an adult drama scott relies on his old the sex scene scott's new film looks like it really wants to be thought of as a low budget munich but it's not and it manages to be underwhelming on every such occasion possible the 9 11 commission report falls flat and that's because its limited in its attempts to imitate other films br br while i appreciate the ambition inherent behind the camera this new perspective of the events leading up to 9 11 is flat and dull hard as it may try to be a low budget munich it's only really as entertaining as a normal dolph lundgren film you'd find on cinemax
0	i rented the dvd in a video store as an alternative to reading the report but it's pretty much just more terror br br while the film may present some info from the report in the drama you're taking the word of the producers there's no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film not one br br the acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of 'hot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else there may be some truth to it but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it br br imdb's user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can br br i wish i had on this one
0	i was so let down by this film the tag line was something like 'the story of a girls sexual awakening' you can only imagine how disappointed i was i was seventeen at the time and i took my girlfriend to see it i thought we were going to see a sexy movie that would leave my girlfriend gagging for it sadly that was not the case i guess we just weren't ready for a deep and meaningful movie that required an element of sophistication that we just didn't possess at the time i'm not so sure i possess it now and i have long since parted company with that particular girlfriend pity really my first love we left the cinema half way through the film my friend who should have known better stayed for the whole thing i still got the required result with my girlfriend the film just didn't help much it would be interesting to see it again so that i can make a more informed critique though i feel the experience has left me scarred for life
0	i will never get back the three hours of life this film has stolen from me br br the film is basically a psychedelic drug trip disguised as an important creative process i'd love to know what they were on when this film was being made br br its also the most historically inaccurate film in existence 2001 has come and gone without any of the events or predictions taking place br br characters are unlikeable design is simplistic and everything just rambles on without any sense or logic to it br br and the ending is probably the worst of it its supposed to be thought provoking but the only thought that entered my mind is what the f k is going on br br i'd say for anyone looking for serious entertainment purposes avoid this film at all cost and choose a sci fi movie that isn't stuck up its own
0	that snarl br br that scowl br br the acts of random violence br br the voice br br the fetish wear br br that shaven head br br it can mean only one thing br br grace jones is back br br actually my sources tell me that the title role in blade wasn't played by the 1980s diva but by wesley snipes br br all in all this is not an improvement br br blade is an adaptation of a comic character somehow in the transfer from the simplistic two dimensional world of the printed page it has become even more simplistic and lost a couple of dimensions br br the plot is hackneyed almost beyond belief and adds nothing to the vampire genre in fact much like nosferatu it seems to suck the life out of the audience in brief upwardly mobile vampire wants to become more powerful but is opposed by blade half human half vampire all annoying it all climaxes with blade being put in a vampire juice press some bad martial arts and the most pitiful cgi since 1968 br br blade has to be the least empathic character since dolph lundgren's punisher also a comic adaptation perhaps there is a trend here surely the audience is meant to be on the same side as the 'hero' and whilst a vampire can be a tragic character this is not true of blade he is relentlessly cruel scornful and not a whole lot better than the bad guys br br i assume that wesley snipes has an 'acting' career purely so that everyone else can be compared favourably as he snarls his way through his movie you find yourself looking for a stake even a pen anything to put blade in the grave br br as a piece of narcissism blade is pretty much unbeatable we are treated to endless lingering shots of a gym fresh snipes for no reason whatsoever likewise no other actor is allowed any chance to give a reasonable performance the likes of steven dorff can act but they have to play second fiddle to snipes' tedious performance br br kris kristofferson used to appear in good movies here he is reduced to a sidekick that you just know isn't going to make it through to the final reel and what happens when blade finds out yes you guessed it he rushes to the scene to wreak his revenge in the villain's giant underground lair br br why can't world domination take place in a quiet country house they always go ahead in underground cathedrals that would have had albert speer wondering if they were a little grandiose a lot of these plans could be stopped right now if local councils paid more attention to plans for extending sub basements br br the rest of the movie is just as dull and unimaginative with nothing new to add to the genre vampires have been done to undeath and perhaps they should be laid to rest for a while at least until someone can think of some way to make them interesting again br br to finish there is a grace jones vampire movie it's called vamp and it's about ten times better than this
0	it's dreadful but br br cat stevens fans are given the opportunity to see the woman who inspired the lovely song lady d'arbanville on his album mona bone before cat turned into a supporting religious zealot
0	when it was released this film caused a sensation i watched it and was thrilled beautiful usually young naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses actually is all there is there is no real story the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies but they are not real creatures with a soul actually nothing happens it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills and this gets so boring after a while i even didn't watch the whole thing the second time for i fell vast asleep that is all that remains of this masterpiece it is a very good sleeping pill and you will never become addicted to it br br back then 7 out of 10 now 3 out of 10
0	it is not generally my practice to review movies that i dislike to any great degree however one or two times a year i temporarily set aside my rule to only comment on things i like to give a word of warning i find it more enjoyable to comment on something i like and boost it than i do shooting at bad movies but some movies cry out for the razor br br bilitis is one of them the cinematography isn't the only aspect that is blurry and out of focus here an almost indiscernible plot certainly incoherent if there even is one bad acting cheesy script and awful pacing those are its major problems br br understand i firmly believe that not all movies are created equal and films should be judged according to their category it is not reasonable to judge say beach blanket bingo against gone with the wind i judge bilitis against other movies in its weight class measured against movies like emmanuelle or secrets of a chambermaid it comes off very badly indeed even eye candy has to be entertaining and bilitis most definitely is not
0	this movie could have been oh so much better it is a beautiful story set in very trying times and yet it was so poorly executed the leading actors have in the past done excellent jobs and for the most part they do an adequate job in this film although at times their dialogue seems stilted and forced the directing could have been more concise the bulk of the criticism should go to the writers who took a good story and made it tedious in short there are thousands of much better ways to spend 2 hours
0	robin williams is excellent in this movie and it is a pity the material is not enough of a match for him this may work if you buy into the u s a number one mentality but story wise nothing much happens quite a shame really since the movie is really trying to say something and says it sincerely it just doesn't pack enough emotional punch
0	this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward attended by two the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over saying that the are gay the kiss i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny – it said on the dvd case after all and it goes on like that had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter because it is so funny – and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn't this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn't br br brilliant brains can make anything funny people like ernst lubitsch billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact but you have to know the i suppose director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics he thinks that certain things simply are funny the fact that two are gay and kiss over a man in a coma for example do not get me wrong some people can make that funny dani levy can't not for me anyway br br the main problem i have with this movie is that i can't see a reason behind the way the main characters behave i could not understand why the two brothers one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie from former east germany so strongly disliked each other they are both rather bland characters their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other well one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin but even these incestuous relationships – if anything they are embarrassing just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better br br the acting is not bad udo i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut a lighter version than of a venerable orthodox jew the direction in itself is not really bad either but maybe levy should stick to directing movies leaving the scriptwriting to someone else now i heard he did a comedy about hitler oi
0	it was praised to be a fast paced screwball comedy and the best german movie of the year so i gave it a try even though i've already seen some films by dani levy or at least parts of them br br i got what i had expected no comedy at all unless you think that heart attacks are funny it's a fine example of sloppy screen writing with an implausible plot and characters loaded with clichés that might be true but surely are not funny either br br the most annoying character is that of wife played by she has to behave incredibly strange to keep the plot moving for example she doesn't know a single thing about judaism but by reasons most likely unknown to even herself she gets the idea to play the charade that she and her family are jewish laws obeying jews for her husband's family who really are and of the very orthodox and self righteous variety to make it a bit more complicated she invites the four of them to stay at her city flat because they arrive from frankfurt in berlin without having booked their hotels in advance something no 60 years old business man actually no grown up german would ever do this gives the viewer a lot to swallow but still fails to produce any jokes br br zucker and his brother samuel haven't seen each other for forty years but it turns out that his daughter now a lesbian and son now a militant orthodox were once lovers and he's her daughter's father daughter a nympho goes after gay son is this supposed to be a somehow humorous parody of jewish incestuous tendencies probably it's just a thoughtless way to add some love action turbulence every screwball comedy needs and of course is also fails to produce any jokes br br the praise for this movie is purely political therefore only people who enjoy watching movies that are supposed to be politically important will enjoy this one even though alles zucker quite clearly has no importance of any kind br br for all the rest don't watch it without a fast forward option i really missed it
0	this movie i totally not funny and i would imagine to be pretty offensive to jewish people and i am not jewish why first the whole movie portray the protagonist zucker as a cheat running shady business and deals while his son is gay his daughter is lesbian and his niece is a slut then there is the incestuous relationship that happens in the family first his daughter with his joshua and jana and then his son with his niece two incestuous relationship running in family i am surprised they didn't add the plot of having a mentally disabled in the family now that would really complete the nazi ideal sub human gay lesbian jew br br totally disgusting film i am surprised this film gets no response from any jewish community
0	eddie murphy put a lot into this movie by directed wrote starred and produced this story about two owners in the 30s who try to fight mobsters and corrupt cops from taking over their club a great cast in murphy redd foxx richard pryor danny aiello della reese and a gorgeous jasmine guy that would make it worth seeing on its own but the story just doesnt hold up interest or give the great cast enough to work with on a scale of one to ten a 4
0	eddie murphy and richard pryor team up in this would be comedy about nightclub owners being squeezed by organized crime eddie murphy wrote and directed this obnoxious ego trip and therefore has no one to blame but himself for its failure this is a genuinely bad film so completely devoid of energy and humor that it serves only as a example of murphy's contempt for his audience it would be remarkably easy to continue beating up on this movie but i will show it more mercy than it showed its audience and stop now
0	2001 is one of those movies where if you don't like it you are told that you don't 'get it' and need to look at the deeper meaning and symbolism you're told that you clearly have a slow attention span and just want to see sex explosions and have the plot handed to you on a platter br br let's break down the movie shall we three minutes of blackness with something that sounds like a dying hippo in the background then we get the opening credits a minute of fascinating shots of the savannah then a bunch of monkeys find a black rock and start killing things with bones cut to the first of many 20 minute shots of ships doing things while the 'blue danube' plays in the background a bunch of pointless dialogue and a group of moon scientists find another monolith br br cut to a spaceship that's too long for the crew complement three sleeping people two people named dave and frank who have only slightly more personality than the stiffs in hibernation and then there's hal the 'perfect' supercomputer who runs the ship predictably he snaps and starts breaking the first law of robotics now this is something that has potential an evil coldly ruthless super mind who controls the surrounding environment and can predict your every move and what does he do he lets one guy float into space and turns off the hibernation machines so the three sleeping guys die leaving dave floating in a pod he simply uses the airlock puts on a spacesuit and turns hal off agonizingly slowly then apparently there's some psychedelic at jupiter br br here's the movie with the pauses taken out apes see monolith kill things scientists find moon monolith hal kills people hal dies dave gets a message and evolves at jupiter br br this is not me 'not getting it ' this is me being bored to tears by long stretches of absolutely nothing sure it's realistic but i find i have no reason to care no matter the message no movie can be good without being entertaining frankly every character could be replaced with keanu reeves and nothing would change
0	i wasn t expecting much with harlem nights but i wasn t expecting it to be as bad as it was without doubt the worst aspect is the obscene language it really is awful the amount there is in this film and before anyone accuses me of being a wimp let me point out two things br br 1 amongst my fave films i would include platoon raging bull while my favourite movie of all time is apocalypse now br br 2 my all time favourite american television show is the hbo prison drama oz br br so you see films and television shows with massive amounts of swearing don t normally bother me but the problem i had with harlem nights is to do with the fact it s supposed to be a comedy but it seems the production team came to the conclusion that an audience laugh everytime someone especially if that someone is black says a rude word and decided to funny situations with swearing all the way through the film hoping to get a laugh well i thought i d never start laughing and i didn t
0	just read through the other comments here and was a little surprised to find that no one had said anything about the acting or plot br br richard pryor and eddie murphy can both deliver an amazing stand up comedy show great actors they are not enough about that br br as for the plot oh man every time the movie tries to fool you into believing the good guys are going to lose you know those scenes what the good guys loses oh i see it was just a trick it's done so terribly bad you can spot it a mile away br br it had 2 or 3 funny moments but not enough to save the day br br it's a little silly that these comments has to be 10 lines now a lot of people will fill it up with crap for it to be eligible being brief is an art
0	1989 was already a year in where eddie murphy wasn't that longer hot and started making movies that soon would be forgotten funnily enough it was also the year in where murphy directed his first film but it also would be the first and last experiment harlem nights wasn't exactly what you can call a success even if it was great to see the two best black comedians together namely murphy and richard pryor don't blame it on the actors as they all played their roles like you expected them do even if you have to face again the typical murphy laugh the worst thing from harlem nights are both the scenario and its terrible decors everything is set in the roaring twenties and everybody has their profit from the forbidden clubs sugar ray pryor and his adopted son quickie murphy are gathering easily dollar per day but of course soon the mob and the corrupt police come around the corner to claim their part of the cookie sugar and quickie aren't guys who give their money for free and have their own plans you can watch harlem nights that's for sure but if you puke from the moment you hear the name murphy you better avoid as after all this movie is nothing but a lame excuse to see some good jokes
0	this is truly one of the worst movies ever made and i don't mean in a so bad it's good kind of way eddie murphy is a great comic and it is a testament to how bad this movie is that it nearly killed his career the writing and direction are inept the sets and staging about as imaginative as a brady bunch episode and the acting shows just how bad a great cast can be when they have absolutely nothing to work with if it weren't for the costumes which aside from eddie murphy's ego seem to account for the major part of the budget you would swear this thing was slapped together by a bunch of high schoolers wasted on peppermint that anyone could find this travesty in any way funny or entertaining is mind boggling it's probably no coincidence that the misguided souls who are praising this stinker are barely literate but if your idea of hilarity is della reese getting her pinkie toe shot off then by all means put aside your drool cup and go rent this movie
0	by dane youssef br br i was kind of looking forward to this one i enjoy eddie murphy and i love it when a star hand makes a vehicle for themselves or when someone who writes decides to mark their own directorial debut but when the star's head gets too big for the rest of his body there's always a danger of a big budgeted hollywood vanity production br br will the filmmaker keep it real… or will he just waste amounts of money the studio's ours and time the studio's ours his own patting himself on the back for an hour in a half sadly it's the latter here br br another thing i really like is when someone breathes new and fresh life into an exhausted and dried out genre none of that here the warring nightclub movies have become so worn through that even the parodies of it are dreary and done to death br br murphy does neither he does the most clichéd he plugs into a routine conventional formula gangster picture and plays it as seriously as if it were the godfather it's like a script where the next draft they put in the jokes and the new ideas but it seems like someone with clout just looked at it and went no… this is fine br br probably murphy he is credited all over this in the opening shot of beautiful white satin sheets his name headlines across the credits about five times br br the plot a young orphan saves pryor's life and pryor adopts the little br br 20 years later pryor's dump has become a first class hot spot they're pulling down big money and a gangster wants their action he's even got a dirty cop in his employ but pryor comes up with a scheme a la the sting br br murphy's screenplay plays like an unfinished first draft that nobody had the pair to call him on the actors aren't really allowed to stand out much if at all even the almighty murphy seems to be on auto pilot br br pryor shows class and gentlemanly manners as sugar ray perhaps it would have been better to name his character brown sugar evidence that this one needed a polish but everyone here is basically just on vacation br br the oscar nomination the movie received is richly deserved joe i best costume design but the production values are the only part that makes the '30's feel authentic br br some sets look somewhat fake but this is supposed to be a comedy of sorts it's rare one movie gets nominated for both a razzie and an oscar unless it's one of lucas' new star wars chapters br br it's 1938 and everyone is talking like it's 1988 particularly the comedians this is a prehistoric white man's formula and with all these black comedians and you expect them to skewer the genre or at least bring new life to it nope murphy is pretty much just coasting here br br the great roger ebert summed it up perfectly when he remarked in his review murphy approaches his story more as a costume party in which everybody gets to look great while fumbling through a plot that has not been fresh since at least 1938 br br jasmine guy is perfectly cast and seems to be indulging herself in her role and michael lerner has all the looks evil and mannerisms of the prototypical mob boss down pat and there are moments where pryor gives you an idea of what a more interesting leader and authority figure would sound like he gives every scene he's in a feeling of dignity br br would it have been too much to ask that della resse sing or at least quit embarrassing herself with all her kiss my ass talk br br and the late redd foxx doesn't get to leave much of a swan song here he has some back and forth with resse which could have been some great stuff nope murphy wastes another opportunity again here br br murphy's quick is charismatic and likable but those moments are few and far between for sure murphy has never looked better and never been duller his character made me laugh twice throughout the whole movie br br stan shaw's boxer with a horrible speech impediment isn't just painful and embarrassing it's annoying there's more to comedy than simply showing something unpleasant you have to incorporate some kind of light touch and funny situation watching him strain even the some of the easiest words just makes us feel sorry for him and annoyed with murphy br br can murphy write a screenplay well… there was raw but that was really stand up material he wrote the outline for boomerang and coming to america for sure but her didn't have the last word there maybe a team of er like script doctors could've revived this one br br murphy's direction is so slow and quiet you'd swear he was asleep at the wheel some of the time he has too many static shots and doesn't seem to know how to build and release suspense on some level i think quick is the real eddie murphy angry young hot headed and ambitious but occasionally charming now if he were only funny sometime br br there's a scene in which murphy has a femme fa tale in bed who plans to make love with him and kill him you can probably guess how it turns out like everything else in the movie this could have been better br br surprisingly murphy has not directed another movie since he got a razzie nomination and he no longer writes the finished draft for his films either he won the razzie for writing this br br it's great to look at and the music is beautiful and there are a few really nice scenes but that just falls under the category of gems among all the junk not enough of them br br been been wasn't oh well br br by dane youssef
0	produced at a point in his career where he had the juice to do whatever he wanted eddie murphy took on the task of producing directing co writing and starring in harlem nights an expensive looking but ultimately empty gangster saga about a group of black nightclub owners gangsters running a ritzy club during the 1930's headed by a wisecracking hot shot eddie murphy and his adopted father richard pryor and their attempts to avoid being overrun by white gangsters who think they are taking over turf that it seems they think is rightfully theirs simply by virtue of their color this was an idea that probably looked great on paper but it definitely lost something in the translation this was a vanity piece for eddie and i think he spreads himself a little too thin here trying to be the whole show here admittedly it was a pleasure seeing murphy and pryor together on screen but the rest of the large supporting cast including hall redd foxx della reese michael lerner danny aiello jasmine guy thomas mikal ford stan shaw and eddie's brother are really given precious little to do though i will admit murphy's fight scene with della reese is hysterically funny and probably the movie's best scene murphy clearly poured a lot of money into this film and a good deal of it shows on screen the art and set direction are impressive and the breathtaking costumes should have won an oscar but this one was a big miss for eddie as he definitely tried to wear too many hats
0	this takes place in 1920s harlem a black owned nightclub has to deal with gangsters and corrupt policemen br br terrible vanity project for eddie murphy it tries to mix comedy and drama and fails at both the comedy simply isn't funny and the drama is boring and badly acted you think a film with three comedy legends eddie murphy redd foxx and richard pryor would be great but it isn't there's nonstop swearing and the opening scene has a young boy shooting a man to death this is shown as being ok also we have the beautiful della reese degraded into playing a madam one of the comedic highlights has a long unfunny and terribly vicious fight between her and murphy a boring offensive and stupid mess not the worst murphy movie but pretty close a 1 all the way
0	in the 1930s hal roach studios was on top of the comedy world with such stars as laurel and hardy charley chase and the little rascals most of these films are exceptional and have withstood the passing of time however a lesser known roach product was the pairing of thelma todd and zasu pitts later todd was paired with the equally untalented patsy kelly try as i might i just can't stand these pictures they just aren't funny plus unlike laurel and hardy there was not an ounce of chemistry between todd and her two co stars before you just think i am a crank understand that i have seen and reviewed several hundred roach films as well as many other early comedies so i am well acquainted with the genre and within the genre this team is among the worst part of the reason i think i am right about the team is that as a lower tier team at roach they were given all the scripts no one else wanted if stan or ollie hated a given plot idea it was often given to todd and pitts kelly and usually it showed br br in this film however the team is at their absolute lowest it's hard to imagine a comedy with less laughs and a more contrived plot the film begins with zasu in the jury and thelma as a defense lawyer as for zasu she's a completely annoying moron not the lovable type moron like stan laurel or lou costello but just a totally annoying and grating person who is pushy and obnoxious as for thelma as usual she's the rather bland straight man and as such has little to do but react to boorish behavior br br the plot involves thelma defending a client who is accused of selling exploding diet pills considering that the pills are highly dangerous when the attorney asks zasu to try swallowing one it just seems dumb and while they were called pills they were more like giant black blobs that were larger than golf balls swallowing them only seemed contrived and made no sense even for a low brow comedy when they find she has swallowed the pill and it really is explosive everyone panics and runs about like idiots until the film ends br br as i said i am not a fan of this team however even for those who want to like the film there isn't one legitimate laugh in the entire short when i talked over this review with my wife who also saw the movie with me she thought my score of 2 was overly generous
0	peter yates film from the pen of steve is a relatively low key thriller that doesn't really manage to get off the ground story concerns the mysterious murder of an influential asian business man and the subsequent implication of a pathetic vietnam veteran james woods who the police believe may have taken revenge on his ex employer as the eyewitness william hurt never believes his friend is capable of such an act br br hurt is well below his usual strength and one finds it hard to sympathise with him or an uninspired sigourney weaver james woods and christopher plummer do a little better in their support roles worth noting is the appearance of morgan freeman as detective black br br in retrospect steve story is only an unlikely romance dressed up as a mystery flick the plot is far too contrived br br friday october 17 1997 video
0	i'm a collector of films starring ms weaver so i bought this only because of her being in it i find it really odd that her early career is filled with so many awful movies she started with incredible promise in alien but then had a slew of bombs these bombs include this movie deal of the century one woman or two and half moon street she also appeared in the year of living dangerously which was not a bomb but her performance was less than notable in the time between alien and it's 1986 sequel aliens the only movie she did that was worth anything was ghostbusters before the release of aliens i'm sure everyone thought this woman was on her way out luckily she wasn't br br back to eyewitness though the film is boring it doesn't create any suspense william hurt seems like a cardboard stand in and the atmosphere is just to dry sigourney is decent but nothing worth remembering br br watch this movie if you must but don't go in with any expectations of a decent movie watch better movies with these two stars like accidental tourist and working girl
0	i did and i lost two and a half hours of my life that i can never regain again br br i honestly have no idea what the critics and fans see in this movie and that's not because i can't appreciate art i love a good film with profound messages brilliant cinematography and great directing br br this film just isn't one of them br br my main complaint about this film is that it's so horribly slow paced to the point of boring its audience to death on the other hand sequences of dialog go by too quickly and there's not enough exposition to let people who haven't read the book know what's going on my mother had mercy on me and explained everything before i watched it would it have killed them to hire a narrator at least for the beginning and the end br br let me break it down for you spoilers throughout br br for the first two minutes you are treated to a black screen with no music waiting for the actual movie to begin br br for the following minute and a half you see several pictures of sunrises and savanna landscapes like the audience couldn't figure out how to set the scene unless they saw the establishing shot three or four times br br the next eleven minutes are occupied with the grunting monkeys they fight see the monolith fight some more pommel things with a bone supposedly they are prehistoric men whose evolution is being influenced by the singing not that you could tell if you hadn't read the book br br finally we get into space only to be subjected to twelve minutes of ships slowly spinning to the blue danube waltz a pretty quick tempo ed waltz as i understand yet here it feels absolutely agonizing at last we get some innocuous dialog and rather cryptic exposition about the government not letting people land on the moon we are left to wonder about this for fourteen more minutes of blue danube and spinning ships and neat camera tricks with anti gravity br br next comes four minutes of watching a ship travel over the surface of the moon and dock at a space station we get a little more exposition in a board room scene that follows then we're back outside traveling at a snail's pace over the moon a second monolith is revealed again filling our ears with that horrible ringing i had no idea that was an actual piece of music the monolith does its little light show and then the plot jumps forward br br seven minutes of watching the ship to jupiter travel by this point in time my brains had turned into mush could it be moving any slower maybe it's realistic to portray it as such but we still don't need to see five or six different shots of the same thing to grasp the concept of its realism let me tell you about this realism thing i cheered when the secondary astronaut character died not because i'm a sadist and like watching people die but because after five minutes i was just so annoyed at the sound of his darn breathing i'm supposed to care about this character feel when he dies instead i found myself waiting for blissful silence whatever way it came br br anyway now we get to the most interesting part of the film the part with hal forget dave the stick of wood protagonist the real star of the show is that coldly impersonal chillingly villainous ruthlessly merciless bad guy of a computer he's great and the open the pod bay doors sequence is wonderful but it's too short and it's not long before the director once again lapses into too long goings on br br four minutes for hal to die and die he does slowly painfully losing intelligence with every minute voice getting lower and slower singing daisy daisy all with a low and constant hissing that becomes just as annoying as the heavy breathing br br seven minutes of flying colors as dave enters the monolith seven i could feel my brains melting and dripping out of my ears seven full minutes of absolutely nothing but some guy's whacked out psychedelic version of space travel again with that thrice cursed chorus we got the idea at the beginning of the sequence why drag it out so long unless he wanted to make lsd users go psychotic and have flashbacks br br i'm not even going to try to explain the ending mostly because i don't quite get it myself supposedly he's in an alien research laboratory and they're teaching him deep and profound things while he watches himself getting older and older and then they send him back to earth as some kind of cosmic celestial space baby none of this comes across in the film for all you know it's just a sequence of images with no purpose or plot whatsoever a lot of the movie felt that way br br the first time i tried watching this movie i gave up halfway through the second time i suffered through this sore excuse for a film it was to help my sister time the sequences to see how long they lasted it's that boring br br call this crummy film art if you wish i wouldn't i've seen more interesting art in the local museum and i am never subjecting myself to this kind of suffering ever again
0	i thought this movie was awful i understand it was shot on a small budget but the acting was terrible and the movie itself was just plain dumb the plot was predictable and the central character was an unsympathetic moron in fact all of the characters were unsympathetic and none were fully developed at all the audience relates to no one in the movie it was supposed to be suspenseful but if you don't care about the characters it's hard to get into the movie at all i felt like an outsider being forced to listen to someone tell me a stupid story all the plot twists at the end were just a little too much i was actually laughing when i guess i was supposed to be shocked all in all i thought it was really just a bad movie
0	i'm only going to write more because it's required however the summary i put at the top is way too wordy for what this film was you pretty much know who's in on it from the beginning in spite of its attempts at plot twists and turns acting 'talent' trying hard to have looks of shock and dismay when a twist happens you never really need to wonder in this 'mystery' br br the more i write the more i feel bad that i have to write so much in order to have a comment but rules are rules i really feel bad about saying this but this is the lowest i've ever rated a movie i think it makes me wonder what i'm saving votes of 1 and 2 for however i thought this film deserved a 3 since i believe there was some talent in the film johanna watts or is it watson did a pretty good job she was crying and distraught in one part and i thought she conveyed that emotion well the man who played the character that was 'the did well too for his short part br br many of the actors did an 'ok' job but the lead actor david forget his last name terrible with names was pretty bad i think he must have thought he was doing dramatic displays for 'the young and the restless' or of our lives' if you try you can just picture him in a white lab coat playing a doctor with multiple personalities on it doesn't help that the movie is even shot like a daytime soap although i'm pretty sure i could shoot this same movie with a camcorder though without the obvious and sound editing br br first time i ever thought the money to rent this movie was wasted though i wouldn't watch it again unless i was paid a large sum of money
0	i mistakenly thought that this neo noir effort from the buffalo niagara falls area might be something different unfortunately i was incorrect there are are many problems with the falls that really have nothing to do with it's low budget video production immediately one has to question why all the constant narration my feeling is that if you have a decent script the audience will follow along without having to be insulted with voice over storytelling the acting is very amateurish which is not unexpected but simply adds to the problems finally the entire thing is annoyingly shot like an mtv music video which i found to be totally unacceptable the narration bad acting and annoying video effects are all good reasons why this should be avoided merk
0	i really liked the idea of traveling between dimensions and i even liked the wade quinn tension in early episodes some of the worlds they created gave the main characters extremely interesting backdrops for their stories however as the show went on there were more silly disputes among the friends and less of a true bond there was less wonder and excitement when they were involved in other worlds and more condescension and every world had one of the characters falling in love the writing just got boring and everything was way too over the top too bad it would've been nice to have a closely knit band of friends a la star wars traveling to different dimensions on tv for several years rather than a tired band of knit pickers
0	team spirit is maybe made by the best intentions but it misses the warmth of all stars 1997 by jean van de velde most scenes are just not that funny and not that well done the actors repeat the same lines as in all stars but without much feeling
0	an example of all of the worst gay stereotypes all in one movie br br and charles why do you speak in that weird pseudo british high brow accent and insist that the kid speak that way too did anyone else notice that all of the soundtrack music is exactly the same you should stick with the good old hollywood camp drag stuff that you are so good at die mommy die ii the sequel i don't see the value of spending time and money on a project like this there are so many real life gay youth stories to be told and we should be seeing those not this garbage sheesh what a waste of time embarrassing example of gay cinema
0	i have to say its not very good polly bergen is fine in this film the rest are so so i'm gay and honestly there are so many cliché's for this time in history that its just sad we started watching it then turned it off then decided it would be fun to make fun of the rest of the film but all said the basic idea of the film is good if it was re written with less contrived lines and better acting it could have actually been prety good over all i would not recommend it in the this is coo coo thinking line is so lame on top of that the fight in the hair salon is funny because its so bad the lesbian sister in the room with them while they are trying to get it on is so weird its sad
0	yes lifetime has a habit of making the male species look stupid and this soap opera ain't kidding when they make perry king supposedly a well renowned medical doctor unable to see the evil surrounding him puts your trust in doctors huh how can anyone not see what's going on is he that stupid and the evil wife with a face like a horse goes around killing off his entire family without a trace how does she acquire all the drugs that isn't explained how does she get off being a secretary in a hospital without any credentials i guess the director don asks us to just believe it i didn't i kept yelling at the screen at the stupidity of king with all right in front of his face if the wife was that attractive maybe just maybe i'd accept it but she's not even that shannon sturges is the perfect wife and i tell you she has the face of a horse i wouldn't cross the street for her yet our perfect husband does and quickly after everybody in the cast get knocked off i wasn't satisfied with the come up pence given to our villainess she deserved more than she got william moses plays the doctor's brother who unfortunately you know his outcome from day one pleasure to at least see one pretty face in this clinker that of lesley anne down she gives the film a 2 count just on the relief of seeing someone fetching in this mess perry king deserved his fate what a jerk
0	sometimes i think that somewhere in the lifetime channel's office complex there is a room where the writer's hang out with a large wheel on the wall sort of like the big six ones in casinos the latter have a lot of spots where you win even money and fewer for higher amounts until there are perhaps a couple which pay bigger bucks br br but i picture the channel's wheel having about six different genres on its wheel with two of them appearing the most labeled the psychotic neighbor or the spouse with a hidden past or secret or both lifetime movies have a few repetitive story lines and these two seem to be the most ubiquitous br br the spouse category can have a spouse of long standing but some person appears or an event occurs exposing that the good wife was once a hooker one of the couple was involved in some nefarious act long ago or that something else in one of the background in different than presumed etc etc or as in this flick one of them has entered the marriage with the most nefarious of aims br br one constant in all of their genres is that the husband or other males are usually clueless vacuous and slow to have any idea what in the hell is going until the climax or at best very late in the proceedings unless the male is the miscreant not the case here br br whether the referenced miscreant might be the neighbor or as in this offering the wife it is always fascinating how easily successfully and effortlessly they proceed with their dastardly deeds they manipulate many of the others whack them as necessary assume various poses and juggle more deceptions than you can count with unfailing success until just before the end br br the lead actor here like many in this channel's movies is an old hand i noticed that another film in which he starred was titled the perfect neighbor br br finally the vengeful perfect wife in this flick dispatches those in her path with more expertise and ease than the most experienced and competent button man in don corleone's family could muster and i couldn't help but imagine that jack melvin character fro as good as it gets with his massive ocd affliction could provide counsel to the anti heroine to assist in dealing with he obsession which was the basis of this opus
0	purportedly this is the final film of the left behind series which is fundamentalist preacher and novelist tim idea of what we can expect in our future in the final days of planet earth if this is the case we can expect an activist presidency in every sense of the word if barack obama becomes president next year br br the fantastic four of revelation are all back with one cast change arnold who most would know as the guidance counselor in life with derek is now the minister taking the place of clarence brad johnson as the anti christ's pilot by day and christian by night is there as his daughter stephens and ace investigative reporter kirk cameron these are the only four people on earth who have divined the true nature of un secretary general nicolai and once again are throwing sand in his machinery br br this time they've got as an ally the president of the united states who is played by louis gossett jr he's having one hell of a rough time especially the guerrillas launch on rpg attack on a presidential killing vice president charles martin smith that's right the toad is vice president somebody really messed up bad here because everyone including those who would do them harm know a president and vice president never travel together br br it takes all of them the entire film to convince gossett exactly who really is once again the best one in the film is gordon currie as br br we may yet see another left behind film yet the door was left open though people assure me that they've run out of source material from tim i suppose as long as they make money and these players can't get jobs in the mainstream film industry and there are some unresolved plot issues involving brad johnson and chelsea noble who is mrs kirk cameron in real life br br one of the fantastic four does die in this film so will it be the fantastic three or will they get another fourth stay tuned
0	all those who are into the pc culture are aghast at the dogmatic christian view of this film claiming it contains racist and or religious intolerance br br those who don't care about this but are oriented towards slick production values and competent acting are dismayed at the lack of such here br br those who decry both of these are apoplectic that this production was let loose on the general public as evidenced in comments here br br what is an interesting premise which isn't original but is a combination of ghost and from beyond is dealt with in a rather immature manner in this film yet done with gusto what the crew and actors lacked in sensibility professional abilities and technical expertise is somewhat offset by the intensity they display br br it isn't nearly as bad as many here think and would have been fine in the hands of someone with maturity and common sense and it is enough below mediocrity to elicit laughs and groans however it unfolds with enough intensity to keep interest throughout and is close to on par with a corman produced entry of his earliest period of work or the material of arkoff or sam katzman if you get it for 2 or less as did i you won't feel disappointed but will wish you could have had a say in how it was made
0	this movie was ok as far as movies go it could have been made as a crossover into secular movies however it had little to do with the left behind books that it was supposedly based on major story premises were removed and new major story premises were added br br what disappointed me most was how nicolae was portrayed he was shown with supernatural powers that he did not have at this point in the books antichrist is not satan is not omniscient and not omnipotent br br faith and beliefs were portrayed in weird surreal ways that seemed to make the movie just silly br br non believers who watch this will have more ammunition to mock christian beliefs
0	kudos to dp for making this look like a real movie the first time that's happened in this series with the notable exception of the f x scenes in moving closer to movie production values however it lost most of the entertainment value of the first two they were very much in the 'so bad they're good' category of horrendous film entertainment can an argument be made though that the were simply trying to make a generic action film with praying in it there are so many times in the film where they discard their own belief system as to be annoying if everything that happens is according to god's will and they are simply his instruments than the people who are infected with the virus have that happen as a part of his plan right apply that to every situation where someone of faith doesn't submit to god's will and you get a fairly hypocritical little movie from the director of 'action jackson'
0	in the 3rd installment of left behind the makers did not care to put any kind of continuity into the plot although all weapons on the planet have been confiscated by the united nations world war iii suddenly begins at the snap of a finger within a few split seconds the ex lover of one of the main protagonists moves from passionately seducing him to outright hatred to a melancholy confession of love without any trace of direction br br but foremost this film is really an irony free zone after the president of the united states accepts jesus as his savior he immediately becomes a suicide bomber and blows up a skyscraper in the middle of the city osama bin laden will be very jealous when he sees this film
0	lou gossett jr is an excellent and captivating actor but to have him take the role of a president and then have him act like he's james bond running around carrying a gun and entering a warehouse to uncover a plot to kill christians and then being able to escape the supposedly high security facility to live another day does not do him justice this movie has so many unresolved issues br br i will attempt to list just a few br br 1 what was the purpose of a vaccine if no one is for example the preacher could have been if the tribulation force already had vaccine on hand later buck williams' wife goes to be with the sick preacher and she herself becomes sick so was the virus therefore contagious if it was contagious then why did ray and his wife go into the church without proper protection why didn't they become sick too and when chloe drank the wine and was cured how did she suddenly know the wine was the antidote was it california wine ordinary red table wine could red grape juice been adequate and if the preacher had received communion at least every time he preached maybe he would have had anti dote flowing through his body already buck and chloe got a heavy box of vaccine that was never used what mysterious message should we see in that br br 2 the presentation of evil forces who are working with the anti christ nicolai to destroy the world as being russian chinese etc is really a relic of the 1950's and the early james bond era and shows an ignorance of modern society and of humanity are we to believe that russians and chinese are perpetually trying to destroy this planet and for what purpose mere destruction this was such a narrow minded view of this world and was so cliché as to be laughable br br 3 the main purpose of this movie was the scene near the very end where kirk cameron and lou gossett jr are proselytizing the non believers in the audience by showing kirk proselytizing lou it was a movie with no meaningful storyline too many disconnects with reality and a completely inappropriate plot for a great actor br br i therefore rank this as a 1 since zero is not available
0	as with most viewers of this film i'm an avid reader of the books the first 2 films have buck ray and chloe as the main characters but in this the second sequel they play second fiddle to louis gossett jr's presidential effort world at war is based on the meeting he has with buck in the book series br br the problem is this film is as awful as the first two amanda appears just from nowhere and suddenly has a significant part to play i won't reveal it in case anyone hasn't read the series other illogical parts feature i really really want cloud 10 to make a good left behind film but sadly this is similar in all the bad ways to the first 2
0	i first read about the left behind series a few months ago and made a mental note to check it out since i have an interest in the way religion is used to control people in our ever more hate filled world so imagine my surprise and joy when i found a copy of left behind world at war in my local library innocently among the big budget action movies br br now as a movie it's extremely poor the acting is straight out of an elementary school production and the special effects would have looked dated in the early 90's being the third part of a series the story would be unintelligible to anyone who hadn't seen or read about the other left behind movies and even with my prior knowledge it was still pretty laughable br br on the religious front i don't think anyone who wasn't already filled with the spirit of the lord would find anything in the movie to convince them to change their ways how are you supposed to fear the antichrist when he's got a comedy russian accent and the worst of his powers are some pitiful cgi br br however my main problem with this movie is the blatant attempt to try and dupe people into believing that it's a big budget action movie upon picking up the box and reading the spiel i immediately noticed something odd nowhere on the packaging was there a mention of the true nature of this film to someone not in the know it would appear for all intents and purposed that left behind world at war was no different from the latest tom nor on the copy that i rented did it say anything about it being the third in a series br br considering the whole premise of the series is that the antichrist has deceived the whole world i find it extremely hypocritical that the film makers tried to deceive me twice before i even got the to counter if you're so firm in your beliefs then why not be honest about it br br the simple fact is had this not been a christian movie with the built in fan base that goes with it i seriously doubt it would ever have seen the light of day if cloud ten were hoping that i'd see the error of my ways and give myself to god i'm afraid to say i would have died of boredom and or laughed myself to death before i ever had the chance
0	based on the 2007 spy novel by david ignatius body of lies tells the story of a cia operative roger ferris dicaprio who is sent to jordan to track down an al qaeda mastermind all the while treading a narrow tightrope of loyalty to his jordanian hosts and his manipulative american boss ed hoffman crowe br br anybody who's seen the trailers could be forgiven for thinking the story revolves around double agent action and the betrayal of ferris by hoffman but the actual story is much more mundane instead we are served a tepid broth of ridiculous subterfuge as white pretty boy american ferris moves with virtual impunity through the teeming streets of amman jordan with nary a worried look over his shoulder or the attraction of attention from the locals only during a scene where ferris takes his new found iranian sweetheart out for tea does reality intrude as the couple are bombarded with glares from jordanian men br br compounding the film's problems are plot twists and turns which seem designed as nothing more than padding ferris flies to jordan ferris gets expelled from jordan ferris flies to washington ferris flies to the uk ferris flies back to jordan hoffman flies to jordan hoffman returns home to take care of his kids – an on it goes this is the sort of stuff you expect to see in an episode of the amazing race not a spy thriller br br in body punishing loyalty to his craft crowe gained an impressive 63 pounds of for the role of portly ed hoffman thus joining the small select club of actors consisting of robert de niro and christian bale as thespians who've subjected themselves to massive weight gain or loss for their roles it's too bad that everyone else involved didn't share crowe's level of dedication to quality for if they did we'd have a far better film on our hands than this sub par mess
0	after two terrorist attacks in europe one in london and the other in amsterdam the prime suspect is the leader al alon the cia agent roger ferris leonardo dicaprio that operates in the middle east is assigned by his superior at langley ed hoffman russell crowe to keep a safe house in amman under surveillance and he associates to the chief of security in jordan salaam mark strong roger does not disclose the whole operation to and it fails due to the intervention of ed meanwhile roger has feelings for the local nurse and he gets close to her family when roger plots another scheme to catch al using the innocent architect omar ali as decoy to lure al he jeopardizes not only the safety of but also that is kidnapped after the execution of roger tries to negotiate the release of with the terrorists and proposes to deliver himself to save the nurse br br body of lies is a disappointing tour through europe and middle east despite the names of ridley scott leonardo dicaprio and russell crowe the imdb user rating indicates that there are many viewers that like this type of fast paced movie of espionage using high technology satellites and all sort of lack of respect to the sovereignty of other nations in the name of oil that gives no time for thinking but that is not my case it is boring and ridiculous to see the fat russell crowe with a cell phone like a family man while his partner is risking his life in a dangerous operation the rich character performed by leonardo dicaprio is poorly developed and in my opinion this great actor is miscast as an operative agent in middle east due to his but the movie never explains his connections with the middle east the rescue of roger ferris alive is also very stupid and corny my vote is four br br title brazil de network of lies
0	maybe being a government bureaucrat is not the most glamorous way of making a living but it's still a way to make a living however after watching this movie one may come away believing that every government bureaucrat is a lazy bloated conceited paper pusher who lives exclusively to partake of his next lunch break not exactly a pretty picture but this is the picture that the audience has to endure when watching what is nothing more than another tedious noisy overacted action movie just what the doctor ordered right how many more of these movies has hollywood made one thousand two thousand the formula for making these movies is so beaten into the dust that by now it should be completely unrecognizable the locales change but the plots remain the same and with the same shallow character development and the equally shallow acting as trained performers are asked to devolve into pseudo cartoon characters and act accordingly this movie seemed to run on interminably when will this movie end i repeatedly thought to myself leonardo dicaprio was totally unbelievable as a cia operative but what has to be one of the great of miscasting an overweight russell crowe plays a cia bureaucrat please note that in this movie the on site operative is lean and mean while his desk jockey supervisor is fat this is called stereotyping what was the casting director thinking why not have jack nicholson play an overweight office clerk or nicole kidman play a frumpy department store saleswoman and the story was so fantastic that no amount of literary license could afford it credibility an obviously non arab american mr dicaprio trying to pass himself off as an arab speaking fluent arabic concocting all kinds of hair brain schemes that are doomed to failure trying to out think and real arabs who are completely by his laughable arab masquerade trying to romance a palestinian woman while in the middle of conducting a highly sensitive and complex espionage mission etc by now you get the point next time try casting an actual arab in the role not even the most naive movie goer can believe all that there should be a rough balance between the protagonist and antagonist in this movie the protagonist is so transparent and incompetent that it leaves the story in shambles next stop for this movie dvd land and oblivion and one other thing don t let this movie discourage you from working for the government the pay may not be great but the fringe benefits are excellent a critical fact that this movie conveniently omits
0	if andrei tarkovsky had been a hack he would have directed mother and son instead of mirror this is the single most pretentious film made anywhere in the world i am convinced a son without a name takes care of his mother without a name they love each other i guess no they don't i'm sure these aren't characters they aren't even actors playing characters at least it could be pretty but even the nature seems ridiculously touched up and changed wherever it was necessary with a macintosh computer and could sokurov have come up with a technique as hackneyed as a distorted aspect ration you would have to have been born yesterday to buy this garbage 1 10
0	i am completely into this type of story line but once the movie fired up i honestly said out loud i just rented a two dollar budget christian pos the only thing i could find to like about this film was it has a descent story but it was awfully executed horrible actors horrible direction and producing br br the director and producer need to go watch the cube before trying to pull off a movie in a single room there was absolutely nothing that kept you intrigued to the point that you didn't notice you were in the same room the entire movie horrible the two main actresses were very easy on the eyes and you could tell that was the director counting on to hold your attention but these two and their bios can speak to this are horrible in front of the camera br br don't rent this unless you are blind because it might go up a few stars if you only listen to it
0	the film shows relations of the dying mother and the son who is very attached to her and definitely loves her what does it show it shows their living in very poor conditions it shows how tenderly they walk really he is bringing her but what do we see further after their promenade he walks alone at the same places where they walked together it is not possible a person who love and care about another dying one would do everything to make the life of this one better he would not have a free minute to ponder to be alone with oneself and if he finds a few minutes a month for that he would run away from the places where he has usually to be another thing the author devoted this film to tarkovsky we see he learned many tarkovsky's visual effects but in sokurov's film they are only effects they do not support any senses or mood someone has compared this film with mirror there is nothing common except these visual effects mirror is a great film and this one is just poor imitation
0	i loved this movie it's the finest parody of russian cinema to date who else but sokurov could lampoon tarkovsky so brilliantly you thought stalker was slow well step up to the plate mat i makes stalker look like raiders of the lost ark by no means should you miss this film there's no excuse even if you live a busy life you can still enjoy this film to its fullest by holding down the fast forward button on your vcr sokurov has given us the first feature length film that can be appreciated in 12 minutes br br i suppose the next great masterpiece of the form will come when someone has the vision and courage to exhibit a film that consists of no sound or image at all 45 minutes of a black silent screen wasn't this already explored in in the soup br br apparently the filmmaker and fans have forgotten that motion is the first word of motion picture br br major spoilers ahead br br want to reach the heights of genius that this film achieved here's a step by step guide br br 1 find a talented photographer br br 2 find some subjects and a suitably picturesque landscape think tuscany if you need inspiration watch some luxury car or perfume commercials br br 3 shoot about 3 rolls of film br br 4 photoshop the results to play around with saturation blur aspect ratio br br 5 now just get out your movie camera film 40 of the best pictures and have your actors mumble their lines off screen don't worry about writing it ahead of time just let the actors say whatever they want lines like do you want a drink and let's get something to eat are really all you need to fill up 8 minutes or so if you can't think of enough dialog no problem just have them repeat what they say a few times if that still isn't enough just let the camera run anyway br br congratulations another masterpiece as a bonus if you want to distribute it over the internet no problem the static images will compress down to nothing with standard a 73 minute movie would probably be about 2 3 even at the highest quality levels
0	this film captures the short moments between a mother and son in rural russia as she lays dying br br i am so torn between being nice to the film or declaring it a test of patience on one hand the film is beautiful with the sparse dialog capturing the essence of their feelings there is really nothing to say because everything that needs to be said is conveyed beyond words the son shows so much care love and patience towards his mother that i think it is a celebration of unconditional love towards one's family it also cruelly reminds me that i could be in a situation like this stuck in a joyless place having to take care of a very ill person mat i is cruel reality br br on the other hand mat i moves really too slowly do i really need to watch a train passing by the horizon for over 1 minute with my previous experience of and i am so tempted to put mat i among them as a total bore br br i guess one has to be in the right state of mind to appreciate this film i surely see the beauty of it but maybe i am not in the right state of mind
0	midnight clear has a great premise a group of over educated overly bright gi's are sent out by incompetent leaders on a vague mission to patrol around an isolated farm house on the eve of the battle of the bulge the gi's encounter a group of battle weary german regulars and it becomes clear that they don't want to fight anymore br br therein lies the problem it's really pretty simple if the germans want to surrender they do so and that's the end of the movie if the germans want to fight they do so and that's also the end of the movie so instead of doing either the gi's and germans play games with each other even throwing snowballs at one point interesting for one or two scenes but it soon becomes very annoying after all these are germans the enemy nothing in this film makes me think they should not be either taken prisoner or shot the film does noting to make them more human in fact much of what the german characters did made me want to shoot them including one scene where the german officer refuses to deal with a jew or to surrender to a mere enlisted man why should i care about such characters just shoot them and let's move on to the battle of the bulge it's much more interesting anyway br br one good scene the gi's are returning from a recon of the german position where they had the germans in their sights but did not fire while walking across a clearing they realize a group of germans have their leveled at them the germans are about 100 yards away the gis then do something i've never seen any gi's do in any movie they throw down their rifles and throw up their hands unusual as this may be in films it is an entirely sensible reaction to having a rifle aimed at you from that distance though it seems far in reality it's point blank range for those rifles i'll lay odds that someone working on this film was a
0	recap a band of five young american men all that is left of a platoon hit hard during the offensive during the wwii get the assignment as a forward outpost and to look for enemy activity they're in really bad condition both physically and mentally and think they have struck gold when their outpost is in an abandoned but once plush mansion full with food but after a while there is some enemy activity and it is very odd not hostile but odd it seems like there is a german squad out there in equally bad condition that want nothing more than to surrender br br comments based on a novel and my guess that the novel is much better but the story doesn't seem to translate very well to the big screen indeed it is a different war movie much more about the mental pressure during than fighting and battles but i can almost feel that scenes that must have been full of suspense full of uncertainties and unknown elements just fall flat in the movie it is not suspenseful just different and in many ways absurd many times people just act insane and the reasons are unclear or at best hinted at br br so when this mental pressure fails to come through the main building piece of the entire story i thought the story fell through it wasn't good it wasn't interesting it didn't keep me on the edge and it didn't really send a message actually it did nothing br br the cast is interesting many young actors that then turned into stars in beginning of their careers the acting is good but not stellar and a few characters also fell through into the absurd zone much of that too i feel is due to that this story these characters need the time space and pace given in a novel that they can't be given here and going halfway definitely isn't good enough br br 4 10
0	my father insisted i should watch this film with him and i regret that i wasted my time watching i want that approximate hour and a half back the funny little film concerns the elderly don ameche staying with his son tom selleck it turns out that ameche isn't just forgetful like he's been told but has dementia it seems a lot like alzheimers and because dad is so frequently out to lunch he gets into so much trouble again and again almost like the adorable tyke from baby's day out the problem though is that you know baby's day out is all fantasy and the baby is going to be fine plus you aren't laughing at the baby for having a deformity or illness but in this case you are being encouraged to laugh at a man who is slowly losing his mind and where's the humor in that if this film had been more successful would the producers have then made films making fun or people with cerebral palsy or a flesh eating virus there are a lot of people who should have felt ashamed at having made this film
0	folks is a comedy about a man whose parents beg him to kill them because they're going senile and want to be put out of their misery several times he tries to kill them and then changes his mind saving them from his death traps at the last minute and losing one of his body parts each time in the process the movie seems to hate its main character which makes it all the more painful to watch there's also the usual tacked on love interest and predictable ending br br this movie was also the first time i'd seen tom selleck without a mustache and i remember his shaved upper lip looking weird and making me feel slightly slick but this might have been just because of the terrible premise and lame execution of the movie
0	tom selleck plays an absentee son to senile pop don ameche and weary mom anne jackson making up for his indiscretions one presumes and taking them in after ameche has burned down his mobile home meanwhile job is vanquished by the f b i his assets are frozen his wife and kids leave him and his obnoxious sister and her brats have come to stay brightly painted comedy of ills is as out of touch with reality as ameche's doddering old coot perhaps a serious first draft with scenes such as ameche walking out into traffic with two toddlers was incorporated into a sillier second or third version with selleck getting poked bumped prodded and eventually losing a toe and a testicle either way it's a painful experience and sudden dedication to his father makes little sense he around and howls in pain but retains his heart of mush this movie is mush from
0	in fact everyone responsible for this dreck ought to be whipped dragged and hung if this is what great eugene drama is like i never want to be victim to viewing it ever again there are so many things wrong w this feature where does one begin first elmer bernstein's bombastic score is present thru out the entire film even in the quiet scenes where background music subtracts from the character's motivations second these characters are not pleasant people and while some reviewers might enjoy that i personally disliked every scene in which ives ate up the scenery but that was the way his characters was written to be disliked w loren it just never is made clear whether she's good or bad … and all her babbling about how she's going to change things back to the way they were before the baby arrives … well i saw what was coming clearly perkins is miscast and then he plays the role like a warm up for norman bates which he played two years later even wanting to take blame for the murder at the end hokey third this film is a studio sound stage production and it suffers because of it the story would have benefited from location shooting to develop a sense of place regarding the farm which all the main leads are fighting over as it is filmed there's no sense of value to the property because the film has a studio sound stage feel to it that isn't convincing this is a really awful film
0	anthony perkins and sophia loren are absolutely gorgeous in this ca 1840 western that alone however doesn't help a ridiculous story with countless historically incorrect elements br br ives is convincing as the 70 something tyrannical patriarch an egomaniac who swears to see his 100th birthday his wild dancing at a party he gives for his neighbors will make anyone take notice this guy is six always mumbling bible verses he demands respect while driving sons and friends away with his self righteous rantings and emotional cruelties br br the love affair between perkins and loren at first appears absurd but becomes believable near the end there is plenty of drama but not enough to feel good about clearly written for the stage this story was dated even when it was filmed perkins whistles my bonnie in the 1840s although the song wasn't composed until br br critics knocking sophia lorens command of the english language are rather petty i found her english flawless and completely audible as a neapolitan loren speaks a distinct dialect that often had to be dubbed into proper italian her accent however hardly affects how she speaks english as a first generation german american i can appreciate the efforts of those who learn english as a second or even third or fourth language br br desire under the elms is a drama or even a tragedy in the classic sense for my enjoyment is was missing a logical story and an overall pay off for the time invested fans of the stars won't want to miss it others however tune in at your own risk
0	do not waste your money or time terrible movie bad acting plot all over the place really really bad acting man this movie is just plain bad i shut it off at 7 minutes the script is bad the directing is bad it seems to me that a high school group got together to do a project for their drama class yes it's that bad the acting is not convincing at all mind you i saw only 7 minutes of it how this movie made it to dvd is beyond me br br it should have been left in the editing storage room i saw the cover and thought it was pretty cool i heck won't do that next time
0	just finished watching this movie i couldn't imagine watching this on vhs as there were scenes where i needed the subtitles to hear through an accent or sound effect even though the scene itself was in english br br visually the movie is pretty appealing the few cg effects were very obvious but the prosthetics creature effects weren't bad not perfect but photography and editing which were pretty good made up for a lot acting was generally bad though how much of that can be blamed on the director i couldn't say having never seen any of the actors before the exception i think was m gomez she stole every scene she had a part in and not just because of a very pretty face but there was something akin to an urgency to her performance that none of the others had the writing could have been a lot better the plot was still unmistakably lovecraft and plenty of lovecraft details were written in but i personally could have done without most of the dialogue
0	i totally agree that the reenactments kill what could otherwise be a great show i'll admit that i'd seen 1 or 2 episodes last season and was not clear at all that it was all but when i caught one episode recently it suddenly jumped out at me big time and i lost interest immediately then i noticed the disclaimer at the start before an episode that followed has anyone followed the show closely enough to tell me did they actually make the acting and reenacting parts more artificial on purpose or did i just not notice before i'm usually pretty good at sensing this stuff but the recent episode was so obviously artificial i practically tripped over it now i have no interest whatsoever in watching and have given up entirely on it it just doesn't have any real value if it's all scripted and acted and at least lately it seems very poorly scripted and acted the comment above that says who cares if it's all reenactments i do without visual truth this is just a bunch of you know what happened one time this guy it's info better read in a book
0	i cannot believe i actually set up a on my tivo for this apparently they had a good preview or something i can't imagine it though after seeing about 5 minutes i thought to myself why am i watching this it is definitely not reality and some of the worst acting i have ever seen on television i am a total addict of reality tv and there is nothing real about this the acting if you can call it that is awful the only ones that are almost 5 decent are the girls that are meant to draw viewers to the show although they would need to be a lot prettier to save this train wreck if they would have more lines they would probably change my mind as they probably have no talent either this is obviously a very low budget production with 'actors' who are apparently very cheap there is no way they could get a job in anything else someone needs to direct these people to a job in food service maybe they could do that oh and by the way p i no longer occupies any space on my tivo or tivo's season pass list definitely the worst show i've ever seen
0	awful awful awful show real world issues dealt with blatant unoriginality stereotypes galore what the hell is going on with the african american black guys eyebrows tyrone power awful awful awful awful awful show the fact that it lasted three seasons beggars belief this show truly is swill for the brain dead of mediocrity br br saved by the bell almost seemed humorous compared to this well upon hindsight no it's of the same banal ilk and therefore equally devoid of intelligence the only thing that it's missing so far is the jesus is god message the mentality and deliverance is the same yet somehow feels evil and soulless you can almost hear the tv executives buzz words at each other in fact i felt so incensed at this shows existence i felt compelled to comment br br awful awful awful show
0	this film has got so much in it prehistoric society adventure romance true brotherhood violence sex religion all depicted abundantly without a single word uttered and how come it sucks so bad this film will make you rethink the origin of humanity if this were the product of anthropology you would rather defy darwinian theory and synthesis all together you cannot bear to watch this even with your brain shut down and now you are thinking i've got to see this i warned you i take no responsibility whatsoever should you regret spending over an hour staring at this piece of art well i did warn you this should be forgotten and buried for ever
0	there is a reason why the world forgot these creatures they are dull this is a hammer production which means that whoever made this movie should be struck with a hammer several times if possible and where it most hurts most people put more thought into taking a dump than these idiots have put into making this movie br br seriously the movie begins with some cavemen hunting an thing now antelopes must have evolved a lot from those pre historic times because they actually attack and kill people here after that it's time to meet the rest of the tribe more bearded men some fashion models and even a couple of very old grey haired grannies and these old geezers obviously never heard about cave people not surpassing the age of 30 they refused to bow to the will of both logic and pre historical records so they remain alive one of the cavemen isn't bearded he is clean shaven not quite as clean shaven as tarzan the lord of the humanoid clean shaven ones roaming the jungle since childhood and without a razor but thereabouts br br what follows is the obligatory earthquake molten lava destruction sequence which causes a lot of our not so hairy friends to meet their doom it is interesting to note that before the earthquake the fashion models showed their breasts more after it they must have gotten shy or something because they covered their chests for a while maybe they were covered by ash so i mistakenly thought they were covered more action follows in the form of two fashion models wrestling in the sand the next best thing to female mud wrestling i suppose after a good deal of the desert has been crossed our black haired tribe meets how else could it be a blond tribe yawn br br more spellbinding stuff follows there is that redhead fashion model who is bothered by seeing a cave teen kill a hedge hog thing there is also the scene of a woman dying at birth those cave fashion models are so frail eventually we get to meet an even darker haired and skinned tribe i e an evil tribe one of them becomes a wwf champion after he actually beats a huge bear thing in a wrestling bout 1 2 3 and it's done the bear is the loser we also witness a jealous caveman miraculously recover from two major injuries first he gets stabbed with a big spear into the thigh yet he walks away from that as if it were but a scratch then he gets thrown off a cliff onto a big rock by the blond goodie two shoes caveman yet he walks away from it as if he were thrown onto a giant sofa it's unclear in the end whether he dies from falling off an even higher cliff or from that voodoo doll being crushed oh yes voodoo was used in pre historic times by white tribes that live in the desert and whose females were fashion models it's always important to learn from movies br br the message of the movie is as insightful as it is educational cave people liked to fight for local power and they loved their fashion models too as if any self respecting caveman would fight to be leader of such a sorry bunch
0	where do i start the box should have been enough to keep me away from this attempt but i'd been taught early on not to judge a book or movie by its cover so i ignored the disgusting graphic quality of the box and rented it anyway but common sense should tell you that if they can't do a single still image properly then how dismal will the moving ones be later yeah they were pretty awful br br the actors in this flick appeared totally unaware they were being filmed as just any expression seemed to do fine regardless of the situation the characters were in or what they were reacting to br br however a good story can offset the downfalls of low budget productions good dialog can carry a poorly funded attempt at times unfortunately this was not one of those times as the story was as weak and nonexistent as the other required elements of good cinema br br there simply aren't words for how bad this was br br perhaps you can get the idea from my rating of 2 3 10 from br br the fiend
0	spoilers br br this movie was rented as a joke and what a joke it was the film is based on a dog catcher who is looking for el the dog catchers outfit is so ridiculous it looks like he the patch on his hat and for some reason he shows of his muscles by rolling up his sleeves throughout the movie mostly at night you can see how bad the lighting was they are in a car which is brightly lit and they are driving in pitch black often you can see the camera man's shadow on the ground the costumes are terrible the lighting is terrible and the acting is terrible this is a good movie for a laugh maybe
0	one of the latest disaster movies from york entertainment el excels in making its viewer want to die after having wasted two hours watching it this movie appears to have been filmed with a spare camcorder normally used for birthday parties the only reason i could tell that it wasn't was because of certain scenes where the cameraman's shadow is in the frame br br just about every aspect of cinema is plagued by this movie and i'm sure that it has set the film industry back another ten years the actors are borderline retarded often pausing while they wait for the off screen cue card to change the actor that plays not only slurs and skips word in his dialogue but stumbles through the swiss cheese plot line with a squinting and confounded look on his face other actors break the forth wall and overall show the acting skill of a twelve year old kid doing a science project in his backyard br br my friends and i purposefully search out the worst possible movies and this one gave us more than we bargained for the humorous parts are unfunny and the rest is riddled with horrible clichés and plot holes as one friend so humbly put it this movie is the aborted fetus of the industry i would highly suggest this film for people like me that purposely search for these movies but for all others beware
0	ok so i have recently been collecting a lot of vipco and hardgore titles on dvd and i have to say that this one is one of the most disappointing ones a more recent film compared to other titles in the hardgore catalogue this was a straight to dvd release i've always been interested in the myth of el ever since i saw a documentary on it as a teenager however this film is a terrible let down shot on tacky dv the storyline and acting are terrible it took me three goes to watch this film all the way through while cheap 80's and 90's horror films are good because of their cheap budgets and comedy this film is not br br check out some other titles in the hardgore series first for example is older but much much better
0	let's see cardboard characters like muslim terrorists have forced a cardboard scientist to perform some exotic drug tests on some cardboard people who have been drugged and kidnapped you'll be sure to laugh when these pathetic excuses for humanoids get their just deserts turns out the drug experiments have given them the ability to sense another world the world of religious fantasy complete with cardboard demons who look like they are made of papier mache everybody gets dragged off to hell except for one poor chap who goes to heaven where he can presumably spend eternity with the blockheads that created this masterpiece of the absurd i think i'd opt for hellfire myself go see something else unless you are stoned in which case you might actually like it couldn't hurt
0	you want the worst horror movie of the 21st century el is it manos the hands of fate is the worst movie of all time but el certainly is the worst movie of this century it also has to have the distinction of having the absolute worst leading actor ever eric alegria the actor in the lead role has never done another film other than el gee i wonder why br br apparently the monster is attacking people but everyone that is attacked moves really slowly and is really stupid and there are no cops at all in this town just two idiot detectives hello cops show up on the scene of homicides first then the detectives come and apparently the monster only attacks in one person's backyard and some deserted area by the docks or thats the only places the filmmakers could get access to film br br this 'film' is the reason why imdb must allow us to give negative stars this easily deserves 10 stars or at least 0 they should allow a 0 rating
0	the back of my dvd describes the plot of el after his capture in the wilderness the legendary bloodthirsty creature escapes into the city creating mayhem and panic as they pursue the deadly beast an animal control officer and scientist dr realize that a vigilante with his own suspicious plan is also tracking the elusive killer for a mysterious research facility run by the diabolical dr this putrid horror flick is somewhat amusing if you watch it under the influence of alcohol the script is completely silly the acting is wooden beyond belief and the direction is amateurish two rubber suits are easily the best thing about this movie 3 out of 10 and that's being extremely kind
0	this is a great example of what could have been a great film and a great idea but turned out to be really bad in the process i was mainly tempted to get this because of the dvd cover stupid me but i did anyway and i was blown away in a bad sense this movie is essentially about el wreaking havoc around los angeles and it's up to a local animal cop and a writer to save the day before two corrupt cops and two evil scientists bring them down the main reason why i did not enjoy this film was because of big continuity errors that were hard to not notice along with some bad acting okay lighting and nothing scary this movie did not hit me as much as is it probably should have however compared to other movies this one certainly tops the charts just barely br br first off the continuity in this movie is way off and i mean off the shoulders and into the ditch there were so many points were the characters said or did something and then in the next shot they aren't doing it or the change never occurred case in point the main character has a gun the attacks he whips out a flair from nowhere and distracts and the gun in missing the girl runs while he defends here with the mystery flair and she had no gun then the main character is running with the girl and has the gun where did the flair come from and what happened to the gun the time of day gets screwed up one minute it is sun set and you can still see the sun and then the next minute it looks like midnight there were some plot holes as in why was the there what were the scientists doing what happened to this guy and why did he shoot the animal and it still lived these things bugged the heck out of me and none of the questions were answered br br next on the list is the acting boy was it wooden and bad the main character played by eric algeria seems a bit too calm at points and too dedicated to finding out what killed a few dogs and when a tragedy hits his emotion was just not there elina madison who played did a fairly poor job she was the author of a bestselling book about the and she just didn't seem into her role or her performance her acting was kind of laughable and a poor even for an author she knows too much about that thing and knows how to disable a high security defense system in a hidden laboratory tony criss was okay but he seemed a bit to calm for some of the stuff that was going on the movie reminds me of a bad reenactment to murder for some crime solving show where the actors and actresses aren't really that committed to their work br br i rarely don't get this anal when it comes to lighting or editing but for this movie i could not help but be harsh on the lighting it took me out of the movie a number of times because the lighting was so poorly directed there were times when they were trying to be creative by adding color filters to the scene to make it more comic bookish but it backfired the worse part is at night when it is pith black outside but the scene is so with light it seems like its day they keep switching from high intensity light to soft light for random scenes and the lights seem so bright that the actors were squinting it shouldn't be that bright that there are dark shadows at night during the sunset when the lighting was perfect that's the only time when the light was good other than that it was terrible br br there were not scares in this film there was only one time where i did jump but other than that it wasn't scary there were points were it probably could have been scary but it was so damn light out you could see the approach the man but if it was dark it would have been better even the creature design for the was poor it looked good but it was a short man or kid in a jump suit they didn't hide his face they showed him with no sense of mystery or any enigmatic appearance there was a fair amount of gore but it seemed unreal this movie just wasn't scary that's all br br overall they did americanize a great south american legend into a blood thirsty human eater which the isn't in fact it was scared of people and it only killed goats sheep dogs and deer because it was said that it hated the smell of humans but then were would the story be i did not enjoy this film for any reason but i will give them credit for trying to make a good film with good intentions i would not recommend this film to any horror fan but if you like indie or b movies you should check this out also if you are easily tempted by cult classics you'd enjoy this film i didn't i won't see it again but in some deep sedated way i enjoy these kinds of movie just to see what the other side of hollywood is making
0	boyle heights los angeles legendary south american goat sucking vampire el is on the loose feeding on anyone unlucky enough to cross its path animal control officer eric alegria and expert author divide elina madison attempt to track down the creature but find their progress hampered by a pair of dumb cops money hungry locals keen to capture the beast for a fat reward and a couple of nefarious scientists who want the monster for their experiments br br stinking higher than a two week old taco el is an incredibly bad horror movie that even fans of incredibly bad horror movies might struggle to sit through with its dreadful script awful direction by not one but two talentless jones and paul laughable dialogue and some of the worst acting this side of a porn flick i recommend this film about as much as i do drinking the tap water in mexico br br as and proceed with their investigations viewers are treated to some incredibly weak gore the worst designed book jacket in history the most unconvincing dead person i've seen since the blinking corpse in dr butcher md and a high tech computerised security system consisting of a keyboard nailed to a post br br to be fair for a guy in a rubber suit the monster itself is fairly creepy hairy with big claws and a face like a particularly ugly bat but its appearances are few and far between with more screen time spent on the tedious trials and tribulations of whiney officer than on the killer antics of the titular creature just how many times is it necessary to see handing in paperwork to his bitchy boss br br if like me you make the mistake of wasting your hard earned cash on this dreadful latino bilge in my case it was a whole consider using the disc as a coaster for your tequila rather than actually watching it
0	according to this masterpiece of film script pun intended charles darwin was full of nonsense when he presented his evolution theory because he made absolutely no mention of any alien intervention for you see aliens sent to the earth and they form the missing link in the evolution theory however the rest of the film clearly seems to emphasize that are a typically puerto rican phenomenon so i don't really know where that fits in are they saying all puerto ricans are aliens whatever it's all pretty irrelevant anyway the only thing you need to memorize is that el is an utterly cheap and imbecilic amateur b movie lacking tension character development and any form of style several duos of people are chasing this goat munching monster remotely resembling the midget version of the pumpkinhead demon through the streets and ghettos of an ugly city we have an untalented and a nagging female novelist a pair of obnoxious cops and the supposedly evil scientist with his dim witted accomplice since they all are extremely incompetent in what they do the monster can carelessly carry on devouring all the latino immigrants of the neighborhood the monster itself looks okay and the make up effects on his victims' leftovers are acceptably gross and bloody the acting performances are irredeemably awful and headache inducing particularly eric alegria is pitiable in his first and only lead role as the overly ambitious employee of animal control yes it's an incredibly stupid film but surely you have struggled yourself through worse and less amusing low budget garbage
0	this movie is a complete and utter waste of time one of the worst films i've ever seen and coming from me that is definitely saying something in fact i wish i could have given it negative stars instead of just rating it as a pathetic one star awful br br when i rented this movie i had an open mind i find the legend of the interesting and i have a fondness for cheesy horror flicks but i draw the line at this one br br the acting sucked the lead male gives one of the worst performances ever looking and sounding unnatural as he delivers his poorly written lines the lead female gives a slightly more palatable performance but that really doesn't take much br br the well considering how low budget this movie must have been the creature was tolerable it does however look exactly like someone in a mask and body suit the mask is fairly detailed and might look cool in person but not so on screen br br speaking of on screen you'd think they could have at least used a better camera it looks like it was shot with a camcorder for crying out loud not a very good one either br br i don't know what whoever wrote this abomination was thinking the dialog sucks and just i can't describe what i feel about it at least not without getting in trouble with the site br br my advice avoid this at all costs it's just not worth it if it comes on tv and you have nothing else to do or watch then find something else to do or watch read a book listen to music anything just don't subject yourself to this if you do you cannot say you weren't warned and for lord and lady's sake don't rent this sucker it is not worth it even if you get the chance to rent it for fifty cents trust me i know
0	i really liked this movie number 5 the star robot of the movie gets hit by lightning and some thing happened to his circuits he act and thinks more like a human the robot repeats commercials he learns after watching tv he then applies these sayings to his circumstances number 5 is quick witted and funny the character imitates voices of stars tries to dance like john travolta in staying alive and a lot of other things he has a saying for most of his circumstances that he memorized the actions of the robots is really good number 5 wants to drive cook and please with all the characteristics of a human the way the robots move and line up is really hysterical i am disappointed that the writers could not keep this clean for all viewers this movie has a ending something you would not expect i hate movies that have swearing in them even though i like them i give them a lower rating this movie had swearing words jesus christ was used as swearing word which offends me it is used a least 3 times g d d m bull sh t etc it could have been a wonderful movie with out all this offensive language there is no sex in this film some violence like robots blowing up cars and machines
0	i saw the movie in original italian it must be said that the acting and interpretation is most heavily polluted by the tv generated trend to speak in a severely muffled voice not moving lips straining tones as emerged in the that's real life productions and let's raise our audience with a few tears screen playwriting the late massimo girotti towers upon the other characters for intensity clarity of expression and intellectual honesty the movie has some good hints but as in another comment before mine it lacks a focal point and dribbles away in many plot lets of lesser and lesser relevance another trend dragged in from the tv productions well known to italians a few drops in style could be spared to the public such as the drag charm and aesthetics of cooking plus sensual of sweets see chocolat babette's lunch etc and the fairies are definitely more truthful seems that ozpetek has learned the tune of italy in the early 2000s and is humming along i'll give him a last chance though
0	if this film was just outrageously poor would be fine the problem is many take it seriously to make it short a few points br br there is no story no focus no lead whatsoever and all the questions raised fail to find an answer overall the film is extremely repetitive and boring i have been in war torn african countries several times and found all the lingering on local misery and hopelessness very painful to watch but still having no sense br br questions raised are pure manipulation and the truth is that they are no questions but statements br br i am no doc filmmaker but what's the point in raising for example the question of weapon smuggling if the only element brought to the audience is a local reporter's statement the director doesn't even bother showing us at least a sequence where he would be waiting near the airport trying to spot heavily loaded trucks leaving the area right after a plane landed br br the story of the fish takes up less than 5 mn and is only supported by a sequence where the director films a documentary shown during a local conference did this guy do any work at all br br abject poverty is shown all the time in endless sequences but where's the point one can go almost anywhere in africa with a hand cam and shoot the same images unfortunately where's the big news br br filming the prostitutes watching and crying over images of their assassinated friend and fellow prostitute is worth the worst emotional manipulations one can see these days on thrash and real tv br br the parallel drawn between the famine devastating the country with over two million starving and the of fish is absolutely pointless dishonest and makes no sense but to manipulate viewers in typically anti globalization and anti western feelings br br there is an interesting debate in france after an academic published a very detailed comment on the film which brought number of journalists working in africa for decades to investigate a bit further about several details it turns out that br br the fish waste shown drying in the sun and collected by some local people is not at all meant to be eaten by human beings but is collected to be exported for reasonably good money for animal feeding purposes i think i am not the only one having had the impression that the director suggested the exact opposite br br arm smuggling is a reality but there again where's the big news but not the way this film explains the issue if the empty planes landing in do participate in smuggling they actually unload their shipment in a different location in africa then go to to pick up fish in order not to make the trip back empty meaning that they do actually land empty in br br people do eat fish locally contrary to what the film suggest around 40 60 of what is taken out of the lake and thousands of people make their living with it good for them it's private business of that kind that will one day take african countries out of poverty and not western moaning and endless foreign assistance br br i cannot tell how shocked i am seeing the success of this film
0	i think the movie was one sided i watched it recently and find the documentary typical of western movie makers that was biased without substance the fact is prostitution do exist everywhere in the world not in alone and not because of this fish business there prostitutes were there way before the russian and other business people arrived in poverty is indeed endemic in africa let alone and this is not because of fish fillet business in fact the fish industry has helped millions to support their families on their daily life this movie just tarnish the good image of this peace loving country as for the arms trade the film could not substantiate if there is any truth in that indeed looking critically at the films one is doubting the authenticity of the film maker it seems that their trying to prove their point by using a few characters which can be done for anything really yes is a poor country yes there are prostitutes and street children but they are not the product this business it is just a common scenario in most poor countries indeed the world over even in the western world what a load of rubbish br br the pilot themselves are talking of sending weapons to angola which is more than south of and the war was in also miles away from the director could not give evidence how these weapons were transported from to br br in short the films lacks focus and respectability it is quite easy to find the character anywhere in africa and has nothing to do darwin's nightmare or fish fillet what a load of rubbish br br the truth is the nile perch has not decimated all other species in the lake contrary to what the movie portrays and also less than 25 of all catches from lake victoria are exported the rest is consumed locally so lets get that one right
0	evil behind you was created for a specific purpose in mind to shove the writer directors personal views on who either gets to walk on water or who gets to dance with the devil sadly it would seem that the creators were so focused on making their point that they took it's power away completely by force feeding their point to the viewer the way its message is presented almost reminds me of the stories i've heard of the spanish inquisition from one real christian to another avoid this like the plague fear tactics never work when trying to send this kind of message br br the acting was horrible the selection of muslim terrorists was racist and unfair they're terrorists so they must be muslims the premise of this was good the story provided a great conduit for its message however it was the execution of these ideas that fell short making it very difficult to even separate the message from the messenger so to speak br br you'd be better off dusting off your old ghost dvd with mr swayze to better receive this message at least that movie didn't try to shove itself down your throat or if you like good christian movies with a powerful message try end of the spear
0	my mom and i went to see this film because my brother is serving in the u s peace corps in the same region in which it's set halfway through the film i decided that given its failure to measure up to what it pretends to accomplish the title is pretentious the subject it deals with could have made for an excellent documentary but because of its poor execution it left me far less educated about the issue than i had hoped to become i agree with laura jane from canada powerful message but lacks focus i also agree with the user who commented that this filmmaker's narration free style is the opposite of that of michael moore but i don't agree that it presents varying points of view and invites the viewer to decide for him or herself i do agree with one user's comment that a lesson is better learned when we draw the conclusions ourselves however our conclusions can't be anything but poorly founded if we are presented with little relevant information from which to draw them br br the main points of the documentary seemed to be that 1 the african people who live near lake victoria are very poor and suffer greatly 2 the introduction of perch to lake victoria inflicted by europeans ruined its ecosystem 3 the communities surrounding lake victoria are financially dependent on the perch economy br br the best things i can say about the film is that it attempted to relate the perspectives of the average people in sub saharan africa which unfortunately is an anomaly among films and that it attempted to portray poverty as the result of a dysfunctional economic system rather than a universal inevitable phenomenon i liked the irony it captured in the massive amount of fish leaving the country in the face of a famine i appreciated the portrayal of how out of touch the u n team assigned to the region was with the people like almost all documentaries that don't have the word women in the title this film fails to do a good job representing women's voices the majority of the talking done in interviews is that of men br br maybe i need to watch the film a second time in order to catch some key points i might have missed but i failed to detect theory of the relationship between the introduction of perch to lake victoria and the unjust living conditions for africans living near the lake furthermore i could be wrong but it struck me that could do well to improve his interview skills not only did the questions he asked and the responses he included seem to be arbitrary but he seemed to have a real knack for making interviewees awkward and uncomfortable br br the most compelling development in the film is the suggestion that the of perch now functions to mask the of arms and that the real economy screwing over is that of war not fishing sadly shies away from conducting a thorough expose of the idea or at least extending the interview with the reporter who seemed to know what he was talking about in regards to the weapons and cops out with a decide for yourself approach br br if darwin's nightmare was meant to dispel the myth that first world exploitation of the third world gives them a chance for a better life it didn't do a good job of it if it was meant to depict how the weapons manufacturing industry in the u s and europe is responsible for much armed conflict around the world it didn't do a good job of it if it was meant to portray what drives people to prostitution it didn't do a good job of it if it was meant to cast light on the inability of the u n to carry out its mission it didn't do a good job of it if it was meant to say that meager income earn from the perch isn't worth the human cost of tinkering with mother nature to create a profitable product it didn't do a good job of it if it was meant to imply that would be much better off had europeans never come it didn't do a good job of it
0	after having watched darwin's nightmare one must have the impression of being a living hell with its population being quasi slaves delivering the finest fish to the well fed europeans while leaving the fish bones to the starving population in exchange for the fish they get western made weapons which the mainly unemployed population eagerly awaits to use because being a soldier is their only source of income br br so everything is all dark with trade as the incarnation of evil and source of all misery not quite fortunately darwin's nightmare shows the dark sides only and completely spares the positive aspects in fact the documentary hardly tells anything about the economic and ecologic importance the has for the region br br for the countries around lake victoria the is the second to third most important source of income the wages in the fishing industry are way above average has banned huge to secure the jobs of thousands of fishermen the adjacent states have met agreements to keep fishing on a sustainable level cities at the lake are benefiting from the taxes the have to pay for each caught fish and the taxes on the exports and profits furthermore has banned the local traditional fish which still play an important role feeding the local population br br by ignoring those positive signs the documentary deters the badly needed western consumers and investors and thus threatens to aggravate the situation br br for further reading i can recommend two articles the german alternative wing newspaper wrote on the subject http www taz de pt 2006 09 02 1 http www taz de pt 2005 03 17 1 text
0	this documentary was boring and quite stupid br br i mean the documentary maker obviously does not even know what how darwinian evolution works it is a theory and the name is just plain dumb reading a college biology text book could have told the documentary maker what darwinism really is darwinism is a good theory but evil if it is done as politics br br also there was no real evidence in this documentary just interviewing some people no expert testimonies and shady leads br br the documentary was also boring i mean it could have been edited down to 35 minutes and then it would have been lots better br br there are a lot better documentaries than this this was not worth watching you can get better information from wikipedia d don't waste your money and time
0	the title of this documentary is very misleading at no time during the documentary do they show how the introduction of the nile perch fish into lake victoria has cause any of the problems facing the town of the film tries to place the problems of on an environmental cause but the truth of that matter is the problems stem from a parasitic outside force the documentary is very slowing paced with no narrative what so ever instead it relies on small of text between none related segments to display bits of information that do little to add or expand of the subject matter there are only two attempts to discus the environmental effects of the nile perch fish one is a small segment about 10 seconds long where they interview the factory managers where the fish is processed and he briefly mentions how 50 years ago the nile perch was introduced into the lake and it consumed the other fish species the film maker makes no attempt to follow up on the matter or go deeper into it the second attempt is when within this documentary they film the showing of another documentary that is discussing the environmental impact the nile perch has introduced and again no real attempt is made to expand on just how devastating the problem has become br br the subject matter that this documentary does delve into has nothing to do with the perch fish itself and more to do with the problems facing most african countries the film tries to link the introduction of the perch fish with aids poverty and pollution in but never makes a direct connection as any intelligent person well read with problems in africa the problems shown here are not unique to but affect most of africa and have nothing to do with the fish it would have been great if the film makers would have shown how the local economy or life was before the fish was introduced and how it has been negatively impacted by the introduction of the fish but they don't the fact of the matter is that many of the people they interview say that the fish has provided jobs and opportunity for many yes things are bad within the town of but they are far worst in other parts of the country and continent for that matter br br a weak attempt by the documentary makers to link the fish to famine problems in is quickly discredited by the documentary itself first off is a very large country and lake victoria is only a small portion of the country many of the individuals interview actually say that they can to the fishing town on the lake to find a job and feed their families because things were so bad in other parts of the country br br this documentary is very weak has no narrative and makes no attempt to actually link anything they display to the nile perch it plays on people's emotions by displaying images of the devastation of poverty famine and aids making no attempt to show you how any of this is unique to the lake victoria region of or directly related to the perch fish the fact is most of the problems have more to do with war globalization and christianity than and environmental effect of the perch fish itself
0	i'm sorry to say that but this is actually one of the worst documentaries i have ever seen br br due to its name darwin's nightmare i expected a documentary on problems relating to the nile perch in lake victoria br br what i actually saw in this documentary is a loose accumulation of individual stories most of which have no relation to neither fish nor lake and for a large part you can hardly call them stories it's more like some accumulated scenes that lack a meaningful connection br br why does this movie waste time on showing us non relevant information on the families of the russian pilots several minutes are wasted for example on their private snapshots of wives and daughters mourning the death of an african child who got bitten by a crocodile as if that could not have happened without the nile perch showing us about 100 times how planes land and start at the airport showing us strange religious events for several minutes discussing in detail the life and death of a whore at the airport talking to kids about their mothers fathers what they work and or how they died well guess what some died of hiv who would have guessed that those are just some examples i could go on for several pages br br this movie is absolutely unfocused and does not know at all what it wants to tell the viewer if you have never heard of africa and have no idea that this continent has social health hiv violence war problems then this movie might be right for you if you haven't had your eyes closed for the last decades 90 of what this movie shows won't be new to you and the way it's presented here will try its best to make you fall asleep br br perhaps my expectations on this movie were to high but i really didn't like it even though this is a topic that i would generally find interesting if this movie wants to show how the poverty is related to the nile perch than it perhaps should have spent some time on discussing that matter
0	when become evangelist they still exploit in the name of poverty br br my first reaction after seeing the movie is – god bless me that i am not eating fish or any non vegetarian products br br the documentary is about lake victoria of where numerous varieties of lovely fishes used to live and one day during 1960s somebody came and injected the mighty fish perch who became the commodity for to european and japanese markets the consequences were severe – firstly all local small and big fish were extinct secondly the plane that came to take the fish could not travel empty because it does not make commercial business capitalist sense so it is filled with arms and ammunition that is what europe can give this world thirdly the pilots as all migrants and traveling population like truck drivers has to survive their sexual needs by flourishing cheap local african prostitutes for them fourthly the brokers dealers middle men in the chain mainly indian origin business people get richer and poverty remains the same fifth poverty drives the children to crime drugs etc br br the premise to make this documentary was excellent but has the director hubert succeeded in making a good documentary it is a big no br br i say the reasons like in india it requires a higher caste to stand up and project to the world indian poverty and untouchables similarly it requires an born european documentary maker to tell the world the story of and its crumbling and ruining economy and poverty it is the pathetic motive of unaware breeding of that rich class who have never seen poverty or known poor who survives live earn and fame like pest hanging on to projecting poverty to the world as soon as they see it there is nothing more but despise by poor people in african and india who see such images of their br br the intention and motives of the hubert seems totally lop sided the images characters locales interviews are too grave and murky dark and disturbing he uses exaggerated ignorance as a voice to present his case what we feel in the end is pity and sadness for africans we also start considering the government and people as villainous may be some westerners sitting in their air conditioned rooms would find time to discuss and debate about the pathetic living conditions of africans but there would be nothing more than that br br the director restrains to show himself even once on the screen – so as not to be identified among the europeans who exploit this poor country br br this director hubert can only survive being themselves like today's cnn and media giants hubert did not have guts or common sense to talk to any europeans who eat or companies who import these fish products a totally lop sided flimsy effort but i understand the reasons of the same – hubert just wanted to rake his fame sitting and smiling with awards in his european comfort br br no more words to spare for this pathetic effort i hesitantly give the documentary a higher rating 3 5 stars out of 10 just because the theme was correct but was pathetically exploited and blown away by amateurish ill conceived director made solely for un intelligent western audiences stars 3 5 out of 10
0	movies like this give independent films a bad name this simply a boring compilation of with no structure whatsoever i wouldn't be surprised if the screenwriter was completely stoned if you want to see a good stoner comedy watch half baked it's no award winner but at least it made me laugh the film was obviously made on a micro budget every scene either takes place in someone's house someone's apartment or some outdoor location if the writing was good and the dialogue was interesting i would've ignored the film's budget like in the case of edward burns' films but obviously that's not the case this time around br br i quote robert deniro from a bronx tale when i say there's nothing in the world worse than wasted talent everybody in the cast is talented luke wilson alicia witt brittany murphy jeremy sisto all talented performers and they all have been in much better movies the actors give it their all but they couldn't go too far with such a lame script the only scene i found interesting was jack black's cameo where he sings a song about being in the woods and of course there was the brief strip club scene at the beginning which i also found appealing br br the characters are uninteresting and the story barely exists many movies are awful but at least you understand their intentions what was intention the world will never know br br my score 2 out of 10
0	the title leads viewers to believe that this is a fun movie to watch and probably much better when watched under the influence but it is not good at all one 15 minute sequence with jack black beautifully playing one of his songs and tripping on acid while venturing through the woods does not save this movie at all every actor in this movie has gone on to do better things except for the main girls i could not think of one movie where i had seen them before i hate to bash movies but i also hate not being able to find something decent in movies the film is sad not very funny and had such potential with its awesome cast if it were redone and written over it could be awesome if you want a good movie to see stoned watch grandma's boy or half baked or dazed and confused but this is not a movie to be seen at all
0	this film was one of the worst films i have ever seen this movie drags on and on and i almost turned it off but i gave it a shot i wasnt expecting anything great but i was expecting more than this good thing i work at a video store and saw this for free because i would'nt spend one dime on this movie i gave this movie a 2 only because i have seen worse if i were you i would stay away from this very far away
0	about 5 minutes into the movie you're thrown into this brutally tepid cat and mouse romance between the two main characters and it just gets worse from there the biggest problem is the characters and how completely unbelievable they are this is what 50 year old producers and out of touch hollywood script writers think stoner life is like as if they gave the cast of friends some pot bland dull annoying and completely unrealistic i despise this movie
0	i gave this movie a four star rating for a few reasons first i felt that this movie was definitely preaching and i hate that still it's my own fault for watching a christian movie in the first place br br my friend and i rented this movie because it sounded interesting the back of the case said something along the lines of a spiritual battle someone opening some sort of boundary that let demons into our world and the like something i am very interested in indeed this movie almost hit the target it was more like on the edge of the target more on the tree than the target itself br br the basic plot of this movie is two couples are abducted by a group of terrorists to be victim to experiments however because their experimental serum is derived from the research of a scientist who claimed to be able to bridge the gap between the physical and the spiritual realms the men of the couples are now able to feel smell hear and see the demons of the spiritual world in that order apparently the sense of taste is not present in that realm br br this movie is very clichéd they took the title seriously as the men while chained to the beds demand their women look behind them because there is something there br br although a good effort for what it was i think the special effects could have been done so much better the demon scratching at the woman was in a word hilarious the wife was obnoxious as hell and everyone in the room practically cheered when she died we were all hoping she'd be beaten by the other woman with the chair though br br the message is one that i don't care to comment on other than i think the christian filmmakers should have found a better medium for it br br and so i give it four stars because it is not the movie's fault i am not a christian and don't like this type of message and i got a kick out of making comments throughout my friend and i watching this movie seemed to resemble an episode of mst3k
0	absolutely nothing about this movie is funny interesting or relevant besides two characters getting together at the end nothing is ever resolved and there is no plot and by the way what is the deal with the cover of the dvd it has a female ass in daisy duke shorts where was that scene in the movie no one ever wore daisy dukes in this film surprisingly enough almost all of the acting in this film is good and jack black plays a full song could be a tenacious d track don't know though those are the only redeeming values though overall it's just a waste of time
0	what a waste of a great cast figured i'd check it out because it looked like a good stoner comedy with a lot of fairly well known actors what it turned out to be was a pointless collection of boring intertwining stories about several characters with minimal connections with each other characters who start off looking like decent people but end up with not a single likable or interesting characteristic among them calling it a comedy was a stretch as well the only thing that made me chuckle was jack black's song which was basically tenacious d i waited for something big to happen but ended up with nothing more than 97 minutes of my life wasted
0	it's hard to believe that with a cast as strong as this one has that this movie can be such a dud it's such an incredibly horrible film how was it ever made how did so many good actors wind up in such a terrible film don't waste your life don't watch even one moment of this film
0	there is nothing in this that the viewer could point to and call good the acting was dull and sedated the sets and cinematography look like they were developed by someone grew up in a starbucks and tried to make the perfect gap commercial characters have no drive motivation or reason for us to care about them there's such a lack of interest and tension that it's hard to follow the banal action and dialog and the plot if anyone finds it i'm sure it would be as boring as everything else br br this isn't funny it's not romantic it doesn't reflect on the human condition if you want a good stoner comedy watch half baked if you want a good stoner drama watch trainspotting the only reason i gave this 2 stars instead of one is because it's kind of fun seeing some familiar faces in the mid late 90's cast which is a shallow reason to give the film even one star but then again this is a shallow movie
0	it starts out looking like it may be going somewhere then quickly leads the main characters into a three ring circus of remarkable stupidity which permanently destroys any likability of the characters i'm a huge collector of stoner movies but this is something i would not consider a valid addition bong water is trash from the very deepest regions of the dumpster and i wouldn't be caught dead with this on my shelf i'm actually convinced this movie was created by a partnership for a drug free america if you're a jack black fan then i would say that you may think 5 minutes of the movies is ok because jack black continues his legacy of singing songs for retards i really can't say enough bad things about this movie
0	if this is the author's and director's idea of a slice of life they are clinically manic a sad moody film at best with aimless and unhappy characters who negatively interact with disastrous results this film is billed as a comedy what was so funny about losing your home to an allegedly premeditated arson or the drug induced forcible rape of one of the main characters is this art imitating life jack black was mildly amusing as the mountain man weed farmer however even this segment of the film was rife with pathos what was the point of living in the middle of nowhere with an entourage if black's character was so paranoid why was he doing acid with a group of people right out of woodstock is there no end to disconnected relationships a plot less script and scene transitions lacking any cohesiveness or logical chronology
0	i lived next door to the author in 1980 when he first moved out to portland from grove ill with two of his high school buds he seemed like a normal enough guy though he had a lot of artistic pretensions within a few years he jumped into post punk music scene with buddy phil and a few others and a band that definitely wasn't headed anywhere although it got him a lot of action including a fling with courtney love in her portland groupie days he seemed to think his musical prospects were good enough to move to san francisco then n y c br br i was surprised to hear that he got a publishing deal in '95 after the band crashed and burned courtney love's name seemed to be the clincher i have no idea how the movie came about especially with this cast but i doubt that gus van sant was involved anyway the reviewers here seem to be unsure whether the lack of narrative focus is intentional or not so i would just say that this is the work of a fairly intelligent guy who wants to be a writer or artist or something but doesn't have anything to say like kerouac without the benzedrine
0	this film did entertain me with lots of laughs at the actors who kept the film moving along in all types of crazy directions if you like suggestive language and sexy looking gals they were all in the picture and gals and guys all looking burned out before they even graduate from high school there is one scene where the teenagers drive their car into a very fake deer and then proceed to throw it out into a lake or ocean which is repeated over and over again there is no horror to this film except the word horrible for the entire picture and arnold who plays a plastic cop is really one sick character please don't waste your time viewing this film
0	is a full moon production i knew what to expect very little quality but i didn't expect this to be as painful as was to watch br br it's just awful bad acting confusing script and direction annoying characters i wanted to kill the whole thing was probably made in one week i've seen episodes of charmed that were more complex and convincing than this cheapie br br it has the look and feel of an orphaned episode of a badly conceived tv series no one has ever seen it was a chore to watch and i could feel my mind getting and by the minute watching a movie shouldn't be this much hard work
0	the best thing about is the dialogue like scream and i know what you did last summer this movie is cognizant of the conventions of this type of horror movie and manages to come up with a few good lines and scenes that play on those conventions unfortunately is just boring the plot is your basic ten little indians whodunnit with a monster controlled by one of the suspects victims you know from the beginning that each of the characters will get bumped off until only the hero is left to defeat the evil and this is exactly what happens absolutely no surprises and no tension production values and acting were ok but i had no motivation to watch to the end although i did because i already knew how the end scene would play out the ending did surprise me a bit because it managed to fizzle out literally instead of throwing out a bucket of special effects maybe the special effects budget had been spent up by the end
0	this movie probably began with a good idea but that's as far as it went when i read the cover at blockbuster i thought it had promise but that was based on the overall idea for the movie the movie began with a professor talking about how in the future we will be able to see creatures from other dimensions there was no explanation of how that would happen but that's okay i thought it would be developed that in the movie it wasn't in the next scene we see two young men lying on tables with tubes taped to their heads beside each one are two attractive women the men begin asking do you hear that or do you see them we conclude they think they are seeing ghosts or some other creature that seem invisible or they are hallucinating the women do not see these creatures this was fine for the first five minutes but this scene goes on for a full hour it is briefly punctuated by flashbacks that have no correlation to the so called plot of the film we are also introduced to a man in a lab coat and what appear to be middle eastern terrorists what is this about we never find out the flash backs lead us to believe that the terrorists are forcing the man in the lab coat to perform diabolical experiments on these young people but we never understand why at the end of the movie the terrorists finally do what terrorists do – they blow up the lab but why what is the point we have no idea this film contains so many disconnected thoughts and ideas that there are too many to but one more notable one is that fact that the man in the lab coats and the terrorist pop in and out of the room throughout the movie and not once do the young men attempt to escape or even leave the tables on which they are laying even though they are not strapped down the makers of the movie also bring in cameo appearances by cockroaches on several occasions but again we never learn what that has to do with the storyline sorry but this movie was a waste of 4 and the time i spent driving to the rental store and then watching it take my advice don't rent it
0	i don't believe i've seen a horror movie this bad since hell i don't believe i've ever seen a horror movie this bad the acting alone was enough to make one cringe the bad acting went way beyond horror film cheesy it was just plain awful and did you check out those god awful special effects when the demon which looked more like a cheaply constructed puppet came out of the wall i couldn't tell if i was supposed to be frightened or laughing my ass off as a huge fan of the horror genre this film was more than mildly disappointing i couldn't help but notice the director is from portland or which just happens to be my own hometown i must say i'm deeply ashamed if i could i'd give this film a negative 500
0	sometimes full moon makes entertaining movies this isn't one of them full moon is like a low key troma their movies aren't as violent or off the wall but they're usually just as devoid of talent the acting in this movie isn't terrible but the script is pretty bad and overall it's pretty boring and it doesn't even contain any nudity like many full moon movies to somewhat redeem it skip this one and go rent head of the family
0	hunk of trash only the full moon studios could make has a group of college kids staying for free in an old hospital with no one knowing as a demonic creature with two faces barely visible the entire film because of incomprehensible lighting passes through walls killing each member who has a certain sheet of paper with ancient markings someone amongst them it won't be too hard to prove but a slight twist is so revealed and limply executed you'll just scoff is the mastermind behind who the beast kills and must be revealed before it kills everyone br br cheap badly acted mess has a that's it kind of weak ending that'll have you exasperated at why you just wasted your time tanya dempsey who couldn't act her way through a wet paper sack has the heroine duties as the newest member of the college rooming bunch named clark oh and the title refers to the sound the beast makes before it attacks it's next victim
0	the creature yeah it and the movie it stars in hell would seem infinitely more frightening if the damned were forced to watch this for all eternity six college students shack up in a condemned hospital to save money and end up victims of an ancient monster who must claim five victims before it returns to the shadowy world from which it came other than having major logic and coherence problems plus the fact it appears to be unfinished this disaster is terribly acted written edited by j r and directed and the make up fx are almost nonexistent it's also significantly shorter than it claims at only 80 minutes but i'm not complaining it's the worst movie i've seen from executive producer charles band's full moon productions and boy is that bad br br to note i almost didn't bother with a review but this has gotten inexplicably good reviews on here and i figured a varying opinion was in order proceed with caution
0	i like the most of the full moon pictures so i ordered this movie from the usa because in germany you can't get it anywhere i thought it would be so nice and amusing like the subspecies or puppetmaster series because they were full of atmosphere br br i was glad when the movie finally arrived br br but after watching this cheesy movie i was very disappointed the actors i think you can't even say actors are boring and untalented the story was a poor performance and even the set and the monster were very cheap and lousy br br i hope no one ever make a sequel or remake of this terrible movie
0	this should have rocked vh1 moved away from the traditional divas whitney houston celine dion etc that had made the 2003 show so stale sadly the move backfired the show had no mc keeping the show together queen latifah did a fantastic show at the 2003 divas the show kicked of with a horrific rendition of lady marmalade featuring patti cyndi lauper and jessica simpson okay in the studio with some control they can all sound great br br however when they are competing with each other why it just sounds torturous jessica simpson has the most bizarre facial expressions when she sings that i've ever witnessed cyndi lauper also performed girl just wanna have fun that wasn't as bad but it was hardly impressive the worst was yet to come cyndi and patti teamed up to perform hit 'time after time' it was acoustic and didn't fit in with the rest of the show still it could've been okay if they both hadn't insisted on squealing like animals it was just dire br br debbie harry from blondie is always cool she has a style of her own and although maybe she can't compete vocally with a many of the divas although she certainly can sing very well debbie came out and performed blondie's 1 hit 'rapture' with some lovely vocals she really hit the notes perfectly she looked stunning rapper eve provided a new but sadly inferior rap it was good debbie's next performance was a team up with newcomer joss stone they performed the blondie hit 'one way or i think joss misunderstood the style of the song and just shouted over debbie a rather sad bit was when debbie tried and failed to match her style which spoiled it a bit she should've just let joss get on with her totally inappropriate the whole of blondie performed this track the final track debbie performed was blondie's massive hit me' it was pretty poor not debbie's fault because you just couldn't hear her the sound was atrocious all the way through the show br br joss stone also performed a few songs on her own they were quite well done ashanti also showed up to perform two inexplicable cover versions firstly she did diana ross' 'i'm coming out' and then khan's she is not a diva she can sing to an extent but she has no presence whatsoever why not just get the real singers in was even interviewed on the show br br gladys knight showed up and did a medley it was very good she was probably the best bit of the show i don't know much about her other than she is a seasoned performer in las vegas and her experience and class really shone through patti fitted in another performance this time her 80's hit 'new it was the finale and it was okay but it was too little to late this was one big dud better luck next time vh1 br br the version i saw was a heavily edited version which was shown on vh1 in the uk if these were the best bits
0	the first twenty five minutes stand out as possibly the worst in modern british film director adapter william has treated wilde's original with such reverence that he seems to have completely ignored the needs of a cinematic audience thankfully the quality of the direction and editing improves significantly after the first half hour but by then the damage has been done of the actors prunella scales and robert hardy wipe the floor with the rest of the cast every time they are on screen the other exceptions are jonathan firth's arthur and karen mabel who are given enough latitude to deliver their lines with the true comic sense which wilde intended the ostensible leads james and trevyn mcdowell are in comparison lacklustre and wooden in an obvious attempt to eke every penny out a meagre budget the play has been nominally updated to the 1990's but in conjunction with the original script the effect is more of a badly script 1970s tv drama true moments of comedy are few and far between but when they arrive are highly amusing a sign maybe that more judicious pruning of the rest of the play might have led to a better paced more even film
0	potential viewers be warned the current imdb viewer rating for tomorrow at seven is an anomaly of low voter turnout it has an interesting premise a killer leaves an ace of spades calling card at the scene of his crimes while alerting the victim in advance the execution falls flat however and to say that the movie has it's share of plot holes would be to imply that there actually is a plot br br chester morris portrays mystery writer neil broderick weaving elements of actual murders by the ace of spades killer into his latest novel broderick intends to interview a wealthy businessman for his book but first he has to get past the man's eccentric secretary if you line his relatives up you'd have enough nuts to hold a ford together that line unceremoniously him to the daughter martha vivienne osborne who offers to make the introductions br br broderick meets thornton drake henry stephenson just as the latter is about to complete a jigsaw puzzle delivered by a courier that morning the only remaining pieces as we learn in the following scene form the bold black shape of the ace of spades containing the words at seven tomorrow night now what person putting together a puzzle doesn't use the pieces with contrasting colors first br br initially i was intrigued by the appearance of frank mchugh and allen jenkins in their roles as a pair of police detectives summoned to the drake residence generally their characters are colorful enough to offer genuine comic relief but here they're just plain annoying mchugh's clancy in particular winds up shouting objections to inane comments made by his partner dugan and both usually head in the opposite direction when real trouble might turn up br br now here's a question in light of the identity of the ace killer why would he have invited a novelist and a pair of cops that he just met on a flight to his louisiana plantation especially when at seven o'clock all parties would be a captive audience aboard the plane when the first murder is committed it's not drake however who's dead but his secretary austin winters grant mitchell the early suspicion falls on pilot henderson cornelius keefe following a lights out scene but henderson still hasn't reported the murder to his supervisor until well after he arrives at drake's plantation with everyone else can you imagine anyone trying to get away with that today unless your name was ted kennedy br br with the cause of death yet to be determined the local coroner is called in but the first one that shows up a broderick accomplice is a phony yet when the real coroner shows up he simply disappears immediately after in a second dark out scene a letter from the murder victim austin winters is about to be read it winds up missing when the lights return and because it may point to the murderer it becomes a clue that must be retrieved so where was the letter winters' daughter martha grabbed it and placed in on the mantle of the living room how much thought was put into this br br obviously the entire affair is so inane that morris' character solves the case rather easily even though the film comes in at just about an hour it becomes almost a chore to watch with all the nonsense going on there's really only one humorous moment worth repeating while aboard the plane the detectives have this exchange dugan hey clancy how often do these things fall clancy once br br except for mchugh and jenkins i can't say i've seen any of the other players in films of the era though i'm a fan of most b grade mystery movies from the '30's through the '50's fortunately the pair fares much better backing up humphrey bogart in a goofy 1938 gem swing your lady where the laughs are intentional the best i can offer about tomorrow at seven is a quote from martha winters about midway though this turkey this is just a silly waste of time
0	jackie chan movies are typical examples of how offer is bigger than demand well to be honest which demand in this one jackie chan is whatever his name is in this one i doubt if he even knows and he is some kind of race car driver well he drives 10 miles an hour and then the footage is sped up that way i can do all the stunts myself as well during the great finale in which jackie chan wants to arrest the bad guy by beating him in a race we finally get to see how shoddy this production really is chan's fighting especially in the casino scene is decent but when we're talking about special effects dear lord and must everyone crash in this race that's just stupid and here it's really not safe for the drivers there's not even a concrete wall in the neighborhood and don't get me started on what kind of awful story this has i mean it's hongkong it was probably written at gun point by eight year olds but still what a mess i like chan as much as the next guy perhaps more since i saw rush hour but his agent's retarded cousin really needs to pick his projects better
0	i just cant see what everyone sees in this movie the acting is just awful the choice of music is mildly putting it peculiar there arent enough fighting scenes the plot is non existent and whatever small entertainment one could get from this film is ruined by the annoying way some of the movie is filmed and gives you a splitting
0	i would have given this less than a 1 rating if it were possible the entire film should have been left on the cutting room floor what a pathetic waste of time money and effort let's see assemble the prettiest cast you can find which of course is in direct proportion to the amount of talent they lack throw together the thinnest plot you can dig up and viola an abominable piece of trash that the director and or producer should be ashamed to put their name on how much worse can the horror genre get and don't use low budget as an excuse i have seen many great low budget films in fact some of the best horror classics of all time were low budget if you don't have the talent and ingenuity to make a good horror film then for god's sake don't make one at all
0	not like i went in expecting a lot out of it but i was at least hoping for a fun dumb big budget movie this isn't even that this item ranks in the bottom half of all the vampire movies i've ever seen and believe me i've seen a lot of them bad acting zero characterization little to no thought almost non existent plot and that that's there you can drive semi trucks through the holes in sure it has action and is loud and has more action and more noise and blood and action these things alone do not make a good or even halfway decent movie beats me how some people can say this is the best vampire movie ever made all i can assume is they haven't seen many i suggest seeing near dark instead
0	i wish i knew what to make of a movie like this it seems to be divided into two parts action sequences and personal dramas ashore it follows ashton through survival swimmer school guided by master chief kevin costner then to alaska where a couple of spectacular rescues take place the last resulting in death br br i must say that the scenes on the beach struck me as so stereotypical in so many ways that they should be barnacle encrusted a typical bar room fight between navy guys and coast guardsmen puddle pirates the experienced old timer costner who is as an elderly bar tender tells him married to the coast guard the older chief who keeps trying to prove to himself that he's still nineteen the neglected ex wife ashore to whom kostner pays a farewell visit the seemingly sadistic demands placed on the swimmers by the instructors all in pursuit of a loftier goal the gifted young man hobbled by a troubled past br br the problem is that we've seen it all before if it's kevin costner here it's clint eastwood or john wayne or lou jr or vigo mortenson or robert deniro elsewhere and the climactic scene has elements drawn shamelessly from the perfect storm and dead calm none of it is fresh and none of the old stereotyped characters and situations are handled with any originality br br it works best as a kind of documentary of what goes on in the swimmer's school and what could happen afterward and even that's a little weak because we don't get much in the way of instruction it's mostly personal conflict romance and tension about washing out br br it's a shame because the u s coast guard is rather a noble outfit its official mission being the safety of lives and property at sea in war time it is transferred to the navy department and serves in combat roles in world war ii the coast guard even managed to have a medal of honor winner in its ranks br br but again we don't learn much about that we don't really learn much about anything the film devolves into a succession of visual displays and not too much else a disappointment
0	thunderbolt is probably jackie chan's worst movie since the protector in 1985 yes i know that nobody watches his movies for their stories but the plotting of this one is unusually lame even by his standards and while the fight choreography is up to his standards the fight scenes the whole two of them are ruined as others have mentioned by the frenetic distracting camerawork even the most serious jackie chan fans shouldn't really bother with this offensively haphazard stunt and plug filled garbage anita yuen's cute and perky performance is one of the few redeeming virtues for a good serious jackie movie i recommend crime story 1 2
0	i normally love jackie chan movies but this one was terrible there are only 2 or 3 fight scenes all of which are up to normal standard more or less the bad thing about this movie is it focuses a lot on car chasing racing the car chase isn't so bad though not as exciting as fighting but the car racing at the end is exceptionally boring basically it takes all of things that make a jackie chan film a jackie chan film and leaves out everything except jackie chan even the traditional outtakes at the end lack their usual humour br br i suppose to a certain extent it was made worse by the fact i saw one of those horrible dubbed versions i usually try to see the subtitled version i wish i could understand chinese br br i've only seen one jackie film worse that this one and that was one of his early forays into hollywood films that didn't turn out so well br br avoid unless really curious or a lover of motor sports
0	predictable gory over gimmicky mediocre don't waste your time there are many much better movies out there br br resurrection starts out ok but the plot quickly becomes repetitive my interest level fell off steadily by the end of the movie i was just glad it was finally over the characters never fully developed the cinematography is muddy and the quick change pov rotations while impressive in 1999 perhaps presently merely serve to label the movie as attempting to substitute gee whiz flash for plot and character substance the film shooting gimmicks serve some purpose convey tension and anxiety but are constantly overused and ultimately become counterproductive a shame overall the film story obviously had potential and the producers directors and actors obviously have technical skill a disappointment
0	if i didn't know any better i would have thought resurrection was made in the late 80's early 90's when crap sold as film in hollywood br br i don't understand why people like christopher lambert he speaks like he's reading off of cue cards and turns into a fountain whenever he has to emote he was easily the movie's weakest aspect the other actors were ok nothing horrible br br it's easy to see where the majority of the budget went the special effects the killings look pretty professional but hardly make up for the film's dullness br br i wouldn't go as far as to say resurrection is a carbon copy of se7en but it certainly bears a certain resemblance to it centering on a religious minded murderer on a modern crusade the detectives investigating his work have to rely on bible passages and christian history to piece together the killer's puzzle resurrection however is bereft of se7en's clever storytelling cinematography acting well everything that makes it good instead resurrection lies to the audience and uses the scooby doo method of mystery to surprise it br br in conclusion resurrection was about as bad as i expected it to be i almost feel bad for criticizing this movie since i knew it would be bad going in but sue me
0	a bare faced rip off of se7en and not fit to clean its shoes the word 'predictable' must have invented for just such an occasion as this lambert is wooden as always his moments of 'emotion' are laughable as is his accent the is not that at all as we've had so many signals and by the end we're simply immune to flesh rotting and otherwise altogether a real mess
0	ok first said i just wanted to check whether this movie has an average rating below or exactly 1 but 5 9 this is sicker than any of the killers' proceedings that made me curious what people wrote here which in the end made me set up an account to give my of truth into this well of delusion i find here br br how dare you guys even mention this movie in the same sentences as e g seven the only thing they got in common is that they show various crime scenes that is it and best thriller of 1999 have you even watched another movie form that year or any other movie in your life at all 1999 is not a year which people are reminded of by resurrection what's with actual movies like 8mm eyes wide shut arlington road double jeopardy actually more a thriller than this one could ever be resurrection does not even deserve to be dedicated to a second of 1999 br br really you guys can't be serious i watched that movie yesterday with my girlfriend highly recommended by a friend of her a great film with christopher lambert which i had not yet seen hmm br br well first look on the covers ok nothing special at second glimpse you don't need to have supernatural powers to be aware that they simply mirrored lambert's head clipped his nose 'n this that then made a fancy negative pattern on top of it to get the killers image on the cover you could even think they had some apprentice eat a gallon of marshmallows just to caption that creepy mouth whatever turned it around and the plot starts with it's raining in chicago blabber blabber come on a six year old could have made that snippet sound more exciting now with this enormous excitement coming from the movies terrific presentation you absolutely wanna start watching it because it can't be that bad it still is christopher lambert that assumption of mine was proved wrong with proven wrong i mean it was brutally executed by a deadly mix of the worst imaginable acting ever known to mankind every actor but the tops are the i can do 1 liners police chief wife actually a better detective than prudhomme when she several incidents to a yet absolutely unknown hint in the case and yes prudhomme himself featuring a squadron of inhuman fake feelings logic errors in a 1 minute cycle light years far fetched conclusions which in my point of view represent an insult to any thinking human being and last but not least a camera man who obviously was a hyperventilating kangaroo oh well and if you do not completely shut down your brains these aren't premises to watch it then you should know who is who and what is what after max simply because you know any scene after the first that is thrilling thrilling because this movie almost makes you think you can tell the future br br the bottom line this is by far the worst movie i can remember trust me i've seen many horrible movies which in some way were at least only bad attempts or bad copies of another movie resurrection however is the best example on how to fail in every aspect possible it was so bad that after being shocked by its unimaginably low quality in e v e r y t h i n g i laughed more often than in any recent comedy simply because i was fascinated by the crew's to publish such an extraordinary film strip good thing for lambert he was in highlander endgame a year later thus he can be pardoned o br br anyhow i do recommend watching this movie to everyone in the end we had great fun watching it d i guarantee you after you completely watched resurrection be brave you can do it you will worship the level of acting in any given daily soap br br or just go 'n watch highlander one more time that's what i'm gonna do
0	this film truly was poor i went to the theatre expecting something exciting and instead was afforded the opportunity to hone my guess the next plot twist before it happens skills seriously the plot was written with an extra thick crayon so everyone could see nothing was truly shocking in fact even the gore was met with such complete suspension of belief that it really didn't add up to much br br the excessive wise cracking and cops talking shop at the crime scenes made it seem all the more phony and the scene where lambert's character is struggling with the clues and reaches his investigative epiphany goes to great lengths to indicate the level of intellect expected from the audience little br br probably the most annoying aspect of the cinematography was the x files treatment every building in the film whether it's the precinct building or a house at noon or a hospital was suffering from a lack of any discernible lighting not to mention a lack of in the case of the hospital i don't recall a single scene when someone flipped on a light switch it sure would have been nice br br mr lambert really isn't an oscar grade actor so i suppose you have to take this film for what it's worth in the end i've reached the conclusion that the only thing that would make this film seem more entertaining is to watch it after watching the warriors otherwise you're left with an effort that is dull and unoriginal and nowhere near the equal of films of the genre such as silence of the lambs
0	overrated poorly written badly acted did the academy even watch this i guess not the political content guaranteed it an oscar nomination indo pak border a little boy terrorism anything with the word terrorist gets attention in br br this post 9 11 world its like holocaust movies that are guaranteed an oscar nomination irrespective of their merits br br and please cinematography does not mean shooting landscapes which are pretty in the first place you have to be a rotten shooter to screw up making the desert pretty at least this didn't win the oscar they got that right at least would have been a travesty
0	being a huge laura gemser fan i picked this up at a rental outlet just to see another emanuelle film boy did i make a mistake br br emanuelle in egypt has nothing to do with emanuelle laura gemser is in it along with her husband gabriele but that is the only connection to emanuelle here laura plays laura original huh a beautiful supermodel who goes to visit her wealthy friend pia annie belle in egypt in tow are her a hole photographer carlo a haggard looking gabriele and some blonde woman who is never named also living in pia's mansion is horatio the sexy but dumb al cliver a mystique who speaks nothing but nonsense arriving for the weekend are pia's two daughters one a short haired lesbian and the other a brunette lots of sex is implied but hardly shown one good looking actor plays ali the egyptian servant who gets lucky with three of the women in the mansion laura has sex with the lesbian the lesbian has sex with horatio pia and the blonde have sex with horatio at an egyptian orgy laura drinks blood and is possessed during an egyptian ceremony carlo rapes laura it all happens with so little flair that emanuelle in egypt is one of the worst movies i've ever seen far from erotic even the actors themselves look bored during their sex scenes br br considering there were two famous couples in this film laura and gabriele al and annie the number of available sex scenes are uncountable instead a film that offers a top notch eurocult cast and never delivers the goods will piss every viewer off except the hardcore laura gemser completist otherwise steer clear of emanuelle in egypt
0	this is by far the worst hemingway adaptation ever rock hudson was badly miscast and entirely unbelievable as a hard bitten soldier adventurer drawn to war jennifer jones was far too old for her part and vittorio de sica seemed to think he was acting in some other movie altogether they tried to make a large scale epic out of a low key romantic novel and the result is terrible as if that were not enough the whole thing is so slow overlong and dated that it is practically unwatchable rock must have kicked himself for turning down sayonara and ben hur in order to make this ghastly crap br br 0 10 to be avoided
0	this film is basically a poor take on the old urban legend of the babysitter who gets crank calls telling her to check the children she calls the police who trace the calls and find there coming from inside the house when a killer calls has a story so simplistic a little kid could have written it not much suspense it becomes clear who the killer is halfway through the film at the beginning when the first victim is killed it looks like a bondage fetish scene from a porn site or something whats up with that the film is oh so typical slasher fare with a plot about as original as a beatles concert even by low budget slasher standards its cheesy don't waste your time with this nuff said
0	for producer david o selznick no one director would ever do hence on a farewell to arms 1957 we get two – charles vidor and john huston though both men were quite accomplished in their own right neither could make head or tail of this disastrous remake of magnum opus hemmingway in general has never translated well from book to screen but under selznick's zeal to transform it into his next with the wind' the excursion is both punishing and exhaustive at this point in selznick's career he was no longer the titan who could take box office poison and transform it into gone with the wind tired frail minus his studio and with an impending sense that his second marriage to jennifer jones might have been a mistake selznick handed the creative reigns of this flick over to fox studios – but he kept enough of himself in it to become a damn nuisance on the set br br by now one is or should be familiar with the bittersweet tragic love story of a nurse catharine barkley jennifer jones and her soldier hero lt frederick henry rock hudson their passion is supposed to serve as the force for what is essentially a war tale with romanticism thrown in for good measure but the chemistry between hudson and jones is both turgid and dull in the final reel jones' facial contortions during child birth are so bad i am surprised that neither director opted to cut them from the general release part of the problem with jones is that at thirty eight she's far too wise to play the optimistic catharine with any great conviction yet older actresses have frequently managed to make an audience forget discrepancies in age not so with jones one is painfully aware that she doesn't fit the bill in either acting chops or years invested on this planet hudson's laconic charm is hopelessly out of touch with to stoicism of an army soldier whose heart is broken but head remains strong the supporting cast is peppered with such luminaries as vittorio de sica and mercedes but these are wasted bits of nonsense that in no way reflect upon the formidable talents of either actor and best made evident elsewhere in their canons of film making br br the anamorphic picture element for a farewell to arms looks good enough though there's just a bit too much film grain present in certain scenes for this reviewer's liking overall colors are subtle and muted though balanced in accordance with the deluxe color processing employed at this time some fading is evident flesh tones don't appear very natural contrast levels are a tad weak blacks are generally solid whites are almost clean there's not much to recommend this film sonically it's essentially a wordy picture with gun shots as a backdrop there are no extras
0	i managed to avoid reading hemingway in college from what i could tell along with his reductivist verbiage he offered reductivist story lines this film of into a simplistic hoary belabored narrative does not disabuse me of my suspicions a guy who barely sees action on the european battlefield hudson falls in with a nurse jones and they conspire to spend time together hemingway's big contribution to narrative was the romantic travelogue who knows what these two lovers have in common they're so utterly generic the movie never even brings up the utter irresponsibility it takes to abandon the front in favor of a lovers' adventure the two have a season on the alps straight out of a j crew catalog a number of better scenes are undermined by corny conventional melodrama elsewhere the movie keeps piling on tiny improbable unspecific details that fight the epic treatment the cavernous hospital that miss barkley works in is virtually empty so that no secondary plot line can possibly distract from the flimsy main story complicated it is not br br the camera work is better than average with some amazing location photography director charles vidor or maybe huston does striking things in the first hour with an on location wide screen camera there are no second unit cop outs vidor shows massive panoramic tableaux pans over a line of hundreds of soldiers through the mountains and then with a 90 degree of his camera catches up with hudson's ambulance barreling down on him br br hudson looks great he's a better actor than he gets credit for but with material like this he can become very mechanical mercedes plays a one dimensional shrew jennifer jones is puffy and miscast in the lackluster female lead the movie is best when she's off screen the love scenes are about as affecting as a coffee commercial
0	terrible adaptation of low key love story an american soldier rock hudson falls in love with a british nurse jennifer jones in italy during world war 1 what's wrong with this virtually everything hudson is way out of his depth here he could be a good actor but not in this movie jones is far too old for her role she's 21 in the book here she's 38 and looks it also her acting wavered between overdone and underdone they took a simple low key love story and blew it all out of proportion the film is fatally long a little over 150 minutes self indulgent and padded to a ridiculous degree it seems producer david o selznick thought he was doing gone with the wind again some of the scenery is truly stunning even on a small tv screen but there's not enough of a story to match the images br br spoiler the ending where jones dies is supposed to be tragic but the bad acting and overblown theatrics had me fighting not to laugh br br to make matters worse actor vittorio de sica overacts to a truly embarrassing degree overblown self indulgent badly cast and slow pretty terrible this was understandably a financial and critical bomb and ended selznick's career as a producer you might want to tune in for some of the scenery at the end but it's really not worth it i give this a 3
0	this film should be called adventures in cinemascope it is like the screenwriter and director the cliff's notes page 3 outline and decided that this would be a great vehicle for a film about the italian alps rock hudson is pretty good here but the dialogue bears no resemblance to hemingway at all this is a made up version of hemingway hecht the screenwriter is a hack watch the 1932 version with gary cooper and helen hayes that is great cinema and was made by someone who understood hemingway and the war in northern italy gary cooper is very very good compared to his performance in for whom the bell tolls where he is stiff as a board and thinks he is in a western br br anyway if you are a hemingway fan do yourself a favor and do not watch this film your best bet is to get the unabridged audio cd and just listen to one of the greatest novels ever written
0	had she not been married to the producer jennifer jones would not have been the most obvious choice for the leading female role in this tragic tale of an affair between an american soldier and an english nurse set against the backdrop of the first world war her british accent is not perfect and in the fifties it was unusual for a big romantic lead to go to an actress in her late thirties even one as attractive as miss jones especially when she was several years older than her leading man there were a number of beautiful young british actresses in hollywood around this time such as audrey hepburn elizabeth taylor jean simmons and joan collins any of whom might have been more convincing in the role but miss jones had one important attribute they all lacked namely a marriage certificate with david o selznick's name on it in the event the film turned out to be such a turkey that they were doubtless grateful not to have it on their cvs br br the film tells at great length the story of the romance between frederick an american volunteer serving with the italian army as an ambulance driver and catherine a nurse with the british red cross after the italian defeat at the battle of frederick is wrongly accused of being a german spy and sentenced to death the film paints a very harsh picture of italian military justice it would appear that italian courts martial had the power to pass the death sentence after a trial lasting all of thirty seconds without hearing any evidence and without allowing the defendant to be legally represented or to speak in his defence frederick manages to escape and to cross the border into neutral switzerland accompanied by the pregnant catherine br br hemingway's novels have not always been a great success when filmed howard hawks succeeded in making a good version of to have and have not a film that is considerably better than the book on which it is nominally based but that is because he largely ignored hemingway's plot and turned the film into a remake of casablanca set in rather than french morocco like the 1943 version of for whom the bell tolls a farewell to arms is overlong and fatally slow moving it is also miscast jennifer jones never makes catherine come to life as for rock hudson his assumed christian name could be unfortunately appropriate he could be as solid as a rock but also as impassive as one and in this film his frederick seems an impersonation of the great stone face despite the passion and emotion inherent in hemingway's plot the emotional temperature is always far too cool the picture has little going for it apart from some attractive picture postcard views of italian and swiss scenery it is hardly surprising that it was not a success and that its failure ended selznick's career as a producer 4 10 br br a goof shortly before the battle of an italian officer states that russia had already concluded a separate peace with germany that battle started in october 1917 at a time when russia was still fighting alongside the allies the russian revolution did not take place until november it was only the october revolution by the old julian calendar the new bolshevik regime signed an armistice with germany in december 1917 but a separate peace was not signed until the treaty of in march 1918
0	what's the point hasn't this been done before better and again why is werner herzog wasting his good talents and time with junk like this shouldn't he be shooting a movie somewhere i mean a real movie br br it all felt fake from the beginning werner herzog would never have sought to make a film about the loch ness myth at least not on such a small scale surrounded by losers so the plot was not believable from the beginning the actors who are supposed to act like they're not acting were obviously acting the story was not interesting the everyday people requisite in every mockumentary were invisible the personalities were stale the jokes were not funny the effects were unconvincing and the ending was nowhere to be seen br br i just don't see the point it's a fake movie about a fake movie hah hah perhaps if those who thought up such a movie sought to make one that mocked people who really were out to find a real now that could have had some potential but herzog is not a believer and never claimed to be a mockumentary about the crowd would have had so much more fuel br br it was a miss
0	i wish that all the mockumentaries and horror spoofs would go away if you are going to investigate loch ness do it for real enough of the bull same with horror and sci fi if you are going to make a movie and it is supposed to be scary make it scary not funny i hate when watching a horror movie and the character is fighting for their life or running or whatever their life is at stake and they are cracking jokes this never happens cmon where have all the good directors gone i think horror and sci fi have really gone down the tube since the 70's i long for the days that a horror flick was scary all this scary movie crap is for the birds this film is also for the birds if you really would like to see a good investigation or here serious talk don't expect it in this video
0	christopher guest is the master of the mockumentary werner herzog is one of many documentary greats out there penn isn't good at either but he could certainly take a lesson from the other two guest often plays around with reality and fiction but the line between the two is always clear in his films sort of an essential with a mockumentary penn could also take a lesson from the the blair witch project even though you knew it was a fake documentary going in you totally bought into the world the filmmakers created it seems to the audience as if the whole thing is real even though you know deep down you're watching fiction in other words it was fiction successfully disguised as truth in fact many early audiences watching it at sundance and other premiere audiences thought it was real penn whose forte by his own admission is screen writing should probably stick to that documentary or mockumentary film making and it's hard to tell where one begins and the other ends with this film is obviously not br br penn sets the stage for what he tries to sell as a legit documentary on the filming of a documentary sort of a meta documentary penn however confuses the audience and loses their trust from the get go as he enters herzog's house before the filming of herzog's film enigma of loch ness about the myth of the loch ness monster a film which apparently was never finished – probably because of penn's interference even though penn is apparently the director of the film we're watching he starts it by looking at the cameras and saying what is the film crew doing here and starts shying away from them he does this on a couple other occasions as well he will stop and tell the cameras to stop filming thus forcing the camera guy to hide in the shadows to pick up snippets of dialogue between herzog and penn it seems to be a gimmick but that is never made clear and penn is apparently keeping us in the dark intentionally this leaves the audience scratching its head wondering who is in charge here if penn is working against his own film crew what kind of a world are we a part of this is just one of many examples of how he confuses the line between reality and fiction br br penn seems to only fully enter the fictional world i think when the crew has sightings of what appears to be the loch ness monster but by the time the monster makes its first appearance we have totally exited the fictional world penn has attempted to create so it all just seems silly and pointless br br this is a potentially fascinating movie and a real missed opportunity in that penn has a chance to document a master at work but completely loses focus and it becomes a movie about penn and his antics instead of the filming of a documentary penn's presence begins to and overshadow everything else in the movie br br the herzog interviews are convincing and we actually believe he isn't acting we even start to wonder if he and others on his crew are being duped by penn much the way the audience is but you're never sure of even that penn in his interviews to the camera attempts to be quirky and unintentionally funny like the characters interviewed in a guest mockumentary but he only succeeds in being annoying in a guest film this effect is hilarious while here it falls flat because you're never sure what penn is about as a result we the audience start to dislike him as much as the crew apparently does aside from the beautiful scenery and the superfluous appearance out of nowhere of a beautiful model thrown in to give the movie spice there is little to recommend here perhaps its only redeeming quality an unintentional one at that is that it's a great example of why the audience is important and by completely ignoring the conventions of storytelling your doing them a disservice for that reason alone i think this would be a good film to show to film students – sort of a what not to do kind of movie i have nothing against a movie told in an unconventional way as long it's done skillfully with a thematic base to give it substance this film is completely lacking in that br br i'd like to call it a valiant effort at something but i'm not sure what it is other than a complete mess and ultimately a waste of time br br as a side note it seems like bad art always calls to mind good this film made me think of the book picture by lillian ross ross followed john huston around during the filming of the red badge of courage and brilliantly documented it for the new yorker it would make a great movie in fact if you want a great example of meta art read it
0	mockumentaries are proliferating lately so much that the approach therefore needs an injection of fresh and creative material each time it's used to maintain its vitality this film does not deliver anything but worn out retreads of similar stories an aimless script weak ad libs uninspired acting and unfunny self gratifying humor br br the premise would seem promising enough the legend of the loch ness monster is made to order for one of these goofy mockumentary misadventures with a vast array of history and legend waiting to be tapped for outrageous satire the film makers totally waste this enormous potential however we get some fool inserting a fake into the water gee that's original another scene has one obnoxious idiot threatening another obnoxious idiot with a gun sidesplitting some gratuitous shots of a pretty girl in a bikini annette did that 40 years ago and far better by the way throughout the movie somebody always seems to be yelling i suppose this is designed to wake up the audience who have nodded off by this point br br worst of all though is the relentless salvo of those reality show type interview comments made by the characters not only do they nuke you with this tired joke every five seconds but apparently the actors also improvised that's the only explanation for how humorless the jokes are if lines like i've never seen anyone write a book about non evidence were actually scripted then the writer should be shot on sight and fed to br br no wonder got violent it obviously saw this movie
0	why does the poster artwork say clubbed is one of the best uk indie films i have seen in a very long time screen international when it was a quote of the french distributor reported by screen international an influential film trade publication see www com which reads br br pretty pictures has acquired all french speaking rights to neil thompson's clubbed james president of pretty pictures said clubbed is one of the best uk indie films i have seen in a very long time br br isn't this rather misleading the distributor is bound to say it's good are the other quotes real
0	when a killer calls has got to be the biggest ripoff released by asylum so far it's about a sexy babysitter on duty who receives spooky calls from a creepy voice who asks her repeatedly have you checked the girl naturally she has the calls traced by the cops after having to perform some realistically unnecessary tasks hanging up when he calls waiting ten seconds and dialing 57 sound familiar yeah that's why i rented it too br br well it should and i hate to say it but this could've been more entertaining than the big screen crapfest that was released around the same time if not for one fatal mistake rather than revelling in b movie ripoff glory it tried to do something original it tried to make the lead character sympathetic rather than having clichéd campy fun with her mind you this could've worked with a talented actress but she wasn't sure she looked good and she screamed and cried but oh well whatever br br then came the horrific ending not horrific in that it was horrifying horrific in that it was boring the pacing up until that point about an hour in was campy clichéd and fun then it heads in another direction and it veers away from just another dumb fun slasher movie with a sexy teenage cast to a hostel esquire gore borefest br br i guess this falls into the oh well whatever category the lead actress flubbed a line oh well whatever i don't feel like it we forgot to give the killer motivation oh well whatever i don't feel like rewriting it the pacing completely changes halfway through oh well whatever i don't feel like shaving fifteen minutes off continuity errors oh well whatever br br if you like this kind of movie dumb cheesy predictable campy splatter movie with sexy cast then you'll be fine up until the ending the ending is stupid it's not fun it's not scary it's not campy or cheesy or quickly paced in fact there was almost exactly five minutes of the character doing nothing but being tied up and that's not a spoiler because it's on the back of the dvd and looking around at the stuff in the room then screaming and whatever
0	star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br danny mel is a lonely factory worker who tries to get by with his job and to be a good dad to his two daughters after a messy divorce from their mother maxine but after an altercation with said daughters present at a working men's club he uses a trip to their dance class to take a glance at louis colin salmon and his gang of hard men who train in the boxing gym free weights section there and to train himself into a tougher more assertive person before long he's taken the philosophies of louis to heart and has joined him as a nightclub doorman as the 80s disco faze kicks in but when associate sparky scott williams tries to do a sideline in drug dealing everything turns pear shaped br br as robert de niro once stated in the film a bronx tale 'there's no bigger tragedy than wasted talent ' the writer of clubbed had a good idea and a talent to make it into some sort of film but without the ability it seems to put it all together into some sort of coherent film br br as a brummie some of the filming locations especially a scene at the end outside the ring o' bells pub in moseley were quite easy and fun to spot but the dour look of the cinematography is really a downer on things some really poor acting for instance lead actor with an indecipherable accent that's all over the place and a hammy script with some misfiring dialogue are bigger problems for the film though more established actors like and even telly favourite neil are sidelined to very small supporting parts while the disastrous and ronnie fox's lame villain take centre stage williams does a poor man's sick boy from trainspotting impression leaving salmon and shaun parkes seemingly the only performers left with any integrity from the whole thing as the excessive blood splattered violence becoming a common trend for brit flicks takes over truly a missed opportunity
0	clubbed is yet another 'will this do ' entry into the brit fisticuffs genre and is sure to keep punters who aren't expecting too much moderately entertained for ninety minutes after a few beers however for anyone seeking intelligent quality entertainment it's really best avoided br br there are so many in the appalling script that even an actor of the calibre of colin salmon is left looking daft the action is set in the 1980s but it's never clear why especially when they haven't been able to pull off any convincing feel for that decade it takes more than a few 80s soul records on the soundtrack the occasional zoot suit and a handful of 30 year old cars then we see central characters studying texts such as sun the art of war and speaking about how violence should be a last resort while the same characters seem only too willing to start doling out punches with all the testosterone fuelled unthinking abandon of a bunch of fighting over a bag of chips br br character development does not exist in clubbed nor does irony subtlety or pathos this is a film which trades on fond memories of guy richie's early gangster films which despite their flaws certainly had much more wit better editing dialogue and packed more emotional punch than this limp little saga they're a decade old now anyway isn't it time we moved on from trying to emulate them
0	this movie was an absolute waste of time it's nothing but a wanna be gangster movie it contains a very predictable plot my feelings are unsympathetic to the characters and the dialogue is mediocre at best half the time you are looking for something else to do because the movie is that boring since you already know what's going to happen the other half of the time you're desperately hoping the protagonist grows a pair of balls or just ends his life by jumping off a bridge or something also the secondary characters are for the most part one dimensional there's no depth to any of the characters in this movie no depth
0	the promotions for clubbed project a slick looking film based around the clubbing scene of the 1980's what we end up with is a film with identity issues the sub plots end up taking over from what viewers would assume to be the main plot so the focus on this film being mainly about clubbing ends up being left in the gutter br br boxing depression self loathing gangsters bouncers and drug deals are all hastily crammed into 90 odd minutes on no less than 4 occasions i had to check the run time of the film as the worry grew that this film was bound to disappoint br br what club scenes we do see are bland and repetitive featuring approximately 3 extras dancing in what is barely recognisable as a club hardly capturing the vibe of the day br br if you're looking for a film about the 80's club scene something along the lines of what human traffic did for the late 90's forget clubbed
0	i remember that hey hey fuss i saw the jackson jive it was a pretty straight forward comedy skit but i saw this it is free is out in the clear have i missed something if the black community should be complaining about any racist comments in a tv show it should be this if you've read my earlier comments i am not the easy to offend guy the basic plot is that an african american moves in next to this white guy they make these racist comments like the value of a house will drop just because of black neighbours the white guy makes references like if your easily offended by racial slurs do not read on nog jungle boy i apologise but that really happens in this show i really am a guy who is fine with the black community people might say hey lighten up but even when you take the racial away it is un funny no new jokes badly acted i can swear in one episode i saw someone's eyes focus on something unconnected with the situation all in all horrible comedy
0	since the characters begin with unknown identities they not identified by name so you start with handsome james caviezel waking up in a warehouse he finds out the place is locked up tight don't ask the windows are made with security glass and it's impossible to get out four other awakening men make it a quintet mr caviezel in his jean jacket barry pepper in a ranger shirt greg kinnear with a broken nose joe pantoliano as a chair bound man and jeremy sisto shot and handcuffed man oh man… br br these five men have collective amnesia they think that three of them are kidnappers and two are victims but they don't know who is which or which is who the is due to a pipe leak don't ask it happens meanwhile on the outside lead lawman david selby as parker sends his cops to solve the kidnapping while one of the men's wives bridget moynahan as eliza coles frantically waits but criminal gang leader peter stormare in boots is also on his way to the scene br br like the dvd synopsis says as secrets are revealed and clues unraveled the five men must race against time to figure out who is good and who is evil in order to stay alive this story reads a lot better than it looks on film unfortunately when the secrets are finally revealed and memories become clear there is no longer much interest in what has happened simply director simon brand has a great premise with matthew idea but they light investment in the characters holding the short end of the stick br br unknown 11 1 06 simon brand james caviezel barry pepper greg kinnear david selby
0	i seemed to find the trailers better than the movie they did their job and made me interested in watching unknown the interest waned early a simple premise in scenery five men wake up in a chemical warehouse not knowing why they are there let alone know how in the hell they got there confusion and paranoia brings with it fear and distrust the men learn that a kidnapper is on his way with plans to kill his hostages now the men size each other up trying to distinguish if all are victims and who may actually be one of the kidnappers the cast includes jim caviezel greg kinnear joe pantoliano bridget moynahan barry david selby and adam rodriguez
0	in fact parts of it i liked a lot it had some interesting twists but it just left me with a been there seen that feeling after all of the saw movies granted the ending was different from a typical saw but let's face it a group of guys unknown to each other or so they believe tossed together in an abandoned chemical factory br br but then it loses something there's no intensity there's poor group dynamic there's no sense of urgency br br some nice twists at the end and definitely worth a watch if there's nothing else on your plate but it just left me empty it passed the time but it didn't satisfy
0	i also have been a wife of an abusive husband even if in my situation the attacks were psychological not physical he presented a very respectable responsible and generous personality to anyone who saw us together which in contrast to myself resulted in having others treat me as dull and unstable initially i was so incredibly flattered that anybody like gus who worked in a bank and was handsomely confident would even give me the time of day and i fell completely head over heels for the idea of him rather than the person he was if i'd had my head on straight and gotten to know him much better first there's no way i'd have married him however that's my mistake it wasn't my mistake to be abused i didn't deserve that nor did i see it coming until i was embroiled in the mind games criticism and isolation he acted like i had no business holding an opinion that differed from his own actually he went further if i didn't agree he assumed i misunderstood and increasingly simplified his wording by the time i finally lost my self respect i was incapable of recognizing the predicament i was in and i had to be jolted to reality by outside influence my dad said gus called me a bitch well it was still a half year before the rage that began at that moment finally exploded and i packed some stuff while he was at work and i left and it was still another several months before i could grasp the fact that i had been abused and that it wasn't my fault he was doing the things he did so please anyone who assumes it's the fault of the victim think if a puppy is kicked by a cruel owner when in an anxious situation it has an accident on the rug do you blame the puppy by the time the abuse in a relationship reaches an obvious violent level the target of abuse has been so wounded and much like in nazi concentration camps that it's nearly impossible to judge the circumstance accurately because by then the victim believes all the horrible things spewed by the abuser have a heart people labelling abuse victims as stupid morons is like kicking someone who's already terribly beaten and this helps how
0	this is the worst war movie i have ever seen possibly the worst ever made i find it incredible that some people have actually rated it as a 10 it has a stunning lack of even rudimentary traces of realism almost every war movie cliche appears in this film and is done badly on the other hand i wouldn't have watched it to the end if it hadn't been so remarkably bad that it amused me
0	this movie had horrible lighting and terrible camera movements this movie is a jumpy horror flick with no meaning at all the slashes are totally fake looking it looks like some 17 year old idiot wrote this movie and a 10 year old kid shot it with the worst acting you can ever find people are tired of knives at least move on to guns or fire it has almost exact lines from when a stranger calls with gruesome killings only crazy people would enjoy this movie it is obvious the writer doesn't have kids or even care for them i mean at show some mercy just to sum it up this movie is a b movie and it sucked just for your own sake don't even think about wasting your time watching this crappy movie
0	i don't think this movie had the effect on me that was intended seeing american soldiers shooting wounded soldiers from the other side and punching wounded prisoners in their wounds to torture them into making them talk made me root for the other side it certainly made the us forces look anything like the good guys was this supposed to be acceptable
0	this movie is not realistic at all more of a comedy than a serious war film very old fashioned too maybe i was just expecting it to be on a same level with platoon i wonder why 50 of the voters gave it 10 something must be wrong
0	very cliched quite corny acting gets worse as the show goes on don't believe anything that folks say about the realism that this movie is supposed to portray it's just a shoot'em up interesting twist in that the vc the base were given a human face and weren't portrayed as evil incarnate
0	this has some of the stupidest fight scenes of all time if i was a veteran of any war i would cry when i see this movie not because i would remember being in vietnam but because it is a poor representation of any veteran of that war even though the troops are carrying that movie resembles nothing like vietnam the viet cong even uniforms look like old leftover japanese uniforms from a wwii movie the setting is obviously some crappy hollywood back lot the worst scene contains a us soldier fighting hand to hand like in a bad martial arts movie after he dispatches several enemy troops he says hey come down here and lets kick some butt to a helicopter in the air he then is shot this movie is trash
0	this movie is quite bad aggressive not played well not directed well seems low budget low quality weak and disconnected after watching earlier comments went to see it but if u try to compare it with apocalypse now platoon or any others u'r really off the tracks this movie looks like a 60's old and purely made film with cast of grown neanderthals not to mention or actually do not paying attention to details like changing rounds low budget fireworks and all sorts of poorly filmed characteristic is watchable though if like to see it as an early development of the movies document not to go back br br p s afterall the guys are quite alright
0	reeves plays haji a hero in russia br br this is a badly dubbed movie with june foray doing some of the voices unfortunately who ever was suppose to sync the voices to the lips was blind since the words never match the lip flaps anyone who says that japanese films are bad have never watched this film br br the film's plot is instantly forgettable and so i've forgotten it in the time its taken the movie to end and for me to sit and write this down perhaps it has more to do with the fact that the film is one of the many that reeves made in hopes of moving away from action to more plot driven sort of films it may have been a good thing for reeves but its deadly for the audience who have to slug through fests such as this where its all court intrigue with very little action br br in reeves defense he was a good actor he just had no real luck in picking films that were any good they all looked great but very few of them didn't put the those watching them into a coma for the film's running time br br this film will put you in a coma watch it only if you have the need for sleep and all other gentler means have failed
0	the white warrior is definitely one of if not steve reeves weakest films set in 18th or 19th century russia steve plays a warrior who tries to over run a mad man russian czar by running up a mountain side with his rebel band in a goofy looking russian white tunic for the most part the great reeves physique is hidden in a goofy knee length tunic with an even more sillier looking russian hat br br the action is rather minimal with only a good wrestling scene from the mid waist up that shows off the great reeves physique this is an apparent attempt by the producers to move reeves out of the sword and sandal genre into another historic era with poor results the dialogue from the script is hard to understand at various points and only commentary from the narrator allows the viewer to understand what is really happening from scene to scene i would image reeves regretted making this film but in an attempt to try and get out of his toga and sandals and tribune armor it helped launch him to other historic characters such as morgan the pirate and the thief of baghdad
0	this good guy vs the evil tyrant story set in 19th century russia may have been an attempt to extend steve reeves' career beyond those hercules movies however despite the different costumes it's still a hercules movie with the usual stilted dialog haphazard dubbing and cardboard characters on the other hand there's lots of action the pace rarely flags and reeves gets to do yet another one of those scenes where he's stripped to the waist bound with ropes and given a vigorous whipping which needless to say has little effect on his defiant character
0	friz freleng's is one of the lesser private snafu shorts a warning of the importance of studying your field manual makes it point rather clumsily the story in which technical fairy first class makes snafu into a superhuman in order to help him see the error of his ways is predictable and unfunny freleng's earlier snafu short 'rumours' had been bursting with ideas and laughs but here the director is lumbered with a rather boring topic and he struggles to make an entertaining short from it even at around three minutes long seems to drag and unlike the best cartoons in the series it feels like an instructional film first and entertainment second though they were knocked out more quickly than the usual warner cartoons the snafu shorts largely maintained a surprisingly high standard is a reflection of the sort of quality you'd more reasonably expect from a less talent bunch of creative minds
0	there can be no worse criticism for a movie than the word boring br br some bad movies are lots of fun some fun movies are really bad but to be boring means no one will ever buy the dvd to watch it over and over again br br it appeared to be a movie that employed the drama class from the antartic they were all too busy running around to stay warm instead of acting the lead actor spoke is a near whisper husky style voice damn it seemed that he was gonna seduce someone and he didn't care who br br the movie can't make money if it's boring i hope this one dies a swift never to be seen again death
0	i found this movie to be mostly a p o s it was low budget but that isn't the problem the problem is the movie is just lame it doesn't really make a lot of sense yes it does explain why things happened but that's not what i mean there was just no reason for it all the movie also moved very slow the last ice age was quicker than this also i think they went overboard a bit in the kills i don't mean they were too gross but the killer just seemed to spend too much time smashing his victim over the head or stabbing his victim maybe i'm being petty but i just didn't like the movie the whole thing seemed like a lower rate version of when a stranger calls and maybe that was the whole point but so what for me when a stranger kills is a 4 10
0	webs is a pretty odd movie albeit slightly watchable richard grieco plays an electrician who gets suck into a parallel earth overrun by mutant spiders or something like that the film itself was made with a modest budget which explains the limited locales and the somewhat tedious screenplay that manages to do very little with quite an interesting premise basically a 90 minute episode of the tv show sliders and nothing more br br 4 out of 10 br br go to www nixflix com for a more detailed review and reviews of other films in the genre
0	webs starts in present day' as four electricians dean richard grieco ray richard sheldon jeffrey douglas junior jason jones are about to disconnect the electric to an unused building scheduled for demolition as they search for the relevant cables stuff they come across a set of doors that according to the buildings blue prints shouldn't be there being nosey all that they force the doors open to have a look find a room full of computers scientific machinery as they mess around with some buttons a portal to a parallel universe opens dean junior accidentally 'fall' in with ray sheldon following soon after in search of their friends unfortunately they've all ended up in an exact parallel earth that has been taken over by a mutant spider thing that either eats people or turns them into mutant soldiers with which she uses to protect herself do whatever she wants them to really in a desperate bid for survival they team up with a few of the last remaining humans including the original inventor of the portal dr richard colin fox who says that with the help of our electrician boys he might yeah might be able to build another portal to take them back home br br edited directed by david wu i thought webs was pretty crap it's as simple straight forward as that really the script by case robinson young is preposterous to say the least has plot holes in it you could drive a tank through for instance is this film really trying to suggest that a few mutant spider things no bigger than a couple of people in size took over an entire world how did they do this if this parallel earth was the same as ours where the hell was the army the police all of our weapons a few fragile looking spider things against literally billions of humans the whole flawed stupid downright naff concept constantly bugged me throughout the entire film lets not forget that there is a inter dimensional portal to a parallel earth in the basement of most buildings that have sat there undisturbed for decades remain in perfect working order right then there's the nuclear reactor the size of a briefcase the fact one electrician can make it work perfectly purely by accident as he randomly presses a few buttons in a room that probably had spread over dozens of pieces of equipment what about the wonderfully thoughtful guy who sets an explosive bobby trap in his base without telling anyone what if one of his mates had set it off found themselves blown to pieces by their mates homemade bomb you wouldn't be best pleased would you what about food do they grow their own in little vegetable patches i could go on on all day long about how flawed ill conceived poorly written webs is but i can't be bothered the character's are clichéd annoying as is the film as a whole which obviously doesn't help the only half decent thing i can say about webs is that it's short it moves along at a fair pace but when all said done it's still crap br br director wu has to take a large of the blame here for a start the film looks cheap the editing that he is credited with is terrible there's lots of annoying inappropriate slow motion shots that come from nowhere the action scenes are almost identical become incredibly boring very quickly he uses that highly annoying quick cut technique along with a bit of the old jerky camera movement now i don't know about anyone else but i hate this editing style as it just looks a complete incoherent mess in fact i don't know a single person who does like this sort of thing i'm puzzled as to why filmmakers think people do forget about any gore just a few shotgun wounds to the spider zombie soldier guys they don't have red blood anyway so it doesn't relate to reality in my mind br br webs was made for tv the american sci fi channel i think it looks every bit as cheap low budget rushed as you would expect it's all so bland forgettable flat dull the special effects are far from special the spider thing lacks imagination when finally revealed the acting was ok considering everything else was so poor i still can't believe the sweater grieco was wearing in this br br webs is crap i can't really say anything good about it other than i've sat through worse films that's the sole reason i'm not giving it 1 star a quick glance at the imdb user ratings for webs confirms what i already knew in that it has more '1' votes than any other there is very good reason why
0	someone said that webs is a lot like an episode of sliders and i have to agree spoilers i never liked the actors on sliders and rarely have seen it except when nothing better was on webs is the kind of movie to see if you have no other choices read a book webs has those kind of tv has been actors that look like they are there as part of their probation or work release program some low budget tv movies have actors that at least look enthusiastic the actors in webs look like they were getting paid minimum wage and were working on a time clock they have that desperate the paycheck better not bounce look the queen spider looks great except it is rarely seen and there are no other spiders and no webs the queen spider bites people and they become spider zombies which means that they try to keep their eyes wide open when they are attacking the humans the humans are all fighting among themselves over a number of different reasons and they are not sympathetic after meeting all the humans i would have recommended charm school for the characters all that webs made me feel was apathy i was numb to the characters and hoped for some interesting gore and special effects the gore was minimal and the special effects were reserved for the ugly spider queen who looked good if webs had a bunch of spider creatures eating humans it would have been more entertaining apparently they could only budget spider zombies webs is a sad entry into the field of spider oriented movies it may qualify as the worst spider movie ever because eight legged freaks had great special effects
0	ok we have 4 city electricians who find a mini nuke reactor turn it in and fall into a parallel universe inhabited by a giant spider queen also from a parallel universe who managed to slip through with a few of her kin to take over the earth but alas she is the only one left if so why did not the rest of humanity join up and hunt her down also what happened to the military no way a few billion plus round of ammo could have been used up and why hide out in a basement when a lot more defensible places had to available also not a dig on city workers but how is it they knew what a mini nuke reactor looked like and how if they did not have one in the parallel universe could they reopen the rift sorry but there was nothing likable about the movie
0	there is so much wrong with this movie greico with a girls wig old man scientist time machine fixer tough guy jones who stays behind with a shotgun that has three rounds spider people with tentacle hands and bad teeth etc the make up was so bad and they only had a few visible spider people on screen at one time aliens cameron technique could have been used instead they chose to dress every spider person the same way badly the nice thing about greico's acting is that he bobs his had at every syllable as if he is counting how many words he gets to speak in the script it amazes me that with all of the information out there on dvd commentaries people like this still exist who make movies this movie could have been worse how i don't know oh and one last thing i am going on a sci fi movie hunt down the people running that channel should not be allowed to procreate to further continue the nepotism that exist in film and television
0	i had seen this movie just days before halloween 2004 i noticed it around lunch time and it was an interesting description in my menu box so i decided to watch it seriously only a movie only suitable for late night tv you know after conan but before the infomercials sorta deal br br although this movie has very little to do with webs it does have a lot to do with spiders refer to my heading if you need a refresher br br i found the idea behind the story absolutely fascinating a hidden nuclear generator a scientist and a believable portal would have been a good start to a cool fantasy but then it goes downhill after 15 20 minutes br br the cast is poor with no memorable performances poor quality queen who has had her breasts amplified considering spiders don't carry breasts as well as poor sound effects an obvious low budget movie though the cast has tried br br spoiler br br 4 electricians stumble upon a hidden nuclear generator while on a job they fiddle with the buttons and open a portal 2 workers fall into the portal and it closes scrambling to figure out what is going on the party still in our world seeks help while the other party observers their surroundings br br help does not arrive so they open the portal and follow through meeting up in a parallel dimension they encounter a race of human spiders dubbed soldiers after a death and chase they are saved by survivors br br now it gets boring they hide talk a bit try to build another portal then attack the hive after losing 2 more electricians they open the portal and escape returning to our world some 200 million years ago br br sounds interesting huh
0	a sci fi network original not the best not far from being the worst an electrician richard grieco stumbles onto a key that can open a gateway to a parallel earth that has been taken over by mutant spiders the mutations have been controlled by a super sized alien queen for the past thirty years she has already eaten up the population of this parallel world that resembles chicago minus inhabitants guess what now she must find another world to feed on the electrician leads a four man team that reluctantly finds themselves with the task of saving the world the finale confrontation is probably the best part of the whole movie the cast also features richard colin fox kate greenhouse jason jones and david newman one would have thought that the sci fi network could have spent more money on special effects
0	in chicago four electricians leaded by dean richard grieco come to an old building to disconnect power they accidentally activate a portal and arrive in another dimension where chicago was destroyed by a spider queen and inhabited by mutants the group meets survivors leaded by crane david and elena kate greenhouse and finds the inventor of the portal dr richard colin fox who has been living in this dimension for thirty years they join forces trying to rebuilt a portal to bring them back home webs is a watchable of sliders only worse most of the dialogs seem to be written by a person who has not concluded the elementary school so imbecile they are further the story is illogical and seems that chicago is the only city in the world the scientist trying to start his sophisticated machine with broken wires as if he were stealing a car is very funny the face of richard grieco looks like a white version of michael jackson and is horrible if the viewer shuts down his or her brain he or she may like this forgettable tv movie my vote is four br br title brazil na do terror in the web of horror
0	just saw it the story the plot the script makes absolute no sense its the brave part 2 without the ring its characters showing up out of the blue for no reason its hercules hated by everyone no one knows why its leelee showing her true talents two of them its crappy special effects its a few good actors wasting their talents did i mention two talents do i have to say more its just awful even for nbc tv standards its just the lowest what a waste by the way how can you people give this mini series so many stars its beyond me shame on you have to make 10 lines so this is my final word avoid avoid if u are considering buying it
0	hercules the tv movie hercules a very twisted and version of the story about the greek superhero paul makes a good attempt to play this hero sean astin rehashes his sam image by playing lupin a thrown in character to make the whole thing a buddy movie picture i almost expected his to say at one point we're in a bad situation mr frodo uh i mean hercules an unexpected good performance comes from timothy dalton one of the lesser james bonds as father love interest looks like paris hilton something which just turned me off right away someone has twisted and the original story into somewhat of a murky and sometimes incomprehensible story the special effects don't help either while the hydra scene does the original story justice the lion and harpies are just well lame i believe the creatures and effects from power rangers flashed across my mind at least twice and the golden hind felt rushed and very computer generated and they took out one of my favorite parts of what was originally a very cool story the movie can't decide whether it's greek roman or american and it almost ruined the original story a classic epic don't bother looking for this one on the direct to dvd c
0	to sum it up in a nutshell this film was disappointing and could have been shortened by twenty minutes br br the acting was sub par the only decent actors of the bunch being the killer and molly the music was slightly lame but fitting and the special effects were much too overused the story scriptwriting was poor the unnecessary torture romantic scenes being dragged on for way too long and a disappointing ending br br the start of the film was rather slow the fake looking gore not much of interest arrived at the house and there was some premise for a good storyline br br started to receive the threatening phone calls which heightened the suspense this momentary suspense the best feature of the movie began to build but then the friends crashed the place wrecking all potential suspense horror in the film br br the plot then becomes obtuse from here on chemistry sparks between the two couples and then the killer picks off frank and the other girl this scene was dragged on and unnecessary br br the killer then makes her way for and ties her up there is an overdone torture scene which goes on for at least ten minutes too long as the gore is done badly this is not entertaining at all and it bores more than shocks br br in summary the first thirty minutes of this film sound promising but then poorly written dialogue and general lack of plot ruins this film br br 3 10
0	ok so is a hunk but the rest of the 3 hours were wasted wasted oh the humanity br br poor sean astin had to follow his master up the very same hills of new zealand that wait it be someone in the production crew of lord of the rings was making home movies in his spare time yes that's it br br i wish i could at least say he was promising br br the special effects were often laughable br br but was a hunk br br
0	i really thought this would be a good movie boy was i mistaken for a quick summery b grade acting c grade special effects d grade for the overall movie don't get me wrong the story was pretty good and not kiddish so an adult too ride along with it the hero is good looking so most women will like it not a total chick flick as it contains some fight scenes and some blood br br but the way it is shot horrible br br the special effects would be better suited for tv on a kids show br br and lastly send some of the actors back to acting school if they ever attended a class there br br trust me there are much better ways to waste 2 hours br br you have been warned
0	the problem with this movie is that it is trying to compile a 6 hours movie into 2 hours the result is clear it seems too forced unclear and too simple minded br br the only plus side is the beginning it explains well why and how hercules was born the rest of the movie was just mumbo jumbo that is put together it has a potential to be a great movie like lotr if only it is not forced into 2 hours br br the acting is not very convincing either ok not all is bad but most of them are special effects are stupid and look like it is made ten years earlier although the 1st monster is pretty good overall i give it 4 out of ten for the reasons i described above
0	i hadn't heard anything about this project until i saw that it was going to be on so i watched it with a completely open mind and gee the cast is full of strong players br br unfortunately it's awful i don't mean it isn't good i mean it's extraordinarily bad sometimes laughably so but mostly it's just boring its strongest appeal comes from having attractive people as naked as us network tv will allow but it's all tease and no substance and having nymphs as backup characters can't justify several hours of bad tv br br there are two basic problems that the cast can't overcome first the script is awful yes making changes to the hercules myth which is certainly not a single monolithic story in the first place is traditional but this version is relentlessly dull and much too frequently dumb and sometimes downright head shakingly peculiar with terrible pacing bits borrowed from here and there and several parts seemingly belonging in different films and truly awful dialogue the dialogue is frequently unbearably bad in fact to the point where you feel embarrassed for the actors sean astin apparently now typecast as second banana seems especially burdened by one awful line after another there's no consistency of tone or atmosphere and little cohesion to the plot br br second most of the special effects are really bad really bad there's occasionally a decent bit of cgi but mostly again you feel really embarrassed on behalf of the cast i have no idea what the budget for this project was but it sure looks like crap compared to clash of the titans or even hercules the legendary journeys and doesn't even compare very favorably with the old lou ferrigno and italian 'spaghetti' hercules movies just painfully miserable br br there are plenty of other problems the story is needlessly complex and can't keep up with itself and hercules himself isn't presented as a very interesting character almost everyone who doesn't have a european accent tries to fake one of some kind which is not merely amateurish and dated but never really made sense in the first place drama doesn't become better just because the actors use british accents after all but the terrible script and equally terrible effects sink the whole thing right off the bat br br in fairness hercules was apparently intended as a four hour miniseries but truncated for this airing anyway to a three hour tv movie i don't know what they cut but it's possible the edits made things worse i don't think you could make hercules good by adding to it but that doesn't mean that the continuity say hasn't suffered from the network edits there's no way i'll watch the usa version to see though
0	embarassing is the only word to describe this laughingly awful production from the blatant disregard of the source material sure to infuriate anyone remotely familiar with mythology to the predictably insufficient production value this entire mini series is a train wreck br br the cast which includes some good actors whom i pity delivers the illogical dialogue in the same generic european accent so common to bad epics worse is the lack of originality in almost all other aspects from costume and set design blurring together styles from across time and space to the score which seems to poorly mimic many recognizable classical tunes as well as lord of the rings most offensive of all are the visual effects which single handedly prove that if you can't afford to do them well write them out br br it pained me to see yet another legendary tale bastardized by a cheap adaptation maybe one day someone will do it right
0	paul who plays hercules in this tv film has to be the hottest thing on two legs ever wow br br but this film is a 100 distortion of the hercules story just like troy this film has nothing to do with the original story zero what makes it especially insulting is that they actually contrived a gay character just so people could hate him making him as dastardly and evil as any character in the history of tv or cinema this is insulting since hercules may have had a wife since that was the expectation of those olden days but he also had at least a dozen male lovers so it is ironic that they should create a gay royal adversary character for this film no not ironic evil the creators of this travesty should hang their heads in shame
0	i survived the first hour of this and came back for the last ten minutes just to say i saw the end if you want real mythology flawlessly executed look for armand the odyssey great storytelling doesn't need to be tweaked the stories are fantastic on their own i only hope sean astin needed the money and sophocles and ovid must be whirling in their graves wherever those may be br br at least with version the tongue was poked relentlessly in cheek we knew it was mostly but perhaps enough interest was generated in the backstory to send someone to the library i'm surprised could turn out something so amusing the tv series and follow it with something so devoid of quality
0	this is easily the worst adaptation of greek mythology i've ever seen it utterly fails as an adaptation of the original myth inventing silly plot twists and reducing the 12 labours to 3 or 4 i think it makes up utterly needless things to try to integrate other myths in clumsy ways which bring into question the writers' having ever read the myths like changing birds to harpies lions to the oracle of to and bulls to a pedantic version of even integrating aspects never seen outside of sam raimi's entertaining series concerning his first marriage to a woman with the co opted name of one of the furies so it sounds appropriate to the period br br i could accept much of that but it also fails completely in pure film standards most painful is the dialogue leaden portentous pseudo shakespearean tripe it is a poor re interpretation of the myths making a sad attempt at the kind of post modern revisionism that crichton's the 13th warrior attempted in regards to the beowulf legend while still including the strictly mythological elements such as clear interference from the gods and magical super strength a sad sad failure of an entertainment experience who i'm sure many of the quality actors involved regret deeply
0	i don't know how expensive was the creation of this movie but the effects were awful half of the movie was filmed on stage in front of a movie canvas that's sure that blue box wouldn't look so artificial when they traveled on a boat the background canvas was moved imitating the movement of waves but the characters weren't moving the cgi effects terrible i am not sure but i guess the effect were created with paint and made a sequence of them next time the creators should hire a professional cgi maker team it looks like the cgi creator would have drawn on the picture strip with shaky hands awful that's sure when i first saw the trailer i thought it was created in 1983 one of my friend told me the correct date 2005 my jaw dropped i was so shocked i thought he was kidding people i recommend you to skip this movie the story is also twisted you won't enjoy it
0	eh i watch this movie in class because someone taped it and brought it in i was expecting some half hearted attempt to portray the herakles myths and because the commercials for it looked serious i was expecting something that was halfway decent br br ten minutes into the film i realized that it was utter crap the only things in the film that are halfway true to the myth are the bare and i mean bare minimum parents half brother and labors seemed to be named correctly other than that the rest of the film seemed to be one giant inaccuracy br br i would say that this was not much better than the disney version of the film the disney version was made for little kids therefore wasn't too serious this movie with all the sex violence and nudity was clearly intended for an older audience yet the story presented in this was nearly inaccurate as the disney film
0	when a killer calls is an unusually nasty slasher flick with some very unpleasant and unsettling sequences the decision was clearly made to try and cash in on the remake of when a stranger calls by pretty much putting in almost word for word the phone call sequences from that movie they seem very forced br br additionally the filmmaker commits the cardinal but all too common sin of having the heroine's friends being repulsive jerks so for the beginning of the film we really like and are rooting for the babysitter a nice believable job by but then she's joined by standard slasher flick teenage friends and the mood is ruined br br the flick sort of works but it probably a lot more unpleasant than you'll be expected so be fore warned
0	i thought there might be some level of worth to this movie and sat through the whole thing i can summarize by saying it left a bad taste in my mouth br br the movie started out ok i think the initial characterization of was true to the myths both as a child and a young adult he started out pretty strong but not the brightest bulb but later on he somehow transforms into a charismatic speaker beloved by all huh br br other problem terrible cgi the looked ok but the rest of the critters just looked terrible especially the hart the phoniest looking beast in the movie and how come leelee skin was sometimes golden sometimes normal the worst part for me and everyone should cringe at this was the twelve labors of hercules because the producers obviously didn't want to cover all of them maybe they thought us primitive screw heads watching this garbage couldn't count that high instead of the twelve labors of hercules we got the five labors of hercules yes the five labors wtf he did't even finish the last one so it was really the 4 1 2 labors just terrible i'll take hercules the legendary journeys over this piece of crap any day of the week
0	my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts and thus at least a quarter longer because otherwise how can one explain its confused abbreviated storyline i was never completely lost but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot br br if it were longer it might make more sense but it still wouldn't be much good the movie's most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female but the movie drops the ball on this making followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what followers do or believe the movie is also interesting because you don't see the gods and there's no real certainty that they exist so it's got a couple of intriguing ideas but it doesn't do anything useful with them br br bad dialog cardboard characters and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons not unwatchable but also not worth watching
0	my only question is why did they make this movie did they have a script or did they make it up as they went along boom boom doesn't look like a charley davis john garfield probably turned over in his grave if he saw this
0	after the suicide of his father charlie 'kid' davis ray boom mancini accepts the invitation and advice of his friend tiny michael chiklis and travels to las vegas with him trying to become a boxer on the road they meet gina jennifer beals hitchhiking they give a lift to her and she becomes charlie's girlfriend johnny ticotin rod steiger is convinced by tiny to be charlie's couch and the powerful agent alex dumas joe mantegna after watching him fighting becomes his manager promoting charlie's career this movie is so boring that it indeed does not deserve to spend much time writing about it i do not like boxing but sometimes i watch some worthwhile movie about this theme but this one is horrible predictable full of clichés having an awful lead actor a pure waste of time my vote is three br br title brazil e alma' body and soul'
0	the original body and soul 1947 is a masterpiece john garfield ann revere lilli william conrad canada lee and filmed by one of the greatest cinematographers to ever grace the screen james wong howe this remake is abominable in spite of the presence of rod steiger joe mantegna and jennifer beals there is nothing of value here and it is a shame this product bears the same title as the brilliant original only the main character's name charlie davis is the same in both films i don't think there are any redeeming qualities in this remake i am amazed that rod steiger participated this may be the only bad film he ever made maybe he needed the paycheck
0	according to lucien in his histoire de la musique robert lafont 1973 page beethoven's character was not very compatible with women he had quite a number of platonic passions with female members of the aristocracy to whom he dedicated some but musicians even composers did not qualify for husbands of fine ladies haydn was a servant of prinz von mozart died from drink or poison and was according to a frequent customer of street prostitutes in vienna a british biographer newman says that beethoven contracted syphilis before he was 40 that he became deaf because of that is possible but not certain br br the ninth symphony was premiered on may 7 1824 in the in vienna along with the consecration of the house overture and the first three parts of the this was the composer's first on stage appearance in twelve years the hall was packed although the performance was directed by michael the theater's beethoven shared the stage with him quiet br br so what remains of this female fantasy ed harris interpretation and characterization are quite good but too linear based on the painting by date i have it in front of me it shows a man that despises perhaps hates the world with good reason
0	am i the only person who saw and remembers amadeus every scene in copying has its counterpart in the milos forman amadeus from the galloping carriages accompanied by frenzied strings to the entrance of anna through the dark hallway preceded by the man with the key to the very dialog of the conclusion with anna at beethoven's feet a la before the dying mozart does no one else recall the dialog in that script br br time mozart common time we begin with the strings and so it copies br br remember cynthia nixon leaning against a door tears falling down her freckled face same scene just replace her with beethoven's nephew even the scatological humor fart jokes are the same we even have a cardinal followed around by a plate of sweet cookies which recalls in the banquet hall does no one else remember br br and the scene where anna cries to god why did you give me this gift said the same thing br br and beyond all that we have a juvenile script with an opening exposition that reads like the character you'd find in a children's story i am mr beethoven i am the composer br br and what after all is the purpose of the bridge builder other than to juxtapose the technical against the artistic a comparison that is not at all developed probably because it has no meaning especially when it comes to who was a master of the technical br br there's only one great scene the playing of the ninth first the music which of itself takes you to tears but then there is the highly erotic interaction of anna the copyist keeping time and beethoven conducting which surpasses the most explicit sexual intimacy so intense it's almost embarrassing br br but please the rest of the film where is the world's collective memory you have seen this all before and better
0	from br br the dialog is terrible awful drivel acting poor many plot flaws i don't recommend this at all br br from wikipedia br br artistic licenses the working manuscript of the score is attributed to two 1 both of whom were male not female as depicted in the film br br the neither contributed to nor altered the score in fact they were berated by beethoven for any deviation that occurred from the original score br br the movie is set in 1824 during the composition of beethoven's ninth symphony throughout the movie beethoven is shown to be hard of hearing but quite capable of understanding people who speak loudly in reality beethoven had lost much of his hearing seven years earlier beethoven never experienced permanent deafness his condition between total silence and terrible tinnitus the ninth symphony was composed at a time when beethoven's hearing had deteriorated severely at this point in his life most of beethoven's conversations were facilitated by the use of notebooks it can be argued however that he was also able to read people's lips evidenced by his insistence that people face him when they spoke to him br br in the film beethoven makes an allusion to the moonlight sonata this is an anachronism as the sonata no 14 quasi una fantasia was not named moonlight until several years after his death
0	for a movie i was really looking forward to i was very disappointed i had no expectations of this being another amadeus but did expect a more significant portrayal of beethovens last years br br the performance by ed harris was superb but the story line was so weak that the film simply moved from one dreary scene to the next with no continuity br br the only enjoyable part of the film for me was the performance of the 9th and from that point on i could quite happily have walked out without finishing br br i left feeling very dissatisfied and still have the feeling that something important was missed
0	i am a music lover and was excited to see this movie unfortunately i was disappointed i was ready to walk out half way through the movie i didn't identify with any of the characters which meant that i didn't care what happened to them and lost interest in the story completely on the good side ed harris looked exactly like beethoven and the 9th symphony is always a pleasure to hear so that made part of the film bearable also the parts where they talk about the bridge almost redeemed the entire movie but it couldn't sustain me through to the end the actors did what they could with what they had to work with but the screenplay just wasn't adequate to make it even remotely interesting the bit about wash me was utter rubbish i wonder how many takes the actors had to do on that one i wouldn't be able to say those lines without bursting into laughter anyway such a shame it could have been so much better
0	there is not one character on this sitcom with any redeeming qualities they are all self centered obnoxious or two dimensional my husband watches it claiming that there is nothing else on but i would rather watch nothing br br the only sitcom that i can think of that was worse was yes dear at least that one didn't get 9 seasons br br being overweight does not make a comic genius and kevin james does not have the talent of john goodman jackie gleason or john belushi leah may have talent but if so she is wasted on the shrewish wife jerry stiller is convincing as an annoying old man maybe there is a reason for that br br this is a perfect example of why sitcoms are derided
0	trite and unoriginal it's like someone watched immortal beloved and amadeus and decided to mix them together and in the process steal other formulaic plot parts from other movies to make another one as with most historical movies nowadays there are some inaccuracies as history is manipulated to better suit the story which is understandable for the most part for example during the remaining days of beethoven's life it was necessary for other people to write down what they needed to say in order for him to understand them that of course would have been a nuisance to have to show on screen the script although filled with some quotable lines doesn't quite capture the feel of that time period and coupled with some bad acting seems rather contemporary diane kruger is nice enough to look at but she still has lots to improve on her craft ed harris doesn't work for me as beethoven and i mostly blame gary oldman for that overall not a very good interpretation of the musical maestro's life better just find yourself a copy of immortal beloved br br http multiply com reviews
0	awful br br despite the good performance of ed harris diane kruger and the strong budget the reason for the 3 stars the movie is by far the worst i saw about a composer and the worst edition of a masterpiece of music i agree with some fictional stuff to upgrade a biography that otherwise couldn't be so charming this was done in amadeus with best results but this b copy here is a flaw beethoven had a strong personality but was a sensible artist here in this movie however he looks much more as mike tyson i wonder also whether despite his deafness he heard all the in the last scenes may be a implant i prefer to listen to the ninth on a cd with some nice maestro today most of them conduct modern wagnerian orchestras by the way i gave amadeus 10 10
0	i expected so much more than what i received from watching this movie it is not that i object to literary license if that is what it should be called especially when there is no overt attempt to say based on a true story but this movie is about beethoven a real historical person who is so widely known and so deeply embedded into our musical experiences and i expected the movie to be true to history at least in the primary elements this movie took such great exception from the historic record it could only disappoint br br my assumption because i had not researched the movie at all was that it was true half way through i stopped the movie to look it up on imdb the rest of the movie was a remarkably different experience i was relieved that this was not accurate with history because it was so hard to believe a major portion of the story to enjoy this movie i was required to recognize it as a fantasy a what if it was like this story the movie lacked this honest disclaimer br br what disappointed me most was the fictionalized conducting of the 9th symphony the very concept portrayed in the film stretched my imagination to the point of incredulity i ended up doubting anything was true to history other than ludwig van beethoven and his relationship with karl van beethoven br br i really enjoyed the performance of ed harris an exceptional actor who knows how to play a role and keep himself out of it and that was about it and for that i give it a 3 10 br br those who that this movie is as good as or better than amadeus have not a clue about either either composers life and are looking only for what this movie really is for in the end it was a cheap novel of a story pulp fiction
0	yes i realize that half a dozen other reviewers have called this movie copying amadeus but it cannot be said enough scenes seemed to have been lifted directly from milos forman's script with only superficial changes you can expect to see br br the maestro's arrogant scene i am the voice of god everything else is meaningless br br the maestro making fun of the mediocre composer's work complete with raspberries simulated flatulence just like in amadeus br br the mediocre composer's dialogue with god why do you instill me with music but deny me the ability to compose br br the musical from the deathbed scene common time begin with the violins cough cough br br and the list goes on br br the problem is even worse not only were these scenes shamelessly copied they weren't even done very well jeepers if you're going to rip off an original at least you should try to improve upon it in your own creative way br br no wait there's something even worse than that it's the fact that the director tried to beat the story of mozart into the story of beethoven folks beethoven was not a crass vulgar slob the way this movie portrays him furthermore beethoven was not a babbling idiot who takes pointers from his copyist a 23 year old music student unfortunately films like this are responsible for butchering history br br and another thing beethoven in real life never called it the moonlight sonata the way he does in the movie that name was given by a confused critic some years after beethoven died and unfortunately it stuck but beethoven's original title was quasi una fantasia br br and another thing when beethoven in the movie yells b flat b flat b flat and hits the note on the piano he's hitting a white key br br and another beethoven in real life was completely deaf for several years before the composition of his 9th symphony this movie shows him as having barely a minor disability saying what every other line just enough to be annoying br br the american accents oh never mind just never mind i've wasted enough time on this already go see amadeus again then if you want to see an interesting biopic on the life of beethoven see immortal beloved which takes poetic liberties but at least they're interesting ideas lastly if you want to see something on the lighter side check out impromptu a film about chopin but aside from those three i've never seen a good homage to a classical composer
0	this film is the proof that a good actor is nothing without a good direction ed harris is awful how could you cast an actor built like rambo to play the maestro he shows no credibility at all and overplays beethoven most of all long hairs doesn't look good at all on his head the main actress is missing all the subtleties needed for its character the camera shots are cheesy and too conventional the lights are to close of the characters feelings bad casting and cheap direction too bad the only scene that worth the movie is when i hope you don't care that i call him trough his nickname is turning the girl's song to a joke any way i hope that harris could find his way back to true movie where he can really shows his hairless talent
0	about your terrible movie copying beethoven as a professional musician it's my duty to watch every movie made about any composer and beethoven is one of my favorites when hungarians and americans meet it's a terrible combination of empty over the top emotions combined with the worst taste possible you proved it in your terrible b movie the only thing that carries the movie is the music of course you didn't bother to look further than the good but in my taste contrived performances of the quartet but ok i have to admit that the performances at least have quality as contrast to the movie you've made it starts of with the dying deaf beethoven who perfectly understands anna who is merely whispering beethoven's hearing during the movie get's better by the minute but that must be because of some vague divine thing then there is the quite impossible semi pornographic eyes wide shut double conducting scene which is totally over the top with the luscious anna and the crying nephew in the end who also cries in the deleted scenes with constant red eyes my god what a performance and as culmination the rip off from amadeus with beethoven dictating music to anna not in notes but in total nonsense which she understands perfectly but no one else in your audience even trained professional musicians will understand of course your reaction will be that negative response is a response at least but i can assure you that beethoven himself is turning in his grave because of your worthless creation and with reason this so called homage is blasphemy and i am so sorry to have rented one of the worst movies ever made even though it's about my favorite subject ed harris and others you cannot comprehend the greatness of beethoven in your wildest dreams and certainly not after a couple of lessons in conducting and violin playing that's the trouble with you americans you think you can grasp everything even when it takes a lifetime of hard work yeah we can do it anyway remember that a good product comes with hard labor talent devotion and professionalism all these you creators of copying beethoven lack see you in kindergarten
0	i made a big mistake going to see this film that's the lottery of going to see films i guess after five minutes you just knew it was going to be a clunker and i fought quite hard to stay in my seat the old lose two hours of your life kind of feeling br br the fundamental problem is that without even mentioning the whole historical accuracy thread of reviews the script is achingly painful bad br br the first thirty minutes could have been spread out to an hour to give a plausible real plot development instead it lurched from from one undramatic dramatic event to the next having the girl cry at the start of the film makes no sense because the audience has no emotional attachment to anything at this point and that whole walking off into the sunset through the long grass field at the end what the hell was that about br br not even the excellent ed harris could save this one you could almost feel his pain at some of the lines he had to utter the most fabulously awful one was for no apparent reason he stares at the girl as she copies his work in his apartment she looks up it all goes a bit fuzzy romantic kind a lighting or am i dreaming and he says with authority in his voice br br wash me br br and she gets up and washes him with a sponge wash me wtf that's hilarious br br and then there was the music the long extended session when it was just beethoven conducting and the 9th symphony pouring out of the surround sound in the cinema and the choir waiting waiting standing there silently for what seems like forever and then finally launching into enormous sound it was spine chillingly wonderful and dare i say it it brought tears to my eyes br br so that is where the film picked up two stars the only part of the film where beethoven got to say exactly what he wanted to say br br and i believed him
0	i find myself alarmed that people are not so critical of a work that deserves criticism the many similarities both structurally and literally with 'amadeus' aside the deliberately chooses the easy path by putting audience before art and therefore denying the world a discerning intelligent and creative work br br now consider the following is it not possible that the real story of the creation of the ninth symphony may actually be an engaging and powerful story itself and equally so in a dramatic telling beethoven was completely deaf by the writing of the symphony – isn't that more interesting how was the symphony conducted wouldn't it be great to know so ask yourself what possible motivation could a filmmaker have for introducing a woman as the copyist if there was a copyist he would certainly be a man what was his story please try to be a little critical here even if you like the invention of a woman composer br br fantasy should be much more than a distortion of reality to serve a writers purpose for those who find themselves comparing and justifying the invention of anna with the invention of claim to have murdered mozart in 'amadeus' consider that he confessing to a priest in a lunatic asylum schaffer uses this device to great affect in the film may have worked if anna was a figment of fevered imagination but we are meant to believe she is yes and that strauss was assisted by aliens br br most of the positive reviews i've read here so far are often expressions of a desire for the film to be good almost a deliberate amnesia remembering the film for what you wish it to be rather than what it is br br for those who believe that fantasy justifies the means then consider you are not only accepting an inferior interpretation of real events but also sacrificing the truth for the sake of a triviality br br finally a short note on the acting here that may surprise some of you ed harris is not good as ludwig van beethoven does that shock you he looks awkward throughout the film much like an actor dressed up but off set and standing at the catering table most of his lines are said as cues rather than replies to anna lines i e he is not listening to the actor he is quite clearly an actor masquerading as the character rather than being the character br br really how many times does beethoven have to roll in his grave before we get it right just ask yourself would ludwig approve
0	let me begin with a personal note as a film and television buff more on the enjoyment side of life i love what james woods can do and has done and i always love melanie griffith and natasha wagner was very good in this awful miserable stinking true crime essay br br whoever really wrote this film apparently never spent any time talking to real criminals with real criminal talents yes some thieves are junkies but they have very short careers as thieves truly successful thieves are seldom caught because they don't do junk or any drugs before going on a score job br br the james woods character was true to this paradigm in the beginning of this film and then the script fell apart completely he turns into a raging alcoholic lunatic nice work for a high strung guy like woods maybe but not in the least bit believable br br most criminals are lazy if they wanted to work they would work br br these people in this film are beautiful self indulgent drug addled narcissistic losers they couldn't pull off a real score in the real world the real world where a big and beefy security guard who beats the living hell out of a skinny kid as happens in the early scenes of this dog keeps him beat down and doesn't let him up ever br br how many ways did i find to hate this film many even totally vulgar people like most sneak thieves and junkies have a larger vocabulary than these cretins and the 'rip off' scenes with the neo nazi bikers all rednecks ain't neo nazis and those who are neo nazi speed dealers just ain't that dumb br br this film earned a two because natasha wagner was extremely good in her role as rose and because melanie griffith still has 'that something special ' or at least she had it for this brutal and offensively stupid film i'm not one to sing praises of real criminals for any reason but the reality of these criminal types in this horrible film is that they'd all be dead or in jail by act 2 scene 1 watching a lousy zombie movie would be time better spent than this thing and i hate zombies
0	great piece of fiction played as if factual tonight i was looking at the birdman of alcatraz robert was not a model meek prisoner and he was in jail because he was pimping and a customer did not pay up once he got into jail he was so uncontrollable he spent most of his time in solitary confinement or in the prison hospital killed a few people in prison too this movie reminds me of the birdman of alcatraz but even worse robert stroud did write books and he did contribute to society in someway and the boa had some hints of lunacy but this guy henry young who murder in the first is suppose to be about was a a known bank robber who took hostages and beat them up in more then one robbery he wasn't some poor guy who stumbled into a grocery store which just happened to be a post office and took some money this man was a hard core criminal he also killed a person 3 years before he went to alcatraz he killed another person in jail not because of the solitary confinement which ended over a year before the murder the real story of his life would of been more interesting they did not even get the warden thing right you can't be a warden in 3 different prisons at the same time and by all accounts the warden in the movie was a pretty stand up guy as wardens go plus if my math is right the warden played by karl malden in the boa is suppose to be the same warden in this movie oh boy not only that in this movie we are to think poor henry committed suicide and he wrote the word victory not true he might be alive right now he was sent to springfield where robert stroud was also a medical center prison then walla walla for another murder he committed and then was released and jumped parole in 1972 never to be found maybe he is hanging out with that cb cooper guy who jumped out that airplane in washington state after committing a bank robbery lol now the acting was very good kevin bacon is in that class of actors which include jeff bridges and dennis quaid the vastly underrated actors club gary oldman well they just might of made up the warden part so he could play it because he was great christian slater still somehow sounds like jack nicholson i am not sure if that is a good thing or not bacons wife kyra sedgwick was in the movie i think just because she is his wife i like her though but not in this flick for some reason i felt this movie when it first came out was suppose to be a special project for kevin bacon i feel he could of taken a person who is truly a victim of the penal system there sure is enough of them and spread some light on their plight other then picking a psychopath to show as a victim
0	i can't help but be completely annoyed by this sitcom it's like they didn't even bothered trying ro write good comedy just rehash third rate jokes and hope it sticks the worst of all this is that it's all so damm uninteresting and lacking in every way br br to make things worse leading man kevin james has a permanent i'm so funny smug grin on his face that would be tolerable if only he once delivered in the comedy department which he doesn't he just lies there doing nothing like a big unfunny baby which takes me to the relationship between the easily the most insincere and poor representation of a married couple on any tv show really headache obnoxious spends the whole show as if it where a violent chore to even be around her own husband jerry stiller yanking the few laughs on the show is doing a 100 repetition of his role as frank costanza in seinfeld only this time his hints mostly tread on water due to the inability of the central duo in recognizing a joke even if it flew by them the episodes just drift along in a stream of nothingness their jobs add nothing and their interaction is even worse br br this is not even a waste of talent there is no talent here this is a laughless creative desert
0	i'm always interested to see neglected movies that appear to have good credentials but in this case the film's neglect appears justified evidently based on some actual incidents during wwii the film just doesn't connect with the viewer for some reason that it is not quite clear to me one very likely reason is that in the print i saw on tcm anyway none of the scenes where the germans talked among themselves were given titles this interesting directorial concept to let the non german speaking viewer just guess from context what the germans are saying to each other is in my book an utter flop and helps to lock the viewer out also the way the movie begins just dropping us into a very confused situation without much setup is disorienting brian keith is pretty good here but the reputations of the great escape and stalag 17 will not be challenged by this flick
0	as usual leader leo gorcey as slip mahoney and the bowery boys are hard pressed for cash after unsuccessfully trying to sell their old jalopy the lads look for help at the local bank there hapless huntz hall as has his picture taken by pretty photographer loring as cathy smith but since the shot was snapped during a robbery it makes mr hall look like the prime suspect with pals bobby jordan as bobby william billy benedict as whitey and david gorcey as chuck mr gorcey wants to clear hall and collect the 1 000 reward money bowery bombshell goes through the motions with ms loring a main strength br br bowery bombshell 7 20 46 phil leo gorcey huntz hall loring bobby jordan
0	the movie was awful the production company should be required to pay a fine for wasting electricity transmitting this nonsense br br there were too many holes in the plot why would the send a killer out to assassinate a world leader if they weren't the why would they send someone they thought would not do the job to quote butch cassidy who are those guys apparently the director does not know either because he never told us br br the characters were unbelievable they did not behave in any way that seemed to fit who they allegedly were with the exception of the doctor none of the characters were particularly compelling or likeable br br if you want to waste money on the electricity required to watch this movie feel free otherwise run the opposite direction
0	second nature will not go down as one of the worst tv movies of 2003 but perhaps the worst of all time formulaic derivative and every performance phoned in from far far away everyone associated with this project should have a hard time looking in the mirror
0	it's a shame that quality actors like baldwin and booth have to succumb to lousy stories and scripts just for the money but hey it's a cruel world br br this is just another one of a long line of assassin thrillers that use all the usual narrative twists to try to make it appear more appealing than it is sure it has some nice locations it's a slick production there is some good camera work and editing and it's fairly well paced overall br br so what's the real problem quite simply the whole premise is just totally unbelievable however instead of spoiling a rotten story for you i'll let you find out what it's all about that is if you can get through it i managed but only because i like baldwin and i kept hoping that it would get better br br it didn't and it had one of the most anti climactic endings that i've seen for a long time in fact maybe never br br but it's harmless fun i guess if you've got nothing better to do
0	this is the worst film i've seen in a long long time never mind the fact that so many useful things keep appearing on this island how convenient the acting is beyond poor from the outset its like one of those really badly scripted soft porn films on channel 5 a complete waste of time and i cant remember the lead actors name but i cant believe he still gets work i've never seen him act i've seen him in lots of films but i've never seen him act here are a few of the blaringly obvious errors apparently petrol lighters still work even when they've been soaked in sea water also according to this film you can walk into the sea naked but come out wearing bikini bottoms i'm guessing the camera man and editor were students there are plenty more errors but i'm ranting now besides its no so much the errors as the cast the script and the whole film avoid at all costs
0	by far this has to be one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life i watch practically every movie that is on at night either showtime hbo cinemax etc three aka survivor island keeps you in as much suspense as watching paint dry only to let you down even more miserably if you want to feel like you just wasted what seems like an eternity on the worst film ever created then by all means watch this movie i must have screamed at a minimum 900 times from the idiotic twists if i had 4 hands i'd give this movie 4 thumbs down br br in my personal opinion i believe the only people who would like this movie are those with terrible morals
0	how much do i love this film now i'm not a fan of bad films but i do love a film that is so bad it's good this is one of those juan pablo di pace has a great butt looks fab on screen and definitely doesn't make a bad turn at his acting debut i believe billy zane is suitably mean and moody though i still constantly feel that there is something more in him i felt it in titanic the look on his face when la winslet spat on him for example totally broken shocked and put down fierce kelly brook is a pretty face no seriously i think that's it it's worth catching this to see one really hot guy some big bra fillers from brook nasty growling from billy laugh at the dialogue revel in the scenery and madness of the whole affair i'm gona go watch it again now yes i bought it
0	first off i just watched a movie on showtime called survival island it says it was a 2006 movie with billy zane and since i like him and couldn't sleep i thought i would check it out looked interesting watched it and decided to look up on the imdb who was this new face juan pablo di pace and omg i could not believe it this movie has been renamed three and will be a new movie it is playing again in 1 hr and 30 mins on showtime channel again and this date is may 28 and or florida time you can check your showtime listings by title and see it i wont get into details so you can see the movie but at one point there is a lady in a white bikini that goes into the water taking it all off you see her naked body when she runs back out of the water you see her bottoms on funny there are a lot of other mess ups too i can't believe by coincidence i decided to look up this movie go figure wonder if the people renaming it sold it to some movie studio to put out but it is already playing on showtime ha ha good laugh i give it 1 1 2 stars c d movie
0	three is a seriously dumb shipwreck movie masquerading as a psychological thriller it's closest relative is the monumentally superior dead calm also featuring billy zane dead calm provided well drawn characters to root for in the form of sam neil and nicole kidman's grieving parents attempting to re define their relationship on an ocean cruise they end up being terrorised by zane's adrift psycho killer it provided sharp increasingly suspense a scary feeling of claustrophobia in open seas as the cat and mouse game of life and death unfolded br br three suffers from poorly drawn characterisation the audience doesn't care what happens to any of them a stupid and unnecessary voodoo plot device a total lack of suspense or excitement and some thudding hammy performances from the principal players zane in particular goes way over the top in an irritatingly mannered fashion in dead calm he was menacing wired and seething with barely controlled sexual violence here he is bombastic petulant slimy and unravelled and where does he get his seemingly inexhaustible supply of dry cigarettes and cigars and how come his lighter stays full of juice for over a year ms brook is very picturesque stunningly pretty but both her chest and rear appear to have been wildly over inflated by some sort of life raft pump they do however succeed in acting with more skill and conviction than the rest of her dramatic actress in the purest sense of the term she is not the guy playing the voodoo manuel the third component of this sorry triangle could have been replaced by a lump of driftwood no one would notice in fact judging by his complete lack of ability to deliver dialogue in any meaningful or dynamic way driftwood represents a potential improvement in the casting stakes excuse pun br br plus sides the scenery is nice and the cinematography above and below the water is credible br br i'm guessing this had a very limited if any theatrical release or went straight to rental and retail dvd the reason for this is it's not very good if you want something decent along these lines get dead calm it was made by people who knew a bit about cinema
0	this is a lame comedy br br here's why a man and wife sitcom okay br br the husband is a douche bag the wife is the einstein br br how original is that br br jerry stiller is just the same guy on seinfeld br br the gags are lame no witty one liners br br i have had enough stop this now br br the last word stupid the destruction of the average white guy continues on abc the worst part kevin james is actually a funny comedian he just isn't here leah is great eye candy but is unlikeable wasted talent is the word bad sitcom
0	thankfully i watched this film alone enabling me to fast forward through the worst scenes aka most of the film actually ok some of it is not all bad with partially good photography even some of the under water scenes and at times not too bad directing but it still doesn't save the incredibly poor script and way worse acting additionally when i don't find the movies hottie to be all that even the wannabe sexy love making scenes get dull really dull and for the drama you know it's always a bad sign when you get to dislike all of the characters so much you really don't care who lives and who dies br br if you still haven't gotten tired of the reality series survivor you may find something to your liking in this movie if not stay well clear
0	what the heck is this about kelly jennifer seems to drop all moral behavior as soon as she arrives to the island she finds this juan p manuel existing and exotic though she witnessed when he slapped his ex in the face which he also justify later on in the movie right or wrong these two guys are the first to find each other on the island kelly are totally lost in every sense and the great juan p can fish and built a somewhat house mr handyman they seem to have a great time then billy zane jack characters husband shows up and of course two days without knowing what his wife has been doing whit this gorgeous juan p he is a little bit jealous billy z is the stereotype rich guy and maybe not the nicest man in the world he dislikes juan p for hitting his girlfriend at the pier who can blame him hes also is arrogant but he paid loads of money to rent that boat and juan p who is the waiter everything cant even fetch him a beer whit in 20 min wouldn't you be upset yet billy is probably the guy you want to punch in the face if you meet him but at the same time he is not to be blamed for suspicious about the scuba goggles manuel has kelly and billy just lost some dear friends how convenient he just happens to have them no matter what however for some strange reason kelly likes this girl hitting manuel and starts to hate billy for being jealous ok billy is overreacting thats for sure but kelly isn't doing much to convince him either she spends more time with juan p and even wants him to sleep with them since hes been so nice and even though manuel yelled at her and calling her things for asking him some intimate questions but kelly is so forgiving yeah right and then she starts to have sex with this juan p it should be said that kelly and billy seems to have a working relationship before this island incident at least they have intimate sex on the boat and talks like people do when they like each other now you can think that this scenario is possible but for real is it are you cheating your husband after two days on a coconut island just because hes jealous and acts like a drunk in the bar i wouldn't disagree if there relationship was really bad but the director doesn't give much hints if thats the case for christ sake juan p hasn't really shown himself being a good person catching some fish and built a wood house to get into someones panties is that showing a good side not trying to befriend husband in anyway which would be very simple by letting them be alone most of the island time simply be respect he doesn't care about their relationship and kelly cant figure that one out he just want to have sex with kelly character is just not trustworthy if she was stranded with billy and another attractive girl wouldn't she be upset or what or maybe she is billy zane plays a not very nice person and juan p isn't actually much better if you really think about it and poor kelly is so confused and believes having sex with juan p will solve everything because her husband is so strange and so aggressive towards poor juan p so for all of you who reads this what do you think about it if you where the kelly character would you consider cheating on your husband knowing one day you'll be back in real life and all of a sudden billys maybe not that horrible person after all hes just too jealous and if you where billys character what do you say is he totally wrong in his behavior and juan p character what do you guys really think of him one thing is for sure exist ps the voodoo thing is so totally wrong here what the heck was that about seriously anyone tell me
0	it is playing on showtime right now but is going to be released as a movie called three or has been released for 2006 mess ups include a supposed nude body comes out of the waves with her bottoms on you can have fun finding the others it was a decent stranded hungry cold crazy person video but that is about it and of course what would a movie be without sex the lady has a nice body and the men are pretty but the story is the same as swept away or a savage is loose type with some blood wonder if the movie studios know they made a big booboo and already released this show and now gonna release it as three billy zane should have worn a top hair piece or shaved his head completely juan di pace is awesome and there is a couple good sex scenes there is a voodoo woman that loves the character di pace plays and in real life her name is di pace too not aware of any connection but probably kin or married
0	if you make a suspense movie it is kind of important that the villain not be more sympathetic than the victim and this fails miserably it was so terrible and frustrating to watch that i was actually moved to register and comment ok so the husband is rich and cocky there are worse vices and the cabana boy and wife display plenty the husband is a jerk because he um didn't approve of the cabana boy physically assaulting that woman the witch one which had absolutely nothing to do with the plot btw the cabana boy threatens the husband and repeatedly attempts to seduce the wife he then forces himself on her which the woman finds so hot she stops thinking rape and starts thinking she wants him uh huh the misogynistic inferiority complex thoughts the director displays are just revolting it is one thing when a fine film like american psycho deliberately tries to get us to empathise with the villain but in survival island i felt like i was watching a movie about ted bundy but the director failed to make him unlikeable and instead made us hate his victims what was he thinking
0	did anyone notice when miss brook went skinny dipping she left the water wearing white bikini bottoms and yet had previously taken it all off to join cabin boy this could have been a good film without miss brooks phony accent and a year on the island please how come that kelly looked always clean and ready for a fm photo shoot what started out with premise turned in to soft porn and billy zane come on you cant be that hard up for film offers check out dead calm also when the people took her away how come she scoffed her face and after all that time didn't feel like throwing up i suggest billy find decent scripts kelly stick to photo shoots and cabin boy play the son of zorro in a future sequel
0	yes bad acting isn't only one thing to mention bad script not so bad music unfortunately br br nice girl and nice boy with perfect bodies and super teeth just isn't enough for me and for you too br br first thing in the morning after crash they go to swim to the sea to have some fun smiling br br they find everything in the sea i mean things like fishing net knife scuba dive things ropes bottles husband br br stuff are you kidding stupid they are so happy on the island they are going to die and they are happy love peace love just stupid br br terrible skip this one please
0	i can only assume the previous posts came from execs at the production company br br attended the uk premiere last night zane and brook attended they probably knew i was gonna be there and are undoubtedly stars but what a turkey of a film i felt sorry for them at times when the audience erupted in laughter at what were serious 'thriller' scenes br br but perhaps i was missing the point perhaps an element of tongue in cheek was intended if so pure genius if not career genocide br br on the plus side zane always shines and brook can actually act a little as the other half said as we ran out the cinema avec broken ribs they can be forgiven for this film as they both seem like nice people the scriptwriter however should be marooned
0	a holiday on a boat a married couple an angry waiter and a shipwreck is the reason to this films beginning br br i like boobs no question about that but when the main character allies with whoever happens to have the most fish at the moment mostly by having sex with them and playing the role of the constant victim my anger just rises to a whole new level take two guys a husband and another man put a pure bombshell woman in the middle of them ad a deserted island subtract all her moral issues ad a whole bunch of moral issues to the men and mix it in a big bowl of arguments fish and a zippo lighter and you will come up with a piece of junk movie like this br br the acting is i would say good there are some bloopers but not many as far as i could see the main female character makes me sick this is due to her lack of moral values the man with the most fish get's her attention even though one of them is her husband she sees no problem with being unfaithful with manuel the other man because i must do it to survive how can you justify having sex with another man for fish when your husband is away and he won't even benefit from it the female character has absolutely no problems to justify anything that she does if she doesen't get approval for her actions she's a victim br br i recommend everyone to see this movie this is the kind of movie that will make just about everything else you see this year a pleasant movie experience
0	how pointless hideous characters and boring film saved by brief sex scenes mad witch gorgeous desert island and brooks body the plot is tenuous the characters are shallow and unlikeable having said that i did manage to watch it all mainly because i was totally transfixed by the jiggling and kind of hoping that her character would come good in the end the film was well shot well directed but perhaps the casting let it down in some ways disappointing really summed the review up in the first line but this website dictates that you need to write 10 lines minimum it would be better to spend the time watching another film
0	the three stooges are arguably the greatest comedy team in film history for that reason alone they deserved a much better ending at columbia than they received with this short br br sappy bullfighters is just not good granted this is not all joe fault i personally feel that some of his shorts are fun enough simply because of the departure from the stooges usual fanfare that they contain and for the fact that larry is sometimes showcased more however this short just will not do and the fact that one knows that it is their last short that was ever shown well that just adds to the overall disgust br br this film just epitomizes how short subjects were on their last dying breaths during this time and how little effort went into making them this short is so sloppy it is a simple re make of a curly short what's the matador filmed years before as if this fact wasn't bad enough the studio actually threw in footage of moe and larry from the original which was filmed nearly 20 years prior are these things not obvious laughable or sad you be the judge br br another part of this short that makes it miserable is the fact that it is basically a joe besser showcase with him showing that all he is at least in this film is a curly wanna be gone completely wrong moe and larry have little to do in this short as a larry fan i also must say that i feel it a bit disgraceful to have besser get to use the joke that larry originally popularized in the short ants in the pantry to see besser say i can't see i can't see and have larry say the simple why can't you see while besser gets to quip i got my eyes closed is just wrong on all levels br br the two brave soldiers who stuck it out for all those years howard and fine have so little to do in this short there are hardly any funny bits with them the only thing that qualifies is larry hiding under the bed of a jealous husband attempting to be pepe his dog br br one can't blame the dynamic duo larry and moe give it their all no matter how ridiculous things could get and i'm sure they had their opinions by this point in their careers howard and fine never gave anything less than their best their efforts do not pale from 1934 1959 br br i often enjoy many shorts that some will dismiss as horrible i'm all for their more experimental unusual shorts at least those contain new ideas however this short i think everyone can agree is just not good br br thank goodness tv later discovered the boys after the shorts department closed had they been forced to go out in this fashion well that would have been a gross injustice to all the years they invested in making audiences laugh
0	a show about an incredibly dumb man child and his shrewish hot wife 99 of the plots revolves around doug doing something unbelievably stupid and then comes a variable a either he hides it from his wife or b tell his wife she him and then it's up to the father in law arthur the typecast character from seinfeld to aggravate the situation br br and the writers dare to say it was influenced by the honeymooners an absolute classic and that the plots are drawn from real life situations unless you live in a cave you know that's not true br br anyway let's just put it this way if kevin james had been thin the show would have got canceled the pilot if you're 12 or you're fond of fat jokes be my guest watch this show or any of kevin james movies for that matter br br i've noticed some posters compare this travesty to much superior shows like friends seinfeld and everybody loves raymond i'm still wondering how could anyone do that
0	i'm gettin' sick of movies that sound entertaining in a one line synopsis then end up being equal to what you'd find in the bottom center of a compost heap br br who knows witchery may have sounded interesting in a pitch to the studios even with a big name cast like blair and hasselhoff wink wink nudge nudge and the effervescent likes of hildegard knef i dunno some woman br br but on film it just falls apart faster than a papier mache sculpture in a rainstorm seems these unfortunate folks are trapped in an island mansion off the eastern seaboard and one of them a woman i'd guess is being targeted by a satanic cult to bear the child of hell while the others are offed in grotesque tortuous ways br br okay right there you have a cross section of plots from the exorcist the omen ten little indians and a few other lesser movies in the satanic worshippers run amok line none of it is very entertaining and for the most part you'll cringe your way from scene to scene until it's over br br no not even linda blair and david hasselhoff help matters much they're just in it to pick up a paycheck and don't seem very intent on giving it their all br br from the looks of it hasselhoff probably wishes he were back on the beack with pam anderson and who can blame him and linda well who knows a celebrity peta benefit or pro am golf tour or whatever it is she's in to nowadays br br and the torture scenes ecchhhh you'll see people get their mouths sewn shut dangled up inside roaring fireplaces strung up in trees during a violent storm vessels bursting out of their necks etc etc sheesh and i thought mark of the devil was the most sadistic movie i'd seen br br don't bother it's not worth your time i can't believe i told you as much as i did if you do watch it just see if you can count the cliches and yes blair gets possessed as if you didn't see that coming down main street followed by a marching band br br no stars witchery these witches will give you itches
0	this short subject is a remake of the three stooges' 1942 film what's the matador about the boys' trip to mexico and their bullfighting adventures although the original short was made during the stooges' peak period it isn't that memorable and i believe it is one of the more mediocre films with curly howard br br having established that i believe that sappy bullfighters is just pathetically awful like all the other shorts with joe besser moe and larry never should have hired besser because his whiny almost feminine character was completely wrong for the violent comedy of the stooges his 16 films with moe and larry marked the nadir for the team and those shorts are embarrassing to watch this short was released in 1959 and was the team's swan song with columbia maybe besser was a nice guy but he was all wrong as the third stooge br br i won't review any more besser shorts because i would just be giving the same scathingly negative review over and over do yourself a big favor and don't watch this instead try to catch in the sweet pie and pie or hoi
0	and again columbia pictures decides to merely make hash using the original version with curly and without any of the gags or jokes to boot toward the end of this pitiful flick when joe gets stuck riding the bull the studio didn't even make much of an effort to re record the sound for if you listen carefully you can still here curly going woo woo woo woo also when moe and larry throw the darts in order to slow the bull down so he can get off that's lifted right from the original because you can actually see moe and larry magically appear 15 years younger why oh why did moe allow all this to happen it's a burning question that probably can never be answered because as far as i know in real life he was quite sensitive to any type of criticism and had rather high standards for his work as also did larry curly and shemp don't waste your time on this one
0	it is apparent that director writers and everyone else knows nothing about their own religion or the people who practice it this movie is endlessly flawed and overall a complete crock br br for instance there is a scene where the rabbi enters the woman's ritual bath while a naked woman is bathing puts his hand on the head of a woman there and blesses her this is complete mockery of the laws in this scene alone some of the laws broken include modesty a rabbi would never enter a ritual bath house while there are woman in it br br improper contact a rabbi would never put his hand on a woman's head not to mention that it is not the way a blessing is given br br the woman from the ritual bath is dunking a naked woman by pushing her head under the water the laws regarding ritual bathing require the entire body to make direct contact with the bath water this means nobody should be in contact with the person bathing certainly not pushing them under br br there was more just in that scene alone like dunking 13 times where does that concept even come from not to mention the rest of the movie was a total fallacy it is scary what ignorance can concoct
0	br br this movie is best enjoyed amidst a large audience with the giggle fits br br very frequently the characters in are seen staring ahead intensely at nothing very intense unhappy faces very pensive very serious during these moments there is very serious sounding music just to make sure the viewer realizes that the scene being watched is not about fun and games br br the more entertaining portions of this film come in between the many pensive stares we learn that the women of the community have two duties one is to breed as many male babies as possible for their husbands the second is to stay employed so to free their husbands from having to work what do these men do with their ample free time they pray and we learn that at home they pray out loud i give you thanks for not creating me as a woman and at their place of worship they pray to give thanks for possessing functioning male genitalia br br along with the praying there are many scenes of frenzied antics screaming and endless head bobbing and bodies rocking back and fourth and mixed in with everything are many intricate and bizarre or simple but just as odd ritualistic activities br br the cream of the unintentional comedy comes from the sex the imagery of an hot and bothered man actively exchanging body fluids with his wife in bed while attempting to keep his from falling off his scalp is unforgettable br br every sex scene is funny but one that stands out is when a husband rubs his face against his beautiful wife's feet oh yes we are finally entering the land of sensuality but no the feet rubbing stops before anything happens and the husband begins his autistic looking head bobbing and body rocking until the scene ends br br there are three attractive females in near states of undress however contains absolutely no nudity technically there is some interesting imagery and pleasing uses of light and colors by the director br br for a more believable educational and entertaining treatment of the plight of being an unclean female unworthy of holding a book in a world where respect is measured by the speed by which a man can cite a phrase from ancient writings i suggest barbra streisand's yentl br br
0	the movie opens with a scene that simply could not be a man wakes up and while his wife remains in bed he begin his morning prayers in his bedroom while his wife sleeps peacefully morning blessings are recited but only the ones gitai finds controversial the rest are conveniently omitted then while in and a he kisses his wife good morning this is not an accurate depiction of jewish prayer in any home let alone a home amos is not interested in accurately portraying life he is interested in adding to his ever growing list of melodramatic and empty films the ritual bath scenes are far from accurate and his jewish wedding was laughable as it does not even approach the atmosphere of a wedding i have many problems with the way of life but i have no use for amos commentary on these issues he would have you think that the are all dense with severe bouts of depression i may not agree with the lifestyle but i acknowledge that life has many layers amos gitai is blinded by his own pseudo intellectual stubborness and is therefore incapable of portraying an accurate of life aside from his poor research and unbalanced portrayal of life gitai fails in other aspects as well the plot is full of holes the dialogue loaded with silence the soundtrack is too repetitive and the acting while at times powerfull was too often loaded with melodrama the movie drags on and on and the ending is not worth sticking around for watch if you must but be warned if you want to learn about life go to the communities and talk to do not rely on film
0	i don't know what movement was this film about i saw this film a year ago i am an orthodox woman living in an orthodox community and i can tell you i was offended by this movie it's so far away from the reality it's scary the director could at least hire a rabbi for a brief consultation before making a realistic movie about ultra for example morning prayers or a jewish wedding or a ritual bath customs br br movie is loaded with technical inaccuracies but it's not them that bothered me it's the spiritual side are portrayed next to taliban woman are powerless while men are the ultimate rulers please no one can force a jewish girl to the against her will we also live by the law which clearly states man's responsibilities towards his wife no beating and no raping also and no man even rabbi is allowed to peak at the woman in the and is not to place a hand over woman's head while she's taking a ritual bath the idea is to immerse the whole body at one time director was clearly trying to bash ultra but could he do so at least in a nice and more educated manner br br love story cute but not credible dialogs are long and boring the ending sucked totally for all that drama i was at least hoping for a nice ending for all that sitting i felt i deserved it obviously someone was trying to make a nice consciousness soothing movie for less observant jews or for non jews perhaps look at those fundamentalist they are so evil and mean and they succeed long thing short was hoping for a nice kane level movie got instead a tradition bashing unrealistic mistakenly guiding junk i mean today we live in a time of a free will as never before everyone has a right to choose chose a rock singer made her choice meir made his many people from non observing backgrounds are choosing orthodox judaism these days because in this mad world religion might be a nice gateway
0	my mother told me not to go to see but who ever listens to one's mother br br i was so turned off by it while i was watching i thought i must have lost my feminist credentials on the way into the theater so i checked with card carrying feminists the next day no they also thought it was much more an anti orthodox screed than a pro feminist statement painting the orthodox as equal to the taliban br br while this israeli movie is careful to show that the sect the story is about is the ultimate ultra orthodox it is so nasty as to be unbelievable plus that the non fanatic orthodox rock 'n' roller one of the sisters is in love with is incredibly sexy even in israel that must be fantasy br br the theater was quite crowded so there's a pent up curiosity to see israeli movies too bad this vicious movie is the one getting wide distribution this was almost enough to drive me back to insipid hollywood romantic movies br br originally written 4 29 2000
0	the film is a gross misrepresentation of orthodox lifestyle and practice never will a jewish court enforce a divorce between childless couples although the concept exists in jewish law the conditions are too numerous for it to actually ever take place childless couples do find it difficult to cope with their in a community where children are a very important part of life but nowhere are they rejected by their community as depicted in the film they are treated with extreme sensitivity in fact many great rabbis have lived their entire lives without children and never considered divorce br br the depiction of a horrible human being is meant to perhaps subconsciously show the behavior of a typical orthodox male in reality it is as typical as a violent drunkard rapist is typical of secular society both exist in their own worlds and both are despicable br br it is surprising that so many people form their opinions about a society based on a movie by someone who is personally biased against a community i have always thought that it is only the orthodox because of their narrow mindedness and insular lifestyle who judge all secular people based on the violence and immoral conduct they read about in newspapers or see in the movies
0	as a writer and a lapsed orthodox jewish woman i was let down tremendously by this movie the dialogue is hackneyed and wasteful the characters too engaged with lines ranging from the wrackingly prosaic to the stunningly melodramatic aren't allowed to expand into genuinely textured individuals the one trick musical score tries to make up for the blandness swooping portentously into the silence to jar the viewer and the script out of protracted catatonia br br like an adolescent revolutionary on a self righteous tirade this film is blown away by the wisdom of its revelation patriarchy is wrong and thoroughly squanders its energies hammering on this point the resultant artistic crime is a complete lack of imaginative development the moral crime is the reduction of human beings to caricatures martyrs and grotesques
0	here is a film which clearly banks on being marketed as exotica to audiences unfamiliar with its subject matter br br an attempted hybrid of fiction and document clumsily falls in between the chairs as a documentary on the one hand it is neither accurate nor insightful to realize its sloppy handling of detail one needs to go no further than the opening scene where it is quite obvious that the ultra orthodox protagonist does not know even so much as how to properly put on his more generally the tedious rote style presentation of details in this case of jewish ultra orthodox ritual is the role of a manual not of a good documentary the latter should provide an organizing principle a if you will for the viewer so that she may emerge with a better understanding of the viewed this clearly does not happen here as ultra orthodox ritual is being made even more enigmatic the director seems to have done a decent job explaining it all verbally during the film's release campaign cinematically however this is a severe case of stuttering as a fiction feature on the other hand it suffers from flatness of character simplicity of plot and bluntness of message at some points i felt i was watching a cartoon e g the wedding night consummation scene without going in detail into angles positions and dimensions well technically this could not possibly be a realistic portrayal of human sex savage as it may be br br there are no subtleties in this film the clever manipulation of hints stimulating the viewer's imagination and thought into taking an active part in the cinematic text which i believe is a mark of a good feature is completely absent on the contrary watching the movie i felt at times as being force fed again and again with the same already chewed up and way too obvious content it is indeed as director gitai himself put it in an interview an architectural shifting objects in space and then coloring the scenes with the appropriate emotions when called for and advancing the plot on its appropriate and predictable track but the spark that creative like dark spark let's not forget is supposedly a tragedy that which casts on a two dimensional screen the spell which turns it into an extension of the viewers world is missing without a trace perhaps a work of a visual engineer perhaps of an unsophisticated ideologue definitely not of a true filmmaker what i saw was a passion play for animated issues rather than flesh blood and complexities real people the acting by and large failed to transcend this directorial flatness of an idea forced at times even tortured into film one notable though relatively minor exception was that of the lady and the mother both played by the excellent and seasoned lea koenig br br it takes more than strict adherence to a winning formula namely a serving of exotica plus heart wrenching yet simple melodrama plus a popular agenda preferably politically correct to my interest buds the bottom line here all being said is that for a considerable portion of the movie i was simply bored in spite of the novel perhaps even pioneering achievement of using an ultra orthodox neighborhood as a movie set for which mr gitai and his crew deserve all praise i found way too hebrew for trite
0	this show uses a rather tired sitcom formula of the fat idiot blue collar slob with the pretty and sometimes shrewish seeming wife and crazy in law s with this show it's fat unfunny comedian kevin james as doug who works as a delivery driver for a parcel service he has a pretty wife carrie leah who works as legal assistant and senile father in law arthur spooner jerry stiller who lives in his daughter and son in law's basement kevin james' doug is your typical beer drinking sports loving tv watching slob of a sitcom husband who would rather watch the tube than deal with his marital issues he also has a couple of idiot friends who lend extra stupidity to the problems encountered by this show's couple beyond the few laughs supplied by jerry stiller's crazy old man character this show was generally unfunny kevin james' imbecilic behavior usually caused the show's problems that usually resolved by his wife this show continued a run of sitcoms with the fat stupid father husband and their pretty wives that all seemed to run on abc for some reason
0	the one line summary is actually the punch line of a very old joke that begins what is a jewish porno film br br while this film had its interesting moments it was far too slow moving and did not do enough to explain to those of us in the audience unfamiliar with orthodox jewish custom exactly what was going on and why how many people who came across this film would know that the bathtub the female characters were washing in is in reality called a which is a ritual bath used to cleanse spiritual the same question might be asked of why the bride was walked around the groom a dizzying number of times while her face was covered just prior to the marriage vows being performed these two examples are but two of a large number of such moments that remained completely unexplained to the uninitiated audience br br this film does have its touching moments along with expressions of great love and emotions the characters are presented very authentically right down to the number of garments an ultra orthodox jewish male must wear as well as the religious rituals he must engage in upon awakening in the morning to begin his day the attitudes orthodox judaism has towards women in general and wives in particular is both intriguing and at times maddening this is another reason why more explanation is needed if this story is to be understood in context br br i recommend this film to people who are familiar with orthodox jewish tradition and ritual as well as those who might be interested in getting a brief peek at what the lives of people who practice this way of life is like br br the story itself about two sisters who in their own ways rebel against the system is of moderate interest at best
0	i somehow failed for a few years to see this film although it has been quite successful and generated a lot of discussions in israel i am sorry that i did not postpone indefinitely seeing it br br the theme of is a very real and painful one for those who know the jewish religious world the place of women in the orthodox family and society the basic situation that sits at the premises of the film is possible the problem is that the way it is brought to screen and the that the conflicts described receives in the movie is wrong gitai does not seem to have too much sympathy for men in the religious world but his approach of picking characters that are either fanatic or unable to express their human feeling makes the whole story seem simplistic neither does he a much better service to his women characters although here at least he shows more sympathy and he also enjoys the participation of two beautiful and gifted actresses in and overall gitai's vision is too one sided his cinema means are too basic he focuses on the technical details of the jewish religious life which may be interesting for people who do not know them but are really not relevant at all in the context of the whole story starting from interesting premises what we get here is a boring film which seems longer than it is with a very static way of acting obsessive use of music that plays in the same register not only from a musical but also from an emotional perspective and a very inconclusive if not even confusing ending what difference between this film and 'ha inspired from and describing the very same social landscape and which succeeded to transmit human feelings on the screen in there are both too little cinema and too little human emotions
0	a good friend of mine one said a monkey is funny anytime anywhere there is one exception to this going bananas it is quite simply the worst movie i have ever seen it's worse than plan 9 worse than the beast of yucca flats it is terrible the talking monkey gag gets old after about three minutes and believe me that's all there is make sure you have a bunch of people around to revive you after you go into toxic shock from going bananas the worst movie ever
0	i was watching tv one day with a friend and we caught the last twenty minutes of going bananas believe me when i say it was enough to get a good judgment of the film the first scene that i saw was the monkey the kid the fat guy and the black guy who looked like dave flying around in a crop duster thousands of feet in the air while everyone else was solemn about the journey the monkey seemed to be on some kind of drug binge where he kept shouting something that resembled the english word faster they then landed on a twenty yard long dock in africa after a heart felt goodbye where the monkey cried hahahaha the villains of the film appeared they were tearing complete ass in their vintage cadillac when the evil monkey took an air jordan leap form the dock onto the boat that was sailing away a clean 40 yards away and made them sink their beautiful car into the pacific ocean after seeing this film i have a new purpose in life to find the midget who played the monkey and stab him in the eye with a fountain pen
0	i love how everyone treats this show like it was the next great american sitcom i watched five episodes of this abomination and the only person that came close to an actual teacher was the old guy that sort of loved and hated his job the rest of them were just pretty people trying to read the lines written by people who never actually went inside of a real classroom i loved how every episode consisted of the two idiots one who got laid and the other who didn't getting into some form of zany trouble that indirectly involved their students the british girl who thought she found an likable quality in the main idiot but in the end was somehow shocked that he turned out to be a jackass the hot chick that was there for the particular purpose of being hot and the principal and her lackey that served to somehow move the almost non existent plot forward i loved how almost all the teachers on this show were very young but i ask you to think back to your high school days and remember the teachers that you had did they look like that or did you go to the high school that had middle aged people teaching in it that is the high school that everyone else went to the show lacked any form of research into what goes on in schools in public schools principals do not have the power to higher and fire teachers the school board does but in every episode that i watched the principal made threats to fire her teachers think back to your history class or think of any history class did you ever see an incredibly hot british chick teach an american history class no did you ever see a teacher's lounge that is so huge that you could actually play basketball in no br br teachers could have been a great show had it actually of based itself in some form of reality what makes teaching funny is the stories that you get from interaction with students and the teachers find it funny because they deal with the students day in and day out the overemphasis on their lives outside of teaching just made it another four camera sitcom that had unrealistic people in an unrealistic environment saying unrealistic lines and i'm sorry i just didn't buy it the show could have modeled itself after other currently successful sitcoms and used a single camera format and it should have centered more around the teacher's relationships with their students and not with each other br br it gets a star for trying and a star for the hot chick she was really hot br br in the end it was a failed sitcom that will go down in history as a hacks attempt to understand a profession i only hope that if they make another sitcom based on teaching that they learn from their mistakes so that a monstrosity such as this never touches the television screen
0	these writers are trying to re create the characters they have on scrubs in a different occupation however the characters they are stuck with have no charisma or acting ability not to mention the writing seems poor and effortless these guys are trying to create something that would be good if the writing wasn't so disgusting which is leaving the shows only lifeline to be two attractive teachers that that are barely keeping it alive the humor in this show seems like it is trying to target an audience with an i q of 40 or below another reason why this show is becoming a failure could be that the writing on the show scrubs is excellent and this show has to follow it up leaving the viewer in an odd position not knowing whether to cry or to just lose hope in new sitcoms all together this is just my opinion but i think these guys should stop now before they humiliate themselves anymore than they have already
0	the worst wrestlemania ever br br this had no must see bouts and many crap ones at that this took place in las vegas and wwe made it's employees dress up like egyptian gods they even changed howard name to maximus which probably doesn't mean anything the sight of seeing jim ross in that terrible gown still gives me nightmares to this day and i'm 21 years old so you could imagine it when i was 7 years old bobby was funny though br br matches included the undertaker vs giant gonzales in a p ss poor match the headshrinkers vs the steiner brothers in a useless match doink vs crush in a comedy match and a boring match featuring razor ramon vs bob hulk hogan teamed up with brutus beefcake to battle money inc you could clearly see hogan had a black eye in storyline purposes ted dibiase and irs beat up hogan while he was playing poker or something like that in the casinos which is a poor storyline but in reality macho man randy savage hit hogan because savage thinks he's like the hulk no pun intended no not the wrestler but the film character br br the main event consisted of bret hart facing off against yokozuna in a very boring main event match mr fuji threw salt in the face of hart and yoko won but not until hogan came down and squashed yoko in 21 seconds br br overall grade e
0	ugh this is the worst wrestlemania hands down no good matches hulk hogan rears his over tanned bald head yet again in the main event the spot light scum not one thing note worthy on this tape oh i take that back this is jim ross's first wm but other than that it has nothing worth a major bust br br 1 out of 10 stars woof
0	1993 was a time of change in the wwe but for this wrestlemania they decided to wind back the clock as hulk hogan returned along with his good friend brutus beefcake who had been out of wrestling since a accident in 1990 br br this was not a great event only two matches had any real build and the whole thing came off as being rushed the in ring action wasn't great and the twist at the end which i'll discuss later really wasn't the earth shattering moment the wwe hoped it would be br br this forgettable night started off with shawn micheals defending his intercontinental championship against the undefeated tatanka tatanka had beaten michaels a couple of times leading into the fight michaels had a new manager luna vachon while tatanka was accompanied by former manager and future wwe hall of sherri martel tatanka won by dq michaels kept his title and went straight back into his feud with marty janetty which had been put on hold just for wrestlemania why i have no idea br br next up saw the steiner brothers scott and rick defeat the headshrinkers samu and fatu with scott scoring the pin after hitting samu with the good match br br doink the clown needed help from another clown to win his match against crush a second doink distracting crush when he was in complete control and allowing doink to get the pin and the victory doink was an entertaining gimmick character who got old rather quickly br br razor ramon easily defeated the returning bob in the next match br br this brings us to the first in our double main event as the mega maniacs team of hulk hogan and brutus beefcake with the newly turned good guy jimmy hart in their corner took on hart's former buddies money inc ted dibiase and irwin r shyster this was a fairly sketchy finish beefcake as mentioned had been in a accident requiring full facial surgery and had wrestled the match with a face mask on shyster ripped the mask off him and beat beefcake to a pulp the ref went down hogan grabbed the face mask and knocked out dibiase and shyster and then hart who was wearing a referee shirt counted the three another ref came down and reversed the decision declaring money inc winners by dq br br next up lex luger or the narcissist as he was also known at the time defeated mr perfect this match came about because luger was being managed by old manager bobby perfect had is feet on the ropes when he was pinned but the ref missed it br br the undertaker picked up a lacklustre dq victory in a pretty poor match against the giant gonzales the undertaker had earned the ire of manager harvey wippleman in 1992 and taker had defeated his big monster kamala at survivor series wippleman vowed revenge and took it at the royal rumble as gonzales attacked taker costing him the match gonzales dominated undertaker in this match but was for choking taker out with weird finish to a bad match br br this bought us to our main event as wwe champion bret hart seriously challenged as champion for the first time put his title on the line against mr unstoppable monster yokozuna yokozuna controlled the early going but hart resisted and then took control he had yokozuna in the sharpshooter surely he would give in and hart would be established as an heroic hero after taking out the big monster but fuji had other ideas throwing salt in hart's face rendering the canadian helpless as yokozuna got the pin br br what a downer ending but wait here comes hulk hogan he's checking hart to make sure he's ok suddenly fuji challenges hogan to a wwe title right then and there hogan accepts fuji throws salt towards hogan but hits yokozuna instead hogan hits the leg drop and wins the match and the title what did i just watch and so what most fans thought was going to be the night we either saw hart establish himself as a giant killer or yokozuna establish himself as an unstoppable monster we instead saw hulk hogan pick up a meaningless title win a title that he would not defend for three months as a matter of fact this was the only match hogan wrestled for the wwe before the king of the ring ppv in june 1993
0	i liked the whole set up with palace the roman guards and announcers in this event also marked the passing of the torch as far as the voice of the wwf goes gorilla monsoon who had done the play by play for every wwf ppv up to this point opens up and gives the typical introduction making it look like he's there to announce another ppv but then introduces jim ross who is making his wwf debut and jr continues to do the wwf commentary to this day but outside of that this event is pure garbage good ol scientific wrestling has been thrown out the window and enter the birth of gimmicks this to me was the event that the wwf started to go down the toilet and didn't recover until the attitude era of the late 90's here's a review of the event br br ic title match tatanka challenger vs shawn michaels champ an okay opener but given what shawn is capable of it was very disappointing i have no idea why the wwf was hell bent on putting tatanka over they should of realized that shawn was the future and tatanka was just some hyper wrestler in an indian the ending of the match itself was very lame shawn grabs the ref and pulls him out then gets called for a count out while it was fun watching sherri get beat up afterwords this match just was forgettable shawn had to carry this match and had trouble doing it br br the brothers vs the headshrinkers steiners get the win via a this match had it's moments but the crowd just didn't seem into it there was no heat behind it i think it was a match just to throw two tag teams in br br crush vs doink the clown terrible terrible terrible this match completely sucked two very lame gimmicks a clown and a hawaiian dressed in bizarre colors the ending caught everybody by surprise in the upcoming months crush turned heel and doink turned face but none of the fans seem to care sadly this was not the worst match on the card br br razor ramon vs bob you got a brand new heel that is very over going against a wrestler who was forgotten about 10 years ago the fans snicker and laugh when comes out and like hogan rock in and hhh owen in the heel wrestler gets louder cheers in the face thankfully this match was short the right guy won but i wish they had razor totally beat the crap out of and squash rather than winning by a small package out of nowhere br br tag team champion match ted dibiase and irs champs vs hulk hogan brutus beefcake w jimmy hart i still would like to know the full story on what happened to hogan's eye oh well the crowd was really into this match but it had no flow to it what so ever hogan and beefcake were clearly suffering ring rust given that both wrestlers had been on the shelf for at least a year dibiase being the great technical wrestler that he was did help to carry the match from being a complete waste the ending was a surprise with dibiase and irs getting the win via dq but to please the crowd hogan and beefcake did their usual playing to the crowd at the end like they had won the match br br lex luger vs mr perfect the best part of this match was the four hot chicks that accompanied lex luger to the ring other than that this was completely forgettable the mr perfect gimmick was born for a heel role and he just lacked the heat as a face and luger is just a waste of time no matter what gimmick he's in luger wins via a despite that feet were in the ropes then perfect spends the post match getting his butt kicked first luger knocks him out with the running elbow then when perfect regains consciousness he goes back to the dressing room to find luger only to get the crap beaten out of him by shawn michaels setting up an hbk perfect feud that had the potential to be a classic but the wwf misused br br the undertaker vs giant gonzales absolute crap what was the wwf thinking bringing in such a horrible wrestler as giant gonzales sure he had size but i'd rather watch the brooklyn in a match than him this isn't even worth commenting on br br wwf championship match bret hart champ vs yokozuna challenger you have one of the greatest technical wrestlers of all time going against a guy who's only advantage is that he's a gigantic lard ass bret was able to carry the match but a rather predictable ending with mr fuji throwing salt in face br br post match yokozuna vs hulk hogan pure crap right here hogan comes down to the ring for no apparent reason and mr fuji challenges him to a match after yoko just won the title even the die hard hulkamaniacs find this to be total bs
0	i am very diplomatic in my reviews and as an academic writer try to give creative license to tv writers trying to a true story this story about karen carpenter could have helped so many yet due to the directing and editing does not br br the story in this case is not fully addressed unless one reads psychological journals while cynthia portrays a realistic karen it is sad that so much has been edited louise fletcher portrays her mother and does an excellent job with limited material and dialogue in this case i give the actors credit for surviving this project br br why is the audience not permitted to see factors american audiences are quite savvy and if they have cable usually educated br br i sincerely feel that i could have written a better story would not have edited out the truth and allowed the actors to project the reality br br richard carpenter as director has seriously underestimated and insulted american audiences karen's story is important and it is sad we will never hear it
0	for any wrestling fan this is the wrestlemania to forget no logic to the matches some garbage gimmicks doink the clown and the giant gonzalez this was a forgettable ppv something rare for the wwe f the logic of hogan winning the world title at the end made no sense and many people feel that alone help put the nail in the ppv from the meaningless gimmicks of the roman soldiers to simply some real bad wrestling doink vs crush being the worst match to simply bad match making scott razor ramon vs bob how can you have one of the greatest mat wrestlers making a comeback and working his first wrestlemania face a power wrestler who was undefeated at the time this is a ppv that even the wwe has since admitted was way below what the expected just all around a stinker
0	this movie was a waste of time it looks nice pretty settings nicely acted appears earnest and seems to be leading somewhere so you stay tuned awaiting a meaningful payoff it doesn't happen br br it surprised me that so much effort could be put into a movie it was clearly very professionally done and have an outcome that seems nothing short of a b movie br br save your precious time and see a good french film like les visiteurs funny jean de or manon of the spring i can't recall the language in europa europa but that's another great film heavy but very worth viewing br br this film appears to promise a lot but delivers nothing
0	i think it is very interesting this movie is called a thriller it is anything but thrilling br br most of the time you hear piano sounds then you hear piano sounds then some people talk about facts which do not concern anybody br br then again piano sounds br br to be honest this movie was the reason for me to register at imdb because i think this movie is one of those which humankind has to be warned of br br spoiler by the way the most action like part happens when a can of hot chocolate is spilled br br also very interesting the actors yes the quotes are intentional as you can think because they do not act they play piano and do smalltalk but it's not acting they do br br i think before this movie i never left a cinema and felt angry really this film made me angry angry for the time and money i spent on it
0	something does not work in this movie there are absolutely no energies between the actors in fact their very acting seems frozen sometimes amateur also the script is not convincing and not reliable
0	the dominating conflict is between a couple of fine actors huppert and and the horrible script evidently the actors lost since the director screenwriter claude chabrol eventually forced the leading couple to follow this worthless piece of sick imagination to the letter fortunately the powerful performances by huppert and dramatically improve the overall quality of the movie which miraculously gains the depth and humor as for chabrol's persistence in keeping the film bland and illogical it reaches the climax in the final scene which is so incredibly poor that you will wonder which pills he was taking himself while directing it
0	the french either make pro marxist films or anti marxist films with a few in between pour le chocolat is the latter of this genre from the opening credits telling the viewer what music is going to be played and by whom it was who composed you know that you are going to be swathed in middle class pretension it is an old man's film with an excess of 40's plus people it is also directed by an old man along with an old crew who have nothing to say about life to the viewer the plot is not only banal but preposterous how many films reveal the plot through dialogue only to repeat the same message via flashback some five minutes later maybe the director and actors had a low retentive capacity in truth their is no tenable plot at all it is riddle with holes like a good piece of french cheese br br whether intentional or not it is a film about the bourgeoisie at least a third of the film focuses on the piano and the pretentious twaddle espoused in each scene i concede it has some well framed shots though they couldn't have used a steady cam in this film it would have woke them all up other than it being a nonsense story the film allows the upper middle class to parade their values and vanity in a very comfortable swiss location a telling line of the film is when rodolphe pauly tells anna that she need not lock her car while in the resort oh dear me br br on the dvd miss huppert makes a comment about shedding a false tear for a scene smirking she says like they do in the american actor's studio i think miss huppert and the rest of the cast could learn well from the actor's studio br br if there is one statement that stand out in my mind it is when huppert remarks 'we are having friends for the weekend and all the servants are away' no doubt they had all escaped from the mind numbing set lest they be associated with such an appalling film br br safety medical note in the film they show a hot water being covered with ointment and a bandage this should never be done only cold water should be used br br minus 10 marks
0	the beginning of the film is promising when jeanne anna hear the story of the incident that happen on the day she was born that raise the possibility that she is the daughter of a famous pianist andré jacques she set to find out whether it's true or not and giving the fact the she plays also the piano that's not such a remote idea jeanne meet andré and his wife muller isabelle huppert and their son and on the way uncover the fact that there are some secrets in that family as much in her own br br o k we have seen this before and it has been done in a more interesting way than here the character of muller is left with out us understanding her motives to her action and she is not interesting enough to care for her the piano scenes look fake and the whole piano sub plot doesn't add anything to the character's insight but serve as to make the film longer than it should have been in the first place br br in short a very disappointing outing from chabrol who can do better than this
0	i did not like this film at all the scenario is boring and after a while its primitive predictability really gets on your nerves even if you give chabrol a high bonus for not being a beginner i did not manage to find anything specially interesting on his characterization of neither
0	this is the second adaptation of charlotte armstrong by claude chabrol for the screen the first was la rupture 1970 from novel the balloon man and it's really a pity no one cares about it it's chabrol's sleeper and i urge any of his fans to see it br br the chocolate cobweb was not that strong a detective story to begin with i read it 20 years ago and forgot all about it the movie promises some good things at first though then finally disappoints to a fault this is a confusing chabrol movie mixing elements of the heyday circa 1969 and a lotta tongue in chick stuff coming from the eighties the likes of au not one particularly memorable work br br part of the disappointment comes from the cast this is a distressingly poor gathering jacques plays like a zombie isabelle huppert reveals herself a somewhat limited actress finally rather vulgar it worked in une affaire de femme it does not here they are not supported by the young couple both are bland and unremarkable actors from the past say stephane or michel bouquet both in la rupture were brilliant and contributed to chabrol's then unique atmosphere br br the story itself is undistinguished beginning as some kind of serious la vie est un long besides a character hints at etienne very funny movie the movie drags on and on as a laughable psychological drama afterwards we will not congratulate the young female pianist who after all she learned about her wicked hostess agrees to drive a car along a dangerous road br br because he makes too many movies chabrol frequently releases turkeys one wonder why people who wants to watch one of his movies should choose this one among all his stuff up for grabs br br it seems that chabrol's bourgeoise satire has finally given way to leniency in la rupture the first armstrong adaptation an average detective story which chabrol completely transcended you should hear say they have so much money here chabrol has lost his bite his strength
0	oh boy oh boy this movie is something for the lovers of real art it really does not make any sense at all it is totally boring especially because of the anti climaxes all people behave more than strange and unrealistic sometimes it feels like sitting in a theatre because in dialogues the actors tend to face the camera and therefore the audience instead of each other like i said before if you are in to those more artful movies shown in cannes go for it if you are not better leave this movie alone because you will be more than disappointed and in the end know that you have wasted your time like i did two thumbs down
0	i have been a fan of the carpenters for a long time read the biography watched the specials and saw the karen carpenter story this movie really didn't show the real karen carpenter in the movie she seems to be a shy and a pretty much of loner except for one girl friend the real karen carpenter was much different she was outgoing and friendly she had lots of friends especially olive newton john the movie doesn't even show karen's attempts for a solo album and her meeting phil ramone and his wife itchy karen itchy knew the real karen carpenter in new york when karen was in new york she did see a psychologist but it was voluntary and once a day and then she would leave to go to her hotel room also karen was taking pills to increase her so she could loss weight but stop taking them because the psychologist recommended her not too also the karen's husband in the movie is named bob knight but in real life was named tom also karen wasn't divorced from tom but only separated karen was to sign the divorce papers on the day she died also agnes found karen naked in the closet unlike in the movie where she was dressed in white the music was very good that was the only thing i would recommend on seeing it
0	before going any further i have to admit that i only saw the first episode of this show if i had the time i might have considered watching it every week if only to see how the season played out however it was very clear to me from the beginning that martha stewart's version of the apprentice just doesn't fit in martha stewart made a career of being a happy homemaker a domestic diva of the likes of oprah winfrey and julia child it was only since her scandalous legal troubles and subsequent incarceration that her public image began to reflect the true roughness of her character sure she was compelling for a while and this entire series poses the interesting question of what it means to be a woman in business does she have to come off as cold and tough shouldn't she br br but the truth was by the time stewart came out of prison her attempts for a public comeback though certainly warranted were never going to seize viewers' interest for very long perhaps a true comeback would have worked had she returned home peacefully and waited a year or so after her often mocked ankle bracelet was removed instead she frantically dove into overkill with 2 series at once the other being her syndicated daytime series martha much like her old show but more mainstream with famous guests like bette midler of course even at her peak stewart was never mainstream so it's too much to ask that american audiences immediately accept her foray into reality tv maybe america wants stewart to make a comeback on her own rather than be the basis for it br br the show was basically a tired retread of trump's apprentice which still holds my interest depending on the tasks the cast and trump's firing decisions often controversial likely for that reason the letter bit was certainly not cliché but obnoxious in the least the fact that stewart never says you're fired mentioned in the message board on this site is particularly distressing producer mark burnett should be admired for dealing with stewart's jail time honestly while trying to make her a hero but the truth is that anyone watching can tell that she's basically trying to put on a show of being this nice businesswoman again never mainstream stewart lacks the and of oprah winfrey and the admirable charismatic toughness of donald trump yes this can be a gender biased assessment of her character but i mean it to be more about the nature of her business br br it comes as no shock that stewart has been fired but i wonder if they really always intended it to only last for one season
0	jesus christ what the hell happened here this is one of the most boring movies i have ever seen how is it possible that they screwed up such a nice idea for a movie to tell you the truth i was so hyped for this i though it was like blair witch but with actual alien creatures chasing the camera guy goddamn it i have been reduced to fast forwarding this pile of sh t and i never do that while seeing movies the high rating here on imdb makes me believe that actual aliens are giving 10's for this piece of crap br br invasion is about well an invasion the movie starts by saying that everything you're about to see is real then they go and tell me about a special camera system used in cars as if i need to believe their bullsh t to enjoy this movie next thing you know i'm seeing the most boring car driving ever filmed in a forest at night mind you is this a movie or a disney theme park ride the first 20 minutes is all boring dialog between cops while seeing grass and one straight road with a flashlight where the hell were the aliens they were sleeping of course then we learn that bad acting is not only reduced to high school plays as the cop behind the camera goes out of his car to look for a missing man who was and had stumbled upon a mysterious meteorite i wonder what happens to him out of nowhere we see the guy walking like a zombie the cop is apparently too dumb to notice that something is wrong with this man apparently he was indeed dumb as the zombie alien guy injects in the cop's ear some sort of alien parasite thus changing him into an alien then the cop alien goes back into his car looks for a young couple that were having sex a while back in the forest gets to them changes the guy into an alien and then the girl runs to the cop's car and escapes if this quick plot introduction didn't get it in your head that this movie was bad then the following 40 minutes will watching this movie is as painful as stabbing yourself repeatedly with a plastic fork the script while it may sound interesting on the back of the dvd box is badly directed and sadly we are left with another boring straight to dvd atrocity br br the only thing that kept me awake were the constant flashing and loud sound effects lamentably if seeing the same forest trail for 63 minutes is not enough we must endure crappy flashing techniques to scare the viewer and constant wailing of a bad actress that gets old and annoying pretty quick br br if you feel you must rent this i say to you why there are better scifi horror films out there even the dreaded remake of the invasion of the body snatchers is more entertaining than this for the love of all things good don't bother with his crap my eyes bled and for the first time i wanted suicide a 1 10 avoid this like a disease
0	here is a fantastic concept for a film a series of meteors crash into a small town and the resulting alien infection is caught on a deputy's single camera dash cam as the town slowly taken over leave it to albert pyun to screw that up don't get within 100 feet of this flick holy crap what a bomb it might be pyun's worst yet the crazy thing is there is the germ of a creative idea in here an entire of an outbreak told from the pov of a when i heard that a while back i imagined the car smashing into stuff people getting run over and infected types breaking the windshield and surrounding the car in chaos that would be cool right instead we have the lead driving around in circles for the entire time in a wooded area occasionally running into the three infected types who just stand there the last bit is literally a 15 minute shot where nothing happens in front of the camera just noises are heard offscreen stay away on a somewhat relieving note i think i am officially calling an end to my pyun watching only took me 20 crappy movies to realize i have better things to do
0	okay first i should say that i assume this was just made by a group of friends with a limited budget with that in mind it really shouldn't be compared to blockbuster features and my rating would be higher but still br br after giving it a chance it still violated some basic film making rules to such an extent that both the viewer and the amateur director in me cringed a lot br br think blair witch in a car but really boring br br think you left your camcorder on the dashboard and recorded yourself getting lost in the park at night for an hour then making your friends watch it br br the scariest part possible spoiler alert if spoiling here is possible was at one point the picture rewinds and you might think you will have to watch it all over again scary br br silliness aside this is a pretty good idea for a low budget lets go make a movie tonight film but the concept walks a fine line between being really good and really bad and let's just say it wasn't really good there were just too many parts where nothing happened at first i thought that was the director's plan you were supposed to be lulled into a sense of security and then really scary things would start happening but no br br i kept trying to find good things to say about it and i had plenty of time to think and i'll say the music was kinda cool and i have to give the female lead credit for standing around by herself looking scared for a really really long time but that's it the actors playing infected people looked as if they were making fun of zombie movies or they got their motivation from the bug wearing his edgar suit from mib chances are if for some strange reason you're going to watch this movie it's on dvd or tivo so you can fast forward it whenever waiting for something to happen gets too difficult br br i hate to be so critical of something but at the same time i've watched a lot of similar movies and nothing has ever been this painful if they just chopped a half an hour out of it and added some scary stuff it might be decent maybe that'll be the director's cut
0	i spotted the dvd on a store near my home and since i'm a cheesy horror movie alien flicks addict i wondered how good it was it even had two award mentions on the cover i don't remember what festival it won so i figured hey this might be good so i bought it for five euros and i came here to imdb to check out some reviews here either people bashed the movie to say it was bad or people said the movie was a wonderful feat in indie movies bla bla i then played the dvd not thinking about any review i had read with an open mind and not expecting anything at all br br man i don't' like being this critical but the movie was genuinely bad ok i'm just going to give out some pointers of what i thought br br 1 acting dialog the acting was so confusing sometimes the actors did a decent job but there were scenes were i could spot no effort at all from them the dialog was even worst i think it was probably the aspect i most disliked in the whole movie the talking in between characters seemed off not just bad but far away from the actual happenings in the movie the monologues of the female character although well delivered became boring and annoying in a little while but of course the most ridiculous aspect was the aliens or the infected i wont even comment on that one just going to say that it was absolutely ridiculous and took the entire mood away from the picture 2 visuals the strongest aspect in the movie if you forget the awful fx and light flashes they used to simulate explosions or what the hell they were supposed to be the camera in car aspect was quite cool actually but they didn't even used the environment to inspire fear or dread they left that to cheap sound and video fx and the three infected characters the movie becomes boring in so many scenes 3 sound talk about editing this movie has no problems in showing how weakly edited it was from computer sounds imitating the forest animals to the alien dialog ah br br so what did i like in the movie spoilers the only thing i really liked and it was actually quite scary was the succession of two scenes where the car is still and you spot something someone walking in a distant at first i really thought it was me seeing things but when the character realizes that the figures coming towards her were her own reflection i was surprised pretty creepy idea done well apart from that i had an awful time br br and i don't recommend this to anyone not even teen get together because you can't even laugh at this br br i give it a solid 2 only some technical achievements worked here apart from that yeah nothing
0	army private gene kelly who's also a talented trapeze comes under fire for doing daring stunts without a net and alienating his high wire cohorts meanwhile there's an elaborate 'camp show' to put on for army soldiers and personnel and the whole studio of m g m has shown up to join in the fun mickey rooney plays m c introducing acts like kay kyser and his orchestra bob crosby benny carter and the m g m dancing girls who appear to be dressed as vegetables red skelton does a cute bit with donna reed and margaret o'brien but the other comedic bits suffer from an apparent vacuum between the performers and the allegedly live audience they're awfully silent until the editor cuts to them for exaggerated reaction shots judy garland sings an inappropriate song about a jumpin' night at carnegie hall improbably accompanied by classical pianist josé iturbi whom judy calls the production is glossy but the manic energy feels false fabricated from
0	jumpin' this movie stinks it's a dull and listless drag that never lets up it's a wonder anyone even bothered to make groucho up in his bizarre trademark eyebrows and mustache as he has nothing witty or outrageous to do or say throughout this bore chico must have been so disinterested that he forgot to use his italian accent br br only harpo provides a grin or two and there's precious little of that to go around here anyway figure in a loudmouthed hotel manager and another obnoxious co comic in frank albertson and the road gets even br br a real misfire
0	picking this up along with the rest of the marx brothers box set i found myself disappointed by most everything beyond a night at the opera this stinker is prolly the worst i've seen of them so far with the clever lines left out and the characterization is woeful the playwright is so obscenely stupid in this play it's hard not to tackle the television and try and strangle him br br as it is the seem to do better as outsiders brought in to wreak havoc and are much much better when they have a good gag or two at least the material here is all obviously written for anyone and it really wastes the marx's talent avoid br br rating 3 10
0	this film is likely to be a real letdown unless you understand the circumstances under which it was made the were chosen to be cast in the film version of a play that was not originally written for them they are sort of force fitted into the roles ironically it might have been funnier if it had used different actors who did not have such high expectations placed upon them instead it has been forever enshrined as part of a canon to which it really doesn't deserve to belong
0	spoilers below 'night mother is the story of jesse sissy spacek a divorced epileptic woman who calmly announces to her brash mother anne bancroft that she's going to commit suicide this is a fascinating premise that is drained of all vitality and excitement the brilliant hook turns out to be a cheat the story that follows is lacking in substance gravity and revelatory value where are the shocks and surprises as mother and daughter have what may be the last conversation of their lives where are the secrets revealed the confessions and fantasies and regrets they're here but they've all been painted the same dull color that keeps emotion in the background and celebrates the of playwright marsha norman at the expense of everything else the result is not a film but an exhausting endurance test br br let me preface my comments by saying i find sissy spacek to be one of the greatest actresses in the history of motion pictures a woman so magnetic so natural that she continues to surprise and amaze me after twenty years of stardom she brings a touch of class and magic to everything she does and i've seen her rescue more than one film from the recycling bin with her angelic face and vulnerable eyes her soft voice and sweet smile it was because of the great spacek that i watched this film in the first place and for one of her movies to be terrible it has to fail in a significant way this film fails in two br br first and foremost the film is adapted so faithfully from the pulitzer winning stage play that it is claustrophobic and repetitive the entire movie is a two woman dialogue between jesse and her mother what worked on stage a middle aged mother and daughter argue for two hours in small house dies on film a play no matter how great needs to be adapted for the screen… it is self indulgent and arrogant to believe that the dialogue is so perfect that not of a word of it can be altered the screenplay for this film could have been shortened by thirty to forty pages and a knowing screenwriter would have given the brilliant spacek and competent bancroft some physical sequences some facial reactions something to break up the wall to wall yak fest and prison like single set it is no wonder that the screenplay was adapted by the original playwright marsha norman who may know theater but reveals herself here to be clueless in film br br i cannot over emphasize the effect the stage play script has on the film watching jesse and her mother argue about jesse's impending suicide is redundant and dull the women walk from the living room into the kitchen into the den and back into the living room where they start all over again a tiny midwestern house is not the ideal location for a single set film and the director never tries anything clever or original never tries to break up the monotony with an exterior shot or cutaway or a flashback or anything there's no music no other characters no other stories just two women covering the couch cushions and arguing their opinions the reverence given to the play is even shakespeare's most solemn classics get shaken up for the screen the commitment to the original play seems almost it's as if the film was made only to document the dramatic treasure that was the stage play with the audience an afterthought br br the other reason the film fails is anne bancroft she may be a good stage actress but on film where presence is 80 of performance she rarely seems to fit she certainly doesn't fit here playing a midwestern grandmother but looking more like mrs robinson before her morning coffee she chases jesse around the house looking more aggravated than astounded and seems extraordinarily unsympathetic even when her lines convey a loving if flawed woman br br sissy spacek is great as she always is honest and open and so good that you actually understand and agree with her character's choice sissy lets us see that jesse is a flat tire a wrong turn of a woman who has had every bad break and made too many wrong choices she's never had control of her life and her suicide will be her way of finally saying no more this is where i get off that's how she puts it anyway and when spacek you listen she proves in all her films that a good actress doesn't have to behave like a man doesn't have to be all bluff and bravado and borrowed testosterone in this and in films like coal miner's daughter she quietly demonstrates a soft strength and quiet depth that is as impressive as it is you can't help but fall in love br br that's why it was so hard for me to watch 'night mother spacek is wasted in a stilted stunt of a film that never serves to engage or even distract i would not recommend this movie to anyone except die hard fans of sissy like myself and even then you'll be disappointed i do give the film an entire letter grade bonus for the ending which is courageous enough to let the lead character do what's right for her and not pander to a hackneyed happy ending grade c
0	i've become a big fan of the carpenters and i didn't really enjoy this movie br br i feel it focused far too much on her anorexia and didn't let her true personality shine through i wasn't overly fond of cynthia gibb's portrayal especially knowing she decided karen's anorexia was suicide which it clearly wasn't although her family was not big on hugs and kisses i thought the movie portrayed agnes their mother as being terrible br br i did find a few scenes to be harrowing in a way such as where she sees herself in a mirror that seems to distort her and make her look heavier i thought the metaphor so to speak there was rather effective when the family is playing pool and discussing her divorce and she breaks down and richard is shocked when he comforts her and feels her frail body was pretty moving which is probably the wrong word as well br br overall i feel they needed to bring out her more bubbly quirky side her genuine personality even as the focus of the film there really wasn't a point that caused one to understand what would lead her to anorexia though of course no one can really know and almost made it seem baseless the film was more poor singer with anorexia than karen carpenter's story in my opinion br br i would assume that they changed her husband's name profession and all because they couldn't get his permission to actually include him there were some bad terms there but that whole aspect was inaccurate with the changes on this note i can't recall the movie bringing out her longing for a family and kids which greatly prevailed in her life and explains her whirlwind romance and quick marriage to her husband br br on the whole it ends up as a low budget made for tv movie that just isn't very high quality and can be disappointing if you're a hardcore fan who is hoping to see beyond karen's disease i feel that such a legend deserves deserved a better film as a tribute to an amazing person and an awesome voice
0	i had the privilege of seeing this powerful play on broadway with kathy bates in the lead i only saw one other play in the 1970's 1990's that had an emotional impact like this play did i really looked forward to the play being made into a movie but was very disappointed when i learned that kathy bates wouldn't reprise her role in the film she wasn't well known off broadway at the time and the producers must have wanted star power i suppose and cast sissy spacek instead sissy did an adequate job in the lead role but did not measure up to kathy bates in any way i love anne bancroft but she seemed too young for this role the movie plot was true to the play anyone who ever contemplates suicide should have to watch this movie to realize the devastation on those who are left behind
0	i like the concept of csi but the show is spoiled by some seriously wooden acting the medical examiner has the best lines and delivers them in an arch offhand manner that up the story unfortunately he has little screen time br br also why does jorja fox always look and act so utterly unhappy i know that forensic investigation is a very serious business but the characters for the most part seem to confuse seriousness with humorlessness and a complete lack of personality i can't imagine dating either sarah or catherine what would you talk to either one about i'm waiting for the episode when at the end of a shift catherine picks up a remote control points it at grissom shuts him down and wheels him into a closet until the next day
0	my ratings acting 3 10 suspense 2 10 character attachment 1 10 plot 2 10 character development 2 10 overall 2 10 br br this show sucks very much officially for me csi miami is the best csi ny 2nd and csi 100th i don't know in the other you get into the episode you're watching but in this one you just can't get into the episode no matter how much you try so in my opinion this show is not worth watching i know people have different opinions and i respect that but for me this csi ain't good enough so if you like suspense real acting performance good plot direction character development attachment and you an overall good show i suggest you to watch csi miami
0	one your screen will be filled with beautiful effects and colours these do nothing for the story but they will keep your lazy eyes occupied for some 50 minutes a good example is the eternal use of a computer screen that shows each fingerprint from the database as that print is compared with the one they want to find out about yeah right br br two these guys being like real professional pros they will engage each other in intriguing pro talk look grissom these are what we call fingerprints everybody has them and they are different on each person so with these fingerprints we can actually find br br yup exactly like real pros would talk to each other if there wasn't a completely uninformed and stupid audience around br br however not everything about this show is bad some stories work to some degree and the colours are really beautiful they use red blue green yellow all of them colours i've loved since kindergarten
0	what exactly is the point of pretending to con people out of things like ski passes and pizza i fail to see a point i'd not clever or original and it strikes me as being extremely pointless br br skyler stone doesn't seem to be a very down to earth or even a nice guy he has very little charisma and just about anyone could do what he does in this show br br the worse thing about this piece of crap is the fact that a lot of the phone calls are so not only are they apparently conning the poor people on the other end of the phone but they are also conning the audience who don't have enough time to read the that flickers across the screen for about half a second at the beginning at the end of the show br br not only that but he also claims this is how he lives his whole life what an lie no one could live their lives like this and the fact he says this is not only yet another con to get his show watched but it's also one of the most fabricated blatant pieces of bull hit i've ever heard this guy is an br br what makes them think that going to all the trouble of for example write and record a song get someone to pain a huge picture of you and two mates get dance lessons and actually travel to a ski resort is actually worth only getting free ski passes and some food for free what is the point of that it's an awful lot of trouble to go to just for a few ski passes and a bit of snow br br as far as comedy goes this is bottom of the barrel stuff
0	i have decided to flush this show from my memory down the toilet of bad tv show into the obscurity of forgetful disappointing pointless garbage tv show hell br br the skyler guy who is the host star creator of this show is boring uninteresting unbelievable not particularly good looking and not at all funny in short why is this guy on tv and especially why is he in a comedy show when he's not funny pretending to be a professional con man when he definitely is nothing but an obvious pretender others have said it here already but this guy is a total fake and fraud if you believe any of these cons i think you should seriously consider going to get your head checked because they're all fake and the ones that might possibly be true are so pointless like spending all day to con someone out of giving you an average meal at a restaurant seriously this guy needs to go away glad this show got canned
0	on top of the fact that is a complete douche bag and his cons are unimaginative his schemes require way to much preparation to make any of his scams worth while without giving away any spoilers as if it matters with this piece of crap his cons are such a sham because it takes the effort of days and days of planning and the use of multiple accomplices and an entire camera crew etc just to scam someone into a service that would cost less than a hundred bucks in addition if you read in the credits they re stage some of the phone calls etc because they don't pan out the whole concept of this show is bunk because all of his cons have the cost in both the crew and the effort of ten times the actual cost of the service he is trying to get for free what is the con
0	scarier than any horror movie ever made because you're in controlled of this blood fest which make it more scarier than watching other people doing it on the big screen or on your television screen this game got two cds which make the game much more entertaining br br each cd contains a different character with a complete different story line which make the game much more fun i recommend you to buy this game and the first game too isn't as good as this game still fun though br br br br
0	my overall feeling about this film is that it was a slow drawn out wander through some of the worlds genuinely unfortunate situations with a bit of redemption and an obvious message the film is composed mostly of fairly uninteresting video footage of the countries he visits with bad reenactments all slow down to a snails pace and overlaid with depressing music certainly some of the materials and interviews contain some compelling stories but unlike what the description on the back suggests it wasn't so much the victim's story that's being told as it is the director's mr ripper and he doesn't tell it well this film could have included longer better interviews with the people themselves letting them tell their stories instead mr ripper indulgently draws the story towards himself making it some kind of personal journey and unfortunately it doesn't end up being much of one i never really got a sense of any growth as he explores the subject and he never indicates what about the subject pulled him in in the first place he just drags us from one place to the next brushes lightly on the situation and characters hangs around showing too much uneventful slow motion footage of people just walking around the streets then moves on to his next destination he does this over and over and over again without any real development i felt like this film could have been cut down to 45 minutes but it's drawn out to close to 2 crushingly slow hours we feel morally obliged to care about the topic but the director's self indulgent meandering uninspired delivery of his journey makes you grow numb after a while
0	but then again what ever is i picked this up at my local store for you guessed it 99 cents plus tax i remember seeing this on video as a teen and thinking it was a cool flick too bad the film and my memories don't match regardless its not a too horrible way to blow a couple hours and it is neat to see some vintage bill paxton and mark hamill blah blah blah man oh man i cannot think of anything else to say about this flick just filling space to meet the ten line rule good golly this is pathetic just how bad is this movie that the best i could come up with in regards to it were five of text so anyway ten lines of text eh hmmm ten lines are hard to come by when you can't remember squat about a film you just watched
0	hey i really do not know why this film has been appreciated so much perhaps i missed the point the way i see it a lot of international film makers have made brilliant films that have dealt with and have informed excited shocked evoked emotion and compelled the audience to step aside from their own reality and think while it is true that sen's endeavor was an ambitious one in light of all the other movies this one falls short miserably it was too slow there were no details about anything and the ending was completely pointless it was not open ended or anything just pointless so watch it if you want to see a good concept completely wasted
0	awful more can i say i remember seeing it in the cinema see how it sticks painfully in the memory as a 16 yr old lad mark hamill was the older generations skywalker and wasn't great at that he was worse in this plus a dour soundtrack by then jericho there is one film equally as bad as this i saw in the cinema arthur 2 on the rocks funny how that question what is the worst film you have ever seen is is easier than what is the best film which incidentally varies between the italian job original untouchables casino things to do in denver goodfellas getting a sense of what i like this will fool you finding nemo pirates of the caribbean and moulin rouge please never watch this film or it will stick in your memory too
0	i saw this film when it first came out in the cinema we were all looking forward to seeing mark hamill relaunch his career but we came out wishing we hadn't bothered many people walked out after about half an hour i wish i had too the basic premise seems okay but the plot was ridiculously involved and tortuous and runs out half way through its completely unmemorable and not a film you want to have paid money to see if you're really bored and it's on tv then it'll help you kill a couple of hours or help you to nod off 2 10
0	the film has so much potential which was not developed mark hamill gives a good performance and so does bill paxton the scenery is beautiful and the aircraft are neat the problem with this film is that the story is way underdeveloped and the plot goes nowhere the film at certain points almost puts you to sleep i give it 3 out of 10 stars for the flying scenes
0	wow i didn't even know about this movie until i was searching for the name of another mark hamill classic time runner some things are better left unknown mark hamill's role is quite limited i would compare his appearance in this movie to all those appearances of vincent price and christopher lee in those bad horror b movies of the 60's and 70's in those movies they appeared in the the first and last 5 minutes of the movie memorable acting by mark with such great lines as don't try to run you're under arrest did i mention he says that exact thing more than once bill paxton fell into an type spiral of drugs and booze after aliens because he ended up in this movie after waking up on the set after a binge session the hair the hair priceless bill truly should have been game over for bill but somehow he got treatment and went on to better movies this movie blows it is more dull and boring than the crazies at least that movie was crazy this is just boring do not watch this movie sober
0	haa br br i have seen it argued that most american movies are cowboy movies in disguise that hollywood is so in love with it's only truly original creation that it keeps reinventing the cowboy myth i'm not sure i totally buy that argument but slipstream is evidence in support of the theory it's a cowboy movie with br br actually it goes one better than that it's a spagetti western with substitute the planes with horses make the android a priest and this movie would be indistinguishable from any one of a dozen italian spanish semi arty shoot 'em ups with pretensions of the seventies br br the film isn't as bad as i had been lead to believe by some of the reviews i had read here but it certainly wasn't good
0	combine good casting bad writing good orchestral scoring bad dialogue and good story idea with lots of potential but is never realized then you have slipstream br br just bought the movie for a buck it is worth it but not much more br br good to see mark hamill act again br br there should be a decent sequel made to remedy the damage from the original or at least give it the proper attention it should have received in the first place br br score gave demanded your attention from the opening credits however the long shots of slipstream planes and the even longer revealing of interesting plot points mutes his attention getting score br br it is really easy to dog a movie like this after all it is by the producer of and the director of tron and a tremendous cast but it is what it is and that ain't much br br favorite line we're going to make it ha ha boom
0	the quote above just about says it all for slipstream i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance i won't watch it again so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clichéd lines in the movie i'm sure it will set a record br br some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry paxton's character has hijacked hamill's prisoner an android taking his name from the poet byron bob peck hamill shoots owens paxton with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion kitty aldridge can keep tabs on the pair the real question though is why didn't he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the br br if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense then i suppose you'll find something of interest here but you can't convince me that the film makes sense on any level scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton's character is displayed following a night of revelry with all over his torso if anyone thinks there's some hidden meaning here you're really stretching br br patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming the end to come into view alas even that was denied if beauty is in the eye of the beholder then so is understanding this movie had neither yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons apparently the film was keeping them afloat
0	the story and the characters really really needed work the world idea is kind of neat but no one bothered to develop any of it either through exposition or through the plot despite the cheesy notes at the beginning of the film it makes sense that you wouldn't use exposition since no one is new to this world and yet when matt owens bill paxton and byron bob peck stray off course and get lost and get introduced to the wind worshipers and the fat lazy rich people in the museum we don't get any real idea of who these people are or why we should care about any of them smart films have ways of developing this simply by having the characters live in the world simple things like ordering a drink at a bar or talking about something in the past these are the kind of things that make the film world memorable not endless shots of crappy planes and cheap cg effects of someone trying to do loops in an br br if this is too difficult for you here's a little tip pare down the multiple locations if everything's becoming disjointed because you're pulling up to often stay in one place for a little while and have the characters talk a little all the superfluous crap should be removed get rid of the entire wind worshipers scene get rid of the stuffy museum people get rid of all the crappy flying crap unless you can make the wind relevant to the story have the entire thing set on a big plane or something just get people talking about something we care about br br hey get rid of bill paxton have the film center around character and his relationship with the robot byron br br indeed the biggest problem of the film is that we don't care anything about anybody because no one takes the time to either explain their motivations or delve into their characters we don't like matt well because he's played by bill paxton among other things he's a scoundrel who doesn't redeem himself enough except to let the android byron go and this action has even less meaning than most because of three key points br br 1 byron is a murderer 2 byron is indestructible 3 byron can leave any time he damn well pleases br br we try to like byron because there's a kind of pathos there but it's largely undeveloped all we're left with is a whiny glassy eyed robot guy who's acting is subdued and wooden one moment and practically zany the next we don't know why or how he develops emotions but we do know for a fact that he's murdered someone we don't know why he murdered someone or the circumstances of this grisly event because it isn't developed we can't feel pity for him if we don't know the story all we know for a fact is that he murders people and he likes bill paxton br br we don't hate enough partly because he's played by good guy mark hamill since while gruff and ruthless doesn't do anything out of the ordinary for his character a post apocalyptic peace officer sure he kills robbie coltrane and his team but they are drug dealers on their way to grow for heroin and they shoot at him first he doesn't kill anyone who doesn't get in the way or who does not try to physically harm him first that goes equally well for the final confrontation in the museum he uses a of police brutality against a lazy dilettante f murray abraham is wasted in this role and everyone else draws a gun on him br br i really don't understand what's the deal with kitty aldridge partner after only an accumulated 10 minutes with matt she's ready to switch sides despite her shouts of loyalty and despite matt's trash talking her and punching her out if that's love then i'll choose hate any day br br really paxton's character is about as lovable as simon in true lies or pvt hudson from aliens does anyone fall for him in these movies no why because he's a loud mouthed idiot and a loser why put him at the helm of this film
0	this film fails on many many levels the script is the first failing and as i understand it if the script stinks there's nothing that can fix that the plot is boring after the first 45 minutes i'm looking at the counter on the dvd saying to myself how much longer the cinematography is pretty awful i'm not sure how bad the transfer was to dvd but it looked like a vhs copy also the sound was bad i realize this isn't going to get remixed for 5 1 but yikes it didn't even sound like it was in dolby stereo which had been around for almost a decade when they cut this film br br slipstream was far too similar to both mad max and blade runner for comfort because of the lack of decent special effects and high quality dialog it is extremely disappointing if i recall the pointer scene took place during the last 20 minutes usually it should take place in the first 20 most people will be totally confused as to what the heck is going on until the final 20 minutes br br the film's music was excellent in parts and then completely inappropriate in others elmer did the scoring but it sounds like someone else had a hand in sticking in 'other' stuff elsewhere as it doesn't match the overall good orchestral score with some synthesizer music br br there were great actors cast bob peck mark hamill ben kingsley bill paxton and they did a great job breathing the little available life into their characters well paxton's character was pretty stupid and the whole movie was centered on him i'm not sure a heroic stooge is a good choice for the main character who carries the film again a major flaw with the script br br thank goodness i watched this from a mail order dvd service and not the theater overall a major disappointment for sci fi fans or fans of paxton or hamill 90 minutes of your life you'll never get back
0	this movie was strange mainly because the plot was so incoherent the title refers to a vicious wind which renders the surface of the earth almost when it blows but this seemed to have nothing whatsoever to do with what was going on the movie seems to be an extremely poor rip off of bladerunner ie rogue android being chased by bounty hunter or ruthless cop in this luke skywalker turns in a surprisingly good performance as afore mentioned rogue cop nothing seems to be resolved at the end of the movie we never find out anything of any substance about the android or what his intentions are there is one baffling scene where bill paxton who has kidnapped the android plays one particular song in his cardboard airplane for no particular reason the song is called shape of things by the this happens again in a later scene where the same song is played for no apparent reason does this song have any relevance to the movie don't think so
0	this is a film that really makes me cringe in 1951 mgm and looney toons were making some of their very best cartoons with amazing animation exceptional backgrounds and great stories then in the late 40s a new style of animation began to appear such as the crusader rabbit series on tv animation with extremely simplistic artwork in order to save money unfortunately columbia picture's cynical ploy worked instead of the public hating the toons as they should have many accepted them and the oscar people ampas actually gave this film the award for best animated short giving legitimacy for an inferior product unfortunately in the dollars and sense world of hollywood this soon began to creep into the products of legitimate studios resulting in rather crappy cartoons later it got even worse as in addition to lousy animation and backgrounds the stories themselves became almost unbearable for adults to watch the cleverness and style of the classic cartoons were gone and for this tragedy i blame in part gerald one of the of cheap cartoons the story isn't that bad but the animation is a horror and listening to the kid saying incessantly is a pain
0	if you are having trouble sleeping or just want to take that nap in the afternoon but just can't seem to drift off pop in this movie the only neat thing about this movie are the electric planes aside from that prepare for some sweet it boggles the mind how big name stars such as those in this movie can be part of the one of the dullest movies i've ever seen now if you will excuse me i will finish my nap
0	this is a movie with a wonderful concept but very weak writing it should never have been released with out at least three more re writes assuming it got any the story is too loosly held together and there are too many 90 degree turns in the story to make it a cohesive movie it would be great to see what a decent screen writer could do with the story
0	they say david duchovny took six days to write the script for this movie that sounds about right br br this movie is one of the worst films i've ever seen and i've seen gigli it's not as bad as gigli but that's like saying saddam hussein wasn't as bad as adolf hitler br br tom has been living in france with his french wife and 13 year old son he has been pretending to be french all this time he reveals to his wife that he is actually american for some reason this comes as an earth shattering reveal for her despite the fact that she always commented on her husband's american accent also their son remember he was born in france and never knew his father was american speaks perfect american english without a hint of french accent that's just one of several huge plot holes in this movie br br the main bulk of the movie is a flashback to tommy's youth in new york city during the 1970's as he explains to his wife why he has been hiding in france his best friend as a boy was pappas a retarded adult played terribly by robin williams i assume duchovny thinks that retarded is someone who is just sort of dumb because pappas comes off only mildly slow at times while other times he comes off as just robin williams yes williams actually fits in his tired improv schtick although he is supposed to play a person who is mentally slow br br tommy's mother played by duchovny's wife tea leoni is a pill popping nurse who is distraught over the recent death of her husband leoni does a good job but she mainly just smokes a lot and yells at tommy for things that don't seem to be too important the script didn't give her much to work with tommy also befriends a lady whom he calls lady who is in prison and offers him advice through her jail window this house of detention is called house of d for short thus the title tommy has no qualms yelling his personal problems out loud on a city street so this incarcerated felon can offer him advice and he does so many times without care br br i don't want to bore you with the entire summary of the movie but plot holes are abound in this film that tries way too hard to be touching but comes off as well bad real bad real real bad near the end of this train wreck the script gets cornier and cornier and ends with a laughably crappy ending br br critics tore house of d apart and rightfully so i can't believe some people actually like this movie it is a painful film to sit through and i felt weak afterwards not from emotion but from how terrible it was
0	an american boy goes to paris after his mother commits suicide becomes and artist and then discovers himself and returns to the states so he can make things right with his former friends br br i have to think that the people who are rating this movie so highly are all x files fans even though there are no aliens or serial killers in it don't be fooled this movie blows chunks br br the story is incoherent with little or no explanation of what people are doing or why when you do get an explanation it doesn't fit the story that went before it what it does is bore you for all the acting talent in the film it just isn't interesting i spent the whole movie wondering when sex addict duchovny was going to bang someone maybe he was doing it behind the scenes they should have filmed that instead br br what comes across is a story of a self obsessed artist worrying about minor incidents in his life and wanting to make them right somehow even though they didn't seem that wrong to begin with there aren't any particularly interesting or shocking revelations despite the mention of a big secret in the first few minutes it's just a guy thinking that his life is as interesting to you as it is to him it's not br br i saw in the trivia that duchovny claims he wrote the script in a week that's entirely believable the guy can act there's no doubt but writing and directing are obviously beyond his talents br br why hollywood keeps these self discovery stories is beyond me i discover myself in the shower every morning but i don't bother making a movie about it mine would probably be better than this one though at least there would be some nudity
0	unfortunately house of d is just awful with a ridiculous plot terrible writing some mediocre acting and in fact just about everything else about it is sub par br br tom flees nyc to somehow survive as a lone child in paris and manages to convince the beautiful parisian girl he eventually marries that he's french despite a poor grasp of her language she's shocked when years later he reveals his secret to her riiiight br br he then gifts his tale of woe to his own son and who we are expected to believe thinks that's just the greatest birthday gift a dad can give his 13 year old boy if only such things were so easy david duchovny his own wife tea leoni in the role of his mother and strikes out yet again leoni makes me laugh as a comic but she's just plain wrong for this role br br one of the problems with that is none of the characters are sympathetic i just didn't give a damn what happened to any of them i did rather hope that robin williams and his trademark child in a grown up's body schtick would fall into a village pothole but alas it was not to be and we had to endure his simpering performance all the way br br anton yelchin and william's daughter zelda were not bad but i suspect the rave reviews others are giving them is simply because they weren't anywhere near as bad as everyone else in this movie they weren't great let me put it that way br br there are so many silly and contrived aspects to this film the bicycle the catholic school and it's staff of morons the conveniently stupid characters etc that this review would go on for ever so i'll just finish up by saying that house of d is a very poor movie and i'm almost embarrassed for duchovny br br the thing that really annoys me is how i was so strongly encouraged by online friends to see this that i traveled a long way to do so br br i would not have been so annoyed that this movie is so bad if i'd just wasted a couple of hours down at the local movie theater but instead i lost a whole day and discovered that my so called friends are either stupid or dishonest because this is an awful movie
0	i'm sorry guys all who thought this film could be something great i'm afraid you would be disappointed br br the standard the movie wanted to set is completely ruined by some very simple plot so simple that the movie is not evolving until the end i asked myself if the plot wasn't about the action but about the main character played by mickey rourke but i found that the character was inconsistent either he is a professional killer or some guilt haunted brother but both don't go together because the kid he tries to guide poses him in dangerous situations where no professional killer would put himself now joseph gordon levitt is a good looking actor but he played his character a little unnatural i didn't believe his acting it looked like the director tried to pull out of him some personality he couldn't provide and he didn't have to because his less crazy behavior was creepy enough the only one whose acting was great was diane lane if not her i would give this movie 1 star br br in conclusion i expected to see some well played movie and some interesting plot and i completely blew it with my high expectations
0	based on the elmore leonard novel of the same name killshot suffers from a lack of focus direction and creativity – all elements which the original story likely had and negative test screenings forced severe edits including the complete of a character resulting in a film that feels almost nothing like a leonard story far too many characters populate a storyline too simplistic and straightforward not a typical trait of the author's work and the focus continually switches between two hit men who are difficult to like and a troubled couple who don't command our sympathy while the story itself provides precious few twists and turns sadly by the end of the film its appeal still remains a mystery br br washed up hit man armand the blackbird mickey rourke follows a strict code during his missions that inadvertently sours his latest assignment now on the run from his former employer he haphazardly joins forces with inept misfit criminal richie nix joseph gordon levitt to gain some quick cash by extorting a wealthy realtor when struggling couple carmen and wayne diane lane and thomas jane are privy to the thieves' blundered plot they are forced into hiding as the crazed killers will stop at nothing to silence the two witnesses br br killshot proves that being based on an elmore leonard novel isn't grounds for immediate success or even a promising adaptation the characters situations and even resolutions in the film are all tired and unoriginal and only very randomly hint at something more it's not that there wasn't potential especially when rourke's black garbed calm and collected assassin perfectly executes a hit during the opening scene – purpose and principals are just continually abandoned as each minute ticks away the style and manner in which each character is introduced is the most intriguing visually the roles of bird and even wayne are fleshed out befittingly giving immediate interest and depth to personas that typically end in a creative impasse br br the pairing of the cold and calculating black bird with the irrational and explosive richie is an enticing combination comparisons to fargo would be extravagantly too kind except that each character seems to slowly lose track of the traits that kept them initially interesting as richie starts picking up the more experienced killer's habits bird loosens his grip on his own methods of murder regardless of what he sees in his momentary lighthearted fling with donna rosario dawson it's hard to imagine that his final confrontation with panicky carmen would provoke a confession of his true nature and subsequent carelessness that drastically affects his outcome likely or not this is unfortunate downfall – and little entertainment can be garnered from these characters who steadily lose their originality by continually contradicting the habits that once made them intriguing br br the twins
0	most predicable movie i've ever seen extremely boring i feel like i've seen a hundred movies with the same storyline as this one acting is ok at best there's no action really and there is definitely no thrills capable actors with terrible script i think it could have been written better by a 10th grader felt like more of a chore to watch because i was hoping that there would be something in this movie that was going to set it apart from all the other garbage but this fit right in on the heap the whole movie i was waiting for something good to happen but it never came i never rate movies and i never review movies but this movie was so bad that i had to log in here and post a review to try and save a few poor souls from wasting their time and or money with this movie i pirated it and wish i never even wasted the hard drive space if i spent 10 bucks to see this in theaters i would kill myself
0	diane lane mickey rourke rosario dawson thomas jane not a bad cast in my opinion however they were totally wasted in this movie br br there was no real direction there were no unusual turns in fact the whole movie was very predictable from start to finish mickey rourke had a really annoying sidekick who did nothing but irritate you from the start rosario dawson was totally wasted and there was hardly any point in even having her character in the film br br i really do believe this is one of those straight to dvd movies that everyone will forget about very quickly which is a shame as the movie could have been so much better
0	let me first state that i rarely review movies i only comment if i'm blown away or disappointed in something that i thought was going to be good killshot was a major disappointment on so many levels the script was horrible the acting was sub par coming from heavy weights like rourke and lane and the editing and effects were comical blowing up cars etc etc rosario dawson had a horrible role i can't believe would even accept it it was such a misuse of her talent i can't even put into words i should have know after i saw the trailer for this movie 3 years ago and it kept being put on the that their was a serious problem with this film b movie all the way don't bother unless your really bored
0	with several name actors lance henrikson david warner joe don baker why was jeffery combs given the lead henrikson would have been a perfect fit for the lead as would warner baker or even others in the movie such as charles napier combs was miscast in this and did a poor job of it everything he did seemed fake or contrived br br the script is poor meaning that if lance henrikson or another had the lead role he might have saved the film removed it from my waste of time category but it still would have been a bad movie the screen play was completely lacking the director should have recognized this and helped the movie along
0	mickey rourke hunts diane lane in elmore leonard's killshot it is not like mickey rourke ever really disappeared he has had a steady string of appearances before he burst back on the scene he was memorable in domino sin city man on fire once upon a time in mexico and get carter but in his powerful dramatic performance in the wrestler 2008 we see a full blown presentation of the character only hinted at in get carter whenever we get to know him rourke remains a cool but sleazy muscle bound slim ball br br this is an elmore leonard story and production leonard wrote such notable movies as taunt western thriller 3 10 to yuma be cool jackie brown get shorty 52 pick up and joe kidd this means that we get tough guys some good some not so good br br it also means we get tight realistic plots with characters doing what is best for them in each situation weaving complications into violent conclusions killshot is no different tough slim ball killer rourke stalks unhappily married witness lane think history of violence meets no country for old men it is not as intense bloody or gory as those two but it is almost as good if you like those two including david equally wonderful eastern promises you will like killshot also br br director john madden has not done a lot of movies his last few were enjoyable if not successful proof captain mandolin and shakespeare in love br br diana lane hasn't had a powerful movie role since she and richard gere gave incredible performances in unfaithful lately she is charming and appealing in romantic stories such as nights in must love dogs and under the tuscan sun here she is right on mark balancing her sexy appeal with reserved tension br br this is a small part for rosario dawson yet dawson does a good job with it you see a lot more of lane including an underwear scene to rival sigourney weaver in aliens and nicole kidman in eyes wide shut br br while you are in the crime drama section also pick up kiss kiss bang bang and gone baby gone and before the devil knows your dead the last has wonderful performances by phillip seymour hoffman ethan hawke marisa tomei and albert finney br br killshot flopped at the box office more is our luck it is certainly worth a 3 4 dollar rental if you like this genre 6 20 2009
0	i am so disappointed in this movie i can't express it i was so excited when i started watching this film to see mickey rourke all leather faced and that kid from third rock from the sun acting like i psycho i thought wow this is going to be a winner freakin' natural born killers style and it got better the production value was great the directing was great the acting was great the cinematography was great and the plot was well the plot well what what plot about half way through this film i was pulling my hair out yelling what the hell is going on and i mean that quite literally nothing makes any sense whatsoever nothing nothing nothing
0	i decided to watch this movie in order to fall asleep it kept me awake so it was interesting however it was pretty bland br br the acting was good i don't think any of the actors did a bad job mickey rourke is as believable as an over the hill hit man can be the dialogue in this movie does not provide much opportunity for these actors to show off their full potential but they still shined br br the atmosphere was great music was good and colors matched the mood that the director wanted to paint for the viewers even the weather enhanced the mood of the movie everything was well done br br the failures of this movie are in its story development the storyline with the mafia vs blackbird doesn't get enough attention the storyline for carmen and wayne's divorce doesn't get explained the fbi seems to work extra fast here is there no paperwork for all these processes is it really that easy to dig up your brother's body from his grave burn the corpse and have it be identified as you there are too many loops in the storyline for me to give this movie anything higher than a 4 out of 10 rating i wouldn't recommend this movie to people unless they're really bored and have smoked some really good weed even if wow is down for maintenance go find something better to do than watch this movie
0	truly appalling waste of space me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about 30 minutes from the end and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand br br the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring i wouldn't be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from 1983 for example the irritating threatening the real estate guy from his house phone i mean seriously the police would be beating his door down in minutes the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters oh and what characters they are the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed after 60 or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character he is neither sympathetic nor hateful just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery is he happy is he sad angry no idea just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh and the native american theme is just awful and pointless br br the good guys are at best unlikeable a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy you aren't going to shoot me that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying br br the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated br br dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke's or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves realistic female characters br br in summary a complete mess of a film hopeless characterisations and performances a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction and ultimately extremely dull its not even comedy bad either laughing at haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first 15 turgid minutes of the film
0	ugh even the ever popular diane lane could not save this movie and the most exciting thing about the movie was seeing if rourke's face would move one has heard so much gossip about his botched face lift etc so like an accident on the side of the road we just had to slow down and see the wreck the plot was thin here we have a very professional mob hit man who somehow latches on to a wild and uncontrollable punk crook and throughout this movie we're wondering why this guy stays with this idiot let alone gets together with the guy in the first place then the crime that was not even committed has the pro to go after the witnesses he would have popped them right then and there but then we would not have had a movie then would we and why did the realtor even agree to the extortion there were more holes in this flick than in my colander the acting was horrid the entire movie predictable down to the minute and even the ending and so much could have been done to make this a much better movie but if you have about 90 minutes to kill and not have to use any brain cells in the process then this movie is just what the doctor ordered
0	there are many distinct problems with the movie killshot for one there are way too many coincidences the husband is a hunter and just happens to be hunting on the day that the main killer shows up with someone the killer knows okay i will take that one the kid calls the real estate agency that the wife works for and asks for money to be ready when he comes to get it okay i will take that one as well before he goes to get the cash he decided to rob our killer who doesn't kill him but decided to go with him on the job it's starting to get real weak then they show up on the same day that the husband has an interview with his wives boss no one is there but the wife and the husband who has decided to make his way into the empty office they make their way into the office and the professional killer just assumes that they are talking to the right guy that is just in the first 15 minuets br br there are a lot more holes in this movie then i care to talk about why the killer didn't just kill everyone at the real estate agency i don't know why he didn't shoot the woman on her porch i don't know why he kept letting that dumb kid make all those stupid moves and mess a whole lot of crap up i don't know why the girlfriend was even in the movie i don't know why he decided not to pocket the gun and just leave it out on the counter i don't know why they even went into the witness protection program i don't know what i do know is that the casting director did a great job the director of photography did very good work the location scout picked great locations and the production designer was worth every penny so my advice for anyone that is going to pick a script that is going to be so well worked by the crew make sure that every attempt to kill someone by the hit man is not foiled by a peak through an open window
0	following the whirlwind success of the wrestler see my review mickey rourke had this gem head straight to video every copy was rented for months and i even heard some good buzz around it so months later i caught it on a movie network and sat down to watch it first of all one of the locations in the film island is a place i used to visit on a regular basis as a child because we lived very very close to the reserve cool huh that's about where the coolness ends with this dud i mean the story is decent enough to warrant a four and even the direction is not bad but the performances are just awful and downright ridiculous with some truly wasted star power and mickey rourke playing a native canadian american hit man what in the lord's name were they thinking he doesn't even resemble native blood and his attempt at the generic native accent made him look even more ridiculous they could have went anywhere with this story they could have hired a native actor or changed rourke's character how about a white man raised by native parents instead they made killshot a complete and utter joke br br as you may have caught mickey rourke stars in killshot i use that term loosely i have never liked rourke much although his oscar winning performance was decent enough this shows and confirms my dislike for him he looks bored constantly bored and his lame attempt at portraying a native is bordering on insulting i would think he makes a decent cold blooded killer but then the story never explores that part of him which is totally backwards to the story diane lane although well respected in hollywood turns in another drab performance she has had her moments but overall she just usually doesn't take off in any one performance she looks like she is going to be great but then when she isn't its even more disappointing thomas jane plays her protective husband i've always felt jane deserves a bigger career than he has i think he's got action star in his blood all said and done his performance in killshot is actually not bad he doesn't take things too far and he's tough and almost heroic in a way him and lane manage to have decent chemistry but he doesn't get a lot in the way of his character i have absolutely no idea why rosario dawson a did this movie and b had a character at all her character is absolutely useless and had no point to the plot or story making any performance she would give equally as bad i have rarely seen a character who is supporting so incredibly useless the only redeeming character and performance in this film is that given by joseph gordon levitt as the deranged mini killer who wants to team up with rourke's hit man gordon levitt is over the top crazy and entertaining and his character is actually engaging if this film had been entirely about him it would have been a smash he literally saves this from utter crap his performance is almost worth watching this drivel for br br oscar nominated director whoa wait yes oscar nominated director john madden i think the football coach could have done a better job helms this mess i have actually never seen shakespeare in love but i remember the critical acclaim it received and it surprised me because the direction in this film and with the characters was downright awful screenplay writer hossein has done nothing i recognize but apparently has been slated to write the next jack ryan movie and after this mess i can't even imagine why they'd want him i understand this is based on a novel and i really hope the novel is worlds above this mess a little bit of action and some sort of hokey attempt at an emotionally charged story of a hit man and his partner and the mess they get involved in unfortunately unless you're a huge rourke fan or really love joseph gordon levitt then there is no reason to put yourself through this pain i did it for you and i still feel the pain 4 10
0	well killshot is not awful but it comes close production values are decent and the main actors do a pretty good job except for rosario dawson in a wasted role but the story is just pathetic i don't know if the elmore leonard book had such dumb characters since i haven't read it but i'm guessing that the book was supposed to be at least slightly humorous the movie has no detectable humor after the first twenty minutes you'll be yelling at the screen oh come on nobody's that stupid in a nutshell and without any spoilers everybody acts in a manner convenient to the plot which makes no sense anyway a very frustrating and unrealistic movie which may account for it sitting on the shelf for as long as it did
0	i saw the movie after checking its rating on imdb back then it was at 8 0 and i thought wow that must be a good one i thought wrong the beginning of the movie actually keeps what the plot promises but then it goes exponentially down underneath its basement i think without the character of richie nix it might have been alright although he is the reason the story line takes the course it does the character is just too extreme for my liking and hard to endure also the journey the main character takes from the beginning of the story till its climax at the end is partly irrelevant and could easily have been omitted the alternative is i just did not understand the movie br br although i must admit that it is easy watching and i had no problems sitting through the whole movie when it had finished i was somewhat unimpressed by the ending all in all rather mediocre
0	so as far as i gather this episode is trying to make a statement about how real life villains are very bad people and this is just as scary as the paranormal the paranormal imagery associated with the villain donnie is purely symbolic he's actually just a normal human being br br the problem is that i just don't buy it donnie is simply not scarier than the paranormal he's not even that scary at all as a guy who seems confused and weird rather than malicious likes dead girls and hair and has only newly become a murderer he's significantly less disturbing than most well known real life serial killers eg he's like a very watered down version of ed gein which is why horror at seeing nothing but bodies with hair and nails cut off something not too different from a normal personal hygiene routine before anybody has even been killed or hurt at all is completely out of character she sees things a hundred times worse in almost every other episode and hardly flinches br br so as comic book guy says worst episode ever
0	is a b movie no doubt about it br br of course if you take a look at the cast lineup you might have some high hopes for its entertainment potential this film is stuffed with all of those wonderful character actors that you grew up with the ones with the faces you immediately recognize even though you probably don't know their names it's amazing that the filmmakers were able to get all of these people together on one project almost like they decided to do a b movie actor reunion the cast even includes a couple of really first rate actors david warner who most people will recognize from 'titanic' although my favorite of his roles is jack the ripper in 'time after time' and lance henriksen who many will remember as bishop in 'aliens' these two actors have done some excellent work in their long careers and made some very fine films br br however as impressive as this collection of actors is their talent is never fully manifested on the screen the writers of spent a lot of money to assemble a dream team cast and then missed their golden opportunity because of one important factor the common denominator of all b movies a silly script br br we start with a silly premise the bad guys are caught on tape committing a gruesome murder and they relentlessly pursue the film crew in order to acquire the videotape and destroy the evidence but honestly why bother in the time it takes them to track down the film crew a thousand copies of that tape could be made and circulated to every law enforcement agency and media outlet the criminals don't seem to realize how futile their effort is and they talk as if stealing and destroying the one original videotape is going to solve the whole problem silly but i suppose if the bad guys were so logical there would be no movie br br then there is the dialogue it is at times silly at times cliché and at times unbelievable everything you have come to expect from a b movie of course i have always believed that strong performances can overcome a lot of weaknesses in the material this cast includes actors who are definitely capable of strong performances and although a number of the cast members are not good actors at all and have achieved b movie status quite deservedly one still might be hopeful that the stronger part of the cast would be able to infuse some life into their parts however it's disappointing to see that few of the actors in this film really seem to take the movie seriously enough to give it their best shot there's not much inspiration evident in these performances but then again it's an uninspiring script now i'll admit that some of the more colorful actors in the cast do manage to add a certain amount of pizazz into the delivery of their lines but honestly even the very fine actors i mentioned earlier seem mostly disinterested and uninvolved with the story br br speaking of the story even if the acting had been of a high enough caliber that it made the dialogue seem a little less cheesy it still would not redeem from the fact that its writer commits the ultimate faux pas of low budget action movie scripts a plot with as many holes as a block of swiss cheese you can watch this movie a hundred times and you still won't figure out how everything adds up in an effort to create suspense and always keep the viewer guessing the writer throws in all kinds of surprises and unexpected twists into his script and ends up with a jigsaw puzzle but when you get to the end you find there are a bunch of pieces that just don't fit anywhere and others that are missing i admire a good thriller that keeps me guessing but creating plot twists that exist just to confuse you and which are not consistent with the rest of the story is amateurish there was so much that was never explained that i felt extremely frustrated at the end if you decide to watch it be prepared to be confused br br i haven't even mentioned all kinds of other silly things about this movie but i won't bother the funny thing is that despite everything i've said i have to admit that i can't give 1 10 stars although i can't exactly put my finger on why i actually found this film to be somewhat likable the silliness can actually be fun at times if you are in the mood for it plus i really like some of these character actors and even though their performances are somewhat lackluster considering their talents i still got a kick out of seeing them br br now i realize i have been rating this film from the standpoint of a serious moviegoer it's entirely possible i have completely missed the point it could be that the filmmakers' intention all along was to make a b movie maybe the silliness is all completely intentional if that's the case and if i were to rate it on those terms i would have to say that is a classic in the genre of tongue in cheek action flicks b movie fans will love seeing all of their favorite actors together in one film will get some chuckles from the script and will be entertained by the healthy dose of guns explosions and chases
0	here's what's good about the slaughter rule br br ryan gosling clea duvall and david morse all give great performances gosling is as always pretty darn outstanding the locales are often breathtaking br br here's what's bad about the slaughter rule br br everything else the script is horribly muddled and while i can certainly appreciate a non feel good movie this movie is just boring great performances can't make up for a movie with a stupid premise and a script that is filled with throw away lines that often don't even make it sense just getting through the first hour became a chore br br i stuck with it because of gosling but eventually i did myself a favor and changed the channel spoilers on here relayed the ending to me i didn't miss much do yourself a favor if you want a good gosling flick check out the believer br br my score 2 out of 10
0	ok so i saw this movie at this year's sundance and i was sorely unimpressed it took a good fifteen minutes of footage before there was an edit or a line of dialogue that made any sense and it took another 30 minutes before the ham fisted script gave way to a working plot that wasn't contingent on a close up of ryan smile or contrived moralizing after the first 45 minutes however the script blossomed into a watch able albeit not completely entertaining or thought provoking the highlights certainly include both gosling and acting gosling being an up and coming star and morse being an extremely well established character actor with a good feel for disparate emotions as a sidenote after the screening i was talking a little smack about the movie to some of my friends when david morse walked right behind me he looks like the nicest guy in the world but he's a solid and probably outweighs me by 50 pounds i removed my foot from my mouth and promptly changed the subject
0	big disappointment clash by night is much to talky and stagy and the dialog doesn't resonate as true coming from these characters this is melodrama at its peak the acting is truly over the top and very unreal only marilyn monroe and keith as supporting players give this film any zip wish they had more to do i'm somebody who looks at details in films two big questions 1 who is watching the baby the entire day when stanwyck and ryan are together and douglas is working then breaking up a fight in a bar with is father 2 when stanwyck is packing to leave town why is she seen packing at her brothers place where she hasn't lived for at least two years also when everyone goes to the projection room at the theatre who's taking care of the baby again such details really irritate me and cause me to give films much lower ratings what were the writers directors and everyone else connected with the film thinking said
0	i've read all the complimentary posts on this muddled semi noir and am puzzled at the high regard for what seems in the cruel light of 2007 a very sloppy late rko assembly line product all that endless documentary footage of fish waves fish waves has little to do with the central conflict and just pads the running time the editing is downright careless scenes just end and are followed by other scenes that have little to do with what preceded them the dialog bears the stilted traces of the odets origins high flown metaphors that never could have come from the limited imaginations of these workaday people but what's really surprising is how horribly overacted the triangle is on all sides i love stanwyck but she snarls and contorts and lashes out wildly an undisciplined performance several notches below her standard douglas overplaying at being lovable then goes onto a would be murderous rampage and is similarly hammy as is ryan snarling and shouting most unnaturally the less interesting second couple at least provides recognizable human behavior keith whose character is kind of a neanderthal by today's standards nevertheless is smooth and persuasive as stanwyck's much younger one presumes brother and marilyn monroe as his girlfriend is natural and unaffected on windswept coast and all that footage while largely irrelevant is interesting as a document of what the town looked like amid all the overheated hysteria these two are islands of sanity a final point and a spoiler perhaps the breen office mandated it but does anybody believe the happy ending for a second stanwyck may temporarily have into being an obedient but i give the marriage a month
0	so many people have taken shots at platoon and born on the fourth of july among other calling them leftist propaganda film now its my turn to take a political shot at a movie to me this movie is very imposing on certain religious beliefs and on its political views br br the acting and writing was a little to clichéd for my liking mel gibson seems to like to play in these unnecessary violent films and proves it once again by teaming up with his partner randall wallace for yet another one throughout this movie there was this garbage prototypical just tell my family i love them or tell ronny to pray before hoe goes to bed lines the was so overloaded with this garbage retread lines that i felt like i had to vomit how about that scene were gibson's wife goes to do her laundry and this no colors applies to what to put in the washing machine its in the mid sixties was she some how stuck under a rock not noticing the racism around her another scene is were gibson's daughter asks him what war is and the scene is shot in such a trivial matter br br the directing displayed this all perfectly the countless scenes of gibson and his family or soldiers praying i'm fine with showing that once or twice but after a while i wonder if the movie is trying to shove something into my head how many scenes with the american flag at its finest hour were shot with the melodramatic music on the director also makes it seem like we won some sort of victory in vietnam what exactly was won their the cinematography was the worst of it with the slowed down scenes see the american flag in the distance scenes spread throughout i love america but movies like this seem to glorify every little thing we do br br this may seem like a rant and maybe it is but i cannot stand it when a movie like this makes people who are not religious are not so patriotic that they will agree with anything their country does look bad this movie to me is narrow minded and limited in so many aspects to me it says if your not christian your wrong would god or jesus want people to kill i don't think so to me this movie was offensive at first this movie was funny with the countless clichés and overacted scenes but then when i looked at what this movie was trying to say or not say it was really frustrating to watch i guess though it is my fault that i chose to watch this movie i hope no one takes this comment offensively because i am not criticizing religion or patriotism but some of the narrow minded people who are so into both and discount everyone else br br if you want a real depiction of the vietnam war watch platoon born on the fourth of july apocalypse now the deer hunter or the killing fields even full metal jacket which i absolutely hated was a better depiction i have read a quote that in context says a true patriot does not go with everything the government or country does but questions it when its wrong a real patriot loves their country too much to see it do bad things
0	does anyone remember braveheart it starred mel gibson who also directed and was scripted by randall wallace the film contains over 200 errors does anyone remember the green berets that s the john wayne western where the duke saves a homestead called vietnam from a bunch of injuns from the commie tribe if you watch we were soldiers you can t help but be reminded of these two films br br first of all what s with that scottish lament that s played three times in the movie four if you count the end credits i mean what s the connection between scotland and nam maybe wallace is using it in the vain hope that because braveheart was bombarded undeservedly i might add with several oscars then so might this film whatever reason it s included it really jars gibson plays hal moore as a cross between william wallace and john wayne and i was expecting him to say something like they ll never take our freedom the hell they will and it s impossible not to notice other similarities with the green berets like the subplot of a journalist picking up a gun and turning into a warrior and moore telling the journalist about guilt in a scene almost identical to the one seen in the wayne movie br br when not reminding the audience of other movies also fails to stand on its own legs it s based on real events in 1965 but seems to lack an integrity needed to do the story justice it never feels like 1965 and lacks a sense of time and place probably because it was filmed in america not asia hal moore might have brushed up on the french experience in indo china but if that s the case then he was unique because the american military went out of their way not to read up on the french indo china war indeed when asked about the previous conflict replied he had nothing to learn from the french who haven t won a war since the days of napoleon so i was confused as to the portrayal of the nva in this movie when in 1965 the american high command brimming with hubris held the north vietnamese and vc in contempt it s like history has been rewritten in order to show the rice farmers of vietnam are superlative warriors they are but very few americans believed this in the mid 1960s br br there s a couple of other things that confused me like how the wives back home get telegrams telling them their husbands are dead no bodies are shown being flown back to base and no one on screen is seen referring to who s been killed in the la drang valley likewise we re not seen reinforcements arrive on screen so how do we suddenly see the americans out number the nva i put these down as directorial editing blunders on the part of wallace who doesn t strike me as much of a director and his biggest problem seems to be communicating the horror of the battle take the scene where the american burned to a crisp is flown away screaming tell my wife i love her this should have an emotional impact similar to that death scene in platoon but here there s no impact in fact i found the scene cliched and patronising and he s not the only character to mouth the words tell my wife while mutilated or dying i counted at least two other characters use the phrase did characters actually say this at the battle i ve no idea but since randall wallace wrote the script i do have reservations br br i sat in shocked awe watching apocalypse now platoon and the killing fields made my eyes water i laughed at full metal jacket i kept looking at my watch with the deer hunter and after seeing we were soldiers i felt totally patronised
0	coltrane and idle are members of a bank robbery gang who double cross their leader during a robbery they hide out in a nunnery school and disguise themselves appropriately to avoid detection from the mob and the police alot of catholic humor and slapstick but the script is kinda thin as are the laughs there is a good shower scene though on a scale of one to ten 4
0	this film has been compared to the hilarious british comedy a fish called wanda although i can't see why the only connection i can find is the monty python one eric idle in nuns john cleese and michael palin in wanda otherwise the two are incomparable br br idle and robbie coltrane are two gangsters who want to get out of the business before they end up dead so they decide to rip off their boss and make for rio when the getaway goes wrong the two are forced to take refuge in a convent as nuns br br what at first promises to be a riot soon becomes a predictable average movie with the usual tasteless sex jokes and bland humour once again there are the occasional high spots but neither cast nor crew manage to inspire proceedings an attempt at a wanda type manic finish fails too along with the effort at men in drag humour which is hardly surprising when you think about it men trying to be women is funny men trying to be nuns is ridiculous br br friday april 22 1994 video
0	eric idle robbie janet it should have been almost impossible to go wrong of course it has some funny moments the scene in the showers when robbie echoes lon chaney jr's ghastly werewolf line i can't help myself is hilarious but ultimately the plot script and direction are flat as a pancake and as tired as a 90 year old nun after 180 hail mary s when i was a child carry on films filled this niche slightly better which is a really sad indictment of a film with such a promising cast
0	atmosphere and droll dialog don't redeem this overrated classic boyer is a french thief hiding in the of algiers while the police try to figure out how to get him out meanwhile he falls for lamarr and tries to find a way to escape the film is slow to get started and never really goes anywhere reminiscent of casablanca in some ways it's completely lacking any larger theme than the wanted man seducing a good woman it's all talk talk talk with endless scenes of boyer swaggering among his idiot cohorts and boyer wooing lamarr in the shadows personally i didn't care for boyer's character for a minute so the tension was utterly nonexistent br br stock 1930s character actors stumble thru the mushy plot as boyer's henchmen guys who clearly do not belong in algiers sigrid is the wildly overacting jealous girlfriend of boyer his brazen womanizing in front of her doesn't bode well for any future he might have with lamarr br br especially bad is a long sequence in which an underling comes to tell boyer how another henchman was captured it sounds exciting too bad we didn't see it for ourselves the ending is completely anticlimactic and seems to be remarkable only because it is not a hollywood happy ending that doesn't stop it from being sappy
0	lance henriksen has a knack for being the top name in a b movie even in this case starring along side charles napier master control program and joe don baker as always he does a great job of being the bad guy but the plot is just bad don't even get me started about the ending and the editing is so horrible it might actually be a thing of beauty is it just me or does it seem that joe don baker was spliced into the movie at the last minute also anytime glass is broken in this movie the editing is so anti phenomenal lastly after watching this i figure david warner is dying for tron 2 0 to finally get the green light br br unfortunately for this will be the third movie i give the rating of 1 10 joining iron eagle iv and no mercy
0	algiers is not a classic it is a perversion of the wonderful original pepe le moko directed by duvivier and starring a much more attractive and charming pepe jean gabin if you want to fully experience the and the characters in algiers i recommend you don't even watch this movie and see pepe le moko instead for it is much more elaborate more beautifully filmed the lines are not clichéd and the characters adhere much more to reality furthermore the ending is so dramatic and key to pepe's character that you'll find the algiers version intolerable although algiers does an almost excellent job mimicking each scene the acting falls short as does the credibility of the characters plus the wardrobe is truly breath taking in all scenes particularly pepe's in the last scene and at all times but also when she's on the boat frankly algiers is cheap as far as imitations go
0	pepe le moko played by charles boyer is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe and to stay free he holes himself up in the a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all for le moko although the allows him to remain out of police custody it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time a place he can't leave because the moment he does he knows he'll be arrested br br boyer's performance was good and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar he captures the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time the movie itself unfortunately was quite a letdown a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent of which i'll mention two first was the idea that the police wouldn't enter the that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the fairly regularly so neither the suggestion by commissioner that the police wouldn't enter nor the statement by inspector also a decent performance by joseph calleia that they could get into the but not out seemed to make much sense i also found it difficult to believe that le moko hardened criminal mastermind that he was could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby hedy lamarr to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the to find her essentially giving himself up i understand the irony of the final few scenes of course as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison the only to find real freedom in his capture because he's shot and killed by the police i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap br br this is worth watching for boyer and to a lesser extent calleia but the story is disappointing and inconsistent 3 10
0	it is a movie which sheds the light on the begging of the palestinian struggle against the israeli occupation of palestine but it does not show the real feelings of the people back then and how they were tricked into believing that they could return to their home soon it does not mention the massacres committed by the jews like der and how they tortured and killed and destroyed the family of any palestinian freedom fighter it lacks the credibility about the real palestinian struggle and about anything palestinian however it has something about the suffering of palestinian citizens ending up as refugees in the nearby arab countries the movie focuses on the story of the man in coma he is now in the present time and through his story we see the film the movie is just telling the life of one person and has some nudity scenes which are irrelevant to the story
0	let me first just say that in the past i have been a huge carlin fan i think george is one of the smartest people and best comedians on the planet what made george so great in the past was his ability to look at things in his own twisted way and give us his unique perspective on those things it wasn't always meant to be funny but you always respected his opinions because they were presented in such a clever way but you are all diseased is just a long rant he doesn't give us any unique perspective on anything he just gives us a long list of stuff that he's p o 'd at there is no insight no cleverness just an old man complaining for one hour straight about things that we have all complained about and on top of that it wasn't even funny you are all diseased appeals to dumb people who can't handle anything more advanced than something simple and direct i don't mind anger fueled comedy but george could have done so much better i really hope that george carlin's next show will live up to the quality that george has shown in the past
0	director lead actor revels in this look at me film wherein he attempts to gain worldly acceptance for the otherwise very upbeat world of mormon missionaries some of the acting is fair but some roles are unrealistic i e the ominous rather than fatherly mission president etc the film does give a fair look at how some missionaries may struggle with their faith but the actual missionary program he claims to represent is far from his concept of it in terms of being upbeat cohesive and inspired the only inspiration i see in this film is self inspiration the film is slow and boring and the shooting and screenplay look like a college student project
0	okay i sensed that a film by mormons about mormons for mormons would be a disaster waiting to happen but little did i know how so very painful it would be a little known fact is that mormons have always made exceptionally fine propaganda films the church's official cinematic campaign has produced rare and lasting gems that transcend the mormon community including the wonderful short film cipher in the snow which ended up making the rounds as an educational film in the late 70's then there's neil labute's disturbingly masterful ouvre br br however the success of these films depended largely on the fact that they didn't focus on mormons or any specific mormon theology instead they opt to focus on a universal theme and deal with it on a basic human level god's army abandons any pretext of universality and runs headlong into the stilted and myopic world of the orthodox while this might be enough to alienate anyone but the most devoted mormon director richard ineptitude as a filmmaker and his juvenile approach to storytelling are sufficient grounds to judge god's army unwatchable by almost any standard br br own appallingly wooden acting sets the tone for his army of the least interesting mormons you're ever likely to meet of course the cast's sorry performances aren't helped any by pathetic script he should be given credit for not avoiding some of the more controversial aspects of the church but as can be expected he conveniently frames these controversies in a sympathetic light it should also come as no surprise that most of the answers to the church's darker side are addressed with little other than faith at one point an african american missionary is scolded by a black couple for joining a church that was segregated up until 1978 some ten to twenty years after nearly every congregation in the most degenerate parts of the deep south had already done so instead of addressing the church's actively racist history perhaps the spot in mormon theology which even church leaders don't defend anymore troubled character instead ponders joseph smith's murder an obvious and perhaps outrageous allusion to lynching top off this milktoast with third grader leper jokes passing as comic relief and you have a strong case for the revival of silent films br br if you knew little about mormons before watching this film you might become prone to avoiding them at all costs if you are mormon this film offers absolutely nothing to be proud about
0	this movie has a look and feel of many fresh directors closeups and focus on the emotions being experienced by the actors the point of the film was presented from many angles and expressed well by the relatively inexperienced cast the point being have faith in jesus christ and the morman church oh and if you read or hear anything contrary to the teachings of the prophet it is just fuel for hatred
0	a dull stroll through the banalities of mormon utterly un funny a testament to the widely held theory that in order for bathroom humor to be funny it must necessarily be vulgar it also bolsters the claim that a close relationship with jesus makes you not funny more propaganda than film don't worry about any touchy social issues coming up at the dinner table after this one the saving grace of this movie is its accurate portrayal of young mormon females as particularly attractive oh well its your 7 50
0	the movie is nice well pictured but no originality br br this movie is directly copied from the hitch where salman plays like a date dr like will smith and govinda like some fat jerk who is desperate to get in love with her boss by the end the movie comes to an old indian style the bride's father doesn't like the bride's lover and gets some other groom and govinda the bride's lover comes in the end and saves her from the new groom and a fancy dance and stuff br br the comedy was real good no doubt when the hitch meets hindi would be more funnier br br ultimately worth a watch but when it comes on tv after few months
0	i watched this movie only coz it was expected to be yet another entertainer by david dhawan br br bad bad comeback by david dhawan he has made lots of funny movies in past which made no sense but none of them was a crap bag what a waste of talent and beauty it was why actors agree on movie like this br br there was not a whit of practicality in this movie the movie is below par and not at all justifies the standard and potential bollywood has br br the only thing worth watching in this movie was katrina but we don't need to watch a movie like this to see her being a remake of hollywood flick hitch its clear that bollywood directors cant even make a proper remake i consider this to be the worst ever movie i seen awful 1 10
0	one of the worst things a film studio can do is exploit the tragedies of others commercializing a 'shock' or 'gore' factor in order to sell tickets to be able to buy their birch a new diamond necklace another worst thing is to totally misrepresent the true facts of an incredible saga by events dialog and images to the director's own liking lastly one of the worst things a film studio can do is to use bottom of the barrel actors and shoot it all on a sound stage that was rented for fifty cents a day all three of these the makers of this film are guilty of this is hands down the worst movie i have ever seen and i've seen thousands a score of '1' is too good for this waste of celluloid not only should the filmmakers be ashamed for making it they should be ashamed for negatively exploiting the heroes of this story which are the people who experienced this tragedy firsthand both the living and the dead
0	i and a friend rented this movie we both found the movie soundtrack and production techniques to be lagging the movie's plot appeared to drag on throughout with little surprise in the ending we both agreed that the movie could have been compressed into roughly an hour giving it more suspense and moving plot
0	i was really geared up to watch when two of best movie critics tagged this movie as a 'laugh but the movie turned out be disappointing br br you will be advised to watch this movie keeping your brains at home but you simply can't ignore the flaws and the shortcomings br br 1 the missile scene was total stupidity br br 2 katrina kaif and govinda pair looked awful he's 49 and she's just 24 more than double of her age 3 salman's comedy is less of acting and more of overacting br br 4 songs are good but interrupts the pace of the movie br br 5 some scenes were deliberately attempted by the movie makers to be funny and 6 poor and flawed story br br however there are few pluses 1 govinda great individual performance br br 2 some scenes are actually quite funny br br 3 kaif looks and acting keeps on improving with every film br br 4 rajpal yadav's don sequences though under utilized but hilarious br br so 4 good points 6 bad ones this one gets 4 10
0	i didn't know what to expect when i started watching this movie by the end of it i was pulling my hairs out this was one of the most pathetic movies of this year in fact in the last ten years david dhawan should just give up his career as a director i am yet to come across one original script that david dhawan has worked on this one was a complete bit y bit rip off hitch i have nothing against remakes as such but this one is just so lousy that it makes you even hate the original one which was pretty decent i fail to understand what actors like salman and govinda saw in this script i read somewhere that this was supposed to be govinda's comeback vehicle if thats true then only god can save his career salman just overacted to the hilt govinda who i think is an actor of very high caliber was completely wasted katrina kaif and lara dutta had nothing to do apart form wearing designer clothes and smiling for no rhyme or reason please stay away form this one
0	if you are planning to watch 'partner' and are on imdb reading reviews about it you have already wasted too much time over this stupid idiotic awful movie br br it's a horrible horrible horrible copy of the movie ' i choose to ignore all the other warnings and bad reviews i had heard about this movie and wasted a precious 20 minutes on it i thought that after all its david dhawan who is making it and it has govinda how bad can it be but after 20 minutes of watching this nonsense i couldn't take it any more and turned off my computer br br overacting by everyone in the movie stupid dialogues total time waste i gave it a 1 star rating because that's the lowest you can do if i could go lower i would have given it a 100 rating
0	david dhawan copied hitch and such an unofficial copy the film isn't even 1 2 as funny or amusing as the original it's boring with forced stories like the lara track of having a child and no hubby plus there is an unwanted stupid don and david tries to choke drama too but the film looks disjointed boring br br songs just pop in so does romance and everything barring some funny govinda scenes the dance before interval nothing else is worth mentioning the last few scenes are quite funny but there tend to get too long br br david's direction is as bad as maine pyaar kyun he needs to change his style or attempt something good music is saving grace some songs are good but the situations seem forced br br govinda looks overweight and seems too loud and screams his lines in initial reels but he gets into the groove and gives his best in the office and the scene with salman in his cabin and towards the end br br salman just plays himself and his nasal tone plus his fake style of acting is a headache br br lara is avoidable katrina is fake as usual br br the kid overacts
0	i just don't know how this stupid crap junk garbage good for nothing film is a blockbuster it was so boring with a very very weak or no story line and wasn't even a jot funny the film was about 135 minutes of only a paragraph of story about prem salman khan is a love guru and is helping hapless romantic govinda to get the girl he wants i'm not saying that i didn't like the film because it wasn't funny or anything i will accept a movie that is not funny but has a decent story the only two reasons why i can say it's a super hit are br br 1 salman khan govinda are on screen together but there first time together was in salaam e ishq which was a flop so it can't be but it was a really good movie br br 2 salman khan's name is prem and all the films with that name have been a hit including maine pyar kiya so it's just luck br br i heard that it's a remake of hitch i've not seen it i'm glad i didn't music is ok the only good songs are do you want a partner you're my love soni de but what is the use of it in a really bad film that too if you have someone like katrina kaif who dances with two left feet she is completely crap neither she knows acting language her voice is always dubbed for her dance and always fails to impress i do not like her one bit she was even disappointing in koffee with karan overall partner is a disposable film with a disposable actress katrina kaif its better off that she is kicked out of bollywood and never comes back again
0	soon after this movie was released salman khan was handed over a 6 year imprisonment read further to know why am i mentioning this br br and i heaved a sigh of relief not that i was happy that he got jail for something which because he was a celeb but i was happy cus this meant no more salman khan movies no more his histrionics and no more over hyped acting read overacting br br this movie made no sense whatsoever br br the scene where the kid belonging to one of the family makes a rocket which was voice activated according to the movie script it would chase anyone but ultimately it finds only salman khan bare chested well this is what happened br br the rocked gets activated in another foolish way and you have to have an iq of 001 to believe that then it chases salman khan who was on his water scooter and the chase continues unless he is done with all the possible stunts he could show to foolish audience in my regard all those people who have given this movie 5 and above unless they are paid to do that br br another of breath taking unbelievable scene was at the end when all the arrangements about the marriage is made and salman khan with govinda in disguise comes and stall the marriage by another of those highly unwanted songs later on even though everything is done and ready a mere confession of govinda and katrina kaif to father and bingo everything is fine and govinda marries br br this made me wonder if convincing was so easy why did not they do that and tortured us for so many hours and wasted my money br br this movie is must avoid and don't even think it had any scene worth watching the plot is way too disconnected with characters popping from no where and ultimately vanishing for ex don what a waste of characters br br after this movie i took a pledge that i would not watch salman khan movies for the rest of my life unless it wins an oskar hahahah which means i would never watch
0	this is not a good movie it is a tried remake of the english movie 'the but it insults the original one this is hardly a movie you expect from a veteran director like 'david who is credited to directing good movies like raja babu coolie no 1 hero no 1 br br the main theme for this movie is taken from the hitch with some changes so as to appeal to the indian audience but somehow the story and the screenplay is not convincing enough plus the acting from the lead roles i e salman khan and govinda is pitiful it seems that they need the slightest provocation to remove their shirts to reveal their bare chest i do not consider this fascinating and least of all comic what was the director thinking added to this the viewers have to bear the case of govinda's over acting it was simply unbearable i advise the viewers to watch it at your own risk my rating of 2 for this movie could be considered to be a very generous one br br instead i would advise the viewers to watch the english movie hitch which is a lot better
0	this is another bollywood remake of a hollywood movie hitch if i'm correct br br the film has some great moments which will have you laughing out loud which frankly only come from govinda who has become a legend within indian cinema and will always bring his a game in terms of comedies another bonus is rajpal yadav who is hilarious as the gangster who mimics an indian icon of cinema lara dutta is a plus i know i sound shallow but its mainly because i have a soft spot for her she tries to be funny but its seems to be forced her acting is weak but she still shines salman khan is atrocious he tries to bring the cool charming depths but fails miserably he over acts and keeps shouting for no apparent reason br br not acting mate thats called being mentally br br katrina kaif is just bad not very good at anything no charisma no talent and i don't see why people consider her pretty the plot was far fetched and i had a hard time believing that character was remotely attracted to govinda the only good thing is the music 'you're my love' was the best in the soundtrack
0	talk about over acting not just by govinda but also by salman and lara the direction was awful the first half hour you would pretty much want to switch the movie off because this movie is a real stinker mark my words br br i liked govinda in some o his comedy roles like haseena jodi no 1 se maare and desh mein hai and this does not compare to any of them and salman khan should not do comedy roles at all he sucks he does not know how to do comedy the only good comedy role he did was in which was brilliant next to amir khan br br there were so many done stupidly scenes in this movie that make you want to take out the dvd and burn it so no one else in your house watches it ever again
0	there wasn't a 0 in the voting option so i was compelled to use the next available figure br br it is a sad day for bollywood when such type of movies which have star cast actors is nothing more are than a bunch of juvenile acting and an awful script br br this movie is nowhere near to be called a clone of hitch salman khan with his usual take off you shirt theme and govinda with his in humorous laughs if somebody had told 2 decades ago that i would be writing a comment on salman after his success with maine pyar kiya i would have written him her off
0	i couldn't i was bored not just because the acting was terrible and the tragic story was simply a b movie whose plot was all about the cannibalism but the fact i was watching a subtitle foreign film which doesn't bother me at all but was still dubbed br br the special effects were awful as the back of the plane splits off you can see the model is hollow as it breaks away in the phony snow most of the movie takes place on a sound stage that clearly is not real and almost looks like a play as the sounds of snow blowing all over are heard but not actually scene br br but how what will they eat they have no food one military person it's never clear what this guy does or why he's in charge says which i'm sure no one ever said in reality or even thought about food since they were concerned if the people were alive not how they'd eat it was simply a stupid line written to point out that yes they will have to eat the dead bodies to survive br br when they finally decide to eat the bodies one man finds one shirtless body who despite being in the snow for however long is not remotely frozen in fact his flesh is very flexible and fresh he cuts the fresh meat off his back that again is not frozen or even cold it appears and this scene goes on for five minutes that's where i had to stop the remake alive was a far superior film about trying to survive in a horrible situation that i'm sure the real survivors praised whereas i can't imagine any of them had anything nice to say about this version it was simply about eating dead bodies and everything else was secondary avoid
0	honestly i have to admit that i go and see certain stupid films based on the hype they have generated or are currently generating this dumb salman khan govinda feature is one of those stupid films okay by now we've all seen starring will smith as a date doctor trying to help out odd people find true then why would we need to see salman khan re enact this therein lies the 64 000 question in case you were wondering govinda plays the oddball in search of the love of his life an unreachable socialite played by katrina kaif br br lara dutta is along to play eva mendes and real life love kaif pretty much plays her character like every role you've see her in thus far no stretch no acting required and for nearly three and a half hours we get tortured with spoofs of other bollywood films and characters or better yet we get treated to low rate performances of past hit films rajpal yadav co stars f
0	first of all let us discuss about the story it is a copy of the movie hitch with an added indian flavor to it one guy who is a love guru and another man who is seemingly a sucker when it comes to ladies and how this seemingly sucker becomes a charmer with the help of the love guru forms the story salman khan is the love guru and govinda is the lame guy br br now coming to artists' performance salman khan overacts throughout the movie he tries to be funny but fails big time you can see salman shouting throughout the movie no real acting is seen in his performance govinda pairs opposite katrina kaif oh my god she is one heck of a girl a real beauty is in real life a 50 year old dude and katrina is a girl in her early twenties in the movie govinda looks like grandpa of katrina kaif what a pity coming to execution of the movie this movie feels like a b movie and a poor imitation of the movie hitch where hitch looks like a movie with a purpose and depth this movie is shallow and purposeless nowhere there is justification or clarity br br just forget this movie for it is nothing but boring typical bollywood fare actually i give 3 10 because this is the lowest i go
0	this movie is widely as being a copy of the will smith feature hitch that movie was dull br br this movie isn't so much dull as unbearable govinda looks way past his prime he is not at his best doing roles like this it is similarly unconvincing as his performance in deewana mastana br br salman khan is at his eye aching best and that's in the few scenes where he remembers to put clothes on it could only have been through nepotism that this eye scenes could be saved from the trash bin of any movie's cutting floor br br another case of bollywood embarrassing itself with it's shameless cloning another case of the bollywood audience majority embarrassing themselves by making this a hit
0	this movie was recommended to me so we went to see it together i wouldn't call it a movie it's more like a combination of 10 different unfinished illogical stories which are not all that funny there're several characters in the movie who looked important in the beginning and they just disappeared from the story he's just trying too hard to fit everything in 2 1 2 hours i left the show without wondering what happened to this and that guy br br i think this movie is just an extended version of hitch padded with a lot more characters and dancing br br if this is the best movie that this couple has ever made then i'm pretty sure i'm not interested in any of his previous ones
0	the movie is not bad in itself till you see the original movie hitch 2005 starring will smith the movie is a straight copy with even the dialogs for most part of the movie simply translated from english to hindi the plot in the original is tightly executed the hindi version fails to keep the viewers interested the over the top kind of comedy of david dhawan seems to have gone overboard with govinda hysterically shouting at all times sometimes more time is spent in understanding the reason for that than the plot br br if you know english which i assume you know given that you are reading this see the hollywood original at least watch hitch if you have watched partner to be able to compare this is the least we can do to support the creative geniuses whose work i am sad to say is shamelessly lifted by inspired people like david dhawan
0	the supposed writer and director mr dhawan has copied almost the whole plot of the blockbuster hollywood movie hitch starring will smith many scenes are also exactly the same the plot was just copy pasted and some low grade humor probably mr dhawan's own creation and frequent dancing was added to increase the movie time to local standards br br although salman khan and govinda's acting did give us some smiles however it does not suit legendary artists like them to be a part of plagiarism specially when they themselves keep telling people to stop buying pirated discs
0	i do not remember at least in the last ten years or so a movie that i have liked less than mama mia from the non existent acting to the atrocious singing i was cringing at least once per minute i don't believe i could even recall one brief segment that i tolerated i do know that i will never watch this disaster again i cannot believe that with such high expectations due to the talent colin firth meryl streep pierce brosnan that a movie could be such a flop but to see the lack of acting skills shown the seemingly drug induced dancing and then horrors of horrors to hear the singing of pierce brosnan i cannot see how this movie will not make it into the hall of shame definitely a movie that never should have been made and just in case you missed it the first time one that i will never watch again
0	i cannot remember a more trivial mind numbing and shallow film in other words a real chick flick of the worst kind how can anyone watch this film and recommend it to others only if they don't like admitting they made a mistake it seems to summarise the worst of female aspirations no real substance to it all happy and shallow yeah that'll please the masses well not this member of the masses what a trivial load of drivel i wanted to leave the cinema within 5 minutes of the start and to think i paid £7 to see this i think this does however represent the dumbing down of cinema as with most media these days so i like a bit of reality in my musicals call me sad or what
0	having avoided seeing the movie in the cinema but buying the dvd for my wife for xmas i had to watch it i did not expect much which usually means i get more than i bargained for but utter utter cr i like abba i like the songs i have the old lps but this film is just terrible the stage show looks like a bit of a musical but this races along with songs hurriedly following one another no characterisation the dance numbers which were heavily choreographed according to the extras on the dvd are just thrown away with only half the bodies ever on screen the dance chorus of north europeans appear on a small greek island at will while the set and set up of numbers would have disgraced cliff richard's musicals in the sixties meryl see me i'm acting streep can't even make her usual mugging effective in an over the top musical her grand piece 'the winner takes it all' is meryl at the met note to director it should have been shot in stillness with the camera gradually showing distance growing between streep and brosnan some of the singing is awful karaoke on amateur night the camera cannot stop moving like bad mtv one can never settle down and just enjoy the music enthusiasm and characters but what is even worse is how this botched piece of has become the highest grossing film in the uk and the best selling dvd to boot blair campbell and new labour really have reduced the uk to zombies critical faculties anyone
0	this movie is pathetic not because it's poorly directed acted sung danced filmed etc but because it's really difficult to ruin a movie using an abba soundtrack yet unfortunately this is the only thing the movie succeeds in doing the musical presentations in the movie southpark was much better than in mama mia the director of mama mia is proof that you don't need talent to be a director all you need are abba songs br br just to give a sample of the awfulness an aging meryl streep is shot with close ups in the harsh sunlight singing and just ruining the song with all the distracting wrinkles on her face why do that to one of the most talented actresses out there
0	making a film based on a true story particularly one as incredible and horrifying as the 1972 plane crash is hard for even the best filmmakers but the mexicans behind this forgettable and cheap exploitation flick don't even try the actual names of both the survivors and the casualties of the uruguayan air force plane crash have all been altered the crash itself is obviously staged in a very slip shod manner and the cannibalism aspect has been unnecessarily and gorily played up shockingly it made a ton of money on both sides of the border thankfully thought it has mercifully been forgotten but the same people behind this would later give us the equally revolting guyana cult of the damned br br this cheap horror exploitation flick necessitated the making of alive some fifteen years later that film was a masterpiece survive to put it mildly is not
0	after sitting through this film i have decided that it is one of the worst movies i have ever seen i knew it the moment i was subjected to three teenage girls screaming and overacting when they omg meet again and then watching the same thing only done by women old enough to be my mom and that was only the first few minutes yeesh so here are my comments br br 1 middle aged women ridiculous dance moves complete with hip thrusts and over the top costumes not a good idea br br 2 pierce brosnan could not sing his way out of a paper bag nor could practically anyone else in this pile of excrement for that matter br br 3 the songs were so random it was obvious to me that they were thrown willy nilly into the incredibly contrived and stupid plot br br 4 my three year old nephew could have written a better script br br i was either cringing or laughing derisively during the movie and i normally really like movie musicals of course they are bound to be a bit corny but this was ridiculous what a waste of talent i mean you have great actors and actresses in this movie i am embarrassed for them that this is now a part of their career i regret wasting my money and time on this piece of crap
0	i love musicals all of them from joyous oklahoma to poignant and bess to the touching romantic damn yankees and i know most of the songs sometimes singing them spontaneously with a crowd or humming them alone br br in a real musical as differentiated from this vaudeville show every song is painstakingly crafted to fit the exact moment it is an expression of sadness regret love joy or exaltation a natural extension where mere words fail so in guys and dolls my time of day describes the adventurous life of sky masterson as it is about to be compromised by the most unlikely woman every song in this brilliant exemplar of the genre sets a mood or develops a character creating a of place turned absolutely believable by the self disclosing of song br br for this lover of the broadway musical and their adaptations to the screen during the last half of the 20th century mama mia is somewhere between satire and a cruel fun house distortion of the genre there the songs of these musicals advanced the often elaborate often delightful plot lines while here the songs simply picked up from a collection only interfered with the shaky premise of the film br br perhaps most of those viewers who are making this film into a monumental success simply have no exposure to the art form of 20th century musicals they have no idea of the magic performed by writer and lyricist that can turn a dance hall floozy into someone whom we know and love as achieved in sweet charity br br let me offer an apology for the arrogance of this review perhaps another day another mood i could have gotten into it and not have been so critical in this review br br but i can't help but imagining what richard roger oscar hammerstein cole porter irving berlin and so many others could have done even with with this silly premise i think about it while the memories of seeing this film is fresh and i can not help but to mourn the great loss
0	i don't know where most of you were at but where i watched the film we didn't have people singing as some have told they experienced we had people laughing mostly at the campy plot line the horrible dance sequences and the singing of the likes of brosnan the only people in the audience who seemed to be enthralled with the film were the seventies generation folks who were some how reliving the past with the songs i was a dj in the seventies and even went to the abba concert at coliseum in edmonton in sept of 79 so i did appreciate them then and i still do now but this film should have gone the same way as their marriages and ended in divorce the sequences were so poorly staged the dubbing and editing absolutely horrible and this has to be meryl's worst production i cannot believe an academy award winner would stoop so low as to do this piece of garbage so save your money wait for it to come out on dvd and then maybe spend your money on something better like cat litter
0	everyone knows the so called plot so let me cut to the chase br br forced frivolity miscast performers working hard to have fun so you can have fun the brilliant meryl streep gives it a great try pierce brosnan just plain embarrassing inexplicably set on a greek island lots of squealing shrieking women lots br br it was a silly juke box musical on stage now it's a big splashy poorly shot screen juke box musical if you like abba so so if not an assault on the senses and an insult to whatever intelligence you're left with when you exit the theater i readily admit that i didn't really want to see this movie and went with some friends who did but for the love of god why does my gender shriek and squeal to convey delight ever sit next to a table of women who have had too much to drink and are absolutely determined to have great night out on the town that's the feeling of this whole project it just felt so good when it stopped
0	there's no better way to describe the horrendous experience that's to watch mia hitler must be looking up saying to the pseudo director phyllida lloyd 'you monster what have you done ' br br everything about the movie is wrong wrong even its success which is unexplainable i can understand when those crappy parody movies like epic movie make their minimal share of money and turn profit just because they're cheap of course they are but when something like mia makes 450 million dollars worldwide you think 'what the hell is wrong with the world ' br br and to think we have meryl streep one of the greatest alive actresses of the world in it what was she thinking 'i need the money' she could say well then sell one of your grandchildren even that would be less embarrassing it's not that meryl is good in a disastrous piece of err 'movie' she's also disastrous when she sings even though she's got the vocals it's ridiculous worse than her only pierce brosnan he used to be james bond now he's singing abba in a purple spandex during the credits of the worst movie ever really and when i mention abba not that i have anything against the band and their music though it doesn't help them when actors started singing badly dancing worse and the extras join then they pop out of nowhere frequently to present one terrible musical sequences after the other you wanna cry when the music starts and i love musicals but this is the first in the genre where you pray for actual silence br br i could keep going the list goes on forever you could write a stephen king novel with the complete list of mistakes in this movie br br to sum up go watch it really you've got to witness to understand and since it's already a huge success who cares if it makes a few more dollars from you and it's not liking you're selling your soul to the devil meryl did that before for the whole mankind and now the world must end because we've committed the ultimate evil and we must be destroyed
0	relentless like one of those loud action movies the entire cast seems to be on speed i didn't quite get the director's intentions if any i wonder if she's ever seen a stanley donen vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical structure please this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba the costumes the unflattering photography unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself no chemistry with her friends christine baranski and julie walters think of streep with lily in the altman film and you'll understand what i was hoping for i was embarrassed in particular by pierce and colin firth the audience however seemed to enjoy it so it probably it's just me
0	this is a new approach to comedy it isn't funny br br the joke is that this in and of itself is supposed to be funny br br the story is based on a french short story located in paris and the characters have french names louis for example played by bob hoskins the movie also stars the equally french jeff goldblum and natasha richardson the situations are similar to and the characters perform as if in those carry on movies from years back br br i believe these are also jokes to cast these actors who make no attempt to act french in any way to have them cavort in the manner of broad english dance hall comedy and to leave the whole bloomin' mystery unexplained to the audience br br in the humour department this is practically the round table isn't it br br the movie tries to be charming and quirky and i guess these characteristics are sort of funny not as funny as duck soup or love and death perhaps but funnier than the deer hunter or the battleship potemkin br br it is an example of personal filmmaking it makes no real effort to reach out and share with the audience but stays true to its premise and its internal logic although all the situations are unbelievable they are logical within the film's own bizarro world br br i generally like this kind of eccentric movie but i found this one to be paced too slowly to be dull witted tedious and to provide too few pleasurable surprises or genuine wit it just kind of meanders in predictable and sophomoric ways and wastes some wonderful talents along the way it has to be the low point in the career of each of the major stars who are all otherwise distinguished players i found it to be the biggest waste of talent since the betsy and i wish i had never seen goldblum and hoskins in this thing br br so call it an interesting miss and pass on it as a rental unless you really have a lot of time to kill br br
0	this movie is not that good at all its pretty stupid pretty annoying and very poorly done i really only saw this film was because one of my friends said they hated this film although i didn't hate it as much as them i still found it to be a pretty bad film the only thing that is remotely good about this was that it was a little entertaining at times and also i feel that if it had been done a little better it would have been equally okay what i mean by a little better is that if it had been totally recast not have had it looked like it had been shot for a film festival and if the script had been improved it would have been a okay slasher film instead it isn't but instead what it is now a crappy film the acting is atrocious i felt as if i was watching a couple of teens act for like a halloween show or thrill ride or something the kills are pretty cheap as is the film itself and basically everything else is low class overall this film really is bad and you wouldn't be missing out on anything if you decided to skip this film br br 3 8 out of 10 stars
0	i have to say that there is one redeeming speck in regards to this film it firmly establishes the bottom of the barrel now filmmakers know what to aim above when making a movie other than that i regret watching this debacle what shameless abandon the making of this film was what a waste of 100 000 that's right folks one hundred thousand dollars this film reminds me of that adult video awards show in which of group of industrial prostitutes stand up a praise themselves believing that they are real actors actresses and filmmakers ironic then how i've watched blue movies with better acting directing and writing i also found it funny that the executive producer justin just had to be in the movie he plays deputy jake barker i'm sure his acting career has taken off ted the writer has a part he no doubt was wallowing in the clichéd glory he created it should be noted that carrie has a lead role in the movie you might remember her from gus van sant's 'elephant' though i'm not too sure that she'll want to write this film on her resume and i'm not sure which is a more depressing point money was spent to make this film or people are going to watch it along with and 'sky captain and the world of tomorrow' one of the worst films if not the worst film of 2004
0	whoa terrible terrible terrible terrible did i mention terrible you can tell just by the dvd cover not to get this movie but unfortunately that wasn't the case for me well someone brought this home for me to watch and when i looked at it i just wanted to strangle the person because they used my money i will certainly be taking it back soon but i might as well tell you about it while i have it in memory for i definitely want to forget it this movie doesn't deserve to even be called horrible it's beyond horrible quite possibly the worst film ever the acting was so so so so horrifically disgusting as well as the deaths being so entirely lame and predictable i didn't even laugh at how bad this movie was which kind of frightens me a little don't see this film shame on you if you're even looking at this movie page and i have extreme pity for you if you're looking at this movie page because you think this will be decent final word yuck
0	leave ed wood alone to call plan 9 from outer space the worst film ever made would be to deny this abysmally vulgar heap of hollywood guano its rightful title this pretentious fusion of witless whimsy and bathetic sociopolitical commentary actually does seem to be formed along the lines of plan 9 with badly staged scenes of down on their luck actors on cheap sets interspersed with what appears to be footage of battle and crowd scenes cribbed from higher budget epics but whereas plan 9 occasionally manages to be funny when it means to be and reasonably entertaining overall this tacky pageant is appallingly lacking in basic showmanship with scenes ranging from offensively unfunny the disgusting burlesque of groucho marx stealing manhattan from the indians to low camp hedy lamarr attempting to impersonate joan of arc hearing her voices to tedious dennis hopper doing absolutely nothing with the role of napoleon to the unexpectedly poignant performance of peter lorre as the psychotic nero give the worst director trophy to irwin allen for turning so much into so little
0	i usually like hongkong martial arts fantasy movies but i hated this one once upon a time in china shogun assassin a chinese ghost story and even big trouble in little china are my favorites but this film sucked too much fancy tricks and stupid story br br 4 10
0	i love most jet li movies with the exception of romeo must die and i bought this movie in a very cheap three pack with the master and twin warriors while twin warriors was very impressive and i was thoroughly intrigued by it and the master was a bit karate kid but also enjoyable i thought this movie was terrible i'm not just saying that because i'm used to better movies i'm saying that it was almost down there with kazaam the fight scenes were terrible blurry cameras and no real fighting and the plot was your typical stupid kung fu plot if you are going to have a plot this stupid see 'man turns into woman to become all powerful then falls in love with jet you best have some great fighting to go with it if you are looking for an original hk jet li movie i suggest you go rent shaolin temple 2 aka kids from shaolin
0	like in so many movies of the past you would think hollywood would learn this by now makes for a very disappointing movie not to mention make sure the kidnapped victim is alive first before paying the ransom br br maybe this film wants to remind of these basic facts in case it should ever happen to one of us why the long walk in the woods and can a city guy really go through the woods without getting lost just an opportunity for some sentimental dialog that was meaningless in the end br br i had to listen to part of the director's comments in the special features section from the great moves that redford has made in the past sneakers for one surprised he agreed to star in such a film the director's comments and reasons were weak br br the best parts of this movie was the scenery can't wait for spring to come
0	i had never heard of the clearing until i was really bored one day with some friends in the local blockbuster and it grabbed our attention the description on the dvd jacket grabbed our interest but once we popped it into the dvd player the boredom was only beginning br br the story was dragged out for waaaay too long it seemed to follow the same outline as other movies which include a kidnapping the most suspenseful parts were in the beginning of the movie however after that the outline was followed exactly and that made the clearing unoriginal the flashbacks were too many in number and the grief of the victim's family provided nothing interesting nor enhanced the nature of the film and i also found that i did not like the ending so that probably led to me not liking the movie at all br br the acting was not horrible it wasn't the greatest though robert redford has given much better performances willem dafoe's tragic character was the only one i really saw develop throughout the story line and the viewer only really sees that change in the last ten minutes or so in the movie helen mirren's portrayal as robert redford's wife was flat and sort of followed the same generic mold as other movies which include a tragic and heart splitting event br br in my opinion the clearing is nothing to rave about use your movie rental money on something else like garden state perhaps
0	i'm sorry but i don't understand how the studio get's away with this the movie is just not worth it maybe as a theater play but certainly not as a movie and why do they call it a thriller the acting is good but i expect anything less from these perfect actors robert redford plays very well and willem dafoe is convincing enough as the softy bad guy helen mirren can play almost any role and always still looks beautiful to me i'm also a fan of her british detectives still they just can't save this ow so boring movie i'm sorry i hope we don't get to many movies anymore from this director jan cause he obviously doesn't now the meaning of the words suspence and thriller
0	what an atomic bomb of a movie the story goes nowhere and comes nowhere it leaves the theatre goer with ones arm up saying is this it what happened to redford he was once a fair actor now he thinks that he can show up on the set and make a few scenes and it's a take wrong what an unemotional film i don't mean to be so so cruel but what crap of a movie unbelievable amateur crap if i was in this movie i would be so that i would not show my face i tell you what if i was associated with this movie i am in big trouble this movie will go down in the annals of movie making as the king of bombs with which all others will be compared to
0	business executive is kidnapped made to wander miles and miles in a woodland for days and days exchanging dialog with his kidnapper and we have got to listen to all the nonsense br br meanwhile his snotty wife and family are at home with the fbi wondering what to do at no time does she seem concerned about the fate of her husband except when it comes to the ransom a love story give me a break br br the plot is ludicrous and almost every scene is filled with an air of expectation that something significant is going to happen but it never does br br the result of the kidnapping is predictable and stupid and it becomes even more silly when we learn the fate of the kidnapper br br this is garbage br br 2 out of 10
0	what the hell was the point of this dull movie it looked pretty interesting in the beginning but quickly fell flat on its face its supposed to be based on a true story but for crying out loud is there no more script writers left in hollywood man iv'e seen these guys in some of the best movies ever made defoe can play just about anything and when i see he's in a movie i don't have a problem renting it but i'm starting to wonder redford also a great actor is also slipping perhaps their hard up or just losing their senses the dialog was long and terribly heavy eyed especially at home with the family i wonder if the actors thought they had a hit going here perhaps uh an oscar
0	it has been a long time since i have been to a movie as lame and boring as this one it is one thing to have a slow pace where characters are being developed in a progressive way or some aspect of the movie clearly is enhanced by such pacing such as 'lost in translation however there is a difference between slow progression and outright stalling as happened in this one i guess from the look on helen mirren's face she must have been distraught by the disappearance of her husband surprise surprise what a marvelously creative moment the meeting of the mistress and wife was sarcasm and what a great way that the whole story fell apart at the end truly a masterpiece
0	do not watch this movie go see something else i was very disappointed i cannot rate this movie any better than 3 the acting was quite good and i really liked william dafoe as the villain but i cannot see why this movie made it to the big screen the story was old and has been shown in 100 other movies and 1000 tv series movies the main problem was basically nothing is happening take a kidnapping let the villain make the wife of the kidnapped man deliver the money make the police look stupid and boring and extend this to 95 minutes you got your clearing movie the only 2 reasons i did not rate this a 1 was a dafoe and b the plan b ending there are not many endings you can give a kidnapper movie 75 of these kind end with ending a 20 end ending b and 1 ends with something boring boring boring
0	i'm an atheist to me history and truth mean a lot br br this film is made after a novel published in 1921 which is still being updated up to this day as if it was a history book well it's not the movie is about the novels 1950s version some actors were great but that doesn't cover the plot br br in short man invents a super bomb so god and his friends hold a tribunal to see if they must intervene the devil analogy man and for defense we have the spirit of man what is the spirit of man anyway and why was the first defendant adam eventually you just get us christian propaganda in a 5th grade history book of the time though other religions are mentioned only european christianity is explored br br first we get the caveman story the women are scrawny stereotypes of damsels in distress real cave women were as strong as men and just as resistant hard times hard life adapt and survive all this is watered down by mid century stereotypes br br next we get first pyramid construction today we see a different story and know that there were a lot less deaths and regular citizens at work as well loosing mentioned amount of many lives in the process would have been a national disaster and nobody after would try to beat it as if there was only one pyramid build br br the part about moses and one true god was as if the spanish inquisition was asking nicely inquisition itself was never even mentioned in the movie br br helen of troy's evil grim was so vile that i didn't see why so many were even interested in her in reality they were just soldiers following commanders orders who were discussing a political issue of power she was just an excuse br br the cleopatra story was were i saw this film was to inaccurate and filled with propaganda here brother was a lot younger she was not obsessed with poison was quite educated to restore library content and was politically competitive to drag beaten down egypt out of dirt br br the part with nero and praying christians in a cave were disgusting yes rome burned down yes there was persecuted christianity but the way they portray it was as if the coliseum build itself and there was no to rebuild rome br br attila the hun appears in a short seen and than we jump to king arthur the crusades are mentioned with minimal bloodshed and there is no mention of the crusades east to russia that ended in an ironic battle the knights just went home and started jousting for fun of it a lot of stuff is put down like no indoor hygiene and plagues br br then they cover joan of ark where she always has to much makeup and looks like a princes territorial politics were replaced with an unjust court the alone on a stool makes me want to ask how someone could follow here at here burning i wanted to yell now die already cheap special effects where is the fire br br by the time they mentioned leonardo i already got fed up with the movie columbus spanish slaughter of america yelling queen elisabeth kick the spanish armada and so on and so on br br the only reason i wanted to see this movie was the fact that it was the last one with all 3 marks brothers and all they got was the scene with manhattan and indians amusing but no more than a smile br br the witch hunts are mentioned briefly as well as plagues after renascence when they start portraying revolutions things gut power hungry and anarchistic the us revolution was pursued by the french revolution oppression and incompetence are bad but you can't just blow the old way up out of anger you must replace it with something so they replaced the french monarchy with new french monarchy so we get napoleon and his ambitions to go to india by land but they replace his motives with unity and band him for only the title emperor the conquests in europe defeat in russia are sacked to waterloo br br the us civil war the english rich inventors not included mister watson come here i want you almost made me laugh for teenage reasons technological hard work was watered down to the final discovery and comedic misuse br br eventually after 85 minutes we come to world wars and organized crime but none of its horrors adolph's words i invade russia this is my last territorial demand were hilarious it was his last territorial demand br br to build suspense god puts a countdown clock to doomsday on the wall for the final words all mighty cant pause the universe for a second there was no need for the persecution speech but the defense made one last throw br br last we see the man of tomorrow as the final defense apparently a paradox man because the bomb was to go of today his toys are a music box in the shape of a gun and a pencil box sword now that is so wrong… pens and pencils drew so many weapon blueprints that its kill count surpasses the atom bomb and making music out of a weapon deluded egoistic generals make music out of weapon fire so the man of tomorrow is already a monster br br the way i see it all the defense had to do was blame the devil as the true conspirator for mans demise and case closed and honestly compared to all barbaric stuff our ancestors did centuries ago we are pretty humane at painless backstabbing these days br br to summarize all i will just quote firefly s episode it's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of son of bitch or another ain't about you jayne it's about what they need
0	how do two great actors foist off a piece of junk like this on film goers my only conclusion is that they and their director believe that any film in which they star just must be seen and applauded br br now to the film probably the worst thriller i have ever seen the actors showed minimal emotion the plot was reasonable for a 1 2 hour time slot not 91 minutes the fbi agent was almost a silly parody his partner was apparently struck dumb and spoke not one word to paraphrase robert redford the villain was a meaningless piece of crap the film was drawn out and meaningless the only question was whether the hero would die or not one truly bizarre part of the story the waiting family seemed to go on for at least several days the hero and antihero seemed to only take one day br br all in all waste of time
0	i wanted to like this film and certainly there is room for a psychological character driven movie which doesn't go for the cheap thrills yet for the enjoyment of a movie one requires a believable plot some pacing and editing and a feeling of involvement in the clearing what starts out as an intriguing mystery with a kidnapping and unknown motives turns into a slow draggy pointless exercise nothing much really happens and the so called character driven angles as expressed by the director in his commentary really don't add up to much br br fine actors are wasted here robert redford does his best trying to engage and outwit willem dafoe dafoe brings a bit of nuance to his character insofar as one can feel somewhat sympathetic towards him it's unfortunate that dafoe has been typecast as a villain he's gone into the christopher walken hall of fame of typecasting br br wendy crewson is usually good but her character's entry into the movie was brief and contrived and i was wondering why they even bothered to introduce her character by far the biggest waste of talent was helen mirren in the director's commentary all i heard was how fabulous a talent she is i agree she's a great actress then why was she not used properly only towards the climax of this movie does she get to show herself but by then the viewer has quit caring br br too bad i liked parts of this movie but as another reviewer wrote once you're halfway in you know the film is not going to get much better
0	now i know why this movie can be bought for so cheap at the video stores i was curious since it had three big name stars yet was among the 'b' movies that the video apparently can't even give away the answer is it is a film that would attract a very limited audience an over 50 crowd with very liberal sensibilities br br who else who watch robert redford willem dafoe and helen mirren give essentially a basic message that cheating on your wife is okay so long as you still love her that's the nice feel good message here particularly at the end at the end of this strange kidnapping story who wrote this script bill clinton br br i say strange because the kidnapper is the nicest kidnapper dafoe you've ever seen except at the end he his hostage redford frequently which no kidnapper would risk has casual conversations about family matters etc it's all ludicrous well the l a times says it's an intelligent thriller ha ha well that confirms what most people know of the l a times for those of you who believe that and haven't seen it i won't spoil it with more of the gigantic holes in this story particularly at the end the fact is it's an insult to anyone with intelligence br br anyway you can't fool all the people all the time as critics have yet to figure out here is another film they touted that justifiably bombed at the box office and video store
0	i hate it when people in the movie theater talk back to the screen it's one of the main reasons why i stick to dvd's or videos i saw the clearing on dvd but if i had seen it in the movies i would have had to stand up and scream he's not dead yet you moron br br the clearing is another in a long list of horrible movies that feature mr redford legal eagles havana indecent proposal up close and personal sneakers last castle and spy game if robert redford told me to invest in something i'd go the other way br br but the worst possible thing you can do to an audience is this say you're being kidnapped and your kidnapper has a gun he's holding it on you for most of the movie you turn the tables on him and start strangling him whatever you do keep strangling him until he's dead don't just strangle him for ten seconds stay with it ten minutes at least but bob stops too soon walks away and forgets about mr kidnapper until he gets up finds the gun and holds it on our hero again at this point i wanted mr kidnapper to shoot robert redford more than a few times and i wanted to shoot him as well
0	after reading many good things about it i finally watched the clearing with a cast of great actors like redford and dafoe one would at least expect a decent film after the closing credits had rolled i was still shocked by how bad and incoherent this movie actually was br br is it supposed to be an art film i don't think so cause it is too melodramatic for that the bad thing is that the drama seems way too forced and unrealistic br br the truth is that the script makes absolutely no sense first of all it never really explains the motive behind the actions of any of the characters it just their so called personal issues what's so bad about redford's character's life that he has to clear it the fact that he cheats occasionally his wife the guy is a millionaire who has had a good life has a great son and a great daughter a wife that loves him and a girlfriend that also seems to be way above the generic mistress type of woman o and a new born grandson the only problem seems to be that he has been working hard for all his life to be a successful person so what it seems that his hard work has really paid off and there's actually no real problems with his life br br then we come to dafoe's character here's someone who was a manager for one of redford's companies and was fired why is this guy unemployed for eight years it seems that he must have some kind of good education to have a job like the one he had in the first place and seems to have been a man with solid ideas about his work as evident by his flashback of a conversation that he had with redford when he was working for him why couldn't a man like that get a decent job and have a decent life cause he was once fired totally unrealistic br br the film really tries to portray these men as tortured souls or something and that comes off as really cheesy in fact i would say that if the creators of this film were trying to say something about the american dream then they failed miserably br br as for the actual events that take place during the movie they also make no sense at all in fact the last 20 minutes of the film come off as an insult to the viewer's intelligence because there's not one thing that takes place that actually makes any sense redford seems to have about a 1000 chances to escape yet he doesn't at one moment he is ready to escape and yet he misses his chance cause he feels sorry for his kidnapper and doesn't want to hurt him then dafoe picks up his gun from the water and the mud which should be useless if you fire a shot with a gun after the gun has been in the water and mud it will possibly blow up in your face and the gun is in perfect condition the way an unemployed useless as portrayed in this film and mentally unstable character manages to outsmart the entire fbi with such ease brings the narrative of this film to twilight zone levels the cheesy ending with redford's wife illusion comes to finish the viewer off br br this film pretends to be something it's not i e a quality sophisticated psychological thriller unfortunately it fails so hard that it becomes a disaster and that's the word that describes this film best a disaster
0	on my continuing quest to find the worst movie of all time my friends and i stumbled upon this little gem it is hilarious through and through especially if you don't know like we didn't that it's a semi sequel to another horror series br br i won't bother going into the plot except to mention that everyone complains about the horrible snowstorm that was coming it was equivalent to the characters just screaming foreshadowing at the camera and waving their arms and in some odd twist of fate the snow storm ever occurs budget problems i guess br br add that to a magical front door that is opened or closed depending on what scare effect the director wants to create and the electricity being cut off until the gym teacher decides to take a shower with lots of soap i'll admit it i had trouble breathing at points br br the only actual decent part of this movie as it turns out was from the original slumber party massacre movie it's so much funnier now that i know that br br spoiler the end where it is revealed that the slasher did it because her drunk friends stumbled in on her and a female friend making out and then the friend driving into a train or something is probably the funniest psycho killer origin ever heightened by the fabulous use of blurring and stock footage i'm glad all of the friends forgot the incident completely until a flashback was necessary br br run don't walk to pick this up and see the hilarity of course the continuity editor should be given an award for all of this if only they weren't stuck in that horrible snow storm
0	directed by jim wynorski chopping mall return of the swamp thing cheerleader massacre is the fourth installment in the slumber party massacre series just think about it it's the fourth chapter of a slasher series that no one really cares about so how could this even be good well it's not but since when did slasher films have to be good cheerleader massacre is entertaining that's for sure but in the entertainment field we've seen better that's for sure too as you can see i'm not sure about where i stand concerning this movie those who watch slashers only for nudity will be more than satisfied this movie's all boobs but unfortunately no blood or not enough i think i'm being generous with this movie because i had a good time watching it and i really enjoy watching slasher movies even as bad as they sometimes are if you want me to be sincere the slumber party massacre part 1 is the best one and all the others are a waste of time so i guess i have a lot of time to waste for more fun watch sleepaway camp 2 and cheerleader camp
0	hmmmmmmm cheerleader massacre let me think high school girls get sliced up except the cute one survives got it next movie br br i was actually surprised this one was made in 2003 i really thought they quit making these movies in the 80's this was truly your run of the mill slasher movie with teenage eye candy dumb male horn dogs even dumber male adult and hot teacher it continues on the list of dark and stormy night and abandoned cabin in the woods we have seen it all before br br however this one had a few interesting plot twists that places it above the normal me too slashers so if you have got a few brain cells to fry and 2 hours to kill you could do worse
0	i go to blockbuster pick out a random movie got this and yeah br br this was a good sexual porno the quality kind of sucked and it kind of gave me a damn headache to me this movie was good for its sexual things but not as much for the horror and suspense it was magical br br the suspense not as good as i would have expected i wanted to be at the edge of my seat hoping to jump up in fear but instead i lay down on the couch and didn't see much br br the quality not really good at all i mean if you pay close attention during when the people are on the cold mountains their barely wearing anything it doesn't make much sense too br br so if your looking for a crap not really suspenseful and a pretty much sexual movie you've got this
0	when jim wynorski first announced he would be doing a new sequel for my favorite series of all time the slumber party massacre series i was ecstatic i had been waiting for a new installment for literally years so production began and very small bits and pieces on the shoot and the actors involved were released until the shoot wrapped then the announcement of a title change no longer would this new sequel be titled slumber party massacre iv but cheerleader massacre instead i was a bit disappointed but having a different title would be a very small price to pay for a film i had waited so long to happen i was still extremely intrigued and on the edge of my seat to see it br br maybe a month ago some very advanced copies of the film were released to some extremely lucky viewers who got to see the film months before its release date a few reviews leaked on the net and judging by them i began to become apprehensive on jim cheerleader massacre br br tonight i got to see the film for the first time in full length and i am still scratching my head as i read in another review cheerleader massacre is definitely not a new installment in the slumber party massacre series but a slasher flick all on its own and a bad one at that br br before i get into the specifics of the film let me first state what an enormous fan of jim films i am i always thought him to be a true camp genius with a winner almost every time yes his movies are made on shoestring budgets and don't contain the most top notch acting around but they're fun nonetheless they are what they are campy movies you watch when you want to have a good time from sorority house massacre ii to hard to die to chopping mall jim has produced the goods on more than one occasion one of the reasons why i was excited that this film would be his latest project br br cheerleader massacre does not in my opinion reflect any of the films i had seen this director writer create in the past firstly the production was extremely inexpensive and the film was actually shot on videotape something i had never seen jim do before the actors were mediocre to say the least and the story is almost laughable the killer is also extremely stupid and reminds you more of your cuddly old grandpa rather than an escaped lunatic br br of course the film is littered with female nudity this is a jim wynorski movie we're talking about folks but some of the boob shots seen here almost seem like they were done for time there is an extremely long shower scene containing the cheerleading coach that seems to go on forever and it greatly reflects a shower scene in jim's sorority house massacre ii the girl even bathes herself almost in the exact same way br br cheerleader massacre is also extremely cliched to say the least the opening scene is literally something we've all seen in hundreds of past slasher flicks a guy and a girl making out on the verge of their relationship when you guessed it they're hacked to pieces br br brinke stevens who i've never really considered to be a tremendous actress in the first place also gives one of her stiffest and forced performances in her small cameo we're talkin' possible cue cards here she recalls some incidents her character endured by the killer seen here twenty years ago to the police while footage of the original slumber party massacre plays why was footage from the original film used if it was definitely not a new i have no idea there is also two explosions seen in this movie that i am almost certain were recycled from other films br br not only does this film recycle footage from past films but it also recycles the scores from other films as well some of the music used in humanoids from the deep which was also recycled prior for the coroner can be heard throughout the entire film there are at least two more as well that i cannot identify but am certain have been used before br br after sitting through this film's horrendous acting ridiculous story non existent gore special effects and camcorder like quality i am having some serious concerns toward mister career has the man who delighted audiences with films in the past finally lost his niche only time will tell oh and let's not forget his newest film a new installment in the sorority house massacre films now titled final exam i think i'm seeing a pattern here
0	i can't understand why many seem to hate this br br this movie ties together many of the overlapping settings of the historical and biblical epics of the fifties using set pieces props and costumes similar to those seen in other movies here however the story attempts to run through all of human history with a frame story about the human race being on trial with a guilty verdict meaning h bombs will go off all over the world the prosecutor is the devil played with fiendish glee by vincent price ok so it's a little hokey calling the defender the spirit of all men but i think that's one of the things that gives this movie a sense of period charm the spririt of man is incidentally played quite well by ronald coleman in his last film it is also the last movie in which groucho harpo and chico marx all appear but not together groucho plays buying manhattan from the indians in a scene played purely for campy humor chico isn't funny at all as a monk who thinks the world is flat and harpo we are told is meant to be isaac newton discovering gravity most of the other performances are well done though br br other hokey things are that the trial is supposedly taking place in outer space which is depicted as a region of clouds and there is something called the great clock of outer space which when striking midnight may signal the end of the world br br but at its heart the movie addresses the problems of and the eternal question of whether man is basically good or basically evil and poses it in what i think is an interesting way also anyone who likes the look of costume epics of the fifties should like the look of this movie
0	before i start i need to inform you that i love horror films with a passion love them i have seen thousands and rarely does one come along that i do not like i am very forgiving of the horror genre one of the greatest lines in movie history is in the film ed wood where ed wood johnny depp freaks out and yells at the overly critical producers after they comment on plan 9's cheap sets and continuity problems you don't know anything haven't you ever heard of of disbelief ' well i try to bring that suspension of disbelief philosophy with me to every horror film i see and it usually works unfortunately it didn't work for me during the screening of cheerleader massacre br br strike one br br the first thing you'll notice about this film is that it is shot on video and has that crummy hand held home digital camera style the camera work and quality are so bad it makes daytime soaps look breathtaking in comparison in fact it makes troma and full moon video releases look good and that's bad br br strike two br br jim wynorski this filmmaker probably fancies himself a chip off the ol' corman but nothing could be further from the truth roger corman shot fast furious and under budget but was able to deliver a tight original film though wynorski delivers a cheap film he cheats his viewers and perhaps other artists as he steals entire pieces of james horner's humanoids from the deep and battle beyond the stars musical scores and inappropriately drops them into cheerleader massacre on the back of the box art and during the beginning credits the music score is falsely attributed to dan an extra in deathstalker ii you will also notice how cheerleader massacre jumps from video to film and back again as wynorski lifts entire scenes from both slumber party massacre and humanoids from the deep wynorski utilized this deception fourteen years earlier in his horrible version of not of this earth br br strike three you're out br br while cheerleader massacre does have some nudity 40 year olds playing teenagers and the grossest set of fake breasts that i have ever seen in a horror film ugh the murders are relatively bloodless what the heck is that all about the film is titled cheerleader massacre but a handful of off screen killings in my opinion does not add up to a massacre it doesn't even add up to a bad mosquito bite br br the film's story is fair enough unseen killer stalks a vanload of cheerleaders old gals playing teens until the van runs out of gas and the girls are forced to hold up in secluded two story mountain home i won't ruin the ending for you but this is one of those films where the person who is obviously the killer is not obviously the killer cheerleader massacre would have been great if it were shot on film directed by joseph and had special effects by tom savini instead it is an effect less shot on video travesty by jim wynorski ouch br br i beg of you please don't buy or rent this abomination if we keep supporting these clowns the more of this talentless video garbage they'll produce go out and rent the prowler the last house on dead end street delirium or the burning instead you'll be glad you did
0	even as a big fan of the low to no budget horror genre i couldnt find this disaster mildly amusing with horrible acting a painfully generic plot and no dimensional characters no matter how bored and drunk you are this one is not worth your 81 minutes don't make the same mistake i did rent something else anything else
0	ok i'll admit it i'm a huge fan of b movies back when michelle bauer linnea quigley and brinke stevens ruled the roost and back then even the bad movies were still good unfortunately this is a bad movie that is just plain bad even a small cameo by brinke stevens reprising her role as linda from slumber party massacre 21 years earlier doesn't help this one out a group of cheerleaders take refuge in a fancy cabin after their van breaks down a psycho stalks them one by one catching them in various states of undress bad script bad direction and horrible acting make this one plain bad skip this turkey and go rent slumber party massacre 1 2
0	i saw this on the shelves at the rental place and i have rented everything else so i said why not why not is because it's one of the worst movies i have ever seen it looks like it was shot with home camcorder i guess thats all the budget would allow there was less boobs in it than i thought there would be some people made it out to be soft porn with a few killings the funniest part of the whole movie to me is in the extra stuff there is a spot with deleted scenes well there is only one but it is the dumbest and i think it may have brought the rest of the movie down the girls get in a hot tub and find some chocolate syrup in the bathroom yes it ends up all over them great stuff this movie is very very bad don't bother
0	cheerleader massacre 2003 br br starring sheffield charity erin byron leonard johnson e eddie edwards samantha phillips gigi april flowers nikki fritz tylo tyler brad beck summer williams brinke stevens melissa br br plot a group of cheerleaders along with their coach and three guys are on their way to a game when suddenly their van breaks down and they take refuge in a nearby cabin soon they drink have sex and are brutally murdered one by one by an unseen killer br br the good a few laughs surprising identity of the killer a brinke stevens cameo my favorite scene from the slumber party massacre used as a flashback br br the bad i was excited about this film i loved all three slumber party massacre's because they were just so fun and i was expecting a lot from this slumber party sorority house massacre with scream tones but it just sucked they overdid it on the we're cheesy but proud thing and basically made soft core porn but with a good who dun it br br
0	this movie was just plain bad i can forgive low budget films for being low budget but it wasn't funny it wasn't smart it had no redeeming qualities at all unless you really like looking at fake boobs i don't know what this genre is classified as possibly erotic horror but if so well it's neither sexy nor scary tying it into the slumber party massacre movies was useless i'd never seen the previous movies myself and except for one scene that attempted to tie it together i had no way of knowing who the escaped psycho killer in was or why they were bothering with including him especially because and i don't think i'm revealing anything here it was really obvious that the cheerleader killer in this film wasn't him as for the actual murderer all i can say is lame really lame when you find out why the killer is offing the cheerleading squad and the coach and two stoners who happened to be on the bus trip they're taking and the bus driver just for the heck of it apparently you will sit there and go wtf worst excuse for a murdering spree ever the actors two guesses why i added the quotes generally looked like low budget porn rejects which they most likely were those poor people trying to break into legitimate film one of my friends had this to say about the actor who played buzzy the bus driver he looks like the guy who you know gets really into it and his face gets all red and stuff we had a good at that half of the other actors had all the skill and subtlety of the actors in the sixth grade production of annie i just saw the other half pretty much seemed bored to death especially in the deleted scene this one redhead and by ten minutes into this movie i was too br br a note the dvd contains one deleted scene which would've put the movie from r rated to nc 17 if it had been left in it was entirely gratuitous and as adult entertainment goes of no quality whatsoever the only reason to bother with it is to laugh a lot at the badness
0	originally harped as a sequel to the slumber party massacre series this film falls flat on it's face with a new title first off if you are going to include the word massacre in your film's title you better deliver this one certainly does not there is no gore no on screen murders and no chainsaw as the box art would lead you to believe instead we get a paper thin overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game only to be offed one by one again this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit why directors especially those doing direct to video flicks are afraid to show any gore is beyond me now i am not a huge fan of excessive gore but come on why else would anyone rent a movie called cheerleader massacre besides that problem the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness it looks cheap sounds cheap and the actors aren't all that good it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be but even that fails the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess folks if you run across this film walk away and go find the original slumber party massacre 2 out of 10
0	based on a joke once told by jim wynorski that's what i've read at the end of the closing credits well mr wynorski gotta have an awful sense of humour then this film is terrible really i loved the first two chapters of the slumber party massacre series the third film was quite useless but completely watchable compared to this piece of crap there's not even a driller killer and the plot the acting the characters the locations the events everything is boring absurd and laughable the only good reason to watch this turkey are the girls if this film were a porn i think it would have worked really much better the film lacks gore too the first scene the one in the tent could be bloodier and the scene with the headless guy knocking at the door lasted one second some moments of slight thrilling can't save a nonexistent plot buzzy lunk johnson seems to be the only real actor here i found him the only bearable character in this movie oh there's a nonsense part with brinke stevens who performed linda in the first slumber party massacre the police bother her to know more details about the killer but what we get is only some footage from the first film not a dialogue neither a monologue or anything from this still traumatized grown up girl who's forced to revive the worst 30 minutes of her life as she says giving us no clues at all about the murderer br br watch at your own risk
0	this movie was one of those movies where it completely fooled me into thinking that it was a cheesy 80's slasher flick based on the cover but it wasn't it was quite possibly one of the worst slasher films that i have ever seen the picture on the cover did not match any part or scene in the movie in fact it didn't involve a chainsaw not even the tag line fit the movie the film is about a group of cheerleaders and two potheads who escape to a desolate cabin in the cold woods for a weekend getaway however things get extra chilly when they start to get murdered by an unknown killer at the same time the local sheriff's department is hunting down a dangerous killer i'll name the problems in a list br br 1 the acting boy was it cheap and horribly bad it felt unnatural and it seemed as thought it was very scripted none of the actors seemed as though they tried to perform with good intentions and therefore they seemed silly and tired there was bad acting by all the characters in the movie so i won't point out specific people but i wills say that the stoners did a horrible job as well as the police and the cheerleaders which is not a surprise br br 2 the plot this story had set up a perfect storyline for good ol' fashion slasher flick but instead they peppered it with plot holes useless and unnecessary scenes and an overall stupid back story to the killer's intentions there were major plot holes including how the killer killed the last victim so quickly and yet still be there in the group of girls when it happened the ex con virtually served no purpose in the movie aside from being a useless plot device there was random and unnecessary sex and nudity sprinkled throughout it even for a b movie or my taste it was a bit too much as for the killer's intentions lets just say it was stupid and it makes no sense as to why she he is killing young girls plus there was also some very predictable kills that i saw coming about 30 miles away br br 3 the technical side the lighting was okay it certainly wasn't the worse lighting that i've seen in a movie but there were points where it was supposed to be dark but it looked more like the afternoon the house seemed darker with the lights on then with the lights off the camera work was average it didn't have any good establishing shots or amazing pans or zooms thought it did get the job done is building some suspense with it's framing br br overall this movie in the sense of plot character development and performance was a huge disappointment and a waste of my time what i thought would have been a great slasher flick turned out to be one of the worse movies that i have ever seen the acting was really bad and wooden there was hardly any sense in the plot and there was no emotion to this film however the technical aspect of this film saved it for me because if the camera work or the lighting was bad then i would have turned off the dvd player and popped in something else i would recommend this movie to those who enjoy really cheesy b movies as well as those who follow cult classics because this movie certainly is i would partially recommend this film for those who enjoy 80s slasher flicks but for me this movie was pitiful and utterly horrible
0	like curse of the komodo was for the creature feature genre jim cheerleader massacre is a straight faced parody of slasher movies such as slumber party massacre a psycho who has escaped from his padded cell he was sent to the loony bin thanks to killing eleven people is working across the mountainous backwoods countryside of bobcat county attacking anyone within his reach a van load of cheerleaders their teacher two equipment hands and the driver are on their way to a contest when their vehicle runs out of fuel while taking a supposed short cut to avoid having to turn back luckily the group find a cabin up ahead but fall prey to a killer who attacks each victim one by one the psycho loose in the county couldn't have killed one girl because she was in the locker room while he was elsewhere which means someone among their own is the culprit meanwhile the sheriff of the county and his deputy pursue the whereabouts of their psycho while also trying to find the location of the missing cheerleader squad br br shot cheap on video wynorski does what he can with the limited budget having to find clever ways to assassinate characters off screen without the luxury of properly effective special effects in other words lots of melons were stabbed the sound effect used to let us know that certain victims whisked away into the darkness by a black gloved hand died savagely wynorski incorporates a scene from slumber party massacre regarding brinke stevens' character linda her being pursued by a killer with a drill that killer and linda both wound up dead but i guess wynorski wanted to connect his film to that one albeit rather poorly still it was nice to see her even if it was a glorified cameo sheffield as ms the teacher of the students in trouble has a long bathing scene in the shower her naked body and fake breasts the girls who make up the cheerleaders are a bit unconvincing because their obviously in their twenties aging soft core porn stars samantha philips as a police officer who is attacked by the psychopath she's searching for and nikki fritz a hiker who is victimized while jogging across a dangerous bridge surprisingly don't have to strip wynorski vets bill monroe as sheriff murdock and melissa as a detective who assists murdock on his case contribute to the sub plot of the search for john colton's serial killer mcpherson interesting enough the mcpherson story serves as a as in truth the meat of the film is devoted to the cheerleading group and their perilous situation i'm not sure if slasher fans will embrace this movie because it takes too long for the kills to flare up and when they eventually enter the picture the violence isn't potent or shocking enough to satisfy
0	when i was 8 years old and going through my marx brothers phase my father read in the tv guide that they were showing the marx brothers film the big store late on friday night and set the vcr to tape it for me when i woke up on saturday due no doubt to a in the tv guide my father and i discovered the story of mankind had been recorded instead br br the big store was probably one of the least funny of all the marx brothers movies and nevertheless it stands as one of the century's finest works of cinema when compared with the story of mankind i can almost justify tv error in that the marx brothers groucho chico and harpo appear in both movies although in the story of mankind they are divided up into a series of unrelated scenes groucho plays peter chico plays some guy talking to christopher columbus and harpo plays isaac newton harpo's scene lasts about half a minute chico only has two or three lines groucho's scene is at least funny but horribly racially insensitive by today's standards the rest of the movie doesn't bear mentioning they trotted out some of the finest actors of the day and made them recite total garbage what a disappointment br br tv guide i sent you a nice letter i'm still waiting for an apology br br for the record the big store has a wonderful bit of physical comedy with the marx brothers on roller skates and a couple of songs by virginia o'brien i was really looking forward to seeing it
0	hard to get in depth with this kind of stuff since there is absolutely no existing shred of even partial reason for watching it let alone expressing an opinion on it i don't know anything about this watched it for a laugh and stayed for the fake breasts apparently it's an unofficial sequel to 1982's slumber party massacre which i did enjoy as a fun slasher cheerleader massacre looks like a late nite soft core cinemax porno and not surprisingly chicks like nikki fritz and samantha phillips prolific t a actresses are in this plenty of nekkid hooters and not much else a group of 20 something high school cheerleaders two random guys and the fat stupid comic relief slob become stranded in the country and find a house where they plan to stay the night the recently escaped slumber party killer is in the area and begins killing them off there's no gore or originality and i wouldn't say the nudity is a real selling point since this is just about as boring a slasher movie can be absolutely terrible
0	a movie like this makes me appreciate the work that professional actors do i think movie goers in general are a little too hard on professional actors and are ready to bash them for the most minuscule reasons just watch a couple minutes of massacre and trust me you'll change your views a razzie would be almost a compliment for these no talent actors but then again it's a jim wynorski film wynorski is a popular director of these ultra low budget b movies having worked with roger corman on many an occasion the problem with this movie is it actually tries to develop a plot and when you have actors delivering lines like they're reading letters off an eye chart how am i supposed to care in bare wench 2 he didn't try to develop a plot he simply tried to make a softcore porn goofy takeoff on the blair witch project it was fun and it was titillating cheerleader is no fun there are a couple obligatory female nude scenes but they are few and far between so it's not even worth enjoying on an erotic level i must say the worst scene is the one where nikki fritz walks across a bridge that's about to collapse first of all her character didn't have to walk across that bridge second of all as the bridge starts creaking rather than try her best to run across she just stands there and acts helpless and top it off we don't actually see the bridge collapse because the filmmakers made this for a budget of 2 dollars unlike a lot of b horror films this one's actually boring and that's what makes it the worst of all bad movies one of the few bright spots was lunk johnson who's probably the most natural actor in the film though certainly no more than halfway decent he was funny in bare wench 2 and had some funny scenes in this movie too
0	i've never expected too much from a film by trashy b movie director jim wynorski a silly premise some cheapo effects and a bit of nudity from some busty babes and i'm usually fairly happy br br well cheerleader massacre delivers on the former and definitely the latter but unfortunately is a tad light when it comes to the splatter and when a film has the word in the title and on the gore then houston we have a problem br br movie centres on a group of cheerleaders who along with their teacher mini bus driver and a couple of guys become stranded in the mountains during a snowstorm they make their way on foot to a deserted mountain retreat where they find food and shelter and a crazy killer who wants them all dead from the outset good old jim ensures that his film features plenty of scenes loaded with t a and includes the obligatory shower scene along with numerous other moments in which tasty women get nekkid including a spot of raunchy softcore sex and a very gratuitous three babes in a hot tub scene none of the women look young enough to be cheerleaders and are never even seen in their outfits but who cares about such details when they're all too willing to strip off in the name of art br br i do care however about the movie's numerous lacklustre deaths with such an extremely lurid title i had been hoping for some inventive bloodletting to go with all of the bums bush and boobs instead practically all of the killings occur off screen or feature next to no gore only a silly post decapitation scene achieved with cheap as chips cgi comes anywhere near to delivering the goods br br still if you're feeling in the mood for some titillation or a bit of slasher silliness minus the grue then at 82 minutes at least cheerleader massacre won't be too much of a waste of your time
0	cheerleader massacre was supposed to be the fourth installment of the slumber party massacre series if that's what they were doing which it is considering one actress from the original returns in a small cameo role they have failed miserably and made by far the worst installment of the cheerleader massacre seamlessly combines bad acting a horrible plot a dumb killer dull and boring deaths boring scenery and hideous camera work to make it one of the worst films ever made did i already mention how bad it was don't get me wrong this cheesy and retarded excuse for a horror film is nowhere near as bad as napoleon dynamite but it is undeniably a horrible movie br br cheerleader massacre is an exact polar opposite of the original slumber party massacre stay away by all means this movie is utter garbage
0	slasher sequel fourth slumber part massacre film concerns a group of nubile cheerleaders stranded in a mountainous cabin in the snow being offed by a deranged killer typical slasher elements for hardcore slasher fans gore wonderfully gratuitous female nudity no plot though it wears out its welcome eventually even at its short length br br original star brinke stevens makes a cameo which only seems to be there for the sake of including her in the movie
0	stop me if you hard this one before some cheerleaders their coach and a couple guys are trapped within a cabin in the woods when an unseen killer kills them off one by one shame on me after i totally wrote off jim wynorski after the horrid busty cops it was a long time coming as his last truly good film was 1990's hard to die i still for some reason got my hopes up for a supposed sequel to slumber party massacre sadly even my mediocre expectations were not met this outing is not nearly as fun as even the three previous films in the franchise and yes i'm including 2 that should tell you something furthermore how can you have a slasher film with this little gore i mean come on now br br my grade d br br eye candy ricky ray gets topless april flowers and charity show boobs and buns in a shower scene april gets nude again later in the film and sheffield gets topless and bares buns
0	mad scientist professor drinks a potion he has up in his laboratory but is turned into a blood craving vampire instead when dr pays a visit sees a picture of wife shabnam and after turning into a vampire heads for shabnam to make her his bride brother discovers the grave of the vampire and his brother at castle and kills his brother with a knife to free his soul succeeds in putting the bite on shabnam and once turned she tries to lure her young niece away brother races against time to put a stop to the vampire curse almost put me to sleep the plot is extremely slow but more or less follows bram stoker's famous novel the suspense is completely absent as is the gore and nudity the film is only recommended for curious horror fans that want to see the second horror film made in pakistan after madman from 1964
0	i normally finish every movie or book i start even if they're poor just 'cause i hate giving up on them this was so poorly made i was in disbelief br br i'm not just looking for spielberg magic i rent foreign films and i rent really old sci fi's most recently soylent green worth the rent i like both hollywood action and slower moving character development different films need to be approached differently to be appreciated i could find no redeeming element to this one the action was so wooden i wasn't the least bit on edge the character development was virtually absent you're not left feeling sorry for anyone or even identifying with them finally there were so many pieces that just didn't add up br br don't waste your time better to watch paint dry
0	do you hear that sound that's the sound of h g wells rolling over in his grave between this version and spielberg's cinematic abortion it's been a tough year for the classic novel but at least steven got a few things right compared to this hello the ships weren't big insects they had names they were tripods and the aliens worked in threes the ships and the aliens were all wrong you don't really get to see the aliens until the end the effects and the cast work fine but these actors are much better then this movie deserves the bulk if not all the movie is the howell character wondering through the devastation meeting one person they join him and he looses them for one reason or the other there's not more then two people on camera at any given moment though most of the movie it's like if they filmed three at once it would put the movie over budget or something so fat the only and mean only watchable adaptation of the war of the worlds story is the george pal version way back in the 1950s the black hole
0	it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in 2005 this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise didn't they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting br br writer director david michael didn't have steven spielberg's budget and c thomas howell is not tom cruise this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed million worldwide br br the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett who played a pastor that was giving up on his god br br gary busey was creepy as an army lt
0	irwin allen's first venture into all star spectacle was one all star disaster the story of mankind contains some of the most incredible casting decisions of all time virginia mayo as the blond cleopatra dennis hopper chewing the scenery with napoleon peter lorre dining on the scenery for weeks as nero marie wilson as marie antoinette as a roadshow marilyn monroe that's just some of them br br the film also is known for being the last film which featured all three of the marx brothers though they all have different roles chico plays a monk who is christopher columbus's confidante groucho the indians out of manhattan island as peter and most astonishing of all harpo marx as sir isaac newton who discovers gravity when an apple him on the bean br br holding all these portrayals together is a story where mankind itself is being judged a super h bomb is about to be discovered and let loose will do in the world's population it's judgement day a coming br br but mankind has its advocates and detractors speaking for the prosecution is old scratch who's been bringing the worst out in man for centuries in the form of vincent price but man has his good side as well and who better than ronald colman to demonstrate man at his most civilized best colman and price plead their case before the judge played by cedric hardwicke br br in those three individuals you have some of the finest speaking voices the english language ever knew when the film is on them as they each bring out the exhibits for their case it's a pleasure to listen to then when the focus is on the individual stories you want to scream in agony br br what was irwin allen driving at i'm still trying to figure it out was he deliberately camping it up with some of these casting decisions if it was satire it just doesn't get off the ground br br this was ronald colman's farewell film and while it's hardly something i'd like to go out on i can't think of any man who could have stated the case for civilization any better br br so when you see the story of mankind fast forward through some of the exhibits and treasure every moment the advocates are before the judge
0	why does c thomas howell do these movies cruise one time co star does a huge blockbuster of wotw and howell follows with this lame effort br br where do i start here production values i'll start with the good stuff the look and feel of some of the scenes in this movie are not too bad to be honest the set ups are okay in spots and the direction not too bad br br script terrible a series of clunky scenes that could have been put in any order you like permeate throughout the movie the amount of times the scene faded to black and a second later in the same room was uncountable very poor storyline but so was the cruise wotw takes some blame but an abysmal screenplay kills it off br br special fx okay i don't want to be too harsh here as i imagine the budget was smaller than cruise's lunch bill but in the overall context of the film the effects are badly done some shots are quite impressive mainly far off destruction shots of bridges washington liner but in the main the alien machines and tentacles themselves are dreadful also the camera quality is fuzzy on some shots and cuts away entirely on others br br acting i'm a fan of howell but as he has reduced himself to acting in these low budget flicks he has succumbed to the over acting bug a long time ago look at his performance in the hitcher and compare it to this movie there is no comparison he overdoes his facial expressions his flailing arms and legs where did he get that running style and for a final coup de gras look at the scene where he loses the photo of his family hysterical but after saying all that he is still the best actor on show here busey is embarrassing to look at and peter green zed is truly dead now baby mumbles incoherently through his one and only scene i honestly could not understand one word he said i even went so far as trying to enable the subtitles on that scene but the dvd did not have subtitles this seems to be a real keep it in the family affair too as son the director's wife and the line producer all make it into the film none of them are good br br direction not bad but not good either br br score dismal br br overall a lame duck effort that will do nothing for howell in his attempt to make it back to the big time he should take a look at rourke and try to figure out how he made in back to the a list but if he keeps doing stuff like this he won't have a career soon enough br br 3 10
0	one of my favorite bum actors c tom howell stars in this tepid remake of wotw he runs around a lot while a cgi generated spider like machine goes around killing everyone the budget for this one obviously was pretty low it also was one of the asylum productions have you seen any of those yikes i am not sure why anyone would have made this while the big budget spielberg version was slaying them at the box office and if truth be told neither version is all that hot the george pal version from the 1950s remains the best representation of the h g wells novel primitive special effects and all perhaps because gene barry was much more convincing in the lead than howell or tom cruise
0	it is hard to imagine anyone making a tom cruise film look good hard indeed but this one makes him look good very good actually it makes him look like sir john gielgud celebrating very good acting day with a bravura performance br br the acting from the entire ensemble struggled to rise above the risible and failed the fault was in part let us be fair that the plot bore as much resemblance to the hg wells original as did the butchered carcasses of the human victims in the film to their living predecessors both were bloodied and violated remnants of more attractive predecessor but to describe a plot such as this to be a bit holy is to say of the colander my this kitchen has a remarkable lot of holes unless that is holes are your bag in which case this film will commend itself to you br br the fault in the other part was that these were demotivated jobbing dvd actors who knew full well one assumes that this was their exhibition that would wind up on the 5 dvd shelf and overpriced at that br br so should you watch it why yes of course you should you are a miserable sinner and deserve punishment
0	my paraphrase above of the slogan on the back of the dvd box sums it up this film was far more horrible than horrifying br br this is the worst film i have seen in as long as i can remember my wife accidentally rented it thinking it was the tom cruise version the laughably crude special effects on the menu screen should have tipped us off the gratuitous nudity already in the opening scene made us more suspicious br br but as the film wore on we were benumbed by clumsy acting both over and under acting non continuity in directing and editing trite writing and crude special effects we gave up after a half hour or less after starting this badly it couldn't possibly get better br br since i despise reviews that pan a product without giving specifics here are some examples of the film's especially awkward moments even if they amount to spoilers br br the lead says good bye to his young old son as the latter is about to drive away with his mother the latter prickly because it's their wedding anniversary but the lead is not coming along due to sudden business the son asks quietly worried will i ever see you again perhaps it's supposed to come off as a premonition but it instead comes off as incongruous behavior for a child that age in that situation br br a huge alien spacecraft has crashed to earth and sits in an enormous crater a crowd of people stands nearby peering at it uneasily but otherwise looking generally one woman finally says it's gi br br after this craft has laid waste a village and its inhabitants the lead and a bystander now alone near their homes and trying to load their cars for an escape have an exchange something like this in a quietly puzzled tone br br what was that thing anyway i dunno br br a crowd attempting to evacuate over a bridge is blocked by the military since part of the bridge is destroyed when an alien ship shoots an explosive at it the crowd starts to run away seemingly only because a director told them to and not because they're frightened or in any kind of real danger let alone unusual circumstances br br and so forth writing about the film falls short of the experience of actually seeing it but please please save yourself the bother even if your morbid curiosity is piqued the film is so bad it can't even be enjoyed as unintentional humor versus say king vidor's solomon sheeba starring yul brynner wearing a wig life is too short to waste watching such nonsense there must be something more productive and enjoyable to do like walking the dog or cleaning a birdcage
0	this movie is so bad they should burn the master you cant spoil the plot because this movie doesn't have one the graphics are less than fake they're horrendous then you've got the rambling through the countryside star work a holic who bounces between his own lunacy the mad rantings of the crazed preacher when he finally makes it to dc they don't even have the decency to kill him the monster which you don't know at the time is already dieing but how who knows of course it has the ultimate sappy ending everybody else on the planet is dead or dieing but his family a handful of survive imagine that this will be the movie that c thomas howell will go to his grave regretting he ever starred in it probably gives him nightmares
0	after watching the steven spielberg version of war of the worlds in theaters i was hooked on the topic i could think back to my favorite parts in the movie people getting vaporized people panicking fire explosions it was all so great br br so a few weeks later i enter my video store and i see david michael version of war of the worlds on the shelf it couldn't have come onto dvd that fast could it i said to myself i read the back of the case and saw c thomas howell instead oh i remember him from the outsiders so i thought it might have been a try br br i was wrong dead wrong as soon as i watched the opening credits watched them take forever i knew something was wrong something was going to disappoint me in this film and it did the whole movie stunk like a cheese sauce that was left in the fridge for 10 years from the acting the special effects stupid looking tripod things when people get vaporized they turn into orange skeletons and most of all it didn't even come close to being as interesting as the spielberg version in fact the plot was boring and there were only 3 scenes of destruction what the crap i ended up being so bored that i had to fast forward through the movie until i found something that looked even remotely interesting and nothing was really br br my advice don't even touch this movie stay 100 feet away from it the spielberg version is coming out near the end of this month buy that one but please please i beg of you stay away from this turd before it smothers us all
0	this movie looked like the out takes of the deleted scenes from a high school film class experiment it made no sense it was well acted but i only felt sorry for the characters because they had to appear in this slop the alien machines were created with i technology and no creativity they were crabs the under lit and barely seen aliens were frisbees with legs where were the tripods the editing done by director writer producer make up artist jumps all over the place with some scenes repeated numerous times most of it seemed to have been filmed in the wake of hurricane katrina the next time wants to make a movie someone needs to slap him in 2005 alone he produced 11 movies that doesn't include the writing editing directing or visual effects credits on other movies if the rest are like this snot load then he's just making fun of us this was a slapped together rip off of spielberg's movie nothing more i'm looking forward to x man the have eyes
0	i wish i could have given this a zero sure i'll admit that i also mistakenly picked this up thinking it was the spielberg version a clever marketing ploy releasing it at this time and being prominently displayed at the video store however i was willing to give it a go anyhow i wish i wouldn't have br br where do i start i have read some of the other reviews here and have to say i disagree with anyone who thinks any of the acting was good sorry even c thomas howell stunk none of the performances were any good not a one br br even if the acting was decent the dialog is terrible and dick skinners just doesn't really cut it br br now as for the story well it was terribly adapted and must have been edited by a 5 year old the main character is constantly running into situations that are way convenient or at least appear that way due to how the film was edited together for example he is trying to get to a place called new hope to find his brother during a brief break someone just randomly hands him the directions to new hope what the hell is that when he gets to new hope he just happens to stumble onto his dying brother then there is the part where he has been traveling away from his destination for days and just happens to come across the car his wife and son were traveling in he was going in a different direction then they were how did that car end up where he was he has a black back pack that randomly appears and disappears throughout the film there are parts of the film where the characters are just waking up in the morning and then two seconds later it is night or worse yet dusk of the next day i also can't forget the main character and the preacher falling through the floor of a house for no reason we don't find out until later that an alien has landed on the house which reminds me of the moment when they are walking and suddenly find themselves standing under an alien they didn't notice what the hell the aliens are like two stories tall with huge bodies and multiple legs how could they miss it there is one point where an alien kills a random citizen supposedly by spitting some kind of junk at him but you never see the stuff fly it just appears on the guys face the special effects in general are terrible the entire movie is like a bad train wreck when we finally get to the end after this guy trying to get to dc to find his family they just appear no searching no asking questions nothing just oh there you are i am so happy the end br br i am sorry if my review rambles a bit but this movie was so bad i had a hard organizing my contempt please save yourself the time and don't watch this sneakily displayed pile of cinematic stench it is quite possibly the worst film i have ever witnessed i would rather have been getting a root canal it would have been less painful
0	i am not a big fan of the spielberg cruise version of this film and so i must throw in with the more humble version c thomas had more heart and more sympathy that cruise in the lead role at least in my opinion now this is hard to imagine until you strip away everything thing in the spielberg version that cost more than a thousand dollars there would be nothing left no special effects no sets no cruise because i doubt that anything cost more than a cool grand in the david michael version so comparing apples to i guess i have to go with the at least it gives independent movies a shot at the epic science fiction disaster market
0	h g wells' war of the worlds by director david michael is a slightly less than average flick which isn't too bad if one considers the budget he had to work with only 1 million for this budget the production value wasn't too bad the best part of it is the visual effects i was thoroughly impressed with the cgi considering the budget and sound design the less then stellar parts of this film are the story which is very prolonged at best but again i think this is because of the budget they had they had to prolong certain scenes to create the feature length 97 minutes the acting again it's because the actors had no story to work with very few exceptional camera shots and the music however again i can let the negative parts go for the most part only because this film was made for a meager budget and still had good production value still you should d see it for the sake of seeing how a low budget version of war of the worlds can be made even with flaws 4 out of 10
0	pretty stereotyped good looking cast the story loops in a wide and confusing arc leading you down a number of garden paths without attendant fairies before plummeting to an end that feels you leaving hollow br br if you are after a film that has climax or ends with a satisfying thump this is going to be a disappointment inspite of the main character's overt sexuality i felt that he was androgynous lacking a clear male persona rather like his lacking of a clear french persona even though he is laid naked or rather sat naked at the end of the film the viewer is as unaware as the character as to motivations that little thing called plot probably a stereotypically english speaking point of view at least if you take the side of the film
0	while it has been many decades since i last read mr wells war of the worlds or the time machine or any other of his works i believe that they were all set in london or at least in england this grade b c movie is set in the eastern part of the united states as was orson welles excellent radio adaptation 67 years ago however this film exhibits none of the quality of the narrative style of the mercury playhouse program thomas emoting would not be acceptable in most high school drama clubs i was actually embarrassed for him his rolling around in the grass on the hill crying my family my family was almost laughable as was his reaction to the death of his brother of the three film versions of the story that i have seen this was by far the worst with gene barry's 1950's version the best this was the first time i ever saw a machine monster dripping sticky saliva such as did the creature in the alien
0	i felt like i was watching an example of how not to make a movie i think the director filmed it in his back yard there was no real plot br br terrible script br br terrible acting br br the worst production i have ever witnessed a couple of bad cg effects and then the rest of the movies was spent walking around in what looked like a junk yard br br i don't normally write reviews to movies but was moved to warn everyone about this one br br life is to short to waste your time with this movie
0	spoilers br br br br br br br br br br this is br br this is not br br practically everyone is written horribly out of character when it comes to characterization the only bright spot is the friendship between and ryoko br br also the villainess is not punished for her actions which amount to mind control rape if a male villain had done to one of the women what does to then he would have rightfully so painfully bought it at the end of the movie dying horribly and the audience would have cheered but not only does pay no price for her crimes ryoko actually forgives and understands her actions no the real ryoko would have disintegrated her for what had done to her beloved the audience i saw this with myself included all booed audibly at this scene br br anime fans avoid this movie fans avoid this movie even harder
0	in love 2 is the third movie it seemed that its creators took elements from the first two to make this one at the risk of giving out spoilers is kidnapped and the team has to get him back nothing new there a past love of is the bad guy that was done in the second movie the battle between and ryoko and is starting to get boring the movie has almost no action scenes in it and very little comedy i personally don't know what it's makers were thinking i gave this movie a vote of 4
0	there were but two reasons for me to see this film first of all stellan and marisa tomei were in it who are both good actors and i had nothing better to do while seeing the film though i immediately thought of something better to do sleep this film is a complete waste of time it is a standard ex cop flick the ex copper is the best there ever was but he was fired he keeps doing stuff on his own to the dislike of his former buddies and he saves the day all big surprises not go to sleep or if you have insomnia try this one br br 4 out of 10
0	the perfect 6 step recipe for a boring middle of the road movie br br 1 take one burnt out rogue ex cop with a bad attitude yet a sensitive touch as well closet concert pianist with a pet cat br br 2 add some cool retro gadgets like a beat up porsche 356 a roaring bike a heavily patched leather jacket and a pair of cowboy boots with holes in the soles br br 3 mix in a couple of free spirit locations e g a trendy sea side apartment and a dedicated diner booth for an office br br 4 spice it up with deep socio romantic themes such as a post divorce traumatized but finally remarrying ex wife a secretly admiring and therefore forgiving waitress a pair of former colleague cops only one of whom is really a complete jerk and a best buddy getting iced over a suitcase full of illegal br br 5 let it simmer for about 90 minutes in a fast paced though not necessarily logical or internally consistent sequence of mediocre action scenes cheap tender moments and sluggish wise cracks br br 6 serve with either a comfortable pillow to sleep straight through it all or something a bit more interesting don't worry even the yellow pages will do
0	wow br br reading through these comments i see a remarkable socio cultural clash theme emerging between the us and the dutch the us p o v appears to be that this is quite a good little movie parker being a likable hero the story a light hearted rendition of what could be a glorified form of reality br br all three dutch reviewers view the world through a totally different pair of glasses it seems they categorically and in surprisingly similar terms agree the movie is a disaster br br far be it from me to take sides in what appears to be a dispute between cultures on this item as wide apart as the ocean that separates them geographically still based on factual observation i saw the movie with my very own eyes i suspect the dutch are not too far off the mark br br parker kane is poorly made utterly boring and really not worth the celluloid that was no doubt wasted in its creation
0	poor old robert taylor other than the feds nothing much has gone his way this almost shocker is a wasteful ninety minutes and not much more it's one of those cheesy detective crime flicks with the narrative of the lead character the whole way through usually that's reserved for comedies these days but this film takes itself way too seriously a pity australian films particularly in the 2000 01 periods have been of exceptional quality overall but i suppose there have got to be a few misses why even make a film like this that obviously isn't going to be any good
0	the funniest thing about fortunes is that one of the main characters lewis urbaniak has writer's block and apparently so did the screenplay writer for the film this is sad as well as i guess by large this is supposed to be a comedy or dramedy but that's the funniest thing i can remember from watching this br br three friends go out and drink one night on the way home two decide to get their fortunes told by a gypsy as they call her those two lives fall apart while the third friend stands by then nothing happens br br i hope i didn't spoil the movie there but really this extremely low budget bad quality movie had some kind of idea when it started but quickly into the depths of hell yeah i'm being harsh honestly it wasn't that bad it was just blah br br the aforementioned writer was annoying to watch though he delivered maybe one or two of the only two funny lines the clichéd ladies man the only one that didn't get his fortune told was just annoying the only bright spot was the remaining friend the married dad whose fortune was told that something big was to happen to his son and he needed to be prepared he was funny genuine and clearly the best actor in the movie unfortunately that's not saying much br br perhaps i'm being too cruel heck they got the ambition to make a movie went and got funding and accomplished something unfortunately however i can't at all recommend the film on the basis there's hundreds of thousands of other independent movies that have hundreds of thousands better ideas and executions this one was literally 10 minutes of an idea stretched another 81 boring minutes
0	this is just a very bad film miles looks as if she is in pain during the sex scenes and the acting is wooden it also drags on slowly and never really finds a point to it all one of the worst films that i have ever seen
0	is less funny and less interesting than any episode of dobie gillis where is their bob denver do they even have a dwayne hickman a french man moves to barcelona to attend classes he moves in with some other students who are no more interesting than himself and they do and say uninteresting things this movie is unbelievably bland the only bright spot was a pretty french girl who played a belgian lesbian she places her hands behind her head and reveals shaven not the usual of dark smelly hair but bare armpits does not a good movie make was funny so was la cage aux and le placard makes you wonder what is going wrong with french comedy
0	kk should stick to singing this whole movie was a big bore i can't understand the viciousness of the boys and the romance between miles and kk the sex scenes were uninspired too the ending was awful unresolved there needs to be reason to murder and the whole voyeurism of the boy was weird the mother always wrestled with the boy don't you think he would get some rather freudian with her and why didn't someone teach kk how to speak with inflection instead of monotone br br glad i only paid 1 00 to rent this br br
0	the movie is an adaptation of a japanese story by the respected author yukio mishima it simply doesn't make the transition into a credible story about brits and americans br br the story moves sluggishly especially the part where miles and kristofferson are separated and the director fills in with the cliched shots of a ship's cutting through the waves and the little route line filling in on the maps while their letters are heard in the film moves so languidly that i even fast forwarded through the sex and masturbation scenes which although long are not really either passionate or erotic the film did achieve a measure of notoriety when kristofferson's then wife divorced him for extra curricular activities with miss miles during the filming i guess they enjoyed the sex scenes but it isn't quite the same for a viewer br br there are no characters to hang on to the sexually frustrated widow is unlikeable the little kid is detestable kristofferson is amiable enough but he just doesn't have the acting skills to bring much to the role although perhaps we don't really want get too involved with him considering his ultimate fate br br as for the little kid well he kinda falls in with a bad crowd after his dad dies and they help him plot some evil against the man who enters his mum's life now this is a really bad crowd they don't just and smoke dope they slip a mickey to a cat and it this is shown in gory detail but of course this is only practice so they can do the same thing to kristofferson br br so the movie mostly moves slowly with no characters to relate to and when something does happen it is unrelentingly morbid br br the ending is about as unsatisfying as any movie you'll ever see br br this all might have made some sense if the japanese locale and cultural context had been retained as it stands it is just abysmal br br
0	distasteful british film from a japanese novel about a very troubled young man who comes under the influence of a hitler like classmate and plots to harm his widowed mother's lover a couple of good scenes sarah miles discovering her son has been peeping at her and confronts him in anger the pasty faced lad trying to ensnare kris kristofferson to his demise by being extra friendly but what's the point beyond provoking shock ugly and uneasy it doesn't showcase anyone involved to any advantage especially kristofferson whose hollow stares and usual gravelly talk is out of place in a psychological mishmash like this one coldly without any sense of its own absurdity director lewis john seems to believe a circumstance like this could actually happen if he's right that's far more shocking than anything in sailor from
0	1st watched 1 1 2003 3 out of 10 dir henri verneuil sober drama about a well to do doctor who gets into trouble carrying on a relationship with a younger woman whom his family brings in to live with them as well as being married to another in the same household his searching for happiness is not clear but they do bring out the reason for his unhappiness rather well by displaying the overbearing trait of the females in his wife's line well played but predictable drama
0	like i'm sure other people have said this guy isn't a very worthwhile subject sure our society has a morbid fascination with death and it's funny hearing him talk about how much he smokes and how much coffee he drinks but he's into giving himself an unworthy mystique anyway the bottom line is that he's a moron racist using feeble methods to try to disprove the mountain of evidence of the holocaust and as such he should be forgotten by time but morris is in love with any kind of which normally i wouldn't fault him for
0	i saw this video at a friends house and it was the lamest thing i have seen ever i lost a lot of the little respect i had for nin very boring and the music is as equally interesting dont waste your time unless you are a hardcore nin fan
0	i saw this in the cinema during its initial release and can only ask has the world gone mad the seemingly overwhelming positive response is mind boggling for this poorly written predictable clap trap br br stephan elliot is no genius film maker as evidenced by the consistent bombs he has produced since check out 'welcome to 'eye of the br br i can only assume making a film dealing with the gay transexual culture has people assuming that to dislike the film is an offense to this sector of the populace aren't we smarter than that what about an interesting script and good performances ok so the 3 leads do alright considering what they have to work with but this film includes the worst performance by a child actor i have ever seen not helped by appalling dialogue and a really lame resolution that you can see a mile off br br this is a disappointing film and one that doesn't deserve the overblown reputation it has garnered
0	basically a road movie the gay transsexual and other gender bender themes are rather disturbing particularly when the child is involved you do have to hand it to the costume designers as for the actors the only one i was familiar with was terence stamp i suppose it was a very good performance out of his or anyone's normal range the movie as a whole was shallow just a vehicle for the clever bitchy banter all in all i recommend this one
0	terence stamp can carry off anything but this is still a shallow one dimensional movie it's nice to look at so are the actors and if you're into drag queens i guess you might like it a lot but the plot and characters are as thin as cardboard it's one of those politically correct movies that warps everything else in order to make a 'minority seem warm and cuddly it gets a lot of mileage out of bitchy dialogue which is amusing in this sanitized form i guess br br ninety percent of the action is parading around in gaudy costumes in incongruous situations the dramatic content is a token appendage they hardly try to get you to take it seriously
0	this film tries hard but fails perhaps to non australian audiences it may have appeal as a travelogue but to the native it is merely tedious br br anyone who lives here knows broken hill is a rough tough isolated mining town if a couple of fruits turn up in drag well it's all so predictable where have i come across that well worn theme before oh yes town mouse and country mouse spare us br br i kept hoping it would improve but after the broken hill scene i could see where this was heading and so turned off the tv and went to bed
0	i have seen previous movies from cédric and therefore expected a quality movie with psychological depth having been an erasmus student myself and having visited several friends studying abroad i know very well what it means to spend some time abroad and mix with different cultures at the same time yes it is great fun because of that i thought i should not miss this movie unfortunately i was disappointed to find that fails to satisfy in many ways the characters are stereotyped the events are trite and the story is shallow although there are quite a few familiar situations they are irritatingly cliché and do not go beyond the trivial events this made the movie uninteresting to watch and gave me a strong been there done that don't you have anything to add feeling apart from that the movie lacks a firm story it sometimes looks more like a documentary or 'real life' show than a seriously made movie br br however i can imagine that if you haven't studied or travelled abroad this might be fun to watch
0	humm an italian movie starred by david hasselhoff and linda blair i wasn´t expecting very much to be honest and in fact i took even less than i was expecting it doesn´t mean this movie is the worst i have seen because i have watched worse things than this but the plot was most of the times confusing and uninteresting and some good gore scenes are the only thing saving this apart from that you are going to love some special effects they are really cheesy and bad now i only want to watch troll 3 by this same director sure it is not going to be worse than that
0	the costumes are outrageous and the australian outback scenery is fun to view but there is an edge to this story a mean edge about drag queens i particularly noticed that in terrence stamp's character ralph bernadette bassenger perhaps that was appropriate since there is nothing good guy like about ralph bernadette and his group of queens br br once again we get the strong liberal slant which says anything goes and if you're not with it or in this case pro homosexual then you are a gasp br br what's really disturbing is the ending when a young boy goes off with his alternative lifestyle father and embraces his gay lifestyle not because it fit the story but because it fit the agenda of the people who wrote the script pitiful
0	this is one of those inoffensive and mildly entertaining little movies that strive to make you to like them more but like so many others it's material isn't strong enough to successfully fill a couple of hours br br the pitch is promising three drag queens drive a bus through the outback from sydney to alice springs they run into lots of trouble with homophobic locals with the engine with their pasts br br the real trouble is with the dialogue the leads are fine though continual becomes tiresome but the one liners and epithets feel forced where they should be casually thrown away characters shouldn't laugh at their own gags br br writer director elliott also feels the need to pile on the pleasingly incongruous shots of flamboyant drag costumes against stark desert backgrounds like so much cheap make up for a movie about self confidence and just being yourself it all seems very insecure with itself
0	priscilla queen of the desert is always being trotted out as a masterpiece of australian cinema i found it quite disappointing the lead actors are great terence stamp is aging beautifully guy pearce should do more comedy instead of the dour roles he chooses and i've been a fan of hugo weaving since i saw him play oberon eons ago the cinematography is great but if you've ever been to the australian outback you'd know that the air is so clear and the light so brilliant that they could have shot it on the movie equivalent of a box brownie and it still would have looked spectacular br br so what's my problem well three things first there is not a sympathetic female character in the whole film a woman who has to earn her living shooting ping pong balls out of her privates in a roadside pub deserves our sympathy wife doesn't get much better treatment br br second the scene when they sing i will survive to a group of aboriginals is offensive to try to draw any sort of parallel between the struggles of drag queens and trannies and the almost total destruction of aboriginal culture which is what i assume the scene is supposed to do shows a level of historical understanding worthy of paris hilton br br last of all and the greatest defect of the film is that it just isn't funny enough did stephan elliott actually talk to any drag queens when writing the film anyone who knows a drag queen or three or four knows that most of them have rapier like wits and they're not afraid to use them now i can understand that a lot of drag queen banter probably would have got the film refused classification but elliott should have been able to gather enough fit for the kiddies material to complete his film br br so all in all a waste of a good idea and a great cast
0	shaggy friendly yet frustrating film has the same old message if you want to make it in this world being imaginative isn't enough you have to live up to your place in society and that means living by the heterosexual rules that govern us drag queen comedy drama from australia is a mostly upbeat journey of three male friends traveling across the outback in their pink bus christened priscilla while not a formula film per se there are the obligatory road movie sequences bonding by the bonfire facing down the rednecks etc writer director stephan elliott follows every potentially mean spirited moment with a little humor and sympathy but there are puzzling gaps in his narrative a dire subplot about a gay man's relationship with his ex wife and estranged pre teen son both of whom are comfortable and the child wise with his lifestyle and a third act with no energy whatsoever it has some wicked transvestite humor and a fairly game cast but a script that seems to have been watered down along the way from
0	i like all of the main actors involved in this quite bizarre film terrance stamp guy pearce hugo weaving have all proved themselves as some of the best most capable actors around but i could not get into this i don't know if it's because i don't understand the lifestyle or what but i could not get my head around this film worse than anything is that the actors made some of the ugliest drag queens i've ever seen i think that was part of the point i don't know i realize that is probably an insult but i don't know what else to call them i must say i bought the guys as the performers the correct term but the story just wasn't very good or very interesting either i will say that i can't usually appreciate costume designers very well although i notice them when they are wrong or out of place but i was very much impressed with these very creative to say the least just not attractive but i don't think they're supposed to be i don't know i am definitely not the target audience and would never go see a performance done by these kind of performers but i wouldn't go see ballet or opera either so i don't know if this is your kind of film then you will probably like it but if it's not skip it because it is well not for most of us i just checked it won the oscar for costume design i will say rightfully so i must say ebert didn't care much for this film either though he liked it better than i did
0	a romp across a disbelieving outback this adventure enchants through it's downright comedy from the clashing confrontation of cultural assumptions as drama from crisis perhaps a little too queenie for some i would love to have watched in a cinema audience in the outback shockingly good
0	great balls of fire is the movie you show to someone you really really hate it is absolute torture of the highest rank and is probably used by minions of a foreign power to extract info from captured intelligence agents i've enjoyed some of dennis quaid's performances in the past but he goes totally over the top in this film he doesn't so much cross the line he pole vaults over it then comes back to jump over and over again he struts and mugs as if on some incredibly bad acid trip it's one of those rare performances where you wish you could enter the film and beat the man within an inch of his life for doing something so truly awful was he desperate to win a golden raspberry or some other award for bad acting that's the only conclusion i can come up with thank you dennis you gave us a bad performance for the ages where was the director to reign in this guy br br the opposite end of the extreme is winona ryder she of the plastic features and plastic acting i came across a review of her acting style that compared her to a wax dummy that was of course an insult to wax dummies all over the earth all of whom could have brough more humanity to the role of jerry's underage cousin wife this brings up the film's mixed up message that being it is 100 okay to marry your own cousin and have a child by the union i fail to see what is so okay about that but it looks as though hollywood thinks that underage incest is hunky dory talk about family values br br another problem is the format is it a forward re telling of lewis' life or is it a musical i'm not talking about the music i'm talking about the truly weird scene where jerry drives up to the school starts to belt out a tune and everyone starts to dance like it was broadway musical in search of a tony fantasy and reality are thrown together in a mix that does not work but who really cares i don't and neither should you you can't get back the minutes of life you would waste on this film so don't waste your time it's too precious for something this misguided and poor
0	dennis quaid is hard to prove us that jerry lee lewis was a dumb guy and he's doing too much to prove it tv sequences are very good like a of old black and white footages music is fine too because mr lewis himself is singing but the rest is just hollywood b movie style with the fifties happy days complex i think the only good thing in this movie is to see young winona ryder
0	i must say i was surprised to find several positive comments to this turkey in desperate need of a feather transplant i'm giving it a 1 because i think the idea of making a movie about the wild man of rock'n'roll jerry lee lewis is honorable but it's a shame to put out such trash and the killer does not deserve this it's a good thing it came late in his career they said elvis practically ruined his career with the movies he put out through the sixties and this could have done the same for jerry lee had it come out some 15 20 years earlier it's based on myra gail lewis book and that's a shame to begin with it's a bad and inaccurate story of her life together with lewis and there is far better books about the killer that could have made a much better and more interesting script add to this a bunch of actors who doesn't know if they are participating in a drama comedy or a little bit of both the otherwise fine actor dennis quaid is putting on what must be one of the worst performances of an actor in many a moon he is walking around in the picture talking about his god given talent and as a spectator you wish he'd show some of it on the screen too silly gestures and funny faces and jerry lee must have felt betrayed when he saw what had become of him in this truly awful movie the rest of the crew is almost as bad save for winona ryder who does her best with the crappy lines given to her it's grease all over again and whenever jerry lee take a ride around memphis in his convertible having the radio on in the car the whole town is dancing to the music from it everybody in this movie are like cartoon figures of the real people involved from the wild man himself to sun records sam philips and it's a damn shame a charismatic and interesting artist like jerry lee lewis deserves better and i hope he took the 500 000 dollars he got from the deal and told the company to go f k themselves twice
0	just re saw this last night and to put it bluntly style instead of substance we can already guess that there had to be a lot more to jerry lee lewis than what is depicted here the jerry lee lewis character in this movie is not depicted as a real human being for one minute throughout the entire hour and a half plus running time but then again all the other characters are only one pencil stroke from being total cartoon characters br br let's take the beginning we see jerry lee and his cousin jimmy sneaking over to the black jazz club and we see jerry getting his inspiration might be possible we see how the two cousins choose different paths in life also possible then we cut to jerry lee playing the piano as an adult now played by dennis quaid and it's thrilling and a little scary cut to a scene where he first meets his second cousin myra from then on the whole thing turns into a recap of certain events played out in a style befitting a news reel on high speed br br not that the movie is not a little entertaining and it's great to hear new versions of the songs that made jerry lee alec baldwin as jimmy is also a reason why you should at least take a look at this an indicator of his greater successes in the years to come winona ryder as myra is the most one character in the film she teases she sobs she chews gum and play coquettish and that's about it there is never for a minute given a reason why she ended up being the third mrs lewis and speaking of wives where are the first two that is why this really can't be classified as a biopic but more of a inaccurate news reel we see jerry get his first song played on the radio we see his second single going into the top ten we see his third go to no 1 and so on then comes the inevitable downfall absolutely no basis in reality br br to conclude another minor quarrel the movie takes place from '56 to and still myra says i am only 13 right up till the end
0	i was really looking forward to seeing this movie having spent a few fantastic college weeks in barcelona myself the premise is right on cue a confused disordered young individual enters a world of equally confused disordered young individuals but the director's weak at symbolism philosophy and social commentary were completely off the mark and it leaves us the audience feeling confused disordered bravo br br perhaps if this movie had been presented as a european american pie flick then i'd be able to turn off my brain and go along for the ride but right off the bat the director our deeper senses by introducing the symbolism of the twisted highways and the dichotomy of the inner self vs the public self one's mother tongue vs one's secondary language furthermore it dives boldly into the subject of racial national stereotyping off to an interesting start eh br br wrong that's as far as it goes these interesting topics are hardly mentioned again except at the contrived epilogue type ending which seemed to be the director's way of floundering to get back on topic it reminded me of a meandering speech which goes nowhere but the speaker ends by saying so in conclusion i hope you see how this relates to my original thought br br furthermore as other reviewers have pointed out the cynical jab at stereotyping betrays itself if the point is to ridicule the use of national stereotypes then why did the director introduce a cockney speaking beer swilling english brat as a caricature of prejudice why did the director portray the american as a neanderthal literally banging his chest making ape noises at one point whilst the europeans tolerate him why is the british girl the one who sinks to uttering slurs calling french people frogs and butchering the french language while everyone else is above all that the answer is that this isn't a deep or well thought out film it's simply an retort to the but really it's no different from the prejudice it seeks to ridicule now there's a funny irony to consider br br ok philosophy artistry socio political commentary aside i was still very bored by this movie there is one very funny gag which involves deceiving one of the girls' boyfriends but aside from that i was hardly entertained at all the only reason why i watched it through to the end is that i'd like to brush up on my french spanish you see we americans may be stupid but we do try
0	i haven't seen this film in years but the awful taste of quaid's performance still lingers on my tongue some have commented on how quaid has jerry lee lewis to a tee but the fact is he only appears to have the most extreme stage jerry in mind nobody acts that way all the time and the performance comes off as hopelessly clownish reducing lewis to a buffoonish caricature the nuances of a man's life are lost in the rubble of sheer over acting br br the author of the book this is based on nick is a good writer who has written several fine musical bios i particularly liked dino on dean martin in the books gives us a full human being both separate from and involved in the biz quaid's acting seems to imply that jerry never acted like a human being if people were like this no one would bother to hang around them as cartoons go it is mildly amusing but otherwise it is one of the most egregious film destroying performances i have had the honor of viewing terrible
0	it's really just terrible quaid overacts more than shatner the part where elvis walks in and says you can have it all just kills anything that might have been good in this movie that's bad enough as it is drug use was completely snow coated the only thing that had anything to do with his life was the bit about him wedding his cousin quaid also looks nothing like lewis and has dark roots and eyebrows i wish this could be re made in the future with someone who doesn't try so hard a bigger budget wouldn't hurt and maybe more about his actual life i was very very disappointed in quaid don't watch this movie or you will be too
0	this movie has some of the worst acting i've ever seen dennis quaid's performance was high school caliber while it's difficult to portray an off the wall character like jerry lee lewis it can be done just ask jamie foxx although ray charles had more depth to his personality and musicianship than lewis ever dreamed of possessing the phillips brothers portrayal belonged in the dukes of hazzard and alec baldwin playing jimmy is a bit like donald duck performing shakespeare when robert duvall played a country preacher i bought it baldwin never made me believe a single word wynona ryder's part was the best and she was mediocre and can anyone figure out how she was 13 when lewis met her and still 13 more than a year later some checking on the internet reveals the essential facts presented by the film were true at least no more fouled up than most hollywood bio pics this film did badly at the box office and it should have
0	this movie easily falls into the category of laughable if not beyond that to actually insulting i mean in what alternate universe did the filmmakers and studios think that this film would play from beginning to end we bombarded with overacting and ridiculous facial expressions laying on the im a loose cannon act a little thick another picking point i had with the movie was the lack of a realistic story of events that would make you grow to connect to a character i mean in one scene where lewis is playing in a bar before making it big there is this over the top just completely absurd bar fight that every citizen in town is apparently a part of then lewis begins to play his rendition of a whole lot of shaking' and everyone immediately forgets their differences and begins dancing wildly as if its the most normal thing in the world these kind of scenes of which there are numerous coupled with the lack of depth in any of the characters led me to actual laughter so all in all this film is not worth viewing for anyone not interested in mocking a filmmaker and his actors decisions for an hour and a half
0	spoilers abound you have been warned br br i was thoroughly disappointed this being my first street fighter movie i have seen i dare not go near the 1994 joke yet very little grabs your attention in street fighter zero alpha as opposed to most the fights are hilariously done over board shun versus was a laugher and the dramatization is far too moody especially toward the end when ryu has to control everything in his fight against his brother br br the main street fighter ryu has been weakening to a far darker version inside of himself frustrations in controlling this darkness are further complicated by the sudden arrival of a younger brother a shady street fighting tournament is held with more than just fighting on the promoter 's mind br br what is with the artist 's drawing of feet any anime drawn above the stomach is impressive the story 's soft nature makes the street fighter genre far too intelligent and places far more emphasis on a character shun that is not even a fighter in the video game a character study on more than just the core stars of the original street fighter is completely ignored how many times did you catch guy street fighter zero lacks the imagination of the video game
0	this movie is based on the series street fighter alpha or zero it is placed in an other setting than streetfighter the animated movie this movie is all about ryu who is accompanied by ken and chun li i recognized rose and birdie there weren't any other characters used from the video game that i could discover the fighting scenes were ok but nothing really spectacular and there were not many of them to me this is odd isn't streetfighter about fighting streetfighter the animated movie 1994 is far superior to this movie it tries to be more than it really is the use of the power and other supernatural have nothing to do with skills the characters have in the video game and in this case that is a bad thing the story is so boring that you don't really care what is happening the action is toned down considerably why and what happened to the other characters from the video game surely they are more interesting than the villain in this story the main attraction of the video game are the characters with their own special skills in this movie it is all about ryu that is why this anime fails
0	being a huge street fighter fan and thoroughly enjoying the previous film street fighter ii the animated movie i was really looking forward to this one br br however it seemed that the film had no real sense of direction or purpose most of the characters i could not associate with and it just lacked the intense action that made the other mentioned street fighter film so superior br br there are some good points however the animation is superb
0	not being a particular fan of westerns i watched this primarily because i wanted to see lucille ball in something other than an i love lucy or lucy show type of role here she plays christine larson owner of a saloon in the arizona territory in who's about to be married to the unscrupulous local indian agent dean jagger ball's performance was ok nothing really more than that she didn't blow me away it succeeded for me in that the role was very different from what i'm accustomed to seeing her in there was very little of the outrageous physical comedy she later became famous for although the movie tried to maintain a gently amusing feel throughout a typical funny line there's two ways to deal with women and no one knows either one of them i didn't find the story all that compelling although i appreciated that the indians were shown as the victims of the indian agent there's typical shootout action and a lot of horses your typical western in other words as to christine we pretty much can guess from the beginning how her planned marriage is going to end up it's just a question of how she's going to get there if you like westerns this would be a pretty typical one with a bit of humour thrown in if you're not big on the genre this will be lacking i'm not big on the genre 3 10
0	i was 19 in 1970 when it came out and having heard how funny it was when it came out and reading the reviews here i finally rented it and watched it i didn't laugh once a very unfunny flick and i usually love reiner i cannot for the life of me figure why this is seen as funny i had not one chuckle and i love comedies oh well at least now i know what all the shouting was about not my idea of a comedy go rent the navigator or the love nest by buster keaton now those are comedy classics if you rent this one have a back up rental so your whole evening isn't a loss score 3 out of 10
0	a mild mannered ny lawyer george segal is slowly going crazy he promised his father on his death bed that he would never send their senile mother ruth gordon to a nursing home years later he's taking care of a senile dangerous psychopath he meets a beautiful nurse trish van and they fall in love but his mother keeps scaring her away segal is ready to kill her br br ummmm this is a comedy i have nothing against sick black humor but come on there has to be some limits this movie goes out of its way to throw every tasteless sick joke it can think of and rub your face in it too bad none of the jokes are funny the jokes involve rape nudity public humiliation senile old people swearing and racism basically this is a movie that thinks it's clever by trying to shock people and thinking they'll laugh at it i was disgusted and didn't laugh once the movie is morbid disturbing and surprisingly dull the cast is the only thing that kept me watching segal and gordon were both wonderful in their roles gordon especially and van is pretty good also but the script is against them the only interesting thing not funny was a pointless courtroom scene with rob reiner jr and try to spot his then wife penny marshall as a spectator br br actually this movie could have been worse the original ending had segal getting into bed with his mother and pretending he's poppa that was thankfully changed br br a real lousy sick film bottom of the barrel i give it a 1
0	not a terrible movie but there are monster scenes where you will be rolling on the floor laughing not a good thing for a action thriller the acting is generally pretty decent for a scifi channel movie barry corbin plays a credible us senator and lou diamond phillips again gives us a decent military police sheriff agent marshal figure the special effects are well special for example the external train shots are very obviously a model train br br goofs a meteor strikes a stationary car in the opening scene the car bursts into flames but does not budge an inch after the impact the meteor is lodged in the top of the car's hood impossible from the low angle that the meteor came in at br br spoilers br br a good portion of the movie's events are predictable from the helicopter crash pull up pull up to the fact that the annoying people get it in the end to the classic blown bridge over a 1000 foot gorge awaiting the train to the sequel set up at the end br br the scenes showing the aliens attacking are hilarious they are vicious cute puppets and move at lightening speed remember the monty python rabbit spoiler goof in one scene four people shooting clip after clip cannot hit a single creature because they move at lightning speed later in the movie todd bridges rigs up a mini flame thrower which he uses to dispatch a number of creatures at close range on several occasions lou diamond phillips is able to easily grab creatures with his bare hands
0	in the opening sequence of where's poppa george segal rises from his bed one morning shaves showers puts on a gorilla suit and goes into his mother's bedroom we realize later to give her a massive heart attack that will kill her and get her out of his life forever this is about the level of humor one can expect from most of this picture insanity blended with what might be taken as morbid daring br br segal plays a new york attorney who lives with his supposedly senile mother ruth gordon whose life is further complicated when while hiring a nurse to care for the old bag meets the girl of his dreams the pleasantly prim trish van decked out like florence nightingale his dilemma how to integrate the lovely nurse into his and his pesky mother's life br br segal's performance is about the only thing holding the picture together his frustrations his reactions his comic timing is almost peerless whatever happened to that guy where the film fails is in other areas ruth gordon's characterization is dreadful as the mother at the beginning you can't figure out if her character is senile or just being deliberately vague to keep her son from moving out by the end it's clear she's just nuts when segal brings van home to meet her gordon's eyebrows and she gets a mean sinister look she wants the intruder in her son's life removed she's calculating this is not the mode of a senile person you're not getting a consistent performance throughout the picture which is probably the director's carl reiner fault as much as gordon's ruth gordon's old lady in rosemary baby is much more successful because with the kind of ingratiating cloying person that ruth gordon generally plays the audience responds to her as annoying but when mia farrow is too timid to fight back gordon becomes more cloying her fangs dig deeper and deeper and we're frightened for farrow this kind of imposition is genuinely terrifying here we're being asked to laugh at what we'd normally find annoying and if gordon played it as helplessly nutty all the way we might but she's selfish and mean as well and it dampens what little humor there is br br there are a few good laughs though a courtroom scene with barnard hughes as a military officer and rob reiner as a counterculture punk is fairly hilarious and vincent gardenia does a nice turn as a football coach there's also an inspired bit where segal's brother ron liebman having been stripped naked by muggers on his way to segal's place asks him for something for to wear home and he gives him the gorilla suit br br but of a lot of the script is poorly conceived and simply doesn't make sense why is a new york lawyer with his own practice even living at home in the first place why does segal if his mother is senile try to reason with her logically if you spoil this for me i'll punch your f ing heart out why does liebman keep cutting through the park if he knows he's going to get mugged why does he take a taxi after leaving segal's with gorilla suit why wasn't he taking taxis all along a funnier bit would have been liebman as the gorilla terrorizing the muggers why does van keep coming back after her first husband was a kook why does she want to get involved with this bunch i suppose if i put this to carl reiner he'd say are crazy people they don't have to make sense ' which is a convenient way to excuse a lousy script that's full of holes the characters' moment to moment behavior may not have to make sense but their motivations do and that's where where's poppa falls apart the situations are created just to have the gag and the gags are mostly one shots they don't build to anything br br carl reiner is the most guilty in this whole fiasco how he has acquired this vaunted reputation as a pillar of comedy puzzles me basically his career has been to hold a microphone in front of sid caesar and mel brooks while they talk in funny voices his son rob has ten times the skill and intelligence as a director in show biz terms reiner pushes buttons a monkey could do his job and that is most apparent in his framing of the action why is all of new york shot in tight and in close ups but the scenes in the country are all distant and panoramic that's the mentality of carl reiner's direction claustrophobic for the city spatial for the country in the final lunatic scene at the old folks home the camera is so far off you can't even make out what's going on the abrupt ending suggests a resolution that segal could have easily arrived at ninety minutes ago it also suggests reiner couldn't figure out how to end the picture so he just cut it as another example of craziness reiner seems to think dumbness equals craziness and craziness without logic is always funny it isn't and the creators of where's poppa are as demented as ruth gordon putting pepsi in her fruit loops
0	i was prepared to love where's poppa it features the nexus of normal lear sitcom character actors who when i was growing up felt like extended members of my sized broken nuclear family how fun it would be to see censor free barnard hughes vincent gardenia ron liebman rob reiner and a pre snl garret morris br br but alas where's poppa drags it's claustrophobic and plodding and breaks the cardinal rules of farce lightness of mood and a fast pace br br the plot involves the efforts of a lawyer george segal to rid himself of his overbearing jewish mother who lives in his gigantic new york apartment along the way we are exposed ridiculous characters and situations a comedic group of muggers who repeatedly mug the brother of the main character the rape of a policeman which involving a gorilla suit and subsequent gay love ruth pulling down segal's pants and biting his ass as he serves her dinner why doesn't this work part of the explanation is the sense of doom engendered by the cramped dark interiors and antique set decoration i absolutely eat up cinematography of new york during this era but watching this movie felt like i was through the police gazette in a dark bus terminal br br the main reason though is the slow pace modern mtv style quick cuts have changed what moviegoers feel is a comfortable editing tempo but even taking this into consideration camera shots are held for an excessively long time plot developments are also very slow there is one situation in which this works a weird love song george segal sings to trish van softly very close to her face and for an excruciatingly long period of time it reminded me of those cringeworthy extended shots in the british version of the office where you find yourself mentally begging the camera to cut away and at the same time you can't stop looking br br sadly most of the film is more hurry up than can't look away which made me wonder if it's possible to have a black comedy that is also a farce the dilemma is that the gravitas of the subject matter in a black comedy tends to weigh down lightness of the farce movies like robert altman's m a s h and kubrick's dr strangelove prove that it can be accomplished they do this not only through speed but also through entertaining subplots something where's poppa neglects br br although the film features multiple stereotypically funny characters almost all of them are directly involved in the central drama of how to deal with the mother the scenes featuring garret morris and the central park muggers are as close as the viewer gets to a mental break the muggers seemed almost shakespearean following the tradition of comic ne'er wells if the rest of where's poppa had clung a little more closely to stage tradition it would have been a better film edgier isn't always better it's as if all these talented actors and the director carl reiner were taking a short before the creative maelstrom of the 70's br br random notes after ron clothes the muggers mention cornel wilde's the naked prey 1966 a great action movie that was a stylistic precursor to planet of the apes br br as politically incorrect as he was it's disquieting to learn about the death of an action hero as formidable as charleton heston linda harrison who played nova taylor's mute mate said that james in the sequel seemed to be cute and tiny compared to heston
0	new york attorney plots to rid himself of his senile mother after meeting an attractive available woman screenwriter robert klane adapting his own novel the kind of paperback kids would buy for the dirty parts doesn't seem to have any knowledge of mental illness to him it's just an excuse for prurient comedy and scatological jokes george segal who in the 1960s starred mostly in war and espionage pictures had become by this time one of america's greatest sad sack comedians his nutty reactions and batty responses rival only his mother's segal is paired well with trish van and their moments of connection though also played for laughs are really the only sequences one can gravitate towards ruth gordon lovable as is she is simply around too much and more of her amounts to less this is one of the worst directed and edited films i have ever seen from so called professionals promising scenes which ultimately don't play out for the full effect are haphazardly disconnected from other moments which flail around endlessly causing the crass rickety movie to self destruct long before it's actually over 1 2 from
0	george segal lives with his elderly and senile mother there are many jokes about her alzheimer's like dementia and most of them aren't funny though there were a few funny moments sprinkled in here and there such as the nude running through the park scene and the old folks home at first segal tries to kill his mother because she's tough to live with and because he's a selfish guy making the film sort of like a wiley coyote versus the roadrunner comedy where he tries again and again to kill this indestructible gal would have been a hoot too bad this was not the overall tone of the film br br i do applaud carl reiner's attempt to make a tasteless film that is intended to offend everyone i have a special place in my heart for films like ed and his dead mother eating raoul and happiness of the katakuris all films about death that dare to offend the problem here though is that where's poppa has some funny moments but it also has a lot of flat ones and the overall product is amazingly bland plus topics such as homosexual rape incest and the like are really difficult to make funny i read in the rough guide to cult movies that it is considered a cult film though i just can't see anyone wanting to see this more than once
0	ok where to start i can't believe how many good reviews i read on here i watched this year 2004 and i had to fight to not push the stop button i decided to continue just because of all the good reviews i read after watching it i felt it was my duty to let the world know about this first of all the movie seems like it is never going to begin the plotline doesn't actually occur until about 30 minutes before the movie ends leaving the viewer wondering when is this going to so don't ever call this a revenge movie' because the revenge doesn't even start until over half the movie is already gone by furthermore the movie tries to make you believe this is a post apocalyptic australia i am sorry if showing dusty rural roads half the movie and a crooked letter on a sign didn't quite convince me of that even for 1979 this was not science fiction so anyways add this on top of randomly placed homoerotic subtext and you have got yourself one crappy movie i have nothing against gays there was just no need for it the only good part was the first chase scene good directing considering it was 1979 and another good part is how he kills the last guy so basically i recommend you watch the first 10 minutes and last 5 minutes and you will enjoy yourself much more than if you sat through all that stuff in the middle which may lead you to gouge your own eyes out don't say i didn't warn you
0	if you read the plot summary for mad max you've just ruined the first 1 hour and 10 minutes of the film you've also found out that mad max takes place in post apocalyptic australia which will be helpful because otherwise you won't have any idea what's going on the film made in 1979 tries really hard to be stanley kubrick's a clockwork orange 1971 only that film in all its strangeness actually makes sense and leaves an impact this film does neither and ends up being a car bike stunt filled romp that crashes like every vehicle in the film does br br the first thing wrong with mad max is that it tries to sell itself as a revenge tale when no vigilante appears to take revenge until the final 20 minutes if the first hour were condensed to 20 30 minutes and then the final 20 added on and then another hour added after that mad max would be a cool action film with a great vigilante protagonist instead mel gibson has to wait around and act like a sissy for 2 3 of the film and then have a sudden epiphany to seek revenge i've yet to watch the sequel road warrior and i have to admit i'm excited for it only because i want to know what he does next this first film was mostly a waste of time br br george miller does some great action stuff here but his over the top symbolism is absurd and the unbearable cheesy reaction sequences every time a character discovers something horrifying like a burnt hand or what have you completely ruins those moments its a terribly cliché b movie technique br br there is absolutely no thematic value or subtle critique of society in this film no matter what you might think a great action sci fi movie at least makes a point but the gratuitous violence done by random weird bikers doesn't say anything of value even the villain feels modeled off alex of clockwork only uglier and completely unimposing the pg violence just does not allow the violence of this gang to settle in and get a reaction from the viewer it just cheeses it up if anything br br i'll give credit for the amount of stuff the film crew blew up and crashed into things and miller does a great job making you feel the intensity of the collisions everything else is mediocre at best and then after an hour of mediocrity you get something good and the film ends 20 minutes later i'm just crossing my fingers road warrior will fulfill the expectations of where this film ends otherwise that's more time wasted steven c br br visit my site at http moviemusereviews blogspot com
0	i just have to comment on this movie because i gave it a 4 rating and in my opinion that's pretty high for a softporn smut movie the actual plot is kind of hokey who would expect otherwise but is so incredibly funny and he delivers everything in a voice so it's easy for him whoever wrote the script had some wit definitely i must have laughed out loud ten times and that's not a reason anyone would pick up this movie the only softporn movie i've seen which had any merit other than beautiful women and believe me emmanuelle is drop dead gorgeous just look at the cover br br any movie that can entertain me considering how poor the plot was and how bad the acting is also considering the movie wasn't made to artistically entertain so to speak it gets at least a four in my book i mean who wouldn't watch this before stop or my mom will shoot
0	okay the only reason i watched this movie is because krista allen is in it since i admit to watching days of our lives i know her as billie oh sure perhaps there will be a reason to watch this movie that would be the soft porn area they seem to at that and little else i would hope anyone renting buying this movie rented it only for the sex scene's because if they bought rented it for anything else say quality tv they may die of a heart attack this movie involves little imagination whatsoever while i do have a good laugh at it's stupidity and perhaps i'll buy it myself i am but a fool rent before you buy on this one 2 out of 10 note i have yet to give a movie a 1 star the sensual scene's alone gave itself and up from a 1 if they hadn't a straight 1 in the pot and i want a refund if it hadn't
0	i caught this movie on late night tv honestly i saw most of it and the whole time i was sitting in complete and utter disbelief br br is there any genre that's more pointless than soft core porn if there is i don't want to know about it softcore porn combines all the horrors of porn lousy production values abominable acting crappy scripts with the of sex scenes in regular movies so the end result is arousing nor entertaining this movie also has the rather odd approach of a science fiction setting and it works horribly all the sex is performed in some sort of virtual reality setting where the crew from the future learn about physical love and yes it's about as confused and silly as it sounds br br but there has to be some positive points though right well there is one krista allen is amazingly hot that's about the only thing that was less than awful in this movie i don't know what it is about her but she has an amazing sex appeal the rest of the cast look like the standard porn cast though rather unattractive women with poorly done fake breasts and men that have spent far too much time in the gym toning themselves grotesque probably a gym in germany as well judging by haircuts and clothing br br to sum things up if you enjoy krista allens presence on screen you can watch this for the brief moments where she shows some of her seductive potential most of the time she tries to articulate crappy lines of dialog though if you don't enjoy krista allen then you might as well stay away altogether br br i rate this 10 10 for krista allens sex appeal 1 10 for everything else and 2 10 for entertainment value since this is a unique crappy porn science fiction hybrid that's not really like anything i've ever seen
0	this is not a new film it is a re cut of 1994's emmanuelle queen of the galaxy and it has been significantly truncated warning many characters appear in the credits that have been cut from the movie br br if you want to see this one in its original form pick up queen avoid this one at all costs as the cuts make it even than it was originally
0	i did my best to watch this two hour fiasco it combined the awful special effects and plot of the original blob with an execrable boosting of the outstanding in the original screenplay of runaway train the only explanation for this movie is that someone needed to take a huge tax deduction and figured they'd combine it with a shot at hosting a casting couch what an incredible stinker lou diamond phillips is anxious to show us why he will take any part no matter how bad barry corbin continues his career as a typecast creep a u s senator from texas and plays it well he should next do the lead role in the story of trent lott or jesse helms the women in this flick all seem to have gotten their roles as consolation prizes in the fay wray memorial screaming contest special effects are unbelievably bad h s kids in film class in north dakota could have done a better job the writers must have pulled a heist at the cliché bank to accumulate this many i couldn't watch any more without being forced to sit in the clockwork orange chair i have no idea how it ended except obviously minutes too late ugh caveat
0	i don't understand the people here the film is neither as good as as bad as some people say here except for de the acting is ok the problem with the film is mainly the script the characters are not believable the sex is done okay but the psychology behind the people makes very little sense the film doesn't look good but what do you expect the film was shot for very little money on video off course then it doesn't look as good as a normal film duh the one thing i do agree on is that the music is bad sounds like a cheap soft erotic film from the '80's the film is not good okay but you have to give some credit for pulling this of without any money
0	la ragazza del or terror express as it was called on the version i saw starts as various passengers board a long distance train three thuggish idiots dave phil ernie carlo de board it's clear that they're there to cause trouble as they intimidate verbally abuse the other passengers staff as the train speeds along things turn nasty when a prostitute named juliette silvia refuses to have sex with dave he his mates decide to hold the entire train hostage so they can have an orgy with juliette well not much else actually happens apart from some hero cop his prisoner who set about saving the day erm that's it really br br this italian production was directed by is complete total utter crap from start to finish the script by george eastman as luigi could just as easily be described as a really boring porno as much as a horror thriller it is tediously slow it's 35 minutes before anything even remotely sleazy happens as a whole the film lacks the sort of exploitation elements that italian sleaze horror was delivering at that time the film can be compared to another italian production the infinitely better the house on the edge of the park 1980 made the same year it's a very broad comparison though as everything that made the house on the edge of the park the notorious film that it is is absent from la ragazza del there's no blood no gore almost no violence there's only a couple of really tame rapes the story has no twists or turns as it's incredibly boring to watch italian sleaze horror from the late 70's early 80's isn't known for it's strong story lines or great scripts but this films really does scrape the bottom of the barrel on all counts the character's are awful the film spends the first 30 plus minutes building them up giving some background as to why they're on the train but this is all quickly forgotten comes to absolutely nothing i hated the lame ending as well i don't know if i missed something but was any sort of reasonable explanation given as to why these three would hijack a train i don't think there was was there i'm sorry but because your angry at a prostitute is not enough of a reason surely the filmmakers could have come up with something a bit more substantial interesting if not more plausible in my opinion this film stinks it's as simple straight forward as that i'm afraid br br director does an ok job to be fair he only has one corridor a few train compartments to work with so i'll cut him some slack having said that the film does become very repetitive there is no style he films the sex scenes like a bad soft core porno complete with awful romantic sounding piano music there is not one single drop of blood spilt in the entire film that's right not one single drop forget about any gore or violence as you'll be very disappointed if you do like i did there are a couple of rapes but they're amateurishly staged have zero impact the nasty exploitation sleaze of say i spit on your grave 1978 or the last house on the left 1972 is not here br br technically la ragazza del is ok it's quite well made on what must have been a low budget but the setting obviously helped keep the cost down to a minimum the acting is poor as usual although since it was dubbed the original performances have been lost fans of italian horror will recognise a lot of the voices here br br la ragazza del is a terrible film it's just my opinion but i was bored to tears waiting for something to happen when it eventually never i felt cheated i want those 80 minutes of my life back this piece of crap isn't even fit to grace the 99p vhs bargain bin in your local blockbuster one to avoid
0	i've got to say i'm a big fan of these 'last house on the left' rip offs even the ones that most people seem to hate are often held in relatively high esteem by me but one of these sorts of films that i didn't like much was aldo 'night train and unfortunately it would seem that trains and the last house on the left don't mix as terror express is another lacklustre rip off something that this sort of film really needs is a resoundingly nasty lead character and while terror express offers up three potential candidates not one of them steps up and becomes this villain leaving the lacking in the most important area it actually gets off to a good start as three young men on a passenger train begin slightly irritating the guests on board this leads the audience to believe that there is more in store but unfortunately it never really gets going once the scene has been set from there the trio end up 'taking over' the train and use their new found power to terrorise the guests and rape the women br br it has to be said that there's a fair amount of sleaze in this film which will be pleasing to many viewers but there's hardly any blood director seemed to think that he could get away with replacing the blood with sex scenes and he may have gotten away with it too if he could film a brutal sex scene the idea that these men have taken the train by force goes out of the window once it gets to the sex as the people that you would expect to be powerful and forceful seem all too keen to show their women a good time and despite one very tame sequence none of the sex is particularly interesting since a lot of the film is taken up by these sex scenes this becomes a massive problem films like this are often lacking in style suspense and credibility but you know you're watching a bad one when it's boring you as you might expect none of the acting is up to anything and the central three in particular stand out for being rubbish the direction is lacking in style and there's very little tension or suspense making it difficult to care what is going to happen overall this is a pretty crappy example of an exploitation film and i can't recommend it
0	the unpleasant home invasion genre can be traced back to wes craven's early sleazefest last house on the left with such nasty off shoots as i spit on your grave wrong way and the visitors soon following in the footsteps of that film here in this early '80s italian offering the same plot is regurgitated once more with the twist being that this one is set on a continental train la ragazza del – known in english speaking countries as terror express – starts out surprisingly well but about twenty minutes in it takes a turn for the worse as the sex scenes start to gain precedence over the more serious action and suspense br br david phil and ernie three rich youths who wallow in terrorising and humiliating others board a trans continental express in italy the train is full of other passengers among them prostitute juliette silvia who rides the train frequently and has struck up a deal with one of the porters to act as a kind of pimp persuading the male passengers to part with their cash for a night of passion in her sleeping compartment the three cretins quickly set about upsetting the passengers with their aggressive drunken behaviour but matters get more serious when they seize control of an entire car on the express and barricade themselves in from the rest of the train pretty soon they are revelling in their temporary a young wife is raped by two of the youths in a cramped compartment juliette herself is subjected to a prolonged sexual assault and later the odious trio force the male passengers to role a dice in order to decide which one will rape a 16 year old virgin travelling with her parents a concept made doubly tasteless by the fact that her father is one of the men forced to play the game the only passenger who seems prepared to fight back is a convict who is being escorted to germany but what hope does one man have against three armed thugs br br la ragazza del gets off to a decent start various intriguing characters are introduced and the three hoodlums are shown to have a genuinely unsettling influence over the travellers though the story is clearly the stuff of exploitation the opening scenes are built up carefully and the film seems to be rising above the usual gutter level of its genre things fall apart during a horrid scene in which is sex sandwiched in a toilet compartment by two of the thugs the scene is gloatingly filmed and the effect does not seem to be to generate sympathy for the victim or hatred towards the instead we are being asked to feel turned on this is sensationalism at its worst further humiliating rapes follow but the rape sequences involve too much lingering camera work over acts of oral sex and the female genitalia one sequence featuring the 16 year old girl teeters on the brink of hard core and feels particularly wrong by the end of la ragazza del it is easy to forget that it was intended as a thriller for the final hour of the film is dedicated to pornography rather than suspense lovers of sleaze will revel in it others might want to look elsewhere
0	another sadistic and ultra sleazy late 70's early 80's revenge movie wes craven sure launched a popular trend with his last house on the left although terror express is more like a rip off of other rip offs like i spit on your grave and especially night train murders storywise this movie has absolutely nothing new to offer so the only thing left to do for director was to multiply the sleaze factor by a thousand this is actually just a soft core porn flick that gets a little bit rough near the ending on the night train from rome are three hopelessly imbecile loser running amok they provoke the male travelers and sexually harass the females things get a little out of control and a traveling convict comes to the rescue of a prostitute who keeps being screwed around by the three this is a very tame movie and there wasn't even enough budget to buy a couple bags of fake blood this type of movies is generally infamous for the brutal rape sequences and the discriminating behavior towards women but the sex in terror express isn't unsettling at all on the contrary these spend more time orally pleasuring their victims then getting some themselves the music is great the dialogs are unintentionally hilarious and the characters are the most ridiculous ones i ever the villains are wimps and the train passengers are so motionless they look like part of the set if you like your exploitation as sleazy as it gets this is your film however your hunger for blood and controversy will definitely not be terror express should be in the porn section of videostores
0	yet another cookie cutter movie about a hardened adult who meets an adorable street smart kid cop and 1 2 gloria etc and once again it is not funny or interesting for anyone to watch kids or adults i'm sure some people might find this movie amusing but i have no earthly idea why once again i feel sorry for the poor kids who were forced to work in this movie so that everyone else and their parents could make some bucks at the price of a cheesy cheesy movie
0	this movie has got to be one of the all time lows of michael j fox's generally respectable career i should have known how awful this movie was when i rented it and found the movie only half viewed and not rewound by the previous renter never a good sign fox plays a grown up child star who's now an agent for other show business kids his character is delusional in that he still believes that everyone should love him for being mikey his big break comes when he meets angie vega a talented child vega is abrasive and not at all likeable in fact the only likeable character in the whole movie is cyndi lauper as a brooklyn accented receptionist for the agency one of those movies that makes me want to stick a post it note to the box warning others not to waste their time
0	this movie was so incredibly boring michael j fox could've done so much better sorry but it's true for all you people who liked the movie
0	this isn't a bad movie it's fun to watch for the first time however it has absolutely no replay value at all when you try to watch it again it gets so boring you have to turn it off i give this movie a 6 out of 10
0	disappointing comedy drama with sentimental coating has michael j fox ideally cast as a former child star who now runs a talent agency for thespian tots nathan lane and cyndi lauper are his assistants this all sounds as if it can't miss however too much of the scenario is given over to strident christina vidal as a streetwise tyke whom fox believes will be the next big thing they lock quickly lock heads and the bantering dialogue takes them back and forth to an uninteresting formula finish fox and lane are both appealing but the energy of the early scenes gives way to treacle slickly produced but ultimately stale 1 2 from
0	we all know that special effects cost money but it seems as if they could have used the money they saved writing the script to get some better shots the train is obviously a model in most moving shots the helicopter is obviously computer generated the alien looks like the one from the end of spaceballs except it's a decade later and spaceballs had an excuse br br the only smart thing they did was blur all of the special effects to make them harder to see br br not even the actors could compensate for such a poorly written script and it's pretty obvious they didn't really try either br br please don't waste your time please
0	it is sad to have to say that a film is truly awful and one tries to find ways around saying this however this is a dreadful film gene hackman wastes time and one suspects many dollars on re playing his most famous and oft recreated role as gene hackman otherwise television actors are given the chance to become film stars and successfully resist the temptation patrick swayze has a minor part and went on to greater things for which he must be eternally thankful br br i watched this film as a result of someone else's review and i felt that another point of view was merited you may not agree with my review but now at least you have been warned
0	maybe our standards for movies have increased since born on the fourth of july full metal jacket and platoon this movie has a predictable plot bad writing bad acting bad directing bad special effects etc compared with other vietnam movies this one is completely unbelievable
0	but to be a little more precise i do not think that it is as bad as it actually could be eventhough the actors famous to semi famous didn't do a very great job directors fault could be the script as well hard for me to say anyway if you are after a lot of cool guns and action this is not the movie for you but they do run around with a lot of ww2 vintage guns sort of fun well i guess i could say more but it just doesn't feel as if it's worth it if you are desperate enough or a hackman freak see it otherwise don't br br live well and prosper
0	i know these types of films sell tickets and make a profit for the film makers but it just won't do as a film about vietnam viet nam was filled with horrors for the men who lived it day in and day out br br this film stars gene hackman who is korean war vet assigned to train a group of rag tag viet nam vets for a return trip to that country to rescue a group of american pow's held at a camp there these men include a former tunnel rat a crazy acid dropping sailor a blond tanned surfer from california and some inexperienced kid patrick swayze who just so happens had a dad that was killed in nam they train first at some camp in texas and once in nam they are found out and lose all their weapons they are able to find replacement weapons and continue on their way to free the captured men most of the men are found and saved but the rag tag group is mostly wiped out br br this movie played like a video game in which you could figure out what was going to happen next and who would pop out of behind what bush and who was going to die and who was going to live viet nam i'm guessing was not like a video game
0	gene hackman is a former marine corps colonel who musters a handful of private vietnam vets to go back to and rescue some americans who have been listed as missing in action hackman suspects that in actuality the half dozen or so mias are secretly being held in a remote camp by to be tormented and to provide more hard labor hackman is being paid by the wealthy robert stack whose son like hackman's son is thought to be among the mias but the circumstances are such that hackman can only manage to buy old and out dated weapons though he manages to pick up the help of a anti communist and his two daughters along the way br br i don't think the movie was deliberately concocted to endorse the myth of the still holding our mias for propaganda purposes the myth was real enough if anyone remembers there were many bumper stickers in 1982 and 1983 bring back the mias i think instead that the film was made partly in order to cash in on the myth it was absurd on the face of it why would our former enemy refuse to return mias propaganda where is the propaganda value in something that's kept secret to add the labor supply they need a hundred extra laborers in vietnam and the motives behind this movie with its triumphant music and high body count were scurrilous br br but how about the movie itself stripped of its theme of rescuing mythical mistreated mias it's a routine paramilitary actioner no better and no worse than dozens of others that appeared in the 1980s gene hackman's performance is the only one that manages to keep its head above water he's just about always reliable br br of the others this being a formulaic plot derived from the dirty dozen among others i kept trying to guess which of the gang would sacrifice themselves for the mission of the three anti communist asians i figured one or more were dead meat that's why asian helpers appear in movies like this i was right two times out of three i also figured patrick as the rookie ex officer the youngest of the group who'd never earned the respect of the others because he'd never seen combat would also have to go in some heroic mode wrong he becomes a hero true but survives intact i thought there was a fifty fifty chance that hackman would have to go too but he makes it out okay the formula doesn't really stretch for originality either charles bronson's claustrophobic pow escapee from the great escape is here in fred ward's ex tunnel rat a who is forced to crawl through a drainage pipe with a snake inside it so that he can do a recon on the pow camp br br the title uncommon valor is from a tribute that admiral nimitz made to the men on iwo jima uncommon valor was common that day nimitz was certainly right about that whether or not the men who fought in vietnam were all equally is remote from the point anyone who saw combat or even came near it putting their lives on the line for the guys in the line next to them were heroic enough this movie and the way it exploits our bitterness about the vietnam war doesn't really do them justice
0	this pathetic excuse for a movie doesn't have a decent structure or a sensible closure the characters were confusing and the entire plot kept getting off track i'd have to say that perfect was a disgrace this is what happens when you let disney channel make movies
0	i'm not sure who should be blamed for this debacle in truth the acting isn't too bad and the story isn't as terrible as some made for disney movies have been the story itself is shallow and undeveloped but that isn't surprising in a film of this type the acting is more than a bit two dimensional but i give the actors credit for managing to do anything with the material that they had to work with br br however it's inexcusable in my book to base an entire storyline on the theory that they've created a 'perfect' pop star and then cast an actress who can't sing to save her life if the girl can't sing have someone who can record the music br br this actress is a terrible singer she was so flat she was usually singing in a totally different key
0	one of the worst movies i've ever seen completely ridiculous the story is bad the animations are completely childish and displaced the physics of the holograms are hilarious from how much they are completely wrong omg i even wanna believe that this film has disney label on it yuck the actresses are somewhat beautiful but there are so many good films with astonishing actresses that are far more valuable to see than this one final remark bad film don't bother to watch it if you're looking for films to see with your kids consider other alternatives like monster inc or an enchanted story on theaters seriously
0	bad a lot a crap it copied simone also a bad movie them flips when loretta modern sang was lame that internet scenes made it worse and roscoe loves a hologram thats plain stupid i give 0 stars because they copied the plot was stupid the whole movie was thumbs down all the way
0	last night i got bored and decided to watch a movie called 'out which i had once bought with a whole lot of other cheap movies from a videostore seemed like a good old action movie so i took out the chips and coke and was ready for a relaxing evening well the pain started right from the beginning the main character is a boxer who is the nicest guy i have ever seen as the good person he has to be nice of course but he is just a pussy that totally doesn't fit with a boxer that has 28 and starts working for a pimp to earn some extra money even nice guys can still be cool well then came his first fight while he was working for this pimp every punch was clearly missed and that became even more annoying because the sound effect weren't synchronised with the punches then there is this totally worthless acting of the whole cast and you have enough reasons to leave this movie for what it is i gave it a 1 because i have never seen such a bad movie
0	this review may contain spoilers or maybe not the warning is the same for all br br dang it just when i thought that scifi channel had used all of its ridiculous ideas for movies they give us this actually the plot itself it's nothing we haven't seen in movies like snakes on a plane deep blue sea etc that means a monster animal menace of some kind is lurking in a close environment threatening a bunch of people in this case an alien in a train wow br br i must say that when i first saw this thing on cable i couldn't stop laughing no scifi film had prepared me for this it was so incredibly pathetic i couldn't believe it the actors are all a bunch of stereotypical genre characters but since they're not so famous to say the least i wasn't expecting much of them except diamond phillips no comments there but i think the guy was desperate to find a job the problem was something called 'special effects' horrible even for scifi channel standards that model toy they made us believe it was a real train not to mention the model toy helicopter bigger than a train's wagon the meteor coming from space the 'baby' alien a sock puppet and i ain't kiddin' the regular aliens who looked pretty ugly while they were static when they started moving it was awful the explosions the terrorist blew up literally and what about the exploding helicopter just how many barrels of gas was that thing carrying the insane mathematics used they couldn't even solve a school problem right and i won't talk about that doomsday like ending by that time i didn't know if to keep laughing or to start crying if i remember right i did both br br it's an ideal movie to have a good laugh alone or with friends but be warned it's so ridiculous at so many levels and you need a heck of a lot of suspension of disbelief
0	if you would like to watch an example of how not to make a film then you need to watch this i myself with no film making experience could do better the script is laughable with a weak plot and there is no effort to be seen for any intelligent structure in order to make up for this flaw you would think the action would be decent wouldn't you br br as the acting editing and overall piecing together of the film is appalling the only saving grace is the dreadful performance by the lead actor the reason why he is the saving grace is because he is so genuinely bad at acting that he should win an oscar for it at least some recognition for making me laugh at him so much br br toss in a dead woman's body after an all male shoot out where did she come from pull the semi automatic trigger tens of times while the pulls off two gunshot effects reflection of the camera crew in kool mo dee's shades one and only one music track for the whole film an unoriginal script that has no logic is a perfect recipe for a really really bad film its actually more fun spotting the errors than actually trying to find something positive avoid at all costs
0	i rented this movie from my local library and thought it might be good considering i like this type of movie and considering who was in it but boy was i wrong the acting stunk the fight scenes were just as bad and they got a couple of known people to be in it but didn't cast anyone with acting ability to play the lead i noticed some people gave it a 10 why would you ever consider giving this pile of horse a 10 you can say it's worth a 10 for the sheer comedy of it but when you vote on a movie that's not supposed to be a comedy you can't give it a 10 for comedy you have to rate it on what it was supposed to actually be like and not for something the director wasn't intending maybe some of you voted 10 cause you thought it would be funny to have this crappy movie have a high rating so that people would go out and rent or buy it cause you think it's fun to mislead people you're playing with peoples time and money which you have no right to do if the movie sucked give it a bad rating if it was good give it a good rating but don't lie i gave this movie a 4 and am glad that i was able to check this out for free from my library cause this movie sucked and really isn't worth paying a cent to see
0	purchased this film for one dollar and figured i could never go wrong my big mistake was watching it enjoyed the acting of ice t and the rapping which gave lots of class to this film about los angeles and the world of pimps there is a boxer who kills one of his opponents in a practice ring and who has a career but because of mental problems from childhood and the killing of this other boxer he retires he gets hired by a pimp who is looking for a bodyguard to protect the girls that work for him at their trade and make sure they are not beaten up this boxer falls in love with the boss's girlfriend and all kinds of trouble starts this is entertaining and it then becomes a big laughing comedy
0	wow jeez i don't even know where to begin commenting on this thing they called a movie i seriously don't know what the hell david bradley began smoking after making hard justice which in my opinion was quite a good movie after the american ninja features i hadn't seen any of this guy's latter movies after cyborg cop lucky i saw them on amazon for like 5 pounds each and i can safely say the following if i had thrown down the drain the 5 pounds i spent on total reality crisis and expect to die i would have ended up happier than having to sit through the 90 minutes that each of them lasted my god how the heck can anybody label these as movies and why do action martial arts actors fall knee deep into the horse dung when they've like reached their peak i mean david bradley's no oscar but his first movies were pretty entertaining tough cool guy with pretty good martial expertise who delivered corny lines but at least entertained action and martial arts fans to a certain extent but i seriously would love to know what went through this guy's head after making hard justice his final 3 movies have to frankly be the worst i have ever had to sit through as i mentioned before i'd love to get my money back on the 3 dvds i bought crisis was the epitome of sleepiness total reality was harsh but this expect to die is just utter nonsense i bet the director was either mega stoned when he made this or he was just taking the pee out of every david bradley fan who would sit through this heap of crap the plot circles around a doctor bradley who develops some type of virtual reality game in which he's just killing different people off one by one sorry but i just couldn't take this guy seriously playing a baddie with that posh hair do glasses and gray slacks and doing absolutely no physical fighting whatsoever frankly his best asset the film is even worse than any of those saturday afternoon b movies because the acting is laughable the directing is horrendous and the few fights in the movie well what can i say the actors look like they're training with their gym buddy we get a dumb muscular cop who starts to show off his fighting stuff like one hour into the movie and fails heavily a french hairy version of van damme who just can't fight act or speak to save his freaking life and bradley the supposed protagonist playing the evil doctor who i was really happy for when he stopped making this type of expendable rubbish i even reckon he didn't throw a kick in this movie probably due to his heart condition already playing up on him for a b actor i must admit i really liked this guy his style physique fighting skills but i'm really really glad he stopped acting after this monstrosity because i honestly wouldn't have been able to sit through another ninety minutes of pee taking material like this one avoid at all costs even if you're family of david bradley you'll be glad you did word
0	they must be i'll list them so that you can check them off one by one br br police regularly leave tens of millions of dollars of cash and drugs just lying around because they don't have evidence facilities br br when you get shot you always grunt the same way and fly back the same way even though there's never a mark on your body br br police are not able to identify the sound of gun shots and don't think anything is suspicious when an undercover policewoman's phone call during a high level drug and money deal is cut shot by that gun shot br br bad guy gunmen can hit mannequins with one shot but can't hit a big bulky martial artist with 100 br br if you rocket launcher a car in a car park the next three cars in a line will blow up evenly in 15 second intervals br br further to the last point all the cheap cars are always parked next to each other br br the smoke that is caused from the firing of the rocket launcher is much greater than the amount of smoke caused by four cars blowing up br br virtual reality games that are a long long way ahead of anything any other gaming company can produce fit on five floppy disks br br virtual reality games that are a long long way ahead of anything any other gaming company can produce have graphics that look like windows 3 1 screen br br floppy disks can be read even after they've been shot up br br semi drunk guys in bars attentively watch the news when they're at the pub and have a deep understanding of american modern military history agent orange and the family trees of high ranking military officials however they're only able to articulate their points using dialogue that sounds silly coming from anyone over the age of seven br br even though fights appear to break out almost hourly in a bar that bar has only one staff worker who both pours the beers and handles security of course he knows martial arts br br gold medal regularly make the simple transition to corporate ceos of software companies in a matter of years br br a woman who works for a computer game company knows everything about how to beat a game she's never played raves constantly about her great games and can rattle off facts and figures regarding her company's rivals but she didn't know that they overtook almost all the other companies in the field in large corporate br br bad guys always die in slow motion always br br wives tell their husbands that they're pregnant by raving about their man's bravery in killing bad guys br br wives do large amounts of their husband's police work this might explain why she whines and complains so much every time he has to go to work although it doesn't explain why she adores him so much every time he gets up in the morning and she can read about his murderous escapades br br it's fairly typical for a police officer to be involved in kidnappings kill tons of people on three separate occasions and stop a variety of multi million dollar illegal deals in a week br br when trying to lose a car that's following you it's wise to continue driving under the speed limit and if you're following a cop subtlety is not important you can him for miles then park right next to him he won't notice br br all cops are experienced martial artists br br it is possible to kick a guy four metres in distance br br people scream or grunt in pain when they are punched or kick yet when they have their arm broken they don't make a sound br br bad guys clean their bloodied axes with their handkerchiefs and then leave them in their pocket for many days br br pieces of wood when swung with one sharp blow shatter sturdy ladders in six or more places simultaneously br br the photo and listed special features on the back of the dvd case don't necessarily have to be on the dvd the advertised interactive menus why not no menu at all the advertised scene index why not have the whole thing as one scene chapter and not need an index likewise it's ok to use the font and title in the tag line and not be a rip off in any way br br with all of this i'm in shock that 12 out of the 15 top credited actors never acted again
0	in the wake of the matrix this travesty of a film with loose connections to vr has been reissued with the tag line the matrix just got in a box with a very matrix inspired cover still called expect to die though due to the choice of font however the tag line looks to all the world like it says anyway br br to complete the transformation to matrix wannabe they have mocked up a vr fight scene with a morpheus a like on the back of the box it may be important to know that this character does not feature in the film br br overall this film is a travesty on every level jalal is an awful actor and does not impress with his martial arts however his partner stone is played by evan lurie who in this film is simply the worst actor i have ever seen clearly he was chosen to make jalal look good in comparison worst film i have seen for a long long time
0	my first question is not about the horrible acting not about the horrendous writing it is the directing the choices that were made about the cinematography are some of this worst decisions i have ever seen why does every single bad guy have to die in slow motion i was about to beat myself with a rubber hose the camera shots make it so that you can't see whats going on i was just about to turn the movie off because of jalal accent when it made it to the sex scene so i thought it might get better well it did not if you rate special effects on an a b c rating scale i would have to put it around a w or so and did i mention the acting wow was it bad and the worst part of the entire expect to die experience is the blatant misuse of the phrase on the cover which is the matrix just got deadlier comparing this movie to the matrix is easily the worst comparison i have ever seen if you haven't seen this movie don't unless you are looking for a good reason to beat your head against the wall
0	br br as a fan of bad movies and mst3k and a member of i must say i've seen my share of them but geez even the worst i've seen at least had a soundtrack as george stiffly wanders around hong kong doing who knows what you can guarantee that you won't be distracted by any of that background music that fills todays cinema or any of that music that fills elevators i don't think anyone in this film even hums br br now this isn't entirely true there is a sound track if you listen closely you will hear it chime in about a half dozen times through the course of the film of course the timing will be entirely inappropriate and it doesn't last very long but something that could be classified as music does occur your best bet though is to sit your toddler armed with a wooden spoon down in front of the tv with a collection of pots and pans while you watch the rhythm and flow would be better than anything the film offers br br keep an eye out for sammo hung as a minor villian in this film aren't we all glad he found jackie chan to work with
0	spoilers sorry the first word that sprung to mind whilst watching the film is 'gremlins' it's the only critters movie i have seen from the four movies but i enjoyed it it wasn't too complicated as i hadn't seen the past two but i thought it was quite a good movie all the same br br critters starts with a man his son and daughter stopping off on the way to a vacation although it turns out that they end up at their own home which i have no idea what the hell went on the girl meets up with a boy played by leo dicaprio and they go hang out in a nearby forest they meet this weird guy who tells them to be careful and stuff because of the critters he seems a bit psychotic and if i was in that situation i would not speak to him the critters steal a ride of the girl and boy's car and end up in their flat thing they hide out in the basement and end up killing this lazy jerk they then nearly kill this fat woman and the girl's dad they are chased higher and higher up the flat until they hide in the attic the critters eat stuff in the kitchen spoof of the gremlins kitchen scene and i can't remember not a good thing but i'm sure they have to go back for something someone anyway they end up getting out and saved the psychotic guy comes back and before he kills the last two critters he is told he can't because they are endangered and so he sends them home br br the ending was disappointing and i was annoyed that only the lazy guy died as there were quite a few annoying characters i would personally have killed off it's a thrilling exciting movie worth a watch but if you're looking for a better version of this genre i recommend the gremlins movies sorry
0	sadly this movie is not very good but does it really matter we all know the basics for the story and this has nothing new but i love low budget horror sci fic camp classics so i forgive this one about thew only thing that anyone remember from this movie is that little leonardo dicaprio made his debut in it br br he did ok the part didn't ask for great acting skills and the direction probably never gave him any chance of providing one anyway little leonardo dicaprio was very cute and so was the girl the movie is fun if you like horror sci fic camp classics and are experienced in watching them
0	watching alien express inspired feelings of awe shock pity and yes sheer terror to think that actors who have done good work in the past should come to something like this the horror the horror br br tell me if any of this sounds familiar br br a train especially built for a political campaign is on it's way to las vegas for a big rally for the candidate a senator from texas barry corbin the only actor with roles both alien express and no country for old men in the same decade at a railroad crossing in utah a meteor incinerates a car waiting for the train to pass br br the train stops local law enforcement is summoned oh can it be the senator has a lovely young lady amy from cry baby and melrose place who just happened to have once been married to one of the officers answering the 911 call lou diamond phillips stand and deliver la bamba is the ex husband br br meanwhile aliens have managed to stow away on the train br br the train leaves lou gets his buddy to pilot a helicopter so that lou can drop onto the moving train about 70 miles per hour so that he can save the day as the buddy's reward he crashes the helicopter into the mountain br br which is another example of how poorly written alien express is the cop hero's sidekick must die we all know that but he's supposed to die near the end of the third act usually while saving several lives br br once on the train lou manages to lose his shirt so that he can channel bruce willis in die hard by wearing a wife beater t shirt yeah lou is 46 years old but he hits the gym the part he's playing isn't worth bothering with but he's in good shape br br the senator is going to have an afternoon delight with miss utah but aliens intercede and both he and the woman young enough to be his granddaughter pay the ultimate price br br soon we have bomb threats multiplying aliens and of course the train goes out of control and speeds toward its date with destiny while lou and todd bridges diff'rent strokes try to save as many lives as they can br br there is exactly one surprise in the entire movie early in the story a couple lift wine glasses to their thirty fifth anniversary with hopes for thirty five more years together the dude gets banged up but he and the mrs both live maybe the writers just lost track of them br br this is the kind of movie that you'd love to be a fly on the wall these actors who have done better work and really deserve much better than this are probably just happy for the work did they actually think they were working on something worthwhile or did they cry and or drink themselves to sleep at night at the end of the story the fairly numerous all things considered survivors gather in the last car of the train which is the other cars go over a cliff but the one containing the protagonists stops just inches short of the cliff br br lou and his ex are reunited happiness reigns i'd have thought that the first thing they'd do was get off the train so they'd have solid ground under their feet but i digress br br someone looks out the window and sees a shooting star look make a wish then another then more and more the earth is being bombarded with meteors that will crack open and creepy crawly hand puppets with big teeth will be everywhere br br it's gotten to a point that seeing the words the sci fi channel presents on an original movie tells us that we'll be glad we have ti vo so that we can fast forward through the next two hours or better yet just go ahead and erase it two minutes into the story and spend that time more wisely
0	critters 3 starts on the open road as clifford john calvin his teenage daughter annie aimee brooks his young son johnny the imdb list two actor's christian cousins identical twins perhaps are heading back home from a vacation suddenly the tyre on their van blows they have to stop at a public rest area to fix it while there annie johnny meet a kid named josh leonardo dicaprio yes that one who in turn all run into charlie mcfadden the films co producer don keith from the previous two critter films charlie tells them the story of the critters the town of bend but they don't believe him meanwhile back at the van a critter lays some eggs on it's underside out of sight from everyone once clifford has fixed the tyre the trio set off for their home a run down urban tenement block in los angeles somewhere complete with critter eggs along for the ride upon arrival the eggs hatch the critters head straight inside the tenement block quickly disposing of frank geoffrey blake the caretaker as the night draws on the few remaining residents a fat woman named rosalie diana bellamy a telephone repair woman marsha katherine cortez an elderly couple mr bill mrs menges frances bay must come together with clifford his kids to fight the critters josh also makes an appearance as his stepfather william dennis hunt owns the building but will the group be able to defeat the critters prevent themselves from becoming dinner br br directed kristine peterson i thought critters 3 was an incredibly undistinguished film but at least she can say she made a film staring leonardo dicaprio not many people can say that the budget for critters 3 probably wasn't exactly a fortune as the whole production looks cheap throughout there are very few characters very few critters i think only 3 ever appear in the same shot at once it does away with any sort of space angle so there are no expensive spaceship or distant alien planet special effects to pay for the script by david j is strictly by the numbers very predictable a group of humans are stuck in an isolated situation with critters have no means of contacting the outside world for help that plot scenario sounds very familiar right well it's same as the previous critters 1986 critters 2 the main course 1988 many other horror films so it should critters 3 does nothing with the premise it never even tries to add anything to an already old tired well used storyline critters 3 is also very tame for a horror film with only two people actually being killed the comedy elements are seriously lacking as well with the best joke critters 3 can mange being a critter eating some beans then farting very funny if your about 5 years old the characters are mostly standard horror film clichés quickly became annoying there is virtually no blood or gore in critters 3 at all just a few splashes of blood disappointingly critters 3 in fact seems to go out of it's way not to show any violence the special effects on the critters are ok but they still look like static simplistic hand puppets that have very little movement the acting isn't that good critters 3 happens to be a certain leonardo very first feature film to be fair to the kid he's alright i wonder if any of the other cast or crew had an idea what he go on to become why on earth does that charlie guy have to keep popping up in these critter films to give critters 3 some credit it moves along at a good pace isn't boring it's generally well made with nice enough production values it's a bit of harmless fun if your in the right sort of mood thankfully it only lasts for about 80 odd minutes overall critters 3 is an ok time waster but don't expect anything deep or meaningful there's nothing really wrong with it as cheap horror film but i couldn't help feeling that i'd seen it all before an average time waster that isn't as good as either of the previous two critter films critters 3 ends with a 'to be continued ' as this was filmed back to back with critters 4 1991 which unsurprisingly went straight to video probably to save even more money critters 3 is a decent enough way to waste 80 odd minutes if you can watch it on t v for free otherwise don't bother
0	basically the first two critters movie were already silly ones but in a good and entertaining way this movie is way more of a b movie that is silly but for all of the wrong reasons br br this is the first sequel that doesn't really follows the plot of the first two movies basically all of the characters are new and there are no bounty hunters this time well as good as none since the bounty hunter in this movie shows up far too late and the budget for this one obviously went down again to save even more costs the movie got shot back to back with part 4 which i imaging will be just as bad since it directly follows this movie and got made by the same people involved as with this one br br it's just a typical b genre movie that doesn't really have any originality in it or brings entertainment it makes critters 3 a real redundant sequel you can easily do without granted that things could had been way worse for this movie but it just ain't exactly a good one either the movie just falls flat as a science fiction horror comedy br br also kind of strange to notice how the critters has suddenly changed in this one they are about double their usual size this time without giving an explanation for that and they are even more gremlins like in this movie than was the case in the previous one br br the movie is only made interesting because this was the feature film debut of leonardo dicaprio he was about 17 in this movie and of course looking baby faced like he still does now i like watching this well known actors in their early roles it's fun to see how they act and if their style has improved and changed over the years of course dicaprio got only better but he already was kind of delivering his lines in the same way as he does these days br br really a too silly and lame movie br br 4 10
0	well this movie wasn't as horrible as i thought it would be i was expecting to give it one star i chose to give it three why well for a cheesy horror sci fi movie it's not all that bad sure the characters are tacky as is their acting including a young leonardo dicaprio the effects cheap looking and the monsters well let's just say that i've seen some more effective halloween costumes in elementary schools but there was something about this movie that made me watch it till the end a little bit of humor helped out a bit i guess and if you ever wanted to see an alien pass gas this movie will let you live your dream 3 10
0	i didn't particularly like sliding doors or twice upon a yesterday so i certainly didn't this poor second rate excuse for those films an idea that's been done to death what would happen if and the script is shoddy and unsuccessful not to mention the obvious attempt at adding sex nudity simply to gain an r rating and certain scenes that just weren't necessary but were there to push the boundaries i really don't need to see a kid urinating or a struggle with a especially when they have absolutely no connection to or use in the film br br the acting was also very poor the only actor i found the least bit satisfying was her daughter the rest were two dimensional and quite unbelievable the people i watched this with left the room about halfway through i managed to finish it but not without fast forwarding through part of it br br overall nothing new here it's a generic and boring film the few rather amusing moments are far outweighed by the silly or stupid ones this would be dull even if it hadn't been done before if it weren't such a rehash i'd rate it a five but even for an indie film this was severely lacking and as a rehash it loses on originality as well 3 10
0	what a mess of a movie if it wasnt for eric roberts and susan sarandon's performances this movie would be a total waste a very muddled plot and phony dialogue eric roberts debut where did his career go from this movie on nowhere but down
0	when i heard the film was to be released and the theme of what it was about i felt very curious but when i saw it was the biggest deception of my life technically speaking the sound is poor you can tell about man dialogs that were remade on studio that are poorly achieved in the final mix of all the photography is mediocre some part of the films show some soldiers with night vision goggles and the way the cinematographer achieves that dark night is by illuminated everything like if they were in an actual military base with lights there's no reference used of the moonlight my god but not least most of the ac are really poor it's totally not believable the roll of the wife of one of the soldier her performance it's pretty poor br br great disappointing shame of the jury who chose to send this movie to represent colombia on the oscars
0	tom is about to tuck into a delicious jerry sandwich when a huge bird of prey swoops down and flies off with his snack not at all happy with having his stolen right from under his nose tom takes off in hot pursuit determined to retrieve his mousy morsel br br as much as i love tom and jerry i have got to say that this one is a bit of a stinker the story is rather mundane it introduces a badly conceived peripheral character that lacks charm and it flogs the old 'dress the cartoon character up as a woman' gag to death br br in my opinion rivals 'fraidy cat' and in manhattan' for the title of weakest tom and jerry caper thus far
0	this year's eurovision was to me a big disappointment i've watched the eurovision song contest every year since 1986 well at least that's the earliest one i can remember and i was only 2 at the time as any other year this one contained both good bad and horrible songs nothing new there however this year's show was the worst one i can remember only very few good probably more like it songs and a lot of absolutely terrible songs br br winner song every way that i can sounded to me like a rip off of turkish singer hit just sounding a lot worse it didn't deserve to win from my point of view song coming in second was a no language song wonder what's next animals singing nevertheless the music for the song was quite catchy giving the song a kind of dreamy feeling to which the lyrics seemed appropriate one of the better songs but that's not saying much br br after one of the closest races in eurovision history russian duo t a t u ended in third place just three points behind turkey and behind belgium with ne ne don't trust don't be afraid to me t a t u was one of the very few highlights of the show surprising just about everyone by being some of the most covered up girls of all the female contestants they let their song do the talking and if we ignore the fact that they failed to pitch a few times in the first chorus they let the song speak very well indeed br br the biggest surprise when looking at the was austria the here in denmark had the biggest odds on that song a song that indeed was beyond horrible but ended up in 8th place could it be that bum of his being shaken to the rhythm of the song that performance was the one that made me and my family laugh the most not because it looked good but because it looked so stupid that it was actually fun br br sweden did what they do the best abba in 1999 they won with take me to your heaven by sounding like abba in 2001 they made the top 10 with listen to your heartbeat again sounding like abba and once again this year they did it abba style again ending in the top 10 br br england was finally punished for making those absolutely horrible non catching songs that they've been the past years br br ireland ripped off the winner from 2000 fly on the wings of love and i could go on and on about how bad the songs were br br i feel a bit sorry for the aussies who this year finally got the chance to see the eurovision song contest they deserved better than this br br i wasn't surprised by the show though the eurovision from 2000 to me stands out as one of the best in recent years 2001 was quite good but not as good 2002 was okay but certainly no more this year was quite simply disappointing br br let's hope it'll get better next year if not for us then at least for the aussies br br 4 10 one for t a t u one for the close race one for the butt shaking and one for all the rest
0	the acting is generally pretty weak the dialog was also apparently dubbed in after the filming so it just doesn't come across well what do you want for a tv movie br br annette o'toole was ok there were a few strong lines from the parent of the queen br br otherwise these kids weren't quite up to it didn't impress my kids either br br on the upside it is only an hour long considering that it got through plot and character development in a creditable fashion the settings and cinematography are ok too br br some other viewers may like it for sentimental reasons
0	i have recently gone to the movie theatres to see the new 2007 version of bridge to after i went to the library to rent the older version to see it again without paying again i must say that i was extremely disappointed i found the older version to have horrible acting as well as corny lines including jessie saying i know daddy but i hurt so much inside after leslie dies it was quite horribly done and the casting was not much better in my opinion i watched in amazement all the while saying no wonder they remade it the story is great but trust me spend the money and see the new version if you just see the old one you may never experience the true magic of
0	it is way beyond me how this script was ever sold much less produced and distributed the dialogue was so bad it was sickening the train and helicopter scenes appeared to have been done on flash cards by high school students lou diamond phillips must have hidden under his seat when this this movie was shown at a private screening he most likely left by the back door the only emotion it aroused in me was pity for the cast they had to bite the bullet to get through this one i couldn't stand to watch all of it it was so predictable that it was funny who knows maybe it will be picked up by one of the networks as a situation comedy
0	i was in 6th grade and this movie aired on pbs during a series called ' i distinctly remember sitting on a couch watching the movie with tears running down my face at the end in the film jesse the main character forms an unusual friendship with a girl named leslie due to a very simple but careless mistake one of the pair dies at the time i found the story very powerful because the fatal mistake is exactly the type of mistake a kid would make and so any kid watching the film will find it very easy to identify with and feel the emotional weight of the tragedy that ensues br br last year i finally tracked down a vhs copy of the show i probably should have stuck with my memories watching the show as an adult i was absolutely shocked by what a horribly made film this was my girlfriend had a similar memory of the movie as well and she too was pretty sad about how bad the movie was compared to her memories br br many adults probably have a good memory of watching this movie when they were kids i strongly advise that these people leave their memories intact and avoid seeing this film as an adult
0	i am a fifth grade language arts teacher and after we read this book which the students loved then we watched the movie they laughed out loud unfortunately it's not a comedy the acting was so awful i felt like i was watching a bunch of kids in the neighborhood putting on a play my students were mimicking the lines and making fun off and on the whole way through i have to agree with them at times it was pretty bad still i would show it to students again just for fun and to compare the film with the book we did a venn diagram teachers know what that is afterward to show what was the same in both and what were the differences so there is an educational value in showing it i noticed that another adaptation is being filmed for 2005 so we can only hope the acting will be better
0	i have been collecting iron man comics since the early 70s and always enjoyed the character who is far far from the average clean cut hero and his many and varied enemies there have been no less than three attempts at an animated series for iron man and only the original and part of the second have ever done the character justice so i was somewhat hopeful that this newest version would be good boy was i wrong the dvd art is very misleading and presents an image that is not the movie fist off the good what little there is the art and animation are well drawn and the writing and dialog are generally good though with notable exceptions character voices are very well selected and each character is distinctive and well acted now for the bad unfortunately the writers opted to totally screw around with both iron man's origin and especially the on top of that they decided to do iron man and his opponents all in cgi bad cgi this makes them stand out almost as badly as live actors would in a cartoon the cg work is often repetitive and glaring shortcuts are taken at times the cg battles are clumsy as well further enhancing the fact that cg and line animation do not mix well the movie would certainly have fared better had they opted to actually draw all the characters another problem is that iron man is in his traditional red and gold suit for all of one battle and its not even the big fight at the end all this drags the movie down and it never picks up br br spoilers or warnings may follow br br the movie starts off with an interestingly unusual stop motion credit sequence of machinery welding and gears then we are introduced to what looks like a chinese temple in the process of being restored and prominent is a statue of what fans will recognize as the mandarin things go strangely impeding progress in restoring the temple overseeing it is james rhodes tony long time friend seems they plan to actually raise the temple up from the earth despite opposition by a group who insist that raising the temple will bring about a terrible disaster rhodes is captured in a raid stark shown in a hot tub with a lovely lady is informed of the problems and sets out to personally oversee the project and rescue his friend while in the background his father deals with board executives who are pushing to have tony removed tony arrives only to have his armored escort ambushed and blown to pieces tony later awakens mortally wounded in the heart and a prisoner of the rebels he is saved only by quick action from rhodes and a scientist eventually stark must build the prototype gray iron armor and makes good an escape but only after some loss of life while with the rebels he meets a troubled girl named li mei and the two fall in love the temple is raised and four elemental beings all done in cg appear and proceed to start collecting hidden rings of power stark and find trouble back home but manage to confront the without success in really stopping them first using the aquatic armor then the more classic red and gold armor and finally everything returns to the temple and stark is back in the bulky gray armor for a final showdown and a run in with what may be fin fang also in cg here the story takes a major twist as it turns out that the mandarin needs a host body to manifest this leads to a somewhat tragic final battle marred by the fact that the mandarin is little more than a ghost and isn't seen till the last 5 minutes of the movie ugh br br if you are an iron man fan then you will likely not enjoy this outing and even non fans may well find the movie somewhat lacking or not
0	this was something i had been looking forward to seeing the ultimate avengers movies had both exceeded my expectations and since iron man has been one of my favorite marvel characters i thought that this same production team would be able to do some really great stuff with an iron man solo title but the final film was unsatisfying i wasn't expecting them to spend most of the movie paying tribute to iron man gray armor the red and gold armor is seen for maybe ten or so minutes all together not a major complaint but not what i expected from the ads and box the worse thing however was the story the acting and the cell shaded cgi animation for the monsters and iron man armor that was not convincing it didn't blend in well with the cell animation at all even on it's own it seem stick like and lifeless tony character arc as incredibly slow as it takes is so forced and unconvincing i wanted to see this movie because i love iron man but after forcing myself through the film i wondered if they couldn't have come up with something that had been as good as the ultimate avengers movies
0	i am obviously disappointed so i'll be brief and won't waste your time first off the plot was uninspired at least the animation was even worse we're in 2008 for god's sake and it looked like a version of g i joe i won't even bother characterizing the actors' performance and the dialogs or maybe i will 'cause i just saw that in order to post a comment over here you need 10 lines where were we oh yeah the performance well it was totally flat lacking passion and talent if i am excused now as for the dialogs just like the acting no memorable quotes nothing that someone wouldn't expect let's just hope the movie will be decent at least
0	don't get me wrong the guy's a success dynamo but he got to the top by selling overpriced plastic toys to impulsive brats so i get a little peeved when he looks at comic book fans as an extension of that same market br br see the invincible iron man wouldn't be bad if it were slotted on a saturday morning and geared exclusively toward children but it's not directed exclusively at children periphery characters are killed every five minutes and there's enough bloodshed and semi nude bodies to make network censors squirm so it isn't quite cut out for children's television br br so what audience is this video aiming for then it's the audience that enjoys nigh intelligible story lines about reviving a tyrannical chinese emperor with 5 arcane rings that's who and i think that audience is small br br a lot of great writers have passed through marvel's over the decades so it's a shame that marvel would risk their pricey animation investments on so many questionable storytellers and scribes who like mr are better accustomed to action figures during saturday morning cartoons how many lukewarm receptions do marvel have to endure before they come up with a better strategy br br br br animation just passable cels some segments are better than others a low budget look all throughout this ain't no bakshi ralph and it ain't no bluth don cg animation's okay but far from impressive br br story a litany of clichés all over the place convoluted contrived and uninspired br br characters so why is rhodes even here if all he does is add to sexual ambiguity hmmm her dad's in a wheelchair tony misses his mom asian chicks are hot and apparently little else the female lead is thoroughly objectified by the end br br performances can't blame competent voice actors for a bad script br br art very western musculature very clean lines faces are very derivative of eastern art very boring mattes very bland cg br br conclusion not great but worth a watch for the fans and those who enjoy superhero myths a 'must buy' for collectors a valuable what not to do course for junior animators
0	first of all the title daily is a lie br br every daily show program opens with an on screen visual of the date it was made followed by a pause and the opening announce on the many days when they are re running a daily show they slip cue the tape and omit the date and begin with the opening announce giving the false impression that the show is a new one that's a lie there is no mention of it being a rebroadcast and that kind of crap is just a small indicator of how sneaky and deceptive this show is br br furthermore it's only on 4 nights a week that's not quite daily meaning monday through friday another shortcoming but one i am grateful for br br it's sad to think that many clueless young people use this fake news program as their main often only news source this leaves them woefully ignorant and much worse badly br br although it leans liberal left politically this show can be amusing at times however its veracity is low facts and information are often cleverly twisted to fit the writers' agendas it's often hard to tell where the facts leave off and the fiction and comedy writing begin the result is pre digested information designed to persuade and influence this is called propaganda br br the remote interviews are heavily in editing br br it really loses me when it bashes god and christians which it does all too often however you'll never hear anything vaguely anti semitic br br if jon stewart and company attacked anyone but christians it would be considered an offensive outrage the names in the credits explain the source
0	jon stewart aka john constantly rips conservatism and anything republican this liberal comic is anything but as he pours his cutting humor down the throats of impressionable youths i've viewed the show while stuck in a waiting room while my car was repaired and this guy borders on treason he'll take al side over bush any day he's shameless and everything he says is punctuated by a phony laughtrack i do remember four years ago when he interviewed john kerry the two made faces at each other that seemed to preclude a makeout session it was like get a room you guys i just don't like smirky little traitors who peddle their propaganda call me shallow the daily show has had a long run and there are many likeminded liberals who have a seething hatred for republicans and conservatism i'm not surprised at its success but do that many people actually watch comedy central that guy makes me barf
0	comedy works best when it relates to stuff that's true but even as such some effort is required to make jokes that everyone likes and even the most grumpy of viewers can crack a smile when i look at the daily show i see the whole it's funny because it's true thing but i don't however see the effort and often times i don't if they're being funny or just trying to make a point i notice this mostly in the interview segments the daily show started off as a news parody by definition they poke fun at how the media plays it's own news by pretending to be inept and dumb news reporters and and they tackled tons of subjects from science to movies and sometimes politics then jon stewart came along and it all went to hell thr first years of jon stewart's reign were arguably golden i though he was so funny but then 2004 came along and it's where you start to notice a huge chance in the show from there on the show's humor has gone stale colbert left steve carell left many of the show's best anchors left and now it's mostly about jon stewart and the show's gone from a parody to a semi serious news show essentially evening news but with some gags here and there for those who haven't seen the show and are having trouble finding out what to watch on cable i'll give you a brief description of what the show's about at least until 2009 bush cheney and all republicans unless they happen to embrace an opinion shared by democrats as well are stupid evil corrupt and hypocrites anyone who stands by conservative beliefs is also evil corrupt and a hypocrite people who doubt the man made global warming theory are evil and stupid vote democrat there i saved you 25 minutes of your time go watch something else at first i though that the producers hijacked the show for their own personal political agenda but when i actually see the interviews it becomes crystal clear what this show's about what i mentioned above but i'll get to that in a moment off the humor in the daily show according to jon stewart expects you to find a random filmed quote said by either bush cheney or a random republican humorous because well because jon sets up the joke setting it in writers specific context and expects that the random quote somehow delivers the punchline so unless you the context it's entirely useless as bankable humor also the daily show expects you to laugh when they show a montage of one politician talking and in another separate video saying another thing again putting into a context that the writers expect you to understand thus making it funny why well because jon said so now imagine the daily show using that formula countless times for years every week and you'll start to understand of what used to be a laugh fest that is now 25 minutes of just silent stares yes even in the lewis black segments at first some decent amount of effort was put into these jokes but now much less of that is apparent and the interview have the most odd sense of bias that i've ever seen jon stewart calls bill o'reilly a bully but what does that make him when he sucks up to every single actor and democrat john kerry before obama today that appears on the show and looks down upon respected republicans and accomplished conservative such as weekly own bill he puts them in some sort of people's tribunal as if they're being charged with a crime often times any person on the show who stands up for bush is portrayed as delusional as if that person's out of touch with reality and assumes he speaks for the majority of america that's the de facto treatment for anybody conservative unless they happen to share a similar point of view with democrats if so it's an endless love fest but still it doesn't matter in the eyes of jon you are already wrong before you walked into the show and are still wrong afterwords that's the kind of treatment you get if you are anything remotely right wing now you have to wonder what that could possibly have anything to do with humor one wonders what'll happen if democrats win the white house
0	i have tried watching this show on several different occasions and each time found it to be utterly pale of humor br br the reason to mention one thing is that it is solely based on ridiculing anything the republicans have done in short it is basically democratic party political opinions touted as humor br br all mr stewart does is wisecrack about anything the republicans have done and the audience wets themselves in gales of forced laughter br br my guess is that the left is so devoid of any real substance that they have to define themselves in terms of how much they all hate republicans br br ld br br br br my faith http www angelfire com ny5 jbc33
0	this is fairly typical for the sci fi channel one dimensional characters a ridiculous plot and terrible special effects we've got some alien sock puppets loose on a train and lou diamond phillips does his best with what little he's given to eke out a performance and save the day everyone else in this is utterly dispensable the ex wife who goes through the time honored cliché of first disliking lou then of course comes to love him again at the end the obnoxious state senator who gets munched early on and a gaggle of dull security guards who run around a lot then there's an eco terrorist who is in this movie for absolutely no reason whatsoever except to provide us with 3 more running around he spends the whole middle part of the movie hiding in a box br br the special effects really deserve their own paragraph we start with a meteorite that flies through the air trailing flames behind it at about 100 miles per hour according to the physics of this movie if you exceed the posted speed limit in your car atmospheric friction may cause you to burst into flames then it lands on the hood of a car coming in sort of like a ball landing on a floor i guess it really doesn't damage the car much just bends up the hood a little bit later on lou gets in a helicopter and goes chasing after the train even though the train only had a two minute head start it takes a good half hour to catch it the cgi is so bad that the helicopter looks like it's as big as the hills it's flying over then it flies into the side of a mountain this effect must be seen to be believed it looks like they took a jar of gasoline and threw it against a wall then superimposed the flame effect over the helicopter about 10 times too big no wonder the helicopter couldn't pull up in time it was carrying five tons of nitro then the eco terrorist eventually blows himself up but instead of exploding in all directions like most explosions do he explodes upwards like a cannon aimed into the air then there's the whole deal with not being able to stop the train because that would allow the little aliens to get off but it appears that the aliens can actually fly faster than the train is traveling so why this would keep them on the train i have no idea br br overall if you've got a couple of hours that absolutely need killing and it's down to this movie or reruns on the food network well come to think of it some of those chefs are kind of cute usually these movies have at least one or two things about them that make it possible to sit through them maybe there's a sexy girl some t a or a character that actually has some personality or some suspense or well something i really didn't see any of that here
0	this show has shown it's true colors now that democrats are in power it never did lead the world in iq as anyone who thought it has intelligence has been programmed to think one way which is a scary thing br br comedy central moved this it's spin off back to an earlier time once the democrats took power for a reason because now when the democrats screw up which is just as often as republicans do stewart no longer takes pot shots at them that is why the ratings for both this the spin are dropping br br basically most of the humor now is either lame or lame sarah palin jokes which all the ratings dropping comedians are now telling the facts to back this up speak for themselves the jay leno show which has been doing the same kind of humor is on the verge of being canceled the ratings for letterman conan the shows that follow them are down br br so emperor stewart is not alone trouble is if any of them start taking real rips at the bungling democrats in power they could raise their ratings in a hurry because the best humor is always at the expense of whose in power the bush years proved that because the ratings for this show colbert letterman leno were higher there br br has done one thing proved these shows have to be willing to take chances rip the folks in power if they are to prosper right now the daily show stewart are sagging but maybe they can get lucky have palin elected as the first woman president in 2012 then the lame palin jokes will become ratings grabbers
0	for some reason i just didn't like it at all and felt embarrassed about how bad it was since i bought it and watched it with my family all of us hated it with a passion it's a nice enough kids' movie maybe in the year it came out however think about it an outdated kids' movie what's the point kids do not generally like to watch such old movies anyway and i don't see what adults are supposed to get out of this movie at all br br some kids' movies like mary poppins or wizard of oz can be enjoyed even now but time bandits is totally outdated for your reference and i think applicable in this case i also did not like dr strangelove or spinal tap at all so if you disagree with me on those similarly outdated movies you might like time bandits br br there is also a horrible case of overacting as i recall from the 'bad guys' think of the two stupid 'bad in the pirates of the c movies except in time bandits they are not even remotely funny br br anyway i warned you that's all i can do people that rate this movie high must have liked it from many years ago if you have not seen it before then don't bother watching it now
0	i got this movie from the library and saw it had a lot of actors i like in it john cleese ian holm ralph richardson etc so i got it and watched it i expected cleese to have a large role since he had first billing i was surprised to find out that he had about five minutes of screen time along with everyone else i liked this movie is amazingly pointless the characters are nobodies the plot is non existent and the ending is one of the worst endings i have ever seen there were a few funny parts but that's about it stay away from this movie if you want to prevent going what and huh a lot and if you don't want to waste your time ignore the people who say this is a very funny movie it isn't just stay away from it at all costs please
0	i know terry gilliam is considered as a good director but claiming that this movie is good is just foolish what was the movie about what is it a spoof fantasy comedy satire no answer there from gilliam's screenplay totally confused and pointlessly hurtling from one historical age to another i find it amusing that some people actually call this movie magical is it because they have to praise any movie which is vague and indecisive on what it is about 3 stars for special effects considering it is 1981 roger ebert has it right in his review the movie is ambiguous and looks like gilliam's romp with money just to make a vague children's move masquerading as a historical revue the movie also tries to confuse the would be viewer by giving john cleese and sean connery top billing
0	i have seen this movie and in all honestly was quite disappointed and in my opinion this movie lacks heart i frankly didn't care what happen to the characters by the end of the movie br br there was so much there they could have done with the movie that they didn't because they were either so rapped up in trying to be obscure and make some deep comment on life or trying so hard not to that the characters and story were completely lost in all of it i have seen another picture by this director and enjoyed it well enough but i felt this film lack of the whimsy and heart of the other and i was left wondering what the point was or if the point of the movie was that it had no point honestly while i didn't feel like tearing my hair out during the movie i did remorse the lost time on the sad little film br br i have no doubt that some people will love this movie but frankly i didn't
0	well horror this ain't but a terrible low low budget backwood flic of the worst kind sort of and therefore quite charming and funny to watch at least on my tv set a cross between pete walker herschell gordon lewis and say damn i give up just can't come up with any prettier resemblances for this trashy movie everything is soooo wrong that i just have to enlist it in my film collection alongside with death in venice nekromantik blue velvet and the good bad ugly right people with some small talent for adding gory inserts or sexy happenings to film they buy other people should pick this film up immediately sure is a fat lil' ol' goldmine waiting here oh
0	i went into this film expecting hoping for a sleazy drive in style slice of seventies exploitation but what i got was more of a bizarre pseudo western with far too much talking and not enough action it's clear that this film was made on a budget the locations are drab and poorly shot while the acting leaves a lot to be desired also the plot focuses on a trio of robbers a father and two sons that steal a load of gold after killing some miners they come across a cabin inhabited by a young girl and her stepmother and all this is told in flashbacks by the young girl currently residing in an asylum it's clear that directors louis and william sachs thought they were making something really shocking but despite its best efforts south of hell mountain is just too boring to shock the viewer the film drones on for about eighty minutes and most of it consists of boring characters spouting off boring and long winded dialogue the only good thing i have to say about the film is with regards to the music which is good in places the ending is the only other good thing about the movie and that's only because it's the last thing that happens i wouldn't recommend anyone bothers tracking this down there was much better trash made in the seventies
0	an absolutely baffling western featuring flash forward sequences set in an insane asylum south of hell mountain was one of the first films produced by the at cannon film co directed by william sachs who would later deliver such fan favourites as the incredible melting man and galaxina the film tells the very dull tale of a trio of gold robbers who stumble upon a cabin occupied by two women who are hiding some secrets that aren't worth discovering the cast most of whom never made another film try gamely but are hamstrung by the screenplay which generally makes no sense the asylum scenes are edited in to little effect and are punctuated by ridiculous sound effects and tape loops ultimately it's a lot of talk and little else
0	maybe it is unfair for me to review this movie because i walked out well before the end that's odd because i usually like shakespeare on the screen and i enjoyed night's dream once many years ago when i saw it on the stage br br i think that two things did me in that squeaky twerp with the shakespearian name calista and michelle sitting in a giant clamshell well i suppose you could say it supposed to be a comedy but when the scenery is funny and the actors aren't i'd say we have a bad movie on our hands
0	this puddle of derivative drivel stole from every soviet film of note and failed miserably i was left with an experience of everything that is wrong with organized religion in general and the russian orthodox church's particular shortcomings mind you this comment comes from a person of faith even the outstanding cinematography left me uninspired i spent its most beautiful moments very aware of the masterworks that it was poorly imitating i would not recommend seeing this movie unless you have a deep passion for the russian orthodox church its traditions miracles in the face of communism and saints of the seventies it is a meaningless film from and about a narrow perspective that did absolutely nothing for me
0	what do you get when you put lou diamond philips todd bridges barry corbin with a bad toupee and an alien all on a train you get a very bad movie called alien express or dead rail that would be more entertaining on comedy central's old series mystery science theater 3000 you name it this awful movie suffered in areas of acting plot storyline and special effects in fact the exterior passenger train shots looked like the production staff used a common ho scale model in front of a painted background the rest of the special effects goes downhill from there br br the plot is very predictable and is similar to two 1970's movies called horror express and a disaster movie called the cassandra crossing at least the cassandra crossing had a better cast an engaging storyline and real train scenes br br if you want a good laugh and a movie to mock at a b movie party then watch this otherwise alien express derailed long before departing from the station
0	this movie just arrived to mexico and since i read very good reviews here about it i decided to go watch it with my friends and girlfriend but i was greatly disappointed i don't understand how people can rate it 10 10 i mean screenplay and directing were beautiful but a great overall movie need a good story which this flick lacked altogether br br i've enjoyed several dramatic asian and european films but they had a good story watch this movie at your own risk unless you are eastern european or orthodox i don't think you will like it br br half the people on the theater left including my 4 friends who waited outside since they were really bored so was i but i always wait till the end of the movie br br regarding the movie it was extremely slow paced with a lot of time wasting scenes the full length of the story could have been shown in no more than 40 minutes but they made it longer by having scenes of the monk getting coal that is like 15 minutes of the whole movie plus panoramic views and so on until they made it a full length movie a really boring one br br i recommend you listen to me if you still watch it come back and rate this comment as useful after wards to help people avoid this waste of money
0	i never intended to write a review of this movie actually i was just on the sight looking for the name of the star of the film and then i started reading reviews i guess i'll never learn this movie is horrible i'm not going to justify my comments with specific reasons because i really find it hard to believe that anyone with any taste actually likes this a guilty pleasure okay i guess but a film this bad that wasted talent so good caine and donen is a reason for mourning not a pleasant diversion a low point for all involved except perhaps bologna who must sit up nights trying to figure out which bomb was the bomb that destroyed his career
0	michael caine's character has problems he's a plain insecure man in his mid 40s he's married but his wife doesn't seem to love him anymore he has a poor relationship with his only daughter but his most immediate problem is that a stunningly beautiful young woman played by michelle johnson is pursuing him too ardently kissing him groping him and trying to initiate sex at every opportunity what's the poor fellow to do br br this movie should be taken out of the comedy section and placed under science fiction only an intergalactic brain chip can explain the actions of michelle johnson's character let's see 3 billion men in the world she can pretty much have her pick she goes with an clumsy aging loser this goes beyond a middle aged male fantasy into something so delusional you just hope that everyone involved voluntarily submitted to therapy br br there's not really anything funny here there are some quick attempts at wit from caine who often seems to playing hawkeye pierce more than a new character joseph bologna is like fingernails on a chalkboard michelle johnson is no actress she has one crying scene that wouldn't pass muster in a high school play but she is beautiful and she does take her clothes off so buy the dvd skip to scenes 4 and 9 and forget the rest
0	yeah i know the girls are hot and the scenery lovely but for someone knowing the place it's hilarious br br if you want some accuracy this is not a movie to rely on it starts with the flight from são paulo to rio aboard a 747 this will never happen on the 400 km flight smaller planes such as 737 or a shuttle passengers between the two cities every half an hour the drive from the airport home if shown on a map would reveal an intricate zig zag back and forth perhaps the producers tried to emulate one of the very known drivers when faced to tourists not that it would be a local habit as i myself got ripped off in very serious places such as switzerland the girls yes all topless that's something an outsider will never understand brazilian chicks will be happy to expose 100 of their incredible bodies at the samba schools parades and wear almost non existent bikinis at beach but never go topless a handful beaches across the whole country will allow it all carefully secluded and out of town oh the indoor decoration the amazing wallpaper maybe in disneyworld apart from that it is very entertaining and yes demi moore is absolutely splendid
0	i saw this in the theatre a couple decades ago and fuzzy recollection suggests that i liked it however seeing it for a second time two things stand out 1 very poor acting on the part of michelle johnson and 2 very poor music throughout br br it's not that all the music was bad some of the brazilian music was fine but the theme song and others that their way in were reminiscent of the worst of '80s pop music br br johnson's voice seemed all wrong possibly dubbed this was distracting br br on the positive side 1 the story's not bad 2 it's interesting seeing such a young demi moore 3 valerie harper never looked better and 4 johnson did look quite fetching in various stages of
0	this movie should be called blame it on the script directed by stanley donen of singin' in the rain fame this celluloid mid life crisis is not all bad it's got some lush scenes of rio de janeiro and various scantily clad extras cavorting with each other and romping around the beach to the sultry sounds of samba but there is just something about watching fifty something michael caine get it on with whiny teenager michelle johnson that makes you feel well sleazy this storyline is a complete stretch too nobody but pervy and vain old studio execs in hollywood could have green lit this embarrassment maybe they are so used to having young bimbos as arm candy that they forget it's their fat wallets that hold the key to their appeal not their huge larry king style spectacles and yellow cigar stained teeth it's one thing for a nubile young sexpot to have a crush on an older man but on her best friend's father who happens to be married and then to throw herself at him shamelessly ugh there's nothing entertaining about that it's rather pathetic and grotesque take note of a young demi moore's budding cough talent
0	not the funniest movie ever but i have to watch this film at least once a year just so i can fall in love with michelle johnson all over again she never looked better than she did in this film by the way the story is good too
0	all in all don't expect much and you won't be disappointed br br and if you want to see a movie that will take you back to 1983 this will do that for sure the only reason i gave this movie 2 points more than it deserves is for 2 reasons br br 1 michael caine br br 2 the people the sights the culture and the music of brazil br br the movie is almost completely carried by caine as he commits the seemingly impossible task of transforming it into a viable and semi believable story even joe bologna and valerie harper fall short br br michael caine is pure class as always besides being a gifted classical and comic actor caine brings a blend of introspection mischievousness and sensitivity to every movie he does the focus of his charm as far back as his role in alfie and the reason why he won the academy award for hannah and her sisters 2 years later in this farce he is tenderly beguiling funny and vulnerable melancholy and sentimental and besides the jewel that is rio de janeiro the only reason to not seek out a better form of entertainment br br well maybe a glimpse at the 2 lovely young actresses michelle johnson and demi moore would be a reason but look is all you can do at michelle though her look seems sorely dated there couldn't be a more painful movie experience than watching her try to act most of her dialogue seems overdubbed too acting and looks hold up 100 times better and you could easily transplant her as is into any movie today she doesn't really look much different to be honest ms moore is surely underused especially considering she was the bigger star of the 2 br br save the fact that it is a silly farce at the end i actually kind of like the maturity with which all these people handle this scandalous situation that it doesn't end friendships nor marriages and that an affair even with the underage daughter of your best friend could be forgiven and everyone can move on the injured parties do show anger and disappointment at what transpired but all works out for the best a bit unrealistic for sure but surprisingly refreshing hope always is
0	blame it on rio is a romantic comedy 80's style with more than an eye full of sex throughout its 101 minute running time br br the plot concerns two middle aged men in crisis one of whom is sorting through his divorce the other dealing with the possibility of that same prospect both good friends they decide to take a vacation in exotic rio de janeiro each with a daughter at their side complications set in when one of them gets involved with the other's daughter br br this potential riot of a story is fairly funny and there are some good lines however it never really becomes hilarious as it could have any attempt at handling the moral issue seriously doesn't work either and perhaps director donen should have stuck to the humour of the situation br br not a bad film but what really ruins it is michelle johnson's awful performance as the naughty little temptress jennifer while she uses her body to full advantage it's the only thing she's got michelle's acting prowess leaves a great deal to be desired no wonder we haven't seen her in anything else br br friday january 7 1994 video
0	i just finished watching this movie and largely found it a waste of time with little or no redeeming factors i really don't understand where all the positive reviews came from the animation is clunky and unrefined the plot makes no sense at all from an objective standpoint and there is no sense of intrigue or suspense in that which is trying to pass itself off as an intriguing and suspenseful film i have never read the book so i can't say if the movie was faithful but as with most movie adaptations it tries too hard to cram as much information into the shortest amount of time possible the result is a disjointed and illogical storyline that doesn't really let you understand or relate to the characters or actually anything at all overall i felt completely detached from the characters and the plot to the point where i couldn't bring myself to care about what happened to them and the only way i can see how this animation could be considered beautiful is if your normal standard of animation is a scooby doo cartoon
0	i am a big fan of sci fi movies so when i saw this movie in the i thought i was in for a pleasant evening what a disappointment such a poor display of special effects i could not imagine in 1980 but in 2005 come on why would you do special effects of an helicopter flying in the desert when you can film a real one for a much lower price i guess and those killer muppets well i could do better than that in a couple of hours in the garage you can expect to have a low budget on a movie but i don't think it's reasonable to have a low movie for any budget as for the star of the movie i use a lot of quotes tonight lou diamond philips the guy is not even remotely an actor maybe he should have stayed to the martial arts movies all in all an awful movie maybe i am in a bad mood tonight then again maybe not a sincere 1 out of 10
0	we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable br br just terrible
0	this takes place on fire island back in the 1970s a couple peter craig dudley and buddy j will deane are throwing a 4th of july party at their house unfortunately their relationship is falling apart and they have to get ready for a house full of very strange guests the rest of the movie chronicles the party and what happens between peter and buddy br br ok i'm a gay man but i was 8 back when this was made if this is a true view of what gay life was in the 1970s i'm glad i wasn't around from the puzzling opening credits which shows kids playing in the sand this movie slides slowly into disaster there's a guru robert case who talks nonstop about nothing of any importance i wanted to gag the guy halfway into his first long speech there's the young kid danny who is there for his first time there's the lesbian couple who do nothing except one strips for no reason there's the leather queen worst of all is the effeminate man named jimmy jimmy foster we're introduced to him and his friend whose name i never got when they get a flat tire they basically scream and screech for 10 minutes and have no idea how to fix a flat i know some people find this funny but i found it offensive and pretty sad the party itself is full of people you would never want to know it's like being dumped in a party full of bad actors playing obnoxious people with the sole exception of dudley no one can act br br this may be valuable as a portrait of what fire island was like in the 1970s but it's pretty dull viewing this gets a 2 only for the frequent male nudity of some very nice bodies
0	bathebo you big dope br br this is the worst piece of crap i've seen in a long time i have just stumbled onto it on late night tv and it is painful to watch really painful how does something like this get made horrible horrible horrible oooooo the toilet is flushing by itself again scary toilet scary toilet scary toilet 1992 doesn't seem like that long ago to me but watching this makes it seem like 1952 i mean its horrible please don't waste your time on the drivel br br scary old black man telling them not to build the pool in the yard scary scary how does this stuff get made
0	a couple move into their dream home unaware that it and its neighbours have been built over land formerly used as a cemetery the film is said to have been based on a true story although how much of it is supposed to be true is not disclosed the plot is hardly unique see spielberg's 'poltergeist' 1982 within a short time they experience various supernatural phenomena these range from the disturbing mysterious shadows the serious illness of the daughter to the frankly ridiculous toilets continually flushing and garage doors going out of control there is little depth to the story once it has become established that the land had been used as a cemetery we do not learn anything more the plot does not seem to develop the characters are not particularly well drawn or in any way memorable nor is the atmosphere particularly special the film could be disturbing to some viewers there is no sense of catharsis or any kind of positive message from it
0	so this starts with at least an interesting and promising basic idea goes on and on with tension carey in a good untypical role but in a less than you expected performance weak direction from joel schumacher match with some plot holes the detective scenes show us the luck of creativity if you don't have great expectations because of the negative reviews maybe you will enjoy this at the end they offer to us a lesson about morality for those who remember falling down and the family joy and cure that ruins every possibility to be kind and find the film watchable p s it's obvious who is the killer i wonder why w sparrow carey didn't resolve the mystery from the beginning of the film
0	this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen i didn't go in with high expectations but as soon as it started i thought it might be o k it wasn't jim carrey seemed to try but he spoke all his lines as though he were some diabolic cartoon character the other actors all seem to try their best but are kind of wooden the plot has a good basis but the melodramatic lines make it dull and kind of stupid i was laughing during the whole second half of the movie and after five minutes of that i got tired of that most plot 'twists' you could see from several miles off it's just not worth watching i really wish i hadn't wasted my time with it
0	one would make you believe that this game is about a man obsessed with a number and sure it's an interesting subject can a person become so obsessed by something marginal as a simple number that he completely loses touch with reality and becomes hopelessly delusional and paranoid br br well perhaps someone will make a movie about that sometime this one unfortunately doesn't have anything to do with the above never mind what the trailers or even the movie itself would like you to believe i would like to say that this number is just a macguffin but it isn't even that it's pointless a gimmick a hook for unsuspecting audience br br well what is the movie about a dog catcher carrey who becomes obsessed with a cheesy noir crime book because he feels it somehow reflects his own life there sure the character in the book detective sigh is for some reason obsessed with number 23 and carrey himself becomes obsessed and starts seeing the number everywhere but it's just padding and totally irrelevant to the story in fact you can cut out all the 23 references and have the main character s obsess about cheese or something and you'll have the exactly same story it is painfully obvious that all the 23 stuff was written in waay after the story was already finished rejected and sent for rewrites br br which would be ok i guess if the movie wasn't dull dull dull half of the movie is narrated for chrissakes you aren't watching the movie you are listening to jim carrey narrating the movie about a quarter in carrey starts reading the book and from then until the horribly cliché ending we are forced to watch real life scenes from dog life where nothing happens interspersed with narrated artsy film noir ish book scenes which will either leave you snickering or just plain depressed it's like a poor man's sin city with all the violence cut out narrated by carrey and shown in slow motion ugh br br this is a simple case of a c movie script somehow being filmed with an a movie cast probably because of the number 23 hook which i guess sounded intriguing enough on paper to warrant the premium hollywood treatment however since as i said already the movie is about number 23 as much as it is about cheese production in switzerland one cannot feel anything but cheated br br i give the movie 3 out of 10 because i guess it didn't insult my intelligence as much as forsaken did or made me downright suicidal like battlefield earth did and the bottom of the scale must be reserved for abominations like those but fear not this is still a pretty lousy flick
0	there was a time when joel schumacher was ranked quite high on my list of favorite directors back in the late 80's and early 90's when his name was attached to several great films like the lost boys and falling down he truly was one of the most gifted directors in hollywood then came the stupid batman sequels unfortunately and after that it seemed as if every potentially sublime screenplay turned into a gigantic mess in schumacher's hands both 8mm and phone booth could have been much better films and even the incredibly imbecilic concept of the number 23 should have been processed into a slightly more compelling and entertaining movie literally from start to finish the number 23 desperately attempts to be a mysterious and uncanny thriller and therefore uses all the dreadful clichés from the big book of cinema history including heavy voiced narration flashbacks disorderly structure characters with multiple personalities numerous plot twists that grow increasingly absurd and sinister asylum settings nothing helps however simply due to the sheer silliness of the basic formula and the clearly uninspired engagement of cast crew as much as you try to associate with the lead character and be open minded regarding the insane theories this still remains a movie about a two digit number and two digit numbers aren't scary walter sparrow jim carrey in a rare non comical role is a bored animal trapper whose wife agatha gives him a bizarre book on his birthday the book tells about all sorts of devilish theories and strange coincidences that are linked to the number 23 walter almost promptly identifies himself with the book's protagonist a sleazy detective investigating a grim case of suicide and begins to spot copious examples of the 23 enigma in his own private life i did some research on google and wikipedia and apparently this whole 23 numerology nonsense really exists and certain people honestly believe that most catastrophes and accidents are directly connected to this evil number well that's just … crazy but hey i'm not here to judge people's beliefs and fears regardless of how demented they are and i can only share my humble opinion on a movie that is based on an out and out berserk enigma the number 23 is not suspenseful in spite of several gloomy set pieces and nasty make up effects and never at one point manages to make you contemplate about the role of numbers in your own life all cast members perform below their normal capacities but it was still nevertheless a joy to see the lovely mrs virginia madsen in a relatively big production again definitely not recommended in case you're looking for a solid and creepy evening of thriller fun but endurable and not entirely without merit
0	the movie starts good it has a thing going for it about 1 3 into the movie things go downhill carrey starts obsessing about the number 23 because he sees it everywhere so what thats no reason to go nuts and start writing stuff all over your body and on walls br br the acting by whoever is playing his son is bad from the get go as soon as he hears of his fathers obsession he jumps on the bandwagon and is hysterical about it totally unbelievable i hope i never see this kid in another movie again br br its a waste of time watching this movie grab another boring piece of well the number is killing him give me a break i won't spoil the ending for you but let's just say it is equally disappointing br br 3 10
0	not just because of that theme in the movie which was one of the lame excuses for something reminiscent of plot no br br i watched this knowing i would not like it i hate numerology whenever someone starts going off about patterns with numbers i feel the urge to slap them my own brain starts hurting out of empathy and fully aware this is a movie just about that topic i couldn't resist the urge to watch it and maybe get a good laugh but it wasn't funny just exactly the dumb sort of isn't this totally scary and yet amazingly cool i can turn any crap into 23 dialog i was afraid of as soon as the son started to chime in i knew this movie is a turd no matter what happens but i hardly ever stop watching a movie i started i sat through it i enjoy the pain br br the movie pretends to mock numerology under the disguise of showing how obsession can end badly but it rides that wave as much as it's supposed to crush it i don't see that message i only see characters raving about a stupid number with little plot to justify br br top that off with the usual surprises trying to put another twist to throw you off that makes no sense and you almost believe it due to the quality of the narration up to there and you get one hollow piece of movie making that just happens to be centered around the topic i despise if only it did not try to be serious and rather had been some hilarious movie with actors i don't give a damn about but i was starting to like carrey while it's not his fault he is trying it's not even good for watching with a bunch of friends and mst3k the hell out of it br br my expectations were low enough for someone to trip on them but this movie managed to live up to be one of the worst i've ever seen
0	what the hell was this i'll admit there were some scenes that caught my eye such as the 23 bullshit where the protagonist sees or the number 23 everywhere he goes but that was pretty much the movie in a nutshell for crying out loud this was supposed to be a suspense movie and being labeled as a psychological thriller i would have expected it to have at least some catastrophic effect on the mind but instead what did we get we just got something as shitty as an animal control guy finding himself in the middle of a mid life crisis and his journey to redemption kinda like an old man flick if you ask me i probably should have just rented wild hogs it wouldn't have made a difference i mean who are we kidding they should have made someone else the killer of that girl by juxtaposing sparrow with the protagonist of that book the number 23 they were pretty much giving out the movie to the viewers by hinting that he was the killer all along how would that have shaken our heads shame on all of you voters who chose to show some generosity towards this wretched piece of work you call a movie and kudos to most of the critics who concurred with my reaction
0	this is a truly awful film lou diamond phillips simply calls this one in the use of miniature models of the train are laughable the plot seems to develop on the run there is an alien on board oh and an eco terrorist is on board too oh and the conductor is dead and the train is out of control oh and the train is going to run into another train one hour ahead oh and that train has nuclear waste on it i mean come on really the alien monsters are not scary although there are a lot of them and the acting is abysmal check out the guy playing the next president do you really think he could be president for goodness sake he has spent his whole acting career playing bad guys
0	out of stars br br let's see 14 divided by 20 times the square root of 13 equals 23 which was my departed grandmother's favorite number and the year she was born 23 minutes past the 23rd hour assign the number any way you choose and ooh be very scared be extremely scared when you throw in a brain dead looking mutt to go with 23 and you have schumacher's latest attempt at a dark suspense fest with the number 23 oh yeah 23 is also my record in cuervo shots at my favorite dive on 23rd street in the 23rd state in the union br br carrey carries the film to about it's halfway point then we lose sight of him not caring much don't look for any crazy expressions to come from the comedian carrey as you have seen in the mask and me myself and irene no and don't expect an embodiment of a character as he did with andy kaufman this role is a sad and peculiar for jimbo where's the riddler when you need him i know we don't need him virginia madsen like usual is underused as the supportive speculative and peculiar wife her talent like carrey's is suppressed and it's almost painful to watch her try to rescue her underdeveloped character from near anonymity br br to give credit where credit is due there are a couple of interesting scenes in the number 23 that showcase some very crafty cinematography they are arresting enough on their own without having to be convoluted within the incoherent narrative of this silly story br br i don't know about you and i realize this is a work of absolute fiction but i don't know of anyone who often reads his novel in a dank dark basement or spends his time at graveyards on a regular basis like carrey does in this movie schumacher keeps his film dark and blood red and gloomy and rainy and smoggy and gloomy and rainy and dank and on and on and on from beginning to end even and the lost boys had a little more daylight in them and we're talking about medical students obsessed with death and teenage vampires br br if you feel like watching this film even if it's out of mere curiosity make sure you do it while enjoying about 23 that way you can kill 23 birds with one stone
0	the good br br carrey is good actor and he proved it in man on the moon and in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind but hey what can an actor do without good story and proper directing he can do number 23 br br the bad br br joel schumacher is poor overrated director and he proved it in almost every movie he made what he did with batman is just disaster but probably batman movies supposed to look good well they didn't instead of gothic and macabre we got disneyland sure falling down was great but can you ruin the film with robert duvall and michael douglas and with excellent script no you can't br br and so good actor and poor director finally met and made number 23 br br the ugly 23 br br i know that it's stupid to begin with but subplot almost half of this movie looks exactly like intro to another chapter of max voiceovers quality of detective story itself quality of the characters even colors mood and music editing and sound mix too perhaps it works for the game but surely it doesn't in the cinema br br mise en scene is so bad that it becomes funny it's not even annoying carrey reads walking down the stairs in park why is it natural no but it looks good why suicide blond covered walls in her apartment with white paper if she just wanted to kill herself there is no logic in that but still it looks good guess what it it doesn't look good at all it looks unnatural instead br br all female characters are flat why is that so who cares let's go on with the story br br who is this private eye on the suicide hardly believable br br scenes when walter sparrow is arguing with his wife about weather book is really about him could be the best part of this movie instead we get scully routine disappointment br br interiors has no sign of people living in them except the significant objects shoes photos etc hard luck br br dialogs ain't that bad but what about v o well that's another story there's no such thing as destiny there are only different choices captain obvious to the rescue number was coming after and now it was coming after me cliché and so on br br it's obvious that average housewife would break into public building in the middle of the night successfully and undisturbed br br the subplot of the dog dragging main character to the graveyard this is so old trick and so comfortable for writer and that it should have been banned i mean it br br flashbacks and editing similar to what happened in last episode of x files isn't the best way to present the most interesting part of the movie is it br br i wish i could say that this story deserves a better fate but it doesn't it makes no sense told in chronological order is weak and unbelievable all the time we have undeveloped characters trapped is chain of situations which are nothing but badly written fiction this could be fun but since whole movie is dead serious it isn't to many coincidences is just bad for every story and the mystery it's predictable and easy to guess br br losing touch with reality is great theme for good movie but i never saw any of that in hollywood's productions if you're interested in the subject just watch repulsion by polanski or something by david cronenberg spider or a history of violence both of that movies deals with similar problems that number 23 wanted to show wanted but failed
0	fate leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life all based around the number 23 as the story unfolds in real life and fiction sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end br br the number 23 offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential the screenplay was probably the worst part about it it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea he just didn't know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time the second half of the film was running low on ideas the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful br br joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number 23 reminds me that he's still capable of making a stinker he has the movie drenched in style but he just can't get a good focus he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace he switches from reality to what's actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying the actual book in the film that's titled the number 23 is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears when carrey is finally done with book we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery at this point the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it's horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished br br the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn't even seem to be trying he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston overall the number 23 was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills rating 3 10
0	this is the most stupid movie ever made the story is laughable his wife and kid think he's insane then they don't then it turns out he is and i think they knew it all along there is a dog named ned that causes some problems and i think it's all his fault so does jim carey god only knows why virginia madsen took this role this is a career sinker i think the target audience for this is 11 and 12 year olds and that adds up to 23 or maybe it's for 8 and 10 years olds which also adds up to 23 or maybe it's for really dumb 23 year olds or maybe really dumb 32 year olds because that's 23 in reverse or maybe 46 year olds would enjoy it because half of that is 23 i think looking up things on the internet about the number 23 would be more entertaining than this movie unless you wanted to see a comedy
0	apparently a massive head wound is the cure for homicidal tendencies turning a murderous sociopath into a lovable and oafish dog catcher also this ones for the ladies it seems that the front gate of a psychiatric hospital is an overlooked hot spot for meeting potential mates those are just two of the approximately 23 absurdities we're supposed to accept for this movie to have any meaning i love movies and i believed as i'm assuming many americans do forgive me if i'm wrong that hollywood turned out the best product i've come to learn how sadly naive and brainwashed i was and 2 how much more sophisticated european asian cinema is in comparison to its american counterpart br br i watched this allegedly disturbing psychological thriller the night following a viewing of a japanese movie called suicide club as the camera faded on walter happy little family enjoying some quality time around a prison visiting room table not to mention the patronizing voice over extolling the virtue of doing the right thing i suddenly had an epiphany i had just finished watching a movie that left me feeling as though i'd just had a glass of water when i really wanted a beer my thirst was sated but it was strictly utilitarian the premise was mildly interesting but the story itself with its innumerable coincidences how do we explain her finding the book we'll just say something like or did the book find her they'll buy that gaping plot holes why did take the skeleton predictability and obligatory happy ending turned out to be just another hollywood hack job additionally the casting of jim carrey was at any moment i felt he was capable of breaking into some shtick from one of his stupid comedies or in living color jim carrey as a tattooed hard boiled police detective who enjoys bondage and rough sex didn't buy it for a second br br you want disturbing deeply disturbing watch suicide club the story surrounds the mysterious mass suicide of 54 school girls the film opens with a group of giggling high schoolers mulling about on a subway train platform we then watch in horror as they line up hold hands and happily throw themselves in front of a fast moving commuter train needless to say much chaos ensues that's as far as i'm going to go with the story line because i encourage the reader to see the film in fact i'm not sure if i could outline the plot even if i wanted to what begins as a straightforward mystery quickly descends into a madhouse of grotesque imagery did i understand the movie many of the foreign films my girlfriend has introduced me to so naturally i thought it was bad but this one lingered in my mind i went to bed thinking on the film and awoke the next morning and looked it up on imdb i read some of the viewer comments and was astonished at 1 the insights others had derived from the film and 2 the fact that i had so thoroughly missed the whole point of the movie i realized that i was so used to being spoon fed the message from hollywood that when confronted with a film that actually required the viewer to actually think for themselves i was totally it's as if i had been conditioned to check my brain at the door of the theater br br am i saying that suicide club is the greatest movie ever made of course not it has its flaws many of which were reported adroitly by the imdb reviewers am i saying that all american movies are bad and all foreign movies are good course not my point is that there's a whole world of film making outside of body of work that engages the viewer forces them to think and that don't telegraph plot twists follow a strict linear sequence and above all don't insult the intelligence of the person watching i look forward to expanding my mind while exploring this new world of film that doesn't do the thinking for me
0	this movie has no respect for the viewer's time it takes a 15 minute story and stretches it into 95 minutes in order to achieve this they have to use a very slow narration and have everyone run around with some implausible frantic angst by the time this movie showed anything interesting in the plot i just didn't care the problem is not in the acting but instead the pacing the story is just weak jim carrey is a capable actor but his attempts to inject light humor into a serious role is just out of place his style of humor is not generic so he comes across as a watered down version of himself the number 23 causes great grief and frustration to the people in the story but the justification for this is never logical at most it's just mildly interesting jim carrey has far more ability in a serious role than this movie reveals don't waste your money seeing this in the theater rent this movie if you've had problems sleeping if you are still wide awake after 10 minutes then you liked it more than i did i was not fond of the lighting and artistic aspects of the film making either a lot of passive visual eye candy was thrown at the viewer with lighting or effects and it did little to enhance the already weak story
0	in a word god awful too many plot holes um yeah who takes their kid to dig up a dead body in the middle of the night and what's up with his wife stealing the skeleton who does that why exactly did the shrink stab himself in the neck and that whole dog thing i mean really having sparrow narrate from the beginning also just completely destroyed the suspense for me i mean if he's narrating the story clearly he's lived to tell it so there's no chance of him getting offed where's the suspense there br br of course you expect plot holes in a film like this but there are so many i lost track of the story completely because of them what kind of name is or why did the wife dig up the body who does that or go into that crazy spooky asylum alone and where'd all those candles come from why does the writer have his po box in the freaking book i mean come on and the book just happens to find its way to the bookstore next door to the wife's bakery way too convenient oh and happy birthday honey here's a book about a serial killer what a thoughtful gift the book is like 20 pages long half of which are blank and it takes him freaking forever to read it if he's truly obsessed with this book wouldn't he have read it all in one shot br br a bit convenient for him to bump into his future wife carrying a cake about 23 seconds after being released from a mental hospital how old was he playing 36 br br was i the only one at the end rooting for the bus to actually run the guy down not good when you're rooting for the protagonist to bite it in the end br br it seems like this was written by committee i imagine that the first draft probably had nothing to do with the number 23 it seems as if they needed a gimmicky hook to bait the audience into thinking there was some supernatural thing going on when in the end it really didn't seem to have anything to do with anything i mean i wasn't expecting the godfather or anything but everything about this film was a total let down without all the numerology stuff this movie could actually have been ok instead of some hackneyed se7en knockoff br br not scary unintentionally hilarious and otherwise a total snoozer
0	this is the worst work ever of daniel day lewis i can not believe that in the same year he made this awful movie and my left foot please stay away from this movie this is a movie only for argentine people as a curiosity the plot is impossible to understand the writer thinks that in argentine all the people speaks in english of course the bring a very good frame for the photo shooting of the film but that is not enough reason to see this movie i repeat only if you are very fan of daniel day lewis or if you want to see the south of argentine part of the and you do not have enough money to travel yourself
0	this quirky and watchable film is the story of a deluded dentist who starts out on his mission or crusade to fight tooth decay in the back and of hailing from northern ireland via new jersey the main character sees his crusade as a mission of mass importance and approaches it with all the enthusiasm vitality discipline and attention to detail one would expect from a trained dentist which adds to the hilarity as his grand plans unravel and gradually fall to pieces as he goes from disaster to debacle in the outback on the back of a customised motor bike or his er mobile dental unit we never get to meet his wife nor the rich philanthropist who is sponsoring the ill fated mission but we do get a solid display from lewis fans of his work will not be disappointed with his very believable performance as the deluded dentist who is adored by the innocent but sexy 18 year old female lead who tags along on for the ahem ride br br this film is not for everyone and i can understand why it wasn't pushed by the suits it's a low budget sometimes charming always disarming mildly amusing and instantly forgettable film that sets out with low expectations and almost succeeds
0	was a college acting class exercise filmed and released as a movie the formulaic posturing and stylized drivel of a horror soap opera for people who don't like horror films but wish to be able to tell that friends that yes they did see a horror movie it even features soap opera music br br do books falling off library shelves scare you do doors shutting terrify you then this flick is for you have you ever been kidnapped yeah most of us have when you were raped was it simply ignored because the rapist was the cool kid what's scary is not this movie but this filmmaker's view of the world br br and then the little twists aren't even original this is a film for people who've never seen a horror film before who don't want to see one now and who want to see another flick about everyone conspiring against the weird kid
0	eh heh eh heh hey dude look at these aliens they're like biting the humans and stuff eh heh eh heh eh heh br br this must rank amongst the worst movies of all time it's utter drivel for anyone with a modicum of a brain sure you have the reviewers on the payroll who give glowing reviews and vote highly for this abomination but it's easy to tell who these sell outs are their reviews are too good to give a movie like this even a mediocre review claiming it had some b movie remedial appeal would be a glowing review calling this a great movie tips the hands of the corporate shills br br but enough of that br br this movie had about all the bad characteristics a movie can have without being so bad that it's enjoyable just to laugh at the old japanese 60's monster films had a quality that this movie lacked at least in those 60's films you could laugh at just how bad the rubber monster suit looked or laugh at seeing the strings holding the space ships how the models dangled on the strings and how the flames curved upwards out of the back those movies made fun of how bad they were alien express aka dead rail seems to actually think of itself as a good movie which makes it incredibly absurd br br the effects were awful by today's standards beyond awful however not quite as bad as the 60's monster movies hence they lacked the comedic appeal the plot and dialogue were about as sophomoric as i've ever seen made even worse by being every bit as predictable as you might expect i won't even point out the plot and logic holes in this one it just wouldn't be fair to this pitiable plot plus it would take to long to even get started most of the acting was awful lou diamond phillips must have been very desperate to agree to touch this one br br scifi channel is rapidly becoming the cheap thrills channel producing movie after movie without an iota of concept or intelligence in the lot i can only wonder why bother br br don't bother with this tripe it doesn't get any worse
0	years ago sara a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments did i mention she has an imaginary friend this film lulls the viewer not into a sense of tension mind you but rather a sense of sleepiness deathly boring i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed 'mystery' is sara going crazy or is it the paranormal a better question would be who cares and the answer to that no one no one at all skip this film save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks br br my grade d
0	good lord this movie needs to have a new classification on its cover watch only if you have absolutely nothing else to do i am disappointed i was looking forward to a good horror movie over the weekend needed an adrenalin rush and that awesome tingling sensation going down my spine but this movie didn't do it a reasonably good story but pretty awful acting dialogue and filming it was disjointed and sometimes outright silly we had actors looking at the wrong direction of the camera people talking out loud by themselves and narrating what they feel and what is going to happen shadows of equipment in some shots silly clichés like i just need you to hold me in the totally wrong places and situations thank you for allowing me to and sorry if i'd offended anybody but it was a waste of time and money
0	if you see this film in the tv listings just ignore it if you're looking for something scary you'll be better off watching reruns of the x files br br previous comments referencing the incredibly poor acting by the female lead are dead on she is almost unwatchable the sum total of her range includes and and and not br br i am the kind of movie buff who enjoys a good 'bad' movie but this is ridiculous there is no direction the plot is as simplistic as the set of numbers they keep throwing at you and much like that set of numbers it ends up having no meaning in the end br br your time will be better spent if you turn off the tv and give your dog a bath
0	newly released on dvd in the us just stay far away from it br br i usually give plenty of room for stupidity in horror films i'll settle for nearly anything remotely suspenseful supernatural spooky or even just a vaguely interesting concept this one simply stank i knew there was trouble when sara's best friend in college who had considerable screen time wasn't even listed in the credits on imdb i wasn't surprised not recognizing any actors but that character or day glo or whatever her name was apparently didn't even exist br br i'm so embarrassed that i actually paid a rental fee for this garbage deeply deeply ashamed
0	i know a couple people who look just like the lead actress in this film or at least like the character she portrays they all give me the creeps and i would be the last person to ever lend one of them a gun or even a sharp knife she has one mean and ugly looking expression if you can conjure up a bit of sympathy for her let me know br br of course i might have the same expressions of concern and fear if i had an imaginary friend who had been killing off my real friends and acquaintances for the last 15 years br br and for our european friends on the imdb i'm saddened to say that yes some colleges and universities in the us teach courses on paranormal phenomena relying on the pathetic defense that it represents academic freedom and open inquiry br br this film is not worth your while you will have no sympathy for any of the characters except for aunt lydia who gets offed pretty early and the plot makes no sense
0	bad plot bad acting bad direction br br it had possibilities but just didn't achieve anything br br this film looks like someone started with an idea googled a bit of info and then tried to flesh an hour and a half with lots of night shots and bad suspense music br br others had to stop watching because they were scared 2 3 of the way through i had to take a break purely because i just didn't care anymore br br reminded me of an episode of days of our lives with marginally more suspense br br just bad
0	the film starts well enough it is a truly terrifying scene as a couple of fugitives on the run from the law tear apart an innocent family living in a secluded country cottage by killing the mother and father the young daughter only manages to escape with the aid of a mysterious spectre who kills the two aggressors while she covers in a downstairs cupboard then we catch up with her 15 years later as a drug addled student researching the supernatural living with her promiscuous aunt and being looked after by a mysterious redhead she has no real friends was almost raped at a party and keeps having bizarre visions which no one else can see so yep life is grand things get a lot more pleasant when she has a falling out with her mum's sister who is later found dead in a bathtub under suspicious circumstances with 11 etched into her forehead hmm i wonder who the police's main suspect will be this is quickly followed by more deaths all linked by their relation to our heroine having been on bad terms with them before their passing could she be the culprit or perhaps the explanation could be something of a more ethereal nature clue if you think the former you've picked up the wrong movie from blockbuster go back and get the correct one short sighted gimp br br as i said i was all ready to fast forward to the good parts safe in the knowledge that i wasn't missing out on anything but a mediocre suspense potboiler but the first ten minutes grabbed me and i decided to give it a chance i was quite pleasantly surprised it certainly wasn't a masterpiece but the acting was good enough and the script kept throwing up intriguing situations of which i looked forward to finding the solution to alas 45 minutes in i realised my attention start to wander during a long sequence where the main character is walking round a library doing nothing we then get a cheap scare followed by quarter of an hour of about the paranormal between her and her new hunk of a boyfriend things only got worse from there as the promising beginning is thrown out the window as we get one unconvincing plot twist after another followed by an ending so anti climatic it's like being promised the moon and ending up with a teeny weeny meteorite instead pathetic br br if it was bad all the way through it would have been far easier to swallow the fact that it starts at a and barely ends with a whimper is not just disappointing it is heartbreaking how can something which began so promisingly end up being so formulaic i don't know and i don't particularly care i'll just give the writer and director a bit of advice for next time don't spend 5 weeks writing the first part of your screenplay then 5 minutes finishing the rest you tend to notice these things in the final product when you treat your project as sloppily as you have here 3 10
0	wow what a bad film not frightening in the least and barely comprehensible the plot doesn't hang together at all and the acting is absolutely appalling what's that line from a famous critic she runs the emotional gamut from a to b yup that about sums it up not even good for camp value i wasn't expecting oscar material but this and gosh her friend's a ghost you'd have to have the iq of particularly stupid not to see that one coming br br this film and i use that word loosely is an insult to the movie going public if only someone involved with it knew how to string together narrative this gets a 1 out of 10 simply because there's nothing lower on the bright side at least it's not a full two hours long
0	well this was a complete waste of celluloid the preview was promising but after watching the movie it looked like the preview was the whole movie no plot no clear storyline just some misplaced suspense it looks like the director tried very hard to create an atmosphere of mystique and fear but still there are gaps to be filled why the drugs why the number 11 11 btw as sarah the library the clock says 11 14 what's the connection to the murder on the parents what's the role of this woman is she one of the children or not who are those children anyway there is a lot of material lying around to create the ultimate cult movie like the omen but the director just leaves them lying on the floor without digging into the story even the project was more scary than this one all the gaps you hope to be filled like in the butterfly effect stay open as the credits start rolling ok off to the next movie
0	what can be said about such a pathetic movie br br very bad acting the main actress seems to know only one facial expression fear mixed with weakness like a poor beaten dog the other actress the one who plays the evil looks like the female double of ozzy osbourne with an awful red wig the other actors are so pitiful that they don't even worth being described br br there's absolutely no plot the story begins with possibilities but goes nowhere we don't know anything about the meaning of 11 11 nor who really is excepted the simple she's evil or she's a child of apocalypse which is not an explanation we don't know why the parents have been killed what kind of danger is growing and why sara was chosen as the film goes on we just watch pseudo scary scenes with a bad music moreover the end doesn't tell anything we just see two possibilities as if one of them was a bonus scene or the director's cut there's no plot so no possible interpretation br br 11 11 is just full of clichés it is so obvious that i couldn't help laughing for example the deserted library or the bathroom scenes ghost silhouettes walking with a blast of wind there's even the fashionable little scary girl as in dark water or the ring of course the main character is bullied at school and looks like a stereotyped gothic girl dark hair red lips skinny black clothes is it an obligation to make her credible i don't think so the psychology of sara is so few developed and so typical that it doesn't make her credible nor endearing br br terrible direction as i said nothing original everything has already been seen a thousand times and is used here without any real purpose br br there are some funny incoherences for example i don't know if ghost science paranormal course or whatever is taught in american universities in europe it is really not the case teachers talking about negative energies or using creatures sensors ridiculous also how can you watch a movie shot in the sixties with a super 8 camera on a computer screen without spending hours of your time for a digitalization in the movie they watch it immediately on the computer screen and how can you on this old film isolate a tiny detail then zoom in and see a perfectly identifiable face i wonder if the director has ever tried to an old analogical film br br eventually 11 11 just worths being watched if you like to laugh at silly movies or maybe if you want to fall asleep on your couch but it's an expensive way to fall asleep
0	alien express is one of the worst movies i've bothered to experience br br the plot is predictable the aliens look like rubber sock puppets the effects would have been mediocre in the 70's but are just atrocious by today's standards couldn't they take a shot of a real train instead of using an obvious model br br the acting isn't great but really the dialogue is the worst part it gouges its way into your mind don't you die on me not now if you ever manage to suspend disbelief long enough to be absorbed into the movie you'll rapidly be jolted painfully back to reality by the aliens the model train or the clichéd dialogue br br the only reason i didn't give this movie a 1 is that it doesn't deserve to be rated so badly that some poor suckers might watch it for the pleasure inherent in a truly bad film
0	first of all this movie is so confused that it is almost impossible to summarize it since i myself did not understand this horrible story further the unknown cast leaded by an actress called laura is simply awful the expressions and screams of the character sara tobias are laughable and ridiculous confusing grimaces with acting last but not the least there are many favorable reviews about this flick in imdb as follows br br top notch can't wait to see more of the directors work – the author has only one review in imdb on 24 september 2004 br br incredibly shot amazingly intense – the author has only one review in imdb on 12 august 2004 br br not your typical blood and gore in fact better 7 10 – the author has only one review in imdb on 13 february 2005 br br as intense as asian horror the author has only one review in imdb on 14 november 2004 br br coincidence or are they the parents relatives friends or people hired by the production to promote this crap my vote is three br br title brazil 11 11 – a nova 11 11 – the new prophecy
0	11 11 a k a hell's gate 2004 is another bad horror movie that tries too hard to be something it's not a young girl has an imaginary play mate one day whilst out in the fields playing with her friends a couple of fugitives visit her parents and whack them off for no apparent reason the young girl runs off and hides from the bad men years later the girl grows up into a woman with problems losers at her school looking like repressed homosexuals flaunt their manhood in front of her when she rejected one of them the girls hate her and life in general is miserable for her a secret from her past returns to visit her who or what is it why does everyone hate her what's her guardian's problem with her to find out you'll have to watch hell's gate br br the new title makes absolutely no sense whatsoever i don't know why people are given money to make such bad movies this film is not even good enough to make fun of it's a head ache inducing mess confuse anyone who tries to make some sense out of it not worth your time br br not recommended
0	i hired this movie out from my local movie shop not really expecting anything to flash or fancy since it was a b grade movie made on a very tight budget the opening scenes of the film were rather original and so was the plot and thats what made me hire the movie out however the film becomes very boring and frustrating at points the story had plenty of holes in it and the acting had its fair share of disappointments as well by the end of the film i was praying that a higher power was going to strike me down where i laid as i was extremely bored but more importantly frustrated with how the story turned out i still don't understand what actually happened and i don't particularly care in conclusion the devil would cry in disgust to know that hell his domain was used as a basis for such a crappy film
0	war is in your blood rambo says early in the film don't fight it say what is the scriptwriter taking the mickey out of sly it is impossible for any person with a primary school education to miss the joke here yet stallone utters it without a hint of irony br br the same lack of humour applies to the movie rambo iv is an over the top idiotic actioner that would have been funny without intention if it weren't sickeningly violent a redneck fantasy of the basest kind where villains are so villainous it is not enough just to kill them – you have to dismember them with relish stallone stops at no blue collar cliché to make his point it is not enough for the chief villain to be feed them to the pigs throw babies into fire kind of sadist he is also a pedophile homosexual br br what is happening to imdb is it taken over by the rifle society how can this loathsome excuse for gross exploitation rate that high i like a good action movie as much as the next man but this is not entertainment – this is pornography of violence that trivializes and ultimately denigrates the real tragedy of the only good thing about the movie is that sly doesn't take his shirt off for this i will give it one star
0	now the television schedules in england at least are crammed with home improvement bargain hunting house hunting and cookery shows in the afternoons the chances of any of the terrestrial broadcasters digging out a complete obscurity like this to occupy a couple of hours of screen time on a slow afternoon are slender to say the least but back in the eighties the bbc did just that and guess what i watched it and it's a testament to the overwhelming weirdness of this hungarian american co production that i can still remember large chunks of it over twenty years later to begin with the eponymous hero appears briefly during the opening titles only to vanish again for at least half an hour imagine an american tail re edited so is nowhere to be seen and you'll appreciate how confusing this is there's a supremely bizarre bit of animation where one of the characters gets his elaborately waxed moustache tweaked and stretched complete with a sound effect that causes him to go boss eyed probably hilarious if you're stoned but to a child quite disturbing speaking of which the infamous scene is represented in an abstract manner clouds in vague hippo shapes are struck by lightning but it's still pretty unpleasant in fact this film is pretty cold and uninvolving throughout a sad state of affairs hardly helped by the strange looking production design all muddy colours wobbly lines bloated forms and that uniquely european bleakness reminiscent of jan svankmajer only not as compelling then to cap it all we get songs by the this isn't so much an awful film as a deeply misguided one not so much phantasmagorical as a rather bad trip
0	licence fees to watch this trash and pay for it with hard earned cash humourless no hint of laughter god knows how it won a bafta br br we've now been subjected to eastenders for twenty years when oh when is the great british public going to see this awful soap for what it is crass pap this programme no more depicts reality in the east end of london than everyday life in beirut and never has done br br the eastenders i know the real ones are kind courageous hardworking and loyal and one of their greatest attributes is humour it was the eastenders who went through the worst of the london blitz and still stuck two fingers up to hitler and what do we see on our screens for five days of the week including an omnibus nothing but a bunch of moaning wailing dead from the neck up wimps who seem to do little else than sit in a pub all day sniping at each other what a great advert for britain that is do the writers actually believe this garbage they're pumping out obviously the woolly minded section of the public does but then i've heard that apparently anyone can be brainwashed into believing anything
0	the other lowest rating reviewers have summed up this sewage so perfectly there seems little to add i must stress that i've only had the cockney filth imposed on me during visits from my children who insist on watching the sunday omnibus my god it's depressing like all soaps it consists entirely of totally unlikeable characters being unpleasant to each other but it's ten times as bad as the next worst one could be the reviewer who mocked the 'true to life' bilge spouted by its defenders was spot on if anyone lived in a social environment like this they'd slash their wrists within days and i can assure anyone not familiar with the real east end that it's rather more than you'll ever see here take my advice avoid this nadir of the british tv industry it is evil
0	if this is classed as 'real life' of london then the producers must be on different planet br br it is the most depressing suicidal dark dingy dross on tv br br everyone is fighting everything has nasty under tones running through it nothing is done for genuine reasons br br if you want a real life picture of people in london or the uk then this programme is by the farthest from reality br br there is not one good word i can say about this programme the only certainty is that will be a great big fight over christmas dinner br br even the characters are totally unbelievable
0	this soap is worse than bad it's poisonous of the many television shows that have had a corrosive influence on british society over the past twenty years eastenders is the prime example for two decades this show has celebrated the oaf the thug the wide boy the tart the the violent the sexually the criminal the ignorant the br br how many times has someone or other remarked that eastenders mirrors life life on which planet exactly br br it's written about working class characters as imagined by middle class people who have taken a course in creative writing eager to show to their middle class peers how familiar they are with the working class they dream up the lumpen rabble that is the citizenry of eastenders br br this has a toxic effect on some minds less well equipped than others to handle fiction and so we find members of the real population assuming the attitudes and demeanour of the inhabitants of br br thus it came to pass that eastenders mirrors life but only after life had been hoodwinked into mirroring eastenders br br other soaps have followed in footsteps filled to their stinking with ugly potato faced shaven headed pot bellied characters scowling at each other and issuing threats constantly this is the proletariat as perceived by the writers who produce this trash the writers will grow rich on the proceeds of such output and will go on to enjoy the finer things of life in their rarified meanwhile the burgeoning number of new tv induced drones will proceed inexorably toward cultural bankruptcy br br and there you have the new priests and the new creatures of the early 21st century much of this is due to the immeasurable power of that illuminated of dancing in the corner of your living room it's your fault gentle reader that's what you chose as the only window through which to look out from your prison
0	i think this programme is a load of rubbish all they do is argue and slap each other across the face and they call this acting these people get paid lots of money for this and most of them can't even act to save their lives also the story lines are awful and after watching it for a few minutes i am bored with it i like the way that harry hill takes the mickey out of it on his tv show 'tv e g the weak joke the princess and the pea isn't exactly shakespeare is it that had sonia and naomi in stitches i don't see how that is funny i think this is a waste of everybody's money for their tv licence so this can be shown 4 5 days a week isn't there anything better than this
0	after watching this movie on tv i looked it up in the imdb and imagine to my surprise a user rating of 7 6 this is not a good film especially bad is the editing the poor way the story jumps from one point to another was amateurish and a huge distraction it's not very fluently done i do agree that the acting was fairly decent especially kelly and that the story was intriguing enough
0	i don't know how people can watch this the only people who enjoy watching this are those who have no feelings and emotions and enjoy watching people die houses burn down car crashes babies die and cast members being killed off every week its the most absurd thing on television and i still don't know how it pulls in the ratings its so depressing i can imagine the writers sitting down and saying 'so who shall we kill of next week then' or house shall we torch in a months time ' br br its the most depressing absurd and most stupid thing on tv at the moment and i cant understand peoples motives for watching this depressing pile of crap anymore
0	eastenders has gone full circle from unmissable in 1985 to totally abysmal now it's such a bad reflection of the nation this crap tops the ratings br br the ideas for plots can consist of nothing more trivial than putting ever characters name in a hat the first two out regardless of their sex will sleep with each other the 3rd 4th out will have a fight in the vic the 5th one will be arrested the 6th develop an addiction 7th get pregnant etc etc br br the producers are clever though the 30 minute show is only actually ever comprised of 3 lines br br 1 someone will walk in the vic say what's on 2 someone else will stand up say leave it out 3 then a woman will say doan choo come in ere 'n' insult mah br br that's it that's every show apart from the occasional get it sort id is it sort id br br the show was once a realistic portrayal of east end folk their way of life the came off when 1 they extended it from two nights a week 2 the slater family turned up how they attract viewers is beyond me the kat character symbolizes everything that's gone wrong with society treating anyone else like something she's pulled off the bottom of her shoe br br the people who vote her the best character in these polls must the same as the ones that vote jamie 'best despite the fact he hasn't played a game for 3 years br br what i can never understand is if the show is the pinnacle of british tv why do all the biggest names leave ross martin the list is endless br br how long has the longest couple's marriage lasted with them being faithful to each other yes people leave but until the script writers realise that characters couple can be interesting likeable without sleeping around the show will continue to deteriorate an episode last week had 3 separate plots of exactly that and zoe the doctor top even lofty as 'most unconvincing couple ever to appear on tv ' br br yes eastenders is the most watched show thats undisputed but many external factors contribute to that 19 30 20 00 is the perfect time of day to gain the most audience figures it has an omnibus edition for 2 hours and more than that millions of the viewers watch it out of nothing more than habit but if they were completely honest to themselves they would admit that in 2002 more than ever it can be absolutely pitiful
0	i spent three months living in the east end of london in the latter half of 1987 when the show had been on the air for almost two years it was considered a running joke there br br why because it had an all white cast every cast member and extra in the first couple of years was white br br the street where i lived was a long one with over 800 houses and to the best of my knowledge i was one of only three or four white faces living on that street we were on the corner of the indian and turkish quarters and even if you excluded those two races the asians and afro caribbeans outnumbered the white people twenty to one plus of course of the very few white people who did live in the area the vast majority were scots like me a cockney accent was never heard br br that wasn't a racist rant just a simple statement of fact the bbc either couldn't be bothered crossing london to do their research before writing this soap or else they only had white actors available and decided to bluff it out br br either way as i say in the east end of the time we considered it a comedy show
0	my wife and i watched this abortion from its beginning i hated it immediately but my wife became hooked on it for a couple of years for me it just got worse and worse and the characters were all without question dreary and depressing without any redeeming features my wife then grew tired of it and we stopped watching altogether occasionally i catch a clip of it or pass through it when channel surfing there is always someone yelling at someone else or doing something dreadful there never seems to be any lighter moments or happiness of any kind that was always my main gripe with it when we first watched it no humour the writers seem to have no idea about drama they seem to think conflict is drama and of course that is only one element of it light and shade is sorely needed and actors who can bring something to it i am sure the actors in eastenders are competent but they have nothing to work with it must be the most depressing acting job in showbiz i fail to understand why the british public watch it and love it what on earth does it say about our psyche i have heard it said that it is just like real life its nothing like my life or anyone's life i know otherwise we would be flinging ourselves from high buildings or under public transport the themes it tackles are far from family viewing but still are shown pre watershed i love series like breaking bad or the wire but i would not expect to see them at 7 30 or 8 00 in the evening the programme is trash writ large and should be avoided at all cost
0	it must say something about the state of our nation that this programme is one of the most popular currently screened br br the is peopled by such a miserable untrustworthy amoral spiteful unrelentingly dour group of characters as can be imagined everyone is stabbing someone in the back everyone is attempting to commit adultery everyone is trying to cheat someone that or they are being stabbed cuckolded or swindled nobody is cheerful nobody laughs nobody has a blinding stroke of luck or a really nice day it's hell with cockney accents br br i suspect this programme must be sponsored by the it's perfect viewing for the depressed it doesn't cheer them up what it does do is present a whole community of such terminally despondent sad arses that viewers are moved to believe their lot really could be worse they might be living in br br apart from the above as a representation of london's east end it is pure hokum the programme makers have evidently never been across town the first thing you encounter on the mile end road is a colossal mosque and this pretty well defines the racial majority of the population white british londoners are a dispersed and rapidly diminishing minority a large advertisement hoarding presently near the bow road and sponsored by tower hamlets health care boasts that out of ten members of the community can now see their doctor more ten healthy smiling faces beam down at the observer in confirmation eight of them are dark skinned br br what's more i used to work with a bunch of anglo saxon dare i say cockneys a few years ago and i can tell you that a more obnoxiously racist experience i've never had each day was like an oswald moseley rally they couldn't pass 5 minutes without denigrating some other race or nationality than their own and in terms that were repulsive and obscene and were the small change of conversation in fact their entire and extremely limited stock of adjectives fixated upon sex organs and their application alf garnett was a paragon of liberal virtue in comparison br br any programme that purported to represent london's native east end caucasians in their true nature would be completely unfit for broadcast even after the 9 o clock watershed imagine a ku klux klan script written by quentin tarantino and you'd be somewhere near the mark but when they weren't being inveterate bigots they were at least extremely cheerful br br i don't know how such a soap opera came to be this imaginary castaway island of white misery has absolutely no bearing upon real culture whatsoever and if you're of a comparatively sanguine disposition it will quickly reduce you to tears of grief comparatively ordinary actors pretending to be comparatively ordinary chronic with cockney accents what's the point of that br br dull dreary unrelentingly and ethnically preposterous the most popular programme of an apparently diseased and dying nation br br avoid it like the plague
0	it is fitting that the title character in sydney white is defined from the beginning of the film by her awkwardness because the film like the character tends to begin every scene with a well meant but inappropriate statement then inadvertently making it worse and leaving the viewer in total confusion br br this scenario gets old quick now imagine a hour and a half of this throw on the most predictable storyline imaginable add some vague snow white and the seven dwarfs references and amanda bynes blinking in wide eyed puzzlement and you have sydney white for more of my review http www helium com items sydney white review
0	my 15 year old daughter asked me to watch this movie with her on cable tv as someone who saw revenge of the nerds in a movie theater i found this movie to be an extremely predictable remake of it the nerds were simply replaced by dorks i drove her crazy by being able to predict precisely what would happen in each scene the cast was cute especially amanda bynes br br screenwriter chad creasey should be ashamed for writing such an obvious remake of an early 1980's flick the title should have simply been revenge of the dorks perhaps the sequel will be revenge of the dorks 2
0	i rated this one better than awful because i liked seeing jonathon from buffy in something again even if it was the same role br br first the concept is kind of cute for a short but not an entire movie the writing was forced and contrived i have the feeling that the movie suffered the most during editing br br second amanda bynes always looks like her eyes are crossed even when she's not trying to do it she's just not funny she always plays some sort of misfit girl who triumphs by being herself ironic considering amanda seems to always be a caricature i would actually like to see her in something serious i really want to give her a chance but she is always cast in these trite roles where she and makes faces and somehow that's a good thing br br finally the whole i'm a dork segment was ripped off from revenge of the nerds there was nothing in this movie that was unpredictable br br shame shame shame
0	amanda bynes is an enormously talented actress and i've really enjoyed all of her roles in the past especially in the fantastic she's the man for that reason alone sydney white was a huge disappointment for me the real reason for my dislike of this film is the poor use of characters in a good fun teen comedy its perfectly alright to have a cast of all fairly reality based teen characters in sydney white this idea is thrown out the window br br amanda bynes makes a fine sydney but she is really lacking in a lot of what usually makes her sparkle as an actress i blame this on the script which makes her character too bland and restrained and on the hair makeup department which gives her a detestable plastic look and an annoying hair style the seven dorks that sydney eventually befriends are far worse they are so dorky that it's impossible to like them or even respect them as characters they're essentially repulsive gag fodder as is the story's prince charming who is completely unbelievable as a character and is about as cheesy as can be br br perhaps the film's biggest star to be with the possible exception of amanda bynes is sara paxton who's actually very good as the conniving rachel it's just a shame that the script writers didn't make her a bit more gray than black br br the plot is basically that of snow white what kills it is that it is too blunt and obvious a re imagining the connections to snow white are thrown at us so much throughout the film that they are ultimately annoying and overblown prince charming is unrealistically charming the witch is far too despicably witchy the seven dorks are too dorky and sydney is just too pure of heart now this is not to say that the movie is all bad though bynes is forced down by the script she still has her moments as does sara paxton who brings physical comedy to the max in her scenes room mate named dinky is also great fun as a character it's a somewhat funny film at parts that is ultimately just too cheesy and clichéd to recommend
0	this gawd awful piece of tripe is all over the place the script is bad the plot is bad the acting is bad there are a couple of decent actors in it charles durning eg but the director got nothing out of them the plot line has santa feeling dejected and thinking no one needs him any more taking a little girl across country to try to get her father back together with her mother it includes a con man in a santa suit with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder played by isaac from the love boat the world's largest elf played by bruce a very funny man but no actor a hardened factory owner who works his employees overtime on christmas eve and a sleigh race where someone cuts one of santa's skis trying to win if the plot sounds bad it's worse on the little screen if you see this movie coming up next run do not walk to your television and unplug it you may want to boil your television to remove any remaining infection if you accidentally watch more than 10 minutes of this you may have to burn your television and have the cable company install entirely new lines
0	some plot spoilers ahead br br the nashville network's so called rebirth as the first network for men is a complete disappointment as was its block of adult cartoons the new ren and stimpy was just plain awful gary the rat mediocre at best and pretty unwatchable this cartoon is mostly boring if ren and stimpy suffered from gross out overkill lacked any decent shock gags funny witless gags clever gags or gags period the concept is bad to begin with pamela anderson a stripper cum superheroine saves the city from an assortment of goofy supervillains this cartoon seems like an homage to superior wacky superhero spoofs like darkwing duck and the tick but without those wit and good writing or even good agent tries to vacillate between being goofy and sexy but she is neither and this cartoon's failure to make her one or the other brings this series down br br watch your taped episodes of the tick and see what a real superhero spoof cartoon is like
0	tug 3 is absolutely right although i am sure that mr osmond wanted to make a sincere heartwarming christmas movie this one is as cynical and creepy as they come the religious significance of christmas is forgotten and replaced with cute kids clueless grownups and dopey villains the production values demonstrate that this was either filmed on a shoestring or by truly inexperienced filmmakers i suspect the latter unfortunately the worst part oddly enough really is the music you would think someone with a long standing musical career could do better than the title song but you would be wrong even my mom didn't like this movie and she likes the and sappy stuff
0	this movie was a low point for both jason robards and sam peckinpah major plot points are taken directly from sergio leone's masterpiece once upon a time in the west released two years earlier and also featuring robards a man finds a watering hole is found in the desert being the only water for many miles in every direction he plans to build a 'station' around the hole and to ensure there's a love interest he falls in love with a prostitute to this add an intemperate preacher bad music silly fast action shots even sillier t a shots and there you go there is little question why it failed at the box office the real question is how did it make it that far
0	ill tempered verbally abusive movie studio chief runs his male assistant ragged with nit picking requests keeping the young man firmly under his thumb with constant threats of unemployment after a year of office terror the working stiff finally cracks writer director george huang has possibly bit off more than he can chew here his swimming with sharks isn't a diatribe against hollywood nor is it a tribute to the hard working underling instead it's stunt film making with a twist a one trick pony with tunnel vision the surroundings don't look or feel like tinsel town perhaps due to a limited budget and we never get a sense of this stressful environment as a movie making entity it could be a office in the valley for all we know lead kevin spacey who also served as one of the film's producers gives a controlled and focused performance as the power mad mogul whose ego is out of control he does good work and yet the character doesn't ring true we learn so little about him and his acquaintances that his important position and high ranking status fail to jibe with what we do see who does this man answer to what drives him beyond humiliating others for sport what projects is he juggling aside from the one script we see passed around the film is so emotionally stunted and underpopulated it begins to seem like a stage play padded out for the big screen and yet one without enough characters or motivations in it perhaps huang wanted to keep things simple but instead his movie looks like a half baked project which needed a lot more insight humor and atmosphere from
0	i tried to like this movie i love kevin spacey and i knew the other guy from his role as big brain on brad in pulp fiction but i just didn't care about the characters at all kevin spacey is a prick through the whole movie and even finding out some horrible things that happened to him i didn't like him especially the ending that made me hate him even more this was like watching a bad car wreck spacey played a prick well he does it all well but other than that i don't recommend it
0	ugly heartless hollywood crap that expects nothing but ugliness and from its audience the scenes without spacey reveal how truly awful the film really is but the scenes with spacey are just so entertaining that you hang on in there right to the end yes he could play this part in his sleep but he does it so well he's such a joy to watch so believable and marvellously monstrous enjoy it for his performance but don't expect anything else from this movie if you want to see a great film about the evils of modern hollywood check out robert altman's the player this sad little potboiler is not remotely in the same league
0	yes this review may contain spoilers but you'll thank me for it this is the worst film i've seen in quite some time i came to this board expecting to see the same response i had but inexplicably there are several people who love this film and spacey's performance in particular br br some will chastise me for saying it but i find kevin spacey's acting quite limited despite the world's admiration for him i felt like i was watching a meaner version of kevin's american beauty role his character in this film is ridiculously overacted all the way down to his laughable insults he throws at his assistant br br there are all world trite and boring scenes like when spacey is tearing into whaley about bringing him equal instead of sweat and low somehow i suspected this particular scene was supposed to be funny but by this time i was ready to hit the stop button this is approximately 20 minutes into the film br br what about the faux homage to dogs whaley proclaims i think i saw this in a movie once as if he's going to cut off spacey's ear but what does he use to cut him an envelope that's right he's going to give him paper cuts that has to be one of hollywood's all time worst scenes and the fact that the actors and director tried to carry it out with a straight face makes it even more appalling br br i will admit that i didn't see the end of this film my dvd mercifully locked up about a half hour before the end but anyone who wishes to say so could spare me the line that i missed a great twist and everything would have made sense well i don't care what happened in the end because it could never make up for all that bad acting and relentlessly over the top dialogue i even got the feeling that the actors themselves wanted to get out of this film as bad as i did
0	there's something wonderful about a revenge film everyone wakes up in the morning believing he she is the star of the movie and that anyone who interferes with one's own personal agenda is in some way the enemy revenge plot films work particularly well if a person has low self esteem rather than fighting back in the moment the hero draws upon built up inner anxiety to engage in a single act of power in an attempt to restore equilibrium quite naturally in the real world this type of revenge seldom relieves the tension because life is not a movie after the revenge is enacted the actions taken have their own consequences a good revenge flick helps people ignore this bitter pill in the movies the end credits roll and all responsibility resolved br br swimming with sharks is advertised as a comedy no doubt an act on the part of the producers to figure out just how to sell this oddity it's dark but it isn't dark comedy company of men and the works of todd solondz come much closer parts of the film are so brutal they pre date the current torture porn genre everyone is so obsessed with saw hostel there are some laughs there are laughs in saving private ryan too but it isn't labeled comedy br br the intrinsic problem with this film is that it hasn't earned its revenge case it is ostensibly about a young man who is abused by his boss and eventually takes his boss hostage to pay him back for all the mistreatment the hero aptly named guy is an everyman so vague we know literally nothing about him what does he do with his spare time does he have friends family how did he get where he is what are his interests this becomes a running motif through the film no doubt inspired by the film's author's own struggle what do you want the answer to which we are denied by a vague cheat of an ending it's very difficult to care for such a character even if acted well even tom hanks becomes a creep in the wrong roll such as punchline kevin spacey as the boss buddy is supposed to be a monster but he's too charismatic as an actor the best laughs came when he abused his assistant he seemed almost as surprised as the audience probably is at what guy will endure when kevin's character is being tortured the view taken suddenly becomes empathy for him guy is suddenly filmed as a leering monster without rationality at this point any message the author had has been lost there's no hero in this film ergo no reason to care at all br br it's not a stretch to assume this story is based on the author's own troubled career in the film business i worked for a similar boss and can vouch that it's not that far fetched i had similar wish fulfillment fantasies at that time and thought that i was justified i thought you could win over the most beautiful woman in the story actually the only woman there seem to be all of about four people in the universe of this film just by being your eager naive self that eagerness won accolades and that a boss abused you because he was a mean person time and tide have revealed the truth that most monsters are really just the demons of an individual's personal psyche and resentment is usually based in the self as the film points out if guy was so unhappy he only had to leave the film doesn't offer any denouement at all surprise ending notwithstanding we still know nothing about the protagonists we can't even be sure anything they said was based in fact and everyone magically gets to have his cake and eat it too in short there was no point to this story at all other than to point out that shock the film business can be pretty brutal br br there are plenty of good films that tell solid and satisfying revenge style fantasies both the feel good variety 9 working girl the devil wears prada and not so much war of the roses the remake of the hills have eyes this isn't one of them despite a fun turn by benicio del toro in the emily blunt role from prada and some interesting work by spacey and michelle forbes this is a frustrating mean confused and slightly dull creation of self indulgence from a director who has one hopes worked it all out by now
0	talk about false advertising what was this doing in the comedy section of my video rental place i think there was maybe one laughable part in the movie i can appreciate black comedy but this had only the blackness without any comedy the movie was generally disturbing and un funny yes kevin spacey was good as buddy and the rest of the cast was also good but generally the movie falls apart because we don't really see a good enough reason for guy whaley to lose his mind so badly the ending was disappointing as well what would buddy's motivation be for letting guy get away with what he did this isn't really explained at all why would buddy go for such a plan wouldn't it be more like buddy to screw guy completely by turning him over to the police the ending didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me no matter how i looked at it br br generally i disliked the film despite the good acting spacey essentially chews scenery for most of the film but towards the end he gives buddy a bit of needed humanity the story just wasn't as good as the cast
0	the role of buddy ackerman is no stretch for kevin spacey he's played version of that character many times other better films this is fortunate because it gives his performance a certain resonance without which buddy would be as flat and incomplete as all of the other characters in this pointless little farce the script leaves little time for plot or character development resembling a porn flick in its rush to get to the good stuff the difference is that here the good stuff isn't people pleasuring each other but inflicting pain making it appropriate viewing for young adults br br of course there's nothing wrong with a porn flick if you want to watch people having sex and i guess there's nothing wrong with swimming with sharks if you want to watch people undergoing physical emotional and psychological torture but if you're looking for incisive satire interesting characters or anything else that even attempts to engage more than your basest passions you should probably look elsewhere
0	i was recommended this movie by one of my film making friends and was therefore expecting something good sadly i was very disappointed by the first half ah a movie about a wimp taking revenge on their a hole boss how original and watched the second half on fast forward hoping to find something that would justify the 45 odd minutes i'd already wasted but all i got was the 'shock' ending br br the basic problem is that this is a movie which seems unable to decide what it wants to say and says whatever it does say hard to tell what that is badly great acting does not save a bad script full of characters i can't care about br br now maybe if i didn't moonlight in the movie industry i'd be shocked to discover the dumb politics and exploitation going on behind the screen but as it is my feelings are as summed up above br br 2 10 would have been 1 10 if it weren't for the acting and the paper cut scene
0	the first thing that struck me about this movie was the terrible acting the whole cast was so uniformly inept at delivering their lines that i started laughing at the awful dialog midway through the film an even bigger issue with this movie is that at no point do we ever find out what motivates the actions of each character the one somewhat redeeming aspect of the movie is innovative visual effects however as eye catching as they may be they do little to make up for the gaping flaws mentioned above a dreadful script mixed with community theater level acting does not make for a pleasant viewing i was honestly shocked at how bad this movie was
0	why is guy working for buddy probably because ari was not around in 1995 why does dawn want to be with guy for access to buddy why does she stay with guy i am not sure br br there are bunch of things about this movie that i am not sure about but kevin spacey is an excellent verbal tsunami as buddy ackerman – and totally believable because he is a great actor br br frank guy is certainly out of his element working for buddy – he wants to write and make meaningful movies not be a gofer that is verbally abused for getting equal instead of sweet low br br michelle dawn who also wants to make meaningful movies seems way out of guy's league br br the ending leaves a lot to be desired
0	this show is awesome and we have been enjoying it thoroughly set in alaska i don't agree with the homosexual content on tonight's show i feel that you are pushing too hard to bring new york to alaska its one thing to have a new yorker struggling in the alaska wild but to try to turn the alaska town into new york this is a nice show about dainty women and true alaska men and to bring a same sex couple into the mix is throwing the balance way off alaska should be portrayed as a man and new york as the woman i think the first 9 shows have the perfect balance with what you all are doing can't we have a nice show without the imbalance of nature
0	i am a huge fan of northern exposure men in trees is a complete knock off of northern exposure there's the city folk from new york stuck in a remote backwoods town marin joel she immediately doesn't hit it off with a local jack maggie o'connell the town only has one pilot who is not often available ther is only one radio show and the entire show is about quirky people with sincere and odd relationships too many parallels just like northern exposure except one obvious demographic has been altered in each character i'm bored give me something new to think about br br on the upside the writing is pretty good but if this was a school project it would certainly have earned the stamp of plagiarism br br perhaps people who love this show were sheltered from the dedicated creativity and hard labors of joshua brand and john
0	on one thursday evening at 10 00pm my local west coast abc affiliate aired the pilot episode of northern exposure the abc network usually airs men in trees in that time slot but the program was preempted for a live sporting event br br despite both shows are set in alaska and filmed on location in the pacific northwest exposure in washington state trees in vancouver bc re watching northern exposure as well as few episodes of sex and the city reminds me how disappointed i am with the poorly conceived hybrid men in trees br br anne heche can be a good actress with the right material unfortunately her role as a writer who ends up in a small town in alaska grates on my nerves perhaps because i feel that heche is miscast i am not convinced of her fish out of water character br br i also cannot help but feel that the supporting cast fits the typical quirky stereotypes the hot looking local the kindly bar owner the bush pilot the local police officers the dim but well intentioned radio dj etc br br the only stereotype that may have been broken was teddy bear and veteran er actor abraham as the local bartender in love with two different women considering that one of the executive producers is filmmaker james his movies heavy and cop land had lead characters who were large men then i am not surprised why was cast in a non typical role br br nonetheless i can see why there are a lot of dedicated viewers who love men in trees it fits the quirky niche for television audiences i wished the show could find its own voice instead of borrowing ideas from better shows
0	not too long ago i bought a cheap vhs tape entitled just rambling along supposedly featuring laurel and hardy being somewhat familiar with their output and not recognizing this title i made the agonizing decision to part with a whole dollar and buy it upon playing it i identified the film as hop to it of course mr laurel was nowhere in the cast making the packaging of this product criminally deceptive even worse the quality is terrible it looks like it was duped from an 8mm film source it did have a somewhat appropriate musical score actually in all seriousness the tape is worth a buck if you just want to get an idea of what the movie is like in my opinion it is a decent but unexceptional short imdb should add just rambling along as an alternate title for this film which incidentally was the name of a 1918 stan laurel film
0	this is definitely a lesser known comedy short from the 1920s the only reason i saw it was because it was on a dvd by kino films featuring non laurel and hardy shorts featuring ollie they are interesting and historically important but also generally average to below average for the style film compared to shorts by chaplin keaton arbuckle and lloyd they are definitely a step below them in quality and humor also the accompanying music was pretty poor by the standards of other silent dvds i ended up turning off the sound due to the of the music to set the proper mood but despite this they are still worth seeing br br i've gotta be honest about this short it was the last of 8 on this dvd and by the time i got to it i was pretty bored with the mediocrity of 7 of the 8 shorts so it is possible the film might be a little better than a 4 but certainly if this is the case no better than a 5 the film is a pretty standard short about an incompetent bellboy nothing especially interesting and there are certainly much better silent shorts out there
0	ladies and gentlemen may we present the worst of all disney remakes although the name of this movie is that darn cat it should have been that darn teen or fbi agent the cat didn't get any real good scenes ricci's character was more annoying than funny doug e doug didn't get any good lines even dean jones's cameo role couldn't save this movie the only really good characters were the town's only two auto mechanics but their scenes were only brief in all i'd say that if you are considering watching this movie go get something more intelligent like a barney video
0	the only entertaining thing that i found about watching this movie was listening to star wars coming through the wall of the movie theatre yes i go to a really bad movie theatre this movie is so mind numbingly bad that i think i would rather have my eyes scratched out by a cat rather than watch it again br br let's compare it to the original one is charming funny exciting well acted and one of the best movies ever made the other is so far from funny that all you can do is hope that your eyeballs will fall out so you don't have to watch any more i'm sorry christina ricci is a fine actress but cannot compare with mills and don't even get me started on doug e doug in a part one occupied by the amazing and absolutely charming dean jones dean jones' tiny part in the new version is the only partially redeeming part of this movie and it is the only reason i can justify a 1 rating also because the imdb doesn't go into negatives
0	i am really at a loss as to how anyone could give this movie a 10 or even more than a 2 it is full of bad lines bad acting bad slapstick etc i never thought i could see worse acting than the purposefully badly acted scenes at the beginning of uhf but this was it and just when you think it can't possibly get any worse it does over and over again you actually could have watched this in a theater it wasn't worth free on tv my 4 year old and 1 year old liked it some but they wanted to see the cat more and the cat was almost never on
0	this movie wasn't good i thought it'd be a cute disney movie just like the original wrong it was awkward for christina ricci whom i expect so much more than this you could just tell by watching i think doug e doug did the best he could sit 5 year olds in front of the this any older and they might start to fall asleep
0	i thought of this movie when i watched pluto nash why because both movies have randy quaid playing a retarded robot this movie made years earlier but probably written by a screenplay writer that drank the same coffee or something like that whoa avoid at all costs even to pay tribute to the late great andy kaufman is hard to do here find another film or just watch taxi reruns on tv his character is so much more loveable tank you berry much
0	it's as if this town has the power to suck your brain right out of your head ' patti br br patti christina ricci is a sarcastic teenaged girl bored with her all too average little town bored that is until a woman is kidnapped and she finds what she believes to be clues to the poor lady's whereabouts now with the help of her precious cat d c ' and an inept fbi agent doug e doug she must find her br br that darn cat is a bad movie it is quite foolish and it has humor that often falls quite flat there are however a few buds of talent in it doug e doug was good in cool his performance as was really funny here he is wasted as the bumbling fbi agent he does have a good scene when he imitates the cat though micheal plays patti's father his character must be the most understanding parent to ever live this poor guy has his expensive cigar crushed gets arrested for picking up his own cat and gets bitched at by his snippy wife and still doesn't get angry at his daughter for causing all of his troubles i wish my old man was like that the only real good performance is christina ricci's she entertaining as the ever annoyed patti but her occasional very bad dialogue pulls her performance down you might also recognize peter boyle young frankenstein everybody loves raymond the old lady from wings and cliff from cheers in this movie this is a movie that all these actors would probably like to forget even the cat isn't very good i really can't recommend 1997's that darn cat some young children under 8 might enjoy it a bit but every one else should look elsewhere if you're looking for a good christina ricci movie i suggest addams family values the opposite of sex or sleepy hollow if a fun family film is what you're after try snow day instead br br
0	i really enjoyed the first film and when it turned up again without thinking or checking i took a family of friends to see it i was ashamed that i had enthused so much about it to them br br disney processed the original film just like the human body processes a delicious meal takes in something good and turns out well you know and by having a dark skinned person as the fbi man the results of fingerprinting the informant were subdued br br taken as an isolated film i suppose it is not too bad if one likes that weird sort of thing but when one has read the book or seen the first film horrible
0	this remake is entitled that darn cat but d c the cat is more of a sideline than the major character patti randall was not likable at all in this remake either she reminded me of one of those high school goth jerks you read about who have been angry since the day they were born so they end up opening fire on the rest of the school one day the federal cop kelso was okay but not as good as the one in the original i guess disney was trying to make christina ricci and doug doug or whatever goofy name he has into stars but they don't hold a candle to hayley mills and dean jones in the original i'm an animal lover and a cat lover and i don't blame d c for the remake being so much more inferior to the original movie after all they nearly cut him out of the whole movie all in all a very poor remake
0	but i still enjoyed watching her so i gave it a 3 instead of a 1 her expressions are priceless some of the other cast members e g michael are really slumming too the cat himself is somewhat amusing aside from that the movie is all cliche culminating in a much too long car chase it's also at this point that the movie becomes unnecessarily crude having been very family until then
0	the disney studios' remake of their own 1965 slapstick classic concerns a clever feline leading an f b i agent to a kidnapped woman christina ricci gives a churlish let me outta here performance as the cat's owner and the fed is played by doug e doug embarrassingly over the top like a human cartoon a pair of rich neurotics dyan cannon and original cat cast member dean jones are funny and the formula plot still has a little juice left in it but the handling here is so heavy and lugubrious and the cat is so lifeless that it's strictly d o a br br from
0	chris ricci sleepwalks her way through most of this but then quickly takes on an air of boredom and disdain much as i did when watching it without her this would be no more than a cheap kids' movie but at least she does add an air of quality there are few if any more visually striking and charismatic young actresses in the business br br there's not much wrong with it as long as you accept it for what it is a cheap disney re make aimed at very undemanding children i could watch ricci all day so i'm probably oblivious to many of the movie's shortcomings but unless you too are a ricci fan a cat lover or very small child i doubt you will find this very entertaining
0	i was 12 years old when i saw the original film i lived in italy and the italian title was fbi operation cat that was a fun film and not just for kids this awful remake it's pathetic even for a 5 year old what possessed disney to ruin their reputation and the memory of a lovely film i don't know and i just can't believe it even the title song in the original film both original version and the dubbed italian version was extremely nice and creating the mood for the story on this remake the title song is even worst than the movie itself it was just nice to see dean jones even if for just a cameo appearance he was a regular on the great old disney's films i cannot honestly see anything else positive in this remade movie
0	i guess there are two ways to make a movie with kids as the intended audience you can either say to yourself a let's make a movie that kids today will love or b let's make a movie that i would have loved when i was a kid the second approach explains why steven spielberg often make movies that appeal to a younger audience prime examples are e t the goonies or indiana jones that darn cat is an example of the first approach you see these flat unbelievable characters saying things that is supposed to be funny but isn't the plot itself is enough for a ten minute short but instead it goes on and on and although i'm not a kid i don't quite understand what in this movie is supposed to be fun for kids the clumsy cops chased by a dog the old lady with a tweety bird or christina ricci's sarcastic oneliners one actor showed a spark of talent with his very acrobatic humour doug e doug playing the fbi agent
0	ouch this is one ugly movie not only is it badly acted but it absolutely destroyed the book as well horrible how you could mess up such a classic book is beyond me but they sure did don't even think about even renting this
0	this movie is one of the poorest adaptations of a fabulous book that i've seen jean george's novel is a fantastic book that i think is an outstanding read for any child i can't give the same endorsement to this movie
0	my wife and i saw this in the theater when it first came out br br there were only 3 couples there and we all walked out about the same time br br this is the only movie i have ever walked out on br br it was just painful to sit through br br the theater actually stopped us on the way out and asked if we wanted a refund br br never had that happen before or since do not rent this you will really regret it i am really by the vote summary perhaps personal has something to do with it
0	i hardly know where to begin br br huge continuity issues bad acting etc for example sam is supposed to be far from any people yet you can see the ski slopes cut into the mountain next to his head br br but the most fundamental problem is that the essence of the book sam's adventurousness paving the way to improve the lot of his entire family is not even touched upon instead in the movie he gets ticked off at his family and leaves his wealthy parents to be by himself and when he gets tired of it he goes home where is his development where is the arc br br if you have never read the book and can get through the hokey double triple quadruple visions of the falcon and terrible production quality crackling ahem fire winter winds stopping their howling for the dialog and then restarting etc i guess it might be ok for an 8 year old br br but compared to the sophistication of the book it is a terrible disappointment br br read the book instead
0	the movie isn't too bad up until br br the main problem is with the ending so it's a pretty major spoiler br br for the time it was made it's a beautiful movie and does get a lot of it right br br however br br in the book sam succeeds and lives his dream whereas in the movie he gives up and goes back to the city completely destroying the you can do what you put your mind to theme of the book br br this movie is a desecration and instead of remaking classics that don't need redone the hollywood types who haven't any better ideas should do this one right this time
0	role reversal remake of the major and the minor has jerry lewis stepping into the part originally played by ginger rogers but unfortunately this anemic outing is missing a lot more than just ginger lewis attempts to pass for a child when boarding a train he's successful but the deception leads to a string of comic and romantic confusions sidney sheldon adapted the screenplay tossing in musical moments for dean martin playing yet another in his stable of second bananas and a jewel robbery subplot which is dire diana lynn who played the wily teenager in the original film plays lewis' love interest here she's cute jerry isn't 1 2 from
0	with al jolson at the height of his popularity and warner the jazz singer having been the highest grossing film of 1927 it was inevitable that the other studios would churn out a few vehicles for their own jolson esquire characters but while the jazz singer was a sensation for its being the first part talkie the matinée idol lacks the singing voice of its star the now obscure johnnie walker and has to make do with just his visual antics br br the matinée idol was an early directorial assignment for the renowned frank capra capra's first couple of full length features for harry langdon reveal a very showy excessive style which made langdon's already mediocre slapstick almost unwatchable a couple of pictures later and capra has learnt to ease off a bit with some fairly regular and decent camera work however he still shows no aptitude for shooting physical comedy the longest comic routine the stage performance seems to have a few good gags but it's all cut up into lots of different camera angles and there is no chance for the comedy to flow naturally from the performances theoretically a good portion of the jokes are in the intertitles but there are far too many of these and none of them is especially funny br br of course capra would eventually mature into a fine dramatic and romantic director and you can see him beginning to develop in this respect he cuts down the line closing in on walker and bessie love in the scene where she first lays eyes on him in his don wilson get up neatly establishing the wordless connection between them then there is some beautiful and tender framing of the couple in their scene together at the masquerade which is all very reminiscent of the love scenes in capra's early 30s output br br johnnie walker columbia's answer to al jolson is not an exceptional talent his comic timing is good but there is nothing to make him stand out bessie love on the other hand is a pretty good actress too with a very expressive face kudos to her for getting involved with the physical comedy and losing her dignity with the boys there's also a good role for lionel belmore that rotund and jolly character actor who seems to turn up in absolutely everything in the late 20s and early 30s br br the matinée idol is one of those pictures that has gained more than its fair share of attention thanks to its director later having made a handful of masterpieces in and of itself it is a very uninteresting piece and like most of capra's work before he met robert a disappointment
0	royal rumble 1988 bored me pretty damn good the rumble itself is pretty uneventful filled with mid and a winner that really had no point in winning and why on earth did the young vs the islanders main event half the crowd left jessie ventura sounds bored through half the thing and you can tell when he mentions he finds the development of hogan vs andre more interesting mcmahon and ventura don't have the chemistry of gorilla and jessie br br ricky steamboat vs ravishing rick rude heavily disappointing match with too many rest holds and too much of a sluggish pace sink this one when it picks up like crazy in the last 5 minutes it's too little too late steamboat wins by dq br br 2 1 2 5 br br next is up dino bravo attempting to set a new bench press record with ventura spotting him horrendous segment with no entertainment value what so ever ventura is not nearly enough to carry this segment and even mcmahon admitted it was boring controversy or not i wasted enough time on this crap br br 0 5 br br wwf woman's tag team championship br br 2 out of 3 falls br br the glamour girls c w jimmy hart vs the jumping bomb angels this is the best match of the night no i'm not kidding very exciting stuff for woman's wrestling and you'll be hard pressed to find stuff this good now a days the jumping bomb angels were way over and the crowd went ape sh t for their title win br br 3 5 br br contract signing between hulk hogan and andre the giant hogan gets a decent pop but there a few noticeable for him probably because its in canada a bit too drawn out for my liking but it was necessary for the storyline it got it's point across and had some effective moments but a lot of the times i kept saying get on with it both sign and andre slams hogan's head on the table and pushes the table on him br br 2 1 2 5 br br royal rumble match very weak royal rumble probably due to awkward pacing and the true lack of star power i think vince was testing the waters with this one and it showed ventura seems uninterested and i don't blame him crowd clearly wanted roberts to win yelling ddt almost every 5 minutes he was in there and while duggan got a good pop i don't believe he was the winner they wanted and where did this take his career nowhere 1st ever royal rumble and he made an impressive showing it wasn't terrible but it was quite lackluster and it didn't have enough to make the show considering this was what the show was based on br br 2 1 2 5 br br hogan has an interview with craig standard interview but not with the same craziness and outrageous remarks he usually pulls br br 2 5 br br ted and andre get interviewed andre claims he will deliver the championship to mr dibiase short but effective br br 3 5 br br 2 out of 3 falls br br the islanders vs the young crowd is completely dead for this and half of them bolted for the it's quite dull and had no business being in the main event jessie and vince seem bored and argue about other things while the match is taking place islanders win due to taking advantage of injury br br 2 5 br br bottom line historically important i suppose but there is really nothing to see here this was just a starting cue for great things to come for the royal rumble and while you can see glimpses of potential here there is nothing on here going out of your way to see i usually recommend everything once for die hard wrestling fans and considering it's the 1st royal rumble event i suppose i have too but prepare to be bored a lot of the time br br 3 10
0	i bought this 'film' from a gas station in the 3 99 bin for one reason billy drago who is one of my favorite actors he is terrifically creepy and good but that's where it stops the movie itself is a dirt cheap gratingly awful attempt at a horror western and manages neither never mind a successful merging of the two genres the acting besides drago's is so bad i wanted to put the couch cushions over my ears the production values are nonexistent and the script i don't even know where to start br br avoid at all costs unless you are a die hard drago fan like me br br terrible shameful unforgivable
0	an interesting premise and billy drago is always good as a dangerous nut bag side note i'd love to see drago stephen mchattie and lance in a flick together talk about raging cheekbones the soundtrack wasn't terrible either br br but the acting even that of such professionals as drago and debbie rochon was terrible the directing worse perhaps to the former the dialog chimp like and the camera work barely tolerable still it was the sets that got a big 10 on my oy vey scale i don't know where this was filmed but were i to hazard a guess it would be either an open air museum or one of those re enactment villages where everything is just a bit too well kept to do more than suggest the real old west okay so it was shot on a college kid's budget that said i could have forgiven one or two of the aforementioned faults but taken all together and being generous i could not see giving it more than three stars
0	alleged scream queen debbie rochon and her group of frontier prostitutes travel west to the title location and encounter grisly killings that turn out to be the work of a cult of ex confederate psychopaths attempting to resurrect the south through pointless massacre br br action and suspense take a backseat to loads of boring dialog and uninteresting character development br br billy drago is good in the thankless not to mention pointless role of the town mortician but everything else about this wannabe slasher western is extremely poor including the town and the fort both of which look like modern made western tourist traps and costumes that look like they were bought at party city br br do yourself a big favor and watch ravenous instead
0	this movie is about a group of women perhaps not of the highest repute who are heading to a small fort to take over a recently departed uncles property where they plan to set up shop upon arrival in a nearby city they find no one will go there even though its only 15 miles away so they walk when they get there they find there are no soldiers but a good amount of people who have taken over use of the fort and built up a small city nearby they soon find that something isn't right here and fort mcmillan ft doom as the locals call it is in some serious trouble br br rather than go into the plot line i will make some comments about things i noticed about the movie first off the acting is very flat only a few of the people seem to be real enough to believe in my first though was poor acting but at the end i watched some of the outtakes and these same people became alive so my only thought left is this is how the director wanted it on top of the bad acting i have a great problem where the people don't react right to a given set of circumstances take for example no one would take them to ft mcmillan for any price even though its only 15 miles away yet when we arrive at the fort we find it is well maintained by a decent population of people all of whom must get supplies from some one not to mention mail etc it is supposed to take place in yet we can see the railroad car has electric lights they aren't on at least and a locomotive engine that is at least 30 years later not one of the general style of so popular at that time there are also places where you can see paved blacktop and maybe a car at one point didn't want to bother to go back and look and other anachronistic items if they had followed the rules of the world they made and let the actors be actors it might have gotten a 4 from me instead of the 2 i gave it and they rewritten it about 4 more times it might have done even better
0	the real plot br br a group of post civil war prostitutes seek alternative housing in fort boom lacy everett and a close knit family of call girls have been eating date expired sausages for days and plan to move into the former fort mcmillian locals warn the women of eating more of the dated sausage because there is a vicious pyromaniac loose in the area and he refuse to shuttle them out to the property when they finally arrive at their destination they discover their stomach is full of gass after all the bad sausage it is not long before they learn why their new home is called fort boom
0	i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry val br br mike nelson made me watch this he mentioned it in his book movie i asked myself why would mike nelson steer me wrong i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson br br the music is by john williams which is probably part of his payment to the devil in fact i'm sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol' or is now cursed from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio don't watch for the love of god don't watch not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you i'm doomed now i understand this i accept this but save yourself
0	charlie george norm wendt and rhonda just say julie brown are a pair of cheerful murderous aliens who become stranded on earth and stumble upon a tiny western town they become deputy sheriffs and dish out a deadly form of justice to speeders murderers and others while getting on the bad side of some of locals led by wayne grace meanwhile their sexy alien daughter anastasia arrives in a skimpy shiny outfit with her black human husband christopher m brown to find them and tv reporters and government agents turn up to fill up time br br from what i can tell this is a deliberate attempt to cover every possible genre comedy sci fi horror western in one movie and what a stupid unfunny mess it is despite energetic acting from the two stars the script is downright atrocious
0	one of the worst films of it's genre br br the only bright spots were lee showing some of the sparkle she would later bring to the time tunnel and batman br br a young patty duke also outshone the more established actors br br
0	robert lansing plays a scientist experimenting with passing objects through solid matter but he goes too far one night and unintentionally makes himself four dimensional atomic age fantasy is rather charming in a very cheesy way perhaps it was considered a thoughtful sci fi in its time with psychological overtones yet seen today the film is mildly overbaked and naive it's a camp fest tailor made for tv's late late show wooden performances by lansing and lee meriwether barely rate as one dimensional though patty duke playing a cute brat pre miracle worker gets a colorful memorable exit br br from
0	this is a very mediocre jackie chan film and one of his absolute worst james glickenhaus ruined it all the characters are decent i guess but the story is so so however jackie chan is still amazing in this even if he did look bored jackie and danny aiello had zero chemistry together and it was very boring a lot of times however the finale was above average and managed to be fairly entertaining and had some good stunts i have not yet seen the hong kong version however i'm sure it's better then this dud plus the twist is very predictable it's really lifeless and bland and i don't blame jackie for not looking happy in this and if he didn't star in this it would have been unbearable and completely unwatchable the opening is supposed to be memorable but it's nothing i haven't seen before and done better at that and i thought the whole film was rather lazy and could have been an awesome film if jackie had control of it plus i really didn't root for any of the characters this is a very mediocre jackie chan film and one of his absolute worst james glickenhaus ruined it not recommended even for die hard jackie chan fans the direction is terrible james glickenhaus does a terrible job here with extremely bland camera work bad angles and keeping the film boring for the most part throughout the acting is so so jackie chan is amazing as always however he is not his usual energetic self and looks bored and ps ed off throughout the film had zero chemistry with danny aiello and i really don't blame him either jackie rules danny aiello is ok here as jackie's partner but his character is a bit of an ass and he had zero chemistry with jackie he did ok i guess roy is decent as the main villain but was just going through the motions and wasn't all that menacing he still is damn cool though rest of the cast are average at best overall not worth your time or money 1 2 out of 5
0	the protector you hear the name you think ah it's a crappy hong kong movie guess what it's not hong kong and yes it is crappy this amazingly stupid jackie chan film ruined by us yes us the americans i'm boiling with anger ooh i think i'll jump out that window has chan as a new york cop hunting down a gang avenging the death of his buddy sounds cool but it's not don't waste your money renting it to prove he could make a better cop film chan made the amazing police story 1985
0	this movie suffers from the fact that for years hollywood had no clue as to how to package jackie chan for the masses his low budget hong kong movies were all fast paced kinetic thrillers that highlight his amazing gymnastic skills and talent for light comedy his early hollywood films stuck him in the same movies that were being packaged for stallone or chuck norris there is nothing about chan's character in this movie that requires the character to be asian except for his being the star in his hong kong films chan is never dull with the movies being one rapid fire martial arts sequence after another but the protector is lifeless throughout danny aiello isn't given much to work with either and the lacking chemistry between the two probably is more a result of the script and direction than how the two actors got on together both have been better in worse movies the best thing about the movie is the hong kong settings the worst part is the appalling way that jackie chan comes off so colorless and drab it wouldn't be until the made in canada rumble in the bronx that the west would finally figure out how to make a good jackie chan movie
0	most critics have written devastating about that movie but i wanted it to see myself and unfortunately they are right the film had the greatest budget ever in russian movie history two international stars colorful mass scenes apparently shot quite close to the kremlin but in the end it appears to be a nice sweet nothing you would not believe that this director earlier has made masterpieces like and burnt by the sun the characters in the storyline are not convincing neither jane nor nor andrej only general worth being mentioned it remains on the surface all the time politically it is to me a glorification of the army and especially the russian one with values like honor and duty and having lived at least half a year in siberia my russia is much more than the one that is depicted in movie regarding burnt by the sun by the same director as a no question 10 points movie one of the best i ever seen in my entire life i was totally disappointed by that one sorry nevertheless unique talent in delivering amazingly beautiful pictures is still there
0	i saw this ego centric effort at achieving a film of epic status in the company of several native russian family members five people gave 5 different reactions from worship to my cynicism br br i saw a movie that looked like took a lot of canal money put some of it in his and other's pockets and turned the project over to a bunch of film students i counted at least 4 different styles in the movie there is no way that the same director is responsible for these different scenes contrast these for yourself br br polishing shoes with a dog br br station scene saying goodbye to andrei br br panorama shots br br talking through the keyhole br br attempt on the grand duke and later chase scenes to get andrei back to sing in figaro br br sequence br br julia ormond is faster than superman learning about his transfer belatedly she gets all the way across moscow in one minute to say goodbye to andrei br br the russian natives felt that the impression given of russian life was caricature and not history they called it tourist postcard russia br br they were all proud that a russian director producer fixer has managed to break into the big time and be able to waste over 30 million dollars of other people's money while maybe putting a little into local pockets during filming br br if you want to think you have seen russia go see this movie drink some coffee before you go
0	this movie had the biggest advertising campaign any movie ever had in russia epic movie about russian culture great saga of russian spirit endless articles and interviews for me this movie was the biggest disappointment the main character played by oleg is a stupid immature boy ready to set up his comrades because of a woman who doesn't even look like a lady what is there to admire in the first part of the movie the story doesn't develop at all people's festival scenes look like boasting about russian audacity br br i respect mr for his previous works both as actor and director but this movie just demonstrates his ambitions to be considered the of russian cinema
0	set in a post apocalyptic future the new highlander is an effeminate little twerp named quentin macleod who is being mentored by a new ramirez while his little sister tags along on their quest to thwart an evil immortal overlord to do so quentin must absorb all the knowledge of other immortals before this overlord does br br in short this is pure crap much like the highlander sequels quentin is a fairly stupid character constantly whining and moaning and bitching in a woe is me for i am a reluctant hero kind of way and he never catches on to the fact that he's an immortal and can't be killed at least not easily ramirez would have done better to ditch him and thwart himself
0	if you like bad movies this one's a real treat kaufman peters stagger around in robot costumes escape slavery only to wander aimlessly and find true robot love i believe this is the first movie that ever made me consider walking out i should note i was 12 and could be entertained by shiny objects
0	this only gets bashed because it stars david hasselhoff well then let me bash it to compared to the garbage they call horror coming out nowadays this film isn't too bad it has the beautiful leslie cumming she is super hot but can't talk very well there is a great scene with her when she is supernaturally raped she shows off her nice body linda blair does nothing here as well as hasselhoff 3 10
0	if you are planning to schedule your program for a film festival do not be misled by what it says in the booklet this is a complete waste of time and energy i have watched bunuel i have seen dali and admired them but this isn't surrealism this is not supposed to be at all didn't they ever think about the reputation of human race while taking this picture after we become extinct by global warming these will be the of our civilization what if the aliens sample this as an example of our intellectual capital with all due respect to the effort put in this maybe it would be a good idea to terminate all the copies of this film or whatever it is
0	is a game of words life and eagerness but i personally think this movie was overblown by its ambition and does not make justice to its title it gathers a set of awkward characters united by unbelievable links furthermore the way everything is connected at the end is in my opinion a bit pathetic what remains of it was a set of images an interesting one but not enough to make this a good movie br br i believe this film is supposed to be a comedy but i surely didn't noticed the nonsense and nature of the movie is actually the only good thing about it but when it drags on an on and on it becomes no longer bearable i have to say i fought hard to continue seeing it until the end and i am still not sure it was worth it
0	let me say at the outset that i'm not a very artistic person and that i don't get new art that being said this film is absolutely crazy and in my opinion not crazy in a good way filmed entirely in black and white with a series of very loosely connected stories is a film for those who can look at modern art and say wow i feel the energy and passion of this painting the only reason i give this film a 3 out of 10 is because i actually did manage to laugh at some parts though mainly laughing at the sheer insanity of the film two of the characters throwing chairs on a lawn as to do what these characters were doing i have no idea i wouldn't recommend this film to anybody
0	the abc gears up it's repertory company for another unrealistic representation of rural australia yes folks it's all there jeremy sims an actor of little talent fire hero libby tanner plays craig in the bush fifi nadia townsend town slut preggers by brother joe i think then there's uncle geoff the big daddy of lost springs uncle scenes are like tennessee williams on speed only saving grace is russian actress natalia as loony missus she is great i can't understand why john waters took the gig as lilly's psychologist husband must have needed the money i expect still he won't last long as and will be having it off suit just watch this lemon to see how bad an aussie show can be frankly i'm ashamed
0	i decided to hire out this movie along with a few other old horror movies this was the worst some of the killings were good and theres a bit of humour but i couldnt stand this everytime a killing happened they would show scenes of all these old movies that the killer used to be in i give this 2 10
0	okay so this was made way back in 1993 directed loosely by robert and written loosely by john it's supposed to be based on a true story hard to believe anyone could be so stupid and blind to the truth for certainly it was obvious from the beginning that this dame was after all she could get br br tim matheson looking somewhat older than i remember him played the empty headed man who was looking for romance in his somewhat dull and empty life well it came to him in the likes of tracy pollan a somewhat vacant looking girl with kinky sex as her means of conquering her guys br br come on phone sex even in the 90s was old hat can't believe someone would fall for that old line but mr matheson seemed to buy it and it cost him plenty br br the hardest scene to take was when he finally threw the dame out of his apartment putting all her junk in the hallway in front of his apartment and then had the stupidity not to change the locks that's when i had enough of this trite movie it made me want to wish the dame had tried it on me so i could have the satisfaction of telling her to take a hike br br i give this chestnut a 1 out of 100 that's how bad i thought it was i guess you can't blame the actors but they were awful did they actually try to play this with a straight face
0	although a well produced made for television movie dying to love you reeks with low grade melodramatic splendor br br the film opens up to roger paulson tim matheson looking much older than i remember him to be who is a struggling businessman that leads an empty lonely life after his wife ruthie who looks suspiciously like roseanne arnold leaves him with the quickness now all roger has is his cats and his ad in the newspaper br br once his ad is answered he calls johnnie elaine lisa oh it doesn't matter i'm whoever you want me to be lawrence then they have phone sex br br i'm not sure where you're from or when you were born but i remember that phone sex bit was played out by the late '80's i'm sorry but that was trashy br br soon roger and the broad hook up and have a whirlwind romance they fall in love visit the zoo to see gorillas and then have some kinky sex with roger's son in the other room she ties him to the bed and seduces him br br roger is just so stupid that he does not realize that johnnie is just a bimbo that loves to sleep around god forbid women only sleep with one man soon enough strange phone calls begin to occur johnny girl wants roger to marry her with absolute quickness and she keeps ranting and raving about her ex husband who used to beat her it's funny to see roger believe her through all this stuff that's until a frumpy co worker tells him to go snooping through her belongings like a nosy housewife he takes her crappy advice and lo and behold he finds a suitcase crawling with fake id cards and wigs and guns and a crossbow he immediately takes the suitcase to the police and has her arrested even though all this jazz he still loves the dumb broad she tells so much lies it seems her tongue will catch fire if she tells the truth once br br roger goes on with his life and meets an ugly woman named angela who looks like something off of gremlins 2 she has a child as well and roger takes quite a liking to her but something inside roger's subconscious keeps him connected to lisa if that's even her real name and he keeps going back to see her br br now lisa is the ex that won't go away as she earns herself a get out of jail free card and shows up at roger's doorstep and his son matt is so busy trying to check her out he pours juice all over the floor il' is so stupid he throws lisa out and doesn't even change the locks boy if all people were that stupid i wouldn't even be writing this review the ending of this movie is so corny you won't believe br br tim matheson is a made for tv movie king he just looks like such a mummy in this movie he's a little wooden and stiff the dazzling tracy pollan works well with her role and her rings true she is extremely beautiful and i do see what michael j fox sees in her br br this movie is great to watch when you're on that late night tip but then again you might fall asleep considering how dull and bland it is
0	this allegedly based on a true story tv movie concerns a woman on the run from the fbi and a seriously stupid guy br br first we have roger paulson tim matheson a regular guy type with a mind numbing job an ex wife a kid he hardly ever gets to see and some cats br br next there is elaine lisa you name it tracy pollan a smart sexy good looking woman whose tongue would burst into flame if she ever told the truth br br roger and lisa meet when she answers a lonely hearts ad roger is one of these poor saps who can't seem to handle living alone so after his wife dumped him he places his ad br br it doesn't take long for roger to figure out that lisa is not a good person but he has no idea how to get rid of her he doesn't even have enough sense to change the locks on his apartment door after he throws her out br br go ahead and watch this if you don't have anything else to do br br
0	maybe it was the excessive weight gain seagal had put on or maybe it was the horrible acting of wayans in an action flick or was it the total lack of chemistry between the two leading characters these and other considerations lead me to conclude that seagal should have never made this acting nightmare true the story line was good yet as an avid follower of seagal's career and background his physical appearance was inconsistent with his genre of clean pure healthy zen buddhist living notably in his on screen discussions with wayans then again his real life affair with the nanny was inconsistent also br br if seagal wants to become a more diversified actor then he should do what a fellow action figure did in kindergarten cop put humorous material or situations in the script where the actor has no choice but to react in a comical way otherwise leave the wise cracks and the futile attempts at humor out of it while chasing a serial killer seagal is not a natural humor type of guy it did not work br br
0	ivory wayans was so funny in low down dirty shame that i had to see this one and it was one of the worst he has done and steven seagal didn't help much it starts off with some odd religious killings that don't make much sense to jim campbell keenan he is surprised to see a new partner waiting for him to work by his side to crack the case but jack cole doesn't seem to be who everyone thinks he is until jack's ex wife is killed in one of those ritual killings that end up making him the suspect as well it's the same thing as all of his other movies smoke past cia involvement and now trying to be a normal cop why does steven dress up like he is from a western movie and the prayer on top of that make things a little confusing
0	i really wanted to like this movie but the pacing was just way too slow br br it was a nice story but it was really like watching a slug race br br the movie would have been better served if it had some more action i don't mean anything grand but at least something in the background br br it could have also been helped by songs that set the tone mood of the more lengthy periods that were absent of dialogue br br it's been about 10 years since i've seen it so i may have to give it another chance br br 3 10 or 1 2 out of four
0	typical steven seagal fare that is it's crap the plot relies on a series of incredibly improbable coincidences there's a hefty dose of conspiracy theory which would be much more palatable if we didn't know that seagal takes it all literally and once again bad movie multi millionaire seagal tells us all about the evils of the rich br br seagal's survival relies as usual on the fact that bad guys never fire their guns from out of arm's reach and always like to give a little i'm gonna kill you speech before blowing a man's head off br br watch this one right after the even worse fire down below and note how the carpet in ivory wayans's apartment is more flammable than a big puddle of gasoline br br oh and watch in the final fight scene for the incredible disappearing forehead wound which is probably the most entertaining thing in the film
0	imagine if you will an alternative universe where someone has made seven where instead of a talented cast and crew they've cast a politically conscious environmentalist and a stand up comedian as the leads if your imagination can't stretch that far just watch the glimmer man as it's the next worse thing br br mild spoilers br br jack cole is a cop with a hidden past and it's very ironic that he's played by steven seagal since he's also someone a hidden past but don't tell anyone because it's top secret perhaps the biggest secret is how someone like seagal became a movie star in the first place since the glimmer man continues in the vein of all of seagal's other movies in that it's utter utter crap look at the way he's introduced as his partner walks into his office love beads man in you're in the wrong office steven replies with something that is side splittingly witty or he would if anyone was able to understand a bloody word he said because for much of the movie he just mumbles away in fact the only time i could make out his dialogue was the scene at the school where he bursts in on the gunman holding the class hostage br br don't make me kill you br br is this what a cop would say to a suicidal gunman i'm just thinking that in another movie where steven isn't the hero ie a good movie the cop would say something along the lines of don't kill me i've got a wife and a couple of kids waiting at home so anyway suicidal gunman goes to blow his head off but steven saves his life by hurtling them both through two sets of windows it goes without saying that you shouldn't try this at home br br as the story progresses steven i've given up on calling him jack though credit to the screen writer for giving steven a sensible name becomes involved in a case a plagiarism where someone has been stealing bits out of other superior movies featuring serial killers as steven finds more victims you can see him thinking what was that movie that starred morgan freeman as a cop as he inspects the bodies oh and the action keeps switching back to the hero's domestic life just so we know that this guy's good as a family man this guy's very good as a family man such a pity he's so bad as a movie star
0	a not so good action thriller because it unsuccessfully trends the same water as early steven seagal films because there is not a very good set piece steven seagal plays the same kind of character that he has played since above the law in my opinion the performance of ivory wayans is wasted in such an average film and belongs in a much better film bob is okay as the main heavy the best acting in the entire film belongs to brian cox who is very frightening in the role of the murderer my favorite scenes are the fight scenes with the russian mafia one of the film reasons to see the glimmer man 1996 is for the brief appearence of the beautiful and nikki cox its too bad that there were not more scenes with her in them
0	new year 2006 and i'm watching glimmer man again say what you like i find steven seagal's movies amusing like many comments good fight sequences i particularly liked his answering of the phone at the restaurant saying how long it would be closed for restoration bit like schwarzenegger's humour in the earlier action films although that tended to be self deprecating br br but the one i like here is brian cox one of the most versatile actors around pity about his hand and foot but so much for withstanding extended interrogation must have flunked that class at the farm br br as the films went on i wonder just how the ever thickening girth of seagal affected his movement never mind it's entertainment
0	two l a cops track down a serial killer nicknamed the family man who has wiped out whole families and when one of the police officer's wife takes the deep six questions are raised and it turns out that a serial killer isn't responsible but rather mobsters the idea of seagal in a serial killer movie is an interesting concept indeed one could see seagal play a good serial killer however making him a cop who has a ridiculous penchant for prayer beads and razor sharp credit cards comes off more stupid than ridiculous also a running joke involves enjoyment of eating powdered deer penis and well this raunchy material is utterly out of place not to mention the beginning of a school being taken hostage due to a boy's breakup with his girlfriend after seagal him the girlfriend tells the young lad that she loves him now there is a lesson to be learned from all of this if you want your girlfriend back taking the school hostage may get you back on her good side i myself would think flowers or the old fashioned phone call might work then again though i'm old fashioned besides who am i to put a damper on somebody else's brilliant reconciliation plan br br out of 4 bad
0	my age 13 br br james cole played by steven seagal is sent to help detective jim campbell played by ivory wayans solve a series of killings in which the victims are crucified since cole has arrived on the spot he notices that the killings have changed a little and thinks there is a different killer it becomes personal when his ex wife is murdered and campbell finds his fingerprints on the body campbell investigates the mysterious cole and finds out about a very shady past br br i am not a fan of steven seagal i enjoy action movies but he is the worst actor i have ever seen this film is not much fun to watch at all incredibly dumb and obviously steven seagal's acting performance is absolutely horrid ivory wayans isn't too bad though the only redeeming thing in this film is the occasional good action scene although most come round because of insanely stupid reasons the plot in this film is absolute gibberish i didn't care for it at all the whole glimmer man past of seagal's character was stupid all the mafia fights and fights in the restaurant were there for almost no reason give this film a miss br br australian classification ma 15 high level violence br br rating 35 out of 100 quite generous
0	if you never have read the book and never intend to read it in the future go on and watch the movie 6 10 it is a nice fantasy movie with well done cgi nice acting a beautiful environment and an above average fantasy story br br if you have read the book like me about 10 times or more and really love it don't expect too much or better don't expect anything at all the story is totally different from the original book this may explain that the movie is voted 1 10 from people around 40 or more like me and much better from people who most probably never read the book before and thus expect nothing br br most of the differences between movie and book are not really necessary and change the setting in my opinion much to the worse br br the magic in the book works with rituals for classic magical effects changing weather creating illusions transform into animals in the movie the magic is more like jedi school for the middle ages tm wooden sticks instead of lightsabers that the devil is looking like emperor palpatine after part iii doesn't make it really better br br the mill in the book is not totally cut off the world like in the movie in the book the story is set near dresden which visits one time with his master and also he visits some nearby villages for festivities this part might have been changed to cut costs i also don't understand why in the movie the mill is located in the hills while the nearby graveyard is set in the high mountains br br the whole surrounding is the average run of the mill fantasy medieval style lots of mud everywhere dirty faces not an orderly kitchen only very rough houses the book never suggested such an environment br br in the book the master tries to make his successor but rejects is somewhere between admiration distance and silent rejection in the movie rejects the master always openly like a stubborn schoolboy br br the movie is set in instead of around this makes it impossible for the master to tell some stories from his youth probably around ok the stories are missing anyway in the movie br br also some explanations given in the book would have been helpful and would not cost so much minutes br br in the book all work done at day is effortless and work in the night is like normal work this explanation is missing in the movie sometimes the boys are sweating and sometimes they are happy br br the book explains why only a few try to confront the master if the master dies by any mundane reasons the are free and keep their magical powers if the master dies at the confrontation all will lose their power forever
0	this film is about the encounters of 7 couples on heath in one sunny wednesday afternoon br br it shows 7 different types of couples married divorced breaking up a relationship homosexual elderly blind date and escort service they are not connected to each other apart from the geographical location so that is a disappointment the film is a collage of conversations without any discernible plot the film jumps from a pair to another without any logic i find this film boring and purposeless the only redeeming feature is the great weather throughout the film it is sad that talents like ewan mcgregor and sophie get wasted by this film
0	the acting is good thats the positives out of the way is shallow and superficial almost all the characters are middle class and english the gay men are depicted as fickle sexual predators aiming to use children in their empty lives this film could only appeal to people who know heath and would get minor satisfaction from pointing out any landmarks there is no time to engage with the characters and has a result you really don t care about them catherine tate at the height of her comedic fame stars as a woman seeking a divorce from her husband and on screen for about the same time as her nana sketches failed to convince however if she had said what a f liberty i would have agreed br br i'd rather take a walk in the park unintelligent rubbish
0	this film attempts to cash in on the success of richard curtis movies particularly love actually which i loved a series of disparate scenes following the love lives of various couples br br it's a great idea poorly executed the script tries to be a little too clever and simply doesn't resonate most of the acting is stilted which is more a reflection on the director than the actors br br the version i saw on a plane was called scenes from a park which is a more appropriate title as not all the scenes were of a nature' br br i was so looking forward to this movie but ultimately it is disappointing don't bother
0	little did i know that when i signed up the the all pay channel package with direct tv that i would face a movie like this it came on right after another movie we had been watching and i was a teenager in 1981 so am not sure where i was at the time but i missed this movie br br i also can't believe we left it on it is kind of funny as it takes you back in the time machine to the early 80s but i think even then this would have been a painful movie it was just well too cute et was cute in a way but not obnoxiously cute and stupid br br when i see a movie like this i come on onto imdb to see what others say i am blown away that this thing was nominated wow the movie industry has come a long way since the 80s oh well it did show some old actors btw that is the other thing i was surprised about the lineup not a bunch of no names but some real actors actresses must have been in their drug days anyways odd interesting bizarre and makes one happy they grew up
0	there is nothing mean spirited or evil about this movie it's just terribly dull dull is the photography the film stock appears old and faded and washed out maybe it was even 16mm blown up to 35mm dunno dull is the script which is tedious and ish that is kind of 1960s nova cocktail party cool like our beatnik grandparents might have spoken if they were trying to appear really straight the of life' characters were mostly annoying true they were real to life but hey if i wanted to see truly ordinary people doing really mundane and ordinary things i'd just watch myself i wouldn't all the way down to a cinema and blow five quid and an evening watching someone else do it br br i expected a funny bright rom com what i got was more like what two intelligent and moderately talented 19 or 20 year olds might have produced on their first day with a new video camera br br i gave this a 4 out 10 because it appears that someone tried at least
0	this movie is by far the worst movie ever the story line is weak and never shows what happens to the people after the 20 was left they hands this really bugs me it drags on and on with out any meaning very boring the only good thing was the cast wow lots of big time actors and actress in it but besides that it was horrible terrible and repulsive do yourself a favor do not watch it br br i gave it a 1 out of 10
0	this script was mildly original when it was written in 1935 but the poor performances and the inconsistent quality level make it impossible to recommend some of the vignettes are absolutely terrible and the dialogue is never natural a few of the plot twists were creative but i was very surprised to see it so highly rated here at the imdb a few scenes are worthwhile it's as a film that if fails completely to entertain if you like this sort of montage run don't walk and get tales of manhattan 1942 a marvelous film that follows the life and times of a topcoat
0	i did not like this movie i rented it hoping it would be something like the 10th kingdom i was disappointed when i discovered it wasn't i also found it just plain the acting was bad the characters where unbelievable and the time jumps were crazy i only recomend this film if your in the mood to see a crazy dude running around but i'm sure there are better films with the same thing i can't believe i wasted my time on this one
0	loving the andersen fairy tails as a child and recently having seen some intriguing documentaries on this odd though brilliant author i eagerly looked forward to see this made for tv film unfortunately the experience was nothing but a disappointment leaving me in anger and confusion first of all the story script is filled with inaccuracies and downright fantasies and in this way creating almost a completely new story while shamefully abusing andersen's fairy tales presumably in order to sell the crap to suckers like me secondly pretty boy actor really ever seen a picture of the real andersen brew manages to portray hans christian as mentally retarded rather than the brilliant though very disturbed character he indeed was though annoying and irritating like andersen brew is missing the required charisma to create any feelings of compassion what so ever thirdly the love story between andersen and the fictional whom actually should be henriette the wife of collin why this man has lived such an interesting life it should be enough as a foundation to a great movie br br i could continue this to be a very long list but feel it safest to simply recommend all of you to spend your time and money on something else instead
0	i really liked the idea of traveling between dimensions and i even liked the wade quinn tension in early episodes some of the worlds they created gave the main characters extremely interesting backdrops for their stories however as the show went on there were more silly disputes among the friends and less of a true bond there was less wonder and excitement when they were involved in other worlds and more condescension and every world had one of the characters falling in love the writing just got boring and everything was way too over the top too bad it would've been nice to have a closely knit band of friends a la star wars traveling to different dimensions on tv for several years rather than a tired band of knit pickers
0	ok first off there may be a spoiler here since i don't know what constitutes giving out too much information my subject line says it all but surely people will want to know why it's so stupid br br first off this film follows a bunch of yuppies as they go to a sports game in chicago but wind up taking the wrong exit and winding up in the ghetto scary huh well first of all emilio is driving everyone in the world's most overblown rv tricked out with satellite dishes and crap like that on it so these guys are going to a sports game i forget which though likely the bulls or the white sox since they're near the oh so scary ghetto yet they can't even make it down the freeway without having an onboard viewing command center that would put espn to shame yet they're smart enough to earn that would pay for the stuff but are such sports fans that they don't even know which exit to get off at on their way to the game they so love br br i gave up on the movie within a half hour after that but the reasons were plentiful they wind up in the ghetto yet their main danger to their existence is denis leary a white guy i'm no racist but come on in anything resembling reality and this film was trying to be an urban nightmare denis leary would not be trying to kill emilio estevez he'd be hitching a ride to get the f out of dodge himself br br this is easily one of the dumbest movies ever created although i'm not familiar with much of the rest of the world's cinema if mst3k were still on they surely would have devoted an episode to this one
0	let's get one thing straight this was bad so putrid that it doesn't even qualify to be imprinted on anyone's memories br br the ever repeating storyline who's constant recycling of not only jokes but story lines and character appearances a typical storyline goes as follows sue the mother opens the episode quoting on how she loves her baby son but smells awful as if that doesn't get old har de bloody har some australian quasi nationalist look it up appears to say how she thinks she's awesome because she's an ozzie while everything everyone else that isn't sucks before disappearing for the rest of the episode a small mercy br br the rest of the plot revolves around the father gary getting in some kind of disagreement with sue and him talking to members of his band for advice on how to sort it out br br the phrase words fail me is an old one but this is where it is the most truthful thing to say it is so incredibly bad so horrible that i would like every trace of it's existence sent to the lowest depths of the north sea and life can go on br br it saddens me though to see someone as good as sally good actress i like her make a prat out of herself o hanlon my hero aside has the ability to be pretty funny but not here and ben elton distinguished for so much good stuff somehow manages to come up with this thing then comedy is in very serious trouble
0	and now i'm up to episode 7 i really was hoping it'd be over by now not to mention canceled once everything connected with the show including the actors had been dumped along with some toxic waste in the middle of the ocean somewhere never to be seen again because this series really is dire br br to have this program listed under the genre of 'comedy' is at best misleading it's so hard to believe ben elton could write something this bad maybe this points to a lot of input from the other writers in everything he's been connected with before in some episodes i haven't even laughed once br br oh and i can't believe o'hanlon actually stopped doing 'my hero' started doing this instead his decision making skills were obviously impaired that day perhaps he simply can't read and didn't realise just how poor the scripts for were don't get me wrong 'my hero' is not masterpiece but it's a million times better than this piece of junk br br and just to annoy me even more i bet this gets a dvd release as well when there are so many great tv series' that aren't getting released
0	total garbage no reflection to washington heights what so ever if i had four arms i'll give it four dumbs way down acting performance worst than storyline truly over rated hour and a half of visual torture rather watch ben movies for the rest of my life feel bad for the films that lost to this crap what were the judges at the film festival watching total garbage no reflection to washington heights what so ever if i had four arms i'll give it four dumbs way down acting performance worst than storyline truly over rated hour and a half of visual torture rather watch ben movies for the rest of my life feel bad for the films that lost to this crap what were the judges at the film festival watching
0	to sum this movie up it is labute carrying his sadism over into the realm of comedic farce the predictable result is that he is constantly stepping on all the jokes by insisting on surrounding them with blood curdling violence and extremely hateful characters there is also evidence of his continuing efforts to insult and ridicule everything in sight but then to apologize for it with weak gestures to the pc basically the movie just doesn't work its plot is beyond contrived the characters are one dimensional cliches there is no consistency or development of anything and the comedy where it is not totally out of place is the worst kind of high concept drivel br br morgan freeman and renee zellweger are completely wasted on characters that seem like parodies of studio driven audience pandering no matter what make them likeable neutral and neutered and full of moral platitudes crispin glover is in here just long enough to convince you that he doesn't belong in movies anymore chris rock actually has negative chemistry with fellow hitman freeman it's as if they are acting in different rooms even when they are two inches away from each other in effect chris rock seems like a digital insert at least he isn't as annoying as jar jar br br labute's 15 minutes may well be up by now it's already looking like he's overstayed his welcome
0	starring tomas and manny perez – heights' is a low budget drama set in a latino neighborhood in nyc br br a young comic book artist manny perez wants to escape his latino neighborhood when his father is crippled by a robber's gunshot the young man is forced to run the family bodega br br the movie was shot in a budget low resolution video and poor audio with low profile actors br br the plot flowed well for 85 minutes but the last 5 minutes were just terrible we don't know for sure if perez and his girlfriend remained together and if angel ended up in jail for the shooting br br 4 10
0	i walked out of this movie and i did this only one time before with the australian movie sweetie close to 20 years ago after about three minutes i felt like killing the camera man and just couldn't believe that this film actually showed anywhere and guess what was nominated for two independent spirit awards what how realistic the dialog might be i will never use the word dude again who wants to listen to these conversations i don't go to the movies to be annoyed but that's all i got the only good thing i came away with was the realization that if this movie can make it to sundance and other festivals anybody can well wait that might not be a good thing after all
0	i saw this film at the 2005 edinburgh international film festival br br this film had been compared in the program to sideways which i liked so i was quite looking forward to this movie i also liked garden state napoleon dynamite etc so i have had good recent experiences with slightly weird american indy films br br unfortunately i found that puffy chair does not compare favourably with any of these movies br br i was sitting for 35 minutes waiting for something amusing witty insightful or even mildly interesting to happen it didn't and the shaky video cam was making me sick so i left br br this is only the second film i have ever walked out from the first was showgirls which is slightly disappointing i probably could have lasted the duration had it not been for the nauseating effects of the wobbly picture but nothing within the first 35 minutes gave me the impression that i would be missing anything br br disappointing
0	this movie is ridiculous it's attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it's a comedy truly is bad cinematography you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there's a few jokes here and there going on but either way they're all inside jokes amongst themselves this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway unless you want to be bored out of your ass i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie
0	plot br br a chair from ebay br br random people br br random people talk dude it's right i'm feeling it lets get married now br br if you are a hippie then you will love this movie you must be high or drunk otherwise you will question your life watching this junk br br this movie was clearly not thought out from the beginning to the end and the other comments are probably the crew padding the reviews if this wasn't aimed at my demographic i don't know what it is aimed for i found the plot everyday boring it's something that i would do and trust me it's not worth filming going on a roadtrip and filming half of the silence does not make a movie
0	imdb lists this movie as a comedy i have no idea what genre this movie falls into but it certainly isn't comedy tragedy maybe br br i won't say whether this is a good movie or not all i know is it is not a comedy i wanted a laugh tonight and what i got was some bizarre notion of someones attachment to some ugly chair br br this movie is not what is advertised it's film school tripe that i can only assume is intended to make people think i wouldn't recommend this film to anyone that i know or even that i don't know it's ridiculous drivel that makes no sense whatsoever br br it made me think alright it made me think i wish i had those ninety minutes of my life back br br i'm sure the world is full of armchair critics who have a liberal bent on their world view that will make this movie something worth watching to them br br i am not one of them
0	so then this is what passes as high art for the likes of sxsw film festival and sundance eh well i suppose i can relate as long as story script dialog acting save for ms cinematography and editing are completely irrelevant br br i remember telling other film making friends some years ago that the biggest problem with digital video was that we were now going to have to wade through a future sea of crap to get to anything worth watching now that anyone and his brother or brothers in the case of the could run out and make a movie the puffy chair need i say more br br this feature length video is yet another chapter in the dismal ever expanding world of movies young guns armed with a a few thousand dollars a hastily written shallow script and some friends they call actors who decide one afternoon to make a movie and voilà instant feature video makers don't get me wrong i'm all about independent cinema i e hollywierd sucks but having said that you can't argue with some of the realities of that system br br if the brothers would've had to have gone out and raised a real budget and bring on real producers its clear a script like this would never have been green lighted and therein lies the problem there is no longer such a thing as a vetting process for getting films sorry videos ready for production just grab a dv camera and off you go and what makes it worse is that high profile festivals like the aforementioned actually embrace and encourage this kind of nonsense and why precisely because its no budget br br i think its important especially in todays climate of indie films to quit allowing video makers to high jack the language by labeling themselves filmmakers there is quite a difference in my book when you have to go out and actually put your script on the line asking friends and family or business people for real money to make a feature film knowing the potentially losses at stake then you will know what it means to be a filmmaker but dropping a few hundred at sam's club for some dv tapes some soda and chips doesn't cut it br br oh and by the way i have to mention how utterly annoying it was to listen to a female being addressed as dude throughout the entire movie even mark reserves that intensely overused moniker for his male friends only where it is at least endearing where his buddy mike is concerned br br i think its high time the indie film community started to call out these shoddy no budget videos for what they are and simultaneously scold prestigious festivals for giving such casual efforts high praise either that or ask these festivals to at least have the courtesy to add a new category to their festival line ups dude films
0	in spite of many positive reviews this is a very slow film with three essentially good actors improvising the most banal dialog you will ever hear this is another road movie that really goes no where the camera frequently goes out of focus and the constant panning in some of the over long scenes is annoying br br the three characters are attractive but note likable the cast also sets what must be an intergalactic record for the use of the tired word dude even howard stern has abandoned this tired pronoun br br the three primary actors and one supporting actor show great promise they are clearly comfortable and bravely allow themselves to be depicted as shallow and even goofy the character actors all seem as they are plucky amateurs who generously volunteered to speak a few lines indeed they all physically fit their roles well br br all in all a dull 90 minutes that seems more like an eternity this is among my ten worst films of all time
0	i saw this at my city's independent cinema no surprise because no mainstream theatre would want its fingerprints on this train wreck br br the camera work is very distracting the constant shifting and zooms could induce a sensitive person to have motion sickness it looks more like a film student's project than a serious movie br br though well acted the characters are unlikeable josh is devious always trying to manipulate situations and people to his advantage without any context to emily and josh's relationship she comes off as a whiny insecure girl who's desperate to get married rhett is an emotional infant incapable of understanding the complexities of human interaction without any redeeming qualities i didn't care about what happened to any of them br br obviously some people liked this movie as the couple sitting behind me were laughing hysterically of course they could have just making fun of it i could hardly blame them for it
0	i'd love to sit down and write an intelligent well thought out review however i feel i'd be spending more time in the writing process than the filmmakers did i live in los angeles and i'm sorry to say that the characters seemed just so much like underemployed and overly ego inflated actors there was not one moment in the film when i could escape the feeling i was watching the drivel ridden conversation of unemployed actors at a hipster la coffee shop one of the worst indie films i've ever seem with so little to recommend it that hearing it won at sundance has effectively removed any prior interest i may have had in attending much less considering a sundance review to be meaningful watch at your own risk
0	renee zellweger is radiant but the rest of this movie just does not work it's like a hamburger jello mold salad interesting idea but who ever thought it would actually work on film i like director labute's two previous films they were mercilessly honest and chillingly funny this film manages only to be merciless and chilling with jumbo dollops of the as high concept think the doris day rock hudson movie sam peckinpah might have made now reduce your expectations to match the present mass produced state of hollywood that actors as talented as freeman kinnear vince and almost make their scenes come alive is a testament to the immensity of their talents to rise above material that just does not cohere i would have found freeman's corny feel good about yourself speech at the end of the movie funny in a way if it weren't for the nagging suspicion that this unconvincingly tacked on moral is meant to be accepted seriously
0	the puffy chair was a supreme waste of 84 minutes of my life which cannot be retrieved and spent in a more worthwhile way even the blair witch project was a better use of life's precious moments it must be called the puffy chair because only chairs could accommodate the extremely up' self important brothers who it out for public consumption and obviously they are so full of themselves that they have assumed the public would actually want to consume their drool the puffy chair made the wooly boys seem like a cinematic masterpiece valley of the dolls beyond valley of the dolls pink flamingos texas chainsaw massacre night of the living dead urban cowboy the blob all of these would be a better use of one's time than viewing the puffy chair the characters portrayed are either too predictable or too lacking in normal emotional reflexes to even come close to being likable or believable also at one point in the film while the characters are supposed to be in the same small town if one watches closely one can see that one part of the town is apparently in the southern united states and the other half is located in maine that's some town eh
0	most films are crappy with high production values this one is crappy without high production values which sets it aside from the large pool of horrible movies as bad as this film was i need to give due respect to kathryn who i believe if given the proper script could probably turn in a pretty good performance she plays emily the girlfriend to perennial doofus josh who often refers to her as dude or man in a non ironical tone br br but heres the thing emily is a semi believable character which means rhett will soon need to be added to the cast to counteract this almost believable character with a guy even more preposterous than josh when we first meet rhett we learn that he is deep because he is videotaping a lizard which is proof that he sees the world uniquely rhett then shows the tape to emily and in one of emily's few unbelievable moments she acts impressed by this amateur tape of a lizard wow i believe is how she responds once again with no irony of sarcasm even mildly implied br br from the opening scene you are given warning that the camera work will be crappy we open on a shaky close up of josh as he attempts to win over the viewers by acting goofy oh how care free this main protagonist is that he will act goofy haha this film could almost be a case study in just how bad films can be and for that matter just how far bad films can get in the festival circuit i mean by comparison of most circuit crap this film probably did appear pretty awesome br br i believe sxsw gave this film some minor award oh south by southwest why do you encourage them its only cruel but here is where i hand this film a compliment it is the best of the mumblecore movement mind you all other mumblecore movies sucked beyond belief and generally included grotesque nudity and incomprehensibly bad acting but still its good to be the best of something br br i haven't seen yet but it looks like maybe they have made a few strides forward the preview at least made it appear tolerable where as even the puffy chair preview couldn't really hide the fact that it was going to suck i've gotten off topic here anyways rhett is most likely not portrayed by a professional actor at all much like josh most likely isn't an actual actor but rather the director or brother of director there's some mixed messages there i think rhett was buddy and they said hey why don't you play this guy named rhett in the movie the fact that rhett is the name of the actor and character probably means the actor and character are the same unless i am mistaken which i am not br br if rhett shaved the raccoon off of his face you would probably say he was attractive so anyways rhett emily and josh team up to bring the puffy chair to rhett and josh's dad some stuff happens along the way more bad acting bad supporting actors crappy camera work an attempt at significance this film wouldn't have been bad if it hadnt been so shamelessly pursuing profound self importance br br the whole thing is amateurish if you can view this movie without paying for it like if its on tv or for rent at the library then consider looking at it just to see if you like this super cheap style of film making i like what the are doing the whole make a movie with nothing concept but i wish they would make a movie that someone would want to see
0	when the puffy chair beckons beware of its soft colorful br br the movie starts out quite well josh mark and emily kathryn are a boyfriend girlfriend couple having a bit of a tough time with their relationship an argument occurs one night and in order to make up josh asks emily to come along on a roadtrip to his father's house where josh plans to deliver a purplish for his dad's birthday emily accepts and along the way they pick up josh's flighty brother rhett rhett wilkins an amish looking fellow more in touch with other peoples' lives than his own br br the roadtrip quickly devolves into more squabbling between josh and emily as well as a bitter feeling for the puffy chair it is initially very grubby and falling apart until josh convinces the original owner to refurbish it rhett quickly that the cause of all of emily and josh's problems is the and sets it to the torch one night br br and that's the last we hear of the chair even though there are many minutes left in the film br br the big issue is that the title of the film is the puffy chair when it isn't the chair at all that takes center stage it is josh and emily's doomed relationship and how the roadtrip seals their feelings for one another once the chair is destroyed there's never another mention of it even though they arrive at josh's parents place on his father's birthday without a gift josh never mentions the chair nor does his father there's no connection between it and the lives of these people so why call the movie the puffy chair and why isn't there a tie in with it at the end bad script br br the other annoying thing is that mark brother jay is not only the director but also the cameraman and not a very good nearly every scene has a rapid zoom in on the characters that goes grainy and out of focus before the camera's autofocus catches up and rights itself initially this took on a quaint and artistic feel but rapidly became unbearable br br the acting in the film is accessible and entertaining all of the actors actresses did fine jobs but the poor production quality stilted ending and lack of coherency to the title caused this flick too many problems
0	although the film does have a fairly stylish look for an indie made on a really low budget that's not what i go to movies for there wasn't one character i found sympathetic they all seemed to be absolutely clueless losers everything they attempt ends badly it's all too hopeless for me reviews refer to the puffy chair as a black comedy comedy the brother rhett behaves like an escapee from an institution when josh talks to girl friend emily about his brother he almost hints at rhett not playing with a full deck nonetheless josh performs a wedding for rhett and a woman rhett met just a few hours before there were a few interesting performances by some of the characters encountered on the road however for me the most telling thing was that people were walking out of the film and i saw it at a free screening
0	this low budget indie film redefines the word blah it will surprise most that this word can actually be found in the dictionary defined as nonsense uninteresting dull lifeless the movie redefines the word because i would have to add to those four words pc crap pretentious on a pathetic level and pointless br br the film tries so hard to be hip and in touch with contemporary beautiful people struggling for je ne sais quoi behaviour and thinking do they think there is almost no plot to speak of though there is one to sleep to the phoniest and most politically correct things about it are how a white woman is great friends with a young black stud the black street sax player with a penchant for oh so wise council and advice and the fat black psychic isn't it beautiful how the races can get along after all ahhhh in the end the woman reads out poetry which is nothing more than one of her dull dear diary entries she gets a standing ovation although in real life her listeners would have more likely than not dozed off into deep slumber but this movie has little to do with real life even though that is where it's supposed to be happening in real life her poetry reading would have gotten standing only if she had the sense to include the juicy sexual details and then i rubbed his huge penis against my sweaty impatient pink little vagina cheers what's worse the lead actress has a dozen scenes in which she either bathes or screws with someone yet they never have the sense to show her breasts which was clearly the only thing left to save this mess br br the black guy and the blonde who are separated by about a meter in height hook up they look like a cheap variation of rodman and madonna as if the latter two aren't a cheap enough combination already nicole eggert mentioned by howard stern in his miss america book is the blonde stern writes of eggert that she took her implants out yet i believe that when they took her implants out they also sucked most of the meat out of her flesh and muscles by mistake for she looks starved here br br the sax player in one scene develops angel like wings he looks like al advertising angel food cakes
0	the only interesting part of this movie was it's jazz and reggae new orleans back drop it tries to be one of those movies that has two struggles the heroine has to overcome one from the past and one from the present which she fails to do convincingly the acting's bad and the direction is even worse i'm not surprised at all that this went straight to video the end result of this film leaves no one satisfied or convinced including the actors themselves
0	this movie has a few good performances going for it and that's all it has going for it the leads especially pauley are appealing although some of the bit players seem to be acting from a teleprompter the material that is the problem i feel as though the screenwriter director watched the entire run of felicity in one sitting then sat down to write a script without catching any sleep it really did remind me of felicity a thoughtful young woman finding herself finding love with a shake them up and see what happens approach to the characters and their relationships except that while i usually enjoyed watching felicity this movie left me cold the writing is just awful it's amazing that the cast could come off as well as they did as the dialogue is dull at best at its worst it becomes trite stilted and amateurish there is nothing original here with plot elements recycled from gimmicks that weren't so brilliant to begin with angels and fortune tellers come on for the first half of the movie i rooted for the actors and hoped to be rewarded for my patience by the second half i just wished for it to end already my sympathies to the cast who deserved a better vehicle for their talents
0	it was the first action movie made in banned in ussr hollywood action style it is not even close to the hollywood action movies of that time the plot is childish the directing is so so this movie succeeded because it was first of its kind in russia even though i watched it many times i have to admit it was kind of naive and i did not like it this is not the best example of russian action movie this is just the first experience
0	officially the first martial arts movie in ussr cinematography featuring actual martial artists like and russian bruce lee bad people a ship in the high seas but fortunately just about everybody on board is a trained martial artist a collectible for martial arts aficionado
0	the only positive thing i can think of regarding this utter piece of garbage is that now i finally have a good answer ready if anyone ever asks me what the worst movie i ever saw was called br br it would have taken such little effort to make it more watchable a lot more effort and it could have been brilliant even br br why would anyone want to produce such waste br br i refuse to believe that a director could be so ridiculously untalented br br making a completely intolerable movie must have been the point br br anything else just doesn't make sense
0	okay this movie starts out and it looks like it's going to be a cute comedy about a completely obsessed soap opera fan she has no touch with reality whatsoever outside of the soap sort of the inverse of the main characters in pleasantville and runs away to los angeles to meet a fictional character well it is a cute movie but at the same time it is also a dark very violent movie about two who are out to kill betty for reasons way to complex to recount here either plotline would have been enough on it's own but nurse betty contains both stories at once and the effect is very jarring i didn't much enjoy it
0	this movie is about people living at a later in the movie it gets obvious that those people are out of work comedians mainly old males well more or less they sit around the whole movie and talk about f ing but never there is any action just those people talking in the beginning i thought it's some cool perverted redneck stuff but after a while it got boring i mean how many versions can you think of saying f ing d k c t for sure this can be funny for half an hour maybe not 80 minutes but it was funny to watch those people trying to act i'm pretty sure that they often were reading their text on some sheet when playing but it does not disturb the movie it's cool like this because those individuals seem so poor f ed up crestfallen a that the style totally fits their wooden helpless reading of the texts makes quite good atmosphere i fell in love with the characters a little br br spoiler ahead later in the movie the f ers do some comedy shows rhymes about f ing with just themselves as audience and imagined applause then one gets an eviction advice and so they decide to defend the trailer park and enter their roofs armed with some weapons then they got shoot fin sounds like action but it's not just some trashy home camera takes spoiler end br br but the movie is totally consequent in it's style and i'm pretty sure it's just what the movie maker wanted to have it's the portrait of those f k ups in an groggy home camera style with characters who can not act but seem interesting personalities so they are nice to watch but the texts about you know what the whole time get boring after a while br br pretty young director who also seems an interesting person as he played some teenager stuff in popular movies tv series but now got in more horror movies which is more his cup of tea i guess and this his first direction effort will be distributed by troma now don't know anything about a release i got this one as an advance screener from this years cannes which says for bootlegging purposes only
0	another of those flimsy stories coupled with most forgettable musical numbers powell and o'keefe as battling publicists are quite forgettable however there are two shining moments hubert castle is the most incredible tightrope walker you will ever see his drunken walk on the wire has to be the most spectacular piece of balancing ever recorded on film he has to be seen to be believed the other is sophie tucker doing a turn near the end of the film her magnetism her professionalism her sheer talent at being herself well charisma is not learned you have it or you don't a great lesson for all would be cabaret artists a sad note w c fields in his last film cameo is completely forgettable
0	this piece of garbage belongs in the basement of some moldy old mansion where it will never see the light of day again the only thing scary about this junk was the price of admission i was only amused when the ending credits started rolling and i was free to vacate the auditorium what an unmitigated bore a complete waste of 1 and a half hours when i die i pray i can come back as a ghost and give a fever to the moron who penned this gibberish
0	sherman hemsley was great in the jeffersons and especially all in the family he was also very good in amen why on earth would he do this movie this movie has a terrible script and is a waste of a very funny man luis avalos does the best he can but this is awful this movie was the beginning of bankruptcy for sherman hemsley i think he is very funny but this is an awful awful pointless ghost story stick with ghostbusters
0	br br this movie is só incredibly unfunny it makes any man want to cry the cliché are put on thicker than 5 year old peanut butter and in such a way that it actually sucks humour out of your heart every single joke was badly timed and wouldn't have been funny if it were timed correctly br br don't see this movie there's a real chance you'll never be able to enjoy going to comedies again ever
0	i was telling a friend of mine about the time my grandfather actually picked this horrible piece of crap for us to see one night at the theater he never picked another one again it was that bad anyway my friend then told me that her father did some of the writing for this garbage i thought she was kidding it turns out she was serious she had never actually seen it and she said that it put a quick halt to her father's writing career i told her not to waste her time but if she did actually break down and watch it she would see within the fist minute why this ended her father's days as a writer i mean even for the 1980's this crap is bad beyond description i mean joe frazier as terrible tucker and why in the world would two cops care one bit about a house full of ghosts and the movie poster a ghost with his tongue hanging out what is that about nothing about this makes any sense well i told my friend that this crap not only ended her father's writing career it ended the careers of everybody involved or at least none of them ever fully recovered from being in this garbage of a movie let's just say that i will forever ridicule my friend for revealing to me that her father was a writer for this movie that alone should tell just how bad this is
0	especially if you love horrible movies when i first started watching it all i could say was i hope there's a dance sequence in it imagine my delight when not only did the two main characters dance but the main ghost began break dancing as well and on top of that sherman hemsley sings the break dance song not to mention the theme song it makes me a little sad that he went broke because of this movie but i've never liked him as an actor and he really should have known better not even the director would take credit for this movie and you should check out some of the other films he directed br br one note of warning though the writer seemed to really like jokes about the um male lower regions for example one of the characters discovers a book called groins of the darker species i am not kidding and that to me is the most disturbing part of the film other than that find the most obscure video rental store in your town get the movie invite all your friends over and laugh until you cry with ghost fever
0	i have been a huge fan of the original crew of the enterprise since i was eight years old i watched all the movies and appreciated each one for what they retained from the old series and for further developing the characters and the star trek universe in general even in the undiscovered country i thought the aging of the characters was well handled and the story worthy of a theatrical release however having said that star trek v the final frontier is easily the worst of the series featuring the original crew i agree with many that the camaraderie of kirk spock and mccoy is well handled but the overall script the direction by william shatner and the special effects are not worthy of anything more than a television episode this is a buddy movie and at times almost unrecognizable as a star trek movie the action sequences are not sustained and therefore build little or no tension the dialogue is weak though it does provide for a few laughs both intended and not intended the klingon's seem thrown in as an afterthought the whole sha ka concept is just silly and laurence a fine actor in everything else i've ever seen him in boarders on the absurd in this movie the scene where conjures up images of spock's pain and mccoy's pain shatters the image of the characters as we've known them spock would never be party to such stupidity and mccoy trying to save his father is full of insipid redundant dialogue and totally wastes deforest acting abilities the whole scene is wasted and really shows us nothing new and nothing we want to see from these characters i understand that shatner didn't have the luxury of working with ilm for the special effects and that the budget for this movie was tight but that doesn't allow for such a bad story in some respects i think this story does fit in with the old series but the movies including star trek the motion picture are all much better quality than this it's a shame that most of the other characters have so few lines and so little to do with most of this movie the focus on kirk mccoy and spock is nice but way over used the old crew really seems to be out of character i liked the old klingon general and the sultry in the bar i liked some of the humor and the idea that spock has a half brother but that's about it if this was a tv episode i'd be able to accept a lot of the faults as a movie this is just bad uninspired film making it's a shame too because i want this movie to be good even if it was the level of star trek iii i would be happy but this movie makes all the other movies in this series seem like works of shakespeare
0	welcome to the plan 9 from outer space of star trek movies come on trekkers admit it this movie is so bad so staggeringly inept in every department it's become something of a classic br br the shat gives the worst performance ever committed to celluloid hi bones brilliant this isn't just ham it's several large pig farms in kentucky br br the special effects should be done under the trade descriptions act for using such a term the enterprise is a moving piece of cardboard in this film really even the star trek tv show had better br br bones spock and the shat sing yeah spock sings row row row your boat after struggling over the meaning of the words capt life is not a dream poor leonard nimoy he must really want to strangle shatner for this could the shat not have given us his rendition of mr tambourine man or with nimoy on ballad of bilbo baggins sorely disappointed br br a sean connery look a like plays spock's half brother only cos they couldn't get sean connery uhura does a fan dance that would have been sexy in 1966 in 1989 it's like watching your drunk granny embarrass herself at a christmas party br br cat woman jumps on shatner's back shat twirls her around a few times like a wwf wrestler and chucks her off the shat seems connery 2 0 was a bit of a vulcan rebel which explains why spock hasn't previously mentioned him in 79 t v episodes and 4 movies mccoy apparently mercy killed his dad but afterwards they found a cure tell me this isn't hysterically funny br br the 11 deck enterprise suddenly grows another 400 decks for an escape sequence in an elevator shaft spock's boots amazingly support bones and the shat as well should also have used em on the humped back whales in star trek iv shatner meets god or what purports to be god but i assume is really some kind of alien being god looks a bit like charlton heston in the 10 commandments sean connery the 2nd calls on god to share his pain and promptly dies or something god punishes the shat for questioning his identity so spock kills god with a photon torpedo i'd love to know what jehovah's witnesses made of this scene br br the shat having killed god promptly goes back to his sing song with spock and bones altogether now row row row your boat
0	i saw this movie just recently and i said to myself this movie is bad william shatner is a great actor but he is no director br br it's not just that the acting is bad it's terrible and instead of a plot we have a very bad storyline that is called a plot what i really thought was bad was at the beginning where kirk and mccoy were teaching spock how to sing row row row your boat br br do i have something against william shatner i do not but when it comes to being a director he sucks this film is not one of the worst movies i have ever seen but it is the worst of the star trek series br br i noticed that after this shatner did not return to direct another film in the series they apparently did not want him to direct another film again after this happened br br overall this movie sucks br br 2 10
0	i was pretty enthusiastic about seeing this movie when it came out commercials for it made it look quirky and i generally like morgan freeman and chris rock and the combination of the two seemed like an interesting idea sadly i was terribly disappointed with nurse betty br br personally i've usually found that graphic violence and comedy don't go all that well together and the only directors that have ever combined the two successfully in my opinion are tarantino and the there isn't that much violence in nurse betty but what violence is in it made me feel kind of weird when i was supposed to laugh of course for me part of the problem was also that there didn't seem to be many places where i was being asked to br br the film doesn't much work as a drama either renee betty the story's protagonist is clinically insane and impossible to relate to in any real way i will say zellweger acts the role quite well and freeman rock and greg kinnear all do good jobs too the problem is in the writing freeman is the only person that gets to play an interesting character it's really too bad 3 10
0	man this would have been a bad episode of the original series i can't believe they actually spent money on this one i caught the second half of this on tv and having never seen this one before thought i would watch it boy what a waste of time more cheese than wisconsin br br
0	the weakest of the 'old' crew star trek films this film suffers from an awful script and obvious budget constraints particularly in the mishandled finale the bones of a good movie are here and the directing from shatner is not as bad as is commonly made out but the characters end up speaking and acting way out of the style that the previous 3 films had carefully established lawrence is convincing as the renegade vulcan with and mystical powers to influence people and these powers are responsible for some of the best scenes particularly for deforest kelley who shines as mccoy in this his second last movie however as good as those scenes are they ultimately do not advance the plot and end up feeling as more of a distraction a great score from the ever reliable goldsmith and some funny scenes in yosemite between the main three are not enough to cover the gaping chasms in the plot and the frankly embarassing attempts at humour serve only to alienate even die hard trekkies all in all a wealth of possibilities which although it fails to deliver has its moments watch out for the pool table in the bar brawl scene
0	that's the only word i can think of to describe this movie not waste as in a waste of time any time spent with these characters is never wasted but waste as in a waste of opportunities br br when i see this movie i think of all the star trek novels that were written which would have made a much better film than the story shatner chose the setup was like an average television episode while the finish felt like the climax if you can call it that of the first movie br br nimoy in directing ii iv focused on the character of spock how he faced the kobayashi outside of the classroom and how he handled his emotional live now that he had a chance to start fresh shatner could have done the same with kirk here but he didn't we don't know much about kirk that we didn't know before again one of the novels would have been better try my enemy my ally for a very interesting character study of our friend james t the minor characters are used mostly for cute bits and the scotty uhura subplot seems way out of left field particularly since the subtext in the original series was sulu uhura br br even hardcore fans can't find much to enjoy here sorry but it's true
0	star trek v definitely earns the dubious distinction of being the weakest film in the star trek series despite the good acting efforts by the actors it suffered from a general lack of funding from paramount pictures paramount pictures was not enthusiastic about this film at its very onset br br the movie begins with the enterprise crew enjoying their extended shore leave as a for saving the earth from total ecological disaster their shore leave is cut short when a disturbance occurs on nimbus iii the planet of intergalactic peace captain kirk and the enterprise arrive at nimbus iii only to have their ship hijacked by spock's half brother the crew of the enterprise and sets it on a suicide mission to rendezvous with god just past the great barrier at the center of our galaxy captain kirk must then figure out a way to regain control of his ship and to fend off the pursuers br br the only bright spot in the film is the acting and directing william shatner leonard nimoy deforest kelley laurence and the rest of the cast all give good performances william shatner also does a pretty good job directing this film br br however the film suffered from a general lack of enthusiasm and funding first the part of was initially offered to sean connery but he refused so laurence got the part second many of the special effects were severely cut back reducing the movies entertaining potential third the scene that depicts the arrival at the great barrier left much to be desired finally the romance between scotty and uhura in this film did not make much sense at all considering that no such romance ever occurred prior to this point in the star trek universe and it was never explained how such a romance could suddenly materialize between star treks iv and v br br overall this is a very weak film you should probably just skip this film and move on to star trek vi after all the cast and crew made star trek vi partly to bail themselves out after their debacle with star trek v
0	no one expects the star trek movies to be high art but the fans do expect a movie that is as good as some of the best episodes unfortunately this movie had a muddled implausible plot that just left me cringing this is by far the worst of the nine so far movies even the chance to watch the well known characters interact in another movie can't save this movie including the goofy scenes with kirk spock and mccoy at yosemite br br i would say this movie is not worth a rental and hardly worth watching however for the true fan who needs to see all the movies renting this movie is about the only way you'll see it even the cable channels avoid this movie
0	i'm aware that there are some fans who might like this movie i'm aware that the idea of for god' might appear interesting to some to me however it's really boring br br the movie is simply boring when it does get a little bit interesting it gets stupid come on kirk fights against god and wins how low can we possibly get the only good part in the film is the camping scene at the first 5 minutes which is truly great but after that the movie becomes boring irritating with nothing more than a good music br br thank god we have star trek vi oops kirk beat him
0	i don't think i can add much more to what has already been said about this film however i can offer a small recollection from seeing st v in the theater in the last dreadful scene as the camera is pulling out from the camping shot and it seems likely that the credits will start rolling at any second the audience seemed to rise in unison normally for a movie like this at least some die hard fans stay to watch right up until the final disclaimer as the people filed out i remember hearing no laughing and cheerful banter only low murmurs br br i remember reading a movie review in the local paper in which the critic said that it was so bad that only trek fans would like it what an idiot the fans were the ones most apt to tear it apart first br br favorite worst scene target shooting on a voyager space probe through a periscope no less space must be a much smaller frontier than we thought
0	while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring star trek the final frontier is plain bad in this terrible sequel the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth romulus and kronos the klingon home world have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier there he hopes to find god using mysticism and bad writing he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin at the core is a good idea that is never really developed the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco the action scenes don't have the suspense of wrath of kahn the philosophy is boring and the humor is stale now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner when he takes the director's chair the ego gets bigger most of the focus is on him spock and mccoy but does not give the others enough to do moreover whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots he is just plain bad in this one now kirk is reckless a practical jokers and silly one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song row row row your boat in a round by a campfire in any case this is the worst of the star trek franchise i should have given it three out of ten instead of five
0	even not being a fan of the star trek movies or universe of shows and books and such i still find some enjoyment in some of the movies featuring the old cast and in the case of first contact even the new cast a bit this one though was kind of sad to watch it seemed to want to be so much but it failed on so many levels to be one of the worst star trek movies the plot is very far fetched seeming to want to combine three or four stories into one ultimate trek adventure but it ends up an unfunny when it tries to be not tense when it wants to be and not action packed like it tries to be mess of inconsistencies the whole movie to take a phrase from spock is illogical the effects are nothing special as i have seen episodes of next generation that are just as good which is to say it is fine for a television show but not a major motion picture the plot is laughable as the gang at first tries to stop spock's brother then joins him on his quest to find god yes you read that correctly the klingons make a tacked on appearance which actually will set up the much better undiscovered country movie all in all you know it is bad when the best part of the film is kirk bones and spock singing row your boat well spock was not really singing but rather questioning the lyrics
0	leonard nimoy directed star trek iii which wasn't half bad maybe william shatner thought seeming as how nimoy did it he could after seeing this film he should have reversed that decision br br star trek v the final frontier is the worst in the series the acting from all involved and that includes those like shatner and nimoy is bad and washed out and making them seem as old as they look in real life the special effects are tacky like when spock has to rescue kirk on a jet pack when he falls down from a mountain br br the attempts at humor were pitiful and story is so awful it dosen't bear thinking about which basically involves a vulcan stealing the enterprise to find god seriously i just didn't care about any of this film and oh not to mention uhura does a belly dance to distract male guards she looked like she was taking part in a granny competition if they meant to make her look sexy they were wrong she looked grotesque br br how this got to production or even written well it dosen't bear thinking about the only place good for this film is in the garbage the worst one of the series
0	a wildly uneven film where the major problem is the uneasy mix of comedy and thriller to me the unusual premise is clearly a comedic one and they should have gone for an all out comedy for example rock has some funny lines but occasionally he is too unlikable for a comedy the scene where betty's husband gets scalped is too nasty for what should have been a less violent comedy an even better example is the hollywood leftist writer preaching to us tritely through freeman's character early on about the plight of the indians i mean yawn they should have given freeman something funny to say in that segment but that is of course much more difficult than to simply write him a boring pc speech br br there is yet more new age pc ness in the form of the ending the girl not only doesn't get the boy she gets no boy at all in fact the message is that the girl needs no boy at all bit of a feminist statement there the first half hour is weak but the movie gets better ironically once zellweger gets to kinnear i say ironically because i'm not much of a fan of kinnear's though he's solid here zellweger is very cute as usual she has the sort of all american cute looks which should appeal to almost every guy and i have to wonder why more of such women aren't represented nowadays instead of the dogs who inexplicably became stars such as diaz roberts aniston lopez or barrymore br br since the movie tries to be very serious at times i have no choice but to criticize freeman's character which is the gangster's equivalent of the movie world's hooker with the heart of gold there is also absolutely nothing in the relationship between freeman and rock to suggest even remotely that they were father and son
0	when i first saw it 9 years ago when i was 9 i thought it stunk i'm 18 now and i still think it stinks i mean geez no special effects or anything it was boring and kinda anti climatic my cousin watched once and george takai sulu kept talking about how it was supposed to be so much better but they kept cutting to the budget it would have been a great episode but it was a terrible movie
0	supposedly director william shatner had in mind a much film when it came to 'star trek v the final but the suits at paramount looking at the huge box office receipts taken in by its humor filled predecessor insisted the new film have plenty of laughs too so what we get is arguably the weakest and goofiest of the six star trek movies with the original cast there are bad ideas aplenty along with a few good ones and if you're in a charitable mood you could look at 'the final the same way you would a so so episode of the tv series on the plus side laurence is a fine actor and gives one of the best star' performances in any star trek big or small screen ranking right up there with william commodore decker his portrayal of spock's half brother consistently lifts the film when it threatens to sink which happens all too frequently charles cooper is good too as the fat old klingon general too bad his role isn't as large as he is if the story about shatner's intentions is true then i owe him an apology because i was prepared to lay the blame for the incessant silliness and not very convincing action scenes squarely at his directorial feet the reason is i've always felt that of all the trek regulars shatner was the least in' to everything that makes star trek work and what makes it special to its fans having read his trek memoirs it's very apparent to me that he considered the show another action adventure series that just happened to have a science fiction setting he preferred the vision of gene over that of gene roddenberry was known for his work on the popular western series 'the wild wild west ' shatner also mentioned that a favorite star trek episode of his was 'a piece of the action ' a silly second season episode co written by so finally given an opportunity to direct a star trek feature film would not shatner follow his instincts and produce an action filled flick with lots of tongue in cheek humor well somebody did because that's what 'the final ended up being shatner himself definitely returns to form as the great ham and as leonard maltin points out the film suffers from a bad case of 'the ' in the opening scene at yosemite national park it's hard to say which is worse the super cheesy special effects or the godawful dialogue running gags about equipment on the enterprise have run all the way from of and by this the fifth trek movie have run themselves into the ground so has the idea of a one new development is an apparent romantic relationship between scotty and uhura and suffice it to say one does not exactly sense flames of passion burning between the two it's a pointless subplot and adds nothing the climactic scene where 'god' is encountered doesn't add much either whether or not this was a good idea in the first place is debatable but the scene itself doesn't make much sense the 'god' creature's abilities seem to vary according to what is needed at the moment roughly half of this is a tired retread of the climax from 'the search for spock ' leonard nimoy manages to salvage spock's integrity even while spouting such un spock like lines as get a grip on yourself doctor and deforest kelley as usual outperforms both shatner and nimoy he really came on as an actor in the final trek films so this trek outing isn't terrible it just isn't very good there was to be one more original cast trek movie before the baton was passed to the 'next generation ' and it was far better suited to the task than 'star trek v the final frontier '
0	the voyage here is a search for god the big guy in the sky the big cheese with a beard cunningly disguised as the thirst for ultimate knowledge taking over from leonard nimoy in the directing chair is the shat himself captain william shatner kirk in an attempt at blending the fun corny aspects of the series with sci fi histrionics klingon dialogue consultant really shatner and his co writers have only achieved what is almost an embarrassing parody of a parody where's the danger where's the brothers in arms spirit in fact where is our badly underwritten crew star trek humour is a wonderful thing when it's in the right places and done with a straight lace so befitting what has come before the final frontier some light moments exist but they do not compensate for the lack of serious moments while do we really need another spock revelation really br br some nice sets and little knowingly trek moments aside the final frontier is just a bad movie experience 3 10
0	once manos the hands of fate that was worse than this quite a bit worse but it did have one thing it had beautiful women in wresting each other for about 20 minutes this has a fat 45 year old with 3 tits and a tail in a cantina scene cloned directly from star wars not to mention an obese blue seductress uhura her fat legs and ass hanging out of some sort of insane bird costume in this method acting mess she always wanted to perform before a captive audience she must have meant the poor slobs who shelled out 8 bucks hoping to see another wrath of khan or at least a voyage home captive is right i wonder how many people in the theaters tried to slit their wrists while crying out mother make it stop br br no question about it final frontier is not just an unmitigated disaster it's cruel and unusual punishment this is star trek from hell this is shatner on mushrooms or maybe peyote this is where no man has gone before and wished he never had in the first place or to paraphrase a review of heaven's gate it's as if gene roddenberry sold his soul to the devil for the success of a tv series and devil is just now coming around to collect br br and don't even get me started on a drunken kirk and a grinning mccoy singing row row row your boat together like they were lovers in some sort of demented gay fever dream then we've got the hideous dynamic duo of sulu and chekov hiking through the woods together probably en route to a barry manilow concert then there's laurence as spock's brother yeah right amazing how these relations we never heard of suddenly crawl out of the woodwork when we need a new plot line and not to forget spock rocketing through the air after kirk when he falls from a cliff in yosemite sure he catches up to kirk and saves him one foot away from the ground where'd you get those nifty rocket shoes spock
0	i guess that after leonard nimoy had been successful in directing the search for spock and the voyage home william shatner thought he could direct too although he is a competent actor he shows here that he's just not a good director br br actually this movie is hard evidence to support the arguments of trekkies who say that william shatner being an arrogant egomaniac for although his character captain james kirk was always arguably the most important role in the original star trek it seems in this movie that he is the heart of the movie the two other most important characters captain spock and doctor leonard mccoy are just there to support him and the other characters are just there to add comic relief br br the plot is that some emotional vulcan outcast named is with people and releasing the pain bottled up inside them from that traumatic event early in life that changed them forever grateful they join him in his quest to make the entire world free of pain and thus at peace and his followers commandeer the building in which a peace conference between a human klingon and diplomat is taking place this lures the still being constructed enterprise there since none of starfleet's other ships have experienced commanders honestly with how starfleet is run the klingons and romulans should have conquered them years ago adds the crew save spock who is revealed to be secret brothers with mccoy and kirk orders that the enterprise take off to the center of the universe to meet god who apparently every race has a word for however it turns out that this is only a minor entity when he demands the use of the enterprise and kirk asks what does god need with a starship the entity is destroyed but not before realizing he's been lied to for years sacrifices his life and earns spock's respect in death after the enterprises photon torpedos destroy the entity and inexplicably as well br br ok science fiction movies are not known for realism but at some point rationality must be enforced why do people follow just for releasing their pain why are all humanoids defined by a single traumatic event i've certainly led a trauma free life why doesn't kirk try his crew for mutiny and treason after they join what was the point of sacrificing himself when the torpedos were going to kill the entity anyway br br so the plot's weak another problem is that though played well by lawrence is poorly portrayed just because he's an emotional vulcan doesn't mean he should act exactly like a human religious fanatic shatner who was a co writer as well as the director could have at least developed dialog fitting for an emotional vulcan i guess he feels that any emotional being talks like us gee i guess that means that klingons should say isn't and don't more often than is not and do not and the shouldn't prolong their sentences because they like to talk yeah i know it's sad that i know this please every st race uses unique dialog why is the exception br br the only thing to not complain about is the acting i've always known star trek to have great actors and this movie is not exception cudos also go to leonard nimoy for it had to be difficult to play the dispassionate spock in his old age br br some other things i didn't like br br shatner and the late deforrest kelly twice show what bad singers they are by singing row row row your boat in this movie i guess shatner wished to silence his detractors of his singing ability what he did was prove their point br br uhura does a fan dance while wearing nothing but tree bark to draw some men into a booby trap after all the dreams of all us men are filled with images of middle aged plump women dancing naked br br comedy's all well and good as long as it doesn't affect the nature of star trek too much but when scotty bumps into an object on the enterprise and kos himself it's kinda goin' overboard br br kirk is the only crew member who can reject offer of releasing their inner pain and see through the god imposter's deception not even spock can manage either of these perhaps this scenes were from shatner to his character as many suspect br br the concept of an entity posing as god had been used in star trek before this movie more than once be creative shatner br br speaking of i didn't care for the ripping off of the music of star trek the next generation br br all in all pretty bad trek movie if you're a trekkie watch it once because it's star trek otherwise watch star trek ii the wrath of khan it's way better
0	this was so bad i can't even review it so i'll jot some sentences about what i witnessed and it'll be up to you to decide br br captain kirk with toupee and tubby gut is rock climbing el capitan spock meets him halfway riding on a floating skateboard like kirk falls spock flies down catches him inches before kirk hits the ground head first br br later that night spock kirk and mccoy are eating beans around a campfire spock likes the beans then kirk and mccoy sing row row row your boat and want spock to join in on the three way harmony spock doesn't want to sing and later that night he disagrees but life isn't but a dream captain should i go on br br okay a renegade vulcan who happens to be spock's half brother leads a revolt on a sandy planet taking hostages the crew of the enterprise land on the planet and uhura pushing fifty five and weighing two hundred some odd pounds lures the natives with her bare legs but they can't trick the brother who claims he can find god br br he kidnaps the crew and the enterprise they go to a planet where a big bearded apparition claiming to be god spits fire at kirk spock and mccoy spock's sibling realizing it isn't god but is really a form of himself or something joins with the apparition in order to destroy it and sparks fly br br then after stuff happens too complicated to explain involving klingons who resemble lorenzo lamas br br the three amigos kirk spock and mccoy return to yosemite did i mention kirk was wearing a go climb a rock t shirt with spock playing some kind of funky vulcan guitar they sing row row row your boat this time all three as the credits roll
0	i find it almost touching how star trek fans try desperately to like this film in spite of its unbelievable number of flaws br br to begin with none of the familiar characters are really in character so to speak scotty is depicted as a bumbling instead of the competent engineer he was in the original series uhura gods i can't even think about what they did to her character all of her dialog was painful to listen to mccoy seemed like a neurotic stepfather to kirk instead of his trusted friend spock well let's just say that leonard nimoy was terribly wasted he was given bad dialog i do not believe you have grasped the gravity of your situation captain gravity get it get it and made almost into a buffoon kirk oh man don't get me started william shatner is a hammy actor to begin with so to allow him to direct really is to invite disaster which is what we got br br the plot is beyond ridiculous giving spock a brother is a pretty desperate story line and unnecessarily soap but hey let's go with it the search for god again a weak plot basis you don't think so ok let's go with that too so assuming that the two aforementioned plot elements are sound what's wrong with the script well for one thing it recycles way too much the enterprise for example is yet again not working properly are we to assume that starfleet would send a grossly ship with a skeleton crew into a potentially dangerous situation just because they want james kirk to handle the situation if that's the case then why not put him on a better ship as an adviser adding to that the crew is grossly incompetent scotty has the ship in pieces and apparently is enough to bump his head knocking himself into unconsciousness while there are hostiles on board no one seem to notice the klingon ship at a crucial moment despite the fact that the sensors are clearly showing the ship in weapons range and the crew all seem way too familiar with each other in other words there is no sense of discipline if this is the flagship of starfleet then it's a wonder that the klingons hadn't already overthrown the federation br br as to the personal struggles with pain it was crap lawrence is a competent actor but even he couldn't save this turkey in short no one could of all the people involved i imagine leonard nimoy is the most embarrassed by it i hope he is anyway br br thank god the original cast didn't bow out on this opus
0	what is it with studios like paramount that have a proven hit film series on their hands and figure it can screw around with the budget and formula paramount spent less on this film than they did on which doesn't sound bad until you realize that there's a 10 gap between when the films were made the 40 cost to make would be equivalent to about 75 million in 1989 this film is the reason that shatner has never been given a fair chance to direct other films as well every time he turned around the studio was slashing the budget and making demands regarding the storyline the fact that this was the one storyline that roddenberry and shatner could agree upon for the most part made the freshman directorial task tough enough but after all the machinations were done all anyone ended up with was an uneven story and a load of badly executed special effects not worthy of the original series much less a major motion picture the most glaring examples all of the effects were severely out and fake looking the shot of the enterprise going into the great barrier was so obviously a still frame shot being zoomed away from at least the popsicle stick that held the enterprise cut out up was successfully matted out god chasing kirk up the mountain they may as well have just cut in shots of godzilla climbing the volcano at the end of godzilla 1985 and used thumbtacks to scratch the emulsion off of the film to make electric bolts come out of his eyes at the captain kirk yes friends i have a real problem with the look of that last scene especially br br thank goodness star trek vi was such a redeemer of a film
0	i like underdogs so 12 years after having first seen star trek v and thinking it was bizarrely bad i gave it a second watch hoping i would find some redeeming quality which i missed the first time around br br i didn't br br the writing is half baked and although at first the quality of the acting is stable enough to keep the movie on its feet albeit shakily the further we get into the plot the sillier it gets the last quarter of the film is just plain ridiculous what was even worse from the original cast's pov is that this was the first st movie to be released after the franchise returned to television with next generation and the average episode of next generation would put this to shame including the special effects what an embarrassment br br the final frontier isn't thoroughly wretched i gave it 4 out of 10 but it's so far below the standard of its predecessors yes including the first one that the only reason i can think of to watch it is because you'll appreciate the other movies more br br unless it's an episode with troi's mother in it
0	i don't see the point it's ponderous the animated people are creepy look up uncanny valley scenes go on and on and on for very little purpose the plot is skeletal and must be padded out with lots of meaningless dramatic screaming roller coaster rides as if disney or spielberg were planning an amusement park ride based on the movie most of the characters are annoying and unlikeable some of them keep showing up as if they will have something important to add to a climactic scene they don't they just vanish with no lasting impact somebody summed it up as if you don't believe in santa claus you'll be kidnapped on a train on christmas eve that pretty much sums it up
0	by the standards of hollywood this movie was filmed and edited as hollywood movies are and therefore looked like a movie you would get out of a big time production studio within hollywood thats where anything remotely close to having hollywood standards ends this was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i am not joking the story was so unbelievably stupid and unrealistic that i could not contain my laughter in the movie theater through the course of watching this film i know what you're saying its a horror film its not supposed to have a good story it's supposed to scare you well let me tell you something the movie is not even scary in the least bit its too full of stupid bits that cancels out the little suspense there may have been the acting was awful as well along with the scariness of the murderer who you constantly see through flashbacks locked in a cage jacking off throughout the movie i kept getting a sense i was watching something that was thought up written produced and directed by a high schooler who watches too much pornography please don't see this movie spend your 8 50 on other things like a snow cone which would be much more worth your while
0	i do think tom hanks is a good actor i enjoyed reading this book to my children when they were little i was very disappointed in the movie one character is totally annoying with a voice that gives me the feeling of fingernails on a chalkboard there is a totally unnecessary train roller coaster scene there are some characters and scenes that seem scary for little children for whom this movie was made the north pole scenes with santa and the elves could have been cute and charming there was absolutely no warmth or charm to these scenes or characters it usually doesn't work to make a short children's book into a feature film this movie totally grates on my nerves
0	i am not kidding there's a scene in this movie where a hobo hits his head on a tunnel keystone and explodes with no fireball though into a million pieces it made some kid in front of me scream in terror in a g rated film br br this film might serve to convince children that santa clause is evil his helpers are ugly misanthropic over the top and mean when santa here an anagram of satan appears all 200 000 elves begin singing santa clause is coming to town as though it were a druid war chant then in the reflection of this movie's rosebud object a jingle bell that whispers hints of why you can't hear it ringing doubt doubt old saint nick appears looking like a stoic donald sutherland his face glowing like moses' from when we hear him speak his thundering voice sounds less like a jolly old elf and more like james earl jones' voice slowed down about 20 frightening br br the syrupy music is out of place boring and repetitive it doesn't follow any emotional threads as in titanic's very effective score it just seems thrown in at certain points in order to generate feelings of warmth and magic it fails to stir partly because it doesn't match the imagery of the film there are some musical train wrecks no pun intended where out of nowhere the eerie symphonic score slams abruptly into happy child voiced polka about the title locomotive it just makes the whole movie sound like it was rushed into production br br finally i agree with some other reviewers about how well dead everyone looks it does seem a little macabre at times the motion capture technique is good for allowing the kings island like roller coaster train sequences to look convincing from a distance but up close real actors should have been used overall nice eye candy for killing time in front of the tv but not much else here
0	i know most of the other reviews say that this movie was great but i have to disagree br br sure it's a good book it was actually one of my favorites when i was little but it's just not meant for theaters maybe for a little half hour short but i don't see how they can turn a short kiddie book into a whole feature film br br it is a cute movie but i would only recommend it for really little kids older kids will have no interest it adults may have a little more interest if they watch it with their young ones but anyone ages 7 adult will have a snore fest br br sorry if you disagree with me but this is my opinion
0	much like final fantasy if you look at a still shot it doesn't look so bad but when the people start moving it's utterly horrifying uneven jerky motions frightening lack of emotion and lack of a feel of life in the face gives me the creeps the characters do not even appear alive organic br br i saw a preview screening with my daughter who actually fell asleep she was not at all engaged for the record i thought her to be easily engaged by both pixar esque films as well as a number of the 'bad' 2d films like sinbad br br the lighting is painful giving the children the appearance of holding a flashlight under their chin at a campfire the lip syncing is bad worse actually than final fantasy br br i also seriously question having hanks play five characters this was a major distraction throughout the film the role of the conductor is eerie although in a way i just can't pinpoint it reminds me of my father's fake phone voice when greeting clients br br i think this is why the multiple roles are distracting you are aware that the voice is the same but yet distinctly different it gives each character the feel of being acted as opposed to being real human characters the illusion of reality is broken by the multiple role playing of hanks i've seen the technique work a la eddie murphy but hanks just can't come close to pulling it off with a voice alone given the horrifying animation br br i would not waste my money on this wait for the rental
0	the polar express director robert zemeckis i love back to the future forrest gump contact and who framed roger rabbit no question mark after that movie title and tom hanks one of my favorite actors the reviews of this movie were almost unanimous saying that this is an instant holiday classic ebert roeper give it two enthusiastic thumbs up even ebert's written review gave it a full four stars wow ok this i gotta see but wait the motion capture used looks really weird hmm maybe i'm not so interested in seeing this anymore br br well you says the train conductor to the boy in the polar express the boy is reluctant at first and the train begins on its course without him the boy soon changes his mind and jumps aboard just in the nick of time br br now most of you have probably decided to not jump aboard this train and wait for the tv train or rental express hee hee i'm so witty and clever i on the other hand was like the boy who was skeptical at first but jumped on to see what the fuss was all about br br i just wasted 10 and two hours of my life br br i can't even begin to explain the pain in my stomach the polar express was so painful to sit through it's not even funny there's no story there's no pay off you sit there through these series of events and you wonder is there any point to all this it'd be one thing if the scenes were entertaining but they're not br br this movie is void of any emotion any soul any ounce of plausibility and most of all any fun this movie is not fun br br and let's talk about the way these characters look for a second saying that it's the same technology motion i'm sorry performance capture used to make gollum is a real shame because gollum was believable photo realism just does not translate well in this medium you're using animation why not design the characters to be more expressive or why not just film it all with real actors they certainly could have we as people know all too well how we walk talk interact with things seeing it on the screen done unconvincingly is not impressive caricatures done convincingly is all the more believable as the incredibles has proved the result of the polar express now is as if they took corpses of dead children and turned them into puppets they're moving and talking but where's the heart where's the soul that's what we're seeing on the screen ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh this movie is so horrible br br there's a scene early in the movie where the boy takes a girl's train ticket from her seat because she got up and left it he wants to give it to her but you sit there going why just leave it she's coming back he of course loses the ticket and adventure ensues and then there's a boy who's stuck in the back of the train all the time and they bring him hot chocolate but he can't come up and join the rest of the kids and then there's this annoying know it all kid with the voice of a 35 year old it's all so very disturbing br br oh and there's songs one girl goes into the back of the train where the lonely kid is he's singing a song to himself and then she interrupts and joins in they end the song as they're holding hands looking into each others eyes as if they were lovers very awkward i won't even go into details about the song about serving hot chocolate while waiters dance around the train keep it hot keep it hot the one scene where tom hanks slides on his knees with his arms stretched up in the air has to be one of the most memorably bad scenes in the history of bad scenes br br i have to stop now or i'll just kill myself i need to watch something crappy to cleanse the palette yes crappy is better than the polar express br br the one thing about trains it doesn't matter where you're going what matters is deciding to get on br br don't get on this one for the love of god i have decided for you this is just another film taken from a children's book stretched incredibly thin into movie form it happened with the grinch and the cat in the hat and those were horrible also but who can blame them i bet if i took the book the bears' too much junk food and turned that into a feature film it'd probably be pretty dull also but at least there'd be a story and a point which is what the polar express is so lacking of
0	this movie is awful it creates characters not in the book and some of them are ethnic or racial stereotypes including an obnoxious little jewish boy and a politically correct little black girl not to mention the yiddish speaking elves the book was a simple story about belief and this movie is a dark ugly and needlessly scary movie about nothing br br the animation is superb but the story has been ruined by hollywood br br the good thing is that this movie will take a bath in the box office and maybe producers will learn to keep from tampering with a story that needs no improvement hanks was overdone and i don't see why there couldn't have been other actors' voices be used
0	the polar express was an awful movie what makes this movie worst is the hypocrisy to present itself as a innocent sugary and harmless tale for children about the true meaning of christmas i never read the book of chris van in what it was inspired but the most disappointing is that it was directed by robert zemeckis the same who made the great who framed roger rabbit a excellent movie where he proof that the animation could be appreciated for kids and adults equally while in this movie it seems that he was victim of his own ambition and he give too much importance to create impressive level of detail than a interesting story i'm sorry to say this but the polar express have so much artistic level as a publicity campaign of a video game or toy everything in this movie seems to be so lifeless the characters could look like humans but they don't have nothing of life on them and they have a malevolent touch in their eyes br br but the worst is the message in this movie you could see it at some parts of the movie and believe me it was vile take for example one scene where one kid refuses to enter to the polar express notice that the character that looks like tom hanks makes a gesture like saying you are stupid to don't accept my offering second when the girl says that the toys are so warm and things like that all the damn movie the kids keep talking about how big would be the gifts that santa would give to them there is even a song about the gifts the vagabond is a irrelevant and weak character and in the last scene the character seems to discover the true meaning of christmas and what would be what do you think the gifts many christmas movies are close to say something like it but the polar express it's a ode to the materialism and greed i refuse to call it a children's movie because if is that what the kids would learn i don't want to think how would be our future
0	i borrowed this on dvd from a friend the other day i didn't really know what to expect i haven't seen a lot of russian movies and i don't think i've ever seen a russian war movie maybe that made me expect something different something more along the line of an imagined russian mentality but whatever those expectations came from they were put to shame as this is a quite ordinary war movie br br the whole formula of following a few young people from their recruitment through training to deployment and through some battles is well known we have seen it done both many years ago as well as more recently as with jarhead sure there's a difference here because the movie is about russian soldiers instead of americans as is almost always the case but in general this could just as easily have been a vietnam movie i guess that just underscores my feeling that afghanistan was the soviet unions vietnam a country that should have been a pushover for a superpower made the war drag on for years with terrible loss of life both for soldiers and civilians br br the good points in this movie i felt were good photography there are some beautiful ambiance shots and decent effects for what i guess must have been a rather low budget movie what made me disappointed is mostly the story itself it just doesn't manage to stir any emotion in me mostly because the character development is lousy and to really feel something when people are gunned down you have to make them people not just faceless cardboard cutouts they fail to do that in this movie also it's overly long and that seems to a kind of trend lately in my opinion a movie that's more than two hours long has to have a lot to offer and this movie doesn't cut it also there is a disturbing music that's put like a wet blanket over every scene especially in the action scenes this is highly disturbing not that you need action music but something more than just slow keyboard music would be nice otherwise the production values were good enough that was not where the problem was br br i don't know how to view this movie as a reminder of the fact that no matter where you are war sucks that russian film makers have already watched too many american war movies to make something original regardless of which this movie is rather clichéd lacks in spirit and while it has acceptable technical qualities it lacks in script and character development in the end it just becomes another of all those war movies that fails to make you think and fails to add something to the genre i've seen a lot worse but a lot better too i rate this 4 10
0	the main problem with 9th company 9 is that it is not sure whether it wants to be saving private ryan or full metal jacket the attempts at spielberg sentimentalism are embarrassing such as the sergeant crying in a field of red flowers the training sequences have none of intensity or realism that kubrick gave them in his masterpiece br br a further bone of contention is that the afghan fighters are called ghosts because they strike and are hardly ever seen here they attack a russian strong hold almost in formation with no attempt to use cover i am sure tactics have move on since waterloo br br every scene in this film has been seen before in other war movies and done considerably better br br i have to ask why do all talented need to chew on a match br br finally i am always suspicious of a film that starts with no narration yet needs to qualify the end br br we won no you didn't
0	first i'm sorry for my english second the true story of this episode 39 soldiers operation 6 soldiers were killed hundreds of insurgents were killed too within 10 years the soviet army has lost less than 15 thousand person and killed over insurgents and civilians there is no insurgents without permanent help of usa the veteran of war traditions there are no traditions in this film there is no military oath there is no first jump no farewell to the fighting banner there is no delivery of awards and medals there is nothing sacred there is only a hatred to soviet army being in this area on investigation we have revealed start up jet shells by insurgents an exact place could not define so gunners have asked to give easier square also have covered it through pair minutes here it was the reality of fights so there was no feeling oblivion these feelings have appeared then already on other war and in other state others were children more kindly more humanly and were as fathers well and culmination fight full orgy shooting in anywhere mental attacks young ben not killed both not broken through and full absence of mutual aid that there was a main thing on this war even americans accused us of inadequate application of force against insurgents and here it is direct on the contrary in the summer 1981 i about myself have firmly solved that personally should fill up a minimum 50 insurgents as a result accepted plan has been under fulfilled and on a i departed strongly and malicious as fig after returning the first months there was a feeling of that i not was at war up to the end not business there have completed all how follow there was any vague but an oppressive sensation of discontent with itself and caustic irritation such here night ideas can be and out of place at all officers really in film are not present absolutely in occasion of that what is the time they spent with staff on fighting is constant new year on fighting from where did they take beds in mountains and so on br br if you want a fairy tale about war 9 and is for you if you want truth you must see come and see or ask for fire
0	compared to the recent gore flick hostel which this movie reminded me a lot of i would say that see no evil is slightly better but not by much the very complex plot involves a handful of delinquents who are sent to clean up a rundown hotel for a shorter jail sentence the kids soon end up being killed off by a lumbering religious psychopath who is cleansing them of their sins i guess the one thing i dreaded most prior to seeing this was the fact that it stared a wwe wrestler kane he ended up doing a decent job considering he only had 2 one word lines in the movie there are a couple fairly gory moments mainly involving eye gouging and a quite memorable scene in which a girl gets a cellphone shoved down her throat probably the most effective demise in the movie br br i can't say that this movie really shows us anything new and is definitely far from great can't recommend it
0	yes it might be not historically accurate actually only 6 soldiers of 9th were killed there and yes it has some mistakes and exaggeration bended machine gun come on or the that history lesson about how afghanistan was never conquered by anyone educated russian officer would know history much better than that take for example british campaign in afghanistan and yes it does not have multi million dollars hollywood style special effects but it's strongest point in showing soldier's life there their relationships and their feelings when the best friends are being killed in front of their eyes in my opinion really does a good job showing all those things br br again movie has it weaknesses but in my opinion it appears to be one of the strongest russian movie for the past few years br br 8 10
0	this movie was filmed in my hometown and i was acquainted with many of the actors in minor rolls most of them were students at the local karate school and even at the time it was filmed we all knew what a stinker it was it was interesting however to see it being made most of the places it was filmed at no longer exist such as the nightclub the pizza shop etc the world premiere was held at the civic theatre and we all laughed hysterically at how inane it was i personally believe it's the worst movie ever made but it brings back many fond memories for me watch this movie with a word of advice enjoy it for what it is a very low budget poorly made karate flick
0	you might suspect that the plot of this movie was written in the process of filming it begins as a punks versus vigilante movie but in the middle of the film the plot changes abruptly when the vigilante turns to be an honest man with his honest girl and his honest gym and has to fight the corrupt businessmen who want to turn the gym down at any cost to build a mall or something then the plot changes again and we forget about the corrupt guys the villain now is the friend of the leading man who thinks he is a ninja the guy becomes crazy evil and wants at any cost to win a martial arts contest seeing this movie is like having a nightmare with the television on
0	this is based on michael's life from 1983 4 till 2004 flex alexander did a good performance but looked nothing like michael i feel michael was portrayed as a stupid person which i don't believe he was even though he trusted the wrong people at times i thought flex alexander looked chinese when they made michael look white i think should of been portrayed in this she was always pictured with her brother in the 80's i never thought any of the supporting cast looked like their counterparts there were some things that were inaccurate lisa marie presley's son looked about 4 in the wedding scene even though he was not yet 2 when lisa and michael got married also when michael says to his mother katherine he thinks he and debbie should marry if she is carrying his child it was idea for the two to get married
0	where the hell did vh1 find the scriptwriter for this movie out of high school this movie tries so hard to be sympathetic to michael jackson but instead turns him into a horrible tacky caricature all the lines are filled with clichés but surprisingly the acting wasn't bad as usual this is a bad movie with pretty good actors the actor that plays michael jackson jeez i feel sorry for him i think he did the best he could with the weak script i didn't mind that flex did not look like michael jackson i thought he did the best he could but later on when he had all that white make up on oh man did he look yucky the other actors that played debbie rowe priscilla presley and elizabeth taylor were pretty good except that the actress that plays liz taylor looked too young and healthy to be playing liz the actress that plays diana ross didn't look at all like her and i couldn't figure out who this woman was until much later on in the movie br br this movie does a disservice to everyone who is on the side of michael jackson or against michael jackson it doesn't do anything to change anyone's opinion as a matter of fact the only opinion anyone will have after watching this movie is oh god this movie really really sucks and where the hell is michael jackson's wonderful music and songs there are none to be found in this movie i love the soundtrack to this movie anyway and i'll probably purchase it if i could br br on the lighter side though this is a very funny campy movie it's a great time waster if you want to watch something light that won't trouble your brain too much i'll probably watch it again because it just is so entertainingly bad
0	this is absolutely the worst movie i have ever seen i hope the real family and other portrayed characters have lawyers suing the hell out of vh1 for there portrayal the acting is horrible the writing is worse and the portrayal of characters is scary its supposed to be a drama but it was a comedy to me you have no choice but to laugh at the bad acting i usually like flex alexanders acting but this time he has completely missed the mark br br you could argue he took this role for a couple of laughs himself because it was so horrible if you really want a dramatic movie for the night do not choose this one but if you are in for some laughs over bad acting and stupid writing tune in other than that don't waste your time
0	okay first of all i missed like the first 15 minutes of the movie so i missed credits and stuff so when i finally got to it i was like who the hell is this dude i found out it was flex like hours after watching the movie br br flex didn't look like michael jackson not one bit he couldn't dance like him or move like him the only thing he almost had was the voice people commented on elizabeth taylor but i can't really comment on that because i don't know much about her br br the whole movie was like just plain wack the dialogue sucked the cinematography if it can be called that sucked the soundtrack sucked the acting sucked yes even flex i'm so upset about it though i didn't want it to suck i'm so sad that flex got told he can get away with it but the whole thing looked like dress up you know it's like nobody looked like they were supposed to except for joseph jackson br br the concert sequences just sucked i'm sorry but flex just can't dance like michael i mean like what the hell was vh1 thinking the makeup didn't even match like the time of whatever michael was going through for example in the movie he was still dark when neverland got raided the first time around in real life mj was white as hell there was some sort of stupid delay in his skin br br the movie wasn't boring well for me it wasn't it wasn't really anything i was just so upset about everything that was wrong with it i wanted to see how it turned out and if flex could redeem himself he didn't really the only part i found like a bit interesting was the whole lisa marie thing when they fell in love that was nice but i had to turn my face away when they kissed heh and only two parts made me collapse with laughter the first time was when they cut from michael with short hair you know the thriller era to michael with long flowing hair from the dangerous era and he was still black that was funny the second time i laughed was when they showed all of the posters and memorabilia of michael but they had face instead it was so funny br br overall this movie was cheap trash it was simply two hours of dress up and could have been so much better but no vh1 is cheap watch if you want but this movie is not funny considering the ridiculousness of it i came out of it feeling angry and when i found out it was flex i just started to feel so bad so watch if you want
0	even though i sat and watched the whole thing i must say it was not good it was all over the place with big chunks of information missing about how things developed and even inaccurate at some bits too if you know nothing about michael you wont understand a thing you have to rely on your current knowledge of the man in order for some bits to make sense acting was a bit dramatic flex alexander looked nothing like michael which was a put off for me and towards the end he literally looked grey saying that portraying michael as somewhat naive but highly positive gentle and loving individual was okay even though they still made a fool out of him time to time if you want to watch mj's life story check out an american dream it is much better but the only thing is it will cover up to bad era i have no doubt that they will eventually make a big budget movie of mj's life story cos michael you rock
0	the writers and creators of this film should actually be sued for polluting the world with this crap man in the mirror is in fact beyond horrible way way way beyond br br and people i'm not just saying that because i'm a michael jackson fan or due to the fact that this is truly one of the most retarded depictions of his life i've ever encountered br br i'm saying it because this is a waste of time money and celluloid i feel ashamed of myself just having seen all of it that's 1 hour and 26 min of my life i'll never get back i'm telling you watching grass grow is literally more entertaining than this film br br consider yourselves warned
0	this movie is like so many biopic tv movies i have seen formulaic exaggerating poorly acted and most importantly happening too soon br br what i mean by that is the movie was filmed and for that matter aired before michael jackson's acquittal from his child molestation charges which i think was one of the most significant periods of jackson's life and career so far it probably would have made a great ending to this docu drama however this movie already bites off more than it can chew cramming too many details in this overly ambitious project br br it's no doubt that michael jackson has led perhaps the most interesting life so far of any musician let alone modern day pop star to date and his story would probably take six behind the music specials to tell accurately this movie tried to tell too much in three hours and needless to say it failed br br flex alexander did what he could in playing jackson but he came off more like an snl caricature by the likes of tim meadows and amy poehler it would admittedly be pretty hard to find someone who accurately portrays jackson without meeting with the king of pop himself and studying his methods of madness on a shoestring budget though one can only depend on what they see in the tabloids and those do not necessarily give an accurate representation br br furthermore the director's efforts to make alexander look like jackson are completely foolish the caucasian makeup on alexander's face makes him look more like a reverse minstrel show and everyone who has been in a grocery store knows that jackson's nose is not as big as alexander's it's also amazing to me that the film documents jackson going under the knife to get cosmetic surgery yet in the next scene alexander still has the same size nose this kind of suspension of disbelief that the director expects can't hold up to tv viewers in the 21st century br br it was even more distracting when footage of the real michael jackson i e the time he hung his infant child over a balcony in germany was interspersed into the movie in real time it was a nice try but it just didn't work br br if this movie as it is was released into theaters it would gain a profit only because of its tackiness it even pales in comparison to mommie dearest and that's saying a lot above all this was a movie that was probably rushed into making like many tv movies that aren't on hbo it could have been done a lot better if it had just told of one aspect of jackson's life even if it just covered the child molestation allegations it probably would have been done a lot better and would have even been more intriguing
0	the cheesiest movie i've ever seen not scary just bad 1st movie made by the wwe and trust me the only person this movie might appeal to is wrestling fans it has terrible acting and the worst directing i've seen yet i found myself laughing at the storyline and bad actors i saw that the wwe people tried really hard to put a lot of the wrestling moves in the kills and several camera effects i think they copied a lot from silent hill this movie's not engaging either so if you do see it you're gonna find yourself tuning out because of it's lack of suspense the ending's the worst no matter what you'll come out wanting your money back
0	i watched this movie purely for the setting it was filmed in an old hotel that a friend owns shares of the plot was predictable the acting was mediorcre at best the scares were all gross outs not true scares br br i don't remember much of the plot and i think that's because there wasn't much of one to remember they didn't even use the hotel to it's fullest potential the beaches are fantastic and the hotel is situated on a peninsula at low tide you can walk almost 1 4 mile into the bay which is actually an eerie sight first thing in the morning or late at night when the wind is howling through the cracks br br the best way to see this movie is with the remote in your hand so you can fast forward through the action and i'm using that term loosly scenes and pause at the beauty of the surroundings
0	i am speechless honestly i cannot understand how anyone could have conceded to a script like this cast anyone in the film let alone direct it the fact that i am writing this review feels like an insult to my fingers this film should be thrown in to the dustbin rather than be reviewed i am disappointed in flex alexander for even thinking about accepting such a poor excuse for a script let alone essay the role omg i think i just insulted the word essay uh yeah i did y'know what the less said about this mindless drivel the better you have been warned nobody warned me i had to experience the horror myself watch at your own risk
0	the main word that comes to mind when considering this film is dodgy this is a low quality film biography of one of the most iconic performers of all time the gloved one deserved better br br before getting into the meat of my thoughts on this biopic i have to say that there are two things i found effective first was the use of actual fan footage and interviews at certain points in the film especially in the scenes depicting the first set of child molestation allegations i feel that this contributed a certain authenticity that was severely lacking throughout the rest of the film second was the sequence depicting the courtship of michael jackson and lisa marie presley i will not comment on whether i believe the marriage was a sham but by many accounts it was a relationship where care and affection existed between the two parties involved that really came across in this film flex anderson and krista rae had decent enough chemistry to pull it off these successful points are enough to keep man in the mirror away from 1 star status br br that said there was very little else here that worked very few of the actors looked like the people they were supposed to portray most those playing elizabeth taylor janet jackson and diana ross also the absence of jackson's music was a huge loss how can you effectively tell a story about him without his music i understand that they were unable to secure the rights to it with this being a low budget unauthorized production it seems though that if you can't have the man's music in a film about him you might as well pack it up and go home because you're missing out on an extremely important part of his life story br br this film's characterization of jackson bothered me a little too i won't argue that he was troubled and may have been a few fries short of a value meal but here he was portrayed as something close to mentally disabled i don't believe that jackson known to have been a shrewd businessman would have been quite as naive about how the adult world works as he was made out to be in this film br br finally the way this film was written was nothing short of disgraceful many lines or exchanges of dialogue were either extremely corny like michael and tinkerbell exchange or nonsensical like the blanket of love comments made by michael also the screenwriters don't exactly have a knack for subtlety there was a lot of telegraphing of upcoming events what could possibly go wrong sorts of lines and extremely overt hammering of themes and motifs in the film if i'd heard the word believe one more time this is what ultimately hobbled the film as something that could be considered awesomely bad br br perhaps when we are a few years or even a decade or three removed from jackson's death someone will be able to bring his story to life in a more deserving film by that time we might have a better perspective on his life and someone will be able to present a truly thoughtful examination of who michael jackson really was and what he's meant to the world of entertainment this very dodgy biopic was not that film
0	usually when a television biopic is released on a celebrity its at the very least campy i e cybill shepherd as martha stewart lauren bacall as doris duke this is the most horrendous cheap and boring television movie ever made if vh 1 is going to make a television film they have got to spend a little more money on them flex alexander though gifted with the michael voice is not a great dancer does not resemble michael one bit and does not even have his mannerisms down vh 1 would have done better by hiring an actual impersonator that way when see michael go into get plastic surgery he doesn't actually come out looking exactly the same why should we be taken aback at the shrinking of michael's nose when its exactly the same size as in the beginning of the film the woman playing elizabeth taylor cannot act and looks nothing like her and don't even get me started on the woman as janet jackson terrible script and a severe case of miscasting needs to keep vh 1 from producing any more movies flex alexander would have made a much better jermaine jackson rather than michael costumes trashy ripoffs neverland spliced together footage from news docs don't bother with this one its not even remotely worth it the one good piece of casting the actor portraying joseph jackson and maybe the actress as lisa marie presley though she should have been more tomboy than girlie girl
0	i grabbed la because it reunited jean gabin and julien duvivier whose pepe le moko is a noir masterpiece i'll give it a few points because gabin is in it but the clumsy plot cheap sets and the ludicrous annabella making like an arab princess put the film on my to shelf if you watch it you'll find yourself asking why didn't the idiots build the fort around the well instead of a deadly few yards away from it and why use tin roofs in the middle of the desert but by then the sheer perversity of contrivance that makes up the script should numb you to any further contemplation
0	not many people outside poland have had an opportunity to become familiar with brilliant writings he's very popular in poland for his fantasy short stories i believe none of them has ever been translated english alas to make a long story short the main character of books is a traveling monster slayer a man of extraordinary strenght and skill he's pretty much your favourite tolkien style cool guy unfortunately no one would figure this out after watching the film the movie is nothing but a collection of random scenes featuring and other characters from writings but not remotely resembling the plot and dramatic pace of the original event the fact that some of the shots in the film show attractive naked women does not add any quality to it the movie gets worse and worse with every minute and does not even meet the requirements of 'so bad it's actually good' category if you really are into and want to learn something about read the books instead
0	yes that's true that movie is a horrible piece of you know what almost all fans of books in poland think the same the truth is that polish cinematography can not afford producing fantasy films it's a shame when you compare and conan the barbarian for example i hope no one outside poland will ever see this nightmare
0	a very mediocre film based on a superb series of stories and novels i hope somebody someday will be able to film it the right way in the meantime look for the books by a a very postmodern fantasy by now there should be a translation in english there translations in german for sure
0	there are three main problems with the film or rather there are three reasons why it isn't even a contender worthy of more serious consideration br br firstly and this was always going to be true it's not nearly as good as the books however at least we could have expected to reflect some of the wit or depth br br secondly we have the production fantasy movies are in my opinion the hardest to produce well everything from the props through costumes scenery stunts and especially cgi is substandard br br finally and this is many be very subjective i just can't quite take the acting seriously i wasn't brought up in poland so i can't really judge it may me my lack of familiarity with films in polish all the same the lines seem very amateurishly delivered the casting could be better as well br br in summation the only possible redeeming feature of this film is the remainder of the plot shining through not unlike a diamond ring on a rotting cadaver br br on a separate note i heard that the books are coming out in english i haven't seen them yet but i can't imagine how one would even begin to translate them i would ask the english speaking reader to bare this in mind when judging the book
0	creation is a great example of how not to make a movie first there was a book written with a great humor book that has numerous fans who would be happy to supply help when producers for some reasons decided to employ people who hardly heard of the book in the first place then came a script as humorless and full of nonsense as possible at the same time the script was written in a way to allow only those who actually had read the books to understand anything of the plot not that anything in this movie made much sense anyway ex i'm like an ice shard you can burn yourself said as a word of warning warning that logic is something this movie seriously lacks to add to that we have to mention that no matter the amount of money that was supposedly spent on the movie everything looks like an amateur production with two 2 computer effects one of which is a see through dragon even the costumes look as if the were borrowed from a really poor theater that is the better ones look this way and to add to that we have a few 'naked scenes' put there only so they will be in the film because they have no explanation in what one may mercifully call plot the movie has only one strength that can hardly make up for the rest music is not bad though if i was to choose i'd prefer to have it separately it sounds better if you don't have to look at this failure of super production
0	the movie is simply horrible 2 10 although actors are trying their best well sometimes that isn't much special effects are let me put it this way it would be better if there weren't any br br the script is based on prose so it should be the biggest advantage of this movie sadly it's the opposite there is nothing left of the original atmosphere and it's all very chaotic maybe they just had too much material to show in 2h time br br anyway if you would like to see this film i would recommend you to look for the tv series same title same actors even the plot stays the same that was made in the same time the movie did it is so much better 9 10 and the story there actually make sense
0	porn legend gregory dark directs this cheesy horror flick that has glen jacobs kane from wwf wwe whatever it calls itself nowadays in his cinematic debut he plays jacob a blind serial killer who's forte is taking people's eyes out the plot be it as it may has a group of troubled youths cleaning up the historical hotel that resides in and subsequently being offed by him hemmingway it's not starts of as fun dopey b movie but soon gets too tedious to be enjoyable glad i went in with pretty low expectations but even those weren't met how can you have a porn king directing and still suffer from a lack of nudity for shame br br my grade d br br eye candy samantha noble bares her ass briefly
0	well for a start i must say that here in russia a saga of of is known and loved a gifted writer or maybe even genius of some sort created one of the most realistic honest cynical and god d mn well written fantasy worlds in a history of literature and when such amazing material gets in a right hands well see rpg game and you will understand what i am talking about br br is an excellent example of the opposite outcome br br lack of budget lack of directing lack of good script br br these three whales of disgusting movie making sunken this movie ate it alive acting is good sometimes even more than good but for god sake it can not save this project br br i still have some faith though i still hope that someday a new movies will be created and entire world will see magnitude and breathtaking splendor of books p s but before that a uwe boll must be eliminated just in case you know
0	when just days away before the film's premiere its screenwriter backs out of the project and demands his name to be removed from the credits you know that this does not bode well br br the books on which is based on have great potential for a vivacious fantasy film – de is a his sole purpose is to destroy the monsters that plague the world but not everything monstrous looking is evil and not everything fair is but all that didn't matter when a polish film crew with a low budget and no or little appreciation for work decided to make a 13 part mini series out of it the two hour film is a by product of their actions to maximize the profits br br it's not hard to point out in this case what makes people label this film as bad plot incoherent thanks to cramming it with too many stories acting below average with exception of dialogues bland editing choppy special effects unbearable and choreography poor add up to the film's overall bad experience only the soundtrack done by brings out the beauty of the world of which was never brought to the screen even grandiose flora and fauna where part of the chronicles of narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe was shot a crucial element in almost any fantasy film were not used up to their full potential the more i think about this dead loss the more i'm running out of words at least it's a comfort to know that the director of has directed only one film ever since in addition in germany br br for now we're left with top notch fantasy stories and a fantastic computer rpg released in 2007 referring to the books but i'm sure that one day justice will be done for the saga and we'll be treated with an equally good film adaptation soon enough
0	this movie is trash from the word go first it gives an account of a season that took place 16 years ago who cares this movie had about as much depth as a bottle cap it makes a complex person like bob knight into a cartoon character br br swearing doesn't bother me but i'm still amazed that espn showed a movie with more cursing than a kevin smith movie on a basic cable channel the f word was dropped at least 20 times before the first commercial break br br this movie was terrible and anyone associated with it should be embarrassed i rate this on the same level as jaws iv the revenge and everybody wins 2 movies that are in the crapfest hall of fame
0	this movie probably seemed like a great idea in pre production let's make a movie about one of the greatest and most controversial athletic coaches of the modern era and let's cast brian as coach bobby knight that's where this movie went terribly wrong why cast an actor who bears no semblance of the man he's portraying and then why let this actor turn his character into not coach knight but brian in a red sweater as i sat watching this movie on espn i didn't find myself believing this man was actually coach knight he didn't look like him talk like him act like him or even walk like him i could not get past this fact and thusly i could not enjoy the movie when paul newman and robert redford were cast as the outlaws butch cassidy and the sundance kid we didn't care if they were accurate historical models of their true characters because most of us had never even heard of these men until we saw the movie but with someone as visible in today's media as coach knight you have to do better when anthony hopkins was cast as nixon it was the same situation but anthony hopkins made us believe he in fact was nixon didn't even try what might have been a great movie was turned sour by this besides the fact that this movie tried to do for the four letter word what saving private ryan did for dismemberment it stunk too little of the real coach knight and too much profanity for the sake of shock value turned this movie into a season to turn off half way through the broadcast the only good thing about this is that it was television movie i didn't have to waste my hard earned money on this piece of trash
0	i watched this with great trepidation and my trepidation was well founded it seems what was this movie about knight the season the players what it was all over the place all the time it had no tension sorry we all knew bobby was going to curse and throw things but brian a fine actor comes across as mailing in the anger and delivering zero tension cheaply shot like a episode contrast this thanksgiving main course with the job hbo did on the don king movie only in america to show how to do sports biopics warts and all notice that espn promoted the hell out of it and then never showed it again
0	its obvious espn drools whenever knight is in the news but did they have to make a freakin' movie about him this was the worst attempt at a serious dramatic movie i have ever seen it had it all terrible acting terrible dialogue ridiculous casting cheap sets etc etc it looked like it was shot on a 10 budget whats up with the game scenes were they in a middle school gym and the lighting well let me just say it was ridiculous and brian as bob knight give me a break looked like in a red sweater nothing more espn lost a lot of credibility with this flop attempt they poured millions of in advertising then the premier was a huge dissapointment bob knight is not a subject that can be covered in a 2 hour movie espn blew it even knight himself thought it was more stupid than anything else
0	season on the brink is one of my favorite books of all time an insightful unflinching look at bob knight and his indiana hoosiers and dennehy is one of my favorite supporting actors of all time so i made a point of watching this adaptation br br it disappointed on every level performance was less than inspired and he seemed unprepared to play knight like he had accepted the role just prior to filming the rest of the cast isn't much better br br and it was obvious that this was first movie it was poorly directed poorly filmed and the lack of budget was obvious anytime games were being simulated smaller empty seats etc skip this adaptation and read the book it holds up well to this day
0	despite the famous cast this animated version of dickens tale is the i've seen enough that i zapped away in he first commercial break the characters didn't appeal to me at all and the animation is looking cheap br br i'll give this movie a very low rating give me the disney version anytime
0	why wasn't this voted for best picture of 1998 this has to be the best movie ever it makes something like kane look like utter crap come on kane wasn't even in color i love this movie it has to be the best movie i've ever put money down on i am still shocked that it wasn't nominated for anything br br if 10 is the highest you can give it i give it 20
0	i didn't really get this movie because i'm not some perv like you who is into lesbian stuff br br the girl in the red wig tries too hard to be funny her lips are so silicone but she's really lame and insecure she tries to come off like a surfer guy better than dressing slutty but still weird and definitely the movie doesn't explain why she's trying to pass herself off as a man oh right to get the poor dumb girl i forgot she makes all these dumb inventions which are not funny and she's a really lousy actress plus that waif look is so out br br this dumb blond girl from melrose place plays surprise a dumb blond br br she thinks the girl in the wig is a guy they even make out ewww i guess that part was sort of funny
0	ok lets start with the best the building although hard to believe it had electricity and running water after 35 years and a fire the gruesome walls and odd items found throughout were interesting other than that its not worth it br br as far as the bad its done by wwe films wtf is that supposed to make you want to see it if anything stay away horrible horrible idea for them to make movies and allow gregory dark to direct it bad choice the previews beforehand were more interesting and entertaining br br i cant even begin to discuss how bad this film is untalented actors a disappointing vague storyline apparently many of the actors are from that show all saints its a wonder why i haven't ever heard of them or their show other than that the bus driver which you never even see just him closing the door has had more action that just about everyone together at least he handles stunts for some decent films br br i like to see scary movies i really do but this one blew so much the entire audience was laughing at it and cheering the characters on halfway through very annoying the child behind me was more during the previews of other horror films br br this is not a film to see even less if you have to pay for it
0	there is a reason chairman of the board got a 2 which is too high this movie flat out is one of the worse movies of all time and i seen my share of rotten films chairman of the board stars two of the most annoying actors people today carrot top and courtney thorne smith carrot top just isn't funny anymore and wasn't in this piece of trash courtney thorne smith isn't any better just watch according to jim and you will see a prime example of what i am talking about chairman of the board got a 1 from me because that is low as you can go it is that bad i am a little shocked that this piece of junk isn't on the imdb bottom 100 somewhere i would put this in the top 5 on that list but its slowly working its way there
0	before i sat down and watched this film on hbo i wasn't expecting nothing but a few laughs here and there and all together a stupid and common plot well that's exactly what i got out of it except that i was somewhat satisfied at the end of the movie i wasn't expecting it to be i thought it was just going to be another hour and a half that i had on my hands to waste well it was but still it was somewhat worth it the whole plot was very stupid cheap acting and some of the lines were very very dumb otherwise than that it still had it's funny moments even though not many br br all in all if you're going to rent this don't watch it on television i gave it a 4 i was generous because it made me laugh but yet it was still pretty stupid
0	carrot top in a full length movie enough said only reason this doesn't get a one is through my personal voting system of only one 1 and one 10 and this is no extreme ops horrible god awful there are some movies that are so bad they are unintentionally funny then there are movies that make you physically unwell and then there are those that lead to serious contemplation of suicide burn all copies of the movie shoot anyone who had non creative input on this movie torture anyone with any creative input and as for the star there are only so many things that can be said online but he should be begging for the final ten seconds of existence with a severed head by the time the work is done
0	this movies shook my will to live why this abomination isn't the bottom 100 list i don't know br br my life was saved by the healing power of danny trejo br br worst movie ever i dare you watch it's like a 90 minute collect calling commercial only much much worse i rather watch the blue screen it's that bad really
0	people don't seem to agree with me that movies can be bad and good at the same time the same type of people that see a movie with carrot top on the cover surfing through a frickin office and continue to watch the movie with serious expectations is carrot top funny of course not was this movie anything special of course not it was a dumb movie and everyone assumed so simply based on what they know about mr top movies like this or kazaam or killer klowns from outer space and pretty much any movie pauly shore has ever been in are not meant to be taken seriously and because of this they really shouldn't be considered some of the worst movies ever made you watch them either expecting a dumb movie that's hilariously bad or you are like six years old and genuinely think carrot top is hilarious br br please people if you ready know carrot top is retarded and you want to watch a serious movie and bother writing a serious review don't watch this picking on this movie is like picking on a 5 year old for not knowing the alphabet
0	this is what they came up with for prop comedian carrot first feature film br br a stupid surfer carrot dude inherits an r d enterprise from an old kahuna jack warden things go less than swimmingly but get much worse when the company is threatened with a hostile takeover attempt by corrupt corporate raiders the most implausible thing about this movie is that smart girl courtney thorne smith would find this red headed step child fascinating in the least but then he just inherited millions 'classic' moments include comic larry miller drinking sweat from a plastic cup br br funny comedy try un funny toilet humor and that's exactly where this belongs in the toilet flush twice
0	is this a bad movie don't take my word for it consider the following press reports of people who tried to watch this movie br br · while he was watching this movie the brain of mr harold of ohio forcibly ejected itself from his skull at over 200 and preceded to squirm across the floor shrieking noooo nooo noooo br br · mrs louise robbins of enid oklahoma a 69 year old retired homemaker committed ritual with a butter knife while watching this movie br br · ms janine of columbia south carolina gave birth to a severely deformed baby while watching this movie although she had not been pregnant br br · while watching this movie together mr and mrs lawrence wells of san franciso california spontaneously exploded with such force that mr wells's left was later found embedded in the wall of a house in marin county br br there have been many similar incidents br br of those who did not suffers more serious effects such as those detailed above at least 75 became incurably violently and understandably insane after viewing this movie of the remaining 25 most had already been insane before viewing the movie the remainder were either blind and or and deaf or in a persistent vegetative state br br i'm not saying don't rent it if you want to i'm just reporting what was in the papers
0	or at least retirement this movie is awful horrible terrible rank rotten putrid well you get the idea do not under any circumstances watch this piece of decaying garbage unless you have a death wish because it's sure to kill you i only survived because i missed the first half hour carrot top is a bad comedian and an even worse actor i cannot believe he got anyone to fund this huge waste of time and money it just goes to show that some people have no scruples if they think they might make a buck or two literally i can't imagine this made more than 2 br br and someone please tell me what possible motivation courtney thorne smith a halfway decent actress certainly above this at any rate had for signing onto this steaming pile of dung was she that bored during that 3 5 second dry spell between melrose place and ally mcbeal or did she owe some kind of karmic debt to the most annoying person on the face of the planet aka carrot top br br i give this a 2 10 and that's probably way too high i try to save my for movies that make me vomit and since i didn't see all of this one my stomach contents thankfully stayed contained i don't think i'll be watching it again to find out if it's really worth a 1
0	carrot chairman of the board and his at t commercials are living proof that fly blown fecal matter is available in the color orange not freely available however as hbo charges for such garbage the saving grace of is that it surely fills suicide hot lines across the country perhaps providing employment for thousands of telephone therapists who lost their jobs when recovered memory treatment was discredited although sadly carrot top probably contributes to his sponsor at t's bottom line with the increased phone traffic from devastated hbo viewers i can visualize the hordes of traumatized tv viewers phone in one hand and fully loaded 45 auto in the other hand dialing out of last minute desperation before walking off the plank of life to escape the specter of orange haired monster echoing in their synapses like the agony of searing irreversible swelling
0	this movie is terrible it's about some no brain dude that inherits some company does carrot top have no shame br br
0	i had no idea this movie was produced by wwe wrestling is lame enough why did they have to soil their name further by making a movie as crappy as this one was i found it to be a complete disappointment if i had of known this movie was going to be as stupid as it was i would have stayed home and done something more entertaining sure i'll give them the credit of the cool effects but the killer didn't seem as scary as he could have been he lacked a number of things but i'll let you point them out for yourselves the plot was a great idea just could have been done in a much better way maybe in the future wwe will stick to its moronic wrestling and stay out of the film industry
0	should i have expected anything other than putrid from carrot top this was on of the worst movies i have ever seen it is by far the worst comedy i have ever seen chairman of the board did not add humor to my attitude rather it enraged me that's right carrot top is such a bad comedian that i became enraged that this man is making movies
0	if you like stupid jokes and a terribly predictable storyline then perhaps this movie is for you courtney thorne smith jack warden and several other members of the supporting cast actually have talent but it was completely stifled by the paper thin script this is a generally boring and joyless time waster of a movie
0	this should not have been made into a movie everything about it was idiotic and i don't think i laughed even once there were bits and pieces that were okay i guess but that's about it a lot of parts were strikingly similar to a lot of other movies which did them a hell of a lot better there were some famous actors actresses in this but no one did a good job they must've just not cared this is one of those movies that tries to have a cute ending but it was so idiotic that it literally had no redeeming values carrot top is probably the worst comedian out there right now do yourself a favor and steer clear of this one br br final decisions br br movies nooooo br br purchase dvd absolutely not br br rental only if you've seen everything else and have a free coupon but even then it's still not worth your while
0	bad movie bad go stand in a discount bin carrot top should really stick to low lit comedy clubs it's movies like this that make old jerry lewis films look like shakespeare and john agar like john barrymore thorne smith a fine talent is absolutely wasted her purpose seems mainly to look pretty and oblivious br br the only enjoyable things about the movie is seeing raquel welch doing an alexis carrington type role and estelle harris as a harridan of a landlady the only way i can imagine someone thinking it would be a good idea to make this beyond sophomoric film is if the producers' fourth grade child was allowed to pick the script well maybe his third grader what this film really needs is to be rubbed in the noses of its creators
0	first and foremost this movie has the stupidest plot of any movie i have ever seen and unfortunately i had to see this one i was flipping through channels one day and stumbled upon this lousy excuse for a movie and it confirmed what i have been saying for a long time carrot top is not an actor and is not funny in the slightest sense he acts like he's a great comedian and thinks he commands the audiences attention frankly he has the acting ability of a 10 year old class clown scratch that less than a 10 year old's ability to compare them to carrot top would be a grave insult upon their good name this movie tries to be funny using dull one liners which all seem to have been lifted from 50's cartoons by the end i would have done anything to erase my memory of this movie but sadly the memories stay with me the only thing i can do is to warn others to never to watch this movie however it proves the rumors true carrot top can't act worth a damn
0	yes the votes are in this film may very well be the plan 9 from outer space for our generation but whereas ed wood's film for all its flaws retains a certain charm despite it all this film defines the word charmless to the nth degree in fact i'd suggest to the editors of the oxford english dictionary to cite this movie as a key example defining the that word in the next update to the dictionary br br carrot top is a performer of such abysmal ability that normally rational people that i know once they hear his name become homicidal maniacs dedicated to wanting to kill mr top as soon as possible indeed if one goes to amazon com and look at customer reviews for carrot movie and other performance dvd one will find several that could be construed as death threats to mr top br br one other curious fact about this film i recall that mike nelson the head writer for mst 3000 in his book mike's mega cheese about movies good and bad said he saw this film and shortly afterwords couldn't recall a thing about it including the title obviously mike was suffering a classic reaction to trauma viewing this atrocity was so soul numbing mike nelson had to block it from his mind evidently in a later chapter in his book mike nelson had recovered his of this film from the review he offers mike nelson was definitely not grateful for the recovered memory br br the only comment i offer about the film and it is not a spoiler it's simply god's honest truth it's not funny none of it is not even a nanosecond of it is funny
0	this is without a doubt the most poorly thought out movie in history the invention gags by carrot top are some of the most awful attempts to be funny in recorded history i am not familiar with his other work but if it is half as bad as this then i am just going to cry i give this movie 1 out of 30 billion stars and may god have mercy on the souls of those responsible
0	masterpiece carrot top blows the screen away never has one movie captured the essence of the human spirit quite like chairman of the board 10 10 don't miss this instant classic
0	chairman of the board is a ridiculously stupid film from the popular comic carrot top also seen on the 1 800 collect commercials he plays a surfing inventor who comes upon a man who has a flat tire top helps him out and a few days later discovers the guy's died and has given his company to the comedian even if someone else was in carrot role it still would have been bad the jokes which are constantly rigged throughout are terrible and the idea of a romantic plot twist should have been discarded do not watch
0	the humor is non existent in this loser of a movie carrot top plays a surfer dude inventor who consistently blows the rent money on his goofy useless inventions then he helps an old guy broken down by the side of the road and voila he's inherited a major corporation and on and on and on past the jealous relatives humanizing the corporation hostile takeovers the obligatory love interest aargh let's just say this movie is virtually unwatchable what carrot top has accomplished is to convince me never to go to his stage shows
0	i got stuck in traffic i live in sicily on the way to the theater at a military base to see superman returns was 15 minutes late and the only other movie playing was see no evil there was no poster up for it and just a short description of the movie on the schedule but my girlfriend and i decided to check it out as soon as i saw it was produced by wwe i just knew it was gonna be awful the few people in the theater were laughing most of the time and it was the first movie that i honestly considered walking out on and i've seen the ringer okay i would have walked out of that one but i was too busy sleeping the death of the bad guy at the end was pretty good but other than that it was just stupid
0	so i turned on hbo which i just got thinking that it would have some quality movies and i saw this carrot top is so unfunny it's nauseating to watch i've seen unfunny movies before but i think i find this one so impossible to watch because carrot top seems to think he's hilarious watching this movie is really like watching a movie designed for 5 year olds with crazy over the top replete with ultra stupid jokes that only a 4 year old would appreciate br br what is amazing is how some other talented actors actually signed on for this project such as larry miller and m walsh if you've ever seen carrot absolutely horrible commercials or whatever they were then this is more of the same just worse it's a slapstick fest that is a waste of a high budget that could have done something saved homeless people anything but this i'm not sure it's in the bottom 50 of all time but for the 10 million spent it's a disgrace
0	this movie is stupid there's no getting around it but so is dumb and dumber mind you dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this however i for one love seeing stupid movies tail sting and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is call me callous but see this movie and you'll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it
0	there are many mysteries in life for example why did any of the people other than carrot top agree to appear in this movie why did anyone distribute this movie why did anyone pay money to see it i guess none of these questions will ever be answered but one thing i know for sure this movie is one of the worst ever made with a budget this big it would already be bad but the addition of carrot humor makes it even worse the only entertainment one could possibly get from this movie is to burn it smash it or otherwise destroy it in an amusing fashion if you were to rank it against every movie ever made it would be right between problem child and nuff said
0	i can't believe this movie has an average rating of 7 0 it is a fiendishly bad movie and i saw it when it was fairly new and i was in the age group that is supposed to like it
0	to this day i have never seen elizabeth shue in anything else because of the stench of this movie poorly acted poorly plotted and racially neanderthal it took place in a chicago where every black person apparently lived in a blues club spoiler ahead br br spoiler her blues solo was even more painful to watch than her clueless acting and the intro into it 'nobody leaves without singing the blues' was as dumb as a post the children her character was babysitting were insufferable and well before the movie's end i was wishing for something horrible to happen to all of them br br i have to say though there is one special thing about this movie it takes a lot for a movie to offend me but this smoldering piece of tripe did what chopper the phantom menace and catwoman could not make me sick to my stomach
0	i would not recommend this movie even though it is rated g and is clearly for kids there is quite a lot of swearing including the dreaded 'f' and 's' words this kind of language doesn't offend me particularly but in a kids film come on br br there was also quite a bit of implied sexual content between one of the early adolescent male characters and any willing adult woman who came along including a prostitute br br the acting was as good as it gets in this genre of film but the story line was very very cheesy and even my four year old remarked that it was 'stupid' br br despite having elizabeth shue this film is definitely not worth checking out if you haven't seen it
0	i have seen this movie but not in a single sitting what happens it that it is playing on the tv i watch for a few minutes find that i have take all that i can take and then leave the room during those few minutes i do not laugh once experience no pleasure in what i am viewing and find myself more depressed that angry interestingly i am told the psychological states are incompatible that is one cannot be angry and depressed at the same time this movie tests that theory br br i think part of the problem is that i spent nearly ten years in chicago so as i am watching the scenes i am thinking of my own experiences in that rotten town and thus i am clearly bringing a lot of my baggage to the piece it is entirely possible i am willing to concede that if you are not a chicago denizen you will find the piece amusing if so i envy you br br and yet john hughes set his films in chicago and those movies worked for me i think the difference is that hughes was a first rate writer i think it obvious he knew how to comically balance his situations as well as make his characters both sympathetic and believable in a comedy as distinguished from a farce this balance vital and it is not easy to achieve if it was everyone would be making great movies and we would not have to fret as we do in the real world wondering when genius will ever appear in adventures in babysitting it doesn't i hated those characters br br there is a difference profound and real between sympathetic and simply pathetic br br for me every scene in this movie is a clunker there is no humor no humanity no people one can recognize just actors reading their lines as if it all they can do to restrain themselves from screaming them out certain that finally hilarity will ensue this time for sure it's like watching the antics of very bad comedians it's embarrassing and after a while usually at the point when i get up and leave i start to feel pity for all concerned which is a kind of emotional connection i suppose elizabeth shue is terrible she doesn't act certainly not act comically and it's entirely possible she can't but lord how she tries she looks older than 17 and acts way younger like a seven year old straining in a school play certain that this is how one gets an award and she is not alone it is as if everyone cannot relax and let the tale flow as if everyone simply has no idea what they are doing br br now this was an early effort for chris columbus and he clearly would improve and having better writers e g john hughes himself certainly helped so perhaps some forgiveness is in order but the film just reeks of desperation yet like i said it may work for some if any of the above appeals to you and it clearly did some of the reviewers then go get the dvd and knock yourself out otherwise avoid this mess like you would a dark chicago alley where as you hurry by you can only see shadows and hear muttered threats
0	this movie was a complete disaster for me there is one thing that movies must have in order to be watchable and that is some psychological credibility of characters unfortunately here this is not the case the main characters behave irrationally most of the time and even if they have some reason for such behavior it is not revealed to us by the director sophie character is particularly irritating making pictures of everything throughout the whole movie when one could expect something more rational for example meeting with her mother in the hospital and why exactly did she marry this guy no this is not a spoiler the plot at times seems like ripped off some soap opera and while the actors' performance is not bad this does not help much all in all i just could not find a way to connect with this movie not that i tried too much after the first hour though i have never walked out of cinema during a movie but this time was the closest in my life so far
0	this is a movie that should have been a mini series as it tries to get too much information in too small a space the whole story is constantly being bombarded with sub plots character introduction and meaningless pieces information that go nowhere there is a underlying plot where boy meets a girl she has doubts but gets married anyhow and then her doubts surface and she goes to see if they are real they turn out not to be but her husband won't believe that she was not unfaithful and her almost boyfriend doesn't want her as she was not unfaithful to her husband with that said there are no less than 1000 sub plots and character introductions that make this plot almost incomprehensible in the first 15 minutes you are inundated with so many things and situations that you just stop caring you don't care about any of the confused and screwed up cast that drifts in and out of the story like vultures feeding on a corpse each one comes in and takes some interest away from the viewer after a half hour and completely disinterested i stayed and watched the remaining two and a half hours out of pure morbid curiosity i couldn't imagine where it was going but like staring at a fire i just couldn't get up and turn it off the production values are superb but the resulting movie is a waste of time wash your socks instead
0	having broken into a secret database file for matching dna federal agent frank poo andy garcia discovers the only person who can save his son's life is a psychopath played by michael keaton however when a serum transfer at the local hospital goes terribly wrong a certain mr poo has to do everything in his power to ensure the madman stays alive in order to make the inevitable transfer possible by the way his name really poo i just feel like calling it him despite the original concept at hand this is an implausible and turgidly unexciting action thriller i've never been a big fan of andy garcia and granted his charecter here that this movie winds up all the worse the action sequences are handled pretty disappointingly and the ending sucks pretty bad having done a great villain in pacific heights keaton's psychopathic bad guy here is a let down providing a madman too funny and charismatic to be brian cox is also wasted as garcia's firm and frank superior
0	another movie with a star of a wrestling so far i have noticed wrestlers can't act on the movie screen this movie is no exception br br the action is dreadful it makes you laugh at what they say and they can't be serious they try to act scared but they fail and look stupid the acting is horrible possibly from the bad director br br the plot was stupid just some people get placed in a hotel because they're criminals and they get randomly killed off the movie is stupid all the way through making it one of the worst i have ever seen br br the only think and this is why i give it a 3 and not a 1 is because of the way jacob goodnight dies the pole through the head and the stories of him plunging was awesome br br overall this is a really horrible movie and you definitely shouldn't waste your time with it
0	this is one of those movies where i was rooting for whoever could end the movie the quickest i wanted to see the cops kill keaton and garcia just to get it over with basically this is the deal two cops have to die and a third has to get horrible burns on his face for garcia's son to get a bone marrow transplant from convicted killer keaton is it worth it no
0	this movie is absurd absolutely terrible michael keaton and andy garcia must really have needed the work to do this movie the plot is totally not believable michael keaton agrees to donate bone marrow to the dying son of a detective but then escapes he manages to elude the police throughout the hospital not believable that he would have so much knowledge of the hospital he takes an extremely convoluted route to get out of the hospital blowing up the power generators and a bridge why and to top that andy garcia father of the dying boy and a doctor help the criminal so as to get the bone marrow the plot is such baloney maybe the worse movie i have ever see
0	i can't believe i watched this whole movie another ishtar in that i kept waiting for it to get better which never happened the sound is terrible going from too low to hear the conversations to blaring sound in seconds the plot is absolutely implausible the acting is mediocre although keaton does his usual good job as a mental case although being typecast in that role could certainly be considered a negative the director knows absolutely nothing about hospitals medications science or anything of a technical nature sociopath i wonder how they came up with that diagnosis there are so many errors goofs and things wrong with this movie that if one were to list them all it would possibly set some kind of record as a general a motorcyclist on the freeway wearing a non dot off road helmet san francisco paper walls move when tapped helmets just appear out of thin air guns point one direction but hit things in another lighting appears and disappears and there is barely a scene in the move that doesn't contain some kind of error my wife who is an rn in an unit finally left the room before the end of the movie so upset over all the medical errors i gave it a 2 only because of keaton's acting else it certainly would have gotten a 1
0	i really wanted to see this film i thought the plot was really unique and intriguing a cop andy garcia has a son who is dying and needs bone marrow replacement in order to live the only match is a convicted serial killer who escapes from jail to save his son he has to track down the killer br br michael keaton plays the convict in one of many disappointing aspects of the film keaton is a great actor at times but here he is pretty much boring it's over the top to the point where you just stop caring br br garcia is better but tries too hard for a film that isn't up to par barbet schroeder at one time such a promising director with films like barfly that amounted to pretty much nothing in the american market directs well enough i honestly thought the script was the culprit here it's just a big mess br br the film ultimately wastes a lot of good material good actors and a good director all because of a faulty script what should have been a tense and thought provoking film is just a hollywood action dud
0	well the plot is entertaining but it is full of goof to summarize things up cop dad badly wants to save his son from cancer but the only way is by getting the transplant from the criminal michael keaton br br well criminal agrees but escaped in the hospital while the transplant was going on and the police and the cop dad is not allowed to shoot at the criminal in order to save his son dead criminal no transplant dead son br br well the police in this movie doesn't have a brain in case they never heard of a tazer to knock off the criminal without killing him end of movie as simple as that br br but it when all crazy and stupid including the death of and a few doctor getting burned up pretty badly
0	they give you the set up then bore you to death with a constant cat and mouse chase the main characters are involved in one constant stand off where they threaten each other every five minutes or less and i'd like to see the police force that would let one of their cops pull off the a garcia bit it's like some local cop walking charlie manson out of prison to go get a cup of coffee get real
0	i haven't seen ishtar but i did have the misfortune of seeing kevin costner's postman this is worse maybe the absolute worse piece of garbage i have ever seen and if you look at my review for moulin rouge that is saying something bad plot acting was substandard and even wasted even though yes michael keaton has been in some of the worst movies i have ever seen and this movie has no redeeming value to anybody with more than half a brain do not see if you have graduated the 4th grade as you will find this an insult to your intelligence
0	this plot had more holes in it than an oj simpson alibi br br i noticed two star trek references in the movie and yet br br ironically we have a lead character played by andy garcia br br who is the antithesis of the vulcan philosophy of the br br needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or one br br let's just say that while trying to save his son from cancer he puts most of the rest of san francisco at incredible risk michael keaton's character is almost as br br unrealistic as well he neglects to kill at numerous opportunities and yet is angered when garcia foils his br br attempt to kill a bunch of cops at once the child's doctor remains in charge of her faculties even after been br br held hostage several times in a short expanse of time but br br put her on a wide 5 stories up and she loses it br br andy garcia's child is something of an anathema in this br br movie he is the most sympathetic and real character one of the movie's bright spots he furthermore utters a line that must have been the result of serendipity regarding fighting cancer that parallels keaton's motivation to escape all in all the movie was not a br br complete waste see from dusk to dawn 2 texas blood money br br for that but disappointing considering the talent on hand
0	this movie desperate measures was i'm not quite sure how to even put it into words was this supposed to be a comedy i couldn't stop laughing at how absolutely ridiculous it was i love michael keaton and i cannot actually comprehend that he did this they did a good job at keeping my attention because i couldn't wait to see how much more ridiculous it was going to get minute by minute i actually just registered on this site so that i could get this out i don't review movies i don't have time for this but i cannot let this go knowing i haven't done my civil duty by letting people those who have an iq of 85 and above know that this is no action thriller it is honest to goodness funny you people that actually got thrills off of this scare me go watch a good movie like million dollar baby clint eastwood's acting is not superb but i was balling at the end exercise your brain america
0	exceptionally bad i don't expect much from garcia since he is one of the most overrated actors today but keaton really should have known this movie would suck and gotten out while he could not that i'm especially fond of him but hey he did batman br br in one scene keaton is transported to a hospital chained down and wearing a hannibal lecter kind of face mask when two attack dogs bark at him dogs can sense evil you know puke and keaton growls back at them making them back off and whine with their tails between their legs did the movie turn comedy right there garcia makes a fool out of himself in an interrogation scene with dialogue only a complete retard could find plausible and the kid is too annoying to feel sorry for br br if you are gonna make a movie with as poor a plot as this you need some charm humour some solid action take die hard for example which is great despite its rather crappy plot br br even though character was a joke i routed for him all the way i wanted to see garcia cry over his dead kid and keaton sipping martinis on some paradise island however this movie makes for a good laugh watch it with a witty friend and you can have some fun as this movie begs for wisecracks in almost every scene br br all in all its an insult to one's intelligence and a huge waste of money greed made this movie and thank god it bit its own ass
0	after watching this movie i have nothing but contempt for any of those who were involved in the making of this abysmal film for one as a general comment the storyline was literally unbelievable and filled with incredible clichés all around the same obviously goes for the dialogue which panders to the lowest common denominator and manages to offer absolutely zero unpredictable original lines the acting was terrible as well with kane showing throughout the entire movie at the very most 3 separate and distinct emotions even the use of modern special effects failed as each prop was easily distinguishable from its real life counterpart overall i would not recommend for anyone to even think about viewing this feature as it will most surely waste 83 not even 90 minutes of your life
0	words can scarcely describe this movie loaded with ridiculous stereotypes a silly plot and poor music this movie lacks in just about every category br br don't be fooled by the imdb credits this is not a michael dorn movie he's a secondary character in the grand scheme br br also listed in the credit's is an actor named prince which makes me wonder if it's the same artist formerly known as then again i'm not sure this movie is worth watching just for that br br big summary bunch of teams one has kidneys one has 35 000 one has an illegal substance and one has 350 000 add some confusion and as to who needs to meet who revenge on being taken and such and you end up with this mess of a movie br br given a choice i'd pass on this movie
0	i watched primarily for the presence of michael dorn as i enjoyed his worf portrayal on star trek tng but had never seen him out of his makeup dorn appears to have a nice presence and probably has the potential for a profitable acting career this movie however gave him little dramatic challenge except to prove that he can indeed use the f word br br it appears that this movie was made by someone who fancied himself as a forward thinking type with a social conscience yeah for 1965 today the themes are so belabored and sophomoric and cornball that even spike lee's dreadful bamboozled looks good in comparison br br this crime caper flick has an intricate labrynth of double triple and quadruple crosses but the plot scheme is so convoluted that it collapses upon itself within the first 30 minutes mostly after that point i simply watched out of momentum and a mild curiosity about how each scene would play out there is a great cast here you will recognize virtually everyone as a character actor from much better movies why are they all in this i suspect it was 1 the work and some money even if modest 2 perhaps the director knows all these actors from acting classes and social connections around la you know perhaps they participated to support him as a fellow struggling movie guy on the third and fourth of the hollywood scene dunno but the movie was half baked not really finished i gave it a 3 although my affection for the actors involved was from my admiration of their previous work let's hope everybody has moved on to more professional more carefully done and more thorough projects since
0	i understand the draw and appeal to such a different type of movie and i am a huge admirer of movies with little dialog but all the same this one absolutely terrible i've been to the scottish highlands and found the lack of scottish accents in the characters disappointing this plot was strong enough in theory but the cheap sets and lack of a single realistic character kept this film from getting off the ground i feel the use of silence to create atmosphere only works when you have actors who can exude some sort of presence without speaking and these actors certainly cant if you want a silent movie that captures that presence try le dernier combat there have been very few movies that i couldn't even manage to finish and this was one of them absolute dribble
0	while traveling by train a woman stéphane mistakenly gets out in a remote station when the train stops in the middle of the night sooner she finds that a weird lonely jim van der that does not speak her language is the only person in that area and that that was the last train in that track the man her in his house and they develop an unusual wordless relationship between them br br de is an overrated boredom with a different but uninteresting story that goes nowhere i like movies off hollywood but this story is too absurd and has no message in the end the sexual tension between the two lead characters is funny in a moment but too repetitive i saw this movie in an old vhs and the image is too dark i do not know whether on dvd the image would be of better quality in the end i was absolutely disappointed with this feature my vote is three br br title brazil o homem da the man of the line
0	eh it's not really as good as the other the villains are actually rip offs of other z villains like cell and even majin with baby being clone super 17 being clone and the shadow dragons being clone s the story is also very bad as it deals with goku shrinking shrinking it deals with him shrinking to like the size of an eight year old just to get it going let us not forget how weak the characters become can't go mystic anymore and is even weaker than pan it's sad i know speaking of pan she was so cute at the end of z now she's lost all that cuteness and become an irritating whiny little girl whose sole purpose in this series is to get in the way goten doesn't even have a purpose in the series and trunks well i don't know what to say about trunks gt is just an attempt to milk the popular dragonball franchise if you really like dragonball then avoid this series it doesn't even feel like dragonball i will be fair though as the ending however was really good and is actually pretty sad at least to me and the theme songs both ending and opening are better japanese not american might've been better if san worked on it
0	there are so many logical errors in this show it's barely worth me stating 1 mystic is non existent 2 is as powerful as majin yet plays absolutely no role in the show somehow he is easily overpowered by every bad guy 3 the whole super saiyan 4 idea is retarded and it's appalling that he loses to super 17 which is the worst idea for a db villain ever 4 super saiyan 4 goku is no match for super 17 but non transformed goku using a move he learned in a movie that wasn't supposed to happen kills him with ease 5 is utterly useless 6 no character other than goku has any impact to the outcome of the battles 7 the series ends with a spirit bomb come on 8 goku invincible absorbs lame 9 better yet goten trunks they both suck 10 super saiyan 4 involves a magical transformation into an adult 11 goku is a kid 12 goku is a kid 13 no super saiyan level 2 characterized by electricity 14 no imagination with the animation of 15 utterly useless 16 big bang is the biggest let down in anime history not really logical but i'm going off on a tangent 17 shortest character fights ever br br i could go on longer if i hadn't repressed the majority of memories associated with this show when i make enough money i am going to fund the remaking of this series
0	i bought the dvd of this movie because i am a fan of william devane and i was really disappointed about a christmas visitor the story of the movie is so boring and slow in the development that you just want to turn off your tv or dvd player after about the half of it the dialogues are really bad and belong to a daily soap opera but not in a tv movie william devane was alright in his part and he was acting quite good but he did so much better in other movies and projects meredith baxter was horrible and couldn't really bring the warm hearted mother to the viewers instead she was playing very cool and wasn't better than a middle class actress i absolutely cannot recommend this movie spare your time and your money for this one
0	this film gives a look at the suffering a family experiences at the death of a child and the healing that can finally come to them br br the family learns of the death of their son on christmas eve 1991 ruining the christmas season for them they do not celebrate it again for many years there is an interesting comment by the daughter that will remind viewers to consider the needs of surviving children in such a situation br br the matthew character makes a reference to jesus but i suspect that other comments he makes come from non christian sources i wonder if any other viewers would recognize those comments if so it would be an interesting addition to the data on this movie
0	i felt i had to add a comment after seeing the breathless gushing of the other comment i was taken to see this film as a child by my unknowing parents expecting a normal norman wisdom jolly romp comedy instead what you get is this insipid british sex comedy of the worst kind where norman norman plays a swinger aiming to get off with as many as possible absolutely typical of the genre poorly filmed and acted no semblance of a script beyond the worst kind of double entendre and very vague hints of and all seemingly on that special grainy film stock that is reserved for 1960's 1970's british low budget films about the only memorable thing is the annoyingly catchy theme tune which still pops up in my brain after 30 odd years br br finally in the last scene you also get to see norman naked running across the sand and looking frozen i think so anyway at that point my mother hauled me out of the cinema i saw it again many years later and guess what it was still dire br br if you're any fan or take any interest in the little man and his career you'll apply the '10 foot rule to this believe me you do not need to see norman backside
0	it's a shame that someone so by many kids as well as parents should demean himself in appearing in this exploitative bandwagon jumping tripe i often wonder if mr wisdom in his later years looked back at his excuse for a film with any pride at least sally geeson had the decency to retire to doing something worthwhile after appearing in this low budget rubbish a cameo by some long forgotten pop called the pretty things cannot rescue the film from it's awfulness if you want 60's nostalgia invest in 'here we go round the instead starring barry evans and sally's sister judy instead
0	the first official release of world wrestling entertainment's film division is a pretty basic horror slasher movie called see no evil starring kane one of their big men wrestlers known for having an intimidating presence hard hitting moves and one of the most convoluted backstories in wrestling and let's not pull any punches here while this movie is promoted as the greatest horror movie of all time mostly by wwe it goes without saying that after having seen this movie i can confirm it as one of the greatest comedies of all time br br see no evil sees a bunch of juvenile delinquents sent to a hotel so they can clean up of course a monstrous murderer played by kane also happens to be living in this hotel and we all know where that goes without giving away too much of the movie plot this film has all the semblance and structure of an early 1980s slasher flick with most of the clichés intact but without any of the scares that those films accompany and that's sort of the main problem with see no evil it tries so many of the tricks implied by its predecessors in the genre that it comes off as predictable veteran horror fans will easily recognize some of the gimmicks ahead of time and even those who have only seen a few flicks should tell what happens next it's too generic to be scary br br the movie's gory no doubt but it's only there for the effect the dark atmosphere instilled in the movie gives off that feel of terror initially but as you get towards the end it somehow feels out of place and gets tiresome quickly the death scenes don't come off as gory and horrific as much as they do laughable although some of them are pretty inventive br br and the acting in this movie is pretty bad too as the main characters aren't developed enough for us to care when they eventually do get axed some can't even portray fear properly they just scream and cry in a vain effort to emote so when they die it only adds to the comedy because you don't care enough about them that you simply consider them the equivalent of starfleet to the monster kane br br as for kane he simply portrayed his movie character the same way he portrays his wrestling character only he uses axes and hooks instead of hellfire and brimstone there's no doubt in my mind that kane can be a great fixture in the horror genre he has the look and presence for it he just needs better material specifically a script that isn't written by someone who writes wrestling shows to work with br br now despite what may seem like a harsh review i actually enjoyed the film it's one of those laughably bad movies that you can't help but sit down and enjoy my main gripe with the film again is that it's simply an exercise in filming gory kills and doesn't have any frightening or shock moments i enjoyed it but i enjoyed because it was easy for me to laugh off some of what was supposed to be scary moments in the movie if that happens because it was supposed to be that way the movie would have been rated higher but it didn't it got laughs because it's a b movie and it doesn't help that the director's previous experiences was porn flicks and music videos not exactly things to direct anyway nonetheless i enjoyed it tremendously br br if you don't mind a fun b movie or funny horror film i'd highly recommend see no evil if you are a true enthusiast of the genre i'd wait until the dvd comes out before checking it out everyone else should probably go watch something else
0	as i write this norman wisdom is a very confused old man who spends most of his waking hours cackling and old catch phrases at his increasingly suicidal nurse br br indeed by the time you read this he will probably have joined the hereafter and the obituaries will record a near 80 year career of hysterical mirth making from the lovable with the crooked chequered cap what most of these obituaries won't recall is how norman wisdom had already committed a form of suicide back in the late 1960s with this staggeringly poor yet strangely compelling to his movie career br br the signs are ominous from the off – tony presents go the titles you scratch your head – where have i seen that name before well on the titles of a lot of the cheapest crappiest british films of the 1970s so just take your pick br br then it says – a menahem golan production oh dear br br from what i could make out what follows is a combination of confessions from a holiday camp and last tango in paris sponsored by the tourist board br br norman wisdom is very versatile at being norman wisdom or a variation of such here even in trash like this he's never off form and somehow keeps you watching through parted fingers as he paws and dribbles all over a clearly insane sally geeson tony and menahem golan were between them responsible for some true cinematic horrors but the bedroom scene in filmic atrocity reborn sally plays the role of a sex toy very well by the way br br i wonder if any of the crazy young cats who populate this movie's party scenes maybe thought to themselves in a quiet moment norman sex hippies get me outta this mess i guess it was a payday for them br br a do feel sorry for the pretty things though they probably thought yeah this'll do for us what blow up did for the br br and so old norman's leading man career ended freezing his little balls off in br br i went there once it was a depressing place
0	norman final starring vehicle was a departure from his previous outings – bringing his accident prone milquetoast up to date this being a product of the swinging sixties the end result is an uneasy and occasionally embarrassing comedy which mixes the star's typical slapstick and sentimentality with mild sexuality and even milder satire the plot has to do with an executive on a trip for a banking conference falling for teenager sally geeson who doesn't mind getting involved with him but doesn't take their relationship all that seriously either sarah atkinson appears as friend who warns norman of her fickle character br br the film is nowhere near as bad as leonard maltin's bomb rating would have it and if anything is interesting for its treatment of mid life crisis being in many ways similar to hoffman 1970 and 10 1979 – both of which incidentally i've only just watched towards the end norman even tries to bring his wife round to his new way of thinking the pretty things appear as themselves performing a number of good tunes in a nightclub and norm himself sings the catchy title track
0	well acted yes very well i must say even though i don't speak nice cinematography but the script is lame really lame a predictable soap opera in which you know exactly everything that is going to happen ok maybe the ending isn't as predictable but is it any good it is one of those films that you have the feeling that have seen already and forget about the day after br br i just got a note from imdb saying that my comment was not long enough that's really sad because i have no idea of what else to say about this movie which actually says a a lot about it don't you think the thing is it has no soul and no originality compare this movie with barrio or riff raff shot more than ten years ago or the extraordinary recently shot the child it's sad to see that this is a much worse film
0	czech cinematography is traveling through dark times this movie is a tangible evidence obviously wanted to make a mediocre documentary about fictive people characteristic of their stupidity a young and healthy boy who doesn't want to work and prefer to live in a decaying shack with a feckless alcoholic aunt because of the idiocy of who's just able to announce dad i'll not work in the factory i'd really like to know why i understand the condition of his house but i'm really not able to digest the horrible mess around cramped sentimentality everywhere why didn't monika escort her boy to work abroad young czech couples do it very often and take someone else's children to live in a devastated barn that's too much br br irresponsible mother badly acted by naive stupid boy silly and confused girl monika yes somebody has already told it badly directed and acted soap opera actors like martin tatiana and did their best but unfortunately it couldn't save the whole piece
0	okay so maybe the acting wasn't bad but i am typing this review as a public service to prevent anyone else who happens upon the intriguing beginning of this telefilm from throwing away two hours of their life waiting for some plot development that will never come the chief investigator has a gut feeling who did away with the missing marine officer guy and few people other than uninvolved bystanders and the seem to dispute her so what is the point of staying with this drama beats the heck out of me i kept thinking or hoping there would be some sort of plot twist or new revelation but none was forthcoming in summary i cannot think of a single reason to sit and watch this pointless tv movie based on a true story or not
0	jeff powers lou diamond phillips young guns 1 2 a cop with a history of roughing up criminals is recruited into an elite clandestine lapd division this doesn't sit well with jeff's newspaper reporter girlfriend kelly chelsea field who's looking for a story on the squad soon enough jeff's conscience gets the better of him which puts him at odds with dan vaughn scott glenn the hunt for red october the leader of the unit br br this is a fairly routine dare i say mundane cop action drama that holds no surprises thanks to a cookie cutter plot that's content to go strictly from point a to point b the acting is all right for what the actors were given to work with however that's no real reason to watch the film kinda sad seeing as the six previous mark l lester directed films right before this one from class of 1984 to showdown in little tokyo were all highly entertaining vehicles br br eye candy chelsea field gets briefly topless br br my grade d
0	unlike what one reviewer said this is not a ripoff of magnum force in that one lieutenant hal holbrook put together his own little squad from academy rookies to dispatch repeat offenders in extreme justice this operation has the sanction from the higher ups of the lapd just how far they sanction the exact methods used is open to question br br this special investigations squad seems to be quite the haven for the misfits of the lapd those that have forgotten their first duty is protection and service which is why scott glenn thinks lou diamond phillips a detective with more than his share of beefs with internal affairs for excessive use of force is perfect for the squad br br what should have sent him running from phillips is the fact he's got a nice live in relationship with a reporter chelsea field that one certainly threw me in this film you'd think that lou would be the last guy he'd try to recruit for his team br br and what his team is is a death squad they target perpetrators follow them and wait to catch them in the act then it's open season br br extreme justice went very overboard in trying to make a point there sure would have been no harm in waiting for a gang of bank robbers to finish the robbery and taking them down outside no civilians got hurt when the citizens of did that to the or waiting until three rapists finish the job before moving in that's what were asked to believe here br br and frankly i couldn't buy it a lot of good players get really wasted in this one
0	after consuming human pork chop and properly digesting it i felt urged and obliged to inform potential viewers that chewing on this product is no fun and its substance of low value br br according to the dull nature of this film the following is gonna be a warning more than a review this is the first time i wished that there is an i don't care to rate this movie button on imdb because the only reaction to this boring piece of trash is stasis and indifference every possible rating would do injustice to all the other items listed here a 10 is out of question anyway 1 might persuade some readers that this is one of those cases where it's so bad that it's actually really bad and that's kewl and 5 is unsatisfying as well people might think that it's an ok flick and alright if you wanna have some cheesy fun which it is not honest to god it's neither a 10 a zero nor a 5 it's nothing a black hole a futile work conceived by an embryo i bought the region 3 dvd which was cheap 7 bucks at least and of good picture quality i bought it mainly because of the positive and promising reviews posted below my own entry oh boy was i to be disappointed this movie is neither shocking nor disgusting nor unnerving nor it's not even laughable it doesn't take itself too serious to be laughed at but still serious enough so as not to be comic a truly amateurish effort the only sequence that i found mildly disturbing is when two giggling thugs put an ugly dog in a bag and bash it against a brick wall but even such a cruel premise only lead to a poor execution the further down cited toilet scene is unrealistic and without any sense for suspense suffering or humiliation the feces look like painted marsh mellows there is a butchery scene at the end of a loooong 85 minutes where three men dressed in plastic a setup which one finds also depicted on the front cover of the dvd start to dispose of the female body reminded me of american psycho and shallow grave now these flicks are worth watching and true masterpieces br br let's be realistic for once and not rush to make a myth out of every asian wannabe scary movie as seems to happen lately br br if you are looking out for some eastern horror then try danny lee's masterpiece of the very same english title ba xian fan dian zhi ren cha shao bao human pork chop it's from 1992 and has not without reason i might add been compared to henry portrait of a serial killer there is also a similar film telling the same story by a different film crew called ren dou fu there is a secret in my soup of the same year sort of a rival production it's available as a region 3 dvd and by most regarded as superior to peng shi zhi sang jin tian liang i might add a few more words on the special effects what special effects there are a few chopped off limbs they look awful in a wrong sense probably made in hong kong br br that's about all the info i can share on this subject hopefully it will prove helpful enjoy your meal
0	ordinarily i wouldn't waste the time on reviewing a film like human pork chop the 2001 version not to be confused with the earlier film of the same title which is probably better known in the west as the untold story but since the reviews already here are quite vague as to what it actually consists of i figured i'd best post something more detailed so as no one actually gets tempted as i was into buying it because of the film's mystique i honestly would just say stay away br br major spoilers are contained below br br human pork chop i was expecting to be like a chinese interpretation of the popular japanese guinea pig films anyone who's watched enough of that series can see where its makers are coming from there's a strong sense of humour running throughout it you can't watch the ludicrous he never dies without laughing and the making of guinea pig is a fabulous turning of the whole thing on its head proving it was just made with some glee by fairly good natured gorehounds all the gp films have a punk rock diy shot on video aesthetic occasional flashes of genuine artistry mermaid in a manhole an angry political agenda and a warped deranged zeal that sets them in a league of their own br br human pork chop has none of the above br br it's shot on 35mm film with disarmingly good production values it's 90 gruelling minutes long and it's utterly devoid of anything redeeming the plot tells in flashback at a police interviewing of the suspects of the systematic torture death and eventual dismemberment of grace a heroin addicted streetwalker who is kidnapped and brutalised by her pimp and his henchmen when she steals money from him br br despite its fleeting attempts at being a morality play the film possesses a detached inhumane feel to it and one can't help but dwell on the mindsets of those behind it although it half heartedly paints grace as an innocent victim the mean spirited nature of its screenplay and the protagonist's constant vicious dialogue veers towards a shocking utterly unwelcome she deserves it point of view which makes the whole thing almost impossible to watch far more time is spent detailing grace's degradation and when her captors are eventually deemed guilty and jailed it seems like a hurried afterthought on behalf of the writers who've long since stopped caring less br br what makes it boggling as to why anyone would want to watch such a film is that even the kind of people who do really get off on mindless sex and violence in the movies would be severely missing out the torture is just a continuous stream of slappings verbal abuse psychological abuse and then increasingly bizarre displays of power on behalf of the captors use grace's heroin addiction to make her do their bidding and when i say that don't get me wrong incidentally unlike guinea pig with it's frequent barrage of nudity that gives an almost teenage feel of mock titillation to the proceedings in spite of the ultraviolence human pork chop has no such sexual overtones there isn't any actual nudity in the film and the violence is performed purely out of malice by the odious protagonists who early in the film are seen stuffing a dog into a bag and banging it against a brick wall don't worry not real just a cheap special effect br br the only actual bloodshed in the film is towards the end when they dismember grace's body and boil the bones all very poor special fx nowhere near guinea pig level and by that stage you'll probably be already feeling too miserable and sick to even care what's going on br br the film is depressingly bleak and uncompromising along a similar line to buddy combat shock and i guess could even be compared at a push both movies deal with the gradual physical decline of an individual who exists in a nightmarish environment devoid of any social or morally redeemable characters and both movies in a particularly visceral manner with the individual's inevitable inescapable doom br br in fairness neither it's violence whereas guinea pig could easily be accused of this but one can't help but wonder where the place is for a film like this it fails to many any real points in its frank presentation of such brutality and with a leaden pace a virtually non existent plot line and the aforementioned lack of any entertainment value i just can't understand what would encourage anyone to watch something like this i only made it to the end purely for the purpose of being able to review it fairly which i hope i've now done br br overall score 0 of of 10 welcome to the bottom of the barrel
0	star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br as a boy mark goddard c thomas howell sat powerless as his family including his hero cop father jeff fahey were brutally murdered by vicious criminals he'd tried to bring down with an inner desire to punish wrong doers festering in him as he grew up as a result of this mark employs tough means when bringing the suspects he's chasing down in and gets into a lot of trouble with his superiors because of this but then he learns of a secret group of men and women lead by a mysterious man ed lauter who serve to dish out punishment that fits the crime outside the law but then things get out of hand and getting out alive might be harder than he thought br br the sweeper gets into problems from the off set because we've seen this exact same plot done before and better in films like the star chamber with michael douglas and magnum force with clint eastwood the title doesn't make any sense either but we also have to contend with the movie's utter ludicrousness including a scene where a daughter's manages to drown out the sound of her family being slaughtered a finale involving a chase with a bad guy that starts on the freeway and ends on a wright brothers plane as well as some of the most ridiculous acting ever put on screen and a very clichéd pretentious script but there's some cool action sequences here and there and the movie's unintentional laughs factor certainly keeps it alive with a pulse
0	eight teen convicts are brought to the abandoned blackwell hotel to clean it out as community service they soon discover that it's the residence of a hulking psychopath kane who has a thing for pulling out and collecting eyeballs it doesn't help that the guard watching over them steven has had a previous run in with the beast four years earlier br br a guilty pleasure of mine are slasher films most of them are poorly directed and acted but they still hold some appeal and entertainment value see no evil is a good example of this it features atrocious writing and acting but the death scenes are pretty good and the movie proves to be entertaining the premise sounds like a mixture between friday the 13th saw 2 and halloween resurrection i really liked the idea but it didn't work out too well it was really just a bunch of clichés and everything was predictable screenwriter dan madigan just focused on the death scenes and nothing else apparently the death scenes themselves are pretty good and gruesome director gregory dark did a good job with them and he came up with some creative kills br br the acting is pretty bland and unremarkable this is because all of the characters are one dimensional and we don't know much about them it was hard to feel for these people because they were pretty unlikable kane is surprisingly mediocre i was expecting his on screen presence to be scarier but he didn't do that good of a job a second rate jason voorhees if you will the rest of the actors are relatively unknown and this film will probably neither help nor hurt their careers br br while the death scenes are gory they aren't necessary scary there's really no suspense just some gory death scenes because of this the movie doesn't hold much of a repeat value also if you don't like slasher films then don't waste your time with this one it will do little to change your opinion in the end see no evil is a decent slasher film but it is generic and forgettable so it's not exactly worth watching rating 6 10
0	i got interested in this movie because somebody had made a beautiful video for bachelorette with clips from it so i watched the movie and it is indeed stuningly beautiful a masterpiece of animation br br unfortunately the story doesn't keep up it starts out well with interesting plotlines about people fencing for the possession of the rose bride but suddenly elevators fill up with water and looses their walls people float away and finally for no reason whatsoever is into a car and a chase ensues br br i like much anime for it's ability to make alternative universes but this universe is just stupid if you are gonna watch this movie turn of the sound it's better that way
0	i got interested in this movie because somebody had made a beautiful video for bachelorette with clips from it so i watched the movie and it is indeed stuningly beautiful a masterpiece of animation br br unfortunately the story doesn't keep up it starts out well with interesting plotlines about people fencing for the possession of the rose bride but suddenly elevators fill up with water and looses their walls people float away and finally for no reason whatsoever is into a car and a chase ensues br br i like much anime for it's ability to make alternative universes but this universe is just stupid if you are gonna watch this movie turn of the sound it's better that way
0	this was a first feature for clinton i was there while he shot this mess back in adelaide around 98 br br although i wasn't involved directly in the production i was witness to the typically delusional behavior post set that went down the parties the drugs the illusionary glamor really an example of what not to do when making a film but also a byproduct of young talented people getting caught up in classic ideologies of fame worldly position br br i like clinton we had a curious friendship he deserves to have another crack with a more mature script there the problems lay and i'm sure a much better job will be done if there's a next time round because frankly he certainly didn't do himself any favours with this on his cv and neither did the cast but hey it was a paying job in country where actors regularly starve to death br br in summary fascinating to watch 'the making of' basically not so much fun to experience alas
0	missed it at the cinema but was always slightly compelled found it in the throw out bin at my local video shop for a measly two bucks will i now give it away to anyone who wants it probably no purposeful plot one dimensional characters plastic world ripped off from many far better films no decent dialogue to speak of you know that empty feeling when you come down off ecstasy its that feeling right here sad thing is the australia i know is heading in this direction minus the melodrama and simple answers interesting only to see the older aussie actors who had to act back in their day to get by vs the newer aussie actors who have to look good to get by like some horribly garish narrative introduction to a film clip that never actually starts poor kylie started her career as an actress as well
0	first the recent campaigning of this movie is a huge hoax judging from the cover you'd think this was some kind of scandal movie about kylie playing a character having sex taking drugs and whatever this is just a cheap market scheme she's barely in it and does neither of the things the marketing here is unbelievable and i'm surprised the filmmakers hasn't objected br br the movie itself was to me a huge disappointment it seemed like a sunset beach episode directed sloppy handed by a teenage quentin tarantino and thats not meant as a compliment mind you br br i think the weakness of the movie first of all is the story it seems to be about nothing just about cool teenagers tripping around living 'on the edge' the characters themselves does have some personality though but the movie doesn't use its potential as said there's no story of any substance here it seems to elaborate too much on cool dialog and ends up looking like a colorful mtv ad it definitely has that feeling br br still though i guess some people might enjoy it but i'd say there's far better movies like this around
0	what a nasty cynical film apparently this sad excuse for a dramatic urban look at what 20 year olds do whilst crawling through the gutter of sydney nightlife is supposed to be somehow connecting with its target market made by some industry nobody and pals who seemingly thought they could together any sleazy behavior with a young cast and pour it into multiplexes sample people deservedly failed miserably at the australian box office it is so offensive in its clichéd depictions of obvious and easy targets it was fully rejected by the very audience it was intended shoddy and cruel and with no attempt to offer quality or resonance to the young audience who might have been attracted by the marketing or casting sample people might have been interesting or even informative if not botched by its exploitive view of 'what teens want to see in a movie' the character played by ben is particularly offensive and kylie minogue is again wasted by poor material and untalented film makers it is as if the producers thought teens would watch any ugly trash and just together scenes and characters who were shallow and soul less well the were very wrong a mini budget film made in 1983 called going down got this topic right and is an excellent antidote to this poison
0	there was a lot of hype of this movie and the commercials made it seem like it would be great sadly like bring it on 2 bring it on 3 shamed glory of the original bring it on there is shameless stereotyping throughout the film the lines given to the actors were humiliating for all the races involved in the film the performance of hayden was sub par both in terms of acting and cheerleading there were several scenes in which i literally cringed because i was embarrassed for the cast because the scene lines plot etc were just so stupid my recommendation to the makers of any future bring it on films is that you should hire good cheerleaders and teach them to act because the acting of the cast was horrendous and their lack of cheerleading ability made them completely useless to the film only great character
0	seriously i couldn't find anything that constituted a rational human thought in this movie for some reason the writer decided to have a bunch of actors in random places grunting and yelling like cro magnon bipeds i understand that this was about gymnastics but seriously what's with all the roaring and human bleating i also saw at least five actors with overactive syndrome and stage 10 syphilis br br although this movie has actual human acrobatics i must say it is surprising that you can make a movie like this without having any intelligible form of human speech patterns this is truly a milestone in the history of film making because there was no conscious decision to make the characters express anything more than a timely or sound br br incredible
0	without a doubt one of the most racially prejudiced films i've ever seen with the prejudice being levelled against hayden panettiere as she has to move into a tough inner city school she is constantly called white girl and other slurs based on her colour firstly would this be allowed the other way around if a black girl was the butt of all the abuse and secondly the stereotyping of the ethnic kids from the inner city school is also a disgrace the writers apparent desire to show they were hip also extended to missing the point that the inner city school win the cheerleading competition not through talent but by intimidating their white opponents these overtones to the film took it away from it's expected direction of a harmless lighthearted comedy suitable for a family audience into a vehicle that does none of the participants any credit hayden panettiere has star quality but i would be surprised if any of the rest of the class ever get much further all in all a charmless film that was a waste of time
0	this was terrible mean spirited and full of the worst clichés and racial stereotypes i've seen in a looong time seeing hayden p trying to act ghetto was painful hi one pant leg up on yer sweats and some braids make you down with the homies solange knowles pretty much grimaces through the entire movie most of the set sequences look like they were filmed in cardboard boxes what was up with the finale and poor rihanna was just plain exploited to get people to watch her act which she can't br br put simply this film even deserve one star please put this tired franchise to rest or at least make the next one bring it on iv cheerleaders vs freddy jason
0	all right let's be realistic about this nobody goes into a movie produced by wwe films whose owner has challenged god to a wrestling match directed by a former porn director the man gave the world the between the cheeks trilogy starring a wrestler named kane and expects a little slice of art on a golden platter if you do then you probably need to find something other than watching movies to occupy your time br br so what exactly are we to expect from a movie like this well here's what i was looking forward to br br 1 bad acting 2 a fairly non existent clichéd storyline 3 kane walking around with a sour face that indicates his nostrils just found the potato salad he misplaced a month ago 4 tons and tons of gore br br well if you're hungry for some so bad it's funny entertainment then this might satisfy your appetite because it delivers on all counts br br obviously movies like this are best seen for free but if you do choose to sacrifice box office bucks then have some fun and make a game out of it the filmmakers are nice enough to introduce us to each of the annoying delinquents by flashing their names and legal offenses on the screen this makes it easier for you to write down which ones you want to see killed and in what order you and your friends can see whose predictions are most accurate br br i also suggest that you and your pals write down every single moment of stupidity and inanity that you can find tally them up at the end and see who comes up with the most i think my grand total was 107 can you beat that i personally want to know how after 35 years and a fire does this abandoned hotel still have electricity running water and a working elevator br br i know i know the filmmakers are assuming that if you pay to see this then you obviously don't put much thought into what you spend your money on and therefore likely won't put much thought into how silly the movie is but that doesn't mean we can't point it out and laugh at it br br i also like how the city wants to turn this huge hotel which would be condemned and recommended for demolition by any sensible inspector into a homeless shelter and they think the best way to get it cleaned up is to give eight punks a few mops and brooms uh huh br br i think you pretty much know what to expect but i feel the need to provide you with a couple of warnings first if you hate crowd interaction no matter the movie then you might want to stay away the people in the audience acted like they were at an actual wrestling show shouts of kill him kane and i hope you die first and chokeslam echoed through the theater showcasing what i hope is not the best of what america has to offer i usually don't appreciate such audience interaction but for a like this i thought the commentary added to the entertainment value however i can see how others could be annoyed by it br br second and this shouldn't even warrant explanation the film doesn't shy away from the gore if watching a big ugly dude rip eyeballs right out of their sockets doesn't scream fun night at the movies for ya then you know good and well to save your dough br br i must say that i was a little surprised by the extreme lack of dialogue on kane's part i wasn't expecting him to put on an acting clinic but i was hoping he'd have some cute little catchphrase like say goodnight his character's last name is goodnight right before he killed a victim instead he uttered four words in the entire film nooooooo and i see it but hey he delivered them flawlessly br br if i were a bad guy in a movie then my catchphrase would be something like place your betts or all betts are off br br it'd rule and you know it we need a new genre term for bad horror films like see no evil that induce so much unintentional laughter that you almost have to label them comedic feel free to send me your suggestions for now we'll just call 'em
0	the first two bring it on movies were both quite good in their own ways the first was fairly serious the second was successfully satirical and the third opted for the usual idiotic low brow comedy that we always see in the utterly brainless teen movies that hollywood has coming out of the woodwork the entire point in this movie was that cheerleaders are total airheads who hardly know enough to carry on a common conversation and that's the extent of this movie's comedy ha ha not br br there is no shred of cleverness in this movie no theme no subtext nothing for anybody with half a brain to be entertained by and sure enough i could not sit through all of it if you're the sort of person who're entertained by fart jokes this movie is for you congratulations br br 2 out of 10
0	stars hayden br br there have been so many movies that have this exact same plot and this one is just a poor rehashing of it white girl moves to ethnic school doesn't fit in soon becomes accepted originality is nonexistent in this and neither are the laughs it uses so many old poorly executed jokes it's annoying i don't know why they think it's a good idea to make made for video sequels to mediocre films but it isn't with that said the positives in this are that all the people in it are fairly competent actors and actresses br br my rating out of pg 13 for language and sexual humor
0	the strawberry blond has a great script but i just wish errol flynn was in it instead of james cagney he's not the person for the part i do think olivia did a great job this movie is also a day dream wrap around so it's hard to follow i don't like the male character attitude the way cagney presented it was just off i give it a 3 for poor acting by main male character if you like tough ruff men that like to fight all the time and argue then this is your movie the strawberry blond would have been better if the main character had more of a attitude and change the script so he is happy he's with oliva br br this movie points out money does not bring happiness women right jokes plain and simple not the best movie but every one must decide for themselves
0	from all the rave reviews we couldn't wait to see this show we love wacky humor and creative material especially from australia and new zealand br br i admit this may not be a fair review since we only saw the first 15 minutes but we just couldn't bear any more misery it was definitely the most boring and painful 15 minutes we've ever experienced watching a tv show it felt like 15 hours the songs may be mildly interesting by themselves but inserted for an interminable 3 minutes each in the middle of a story scene just doesn't work br br we're trying hard now to erase the memory if you want some wonderful down under humor in a delightful and engaging film see the dish instead
0	this show is perhaps one of the most boring most unfunny shows i've ever seen while the humour was subtle and i'm all for the subtle humour the jokes just weren't funny br br the show is about two in their mid thirties living in new york trying to start their music careers br br i saw the one episode where brett leaves the other kiwi behind during a mugging okay the plot idea has potential but i got the feeling that half the episode was just filler and the other half was actually important to the story br br what i mean is they kept on explaining how the one who was left behind felt betrayed and had a lot of mistrust for the other guy i've got one piece of advice for the writers mention it once for the idiots who can't figure it out by the way he's acting and move on br br and i found the characters were annoying the character who left the other behind brett came across as being overly innocent and naive the one left behind walked around talking in this monotone and robotic voice br br a third character who was the band manager was obviously incompetent but he was the one character that i liked he's also the one that earned the show a one star rating br br all in all a show i have no intention of ever watching again
0	br br i tuned into this movie not because i am a fan of u s high school basketball in fact i only rarely watch nba games but rather because i am a fan of gene hackman who usually manages to bring an impressive depth to his performances in this case however i was sorely disappointed this was not one of the bright shining stars of hackman's career br br in fairness to him he didn't have a lot to work with as norman dale the new coach of a small town high school basketball team in indiana he wasn't called on to do much acting basically his performance consisted of pacing up and down basketball sidelines ranting at the referees i didn't find him particularly believable in the role to be honest i also was unimpressed with the requisite romance between dale and myra barbara hershey quite honestly there was absolutely no chemistry between hackman and hershey the romance never captured my attention and neither did the basketball action which was altogether too predictable br br there were far too many problems with this movie to make it worthwhile i never did understand the depth of the sheer hatred that so many of the townsfolk had for dale almost from before the time he arrived the character development was poor and the story itself was poorly developed too much basketball and not enough human interaction in my opinion how many shots of kids shooting baskets do we need to see to get the point that this is a basketball movie there was no suspense is it even possible to doubt that hickory is going to win the big one i realize that this is based on a true story but i guess it proves that not every true story should be a movie quite frankly it just wasn't a very interesting movie definitely a movie gene hackman would like to forget br br no better than a 2 10 in my opinion
0	a poor basketball movie a gruff coach with a dubious background comes to a small indiana high school basketball team in the 1950's and coaches the boys to victory by breaking them down first and then building them up br br not a bad subject photography ok but the plot is totally predictable no real sub plots nothing added to make the movie exciting you know what is going to happen from the very beginning suitable for 4th graders
0	a coach who used to be good but has had to move to a new area to get away from what he once did a team of no hopers the star player who has a row with the coach the assistant coach with an alcohol problem the little guy who gets kicked around scoring the winning basket the whole town against the coach all except for the leading lady it's the old story right out of the british comic books where a team of geeks and take on the brazilians at soccer and win br br this film admittedly well put together is full of these clichés the only part i didn't predict was when at the town meeting the star player suddenly decided to side with the coach no reason was ever given it seemed like a very strange thing to do seeing that everything was going his way hitherto maybe he just felt sorry for the poor guy br br gene hackman plays a locker room doyle i am sure that an actor of dennis hopper's calibre found nothing particularly challenging about his role the same can be said about barbara hershey br br all in all a film full of clichés that might have been done a lot better than it was
0	if anyone thinks this is a great sports movie it is probably the only sports movie they have ever seen there are different aspects a sports movie can take whether it be professional or college or high school examples of sports movies i liked and i haven't seen many are jim all american all the right moves any given sunday eight men out and rocky among others all of those movies had a little more than just plain sports whether it was a mans ascent and then descent from greatness or a man losing out on a dream by the actions of a vindictive coach or the effect of money on professional sports in hoosiers there is not much content it didn't even seem as though the movie had a beginning or an end there was no character development all of them were forced on us i could sum up this movie by quoting a very bad coach go out and try to score more points than the other guy
0	being an american service member please believe me when i say that this movie in no way accurately portrays the emotional state of our soldiers sailors airmen marines returning from deployments br br that being said br br this movie is one large steaming pile of cliché the acting as awful with the exception of the little girl the character's backgrounds are weak and laughable and plot is ludicrous br br this movie is so bad i made an account with imdb just to warn anyone with half a brain away from it br br canadian writer director francesco should be really really really ashamed of this movie if he disagrees with us foreign policy he should write a letter to the us government not punish the entire english speaking world with a monumentally crap film
0	ho humm more of nothing if you are a long time rush fan you know what this video contains loathsome songs from the past the big 3 hits from the 80's and their last ditch efforts to remain contemporary they do succeed in making fun of themselves by beating the critics to the punch by portraying themselves as dinosaurs unfortunately they fail at protecting themselves from embarrassment close ups of their faces only add to the fact that these guys have been br br if you are have been following as much as you can stomach the band for a couple of decades from the 70's then you know there is no new material here same old same old 1 neil avoids the press 2 no real behind the scenes geddy looses his shoes give me a break even he thinks it's absurd 3 no new insights br br a better video would have been to show the crew setting up for 3 or 4 hours – just let the camera run and stop changing camera angles every 2 seconds i understand the director wants to try to do something artsy but then offer a full concert version of 2 or 3 shots the viewer can choose we know what the band looks like – let us see what we really want to see br br do yourself a big favor rent this movie first
0	this film features two of my favorite guilty pleasures sure the effects are laughable the story confused but just watching hasselhoff in his knight rider days is always fun i especially like the old hotel they used to shoot this in it added to what little suspense was mustered give it a 3
0	is one of the worst movies i ever seen most of the time this is fine and i can go on with my life but i feel the need to warn others in this case as a veteran of the iraq war i feel it necessary to say that the story plot acting and depiction of what soldiers go through upon returning home was pure garbage it was as if the director writer whoever latched on to whatever cliché about returning soldiers and ran with it and ran with it and ran with it not to mention i would imagine there was absolutely no research put into this film the marine uniform looked like it was fresh off a surplus store shelf and was a pattern not used since the first iraq war i won't go on forever this is a horrible movie if you are interested in the stories of returning soldiers there are much better alternatives i recommend going to your local library
0	last night i attended a screening of with my cousin we were kind of excited to learn once we got there that the director writer the producer his wife and several cast members were also in attendance and that there would be a discussion and q a after the movie but once the movie was over and the credits started rolling and the film really was not edited well enough and is too long my cousin and i without consulting each other immediately got up and left we found out once we started talking outside that we were both feeling so angry that not only did we not want to stay for the discussion we couldn't even look at the cast and crew who had been standing near the exit and who we walked right by as we left br br i have figured out that the roots of my anger were planted during the scene in which jerry slices his daughter palm with a big knife so that her blood could be used to leave a fake trail it was unavoidable to connect in my mind the physical pain he inflicted on her body with the emotional pain he inflicted on her spirit by murdering her mother and two brothers in her presence sparing her and taking her with him when he fled i've sliced my palm before accidentally even a fairly superficial cut is incredibly painful because the palm is so sensitive and it is very slow to heal if you don't keep it immobile because you just keep opening it up trying to go about your life but after a very short time with only a narrow strip of cloth tied clumsily around her palm and one scene with a big band aid it was as if she'd never been cut my anger reached its peak i won't spoil this moment for you in final scene br br i got angry because celina is by far the most sympathetic character in the film the actress portraying her is a good one i you can't tell me a good screenwriter wouldn't know in feeling both her physical and emotional pain and the screenwriter by treating emotional pain so and with such disrespect also treated me the audience member and with utter disrespect br br sure the script has moments of tears for celina and some dialogue that tells us she's hurting somewhere somehow but by this time we the audience are feeling so manipulated that we've shut down the manipulation starts very early on in this movie when jerry's family's dialogue spells out for the audience that jerry had psychiatric problems rule one screenwriters give your audience some credit let them do a good bit of the creative work on their own tell the story don't explain to us everything we're supposed to think and feel we don't like it br br my cousin also knew she was having trouble with the movie early on dialogue wise when jerry and his wife had little to say to each other besides f this f that f you some couples do indeed find themselves in relationships so bad that the f bomb ends up being every other word out of their mouths but it's like watching comedians who curse a lot some of them are really funny the cursing is ancillary but some of them substitute cursing for humor and this screenwriter to carry the metaphor to its conclusion is no chris rock br br this husband and wife team bravely chose to tackle an awfully complex story with awfully complex characters but they seem not to have realized that the meaning of a story especially a complex one will vary for each member of the audience successful storytelling requires paying attention to important factual details not working desperately to interpret the meaning of the story for the whole audience br br i worked with vietnam veterans for five years i've heard more stories than most and i'm always happy to see films released that bring their stories to a broader audience it's important on all kinds of different levels that we hear them but i am less than thrilled that this storyteller decided before the film even began what jerry's story meant and proceeded to spell it out for us with a very heavy hand next time pay more attention to the details
0	i'm assuming the filmmakers heart was in the right place but frankly this movie is truly unconscionable i was offended by the tone and the total cop out ending you cannot take issues like this so lightly without knowing the final caveat of the movie we watch as a guy guns down his 9 month pregnant wife and two sons and are supposed to follow him for the next 2 hours as he tries to establish a new life you cannot have sympathy for a character who does this cannot not to mention we're given nothing until the last say 1 2 hour of this unnecessarily long movie as to why this guy is suffering so much no flashbacks no sudden reactions to noise or movement stuff that real vets are suffering from all we know is he has a pain in the ass wife and can't financially take care of her and his 3 kids there really didn't seem to be any research whatsoever into what current iraq vets are going through br br additionally the movie suffers tremendously from a heavy handed and totally inappropriate score its a catastrophe it is truly harmful to some actually good acting on the part of the male lead and at times joe morton it foreshadows everything you're supposed to feel and sometimes gives you the wrong clues entirely again this was a brutal thing this guy did and so seeing him get a new job meet a new blonde struggle behind the counter making toast is not appropriate and really the ending what a freakin cop out how dare you br br there are far richer films dealing with the affects of war on returning soldiers please don't bother with this one
0	hi guys this is my first review and i would had to have picked the worst movie to review as i only watched 5 minutes of it but trust me you could see this movie was going nowhere the acting was deplorable the camera work and lighting looked as though it was shot and run by a pack of 10 year old's no offence to 10 year olds i just couldn't take anymore i got off my couch took the the house of adam dvd out of the dvd player and threw it in the garbage maybe if you are a colin farrell fan this movie may interest you because the character in the movie anthony is a colin farrell look a like but that is as far as it goes he certainly will never have acting abilities i gave this movie a rating of 1 awful only because there were no minuses in the drop down list cheers
0	first and foremost i am a gay man although do not live my life within the so called community and it's because of films like this that gay themed movies are not my favorite genre because 90 of them are crap like this one f i could give this a zero i would i do not understand all the positive comments unless they were all made by people who made this film i actually stopped this at the 24 minute mark when the so called straight anthony kissed adam outside the restaurant for no reason at all and how is the son stealing from the diner if he doesn't even live in the town wire transfers the acting was horrendous the sound editing listen to anthony and adam when they are sitting on the fence eating their lunch every time the camera switched between the two so called actors the sound changes like there was not a filter on the microphone seriously do not rent or god forbid buy this movie horrible horrible horrible acting and just a stupid storyline
0	notwithstanding that the house of adam is meant to be a mainstream gay movie that anthony john shaw who is gay curious and a major cutie hunk and adam jared who is openly gay and a close second in looks that there is a whole minute of wonderful convincing and naked lovemaking sorry no frontal between anthony and adam 41 minutes into the movie that alone may be sufficient for many of us notwithstanding all that to which i give a thumbs up the house of adam is a horrible movie by most any other movie making standard a big thumbs down br br shaw's and acting abilities are either sophomoric or else truly suffer from the bad script direction and editing or rather the lack thereof their lovemaking scene is nevertheless convincing and may have more to do with their really being into each other considering the rest of their scripting and acting br br writer director jorge bonus feature self congratulation as to his movie making skills is off the wall br br so the script and lack thereof is a thumbs down overall the acting is thumbs down with just the slightest exception for shaw and alexis as nina might have been the best except for the limitations expressed above far and away the absolute worst and insufferable acting was by thomas michael as albert ross anthony's father having not even of elementary school acting quality he truly represents a colossal casting failure br br the actors playing the new cabin owners are worthy of truly bad acting nominations as well br br if only the production editing and post production were as good as the trailer this movie would have been quite something else the trailer presents well put together clips of scenes that drew me into renting the movie in the first place that and the hope that this gay centered movie was supposedly prominently played and touted at gay film festivals br br overall the movie is a big thumbs down br br is it worth buying renting and watching it only if you have an irresistible yen to see the naked love making scene and a few minutes of semi convincing dialogue between anthony and adam or if you truly just enjoy watching bad movies
0	corridors of blood br br aspect ratio 1 66 1 br br sound format mono br br black and white br br london 1840 whilst attempting to formulate an anaesthetic solution a dedicated surgeon boris karloff becomes addicted to narcotics and is blackmailed by local bodysnatchers br br riding the coat tails of a gothic revival by the recent success of hammer's the curse of frankenstein 1957 robert day's corridors of blood is an odd mixture of historical drama and grand guignol theatrics producer richard gordon lured karloff away from hollywood where his movie career had become stalled in a b movie rut voodoo island frankenstein 1970 etc for a couple of lurid shockers in which good men are thwarted by circumstances beyond their control in grip of the strangler 1958 he played a novelist who stumbles onto a horrific secret whilst researching a series of murders from recent history while in corridors of blood he's a drug addicted surgeon who falls prey to a gang of criminals masterminded by east end pub landlord francis de wolff less a horror film than a melodrama with ghoulish trimmings the movie hedges its commercial bets by including a number of gory thrills a leg sliced open a face destroyed by acid etc but the narrative is motivated chiefly by karloff's altruistic pursuit of an anaesthetic formula that will alleviate the terrible suffering of patients during surgery br br produced under the title 'the doctor from seven the finished movie went unreleased until 1962 due to indifference by distributors mgm by which time co star christopher lee had earned a prominent screen credit despite playing a small but significant role as a sinister cockney thug who murders carefully selected patrons of de wolff's squalid pub and sells the remains to local doctors lee filmed this glorified cameo before the curse of frankenstein catapulted him to international stardom which accounts for his limited screen time though his intense performance is one of the film's highlights adrienne corri vampire circus distinguishes herself as de wolff's partner in crime and there's a feast of familiar faces in supporting roles including francis matthews dracula prince of darkness betta st john the city of the dead finlay currie and nigel green superb art direction by anthony masters and cinematography geoffrey faithful
0	simply put i was amazingly disappointed i'm a huge fan of asian horror and i can watch unoriginality i myself enjoyed the red shoes and phone but this was just poor br br the movie has a lot of elements that are very high quality the photography is eye catching the visuals are cool the directing is inspired the acting is pretty good the music is easy on the ears and the cgi is incredible but since this is a horror film we are expected to be scared which just won't happen with this film as with most south korean horrors this is unoriginal almost from beginning to end there's the trademark long haired vengeful female ghost ominous of thick black hair and puddles of water and near the end a twist that almost but not quite makes sense out of the whole thing the twist is easily one of the best qualities and to the viewer's irritation when the film isn't recycling at times so exact that it could easily be dubbed plagiarized imagery from other movies it's making you jump a lot and by jumps i don't mean things jumping out or anything just very loud noises and screeches in the soundtrack used to make the audience jump six feet in the air there's even a few made you jump moments that are simply infuriating and when it is not ripping off other movies it's boring and hard to sit through br br and it's a shame because could have easily been really good and it has everything to make it good but its the annoying overuse of completely predictable loud noises and jump scares that eventually ruin the movie a perfect example of how good it could have been there's a moment when one of out characters is looking at a corpse and without a sound the corpse looks back it's wholly predictable but the use of silence in that scene is brilliant and unfortunately that's as scary as the movie got for me br br admittedly has a few good features and even a couple jumps that aren't as predictable and do work there's a very good and sad back story used to explain the events and the twist is pretty unpredictable those are the only things that separate the film from any other asian ghost horror film but the problem with these is even though they do work they have been used before j horror fans will easily realize the big reveal was inspired by a tale of two sisters and it takes the back story a good fifty minutes to get going br br so in the end really seems like a truly wasted opportunity tae kyeong kim hoped that the plot twist and other good features act as diversions so the audience won't notice the huge flaws but he failed and well we noticed everything br br my rating 4 10
0	this movie starts out with this creepy song that gave me some chills like the song used in nightmare on it immediately sets the mood the sequence that follows also shows what to expect we are made aware that a ghost is present the mystery concerning this ghost is what keeps this movie together but the structure of the plot is so complex that it is difficult to make sense of it the ideas behind the plot are quite interesting only the way it is told to us is far too abstract i understand that the director believed that he had to maintain the mystery as long as possible the problem is that when certain matters get revealed you never get a satisfying explanation the motives of the important characters are left out and some questions raised in the movie don't get answered at all since we don't learn enough about the characters it becomes hard to care for them and as a consequence you will loose interest only some scares and a twist save this movie from becoming a total failure the twist is interesting but no real shocker the experienced viewer will see it coming some reviewers complain that this movie is too much like ringu and is not original at all well it is true that some of the effects and scares are borrowed from that movie but there is a main difference the suspense in ringu mainly was based on this one twist where the viewer finds out how the characters get killed in the ringu like twist is used as a creepy effect to accompany another crazy twist heavily depends on a complex structured plot and twist that doesn't contain enough scares to hold your interest simply put this isn't a scary movie
0	to call a film boring is not something i would usually count as a valid criticism however when a film is crassly made of spare parts from other films that weren't that good to begin with and it is slow as molasses with no real payoff i think it's fair to call a spade a spade and the ghost is a very boring film br br a movie that is about as original as its' name the ghost tells the story of a young girl with amnesia being haunted by a ghost that holds the secret to her past only it's a whole lot more complicated and less interesting than one would think br br the plot line is almost incomprehensible for most of the picture and the hook the amnesia element only makes things worse it seems that no one including the screenwriter and director have any clue what the hell is happening at any given moment instead they chose to do what roughly amounts to the filmic equivalent of a sitcom clip show there are scenes taken directly from ringu dark water shutter the grudge series and a smattering of pulse for good measure making matters worse the half dozen female leads all dress and read their lines alike making them impossible to tell apart br br there is just nothing to grasp onto with this film the story isn't all that well thought out the amnesia gimmick is lazy the mystery element is un involving and handled with little grace the characters never deduce anything all the information is just handed out through the lead remembering her past whenever it is convenient for the plot br br the cinematography full of reflections and shots of water at least attempts to add to the subtext a thematic link with the amnesia and the final twist which i won't reveal is nice but often overwrought even the score feels borrowed and cliché br br worst of all the inciting action for the curse isn't very interesting and the final twist is predictable and lame wait you mean that one character who has 15 minutes of screen time but appeared to have nothing to do with the plot comes back in the end no audiences are too savvy for this kind of tripe anyone who has seen any of the films that this rips off will find very little to even keep them awake with this feature i used to think shimizu was the bottom of the barrel for this kind of crap remaking his grudge film no less than 5 times but even his second rate work like reincarnation a film i couldn't even bring my self to finish is miles ahead of this br br for more reviews please visit www com
0	in comparison to other sand and sandal fare the egyptian leaves much to be desired the film is very loosely based upon well researched novel which centers around the egyptian physician adventures at the court of as well as his travels throughout minoan crete and africa unfortunately due to the moral strictures of the time much of story which is rife with romantic and sexual exploits remains on the cutting room floor and instead the audience is treated to reels and reels of victor mature's wooden acting even gene tierney – a leading lady staple of the time – can not manage to look nor act her best in this flick and gives a rather somnambulistic performance which can only be justified by the fact that the actress was having some serious psychiatric problems at the time there is a great deal of rhetoric and theological machinations over the idea of monotheism vs but michael wilding is so tiring as the revolutionary that one is surely cheering for someone to off him and restore the old religion before the second reel my advice buy the book from e bay rent something more entertaining like solomon and sheba and then call it a night
0	the authors know nothing about russians prisons the movie is absolutely cockamamie has nothing common with the reality they also don't that the foreign prisoners in russia have a special prison so the foreigners never live together with russian criminals the uniforms in this movie look if they were stolen somewhere in latin america prisoners in russia also don't work outside the prison each kill in russian prison is a subject of investigation so the prisoners kill each other only if there some very important reasons playing soccer is also forbidden in the prisons contacts between the prisoners are very restricted no chance for bloody combats etc etc etc so this movie has nothing common with the reality
0	two things are changed from then first of all i am not a kid anymore and second most of new seagal movies are just terrible this is on my opinion the worst movie ever made with derailed starred by jean claude van damme there is no plot in this movie the plot is just an excuse to shoot some terrible action scenes which are painful to watch i love action movies but this is not an action movie this isn't a movie this is a group of irritating scenes which are connected in annoying way to kill the viewers love for the action movies i am sorry but i don't have any respect for anyone who liked this movie he has a serious intelligence problem then i hope that seagal will make some new good movies in the future good luck for him
0	why on earth does five us keep repeating this one the title actually says it all the plot is as clear as a book read in a language you never heard of and that resembles to nothing br br you'll see ninety minutes of changing locations most of them will be blown up later on in the movie right in the beginning you see a nice little farm typical for the berry which is in the movie moved close to paris but then it does not survive the transport to the isle de france very well it explodes 1 minute later there are also two gangster who have no tongues as if that would make sense in the world of and internet let alone pencil and paper br br it just goes on like that nothing makes sense in this story my only credit goes to the cameraman the camera is excellent
0	i believe to be the best piece of work that has come out of the steven seagal factory in a long time this movie was the first one i have seen since that fine film preview my point he is done every movie is the same maybe he will be good in machete because he won't be the star we can only hope br br p s thanks for speaking to ucsb when i went to college it was an amazing speech you really influenced some people out there br br so i have to write ten lines about this movie umm i like the smoker guy who killed a bunch of fools whenever anyone smells look out because there could be a killer with a silenced glock and another loud one who wants to kill you br br is that ten
0	the foreigner is a tale of foreign intrigue with seagal at the center as a deep cover operative who has a package which everyone wants and are willing to kill to get the flick is uninspired with less of the usual action stuff which put seagal on the movie map fire fights hand to hand combat pyrotechnics stunts etc and more of a story which is convoluted uninteresting and full of meaningless filler what action there is seems token and gratuitous while seagal looking more and more like a pork chop meanders through this insipid flick expressionless and bored while manifesting no improvement in acting ability somewhere around the glimmer man or fire down below seagal flicks took a nose dive and the foreigner is just an continuation of that trend nothing here worth watching except for the most die hard seagal fans c
0	sigh what can i say br br why does a horrible script such as this gets approved in the first place its not wrong to have a complicated plot but its not explained to the audience properly br br to have the wife explain the plot via flashbacks is bad bad bad to have such a tight editing for the fight scenes is bad too such fanciful editing only appears in trailers it cheapens the whole look br br and who are the russian guys at the top of the movie who is the guy being tortured is he with the cia br br this film deserved not to be released in theatre but it doesn't deserve to be produced in the first place its a joke to hollywood
0	mr seagal has apparantly lowered his already low standards even more and has now outdone himself in making bad movies the foreigner has no substance what so ever in the script it's director has made an even worse job and the music and score is so cheezy and malplaced that you just don't know whether to laugh or cry already 10 minutes into the movie you just want to turn it off however considering steven seagal's past movies you think 'hey there might be some cool action sequences at least worth watching ' you are wrong it only gets worse as the movie progresses everyone with a few exceptions seem to kill every person that they talk to good or bad innocent or not the only good thing with the movie is that it that it has an end and that it has a rather short running time summing the movie up in two words stay away
0	i think this movie was made backwards first they shoot a whole lot of scenes and action and explosions and then the story writers got to work trying to find a story to tie all scenes up together this movie is without any doubt the worst movie i have ever seen your average porn movie comes with a much better written and much more coherent script the movie makes no sense seriously even if you are a segal fan there's no reason you should ever want to see this movie except if you're one of those folks that like to stare at accidents because this is a horrible accident and should never have been released upon this world br br boran
0	lord have mercy why was this film made why did seagal and rising star max ryan agree to be in it the foreigner is so excruciatingly bad in every conceivable way that it boggles the mind br br the film has an ultra cheap look to it like a budget of a couple of bucks was far out of their reach what's worse is that the makers know this and try to make it look slick to compensate the result is a film that just don't look right the fight scenes are so dull and edited to hide the fact that steven seagal is not in good shape anymore none of them are engaging or exciting the plot is nonsense that doesn't interest in the slightest way or have any uniqueness to it the eastern europe locations a sly move by the producers to keep the budget down or non existent look unpleasant and should not be serving as the backdrop for an 'action' film what action br br and what is the deal with the title as far as i could tell everyone in the movie was foreign which one does the title refer to br br the dvd is in 1 85 1 anamorphic widescreen and in dolby 5 1 sound neither are remarkable enough to warrant even a single rent the foreigner is not worth one second of your time gotta love that tagline tho 'if they think they can stop him they're dead wrong ' sheesh
0	this movie simply does not work the action scenes were shot to look stylish but just come out looking sloppy seagal barely fights and a lot of his scenes are shot from the back if you look in some of the scenes it is not even him but a 100 lb lighter stunt double the movie is just all around bad
0	i am surprised that so many comments about this film are positive having read the book several times and all the other historical novels by there is no way to say much good in this film if i forget the origins of the story i might consider it a reasonably good epic of course to bring such a brick of a book to the big screen is a task not to be envied but it could be done with class i can't understand why even the name of had to be shortened to just i love peter ustinov as and marlon brando probably would have made a better but the overall attitude is too hollywood to ever make justice to the book mind you left the premier of this film in the middle of the showing that's how much he liked it
0	three words what a pile two words don't bother one word sucked there are zero reasons to see this movie even those seagal groupies should shy away from this movie the martial arts the typical aikido are horrible the martial arts moves themselves are fine but the cinematography is pathetic the movie actually goes into slow motion whenever seagal give his kill move to his victims worse yet is shows the same move three times in rapid succession from three slightly different angles how stupid seagal's acting was plain stupid but i still give this movie a 6 for acting because of the supporting cast whose villain roles were actually quite entertaining br br the plot is just dumb seagal plays a federal express agent with a license to kill his character also has that dedicated work ethic which means all of his packages get delivered to the correct people on time at no extra charge and nothing stands in his way not assassins political leaders explosions or even death br br i expect a certain level of violence in a martial arts film but there are several scenes in this movie of random and horrible acts of violence that lend itself in no way to the advancement of the movie or its story there is a reason this movie went directly to video and there are tons of reasons to avoid it no one should bother with this tripe br br
0	there are films that are not released in theaters but on video this one should be allowed to age and disintegrate the way old nitrate film stock does no story inept violence over acted badly written and the sorry thing is that the star was not the only bad part in the film and i did like and enjoyed some of siegel's other movies
0	seagal needs to get back to basics breaking bones and kicking butt no more of this slow motion crap like foreigner and in the shadows fighting like half past dead exit wounds showed more of his fighting skills with some wires which was ok but then he went back to b movie directors
0	i am a fan of his this movie sucked really bad even worse than ticker that movie was bad it was kind of like they popped it out in a week looked to be very low budget only like 3 or 4 buildings used a couple of locations maybe poor everything it just blew
0	i usually really enjoy steven seagal movies they are usually highly entertaining and being somewhat of an adept of aikido i usually like the way steven incorporates these martial art techniques in the fight sequences br br however this film is a really bad movie making effort and it seems obvious to me that the blame lies with the director and the producers who obviously have no idea how to make an action movie let alone direct someone like steven seagal and to take advantage of his knowledge and competence br br i never saw the end of this movie i walked out before the end simply because i couldn't stand watching anymore of this bad movie i am sure that many people also share my feelings
0	bad acting yes but it was not a surprise stupid story yes so what br br but why tell me mr director why all that slow motion crap fight scenes were bad really bad because of slow motion and bad cutting not because of seagal br br what if i just speed this up for 2 seconds and then slow down those next 5 seconds and then maybe i need to flip the coin to decide what were you thinking mr director
0	one of the worst movies i have ever seen seagal has been acting in several entertaining action movies but this time this movie really sucks just stupid killing and really stupid storyline in addition looks fat and old
0	first i like s segal but in this movie he has hit rock bottom and started to dig br br the plot what plot very strange and plot br br the actions way below segals standards br br the good parts mr segal is a pro and shows it that's it br br summary i could write and have done so a better script for mr segal in case you read this stephen mail me i'll give you a better script to do a better movie the only realistic part is the one where see spoiler part br br spoiler part stop reading here if you plan to see the movie gas leak wow a 'black box' recorder in a hotel room i work in the industry laughable the bad guy away' that much is true in life
0	imagine this br br whenever two people meet in this movie one of them is shot the plot just does not exist it appears that someone shot some action sequences and then tried to put them together to make a movie out of it if you decide to watch it you will regret it
0	steven seagal's films of late have not exactly been good but this is by far the worst since the patriot the plot makes no sense what so ever it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are who works for who or who is double crossing who the film is completely disjointed each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow most of the blame must lie at the director's feet for not even understanding the basics of film making but seagal does not get off lightly as one of the producers of this film he must also share the blame oh and i haven't even mentioned how awful the acting is even by seagal standards even as straight to video fodder this is not worth a view even for seagal fans give it a wide berth
0	the cinemascope color cinematography of leon shamroy is quite remarkable here including his use of colored filters for br br various scenes the alfred score has to be the most sensual and seductive score hollywood ever produced it's a shame it is no longer available on cd the actors however never rise to the occasion the accents are so varied from the subdued british of ustinov and purdom to the hollywood of baxter and mature that it seems a true hodgepodge with no central vision tommy rettig is jarringly american acting styles span the range from zombie like to stilted only ustinov as a conniving one eyed servant steals the show what there is of it to steal the premise the story of a young egyptian doctor seduced and abandoned by the rich and the parallel theme of the cult of the single god ra persecuted by the authorities has its interesting points but when the film's plot fades it is the haunting music and visuals that remain
0	i have to say that i really liked under siege and hard to kill br br watching seagal doing his funny martial arts on people i have br br been always looking forward to seagal movies and unfortunately i was first disappointed by glimmer man which i found really bad the foreigner is probably one of the worst seagal has ever br br acted in horribly boring badly edited soundtrack and so on dear reader do yourself a favor an stay away from this br br honestly stay away
0	i like steven seagal but i have not a clue what this movie was about i am not easily lost with movies but i had no idea who was on who's side br br hopefully some of his future movies will be a little better my wife still thinks he looks good in black jeans however p
0	can they possibly get any worse than this probably but after all steven seagal gets to do what he does well kind of this time instead of mortally wounding the bad guys he just wounds them by reputation of being a bad ass agent seagal is hired to deliver a special package from france to america but it is not an easy task with so many people trying to intercept and foul up the mission the fights just don't have enough bite and the big bangs are just big and that's all anna louis seems to be the only cast member not to appear wooden also in the cast are jeffery pierce max ryan and harry van don't put all the blame on seagal for this clunker
0	they actually make a big deal out of a scene in which steven hurdles a 3 foot fence the plot is barely there the acting so to speak is distressing and the action is catastrophically lame this is the worst seagal film ever and that is saying something
0	since i'm from norway one of the top ten or so richest countries in the world it was much fun to watch how we use trucks from the 50ies and live in cottages from the medieval times and since we have very strict laws when it comes to handguns it was fun to see how much guns there actually were in norway during the five minutes of the shooting there mr direct to video even managed to bring his silencer on short notice so he must have powerful friends in the customs br br please do at least some research before going to an exotic country dudes you may hurt the feelings of old fans br br old fan with hurt feelings
0	if i could have given this film 0 10 i would and this is the first film i have wanted to rate so low its worse than awful if i went to see it in the cinema i would want the cinema to pay me for watching it at least minimum wage some of the camera shots were quite effective but a lot were rubbish eg villains reflection in a mirror that separates his head and shoulders side ways from his body seeing is believing several totally pointless killings of innocent civilians 2 murders that made me laugh out loud due to the victims actions facial expressions when they were shot i only watched it to the end fast forwarding about 10 mins of the boring pointless dialogue hoping to see seagal in some decent hand to hand combat but there was almost none of that should have known that when at the beginning he threw someone while going down an elevator and it was shown in slow motion with music end of 'action' scene in one scene we see seagal hand chop someones neck in slow motion which makes it obvious that his hand never even made contact the chief villain keeps coming back to life he gets shot in the chest on 2 separate occasions the 1st time its with a shotgun which blows him out the 2nd 3rd floor onto the street to sum up this film is a total waste of time and a total joke it looks very low budget even for seagal the colour is dull and grey i could go on and on just like this film but i wont watch this film if you've got insomnia its guaranteed to put you to sleep
0	i saw that the foreigner was ranked in the bottom 100 movie listings here on imdb so i wasn't expecting much when i tuned into it on the usa channel a week back but i did have hopes belly of the beast which aired a month ago was a mess but it had great scenery and photography and some pretty cool moments scattered throughout so i thought that this movie might have some of the same br br alas this movie fails the standards of basic watch ability in almost every way the screenplay comes off as the bastard offspring of a john lecarre novel and a richard ludlum movie but done by people with none of those worthy writers' talent for plot and characterization instead what we got is a glum mean spirited nihilistic cryptic nest of muddled motives tangled alliances and back shootings and chest shootings and bombings and this carries over to the directorial style which relies on hackneyed shot slow shots every 10 seconds along with wire work and hyperactive jump cuts these filmic devices that were stale 10 years ago when mtv directors used them for videos and the director works them like a punch press hoping to inject some weird art house techno thriller coolness into the proceedings br br segal himself is just awful in this he spends the entire film talking in a hoarse throaty half whisper and alternating between two expressions looking like he is sucking on a lemon while someone waves a small turd under his nose or looking constipated and he's so chunky and vain about it that he never actually takes off his knee length duster on camera i understand that it's hard to keep the girth under control as a male actor ages although denzel washington and paul newman never seemed to have that problem but you deal with it by being honest about it and by growing as an actor not by hiding it with carefully chosen camera angles and floor length robes br br so i can't really tell what's going on and the movie doesn't give me a reason to care about what's going on and the protagonist is completely one dimensional and visually unappealing not a recipe for a good movie experience br br oddly most of the set designs and scenery are atmospheric and striking in fact if you were to freeze the film on almost any given scene that wasn't a close up of seagal you would be struck by the care and professionalism of the lighting colors and composition and by how beautiful the eastern european settings are but dressing up a rotten egg as a egg can't make it edible and the proceedings are rotten at heart br br there are 'cool' movies like versus and there are visually striking but emotionally cold movies like underworld and there are paranoia conspiracy thrillers like the bourne identity and its remake with matt damon and then there is this thing which can't make up its mind what it wants to be pretends to be all these things and fails because it has no guts or soul br br this is a movie made by professionals with an actual budget so you can't really put it in the same class as manos killer shrews or hobgoblins but i'd rather watch all three of those movies back to back several times than watch the foreigner again even once
0	im hoping this was made before half past dead and exit wounds because it was rubbish seagal wasnt to blame it was down to the crap directing when the few action scenes took place the plot was also confusing and basically just felt rushed out maybe it was shelved and released to capitalise on seagals newer films br br 3 10 br br he's not through yet bring on under siege 3 and loose some weight
0	this has got to be the worst steven segal movie i have ever watched even worse than eco piffle like on deadly ground fire down below i'll start with the good points it's got stylish direction for a dtv movie and has wonderful that's it the story dosen't really go anywhere it's just an array of well staged set pieces just so seagal go shoot bad guys the body count can easily match tarantino at his bloodiest the plot is needlessly complicated and confusing you forget who the good and bad guys are the acting i use the term loosely is mediocre at best seagal's usual one constipated expression and wooden acting i can take but the others especially the brits were down right terrible br br what's in the package why are bad guys after it is seagal being set up br br who gives a s br br when i rented this movie at my local blockbuster once i'd paid the assistant laughed at me and said it was the worst movie in the shop i could have picked i felt like punching him till my arm went numb br br anyway i haven't seen half past dead or out for a kill yet and i go back for more humiliation at my store but they can't be than this turkey br br the soundtrack is supposed to be young and hip it just gave me a urge for half a dozen br br all in all this is seagal at his worst the guy who's gained about and looks well past it he's a guy who just doesn't no when to stop he should retire gracefully now and have a go behind the camera or become a martial arts teacher or something br br my rating 2 10 1 point for scenery
0	when you watch a seagal movie you expect good action you expect fighting not just a lot of shooting like in this flick and you expect a rather simple story ok i can live with a more complex story even though it's a seagal movie but this one this is i don't know what to say it's very very confusing indeed at the end of the movie i had major problems figuring out what had happened and i know i'm not the only one the story lacks so much information and is so full of plot holes that it's nearly impossible to keep track of what's happening in the movie there are many people in the movie people change sides all the time and it switches locations too often terrible i just don't understand why it looks like seagal is making a sort of sequel to this one
0	i would like to comment on how the girls are chosen why is that their are always more white women chosen then their are black women every episode their is always more white women then black one's as if to say white women are better looking then black women i would like for once see more black women then white and it not just your show it's like that in a lot of shows always more white's but i would have thought since you as the head honcho of the show you would see this yourself and have more black women on your show but you are just like the rest trying to act like you are so fair and nice you are just a big hypocrite
0	the foreigner is a straight to video steven seagal film that was originally intended to be released as a theatrical feature in march 2003 an intention which was reportedly reversed when seagal's prior film half past dead tanked at the box office according to some reports the film had a lavish 20 million budget including location shoots in warsaw and paris and was completed as part of the studio's obligation to a two picture deal which was negotiated after the relative success of exit wounds seemed to indicate that seagal still had a solid following br br despite the size of their investment sony screen gems probably made the right move in shelving this movie it is nearly incomprehensible what am i saying it is incomprehensible i don't think i understood what was going on at all except in the very broadest terms br br seagal is employed by a mysterious guy to deliver a mysterious package to another mysterious guy other mysterious guys try to stop him other highly mysterious guys try to kill the moderately mysterious guys who try to stop him other really really mysterious guys do especially mysterious stuff all of which which was in fact too mysterious for me to figure out the intended mysterious wife tries to intercept the package before it can be delivered to her husband because he is a self proclaimed consummate professional who has been hired to deliver the package only into the hands of the husband seagal at first defies the wife then later gets involved in protecting her and her daughter from other mysterious guys with unexplained agendas as well as from her husband br br many people have mysterious cryptic conversations many people blow each other's brains out some guys seem to die more than once while in other scenes gunfights end without a clear view of the result so the audience sees somebody die but is not sure which one of the gunslingers is headed to boot hill allegiances shift often adding further mystery or should i say confusion br br i don't know who was on whose side or what anybody really wanted and the resolution was as unsatisfying as the exposition at the end of the movie i just sat there thinking that's the end what the br br i couldn't even figure out the credits imdb says that aussie actress kate fischer from sirens was in this film but i'll be damned if i know where either she was left on the cutting room floor or she wisely opted out of the project she could have found some activities more beneficial to her career like having unnecessary surgery ripping those pesky insert cards out of magazines or taking some community college courses in animal husbandry br br seagal used to be a pretty fair hand to hand combatant but the action scenes didn't manage to redeem this film at all seagal is in his 50's now and is a very large man so he is reduced to a level of physical exertion and even during that he is contained in a knee length coat to hide his brandoesque girth he might even get a little winded removing the from candy bars although that's understandable if you estimate just how many of those he must have to eat to maintain his present girth br br steven seagal seemed to be making a comeback with exit wounds but if his last film was half past dead this one must be pretty close to filling out the other half
0	i've watched a lot of tv through the years so much that when i start seeing new shows that basically seem like reruns of old shows i get insulted luckily i am not too sensitive because all hot properties does is updates the cast meaning make them sexier of designing women and drops them in new york city instead of georgia br br the jokes are more tv 14 ish but it does not make the show any better the only thing that this show has proved is that nicole sullivan is so good that she could have made a show like my mother the car a classic her comic talents remind one of a modern day lucille ball only funnier unfortunately the rest of the cast is flashy and sexy which might be good for some brainless soap but they just aren't funny br br fred
0	this movie is so bad there are not words to describe it if i got a video camera of a monkey dancing for an hour and a half it would be a heck of a lot more entertaining than this the plot is so dull and it is not even worth mentioning the best part of the movie was when the credits and i got a chuckle out of knowing the lead actors name was james bond iii just trust me and stay far away from this trash heap
0	absolutely nothing is redeeming about this total piece of trash and the only thing worse than seeing this film is seeing it in english class this is literally one of the worst films i have ever seen it totally ignores and contradicts any themes it may present so the story is just really really dull thank god the 80's are over and god save whatever man was actually born as james bond iii
0	for me it just didn't seem like gi joe at all when i watched it as a kid i just didn't care for it in fact the part i liked best about this one was the opening credits they change so many facts around and turn the story around as well cobra commander is supposedly part of this stupid race of reptile people in antarctica or somewhere that is frozen though i always thought he was a normal guy considering every time you saw his eyes in the series they were surrounded by normal colored flesh and not the blue his face was here there is just too much crap in this one to try and make this a spectacular movie but for me it just ruins what i watched the series for in the first place
0	i speak badly of g i j t m mostly because i think it lacked something that g i joe had yes it had something that g i joe didn't have like celebrity cameos by don johnson and burgess meredith but i think g i joe the movie lacked the passion for the characters that the g i joe tv series had most of the voice over artists really sounded like they were dead pan and they were going to die at anytime now it's a good movie but i wouldn't say that it was the greatest movie in the world i m h o br br although violence is what g i joe was built on i'd say that striking duke in his chest wasn't the very best way for charlie character to go out neither was seeing remind cobra commander why he was chosen to lead the cobra forces and then being horribly mutated after he failed to deliver what cobra la felt was rightfully theirs br br it wasn't the best way for the g i joe series to go out but it's better than nothing
0	i am still trying to figure out what the target of this movie was 1 whether to show how stupid disorganized unprofessional and arrogant the police is i surely could add various adjectives here but i think my point on this is clear 2 whether to show how a twisted minded crook that does not know what he wants from himself can create chaos 3 whether to show if a persistent detective will solve a case just by asking the criminal the same stupid question over and over again till the criminal answers 4 or was it just to show that any 90 minutes of filmed material can still be called a movie… br br this was one of those movies that in a way did not disappoint me from the first 10 minutes i kind of figured out that this movie will not be nominated for the best movie award and surprisingly enough – this was consistent throughout the whole time it was stupid enough to be worth the wait to see how stupidly it will continue and end – and i was not disappointed there either br br was it a complete waist of time yes which raises your question – why did i watch it throughout well i was trying to fall asleep and i thought this was a great candidate for that but unfortunately i had too much coffee before that…
0	only in the hollywood audiovisual fiction world could anybody including fbi agents be so unbelievably stupid the good guys are stupid enough to pick up everything they're interested in answer phones go up all in search for a demolition expert who's out to get everybody oh yes and then we get the hollywood supervillain he can be shot even if he's got a vest on and then fall down a long flight of steps and then still have the upper hand over his stupid pursuers every cliché you can think of in suspense movies were used i only watched it because yuki is so hot oh but yes it's great to see how morally superior this fbi agent is when she's pretty certain that there's a bomb in an opera house and she doesn't sound the alarm who writes these scripts
0	well now here's the thing for this movie to work you'll have to accept the following a woman who's murdered is alive again at the end of the movie a detective stops interrogating the dead woman's fiancée because a newspaper reporter asked him not to and that same reporter smitten by a good looking blonde hauled into night court for suspicious behavior winds up getting married to her in exchange for the judge letting her off the hook are you following me on this i can't tell you how many times i paused and rewound the picture to repeat scenes that just didn't make any sense in the end the blonde claudia dell and the reporter richard hemingway remained married but i have no idea how they came to that decision in fact i can't figure out how the film maker came to the decision to make this flick oh i suppose there's some entertainment value here for just the sheer nonsense of it all but it would have been nice if even a couple of the pieces fit still i'm not ready to add this one to my top ten worst list i think that night club scene with the feathered ladies might have saved it but why was it in the movie i just don't know
0	this film was actually shot and made in 1987 but it didn't hit the theaters until 1990 as i watched this film i could see the good intentions that it had but i'm afraid there wasn't much talent or experience behind the camera to make it work story takes place in california in the 1890's and some italian immigrants who own are told they have to leave their land so a railroad can come through dennis hopper plays william who has offered money for the land but has been turned down giancarlo giannini is sebastian and he is to proud to leave and asks the other farmers to stand up and fight to keep their land grows impatient and hires a bunch of thugs to force everyone to vacate these thugs are headed by a man named andrews burt young and he doesn't hesitate to kill anyone who gives him problems andrews and his men kill one night and his son marco eric roberts vows to seek revenge and get the land back for everyone marco blows up the bridge that the railroad was going to need and they also destroy a tunnel and this sets back the project for several months and now starts to get heat from other investors this film was directed by peter masterson and besides the trip to bountiful he has at best a spotty career in directing he's a fine actor but here he seems to be in over his head this was a film that desperately needed more attention to detail and its easy to see that it didn't occur roberts hairstyle is perfect for the 1980's but this is suppose to be 1890 the cinematographer is toyomichi kurita who ended up being a good cameraman but this was only his fourth film and he certainly had not learned everything at that time its not a sharp looking film at all and i noticed in several shots during the day that the sun would be glaring off of something and the scenes just don't have the that would have helped the overall look the script is just a revenge story and no surprises take place during the course of the film we know giannini is going to get it and it seemed just a matter of time the cast is top notch and they do their best but the whole film comes across as uninspired this was promoted as julia roberts film debut but i'm not sure that is correct she might have appeared in a film called firehouse before this
0	tyra the rest of the modeling world needs to know that real women like myself and my daughter don't care to see all the ridiculous modeling to sell something weird locations too much makeup too much skin is not necessary sex does not always sell when you are selling to women the same goes for the horse stomping runway walk that looks unnatural people come in all shapes sizes they need to have that on the show my daughter has a 36 is tall slender a size 5 i am more average at a size 12 we would like to see both i can not picture how something would look on me when a size 2 is wearing it it will not fit the same way on me i do not buy magazines anymore because they are one sided on this matter we would really love the show to consider women of all sizes thank you
0	this was obviously a low budget film it shows in every scene what is nice to see is where it was made a lot of the film was shot in columbia ca in the sierra nevada mountains near ca some of the film was also shot in jamestown ca very near columbia there is a railroad museum in jamestown and they used some of the old trains in the picture high noon was also shot in jamestown as was back to the future iii
0	this was pretty bad pedestrian work or worse i don't think it was homophobic just really bad if anything it was really amateurish like when you're 14 and first discover curse words and skin mags br br the main point of this movie the romance falls really flat i can't help but wonder if the writers ever had any serious relationships before this movie br br plotting and pacing are horrible going nowhere at all one minute we're watching these guys catch cheaters then we're at a gay club then we're at a date out of nowhere the girl apparently likes comics and then they sleep together none of this feels real like an elementary school production of shakespeare if hamlet was written by a frat boy br br the ending was some kind of creepy over the top revenge fantasy by a loser who got dumped by a girl unnecessary and actually kind of disturbing br br still you have to watch it why br br as others noted the director's commentary actually is hilarious what kind of of professional talks about banging or hooking up with the actresses dialogue sucked relationships lacked chemistry you will be on the floor laughing at this pretentious jackass
0	they should make terrorists watch this video as torture and not just for the disturbing final scene in which tying up and beating a woman with mental problems is apparently a source of comedy about a half hour of this would convince even the fundamentalist to spill the beans rather than sit through even one more minute of this disaster br br this movie is awful i rented it because a friend said it was hilarious only to find he was talking about the blowhard director doing the commentary rather than the movie itself i guess if you find unrestrained arrogance funny you'll like this it apparently is true that he goes on and on about chicks he's banged the most tasteless example being when the lead actress comes on screen br br actually cj stacy was the only good part of this movie her charisma shines like a diamond in this horrid dung pile this apparently is the only movie she's done according to imdb i hope she is involved with theatre or indie stuff as i think she has the talent and natural beauty to really be an asset to any production
0	this so called movie is horrible the actors cannot act there is no plot i believe they need to start from scratch and film again i hope that they can correct the acting flaws in this movie i would like to see the trailer after they shoot it again maybe there is hope for it i am not out to hurt feelings but i believe high school kids can do a better job the wardrobe could have been much better sorry but this just did not do it for me i normally enjoy the trailers from this site but this one i cannot find entertaining i hope they take criticism well because i believe they will get much much more from others in regards to this film
0	let's see how many ways you can insult my gender 1 of course girl 1 is a horrible skank who cheats on her boyfriend and sounds looks like a heroin addict br br 2 of course girl 1 sleeps with the guy on the first date after getting wasted br br 3 of course the lesbians are butch germans who are into s m br br 4 this one was actually a surprise ending the movie on a note of torture celebrated by the majority of characters was sickening seeing a woman beaten isn't my idea of comedy br br 5 director's commentary talking about hooking up with actresses in the movie just so you know is crass and incredibly unprofessional
0	i was completely mislead by the comments on this film mainly by someone saying they saw it at a film festival and loved every minute of it expecting this to be a nice run of the mill american pie style film i was deeply disappointed br br firstly the camera work is awful i don't think the director knows that cameras can move around scenes rather than stay still and having the actors move close up and far away of their own accord br br secondly the scenery my god i've seen more furnishings in a bird's nest the club was totally unconvincing with around 3 extras dancing in the back ground at any one time the flats were bare and lacked personality br br thirdly the actors wow the director obviously went for the typical reaper character set up a wimpy main character with a gruff i don't give a f k character that takes pot shots at the main everything the main character said and did was a chore so much so it made me wince br br overall the plot the supposedly big revenge theme lasted for about 30 seconds and lacked any real motivation the characters acted irrationally and didn't seem to have any real relationship with anyone else no character had any depth to them they may as well have been cardboard cut outs walking past the static camera br br a truly horrible piece worse than a first year students 2 minute short for youtube advice to the director change your name and deny any association with the film that will probably sell one copy at a yard sale in ohio
0	how many disaster movies can there be before we get tired of them come on we can see them on the discovery channel all day long br br i agree with the comment that the first part of this movie is just a soap opera the great grandson makes a prediction and everybody starts moaning about how he is ruining the family name the evil mother in law convinces the wife to throw him out into the arms of his mistress whom she wants to meet can you believe that the wife wants to approve the new wife at the same time the has someone in love with her that doesn't have a wife but she sends him packing br br now that the soap opera is over the earthquake appears br br the special effects are really good but the dubbing is bad that is why i like subtitled films the actors are all very experienced and have won many awards so you will get to see some of japan's best in an oft repeated story br br but the soap opera story returns with a kitchy ending
0	geologist realizes a big earthquake is coming but no one will listen whats worse is his father in law had predicted the 1923 tokyo disaster and he's been called unworthy to be his successor of course the big one comes and tokyo is knocked flat br br a poorly dubbed japanese film that is pure soap opera for the first half the second half after the earthquake destroys a model city its an escape drama there are some nice moments but the film wastes them either by undercutting the action by too many poor miniatures or by having people do unreal things hokey and not very good it has an ending you won't believe
0	remnants of an ambushed army unit hook up with a group of cowboys to fight their way through indians on the warpath sounds like it could be an exciting western but this one is dull dull dull it moves like molasses the action scenes are uninspired the acting is pedestrian the writing is flat even the photography isn't very good eastwood in a very early role plays an ex confederate who doesn't like the idea of fighting on the same side as yankees that's about the only remotely interesting situation in the whole movie but eastwood wasn't experienced enough an actor to pull it off and his character comes across as petulant rather than angry or embittered a very ordinary western actually a very less than ordinary western worth a look if you're a die hard eastwood fan and want to see him at the very beginning of his career otherwise don't bother
0	first of all katherine hepburn is badly miscast as clara she just can't be convincing as the devoted selfless rather smarmy wife that the writers have created br br but the real weakness of the film is its shallowness in the face of a potentially great piece of drama bipolar manic depressive disorder amounts to oh oh i have a headache and the occasional angry word suicide the word is used but there's no sign of it in domestic scenes and when we see him in the mental hospital he's calm and subdued and smiling and optimistic a superficial treatment and is so upright and bourgeois no sign of his gruff humour his love of tweaking the noses of the establishment no sign of his tortured attitude toward sex and women resulting from spending his youth playing piano in brothels and was clara's long concert career entirely about promoting robert's music or was she in fact a remarkable pianist who wanted a career for herself a female pianist carving out a place for herself in a male world any sort of treatment of the lives of great artists is better than none but this is a standard hollywood middle of the road approach particularly disappointing because the real story is so much more dramatic so much more interesting so much more human
0	in watching this off and on for a few seasons two things come to mind one wondering what kind of girl wants to be a model and two run to the nearest ice cream store and have a low fat sundae br br i tried to be a fan because i liked the idea of this reality show competition no other famous model thought of this and it is very admirable for tyra banks to do so but as the series goes on and on i've come to the conclusion that this is a sorry lot of folks trying to make a mountain out of a women shouldn't watch this teens should stay clear of it unless they're doing book reports on the subject br br many women try out for slots to compete for americas next top model they live together cat fight together cry together get put through pointless modeling shoots with pointless modeling people and and get eliminated and almost all of them claim you will see me again heck i'm trying to see what happened to the ones that did win actually br br this is the dream of some girls and good for them in watching this i hope the other girls that see this and run like hades the other way like to college br br i just happened to watch more of this recent season because of the ploy of full figured models joining the group that even made me think more of this as a sorry lot of folks the full figured models were no more than average sized ladies competing with what i think is the thinnest group of models they ever chose so of course that would make them look even fatter a ploy use all the time bad bad tyra and crew br br but to be fair americas next top model is not about full figured models it's about projecting an imagined image a beauty that can be mass marketed and sold as the ultimate in beauty and this show is just looking for the next fresh piece of meat to add to the mix hence the name of the show hence the sorry lot of judges photographers associations hence tyra and her consistent this was me plugs every camera angle you can get but then again that is the one thing i like about this show the ex model giving others who wouldn't have the chance a chance to enter the doors but after that everything else is status quo for that industry which is why there are no surprises or week to week interest in the program
0	this movie is standard goofy sci fi fare from the 50s in its favor the plot does manage to pull off an alien invasion without actually producing the aliens themselves but come on now if aliens needed energy and could absorb it from sources like hydrogen bombs why would they come to earth why wouldn't they just suck it out of a star the only credible reason for the presence of kronos is a direct attack on earth society not the mere collection of energy nothing like that is even intimated kronos may have been built by a superior race but its activities on earth are the most primitive the end that the scientist heroes plan for kronos is based on nothing but pseudo scientific gibberish it amounts to the reverse the gambit which has been used so much in bad scifi it has become a joke in itself low and behold this causes our unwanted visitor to release its collected energy no one in power seems to care about the impact the release of that much energy which by the film's end includes among other things the entire yield of a hydrogen bomb will have on the surroundings and unfortunately by the time the movie ends the surroundings are the suburbs of los angeles whoops
0	i first saw this movie at a saturday matinee when i was very young i thought it was cool and often thought about it well i finally it on dvd it was still very entertaining but in a different way it has to rank as one of the goofiest campiest 1950's sci fi movies it seemed filled with stock military footage the dialogue is stilted and effects are crude there is one line of dialogue that had me in stitches the line jeff morrow says while on the beach with the babe rent it if you need a movie to watch with a bunch of drunken friends it is a classic
0	i once heard this movie described as either you'll love it or you'll hate it from reading some of the other reviews and the ratings i would venture to say that this is true i am placing myself in the hate it crowd i have seen some truly bad movies boring movies and even low budget movies this movie is bad on all three fronts br br this island earth's exeter jeff morrow returns to his sci fi b movie roots as dr les minus giant head prosthetic the doctor and his assistant arnie george o'hanlon aka the voice of george jetson along with girlfriend assistant vera are tracking a meteor this is the crux of the cast and is almost a double date les has vera and arnie has his susie synchro unifying integrating aka the computer lets just say the relationship between george and his robotic maid rosie and his relationship with susie is more believable than the cold clam like feelings vera has for les and vice versa the object of their all their interest is no ordinary meteor however it is really an alien art art deco energy storage device which moves around like a 3 legged dog there is also the little alien energy being that controls dr aka the chief scientist there the alien is obviously and from the get go malicious and evil is this the kind of science we are handing out no wonder the aliens from the explorers were afraid of us from watching some of these movies we shoot first there's no need for questions afterwards br br the whole movie is synonymous with watching some really boring science experiments like boiling an egg or adding food color to celery its not the fact that this is a low budget sci fi movie or thats its a bit cheesy and outdated it is really really really boring the whole movie is about trying to figure out what is going on that is it most of the things we learn about what's going on are through monologues and self now add crappy dialog cardboard acting and cheap sets and you have the makings of an ed wood clone by the way ed has made some really boring movies as well please avoid the orgy of the dead the dialog oh the dialog such as br br from under 2 miles of ocean br br why not it came through a billion miles in space br br or br br do you think you'll be able to respect a husband who's probably pulled the scientific boner of all time br br this movie is obviously trying to pull a forbidden planet this island earth magnetic monster or in the same light as the outer limits twilight zone namely a low budget sci fi movie or tv episode that is compelling enough to get past the technical difficulties and strange situations at the core these movies are enjoyable on some level the story the underlying meaning or the sheer comical nature of the dialog or situations this movie has none of that it is just 90 minutes of boredom i couldn't even enjoy this on a ed wood level i definitely recommend skipping this one and seeing one of the movies i mentioned above instead it is so bad that if my name was dr forrester i would never think of showing this movie to anyone except frank maybe
0	jeff morrow is leslie gaskell barbara laurence is vera hunter and john emory is eliot along with some ancillary air force personnel and a comic geek they are in charge of a super secret underground laboratory on the west coast morrow is thrilled when he discovers a meteor passing through the atmosphere but nonplussed when the meteor decides to take a dip in the pacific ocean and emerge as a fantastic machine on the mexican coast br br nobody knows what this colossal blocky structure is obviously it's some kind of artifact because it's all made up of right angles with a kind of bald sphere half visible on top br br it turns out that the machine dubbed kronos is from some far away planet and has been sent here to rob the earth of energy you see here on earth we have learned how to convert matter into energy but on planet they have figured out the other half of the equation how to convert energy into matter and now they're running out of energy on the other planet are you taking notes on this good br br maybe you'll be able to fill me in on some of the scientific questions raised by mission for instance if builders can convert energy into matter and vice versa why don't they just convert a little of their own spare matter into energy instead of sending elaborate machines to earth to la's lights but it's doubtful the writers could explain it either reversing the of two antenna is described as an conversion which means a towards human change which doesn't make sense but it doesn't seem that any of the science makes sense for that matter the diagram that morrow draws on the board has the current going in the wrong direction from positive to negative br br there's a problem with too it marches along the coast threatening populated areas read southern california but it has no joints in its two or three legs these stumps just thump slowly up and down squashing some people the film doesn't make much of these squashed people they're shown as mexican peasants so maybe they don't count for too much the usaf also drops a hydrogen bomb on kronos while it's in mexico mind you nobody raises an eyebrow br br not much acting is called for and not much is given jeff morrow has a distinct and resonant voice great for radio or for tv voice overs his face is less expressive he has only one expression no matter what the situation is a tight smile as if he's having his picture taken at the universal studios tour barbara laurence had a fine golden quality when she made street with no name a few years earlier she was a slender seventeen year old as richard widmark's wife here her grooming and demeanor reduce her to the level of b movie actress though she's still beautiful it's always good to see morris in one of these movies he's made so many i get them mixed up br br on the whole the film comes across as flat i'm afraid there are some nice shots of a b 47 in flight though the sets reveal a low budget enterprise that's not necessarily bad in itself but there's nothing to make up for the barren settings little tension in the script no directorial display and little effort put into the performances br br you might get a kick out of it a relaxed high because this is distinctly unchallenging it's just that there are so many better films of the genre out there
0	some nameless aliens off on a distant ship from a distant planet have sent the giant robot kronos to rob the world of its energy they've got a prototype around mexico for openers and if he proves successful more will be sent it would certainly take a lot of time for just this one kronos to perform that task br br for reasons i can't explain the aliens first capture the mind of leading scientist john emery who telepathically directs kronos to his first targets since emery is killed off later and the monster seems to function well enough without emery as a controller why the aliens needed him in the first place is a bit bizarre br br in any event scientists jeff morrow barbara lawrence and george o'hanlon who work under emery aren't fooled a bit about his nature and of course they come up with a plan to deal with the raging metal giant br br kronos is a perfect film for the fifties the bad guys are never seen they're just out there looking to undermine mankind it's a perfect film for the cold war and jeff morrow assures us we'll be ready for them in the future br br the players look like they're having a grand old time mouthing as many clichéd lines the writers could put in the script i get the impression that kronos is the kind of film ed wood might have done on a bigger budget with a bit more care
0	we chose to see this movie as an alternative to the polar express showing at our local imax theater what a waste of time and money first it is not cute the snowman at times looked demonic other times he was simply a zombie he showed no expression or emotions most of the time and his hollow blue eyes were just creepy br br secondly santa states in the beginning it's a movie about the spirit of giving santa and a snowman declaring war on each other is a movie about giving i'm all for a little parody but this just wasn't funny or entertaining br br the idea that the snowman's flute is his voice is different too bad you never see or hear the snowman play his flute not even a thank you to santa br br the only funny parts of the movie were the outtakes at the end of the film too bad they didn't use them in the movie it would have been better
0	yes a real stinker i saw this movie on the advice of my sweet friends who told me that this is a great psychological movie this film makes every effort not to be understandable i was aware that i was in for a stinker after seeing the first 20 minutes i waited since i expected to see something valuable and most important of all i paid for this film the wait was unbearable after seeing the film i talked with my friends and learned that in the intellectual environments they call themselves under this title of turkey this movie had recognised as a masterpiece yes a masterpiece but in the category of stinkers i think that a movie must be self explanatory this film is just the opposite keep away from this thing which calls itself a movie burn your money instead of paying for this phenomenon rate 1 out of 10
0	the rap the book this movie was 'based' on was one of the most difficult books i've ever read yet i could not put it down raunchy crude foul lewd you name it it had it it also had some of the best characterizations of any novel i've ever read br br well as for the flick it was deplorable i mean tim mcintire as was the baddest mutha talking 'bout mcintire as is like casting tim conway as charles manson br br what happened to the main character in the book little he doesn't even exist in the movie fast walking was not the main dude in the book why even name credit this thing with the rap none of the spirit atmosphere nastiness or drama of the book was captured in this movie br br for me it was not only a disappointment but a total waste of time and celluloid
0	i was quite impressed with this movie as a child of eight or nine the gangsters seemed very real and threatening to me and i could see why people would have been afraid of someone like dillinger seeing it as an adult it seemed almost comical owing to the overdone narration and jarring details like thirties gangsters driving cars that looked like they were from the fifties there is a certain gritty unglamorous reality to the way the criminals are portrayed but the overall effect is more like a bad soap opera the most memorable and most unintentionally funny bit that sticks with me is the scene where ma barker and her sons are shooting it out with the fbi and the sons are killed the narrator says something like perhaps in that moment for the only time in her life ma barker became a real mother this is meant to be a moment of great tragedy and pathos as ma finally realizes how she's destroyed her family out of her own greed but instead it provokes laughter a very odd film that is rarely shown anywhere these days gangster movie buffs might enjoy it but more as a curiosity than a real movie
0	apparently re cut episodes from the gangbusters tv show on the big screen while this was frequently done in the 50's and 60's because people didn't have a tv or a color tv and producers wanted an increased return on their investment big screen ticket sales or if it went to the small screen of a series that isn't in syndication the results were usually less then the sum of their parts the only time i've ever seen it work were where multi part stories were put together ala rocky jones or man from uncle or in the case of horror anthology the veil and 13 demon street here the effect is to have stories of american criminals in the 20's and 30's dillinger pretty boy floyd bonnie and clyde etc inter cut with each other as a narrator talks about how the fbi hunted them down its a weird concoction that doesn't quite work because its clear that there are things here that don't belong together more than once i looked at the tv oddly because things didn't seem right in fairness i won't describe the cheapness of the production since this was what early tv and the series was like its not bad but its not very good either to be perfectly honest the episodes of the series that i've seen work better a single episodes where we're not expecting as much given the choice i'd rent dvds of the show instead of this movie
0	tyra banks needs to teach these girls that it's not all about being beautiful on the outside the inside counts for something too a lot of the past winners have looked semi decent but are horribly cruel and starting trouble for the other girls i see tyra less involved with the girls in every season about the only thing worth watching top model for is mr jay manuel recently tyra had a contestant who was a pre op transsexual i felt that she should have done more to encourage her it was obvious that she had insecurities about her original anatomy showing through her feminine look tyra should have given her tips or perhaps she could have sent resident ms jay to help the girl out instead the contestant was met with harsh criticism and not enough positive criticism it's a shame because i truly enjoyed the first 3 seasons there's a reason why project runway has all 4 seasons out on dvd and top model only has 1 season on dvd it's called taste top model seriously needs a lot of an some more humanity
0	i caught a screening of this at the true false documentary film festival in columbia missouri and i was pretty disappointed i was expecting a cool documentary into the protest and activism surrounding the but what i got was a largely flawed bad acted fictitious conspiracy ridden badly woven tale i'd heard of its neo documentary technique blending both true and false but i expected more along the lines of a fictitious storyline developed for a better personification and to create a sense of unity between real interviews but it was more along the lines of a terrible made for conspiracy theory tv movie br br the acting overall is terrible except for which is not surprising considering the director at the screening said most of the lead characters had no acting training his excuse being that he wanted them to be real heres a hint real people can't act but actors can usually act real br br it would of been not so cornily offensive if it wasn't blatantly obvious about how keen he was to push this extremely radical conspiracy theory onto us throughout the whole movie its especially hysterical when we get a scene where the director cameos and starts ranting on about ridiculously stupid theories and secret agendas the movie also does a good job of laughably stereotyping every single role it tries so hard to romanticize these street activists and stamp a big 'good' or 'evil' on every character br br skip it maybe find yourself a nice real documentary
0	i know we shouldn't expect much from a low budget indie film but the idea behind it is sound an attempt to open america's eyes to the cozy relationship between the government and the journalists that are supposed to be keeping an eye out against it but somehow the documentary aspect of it takes away from its drama the protests during the 2004 republican convention in new york were not that compelling to make a documentary about it those kinds of compelling protests belong to the era of the 1960's br br it would have been better to stick to a drama format perhaps a slow build up where the young journalist's eyes are gradually opened up to the conspiracy
0	danny is beyond sorry br br he keeps making the same mistakes and is no longer interesting to watch at first i could feel for him as an addict myself my heart went out to him at the beginning and somewhere along the line he went over the line it is almost as if he is continuing this behavior to keep the show going and at the same time is seriously risking his life and the welfare of his family especially his children it is difficult even to have pity for the poor boy i think he needs to watch this show maybe then he might have a chance a saving this marriage i can't understand how gretchen stays with him and i keep wondering how much is just for show and how much is love danny get a life a new one that is and don't get me started on dr gary what is with him and his face his skin looks like it's stretched to the max besides that looks don't mean a thing yet he seems not to be particularly impartial i think he too is keeping this going for his own monetary gain and often not in the best interests of either gretchen or danny these people are few confused and each remind me of a dog chasing its tail sad very sad c'mon pull yourselves together
0	i watched this one mostly to see charlie and una merkel two of my favorites br br the plot has many a twist and turn it's not bad as a straight mystery aboard a train br br but why throw in a circus train wreck and an escaped gorilla i can mention this without it being a spoiler because the circus train wreck and the gorilla have nothing to do with the intricate mystery plot br br the bad person trying to kill the good people has many tricks up his sleeve but the circus train wreck was purely coincidental it allows for a single scene with a menacing gorilla but then it's back to the murder mystery
0	thankfully brief mystery about a telephone operator who is discovered to be the kidnapped daughter of a railroad tycoon the discovery brings about an attempt on her life which is foiled by charlie as a crime deflector things take a turn for the dangerous when everyone ends up in the title location and another attempt is made on the girls life your enjoyment of this film will depend upon your tolerance for and his nonsense i normally like but there was something about this role that rubbed me the wrong way actually i think it didn't help that the mystery wasn't very good so there was nothing beyond the characters to keep you watching yes the finale on the train was exciting but it didn't make up for everything that went before not worth searching out but if you stumble upon it give it a try
0	let me say this new he man cartoon is not destroying childhood memories as i didn't like the old he man cartoon either i loved the action figures but i found the cartoon to be corny and i hated the storyline the he man i liked was the one from the very early pre cartoon mini comics included in the figure boxes where he man was a barbarian the sword of power was split in two pieces and there was no prince adam no ripoff premise and no anyway let's leave the old stuff alone br br the new he man cartoon or at least this pilot is a disgrace on its own s it represents both the worst cheesiness of the old show and the worst of nowadays i watched it because i had heard the in your face morals of the old show were thankfully gone and this one had more swordplay and character development but i encountered an awful mishmash of the worst clichés of the genre characters i couldn't help but hate and the sadly inevitable matrix esque visual style br br i think it was a good idea to give a bit of a background to the characters as it was showing a pre face peeling skeletor but that's how far the character development goes aside from the usual coming to age rubbish i see coming in the subsequent episodes where this teenybopper adam will be learning the responsibility of his new acquired powers blah blah at least in the old show adam was not a spoiled brat i found myself hating his guts that's what we get when they put out an adventure show aimed at pre teens pretty faces and wanna be cool and look juvenile clothes i should check new episodes to see if n'sync make a special appearance man does this show remind me to the 1996 flash gordon stinkbomb cartoon br br dialogue ha it follows absolutely every cliché in the book from the goody lil two shoes in the opening scene to immortal oh and he man i lied in the ending and voice is still the same high pitch kind than in the old series 20 years and nothing we have learnt br br and sure nowadays there can't exist something remotely action related that's not matrix style leave anime to the japanese folks think fresh ideas and seeing the characters' poses while fighting didn't help either br br of course we have our usual dose of evil lyn now i think about it who the hell comes up with these names has no yellow skin now but grey ish oh so no asian people will be offended i bet won't appear in the show either shades of the 1996 again where ming the merciless was a green toad like alien br br people are complaining about lack of speech i don't think i would have liked this more or less if cringer spoke he's corny enough this way and you have your extra ration of cheese with the shocking thing is probably many of the people who rightfully hated jar jar binks might be huge fans br br i watched the feature lenght pilot and i've had enough leave the series alone 2 out of 10
0	in the mountains of japan forlorn young artist as aka the dragon painter paints magnificent landscapes he prays divinity will restore his fiancée whom he believes was changed into a dragon 1 000 years ago meanwhile in tokyo an forlorn older painter edward as laments not having a son to carry on his family line of artists when mr sees mr paintings he sees a painter worthy to become his son and disciple also falls in love with daughter aoki ko believing she's the reincarnation of his long lost princess but with his love fulfilled loses his ability to br br an introduction notes 'the dragon was originally released in 1919 by the pictures a hollywood based production company formed the previous year by a japanese born actor who enjoyed great popularity in the silent period the film was ninth of twenty two features produced by each of which was tailored to talents and to his stock company of japanese actors fortunately a print of this film was found in france and restored br br the description the dragon painter is a fantasy allegory of love and creative inspiration that is lost when longing is fulfilled is accurate with its production intended to provide a different view of japanese culture to american audiences avoiding the stereotyping violence and melodramatic conflict expected in films of the period was successful in that part of his goal although this film probably did not and will not appeal to most viewers and is not the best example of its intent br br the dragon painter 9 28 19 william edward aoki
0	i saw this cartoon accidentally on television one night when i couldn't get to sleep it didn't help in the slightest i found myself staring up at the ceiling trying to forget that face i could quite happily never see this cartoon again simply because of that face br br now don't get me wrong i love fairy tales and nursery rhymes as much as anyone but this twisted and terrifying rendition simply is disturbing it is mainly the cruel laughter and the exaggerated features that terrify me and i still have nightmares because of it please i urge you not to allow your children to see this it is far far too scary please i pray you keep it away
0	this movie describes a truly horrific event to be sure but it all falls down from poor performances from all the cast it is impossible to feel the emotion of almost any character as all the emotional scenes seem like parodies of themselves for example a character is shot at the start of the movie and you get the clichéd desperate am i gonna make it sergeant yeah it ain't nothing' but it plays out like a sketch from a wayans brothers movie i don't know if they've made the war movie yet or something starring leslie nielsen br br the sergeant played by sean penn reminds me of al bundy from married with children while fox is the greatest self deprecating good guy cliché you can imagine thank god he curses and smokes during it br br his emotional noooo is definitely more suited to comedies like back to the future than so called serious movies such as this br br to their credit some of the main scenes without giving too much away where they actually perform some fairly horrific acts are well done and do make us take the subject matter seriously but that is in spite of not thanks to the acting
0	the problem with this and with all vietnam war films is that they're all too biased antiwar films overlook the fact that the vast majority of u s soldiers were heroes while films overlook the fact that a lot of the soldiers did indeed commit atrocities like the one in this movie this film sucks it's time for a movie that is neither nor antiwar nor liberal nor conservative but completely unbiased
0	this is by far the most vapid idiotic insanely stupid show that has ever been on the air and this is coming from someone who remembers san pedro beach bums br br my wife loves watching reality shows and there was one episode of this drivel where the wannabes had to develop a walk the end result was straight out of monty python's ministry of silly walks sketch i couldn't laugh hard enough br br and then there's the ubiquitous ms banks as in laughing all the way to the she has to be the most annoying self important woman on tv since rosie o'donnell left the view as if modeling was doing great things for mankind please i've never found her attractive and i don't find her intelligent now that she has the temerity to open her mouth br br someone needs to tell these human clothes hangers to eat a healthy diet and actually look like real women
0	i had great expectations surrounding this movie not as it was an apocalypse now or an 8 1 2 but high enough and when i saw it on cable they were all shattered starting by the acting poor almost mediocre an astonishing waste of good actors and talent and the story itself since when does a 5 men squad go out on patrol on a supposed zone to suicide that´s one big mistake that costs the film dearly very good actors do very poor acting here like sean penn that recently repeated the irritating way of talking on am and michael j fox that wastes a good opportunity to beat charlie sheen on performing just but the most irritating character was diaz played by john leguizamo another stupid waste of fine talent by the director that was a cheesy scared and insecure kind of person even more irritating that jar jar binks yes you heard it the battle sequences are average the only one that really stands out is the opening sequence with michael j fox trapped by his feet on a vc tunnel mr de palma has a weak work here and if it wasn´t for films like and «the these ones excellent films i would consider him a director too much publicity bad filming br br 3 10
0	one of the worst shows of all time the show would begin with smart ass ed comments to each other that would be totally off the wall and uncalled for the fat computer geek was unbelievable the bible thumper the bad ass girl who are these actors never heard of any of them except cole who was totally unbelievable in the part every time he opened his mouth you expect to hear you see kids pulling the plug was a mercy killing for this horrible show the stories were as unbelievable as the actors lame would be the best way to describe it somehow this show makes a slug like ice t more believable as a cop and he wrote the worst song about cops ever recorded
0	some friends recommended this but as a film it's really lacking in originality i found the characters to be unflattering stereotypes and the plot is predictable almost from the beginning however if you like traditional english appalachian ballads it will keep your interest long enough to hear the next one i've also read that the soundtrack is nothing like the music in the movie with professional musicians filling in for the actors
0	i watched this film with a group of friends at the 1999 melbourne international film festival and no one had a good word for it br br i happen to love bluegrass and country music so it's not as if i'm unsympathetic to the subject matter but the problem is that at heart it's a very conservative movie little more than a filmed mills and boon story a bodice ripper of the most simple minded and soppy kind br br it's not just that the love story at its heart that between reece and dr lily is more than a tad unbelievable why any male would be attracted to the nostril flaring man devouring lily is beyond me and frankly mike harding as reece seems to be just going through the motions br br it's simply that the whole movie is too tame and well mannered for its own good there is precious little danger dirt or drama sure there's a moment of excitement involving a school run by lily's younger sister but this whole episode is funnier than it is dramatic it's just so poorly written and acted and the movie betrays its conservative agenda in the manner in which this subplot is resolved br br as for good old reece now what's wrong with a name like i ask you is the ending of this film believable fitting in with the character this film had earlier constructed i think not
0	visually beautiful with some fine music this film otherwise has a fairly trite made for tv quality the romance between two characters which spans a cultural and educational divide is simply not plausible of course from early on we knew our heroine would lighten up win over the locals and find true love but that doesn't make it any less woeful that the movie had to take such completely expected turns this film had lots of promise which makes it more of a shame that the promise was unrealized perhaps a nice under the blanket on a cold night freebie on cable but i certainly wouldn't recommend paid rental or purchase i'm sure the soundtrack is wonderful though
0	this was a fabulous premise based on lots of factual history but the serious lack of character development left us not really liking or caring about any of the characters especially the she did not get any sympathy she seems like she deserved his own black cloud the songs were great to a point but became repetitive after a while
0	spoilers when i first saw the preview for this it looked like a good old fashioned hallmark movie i love bluegrass music so i couldn't wait to see it when we rented the movie we read the back and it sounded even better the film was pretty boring for the first half every now and then a song would be played then i'm embarrassed typing this a lesbian love seen came in i that ther was something more then friendship between the teachers but i certainly didn't expect nudity and prolonged make out sessions i was watching this with my mother and i was quite embarrassed because i picked this movie but besides that it was an okay movie the acting was fine the actress who played was great to be honest the soundtrack was the best part of the movie i don't care to see the movie again but i bought the soundtrack the day after i saw the movie and there are continuation discs that follow if i were you i would skip the movie and just get the music
0	as a true canadian i always avoid canadian movies however now and then i get trapped into watching one this one is better than most which is to say mediocre it has many of the usual flaws of canadian films self conscious acting an excess of cinematic gimmicks and above all the self effacing canadian habit of using canadian cities as stand ins for american ones i mean using the historic metropolis of montreal as a stand in for pennsylvania is just short of obscene i was in a generous mood i gave it a 4 br br
0	this has got to be the worst show i have ever seen i always liked chuck norris in films but why do we need to make these shows politically correct by adding a black side kick who is as threatening as shirley temple in little miss marker i also thought the show was limited because how many times can you kick a guy in the face and make it interesting i know an african american who looks like this guy and he gets his butt kicked about once a week he is all attitude br br chuck norris is the man and he deserves all the kudos he gets i think this show started great but lost steam as time went on br br they should have dumped chucks side kick
0	i'd never thought that i would be caught saying this but i think dog the bounty hunter is more entertaining than this 90's era cop drama walker is very melodramatic and actually set a standard of the genre of high octane cop shows such as csi csi miami and so forth i'm not saying all these shows are bad but they aren't good either i like the karate chop action that walker dispenses on the enemies of justice and the diverse cast of characters as much as the science tech of the csi series but there are some elements that i hate in a show like this stereotypes that's right stereotypes unfortunately this is a show for the of red state america who refuse to part with the old prejudices of yore especially when it comes to crime for example there was an episode in which a kid with psychic powers ventures into dallas where he encounters group of kids in goth punk clothing and they start harassing him now this is exactly what middle america perceives the goth punk culture i mean come on how often do people that dress like that rob and steal from people just minding there own business whenever there are blacks and latinos in the plot it's always about gangs in some impoverished neighborhood okay not everyone who's a minority is a desperate recruit of a gang surrounded by crime drugs poverty again this is what middle red state america sees of these people finally why is the the bumbling sidekick can't you make the sidekick an equal ass kicker
0	i was wondering what possessed the organizers of the victoria film festival to include this film in their program i guess they must have agreed with the others who have reviewed this film i on the other hand consider it the worst film i have ever seen it starts with a bad script full of holes and dialog so unlikely it's embarrassing ideas are introduced then dropped with no development the acting left me totally cold and uninvolved the set decoration was appropriate for the time but a nightmare the only way the characters could love this house is if their previous homes had been ghastly the attic looked as if the items had been thrown in for the scene with no attempt to create the look of a real attic that has been filling with junk over the years the photography was leaden and lacking in variety save your money for something worthwhile
0	this series is formulaic and boring the episodes are the same thing every week simply with slightly varied settings some purely evil character does some dastardly deed walker goes after him and it ends in a karate match the villains are super cliché super stereotypical evil villains the good guys are all pure honest and saintly and the story lines are simplistic and unrealistic after about 2 episodes the show becomes totally unwatchable by all but the least discerning fans certainly not norris's best work his other work may be cliché but it usually does not drag on for weeks if you enjoy formulaic boring repetitive clichéd snooze fests then this is for you
0	walker texas ranger is one of the worst shows produced in the past 10 years the script for james walker's sidekick is about as pathetically written of a part as wesley crusher on star trek tng and is played with about as much conviction br br on this show people don't respond the way people respond to things in real life everyone is polarized everyone is either a completely good guy or a completely bad guy unless walker himself has a 2 minute talk with them and then they change instantly that's not how life works that's not how people are this show doesn't take place in this reality br br the plot lines are about as realistic as murder she wrote a show where an arrogant old lady can just walk into people's houses without them getting angry and she can demand that police officers do what she wants and they bend over backwards for her with walker everyone on the show including the bad guys act like he's the sort of hero that myths and fairy tales are made of and time itself bends to his whim the lines that sometimes come out of people's mouths on this show are beyond ridiculous it's as if the scriptwriter for the part of wesley crusher for the serious parts and the scriptwriter for bob saget's funniest home videos for the humor parts got together and wrote all the scripts for this show br br this show is for people who think that good always prevails over evil it's for the elderly it's for wishful thinkers it's for people who want to be guaranteed to always have a happy ending it's for people who want to drift away into oblivion it's for people whose drug of choice is their television br br i cringe every time i see even a commercial for this show my opinion is that it is the worst show to be on television in the last 10 years br br i used to like chuck norris but this show has forever tainted him in my mind i can't even watch his older movies without thinking of this show
0	this tv show is possibly the most pathetic display of crap on tv today horribly predictable obscene usage of slow motion photography cheesy story lines chuck norris is an abomination who should never have been allowed to be filmed in anything the way he chooses to make each episode into a public service announcement is really annoying his acting sucks so bad that it makes a person cringe with embarrassment i will give the series some credit though it does get entertaining at times but not enough for it make any difference with all the negative points this series has i still prefer it over reality tv it can't really get any more worthless than that
0	this show is the worst show ever norris and his family write it produce it direct it etc etc the only reason i ever see it is because my goofy wife likes it how many times can norris fly though the air from plain sight to land a kick on an obviously blind villain no trees no building just whoosh thin air he always solves the case or is the best at whatever skill there is no co star ever gets the glory its all norris its truly apparent that norris is awful stuck on himself and will not allow anyone to one up him in any scene no matter what the content terrible acting terrible script terrible series
0	the fact that this cruddy series could elicit dozens of comments much less hundreds of speaks volumes as to the decline of western or at least american civilization br br read proust you morons or at least dave barry or calvin and anthologies br br chuck norris wrap your brains around the fact that in order to rate or write about this series you'd have to have spent minutes nay hours viewing this poor sod treading the boards and spewing lines with less emotional impact than the gal who used to call off the correct time on your local service br br please don't watch this show spare your few remaining brain cells
0	first of all no one with any law enforcement experience not er or but real law enforcement takes this show seriously walker would be drummed out of any police force in the us for his illegal and totally unprofessional tactics on top of that he is a comic book character no acting ability incredibly trite lines no character development the fact that alex cahill loves him shows just how dumb blondes really are and is the ultimate clown in black face come on if you think walker is a heartfelt show without bias then explain why jt is treated as a dolt always is the subject of walker's jokes never is allowed to be the one to solve the crime and never rescues walker who should be dead 50 times over for the stupid things he does while it may be true that many criminals are even dumber than the detectives who go after them and believe me most cops are dumber than dirt the smart ones walker comes up against never seem to get the point that once walker is captured the jerk needs to be put of his misery but then again norris produced the show as well as starred in it so how could he willingly get rid of himself or even show how stupid his tactics are as if six guys are going to wait around to take him one at a time what a terrible series it is more demeaning than any of the hokey westerns like the lone ranger roy rogers the cisco kid and wild bill hickock though i would imagine that most of you on here are far too young to remember those shows but like those shows in the same way as those shows walker tr is just as insulting and just plain silly
0	i just don't understand why anytime someone does a show about one of the largest metro areas in the country houston dallas austin san antonio etc they portray the average person as someone who wears wranglers cowboy hat talks with a drawl has zero fashion sense and drives a truck on his way to either the saloon or his next hunting trip rodeo skeet shooting or country music concert i have never even seen a small town cop driving a police truck anywhere in texas br br the funny thing is this is not done for artistic reasons or comedy they are actually serious and i guess believe the average person is too stupid to know the difference the bad scripts and equally bad acting give that away this show makes goofy shows in the past like knightrider look like high brow entertainment at least knightrider had the talking car
0	this was an abysmal show in short it was about this kid called doug who guilt tripped a lot seriously he could feel guilty over killing a fly then feeling guilty over feeling guilty for killing the fly and so forth the animation was grating and unpleasant and the jokes cheap br br it aired here in sweden as a part of the disney time show and i remember liking it some what but then i turned 13 br br i never got why some of the characters were green and purple too what was up with that br br truly a horrible show it spawned a movie which i've never seen but i don't have any great expectations for that one either
0	poor diane arbus whoever she was not only was she according to this movie a spoiled but sweet acting upper east side brat she was a bad wife bad mother awful business partner plus there is no evidence in this picture that she was any kind of an artist except in the bold statement in the prologue br br nicole kidman who incredibly is more attractive today than 25 years ago and actually looks younger indeed gives an excellent performance but what can an actress do with a wife and mom who seeks out and falls for an incredibly weird werewolf looking guy living in the apartment upstairs set in the early 1970's manhattan was a virtual magnet for freaks and of all sizes and shapes most not looking like human so why is this affair worthy of a minute movie br br robert downey jr used to be one of my favorites but i'd say his well known and prolonged use of drugs has taken its toll one might think he'd be to be in a movie that treats drug use as casually as it does smoking cigarettes br br fur has already taken a beating at the box office but in view of those who input a score of 10 for this misbegotten slice of trash i'd like to say so mcgee
0	bizarre this movie is supposed to be based on a famous photographer but everything that happens in this movie is fiction i guess it tries to explain why diane arbus had a fascination with oddities and made it her primary photography focus in the movie wolfman moves into the apartment above hers she seemingly becomes obsessed with him and falls for him she puts her kids and husband second over the wolfman and even tries to incorporate him into her family gatherings some of the freak show side kicks come over to visit and she mingles with them the whole thing is very bizarre br br final verdict nothing memorable there is just something weird about a woman who gets her jollies from shaving the wolfman i think you can find better films out there
0	tamara anderson and her family are moving once again as her itinerant painter father chases his next landscape fifteen years old she is in her rebellious stage already angry at her father for their frequent relocations her anger is exacerbated when her mother is suddenly confined to a sanatorium for tuberculosis her mother's absence causes tamara to lash out at her father and seek comfort in religion the boy next door rusty as well as the spirit of the dead teenager who used to live in her rented house br br the story is modest to a fault it's oddly paced and even during its emotional scenes there isn't any tension the actors portraying the parents are fine alberta watson is incredibly charismatic as the sick mother and maria is particularly effective as the guilt ridden mother of the dead teenager but katie boland as tamara is too amateurish to carry the movie the dialog is very natural and boland can't quite pull it off she has her moments and when she hits them she can be good but there were too many times when she came off awkward one can see her thinking this is what my line is and this is the face i'm supposed to rather than actually reacting to the other actors she's not the only one kevin zegers as rusty and megan park as his sister brenda also suffer from stilted delivery but at least they're in fewer scenes br br if done right the screenplay could have made her an affecting movie and it has it moments but much of it is bogged down with an amateurish lead performance and flat directing
0	a really very bad movie with a very few good moments or qualities br br it starts off with pregnant linda blair who runs down a hallways to flee what might be monsters or people with pitchforks i'm not sure she jumps through a window and wakes up and we see she is very pregnant the degree to which she is pregnant varies widely throughout the movie br br she and an annoying and possibly retarded little boy who i thought was her son travel to an abandoned hotel on an island italian horror directors find the most irritating little boys to put in their movies on the island already are david hasselhoff and his german speaking virgin girlfriend you know how germans are said to love hasselhoff he's taking photographs and she's translating an esoteric german book about witches i think br br also traveling to the island are an older couple who have purchased it and a real estate agent and a woman i thought was their daughter evidently she was an architect and linda blair and the boy are the older couple's children i guess they all traveled to the island together but it really seemed like linda and the boy were apart from the rest of them maybe they were filmed separately br br the hotel seems neat certainly from the exteriors but it isn't used to any great effect an old woman in bad makeup and a black cloak keeps appearing to the boy and chants something in german sometimes which he eventually records on his sesame street tape recorder br br people start getting killed either in their dreams or sucked into hell or something some of these gore scenes are ok but not enough to recommend the movie though the copy i watched stated it is uncut on the box cover the death of one character whose veins explode really seems to have been cut much of the scene is showing another character's reaction shots since we're not seeing anything ourselves the creepiest scene is one in which a man or demon with a really messy looking wound of a mouth rapes someone he looked particularly nasty there's a laughably and painfully bad scene in which linda blair is possessed i wish if a horror movie is going to cast her they would do something original with her role and let her leave exorcist behind her except for the yearly horror conventions br br in the weird largely italian tradition of claiming to be a sequel to something it is unrelated to this is also aka la casa 4 and ghosthouse 2 that is it is supposedly a sequel to casa 3 ghosthouse la 1988 it's not that's also a better movie than this one la casa 1 and two were the evil dead 1981 and evil dead ii 1987 again unrelated to witchery and la casa 3 and much better than those there's also a casa 5 la 1990 aka house 5 which seems to want to be a sequel to the fake la casa series and the series house house 1986 house ii the second story 1987 the horror show 1989 aka house iii and house iv 1992 how's the horror show fit in there it doesn't really it claimed to be a sequel thus requiring the real series entry to renumber itself to cause less or more confusion oddly the horror show is also aka horror house and la casa 5 is also aka horror house 2 does your head hurt yet
0	i could have liked this if i didn't like diane arbus br br didn't really capture arbus unique visual aesthetic as stanley kubrick did in the shinning with the twin girls in the hallway a direct homage to one of arbus most famous photos and one with haunting qualities none of this movies images have and certainly none of her character outgoing likeness thin and jewish not wasp queen kidman or life save some very superficial similarities she was a fashion who later photographed freaks and outsiders among many things this film focused on the freak as her symbol for artistic and personal empowerment in a really shallow and predictable fashion outside of that it might have been an interesting movie about middle class fetish but i was too annoyed to care br br perhaps if arbus name had been left off this might have been less annoying but had it not had her name in the title there would have been nothing to make me interested in seeing in this in the first place a letdown from secretary
0	as an early representation of the turmoil of the 1960's that followed diane arbus nicole kidman can be excused as an early flower child the film itself deserves no such latitude the lack of character development motivation and justification for the character's behavior makes the movie very disappointing i sat watching and waiting for some explanation of the bizarre actions only to find that was letting me peek into a story that must have been someones inside joke that the few facts presented did not match diane life very much did not help to clarify things either br br the washed out art direction in diane's 'normal' life was nicely contrasted with the brilliant colors in her life with lionel and the trap door stairway was a nice demonstration of diane's attempt to inject her new life into her existing family however i don't see how that trap door in the ceiling of her dining room could directly connect to lionel's apartment which was two flights of stairs up from her's br br maybe my analysis is a little too literal in looking for some character development and relationship understanding that goes beyond one sentence or one comment i also would have liked to see at least one of diane's photos as well i won't wait for the sequel
0	i don't know how this movie has received so many positive comments one can call it artistic and beautifully filmed but those things don't make up for the empty plot that was filled with sexual innuendos i wish i had not wasted my time to watch this movie rather than being biographical it was a poor excuse for promoting strange and lewd behavior it was just another hollywood attempt to convince us that that kind of life is normal and ok from the very beginning i asked my self what was the point of this movie and i continued watching hoping that it would change and was quite disappointed that it continued in the same vein i am so glad i did not spend the money to see this in a theater
0	what were they thinking when they made this truly terrible film br br arbus one of the most important photographers and women of the twentieth century had a fascinating and dramatic life what possessed anyone to make this film which explains her unique artistic vision as being the result of an imaginary affair with a grotesque yet charismatic hairy freak played by downey br br in real life arbus broke out of a traditional marriage and woman's role to express herself in this movie arbus is an ultra dreary nicole kidman whose inspiration is all attributed to a beauty and the beast devotion to an interesting man br br for this reinvention the film is truly shameful independent of that it is also just dopey and dull
0	hadn't really heard too much about this movie so i went and saw it i realized that this movie only appeals to someone who has not lived in the real world and even those people would think this movie moved too slowly br br when the movie opens up you see nicole kidman going to a nudist camp whoa shock that scene the dialouge were all great and then the movie went downhill br br while i respect the vision the filmmaker must have this movie sucked it was too slow too predictable and not moving enough robert downey jr is great as usual but this movie is not good enough to sit through it tries to be shocking and abnormal but makes poor use of the talents of all the actors br br don't waste your money even the sex scenes were boring
0	for anyone who cares to know something about the real diane arbus or who values psychological veracity this film is abysmal arbus was a brilliant talented restless and troubled person but this film depicts her as completely self involved and truly bizarre in her taste and judgment kidman portrays her as wan and vague whereas she was someone who knocked people over with her charisma the totally fictional relationship that is central to the film is quite unbelievable and robert downey is truly annoying in his smirking portrayal of someone who seems to think he's superior to the rest of the world simply because of his affliction the film depicts this encounter as being the source of interest in freaks which is a truly banal explanation for the inspiration behind some of the greatest photographs of the 20th century the mystery to me is why people of some talent and intelligence chose to be involved with this film in any way
0	in order to enjoy an imaginary portrait of diane arbus ' stephen needs the viewer to suspend all reality and prior knowledge of the american photographer diane arbus paradoxically it's the very use of diane name and knowledge to her life and work that sets this film up to fail on a grand scale br br what becomes apparent quite early on with the casting of the beautiful waspish and glamorous nicole kidman as the anti glamorous jewish diane arbus is that didn't get arbus or what her work was about unsentimental realism and seems only attracted to arbus on a superficial level through her photographs of circus freaks br br what follows is a kind of pretty and trivial beauty the beast fantasy biopic with robert downey jr as kidman's hairy fictional love interest however it's not the banality of the story that is the main flaw in this film but the director's misogynistic stance that diane arbus one of the art world's most singular and original woman photographers was incapable of forming her own ideas about her work while his previous film was a study of female masochism his continued portrayal of the female as submissive spoils this film completely and flys in the face of the real life diane courage tenacity and fearlessness in single handedly exploring the often shady world of outsiders br br imagine an imaginary biopic on pop star madonna's life with guy richie as her svengali the man behind her career and you'll get a feel of how seriously flawed and imaginary this film is it can only work if you have absolutely no knowledge of the subject or just choose to ignore all the facts br br it's a shame because once you remove all reference to diane arbus this film could have stood up on its own as an interesting study on fetishism and a good companion piece to secretary 4 10
0	in a not totally successful attempt to be taken seriously and move into 'adult' films mr hughes gives us this film about a young married couple true it's got every cliche in the book in it silly fantasy stuff and all that but more importantly it's got elizabeth mcgovern br br clearly the best actress to have ever appeared in a john hughes film she lends a weight to it that elevates the sometimes silly material kevin bacon and his hair is pretty good as her husband but mcgovern steals the movie with her quiet true moments of honesty the 'teen film' fun that worked so well in other hughes films falls flat here like a favorite uncle whose jokes made you laugh when you were 9 but keeps telling them when you are 15 and you wish he'd find some new material but i keep going back to performance because it's truly moving mr hughes most interesting films to me have real actors in them some kind of wonderful breakfast club and when his material bumps up against a true talent some wonderful things can happen if only he'd trust that it doesn't have to be tarted up with the silly fantasy stuff
0	warning spoilers ahead even if i doubt that anybody hasn't seen this yet br br the movie starts off rather well but about halfway through it falls apart and becomes a corny sugary sweet predictable and unrealistic romance' mess i mean it's very obvious that there are serious problems in the main characters' marriage but these problems are never solved but just forgotten br br basically as soon as she decides to have a baby behind his back without even asking all of their problems magically disappear without a trace or an explanation given what had happened up until that moment it would have been far more logical if the marriage fell apart rather than becoming the trite and cliche' 'having a baby will change ending br br the two main characters' families and neighbours are also extremely one dimensional and don't seem to serve really any purpose if not to irritate the viewer and they also mysteriously disappear from the movie as soon as the moments' start br br i am sorry to be ripping this movie but given the start i would have expected something more 4 10 for me
0	dustin hoffman's debut feature isn't as bad as it's reputed to be a spanish italian co production filmed in italy with the director using the pseudonym dan ash the film is uneven but generally diverting and deals with a plethora of shady characters in search of a 1 000 000 hidden by gangster cesar romero who despite being third billed after elsa and hoffman himself expires before the credit sequence has even rolled br br hoffman's performance obviously is nowhere near as nuanced as in later films but manages to dodge embarrassment by playing what basically amounts to an amiable klutz an accident prone american treasury agent of sicilian descent named which nobody seems to be able to get right sent out by his firm to retrieve the money and told to remain inconspicuous but instead is forever getting into trouble though he ultimately proves surprisingly resourceful by finding the loot foiling the crooks and winning the girl as romero's daughter who's somewhat wasted here br br still the film's best moments are provided by suave gangster riccardo apart from his would be hard boiled persona and the hilarious use of dialect he's flanked by a trio of nitwits who more often than not prove a hindrance in the fulfillment of his various schemes also in view of the story being set in rome it's odd that the police officer investigating the case is a spaniard doubtless an of the co production deal br br along the years i've missed out on hoffman's other italian comedy alfredo alfredo 1972 a number of times i guess mainly because leonard maltin only rates it 1 2 in his movies video guide but then million gets a bomb with pietro germi directing and co starring the luscious stefania sandrelli the credentials of that film are certainly more respectable and i really hope it turns up again on italian tv soon
0	the director seems like a good solid man his parents struggle with the same issues we all cope with they strayed from each other they loved each other they misunderstood each other and the poor audience has to sit through ninety minutes of what is possibly the trials and tribulations of one of the most boring families ever to come out of long island br br there are few interesting choices in this documentary the music is banal the filming uninspired and the story is the same story that has played out on every birch street in every town in america i don't mean to sound too harsh seldom has a sweeter more well intentioned documentary been made the director is the kind of man with whom you'd want to be friends you just wish he had struggled as much presenting the material as his parents did keeping their marriage alive
0	we were excited to rent this one after reading a few reviews and seeing that it scored so highly here well we got it home and could not believe what we saw its basically comes off as if its written by some hard up perverted old guy who could not help inserting his sexual frustrations and fantasies into an anime film that really lacks in plot and humor the main character is all over the place one moment he is like an immature little kid the next moment he is mature and intelligent then heroic then a perverted stalker br br the worst part is all of the out of place sexual content i have no problem with sex and dig a movie that has some good sexual energy but this is just presented in a way that is creepy nipple slips close ups of a girls crotch many times in white panties or a swimsuit it was totally out of place and it seemed as if the person who wrote it was trying to live out some fantasies through his cartoon characters br br we were expecting something of a mature nature but we just kept looking at each other and asking what the heck the point of this was besides jiggling cartoon boobs and poor dialogue if you want to see some cartoon characters cleavage and this is for you if you are looking for something beyond that this movie was empty the characters and dialogue were just plain irritating br br
0	i'll give it this i didn't stop watching and it's not corporate which is kind of cool but my internal critic cut it to pieces i suppose i see too many movies wooden script the slang just sort of out of their mouths without any kind of flow editing mentioned before is hit and miss sometimes it evokes a good ghetto feel but mostly its irritating jerky quirky angles and really dull lingering facial closeups the actors were marginal though had her moments br br i'm not sure why the audience supposed to care about curtis he's a total screwup and the actor is entirely expressionless and not particularly funny or endearing the directing doesn't help make you love him or hate him even i just wanted him to shut up and get shot already i didn't care about his impotent vengeance when that rolled around the completely predictable ending isn't credible at all i'm not sure why we're supposed to believe that some erstwhile successful dealers he are stupid enough to fall for his petty scams oh you just got out of jail and are on probation here's thousands of dollars worth of cocaine go run it around the corner for me now don't steal from me etc br br a good sex scene in the beginning gave me hope but it was let down in the end handling of a rape scene was slightly eyebrow raising if only mildly interesting there are better movies in this genre that don't insult your intelligence by trying for some kind of authentic ghetto realism while more resembling a film school offering 4 10 an f
0	ever had one of those nights when you couldn't sleep and just turned on the tube to see what was on that is how i ran across this tripe for myself i would have been better served tossing and turning for the 97 minutes i wasted with this film br br in its attempt to be real this movie's characters come off as such gangsta stereotypes that the story should have been the premise for a wayans brothers movie the dialog please it sounded like a white man was trying too hard to write this film br br the editing was horrible one of my favorite scenes involved a car chase down a bunch of narrow alleys cut to the characters being chased though and they are driving through a park complete with baseball fields in the background br br when any of our homies get shot in this film he bleeds miraculously through clothes that have no holes which is more than i can say for the plot of this predictable load of baking soda br br indie films can be great even if they are low on budget and effects but they still need to have some cinematic integrity if i could have given it a 0 i would if you watch it i hope it is on cable because even the cheapest rental would be too much to pay actually 97 minutes was too much to pay
0	after reading the reviews i decided to rent the dvd version br br i like classical music and wanted to learn more about bach br br i was disappointed i guess i do not know enough about bach music and the the comments were not enough for me to understand the importance or what music was being played br br maybe it would be appropriate with the guidance of an expert in bach's music that can explain the film br br i really tried and saw the whole film hopping that i would be able to enjoy at least some of it but i did not br br see it at your own risk
0	very stark very drab no real drama why not just make a documentary this isn't exactly the passion of joan of arc the only reason for seeing chronicles is to hear the performances i love bach's music and even i found it hard to sit through this misery of a film the great gustav plays in two senses of the word bach we don't get much of a sense of him as an actor since he's given so little to do dramatically mostly he gets to walk purposefully or angrily out of various rooms bach's life of course was not an errol flynn movie it was indeed fairly drab and more than a little hard this probably means that the life isn't a terrific candidate for a film the music of course is another story i recommend the stations of bach far more information for one thing and some insight into the music which is after all why bach interests us in the first place
0	like another reviewer i really wanted to like this movie i went with my father who was the biggest lover and booster of classical music but neither of us could stand this movie i wouldn't even call it a movie a better description might be a record of a few chamber concert pieces as i recall the camera never even moved rather i just sat on a tripod for the entirety of each piece the only attempts at dramatic effect were at the very end of each piece when the movie would cut to trees waving in the wind or little lapping at a beach i'm sure the director would have preferred to have used footage of some really big crashing waves but the best he could find were a few inches high at some nearby lake and again using a stationary camera truly pathetic i can't imagine how anyone could justify rating this movie higher than a five when we walked out my father and i were completely mystified as to how it was possible to make such a bad movie i don't know of of any good movies about bach the world really does need one but just because it doesn't exist is not a reason to see this one someone will make one someday until then just keep rewatching amadeus
0	dogmatic as another reviewer described this film is a fitting word the director's idea was to present bach without plot acting fun theatrics dialog narrative or drama mission accomplished monsieur pretentious yes cinematic no way this is anti cinema no one moves hardly anyone talks the camera holds static shots for 10 12 minutes at a time very very occasionally the camera will dolly in you may catch a glimpse of gustav fingers moving over the keys that's it br br if you like the idea of staring at the back of a head for 7 minutes at a stretch while listening to bach this is the film for you i'd rather listen to bach on my stereo with my eyes closed
0	bach did it better much of bach 's speaking part is letters written to various patrons complaining about the amount and speed of his payment anna diary mostly about the death of children and sundry other family matters is an iota more engaging the music is disconcerting 17th century sized chapel orchestras and choirs producing 20th century concert hall sound the overall production quality reminded me of a junior high slide show j s bach was a brilliant man whose music speaks for itself this film adds nothing netflix sent me 2 discs that wouldn't play so i streamed the movie clearly netflix was trying to tell me something
0	utterly ridiculous movie which makes fun of the college admission process while it is true that the sat's is not everything in evaluating a student for admission to college what the movie talks about is utterly ridiculous and not worth repeating nor viewing br br college officials are made to look like stupid people who have an extremely narrow view of the entire process the film is an insult to hard working high school students who work hard and then have to suffer through a long process until they receive that letter of acceptance or rejection from the schools they have applied for br br this movie certainly deserves rejection on all levels
0	sure this movie may have had its funny moments with the sat question people and i know the movie is not supposed to be totally believable the movie made it too outrageous for example a girl like that would never in a million years go out wit ha guy like that also people in movie had lackluster performances there acting was so bad also the plot bad they could have don e a better job on the scripting at least and focused more on the comedy the comedy was also a little dry and got really boring after the first few jokes it was like was laughter then the old when is this gonna end started to kick in the bottom line if u want a a lackluster of acting mixed in with a stupid plot and a romance go ahead and watch this movie
0	this documentary is rife with problems br br how arrogant is it to make a documentary about your own family i understand you think the subject is interesting i was bored with it this isn't a fascinating story to me and i don't know why you would think it was br br i don't want to come off as mean but i have to say most of the people in this film are just not attractive and that's ok not everyone is pretty but your camera technique to stick the lens in their face so you can't help but be overwhelmed by their unpleasant appearance because it is filling your 47 tv is not enjoyable i had to put my hand up half the time to shield myself from the warts wrinkles bags under eyes and yellow teeth really i'm trying not to sound inhuman but pull the camera back so its not like total strangers are breathing in my face br br the camera work in this film is rank amateur level it's the kind of camera work you see from everyone with a camcorder at a family picnic uninteresting framing unsteady even static shots are done carelessly put a little effort into it if you're going to do this for a living br br i honestly can't see what the big deal is about this thing
0	dooley and his canine partner jerry lee are together again in this 2nd sequel i sincerely had no clue that they made one sequel let alone two and for a film that was only slight better than turner hooch this time after dooley retires he has to mate his dog with other dogs people and wait around for jerry lee to poo real classy stuff i mean come on now the original had at least a few good laugh this one has nary a one jim belushi just looks old and worn out both belushi brothers were great in the '80's if john hadn't died would he be so bad today like his brother that thought makes me sad for some reason br br my grade d br br where i saw it usa network
0	sorry sorry but sorry nice very nice production very nice actors also funny but this type of the movies with a dog rex german jerry american with a private detectives with a pretty rich woman hello producer how many movies we have out there with the same plot what do u have on your minds when you make the scenes like dog having a or any king of that dog activities micro chips who can make you rich micro chips who wort a fortune there is three master chips wow and the creator of the chips can't make the same chips again hello wake up can give us something smarter than that best d
0	i am sitting here watching the film tango and cash it led to a discussion about other great late 80s movies the ridiculous and hooch connection came up br br granted i have never seen and if i still value my life i never will joshua quotes this as his movie of the year wow wow i am utterly astonished that this movie exists but so much more than that the fact that joshua likes this move disturbs me to the core i think joshua is one interesting guy br br br br
0	this is a pretty run of the mill family move that i am sure most children will enjoy but with really no that much to please any adults viewing the movie the premise of the film is that belushi's cop character takes his retirement but gets drawn into a case which results in him becoming a private investigator the movie's plot is so obvious most of the kids will surely pick the ending before it happens but additionally to that there seem to be story arcs and sub plots that are forgotten about as the movie progresses this coupled with a sub plot where the titular k 9 gets pimped out by belushi one to be avoided i am afraid
0	rourke does his usual bit part as a sinister ferocious evil jerk in the same mold as in picture claire out in fifty get carter double team and the rest of the garbage he happens to be in br br he has very few lines br br of course all this is just junk rourke him and doesn't matter for his characterization as an actor still after seeing a prayer johnny handsome barfly 9 1 2 weeks year of the dragon etc etc for many years i considered rourke an outstanding smart intelligent man i think he has changed since br br he looks callous br br he went about with gloomy looks despair inhabited his breast and made the man a perfect pest the example br br i had absolutely no other reason to watch this dull movie except that rourke was in
0	when recounting these events that took place some years ago hard to believe this actually happened i thought well there is a basis for an interesting story here many secrets were never uncovered the horse never found the main conspirators never captured etc br br however this film seems to be distracted by character study and very little attention payed to the plot some other questions are raised though like why on earth would mickey rourke be in this film its good to see career has taken off again but he must cringe at the mention of this rubbish br br if the subject matter interests you do an internet search on the topic you'll be more educated and dare i say more entertained avoid this
0	this film is mildly entertaining if one neglects to acknowledge its numerous incongruities of plot and sheer lack of believability bruce willis as the never seems to live up to his reputation as a cunning mastermind of the underworld instead he bumbles about in broad daylight parading a mishmash of shoddy disguises why this man has never been captured before or even identified is beyond me not once is the audience impressed by his cleverness or daring considering the price he demands for his services an exorbitant 70 million his methods are decidedly low budget and stupid br br as for those in pursuit of him they are at least as ridiculous in their behavior they show no sense of expertise instead relying on half baked which sends them traversing across the country at their whim incredibly these far fetched guesses maybe he bought a boat maybe he's in chicago etc etc invariably lead them straight to the who yet again escapes their clumsy grasp br br richard gere whose irish accent fades in and out like a distant radio station plays the inexplicable role of an imprisoned convict who is released from jail to work alongside the fbi he actually makes a compatible partner if only because his means are as amateurish and inept as his professional pals at one point he actually confronts the infamous but unfortunately the fbi although they trust him enough to leave him out of their sight fail to equip him with a weapon or any means of communication what kind of operation are they running here br br the film also appears overly reliant on gruesome violence which is entirely superfluous and provides no suspense whatsoever the supposedly stealthy acts more like a demented and senseless serial killer eliminating people for sport and writing on a victim's cheek with blood br br the film's action scenes are both predictable and unrealistic and many moments are ruined with melodrama this movie is poorly executed on many levels the one bright spot being the ever consistent sidney poitier avoid this movie if you are in the mood to think as you watch it br br
0	i could not believe how terrible and boring this hollywood remake was it's so dreadful it easily lands a place in my top 10 worst films of 1998 about the only thing it had going for it was bruce willis who should stick to action films as a completely emotionless killer who'd kill his own mother for the right price but i'd rather listen to robbie talk american for a week than listen to richard gere's nauseating irish accent again but this film is also implausible unconvincing uneven unexciting unimpressive and lands sidney in a rubbish role to make a possible career comeback one for purposes entirely
0	how many ppl know about this lets keep it that way i wonder at least some new dialogues can be made or not the movie is a real poor copy of the original bruce willis probably did this movie while he was half asleep the way he looks at richard gere's face with his cold blooded stare when they meet near the port oh my god scared the hell out of me why does he kill major and her mates isn't still clear to me another thing that i could not understand was the poison solution that he put on the car what in the world was it br br the movie plot is haywire and climax is dull another funny thing was how the russian was killed in the club i fell off my chair laughing when i saw that scene also what was that thing about the gay guy what purpose was it serving i think the movie is made too swift to be easily understood you have to really think what the hell was on director's mind lol br br and the best scene after all was richard gere trying to hold on to the pillar between 2 fast moving trains must have made someone loose his head if not contact with the pillar
0	so lets say you are a producer you have some money and you somehow got richard gear and bruce willis so now all you need is a script but why bother see this movie is really terrible the acting is pretty good but the casting is awful gear and willis did their best to play these characters they simply cant play now this movie has no plot or rather there's something that tries to pass off as a plot there's a mean hit man willis who is cool dangerous and sophisticated actually he's none of those things but from some dialog between the other characters you are supposed to get this impression so this hit man is on a mission to kill someone now there's an ex ira prisoner who is kind and nice and very likable gear who the fbi release from prison so he will help them so now the fbi is investigating to find this hit man the investigation consists of a series of unlikely information like some random person lost his wallet and someone used his name to buy a car which is always right on the money since there's no real plot and the script is so crappy you cant expect any real character development or tension so instead of creating them through the story they simply add some disconnected dramatic music which signals you that something very dramatic is going on instead of actually creating something dramatic br br the bottom line is that this is a very bad movie and a complete waste of time which somehow got an incredibly high score for its level probably because of the cast and this is exactly what the producers where counting on
0	after seeing the movie i feel the father and the mother are both reasonable person although not perfect at all on the contrary i don't like the author and his two sisters br br is a person's journal an accurate portrait of herself no most of time people only write problems in her journal because she want to solve the problem so a journal is always a more negative side of a person in this movie the author judge his mother's life by her journal not a wise choice br br the author's elder sister is so ugly external and internal first she said her father's second marriage is not fair for her mother then she said she doesn't love her mother so she don't love both father and mother i doubt she love anybody in the world her face is so ugly just a reflection of her heart through out the movie i feel the author and his sisters are lack of love and respect to their parents however i feel the father are mother are very loving to their children even the author try to portrait them as cold deceitful person
0	i would ward off any temptation to view this movie it is quite simply dull the characters are predictable and mindless the assassin is quite there is no tension fun no style or even a glimmer of originality to be found in this train wreck and the morass of hollywood cliché's are stifling oh and you have a movie that makes a hero of an ira terrorist cute and now i need to speak some more to fill up the ten lines and a little bit more is that enough not quite how about now no well further should do the trick but the is really not worth ten lines of exposition the original was great though
0	i'm normally a fan of bruce willis and despite him playing the cold hearted professional killer i thought him the most appealing character here that said his character makes such a mess of his professional activity it's incredible he hasn't been caught before the plot is thin to the point of being nonsensical the end was no less annoying and insulting for the fact that it could have been predicted from about 20 minutes into the movie br br spoilers follow in hollywood morality the good guys always win with a few casualties along the way and the bad guys die or are at least heading for justice by the end the breathtaking insult of the film is the way that our ira terrorist who has somehow become a cuddly touchy feely character gets to walk off to a new life as does his former terrorist playmate who is now a loving wife and mother br br who's the bigger villain the former and so far as we can tell unrepentant terrorist or the hired assassin i don't see much to choose between them in real life or in the film br br this is the poorest film i've seen this year
0	very shortly a bad film if you are looking for pure action and no brain or brain or you are under 15 years old and like bruce willis this is the movie also don't expect the scenario to be consistent or even believeable if you think a little so don't if you just want to enjoy yourself
0	a ruthless assassin has been hired to eliminate someone at the very top of the u s government constantly changing his identity and location he is known only as the everything about this hit man is a secret aware of the presence but uncertain of his purpose the fbi's deputy director faces the biggest challenge of his career in order to track down this cold blooded killer he and a by the book russian intelligence officer enlist the aid of an imprisoned irish terrorist these unlikely allies enter a global race against the clock to stop the mysterious mercenary before he can complete his assignment if you are looking for a non stop action movie like die hard then the is not your movie it´s a slow spy thriller with many cool gadgets and weapons richard gere does a good job playing an impassioned terrorist who is helping the fbi for a deeper cause than just freedom and willis puts forth a good effort as the ok film but nothing more
0	i was looking forward to seeing bruce willis in this especially since i remember being mesmerised by the original when i was young br br this movie is a perfect example of how movie companies can take a very good story and dumb it down until it's just another formula ridden hype of the fabled american law enforcement system army vs the russians no sorry the cold war is over make that with the russians vs the terrorists similar to probably 50 other movies br br furthermore it treats its audience like a bunch of idiots the choice of weapon is well plain ridiculous are we seriously expected to believe that the world's most feared and experienced hit man terrorist would select that for an assasination br br the whole point of the original story was the tense dual of intellects between the ordinary detective who is given the responsibility and the professional who crafts a ruthless but elegant plan to reach his target and then get away none of that survived all we have is the tired old american cia fbi army vs the evil terrorist plot we've all seen 1000 times before br br but of course the movie company's realised that a new intellectual angle here would lose them revenue from the short attention span gang so the answer is bruce willis big explosions and a crippled plot they assume the american audience wont be able to relate to a threat to a foreign where is france on the map afterall so it has be an american br br another example of a movie by the boardroom
0	the 1973 day of the directed by fred zinnemann from the frederick forsyth novel while not a masterpiece in the general scheme of things was nevertheless quite an above average thriller written and carried out with considerable panache wit and style it remains a pleasure to rent and watch now and then br br in adapting that for the 1997 the it seems that at every turn the writers and director made the worst possible choice making it all quite leaden overdone unsurprising unsexy and if we put together a catalog of all the specifics that went into this movie big and small i could give you a mini essay for each topic on how the 1997 adaptation ed up br br item the weapon br br in the original there is considerable intrigue over how the assassin is going to smuggle it onto the scene how he intends to disguise it and why it needs custom work from his underground craftsmen in the remake they apparently thought that today's action flick raised audiences wouldn't tolerate a small rifle whose point is precision and would demand the lugubrious off the black market shelf machine gun which needs a to transport it and whose point is to shout macho the whole involved and interesting business about disguising its components has been reduced to showing us repeatedly like this is a difficult point to follow that the joystick for his absurdly high tech remote control system has been in his pocket as a pen br br item the conspirators and motive br br without resorting to dry lecture the original still manages to give us a good understanding of the historical situation of the noirs the french algerian who could not accept that the century was moving away from colonialism and formed the view that de had betrayed them this gives the whole plot some historical weight the remake seems to leave it as a gangland shootout revenge story minimally spicing it up by making them russian gangsters note please that i'm not opposed to updating they could have done this intelligently and come up with something more current but non trivial certainly russia and the rest of ex ussr have been through huge changes of late and an updated story could have been situated there in a way that would make us feel that it matters br br item the relationship of the assassin on the run and the police hunting him down and the complex steering of the viewer's sympathies from the bad guy to the good guy br br above i hesitated somewhat at calling the original a masterpiece overall but in this aspect it really was one we follow along with the assassin for much of the first portions of the film and having seen his cleverness and resourcefulness we begin to admire him and not want to see his plan thwarted or see him caught at least not too soon then we meet the policeman who gets pushed into heading up the investigation protection efforts and bit by bit we take to him and see he is not the sad sack his domestic troubles may have suggested by the time it matters we have been won over to his side br br in the remake perhaps poitier could have handled that sort of development but gere sure can't and the absurd 48 hours derived gimmick of the con brought out to help the police should have been left in those comedies where it came from br br the remake has the assassin and the assassin hunter talk about how they 're like players above a chessboard communicating indirectly via their moves and only able to infer what the other is like that was achieved superbly in the original but in the remake in fact they're brought into face to face confrontation way too soon so they can grimace at each other bloody the place up and go through some fairly standard chase scenes br br item photography and scenery br br the remake does have some nice images particularly in snowy finland in the opening section but the washington d c metro cannot really compete with the streets of paris for interesting perspectives and bystander faces    
0	it is hard to screw up this story great book good film version from fred yet this film is awful first the casting was terrible richard gere should of played the himself as edward fox was a similar type of cypher and they didn't need to mess with the original script by adding so much worthless expensive fluff this film reminded me of so many bruce willis films as you see huge expense with nothing cinematic to show for it it is his conspiracy theory it takes some real doing to make a film this bad from such a fine original script every person from michael caton jones down should be banned from making films for 10 years such is the insult this film is to real filmmakers were hollywood to go on trial for having no idea what they were doing this film would be exhibit a shame on you all
0	this may well be the worst remake hollywood has ever produced and that's saying something i'll take it further than that and say this movie is so stunningly deliriously bad that it must be seen i don't know if i'm even capable of tackling all the things wrong with it like the fact that the casting director appears to have pulled names out of a hat or the mind blower of richard gere's character being allowed to walk away scot free at the end i'm sure the people saying it's just fiction who cares would have no problem if it was a former al qaeda operative who just wants to return to his home country so i'll just devote my review to the utter hilarity which is mainly the scene where bruce willis is testing out his gun br br in the original version you'll recall the practices his kill on a pumpkin the pumpkin explodes on impact an effect known as understatement in this version willis sets up a pumpkin target but he doesn't use a sniper rifle he uses a gigantic remote controlled cannon which costs tens of thousands of dollars and can only be stored in the back of a huge conspicuous this man likes a challenge he reveals the cannon by pulling away a tarp at which point jack black who is there to observe jumps around and says that rocks this thing rocks about 18 times i guess willis didn't have to disassemble it first he just lifted it tarp and all out of the back of the van despite it probably weighing several tons the scene then turns into an austin powers movie as willis misses the pumpkin and takes out a tree then has black run through the mud with his pants falling down finally blowing off black's entire arm the pumpkin falls to the ground unharmed br br if i can recommend this movie for one non ironic reason it's for the diane character as a tough russian major who becomes romantically linked to gere despite having a facial disfigurement a bold move for a hollywood feature by mid movie i was really liking this character so it was a shame when she had to be killed i would have liked to see a movie about her other than that this pile of crap is only useful as an objective intelligence test 3 10
0	spoilers bruce willis the part time comic and funny guy plays a hispanic assassin nicknamed after an african scavenger prairie dog i guess all the good hispanic nicknames like scar scorpion viper cobra snake tarantula whip blade etc were not available and why would some south american assassin be acquainted with a terrorist from the irish republican army last time i checked the ira is not looking to open any branch headquarters in south america and why would some prison tough battle weary irish terrorist look like a middle aged richard gere i thought maybe this movie was going to be a spoof of the crying game when gere's character was introduced as the person who was going to hunt down the what bad casting and why would the fbi be hiring depraved terrorists in order to track down assassins it seems like a terrorist goes for mass destruction and an assassin usually hits one target in a non spectacular manner but gere is the only person who has ever seen willis alive according to the fbi i thought this movie was supposed to be a remake of the very great film day of the but this movie is just a dumber version of assassins with stallone and banderas both of these movies are really dumb and part of the dumb ness is the fact that as the audience we are forced to watch bruce willis go through his routines and we should say wow isn't he smart the professional with jean reno was a much better movie about assassins the is just a movie about two fat middle aged millionaire actors who could get paid for standing around looking pretty and pretending to be smart the is so poor that i expected to see sly stallone dennis rodman mickey rourke and jean van making cameo appearances as other or fbi needless to say the has eluded the fbi for twenty five years but as soon as richard gere gets on the job it is only a few days before the is i guess the positive message of this movie is thanks to terrorists our streets are safe from assassins overall the has no redeeming qualities
0	laughably awful one might think that all the big name actors involved in this movie would at least make it believable but they do not this one is a stinker br br characters either sprint around without having a good reason to know where they are going or they stand around making constipated faces when they should be running for their lives br br check your higher brain functions at the door if you intend to try watching this movie or get a bunch of your most clever friends together and give this one the mystery science theater 3000 treatment that's what i was doing through the second half of this turkey br br and please don't confuse this with the excellent movie the day of the a far superior thriller from 30 years ago
0	excellent example of the disaster that happens when you combine a challenging script with two actors chosen for physical appeal it is rare for me to be consciously aware of the acting during the first viewing of a movie because i try to just go with the story and save the analysis for the second viewing in the case of full ride the acting was so weak that the movie was impossible to appreciate as a story i was too busy during first and only viewing alternating between laughter and nausea br br fortunately for most individual members of the cast pretty much everyone in the ensemble is weak the individual talent limitations do not contrast with any actual competent acting riley smith and meredith monroe are at least well matched physically finding common ground in looking far too old for the credible age of their characters br br unfortunately the script requires especially intense and convincing performances to portray their characters which just exposes smith and monroe's staggering lack of talent on the positive side they know enough to not look directly into the camera and they do not stutter br br better to have used a less attractive pair who could physically pass for the proper age the basic story is not particularly original just another variation on an officer and a gentleman but it would have provided a nice showcase for a talented pair of teenage actors br br then again what do i know i'm just a child
0	amidst all the many problems that make this a dire piece of celluloid is the stupidest plot device in recent cinema history richard gere determines who the real target is through some form of revelation he does not work anything out it just comes to him when in doubt he's going after the first lady this film blows chunks
0	roll up roll up it's big gay bruce and his big gay death cannon plausible plot unnecessary decent acting unnecessary respect shown to its mighty progenitor unnecessary yes it's another offensively stuffed turkey in the butch bruce canon br br i mean where do you start with this film okay let's begin with the woeful misapprehension people might have that this was in some way related to either the book or the original film the day of the it's not in fact it's so different and so bad that fredrick forsyth asked to have his name taken off it now i'm not necessarily a stuffy brit who can't hack hollywood remaking british films well okay maybe i am a bit like that but fortunately it's a redundant point in this case this film is so different to the original that the name and the odd reference are the only things that survive br br now let's move to the premise cheesy russian gangster gets killed in a moscow police raid somehow involving the fbi although no one bothers to explain why in revenge brother of gangster decides to wreak vengeance by killing the wife of the us president although again no one bothers to explain why this is a good move – although to be fair it was pre 9 11 so he wasn't to know it would have resulted in the us airforce carpet bombing eastern europe gangster hires nasty killer willis police hire cuddly killer gere cuddly killer tracks nasty killer police fanny around and periodically get killed cuddly killer kills nasty killer first lady is saved and we all realise that the ira are just this bunch of real sweet guys y'know who just happen to want to kill innocent people nice br br let's put to one side the distasteful hollywood habit of playing in the troubles of northern ireland like it was a in a theme park i deal with this point more extensively on the message boards if hollywood directors want to cast the belfast butchers as hookers with hearts of gold that's up to them i of course reserve the right to despise them for it it's a free country br br more egregious however is the fact that the film manages to patronise and insult the irish while trying to support them that's not politically distasteful it's far worse it's incompetent it's no wonder for instance that gere still looks so damn good given that he slept through the entire six months it took to make this piece of p the fact that gere's accent is not only southern irish but an appalling parody of southern irish shows that the filmmakers weren't looking much beyond america to make money from this film then there is that lovely scene at the end where sidney poitier a complete waste of space in this film says he's off for a coffee offers to get our cuddly ira man one then casually says ah but then you guys drink guinness don't you yeah that's right sidney the irish live on guinness and potatoes br br while we're on the subject of poitier why in the original film the detective is the tracker in gere is the tracker so what does poitier do well he just hangs around and looks like a tw at of course he's got absolutely nothing to do apart from call in the marines at the end and he only does this because the nice ira man tells him to br br while we're on the subject of gere why i suppose it's only a matter of time before hollywood remakes gandhi with vin diesel playing ex commando mahatma gandhi beheading his way through 1940s and 50s india he is after all a bit dark of hue and therefore very likely to be a muslim fundamentalist let's not forget that gere's character is a killer and therefore a nasty piece of work and if he's not why does he know the if he's not why does he know all his moves and if he is why is he such a limp biscuit and such a loveable person br br all this goes to show that the makers of this film couldn't be bothered to a think about the plot b have the characters making decisions that were in keeping with their character c avoid cheesy stereotypes like having the big boss bad guy kill his own friend – i honestly thought this had turned into a bond movie d give the central characters something to do e credit the audience with a modicum of intelligence br br this film is an insult to the british and irish killed at the hands of terrorists it's an insult to the irish people it's an insult to not great but pretty good film it rips off and an insult to the intelligence but most of all – and most unforgivable – it is an insult to my a for having to sit through the over two hours of run time it took to finish honestly you'd think with no plot no characters and no dialogue it would be over in no time but they didn't even have the decency to quit early
0	heaven mary and all the saints above a young man has got super sperm it's miracle bejesus call the pope all you ladies out their desperate to get preggers line up out side his door and drop your marks and sparks finest risible retro ealing comedy type comedy trying to bring you a bit of the auld irish charm has an effect like placing two fingers down your own throat maximus one out of ten
0	the most fertile man in ireland revolves around manley who is 24 year old and still happens to be a virgin he lives with his mother in belfast he is also a very shy guy towards women everything has changes for when he is seduced by a woman as far as i can remember a neighbour it is not because he looses his virginity but he discovers that he has a super power despite having protection this neighbour becomes pregnant he is told by the doctor that he has very high sperm count his mother brilliantly comes up with an idea which makes us see ginger headed babies all around in the end of the film he starts helping out women in both side of belfast to conceive babies first voluntarily then with the help of his colleague runs a business out of it the most fertile man in ireland has its funny moments but needed to come up with better jokes and with a better script i couldn't help thinking that it gave me the impression of a tv sitcom rather than a movie kris marshall is a different name on the silver screen but does not shine as star it's more like the guy you saw in such and such movie like him being in love actually i think he was very funny in that one well it was okay to watch but couldn't help dozing off from time to time out of
0	a movie theater with a bad history of past gruesome murders reopens of course the bloody killings start anew written directed shot scored and edited with an appalling lack of flair and finesse by the singularly talentless rick sloane who later disgraced celluloid some more with the absolutely atrocious hobgoblins this horrendously ham fisted attempt at a slasher spoof strikes out something rotten in every conceivable way the excruciatingly lethargic pacing the painfully static grainy cinematography there's a stinky surplus of drab master shots featured throughout an annoyingly droning and redundant synthesizer score the flat non direction a tediously talky and uneventful script the groan inducing sophomoric sense of lowbrow humor the bloodless murder set pieces a pitifully unscary killer he's just some wrinkled up old guy in pasty make up the uniformly obnoxious and unappealing characters a abrupt ending and lifeless performances from a noticeably uninspired cast all ensure that watching this schlocky swill is about as fun and rewarding as eating rancid raw eels drenched with sour vinegar this crud totally lacks the necessary crude charm and sleazy vigor required to be enjoyable junk instead it's just a bland plodding and meandering stiff that never catches fire or becomes even remotely amusing in a so shoddy it's smoking sort of way only a smidgen of nudity and the delightful presence of the always dependable mary woronov as a snarky sardonic secretary provide a little relief from the overall of this lousy loser
0	this movie was so dumb and slow was it ever slow the only good part of the film was the girl in the tight gold pants there was no gore and what is a 80's horror movie without a little gore plus the killer wasn't at all scary nor were the murders but if you like to watch the world's worst horror movie then this is for you don't waste your time like i did watching this
0	the most hardcore bad film buff will be surprised by the overall ineptness of this grade z film mary woronov a clever actress best known for her roles as mary bland in eating raoul and miss togar in rock 'n' roll high school is by far the best thing about this tripe this film is almost too bad even for mst3k honestly
0	i agree that mary woronov secretary is one of the only good things about this film she is my favorite actress ever every role she plays is always done so well her character is sly sarcastic clever light hearted funny and cunning she really pulls this role off well and you get a good feel for what her character is all about br br the rest of the movie is pretty bad the music is the most entertaining thing left one of the characters has this really strange circular radio that she brings with her while she wears her tight zebra striped tank top br br one thing that was a little intriguing about the story was the idea that someone hires these three college aged kids to spruce up an old abandoned theater he gives them the keys and says go at it that would be really fun and i wish someone would give me that chance imagine going into an old abandoned theater with two other people and you get to decide how to decorate it and fix it up you have total control over the whole building that would be so fun unfortunately the characters do not think of this as an exciting adventure they think of it as a big chore they walk around with long faces and fight with each other the whole time it's kind of a bummer but it's fun to think about the possibilities that these people aren't even excited about br br the movie does a pretty good job at making you feel helpless or a little spooked out by the theater itself however the acting besides woronov and possibly murdoch the boss just because makes a really good money hungry fake smiley business man who never has any luck is really horrible and you just end up feeling unsatisfied plus the random slapstick is a little tacky and kind of ruins the reality that the film tries to create br br watch this if you dig mary woronov funky 80's casio keyboard style electronic beats and if you think having a giant spooky abandoned theater to yourself is at all intriguing
0	three young movie theater employees are given the task of re opening a long closed old time theater at which many years before a shocking series of grisly murders took place it seems many more murders have occurred since then but all of this remains unknown to these three young upstart employees hoping to finally make it big on their own as they approach the grand re opening night things keep getting stranger and more unsettling with items suddenly starting to move around by themselves without any seen aid and a terrifying old man seemingly haunting the premises br br oh this is truly horrible in fact if it wasn't for mary woronov's secretary character being such a fiercely independent outspoken empowered young woman who steals practically every scene in which she appears and the incredibly hot chick who played the unbelievably sleazy yet totally sexy selina this would be a total loss the only other good thing i have to say about this film is some of the movie theater murders are done in truly inventive albeit not overly gory a preference for me but not necessarily for others fashion the rest just wallows in constant sleaze so extreme the rare few may actually find humor in it and runs through the predictable slasher kills annoying characters off one after the other routine
0	to truly appreciate this film you had to be there acting or have been a crew member br br yes i am selena and at the ripe old age of 42 have serious doubts about what we were doing did br br it all started out to be like a john waters type thing friends acting badly in bad films somewhere along the line the fun discontinued people who were supposed to be friends didn't speak anymore and bad became worse br br i regret the bad image i might have projected try to fit in size one gold spandex pants br br other than that the film sucks so badly i would not even make my mama watch it br br to my director cast and crew i say br br why can't we just all get along br br it's been over twenty years people
0	this is movie is really bad i like to flip on the tv while napping and this movie looked like it would be something good to sleep through and boy was i wrong my body literally woke me up from sleeping and said hey this movie is awful you gotta watch it i love bad movies with bad actors and stupid plots something about unintentional comedy gets me going this movie is impressively crappy i really don't know how to properly express it aside from recommending you watch it just to see how bad it is i mean seriously you should watch it with people i was making the best jokes outloud during this movie and no one was there to hear them br br worse than swimfan it's that bad
0	read the book forget the movie
0	een for a lost soldier is a sad example of how not to translate to film a touching complex psychological study of that most magical time in a man's life when he is still a child but starting to become a man the novel records the real life experiences of rudy van as told thru the boy jeroen during the waning days of wwii at age 11 as he deals with his incipient sexuality and his deep fears of abandonment as he has been sent to the province of north of holland by his parents because of the lack of food in amsterdam and has not heard from them in many months as the postal service has broken down the arrival of the liberating soldiers in the film is presented in a painfully corny way with the soldiers providing entertainment vaudeville style then one soldier walt romances jeroen and the pair is presented as two frolicking males who consummate their love in a sexual experience this taken in stride by the 11 yo jeroen the reality was somewhat different jeroen describes his encounters with walt 6 in all in detail but in oblique language but there is no misunderstanding their nature walt is aroused to an intense passion by jeroen during which he handles him roughly so that in their final meeting jeroen is bruised and suffering a painful wound on the shoulder where walt has bitten him during this encounter walt rapes jeroen twice jeroen could have easily avoided walt after their 2nd encounter when walt first assaults him as walt is clearly anxious to keep his abuse of the boy from the other soldiers why jeroen keeps seeking walt out is a mystery of the human heart and not explainable by me anyway what the film leaves out is the aftermath the nightmares the the frantic search throughout amsterdam on the chance of finding walt for jeroen loved walt and nothing could shake that
0	this is a painfully slow story about the last days of 1999 when a strange disease breaks out and i stopped caring this is suppose to be about two people who live over or under each other in an apartment complex there's a leak and a plumber put a hole in the man's floor so you can see into the woman's below apartment also since there is a crisis going on much of the dialog is actually news reports br br sounds promising br br not really br br i became distracted and started doing other things which is deadly in a subtitled film basically i started not watching which made events seem even more surreal when i did look up br br it may work for you it didn't for me
0	i've had never been disappointed by a kurosawa film but this is probably the first doppelganger is the worst i've seen from this director br br tartan films is advertising this as the most frightening film yet from kiyoshi kurosawa what the most frightening film from kurosawa is definitely kairo and if you think this is horror your in for a surprise this can't be classified as horror or thriller this is a drama and a pretty bad one at that a lot of scenes that were meant to be shocking have turned out being funny and a lot of the plot is really confusing and since it's kurosawa the pacing is slow but it's so slow that you'll lose interest forty minutes in and feel like doing something else the thing that annoyed me the most was the use of cgi now cgi if used well can be really cool but if executed with little care it can be a disaster i think that describes one scene here that has a very minimal use of cgi br br the only positive thing i can give is that it has really good acting koji yakusho gives a great performance along with the rest of the cast but that's pretty much it br br please do yourself a favor and go watch kairo or ko rei if you want to be scared this is a bad bad attempt at a smart drama which it is intelligent but well there's a lot missing br br 3 10 for the good acting
0	would someone explain to me when the ghoulies learned to speak this was a horrible film i loved ghoulies and ghoulies 2 but what's this unless you want to kill yourself please stay away from ghoulies 3 on a scale of 1 to 10 ghoulies 3 gets a 1
0	this rubber monsters failed trying to be cool scary or even comedians looks like a wannabe movie of porkys or animals house but the sequences and history is not always clear also can't catch your attention all the movie looks cheap and with an amazing bad taste the only thing that's makes you laugh is the awful rubber monsters who must have a cost of one dollar each because the work or them never looks realistic the movements and expressions make looks the muppets as a pixar 3d movie when you compare with this hope marie carlton is the only thing that makes this awful movie and when she dies in the movie this turns even worst than before a movie who only must be seen in fast forward
0	lame is really the best way to describe this movie it has a real poor script uninteresting dialog and characters and it's lacking in basically everything else as well br br there are too many characters and problem is that you don't care about any of them what the movie is lacking is one good and clear main character instead now the movie has a bit of everything it has a bit of an hero it has a bit of a love interest and it has a bit of villain i wish it only had a bit less ghoulies though fore they are just mostly very annoying in this movie br br ghoulies are supposed to be devilish creatures who murder for pleasure in this movie however all they want to do is drink beer and watch naked college girls besides someone had the idea to let the ghoulies be able to talk this time this works out really poorly and annoying the ghoulie puppets had been definitely upgraded for this movie and they are more detailed looking and are able to do more however at the same time they are way more fake looking than the ones from the previous ghoulies movies br br it's obvious that the aim for this movie was more comedy than horror this time the movie is like a lame '80's high school comedy even though this movie got released in 1991 it's humor is really the worst and most lame thing about the entire movie it's so incredibly annoying and simply not funny at all br br the story is not going anywhere with its story and the movie is just basically one big mess that never seems to end the ghoulies plot line seems basically to have nothing to do at all with the other plot lines of the movie involving the human characters the movie is not at all about the ghoulies terrorizing a college with the humans trying to hunt them down and stop their rampage no big surprise that this is brent only written movie as of yet he simply has no talent for it and i think that he has discovered this as well and has gone back to college himself instead br br even when compared to the previous ghoulies movies this movie is just simply terrible br br 2 10
0	i don't really know why but i watched this with quite a sense of anticipation unfortunatly it was misplaced firstly this is not horror it doesn't scare and unless it was even worse than i gave it credit for which is possible doesn't try to it's a trashy comedy and the fact i smiled once means i gave it a 2 not a 1 this film of gremlins in a truly special way i can't claim to have ever seen a film which devotes its self more very very bad avoid
0	maybe it is unfair for me to review this movie because i walked out well before the end that's odd because i usually like shakespeare on the screen and i enjoyed night's dream once many years ago when i saw it on the stage br br i think that two things did me in that squeaky twerp with the shakespearian name calista and michelle sitting in a giant clamshell well i suppose you could say it supposed to be a comedy but when the scenery is funny and the actors aren't i'd say we have a bad movie on our hands
0	i have been watching lost with my family since the first episode it used to be great the last season it was very disappointing it seems as if they writers don't know what to do with the show so they keep trying to make it up for it by stretching one story line in a whole episode the present season which by the way i decided to keep watching only to see rodrigo and also with a tiny little hope that things would get better has been one disappointment after another my husband and son even stopped watching first of all he only appears for 30 seconds in each episode but the real problem is with the story line there is nothing really happening each episode could be shown in 15 minutes we watch each episode waiting for something that never happens i am not asking that every secret be revealed at once but how about some variation in the story lines in the first and second seasons we had different story lines we saw the characters history a little action a little romance now is like one big event that takes the whole episode to unveil it is almost tiring to watch it when it finishes you have a feeling that you lost your time now it is important to note that the actors still great i can't believe they killed mr eko he was great jack mathew fox is still incredible the perfect hero so kind magnanimous brave sawyer josh holloway the bad boy is kind of because of kate evangeline but that's cool i miss sayid andrews sun and jin yoon jin kim daniel kim they are all an important part of the plot or should be but we barely see them i hope paulo rodrigo will have a big part on the show if not why did you make such a big deal of him joining the show access hollywood etc sorry if i've been rumbling for too long but i feel cheated by this show when i started watching it was great i got used to it and now it is very disappointing to see the way it is going i'll be here hoping for the improvements katia
0	last fall of 2001 i took a film class that was taught by the director of this movie mark his vast knowledge of filmmaking his ability to dissect any scene of a film and his winning of an academy award in some obscure category seemed to give him more credibility than your average independent film director when he mentioned during one of his classes that he had just finished directing a film called full ride and was in the post production stages my interest was piqued however that would be the last i would ever hear of that film project until last week br br last week i saw in a tv listing that full ride was going to be showing on the wb network this immediately raised a red flag as i can't help but associate wb with teensploitation shows such as dawson's creek charmed etc plus the fact that full ride was going to be released straight to tv wasn't too flattering in itself but nevertheless i set aside that time and sat down to watch my former film teacher's creation br br after two hours passed and the end credits began to roll i thought long and hard about what i had just seen what i had just seen was a typical wb quality show stretched out to the length of two hours in fact it almost seemed as if this movie was made with the sole intent of only showing on the wb network critiquing this movie will basically be like critiquing a typical wb show br br where to begin the characters are shallow the story is cliche in every sense of the word the scenes are completely contrived and the character development is forced and unbelievable this movie just screams unoriginal ' br br the main character matt is some hot shot from the wrong side of the tracks literally who plays solid high school football as a but then fizzles off into a life of crime he is then offered a chance at a full ride scholarship instead of going to jail obviously without much of a choice he agrees to play football with an all star football team but is not excepted among his peers because of his poor team spirit and bad attitude br br then comes the love interest of course where would this predictable fanfare be without a love interest she comes in the form of amy lear played by the beautiful meredith monroe she is actually a likable character as opposed to the ever so abrasive matt so we almost applaud her when she rejects him at first but of course the inevitable comes to pass she falls for him changes his attitude towards everything and all seems good and happy but now it's time for conflict br br earlier in the movie amy makes it clear to matt that she doesn't want to score with him because it would be to her and her mother this is much to matt's dismay and his football buddies yes they eventually warm up to him who bet him he wouldn't get any but of course matt eventually comes to accept these terms and decides he's not all about the nookie here's where the exciting plot thickens if you don't want me to ruin this surprise then skip ahead br br begin spoiler br br matt finds out from some local guys that apparently amy lear always tries to score with a guy each year from the all star team so that she can try to use him to escape her small town life of working in a cafeteria which is baffling in the first place and make it to the big city suddenly realizing he's been used and that his love was a sham matt it tempted to turn back to a life of crime and leave the football camp before the big game ' amy tries to reassure him that she was really in love this time but he's too hot headed to buy it so what will matt do will he take her back or will he go back to robbing gas stations and being an all round jerk i won't ruin the super ultra surprising ending for you br br end spoiler br br so if i somehow got you pumped up for this movie please realize that that was my sarcasm and not genuine enthusiasm this movie is an uninspired version of varsity blues' or summer catch ' and that's not saying much there's hardly any comedy to save it and the characters are too shallow to care about so what do you have left not a whole lot br br what i most disliked about the movie was how much of an unflattering picture painted of nebraska through this film it seems like he was trying to capture the essence of rural nebraska and teenage life in the small towns but his approach is all too stereotypical and shallow the characters' high hopes for making in the big city' and the actions they take to do so are greatly exaggerated and it only further cements the stereotype of being a bunch of hicks living in farm communities i am unsure of whether or not intentions were good in trying to put his home state in the spotlight but i think he ended up with a very shameful product if wanted to portray nebraska in a favorable light he should have taken a note or two from alexander payne while payne simply chooses to use nebraska as a backdrop for his films integrates it into the plot of full ride and becomes so entangled in his awareness of where he's shooting that he ends up churning out superficial garbage that would seem to come from an outsider if actually lived here you'd think he'd know better than that br br all in all i am completely disappointed in first big film and i hope that next time he can combine his knowledge with a little bit of originality to create something different and thought provoking
0	i've enjoyed watching lost from the beginning and endured a few bad actors in poorly written episodes because when lost is good it's really good but this episode that features mr echos demise had so many drawn out scenes with lingering closeups of bad acting that i found myself tapping the fast forward button this episode stood out so far as by far the worst in fact the variation in quality of lost has been so inconsistent i find myself often wondering how many writers they are using br br i will continue to watch but hope things get better and hope i stop secretly wishing for the sub par actors in the series to die off
0	was unlucky enough to see this while travelling by coach across africa it was far and away the worst film i have ever come across deserves to be the 1 all time worst no acting no plot very little speaking lots of ape like grunting though in this hopelessly unlikely film an unwitting self satire you'll either laugh at it or cry
0	i remember seeing this film when i was about 10 one of my friends had it at the time it was just a film as i was about and just thought of it as another action film br br when i look back now as a complete film buff this is quite a shockingly bad film whoever produced this film i am sure had a short hollywood career although the lead actor seems to have done a few films according to imdb albeit i haven't seen any and don't really remember him too much br br anyway just to say that this film is really bad in all ways it could be i would love to see it again though od
0	i would be one of the few people who owns a copy of this classic but i dont only own 1 i actually own 2 its that good br br well when i say good i mean bad but i will try to do a thorough review i even watched a which one of the other reviewers here mentioned to compare it to this and born a ninja is actually worse but not quite as funny br br and is this ever funny everything about this movie is poor everything the plot is absolutely stuffed note the need to keep me alive if you want to know where to find your wife' every action sequence is stuffed too our hero is more than a hero he can stab people with twigs take 3 bullets in the heart at 50 cm away without even bleeding and tie a rope up to a tree which when an enemy steps on it ties a knot around the enemies leg picks him up and throws him 50 metres into a bunch of spikes br br the acting is so bad it is impossible to comment on it but it should have you rolling especially 'jump out of the ground and growl at the bad guy' oh yes and the bad guys somehow it seems they resurrect themselves 5 times each in the movie perhaps it's just that there weren't enough actors but in a movie of this calibre i doubt that br br the 'plot' is about how was a soldier in the vietnam war and now his colonel is hunting real people for training for his mercenaries the colonel just happens to pick up then fights back this is just the excuse for a rambo clone with most of the movie being slaughtering soldiers and i really cant explain the plot any more cos there is nothing else to the movie it still rocks though br br what else could be wrong you ask dont get me started hand grenades which actually go off at the actors' feet because the explosion is the size of a match scenes where there are 5 people chasing then the camera cuts away and back and there are 7 the way that every time loads the grenade launcher he is against the same background even though he is in completely locations and the worst part is when pushes the plastic boulders onto the enemies and one enemy is completely untouched by the boulders so he doesn't know what to do so he half heartedly dies without even being touched it's ridiculous br br but funny very very funny this is one of the few movies i can thoroughly recommend to everybody cos if you dont find it funny you are 1 in a million and for the rest of us it's magic
0	this movie was a waste of the celluloid it was printed on it is a disastrous scene much like a particularly gruesome train wreck br br watching this is like trying to explain the meaning of life the main plot point is that the character played by steve guttenberg is a party animal who's not supposed to gamble because that would violate his parole the kids he befriends refuse to play with him as coach for a while because he gambles but a few minutes later after they've won the championship a large sum of money saves their shelter and where did they get the money gambling add this to the creepy scenes at the funeral home why exactly are there bedrooms in a funeral home and the useless peripheral character
0	i can't believe i'm wasting my time with a comment but this movie is weirdly bad if 20 different directors were brought in to film different parts of the movie without having any idea of the storyline being filmed by the other directors this is pretty much the result i would expect br br i also think some of the scenes were spliced out of order things don't always seem to progress in order the movie acts like we're already supposed to know about half the characters br br and steve guttenberg tries to do manic a la robin williams comedy in this movie ewww and the whole premise of putting an ex con in charge of a bunch of kids just doesn't seem realistic in this day and age
0	the concept is excellent the execution typifies the overall quality of the abc network br br apart from peter jones it appears that the rest of the panel consist of marketing execs rather than real br br when i realised that peter jones was getting together with simon my initial thoughts were wow he's gonna take america by the balls but it appears that abc have come along and destroyed the concept br br i was an absolute addict of the dragons den in the u k and was interested to see that peter jones had manipulated the concept that originated in japan and developed his own show for the states the result is neither inspiring nor informative br br if you lack drama in your life you have a choice jerry springer or the american inventor to sum it up a struggling musician selling out to a media mogul br br idea get me and i'll produce a show worthy of the title
0	idea is great spoiled big time by the judges br br why make fun of people if what the inventors say is true and as most of them say they spent their life saving on the invention the minimum is to reject the idea without making fun out of the people br br also it shows when they want to accept an idea by the that they added to the judges br br the only one i respect out of the judges is the one who always sits on the right of the table he is a respectable person br br of course the english snob who claims to be a business man wearing a suite doesn't make you one pal br br last but not least the big guy who sits between the english and the wake up man the is no job called and inventor for you to call yourself one an inventor is an attribute not a job man br br i think they wanted to add someone like simon from the american idol they thought it worked there it can work here as well the context is different and the idea is totally different br br it is a good idea and they could have done a good show out of it if they just change the judges and remove their act and attitude br br just stop making fun of the people
0	i didn't like this movie to me it didn't make much sense it was hard to figure out what was really happening i also didn't think it was scary i did however think it was silly even absurd but not in a good way radha mitchell is the main character in the movie which cam out in 2003 she was also coincidently in 2006's silent hill which i hated it too i found confusing and pointless visitors isn't as bad but i think it is certainly below average there is just nothing special about it the script is just too muddled and there are things in the movie which don't need to be there in my opinion i think radha mitchell is probably a good actress if she has more to work with my vote for visitors is 4 10
0	visitors is a hard hard movie to enjoy it's so slow and leaden in it's pacing that at times i was drifting off during the film this was about on a hot sunny day i might add not midnight on a cold winter evening so you get an idea of just how slow this movie is br br strange thing is it's not long at 100 minutes it's only ten minutes longer than the average straight to video and it's only fifteen minutes longer than the superior darkwolf that i'd quite happily watched the day before it just drags an awful lot enough for you to lose interest br br when it's not mistaking s l o o w development for atmosphere visitors is good enough at action to almost make it excusable how slowly things happen while the flashbacks are both cheap and annoying as a way to round out radha mitchell's boats woman the hauntings aliens whatever are actually quite creepy and effective especially when her suicidal mother turns up and starts groaning in the night full marks for not make up all over the shop too the single person boat is a creepy place and at times the movie uses the full power of the location and the deserted sea to scare the hell out of you br br still though i find it hard to recommend visitors i came out of it not only feeling like i'd just watched a 4 hour film not a 100 minute one but also feeling like i'd been cheated somehow as while offering many explanations as to the hauntings mind games real ghosts space aliens visitors doesn't pick one for definite all that watching radha mitchell talk to her cat and dominic purcell for no obvious reason about some unexplained horrific event in the past for nothing say what you like about shyamalan but at least he tells you what happened however crazy stupid you might think it if you don't watch a lot of these movies your fresh perspective will probably improve matters somewhat but i found this slow boring and highly derivative if you want to scare yourself silly there are much better places to do it if you want a clever thriller there are many that are smarter
0	if this movie were in production today it would probably have the christian right wingers screaming 'child porn' it is far from a great film in fact it is rather pedestrian however if you have an imagination and a fond remembrance of youth and first love i recommend it
0	there really is very little positive that can be said about this film walter pidgeon is a truly unconvincing hero and even moreso when he tries to go undercover as a villain who we're meant to believe drinks too much and knocks his wife about a bit margaret leighton as the wife undercover sergeant is a little more convincing but it's still difficult to believe that any hood worth their salt would not have seen through their charade in less than a minute the plot about a bullion heist is silly and the action drags rather than grips david tomlinson who plays algy in the same way that david tomlinson seems to play all his roles is the only glimmer of light in a wholly dull affair
0	and one only in my opinion br br that reason is margaret leighton she is a wonderful actress on stage as well as on the screen we have few chances to see her though i think that's especially true in the united states br br here she plays a sympathetic role not only that but she is also very pretty and meant to be something of a bombshell br br walter pigeon does not hold up the tradition of drummond performers he is always reliable but he's not much fun he's not a rascal or a consequently this seemed to me a talky endeavor with little action or suspense but check it out for leighton
0	jealous husband holds car dealership hostage while williams burdens the viewer with his worn out mork shtick at every turn yawn br br pay channel grist an uncommonly bad script coupled with a less than convincing robin williams as a slick talking philandering queens car salesman caught up in a hostage workplace crisis the laughs aren't there the message s or morals are just all wrong and the film cant ever decide on whether its a comedy or drama pretty good cast all acting pretty badly when a movie ages so badly so quickly you got yourself a stinker not much else to be said other than maybe avoid at all costs textbook mediocre movies like this are actually more tedious and less enjoyable than the over the top bombs
0	here's yet another movie with dysfunctional lead characters who are totally amoral and yet we're supposed to root for them not me no character in this film was worth a damn br br robin williams plays car salesman joey o'brien the man has no class a loser in every moral sense and a guy who thinks he can talk his way out of anything knowing williams' ability to talk he was good for this role the women in his life are driving him loony too some of them aren't much better than him br br tim robbins plays a similar low life who starts the take over the film when he fully loaded with explosives crashes into a car dealership showroom and holds people including his wife hostage robbins as in normal for him plays a disturbed and ridiculous character i guess these nut case roles come easily to these two actors gee i wonder why br br there is so much yelling and screaming in this the movie that it will give you a headache combine those two with the nasal voice of fran and you really have an annoying over the top cast this is like listening to chalk on a blackboard for an hour and a half this is comedy no this is lame br br in fact for a robin williams film to only have a dozen reviews posted here tells you something it's a far cry from his best movie
0	this movie wasted my time i saw only part of it and i was crying about the wasted time that i could of spent doing something productive and useful towards this earth for everyone that has watched this movie more than once i am blaming them for global warming as the the amount of black balloons that got entered into the earth from this piece of crap were not needed and if they came from a different movie i would have forgiven them robin williams lowered his standards to actually participate for more than 10 seconds in this film and tim robbins how he went from this film to the redemption i have no idea please do not watch this movie for the safety of the earth stop releasing black balloons into the earth from a film that they should have never funded or released please burn all copies before anyone else has to watch this crap
0	in this movie everything possible was wrong and i don't know why i bothered watching it until the end it would have been more fun watching paint dry for crying out loud i even liked d and it was much better than this here is the basic plot for you a redneck gets bitten by snakes that hold the evil of 13 murderers and becomes an undead killing machine murdering teenagers that have zero personality during the movie i lost hope when it didn't scare me at all when the kills were bad and there was bad cgi blood and cgi snakes it got worse with the cardboard thin characters killing their friend by holding her from her legs and not letting go so she got impaled by a tree and when the bad guy moved under water like the shark in jaws i'm still upset why i even bothered with this i guess because i'm a horror movie fan
0	yes said title line does actually appear in this movie why i'm not sure when the line was actually being said didn't somebody in the crew filming at some point laugh i would have liked to see the outtakes from this movie mostly because i think they would be more entertaining than the movie itself br br helmed by director jim i know what you did last summer comes a teen slasher movie that seems to assume we haven't ever seen a teen slasher movie before of course he's not to be given all the blame there are also three writers responsible and this is somehow based on a video game that's still in production the title of said game is backwater but upon looking for information on it i came up with absolutely nothing br br and so we begin the movie i would like to say before i continue that i wasn't expecting this to win an oscar when i am in the right mindset i enjoy a fun horror movie to pass the time i think there exists an opportunity for an effective original and smart slasher movie venom is not this movie br br there is almost no character development at all that's fine you don't expect a whole lot however instead of a well knit cast of a few this movie decides to introduce us to the following many horror movie cliché characters br br 1 the final girl she has just broken up for her boyfriend this means that at some point in the movie when they are in peril they will decide to get back together again which more than likely means he will die and she will be the last remaining survivor of the movie eden is played by agnes bruckner without much enthusiasm i might add br br 2 the boyfriend he's just around to co exist with the final girl until his demise sure he can save her but he's doomed and we know it eric is played by jonathan jackson br br 3 the bimbos usually horror movies only feel the need for one of these but here we have two they they steal they might show their breasts not in this case or they might possibly be alcoholics a staple of the genre they also wander around in dimly lit areas all on their lonesome usually saying things like hello is there anybody there tammy and patty suitably named are played by bijou phillips and sherwood br br 4 the jackass sure he looks pretty but he's the idiot in the movie that's inserted purely to be an idiot he says stupid things does stupid things has obviously never seen a horror movie and is one of enjoyable kills you watch this kind of thing for sean is played by d j br br 5 the girlfriend she loves the jackass even though pretty much nobody else does and she's usually the one left alive for a while so she can scream and cry until she starts tripping and gets left behind rachel is played by laura ramsey br br 6 the creepy janitor in this case the creepy gas station attendant enough said ray is played by rick cramer br br i could continue but i think you get the picture the remaining characters aren't so much common as they are equally there's the gay guy as ricky who definitely got robbed as far as screen time is concerned and the one who knows what's going on of course none of that matters because at first everyone always thinks that one's crazy is played by meagan good br br there are a couple other characters namely a deputy played by method man but he and others are killed off pretty quickly and get even less character development than the following clichés br br so you're probably thinking why does this movie require such a deep analysis it's just a summer horror flick for out loud based on that question does it deliver the goods yes and no the acting isn't particularly convincing even given the amount of talent involved bijou phillips was hailed for her performance in larry clark's bully and agnes bruckner has been an up and coming talent for a while now br br so what about the gore there's some that's really about it a lot of the bits are cut aways namely a scene involving somebody's face and a used to remove paint from cars br br to the filmmaker's credit there are a couple interesting scenes i liked the bit where part of a house was literally ripped off so that the unstoppable villain could get to the characters br br if this had all been centered around a smarter screenplay in which the characters didn't make the same dumb mistakes literally hundreds of horror movie characters had made before them it might have made for a more enjoyable experience all of the most interesting characters are immediately killed off in the first third of the movie and then it just becomes a not particularly interesting countdown until we know it's just the creepy janitor and the final girl br br i suppose i must be a little jaded but as a horror film fan i'm left wondering why i should have bothered when i could easily have written a better screenplay myself i won't even mention the numerous instances of terrible cgi
0	here he is a new horror icon for the new millennium better than freddy more dangerous than jason vorhees more evil than michael myers hard to believe i know but his time is here br br ray the prick br br yep the antagonist ray is a complete prick this is partly because of the naughty things he does also because he has a scar oh scary on his face but mainly because ray the prick has been milked br br yep ray doesn't channel evil he doesn't even become cursed not even by a voodoo spell nope ray the prick has been milked as deniro once said you can milk anything with nipples and ray has been milked of evil br br how do you milk evil you ask snake nipples i reply snake nipples br br why ray you ask because he's a prick i reply capital p br br watch out for the new line pictures extravaganza entitled freddy vs ray the prick br br thought your new horror saviour was the creeper well not any more cause ray the prick is here and i'm frightened br br pity about the atmosphere less pg 13 unoriginal workmanlike quality of the film though because ray's a star
0	i never intended to see venom but i caught it on cable it does have good elements the louisiana swamp atmosphere for one something we will unfortunately not see so much of in movies because of hurricane katrina it is based on an interesting concept a regular man imbued with the spirits of evil his confrontation with his son could have been interesting as could much of the movie but as tends to happen in hollywood an interesting idea goes down a familiar direction br br kill off all the characters save the good girl starting with the black guys i'm a fan of agnes bruckner but the other characters the villain's afore mentioned son who must become a voodoo priestess are more interesting and for the love of god just once i would like to see the virgin get killed we all like the easy girl why can't she live in this case it was bijou phillips and we love her br br the ending made no sense considering what had been established about the villain's invincibility all the carnage and atmosphere and it leads to nothing
0	i see this movie as a poor tribute to the old slasher movies because it really doesn't hold a candle to the 70's and 80's gold era of horror this is of course where personal taste comes in br br this movie just falls into the category of new generation of slashers in my book the cast is the typical ones 18 24 years and potential models i'm personally quite tired of that image in horror movies the old movies at least had some variation in people one or more fat people and dorks in general just plain looking persons of course having a couple of good lookers is fine they always been there but when the entire cast is just a bunch of nice racks and butts it's getting silly i mean ok yeah i like to watch hot chicks but not in a horror that is supposed to reflect some ordinary people getting hunted down by for example a knife wielding maniac you expect the people being hunted to look something like any random person you see on the street i think there are of course a few movies with just good lookers that is perfectly alright but they aren't many wrong turn is one example of the better ones br br next point is the killing scenes that slashers should be all about in this poor movie all you get to see is 2 3 frames of sudden high pitched sound scream and music in crescendo and that's it the little you do get to see isn't very graphical at all not for people who have seen some horrors during the years the old school slashers compared to this had much more and better death blood and gore not to mention the killers in those movies who surpassed the one you'll get to see here br br as for true horror fans it is more fun and exciting to watch horrors with new approaches because of the that pops up the killer in this one doesn't add anything new and fresh to the genre in my opinion i have to agree with what someone previously stated as well the cgi is something i hate to watch personally i the makeups in that sense i'm conservative unless the cgi is really well done but most importantly is to set a good setting of mood which allows you to get into the movie a good background story is one very good thing also revealing and explaining too much of everything in a movie to the viewers takes away all sense of mystic that adds very much of the mood and doesn't give you much to think about just as an example keeping the killers background a complete mystery for the viewer is a good move in many cases i mean if everything about the story or the people in it has to be explained or shown in detail then it's not much content left over for the viewer at all to ponder about that's like watching a porno movie and hope for a great story in the meantime br br why the old school slashers still works at least for some people is because they are established cult movies from the era when they were a new thing making new ones of that sort today is admittedly hard the exception might be for people who are newer to that sort of horrors of course i have noticed that many people does like this sort of horror movies so there are of course not a right taste for horror movies br br but for people out there that might share my opinion here you have a frame of reference what to expect of this flick
0	i've got as much testosterone as the next bloke and raquel welch at her finest is certainly worth a look but the fact is that a cardboard cut out could act better and an hour and half of ms w showing off her considerable assets does not a movie make br br considering the cast it's surprising that it's as bad as it is i've never been a big fan of wagner and his tough guy harry is about as convincing as a 9 dollar bill godfrey cambridge and vittorio de sica both of whom i usually enjoy seem to be sleeping through their lines and as for edward g well i can only assume he was there for the paycheck br br this film is a mess from non existent plot through stop start action and unfunny script to puerile slapstick and annoying 60's music if it weren't for miss welch i'd have given it a 0 br br that said she is a treat to the eyes even better than her delicious cameo in 'bedazzled' and for that reason alone i gave it a 3
0	i wouldn't exactly call this a good movie in fact it might even be a bad one br br but there are at least 2 good reasons to keep watching this movie those are the performances from agnes bruckner eden and jonathan jackson eric whom both deliver solid performances br br they are much better then the rest of the cast whom are pretty bad especially meagan goode cousin br br bijou philips was excellent in the suburban kids goes to the hood drama havoc but here she's far from good on the edge to being annoying br br the story is decent enough although nothing special but it would have been much better since it takes place in that any of the kids actually incorporated a down south accent but they don't br br especially in a movie where the monster is actually bounded so deeply into the folk lore with voodoo and such it's just plain stupidity not to include that accent into the characters br br the only one who does this is rapper method man he plays deputy turner and puts down a pretty good accent in his few scenes and i mean if a rapper is able to do this then why shouldn't the actors be able to do the same mister aka meth is highly enjoyable in his very very small role who know the stallion would ever be a cop even if only on the big screen br br anyways besides that it's a pretty stupid but fairly enjoyable slasher movie but if bruckner and jackson was as bad as the rest of the young cast this could have been really bad thankfully they are good as usual br br 4 5 out of 10 decent but there are hundreds of better slasher movies out there
0	overall it was a watchable movie i didn't pause it or stop it to come back to it a clear sign of a boring movie so it passed the first test best of all it got into the story fast no boring unneeded back story for the characters br br it will never go down as a great movie nor as a great b movie i would recommend this movie to slasher horror fans who don't mind straight to video releases br br unlike some movies of it's ilk there is no nudity only moderate language and rather subdued gore there is violence though the deaths were rather dry and unimaginative sadly the computer special effects were actually pretty good the way the 'creature' wielded his chains in some scenes reminded me of and the 'ghost comic books br br a little pet peeve it's set in but no one seems to talk with any accent i had to watch the credits to even realize it was filmed in br br like most low budget movies there are small goofs in the filming lack of time and money would be the main factors for the goofs for example in one scene it went from mid afternoon to pitch black in seconds during a short car ride the other instance was the stunt double for the 'creature' didn't have on the 'creature' makeup when falling out of the tow truck it also looks like he's wearing a shirt in the scene br br in summary i didn't hate this movie but i also didn't love it i probably will never rent it again but if a buddy owned it i may watch it again in a few years
0	i gotta admit it i love horror films especially 80s slasher films hell i even love cheese like sleepaway camp and night of the demons but i didn't think much of this movie the death scenes weren't very well done the cgi was terrible and the acting was ho hum worst of all was the story which didn't make sense at all i'd say save your money but chances are if you want to see this movie you're going to anyway i didn't hate it it's just not very good overall it's just another bland lifeless horror film that lacks life it's no surprise that this one was on the shelf at dimension for over a year after it was completed
0	it's hard to comment on this movie it's one of the few movies dimension actually has not shelved it's hard to come up with a reason why and it was rushed into a an unimpressive 500 theaters it's opening day maybe dimension was afraid of how people would respond to a swamp creature using his tow truck to pull a house apart piece by piece br br ray sawyer is just a tow truck driver until he rescues a voodoo priestess from a bad car accident and in return he gets attacked by a bag full of snakes and drowns at the morgue ray comes back to life and stalks a group of teenagers who witnessed the awful crash occur br br what brings this movie down is it's paper thin characters i didn't care for one moment about any of them also the dialog was less than ho hum also it was very predictable characters did the typical stupid horror movie character things like check creaky noises call out people's names and trip on a rock while being chased i also could immediately pick out who the final girl would be and why did the camera have those quick white flashes whenever somebody died or whenever the killer was shown br br what's good well there is an impressive suspense scene where the killer walks underneath swamp waters to get to his victims and a tense sequence where the final girl must camouflage herself with bunch of other dead bodies while the killer looks on br br but other than that it's another august september disappointment i was looking forward to it but i did not get what was expected
0	i've watched this movie movie casually and i've never stop watching because is so ridiculous any dog can play this act and will be better then the actors actors of this bad remake of the fatal attraction there is no directing no playing only an unlucky copy of the adrian lyne movie if you have doubt to suicide watch this and you can choose for yes br br i can't imagine people that went to cinema to see this rubbish maybe someone that had an empty afternoon and choose the first cinema near house to stay 2 hours with some others to forget problems but it's hard to go back home relaxed
0	this episode has just aired in the uk br br what a disappointment the heavy handed touches of humour were ill judged childish and detracted from what could have been a pretty good storyline i cannot believe that jerry bruckheimer allowed this episode to take place i have seen every previous episode of this show and even the episode where jack played his own older self was way ahead of this episode the lesbian kiss was pathetic sensationalism br br there was also no continuity from the previous episode there was nothing in the storyline investigating martin's dangerous behaviour or possible drug addiction there was similarly nothing explicitly written about jack's burgeoning relationship with ann usually without a trace is pretty good at this sort of continuity br br the next episode needs to be a considerable improvement
0	this movie could have been summed up in about 10 minutes i don't know what everyone else was smoking calling this a beatiful film i feel that a couple hours of my life were stolen from me and i want them back i would put this in the category of a battlefield earth yes folks it is that bad you would do just as well to watch a two minute clip of this movie over and over it would have the same effect do not waste your time
0	i guess when people say this is beautifully filmed they are talking about the close ups of frogs and the cooking of meals it certainly doesn't refer to the set which seems to be composed of about 3 rooms with no outside shots at all also all of it is filmed too close up br br i got sick of the little boy who keeps farting at or pouring hot wax over ants also do vietnamese spend all their time sitting on their kind of gross looking at least the way this movie depicts it one close up of it would have been plenty not a dozen or more br br then finally comes part two a chick flick for vietnamese girls with the perfect handsome rich man who spends all day playing the piano he is cultured the pretty maid steals him like the forbidden green mango fruit deep br br except for a few nice close ups this film is a dud it is sort of a soap opera with out dialog it is cloyed how is it beautiful the set looks completely fake br br no don't make the mistake i did and rent it because someone recommended it i was expecting beautiful shots of the coastal mountains of vietnam or something when i heard it was a visual gem br br i wanted to like this movie i like foreign movies even prefer them but this movie is dumb and dull it will leave you irritated that something like this won a bunch of prizes
0	i checked out this video expecting to like it wanting to like it i like foreign films i like beautiful cinematography i know the critics liked this film including my favorite roger ebert and i don't mind slow films br br well it's beautiful that's about the best i can say for it the plot is very thin the shots are very long the glances are very meaningful the actors are very sincere and it seems like a very long movie i fell asleep half way though it woke up rewound the tape tried again it was a trial but i made it to the end i didn't like it any better for that
0	the video case for this film reads a story of beauty passion and forbidden fruit are they talking about the same movie i just saw they can't be as the film i just saw was beautiful but there was no passion and as for the fruit this is all hogwash meant to entice the potential viewer to see this movie if only it did have some passion or some life to it i would have greatly enjoyed this film instead it was an agonizingly slow paced and not particularly interesting film that i would definitely not want to see again it isn't that it's a bad film after all it is very beautifully filmed but it is dull beyond belief i kept waiting for something exciting or interesting to happen but then the movie just ended there was no great sense of excitement mystery or anything just a rather unexciting story about a young girl who becomes a servant and spends the next 10 years of her life working as a maid
0	following his role in the fine caper seven thieves 1960 – which i’ve watched several years back – edward g robinson seemed to be stuck playing elderly criminal mastermind types apart from the odd juicy role as in the cincinnati kid 1965 i’d previously watched the pretty good effort grand slam 1967 and apart from this i’ve yet two more similar titles from italy to check – one of which was directed by future goremeister lucio fulci anyway this is the kind of international production – featuring american and italian actors and a british director – which was prevalent during the 1960s it’s harmless and easy going in itself but hardly memorable and definitely overlong – especially since to procure finance for the heavy duty equipment required for the heist such as an army tank and an airplane the gang involved have to pull a variety of minor thefts first br br the gang of course is an incompetent lot led by an american robert wagner and his bimbo girlfriend raquel welch – the others are a black man a hungry italian and a diminutive englishman they try to induce an ex gangster vittorio de sica to turn over his fortune to them except he’s under the auspices of robinson he proposes instead a caper of 5 million worth of platinum needless to say the gang members trust one another wagner instructs welch to seduce de sica so as to get the name of their fence in morocco – where they are to retreat after the robbery or else bungle the job commissioned to hold up a restaurant the italian can’t resist sitting at table and order a multi course meal for himself amusingly in the face of similar failures de sica tries to show them how they used to do it in the old days – however ostensibly holding up a petrol station it transpires that the owner is a nephew of his and he merely asked to borrow some cash br br the central heist sequence is typically elaborate while the gang including welch the train transporting the platinum wagner kidnaps pilot victor and his airplane when the job is done he fully intends to double cross de sica – but neither his partners nor welch herself are willing to go along with this so he’s forced to coming from the time when crime didn’t pay the gang contrives to lose all their stash in mid air when the bomb bay doors are accidentally
0	skeletons in the closet takes the father teenage son genre to new levels of low this is a movie that serves no purpose the plot is layed out in the first few minutes there is no suspense the characters are cliché and despite plot twists that try to confuse and everything plays out exactly as you think it will halfway through the movie i could no longer stand the snail pace and started fast forwarding the movie ended exactly as i expected linda hamilton is great as always and the other actors are above average considering there seems to be a complete lack of direction if you really believe you need to see this uninspired lackluster wannabe whodunit watch it on fast forward
0	this movie was so predictable and poorly acted i really can't recommend it to anyone not even for unintentional laughs it is just plain bad it is pure tv movie hell the cast doesn't seem all that bad but they act terribly just stay far away from this movie and rent something more intellectual like porn
0	i have to admit that out of the many many thriller movies i have seen this has to be one of the worst i was shocked to discover that this piece of work had a 1 5 mil budget when it started i thought that the opening sequence was pretty good fairly standard for this kind of film but pretty good anyway but as the film progressed i began to feel distinctly uncomfortable with the lack of pace that i was seeing each sequence seemed to take hours the reason for this could have been that by now the film had already bored me to tears nothing was happening other than endless accusations peppered with confusing flashbacks and the occasional fit of bad temper well after wading through what felt like a lifetime of these scenes we finally reached the big finale an all singing all dancing demonstration of how lack of imagination can completely ruin what could have been a good film br br overall i found this movie predictable and tedious and i would not recommend this film to anyone other than those people i personally dislike but if you have a couple of hours to waste and you want to watch a thriller that is not even remotely scary this is the movie for you
0	this is a below average martial arts films which is worth watching for the comedy value due to the part where a pair of symbols are used as weapons thats it really there is much to say about this film it lacks in every department because the martial arts are not that great either and with all movies of this type the dubbing as bad
0	this film is great i watched it with some friends and we thought it was proof that a film doesn't have to see commercial success to be a hit is what i would love to be able to say about this film in the words of the film itself you are very very bad i went to see an unlicensed once so generally agree with the moral of the film though br br i'd include a spoiler but the lack of plot makes this very tricky overall a cinematic disaster br br quotes 'you're not a leper at all ' 'you're beautiful and i bet you're nice too' 'have you ever seen a naked man's body ' 'you couldn't break a piece of straw ' br br cameos in dubbing micheal cane harold bishop steve benjamin yoda
0	around 1980 the name godfrey ho was attached to a series of low comedy action films starring an actor with the unlikely name elton chong although no masterworks of the genre they remain surprisingly entertaining films for those with a high tolerance for silliness br br it is altogether unclear why ho or whomever would want to make a film that would attack jackie chan's drunken master the film that legitimated the making of comedy action films in hong kong but that's what this is a savage attack on the chan film the imitation chan who stars in this movie learns to cause his opponents to laugh themselves to death a pointless gimmick in any genre br br along with all the flaws one expects from a godfrey ho film of this period no continuity no motivation incomprehensible plot line irrelevant and unbelievable characters the film suffers from two unforgivable faults that effectively make it unwatchable the fight scenes stink and the comedy isn't funny br br pointless
0	i took my family to see barnyard this past weekend we had so looked forward to it but had my kids not been there my husband and i would have left coming from a farming community we found the fact that all of the male in the film having drawn on them was a little disturbing we felt like we were watching cross dressing cows or something it was just odd to hear a male voice come from a female body after checking some of the production notes on a different website i felt like the animators might have slipped up on this fact i know this is just an animated humorous show but by putting female body parts on a male i had to suspend my disbelief so much that i just couldn't enjoy the movie like i might have i know can be found funny but they were definitely over used none of the other animals in the movie seemed to have gender specific body parts drawn on them and i would have preferred the bulls in this show to at least have the correct ones if they had to be drawn on at all the kids however still enjoyed the movie though we took the time afterward to make sure they knew the difference between bulls and cows
0	i normally hate puns but this seems the only appropriate summary for barnyard i suspect i am not the first and i'm sure many many comments focus on the idiocy of bulls with it certainly bothered me right off the bat but there's much more wrong with this movie than a fundamental lack of knowledge about how mammals work br br personally if i was a parent i would be irritated by the violent turn it takes near the end in the showdown with the coyotes although for me it at least injected a little action and from a conventional screen writing point of view you might expect the coyotes to play a greater role in the conflict gee you have a widow cow maybe her husband was killed by coyotes nope there's a much dumber explanation and what kind of a farm is this otis vows to protect all the animals from harm but there certainly seems to be no threat from humans they make reference to the farmer being vegan but what is he raising pigs for in all children's animal stories babe charlotte's web you name it the reality of farm life is at least touched on perhaps our friendly farmer is running some sort of rescue shelter there is some reference to this but it's never explained but all the farmer gets in return is abuse from a horse in a scene that is supposed to be funny but left me seriously wondering if he was going to wind up buried in a shallow grave behind the barn and what the heck is the deal with wild mike it was like the gimp scene in pulp fiction without the ball gag br br add in some truly awful attempts at emotional scenes a nearly complete lack of laughs and those and you've got the worst kids movie i've seen in ages i generally only post to imdb to highlight a film that's not so well known not to slam the current 2 box office hit but this movie angered me it was taking up space in my local theater space that could have been used to show something worthwhile there's been plenty of good family entertainment this summer in fact there were at least 2 more kids films playing at the same multiplex but i'm not allowed to see something like little miss sunshine so can cheat families out of an extra 30 at least i had a free pass br br i know that as a 35 year old with no children this film was not designed for me but there's just no excuse for such a lazy dreadful children's film as barnyard in the age of pixar i was bored by the ice age films but they certainly didn't anger me like barnyard shark tale was a weak attempt at street hipness but it had quite a few laughs for that matter you could turn on nickelodeon at any time of the day and see something more entertaining and intelligent which is why they should be ashamed for putting their name on this garbage br br i'm giving it a 2 out of 10 only because pip the mouse was sporadically amusing and maria had a few amusing lines as the farmers wife well not the farmer's wife some other farmer they didn't really explain who she was they didn't explain a lot of things especially not why sam elliot the ultimate man's man had an udder jiggling around down there creepy
0	barnyard sucked i saw this movie last week and it is horrible what bull has my 2 year old was asking me if all cows have and trying to explain to her that this is simply not true and seeing the movie only confused her more br br in addition the violent theme scared my 2 year old they made the coyotes ferocious looking and this has instilled a fear of coyotes into my daughter i know coyotes for a fact are not ferocious and are natural predators the mother and son who were sitting in front of us were shouting kill him kill him yea in a particular scene in the movie where good vs evil per say br br it is a lion king rip off and they should stop using big name actors for a lame movie steve who has also done thumb movies such as thumb wars and many others are so so bad br br if a good steve movie ever comes out in my lifetime i will roll over naked and swallow my diarrhea and post it on youtube com enough said
0	this movie seemed like it was put together very quickly in both plot and graphics my two daughters were ready to go 30 minutes before the end of the movie which rarely happens when we go to the theaters this was a nickelodeon production and it would have been better if they had released it on the t v station the animation itself in some parts was o k but the plot was horrible a classic tale of a son trying to fulfill a fathers expectations is used in a lot of kids movies but the animation or graphics need to be really good to keep a childs attention this was not the case with this film there were also awkward elements between the lead male character and the lead female character that the plot could have done without
0	this movie is a cinematic collage of gangster clichés the writing is grade z and the plot and story are constructed without care or logic it a messy pastiche of stereotypical gangsters think of bugs bunny cartoons and silly supporting characters the lady doctor and the writer there are much better bogart films out there in fact bogart looks like he slept through this performance he puts very little effort into this character i think the directorial advice he received was something like he's a bad guy act bad this guy is the era's equivalent of darth vader obvious evil and the anti hero don't waste your time with this one
0	witchy hildegard knef traps a group of people in an isolated hotel and picks them off one by one in twisted disgusting ways i thought i'd seen it all until one unfortunate man here is crucified and then has his head set on fire hildy is quite the prankster too she takes a nagging harpy and sews her mouth shut then hangs her upside down in the chimney just in time for a roaring fire witchery made me sick it made my eyes hurt i was ready to write it off as the worst movie ever ever ever made by otherwise competent people until the finale i have to admit i loved the ending it involves a boy and his toy tape recorder cornered by linda blair looking fantastically possessed the scene only lasts for about a minute and the movie's over but you know that old saying if you've got a great ending people will forgive you for just about anything
0	when my six year old fell asleep at the theater during this movie that was all the confirmation i needed that this film is a stinker it was boring the scary parts were boring the maudlin parts were boring even the funny parts with two minor exceptions were boring and predictable and did i mention predictable examples 1 the gruff but loving dad indulging his brat of a kid 2 the gruff but loving dad buying the farm while singing a song 3 the brat of a kid deciding to cut and run but thanks to his friends sticking things out because they need him 4 the brat of a kid winning against incredible odds 5 and a sassy character voiced by an african american actress gotta credit these filmmakers for that bit of originality and for perpetuating that stereotype i did mention two funny bits in both cases contributed by minor characters the mouse bouncing on the farmer's pulse was funny the farm dog falling victim to his doggy weaknesses while vying for leadership was funny but the rest painful someone tried to make a hipness thru committee movie and make it even hipper by making it a computer animated film and this was the result and why make the coyotes batman villain dumb by with their victims rather than just eating them oh yeah no blood needed in this film for kids already concentrating on mock alcohol consumption destructive behavior and potty humor and the fuzzy thing in a box just what exactly was it a porcupine tasmanian devil what besides a really stupid plot device to help otis the cow win the mother of all battles barnyard is a bomb and i didn't even need to mention the
0	i went to see this by myself first to make sure it was suitable for my little boy to see br br thank goodness i did because i certainly would not allow any young child to see this why the violence death the funeral if you are not ready to explain these concepts to your kids then keep them away br br why on earth are these topics covered in a kids movie especially one that has a tag line of the original party animals might as well put a gangland execution in a hello kitty cartoon br br as for laughs there were very few and far between speaking for myself there were none the cows looked remarkably similar to the cows in the the far side comics i guess there isn't anything original about this movie apart from the addition of ridiculous violence and antisocial activities for all the young kids to enjoy
0	i can find no redeeming value to this movie it appears to be loosely based on the lion king school of thought father gets killed son can't fill the shoes and tries to run away etc etc etc the only difference other than being in a barnyard instead of a jungle is that barnyard tries to liven things up with club type music they go way over the top in trying to be cool the problem is that it really isn't cool it's like that guy everybody knows at least one of those guys who are older and still hang out with the younger crowd in a futile attempt to cling onto their youth they try to be cool to fit in but they really aren't that's this movie br br but hey if you have money to burn and you feel like paying someone to suck 90 minutes of you life away by all means don't let me stop you
0	it was so boring no plot whatsoever basically a watered down version of the lion king mixed in with animal farm again no plot at all horrible worst hour and a half of my life oh my gosh i had to walk out of the theatre for a few minutes just to get some relief i maybe chuckled twice all of the semi funny parts are in the previews i hate movies like that yeah the movie pretty much sucked i don't know how it got such good ratings and reviews there is no plot or storyline if you do go see this movie bring a pillow or a girlfriend boyfriend to keep you occupied through out awful i don't think i've ever gone to a movie and disliked it as much it was a good thing that the tickets only cost five dollars because i would be mad if i'd have paid 7 50 to see this crap
0	let's see a couple dozen gary larson gags as well as his illustration style a possibly legally difficult wholesale appropriation of an aardman character a more than generous sprinkling of art direction from various pixar films positively lion king esquire villains living in what amounts to an elephant's graveyard in the middle of farm country oh and a riverdance joke ten years after any possible relevance the kids three and five liked it but boy it was a haul for dad just another weak attempt from nickelodean films to hitch on to the animation explosion i really really wish they had spent a little more money on character design on rendering on a script on a director
0	words cannot describe how horrible this movie is well maybe they can i'll take a stab at it 1 pitiful hollywood makes more talking animals set in graphics apparently script and storyline aren't needed anymore br br 2 violent kids movie but yet one of the characters is viciously attacked and killed br br 3 blatantly stupid the movie is actually depicting the farm animals as having human abilities in nemo the fish could talk but for the most part they are still fish we only hear the english as a translation in barnyard the animals are actually speaking english that other people can understand br br 4 unintelligent no smart story line or even any smart humor ok the 13 year old dog on crutches was funny br br 5 culturally insensitive the black cow is actually played by a black actress the pink cow is played by a white actress the black cow was playing a stereotypical black person br br 6 ignorant no such thing as a male cow that i'm aware of i believe we call them bulls if we are going to expose our children to drek it might as well have the simplest facts correct br br 7 boring and my 4 year old had us leave after 45 minutes he practically fell asleep br br i'm sure this movie will make millions which is unfortunate because it only proves to hollywood producers that the american public at large is just filled with suckers waiting to pay 8 bucks just to get some peace and quiet from the kids for an hour or two an unfortunate circumstance why should the producers spend real money when the returns will be the same either way
0	i took my 4 year old twins to see this movie today and i would not recommend it for children their age br br this movie had many fighting scenes throughout it which i found too violent and my children found scary br br the subject matter was way over my kids heads and the death scene was too scary for a cartoon geared towards children br br i was disappointed because we were all looking forward to seeing this but it just did not cut it if you have children under 7 years old i would not recommend this movie br br also the utter thing made me crazy during the entire movie
0	i cannot believe the number of people referring to the lead characters as 'boy there is no such thing people there are cows and bulls and all males in the species are bulls and do not have there was even an actual bull but it was like it was another type of animal completely my god this is like drawing human ears on a cat boobs on superman or mickey mouse with blond shirley temple curls even in animation it just doesn't work giving human qualities to the animals is nothing new to be expected but changing their actual bodies into basically a transsexual figure is bizarre for a family cartoon how many people editors writers producers animators saw this and didn't know any better or didn't say anything it is completely astounding i'm no snob i luv animation simpsons beavis butthead south park even ice age all the other new ones out there over the hedge was great but this is nuts totally nuts i could not accept that that many people are that ignorant i kept hoping for a reason for the in the film an explanation none came and at the end when they hold up this little newborn calf half its belly is udder they pronounce 'its a boy' i nearly choked please writer creator let us in on the joke
0	hello i normally love movies i'm 19 i have seen many and dislike only one or two this one though the second it finished i had to pull my sister who had wanted to see it out by the arm and i burst into tears of laughter as soon as i got out because it was such a ridiculously awful movie br br why it was awful all the cows had especially bothersome were the male ones with none of the characters were unique or engaging except perhaps the main coyote the idea of cows keeping watch against coyotes is just ridiculous the 'funny' moments are repetitive and become simply a sequence to out do the last one the themes of working together which should have been present at the end were nonexistent instead people get the impression well i'll take this all upon myself and in this case i was lucky that my friends decided to back me up without my knowledge all the moments similar to the lion king as mentioned below were beyond corniness even for a kid's movie br br and the worst of all it parallels the lion king in every single way responsible father figure who is killed by coyotes the coyotes are essentially the hyenas with the lead coyote being the equivalent of scar the farm falls into chaos the cow though basically simba wants to play around and is shocked that his dad died believes it was his fault even though in this movie it was his fault confronts the coyotes and gets an ass whooping after which tells him to leave and on the verge of leaving somehow decides to go and save some chickens and his friends back him up by complete surprise of course he leaves without knowing they will come help him br br other things taken from lion king stars moving around as signs father figures referring to stars signs in a mystical loving way the obviously of how the father ben found and took care of him and how at the end love interest gives birth and he has a similar experience birth at the end good god what the hell and even similar type music which seems completely tacked on at the end because it is completely different from all the previous music br br honestly this is the first movie i have ever seen where i really was rooting for the bad guys i never understood what other people were saying until now br br bottom line don't waste your time to go see this convince the kids not to see it and re watch the lion king either that or take them to see the ant bully which was creative and artistic
0	my boyfriend and i decided to go see this movie after we heard on the radio that it was a good movie worth seeing even up there with cars within the first ten minutes of the movie i was horrified for starters the cows which should be females had male voices then i realized they really are supposed to be guys i put the transvestite cows aside for a bit and tried to keep watching the movie with an open mind but it was just so corny i couldn't help but shake my head i probably checked my phone about ten times to see if it was almost over the plot was decent if not predictable but it took way to long to reach its point i was having trouble sitting through it and i'm 19 the children in the theater were actually getting up and running up and down the aisles i felt like joining them but my biggest problem with the movie was that it was loaded with drinking references not to mention that the cows bulls actually hot wired and stole a car then drank and drive broke into a boy's house to push him out of bed he deserved it though then ran away from the cops whom the writers of the movie made look like terrible people this isn't the kind of thing i would want my kid to be exposed to there's way too much of that in the real world if i wanted my child to watch guys drink and drive and lead cops on a chase i'd pop them in front of the 10 o'clock news children's movies are supposed to be an escape from reality not an escape into ridiculousness what happened to the good morals and happy endings that children's movies used to boast that's why disney's old movies like beauty and the beast lady and the tramp the little mermaid etc are classics if you want your kids to see a great cartoon with basically the same plot as barnyard rent the lion king you can get a great story without the awful drinking and driving and grand theft auto references the writers of barnyard were obviously trying to continue the great trend of making a children's movie that a parent could enjoy as well but they did so in very bad taste i would never take my kids to see this and i suggest you save your money and watch something else
0	although humphrey bogart got star billing in king of the underworld i'm willing to bet he didn't thank jack warner for it in fact this film was one hollow crown br br king of the underworld was supposedly a remake of the paul muni film dr socrates but given humphrey bogart was in the cast the character is written more like duke in the petrified forest he even has an english writer along in the person of james stephenson br br kay francis and john are a pair of married doctors and pulls off a tricky bit of surgery on one of bogart's henchmen bogey's a man who appreciates good work done on his behalf and gives 500 00 and there's more where that came from if he plays his cards right who has a gambling problem sees a good way to get some undeclared income br br but when he's killed in a raid on the gang's hideout francis is also thought to be involved by the law and the american medical association no matter how much she protests her innocence it's no good and she and her aunt jessie move to a small town to get away from the notoriety br br of course the notoriety and bogart and an itinerant leslie howard like writer in stephenson all meet up with her again but kay is plucky and resourceful to say the least br br bogart's character was ridiculous no wonder the poor guy was screaming for better parts he's a gangster who both shoots down people without mercy and gives his henchmen just for laughs he's concerned about his image and therefore kidnaps writer stephenson to ghost write his autobiography and of course confesses enough to burn him in all 48 states and then let's kay francis completely outsmart him hard to believe he was king of anything br br definitely one of the lesser works for either of the stars
0	this series doesn't present the british view of the revolutionary war so much as an anti american view of it the underlying theme of the series is that a silent majority of colonists enjoyed british rule that the founding fathers were manipulative schemers whose only goal was to draw britain into a violent civil war that the american supporters of the revolution and the militia were racist violent louts duped into the struggle clearly the intent of the author richard holmes is for the viewer to these characteristics in a straight line from the american population of 1775 to today br br for example in the episode the shot heard around the world holmes up an obscure print of the boston massacre in which he claims the skin of a black man and the first man killed in the revolution was purposely whited out holmes claims that portraying as a black man would have been bad propaganda for the revolutionary cause holmes never reveals how he knows this and there's more holmes goes to some length to work in a single unsubstantiated atrocity the desecration of the body of a british soldier he compares the american militia to the viet cong and the without mentioning any differences in the goals of these groups the list goes on br br supposedly this series was made in response to mel gibson's the patriot it says a lot when an academic feels the need to respond to mel gibson on any topic instead of presenting the british view it seems holmes really wanted to give a sensationalistic anti american view and in the process he's made himself the roger corman of historians strictly third rate schlock
0	there seems to be a whole sub genre of cheap tired old sex comedies out there that say the same old things about middle class couples sort of like friends but with more soft porn and no wit this film is no exception it had situations so familiar i died from deja vu people sat on couches spinning out clichés about sex and relationships check monogamy versus cheating with some woman man who would never look twice in reality at some other woman man check porn the baddies 111 check some guy girl in it who happens to be the only reason you're watching this rubbish check the lesson seems to be when it doubt make a tired old sex comedy about people no one cares anything about in order to make some statement that everybody has already heard three thousand times before that'll get your film made it'll even attract some sitcom nobody in a bad wig
0	when i watched this movie it was an afternoon after i got home from work i love horror movies and have seen some really cheesy ones but this takes the cake the plot presented to the viewer in the beginning of the movie seems a little intriguing but as the movie progresses the script makes a wrong turn with horrible cliches and bad presentation which in turn makes the movie completely dull and boring i don't mean to keep criticizing the script and plot because believe me that is not the worst part i have to say as a whole the acting was not terrible for beginning actors and i was impressed with taylor locke this being one of his first movies the worst part of the movie was the special effects they reeked of low budget and really ruined the viewers entertainment even if he had been remotely interested in the plot i do recommend you watch this movie to understand the power of a bad script and plot only then can you really appreciate good writers and directors
0	oh god why i am aghast at the sheer ineptitude of this delicious nonsense as if all that makes sense well like this film from bottom rung poverty row of 1940s hollywood nothing in this door slamming horror made on three sets makes much sense except the horniness of dr jerkoff who lusts uncontrollably after some piano player's daughter who has big melons and a it is just terrible and even has a gorilla and a big dog for pointless added distractions more than elephant man and that is just at 62 minutes the monster maker is the sort of film kids in 2005 just howl at with disbelief and wonder what the hell their grandparents saw in their youth that made them the lovable movie kooks they are today i guess you just had to be there in 1944 or whenever the hell this mad drivel was shown to impressionable 13 year olds in glorious 3000 seat velvet movie palaces on a wet day somehow it was made for no reason by movie scammers prc pictures in the war years by escaped german refugees who knew who to make a film since they got out of europe as the nazis advanced on ufa studios the monster in this film like the mad scientist is actually a nazi nightmare
0	j carol nash and ralph morgan star in a movie about a mad scientist in love with a daughter when his advances are spurned he injects the father with a disfiguring disease so that she will be forced to come to him to get a cure br br god this is awful its dull and boring and you'll nod off before the pianist gets i was on the verge yea it picks up once things are set in motion but this is one of those old movies better remembered then seen again br br if you must see it come in late br br 4 out of 10
0	no one in this movie has very much to do this is probably the longest 65 minutes i've ever spent watching a movie the makeup effects on the pianist with are pretty good but that's the only thing that keeps this from being rate a 1 the doctor's assistant goes through extreme mood swings from passivity to hysteria in seconds and then seems to forget where she was in the next scene the director assembled a lot of the right ingredients for a mad doctor movie but somehow forgot the skeleton of a story to hang them on unless you know someone in the cast or crew i wouldn't recommend even sampling this one
0	some spoilers prc quickie that has j carrol naish playing dr igor who's not really dr but an impostor who took over his identity back in europe br br the real dr had a affair with dr wife that lead to him to murder the real dr and then having his wife lenore infected with that made her look like the elephant man's sister this was done so that no one would ever want to look at her and he could keep lenore all to himself but the disturbed lenore later got even with her insane husband by killing herself br br this nut the fake dr then spots patricia lawrence wanda mckay one evening at the theater where her father tony ralph morgan a world famous pianist is giving a concert enchanted by the lovely patricia who's a dead ringer for his dead wife lenore dr becomes obsessed with her and goes to extreme lengths to marry her even though she's want's nothing to do with him br br after getting ridicules in his efforts to get patricia to fall in love with him by sending her flowers with syrupy love notes attached to then as much as five times a day tony goes to see the crazed dr to tell him to stop annoying his daughter it's then that tony ends up getting knocked out by the good doctor who has him injected with a dose of that turns him into a somewhat unsightly fellow with his hands and body swelling up and not being able to play his beloved piano tony is told by his doctor dr adams sam flint that the only one who can cure him of that dreadful disease is non other then dr the person who gave it to him br br the movie has the usual sub plots with dr assistant maxine who's also in love with him jealous of the phony doctor making a play for patricia there's also dr hulking butler glenn strange who like his pet gorilla is just a big clumsy oaf who can't even subdue maxine who's less the half the size strange ends up getting on the head and knocked out cold by patricia's boyfriend bobby blake terry frost as for the gorilla he turns out to be but a big hairy wimp when he also tries to do in maxine and is chased away and locks himself back up in his cage by the pet dog ace dr in his desperation to get patricia to marry him promises her to cure her dad only to have her father break out of his chains and in the ensuing struggle with him ends up shooting dead with his own gun br br there is a happy ending to this whole mess with maxine who knew as much about cure for as he did injecting tony with a secret serum that made him as good as new the movie ends like it started with tony playing the piano to a packed and cheering house at the local theater
0	dr is a mad scientist who is experimenting trying to find a cure for a viral cause of when he attends a piano concert he is stricken by the beautiful daughter of the pianist and sets out to woo her but when she wants nothing to do with him he infects her father with the virus in an attempt to extort money and his daughter in exchange for a cure br br that is the basic premise for this b grade low budget thriller i have to say i was underwhelmed by this movie not that it was terrible it wasn't but there was nothing particularly noteworthy about it either it was entertaining enough for a viewing but is not one that will stay in my memory br br the dialog is a bit corny at times and the acting is just mediocre the story is fairly predictable and doesn't really give us anything new of course i can't complain too much about a movie that has a guy in a gorilla suit who serves almost no real purpose and a doctor with a svengali like stare that fails to mesmerize his victims br br it may be worth a watch if you like this sort of movie but don't go into it with too many expectations
0	a scientist has developed a serum which grotesquely distorts the victim's hands and heads the scientist decides to use his serum on a concert pianist to extort money from him for the cure as well as take the man's daughter for a wife according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis j carrol naish as dr igor plays the monster maker in the low budget bela lugosi mode br br mr serum causes a real disorder which american heritage defines as a chronic disease of adults marked by enlargement of the bones of the extremities face and jaw that is caused by of the gland ralph morgan as anthony lawrence plays the afflicted man with some dignity pretty blonde wanda mckay as patricia pat lawrence is the daughter desired by mad scientist naish in early scenes ms mckay and naish emote hilariously br br watch for as maxine in a surprisingly good supporting performance she plays the somewhat garbo like and long suffering assistant to naish ms definitely steals the film and you've got to question dr sanity in casting her aside glenn strange as steve and a crazed gorilla ray corrigan add to the fun the monster makeup maurice is very good br br the monster maker 1944 sam j carrol naish ralph morgan
0	start with the premise that you will do anything to replace your lost love with a look alike throw in your scientific knowledge of a disease isn't this the stuff that leo g carroll contracted from the spider venom in tarantula throw in the fact that the main character instead of finding some way to attract the young woman engages in heavy handed stalking until he totally draws attention to himself and has to hatch this insane plot if he can make the girl's father sick then help him recover she will marry him the problem is that most of the events are random and unpredictable anyone with half a brain would have seen through things there's a third party a woman that the doctor played by j carroll naish has treated with great insensitivity you know she is going to be a factor there's also a gorilla kept in a cage who is used occasionally for heaven know's what oh well there is so little sense to this who thing that it plays itself out and people get their just desserts
0	this was the worst wrestlemania in history the only good matches were ricky steamboat vs hercules hernandez and the tag title match between the british and the dream team this one bordered on classic everything else was either poor or awful the idea of having three host cities was unnecessary confusing and messed up the fluidity of the show the celebrity guests were terrible on commentary especially susan saint james br br if you're interested in the mid 80's wwf you're better renting or buying wrestlemania 3 or just about any other ppv for that matter
0	just plain terrible nick and michael are way better actors than this a c rated flick at best the plot was weak and the characters totally undeveloped even the film and sound quality was terrible i suppose that these were all young actors at the time and this script just filled a job
0	occasionally on talk shows a good topical debate sparks some interesting opinions from the audience unfortunately there is always some desperately sad person seeking acceptance who will end any interesting debate instantly by getting up and saying the proverbial everyone should get along and love each other as they know they are guaranteed to get applause and affirmation as no one would dare disagree br br well they are the same people who marked this film as good why did they do that insecurity anyway that's all i'll say on that matter br br the film it starts of reasonably interestingly so you hope it will build and if like me you've settled in with a nice couple of glasses of wine and some cheese then you will give it even more of a chance simply because you can't be bothered to move br br but then you daydream you wander your mind drifts of onto other things why because the director did too he took his foot off the gas and then he realized so to compensate he hard but then he drifts again and again so do you the story slows the plot thins and almost disappears you even wonder to yourself 'so what happened again ' as you ponder your screen will show nick nolte running around with some supposed purpose but you will have long since cared as to what he is doing and he will appear as nothing more than a screen saver in the background to your day dreaming br br michael moriarty who plays john converse has an amazing ability to speak without moving his lips or indeed his face somewhat like a ventriloquist he must have gone to the nicolas cage school of expressionless facial acting or he was attacked by the phantom botox br br tuesday weld was to play marge converse but instead she played mia farrow to perfection br br in all there are hundreds of thousands of films to see so leave this one to one of the last you see i've just wasted an evening watching it when i could have watched or done something else learn by my mistake nights off relaxing are precious so don't waste one watching this boring tale do anything else dust off that old game of practice gurning for the evening or have an argument with a loved one trim your nose hair get rid of unused files on our laptop it will be time better spent what ever you should choose
0	seeing that this got a theatrical release nowhere around the globe it only serves as a reminder of were the careers of those talent free ladies denise richards and milla jovovich went it also is a particular grating kind of movie the kind that think they are smart funny and original while being poor in every aspect full blame can go to brian burns who wrote and directed this potboiler his script takes a quite unoriginal situation and goes exactly nowhere with it the situations develop completely without any inner logic besides that of a desperate scriptwriter characters are thinner than cardboard cutouts behave stupid and without any real motivation nowhere is this more obvious than in the inclusion of mrs richards we don't believe her relationship with david character for one minute and the way she is brought back into play after the one hour mark is particularly pitiful why would anyone fall for a egocentric self obsessed arrogant b ch like this in the first place much less a second time especially after having supposedly found his erm true love and if any of these things aren't enough to completely sink this movie than the central couple is the coupling of and jovovich is only slightly more believable or developed than the richards one but it is to no avail there is no chemistry no spark nothing that we might loosely accept as a credible couple worse these two central characters are particularly annoying and irritating doing annoying and irritating things the viewer finally has no interest in whatsoever br br overall a very poor showing even die hard rom com fans might want to pass on this one as there are dozens of movie made with more skill or more charm
0	writer director brian burns has obviously seen a few romantic comedies and he seems to think that he's discovered the formula for success plenty of location shots in new york preferably in the winter allusions to old hollywood films especially musicals enjoyable musical soundtrack alas all of this is mere compensation for burns' lack of talent as a writer the great mystery of many writer directors making independent films is not why they cannot get on with major studios but how they get any backing at all for their films br br normally our interest in romantic comedy is motivated by the lead characters but the couple in this film simply has no appeal this is not the fault of either david or milla their characters are just poorly written what we respond to in such classics as when harry met sally or annie hall or older films such as his girl friday are quirks and flaws of the lead characters' personalities lacking the ability to create individuals burns gives us an after school special inspired by men are from mars women are from venus br br how anyone can see burns as the successor to woody allen is beyond me i did not laugh once during this film and the screen play is full of echo chamber dialog i want to paint the town red you want to paint the town red which is the most tell tale sign of someone who has no business writing for a living in one of the early scenes we see actress girlfriend filming a mindless tv sitcom it's the only moment in the whole film that the dialog feels right maybe that indicates what burns talents are really suited for
0	owen david and chloe denise richards are a youngish couple living in manhattan owen is a moderately successful magazine writer while chloe is an aspiring actress happily for her chloe gets big role on a sitcom and temporarily moves to hollywood missing her owen books a flight to lala land as a surprise when he arrives at her set trailer however the house is shaking as chloe and her hunky co star are having a little romantic tryst the writer and the actress are through hurt and mad as a hatter owen goes back to nyc sympathetic friends decide to set him up on a blind date with nadine milla jovovich to get him out of his sulky funk but it goes badly as the duo mix like oil and water mostly due to each having a strong personality and owen's huge shoulder chip yet over the next few months astonishingly nadine and owen become pals who confide in each other and hang out can it turn into something more well who the heck cares this film is so stupid that most folks will yank it out of the dvd player after the first ten minutes the script is pathetic dismal and oh stupid too then again gives a very obnoxious and offensive performance as well jovovich is not much better but who could look good with the lines she has to spout william baldwin too reaches a career low with his crude and sex crazy role as owen's brother the only cast member who is any good is richards but she must cringe when she looks back at this one okay the costumes and production values are adequate then too there is one clever element in that occasionally the characters will speak their lines but cartoon bubbles will appear above their heads with the words of what they are truly thinking that doesn't save the film from bomb status don't be stupid dear film and romcom lovers do not rent buy or borrow this gigantic turkey i am the stupidest person on earth today for watching this thing until the bitter end
0	milla stands out in this movie because of her personal sense of style and the way the clothes hang on her i have learned to hate that crumpled little three year old face she makes whenever she pretends to cry it makes any points she is trying to make as a serious actress drop off quickly of course in a movie with a baldwin and denise she still shines as a mature actor person david seemed to be doing woody allen by way of howdy doody not a single word or gesture in the entire movie seemed sincere or even sincerely acted how harry met sally and two weddings and funeral even sleepless in seattle had scripts locations and actors the script seemed to be a string of bad and crude gags separated by a lot of talking the locations seemed to be within a few blocks of each other there are only two actors in this of an indie flick milla and the lady who played the chick who was into the stars i watched most of this through the first time with the sound off just watching milla that gag was old the first time i saw it and it's a silly rip off of a song in how to succeed in business without really trying
0	i was looking forward to this so much being a big fan of the book however when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i've ever spent at the cinema br br in principle the acting the sets and the music were excellent and are the main reason why i'm rating this a 4 br br in this version sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss just to stop her punishing the other girls in the book she makes a point of describing lies as not just wicked but vulgar br br there's also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me sara's father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset while the book does have a happy and critics might say equally improbable ending it doesn't leave you thinking oh puh leeze br br about the only things true to the book were br br 1 sara's father being a soldier 2 the lines between sara and her father are you learning me by heart no i know you by heart you are inside my heart 3 sara's friendship with becky and her lottie although this last one wasn't developed as much as it could have been 4 the changing of her room by adding various luxury items that part was brilliantly done 5 the basic core a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly is there but that's about all that is br br people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience possibly all i can say to that is i have two cousins aged 7 and 12 respectively who were big fans of this film until they read the book br br if all you want is a 'feel good' family film then this delivers if you're looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess in fact if you've read the book don't waste time with this one it's such a shame with a cast like this if they'd stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic br br am i harping on about 'read the book' this and 'read the book' that a little too much very probably but if someone attempts to adapt a book especially such a classic into a movie then they should at least have done the same thing preferably more than once
0	i really wanted to love this film i have read the book to my daughters and we all loved it the book is marvelous this film is very far from the book the book is splendid this film is an awful adaptation br br in the book sara is honorable kind strong and never does anything spiteful to get back at anyone that's the point of the book she behaves as a princes regardless of circumstances an important part of behaving like a princess is to not return unkindness it is to behave honorably regardless of how you are being treated br br in the book she endures much and touches the lives of others other people change their behaviors after they witnessed her kindness and ability to endure without sinking to spite and sara does what is right simply because it is right br br outside of the bakery she comes upon a beggar girl who is more poor and hungry than she is she has half a dozen hot buns she is very hungry she gives one bun to this wild looking little girl huddled on the doorstep of the bakery when she sees how ravenous the girl is and watches her gobble the bun she gives her another she continues to do this until she has given 3 or 4 i think i don't remember how many br br the baker is watching through the window she is so moved by what she has witnessed she takes the beggar girl in and raises her as her own daughter other people are similarly influenced by sara br br and in the book her father has died the man next door is her father's partner he has been looking for her her father did not lose his money after all the man is thrilled to find sara he takes her and becky into his home and raises them as his daughters and sara has her full inheritance of course br br miss is not a chimney sweep in fact she remains in her same post at the school but she is humiliated as sara has told her new guardian of the cruel treatment she received and sara does speak to miss in the end miss is trying to minimize her treatment of sara and sara with a calm steadfast demeanor instructs miss that she had been cruel br br there is no comeuppance for miss she continues on in her miserable existence it does not matter what matters is that sara has a home with a guardian who loves her and her dearest friend in the world becky is now for all intents and purposes her sister br br the book is about love and honorable behavior under the worst of circumstances it is about self control and humility it is a wonderful book this film does nothing to capture the true story and messages of the book my wife was so disgusted with it she wanted to leave the theater in the middle but we decided to stick it out we were not rewarded br br i cannot for the life of me think of a reason the film makes should alter this excellent book in such a bad direction perhaps it was the influence of the ghastly screenplay from the book that shirley temple acted in i don't know but this film is so far from the book in character and values that i do not recognize it br br don't waste your time buy the book it is unforgettable even for a dad
0	i absolutely despise this film i wanted to love it i really wanted to but man oh man they were so off with sara and the father living was pretty cheesy that's straight out of the shirley temple film br br i highly recommend the book it is amazing in the book sara is honorable and decent and she does the right thing because it is right she doesn't have a spiteful bone in her body br br in the film she is mean spirited and spiteful she does little things to get back at miss in the book sara is above such things she does stand up to miss she tells the truth and is not cowed by her but she does not do the stupid spiteful things that the sara in the film does br br it's really rather unsettling to me that so many here say they loved the book and they love the movie i can't help but wonder did we read the same book the whole point of the book was personal responsibility behaving with honor and integrity always telling the truth and facing adversity with calm and integrity br br sara has a happy ending in the book not the ridiculous survival of her father but the joining with his partner who has been searching for her in the book she is taken in by this new father figure who loves and cares for her and becky and miss is not a chimney sweep that part of the film really was stupid br br to see all this praise for this wretched film is disturbing to me we are praising a film that glorifies petty spiteful behavior with a few tips of the hat to kindness sara in the book was kind to the bone and full of integrity i don't even recognize her in the film she's not in it br br good thing mrs burnett isn't alive to see this horrid thing it's ghastly and undeserving to bear the title of her book
0	i have loved the book a little princess for most of my life and was very excited that there was a movie but i was appalled at this adaptation not only is the acting wooden and the plot a convoluted mish mash of various incidents in the book but the theme is all wrong the real theme of the story should be that a girl can be a princess only when she behaves like one as sara does when she gives 5 of her 6 buns to a beggar child even when she herself is very hungry the theme of the movie seems to be that all girls are princesses which cheapens sara's actions considerably and seems more like it should be written on a hallmark card than applied to this story br br there are many other things wrong with this movie too many to list but here are just a few of the larger ones this story should be set in britian in the mid 1800s not america during the first world war miss is harsh to sara from the start making her actions when sara is left penniless much less startling than they would be if she was syrupy sweet at the beginning as she is supposed to be nowhere is it mentioned that becky is black sara's father does not come back he is dead it is his closest friend and collaborator in the diamond mines who finds sara and restores her to her proper place in fact the diamond mines are not even mentioned at all though they are the source of sara's wealth br br all through everything that sara has faced she always acts like a princess giving what she can and forgiving those who hurt her she would never have called a snotty two faced bully such a thing is completely out of character for her and undermines the entire philosophy that she is to be well behaved no matter what br br this is by far the worst adaptation of a book to the screen that i have ever seen with the notable exceptions of ella enchanted and anne of green gables the continuing story the plot of the book is wonderful and skillfully written so i do not understand why the director felt that it needed to be changed to make it interesting i would suggest that anyone wishing to know this story should watch the 1987 version which is far superior or better still read the book it will be more worth your time than the hour and a half wasted on this version on the movie
0	possible spoilers ahead br br i'll only say what hasn't already been said here and i'll continue this for the rest of my wwf wwe comments br br if you're going to have a women's title match at least make it interesting rather than just a squash to put over the current champion i guess moolah couldn't handle an intense match but they wanted to have the legend in a wrestlemania br br i thought the killer bees were wasted in wrestlemanias especially here i became a fan in 1989 about a year after the b brian blair was gone and jim brunzell became a canvas back so i didn't realize for a while that they were a top tag team even top contenders br br but i loved seeing bill in the battle royal he really came into his own here creating a cocky heel character in a pre match interview and even making an elimination in the battle royal besides steve mcmichael and kevin greene he is the only professional athlete from my generation with any respect for wrestling anyone remember dennis rodman and what was with the hart ridiculous green tights
0	this film is supposed to be about the frustrations of film making it certainly frustrated me with its endless boredom the setting is an attractive spanish resort with his usual large cast the script is very poorly written or maybe there was no script just all ad lib br br a far superior film about the frustrations of film making is francois truffaut's day for night made in 1973 it shows all the delays and how the cast can in an intriguing manner it doesn't bore the viewer and you gain sympathy for the director who somehow must complete the film
0	this is a piece of hollywood product that should have never left a film can dialogue without a plausible thought plot without a point staging without skill directing without direction and acting without the worth of some backwater high school's freshman class play the entire cast should have been arrested for over acting br br but otherwise okay
0	i can only guess that this movie was an experiment that misfired years earlier it would have been moving images accompanied by music later it would have been sound added to silents eventually it would have been technicolor cinemascope or imax this movie must have been a misguided attempt to introduce a new element to the talking picture during all the emotional scenes the character stops in mid dialogue and their inner thoughts are narrated while they gaze off into the distance or appeal to the camera this interruption is painful at it's very least imagine these top tier actors trying to look busy while the narration drones on painful i have no idea who came up with this gimmick but it was the only time i ever saw it used and for good reason in every scene the actors were forced to roll their eyes wring their hands or overact to such a degree i actually wondered if this was really a comedy br br the story is a hopeless soap opera that takes place over a couple of generations norma shearer disappointed in love searches for a reason to live she has a friend played by ralph morgan who worships her but she takes him for granted she is attracted to a doctor played by clark gable but he is self absorbed and isn't interested in her she settles for a weakling that needs her desperately she marries him only to find that there is insanity in his family and she can never have a child with him along comes the doctor who selfishly pops a bun in her oven only to find out later that he loves her after all the child builds confidence in her husband who becomes a success but she realizes that it's really clark she loves after all confused yet forget the rest just watch a couple of episodes of as the world turns and it'll all become clear br br if your are ever forced to watch this movie hold out for the final scene the gyrations of the actors put harold lloyd to shame it is not to be missed
0	a four and a half hour o'neill play gets boiled down to a little under two and much of that running time is devoted to actors with frozen expressions on their faces as they read their characters' thoughts in voice over it can work onstage but it looks hilariously stilted in this soap opera adaptation which soft its heroine's bad behavior and never explains why she has so captivated so many men norma shearer and alexander kirkland overacting ludicrously are outclassed by a naturalistic clark gable he's the only one who makes the frozen face technique work it gets even funnier when shearer's and gable's son a surly moppet does the frozen face shtick there are also frank morgan's brother ralph as an unsuccessful suitor given to poor charlie over and over again and a young robert young and maureen o'sullivan by the time they show up the voice overs have largely been abandoned and it plays as a ripe soap with a sentimental fadeout that actually plays silver threads among the gold as background music robert leonard's direction is stodgy and he shows little facility for in hyperactive actors it's certainly entertaining there's nothing else like it unless you count groucho's satirical parody in animal crackers or an old mad magazine satire that rendered shirley booth's sitcom hazel a la strange interlude but it isn't good
0	the movie gets a score of 3 because it dared to be so very different it features a cast acting while you can hear their thoughts and desires this is truly a weird film and an experience i won't forget the only problem is that the experiment though in some ways interesting is generally quite dull and unengaging in fact it's amazing that a norma shearer and clark gable film could be this dull the film is based on a eugene o'neill play and it really does seem quite stagy in fact it would have been best just to keep it as a stage production it just didn't translate at all to the big screen br br so this movie is only recommended to die hard and those who love gable films so much they just have to see all his films
0	eugene o'neill is acclaimed by some as america's leading playwright but for things like the iceman long day's journey into night the emperor jones strange interlude was a piece of experimentation he concocted where the characters on stage look aside to the audience and say what they really are thinking and then resume conversation it was a nine hour production with a dinner break on broadway so you can safely assume a lot has been sacrificed here br br for the screen the voice over regarding the thoughts is used for all the characters it probably is a technique better suited to the screen sir laurence olivier did very well with it in his version of hamlet but bill shakespeare gave olivier a lot better story than o'neill gave his players in this instance br br players like clark gable norma shearer ralph morgan may robson etc are a lot more animated in most of their films than they are in strange interlude the story takes place over a 20 year period norma shearer is a young woman whose intended is killed in world war i she starts playing around quite a bit although that part is not shown in this version she makes the acquaintance of alexander kirkland and his friend clark gable she also has as a perennial suitor ralph morgan a friend of her father's henry b walthall br br she marries kirkland but then is warned by his mother may robson and shown that insanity gallops in that family to quote another literary work since kirkland wants kids and shearer and robson think kirkland's train will slip the track if he doesn't get one gable is recruited for breeding purposes of course you can see all the complications this can cause and o'neill explores them all br br gable is so terribly miscast in an o'neill production but he was an up and coming player at mgm and did what they told him shearer does what she can to lift a very dreary story but she seems defeated at the start best in the film is possibly robson who puts some real bite in her dialog br br strange interlude ran for showings on broadway in 1928 1929 and starred glenn anders and lynn in the gable and shearer parts perhaps no one could really have saved the film because two years earlier groucho marx lampooned the out of it in animal crackers after seeing what he did i don't think the movie going public took it too seriously br br and since it's not the best of o'neill neither could i
0	eugene o'neill's 4 and a half hour 1927 play brought to the screen in less than two hours the play's combination of symbolic dialogue and gothic melodrama hasn't aged very well and the cast has some difficulty with it especially norma shearer's nina and ralph morgan's marsden clark gable as ned darrell comes off better but mostly because his is a gruff character not given to the philosophical musings of the others which better fits gable's range once the plot settles down to the love and the audience adjusts to the voiceover asides the film does become more enjoyable the technique used here for the asides is another problem on stage the action froze while the actors spoke their thoughts to the audience here they're done as voiceovers you'd think that would work better but since the action no longer freezes the actors are forced to pause speaking and grimace at the camera to match the emotions in their thoughts plus it's difficult for any movie buff to watch this film and not think of groucho marx's hilarious parody version in animal crackers added to these drawbacks are some cuts made for censorship reasons nina's promiscuity is soft peddled and there is no mention of her getting the abortion that is more central in the play and a wretched score uncredited that sounds like background music to a turn of the century weepie o'neill called this film a dreadful hash of attempted and idiotic censorship and although strange interlude is nowhere near as great as his later the iceman and long day's journey into night it certainly deserved better than this
0	in one sense i kind of liked this movie because of a 'mindless' positive atmosphere it sort of conveys i had a problem with an aspect of the plot but more about that later first the characters were a little goofy and one dimensional the 'good people' had similar physical and character traits and the 'bad people' had similar physical and character traits hmmm the basic storyline was ok pretty simple and standard nothing too exciting or objectionable the main attraction was of course the miniature dinosaurs kind of a nice fantasy element to have however they had a very minimal presence in the movie br br outside of that the movie kept a brisk pace and didn't get too bogged down in any one place i liked this about the movie br br the problem i had with the plot had to do with the the idea of stealing i think this movie may not have been thought out enough something's wrong especially if this is a kid's movie i'll keep the next sentence abstract to not be a spoiler skip it if you're worried the 'good guys' do some stealing and they don't have the same info the audience has so it's just stealing and that's kind of a bad thing for a kid's movie br br overall if you have kids because of a questionable plot aspect i'd consider passing however this whole movie is pretty low key anyway so it may not matter pass this one if you have any other interesting choices
0	if you are a six year old boy who's into dinosaurs you will love this movie if you are anybody else you'll be rolling your eyes about every 15 seconds if you want to start picking on things like the acting the special effects the dialogue or the absence of a coherent plot that makes even the slightest amount of sense you'll have plenty of material if all you want is a safe dinosaur fantasy movie for your kid it will do just fine that said there's a lot of kids' entertainment out there that's much smarter and some of it is even bearable or enjoyable for adults unless your child is in an uncompromising dinosaur mood you're probably better off looking for something else
0	for some unknown reason 7 years ago i watched this movie with my mother and sister i don't think i've ever laughed as hard with them before this movie was sooooo bad how sequels were produced is beyond me its been awhile since i last saw this movie but the one impression that it has stuck with me over the years has been they must have found the script in a dumpster in the backlot of a cheap movie studio made into a movie and decided that it didn't suck enough and made it worse i'm pretty sure that they spent all the budget on camera work and the so called special effects and then had 13 cents left toward the script and to pay the actors
0	wrestlemania 2 is the only wrestlemania thank god to be held at three different locations and while it was an interesting idea it didn't really work there are only really two matches that really struck out with the rest being decent or most of them pretty terrible there are some entertaining celebrity's on hand like susan saint james ray charles and cathy crosby but the experience was a waste of time for the most part the british vs the dream team match is worth the price of admission itself but you can honestly see that anywhere br br matches br br coliseum br br paul vs the magnificent w mr fuji for the time it had and despite the crappy finish this was surprisingly bearable stuff with the crowd being really into it crowd chants bullsh t at the end that being said it did nothing for career match ends in a double count out with them fighting outside the ring br br 2 5 br br intercontinental championship match randy savage c vs george the animal steele not that great wrestling wise but heavily entertaining due to the antics involved and some great comedy from steele besides savage can wrestle a potato and make it look interesting savage wins when he puts his feet on the ropes for leverage br br 2 1 2 5 br br jake the snake roberts vs george wells for a throwaway match this was better than it should have been but it's too short to make any impact what so ever roberts wins with the ddt pulling out the snake afterwords which disgusts saint james br br 1 1 2 5 br br boxing match mr t w the kid joe frazier vs roddy piper w lou bob orton a huge failure in my opinion i was bored senseless throughout this and while it may have been a marketing success it certainly didn't succeed at entertaining me lot of rowdy chants are noticeable as well t wins by dq when piper slams t br br 1 5 br br horizon br br women's title match fabulous moolah c vs velvet mcintyre ends too quickly before it even gets a chance to start making a record for quick pin fall as far as woman's matches are concerned moolah wins when she takes advantage of missed splash from the top rope br br 0 5 br br corporal vs nikolai volkoff w classy freddie big pop for the corporal stupid match up with boring offense from both involved while being much too short to matter corporal wins when he whacks volkoff with cane br br 1 5 br br battle royal william perry and andre get the biggest pops this is pretty entertaining stuff despite all the nfl talent involved it's also noteworthy for bret hart's 1st ever wrestlemania appearance andre wins when he chucks the hart foundation out br br 2 1 2 5 br br tag team titles british w lou ozzy osbourne vs the dream team w johnny valiant c absolutely tremendous match that is one of the best wrestlemania matches of all time you won't have time to catch your breath with all the maneuvers on hand and the excellent in ring psychology this is pure wrestling at it's finest you cannot call yourself a wrestling fan if you dislike this match win when dynamite kid heads with valentine br br 4 5 br br los angeles memorial sports arena br br ricky steamboat vs hercules hernandez pretty decent match up here with both men putting on solid performances hercules is a nasty brute with above average skills and it contrasted well with high flying style steamboat wins with a high flying cross body off the top rope br br 2 1 2 5 br br adrian adonis vs uncle elmer terrible match with annoying comedy involved the fans love uncle elmer but i do not adonis wins with a top rope maneuver br br 0 5 br br the funk brothers vs tito santana pretty solid match here with a lot of memorable bumps taken from terry funk the one through the table was something else for that time i would have to rate this as my 2nd favorite win with help from jimmy hart's megaphone br br 3 5 br br wwf championship hulk hogan c vs king kong bundy decent pop for hogan one of the most over hyped matches in wrestlemania history hogan can't wrestle worth a lick and bundy is not that great himself the violence was brutal for the time but hogan's superhero act is kind of annoying and there are too many boring moments hogan wins when he escapes before bundy br br 1 5 br br bottom line wrestlemania 2 is a failure in most aspects die hard wrestling fans should see this once but you really don't have too there isn't enough here to satisfy a true wrestling fan vince blew it on this one don't be fooled by the hype of the main event it really is a boring affair like most of the card not recommended and ranks as one of the worst wrestlemania's outside of the brilliant tag title match br br 4 10
0	i never thought a movie could make me regret the fact that i subscribe to the hbo service now i know better jack is usually one of my favorite actors but not even he could rescue this part not that he tried jack plays his usual of type character unfortunately it doesn't transfer over to the american southwest he is about as believable a cowboy desperado as pee wee herman there is no edge to the performance and for that reason the comedy fails he is almost to goofy the remainder of the cast was worse timing in delivering lines is apparently something that the leading lady had not perfected as of 1978 and the others appeared to be just happy to be there my recommendation to those of you interested in seeing this movie is that you save your valuable time for something like watching paint dry
0	this movie basically uses spousal rape as one of its main comedic devices now i turned it off at the point when he literally ties her to the bed and rapes her but i cannot really imagine how that was eventually turned around into something endearing and funny this movie not only squandered a wonderful cast and was consistently unfunny it actually managed to be rather brutally disturbing and misogynistic how so many people seem to find it a sweet family flick is beyond me i sure enjoyed canning those last night is not a funny joke when you know it refers to forcing an unwilling virgin to have sex with you in the hopes she will eventually learn to like it watching a peeping tom jerk off is not family fun i honestly feel worse off for having watched half of this creepy comedy and am totally baffled by these positive reviews
0	marlene dietrich is magnificent as concha perez the temptress who drives all men to despair in josef von the devil is a woman her performance has nothing to do with 'acting' in any conventional sense but she's incandescent a true star in full command of her material but she's the only good thing about the film she's so good she keeps you watching this dross i doubt if any other actress could have done the same br br the story is an appallingly lame melodrama surely pierre novel was better in which dietrich's amoral concha ruins the lives of two friends played by lionel atwill and cesar romero with a stiffness bordering on and for von sternberg it's an ugly looking movie maybe in keeping with its fairly ugly subject matter bunuel on the other hand thought enough of it to remake it as that obscure object of desire with a greater emphasis on the surrealist aspects of it all down to casting two different actresses in the same role neither film is either director's finest hour and while the bunuel version may be the better film it is dietrich's you remember
0	a sadly predictable clichéd story about a woman who was no better than she should have been sadly too the screenplay is by the once great experimental novelist john dos from an original by french exotic potboiler pierre this time marlene dietrich is concha a manipulative cold hearted spanish beauty don pasqual lionel atwill raises her from the cigarette factory but she ditches him he warns his tall young friend antonio cesar romero against her but to no avail a duel ensues concha reproaches for trying to kill the only man she ever cared for so he doesn't he points his pistol at the sky but antonio shoots him but instead of going off to paris with the young victor she goes back to the man who would have died for her with an unexpected bit by edward everett horton as a spanish governor dietrich plays the part of a spanish woman by moving constantly twisting at the waist and posturing and then twisting back tossing her head and so forth and she makes faces and has a curl in the middle of her forehead the photography is strangely crowded no outdoor scene can be shot except through a tangle of bare trees no interior scene can be shot without so much busy detail that it's almost impossible to follow people moving across a room no consecutive scene of dietrich can be shot without a major wardrobe change the carnival scenes are so full of confetti and streamers it's almost like an underwater scene in the sargasso sea
0	this is far the most worst film i've seen this year from bollywood so far i may not lie my wife liked this film very much it was not bobby deol or arjun what made this film become unbelievable but it was amisha patel she performs the role of a blind woman who get in trouble when she almost fall from a mountain where luckily for her the hero arjun comes to rescue her in the middle of nowhere it amazes me here how a blind girl is aware of danger when she is about to fall from a mountain because she cannot see her environment from this scene i started to watch the movie very closely and in every scene there was a flaw in the acting of amisha patel the way she plays a blind girl is very bad the only way she does that is by not to look into the eyes of the person she talks with when i saw this film i respected rani mukherjee more with her performance in the movie black amisha will never reach this level in performing as an actress br br anyway she falls in love with arjun it is the cliché story sudden arjun gets killed by a man who is madly in love with amisha amisha is in despair but then bobby enters the movie he also falls in love with the blind girl bobby deol is a great actor in my point of view but he cannot pull the film to a higher level where amisha patel buries it deep into the ground i must say bobby deserves better roles in better movies than he got so far bobby grew in acting from the first movie his lovely daddy gave him he was so bad in acting in barsaat but when you see him acting now you get the shivers and believe every word he says only a movie with high potential like a yash film has to meet his way br br okay when amisha also falls in love with bobby someones enters her life arjun is not dead who believes this crap i don't why didn't they give his role to one of the ugly guys from the movie family singh or aryeman ramsay and give bobby a role in one of the blockbusters with amitabh bachchan i'm sorry if my comment sounds like a cry for an actor like bobby to give him a great role but he deserves so much better than a movie with amisha bigscreen t v face patel this movie was so awful that i regret buying it
0	this was one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life they said this was the man's answer to waiting to exhale all i'm going to say is that we really didn't respond at all i couldn't believe that it was actually made the director should choose another profession because he can't make a movie the script wasn't good it made no sense and was very messy bet movies are much better than this was and i was horribly disappointed to see the talented actor terrence in this bad excuse of a movie if i could turn back the hands of time i wouldn't go back to media play to never buy the movie i would just keep it wrapped sitting on the shelf instead of wasting my time watching it
0	this movie isn't even good enough for the 1 bin at the grocery store br br i only purchased it because terrence howard was in it guess he couldn't be too about his roles during this time br br the movie in itself was hard to sit through it seemed they were grasping at straws with a storyline the guys night out had to be the most boring i've ever seen one minute they are talking and the next reciting poetry even the arguments were hard to follow most of the acting lacked any depth br br i have no idea what they were going for with this one but they certainly missed the mark
0	i could not believe it this film was a total wast of time out of my life the title is appropriate love didn't beat the hell out of me this film did i kept watching and watching and waiting and waiting and hoping for something anything to happen and nothing ever happened nothing terrence howard couldn't even save this lame piece of work called a film it was dark and confused and i didn't get who killed the girlfriend in the end the tone and pacing of the film was supposed to be building to a dramatic climactic ending this only served to confuse the audience because the movie just plodded along going no where if you want pure torture watch this film
0	br br in the process of boring you with the wordy rambling storyline and the complete absence of character development it manages to enforce a few negative black stereotypes out there at one point i was wondering if jesse helms co wrote the screenplay
0	awful waste of time there is no camp or trash value in this one seen better amateur movies done by 10 to 12 years old kids in movie clubs br br how on earth someone can spoil movie about vampires and lesbians br br it's not a movie to put together a few vampire sadomasochism enthusiast in a same room and just shoot it br br could not find anything good about the film there was no plot no real actors no real special effects no humor a few overweight touching each other cannot be called a sex scene nothing at all br br well cemetery was nice but one should shot a vampire movie during dark br br purpose was probably good make a trash movie in a spirit of ed wood problem is that one cannot make a bad movie intentionally it takes talent and an effort to make a real movie ed wood might have lacked money but he sure had effort these guys lacked everything ed wood was a genius compared to these guys
0	why do the powers that be continue to cast jennifer lopez in unbelievable roles she was excellent in selena and pretty good in money train which both cast her in roles where she could basically be herself however roles like this just draw the line i could never see lopez as an fbi agent see out of sight for that unremarkable performance but as a psychotherapist give me a break br br basically lopez plays the aforementioned psychotherapist who is involved in virtual reality experiments in which she enters the minds of her patients in order to help them sort out their issues when she enters the mind of a comatose serial killer to help save one of his victims she breaks all the rules to try and crack the insanity of his inner mind br br lopez's acting here is typically below average i can't get over that high pitched squeak of a voice she has she's no julia roberts but yet she comes across on screen as though she believes herself to be on the same playing field well she's not even in the same stadium sure she is a very sexy lady however that isn't going to carry a film and it certainly doesn't carry this one with anybody else cast in her role for this film it would have been excellent especially if it was cast with someone who could lend more credibility to the character br br having said all that this film is visually stunning the colors are fabulous and the story line isn't half bad in a b movie kind of way the audio here is superb as well this movie gains some points for the fairly original storyline and major points for how it looks and sounds unfortunately the acting and poor casting bring it down a few notches br br my rating 6 10
0	i have to preface this by saying that i love watching bad movies that are entertaining this movie delivers 100 it is hands down the worst movie i have ever seen it is full of crappy stock footage of random stuff in a city people walking traffic the skyline etc that doesn't tie into anything then there are the overly long 'sex scenes ' these involve lots of petting and frequent rubbing of socks on each other's bodies these are in no way erotic and are the closest thing to horror you will find in this movie this is especially true for the shower scene where two of the so called girls who couldn't be a day over 40 are spraying each other with blood but there is also a crew member squirting blood in the from the outside while one of the girls keeps smiling at him no one had to memorize any lines for this movie if they aren't clearly reading cards then they have a magazine in front of them they keep glancing at while they struggle through awkward dialogue then there's mr he throws ed wood's name around like he can somehow compare but he is far far from anything of that quality he walks around a cemetery babbling about random things that went wrong in the movie which really helps the complete lack of flow the movie already had going on we couldn't stop laughing during this movie except during the sex scenes where we were grossed out and occasionally horrified br br i give this movie a 1 10 for going so far above and beyond all my expectations for a horrible movie
0	bad personal opinion the folks who made it they knew that when they made it to star in this movie again my opinion you needed to meet three criteria 1 you had to own your own goth style clothing and jewelry makes wardrobe both easier and cheaper that way 2 you had to be able to remember and repeat your lines with out cue cards note that i didn't say you had to do it well saves on time and paper work 3 you had to be willing to get naked gives an r rating and thus bolsters sales want to watch a better movie easy get a camera and some of your buddies together and do it yourself trust me you won't do any worse as vampire movies go well this one sucks and a hint here for people like me who like to look for little oddities in movies consider the link between vampires and crosses now take a look at the symbols and names on the in the cemetery portions of this thing were filmed in ed wood couldn't have planned that kind of an accident any better himself
0	not every movie with lesbian chicks and vampires touching our favorite trash cult genre is nice unfortunately this movie of originality and the performances do not come up with the trash standards seem the creator's intention to make it cult it failed trash movies are trash movies because it happens you cant create in purpose this kind of films i don't know if mr is a legend first time i heard his name but if he is i wonder the reason br br awful even the lesbian scenes are pathetic so any fans of erotic x films will not be satisfied as there a thousands of movies better than barely legal lesbian vampires
0	the emergence of quentin tarantino and his dubious influence on the likes of guy ritchie may have triggered the wave of appalling british gangster flicks we've been bequeathed over the past few years but one of our most famous acting exports only serves to perpetuate the cycle by lending his considerable name to trash like this i only wish he'd taken a moment to consider before choosing this project for the same reasons of personal gain he admits he often employs it's not only stifling his talent but possibly the promise of future originality from british films br br not one of this film's characters are likeable or even remotely realistic and the dialogue consists of the usual empty threats and colourful language caine doesn't give the material any more effort than it deserves either if this was meant to be in the style of a tragic fall from grace a la king lear it would've helped immensely had i cared about the ultimate fate of the principals instead of just wishing that they'd get mired in the quicksand of life and dragged under almost immediately br br
0	michael caine might have tried to make a larger than life character to a successful degree but the whole storyline and character's around him where not likable or interesting at all it was all very boring and somewhat predictable martin landau a favorite actor of mine had a nothing role he was useless michael caine got a bit irritating after a while and the film couldn't decide if it was a comedy or a serious thriller caine tries hard and good on him but i felt the direction and storyline let him down don't waste your time it starts off well for the first 10 minutes and then that's about it a film for die hard caine fans only stay away from this one
0	a vehicle for michael caine its fairly well written and there's some ok acting in it but really it's a mess not funny enough not frightening enough it's a flaccid modern cockney thriller br br i like the premise that even in the refracted moral hinterland of east london people do do things for the right reasons a surprise result to the first proper fight caine's old school billy shiner has promoted his paranoia the second half of the film has him chasing shadows to deal with the disappointment of the outcome of the first br br my greatest disappointment was in director john failure to make more of the relationship between shiner and his lieutenant substitute frank harper harper's a british tom sizemore understands his role well whilst those around him seem to have ignored it pity 4 10
0	on paper this looks a good film michael caine plays a tough and ruthless boxing promoter who's son is up for a title the pity is that when the story is transferred from paper to my television screen it loses a certain everything i had hoped we'd be seen emulating his definitive role in get carter and as the film progresses it does seem to take on the qualities of a tough gritty revenge thriller but the whole tone of the film jumps around so much you'll be confused as to what genre it's trying to fit in to for example caine who you can't believe in as billy shiner simpson he's simply michael caine has a laugh out line as he refers to someone as hattie jacques then in a supposedly humorous moment has his henchmen break someone's arm oh how i laughed i mean it's supposed to elicit a laugh the way it plays out on screen isn't it but these seems at odds with the way the rest of the film plays out br br obviously director john irvin doesn't know what approach to take with scott screenplay irvin isn't a bad director and is well regarded for his war films such as the dogs of war and hamburger hill but he's ill suited to this type of violent drama and one can't help but feel he might have been intimidated somewhat by a living legend like caine caine does give the impression he's just doing it for the money and the well known faces in supporting roles like landua and are basically just cameos who could be played by anyone
0	first off this movie leaves you in a limbo mood wise you don't know what to feel so much so that you don't feel bad for character when his son gets murdered which was actually mostly due to bad editing the script was too bland none of the situations matter as you watch them the soundtrack or lack there of if there was it wasn't good enough to even remember does not help it one bit only good surprise to this movie was andy performance it was on par if not better than caine's the story would have probably gone better off if would have killed him because quite frankly you don't feel any kind of redemption in the climax just a feeling of lack of feeling if ya feel me basically this movie massively lacks draw leaving the audience alienated throughout the entire thing
0	as a true lover of film i must advise you to avoid this appalling effort god knows how funding was approved seriously this is one cinematic experience which delivers zero dramatic tension and plods along until nothing happens again and again and again the only connectivity is two scares which at least keep you awake the worst film i have ever witnessed and the acting by the female lead is bordering on criminal intent one blessing with modern technology you can fast forward and watch it on and it will only last 25 minutes and you won't miss any of the plot br br no idea how people find this at all interesting and some are giving it high marks
0	ok we got jp from grandma's boy and chuck from well chuck i thought this movie would be quite good based on the reviews and it did start out pretty high on my movie scale but about halfway through it was just dragging out for so long i kept losing interest i actually got so bored probably because you can see right away what's going to happen in the end the story is actually quite thread bare i skipped over 15 minutes and didn't miss a thing this film should have been a short work maybe around 45 minutes to an hour max it starts out good and finishes good too bad the filling is bland boring dull and lacks everything but time some people say they like it for the music i don't care for jazz and i don't go see movies for their score i go for the story and when that's drawn out well ratings drop in my book br br bottom line good open great close boring filler story was cool but if you don't know what's going to happen a quarter of the way through you haven't seen too many thrillers
0	i love exotic science fiction fantasy movies but this one was very unpleasant to watch suggestions and images of child abuse mutilated bodies live or dead other gruesome scenes plot holes boring acting made this a experience the basic idea of entering another person's mind is not even new to the movies or tv an outer limits episode was better at exploring this idea i gave it 4 10 since some special effects were nice
0	decent but overrated dramatic thriller film attempts to depict the spiraling out of control inner demons of a tormented artist the problem is not a single relationship illustrated on screen is believable and plausibility appears to have been thrown out the window the title character is so difficult to relate to making it's rather impossible to imagine any of the on screen characters emotionally invested in him either the conclusion is also fairly predictable there are certainly enough clues provided from the get go to indicate exactly where the story is headed choosing to entirely suspend one's belief in the situations or the relationships the film itself is well acted especially by the leads and manages to create some nice tension as the story unfolds as a metaphorical feature there is some food for thought and had the script been stronger there's certainly potential here that could have been put to better use
0	in order to describe what's seriously wrong with this movie it has to contain some spoilers so if you're going to see it and expect to be surprised don't read this br br i liked everything about this movie except the plot and in a thriller like this believable plot is essential it is well acted if a bit slow moving and the camera work and portland scenes are exquisite for a low budget unpretentious picture the dialog is very good br br mason is seriously withdrawn youth who works at a company selling insurance his high school buddy berkeley is his employer and looks after him like a brother despite the fact that mason is quite obviously mentally ill mason has nightmares which send him gasping and fumbling for his inhaler his visions and nightmares suggest that he has had serious problems with good looking women in his past and the movie seems to be suggesting that he may be a serial killer of women he meets a perky pretty girl named amber and he sketches her in his notebook she takes a liking to him and poses for him so he can paint her portrait he sees more of her and begins to awaken from his withdrawn state almost becoming halfway human then something goes wrong amber finds with drawings of other girls and she begins to wonder she becomes frightened and pulls away we are wondering if her sudden coldness is going to push him over the edge his behavior becomes more erratic br br this is the setup for the revelation in order to explain how this movie goes horribly wrong i have to explain what happens another spoiler warning in order for this plot to work we have believe that amber a really outgoing pretty young girl is going to go for a seriously emotionally disturbed young man who at least at the beginning of their friendship has a vacant stare and can only speak in monosyllables or doesn't speak at all he's way beyond nerdy he appears on the verge of total catatonia yes i know girls can be attracted to all kinds of weirdos but usually the charles manson type or punk rockers guys with some kind of evil manic energy mason is practically a zombie he's hardly there at all any perky young thing would cross the street to avoid him it is just not believable that this girl is attracted to him moreover there is no credible reason for berkeley to indulge the crazy mason that just isn't believable either br br but wait there's a revelation amber fails to show up at berkeley's house for christmas dinner where mason is expecting her and berkeley his old buddy has to tell him that amber and all his other former girlfriends the ones he drew in his many don't exist at all she and all the others are merely figments of his twisted imagination he dreamed them up br br well this explains why a normal cute amber would go for mason she's just a figment of his imagination this could have been the final revelation of the movie with the proper preparation and setup but alas it's not at this point mason runs back to his apartment and finds amber there he's enraged he kills her but now we are given to understand that amber was in fact real not mason's imaginary girlfriend br br in the end after being given proof that amber actually exists and that mason killed her berkeley has to admit that he was wrong that he misjudged mason this would work if mason had been halfway sane from the beginning but because we the audience always suspected him of being totally deranged and possibly a killer of women it is no surprise to us we suspected what he was all along and can't understand why berkeley couldn't see it but then we are once again left to wonder if she was real why amber would be attracted to the catatonic mason br br to make the ending worse we are never given to understand whether all the other of mason's girlfriends the ones in the were real or was amber the first real one and if the others were real did he kill them too what did he do with the bodies br br the problem is that the filmmakers just didn't know what to do with the material perhaps there could have been a way to straighten it out and tell a credible suspense story but this movie is not that
0	i approached this movie with the understanding that it was one of the worst flicks ever made i sat down to watch it with this mindset and was pleasantly surprised br br it's not great it's not even that good in fact it's pretty poor however it's not as bad as i had been led to believe by a long shot it's pretty inept and evidently as a cost cutting measure a lot of stock footage is pressed into service a lot of which has no apparent relation to the narrative br br what it is however is an intensely personal movie made by a man who evidently did not have the skills or the funding to do his idea justice before you discount glen or glenda out of hand examine your own artistic skills me i'd love to be able to draw but anything i try to sketch comes out like stick men i'd love to be able to sing but all i do is frighten young children br br wood had an idea and unfortunately he didn't have what it takes to make it work however this was an incredibly daring movie for the puritan 50s however exploitative or incoherent it may appear at first glance
0	first of all ed wood jr is not the worst director ever plan 9 from outer space not withstanding coleman francis deserves that title i present exhibit b glen or glenda br br the first half of the movie consists of a surprisingly thoughtful exploration of especially since it was made in 1953 the last 15 minutes of movie are also not bad as well br br this is not to say the movie doesn't have problems bela lugosi was totally extraneous odd lines poor bela looked like even he wasn't sure what was happening at times the acting was wooden though no worse than a period universal b movie the long dream sequence that makes up the middle of the film was totally bizarre more like a vaguely menacing stag film than a dream sequence the alan ann story the supposed original focus of the film has a tacked on quality about it br br no ed wood jr is not the worst director ever he was able at least for part of this movie to make an earnest social statement when coleman francis tried to do that in night train to mundo fine aka red zone cuba it just ended in chaos glen or glenda is at least watchable without robot help
0	bela lugosi as god transvestites discussed in a movie in the straight laced 1950s by golly this must be an ed wood film br br watching this movie i felt a combination of guilt pleasure and nausea all at the same time the story is about glen ed wood himself and his cross dressing alter ego glenda somehow if this movie were made now i could see kevin kline playing glen glenda notice how all the cross alter egos are versions of their male name glen glenda robert roberta etc it attempts to sympathetically portray it as the mental disorder that it is rather than as a graphic perversion br br somehow wood manages to sneak in bondage and s m sequences into his initial story of glen glenda along with these racy scenes satan himself shows up obviously having a bad hair day the dialog and pace are nonexistent but the film is enjoyable in its context the weird world of ed wood br br sterno says put on your favorite lace panties for this one
0	there's a part of me that would like to give this movie a high rating considering that it was made in 1953 this is a very courageous movie about transvestites tackling the issue fairly seriously and sympathetically and offering the viewer a lot of information on the subject and trying very hard not to stereotype the movie clearly makes the point that transvestites are not homosexuals and that aside from wearing women's clothing they lead a relatively normal life it deals with the pain of not being accepted in society the plot revolves around a police officer lyle talbot desperately trying to understand the issue because of the recent suicide of a transvestite so you have to give everyone involved with this movie credit for taking on such a controversial in the context of 1953 subject br br having said all that i'm also sorry to say that this movie is absolutely dreadful in trying to portray glen glenda's edward d wood pain the movie falls into silly and at times surprisingly again given the era sensual fantasies that make the story very hard to follow the acting is wooden at best none of the dialogue comes across as real the actors look and sound like people reading speeches written by others and worst of all there was no point to having bela lugosi in this movie this was another of the increasingly embarrassing roles this poor man took on in the latter stages of his career pull the strings pull the strings poor lugosi's character called the spirit in the credits but really coming across as more of a mad scientist kept crying and nothing he did really seemed to have much connection with the rest of the movie br br for artistic merit the movie doesn't really deserve much more than 1 10 however for the courage involved in just putting it out i'll give it a 3 10
0	like other movies from the worst director ever ed wood this movie is very bad but because of that it is also very funny may be not for everyone but i laughed a lot it is a strange thing when you enjoy a bad movie how do you rate it as a movie very low as entertainment at least a little higher br br the movie tries to explain what a transvestite is and it does this through a scientist bela lugosi and an inspector lyle talbot who talks to a doctor timothy farrell who knows about these things the doctor tells the detective two stories and that is what we and apparently the scientist see the doctor tels these stories because a dead transvestite is found suicide and because of a headline in the news paper about a sex change the first and longest story is about glen ed wood himself who is in love and about to marry barbara dolores fuller but he has never told her he like to dress as a woman when he is named glenda the movie tells the same thing over and over again especially the fact that a transvestite is not necessarily a homosexual the movie almost says that being a transvestite is not a bad thing but being homosexual is since it keeps telling us the fact that a transvestite is not a homosexual the second story is about a transvestite who really wants a sex change and not just wants to dress up as a woman but it is much shorter and less interesting br br a couple of things make this movie very bad and therefore laughable how the story is presented is the first thing the way the same things are told over and over again and the conclusion of it all are others this is not where it ends the acting is very bad especially dolores fuller seems to be reading her lines directly from a little screen somewhere every thing she says is funny the whole dialogue actually gave me quite some laughs br br there is also a sequence where someone walks into a room the door stays half open and we see something hanging on the wall not completely straight then the door in what seems to be the same shot although we know it is not is a little less open and suddenly the thing on the wall hangs straight ed wood didn't mind to leave this kind of continuity errors in his movie may be a good thing because basically it is just another laugh for the modern audience i think you understand that it is a bad movie and i think there is a good chance you will laugh at the ridiculous mistakes as well
0	as many know this is the feature film debut of edward d wood jr as as a writer producer director actor i have been a fan of ed wood for several years now while i don't like this as much as some of his other films it was probably the largest insight that the cinematic going public gets of wood during his life everybody knows that he was a transvestite this film is about changing one's sex and how being a transvestite can create conflict in relationships with loved ones this film is way ahead of its time in dealing with this subject matter and how it deals with it however the film still contains wood's usual pitfalls of bad dialog meaningless stock footage and hokey special effects throw in wood's usual overdose of bela lugosi hamming it up and you have wood's first attempt at being a director br br the plot is that a police inspector goes to a doctor after he discovers the body of a transvestite who committed suicide for advice on how to avoid further problems along these lines the doctor tells him the story of glen who is also a transvestite glen wants to marry barbara but can't bring himself to tell her about his secret he also tells the inspector about alan who undergoes a sex change because he is really more suited to being a woman bela lugosi plays a scientist who seems to add some kind of running commentary on what is going on lugosi's part really isn't well defined and proves to be most likely a vehicle for wood to have a star in his film and lugosi to get some cash br br all in all the movie shows the hallmarks of wood's career it was obviously shot on a very low budget and has quite a few things thrown in rather haphazardly it definitely has the it's so bad it's good feel to it however i do have to applaud ed on his progressive thinking in making this film transvestitism and sex changes were not extremely open subjects in the early 50s wood took a big risk in making a film that portrays transvestites as people who are not sexual deviants and putting a more human face on cross dressing
0	i just recently watched ed wood jr 's autobiographical movie glen or glenda for the first time after having heard so much about it for so many years nothing i had read or heard about this film could prepare me for what i saw this has to be the most bizarre movie ever made stampeding buffalo women in bondage satan prancing around and bela lugosi rambling only as he can pull the string pull the string it was totally insane the acting was atrocious and the dialog was unintentionally hilarious exactly what one would expect from an ed wood film having said all that as horrible as this movie was i have to give wood credit he was way ahead of his time you have to remember that when this movie was made transvestites were not even discussed in public much less the subject for a movie i have read that wood was a transvestite in real life and i'm sure this movie was based on his own experiences it was sad to see bela lugosi having to say the ridiculous lines he had to say for this film but it was kind of ed wood jr to at least give mr lugosi an acting job at a time in bela's life when he was penniless and a drug addict and no one else in hollywood would hire him if you have never seen this film then you have to see it especially if you are a fan of ed wood jr
0	directed and written by the famous infamous edward d wood jr using a pseudonym daniel davis playing the lead role of glen glenda this is an almost radical documentary about transvestism wood himself being a transvestite with a fetish for angora sweaters it seems miles of stock footage and an incoherent bela lugosi is used to stretch this odd and awkward film to 67 minutes police inspector lyle talbot seeks enlightenment from a psychiatrist dr alton timothy farrell to better understand the emotional and disposition of transvestites br br also in the cast delores fuller tommy captain and wood's sister evelyn of note farrell also acts as narrator and fuller later helped write songs included in the elvis presley movies blue hawaii cousins kid
0	if you like to watch movies because they are pretty you should be okay with this one if you like to watch movies that start out with a good guy trying to catch a bad guy then reveal clues to the motives of each throughout the movie skip it at the end of the movie i still didn't know why killed the women the way he did when you set up such a ritualistic serial killer it would be nice to know where the rituals originated from in dreams was a similar pretty movie with a serial killer which also wasn't the best but at least the whys of how he killed the girls was explained they also hinted at a dark background for vaughn's character but didn't explain didn't really say why lopez's child psychologist was so much better suited for this task than the rest of the people they interviewed didn't give much of an explanation for the little kid's problem etc if the rest of the story is compelling i don't care about details like how afforded all the fancy electronic equipment and underground chambers or why the fbi wasn't checking to see if he owned any other property or had access to out of the way places while they were waiting to see if the whole entering the killer's mind thing would work but i do like to have a sense of what motivates the serial killer in a serial killer movie when he kills in such a complex manner
0	considering the film’s reputation as truly the worst of the worst i was looking forward to watching opus my word it’s not necessarily any more inept than the other woods i’ve watched – however being from the reefer madness 1938 school of film making glen or glenda doesn’t come across as readily as his genre efforts br br also this surely emerges as horror legend bela nadir his first of three with the director one wonders whether he was really aware what kind of film it was considering the history of heavy medication and the sheer senselessness of his cameo besides idiosyncratic delivery is perhaps at its most awkward script is mostly to blame for this – given the impossible dialogue with repeated nonsensical allusions to dog and fat he handed the ailing star by the way wood himself plays the central role under the pseudonym daniel davis – and being just as worthless in this area proves to have been an all round dog dolores fuller – his wife and co star – was similarly untalented she would also appear in jail bait 1954 at the very least the image where the latter finally lets glen wear her angora sweater did give tim affectionate biopic ed wood 1994 its famous poster br br incidentally the latter film features a presumably fictionalized meeting between wood and orson welles – well for all intents and purposes glen or glenda constitutes ed citizen kane 1941 given its gleeful propensity for gimmicky narrative techniques in fact the barest thread of plot is padded with stock footage galore many of it irrelevant such as the bewildering instances of s m and inane dream sequences highlighted by the presence of an impish demon sporting outrageous bushy eyebrows that would make martin scorsese weep with envy the film’s sincere attempt at a plea for tolerance and psychological probing into the affliction phenomenon of transvestism is however sabotaged at every turn by the sheer amateurishness of the approach br br for what it’s worth the edition i watched was the re issue which included six minutes of footage directed by w merle censored on original release furthermore my copy went out of synch every so often which forced me to rewind it slightly to get the audio back on track – though thankfully this was the fault of the source conversion to divx as opposed to the film itself
0	i saw the biopic of ed wood many years ago tim burton payed loving homage to this extremely untalented but yet enthusiastic filmmaker br br then i saw plan 9 and it actually tickled me to no end a silly story kind of bad production values but still entertaining and even funny br br then this what can you make of it well since wood has been reported as being a cross dresser it is startling to see a movie that deals with it like a cartoon yes there are some stabs at teaching the audience something about the subject but mostly this is some kind of really twisted self parody br br one of it's problems is that it has a hundred points of view on one hand it is a plea for tolerance another portrays transvestism as a disease and finally it tells the audience okay if you are now then wait until you see this the problem must have been that wood had to compromise in order for the film to be made you can almost sense it when you see the opening title from the producer personally supervised by so where are we this is neither a serious subject movie or an all out br br the entertainment value is practically nil the wooden voice over is mildly amusing but only because it sounds so misguided this was made in the 50s though so one can argue that was brave making a film that even mentioned the word transvestites it all comes down to what the film itself is trying to advocate against the rape scene while mild is there simply to do that br br so sorry this is a misfire but the discredit is not wood's alone
0	let me say this about edward d wood jr he had a passion for his work that i wish more people did have if we all had the optimism and the commanding hope of ed wood the world would probably be a much better place being familiar with ed wood's story and having seen the most wonderful biopic ed wood 1994 several times i admire his boldness and his strives for the job he loved i still admire his never say die attitude he had a love for directing that i wish more people in modern day hollywood had br br but that doesn't make his movies any more fun to watch and glen or glenda his first and most confessional film is probably his very worst br br glen or glenda is a deadening cult movie about a cross dresser named glen played by director writer ed wood himself who despite his love for his fiancée barbara dolores fuller cannot seem to conquer his lust for transvestitism in which he dresses in women's clothing and a wig and thus becomes glenda glen glenda's story is narrated by a doctor and he too is talked and watched over by a mysterious character called the scientist played by veteran horror star bela lugosi oh and there's also some sub story about an alan anne character who becomes a transsexual based on the christine story upon whom this movie originally titled i changed my sex was previously to be based br br have i dropped your jaw yet well as much as i want to warn you off this picture if you've never seen it i would never tell a lie about a movie and there is not one word of falsehood in that plot synopsis i just gave you every thing in it is true this is a movie about cross dressers and transsexuals a topic that does not sound very appealing to begin with and is not done in a very appealing manner i'm sure that with a good screenplay and a good director it had neither that glen or glenda despite the subject matter could have been a very moving picture it is a confessional movie on wood's part as he was a transvestite in real life as well as on screen but once again that does not make it a good movie or a watchable one for that matter glen or glenda is a jumbled disorganized mess of a movie that sinks into new trenches in the realm of bad cinema it makes no more sense than does its notoriously silly scene where bela lugosi screams pull the string over inexplicable footage of stampeding bison the majority of the movie is narrated in a monotonous voice reminding me of some very bad short informative films i've seen before it's like one of those really bad short films expanded into a seventy minute feature and twice as dull we sit there for ages waiting for the plot that never comes there is no real attempt to even build energy with the camera being locked down in one position for many grueling minutes and long stretches of time where nothing at all happens the only moments that are worth anybody's time are those of bela lugosi who manages to bring some light into these dark trenches i guess lugosi is supposed to be like the deity of the film but personally i couldn't care less who or what he's supposed to be i'll tell you what he was a gifted actor who wound up making trash but he and wood were very good friends and liked working with each other so good for him br br i will always admire edward d wood jr for his passion for the cinema but i will never as long as i live admire his movies a film critic once called ed wood's movies innocent fun but i think even that is questionable innocent yes fun no sir and if citizen kane is the mount everest of the cinematic world then glen or glenda is probably the mariana trench
0	whew what can one say about this bizarre stupefying mock u about ed wood's cross dressing fantasies well one word that comes to mind is incoherent wood uses raw slabs of innocuous incidental stock footage and then builds a story around them and what a story wood himself stars as glen a regular joe who just happens to enjoy lounging around in his fiancee's lingerie and sweaters i think what wood wanted was a plea for tolerance for all the of this world by showing that glen is just like all of us underneath only in angora ummm ok but then we get this very bizarre montage of some horny devil a chick in bondage some rude pointing people some moore stock footage and finally an emaciated bela playing some kind of twisted invalid puppetmaster lugosi is a howl spouting out such rubbish as the dragon that at your doorstep he boys tails and snails um ok bela 8 there is a strange twisted type of wood logic going on here afterall he does remind us that 7 out of 10 men wear hats and 7 out of 10 men are bald hmmm must be that alien cross dressing thang glen or glenda stars a plethora whatever that is of reliable wood schlock actors including lyle talbot delores fuller and timothy farrell and wood manages to coax every bit of wretched amateurish non talent out of each one everybody by now knows bela's sad story by the time wood used him for this flic he was probably jonesing for another fix and needed the moolah but even for him this is depth heretofore one of the moocow's favorite wood comes with the stock footage charging buffalo scene it is sooo demented the moocow says de and git yer hooves on a copy of glen or glenda you won't believe it 
0	glen or glenda was edward d wood jr's first attempt at directing a feature film for this he chose a topic near and dear to his heart transvestism the art of a man wanting to dress in women's clothes to his credit wood tried to deal with subject matter that was largely taboo in 1953 unfortunately wood had neither the budget nor the know how to make the film br br the story opens with a prologue by bela lugosi that makes little sense and then moves to the discovery of a dead transvestite glen glenda daniel davis aka ed wood inspector warren lyle talbot with the help of psychiatrist dr alton timothy farrell tries to understand why a man would want to live and die this way br br glen is engaged to barbara dolores fuller and is reluctant to tell her of his obsession and that's it we see endless stock footage shots of anything from freeway traffic to soldiers landing on the beach interspersed with shots of wood walking down the same street dressed as either glen or glenda and looking longingly at women's clothes in a store window poor old bela who was down on his luck and befriended by wood keeps popping in throughout the story i'm not 100 sure but i think bela's scenes were added for his name value after the body of the movie was completed br br to add to the confusion of lugosi's narration farrell as dr alton also provides off screen narration lugosi keeps saying take care take care as well as some gibberish about snakes and snails and puppy dog's tails br br the story also deals with a transvestite who has a successful sex change operation and tries to explain the difference between that person and wood's character s the dream sequences are laughable a wedding sequence in which someone dressed as the devil appears is a good example wood also gives us an apparent rape scene with the actors fully clothed but leaving little to the imagination risqué for 1953 br br this film along with wood's other classics were so bad that they became embraced by the public as cult classics over the years for that reason they have survived to this day
0	and generally speaking you will eventually have to research this little gem when describing i changed my sex or glen or glenda as it is better known i must echo the thoughts of andrew smith who so hit the nail on the head when he wrote if you haven't seen any of ed wood's other movies this one is a completely bewildering experience if you have seen any of ed wood's movies this is still completely bewildering the film is both hilarious and tragic yet it moves with a strange rhythm of its own that leaves one in no doubt that its author knows and means every word he is saying during its running length wood bless him had some of the ambitions as a director wanting to promote peace understanding and even acceptance in the 1950s of all times when tim burton recreated a viewing of glen or glenda by studio execs for his biopic he showed the execs laughing and telling each other that this had to be a put on more than fifty years later there are still people fighting just to be given the kind of respect that the normal take for granted so i say it most certainly is not br br no the real comedy in glen or glenda is the sheer ineptitude wood displays in composing his message directors frequently use stock footage when they can find some that suits their purposes and can be edited to fit with their own footage ed wood used stock footage indiscriminately and tim burton's biopic celebrated the fact with a scene in which wood as played by johnny depp bets that he could make an entire film out of stock footage sadly the real ed wood died before he had a chance but glen or glenda is the closest he ever came the imdb states that twenty percent of this sixty something minute film is stock footage and it is never difficult to guess which footage footage of busy highways planes flying overhead poor lightning effects soldiers doing their thing they're all used in a haphazard manner sometimes repeatedly and they often only have a loose connection to the story wood is trying to tell had wood been able to sit back and think about what he is trying to do for a while there is no telling what kind of heights he could have achieved br br wood himself appears in the film as the titular character a confused transvestite who imagines himself as a woman named glenda aside from the daring manner in which he attempts to make his point wood makes one hideous woman having found myself out on the fringe of a society that thinks i am disabled and need to be cured myself i honestly found myself hoping for the best outcome for wood's character in order to make his point however wood weaves in short stories of two other transvestites one of them takes the extreme step of enduring a sex change in order to become a woman the other finds himself so disenfranchised that he fears being arrested again so much he commits suicide the scary thing about this film is that if you edited out the transvestism and substituted such disenfranchisements as my position on the autistic spectrum or such things as schizophrenia very little of the film would even need to be changed that is how little society has learned since ed wood was a boy br br the other significant personality in glen or glenda is bela lugosi whom wood shoehorned into the film speculation varies upon wood's motives but the accepted theory is that wood wanted to help revive lugosi's career and would do anything in order to achieve this with the exception of taking his time to carefully construct a good film that is in glen or glenda wood makes usage of lugosi that was best described in flying saucers over hollywood as bizarre lugosi plays a character billed as the scientist but comes off more as an omnipotent puppet master people who have not seen ed wood films before the biopic will think tim burton made up the beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep speech if anything burton was being restrained about which bizarre speech to use in depicting wood ian dialogue nothing can prepare you for seeing the speeches in their original context not even hilarious ranting during plan 9 from outer space br br observant types will also note the presence of delores fuller wood's girlfriend at the time again burton her reaction to seeing the script for the first time whereas the film portrays her as being accepting and forward thinking i cannot help but feel that burton's portrayal is more accurate as fuller looks extremely uncomfortable in her role she only appears for about fifteen minutes but her delivery seems so mechanical so lifeless that she somehow manages to seem less talented than her cast mates if such a thing is possible whether wood's direction was better focused in this case than usual is hard to determine but if the ability of the support cast to leave the stars with the obvious exception of bela in the dust is any guide then it should come as no surprise that fuller would only appear in a very small role within one other wood film that she went on to write a number of hit songs tells you she made the right decision to stay behind the camera while wood would appear before the camera again it was never as more than a cameo a walk on or a bit part br br i gave glen or glenda a one out of ten i generally only give this rating to films that are so bad they become entertaining as a result bold and well intentioned as it was glen or glenda fits that description to a t
0	i agree with one commentator who says that it's really impossible to review glen or glenda objectively if one does so the film on its merits would have to be rated as fairly terrible given the hilarious convoluted dialog the generally mediocre to poor acting by the cast as well as the zero production values yet such an assessment does not capture the absolutely riveting experience of watching this film as it unfolds it isn't the fact that the subject of the film is transvestitism and that it was a controversial lifestyle choice in the 1950s it's not even the plea for tolerance of people who embrace alternate life choices that fascinates except as an historic relic br br no what makes glen or glenda still a fascinating film after 50 years is that ed wood laid his psyche bare in a way that so called auteur directors like hitchcock or godard despite their vastly superior talents never did in glen or glenda wood isn't afraid to reveal his own deeply conflicted feelings about being a transvestite despite the plea for tolerance for it through out the film indeed the conclusion of the film suggest that ed wood's glen character will be able to kill his glenda female counterpart by transferring the feelings of love and affection glen has for his feminine counterpart to his future wife barbara the psychiatrist even reassures glen and barbara that as glen makes that psychic transference glenda will disappear so while wood could plead for tolerance of transvestites in general he wasn't so sure of desiring it for himself br br moreover wood wasn't afraid of throwing everything else that crossed his mind on the screen he did it with whatever stock footage he could get his hands on if it didn't cohere so what what the viewer saw in glen or glenda especially was ed wood's imaginative world in all of its fundamental strangeness br br the only comment i wish to add to my comment above is that my two star rating is based solely on the objective evaluation criteria cited in the first paragraph the oddly effect the film has despite its technically atrocious qualities i don't think can be rated
0	sitting in a big wing chair with a huge book in his lap the one and only bela lugosi looks into the camera and in a dreadful vocal delivery that sounds as if he were mocking a reading of shakespeare intones sloooow ly man's constant groping of things unknown drawing from the endless reaches of time brings to light many startling things snicker startling because they seem new lugosi's eyes now bulging with raised eyebrows and mouth sneering he continues but most are not new the signs of the ages cue a visual of lightening accompanied by the sound of thunder which then continues to rumble for an astonishing 86 seconds br br and so begins what is arguably the worst film ever made this movie almost defies description told in semi docudrama style with an unseen narrator explaining the plot such as it is the story revolves around the vicissitudes of a man named glen ed wood jr who cross dresses hence the reference to glenda the film has no real structure instead it consists mostly of a random assortment of vignettes that may or may not relate to glen or to the cross dressing motif one long sequence consists of some unknown woman wriggling on a sofa followed by a man whipping a woman in what we would today refer to as s m br br then at odd moments bela reappears for no apparent reason and babbles more inane dialogue like when he's wrong because he does right and when he's right because he does wrong pull the string dance to that huh br br about twenty percent of the film's visuals consist of stock footage accompanied by a vo that relates to the story motif but not the visuals hence we see stock footage of bustling city streets freeway traffic a thunderous herd of buffalo and a playground full of kids but it gets worse in a film about cross dressing we have 58 consecutive seconds of stock footage of a furnace making hot steel and 84 consecutive seconds of battle scenes from wwii br br even the simplest items are botched in one scene we see a newspaper headline that reads man nabbed dressed as girl underneath the headline which has clearly been glued or pasted on the article is about taxes in one of my favorite scenes an off screen woman spouts out airplanes why it's against the creator's will in a voice that sounds like she's just inhaled helium br br except for the performance of lyle talbot the acting is uniformly horrendous production design is cheap looking and drab but you gotta love that tacky wallpaper the editing is sloppy most of the background music is suitable only for 1950 style elevators the b w cinematography has way too much contrast and the costumes look like something that came from a thrift store br br this film is so bad it makes plan 9 from outer space look like citizen kane by comparison i just don't know how one could make a film any worse than ed wood's glen or glenda but thankfully it's got bela lugosi in it every time he opened his mouth and gazed into the camera with those big bulging eyes i about fell on the floor laughing
0	this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were 5 of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways ruined the night ok so pros and cons pros beautiful setting in hawaii looks good on bluray cons worst acting ever you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday predictable poor plot zero character development forced jokes which fall flat many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid cheap
0	i endured this film just to satisfy my curiosity it has to be one of the worst films i have ever sat through i am amazed that this film currently has a 7 5 star rating the acting is awful script is non existent and the characters are so predictable and hollow for a funny film i cannot remember even snickering once and fail to see how it could be defined as a comedy do yourself a favour and stay well away from this dross and check out some more worthy alternatives that would give you far greater pleasure check out films like the holiday or 27 dresses these movies would offer a far more satisfying cinema experience i sincerely hope more educated film goers vote negatively for this film in the manner it genuinely deserves there bye giving it a more realistic rating that other film buffs could base their judgement upon come on folks let's be fair to everyone concerned and give those involved with this film a true reflection on what it is they have produced an extremely mediocre picture that deserves to be forgotten very quickly
0	as i said the idea itself was great and it had plenty potential i was truly sad of discovering that this was another typical american mass movie we are in this for the money if only the producers had had more time to actually make the movie this one was not finished when they let it out
0	i gave this movie a chance only because it had very good reviews after seeing the trailer i thought what an unfunny movie full of clichés but i decided to give it a shot because trailers often don't portray the movie very well what a waste of time the movie is worst than the trailer and after spending 2 hours watching it i couldn't recall one single line that made me laugh the funniest parts of the movie were the csi parodies but that also is pretty passé i couldn't relate to any of the characters nor hope that they will be together because i found them utterly stupid the plot is extremely predictable and inconclusive unintelligent comedy for people who are either still in high school or feel that way mentally
0	this movie wasted 2 hours of my time and just make me wanna scream lame nicholas write the movie yes man but direct this maybe he should stick with writing br br i am so disappointed because i heard all the great review i was expecting something like knocked up they say this is from the maker of knocked up why can't i see the resemblance but this just felt like a shallow overdone theme kind of movie for me i am so disappointed actually it's not bad if you consider it as your average chick movie but that character of the band guy just get on my nerves br br maybe i was just not paying enough attention to the movie but yeah they have some funny lines and scene but i don't felt the originality and the ending make the movie a little bit better at least the ending is not some boring cliché one
0	this movie was bad but it was so bad that it may reach cult status in the distant future a sort of film noir meets plan 9 from outer space the story was well there wasn't actually a story there is a place reserved for the ed woods and russ meyers of the world and this film proves it so bad it might be good is the best way to describe it i seriously doubt if this movie will be picked up by any legitimate distribution company therefore it is unlikely to see wide release br br i will add that i expect to see more of actor ron carey he made the best of what he had the rest of the acting if i can call it that was quite forgettable i have seen worse from big studios with vast budgets
0	yeah i know his character was supposed to be a drunk and he may have been just acting goofy but something tells this critic that mr pleasence really was drinking a lot and was intoxicated during his scenes in the film basically everything he says is slurred and often unintelligible or maybe it was just the poor productions values hard to say br br anyway the race for the yankee is a film that just doesn't work that's a shame too since the film has a terrific opening and a generally interesting plot the production values are just too low and the action just too sparse for this new zealand adventure to deliver the goods the story deals with a us war plane which is filled with gold money and medals which crashes into a lake in new zealand during wwii the plane remains lost for about forty years or so until it somehow washes ashore and a drunk pleasence literally stumbles onto it at first he gathers up all the purple heart medals and tries to sell them in town actually getting 75 apiece for them little does he know that once he sells them the local gets on the phone and starts trying to track down info about the plane before you can blink all of the attention brings a wealthy scumbag peppard and his henchmen into town and they quickly try to force the old guy to give up the location of the plane since they know there is much more on it than just medals the old drunk's business partner and his daughter warren then race out to try and claim the fortune before the bad guys can get to it the resulting action just isn't as fun as you'd hope it would be br br the acting is rather awful save for pleasence george peppard tries to do some kind of i guess austrailian accent but it is hardly convincing lesley ann warren isn't too bad but ken is really bad he's basically doing his best impression of michael pare on his worst day and that's saying something hopefully he made enough money on this film to fix his front teeth which looked a bit crooked i don't recall if he'd had them straightened by the time he was in wiseguy the rest of the cast are pretty untalented probably mostly locals who never did much else i guess the biggest problems for me were the lack of action for much of the film and the lack of danger the villains are just too nice and goofy to be taken seriously and honestly there are no helicopters in the film that look like the ones on the dvd cover and none of the boats in the film have teeth painted on them either br br the film does have its strengths though the beginning which starts off as a newsreel and then becomes part of the story was a nice touch brian may's score sounds a little too much like the one in mad max 2 but he included a nice little march they play for pleasence in some scenes sounds just like the one in the great escape there are some neat helicopter stunts and a great boat chase that apparently killed three stunt men during filming the scenery despite the grainy look of the picture is still quite beautiful the thing you'll remember most is the drunken antics of donald pleasence though he was almost enough to save this film almost 4 of 10 stars br br the hound
0	at the opposite end of the spectrum from raiders of the lost ark is david utterly inferior adventure regarding the salvage of a world war ii era plane with a valuable cargo assets include beautiful new zealand settings brian may's energetic music score and some dandy helicopter flying and jet boat chases the bad however far outweighs the good donald pleasence hams as perhaps never before half of his dialog is almost unintelligible george peppard attempts an australian i think accent then gives it up halfway through lesley ann warren is at her most irritating ken is well ken the dialog is painful to hear and direction is largely inept the script is not only obvious but terrible jokes fall flat scenes carry no punch and continuity is virtually non existent according to the end credits two men were killed piloting jet boats during the making of the film what a waste
0	first off the initial concept of a lost fortune in gold bars discovered in a new zealand lake inside a downed world war 2 plane is a great opening what follows is nothing but cartoon like drivel men chasing men cars chasing men helicopters chasing men helicopters chasing boats boats chasing boats for the better part of an hour the most boring nonsense with absolutely no advancement to the story special mention must be made of the chop shop editing as many scenes seem to have been spliced together in random order the acting by all concerned is an embarrassment one last thing the picture quality and sound quality is so bad on this dvd that you will be appalled merk
0	don wilson stars as a cop who enjoys the occasional virtual reality fighting game however things go wrong when the people behind the game decide to take virtual reality to a new level by making real people from the video game okay actually they make the models as prototype but the main bad guy from the video game awakens and starts killing people and now the only man who can beat the guy is don wilson who in the mean time falls in love with the model actually with all things considered my biggest confusion was trying to understand if the people brought over from virtual reality land were robots human cyborgs or just some type of unidentified computer program it doesn't matter since this is all just an excuse to watch one of the worst actors ever butcher dialog as if he were running a deli don wilson's complete lack of charisma is the film's biggest flaw since one just doesn't like the guy he's too goody goody his voice is too high pitched and doesn't look very impressive in the action sequences what saves this bore fest from my lowest rating is massey who looks super hot in high cut outfits and who gets occasionally naked also on board is loren a good martial artist stella stevens and michael dorn as the main voice of the bad guy but their efforts are in vain as they are all concealed by the very bad acting of wilson another flaw which is the film's biggest mistake is a lack of action as we are asked to watch the story unfold but aside from massey's nudity and maybe some unintentional amusements due to laughably unconvincing acting there really is nothing of interest this also extends to the action sequences in which are flatly choreographed badly directed and completely drained of all possible excitement making this virtually unwatchable br br out of 4 bad
0	this movie has got to be the worse movie i have ever seen i only watched about a half an hour and i just shut it off the cars in this movie look like two geo front ends smashed together this movie isn't even good for laughs the only time i laughed was when dante kept saying in funny voice nobody can beat dante i said holy god and shut it off bad bad movie 2 10
0	i have watched this movie on and off since it started playing about 1 hour ago and i have to say thats an hour of my life i wasted and will not be getting back the acting is crap and the scripts need a serious look at and whoever wrote them needs to be slapped perhaps the tv will explode and put me out of my misery the only good thing about this movie is that for guys and girls it has some good eye candy in it though most of which i wish would disappear as far as the movie is concerned the special effects as sh t dante who thinks a guy dressed in skin tight leather pants and half a leather jacket is scary he looks more feminine than most of the women in this movie the voice of dante is pathetic nobody finds it threatening or scary at all please tv i beg you to blow up
0	if movies where virtual reality characters come to life and they are all either male tough guys or female eye candy sounds good to you then perhaps this movie may not be a total waste of film needless to say the overwhelming majority of people will find this to be an absolute bore with little acting talent and even less of a script yes athena massey is nice to look at but that is the only positive thing that i can say about this disaster
0	i really enjoy this genre but the cell was one of the worst movies i've ever been unfortunate enough to watch while about 25 percent of my audience wandered in and out of the theater during the viewing or left entirely i was dumb enough to stick it out the main problems with this story there were too many to list all is that with this type of film you have to do two things one provide fear of the killer being that they catch him twenty minutes into the film that's gone and you must give the victim whose life is at stake the girl in the tank enough character development that you actually care whether they get to her in time or not not only did i lose track of the girl i was given such little insight into her that she was only a blurry face and when i did remember she was part of the story i really didn't care what happened to her while the visuals were interesting in an lsd flashback sort of way they often times made no sense and this should be a lesson that visuals can't make up for lack of a good story see phantom menace for another example finally does anyone know or care what was up with the women kneeling in that field and staring at the sky ridiculous
0	why is it that virtual x rated video game women can speak through their mouths but virtual fighting game champion dante has to use a combination of telepathy and over dramatic facial expressions i feel that either they needed to cast someone who looked more villain like michael big brown doe eyes don't exactly strike fear in the hearts of well anyone except for maybe casting directors who consistently cast him as either a villain or a heroic 'bad boy' or they needed to just let him use his real voice and move his mouth and maybe give him a costume that would not make him stick out like a sore thumb when walking down the street but of course this is the future and we must assume that bad fashion taste is considered the norm
0	i actually liked this movie sure the acting was flat there was no plot and the villain was the lamest that i've seen michael as dante is worth laughs in his own right with an incredibly funny catchphrase and evil laugh but its worth seeing just for the worst explosion you will ever see outside of the power rangers tv series you'll know it when you see it honestly this movie must have the budget of a low grade porno i almost stopped watching after an hour but i recommend watching through the whole thing at the very least there's plenty of eye candy for all to enjoy recommended for viewers with a high tolerance to poor movies
0	everybody loves to see a really bad movie sometime you watch it take a good laughs and forget it in the next half hour but this is not one of those it's the worst thing that will appear in front of your eyes for a while br br i would like to see someone to take responsibility for dante he's really the most stupid villain you can think of a guy in leather pants that speaks with a voice over and has a victory laugh like a 50's dracula how can someone came up with this guy and the hero the dragon or whatever my cereals box has better acting skills than him maybe than all of them it's unbelievable but the worst are the fighting scenes where you would think there could be something in it they're so lame it's beyond any kind of description there's no shame i just can't believe how this movie was allowed by any studio but i'm just thrilled it was watching this is a self mutilating pleasure see this only if you're in a movie quest for pain and in that case this one is a sure winner
0	so pathetic its not even funny from the first scene in the movie i knew i was in for a bad time thank goodness i only saw this movie on tv the story line was terrible not to mention the acting it was horrid very unreal and unusual things happened in this move such as the lady sticks a whip under the door and whips the guy a little and he just hands over the keys i'm like get real the creators lousy attempt to make a futuristic city even deepened my dislike for the film to tell you the truth the only good thing in this movie at all was the fighting which was in itself pretty lame all i could ask myself when watching this movie was when is it gonna go off
0	this harold lloyd short wasn't really much not one of his funnier efforts of course i never see bratty kids as anything hilarious that's what the bulk of this story is harold and his wife mildred davis babysitting his in laws two young kids one is a baby who is constantly crying and the other is a four year old terror who does everything but demolish the house letting the kid create havoc over and over was not entertaining to me br br the best part was the last four or five minutes when the couple thinks that this big goon noah young is burglarizing their house half the time it's the pet cat scaring the couple but overall that segment is fun with some good sight gags reminding me of another lloyd short haunted spooks br br however the good ending doesn't save the whole picture which i probably wouldn't watch again lloyd has done too many other good things to waste even 25 minutes on this one again it just isn't that funny
0	the film listed here as having been made in 1980 is not the film which is available from something weird video in their driver's ed scare films vol 5 for one thing the 1980 version is in color has on this disc an earlier version 1972 of the film made in b w for television channel 5 in cincinnati either way this film is notorious however unlike most other driver's ed films this was intended for television broadcast and viewing by the general public thus the level of carnage has been down it's still a pretty grim exercise in exploitation of bloody death for a purported educational intent i live in the cincinnati area and i remember this thing being shown every year around prom time on channel 5 if you're looking for one film that demonstrates the tone of this uniquely american film phenomenon the last prom is pretty typical morose hyperbolic extremely didactic heavy on melodrama whether it really affected any teenager's driving at all is anyone's guess
0	you could see the final outcome from a mile away all the signs were there the prom the liquor the fast ride the distraction of the females a good commercial for usage and later model vehicles that sit the passengers further back from the windshield also the ending is rather anti climatic as the ford van barely suffers a across its nose after hitting a bridge at high speed highly unlikely more damage to the van would have made it a little more believable and why do these films always take place during after a prom is it a case of once you survive the prom you will be good for life more than anything else it shows the lack of policing the prom for liquor and not keeping tabs on the minors who are leaving the dance for a joyride
0	with such a promising cast and a director that i have heard great things about i was utterly disappointed by this film it started off with signs of a great epic gangster tale and turned into a completely muddled mess with many unanswered questions and some completely ridiculous and pointless scenes and yes i did watch the full length version i love robert deniro and as usual he did a fine acting job but in all his other gangster films no matter how many people he kills i always still had respect for his character but in this movie he was a lowlife drug addict rapist with no care for anyone but himself also james woods another fine actor had some completely ridiculous scenes written for him i thought the parts where robert deniro called him crazy and he flipped out came completely out of left field and towards the end the writers just throw in this random comment about how his father died in a nut house and that's why james woods didn't like being called crazy so much was left undeveloped in this movie also we never find out who the men are in the beginning that are trying to kill noodles and we never find out more about joe pesci's character it seems that the writers threw together about five different stories and never fully explained any of them the only redeeming quality of the film was the story when the characters were young kids the story ran smoothly in this part of the movie and the kids did a great acting job overall i was thoroughly disappointed by this movie and i don't see how anyone can even compare this to the godfather 1 and 2 or even goodfellas i am sad that i wasted four hours of my life watching this film
0	it is high time that american critics and fans alike start to debunk their unquestioned sloppy veneration of films like sergio leone's 'once upon a time in america' the checkered history of this opulent film and the grand fanciful myth associated with it's production and many versions belies its mediocrity on a narrative level the film lurches backward and forward in fits and starts its central figures adrift and seemingly out of place surrounded by the ersatz decadence of towering sets the minutia of production detail and the by 1984 cliche'd but gorgeous cinematographic confection on offer to the audience the plot's time frame is confusing gimmicky and laboured leading some critics to imagine the noodles figure's opium to be the antecedent of some future 'dream reality' as well as the sepia toned this ham handed overly fan boy apologetic interpretation glosses over the glaring narrative irregularities on display even at this full running time figures appear and disappear with alarming suddenness the deborah character is fleetingly established in child form a cold and unattainable female not even hinting at the gravity with which she will re establish her relationship with a post prison noodles the said re union henceforth rings completely false the deadening pace is somewhat to blame certain sequences drag along for far too long signifying very little hinting at a director with so little restraint and narrative economy that he often feels obligated to usurp every iota of screen time possible in order to show off his production fatal for a film that contains figures so sullen and aloof the trajectory of the lives is presented to us as a microcosm mirroring the historical trajectory of america's teens through prohibition and its spoils ending with the arguable ruin of its moribund central figures save deborah a make up department fumble or intentional one wonders this notion is commonplace even banal the cast of characters as imagined in the one note script written by seven italians no less are flatly and awkwardly played by all but the younger actors who at least venture a few variant facial expressions this is understandable given the almost unworkable material some critics state that the characters may seem so self absorbed but actively seek their own goals assuming the compliance of others e g when noodles gets out of prison max picks him up and offers him a hooker without asking him whether or not this is what he desires and later makes deals assuming noodles will comply this explanation of their abrupt abrasive dispositions is unsatisfactorily extraneous and merely serves to highlight the complicated ends the films unwavering supporters will go to to defend their positions regarding a film unfortunately short on sense although ennio morricone's score is much revered it is undeniably schmaltzy and repetitive it gushes with an emotional that the scenes themselves many violent just do not warrant at points it is questionable whether or not morricone was watching the same film i was so incongruous is his work as a paean to american filmmaking it succeeds in terms of mood helped by a few strokes of masterful editing segueing between time periods and visuals not helped by said score but lacks narrative cohesion and fluidity
0	dare rudd john wayne and sidekick dink syd are itinerant who can't seem to stay in one place very long in the boys are headed to montana where they meet up with rudd's cousin tom fillmore johnny mack brown who offers them a job it's a hoot to see the boys wearing as they start out as cooks with the herd although dare becomes self conscious when miss judith marsha hunt rides into camp judy is tom's girl but the attraction between her and dare is evident early on br br fillmore has a cattle herd to move and promotes dare to running the drive partly to prove to judy that he may not be up to the task meanwhile bad guy bart hammond monte blue has his eyes on cattle but when his henchmen fail to rustle the herd he figures it's easier to win the money that dare was paid at the end of the trail conning dare into a rigged card game with his man brady james craig money begins to evaporate hand after hand it's only when dare fails to show up back at ranch that tom goes out to find his cousin exposing the cheats tom dare and dink high tail it before the bad guys can get their revenge br br also known as born to the west was released in 1937 by favorite films corporation a couple of years after wayne's series of westerns for lone star productions it only slightly alters the lone star formula wayne does get the girl at the end of the film but here he was trying there's a great runaway horse scene where wayne rescues marsha hunt in which johnny mack brown's horse does a complete somersault spill syd does a nice job as the comic relief pal doing his best to sell lightning rods to unsuspecting victims he replaces familiar faces george gabby hayes and yakima canutt here staples of the lone star films john wayne's charisma is beginning to develop here preparing him for the leap to super star status that he eventually achieved br br was based on a novel by legendary western author zane grey if you're looking for more films based on grey's stories try fighting caravans with gary cooper the light of western stars with victor jory drift fence with buster crabbe and heritage of the desert with randolph scott
0	i'm in a film class and i know that i don't know everything about film but truthfully this is one of the worst stupidest retarded and waste time movies that i have ever seen and i saw napolean they are both equally terrible is boring and nothing interesting even happens in the film its not really a heart warming story and pat conroy overcomes nothing i'm not saying there should be fighting and crap blowing up but it would liven up this more than bland film the kids they fond to act in this film may have been the real kids from island they sounded stupid and couldn't act as as far as i am concerned this was a stupid idea for a book and an even worse idea for a movie i don't know why this movie was even made top five worst movies of all time
0	witchery might just be the most incoherent and lamentably scripted horror movie of the 80's but luckily enough it has a few compensating qualities like fantastic gore effects an exhilarating musical score and some terrific casting choices honestly the screenplay doesn't make one iota of sense but who cares when linda blair with an exploded hairstyle portrays yet another girl possessed by evil powers and david hasselhof depicts a hunky photographer who can't seem to get laid in a movie that constantly features bloody voodoo sewn shut lips upside down crucifixions vicious burnings and an overused but genuinely creepy tune eight random people are gathered together on an abandoned vacation resort island off the coast of massachusetts the young couple is there to investigate the place's dark history the dysfunctional family with a pregnant linda blair even though nobody seems to bother about who the father is and what his whereabouts are considers re opening the hotel and the yummy female architect simply tagged along for casual sex they're forced to stay the night in the ramshackle hotel and then suddenly the previous landlady – an aging actress or something who always dresses in black – starts taking them out in various engrossing ways everything is somehow related to the intro sequence showing a woman accused of witchery jump out of a window anyway the plot is definitely of minor importance in an italian horror franchise that started as an unofficial spin off of the evil dead the atmosphere is occasionally unsettling and the make up effects are undoubtedly the most superior element of the entire film there's something supremely morbid and unsettling about staring at a defenseless woman hanging upside down a chimney and waiting to get fried
0	a tough sell british playwright ronald harwood adapts his autobiographical stage drama into loud bellowing film about wwii shakespearean theatrical troupe saddled with an aged blustery brilliant but unreliable star at the end of his tether the actor's effete assistant works diligently to get his master coiffed and costumed for a production of king lear during an air raid yet both men are losing their grip on their unraveling situation based on the waning years of actor donald whose dresser was ronald harwood this acclaimed production would seem to be a welcome haven for scenery chewing thespians unfortunately albert finney at this point in his career not at all elderly seems too robust and quick thinking to play the actor finney and oscar nominated director peter yates cannot modulate moods and bouts of coherency in a way that makes sense to us so that in one scene he's stopping a train with the commanding echo of his voice and in the next he's curiously falling apart with such a wreck of a human being in the midst of failing health and aptitude one would assume a dedicated assistant would go to great lengths to protect his boss and his future yet servant tom prods and badgers and finney to carry on rather than rest who played this part on stage and was nominated for an oscar alongside finney for best actor is far more attuned to his role and eventually his bleating commands and confusion achieve the only real feeling in the film these two thankfully do not peck at each other's heads and scenarist harwood is careful not to fall into a love hate pattern which could possibly be perceived in the film's first act but without a juxtaposition of servant vs celebrity there's nothing much to behold in this portrait except for the deterioration of narcissism the hint at what once was 1 2 from
0	1st watched 6 21 2001 2 out of 10 dir emmanuel itier pretty much worthless supposed thriller that spends more time drawing us into sexual encounters with and without the star smith ' it tries to wrap a story around the sex scenes but as usual with these types of movies it is not done very well i was so bored with this movie that i actually fast forwarded thru the ending to get it over with the video version i watched was called 'tell me no lies '
0	only if you are crazy about amber smith should you see this besides her body there is pretty much nothing in terms of cinematic value she even has a lesbian scene in this one my guess is she is trying to into those late night scream queens ala shannon tweed and julie strain
0	i rarely shut a movie off after the first 10 minutes but that is what i did with this one what turned me off was it was so obvious that the only purpose of this movie was to expose as much skin of as many b actresses as possible and nothing else really matters br br don't get me wrong i like pretty actresses and sex scenes and sexploitation movies have their own scale of merits but this director does nothing else right br br for example take the scene where the two cops of course one guy one gal and of course there is all this supposedly witty banter between them are talking over while standing over the first dead body the camera pans between them for each line there's more than one screen width between them and you end up wondering whether you're seasick from that or the clueless dialog br br well it might have gotten better after the first 10 minutes but i wouldn't know i declined the sucker bet and found something better to do
0	it's hard to believe a movie can be this bad but you live and learn what's more amazing is the fact that the people who put this thing together likely had college meanwhile the fruit of their labor bares the appearance of something a group of five eighth graders may have come up with on the bright side if there is one the soundtrack has some nice moments which is another reason to question how the rest of the film can be so hideously bad
0	i ran across yvette in a film at the los angeles film festival and thought she was a doll after writing my review of her film there i wanted to see more of her found this movie it was pretty bad not her fault she is only in the first few minutes where she is obviously being the person to pull you in to watch this bad movie bad directing scenes are looped over and over with all the actresses amber smith has a very bad breast job yet the other actresses looked pretty good i really like yvette but this was obviously a bad choice of hers i can't believe i rented this trash to look for her i hope to find her other movies
0	i had heard about this movie through a friend it was supposed to be a thriller but what i watched wasn't a thriller it was more like a weak attempt at one amber smith was a bright spot that may be giving her too much credit the scenes were she was in bed with actress erika were also lame the two actresses did not seem to click with each other at all amber smith was way out of this gal's league and it definitely showed on camera she did not seem into those scenes at all i was disappointed because a friend of mine guy of course had pumped this movie up to be something great but it was actually more like watching dime store porn
0	the midnight hour aka tell me no lies as found in some video stores can be judged in two different ways one by it's merritt as a movie complete with a plot no holes good story and believable conclusion and the other is by the skin flick it is trying to be this is certainly no more than a b movie skin flick whose sole purpose is to show every girl in the movie in an overly long sex scene at least once br br if you try to rate this as a regular movie then this is bottom of the line drivel huge plot holes ruin whatever storyline it has going for it for instance if a co worker is killed would you call the police or head home and hit the hot tub judging this movie by it's skin content it's watchable barely the girls for the most part are all beautiful but quite obviously enhanced the sex scenes were all long and overdone though and that made it's only redeeming quality a little boring br br amber smith could probably be a decent actress if she wanted she was not as horrible as you could imagine or maybe next to the rest of the cast she seemed a lot better than she was br br zoe anderson who played detective should not even be watching a movie much less acting in one she looked good though so we know why she was there br br overall i would not really recommend this to anyone even if you're looking for a good skin flick there are much better one's out there i rate this 4 out of 10
0	this is very much overrated i guess it carries some nostalgic value for many people it has its moments but every scene is heavily overacted and the plot is quite shallow with this cast it could have been much better
0	the female cast of this movie is terrific you've got linda blair maturing nicely julie strain who doesn't get too many speaking lines that's a good thing rochelle swanson equally convincing as a sweet innocent girl or as an evil possessed girl toni naples and the most beautiful of them all imo the simply stunning kristina how the goofy male lead larry poindexter deserved to get sexually involved with any of these women remains a mystery however beyond the chance to watch these beautiful and in some cases talented women the movie has little to offer the plot is disjointed and doesn't really get going until the last 15 minutes or so and when wynorski finally manages to create some suspense a ludicrous twist ending comes and ruins everything 1 2
0	i'm just throwing in this review to show that i'm not crazy i like a lot of work deathstalker 2 chopping mall against the law are fast paced and highly enjoyable just to prove i'm not blind i have to mention this along with some shannon tweed body chemistry 3 or 4 or something are the lousy ones i've got nothing against drawn out sex sequences but julie strain's breasts are so unnatural looking you can't help but stare at them which may be the desired effect but i didn't enjoy staring at them and several members of this cast seem depressed or disinterested the erotic thriller was the worst thing to happen to low budget flicks ever and thank god that their day has more or less done
0	not the best of the lone star series but it moves along quickly with good performances br br introduced as singin' sandy in the main title john wayne as a cowboy' isn't successful you never even see a front close up of him while he's ' the actual singer is the director's son bill bradley who away sounding like many popular singers of the day such as hutch or joseph br br the film features cecilia parker also seen in the lost jungle serial tombstone canyon and as older sister marian in the andy hardy movies doing her best katherine hepburn really they mustn't really i'm not al st john before he literally became fuzzy filling all his available screen time with his characteristic business of hat flipping head and chin scratching grimacing and gawky physical gestures and movements george pre gabby hayes as a gentle pipe smoking father and forrest taylor minor vet of 395 movies and tv shows playing the oily villain with string bow tie and prop cigar br br fun or odd moments yakima canutt's great 'under the trick the 'gay' scene when singin' sandy ties bert and elmer together face to face drags them roped to his horse and dumps them at office where kincaid says you're a fine pair of lovebirds rapturous comment after an atrocious song and guitar playing performance by ' ummm i could listen to that all night reply we won't go into that after being told by a rancher you've got the soul of a snake and of course he utters the immortal i've made denton an offer he can't refuse br br the plot of the movie is saved by sandy's tricking kincaid and later saying the three magic words in many of these films i'm from washington fdr has saved us from the depression is that why the villains are always either bankers or in real estate br br the shootout sequence is taken from the earlier bradbury film man from hell's edges 1932 all of the lone star westerns are special because of their unique mixture of interesting characters the troupe of actors and stunt people and the spin on the clichés and repetitive back stories and situations this one ranks a little low marred by the inappropriate and mis used singing cowboy gimmick i'll give it a 4
0	spoilers a hot and sexy linda blair as the witch amelia reynolds is very upset with her friend and rival witch across town erica julie strain amelia getting her husband hal edward albert to get a promotion at his job at the giger greengrass law firm over the more deserving larry barnes larry poindexter who happens to be married to erica has her cast a spell on hal causing him to lose control of his car and end up almost killing himself br br larry finding out about attempt on his best friend larry's life has a violent fight with her causing erica to fall from the balcony to her death it's when larry goes back to his ex wife carol rochelle that things begin to really heat up emotional and sexually the wicked amelia tries to have the dead spirit of erica take over carol's body and end up murdering larry who she holds as being responsible for her husband hal's injury that left him permanently confined to a wheelchair br br not much of a story but lot's of cheese and soft core action with poor larry getting manipulated by amelia through the resurrection of erica who plans to kill him the first chance he turns his back on her amelia is a bit whacked out herself not exactly knowing who is and who isn't a threat to her amelia even gets her poor and innocent gardener stan michael parks to first lose him family in a bloody house invasion break in then his mind by being accused by the police as being the murderer and finally is life by getting blasted by herself as he's made to runs into the reynolds' house under her control as mad as a hatter trying to murder both her and the crippled hal br br larry parks looked and acted so weird that you had the feeling that he accidentally walked onto the set of sorceress and ended up being in the cast playing his part as stan without the help or benefit of a script he improvised his way through and then slowly realized just how god awful bad the movie really is stan getting killed off early in the film was a big plus for him since he didn't have to suffer like those of us watching through the entire brainless and mind numbing movie br br it becomes evident to you as well as it did to the makers of sorceress that all this on the screen has to come to some kind of hopeful and successful conclusion and a trick ending is put in to finally end the movie the ending is about the best thing besides miss blair and the rest of the very well endowed woman cast that one can say about the film
0	my wife and i saw every episode in this series and loved it however the series was cut short without a final episode by the producers of the show it ended with a typical end the season cliff hanger leaving it's fans feeling cheated a waste of great writing and acting
0	well in all honesty it's beyond the boundaries of stupid but killer pussy is still one insanely entertaining little flick no plot tons of oiled up cha cheesy effects and a penis eating monster what's not to love pretty much a couple of explorers find this creature that likes to itself within a woman's beef curtains until a is unfortunately ah thrust into its mouth it finds it's host who is later discovered frozen in a deserted house by a group of moronic guys and their equally brainless slut girlfriends whose van breaks down the creature jumps from each girl as they all fornicate like drunken rabbits there's some cheap gore girl on girl blood wrestling ky jelly vomit sock puppet monsters and lots of soft core sex ridiculous but a cool waste of time
0	lucille ball tries to look 30 years younger than she actually was in this poor excuse for a musical br br the movie features some of the worst choreography ever seen laced with the constant threat that lucy might break into song with her bourbon voice at any moment lucy's total lack of talent as a singer and dancer sinks the film before it can begin and aside from die hard lucy fans no one is likely to fancy it very much bad costumes and cheesy set designs don't help further proof that lucy wasn't good at anything except making stupid faces br br directed by gene saks
0	some good set design good songs though like the other guy said they aren't performed with much energy bea arthur trying her to do something with the material had an occasional good one liner as friend vera and helped move the song bosom buddies along other than that there's nothing here that's worth your time slow pacing incredibly bad not very good singing except from robert preston an awful script bad acting except from bea and a horrible lead actress who thought lucille ball would be good as the classy life loving mame the heads over at warner bros were no doubt on crack when they decided to not use angela lansbury who had done it so well on broadway and instead use ball who wasn't nearly as funny by then as she was 20 years earlier couldn't act the part the right way at all and used a painful as an excuse for singing even if perhaps because making the movie was painful for her to make and even if she financed it she just isn't mame auntie mame is such a better film and the soundtrack of the broadway musical with lansbury sounds great for the most part there's nothing here that's great engaging or interesting at all forget it unless you're a huge lucy fan who thinks she could do no wrong hopefully after seeing this you'll realize she was only human
0	in 1967 i saw an outstanding musical at the in new york city where angela lansbury lite the stage as mame but did hollywood give her the lead no lucille ball great as lucy was given the role she killed the film what a mistake there was no chemistry as there was on the stage bea arthur and angela what a twosome when they sang it is too bad a producer does not put these two together even today
0	who the heck had the bright idea of casting lucille ball in this film it should have been angela lansbury's baby all the way at the very least lucy should have had her singing dubbed br br there is some compensation in the fact that jerry herman's score is pretty well kept intact except for that's how young i feel and we do get performances by the original broadway cast members jane and bea arthur br br i suppose robert preston had to be given a song hence the inferior loving you br br overall i think in this one the wrong redhead was cast
0	i am a big fan of auntie mame with rosalind russell she really was the perfect actress to play that character br br i've heard angela lansbury was very good on stage in mame but it's hard to imagine anyone topping rosalind russell br br lucy was such a great comedienne that her comic bits salvaged her performance in this movie where i think she was miscast really they should have dubbed her singing voice hearing these songs sung at a faster tempo and with strong voices really changes the whole effect br br i just saw the stage revival in washington d c and i think christine baranski was very good as mame harriet harris the nasty chain smoking agent on frasier played vera and she was particularly good br br both would be good casting for a tv movie of this show maybe if that production makes it to broadway they'll consider filming it br br also i think tracy ullman would be good as agnes
0	lucille ball cannot sing or act or dance this makes the quality of her performance in mame all the more dreadful she's not allowed to do the low brow slapstick that made her a hit on tv so she has to rely on building a character unfortunately ms ball never learned that skill as none of the tender moments have any warmth how does she really feel about patrick or beau we never really believe the words she says that vacant stare of ms ball is suppose to convince us she is emoting but there is no chemistry between her and bruce davidson robert preston or bea arthur at all for this reason every scene she's in is flat br br moreover when ms ball opens her mouth to sing we are immediately made aware of the reason why the studios dubbed her voice for every other musical she starred in earlier in her career it was stated that she demanded her voice be used so this is a mistake of ego as well as leadership it is made worse when she is singing in voice over and she has to act the moment without words whoever thought that would work forgot who was playing mame br br i understand that rosalind russell did the role on stage and in the film auntie mame also i am aware that angela lansbury won a tony for her performance in the original 1966 broadway musical neither of these women were known for their singing voices but both could have pulled this off better than lucille ball why they went with her is the worst in blatant miscasting br br the only person that gets out unscathed is bea arthur she's big and wonderful catty and common in all the right amounts unfortunately you keep waiting for this movie to take off and invite you to join in on the fun but the film never does and you can't no one besides bea arthur appears to be having any fun br br an additional bad review goes to director gene saks saks is known as an award winning director of musicals and comedies for stage and screen including the broadway musical this film is based on none of that skill and expertise is of aid here the poor editing and storytelling in this movie is beneath a director of his caliber that glaring error in the execution of the movie is not the fault of ms ball
0	to begin with i really love lucy her tv show still makes me laugh she was one of the greatest comedians who ever lived right up there with chaplin and keaton but her performance in this movie is disappointing she was too old and the gauze filters on the lens make her look like a london fog refugee she couldn't sing and her voice was so that she through every song her dancing days were long in the past just because you are a lucy fan don't gloss over this mistaken sad performance and sing it's praises i prefer to remember lucy in her wonderful tv series i love lucy and to draw the curtain of charity over the terrible mess of a movie called mame
0	riders of destiny was the first of several westerns wayne made for the lone star arm of monogram pictures between 1933 and 1935 in this entry the producers try to make the duke into a singing cowboy called singin' sandy saunders with hilarious results any wayne fan knows that the duke couldn't have carried a tune if his life had depended on it his voice was apparently dubbed by smith whose deep baritone sounds nothing like wayne wayne looks awkward and uncomfortable in performing the musical numbers thank heavens the singing cowboy experiment soon ended br br as for the movie itself it contains a standard b western plot of the fight over water rights between the villain forrest taylor and the local ranchers duke of course plays the hero he had not yet developed his on screen character and still looked like a poverty row cowboy br br also cast in the film were george pre gabby hayes as the heroine's father cecilia parker as the heroine and yakima canutt as one of the boys who performs his falling from the racing horses under the wagon stunt while doubling wayne both canutt and hayes would go on to appear with wayne in most of the other entries in the series canutt in particular would have a profound effect on wayne's future development teaching him among other things how to move fight and look comfortable on a horse br br as b westerns go this one isn't too bad however i have to give it a failing grade because of the singing
0	this movie was so awful so boring so badly miscast it took a lot of work to make what should have been a sure thing into such a travesty i love lucille ball but she absolutely stunk in this movie too old couldn't sing sounded like a truck dumping gravel even when not singing and the biggest sin of all she wasn't funny even a little the studio shot themselves in the foot with this one and for ruining what should have been a fabulous screen version of a fabulous stage musical some other body parts deserve to have been wounded as well or perhaps they were already lacking those parts that might explain it but for lucy to think she was right for a part that required singing well that's the saddest thing of all it's a very good thing to know your limitations even a legend can't come out of a stinker like this and still smell like a rose
0	truly i love lucy as well comedic genius yes mame never she was as ridiculous as mame as was the film adaptation of divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood both just completely missed the point russell was is and always will be the first and only mame perhaps as a young starlet ball could have pulled off a role like this where her inherent beauty and youth could have carried her through but this seemed a desperate attempt from an aged star to show that she was still viable in the field the reason there are sooo many more supporters of russell's version aside from the fact that you cant improve upon the original is that russell had presence she absorbs every scene whereas lucille ball might as well be a pattern on the wallpaper in mame for all the attention she commands in the role
0	lucille ball was a mighty power in television throughout the 1950s and 1960s but she still made an occasional film most notably the long long trailer and the facts of life although her television career remained strong as the 1970s began her movie career seemed to be winding down but ball was determined to have one last big screen fling and the project she selected was the 1966 musical mame br br in many respects the role seemed tailor made based on the popular novel which gave rise to two different broadway plays mame dennis is a wacky wildly uninhibited woman who inherits her orphaned nephew patrick and leads him on a wild tour of life's possibilities bouncing from one comic spree to another the music which featured such songs as open a new window and if he walked into my life today was among jerry herman's best work the supporting cast which included robert preston and bea arthur was the best of the best expectations were high opening night fanfare was tremendous the film was a disaster critics were aghast and audiences sat slack jawed br br no matter what hardcore lucy fans may say mame is a fiasco so much so that it is hard to know where to start it is badly directed badly filmed badly performed and there lucille ball is at the center of it all unable to dance unable to sing and grinning like a waxworks dummy while incredibly bad choreography swirls around her but the disaster is hardly of her making alone the supporting cast fares no better bea arthur and jane recreate their stage roles of vera charles and agnes the former is stagey the latter is dismal robert preston manages to sing with a smile but he's pretty much on his own and clearly none too happy about it br br the dvd brings the film from the vhs pan and scan release to widescreen but that only means there's more awfulness to see everybody loves lucy but only the least critical fan could love lucy's mame while i wouldn't say it's bad enough to make you want to gouge your eyes out you may wish you had not recommended br br gft amazon reviewer
0	this is a terrible movie and i'm not even sure why it's so terrible it's ugly for one with that trendy 1970s visual style that maybe seemed like a good idea at the time but which now enables one to instantly recognize a film from that time period as being a 70s product the film retains the story and songs that made the stage version of the musical such a hit but the songs sound lifeless on screen but mostly the movie sucks because of the wan performance of lucille ball who you'd think would be able to make something of this larger than life character if anyone could she sleepwalks through the movie like a terrified actress choking on her opening night and the film sinks with her even bea arthur who i bet was hilarious in the best friend role onstage can't breathe any life into this stinker br br avoid at all costs br br grade d
0	i love lucy but this movie is so wretchedly bad that i was squirming in embarrassment for all concerned within the first ten minutes and it just got worse from there lucille ball's singing is downright painful and the attempts to make her appear more youthful through the use of soft focus had me reaching for my reading glasses it's bombs like this that give bombs a bad name
0	up until around 1970 lucille ball was one great comedienne she was such a perfect clown i only wish more people could have seen her with bob hope in the facts of life because she could do dry deadpan too as well as slapstick br br yep lucille ball was wonderful until mame br br trying to see lucille ball in mame is physically impossible because there is so much vaseline on the already filtered lenses that you'd need windex to see lucille ball in some scenes so even if you see lucille ball in mame you can't really see lucille ball in mame which is a blessing br br that's about the nicest thing i can say about mame the movie of the musical of the movie of the play this could go on but it started with a perfectly funny book called auntie mame giving this a bad rap is like beating a sponge so it does not matter that the music is rather than sung most of the songs weren't much anyway there isn't any difference in the first three it's today open a new window and we need a little christmas are all the same song dion should do an album with them they're so big and dull the killer ballad if he walked into my life today needs a confident gorgeous voice won a grammy for doing it in 1967 that poor lucille ball did not possess when she made this movie true elaine can't carry a tune in a bucket either but at least can put over a song br br if you still feel your life is not going to be complete unless you see the movie musical mame notice how there is dancing in it but whenever lucy mame starts to do anything beyond a palsied shuffle the camera cuts away returning right when the number is over and the star poses with the dancers again it's just as well jane got to reprise the role of pathetic agnes after lucille ball had madeline kahn fired to ensure no comic originality would upstage the star is a stage performer who like carol channing and merman can't scale down her performances for films so she joins lucille ball in being embarrassing though for different reasons br br the lavish gowns are by van van wrinkle and they provide the color missing in all but one of the cast br br bea arthur as the actress vera charles best friend ignores everyone and does her own fun thing if only she was in more scenes she's too old for her role too but at least she didn't it
0	lucille ball's version of mame in my opinion is one of the worst performances ever saved to film after seeing lucy in her various sitcoms more than an astronomical number of times i can tell you that i really love lucy however this movie is a fiasco of unbelievably bad casting music and dancing robert preston is the only saving grace with a part tiny enough to miss if you blink i don't know what she was thinking and i can't imagine how she was advised by the studio or director but i actually cringed watching this embarrassing performance i could be really cruel and suggest watching it for a laugh but it's too pitiful even to qualify for that don't waste your money or your time
0	mame is a disgrace to many things to lucille ball to a story which has been told better many times over and to the musical genre altogether ms ball does not understand her character at all and she seems to be heavily sedated bea arthur is good but it is not enough the production is very shoddy and cheap looking the songs are sub par and nearly every joke misfires also lucy couldn't dance well so the music had to be slowed down to a pace avoid at all costs but do see the delightful auntie mame
0	this movie could have been a lot better than it was if hadn't been a disney film i thought that the young girl playing shirley was all right you could tell that she was really trying to do the job right the teenage shirley temple wasn't right at all i think that they should have spent last time on her childhood the first hour should have been about the young shirley then the last hour should have been about the older shirley this was a boring movie and not a good shirley temple story
0	this movie was awful ashley rose orr while a talented tap dancer and singer actually a little better than temple was in terms of the latter is a terrible actress she plays the character as the shirley that we saw on screen in her movies whether she's playing her onscreen or offscreen persona so what we get is an overly cutesy and wholly unrealistic not to mention uninteresting portrait if one wants to see that side of her one can just rent one of her movies the only bright light here is connie portrayal of gertrude temple i don't think it was terribly realistic but at least it was well acted save yourself the trouble and rent the poor little rich girl
0	this is one of the worst films i've ever seen don't watch it even if your life depends on it br br this laurel and hardy film is when they inherit an island become shipwrecked and are set to be hung an incredibly boring film that is no where near funny br br this was the last laurel and hardy film and what a very low note to end such a superb career the 40's films weren't great this film was made in 1950 if you want to remember laurel and hardy remember them in their prime the 1930's the short talking films are better than the feature length films my favourite is me and my pal another reason this film is awful is because it's dubbed the actor opens there mouth and the words come out three days later crap but let's end on a high note laurel and hardy have been in my opinion the best double act ever
0	i didn't think this movie was very good at all basically they took a bunch of one liners from various shirley temple movies threw them together and had orr act like shirley temple acted on screen oh my goodness was said quite a number of times if you are familiar with shirley temple movies you will recognize several lines direct from her movies the trouble is they have orr saying these in shirley's everyday life in the end what we get is a hodgepodge of re created shirley temple movies instead of any sort of real look into shirley temple's life save yourself the trouble and rent shirley temple movies it's a lot better than watching orr try and recreate shirley's acting style
0	did we all see the same movie i can't believe the raves some of the others are giving this really awful bio which believe or not was authorized by shirley temple herself based on her book child star gives me the feeling that some are awfully easy to please br br first of all ashley rose orr whatever her modest talents are in no way shape or form even resembles shirley temple enough to be cast as her in this sort of straightforward biography of the world's most famous child star she gives no indication of why or how this child was so revered except for trying her hardest to do a shirley impersonation which never clicks on any level none whatsoever br br and that is the major handicap of the whole piece but as if that isn't bad enough any drama inherent in shirley's story of her climb to almost overnight stardom has been completely white washed with insipid writing peppered with occasional song and dance moments that don't even approximate what shirley did as for example the codfish ball with buddy ebsen which was probably the high point of shirley's choreographed dance routines br br simply putting a girl in a polka dot dress doesn't make her shirley temple none of shirley's own brand of charm warmth and appeal is even remotely suggested all we see on display is a pale imitation of the original proving once and for all that there was only one shirley temple br br it's worthless to write anything further about this mess none of the others are more than ordinary in lifeless roles my advice for shirley's fans is to read her book or better still watch her movies br br this is the pits
0	i am a huge shirley temple fan when i saw this movie it made me appreciate what a talented child shirley actually was ashley rose orr made possibly the worst on screen shirley imagine an 11 year old playing shirley temple from the age of 5 that in itself is wrong but getting her to shirley's voice and her singing is woeful the dancing was good i'll say that as previous users have said there was little dramatic scenes nothing to make the story interesting not even amelia earhart i would have liked to have seen more of the world wide phenomenon that shirley temple created there was too much focus on the wizard of oz when in reality shirley was just considered for dorothy the film portrays it as though it is the end of the world when she does not get the role shirley herself said that she is glad judy garland got to play her for me the star of the show was the lady who played gertrude temple otherwise stay away for great shirley temple films watch heidi poor little rich girl and little miss broadway
0	this was an appallingly bad film ashley rose orr was horrible she had none of shirley temple's charm at all those ghastly smiles she would do when she up her piggy little eyes in a way that i think was 'supposed' to be cute and make the audience go bless it just made me want to slap her she must have oh my about a hundred times throughout the film also she could barely utter a sentence without accompanying it with a fake giggle horrible horrible film if i could rate it minus 10 i would don't waste your money on this piece of rubbish go out and buy a genuine shirley temple film
0	i actually saw this movie at a cinema at the time i was working shifts and went there during a matinée on a hot summer day when i couldn't sleep the cinema was air conditioned br br it was an early multi screen complex and i somehow got into the wrong venue i had intended to doze through something else but as things transpired there would be no sleeping shortly after the wrong movie began i was additionally disconcerted by a group of female cleaners who came in and used it as their social club i was the only other person there and it is a measure of the movie's appeal that they habitually expected the place to be empty and asked me if i minded their presence i didn't br br within about half an hour the conversation proved to be more interesting than the entertainment i had paid for br br this movie oozed out of the screen with the cheesiness of very stale the kind that has little dark hairy growing on the surface i particularly remember my senses being assaulted by strident cords of music that would blare out with very little warning and even less meaning the cleaners provided an anticipatory cue by putting their fingers in their ears br br it was about some city bird going to live in the sticks amongst a load a backwood folk putting them straight but at the same time being taught a moral lesson or two herself like you do a sort of of there was a sententious smugness about the whole production in particular the leading actress had an irritating habit of staring at every hick with a kind of intense beatific compassion as if she herself were the patron saint of thickies br br and i believe at some stage she wrote a book br br long before the end i had become fascinated by one of the cleaner's hushed and breathy tails of sexual impropriety br br one suspects that there are some to whom sitting quietly for a couple of hours and not having to think constitutes a meditation the best that i can say is that i would not want to share their salad br br i have never seen this movie advertised as showing on television which surprises me it is just the sort of pap that is screened in the afternoon to punish the unemployed for not having jobs br br if you ever work shifts be sure to get into the right theatre or hope for some cleaning ladies
0	what a script what a story what a mess
0	one of the worst films i have ever seen but extremely funny not on purpose though every scene that contains anything to do with aircraft romance script or acting is badly messed up br br i recommend this film for all pilots it´s so bad that you should burst into laughter at some point in the film also see airport 79 the concorde for the same reason br br anyone else avoid this film like the plague except for fans of b movies of course br br enjoy
0	although i have rarely flown myself i am keenly interested in aviation and this film has added to the precious laughing stock in aviation cinema br br 1 why is the captain doing the ground checks why does he even measure the oil levels in the engines with turnaround times as low as 15 minutes in commercial aviation this is not a typical pre flight check br br 2 why does the captain kick against the aircraft tire strange kind of pressure check or anger management br br 3 the cockpit has a crew of 3 all large western two jets built since the 1980ies have a crew of 2 people now try a guess at how old the movie script is br br 4 a helicopter manages to fly alongside the crippled airliner must be a fast one and the captain's words to explain the maneuver to the passengers are indeed hilarious ones br br 5 with arrested elevator it is always possible to lower the nose of the aircraft it happens for example when any aircraft moves slower than the stall speed br br 6 the elevator have hydraulic after the collision with the business plane it would most probably have severed the hydraulic lines and thus make them useless for steering but it would not fix them in certain position br br 7 the fire in the aft galley was a stupid idea it was designed to show that only gentlemen ask for the extinguisher and fight the fire regardless of who was actually trained to do that – the flight attendant br br 8 at the time of collision the elevators would have been in a neutral position the film could have ended here br br 9 the flight engineer the third person in the cockpit has three bars on his uniform in reality flight engineers have two br br 10 why does the captain slash the cabin casing with an axe to examine the damage behind i thought it would have been the flight duty as he is already supposed to perform technical checks before and after flight br br 11 in any aircraft there is no unused space at least commercial airplanes cannot afford the luxury of a compartment that can be filled with tons of water br br i could go on and on but at last i laughed hysterically about how the screenwriters imagine aircraft disasters most aircraft disasters happen in such a short time span that you simply cannot make 90 minute flicks out of them but you can always fill 90 minutes with mind boggling and insane crap irrespective of the genre
0	you've got to watch this movie it is so bad it actually is great br br you've got your crazy but gutsy captain who of course is having an affair with his worn out used to be gorgeous and of course the mid air collision occurs when the captain's enemy and along for the ride to got your ex vietnam vet who is can't handle the pressure of another mid air collision and crash landing then you've got your old crazy army air corp buddy who is flying the chase plane and trying to well i can't tell you what he's trying to do the plane keeps going up up and well and then you've got your greedy and immoral corporate engineer and then you've got your ice station zebra cold and then lucky saves the bad guy from so they can land the plane and it doesn't end it just goes on and on you've got to watch this it's great you've got to be kidding did they actually show this on commercial television and how it was ever shown on cable
0	weak tale of an evil warlock who is searching for a centuries old satanic bible so that he can do lucifer's bidding by undoing creation hot in pursuit all the way is a 17th bounty hunter named and his reluctant sidekick sound like a load of bunkum it is br br this drivel from writer d t gets the superficial treatment it deserves from director steve miner who helmed that romantic nonsense forever young obviously knows nothing about true evil br br julian sands just flies around and cackles trying to look evil while richard e grant succeeds only in wasting his rich talent lori singer's career also took a nosedive with this one br br special effects crew has some fun and jerry goldsmith provides a score superior to its subject matter
0	i could almost wish this movie had not been made stan laurel was dying and it shows in his face even more angular and gaunt than usual a poor script and inept supporting cast
0	two escaped convicts step out of the woods and shoot two campers in the head that's the first scene and it made me wince fearing what was in store but by the end of the first half hour i was all swept up in the flood of images not because i cared in the least about any of the characters but because i was aghast at how execrable the film was and was curious to see how truly low it could sink br br frank remar and red are the ex inmates after murdering the two innocent campers they plow through the woods and wangle their way into the isolated cabin of dean stockwell and his two sons the attorney keith and the estranged homosexual behr the escapees at first pretend their car has broken down and they need to use the phone but they gradually reveal their identities br br well it looks like familiar territory so far desperate hours or funny games maybe but hang on the gay son is in cahoots with the two it seems that stockwell upon discovering his son in flagrante delicto with another man named billy kicked billy around and threw him out billy went on to die and behr now blames his dad for the death and indeed dad is something of a neanderthal when it comes to the fact that he was just found cohabiting with a secretary notwithstanding br br the grief stricken behr just searched and searched looking for someone else who had known billy someone with whom he could share his despair it turned out to be one of the escapees and now behr is determined to see them to their freedom br br it gets all twisted after that people talk they talk and talk they talk continually and not about the two mad killers who just can't wait to put one between their eyes no the dialog goes something like you were just so scared of something inside yourself that you even drove away your own son that's behr the young gay guy talking to stockwell it's as if an afternoon domestic drama had had its genes mixed with a killer thriller in some kind of transformational device or cocktail shaker br br the only real performance is given by james remar as the more talkative and ominous of the two escapees and that's mainly because of his gruff but fluid baritone which sounds like lance and his wide guppy like lips he's easy on the eyes and ears br br dean stockwell has given decent performances including his bizarro turn in blue velvet in which he was my supporting player but here laziness advancing years or slack direction has shaped his every move and every utterance into a stereotype it's as if he were reading stage directions look surprised and shout angrily and following them literally there's not a surprise in a br br if the gay son jason behr ever blinked it must have been while i was blinking at the same time because i missed it he has a long neck and just one expression in his instrument as the secondary villain fades into the pine knot paneled woodwork the attorney son is robert glen keith i hope he didn't quit his day job br br the direction is pedestrian the staging functional without being in the least innovative sometimes it's confusing i lost track of where everyone was supposed to be as the killers are circling around on the porch and the family has locked itself inside with a shotgun i also couldn't understand how stockwell could put a blast through the door hit remar and knock him in a back flip off the porch and then remar could simply stand up dust himself off and come up with a cranky riposte like okay two can play that game but why go on see it if you must
0	i am an indian residing in the united states why india continues like a dumb animal to emulate everything american is beyond me the main problems with the movie aren't so much the inane plot and dumb comedy it is that this movie has a lot of sex touching women dressing like in the streets and a lot of cursing that doesn't belong anywhere on t v br br to the producers and directors of this movie i have this message you continue to weaken our nation's strong family values by making this sort of junk you continue to let young women think it's okay to have a feminist attitude and have no morals you continue to make dance songs that belong in the lowest of adult clubs and bars i am ashamed to be an indian after seeing movies like this br br in 2003 the united states government suggested that the best way to destroy iran is to there there is no need to do that for india we will destroy ourselves with rubbish like this
0	oh my god that has got to be one of the most useless brainless stupidest comedy ever made what has happened to even money money was worth watching br br eww god this movie stinks br br do not watch it save your money bad movie bad cast bad jokes bad acting even this movie is an example of shoe polish being rubbed on a face br br trust me this movie does even make you smile vulgar jokes cheap jokes a really stupid movie with no concepts br br rating 0 on 10 br br awful movie those are the two hours im never getting back br br syed shabbir aly naqvi of pakistan
0	if you have plenty of time to kill and the dvd was given to you by your friend for free but still it may require lot of courage to watch this film which does not have good script or humor for that matter br br on the acting front is frozen in time acting tushar kapoor was slightly better than in this movie paresh rawal was good at comedy was usual br br the story revolves around a college campus where is a bad boy n tushar is the good one they pretend to be the opposite of respective nature and so the story goes on br br watch it only if you don't have any thing to do and the film is running on your local cable tv
0	wow as soon as i saw this movie's cover i immediately wanted to watch it because it looked so bad sometimes i watch bollywood movies just because they're so bad that it will be entertaining eg koi mil gaya this movie had all the elements of an atrocious film a gang of local thugs that is completely harmless a poorly done motorcycle scene horrible dialouge congrats son i am very proud that you are a bad boy actors playing basketball as if they are good atrocious songs me bad me bad me bad bad boy unexplained plot lines like why are the good boy and bad boy friends and why is the hot girl in love with the nerd i've never seen such a poorly constructed story with such horrible directly some of the scenes actually took 30 seconds long like the one where the good and bad boys inexplicably ran over the gang member's poker game congrats you are a bad director if you want to watch a good movie watch guru if you want to watch a movie so bad that it's actually entertaining then watch good boy boy
0	can u believe a college professor made this film br br the same man who made br br the film is horrible and has some of the weird scenes ever br br the main message is nice but presented badly br br the film looks like a collage of amateurish scenes etc and bad performances br br direction and everything is poor br br music is okay br br naughty streak works and he does well tusshar is bad tanushree and isha are bad paresh annoys when he looks at the mirror
0	it's really a shame there was so much controversy surrounding this picture in other words the infamous affair between ingrid bergman and roberto rossellini as this drew a lot of attention to a very forgettable film the story is incredibly slow cheap looking and uninteresting and to top this off the film is stuffed to the brim with amateurish actors who can barely speak any english i really would have preferred subtitles it would have made the experience less exhausting back to the rotten acting the neo realist movement was big in italy at the time this film was made many of these films are absolute masterpieces such as de sica's umberto d the children are watching us and miracle in milan because they got so much out of the non professional actors they behaved like normal people but in stromboli they act like normal people trying to be actors and come off very badly like kids in a school play br br by the way if you are hoping the movie has a good ending thereby making your time commitment to the film worth while don't bother the plot was just totally uninvolving and silly so much so that i really found that i could have cared less about the characters like the island they all inhabit the film is desolate and without color or life
0	why bother to see this movie it probably rates an award for being the worst career move of a major movie star since clark gable's laughable playing of an irish patriot in parnell br br it's inconceivable that bergman would choose both this movie and its director over a lucrative hollywood career where she could choose among the finest scripts and directors being offered at that time to begin with there was no script to work with except a few notes then we are supposed to believe the polished bergman as a poor refugee willing to do anything to be released from a refugee camp including marriage to a poor italian fisherman she doesn't even love i read where anna magnani was the original choice for this part if so that made a lot more sense than to cast the luminous bergman in such a proletarian part but since she was in love with her director common sense flew out the window br br so she goes to live in this poor village where the men must toil to extract a meager living from the sea a place she obviously hates to be and where she doesn't fit in br br her only friend is the village priest who knows she's not suited to the life of a poor fisherman's bride but tells her that for the sake of love she must repress her true feelings of revulsion and accept the poverty and despair she encounters each day on top of all of this there's this volcano always on the brink of erupting and drowning them all in hot lava but like a true heroine bergman against her misery by declaring war on just about everyone else in this dreary film she even goes as far as trying to seduce the village priest in a scene that would generate laughter if it were not so pathetic since her poor slob of a husband must lock her in a room to keep her from running away she's forced to use her body to bribe a married man to take her off the island to her no sacrifice is too great no man if he is willing to help her to escape the island and her misery i won't bother to tell you how this all ends the no script movie ending is as plausible as the rest of stromboli i even remember from seeing it on late night tv that it had two different endings so be warned if you should feel brave enough to sit through this king size turkey and catch the miscast bergman it led to her downfall in hollywood for the next seven years and she was condemned for sleeping with her director while still married to peter lindstrom none of the movies she made with this director whom she later married are noteworthy except as proof of a career gone berserk i kid you not it's pretty embarrassing br br soundtrack
0	my wife and i watched this movie because we plan to visit sicily and stromboli soon fortunately or unfortunately the landscape and seascape complete with tuna are the only believable members of this cast we expected reasonable well written and well acted movie but were disappointed its only redeeming grace is an extended and remarkable fishing sequence full of authenticity thrashing tuna nets wooden boats with long and passionate if superstitious fishermen br br the movie's sequencing is stagy its dialogue stilted and the acting ranges from stiff to completely over the top one scene in which bergman stresses out as her macho native and naïve husband sics his ferret on an innocent but apparently already deceased rabbit would be perfect grist for a monty python skit br br when the volcano blew we hoped for a merciful end to the suffering ours and the casts' unfortunately the movie continues to flail on staggering finally to a melodramatic and absurd ending unless you're really into old time tuna fishing pass this hokey effort by
0	before the days of home video stan laurel's pre hardy comedy 'kill or cure' was known to the extent that it was known at all only because a few sequences were included in robert compilation film and hardy's laughing knew what he was doing the best gags in 'kill or cure' were brought intact into his compilation while the rest of this only mildly funny comedy remained on cutting room floor br br laurel portrays a commercial traveller hawking a patent medicine cried professor i o dine's knox all that name is the funniest joke in this movie which ain't sayin' much i should point out that this movie dates from 1923 the shank of prohibition during prohibition quite a lot of americans purchased patent medicine if it had ahem properties so if knox all contains alcohol stan's job in this movie is less desperate than the one which he and ollie famously had in 'big business' selling christmas trees in the summer too bad for this movie that it's not nearly so funny as 'big business' br br we see stan but don't hear him in this silent film delivering a spirited sales talk to a man who seems to be paying attention until we learn that they're standing outside a deaf mute institution and this man is deaf a haughty woman emerges from the gates stan quickly tries to engage her attention by wiggling his fingers at her of course she's not deaf and she promptly whacks him with her umbrella i found this sequence offensive not because it involves deaf people the deaf aren't the butt of the joke but because it abets the very widely held misconception among hearing people that they can communicate with the deaf by merely their fingers randomly and performing without actually learning the highly complex grammar of sign language br br more amusingly a spinster in this movie has a pet canary named rudolph as in valentino and there's a gag involving trick photography to enable a man to hide behind an object that's than his body i've seen this device in several cartoons and live action movies but 'kill or cure' is i think the earliest movie to use it that i've seen so far br br stan laurel an under rated actor does one bit of physical business here that's worthy of chaplin or keaton in which he conveys his emotions and a change in his demeanour while walking away from the camera with his back to us still laurel never really became a first rate comedian until he united with oliver hardy to form the greatest comedy team ever 'kill or cure' barely rates 3 out of 10
0	i never want to see this movie again br br not only is it dreadfully bad but i can't stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick br br mostly i can't stand watching this terrible movie br br frankly there is no reason to watch this awful film the plot is just plain stupid the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films br br i warn you don't watch it the images will haunt you for a long while to come
0	i hadn't seen this in many years the acting was so good as i began this time i thought great another movie i misjudged as a foolish young man but then the theme started to be clear and i felt the same way br br this was hollywood the seat of glamor so the concept shouldn't be a surprise but it is so condescending a concept i feel as if i need to take a shower after watching it in brief it tells us that even physically ugly people can seem beautiful to each other and even feel attractive br br dorothy mcguire is likable as the homely heroine she seems to have been filmed wearing minimal make up robert young is injured in the war and feels scarred his parents can't bear to look at him either he seems to have all his faculties and in part the notions of disability are outmoded br br herbert marshall is on hand as a blind pianist his character speaks is hushed tones and is omniscient br br the best performance is given by mildred natwick as the owner of the title residence she is bitter and dour but not made of ice her story is much more interesting and believable than that of mcguire and young
0	this is a case of taking a fairy tale too far the enchanted cottage delivers dorothy mcguire as a terrible ugly spinster and robert young as a disfigured pilot long story short scarface marries spinster after which their love transforms them miraculously lighting cosmetics and the removal of fake scars into beautiful magical change that they attribute to the enchantment of living in a seaside cottage that has been the abode of generations of honeymooners br br if the story stopped there fine it would be a fable with a proverbial message beauty is in the eye of the beholder but it lurches ahead reaching for reality when mr and mrs scarface greet their public it comes as a painful shock to them that they're still homely you see they only appear beautiful to each a situation which the audience is well prepared for because all the secondary characters have been sermonizing that ill favored people really need to lower their expectations and find other ways to be happy you know take up hobbies spinster does woodcuts for instance scarface considers collecting driftwood br br the original playwright arthur wing and the filmmakers have zero faith in human nature their message is you're either ugly or pretty and no pretty person would ever love an ugly one what's even worse ugly people evidently need to imagine their lover as pretty reality just won't do br br one wonders what elaine mason saw every day when she looked at her husband stephen hawking
0	usa's azn tv purchased the rights to this film and the network is showing it using the english title the pickpocket br br 1997's the pickpocket takes amateur home movie style movie making to amazing levels of unpleasantness the movie depicts a long winded series of boring wanderings of an uninteresting confused guy this lead character xiao wu does not simply walk about aimlessly viewers will unfortunately soon realize that xiao wu has an unsurpassed talent to seek out and remain dormant near the most obnoxious noises to be found in china clanging empty tin buckets being beaten with a stick he is there every old motor in china clunking in agony he is there a crying baby yes you guessed it he is there according to the pickpocket china is the most irritating unpleasant sounding place on planet earth br br the only element worse than the sound of the pickpocket is the photography the camera shakes shakes and shakes some more finally the camera stills but then it falls to the actor's knees and just stays there until someone in the crew realizes the mistake and begins to shake the camera again most of the shaky film is framed in distant long long long shots the few times when the camera gets somewhat close nothing compelling ever takes place to connect the viewer with what is happening br br the photography is murky faded and often blurry the use of color is well there is no sign of intelligence controlling the use of color most every shot is held 20 times too long few movies are so painful to sit through this film is painful to watch and painful to hear and then it simply ends br br john woo fans might enjoy being able to hear part of the soundtrack to die xiong the killer as the lead character is hanging outside of a video store for many minutes anyway be warned the pickpocket will steal away your good time
0	this movie should have ended as soon as the joke about kids is told in the opening i liked robin harris and most of his comedy but the really funny routines were not meant to be something the whole family could go see liken it to taking the point of one of jerry seinfeld's jokes and attempting to squeeze the joke for as long as you can in order to turn it into a movie this movie had to be self serving because i can not find anyone who found the settings or antics familiar whats most funny about this movie is the gumption of the writers and producers to pass it off as something of value 1 10 stars because there is no half star
0	my brother was working at a movie theater when i saw this movie i saw it for free and still walked out i have seen a lot of movies in my time but this was the worst when people ask me what the worst movie i have ever seen was i mention this movie in less than one second this movie is bad because it goes from one lame plot set up to the next it encourages stereotypes about blacks that are sickening and the flow is awful if you want to see how to make children cry and vomit at the same time then study this movie okay this movie is not good bad but terrible bad if you are like one of those people that watch horrible movies for fun like me you will not even be able to make it through this very short film please for the love of god destroy all copies of this movie
0	the film's title makes it sound like a porno but it's not even a sex comedy instead hot summer in barefoot county is about an official sent from a southern state to a small town to locate and arrest moonshiners the moonshine though is coming from the farm of an old woman with three beautiful daughters almost anyone can guess what happens next but oddly the film is very tame it hardly even qualifies for a pg rating what's more the low budget is obvious in pretty much every shot and the acting is sooooo amateurish this film was probably intended for the drive in crowd but it's unlikely that it satisfied them even in 1974
0	'nuff said an undercover cop from the state capital is sent to a small county where moonshine running is rampant he ends up getting run off the road by some local hicks who have no idea he's an undercover cop so they just drive away as blissfully dopey as ever he is soon being taken care of by a woman and her three daughters who all wear low cut tops and short shorts gotta luv the '70s he falls in love with one of the girls but in the meantime he still has to find out who's making all the moonshine and driving it to all the local bars and restaurants he also has to contend with a fat sheriff and his incompetent deputy who think he's the 'cause he's new in town br br life in small town america 70s style yee
0	one of the most pleasant surprises of this early 3 strip technicolor short was that a ballet dancer that appears here was named maria i half wondered if blake edwards was naming the character played by elke sommer in a shot in the dark after this now forgotten performer though the spelling of the sommer character's surname was actually i watched this on youtube mainly to see an early judy garland appearance as we watch her in profile with her two older sisters singing la cucaracha that was the highlight for me which otherwise showed some dances like that of ms that were enjoyable and some lame comedy between andy devine as a great bull fighter yeah right and buster keaton as a bull owner who provides one that is obviously a man in animal costume only funny part of those two is when they cry with buster providing handkerchief to bull during the sad part of la cucaracha also lame was seeing ted healy without his stooges dealing with a crasher who keeps mistaking healy for other movie stars healy himself didn't know zeppo had left the marx brothers since he puts four between the and marx speaking of a marx it was interesting seeing harpo without his wig though he is wearing a hat to hide his bald head also interesting was seeing ida lupino among the cowgirls in the beginning though i also recognized toby wing from her part in murder at the vanities last year at least when announcer pete smith identified her oh and smith himself wasn't funny with his wise guy narration other famous stars you may or may not recognize are also in cameos and not all are m g m contract players either so with all that said la de santa barbara is worth a look for anyone curious about judy garland's early film appearances or the early use of 3 strip technicolor
0	when i was 13 or so i was lucky enough to find this film it was part of an endless danish series of really cheesy stuff this however was the cheesiest i ever owned but i guess i sold it too bad well what to write better than manos the hands of fate and worse than critters 4 but it's definitely worth an hour and a half since this was made by people who wanted to make it the acting isn't that terrible compared to several other eighties trash in fact i kind of like the old man even though he look that indian to me but i guess you can't have everything do yourselves a favour and look this up
0	it didn't take too long after halloween had kicked off the slasher boom for the category to be cursed by continuous mediocrity as early as 1983 the genre was already struggling to release more than three decent offerings per year and by '88 the stalk and slash flick had become pretty much the whipping boy of horror cinema by that time major studios were all aware that repeating the tired formula was no longer a lucrative direction which left it up to independent and mostly inexperienced filmmakers to continue the legacy that john carpenter had created although there was still an impressive number of features hitting shelves in 88 most of them were weakly produced and taken as a whole they were eminently unappealing with that said there were a couple of gems amongst the rubble scott spiegel's intruder in its uncut form was a superb gross out classic whilst evil dead trap proved that the cycle had not yet completely run out of style and panache william lustig's maniac cop was successful enough to launch a franchise and two years later dead girls and mirage proved to be the last beguiling breaths of life in the ailing category br br it was the continual release of schlock like berserker blood lake and rush week that cursed the slasher movie to eight years of obscurity it finally took the big budgeted flamboyance of wes craven's scream to provide the necessary resuscitation having not heard anything about demon warrior before i came across it unexpectedly i instantly assumed that it was part of the low brow trash that led to the downfall of the slasher phase but with that said the movie boasts an intriguing premise that sits comfortably beside scalps and camping del terrore as another welcome addition to the native american influenced catalogue br br a truck pulls up on a woodland road and out step two laughably dramatised rednecks the hillbilly are only on screen for around for ten seconds and then they are murdered by an unseen menace next we meet a troupe of five young adults that are heading to the same location for a spot of shotgun target practice on some of the local wildlife the area is owned by neil willard and has been passed down through three generations of his family his grandfather stole the land from an indian medicine man that was rumoured to have left a curse on the property according to legend every ten years a demon warrior with an extreme hatred for mankind stalks the forest reaping revenge on those he deems responsible for the pilfering of the tribe's home it wouldn't be much fun if those myths were a falsehood so regular as clockwork a maniacal assassin turns up with a taste for blood will the kids be able to stop this phantom br br demon warrior is best described as a bigger budgeted but still woefully cheap re imaging of fred olen ray's scalps the bogeymen from both films are virtually identical and the director even throws in a sequence to confirm my suspicions things start promisingly with some crisp friday the 13th style first person cinematography and a couple of shock jolts that were composed with finesse by director frank patterson thomas did a good job with the photography and the tribal drum score makes a refreshing change from the more traditional late eighties synthesizer rubbish flourishes of suspense are juxtaposed with a couple of credible directorial embellishments and there are even a few attempts at humour the killer looked successfully creepy in demon attire and the inclusion of a bow and arrow as the main murder weapon was a deft touch from the director br br fred olen ray's notorious slasher was notable for its stark and credibly unsettling atmosphere unfortunately despite being produced on twice the budget demon warrior never comes close to the film that it so desperately emulates rumor has it that the majority of the actors were drafted from the texas university and were not even paid for their inclusion in the feature so of course it goes without saying that the dramatics are appropriately abysmal i especially enjoyed the hilarious john – an native american don't ask that portrays about as much emotion as the trees in the forest that surrounded him warrior started with some credible glimpses of panache from the director that actually led me to believe that this could be a welcome inclusion to the slasher index unfortunately the poisonous cocktail of heinous acting and an ending plucked directly from seriously changed the initial plan i had in mind for a rating it's a shame that the dramatics were so scraped from the bottom of the thespian barrel because at times demon warrior showed flashes of potential br br all in all movie is a mixed bag of ideas – some of them were good but mostly they were staggeringly mediocre because this was released at a time when the slasher genre had been watered down to avoid the happy censors there's really no gore worth mentioning even the sequence is relatively tame compared to olen ray's graphic depiction demon warrior has the odd moment of credibility but not often enough to warrant a purchase not as bad as the aforementioned berserker blood lake et al but not really that good
0	first let me start by saying that i am a laurel and hardy buff i have read every book printed about them and have seen all of their available films more than once i even took a chance once and called stan on the telephone he was very kind and spoke with me for over ten minutes i followed with a letter and he wrote me a letter back i still have that letter br br this film has some fine comedy moments but stan and ollie are not up to their usual form stan was gravely ill during the production and looked worse than he did ten years later in my opinion any laurel and hardy film is worth seeing br br but the ultimate opinion of this film comes from the great stan laurel himself to quote him this film should never have been made
0	i like a lot of myrna loy movies this film was produced before her character actor personality was developed it would be an okay short film but seems to go on forever in it's complete form br br myrna loy it seems is told what to do with her acting and does the job that is about all you can say about her br br her gypsy character is shoddy and the film has many flaws such as the jewelry shop scene br br this film will probably be interesting to myrna loy fans but even as such is something of a disappointment
0	into a happy household comes the gypsy girl played by myrna loy with her amazingly wild hair and voice that sounds very high pitched and weird it's hard to believe this is loy she bears no similarity whatsoever to the refined and funny character nora charles who she played in the thin man movies instead she overacts so badly that you'd almost expect her to be in an ed wood movie what a huge difference a few years made in the quality films she got as well as her acting ability on top of the horrendously silly character the film also fails because it just isn't interesting or exciting just very very stagy and stupid the only thing good about it is the vitaphone sound system making the sound quality of this turkey about the best i have heard from 1929 heck it was even better than most 1930 films so the sound technician at least has something to be proud of all others forget it br br this is a movie that even the host of turner classic movies referred to as a guilty pleasure because the movie is so bad and after having seen it i disagree slightly the movie is simply bad
0	some of the early talkies survived to become classics the is a classic all right but not in the way it was intended melodramatic in story and acting today it seems ludicrous particularly the casting of myrna loy as a seductive gypsy imagine nora charles breaking up a young couple and driving a young man to steal outrageous however as many people know when loy first came to hollywood she did quite a few of these exotic seductress roles br br based on a play the concerns the aforementioned gypsy who in the film is now in hungary spain in the play running away from her cruel master and inviting herself into the home of the lajos family richard tucker and alice joyce basically by appearing at the door one by one seduces the men of the family and the farm talking her pidgin english not bad do nothing wrong and dropping hints about nice presents the son in the family paul carroll nye is engaged to the beautiful irma loretta young and can't wait to marry her he loses interest when he meets br br with the exception of the lovely alice joyce zasu pitts as a woman who lives in the household and the stunningly beautiful loretta young the acting is uniformly awful loy is stuck with the hallmarks of her character bad english whining and hysteria with her darkened makeup peasant and curly hair she is not only beautiful but right out of the 1980s quite modern though richard tucker's putting the back of his hand on his forehead reminds us we're just emerging from the silents br br robert osborne on tcm commented that this film is one of his secret pleasures while it is deliciously bad it's not deliciously bad enough to sit through again it's just bad but a great example of how far we've come and had someone not picked up on myrna loy's sense of humor how limited her wonderful career might have been
0	no one is going to mistake the for a good movie but it sure is a memorable one once you've taken in myrna loy's performance as the hot blooded gypsy girl you're not likely to forget the experience when this film was made the exotically beautiful miss loy was still being cast as foreign vixens often asian and usually sinister she's certainly an eyeful here it appears that her skin was darkened and her hair was curled in most scenes she's barefoot and wearing little more than a skirt and a loose fitting peasant blouse while in one scene she wears nothing but a patterned towel i suppose i'm focusing on miss loy's appearance because she is by far the best if not the only reason to tune in to this creaky antique and to keep watching you sure won't be attracted by the dialogue which is hopeless in one typical passage gazes out the window at the departing caravan and waxes poetic always the gypsies they sing weird and sad when the big sun have breath of fire that burn and when the pale moon look from behind cloud and breathe air cold as death they sing poetic or what lovers of purple prose will have a field day i can't help but wonder though if in her later years miss loy preferred not to recall her involvement with this project br br like so many early talkies this one was an adaptation of a recent broadway success the stage version opened at the street theatre in november of 1926 and ran for over a year the play provoked a famous episode involving the humorist and theater critic robert who was known to have an aversion to characters who spoke in thick dialect or pidgin english according to a much repeated anecdote mr squirmed uncomfortably through the opening portion of this show the spanish village setting moved to a village in hungary for the movie for some reason gave the actors leeway to practice their accents with varying degrees of success but benchley's patience reached its limit when during a family dinner sequence a door burst open and an actress dressed as a gypsy girl dashed into the room shouting help help he keel me she then threw herself at the feet of the mistress of the household and exclaimed me me good girl me stay here at that point mr rose and announced to his companion me bobby me bad boy me go now and left the theater br br the film version offers numerous examples of unintended humor but never comes close to benchley's level of wit the melodramatic plot concerns the lajos family father josef mother maria and son paul a student at the nearby college we would consider this prosperous family upper middle class as they are landowners with servants and all the comforts of life but their comfortable existence is abruptly thrown into turmoil when a gypsy caravan arrives in the village and their home is invaded by yes the nubile gypsy girl she arrives at their door during the storm of the title symbolizing stormy emotions i daresay the girl is fleeing an abusive relationship and begs for sanctuary after considering the matter the lajos family agrees to hide her from her angry lover who shows up shortly afterward but is turned away becomes a servant in the household kindness motivates the family's decision to take her in but soon enough that conniving little good for nothing has paid them back by seducing every able bodied male in the vicinity starting with the servant peter then working her way up to son paul breaks up paul's relationship with his fiancé irma played by loretta young still a teenager causes him to flunk out of school and then prompts him to buy her jewelry by stealing the savings of the family's maid lena zasu pitts lena for her part is still mourning the loss of her own fiancé peter seduced and tossed aside by when she turned her attentions to paul ultimately sets her sights on the josef and i suppose if the running time had been longer she also would've gone after uncle dani maria the village priest and god knows who else br br i guess it goes without saying that a scenario like this one easily lends itself to parody but during its first half the nonetheless exerts the undeniable fascination of a daytime soap we watch hypnotized as the bad girl works her spell on the men folk and wreaks havoc like an irresistible force of nature almost like a storm ah haa another metaphor but as the plot machinations grind on the campy fun fades during the later scenes is de emphasized and the focus switches to the dysfunctional dynamics of the lajos family and after awhile these people get to be a real drag the son in particular behaves like an absolute heel yet the parents never acknowledge this or face up to their own shortcomings everything we're told is the fault of that no good tramp br br the men of the cast are dull aside from miss loy the only actress who can handle performing in talkies is zasu pitts terrific as usual the mother of the lajos household is played by alice joyce a longtime silent star who was out of her element with speaking roles and who retired soon after this loretta young's fresh prettiness provides a nice contrast to dusky allure but her line readings are so awkward it's kind of endearing no there's only one reason to watch this flick and that's herself i can't think of another actress who could've played this silly role and managed to come off half as well i'm not an objective observer however i have a desperate crush on myrna loy and will watch her in anything even the
0	this is a cheapy biography of a star of the black and white minstrel shows a certain dixie boy johnson whether this person ever really existed i don't know but considering the cast lists a certain lee white and roscoe karns playing said character as well i assume the man did exist and that this is a white washed pardon the pun version of his career the plot such as it is follows dixie boy from career heights to depression at the death of his wife in childbirth his abandonment of the child to friends and his return at his daughter's sixteenth birthday and stage debut for reconciliation another forgotten man benny fields plays dixie boy the man has a lovely baritone voice but no acting talent whatsoever and is a boring lump on screen gladys george valiantly tries her best to enliven the works to no avail judy clark does the best impersonation of betty hutton i've ever seen although i believe she thought she was being herself the scoring replete with many musical numbers for its short running time of 70 minutes earned a deserved oscar nom worth a look
0	this movie starts with interesting set design and a promising premise but fails to provide the cult movie goods set in a gritty parallel universe where everything is owned by the corporation it concerns a horrible stand up comic who finds success when he grows a third arm out of his back br br all the potential for great cheese is here washed up 80's star judd nelson wayne newton offbeat visuals and strange plot digressions obese women in skimpy lingerie necrophilia but it never pays off br br the pacing is the main problem each scene is slow nelson's stand up routines are supposed to be funny because they're pathetically not funny but each performance drags on until it's not even tangentially funny just boring br br imagine someone telling you the longest weirdest joke imaginable full of smirky self congratulation for how funny and weird he thinks it is imagine after a stultifying two hours of this you never got a punch line you've just saved yourself the trouble of watching the dark backward
0	i have had this movie in the back of my head sense i saw it i have wanted to tell people about it time and again but never remembered now i found it now finally i can tell people precisely what the absolute worst most crappy movie i have ever seen in my entire life bar none is br br this movie is complete trash and is unfit for a garbage dump all prints and other copy's of this movie should be rounded up loaded into a large rocket and launched into the sun only the purifying heat and pressure of the sun might be able to purify the materials this movie is stored on so that they can be useful to the universe again br br i like movies i like bad movies and yes this is an opinion but this movie was pure trash filth and excrement of some beast that should never be seen let alone named by man br br i would rather watch a uwe boll movie marathon than watch this movie and i hate uwe boll's films
0	and never ever see it now i've been watching bad scifi movies for years i love watching bad scifi movies i think that was the only reason i could watch this movie the whole way through i was toughened up by indian superman and that awful fantastic four movie just to name some examples usually i have to beat my head against the wall after i've seen a bad movie to make some of the pain go away no not with this one with i had to hit myself in the head with a shoe in the middle of the movie temporary fix i can't believe i wanted to see that i cried when it finished i cried it was horrible it was worse than when i saw shudders wil wheaton in his underwear in the curse which by the way never watch either aside from the fact that wesley in his tighty whiteys it's just sooo bad but this review is about the worst part about it is that someone wrote this movie and said this deserves to go on film it's great and wayne newton rob lowe and everyone else in the cast said oh this is what i want on my film history i'll watch indian superman until the cows come home but i am never going to see this steaming pile of dren again
0	this movie has no heart and no soul it's an attempt to up a cult film out of the of other better directors principally david lynch and tim burton rifkin seems to think that if he on a kind of rotted visual style and fills the street with crud and garbage he's making a statement but it's not a statement about anything except the director's shrill shriek of hey look at me i'm an artist too but he doesn't have the imagination of an artist just a good memory for things that worked such as some of the actors trapped in this for other directors all of this would be almost acceptable if this movie was not a turgid boring chore to sit through
0	a friend warned me that this was the worst movie he had ever seen i was curious because it had developed a bit of a cult status i like a lot of odd indie cult movies so i gave it a shot i have to agree with my friend it is a steaming pile of dung i am sorry to the people who love this movie but i can recommend much better stuff if you want to watch a twisted indie cult film try peter jackson's dead alive aka braindead cemetery man aka or modern vampires
0	atoll k aka utopia is one of hollywood's saddest swan songs filmed in france the land that loves lewis jerry in 1950 and released the following year after a five year the boys are in truly terrible shape physically however they aren't in nearly as bad a shape as the script br br this movie is one of the un funniest comedies ever filmed br br it's painful to see this legendary team the funniest duo in the history of motion pictures the twosome that made the devil's brother 1933 the music box 1932 pack up your troubles also 1932 babes in toyland 1934 bonnie scotland 1935 flying deuces 1939 and so many more gut wrenching laugh til you choke classic comedies in a film such as this br br but fighters and ballplayers do it all the time they stay in the game one season or one fight too many in this case while is morbidly fascinating to see laurel hardy at this late stage in their legendary careers they too stuck around for one too many
0	i was invited to view this film at a small art museum screening i had no clue what to expect i was initially optimistic in the opening credits to see judd nelson bill paxton wayne newton james cann rob lowe and lara flynn boyle listed however after some very disturbing grossed out scenes that did not add much to the story advancement this film quickly became a weapon of torture the gimmick of the vestigial growing arm storyline is never really developed i patiently kept waiting for this film to cash in there was a small payoff in the end but having to invest and sit through the the endless gross crude sexually perverted in your face screaming unfunny gore cost too much for me even for a free viewing what were these established actors doing in this awful film the art direction was very convincing and creepy at the very minimum it should only be a 75 minute film this is a film that dick cheney and donald rumsfeld would embrace
0	this film was such a mess i actually reimbursed my friends who i dragged to see it the only reason i went to see it was that my friend was an apprentice editor on the shoot br br i'm sure that this film was meant to be campy but the approach was so heavy handed and self reflexive it turned out really flat judd nelson stars as an obsequious garbage man who is a hack comedian on the side his life is hell and made worse by his obnoxious and overbearing companion bill paxton who i feel embarrassed for this was a really tasteless role for a talented actor a freak accident alters nelson's career course and mayhem ensues br br the attempts at humor were corny predictable and often base and tasteless wayne newton in the cast as a talent agent is a novelty but he adds nothing comedically or otherwise br br overall it's a very weak and uncreative attempt at camp humor that goes over like a lead balloon at least you could laugh at plan 9 from outer space this one just makes you wonder who thought this was a good enough idea to finance and film one of the all time worst bombs you'll ever witness
0	ok fans it's out on dvd but the only reason to watch this is 1 to say you did due to its notoriety or 2 if you're a hardcore bill paxton fan i am not a hardcore bp fan but he was fun to watch and it was the only thing that kept me from turning this off from sheer boredom it's a shame because this could have been a good movie with some script work and if made by someone with some intelligence and with a cast led by someone besides the totally miscast and talentless judd nelson sure it's gross but it's bad and not in a good way if after reading all the comments on how bizarrely revolting and filthy this movie is you are still interested do yourself a favor and see some good bizarre revolting dystopian filth instead films by john waters david lynch peter jackson's braindead henenlotter's basket case etc all come to mind there's lots better out there
0	teenager tamara jenna dewan has it rough she's ridiculed by all the popular kids for being shy bookish frumpy and because of her interest in witchcraft all of the football players and cheerleaders are especially angry at her for writing an article on steroid abuse for the school paper on top of this her dad's a drunk her mom's not around and she's secretly in love with her supportive english teacher matthew marsden the popular kids set up a cruel prank to humiliate her accidentally kill her during a struggle bury the body in the woods and make a pact to keep silent to their shock the very next day tamara walks back into the classroom looking seductive and uh dressed to kill yep back from the dead and ready for supernatural revenge against everyone involved she also takes time out to make her sexually abusive pop eat a beer bottle and tries to seduce her english teacher away from his wife claudette mink a guidance counselor at the school br br acting and writing are strictly mediocre you can also tell the people responsible for this have seen such movies as carrie 1976 hello mary lou prom night ii 1987 and the craft 1996 because it borrows wholesale from all three of those superior films there's some gore a guy cutting off his ear and tongue and then stabbing his eyeball probably being the best bit a nasty vomiting scene and a few campy witty one liners not an awful film by any means but not much originality went into it either
0	tamara just felt like another teen oriented knock off of the i know what you did last summer trend and is painfully dull a high school outcast who is heavily into witchcraft and black magic is accidentally killed during a cruel prank carried out by a group of bullies who secretly bury her in the woods vowing to tell no one the next day the supposedly dead tamara arrives at school with a completely new image and seduces her would be killers and has a little revenge this is basically a combination of carrie the craft and every other straight to video teeny bopper turkey that hits the shelves these days the actors are absolutely atrocious and look about ten years too old to pass off as high schoolers there is some gore which is actually nothing all that interesting since the movie is so boring and i couldn't wait for it to end if you like modern garbage than i insist you seek this one out otherwise don't bother
0	i saw this movie and i do like horror movies br br i did not know what to expect but as soon the movie was on his way it was nice to watch it the idea was pretty original and the acting was nice especially jenna dewan as the exciting evil tamara br br the hardest thing about horror movies is to make a good ending but there the movie failed for a change a end scene in a hospital where suddenly all employees are gone first you see doctors and nurses running around but then they all went home br br no cries for help while being chased by tamara escaping to the roof also a smart move not and off course a kind of open ending br br no the movie started great the main part was nice to watch but they really messed up the ending using all clichés from bad horror movies jeffrey failed in my eyes with this movie after making some really quality movies like final destination 1 and 2 br br if you like a good horror full of cliché endings tamara is a good movie to watch for me i like movies which surprise me
0	i am working at a video store so i got to see this one for free thank god had i paid for it my review would be less forgiving br br well the major idea of the film geeky girl takes bloody revenge isn't all that original there are several parallels to carrie playing a mean practical joke on a loser except for one nice girl that is actually sorry for her and carries bad family background i still think it's a fun idea for trashy teen horror flick unfortunately they didn't take much advantage of the potentials that are here and rather put an emphasis on all the wrong things br br what worked i liked the actress that played tamara she looked great when she was hot and her catty lines were fun sean can't come to the phone he's f king patrick br br what didn't work the whole thing was silly i generally prefer rational explanations she could have the whole thing with her teacher or one of the boys to get her revenge there were a lot of logical wholes and the gore looked really bad when the boy is cutting of his ear and his tongue please br br the whole idea wasn't bound for oscar buzz but i just think they wasted the comedic and the suspenseful potential they had it was bearable but far from good
0	star rating unmissable very good okay you could go out for a meal instead avoid at all costs br br the tale of the titular adam mark o' halloran and paul tom murphy two heroin addicts in the slums of dublin and their daily about in their meaningless lives searching for the next fix that will make their day along the way they try and reconcile with close family and friends who they've managed to let down and destroy over the years br br i know a lot of irish people like to drink but it seems some of them have problems with heroin too by the looks of this movie i know there is a bit of a drug problem over there like there is in many parts of the world so another humorous take on the subject matter is not an entirely unexpected thing br br i don't recall the last irish movie i saw the film is shot in a style that makes it stand out from any film i've seen lately and judging from that obviously i'm not as enlightened on their humour as i could be the film is rather funny in certain parts but it's obviously another comedy that isn't afraid to raise near the knuckle laughs the scene in which the mentally disabled boy is robbed down the back of an alley is certainly true of what a pair of junkies might do to feed their habit but is nonetheless utterly despicable and i'm not sure if it was meant as dark humour in any way but it certainly didn't put a smile on my face it's also in stark contrast to their previous actions where they're seen showing their soft side rocking a baby to and fro in light of this some may find the ending sad others may see it as just desserts br br overall i just failed to see the point to the film i didn't see any motivation in the 'story' it was telling it just seems to amble along without really involving the audience in any way unlike trainspotting which dealt with similar themes it's an unsuccessful effort for the most part that had me on the verge of nodding off despite it's very short 83 minute running time really no more enjoyable than following two real life junkies around for a day
0	i saw the film yesterday and stopped it at half time because i felt it was a waste of time the idea to make a film through the eyes of a one of the evil guys throughout most fantasy and medieval films is great and offers plenty of possibilities but the film couldn't catch one of them i was not feeling for any of the characters the plot was all too predictable to the point that i followed it and the second leap of time in the storyline made me quit those who expect a deep insight into the emotional situation of a in the middle ages a social outcast to that time might be disappointed
0	this had the promise of being an interesting film the subject matter was certainly a promising one the excesses of the catholic church during the counter however not only was this not developed other than a two paragraph introduction many things were not explained i e the gypsies the the and their relationship to the one true church nor were the politics of the time explained i e the relationship between the catholic church and its supporters like the holy roman emperor though these may have been apparent to an austrian audience the lack of explanation makes it confusing for americans br br but perhaps it's a good thing that they didn't emphasize the history since what they showed was pretty inaccurate anyway instruments of torture bloody executions witch and heretic burnings big shiny swords and pretty golden are the stars of the film it could have just as easily been one of those conan type sword and sorcery movies only with period costumes
0	when the movie begins it's obvious just how old and sick the boys are although oliver hardy is enormous it is stanley that looks like death warmed over apparently he was deathly ill during production and had obviously lost a lot of weight although he would eventually recover and live another decade and a half here he looks like a dying man additionally as i watched the film i was shocked how many pratfalls stan took i half expected his to drop dead from the exertion i really can't understand why they came out of retirement considering their health especially when the story and production values are as poor as they are with this film br br stanley inherits an island and a boat he and ollie are ready to leave when antoine a man is literally dropped into their boat and they begin their voyage to find the island along the way they discover that giovanni has away but despite this the four men become friends and land on a different island it seems like paradise and they are all very happy a bit later a pretty young lady joins them and everything looks grand br br unfortunately uranium is discovered on the island and the place becomes flooded with riffraff eventually the mob decides to hang the four men and take over at which point the island sinks back into the sea and the men are spared br br i will give the film some credit for being original and for being interesting however one thing it is not is funny and that is unforgivable for a laurel and hardy flick while not a bad film it certainly isn't a good one a sad end to their brilliant careers br br all the actors except for the duo are dubbed into english as the movie was made in france while it may not be the very worst film they made this would be the big noise it sure is close watching this film is painful and like watching people clean up after a severe accident
0	the biggest problem with in search of historic jesus is that there is very little search to it at all sunn produced these documentary films in the 1970s and just into the '80s which featured interviews with experts and discussion of science and facts to make a case for whatever the title of the film was looking to cash in on br br sadly historic jesus is really little more than a third rate dramatization of the life of christ unlike more superior in search of noah's ark which spends the majority of its running time discussing the possibility that the ark is resting on the earth today and where that might be this film is basically the story of jesus with no effort made to prove or disprove his existence the famed shroud of is mentioned but little other detective work is given much screen time br br for fans of these quasi documentary films like jupiter menace and in search of bigfoot etc this movie doesn't offer much
0	as a documentary this is laughable in a campy sort of way a schlocky collection of re created biblical tableaux mixed in with solemn interviews of so called experts think of it as an which pushes jesus instead of thigh masters br br however the detailed crucifixion scene is in terms of historical accuracy superior to similar scenes in such widescreen hollywood extravaganzas as ben hur king of kings and the greatest story ever told rather than dragging his entire cross to for example john simply carries his strapped across his shoulders to his outstretched arms nails aren't driven through his palms but instead through his wrists his feet aren't nailed separately but one is placed over the other so that just one nail need be used incidentally flogging prior to his crucifixion ranks 35th in the book lash the hundred great scenes of men being whipped in the movies br br of course and the two thieves wear modest which probably isn't true to the shameful reality of roman crucifixions but allowances must be made curiously the good thief is positioned on the left hand of jesus which goes against a long standing tradition just why this thief is played by a pudgy overweight man is however a mystery especially in view of the fact that the bad thief is something of a hunk
0	am not from america i usually watch this show on channel i don't know why this respected channel air such sucking program in prime time slot creation of hollywood's money bank jerry bruckheimer this time he is spending a big load of cash in the small screen in each episode a bunch of peoples having two team members travels from on country to another for a great sum of money where the camera crews shoot their travels i don't know who the hell gave this stupid idea for the show it has nothing to watch for in all episodes we see people ran like beggars some times shouting crying beeping jerky camera works huh it's harmful to both eyes and ears the most disgusting part in the race is the viewers finally knows each of the team members can't enjoy their race traveling experience even though to add up the ratings the producers came up with the ideas of including gays in one shows sucking american reality show br br it's nothing to watch for better switch to another channels br br the amazing race the disgusting show
0	scarlet dawn casts douglas fairbanks jr as a russian baron rudely displaced by the forces of the russian revolution and now has to fend for himself in a world not terribly hospitable to former aristocrats he's also not terribly suited for any kind of real work br br doug might have been caught by the reds but for the fact that his former servant nancy carroll didn't give him away nancy's got a big old crush on doug and they do marry once arriving in exile in istanbul which throughout the film is referred to by its former christian name of they marry and settle down with doug now reduced to washing dishes br br but former mistress who's always playing bad girls of a sort on film spots him and offers to have him get back into somewhat the style he was once accustomed to as part of a swindle against father and daughter american tourists guy kibbee and sheila terry br br good thing this film has the incredibly short running time of only 57 minutes usually those were given to b westerns because it's both tedious and melodramatic the ending is rather unbelievable doug knew he was in a thanksgiving special and really overacts to cover up the defects of a unbelievable story br br what i didn't understand was that fairbanks was trained in the military profession why didn't he just become a mercenary soldier after leaving the new soviet union that didn't make sense to me at all br br i'd only see this if i was a dedicated fan of any the main players
0	this movie has lots of action and little heart let's forget for a minute that it gets just about every aspect of the russian revolution wrong after all we only have only under an hour here to tell our story in fact the czar after world war i proved a disaster for the country and a provisional government tried to rule as a pseudo democracy until the leninists took power nine months later mainly because they promised to immediately withdraw russia from the war now back to our story br br here we have the revolution being rumored in russian newspapers in what appears to still be a functioning country until violence erupts suddenly and upends the life of nobleman baron nikita douglas fairbanks jr he flees his home with his former servant girl nancy carroll in tow and they start to make a new life in before the revolution the baron made a regular habit out of making a play for the girl not out of any real passion but out of boredom as a diversion of sorts the revolution doesn't change this and he continues to try to take advantage of what is obviously a very simple girl it certainly doesn't make the audience like this guy to see him toying with her so follows the baron because she literally has no place to go after the revolutionaries take over the baron's home and she has known no other life other than waiting on nikki hand and foot once in nikki quickly of life as a penniless laborer and that is when he meets up with his former lover russian aristocrat vera who has a plan for getting them to paris where the have after the revolution unfortunately for vera's plan does not include her br br this film manages to completely waste the considerable acting talents of early talkie actress nancy carroll she does a good job with what little she is given to do but that is not much is the standout here even though she has only a small role as russian vamp vera was so often given supporting roles just as she is here but her earthy voice and glamorous looks make her the center of attention in every scene in which she appears guy kibbee even shows up in a humorous bit as an american tourist who is curious about the russian royalty that has been forcefully ejected from their homeland
0	this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made everything about it acting directing script cinematography is dreadful the alien a human in sparkly suit claims to be from a nearby universe one assumes the scriptwriter meant galaxy but didn't bother to get a dictionary to check his terms a better title for the film would be it came from the planet of plot contrivances the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent the humans are all given magical that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot any thought to the passage of time is ignored now it's a couple days after meeting the alien then bam all of a sudden there's only a couple hours left until zero hour do yourself a favor and miss this movie you will make yourself stupider for having watched it the ending is particularly silly and should have been accompanied by someone going ta da as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you'll get cancer watching it if you can watch the last 10 minutes without crapping yourself enemies of freedom honestly laughing you're retarded
0	an intelligent summation of cold war era mutually assured destruction policy up until the conclusion it's a all russians and chinese are obliterated from the face of the earth saw this one at the 27th annual science fiction marathon january 2002
0	i made sure to see this film because it is a 1950s sci fi film one of my favorite genres unfortunately while i was looking forward to either bug eyed aliens or power mad the aliens in this film were a major disappointment first you only see one very briefly at the beginning and he looked pretty ordinary and you also only got a tiny glimpse of a spaceship second the alien was neither the evil conquerer or the benevolent friend of mankind but a real odd ball and finally the plot itself seemed so dumb preachy and heavy handed that it elicited more yawns than thrills br br as the film begins five people from five different parts of the world germany britain russia china and the usa are kidnapped by an alien the alien gives each of them devices by which they can destroy all life on the planet if they so choose because the alien admits that his race of people would love to inhabit the earth but they themselves won't kill to get it then he returns them all while it's 100 obvious that no one would want to use these devices the alien then announces on tv the identities of the five without telling that the weapons are that powerful so all the in the world want to find the five and force them to reveal how the weapons work much of the rest of the film consists of some of the five going into hiding and one being tortured to get him to reveal how the device works as the soviets want to use it this part of the film just seemed pretty silly sure the ussr was an evil and corrupt nation sorry but it's fact especially under stalin they never would have thought of using it like they did in the movie later one of the five the german scientist somehow figures out that the devices can also be used to kill only all the evil people who hate freedom so he uses it to wipe out all the evil commies and presumably others who were anti freedom and the world then becomes a paradise preachy silly and full of plot holes this movie just isn't worth your time though it is an interesting relic simply for the way it addresses communism in particular the tensions between nato and the soviets
0	this is another of hollywood's anti communist polemics of the golden 1950s stalwart american gene barry lovely englishwoman valerie french and three others are kidnapped by an alien and given containing fantastic and fantastically vague power what will the earthlings do with such power toss it in the sea or use it to wipe out all of mankind anybody who knows american cinema circa 1957 knows the answer to what the commies will do but the story gets ripe when the americans actually test the things in the middle of the pacific then one scientist alone with the ultimate power in the universe comes up with his own theory and uses it his smarmy attitude afterward is nauseating and the cheery disposition of everyone else is appalling br br here's the spoiler for this dog the capsules inside the have a mathematical code that tells the prof that they kill only confirmed enemies of freedom that's right don't worry about the ethical conundrum of killing everyone that an alien pill decides is an enemy of freedom just do it hurray no commies silly female and you threw yours into the sea ha ha kiss me baby
0	just listen to the broadway cast album and to the voices of barbara harris and john cullum who do wonders for the wonderful lerner and lane score then with that beautiful cast recording fresh in mind watch the movie with streisand as streisand and yves montand reading his lines with such a heavy french accent that a chain saw couldn't cut through it the best part for those who need something to look forward to is what montand does to the introductory part of the title song listen as he sings says could anyone among us have an inkling or a clue what magic feats of wizardry and voodoo you can do that one part sums up the problem that results from casting name stars in movie musicals instead of the appropriate talent for the various roles i can just see rex harrison entering that scene and suggesting montand too could learn to do justice to the beauty of the english language br br
0	this movie was difficult for me to watch stan looked very old and ill compared to what i remembered and ollie was heavier than i ever recall in another film most difficult though were gaps in the script production where i found myself wondering how did they get from here to there it took nearly half the film before i could deal with the dubbing of non american actors that was also a distraction br br although i miss great actors such as laurel and hardy will there ever be great actors like those of the old studio era this film helps me understand why actors sometimes bow out in their prime
0	on a clear day you can see forever is nothing more than a new age update of the pygmalion my fair lady story a professor attempts to turn a common girl into an upper society woman this time however instead of using language skills the professor tries to do so by hypnotism and past life regression br br you know a musical has problems when reviewers constantly mention the sets and the costumes before they mention the plot and the music the songs are instantly forgettable no get me to the church on time here i'm afraid and the plot goes nowhere to paraphrase gertrude stein there is no there here the characters wander through the story without ever getting from point a to point b professor claims several times that he will get to the root of daisy's troubles but he never seems to do so br br all meaningful conflict is avoided for instance there comes a time when university demands he either stop his research into reincarnation or resign his position now there is conflict will he give up his career for daisy alas nothing comes of this development a scene or two later the university changes its mind and tells to continue on with his work so much for conflict br br the talent was certainly assembled for this movie directed by vincente minnelli written in part by alan jay lerner a cast of yves montand bob newhart and jack nicholson and oh yes starring striesand who was nearly at the top of her game at this point in her career br br but it all falls flat attempt to reincarnate his greatest success the previously mentioned my fair lady is as doomed to failure as daisy's attempt to revive the greatness of her own past br br if you enjoy movie musicals there are far better choices than this
0	in trying to keep up with the hipness of youthful audiences as the 70s approached was the product of odder and odder material selected for here it's past life regression esp and therapy pretty loopy the real problem with the concept music or not are the extraordinarily low dramatic stakes just where can a movie go and what can happen when a man falls in love with a previous incarnation of a girl he can't stand it can't go any place new but strangely it can't even go any place old indeed if it could audiences would still have no interest in the union of yves montand playing a much older arrogant french ass and streisand a much younger girl we never become invested in them their situations or outcomes montand is miscast and his strong accent makes many of his lyrics unintelligible br br it's all been given a shallow 60s veneer that makes it eminently disposable despite efforts here and there from minelli that are respectable it's not even adapted from a non musical story that met with any previous success that's just too passe streisand occasionally has some funny business to offer as when she's trying not to fall asleep on her roof and improvises an energetic dance but she over relies on her ingratiating translation irritating kooky jewish girl shtick she can however sing very well at both the gentle and powerhouse ends of the range amidst a score of musical dross she gets 3 or 4 amazing songs of much higher caliber than anything fanny or dolly had to offer 'he isn't you' is a sweet trifle as sublime as lorenz hart's 'my funny valentine ' but the movie isn't able to realize any impact from it because the lyrics don't seem to be referring to anything in the movie and nothing remotely suggests a great love is blossoming between and melinda br br the only cut we can view is a poor hatchet job of a much bigger film strong research shows a longer better explained and more decorative but not necessarily a better film at http barbra archives com films clear day streisand 2 html you can be sure there's be more babs in that version but more importantly there'd be more thoughtful work from minelli br br in the end montand sends babs off to sing the title song after she discovers he's a total dick who feeds her a self esteem to allow himself off the hook and she takes the bait so uh hooray for that br br hurry it's lovely up here love with all the trimmings he isn't you the title song
0	last time i checked the nazis didn't win the second world war not that you'd sodding notice after all the third reich was pretty big on issuing orders and demanding cold robotic obedience from the populace and that's pretty much what we're saddled with today but the way the orders are delivered has changed instead of being at in a german accent through a loudhailer they're disguised as concerned expert advice and floated under your nose every time you switch on the tv or flip open a newspaper there's a continual background hum a middle class message of self improvement whispered on the wind br br you eat too much you eat the wrong things you drink you smoke you don't get enough exercise you probably can't even beep properly you'll die if you don't change your ways your health will suffer have you got no self respect look at you you sicken me i pity you i hate you we all hate you god hates you don't you get it it's so sad what you're doing to yourself it's just so bloody sad that's the mantra and it goes without saying that the people reciting it are routinely depicted as saints last year the media dropped to its knees to give jamie oliver a collective blow job over his school dinners series in which he campaigned to get healthier food put on school menus given the back slapping reaction you'd be forgiven for thinking he'd personally rescued 5 000 children from the jaws of a slavering paedophile br br anyway the series was a huge success in fact in telly terms there was only one real drawback it wasn't after all when you've saved every child in the nation from certain death once you can't really do it a second time the only solution is to find a new threat which brings us to ian wright's unfit kids wed 9pm c4 a weekly programme in which the former footballer and renowned enemy of grammar forces a bunch of overweight youngsters to take part in some extra curricular pe br br it's essentially a carbon copy of the jamie oliver show with more sweating and fewer shots of pupils mashing fresh basil with a an uplifting fable in which shapes his gang of misfits into a lean mean machine combating apathy and lethargy confronting lazy parents and attempting to turn the whole thing into a nationwide issue that'll have range rover mums everywhere dampening their knickers with sheer in between trips to the conran shop oh isn't it simply terrible what these blob some plebes do to themselves not our josh you understand he eats nothing but organic spinach and attends lacrosse practise six hundred times a week br br bet he does the little yes it is heartwarming to watch flabby inconvenient kids transforming themselves with a bit of simple activity but there's something about the underlying eat your greens message that really sticks in my in case you hadn't guessed br br what happened to the concept of choice you beep so a bit of jogging might increase your life expectancy so what that just equates to a few more years in the nursing home whoopee do and besides i'd rather drop dead tomorrow than spend the rest of my life sharing a planet with a bunch of smug toss ends trying to out health one another br br in episode two video games and the internet are singled out as villains in the war on they make kids too you see oddly enough tv which is equally and unlike those two activities actively encourages you to let your mind atrophy along with your physique escapes without a rollicking funny that br br well listen here channel 4 instead of forcing kids to eat bracken or do squat thrusts how about teaching them to think more so they reject the sly cajoling nature of programmes like this or would that be a campaign too far
0	the moral of this show is that bad eating habits give people bad hair bad taste in clothes bad posture bad jobs and on and on they are obviously miserable and loathe themselves however if they learn to eat broccoli they will be wealthy successful and attractive br br tlc ought to be ashamed of themselves for this blatant exploitation of parental fears and guilt if nutrition is really that important they should be able to develop a show using honest and truthful methods if they really believed in their computer simulations i'd like to see them do a double blind test by finding some 40 year olds finding out what their eating and exercise habits were as children and age progressing the kids' photos then compare to the real things hey that sounds like a project for discovery channel are you listening br br tlc must stand for tabloid lies and cons
0	well i don't normally think there's such a thing as a horrible movie but this is pretty damned close the best acting performance in the whole thing was snoop dogg who has one line in a 10 second scene i agree with the glad it was short review the music videos at the end were cool though
0	this movie rips off of every mobster gangster film ever made mp da last don has a reference to every movie the acting was by far the worst i have every seen who the hell is john mario anyway his acting was by far the worst i have ever seen he makes bad actors look good as far as master p goes he's selling out quicker than an n sync concert i really wish i was there to tell the whole production company what the hell were you thinking when penning the script obviously these people are so fixated on the gangster image that they decided to make a movie and live out their gangster lives for real in their minds one thing i do know is that there wasn't anyone who wanted to distribute this film so it seems and how predictable that the guys at no limit had to start no limit films i've said enough this movie is terrible and it does not deserve to be called a movie
0	when i saw this movie i think i was a freshman in high school and i still feel like charging master p for the hour 20 mins or so that he took from my life that i'll never get back br br the guy who already posted is completely right master p is a wannabe mobster he like all the other rappers in this country made his millions off of selling rap cds to young impressionable white kids in this country it's widely known that the mob was not a black thing and blacks were not allowed to be part of it unfair as that might be rappers can't deal with this movie paints master p as a mobster named nino the script is terrible with the acting to match completely unbelievable while searching i came up with a link or something that said he was planning on making another movie called the black sopranos br br please spare us that and stick to you are not a white mobster your not even a good actor master p please stick to your music for the sake of whoever listens to it these days
0	this is one entertaining flick i suggest you rent it buy a couple of rum and invite the whole crew over for this one my favorite parts were 1 the gunfights that were so well choreographed that john woo himself was jealous 2 the wonderful special effects 3 the academy award winning acting and 4 the fact that every single gangsta in the film seemed to be doing a bad scarface impersonation i mean master p as a cuban godfather this is groundbreaking territory and with well written dialogue including lines like the only difference between you and me rico is i'm alive and your dead this movie is truly a masterpiece yeah right
0	this has to be one of if not the greatest mob crime films of all time every thing about this movie is great the acting in this film is of true quality master acting skills make you actually believe he is italian the cinematography is excellent too probably the best ever this movie was great and i have the brain capacity of an earth worm
0	on the scale of 1 to 10 i gave this a 4 i thought the film was not very good with too much violence and not one character to like br br on an erotic scale i give this a 6 many of the sex scenes were tinged with an underlying ugliness i always enjoy nudity and nancy travis and faye grant come through but the sex scenes were more humiliating than erotic
0	i just watched atoll k laurel and hardy's last movie together and known here in the states as utopia on internet archive expecting to see some extra footage since the ia version had a running time of 2 hours and 21 minutes turns out that it's basically the same version i previously watched on the bargain basement vhs tape from goodtimes home video that ran an hour and 23 minutes with the exception of no product placement of the welch's grape juice label being inserted when a bottle was shown with the rest of the running time devoted to dark blank space while stan does look like he might be dying anytime soon he still performs fine physical comedy with ollie during much of the first 45 minutes or so then the plot of taking a yacht with a stowaway and a man with no country aboard not to mention a charming female french singer also coming to inhabit an uncharted island they all end up on takes over with eventual complications that pretty much bogs the comedy down and never really recovers despite the familiar ending of ollie saying for the last time to stan here's another nice mess you've gotten me into before stan cries uncontrollably before the fade out in other words if you're a die hard laurel and hardy fan this movie is recommended for you to see at least once anyone else wanting to get familiar with this classic comedy team should seek their earlier work they did for hal roach from the '20s up through 1940 when they completed their final roach film saps at sea come to think of it even some of the l h fox flicks have yet to see the two they made for m g m from the '40s are better than this one update 8 29 09 just watched some missing scenes that appeared in the italian version on youtube cherie sings in one and has a conversation with the captain in another that captain's wife pulls a gun on cherie in one more giovanni explains why he left his country with a flashback scene stan is dubbed in high pitch here
0	witchcraft witchery la casa 4 and whatever else you wish to call it how about crud br br a gathering of people at a massachusetts island resort are besieged by the black magic powers of an evil witch killing each individual using cruel torturous methods photographer gary david hasselhoff is taking pictures for linda catherine hickland whose voice and demeanor resemble ee yor of the winnie the poo cartoon a virgin studying witchcraft on the island resort without permission rose brooks annie ross portraying an incredibly rude bitch is interested in perhaps purchasing the resort and along with husband freddie robert champagne who is always ogling other women much younger than him pregnant daughter jane linda blair and grandson tommy michael manchester who just looks bored throughout probably wanting to watch sesame street instead of starring in this rubbish go by boat to the resort being treated to a look at the property by realtor tony giordano's son jerry rick farnsworth obviously a pup in the business getting his feet wet along with these folks is architect leslie leslie cumming whose character is a nympho who might help rose re design the resort the boat's captain is killed by the lady in black hildegard knef wearing her make up and lip stick extra thick and a storm is brewing the boat drives off by itself guided by the invisible power of the lady in black i guess with everyone stuck in the decrepit resort which is in dire need of repairs most of the victims before meeting their grisly fates are carried through a type of red wormhole whose vortex leads to another dimension perhaps a type of hell or something where they are tortured by these fiends dressed in raggedy clothes with a crummy visage one victim has her mouth sown before being hung upside down in a chimney roasted as the others light the fireplace one poor soul is tortured by harsh twistings of rope wrapped tightly around her flesh before being found hanging from the snout of a swordfish penetrating through her neck one fellow is slowly suffocating as his veins bulge and bleed and neck's blood vessels burst squirting in hasselhoff's face one fellow is crucified with nails hammered into his hands before being hung upside down over an open flame blair's pregnant victim becomes possessed with her hair standing on end speaking in another woman's voice one is raped by this demonic man with a diseased mouth as the hellish hobos stand nearby gleefully cheering the film despite it's excesses is mostly dull fodder for those who really wish to see the lowest point in the careers of hasselhoff and blair who deserve better than this almost unbearable at times building little to no suspense clumsy execution of the death sequences which look cheap and laughable sure some gore is okay but most of the film shows victims after they've been run through the ringer we do get a chance to see pregnant women who look exactly like stuntmen in costume with bad wigs jumping out three story windows oh and the lady in black's reflected face often pops up on inanimate objects for characters to see tommy has a little sesame street recorder which tapes the lady in black's mumbo jumbo chants obviously used for later for some reason the lady in black likes to visit little tommy he's not at all scared of her for tommy's just too bored to show any expression on his face much less fear need i say more this one's a real stinker ugh
0	it's as if the editor and screenwriter only had 40 minutes of real running time this is supposed to be a remake of a chinese film which is obviously far superior to this trash it's clear that some brainless hollywood suit or writer decided that this movie would be mano a mano man against man instead of just letting the story play out with the personalities of the characters that were built in the first 40 minutes at this point in the film the characters just don't act like regular people and not even like their own personalities it makes little sense it's quite clear why this film flopped it's just not believable at all and that's too bad it started out with promise don't be fooled
0	tank girl was i suppose meant to be the buckaroo banzai of the 90's and was marketed as such the comparison is admittedly appropriate both movies have so many things going on in any given frame of film that as impossible as the story is to sort out it certainly isn't boring br br tank girl is a fun enough ride if you turn your brain off before the movie starts otherwise you'll end up with a skull cracking headache like me
0	why lori petty was cast as tank girl i'll never know her acting performance is lack luster her voice is grating it's almost impossible for me to put into words how bad this movie is br br there are several modern pop references in the film which i found to be very strange given that the movie was supposed to take place far in the future it wouldn't have been hard to make this premise interesting either some better writing would have helped loads br br naomi watts makes an appearance in it as a mild mannered techno geek i think they should have probably switched roles br br i'll never know why anyone would like this movie unless they were a petty fan br br try not to see this movie total waste of time
0	sometimes a movie cannot easily be classified such a film is tank girl part cartoon part comedy and part action flick i'm sure somewhere there is an audience for tank girl' but it is extremely small perhaps punk comic book readers most viewers will be looking for an early exit or living with the fast forward button the only redeeming quality are short bursts of humor find me a microscope and a pair of tweezers but these tiny moments of comic relief are far outweighed by the sophomoric action sequences there is no character development which is not surprising since the source is a comic book do yourself a favor and avoid avoid avoid merk
0	this film doesn't know what it wants to be is it making fun of action movies in general is it satirical is it supposed to be a black comedy this is truly one of the worst films ever made br br lori petty is annoying there i said what everyone else is thinking it's bad enough that she's such a terrible actress route 666 bates motel but she doesn't even qualify as a mediocre b movie actress her screechy voice strange mannerisms and poor comic timing dot this film from start to finish until you just want to put your head in a vise and end the pain br br do yourself a favor and avoid this movie at all costs you'll be glad you did
0	maybe it's because i'm no fan of the comics but if the comics are of the same quality as the movie it's hard to believe there are any but this has to be one of the worst movies ever made non existent plot laughable acting dumb dialogue this movie is so bad that it hurts a lot that some people actually gave this one 10 10 is an insult to any good or at least mediocre or at least bad movie if you hate yourself then watch tank girl on another thought if you hate yourself that much maybe you should just commit suicide my rating 34 10
0	i made the mistake of buying this since i collect comic book inspired movies even at 6 it was too expensive i thought there might be some campy fun in it a so bad it becomes good vibe perhaps i was wrong i had watched it once long ago and didn't remember any of it now i know why i was bored out of my mind and was looking for distractions to do something else i'm all for power punk attitude and absurd humor but tank girl does not work on any front the script is bad you don't care about the characters and the humor is mostly lame except for a few amusing one liners the special effects or locations are poor or often replaced by comic panels or animations that are just too jarring compared to the live action it's like they didn't have the money to shoot the cool stuff and so resorted to drawings however cool they might be an uncensored animated feature would be way better for tank girl now that i think about it the action scenes were cheesy but not in a fun b movie way the tank itself was far from impressive or dynamic although it was interestingly decorated as a matter of fact the best action scenes involving the tank were in animation br br it does have some interesting songs by known artists such as bjork hole and but instead of improving the atmosphere they just don't fit most of the time once they even break into a ludicrous song and dance number that was just senseless and horrible i think that's when i totally tuned out i suppose tank girl played by lori petty looks the trashy punkette part but beyond her attitude and sometimes barely amusing retorts is more two dimensional and superficial than the worst comic book characters jet played by naomi watts is probably the only saving grace of the film and it's amazing how such a good actress was involved in this mess malcolm mcdowell wasn't too bad playing his usual villain role it might be a cult movie for some but please consider that it's really different from the original independent comics and the original creators were disappointed with the movie themselves check out the entry for tank girl on wikipedia br br rating 3 out of 10
0	the film is very fast moving bizarre and colorful it's like mad max on speed whit tons of and make up also very cartoonish as that said cartoon sequence pops up here and there the plot is also very saucy but i'll believe it's meant too be the thing that really drives me crazy in this movie is the characters they are painfully irritating especially rebecca played by lori petty she's really annoying i'll believe she is the most annoying creature i've ever seen the editing is also annoying very mtv stylized another thing that's missing from tank girl is an exciting adventure the humor isn't much funny either it has some nice visuals though br br however a lot of people love this film most of them are women and that's not weird at all because this movie is all about girl power tank girl this is a real chick flick and the best example of an hate love film
0	my poor tank girl they ignored everything great about you why does it have as little to do with the comics as possible i would have loved a movie that followed the plot or at least had the characters right br br why was tank girl american she's austrailian dammit and she's not living in a post apocalyptic war zone either she lives in the outback with like a savage she does it because she wants to live that way not because she has to because malcolm mc is acting the git and why's she looking after those kids the only children in the comics end up violently being choked by her it's terrible that they made her into a lame mother figure br br and my poor jet girl and sub girl in the comics jet is a sarcastic wisecracker and sub girl is another sarcastic wisecracker with a weird sense of humour in the movie jet is this mousy little thing and sub is this ditzy middle aged hag and doesn't look or act anything like what he's meant to be either though maybe hot roo human love was too much for the usa box office the humour was so lame too whatever happened to all the stuff about the smiths and that brilliant slang they used all the time what sort of line is will this take long i don't wanna miss baywatch even programmes for tiny children can come up with better material than that
0	being a fan of marlene dietrich's films i was very anxious to see this documentary i also got sucked in by reading rave review after rave review from the national critics that should have tipped me off br br the movie is just plain boring and obviously extremely overrated you don't even see dietrich she is heard in the background discussing her movies and this video she does almost nothing but complain about everything what a drag br br the filmmaker maximilian schell constantly complains himself and pleads with her to be on camera all to no avail she just keeps refusing to cooperate after awhile this sort of thing gets really tiring with her attitude why would schell continue with this project he should have just told the prima donna to shove it br br regardless of what you read do not waste your time with this
0	oh why did it have to end like this laurel and hardy's last film from the crudely cranked up cuckoo theme with erroneous credit to hal roach to the closing nice mess i couldn't help it schtick this is the duo as a grotesque parody of themselves in between their relationship is now solely constructed of uncertain acting asinine dialogue and half hearted slapstick people slate king of new york but chaplin's final bow out was nowhere near as as this br br what really hurts to someone who loves laurel and hardy is the appearance of the two comedians the video cover i'm holding shows them at their prime all boyish smiles and glowing skin with a blurb on the back that reads the photograph on this sleeve is for illustrative purposes only and does not necessarily reflect the content of the film necessarily it doesn't even come close the actual film sees them at least fifteen years older than the photographs that adorn the sleeve with ollie distressingly overweight this is not humorously or comically fat as he would normally appear but ill looking and on the verge of obesity he would be dead seven years after this film was made after a series of strokes stan meanwhile suffering a prostrate problem and looks ghoulish as his weight has plummeted drastically every time something bad happens to him such as getting squashed between a lifeboat and a table you fear for his life even ollie giving him a traditional slap makes you terrified he could be killed he would last for another fifteen years after the completion of this film eventually passing away from a heart attack in 1965 it's upsetting to think of such cherished performers growing old and dying painful deaths and it's distressing watching their deterioration both in health and in performance on screen when i and i'm sure almost everyone else likes to think of laurel and hardy i think of way out west busy bodies or our relations seeing them in such physical ill health and performing dire routines at the dog end of their career is a blight on my happy memories of them br br the warning signs are clear right from the opening credits which list not only four writers but also someone to come up with the concept and a credit for gags so if monty collins was writing the gags then what were the other four writing and in that case why was monty collins paid a fee given that there's no evidence of a single gag in the whole film over 40 of the movie is spent travelling to the eponymous island during which we experience some of the most painfully unfunny scenes the boys were ever involved in when i saw the bat scene i wanted to curl up and die so great was its childish ineptitude yet what kills the film stone dead is that all of the support cast are dubbed unable to speak english not only does this make the film disjointed but also it severely stan and ollie's reactions to their co stars flatly directed with appalling film stock and absolutely atrocious editing this totally belies the rumoured 2 million that was spent on it frankly it looks terrible and while a dvd release might clean up the picture the sound and image quality is vastly inferior to any of their hal roach work br br stan and ollie's friends and antoine are charisma free bores who stand out greatly against laurel and hardy's outdated repertoire this is another major problem with the film in that none of the supporting characters are funny or keyed in to the boys' innocent mentality the dubbed harshness shown to l h you the fat one makes them stand out as isolated social misfits rather than loveable sub there is evidence of some darker political satire though duck soup this ain't and the concept of an island with no rules is an interesting topic perhaps more relevant now than it ever was a film that looks at the problems of immigration and the american constitution suddenly becomes most topical in 2003 sadly however beyond an amusing scene where stan is elected the people this doesn't really go anywhere and this somewhat black humour does have its harsh edges or is a laurel and hardy movie where rape is directly implied and stan threatens a man with a bottle only to accidentally glass someone in the face your idea of a good time after all the years of stan and ollie sharing a bed we also get a definite reference with stan accidentally kissing him ollie wipes off the kiss in disgust also worrying is the implication that stan and ollie's illegal immigrant friend antoine ends his life being eaten by a lion mind you i never thought i'd see a laurel and hardy movie where they were due to be hanged either the need for the intrusive and unfunny narration is a further pointer to how messy the whole thing is with the american release the same version available on video hacking out 16 minutes in a vain attempt to improve it br br almost completely unwatchable this horrifically made relentlessly unfunny movie serves only to tarnish the reputation of stan and ollie avoid at all costs
0	this 1988 movie was shown recently on a cable channel we wanted to see another film which supposedly was starting but because a mix up rent a cop was shown in that time slot never having seen it when it was commercially released we took a chance at it bad decision br br one wonders what possessed the people behind the picture to go ahead with rent a cop or how they sold it to the studio behind the distribution it appears this movie misfired big time this film doesn't add anything new to its genre it's totally predictable as once the basic premise is shown we know how it will end br br burt reynolds plays a wooden church this actor can do better but who knows what was going on behind the scenes or perhaps the direction given to him by jerry london had the opposite effect mr reynolds has one expression throughout the movie he just doesn't register any emotion at all br br lisa minnelli as the hooker who witnessed the original slaughter at the chicago hotel makes no sense at all the romance between her della and church seems phony from the beginning she and mr reynolds play one dimensional characters br br don't waste your time with this turkey
0	i was sick one day and was skimming channels and i came upon this terribly rank movie the plot and even the subplots if you can find one have been done to extinction but as bad as the story was i reserve a special comment for liza minelli her character was absolutely one of the most annoying characters i have ever has the misfortune of seeing on film her only two competitors in this category are john in the pest and julia stiles in anything she's done or half done maybe she performed exactly as the script suggested or maybe groan that is the limit she has to her acting range either way they should have had a rewrite and killed her off in the first 30 seconds of the film eg like the girl that fell off the balcony in lethal weapon i but at least she had nice breasts br br most humbly submitted douglas
0	a low rent cheaply made police thriller that's kept bearable by some fair humorous bits the nice chemistry between the two leads and especially by james remar's satisfying turn as a narcissistic psychopathic and naturally indestructible villain obviously a low quality picture both visually and dramatically with a rather resigned burt but not unwatchable
0	live action version of dragonball via taiwan br br evil lord comes to earth to get the seven magic dragon balls er pearls which when brought together will cause a dragon to appear and grant your wish lots of action and bad comedy ensue br br what can i say that the best way to watch this film is with lots of drunk but witty friends doesn't i don't know this is a really bad but funny in the way that really bad movies can be come on this is one of the few martial arts films i've ever seen where you actually see the wires its a live action cartoon and not so far removed from what i've seen of the show that it makes me fearful for the big budget american version now filming br br if you have some drunk friends and feel like picking on a movie see this film if you're going to see it sober like me avoid it
0	when you first sit down to watch this movie keep in mind that you are about to see something you've probably never seen before keep in mind that this is a movie where they obviously spent insane amounts of cash on explosions and not enough on acting or anything else for that matter the crazy thing i noticed is that every character is completely over portrayed and it seems most of the time anyhow that the film had been up' to make the characters move faster i wonder if the hong kong version was dubbed too i understand the cartoon had this but it doesn't work for live action it just looks odd as if the camera crew decided to act because they couldn't afford real actors br br the english version is horribly dubbed and the character's words do not match the mouths at all i would have subtitles but since this is a kids movie and since some kids cannot read well i'll let it go but there is something extremely odd about this movie it's supposedly a kids movie but there's a lot of material about sex rape and stripping which isn't exactly for young western audiences in the orient they have different laws and sexuality in children's movies is much more accepted but parents be warned there is a scene where two characters talk about rape multiple scenes where people say 'sex and a scene where this insanely young japanese girl does a sexy dance for one of the 'sex maniacs' and shows him her breasts who was this movie made for anyway br br oh and the special effects are laughable you can tell the spaceship like things that bomb the village are cardboard cutouts or animation i wasn't sure that look unconvincing even to a kid the makers of this movie left out a lot of cool things from the cartoon simply because they couldn't budget the kind of money they'd need i didn't like how the names of all the characters were changed it made me wonder if this movie was made by the same people as dragon ball z br br i don't really this movie to anyone kids adults or dragon ball z fans it's just a poor representation of the cartoon and obviously one will be able to tell that this movie was rushed and no care whatsoever was put into it i won't even get into the camerawork just wait until the end credits at the still picture that sits there for 2 minutes most of the shots are not framed correctly at all and the movie just seems made by amateurs grainy film quality too br br just all around horrible br br
0	just an hour ago i finished watching this my friend as a fans of dragonball we think that this movie is so bad that is good we will say one thing without a sixpack beers there is now way you can survive through this movie this movie should be watched with a many dragonball fans to laugh their ass off the best character in the movie is the lord horn his makeup his laugh and behaviour crates the unforgettable experience what we liked in this movie was the fact that the island of turtle man was the same as in cartoon version we believe that the only character similar to the one in the cartoon is the turtle man he is also a sex maniac and kind of idiot too
0	mr wonders if this movie was produced by the same who produced the dragonball z tv series of course not br br this is a hong kong real action movie based on the first episodes of the japanese original cartoon which was also based on a comic book series and i really don't know if it was produced under the license of the dragonball creators br br however the story of the monkey boy with special powers is an ancient tale known all over asia in japan the name of the boy in the tale is in china it is in korea it is etc and the story in dragonball has much to do with that tale br br by the way as i said this movie is based on the first episodes of the dragonball series which was followed by dragonball z although i think the us version had a different airing order and all the scenes related to sexuality were also contained in the original cartoon series without so much overacting and so much insistence on it but because of your comments i may suppose they were completely removed in the american dubbing br br anyway i agree with you about the overacting in the film and about how poor this adaptation of the original cartoon is but maybe because of that nobody can forget it after watching it
0	not well done at all the whole movie was just the grudge going around and killing random people out of nowhere random people that have nothing to do with the story get killed like the 3 school girls for example br br the family at the beginning has nothing to do with the story either i believe them to be a random family that never went in the house and never had anything to do with the killings of the grudge br br did not impress me at all i was not scared i didn't jump at any parts and the whole movie was just a random piece of crap to get more money off of makes the 1 look like crap also which was actually an alright movie br br i believe that the grudge 2 is like a leading movie to the grudge 3 if they ever make one they shouldn't have even called this the grudge 2 they should of called it the prologue to the grudge 2 and you will see if you watched it because i am not going to spoil anything not that it would have mattered anyway br br 1 10 not scary bad story and is just completely random
0	spoilers ahead i have a saying kill insects and kill morons the ghost in this movie kills morons several of the people who get killed in this movie are actually asking to get killed by running into abandoned houses going after ghosts etc br br on a strictly cinematic aspect this movie sucks real bad the three story lines are shown to be parallel and suddenly we learn they are separated by at least a few days it's a cheap shot br br also the thrills are so cheap they are laughable even nightmare on elm street didn't sink so low as to show someone being attacked by his own sweater it's pathetic br br save your money stay home and you won't have a grudge against the filmmakers
0	my best guess is this piece of work will come out on dvd sometime before christmas br br this movie was terrible the time line jumps all over the place this wouldn't be so bad if it left some suspense for the end it was entirely predictable bitch girls pick on outcast outcast wants to know why they hate her so much bitch girls die a terrible death outcast girl goes home and looks crazy outcast girl brought evil spirits with her makes neighbors go crazy and kill each other creepy kid understands what's going on oh and the younger sister not being good enough for mommie sick mother sending younger daughter to bring the golden child home br br to be fair there were some great moments here and there first of all sarah michelle character dies in the first few minutes definite plus didn't see that one coming i didn't expect the wife to pour bacon grease on her husband's head either if the movie had kept up those kind of thrills i would have loved it the beginning showed so much promise br br i was disappointed because i enjoyed the first one it made me jump i didn't expect most of what happened and though i questioned some of the movie it was still a fun watch i didn't watch any previews for this the sequel because i wanted to be surprised i was but in the wrong direction
0	ok so it's not great either but only because of how great laurel and hardy have been in the past if this film received a total overhaul with picture quality enhanced add new dubbing to the badly dubbed voices and added a nice unobtrusive background music then this film would truly start to take shape as it is it does have it's problems people do slate it for how old the boys look quel surprise they were in their 60's and had led a 'life' however to me they still came across as having of charm and while this doesn't even come close to tickling the feet of their classics i gave it a 4 it's worth a watch simply because it's them to think otherwise would be
0	all i can say about this movie is it is absolutely boring the intro to the movie is quite possibly the worst intro to a horror film i have ever seen i mean a angry chick hitting a guy in the head with a frying pan isn't at all frightening which is what i assume the director was aiming for but in fact it was mildly funny br br the acting in this picture was beyond pathetic a note to directors if your making a horror film please hire some good actors not some popular teen soap star who has no idea how to act br br the death scenes in this movie were beyond boring no gore and i'm sorry but horror movies without gore or good suspense are just cheesy i mean this girl gets killed by hair wrapped all around her in the middle of tokyo and not one person sees it happen they just declare her as missing wow thats awesome br br in conclusion if you and your friends want to see this movie make sure u bring some sleeping pills because i guarantee you won't make it to the end me and my friend walked out cause we didn't even care what happened at the end br br cheers
0	i loved the first grudge i watched it in an empty theater and in all honesty i was freaked out never before had i heard the unique audio of chilling sounds it truly was gripping br br the grudge 2 however had a couple of good jumps but the story line was real messy and not entirely believable and all over the place with a couple of scenes like a female urinating herself out of fear or another one of a young woman drinking a jug of milk then vomiting it all up again which really made no sense and did not help to enhance the creep factor of the film during these scenes and a couple of others people in the sold out audience actually laughed out loud that was a good indicator to show how this film lacked the thrills chills or creeps the acting was decent the emotions portrayed were believable so hats off to the actors but the cluttered storyline and its lack of direction was something i couldn't shake throughout the entire movie i was annoyed more than anything same old grudge gagging noises a couple of quick unexpected scenes to make me jump but overall i was very disappointed
0	to start off i didn't bother seeing the grudge the previews for that movie didn't make me jump didn't scare me and didn't entertain me but when a group of friends asked me to go see the grudge 2 i accepted the invite a little curious as to how this movie would be i mainly went because of my friends not even 5 minutes into this movie i realized i threw away 7 50 the acting from the get go is horrible the schoolgirls in the beginning look as if they have never acted in their entire lives then the movie plot takes over let me tell you i could not stop laughing this entire movie it is just so stupid i'm pretty sure they tried to not make it scary they don't make anything jump out or anything it shows the kids then shows them attacking it builds up to it it's not an all of a sudden thing and even in the middle of the movie the core of the movie the acting is still horrible it leaves so much time in between the dialog for someone to add in their own comments this movie is honestly one of the funniest horror movies i have ever seen poorly written horrible acting horrible script horrible unable to act cast and a horrible concept the movie blacks out and changes situations more times than you can count each part eventually plays out and then ties up at the end of the movie i would never again pay to see this movie i wouldn't even watch it on cable for free this movie is a joke please do not waste your money on this movie
0	the grudge 2 is one of the films that makes me wish there were more synonyms for terrible in the english language with a plot replete with more holes than a net this film fails to make compulsive viewing for a fan of even the most inane films which i am i felt compelled to remain in the cinema until i had extracted £5 worth of entertainment from it though i feared that i would be there for some years a better film could be made from the out takes of the first installment of the grudge though i am not altogether sure this isn't the result of such an exercise as expected what passes for a plot in this dire example of wasted celluloid finishes with no resolution whatsoever thereby leaving the producers with the option of inflicting 'the grudge 3' upon the public when the time comes that they feel yet another pang of true hatred for civilisation
0	the original grudge the original american remake surprisingly pulled off just about everything you could do right with a ghost flick it had suspense dark and moody atmosphere some good jolts and some genuinely creepy images the grudge 2 attempts all of these techniques but ultimately fails only showing us the same old stuff we saw in the first movie as well as a messy storyline constantly switching from tokyo to california it begins in tokyo with some schoolgirls who wander into the house now heavily blocked by one strip of police tape one of them comes face to face with a similar wide eyed ghost girl while trapped in a closet she gets out screaming frantically and they all run out of there next we cut to america where karen's sister is sent by their mother to japan to find and bring her back home we eventually find ourselves following a very familiar concept involving a curious guy and girl investigating the history of a mysterious house we cut back and forth to the girls from the beginning who are disappearing one by one as well as a young boy hearing strange noises in the next apartment at night all leading up to a very unsatisfying ending the scare scenes are dull and ineffective like the ring 2 avoid this god awful sequel
0	i am a huge fan of the first four ju on projects i own them and watch them every few months i lend them to co workers and friends just so they can get a good scare from quality japanese film making i think takashi shimizu created a great story and presented it very effectively in these four installments br br i was somewhat excited about the grudge 2 opening in theaters i saw the first american grudge before watching the four originals the grudge was actually pretty good of course the originals are better but i got a good halloween scare from the 2004 american grudge br br the grudge 2 started off badly and went down from there i kept waiting for it to get better to make sense to show shimizu's talent nothing like this happened the thing that's great about shimizu's ju on work is the story true it's usually told in a disjointed style that you have to think about to connect its components but it is still a great story there was no story in the grudge 2 it was a series of gratuitous deaths from characters that you never had time to even start to care about br br the editing was atrocious disjointed as in the japanese originals is one thing but the complete randomness of scene sequence was exhausting i just kept thinking this is so stupid and no he didn't really sell out this much did he it made me want to walk out of the theater run home and watch the original work simply to reassure myself that shimizu has not always made this dumbed down generic boring non sensical thrown together tripe br br if you really have your heart set on seeing this movie i suggest you wait the 2 months to rent it really two of the five people in the theater with me walked out about 45 minutes into it i debated on whether to do that myself going home and cleaning the house actually sounded like a better way to spend my time at that point br br i am truly shocked at how bad this movie was let's pray sam raimi doesn't put out more cash to make the grudge 3 it's just not worth it anymore sigh
0	i went into this movie with very little in terms of expectations i went with my girlfriend and two friends and none of them could explain the story of the grudge 1 to me well if the first one couldn't leave an impression on them to explain the plot then i doubted this one would be any better br br let me summarize what the trailers let you know the asian lady is back and so is sarah michelle gellar luckily for her she isn't around very long that decision may have saved her career br br the movie has three story lines and none of them make sense and even worse none of them are developed you almost start to understand and then someone dies and the story gets left behind okay killing people could be scary but i was left more confused over the attempted plot development than i was frightened they jump back and forth between all three story lines which aren't related or are they sound the timing of the three stories are displaced and you can tell right at the start that the movie is going to have a twist at the end be oh wait sorry this isn't a fight club or vertigo quality twist you could see this one coming from miles away and probably envisioned a much better twist in your head they should've hired me instead of the girl making her surprising appearance maybe it could've been michael jackson instead that part of scary movie 4 scared the crap out of me br br the killing sequences were terribly done unlike horror movies of the past where a killer pops out of nowhere a closet or behind a door for example and everyone in the theatre jumps and subsequently the fat guy behind you spills popcorn down your neck this lacked any frightening pop ups they zoomed in on where the random asian woman or kid would show up and you knew exactly what was coming instead of having the music get really loud then quiet then a pop out to psyche you out the music actually gave you timing for the scary scene if i know it's coming it won't scare me br br the movie began with explaining what the grudge is when a person is killed during a fit of rage a curse is placed on the location where she was killed so why does the asian lady being cursed by her mother have any significance to the story and why is the grudge now moving countries this movie was absolutely terrible br br all it did was leave me begrudging my friends for making me go we should've seen one of those animated pixar movies it would've been scarier
0	this film was utter tripe possible that it is in fact a pollution the subtle tense atmosphere of the original remake are no where to be seen sarah michelle gellar is given nothing to do even in her death sequence but still she is the best performance in this film and the her death is the best thing about it even though she did deserve a better death its the sign of very bad writing and directing i'm guessing she did this film to end her connection with it as its turning rubbish br br not scary not tense not funny makes no sense at all and as said above sarah michelle gellar gives the only reasonable performance out of the entire cast
0	all the way though i was thinking to myself oh god why at the very beginning i thought right it might be average but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious br br every part in it was so predictable even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring it was a half decent movie but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves eg the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next and more times than less i was right br br why does going into the house make her come after you it doesn't make sense it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings and no really depth was seen at all br br you can see everything coming which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching oh shes behind her didn't see that one coming yawns br br surely these people must have thought to oh i don't know carry a knife round or at least try and fight back instead of being eaten but someone hair at best during the movie i was very mildly scared and i mean mildly i was just crying out for the credits as they rolled i exhaled a short oh thank god if you haven't already don't waste time and money on this pointless plot less sorry excuse for a sequel
0	don't waste your time or money on going to see or even renting it it is by far the worst move i have ever seen its two hours way too long of your life you're never getting back if you're looking to be scared go see something else we went with someone who still has nightmares about the gremlins and she wasn't scared in the least br br there are so many things that make this movie an incredibly poor attempt at making money now before i begin let me say that i loved the first grudge however the second one is something of a different story the plot is very in depth and intricate however in the end you are wondering what the heck was this or that all about the acting would be considered poor in a b list pornography film i could site several examples but i don't want to spoil it for those that are for punishment but i can sum up two horrible hours in two simple words it's spreading
0	released at a time when duvivier was going again from strength to strength black jack which was sandwiched between the overlooked extraordinary au des and the dazzling stunning sous le ciel de paris is a jumble which duvivier himself hated which is not surprising there's almost nothing to write about this dud we can notice that br br 1 orson welles used to admire duvivier that may explain why wellesian actors were featured in duvivier's movies joseph cotten in lydia 1941 and here a totally wasted agnes moorehead it's the first time br br i have not enjoyed performance on the other hand welles borrowed his desdemona suzanne from duvivier's au des for his othello br br 2 in any duvivier's movie there's one or two worthwhile sequences and this one is no exception the search in the caves where duvivier's sense of mystery works wonders for a short while then the chase when gets caught up in the duvivier's touch can be felt in the unhappy end too br br as for the rest as my dear pen pal writer's reign writes it's a black joke
0	this remake is a complete disgrace so mediocre cheap and prosaic it wouldn't deserve more than a couple of spiteful lines br br it's also a cheat with a laughable script served by such contrived and amateurish acting you're always aware there's a set a camera a fake no direction no suspended reality whatsoever to allow you delve into the story br br the claustrophobic stifling tension of the small spaces and rooms in the original japanese masterpieces ju on 1 2 is all but lost here in overblown sets and spaces br br but worst of all the moral enormity and unbearable suffering which both imparted a ruthless logic to the original mother and child victims turned into relentlessly vindictive ghouls is completely ruined by utter nonsense and hollow boogie man style scares br br if american audiences aren't willing to read subtitles and rise above the lowest common denominator preferring to swallow this kind of patronizing hogwash instead they fully deserve this pathetic curse the movie itself
0	that was a waste of 9 dollars the movie was terrible all the scary parts were pointless and sadly repetitive seemingly all of the tense parts could be completely predicted and did not seem to hold any bit of the audiences attention also the plot line didn't advance at all during the entire movie and it was all just a big setup for the grudge 3 when it seemed like the movie was about to make a big plot advancement it turned out just to be a pointless scene these directors need to follow hitchcock's example every scene has a point 90 of the scenes in this movie could have been left out with no change of the plot final opinion don't waste your time energy or money
0	let me start off by saying that i loved the original grudge it was bar none one of the scariest most hair rising experiences i've ever had in a filled movie theatre i'm not kidding being a self declared also made the flick look better in my eyes if the setting had been changed to some american suburb i probably would've ended up hating the film br br that said this movie is a complete mess i won't say it sucks because a the movie does have some good points b it sucks is the lamest put down in the history of lame put downs so what does the movie have going for it well for starters it has a pretty cool look through filters and the use of bleak washed out colours takashi shimizu almost recreates the downbeat angst ridden atmosphere of the original a few scenes are genuinely shocking and unpredictable unfortunately the rest of the film is just plain bad period br br the story is all over the place needlessly told tarantino style i e the scenes are out of chronological order this technique is pointless in the case of this movie and it merely makes things more confusing frankly a straightforward plot would've worked better the original was also lacking plot wise but it did make sense and the film more than made up for its thin plot with lots of scares and a genuinely tense atmosphere grudge 2 has none of these elements and is just a waste of time br br let's not forget the tv show acting skills which make the cast of the original grudge look like emily watson and katherine hepburn simply put the movie doesn't work it's too slow too dull and just not scary enough to make up for the confusing plot which adds nothing new to the story by the way so not even grudge fans will be pleased br br oh and what is it with the old man playing japanese peek a boo on the bus is this supposed to be comic relief artistic statement or what
0	people may say i am harsh but i can't help it the movie is so bad i was absolutely stunned the first movie was bad enough if you ask me it was greatly exaggerated and silly but this one despite the creepy scenes has a seriously ass stupid story they actually went deep into investigating past and found out that she had a mother who miraculously speaks english who was an exorcist and fed evil spirits to her daughter stupid ok it started out with who was an ordinary housewife who had an affair with some bloke and got herself dead this part is still ok because of this moment of rage she became a vengeful spirit who kills anyone who enters her house now her killings began to stretch a little where she actually had the opportunity to travel throughout tokyo just to finish her victims her victims were travelling weren't they this struck me hard now if a ghost could actually do such a thing like travelling throughout a country without paying public transport fares i wouldn't mind being ask someone to come kill me then snorts and to crown things all up the ghost who was once depicted as a very vengeful one in ju on the grudge which was way better than this trash is now depicted as some spectre who truly enjoys herself and felt that it is her mission to finish of people things became worse for me the viewer when the ghost became coming in forms of large strands of hair i mean if a ghost had such power i seriously dun mind being one i never really liked movies depicting ghosts as monsters cause they're not the overall results is just plain bad like the grudge 2 with a better storyline and less exaggeration this show would have been better
0	i liked the first the grudge it really creeped me out and it had something to it that made me want to see it twice that something was missing from this sequel there was no creativity nothing new or original nothing that really sticks to your mind it's people dying because a scary ghost comes out of the shadows and says boo and most of the time it wasn't even all that scary br br plot wise this movie is a dead end amber tamblyn is a good actress but she was given nothing to do and karen's death seemed really unsatisfactory because it came so quickly i was also disappointed in the mother subplot i was thinking that she might provide some way to fight the grudge but she dies in the hands hair of that was such a stupid twist all in all it's difficult to feel for characters that you know from minute one are going to die all in the same way and there's nothing they can do it doesn't feel like a cruel destiny awaiting them it's just boring because you know what's going to happen if they had anything to fight it with that would have added suspense even if they failed if there was any hope it would make the scares more justified now you're just waiting for them to die br br was really scary in the first movie but this time we saw her too many times and that took away some of it i was still scared during some scenes but i actually got used to the huge eye and blue face the makers obviously realized this would happen as they added other scary ghosts yes i was scared at the school psychologist scene even if i knew where it was going as soon as she said i've been to the house a nice touch toshio however was not scary at all in this movie i was much more creeped out by the non blue toshio with black eyes and a blank stare that sometimes appeared in the first movie a blue boy sitting in the corner does nothing for me br br some of the characters seemed really unnecessary the notorious milk scene with the girl whose name i can't even remember comes to mind i wasn't scared it was just huh i'm not sure if the schoolgirls were even really needed karen could have brought the grudge to the us with her it could have killed people related to her life everyone at the funeral or something like that even so it would have been dull to watch them all die but being introduced to so many unrelated people really felt annoying hated the i won't call you mother scene aubrey's mother issues were equally dull the little boy was a touching character though br br the ju on sequel was much scarier than this one it had some new twists dreams and reality blurring much more for instance and even if it left me feeling quite down i was also somehow satisfied i got to think a bit and be left wondering this movie only provided cheap scares
0	i would not deny that i have quite enjoyed watching any japanese horror films but everyone must get quite fed up with them after you have seen the same thing over and over br br the film follows the story of the grudge audrey as requested by her mom is going to get her sister back but when she arrives something strange happens to her sister and then her sister is killed she wants to find out the truth behind the curse and later a photographer eason joins her on the other hand there's also something happening to a family and three girls but they seem to realise it too late br br in fact i can't see the points for the three girls from international school to appear in the movies as they're not quite related to the story the reason why the woman holding the grudge keeps killing people is still not very clear it seems to me they're just telling the same things i saw in the grudge and the sudden appearance of audrey in front of the boy is undoubtedly odd which i suppose is an attempt to make the story about the family related the killing scenes are absolutely the mixture of those in the ring and kaidan the acting would be another bad point as a hong i would really like to support edison chen's first effort in hollywood but as a film lover i really can't find any point to support bad acting other actors like the father though he just appears in a few scenes should also have done better what is kept good is the atmosphere of the film especially when i watched it in the middle of the night alone br br if you have time really enjoy any horror films and have seen all the possible horror films except this like me you can go for it to kill some time but if you really like japanese horror films of this kind you should spend some time watching the japanese version of the ring
0	aubrey davis amber tamblyn travels to tokyo to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her sister karen sarah michelle gellar and gets caught up in the same mysterious curse that has killed so many people with a group of others she tries to solve and end the curse for good br br the grudge 2 rehashes everything from the first one and it produces only a couple of scares the first grudge was an average movie at best the premise was decent but the acting was wooden and some of the scenes were really ridiculous the grudge 2 is even more silly and less scary than the original also scary movie 4 has made it nearly impossible to take these films seriously and i had trouble keeping a straight face during the scary scenes which should encourage laughter more than fear how takashi shimizu messed up his own franchise is unexplainable yet he succeeded at creating a decent atmosphere unfortunately he kept the film at a slow pace with a bunch of dull characters and lame scare tactics clearly he did this movie for money and i'm glad it failed br br the screenplay was pretty bad mainly because it made no sense and they didn't develop the characters at all in the movie there were three different stories going on and each of them were somehow related to the grudge the connections were weak and a bunch of people were killed without a real reason they don't explain the rules of the curse very well and it ended up being a bit of blood bath because of everyone dying although the pg 13 rating kept things from getting interesting so even some of the death scenes were pretty lame the dialog was weak and none of the characters were likable or developed well enough to truly care about br br the acting was on par with everything else and it was a lot worse compared to the first one amber tamblyn was annoyingly wooden she moved on screen very slowly and all of her emotions seemed fake sarah michelle gellar was okay although she just had a cameo jennifer beals gave the best performance she had a few good scenes and was kind of effective arielle kebbel was okay a little bland the rest were either horrible or just too forgettable to mention overall the grudge 2 was a disappointing sequel it lacked a lot of things and it's not worth watching rating 4 10
0	hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again take superheroes for example for each x man and spiderman there are daredevil elektra ghost rider and hulk japanese horror remakes are even worst it only took the ring which was pitch perfect mostly because of mr gore to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors e g the ring 2 the eye dark water which was fine but pointless and the grudges br br the first grudge wasn't entirely bad it was scary most of the way which is what one could expect from it plus the plot had some brains mixing narratives grudge 2 is exactly like the previous this could be a good thing but hey what boy men in black ii was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain for the grudge 2 the critic goes the same way br br tired scares bad acting except for amber tamblyn and clichés all over the place three stories take place on different places and time there is aubrey tamblyn investigating what drove her sister karen sarah michelle gellar to death allison arielle kebbel who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place and finally an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door glad to say and i mean it that everything is tied up at the end but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture when everything else is simply tiresome and dull br br the chills are all over there a girl alone in the lockers someone who shouldn't enter a house others that dig too deep meanwhile ghosts keep killing and killing and killing which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic hey doesn't that seem just like another bad japanese remake something called pulse yeah day after day it's getting easier to hold a grudge against hollywood
0	what a horrible movie this movie was so out of order and so hard to follow it was so hard to follow and was just confusing the whole time i was watching it i was wishing it would end i felt like i wasted 2hours of my life that i will never get back save your money and don't rent this movie i now see why sarah michelle gellar was barely in the movie the first movie was great but this was just sucked i would never recommend this movie to anyone save your money and watch the trailer because that is about the only thing that is worth seeing with this movie this movie had no real story to it either i am still wondering what i watched
0	the grudge 2 let's see don't get me wrong i'm not a japanese horror film or horror or grudge basher i loved the first one and the original ju on i feel that much more justice could have been done for this one aubrey only existed to fill in what needed to be in the ending which if you've already seen ju on before this you already know the whole movie all it was really was a complete remake of ju on just more closely followed than the grudge though everyone may have thought that it's coming to america was a bit interesting it was expected as the house burning in the end of the grudge left the 2nd hungering for a new plot br br save your 6 50 and wait for this to come out on dvd rent it watch it then decide if you want to buy it this movie is good for a fall asleep at 2 in the morning film but overall i'd say a 4 out of 10 sorry grudge fans it's just they just failed at this one
0	this is not a movie this is a collection of random shots taken in a fascinating part of the world dubbed over with some random text the footage is not that great and the text is not that great either the end product is excruciatingly dull br br on the dvd turning the commentary on can provide some entertainment value as the director makes a rather deranged argument that this is a sci fi movie it's also fascinating to read about the extraordinary risks and hardship that the crew endured to collect this footage too bad it's rubbish but i think the making of fata morgana would be a fascinating film sort of like 'ed wood was
0	in pasadena mrs davis joanna cassidy sends her daughter aubrey davis amber tamblyn to tokyo to bring her sister karen davis sarah michelle gellar who is interned in a hospital after surviving a fire back to the usa after their meeting karen dies and aubrey decides to investigate what happened to her and gets herself cursed in the same situation being chased by the ghost of the house meanwhile in tokyo the three high school mates allison arielle kebbel vanessa teresa palmer and uno visit the famous haunted house and are also cursed and chased by the ghost in chicago trish jennifer beals moves to the apartment of her boyfriend bill christopher cousins who lives with his children the teenager lacey sarah and boy jake matthew knight on the next door weird things happen with their neighbor br br the grudge 2 has scary sound and visual effects with the creepy woman and boy and i have startled a couple of times while watching this movie however the complex screenplay with three subplots is totally confused making the entwined story a complete mess there are too much characters and situations and in a certain moment i was completely lost with the disconnected and fragmented narrative in the end i was completely disappointed with this confused but also spooky film my vote is four br br title brazil o 2 the scream 2
0	okay first the good thing if you saw the trailer then you know about 100 of the scary jumpy moment of the movie and yes it's a good thing because you should just stick to the trailer and not go see the movie br br i now understand why sarah michelle gellar did not stay alive in that movie for very long she did not want to associate her name with this production i wish her the best for the return br br you have to follow 3 different story in this movie and they are all disconnected in time and meaning until the very end and even then it's a very bad climax and god forbid even open the door to another sequel br br yes in this movie the rage and fury is on the move no need to visit the house anymore just be close to someone who when inside and you're done it's not a curse anymore it's kinda like a virus go inside the house get scared return back to usa and spread the joy in your apartment building br br it's not that difficult to follow but you just don't really care about anyone the plot line is slim to none and you have many scene in this movie where you just laugh and shake your head milk anyone i saw ju on 2 at the fantasia movie festival last summer different story completely but much better than this dud it's not a remake but this time maybe they should have simply done a remake br br if you must see it wait for the dvd
0	hey the grudge 2 what up man i have a friend i would like you to meet the grudge 2 meet johnny's worst of 2006 list johnny's worst of 2006 list meet the grudge 2 br br what's going on here i was under the impression that this was supposed to be a sequel to the grudge rather than a remake if that's the case then why does it do nothing but rehash the original this floater doesn't even feel like a movie it's just a 90 minute soundtrack of the weird chick making that annoying croaking sound br br a sound on which i'd recommend you not get me started it was kind of creepy the first time i heard it but i've heard it about 12 times since 2004 so it's pretty much run its course and it's made even more annoying by the 20 people in the audience who thought it'd be funny to imitate the sound whenever there was a quiet spot in the movie sigh br br folks you're not funny so just shut up i promise you every single time that a character was walking slowly through an empty room which is approximately 97 of the movie somebody in the audience would start it up yes i know that's a horrible way to replicate the sound with letters but you get the gist so then some dude in the audience would giggle and not to be outdone deliver his own rendition i was very close to just walking through the audience and punching random people br br i told you not to get me started br br there's absolutely nothing about the grudge 2 that i can recommend there's not a single original scare or idea in the entire film there's not one memorable acting performance are you a sarah michelle gellar fan enjoy her two minutes of screen time and one line of dialogue are you an amber tamblyn fan i hope you can deal with the fact that she's given nothing more to do than walk around looking like she's suffering from a pinched nerve can you believe the story if you can call it that is even worse than the br br at least the original was fairly creepy and boasted a few effective jump scenes i didn't jump once during this yeah i made the word up deal with it that's right not a single time the scares are so manufactured and they are so blatantly telegraphed that there is absolutely no shock value once the gotcha moment arrives watching this movie is like playing a good game of chess you're always four or five scenes ahead br br there are also some weird scenes thrown in that make no sense whatsoever one that immediately comes to mind is a scene where a girl drinks a gallon of milk and then begins to regurgitate it back into the jug huh i say huh the audience laughed i shook my head and sighed there was a lot of that during the movie laughing sighing head shaking falling asleep i did twice br br the movie even makes a 1 5th hearted attempt at a plot twist wow it's so bad that i don't think we should even dignify it by labeling it a twist did they really think anybody would be surprised at the revelation of who was hiding under the hoodie please it was as shocking as elton john coming out of the closet br br and of course the ending goes the whole non closure look we might have another sequel route as soon as the credits rolled the audience booed my sentiments exactly had the audience paid money for this turd burger then things would have most likely gotten violent and i would've gladly led the charge br br we learned from the grudge that there's a japanese belief that when someone dies in a powerful grip of rage then a curse is left behind much like a ben affleck movie it's a stain that forever becomes a part of the place where the death occurred well in the grudge 2 we learn that when a horror movie covers its budget during its opening weekend then its sequel will be rushed out and more often than not it will be as bad as this and will leave a stain on any theater where the movie shows br br the gist br br if you're a total wimp and never saw the grudge then this might provide a few cheap scares but i strongly recommend saving your money otherwise there's a good chance you'll be the one walking out of the theater with a grudge
0	what a tedious turgid boring mess this is a classic example of all that is wrong with contemporary english theater film about as exciting as a closet full of dirty socks the very opposite of living film only the presence of joanne whalley gives it any spark
0	i finally rented this video after searching for it for many months initially i only wanted to see it because i'm an out and out neil pearson fan patrick boyfriend of isobel the lead however the movie stands up very well without neil although he handles himself very well in this movie he is overshadowed by the three main female characters it's an eerie intense movie the sort the brits do so well definitely a chick flick the house and it's isolated setting giving the movie an almost wuthering heights aura the movie is full of tension and the ending shocking yet somehow inevitable i'm glad i watched it it was worth the wait
0	there's nothing new in this movie nothing you haven't thought about before nothing you haven't heard before the story of a gay man who is brutally murdered in a small town and the reaction of people can be broached in many ways and this movie has chosen the most demagogic and slushy one one of the biggest flaws in this movie is that it isn't neither a movie nor a documentary the director has used the of the original interviews and made the actors play them as if it was a movie the result is weird and finally i read in previous comments that stated that people who don't like this movie are anti gay i'm pretty sure this comments come from people who consider themselves tolerant but don't tolerate that other people don't like this movie this is a funny world
0	this film infuriated me for the simple fact that it was made only because shepherd was gay the men who murdered him are clearly wicked what happened to the poor man was truly horrible and a tragedy however where was hollywood when four religious white kids were executed after being forced to perform a host of sex acts on their killers and each other by two evil black men in wichita just two years ago the celebrities only mug for the camera when it serves a political purpose also laramie is portrayed in a poor light by this pseudo documentary which of course is hardly surprising because they are the backward hicks who must be educated by omniscient and enlightened californians still it's always a treat to see laura linney
0	throughout this movie i kept thinking why on earth did they make this as a documentary yet not include real footage of the people who were interviewed sure it would have been just like any other documentary but then it would have been up to the film makers to find the meaning for the movie to deliver br br using a host of well known movie stars many of whom apparently asked to be in it to portray real people gave me the feeling that there was a pre determined message to be delivered and the director was so intent on it that real people couldn't be trusted so actors and rehearsed scenes were used yes i know this was also a play but a documentary should be a documentary i really found myself getting put off by the various stars and kept expecting one of them to drop character for a moment and say i'm a good person because i'm in this br br this movie could have had a much more powerful social commentary had it been more objective or let us see matthew shepard and his murderers as people rather than symbols the much superior boys don't cry had an unflinching view of those involved good and bad instead the laramie project gives an almost relentless lecture that someone's sexuality should be accepted regardless and little else
0	this screened at sundance last night to a receptive if mute crowd clearly the story is worth relating it's powerful and true but did the director have to cast every single role with a recognizable face i mean really you spend have your time saying oh look it's the guy from or hey it's easy rider and you lose sight of the story perhaps it's the only way this guy could get his movie made but it's a little distracting sort of like 'the love boat or those old towering inferno movies that were o' block with stars ' i wish he's just told the story simply with less famous faces also the camera work seems kind of lazy like there wasn't any thought about where to put the camera to best tell the story all in all i thought it was okay but could have been really good
0	i was in this movie as an extra in the dallas filming in july 1975 some of the things you see today and take for granted in movie making were implemented in this movie the movie premise the costumes the special effects the acting it all was ahead of its time it opened the door for movies such as star wars the terminator the matrix and x men movies now people look at it and they say well this does not add up to this new special effects story it did not have any computer graphics and such as the new movies do these days it did have a story and a wonderful cast and a hell of a director the places it was filmed like the world trade center and the building and the ft worth water gardens were at that time the most modern and futuristic backdrops in which to film the director michael anderson was very creative and he tried to show a perfect future that was flawed by human desires and it was my first film experience the first of six films i have been in just because it was filmed in texas does not make it any less a wonderful piece of filmmaker's art watch it again and appreciate it more this movie was the foundation that set the standard for many great films that we now enjoy well my hand is blinking i got to run awaits
0	i find herzog's documentary work to be very uneven fata morgana a companion piece of sorts to lessons of darkness lacks not only the harrowing spectacle but mostly the discerning eye of an author it is by comparison amateur looking aimless pans left and right across the desert the kind of which you would expect from any german tourist equipped with a handycam the camera left running from the window of a car picking up all kinds of meaningless images wire fences derelict buildings and patches of dirt going through the lens in haphazard order intercut with shots of sand dunes at one point herzog encounters a group of starved cattle rotting away in the sand yet the image is presented much like you and me would perhaps worse the camera peering hand held from one cattle to the next for a documentary that attempts to be a visual feast a hypnotic surreal excursion in uncharted landscapes it lacks the visual orchestration and conviction of a disciplined author it's all over the place half hearted and tedious mayan creation myths recited in voice over then some other text herzog fancied for literature it's not until near the end that fata morgana jumps alive through a series of bizarre encounters first with a man and a woman playing music in a room the man singing in a distorted voice through a mic both of them apathetic in their task a man holding up a turtle a group of old people trying to get out of some holes in the ground other than that this one seems to have very little of substance to offer or visual splendor to offer
0	everything this film tried to do is done better and superbly in run lola run the red haired hip cutie the critical deadline s the lover in jeopardy and the crime pays sometimes message but unlike lola it just isn't believable or well put together it is a labored knock off that might have worked for me if i had seen it before lola but it pales in comparison yes the falling beetle was nice but that was about the only surprise in the film do yourself a favor and see the real mccoy and the real hip red head in run lola run
0	help i've ended up in cinema hell what a completely stupid film this is really nothing is good about it br br let's spit it out br br 1 the story is incredibly far fetched an anti eu terrorist group is chasing a bunch of guys who drive around western europe carrying a delivery of see through bags full of pills and the worst thing is they are serious about it br br 2 the level of acting should put great shame on all faces involved br br 3 some money eyed guy decided to let every one talk english so that the international market would catch on ugliest advertising ever the french and dutch native tongues talking smart make all but sense and the result is laughable br br 4 the soundtrack is totally misplaced and ill chosen br br 5 the camera edit and effects work is supposed to be of some post noir road movie kind of style but is hardly worth some thing and not meant to accompany this story read anti story br br 6 maas the hero of never fails to convince a true actor usually i would give an extra point just for the sake of him being around but no sorry not this time i would just not forgive my self
0	if this movie is coming to a theater near you consider it a threat i was unfortunate enough to see this movie here in tokyo since i'm dutch i was surprised to find a dutch movie playing in a metropole like tokyo is i figured it had to be of special if a dutch movie makes it all the way to japan so i went there with some friends and we were happily telling the theater's staff that we were dutch and that we were so curious about the movie as it turned out this was one of the most infantile silly dumb worst acted with worst spoken english movie i've seen in maybe 10 years and i left the theater trying to avoid the staff because feeling almost responsible for this disaster movie sometimes you get the feeling you know what the director was aiming for lola rennt trainspotting kind of like movie instead it was more like macgyver on drugs with outdated music as a score but if i wasn't feeling too annoyed the movie was unintentionally quite hilarious once in a while as it showed holland at its smallest
0	this is a road movie at least the movie is in yellow i think that suggests a road movie i can't say much positive about the delivery it's bad acting certainly their english camera looks like it is done by a kid there's a bomb with counter and suddenly a beetle is falling from the sky since it was so cliche we actually the whole time and that was the most fun of the movie this movie should be released in america but i'm not sure you should go because that might suggest that is the quality we produce the explosions look boring basically everything is over the top everything is just too much the yellow quality the sound the babe etc find all the cliche part in other movies put them together and you have the delivery
0	i was looking forward to this movie i like road trip thrillers i like sex drugs youth action and a great sound track and i was especially interested in taking the movie trip across europe to see if i recognized any of my own travel spots br br from the first scene however this movie was unwatchable what was guy doing driving on the wrong side of the road what could possibly have blown up the van that rolled gracefully down a shallow incline if they're such bad drivers why would they take a delivery job and that's just the first scene not even bad enough to be campy or silly just horrible horrible horrible waste of time move on to something anything else
0	i'm just filling this comment out because i couldn't stand the fact that a positive comment was featured on the complete information page i really think this to be the worst movie ever made in my country this is not only because of the terrible plot the crappy english and a tension curve that is as flat as our country no it is because this was a serious attempt to make a good action movie conform the hollywood standard it had to be the european action movie of the year for this purpose they even hired van huet actor in the academy award winning picture to do the job i don't mind bad films i can even enjoy them if they are b movies but i can't stand movies that are terrible but supposed to be a type movies
0	i really hoped for the best with this one but it just didn't happen financed at a very non dutch manner and still looking great with a style and pace that's very much like hollywood what i don't understand is how with all these great benefits the director writer producer still managed to make this film a completely horrible picture to watch filled with bad jokes cheap nudity and actors that just can't really talk act in the english language for pulling it off but what was this guy thinking
0	contain spoilers these guys are total scam they did the lost scrolls of judas saying judas was a huge friend of jesus and now this this is clearly a tryout to destroy a religion and should be illegal they have no proof it could be clearly a setup how can we know and trust these people what if they carved the tomb and said so and at the end they seal the tomb forever so no one can go there investigate how stupid they think we are really are we supposed to trust that they are trustworthy people who really found a tomb of jesus and how can you stab all the christians like this i think this documentary should never be made by a non religious man it can only be made by a christian and i mean the direction and script it should be illegal for jews to film a christian related documentary specially if the documentary makes accusations about jesus not being a son of god who resurrected nothing against this they could be buddhists or atheists anything but catholic br br to me this is a total hoax a pure documentary scam they sealed the tomb so people wouldn't think about checking things out this documentary is a total failure how stupid they think the christian people are and what about the lost pages of judas that was a total scam as well they seriously said at the end something like we know a few people that could do a fake scrolls just like these and no one would know it was a fake oh my god they just said it dude we might have done these this kind of documentary should be illegal it is a stabbing on all christians and catholics they should be behind bars i am not a fanatic i am an ex jew now but i have and will always respect others people religion the part when israel orders the tomb to be sealed forever was precious precious
0	the theatrics and the drama included in the movie is fantastic but the facts and the research is far from solid when quoting dr where the documentary tries to establish a connection to mary magdalene from dr later clarifies it should be used for literary purposes ie fables of that time not for a historical figure in fact he states he does not believe the ossuary in is mary magdalene he further comments on his public letter that he was not informed that his words would be used for this documentary but rather for information regarding acts of philip a literary work in the 4th century br br so what we have here is a director that took one clip for a 4th century acts of philip fantasy and used it specifically to support a 1st century ossuary inscription a very sad stretch and dr calls the jesus mary magdalene connection as science fiction as this documentary should be rightly labeled
0	this glorified discovery channel documentary part biblical study part treasure hunt all might have sat well in it's television origins but falls flat as a feature film right from first glance of it's cheesy looking cover art one may cast doubts upon the integrity behind this serious subject shown on front case the search for jesus's tomb to a generic action font that looks more national treasure or tomb raider then any informed debate and examination of the historical burial site should such is the underhanded way in which the entire proceedings revolve br br more curious child then worthy researcher explorations come across as self indulgent while his research comes across as manipulative for all the fascinating revelations this filmmaker tries to impart on his viewers through supposed evidence a flood of repetitious statements reiterating the same research and findings over and over proves the lost tomb of jesus has very little information to back up the bloated albeit entrancing claims what this amounts to is a very frustrating attempt to beat the audience over the head with the same small factual evidence in support of this authenticity which ironically detracts from it while tirelessly linking together many of these mini coffins found together to support the jesus of nazareth theory this research a well rounded approach to continuously pursue this romanticized archeologist's singular obsession there may be some impressive factual data which helps shed some light on many traditional dogmatic christian held beliefs but essentially the shady nature of this project made it come across as merely an exploitation piece financed at a time when the da vinci code was all the rage br br in the end the cheesy cover art was right despite my appreciation for documentary form the lost tomb of jesus takes an always interesting topic and turns it into overlong and geriatric adventure hunt substituting any relevance and sacredness for the uninspired motivations behind this team by the time these tomb raiders have finished their explorations reluctantly having to stop research because of social demands viewers are left with the sense the director was insistent on forging this mystery whether it was there to begin with or not there are a few genuinely potent moments where the halls of history come marching through this documentary in unassuming ways but all the decoding exploring and theorizing in the world still left this misguided vanity piece in an uneasy void of apathetic response
0	people stranded in a country house during a storm discover that the home was the sight of an unsolved murder years before during a dinner discussion of the incident the lights go out and when they come back on they discover that one of the guests has been killed fearing for their lives the guests attempt to find out the secrets behind the death before others can occur according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br there are a couple of clever twists in this murder at the old dark house story with the play within a play being its most interesting feature however the direction is rather ordinary which serves to highlight a certain cheapness of production like most movies of this type there is or should be an ensemble of intriguing characters herein only old time broadway producer richard carle as herman wood and his fey secretary johnny arthur as homer maintain interest br br the ghost walks 12 1 34 frank r strayer richard carle johnny arthur john miljan
0	this film was strongly recommended by a friend and being a great fan of brando i ordered this film from harrods and eagerly waited for it to arrive i have seldom been so disappointed by a film brando was good as a german officer but the rest of the film was simply unbearable you never get to like or care for any of the characters except brando maybe the acting was ok story what story maybe that's the point it's war after all but i've seen far better war films lawrence of arabia apocalypse now even star wars it was so boring i kept checking my watch br br overall this is one of the worst films i have seen please don't waste your time and money on this may i also add that this is the first user comment i have written i just had to let my feelings about this film known br br by the way my all time favourites are casablanca the godfather 1 2 one flew over the cuckoo's nest pulp fiction and amadeus if you haven't seen them yet please spare the time to do so and amadeus must be in widescreen 2 35 1
0	after the book i became very sad when i was watching the movie i am agree that sometimes a film should be different from the original novel but in this case it was more than acceptable some examples br br 1 why the ranks are different e g lt instead of sergeant etc br br 2 the final screen is very poor and makes as a soldier who feds up himself and wants to die but it is not true in 100 just read the book he was a bull dog in the last seconds as well he did not want to die by wrecking his gun and walking simply towards to michael noah br br so this is some kind of a happy end which does not fit at all for this movie
0	this is a fine concept piece and the acting by brando is a fine piece of work dean martin isn't bad and montgomery clift is quite good as well unfortunately it's a very disjointed very long piece that really should have been edited down to something closer to 2 hours it's almost 3 hours br br we follow the lives of 3 men from 1938 through the end of wwii and watch as they discover who they are and what they might become as they discover both the world about them and what they're made of for some it's the women in their lives that brings about this realization for others it's the broader general circumstances all too often however i found myself asking what had just happened or what the import of a particular scene was
0	this is a textbook example of how hollywood didn't doesn't trust moviegoers and panders to its big name stars the character of christian is completely re written the anti semitism noah faces from his own army unit is virtually eliminated michael's story is changed significantly and the end result is to decimate the power and terrible beauty of the book i almost wish i hadn't even seen it because of the ability of movies sounds and images to resonate so powerfully in your brain i would have much rather just been left with the impression of the book the book could have been written today it is that honest and brave the movie neither my advice skip the movie read the book
0	films like this infuriate me simply because they don't deserve the funding that enables them to end up in my dvd player this movie is ambiguous in its jacket blurb and even more impenetrable in its casting choices why is ms song a romantic interest did they just want an asian woman in there or does her unconvincingly wise character actually lend this message movie's story a fresh perspective one has very little to go on in approaching this film and even less as the story unfolds but a good hour into the proceedings i realized the dull casting is all the casting agent could dredge up the unconvincing character studies are the result of writers' brain fart and the story is amorphous and plagued by unsubtle references to the woes of capitalism materialism and getting ahead in the postmodern world towards the end of this film just before i nodded off and missed the last two minutes i got the sense that everything's gone green is a product of connections in the world of film someone with very little talent knew someone with very little directorial skill knew someone with absolutely no marketing sense but plenty of disposable ego and out popped this dull and inefficient attempt at whimsy and humor with a conscience nonsense and this is what is most maddening how many infinitely better scripts were passed over in favor of this almost unwatchable tripe skip this film and feel good about yourself for doing so
0	i liked some of the characters but our lead relied too heavily on a charming smile i didn't care two about him he makes bad choices and i really didn't care since he did not seem to either he seemed rather unintelligent there were a couple of moments that provided a chance at some human insight the scene with the whale was interesting but these are lost in the general malaise of the film the love interest was acceptable and the other various characters were mildly interesting but the plot meanders around too much and left me wanting at many points in the film in the end i wondered why i stayed so long br br there are some tepidly humorous moments but ultimately i did not care i cannot fathom rating the film higher 3 of 10
0	i saw bits and pieces of this on tv once and when a friend recommended it i began looking for it even though it seemed no place nearby had it i finally got a hold of it in an antique store and couldn't wait to watch it oh that i had seen it a couple years earlier and could've really enjoyed it i was surprised that this movie was only 80 or so minutes long and i think this is what made the plot and story so lacking the plot really does sound like a good one both on the trailer and the movie comments a teenager angus jesse bradford and his newfound stray lab yellow are marooned on an island during a storm on a boat trip with his father bruce davison together they manage to survive the wilderness and wait to be found and rescued still what is never mentioned is that everything is shortened and the events of the plot are very rushed there is a possible love interest between angus and sara but they're never shown together for more than a moment yellow is a mischievous dog the parents are reluctant to keep but in a few days he seems to be appreciated enough to join a boat trip the scene of the mother mimi rogers mentioning vaguely what death is like to the younger boy joel palmer doesn't go anywhere in no time we learn that 9 days have been spent on the island then suddenly it's 14 then 19 of all the animals a castaway could be exposed to in the wild only 1 kind a wolf attacks them why couldn't something else have been a problem instead of having the same type of animal maybe even the same one strike twice there are few views of how angus prepares food except when he discovers fruit and roots and when he a trapped rat if he knows so much about survival skills why weren't more scenes with it shown the one thing that made me blank was why the dog didn't have much part alone when he is rescued and the dog is left behind on the island there is no scene showing how he survives without a human's help i wished i was more open to this when watching it but i did enjoy some of this the acting was good and the score was enjoyable though i found myself wondering why the father looked so much older than his family and why he and the main search and rescue conductor share names this is a good movie for kids but though the protagonist is 14 nobody over 10 would be interested with this
0	'book ii' isn't a film it's a sermon this nauseating sickly and almost unbearably tedious misfire probably works as religious propaganda but has no entertainment value beyond a few wisecracks from george burns plays a little girl who is asked by ahem god to mount an advertising campaign that will get people to believe in him again no really that is the story it's a leaden load of old cobblers that has far too much self justifying religious waffle but barely any decent dialogue and certainly a total absence of anything even approaching magic or charm 'miracle on 34th street' this ain't suzanne pleshette breathes a bit of life into this rancid puddle of quick setting concrete but the pudding headed script and rubbish performance by the irksome quickly send this one down to the fiery depths of you know where
0	oh god book ii is more of a bad remake of the original than a sequel to it it is not all that funny its plot plays too much br br like a rejected situation comedy pilot and the use of the slogan think god is a different variation on the idea that worked so much better in the original john denver had not returned for this movie and that made a big difference george burns as br br wonderful as he was playing god does not have the same chemistry with the little girl that he did with john denver br br i would give this movie a rating of 3 out of 10 but only for br br george burns the rest of the cast is nothing special br br if you loved the first one don't bother to see this one
0	george burns returns as the almighty after enjoying a big success with 1977's oh god an upbeat fantasy made successful by a sudden need in the 1970s to switch from devil driven thrillers to comedic redemption although it made money the original was more in line with the topper comedies of the '30s than a return to feel good religious cinema here god appears to a young girl who had earlier starred in a stage production of annie and asks her to spread his divine word causing her nothing but trouble from grown ups in the process peculiar family oriented film appears to be warm hearted enough and burns gets to chime in with a nice barrage of wry jibes but the writing is half slapstick and half seriousness with the adults of the piece considering putting little away all of which makes god seem more like a troublemaker than an elderly friend is another problem a perky kid with wizened little eyes she is untrained for screen acting and occasionally seems awkward the medium budget production has a tv movie appearance with few graceful touches the final scene mimics the climax of the first oh god in that it brings a wistful sentiment to the mix which is welcomed it's the most subtle moment in the movie from
0	of all of the post 1985 perry mason movies i have seen this one is my least favorite br br i confess i have never liked diana muldaur as an actress she only seems to know how to play one type of character a hard bitten career woman with some undefined chip on her shoulder who for that reason is extremely difficult to in any way sympathize with this one is no exception it runs true to form br br the only thing that saves this movie in my opinion is an earnest performance by scott baio as the prosecutor i actually found myself rooting for him to win and the movie is worth seeing for him alone
0	grim instead of amusing mean spirited instead of playful boring instead of interesting it won't give you the willies but it just may gross you out or send you to sleep and it will certainly make you wonder what were they thinking 1 2
0	the willies starts late one night as brother's josh joshua miller kyle jason horst are camping outside with their cousin michael sean astin they decide to pass the time by telling scary stories br br first up is michael with a story entitled 'bad in which a young boy named danny hollister ian fried is bullied at school however the sinister new janitor mr jenkins james karen decides to help him out br br next up is kyle as he tells a strange story called in which an overweight bully with a worrying fascination with dead flies gets what he deserves in a horrible twisted way br br written directed by brian peck the willies didn't do much for me i doubt it'll do much for you either the script is strange as far as episodic anthologies go instead of the usual three or four stories it only has two main tales a few bizarre 'urban type mini scenes at the start these consist of the person who orders food from a fast food restaurant only to find a dead rat in her chicken a man who dies of a heart attack on a ride someone who tries to dry her poodle off in the microwave only for it to explode i have no idea what the purpose of these scenes are but they add nothing to the film as for the two main stories they are both weak for a start they are too long which is a huge mistake in these types of films usually the stories in anthologies are short sharp quick with a nice twist at the end usually involving people getting what they deserved however in the willies the stories last for the best part of 40 minutes each which is longer than the average tv episode i must admit i found both stories very boring they have very little going for them seem to be aimed at children the first story is the better to watch as a whole but it has no twist ending as far as i could see while the second one has a nice 'just ending but the build up to it is weak drawn out for no good reason i really like horror anthology films so the willies comes as a disappointment frankly it lets the genre down br br director peck was obviously working on a low budget as a whole the willies is pretty tough to sit through there's plenty of continuity errors it's poorly made there's no atmosphere there's no scares there's no gore the special effects are poor it features unnecessary shots of a dirty toilet several times overall it's a pretty unappealing film to sit through br br technically the willies is rough around the edges to say the least the effects are far from special it has an extremely drab grainy look to the picture the acting is poor no ones going to win any awards thats for sure br br the willies is a poor film it's not scary it's not fun it's not entertaining it only features two overlong stories definitely not recommended
0	this movie starts out with kids telling each other urban legends such as the poodle in the microwave and getting something extra at a chicken place unfortunately it then turns to your basic anthology movie the first being about a janitor with a bit of a secret this one is okay at best then it gets worse as the next story about this kid obsessed with dead flies is on and it goes on and on and on it is way to long and not all that interesting to begin with after that you get the typical shock scene and it ends you need more than this in an anthology movie you need at least three stories and one shouldn't be so long it becomes dreadfully uninteresting especially considering you can see how it is going to end a mile away
0	you gotta be a fan of the little man but i found burlesque on carmen dull unimaginative and totally not funny br br chaplin is retelling the story of carmen and plays a big role himself as don jose it's a story about men and the women they love although it's unclear why one would love such a woman as carmen as she is playing the men against each other br br as i said i didn't think much of it chaplin made dozens and dozens of better movies so you can leave this one on the br br oh and i'm curious what the difference is between this movie and the 1915 version or is it just an imdb mistake br br on the whole 3 10
0	this is a awful re make of a very good movie called up in the air starring frankie mantan moreland and marjorie reynolds i was only able to get through about 20 minutes before turning it off almost all the lines are identical i have no idea why they would re do the movie i totally disagree with a previous post that dislikes the songs there the same also in the original the singing is first rate i'm not sure if marjorie reynolds actually did her own singing it's hard to tell since the vocals were usually added later and the songs are very good surprising in a b movie if you get the chance see the original it's available on dvd you'll be pleasantly surprised
0	this is a bottom of the barrel type of b film from one of the poverty row studios monogram in the mid '40s the kind that filled out a double bill br br only reason i watched was to see what jackie moran was like in a leading role as a page boy at a radio station who attempts to solve a murder he played phil in gone with the wind only two years earlier and this was one of his last teen aged roles he's no mickey rooney br br the script is as hapless as the production values and is full of cliché ridden situations with a cast of uniformly untalented individuals wanda mckay is the girl who is discovered by a radio producer and sidney miller is the nerdy friend of the hero who's afraid of his own shadow br br mercifully it's over in an hour when the murder is solved after a round up of all the suspects terribly overacted the only quiet performance of any interest is given by jon as tex the cowboy but he bites the dust after too brief an appearance br br there are several songs but all of them are forgettable as are the lame jokes and dialog
0	i'll admit that this isn't a great film it practically screams low budget yet oddly i still found myself liking the film because although it lacked quality it abounded with energy it was like the little engine that could and a movie merged into one br br the film takes place at a radio network and concerns some of their low level employees two page boys one very pushy and brash and the other one a wuss as well as a new receptionist all three have visions of radio stardom but must for now content themselves with their lowly jobs br br into this story appears a murder that seems somewhat out of the blue i didn't know that this was a murder mystery film and was taken a bit by surprise however like most b mysteries the cops are and it's up to our pushy hero moran to try to save the day throughout all this i had a hard time deciding if moran was obnoxious or endearing i'm still not sure br br there is a moment in the film that is high on the factor' and that is when the two pages try out for the roles of radio comedians they show up in black face and do a 3rd or 4th rate imitation of amos n' andy apart from being very insensitive it also wasn't funny fortunately the producer of the show they were trying out for seemed to feel the same way br br overall it's easy to skip this film and i wouldn't blame you if you do however the weird and frenetic pace of the film actually seemed to make up for the artistic deficiencies of the film and i am glad i saw it a good film no but one that is still worth a peek for fans of old bs br br by the way perhaps i just don't have very good taste but i thought both female singing divas really had poor voices despite how everyone in the film is captivated by their listen for yourself and let me know what you think i just couldn't believe either was allowed to sing on film even if it was just for lowly monogram studios
0	two page boys working at a radio network go from trying to solve murders to performing in black face in between work shifts jack moran and sidney miller star in this whodunnit from 1945 lots of fast talking everybody yells at everybody and the two page boys call the police detective marty played by ralph sanford it's a real at 59 minutes and it has the feel of being adapted from a play since it mostly takes place in a radio station soundstage we don't really care about any of the characters which is probably why its hardly ever shown no big deal this was phil second film as director we're not given any clues as to who might be knocking people off so we just kind of follow the police detective and the page boys as they all try to solve the mystery first i'll say no more so as not to give away any spoilers
0	yes it takes a norwegian to ruin and slaughter two great books and a concept that would work well on film this film truly is the worst swedish film of all time i hated it so badly that i even considered walking out on it something i have never done but it was so awful i was almost compelling i just had to sit through to the end much like some early 80's stallone action reel this one really takes swedish action back to the stone age so full of logical errors and stupid mistakes it is almost amusing but who could ever see anything good in the terrible acting mark hamill's surviving a mine field or the dumb ass useless and irrational action br br let me ask you aren't we through with clocks ticking down to zero the hero escaping in the nick of time and two friends become enemies reuniting by the end stupid br br and one more thing the product placement in this film is unbelievable while other countries have understood that it shouldn't be so obvious the swedish film industry apparently hasn't understood at all just look at the credit card hamilton uses to open a window or or or this film really makes me mad
0	this is without doubt the worst film in the hamilton saga and the worst actor to do carl hamilton peter stormare just cant pull it off with his psychotic looks and no style at all he may be good to do killers and psychotic maniacs like in fargo or 8mm but in this type of roles he is just useless br br lena olin's presence did no use for this film she couldnt save it from being what it is an americanized copy of big budget action movies like goldeneye die hard 3 broken arrow etc this film has nothing swedish in it but the actors its clear that some upstart director with as model director has made this br br mark hamill's presence is only laughable 2 out of 10
0	despite the fact that the plot follows the well known recipe of who did it which has characterised all the perry mason movies so far the characters of the present film are not so well developed and the selected cast fails to give them flesh and blood of course in general the perry mason movies are not significant but even for their low standards this one is weak
0	this film just doesn't work no two ways about it i saw it for the first time back in '98 when it was released and i didn't like it i just bought it on sale a couple of days ago 'cause i thought hell i'll give it a try i don't regret for the money i put out for hamilton but the fact remained the same this movie is pointless dull and uninteresting br br stormare is usually a delight but that's when he's making films in the us back home he doesn't do the trick sure the movie is well made if you forget the odd stock footage but in the end the only thing that really lifts hamilton above one star garbage is hamill's turn as the bad guy hawkins he seriously has fun with the character and is also responsible for the only two good moments in the movie swedish intelligence huh now there's a contradiction in terms and when he allows hamilton to have a word or two with his wife over the phone towards the end of the flick and that's really pretty much it br br
0	if this is the best commander hamilton movie i have no curiosity about the others br br a movie actor's greatest tools are his eyes but when peter stormare wants to show great emotion he closes his so for five or six seconds we get to admire his eyelids while his feelings remain unknown behind them lousy acting technique br br stormare also flinches sometimes when he fires a gun turning his head away and his eyes shut watch carefully james bond can rest easy with competition like this br br there are some interesting supporting performances from other actors but not enough to hang a whole movie on the cinematography is good looking doing a fine job of capturing the nordic cold even the sahara winds up looking cold perhaps hamilton carries his own climate with him br br there are some individual good action sequences here unfortunately the only sense of humor on screen belongs to the villain which turns the hero into a big pill james bond's jokes may not be particularly good but at least he doesn't look constipated all the time br br one positive point in the movie's favor is that the psychotic contorted vicious hatred of israel in books has been left out what has been kept in is worship of a noble heroic plo that he shows us functioning in libya without the dictator knowledge or supervision this fantasy is hard to believe since actually threw the plo out of libya for four years at a time and at the end of the film hamilton gives the plo a very disturbing gift where will they use that gift hamilton doesn't care br br we're a long long way away from for whom the bell tolls here br br commander hamilton will remain a local phenomenon while books sell well around the world jan will never have the same success br br as for this film
0	another example that we should stay away from trying to do spectacular action movies in sweden it doesn´t work except for still unsurpassed stormare does the best he can i suppose and some scenes are mildly effective but the plot is full of holes why does hamilton continue the attack on the base knowing that his wife is held hostage it was fun to see mark hamill but his bad guy part was very underwritten i´m constantly amazed that relatively big swedish movies like this get made without a sensible functioning script 1 out of 5
0	this movie changes its way a third of the way in its totally pointless boring and stupid i hated this movie so much that i will never watch it again some bad films can be really funny this is just a british art house picture that should never of been made 1 out of 10
0	i am still not sure what the hell this movie is about i guess the boy was afraid of becoming blind and began imagining all sorts of strange things this does not explain why he wanted to kill his new baby brother however or the unrelenting boredom found within this film while watching this movie you will wish you were blind so you did not have to see this experiment in futility skip this steaming pile and opt for anything else at the video store anything else
0	i would not be giving away too much of the film to tell you that there are many many many many scenes of lucas the young protagonist walking and looking at things yep and you'll be happy to know that the first third of the movie is pointless meaningless and pretty much ignored for the rest of the film br br this movie is populated by dull people who do dull things and the dullest person of them all is young lucas who is going blind and needs an operation you see he has delusions terrible delusions he thinks a killer is preying on blind women he walks around a lot and acts like an insufferable jerk br br patience does not pay off with this film by the end the plot and events are just as confusing and lethargic and it is very hard to care one way or the other about what any of the nightmarish images meant nothing is made clear the film moves at a snail's pace and it left me with the same effects of a hangover br br judging from afraid of the dark the british don't make stupid thrillers like the americans do they make boring ones
0	afraid of the dark left me with the impression that several different screenplays were written all too short for a feature length film then spliced together clumsily into this frankenstein's monster br br at his best the protagonist lucas is creepy as hard as it is to draw a bead on the secondary characters they're far more sympathetic br br afraid of the dark could have achieved mediocrity had it taken just one approach and seen it through and had it made lucas simply psychotic and confused instead of ghoulish and off putting i wanted to see him packed off into an asylum so the rest of the characters could have a normal life
0	there's not that much to say in the end one would have expect much more from a director who made way better movies in the past it just seems like he did it without actually caring the actors are doing their job though belmondo is far from amazing but you just don't get hooked in a word it's boring this is even more disappointing since i heard several time that this movie could be considered as a reaction to all the big american blockbusters which are considered to be a threaten to the french exception by those who just can't admit they should turn to another job i tell you if that's the best reaction we're supposed to get boy i'm going to be really depressed soon
0	let me get started with a terrible storyline and an awful control system good animation but not too good graphics that is why i'm giving this game 4 of 10 this game really needs an improvement if you ask me i would remake it and make this control system better so jaws is not so damn hard to control if i made it to improve it i would make those graphics look better than on the movie it will drive anyone crazy when you are getting killed so freaking easy i played this and got killed by a diver when he had one of those flick knives in 2 hits the dolphins will kill you so much that the shark will be begging to go to the bottom of hell this game sucks some fat ass sorry about all the cussing i think i'm done now it just that this game sucks so bad that it should be taken off the store's shelf i dare you to play the garbage and you will probably get so mad by dieing so easy so don't play it
0	the creators of this movie must have sat down one day and said let's make fun of the russians and at the same time show people how advanced we americans are the movie portrays the russians as an inferior people who are unable to understand the brilliant ideas put forward by the americans it is true that american campaigns are probably more professional and more based on expensive studies than campaigns in any other countries are however this movie goes to far and it exaggerates the differences between east and west to me it looked like a propaganda movie made during the cold war
0	this movie was recommended to me by some academics from their comments i had some pretty lofty expectations but this movie was nothing but disappointing the aim of the director is obvious to use an interweaving of speeches poems as a way to argue against the bush doctrine but the director fails miserably at this also i seriously question the director's choice of main character it's a bum who is definitely not worthy of being heard the rise of corporation power so what most importantly this movie gets a failing score in its persuasive power it's clearly intended for those who've already formed their opinions it's true that the movie's aesthetics are quite pleasing but pretty much everything else in the movie simply sucks
0	ok everybody is so enthused by this film i hardly dare add a negative review but i just did not enjoy this movie br br i have to say first i saw the film in russian language overdub so i will have missed some dialog but not much br br nice things first there are some hilarious moments the elvis impersonator for instance actors seem well casted also the russians is great and goldblum is very good which brings us to the downsides of this movie first of all there is hardly any story and the end we know already wins so no drama or suspense they tried to solve this problem with an emerging affair between the actors mentioned above but that story kind of evaporates br br more importantly the film does not represent reality the russians at the level of politics and society portrayed in this movie are not funny they are a serious and dangerous lot i am willing to believe that flying in some spin doctors from the states helped win his campaign but the real interesting questions that should be addressed are who financed the campaign what did they get in return how was the opposition handled apart from airing some commercials br br so what we have here is a film loosely based on reality but strangely avoiding anything that could make the film either historically relevant or just a very good political thriller without plot or subplot
0	when you read the comment on this film that it's smart and funny political comedy based on true events the only true word here is that it's a comedy if you're told it's insider movie about russian politics it's not there's probably only 2 in the movie from what really happened in russia during that election campaign in reality of the 1996 it was thousand times more interesting to follow the situation and that was a real funky election campaign well there were pr advisers from the us working in the staff but their role was just minimal the whole campaign was totally different from what is shown in the movie it would be much funnier showing all the president's people riding across the country with paper boxes full of cash and the celebrities giving the shows to support all over the place at least that would be true i give it three only because of the respect to jeff goldblum antony and liev schreiber and about the machine guns on the streets of moscow i was living in the place that had the highest amount of hard crime in russia in the middle of 90 s and never seen a man with the gun on the street
0	johnnie bert wheeler is a would be songwriter newton robert woolsey is a would be inventor both work at a cigar stand in the lobby of an office building johnnie wants to sell a song to winfield lake a song publisher who also owns the building lake's secretary mary betty grable is sweetheart when lake turns up dead circumstances conspire to make mary and newton think that johnnie is the killer they conspire again to implicate mary who goes to jail but who really shot lake who is the black widow the blackmailer who had threatened him the other characters in this wacky murder mystery are lake's suspicious wife a self satisfied private detective a seemingly slow witted janitor willie best lake's auditor a songwriter who thinks lake is stealing from him and another who thinks everyone is stealing from him it's up to newton and his truth machine to reveal the real killer br br the baby voiced wheeler and the cigar chomping woolsey strike me as an arbitrary pairing but they made several movies together in the 30s and some of them were funny br br not this one george stevens who went on to have a distinguished career directed this dismal comedy with a tedious murder mystery plot but two scenes are good and both feature wheeler and betty grable singing the excellent music in my heart written by dorothy fields and jimmy mchugh the first time they sing it walking up a staircase after which they dance back down later wheeler and woolsey are on stilts so that they can see and talk to mary who is in a jail cell on a high floor wheeler and grable sing to each other through the bars br br the nitwits has a few laughs but the level of comedy is best illustrated by woolsey's line sonny you've got the brain of a six year old boy and i'll bet even he was glad to get rid of it it's watered down didn't use the superfluous even when he said it
0	well don't bother this film looks so tired the acting is so old fashioned and the plot and characters so drab that it should be studied instead of watched it is really a horrible waste of film stereotypes clichés nonsense and amateurish film making i watched it in unbelievable awe with my mouth wide open how could such a film be made and more interestingly how could anyone find it funny or watchable old tired sloppy a junior high skit at best there is nothing watchable there except for a study of very ancient film not good film just ancient this is not abbott and costello or laurel and hardy this is nonsense the acting is so bad that maybe it is worth it to watch just for the laugh some films are so bad that they are good but this one goes all the way around the corner and back to bad again
0	ever have one of those sneezes that seems to build up forever you gasp and you and you grab the nearest paper product in preparation for the world's greatest hanky blower and then it fizzles frankenhooker was the cinematic equivalent of that lost sneeze now i'm big on b movies and i always look the other way when a boom mike pops onscreen or an actor speaks his or her lines with all the enthusiasm of gerald ford but this one really let me down the cover of the video for instance is the tag line of the whole movie using parts from murdered new york prostitutes dr franken rebuilds his deceased fiancee only to have her run amok in manhattan as a sort of with a bad attitude after an hour and a half of build up this fairly funny ten minutes seemed a little anti climactic
0	this showed up on a dvd a buddy of mine bought for me they had it listed as the savage guns which was an entirely different movie obviously the folks who packaged the dvd never bothered to look at what they were burning on the disk br br anyway this movie is about as bad as they come the sound track is a combination tv batman early james bond spaghetti western lots of galloping around to this music it appears that the guy has to gallop between scenes to burn up some time and give the sound track folks something to do br br english is dubbed over the italian and it really shows i wish it had been just a little bit worse and then it would have had some of the campy feel of the ed wood films as it is it is just plain awful
0	at it's core this is a fairly typical revenge western heavy on the spaghetti and if you follow it as such the protagonist comes through successfully defeating the main villain however there's so much going on that has no bearing on the story that you have to wonder what the film makers were thinking about i'm referring to stuff like the way miss singing number just pops up out of nowhere and the boxing match in the middle of town ok they have a loose connection to the influence villain mash has but why all of a sudden does he turn up with an alias mr donovan br br on the flip side i thought it was pretty innovative how the camera shot showing the wounded wallach's view of the trail might have been filmed by someone with an actual bullet in his shoulder and wasn't it great the way girl uses the old headache routine when he gets a little frisky don't let me forget either the great stunt work by the gravel pit bad guys as wallach guns them down as part of the finale br br still there was one thing unaccounted for and i kept waiting the entire movie for it whatever happened to that trio of hoods that donovan hires near the start of the picture you know the guy martel that a funeral parlor wanted to hire for his gun prowess the devil's henchman mitchell with the rifle and the knife thrower lincoln tate each had a five thousand dollar bounty on his head and they were supposed to protect donovan from the guy who survived the massacre of the opening scene they were never heard from again i like to think that maybe donovan just had them killed and kept the all for himself
0	savage guns video title is a dirt cheap bottom of the barrel spaghetti western in which the survivor of a massacre hunts the bandits who killed his brother and left him for dead catching up with them in a town controlled by their crooked boss br br despite plenty of violence this manages to be both dull and colorless with bad characterizations and almost no imagination or humor br br lead actor robert woods lives up to his name with a wooden and uncharismatic performance that fails to generate any warmth or sympathy whatsoever in other words the viewer never really roots for him despite the fact that he's the protagonist br br the worst scene in my opinion is the annoying dance hall scene where a woman sings in a heavy and terribly unsexy german accent it was the worst scene in blazing saddles and the worst one here
0	this is one of the films that killed the spaghetti western it not only loses something in the translation it is a total chaotic mess of editing as well either chunks of it have been edited out and or re edited for an english language version in any case it makes little or no sense period it makes the trinity and the eastwood man with no name films look like john ford john wayne by comparison nothing in this film is original somewhere in there is a beginning a middle and finally an end except for the end not everything is exactly in that order robert wood seems personable enough the rest of the cast especially the women should have made better career choices
0	this is the first film i've watched from the italian ed wood demofilo fidani aka miles deem the above title was added later on since there exists another similarly titled 1961 movie starring richard which was hammer films' michael one and only stab at the western the genuine italian title was originally translated as his name was sam but they called him it was actually wallach in the italian variant which of course implies a tribute of sorts to hollywood actor eli br br while certainly not unwatchably bad instances of clumsiness and ineptitude abound so that i was often cracking up into howls of laughter a horrid number by a would be irresistible french chanteuse a totally irrelevant bar room brawl actors doing somersaults when being shot an aged villager doing an impromptu dance routine ineffective use indeed abuse of slow motion and easily the most preposterous seeing gordon mitchell and lincoln tate play two gunfighters sporting the actors' own names hired by the villain to kill off the title character and then never having them appear in the rest of the film at all br br lead actor robert woods is just that even down to ineffectively whispering the over the bodies of his victims supporting actress actually the director's own daughter as the villain's broad is quite a looker but unfortunately she doesn't get to do much in the film – despite having a change of heart towards the end the main musical theme is actually pretty good but again the title song is in itself quite lousy
0	i have read all of shakespeare's plays seen productions of a majority of them and even acted in and directed some i do not necessarily believe that shakespeare must be done in the traditional fashion but i hated this movie br br there is nudity that is gratuitous and unnecessary there is that is far beyond what i believe shakespeare intended some of the dialogue is incomprehensible and there are those elements like the singing and dancing that add no meaning to the movie but replace shakespeare with the director's self indulgences br br i am sorry to say that i wasted perfectly good money to buy the dvd of this movie
0	there are many different versions of this one floating around so make sure you can locate one of the unrated copies otherwise some gore and one scene of nudity might be missing some versions also omit most of the opening sequence and other bits here and there the cut i saw has the on screen title witchcraft evil encounters and was released by shriek show who maintain the original us release title witchery for the dvd release it's a nice looking print and seems to have all of the footage but has some cropping aspect ratio issues in italy it was released as la casa 4 witchcraft the first two la casa releases were actually the first two evil dead films retitled and the third la casa was another film by the same production company filmirage which is best known here in america as ghosthouse to make matters even more confusing witchery was also released elsewhere as ghosthouse 2 except in germany where ghosthouse 2 is actually the ogre demons 3 ok i better just shut up now i'm starting to confuse myself br br regardless of the title this is a very hit or miss horror effort some of it is good some of it isn't i actually was into this film for the first half or so but toward the end it became a senseless mess a large vacant hotel located on an island about 50 miles from boston is the setting as various people get picked off one by one by a german speaking witch hildegard knef photographer gary david hasselhoff who wants to capture witch light and his virginal writer girlfriend leslie cumming who is studying witchcraft are shacking up at the hotel without permission along comes real estate agent jerry rick farnsworth who's showing off the property to potential buyers rose annie ross and freddie robert champagne brooks also tagging along are their children pregnant grown daughter jane linda blair and very young son tommy michael manchester as well as oversexed architect linda sullivan catherine hickland hasselhoff's wife at the time once everyone is inside their boat driver is killed hung and the boat disappears so they find themselves trapped and basically at the mercy of the lady in black br br so what can you expect to find here plenty of unpleasantries one of the characters has their lips sewn shut and is then hung upside down in the fireplace and accidentally slow roasted by the rest of the cast there's also a crucifixion witches eating a dead baby a swordfish through the head someone set on fire a possession a sesame street tape recorder the virgin getting raped by some demon a guys veins bulging and exploding thanks to voodoo doll pokes and some other stuff from a technical standpoint it's a nice looking film with pretty good cinematography a decent score and good gore effects the hotel island setting is also pretty nice blair particularly at the end and ross both seem like they're having fun and knef is great as the evil witch even though people like to ridicule hasselhoff these days he's not bad in his role either br br on the down side despite all the gore the film seems somewhat dull and it gets monotonous after about an hour the supernatural themes are muddled and confusing too when characters are being swept into the witches lair to be tortured and killed the filmmakers unwisely decided to superimpose the screaming actors over some silly looking red spiral vortex effect that looks supremely cheesy and the witch lair itself is vacant and cheaply designed with unfinished lumber and while most of the cast is at least decent a few of the performances particularly the actress who plays hasselhoff's girlfriend and the kid are so bad they're constantly distracting
0	i absolutely hated this movie i was 9 when i saw it it is the only movie i have ever walked out of in the theater my mom dad and i all looked at each other during the movie and knew we were wasting our time this movie stole approximately 45 minutes of my life everything about it was ridiculous the entire premise was too warped being 9 i was always easily entertained this movie proved that i couldn't subject myself to anything and still be entertained
0	if it were possible i would have given this sorry excuse for a movie a zero star it was by far the worse i have ever seen it was as if it were a home movie that some bored highschoolers decided to make as a joke the acting was horrific the actors didn't even react to the fact that they were being murdered br br honestly i bought this movie by mistake the spanish title said jeepers creepers 3 so i thought hmm maybe it'll be ok wrong it was honestly the worst ever i didn't get past 20 minutes of the stupid movie i skipped through chapters and nothing interesting ever seemed to happen br br the cameramen were also terrible it was like a home movie i would never recommend anyone to watch this terrible terrible moronic movie
0	this is just about the worst piece of garbage i've ever had the displeasure of sitting through the story was embarrassingly amateurish the graphics were horrible and the acting i've never seen worse acting in my entire life a kindergarten class could come up with a scarier better written and more entertaining concept than this i pity anyone who wastes their time on this film as well as the actors who agreed to doing the job it was obvious that they were not given appropriate direction the writers must have spent their time at film school in the back room playing a lot of professors wasted a lot of time on these two i would be truly embarrassed to admit that i knew them
0	i rented this movie under the impression that it was scarecrow 3 dark harvest thinking it was a continuation in the scarecrow slayer series another extremely laughable and all together awful series of movies i wasn't disappointed though it was just as awful if not worse than what i expected i was laughing throughout the entire movie every piece of bad acting poorly shot and cut footage and terrible special effects is what makes this movie worth renting br br the special features include a pathetic view into the cast and crew's six months of filming br br favorite line the sins of my forefathers they've down to this very moment of time
0	as you may remember i have seem all three of the trilogy of trash and the first movie is the only one even remotely close to be watchable part two was low grade sewage and this installment is slightly better then two but still one steaming pile of something i removed from my backyard last monday the premise doesn't make sense why did the moonshiners murder that poor old lady and even in 1921 i think someone would notice a bunch of oily guys where a sweet little old lady once lived second that scarecrow is pathetic compared to how cool they looked in the first movie it's just old clothes and a burlap sack let's face it the series is garbage and should be forgotten about the noose
0	i couldn't spoil this piece of crap if i wanted to after watching dark harvest 1 i thought this has got to be the worse movie ever made then i watched dark harvest 2 and that made 1 seem a little better then i watched dark harvest 3 or tried too the only thing i have to say is when is this going to end very bad acting and really bad special effects the only good thing about this movie was the boob shot don't waste your time of money on this piece of crap and now i have to write 3 more lines to get this to submit i was going to sing a song but i can't think of any right now but the movie finally ended though it had an ending that might mean they are going to make another one of these
0	ok i gave this a three a three it deserves only one star no questions asked br br if your going to look at the movie seriously and take it as a legit b horror movie than yes it will get one star but i believe it is apparent within the first minutes of the movie what we are dealing with is a piece of crap br br with this movie me and the buddy i was watching it with could of turned it off and put on something more hollywood but instead we just decided to rip this whole movie apart from start to finish we laughed so many times it was almost if i was watching a comedy br br the acting is terrible the effects and death sequences are so bad the story complete crap br br but the fact they are trying to make a serious horror movie priceless br br the most memorable part for me is when two of the characters are walking in a supposed dark basement which is clearly lit and they pretend to not be able to see bumping into bones hanging from the ceiling just terrible br br so if you want to laugh at how crappy this movie is along with the fact it was made in 2004 than see this movie br br wait why am i writing so much no one knows about this movie i doubt anyone will even read this hahahaha
0	it used to be that video distributors like sub rosa and brain damage films would release low budget shot on video horror films to a select market of gorehounds that ate them up with glee that's acceptable to me because you could see these movies from a mile away with their shoddy box art and cheesy titles br br now we have lions gate getting into the mix only they have decided that it'd be better to sucker in poor saps by putting a professional looking cover on it and charge the same price as one of their higher budget professionally made features do not be suckered in by this granted if you've seen dark harvest 1 or 2 than you already know what to expect with 3 but there is a place for movies like this and it is not on a video store shelf beside professionally made features br br i am a fan of independent cinema and have watched several low budget shot on video productions that were still a worthy rental but this was one of the worst movies i have ever seen the acting if you can call it that was abysmal it was amusing to laugh at the horrible line reading for a minute or two but eventually it was too much to take and became unbearable the story is bad the dialogue is worse the acting somehow manages to be even worse the only possible saving grace to this would be one disemboweling scene that still manages to be awful but is an award winning effect when compared to the blood splatters after a girl is slapped or the mannequin decapitation br br it took me three tries to make it through this entire movie and i only did so because i paid good money to rent it and felt like i should at least finish it all the way through stay away stay far far away from this one
0	dark harvest 3 scarecrow 1 out of 10 in einstein's theory of relativity time is of the perspective of the one that views time or so i've heard in other words this movie feels a lot longer that an hour and change even on fast forward and you will be reaching for that fast forward button it clocks in somewhere around eternity br br if you are familiar with own version of project greenlight this is where they buy a home movie but a fancy cover on it and sneak it into the horror section of your local wal mart you will not be surprised by the complete and utter lack of entertainment value contained within br br the line reading i refuse to call it acting is uniformly awful this is a collection of deadbeat dads and strippers pretending to be in a movie between cans of schlitz the camera work is drunken father shooting vacation film quality and while the special effects are okay the scariest effect is the breast scars in the nude scene br br the story is awful the sets are from a haunted halloween put on by adhd middle school students and once again the line reading remember this is not acting anymore than sinking to the bottom of a pool is swimming is distracting beyond mere words avoid
0	spoilers the original road house is one of those movies that i know is clichéd and unoriginal yet it's done so well i'm embarrassed to admit i really like it turns out many of my friends whose movie opinions i respect think the same way so when they attempt to make a sequel to it and it's as if it was written by some high school kids who were given the rights to do a sequel it's just bad really really bad br br oddly johnathon schaech is listed as one of the writers and i can only hope his wga membership is revoked the writing was just bad and all the writers of this film should retire for complete lack of originality and some of the worst dialog in this millennium schaech already appearing to be the king of the straight to dvd sequel 8mm 2 poison ivy 2 and now after seeing this and 8mm 2 i'm thinking his acting ability is non existent he was awful just awful br br and it's not the terrible fighting scenes that make this movie terrible but take it from me they're bad every fight scene is a slowly delivered punch yet still making the sound in the air that is then blocked by the opponent who returns a punch that sends the first guy to the ground this is repeated throughout the film worse than any bad 1970s cop show or the fact that many of the people involved in the fights seem to have a mouth full of cherry kool aid for some reason and we're supposed to believe will patton is a fighting machine his fight scenes look so amazingly fake i was honestly embarrassed watching br br it's the complete lapses of logic in this ridiculous movie that make it terrible for instance johnathon schaech's character is in town for a day and already tells some girl he barely knows who he has no idea what side she's on i'm with the feds but don't tell anyone the female villain who fights the good girl in one fight scene with acrobatics that rival any super hero yet is easily held down by the will patton old guy in another scene by simply holding both her hands while he utters some ridiculous line stab me once shame on you stab me twice ain't gonna happen whew that's bad and then head butts her jake busey's villain shoots at the feds while caught in the middle of a drug deal yet no dea agents or anyone simply go to his place and pick him up after in fact he's simply let go because this is the sheriff's territory busey wants the bar because it's in a great location for drug deals yet his own house appears to be just as good apparently offering all the perks the bar is supposed to have johnathon schaech's character is supposed to be the son of patrick swayze's character in the original yet swayze's character's last name is dalton and schaech's isn't nor is the supposed brother of swayze's character and johnathon schaech looks about 50 in this movie i looked it up he's 17 years younger than swayze but he looks awful br br but my favorite absolutely stupid scene in this movie was the most stock fight scene ending in movies the villain is knocked through a window on a second floor and as they pan down i'm thinking please don't tell me he's impaled on something and sure enough my worst fears were realized br br actually i could go on for another half hour about the things i hated about this movie suffice to say let's put an end to these ridiculous straight to dvd sequels to theatrical movies at least the ones with johnathon schaech
0	this was an interesting adaption of william shakespeare's last known solo play but in my humble opinion a terrible one jarman tries to change the personalities of the characters for a start he makes miranda seem insane after being stuck on the island for so long prospero is no different a mix of madness and self pity on his part i could not imagine shakespeare thinking his characters to be anything like the way jarman portraits them br br caliban's appearance is maybe the only thing he got right but then again i was under the impression that was a tormented deformed monster but turns out to be an insane rambling who is constantly cackling not as i would have imagined him ferdinand makes a brief appearance naked most the time and quiet br br in fact to the point i stopped watching this awful adaption their had been so many lines cut from the play if anything i think jarman was trying to re write shakespeare and include his own scenes most the time so much text is cut out in the first part it makes it not a shakespeare play but a load of 70's melodramatic preposterous rubbish br br an attempt to interpret this play more realistically in the end but this play was never a realistic one and it was made nothing like the text displays it to be
0	this in name only sequel to the classic roadhouse has a dea agent john schaech coming to the rescue of his uncle will patton when the uncle is badly beaten up by a local drug gang headed by that wooden indian of an actor jake busey the gang wants to take over the poor guy's bar for nefarious reasons patrick swayze is sorely missed here schaech is an indifferent actor and not convincing as an ass kicking lawman the fights here are intermittent and not nearly as powerful or vicious as the fights in roadhouse the finale is equally weak some good looking women keep things afloat for a bit there is a terrific fight between a daisy duke type who turns out to be handy with both fists and weapons and a nasty looking babe of busey's who is handy with sharp implements there's also a scantily dressed gal at the beginning who is a fellow agent of schaech's but unfortunately she never reappears in the film too bad she does a brief lap dance for schaech that had my full attention if nothing else roadhouse 2 kicks off with a strip club scene that comes darned close to what a real strip club looks like a rare circumstance in any movie the rest is snooze time
0	direct to video is a phrase that never sounds promising to the consumer unless its a direct to video sequel to something that went direct to video in the first place despite this studios have insisted on releasing numerous direct to video sequels over the years to cult hits i don't think it even needs to be mentioned that these sequels rank among some of the worst titles of all time including the hitcher ii starship troopers 2 and cruel intentions 3 it's fitting that road house 2 was helmed by scott as he was also the man in charge of ruining the cruel intentions series like his entry in the cruel intentions trilogy takes elements that made the first road house a great guy flick and rehashes them with no success whatsoever this is no sequel this is a remake all the way various lines from the original are repeated plot points cut and pasted and scenes are replicated almost shot for shot from the first one the one thing that could not be duplicated were the amazing fight scenes which made road house what it was here we get clumsily directed fight sequences that are either too short or too long and seemingly planned out and shot within an hour compare that with its predecessor's fight scenes that look like they took months and months to prepare is capable of directing action as he did well with the 2001 remake of earth vs the spider but none of the talent shown there comes through in this mess it's not completely his fault as the screenplay is very very poorly written and clunky i don't care if something goes direct to video a good script is still required someone should keep that mind while continuously churning these low budget direct to dvd movies out skip it entirely 1 10
0	well let's be fair following up a cult classic like road house is no easy task now subtract swayze from the equation and you get a monumental task so with patrick not on board whose bonehead idea was it to proceed anyway and make this piece of garbage i am going to blame the director who didn't even provide 5 minutes of decent footage throughout the entire film i was actually shocked they got will patton to jump on board johnathon schaech did an ok job with the lead but the writing was atrocious turning down his partner brunette bombshell crystal in the film's first 5 minutes made me want to eject it right there but i stuck with the film hoping to catch a glimpse of that great cheesy humor that worked so well with the double no such luck the cover of the dvd is hilarious they show these two stacked blondes who make one 10 second appearance in the film costar ellen actually puts in a decent performance as well but again the effort is futile in a piece of garbage and disgrace such as this has jake busey ever been cast in a decent film could they not pull at least a few actors in from the first film for some kind of nostalgia treatment even one of the old bouncers or two or jeff healey for a performance would have been nice take this film out of your queue immediately
0	this movie is a pile of rubbish and to try and base it the first is just a farce the main thing that let it down for me was the usage of the one liners out of the first one which once said by classic actors such as sam elliot can not be reproduced in any way i mean when dalton phones wade in the 1st and he ends the call with stay cool that was great but when the chump rings the dea agent back home and he ends the call with stay cool it doesn't have the same ring now really does it there are other ones but i cant be bothered to post em up but i hope u get my drift they should of named this roadhouse wannabe
0	man stop making sequels to great movies the original was a great movie that was over the top with fights sex and one of the coolest characters that graced the screen in the 90's the story is believable as if your been to bars in the outs of the south you would know but here comes this piece of junk roadhouse 2 last call lets just hope they are serious with the title and never make another roadhouse ever again it doesn't have the charm of the characters of the original nor is the story really believable the story is more of a steven segal type action that even though roadhouse 2 is a b movie it still doesn't click as some b movie action still sales the movie no matter how cheesy it is the only reason to rent not buy this movie is that we finally find out the one question is left from the original roadhouse patrick swayze's character dalton is dalton his first name or last name well i'll save you the 4 00 rental fee dalton is his first name as in dalton tanner never make another roadhouse
0	i happened to see a promo for this movie on spike channel last night it was grouped with a patrick rerun of another movie he made and thought was in this sequel boy was i wrong i see the screen writer also starred in it and i'm thinking the budget was a bit tight i am surprised to see will patton in the film he has far better credits to his name to be playing in a c movie like this jr was trying so hard to portray the image of his father one of the best bad guy actors ever that failed miserably the only redeeming qualities in the movie was the chicks good looking and with lots of t a just not worth the time or your hard earned dollar to rent it
0	the original road house is by no means an award winning film but it is one of the great guilty pleasures of all time it shouldn't have been that hard to make a sequel there's no need for a big budget big name stars and spectacular visual effects even the story didn't have to be original all it needed was a good time vibe and some great fist fights i don't mean matrix style wire fu just some well choreographed barroom brawls lots of them there are a couple of decent fights in the movie but none of them are memorable and the focus is more on gun play plus the way it ties in to the original film is laughable bordering on insulting johnathon schaech plays shane tanner an undercover dea agent who is good with his hands and feet but here's the kicker he's the son of patrick swayze's character dalton say what let's see the original road house was made in 1989 so for dalton to have a son in his late 20's maybe even 30 in 2006 well you get the idea they give it a cheesy explanation that he lived with his uncle nate will patton while his father travelled around a lot oh please that itself almost warranted shutting this movie off but i digress schaech is completely out of his element sure he can throw a couple of kicks but he's got nothing going on as an actor plus he's referred to in the movie by the bad guys as pretty boy i've never scrutinized men that closely but i don't think this guy is too good looking he looks sick his face is way too thin and his sunken eyes make it look like he's going to pass out at any moment i'd never heard of him before but i think he should give up acting and go back to his day job jake busey plays the local drug runner wild bill busey is not a terrible actor he was good in starship troopers and even made a menacing villain in hitcher 2 but here he just chews the scenery in standard bad guy mode even his dialog is yawn worthy we're supposed to buy him as the man that has the whole town in his pocket but why what does he do because he wants to buy a bar from patton by any means necessary ellen has the token girlfriend role a woman with a secret too bad that secret is about as difficult to figure out as 2 2 she's the local elementary school teacher who happens to be a former army soldier guess what that means it means that while she may quiver with fear for the majority of the movie she'll be ready to smash heads when the fur starts to fly oh well at least she's hot actually the fight between her and wild bill's girl is the best one in the movie it's fast brutal and entertaining which leads me to my next problem with the movie the fights as i said schaech knows how to throw a punch the same can't be said for anyone he faces in the movie obviously the movie will all come down to schaech versus busey busey is an actor not a fighter he doesn't possess the skills to pull of a movie fight swayze may have been a trained dancer but his athletic ability gave him the means to pull off well choreographed fights he also faced a couple of worthy opponents and had one killer literally move none of that here with a couple of exceptions the fights are forced poorly staged and routine the punches sound like someone smacking a 2x4 on the concrete and there's even a couple of parts where the sound doesn't even match up to the punch it's embarrassing there isn't even the good southern redneck music of the original road house had the jeff healy band who were a somewhat popular band at the time this movie features a singer called john otto whose music is tepid and his acting even worse he's given one line in the movie which was probably inserted to appease whatever fans he may have out there either that or someone owed him a favor my final complaint about the movie is one that comes out of just being picky the continuity movies are shot out of sequence and then it's the editor's job to piece it all together well someone should give the editor of this movie a little shove the problems range from little things like people not looking the same direction when a shot changes to re used footage at the end of the movie in the beginning we are introduced to the bar the black as the camera moves through the bar you see the band the bouncers and the people dancing at the end of the movie when the bad guys have been defeated we get another shot of the same bar with insert shots of our hero sitting at the bar with his girl the problem is the footage of the people in the bar is the same footage from the beginning of the movie i kid you not it's the same people standing or dancing in the same places wearing the same clothes want to know the funniest part you see bouncers in the shot that were killed earlier in the movie do yourself a favor don't watch this movie unless you feel the need to go out and punch someone this movie will make you angry enough to do it
0	if i had never seen the first road house then i guess this movie might get one more star but even then that makes it a 3 star movie for that matter i was really surprised as to the relatively high rating it currently has br br in reality i was not able to finish this movie as it was painful where it went wrong at least the most obvious way is that it pretty much parallels the original exactly even though the original plot is still referenced this doesn't really make sense and doesn't work also the acting is weak i never felt like i was into the movie yet i felt like i was watching people act even good actors like busey don't work out probably due to the screenplay or maybe the awkward editing the strangest thing is that the movie feels like a mid 90's b movie yet is made in 06 i am not sure as to why but then again this often seems to happen with sequels for some reason the music the look and the whole overall feel reminds me of movies you saw 10 years ago on cinemax late at night the strangest thing of all is that i am also expecting ja rule to come in at some point often it reminds me of more current movies with rappers as actors br br the most irritating thing is love interest girl who's character seems like a total rip off of the lois lane character on smallville which is also quite annoying and lets not forget the fakest sounding southern accents i have heard since walk the line i realize this is common place in movies but no accent at all would work better than attempting to sound like you are from that universal hick place on tv where anyone from any southern state or ky and wv sound exactly the same sure people in desert towns in az sound just like people in southeastern states 2000 miles away that was wearing thin 10 years ago in the b movies where technique came from why do writers directors make such decisions br br bottom line i would truly not recommend this if you are a fan of road house or if you like good movies also if you have not seen it yet don't spoil it by seeing this version first the original road house was one of those accidental classics that people love and watch over and over it was an unexpected success like american graffiti dazed and confused and more recently office space fast and furious only the first one and napolean dynamite why did they spoil it br br they should have never made a sequel to road house other than a high budget version with the right actors director sure you can never top the original ex bad news bears the longest yard etc but at least if you can do it right it will be presentable as is the case with the examples i mentioned but to make a low budget off network self production of road house is criminal
0	the original road house was a classic cheesy 80s movie which although it didn't have anywhere near award worthy writing or acting was a very enjoyable and popular film largely due to the presence of star patrick swayze and the great supporting cast along with some excellent fight scenes and eye candy br br 16 years later and mgm sony attempts to re create the magic which left us all quoting one liners and reciting the three rules of bouncing with a movie which quotes all the original's best one liners and recites the three rules br br were this an amateur fan made film it would be seen as a loving homage to one of the most popular of swayze's movies as a professionally made film it falls flat on it's face right into the dvd bargin bin with its continual reuse of lines and plot from the original movie becoming more of an annoying sign of lack of originality rather than cool references to the original br br having said that with new lines such as i'm gonna kill you just like i killed your father no wonder the screenwriters decided to rehash much of the original script br br i knew this was never going to be anything special being a straight to dvd sequel but i had at least hoped that there might be a couple of new ideas and fresh things included to live up to the road house name but what you get is simply just a 2006 remake of the same film with a little narcotics added in br br were i the director i'd have removed all references to the first film so as not to tarnish the original and it's characters as it is we got patrick swayze's character now supposed to be dead killed off screen in a lame way by jake busey and his brother and son now the main characters who strangely enough have completely different surnames br br my favourite part was that dalton's 'son' drove the same car his father did a genuinely cool homage although it was later ruined by having the car meet its end exactly the same way as its predecessor did that's a good example of how this film goes too far in including sequences and ideas from the '89 movie br br also of course who can forget the legendary moment where wild bill promises to kill shane just like i killed your father and then proceeds to attempt to dispatch him in a completely different manner amazing writing there i see schaech is listed as co screenwriter stick to acting or preferably nothing br br overall though this is an ok film if there's nothing else to watch and you want to turn your brain off for an hour and a half or if you haven't seen the first road house but hardcore fans of swayze's classic will be totally disappointed almost to the point of feeling insulting at how much of a rip off this movie is of the first as someone once suggested as an alternative subtitle for this film even jeff healy is glad he won't be seeing this one stick to the original road house and relive the good old swayze days
0	let me start by saying you know a film is poorly run when extras make the cover with that said anyone who says this is the worst film ever is being dramatic and anyone who says that the film is great is completely delusional the film is what it is and what is that a modest budget 4 million i estimate studio sequel the film isn't terrible but for road house fans it will be a disappointment and that brings me to problem one just as dirty dancing wouldn't been what it was without swayze road house isn't the same without him the lead lacks depth character and likability to carry the film i feel that the lead was poorly cast and the producers should have bent over backwards to get patrick to do it if they were gonna do a sequel the other cast was uneven with outstanding actors like will patton along side day players who couldn't act there way out of a paper bag busey who i have seen do great characters seemed like he just mailed it in ellen was played well except for not being believable at all as a bayou raised chick sherri the dea agent at the first bar was hot and a good actress yet her part was awkwardly small and undeveloped the writer totally missed all opportunities to add depth and interest to the story and characters instead opting for a base one dimensional film which leads me to the biggest problem the script i got a bad feeling when the credits rolled and there were three script writers separated by an and and an it looked very amateur and that is what the writing was i heard the original script was better and then a rewrite was done and the hard core sucking began some cheezy parts of the film to watch for are during the first undercover meeting the obvious drug deal under the table hey lets meet at a crowded bar i will pull a block of coke out of my jacket and you pull cash out then we will slide them under the cocktail table wait make sure to look cool when you look left and right to make sure no one is looking second i love it when someone gets shot in the chest and then you see him sitting up happy as a lark 10 minutes later there are some nasty editing cuts towards the end of the film especially during fight scenes and when the main character is chasing thru doors and runs into a patron which brings me to the realism of the dea training i won't both to get technical but jumping thru doors isn't standard training nor do typical female agents who bust their butts to make it in a male oriented field act like weak characters boring thanks for the chauvinistic view heir director there is other stuff i could teach a course at a school about it the sped up fighting the cheezy dialogue the recycled story etc but aside from all that you just cannot like ex mr applegate he totally lacks the humble zen coolness that made mr patrick swayze such a bad ass he just strikes me as one of those 5 foot nothing actors who think they are a bad ass but just like van damnit he runs into a real bad ass chuck in van don't case and he gives him a lesson about therefore that i feel is the major linchpin of the film if you are a bad ass you are a bad ass you don't have to try example swayze if you are a pretty boy who tries to hard to prove you are a bad ass among other things then well you are why your audience the average joe will not rent this film and if they do they will write reviews like this
0	i was loaned this dvd by the director of a film i am working with in which i play an actor who is playing prospero knowing his own style i did not expect anything resembling a classical interpretation of the text br br what i have found is sometimes striking sometimes evocative but often meandering and tedious like most experimental music i find that in films such as this the building blocks of powerful film making are crafted even if they have not found their most useful form in a more coherent format br br thus we have a who is more a clown than a threat and who not even miranda seems terribly afraid of which is odd since we know that he has attempted to rape her at least once a stefano and who are more annoying than funny an oddly young prospero who looks like amadeus and a great loss of character development and plot through creative editing and highly stylized posturing br br interestingly enough i do not have an issue with the way in which or miranda are portrayed his stunned rapture and her slightly freaky innocence are actually quite appropriate br br i do not say that this is a bad film but an experimental one one that takes huge risks but is meant more for students of art and film and not really for anyone with an interest in the tempest for its own sake
0	this television show is a idiotic waste of time if you want to learn br br about animals watch the discovery channel if you want to watch br br nincompoops on television just watch mtv mtv stands for music television br br not nitwit d preforming retarded skits or bratty kids crying br br their hearts out for not getting a bmw for there 16th birthday i bet br br that if you like this show i bet you love viva la bam and jackass huh i think my iq dropped ten points watching this show br br this is a combination of two shows jackass and the animal planet br br some people think this is a good combination br br i on the other hand think it is br br and if you notice its a lot like jackass br br and viva la bam br br just a note this show is horrible
0	spoilers br br i hate this one but it is better than the others after this they just keep getting worse i hope gibson has the smarts to stay out of the next one a lot of the same with humor ie the toilet kids etc how much farther can we watch their relationship evolve drugs bad guys why south africa i found that unbelievable maybe south american some country in the golden triangle would have made the script better it seems the late 80' early 90's had the blond bad guys ie die hard the mighty ducks play ice land gary busey in the last weapon etc hollywood repeats itself over this one with a similar story has to go over the top the attacking the police the beach condo scene and the fight at the end and way over the top gibson's girlfriend killed by the copper attack were too much like many part 2's they get worse and 3 or 4 in this series picks up speed downhill 3 10
0	riggs and are back but the magic of the first film has disintegrated the story line is just awful i mean really south african diplomats smuggling the mythical into the u s it's just painful and the accents are absolutely abysmal can no one get an afrikaans south african accent right or will we forever hear the british or americans making them sound like drunken hollanders the only guy who got the afrikaans accent right was tim robbins in catch a fire another thing about this movie that i disliked was when danny glover so artlessly describes an afrikaans accent as being shitty i mean what a slap in the face to the afrikaans there's also enough hypocrisy in this film to make me vomit i mean mel gibson's character is like so against the diplomats but then sleeps with their p a type don't waste your time watching this rubbish non researched film if you want to see a film that doesn't completely insult a cultural group then rent die hard 2
0	richard donner shows off his liberal credentials with this ludicrously overcooked simplistic attack on the politics of south africa it's not as if america is the cradle of racial harmony and brotherly love and further irony is added by the fact that the movie is set in the city that was the home of rodney king and glorifies the police department that did so much towards community relations with their brutal racist behaviour so donner's salt and pepper pairing who clearly have a late developing teenage crush on one another do their own thing with fine disregard for the rule of law or the rules of evidence and no one worries because the bad guys are white south africans surely a worrying example of police racism in itself inside rudd's joss ackland eminently office the decor is designed and lit to resemble as far as possible the and just in case some rather dumb moviegoers miss the point he and his men are referred to as nazis at regular intervals for me the only bright spot in the movie was when mel gibson turned up at an anti apartheid demonstration carrying a banner bearing the inscription end aparthied now the intensely irritating joe pesci is introduced into the franchise to take some of the weight off the boys' shoulders by following them around yapping incessantly like a badly trained puppy this would be bearable if there was the remotest possibility of him ending up in a concrete overcoat but sadly he survives to irritate another day miss patsy kensit seems in a world of her own perhaps not believing her luck at being cast opposite mel gibson who has little trouble sweeping her into bed in his mobile home which appears to have been washed up on a beach somewhere shortly after their affair they come under fire from a number of helicopters that fire enough rounds into mel's caravan to keep the u s army in iraq going for six months fortunately he has a pet dog who is not afraid to cause coitus just as they are going for seconds and his barking warns them of the imminent attack i hope he got a special bone as a reward the film climaxes without interruption from mel's dog on a cargo ship bound for nazi germany sorry south africa when mel and danny murder so many members of the master race that i lost count despite jiggling around like bonnie and clyde under the impact of a hail of bullets mel survives curled up in his partner's arms like a small child with a wise and benevolent father take that apartheid
0	the only redeeming quality of this film is that it shows bands and their music when it was changing in ny during as for the film itself it has at least three major flaws first of all there is narration throughout the film which is not required at all in the few places where there is some explanation necessary just adding a little dialogue would have gone a long way secondly there was no obvious attempt to synchronize any of the audio in fact it is quite apparent that most of the dialogue was recorded later with no attempt to match the film the third flaw was in the ending i will not give the ending away for those brave souls that would endure the torture of sitting through the film but it commits a cardinal sin in screenwriting not worth the money or time it takes to see this unless you are a fan of one of the represented bands
0	nothing but the void a pleasant one for those who have known the eighties but well quite boring for those who are not interested in it no screenplay in this film but a hero wandering in an underground new york full of and night clubbers it is aimless pointless and naive but not entirely unpleasant
0	has some really good music and performances kid creole and the james white and the blacks dna tuxedo moon the plastics melle mel vincent gallo lydia lunch etc but aside from this there isn't much more to it the dialog especially the narration by saul williams is actually pretty good but the performances are all pretty bland or outright bad no matter how many hipsters are thrown in debbie harry and jean micheal the latter being the leading role both still don't have enough cultural cred to keep this film from being a novelty item it goes for the a jack kerouac style roving spontaneity but doesn't have the insight to keep it moving along which is where the band performances come in i guess its pretty balanced in that regard between great music and bad acting and i did enjoy it but i just expected more though it does have a fairy tale ending
0	if daphne du maurier had set rebecca in 1950s san francisco it might very well resemble this uptight highly unusual noir from robert wise valentina cortese plays a concentration camp survivor who steals the identity of a dead woman and insinuates herself into the life of richard who happens also to be the guardian of the dead woman's son it's absurd and over the top but also entertainment cortese is terrific slowly falling apart as she realizes the mistake she's made is fine if a bit bland although the lighting toward the end makes him appear very menacing fay baker makes a very good mrs danvers like caretaker wise is a fine director and he keeps things moving at a pretty brisk clip he also stages a now classic out of control car crash with cortese or at least a stunt cortese at the wheel
0	since i am required to write minimum of 10 lines and this garbage deserves not only a single one i'll start with the following 1 i voted awful for this dreadful so called movie br br 2 let me explain why these turkeys mr david produces are shot mainly in my beautiful homeland bulgaria just in btw for the illiterate people around this country is in europe based north to greece and has absolutely nothing to do with mexico and uruguay some years ago nu image has invaded our country and started making crappy mostly direct to video releases why here because here they pay derisively low fees to the bulgarian crew and to the bulgarian actors most of them distinguished ones which are in many ways better than most of their american colleagues personally i am ashamed of that fact the reason is of course the of the americans involved and their wish to get most if not all of the profit actually it would't be so bad if only the production wasn't so filthy and pale there hasn't been a good picture shot here for years at present nu image is being sued here over the very questionably purchasing of our national cinema production centre called films no doubt about it there has been corruption there has been deceit there has been a lies in this recent purchase the bulgarian cinema is dead long live the bulgarian cinema
0	as if the world hadn't already got enough cheap jaws imitations writer boaz davidson decided to make the sequel to his ropey but reasonably enjoyable creature feature octopus a complete rip off of spielberg's classic right down to having a concerned cop who no one believes and a mayor more worried about his 4th july celebrations than people's lives br br even in the hands of an extremely skilled director it is unlikely that this derivative rubbish could have been anything other than hokey b movie garbage but with yossi yes the yossi calling the shots behind the camera a man with a fraction of mr spielberg's talent i estimate about 1 octopus 2 is guaranteed to be every bit as bad as one might imagine br br the predictable and extremely clichéd plot isn't worth describing in much detail substitute island with new york and bruce the shark with a giant rubber octopus and you'll get the gist although several points about the film are definitely worth mentioning simply because they are so funny all of the octopus attacks involve the actors struggling to make incredibly fake looking giant tentacles look real which is hilarious to behold capital sofia unconvincingly stands in for new york and overuse of stock footage makes the illusion even less convincing best of all a silly dream sequence that sees the rubber octopus attacking our hero atop the statue of liberty is not only gut stupid but also features some truly dreadful special effects br br davidson's script also doesn't know when to quit there are several points in this film at which it could've and probably should've ended but the action goes on and on with the octopus surviving several explosions and causing a tunnel to collapse trapping the film's love interest and a bunch of kids before finally being blown to smithereens by the hero br br sometimes very silly always awful technically but never actually scary this stv stinker may find fans amongst those who actively seek out cinematic trash most normal people however would be advised to steer well clear
0	derek jarman has shown us time and time again that dialog is not his strong suit he is a painter and paint he does his films are almost always visually splendid but about as exciting to watch as paint that is already dry watch his movies in fast forward the really fast setting that you can only get on dvd in the tempest jarman does very little with the script or the characters using them as simply a to hang a very long and well constructed cinematographic frame he even goes so far as to contradict shakespeare's original script to achieve these slow and lifeless scenes there is none of the romance magic trickery or urgency the script calls for little spontaneity and the character of in particular is reduced to a quivering and insane idiot of sorts similar to in edward ii it is too bad that this is just about the only film version of the tempest available
0	oh wow the character shares my name first name nick this movie as bad as the first one if not worse well at least there's an actual octopus in this movie an actual octopus that makes a better appearance in this film by better i mean longer the acting is pretty dry and it's hard to sit through just to let you know when this ninety minute film ends not only are you freed from your couch but you get your ability to breathe back not only that but you realise how stupid you are and then commit suicide realising how horrible life is after watching this film really it shows how desperate horror movies are today more crap like this is being realised and where the hell have the real masters of horror been lately this film should have been the final straw so we can bring back cinematic geniuses in horror cinema that could make some actually good modern horror films this movie bites
0	just finished watching this one after getting sick of getting ready for the michigan bar exam i wanted something that was mindless and that i could just sit back and say what the hell were they thinking i was not disappointed in this undertaking but had i been watching this one in a serious mood i would have been irate the company that made this thing just spliced cgi footage from the first octopus and added a little footage with a fake octopus that makes the one used in bride of the monster look like a masterpiece of special effect footage since when does an octopus have fangs the plot is that an nypd diver is investigating some murders disappearances on the hudson river shortly before the fourth of july he and his partner who is soon to be transferred or soon to be munched on by a fig bucking octopus investigate in a rather inept manner all the while believing that a huge octopus will kill people and are occasionally accompanied by a female lackey from the mayor's office of course on one believes that an octopus can get that big until the thing attacks the cop and the girl from the mayor's office surprisingly all hell doesn't break loose and only a few cops and a few more civilians are killed br br really lame don't bother with it
0	a flesh eating octopus where does that guy boaz what the davidson keep getting inspiration anyway even for the low low standards of both the giant sea animal who kills people genre and me this one is just beyond awful the octopus is one of the lamest laziest weakest monsters i've ever seen i think he just ended up in the east river because sea world got sick of him the actors can be seen repeatedly helping the octopus choking them bunch of idiots that way he'll never learn you guys want all the other giant killer octopuses that's the correct plural by the way to laugh at him meanies br br up to stop the octopus are wind razors that are hard to handle and also special sea agent nick and his partner who will retire in a week but first has to be eaten by the octopus hooray octopus won the fight a couple more and he's going to evolve the scars in my mind stay nick of course tries to help him by not doing a damn thing doesn't he have a gun or something but no that magically doesn't help either br br okay enter sea cop's love interest rachel is this based on some comic book or something anyway together they try to stop the octopus by walking in the park they hope this helps cos it's the 4th of july in a couple of days and the octopus might join the party and you don't know what he's like when he's drunk rachel then gets a school bus from out of nowhere to make sure this movie won't end while nick feeds the octopus some more sea cops br br but all's crappy that ends crappy nick manages to blow the octopus to bits a couple of times and a bunch of children who happened to be there cheer and laugh you know on tummy vision this would probably get an r in real life i'd say all ages but i kinda like all ages so my final idea is suitable for absolutely nobody there's no sex no gore no nothing now forget this movie ever existed join the club
0	i purchased this film on dvd for £4 but it was a waste the film is very bad the plot is your average monster film where it kills a few people the mayor chief doesn't believe it and they fight it at the end br br on the plus side the film quality is very good and the setting of new york is impressive for a budget film as opposed to a small coastal town the acting is reasonable too br br however the special effects in a monster film are laughable and the addition of a random bus load of kids to the plot half way through just gets weird the ending is just bad br br in summary whenever you have a chance to see this don't there will be something better on br br r t c true horror films don't have a pg rating
0	greetings moviegoers as i watch octopus ii i contemplate the inherent lameness of the octopus croc dino horror genre many moviegoers may blame the poor acting nonsensical screenplay or poorly constructed plot as the reasons that cause the ocd movie to flounder these reasons may indeed be floundering factors but it is the inherent difficulty of filming an ocd movie that is at the heart of the lameness br br you see the technology does not yet exist to make a realistic life size ocd and the cgi technology currently used by studios lacks the ability to blend in smoothly with real world environments and characters even with clever cinematography you can only film the semi dark depths of the sea semi dark forest semi dark cave semi dark corridor so many times before the sci fi aficionado becomes bored with the genre entirely the ocd sub genre that is br br what can be done you ask i wouldn't suggest that the genre surrender to cheesiness but another avenue needs to be explored we can't really go back to the days of the fade to black cue that someone has been killed or can we if we can't reach the goal of realism we have to compensate in other ways such as plot twists innuendo and photo ingenuity br br it will be through ingenious and alternate methods that the disease of lameness so common to the ocd sub genre will be cured
0	i'd have to say that i've seen worse sci fi channel originals but this nu image from yossi was still quite a drag the big problem with it is that it simply isn't convincing not just its creature but acting writing and any attempts at drama the direction lacks any kind of flair and the script from boaz davidson and danny lerner never really works predictable often laughable whilst it delivers less howlers than a fair few of these sorts of films it never offers anything to engage or raise the pulse the actors do their best but with such material their workmanlike efforts have little effect matthew reilly burke is a blandly watchable hero meredith morton similar as a blandly watchable love interest actually she was a bit less convincing but at least she was easy on the eyes the film at least has the dignity to bowl along at a reasonable pace but its biggest plus is that the octopus isn't entirely cgi rendered so even though it doesn't look good at least there are a few legit scenes of characters inanely grappling with rubbery tentacles in pretty amusing fashion i also chuckled at the disparities between different representations of the octopus the cgi shots of the creature as a whole vary over the course of the film they are also different not only in size but appearance to the practical shots of it and there are scenes where the tentacle action suggests that the makers had abandoned pretending they were making a film about an octopus and just envisioned their creature as a bunch of miscellaneous tentacles the scenes of the creature attacking people get old pretty swiftly but there are a few funny scenes where it takes on other things like a boat and a crane yes these scenes are poor but they did make me chuckle highlight though is a hilarious sequence in which the octopus takes on a new york landmark the scene may not be much more than a minute but it really is inspired and well worth looking up on youtube apart from that things are uninspired all round a pg level lack of gore or nastiness stops this one from even pulling off much in the trash good times the film does take a turn into semi gripping disaster movie territory at the end but i can't really give it credit because the best shots in the last few scenes were culled from the stallone flick daylight which by my recollection is quite good altogether this was pretty rubbishy stuff and not something i'd really recommend to anyone except creature feature die hards better than a poke in the eye with a wet stick but not by much
0	this is the sequel to octopus br br pff ok a lot of stock footage but pretty good i'm surprised that they actually had a giant robot octopus that actually didn't look that bad i was actually quite surprised by that br br the movie overall was just ok fun it never explained how the octopus got so big and isn't linked it anyway to the first but it was still fun br br the ending me and my friend laughed at basically after blowing the octopus up once the two main characters launch a bomb and five explosions most stock footage appear on screen we joked that they went to the dollar store and bought a 'five missiles in one' toy believe me it has to be seen to believe overall just stupid fun worth giving a chance buying if it's cheap
0	i hated the first movie is really boring and we only get see the octopus at the end br br the plot dead bodies are being found in the new york harbor the police have no clues nor suspects until nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus everybody especially the police captain refuses to believe nick's story and soon the harbor will be filled with boats for the 4th of july celebrations br br in this movie we get to see more of the giant octopus and special effects for this movie are really good for it's time br br the acting is this movie not bad but not great too but okay and watch able br br the are some really cheese scenes to movie but if can get past that you should enjoy the rest of movie br br 5 10
0	when i saw the first octopus movie it was a laugh see the cheesy acting and appalling effects this film seemed to make up for the acting but not the special effects after jaws and piranha sure why not make a film about a killer octopus the octopus invades the new york waters where 2 police investigators try stopping the rampaging beast before the 4th of july br br a pretty clean plot and descent happenings but the octopus was pretty much appalling its nice to see they actually made it this time but it looked like a piece of plastic better on a big budget really this film could have been a good watch there's a continuous amount of errors where it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't research the way octopus live br br watch this if you like cheap dvd sequels otherwise your better watching jaws
0	during the summer the cue line for this attraction is really long since it is a water ride it's very well themed but a lot of the artifacts seem to be out of order overall the ride is not worth it if you have to wait for almost 2 hrs in line the drop at the end is exciting but the whole ride itself could have been better creators for indiana jones could have prob helped these hollywood designers also many times the ride breaks down and causes even longer waiting periods for others it's also very when they only have one raft departing dock open and not the two like they are supposed to during halloween horror nights you ride in the dark and it's exciting if it's your first time but if it's not then don't bother waiting in a four hour line
0	at first i thought ka man' might be one of those progressive new filipino films as someone noted earlier the movie does not look poorly made it's clear that the directors used more expensive cameras to shoot better angles better sound equipment good looking actors and nicer locations br br however the improvements are all purely superficial if it weren't for all the polish and expensive filters ka man' would feel just like your typical second rate local movie hyperactive drama predictable plot twists yeah right moments crying screaming and characters you could care less about all shoved down your throat br br a couple of things annoyed me about this movie first of all since when is it okay to have sex with adopted family that not blood related argument does not make an ounce of difference second would a woman really not tell anyone for 40 years that she was raped simply because the father told her to keep it secret and where the hell were the lights in this movie i know the director tried to make things look super dramatic but i was simply forced to turn up the brightness feature on my tv set
0	the incident is by far the director dustin best film which isn't saying much in his past films and i use the term films loosely the director takes ideas from hollywood blockbusters and severely marginalizes them the incident is no different the movie is basically con air meets aliens done with the semblance of your average film school production the film is riddled with out of focus shots and plagued by special effects that would have trouble rivaling most high school computer animation classes for example almost every on screen explosion is the same fire effect matted over the screen br br the weak effects and production value are only compromised by a flawed plot and rocky dialogue in a sentence the story strings together like an exposition of overused hollywood clichés the movie begins with the worst cgi alien ship ever made crashing into the worst cgi earth ever made and a team of army somethings going down to investigate next a bus of prison transports carrying the worst of the worst from across the state is overthrown by the prisoners with the help of their blonde girlfriends armed with silicon implants the prisoners escape and run into the town of where they encounter the aliens who shock have escaped from an alien prison transport carrying the worst of the worst from across the galaxy the prisoners and their captive police armed with only guns and sad puns have to fight off the aliens and escape the town before the international space alliance rolls eyes bombs the city into oblivion br br the only real enjoyable parts of the movie are when the actors who are clearly undermined by the script are given the freedom to improvise and also when they fight off the smaller of the alien creatures in a flurry of gun fire other than that the movie really isn't worth anyone's time let alone the plastic that the dvd is made out of how awful was it let's just say the secretary of defense is about 90 years old works in a room that is about as high tech 1950's real estate office and is wearing a looney tunes tie yes if that wasn't clear enough before the man in charge of the pentagon is wearing a tie with bugs bunny and the road runner on it the movie basically culminates did i say culminates with the last remaining soldier running into the group of prisoners and guards and the new formed team fighting their way away from the vicious aliens which for some strange reason leads them straight back to the alien ship yeah br br the movie has heart but is riddled with horrible direction and even worse camera work someone seriously needed to slap the dp and tell him there is more to cinematography than repetitive stagnant chest level shots this movie really isn't worth renting if it ever makes it that far being that it's not as horribly bad as the last films made by the director which reduces the laugh ability but it's nowhere near watchable cinema
0	if i was still 5 i might find it scary it is i guess a low budget film the acting is not good but could be worse the filming and special effect is awful the story line is thin and not worth to dwell on too much time is used on boring shouting scenes the chases or fight with aliens remind me of kids fighting with scary masks on some gore with blood and body parts would scare a 5 year old kid i guess apparently scare the crap out of some of the persons in the film br br it is far from reaching anything like the film tremors br br this turns out to be an incident and we see alien ships nearby earth it make you wonder if any will make a sequel
0	the incident is set in arizona where six death row inmates are being transfered from the state prison for reasons never explained while driving along the heavily armed prison bus gets a flat the driver is forced to pull off the road then two blonde birds turn up after seducing the incompetent prison guards manage to get the better of them the six prisoners are released but in a shoot out their getaway car is damaged leaving them all stranded in the middle of the arizona desert they decide to head to the nearest town several miles away take the cops with them as hostage once they reach they find it odd that the place is completely deserted with not one single other person in sight they soon discover that the entire town has been killed by flesh eating aliens they are firmly placed on the menu br br also known as alien invasion arizona in the us on dvd apparently having the working title terror town this rubbishy low budget sci fi horror flick was co written co produced directed by dustin has no real redeeming features at all to be frank the incident is the sort of film which gives films a bad name the film could roughly be divided into two parts the opening forty or fifty odd minutes focuses on the prisoners in a thriller feeling opening the guards the escape although it's pretty poorly written staged stuff the dialogue between the two blonde birds the prison guards is so bad it's unintentionally funny as the two fit birds chat up the two not so fit prison guards funny stuff actually unfortunately the incident is supposed to be a sci fi horror film not a comedy then once the escaped cons their prison guard hostages arrive at it goes into sci fi horror mode as the aliens turn up start killing our clichéd character's off which is good because they are annoying look the whole film sucks as it's badly written thought out made i can't really be bothered to go into why but trust me the incident is awful on every level br br as well as being just a bad boring stupid film the incident is also poorly made the action set piece scenes are awful the aliens looks terrible are never shown on screen at the same time as the human character's as such it's sometimes difficult to tell what's happening the special effects are poor too the aliens look rubbish the cgi computer effects are absolutely terrible as well the editing is poor the cinematography is poor the sets are cheap the whole thing is just an eyesore really there's a bit of gore there's some gunshot wounds someone is ripped in half a severed hand is seen br br obviously shot on a low budget the incident has low production values looks cheap from start to finish filmed in superior in arizona the acting is terrible from no one i have ever heard of although the actress who plays the female doctor is pretty good looking br br the incident is a rubbish sci fi horror film that is terrible in just about every way not worth 90 minutes of yours mine or anyone else's time
0	no budget direct to video tale of aliens in arizona involving the military and escaped convicts br br not bad as such rather it suffers from the cast and crew sort of going through the paces instead of trying to sell it its as if they knew they were in a grade z movie and want you to know they know then again maybe they just couldn't get it together br br a misfire of a grade z movie that could have been something if some one cared and had skill why must low budget filmmakers insist on not actually trying to make a something good instead of just making a product br br 2 out of 10 because nothing comes together
0	right on i totally concur with all your sentiments and add these i came to my pc especially to post a comment on this dreadful minus movie i was going to say that in this day and age i am at a loss to comprehend how anyone could possibly make such a woeful movie but you beat me to it anyone reading this and comment trust me don't waste you time and money it's an absolute shocker the acting is totally pathetic the script is way worse and the so called special effects are a joke surely no one actually invested money to make this movie i really cannot think of anything else to say about this so called horror sci fi product but must pad this commentary to make 10 lines of comment in order to have it accepted for submission
0	this was by far the worst movie i've ever seen and thats compared to alexander fortress 2 and the new world br br i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen i didn't think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age i was wrong while typing this message i've thought of a good reason to buy this movie a joke present at xmas i'm blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it thanks babe br br be warned a true shocker all round
0	i happened to have seen this movie this morning on tcm very bad acting low budget and poor plot are the impressions i felt while watching the movie the only highlight of the movie was watching tender young rita moreno 23 years old playing a teenage indian squaw in love with an older man in his 50's she reminded me of a earlier version of sue lyon as lolita 1962 only a more innocent lolita she bounces up and down like a 1950's teeny bopper almost as if you would expect her to be chewing gum falling all over this old man willing to give him anything as he plays it off like she's a hindrance to him any man in his 50's that had a beautiful virgin teenage girl willing to do anything for him and be his bride would be insane not to take advantage of her it's too bad that the censorship board back when this movie was released didn't permit more of an expansion of a character such as rita the only reason why i gave this movie a 3 instead of a 1 is rita appearance in the movie
0	director lesley thoroughly routine outdoor yarn the yellow 1954 pits the cheyenne against the u s cavalry with tough rory calhoun in the middle as the seasoned clad indian scout who has to lead the survivors to safety this united artists western was lensed in color but the tv print that turner classic movies aired was inexplicably in black white br br the action opens with adam reed rory calhoun of black spurs eluding several indians and riding up to with his old friend and cheyenne chief fire knife lee van cleef of the good the bad and the ugly who has killing on his mind fire knife warns adam that his cheyenne braves are poised to wipe out a nearby cavalry fort under construction because it violates a treaty that the indians made with the government on his way to inform stuck up camp commandant major ives warner anderson of objective burma about the impending indian attack adam discovers a beautiful wood nymph seductively treading water in a lake katherine bolden peggy castle of i jury is another of those silly women in westerns that bathe nude in the middle of indian country without a care in the world castle appears to be genuinely nude in her bathing scenes too perhaps the most memorable scene of all in this otherwise predictable western naturally major ives dismisses adam's warning from fire knife until the commander realizes that somebody has raided his ammunition dump far outside the fort this is one of the many questions that the richard alan simmons' screenplay leaves unanswered in this trim 82 minute oater why would the cavalry bury their ammunition at a secret spot in the desert rather than keep it on the premises in the fort no sooner have they made this discovery than the indians attack knock out of hero and leave him as the only survivor before this attack a pair of white prospectors rides into the fort sawyer peter graves of stalag 17 brings in his partner with an arrow in his chest while adam is getting hot water to help in removing the arrow the greedy sawyer grinds the shaft in deeper and kills his helpless partner later we learn that sawyer and his partner had struck gold the question of the of the gold is also left unanswered after our heroes survive the ordeal adam and fire knife have one final pow wow and fire knife demands that adam hand over major ives or everybody will die naturally adam refuses and the indians begin to whittle down the whites james best in a supporting role as a cavalryman gets an arrow in the back for his efforts noah beery jr plays a mexican scout pursued by a sexy indian damsel appropriately named honey bear oscar winning actress rita moreno of west side story and robert bray of lassie fame is on hand briefly as the ill fated cavalry officer that kate had planned to marry br br the biggest surprise in this unremarkable western shot on location in utah is that the evil cavalry officer ives who slaughtered indian men women and children at the infamous sand creek massacre has been keeping a secret that he is a native american too ironically the taut bow that fire knife gives out of friendship to adam at the outset of the hostilities is what our heroic scout uses to kill the stalwart cheyenne warrior after he has run out of bullets the yellow concludes on an ambiguous note the survivors reach another outpost fort ellis where adam and ives furnish their respective reports about the issue to an army general but we never learn the outcome of this meeting is this artistic ambiguity or yet another unanswered question producer howard w koch is no relation to casablanca scenarist howard koch ultimately the yellow is one of many pro indian westerns that appeared in the aftermath of broken arrow 1950 where the native american is viewed as a noble savage unjustly treated by some but not all whites who made dozens of westerns during the 1950s and the 1960s makes this minor western tolerable despite its thin characters and familiar predicament calhoun stands out of an above average cast as the always serviceable leading man and good looking castle is worth watching for her feminine charms peter graves plays a skunk as was usual in most of his early roles actually lesley did a more satisfactory dramatic version of this movie the year before called war paint 1953 with robert stack incidentally noah beery jr and rita moreno both went on to become regulars on the rockford files
0	yep edward g gives us a retro view of the criminal defense world first he's an overzealous prosecutor who sends the wrong man to the chair played passionately albeit briefly by deforrest kelly then he's so filled with remorse his only solace is the bottle throw in a jaded romance a genuinely rapid descent into penury and no qualms about who he defends and next thing you know black leg lawyer god i love that phrase he sees the light just in time to save his jaded beloved from the chair yawn br br but really the courtroom action is pure melodrama see him punch out a witness see him drink poison see him argue passionately as he clutches a bullet hole in his breast be prepared for melodrama br br the hoot of the film though is jayne russell with curves defying the laws of gravity and an iq approached absolute zero she is something to see even sings a bit
0	i bought this film at blockbuster for 3 00 because it sounded interesting a bit ranma esque with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge i was 100 wrong br br having watched it i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker since there is hardly any foul language little violence and the closest thing to nudity honestly i don't usually go around hoping for it is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties you see her panties a lot in this movie because no matter what she's wearing a miniskirt of some sort even the anti religious humor is tame and lame caricatured insincere derivative unoriginal and worst of all not funny in the slightest it would be better just to listen to ray stevens' would jesus wear a rolex on his television show this would barely qualify as pg 13 it is not rated but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of 17 rent this as if it was pornographic any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream but they insist that zack and reba is worse br br it is but not in that way br br in a way this worries me the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides not this one but better ones like the virgin suicides it's teenagers if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect then i have little chance of turning a story i've been writing into a pg 13 movie the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers i think it's number 2 so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it br br just say no to this movie though 2 10
0	this is one of four 1970s movies by tv writer lane slate about sensationalistic murders in small towns they feature likable tv personalities as police chiefs and quirky characters as town regulars including light touch love interests the others are they only kill their masters james garner 1972 and the girl in the empty grave and deadly game both andy griffith 1977 br br alda's is set near vermont mount angel next to horse creek the others in california garner's at seaside eden landing and griffith's in the mountains jasper lake all try to capture the feel of a small town to move at a relaxed pace among comfortable characters and to tell a mystery with at least some complicated twist or turn to it on that level they are somewhat entertaining that they were often re run itself suggests they have some appeal but they suffer from overall thin stories and dialogue slack pacing bland settings flat or exaggerated characters and off putting forced attempts often juvenile or crude at color or humor br br alda's and garner's are the most serious about story characters pacing and tone they have the best supporting casts though alda's is put to better use the griffith casts pale in comparison alda's has the best director br br shocking has some surprise and drama the killer's method is inventive the tone is more even and the dialogue more natural than in griffith's alda's film does not suffer like the others from smug big city transplants to the town or from hokey exaggerated local characters both of which come across as figments of a hollywood scriptwriter not as genuine the worst offender is the griffith movies' pipsqueak mumbling moron whit who we are told tried to hook a jeep up to and make off with a trailer serving as a temporary bank branch dragged away the dock for the police boat stole tomatoes from a farmer's truck only to get nothing for them and filled out 11 on the withdrawal slip of t only to be discovered by the teller mercifully absent is the clunky heavy handed repetitive style dialogue from the griffith movies you going to lunch i'm going to take out the boat you going to take the boat to lunch i'm not going to lunch you're not going to take the boat to lunch there aren't any fish in this lake why are you fishing here it's illegal in horse mountain it's posted here too you're breaking the law some law there aren't any fish in this lake then why are you fishing here i told you it's illegal in horse mountain please call me lloyd my name is lloyd okay lloyd call me lloyd that's my name my name is lloyd br br but alda is too low key and unimpressive to be taken seriously as even a small time police chief certainly not a red hot lawman in demand by a rival town slate has the character admit as much when he comes late to the scene of a by then obvious clue as a result of an accidental name recognition rather than detect or investigate barnes strikes out blindly in emotional denial his secretary lasser feeds him a key clue why didn't i think of that he says an embarrassing funeral scene plus a plot contrivance leads to another gift clue br br worse barnes is more interested in the military style helmets of the county police sent to help him deadly game also suggests slate has something against the military than leading them or his own men effectively he allows a late murder by incompetently guarding a known target barnes allows his car to be repeatedly rammed by the killer fleeing one crime scene without drawing his gun or trying to take control again he is ineffective and nearly killed in the climactic scene which results from multiple errors on his part that are only partially corrected by accident the erratic northeastern accent that alda affects does not help believability br br there are plot holes why would the killer strike after all these years and committing the first two murders without a trace seems implausible but they are nothing compared to later ones a couple together a shopkeeper in his store during business hours a fully clothed deputy seated in his office and unbelievably his dog br br alda's movie also suffers from some offensive elements that slate injects into all the movies barnes first appears in a motel bed he then treats her rudely at every turn and insults and tries to avoid her kids this and talk about the female doctor smack of a crude mean spirited pattern garner's film has been described as sleazy including a scene where he and a deputy laugh about how a girl in the back seat of a car that hit a bump in the road had part of her anatomy bitten off by a guy in the car with her griffith's feature an ersatz ropers routine in which the woman embarrassingly tries to coax the man into the supply closet a gratuitous locker room type exchange with a deputy in discussing a young woman's car accident death did you take her out i took her in once a reference to bank teller bernice as swollen up in places and to sticking a pin in her and to hating and firing secretary maude because she was too hairy a description of the female doctor's practice as two tables and a flashlight a humiliating scene in which fran ryan propositions griffith offering some home grown and an insulting subplot in which a woman pursued by a deputy played as a drippy buffoon seems to sleep around br br finally alda's film has a grim bleached out colorless lifeless look and feel only louise lasser adds spark at least the other films had some spirit scenery and pleasant music griffith's got out onto the mountainside onto the lake and even out into the big city you feel more like re watching masters or empty grave than shocking
0	if i'm to like a movie i need to care about the lead characters and what happens to them in this waste pod of a film i found myself hoping that they would all die in the end none of the characters are people that you'd ever want to meet they all made me sick if not for a few nude scenes i would have given this wretched movie a 1
0	although my exposure to world cultures is limited i do try this was a film that i tried and hated worst of all after hearing so many people decry the shallowness of typical hollywood fare and its stereotypical caricatures i saw characters too outrageous for eastenders being paraded as realistic br br clint wants out of the drug life and to do this he aspires to be a waiter aim high i always say brad or a faxed photo of him or quite possibly a curly wig on a stick it was hard to tell offers to hire clint if he gets a pair of shoes br br clint and a huge entourage apparently wander the whole of england trying to get him some shoes eventually they end up at a suburban home whose isn't clear mum helps a girl shoot up oh now there's some realism for you mrs brady may have been a ridiculous stereotype of american housewives but she never helped marsha tie off and find a vein good god dad comes home and sings some elvis tunes and then chases the kids away br br why didn't clint borrow some money and buy shoes at a second hand store why didn't he go to a church and ask a kindly nun for some help why didn't he hang out in front of a shoe store and panhandle i just don't know none of these things seemed to be beneath him benevolent groups like goodwill and the salvation army have stores to help people i know people who work there if someone with no money showed up and needed shoes the staff would give the person some shoes maybe not prada or gucci but some form of foot covering not many of these groups hand out cell phones to the underprivileged but shoes are usually no problem what a dumb concept the world or at least the western part of it simply isn't that cruel in england maybe it's from the queen's royal charity rather than goodwill but people who need shoes do get them br br aside from the quest for shoes there was no discernable plot to get in the way of the action not that it made the movie any quicker or more bearable mind you despite checking the tape jacket several times i was not watching the 20 hour extended version it only seemed that way br br did clint get his shoes did the cardboard cutout of brad dourif hire him at the restaurant did i ever watch anything else foreign ever again br br spoiler yes yes and yes br br as for the fate of this particular film i decided to end it all i took out my s w 45 and shot a half inch hole through the cassette blammo i made sure to rewind it first i put it back in the tape sleeve returned it to the rental store and amazingly no one ever called to ask about it meaning of course that no one else rented it for at least the remaining three years i lived in that city others knew something that i didn't live and learn br br btw if you rent something you've never seen before and someone has actually put a bullet through it take it as a sign and if you work at the video department i'm just kidding br br footnote this classic has yet to see the light of day on dvd for which we should be eternally thankful to the digital gods
0	i don't think the number of blunders militarily and strategically contained in this turkey can be beaten everything in this mess was done on the cheap and made soldiers look really stupid examples at the start the 2 star general is given strategic advice by a lieutenant and accepts it unquestionably the map used by the lt shows enemy positions but they apparently have only a single narrow valley to use in advancing on the battalion even though the map showed a dozen more the rear guard takes up position from which they are clearly spotted by the enemy and exposed they pound our heroes from high ground but this superior fire power makes little difference an single enemy tank advances near the end at the beginning referred to as armored division proceeded by a solitary infantry point who moves extremely slowly without cover scouting the area then the tank on when he deems it save to proceed a most bizarre scene the soldiers take cover in a cave all around them is ice and deep snow but in the cave not a yard from the entrance is a deep puddle through which they all wade repeatedly their feet would last mere minutes before they freeze off later the survivors wade pathetically slowly and chest high through a river to return to their unit remember it is deep winter and the ground is frozen yeah right br br and on and on it goes they yell commands to positions on higher ground they lay mines near their own position and warn each other not to trample on them at the start credit is given to some soldier who had been awarded the congressional medal of honor was he blind or did director fuller just ignore him truly the most inept soldiers i've ever seen br br one of them pokes around in his own wounded leg with a bayonet and eventually pulls out a piece of without a wince or a moan he announces that that should qualify him as a surgeon now that was funny
0	and i am afraid that i cannot imagine why it really is a genuinely dire and exceptionally boring film in some ways it is reminiscent of early science fiction when every set had been knocked up on a hollywood back lot out of whatever was lying around from the minuscule and unconvincing set snipers seem to be about ten meters away apparently made of plaster to the actors who are also apparently made of plaster with amusing stereotypes painted thinly on top to the oddly warm pool in a frozen cave to the survival of the cast uninjured when medium artillery shells burst a few meters away on open ground and finally the awful script that reads like a training manual more than a film i really cannot say how dull this is even the opportunity to see whether the young james dean survived wasn't enough to keep me watching for more than an hour this really is one to be avoided at all costs
0	watching this film made me wonder just why was universal putting out films like this they had a wonderful string of films with all the classic horror films the dawning of the atomic age brought on an onslaught of giant creature films spiders ants praying with the deadly mantis we have a giant praying mantis flying around the arctic scaring eskimos and being hounded by the armed forces the bug reaches a tunnel in new york where the soldiers eventually destroy it of course this is all made much more watchable by viewing it on mst who thought it was a good idea to start the film out by showing a giant map
0	thirty per cent of this movie appears to be the prototype for the map channel you see a giant map for about ten minutes then they unleash the stock footage big time while droning droning get it on about radar apparently there's a lot of radar stations in the far north protecting north america's borders from attacks by deadly polar bears the bears never show up but a giant mantis does it was frozen in the ice for over a million years or so until it was released by an earthquake somewhere else in the world yeah right for my money it was released by global warming it is a huge prehistoric insect and it needs lots of food since there aren't any cows in the frozen north it decides to feast on the most like creatures it can find up there i e human beings it starts attacking radar stations probably because the humming from the radar dishes was getting on its nerves br br enter col joe the resident smarmy guy of the film he's investigating a plane that went down and is puzzled why there are no bodies in the wreckage the only thing he finds is one of the claws of the mantis apparently it decided to trim its nails while it was snacking on the plane's crew takes the claw tip back with him to be analyzed by a thousand year old scientist br br grandpa scientist can't make heads or tails of the claw mostly because he's missed his naps so his mind isn't functioning too well so he calls in a smug paleontologist played by the guy who was the p i in perry mason he and his friend a transvestite photographer fly north because he's decided that the claw must have come from a praying mantis just one the size of a commuter train br br it's luke warm love at first sight when col first sets eyes on the she male photographer the men at the base obviously having been deprived for many years think she's the hottest thing to come along since granny clampett smug science guy and smarmy soldier guy start working together to track the path of the mantis which has devastated some stock footage of an eskimo village it comes to the base looking for an after dinner snack and crushes some cheap sets quite effectively then it flies south and disappears br br now comes the tense hours when the civilian ground observer core are called on to sweep the skies looking for anything large flying overhead i doubt that in reality they would have been told that they were looking for a giant flying mantis that eats human beings since that would haver caused a panic probably they were told to look for a giant that was painted green and because its engine was out of tune br br col goes up in a plane to try to shoot the mantis down and botches the mission the mantis lands in new york city probably because it wanted to take in a show on broadway or visit sex world in times square the army corners it in the tunnel and and his men don stupid suits that they borrowed from the man to go in and try to blow the mantis up success well almost since the mantis is still twitching enough that it almost kills the eve arden photographer lady there's a tepid love scene at the end and the paleontologist takes a picture of the dead mantis because colonel hair grease and ms gender unspecified are busy smooching so kind of a nauseating ending
0	so you're a giant mantis and you've been hanging out in the arctic for a while and you're tired of eskimos hitting you with snowballs what's a giant mutant insect to do head for the big city of course see the sights maybe catch a show on broadway but wait just when you find a nice cozy tunnel to call your own some pesky humans start attacking you argh time to smash br br anyhow this movie is one step up on most other giant bug movies because it has pretty decent fx for 1957 but that's about it avoid unless you really need to see another big bug smash things or see another perry mason actor in a b movie br br 4 10
0	i got hold of a discount copy of this i had seen it several years ago my only recent experience had been mystery science theatre where it was soundly spoofed one never really gets a chance to get into these movies because of all the byplay i love the beginnings of fifties horror movies they give us a pompous lecture on the defense systems near the arctic these were there to protect us from the expected soviet invasion but they should come in handy given the threat of very large insects br br this particular one flies for some reason despite its exoskeleton made of the stuff grasshoppers are made of they can still fend off air to air missiles and disable fighter planes br br anyway it's more fun first the obligatory deranged case who saw the flying thing cooling his heels in a hospital it just teaches one see an insect as big as a house keep your mouth shut i wonder if the poor guy got to go home after they found the bug br br otherwise this is a pretty ordinary effort it follows the usual efforts to come up with a way of the stubborn bug and leaves us open to other possibilities the russians next time i still get a kick out of these films and this one is serviceable
0	the deadly mantis certainly won't scare any one but as sci fi programmers go it is better than most a volcanic eruption at the south pole thaws out a giant prehistoric preying mantis at the north pole military men go missing dr ned william hopper hopper's son and best known as paul drake on television's perry mason is called in to i d the creature but by this time the creature has eaten up several eskimo and is en route to the washington monument br br about a third or more of the film consists of stock footage old government educational films military men in radar rooms air planes and would you believe eskimos putting out to sea which explains of course why a tribe of eskimo is attacked in the movie hey guys think we can work this in mix in some negligible special effects some clunky dialogue and some sexist attitudes and you're good to go not as original as the monster that challenged the world but fans of 1950s big bug schlock will enjoy it and the kids will have a good time throwing popcorn at the screen br br gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
0	other commenters have described this movie as classic 1950s scifi with clever use of stock footage and documentary footage and clever character interaction br br nothing could be further from the truth br br yes this is classic 1950s scifi but 1950s scifi at its most blindingly stupid worst br br consider that the first prey is a radar station shown first from the air then on the ground but the station is from the air pictured as on a with snow on one side and semi cleared dark ground on the other side but when on the ground investigators visit the site it's suddenly on a flat evenly white plain miles from the nearest mountain br br consider also the ludicrous pseudo scientific babble of the highly recommended expert who is brought in to examine a huge claw he says well we know one thing it can't have come from an animal because every known species of animal has a bony skeleton even reptiles and birds have bones he then goes on to say that some creatures snails insects do not have bony skeletons me let's define animal here not even in the 1950s could anyone over the age of six take this man as an expert in biology since he clearly doesn't know what an animal is nor have the ability to name several broad categories of animals who lack bony skeletons sharks rays jellyfish insects mollusks arthropods you get the idea the characters are cardboard 2d stock types scientist sidekick girlfriend big bad monster nothing here shows any sense of creativity no pulse no life signs br br there're no witty dialogs the special effects are silly even for their time and the stock footage is employed with a reckless disregard for continuity this is b movie making at its dead worst with a production crew that clearly couldn't be bothered to try even br br use sparingly as sleeping medicine or punishment for small children who're easily offended by bad science
0	it's been mentioned by others the inane dialogue in this series and i agree br br if mom and daughter were really that sharp witted they should be queen and princess of the universe not kicking around in some little town br br i've really tried to watch a few episodes but when the witty staccato mumbling pop culture drivel starts i flip the channel br br i watched a bit of a new episode to see if anything had changed for the better i'd hoped but nope same old we're so clever with our references to pop culture that i nearly barfed br br long time fans who aren't happy with the newer seasons might just be up and getting sick of the regurgitated that never stops
0	this movie starts by showing you a map and then explaining radar and it is quite awhile before you ever see the deadly mantis probably a better movie in the 50's this dated piece is a bit to slow moving and the pay off in the end isn't very good though it has its moments like when the guy from perry mason argues with an old man and when he says i have narrowed the possibilities to one excuse me but when you narrow something down you have a couple or more possibilities not one if you get it down to one you haven't narrowed it down but you have in fact figured out what it is the monster is standard 50's sci fi fair better than say the grasshoppers in the beginning of the end acting is sub par and the heroine is the most unattractive in fact in some shots she does look like a guy in drag you see plenty of fighter plane stock footage and other things but you won't see much at all of the deadly mantis
0	something strange is happening in remote areas of the arctic an air force weather station is found wrecked its occupants missing an eskimo village is destroyed a fishing vessel disappears curious are found in the snow a four foot piece of a living organism is found near a destroyed airplane the piece looks like half of the claw of a giant alaskan crab the military craig stevens as an air force officer and its experts are baffled a distinguished scientist william hopper and his pretty assistant alix are called in from new york hopper deduces from this flimsy evidence that they are dealing with a monstrous praying mantis he's right the pretty assistant happens to look out the window of the office and sees the hideous face with its bulging eyeballs staring in at her she drops what she's carrying her hands to her cheeks and screams in horror br br the mantis begins flying south along the gulf stream pausing now and again to attack major population centers like washington and new york to overturn buses and eat people military weapons don't affect it much but finally stevens crashes into it in his jet fighter and mortally damages the beast which comes to earth and occupies the manhattan tunnel linking new york and new jersey br br stevens having survived the collision leads his team into the tunnel and kills the big bug with mines despite its fierce appearance threatening behavior and earth shattering roars stevens and kiss in front of the body while hopper chuckles and takes their picture br br ho hum br br like the deadly mantis itself the formula by this time was panting and gasping for air flopping around seeking as its prey not human beings but anything at all in the way of a fresh or original idea as it is they overlooked one cliché hopper should have hurriedly had to invent a super duper ddt that alone could defeat the insect that's what the mines should have been filled with rather than ordinary explosive br br the model work is pretty good considering what the budget must have been not much money could have been spent on anything else because everything else is pretty routine craig stevens is bland a face and style made for a tv series william hopper looks right tall and silver haired but his instrument has only one note the pretty assistant is rather plain considering her role the part calls for joan or laurie nelson they couldn't act either but carried with them slight but distinct of anything would have helped this fagged out movie br br i wish the deadly mantis hadn't roared so loudly and so often because you can't roar you can't even whisper if you don't have lungs i didn't mind though when the monster met its demise in the tunnel a praying mantis is a graceful insect in its own spindly way and it's great to have them in the garden because they eat and whatnot but when you get right down to it they aren't really very appealing the male mantis is smaller and weaker than the female as in humans and when the couple are just about through copulating the female bites the head off the male also as in humans but at least human males know when to stop the male mantis keeps on copulating for several minutes even though he is now without a head we humans don't have mindless males copulating with goal driven females do we
0	a giant praying mantis is awakened from its sleep in the artic region and heads south causing havoc boats planes and trains meet their match with the flying creature before unleashing its full wrath on nyc the mantis meets its doom at the hands of the armed forces in a new york tunnel the special effects are of course crude by todays standards but for a ten year old boy in 1957 this was very memorable br br starring are william hopper craig stevens alix and pat conway
0	roy rogers as roy and sidekick raymond hatton as rusty join teddy roosevelt's rough riders soon they get suspended in order to round up the killer of partner eddie as tommy along the mexican u s border they discover creepy gold runners in the process notice how even suspended mr rogers is able to get the rough riders to join in his round up br br this is not one of the better roy rogers westerns the fighting scenes look like choreographed dances rogers sings down the trail one of two relatively ordinary songs and a stand out moment overall br br rough round up 3 13 39 joseph kane roy rogers raymond hatton lynne roberts
0	i've never been a huge fan of almodovar but generally i've always found something to enjoy in his films unfortunately i had more trouble finding something to enjoy in broken embraces then i would normally think i would br br i find the biggest failure in broken embraces to be the characters and the lack of depth they display the film is essentially a love story one that is tragic and one that wants to involve the viewer in their stories i found this problematic from the beginning br br in the opening scene our 'hero' the director screenwriter mateo is having sex with a very attractive young woman whom he just met his agent comes in as the woman bashfully leaves br br in the opening scene our 'hero' the director screenwriter mateo is having sex with a very attractive young woman whom he just met his agent comes in and rolls her eyes as the woman bashfully leaves mateo babbles something about needing to enjoy life as the only thing he has left having been blinded in a tragic car accident that also killed his 'true' love lena played by penelope cruz the viewer might buy into to this notion except the rest of the film really never illustrates why lena was the love of his life or any depth to his character or any other br br cruz plays lena the mistress to an industrialist named ernesto martel from the outset their union is rather a pathetic one as martel clutches jealousy to lena and lena avoids uncertainty of being on her own by staying with the much older martel to skip ahead martel finances a film for mateo so he can keep tabs on the star of the film lena naturally without any back story lena and mateo fall in love and in almodovar's world it really is that simple mateo in the opening scene has sex with a sexy young woman now mateo falls in love with lena later it's revealed he had a son with his agent after their love affair her son responds to this information with a laugh and an oh well again no depth no understanding for any of these characters it all just happens from the beginning of the film to the end i got no depth of emotion from mateo he is flat and doesn't act much different from one scene to the next br br the one scene i did enjoy was when film producer martel is watching video footage his son recorded under the guise of doing a documentary of mateo there are nice a moment of martel watching obsessively as a lip reading confirms his worst fears later lena confronts martel as he's watching the footage and speaks her part out loud matching the video footage of her lips as she talks some quite brilliant moments rather contrived but still really fascinating br br unfortunately for me the rest of the film left me rather bored i couldn't care about these characters or their situations so no amount of cleverness on almodovar's part can make up for this lack of depth i think if you're a fan of his work you'll enjoy this movie but if you're like me in between then you'll find it lacking
0	in short this movie is a declaration of artistic bankruptcy br br almodovar is easily the most important european film maker of the 80s and 90s no other living director has shaped the style and contents of present day european cinema more than him it is therefore not easy to say that his latest effort is not just another disappointment after two lackluster films but rather a complete and total disaster confirming that he has run out of ideas out of humour and worst of all empathy for the characters he creates br br that is not due to the complexity of the story all almodovar films are almost impossible to summarize this time in fact it's rather easy if you are familiar with his earlier work broken embraces is a remake of law of desire only this time the director is straight and the jealous jilted lover is a millionaire br br for those of you not familiar with that film i'm doing a summary if you don't want to know too much please skip this paragraph a blind man who used to be a famous movie director seduces a sexy buxom woman reading a paper to him after a chance street encounter yes really that's how it starts just then he gets a visit by his agent and best friend he mentions to her that he has learned from the paper that a certain millionaire has died which takes the story 14 years back he can still see and is about to direct his next film he stars the inexperienced mistress of the said millionaire as the lead as he is instantly smitten with her the millionaire discovers their affair via silent videos made by his gay son which he has lip synched by an interpreter a few great scenes cecilia roth after violent quarrels the mistress escapes with the director to a seaside resort where he learns that the millionaire who produced the film had it released in the worst possible edit destroying the director's reputation the couple decides to return but has an accident in which the director turns blind and the would be actress dies back in the present he learns that his agent has preserved the film's negatives and starts to reconstruct it br br as in bad education there are various sub plots to beef up this rather thin story and as in bad education the result is more confusing than satisfactory for instance the agent's son who works as a dj has an accidental drug overdose which is completely unnecessary for the plot and also interpreted rather badly br br mostly however the actors are not to blame but the way their characters are written blanca as the agent has so many skeletons in her closet that not even a brilliant performance can save the character from ridicule is an old man's dream of a protagonist living in an artificial world where an english alias and a few sweet words can seduce any super model and penelope cruz is the embodiment of this old man's sexual fantasy her character is completely lifeless it remains thoroughly incomprehensible why she would go from one old man who at least helped her family to a slightly less old man who isn't charming enough to convince as either a romantic hero or a passion fuse br br but all these shortcomings wouldn't make this film so awful however almodovar does the worst possible thing of a director or any type of storyteller running out of ideas he quotes himself something he has increasingly done and to very little benefit the film within the film which broken embraces uses as a plot driving device is actually women at the verge of a nervous breakdown 1988 only this time it is called chicks and suitcases this rather unimaginative title may give you a hint how this beloved classic is treated here while the dialog making up the final ten minutes of broken embraces is a frantic over the top exchange of screwball one liners in the original film here it is a stern colorless pesky business encounter br br in conclusion this is the d o a brainchild of an exhausted creator of past marvels pretty much as awful and disappointing as the last indiana jones feature maybe not so many people would agree with that because almodovar used to be such a genius i'd rather offer my respect to his accomplishments by humbly asking the reader to watch all about my mother or tie me up or high heels or matador all of which bear witness to almodovar's unique and unmatched talent a few more film like this and his legacy may very well be destroyed for good
0	what can i say about the pleasure planet that i haven t said about umpteen other tedious soft core porn films very little it s just another movie with a very weak plot used to set up very unconvincing set scenes between male non actors who spend too much time in the gym and bimbos who have obviously had silicon implants actually the sex scenes in this movie are somewhat less convincing than you usually see in this type of film as the cast members grind their hips together giving pained expressions like they ve got constipation or something no wonder a lot of people claim sex is over rated they ve probably watched too many of these films on late night cable stations
0	honest to god the outline pretty much says it all the planet not to be confused with aunt jemima is represented by a cheap l a stripclub there's no strippers so the most recent male visitors go off to recruit strippers br br the men get mistaken for kings or arrested for spying on women although despite the fact its a planet of women we only get two women who participate in any girl girl sex scenes and eventually as always happen in science fiction cliche movies everywhere the women become convinced that men are good for something well not the men who made this movie at any rate br br but boy do we get to see a lot of that something in prodigious amounts of softcore sex and nudity this one has less plot then usual for such flicks so change the channel if you don't like this kind of movie and grit your teeth if you're into this kind of thing
0	what the hell is this that was my first reaction to this film actually my first reaction contained more swearing this isn't star wars star wars is space battles this movie has none star wars is the force this movie only has a retarded witch with a magic ring star wars is lightsaber battles this movie hasn't got any battle worth mentioning star wars is humor this movie isn't star wars is a galaxy far far away this movie has horses in it besides all of this how did lucas get the insane idea to let a five year old baby do the leading role big big disappointment do you like star wars don't watch this 1 out of 10
0	this movie is awful at first i thought it may appeal to children due to the cuddly ewoks the fury little people from stars wars after sitting through this monstrosity of a movie i am certain that not even a 4 year old would find this movie interesting the special effects are by far the best of this movie and compare well for other 80ies tv movies the script is bad the actors especially miller and unbelievably bad and the flick is so predictable that i still can't believe i was able to not touch the forward button on my vcr however i came close to switching this mess off more than once
0	i decided to watch this show and give it a go but i found it to be boring and more importantly dull dull br br there is far too much sarcasm and the characters are all dull there is far too much talking and the character just keeps talking on and on and on during a second glance felt like suffocating the characters the banter doesn't work and the whole love and romance thing just ruins what is already a crap show i can't believe this show survived past the pilot this seems to be a show which forces the to your parents' line no actual drama exists br br should have stayed a pilot and a pilot alone
0	i have officially vomited in my own mouth thanks to this movie br br i expected the absolute worst with this movie but i expected a heartwarming and pleasurable absolute worst this is just terrible absolutely terrible terrible like nazis spreading the black plague let me explain ewoks are speaking english it's horrible br br the villain girl looks like she travelled from the future set of power rangers i really really want her to rise up from the ground and say at last after ten thousand years i'm free it's time to conquer earth the er i mean the big bad whatever the heck they are they growl a lot many of them look like an even lamer version of the cryptkeeper the cryptkeeper was pretty cool but these guys were not br br the only merit to this movie was paul gleason this movie might have been better if he'd went to the bad guys and said if i have to come in here again i'm skulls it would have been even better if one of the ewoks was played by judd nelson who mouthed his words as he said this br br also that speedy little creature is pretty badass word to that br br no word to the movie though i want to give this movie a two i want to so badly there's a passage i have memorized the path of this movie is beset on all sides by the inequities of terribleness and the tyranny of spin off awfulness blessed is nothing for this movie blows
0	what a stupid idea ewoks should be enslaved and tortured utterly useless as a species fine you want ten lines of text regarding my unending hatred of ewoks fine here it is fool first of all they are an inferior race that would be slaughtered en mass had lucas not the entire series with their foul presence they're little bears with large asses and they probably smell like donkey crotch yeah i said it donkey crotch they have little to no technology whatsoever resorting to using sticks as makeshift weapons i'm surprised they even had access to fire their guttural language makes my skin crawl can't suppress anti ewok rage ahhh
0	finally i can connect the dots between return of the jedi and phantom menace we see here where lucas lost touch with what made the original star wars films great and began to descend into the plot less tripe that ruined episodes 1 3 this film is more like one of those cheesy low budget 80s swords and sorcerer films than anything worthy of being associated with the star wars saga as with the jar jar character this seems targeted at children and the toy market the battle scenes are particularly bad it was depressing to see phillips' incredible talent go to such a waste after her classic performance in i claudius
0	i decided to watch this ultra low budget film from the poverty row studio prc because it co starred the exciting character actor lionel i really liked the title even though atwill often played in these cheap movies his excellent style of acting always made the films seem a lot better as his screen persona was great his real life is also quite of like a bizarre soap opera the reason i use the term poverty row is that this was a nickname given to the very cheapest and worst production companies of the era many of these weren't even real studios but production companies that rented space and sets from the major studios at night yes there is a good chance this was filmed after normal working common thing for such studios br br the story begins with lionel atwill telling his friends a story about something that he was involved with years ago a doctor falls in love with a lady but he's afraid to tell her about himself that's because his job is putting people to death on death exactly a glamor job the doc asks his friend atwill for advice on how to break it to her but regardless she won't have the man later you realize it's because her own parents were criminals br br later a man is killed and the lady is it's obvious to anyone with a brain that her sister was involved and is a bit of a nut and the evidence against the lady was poor but apparently the jury was filled with brainless people and she was convicted and sent to death row even more brainless is that her old boyfriend was the man who was responsible for her execution don't you think someone else might just be able to handle this case until this fateful hour her friend atwill spends much of the film trying to prove her prove that the flaky sister knows far more about the case than she'll admit br br overall the movie is only mildly interesting and a bit silly while it is watchable and atwill is good as usual the rest of the film never really rises above the mundane and some of the acting is pretty shabby it's sub par and about what you'd expect from such a low budget nothing more despite the cool title
0	lord this sucked there's a particular sort of sexual revolution flick from the 60s that manages to confuse sexual assault with sexual liberation this film is an example i lost track of how many times women are slapped hit whipped or spanked in the film and then there are all the times that women in the film fantasize about being slapped hit whipped or spanked you know they want it right sometimes it is ostensibly part of safe fetish play acting other times it plainly isn't but you will wait in vain to see the heroine report to authorities that she has just been raped instead we get to hear her being lectured by her rapist about her inability to let go br br every scene of this film reeks of misogyny speaking as a straight white married man in his late 30's not a teenage lesbian women's studies major with a chip on her shoulder lest you get the wrong idea br br perhaps the one good thing about this film is that it provides a stark reminder of just how bad things really were for women only a few short decades ago
0	flipping through the tv and saw that the secret life of was on gave george duran a shot at being the host i know that jim o'connor was very energetic and that nobody could be as much as him but george was well dull he really didn't seem to want to be hosting his voice overs were monotonous didn't get involved with the guests it seemed like he was interviewing guests for unwrapped and he just happened to be in the shot i don't know if george is going to get better hosting this show i doubt it because he has hosted his own show now the show did seem to pack more info in but only because we saw less of the host the formula of this show was very delicate and i fear it has now been disrupted for good
0	i have never really been interested in cannibal movies before and up until a couple of months ago i had avoided this genre of movie br br i recently had to undergo knee surgery and found i had a lot of time on my hands as i was unable to work so i decided after seeing almost every horror movie our local video shop had to offer i would take a chance on this br br christ was it a mistake i have never seen a movie this bad in all my years of being a movie addict this is just a pile of s t pasted to a d v d disc and sold as a horror movie br br i have a lot of respect to other horror fans who can switch their brains off long enough to enjoy this crap they are more brain dead than i ever will be and that is some achievement 0 10 and thats generous
0	the hills have eyes is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination for one the villains look almost normal not what you would expect deranged lunatics to look like for another the pacing is very slow at times and there are many scenes of the characters repeating themselves by that i mean there is a lot of filler in the movie with a lot of running around aimlessly the film didn't have a clear direction the plot of the movie is hardly original even for its time the texas chainsaw massacre came out a few year earlier and is a much more effective film as far as horror goes the film has little in the way of scares and the pounding soundtrack just served to be both grating and distracting all at once i suppose the music was used to cover up the fact that not much happens through much of the movie though it failed in its intended purpose i basically kept looking at the time every few seconds hoping something would happen or it would end when something finally did happen any promise the film had was ruined by mere chaos and loud noise i sat through it because i like to give a film the benefit of the doubt yes there is some loud screaming and yes people die but who cares much too slow getting to any sort of pay off if you can call it that my buddy enjoyed it so at least one of us got something out of it the hills have eyes isn't the worst film we could have watched but i doubt i will watch it again this film was remade in 2006 and i will also have review of that version anyway this movie was painfully slow at times while other times was chaotic and repetitive unless you like watching paint dry occasionally interspersed with someone running around your block screaming their head off stay away from this movie a better bet would be the original texas chainsaw massacre 1973 1 5 out of 10 which is being generous
0	tagline the lucky ones died before watching this br br i've never watched a bulgarian movie from 1920's so i can't say this is the worst movie ever made but it surely is the worst movie i've ever watched i can't almost remember it br br all i can recall is a family of stupid people who don't do anything right their car has one wheel out of four stuck in the sand so they decide that there's nothing to do and prepare to live the rest of their lives there then there's an old man who is aware of the existence of a band of cannibals in the whereabouts but has never considered the idea to report the fact to the police br br and speaking of the police if those freaks have lived around there eating humans for years lots of people must have disappeared how come the sheriff didn't suspect anything br br but i gave up asking questions after the first five minutes or so the rest is bore an unbelievable bore br br i will be merciful and won't speak about the dialogues and the acting and the effects br br i will only mention the final scene where the freak girl eliminates a snake the snakes they come out in the end what the hell do they have to do with the story with a sniper precise throw of a stone demonstrating the full disregard of mr craven for reality and for things that happen on planet earth in general br br i believe there have been riots when the film was first released in 1977 br br even being eaten by a cannibal wouldn't be a fair punishment to the director for this attack on intelligence
0	this movie was recommended to me by several people and after reading all the positive comments from this site i went ahead and bought a copy of the film off ebay the acting in the film is average and a bit hammy especially by the family of cannibals one sequence comes to mind when jupiter is ranting and raving to the burnt corpse speaking right into the camera its one of those performances where you just cringe and feel bad for that poor actor its also evidence of some of the worst editing i've seen theres a terrible jump cut right in the middle of his speech there are a few creepy moments though and at times the music works well but overall the film isnt that great and i dont know why people think wes craven is that great of a director thus far he hasn't showed me anything that i believe to be brilliant the only thing that improved with cravens films production to was his budget
0	when i first watch this series the impression i got was that the characters were charming and funny and rory in particular were witty and intelligent albeit a bit too talkative after watching it for some time however my opinion changed br br the main characters slowly revealed themselves to be self centered self obsessed who treated tiny wounds to their pride as the worst insults in their existence for example rory wouldn't speak to her mother for months when didn't consult her on her impulsive marriage while dumped luke for simply wanting a little time to adjust to his new life circumstances these people are shallow see themselves as the center of the universe where everyone else should behave exactly according to how their own rigid rules and if they don't they will hold grudges against them for an eternity they don't want to see other people's problems and treat the smallest slight as the gravest offence most of the characters appear to lack the ability to behave in a grown up way they think they should do whatever that they wanted and everyone else be damned br br the series is character based so when the main characters became so unlikeable the show also became impossible to watch i still have the rest of the series but i doubt if i will ever finish watching them i will also hold anyone who think highly of the show and its awful characters with the greatest suspicion they must just as horrid as et al
0	infamous horror films seldom measure up the hype that surrounds them and i have yet to come across a worse offender than wes craven's the hills have eyes having held back from watching this for years i was really pleased when i got it for christmas and waited for an evening when my girlfriend was out to settle down and watch it knowing her extreme dislike for anything genuinely horrifying i needn't have bothered br br after a promising if familiar start that firmly sets the film in the world of survival horror things rapidly go to pieces when the protagonists and antagonists meet in the deserted wasteland br br looking like it was shot on a budget of 5 with the cannibal costumes hired from a dodgy fancy dress shop that specialises in faux caveman and red indian attire the story follows an annoying bunch of unsympathetic wasps who take a detour on a road trip to california to look for a silver mine in a nuclear testing zone when they break down they are set upon by the local family of flesh eaters and have to fight to survive br br while hoping for another deliverance texas chainsaw massacre wrong turn or devil's rejects i actually realised i'd stumbled across something that should have remained dusty and unwatched in a backstreet video store's bargain bin br br with gallons of tomato ketchup for blood and a couple of gruesome wound close ups i can kind of see how an 18 certificate in the uk is justified but with those close ups trimmed this wouldn't have looked out of place as a saturday afternoon thriller on itv br br the whole silver mine nuclear test site subplot is just a mcguffin to justify pitching the family against the primitives but given how easily the savages get their asses whupped it stretches credibility to think that they had survived for a generation preying on passers by br br and then there's the ending or lack thereof the hills have eyes seems to be missing either a third act or at the very least a satisfying denouement instead i was just left wondering yeah and
0	i really don't see how anyone could enjoy this movie i don't think i've ever seen a movie half as boring as this self indulgent piece of junk it probably would have been better if the director hadn't spent most of the movie showcasing his own art work which really isn't that noteworthy another thing i didn't really like is when a character got punched in the face a gallon of blood would spew forth soon after i don't know how folks bleed over there in japan but i hope they have plenty of blood donors
0	so it has come to this in the top rated comment on this flick somebody says is an honorable man really this is a guy who mainly kills and maims people in the movie he takes a short break to rob a bank honorable how would you like your kids to go to school with the kids of someone who calls that honorable wait there's more the person also says we can tell he's constantly thinking how can we do that well do you know that joke how can you tell when a ceo politician lawyer is lying his her lips move well lips never move so i guess that means he is thinking br br of course this is existentialism to warm the hearts of the cult of victimization supposedly stresses that an individual take responsibility for the consequences of one's acts not borrow money from the yakuza what they want it back kill them the cops find out kill yourself and your wife br br really honorable
0	hana bi has many quiet moments and fairly slow pacing unfortunately during the many thoughtful interludes the viewer is left to ponder about the recent scenes just watched and many questions surface and annoy br br for example why didn't the wheelchair guy drown in the ocean when he was stuck in the sand and the tide came up around him there was no rescue seen or hinted at br br can it be true that japanese police are so inept and unskilled at arrest procedures as to not first remove the ability to reach for a weapon these detective level japanese police seemed to have no experience dealing with a suspect br br why doesn't the right eye of the lead character blink having one eye blinking was distracting and it went unexplained br br what exactly was the lead character spending all his money on to have to borrow so much from loan sharks he was not seen gambling being a non entry level government employee his wife must have had full health insurance br br what was the single man doing all by himself in the middle of nowhere in the nature park what was his reason for being there br br how in the world could the gangsters find the lead character and his wife up in the far off nature reserve it made no sense br br and again how could the gangsters later find the lead character and his wife up in the remote mt fuji resort there were absolutely no clues available for these gangsters to even know which country the lead character and his wife were in let alone the correct specific location at the correct specific time br br and a third same question how could the junior detectives know which few feet of the japanese coast line to find the lead character and his wife the japanese coast line must be vast were all of these characters supposed to have psychic powers br br two final questions the cute girl trying to fly a kite on the beach where did she come from she seemed to have no transportation or companions with her and why in the world did she still keep attempting to fly what was left of her kite after it was ripped in pieces this was weird unintentionally python esque br br on the positive side i loved the background music it was dramatic and flowing and added much to this movie the photography imagery and art were pleasing to the eye br br one final point the wife was overly pleasing to the eye not once did she ever come close to looking like a dying sick person she looked very healthy if anything these people seemed depressed and mentally ill and not physically sick the husband treated his wife as perhaps a newly gay man would treat a respected wife a love of friendship but not close tenderness br br a mixed movie for sure
0	the only reason this show did not get a 0 is because one is not available this show has gone from informative news to sensationalized claptrap i tried to support this show in its decline because i like human interest stories and primetime used to have some very good ones unfortunately april 21st has forever changed my mind about this show and the unethical newscasters that participate in it abc actually recorded a brutal case of child abuse and then refused to show it until the statute of limitations had run out and the parents could not be arrested on the charges they should have faced what made it worse was how abc swept the whole incident under the rug instead of taking charge and seeking true professional help for these disturbed individuals they had some pop psychologists send stern warnings to the audience about how they shouldn't judge these poor angels too harshly i was truly sickened i hope this review stops one person from watching this investigative trash in the future if it does i will be happy these days all you can expect from diane sawyer and the good folks from primetime live are butt kissing sessions with a list celebrities and criminal acts covered up and praised to the stars don't waste the hour of your life you'd be better off watching an old sitcom on nick at nite
0	i'm sorry to say this but i didn't enjoy this movie at all it was just too boring so boring that i couldn't watch the rest of it it's not as interesting as the lion king or aladdin that's why i hate this stupid days because these days are just not what they used to be the movies that disney have released lately really sucks i miss the old days when they used to produce good movies like the lion king aladdin pocahontas cinderella the aristocats and robin hood this movie is really awful i really tried my best to be interested in this movie but i just couldn't i don't think i could recommend this film to anyone i would recommend the ones that i just mention above
0	hi there i watched the first part when it came out and i don't remember having left such a bad impression on me as this one br br first the animation is choppy wooden not worked on lacks i understand the drawing style was to be of some kind but it could be done with the usual disney finesse see tarzan to see what i mean if i didn't see the disney logo in the beginning i would never say it was a disney movie br br second the plot was more like a pc game style like a good old quest not that it was bad but it lacked a story that binds the viewer to the characters and their goals it was at least the film was meant for children but this was waaay to childish at times br br third the music i would say it was improper but it just fits the whole scene with the plot and animation br br overall i think this was some kind of an amusement just by the way kind of project by several apprentice animators just to fill in the count for disney movies sorry to hear that from myself a big disney lover
0	i am finding that i get less and less excited about disney's sequels to movies yes i do understand that the budget for the direct to video movies are not the same but these movies don't even try some examples are hunchback ii and tarzan and jane if anyone has seen the previews for stitch the movie you will see my point but i digress this movie reaffirms my point the animation is sloppy the story lines resemble saturday morning cartoons and not all of the original voices are there i was very disappointed not to hear michael j fox's voice it was so glaringly obvious that the person doing milo's voice was trying to sound like fox but didn't come close to succeeding br br if it says anything my children ages 10 and 6 didn't even sit through the whole movie
0	my main criticism with the movie is the animation i totally agree with everyone else it was very poor some of the characters seemed to have darker skin tones than they did in the first film which is much better also the background colours looked rushed and somewhat static it is also a shame that michael j fox didn't voice milo he did such a good job and james arnold taylor wasn't sure whether he was supposed to sound like milo or aladdin i have also taken into consideration the lack of a good storyline the third story was confusing and clumsily told and the second story suffered from poor scripting to make things worse the first one i can't even remember other than a fishing village being haunted or something like that however there was some nice music and good voice talents from john mahoney cree summer clancy brown and tom wilson that saved the film from total disaster all in all a disappointing sequel to a surprisingly good film 4 10 bethany cox
0	this movie was horrible and it doesn't even deserve to be called a movie the way i look at it it's more like three mediocre day time disney cartoon episodes strung loosely together to make a single video that pretends to be the sequel to the first atlantis movie which was way more well made and enjoyable and where do i even begin with the problems of this dvd the story the characters the pictures animation to me they're all bad and unwatchable firstly the story in this direct to video dvd is ridiculous and pointless the only good thing about it is that it is consistent that is consistently bad from the beginning to the end after the film's over i still don't know why milo has returned and how the incidents occur in the three small stories are related to each other or to atlantis itself and all i could remember about this movie was how bad it makes me feel after seeing it the characters feel wooden and lack personality and the drawings look a lot different than that in the first you can tell they're obviously not from the hands of the same animators from the first one as the dvd played on i found myself caring less and less about what might happen to the characters and just hoping the film would end soon besides the story and the characters mentioned above the picture quality is poor in this one too probably one of the worst in those direct to video products that disney has ever released as a fan of the the original atlantis the lost empire i couldn't be more disappointed in milo's return which is a total waste of time and money thank goodness i rented it first instead of buying it even so i still wish i'd never seen this crap or even known its existence
0	i tired on several attempts to sit down and watch this program gilmore girls it baffled me for i just couldn't put my finger on what this was about was this about a young woman having a baby young in life and never growing up was this about the daughter being more responsible than the mother was this about a rebellious rich girl and her non rebellious daughter what the heck is this show about finally i just didn't care the cast makes me want to scream the writing is neither smart or intelligent it's syrupy and tedious br br so why did i watch because i heard so many good things about this and i am not one to voice an opinion until i have watched knee jerk reactions are usually wrong so i watched a few times the first time i watched this i saw the mother running around like she was 12 and the daughter acting like she was 40 maybe that is what didn't attract me i never liked any of the freaky friday films not to say this is like that but there are some similarities br br also i have a friend who watches this show every week so i asked her what is this show about a very bright young lady usually articulate she never could give me a straight answer so i asked others who rave about it they really don't know either br br gilmore girls is turning out to be a tv program that's like an art house movie many of us wont get it but those that go try desperately to find a meaning where there really isn't one just to be hip yes i find lauren graham's annoying whine whine nasally whine a whole hour of that wow and the rest of the cast is about as memorable as yesterday's cheese sandwich the town is hokey the men are wimps the grand parents are boring and sadly i find nothing redeeming about any of these characters or care about anything they do it's like watching paint dry on the wall
0	i wish i could find some good things to say about this animated sequel but not really a sequel to atlantis the lost empire but this would be a very short comment the magic that the first one had is nowhere to be found here the animation is pretty poor all over the characters themselves are not very well drawn the backgrounds and the foregrounds are also not good there's very little attention to detail here and instead of a compelling and engaging story we have 3 short stories which are boring and don't make a lot of sense i swear even the characters sounded like they were bored and would rather be somewhere else which says that the voice actors were bored and wanted to be someplace else at least that's the impression some of the same actors return for this dismal effort but an integral par of the success of the first one was michael j fox as the main hero milo thatch i get the distinct impression this movie was just thrown together to capitalize on the success of the first one without much thought or care but at least cree summer returns as the voice of kida that's probably the only good thing about this movie and even she doesn't seem to have her heart completely in it mind you i guess you couldn't blame any of the cast for not giving their all considering what they had to work with or rather not work with this is a straight to video movie and i use the term loosely which should have went straight to the nearest landfill anyway shame on disney consumers deserve much better than this this one gets a 0 10 and a well deserved one at that p u
0	what the beep is going wrong with disney the last years are there totally run out of good ideas where is the magic where are the good animators the good songwriters the good directors the good okay i know walt himself and the famous nine old man can't come back but is this a reason to crank out countless of those cheap sequels and slowly but surely destroying the ideals of walt disney i never rent or bought a disney sequel of what movie however because i had read much enough about its absence of quality but atlantis milo's return was aired today on tv in germany and so i watch it it confirmed my doubts about sequels it was absolutely boring flaw animation primitive color rotation simple characters some unsuccessful tries to simulate the famous camera with cgi mediocre music and a patchwork of different simple stories it looks absolutely not like disney not like disney i know it looks like one of the countless cheap and simple animation series like dragonballz etc that aired every day on tv for children br br my first reaction after showing this crap was to load bambi in my dvd player to see disney's immortal magic depth spirit and charm again to see disney on its climax again to see the awesome art of handmade animation again bambi was the first and until today the only movie that i give 10 out of 10 stars but atlantis milo's return no magic no depth no charm no spirit it deserved only 3 out of 10
0	when i put this movie in my dvd player and sat down with a coke and some chips i had some expectations i was hoping that this movie would contain some of the strong points of the first movie awsome animation good flowing story excellent voice cast funny comedy and a kick ass soundtrack but to my disappointment not any of this is to be found in atlantis milo's return had i read some reviews first i might not have been so let down the following paragraph will be directed to those who have seen the first movie and who enjoyed it primarily for the points mentioned br br when the first scene appears your in for a shock if you just picked atlantis milo's return from the display case at your local or whatever and had the expectations i had the music feels as a bad imitation of the first movie and the voice cast has been replaced by a not so fitting one with the exception of a few characters like the voice of sweet the actual drawings isnt that bad but the animation in particular is a sad sight the storyline is also pretty weak as its more like three episodes of doo than the single adventurous story we got the last time but dont misunderstand it's not very good doo episodes i didnt laugh a single time although i might have once or twice br br to the audience who haven't seen the first movie or don't especially care for a similar sequel here is a fast review of this movie as a stand alone product if you liked doo you might like this movie if you didn't you could still enjoy this movie if you have nothing else to do and i suspect it might be a good kids movie but i wouldn't know it might have been better if milo's return had been a three episode series on a cartoon channel or on breakfast tv
0	because disney more often than not ignores the animation quality and a need for a good plot in their sequels this was actually a nice surprise i don't know why disney does not pay more attention to their sequels the graphics quality is always inferior no backgrounds worthy of the name disney inane plots and worse dialog with little or no attention given to the actual story and the caricature drawings are almost always worse than saturday morning cartoons in detail and quality br br the animation quality is still poor when compared to disney originals and the dialog is quite trite the story line and overall execution was really quite enjoyable br br while it is not as captivating it does not completely fail to capture the charm and or mystery from the first there is some hint of it tucked away here and there br br the children will like it at any rate br br it rates a 4 5 10 from br br the fiend
0	i will not say much about this film because there is not much to say because there is not much there to talk about the only good thing about this movie is that our favorite characters from atlantis the lost empire are back several of the bad things about this movie are that it has horrible characters it has horrible comedy horrible animation and james arnold taylor trying to copy the wonderful one and only michael j fox as milo james thatch the reasons for my criticisms are that all the characters are changed into something that they never were and never should be animation that has been downgraded to the lowest extent possible and finally why would somebody who did wonderful voice over work for obi wan kenobi in clone wars want to copy michael j fox i happen to have an answer to this because they are the same person who thought he had to copy eddie murphy from mulan in mulan ii yes sadly it is true br br
0	if you've seen atlantis 1 then you'd know that what made that film truly great was brilliant animation and a good script this movie was so sloppily drawn and animated the story is also dopey i was so disappointed in this half baked drivel that i couldn't make it past the first hour and man did i try the one thing this film had was that it expanded the mole character making him both more sympathetic and three dimensional take it from me judge this junk from the cover on the video box the cover is poorly drawn disney schlock clearly grabbing for an easy buck from an unsuspecting parent if this was a stand alone flick it wouldn't be so bad but riding on the coattails of a brilliant piece like atlantis makes it utterly
0	i watched this film with a group of nazis a french archaeologist and my ex girlfriend on a small island in the br br when the tape was started myself and my girlfriend were tied to a wooden stake at the far end of this cave like area i told her to close her eyes and no matter what happened not to open them the nazi's and the archaeologist didn't close their eyes and after a few seconds started screaming the nazi's faces melted and the head exploded br br after a few seconds the video tape popped out of the vcr and landed back in it's box and the top snapped shut myself and my girlfriend were left unharmed br br consequent to this experience the video cassette was put in a wooden crate and stored in a huge warehouse of identical wooden crates never to be see again
0	looking for a movie for your turkey film festival the roller blade seven is on my list of the ten worst films of all time the plot the story of a post apocalyptic roller samurai warrior is a convoluted hodge podge of film references of everything from star wars to the seven the acting fluctuates from bland to abysmal the scene where the villain tempts the old master is embarrassing to the point of jeering laughter frank black knight reminds one too much of john cleese's black knight in monty python and the holy grail word of advice frank when you stoop to doing a movie like this one your career is over i chanced upon this little stink bomb on a low end cable channel and i could not stop watching it is like watching a train wreck you just can't look away
0	this film is far and wide and beyond any shadow of a doubt the single worst and most contemptible film in the history of the universe br br it really is that bad br br personally i have always enjoyed the guilty pleasure of a terrible film and rented this one thinking it would be one of those to my immense disappointment it was not br br the script is delivered in a way that sounds as if they're reading the lines directly off placards the story makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and the actual film looks like it was shot on a home video camera i couldn't even finish watching it it is even worse than witch academy and that's quite a feat in itself br br i cannot even begin to fathom how a director could shoot this film and then still have the sense to believe it was decent enough to release br br painful awful horrendous
0	my house mate and i foolishly purchased the video of 'the roller blade from our local second hand video shop in the hope of finding a bad film to laugh at this film isn't even laughable it's pathetically poor worse even than jack frost 2 and that's saying something the script acting production stunts sound sets everything is absolutely terrible in some parts the actors haven't even learned their lines and are blatantly ad libbing or in one case actually having the lines read to them off set and simply repeating them set in the post apocalyptic zone' the film obviously consists of about 45 minutes of film many parts of which are edited badly or repeated ad nauseum from various different camera angles to make the film longer this gets tedious very quickly the plot makes no sense whatsoever it is apparently an amalgam of two books written by scott shaw there aren't even seven of them most of them aren't on blades they're wearing roller boots and it seems to me that mostly the film has been completely sold on the fact that there's about 3 minutes of female semi nudity in it the writer and star scott shaw obviously fancies himself somewhat of a samurai and throughout the film performs some very poor stunts and made up sword fighting moves that look massively amateurish despite all this his website states that the film should never be compared to a traditional film because it really pushes the boundaries of modern film making my house mate and i were left speechless by the whole ordeal and despite my frequent attempts to burn the videotape she has decided it may be some kind of ring esquire video curse that needs to be passed on if you see the video in stores take it from me leave well alone
0	usually when i don't see a show on an original run i find it later on cable and realize it's a gem the gimore girls is one of those rare exceptions i'm glad i missed it br br i truly despise shows that fill every minute of the actors space with rambling stupid boring banter this is one hour of just that the mother made me wonder if she is bipolar and off her lithium she never stopped talking every minute every second talking to every person she interacted with worse yet her speech is childish and soooo like valley girl she talked about guys her hair her mother her clothes like what's the for situation i've watched this show three times and still don't get the point of this series it's not a comedy it's not a drama it has no point except to make three generations of females in one family look like the girls from planet mars the males by comparison are smart and make the show somewhat watchable if ever existed and attempted to latch onto me with conversation i'd have to mace her to get rid of her she obviously doesn't know how to take a subtle hint to stop talking and start listening to someone else she also doesn't know how to really notice the existence of others br br in one show comes home from a date close to 10 pm she got the date after pursuing a guy she met at an auction she goes into her daughter's room where the daughter asks how it went she dithers on about how boring the guy was her date somehow got a few words in complained about how the man didn't stop talking choke hopefully the date learned how fortunate he was br br one other person here commented on how the mother acts like a teen and the daughter is the adult personality even dresses like her kid this obviously 40 something mom dresses and looks like she hit the mall with her high school pals in tow br br i thought that this show should have been followed by just shoot me because that's exactly how i felt
0	oh my bad clothing worse synth music and the worst david hasselhoff the 80's are back with vengeance in witchery an american italian co production helmed by infamous joe 'd'amato on the production side and short careered director thank heavens for small miracles fabrizio laurenti directing marketed as a kind of sequel to sam raimi's evil dead series in italy that was dubbed la casa in there witchery delivers some modest gore groceries and bad acting br br a mix of ghost story possessions and witchcraft the film bounces clueless from scene to another without letting some seriously wooden actors and hilarious day and night mix ups slow it's progress to expectable ending topped with some serious wtf surprise climax i just love the look on her face surprisingly laurenti manages to gather some suspense and air of malice in few very few scenes unluckily for him these few glimpses of mild movie magic go down quickly and effectively br br the plus sides are experienced when the gore hits the fan this department is quite effective and entertaining in that classic latex and red paint style of the 80's italo gore when things were made 100 hand made and as shockingly and vivid as modest budgets could allow i could only watch with sadistic glee and few laughters all the over the top ways that obnoxious characters and actors got mangled and misused one by one i only felt sorry for linda blair who apparently haven't been let to try any other than that good old possessed girl woman role ever in his career or so it looks like when checking out his filmography br br well folks not much more to tell and even less to tell home about don't expect too much when spending some rainy afternoon with this and probably you'll experience at least some mild fun it also helps if your rotten little heart pounds in the beat of 80's euro gore horror and speaking of hearts every movie that has david hasselhoff getting skewered by a sizeable metal object and bleeding heavily around the room and corridors must have it's one on the right place br br this is my truth what is yours
0	a post apocalyptic warrior goes off to save some kind of nun and on the way meets some cyber punks on skates who want to kick his ass this is one of the hardest to watch films ever there are scenes with silence that seems to last hours before somebody comes out with the next badly written badly acted line there are action sequences that keep repeating and we're not talking the 1 2 3 action repeat on a particularly good kick that was made popular by eastern directors we're talking many many repeats of long bad fight sequences this is incredibly confusing at first but then quickly becomes annoying as you're watching a 30 second sequence for the 2nd 3rd and 4th time any kind of plot or vision is lost within the confusing continuity the only thing thats keeps this film in the apart from the bet from a friend that i couldn't watch it all the way through without begging for it to be turned off and disposed off safely so it may harm no one else is the fact that although painful this film is unintentionally hilarious i'm not at all a fan of those so bad that it's funny type of films but at parts i was in tears other points to note are the quality of the sound and picture but this is forgiveable as it's obvious money was a major problem in the making of this film final verdict king of the so bad they're funny genre anybody having that kind of genre video night should get themselves a copy also lets not forget that it is actually the worst film i've ever seen
0	i knew that i was not about to see a quality film when this title was included in a 'b grade video night' at a friends place despite the warnings i was still surprised at just how bad this film was it was fortunate that there were a lot of us there to share the pain with each other the film attempts to tell the story of a dark future one in which hawk a mad max type of character heads off to rescue a damsel in distress in reality the plot is a thinly disguised excuse for the producers to promote their own philosophies on life watch the end credits and the people are not real' disclaimer at the end for a real laugh the movie is frequently lacking direction and fails to develop its characters to any degree whatsoever what's even worse though is the editing of this film the film repeats scenes often 10 to 20 seconds long up to 4 or 5 times in a row i think that this was an attempt to emulate things like jean claude van damme fight sequences but if it is it fails utterly the film would probably be about 1 3 of its length if we weren't forced to watch the main character move his head in front of the setting sun half a dozen times yes that's all that happens in that repeated scene i give this movie my 'worst film i've ever seen' award i doubt that it will be topped any time soon
0	i bought this movie from a market stall three years ago i gotta hand it to you when i sat down and watched it i thought this is gonna be another big action b movie ' obviously i was wrong while watching this film i began to realise that this movie was taking me to another planet full of cr p br br i began to get really bored and fed up with this film although i wanted to see was gonna happen in the end i really felt like it was really getting on my nerves br br the people behind the film may've brought some well known name actors into this project but what were they thinking even these actors couldn't save this film br br at the end of the film i felt like this was a waste of money just buying this low life sucker of film for a small amount of money a few months later i sent the tape off to charity i didn't want to see it again br br sorry but if you're thinking of watching a movie and then nodding off to sleep i can highly recommend it you me i'll rather go on pro plus and watch something decent br br disappointing 1 out of 10
0	for many years ed wood's classic 'plan 9' has been considered the worst film ever made forget it the roller blade seven is infinitely worse the cast is made up of famous peoples brothers and almost famous or has been actors and actresses the plot along with the budget and script are non existent the running time is made up not in the classic ed wood style of using stock footage instead there is endless slow motion and repeated action and as for the roller blade seven aren't even seven of them br br you must see this film just to know how bad film making can really be giving independent film makers everywhere hope
0	this has to be the greatest practical joke ever i'm amazed that all the other actors kept a straight face i might be wrong but the impression i get from this movie was that they duped frank stallone and joe estevez into acting in this movie that has a budget of just under 40 depending on how much those bats and spray painted equipment cost create the most incoherent movie ever created and sit back and laugh at the fact that joe estevez and frank stallone weren't in on the joke br br if by some chance they weren't kidding and they legitimately tried to make a real movie then i feel sorry for everyone involved in the creation i've had quite a love affair with cheesy movies but this movie is so bad i can hardly watch it they repeat pointless special effects so many times that it's obvious they were just trying to cover up the fact that they only shot 30 minutes of footage if i were forced to watch this movie on repeat i would bludgeon myself unconscious with my own hands after about one and a half times through no offense to the great frank stallone but i would rather watch sylvester teach a class for 10 hours than watch that movie ever again
0	okay let's cut to the chase there's no way i can give this anything other then 1 out of 10 and yet you have to see it the acting is bad but is nothing like as bad as the script which itself pales before the production values cardboard axes yup we've got then car floor mats painted silver and used as armour here it is br br the film itself pretends to be artistic but is just cheap the same shots are used repeatedly especially in the drawn out fight scenes there is thankfully very little dialogue and there is much 'artistic' music to ram home the horror br br and yet all this awfulness is compelling you have to watch it through just so that you can say you've seen it i've not even got onto the barren sets the 'plot' or the risible special effects this really is the 'how not to do it' school of filmmaking this must be viewed spread the word and let the world all join together in puzzling over what on earth is happening at the end br br the best thing though is that they made a sequel
0	it was foolishly with some degree of relish that i sat down to watch what a friend had promised would be the worst best movie experience of my life the mighty blade 2 years on and i'm still in therapy oh yes my dear friends it really is that bad they obviously got about 40 minutes of footage in the can and then decided to use said footage endlessly and repeatedly to brain numbing effect my only fear of the kind of post apocalyptic world featured in this turkey is that somehow some way a print of this abomination would survive truly the living would envy the dead
0	truly a great leap forward in the perfection of painful cinema br br everything about this film is bad acting if it can be called that lighting sound script if there was one editing direction camera work it is all atrocious there is not a single element that is done well if i thought that this was intentional then i might give the film some credit but i can not believe people would set out to make such a film br br this film is worth buying and screening to your worst enemies
0	in reality that happened the royal mother in law and father in law with the couple the day after the wedding and gave her the money in public this troubled young elisabeth so much that she never forgot the issue we must remember she was only 16 she was so embarrassed that she kept a fear for sex all her life perhaps this began to appear as a trauma also the constant meddling of her aunt and mother in law as you say she kept all her children away from her critiqued her teeth and manners which she considered inappropriate for an empress and when sissi finally went to venice with her husband and children her eldest daughter died and the mother in law blamed her for that unfortunate and premature death she never recovered
0	the figure of empress elizabeth of austria 1837 1898 is indeed mostly associated with romy schneider and the sissi trilogy by ernst marischka 1950s where beauty gentleness sweetness but also history are ever present this was the sissi perhaps myth for some however a powerful portrayal the spirit of the grandeur as well as the spirit of the bavarian simplicity and influenced much those films simply they did have a soul however jean daniel film though made 50 years later appears to be a wrong depiction of the empress and her life it seems to be an attempt to show something different to reveal some realism as a cure to sweetness yet it does not occur to add a lot but rather deprives the whole story of much let me analyze that in more details br br september 1898 sissi embarks at the port of geneva accompanied by her court maid she goes to visit dr mayer whom she is going to tell the whole life story in order to find herself in this tragic life the action consists of flashbacks to important moments in life yet these moments are presented and therefore someone not very knowledgeable of austrian history may get totally misled or confused much attention is drawn on bad marriage with the emperor franz josef the scene of her wedding night is a failure no one treated an empress like that i mean undressing and payment the focus on sissi being misunderstood is right historically however the points that her views differ from the rest of the are not the true ones where is her desire for peace where is her love to her nation where is her charity sissi appears to be rather very elegant modern liberal from the 21st century's point of view she foremost cares for her looks which is not true historically sissi had an inner life which is not showed in the film once women will wear trousers is a sentence said by her and occurs to be the image of the sissi presented in the movie sissi detests monarchy which is the film's noticeable criticism towards austrian empire moreover she partly accepts anarchist movements and to my very surprise she blames her husband emperor franz josef for the death of rudolph their son where is any mention in history that sissi was present in mayerling relation with sophie the mother in law is better shown however the scene of sophie's death seems barely authentic and the conversation a bit of cliché br br sorry to criticize so much but another crucial aspect of the movie which i find weak here are performances although arielle dombasle has her moments as sissi she generally does not suit to the role she looks more like a femme fa tale than a tragic empress her make up is seriously inaccurate as well as most of her gestures as the empress malik is a bit better as rudolph and may be regarded as the one raising the value of the performances in general yet stephane does no special job as sophie you simply don't get the impression of why she detests sissi she did despise her for the sake of young age while crowned for the sake of her behavior lifestyle and her believes partly it appears in the movie but definitely that is not enough but the greatest mistake is i think julien hans as was a count with pride honor patriotism here he appears to be a sort of libertine thinking only to make love to his queen and the portrayal is so weak that this performance is very very pale the accurate choice is ivanova as catherine she really fits to the role with her looks and her gestures but unfortunately her role does not require much time on screen br br a good point of this movie are some costumes and pretty authentic locations the port of geneva is well presented and the moment of death occurs to be a good surprise from the movie it does not appear to be how it really was however the moment is good from the perspective the empress walks and knows nothing that this is her final moment that is how she must have felt about it that is how one insane man destroyed a part of greatness of the world another good moment visually was when sissi talks to her son rudolph on but these moments are rare br br in sum it's not a good film it distorts a very eminent historical figure a significant historical time it tries to cure the sweetness of sissi trilogy but appears to offer nothing creative charm is gone grandeur is gone and history is ignored not very worth seeking out 3 10
0	this is an absolutely horrid excuse for a show people say its witty and intelligence i don't see how maybe because the characters use fancy words maybe because they are snooty use dry humor and have 2 dimensional personalities i went to an ivy league school and nobody acted anywhere near as obnoxious as these characters in fact had i met someone like them i would have likely strangled them the men act like little emotional pre teen girls and all the minority characters are based off stereotypes the characters are no at all authentic simply put they sound like a trailer park family trying to be rich and sophisticated this show is just another cookie cutter hit that brain dead prime time viewers eat up on a regular basis
0	this was a movie that could have been great if there were not so many unnecessary historical inaccuracies and if the actors had been chosen or made up to look a little more like the real persons not very difficult sissi did not go to mayerling to see her dead son she also did not die in the street they carried her on to the boat and then back to the hotel which was much more dramatic i am not sure about the wedding night but i find it exaggerated that a lady in waiting would undress the empress and leave her completely naked and that in the or that the emperor would announce very proudly yes i finally laid her to the assembled court as far as i know this was done right away on the first night and nobody rewarded her as if she were a streetwalker the saving grace of the movie is really stephane excellent actress and true to character
0	this film was bad i believe elton or is it mike wong starred in it anyway it was the wong that didn't have that goofy grin and looks meaner he plays a man who is hit over the head and suffers brain damage he recovers and gets revenge gordon liu is the only one worth seeing in this film but he doesn't get to do much but what little he does seems to make the br br others pale in comparison also the film has some cheesy rubber hawk that the wong guy controls this film is not worth renting or buying
0	well i'd have to say that i do own this film and i only like the ending the movie is boring and slow but the final fight is so funny lets just say that if the fake bird didn't attack the main evil guy this movie would be a 0 out of 10 the bird though makes it a 3 if you are truly bored or want something terrible to watch rent this and fast forward to the final battle
0	the credits at the end read all directed by shigeru that's a fitting way to phrase it because it seems like filmed material from several projects were thrown together somehow barely even attempting to make it all form one consistent work it more felt like one of those music clip things that are marketed as feature films to cash in on those video commercials just that here we have the marketable music and the live performances missing except for one scene which may as well be marketed as a weird music video clip in japan whatever br br it makes zero sense visually it isn't too special either although it has its moments for example the female creature with the death powder who is strapped onto a bed base and some morphing sh t throughout and it certainly has an industrial y feeling to it usually i'd call the effects dilettantish but what this film offers in this regard is baffling more than anything else you remember those cheap video effects from 70's and 80's music videos that make them look so dated like a picture within a picture flying through the screen there is quite a lot of these kind of effects in this and without any apparent reason the most half assed seeming effort comes in the form of a picture collage the pictures sort of look like album covers whatever br br i don't know what's up with the subtitles of the version i saw the chinese ones or whatever those hieroglyphics are sometimes seem to show up when nothing is even said and the english ones often show up without the chinese ones the english subs talk much about life without death is it possible and a mind without a body which provides what comes closest to a comprehensible conflict between characters in this film one guy a scientist dude says that life without flesh is death while another guy a metamorphosing dude who claims his mind is beyond his body now that he got the death powder blown into his face and that he now knows the secrets of the flesh and whatnot metamorphosing dude is visibly p ssed off about the scientist dude's claim whatever br br erm the end all written by perception de ambiguity
0	'gross was one of a series of texts released in australia during the early to mid 1990s that explored the supposed of the privileged heterosexual male in the age of feminism this creature only needs look at a pretty young thing and he's accused of sexual harassment and his life is ruined damn those women's grrr br br as my tone might suggest i don't buy any of this anti feminist bs and didn't enjoy this film the issues of sexual harassment and teacher student relations sexual harassment is here the product of a confused young woman's imagination and those professional boundaries that teachers are meant to maintain well when the teacher is a charming and handsome family man and played by jimmy well needn't worry about those br br sexist trash and even by reviewing it i'm giving it more time than it deserves
0	university professor justin thorne jimmy has got it made a good looking sophisticated teacher with a loving wife and two adorable children he plays the saxophone owns an expensive car and his students love and respect him but when temptation calls in the form of one of his bright pretty sexy and willing students jennifer carter naomi watts he foolishly gives in the next day he is being charged with her rape and his perfect life could be forever ruined br br when we see an american actor in australian film we know we are not in for a masterpiece but even viewed with low expectations gross misconduct is a huge flop based on a play with a rather unimaginative title and then adapted into a reasonably enjoyable book it fails to engage convince or even remotely interest its audience on a most fundamental level the script is awkward and unconvincing the acting is for most part not much better watts gives an acceptable performance demonstrating for one of the first times on screen her emotion rawness but she is the only good thing about the film which seems almost like even it can't wait to be over br br the direction is not horrible or distracting in anyway but it is just painfully mediocre apart from the afore mentioned naomi watts who could be forgiven seeing as this was early in her career the acting is wooden and gets steadily worse over the course of the movie the usually reliable jimmy doesn't seem to have been trying in this one and who could really blame him all these small failures however only add to the film's ultimate fatal flaw which is that the focus is entirely in the wrong place any empathy for the characters or interest in the outcome is lost in a sea of what is basically soft core entertainment of an adult kind by the end audiences will probably be bored tired and wishing they'd done something else with their ninety minutes unless you just want to see naomi get naked 4 or 5 times you could definitely afford to give this film a miss
0	a tedious mixture of puerile efforts at humour with romantic relationship melodrama fails to provide this weakly made film with any flavour of reality as action opens reno a j buckley enters his apartment there discovering his girlfriend in flagrante delicto with his roommate who gloatingly tells reno well at least it's with someone you know resulting in reno's decision to never have another roommate this decision told to viewers by means of a soon abandoned voice over the storyline then proceeds ten months where we find that reno is indeed true to his word concerning avoidance of roommates although this appears to beg the question due to his garnering of a live in lover holly holly fields with whom he has generated marital plans the plot briefly shifts to a sleazy hollywood strip club wherein reno's uncle charley enamoured of a dancer whom he finds eminently desirable keels over dead atop the club's bar after seeing the unadorned charms displayed by the object of his affections it is apparent that charley had been aware of the flawed condition of his heart because he created a video tape during which his commentary bequeaths his large and residence in hollywood to reno and we see the latter deciding to contrary to his vow interview applicants for two roommates as tenants with he and holly sharing the selection process in an organized manner following an inane sequence involving bizarre renter candidates all of whom reno and holly unsurprisingly find unsuitable for living along with them in their house they unknown to each other each select a renter of the opposite sex with the lovers manifestly cool toward the choice of their partner the newcomers chad and nicole would seem to have little discernible point to their existence other than highly aural fornication with a broad range of partners and it is not long before jealousy mars the harmonic relationship of reno and holly reno is bent upon and merchandising a type of sporting travel bag and as he has given an engagement ring to holly the potential success of this entrepreneurial adventure is of great financial significance if he intends to advance his marital plan unfortunately the rapacious team of chad and nicole whose every action is ostensibly laced with lust is likely to disrupt any future wedding intentions of reno direction is slack plainly far from fulfilling basic needs of the players although an erratically composed script provides scant material with which actors may work and ad libbing falls embarrassingly flat as a result the performances are undistinguished not aided by spotty editing while the manner of camera work changes as abruptly and often as a tail light filmed with a low budget and on location only a modicum of skill is required for the designing processes but a larger measure of value might have been placed upon the tasteless d j background soundtrack generally blaring and nearly always invasive a good deal of discussion has been stimulated by the movie's final sequences that are apparently not expected by a viewer based upon what has come before but in reality these comprise probably the only thoughtful portions of a poorly cobbled screenplay and bids fair to make the work almost watchable despite the shabby quality of the production as a whole
0	this is a typical college comedy and its very average the story is ok but not very entertaining its about a unlucky guy named reno who looses his job gets his car ripped off and then his uncle dies in a his got a girlfriend though a nice one btw anyway this uncle gives him his mansion in la and mercedes as heritage and soon reno and his girlfriend moves to la to this new house the problem is that they would need some roommates in order to pay the high rent for this house and so the film unfolds br br the movie starts ok and has a few funny jokes here and there but the suddenly the movie takes a turn straight down to hell the ending is bad really bad it destroys everything about the movie you will know what i'm talking about when you see the movie br br 2 10
0	oh boy this movie is so mediocre i don't really know what exactly to write about it br br i think it's easier to write what it's not br br it's not very entertaining it's not original and there's not one character in the whole movie i cared about br br kind of reminds me of a certain reality tv show on mtv but without any interesting people it just drags on and on and i could hardly wait for it to end the only thing that kept me from switching it off was jennifer lyons c br br i thought a long time about this movie to find one good thing to say about it what i liked was the reminder not to judge a person by the first impression you get as holly did when she accused nicole which earns it a score of 2 out of 10 instead of a 1
0	roomies is the story of a guy who loses everything except his incredible girlfriend and an idea for a corn dog that he plans to patent and sell immediately his uncle dies and leaves him a house and a car and he gets some roommates in to help pay the rent and gets a job then his girlfriend gets drunk and cheats on him so he goes and writes a book about roommates and becomes famous br br 88 minutes none of these details of the plot are explored in any detail what you read above is more or less as interesting as the film will be when his uncle dies there are some breasts on screen one of the potential roommates he interviews is pretty funny for about 40 seconds the ending is literally the worst i've ever seen i want the other 87 minutes of my life back br br i hadn't thought anyone could make a movie with so little merit surely there are rules against this sort of thing getting to the public the script can't be longer than twenty pages and the budget must have been minuscule because the whole film has about 3 locations and a car the only conceivable use for roomies in my opinion is if you're holding someone hostage and want to frustrate them beyond human thought if so get it on repeat and you'll have a ready made gibbering wreck within the day br br one and a half out of 10
0	the preposterous premise of this flick has to do with argentina reclaiming the falkland islands having failed through force in 1982 by impregnating the european women inhabitants with argentinean sperm thereby diluting the ethnic purity until it favored argentina yeah right the reconnaissance is done by our hero villan and cad fabian who his fish eye camcorder from pillar to post secretly filming his encounters with the including his courting and eventual conquest of one woman camilla an unfortunate indie and fraudulent documentary this flick favors us with lots of boring tourism shot from the hip yada yada yada the film has no plot potential and only begins to become interesting as fabian and camilla their way through the usual moments of awkwardness and uncertainty as they get from the handshake to the bed f is only for those cinema purists who can appreciate the bleak no frills austerity of dogme indies
0	i had high hopes for this one after reading the back of the dvd in the spirit of american pie and animal house after suffering through this i realized i just blew 2 50 to rent it this movie started out slow and just got slower brief and fleeting moments of levity proved that it was in the spirit of american pie if you mean spirit as a dead thing not very entertaining or fun don't be fooled like i was and expect anything barely watchable because this movie will depress you more than entertain you need to fill up three more lines for this stupid movie that doesn't deserve the effort what a stupid piece of ignorant crud this movie wreaked even the brief nudity sucked
0	i saw this movie on video with a couple of friends as part of a teen comedy triple header alongside dorm daze and going greek obviously we weren't going for quality but for air headed entertainment and gross out gags generally we got what we came for but wild roomies really stood out for being awful br br first impression first the cover the norwegian release cover showed breasts covered up and a bunch of seemingly crazy roomies in the background brings up pictures of drunken semi naked teenagers doing bunches of funny stuff stuff doesn't it the crazy roomies on the cover were not even featured in the picture and the funny stuff you assume they'll be doing absent as well br br this movie was labeled comedy which is a bit strange since it not even remotely funny relationship drama would be more accurate br br put shortly the movie is about a young couple inheriting a swanky house in la and are forced to get some roomies to make ends meet these roommates eventually put both the young couple's patience and relationship to the test because they're so wild problem is they're not and here lies the problem of this movie the protagonist couple are so anal retentive and neurotic that they manage to generate zero sympathy you'll find yourself rooting for the antagonist roomies halfway through the movie add mediocre acting lame dialogue and boring direction and you got yourself a movie that is best left unseen br br see something else
0	this film makes about as much sense as an or a 'father knows best' episode an old copy of reader's digest circa 1962 would provide more insight into modern life or the relationship between a father and a daughter than this weird concoction br br i was surprised with diane keaton she appears to sleepwalk through the film given the film's title i realize that hers was a supporting role but even martin short managed a distinct supporting character br br i can understand the attraction of an imaginary world created in a good romantic comedy but this film is the prozac version of an imaginary world i'm frightened to consider that anyone could enjoy it even as pure fantasy
0	diane keaton is a pathetic actress she is so boring and phony she is the same on and off screen i saw her in an interview with ellen degeneres and she behaves exactly the same as she does in movies her foolish facial expressions make me want to change channels she has been in a couple of good movies but they would have been better had someone else been picked for the part steve martin doesn't add much to the movie either he over acts as well and also ruins an old favorite the ridiculous part martin short plays only adds more idiocies to the movie i've tried to watch the movie twice but both times had to turn it off
0	i like kevin bacon and cathy moriarty and i love mary stuart masterson but the movie wasn't good at all there wasn't a likable character in the picture and the plot was nearly non existent br br ms masterson is a great actress but she just didn't pull off the tough girl character she had similar problems with her character in the second day of christmas perhaps she should avoid these characters especially those with an obnoxious female child to play off of br br evan rachel wood was unimpressive her character was a brat plain and simple and no young actress could have given harriet any positive feelings br br in the interest of full disclosure i couldn't even finish watching this picture forty five minutes of my time is enough to waste
0	i tried to love this movie i really did kevin bacon plays a cerebral palsy victim who is befriended by a 10 year old girl whose fantasies of digging to china flying away in a balloon and so on are her way of coping with a dreary existence i admit i did fast forward through one of the scenes in which the two of them share friendship and simple pleasures while soulful piano music plays in the background okay three or four of those type scenes maybe nine or ten okay okay it was fourteen but i did sit and watch most of them
0	again such kind of zero budget digital video cam trash and again i fell into this trap cuz the title had zombie in it german title zombie attack the story on halloween some people visit the museum of the dead it's a trap a crazy doctor wants to kill the people everything connected to some aztec cult so they fight against some zombies in there br br ultra cheap scenery some corridors with black tape on it a few dilettantish drawings and a few skulls as you can find them in every fun shop no actors just low grade models waking around with absolutely no idea what to do no effects laughable make up your local hobby make up zombie fan will do it better some time it looked as if they had not enough money for enough colour otherwise they just could not do it like this man they have to realize the looks of their zombies some laughable martial arts fights with the zombies slow motion just when the director wants to have it scary he uses some standard digital video cam effect where everything is unbelievable 0 out of 10
0	a study in bad bad direction bad acting bad writing and f x teach you that better upgrade your computer before filming it´s the kind of flick you used to do totally drunk in your cellar with camera when you were young at heart but you certainly would not show it in public when you´re sober again would you you wouldn´t even view it avoid at all costs
0	plot none script a string of cliches acting not in evidence special effects title sequence kind of cool but otherwise exceptionally poor fright factor crossing the road is scarier cult factor only the most desperate cult would latch onto this dog can't you say anything positive i did the titles were kind of cool br br special bonus question your idea of hell being at a party with people who voted this flop a 7
0	this movie is available as a special bonus feature on the double disc of horror 101 horror 102 endgame it has nothing to do with those movies except it does show that producers directors and are in a rut like those other movies this one features young people who go to a building where they get trapped inside and run down the hallways a lot while they get picked off one by one in the end one or more characters are revealed to have another identity this is by far the worst of the three br br here people are invited to a halloween night only opening of the museum of the dead the museum doesn't have very many exhibits and they're all sort of ancient central american related there are also flesh eating infection spreading zombies in the museum as well as an ancient cannibal warrior and two female warriors br br the movie is very repetitious it kills people off fairly quickly to the point you wonder who they're going to have left to kill off at which point some more people show up without explanation so that they can be killed br br amazingly one of the characters does have a cellphone and is actually able to call the police who actually take it seriously and show up at the museum when one tries to pick the lock to get in the other tells him that would be forced entry if you've got people trapped in a building who are injured i think that's irrelevant the cops are also stupid in that when they shoot a zombie in the head it goes down but then they shoot other zombies in the chest and they don't go down they happen to shoot another zombie in the head and it goes down they continue to shoot the rest of the zombies in the chest stupid br br the opening credits and a nightmare sequence are done in a sort of animation effect over video a poor man's waking life sort of thing but not so cartoonish it is sort of interesting however parts of some of the attacks are done the same way so there's no logic to it br br dreadful
0	i will confess that once i started watching this movie it had a hold on me that forced me to watch it through to its conclusion quite possibly this was some latent voyeuristic tendency in me that wanted to see our hero get it on with his victim or maybe fascination that they got funding to make distribute and show this film that kept me searching it for merit or possibly some bizarre wish fulfillment fantasy that there might be a point at the end of all the pain but no such luck br br so you are warned to not start watching it in the first place lest the same thing happen to you there's nothing here worth wasting your hour and a half on br br the first person mockumentary and the schtick about fabian's quest to impregnate women of the falklands comes out even more like a sophomoric maybe freshman high school freshman that is film student project than you might imagine the effect ends up being both sneering at the local inhabitants who other than the two professional leads are in fact real people as well as engaging in rather disgusting sexual politics no matter whether you take it all literally or symbolically it's pointless and sexist br br the reason i ended up watching it all the way is the same reason that once one starts to pick at a there's an irresistable fascination of continuing to do so until it's completely off even when you know it's bad for you you just want to see what happens br br in the end this is rather dishonest filmmaking because it seems ultimately to have no moral center no elucidation of the local political situation nor any place in the type of political sexual personal film universe a la goddard in short it's got nothing to say and spends a long time pretending it does smug would be the one word tagline br br i'd suggest the filmmakers rent for a few times or hell even 'blair witch project' if they want to pursue the schtick with a little more style and a little more genuine emotion or at least entertainment value
0	well there isnt much to say about this movie its simply trash very poor acting poor script and lame story well the actress i even know her name who played not the blond one but latina one was acting fine but the blond one who played the friend of main charactor her acting level is just like highschool play so as most of other actors in the movie also zombies very bad acting as well and the story itself has really no point at all well if you are really bored and really got nothing to do but wanna kill time somehow maybe you may wanna watch this movie but there are still millions of better b movies than this crap its total waste of money and time
0	very simply they are all the syndicated episodes and not the original uncut unedited nbc episodes it is not the complete first season all eps are edited to conform to 21 00 for syndication meaning jokes are cut an extra commercial fade is included all of the harvey korman intros are not here very poorly done shame on a series i've been waiting for if you're a true die hard mama fan don't buy this and go to http com web main help customer service and send them comments on why we're unhappy on this butcher job to a classic sitcom
0	this guy is a real piece of work an angry immature boy in a grown man's body packing all the charisma of a rock he goes around to places most people would only wish to visit and does his best to be as miserable as possible br br give this job to someone else who actually appreciates it br br i could go down an endless list of all the stupid things this guy does in his episodes though i'll just highlight the worst crete while the locals are putting up seaside picnics in his honour this clown has the gall to act like a petulant spoiled child he complains about everything including the fashion sense of the people who live there what an imbecile br br when he went to sweden he spent at least five minutes feigning incredulity at a bunch of chefs who probably had better things to do than talk with some dimwit american like work because they didn't think abba was horrible everywhere he went he brought up abba this is the kind of talk you'd hear from 13 year olds who watch too much mtv br br when he was in new orleans he got upset that a certain restaurant had better tasting fries than his so he accidentally spilled some wine on them in order to ruin them what a strange emotionally unstable person br br the worst of it all are his clumsy voice overs where he attempts in vain to add some kind of perspective on a situation he was too thick and ignorant to appreciate he tries to use all these big words in order to sound like an author but he's really just a pretentious hack whose lack of awareness has convinced him he has something to say that by the way is probably the one good thing about this joker's tv show it goes to show you no matter how inept you are as long as you take yourself seriously enough the world will as well br br then there's the way he speaks with local guides whose english is obviously only rudimentary he'll use vocabulary any writer as he believes himself to be would instinctively know will most likely not be understood by these people does he care no self important schmucks like this clown do not use language to communicate they use it to make themselves look important br br review on this same page is a perfect example of the kind of mind attracts that of a low iq social misfit observe how the reviewer attempts to justify sociopath nature with simple minded childish excuses that hardly make sense may complain but he goes through 'a lot' and not only that he was to do this show but is trying to redeem himself a dolt attracts dolts and reading review should let you know perfectly well whether or not you are the kind of person who'd enjoy this utterly useless pointless show br br finally to add a bit of fairness to my diatribe i admit would have been momentarily amusing had i met him in a bar but as a tv host of a travel show whose purpose is to show the viewer the beauty of other places and cultures is a miserable abject hopeless grim and depressing failure br br a failure
0	a man wonders if his hunky co worker is gay at a yard sale he finds a ray gun called gaydar you point it at a person pull the trigger and it tells you how gay they are he tries it out it works and he sets out to find out if his coworker is gay like him br br promising idea ruined by an unfunny script after a promising beginning and terrible acting the entire cast overacts and basically scream their lines at each other constantly it gets annoying and really embarassing after a while the saving grace is that's it is short there's a scene stealing cat love her fall out of the kitty bed and charles nelson reilly is hysterical in his brief bit but none of this saves the movie i can't recommend this at all
0	the fun that was present in the other 'movies' has all but disappeared with this third effort which means the rubbishy production values show through more than ever another 2 parter 'the chinese cobbled together this one suffers from too much padding not to mention weak spidey action taking place in such uninspired locations as a car park apartment and printing press nicholas hammond is as endearing as ever struggling valiantly against the drab production and lame performances of the rest of the cast the plot in which peter and spidey help a chinese official defeat charge of corruption during world war ii by locating three marines who could testify as to his innocence doesn't exactly scream 'comic book sprung to life' does it
0	the film starts out great with a mock instruction film about the habits of swedish housewives after that we get a detailed reconstruction of post war scandinavia with lots of amazing cars electronic equipment and interior design a minimal jazz score nice cinematography and stylish titling also there's some funny rivalry like in von triers br br sadly after the set up kitchen stories collapses like the twin towers on 9 11 actors who try to portray the emotion by just staring in front of them corny dialog filled with stale gay symbolism in the vain of i don't like white swans i prefer bears and wolves u ever tasted bear meat the music becomes cheesier than at his worst br br it's a pity the director put all the effort in this great set up just to screw it up after wards
0	first let me mention the fact that in spite of its title in plural there is only one kitchen story as to whether died or not at the end i'm not so sure since in one of the very last scenes his pipe is seen lying on the table next to the two cups on the dvd cover there is a reference to tati it claims that the film is drôle tati » funny reminiscent of tati » the great jacques tati relied mainly on mime and silent deadpan attitudes to achieve his comical effects and to offer his critically satiric views of his french society of course does take place during the and it does offer some rather faint satirical references to the absurdities of bureaucracy and there are some long moments were no words are uttered – but they are not really funny are all these small details enough to make a movie this being said i have to admit that does deal with the sometimes false objectivity of scientific research versus the of human subjective emotions generally speaking the movie was agonizingly slow with nothing much happening with barely any the involving parts were the set up during the first 15 minutes or so and during the last half hour or so indeed the last segment was finally interesting and moving it might seem that it was a short subject of less than an hour unduly stretched to some 90 minutes now about the set up a observation on the behavior of single males in their kitchen at first it seemed very promising – with the charting out of the comings and goings of bachelors in their kitchen as a means to determine what new inventions would be most useful to come up with but very quickly this premise turned out to be just a prologue an to introduce the real subject which was only fully developed towards the end and which was about loneliness and the invaluable bond of friendship pity i honestly wanted to like that movie yes it seemed so promising when i heard about some of its unusual little which were indeed there and which i enjoyed – such as the burning of a nose hair instead of using scissors to cut it off the of having a huge quantity of black pepper stacked away in a barn the role reversals the observant becoming the observed a mouth emitting sounds from a radio program and there is also a sick horse becoming the catalyst of half hidden human despair the relative importance of right or left side car driving in sweden and norway a reflection of the importance for each of these very close neighboring countries to affirm its individuality am i the sole person who did not fully enjoy that film does this necessarily mean that i'm wrong perhaps it’s almost generally praised were in fact for me perhaps could my individual views on this movie ironically reflect the very essence of the film itself which would be the vital necessity to have the right to differ to affirm individuality and not to follow blindly trends and opinions each one of us has the right to have different personal views and not to be a slave of the demands of bread winning demands often we do have other alternatives that would allow each one of us to be useful to our society while respecting inner principles in short being true to oneself – the way that in that film ends up by giving up his job while preferring to stay in his new friend house and help his out with the tasks of his farm and so la as the french say
0	is it just me or the fact that the evil racing team is japanese and that their arrogant star racer is german seem a little over the top maybe that is how it is on the international racing circuit but if all america had representing them are chumps like cody and his mechanic chris peter berg who must have been still learning how to act then i would be rooting for another country formula movies can be good but the characters have to be likeable and no one meets that criteria in this movie to put it succinctly a very bad movie
0	what a dire film i cannot believe that i actually sat down and watched it a very very very very very very pathetic effort with no redeeming features whatsoever the so called racing sequences are laughably awful and the plot was so bad i've forgotten it part of the film was made at the spa course in belgium in i think 1988 during the actual grand prix there i was there and am glad i didn't appear in any of the scenes shown in the film it could have been good what a pity
0	i love the book it's full of passion romance tension and the movie drags along taking two spunky stars with it kylie minogue was already a major star in australia having starred in neighbours and releasing her first single the decision to cast her in the delinquents was surely a marketing ploy for me it didn't pay off br br kylie may have been great in neighbours but she was far too sweet and innocent to play the feisty lola and she wasn't of asian descent as lola was charlie schlatter was an excellent brownie but there was no chemistry between him and kylie br br by and large the movie was boring it dragged on it lacked the passion of the book it focused heavily on kylie and in general was completely disappointing
0	i watched a long time ago i lied if i'd tell that i remember it in detail what i remember most vividly is the irritation it provoked me and the feeling of a total waste of precious money and time not only my time and money invested in watching the movie but also the director's br br supposedly is a critic of presenting us i'm an argentinian too as little people who take credit for and even boast about petty ridiculous victories and think we're the best thing that god who is also an argentinian created i'm not going to argue that it's probably a true statement about a quite big part of the population the part i despise by the way and even if this weren't true that's not my point the worst sin committed was to express such a statement about its own director br br the continuous impression i received was that the director was too busy trying to impress us for sneaking a camera inside the islands to worry about making a good even a mediocre movie many of the takes made with a hidden camera are pointless the director chooses to show off with a silly edition of old war takes and his own ones and there's no plot at all br br moreover this movie proudly presents a dogme certificate before the opening titles only to disrespect its principles afterwards for example by including the director in the credits another sign of his pride br br i found the movie offensive not as an argentinian but as a watcher i felt underestimated is simply one of the worst movies i've ever seen
0	i was living in ca in 1968 when the movie the killers three arrived at the local theater the trailer was enough to get me to pay my hard earned money to see this movie i was really expecting a bonnie and clyde movie and i got dick clark playing a shy nerdy guy while robert walker and diane played an poor attempt of bonnie and clyde needless to say it never went over well maybe this is why it never made it to video even as a kid i was left some what ripped off as i left the theater after all the best parts where in the trailer of the movie the movie was dull and pretty much pointless by the way dick clark gets killed so it wasn't a total let down
0	this film was shot in randolph county in central north carolina in 1968 when a film crew in the state was a rare thing the locations were the of liberty and and the surrounding rural countryside it is not a particularly good movie it did have merle haggard and it brought life to the hinterlands for a few minutes br br the plot is standard the cinematography is that fuzzy stuff that came out of the late sixties and early seventies the local folks were thrilled to be a part of the enterprise br br if viewers have difficulty finding a copy of this film a record copy is available in nc br br actors not credited include ben jones mimi pravda tommy hull bill nunnery
0	i am shocked by all the good reviews on the cover of this movie and on imdb it belongs in the 2 bin at your local video store to say that this is a b movie is extremely generous br br besides lacking a single redeemable character only slightly better than average acting and an ugly 80's style picture quality the script for this film is dull and lifeless this film is not only boring it is pathetic admittedly there is occasionally some mildly interesting chemistry between the two main characters even the final plot twist rather the only plot twist does not save this film br br rent diamond men if you must but do not hesitate to turn it off once you become of its worthlessness 2 out of 10
0	man alive is this game bad or what the graphics are way below par even if it were on a playstation 1 never mind a gamecube the gameplay is pathetic and the camera movements what a worthless game br br i totally love warner's batman animation and it's cool that they do all the games in this way batman vengeance could well have turned out great as they got off to a good start by keeping all the gothic visuals and voice actors but they seriously stumbled when it came to and graphics the result is a boring game that looks incredibly cheap and is no fun to play whatsoever i really must stress how bad the graphics are don't let the color schemes fool you i've seen better stuff on a commodore 64
0	was the cast and crew on drugs before they started filming this there was a hole in the plot so big nothing could have filled it up from the first scene when the co star is late for dinner was there any doubt where he was and what he had just done the suspense was over from there now it was going to take another 85 minutes before the mystery was solved i must confess that the biggest hole in the plot kept me awake for hours wondering how dumb the screenwriter the director slater molly parker and stephen rea could be not to at least explain how our murderer who was not a lawyer or a policeman could go into a locked cell at a jail kill his second victim and tie him up from a noose to make it look like suicide i kept wondering if i had fallen asleep out of sheer boredom and missed how that happened if someone can explain it to me please do and then why for god's sake did he kill the third victim nothing made sense and yet someone thought this film was worthy to be an official selection at a film festival perhaps it was a comedy and i failed to laugh
0	the story is shortly about the faith lacking business man priest daniel clemens christian slater who is looking closer on a case where another priest is suspected for murder the priest denies he's guilty but at the same time he is not able to discuss the matter due to confidentiality enter daniel clemens who starts playing cop br br while the plot isn't ridiculous everything else is let's start with the visual side the cinematography is dull it looks more like a tv series than a movie the camera angles are boring in fact there's not a single memorable camera angle in the entire movie there's no interesting closeups revealing details and the scene transitions well there's not much to say about those they aren't smooth at all there seems to be no connection between the scenes than the actual plot okay they did use a transition with music in between two scenes but there are no interesting visual transitions in the entire movie the times dissolve was used there was no visual connection between the scenes br br the boring visual part could be forgiven if the film would offer anything else unfortunately the film only offers forced wooden acting and clumsy dialogue with no punch on top of that the film suffers from audio problems the sound volume is lowered several times in the movie as if the microphones would be too far br br i didn't predict the solution of the film it could be because the film never gave me the opportunity or it could be due to the presentation which was so boring i never even tried to figure it out br br put two plus two together and it equals a b movie where 'b' stands for boring
0	isn't it depressing how the most violent cartoon on cartoon network is aimed at girls while i'm not watching soldiers getting shot and blown up on saving private ryan or band of brothers it would be nice if there was a cartoon or at least something on tv i could watch to satisfy my violent urges and something that i would not get made fun of for watching i did see some episodes i should really be shot for this and had to sit through the movie now where do i find a gun and it is quite clear that this lost its spark after the first few episodes if you like seeing 500 foot monsters that can destroy huge cities in seconds getting slaughtered by toddlers about one foot tall this is a must see but it does get very boring after a while and with a show like this even original ideas become chiefly dull the movie just felt like one overlong episode i can't remember any of it and the villain should have been far more intimidating than a green monkey this show is a laughing stock it churns out the same basic premise episode after episode after episode and though it may try to have some mystery and intrigue once in a while the ending will always be the same the powerpuff girls save the day all is good and nice but all is very very repetitive i give it 3 out of 10 for being the only cartoon on cn to revolve around violence although it is aimed at girls so i won't be tuning in for it ever i've established myself as a fan of war and violence films and i won't have that reputation destroyed 3 10
0	when i first watched this show on cartoon network i found it uninteresting then i read a lot of good messages about this show and i decided to watch it the show was so boring each episode was predictable more this show has no logic girls who are going to school and sometimes do such stupid things 99 of episodes start with a monster attacking then mayor he is a real fool he is not funny he is so stupid that i can't imagine how he became a mayor professor yes supposed to be the smartest person in this show but actually he even found no difference between monster and his brother narrator's comments also make this show boring because they also have similar lines in the beginning of each episode and in the ending also the animation is very strange everything except main heroes is shown in an ugly way also in every this show is giving you some life lessons and it means that it is oriented on little children but if you look closer you will see that there is a lot of violence and even blood during their battles
0	i always hated this retarded show i liked the shows of cartoon network like dexter's laboratory or megas xlr but i never liked this piece of turd basically because it have stupid characters the good or the villains all seems to be mentally retarded they have stupid voices specially bubbles she is supposed to be the cute character of the show but she is incredibly annoying the story lines are very very stupid some episodes could have been interesting but almost always the show turns childish and corny there wasn't any likable character the music was horrible and the animation is the worst that i've seen five year old boy could draw better i don't see why all the world seems to love this piece of garbage the powerpuff girls seems to be one of the worst cartoons ever made fortunately foster home for the imaginary friends from the same creator was far away better
0	i have watched this show for a while only because of my cousins and i hate it first the girls dress in the same style clothes and they have the same first letter in their names come on i could to better than that then the villains spare me first we have a monkey with part of his little brain showing then we have a gay version of the devil a pink hillbilly a gang green gang whit is ironic that's their name a spoiled princess once again ironic that's 'her' name among others i have also found that there is no male hero in the show not that i'm sexist or anything i'd rather watch sailor moon it's much better than this if someone else wants to watch the show in the room that you're in find a way to break the television believe me it'll save you a half hour of torture br br rating i'm giving this just what it deserves a 1 out of 10 whatever you do do not watch this
0	now and again a film comes around purely by accident that makes you doubt your sanity we just finished studying the novel northanger abbey at school and decided to refresh our memory of this unexciting piece of humourless garbage with the bbc adaptation br br the funny thing about northanger abbey is that it actually makes you want to kill yourself the film is nothing like the book for example the subtly evil characters seem to have been turned into transparent stereotypes john looks like a leprechaun on acid while isabella plays the role of slut catherine the main character is the most depressingly stupid and irritating actress on god's earth she looks like a coffee addict her eyes are like whilst mr looks and acts like a retired porno stunt double the plot goes completely off the rails at certain points of the film i don't know what the hell the director was thinking when for no reason at all a 7 year old black kid who we've never met before takes the main character out of the abbey and starts in front of her yes that's right nonsense of this kind is occasionally interrupted by catherines fantasies in which she is being carried around a cathedral by an ogre br br northanger abbey is basically visual euthanasia so if you want to murder your boss or something like that bbc have basically discovered a new way to kill someone northanger is a barely laughably bad film don't watch it unless you're in a padded cell
0	free stupidest name title ever is the worst episode of any of the tv shows i watch which includes x files alias all 3 law and orders all of the family guy simpsons chappelle's show colbert report and more south park was for very long my favorite of the comedy shows because of it's shockingly obscene content and disturbing black comedy free has none of the content i mentioned earlier it was so tame so it might has well been an episode of sesame street kyle goes to sea world where a few of the workers play a prank on him making him think a whale is talking to him he befriends the whale actually befriends it hello this is south park the same show that brought you cancelled it hits the fan death camp of tolerance and so many more not spongebob squarepants ugh i actually watched the whole episode which is 30 minutes of my life i will never get back anyhow i was extremely disgusted with this episode and i can't believe the shocking decline in the quality of matt work
0	i agree with the user that this episode is awful thr worst of the entire show now i'm not keen on many episodes of the later series but this one takes the biscuit it was unfunny and as for the ending i'm sorry but it disgusted me more than any other episodes combined br br i mean the boys think they meant well but the ending was so upsetting that they think the whale belongs on the moon and over the credits we see it has died could have saved the episode was if the pranksters were able to confess for what they did br br there seem to be no outgoing message okay south park may be guilty of preaching too much and its always nice to see an one such as make love not but this episode was just wrong avoid at all costs helen
0	this could have been a good movie if more things were explained way too many plot holes to find this enjoyable the ending in particular is off left field spoiler alert how did the kidnapper get back to dundee so fast and dundee shows up at the house in a matter of two minutes way out of wack here how did anna get hold of the money no explanation at all if the pete the cop knew lancaster was in danger why didn't he have a cop at the door in the hospital this and many more questions remain too bad because the premise was there just bad writing and execution br br good cast is wasted here decarlo goes from bad to good to bad lancaster's character lacks development and is just blah as the bad guy br br this could re made with a cohesive story line and better writing of course it would be much more violent with lots of gratuitous sex and everything the editing would be jerky as well i guess so let's leave well enough alone
0	why would burt lancaster allow himself to play a poor schnook who is ultimately undermined by femme fatale anna dundee played by yvonne decarlo in the same reason why robert mitchum allows himself to be cast as another loser who falls for femme fatale faith domergue in the 1950 noir where danger lives perhaps they both felt it was a good way to show that they had as playing against type the usual 'tough guy' role they were known for would enhance their image as actors who could play any role but the problem was that roles like steve thompson the pathetic love sick milquetoast in did nothing to enhance lancaster's career not only is lancaster completely miscast in the one note role of thompson but there's something inherently unlikeable and may i say pathetic about the film's protagonist in the first place br br is an interminably slow moving film among the many unnecessary scenes in the film is at the beginning the flashback which chronicles thompson's confrontation with dan duryea's dundee at the nightclub everything that occurs in that initial flashback is explained later in the picture the illicit affair between steve and anna steve's strained relationship with martinez the cop and his bad blood with dundee if director siodmark felt compelled to begin the film with a flashback why not keep it under three minutes i think it would have been more effective br br in it takes quite awhile before the protagonist commits himself and steps out of the 'ordinary' world of act one that's the scene where he's passing by' and anna at the nightclub and notice how siodmak spends so much time cutting back and forth between anna dancing and steve staring at her in addition to the cross cutting he also spends a great deal of time focusing on morales and his band than moving the story along br br up until the crisis of act two the story plods along with thompson having various uneasy encounters with anna and then drowning his sorrows at his usual watering hole at the midpoint of act two he learns that anna has run off and gotten married to dundee it's becoming more clear at this point that one of the film's central weaknesses is that dundee is never on screen throughout most of the second act there are no confrontations between thompson and dundee during this time and we're left with the rather unexciting machinations between the two lovebirds as it turns out and anna 'explains' this later to steve the reason why she left was not only because he disappeared for eight months but she also felt pressure from steve's mother as well direct threats from martinez the cop who implied that he would see to it that she ended up in the women's house of detention anna goes back to steve because she realizes she made a big mistake with turns out that he's been beating her and she's now scared of him br br one of the silly refrains uttered by more than one character in criss cross is that you can never hijack an armored car but everyone acts so surprised when steve points out it can be done if it's an 'inside job' you would have thought that dundee would have known about steve's as an armored car driver and propositioned him beforehand but of course steve needs to make the proposal so that dundee won't kill him after discovering his affair with anna if they're so afraid at getting caught why do steve and anna meet at his apartment where dundee can so easily find them i really got a kick out of played by alan napier the of the operation dundee is so dumb that he has to hire this alcoholic ex professor type who plots out the heist on a map oh there is the matter of procuring the ingredients to construct the gas bombs used during the robbery and of course is good at that too br br the only really well done scene in the entire film is the armored car robbery the editing was quite good as it depicted the rising action of a heist gone bad as the gas bombs go off the brutality of the gang is shown in high relief when dundee murders the innocent armored car guard br br the climax of the film is as drawn out as the rest of the film why does it take so long for one of goons to kidnap thompson there's that nurse then the goon is waiting outside then he comes in and pretends that he's a friend steve falls asleep and finally after he awakes the goon kidnaps him br br when steve finally meets up with anna at the house we wonder how anna got her hands on the cash did she somehow steal it from dundee after the heist when he went out to dinner it's never explained even worse anna suddenly becomes the evil femme fatale out of the blue before her selfishness and attraction to dundee can be explained by her perceived rejection at the hands of steve and threats but after going back to steve because she fears dundee she inexplicably turns on him when he is most vulnerable just as there is you have femme fatale' br br in film encyclopedic reference to the american style by silver and ward the authors hail by as one of the most tragic and compelling of film noir i beg to differ in order to have tragedy you need characters that have great depth and in order to be compelling you need a story that's plausible criss cross has neither it's an overrated b movie that somehow has found itself in the pantheon of art house noirs once again the herd mentality has triumphed in evaluating the pictures of yesteryear
0	what could have been some majorly creepy stuff ends up being an incomprehensible nutty motion picture that even the filmmakers themselves probably didn't understand had they shown more of the satanic ritual or whatever it might have been creepier but as it stands now this is a waste of time and brain cells is anybody else getting sick of the whole little kid drawing creepy pictures with crayon thing could there possibly be a bigger horror cliché probably not i know i know it's from some different country and it's far too refined and sophisticated for me to understand so i shouldn't expect the plot to be spoon fed to me blah blah blah whatever i still say the movie blows
0	this movie is so daring it doesn't attempt to hide its similarities to the shining it lacks the originality to do so and when it does near the end try to cover up its story of father goes psycho under influence of sketchy haunted house in a foreign place it does so by stooping to plenty of other already established conventions and ideas in other words it reduces itself to mere cliche but hell even i enjoy a good predictable horror or thriller as long as there is an interesting story one filled with violence and gore somewhere before the film makes the dreadful turn towards the predictable and trite well this film doesn't have a good story and i was really disappointed with it what has going for it is remarkable direction and cinematography it is a film well shot and carefully constructed full of fun creepy angles and shots what doesn't have going for it is pretty much everything else to begin with a minor quibble the editing in this movie is obnoxious it jumps from one scene to the next sometimes pointlessly for example the old man in the movie who pretty much carries the background story later filled in by another character is underscored by a hamster running circles i mean it looks cool the first time but why continue to use the same image i guess you'd have to see it for yourself to understand what i mean another problem with this movie is anna paquin's character who essentially whines throughout the film crying and caring all too much about everything she's the film's failed attempt at a character driven horror film the movie has scenes of overblown sentimentalism and the family drama it depicts is simply not believable by the end is a muddled melodrama with a non involving mystery provided with too simple of an ending and it's hardly scary
0	an american family moves to the countryside of spain to live in an isolated house regina anna paquin the teenager daughter of mark glen who is sick and has some mental problems and the nurse maria lena olin notes that weird things is happening in the house and with her young brother paul stephan but her mother does not believe on her reggie decides to investigate with her boyfriend carlos fele martínez the origins of the house and they find that forty years ago the place was the stage of the death of six children reggie decides to ask for support to her grandfather albert giancarlo giannini to protect her brother against the house and her father br br i bought this dvd expecting to see a good horror movie of haunted house mainly because of the names of anna paquin lena olin fele martínez from thesis and abre los ojos and giancarlo giannini further i like very much spanish cinema in spite of i found a terrible screenplay an awful direction and a deplorable acting of excellent actors and actresses the intention of the story is good slightly recalling the shinning in some moments but unfortunately it is badly developed never being clear for example the reasons and motives why the american family moved to spain or the horrible relationship between the members of the family mainly the situation between maria and reggie the direction is confused poorly trying to use dark and shadows to give scary effects to the story i love anna paquin but her expressionless face never works in this flick lena olin is a caricature of the great actress she is and stephan is too much weak for such important role only fele martínez has a good performance in his support character i liked the open end of the story my vote is four br br title brazil a the seventh victim
0	when you get ahead of a film you know you are wasting your time watching the movie in question that is exactly how i felt while i was watching darkness i could see anticipate every twist and turn easily it is a combination of the amityville horror and a myriad of films that deal with the occult it is so silly that i almost found endearing its naiveness i cannot say i was wholly bored but i found the film way too derivative for my taste director tries to redo his early spanish hit the nameless but he cannot pull it off i admit a few sequences were creepy enough but i just abhor when i can figure out what is going to happen next also i hated to see good actors like lena olin and giancarlo giannini sweat so much over this piece of dreck finally anna paquin as the star of a horror film this must be a joke she is cute but she is one of those good child actors that have become a very monotonous adult actor you can live without watching this one
0	if you saw the grudge a another mediocre ghost movie then you should know what to expect just worse a lot worse this time instead of being in japan with all english speaking people we are in spain with all english speaking people it is interesting that not one shot of this movie actually looks like spain and could have been entirely filmed in a studio back lot oh and a place with swings cause there's a good 5 mins of footage of swings with no one on them how spooky br br this one is terrible in every way imaginable the acting by the mom and dad don't help matters at all anna paquin is the only person that delivers a decent performance in the film but i hate anna paquin so you can imagine my own private hell viewing this film br br there is one good moment in the movie however when a villain is trying to explain the convoluted plot to anna paquin's character and she doesn't understand any of it and asks a bunch of stupid questions and he blurts out you idiot you have not understood anything lol well i happen to understand this film is a piece of garbage 0 stars
0	horrendously acted and completely laughable haunted house horror flick that has an out of place anna paquin playing a neurotic teenager fighting off the things that go bump in the dark that are plaguing her and her family shortly after moving to their new home in spain little more than a geographically re planted rip off of the shining and most notably the others the weak plotted darkness is basically your typical run of the mill b horror feature with a few predictable lame scares that can be seen by audiences a mile off so to speak in retrospect i suppose i shouldn't have set my personal expectations quite as high for this movie to actually be good considering the well known fact that it was shelved for nearly three years before finally being released around christmas of last year in american cinemas across the country to what was ultimately lukewarm ticket sales and very harsh reviews from critics when will filmmakers ever learn that there's more to making movies be it horror or otherwise than just the fey possibility of a little financial gain turkey zero stars
0	awful dreadful terrible the actors are bad the music is ridiculous and the filming pathetic i rented the dvd and had to force myself to watch it until the end br br my advice read the book it is much better and you won't have to put up with all these silly images and ridiculous dreams catherine has br br i think i have never watched such a bad movie
0	this review contains spoilers i didn't have any expectations about this movie i pulled it off the video store rack with the movie white noise br br first the credits for this stupid movie run about 5 minutes into it the pacing from start to finish is slooooow the main heroines don't like to wear a bra and the director appears to enjoy the jiggle effect as anna paquin descends the stairs if you like movies for boobies this one has a low level buzz factor br br second it's nice that the movie rips off elements of lovecraft and other horror genre mechanisms but in better movies there is at least some rational or consistently irrational behavior this stinker tries to establish some sense of modernity and reality but then you have situations where no one calls the police even though they've uncovered a treasure trove of potentially incriminating forensic evidence and otherworldly rituals are nicely spelled out in a comprehensive book on otherworldly rituals like on buffy i was waiting for miles to show up and give some consultation on how to slay a certain demon type of so and so br br the premise is that it is possible to open up an age of darkness where creatures that crawl on the ceiling can cut your throat or turn the meat grinder effect on you ho hum to do this you need to have a sacrificial circle and then have seven kids who must have their throat cuts by people who love them this opens the world to the age of darkness at least that's what it says in complete detail in the book of ancient occult rituals which raises the annoying question of uh well how did the ones who wrote the book know and if this is what happens would you really leave this information in a book you can take out from the library much less get it from a library in a world that is not covered already in darkness an age brought on by lunatics who could have performed this like much earlier using the occult practices to bring the world to darkness for dummies 2nd edition it turns out the father in the story is the 7th child the one that ran away from the ritual 40 years ago he was released by his father who is the doctor grandfather in the movie who wanted to try the ritual with presumably other stupid parents who just wanted to see if dumb sh t like this opening the world to darkness actually works the grandpa let the father go because he didn't really love him stupid stupid movie written by a moronic director who appears to think he's some kind of auteur there's also a scene in the movie where the kid appears with big on his face and the mother grabs him and has this total lack of reaction the whole movie is like this people seeing really weird sh t going on and not reacting to it in any sort of normal way must be bad plot and direction br br anna paquin does her best to play her character realistically without cracking a smirk and she does look smashing in a halter top but at several critical moments in the story her character doesn't bother to call in for back up you know more of the same i will walk into a likely demonic evil situation without any knowledge of defense or help from others carrying flashlights or firepower even though i sense impending doom and even dumber as it may seem even if you bring on the age of darkness these creatures who make you bloody can't attack if you have a light source but they appear as people you know and tell you to turn off the light source reminds me of the video game alone in the dark maybe this movie is a rip off of that game's concept br br the best actors in the film are the young kid and anna they both die at the end the entire family dies the darkness creatures lead them to their death but really the stupidity of the characters in the family was the main cause of death the other adults could be interchangeable with any other actors from the red shoes diaries series of fine cinema br br so to wrap up the worst things about this movie are the stupidity of the characters in bumping around blindly in an obviously abnormal situation the really crap plot there is an old architect in the story who designs a house with a sacrificial altar hidden in it the architect has suspected from the beginning there would be occult sacrifices in the house but doesn't tell anyone because well no real reason they couldn't find the kids but he didn't bother to tell authorities about the hidden rooms which he designed into the house but he does like to hang around the house for a 40 year period because he worries about what is going on inside the hackneyed use of scare mechanisms more children standing around in the dark or only showing up in photographs and blood on the wallpaper and the egotism of the director which when you see him in the dvd features describing his crap work as a new and original rendition makes you understand where the real horror of this movie lies br br is it entertaining at speed on a dvd player with the subtitles turned on it can be entertaining until your reach the end and realize the movie is crap otherwise it on the cinematic equivalent of a fatty shake the empty are horrid br br the movie gives the feeling the director must have seen the ring and wanted to attempt to create something similar in mood which in this respect the film fails miserably and so also in this respect it is my opinion that you suck at what you do
0	what starts out as a passable movie degenerates into one of the most incoherent unscary incompetently made stupid attempted horror films of recent years br br absolutely terrible it's such a derivative mess ripping off every decent fright flick you can think of without successfully producing a single scare whether it's copying the recent trend with creepy kids or ghosts walking past the camera or the old school horror of fulci's gates of hell br br the worst thing is there's not even a cat jumping out of a cupboard to make you jump to be avoided
0	see i really wanted to enjoy this movie there were moments when my heart beat faster when the hair on my neck began to stand up when my muscles began to tighten but just like a strip tease i was left with no real action no resolution and money missing from my wallet br br and miguel flores apparently don't know the correct recipe for making a horror movie and as such utilized the old amateur cook's method of throwing everything into the pot br br this movie is really the shining poltergeist amityville and hellraiser all rolled into one amazing i know but true all the flavors are there you can taste each of them they just don't mix well i'm not gonna go down the list of every thing wrong with this movie in short good cinematography mediocre acting worse dialogue br br the real problem with stealing from so many movie plots and combining them into one movie aside from the resulting confusion is while you can have several plots running at one time you can't have several endings and what does do when he runs into this problem just like a freshman in english 101 you end your story with ellipses the little car vanished into the darkness and the end oooh spooky not really and very anticlimactic the ending left me confused and disappointed almost empty br br take your 10 go rent the shining poltergeist and hellraiser scare the pants off yourself have a great time and forget that the darkness ever existed br br
0	as a canadian history major my first thing to say historical facts are not accurate how can a producer do that the deportation of the wasn't in when we see franklin in london but in how can he pass that in the movie the scenes in londo were useless too then for the story for anyone that read les canadians you have the story line right there it's the story of la that witch add a love story too and a tragic relationship between mother and daughter ending sure it brought tears to my eyes but that's it then there's the fact it's apparently set up in city but it's mostly shot at the de sure it's a historical site and it's accurate to the time but it was obvious that the scenes were not all set in city overall if you're looking for a documentary of new france go get a people's history a real documentary on the history of and new france if you want a love story that will bring you tears a story set up in a wonderful forest watch new france
0	the actors were not believable the story was really weak total sap and completely predictable really disappointed in depardieu it was a shame that they did not focus more on the struggle of the canadian fight for independence we have seen this love story many times before only with better actors we had to wait for the last 15 minutes for a small sense of drama the soundtrack was totally disturbing the underscore hit you over the head with sentimentality but really over the top the only thing we found ok was the fact that they let the indians speak their language and we found the cinematography of the indian village relatively realistic
0	much can usually be forgiven in period pieces that ask us to recall important historical events and spice them with enough love interest to keep the story going battle of the brave tackles the 18th century struggle for the control of quebec an all of canada between the british and the french with sidebars form the new america it has the makings of a sweeping epic of fascination but sadly in the hands of writer pierre whose script deserves a razzie award for worst of the season and the scattered unfocused and confusing direction by jean this film is a dud a two and a quarter hour tedious mess of a film br br even a cast a fine actors pairing as marie with david la haye as françois le adding the lovely bianca gervais as the venerable gérard depardieu as le thomas and the likes of irène jacob vincent perez ridiculous in period wigs tim roth as william pitt colm meaney as benjamin franklin and jason isaacs as james wolfe doesn't help veteran actors such as these must have cringed at the crude lines written for their characters cover the whole mess in a sappy musical score by patrick doyle and the result is a long film to be avoided sad to say such bad things about a costly project but be warned grady harp
0	this was truly the most painful experience i have had in quite some time in a movie theater i will forego such facile criticisms as or or crap's crap' because quite simply our sympathies would then immediately go out to these words if a director's to make a sweeping grandiose love epic well for god's sake make a real damn sweeping grandiose love epic why bother with such laughably unconvincing second rate harlequin romances and such boring interchanges between characters we could care less about when the most decisive battle on canadian soil is taking place and for the pompous people thinking 'oh well this story must center characters well you're wrong dead wrong
0	from the second the music swelled second one of the movie and it was movie hack tripe i knew i was in for a very long ride horrendously clichéd i laughed a lot and knew how the plot ended well before the ending they didn't use particularly well and the costuming and hair were kinda awful my particular favourite makeup moment is that the only way they age depardieu as far as i could see was by putting a straight hair wig on him instead of wavy i could go on about the ridiculous unsuitability of the music for a long time the movie could be improved massively by an 18th century score br br eta ah it's that horrible guy patrick doyle who's responsible for the score say no more he should not be allowed near historical movies he should stick to 20th century settings br br the visit to the notable people portion was also hilarious particularly his little visit to madame pompadour who was not particularly convincingly played br br i thought the only actor who appeared grounded in the century at hand was michael maloney as james murray he absolutely stole the show for all 30 seconds he was on screen tragically he made you see what the movie could have been br br the love scenes did have some heat the two leads were stunning together br br the most awful scene for historians is where they're at the big dinner in britain before wolfe sails and he lifts his glass and says the first two lines of how stands the glass around aka why soldiers why as if it's a toast absolutely excruciating failure at historicity much better to leave it out thousands of people know the damn song and thousands more believe the rumour that wolfe and company sang it probably drunk not all stuffy like this bunch daft
0	from the title the tag line the plot summary on the dvd etc i expected something at least slightly epic with the historical fiction and the romance to thrill you that's what they did in last of the mohicans for example and i think they did a superb job maybe i had standards too high for this movie and didn't give it a fair chance but the scenery was barely ok how could they not come up with something more beautiful when they have such landscapes to work with the two lovers had no chemistry whatsoever and the plot was just so predictable it felt like it had been drafted in 5 minutes by a twelve year old and not a very imaginative one nouvelle france is a love story set in an eventful historical age but the history of nouvelle france is hardly a side note and the love story is banal and fails dramatically to make the viewer care for the lovers' fate surprisingly the only good parts about the movie came from something completely unexpected and the relationship between marie the heroine and her children one natural one adopted if only they'd concentrated on her family and forgotten about the love story it would have been a much better movie marie parents should have been given more screen time and character development the politics going on in britain should have been more than a three minute scene with barely any connection to the rest the rotten baddie should have been either more developed or removed from the script completely why hire actors like vincent perez tim roth or jason isaacs to misuse them so badly bad work overall
0	despite decades of tax incentives in terms of international visibility the canadian film industry still lags behind most central african and islamic states surprisingly few canadian films are released outside their native shores and nouvelle france aka battle of the brave is another example of why more than any other country commercial canadian cinema seems unable to develop an identity of its own and is stuck in pale imitation of other countries' failures on paper this historical drama could look vaguely promising there's certainly a rich vein of untapped material in canada's history as the french and english warred over and bought and sold the colony though none of it makes the cut here unless you count the odd blink and you'll miss it scene of characters saying wolfe is dead or nouvelle france is no more before getting back to the soap but while this isn't a history lesson it isn't a drama or the epic adventure the new title promises either there is no battle in the film unless you count 10 seconds of shelling by a half dozen re and one collapsed shed the town square that is all we ever see of quebec is a rather obvious flatly lit studio interior giving many scenes an old tv miniseries look as does director jean reluctance to offer much in the way of long shots or even exteriors what you do get for your money is a simple but drawn out harlequin romance about doomed lovers constantly separated by events beyond their control where the biggest surprise is that fabio doesn't turn up in the cast it's the kind of film where whenever two characters are about to make the beast with two backs the camera pans over to a convenient raging fireplace or waterfall br br an anglo canadian french co production that doesn't so much unite once warring nations as throw any country with a decent tax break into the stew this massive box office disaster was clearly intended to be canada's titanic though someone neglected to tell the producers they meant the film not the ship but turns out more like revolution done on the cheap without the battle scenes crowds or the few moments that threaten to briefly work in the face of overwhelming odds the montreal mirror described it as so bad that one can't even find the strength to mock it that's rather unfair because while for most of its running time the film looks like a below par 80s miniseries the last half hour suddenly becomes very funny with characters accidentally putting their legs in bear traps dastardly husbands declaring you'll never see your handsome lover again honor you'll pay for this both of you and our heroine accused of murder and gasp witchcraft in a trial funny enough to have been in demi moore's version of the scarlet letter throw in british governors devious slaves and celine dion singing at the end and you've got something that at times almost feels like the kind of film that timbo hines was aspiring to and still managed to miss wildly with his legendarily inept period version of war of the worlds albeit without the staggering technical incompetence br br leading man david la versatility seems limited to the number of other actors he can look like throughout the course of the film he starts out looking like andy garcia briefly adopts the al pacino revolution look flirts with the clean shaven karyo style before turning into a younger ted danson as his character ages while his opening scene where he reacts to news of his father's death with an expression that looks like he's waiting for the director to tell him he can go home now promises a feast of bad acting in reality he gives the impression more of a mediocre supporting actor who's lucked into a lead at the last minute when whoever was originally cast finally read the script and bailed he shows willing and gives it a go but the grace and charisma the part needs just isn't there billie piper lookalike leading lady doesn't exactly set the screen alight either despite occupying center stage as the peasant girl who is the prey of giggly vincent corrupt and perverted le bigot that really is the character's name the duplicitous drunken lackey sebastien and saddest of all gerard depardieu's bedridden revolutionary dirty old priest in a manky grey haired wig it's a truly pitiful sight to see a once great actor at the absolute rock bottom of his game as he shuffles through the motions looking like he's not just lost the will to act but the will to live along with it he clearly couldn't be bothered to stick around for the english dubbing sessions or even a couple of long shots where he is very noticeably doubled small wonder he talked of retiring around the time of the film's brief release br br some brief comic relief is provided by jason isaacs in his default patriot mode who overplays wolfe of quebec rather like an asthmatic alf garnett archie bunker played by timothy dalton on speed while tim roth's william pitt stands on the sidelines with the occasional bemused smile of one who's being put up in a rather nice hotel with excellent room service and plenty of days off though like colm meaney's benjamin franklin they're both in the film for less than three minutes voltaire and madame pompadour pop their heads around the door for a couple of minutes as well but fail to make any impression comic or otherwise the supporting actresses are generally better juliette and bianca gervais as the heroine's real and adopted daughters and a strikingly beautiful irene jacob looking for all the world like a young fanny ardant are all refreshingly good and deserve much better
0	i've seen some terrible book to film adaptations in my day but this one tops them all the bizarrely unattractive cast detracts from the story which is in itself untrue to the book mr is nothing like handsome as for catherine morland a rat like appearance makes this heroine a difficult one to sell to a sympathetic audience isabella is nothing like the aphrodite one reads about in the original text and james morland appears in the film far too little to leave the viewer with any understanding of his important role in the story also as others have pointed out before this novel was intended to satirize the gothic craze prevalent in austen's time but it appears that this soft horror film was designed and meant to be taken seriously i'm sure jane austen turns over in her grave each time one of her fans is disappointed by this awful interpretation of what was supposed to be a joke
0	it's really a shame to see so many talented people involved in what's happen to be a very waste of talents the plot is cliché the directing is too self conscious and the characters are almost caricatures one of the most disappointing aspect of this film is gerard depardieu's performance in the english version this movie was shot in french and english at the same time although he is one of the best actor in the film he gives the worst performance of them all i must say that bianca gervais come very close though br br on a more positive note i must say that the newcomer juliette gives an amazing performance in both version unfortunately that the only good thing i remember about this film br br by the way i must apologize for my not very good english
0	a film about an interesting and sensitive period of history filmed in beautiful surroundings managed to present an appallingly trivial and clichéd production grossly clumsy script poor continuity intrusive slushy music sugary casting and pallid acting br br it was a toss up between the script and the acting as to which was worse the script probably won the historical background backstory and character descriptions were spelt out in painful detail in the dialogue actually words can't describe quite how bad this film is br br in a pre release screening there was a massive exodus from about thirty minutes in at about an hour many of those who remained were laughing loudly i should add i am a francophile i am fascinated by canada and love historical film this really was a one off
0	please do not waste your time and money with this stinker of a turkey br br this is an over the top melodramatic love story set against the background of new france aka quebec in the 18th century or is it an historical saga of new france with an epic romance thrown in i don't know and at this point i don't care anymore br br there is a rich story to be told out there about the intrepid french adventurers rogues and other assorted characters who settled canada and parts of the us this is not it the characters are total clichés the story is overblown breathless and devoid of any charm and before long all the viewer wants to do is get the heck out of the theatre have his or her head checked and get hold of his or her anger at being taken in by the hype br br this film was the biggest disappointment of my year in terms of cinema especially since as an historian and a french canadian or canadian of french descent or whatever i am a a believer in the fact that the story of my people in this country has yet to be told as well as it could on film b interested in this subject c a film lover who thinks cinema these days could do wonders with this grandiose and tragic story br br as i said do not waste your time with this frustrating bit of claptrap
0	this is the one major problem with this film along with a good deal of biggest movies done in a pretentious way by pretentious people br br it's really sad but big shots movie makers driving dodge stratus from this province believes they got the they know what the little people like br br we're not a rich province every time a big movie like this 30 millions is made it's cutting off a lot of others who won't see their movie made because of lack of governmental help so it generates mediocrity only movies from friends of the family are going to be made br br i sound angry and i am i went see nouvelle france expecting a journey in the lives of my ancestors but i found myself stuck in a pool of inconsistencies french accent we gotta please our cousins so f our language and lack of historical research is only a few add a campy love story and the same music score playing again and again and dumb viewer is gonna open up and ask for more i'm glad this pretentious piece of s didn't do as planned by the dodge stratus big shots it's gonna help movie makers who aren't in the very restrained movie business of br br rent cruising bar instead and have a real good time br br ps i'll never forgive them for ruining such an awesome title
0	that's the worst film i saw since a long time historic accuracy is totally non existent for example james wolfe who his depicted as an anti french canadian is shown in london during the summer of natives are like indians of a bad hollywood movie of the 60's they wear clothes and ride horses the had never ride horses the film is taking place in quebec city but footage is set in showing the atlantic ocean br br the original scenario was supposed to include the battle of the plains of abraham but the producers drop this idea saying that costs for uniforms and participants would be more than 4 millions dollars i think they never heard about re enactment br br all the movie is planned to be a new titanic an impossible love during an historic tragedy the fall of new france there's even a song performed by celine dion at the end of the movie yes i stayed till the end of the movie but i deeply regret but the worst thing of all is that this movie cost 30 millions dollars i just don't know how they spend all this money br br sorry for my anger but i'm just too irritated
0	i absolutely could not believe the levels of ineptitude on display in this production i honestly thought gay men had better taste than this i know i do br br the bulk of the blame doesn't lie with the cast but let's get them out of the way first the only one with real talent was joe souza plus he had the best bod in the cast he had a nice clear theatre style voice okay and voice was so so but he had a vacant expression in every number the rest couldn't hold a note in a bucket even though the music was obviously dubbed in after the fact must have been really dreadful hearing them live they were also all girly boys except for maybe three if i wanted to see naked women onstage i could go to the titty bars not sure why anyone would choose to film the l a production instead of new york i would imagine ny has more readily available singing talent though one would think in l a they would be able to find better looking guys apparently not br br but i digress the real blame here lies with the creators and producers this score was the most banal insipid tripe i have ever heard it sounded like some theatre queens took all their musical cd's threw them in a blender and poured the goo onto a page sadly i'm sure there are many who can't tell the difference between good theatre writing and whatever this is i mean seriously i was laughing my ass off through the whole thing but not at the lame jokes i think the morbid 'my lover has died of aids song' entitled kris look what you've missed was the most hysterical thing in the whole show genius writing kris missed wow they almost rhyme must be a good lyric and jesus the end of that song oh kris ohhh kris ohhhh kris over and over my other favorite was you gotta be a pumpy junkie boy to be a boy wtf the whole show was full of the most arbitrary lyrics just because they rhymed where did these people learn to write songs apparently they listened to sondheim and said he's not so great i can do that as evidenced by the retarded bobby bobby bobby reference from company in one song another irk why are 20 somethings singing about robert mitchum and tab hunter obviously coming from the mouths of the lyricists and not the actors again bad writing br br if you love torture and pain and i know many of you strange fetishists do go ahead and watch it but you've been warned
0	i'm writing this as i watch the dvd i grabbed for the laptop and went to imdb during the first song i didn't know anything about the movie except that a friend said that the show was supposed to be good it has a decent netflix rating too so here i am br br maybe on the stage this worked but i have to say that the sight of chorus boys dancing and singing completely naked just seems silly and the lip syncing to a score adds to the strangeness br br most of the songs and routines are about aspects of male nudity this is my idea of nothing sorry the score so far is generic show tune music nothing memorable or particularly melodic everything is to serve the lyrics which i have to say sound like they were written by a committee each song is essentially one extended joke if the jokes were ten seconds they might work these single several minute long jokes don't br br i'm now watching the movie by chapters a few minutes until i get the gist kind of in the hopes that one of them will be different or entertaining enough to keep me from going on to the next scene nope br br okay i'm finished so here's what i think if you have any experience or long standing appreciation of musical theater avoid this it's just not quality if however you're a gay twenty something and have never seen or heard a musical comedy you might be entertained or maybe this would hold your interest if you've never seen a lot of attractive naked men br br i have
0	this show has been performed live around the country with a wide variety of casts i saw it first in the provincetown production the first summer it was in p town 2001 before it was curiously enough banned in that overwhelmingly gay resort the codes which resulted in its closing have since been i saw it again later in the off broadway long running production in new york oddly enough the p town production was far better than the new york one fresher cuter more spirited and funnier but that was only in the 2001 showing subsequent attempts to clone the production bare naked lads in 2007 were definitely third rate this filmed production features a los angelos production cast and it is as other comments have suggested not the best i would rate it somewhere in between the top notch 2001 p town production and the third rate bare naked lads p town show from last summer
0	first off i'm in the u s br br when i first saw this i thought it was an obvious and loathsome rip off of the office uk i would have thus awarded it zero stars but lo and behold it came out long before the ricky gervais series br br still it's hard to watch this or any other show with a similar dynamic including the american office without comparison it just isn't even close to being the same thing br br i will give it some credit for being original and ahead of its time i'll also say that it and the u s office and larry sanders are actual satires the uk office is something grander and more transcendent as if populated with real people in events that felt like they actually happened however unlike this or the shrill christopher guest mockumentaries it isn't really a satire while the definitely is br br be that as it may the still isn't very funny it's aloof and self aware but with a cast and crew not nearly smart or talented enough to heft the goods it's weighty comedy being carried on weak shoulders commendable but ultimately not recommended br br and what's with the lack of an anamorphic dvd i know it was shot in anamorphic widescreen because i saw the pilot episode on one of our hd channels cbc get with the programme
0	as anthony said i wanted to stick my head in a bucket of pull my eyeballs out and jump off a cliff this summarizes my feelings about this pathetic waste of human effort artless self indulgent thoughtless and just bad bad beyond comprehension what else can i say if you are unfortunate enough to be in an area where this piece of idiotic trash is playing please please have mercy on soul and avoid at all costs
0	we really don't know where to begin when talking about this movie but we'll start with the plot we sincerely suspect that whomever wrote produced directed this movie never read the book because they missed the entire point satirical not horror just a hint second the bath scene enough said third the added characters the sketchy gothic french lady and her black page who enjoys holding hands and we don't understand where this came from either and then there was the casting all of them were really unlikeable we were very upset that catherine and mr ended up together because they were so unlikable that no one would ever wish to see them happy and the music we think that the bbc producers ran out of money so raided their grandmother's attic and they found some old records saxophone wailing female voices and an occasional electric guitar shudder br br plus the best line ever since you left the white rose bush has died of grief if anybody has any explanation we would love to hear it because it makes absolutely no sense br br we are still wondering what on earth everyone involved was thinking when they cruelly released this pathetic excuse of a movie out on the public we think it should be considered a federal offense torture is illegal br br this movie is by far the worst we have seen to date and i've seen a lot of movies br br our recommendation give this movie to whomever you hate they will watch it and want to kill themselves and we agree with a previous post we would give this 0 stars if at all possible do not watch and we strongly suspect that everyone who commented so far in favor of this movie were involved in its production or were mentally insane these are the only reasons we have been able to come up with that would instigate giving a favorable review
0	if you would have asked me 1 month ago how this movie was i probably would have left most of this out but i am a fan and as any fan i visit the movies sites often well when super troopers came out i visited that site after the release on dvd and was hooked yea it's a difficult site to stay on but the good ones normally are like good families they stick together what a story this company comedy troop has begging people to come and see there movies on street corners universities anywhere they can and all for free and after all that to develop a great fan base after a few years they crap on it and decide to close down there website that helped them and was created for the fans but the worst thing about it they didn't tell any of them they just decided that they are better than us they want new fans not the fans that helped them get where they are you know the same fans they begged years ago still the smart crew they are they released the best movie with super troopers and got everyones attention and thank god for that because after that they have sucked with everything else good for you guys way to go mainstream just remember when you realize your material isn't that good and you have no new fans left you are the ones who crapped the original ones away fans make you who you are not the other way around never burn your bridges
0	i rented this movie because the dvd cover made it look like it was going to be a ridiculous college comedy like van wilder or animal house i took it to my friend house to watch for movie night we ended up stopping it 15 minutes into the film and watched copper mountain instead i don't know if any of you have seen copper mountain but it isn't great either however i would have to say that the alan thick jim carrey duo made it a more enjoyable watch br br i later finished puddle cruiser this movie was slow and the humor was forced this movie reminded me of some stinkers that i saw in some of my earlier production classes in college i was left wondering was this the film that enabled broken lizard to make supertroopers also how could this movie suck so bad supertroopers was good and club dread was decent don't see this movie
0	i found super troopers only mildly amusing at best seemed like a glorified police academy ripoff to me and i rented this movie in hopes of it being better it wasn't br br the writing is absolutely horrible and the pacing of this film is even worse it doesn't feel like a whole lot happens in this film or that it really gives us a reason to give a damn about any of the characters br br the actor who plays felix is totally uninspired though possibly due in part to the dialogue he had to work with in short this movie just went wrong in so many places br br i get the impression that since films like clerks independent filmmakers seem to think that they can make movies like this with long rambling scenes of dialogue where characters are trying to be funny but where dialogue in clerks pushes the story forward in this movie it hopelessly weighs it down films are supposed to have a decent balance of action and dialogue and as tempting as it is for filmmakers to try to have tons of snappy funny dialogue it just doesn't always work especially if they're not that good at writing dialogue i hate to say it but even extreme heist was more interesting than this movie and that movie was so low budget it was shot on video
0	oh my gosh this was the first movie broken lizard made as a group although it just recently came to video and i have never been more disappointed in my entire life i tell you what if i had seen this movie before i saw super troopers which by the way is a kick a movie i never ever would have watched it i had read several reviews online as well as on the cover of the dvd that raved it as being broken lizard's funniest movie ever now if they were referring to super troopers as being their funniest movie ever i would agree nonstop but not this one talk about dry it took the movie a good 45 minutes to even get going and by then i was so out of the mood to watch it that it wasn't even worth it maybe you gotta be high for it to really be funny i dunno i love these guys i really do but that movie is by far the worst one they've made club dread was a pretty good movie but this one just wow i'd highly recommend super troopers if you want a good laugh but if you want more of a romance drama with a few funny spots i'd say go with puddle cruiser just my opinion though everyone is entitled to their own
0	this movie was the worst movie i've ever seen no story no point it wasn't even funny at all not sure why people say this movie is hilarious because it sucked so much felix bean the main character sucked susanna sucked this movie was made in 1996 and it really was set in the 80s what else i'm never letting my friend pick movies ever again hmm the movie cover said it was from the producers from super troopers who kidnapped them and stole their identities wow what a waste of time the only minute thing that was funny was freaky ricky he was funny especially when he and emily ended up together that was funny all and all it sucked waste of time and sleep wow never thought a movie like this could be made so dumb for watching for watching it to the end
0	man was this hard to watch it was not at all funny not well made and it had no point or plot to it whatsoever the acting was horrible it was not well made at all it looked like a bunch of kids my age were just screwing around and making a pointless movie it is by far the absolute worst broken lizard movie if you are a broken lizard movie like myself you will disappointed and bored to your death please skip this pointless movie about ugly guys looking for chicks you will not regret m advice by the way don't say you didn't find this review helpful just because you didn't agree with it thats stupid like this movie the only ok scene was when the main guy was playing rugby and got beat the crap out of i liked that cause i found his character pretty damn annoying
0	even though this is the first film by the broken lizard group it's the last one i saw having mildly enjoyed super troopers and managed to sit through the crap that is club and i was surprised to hear they did an earlier film now i didn't sit down with high hopes but was hoping for a funny campus romp my friend asked me to keep in mind they are younger obviously and its their first foray into film i did and was still disappointed not taking away the acting and comedy skills of the bl guys they were ok the whole film was tiresome clichéd and frankly boring some of the other actors in the film were really poor at acting and the rugby game didn't even resemble rugby poor showing they improved drastically with super troopers and have declined since lets hope they get back on form with super troopers 2
0	super troopers was an instant classic club dread while disappointing to many had its moments puddle has fewer moments i saw this movie on the shelf of my local video store and saw at the bottom that it was made by the broken lizard group who made super troopers so naturally i picked it up i only found one scene to be laugh out loud funny a far cry from super troopers all in all i was very disappointed i would not recommend this to anyone unless you have an abundance of free time and really need to kill some time however you're better off playing video games or watching something that might make you laugh or think
0	pauline kael gave this movie a good review but it is terrible it is very outdated the humour is silly and the music is forgetable in fact it is so silly it is almost embarrassing it might have been some fun in 1938 but i can not imagine anyone enjoying it in 2003
0	a bad movie but with one reel that is worth savoring for most of the film the jokes are bad the songs are bad even w c fields is bad then there is one sequence with bob hope and his movie ex the dialogue is witty and the song a version of thanks for the memories light cynical and delightful who in for this one bit yet it makes the whole thing worth the original 25 cents admission
0	it is hard for a lover of the novel northanger abbey to sit through this bbc adaptation and to keep from throwing objects at the tv screen in fact if jane austen herself were to see this she would be somewhat amused and possibly put out maggie adaptation has made northanger abbey into what it satirized the gothic novel and the readers of gothic novels br br the role of catherine morland in the adaptation is portrayed fairly closely to austen's catherine a open hearted generous girl whose imagination simply runs away with her but the henry of the novel is not a snuff taking cane wielding sappy line making hero of a gothic novel he is a tease a nearly handsome man with a messy room and a living that's right henry is a clergyman a charm that is completely dropped from the script some of the best scenes from novel when henry completely deadpan outrageously teases the literally minded catherine on diction journals mrs radcliffe etc are not portrayed in the adaptation a large section of henry's personality is lost when those scenes are not adapted besides peter firth's appearance is not accurate henry is supposed to be 24 or 25 dark hair and a brown skin not 35 or 40 and blond br br there are so many other absurdities within the adaptation that invoke surprise and disgust who is the and what is she doing in the story why is john less of a dunce and more of a schemer why is northanger abbey a castle catherine of the novel with her romantic visions expects hidden passages and dark tapestries but is very disappointed to discover that northanger abbey is actually a comfortable modern house another element of satire why portray general as a drunk why does catherine have those strange visions of mrs allen threading her finger etc catherine's imagination only runs away with her at northanger with henry there to correct her gently and lastly why are so many facts concerning the family and mrs death altered unnecessarily to make the story more horrible ' all of these oddities and more simply are too strange to be overlooked br br
0	the king is alive is a flawed and contrived mess of a movie which comes off like a self indulgent auteur's excuse to transport a bunch of actors to a godforsaken desert where he can play major dogme and film his selfishly conceived silly overwrought drama with utter disregard for the real forces of human nature market appeal common sense and even good art in other words this is one flick and if you don't believe that your penance is watching it only for critics and the like d
0	this is possibly the worst movie i have ever seen can somebody please explain the plot of this movie to me yes i know the bus ran out of gas in the middle of the desert after the driver never noticed that his compass wasn't functioning but what then and how did it end maybe i'm to stupid to understand this movie but to me it was an absolute waste of time br br my recommendation do not bother there are far better movies to be seen this movie ranks with my other all time low going overboard adam sandler and fire on the amazon sandra bullock
0	i went to see with high expectations which might have influence on my opinion on it i have seen all of the dogme films and this is by far the worst the story intertwines with themes from shakespeare's play king lear but never succeeds in capturing the audience and making them care the directing of the actors is very loose even for dogme style movies and results in poor undefinable acting the story lacks any dynamics whatsoever and i lost interest very shortly there are some scenes in the film which are there to shock the viewer but i don't think they enhanced the story at all sang and are both that proved to be well directed and had good storylines so i shall look forward to better in the future perhaps an invisible man dogme 6 will prove to lift the quality again for he is like and s k a skilled and educated director
0	well they sent it on tv between midnight and 2 00 am it seems like the right time to watch it and then go to bed afterwards br br no it was not really living up to my expectations i think the dogma concept is good because the film then gets closer to what's really happening between the involved characters when you cut all the unnecessary effects and mood making music out but then again this concept requires some interesting action between the characters br br i cannot say that i know king lear the shakespeare version very well if i had known the play i would probably have been able to predict much of the film br br well a crisis can bring the best and worst sides of a character on display and we certainly see some bad sides oh yes the paint of civilisation and culture can be very thin and behind this paint you may find an animal br br if you then compare it with for italian for beginners or sang last song you see the same but opposite thing a crisis can certainly bring people to view their life in a more constructive way and if you dare do you may win br br when the film had ended i thought to myself oh that's why i haven't seen it before the film has its own beauty the quality of the work of the cameraman actors etc is good but the script could need something more a plot maybe wouldn't hurt
0	a ragtag collection of western tourists in africa suffer the misfortune of their plane breaking down so they're compelled to hop on a bus to travel across the desert to reach the nearest jumping off point back to civilization not surprisingly the driver's compass ends up not working and they find themselves way off course coming to a stop at a deserted ghost town that had been a barracks during the fighting in wwii they find some kerosene useless in terms of re filling the tank of their bus a storage room full of half poisoned carrots in tin cans and a native hermit who views them with indifference the one fellow amongst them who appears to have something on the ball in terms of survivalist techniques goes off to get help they are to remove the tires from the bus and burn them if he's not back in five days hopefully someone will see the black smoke br br does this sound interesting well sure even if it sounds a lot like the flight of the phoenix or any number of films in the deserted island genre which is why it's surprising that the king is alive is number 4 if anyone is still counting in the ongoing dogma 95 series which if i remember that ridiculous dogma 95 vow of chastity correctly proclaimed that genre films are strictly verboten oops well anyway you can tell it's gonna try and be all arty and stuff in order to compensate for the fact that it's a genre flick yep it doesn't take long for one member of the group a wizened old stage actor to start scribbling down from memory the various roles from king lear on well rolls of paper the idea is that performing the play will help while away the time all of which really goes against the absconded advice to stay optimistic didn't the old actor ever do a dinner theater performance of the odd couple just once in his life quite apart from such an activity being a colossal waste of precious time and energy br br this movie is so bad i really don't know how to continue it's so monumentally stupid so full of absurd situations and characters that it beggars rational criticism it may be a timely moment to offer full disclosure i despise this so called danish film movement to an almost irrational degree i think my face even turns slightly red at the mere mention of dogma 95 first of all if the name of your movement has the word dogma in the title you've already lost me secondly in this particular instance the insistence on the of individual artistic achievement is a recipe for arch hypocrisy when you consider that the filmmakers here are plundering one of the greatest works of the greatest individual writer who ever lived but doubtless the dogma crowd believes the works of shakespeare were actually penned by a of elizabethan bigwigs like the earl of oxford francis bacon walter raleigh and the queen herself br br hell i may have forgiven the whole enterprise if it had played the scenario for farcical purposes attacking the precious dogma now that would be subversive but the movie takes itself very seriously and soon devolves into the clichés attendant upon the genre in which it unmistakably belongs people turning against each other the men growing beards the inevitable deaths of a few of the principal actors all with a straight face is this the promised end well not quite we also have to endure the abysmal transfer of dv for this is another rule in the dogma 95 vow of chastity hand held digital video only some friendly advice to the danes your movement is in trouble when your finished product has worse visual quality than an average high school graduation home video professionalism belongs in an artist's bag of tricks right alongside his own individuality artisan and artist are kindred words mr von trier not every jackass with a 100 hand held can be a filmmaker pass it on and by the way allow your dogma directors to be credited for their films while you're at it the fact that the writer of the king is alive receives credit while the guy or girl actually filming it doesn't is just a wee bit hypocritical br br contemptible 1 star out of 10
0	imagine a gilligan's island set in the african desert in modern times add people nowhere near as jaunty as the skipper or marianne and enough angst to fill a german psychiatrist's office throw in a plot that manages to be interesting only and literary parallelism that never delves deeply enough to truly satisfy season with a truly morose topic that's been exploited since the first world travelers found themselves very very lost br br if the king is alive weren't a product of the reigning du jour of dogme 95 would this film be garnering as much attention dogme 95 is to hollywood as danish modern is to a byproduct of digital technology this scandinavian movement seeks quite dogmatically to strip away artificiality in film making by using more natural elements and returning to the essence of storytelling pearl harbor for instance is the dogme antichrist br br director co author saga ponders interpersonal relations and human nature when placed under the fire of a life threatening situation eleven people aboard a bus riding through the sand dunes suddenly find themselves stranded in the remains of an abandoned town an african local who does not speak their language serves as observer and narrator whose insights are among the film's most trenchant as the strongest heads off for a five day walk to the nearest village the others stay behind surviving on canned carrots and their likely future as chow former thespian henry decides that this rather unappealing crew needs a diversion and hand writes king lear from memory he assigns roles and the group passes many days learning lines and rehearsing in an effort to divert their attention from the seemingly inevitable br br gradually the cast begins to lose it and the of their william might say human to surface if you've ever seen lord of the flies you know that these things can get ugly that being in a lifeboat situation can turn even mother teresa into the termagant of calcutta br br the film was shot using an international ensemble of american english french and south african actors who the dogme dogma dictates develop themselves and their roles quite organically the king was also filmed chronologically adding a sense of realism to the ever increasing desperation of its characters after up to three hand held cameras shot in digital results were transferred to 35mm film br br the performance that compels most comes from jennifer jason leigh who plays a pop tart trying to bolster the spirits of the group in any and every way she can henry david bradley is another finely played character whose passion for his life's work ultimately saves the gang from utter despair it's hard to feel too sorry for the wives and their oafish husbands hirsute old sulky french intellectuals wealthy men who have more important places to be than marooned in the desert beckett might hate this question but why is this group riding a bus together through remote africa in the first place life threatening morbidity utter despair rendered in graphic detail a relentlessly tedious pace enjoy
0	the movie is being televised as i write br br i simply forgot how horrible an experience i had watching it in the cinema br br the whole idea of the movie is flawed the fact that intelligent europeans and americans stranded in the desert forget all concept of morals and civilization within a couple of days is laughable the madness of lord of the flies was longer in the making br br details that annoy are plenty one is the single african god like character that mysteriously survives the horrible climate and have done so for ages without losing his mind and he seems to have no supply problems either ridiculous so too is the rescue attempt from the tour guide an indiana jones look alike whose rescue attempt ends in tragedy and death a 5 minute walk from the hut then there's the choice of lear imposed onto the group by a guru like joke of an artist he reminded me of my hippie high school art teacher br br the worst thing though is choice of lear obviously is an intellectual brain fart how that ever was going to be an pass time is never clear to me br br positives are few and far between it's a beautiful movie but that's never important br br high school intellectualism weird for the sake of weird it's a complete waste of time unless you like thrashing useless art movies
0	this is one of those films with a great potential brilliant actors a debut from a very interesting director and a haunting survivor ish plot br br but it does not work at all br br to start with the good thing the cinematography is stunning the beauty of the desert shows itself as a merciless surrounding also in the pictures and then there is the acting quite allright jennifer jason leigh has never been better bruce davison also seems to have developed his character from altman's short cuts br br then the disappointments janet mcteer and the plot why on earth does pick lear for their play the whole idea of letting shakespeare articulate their despair and inner longings does not work it seems like a facade and it is clear that the tragedies takes place because of the choice of lear they just needs to fit in in the script by and academy award winner anders thomas jensen br br and the sex it takes about three days then more or less all of the characters are sexually frustrated sex is always the easy way out when you are in need of a crisis in a plot janet mcteer's part totally falls apart mainly because of that ridiculous idea the sex makes the plot fall promptly to the ground instead they could have focused on the dialogue there must have been conversation between all of the characters but we mainly see them talking in smaller groups their talking though is as dead as lear and the rest of the film br br the king is alive still is not the worst danish dogme '95 movie yet but comparing it to the most recent of the homegrown dogme '95 films for by lone this one fails badly it is not a good film it is a bad one but it is beautiful
0	this is one incredibly standard western that features some bad acting dull storyline and silly action br br biggest problem perhaps is how incredibly formulaic this movie is it features all of the usual clichés yes even a bar fight and the movie really doesn't has any surprises in it it makes this a dull and a weak western to watch also not in the least because it's such a poorly made one br br it's obviously a small production and the movie looks like it got shot in 30 days the directing and editing can be called bad and all of the action sequences featured in the movie are incredibly silly it perhaps almost becomes a bit humorous to watch for all the wrong reasons br br its story also isn't that interesting it's a pretty friendly western so also no blood in which for some odd reason everybody seems to be against the younger brothers who in this movie are being portrayed as good and very friendly guys the story gets sillier and sillier as it heads toward its ending the younger brothers really existed and were part of the james younger gang of which the famous brothers frank and jesse james were also part of of course they were not as friendly in real life as portrayed in this movie it just was custom for an early '40's to have likable man characters in it it wasn't really until the western age really that the main characters became rotten criminals themselves really strangely enough that approached has always worked out better than those early western's in which the main character is on the good side of the law br br thing that does make this movie original is the fact that it was shot in color this was something pretty unique for an '40's western and still gives the movie something extra you can wonder though why they shot this western in full color the movie is still done in the style of a black white early western after all and i actually believe that this movie would had been a bit more credible if it got done in black white instead br br you could easily do without this western br br 4 10
0	although unusually in colour for a second string oater the vivid clothes of the lead females fails to bring any life to the flatly directed screenplay the plot revolves around the youngers newly released on parole attempting to go straight but being pursued by a vengeful ex pinkerton man a scenery chewing fred clark and a femme fatale determined to involve them in her bank robbery schemes whether they want to or not as cole younger wayne morris is big and hunky enough but his cool demeanour and wooden acting skills undermine things the standard of action is frankly no better than a gene autry or roy rogers tv episode with colt that never need reloading and uncanny shooting skills that allow a horse rider to shoot from the hip and wound a man from at least 50 feet oh dear
0	this is a terrible movie that is barely recognizable from the book although they have sort of similar plots the time it takes to watch this movie which is only 1 5 hours would be much better spent doing anything else including watching grass grow the addition of poorly done fantasy scenes make catherine seem insufferably silly the actress who plays catherine also comes across ditzy as all goodness and looks constantly surprised even when she's supposed to be looking lovingly into her eyes honestly the movie ends with a catherine fantasy like scene where one can't help but wonder if it's happened or if she's merely delusional and not in the good way that makes you think but in a perfectly horrible way that basically sums up the terrible movie the only good thing about the movie is the title which was written by ms austen herself i generally love the bbc's productions but this one is horrid
0	an italian american co production co starring linda blair and david 'the hoff' hasselhoff how could any fan of trashy horror resist such a treat br br well based on the uneventful extremely tedious and utterly nonsensical first forty minutes or so i would have said 'very easily' thankfully however things do eventually get a tad more entertaining with the introduction of several inventive death scenes and for those lucky enough to find an uncut copy a smattering of nudity too unfortunately my copy was optically edited to remove such offensive material br br the hoff stars as gary a photographer who accompanies his beautiful girlfriend leslie leslie cumming to a run down hotel on a seemingly deserted island in order to take pictures for her latest project a book about witches whilst there frustrated gary also hopes to try and cure a bad case of blue balls by relieving leslie of her virginity br br his plans for nookie are scuppered however by the unexpected arrival of property developers freddie and rose brooks robert champagne and annie ross their pregnant daughter jane blair son tommy michael manchester pretty nymphomaniac architect linda sullivan catherine hickland and estate agent jerry rick farnsworth who have come to inspect the island's hotel br br after explaining their unexpected presence on the island gary and leslie are welcomed by the property's new owners and when a violent storm suddenly picks up making it perilous to return to the mainland everyone agrees to spend the night in the old building unfortunately unbeknownst to the hotel's new guests the place is also home to the spirit of an evil witch hildegard knef who requires human sacrifices in order to bring herself back to life one by one victims are pulled into a swirling red vortex which is guaranteed to provide unintentional laughs before meeting a terrible fate br br none of this makes much sense and the acting is atrocious manchester as tommy is particularly bad whilst hasselhoff proves to be one of the better performers which speaks volumes about the others but those viewers who make it past the dreary first half are rewarded with some pretty decent moments of gore rose has her lips sewn together before being roasted alive in a fireplace jerry is crucified and burnt alive linda is tortured by hags and impaled on a swordfish freddie's veins pulsate and erupt in geysers of blood and gary gets stabbed in the back br br oh and leslie is raped by a guy with no lips and blair gets possessed again
0	what a bloody nuisance you can't get on subjects like these with tv budgets and some director who can't tell the difference between a i ii and iii all the silly clichés are well in place on the character and human level the story is so schmaltzy and unbelievable it hurts and all those responsible get carried away with joy for the brilliant ratings tech details rubbish flying that close would have kicked each other out of the sky by the dozen single night fighters attacking line ridiculous as i said made up by a director who i bet never even heard the name lancaster before that project and some kid 3d guys who turned into waddling ducks but these are minor things compared to the overall mediocrity of this film although it might be too harsh i dare say this hurts the memory of those who died on both sides tv crap entertaining the dumb masses who don't care anyway shame on those responsible use your brains next time and enjoy the profit you made from it
0	i only saw the first part of this and concluded that i wouldn't miss anything if i didn't watch the second episode the cinematography was ok but apart from this the plot was just as and run of the mill as any other war story the actors and actresses play their characters without any passion and the make up is really bad with his white hair and kai respectively as if some dyed white hair could give them more dignity and common sense i mean if you've watched more than two or three movies about wwii as most of us have then you'd only go to the trouble of seeing a third or fourth one if it promises some new insights or twists in the plot but roland richter seems to afraid of doing so you can almost smell his fear of not living up to the bourgeois and jejune expectations of the conservative tv channel while watching this movie millions of euros were spent to perpetuate boring and unimaginative german film making these millions of dollars could have been spent to make three or four independent movies but no let's give to some director who'll make a film that tells people that war can be explained by rational means my advice read joseph heller or kurt vonnegut instead they'll tell you what war is like or give me one million euros and i make a better film than this load of bs and another thing why is it that german movies only get to be nominated for the oscars when the movie deals with wwii or the holocaust probably because that is the only thing german film making is good at and that should get us thinking shouldn't it
0	dresden had great expectations because of its spectacular theme and its high budget i was really looking forward to it and i really wanted it to be good but it is not the only good thing are the special effects that are very well done but like in a really bad hollywood blockbuster everything else is missing br br it is poorly written the screenplay tries to fulfill genre rules with standard suspense love story elements but there is no depth or originality at all it's way below average the next thing it is also poorly directed it has this uninteresting tv directing style with lots of close ups and wanna be great action by fast editing where actually no action or suspense is the actors are not bad but there is no performance that is touching in any way br br i don't know they obviously try to do a typical tv movie and not a film for the cinema where its alway good to have some edges and a clear visual style but why do they try to fulfill typical commercial hollywood rules it really feels like the screenwriter did a weekend class with some american scriptwriting guru and then delivered this mess is there no producer who is responsible for the project who has an interest in dramaturgy visual style or plain in simple this magical cinematic moments that make some tv movies great do they think that an tv audience is stupid and doesn't need to get a high quality movie experience the downfall was a very good example for a good tv movie but there was probably some executive or producer who knew what he was doing br br don't waste you time with this one rent downfall instead
0	this film took up three hours including commercials on the history international channel last night but it felt like three weeks it wasn't the cheap stagy and unintentionally funny depictions of the bombing of dresden it wasn't that the film is stripped of almost all context surrounding world war ii it wasn't even that the bombing itself was often made to appear as nothing more than a major inconvenience for a goofy love story no it was the wooden featureless characterizations that sucked the life out of the story oh and the fact that if it is possible for a movie to be obsequious then dresden is that movie perhaps a better title would have been dresden as uriah heep would have experienced it br br it is especially the latter point that so irritates was the bombing of dresden a war crime the makers of this movie believe so but in the typically emasculated way that germans have come to approach world war ii they can't bring themselves to say so without braying about peace and no more wars anywhere like they're mother teresa and also typical of german towards the british in particular there is an unwieldy effort to grovel before britishness while loading all the guilt for dresden on to one person arthur harris br br did i say one person well not quite at the beginning of the movie there is an exclamation from the leading character anna with whom we are all supposed to sympathize damned americans she screams while watching as far off bombs fall and a few minutes later a radio voice intones warnings about the american terror bombing being inflicted upon germans br br note the word terror got that it's really the americans behind the inhumane targeting of german civilians no matter that the american strategy for almost all the war in europe was the precision bombing of industrial and war manufacturing sites no matter that it was the british who enthusiastically adopted area bombing of civilian targets in germany before the germans had themselves even targeted english ones no matter that the americans bombed during the day suffering more casualties in the process than the british in order to hit precision targets while the british bombed civilians under the cover of night no matter that the americans essentially were brought into the true terror bombing campaign kicking and screaming against it no matter that most american officials from fdr to gen dolittle opposed targeting civilians while churchill and his generals couldn't wait to do so br br no in dresden both the germans and british except for bomber harris are innocent of a doctrine it is intimated created by the evil americans and only the might and power of a love story between a german nurse and a downed british bomber pilot can adequately explain the truth of the atrocity right br br oh by the way for the younger and likely less well read readers of imdb the first and still so far only major literary effort to give a thoughtful voice to bombing was the pacifist novel penned by kurt vonnegut an american pow in dresden at the time of the bombing i guess germany's couldn't find a pretty nurse for billy pilgrim
0	i was hoping this would be of the calibre of das boot and echo the stark realism created by acclaimed german director leni riefenstahl in her documentaries sadly i was monumentally disappointed the story line is implausible and defies credulity an raf airman is shot down and somehow finds his way to a hospital in dresden anna a nurse whose father runs the hospital and is about to become engaged to a doctor she works with falls in love with the airman and they make love the next evening at a lavish engagement party the airman turns up disguised as a german officer and dances with anna although well directed and acted to me it is soap opera of the lowest order
0	as i am a fan of hospital and medical shows i have found this one gripping and sometimes humorous especially the scenes with dr whitman which brings a bit la light relief however i was looking forward to the last episode because i expected that the bad ones would be punished and the good ones reinstated instead of that the hospital management are making even more fools of themselves in an unbelievable manner and it's getting worse and worse for the good ones you can't help wondering what the unions are doing or doesn't rob donna and maria know what unions are there for besides never seeing the outside trees grass sunlight is a bit oppressive anyone understood what the last words were i e the answer rob lake gave to mrs children question why are you telling us all that it was very frustrating not to be able to understand it
0	i can't believe how bad this film is for starters the movie deals with the legend of big foot and a group of people having a close encounter with the creature the premise is interesting and having lance henriksen in the cast aliens gave the untold a promising outlook unfortunately that's as interesting as it gets this looks like a direct to dvd release or so i guess this is basically a production less affair with probably the worst editing with a constant fading to black in between every scene i've seen in my life and acting that will sure make you cringe why lance henriksen picked this is completely and the movie takes cues from just about any other genre movie from blair witch project the video scene and predator to alive this is supposedly based on true events but the only truth to be found herein is just how bad this movie is i'm usually not a harsh critic and believe me i did try to enjoy this trash but eventually did not do yourselves a favor and steer clear from this dvd br br i'll try to put it mildly this movie is pure garbage and it made me want to take my gun and shoot my neighbors or ask blockbuster for a refund br br and lance shame on you 1 out of 10
0	this comment may technically contain spoilers but it sure doesn't contain surprises br br my cousin and i rented this the other day hoping to get a good laugh at a typical amateur crappy excuse for a horror movie unfortunately we didn't get too many laughs and we certainly didn't get too many scares either br br plot outline a plane containing a company head's daughter and some weird piece of technology crashes in an area where our furry friend lives so the company head assembles a team of personalities rather than skilled hunters to recover it br br for the first 3 4's of the movie things get pretty boring it mostly consists of shots of big foot lurking in the trees with the party members occasionally hearing him and passing it off as nothing we also see several shots of the party through big point of view and he apparently sees in thermal vision br br to set up the plot we have to watch sequences of the group sitting around the campfire talking about possibilities to justify the sasquatches existence and actions maybe he can dodge bullets if he sees them coming sure enough we later see he can there are many uncharted lands that the sasquatch may live in maybe this is one of them that was over looked and obviously it is maybe the sasquatch is angry because the plane hit one of his family members and sure enough thats the case along with those scenes there are a couple of oh my god its the sasquatch oh wait its just you scenes and sadly they are among the scariest br br then finally people start dying well 2 people at least plus the bodies of past victims are discovered the death scenes are pretty lame it mostly just leaves it to our imagination by showing the sasquatch grabbing them then cutting to a different scene but first we are treated to some horrible screams off camera br br then at last we get to see the protagonist's final showdown with the monster i gotta admit i found it pretty exciting while it lasted but alas it's pretty short lived and after we are treated to an ending that makes a half assed effort to seem cryptic then some closing text with a rather boring conclusion br br i can't say i recommend this movie it's not quite bad enough to give the mystery science theatre 3000 and its definitely not scary enough and boring to enjoy as a horror movie just don't bother with it
0	i'm not sure what it is but there seems to be some curse when it comes to films about the elusive bigfoot there has yet to be a film that intelligently approaches the subject nor one that creates any real suspense both legend of boggy creek 1972 and the first film entitled sasquatch 1978 have become minor cult classics but neither were very memorable both films were targeted at family friendly audiences thus themselves from actually trying to scare anyone harry the hendersons 1987 was the first big budgeted film to use bigfoot with a terrific creature design by rick baker however they too chose to aim for younger audiences but this time as a comedy as did bigfoot in 1995 i've long awaited for someone to tackle the subject as a thriller perhaps in the vein of jaws or predator when i saw this at my local video store i thought my dream had come true boy was i wrong lance henriksen plays a billionaire who leads an expedition into the pacific northwest in hopes of finding his daughter as she was on board a small plane when it crashed in the mountains the premise is interesting and sounded promising the truth is it never builds any real suspense i never found myself at all interested in any of the characters as each of them were very two dimensional and rather bland even the always dependable henriksen seems to be phoning in his performance every time he appears on screen he looks plain bored he should be as there is no action to speak of for the first hour of the film as for the creature where do i start i figured at the very least we would get a cool looking monster running around in the woods but instead we get this bald yes i said bald man with pitch black skin and patches of fur here and there picture a cross between swamp thing and from land of the lost and you'll get the idea nothing like the artwork on the cover box i assure you sloppy editing and careless direction also adds to the confusion as half the time everything seemed out of sequence while the other half of the film was constantly used up with these long slow fade outs which made no sense or served any purpose they even stole the whole infra red vision p o v from the creature in predator which just looked too silly and out of place to be effective maybe all this proves is that hollywood should just forget about trying to make anymore bigfoot films as they have yet to make one that works so far each one has been as scary as an episode of in search of 3 10
0	this is jonas debut as a director and to be honest it shows it looks like he threw in every type of camera trick that he learned in film school to try and add some style to a badly written script which he helped write film has lance henriksen and a group of others searching the pacific northwest for a plane that crashed that his daughter was on and also a special machine his company has built that he wants to also retrieve the first 5 minutes of the film is either blurry or shaky or out of focus tries to capture the blair witch mode with these type of shots and they grow tiresome very quickly and there is also the pov shots that are right from wolfen and predator these shots are from the point of view pov of the sasquatch the editing is very choppy at times as a scene seems to shift right in the middle i have heard this film was shot in about 12 days and i suppose instead of starting back to one they just restarted without stopping and edited the scene together and the rest of the film is fade outs from one scene to another they're are so many scenes that fade out that i lost count now the nude scene with andrea roth its not her you can easily see its a body double and you know your watching a bad b movie when in the middle of the pacific northwest a hot chick decides to go to the nearest hot spring and bathe spoiler alert br br and the sasquatch himself is not bad when you don't really see him and he's just a blurry image behind some trees or bushes but when you finally see him at the end your of course disappointed first of all he's not that tall the actor who is playing sasquatch is only hairy in certain spots on his body its a partial suit and he's bald i have heard that a make up person died during filming and maybe that explains why the costume looks hastily made some of the sound effects that are coming from the sasquatch are nothing more than the familiar lion roars that we have all heard in other films i do have to admit that henriksen is not to bad yes he's working with bad material but he has one of those interesting faces that can actually enhance certain moments of the film people keep saying that a good bigfoot film has never been made but i disagree i have always said that the creature from black lake is a good film and i highly recommend that one i'm a sucker for a sasquatch film but this one is just to amateurish
0	this might have a spoiler br br when i first started watching this movie i thought it was ok the music was good and that bizarro dream sequence i was willing to forgive but the lack of looks in the main character and all of the other characters for that matter made me uninterested in watching the rest of this film i know totally vain the music at the beginning was spirited and fitting i thought for a mock gothic novel but come on saxophone music for an early 19th century film it totally didn't fit this movie was totally boring and if you're looking to watch a good period film or an austen don't rent northanger abbey i give it a 30 30 a failing grade
0	an airplane transporting some scientists and a prototype of a dna machine a powerful and revolutionary invent fall in a jungle in pacific the insurance company sponsors a rescue expedition commanded by harlan knowles lance henriksen the owner of a huge corporation which owns the prototype and father of one of the scientist there the group finds the rests of the plane five miles far from the expected location and the machine and the remains of the persons further they realize that a sasquatch a kind of big foot is chasing them this movie is so ridiculous that i do not know what i am doing spending my time again in this garbage the direction is awful the actors and the lines are horrible copying parts of the and even the blair witch project' to summarize how bad this movie is its best scene is when marla lawson the character of andrea roth is wounded and the guide of the expedition says that she needs to have an injection of tetanus vaccine andrea undresses her jeans and the guide says 'nice butts but the shot needs to be in your ridiculous my vote is two br br title brazil sasquatch o sasquatch the br br
0	a big waste of time is all you'll get out of this bag i rented this hoping for a suspenseful movie with maybe a few believable scenes but boy was i ever dissapointed i think the title should've been camping 101 or something to that effect well anyway stay the hell away from this film it numbs you to death don't be afraid of big foot be afraid of this crap
0	well i read the other comments didn't think it sounded any good but decided to tape it anyway perhaps not so smart to read all the poor reviews before watching this movie because of course i would be noticing all the same weird things excessive use of fade to black a few weird camera angles and crosscutting dialog for different conversations with the same people taking place at different times but noticing all that i thought to myself well this would probably be really boring if it was all going chronologically the conversations aren't that exciting but kind of mandatory and the constant fading to black after really short scenes really makes it feel like the story is fast forwarding too the interesting part skipping the boring bits at the end of the movie it gets a bit exciting too will they survive br br so i actually liked this movie no not really the director had some interesting ideas on how to keep the audience from being bored while he is trying to introduce the characters but he is overdoing it it gets annoying and sometimes confusing this was apparently only the second movie he directed so maybe he will learn and make really good stuff in the future and if you're sitting there in the future reading this wondering if the now famous directors second movie is worth a watch well if he is good in the future sure watch this crap and wonder how he ever got to make a third one otherwise this movie isn't really worth watching unless you very interested in film making and want to see one way you can cut the mandatory boring introductory scenes into something watchable
0	a plane carrying a rich scientist's daughter goes down in thick wilderness he assembles a group to go and find her and the others but the rescue party soon suspects that something is stalking them then ulterior motives for the expedition are revealed and that only adds to the already existing tension br br the movie is a decent idea and a take on the popular sasquatch legend was bound to wind up on film sooner or later however the film's direction breaks a fundamental rule of horror thriller directing and that is showing too much too soon of course the audience knows there is something stalking the characters just read the title but showing what should have been the film's kicker that early just ruins most of the suspense and as a direct result much of the fun the film also lacks a good atmosphere and there are almost no landscape shots that show the expanse of the wilderness but there are plenty monster point of view shots that add nothing to anything they actually knock off 'predator' quite shamelessly the low budget horror film 'wendigo' did what this film tries to do much better br br some of the character tensions and a non cliché ending manage to make up for this rise above the crap pile but it is still poor and given the premise and potential very disappointing 4 10 br br rated r for some violence and profanity but it's pretty tame compared to most r rated horror
0	bigfoot movies tend to be bad so i'm not inclined to watch them however there were some good commercials on the sci fi channel so i decided to watch a climbing expedition heads into the pacific northwest to find a a fallen airplane carrying the daughter of the expedition's leader played by lance and have brought a revolutionary dna detector that could be used to prove the existence and it actually generates some suspense at first the sasquatch is unseen but sees the mountain body heat like the alien in predator and i did wonder when it was going to strike the acting is passable as is the background music the dense wooded location is well used and when the creature is finally seen the costume is not bad though nothing great but as the film grinds on it becomes increasingly annoying and absurd most of the characters are unpleasant people rude to each other and only in the expedition for money and publicity except for lance character so that it's impossible to care about what happens to them and their behavior become increasingly stupid one man shoots the creature not fatally then gets drunk and sits alone in the dark one female camper puts on a slinky silk negligee before crawling into her sleeping bag then barely escapes being dragged into the woods by the sasquatch without getting her hair and make up messed up then the survivors conclude that the sasquatch is really after the dna detecting machine and will let them live if they leave it behind a creature knows what threatens it obviously the instinct doesn't apply to these actors or they wouldn't have appeared in this movie and the ending is so stupid you'll want to kick the tv screen if it weren't for the script it would have been a decent horror film
0	i think that this is one of my top ten worst movies i have ever seen there's like fade out every two minutes if this was on tv they would have a preview every 2 3 minutes but there is a seen i personally enjoyed which is when the blonde goes to take a bath in a pit of boiling water with a man watching and for about 10 seconds you see her whole body with no towel on that was the best scene in the whole film because you see sasquatch starring at them but the last 10 minutes is when we see his whole body plus most of the deaths are off screen and just the scream or roar and i was expecting the sasquatch to die but he dosen't shoot him and only 4 or 5 people die in the whole film i was expecting 8 10 people to die don't watch this movie i give it an f don't waste your time
0	hey all i just wanted to give you all a few crazy facts about this movie i was actually one of the make up fx artists that help create the beast for this movie and i have to tell you the original creature looked absolutely amazing i remember when we got the first photos back from the set we were all talking about how much of a shame it was that this creature was in a movie that would probably be pretty poor br br what actually happened though was that jason palmer did the original make up for the sasquatch but for some reason they had to go back and re shoot much of the creature the sad part was that jason passed away a few weeks before that and so the re done creature was no where near as awesome as the original one br br for me it was quite sad because this was jasons final movie and he sort of got cheated out of his final fame due to the bad re shoots anyway i thought you guys may find that a tad and if you would like you can head over to com and check out some behind the scenes photos br br later jeff
0	this looks decidedly like the amateur hour how this piece of trash was ever released is beyond me the acting the story the characters the supposedly special effects etc it's all wrong why lance henriksen accepted this will remain one of the great mysteries of cinema maybe he was in dire need for money or maybe be was under the influence of some illegal drug br br it is pointless trying to explain you what this movie's about it deals with the big foot legend but done in the worst possible manner in fact this stinker smells like a direct to video release br br avoid at all costs 0 out of 10
0	the untold is one of the worst films i ever saw the story really seems original but it was badly bestow on screen lance henriksen a good actor ended up in this crap but hey he made a lot of low budget films you need to pay the bills you know kidding lance is a great actor but he ended up with this bunch of silly actors seriously andrea roth was there just to have a nudity scene and other actors well they were just there there was constantly a fade out fade in editing and that makes me sick that was the most horrible move that just keeps on coming and it really makes you angry it was also very predictable boring and slow it has a bizarre tempo that goes just wrong br br can't say more don't rent it or buy it you can watch it if on tv
0	one minute into the untold and it s already ripped off techniques from the blair witch project and predator does this mean we ll be seeing lots of trees we sure will will we be seeing an austrian bodybuilder blowing things up well this film has the budget of a tvm so the answer is a resounding no does anyone like these soft porn shows like bedtime stories good because there s a scene in this that resembles these type of shows unfortunately the only thing you see is cellulite do you like it when the screen fades to black during a tvm great because this happens between every scene in the untold in fact it happens during every scene too did you enjoy millionaire a major fraud fantastic because one of the characters looks like a bearded major charles ingram the contestant who tried to swindle the show out of one million pounds seriously one of the characters looks like major ingram i kept expecting him to say it s bear it could be a bear but it might be a bigfoot cough cough yes it s a bigfoot cough it s definately a bigfoot cough yes i m going to shoot it final answer chris br br oh and have i mentioned that all the above are the good bits br br the untold isn t the worst bigfoot movie i ve ever seen that accolade firmly goes to night of the demon which i saw over twenty years ago and i think i ve only seen less than a dozen films that are worse in all of that time but that said the untold is still a very poor film in just about every aspect especially editing as some other reviewers have pointed out it feels like whole chunks of the film are missing while there s other bits where scenes are spliced together in the wrong order this is a really bad film that deserves far less than its rating of 5 1 i give it 3 out of ten and i m being very kind
0	poor jane austen this dog of a production does not do her wonderful tongue in cheek novel any justice starting at the top poorly adapted the screenwriter deserves extra low marks for trying to come to think of it i don't know what she was trying for but suffice it to say she missed the mark by light years couple that with all the over acting and awful production values this is one adaptation that should never have happened it would have been far better if they just gave all the money they poured into this flop and donated it to a worthy charity do yourself a favor read the book it is almost certain that you will enjoy it a thousand times more than trying to sit through this excruciating production
0	developing movies that are based on actual events involving cryptozoology or the supernatural has always been a challenge for directors and screenwriters you have to mainly reconcile reported testimonies conflicting info sources and hollywood creativity to produce something the audience can get into unfortunately for sasquatch none of these things seem to take place br br the movie starts out in typical film noir when a research team crash lands somewhere in the via airplane from there the research team disappears and despite attempts from law enforcement officials and local rescue parties they remain missing for some time while one of the passengers is walking infra red like images are splashed on the screen a la predator which subtly hint that the legendary sasquatch is the cause of the passengers' fates br br cue harlan knowles henriksen ceo of industries and father of one of the crash victims knowles puts together his own search rescue team with the explicit mission of finding his daughter and the rest of the research crew along with the invaluable technology lost during the crash br br after knowles' tailor made rescue team is put together the entire movie traverses down the path of characters dizzying cinematography and a totally unoriginal plot line i literally had to keep myself from falling asleep during this movie as it attempted to frighten me out of my wits the only member of the cast that held his own was henriksen which doesn't make up for the lack of depth presented in all of the other characters the over done sound effects were annoying as well basically i didn't know if i was watching a movie about bigfoot or grizzly bears br br neither was the plot line all that great it was too underdeveloped as the viewer is mainly subjected to typical fright music found in anything similar of the genre obviously you didn't have to be a genius to figure out who would be pulling off all their clothes by the middle of the movie or who'd be the first unlucky soul to get mauled by mr sasquatch as far as good points there are none and therefore i gave this movie a 2 out of 10
0	harlan knowles lance henriksen brings a group of people to a mountain to help find his missing daughter erica what they don't know is that she was killed by a sasquatch and it's still out there waiting for them br br it was a late night when i this into my dvd player i seriously wish i could go back in time and stop me most people will tell you that films like house of the dead or s i c k serial clown killers will be the movies you wish you've never seen wrong this will be br br i've seen a lot of crap but this is the only crap that's haunted me how i wish i never watched this the acting actually isn't so bad it's just the writing and the directing and the pacing and everything i am actually a fan of sasquatch films but not this one br br please listen to my warning don't watch this
0	r 64 br br unredeemable merit less and above all dreary trash you know a movie is going to be bad when its sole star power is lance henriksen the french title for this movie says it all inexplicable how can you possibly make a movie this unbelievably bad in this day and age whatever jonas trick is it worked this is über trash i'm talking 'manos' level crap meaningless unwatchable not even so bad it's good cinematic bile of the highest order br br lance henriksen is harlan knowles a character who could have been interesting if he wasn't so utterly devoid of characteristics or personality he along with a bunch of morons goes on a field trip to search for an evil sasquatch which is believed to have attacked a plane which crashed out in the woods or something not much else happens there's some soft core meaning level nudity and some blatant rip offs of predator after 92 minutes of utter pain and another ripped off scene this time from blair witch the movie finally staggers across the finish line and ends as a bonus we only see the monster itself for about one or two scenes in the entire movie br br there's really not much to say about this film all you need to know is this is a very bad movie and not even worth viewing as a so bad it's good flick the untold is to entertainment value what orlando bloom is to character acting avoid it like arsenic
0	lance used to get quality support work from james cameron heck he even had his own tv show millenium for a seasons why is he doing this couldn't he find some better way to pay his bills br br i love a good low budget movie some of them you can laugh at simply due to their ludicrous premise their textbook stereotyped characters or often times because the actors are related to the director producers but this movie has no redeeming value i didn't laugh i didn't cry i only had this sick feeling in my stomach that feeling was quickly identified as pity at one point lance henriksen was an a list support actor he's been in terminator he was going to be terminator before arnold showed up aliens classic b movie pumpkinhead among so many others i wanted to send him money after this maybe we should start a support lance fund or something br br then again for making this thing maybe not
0	a plane carrying employees of a large biotech firm including the daughter goes down in thick forest in the pacific northwest when the search and rescue mission is called off the ceo harlan knowles lance henriksen puts together a small ragtag group to execute their own search and rescue mission but just what is knowles searching for and trying to rescue and just what is following and watching them in the woods br br oy what a mess this film was it was a shame because for one it stars lance henriksen who is one of my favorite modern genre actors and two it could have easily been a decent film it suffers from two major flaws and they're probably both writer director jonas fault this film which i'll be calling by its aka of sasquatch has just about the worst editing i've ever seen next to alone in the dark 2005 and constant advice for the cast appears to have been okay let's try that again but this time i want everyone to talk on top of each other improvise non sequiturs and generally try to be as annoying as possible br br the potential was there despite the rip off aspects any material related to the plane crash was obviously trying to crib the blair witch project 1999 and any material related to the titular monster was cribbing predator 1987 ed wood like exposition and ridiculous dialogue the plot had promise and potential for subtler and far less saccharine subtexts the monster costume once we actually get to see it was more than sufficient for my tastes the mixture of character types trudging through the woods could have been great if and fellow writer chris would have turned down the stereotype notch from 11 to at least 5 and spent more time exploring their relationships the monster's lair had some nice production design specifically the corpse decorations ala a more primitive jeepers creepers 2001 if it had been edited well there were some scenes with decent dialogue that could have easily been effective br br but the most frightening thing about sasquatch is the number of missteps made for some reason thinks it's a good idea to chop up dialogue scenes that occur within minutes of each other in real time so that instead we see a few lines of scene a then a few lines of scene b then back to a back to b and so on br br for some reason he thinks it's a good idea to use frequently use black screens in between snippets of dialogue whether we need the idea of an unspecified amount of time passing between irrelevant comments or whether the irrelevant comments seem to be occurring one after the other in time anyway br br for some reason he doesn't care whether scenes were shot during the morning afternoon middle of the night etc he just cuts to them at random for that matter the scenes we're shown appear to be selected at random important events either never or barely appear and we're stuck with far too many pointless scenes br br for some reason he left a scene about cave art in the film when it either needs more exposition to justify getting there or it needs to just be cut out because it's not that important the monster's intelligence and humanity could have easily been shown in another way br br for some reason there is a whole character mary mancini left in the script even though she's superfluous br br for some reason we suddenly go to a extremely soft core porno scene even though the motif is never repeated again br br for some reason characters keep calling harlan knowles mr h like they're stereotypes of asian br br for some reason insists on using the blurry cam and cam for the monster attack scenes even though the costume doesn't look that bad and it would have been much more effective to put in some fog a subtle filter or anything else other than bad cinematography br br i could go on but you get the idea br br i really wanted to like this film better than i a henriksen fan i'm intrigued by the subject i loved the setting i love hiking and this is basically a hiking film on one level but i just couldn't every time i thought it was going to be better from this point until the end made some other awful move in the end my score was a 3 out of 10
0	there's something about a movie that features female bodybuilders that gets me in front of the screen every time br br i've seen pumping iron ii aces iron eagle iii raven hawk and even the tv movie getting physical which featured some big names in the sport they were tolerable in their own ways mostly because they featured rachel br br then i went and watched nemesis iii prey harder on the sole basis that it featured such luminaries as sue price debbie sharon bruneau and ursula love the ladies always will but after this i'm kinda glad i missed the first two nemesis flicks br br well the first one anyway most of the footage here is lifted bodily and kicking and screaming i would guess from nemesis ii actually that one looked marginally entertaining from the evidence supplied here br br but even though price and company flex and pose they don't get much of a chance to do anything else like say act in fact this whole film is an exercise get it ha ha in oblique story telling ambiguous characters and open ended movie making in terms of filming as well as the story line br br nothing makes much sense but even if it did there would still be issues such as making such small parts for such larger than life women as these what a crime br br of course it was written and directed by albert pyun so what did you expect cohesion br br one star only in consideration for all the hard work that price bruneau and obviously put into their bodies not the craft work done within the movie itself br br thanks ladies
0	nemesis 3 is the worst movie what i have ever seen i think that nemesis 3 was only 30 minutes long and that movie was so boo oo ring when that movie ends and i saw word nemesis 4 i thought i will not watch that movie never again
0	perhaps the worst of the nemesis films and that says a lot this mess features so many flashbacks to part 2 that you might as well say that you've seen them both even if you've only endured this entry making matters worse are two wisecracking cyborgs who have absolutely no entertainment value in other words they are a perfect fit for this endlessly boring cinematic mistake
0	i got this thing off the sci fi shelf because i remembered seeing the first of the series when i was a kid i'd rented the second one and it was a decent b sci fi this one was out right obnoxious the special effects on the cars looked like something my 4 year old cousin could have done the two assistant female cyborgs were so terrible that i literally cringed every time they came on the screen the plot left so much to be desired that it made me sick i don't know what anyone was thinking when they agreed to be a part of this movie but i'm sure that they'd have done better to have left it at 2 movies the movies in this series are going from good to decent to terrible i only hope that no terrorist groups have access to this movie as it makes an excellent torturing device
0	this is going to be my first review on imdb and i'm glad that the standard rating is 1 out of 10 because then i don't have to change anything br br first there are awful movies movies you can make a laughter out of like island city battlefield earth or conan the destroyer that is totally acceptable they makes a great party enhancer then there are the worst movie ever i cannot believe how utterly crappy this steaming pile of dog turd was br br i found it on a second hand store on vhs and bought it quickly because i like sci fi terminator post apocalypse and stuff like that everything on the box art was very promising then i loaded in the tape quickly when i got home and the first thing that i noticed was what there was maybe 10 minutes or more of switching between present clips and flashbacks in a very annoying blue effect with sounds that makes you puke and it just continues over and over then some acting kicks in and you wonder why you were ever born in a world where this abomination of mankind actually exists and then i realized there are actually two prequels i didn't think about it first but the title says 3 in it and i was horrified but as i actually in great pain and agony watch it to the end i thought nothing could ever make me feel worse about myself and this universe but then a little text showed up saying next and nemesis 4 no please no
0	i'm afraid i did not like this adaptation when i started watching it i had a strange feeling of watching some 70s tv series due to the filter and the musical score i did not like the end scene mr appears dressed only in his jane austen would never have a gentleman ride out without a frock coat looks like the producers made a modern misinterpretation of a romantic girl's dream i appreciate the more modern ja adaptations much more that show an eye for these details that makes the bbc series so worthwhile sorry looking forward to the 2007 adaptation i hope that will be better and will show the benefits of 20 years of jane austen adaptations
0	i really wanted to like this film the second film in the series had this silly drive in movie feel to it that was fun of course i was also drunk i watched this film with the highest expectation of a similar experience of high cinematic hilarity a la mystery science theater 3000 i was wrong this movie is a god awful waste of film and i liked the second one from the effeminate villain with the david bowie fright wig to the tacky obnoxious female villains with laughs that could strip the paint off a garage door this whole thing was just a painful mess i actually felt bad for sue price because the material was beneath an actress of her stature that pretty much says it all an awful awful film that's not a recommendation
0	robert downey jr in a 17th century wig and dress was enough to make me shudder but i couldn't believe a great actor like sam neill actually took a part in this movie the whole thing was unbelievable i especially like cure for the crazies they dance and hey presto everyone's happy and they're all better i guess i just didn't like the character too much therefore watching a whole movie about his supposed transition from a whoring buffoon into a great physician was grueling br br also i'm not entirely sure but i didn't think the plague as well as the famous fire of london took place simultaneously
0	mainly a biography of a lustful doctor robert robert downey who has his way in the king's palace for the first half of the film and then helps out the downtrodden in the second half mainly katharine meg ryan br br the good fantastic set decoration i e the lush king's palace and costuming make this a visual treat the language is also very tame ian mckellen and hugh grant provide interesting support br br the bad after 50 60 minutes this movie simply gets too boring it desperately needed to be given some spark after an hour but it does the opposite it drags on and on the script certainly needed some badly needed restoration shall we say the film may look nice but it's a long two hours to sit through too long
0	i have always liked bill murray in films like lost in translation and the trailer for this film looked really good but the result was very disappointing basically murray plays jack who has recently found out that his father died and he is expected to hear his will he finds out that his father was a clown because he left a large shoe his squeaky nose and his main inheritance an elephant the only way that jack can get rid of this elephant is to travel 4000 miles in four days and give him to a safe zoo for 30 000 also starring pat hingle as vernon there are small tiny moments of humour such as a truck's front bending forward and murray screaming but overall it's pointless pretty poor
0	this should have been an amazingly funny movie but it falls flat on its face in fact i stopped watching it halfway through which is something i rarely do bill murray plays jack corcoran a second rate motivational speaker who is bequeathed an elephant by his father whom he had presumed to be dead before he was born he then has one week to get the ponderous across the country his adventures on the way are only mildly amusing at best janeane garofalo's considerable comedic talents go largely untapped anita gillette is impressive in her small role as jack's mother who has a lot of explaining to do and pat hingle stands out as a former circus associate of jack's father perhaps the second half of the movie was better than the first but i find that hard to believe
0	is the kind of formulaic hopeless comedy to be enjoyed by the sort of sheep that stop and listen when they come across a band playing in a shopping mall br br i remember murray promoting on larry king's crappy cnn show where he said something like if this movie doesn't become a hit i'll stop making movies or comedies he wasn't being nearly as jovial as one might think he must have felt that was a sure fire hit and that its failure would mean his status as a star had markedly fallen hence a sort of ultimatum live on air to his fans to spend their hard earned money on a dumb elephant comedy the comedy being dumb not the elephant or maybe he simply realized during the shooting or when he saw the final cut what a turkey this was so he tried desperately to convince everyone how much optimism he had regarding quality go see it it really is good actors are prostitutes inter bred with car salesmen br br is the sort of lousy project that comes from the friends school of comedy their motto if you ever run out of ideas or if you never had any in the first place then stick an animal into the plot and that will at least inject an element of cuteness cuteness a sad substitute for lack of funny gags the other motto friends had was always include pointless dull sentimentality which this movie so predictably ends with when murray rather pathetically says what they forgot to tell you is that you never forget an elephant maybe not an elephant but i certainly managed to easily forget this turkey which i saw many years ago i was suddenly reminded of it when i saw a scene from it on tv today hence this equally pointless review br br murray wastes his talent on this turkey disguised as an elephant but he isn't nearly as uninteresting bad as mcconaughey or however that man's name is spelt one would think that m m would have an easy time playing himself i e a hick but he is so painfully unfunny and unconvincing that i could barely stand to watch him make such a jackass out of himself it was cringe worthy to round off this nonsense we have that generation x buffoon garofalo in a rather useless role then again everything about is useless br br after which bombed as far as i know murray went on to become more of a serious actor what is it with these comedians and their inferiority complex is it all just about getting awards i e recognition from their peers read votes from their moron colleagues this piece of crap marked the end of a string of good and great movies murray made in the early and mid 90s such as groundhog day quick change mad dog glory kingpin what about bob and ed wood recently we've had the immeasurable pleasure of seeing him in garbage mediocrities such as hamlet lost in translation you just can't get away from these ultra talented and broken flowers compare those two br br one guy described funny as heck now that's the kind of audience this movie was hoping for shopping malls and trailer parks
0	the over riding problem with this film is that it can't possibly use bill murray to the best of his abilities simply because of the co star br br if this was a road movie with another comedic actor it might work even if they were both trying to get the elephant across the country it would at least allow for them to share some amusing dialogue as it stands murray is left talking to an elephant who cannot answer back with witty banter essentially it means that murray is talking to himself and this makes the film more boring than it could have been had he had another character to bounce off br br kids would enjoy this movie simply because of the elephant but anyone wanting to watch bill murray's biting delivery and enjoy an excellent script needs to look somewhere else
0	this was okay but really a bit disappointing because i expected more laughs considering the storyline and the lead actor bill murray it should have been a lot funnier than it turned out to be only part of this made me really laugh such as when murray lost control of his semi and was speeding down the road at a weird angle you have to see it to appreciate it br br the supporting cast was anything but likable people just look at a sampling of the names matthew mcconaughey janeane garofalo and linda fiorentino yecch mcconaughey's role in here as tip tucker was just downright annoying he was the worst br br other that those people the movie had some charming moments but overall it is not recommended it's another disney flop
0	this movie is a fine example of what happens when a studio wants to get a sequel to a fine movie out of the gates at all cost only with this movie it truly is a near miss everything seems in place for robocop 2 to be a worthy followup to the groundbreaking first movie the complete original cast apart from the casualties naturally returns and gives it their best too bad a hackneyed script and an incompetent director as good as neutralize their efforts br br irvin kershner might have been the ideal go to guy for george lucas to direct the empire strikes back for a pedestrian filmmaker like kershner there isn't much to ruin in lucas' charmless film series a worthy successor to a classic like robocop would have needed either paul verhoeven to return or a director with enough brass to give his own spin on it kershner doesn't know how to give his own spin on anything lucas hired him for that and he's surely no verhoeven br br so what we get here is a movie that goes through all the motions to replicate the first movie but with none of the freshness humor or daring the original had kershner probably thought he could top verhoeven by adding more gore and gratuitous violence but instead he reveals how much he was at work as a director for hire instead of a passionate filmmaker and that's a shame since everything was in place to make this another classic as mentioned the actors give it their best but delivers some groundbreaking stop motion effects and there are some great ideas in the story by frank miller who was born to write a robocop movie if only the studio had hired a director who was competent enough to make all the potential come through
0	a pointless cash in with nothing to contribute except nastiness this is a definite case of sloppy seconds for robocop irvin numbing plot less and tired mess of a sequel is watchable and even mildly entertaining in a dubious unpleasantly trashy way but it has virtually none of the original's flair emotion intelligence or excitement instead we have just another empty spectacle of a blockbuster whose only reason to exist seems to be to the viewer with relentless violence which is far more brainlessly gratuitous than anything in the original omni consumer products who made the original robocop cyborg have turned into more of a totalitarian force than ever second time round what with the suspicious nazi esquire banners guards and tanks for hire at the end as for the anonymous old man daniel o' herlihy he's less of a benevolent protector and more of a hideous mr burns type surrounding himself with moronic lackeys who genuinely believe that putting the brain of a murderous psychopath into the body of the all new robocop 2 is a good idea oh and the first robocop gets a look in somewhere amidst all of this mess though you wonder what on earth a fine actor like peter weller saw in the script the droll tom noonan has nothing to work with as the villain while nancy allen is badly wasted as partner there are some hilarious moments throughout the opening commercial for instance but this is a poor follow up to the truly great original
0	what an awful adaptation the worst part was the music saxophone muzak and synthesizers playing in a story set in the early 1800's the only character that didn't bore me to sleep was robert hardy i had to fight to keep my eyes open on this one and i love jane austen movies usually i didn't even rent it i borrowed it from the library they should have paid me to take it i don't quite understand how catherine and henry managed a passionate kiss at the end when throughout the movie they had no chemistry or indication whatsoever that they cared for one another isabella and her brother were way overdone it was no secret to me immediately that she and her brother were the bad guys and part of the excitement of jane austen movies is the discovery that who you think is good isn't this is probably on my list of the ten worst movies i've seen
0	it's a shame that they didn't trust the original enough to build on it br br but robocop 2 takes the great ideas imagination and characters of the original and replaces them with all the stereotypes that sequels have to offer br br the beginning commercial was cute and so was the scene that follows reminiscent of the beginning in guys and dolls but aside from a flash of thought here and there this is one film that is a slow dirty slog down into the middle of nowhere br br ideas are introduced then dropped interesting characters from the original hardly get any screen time here most of the new characters cain juliette are so boring that they wouldn't hold up no matter what the movie and then there's the tone br br in the blessed original paul verhoeven knew how to direct with the kind of attitude where if you cranked up the attitude and the sensibility of a good pulp comic even the most repellent violence would be entertaining kershner although he did direct a star wars sequel doesn't and scene after scene either makes you cringe look away or just tune it out altogether br br and what's with robocop he should be the main thing here right but there's whole scenes where he doesn't even show up and what scenes he is in are so half thought and shakily written that you don't know or care if he's part human or part cyborg since he's all boring br br never have i seen such a rapid fall from grace why does hollywood make such bad sequels on purpose why did the film makers have a bet going br br only one star for robocop 2 the fx are good but the story doesn't even try to match them
0	following which the touted update goes and shoots itself through the head rather apt considering the sorry state of this movie a sequel to a film which patently didn't need one br br what really irritates about robocop 2 is that the makers obviously didn't understand why the original was so good in the first place robocop 7 was a witty vibrant satire of bad action movies robocop 2 is just a bad action movie br br thin on dialogue particularly towards the tedious shoot out finale it attracts little interest and possesses none of the energy or spirit of the original the spoof ads now a little tasteless warning continued use will cause skin cancer seem merely there as an afterthought and calling a new designer drug nuke is nowhere near as subtle or as funny as the original's family board game nuke br br the stop motion animation – the weakest element of the original – is used more extensively while this humourless sequel fails to include a credits sequence which makes it look even more cheap and hurried ah humourless you might say but what about the funny mayor or the way robo is to spout platitudes yes these are attempts at light relief as is robo tightening himself up with a screwdriver we're only human for the film's punchline but none are likely to induce laughter like the rest of the film they're staid and moronic attempts at entertainment br br the third and final film in the series imaginatively titled robocop 3 5 saw peter weller leave to be replaced by robert john burke who does well in a undemanding role with toned down language and violence it was an obvious plea to the kiddie market a robo action figure much plugged throughout with it's social conscience too overstated and new found arm attachments and jetpack getting too silly the final film was never destined to be a masterpiece yet fluid direction by fred dekker and a flowing pace make this one enjoyably throwaway viewing br br robocop then is the film proper robocop 3 is the sequel which you could watch if there was nothing better on which leaves the second movie hanging in the middle an unwatchable dirge of a picture a franchise vehicle that has nothing to say save for the pound signs that rung up irvin kershner is no paul verhoven just as comic artist frank miller and partner walon green aren't the writers that edward and michael miner were a tragic waste of a good if limited concept 4 10
0	unfortunately producers don't know when to leave well enough alone or are into recycling to the point that every scrap of trash that hollywood generates is up for rendering into alpo it seems that every sci fi action adventure flick must endure a sad list of follow up films and robocop is a tragic example the first film under paul verhoven's direction was a wild stylish ride even finding time for a little social commentary on what the dark side of bio tech is capable of turning us into this film has none of that aside from maybe telling us that drugs are bad for you and could make you do things you'd regret when sober robocop 2 lacks the vision the profoundly scary vision of what we are becoming and instead clumsily takes us on a boat ride into how nauseating drug dealers and their victims really are social commentary be damned this one really bit the big one for me if you don't care for anything but the sfx go to it my friend otherwise don't waste your time with this sour cake and preserve the first film's accurately measured heavy weighted hot out of the oven it's that simple
0	violent sequel to robocop was directed by irvin kershner never say never again the empire strikes back will never be as good as the original because it is almost humorless and it is extremely mean and should have been rated nc 17 because of scenes with infants being involved in gunfights people threatening to brutally murder very young infants with real automatic weapons and even scenes with a 12 year old using lots of explicit profanity giving drugs to lots of random people shooting and graphically shooting up and killing policemen and swat officers opening fire on police officers when lots of small and young children are present and a whole group of children using strong profanity and beating up the store owner who is a very old man of an electronics store and stealing and destroying lots of items there this film gives new meaning to the term appallingly mean but the effects and action sequences are exceptionally incredible overall an ok movie
0	star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning br br old detroit is back with the giant omni consumer corporation continuing to swallow everything in it's path as construction of the new delta city continues and a new menace to contend with in the shape of cain a cruel drug lord with delusions of christ likeness a deadly new addictive on the streets called nuke as he continues to struggle with the memories of his former life haunting him the tin plated hero sets out to bring this villain down only to wind up getting chopped into pieces of scrap metal with robocop out of action a ruthless business woman proposes plans for her new android a stomping snarling beast of a machine that needs an equally nasty test subject to power it which cain fits perfectly after a brief glitch in his system robo returns to bring justice to the streets and settle the score with cain br br the original robocop is a film that always manages to astound you each time you watch it no matter how many times you've seen it one of those films that just can't be done again that said it's not surprising a sequel was made it's even less surprising that that sequel really pales compared to the original empire strikes back director irvin kirschner has crafted an unpleasant slightly incoherent and overlong film that can't capture the magic of the first film no matter how hard it tries and it certainly does that the funny ads from the first film running none stop the corporate satire aiming to be that bit sharper and the action roaring as fast and furious as before but with blood gore even meaner than the first film the first film earned a name for some nasty blood soaked violence including a man's genitals being blown off and a man being blasted to pieces but while that was more memorable the violence gore on display here is of a more sadistic and gratuitous nature with a very unpleasant and mean spirited tone to it br br but overall the film leaves you with a feeling of general apathy why are you watching this when you could be watching the original again instead
0	i really don't understand who this movie is aimed at from just the absurdity of it not to mention the ridiculously bad acting cheesy dialogue and the fact that the villain is a child i'd assume this was meant to be a children's movie but i think there may be more swear words than pulp fiction not to mention constant references to drugs and general mayhem and killing so which demographic is it trying to please this movie is too schizophrenic like trying to combine country music with heavy metal in the end no one is going to like it because it's a bloody paradox i would recommend this movie because it's so funny in a bad way except the actors are so patently unbearable that i wouldn't want to suggest otherwise br br i'm completely serious when i say that i could not watch more than 15 minutes of this
0	i recently picked up all three robocop films in one box set rather cheaply and the only reason i did this was for the special edition of the superb first one i have seen robocop 2 before but not for 17 years the year it came out i have never watched it since because i can still remember how disappointed i was when i discovered how appalling it really is its a complete mess really it has all the signs of a troubled production with so many sub plots going on at the same time it has a very uneven tone also and it is also one of the nastiest films i have ever seen i don't mind a little violence the first one was incredibly violent but this one is just plain nasty also the sfx is terrible even for 1990 say hello to bad stop motion also having a drug dealing cursing kid as a villain is just a little too much peter weller at least had the common sense not to return for the next one the only positive thing i can say for this film is it does have a couple of nice gags like the thank you for not smoking one and the kiddie baseball team robbing an electrics store to quote the kid who plays the villain it sucks
0	for most people robocop 3 is the film that really is the big disgrace for the robo series it has few fans and most people hate it for it's shameless commercial pg 13 approach now i'm not going to say that robocop 3 is any good frankly it pretty much sucks but as far as being a properly shot and executed film it surpasses this piece of circuit chaos yes the truth of the matter is that robocop 2 is the worst of two bad and unnecessary sequels to a near masterpiece so what if robocop 3 turns robo into a cartoonish super hero in a ultra mainstream production for kids to enjoy at least it's doing it openly i don't know where robocop 2 begins and ends i don't know what or whom it's about i don't understand what's going on in it i don't understand which jokes are deliberate and which aren't i will go insane if i try to understand the characters i see nothing of any value in anything anybody is saying i can't believe anybody looked at the shooting script and figured it would work and i can't believe that irvin kirshner saw the finished result and figured that he liked what he see he probably didn't by the way neither miller nor weller nor allen did it's not hard to see why br br now robocop 2 has it's fans i know this mostly they belong to this league of absolute anti pretensions dismissing anybody who expected any depth or subject matter from the first film as academic roger ebert sith it's just a lot of fun a good piece of action and great entertainment the argument goes yeah well i guess if you just don't listen to what any of the characters are saying you could fool yourself that we might as well have arnold in the suit instead of weller don't get me wrong i like a good action film with pure entertainment value as it's only most satisfying virtue but robocop 2 sir ain't no such thing br br look at the first couple of scenes this horrible actor makes robo repeat that he's just a machine and then goes into this operatic speech about how he could never be a man where after murphy's wife who's suing for robot stalkings walks in out of the blue and have this sad little moment with him and then is never heard of again i surely would like to go in to this film scene by scene because every one has these kind of absurdities in them it's like a twelve year old fan boy has done the screenplay the characters act totally random and first say this then say that wants to stop crime with a new robo especially this drug called nuke but then it seems they really just want to become this big capitalist empire and control the entire city – politics are abandoned i guess understandable given the comic relief mayor the villain played by tom noonan who did a better version of this in last action hero and that's saying a lot is an addict but is still used for this machine the woman behind it all has an agenda which is impossible to understand br br speaking of twelve year olds this film has the infamous role of hub this mad kid who swears and kills people played by a child actor i'm not going to be all moral about it it's a free world and if you want a psycho kid in your action movie go for it i don't know how much of frank miller's original vision was put into this but the credits at least acknowledge him as of the story and if i zoom out i could see this as being quite a cool character it's grim for sure to have a maniac killer kid but then again this is the world of robocop and who would be surprised this whole business with the trying to become this giant monopoly over everything is properly dystopian and good as well also the idea of robocop getting in touch with his wife and kid having them embedded into the story somehow would also be great and as far as i can see a natural and logical step if they now had to make a robocop sequel br br but of course these are just ideas as many people have already said the screenplay is 100 mess the kid has one scene the torture scene where it's hinted that he in fact is just a stereotype messed up kid and then we have this unimaginable scene where he is dying and gets all soft and friendly towards ol' tin head why doesn't he just take up his uzi and try to take him down with his last breath isn't that what his character would do does he give his life a little second thought there on his death bed not necessarily given that his last words are it sucks so why it really makes no sense and this can be said about everybody no everything in this film is there a strike in the police force is robocop machine or man what's the deal with turning robo into this community service machine for 10 minutes i mean sure it's pretty funny i wouldn't deny that but why build it up and then discard it and why the hell is allen so criminally underused and what is it weller has an obvious urge to express with his character and yeah well the threads are many and the mess is enormous br br this review is just as messed up as the film the only reason i give an extra star up there is because of the actors from the first film i'm sure they had good intentions with it i mean it's something somewhat stable some kind of anchor in this sea of bad movie making
0	i was a huge fan of the original robocop br br but to say i was disappointed by this first sequel would be an understatement br br the problems are many br br glossy though the film may look there are plenty of bloopers on screen for all to see wires cameramen etc something i find wholly unacceptable from someone of irvin pedigree br br robocop has become a robot there is no spark of humanity to be found in the character here a true disappointment when one considers that his soul had returned by the end of the first movie here his attitude shows no human side and makes him hard to sympathise with br br caine is a poor villain ok i know from the first film was better than the average mainly thanks to kurtwood smith's performance but the usually solid tom noonan creates a character who you couldn't care less about one way or the other br br what's happened to the old man i appreciate that he didn't get to where he is by being nice but the change in his character here is nothing short of dumbfounding in the first movie it's made clear he despises dick jone's tactics and attitude and yet here he's no better than jones it makes no sense br br doctor is a poor replacement for bob morton's charismatic if unpleasant resident genius br br the action sequences save the sequence where murphy is stuck to the side of caine's truck are harsh and nasty and repel rather than entertain br br and finally what is with the musical score don't tell me couldn't have done it simply because he was working on total recall at the time a series tv or movie soundtrack is part of its personality part of its character when you remove that it harms the familiarity of the characters we're watching so it's bad enough but shame on leonard rosenman his score here is lurid camp and downright cringe worthy br br the story has its moments to be fair there's a lot of originality in here but it tries too many new things to take in with one film hob is a well realised villain and the only truly dis likable villian in the move thumbs up to gabriel damon there br br the final showdown between robocop and robocop 2 is fun as well br br but for the vast majority of its overlong running time this is a serious disappointment
0	the first robocop had a sense of cynical wit and a sick sense of violence it was a fine line to walk but paul verhoeven pulled it off and the film did so well they made a sequel how awful possible spoilers ahead though anything that could spoil this is beyond me br br irvin kershner is not the director for this type of film he clearly did not understand the wit of the original and as a result the massive over the top senseless violence looks really bad and worse is very distasteful even worse is the musical score leonard rosenman was an old man from another era and the heroic light music does not match the images on the screen at all what was he scoring the great american hero worst of all he completely eliminated theme from the first film which was so memorable and perfect can you imagine a superman film without john williams' fanfare or indiana jones etc how could he do that br br the plot is just a collection of ideas that don't gel in beginning we see robo stalking his old wife fine good idea but they completely drop it after that then there is this a stupid idea of the company robo to be nice that's thrown in for 10 minutes and then is immediately dropped or the silly idea that the repulsive 10 year old drug lord reminds robo of his son once again a weak motif that is shown briefly twice and dropped this may work in a comic book but not on film and frank miller was unfortunately too inexperienced at the time and threw every idea in along with the kitchen sink it doesn't work as a whole br br some people here seem to be praising the corporate bashing in this film and the privatization of the police that is the best part of the film that is consistent with the first however in the original the old man was a tough business man out for a profit but ultimately fair in the end in this film he is just pure evil in his lust for money and power you can't just change characters like that for no reason and nancy allen's character is useless in this film whereas in the first she was essential to search for himself she is as gratuitous as the violence in this film br br and the violence yes the violence i enjoy many violent bloody films when they serve purposes and are meant to tell a story irvin kershner seems to get off on human beings being blown to bits shot to pieces children lusting for death and torture and peoples' desire for drugs he doesn't know when to stop do we really need to see every last innocent bystander even people trying to help others get shot up it is inferred when we see the bad robocop shooting repeatedly instead mr kershner proves he has very little taste for this type of work and creates an abominable mess that is a terrible piece of pop art and worse a disgusting message of violence for any young person watching this film br br no this film isn't meant to be message y and i certainly don't watch robocop movies or alien or predator movies for that reason however when you go too far and cross the line much of what you do must be put into question and as for this film in the words of the evil kid drug dealer's last words as he dies it still sucks
0	northanger abbey is not my favorite jane austen novel but it has its charms this movie doesn't it has some of the same character names as the book but the story is drastically altered and the sweetest man in the whole austen canon unless emma's mr knightley gets pride of place is made out to be a heartless and mercenary creep one or two totally extraneous characters are introduced and a palpable air of corseted perversion hangs over it all i was so disappointed when i first saw it on its release in 1986 even today it ranks high on the list of films that disgrace the books on which they're based even robert hardy fans should give this one a wide berth it has nothing and i mean n o t h i n g to recommend it
0	saves christmas' is comedian ernest's christmas special film in this film ernest has to find a successor to santa claus in order for christmas to continue along the way he meets a young girl who is a thief and who ends up stealing something very important of santa's i won't tell you what that is you'll just have to watch the film for yourself like most ernest films there is a lot of slapstick humor involved br br this film is probably one of ernest's best films it's funny and it has some important lessons to learn regarding friendship and family and not being afraid to show love it's not the best christmas film around but it is a good one to get you in the christmas spirit it's a little bit sad that the film is a little dated now
0	this movie started off great the first 30 minutes are very funny and clever with some interesting characters that's the good news the bad news is that the film then gets too repetitive and then it gets downright stupid br br what we wind up getting is a santa claus with magical powers with a lot of new age baloney thrown in the mix it's just ridiculous and hardly the kind of christmas movie i would expect from jim ernest br br to be fair it still had a decent amount of laughs and is profanity free but just not a film i could recommend
0	i have seen this movie several times it sure is one of the cheapest action flicks of the eighties so i think many viewers would definitely change the channel when they come across this one but if you are into great trash dragon hunt is made for you the main characters the mcnamara twins are sporting great moustaches and look so ridiculous in their camouflage dresses one of the best scenes is when one of then gets shot in the leg and is still kicking his enemies into nirvana this movie is really awful but then again it is a great party tape
0	you know i was very surprised when watching this movie it aired during the day once when i was sick and having nothing else to do i continued watching this is by far the worst movie ever but to my surprise i kept watching i sat there saying this is terrible but yet didn't change the channel because i was so amused at how bad it was maybe it was the guy that looked like big tom from survivor or the dreadful moustaches and these characters had that kept me watching however the girls weren't half bad but if that's what you want there is far better oh and there's ninjas and boys br br so if you like bad acting hilarious and terrible dialogue and two twins who are five feet tall and killing everything in their sight then this movie is for you it's so bad it's good however i just had to give it a 1 out of ten i couldn't have put a 10 on it up there with lord of the rings br br enjoy
0	this is by far the worst thing i have ever seen on film my uncle's home movies have more talent in them then this piece of crap br br the plot summary is basically that these twin kick boxers are playing some sick survival game with a man and his private army on some island the man has a very cheap paper looking hand br br the acting is atrocious in this movie there are scene changes at the drop of the hat for instance for at least 30 seconds we see some guy humming a song to himself which adds nothing to the movie this has the worst dialogue i have ever heard of in my life i don't think this movie could get any worse then it already is i would describe it as a want to be chuck norris action film gone wrong and i hate chuck norris
0	why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre other then action i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck i just could not change the channel it's sheer stupidity sapped my willpower its pretty telling that the cast imdb credits with this monstrosity apparently never worked again br br bad acting bad writing bad narration bad music bad hair bad cinematography it just goes on and on the movie really has nothing to recommend it if you're looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out there are a tonne of other films that won't require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards br br i hope this film didn't get money from the government for financing otherwise i'm never paying taxes again
0	i i don't know where to begin dragon hunt might just be the worst film in cinematic history even anus was better than this as it was intentionally bad showgirls no it had kitsch value and was technically a well made film but dragon hunt takes the cake and eats it then vomits it back up and feeds it to a homeless man it's that much of a travesty br br the acting if it can even be called that is rough it doesn't have the charm of improvised acting so it must be scripted but it's recited with an almost malicious tone of poor quality several lines were delivered in a way that shows the actors or basically those people on screen either regretted being connected to this film or were thinking of a particularly humorous joke from saturday night live which they had watched prior to getting in front of the camera i could write another three paragraphs on the quality of acting in this film but you and i both don't want to hear it br br the make up and special effects which with most films is the only good thing was laughably bad the antagonist whose name is so ridiculous i can't remember it has a mohawk glued to the top of his head yeah glued to his head and you can tell it's glued on too if you look at the spot where it meets his skull you can see a plastic strip not unlike the ones on fake eyelashes thankfully he's pretty much the only example of make up no nos in the film br br there's also some terrible character development to put it lightly the women who are strangely rough handled by the supposedly benevolent fugly brothers and i mean they are really pushed around are not only ugly but gasp they don't know what they're doing in one scene they turn on their apparent lovers join up with the even uglier bad guy and then snort some coke apparently they managed to get their hands on some really good cocaine because they started shaking and laughing even before all of it went up their nostrils great timing girls plus they wear some truly horrible stuff clothes that belong solely in the late 80s and early 90s br br overall this movie this film this waste of film i should say is also a waste of time watching it will hurt you and will require the suspension of not only your belief but also of your entire brain if you want to get stoned with your friends and have some good laughs see if you can get this film you'll probably have to download it otherwise don't even think about it hope i was helpful
0	this canadian movie is the worst ever stunningly amateurish when the bad guys rob a boat we see two women with machine guns and one of them says with a very low voice we're robbing your ship she blinks and is totally shy very intimidating br br the two karate chopping heroes are year old five feet tall twin brothers they're really bad actors in fact everyone involved in this production is a non actor br br there are so many continuity mistakes in this cheap production that it's amazing in one scene the guys are wearing one type of swimsuit in the following shot they're wearing completely different swimsuits br br absolutely terrible a must see for any fan of bad movies i have it on vhs it's very rare i cherish it
0	everything about this movie is bad everything ridiculous 80's haircuts ridiculous moustaches ridiculous action and fight scenes where you can actually see that the adversaries do not even hit each other bad bad bad 80's music repeated scenes of people running through woods a bad guy with a silver plastic hand and silly hair stupid dialogue the acting is everything looks extremely cheap this movie even surpasses plan 9 from outer space in its utter badness br br it's not funny bad it's just bad
0	before seeing this film the 1998 version was my only experience of this dickens story i didn't enjoy that film very much but this 1974 adaptation moves on in a particulary tiresome fashion br br the actors don't shine the main couple michael york and sarah miles are especially wooden cases the only character of real interest for me was anthony intelligent jaggers br br the so called plot is ridiculous but the story itself is a great one it's a real lesson on how your distorted values and obsessive principles can destroy you live with an open mind and don't care what other people say you are what you are if others can't take it 'em pip was told this early on but he didn't listen br br the girl adopted by the weird old lady reminded me a little of the old kaspar hauser story not in that same horrible level but in the way she molded the child to create the of her personal vendetta against the entire opposite sex she thought had deceived her childhood didn't appear much better the ending didn't seem to fit the rest of the story's style the sets looked cheap and coming to imdb i'm not surprised to see that this was indeed a tv movie which i had no idea of when i borrowed it from the library br br live and learn so many good movies so little time that's why the reviews are here so you wouldn't have to waste your time on this sort of movies br br 3 10
0	the filmmakers were clearly on drugs that's the only explanation i have how else do you explain this travesty of a jane austen adaptation northanger abbey is a parody of a gothic novel but this film was made as if it were a gothic novel the bizarre music and dream sequences to me suggest drug induced hallucinations rather than a naive innocent girl with an overactive imagination as catherine of the novel is br br the actress who played catherine just stands around bug eyed all the time peter firth looks at least 10 years too old to play henry and he actually seemed a bit on the gay side to me i don't see the attraction between him and catherine john portrayal was rather odd but isabella actually wasn't that bad but nothing could save this piece of crap movie one more thing this film invents a character not in the book a french friend of general the why exactly they added her is beyond me must have been the drugs she is scary looking beyond belief with white foundation red lips and black lines randomly painted on her face dimples br br you'd think this would at least be entertaining in a so bad it's good quality but unfortunately it's not it's just bad
0	no i'm not a radical bashing the hentai and yaoi genre i just find it really boring and pointless my god i was made to watch this for initiation from some stupid punk and my my even an mst3k movie has a storyline not to mention that this hentai crap is what's giving anime a bad name world wide watch out sailor moon sadly people don't realize that not all anime or any other asian style is sleazy porn death to the stereotype br br starts casting
0	oh i'm mostly not the kind of person to give a movie less than 5 points mostly just because of the effort from actors and directors br br 3 10 for from me if anyone thinks the main character or whoever deserves an oscar i deserve the for peace br br seriously i can't believe this movie made it to europe the acting was horrible the plot was awful and what about the '70's horror music give me a break br br popeye eg what about him why is he there he has nothing to do with the movie br br and what about the talking one time he can't say a decent word the next time he's getting all talky talk he also nearly dies when he wakes up and some sunlight shines thru his bunker but when he's walking down the street the sunlight doesn't seem to do anything br br watch this movie only of you're on the edge of dying of boredom i regret myself for not watching my roses grow which are in anyway more entertaining than this piece of
0	slow odd film that drags and plods i mean really plods along to its disappointing climax you may expect some sort of punchline at the end but there is none both milland and give awkward performances in fact the film's weirdness may actually be the only thing it has going for it the generally atmospheric score has some absurd parts like the music that plays during the first appearance of a monkey and there is a truly awful fantasy scene involving a gorilla
0	the attic starts off well the somewhat dreary story is helped greatly by the two main actors and there's a semblance of a character study going on here but the film goes downhill fast when carrie character buys a monkey not one of those cute little monkeys she buys a real big chimpanzee br br this sudden plot device basically kills the movie it's just not conceivable for a woman like the one plays who has a hard time doing anything because of her domineering father for her to out of the blue buy a chimpanzee i mean come on forget about it
0	linda lovelace was the victim of a sadistic woman hater chuck traynor i don't understand how having sex with a dog which is animal abuse as well can be found to be entertaining or funny linda lovelace was a virtual prisoner who was coerced into making these films i know some people will criticize this comment but i feel strongly that these types of films fuel the fire of hatred and further misogynistic feelings towards women this society continues to portray women as sexual objects as opposed to human beings we call ourselves civilized however i feel we have a long way to go before we can ever scratch the surface of being civilized
0	what can you say about a grainy poorly filmed 16mm stag film where the best and most attractive performer is a german shepherd nothing that would be positive avoid this travesty at all costs in any case it would be difficult to find since bestiality remains a taboo and illegal subject in the usa i strongly suggest imdb to re visit their weighting formula for establishing ratings since an 8 8 rating for this piece of fecal matter is absurd i am by no means a prude and have spent many hours enjoying the classic porn movies of the 70's 80's but this is inferior product even by the looser standards of the then illegal stag loop
0	antonio margheriti director of the enjoyably cheesy cult horror cannibal apocalypse helms this gothic flavoured giallo starring gap toothed 70s icon jane birkin as well as her massive french lover of the day serge gainsbourg br br unfortunately despite the inclusion of such treats as a tasty bi sexual french teacher and a terribly unrealistic killer orangutan seven deaths in the cat's eye ends up a dreary mess which is a struggle to endure br br pretty schoolgirl birkin returns to her family's scottish estate after many years away only to discover that a maniac is murdering her relatives one by one using the whole array of 'spooky old house' tricks hidden doorways dark corridors creepy graveyards candlelit cobweb covered rooms margheriti cobbles together a confusing tale which at times promises supernatural goings on but ends up with a lame cop out ending that is unimaginative in the extreme br br 'and where exactly does the cat fit in to all of this ' i hear you ask well a rather pudgy witnesses each murder thus justifying margheriti's rather cool sounding title br br stylish fun' claims the dvd cover pile of says i
0	not a terrible film my 10 year old boy loved it and he would be the target demographic so i guess they hit the spot pretty dull for an adult though br br hard to relate to animated lego characters even mod high tech ones br br i thought the choice of the three great virtues of the world was a bit odd unity duty and destiny am i the only one who thinks those sound just a bit fascistic especially destiny what about freedom equality justice etc br br oh well it will sell lego kind of dull for a movie but not bad for a 74 minute advertisement could have been a lot worse
0	i saw grande at its world premiere on the rotterdam film festival i had no idea what i was entering and if i'd had any idea i wouldn't have entered this is the most pretentious film i've seen for a long time it tries to be provocative yet deep with its full frontal homosexual sex scenes it doesn't succeed it's nothing but another bad excuse of showing naked persons on the big screen 4 10
0	i saw this film at the new festival in new york it was by far the worst film there it's use of full frontal nudity and a wishy washy script and direction that neither commits to a re make of nor decides it's a neil labute flick left me feeling 'why would anyone ruin a perfectly good cast like this ' it lacks irony and fills the vacuum with sentiment which causes the times when the movie turns on itself to make you want to wipe your face as your mind and heart search for what could be going on in the film but isn't i wish the director and editor had re edited the film because maybe there's more story there that could be released from an otherwise unpleasant experience
0	shaky hand held cameras this piece was shot for television mind you not film not only keep you utterly conscious of how horrible the cinematography is in this film but make you absolutely unable to become immersed in the story poor miss austen must be rolling in her grave all i can say is if you enjoyed the novel stop there until the bbc creates one of their smart sensible period masterpieces like pride prejudice with colin firth which speaking for what i imagine in my opinion austen would have revered the bbc would never dare overdub cheesy saxophone solos and indigo girl over a shot of an historic castle and a loving embrace foster seemed to be often confused that they were editing the music to the specialist if you want austen as you love her look for the bbc logo
0	this film was nothing more than exploitative gay cheesecake it was not an art movie just an excuse to show several gratuitous exploitative over the top scenes with extensive male genital nudity there was a locker room scene involving over a dozen naked men the camera zooms in on the men's asses and penises as they are portrayed for several minutes with their dicks in full screen view there are several scenes in this film showing penis after penis it gets redundant real fast and makes it impossible to take this film seriously i was wondering if i was watching a playgirl video by mistake if these same scenes were filmed using women ex totally naked and showing their vaginas repeatedly it would be quickly dismissed as just softcore porn and an excuse to show a lot of eye candy which is all that this film is any artistic merit got flushed down the drain of the gay ghetto mentality the themes of class distinction homosexuality longing desire etc were simple and superficial no more developed than what one would expect from a first year philosophy student just cut to the chase and rent a gay porn instead
0	grande is not an artful exploration of mixed sexuality but if you're in need of it a movie for an x rated channel although i suspect there's nothing in this movie to spoil for a willing viewer the plot is simply an excuse for male to female and male to male couplings set in the unconvincing context of a competition between a parisian school for future ceos and a major school for those seeking higher degrees in the liberal arts there's likewise a frisson of cultural clash between high status and lower status french youth plus a societal conflict involving native frenchmen and arab immigrants from north africa all that's missing is a female to female coupling which could easily have been arranged with no more than a slight twist in the plot br br the acting is at a somewhat higher level than in the usual pornographic movie but grande is to be blunt about it no more than pornography with artistic aspirations i'm not offended by the sex it's just repetitive and before long boring where's the hays office when you really need it
0	this is what happens when you try to adapt a play from the theater look at the end of the picture totally theatrical br br with a reminiscent of les liaisons the final steam less speech try to make us think that the whole and deep theme of this matter was the manhood who cares by this point it was about manipulation and so the audience feels after this movie has ended br br young directors a play is told with the words more than actions a film is the opposite most of the times br br and i'm not talking about the gay theme overly exploited without a point 'cause there's no explanation of this topic considering the so called philosophic or presumptuous basis to the level that this film should have been called grand gay
0	i saw this at a drive in when i was 9 all i remember are a few scenes the ones where the main character elle is being chased by a guy in a mask and being scared seeing it now my opinions have changed it's a pathetic horror film about an run by gloria grahame sad and dealing with a young talentless girl elle who is sent there after her mother the town tramp was beaten to death with a hammer graphically shown the film has adolescents actually actors in their 20s being beaten tortured killed starved attacked with meat cleavers raped etc etc the brutal hammer murder is the opening scene and then it gets worse and worse there is nothing to recommend about this crap the plot is stupid all the dialogue is bad and the acting the less said the better how did this sickie get by with a gp now pg rating it would get an r now worthless one last thing a truly repulsive twist ending suggests incest
0	a recommendation gloria grahame runs the kind of orphanage where discipline is imparted with a meat cleaver orphans are hung on meat hooks to punish them and the bodies are kept in the deep freeze so that they can be brought out for when social services call that the orphanage is strapped for cash we know because gloria puts all the orphans to work and also because there don't seem to be enough clothes to go round especially for the older nubile female orphans age range appears to be 12 30 ish the new arrival however turns out to be more than a match for gloria and has indeed just taken out her own mother mother's lover in a witty claw hammer and arson opening scene predictably gloria ends up on a meat hook herself this one was made for about but was is a huge huge huge hit on the grindhouse circuit my dvd cover promised disturbing and politically incorrect scenes and it sure wasn't lying i believe it is regarded as the citizen kane of orphanage set torture porn movies 4 10
0	when the opening shot is u s marines seriously disrespecting the u s flag a movie has a tough road ahead but unfortunately it was downhill from there there is a military adviser credited who is also apparently a retired u s marine making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol and law went unnoticed even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia then buried in very short order without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body or if there even was a body the u s government is still finding the missing from wwii and it takes months to identify the remains military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified or after years of red tape here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks maybe this happens in denmark but not in the u s clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with or respect for the u s military br br beyond that there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash having a script that worked might have helped but this one seems to have been made up on the spot working from cliffs notes there's no way to know if the script was this awful originally or if it was the auteur or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility either way this is an awful movie that should have never been made
0	again we're getting a melange of themes well covered by so many previous films the good and the bad son story courtesy east of eden the american marine hero story who doesn't consider himself to be one due to what he knows and the grieving wife potentially falling in love with another man story br br the mere fact of those stories being that ubiquitous isn't so much of a problem though because theoretically they could still be better presented and dealt with each time around no luck this time though as all three of those threads ultimately fall flat all the same br br as the bad son never really gets to talk to his father so that conflict is never resolved properly apart from the father kind of starting to appreciate the bad son thanks to the latter renovating the kitchen of the grieving wife now how satisfying is that br br next the surprisingly homecoming marine suspecting his wife of unfaithfulness conflict never gets resolved because he never really talks to the man under suspicion namely his own brother so once more we're handed a loose end here br br and finally the american military heroism hypocrisy theme where the marine is publicly considered a hero when due to the dirtiness of war he went through he shouldn't really be called one as to his own standards that third theme falls flat just the same because the movie ends right when for the first time he's just able to talk to his wife about what he went through where the real story would actually begin at that very point namely his process of recovery how that would look like and how he would finally face the family he'd have some major guilt to admit to all that all the really interesting bits are passed over and getting ignored br br so while story wise this film is a serious and i mean serious disappointment i'd still give it points for the impressive cast although no film should use maguire for a voice over because that belongs to spiderman especially a grown up gyllenhaal seems to fulfill all the expectations he aroused as a young and aspiring actor so much that i'd in fact love to see him entrusted with a really deep and demanding lead role of proper profile br br so while the cast really seems to do what they can i consider this film totally forgettable otherwise a shallow and ultimately pretentious utterly unsatisfying tear indeed message du jour to the writers we know the wounds already see the host of vietnam films you want to earn some credit show us a believable healing
0	maybe the best part of the show is the fact that it creeps up right after conan o'brien and late night's fans are all of a sudden unsuspectingly watching carson's show carson daly can't hold a candle to leno letterman o'brien or any other late night talk show host and last call seems to miss more than hit in this hit and miss genre the shows only redeeming quality is that it's so short but i wouldn't call it crap carson daly is sincere and doesn't hide the fact that his show isn't great that honesty is actually helpful here while some of last call's skits and material seem to be stolen they still find the mark sometimes actually some of carson's montages have been quite entertaining and the skits occasionally have their moments of decent comedy br br as an interviewer carson is okay even with only one guest not exactly late night material but still above the level attained by a high school av team however he doesn't have the quick wit that makes conan so hilarious i do not like his musical guests but that's more because i am not a fan of that kind of music so i'm not holding it against him br br on to the house band i don't know joe band and wouldn't compare them to the cbs orchestra the show band with kevin eubanks or the max weinberg 7 even and the are better but band mates do still the show in my opinion especially the alto sax player that sometimes shows up he has long dark hair and sunglasses and is always playing in the upper register if anything watch the show for him i do br br in summary this show isn't even worth a full bag of n' bits but it does have an audience and appeals more to the younger mtv generation if you don't have cable and are up at 1 37 am there really isn't much more to choose from and surprise surprise there is worse out there in that time frame so if you're waiting for poker after dark to come on 30 minutes of last call wont kill you during the wait
0	for a while when i was in between jobs i had a habit of watching all the late night talk shows for a while i had a good selection conan leno letterman ferguson kimmel br br until i reached the 1 30 a m time slot the time between conan and x files on scifi and the only show on at that time was and curiously still is carson daly br br his show intrigued me at first youngish casually dressed and with the hip pedigree of an mtv host i thought carson would bring a younger aesthetic to late night i couldn't have been more wrong br br he has no comedic timing his jokes are plainly unfunny and his monologue a painful affair of self conscious babbling i began to think he simply wasn't capable of delivering comedy and i am right he isn't but it became obvious over time that the writers on the show must have had it in for him the writing was idiotic and much too overreaching and the skits screamingly bad and towards the end of the show being in studio the writers had carson drinking alcohol on the set with gusto on every show an oblivious carson grinning from emaciated cheek to emaciated cheek as he sloshed his way through interviews br br zero interview skills none he tries to be friendly chatty but ends up being boorish and rude he talks too much he cuts off his guests he asks them rude or embarrassing questions if he can find a question to ask them at all and as someone had already pointed out the guests literally stare at him or squirm in their seats clearly uncomfortable br br now the show has left the studio and looks as though it were shot on one handy cam even still carson refuses to take the hint from nbc at one point carson didn't even get a camera man he had to film himself for an episode wake up carson that handwriting is all over the wall br br i see the show is produced by carson i can only imagine that is the reason it is still on the air he pays for it himself
0	he seems to be a control freak i have heard him comment on losing control of the show and tell another guest who brought live animals that he had one rule no snakes he needs to hire a comedy writer because his jokes are lame the only reason i watch him is because he some some great guests and bands br br i watched the craig ferguson show for a while but his show is even worse he likes to bull sh to burn time i don't think either man has much of a future in late night talk shows br br daily also has the annoying habit of sticking his tongue out to lick his lips he must do this at least 10 times a show i do like the joe band carson daily needs to lighten up before it is too late
0	the bbc and the arts entertainment network should be ashamed of themselves for foisting this unfortunate production onto the world the acting is with the exception of robert hardy as general amateurish at best and excruciatingly painful at worst the costumes are over the top and feature some truly ghoulish excesses was the costume designer obsessed with feathers for women's hats surely every woman in bath didn't have feathers in her in the early 19th century the production values are poor and the pacing of the film makes one feel it was hastily and clumsily edited at the last minute altogether an agonizing film that i had to force myself to watch to the end it's a shame as the producers obviously spent a lot of money on costumes and location shooting compared to emma thompson's sublime sense and sensibility or the extraordinary 1995 production of pride and prejudice or the subtle intensity of 1995's persuasion this production of northanger surely has jane austen turning in her grave
0	before last call w carson daly my local nbc affiliate aired much more worthwhile programming after late night w conan such as second city tv 3rd rock from the sun in the city reruns and some stand up comedy these days there is nothing worthwhile to watch because all i get to see is carson daly and his awful show he is not a comedian he is not an actor he does not deserve to be famous because he isn't a good speaker nor comedian br br on his june 21st show he tried to use an internet called the on his show he failed hard that event confirms that carson daly is awful
0	nothing carson daly has ever said or done on this show has ever made me laugh or even smile a little i do not understand how this show has survived for so many years br br even the funny band member is just like one of those kids in high school who thinks nobody is good enough to even look at him daly and that dude are just arrogant frat boys it seems like they don't even try to be a little funny br br awful awful awful show br br it makes my soul cry br br i just cannot stress enough how awful this show is don't watch it but if you absolutely have to i recommend clawing your eyes out and clogging your ears with cement beforehand
0	carson daly has to be the only late night talk show host that isn't a comedian what was nbc thinking he's not funny the writing is horrible to all of the sketches are painful to watch the current new karaoke isn't funny at all especially since he tells you what they are going to sing before they sing it the escalator interviews is just stupid and needless to say not funny at all all he jokes especially during the monologue are the least clever dumbest not funny jokes ever put on television i mean anytime he makes a jessica simpson joke he ends it with because she's stupid which cancels out any that was in the joke which was already very low any 3 year old could have come up with any of the jokes and sketches they put on this lame excuse for a show seriously don't watch this show unless you're on the edge of suicide and want something to push you over the edge
0	i don't think i've ever gave something a 1 10 rating but this one easily gets the denomination i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes it's not just that the jokes are so bad but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma can't set up or finish a punchline and you've got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach br br i have watched the show never in its entirety but many times still it just creeps up on me after conan i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever br br actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest it's just that an interview i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that's screaming get me the hell away from this freak i do recommend watching the show not for a laugh but to ponder how he got on the air and what he's still doing there watch as much as you can i think you will find its complete awkwardness interesting
0	it's not often i feel strongly enough to post something about a film this was however simply the worst movie i have ever seen the performances were laughable at best at worst they were well there's no other word for it awful especially the lead female who's random sexual come ons have to be seen and heard to be believed honestly the plot is nonsensical the dialogue appalling and the characterisation there is none i'm surprised it's not an alan smithee film i can't stress this strongly enough avoid at all costs how do movies like this ever get made this is no budget film making at its very very worst
0	jon good's wife simply one of the worst titles for a film ever or the red right hand another absolutely awful sounding title that means nothing has no relevance to the film under which i saw it is set in massachusettes the year i was born which was quite possibly the best thing to happen during those 365 days where five old college friends meet up for a school reunion gay boy roger john is that surname for real just say it out loud martha alden kim rebecca lawson jenna stern her boyfriend jake stabler john doe alan michael kevin walker his wife sandy megan plus john good marc why is the spelling of 'john' different in the title his wife sara abigail morgan from the word go there is an uneasy tension in the air when someone mentions their 'missing' friend jason lots of unpleasant memories come flooding back then comes the phone calls the mysterious nose bleeds hallucinations guilt as the true horror of the events all those years ago finally comes to light br br produced executive produced directed by kurt who also wrote the thing kurt st thomas who gets the art direction credit too if that wasn't enough they both act in the film as well personally i thought jon good's wife was awful i mean she can't cook or anything ha ha ha only joking seriously though i didn't think much of the film overall for a start it's pretty slow going the entire first 30 minutes is solid snooze material of the reunion consisting of lots of catching up with each other dull character building exposition the film never explains itself what's with those weird nose bleeds for god's sake the mysterious phone calls the almost inconsequential death of one of the group that might or might not be natural what the hell was sara all about she comes across as some nosey sex crazed dirty talking shameless bitter blackmailing know it all whore who apparently sleeps with just about every man she meets some of the dialogue she spouts wouldn't be out of place in a porno it just seems totally at odds with the rest of the film which plays out more like a drama than the horror thriller it was supposedly meant to be then there's the ending if there's a worse way to end a film then to just leave literally everything hanging in the air with no closure whatsoever i have yet to see it the whole thing was very predictable as well i mean is anyone watching this not going to know that when they all mention their friend went 'missing' there wouldn't be more to it br br directors thomas make an infuriating film on top of the predictability annoying climax there is a retrospective narration by alan which i simply don't understand as he has no more or less significance than anyone else at what point in time is he narrating from the reasons behind this narration is never made clear or elaborated upon there's no tension because the whole things so by the numbers br br technically the film is ok but nothing special some of the locations clothes didn't look particularly authentic to me this never convinced me it was taking place during the late 70's the acting was alright what about actor john last name i suppose if his wife was standing next to him we could describe them as a couple of right br br i really didn't think much of jon good's wife a blow up doll would have been better ha ha ha i'm not sure who it would appeal to forget about any gore horror violence scares atmosphere or excitement in fact forget about everything that would have made this film watchable because it ain't here not recommended
0	i'd picked this one up time and time again in the rental store wondering if i should give it a shot today i broke down and gave it a whirl and i probably shouldn't have br br while the writer director did give the film a respectable effort it fell far short of engaging the characters while you wanted to feel for them just didn't have enough development or depth for you to get truly involved with them sara's sexual outbursts got tiring fast i don't mind sex in films and i don't mind bitchy characters but being a bad girl doesn't mean you're prone to excitedly ask people at random if they'd like sexual favors by the time what happened to the characters was revealed i was bored and ready to fast forward to the climax the end anything exciting and nothing delivered the things the folks in the story eventually inform you of seems forced and unrealistic and just wasn't played quite right if they'd have thrown a bit more anguish in there i might have been interested this should have been a more of a suspense drama film and should have stuck to the title jon good's wife rather than the whole red right hand and horror film like cover hell this should have had suspense period br br either way watch this on a rainy day or a late night when there's nothing on the television though this isn't as great as i'd hoped i would go for this over some infomercials
0	i thought this was an extremely bad movie the whole time i was watching this movie i couldn't help but think over and over how bad it is and how that was 3 69 down the drain the plot was so jumpy they did an excellent job at the beginning of explaining who dated who in high school but they never really explained anything after that was it a supernatural thriller was it a regular thriller apparently you can decide for yourself because they didn't see the need to explain i understood basically what happened i think what i got confused about was all of it prior what was the deal with the bloody noses phone calls etc was this guy coming back was the wife channeling carrie or something who knows you certainly won't after watching this movie
0	clearly andreas would like to wear jess franco's crown whilst at least cinematically the old wife lina plays a corrupt salacious masturbating prison warden in this modern ambitious w i p film with some exceptions many of franco's films are ineptly produced and directed in a slipshod hurried manner shots don't always cut together and the sound mixes can be horrific while watching angel of death 2 aka prison island massacre i asked myself if is deliberately trying to replicate franco's patent shoddiness or is he just naturally shoddy like his mentor is this movie deliberately bad which would be self defeating or is it simply bad by neglect after a hitchhiker is forced to give a gunpoint blowjob her rapist fills her mouth then fills her vagina with some drugs minutes later she is hauled into a prison for reasons not explained and subjected to the leers and rough handling of staff and other inmates as this is a wip film there are lesbian scenes galore and plenty of violent behavior the gore is bloody and sadistic too with delights such as teeth pulling and courtesy of olaf ittenbach the acting is pretty awful and the fight scenes are lame but there is a love of sleaze in every frame and an understanding of what trash fans enjoy unfortunately the flat script makes for a flat movie so despite numerous atrocities hardcore sex and a guest appearance from jess franco the experience is an empty one but isn't that what most jess franco movies are
0	i watched this movie on tv last night hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly disease i was disappointed and i think the movie was garbage it did not seem real to me some of the acting was awful in particular that of the doctor she was about the worst i've seen the whole thing played like a cnn 'worst case scenario' even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn't seem sincere i have seen some disaster movies in particular those weather ones which are actually so bad they are amusing this one is almost as bad but it is not even amusing it is tedious and boring don't bother with this one
0	this movie started off well enough sticking to the mood of the book fairly well even if the acting was not top notch the soundtrack was bad saxaphone and electric guitars it was gratingly incongruous the female singer was positively dreary in the second half of the film the story takes a decidedly darker turn too dark for austen northanger abbey is made a dark and scary place whereas in the book it was disappointingly tame and modernized to catherine's eyes br br who in the heck is this with the ghastly makeup and wig a totally extraneous and unnecessary character br br one of the key elements in the book is the general is not a gothic monster like the characters in catherine's books his monstrosity is far more complicated in his oppression of his children's spirits and his treatment of catherine based on money concerns alone he does not lock up his wife or kill her but he does send miss morland on a 70 mile trip alone in a hired carriage with not enough money to pay her way home only her friend miss thoughtfulness in handing her some money on the way out the door saves her from being stranded this whole point gets seriously muddled in the film they make the general too dark from the outset br br peter firth should have not sung this part was painful to watch his depiction of wasn't too bad but it was a shade dark in places henry of the book made sport of miss imagination on trip to northanger but he was never dark firth would have benefited from better direction the young lady who played isabella needed a better acting coach john was appropriately odious the striped and coattails combo he wore was ghastly it certainly fit his character br br i think the film would have fared much better with a completely different soundtrack it cast an oppressive pall over the entire movie if i watch it again it will be with the sound off and subtitles on perhaps i would give the film a 4 then br br the sound quality of the dvd was quite poor the picture quality was not much better this is glaringly noticeable on a digital television br br when i think of what this film could have been i think of persuasion with amanda root and ciaran hinds
0	fatal contact bird flu in america 3 out of 10 this movie is both funny and sad the funny part is fairly obvious as this certainly isn't a sober look at a possible impending crisis this is a modern version of the swarm and much like those killer bees and the so called killer bee crisis that prompted them bird flu has joined a pantheon of media inspired end of the world scenarios sars y2k global warming that simply refuse to actually come about br br the sad part is the blatant attempt of the filmmakers to inspire panic disease historically were fairly common after all people didn't all die in their forties from heart disease even recent such as aids mirrors the old fashioned vd crisis think syphilis that used to kill more soldiers than bullets br br the flu pandemic of the early twenties was a nasty business killing millions but honestly life went on i wonder if our over dramatic media and their power hungry government allies would allow life as normal today br br the movie itself swerves wildly from fairly competent scenes triage in grand central station to the ridiculous rednecks try to ambush national in manhattan br br the scenarios themselves are fairly useless as the filmmakers can't seem to decide exactly how contagious the bird flu is or for that matter whether the symptoms are an ebola style crash or simply a long illness indeed one scene will show everyone in bio hazard suits and the next will have nobody even wearing a mask br br the film also patently refuses to actually give any practical advice regarding what to do in a bird flu crisis outside of wash your hands what no duct tape the acting and directing are competent for a tv movie but the script is all over the map last the movie has a strangely non exponential death total running on the bottom of the screen just like the swarm did
0	the c class cast and poorly transitioned scenes complete with terrible acting have led me too believe this would make a good tv only release such as the fx presentation of a smallpox outbreak at my local blockbuster however about 9 copies are held on the shelves none of which were checked out when i rented the title i wonder why anyway this title was almost ridiculous in the fear factor the director was going for the whole death count on the bottom of the screen completely contradicted the plot at times such as when the chopper was going over angola and the toll was speeding at a breakneck pace from 23 million to 24 however as the movie ends possibly several hours or even a day or so after the chopper has landed the death toll counter is reset back too what it was at the moment the chopper was approaching the area the movies end left a huge whole in th entire plot and god knows nobody is waiting for the sequel anyway do not rent this i only advise watching this if you have obtained the title with no monetary loss and you are in the mood for a cheesy suspense movie
0	what garbage is there actually no part ii if this movie actually ends the way it did everyone involved with this movie should be ashamed this movie is nothing close to a movie like outbreak which was actually a fairly decent movie this movie was rushed in hopes of being able to gain a few easy dollars i started watching the movie under the assumption that it would be bad but i never imagined it would be this bad this movie was nothing more then a way to exploit the fears of the american people for profit if you have not seen this movie don't bother movie is full of poorly developed characters and poor acting i really hope the production of this movie was only a couple of weeks stay away don't be fooled by the hype
0	after spending half an hour examining rumors a gay bar located outside mississippi small town gay bar shifts focus to the murder of scotty weaver in bay minette in order to demonstrate the risks run by the interview subjects but there is a problem here bay minette isn't near as the film implies it isn't even in the same state it is actually about three hundred miles away in coastal alabama br br director malcom ingram doesn't exactly rush to point out this fact nor does he bother to mention that while bay minette itself is little more than a wide spot in the road it is actually about two deep breaths away from the major metro area of mobile alabama which has a noticeable gay community quite a few gay bars and even a congregation of metropolitan community church if ingram is disingenuous on these points one has to ask if he is on others as well br br speaking as someone who was born raised and continues to live in mississippi i have to say that i find most of small town gay bar a lot of hooey neither meridian nor the communities upon which ingram focuses are as rural small or as isolated as he would have you imagine and gay bars are indeed more common in the state than the film implies that said ingram rather blithely ignores the fact that the absence of a gay bar does not mean an absence of a gay community and in doing so he demonstrates a rather profound ignorance of southern culture which tends to hold those who frequent bars be they gay or straight in low esteem br br small town gay bar is in my opinion an instance in which a film maker came to his subject with a personal agenda in hand and then proceeded to film the agenda do gays and lesbians living in rural mississippi face major sometimes frightening challenges you bet they do but that's no excuse for fiddling with reality to such a degree the dvd includes a commentary track and a number of deleted scenes but i found the feature film itself so ridiculous that i didn't waste any time on them br br gft amazon reviewer
0	maybe it's unfair to dislike a movie for what it isn't rather than what it is but i approached this hoping that finally a filmmaker would make a movie about small town rural gay men and women instead the focus is primarily on the outrageous bigotry big news of the locals and those in areas and the really gruesome torture murder of a young gay man br br so much time devoted to stupid people squawking about aids sin hellfire and perverts so much time devoted to the ghoulish preacher ranting about the bible and gay people getting what they deserve br br i wanted to see more of the people that came to the small town gay bar not those who opposed it in addition the young man who was murdered isn't even from this town br br the whole movie works as a warning rather than a celebration and it's very suspect
0	sure it's hard being gay especially in the south we get it over and over again br br what stood out was that the film makers focused almost wholly on the more extreme characters in these small town gay bars the drag queens the seedy sleaze of a bar long closed and on a guy who was brutally murdered for being gay yet had nothing to do with either of the bars which were the focus of this film br br there were snippets of interviews from other people people viewers would perhaps be better able to relate to but they were glossed over practically skipped maybe shown in a glimpse in the background br br it would have been more interesting to me at least to hear the experiences of the more common gay men and women who were either enriched or otherwise by the experiences of a small town gay bar and or the absence of that community
0	i was ready for a crouching tiger style movie and all i got was the worst movie i've seen in years it was almost as bad as baron von dead script dead acting dead everything br br granted there was some good fight scenes but the positive side ends there if this movie arrives in your house run to a phone and dial 911 and say please help there is a movie in my house meant to force people to commit suicide
0	how can this movie be described oh yeah i've got it wretched br br i'm not big on chop socky but this is just plain garbage anyone who would waste their money to pay to see it is just too sad for words
0	hello all for what it's worth i'm in a doctoral program on indonesian politics and returned this semester after about a year's most of it in jakarta br br i'm a big movie fan generally so i went out as often as i could and bought tons of local while i was there this one i saw in the theater since it opened while i was there and thankfully closed soon after br br who was the intended audience for this film the spoiled wives and daughters of the indonesian super elite whose antics are weakly and ineffectively parodied the vast majority of indonesians who could never afford even a single dish let alone a full meal in the film's central restaurant location or gay indonesian males whose dilemma in the country's muslim dominated society is reduced to absurdly simplistic how to respect yourself preaching br br if all this wasn't bad enough the soundtrack was either recorded or mixed so ineptly that even native speaking indonesians couldn't hear many of the lines br br in brief if you're looking for a cutting edge gay themed film from a region of the world that seems among the least likely to produce such an animal forget it from the early '80s or my beautiful laundrette from the same era succeed far better in putting a happier face on dealing with homophobia and do so by showing not telling through incessant wordy scenes br br overall an unfortunate waste of money in a country that still can't educate all of its children nor keep them healthy
0	am i the only one to think that this is a bad movie br br i admit that horror movies often lack things like a big story or good acting or even good special effects but the way these deficiencies come together in this movie is surprisingly pitiful br br miserable story the idea of a raped vagina that takes revenge by turning into a man eater sounds quite funny but what the writer made out of it is stupid br br bad acting the actors move like marionettes they play and look like people who really try hard but completely fail to act br br bad fx especially the explosion of the van looks unspeakably cheap br br it is surprising that a director who made some nice movies during his carrier changes over to such messy stuff
0	my mom my cousins and i are pretty big jane austen fans we know all the words to the 1995 pride and prejudice masterpiece and have watched gwyneth paltrow's emma an embarrassing number of times i've read all the books and i've even sat through sense and sensibility and persuasion a few times so my mom and i thought it would be nice to see northanger abbey on film br br bad idea this is just about the worst movie i've ever seen it's even worse than the 1998 version of alice through the looking glass or the 1939 nancy drew movie i bought at wal mart for 1 my previous worst movies the first thing wrong which you notice in the opening scene is that the heroine catherine has a gruesome and weird imagination inspired by trashy novels that a jane austen heroine would never touch throughout the novel she has dreams day and night in which she is carried off by some hideous man with a greasy wig dragged across a field headed for god knows what all and suddenly rescued by a dashing guy on a white horse br br the second thing any viewer of the movie will instantly notice is the high pitched wailing and saxophone music that is supposed to be the soundtrack no dainty classical music or english country dances here it is also evident almost at first glance that the actress for lack of a better word chosen to play catherine is completely off first she is rather unattractive and is rendered even more so by her un behavior her looks and movements are just wacky plus they're completely affected and unbelievable br br this sad lack of acting skills affects pretty much all of the actors in the film not even mr the supposed dashing young suitor is decent br br as more and more characters are introduced a strange taste in costumes on the part of the filmmakers becomes evident huge marie antoinette style clash with the for the most part correctly styled empire gowns a french woman apparently a friend of general is made up all in black as some sort of ancient goth nightmare she bears a striking similarity to michael jackson in a black dress her appearance is made even sillier by a huge half moon beauty mark on her cheek i also had to wonder about the historical accuracy of the bright red lipstick that almost all of the women were wearing br br another anomaly that kept my mom and i howling with laughter for about ten minutes was the bathing scene the first thing we noticed was that men and women were bathing in a big bathhouse together probably not very likely in the early 1800s then we saw that all the women seemed to be wearing large china or plastic plates worn around their necks with strings the plates floated on the water containing some mysterious pieces of something we guessed it was soap then aromatic herbs then finally when the mystery substance began disappearing between shots we deduced it was food but i'm still not sure br br and that's not even half of what's wrong with northanger abbey my warning to anyone who is considering renting this movie stay your hand and if anyone is considering buying it well i don't even know what to say to that br br you'd think that when the actors and others making this film got about 1 4 of the way through they'd realize what a monster they were creating and stop unfortunately they didn't and northanger abbey was let out into the world
0	talented screenwriter alvin sargent sadly cannot get any engaging ideas cooking in this artificial trifle about a wayward mother and her mature teenage daughter trying to make their lives work in los angeles despite mom's flighty behavior apart from several good sequences i didn't quite buy susan sarandon as a flake she's too intrinsically smart and focused to be passed off as this devil may care lady and her naturally grounded personality is a bad fit for the role of an irresponsible parent natalie portman fares much better as her kid and yet there's a creepy aloofness to her work and some of her scenes such as the one where she asks a boy to strip are misguided and uncomfortable to watch certainly not an incompetent piece anywhere but here does have moments that work but it isn't an embraceable film nor has it proved to be an important one from
0	so umm this woman has a vagina that sucks people into it when they umm do it and there's this dude who like follows her around everywhere and uhh is umm in love with her and she cant love him back because of her thingy well her thingy starts talking to her sort of it just says feed me over and over and she tries to feed it hot dogs but that doesn't work because it wants fresh meat so this woman heads to the red light district where she picks up tourists but only the really sleazy ones cause i guess they deserve it and after a while this dude comes looking for her and even though shes like right there he doesn't see her so eventually he gets involved with conjoined twins but he only likes one of them cause the other is a real hussy this isn't bad good like i thought it would be cause like the novelty sort of wears off within the first 1 2 hour and it goes on for another hour i think it killed off a few brain cells cause i sat through this whole thing and now im a little brain damaged either way man this is the worst man eating vagina movie i have ever seen
0	the main premise for this movie is every woman's fantasy a vagina that kills and eats men well at least it is a fantasy for every woman who has ever had a fight against a man what's that 99 9999 of women but don't worry it's not a gory kind of eating of men it's more like a comical slurping them in like a drain plug there's no blood or parts left behind so for blood guts gore fans forget about this film not much gore here br br the two main characters of the film are somewhat unrealistic helen is a good girl who becomes a prostitute meanwhile dennis is a nice guy who stalks helen br br the story is already a little silly at this point but then they throw in two more equally silly sub stories that just send this movie into the bad b movie territory the first new sub story is about dennis finding new love with a pair of conjoined twins and then eventually murdering one of them and becoming a fugitive bank robber the second new sub story is about helen finding new love with a nice policeman who rescued her from a prostitution related bad date and decided he wanted to marry her dennis and helen eventually meet up again at the end of movie in totally unbelievable circumstances and magically helen's murderous vagina is cured
0	left behind when the ostensible heroine's venus makes any man whose sexual advances are forced upon her ahem disappear fiona this is my career horsey is an attractive enough although i found her acting chops to be suspect with better direction and a better vehicle she might improve likely as not her leading man paul mine too conway never will proving to be one of the most unlikeable unattractive love interests i've seen in a film in recent memory there's some nonsense involving siamese twins a frying pan to the head obvious hot dog joke a reasonable amount of bare boobies production values in the low budget to laughable range scripting that would make syd field cry acting that by and large only an ed wood could love and camera work a step above pedestrian the vagina gimmick might well have made for an interesting horror movie but angst botches the premise strictly for stoned out viewing and even then you could do much better law or revelation still holds
0	in the 50's a gay photographer called bob mizer daniel founded an agency of male models releasing a muscle magazine called physique pictorial and movie of men and many of the models became prostitutes beefcake shows the rise and fall of this pervert br br alternating footages from the 50's testimony of many models and bob mizer himself in the present days the director thom fitzgerald used this subterfuge to show naked men and lots of penis along 93 minutes running time in a complete bad taste and very silly crap i have never heard anything about this morally corrupt bob mizer and i do not know what amg is in my opinion only gay and very specific audiences might like the theme of this boring and pretentious movie my vote is two br br title brazil carne fresh meat
0	set in the near future a dark stranger walks into some southern american city plagued by zombies settling with a group of friendly face inhabitants our stranger learns the harsh realities of city life there are two groups of people the upper classes who dwell safely behind the concrete walls of the city being provided by at the right price the state police then there are our friendly face inhabitants these lower class folks live along side the zombies there only means of survival is to trade goods which they for during the day with the police in exchange for tins of food our stranger discovers why his world is plague by zombies a new pill that suppressed the craving for was the foundation the human race's desire to shed fat caused the down fall of society as we know it these pills increased the desire for protein i e meat even the pet poodle however there was one more grave side affect after death people became reanimated with an even stronger craving for protein namely human flesh br br with what i feel is an imaginative introduction i felt that this film many realise some inventive material what better way could explain the cause of the zombie race than by a contemporary idea of people's desire to make any sacrifice to change their body without the hard work of the gym however the imagination of this film soon stopped after this exposition this film falls into the old trap of 'i can not imagine what the world will be like when society when you watch this film you do not escape to a different world as you do when you watch planet of the apes original alien mad max or texas chain saw original in this film the alternate society is define by people with hair dyed orange and green face paint and charity shop leather jackets there is no harshness about life in this alternate society just healthy faces and over made up zombies films should allow you to escape not remind you that you need to clear out your wardrobe and take your old cloths to the charity shop br br forget about some of the pitiful acting or the over made up zombies this film fails because it is too polished too congenial and too predictable i have watch films like this since the early eighties if you are going the make a film of this nature i suggest you need to watch again such films as dawn of the dead original and remake threads or fulci's zombie to see and experience that feeling of desperation in a devastate society
0	zombie planet seems like an example of good ideas and laudable ambition budget i thought the explanation for the zombies was real original and gnarly and loved the dog munching in the exposition scene the rest of the gore was effective in a low budget kinda way but too spaced apart throughout the movie the problem was that it was too long and anti climatic sure they had a intriguing if derivative plot line and a similarly familiar but cool setting but a low budget zombie film really needs to be to make an impression and there just weren't enough red moments in this for me i think there was surplus of cheap looking and bloodless fight scenes as well especially given the generally minimal grue plus for a two hour movie there's very little closure at the end and though it kinda makes me want to track down zombie planet 2 i felt a tad cheated so probably most worth looking for the two of them
0	i live and work in lexington kentucky the town where zombie planet was filmed i'd heard about the film forever ago from various people who claimed to be a critical part of the production then for several years i heard absolutely nothing imagine my surprise when i found it sitting all by itself at the local video store just itching for a rental so being the cinephile that i am i decided to give these local filmmakers a shot br br bad idea br br zombie planet is overlong boring poorly acted miserably shot and that's just the good stuff i tried my hardest to enjoy it which included removing my brain and setting it on the table so that it wouldn't get in the way of the horrible storyline alas nothing worked zombie planet is so bad it's pathetic and the very idea that they're planning a sequel leads me to believe that the director and his henchmen have listened to none of the criticisms i'm sure they've heard move on you guys please in fact refrain from film making altogether or attend a few classes on pacing storytelling and well basic direction br br otherwise for the love of god hang it up
0	just when you think that you've seen the worst the zombie sub genre can offer along comes another budding romero and his team of no talent mates to prove you wrong br br i've suffered the zombie bloodbath trilogy endured death valley the revenge of bloody bill sat semi comatose through the zombie diaries and laughed hysterically during zombie '90 extreme pestilence and genuinely thought that amateur movie making could sink no lower however having just watched zombie planet a two hour long festering pile of drivel from writer director george i think i have found the ultimate in awful zombie movies br br in this dreadfully amateurish effort which is part mad max and part dawn of the dead but all bad frank stars as t k kane a tough fighter who kicks zombie ass for a hobby armed only with knives a machete some concussion grenades and what he obviously perceives to be a really mean glare br br after a desperately unexciting opening sequence in which he takes on a horde of dodgy looking zombies kane teams up with a group of survivors who not only have to fend off attacks from the undead but must also must placate a gang of vicious thugs who have taken control of the area by searching for and handing over any valuables that they find br br of course kane isn't the type of man to take orders from a bunch of z grade post apocalyptic bully boys and he sets about teaching the bad guys a lesson mostly by at them in a threatening manner only pausing to periodically rescue pals from zombies br br featuring awful acting from almost everyone involved a dreadful script laughable effects and shoddy production values there is virtually nothing in this film to make it worth a watch to be fair i quite like the basic premise that the zombies are the unexpected result of a highly popular drug that blocks cravings for we learn this when one character conveniently explains the back story to kane who strangely has no idea what has happened but this is about the only vaguely interesting aspect of the whole production br br i have a certain amount of respect for anyone who manages to fund and make their own movie but when the results are this poor that respect is lost when they decide to make it available for public viewing i would've kept this one under wraps if i had made it
0	now i'm a big fan of zombie movies i admit zombie movies usually aren't all that good but i like them anyways despite the crappy acting and worthless dialogues that occur in almost all zombie movies this one is by far the worst see there are a few ground rules with zombie movies 1 zombies are suicidal tactics is seldom used and never do they act like a boxer they don't dodge a blow to the head they take it with a ugly smile they don't try and hit you in the face they grab a hold of your arm and bite it 2 zombies can't speak only in evil dead otherwise they do not speak 3 you don't fight zombies with melee ranged weapons you loose in a melee fight against zombies firearms are used in this movie however melee is the way to go which is wrong very wrong br br it had no redeeming qualities br br if you wish to see a zombie movie see one with an average score higher than 3 on imdb com
0	once a month i invite a few friends over for a retarded movie night we look forward to movies that are either so bad they're funny or movies that know they don't have a plot and just show a lot of chests last night we were unfortunate enough to have zombie planet as one of our movies the cinematography is on par with what we're used to but the acting was a different story the lead role is played by a johnny depp rob zombie wanna be who couldn't get a role in a high school play let alone a low budget horror film our indecisive hero who couldn't tell whether or not he wanted to be a bad ass this scene or a whimpering coward was one of the reasons why this was the first movie of 30 that i have ever had to stop early during a retarded movie night it had the possibility for greatness with a great twist on the standard zombie infection but they took it an entirely different direction based on johnny zombie i personally would not recommend this to any of my friends however it's unfortunate that i already invited a few over last night to suffer through 80 of this movie with me
0	my first hugely disappointing bbc jane austen flick the tone is off the costumes are off the hair is off the music is from outer space and robert hardy bless him looks like he's really annoyed to be in such a stinker even some of the casting is off no i take that back a good director can make a silk purse out of a sows ear so to speak the performances in this thing are so over the top and melodramatic that it's almost a farce of a jane austen story which is ironic since northanger abbey is a sort of homage send up of the early gothic novel i wanted to slap the female lead after awhile who made the decision that she should be such a i had to watch pride prejudice '95 immediately to get the bad taste out of my mouth phew
0	i work at the video store that rents this video in lexington and i must say it should have never been made i even know some of the people who worked on it who regret doing so bad effects horrid acting bad script especially i swear the dialog wouldn't have passed for the original resident evil it's that bad if you want to know how not to make a movie watch this film to learn a thing or two if not don't waste your time and even the director know it sucks because he keeps coming in to try to get us to the movie no sir i've watched two thirds of the horror section and this rates even lower than plan 9 from outer space even ed would have said nope that's too stupid even for me
0	i saw this film in a cinema club in germany in 1970 most of the attendees were from the local private school at which i was teaching i had seen a few godard films previously while i lived in france and though they hadn't been my favorites i could at least make sense of them being able to speak french helped br br the fairly innocuous beginning of le week end soon turned into a kaleidoscope of images very well maybe too well photographed that soon made no sense to me for me films like books must have some clear sort of meaning this didn't for me i suppose i'm not into artsy films images still haunt me from the film to this day i refuse to eat rabbit meat well loved by the french those who've seen the film might realize why yes the theme of materialism came through but the cannibalism the car wrecks and all the other scenes of destruction and horror only sickened me i'm not sure if i walked out before the end but i certainly felt like it i promised myself that i'd never watch another godard film and i haven't and never knowingly will br br my rating nothing it was the most disgusting film i've ever seen others may have been more inept silly or stupid i've forgotten those while scenes from this one will haunt me forever
0	if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything is better than this movie it is slow paced confusing boring poorly constructed gory do i need to go on it's message is good but i have seen them been handled better in several other films the acting isn't even any good this movie is just even more awkward as it start off as being funny not intensional though because of it's surreal story than at the end just becomes uncomfortable to watch br br i honestly feel like 1 hour and 40 minutes of my life has been robbed why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for 10 minutes than watch them drive through a traffic jam for 20 minutes listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband br br honestly this movie deserves nothing but a 1 10 and if your not happy with my preview seriously i'm an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism but this movie was just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film
0	this is a film people either love it or despise it it seems me i despise it the film comes from the same context as lindsay anderson's oh lucky man but while that is a masterpiece this is just horrible br br both films take kafka's unfinished novel america for their inspiration and general ideal america is a surreal story of a youth's travels through the country kafka uses the this character as a pure observer one who does not change over the course of the journey although the book is about 300 pages and still seems only a quarter finished so we'll never know allowing kafka to concentrate and comment on the absurd surreal situations and surroundings oh lucky man follows this same template to show britain through the eyes of malcolm mcdowell and weekend does the same for france br br both films are also hugely brechtian using various tricks and techniques to point up the fact that this is not real this is etc but the difference comes where oh lucky man uses the constructed film to convey the absurdity of life and the class system weekend uses the constructed film to bludgeon us to death with ideological polemic because godard goes further than anderson in his brechtian principles we end up with two principle characters in which we have no investment at all we're forced to spend 90 minutes with them yet we couldn't care less about them deliberately so but in doing this godard leaves us with a film that is entirely about his own message which in the first half of the film is provided through relentless and overbearing symbolism and in the second half through a series of long speeches directed to camera combined with unpleasant and unnecessary scenes such as the really horrible pig slaying far worse than any of the off camera violence of the car crashes br br the end result is like listening to a student political apparatchik droning on and on and on about his views whilst repeatedly kicking you in the head so that you get the message the problem with brecht is if you alienate the audience too much then you've alienated them from what you are trying to convey which always seemed self evident to me br br the parts that really stick in the for this movie though is the contrast between the extremely sexually explicit verbal description of the threesome at the start and the off screen comical rape in the middle which even if it could be viewed as allegorical completely destroys the film's faith in itself and it's characters what little of it existed in the first place it's so french with a capital f it hurts br br watch oh lucky man instead that is a work of genius weekend is a work of pretension br br two stars and only for the traffic jam scene and the piano scene which are just hints at genius although they actually make the end result more frustrating and unsatisfying as without them this is a bad film by the worst most pretentious director in the world with them well it's obvious that this is a damn good technical director making the most intellectually pretentious film in the world somehow that's far worse
0	this was one of the worst films i have ever seen i'm still trying to get over how bad it was just because it has godard's name attached to it doesn't make it great beyond the fact it makes absolutely no sense we see one insanely long shot of a traffic jam that is not stunning unbelievable or anything of the sort while this long shot of the traffic jam is going on you will be feeling probably more like making a sandwich than continuing watching it pieces of a supposed story silly stupid characters what message are we suppose to take from this it offers nothing and serves no purpose the arrogance of the director in showcasing these puny dull chain smoking french people and having them sit around and converse for hours on end and then getting it passed off as art is truly astounding
0	having not read the original book or seen the earlier film and indeed knowing nothing about the storyline of either of those or the current film i came to this film with an open mind br br it's really difficult to know where to start a comment on the film because the whole thing seems so confused it seems like there is a point or a message or something in the film but what that is remains completely obscure br br the effects were fantastic and very well judged the idea was set up really well with the motivation for time travel clearly made out however it was downhill from here br br all of the time travel seems to have only the vaguest connection to the quest that was set out at the start there are some nice ideas but they seem to be isolated occurrences that really do not flow and make the film seem disjointed and lost at one point one wonders whether the main story in the film is the fate of the moon br br when arrives in 701 a d the film becomes very frustrating as he seems to be unable to discover anything of importance about the and while it seems clear that there is something to find out what it is remains annoyingly elusive this is quite an odd change from the previous time travel instances and one wonders why all of this has suddenly been abandoned for what seems like a completely new story so many things happen that there should be an explanation for but there is no discovery i really really wanted to know what the film was getting at what there was to uncover but to no avail having read a summary of what happens in the book at this point it seems like there has been a very half hearted attempt to render this in the film but it has been so simplified and dumbed down that the meaning and context is completely lost br br just as we hope that we are finally to discover where this is all leading the film suddenly takes another significant change in direction and becomes a mindless action film without any real action it is as if by this point the director has simply given up bothering to put any meaning into the film by now countless significant things are happening without any explanation fails to take the opportunity to return to the past on two occasions for no reason and then suddenly loses all interest in time travel for no reason the film comes to an abrupt end as decides to stay with the br br in summary after a good start the film is very disappointing too much time is spent on adventures before arriving with the however the worst part of the film is what i think is the most important part the setting up of the situation with the the whole point is completely missed and this undermines the rest of the film after this the film concentrates too much on effects and action and all attempts to return to the meaning and core of the film seem forced and out of place with so many things happening without explanation the film just seems to get lost and lose direction however the finale where decides he is no longer bothered about time travel is the most inexplicable of all br br ultimately the whole film seemed like a collection of unconnected incidents the meaning and context was lost although the gaping hole where it should have been was very obvious what was so frustrating about it all though was that there was clearly so much potential here it wasn't by any means a bad film it just so easily could have been so much better the start was very promising the time travelling looked fantastic and would have worked had it not gone off on tangents and experience with the could so easily have worked had a few more of the right questions been asked and had there not been such a temptation to dumb down and simplify i just wish i had a time machine so that i could travel back in time and advise against the mistakes that were made
0	do you know that they want to the moon for real and in there is the debated project that could lead to make possible time machine all i can say about this movie that is based on facts about future at the time of the movie projects but real hope the moon will exist not happen as in the movie now about the movie itself i saw the original movie too and i also read the book the book i didn't like though but the movie yes i totally agree with a previous comment that this movie was depressing unlike the 60's one that was very good with force this one was only a future of what is good movie
0	this movie is a disgrace how can you take one of the greatest science fiction stories of all time and turn it into some kind of half assed love story the entire beginning of the movie was not in the h g wells story and didn't need to be also the were done completely wrong they did build houses or form any kind of real society they didn't care about each other at all that was an important part of the story the way they had formed a world that was without hardship or complex emotions they were barely even aware of the i don't know why this movie was made the way it was but some stories should be told as they are or left alone
0	the time machine starts in new york during 1899 where professor alexander guy pearce proposes to his beloved girlfriend emma sienna who accepts unfortunately just after they are attacked by a mugger emma is shot dead dies in alexander's arms jump forward 'four years later' alexander has built a time machine which he uses to travel back to the night emma was killed in order to save her but she is still killed only a different way this time alexander realises whatever he does however many times he goes back emma will always end up dead one way or another he yearns to know the answer why so he travels far into the future to discover the truth however after having destroyed the moon two new races have evolved on earth the human like the monstrous that eat the alexander decides to stick around save the br br directed by simon wells who is actually the great grandson of author h g wells who wrote the original the time machine book on which the original the time machine 1960 film was based it is in fact the 1960 film that producer john logan's script is based upon here rather than wells original literally source while all three share the same basic story ideas this remake adds the subplot about alexander's fiancé emma being killed that's the reason he invents a time machine rather than just because he is clever he can the script is a mixture of sci fi action adventure drama none of which really grabbed me or engaged me that much sure there are a few pretty special effects a few nice action scenes the moment when alexander's question is answered regarding why he can't save emma is actually quite intelligent makes sense it never really captured my imagination i was never really moved by it either the time travel aspects of the time machine feel very similar to terminator 2 judgment day 1992 in the sense you can't change the past but at the same time the future is not set only the time machine isn't anywhere near as good a film as terminator 2 judgment day the character's are alright although i thought guy pearce just looked too young to be a brainy scientist capable of inventing a time machine there's never any real explanation behind it's mechanics either as it's like one moment there's no time machine the next he has invented made one it works perfectly i reckon the back to the future trilogy offer far more thrills laughs excitement general entertainment value than the time machine ever does while i will stop short of calling it a bad film since it moves along at a decent pace tells a reasonable story has it's moments i wouldn't call it brilliant or even particularly good there is also a cheeky little reference to the book original film which are both name checked here br br the benefit this modern version has over the original is the development of special effects in particular cgi which leads to scenes of time rapidly passing around alexander in his time machine complete with huge buildings being built new canyons mountains being formed a elaborate pan back which ends up in space as we see passenger rockets orbiting the moon the effects work is good there are one or two moments that look a little below par but generally speaking the effects are good i saw the time machine on telly the station playing it badly pan and scanned it so the left right edges of the frame were cut off the screen thus cutting off part of the year on alexander's time machine dial so i actually didn't know what year he went to apparently director gore took over the last eighteen days of filming as wells was suffering from while the imdb says that the time machine itself was the biggest most expensive prop ever built for a film at that point which i find hard to believe guy pearce broke a rib during a fight scene but like a trooper carried on br br with a supposed budget of about 80 000 000 the production values are high with a lovingly recreated period new york good effects work although amazingly the time machine was nominated for an oscar for best make up but lost out to frida 2002 the acting is mixed irons puts in a good performance in a terrible make up job that has him looking like a reject from a lord of the rings film while singer samantha makes her big screen debut here is simply terrible although guy pearce is quite good fairly likable br br the time machine isn't a particularly bad film or a particularly good one just a somewhat unremarkable one that is watchable passes an hour and a half but not much else watch back to the future 1985 again instead
0	if you loved the early 60's version of the time machine don't waste your time as with last year's the planet of the apes this has been reimagined and not for the better and just as with planet its lead actor is woefully miscast and leaden guy pearce a terrific actor of great range is all wrong for this role giving a one note performance that elicits zero sympathy he's so dour and serious and lacking in awe of the supposedly amazing things he sees that you don't believe for a moment that he's experiencing them worse yet whose idea was it for him to resemble the love child of david spade and calista a handsome actor here he is sickeningly gaunt which is believe it or not a major distraction frankly the man looks gravely ill and is photographed cruelly he shares absolutely no chemistry with anyone on the screen a direct result of a performance that is out of sync with anyone else's sadly even with a proper leading man this movie doesn't stand a chance for it is fatally burdened with both a totally inept director whole scenes go nowhere and are poorly realized and a screenplay that is utterly inferior scattered and at times incoherent not for a single moment do you care about anyone in this film for the single fact that there is nothing in the way of character development in the original you got to know the so therefore you felt for them and felt their terror of the here as the movie stresses several times they are nothing but sheep and act accordingly unless you're a member of peta scared sheep are hardly the stuff of entertainment br br samantha does as well as possible in her movie debut but like everyone else in this mess most especially jeremy irons if he's the leader of the who look like rejects from the mummy returns why then does he look like edgar winter's long lost brother is completely wasted also wasted was the money spent on the endless 'special' effects which belie the 70m spent on the film they are uniformly lackluster obvious and unconvincing and then there's the look of the film poorly photographed its art direction and sets are just there and its costumes are typical in design there isn't an original thought or idea expressed behind or on the screen most of all it isn't even fun the filmmakers use the now ubiquitous orlando jones as comic relief but as usual jones is irritating and just how does his electrically driven character survive in a world seemingly devoid of electricity br br all in all this is an empty lifeless dull sterile and confused affair didn't they already remake planet of the apes at least that had the fortune of some strong performances br br spoiler the final insult beyond a head shakingly terrible not to mention convenient ending not only do they barely feature the changing dress store figures they make even the time machine itself an anachronistic gaudy glass n bore if the sopranos had a time machine this is exactly what it would look like pathetic
0	is it possible to give a 0 out of 10 rating because this one deserves it while i'm not a big fan of jane austen's books i sat through this one with two women who are well at least we had a big laugh about how bad this film is robert hardy was the only actor with any charisma in the whole thing though he overdid it as he usually does nearly as bad as william shatner but that wasn't enough to save this stinker from total it's often hard to separate the girl's dream sequences from what is really happening and so many holes are left in the story that you can barely figure out what is going on too many loose ends and the ending feels like a tune in again next week climax the lead actress is too ditsy and weird looking to be a heroine the leading man is too goofy looking and effeminate to be a convincing hero and the music sounds like some kind of cheap new agey pet project of the director's hippy daughter i mean saxophone mixed in with some kind of spacey operatic female wailing so in conclusion i suggest you blow the budget and order a dvd of this one as soon as possible especially if you like disappointment
0	this movie sucked from beginning to end it was predictable there was absolutly no chemistry between pearce and the chick the plot went nowhere floating off into oblivion all of these led to the movie being very hilarious in its stupidity and i wanted to strangle orlando jones the guy just needs to go away
0	i was one of the many fools who were sapped out into paying for this at the theater even though i payed 4 bucks for matinée before 6pm prices br br the remake's story was ho hum the cgi were lame the were to mimic today's fads no i did not think the chick was hot at all the re killing of the hero's modern girlfriend was somewhat cruel overall just a sad bad remake br br i'll take rod taylor and the fat glowing eyed surfer over this junk any time my estimation is that many of the reviewers who like this awful remake are young kids which does not account for either good taste or a true value of the old classics which are largely unappreciated by today's confused and ever wanting more youth br br when the 60s version came out i first saw it in the 70s for summer fun it was pretty damn impressive and still holds up you don't have to have an over abundance of cgi in a movie for it to be better too much of this looks fake i can't say enough of how disappointingly bad the looked and they ran and jumped around like they were in a child's video game 3 stars out of 10
0	after reading the novel which is about a one hour read watching this film became a sad disappointing experience just as he did in prince of egypt simon wells somehow managed to direct a script that took away all the drama and mystery out of its source material and turned it into this homogenized nonsense now i'm a sucker for cheese and camp but this movie made absolutely no sense there was no joy in any of the performances or any humor there were no thrills and that silly bookend with character of throwing his hat in the air was the last straw i felt very violated when this movie was over and i still refuse to believe it was only 90 minutes it went on forever i wondered how the studio and director could have ok'd such a lousy script but then my friend pitched the movie to me exactly as it was and i said wow that sounds great but what happened to the movie
0	it's a time machine all right it runs in real time for 96 minutes but it felt like 96 years the first 20 minutes were utterly superfluous massive amounts of dead time throughout what happened when will something happen who cares apparently the film was made on a tight budget i note for your edification the following the nothing like saving a little money by reusing the sets and costumes from lord of the rings part i hey the scary dude in charge of controlling the the scariest thing these guys could think of was somebody wearing one of gene simmons of the band kiss old costumes little known fact freaks of the future have perfectly manicured nails br br save your money save your time pass on this one
0	worst movie ever i can't believe they had to hire jeremy irons to give this piece of crap some credibility and still failed did they think that if they stuck to the plot of the book that their target audience wouldn't be able to figure it out on their own probably hey let's make lots of things explode and give mina big boobs and have her speak in an adorably fake broken english that'll make the morons watch but sir that's not how the book went at all i think we're mot being faithful to mr wells' message f ck it we're going to the box office here never mind some dead author's ideas on human nature also let's add in orlando jones with some classic 'black as a supporting character and never mind the interesting conclusion to the book guy pierce has to get some p at the end
0	guy pearce looks like and acts like a calvin klein underwear model or one of those bimbo guys who wear jeans and stand in front of a herd of stampeding buffalo because they realize that buffalo like too in every scene guy pearce looks like he is saying look at me i am so pretty as a hero his character is a total wimp in every scene that calls for courage pearce gets the short end of the stick spoilers yet at the end of the movie this wimpy book worm character out runs a pack of baboon like who can run and leap along the side of the walls like spiderman around the same time the time machine seems to cause a nuclear explosion of some kind that wipes out an entire valley strangely even though pearce and his gal pal are about a foot away from the last that gets killed seconds later pearce and the tribe are watching the valley blow up from the safety of their mountain now that is fast running jeremy irons as the king of the is great he really makes the movie a lot better than it was the model turned actress is not very cute and she does not do much acting in this movie the scenes which take place in the 1900s lack any real atmosphere even though the period dress and vehicles are shown the characters act like caricatures of how they imagine 1900s people would walk and talk the original version of this movie was a lot better in this respect the period characters were much more realistic and they were much better actors the original version of this movie made the past seem like the real base of the characters this new version lacks substance and feeling the scenes in which pearce deals with the death of emma and then fails to save her from her fate are very good the issue of the being cannibals is not very well explained and it does not make sense that they have some large dark butcher shop filled with knives and cutlery yet they are never seen using any weapons except for a blow dart also silly is the giant pit full of water and bones all through the underground the are all walking around chewing on meaty bones so how can all those skeletons be in the pit it seems like there are some that bar b que their humans and eat them off the grill and other only like filleted flesh and where are the restrooms for all of these creatures as i was watching the dozens of who were gorging themselves on human flesh it occurred to me that they must have a very advanced toilet plumbing system considering that they were tossing in lots of bones all these issues were never addressed at the end of the movie pearce is holding hand but you can see that he is eye balling her friend mandingo one other totally irritating thing about this movie is the non stop lion king music which is in the background once pearce arrives in the future a d the lion king music never stops and every time the natives are around there is that african moaning singer is it peter gabriel or paul simon that starts wailing and moaning over the lion king jungle music i watched the credits at the end of the movie and the jungle music is not specifically identified but i think that elton john should probably look into this matter time machine was a mediocre movie with some good fx see it once then forget it
0	h g wells is spinning no doubt about it br br really this would have been a decent sci fi adventure movie if it hadn't been based on a classic novel and directed by the author's grandson i kept hearing about how this would be the definitive version of the novel what resulted was a pathetic and simpleminded bastardization br br the novel is a great sci fi story but what a lot of people miss when they read it probably because they read it when they're very young is that it's overflowing with social commentary the and are a satire of the class distinctions of victorian england and the overall message of the film is that everything decays and degenerates a satiric jab at victorian complacency and their belief that their civilization would last forever there's no love story no romance with a beautiful woman in the novel the are 3 foot tall childlike beings with a mental capacity not far above that of an animal the time traveler does befriend an woman but it's clear he thinks of her more like a pet and anyway she's killed before the novel ends br br this movie first tries to give us a totally stupid backstory as to why he wants to travel through time the treacly romance and the lessons he must learn are enough to make film fans vomit br br the journey into the future is punctuated by a future disaster ok not bad but it would have had more punch if we had been allowed to see that mankind just generally degenerates as in the book more a reflection of the times i guess as the george pal version had a nuclear war take place br br the general story ugh a total misrepresentation of the novel the are too competent and warlike the are too intelligent the is an embarrassment and there's no setup he just shows up in time to be killed yawn br br samantha does ok guy pearce is one of my favorites but he often seems confused and in pain reportedly he broke a rib while filming this he also looks unhealthy and overly thin as if he had been ill for a long time before making this br br a sad sorry film version of one of the world's classics h g wells deserves better much better br br
0	the 2002 version of the time machine is just the latest in a string of terribly disappointing hollywood remakes that fall flat on their face despite extravagant special effects br br what a lousy uninspired bland story with no imagination why so totally rewrite such a wonderful sci fi classic are today's movie audiences too hip for the h g wells writing largely as is the 1960 george pal version told a much more endearing story even with clunky low budget effects beach party looking and that looked like smurfs on steroids br br the 2002 version must have h g wells turning in his grave br br 1 the idea that the time traveler is motivated by the desire to change the past and trapped in a time paradox is an old sci fi cliché this totally distracts from the love affair with mara what happened to that made the 1960 version so endearing this sets an unfortunate and distractive tone early on that makes the whole movie dour if guy character was so brilliant either he or his buddy einstein would have realized the time paradox dilemma – not have it dawn on him 800 000 yrs in the future – from a no less doh what's wrong with time traveling just for fun adventure curiosity as embodied in the 1960 version br br 2 only if you saw the first movie would you realize at all what pearce was doing with the time machine when you first see it the george pal film carefully explains the whole weird idea of though a 4th dimension br br 3 the director goes out of his way to make character look geeky a worn out old stereotype of scientists in the 1960 version rod taylor was a little nerdy too at least around but managed to be swashbuckling playful and charming br br 4 among the key themes of the 60's version abandoned in the remake is the idea that endless war leads to the bifurcation of humanity blowing up the moon to destroy humanity is pointless and doesn't do much for science literacy for over 4 billion years the moon has suffered vastly more powerful asteroid impacts which would make any nuclear device look like a firecracker yes science fiction needs artistic license but this is just plain dumb and meaningless br br 5 destroying the time machine is stupid too apparently our time traveler invented the neutron bomb to power this thing blowing up the machine to kill is sort of a cop out ex disappointingly pearce never comes back to the 1800s to tell his tale to his incredulous friends a key part of the wells story with the irony that in a week the time travels goes into the far future and back br br 6 having running around in the daytime totally ruins h g wells' wonderfully spooky ghoulish portrayal of them as shadowy creatures of the night a true cinematic opportunity lost also wells depicted the as frail and childlike these guys in the movie looked like they could take on if they weren't such big baby wusses br br 7 the one smart – kind of a bleached out star wars evil emperor had potential but is so lame and aloof he tells pearce to take his machine and go home boy what a dramatic high point in the book the steal the machine because they are so fascinated by it and fight to keep it br br 8 the goof ball hologram at the n y public library is too much it makes light of the idea of human cannibalism the 1960 version simply had the talking rings that delivered a chillingly somber eulogy for humankind derailed evolution is serious stuff br br its sad the wonderful effects in this movie can never make up for a weary contrived clunker of a script save the cost of a ticket popcorn and go rent the dvd when it comes out soon no doubt at least you can fast forward thought the dull parts just like our time traveler
0	pep squad is at a very low point with its confusing plot line and horrible acting br br first let's tackle the characters cherry brooke continues to hold an outrageous boiling anger throughout the entire film which is due to her overwhelming passion to become prom queen however it becomes completely unknown to the audience why cherry wants to become prom queen in the first place before the nominations are even read off she storms around the school with a constant disinterest upon being there and shows no interest in the place or its students to begin with why does she care so much to be their prom queen brooke apparently presents an acclaimed performance but in reality just spends the entire time with an angry face stomping around killing people maybe it's just me but i think if you handed any young actor actress a script that only requires him her to act insanely angry you're not asking for much you're also not allowing the character to develop very well br br beth's character played by jennifer is even worse shows absolutely no emotion and no connection to her character whatsoever when being harassed by her principal she knocks him down after several seconds with no feelings of disgust or shock or anything equally traumatizing her lines are read like she is reading trivia off the back of a cereal box br br throughout the rest of the film the students in charge of his kidnapping sound more like they are planning a barbecue than deciding what they will do with their principal sitting tied up in their basement br br meanwhile cherry is off killing several female prom queen candidates and no one even notices or cares yeah i get it i get it the whole town is worried about prom very realistic at least you could throw in some funny scenes with the cops but that might be asking too much for example right after cherry drives by the school and shoots down a handful of students beth is found being interviewed by the local media the reporter mentions the shooter in a way that makes it seem like no one knows who killed these innocent students but then one second later asks what do you think about guns in the hands of minors or something to that effect where did the reporter jump to such conclusions br br at the end of the movie after cherry kills the winning prom queen and prom is deemed over with the media showing up again beth simply adds that she understands need to be heard and walks away with her friends smoking cigarettes in a calm unaltered mood no one is even strayed by the fact that they just witnessed a murder br br not to mention the students constantly parking in a yellow zone and no one seeming to care that there is a sudden rise in violence in the town julie living in a large house with no parents present and the bizarre party at her house maybe i'm a little left out of the scene but last time i knew high school parties did not involve naked women artistically dancing in a pool of water while men bob for marshmallows and everyone basks in their i'm so indie and mod attitudes beth's parent's horrible acting with her mother acting over the top and her father simply nodding at everything the mother has to say and not in an entertaining way either along with stupid scenes such as the new black principal running after cherry as she tries to shoot her with a gun yes very realistic br br the only compliment i can give this movie is that the photography is wonderful the angles are flattering and the screen is very clear and crisp with each shot br br too bad the acting and script aren't
0	but i would be lying a relative was a crew member and we got to go watch the production of this movie for a couple of days and i was an extra i get to die and have a second of screen time not that i plan on moving to hollywood anytime soon i just thought it was awesome to see how movies are made and be a part of it plus i got a copy of the movie once it was finally released they didn't have a studio backing when making this film so it truly was independent why the writing and acting is so awful is beyond me but the main character cherry is the director's sister so that could be part of it but the cinematography was good
0	normally bbc productions of jane austen are pretty good but northanger abbey is just odd what were they thinking this film has little of austen's charm and ironically mimics the gothic novels that austen so wonderfully mocked not only that the gothic sequences are tacky over the top and frankly silly the actress playing miss morland is poorly cast with no obvious appeal to attract the attentions of an eligible bachelor and though i rather liked the creepy peter firth as mr he is not a bit like the novel even when delivering dialog straight out of the book robert hardy as general turned in one of his few terribly ham performances this film was so bizarre and strange that i actually watched it again just to savor how freakishly wrong it was
0	i don't mean to sound pretentious here but to call this the next cult classic is yet another example of the lowering standards filmmakers have for themselves this movie is an offense to everything we hold sacred and not in the good artsy way of offending this film becomes the archetype for painful dialogue delivered by even more pathetic actors
0	saw the film at it's lawrence kansas premiere this wavering story about a group of disgruntled highschoolers killing off the competition for prom queen was just awful it fails for many reasons bad acting bad script no clear point but mainly it just felt like the filmmakers said to themselves hey i have some money so let's make a movie without really thinking it out sorrowfully most indie films that don't make it suffer from just that mentality they just don't seem to realize that it takes more than money to make a good movie or in this case even a watchable one with this film i do not feel ashamed to say that if i didn't know some of the crew i would have walked out simple as that
0	this is a really really bad movie that may seem like an oversimplification a fickle childish retort comparable to a petty unsubstantiated insult the truth is there is not enough i can say about the confusing senseless plot the really atrocious acting i'm talking nasty here folks or the random images of violence toward women that make up the chaotic pastiche of radically horrendous film making mistakes that propel this affront to all that is good and decent in the world of cinema nay human culture please take my word for it don't watch it ever i'm serious stop you'll thank me for it later
0	with pep squad receiving an average of 4 7 on imdb com no wonder steve this website so but the fact is that pep squad is a poorly crafted black comedy both words in quotation marks for a reason it's a movie full of over acting cherry beth's mother coupled with a couple of lethargic performances beth and julie's boyfriend a movie where you can follow cars from twenty feet away in a gaudy red jeep and never be noticed a movie chock full of not so appetizing cleavage and nudity shots that make you wonder does the director think this is funny or clever most of all the characters are so paper thin and poorly developed that the film becomes quite unpredictable but probably not on purpose pep squad can't decide whether to be a comedy or a drama or a satire patriotic music i get it the movie fails at being serious because the idea of killing for any school position this being prom queen crosses the line into insanity not to mention shots of flag burning and drive by shootings a poor attempt at being controversial and edgy and fails at being a comedy for all the forced and awkwardly placed jokes big butt mama funky black principal and excessive cussing delivered poorly by the principal cast watching the documentary making movies anywhere only made this film more cringe worthy with praise lauded towards it by the director and the director's father hmmmmmm not a black comedy or anything for that matter i guess kansas will have to wait
0	think of an extremely low rent version of heathers and you've got pep squad that sums up the flick in a nutshell i must give credit where credit's due though the film has a nice visual appeal to it i liked the cinematography i liked the wild color schemes i liked the costume designs but without good acting a film has no redeeming value i'd rather watch a film with little visual appeal with good actors and sharp dialogue i e the brothers or any edward burns film the actors either recite their dialogue in or scream it out like they're in a bad soap opera this is why i don't badmouth most mainstream actors let's face it most actors who are mainstream are mainstream for a reason if they're not great actors they're at least competent people badmouth leo dicaprio but when was the last time you saw a movie where he recites the dialogue as if he's reading it off the page it's a shame because the director seems like he knows his stuff when it comes to mis en scene sp at the same time i can't totally praise steve the director he did write the screenplay which contains some horrible dialogue he might be slightly racist too since there's a black principal in the movie who inhabits a culmination of african american stereotypes
0	very strange but meant to be this director is his own man even through there are strains if polanski bergman and kafka at least in the episode no 6 the peeping tom one what made it all so strange and reminiscent of the above three artists was that it went all over the place you never knew where it was headed and could have ended anyplace and finally when it did end could have kept going the ending is hardly a finality nobody could tell you what these two characters would be doing in even the next frame one other thing should be said about the director no wonder kubrick found him fascinating there is a lot of eyes wide shut in this episode somehow in the direct approach to character the realistic fantasy elements of both a kubrick placement of the camera without any of the stark effects much more washed out and hurried not as over that said back to the beginning still this guy has his own things to say and says them well yet for some reason there is not a single scene i ever want to see again but definitely did not feel ripped off in the least watching it one time around but i did keep getting the feeling of three or four other directors ghosts moving through the parade blurring everything the caveat being that it was only episode six the other nine might give me entirely different takes but since this episode revolved around peeping looking the absolute domain of film i will say this he took none of the usual routes definitely went his own way while carrying the baggage of a lot of good directors behind him
0	i think we are supposed to think what wonderful salt of the earth characters unfortunately this is lame and laboured br br as always with any production set in newcastle there are numerous shots of the tyne bridge and frequent attempts to show what great 'characters' geordies are the viewer is never allowed to forget where the film is set as though the rest of the world cared about newcastle and its inhabitants br br if you like well observed literate and original work stay well clear
0	two teenagers in the north east of england are desperate to raise money and buy season tickets for their favourite football team they go through a series of comic misadventures but come up smiling in the end br br the trailer for this film sells it as a comedy and includes most of its light hearted moments however the tone is increasingly grim and the end result is a depressing story peopled with familiar stereotypes the two heroes have no problems with lying cheating and stealing their adversaries are a callous teacher a pantomime villain of a father a psychotic skinhead and a well meaning but incompetent social worker the other female characters are a drug addicted teenager a pregnant schoolgirl and a battered wife who seems to be smoking herself to death there are no likable characters and the audience can only feel either pity or contempt local actors tim healy and kevin both play against type as baddies but the writing and direction of their characters are so one dimensional that they have no more than novelty value br br chris beattie and greg give good performances in the two young leads however they are miscast because they have the wrong accent to anyone from the north east it is obvious that they both come from the durham area and yet we are expected to believe they are natives of newcastle as a geordie myself i can assure you that the accents are by no means the same take the phrase let the poor lad speak we say let the lad while they say lad with two distinctly different vowel sounds this discrepancy creates a ridiculous double irony in a scene in football ground where the two lads are trying to disguise the newcastle accents they don't have and pretend that they come from which they clearly do in a gentle comedy this kind of criticism might be seen as nit picking however the film's bleak tone makes it clear that writer director mark herman is aiming for gritty realism that means near enough is actually way off br br i had hoped for humour and optimism from this film and instead found tired old clichés is not a grey wasteland populated solely by losers and in telling us it is herman should have known he would cause offence it's interesting to compare the film with the same director's little voice also largely downbeat and populated by one dimensional characters little voice at least has a talented heroine and doesn't wallow in misery to the same extent i've heard belter ranked alongside this year's billy elliot but that film is a vastly more enjoyable and life affirming experience br br incidentally i may be just too old but having lived on for 42 years i have never heard anyone outside this film use the expression purely belter
0	after seeing purely belter i came onto this site to review it but not only that i also had to check out the resume of the screenwriter director mark herman as soon as his name appeared on the opening credits i knew that i had seen his name before somewhere and after checking i found out he wrote and directed the film version of little voice one of the most underrated feelgood british movies of the 1990s br br purely belter is an entirely different kettle of fish it's a grim stereotypical view of geordie life and a very unfunny one at that everyone is either a wife beater a single mother a shoplifter a drunk or a junkie since many scenes are set in a school the pe teacher is a sadistic bully and that's the closest the film ever gets to reality oh and everyone is very foul mouthed which adds to the grim unlikable atmosphere br br i didn't like purely belter much while i watched and now that i know who mark herman is i like it even less with little voice herman proved you can make an amusing uplifting comedy featuring northern souls but i had to ask where his undoubted talent went in this movie
0	contrary to most of the comments in this section i have to say this film just barely escapes the definition ' the only readers who seem to be aware of what a catalogue of clichés it is are those who like me live in the north east and know at first hand what the area is like i am totally sick of films that are supposed to be 'realistic' yet portray the working class of wherever as stupid criminal low lifes but then excuse them because of their social background and funny i smiled briefly twice and laughed once but that was at the incongruity of two boy actors with accents supposedly trying to hide their newcastle accents from football fans there was only one likable character in the whole film and that was the senile grandfather played quietly but very competently by roy the only non geordie in the cast br br as for the writing well i just wonder what university sociology department the author studied at he certainly had no ear for the local accent and i too have never heard the expression and not only am i a native i'm a linguist who's written articles on the local dialect br br don't waste your time and eyesight on this garbage it isn't funny it isn't realistic it isn't entertaining and it is fundamentally dishonest
0	poor jane austen ought to be glad she's not around to see this dreadful wreck of an adaptation so many great jane austen movies have come out recently that this one deserves to be permanently buried along with two other movies i despise the man in the gray flannel suit and the 1969 version of david copperfield my main beef with the movie is that it completely misses the point of the book jane austen was poking fun at the gothic mania in her society and much of the novel is tongue in cheek the movie however is serious and comes across terribly melodramatically the lighthearted fun poking flavor of austen's writing is completely and conspicuously absent from this ponderous foray horror meets period drama the scenes of catherine's imagination are both gratuitous and uninteresting also henry is dreadfully unappealing why i ask would anyone fall for him if you are looking for a fun filled jane austen evening watch emma instead
0	the film is set in newcastle on tyne in north east england the town where i was born and grew up the film is also fundamentally dishonest the way it presents the town the kids but above all the men of the town in this film they are all stupid violent thieving thugs br br i suppose i could comment on the plot predictable the performances competently unattractive the direction lazy and unimaginative but to me that is all irrelevant compared to the director's insult to the town and its people br br thus the invitation in my summary to the director and writer mark herman to leave the north east
0	herman has made northern drama his own with little voice and brassed off but the formula falters in this ropey flat and contrived tale of two teenage delinquents trying to get season tickets to see newcastle br br underage smoking and drinking underage sex teenage abortion school bullying drug abuse substance abuse depression child violence child sex abuse shoplifting auto theft violent assault and armed robbery all put in an appearance here none of these issues are explored they merely serve to move the story along from one implausible situation to another the film is not as acutely observed as trainspotting as poignant as the full monty or as reflective of the times as wonderland from which it shamelessly steals music in an overly manipulative manner i suspect none of the filmmakers are from newcastle and have certainly never experienced the social problems the film references i am all for entertainment and herman's track record shows he is aware of the need to balance the social message with laughs and tears quite simply he comes up incredibly short here br br the film has a nice ending but there are far too many flat banal moments to sit through to get there nicely shot not very well acted and ultimately fails on three crucial points script script script
0	apart from the fact that this film was made i suppose it seemed a good idea at the time considering bottom was so popular the one thing that puzzled me about guest house paradiso was what happened to the lighting there is absolutely no artificial lighting used in this film whatsoever and i watched it on network tv so it wasn t a case of watching a dodgy tape in fact the film was shot so darkly it was impossible to see what the hell was going on but if the dialogue was anything to go by that s maybe not a bad thing
0	this should have been a short film nothing more the length of 1 5 hours is much too long because after 10 minutes you have seen almost every joke it's getting more and more on your nerves untill you finally kick out your brain to endure that movie br br to do yourself a favor don't mention to see that movie
0	yep this has got to be one of the lamest movies i've ever seen it's utterly tasteless has no style whatsoever the story is so thin that you can watch television through it and the whole film has so many holes you could drive an oil tanker through it br br sure i appreciate a good b movie as much as most male white homo sapiens do but this has got to be the worst i've seen in fact it's so b that it lacks everything that makes a b movie interesting br br the whole movie is based around such charming artefacts as the characters beating the crap out of each other various bodily functions and the complete lack of sanity of anything on screen br br it's not even funny in fact it's quite the opposite i found it even boring at times due to it's extreme predictability br br i find nothing good to say about this movie it was a waste of time watching it and i hope others don't do the same mistake if you also pay for it you should get a serious done
0	the unthinkable has happened having first witnessed it a few years ago i have had a film that has been my benchmark for awfulness and that film was called island a family adventure movie with hulk hogan and grace jones i'm not making this up it plunged to new depths of movie making and is still the only film i've seen that made me wonder what else the film's budget could have been spent on like new schools or cancer treating drugs however for sheer and unadulterated levels of crap any film will be having to lower their standards even lower if they wish to trump guest house paradiso to the distinction of being one of the very worst movies i've ever had to watch br br based loosely around the puerile but amusing tv show bottom this film introduces us to two of the biggest losers imaginable richard is a hotel manager as unfriendly as anyone you can imagine and so lecherous as to almost ooze slime from every action his buddy eddie director adrian is an alcoholic waste of human life and together they try to run britain's worst hotel situated upon a cliff top next to a nuclear power station between them they indulge in cartoony violence with sound effects at regular intervals steal anything remotely valuable or interesting from the fools who stay there and stare longingly at any woman at all the plot such as it is involves the arrival of fabled italian screen goddess gina vincent cassel who is fleeing from her wedding and attempts to lay low at the guest house paradiso much to the astonishment of richie and eddie and that's it br br i used to think that the carry on films represented everything bad about the uk film industry and god knows we've spent so much time and money trying to escape that god awful legacy we've had films like trainspotting 28 days later four weddings and a funeral and the brilliant shaun of the dead also starring simon pegg but this this drags those films screaming and kicking back to the days of sid james and barbara top flying off with the aid of a bicycle whistle guest house paradiso is so low in its ambition that it insults you the minute you watch it i kept watching waiting in anticipation for the jokes to start but they never came just an endless stream of trapped knob gags unimaginative scenarios that defy explanation slightly amusing violence with frying pans and fridge doors and almost nothing raising so much as a smirk come the first ad break it was on tv you see and i was ready to switch off but my loyal duties to you my readers kept me going i'm watching this so they don't have to became my mantra so you guys better remember how much you owe me for this because this was about as much fun as having sand kicking into my eyes and being force fed dog food br br trust me i used to love the bottom tv show the combination of suitably grubby acting from and with ott juvenile humour worked for half an hour every week certainly not for an hour and a half as and indulge themselves in their little private joke and bore and depress the rest of the audience honestly this makes mayall's drop dead fred seem like the godfather and should you happen to meet either of these two people who are pretty much solely responsible for the chaos on screen pretending to be a movie feel free to swiftly deliver a boot to their testicle region they'd probably enjoy it pegg and bill nighy both as guests at the hotel are dragged down with this sinking ship but at least they survived and should not be so lucky the movie equivalent of and should be avoided as such
0	wow this film was terrible it is as simple as that it is actually the first time that i walked out early as far as i can remember this turned out okay though i had a very nice chat with two most charming girls while we all waited for the rest to finally give up on that crap they called a movie br br where to start bad acting bad jokes humour which i simply cannot stand sorry but snot pee and scat are not funny you have seen the title picture that scene actually drags on for about 5 minutes with the two heroes hitting and mutilating each other which is supposed to be humorous all by itself it is not br br apart from body fluids violence and cross dressing i do not remember much about this at least not much good i was really really disappointed by this piece of garbage or let us be honest here given that i am actually a big fan of british i e black humour i was angry br br so want my advice three words do not watch
0	i have always been a fan of bottom grabbing as many videos as i could find of the series here in the states the chemistry between and is always genius and the combination of smart writing and utterly stupid humor seems to work without fail i thus sat down to watch this movie with great eagerness and was utterly disappointed by the end br br the first 3 4 of the movie can best be described as uninspired and poorly directed sorry but with some utterly brilliant moments unfortunately these laugh out loud moments make you realize how less than brilliant the rest of the movie is the slapstick starts off funny but eventually becomes a bit boring with only the perverted sex jokes to keep things humorous br br the end of the movie the scenes for those of you who've seen it was perhaps the worst ending i've seen in the past decade honestly it was one joke repeated about thirty times followed by an abrupt ending that made no sense which didn't bother me and wasn't funny which did br br to sum up i was sorely disappointed by this movie i shall cling to the few brilliant moments in it to retain the memories that i can but i have to warn you if you're about to for your ntsc conversion tape from the local don't there are far better things to spend your money on
0	the premise of bottom crossed with fawlty towers sounds great however have managed to create a film that raises barely a titter ten years ago mayall's mad stare and idiocy were funny now they are just annoying br br the film had promise though the most horrendous hotel in britain is not a new idea but failed to deliver the saving graces were competent performances from simon spaced big train pegg and mathieu and the film is only 90 minutes long sorry guys but you really have hit the bottom
0	being a huge fan of the bottom series i was really looking forward to the release of this film i was eagerly anticipating a laugh a minute roller coaster ride alas br br where to start on this mess i think its a good start to say that its hardly richie and eddie on our screens in the first place as none of the jokes and one liners they usually deliver so well are funny i was still waiting for the first laugh after a good 20 minutes of viewing many aspects of the story were pathetic and it was as if the film was full of those bad moments they rehearsed and decided to leave out of the final cut br br the overall sets and atmosphere surrounding the film is dark and dingy which i suppose is good if they want to portray the guest house the 2 buffoons attempt to run but to me its just puts an even higher on a sorry state of filming that should never have been created br br the acting at times is pathetic fielding is wasted as the loony mrs and i've seen simon pegg have much better outings br br i'd recommend guest house paradiso to anybody who is blind drunk because they might appreciate the terrible puns much more but to any bottom fan who hasn't seen this film and is expecting true richie and eddie action you have been warned
0	sometimes changes to novels when they're made into films are not only necessary but a good thing however in the case of northanger abbey it's a very very bad thing not only is the story itself ripped to shreds but the satire is almost completely absent from the film and it's mixture of romance and intrigue doesn't even touch upon the biting commentary that austen put into her work it fails to be amusing or satirical at all and instead turns the character's fascination with her fantasy world into mostly a drama br br this affects the romance as well it's meandering and aimless chemistry and interest are never established the reasons is attracted to catherine are completely absent from the film leaving the audience to wonder what it is he sees in her at all br br hopefully some day soon we'll get a more faithful version if austen's satire
0	i had seen in blackadder and the new statesman so i thought i'd give this film a try br br at around 4 pm i bought it at around 8pm i started to watch at around 8 i fast forwarded the remaining film to see if there was anything left watchable for a human being with a brain but there wasn't at around 8 i threw the dvd into the dustbin and that's where this film belongs br br what ever happened to british humour the humour so fine and witty intelligent and artful that you find in yes minister blackadder vicar of dibley fawlty towers or the fast show the black humour britain is so famous for i don't want to insult anybody but i presume even stupid children wouldn't find this funny they deserve more intelligent fun and you can do better so please do
0	possibly the worst film within the genre in existence it was announced as a comedy but is simply tragically pathetic i don't think anyone could have achieved anything more terrible and irritating if they were specifically requested to it is toilet humour at its very poorest i would avoid even watching the trailer i only went to see it because it was announced that if you like monty python you are bound to love this whoever wrote that was either biased or seriously deranged i am still bewildered how one can honestly believe such a statement rarely do i leave the cinema really it takes a lot of effort for a film to have that effect on me this one did it in just 30 minutes
0	the first time i had heard of guest house was in the er washroom after having just seen fight club in each urinal was deposited a small round black circle when the circle came into contact with moisture to put it delicately it caused a colour picture to form with photographs of the two stars and the tag line you'll p yourself laughing when you'd finished washing your hands the circle had dried and faded to black again waiting to spring it's surprise on the next victim br br okay maybe the punchline wasn't terribly sophisticated but you have to admit it was innovative in fact i think i can honestly say i've never seen anything like it in my life before and these days of over a century of cinema and marketing that's a real feat what a pity the film that went with it failed to live up to the promise br br i hate to pan guest house and i am indebted to richard and adrian eddie elizabeth for many years of laughter through their appealing television series be it the invention of the young ones 1982 1984 the sitting room plays of bottom 1991 1995 or even solo work such as in the new statesman 1988 1993 in fact this would have made an hilarious 45 minute tv special unfortunately its an 89 minute film br br there's definitely some merit to be had and i laughed continuously throughout the protracted finale which spoofed the exorcist and raiders of the lost ark and involved well you'll have to see that bit for yourself yet often the pace is leaden and a sterile atmosphere is throughout the two stars taking his usual backseat this time due to the fact that he adequately directs never really get into first gear only sporadically showing the foul mouthed mania that makes us love him on the small screen indeed the writers' presumption that we are already familiar with the characters leads to them being to the audience the slight hints of depth seen in the series richie's effeminate failed social climbing for example are not present here and instead we are left with parodies of parodies br br the fawlty towers accusation does pass water complete with drunken chef and unseen called for waiter which uncannily rhymes with manuel some of the ideas such a hotel next to a nuclear reactor with a childrens' swing hanging over a cliff face are very very funny but ultimately the frenetic pace is stolen the two constantly looking for a studio audience that isn't there and all the dead laugh areas patched up with incidental comedy music that would have been dated in a carry on film two decades ago br br brand of puerile sadistic perverse humour is funny and i feel sure it will make you laugh just not as often as it should
0	no wonder so many young people have attention deficit disorder it seems that stage dance productions these days are all about how many cameras and camera angles a director editor can squeeze into a 1 hour show is there a special emmy category for this feat try counting them sometimes for something different to do with this otherwise completely unwatchable show br br i tried to make out at least a few faces of some of the other dancers in the production that was impossible they didn't appear to have any faces just blurs it was just michael face michael bare chest nice sheen michael feet and that patented flatley over the shoulder come hither look repeated infinity squared since he was an executive producer of this cut and paste job i guess that was to be expected one doesn't have to wonder too much as to who his target audience is br br riverdance was a much better production as it tried to present the show pretty much as one might see it from the audience not the catwalk side wings or floor nail perspective if i'm not mistaken i believe sir michael has retired thank god for small blessings
0	the production values in this video are so poor that it is unwatchable the performance took second place to the overwhelmingly creative hijinks of the studio with about thirty special effects per minute it is filmed through a cloud of smoke only one or two seconds duration per shot and frequently background spotlights shine directly into the camera the lighting was terrible for filming there is constant zooming in and out with a total lack of visual continuity there may have been some good dancing available to the live audience but the video viewers will never know
0	i have never watched a movie that frustrated me more than lord of the dance frustrated because it could have been fantastic frustrated because the dancing might have been astounding frustrated because the women could have been gorgeous how would i know though by the time your eyes have moved to the area of interest on the screen and focused appropriately on the spot to be admired the insane editor has moved the shot i completely agree with the other comments here about the crappy lighting and terrible camera editor work it makes me nauseous just watching ten minutes of this would be spectacular movie br br give me an opportunity to get a front seat to the live concert and i would be there in a shot br br nicholas t
0	i can't really remember any details of this movie except that the setting looked awfully familiar then i realized it was filmed at the lazy lizard hostel in utah that was one of my favorite places to visit when i was younger and wandered around the country the guy who owns manages the hostel managed to get himself in the movie all i remember about the plot of the movie is that it involves jeeps and naked women it is great to watch just for the scenery i mean the rock formations if you are just looking for soft core porn you will probably be better served elsewhere i don't even know if this movie is available on tape or dvd
0	ken harrison a young sculptor in his early thirties is seriously injured in a road accident end of story br br end of story that is in the sense of end of any physical action not in the sense of end of the film ken's life is saved but he is paralysed from the neck down when he discovers that he is unlikely ever to regain the use of his limbs he decides that he wants to die and asks the doctors to end the medical treatment which is keeping him alive the rest of the film is essentially one long debate about the rights and wrongs of euthanasia and the right to die br br ken's main antagonist in this debate is his doctor michael emerson although the case against euthanasia is often presented in religious terms here it is presented in purely secular ones if dr emerson has any deep religious convictions these are never expressed in the film he believes passionately however that death is an enemy against which it is his duty as a doctor to fight to allow a patient effectively to take his own life would represent a surrender to that enemy and a dereliction of that duty ken therefore finds himself in a catch 22 situation he must be able to show that he is sane and rational enough to make the decision to end his life emerson however considers that a wish to die is in itself evidence of insanity and irrationality ken's dilemma can only be solved by hiring a lawyer to sue the hospital br br richard dreyfuss as ken and john cassavetes as dr emerson put across their respective points of view skilfully and with sincerity but this cannot hide the fact that whose life is it anyway simply does not work as a film at one time filmed versions of stage plays were done in a similar way to theatrical productions but by the seventies and eighties this was often seen as unsatisfactory because of the differences between the two media when plays were filmed therefore the general tendency was to open them up by filming on location as well as on studio sets by taking liberties with the playwright's text often making significant changes to the plot and even introducing extra characters br br i have never seen brian clarke's play but i suspect that this is a story that would work better in the theatre than in the cinema there is very little physical action most of the action consists of lengthy discussions around a hospital bed in which the main character lies paralysed such a plot does not lend itself to the opening up device at all and the resulting film is very static dominated by talk at the expense of action although it is well written and there is some good acting i am surprised that a film was ever made of such an uncinematic subject 4 10
0	this is just art house rubbish i sat watching this trash with my bosnian friends they found it as boring as i did for a more interesting and more true account watch the excellent movie saviour this is just a snoozefest with people talking in coffee shops a cure for insomnia 1 out of 10
0	this movie shows me that americans have no knowledge about the situation in the sad balkan brother war please if you want to see umpire movies with this theme watch savior and you will see that nobody is bad and nobody is good in this land of tears and sorrows
0	in my opinion the movie was laughable bad dialogue whoever wrote the script please keep your day job it's definitely no godfather or goodfellas it's good to be on the of the table poor choice of words some of the characters were clowns but what do you expect from a low budget movie with no name actors
0	the film has no connection with the real life in bosnia in those days should be more realistic and shows the viewer real traumas that were happening to common people during the war please see some films of yugoslav authors emir kusturica e g bure a barrel of powder tito i ja tito and me gore beautiful villages burn beautiful etc just this is the real way to know about so called bosnian problem hollywood is definitive not th right address to make films about the balcan peninsula maybe vietnam ww ii but not of the living in former yugoslavia
0	a better film could have been made to portray the tragedy of bosnia some parts are very effective and the film does well to give some idea of the suffering of the people specially the children but overall it looks less like a film and more like a documentary woody harrelson is very good but the rest of the cast has performed well without being extra ordinary should be watched in order to get a rough idea of what the war did to the children of bosnia if one expects a great and gripping movie welcome will be a disappointment
0	i saw the film many times and every time i am more and more disappointed which is shame because the films from ex yu are usually very good the shame here is that tried to make film about the place and people it has no idea my self coming from the balkans macedonia found this film disappointing simply that the bosnian characters are not really understood and not truly portrayed to understand the mentality of a person from ex yu you need to know their background way of live what makes them cry and laugh and the director of the film didn't took that as guideline when we ex yu make films lots of symbolism is build in it which makes the characters recognisable and likable and mostly portraying the truth if it is based on true story the films like village pretty flame tito and me' no mans land' before the rain black cat white cat otac na sluzbenom putu when father was away on business ko to tamo peva who sings over there rare the masterpiece of the balkan cinematography and nothing can compare to it not the half baked story of and studio as somebody from the panel mentioned the story jumps from one end of town to the other with no real connection i am sorry but when the film is made is not only for the american armchair variety of viewers but for the rest of the world too and some of them live on the balkans and sarajevo too and to add insult to the injury half of the things are shoot in macedonia where i come from my shock when i saw the broad st of in the opening scene of the film when the bride is shoot from the sniper and what was that inserting real footage of the news covering in the film anyway very disappointing as the truth is far away from the film shame that nobody consulted the real people how is to live in sarajevo under fire before they shoot the film book is one thing and real life is other and this film lets down both
0	how living the dream managed to get into the 5 in west hollywood is beyond me as it is the worst film i have ever seen in my life i should have known when the first scene opened in gasp eugene oregon that this dud of a film with characters that you want to like and feel sorry for from their exclusion days from high school but can't as they are such losers is so wooden and atrocious with dialog that is beyond bad br br then cliché the three high school losers end up in la and here is where the film could have been realistic if it had shown them trying to find a career in acting but no one works as a used car salesman the other is a true loser in a garage call center selling magazines even the bastard that runs the place has more audience appeal than that dreadful actor with the horrible foreign accent and they fraudulently get money from an insurance scam to set up an executive recruitment firm with no experience just showing the supposed good life in la night spots with a cast of actors that are so wooden and bad they better not have sag cards br br i could go on and on about this bad film but i ended up walking out of the theater which had at the start six people and when i left four men were the only ones in the audience i wanted to like this film but i couldn't find one merit in the story characters writing dialog nor the actors whoever cast this film should retire amen enough
0	this movie is a real low budget production yet i will not say anything more on that as it already has been covered i give this movie a low rating for the story alone but i met the director the night i saw the film and he gave me an additional reason to dislike the movie he asked me how i enjoyed it and i told him that it was not easy to like my main objection was the lack of foundation for the relationship between the two main characters i was never convinced that they were close i also told him that the scene where the main characters were presented as children becoming friends was too late in the film br br he told me that the flashback scenes were not in the original script that they were added because he felt like i did that the two main characters did not appear close he went on to explain that these scenes were not filmed to his satisfaction as they were out of money i agree that they did not do much for the film br br another fact about the movie that i was not aware of is the actor who had the lead wrote the script based on his own personal experience this is usually a bad move as some writers do not take into consideration the emotional reaction the viewer the story is so close to home that the writer make too many assumption as to the audience's reaction to his own tragedy and the story is tragic however it did not work for me as i never cared for any of the characters least of all the lead what was presented were two evil people out to make a buck by any means regardless who gets hurt when ms young's character decides to give up he evil ways it appears that she does so because she is ineffective not because she knows she is doing wrong if the movie has a message then i suspect that only the writer is aware of it
0	jeez this was immensely boring the leading man christian has got to be the worst actor i have ever seen and another thing if the character in the movie moved to america when he was ten or something and had been living here for over 20 years he would speak a lot better english than what he pulls of here or to say it in my own language but it is cool to see norwegian dudes in a movie made in hollywood it was just a damn shame they were talentless hacks the storyline itself is below mediocre i have a suspicion that christian did this movie just to live the dream as he clearly does in the film by humping one beautiful babe after another
0	there have been many movies on living the american dream and this is one of them br br first of all on the technical side there is a lot wrong the audio is bad i had trouble understanding the dialogs here and there and the camera positions could have been better br br they really tried to come up with a good movie but for example the part where they show how jonathan is loosing himself in the dream with girls drugs and alcohol is done very badly the acting is very poor as well from all the characters in the movie br br i had a hard time watching it from the beginning till end and couldn't wait for the movie to be over br br if your expectations are low and you're bored on a sunday with bad weather watch it if you in for a deep story with action then this is not your movie br br normally i would not have give a score of 1 but of 4 5 for this movie but the reason i gave it a 1 is because of the bad audio and camera uses not to mention the bad cut scenes with cheesy effects
0	if i could give this movie less than a 1 i would certainly do that i had read a review of this film in the la times and i found myself walking by the theater and remembered the review my wife and i were game and we thought it can't be as bad as the critic said you know critics sure enough give me a break with the awful acting horrible camera work poor use of the budget that has been mentioned over and over again as an excuse i've worked on films with smaller budgets that are 100 times better it's the director and the producer that makes films work they choose the teams that's it if they don't put it together and make it work it simply won't so they didn't and it doesn't i don't think they can i just had to take the time to write this review though i'm sure the film crew doesn't appreciate this review i hope i'm doing you all a favor with my wish for you to do well but in another career good luck
0	i like j horror anime and even kinda dig the pink movement which some have claimed this a member of but this did nothing for me i willing to go a step further and label this one of the biggest let downs of my film watching career br br three young go around getting their kicks out of raping girls one of the group starts to develop a about their pass time when his kid sister nearly catches them in the act invariably the group turns on itself as the once friends begin fighting with each other it ends on a down note befitting the film as a whole br br aside from watching the friends yell at each other which they do a lot there isn't a whole lot going on here the film is littered with long continual shots that only exacerbate the issue on top of that even when the film starts to do something interesting it suddenly gets bogged down in ethereal philosophy that never makes any sense for instance after one of the buddies has his change of heart about assaulting girls he goes out and does it again but then stops his buddies from taking their turns huh the cinematography is slow and lighting is poor the writing is ok as is the acting which makes this a sub par cinematic effort from the start mix the lack of technical prowess with the flimsy content and you have nothing more than a waste of time br br oh and one more extra note at least one of the girls that appears in the buff does not look old enough to be doing that kinda stuff br br 3 10
0	this is a family movie set in 1950's rural america about a boy whose uncle presses sheep killing charges against his dog drum starting not only a family legal feud but community discord as their town begins to take sides br br this is formula film that attempts to be very touching and sweet its biggest weakness is that the only people who could really act were scott bakula defense lawyer ron perlman father owner and the dog john and kathy garver sissy from the original family affair as the uncle and his wife were okay the children were not that good basically they looked like they were acting and that's a problem when the film really revolves around them aaron who plays the bully donny makes me think of what the actor russell crowe must have looked liked as a child only with no talent but a lot of ham br br favorite line spoken by the prosecutor after scott bakula's defense closing trial speech we'll be lucky if they don't lynch us br br favorite line spoken by ron perlman after his son punches the bully now making him your friend that will be the hard part br br cute enough to rent buy used
0	wow what a racist profane piece of celluloid garbage and what an insult to the great genre of westerns br br exploitive sex scenes abound profanity abounds violence and gore abounds everything that gives modern movies such a good name especially among those who prefer classic era movies this is the kind of sleaze that gives the old folks ammunition against today's films br br somehow i just can't picture nude male bathing scenes in randolph scott or gene films nor can i picture hearing motherf er exclaimed here and there i sincerely doubt that word was even around over 100 years ago yet the f word is so prevalent here you'd think you were watching a story centered in today's urban areas not the old west of the 1800s br br prejudice well what if all the white characters were good guys and every black person was the nasty brutal villain do you think someone might complain about a racist movie home come we don't hear an outcry when the reverse as demonstrated in this film is shown in hundreds of theaters across the country br br mario van peeples wrote directed and starred in this bomb remember that name apparently he is the ed wood of today's filmmakers even spike lee wouldn't be this racist you can't get much worse than this movie
0	this has to be one of the most awfully scripted films i've ever seen it's basically a remake of the beast from 20 000 fathoms 1953 but done with your standard snake like puppet monster instead of a sleek ray harryhausen creation combine the plot of that classic monster movie with the production qualities and acting level of the creeping terror and you have an idea of what this movie is like br br the movie is dubbed although by the original actors i think that the movie was originally dubbed in italian for that countries audiences then redubbed for us release which just makes the movie seem weird the sounds like in a japanese monster movie just don't quite match properly to the action on the screen even if the actors' lips are moving properly br br poor ray milland he's certainly come a long way down from the lost weekend or dial m for murder or any of the number of excellent movies he was in add this to his other sci fi panic in the year zero x the man with x ray eyes and you can see a once good actor fallen into a boris karloff syndrome stuck doing really bad horror films in foreign countries just for the work
0	this is the worst movie i have ever seen a movie that is about a stupid looking monster from the ocean that threatens a small town which has to be filled with the dumbest people on earth br br spoilers if you even care br br they can't even kill the damn thing by the end of the movie the movie ends and they're like well some day we'll have to kill it br br avoid at all costs
0	and abysmal over the top acting you might enjoy this rubbish flick apparently atomic bombs makes life mutate in about a day or two or according to other viewers wake them up or so it seems and apparently massive atomic explosions off the coast of spain doesn't make anyone ask any questions at all coming to think of it the plot doesn't make sense in any way whatsoever why would evil sock puppets attack so the nukes going off for no reason at all doesn't stand out too much br br ok getting past this and the fact that the monster is a glorified thing you make of socks in kindergarten you may actually be able to stand this but for once the complete lack of gore doesn't help leaving the monster attacks in all their naked rock bottom budget glory br br i doubt you'll be able to watch this though so better stay well away
0	this film has me seriously doubting again whether armando de was a good filmmaker or not his blind dead films are praised by many fans this i can understand but wanna be gothic vampire trite like doesn't show any signs from a gifted filmmaker and that also goes for de mar it features horrible acting a dumb plot stupid events a lot of other things you can expect from a bad monster movie and also veteran actor ray milland who does his best to mumble his way through this film while not having much of a clue about what he's doing in it apparently milland was already very ill while shooting de mar his last theatrical feature and going out with a ridiculous stinker like this makes it all the more sad one last appearance alongside peter cushing in a made for tv film directed by roy ward baker also in 1984 doesn't change much about it br br but the sock puppet sea serpent is a hoot to behold watch it swirl up a lighthouse and crush it see it destroy a harbour with miniature boats look at it demolish bridges and munch on charming miniature trains br br good badness yes 3 10 and 7 10
0	was never one to let a lack of budget get in the way of telling one of his stories his blind dead series started off great but had some truly laughable moments such as shots of a small model boat in a water tank for the ghost galleon in the sea serpent he hits rock bottom and takes some notable actors along with him telling the tale of a silly sock monster that brings google eyed terror to a few water tanks and miniature aquariums br br a vague opening sequence sets the stage and demonstrates an aborted military mission where american pilots for some unknown reason drop an atomic bomb brazenly cartooned into the frame of the film somewhere in the ocean off the coast of spain the military commander gives this order from an office that features a prominent american flag and a portrait of a deranged looking ronald reagan one of only a few things that makes this movie really seem like the eighties the other two are the hilariously inept subtitle that declares the year to be 1 and power's dated sheena easton hairdo which would have looked really cool next to some ripped neon sweats br br one of the monsters you will ever see rises from the depths disturbed by the explosion caused by the bomb we learn that the errant atom bomb has killed off a great deal of the local fish unfortunately for our cast it has no effect on the sea serpent which swiftly descends on the coast of spain for some miniature set mayhem br br now when i say the monster is unrealistic i am not exaggerating it's not just sort of fake looking i'm sure the filmmakers did the best with the ten dollars that they seem to have been allotted but most of the time it looks like it was made out of crayola markers a ping pong ball and an old sock not only that it has this ominous music that accompanies it wherever it goes music that sounds so much like the jaws theme that it's a wonder nobody got sued br br along with power timothy bottoms and ray milland are caught slumming and the dialogue could not have been any more dismal through a series of plot contrivances our leading actors are thrown together in a quest to well i'm not sure what the purpose is bottoms and power have got to prove the serpent is real in order to save their butts he is blamed for a serpent induced shipwreck she is locked in the loony bin after a sighting none of this matters because by the end of the movie nothing has been resolved nobody admits the serpent is real and it's not even dead furthermore power and bottoms are still on the lam from the law br br as illogical as it seems nobody but our heroes knows that the serpent exists despite numerous disappearances a trashed lighthouse and a crushed railroad bridge and they embark on an extended non adventure to track down and chase the monster away not kill it since they know they are no match for it their big plan is to use flares to scare it off although their scheme is botched the serpent causes a big explosion in the water after it attacks a bridge support don't ask and the giant sea snake is so frightened that it swims away the critical viewer would wonder why the serpent wasn't frightened off earlier in the movie when it caused a couple of big explosions after crashing into a dock but never mind it swims away and our heroes are sure it's gone forever the end br br i can only imagine the horror that the stars felt when they saw the completed film they just worked on a script and a couple of dim reaction shots could never have prepared them for the embarrassment of sharing screen time with a spliced in sock puppet stop motion beastie at least the supporting characters got to have fun screaming and pretending to be swallowed by a giant serpent head i'm not sure what was going on when they made this movie the monster is cheap but there are some rather elaborate miniature sets so somebody did spend some time making those not to mention the stop motion animation involved it's seemingly played straight although maybe this film's sense of humor went over my head in the end the film is nothing more than an easy target for a drunken commentary watch it at a party for best results
0	i absolutely positively can't believe my fellow imdb reviewers all the praise about how original this movie is it's like they've never seen ring or the million of imitations that's come out in the 10 years since that movie and some of them claim to be horror movie buffs i think not shutter is okay average i'd say i give it 5 out of 10 but there's just no way it's original and great and the most frightening thing i've ever seen as one reviewer said puh people this one is plain it's predictable br br i swear if i see another ghost movie where the hero traces the past of the ghost in order to find out why she's so mad and after them i'm going to scream br br original give me a break you people need to get out more or at least stop calling yourselves horror movie fans
0	one of my co workers recommended this one implying that it was one of the most frightening movies she ever watched i checked it out together with my girlfriend and we gave up after 50 minutes or so br br yesterday i had a long talk with my co worker we're still friends br br this movie is as original as the latest film starring steven seagal it brings absolutely nothing original to the table the spooky parts have been done thousand of times before br br the biggest fault however is the painfully slow pace of this movie the periods between the scares are completely wasted with meaningless dialog and a lot of nothing br br 1 of 10 molotov cocktails
0	i have seen many japanese and i have to say that some of them are really interesting but they are all pretty much the same this one is no exception the ghost is a black haired girl that scares it's victims by doing nothing else than walk and look dead the difference is just the motive for the haunting the rest is the same as every time black haired girl strange things happening with some media photos creepy acting while watching this flick i constantly found myself asking why i was wasting my time watching stuff that someone else has done so much better before some scenes where quite nice though i'll give it 3 out of 10
0	i don't know but the movie was just too similar to other movies i've seen the ring the eye dark water they're all the same to me don't get me wrong it's beautifully made lovely camera work great graphics but that story is just too too common in the end it's the score that makes the suspense you know the screams rumbles the characters in the movie are also not reacting very naturally moving very slowly surprised by anything they see i know some people that love this kind of film and if you do being a well made movie i guess it doesn't hurt to watch it but if you've seen the movie i've mentioned above and didn't like them then i'd suggest you don't bother
0	i should explain that as far as this trend goes for ripping off asian horror movies this shutter is a head above the grudge and dark water while still not achieving the same amount of atmospheric creepiness that the ring establishes br br still though movies like life don't exist in a vacuum and are therefore up for comparison to other suspense thriller horror movies honestly i'm not writing a lengthy synopsis here and will say that this movie attempts to rely on music induced startle scares rather than atmosphere and the ghost itself really isn't that remarkable the plot is pretty basic and predictable and isn't anything to write home about either while there are a few suspenseful scenes that border on creatively scary most of the movie is pretty vanilla if you enjoyed the grudge and it's ilk then you might enjoy this br br grade c
0	this is the worst movie of all time it's one of those that is so ridiculous and the acting so bad that you turn off the video 1 3 into it so that you can use your time for better purposes like cleaning the toilet if you actually watch the whole thing god help you
0	i decided to watch this movie because it has been noted as the scariest movie ever so that's what i expected unfortunately what i found out is that the movie didn't have a single scary moment in it and i'm the kind of person who jumps very easily the movie was nothing but terrible clichés and every time there was a jump moment it was incredibly obvious the pros of this movie would be the music and the odd scene thats actually shot well like the very last scene when she opens the door and you see in the reflection and when it swings back to him you see the ghost on his shoulders overall this movie really added nothing new to the j horror genre and all around lacked creativity and scares
0	i'm normally a fan of mel gibson but in this case he did a movie with a poor script the acting for the most part really wasn't that bad but the story was just pointless with flaws and boring i thought i would like the movie a little but i didn't like it at all actually i give it a 1 1 2 out of 5
0	that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead am i the only one that really saw rather through this film this is the only movie i've ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back it was just that dull and i even saw highlander 2 the at the local cinema from beginning to end gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two cast together by circumstance who eventually work together as best buddies the action what little there is is goofy and as dull as the of the writer thank whatever deity is down at us as it observes our cinema that there's no chance for an air america 2
0	roger spottiswoode isn't the worst director and he did a good job on the underrated sci fi thriller the sixth day a k a the box office downfall of mr schwarzenegger however air america has to be one of his most inept projects br br it comes across as an amalgamation between drama comedy and war film it's not a very convincing mix in fact i found it to be overbearing br br robert downey jr during his heyday stars as a pilot recruited into a top secret cia organization operating during in the vietnam era mel gibson plays his co pilot and he stumbles upon the knowledge that they're trafficking drugs and what not br br the movie was hyped on release because it starred two famous faces and had re recorded the doors classic love me two times for the soundtrack br br the redo of the song is pretty poor which suits the film
0	skilled professionals live it up in an exotic and dangerous location they get drunk every night they smuggle opium they drop pigs in they fly under impossibly hazardous conditions they dress weird and act weirder they're iconoclastic outrageous they violate every rule of command and have contempt for their employers at the cia they're irreplaceable br br nope it's not only angels have wings and it's not m a s h it's an uneasy mixture of the two that unfortunately comes across as more silly than funny br br it aims at shock amusement and education but doesn't really achieve its goals br br as far as its shock value is concerned well we're by now aren't we does it really shock anyone that a bunch of hard living pilots flew secret missions in in the 1970s no it's not shocking it's not even educational now under our current circumstances when it would be interesting to learn that some paramilitary excursion was not buried in a file labeled national interest defense de that's okay so we've been wised up a little and are no longer neither so nor so dumb br br the problem in this case is that the film depends on those very qualities for its power to amuse without that the film implodes a group of shaggy drunken cia pilots are sitting around in a cat house the girls shooting out the lights with a silenced pistol killing lizards with same asks newbie pilot robert downey jr when you guys act like this does it mean there's something to celebrate replies another guffawing no it means it's night time that might be funny if we expected renegade pilots to be as upright as the rest of us if we don't the gag like the movie falls flat br br there are action scenes naturally everything that can possibly happen in or to an airplane in flight happens in or to an airplane in flight people fall out of them baggage is thrown haphazardly out of their hatches engines fail they sustain damage from aaa the are torn apart during crash landings but we've seen most of this elsewhere often done better br br some might find this funnier than i did and the acting is pretty good robert downey jr is especially effective as the straight man check out the other comments and if they describe a film that you might find appealing then by all means watch it there might be some laughs in it that escaped me
0	i picked out this dvd out of the bin at walmart because the cover showed one of the planes i flew during viet nam c i did not fly for air america but knew being a c 123 pilot i knew a lot who did including those who flew in my reserve unit back home i am not a movie critic but wonder about the subliminal motivation of directors and writers who make movies like this the best part of this movie has to go to the cameraman the flying shots and stunts although totally cartoon like are excellent the movie begins with hollywood's favorite fall guy in 1969 but the fact is nixon did not start air america he did not begin the lies johnson was responsible for air america and nixon inherited the lies the war and air america its not fair or accurate to portray nixon as a liar on the subject of air america all president's have inherited the lies of their predecessors nobody smart enough to fly a c 123 was dumb enough to not know what they were joining that makes the downey character unbelievable a c 123 was a rugged airplane it could easily fly on one engine or the two auxiliary jet engines the three stooges shooting a duck with one shot is more likely pilots who flew with air america were civilian employees of the cia they were not reckless soldiers of fortune they had a good reason to behave and believe in a future if they survived their extremely dangerous job they were given double time towards a retirement pension they weren't required to sell dope or guns to get a good pension dope was legal and a way of life in sea as it still is today in afganistan if individual pilots tried to make money on the side it was not cia policy the cia was fighting a war on communism not drugs the writer based his story on war stories pilots love to bs anybody who will buy them a beer and listen the writer and director who had an ax to grind about viet nam and nixon see the movie and remember how it starts it blames nixon for what existed for years remember he didn't become president until jan 20 1969 br br my favorite scene is the landing up hill in the jungle air america pilots put planes in places the aircraft designers never thought possible their were plenty of funny stories that could have been shown instead the director chose to use the rubber scene to show how dumb the cia was this scene shows that the director and writer fell for some pilot bar talk and the joke is on them br br mds fort valley virginia
0	i normally wouldn't waste my time criticizing a useless movie such as this however i'm off of work this week so i have plenty of time to wallow in meaningless trivialities to start let me say that i frequently enjoy non commercial non mainstream non american cinema feel free to click on my user profile for a supporting filmography that said there are plenty of bad movies that are released in countries outside of the u s trust me i've been tortured by hundreds of them lost in beijing is one particularly bad film br br the opening half hour is an impressive non stop exhibition of moral degeneracy this film provides some classic morals that belong on the same level as kim ki duk's bad guy 2001 br br 1 women actually enjoy being raped 2 rape should be glorified praised and respected 3 feel free to rape any woman you like because while your doing her she'll eventually start to like it and reach orgasm 4 if you're wife gets raped make sure you blackmail her rapist for lots of money but if he doesn't pay just repeatedly bang his slut of a wife as compensation 5 if you're wife gets raped be sure to screw and degrade her the next day while playing the role of the rapist taunting her with lines like did he fu k you like this 6 if you're husband is a rapist just accept it 7 after you personally get raped befriend your rapist and hang out with him whenever possible br br how can anyone in their right mind care about any of these characters they're nothing more than a bunch of degenerates who not only live their lives in careless ways but actually revel in their meaninglessness and support each other don't misunderstand me though i'm very capable of enjoying films that depict lifestyles and morals that are contradictory to my own ichi the killer 2001 and moonlight whispers 1999 are very interesting portrayals of sado masochism strange circus 2005 is an exceedingly perverted play on child sexual abuse marriage is a crazy thing 2002 is a scathing indictment on traditional marriage even religiously based movies like running on karma 2003 and 2001 have entertained me on occasion the difference is that those films actually have some interesting psychological content and character development to them whereas lost in beijing has virtually none br br it's known that people with unorthodox mindsets exist on this planet but without some kind of character development or psychology behind the acts themselves you end up with a superficial exposition of despicable behavior why exactly does bing bing eventually befriend and care for her rapist why does the wife of a rapist accept his behavior unconditionally the filmmakers never bothered to tell us even the obvious juxtaposition of rich and poor classes was ineptly conceived and in the end served as a mere situational ploy it all feels too bland and forgettable after the filthy opening half hour subsides br br other reviewers here seem to have confused moral ambiguity with complex characterization the reason you can't choose which person to root for is because they weren't developed properly don't think that this movie has complex characters just because they're not clearly defined on the contrary the reason they're not clearly defined is because we know nothing about them or what they're thinking this is hardly a positive attribute of this movie br br on the positive side the camera work and acting are quite good but everything else just gets duller and duller as the film progresses you can place this alongside trash like turning gate 2002 what time is it there 2001 irreversible 2002 and the aforementioned bad guy
0	i do not generally appreciate light weight attempts at creating humourous stories which means that anita no el cannot score very high for me the story is good a middle aged but still good looking woman finds a new love but the attempts at making this film as a romantic comedy only managed at times to be somewhat comical br br rosa maría sardà has ably demonstrated that she can be a serious actress in such productions as amic amat qv todo sobre mi madre qv las de petra von kant qv and el de shanghai qv however the powers that be have over the years dished her out a lot of trivial stuff for the cinema and for tv something similar could be said of josé perfectly able to produce serious performances maría barranco belongs safely in this grouping br br such that in the end i was left with the feeling that i would be real pleased to see a new making of this film in a serious tone which would allow the actors to really show their performing skills and the curious thing is that it should be done with exactly the same leading actors wasted talent on a rather silly film that could have been very promising indeed
0	it just so happens that ivan the terrible parts i and ii both had entries in the 50 worst movies book by harry medved now i do think that declaring they are among the worst movies ever is an overstatement though they are still both pretty poor films particularly the first one as it featured more eye rolling and googly eyed looks than i have ever seen before director eisenstein and an awful lot of other people out there thought this made the film artsy and profound and since i am legally sane i must say that i hated this first film the second while still very incomplete looking is a vast improvement as eye rolling is minimal though overacting and long boring scenes are present in this film just like in part 1 while part 2 looks pretty incomplete and needed at least another hour especially since it never gets to insane behavior later in life like killing his son and heir while in a fit of anger since both parts 1 and 2 were commissioned by stalin to both excuse his own murderous reign and glorify him it's no surprise that life story is left very incomplete even without all the truly awful behaviors of ivan apparently the supremely evil stalin still didn't like the film and wouldn't allow its release during his lifetime maybe he didn't allow this because he was more worried people would see what a huge waste of money and resources the film was instead of seeing stalin as a crazy guy just like ivan br br by the way there was one segment of this tedious film that was just so cool that the film merits a 4 without it a 2 and that's the scene with prince vladimir at the banquet it is well done and pretty funny in a dark way and the scene was done in a russian version of 2 color technicolor this is very odd by the way because by the mid 1930s a vastly improved true color process was developed by technicolor that no longer made everything look all red and greenish blue so this film during the color sequences looks a lot like a silent or early sound color film very odd indeed for the 1940s
0	butter battle is an entertaining story about two fictional cities and their arms race it is also as misguided allegory about the cold war and arms races in general yes it is a children's book but like so many of theodor seuss works it hits people over the head with its moral br br and that moral is what exactly sure it is laudable to encourage us to concentrate more on what unites us than what divides us it is even a good thing to encourage international cooperation but to equate the differences between the warsaw pact nations and the nato west to a difference in butter application is just plain wrong to point out the obvious many warsaw pact nations enjoyed intermittent periods of shortages of butter and bread they would have been happy to eat it butter sideways if it were available on a less literal level and whatever your political inclination soviet socialism versus western particularly anglo american democracy is not a mere question of preference and custom br br to make the point even clearer nuclear weapons were not developed in a cold war with the soviets but in a hot war with the axis powers there is no doubt that germany was developing nuclear capability during the war should the us have refrained from nuclear weapons research putting their trust in their less than inevitable victory in the conventional war once the weapons were developed they were used against the enemy who attacked us at pearl harbor what does a nation do at this point when the genie is out of the bottle furthermore hindsight is 20 20 which is to say that there was no way of assuring another half crazed dictator wouldn't crop up with his eyes on developing nuclear weapons the second gulf war has shown the incredible difficulty in credible threats and them br br in any event the cartoon is little more than simplistic propaganda which does little to explore the nuances of the ethical questions behind nuclear armament and instead tries to fear of weapons technology into children
0	it's not just that the movie is lame it's more than that this movie is just unnecessary do we need another western how about a western with afro americans in the titles roles sound stupid implausible and a lame attempt at modernizing the genre it is incredibly lame and simple minded it's like that lame baz film romeo and juliet where he set it in modern times to attract young folks and create some hype with his of a classic tale well baz failed miserably and so does this mess the story is actually not bad however the whole idea of removing the racism out of a racist genre by casting an all afro american cast is racist in itself it's also puerile and simple minded like baz man he's a bad director hey i hear you say this was directed by mario van peebles he's also in the film how can it be racist it's not i said the idea of casting all afro americans instead of caucasians was the film isn't racist it's just pointless stupid and very very boring
0	this has got to be the worst movie i have ever seen the part where they loose there daughter with the poltergeist overtone rip off just pushes it over the edge with stupidity i watched it on showtime so it still had the cheese soft core porn scenes in it i have to say it made me laugh my ass off the 80's 3d effects were very out of place included an invisible cat and a spinning vortex wow i wonder if the people who made this actually feel accomplished in life the actress who plays the wife looks familiar but sucks anyhow her screaming could be used as a torture device in hell for more than retired nazis anyways thank you showtime for the super crappy horror movie i will always enjoy the time i watched the biggest waist of time and money i have ever seen
0	i saw this film one midnight and i can say that it worse than other horror film about a haunted house alexandra paul is not one of the best actress but she can do the role better the little girl get worse this is a example about a bad actress she has not got future in the great world of films sentence for house of the damned bad
0	house of the damned also known as spectre is one of your low budget haunted house horror flicks filled with mediocre performances and cheap effects it is about a family that inherits an old irish mansion and after moving in begin to experience strange phenomenon and ghostly apparitions including the ghost of a young girl who was murdered and buried within a wall in the mansion's basement the couple's young daughter is then whisked away into some other dimension and they seek help from a group of paranormal investigators for help br br the ideas this film borrowed from the 1982 haunted house film poltergeist are obvious i will say that this movie does have some slightly creepy sequences but it is sometimes very very boring the acting here is nothing special the mood is alright the score which was mostly this dramatic irish opera music was somewhat annoying and the cgi special effects are really horrible i mean it was 1996 you would think they could have done a little better than they did the ending where the house was on fire was the poorest special effect i've seen very very cheap but hey this was a cheap movie br br also the translucent monster wolf thing that their daughter sees looks horribly fake and what was it's significance in the film anyway what the heck does a wolf monster have to do with a haunted house the special effects in here are what really ruined this movie the acting was pretty bad too i usually enjoy many low budget horror films but not this one house of the damned is nothing special at all only consider watching it if you have nothing better to do but you'll probably want to pass on it 4 10
0	strange things happen to americans will greg evigan maura alexandra paul and their young daughter aubrey briana evigan greg's real life daughter when they move into a large newly inherited house in ireland crusty corpses are found in the cellar a turkey squirts blood furniture moves and the ghosts of a dead child and a cackling old lady show up to scare the little girl paranormal investigators are eventually called in to banish the evil spirits but maura becomes possessed anyway and chases everyone around with a meat cleaver br br this film is full of cliches but there's a standout performance from alexandra paul too bad it doesn't belong in this movie nor any other i can think of off hand she can barely keep a straight face and her over emoting and hysterical screaming tantrums are a joy to behold in any case she's a lot more interesting to watch than anything else in this movie br br score 3 out of 10
0	new year's day the day after consuming a few too many vodka martinis and cosmopolitans mixed with a bunch of bubbly at midnight my wife and i discovered the local cable company is offering up the digital specialty channels for free for the month of january we had a choice do we make use of the freebie channels or do we start watching the eight seasons of x files on dvd that we received from our daughter for christmas br br we elected for the digital freebie since the dvds are going nowhere and we need something like ten twelve hour days to watch all the x files beginning to end the drive in channel was offering a horror classic three movie marathon asylum 1972 house of the damned 1996 and the pit and the pendulum 1961 asylum is well reviewed here and the pit and the pendulum was on too late for us to watch which meant we could really only be properly critical for house of the damned br br to be honest we tried to be serious about the movie since its stars have reasonably good acting credentials greg evigan william shatner's over written and alexandra paul the only baywatch babe who could act although she has the body of a ten year old boy unfortunately we soon dissolved to giggles under the influence of a little hair of the dog as we each shouted out the names of movies from which this dog borrowed its scenes poltergeist the shining hell house house on haunted hill ghost busters br br the acting especially by real life daughter wasn't too bad considering the silly script they had to work with the cgi for 1996 was hilarious at its worst point in the final scene when it should have been the most horrific it was so bad my wife and i dissolved in laughter br br overall acting 4 5 script 2 5 sfx 0 5
0	this movie is a clumsy mishmash of various ghost story and suspense thriller conventions none of them fully realized and all of them rather irritating the script was perfunctory the acting ditto the scary fx were mostly laughable except for one exquisite seat jumper moment that scared me even though i saw it coming a mile off now explain to me someone why you would need ghosts and black magic and arcane ritual objects and count cg and psychic investigators and family curses and irish superstitions and bowls of milk left out for the supernatural beings and possessed all in the same movie with all that you would expect more than one good moment of horror but this movie is lame lame lame
0	this was a letdown in many ways the location filming in ireland though quite beautiful at times cannot save this uninspired flick greg evigan and alexandra paul as the married couple trying to get their marriage back on track and who inherit a haunted mansion just aren't interesting characters paul towards the end of the film becomes incredibly annoying and one wishes she would just close her mouth and shut up as it seems she is screaming as if it has just become an olympic event other problems with this film are odd segments that have nothing to do with the core of the film such as the opening sequence with two cleaning women and the woman in a bed with a severed hand climbing over her writhing naked body although the woman is quite adequate doing this it does nothing storywise one is left thinking the production team needed to pad out a short running time and just tossed in some padding and a bit of t and a the cgi effects are cartoonish as well and the fiery finale rivals co executive producer roger corman's much earlier and far superior film the fall of the house of usher in all its ineffective cheapness any attempt at true tension and suspense and as a result chills are thrown out the window in this low budget bust if you like images of ireland you might find something here but you would do better renting or buying a travelogue skip this unless you are undiscriminating and think plot is secondary rent another low budget ghost story if you can find it titled the woman in black and see how good and scary a movie can be this was a wasted opportunity
0	given that roger corman attached his name to this production i had high hopes for this film corman directed many memorable low budget horror flicks in the 1960's i particularly enjoyed his adaptations of poe's stories such as the house of usher ' and the pit and and the which starred the late great vincent price these films had solid acting atmosphere suspense strong characterization intriguing plot development and delivered some chilling moments sadly house of the damned ' for the most part sacrifices these qualities in lieu of cheesy low budget special effects gratuitous nudity and mindless gore topped with cliche fast edits and camera angles br br house of the damned' starts off interestingly with some beautiful location shots in ireland but it's straight downhill from here unfortunately instead of spending some time building atmosphere creating characters we might care about or building suspense the director opts to begin running up the body count after a brief introduction to the lead characters a young couple and their daughter the audience spends the balance of the film being bounced from one event to another which in this film substitutes for coherent plot development the lead characters are so ill conceived and are so badly acted the audience doesn't care what happens to them to make matters worse the events are either utterly cliché or unconvincing due to low tech low budget special effects the soundtrack has been lifted from the omen ' the plot what little there is borrows heavily from and the legend of hell house ' but lacks any of the qualities which made these films convincing br br if you interested in seeing well done haunted house flicks i recommend you check out classics like the haunting 1963 ' the innocents 1961 or look into corman's early american international films and pass on house of the damned' unless you're masochistic or mindless br br 3 ½ out of 10 br br rob rheubottom br br mb canada
0	when i first saw this dvd in a bargain bin for three dollars i really couldn't believe my luck a christmas movie starring tori spelling william shatner and gary coleman needless to say i snatched it up immediately and considered it a worthwhile investment br br the movie itself was just as bad as any movie you'd expect to be combining christmas and the three aforementioned celebrities the dialogue was inane the characters were one dimensional and carol's character arc was completely unbelievable the movie itself was a lifeless piece of boring that refused to end and made me feel used as a human being when the end did finally come br br my advice don't watch this movie unless you have to and then only under the influence of some serious holiday eggnog
0	it has been a tradition since my first vhs recorder for me to collect several of the incarnations of the old chestnut by charles dickens and i taped this one and christmas this year fortunately when this one was run on the hallmark channel at the ungodly hour of 3 am i was spared having to edit commercials from it this was however it's only saving grace br br the writing was excruciatingly dull with almost no clever scenes to save it from being anything more than a teeny bopper soaper like beverly hills 90210 in this one a good man who was cast aside for her celebrity seems the only logical explanation for her transformation into a scrooge like tv talk show hostess it wasted dinah who just plays bitch goddess to the other bitch goddess tori spelling who by the way had more coats of paint on her face than some colonial houses and bill shatner is perhaps one of the few fun things in this otherwise dreary adaptation br br some of the best opportunities are wasted like the entrances of the ghosts aunt entrance could have been spectacularly funny in the hands of a decent writer but this christmas turkey didn't have one evidently br br tori spelling may be a lovely person but she has all the acting skill of a mannequin and that makes for a bad show all by itself br br yes it was good to see gary coleman work again but the script gives him nothing to do really except roll his eyes and spout truly lame dialogue br br and what is most infuriating was that the transformation from to tori sweet and light is as convincing as a passionate conservative now if anyone wants to write the ultimate scrooge tale of a george bush and karl rove we might have a refreshing change from the usual bad christmas carol clones br br i suppose if you're a fan of ms spelling and or 90210 this might be your cup of christmas cheer i'd prefer a stiff shot of scotch and a cold beer to wash it down myself this one i just may cast away before it is with me here for a long long time br br god save us everyone
0	this move is bad on so many levels i don't even know where to start ok the good points peebles is beautiful as a dirty outlaw in black leather some of the landscape photography was stunning that's about it oh and it was a nice touch having the buffalo head above the bar door in i figure it was a nod to the buffalo soldiers the movie starts sort of ok but the characters are so flat so comic book so the bad guys are just over the top bad i choke trying to describe them further the spanish cuban american war was 1895 1898 with america being involved only in april to august of '98 i think the movie said it took place in 1893 i could be wrong but i don't want to look at it again to check a big part of this movie hinged on the kkk killing jessie's daddy well boys the original kkk started in 1865 and was destroyed by president andrew johnson in 1871 the klan wasn't even around during the time period of this movie of course the nasty bas got busy again in 1915 and we know the rest of that but for the purpose of the movie it is historically incorrect and that was a major part of the plot i think i could make myself crazy going into it a lot more so here a few jabs and i'm done i didn't know that and other bands like that got their inspiration from new orleans street singers from the 1890's i also didn't know that fetish necklaces were all the rage for sioux women in the 1890's but then i was surprised to see a bar singer doing jazz while wearing 1 nails we just about died laughing and i like a cheesy western more than most people do such a waste of talent and money this really had the chance to show a part of american history that isn't well known http www coax net people htm for some more information this could have been so good but it was just bad from 1 10 this gets a 1 instead of a zero because mario looks good in his hat and there was an appaloosa horse in the film
0	this film is about a couple that decides to take a vacation to the everglades along with another couple and the family dog when they first get there they are not welcomed by the neighboring gas attendant that warms them to stay away from the cabin in which they are to spend the night at for the week after with the old man three also do not take kindly to their arrival as they approach their car and threaten them to leave after asking some of the local dummies that can't speak or just don't want to answer they find the cabin after they settle in strange things happen to the visitors including discovering crap on their car the man thats the head of this trip thats an idiot shoots the family dog thinking it was a killer clawing at the door and a series of deaths later on in the end adding a church group did not make the story any better then at the end the idiot that survives the whole ordeal goes around the town carrying a shot gun lame thats what this movie is
0	lives upstairs is a very bad movie in my world history class our teacher had us watch this movie and amadeus to be able to compare the two composers or something we watched amadeus first and it was a very good movie but when she had us watch this movie directly after that i couldn't believe what i was seeing the acting was horrific the costumes were ugly the little boy's was especially ugly and girlish and the cinematography was z grade my friend compared it to a home movie without the date display in the bottom right corner i understand this was a t v movie from canada and probably cost 10 to make but please they could have done better i have seen a few good t v movies in my time but this was not one of them the biggest thing that i don't understand is why my world history class couldn't just watch immortal beloved or something how is it possible to compare composers when given the movie amadeus for mozart and lives upstairs for it's not possible to do that when this is the choice of movie for i give amadeus an a 9 out of 10 if anyone cares to know but lives upstairs gets an f 1 out of 10
0	no wonder a lot of us hate classical music and what are the children to think with educational pr like this serious music will soon slip from life support to the morgue kids know when they're being talked down to and this is no exception why can't someone good do a movie about classical music for kids i must admit i enjoyed the actor who played beethoven he took to the role with enthusiasm and a keen balance of the poignant and humorous aspects of beethoven's character he obviously did his research otherwise this is a third rate rehash of the old abc afterschool special format with none of the occasional charm those short films had sorry about the rant but this is an important subject for young people to know about and it could have been done well i wonder if musicians or filmmakers were responsible either way the kids are hipper than you think folks br br
0	this movie was so bad and so cheap and so corny i found this movie to be one of the most boring slow paced early 80's movies that i have ever seen i like most 80's cheap horror movies but i would never rent this one again it just did not make any sense a family that lives in the woods invites their son his wife and their daughter to spend time with them for the holidays and during the movie for some reason the mother and daughter in law do not get along well we never figure out why until almost till the end of the movie but until then all we see is the fact that the mother has some form of esp and the daughter in law is having nightmares and flashbacks of a catastrophe of what will happen to unfortunate victims to this thing that we have no clue as to what it looks like all we see is a bright light signaling his approach and all we hear is a cheap interpretation of darth vadar voices and a soundtrack stolen from various horror movies then when we finally find out what and who it is all i did was laugh this killer turns out to be some kind of alien japanese warrior from ww2 who has apparently come back to life to claim the mother and her family and all the mother does is stand there in front of the living room shaking with her hands on fire or something like she's going into some kind of this movie is pathetic avoid it it's not even worth renting
0	unfortunately this is not one of those movies which at least make you laugh at their unbelievable stupidity it has no entertainment value at all it just plain sucks i don't know where to start to explain how much this movie annoyed me i think what really takes the cake is the unbearable soundtrack it sounds as if someone took a simple beat and then for the rest of it let a 5 year old child run amok with a synthesizer and taped it it's really that awful and as if that's not enough there's not one scene in the movie without music noise by the end of the movie you're either deaf or already cut off your ears earlier which would at least keep you from falling asleep since there is nothing happening in the movie to keep your attention just a lot of bad acting a few cheap and unconvincing kills no story at all it just jumps from one scene to another and you as the viewer can try to make any sense of it and in the last 30 minutes or so you can witness some of the worst special effects ever it's extremely boring do not watch this movie you could do something much more entertaining like staring at a wall or reading the phone book did i mention how much the soundtrack sucked
0	this was a real let down for me the original bride with white hair is a great kung fu fantasy film but this one was pretty weak i didn't care at all for the new characters who unfortunately dominated the screen time and the story wasn't well developed while the first film was tragic and involving this one was tedious as i merely counted the time to the end when the ill fated lovers would actually meet the action was poor in this one as well the fights were not choreographed very well and there really wasn't much kung fu at all just a few weak sword fights between the highly dis likable lui and one of lin's lin herself mainly uses a sort of telekinesis to throw people into walls and sometimes her hair a far cry from the impressive showing with the whip and kung fu she displayed in the previous film i still gave this movie a 4 because at least it was fast pace and i did want to see what was going to happen at the end though i as most anyone who watched the first one predicted it would go down the way it did and after seeing it i found it anti climactic and wished they had either made a proper sequel or just left the story alone i really recommend the first one but as for the sequel only fans of the genre and those who really want to see lin as the bride one more time need apply
0	this sequel is quite awful to be honest i'm a fan of kung fu movies and this is by far the worst i've seen bride with white hair 1 was actually quite good and this is a huge disappointment 1 was brilliant in some ways with an unique odd ball evil bad guy br br the couple from the first movie played a small role in this movie instead the movie revolves around a bunch of uninteresting characters trying to seek revenge on their fallen clans but there's no antagonist in this movie so the revenge is mute br br the worst part to this movie is the kung fu or lack there of they literally had a street style knife fight the character at the end refused to fight because there was lack of choreography
0	i made the mistake of watching dark star 1974 late one night many years ago it was one of the stupidest movies that i have ever watched br br 1 bad acting br br 2 bad writing br br 3 scientifically stupid plot destroying an entire planet because its orbit is unstable or in the way will only make matters worse instead of having one large easily avoidable object you'll have thousands of smaller but equally lethal and more difficult objects to track br br 4 completely unrealistic characters a painted beach ball as a space alien the writers must have been doing too many drugs br br not surprisingly the majority of actors that starred in dark star never did anything else of those that did do anything else the majority never acted again after dark star therefore having dark star on one's acting resume was a death star to one's acting career
0	this is a student film and it's a piece of crap i would use much stronger language to describe it but then the review wouldn't be posted and the world needs to know beyond any possible reasonable doubt this movie really sucks br br there seems to be a different ruler used when measuring an already famous director's early work like somehow it was genius that we were just too stupid to comprehend since he finally got it right now today i'm not buying it the early movie bad taste made by the lotr peter jackson's sucks and this early work from another famous director really sucks the same way too these early works are representative of crappy everything from budget to scripts to actors etc it all is bottom of the bucket trash don't be fooled by the big name br br if you like watching a handful of male 70's hippie pretend they could ever command a ship with the worst special effects you have ever seen this is your movie br br i can't f believe this thing won a golden scroll award for best special effects that is a joke right or a joke award br br if you want to watch what this movie wishes it was rent a season or three of red dwarf you
0	i watched a movie called dark talon dated 1974 the credits to this movie are exactly the same as dark star so i'm going to presume it was an alternate title dark talon was nowhere near as funny as everyone else here states the acting was lame the editing slipshod and overall stupid at the beginning there's an annoying 1970's trucking song called benson arizona that has absolutely nothing to do with the movie basically the plot revolves around a small crew of an interstellar bomber that goes around bombing places that are unstable the bombs are sentient and respond to people the obligatory disaster disrupts communication between the bombs and the crew one of the crewmen goes out and has an absurdly idiotic existential conversation with the bomb that made no sense whatsoever the movie i saw was done in under an hour and a half with commercials thrown in so i suspect that dark talon is an version of dark star br br the alien is an red beach ball spray painted with a pair of monster hands that it walks on it was silly and unconvincing as an alien br br it's hard to believe that john carpenter had a hand in this his other movies were so much better
0	this is probably the only movie i have ever not been able to make it all the way through not only was it annoying and boring but the low production values made it hard to make out the action and in some cases the dialogue avoid this one like the plague
0	an awful film badly written badly acted cliched hackneyed dross the premise is such a good one and a chance to educate about black cowboys but the film is truly dire it is a curious mix of a bad 1950's randolph scott b movie and a bad 1970's spaghetti western the villains are cardboard the flashbacks laughable the dialogue excruciating br br the deliberate anachronisms such as rap singers and modern swear words like motherf er are irritating to the extreme br br a frankenstein monster that died on the lab table
0	i really seldom give either one or ten stars to any movie but this was so awful i had to make an exception br br i am a scifi fan and have seen a few comedic takes on scifi that i genuinely like there just wasn't anything here to like br br i realize this was started with an extremely small budget by a film student but even considering that the sets and effect are bad the cinematography is mediocre but may be the best part of the movie br br the acting is bad a sad state when the female voice over for the computer is the best actor the dialogue is bad the script is very weak and the plot is incoherent and almost nonexistent br br the humor is not just subtle and sublime it's nowhere to be found as an example a whole 20 minutes of the 80 minute film is spent on a lame 2 punch combo joke with the alien mascot and the elevator br br this was supposed to be a parody of everything from bad 50's scifi to 2001 what we end up with though is just a slightly updated version of an old 50's scifi c movie at least those movies were funny because they took themselves seriously
0	i haven't reviewed on imdb before but this documentary is so overrated that i felt compelled to vent i wouldn't have even finished watching if i hadn't been a guest at someone's house the film was poor on many levels first video footage was contrived the more i watched the more he seemed to be acting as a person desperate to be famous instead of one acting out of conviction br br second the others in the film with the exception of parents and the airline pilot were just as contrived and corny as he was god they seemed artificial br br third mission to protect the bears doesn't even make sense as he did more harm than good by making the bears grow accustomed to human presence i believe that really did love the bears but there is much research which indicates his efforts were misguided sometimes we have to sacrifice our enjoyment of wildlife to really help br br fourth the film's entertainment value wasn't half that of other wildlife films such as march of the penguins and winged migration the filmmakers in my opinion did a poor job of sequencing scenes and gave little incentive to keep watching br br as a person who loves alaska bears and other wildlife i would love to see more people dedicated to the preservation of our hopefully their efforts will be less people centered
0	i found this film extremely disturbing is delusional and disturbed to the point of probably suffering from a mental illness the footage shown is him and not an actor but yet it is showing behaviour that ended in death is it appropriate to show actual footage of a suicide let's not mince words the film shows footage of behaviour that directly led to his death br br for those who think that is some kind of hero think again the footage he shot is about him and not about the bears and foxes he claimed to be helping he did no meaningful research into their habits or numbers and did nothing to actually protect them all he did was run around in the bush and convince himself that he was better than everyone else reality is by helping to the animals to humans he exposed them to great risk his self indulgent behaviour not caused his own death but also the death of his companion amy plus exposed his beloved bears and foxes to greater harm br br but i'm also concerned about werner herzog's actions in compiling this film the way he did br br a friend and i have had a long argument about this film who loved this film he believes that seriously disturbed people make for interesting subjects and he cites the movie downfall as an example but in downfall they use actors we didn't see the real put cyanide capsules into her own children's mouths br br there was something about using the real footage in grizzly man which reminded me of that horrible football stadium tragedy where people were being crushed to death and the photographers who could have helped elected to simply keep recording the horror br br herzog's film shows us that footage is more about but herzog has done the same his own personality and opinions are aired in this documentary which is supposedly about someone else scenes such as the one where he listens to the tape are not necessary we already knew what was on the tape because the coroner had told us we didn't need herzog shedding a tear with one of former girlfriends it didn't add to the film br br the film showed us that was very self indulgent but it also showed us that herzog is as well
0	i used to love the muppets the muppet movie the great muppet caper and the muppets take manhattan were good family movies cleverly written and fun to watch i never thought i would see the day when they would jump on the hollywood sleaze bandwagon but here it is scooter as a caged rave dancer pepe making lewd and suggestive comments every five minutes this is not your father's muppets it's not jim henson's muppets anymore either br br this it's a wonderful life themed movie has its moments but not enough to save it i cringed while watching this with my children i still have hope for their next movie but this one was certainly a disappointment
0	i am still waiting for that dark muppet film where we won't know how it ends from the beginning i think linklater could do one hes experimented with animation this time i was intelligently not expecting such a thing but deeply wishing br br joan cusack sucked she moved to a made for tv level lazily acting this one with cliched cynic the muppets were more life life than she was a disappointment br br but then the entire film was bar pepe i loved him he was the only one to ever get me laugh while as god got me choking and cursing if we can't see a dark muppets than how about at least a pg 13 one with more of pepe's controversial jokes and animals metal head egg nog persona br br the worst muppets i saw even the boring christmas carol beats this one out the muppets need to avoid this over commercialized holiday br br 5 10
0	i am and have been a serious collector of christmas related movies tv shows holidays specials etc for over twenty five years please heed my warning and do not be mislead by sterling reviews media hype about this movie this is not a movie as we have come to know them and is certainly not for children the fact that this was produced for a major tv network is was no surprise considering their level of operation at this time what is hard for me to believe is that the jim henson organization stooped so low to become involved in this travesty of christmas i wish there had been reviews for me to read that would warned me before i wasted my hard earned money on this piece of trash
0	it's too slow paced and complex for children and too lightweight and dull for adults none of our family 6 weeks to 66 years could be bothered watching it all the way through br br are there jokes in it i couldn't really tell there was certainly some unnecessarily adult innuendo there was probably a bludgeoning message of sorts but i wasn't engaged enough to care br br the live talent are just stumbling and mugging their way through it i have to wonder if they were actually being paid or whether it was some form of community service or plea bargain br br please keep watching whines daniel honestly i wouldn't bother
0	i've been a fan of jim henson and his characters since the very beginning the most beguiling thing about them was the love and innocence and camaraderie shown kermit was a role model of deep thinking and problem solving a spiritual character yet sweetly and believably so all the other characters were slightly eccentric but it demonstrated how different kinds of beings can co exist in a caring manner together respecting each other's difference br br following movies have somewhat kept the same vibe yet this it's a very merry muppet christmas movie would have jim henson spinning in his grave these characters have been completely re written to be horny nasty selfish and cheesy br br the cast goes on to portray god as an uncaring corporate head with a mean streak angels as spineless non spiritual corporate staff and the movie was so bad i had to stop watching i had bought it for my great nephew but fortunately i preview anything i give a child br br this movie deserved the trash bin instead and has no socially redeeming content or charm br br shame shame on the people who re wrote the characters and departed from jim henson's original heart centered socially conscious version it does a terrible disservice to a great hearted man who is no longer around to defend his creations
0	i once saw a bit of this film and was interested to see the full thing just to see why the critics give it two stars the result being that i agree basically the film begins with kermit the frog steve whitmire telling all his muppet chums that they have lost everything and he ends sitting depressed and possibly thinking about suicide on the bench meanwhile in another world heaven angel daniel david arquette who had already been in muppets from space visits the 'boss' whoopi goldberg another reason i wanted to see the film to show that kermit really needs help in the flashbacks it shows kermit miss piggy eric jacobson not the original and better frank oz gonzo dave goelz fozzie bear also jacobson pepe the bill and all the other muppets have prepared a stage show for many people to see in the christmas holiday and it all seems to be going well but the really mean rachel bitterman joan cusack is determined to either shut the show or the theatre down and kermit is doing everything possible to make sure that doesn't happen of course kermit fails the last time and bitterman tells him that they are finished and she can officially take the theatre this is where daniel is sent as kermit's guardian angel to try and help him but kermit is not in the mood and eventually ends up saying i wish i was never born obviously you can recognise the spoof of it's a wonderful life with kermit as the george bailey and cusack as the mr potter and in the end obviously kermit realises how much he means to everyone and goes back to find the theatre saved as historical landmark also starring whitmire as rizzo the rat and beaker goelz as dr bunsen and waldorf as dr teeth rowlf the dog and swedish chef jacobson as animal and yoda the only character who sounds similar to oz's version william h macy as glenn matthew lillard as luc fromage carson daly molly shannon zach sarah neil flynn john c mcginley and judy reyes mel brooks as joe snow brian henson as scooter and janice jerry nelson as robin the frog statler pops and floyd pepper and kevin clash as sam the eagle the most memorable moment for me is the stage spoof of moulin rouge besides that and the well known faces in it not fantastic it was nominated the emmy for outstanding music and lyrics for the song everyone matters the muppets were number 47 on the 100 greatest pop culture icons adequate
0	i saw this movie for the first time on nbc friday 11 29 02 it was a pretty good movie but i don't think it would be the kind of muppet movie jim henson would make i mean first of all using the word sexy every now and then and pepe saying it would suck and i defenitly know jim henson wouldn't allow kermit yelling i wish i'd never been born thirteen time a minute this movie just isn't like a classic muppet movie sure i can understand nicky holiday stealing the baseball diamond from the great muppet caper but a business lady cheating the muppets in a contract for their theater to turn it into a smoker's nightclub if jim henson was here today he would hate this movie
0	i think south park is hilarious and i have no problem w them taking shots at people on the left but you'd think that after taking a whole movie to attack celebrities for risking their careers taking on an illegal war and then being gasp right along they would have the sense to start giving w and the bastards ruining the country a shot or two bush seems to get a pretty free run from these guys for as stupid and messed up as he is br br gore is fair game but please what do the republicans have to do how bad do they have to f k up the country before these guys finally act like maybe they aren't just trying to do the best they can and that they have done some true screwing up or maybe just go after rush limbaugh hes a good target or even just make fun of condoleeza rice's gap teeth
0	do you know what farmers spray on fields that's right manure so when the bbc decided to make a much hyped conspiracy thriller about and farming what we got was some of the manure the bbc has inflicted upon its audience br br spoilers br br fields of gold opens with a bunch of masked scientists in a lab where a female scientist according to the right on trendy bbc all scientists are women announces a new strain of wheat that will save the third world from hunger then the story switches to another equally bland scene if you're going to make a thriller of any type shouldn't you open with a hook that grabs the audience doctor who was brilliant at this as was the x files while 28 days later opened with a hook that took place in a laboratory i guess someone at the bbc didn't think this thriller needed a hook because the viewers had trailers stuffed down their throat for weeks in advance br br as the not very exciting story continues a couple of journalists one's a drunken man with morals lower than bill clinton and bush combined while the other is a female journalist full of virtue investigating patients at a county hospital who might be getting bumped off via mercy killings it's at this point things start getting confused as the female journalist is threatened by mi5 spooks and the first episode ends with the main mi5 spook getting murdered br br the second episode reveals that the patients at the county hospital have actually been dying due to being infected with a this is when things go totally hay wire all throughout fields of gold the audience have been led to believe the intelligence services and the company shown in the opening sequence have been behind the deaths but they're not it turns out the bad guy is an organic farmer who has been manufacturing the in his bedroom and the story ends via the matrix camera work with the drunken male journalist setting fire to a field ridden with thereby spreading the throughout the land br br i find it impossible to say a good word about fields of gold at the time of its broadcast i was both a member of the scottish green party and i have since renounced my time in the environmental movement but even now i am somewhat offended by how environmentalists are portrayed here and to have the bad guy spreading a fatal genetically engineered virus as a warning to the dangers of genetically modified organisms is very silly it's a bit like a cnd member letting off a nuke in london to warn of the dangers of nuclear war i was also slightly offended as to how the male characters were written as being bastards while all the females were highly intelligent and morally superior to men there's also other problems with the script especially with regard to if unlike the scriptwriters you take the time and trouble to research you'll find it's entirely different from what is seen here oh and if you set fire to diesel it doesn't explode like napalm perhaps the worst criticism of the script is that it resembles jeepers creepers structure wise whereby the last ten minutes contradicts most of what has gone before where as jeepers creepers only lasted about 90 minutes fields of gold lasted twice that length so is doubly irritating and illogical br br as a footnote environmentalism never makes a good theme for a thriller anyone remember those steven segal movies and it's about time tv and film producers realized this
0	what was wes thinking making this dribble it does not jive well with any of his other work but then again he seemed to fall into a slight slump after making a a nightmare on elm street this can be seen by his follow ups 1 to hell 2 chiller 3 hills have eyes ii 4 deadly friend 5 and the rainbow 6 shocker all of these films were either mediocre our crap it was not until people under the stairs that he gained his momentum back and started to kick butt again chiller has none of craven's regulars and none of his suspense the only good scene in when the old man has a heart attack on the stairs after for his job
0	interesting topic pathetic delivery script and direction br br our hero miles thaws out and has his emergency world first life restoration surgery this is where the fun begins the underlying issue is that miles has no soul this is used to explain his quasi erratic behaviour of being indirectly responsible for two deaths i believe this to be the total number of deaths in 104 minutes br br on the side miles prefers the odd glass of brandy blazing fireplaces and his young maturing female cousin the finale does indeed do justice to this film br br some thoughts 1 producer were parted with to create this tripe j d was the script writer and a or sole producer looks like he did not learn a lesson on how not to bring an interesting idea to life when one views his other writing credits this will support the credibility of this script br br 2 now available on dvd this is truly scary should be forever bottom of the shelf in vhs format br br 3 a re incarnated human without a soul will default to an evil entity br br 4 the score offers minimal support not even an in form jerry goldsmith could save it br br 5 deserved the time slot on tv and a touch more entertaining than the infomercials test patterns it was competing against at the time of my viewing br br 6 thankfully did not spawn any sequels ala wes craven's nightmare franchise chiller too the return return of miles or something like that br br despite my rating of 1 i still recommend this movie as a great example of how to kill an acting or script writing career this should apply to directing however wes craven will eternally be exempt due to his sole good piece of a nightmare on elm street 1984
0	i purchased a dvd of this film for a dollar at the big dept store that's probably the best and kindest comment i have to offer on it at least it didn't cheat me out of the cost of lunch br br the problem with chiller is craven's problem as a director the man has his apologists who claim his traveling papers prove he's a really smart guy and all around sharp but it's no secret that as a director he has never possessed one iota of the visual and story telling sense of a hitchcock as vigorously attested by chiller he's much closer to that legendary flat foot gordon lewis what craven lacks as a director is the main ingredient that would lift him from director for hire to a higher plane of film making br br let's be specific the transitional moments of this film are sleek the establishing shots give it the feel of a quality production the film looks professionally put together in the way a film shot by a tv commercial director would a thought the films only visual distinction these transitions that at least look professionally handled may very well be the work of some second unit directors it's the parts between the bridges and smooth transitions the drama that fall flat br br the core of the proceedings are invariably perfunctorily handled the critical shots after say the departing car drives into the well positioned camera then we cut to the night exterior of a hospital then to the waiting area and hallway then to the phone booth in the corner that will figure in the next bit of action are quickly dispensed so we can hurry up and get to the next part craven never comes anywhere close to exploding the dramatic or visual possibilities of any moment the net result of all this misplaced attention to the least important parts and the fumbling rush to keep things moving is a film that feels like the work of the fledgling art student who sharpens all his pencils adjusts his easel and lighting set up grinds all his stretches and primes his canvas and then has nothing to say craven like the art student never gets to the meat of the exercise br br for craven apologists who will point out that this film was made for tv i will point to spielberg's duel and say no more
0	after his success with a nightmare on elm street in 1984 director wes craven for some reason decided that his next project would be this tv movie i'm not a big fan of this director on the whole early exploitation flick the last house on the left as well as his modern slasher scream sit well with me but the rest of his work is very hit and miss and i'd hesitate to call him the master that others have labelled him as the main theme here is freezing although it's more a springboard for the plot rather than an important part of the movie the main influence here is obviously the excellent 1974 zombie film and we focus on miles a businessman cryogenically frozen for ten years before an accident that means he has to be out immediately miles is a part of a project for people that are ill they pay to be frozen in the hope that they will be revived in the future when their illnesses can cured miles is successfully revived and it's seen as a miracle but the person that wakes up is not the person who was frozen as miles returns without a soul br br this film could actually have been quite decent judging by the idea behind it but instead we're given a plot that doesn't really have a lot to it and it has to be said that craven doesn't make the best out of the potential of the film the 'soul' is the main focal point but it would seem that not having a soul and simply having a murderous intent no compassion are the same thing which feels a bit unimaginative the film was made for television so it's not particularly nasty and it's obvious that not a lot of money was spent on it as the whole production feels very cheap michael beck never became a very popular actor and that isn't surprising judging by his performance here while he is passable he largely lacks charisma and is not formidable in the central role the plot doesn't flow too badly but there's a real lack of suspense and or tension and things slow down too much too often which results in the film being rather boring on occasion it all boils down to a predictable ending also overall i have to admit that i was not impressed at all by this film and as far as craven's filmography goes chiller would have to go down with shocker the scream sequels and the hills have eyes ii as a miss
0	weird this is a tv movie yet the rating on the box says it's rated r there's nothing in the movie that would remotely qualify for an r rating aside from that though the movie is very slow and pointless i mean the idea was good but nothing was done with the storyline it just wasn't developed it's mildly creepy and the acting is actually quite good better than the movie deserves i don't see myself watching it again anytime soon if ever there have been other movies dealing with the same concept which are better made than this one i haven't seen too many wes craven films so i can't really compare it to any of his others as for this movie itself though i think it is poorly conceived and poorly executed for me i can't give chiller a higher rating than 3 10
0	a few minutes in not credible what idiot wrote this br br but what's going on who's the bad guy then there's that rebecca de time passes br br the end br br not credible what idiot actually watched the whole thing
0	forgive me but this work of director peter hall is horrendous if you can't get to us with the plot why not kill someone's cat or dog that surely reaches the audiences this viewer is tired of seeing animals sacrificed for the plot of a movie and believe me i saw it coming before she opened the package how predictable can you get take a cute animal then kill it in a gruesome way i have never been a fan of de and this performance tells me why overacted and somewhat stagnant in interpretation i found her rather silly and definitely boring i did like banderas but felt bad that he had to play opposite de he has done much better in other films namely philadelphia where he had some honesty in his dialogue in this chestnut he did his best to keep his character real but the writers green rush did a good job in preventing this with their trite storyline and insipid dialogue please let us not be subjected to this kind of entertainment some of us aren't fooled by corny plots bludgeoning animals and generally long winded dialogue seeing her get away with it made me furious
0	what a stinker i swear this movie was written by a computer that took a whole pile of other movies and merged them all together into this of film ouch
0	this derivative erotic thriller remains watchable most of the way mainly because a viewer is casually curious about how it will turn out and because the director peter hall manages to stage a pretty hot and quite bold sex scene but the finale though unexpected is preposterous and the whole plotting complete with childhood traumas and multiple personality disorders reveals itself to be unbearably cliched especially as far as motivation is concerned 1 2
0	c h o m p s is very much like any number of cheesy late 70s disney family comedys the cat from outer space or unidentified flying oddball for instance utterly devoid of anything creative beating the same cliches to death yet vaguely entertaining in a mindless sort of way the actors won't win any awards nor will the director writer or fx crew but in its inoffensive ness and bland there is some vague entertainment to be had the idea of the robot dog as security system is so full of holes you could use it as a colander the incredibly repetative disco soundtrack will stick in your head so beware
0	i thought sliver offered the most boring and trivial trick ending in movie history but of course i was wrong i had no that this movie was going to be good unfortunately it was worse than i expected the worst part is that the obvious ending is so ridiculous and horrible that you can't believe it until it actually happens
0	with so many good movies coming out in 1995 particularly mortal kombat and seven unfortunately there had to be some bombs as well and this film indeed falls into the latter category with a boring predictable plot and a lousy ending it seems that antonio banderas hasn't been able to find a decent script since desperado the only remarkable film he's done anyone with an eighth of a brain could tell who stalker was from the beginning her flashbacks of the death of her mother did nothing but muddle an already paper thin story pity that dennis miller was wasted in this film this part resembles his eerily similar role in the net br br the convoluted ending had me shaking my head as i pretty much did throughout the entire movie plus any film that depicts animal cruelty in any shape or form no matter how fake it looks automatically gets the thumbs down from me br br to make a long story short if you want to enjoy a good thriller then avoid this at all costs never talk to strangers especially those who recommend this movie 2 10
0	sorry i couldn't be more expressive in my summary but those two words seemed to describe the movie perfectly this is not only a bad film but a bad film with bad acting and a plot that will be inconsequential to most watchers br br see it only for a naked rebecca de tied to a chain link fence and moaning with supposedly but actually hilarious br br
0	rebecca de can be a fascinating beautiful actress but as for the parts she's given to play if you cannot say something nice br br de portrays a woman who had terrible traumas as a child with a father she can hardly stand now that she's a grown up and has become a of course brilliant shrink she has an affair with banderas whom we suspect of being ouch how original a serial killer sometimes she recalls banderas's mother in law tippi hedren's character in marnie but i wouldn't count on it hitchcock died twenty four years ago and a lot of regents desperately try to replace him here the director pulls out all the stops to make a thriller with an unexpected end but that ending is so far fetched it is absolutely impossible to buy it the movie includes the obligatory conversations with a serial killer in the silence of the lamb tradition murders human beings and cats split personality and open ending in case the crowds should call for more apparently they did not and they were right
0	man is this lousy it doesn't deserve much in the way of comment so keeping it brief rebecca is a highly disciplined police psychiatrist who falls for latin lover antonio banderas in a wine store he of the ponytail and jail house when she cuts loose she really cuts loose other than this torrid affair she's having and we must admit the affair has its speed bumps she's a pretty cold fish her broke ailing father shows up for the first time in years and she boots him out she's also adept at keeping her horny upstairs neighbor dennis miller at bay and there's prisoner harry dean stanton who's trying to maneuver her into giving him a diagnosis of multiple personality disorder so he won't have his privates nailed to the wall for the serial murders he's committed br br all these people and perhaps more are immediately suspect when strange things begin happening to her somebody sends her dead flowers somebody does unspeakable things to her pet cat the next time i see a household pet turn up in a parcel or strung up in the closet or boiled in a pot i'm going to puke so who's doing it guess no power on earth could force me to reveal the ending but maybe a hint will help childhood abuse br br the abuse excuse is an interesting business in itself far more interesting than the movie what does childhood abuse mean do we mean sexual abuse physical both how about whacking a kid over the back with a wooden cooking spoon hard enough to break it that's what happened to me and my brother when we were kids just as similar things happened to all the other errant boys in the neighborhood sexual abuse that never happened to any of us as far as i know although i'm not sure it would have been rejected with any degree of animation in the samoan village i studied for two years there was one case of an adolescent boy found playing sexually with a much younger girl the girl's family beat hell out of him the boy's own family sent him to live with another branch of the family in another village an exile that lasted two years by the time he returned the incident was forgotten by everyone including the child by the way the little girl we see here is under five so it's unlikely that she'd remember dad's night time visits in any case since long term memory isn't really established until about that time experience leading to her mental disorder can be called the social construction of trauma it's not there unless we put it there enough of the psychiatric lecture that will be fifteen cents br br you want trauma i'll give you trauma the film absolutely forces us to identify with rebecca character right from the beginning then when she has her first tryst with antonio banderas and donnagio's score is pounding the eroticism into our heads the camera gives us a shot from over her shoulder of the bare antonio crawling over us with his hairy chest now that's traumatic it makes any male viewer feel as if he's on the floor of the laundry room at the california men's colony in san luis don't get me wrong i don't dislike antonio banderas it's just that i'm not in love with him there aren't enough nude shots of rebecca body in the entire universe to compensate for that kind of anxiety br br here's an engaging way of surviving this movie instead of just sitting there puling try picking out the scenes that were filmed in toronto and separating them from the ones shot in budapest it's a challenge really and may for all we know preserve your sanity
0	this is one of the worst movie i have ever seen it's a thriller with a rather ridiculous ending i watched this movie hoping for the best and instead found something truly bad the movie starred two actors that i like very much rebecca and antonio banderas sure they had decent chemistry together but for what the movie's premise was bad to begin with and the execution just made it even worst br br miss plays sarah taylor a psychologist trying to analyze a convicted serial killer whose defense hinge on multiple personality disorder that pretty much will give you a hint to where the movie is going and the identity of the killer early in the movie she gets an unexpected visit from her father this being made in the 1990's when the bad daddy was the in thing in hollywood is another clue to the ultimate conclusion br br mr banderas plays a mystery man named tony ramirez who comes into sarah's life the whole first meeting and first encounter between tony and sarah is so badly done and so unconvincing it makes you wonder how it even got shot and there's a sequence where the two of them are supposed to be knowing each other that is so sappy it doesn't seem to belong here one thing that i would admit was that there was a sex scene that's very hot anyway creepy things start to happen after he arrives weird packages arriving things falling off the wall that could kill sarah incident that say things aren't normal anymore br br overall the movie was badly conceived the editing at times seem jumpy and the conclusion was laughable another thing that bugged me about this movie was the whole orchestral music playing in the background a more subtle musical score would have been better i have to say this no matter how bad the ending was miss was very good in that sequence it's sad that she never got first rate materials in her career she's that rare combination of talent and beauty
0	to judge a movie just for the landscapes decor costumes it is just not right you are missing the core the story br br a movie has to narrate something to tell a story something that impress you yes i was pleased by the sea cliffs clear water and all that but there is the plot br br they are more interesting movies with mad people such as flight over the cuckoo s nest etc etc this one is about a crazy woman who is more attached to dogs than his children or his husband just a clear psychiatric case nothing extraordinary unfortunately a waste of time and there is all that rage coming from fish smell sea
0	this could have been a breakout role for valeria golino but the film instead decided to shift its attention to another area the film is about a woman named grazia golino who is married to a fisherman and the mother of three she is a free spirit and prone to outbursts so the rest of the village and her family decide she should be sent to milan and see a doctor the story takes place on the island of off of sicily and it shows the everyday life there with the teenage boys in rivaling gangs and just trying to find something to do on the sun baked rock oldest son francesco adores her and is always trying to protect her during her bouts of depression the daughter veronica is a blossoming young girl who becomes infatuated with a local policeman and the youngest son is very sassy and mocks the policeman's accent upon learning that she is to be sent to milan grazia runs away and helps her by hiding her in a cave while everyone searches for her this film could have really made more of an impact if it could have concentrated its focus to grazia we do see some outbursts and irrational behavior on her part but their is no follow up to these scenes nothing comes of it the film looks great and is beautifully photographed so give director emanuele credit for that but the story needed to focus on something more substantial the film does a good job of showing us what life is like on this island and what is going on in the lives of the three children as they grow up their is some speculation that character gives a hint of being a mermaid like creature and that is why she is having difficulty existing on land i also sense that the island itself expects its inhabitants to behave in a certain manner and if you don't then you can be subjected to the harsh realities of its rules all speculations but i do think the films attention could have stayed with the character of grazia after she hides in the cave she really has nothing to do in a sense the character becomes stagnant i wish golino had more to do because i've always liked her and whenever she is onscreen you just can't take your eyes off her she's a bundle of fury passion and raw energy what a shame didn't write a more complete role for her to act in when the film ends your left feeling empty from an incomplete story
0	i'm sorry folks but these enthusiastic reviews on this prestigious site about this movie are very strange to say the least is craziness picturesque i ask and didn't find an answer of course the movie is beautifully filmed at part it's almost a documentary but then the fact is that when it comes to the women grazia she shows every sign of a deep illness and i was wondering throughout the movie what the heck she has her behavior is absolutely worrisome and the shocked citizens of the village are very right indeed in wanting to send her off to a proper institution to see what can be done about her condition she needs treatment urgently behaviour like hers is inferno to everybody around her her husband the poor children especially and the fellow citizens let's not be falsely romantic about this i hated this condoning portrait of a mentally ill why for god's sake should the husband not want to have her cured or at least try to do this why the horror of going to milan a big city sure but lots of possibilities of capable persons to cure her irresponsibility anyway i inspired myself on this site for renting the movie on dvd and after seeing it i had to post this for others to make themselves an opinion on it frankly i understand why the movie did not get any further as an indication to the cannes selection
0	a lack of character development proves fatal for this movie valeria character grazia starts out looking like a bipolar personality but quickly degenerates into a caricature and seems unreal the other characters are thin probably the writer's fault not the actors' the only exception is as the younger son his energy and bravado are funny and convincing br br i suppose the children's petty cruelty is supposed to contribute to an atmosphere of bleakness and emphasize the pervasive primal spirits in the town but for me the gratuitous cruelty is redundant and contributes to the overall boredom of the film some scenes were amusing but not necessarily intended that way for example when the mistreated dogs turn out to be fat and healthy and look like they are ready to show the pretty cast and setting make for an appealing trailer but cannot carry the whole movie
0	for a scientifically engineered super dog that was supposed to be the answer to petit crime chomps was a chump br br all i ever saw chomps do was sit or walk or run or run then walk then sit and then get back up again and stretch and then walk and then jog to k tel dance hits and sometimes it had all the answers to the daily jumbo but mostly it just sat a lot br br all i am saying is in a celebrity death match chomps couldn't take out mr
0	the synopsis of this movie led me to believe that it would be a story of an unconventional woman challenging the conventions of the society in with she lives i like strong female characters and expected a movie much along the lines of chocolat with a less fairy tale and more bite what i got was a cast of despicable characters br br for a character driven movie to be effective i need to feel a connection or compassion for the people there was no one with whom i could relate in the movie grazia golino whose work i admired in rain man portrays a mentally ill probably bipolar female that is often rude aggressive and violent her husband bickers and yells when he is not hitting or slapping someone the children are rude brats they yell at each other and the females in the movie they attack other children with no provocation violence begets violence this seems to be an island of unfeeling aggressive violent and rude people all the way around br br the direction is not compelling there are intermixed scenes that attempt to be art but instead bore the viewer the location is exceptionally gorgeous but even that fails to be captured to the degree that it could be on film br br i would have to recommend that you stay away from this failure of a movie
0	i am left with little choice but to employ it at least once during the course of my review of among other things what defines pretension is in my opinion a lack of emotional sincerity on the author's part seems made with an all too contrived and self aware intent to be artistic symbolic spiritual provocative metaphorical mythical even but luckily for all true artists out there a predisposed formula to achieve artistic beauty and depth doesn't exist stunning natural locations yes these remote parts of southern italy look exotic even to most other italians pretty actors and some amusing gutsy spontaneous performances by a handful of attractive children won't elevate a substanceless movie beyond a pretty succession of images yet this insincere and vain and ultimately hollow movie to be art succeeding only to a very limited extent perhaps in some cases by accident i'll admit that the conceptually pompous ending does have a certain visual poetry to it however it's my belief that this was achieved in ways that had more to do with the beauty of the sea and the strong symbolic power of bathing and water connecting it to so much that's mythical mystical religious archetypical etc than with talent br br valeria golino is gratingly histrionic and affected in her performance as grazia for a mentally unstable woman from a humble and provincial background she sure has a fashionable wardrobe her flattering floral dresses and attractive sun kissed beach hair could have graced the pages of any vogue summer edition the fact she was a nutcase could in a way have been nothing but a fashionable addition to her trendy demeanour and look that's how skin deep her condition seemed to me two dimensional stereotype of the innocent natural child woman misunderstood and oppressed by her backward community was tiresome and irritating at worse while leaving me unmoved and indifferent at best i agree with the reviewer from london who wrote that mental illness is very badly served by cinema during the course of the entire movie we never really get a sense of illness and have no idea what is actually wrong with her other than her being a tiresome stereotype of a free spirit we don't know why she's given injections and is required to see a specialist in milan this generic way of writing mental illness is one of the main tell tale signs of the movie's overall shallowness br br another fairly insulting aspect of is the of its location i struggled to figure out whether this movie was supposed to be set in the present day or the past seeing as it aimed to make even an admittedly backward part of italy by comparison seem a dozen times and more conveniently primitive than it actually is again this smacks of shallowness and a complete lack of sincerity on part some non italian viewers will gleefully lap up the picturesque the cliché of the possessive macho italian man as if it were common place so keen will they be to continue viewing my country as one culturally stranded sometime in the 1950s the question i'd like to ask david ferguson the reviewer from dallas texas is as follows is your country's mentality stuck in the 1950s no ok then why should mine be unfortunately for whoever still wishes to view italy in such an anachronistic way that aspect of is actually ridiculous and phoney even in the eyes of this italian viewer the subtly incestuous tension between grazia and her eldest son was as tiresome and predictable as fabrizio sexist but loving husband routine i especially loathed the scene in which grazia joins her husband and male friend in some man to man banter over a bottle of beer to her husband's macho embarrassment and displeasure according to this movie it isn't a woman's place to take part in a man's conversations ah but our loveable free spirit is too good for this place and doesn't understand the oppressive unwritten rules of patriarchy not only does this scene depict something so fake it should be enough on its own to discredit the entire movie's credibility it also completely gets the wrong end of the stick of the culture it strives to depict clearly showing that it was written without a clear understanding of the location or its population i would challenge anyone who knows contemporary italy to say otherwise br br for a truly accomplished contemporary italian filmmaker one who in my opinion deserves to be listed among the greats of italy's glorious cinematic past which alas isn't the shadow of its former self look no further than gianni especially and his latest la stella che non unlike most contemporary italian cinema sadly derivative and stagnant is a fresh and independently creative voice despite my scathing review of i am now more than willing to believe that latest now showing in italian cinemas will be a worthwhile one i therefore look forwards to enjoying it though it won't be overly shocking to me if i don't considering my feelings for
0	i'm surprised over the number of folks that have rated this entry as their favorite chan didn't they ever see at the opera or at treasure island the latter ironically written by john larkin who dropped the ball here this plot is a train wreck and overloaded with pointless characters first viewers are required to recall the sordid details of steve played by venerable thug and huac marc lawrence murder spree let's not forget he escaped a capital murder rap at the courthouse with a lone policeman on his tail there's also a victim that was fished out of a river 11 years earlier that no one ever seems concerned about then there's the suspension of disbelief required when all the characters are seemingly trapped in the wax museum although inspector manages to wield his fat wet rear end inside through a window why is joan valerie as cream's assistant in this movie she can't even handle pliers properly i realize chan suffers the same boo boo but yeesh he's 66 years old here and has less than 10 lines and her character's motivation is too weak to ever be adequately excuse me when i'm on a rant i write like ricky ricardo the mary bolton marguerite chapman character is written to as a eager wide eyed moron apparently existing only for the vapid romantic interest of lawyer tom agnew played by the ferret faced ted osborne why is willie fern a character why couldn't henchman pulled the switch at 8 20 not a spoiler okay one wonders how with the iq of lint he manages to dress himself or why he hadn't stepped in front of a bus years ago toler himself is given a little more acting rope than usual a plus and the real kudos go to set designer thomas little and cinematographer virgil miller who created some genuinely spooky atmosphere but this entry has less logic than a ritz brothers film i'm still boggled by how a toothpick can be used as a blow gun
0	sayles had a very interesting film on his hands with silver city however it somehow became very muddied as it progressed from beginning to end chris cooper did an exceptional job embodying the essence of his character a of sorts but he wasn't nearly given enough screen time instead we find ourselves on a rampage with a character that felt less personal less developed and overall too confusing the path that this danny huston leads us on inevitably becomes the downfall of the film too many characters are introduced to us in such a short time these characters randomly were involved with the progression of the plot which became too convoluted with each passing minute sayles knew what he was creating i just feel as if it wasn't being translated well to the silver screen br br sayles is a master of his trade his films continue to inspire and evoke thought even if they are not commercial successes the trouble with silver city is that i think he found himself going too deep with not enough money or time to explain it all at the beginning of the film i had an idea of what was happening but as more and more characters were introduced as more and more plot twists tried to occur i lost the sense of the film by the ending while the ending was very clever and very dark i needed more explanation i think some of the reason that i lost my train of thought with this film was due to the casting of danny huston as our guide he was pathetic i didn't seem him as very exciting person to lead us on this adventure he seemed to go through the motions but not really accomplish much at all this was the first downfall of important film br br while i will admit that the characters played by richard dreyfuss miguel ferrer james gammon and daryl hannah were interesting i just needed a better guide to help me understand their roles in this political scandal danny huston just did not cut it for me outside of the characters sayles needed a stronger script i sometimes felt that unless i was deeply rooted in the political world some of the references were well over my head the entire reasoning for silver city to be built and the corruption behind it eluded me i am a simpleton that loves advanced films but this one just didn't make much sense to me there were several times that i found myself asking why instead of seeing the whole picture i felt as if the individual stories were as clear as glass yet the whole picture was dusty and murky at the same time sayles needed to concentrate more on the bigger picture instead of these smaller issues which ultimately fogged this film br br perhaps i went into this film with the wrong idea i was expecting to see another version of primary colors but instead witnessed something less heartfelt and more technical without giving the ending away i thought that the final scene was one of the most beautiful moments in political cinema history the brilliant symbolism has stayed in my mind for the past two days after watching this film while the rest of the movie quickly shuffled away from my mind maybe a second viewing would do better for me but for some odd reason silver city just didn't click with me there seemed to be too many loopholes that were never explained or accounted for an ensemble piece is always good with me but when the characters are introduced without explanation it just looses steam this was one of those rare occasions br br overall i was very upset with this film being very democrat i wanted to see a side of politics that i wasn't aware of and another side that would make you chuckle i wanted to be engulfed with the world of corporate money and the that are elected i wanted intelligent humor framed by the words of george w but instead all i found was a very confusing story aimed at a certain audience of which i will never be a part sad this picture had so much wasted promise br br grade out of
0	silver city 2 outta 5 stars as a huge fan of john work for many years now i feel safe in saying that this is the worst movie he has ever done that said the movie isn't exactly terrible just very uninspired sayles throws in familiar elements from his previous movies corrupt politics illegal immigration the selling out of youthful ideals but fails to bring them together in any new or meaningful way even the dialogue usually strong point is disappointing this time around sounding clichéd and forced in almost every scene the movie looks and sounds like episodes from a tv series that didn't make it past its third episode there are tons of big stars on hand and they try their best to make their bit parts come alive but the material just isn't there this time around while filming a campaign spot a governor hopeful a poor and obvious george w bush stand in fishes a dead body out of a lake an investigator is hired to try and warn away people who may have deliberately set this up to discredit the candidate but he soon finds out that there are deeper and darker and more clichéd secrets to be discovered sayles has made similarly themed movies so much better in the past lone star matewan return of the secaucus seven men with guns it's a shame that he went to the well one time too many and came up with tainted water one good line delivered by richard dreyfuss danny you're a loser that's already been established beyond doubt so just try and be a good one okay
0	this movie was horrible and the only reason it was even made was because the story appealed to the far left i consider my self a moderate so i was able to see this film as the pile of garbage it was while i'm not a bush fan your dislike for gw is not enough of a reason to see this movie br br to start the movie was shot on such low grade film that it comes off as cheap rather then artsy additionally the characters are seriously lacking in depth chris cooper's character was a poor parody of george bush better suited for saturday night live then a dramatic film the rest of the characters are walking clichés and are poor of other characters from much better movies br br avoid this movie at all costs
0	apparently the film has a harsh anti bush message if it does i didn't get it that's all it is it's boring and useless period br br it's too serious at times to be a comedy too slow to be a thriller not funny not gripping not exciting not film it's too everything to be the opposite and vise versa i was amazed at how bad a film could suck don't even think of watching it br br i have watched literally hundreds of films and never have i been so obliged to write a warning on imdb avoid at all costs you have been warned br br even the making of is painfully boring it's just people talking gibberish with loads of inside jokes infront of a camera sort of like a home movie there even is a part where a guy takes you on a tour of the food that was consumed on the set by the film crew still beats the movie i guess
0	honestly one of the worst written directed and acted movies i have ever seen seemed like a made for tv movie and a bad one at that i cannot believe that people are still hiring danny huston after seeing him in this movie or that they are still allowing john sayles to make films my husband and i came across this movie on tv one night and got so bored with it we ended up cleaning the house while it was on and it still bored us it made me think that critics have been so gullible with previous films such as lone star which was raved about at he time but didn't really add up to much in the end spend your time on something better anything
0	generally political messages are done on television so if you are a big fan of environmental correctness watch to your hearts content most people go to the movies to be entertained not sold some poppycock political nonsense the hook here is the big name cast unfortunately the sum of the performances equals a whole movie that went absolutely nowhere the two best performances chris cooper and richard dreyfus have minimal screen time in short silver city is to be avoided as entertainment it is nothing more than a non documentary rambling political expose on illegal immigration pollution and any number of other causes that do not belong anywhere except on the small screen merk
0	i don't really consider myself a conservative so i wasn't personally offended by this film but it was pretty clear that the plot and the characterization in this film were secondary to the message and the message is that all conservatives are either evil or stupid or both the characters are one dimensional either good freedom loving americans or brainless greedy evil conservatives there's nothing clever or creative just anti conservative i don't really mind the political bias itself but it shouldn't be the only purpose behind the movie and clearly it is br br on the positive side the cast is wonderful and chris cooper's impression of w is funny the first two or three times but after that it's just the same old joke being told over and over again br br so if you really hate the conservatives you'll probably enjoy this film but if you're looking for something with realistic characters and a story that's less black and white then you'd be better off watching something else
0	my god the things that passed for entertainment in this country br br this is not the tom and jerry you may have enjoyed on saturday mornings featuring a hapless cat and a clever mouse this is a much earlier animation series featuring a pair of mutt and jeff clones who get themselves into various scrapes that result in any of the then typical dancing skeleton type gags that made up so much of early animation br br this particularly vile outing apparently originally intended as a vehicle for a pair of actual black stage comedians of the time has the pair crashing in the ocean while flying to africa necessitating black face make up exaggerated negro dialect and don't fail me now situations br br it only shows that in the 70 years between emancipation and this film the american view of africans hadn't progressed much then again at least one of them apparently had a pilot's license
0	john sayles what have you done br br silver city had moments in which i could see the glimmering hope of a good story well drawn characters thought provoking dialog and then those moments would quickly be covered over by layers of poor writing clumsy direction and abysmal acting i truly love almost all of john work but silver city is ghastly br br i got the feeling that sayles may have been working on the beginnings of a good story involving the illegal labor and industrial corruption plot lines but then he got rushed and stuck the secondary plot line satirizing the bush administration onto it the two stories don't really connect with each other and the weaker elements of the political theme dominate the first 3 4 of the movie causing me to lose patience with the whole affair br br the other major flaw is danny huston's acting his dialog in every scene is delivered with a gawping grin regardless of its to the mood i hated this guy by the end of the film having been reminded of every bad actor in every high school play i've ever seen not having seen huston in anything else i don't know whether to blame him or to blame direction of him more regardless he's the unfortunate focal point of a very unfortunate movie br br right down to the last sledgehammer subtle final scene i was disappointed by silver city sayles at his best or heck even sayles at mediocre can be so very much better than this film see any of his other works instead this isn't even worth a rental
0	when my parents rented this movie i was expecting a very funny movie as randy quaid is very funny in comedy movies however this movie is not all that funny and it is somewhat boring too you can see the surprise coming a mile away and it runs long for a movie that is supposedly only eighty one minutes long so i can honestly say it is not a movie that is on my favorites list it may work for some people but it just did not work with me at all proving to be rather slow in the build up with virtually nothing that amused me within the entire movie randy quaid is wasted and the rest of the cast is a list of very bland actors and actresses the premise of the movie had potential as did the casting of quaid but all of it just sputters and the inclusion of the horror element just seems very unnecessary granted the one dream sequence the kid had when he jumped on the bed and it suddenly became a whirlpool of blood was very nicely done and would have worked very well in a movie that was supposed to be pure horror instead of one that lists comedy as its first genre
0	very disturbing but expertly crafted scripted and intelligently directed with a good eye for color and detail mary beth hurt sandy dennis and especially randy quaid are unusually good the story centers around a young boy bryan wondering where all the leftovers they eat every night comes from his parents hurt quaid strange behavior causes the school psychiatrist dennis to get involved it is a gruesome cannibal movie but it's not bad if you like hannibal you'll love this if you don't like parents stay away from the film just giving advice to cannibal lover and haters br br rated r for strong adult themes and graphic violence
0	i watched this film with a bunch of friends at a halloween party last night i got to say that the sarcastic comments were never ending and i have to say that they were well deserved though i felt that the directing was done well the craziness in their dialogue is just a little too much cheese i think i got about an hour into this before i even started to realize what it was the point was that they were trying to drive home you catch on pretty quick that this whole family is pretty quirky and something is off about them it's just a little too slow this movie could easily have been about 45 minutes and been a lot better the only thing that made it bearable was the two bottles of wine that i downed during the course of the flick bring on the slasher films folks because at least i know what to expect out of them this was not my thing too much dark humour and the subject material of cannibalism was a bit explicit and gross i have to say that randy quaid played the part as well as it could have been and i will give him props for that as i normally see him as a drunken goofball or a washed out fighter pilot who likes to kill aliens br br in conclusion i give this horror comedy film a very generous 3 out of 10
0	may contain spoilers this movie is the epitome of weirdness i rented it hoping for a film so bad it would be funny however i still honestly can't decide if this film was intended to be scary or humorous it combines the emotions in a rather disturbing way apparently this is trying to be clever but in actual fact it isn't for instance when the knife comes out and tries to kill the teacher it starts playing happy music when we go to we have up beat quasi mr roger's neighborhood music however when the little kid's dreaming of falling in blood and when he finds the leg these are clearly intended to be tense so watch this film and decide for yourself it is too weird to be described in words and for that i say kudos br br nose dive wow
0	the second woman is about the story of a mysterious man who lost his wife in an accident and now believes that someone wants to do him harm a girl who likes him wants to help him but she is led to believe that his fears are caused by a mental illness br br interesting plot very good acting but the result as a whole is poor in many ways the story is too simplistic or rather presented in a simplistic way even though there is a couple of interesting plot twists for example people say they love each other after only two meetings i don't want to reveal anything else but you see what i mean if you watch the movie come on it was the fifties you may think yet i 've seen quite a few films from that era and i know that some don't seem so dated nowadays br br something that disturbed me was that some scenes were shot pitch dark making it almost impossible to watch what was going on ok it's a film noir but this one is too noir at some points o br br overall the second woman is not a masterpiece of that era but no trash either watch it if you have nothing else to do
0	this film isn't a little bad it's not even kind of bad it's horrid you know you're in trouble when charo shows up in a film she must have had the week off from love boat george kennedy at least he's a gamer he's in there trying actually he's all right and it's good to see martha raye jimmie walker's okay there's slightly better acting than in airport '75 but what film doesn't have better acting than airport '75 one thing i liked about this film is that it had more going on than a lot of other disaster films plot wise at least they made an attempt at subplots what really hurts this film is the special effects ugh not too special if you ask me this is the kind of film that at 2am is truly truly funny if you've been up having fun with your buddies and you're looking for something to laugh at
0	this movie has more goofs than any other movie i have seen in my life the special effects are damned terrible for instance near the end when the concorde is falling after the cargo door tears off the thing spins like a toy the special effects of airport 1970 are way better than this crap also the force of a concorde opening up at altitude and speed would essentially turn the thing inside out that is if it would even open at all but the movie has its good points mostly when it ends that's also cheesy e g the thing lands on a bank of loosely packed snow if it did that it would splinter into a million pieces overall 2 out of 10 instant flop great laugh flick
0	actually there was nothing funny about this monstrosity at all this movie was a complete abomination the absurdities in this movie almost made me want to vomit i think that the people responsible for this movie took advantage of their viewing audience they took a relatively decent series of movies i did say decent not good and totally trashed it by trying to put money in their pockets the making of airplane was a way for hollywood to make up for this crappy flick the worst part about it is that either nobody in 1979 realized the asinine events of the movie such as door popping off at some ungodly high altitude or patroni shooting a flair gun out the window at mach 2 to avoid a nuclear warhead what were they thinking were totally unrealistic or they just didn't care i think that it is the latter of the two the writers and director of this film if you want to call it that really tried to suck the airport dynasty dry with this crap
0	with a cast of mostly lesser stars alain delon robert wagner eddie albert lousy special effects sure it was the 70's but alien and star wars came from the same decade and a storyline that is so laughable that one might want to cry this is a flight that should have been grounded br br even academy award winners cicely tyson and george kennedy can't keep this bird airborne br br the implausibility of the third film airplane is submerged in the bermuda triangle is much more believable than this turkey br br avoid the concorde at all costs
0	i was under assumption that this was the cat and mouse duo but it wasn't instead it was something that shouldn't have been made not even for its time they disguise themselves in the blackface fashion because they fly to africa and they even act like stepin fetchit and all the others rolled into one there are some cartoons that are racist but they are classics being a mixed woman i have the right to say this but if you are into the historical aspect of these cartoons try merrie melodies coal black and de dwarfs or angel puss you won't find them on dvd because the distributors promised not to put them in the mainstream but you can find them on a site as youtube i don't recommend little kids seeing this but if you want to see how early america was racist and ignorant these are better suggestions not to mention this particular cartoon has poor animation i know it was 1932 but i have seen better for its time br br plane unnecessary 1 out of 10
0	the concorde is for now the last of the high drama high camp airport series at first glance in the tv guide or dvd cover you would simply think that the film your about to view is as thrilling as the previous think again what your treated to is 2 hours and 3 minutes worth of unintentional laughs courtesy of the worst script ever writing it was even penned by eric roth who brought the world gump well one things for sure the script is not oscar worthy it's razzie worthy the executives at universal in '79 done the right thing by marketing this as a 'comedy' apart from charo the film does have an impressive cast list it's certainly watchable to say the least
0	prior to airport these movies were rather good they had decent special effects all star cast and good acting this movie destroyed the franchise and there are many reasons for it lets talk about the special effects wow they are horrific what was the director thinking about i know it's only 1979 but lets look at other very good special effects movies such as star wars 1977 and moonraker 1979 i like the idea of the and this could of been the best airport movie but they did too much with it how about joe patroni george shooting a flare out of the cockpit window to prevent a heat seeking missile from hitting the also he is doing 90 degree dives and loops this completely far fetched and unrealistic wow believe me the special effects don't help this scene and really are beyond poor they almost look like a cartoon and this is how the whole movie is finally lets talk about the acting which in my opinion is extremely poor to fair at best over acting is a major issue in this movie especially george kennedy which i really like as an actor but just doesn't cut in this movie the full blame has to go on the director who did a very poor editing job and really whacked out the airport franchise too bad the isn't still used today it was a marvel of air travel
0	this final installment of the airport franchise was so incredibly awful that it took me awhile to realize it actually wasn't a slapstick comedy like airplane george kennedy shooting a flare gun out an open window to divert heat seeking missiles was comical what would happen to your hand if you held it out a window at mach two speed you'd lose your grip on the gun and get a broken arm the passengers were unintentionally hilarious as was the interior of the plane the sophisticated french woman coming on to slobby george kennedy was like jackie kennedy coming on to ernest borgnine ain't gonna happen susan blakely a talented and unappreciated actress did not get any points on her resume for this one neither did robert wagner this movie was so lousy it seemed surreal
0	i just saw this movie on tnt and let me tell you this movie was downright corny and cheezy but after a certain point i began to laugh my socks off and to tell you the truth they should classify this movie as comedy rather than action adventure the absolutely most hilarious scene comes when the delon and kennedy are making loop the loop 360's to avoid the french missiles that wagner ordered to destroy the concorde our fearless leader kennedy decides to shoot flares out the window to stop the heat seeking missiles dumb yet funny the kicker comes here though after one shot the flare gun malfunctions and kennedy tries to fix it in the cockpit and well if you want to know what happens get a hold of this movie the dumb parts of this movie include the total lack of plot yeah lets have some action for 25 minutes than land in paris and go one hour with love scenes with prostitutes and flight attendants now lets switch to the saboteur for ten minutes then a wasted rest of the movie and a plane that is visually breaking apart and the passengers don t even see it its right in front of their eyes final rating for this move 1 10 out of 4 stars if it were action 2 out of 4 stars if it were a comedy
0	its a truly awful movie with a laughable storyline some awful acting and a script that ed wood might be ashamed of wagner is laughable in this he plays his role like number two in austin powers easily the worst of the airport movies 1 out of 10
0	4' is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist the concorde supersonic airliner into their in the sky' formula br br bogged down with unintentional humor the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the flight path and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air many stars in this one including robert wagner sylvia kristel alain delon and martha raye as a nervous passenger br br not really related to the other films
0	the concorde airport '79 starts in washington where a man named carl parker macon contacts high profile tv news reporter maggie whelan susan blakely in order to hand secret documents over that prove his boss kevin robert wagner owner president of harrison industries that develop weapons for the military has been illegally selling said weapons to foreign countries however maggie sees carl assassinated she barely escapes with her life maggie is to catch the concorde to moscow via paris the next morning intends to blow the whistle on harrison who also happens to be her boyfriend which would ruin him determined to save himself he his hi tech homing missile to intercept destroy the concorde during a test run killing all those on board destroying the documented evidence br br renamed airport '80 the concorde for it's cinema initial home video releases because it was released here in well 1980 rather than 1979 this last entry in the airport franchise was directed by david lowell rich is a notoriously bad film that was apparently laughed at during press test screenings prompting universal to promote the film as an action comedy the first thing to say is that the concorde airport '79 is a really silly downright daft film but on a purely entertainment basis i can think of a lot worse films to spend 108 minutes watching i really can i quite liked the absurd plot about a wealthy industrialist wanting to kill his girlfriend tv reporter before she can expose him as an illegal arms dealer but this guy doesn't do subtle decides the best way to do it is to blow concorde up with his own guided missile then gets a fighter pilot to try shoot it down before finally sabotaging it so really there's three mini disaster flicks in one here as each time super pilot joe patroni manages to save the day you know joe patroni played by george kennedy appears in all four airport films goes from mechanic in the first to concorde pilot in this also i reckon he's a bit of a jinx since in the space of nine years he has been involved with four major aviation disasters i think the real reason why the airport series stopped here was because patroni retired after this the jinx was lifted some of the things that happen here are just silly patroni does barrel rolls flies upside down out a guided missile in a huge concorde not to mention he crash lands it fires flare guns out of his window to destroy the missile all while keeping a calm head this guy is good very good then there's the character's there's a saxophone playing black dude who smokes weed in the toilets an old woman with a bladder problem a team of russian gymnasts with bad accents also despite being almost shot down with a missile then attacked by a jet fighter the passengers of concorde don't seem that bothered happily get back aboard the following day i don't know about you but after that i would probably find a safer way to travel why do the police or authorities not question anyone why is the concorde captain patroni allowed to just go off sleep with a french prostitute the concorde airport '79 certainly isn't boring is full of memorable moments i was entertained in a way although it's far from a good film modern audiences may not have the patience with it hell i liked it for what it was in a daft way but it's no sort of classic br br even though concorde no longer flies it's still quite a cool looking air plane there's plenty of footage of it here the one used in the concorde airport '79 was the seventh one built this concorde was also the same aircraft which crashed after a tire bust caused a fuel tank to rupture and the leaking fuel catch fire on july 25th 2000 while taking off in paris sadly resulting in the death of 109 passengers and crew on board and 4 people on the ground when this aired on tv in the us in 1982 almost twenty minutes of new footage was included with most if not all of it being newly shot over two years after the original production had finished i know the effects here take a bashing from most but i don't reckon they are too bad when you consider this was made in the late 70's i think they come across quite well the camera moves during effects shots real footage of real planes is used rather than toy models which in my opinion would have looked a lot worse i could certainly see what the makers were trying to do with limited funds limited technology in a strange way they are quite impressive actually without ever looking that good if you know what i mean probably the most action packed of all the airport films there's missiles exploding planes daring crash landings assassinations a guy named robert palmer no not the singer giving head a woman in a jacuzzi br br the imdb says this had a budget of about 14 000 000 which is actually more than i thought maybe those special effects aren't so impressive after all shot in utah washington los angeles france the acting isn't great here people don't look worried enough that they are about to die goerge kennedy gets some bad one liners while robert wagner plays the bad guy br br the concorde airport '79 is fun for bad film enthusiasts everywhere to be brutally honest i rather watch this entertaining mess of a film than some two hour oscar nominated bore
0	there is a special heaven reserved for people who make the world laugh alongside chaplin stan and ollie the marx bros and fill in your own special favourites space must be made for everybody connected with airport 80 concorde the movie robert wagner in particular exceeds all expectations giving the comedy performance of a lifetime i would never have thought he had it in him the only way he could have been funnier would have been to have worn a red nose and a revolving bow tie british moviegoers will recognise the fat one from cannon and ball pretending to be a russian athlete a nice trick if he could have pulled it off but tragically he couldn't i have a 14 year old labrador more athletic and almost as funny george kennedy bless him has a part that requires him talk and move at the same time and my goodness he triumphs brow wrinkled with effort he utters timeless dialogue each word lovingly polished into coward like brilliance only once in twenty years does hollywood turn out a film like airport 80 all the years of toil and struggle the sweat the tears the lessons with lee strasberg living out of suitcases born in a trunk etc etc all come to fruition a work of art is created that will last as long as there are movies and machines to show them on i think i'm ready for my medication now
0	this film is an absolute disgrace i thoroughly enjoyed the original airport and i can't believe how the same people could produce this twaddle nine years on first of all the acting is bad the original had actors who had done quality non disaster films before but this one uses actors who have done the disaster movie circuit already blakely kennedy wagner also george kennedy's character patroni seems to get promoted very quickly he is now the lead in the film but his character isn't strong enough to carry it off he has lost the charm and humour of airport 1970 and the character is now just boring have i mentioned the plot is it at all believable that someone would send a missile after the concorde no there are also too many loose ends scenes that have no relevance whatsoever to the plot the scene where the hot air balloon lands on the runway the chase of the thief in charles de airport are two such scenes both would be interesting if only they had something to do with the actual story there also many unanswered questions why does patroni open the window and fire a flare at the other plane why does robert wagner's character kill himself he must have another stupid and costly way of why is there no enquiry after the missile almost blows up the concorde why are the back projections so bad it looks as though a cartoon missile is following the concorde although it does work well when the plane lands in paris why does patroni think that he is in a flight simulator when he turns the concorde over why does he get a hero's welcome in the cabin of the plane after having terrified the passengers and why is the ending so poor if it can be called an ending at all given their one dimensional ness no one seems to notice this the blessing given to the young couple on the plane by the girl's coach is the man who plays the saxophone is annoying and the woman with the bladder problem is just plain silly the scenes where susan blakely is lying on the roof of her conservatory and the when she tells wagner that she still loves him are quite awful in conclusion this film should have been the climax of the previous three airport films instead it is a diabolical sub moronic complete and utter waste of time money energy celluloid and talent remember when patroni asks the french pilot if he has ever landed on his belly this film certainly does the belly flop and lands flat on its pointy nose
0	warning spoilers br br lord knows i have seen some bad movies in my time and this one makes me just as angry this is an insult to people who are looking for a bad movie the story involves a stewardess who discovers her boyfriend badly acted by otherwise great robert wagner is a murder thief and just an overall puke face after the concorde takes off he sends guided missiles to destroy the concorde so while the concorde is traveling at the speed of light our hero played with utter stupidity george kennedy opens the window in the cockpit then sticks his hand out the window to fire at the missile i'm no rocket scientist but it seems his hand would at least get a wind burn then towards the final climax when the concorde is headed for certain disaster and everyone will die a passenger turns to his fiance and proposes marriage a priest just happens to be sitting in the next row and proceeds to marry them as the planes is crashing i'm not making this up wow the guy who wrote the script must have been sniffing glue for a week
0	tom and jerry are transporting goods via airplane to africa but being white men they're worried they won't be safe so they put on blackface to fit in once they're wearing it they adopt black dialect and fully inhabit their new characters they crash into the ocean and use the wing of the plane as a raft before reaching land they suffer the advances of an over affectionate octopus and more serious danger from sharks a swordfish and a whale once on land they're frightened by fantastic creatures and duck into a cave inside it's even worse when they encounter living skeletons in blackface and upon exiting the cave things are even worse than that when they are discovered by cannibals br br plane dumb is an especially sloppy effort from van studios one example a lion unknown to tom and jerry enters the cave before they do but the animators must have forgotten about it because the lion never appears again another example is the ending that's not an ending it's just an arbitrary stop br br according to a youtube poster the cartoon was originally intended to feature the voices and caricatures of a popular comedy team known as miller but aubrey died of tuberculosis before the recording session was completed and co directors john foster george were forced to rework the animation into a 'tom jerry' story br br they shouldn't have bothered the crude animation and poorly executed gags make the film a loser from beginning to end
0	i gave airport '79 only two stars because it's a truly lousy film nobody who had anything to do with it deserves any praise except for chihuahua who does a pretty good job in his role this is not to say that the film isn't worth watching it helps if you have a buzz on but this is not essential br br really does seem like an early version of airplane every scene has a set up and a payoff and the scenes blunder after one another as if they were totally disconnected one of my favorite recurring points is that the passengers crew and airplane get to keep going no matter what you're a news reporter and a strange guy gets murdered at your house in your presence the hit man then chases you onto your greenhouse roof no problem you can still catch that early morning flight to paris no need to get the cops involved your plane dodges one unmanned drone missile four heat seeking missiles and cannon fire from an unidentified phantom fighter doing barrel rolls an dive and a crash net landing without thrust in the process no problem we'll have the mechanics check the oil and get you on your way in just a few hours it's truly funny br br and i'll admit that there's a bit of the anarchist in me that comes out when the passengers pay no attention to the cabin attendants the highlight is when the attendant tells jimmie walker he'll have to put away his saxophone god spare me from a flight seated in front of a saxophonist playing jazz prior to take off jimmie basically says nope later in the flight the sax is damaged during a barrel roll and jimmie actually shows up on the next leg of the flight with yet another sax that he won't put away this aspect of the film is just fun one passenger actually obeys the attendant when charo is told she can't take her dog on the flight she leaves the plane naturally this is because you can't get a good view of her ass and boobs while she's seated br br in summary a terrible movie but terrible enough to be a bit amusing unfortunately the filmmakers and cast deserve no credit whatsoever for this as it was probably entirely unintentional
0	my take the silliest of the airport movies and probably one of the worst of the 70's disaster movies br br as if to milk the franchise with all its got the producers of this third sequel to airport throws in more action silly subplots gratuitous star appearances and goofier elements in its attempt to be the biggest airport yet concorde airport '79 is the worst one yet and probably one of the worst of the disaster movies of the 1970's with its bad box office results it is no wonder that the genre has overstayed its welcome br br the film opens with a rather catchy score by lalo schifrin backed up by some impressive shots of the titular aircraft in its former glory the same plane used in this film would be involved in a crash in july 2000 but then the credits appear and we get a glimpse of the all star cast which is composed nothing more of faded hollywood stars tv actors and none too popular b actors the plot is sillier than ever george kennedy is back in the role of joe patroni now the pilot of the concorde co piloted by co pilot alain delon en route to france after the summer olympics on board is reporter maggie whelan susan blakely who has just discovered that his boyfriend renowned weapons manufacturer kevin harrison robert wagner is selling their weapons to terrorist to prevent her from revealing the news to the world harrison sends his most advance missiles and best saboteurs to prevent the concorde from landing br br the cast subplots are dumber than ever even sillier than an alcoholic myrna loy or a singing nun we have cicely tyson transporting a live human heart in a cooler martha raye as a woman with a bladder condition and the character doesn't go deeper than that j j walker a a pot smoking saxophonist arguably the most annoying character in the film eddie albert married to old wife sybil danning avery schreiber as russian coach with a deaf daughter and finally a love story between reporter jon davidson and gymnast andrea much to the sour watching eye of coach mercedes plus the movie gets much closer to love boat episode than ever with the silliest cameos of charo and her pet chihuahua and bibi anderson camp buffs will no doubt get a real kick in the balls in this silly entry in a long strain of 70's disaster movies this one is in more than the sense of the word a true disaster br br rating 1 2 out of 5
0	some slack might be cut this movie due to the fact that it was made in 1979 that much said it really is pretty dire br br never mind the laughable back projection or the awful awful camera tracking of supposed in flight objects it's the stunts that the concorde pulls off that will have you blinking in disbelief at the absurdity barrel rolls loop the loops and violent evasive maneuvers left me wondering why the air forces of the world didn't just fly as their main fighters br br so here are the important lessons i learned from this celluloid cheese fest br br 1 the concorde is at least as agile as a phantom 4 jet fighter br br 2 you can fire a flare gun at mach 2 simply by opening the cockpit window and sticking your arm out br br 3 if the flare gun fails to discharge do not drop it as it may then go off br br 4 the concorde can dodge up to two sidewinder missiles fired at it at once br br 5 a flare will distract a heat seeking missile every time br br 6 switching off your jet engines is a sure fire way of throwing heat seeking missiles off track if 5 above fails br br 7 when performing a crash landing in the concorde it is apparently impossible to jettison your fuel beforehand br br 8 concorde pilots are all combat trained veterans br br as you might imagine this film is not very realistic the effects are primitive by today's standards and that coupled with the nonsense acrobatics the concorde performs makes this a movie deserving of little but scorn br br not recommended not recommended at all
0	the last of the airport sequels this has alain delon and george kennedy who was in all the airport movies as pilots david warner as the radio engineer susan blakely as a newswoman targeted for death robert wagner as a brilliant scientist stop laughing eddie albert as a president of the airlines charo in a dreadful comical bit john davidson as a newsman love how his hair stays in place even after the plane turns upside down poor martha raye is humiliated cicely tyson plays a mother who is flying a heart for her dying son stop rolling your eyes jimmie walker as a clarinet player what did i say about not laughing mercedes as a russian gymnastics coach ok you can laugh at that one bibi as a hooker and sylvia kristel and sybil danning as love interests br br just pathetic full of stupid plots and dialogue that will have you roaring watch for davidson getting married on the plane near the end the concorde is taking all these people to russia they're attacked with missiles escape land safely in france and take off again the very next day don't you think the flight would have been cancelled or something most of the acting is terrible is a sight to behold in a red fright wig and a horrible fake accent the only good acting is from kennedy and delon looking fantastic who gives a very engaging performance still that's not enough to make you sit through this drivel too long and lousy special effects too this was a mega bomb and thankfully stopped universal from doing anymore
0	this is what happens when a franchise gets lazy and no one can think of a new twist to add remember what happened to the childs play series the first three were played as horror films with genuine scares albeit predictable that held true to the theme of the movie then they ran out of folks for the doll to stalk and decided to play it for laughs with the next two being black comedies br br well that s what happened here but i think it was not meant to be like that kind of like saying i wanted to make pancakes for dessert i did this on purpose when your soufflé accidentally fizzles flat but the milk was spilled and it had some value in the theaters as a goof br br when the floor ripped out from under the passenger seats i sort of expected the passengers to extend their legs through the hole start running flintstones style to safely land the plane in the alps i did it would have fit into the silly campy theme of the rest of the show br br instead of pointing out the obvious physical impossibilities of the film what about the social implausibilities like having george kennedy's character react calmly to the news that his date was a whore even back in 1979 a man would not easily accept the notion that he has just poured his heart out to a paid companion he supposedly felt he made a connection with a kindred spirit who is subsequently shown to be a mercenary sex worker with a come on line who wouldn't feel cheated by the experience and yet he giggles and wraps his arms around his buddy's waist as they merrily stroll off what a cheap wrap up of a sleazy scene ouch br br i had an appetite for soufflé and got served insipid cliché pancakes and no you did not do it on purpose
0	oh you pilots are such men they don't call it the cockpit for nothing honey dialogue like that is just one of many reasons why the airport '79 or if you saw it in the uk where it dragged its heels getting released there airport '80 the concorde was the last and by far the least of the series the disaster movie was in dire straits in the what with the swarm having offered much unintentional hilarity and beyond the poseidon adventure when time ran out and city on fire simply offering much boredom and the desperation to find a new spin on the genre is all too apparent here this time it's a conspiracy plot with susan news anchorwoman discovering billionaire boyfriend robert wagner has been selling arms to terrorists and the north vietnamese naturally she decides to tell him everything rather than make the story public but he her off by explaining i'm a very rich man i have everything in life i could ever want why would i that by doing something so incredibly stupid just in case she doesn't buy that line rather than say hire a hit man to kill her on the ground he decides to do things the smart way by planning to destroy the concorde while she's flying to moscow via paris i've done a lot of things i've been ashamed of but i am not a murderer he insists indignantly on his way to a guided missile to destroy the plane so nothing incredibly stupid there and when that fails he sends a jet fighter after it and when that br br don't even think of looking for anything resembling logic here this is real bottom of the barrel stuff that even the studio gave up on and marketed as a comedy in the us after critics laughed it off the screen where the previous three entries all had the look of glossy big budget entertainments this small screen friendly effort the only one not to be shot in 2 35 1 widescreen doesn't even manage to make the concorde look good which is quite a feat tv veteran david lowell rich presumably got the directing gig because he was fast cheap and had previously directed tv movie disaster in the sky where peter graves' supersonic airplane found itself unable to land due to sabotage and senegalese flu which was not intentionally at least a comedy despite the presence of a young billy crystal in the cast and seemed like the natural choice for what looks like a tv movie that somehow escaped into theatres when no one was looking br br cast like a bad episode of hollywood squares stars are in very short supply this time round and most of the few vaguely familiar faces seem to have been rounded up from rehab and busted sitcoms alain delon gives the hollywood career that one last shot as the pilot happy fish don't ask george kennedy moves from the executive suite to the co pilot's seat in the hope of reminding people of the other movies while the rest of the ensemble includes a couple of veterans of the towering inferno wagner and blakely a soft porn star sylvia kristel trying to go respectable an ingmar bergman regular bibi – and she's the one playing the hooker david warner's navigator on a diet having nightmares about being chased by bananas the voice of the devil mercedes charo and her seeing eye chihuahua screw me martha raye and her weak bladder jimmie walker playing the sax in his seat and smoking weed in the john in the few moments its not occupied by martha raye cicely tyson kissing her credibility goodbye as the obligatory mother with critically ill child and a frozen heart in the overhead locker airline owner eddie albert and trophy wife sybil danning occupying the best seat in the house ed begley jr in goggles and the russian olympic team and their lovable coach val avery and his deaf daughter ahhhh on a goodwill tour of the states who knew about the boycott just to add a touch of the simpsons to proceedings harry shearer voices one news report in the same tones he'd later use for br br highlight despite the impromptu wedding ceremony during a crash landing it just has to be george kennedy diverting a heat seeking missile by opening the window sticking his arm out at nearly twice the speed of sound and firing a flare – while the plane is upside down and then alain delon turns off the engines so there won't be a heat source for the missiles to home in yes someone actually got paid for writing this and that someone was future oscar winner and screenwriter of munich and the insider eric roth hey everybody has to start somewhere although in his defence it was producer jennings lang who came up with the plot still what do you expect from a film that credits stunt and ends with a shot of the concorde flying off into the sunset amazingly in one of those won't admit defeat moments studios used to be prone to universal shot another 20 minutes or so of footage a couple of years later to include in the network tv showings not included on the dvd sadly its box office failure led to the fifth entry in the series the laugh riot that would have been airport 1984 ufo never getting off the ground even more genuinely tragically it was the concorde used in this film that crashed in france 21 years later br br oh and if you're wondering what charo says to her chihuahua in spanish when it's not allowed on board it's what do you think don't worry when the revolution comes i promise you will fly on anything you want i promise what a shame my love what do they think they are
0	the real star of the last of the airport films is that big supersonic carrier the french created called the concorde if you bear in mind that the whole film is dedicated to showing what that needle nosed plane could do in the sky than the whole film kind of makes sense br br but if you're expecting some serious drama here than by all means take some of the evasive action the concorde shows here when some nasty folks try to shoot her down br br susan blakely plays a television news reporter who also happens to be the mistress of military industrial tycoon robert wagner one of wagner's aides just happens to bring her information on some of wagner's dirty business dealings selling arms to folks not friendly to the usa when the source macon is killed in front of her and she's nearly done in by a hit man whom she escapes from of course she confronts wagner with the information and of course he denies it but right before blakely boards the concorde widow kathleen maguire hands her the necessary documents br br but on the way to moscow with a stop in paris wagner and his minions try to put the big bird down but the fearless crew of alain delon david warner and george kennedy is up to all their tricks it's quite a bag full as you'll see if you want to watch the film br br if you're an aviation enthusiast you absolutely won't care about the plot it's like the film le mans with steve mcqueen which has a legion of auto racing fans who have made it a cult item maybe le mans is better at that because they just didn't bother with any kind of story br br among the passengers is a pot smoking saxophonist played by jimmie walker a distraught mother accompanying a new heart for her child played by cicely tyson and martha raye a woman with a weak bladder who spends the entire trip from washington to paris in the loo she's actually the best one here br br robert wagner must have been psychic though because i'm sure on the strength of this film he got the part of doctor number two in the austin powers series br br i'm sure all concerned got a big pay day out of this film but it seems to have killed the airport saga of movies
0	all the airport movies are stinkers but this one is the biggest turkey of them all the formula was different for this one because it focused on two disastrous flights and a lot of plot occurring on the ground while the other movies focused on just one disastrous flight and less plot on the ground the stunts with the concorde are worth watching for the laughs although the special effects aren't as terrible as i'd expect for a movie of this quality made in 1979 george kennedy's sexist remarks are disgusting and his rendezvous with a prostitute in paris is totally unnecessary and made me gag a little poor martha raye was relegated to a role where she did nothing but relieve her bowel over and over in the bathroom there are no big stars in this movie compared to the previous films giving you one more reason not to watch this one
0	this movie is scary at times perhaps no more so than when a naked george kennedy tells his hooker girlfriend he wants a little more sugar thankfully his nakedness is covered by a blanket but the image is still more horrifying than anything you're likely to find in for example schindler's list br br the dialog in this film was inspiring it inspired me to watch another movie in one scene when a stewardess remarks about male pilots kennedy asks why do you think it's called a pit charming br br and yes contrary to what some have written this film is very very bad
0	the original airport 1970 was a classic of its kind and the first two b movie follow ups airport 1975 airport '77 were watchable fun at best amusing camp at worst but this crass and inept final entry lacks any entertainment value and displays a shocking contempt for its audience it's unendurable and not even good for laughs br br all of the three airport sequels were theatrical releases made by universal's television wing but this one is beneath even the modest standards of a tv movie of its day with cheapjack production grotesque casting visual ugliness and tasteless unfunny comedy the project was clearly doomed by the creative efforts of universal executive jennings lang who personally produced and is given a story credit br br everyone starts somewhere and writer eric roth forrest gump might have provided an element of self burlesque as had the previous films especially the notorious airport 1975 but there is nothing worth spoofing in roth's turgid incoherent script and even the comedy airplane left this crud untouched br br what makes the concorde airport '79 particularly offensive is its insulting misuse of professionals the worst victim is the supremely gifted tyson the autobiography of miss jane pittman reduced to a vomitous subplot involving her escorting a frozen heart transplant on the unfortunate flight br br a special kick to the groin is reserved for the wonderful george kennedy who is the true lead despite being buried in the cast list the official mascot of the airport series and the only actor to appear in all four movies kennedy had more than earned the starring role and his turn in the captain's seat would have been the only possible reason for this entry other than the squeezing of one last buck kennedy provides the only warmth and real humor in this mechanical briefly putting aside the bravura machismo and revealing a genuinely sweet and tender side to himself and his lovable and heroic character of joe patroni unfortunately we are never allowed to forget how fat and old and over the hill kennedy is and overage pretty boy alain delon relentlessly calls him porky pig as part of a buddy bonding that falls completely flat even kennedy's parisian romance the only humane part of this plane wreck turns out to be merely a set up for a hateful joke at kennedy's and the viewer's expense
0	while credited as a tom and jerry cartoon this is not the cat and mouse team but an earlier mutt and jeff rip off featuring them going to africa and disguising themselves in the stereotypical burnt cork makeup to try to blend in while the dialect humor is mostly lame there is a brief musical sequence involving black skeletons that was entertaining i have to ask however how could tom and jerry still have their makeup stay on even after being dumped in the water a couple of times one of many entries produced by the van corporation for distribution by rko radio pictures before rko made a deal with disney only worth seeing if you're an animation buff or is interested in how certain ethnicities were stereotyped as entertainment way back when
0	there are bad movies movies that are horrible and then there's a tiny rarified body of movies that are so horribly bad that even after seeing them just once the sheer awfulness makes it impossible to forget them even decades later this is exactly such a movie and it's hard to believe that the original film in this series was actually quite good let's see george kennedy the cigar chomping tough guy mechanic of the original has somehow been promoted to airline captain and after the concorde comes under missile attack don't ask he resorts to stunts like shooting a flare gun out the cockpit window despite presumably flying at mach 2 all the while doing the sort of wild high g evasive maneuvers that would have ripped the wings off any real airliner never mind the effect of the passengers but the absolute worst part of the film at least to dedicated airplane buffs like myself is that this atrocity starred one of the coolest sexiest and most technologically remarkable planes ever to fly the concorde or just plain concorde as its pilots refer to it deserved far better this abomination is the equivalent of taking a high class beauty like audrey hepburn and putting her in a porky's sequel thankfully the release of the ever hilarious airplane the following year brought the whole airport franchise to a well deserved halt as anyone even contemplating a fifth installment would have been laughed to death by studios and movie fans alike br br 1 10
0	this one is a cut above the usual softcore t a with the spirit of a dead actress returning to claim the film role she believes is rightfully hers and using the body of an aspiring young actress to do so br br as always the gorgeously sexy amber newman the is main attraction her sensuous presence overshadows the mildly attractive o'brien br br plot 1 2 out of br br sex nudity out of
0	sorry folks i love ray work but the one thing he ain't is a leading man maybe if you pretend he's the last man on earth this romantic plot might work but now br br here's a movie that exists simply to showcase the title song which was a big hit for the basie band the year before 1951 and some pretty nifty singing and dancing save it from being a total disaster br br however the story line is pathetic even by 1952 musical comedy standards and the other songs are equally as forgettable as evening in paris cologne the dialogue embarrasses the stars day bolger only claude charms keep his character three dimensional br br so how to enjoy this movie on video br br a fast forward through all the dialogue br br b surrender yourself to doris day's vocals and ray loose limbed footwork and don't miss hilarious take on a rain soaked windswept reprise of april in paris br br c finally keep a couple of bottles of chilled and handy br br bob raymond
0	well built doris day as ethel s dynamite jackson is mistaken for thespian ethel barrymore and falls in love with dancer ray bolger as s sam putnam older frenchman claude dauphin as philippe also digs doris what were they thinking this wildly inappropriate musical does feature ms day prettily singing the standard april in paris and others certainly there nothing as good as her columbia recordings from the time and nothing approaches day's stunning and forthcoming secret love although the material does not serve him well it's nice to see mr bolger performing some of the musical numbers are obnoxious br br april in paris 12 24 52 david butler doris day ray bolger claude dauphin
0	well i will come clean and admit that i was forced as part of my history degree to watch this film and then write a short film review as part of my grade br br yet even if i had watched the film alone at my own discretion i found it extremely boring and absurd the style is dated beyond its years and the acting is farcical rather than use dialogue they instead exchange eye popping glances at each other or sometimes into thin air for me such over the top acting does not convey any greater emotion and after seeing an extreme close up face for the hundredth time i was praying for the film to end br br the most disappointing though is how wrong character is this man was nasty his bodyguard's murderous thugs and his character cowardly for me the film was nothing but a piece of stalin propaganda inaccurate and dull
0	ivan the terrible is more a filmed stage play than a big screen opus citizen kane a similar work in many ways is quite the opposite in the way we come to expect such fare in that it has lots of location shooting for example br br acting is meant to convey a character's motivations and thinking to the audience if it succeeds in making you understand the character what does it matter how it was done and considering the low amount of action how else is one to express events that influence the story and consequently the characters' machinations and decisions other than exaggerated movements br br as well there's a historical level why the acting style should not surprise the rise of totalitarian regimes in germany and ussr forced film makers who stayed behind to make films the way they knew how as they were prevented access to more modern works that showed cinema's evolution and techniques they only used what they knew br br the nazi's control of government in germany destroyed the great german film industry of the 1920's due to their total control over that film industry and propaganda films can only entertain german troops so much hence the need for popular german silent films of the 1920's for example so a lot of ivan the terrible film's techniques would have been derived from such captured german films supplied to the film crew as mentioned in other comments br br there was no confusion anywhere and though personally it was found over hyped it is by no means a bad cinematic experience and definitely not amongst the worse films ever the acting is fine and part of the cinematography excellent even by today's standards more below definitely not a popcorn flick one can't leave their brain outside this one's door dated perhaps and very symbolic only worth watching on the big screen if one is unable to view the films with the lights off at home for many of the cinematic elements will be lost in these films' chiefly b w experience it all depends upon what expectations one walks in with br br warning spoilers do not read the following comments in case they influence your personal view of the film s br br and if one does not mind the obvious communist propaganda as opposed to capitalist propaganda for ivan is how stalin saw himself obvious in his influence on the film's direction see other comments and anyone with a world historical awareness outside the us perspective will definitely understand this maybe ivan was an earlier incarnation of stalin or maybe not this is more a diatribe on stalin and his motivations decisions loneliness promotions of lackeys etc using the persona of ivan than any true historical record of ivan also note the obvious use of particular colours in the sequel red for the ussr in the banquet scene and perhaps blue for the usa during certain shots when the usurper wears the crown br br but it has many excellent visuals such as the profound use of shadows or the exterior shot of the populace coming to beg return to moscow
0	i only watched the first twenty minutes of this movie and personally i think that this is the worst movie to be made in the recent years br br the plot was so bad that it might have been possible that a 10 year old kid wrote it the acting was also sloppy with pretty much an unknown cast and not only that the action sequences especially at the first half of the film were so terrible it was unbelievable br br i don't know how the producers obtained the budget to film this movie but the production company must be regretting it by now br br to anyone who may come across this film in the near future i advise you to steer clear of this joke of a movie
0	this film is unbelievable on any level it fails as an action film because no one would be fooled for a moment that the props actors and scenery are realistic it fails because even the most gung ho would see through the hollow chauvinism portrayed by the film a hypocritical might is right mentality
0	as a bit of a michael dudikoff fan i sat down to watch one of his good old fashioned actioners i'm still waiting br br the film is based around a group of us commandos trying to get rid of a bunch of syrian terrorists who have taken over a nuclear reactor maddie reese felicity waterman was an english member of the commando unit and of course she became romantically involved with tom dickson dudikoff i must ask since when have the brits had female sas members as far as i know if they are ever needed they are got from other sources even if they did i can pretty much guarantee they wouldn't be as wet as maddie reese i would also think that tom dickson would be a little more responsible in his position or have i lost the plot i know there is always the romantic angle in these films as it helps provide the feelgood factor but does it have to be throughout especially when there's more important things to be taken into consideration like nuclear warfare br br the signing of the treaty on the us aircraft carrier intrigued me the sacred pen as carried by one of the supposed tv news crew are there were no security checks to find out who or what goes on board one of these ships especially with the calibre of people that was on it mind you if there was i suppose there would be no story br br i could go on but when it got to inner body bomb in order to safely remove a bullet i gave up on the action drama movie bit and enjoyed it for the comedy it actually was br br by the way would a news reporter really say downtown damascus
0	i am a big md fan but i call it like i see it this film limped along the plot was preposterous gaining access to heads of state in this movie is easier than gaining access to the the local grocery store come on tone loc has the emotion of a wooden plank loosen up the editing is choppy the actors and i use the term loosely sound as if they are reading their lines on valium br br this movie could have been better dudikoff has potential but he chooses scripts that just scream stinker br br if you want to watch a good dudikoff movie may i suggest crash dive or avenging force if you have never seen one of his films this is not the one to introduce you to his work you will walk away with a bad taste in your mouth and think all of his projects are this bad
0	tom jerry are visiting africa and disguise themselves in an amos n andy fashion they even act and talk differently with the standard degrading usage of extremely poor grammar associated with the stereotypical image of blacks portrayed in many cartoons of the era aside from the offensive images this cartoon just isn't very good why were they going to africa in the first place apparently just to provide the audience with another amos n andy and the additionally overused cannibalistic portrayal of native africans the only reason this got a 2 instead of a 1 was there is a decent few seconds involving an octopus br br worth one view which will still leave you shaking your head wondering how ignorance could prevail br br note i consider some cartoons containing such racially stereotypical images very good it all depends on if there is good content surrounding the cartoon or if the only reason for the existence of the cartoon is to make fun of those incorrectly portrayed in other words if you get rid of mammy shuffling feet the poor grammar and black face with giant lips images is there anything left in the case of plane dumb there is not
0	the amount of hype and the huge success this film has encountered is evidence how desperate our people are towards a good independent saudi film in fact the huge success of ma is also an evidence br br i'm not going to start of how important film making is as it is obvious to those with half a brain how films have changed the world br br and i'm not going to say how much our society needs a bunch of films to clear out a lot of issues we have in our country religion politics women's rights education general health terrorism law and many many more br br along came news about the fist saudi movie which should've been a remedy to some of the issues we have especially towards the youth instead we experienced a bald movie for that matter br br the ignorance and naivety of the script was obvious it was as if a 13 year old had written it br br now i've heard that the budget for this film was huge i would like to know where the money went huh the effects were really ugly the editing was poor the script was you really don't know what the story is and what the director aims at from this film br br a note on the actor who played the religious brother his performance was good but with bad direction another thing with the role of the religious friends he had that is not how religious guys act here in saudi arabia they are not evil as this film intends in fact they are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet with some really uncommon way of living and that is what should've appeared in the film br br the youth are following the religious here because of a reason and that is the youngsters are the most passionate and sentimental and with the well formed principles the religious live on the youngsters follow them again this is what should've appeared br br we need another first film with a saudi writer actor director composer even cameraman so that they all work with passion towards their experiment not just for the money br br and we should do what shakespeare did hundreds of years ago we should include phrases from the qur'an in the script of the movie as the people in our society still see art as a form of sin the challenge a saudi movie maker is facing is changing the mentality in that angle
0	this piece of crap doesn't worth a critical review so i'll write some information for those who don't know the background of this movie first off all it is not the first saudi movie they used this wrong info for commercial purpose they lied second they made it for money not for anything else so they picked the jerk who won star academy like big brother it is a popular show and the jerk is popular but dumb cheesy untalented then picked the famous actor mohammed al also dumb untalented but has a popular count how many times i'll use the word popular then email me to get your prize however has popular show and the jordanian actress mais who appeared in popular comic show unfunny so she is famous popular then they picked some saudi actors for blah blah blah the funniest thing is the director he is canadian with palestinian roots i believe that the identity of the movie is the identity of its director wait a minute the screen play was written by an egyptian screenwriter very awful one with some help from lebanese critic famous as critic but actually he is a money collector this group of the multi races money slaves doesn't know anything about the saudi culture they don't represent it but when we know who is behind this garbage all our questions will be relieved bin is saudi prince and b u s i n e s s m a n who doesn't care about the saudi culture or saudi people he even doesn't live in saudi arabia even if he lives he will live in his own world his world is far far far away from the real world the people world so he doesn't know anything or care about anything except raising his endless fortune br br not saudi movie not anything movie br br screw them all br br beep out of 10
0	this film revival right march in a bad film industry and saudi arabia i want to know how the director was able to stand in front of people of the industry after he making this film work was so very bad we do not know how cinema saudi companies such as and other does not support yang filmmakers in like we hope in the future to prosper film industry in saudi arabia but without such intervention fools traders and idiots make us bad movies do not benefit the reputation of cinema in saudi arabia is like the roman and iranian cinema at the same time please makers simple experimental cinema in saudi arabia such as abdullah and others to achieve the dream of a good film industry to participate in festivals world away from the major companies interventions stupid
0	this movie as the 1st movie should be active to their people and show the good thing on them otherwise we see in this as cast want show religion's people in saudi arabia as terrorist and stupid in fact their not they are very peaceful and smart about the director is not even less good the grandfather in movie is very younger than the father everyone notes that and the girls who not saudi by the way show our girls as pitches looking to man to satisfy their needs was just another part of furniture at act he did nothing to imagine only when he said to his lover i love you and yell to his friend don't talk to strange girls really funny or really stupid br br the father was so not moving only set their and he watch this movie as not one of cast and only word he said al the weird thing in this movie is when the girls were set in restaurant in family's part there voice in behind young man talk to his girlfriends kiss me many times is that happened in saudi arabia when the girls and boys grow up good and not bitches and adulterer any saudi have patriot in his heart will not allow to see this stupid movie
0	what a shame our first movie is so bad hi sham what did you do in this movie it is awful and the director there is no story in this film i had sleep when i was watching this film it is a disappointment and the majority of the crew is not from saudi arabia supposed to be a comedy movie but it lacks the essential elements in comedy br br i know it first experience of cinema in saudi arabia but i expect better from kaif al hal the only positive in the movie is the presence of some talented actors who did not help much text to explode their talents finally to know your comment about this movie guys is it bad or what
0	total disgrace truly awful the screenplay and dialogue is a joke and combined with a director who doesn't have a clue about life in saudi arabia it's not a surprise quite saudi film ha the director is palestinian canadian the writer is lebanese the lead actress is jordanian and the shooting took place in dubai and all those elements show very well to make the film far from representing the saudi society yes it contains some saudi cliché's the stuff we see in cartoons in the newspapers everyday but that's about everything the film had the opportunity to show real problem with saudi society or at least give us something new and genuine about the youth troubles and concerns in saudi arabia instead it copied and pasted from here and there and the result was a mess even the supposedly love story in the movie doesn't exist or at least we haven't seen it the only bright side in this total debacle is some good acting from the supporting cast the veteran sami was funny in a badly written role as the grand father which he is clearly got miscasted for he looks younger than the actor who plays his son also the actor who plays the fanatic brother's role al has done well in fact he was the best actor in the film the rest of the cast being professionals for long did an ok job but the lead actor was just bad he had one look of a little adorable bobby for all situations he couldn't even say his lines in a proper manner he has charisma that made him win the title of star academy a very famous reality show and he is good in interviews and tv shows but he was just the weakest link of this film the lead actress i didn't mind very much but even she acted badly in some scenes and overplayed her sensuality in unneeded way br br the film was a huge hit saudi flocked in thousands to neighboring bahrain and dubai to attend it when it was screened there and it made a tone of money then it was screened in pay per view then in broadcasting tv and that was in a span of a few weeks this was to cash on eagerness to homegrown entertainment but alas the film was neither homegrown nor entertaining
0	this is a fact that this is the 1st saudi feature film to be shown in cinema theaters but not in saudi arabia for a simple reason we don't have cinema theaters in our large kingdom not only one cinema theater the government forbidden opening cinema theaters after the islamic extremists or the religious police or both asked for closing it in the late 1970s the early 1980s accusing the 7th art with encouraging wrong sex relationships and stuff like that i don't see a powerful reason why we don't open cinema theaters we have many videos stores throughout the kingdom we watch movies in the tv from some satellite channels we can install the showtime set channels and after all movies in general seems harmless in many ways i know many people how go to neighboring countries only to watch a couple of films i personally went to bahrain several times only to watch films in theaters because watching it there is big fun unlike watching a movie home pay the most expensive cinema ticket in the world we travel to watch movies while the rest of the world have cinema theaters around every town this is one of the problems that we are having br br the movie is produced and presented by filmed entertainment which is a major company belongs to the saudi tycoon prince bin the 8th richest man in the world br br the movie's title is a word means literally how are you but it is also a slang means what's up sometimes used as a slang to say bad about something and sometimes is used as a slang to tell someone politely to mind his business not to interfere in someone else's affairs anyway i think they meant how are you what's up in the same time i could be wrong though br br male actors are from saudi arabia like who is very famous and has some popularity after winning 1st prize in arabian realty show more like american idol he works in some tv programs like the arabian version of cash taxi the other famous actor is sami who is funny and has a very good sense of humor other actors like al al and ali al are less famous and they work on some tv series shows female actresses are non and they did a very good job speaking the saudi accent jordanian actress mais in leading role actress al not that we don't have saudi actresses but are few and not that good br br a saudi critic al who writes for newspaper the most popular newspaper in the kingdom wrote about it saying lets not expect much of the 1st saudi feature film it was born in unusual circumstances therefore we can't judge it under the usual standards like any other film it is a fact that the movie hit a huge financial success in its 1st opening days only in kingdom of bahrain the movie is fresh and is about a saudi family deals interacts with controversial fresh issues inside the saudi society like women driving cars the low shallow thoughts about the arts the of the society by a certain group the differences between being conservative and being an extremist the ideas are good but you feel you are lost in the middle of the movie one of the movie's advantages is the beautiful music score by which was good but sometimes it doesn't match or express what's in the picture al did a great job his performance was the best alongside with mais the biggest loser is the leading actor who came behind the supporting actors al ali al and sami who did a good job within the limits of their roles br br after all al hal even with all of its disadvantages still an ok movie and it is a very good 1st step of and the movie became the speech of people and streets which is a golden goal to make a strong debates inside the saudi society about movies in general until they become aware of the importance of the 7th art and other arts br br ps there is another saudi filmmaker abdullah claims that he directed the 1st saudi movie titled shadows of silence br br i haven't seen the movie yet i hope i've been helpful
0	i saw this short film on the dvd for ridley scott's film the there was no introduction by scott before the film it just started right up br br boy and a bicycle is hardly an example of ridley scott's other work it bears no resemblance the film shows a boy played by tony scott riding around on a bicycle guess what that's pretty all that happens the boy rides around rambling on and on with pointless confusing dialogue the film was shot in black and white and since it was directed by ridley scott i expected some cool cinematography or visually striking sets instead i was treated with nothing this film isn't even good for a first effort however i recommend that any fan of ridley scott should check it out at least once
0	these days ridley scott is one of the top directors and producers and can command huge sums to helm movies especially since he has films like alien gladiator and blade runner to his credit so from this partial list of his credits it's obvious he's an amazing talent however if you watch this very early effort that he made while in film school you'd probably have a hard time telling that he was destined for greatness that's because although it has some nice camera work and style the film is hopelessly dull and uninvolving however considering that it wasn't meant for general release and it was only a training ground then i am disposed to looking at it charitably hence the score of 4 br br by the way this film is part of the cinema 16 european shorts dvd on this dvd are 16 shorts most aren't great though because it contains the man without a head copy shop rabbit and wasp it's an amazing dvd for lovers of short films and well worth buying
0	this movie was one of the worst i've ever seen it did not left out a single one could imagine about a hollywood so called thriller the protagonist is a loving father a private investigator who is engaged in a special task finding out if a suspected snuff movie is real br br certainly he get's involved deeper deeper run by mexicans sex theatres are his field of investigation as he's searching for the murderers of the woman in the snuff movie assisted by a smart he read a book employee he's catching up with a murderous bondage film producer and his personal perverts who are responsible for the film and what do you expect they are portrayed as the simple evil no need for explanations backgrounds history they are the bad ones and he's the boom killer of the killers end of film is it that bad yes i'm afraid so br br ironically machine the mega pervert who did the killing is even pointing at his ridiculous character in the last scene our hero forces machine to put off his leather mask yep of course he's wearing one and recognizes that machine looks just like the normal 08 15 guy from the street then machine says blablabla i'm not a monster my parents never abused me i had a nice childhood i just love to do what i do br br i just love to kill people yeah sure everybody loves killing people bender it's not only the total lack of character what made this film so boring it's also it's ugly i have to kill these people attitude which makes you sick in one scene our hero has tied up one of the killers and tries to shoot him but he can't so what does he do he calls the mother of the killed woman says that her child is killed and asks her whether she loved her child so much that she wishes to see the killers dead the mother cries yes she'd love her child he goes back to the tied killer and slaughters him br br to come to the point this film is breathing the foul air of supporters certainly the police does not play any role in it in a ridiculous form against pornography does not take it's characters serious and wastes your time with a stupid plot probably the only good thing about this film is that it does not try to pseudo psycho analyze even that would be too much plot br br don't waste your time with this br br
0	dumb is right tom and jerry reach their goal of a non stop air flight to africa but then worry about mixing in with the natives they put on blackface crash the plane try to survive on an airplane wing floating in the ocean and then survive the wild animals once they get on land br br having read a few reviews before seeing this i knew what to expect it was simply these two guys doing their amos and andy fetchit impressions offensive to blacks of course but that's the 1930s for you some of their lines were funny some were stupid the main fault i had with this cartoon was the audio as it was often not easy to understand what these two guys were saying br br in all a curiosity piece but don't let the racism stop you from checking it out at least it gives you an idea of how times have changed for the better
0	an obscure horror show filmed in the everglades two couples stay overnight in a cabin after being made a little uneasy by the of the locals who or what are the blood stalkers after awhile they find out watch for the character of the village idiot who like a chicken he certainly is weird
0	there is nothing good to say about this movie read revolution for the hell of it or any of his other writings abbie was often dismissed as the clown prince of the '60's but he was a man of ideas who used his cleverness his sense of humor and pop culture and his flamboyant personality to get attention to his ideas the media too often concentrated on the man not the ideas and that's the problem with this movie too later in his life he did suffer from depression but this flick is like a national enquirer version of abbie he deserves better if you don't know abbie or his times this movie won't help br br this film lies i give it a zero br br
0	want a great recipe for failure take a crappy leftist political plot add in some weak completely undeveloped characters and then throw in the worst sequences a movie has ever known let stew for a week the amount of time probably spent making this trash br br the result is this movie ' a cinematic experience that takes bad movies to dangerous and exotically low places never before conceived br br this movie utterly blew chunks at my face for its entire run time words cannot convey how painful it was to watch this is not one of those bad movies that you and your friends can sit around and make fun of this is not 'plan 9 from outer space ' this is a long boring and sad waste of time this movie' is the biggest waste of energy and talent i have ever seen it depresses me when i realize that people actually took time out of their lives to act in this tripe if you can call it acting but then again when you have poor direction poor writing poor everything acting is the last thing to criticize br br this movie is like a huge disgusting turd that you yearn to quickly flush out of existence fearful that a friend or loved one might somehow see it i really wish i could somehow destroy every copy of this film so it will not pollute the minds of aspiring filmmakers thank you robert for giving me newfound respect for every other movie i have ever seen you have shown me what is truly awful and why i should appreciate all those movies that are merely crappy and or boring
0	the trouble with this film like so many other films that fail is the script br br the script is so unfocused it flounders around all over the place what is the story here ok it's a biopic but i think everyone will agree there is no way that an entire life can be condensed into 100 or so minutes some selection and editing is required but this script just didn't select or edit enough it didn't render hoffman's life down to one or two definable pivotal moments or themes that the audience could identify with and through them 'get' the bigger picture of the whole man br br the movie wanders from being a straight plodding genius' biopic to semi docu using new shots faked up to match archive footage to sub true life sob stories movie of the week the whole i'm bringing up a son who doesn't know i'm his dad shtick to political conspiracy theory movie etc etc it just never makes its mind up what it wants to be and the half hearted citizen kane like narrative structure reporter interviewing people from hoffman's past is soon abandoned which leaves the film even more unstructured and flabby than it starts out br br the movie is full of moments and incidents that contribute nothing to the story and could well have been cut to leave room to expand something more important the whole scene in the psychiatrist's office after vincent d'onofrio pounds the window screaming i'm abbie hoffman i'm abbie hoffman i'm abbie hoffman i'm acting i'm acting i'm acting could have easily been cut all that happens is the psychiatrist says you have bipolar disorder here's some lithium and the two women in his life say we could see you weekends more often and bang that's it no more mental health problems it is such a laughably pointless tokenistic scene it could easily and should have been dumped before it was shot the scene where they all get high and watch newsreel footage from viet nam and hoffman phones god pointless tells us nothing about anything yet when it comes to a important moment like the drugs bust the film making is so hurried the situation just comes out of and doesn't make any sense to the audience suddenly he's dealing in heroin where did this come from why what is going on here br br i being a middle aged would guess i am sitting well within the target audience for this movie but even i got fed up with the portrayal of 'the man' 'the 'the etc as brutal be suited unthinking hippie hating androids it may have been like that in 60's america i don't know i wasn't there but in film terms it was cheap clumsy polemic br br having said all that vincent d'onofrio was convincingly charismatic as the younger hoffman and i could watch janeane garofalo in anything even reading a bus timetable though she just wasn't right for this part
0	let me start out by saying that i am a huge fan of abbie hoffman and have read steal this book and steal this urine test also am a even bigger jerry rubin fan but his movie was a pile of rubbish that made a very pg version of abbie hoffman the director took no chances into making abbie hoffman interesting in this movie they stew albert as a f ing cartoon devoid of intellegence the man was a at berkley for ok they did a horrid casting job for anita hoffman did a horrible job casting for the jerry rubin character i just guess the movie doesnt fit the news flashes that i have seen of abbie or the books that he wrote the movie just didnt fit and upset me oh yeah and theat is the absolute worst voice over i have ever heard of richard nixon this is one of the few movies that i have ever rented that i could not sit all the way through because i have a passion for abbie hoffman and his band of and this movie was just plain badly done and it hurt me that now when people see a movie about the they will see a terrible adaptation and not get a true sense of reality instead they get a hollywoodized of crap br br
0	this film plays like a demented episode of vh1's where are they now or behind the music in the first half of the movie that depict his glory days abbie hoffman is unintentionally portrayed as a sort of delusional rock star you know the kind the lead singer the pretty boy who didn't write any of the music doesn't have a clue but gets all the glory for nothing and chicks for free consequently he takes his success for granted abuses it and ultimately destroys it along with himself indeed hoffman's glory days ended abruptly when he was busted for dealing cocaine skipped bail and went into hiding br br the second part of the movie deals with that time in hiding in it we see hoffman as a pathetic crybaby endlessly blaming everyone anyone but himself for his downfall eventually the times pass him by completely and he can never to come to grips with that how sad the end end credits roll and oh no we learn that abbie hoffman eventually committed suicide in 1989 br br i'm sure this is not the image the filmmakers intended for hoffman in making this movie given that tom hayden and gerald were involved i'm sure they intended this film as some kind of homage to the life of a man who was after all an icon of the 60's and of the anti war movement in this they have failed miserably the film presents abbie hoffman as a mindless caricature we are never told about what drives him how did he arrive at his views how did he manage to capture the imagination of a whole generation how did he organize such a vast movement why at the height of his fame did he get involved in dealing cocaine why who knows and since the filmmakers don't seem to ultimately who cares
0	this fake documentary is flawed on a lot of points it's badly made has uninteresting characters but the biggest problem i have with it is the basic premise br br this film uses the idea that h p lovecraft has traveled to italy and that some of his work is based on real supernatural events that he witnessed i'm willing to go along with the notion that he traveled to italy only for suspension of disbelieve but that some of his work is based on reality and that exist is total nonsense br br first of all lovecraft didn't believe in the supernatural in his letters he clearly states that he considered himself a mechanical his monsters where there to show that humans weren't so special after all another myth used in this film is that lovecraft was an expert on the occult he wasn't all his knowledge on the subject came from the most basic sources br br so we end up with a film about people at each other a lot and when we finally see the monster it's so bad that you can't even laugh at it you just feel a pain in your love for horror br br after seeing the film frankenstein lovecraft said that he felt sorry for mary shelley because he felt that her work was butchered i feel sorry for lovecraft
0	so many of these types of movies out these days this zombie flick falls into the major cheese category unlike the far more polished dawn of the dead and day of the dead in all fairness those 2 movies were major studio releases with big budgets behind them but they were also good movies a low budget movie can still be good if only they would stop accepting and using the worst scripts around whoever wrote this movie must have been drunk the whole time br br this movie had so so special effects and a very un even plot line the one major difference from other movies of its type is the time it takes for people to transform into zombies in this one it seems to take just seconds for them to die and then turn into a zombie yet with the ease this infection spreads you can have zombie blood all over you and not even seem to be at risk for infection and believe me the people in this one get covered in blood br br the main problem i had is that our 2 main stars at times were walking around dozens of zombies and didn't get bit when everybody else turns into zombies amazingly quickly these 2 were swarmed by zombies when they were even unarmed and were able to come out of it without a problem our hot chick star even survived a missile strike on the building she was in i was laughing out load at that point unarmed having like 10 zombies on her and a missile hits the building yet she manages to get out without a scratch ok sure br br also whoever advised these people on how special forces behaves obviously never spent any time in the military they should have watched a movie like blackhawk down first to get at least an idea of how they behave in combat situations br br one soldier was a fat overweight special forces private lol that was a good one another kept going up to zombies thinking they were survivors even putting his weapon down at one point these guys are in there to fight zombies and they were acting like the soldiers from the movie stripes special forces lol br br then they get to the point at which they try to explain the zombie girl in the rubber room and the whole thing gets very confusing the explanation is muddled and does not even follow the first movie it made no sense at all br br the only thing i liked was the anti bush jokes the military lady at the beginning told them that the order came down from the vice president to the president and at the end it was the vice president from an undisclosed location giving the orders that was the best part of the movie for me
0	a college professor is working on creating zombies and wouldn't you know it things go horribly wrong next thing you know the whole campus is overrun thank goodness there's a pair of uber commandos trained for just such a situation too bad they must be accompanied by a group of moron commandos lead by a rapper he doesn't even bother trying to play a military guy he just responds to his superiors as if he were rappin' da homies in da hood the high point of this part of the movie is the locker room scene the male and female moron commandos share the same locker room and apparently military regulations require all females to wear black bras and panties hey if you can't make a good movie at least you can have women in their underwear my hat's off to the film makers br br so after much discussion of how well prepared these moron commandos are for the job bosnia afghanistan iraq they all get killed off in fairly short order their biggest downfall seems to be that it never occurs to them to turn any lights on a typical encounter has them walking into a room and seeing someone at the far end human or zombie can't tell flip on the lights no moron commando protocol requires them to walk up to the person making sure to hold their gun in such a way that it can be easily knocked out of their hand and well you know the drill the demise of sergeant major sticky is especially fun my favorite scene involving a rapper in any movie i've ever seen luckily and again hats off to the filmmakers the hottest babe among the moron commandos manages to survive her and the female uber commando both wind up in tight t shirts for the remainder of the movie now this is how a military operation should be performed there's a bunch of running around punctuated my humorous stuff like the uber commandos being unable to get through a simple grating it obviously is a thin piece of aluminum that you could easily put your fist through this necessitates a plan to rub zombie guts all over themselves and even though we've seen nothing in the movie to indicate that zombies locate their prey by smell they're good enough to immediately begin sniffing the zombie guts and let our heroes go br br a few other funny bits the paris hilton gag the can you hear me now gag and the fact that although the zombies immediately bite secondary characters main characters are able to fight their way through dozens of them without being on another chuckle is provided by mr who can't seem to pronounce the word toe no kit br br overall it's somewhat amusing could have used some more interesting characters but for a sci fi channel original i was mildly impressed
0	ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door compared to the effects are vastly superior however the plot is weak the acting reminiscent of everyone's favourite the porn film and the decisions and actions of the characters consistently verge on the moronic i feel like trying out uwe boll's latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over i am not suggesting that he is really the cure more a case of a different disease but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up ok there it is i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead 2
0	ok this movie was by far worse then the first one and the first one sucked the zombie make up was extremely fake the acting is very poor and it doesn't really follow the first one while watching this i kept thinking wow the first one is a masterpiece compared to this i would say catch it on tv don't spend your money on it its not the worst movie i've ever seen but its on the list i started watching it last night and fell asleep so i watched it today and almost fell asleep again the plot was pointless i mean i get the fact that a small military group are sent on a mission to get the blood of the lead zombie and bring it back so they can use it to save lives and stop zombies but they made it where you wanted everyone to die they made plenty of bad guys who really were just annoying if you ask me this was a rip off of resident evil and not a good rip off either the plot could have made it if the acting was good and if they actually made you feel scared to see whats behind the corner with these zombies my grandma could have went in that building and survived out of a 1 10 i give it a 2
0	this was not a very good movie the acting pretty much stunk and the effects were bad most of the time but there were some funny moments but most of those were not meant to be funny the most hilarious part of the movie to me was the part were a little kid in wheelchair falls out thats not the funny part what kind of person do you think i am anyway the kid falls out and starts screaming for his big brother well the brother comes running and the way the kid runs is so funny he's all stumbling and really over acting i had to rewind it several times so i could laugh some more so if your looking for something to rent but just can't seem to find anything check this one out and watch for the running part
0	oh man where to even begin br br dropping your gun to get in hand to hand combat w a zombie while holding a bitten soldier down debating to shoot him b4 he turns then he turns and bites the person holding him down turning your back on a fallen zombie continuously shooting the chest and seeing it doesn't work so they shoot the chest some more having the idea that a kid slumped at a desk w blood coming out of his mouth is still alright walking along a football field like nothing is wrong then all the sudden noticing the zombie football team doing whatever in the middle of the field like they couldn't have been seen up to that point br br i could go one for a few more hours but you get the point childish writing and dialog bad directing horrid special effects truly sad and undeveloped storyline zombie infested campus must get the viral host then lose it twice the only plus i can find is that this one doesn't include clips of the actual game during the action scenes br br id say don't waste your money but id be more upset about the waste of time i saw it on cable and wanted the 2 hours of my life back
0	i will keep it to bullet points so here goes 1 very badly scripted 2 tries to be like resident evil 3 zombies slow and docile one minute the next minute raging lunatics 4 never saw blood clean up so easily 5 special effects not as good as the original day of the living dead 6 acting not as good as the bold and the beautiful 7 it looks like it was written in 1 week and made the next week br br basicaly med team plus special forces go into a zombie infested university to find the first zombie and extract a serum to cure the plague all die except the 2 main stars so predictable even though unarmed and swarmed with 100s of zombies they survived however special forces who were trained at kindergarten school scouts only took 1 zombie to kill them even though they had weapons also the obligatory jerk on hand to fill any gaps overall load of rubbish
0	isn't it strange how crap movies always tend to be a little better when you start watching them with an attitude like boy this is going to suck harder than few things have ever sucked before it's pretty much impossible for anyone to rent this movie with high – or even remotely positive expectations as house of the dead 2 is a sequel to something that is generally considered to be one of the absolute worst genre disasters ever to be released the abysmal reputation of the original actually turned out to be a great advantage for director michael hurst as it was really easy to surpass the quality level of its predecessor and exactly how embarrassing must this be for uwe boll huh having to acknowledge that a straight to video sequel without star power or promotional campaigns is much better than his own pretentious video game interpretation in case anyone still doubts no house of the dead 2 dead aim isn't a good horror movie at all but yes it's definitely better than the first and even worth renting in case you're looking for an undemanding splatter film with loads of gory butchering sleaze and stupid humor there's no real connection with the events in the first film another advantage and this part two opens like a typically rancid sex comedy set in a college campus the male fraternity club plans to attack a sorority house inhabited exclusively by blond coeds with enormous breasts but the party gets interrupted when an insane professor sid haig who runs his car over a girl and takes her back to his lab to turn her into a zombie this is the beginning of a quickly spreading and deadly epidemic but no worries as the government is prepared and sends their best scientists soldiers to the campus to search for survivors and to bring back blood samples for an antidote hunting down zombies seems like the most common thing in the world for this squadron they even named them hyper sapiens but their constantly increasing amount eventually the lives of the most hardened soldiers director hurst thankfully found his inspiration in the more eminent classics of the genre like james cameron's aliens and – of course george a romero's dead trilogy particularly day of the dead he luckily also didn't made the same mistakes as uwe boll who inserted footage of the actual video game in his movie why and slightly exaggerated with the use of cgi techniques hotd 2 contains heavy images of violence like chopped up female corpses and detailed but it never really becomes nauseating or shocking naturally there's isn't the slightest bit of suspense to enjoy and every dreadful horror cliché features here as well the film is very enjoyable as long as story writer mark altman doesn't try to explain the origins of the zombie epidemics they're walking corpses with their brains hanging out of their skulls so we really don't need to know what caused their deaths especially not when the explanations are given by a blond sorority slut who clearly hasn't got a clue what all the medical terms mean just avoid getting bitten sweetheart
0	i am furious it has been a while since the last zombie movie i've watched so i was really looking forward to watching a good ol' gory zombie movie was a major disappointment a reasonable story but awful acting filming dialogue and nauseating clichés and punch lines i didn't even see the first one which is supposedly worse than this one now i am curious about how bad could that one have been the film is full of mistakes and goofs who on earth analyses dna using a blood sample why are these special forces who have been to hell and back fight like spoiled 6 year old girls we see ferocious zombies who would take a bite at any chance they get then hundreds of them that wave their arms at our two heroes take them down to the ground then let them go without even a scratch i could go on and on about this but life is too short and i have already wasted a couple of hours watching this pathetic movie which is an insult to the movie industry
0	when one of the stars of a movie is named sticky you should know enough to stay away stay away house 2 is just more of the same this time with zombies overrunning a college campus man how that must have saved on money as usual the zombies are given no direction so speak of and provided very little makeup or costuming they look like the zombies in one of those endless italian zombie cheapies from years ago which is to say they don't look like the kind of zombies we know and love from george romero and dan zombie flicks the folks battling the zombies are all who get to shoot guns and do little else some who have written here feel the sequel is slightly more focused than the original all i have to say is i'm glad the sequel's director did away with the 360 degree pan shots that helped to ruin the first movie house 2 is still just more of the same which means a lot of nothing happens for 80 or 90 minutes there is one set piece involving soldiers with a zombie football team that might at least have been funny it's not
0	i used to work in a video store i saw this title in the horror section and took it home as a free rental one night br br this movie was truly awful there is no redeeming quality about it because it actually takes a well respected sub genre of film and just goes about destroying it if the first film wasn't low budget enough then this film truly takes the biscuit being housed mostly indoors and at night therefore avoiding the scenic cost setting of the first film in the first 5 minutes of this film a college lecturer comically runs over an attractive student rather than be mortified the lecturer half heartedly apologises and the girl mentions that despite being thrown across the cars bonnet he sped up as he approached her that there is nothing to worry about after which he attacks her with a crowbar and kills her if this isn't strange enough he wants to perform an experiment upon her bringing her back from the dead and so feels the need to remove her clothing to do so br br soft core female nudity and pubic hair is rampant throughout the film and is to be honest the only real thing to hold the average male viewers interest like the swimming scene in the first film but even having said that this film goes from bad to worse with its bad character acting crappy dialogue and absurd plot turns why introduce a pivotal character who has survived 29 days from zombie attack only to kill them within 10 minutes its just a very very bad film
0	if you haven't seen the first one you have to at least know someone who has and you have to know it was painful to sit through there just wasn't anything good to say about it at all so what's different with the second one why bother making a sequel for a movie that was wretched this one doesn't take itself too seriously it knows it was made for tv and doesn't try to impress with great or serious dialogue there are moments where it tries to get or but these moments are so corny you have to laugh br br thankfully gone are any elements of uwe boll and any hint that this originated from a video game other than the title of course don't go into this movie expecting anything worth mentioning to your friends unless they're into camp lame zombie movies or are interested in making a drinking game out of this movie take two shots whenever ed quinn's character mentions his dead brother take one shot whenever a bullet would have been better place in the head of a zombie instead of pumping three in the chest etc etc
0	so lame it isn't even funny a zombie infection overtakes a small college campus and a government squad of secret operatives back up a couple of scientists sent to find the origin of the outbreak collecting zombie dna damn sure is not easy once bitten you're one of them the entire university has been completely infected by the run amok undead br br this sequel does not even redeem the awful original house of the dead 2003 senseless entertainment is accomplished though a few glimpses of female nakedness added to a gaggle of gore and exploding heads should keep any zombie freak happy credited cast members emmanuelle vaugier victoria pratt ed quinn sid haig and nadine velazquez the f word holds together an unimaginative script
0	terrible boring zombie sequel is only marginally better than uwe's horrible first film it consists of a group of soldiers going into a zombie plagued college campus to find a certain type of blood which could assist in finding a cure for the infection these soldiers are your typical lambs to the slaughter and none of them are that drawn out or at least aren't very interesting so you don't feel a sadness at the pit of your stomach when they are disposed of the film has the typical zombies biting humans and blood splatter it even has the same munching on guts it just doesn't do anything for the zombie genre to give it memory and the story's climax is rather anti climactic and ridiculous one wonders how two people can submerged in an army of zombies and not get bit for they are the main stars who seem to always manage while others seem to get bit rather easily the film sole motivation is to show people getting bit nothing else just go watch a romero film for lasting effect
0	i can't get over how lazy the director is with this movie instead of setting up scenes in a creative way he relies on boring old zombie clichés br br where the two unarmed leads have to get down the college steps into the van he surrounds them with zombies yet neither of the leads is bitten he can't be bothered to direct a decent fight scene so we see the leads shove their way down the steps br br sometimes the zombies limp about and at others they run like the wind this is really convenient for the director because he can set up anything he likes without bothering with continuity in the behaviour of the zombies br br with careful planning and a lot more inspiration this movie could have been so much better
0	someone else called this film a fable horror movie and i think that fits pretty well that's the concept at least a group of teenagers each with their own vice catch the eye of a twisted sideshow barker he decides to teach the teens a lesson by making them part of the freak show a cool idea but could have been executed better the fate for some of the teens is shoved in your face too obviously while other characters could have been fleshed out more also the ending was a serious let down no resolution or big twist or anything br br but as a low budget horror movie it's pretty fun to watch if you're into cheesy you should have a laugh watching this one i think one of it's faults though that it takes itself too seriously it's a silly movie and if it was a little more self aware when it comes to that i think it would have been better but at least there's enough neat carnival themes and b movie monster makeup to keep you watching
0	how bad can you make a film a good question which house of the dead 2 succeeds in answering i could not believe it was possible to get something worse than the first house of the dead but amazingly the director has succeeded the only feeling you get from the film is that its bad just bad what with overacting bad fx and a stupid story its this kind of movie which gives a bad name to z movies in general why could they not learn the lesson from the first house of the dead movie anyway i guess you will have understood by now that you should not see this film it is but a waste of time watch bad taste or dawn of the dead if you want to see some good zombies
0	house of the dead 2 dead aim 2005 is the sequel though you really don't need to see the first house of the dead to get this film that said the production value is definitely here with great zombie effects and it's edited quite nicely with very effective sound design however that said that's about all that's good here br br the story and script are awful there's blatant plot holes everywhere it's also funny how the soldiers don't mind if they get blood on their faces unlike in 28 days later where blood in any part of the body will infect you also realistic how there's little order with the soldiers here unlike the usual us military discipline br br a 4 out of 10
0	this is one of the most awful movies i've had the misfortune of picking up don't get me wrong i love a good zombie flick but this wasn't one of them br br might as well from the opening scenes at least been called zombies from outer space' it had absolutely nothing to do with the other movie or the video game as far as i could tell br br the best aspect of the film is how the two main characters can get covered with so much blood and remain so nonplussed i would certainly suggest giving this one and miss and staying with a safer zombie pleaser like '28 days later' or 'dawn of the living dead' the remake of course unless you're into some serious campy action
0	i'm sorry but they did leave the impression that these commandos fought zombies before but they sure didn't act like they even seen a zombie before jumping and turning their backs on them like amateurs second the characters are pretty badly written the actors did the best they could with what was given i blame bad writing and bad directing lastly and here is where the spoiler warnings are highest they loose the sample twice and the girl jennifer holland doesn't know if she's been bit or not how stupid is that as much as it hurts to be bitten one would think you would know plus gallons of blood leaking from your body is a good clue dumb the first movie had it's flaws but it has re unlike this disaster of a movie which i could barely get through once i give the house of the dead 2 no guts all stupidity the crap o lantern
0	when uwe boll cinema con man extraordinaire released the first house of the dead adaptation to completely deserved mockery it was generally agreed among fans of the source video game that one would have to be incredibly moronic to contemplate making a sequel hollywood's per capita ratio of morons must indeed be high for not only do we have a sequel it was distributed in the antipodes by sony a company not normally known for its taste in expensive write offs released direct to television in america the sequel does improve on the original in most respects but in so doing it becomes bland rather than interesting the scale of the scenario is enlarged with the action taking place in a deserted town that just happens to surround a university where experiments in a virus that can reanimate the dead have been occurring in particular the action is spread throughout the university where the first infected denizens can be found put simply the film differs from the original in that it actually occurs within a house where dead people can be found br br the cast on the other hand is a real step backward emmanuelle vaugier was specifically made up to resemble a low rent angelina jolie while the rest of the cast never reaches the level of a slumming it jürgen prochnow in fact the only name that will stand out among this cast is one sticky who probably did not want to be recognised that easily by the people he faces at home put simply these people could not convincingly order pizza on the big screen even under the best direction say what you will about boll but he at least inspired actors like ona grauer to fight against his ineptitude that said the people involved here at least seem to be aware that their film sucks and that they might as well have some fun with it much of the problem with the original was that the director thought he was crafting some kind of misunderstood masterpiece and he took himself seriously unfortunately with the actors failing to take their characters or the predicament seriously what little dramatic tension there could have been is undermined br br much of the plot concerns itself with the search for a generation zero victim of whatever plague is causing the dead to rise or to translate into more practical terms they are trying to find someone who was infected just after the virus mutated into a form that was threatening to humans how this would help when a non mutated strain is usually required to create a vaccine is anyone's guess but the manner in which this quest is paced out suffers problems of its own the we have to go back plot device is used in order to pad out the running time but the actual timing of the extra quest is also problematic we are told at one point that the town will be obliterated by cruise missiles in ten minutes yet the heroes drive back into the university locate the sample they are looking for and fight off enough zombies to eat the army of china all in this space of time filmmakers take note it only pays to be specific with time when it can serve rather than hinder dramatic tension br br the special effects used in house of the dead 2 leave those of the original in the dust where uwe boll simulated the deaths of the characters using idiotic rotating camera tricks michael hurst instead uses all the graphic details his budget can allow necks are bitten arms are cut off heads are shot it all makes for a much more convincing but it also disallows the mockery of obvious fakery the photography is also much improved as dvd crypt put it the fact that it is in focus throughout makes it an improvement upon the original but this also deprives us of something to have a laugh at the expense of the writing is also both an improvement and a setback throughout the script references to other horror and survival horror games the most obvious being run like hell are offered the first couple of times they work because they offer clever ways to work titles into ordinary everyday dialogue after the eighth time however they just get on the nerves because they remind gamers of things they would prefer to do with their time br br interestingly house of the dead 2 cost a mere six million to bring to television screens across america given that tom savini on his own would cost more than this to work on a film nowadays i have to say i am somewhat impressed with the visual results in contrast to the much reviled original the zombies here look like actual zombies rather than extras in bad makeup shot poorly in a further contrast to the original the actors appear to have a clue what they are doing sealing the deal is the fact that apart from some real zingers scattered throughout the characters speak like real people however the story is nothing that we have not seen a thousand times already when aliens the real dawn of the dead or the evil dead were released to acclaim the acclaim came from the fact that these films either did something we had not seen before or did it so well that we did not really care house of the dead 2 is competent enough that we do not mock it but it brings nothing new or particularly brilliant to the table so we end up not caring either br br for that reason and many others i gave house of the dead 2 a two out of ten it is too good to be bad but too bad to be any good unless you are into sucky films as much as i am you are best to steer clear of it
0	i saw the first house of the dead and expected a root canal to be more pleasant to attend so when it wasn't as bad as that i was delightfully surprised br br unfortunately i then got my hopes up that the second one might be okay as well and i was wrong br br apparently i'm one of the few people who saw this movie that thinks it was bad br br i don't know whether to watch it again and force myself to see whatever all the people who gave it good reviews saw or wonder if i saw the wrong movie br br ed quinn as ellis and emmanuelle vaugier as alexandra morgan did a great job in roles that were way beneath them they deserve to be in better movies br br the special effects were okay and some of the characters likable hate able and that made for a tolerable watch but for the most part this movie was just a waste of time br br oh and i have to ask this because i found myself asking it aloud all the way through the movie did anyone not know how to close doors behind themselves so zombies wouldn't just wander into the rooms only once did it happen zombies wandering in and i found that a little convenient soldiers walk into a room leave the door wide open pay little to no attention to same said door so the zombies can just walk in if they feel like it with the hapless being cornered with no way to escape and yet only once did zombies follow them in br br nitpicky maybe but honestly if i was fighting for my life the last thing i'd do would be to walk into a room and leave the door wide open so zombies could swarm in and eat me br br that is really the only thing bothered me throughout the movie and just the movie for the most part was a bad sequel to a not totally abominable original
0	i was on a mission to watch uwe boll movies to see if they were really as bad as all that the first one i saw bloodrayne was not a complete loss i liked it more than most people and actually rated it a 4 out of 10 next up was the first house of the dead movie now that was horrifically bad i could stand watching ten minutes of it and fast forwarding a bit and that was it i could see where it was going and i didn't need to see any more of it in order to rate it a just 1 out of 10 br br but i had access to the sequel too which however is not by uwe boll but mysteriously written by the same guys who so incompetently wrote the first one and since it got a higher rating at imdb than the original i thought i'd give it a chance and i actually managed to watch all of it it started out with some funny references and cool lines like how the president got his orders from the vice president and acting wise it is light years better than the first here we have cool like the ultra hot emmanuelle vaugier whose coolness is in league with carrie anne moss claudia black and evangeline lilly man i hope some matrix style movie comes along for her sometime and the always delectable super victoria pratt i love athletic women and there was also nadine velazquez catalina on my name is earl who performed quite well br br the story wasn't much and the action wasn't great either and the ending was a disappointment as they didn't succeed in their mission oh well at least the two mains survived guess that's some small victory too br br good cast but a pretty bad movie the actors make it watchable but there's no real substance there br br 3 out of 10
0	granted hotd 2 is better than the uwe boll crapfest that was the first one but thats like saying drowning is better than being chopped alive ok ok i'm being a little bit harsh with this one its just that video game adaptations of zombie movies always leave a bad taste in my mouth resident evil was alright but its sequels are pure rubbish the first hotd was entertaining crap more than anything else uwe boll saw to that and hotd 2 was better the entertainment value was there the hot chicks were there the gore was there but this is it the script even though subpar was better than the first one but in the script dwells horribly written characters stupid action sequences clichés and an ending that drags on and on reaching a level of ridiculousness which would make the very very proud but it could've been worse right br br hotd 2 stars sig haig yes sid haig as an insane doctor looking for a cure to death as you may guess it all goes to sh t a nearby college campus seems to be the center for the zombie or epidemic and as you may expect a group of commandos and two zombie scientists try to save the world by going there and the problem their main goal no it ain't blowing sh t up instead they have to get a sample of zombie blood so they can create a cure to the deadly virus between this and that lays bland character interactions an insufferable amount of clichés but hey at least the black guy isn't the first one to get killed and decent looking zombies br br the acting is passable who would've thought that sticky was a passable actor not me emmanuelle vaugier and ed quinn shine somewhat as the leads and the supporting cast was passable too it was all passable br br the make up effects on the zombies were alright it could've been worse like in the first hotd just guys running around in dusty mummy suits the gore was alright too cheap scares and even cheaper tension are almost non existent in this movie which is a good thing the action sequences were stupid as f ck but at least there wasn't any sword fighting zombies or that ridiculous slow motion bullet effect br br overall this movie will appeal only to zombie enthusiasts fans of the arcade games and for someone who wants to rent a cheap horror movie for the weekend apparently there's going to be a third one as hinted by the ending but i wouldn't count on it unless uwe decides to do it a 4
0	i haven't had a chance to view the previous film but from what i've read on other posts it was supposedly worse than this one although i doubt that is possible i'm a huge fan of the zombie genre and i am fascinated by the psychological aspects of viewing creatures that for all intents and purposes are human as an atrocity that is only worth shooting in the head that said hotd 2 takes the zombie movie to an all new low br br without giving any big spoilers which i really should do just so you won't bother wasting your time actually watching this movie i would like to express my utter contempt for the way the writers of this film portray our countries special forces gomer pile could have probably survived longer than the spec ops soldiers in this film for crying out loud they should have called them the special education forces instead if you are going to write a script where you send in an elite team to deal with an outbreak of zombies at least have the soldiers be smarter than the walking corpses i understand that you have to kill off some or most of the team but you can find better ways to do it than having them set down their machine guns and walk over to lay a tender hand on the shoulder of the drooling crazy person rocking back and forth in the corner of the dark creepy basement br br the writers actually try to take the whole zombie thing to a more high tech level by making it a virus that they are searching for a vaccine for and the idea has merit if it wasn't stuck in the middle of such a ridiculous display of wayward film making i mean come on zombie films aren't exactly high art and the viewer expects some tongue in cheek cheesiness along with the gore and thrills but hotd 2 is the type of cheese that makes you turn the channel in disgust and awe of the sheer stupidity of the characters if you are a zombie movie fan like me please do yourself a favor and stay away from this one
0	its almost embarrassing to say i even saw this movie i mean it doesn't take much to make a good zombie movie besides good special effects lots of blood and gore some scary moments and a decent plot does house of the dead 2 do any of these things right no not one of course its not as bad as its predecessor from uwe and thats the only thing about this movie that scares me br br the dialog in this movie is notorious with such lines as what do you do for a living in response i kill zombies and i was never a disk jockey i was a soldier the special effects are embarrassing even for a made for tv movie i mean seriously the zombies all look like they have bloody lips are hyped up on crack the army base in this movie is a parking garage with a desk and a open gated room this movie is so low budget that they couldn't even get co ed locker rooms in fact it seems like this entire movie was filmed in a middle school br br also why is it that the all the female soldiers in this movie are models and for that matter why is everyone in this movie so clueless at to what is going on that they simply just stand around letting the zombies kill them heck one guy even trys to give food to the zombie br br overall this movie makes even the worst of scifi channel movies looks fantastic
0	sideshow is a good example of a basically interesting idea gone very very wrong as far as horror movies go and especially with the influx of teen movies at the moment a film based around a bunch of teens attending a mysterious freak show is something you could have a lot of fun with br br however the writer decided to make a very straight very boring very plain tale about five teens who become part of the show when enraged midget abbot graves transforms them into freaks using some pathetic machine that mutates them into beasts br br the five teens are picked off one by one until the last guy is left his 'punishment' being that he is unable to join his friends and thus 'be alone' what a load of rubbish br br the 'actors' are really poor this film has no comedy and it could have been so funny no gore and it could have been so gory no action and no horror and it could have had so much of both br br the director has failed in his duty to even try to make this a little interesting to watch his experience in soft core has obviously disabled any creativity he may ever have had as all the shots are the same with very few edits and little movement the quality overall is poor br br i'm not usually swayed by nudity in movies but believe me the only high point in this film was a pair of breasts
0	this film is right up there with the oscar and moment by moment as one of unintentionally funny films of all time br br it is worth the rental for a some wildly great br br the story is absolutely ludicrous nothing in life would happen like this it's so completely unbelievable the way james woods tries and hustle heavy hitters than they give this supposed two bit hustler a job 3000 miles away in la what a joke br br i love the old beat vw bug to signify how low they've gotten in life because of all the br br sean young is as unbelievably bad as the i'll love you forever no matter what wife you'll ever see if it wasn't so funny you would throw up at how sugary sweet young tries to project herself and as bad acting as you'll ever see br br james wood overacts throughout the whole movie and he's so extremely funny and is way way over the top it's just not to be believed woods seems like a parody of a cocaine fiend off saturday night live but watching woods on is worth the price of the rental br br i love it when woods tells the guy who wants to give him some more that he doesn't do that stuff anymore right before that woods just did three giant lines of coke br br this is some very funny stuff br br the ending is so comical but right on par with the rest of the movie
0	i saw this film in the theater when it first came out i'm sorry to say and it was one of only a few films i have ever wanted to walk out of early i didn't have a problem with the drug content and i could see how this cautionary tale could have been powerful the problem was the film maker working with james woods and sean young drew two of the least lovable characters i have ever seen on film i hated this pair and couldn't have cared less if they sunk straight to the inevitable bottom their was not one surprise in this film every turn of events was so painfully obvious that i felt i could have written the script myself although i like to think i would have done a better job i subsequently heard nightmarish stories about the incidents on the set between sean young and james woods along the lines of some sort of stalking events it made me wonder if the terrible acting arose out of some bad feelings and dysfunction anyway i refer to the boost as the worst film i've ever paid money to see
0	my gosh this movie was nothing more than filmmaking by numbers struggling salesman can't make a go of it in new york mentor with a heart of gold takes him under his wing struggling salesman moves to california and makes it big then loses it big then bounces back with the simple life then hits rock bottom trying to get back to the top i don't think i can remember any part of the plot that took more than five seconds to develop case in point spoiler when the john character calls to say he and his girlfriend were coming to santa cruz to visit and james woods says there's practically no chance he would come you knew with 100 certainty they were coming in the next scene or two br br on the other hand sean young sure looked good
0	salesman lenny brown woods is fast losing his knack of selling the proverbial ice cream to eskimos given a chance to shine in california by a philanthropic entrepreneur brown and his wife linda young live the high life off tax shelter investments a fortune they lose when the federal government changes the tax laws br br seven hundred thousand dollars in the red and in need of a the yuppies without portfolio begin to hoover vast quantities of colombian marching powder up their hooters until they find themselves with rather hungry monkeys on their back after briefly cleaning up linda's coke induced miscarriage sees lenny once more careering like a pinball between uppers and downers living purgatory follows br br a contemporary take on reefer madness with perverse echoes of albert brooks' lost in america the boost was overshadowed on release by tabloid revelations concerning an alleged affair between woods and young and their tumultuous falling out woods then engaged to horse trainer sarah owen now his ex wife reputedly slapped a 2 million lawsuit on his spurned co star for emotional harassment during filming citing fatal attraction style late night phone calls to his fiancée and in one noteworthy incident reputedly leaving a mutilated baby doll on his and owen's doorstep br br ironically the lack of chemistry between the supposedly loving leads is one of the more depressing aspects of this latter day exploitation flick the only real passion woods demonstrates towards young is when he's kicking her around the room the script too is hilariously dreadful perhaps mitigating young's near comatose performance when given howlers like stay with me 'til i fall off the earth to emote further given woods' edgy dramatic personae his jittery descent loses all credibility when actually he looked that way to begin with br br ultimately the boost must be seen in context in the 21st century cocaine use is ubiquitous however in 1988 with america still embroiled in an war on drugs the very fibre of the nation looked to be in peril hence one of the most hellish and for that read hysterical depictions of drug abuse
0	it is impossible to avoid comparing zhang yimou's hero' to ang lee's crouching tiger hidden dragon ' they were both big budget chinese kung fu films with breathtaking cinematography of chinese landscape and a cast of super stars but aside from the obvious there is in fact nothing else to compare hero' fails to deliver on almost every level that really matters proving that big name stars beautiful scenery and action effects are no replacement for a director's artistry and vision br br all the marketing hype preceding the premier of hero' has done nothing more than make its failure a spectacular one much anticipated hero' drew movie goers in throngs when it first opened at theaters in mainland china and hong kong making it an instant box office success however though the script pleased government censors chinese audiences went to newfound heights of caustic criticism and sarcastic wit to express their disdain on line critics both professional and amateur proclaimed the film ideologically disturbing ' from the viewpoint of deep servitude ' written either by an amateur historian or someone with ulterior motives ' one article was simply titled hero you make me sick ' br br the deepest failing of the film is in its plot which is not only morally reprehensible and based on unforgivable historic fallacy but worst of all for a film is boring all blockbuster epic films are known to take some liberties with the facts of history but hero' goes beyond artistic license into unforgivable ignorance when it attempts to glorify an emperor that was as brutal as stalin or hitler hero' does not make up for this lack of moral compass by being entertaining or fun instead it is makes a woefully poor attempt at being deep' and merely manages to be pretentious and preachy br br though historians agree that the first emperor of china was ruthlessly violent mao was known to have admired this ruler no surprise given own tyrannical rule likewise the communist government in beijing sees the allegory that can easily be drawn between the first emperor and its own iron fist methods so they were particularly pleased with this latest work by zhang yimou tony leung one of the stars of hero' remarked during an interview to promote the film that the beijing government had done the right thing in 1989 by crushing the student demonstrations because it was needed to maintain in china for these remarks tony leung received shocked criticisms in his home city of hong kong but he merely stated out loud the underlying message of the movie br br director zhang yimou has stated that his goal was to surpass the values of loyalty and revenge that are traditional in kung fu novels and movies to reveal a higher wisdom unfortunately his version of turns out to be the is right in china where thousands of years of historical reality have rammed this message through art was the last sanctuary where the individual could actually find freedom from such tyranny the great popularity of the kung fu novel can be explained by its ability to provide an escape into an alternate world one where kung fu warriors roamed the country seeking adventure and fighting for justice free from fear and winning against all odds with their super human skills only in the novel did the individual ever win over institutionalized power in china and only in the novel did the oppressed find their champions going against this tradition of the kung fu hero zhang yimou has not gone upwards towards a higher truth as he had hoped but downwards to the level of government propaganda it's no wonder the government was so pleased br br some film lovers may secretly wonder all moralistic judgments aside is it at least entertaining ' fortunately the answer is a resounding no ' because the same tale is told over and over with only slight variations it becomes tedious to watch moreover the three conflicting versions of the same story serves only to confuse the character development since it leaves precious little time for the viewer to feel any sympathy for any of them once the real' version emerges br br the film is not without its beautiful images however all the scenes fall flat because they do not connect to or enhance the storyline the use of different colors to distinguish the separate versions of the tale comes across as simplistic and contrived and the cinematography appears self consciously rather than truly beautiful great for a trailer but a disappointment once you are there to watch the entire film br br for those in china who showed disdain for crouching unrealistic kung fu much was expected from hero ' jet li who plays the title role is a real kung fu artist who held national titles before beginning his career as an actor his previous movies have revealed limited acting abilities but many hoped that zhang yimou could use li's lithe body movements to full effect while casting him properly in a role that would not task his acting abilities but it was not to be hero' attempts to go beyond the kung fu genre so there are not many fighting scenes and jet li is expected to perform a difficult piece of acting an inner transformation leading to profound wisdom and self sacrifice as the casting director ought to have expected li fails miserably meanwhile the only fighting scene that reveals any true kung fu skill is the first one of the film between li and and donnie yen all the scenes that follow are a disappointment so hero' fails to satisfy even on that level br br though most audiences outside china are unlikely to be aware of the historical mangling of the story of the cruel first emperor it seems even more unlikely that they would accept zhang's version of chinese wisdom ' which is anything but perhaps the only time an audience coming out of a screening of hero' was seen smiling instead of yawning or frowning was at the special screening for chinese government officials br br
0	impressive vision indeed and some hot chicks with swords flying around oh and those hypnotic chinese violins too let me think crouching tiger hidden dragon br br i kinda liked cthd with its down to earth simplicity and well developed characters that still left enough room for you to enjoy the vision without having to think about the meaning of it br br hero on the other hand is painfully pretentious and demanding both visually and conceptually the larger than life moral was horrible i mean sacrifice your life sacrifice your beliefs sacrifice your love so that your mighty nation can succeed wtf br br no thanks br br but hay mao and g w b would be proud br br viva
0	the message of hero is quite clear the idea of greater china is more important than the death and the suffering of millions at a time when china is dangling its war toys over taiwan it is unacceptable for western viewers to endorse this piece of over produced government sponsored dogmatic trash br br particularly surprising is the promotion of this film by the liberal media roger ebert of chicago tribune david of slate charles taylor of salon and many others have wholeheartedly endorsed hero in so doing they have implicitly legitimated its reactionary political message the only critic that i know of who saw through the film's glossy facade was j hoberman of the village voice who wrote of the film's sanctimonious traditionalism and its glorification of ruthless leadership and self sacrifice on the altar of national greatness i for one sign my name under final pronouncement hero is nothing more than fascinating fascism
0	as a native chinese i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a world' i said world' because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years br br i guess most western audience may don't know means the first emperor the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china the chinese word was spoken by the king means 'the land and the people' spoken from his mouth is totally lie from then on one after another all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said br br another fact is empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people br br well i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant
0	because they all just watch there mst3k with their artificial friends who make mostly not that funny and obvious comments about movies and that's the only way these people watch them and then they comment and down vote them on the imdb based just on that they don't even try to watch the film on it's own br br i watched this film on it's own i didn't read the reviews first i didn't have some people telling what to laugh at i just got the dvd bought for the flip side morons from outer space an old fave and watched it br br of cause i knew kind of what i was in for when it's a golan globus albert pyun film but usually they can be quite entertaining br br the film is a non too stressing on the brain alice down the rabbit hole story done so many times and kind of similar in basic structure but completely different in content to warlords of atlantis another entertaining b movie br br the voice was annoying but then that's the idea which they even poke at with a few lines in the movie br br the hero character had one of the worst over the top voices accents in english language film history but you grow to accept it and enjoy it br br it's not a good film but it's not a really bad film it's just a bit of an average b movie dtv kind of film nothing too new nothing too outstanding and probably would be enjoyed more by a younger age bracket say 7 14 year olds than i it's a bit of light hearted fantasy br br will i see it again probably not maybe about 10 years ago i would have br br don't be so harsh on a movie because a couple of puppets told you too this film isn't taking itself seriously and it's certainly no troll 2 or space mutiny
0	every boy eventually learns the lesson that just because a girl is good looking it doesn't mean she's good well lemme tell you at age 19 lesson learned it's hard to tell what's worse kathy ireland's acting skills or her ultra high pitched voice the one that sounds like a screeching mouse on helium scratching its tiny little claws down a blackboard with an incomprehensible plot set in outer space with dwarves that want kathy ireland's bones for some obscure reason this movie is just wrong on so many levels if there were ever a candidate for a mystery science theater 3000 revival this would be it
0	stay away from this movie far away phil stars as the demented ringleader of a freakshow every performance is flat and unfeeling except the plot is a simple one and follows almost every horror movie cliche possible a group of high school kids go to a carnival see a side show and get in over their heads br br fans of fred olen ray should be warned this is not like any of his other films this one is lacking in all departments humor sex horror etc other f o ray movies excell in br br the version i saw also contained a making of documentry in which the director makes comments like we had a limited budget and with our limited timeline which speaks volumes about how much charles band cared about this film go rent droid runner fred olen ray or the dead hate the living full moon instead full moon should be ashamed of themselves and that's saying a lot after seeing killer eye br br grade d
0	don't watch it here's a hint tune in to the last 5 minutes and you'll catch her in a bikini otherwise you'll just have to sit through the flick and endure her helium sucking voice view for screen time with the inexplicable aussie accents of the lost city of atlantis or wherever the heck she goes to to locate her missing father we now know why kathy pursued a non speaking career of modelling she couldn't have survived the death threats from those poor headache suffering victims who heard her voice for more than 30 seconds the rest of the story is some kind of weird poorly lit mad max mish mash
0	i watched the mst3k version of the movie and this review includes minor spoilers br br when i started watching this movie it looked like it might have promise as a cheesy sci fi flick but the more i watched it the more disappointing it got the first reason is pretty idiosyncratic i liked the mousy shy girl with glasses a lot more than the model wanda became by the end of the movie more deeply it was the fact that the loss of glasses and change in clothing replaced any actual character growth instead of growing into a character that could take care of herself wanda was just as dependent on males to do everything for her as she was at the start of the movie the acting could have been better though i got tired of cracks about ireland's voice they were even in the movie itself it's not that bad the background was okay but it was a little hokey aliens humans with and could have used more explanation br br maybe it was just that i was interested in the movie itself but joel and the bots did little for me the movie might have been better without them at all br br overall for the movie itself not the mst3k a 3 out of 10 it was an okay flick for what it was
0	boy this movie is bad and not in a good cheesy fun way either even mst3k couldn't stop it from being boring and it's also confusing as all get out but the most annoying part of this dull mess is ireland's hideous high pitched voice which i was tired of listening to in the first five minutes not to mention how really unappealing her character is even her dad ran away and abandoned her i can see why frankly if he'd had to listen to her whine in her little mouse voice for more than a few minutes he'd have been tempted to do her a great harm as i was by the end of the movie plus she's useless and annoying when she falls down the long hole in the earth a la alice in wonderland she'd have been done for in the first ten minutes if that inexplicably australian accented miner hadn't kept saving her from all of the various plights she kept falling into he should have just tied her to the atlantean version of train tracks and been done with it and this atlantis underground with the weird confusing obsession with bone density i have to ask where was the light coming from down there did they have generators that imitate the sun no matter there's no real plot anyway just a bunch of oddly costumed goth wannabees running around trying to catch kathy probably so that they can stick a gag in her mouth stupid pointless film thank you golan globus for this cinematic abomination may you burn in the seventh ring of hell for all eternity
0	and the title says it all a cheesy sounding title that is a cheesy sounding joke of a film known as alien from l a why not just call it alien from south africa as this is the place where this movie was filmed my advice for watching movies that have been featured on mystery science theater 3000 do not watch the original version of the movie at all period always watch the movie with the theater shadow at the bottom of the screen with a man trapped in space with his two funny wise cracking robot friends sitting at the lower right hand corner of the screen it just seems better that way br br movie as it was originally seen awful movie as it was seen on mst3k genius
0	kathy ireland the body of a goddess the face of an angel the voice of a smurf br br and the acting talent of a shovel full of if you don't believe me check this out alien from l a actually depends on her to act throughout 9 10 of the movie sure she ends up in a nice red bikini top and a wrap around skirt near the end but that's too little so to speak too late br br seems ireland plays the daughter of a renowned scientist who falls down into the center of the earth to find him along the way she falls for a guy named yes like the toilet paper make your own jokes and finds out how mad max rejects live did you know that people that live down deep in the earth have austrailian accents neither did i br br it's bad it was after all and also a golan globus production but after all is said and done ireland just basically looks lost like she's trying to find where the photographers are so she can do a photo shoot instead br br and i don't blame her br br one star and if you insist on watching this do so with the sound turned off save your eardrums
0	in 1990 i saw kathy ireland in person i was at in denton during the filming of necessary roughness strangely enough the voice she's using in this film isn't too far off from her real speaking voice br br anyway the plot goes like this kathy gets a letter telling her that her father's fallen into a bottomless pit in africa she goes and investigates the site of her father's death only to get sucked into a subterranean world that's part dystopian nightmare part uninspiring fantasy and inhabited by rejects from the this movie really wastes the talent of linda who in my opinion could have been someone had she gotten that one big role that was right for her anyway the main hero of the story gus is a very lame mark jacko jackson rip off the original is annoying enough to begin with but this guy really is torture to watch eventually the nebbish wanda comes out of her shell and ends up wearing a bikini top and a at the end if you're going to have kathy ireland in a film in skimpy clothing it'd better be a bikini anyway the film was just all around bad and rightfully skewered by mst3k br br avoid this one if possible
0	the opening credits are pure poetry and i have watched it several times it had a corny 20's adventure feel to it of course kathy is gorgeous but that voice did she realize this was a talkie one word voice coach great film for chronic insomnia along with a bottle of scotch
0	back in the 1960's those of us who were bad movie aficionados thought that plan nine from outer space was the worst movie ever made and would remain so for all time to put things in perspective though we also thought that 3 000 was a lot to pay for a new car br br as we grew older our innocence was gradually stripped away as we were exposed to movies like hercules in new york and overdrawn at the memory bank which completely redefined the bad movie genre in this context last night my son and i saw alien from l a which pushed the envelope to an extreme unimaginable just a generation ago to call this movie bad or wretched or execrable completely fails to do it justice as does any other label existent in the english language even if there were words with which to accurately describe this movie it would be of no consequence since they would be banned in civilized society br br the alien referred to in the title is played by kathy ireland who apparently took some time off from modeling swimsuits for sports illustrated to kick off her cinematic career her casting might seem some sort of recommendation until you actually see the movie the makeup artists earned their money by making kathy look so drab and unappetizing you would not want to touch her with the far end of a broomstick no mean feat to put it bluntly in this movie she has a face that would freeze medusa even worse than her look though was her voice which was so raucous that i initially failed to credit it as originating with a human being throughout the movie i found myself longing for a chalkboard to drag my nails across to cover the screechy twang of her dialog at the end of the movie kathy finally gets a makeover and finds herself in her beloved swimsuit i suggested to my son that the movie would have been better if they had put her in the swimsuit at the beginning of the movie so at least we would have had something to watch my son perceptively pointed out that if they had then removed the swimsuit and stuffed it into her mouth it would have considerably improved the movie on two counts i defer to the plain brilliance of his observation if you have any doubts compare this dreck to barbarella in which a competent filmmaker shows how to exploit the assets of an ethereally beautiful leading lady in the fantasy genre br br of the plot itself there is little on which to comment since there was so little in evidence it is said that if a million monkeys typed for millions of years eventually one would come up with hamlet by the process of elimination the rest of the time they would come up with something this screenplay imagine if you will a modern day alice falling into a hole and dropping 500 feet onto a rock slab following which she gets up herself off and starts looking for her long lost father in the city kingdom of atlantis once in atlantis she spends most of her time running fighting or climbing stairs and ladders and basically trying to keep out of the hands of a general who seems to have no soldiers to do his bidding and who would make tiny tim look macho this summation as abbreviated as it appears is probably longer than the shooting script br br on the plus side as you revel in the production values and take in whatever you can of the sets and costumes through the smoke and haze you realize that this is one movie in which you can actually see on the screen where all 20 of the budget went br br the thought that kept going through my mind was that filmmakers ought not be given access to drugs and alcohol while they are shooting a movie or perhaps prior if it leads to results like alien from l a though in fairness i have to acknowledge that i don't know whether they were actually involved in substance abuse or were simply brain dead at the outset of the project
0	this movie had a very convoluted plot and very contrived setting that i frankly could not follow which is surprising considering the acting and dialogue could have only been the product of a writing if you like kathy ireland then maybe you'd want to see this the movie was probably made as a vehicle to try to get her into hollywood but if that was its goal i would have to say that i hope she didn't invest too much money in its production
0	the director of this waste of celluloid specialises in dreadful exploitation films where pretension is all the previous year he did dangerously close whose good idea about gangs getting too much power in school and the school paper editor against them was submerged in a sea of sloppiness and he would go on to do cyborg jean claude van damme's worst film ever no mean feat this would be comedy about a girl kathy ireland in her film debut who's a total schlump whose inner babe is only awakened after she falls to the centre of the earth and has a set of badly filmed impossible to follow adventures chiefly involving a set of dwarves who want her because she has big bones go figure before returning home changed for the better isn't funny gripping or entertaining in the slightest and anybody watching this to salivate over miss ireland will be put off too not because of her voice but because she spends most of the film buried under tons of baggy clothes with huge glasses to boot no wonder cannon the producers are out of business amazingly kathy ireland has made better films since then or maybe that isn't so amazing next to this barb wire is aliens
0	this could have been better but it was alright it helped me get away from my boredom i didnt even wanna see it the only reason i wanted to rent it is because jamie is in it he is a unknown actor but he is shining and is the highlight of the movie the ending was so horrible and the acting was good for a b movie i give it a 4 out of 10
0	even in her glasses wearing geek mode kathy ireland is very easy on the eyes but her acting is not easy to watch most of the actors in the film either take it way over the top beyond campy fun or act slightly embarrassed at being there the effects and soundtrack are nothing special and fairly low budget the plot line really stretches ones ability to suspend disbelief catch this one to laugh at if it comes on a premium movie channel or network saturday afternoon tv but do not waist money on this thing br br one worthy mention for trivia purposes is that one of the underground mobsters is played by deep roy deep is now famous for playing and doing it well all the in burton's charlie and the chocolate factory
0	this movie is a bizarre fantasy tale that i'm sure doesn't appeal to anyone over 10 but is too strange for children the plot is stupid and the acting is some of the worst i've ever seen br br 25 year old kathy ireland plays a teenage girl who acts like a 9 year old she seems to have gotten her character's voice by listening to alvin and the chipmunks her high pitched screechy baby voice gets annoying the second she starts talking all of the other acting is bad but really kathy ireland is by far the worst the plot is also terrible and is kind of a mix between alice in wonderland and mad max wanda saknussemm ireland gets a letter saying her father who left her a long time ago fell down a bottomless pit in africa and when she goes to find him she falls into an underground world full of strange australian accented people it's one of the corniest movie you'll ever see with terrible lines throughout br br it's annoying the effects this movie uses for character development kathy ireland is a nerd who won't do anything or go anywhere she flies to africa wow what development she drops her glasses and then doesn't need them why does dropping one's glasses represent them not becoming a nerd it should represent her descent into blindness it's just stupid the only positive i can think is there are semi good special effects and camera work and the musical score sounds ok br br overall this a ridiculous family fantasy that will only appeal to those who expect nothing from a movie br br my rating 1 2 out of 84 mins pg for violence
0	albert pyun presents his vision of the lost city of atlantis and it's a vision so cluttered up with claustrophobic settings weird costumes and noisy quirky minor characters that one thing is for sure you want to get the hell outta there as soon as possible unfortunately it will take you about 80 minutes the alice in wonderland like story is meandering and uninteresting and there was probably no actress in the world who could have turned this into a good movie though kathy ireland makes an appealing annoying voice and all attempt 1 2
0	i bought the dvd to get julia ormond well i got that in spades she was lovely in the romantic scenes too bad bill paxton was flying on autopilot for the whole effort i almost lost my lunch when he popped his big fat white behind out of his flight suit to shall we say with julia br br i realized julia was very proficient in french while watching her in 'sabrina' i watched 'sabrina' with the french soundtrack to see if julia dubbed her own dialog they used someone else in any case julia was chosen for this dutch film over a native french speaker with sufficient english to communicate with the american flier perhaps they wanted at least one familiar name for the british american market to my unfamiliar eye julia's features could pass for belgian br br the whole film had an odd nature it was a dutch film about belgium in world war 2 i would imagine that national pride would have required a theme of heroic dutch resistance to the german invaders the belgians were much more passive during the occupation period than were the french or norwegians the most savage fighting of all came in the balkans where tito's communist partisans gave the germans fits br br i noted in another review that believed julia ormond to be an american instead of the actual british nationality perhaps julia's acting skills were great enough to carry off that impression br br after watching this film several times it suddenly dawned on me how out of season the film is it is set on 16 1944 when the american plane crashes in belgian farm country the trees look to be in mid fall with lots of leaves and the weather is warm people walk about in light clothing and the grass is still green there is not the smallest trace of snow or ice this must have been the mildest winter in belgium ever br br the actual plot of the film was a mess where to begin for anyone interested in world war 2 history the film came across as farce the reconnaissance plane used was a huge 4 engine converted bomber such aircraft did exist but they would have required massive fighter escort to have any chance of survival in reality smaller and aircraft were readily available and would have been far more suitable for the task the vital code books in the film would never have been carried on the plane the crew had no need of this information to complete their mission while compromise of this information would have been a huge intelligence defeat even given the premise of the film the first items to be stripped from the aircraft would be the code books they would have been on their way to berlin within 10 minutes of the arrival of german troops at the crash site br br the home where 'major took refuge was a farm where no one had the least interest in farming food would have been very scarce in belgium at this time the germans would have required substantial quantities of locally produced food to support their forces the family truck would have been long before the arrival of the american flier there would not have been any fuel available to run it anyway br br the plot twist where henri turns in the american out of jealousy is pathetic he would have had to reveal all he knew about the resistance in order to be allowed to live he would have had to function as a double agent to frustrate any effective opposition the woman with the secret radio would have never survived the war br br 'major was caught in civilian clothing toward the end of the film that made him a spy under the laws of war and liable for execution with no defense he would not have meekly surrendered to face interrogation unhindered by the geneva convention better to force them to kill him and spare his friends if possible br br i have not read the novel upon which this film is based if this film is a faithful adaption it shows an abysmal lack of development in the novel regardless of the novel the screenwriters could easily have produced a superior script that would not waste this opportunity to deliver a much better film
0	this story of ted brice an american pilot who is the sole survivor of the crash of an allied reconnaissance plane in belgium in january of 1944 is pretty much of a mess the title would lead you to think that it is principally a story about the belgian armed resistance groups but that seems to be just a backdrop to prop up a silly love story between ted and claire the woman who takes ted in claire's husband henri is a committed resistance member but it is claire who decides in henri's absence and against his wishes to give ted refuge br br crucial plot details don't make sense central to the story is the retrieval of the recorder on the downed plane that contains navigation codes and the positions of targets but in the opening scene we see belgians looting the plane resistance members among them why did they not retrieve the valued items at that time instead of waiting for the nazis to come and guard the plane and the whole affair of transferring ted out of the area was conducted using secret instructions and code words when the transaction could have just been a simple exchange the ponderous music attempts but fails to lend some weight to this tepid undertaking br br the most ludicrous part of the movie is how the love affair develops between ted and claire at first claire is devoted to nursing ted back from near death and when ted starts to recover they become physically involved while henri is conveniently away conducting resistance business julie ormond does a passable job as claire but she effects a french accent that i frequently found impossible to understand her responses seemed a little weak at times when informed of the hanging deaths of several town members she reacts as though she had just been told that the local grocery was out of peaches as ted bill paxton seems just to be reciting his lines his performance is so uninspired that it's embarrassing a true american pilot might evidence such a flat personality but it does not make for convincing cinema i did not sense any chemistry between these supposed lovers br br the most idiotic thing is the way that ted and claire act like lovers on holiday maybe sexual release from such heavy situations is understandable but to appear totally oblivious of the gravity of the situation is hard to fathom at first ted is consigned to an attic room and claire worries about his even coming into the house but as things develop he not only comes into the house he dances with claire to loud music enters the adjoining barn to have a game of baseball with a local boy and ultimately goes on a car trip with claire to a nearby town br br the young boy seems to be most committed to his role but he is undermined by the script he has an uncanny ability to be at crucial events without being noticed and when he delivers lines like br br have you ever seen someone get hanged they look like dancing but they can't find the floor br br you feel that it is the screenwriter talking and not a thirteen year old boy br br and oh by the way there are scenes to show that the nazis are pretty bad guys br br comparing this film to the brilliant ashes and diamonds about the polish resistance or the equally stellar lucien about the french resistance one realizes what a truly dismal affair it is
0	this started out as a good sketch comedy the first few shows were very good and i was looking forward to a long run what was really funny was the mariah carey imitation and the take off on beverly hills 90210 featuring the hair fight the delta burke vs william conrad heavy weight battle was also good unfortunately the following shows went downhill relatively quickly the writing became uninspired and oh so predictable as if the show had acquired a cult following in it's young tenure nothing fresh was being offered and the recurring skits were boring one example is the gun family or whatever it was called which became a weekly feature this sketch was not all that funny to begin with let alone being a regular feature an example of a quick promising start then a sudden fall
0	my only regret is that one cannot grade a movie on imdb with a 0 a cena would definitely deserve that at least br br spoiler the movie starts with a bunch of people entering a crypt to awaken an ancient vampire when a guy cuts himself and his blood drips and falls onto the putrid and dried corpse that is supposed to be a bloodsucker the metamorphosis takes place and the vampire in an animation like effect would you believe it quickly takes on a more human form only to reveal that he's wearing a tux and a bow tie a bow tie yes red if my memory serves me right i tried to check out random scenes by skipping through a bit but it did not get any better than the opening sequences that's the point when i turned the movie off cursing it for having made me hope to see a vampire movie this is surely not one unless you're 5 and could take such stupidity seriously br br so if you like vampires and don't want to feel revolted or even disgusted learn from my mistake and don't even try to see this garbage
0	from what i understand mr bava abandoned this project before completion and rightfully so if i were him i definitely would have made sure that every copy was burned and if anybody in the future ever asked me about this film it never happened it never existed end of story br br despite some great sets and good photography this is one horrible film is it supposed to be scary not in the least is it supposed to be funny puh leese a total waste of time and i really don't like to have to say that
0	1960's kid show with ex vaudevillians playing handy men for hire as you can expect they are a disaster at everything they do over the course of the 11 minute episodes leaving 4 minutes for commercials in the 15 minute time slot they do things like set up a fence between warring neighbors help a magician on stage and deal with a found trunk and wallet br br growing up i had never run across this show which appears to have been shot in new york i thought i had run heard of or seen a most of the children's shows from the period either through having watched them as a kid or viewed them at nostalgia conventions until alpha video released it on dvd i had been completely unaware if its existence br br the show plays like the three stooges mixed with abbott and costello as done by people aping the routines indeed one of the pair claims to have created the legendary slowly i turned routine that abbott and costello perfected its not bad but its really not good either since everything seems watered down the timing is often off though that maybe due to bad direction and the jokes were recycled years before the show first ran odds are you've seen it all before on the plus side its the type of thing that would be perfect to introduce very young kids to the magic of vaudeville style comedy however its going to be trying for parents to sit through even with the short episodes br br for nostalgia junkies only everyone else should look to seeing an abbott and costello or three stooges original
0	why this worthless piece of french cinema has garnered any sort of attention other than negative is beyond me br br don't bother renting this one it shouldn't have even come into this country
0	this is absolutely beyond question the worst movie i have ever seen it is so bad in fact that i plan on renting it again as soon as i can find it this movie makes 'plan 9 from outer space' look like an oscar contender just looking at the actors makes me want to laugh out loud i cannot say enough bad things about this movie it's awfulness perfection br br the plot is based on a terrorist attack with a nuclear weapon in san francisco i think that's as far as i can go i am laughing too hard i know it shouldn't be funny but br br move over ed wood br br
0	yes i couldn't stop yawning nor could my partner incredibly boring 90 minutes seemed to stretch to at least 3 hours and i'm not even a fan of action films but this just falls asleep on its feet unless you are a 70's polo neck sweater fan br br some spoilers follow if you were expecting anything to happen don't hold your breath it doesn't br br but seriously it totally fails to convince or involve the watcher it's like a long boring and rather disjointed dream frederic floats through it able to leave work whenever he wants and with attractive secretaries bringing tea and messages constantly obviously not real life and an office with virtually no paper or files just a giant calendar to let you know that the film really is taking 6 months to watch br br frederick never seems to be touched by any real emotion neither does his wife and the children behave like rag dolls in stark contrast to any real life even chloe despite her strong views never gives the appearance of really feeling anything the only 3 seconds of any real feeling occur between a couple overseen in a cafe and have nothing to do with the plot br br okay so maybe there are some moral considerations but if it's entertainment or even good cinematography you are looking for i think this film is incredibly over rated by most other viewers
0	i watch family affairs coronation st east enders on uktv every week night family affairs is by far the worst bad plots bad sequences and the worst acting of any even worse than the americans and that is saying something br br i find it very frustrating that all these shows on uktv australia are so far behind the uk and when one trys to find out the reason for this they just fob you off with some story that they will show double episodes to catch up needless to say this never happens i am very happy that family affairs is going to make space for something of better quality but at the same time i would to know the background reasons did they finally realize how bad it was did people stop watching it whatever it was you musn't leave us in suspense why do you feel that you have to keep everything a secret from your fans or is it that you just don't care i feel strongly that you should try and keep your public up to date family affairs is notorious for just having its characters disappear and reappear for seemingly no reason we do get involved in the people and enjoy following their lives br br i can understand why family affairs would have to come to an end even though we are so far behind here in australia it is easy to see that the writers are running out of ideas for new plots so many plots are being repeated and old episodes coming back i have also noticed that as new characters are being introduced a lot of them are really bad actors like you are scraping the bottom of the barrel and ending up with the drek regards vince
0	week after week these women just sweep all the men of their feet get real none of these women are knockouts carrie sarah jessica parker looks like the type of woman men would pick up at 45am before the bar closed after their vision and standards were equally impaired by ten or eleven martinis yet she's the queen bee a super sexy man killer the other three don't fare much better and their constant foul mouthed comments not to mention that they jump in and out of bed with strange men and never catch a disease this show is pathetic and creepy i don't think any man would be terribly attracted to any of these women even if he popped viagra like tic while on shore leave
0	sex and the city has some great things going for it the problem is that it's saddled with a number of negatives that really hurt the ultimate rating and review for its' six seasons br br the good things about is that a lot of the conversations ring true to life the romance stories are interesting and the characters are fun br br the bad things is that few women act like complete whores these four women have so many partners even going lesbian in some episodes that you have no choice but to roll your eyes at the utter absurdity men on the show are for the most part depicted as shallow degenerates liars cheats and buffoons the foul language these women use is far in excess as to what a normal conversation entails why do the writers do these things clearly to be over the top and to get your attention br br another thing that bothered me without spoiling is how some of the relationships ended they simply didn't ring real to me or to others i discussed this with br br but even though i gave the show 2 stars in the end i'm glad i watched the show i've actually watched every season multiple times i do recommend the show to anyone that won't be offended by strong profanity and soft core pornography i could have done less with the offensive language and the nudity and sex acts but the romance was very good and the saga ends pretty well
0	i know that this show gave a lot of liberation to women in the late '90s and early 2000s but come on you have a whiner a buzz kill and an over analyzer this show really made women look bad i cannot stand carrie's analyzing every little thing on this show and that's what really killed it for me also charlotte's whining about her nonexistent predicaments made my ears hurt and miranda's cynicism was a complete buzz kill i mean can't she just be happy samantha was the only cool one on the show and the only one worth watching there was also a good episode when nathan lane was on the show but that was the only one worth watching the rest of them were pretty much the same the humor was drier than a bucket of sand and not very interesting plot line all in all not a very good show and i'm glad it's over
0	all my friends and various other coworkers think this show is soooo great first i hate this show i think i might be the only female alive i only watched it because my best friend adores it and fancies herself to be the charlotte character br br first the whole plot if you can call it that is about four women samantha kim cattrall who most likely has every std available and brown and green genitals considering she is tri sexual she'll try anything br br samantha is not like most 40 something women even in ny but than the show would not have some kind of entertainment since samantha along with some good ny scenery is the only reason to watch and those are not reason enough br br charlotte kristen davis is a well dressed upper class ny idiot who still believes the charming myth however sweet and pretty she is do not let that fool you she spreads quite often br br miranda cynthia nixon now this woman is stereotypical angry butch feminist i think in one episode she is thought to be a lesbian but apparently is not what a shame she's almost interesting br br carrie sarah jessica parker the most annoying character i swear i thought i was watching twisted sister front man dee more manly looking cross dressing sissy boy brother this is a girl looking for can't live without you love heard of a puppy br br this show is stupid and i love making fun of it because i hear about how it is some kind of new awakening for women that is just sad if your looking to watch slutty pathetic addictive people in way too expensive clothes drinking cosmopolitans and sounding like an annoying 15 yr old on cocaine than there is a show for you just use protection
0	the very first time i saw this i in horror at what was being presented as modern liberated women br br sorry but i cannot relate to whining idiots whose lives revolve around loveless sex and the acquisition of gucci prada and louis labels the troubling thing is that some may actually think this is how career women live in nyc it's definitely not these women are incredibly shallow and materialistic and as another reviewer said they act like gold digging br br this is not liberated womanhood and i'm glad it's gone 0 stars and just plain awful
0	i didn't expect much from the movie so am not all that disappointed carrie looked ugly mr big had his eyebrows colored with crayons and samantha didn't say f br br charlotte's kid was annoying to watch as she was in too many scenes the title could easily have been parents' night out camera angles just weren't that good especially regarding carrie's face br br there was a token black woman thrown in whose character doesn't have a proper exit and too few appearances by the gay men friends who seemed thrown in with no purpose anyway samantha's going back and forth from la choked the story flow especially when she comes in for fashion week and nothing happens br br the movie seems to have been made in rush because it could have been good but scenes were just thrown in to show different outfits or to offer viewers a chance to jump back in the show without adding much to the story of the movie
0	appalling shallow materialistic nonsense how women and gay men can enjoy this rubbish is beyond me no self respecting man would ever want to be with one of these neurotic gold diggers what is even more concerning is that so many reviewers say they relate to the women on the show if that is the future of women lord help us all showing your independence and being respected as equals with men should not be about spreading your legs every three seconds with a different man i think this demeans women and does not do them justice but this review is no rant against women fans of this show say it is hilarious and but every time i have watched this show i have just struggled to stay awake despite the narrative of the reporter woman at no point in this show is there even anything close to something that could be considered a rational thought so it's not entertaining and it's not informative so why would you bother watching it one out of ten stars
0	i truly despair for when they discuss this joke of a programme as if it's intellectually engaging and promotes female liberation and independence this show is the biggest insult to women next to all those libidinous hip hop videos if talking like a bunch of reckless teenage boys over 100 lunches in swanky restaurants indiscriminately shopping for unnecessary fashion and jumping into bed with the nearest male in site is considered empowering the fate of western women may be doomed as we speak br br aside from the damage it does to the female gender sex and the city is not entertaining not once has it been funny captivating exciting or original the episodes play out monotonously each character are factory produced mannequins who behave in the same manner every episode not once have any of these shallow unattractive women evolved perhaps the worst is lead character carrie bradshaw aside from looking hideous her penchant for over analysis of relationships is cringe worthy on top of all this the show portrays men as a bunch of empty headed slobs who are unable to commit to healthy relationships even when there is a decent man he is somehow painted as a villain the utter lack of empathy for men is clearly the work of some progressive pseudo feminist br br saddest part of the whole show is that these women live unfortunate miserable lives any intelligent woman would never envy them it is a banal show with even more banal characters the nyc tourist board must hate the way this garbage is showing up their otherwise fine city thankfully this train wreck is over desperate housewives is seen as the fitting replacement for while dh can be quite far fetched at least it explores women in more multi faceted ways plus it treats men more respectfully and it's actually entertaining
0	i'm mike i co wrote the score for this movie and proud of it br br and i love all of the comments some have not gone far enough br br the movie premiered in san francisco in the summer of 1973 the theater was packed with friends and family we all clapped br br five days latter it was pulled from all of the screens in the bay area br br if anyone is interested hearing some of scene by scene details which might make the movie even more enjoyable please let me know br br we could start with the shot where gideon blake throws the toilet to distract one of the evil henchmen guarding the radio transmitter on the deck of bud's house br br or how gideon diffused the bomb in the original version br br didn't help it still bombed br br bring it on
0	to be i used to like this show and watch it regularly but now thank god i don't understand why did i watch it sex and the city is one of the most pointless and insulting tv shows i've ever seen i really don't get the point of this show despite of trying people are saying that sex and the city is funny in what way by cursing all the time talking about vibrators and the size of the penis give me a break br br i don't understand the plot we have four girls who are trying to find a perfect man by sleeping with every dork who comes around and this show is all about four spoiled chicks who are sleeping with every man in the city but in the end they admit the best pleasure comes out of the penis vibrators and yeah the show is trying to tell us that sex is the most important thing in every relationship if you can have a good sex you're a good husband or wife it doesn't matter if you want to be loyal and having a good heart the size does matter br br the biggest problem is also bad acting the four main actresses sarah jessica parker kim cynthia nixon and kristin davis are so bad and unconvincing that it makes me sick just watching this show parker is just screaming and complaining all the time is showing her old boobs and saying the f word all the time davis delivers her smile and nothing else and nixon acts like she is bored all the time and yes men are sex hungry pigs in this show but judging by this show women are not much better this show is insulting for men and women the women are shown so primitive and emotionless like they don't have any heart just hunger for sex it's insulting for everyone br br sex and the city is one of the worst tv shows and i'm glad that the show ended because it delivers bad acting and pointless stories the whole world is not all about sex and vibrators
0	in 1970 feminists invaded the 'miss world' beauty contest in london and brought the occasion to a halt by pelting the stage with flour and eggs why because rightly or wrongly they felt the event to be demeaning and degrading to women i offer no criticism of their actions its a free world we live in what i want to know is why don't their modern day equivalents invade the studios where shows such as this are made and do likewise br br 'sex the city' is all about four self absorbed women from new york carrie is a slave to fashion who turns into a pussycat when a man so much as eyes on her charlotte yearns to find the perfect man they don't exist love so she can use sex to ensnare the poor devil lawyer miranda scares men away by nonsense like 'out of touch with my emotions' and lastly we have samantha the living embodiment of the old martini ad anyplace feminists hold up these characters particularly samantha as a shining example of modern day womanhood well if shouting rude words in busy restaurants is progress i think the feminists should take a long hard look at themselves and what they're supposed to represent br br had 'sex the city' been the creation of a man it would have been pulled from the airwaves for being sexist instead like 'charlie's angels' before it it has conned supposedly intelligent women into thinking it has acted as a positive force for good there's something very clinical and cold blooded about the show 'the benny hill show' was sexist too but at least it was funny
0	lazy writing bad acting and wooden direction lead us to a 2005 canadian made tv movie called hush not to be confused with about eight other movies using the same name tori spelling and her doctor hubby move from to his small hometown where they run into his old gal pal who decides she still loves him she gets pregnant with baby don't ask and starts knocking off anyone who might get in her way as she plans to reunite with her old flame the actors playing the old gal pal and the doctor are not worth mentioning as they act flatter than flat tori isn't much better but at least she is something to focus on as the plot meanders here and there before arriving at a very lame and all too familiar conclusion watch instead the hand that rocks the cradle
0	if you're a sucker for corny movies and are looking to see something you don't need to pay close attention to this might be worth watching the story itself is very unrealistic the dialogue is also not very believable it is doubtful you will find yourself relating to any of these characters because none of them are very likable the acting could've been a lot worse victoria pratt is noticeably out of place with the rest of the cast as she seems to have a lot of potential and talent as an actress while it's not saying much this is one of the best acting performances i've seen from tori spelling she appears to be getting better with age overall this extremely melodramatic movie is mediocre at best
0	i don't know if i should be amused or insulted by drivel like this put out by lifetime television for women should be renamed lifetime television for shut in drama queens because i've yet to see a movie that wasn't a tear jerking pot boiler this film was no exception you know a film's going to be bad when the biggest headliner is tori spelling completely a creation of bad plastic surgery and spoiled privilege minus any real talent everyone else matched her in unbelievably bad acting and the storyline was beyond dumb as if anyone could believe any of it if i hadn't have been helpless on the sofa pinned down watching with the same fascination you view a gory car wreck i would have changed the channel
0	this is one of those films you can have on for a couple of hours on a sunday morning able to do other things with no real complications in losing any understanding of the proceedings and gaining some fascination in wondering why such mediocrities acquired the manpower and financial resources to be produced in the first place br br of course with all the cable channels as well as lifetime's need to fill its time slots with 100 or so hours worth of movies per week along with incessant golden girls reruns this type of fare is now a t v staple also it seems these flicks provide livelihood to the canadian locales where most are made as well as the host of canadian actors appearing in them br br tori spelling like the ferret face paris hilton is somebody who if not for family connections and resources would likely be working at the gap but at least tori has become say a c level thespian appearing in occasional presentations appropriate to this level br br this story is one which has been seen on lifetime and similar venues god knows how many times devious woman a total sociopath trying to screw up everyone else's lives operating during the initial parts of the story with more cleverness than a cia operative could muster committing murder when necessary and out to wreck the life of the flick's heroine br br as usual the male lead is a completely clueless dolt and in these types of films one finds say characters about whom one can really care about 10 of the time this one is in the other 90
0	terrible terrible movie for television once again lifetime brings us the predictable triangle scheming bitchy woman out to get stupid unknowing wife of yet another stupid husband who doesn't have a clue br br i get antsy when i see these films you may ask why do i watch them then i haven't a clue usually by mistake and the movie is so bad i can't get away from it i wait for the bitch to get her come up pence and usually i'm not satisfied in how she gets her just desserts br br now if you can believe our vixen she steals embryos from the clinic and how does one do that without blood tests dna inquiries and recommendations she proceeds to kill the realtor gabrielle rose who is on to her in broad daylight in the front yard of a house for sale and no one sees her she kills the mother susan hogan and you could predict that surmise when the mother off handedly mentions she's allergic to peanuts and that the pills to combat this allergy are in her pocket book guess what i won't continue on this br br finally you are left in the house alone with the wife and the bitch well good triumphs evil but much too slowly victoria pratt as the evil girlfriend is adequate in the role looking a bit too disheveled and obvious tori spelling just stands around looking blank most of the time she's got those big big bette davis eyes that look like they're popping out of her head i liked her better in trick and plays the husband going around assuring his wife there's nothing too he and his ex girlfriend even though he's spotted all over town being very chummy with her standing half naked with her in his house when he sent the wife off to the city to stay overnight yet he continues to deny the romance br br lifetime never disappoints the viewers with their inane plots and stories about women and their stupid husbands wish i could give this chestnut a 0 rating
0	there is no way to put into words just how bad how shapeless and laughless these vice academy films really are you have to experience one for yourself for the third time in a row writer director rick sloane does not show even an ounce of writing or directing talent there is nothing here that a person above the age of 5 will believe or laugh at yet the very brief nudity and other plot elements make the films unsuitable for kids which leads me to believe that they are really aimed at adults with the mental capabilities of 5 year olds elizabeth makes a more than welcome replacement for linnea quigley she is winningly bubbly and cute and her wonderful big smile is about the only thing that can make a viewer smile as well but watching her and the other girls in this film is like watching a bunch of flowers in a desert covered with horse manure
0	as usual another masterpiece in the vice academy series hahaha i don't know why they even bothered to make this trash just another series of cops acting slutty a defining part was when ginger lynn allen's character holly wells and elizabeth character candy tried to seduce the scientist by wearing nothing but their bra and underwear under their just a wonderful scene ha a character that i didn't like was the commissioner he was very annoying and ignorant they should have arrested him mrs was pretty annoying as well they should have stopped this series after this movie
0	massive spoilers ahead ok the movie in a nutshell so this girl goes out buys drugs gets pulled over by a cop the cops name is wolf the cop feels her butt then he eats her okay he beats her up and eats her then this woman is at home and this guy come with bulging genitals and he does her up then the woman goes into the other room and this black guy is there and she undresses then the movie turns into a porno he starts sucking on her breasts then she gives him head then wolf walks in with blood all over him and says honey i'm home then he realizes his wife is blowing some black guy and he kills her the black guy kills him cuts the girl out of wolfs stomach and the go home the end and they lived happily ever after that is the movie br br now after reading this do u really think there is anything to like about this movie the only thing i liked in the woman had a nice body but the performances sucked the story sucked the dialogue sucked the whole movie just sucked
0	i was greatly disappointed by the quality of this documentary the content is poorly produced very poor quality video and especially awful audio there's extremely little about how bruce haack produced his music and virtually no examples of direct connection to later and contemporary electronic music the interviews of people who knew bruce haack are ad hoc mostly inarticulate mumbo jumbo too much yak and not enough haack although i have a serious personal interest in electronic music and have a higher than average attention span even for slow and or difficult subject matter i fell asleep while watching this documentary and had to review it to see the parts i slept through if you watch this make sure that you are set up before viewing like alex in a clockwork orange bruce haack deserves much better than this shame on the producer and director
0	the problem with this movie is that it isn't funny it isn't scary it isn't dramatic it isn't intriguing it isn't stimulating it isn't it isn't exciting it isn't even the slightest bit interesting i saw this film recently on tape and i was glad i didn't spent any money to rent it it's basically a poor attempt at film making i won't even bother to tell you the story story what story
0	if you want a complete waste of time because pulling lint out of your belly button or cleaning the wax out of your ears or your tile is your idea of a carnival thrill ride then you'll not want to miss this one br br for one thing forget the vhs cover no body in this movie looks that attractive ie the indian girl someone else commented that whoever posed for the cover is not the same girl and i agree the cover is the most exciting thing about this movie br br to put this in perspective i bought this vhs for 99 cents at k mart and three minutes no 40 seconds into the movie i knew i had been ripped off br br i finished watching it because 1 i did pay 99 cents after all and 2 there might possibly conceivably been a hair of chance some scene in this turkey was worth more than a pinched loaf br br there wasn't br br good grief fonda i know you were hard up for roles when you did this but this is beneath you
0	look no further this is it the worst movie ever made there may be others that are tied but there are none worse there can't be br br i found this movie on a clearance sale laserdisc for 3 25 and thought no movie with those actors could possibly not be worth that price turns out it's worth triple that as the minimum they should have paid me to watch it br br i'm virtually certain that the girl in the picture on the cover of the package is not the girl in the movie they substituted someone else someone younger and cuter to make it look more appealing whatever plot there was amounted to about three minutes of actual movie the rest is filler and i don't mean the kind of filler that you only realize is filler when it's over or that is some kind of eye candy you don't mind having there i mean filler that has you thinking about your shopping list i think the music must have been made up by somebody with a friend who had a radio he listened to once it's terrible br br if there were a shot of a nice mountain a river valley a forest anything there would be something positive about this movie there isn't even with the speeder button on the remote even at top laserdisc speed you can't get it over with fast enough br br after years of thinking about commenting on movies being tempted but not registering with imdb i finally cracked because i had to do my part to push the user rating on this stinker down as far as possible br br the guidelines ask that you focus on the content and context i can't there isn't enough content to focus on and that's exactly my point sometimes bad is just bad and this movie would have to be much better than it is to aspire to being only that
0	i couldn't wait for the end this is absolutely the worst film i have ever seen if you thought that just about anyone could make a watchable movie these folks prove that there is a minimum skill set required this is a film with no redeeming features whatsoever it scores a zero in every department this is more than just 'amateur' as the audience is given no consideration or regard at all there is no serious attempt to act or entertain the storyline is aimless pointless and senseless the cast look very uncomfortable and completely lack direction the technical aspects of the film are poor br br as a dvd it makes a good drinks coaster
0	a friend of mine once rented this thinking since peter fonda starred in it it couldn't be bad wrong it's bad as anything can be there is so much to laugh at and it's not the jokes for instance in one scene walks into the forest and when he comes out he is suddenly wearing a completely different outfit where was the director's brain when he shot that scene probably the same place fonda's was when he agreed to do this flick it's truly a shame one has to see such a fine actor go dumb in this poor excuse for a film br br nobody's performance in this movie can be called acting jack elam is brought in just to bring up the star count here but all he does is looking startled in a very dark and awfully shot scene in some kind of bar not to mention the indians the girl was so godawful i wanted to shoot her just to end her misery and mine as well if i could give this a 0 i would shame that mark doesn't exist here this truly reminds of a bad joke or an amateur footage made just for fun this should serve as a proof of how bad b movies can get
0	i hate a movie that doesn't have an ending i don't care how good or bad the rest might be i don't like to be left without a conclusion such shows should insist upon a disclaimer something like the movie you are about to watch has either no ending or is so ambiguous as to not be conclusive br br in the movie the last scene we are left with is dee and dominic having a bit of a row and he says almost regretfully i thought that it couldn't be him because the fingers were either that of a girl or a child then it ends well sure the smoking gun so to say is in the hands of the dee's son but what about dominic's daughter i actually thought we might discover it was her anyway unless you like inconclusive movies then i'd avoid this one otherwise i thought the movie generally good
0	when a bbc murder thriller is this rife with heterosexual dysfunction you know who the killer must be the homosexual br br who murdered the sexy blonde teenager who's also a pathological liar on her way home from school let's see could it be the mother who against all common sense is letting her teenaged son make visits to his serial killer father behind bars could it be the moody son who's impressed by his dad's no nonsense attitude about women could it be the serial killer himself who seems able to manipulate events from behind bars a la hannibal lecter could it be mom's boyfriend a teacher at the school whose affair with an ex student led to his wife's suicide or could it be boyfriend's daughter who goes blabbing everyone's secrets at school causing untold misery no it's none of these likely suspects it's the homosexual br br the only mystery for the viewer is guessing who the homosexual is of course it could be anybody since the only characteristics of the homosexual are shameful secrecy and a propensity to murder and otherwise make life complicated for the normal folks the homosexual is the invisible root cause of society's ills only when this person is exposed and eliminated can the fractured family come back together and things can return to normal whatever that is br br as for the cast both redgrave and robson green are now officially past their sell by dates the world could get by marvelously without ever seeing either on screen again but as long as the bbc has roles for the aggrieved woman and the misunderstood man i suppose they'll keep coming back in movies like this one
0	this film is a perfect example of how to take a fascinating subject come up with 25 minutes of substantive material and stretch it into a six hour borefest resembling the shape a documentary might take if fox news decided to make one even the participants in this obnoxiously obstreperous film can't conceal their laughter at the stupidity of their attempt to show one of the few great times in world history where people take a stand and work to make a better world if only the creators had spoken with ken burns for 5 minutes they might have come out with something mildly intelligent instead of this cure for insomnia
0	it's difficult to make it through this movie without choking on your own vomit to be honest the shoddy animation doesn't help as it makes this look like a decades old video you'd find in 99p bin still it's better than the abysmal screenplay which spends about a third of its length on superfluous extras like belle's present day problems stuff about scrooge's dad and plenty of charmless around with choke two anthropomorphic mice these bizarre additions eat up screen time at the expense of elements you'd think would be quite important like dickens's dialogue and key chunks of his plot the movie up the game of twenty questions for example and at times fails to put scenes in the right order absolutely hopeless
0	this was only the second version of the classic story by charles dickens i had seen and sadly it turned out to be one of the worst the film opens with a quick live action piece where simon callow as charles dickens begins the story of a christmas carol and then obviously it goes to animated story itself you probably already know it ebenezer scrooge is the grouchy cold blooded businessman who refuses charity and hates christmas he is visited by jacob marley nicolas cage who warns him of the visits of the other three ghosts of christmas past jane present sir michael and the silent future yet to come after all this he obviously realises the true magic of christmas and promises to be nicer in future the only changes i noticed to the story were scrooge having mice as friends a stupid idea scrooge's ex love belle kate winslet needing to see him to help at the orphanage the ghost of christmas present showing the two kids want and ignorance scrooge still gets haunted after being turned nice and he's worried he can't keep his promise to stay nice also starring rhys ifans as bob cratchit juliet stevenson as mrs cratchit jones as scrooge's nephew fred and colin mcfarlane as the animation is not great quality the actors have wasted their voices for a worthless piece of garbage the only good thing that comes from this film is the good voice of kate winslet singing the closing song what if as for the rest it is just excruciatingly awful very poor
0	i don't understand why so many of the comments here seem to indicate that this is acceptable entertainment the eye popping horror of this cinematic monstrosity cannot be overstated me and my girlfriend just watched it together and i'm not sure we'll ever be able to have sex again i'm not sure what was worse the scrawny unattractive cast their supremely genitals the rancid attempts at humor the screeching noises that claimed to be songs br br no i know what was worst of all the girls in the green leotards with green licking alice to dry her off then proposing in broken childlike speech that they suckle milk from her breasts that was the worst br br also what was with the nurses and why do they seem to have so much trouble finding each other's vaginas why are all the male actors gay why does humpty dumpty a dildo in the air and pretend that it's his penis why did my eyes have to see this there are no words
0	i once had a conversation with my parents who told me british cinema goers in the 1940s and 50s would check to see a film's country of origin before going to see it it didn't matter what the plot was or who was in it if it was an american movie people would want to see it and if it was british people wouldn't want to see it this might sound like a ridiculous but after seeing the astonished heart i can understand why people in those days preferred american cinema to the home grown variety back in the 1940s br br british equity was devoid of working class members and it shows in this movie everyone speaks in an english lad dee upper class accent that makes the british royal family sound like working class scum and what this does is alienate a large amount of a potential british audience who would no doubt prefer to be watching jimmy cagney in white heat because people would have if not related to then certainly empathised with a violent gangster in cinematic terms more than some high class english shrink in 1949 that's entertainment the reason people go to cinemas even the characters names seem bizarre leonora how many british people were named leonora in 1949 and the protagonists drink cocktails and they use words like austere you do get the feeling that this wasn't marketed for a 1949 mainstream british audience but why should it if the majority of british cinema goers were queuing up at cinemas to watch far more entertaining american imports br br watching the heart in 2005 i was astonished how dated everything was in fact it's so dated i thought maybe it might be a spoof from the harry show what didn't astonish me was the fact that these types of movie came close to sinking the british film industry an industry that didn't pick up until american money invested in crowd pleasers like zulu alfie and the james bond movies
0	i like noel coward the wit i like noel coward the play write i like noel coward the composer and singer but i loathe noel coward the actor br br to me this is a man who should have stayed firmly behind the scenes writing his plays and composing his music and making his profound and hilarious observations he should never have been allowed in front of a camera br br make no mistake he is one of the top outstanding talents of the 20th century but the man just couldn't act and his voice with it's rolling r's and it's overly round tonal quality well it could quite easily grate cheese in my opinion br br this is one of my least favourite offerings from coward as he unconvincingly portrays a psychiatrist embarking on an affair with a much younger woman made worse by the fact that the much younger woman is an old school friend of his much younger wife br br celia johnson is as much a joy to watch as ever as cowards wronged wife it is her performance that saves this film from abject dullness i suppose her own little fling in coward's brief encounter four years previously qualified her for this role as she must have raised a few eyebrows playing a such a promiscuous woman and this gave her the chance to win back a few fans and gain some lost sympathy br br she was such a wonderful actress and you can see why noel coward used her so much in many of his productions br br however the rest of the film is drab badly acted predictable and on the whole boring to almost arse clenching level br br if its noel coward you want then take the time to watch in which we serve blythe spirit or this happy breed instead three noel coward treasures with lovely films like these i suppose we can forgive him for this turkey br br i have given this four stars purely for the addition of miss johnson but on the whole i'd avoid this one like the plague
0	the title is from a passage in the bible 28 28 let's just say it is taken horribly out of context but nonetheless that is where the title of this agonizing movie originates the other reviewers cover the plot details so i wont rehash but the husband who is a psychiatrist delivers a lecture on inferior function where he discusses how a person can meet another another person and they can experience a cataclysmic crisis in their lives where they cease to be masters of themselves and incapable of fair judgement he is saying this at the podium at the exact moment as he lays eyes on leonora vail in the audience the woman who will become his mistress not very subtle for showing that this is indeed what will happen to this poor man br br i think the whole premise of the movie is implausible and just didn't work here is an over the hill psychiatrist and we are to believe this young beautiful woman falls for him and comes between the happiness he and his wife shared what's even more implausible is how the betrayed wife responds when she learns of the infidelity not only is she understanding but she insists her husband embark on a several month vacation with the tramp so we all can get a little relief from this unbearable stress give me a break i wanted to reach through the screen and throttle not just the adulterer but the dim wit wife br br the fact that the whole movie takes place as a flashback after already revealing the end of the movie at the beginning the fact that the husband had a terrible accident it leaves no doubt as to the outcome of the sordid affair i think this was a poor decision as it leaves absolutely no plot twists to look forward to as the whole movie is completely predictable you already know the wife's resignation to the affair at the beginning of the film as she summons the mistress to the dying man's bedside and expresses no ill will towards her br br not only is the script defective but noel coward is horribly miscast even though it is his screenplay he and leonora have absolutely no chemistry on screen whatsoever its interesting that michael redgrave was originally cast in that role but was replaced during filming i wonder what that was about in the end neither the husband or the wife cause you to feel any sympathy for either one of them i do think margaret leighton played the part of strumpet quite well but she couldn't possibly overcome all the negatives this film had also as is the case of many british productions of this era the dialogue is hard to understand due to the clipped fast speech pattern of the actors i saw it on tv and couldn't even rely on closed captioning to fill in the blanks for me br br don't waste your time on this one
0	this appears to be one of noel coward's lesser known films and it is easy to understand why taken at face value it's not a bad film but there's nothing terribly good about it either nothing much happens at all throughout the course of the film it's simply the story of chris and leonora's ill fated affair and barbara's reaction to it the only thing that keeps the film interesting is the fact that we already know it's going to end badly for one reason or another owing to the first scene oddly there are many perfect opportunities in the story for conflict and yet none of them are utilised for example it would've been much more interesting and believable if barbara fallen out with leonora but instead the two remained on good terms throughout the film the notion of barbara having been betrayed by her friend was not explored at all in fact she didn't even seem to feel betrayed by her husband she even encourages him to go on a holiday with leonora similarly chris' two secretaries at his practice susan birch and tim who also happen to be close friends of both chris and barbara are never forced to take sides in fact tim shies away from conflict by telling chris that he's terribly fond of both him and barbara despite the strange lack of conflict the biggest flaw in the film is the fact that we don't care whether chris ends up with leonora or barbara the two womens' personalities are indistinguishable anyway so we don't know which of the two is better suited to be with chris and besides this barbara's gives the impression that she hardly cares about the affair anyway furthermore i found chris and leonora's relationship somewhat unconvincing i can overlook the ridiculously short timeframe in which they fall for each other because that is so common in films of this era but even then the relationship seemed shallow coward's character was too austere and cynical to be the object of leonora's affections he reminds me of the socially inept genius sir earnest from the film very important person i'm sure the two would've gotten along well chris' coldness and austerity made his love for leonora seem insincere i think coward should've sat this one out and given his part to a younger man as it is i was constantly wondering what this young beauty saw in such a sombre mostly emotionless balding middle aged man despite all my criticisms the film still manages to be interesting just not terribly compelling the fact that none of the characters are particularly well developed gives them an enigmatic nature which is somewhat intriguing the astonished heart is certainly worth watching but it is a flawed piece of cinema
0	do the writers that conjure up these type of comedies have such empty lives that they have to embody them in tragic shows like this br br why the talented and gorgeous busy phillips is amongst this trash is beyond me i cannot stand the hispanic girl whose accent sounds very fake and is so unfunny and annoying as is the other african american girl with the shrill voice br br the jokes are often stupid the jewish guy yells a lot and the show never goes anywhere one particular episode with the solider looking for love was just terrible br br i don't believe there would be that many working in a looking for love office and only one man of course all of the woman are in tight fitting tops and tons of make up to make up for their lack of talent br br i actually found holly funny in her older shows and i have always admired busy but this show is dumb empty and had nothing going for it
0	marathon has a very interesting premise excellent ambient sounds and good scenery unfortunately the movie aside from these aspects falls flat on its face for a woman trying to complete so many crossword puzzles in a day she spends an awful lot of time standing around sulking and not doing puzzles i believe there is more walking shown in the movie than her work on these puzzles also while i understand the point of showing so much scenery there is simply far too much of it the movie is incredibly boring and unfocused it's not worth buying renting watching on television or viewing in any conceivable way i lost interest so quickly that i'm not sure why i sat through the entire film in the first place
0	think of the most un film worthy subject you can and this is 10 times worse a woman needs to complete as many as she can in a day we don't even get to see the questions and think of the words on our own we just watch her struggle the woman seems so anxious and in a hurry to do the but for some reason she spends the time distractedly walking all around the city when she could be focused at home the acting is horrible the actress huffs and puffs as she tried to think of the words and we are left completely in the dark the new york scenery is nice but the movie relies on it too much and it gets old fast the movie plays like a rejected nyu student film this film has no redeeming qualities and i do not recommend it to anyone ever
0	the film consists of the audition tapes of the surrender girls and some footage from previous films it's not hot or even suitable for late night viewing on cinemax only an adolescent boy could be interested in auditions from beyond i recommend avoiding this one
0	i saw the preview in and thought it could be a cool film turns out it is an awful garbage there isn't much nudity in the film not to mention not having much sex either there were just some dumb and corny dialogues along with some dancing you usually expect to see during audition in our case you may even see it in the actual films conclusion i ain't got none for it just leave it alone
0	surrender cinema has been known for their extremely erotic almost explicit sci fi films while they generally do very well at these 1 2 virtual encounters this particular entry seems to be just a rehash of old tape any number of girls some recognizable and others not are in this film in all stages of nudity there are also several clips from other films which are outstanding unless you've seen those other films there are a number of solo nude scenes doing a number of things some playing basketball others talking still others playing with themselves the only thing of value in this tape is the very last scene a short but erotic girl girl scene with a very enthusiastic and enjoyable sandy and a more subdued not highly recommended
0	maybe if you smoked enough weed this would seem funny or would make you nostalgic for how completely unhinged people allowed themselves to be in the early 70's there's an odd innocence to this movie and the sex is a lot more awkward and playful than the steely pros who do it for the cameras now br br the real curio here and really the only reason to watch this movie is the appearance of kristine debell as alice she was a ford model and it shows she's got classic wasp ish good looks like a really cute ivy league sorority girl so what the hell is she doing in this cheap cheesy skin flick from my vantage point she does not appear to be at all on drugs in this movie which might explain it and she actually seems incredibly committed to the part when she sings her first song she really does act like she thinks she's flippin' julie andrews or something i just get the feeling that this girl truly believed this was gonna be her big break or something instead of the near career killer that it was anyway she is damn cute and you kind of can't believe she would even get naked on screen much less do a masturbation scene a couple of oral sex scenes with men and women and then do the real deal as a climax to the film it is also definitely not a body double at all that is our little kristine taking one for the team or for the greater glory of showbiz or something it's pretty amazing to watch and it is definitely stimulating ahem but in a way i kinda wish she hadn't done it that was a very pretty talented young girl getting some really bad advice br br anyway my guess is that kristine debell wherever she is has long long since wished this movie would go away she was very cute and appealing in meatballs almost impossible to believe this is the same girl but it is
0	ok so my summary line is a cheap trick but the movie is full of them and it gets absurdly praised so br br i caught this one on tv uncut as tv here shows all movies that's for you americans who might say i didn't like it because i saw a cut tv version fortunately that's only an us thing and had no idea about what it was i switched on caught the last minutes of a show and the movie began within a minute i was begging it was a comedy given the particularly ridiculous clichéd beginning yes it's a bad movie within the movie i know but what a way to try to keep the viewer interested i don't even know why i didn't switch channels and yes in fact the movie turned out to be a comedy albeit an unintentional one br br marina is pretty enough but gosh what a dreadful performance while casting a foreigner in the role is smart enough she doesn't talk so bye bye language barrier yet sorry marina baby playing mute doesn't mean impersonating harpo marx her acting is unintentionally funny in many moments just look at her when she draws an x in the air while stalked by the killer he wants to kill you it's no time to play zorro we get plenty of running upstairs stuff passing for tension as in the worst slashers and things like pulling a carpet and a bad guy shots the other ugh will hollywood ever learn yet the best worst pearl is having a guy electrocuted in a bathtub and well i have never seen anyone being electrocuted to death in a bathtub but i'm sure you can't see the blue cartoon rays in real life do you and how about immediately trusting a mean looking guy because he says he's a cop and not asking him to show you his credentials ok so he turns out to be a real cop but still not asking for the badge makes no sense plot wise we could always think the credentials might be phony or he might be a crooked cop screen writing 101 and how about the big twist don't tell me you didn't see that coming from 200 miles away br br i feel sorry for poor old alec guinness and his useless stock footage cameo now i think about this what's the point in giving him a mystery guest star credit in the end titles the movie's over there's no mystery anymore and everybody and their brother have identified guinness even non movie buffs will recognize the old guy from 'star wars' yet better off this way so we can pretend it's not the late great actor br br people keep comparing this to of all people hitchcock i suppose it has to be john hitchcock the milkman as the late sir alfred would feel embarrassed out of watching this let alone making it and this gets a 6 8 10 it's bottom 100 material but then we're talking a rating system that allows 'the lord of the rings the return of the king' to appear as the third best movie ever made check top 100 so br br 2 10
0	almost certainly staged montage of women reading lines very briefly and getting naked not very briefly in front of a anonymous and uncredited panel almost certainly including producer charles band thrown in are random scenes of surrender cinema's many movies primarily lesbian scenes most of the women like riding horses hmmm there is a polish woman who seems to have no interest in acting despite going to an audition a 'secret camera that films actresses getting naked behind the screen br br jacqueline lovell too made up but still beautiful introduces a couple of her own movie scenes and talks in a way to the camera if you enjoy lesbian scenes the one with lovell and vanesa taylor from is included and they are probably the best looking lesbian ever weird excuse for a movie and aside from the obvious draw of naked women a frankly dull and uninspiring experience
0	this one is a real stinker br br the story just isn't up to par with most other tz episodes it's pretty boring though seeing peter falk made up as a fidel castro lookalike is kind of amusing br br whenever twilight zone would be aired at an unannounced hour in my hometown i'd grab a sandwich and a drink and settle in for some quality entertainment 9 times out of 10 it wound up being this episode strange thing this often happened to my mom another tz fan like me as well there were so many times that one of us would say to the other i was all set to watch the twilight zone and guess which episode was on the cuban dictator episode obviously some people like this episode as it gets a 6 7 rating how that happened i have no idea but that in and of itself would make a great twilight zone plot
0	while the twilight zone was a wonderful show it was also very uneven with some great episodes some lousy ones and many in between don't believe the die hard fans there were some stinkers and this was definitely one of them br br in a plot that is obviously meant to be an attack on fidel castro a near lookalike peter falk in lots of makeup and a beard obtains a magic mirror that allows him to realize who all his enemies are so he can them while i do believe that castro is a thug and dictator and tens of thousands of refugees and political prisoners will attest to this it's amazing how this sort of preachy episode actually makes audiences laugh at the american efforts to marginalize the creep and actually makes castro seem okay think about it serling and company wanted to hurt castro but instead only seemed to be obvious preachy and silly in the process br br it's indeed bad almost laughably bad when seen today
0	patsy kensit and some random australian bloke star as a duo of wannabe tough coppers in the middle of investigating a series of art gallery related murders but in between they can still find the time to shoot juvenile and suspect the brand new wife of the male cop of being adulterous the serial killer suddenly isn't important anymore when the supposed lover of the wife who's basically just a co worker of hers is found murdered and the male cop becomes prime suspect tunnel vision is a really dull implausible and tension free aussie thriller that obviously imitates popular sex thrillers like fatal attraction disclosure and basic instinct the characters are extremely one dimensional and pretty much every good cop bad cop cliché is described in the script the struggling position of police women in a corps full of men the shoot first ask questions later mentality alcohol problems through stress etc etc… even the unhealthy eating habits of cops are a running gag yawn kensit really tries her best to make this film more bearable but she lacks the credibility and talent of a real cinema heroine the end twist is more or less interesting not at all original mind you but by then you stopped caring for the characters a long time already the scenes filmed inside the sex clubs look ludicrously fake and clive directing is completely uninspired what a total waste of time…
0	anupam kher is an excellent actor he debuted at 28 playing a 50 yr old in br br now he turns director with br br the film has a good plot but it's regressive br br the theme has been done to death and urmila's character looks too put on while anil and abhi tara tracks are too sudden and then forgotten br br the film moves a snail pace and begins to drag but there are several good scenes like the entire conflict between anil fardeen and abhishek where fardeen says to sell the house br br abhishek getting caught for a crime and anil shouting at him br br the climax is too much though br br anupam shows potential but has some way to go music is okay br br anil kapoor excels in his part like always fardeen tries hard and is okay but needs to improve abhishek is excellent this was a turning pt people realized he can act urmila is okay and tara are wasted waheeda is good
0	i saw this movie unfortunately because it was the only option at that time and because david zucker was the director i saw his previous naked gun both parts airplane and top secret and i liked at least i had a good time and laughed i'm not saying that the movies i mentioned were master pieces but were ok i don't recall any other more stupid movie than this it's incredible how hollywood industry is in total decadence if some studio spends any money to produce this awful picture then is not a surprise that this kind of histories are more common on these days this is a clear reflect of a decadent civilization where sex symbols and stupid plots are produced to entertain the common people i don't have any good to say about this film if you are planning to rent it or buy it please don't waste your money or your time avoid it no matter what even if you are fan of one of the actors does not worth it in fact this could be a very good example of what a director should avoid i won't see a zucker movie again he is planning to direct the fourth sequel of scary movie imagine that pathetic awful
0	this film is about the worst i have seen in a very long time terence stamp's talent is totally wasted and just about the only thing that i enjoyed was hearing a favorite song of mine if i had a million dollars by bnl in the opening credits br br ashton kutcher plays the main character a nice guy who gets roped into house sitting for his boss misadventures ensue blah blah blah if you have time to kill and having nothing better to do then this is the movie for you otherwise watch something else br br there are not necessarily any redeeming moments but it is nice to see molly shannon and jeffrey tambor on the screen they are always pleasures to watch though this film managed to even these bright spots
0	yet another recent comedy that shows that hollywood can't even do the basics when it comes to film making that it used to do in its sleep for decades if the writer director had any brains they would have based the film around stamp's character of tyrant boss jack taylor when he's in the film early on it's nothing special but it is mildly promising and occasionally amusing once he departs for the majority of the film and kutcher has his 'hilarious' adventures house sitting with guest after boring guest dropping in the film totally disintegrates br br as a result what should have been a passable turns into an inept stinker
0	this film made me so angry because of its stupidity that i felt the need to create an account on imdb to share with you my opinion i liked ashton kutcher in a lot like love and this is why i still wanted to see this film despite it's current 4 2 rating it is highly over rated i trusted that an actor any of them would judge the script and would not agree to participate in such low now quality production it is very disappointing the theme of home sitting was much better used in deuce bigalow male gigolo things that did not make sense here fist of all the house owner leaves his precious pet with somebody who doesn't know anything about taking care of it secondly the rule is not to let anybody in the house but the house sitter fails to follow this simple rule the door is not locked and so on
0	dreamy young ashton kutcher as tom wants a date with sexy blonde tara reid as lisa taylor ms reid thinks mr kutcher is gay kutcher works for reid's father an anal retentive terence stamp as jack taylor kutcher agrees to for the boss believing it will get him closer to reid mr stamp has a pet owl named o j who becomes a toilet cokehead br br this is a film to get your restricted to g rated pre teens ready for raunchier r rated fare it will help if they haven't seen the plot before and especially like moronic potty humor remember people get paid to act like this br br my boss's daughter 2003 david zucker ashton kutcher tara reid terence stamp
0	oddly i have very little to say about the box so this will be pretty brief i have never read the richard matheson novella button button from which the film is based but considering what i saw in this adaptation there couldn't have been much semblance to such a legendary author's work the box is about a family who discover a strange contraption on their doorstep that has a button on it frank langella shows up and explains how they will be given one million dollars if they push the button the only is that it will automatically kill someone somewhere spoiler they push it end of spoilers that whole concept was interesting on its own but somehow they managed to extend the movie into some convoluted stargate knock off that pads it out until a pretty decent ending with a pretty profound message while i'm trying to be as as possible i still must say that this was not my cup of tea and it bored me severely i guess its from the same director as donnie darko which i remember liking when i saw it years ago the box would've worked well as a short film but since it was so lifelessly adapted this way i can't come close to recommending it
0	i was intrigued by the nasty boss character as i am one myself and the actual boss's daughter was attractive and it was interesting to see an even younger ashton but this movie is so puerile i had to turn it off it was a waste of time to watch it when people started peeing all over the living room it was too much to watch painful awful crap movie if they had just toned it down a little are there really people out there that find it funny and like it i was relieved to know that imdb readers rated it so low the career side to the story was intriguing as well as the young man trying to get a promotion and win the bosses favor i liked that part also the opening scene with the coworkers on the train was cool as i like his characters if you can stomach non sense movies or you are pretty young then it might be one you can stomach
0	it was dumb sort of like an adam sandler movie br br there were a few funny parts but not that funny br br i liked some of the actors in it though br br there were some sat night live people in the movie but i wouldn't recommend this unless there is just nothing else better on and it was still better than any jennifer lopez movie
0	to be fair i couldn't bear to watch this movie all the way thru so i have no idea if it suddenly gets better half way thru the film but the first 30 minutes or so are amongst the worst i have seen in a while children under twelve might get a kick out of the poorly written acted and directed slapstick humor but adults in full control of all their faculties should steer clear of this stinker
0	there are some things you just don't do so says the tag line of this a 2003 david zucker comedy about a young man caught up in one horrendous situation after another entitled my boss's daughter and it's the tag line which should speak for both the people that made this junk as well as those contemplating watching it there are indeed some things you just don't do with the placing of mostly all of the sort of content to be found within my boss's daughter counting as wholly items you just should not do to the medium of cinema by including them in your picture my boss's daugther is a sordid creepy grotesque experience a clunky and heavy handed piece which is infantile beyond words and disgusting beyond expression to see it is to endure it to endure it is to survive it and to survive it is an accomplishment all by itself – if any of the cast writers extras hell even the guys that worked as runners on the set aid in producing anything as earth poor as this again then it'll be either because they've been sent here by the devil himself to destroy the medium of film or it'll be because they've most probably garnered employment on behalf of the friedberg seltzer mob br br my boss's daugther which i'm pretty sure ought to be titled my boss' daugther grammatically speaking revolves around its hapless male lead named tom kutcher and a night in at his boss' house as he chases that seemingly elusive 'goal' that is his young blonde daughter lisa taylor reid someone whom works within the same department as he does in a towering chicago office block whilst under the strict eye of jack taylor stamp tom spies lisa early on she's taking the subway to work with all the other despite the fact she owns a car and that her father is the boss of the damn company after trying to talk to her but having his attempts foiled by a puking baby and a dog for the blind more interested in tom's crotch than anything else he finally gets his chance in the office when talk of an after dark party elsewhere arises and that he ought to come round to her house to visit her and yes she does still live with her father think hitchcock's 1960 film psycho with the gender roles between norman bates and his mother reversed and then played for laughs br br the distinct establishment of character is made painfully apparent in the opening scene in which tom sits on the subway train and travels to work with his yuppie cohorts they are a ruthless and smarmy bunch whom it's made apparent swipe the briefcases of those unfortunate enough to get them stuck in the door in the ensuing morning rush without ever returning them one day it happens with tom there and his wish is to return it thus pounding into us that he's not like other guys this as he first sees lisa down the carriage and is somewhat shy to approach her as the other men treat the whole situation as if it would be a breeze if they were in his position this rather obvious and flat footed attempt to try and get us to with tom sits uneasily with what it supposedly takes to earn a place amidst these co workers in this company br br it is however as close as my boss's daughter comes to any level of film making from a seemingly harmless premise of a boy meeting a girl and wanting to get to know her arrives the comedy from hell tom's arriving at the house will not see him invited to the party instead he is charged with house sitting jack's pet owl and generally keeping out of mischief whilst maintaining a spotless house it's been established terrance stamp's character means business in the strictest of manners firing people for the smallest of things such as the making of a bad cup of coffee it's not that jack is a shrewed businessman he's a cleanliness freak obsessed with control and a borderline sociopath in his placings of bear traps in the garden so as to keep the children next door off his land you can imagine that when we're let into his large and exquisite house with the orders that nothing should go wrong there's obviously going to be trouble br br the film has fun with this premise of danger for about ten minutes the first time someone uses the to crack open a beer thus marking the pristine top you may smirk but by the time half the house is wrecked and michael madsen has shown up urinating all over the rug you've got your head in your hands each joke in the film is set up in an almighty clunky manner before it is played out in a way that is closer to slow and excruciating than slick and faultless the only thing missing as it follows through to the next gag is the sound effect of someone incorrectly changing the gears to a car as it clunks and creaks onto the next pratfall inbetween the gross out wackiness the film takes time to roll down a route of yucky saccharine driven romance as lisa and tom bond whilst talking of in workplace and out of workplace persona's and that maybe they have more in common than first thought by the hour mark the film's opted for gross out gags and hate filled jibes more than anything when there's an entire scene that exists purely to target and a dumb subplot to do with a head injury sporting neighbour on a blind date in which some truly unwatchable sight gags are unfolded throughout stamp's character enjoys putting people down and asking if the simplest of tasks are too difficult for them to which the common place reply ought to be whilst channeling jack taylor was reading the screenplay first too complicated a concept for you stamp
0	this movie has got to be about one of the worst i have ever seen the humor was crude hardly funny and been heard a million times before the start was noting special and it got worse and worse as it went on i got about halfway through and couldn't stand to watch any more of it luckily i was only watching it on tv so it didn't cost anything but i seriously recommend you do not waste you time or your money br br nothing in the movie was new the characters were not at all developed i actually think it would have been better as a little kids movie in that it was full of stupid unrealistic funny events occurring thats like what happens in home alone or something not to imply home alone was in any way as terrible as this
0	this is by far the most awful movie i have ever watched i have never before rated a movie 1 out of 10 my advice is don't watch it this doesn't even classify as a movie br br you'd be better off sitting on the couch bored rather than watching this movie acting was terrible but what was worst by far was the storyline highly unlikely sequence of events which aren't even funny they are actually very lame and stupid very foolish choice by ashton kutcher and tara reid to act in this movie might even upset their careers a little br br when i walked into blockbuster the main focus was on this movie so i decided rent it i sincerely regret it br br once you're 10 or 20 minutes into the movie you could basically predict what was going to happen i was hoping it would get better but instead it got worse br br i am not exaggerating this the movie is terrible don't watch it hope this helps
0	this is easily one of the worst movies i have ever seen there is so much at the house that goes wrong that would not happen it isn't even funny granted this is a movie meaning things that won't happen in normal life happen here however this movie is more far fetched than theories that no child left behind is working all of these people are in the house and nobody has noticed another not to mention the damn owl that seems to be coming everywhere but in its cage i could deal with an owl joke the first few times but after an hour i just can't take it i would rather kill myself than see that damn owl again did i laugh during this movie no not even once no horrible horrible horrible the fact that this pile of garbage is capped off with ashton kutcher bending his boss over and taking his pants off in front of everybody just makes this movie ever worse but wait the day is saved because the damn owl can fly wow amazing however i do give this movie some cred its not as bad as epic movie
0	this is the first time i'm entering a comment for a movie i haven't viewed till the credits reason for this is simple people need to be warned this is one of the worst comedies of the new millennium i usually stay away from a good deal of comedies that are in bad taste but i reckoned this to be watchable a regrettable decision which was based on other ashton kutcher comedies that were semi enjoyable such as a lot like love and guess who br br where those two movies had their charms and laughs this had none and i mean none the acting is horrible especially the 'boss' tara reid was no surprise how dare she call herself an actress the premise is thin and the plot doesn't at all not a problem if you manage to keep it funny and or sweet but as you probably already guessed this was not the cast at all the script felt like it wasn't quite finished and i wouldn't even be baffled if the director did some rewrites while shooting my dog could've written a more coherent script seriously and he's not exactly lassie either br br stay away from this tripe even if you like silly goof ball comedies at times like i do this low quality movie will not be enjoyed by many br br i almost never give a one so therefore a 2
0	for years i hesitated watching this movie now i know why it was even worse than i'd expected ashton kutcher makes the worst movie mistake of his career since 'dude where's my car ' tara reid co stars as the girl of dreams who asks him to babysit her father and his boss 's pet owl for the weekend the rules 1 no shoes in the house 2 no people in the house 3 the boss' son stays out of the house 4 don't touch the furniture br br well you can pretty much guess by the end of the first twenty minutes how the rest of the film is going to turn out br br you know there are films like meet the parents where bad things happen to someone but it's entertaining to watch and it's delivered in a way that you can't wait to see what happens next this is not one of those films you know right from the start that bad things are going to happen and they're mostly stupid things that would never actually happen it's an extremely frustrating movie to watch and there were about three times when i nearly turned it off because it was so bad but i paid the rental fee and figured i had to watch it now br br tara reid was good and i would like to see her in more films though i'm not surprised if this had a hand in hurting her career br br the end result is a happy ending but of course with the kind of film it is you would expect nothing short of that br br don't watch it you'll sincerely regret it
0	ever wanted to see how low a movie could sink well look no further this movie has it all br br racism jokes handicapped jokes overweight jokes suicide jokes murder jokes drug jokes animal abuse jokes eating dirt jokes old man young wife jokes cancer jokes gay jokes crap jokes falling flat on one's face over and over jokes overuse of blood jokes rape jokes pee jokes alcohol abuse jokes anal rash jokes a bunch of people their coffee back up jokes nudity jokes see who can say the most swear words in one scene jokes lesbian jokes girlfriend abuse jokes and the list goes on and on people br br the worst part is none of it is funny not that anyone would find most of those funny to begin with it seems that when it just can't get any worst it pushes your expectations to an all new bottom as it always seems to find another to make the viewer feel worse there was one scene that had me almost throw up and almost completely depressed at the same time i don't think i need to point out which one but then again i'm sure there are other scenes that will give people this same feeling br br there was one moment at the end of the movie that actually made sense and was slightly realistic when suddenly one of the characters in the scene was piled on with the nastiest remains of a trash bag and thrown several feet on the ground only to have a bunch of beer bottles smashed into his head all of this probably when he least deserved it so all thought of a 1 more point redemption was quickly regarded this is indeed a terrible movie this is one that needs to be studied and into small parts at a film school to teach students what not to do
0	this is a flic that you can safely avoid childish plot and poor acting from cameron she really shouldn't take on these serious roles they don't suit her besides she looks most unglamorous lets face it great in charlies angels and she was superb in there's something about mary the pope wouldn't be a good president of the usa and vice versa my point being that there are some actors actresses who are suited to a particular type of character and cameron is most unsuited for this serious housewife type there are a dozen other actress' would have done a far better job the movie itself is rather unbelievable and juvenile in its plot did i spell right i noticed a comment from another reviewer who has given the box a 10 rating who was derisive in his comments on other reviewers who gave the movie a 1 or 2 rating and couldn't spell i mean whats spelling got to do with a movie review does he mean that persons who spell perfectly could appreciate this movie more that the ones who couldn't c'mon 'professor
0	for years i hesitated watching this movie now i know why not only is it a comedy that fails at being even remotely funny but there's also just nothing to laugh at about the movie it was even worse than i'd expected i rented this sucker and still felt cheated out of time more than money i have never seen a film that annoyed me that much it is a movie about stupid people that are doing stupid and terrible things i don't really know either how someone with common sense could actually act in this kind of movie i have used imdb for some time but felt obligated to register just to help prevent poor unsuspecting folks from renting or worse buying this stinker really a waste of time and money i must say that the plot line is awful
0	this movie is perfect for any aspiring screen writer actor or director by watching this movie you will see all the things that are wrong with the film industry as it is today there are so many clichés that it pained me to sit through this movie nothing about it is original and every single line spoken has been ripped off from those clichéd movies that we all saw in the 90's although it does have a few cheap laughs overall it is wrong wrong wrong i was so immensely bored and the movie was so predictable and pathetic i actually noticed how much make up was caked onto tara reid's face to hide those massive bags and wrinkles from her endless partying seriously she was wearing so much foundation you could literally scrape it off and an entire bottle of it br br what shocked me though was that so many of the talented and popular cast would sign on for this piece of junk and i do not know how i sat through that horrible screaming that ashton kutcher does you know when he's like angry or something and he shouts his words in this annoying manner horrifying talking tara's face being ten shades darker than her neck a drugged up owl a script that seemed like the work of a three year old br br seriously in my whole life there has been no movie that i have watched that i did not in someway enjoy no matter how bad it was this deserves an award for being the first bad bad bad i don't think there is a single word in the english dictionary that can possibly describe this trashy movie today i was trying to re watch it but i had to turn it off like ten minutes in because i was about to cry from the overwhelming amount of clichés br br don't even bother to rent this at your blockbuster it's not worth a cent as a matter of fact i am willing to pay anyone out there considering to watch this movie so they can go do something decent with their lives
0	i have never seen a movie that annoyed me that much it is a movie about stupid people that are doing stupid and terrible things this is not a funny movie i must say that the plot line is awful i did not had patience to watch it so that i only saw half of it but it was enough for me the characters are not very inspired just terribly annoying this movie is all about a goofy guy trying to hook up with his tyrannous boss's daughter when he finally manages to talk to her she asks him to go at that night at her home to watch her father's owl and he thinks she had invited him to go with her at a party and to be at her home at 6 pm he gets to be very disappointed finding out that he only has to take care of the owl and that she has a boyfriend after her father leaves home leaving precise orders about taking care of the house and his beloved bird appears a secretary a son and all sort of not funny stuff happens in the house but he finally hooks up with his boss's daughter trust me this movie is terrible
0	not just the money we paid to rent it or actually go to the movies i'm talking about how big productions companies waste so much money in things that actually are boring and not to talk about ridiculous with the millions they used to make a movie like this because i don't think the actors here would actually work for free or for an insignificant sum with that money imagine how many good independent movies you could make or maybe one good hollywood movie its just to rip you off but not anyone just the majority of teens that are willing to go and see an ashton kutcher movie just because they are fans of him i don't really know either how someone with common sense could actually act in this kind of movie if you actually look at it in prospective the actors are the same quality of this movie so i guess i shouldn't be surprise i actually couldn't have expected more
0	this film was terrible i thought it would be ok but it just got worse and worse from the starting scenes it seems to be heading in the direction of another safe predictable rom com but the moment he arrives at the house it just disintegrates none of the characters have any depth and the only person who was anywhere near believable was tom although the way he became so easily distracted just annoyed me after a while the dialogue is ridiculous and the structure of the film almost completely non existent in an insulting attempt at comedy the writer director introduces a new character or event in practically every scene none of which are realistic making it very confusing to keep track of what is going on the plot is barely an excuse for a movie guy likes girl house sits fathers home to get to know girl destroys house gets girl a complete waste of time
0	the trailer is so deceiving i thought this will be a good film what was the point in bringing the women in hong kong for being killed they could have done it in paris and the fist half hour br br you love me br br no i don't you love me br br no i don't you love me br br no i don't repeat for 100 times then well i don't love you so i shoot you d so here is the reason why movie piracy is a good thing imagine if i would have even give money for this torture i'm sorry for the time i lost watching it the film makers should pay me br br for the inconvenience worst film ever seen
0	the story is disjointed and poorly written we are given threads and a possible hook in act one only to see it vanish had the writer bothered reading his work carefully it wold have been apparent that character's initial problem and meeting with the 'bad' girl suggests that there will be a troubled alliance between them as they try to solve his problem br br the problem goes nowhere the relationship goes nowhere and there is no sexual tension in any of the relationships no one digs anyone and no one is appealing the writing and directing is laughable you can feel someone struggling with the mess and shifting the story focus about trying to extract some excitement there is none the writer director is simply a beginner whose muddled efforts somehow became a movie from simple errors such as ' they took ' in japan in 2007 to insulting errors such as nudity for eroticism this movie is an insult you cannot make them much worse br br and by on the talent list the producers thought they'd have some success he is hardly acting asia certainly is and the result is some heroin chic panto br br give it a big miss
0	asia argento is a sexy beautiful woman who likes to run around naked which isn't a bad thing in it's self but when her character talks about all the guys she serviced and to see her with michael madsen and an asian guy in the present tense of the movie it made me feel like i needed a condom over my eyes to watch this movie like a disease was going to rub off on me or something br br the movie felt like it was going for a love triangle drama action plot it just seemed to go everywhere and nowhere at the same time the acting was great the plot not so great the director needs to at least pick a genre and practice practice practice before trying to do something as complicated as this again because they are not very good at it obviously
0	tired garbled dreck the chemistry between argento and madsen was as exciting as a wet doughnut their dialogue was dramatically uninteresting the storyline was a mess the acting forced the cinematography lingered on the uninspired lazy and pointless kim gordon and her character had no reason to be there nor did anyone else for that matter i couldn't have given two farts for any of the 'characters' their emotions skipped and jumped like a junkie who hates his heroin empty and dull why do i have to write ten lines of text on here to make my point i think i summed it up in the first three words but obviously it's not enough i think this is the last time i'll bother to waste my time critiquing a film anyway i saw 'clean' and thought that was quite ineffectual as well again i cared not for the characters whether they lived or died
0	olivier film stars asia argento as a woman who had a relationship with michael madsen madsen is a business man who's in financial trouble in desperation he is going to sell his share of a business to a company called golden eagle a company from the far east as madsen begins his moves away from his company asia argento returns to his life the pair had a torrid love affair that included her doing business favors for madsen with said golden eagle once argento enters the film the film follows her as we see the tangled web she's woven and how the complications spin dangerously and violently out of control br br i'm not a fan actually i was quite bored as the film seems to go from pillar to post for much of the first hour during which i kept wondering what the point was other than to provide a meaty role for argento argento daughter of director dario argento and a director in her own right is a unique actress at times stunningly good she is more often then not going to give you a quirky off beat portrayal of a damaged human being sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't i don't think it completely works here mostly because the script is too complicated to support it i didn't care what was going on so her wounded girl just rubbed me the wrong way she seemed more nut job than anything else i'm not blaming the actors but writer director assayas who has once again constructed a complicated tale with the sort of parts actors love to tackle but which leave audiences scratching their heads because they they don't really work br br if you must try it on cable
0	the box is a film with great potential but the makers totally misused that potential the film seemed to take for ever because of the boring family dinners and scenes about school and job dialogs between the action those scenes could and must be deleted in my opinion to keep up the tensity and thrill the philosophy of human free will has potential and seems to referring to the philosophy of thomas but we find ourselves regretfully struck with magic and nosebleeds were even harry potter would flunked his class with br br probably the best part was that moment when norma lewis cameron diaz has been shot to death by her loving and caring husband as an act of human free will i wonder how would react if he could
0	asia argento has never done a film so far as i know and this includes ones directed by her own father dario where she fails to show all of her anatomy at some point sure enough in the most boring opening dialogue scene ever poor madsen has her coming into his office and right there reminding us that even though her hair is up she can still stick her fingers in her crotch at any given second which she does but in such a random what am i really seeing that kind of way the dvd box packaging makes this look like a femme fatale film so you keep waiting to see her turn into a sleek and minimalist killer no such luck she's verbose hung up on some aging has been and even worse has no credible skills in physical agility other than surprise taking off all the clothes when any scene allows it her accented english would be cool if only she didn't try to make it sound so affected and try to talk like a 12 year old how about this plot weak minded but simultaneously nymphomaniacal woman is suddenly driven to kill while she already has another affair on the go and is running some cheap drug deal huh what does anyone have motivation in this movie to do anything other than buy a hamster the screenplay seems to be oriented by letting everyone talk a lot about the same things over and over i was expecting to see the worst acting on this appear as a producer who dumped money in it just to have some screen time there is nothing going on sub the obvious flaws of asia's character that at any point in the movie delivers what the dvd cover promises she's weak but she knows how to kill she a lot she naked she half dressed she even in a dead woman's clothing she is very floppy and unmotivated in fact floppy would have been a great name for this movie and a shot of asia passed out looking angry on the cover would have been a better representation there are actually shots of her eating airplane food what's that about br br the ending makes 0 sense everyone is just annoyingly wishy washy in their intent and their execution of all objectives the wife of lester doesn't deliver any real vengeance taking someone to bad is life threatening but not really valid and lester just floats around without really making much of anything totally misleading key art yeah we know asia lost the baby fat of her first born but really a whole movie trying to pretend like that's interesting enough to drive a film about a passive aggressive chick is not worth your while see point of no return instead
0	you have to start worrying when you see that michael madsen is leading the cast of any movie i wont go through the list of shame that is his movie career br br i watched 45 minutes and still was not sure what really was going on the movie consisted of a love hate relationship between madsen and argento which basically was madsen insulting her threatening violence and generally treating her like dirt she on the other hand loves him then shes doesn't then she does the she desires him then she loves him again whats wrong with you woman br br the script is awful lousy soundtrack and pointless aggressive and crude sexuality which i believe was added to entice some viewers as the movie has little else to offer i would have given the movie a 1 but it just about managed a 2 with a little excitement in the last 20 minutes it did actually answer one question in the final few minutes but i am not going to share that i will make you suffer for the full movie like i did
0	if you're an average guy like me and enjoy good acting good plot good scripts novel ideas or being entertained you might want to skip this one i was honestly bored from the opening credits to the very end but tried to give the film a chance and watched it all the way through only to be disappointed at every turn br br the acting was unbelievably sub par but i'm not sure if the actors themselves are to blame or if it was the ridiculously wooden and horrible dialog coupled with an even worse script the plot is very vague and underdeveloped and i think the audience is supposed to derive some kind of deeper meaning from it or be able to look past it in some way but honestly to do so would be a waste of time br br the film has a kind of crude sexuality to it which doesn't serve any purpose other than to show off some tattoos and lingerie no one seems to have any motivation except making money off of some kind of investment deal that is never really explained the connections between the characters aren't terribly clear and there is little to no character development br br this is either some kind of sub culture film meant for a very specific audience to enjoy or absolute crap but you can decide for yourselves br br i gave it a 2 because it is definitely one of the worst films i've ever seen but probably not the worst
0	a quick resumé almost nonexistent badly chosen musical soundtrack steady cam filming done without the steady but with lots of coffee and a hyperactive cameraman no plot and nothing ever really happens the film goes from one dialog into another sounding hollow never achieving depth never creating the illusion that you really are inside a cobweb of conspiracy and the everybody has an affair with everybody is just a boring excuse to show the main actress in nice underwear which combined with her rusty voice certainly is nice but nothing to base a movie on the high point for me is the opening scene and the film just degraded from there to a point where i just wanted to quit the film about 45 minutes into the story i regret sitting it out
0	well another shootem up typical run around film with guns revenge and violence not much of a story in fact i forgot most of what this film is about don't rent this one i think the exercise would be more entertaining during late night
0	the movie is not that bad ringo lam sucks i hate when van damme has love in his movies van damme is good only when he doesn't have love in his movies
0	the story alain a french policeman is shocked to discover that he had a twin brother when his body is found in nice investigating the murder he finds out that he was in possession of a list that details the deeds of the russian mafia helped by his brother's girlfriend alain dodges russian gangsters corrupt fbi agents while trying to find the list br br maximum risk is another one of the long list of action films that feature jean claude van damme as far as things go it is strictly formulaic the script sticks to the clichés the acting is mediocre there are some nicely done action sequences with an inventive car chase a fight in a burning building an escape through rooftops a brutal fight in an elevator fleeing his enemies over an elevated train line director ringo lam keeps everything going at a reasonable pace
0	maximum risk is quite surprising to a person that has seen more then on of his movies director ringo lam made an average action movie that can be compared with most of the other mid quality action movies what is a special predicate to a muscles from brussels movie it has a quite classy style an interesting atmosphere and last but not least the natasha henstridge even vandamme doesn´t make you crying by his acting he does a relatively good job of course you may not compare maximum risk oh what a creative title to ronin but after watching knock off it´s the hell of a good movie in special standards of course
0	jean claude van damme's movie career seems to have gone to hell in a so how ironic to see him playing a character who meets the same fate in a literal manner at the very start of the movie it's also interesting to note how very very similar the plots of his movies play out regardless of who the producer director or screenwriter are van damme usually plays a character who is living in france then due to a set of circumstances finds himself in another part of the globe where he has a brother who dies and it's up to van damme to get revenge helped by a character he's just met look at awol or or many other films that feature the headline starring jean claude van damme and they all feature nearly the same type of story structure this doesn't mean they're identical of course just very similar and if you've seen one van damme movie you've basically seen them all it's the same with maximum risk
0	this is not a good film br br i can usually sit through a van damme movie if i have to as they are usually a bit of a laugh and don't require much thought this one has no redeeming features br br it has a distinct lack of plot humour acting direction etc etc a real stinker on all levels br br i have never walked out of a cinema during a movie although i came damme close here br br avoid at all costs
0	how truly sad that this sprung from the same mind as donnie darko possibly one of the best films in this genre where do i even begin i think one of the must infuriating aspects of the film is that we are supposed to be critiquing humanity and yet we see no humanity in the film no more than 5 minutes of the film is spend agonizing about the possible death of another human these are horrible one dimensional cardboard cutouts of human beings sadly that's how they are played with what can only be described as dreadful acting is this truly how kelly sees humanity judging from the reaction of viewers this is a horrible encapsulation of humanity why don't the characters in the film ask the questions that all the viewers have this is not an indictment of humanity it's an indictment of the straw men that kelly sets up who bare almost no resemblance to real humans in this situation br br to those who say this was a wonderful thought provoking film to what are you comparing it armageddon i even saw someone compare this to the works of kurosawa how truly deprived must you be to think that this would promote good existential discussion for the love of all that's good in film even indecent proposal is ten times the indictment of humanity that this is there we see people truly agonizing about greed and the human condition yes even indecent proposal puts this film to shame for philosophical discussion and yet it gets 5 3 vs 6 0 for this mindless tripe br br rarely have i seen a more pretentious pontificating and self aggrandizing film fall so flatly on its face this has the depth of a high school film project and a poor one at that truly that's about the level of the discussion promoted by this film if you want to see good psychological film making do yourself a favor and check out das experiment if the box had lived up even to this one goal i would have been willing to forgive some of the atrocious acting gaping plot holes and sheer nonsensical storyline sadly it can't even do that br br the true indictment of humanity is that there are people out there who think this film is a deeply delving introspective look into the human condition this is not sartre this is not even the cliff notes version of sartre this is a hastily conceived and hack written 9th grade term paper on sartre based on some internet message board ramblings if sartre were alive he would sue kelly for defamation
0	maximum risk is a step sideways for van damme and just more of the uninspired b movie action stuff we've come to expect from films featuring the macho belgian martial artist the flick has gaping plots holes goofs galore a messy plot and a gorgeous henstridge who spends most of her time looking like she's waiting for a cue maximum risk doesn't distinguish itself in any way and will likely not have much appeal beyond the usual young male audiences c
0	though predictable and contrived not a bad movie it entertains which is all van damme hopes to do the omnipresent twin device is again used as in a large number of van damme's movies but it is not bothersome except to long time fans natasha is gorgeous and worth watching action is decent nothing spectacular for van damme but exciting i can recommend to van damme fans and even to those who aren't but don't mind an action film with a good looking lead couple the russian mob is a nice concept and topical for the day clearly not his best film but by no means his worst
0	one commenter said if you like austin powers you will like this movie i liked powers and was disappointed with this movie the film works hard maybe too hard for laughs maybe it was that all the villains in this movie were shouting as if the shouting in itself is suppose to be funny i get where they were trying to go with this flick a cross between zorro and the scarlet pimpernel but it just doesn't work austin powers if silly but intelligent zorro the gay blade lacks the savvy of austin powers the big lebowski or kingpin br br i kept waiting for a laugh and while waiting found myself amazed that someone actually got paid for the script my 15 year daughter also thought the movie was flat my 17 year old who selected this flick on it's title walked out after 20 minutes br br it seems many people on imdb liked this film but for me it lacked the good timing or jokes of a good comedy
0	this film must have done well in the box office in order to give gator the budget it deserves this film had no budget needed a script rewrite and a better ending there is flashes of brilliance in this movie the boat ride scene burt driving the mean machine and his chat with his parents you can tell burt is a southerner and not a actor this movie shows what gator would be like burt's best film too bad this film did not have the same funding and was done on the rush 4 10
0	burt reynolds plays gator a likable ex convict just released from prison who helps the feds nab a corrupt small town sheriff laid back reynolds was often accused by critics of merely phoning these 'good ol' boy' performances in true he's on auto pilot throughout but in his day reynolds knew just how to make a low key effort work well for himself ingratiating and handsome reynolds comes as close to winking at the audience as he can without breaking up he seems to know these backwoods as well as any movie star while director joesph sargent provides an easy pace and a sweaty ambiance which brings the south alive unfortunately the story isn't much and supporting actors ned beatty and bo hopkins overact as usual diane ladd is fine in a small part and real life daughter laura dern can be glimpsed in the background reynolds returned to this character for 1976's gator 1 2 from
0	this movie was terrible john wayne is a brutal actor at times the lead female playing the role of maura did a good job and tried her best to make scenes believable despite wayne's inept one dimensional over acting seriously did you see him when he was supposed to be talking in his sleep ridiculous and his character became such an awful person in the second half of the movie and then did nothing to atone for his behavior and is still forgiven by everyone including his arch nemesis without even so much as a 'sorry' the story was completely implausible we were supposed to believe that two grown men both tremendous successes in their respected fields would sabotage a job and risk the lives of innocent men simply because they disliked one another you can pretty much randomly select any scene and it will probably leave you shaking your head in disbelief that someone paid money to have this film made its too bad because the only other wayne films i've seen are the shootist and rio bravo which were both great movies unless you're being paid don't bother watching this one
0	tycoon will never be listed as one of john wayne's better post stagecoach film it's good in spots has some fine action sequences in the cave in and also in the flood at the climax but the plot leaves a lot to be desired br br what we have in tycoon is two men who thoroughly dislike each other and that dislike prevents them from working as a team multimillionaire cedric hardwicke has hired john wayne and james gleason to build a railroad but then he refuses to give them the needed funds to do the job right br br things get really complicated when wayne falls for hardwicke's daughter laraine day after a night when they have to spend time alone in an inca ruin by convention in south america wayne and day get a shotgun wedding even though nothing happened br br what should have happened is these two should have been locked in a room for 24 hours together to work out their differences one way or another their petty cause some fatalities among wayne's crew br br but what tycoon is most known for is another piece of pettiness laraine day was married to leo the manager of the brooklyn dodgers when this was being filmed he was a constant presence on the set insanely jealous of john wayne who he thought might be having an affair with his wife nothing to it but he made his wife's life miserable br br not one of the duke's better efforts
0	a klutzy young man returns west after being schooled in the hotel business via boston he quickly learns his friends in spanish colonized old california expect him to fill his deceased father's shoes instead that of a romantic thief known for kissing his female victims after robbing them colorful but silly m g m production has a great deal of talent before and behind the camera but it never takes off this might have been fun second string material for abbott costello but frank sinatra looks lost and embarrassed in the lead combination of raucous comedy and musical interludes are hindered by the poor staging sinatra is photographed singing at one point in a mirror but one doesn't concentrate on his performance so much as noticing how odd the star appears reflected in this way kathryn grayson is the governor's daughter who falls for frank and her high soprano trilling turns her singing scenes into self parody aside from robert surtees' cinematography and the decent art direction this bandit remains from
0	this must be one of mgm's and frank sinatras worst films an oddball musical comedy that fails in almost every aspect silly plot has sinatra trying to carry on his fathers reputation as a kissing bandit he's no bandit and doesn't kiss he does play the nerdy character as well as could be expected given the dialog he has to speak the scene are j carroll nash and mildred natwick too bad they didn't have more scenes together i've given the film two stars because the sets and costumes are superior and one of the songs sung by grayson love is where you find it is sensational could have had a of that one also a comic type dance number by cyd charisse and ann miller if fun so for those reasons and those reasons only it is watchable kissing bandit is part of the frank sinatra early years collection
0	perhaps the director was trying for another pirate good garland and kelly musical but this lame musical epoch falls flat sinatra and kathryn voices do not blend well and their chemistry together lacks spark the premise of sinatra as a sweet guy who tries to impersonate his late father is okay but he seems awkward in the role what's amazing and wonderful here is how sinatra can take a rather insipid song and make it seem special his phrasing and eloquence as a singer make you want to hear it again when grayson sings the same songs it's hard to believe she's not singing something entirely different and not nearly as interesting she has her big moment with love is where you find it which suits her perfectly and shows off her abilities the photography is and both stars look appealing as do the costumes and sets co stars mildred natwick and j carroll nash put lots of energy into making the impossible work aside from sinatra's singing there is a strange menage a dance with ricardo montalban cyd charisse and ann miller it's fascinating and weird montalban and charisse were a wonderful dancing team and this number is a real oddity
0	first of all should cameron diaz ever be allowed to act again to call that a bad performance would be an insult to bad performances that was a historically horrific performance any small chance that diaz had at being a serious actress is now completely done after that laughably horrible br br two the movie was extremely boring and not very thought provoking at all i can sit around and ponder human nature without having to watch terrible actors play out a terrible story br br third there was not a single likable character and even worse it seemed like that was done by design you were not supposed to like or feel sympathy for any character it was quite effective i wanted them all to just die to be honest aliens included kid included everyone was just one big mope in this movie everyone literally just moped around and they called it a movie you could barely distinguish the zombie employees with regular people because they all seemed like zombies br br lastly nothing really makes sense from the characters reactions and emotions to the literal story line it all just seems random this is just a really bad movie disguised and couched as a thinking mans movie which is meant to be confusing give me a break a bad movie is a bad movie and this movie was bad
0	the kissing bandit was the third and final film that frank sinatra and kathryn grayson co starred at mgm with the first two were anchors aweigh and it happened in brooklyn and in both sinatra wooed and lost grayson i guess the third time's the charm br br for romance maybe but definitely not for screen image sinatra in his forty's films once again plays the nice little schnook only this time in pants on tyrone power's territory laid out in the mark of zorro sinatra plays the son of a man who was a hotel owner by day and the kissing bandit by night he's gone and left california for an education and has come back ready to take dad's place but in the hotel business only and where does he learn the hotel business boston br br of course some of dad's former gang members grown a little old and paunchy led by j carrol naish want him to lead the gang again but frank's just not cut out for the outlaw life but he does make a good impression on the governor's daughter kathryn grayson br br somebody must have had it in for sinatra at mgm to cast him in this after the bad reviews he got in miracle of the bells frank's in a part that was more suitable for red skelton but since this was a musical i guess the brain trust at mgm figured kathryn grayson had to have a singing co star br br in fact the best number in the film are for her love is where you find it also ricardo montalban ann miller and cyd charisse do a dance specialty that is nice frank's songs are nice but nothing spectacular br br in later years sinatra would wince at the mention of the kissing bandit and with good reason
0	german and uber actor paul muni who never saw a scene he didn't want to chew up goes blackface to play a humble mexican immigrant living in los angeles and working his way up in the world if this creaky vehicle reminds anyone of al pacino's minstrel performance as an uncultured cuban in the remake of scarface don't be too surprised the characters are quite similar and both get wildly pop eyed when the script calls for it hispanics everywhere should be greatly offended by muni's over the top performance as this giddy mexican living the american dream consequences be damned i guess benicio deltoro's grandfather wasn't available a young bleached blonde bette davis plays one of muni's love interests she eventually goes insane for love of mr meh hee can muni an absolute hoot davis is the sole reason to watch this racially offensive claptrap there is an absolutely delirious near the end when muni asks the gal of his dreams to marry him a white gal of breeding with one of those stilted stage like '30s accents that hollywood loved so much and she calls him a savage and a brute of a different tribe muni immediately transforms into mr hyde and chases her to an untimely death in the final scene a repentant muni tells his sober faced priest that he is going back to his own people his own kind end of movie finis that's all she wrote muni was said to have hired a gen oo mexican as a chauffeur in order to study this exotic creature's speech pattern and physical habits yowza
0	paul muni and bette davis overact monstrously while lacklustre studio hack archie mayo seems distracted and oblivious in this racially provocative film that derives its bittersweet ending by condoning segregationist attitudes heavy handed and poorly constructed the film collapses under its own weight within the first fifteen minutes with an out of control courtroom scene that it never recovers from as mr muni begins to chew up scenery by the yard hollering and howling away in an almost incoherent fashion br br johnny ramirez is a mexican american from the other side of the tracks who through determination and grit attains a law degree from a store front night school in his first big case involving an auto accident he displays only ineptitude and is quickly made to look the fool by his well heeled opponents and an impatient judge who recommends he be disbarred devastated by the setback an angry johnny takes on a job at a gambling joint where he is befriended by the owner charlie eugene palette who likes his style the owner cuts him in on the place but problems arise with mrs davis who also wants a piece of johnny she kills charlie implicates johnny and slowly goes mad before he is acquitted and free to be with a high society wasp who coldly explains to him that they are from different tribes savage and it will never work when she flees to escape his rage she is run over and killed by a car ramirez sells the casino and moves back to his poor neighborhood that its best to stay with your own br br in addition to this appalling denouement has a series of bad performances to compliment the overall ugliness of the story unfair as his plight might be muni's ramirez is so abrasive and arrogant it becomes hard to show sympathy for such a bull headed davis is no better as the less than loyal wife matching the same adolescent emotions of muni her lady macbeth mad scenes give no indication that she was about to become the best film actress of her era margaret lindsay as muni's american dream is cold remote and flat br br bad as is and it is very it remains an interesting indicator of the times and acceptable attitudes the rest is just a mishmash of bad acting and uninspired direction
0	i fail to see how anyone who has actually read the m falco mysteries could make such a mockery of them an aussie has no business in ancient rome nothing of the books is in this film except the setting and characters and they are wasted on a plot thin enough through which to read the silly script kevin connor and lee have a lot of nerve displaying their names in the credits
0	i am a fan of good historical fiction and was thrilled at the thought that someone would take a well written book series and film it writing scripts is not like writing regular fiction but when you have a book you are adapting it would be nice to actually follow the plot line br br the portrayals of the the actual emperor and his 2 sons titus and was horrid they acted like a cookie cutter caligula and were the 'bad guys' in this adaptation there was a scene with titus dispensing justice as if he was caligula from the movie of the same name the way the are portrayed in the books mostly follow the reports of historians writing in that time period they were fair and sane not tainted by the imperial insanity br br helena the love interest of marcus falco gives as her reason for divorcing one of the traitors referenced in the title was that he was a traitor yet in the books it was because he ignored her and she felt that she would be better off marrying someone who valued her as a person br br marcus in the movie gets a slave named yet in the books he could barely afford his apartment let alone afford a slave there was certainly no romantic interlude between the nonexistent slave and a female gladiator br br on the whole if you want good cookie cutter roman stereotypes get caligula if you want good roman from the classical history viewpoint get i claudius
0	i came across this film by accident and wish i hadn't br br why make a sexually rude sequel and some gore when a man is beheaded of a well know children's movie br br do not take young kids to see this the title misdirects you it has nothing to do with the original snow white except for stealing it's characters better still don't bother going yourself it's not worth it br br i could not watch it all the poor in comparison to disney cartoon graphics and no plot except on how to totally mess up a classic movie made me want to give up and leave
0	à br br this was an idiotic attempt to destroy classic source material and thoroughly succeeded br br do not see this film under any circumstances unless you wish to have your ten euros torn up and shoved up your nostrils by a bunch of vapid atrociously unamusing characters br br this type of film clearly illustrates the gulf that still unfortunately divides directors and audiences if the individual heaven forbid a collective could have conceived this dross behind this had been considerate enough to watch the version currently playing in french cinemas he or she would have endured what i was forced to endure and mercifully rewritten it or just scrapped it altogether the vein of adult humour being mined here dates to my mind back to fritz the cat but lacks that film's avant garde status or even its base attempt at social commentary br br with the proliferation of remakes and increasing reliance on pre existing source material to fund storytelling these days one would hope that choosing snow white and thus not having to worry about conceiving characters or a radically new story would have allowed more time for oh i don't know interesting animation smarter jokes perhaps a coherent film that has something to say and doesn't telegraph its vacuity from the opening frame br br a manifestly appalling production
0	to some of us director ernst lubitsch adored for his underlying and ironic comic touches was rather wet when it came to picking material it isn't that lubitsch is overrated on the contrary he probably was ahead of his time in terms of a visual narrative yet the projects he became attached to or was assigned to are not quite the landmarks of comedy his fans like to label them with heaven can wait a screen adaptation of bus play birthday lubitsch is saddled with sleepy don ameche in the lead and the combination of an anemic plot a colorless star and a musty flashback framework the director a wicked man at the turn of the century falls asleep without realizing it presenting the facts of his life in front of hell's entrance ameche wicked that was problem number one the promising opening sequence set in the hades lobby quickly gives way to dreary whimsy and the supporting cast is of little help 1 2 from
0	henry don ameche turns up at the entrance to hell and recounts his life story to his excellency laird cregar the story focuses on his relationships with females throughout his life and in particular his relationship with martha gene tierney at the end of the film we cut back to henry and his excellency for a very predictable ending br br unfortunately there is nothing more to say about the film because nothing happens its a sentimental story of one man's life and its very boring i watched it with my girlfriend and my dad and we all thought it was rubbish despite the lubitsch touch i yawned more than 15 times hugo charles coburn is good whenever he is on screen as the grandfather and there were a few funny moments of dialogue the colour made it a good spectacle but it wasn't enough to save this from going into the reject pile in the same mould as its a wonderful world and you can't take it with you and so not surprisingly it was nominated for an oscar a story about ordinary people none of whom are interesting and with no storyline of any interest boring sentimental and the biggest damp squib of an ending that i can remember
0	heaven can wait is a crushing bore and a candy coated misogynist lie i can't imagine anyone but film students sitting through it today don ameche is in almost every scene and while he has a mellifluous voice that no doubt contributed to his successful career in radio he doesn't have the charisma to carry this film ameche plays henry a womanizer lubitsch wants to make henry's sexual adorable and amusing and so he directs ameche to play the part as blandly as possible the combination of ameche's lack of charisma and lubitsch's insistence on blandness results in a lead character who is both deadly dull and completely icky you wouldn't want to spend any time with this man he'd put you to sleep you wouldn't leave him alone with your daughter no matter her age something creepy would happen br br the movie's look is quite boring scene after scene consists of static overly lighted style shots of fastidiously dressed gilded age stuffed shirts and lounging in excessively busy victorian parlors there's so many and frills and so much and sky blue and pink you need dramamine br br this movie hates women as much as hardcore porn but it presents that hatred with a candy coating and a sweet little bow on top the contrast between the content of the message and its delivery is sickening in one of the movie's most hateful scenes an elderly woman is sent to hell because she's not physically attractive
0	don't be greedy sums up the depth of this movie all the rest of the baloney is big budget window dressing the movie rotates through hiding the ball annoyingly and revealing too much none of the potentially interesting plot tangents are developed yet the trite ones are hashed and rehashed to excess br br the charm of dd as others have pointed out was in the schizophrenia device the humor woven into the fabric of the movie and most importantly the acting there is enough wooden acting in the box to attract a giant mound of martian termites br br the biggest problem with suspending disbelief during this mess is the glaring question why would a technologically superior power capable of taking over the government need to do any testing at all awful failure of a movie
0	while there is a lot to recommend about maetel legend both in concept and finished product it's ultimately a poor film plot wise it's a retelling of maetel's early life which is usually unclear at the same time the writers take the opportunity to tell the story of the machine empire and since leiji matsumoto has trouble not including his other work we get a starting point for emeraldas her sister her mother the queen of la and a bit of galaxy express 999 to flesh out the film br br in short maetel is a princess on the planet la a planet with an irregular orbit thus meaning its cycle around the nearest sun is reaching a cold stage and it's artificial sun is dying the planet grows increasingly colder throughout the story thus increasing the sense of doom in order to protect her subjects and family the queen decides that mechanisation is the only way to ensure survival of la people enter lord a robot cyborg who provides the means for the job through the film the characters are left to question mechanisation will they still be human can be trusted do souls and hearts remain so for a fan of matsumoto's work there's lots to enjoy questions to be answered themes continued except it's obvious that the film is meant to be an introduction as well as a fan curiosity the negatives foremost the animation while galaxy express 999 a tv series from over 20 years ago has shoddy mouth animation and at times sketchy character design maetel legend has all the worst traits of modern animation and thus earns an air of respectability to galaxy express 999 the design is well detailed but unfortunately the animation has suffered leaving well drawn characters that as in the backgrounds move or the camera zooms a quick way of animating however the few yes few well animated scenes are re used over and over in dream sequences repetition and in extra scenes anyone who's seem the film will wonder how many times lord can drink the same glass of wine br br next the story while in concept everything sounds great the finished product is in fact a series of conversations of plot which are repeated over and over to little effect the number of times the characters encounter the same problems and learn the same things is practically insulting to the audience and the characters which are seemingly much more articulate in former incarnations add to all of that some terrible character design that seem lifeless over exaggerated and the audience is left with a movie so miss handled it might as well have been rewritten as a different film at least the newcomers wouldn't be left baffled br br and yet it really has its moments the ending at least is surprising the plight of the citizens of la was quite affecting and rightly disturbing i guess i find that whole man machine theme distressing it's hard know who to recommend maetel legend to since it's not well animated written or executed plus confusing once leiji matsumoto's mandatory cross referencing is introduced however i can't help but brighten up when the magnificent entrance of three nine occurs now that's good cinema br br 1 5 stars out of 5 2 if you're a fan
0	during the 1990's several attempts have been made to revive old matsumoto's series tried to revive old saga in form of a laughably bad which was completely abandoned after mere two episodes captain harlock suffered a confusing and pointless harlock saga while galaxy express 999 suffered having this hack of a movie stapled to its name br br if you've seen queen millennia you'll recall that it was a wonderful movie in its own way maetel legend tries to tell a sequel to this already concluded chapter also finding a way to suck at doing so br br this movie takes all the annoying aspects of a generic pulp science fiction movie mixes it with badly paced melodrama and to add an insult to an injury tosses in some of the most renowned characters from matsumoto's universe br br the only redeeming aspect of this movie is good artwork but the remainder is so amazingly bad that it can't save this movie from being a total loss br br if you've enjoyed queen millennia or galaxy express do yourself a favor and skip this hack of a movie you'll thank me
0	curse of the wolf starts as reluctant werewolf dakota renee manages to escape from her into the city where 6 months later she is working in a vet's the rest of pack are unhappy want her back their leader michael todd says she will come back to them but fat werewolf franklin brian heffron picks her scent up the pack decides to force the issue get her back using her affections for her human friends including her boyfriend danny dennis carver can dakota save danny finally rid herself of her werewolf pursuers i doubt you will care br br executive produced written directed by len who also had a fairly large role in the film as stick i was dreading watching curse of the wolf since was the man behind swamp zombies 2005 which is surely one of the worst films ever made ever unfortunately my worst fears were confirmed one has to say that curse of the wolf is a truly horrible film in every way both conceptually technically curse of the wolf is the sort of film where the low budget dictates what happens the script rather than the script dictating the budget you get the impression that everything was written conceived to take advantage of the few sets actor's they had you can almost imagine the makers saying we've got a few actor's some basic equipment a couple of locations so lets make a horror film around them the story is awful michael finds the location of dakota by looking at a large dog two women are taking for a walk the character's are awful a big fat werewolf guy who farts a lot the dialogue is awful just about every line in the thing there's never any motivation for anything that happens why are the pack so desperate to get dakota back people just do seemingly random things since director background is in martial arts he insists in inserting lots of random martial arts fight sequences into the plot no offence but this is meant to be a horror film not a martial arts one isn't it in fact apart from the presence of a few werewolves you would be hard pushed to describe curse of the wolf as anything approaching a horror film at almost two hours in length it feels like it goes on forever is so slow uneventful it's just not funny br br director was obviously working on a low budget but film making this bad should be a crime there's no continuity between shots the fight scenes look awful are so poorly staged it's untrue it's sometimes impossible to follow what's going on be it because of the choppy editing poor camera angles or the fact that it is sometimes so dark that you literally can't see a thing seriously there are times during curse of the wolf where the screen is totally black you can't see a thing i would hate to have to sit through this watching it on a fuzzy low resolution vhs the sound is awful too you can hear the wind breeze against the microphone there are also lots of other unpleasant unwanted ambient sounds during just about every scene did the production actually have any lighting gear while making this it doesn't feel like it the special effects mostly consist of werewolf mask's that look like the sort of thing shops sell at halloween for the kids basically they look awful br br technically curse of the wolf is as bad as they come i'm sorry because i know this had a low budget but it's truly horrible to sit through try to garner some entertainment from this is high school film student quality i'm sorry if that sounds unkind but it's a fact the acting is well you can probably guess so i'll stop myself right here before i say something else negative i mean i've done enough of that already i really take no pleasure in it br br curse of the wolf is terrible both conceptually technically this is a real chore to sit through curse of the wolf is the type of film where while your watching it time seems to stand still it's the type of film that lasts for almost two hours yet feels like two years one of the worst films you or i am ever likely to see definitely one to avoid
0	this movie is so bad that it actually gets funny one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my entire life the funny thing was that the trailer had scenes in it that wasn't in the movie just by watching the trailer i would have saved a lot of my time it actually showed everything that happened in the movie except for the conclusion and that was also so obvious br br it's honestly hard to think of a reason why this movie was made this is just so bad horrible br br i would give it 0 out of 10 if that would be possible there is nothing else to say about this movie
0	1 stephen baldwin doesn't care about his involvement in stephen baldwin vehicles br br 2 the acting in any stephen baldwin vehicle ranges from horrible to mildly passable br br 3 writers don't write stephen baldwin vehicles children do br br 4 most of the stephen baldwin vehicles revolve around one genre the actionless action genre it basically consists of crappy action sequences made with little to no effort whatsoever br br 5 the director doesn't care about stephen baldwin vehicles he passes his job to an orangutan from time to time br br and now you know
0	the elite sniper team that has inserted or so earlier have instead of digging in and making them selves invisible decided to take cover behind a big rock in one of the first scenes when the hero runs to rescue his wife he actually jogs when inside a building and aiming for a target only some 20 30 meter away the hero uses his scope besides the fact that most non elite soldiers would make that shot from the hip and still hit there is also the fact that the scope probably wouldn't be able to focus that close there is a satellite that can actually look into buildings br br the list is endless and the film is the biggest heap of crap i have ever put in my dvd player
0	if this film were to be rated on a scale of 1 to 10 one would need to create a new rating system as this one should not even qualify the film's plot if you can call it that revolves around charlie stephen baldwin an ex special operatives agent who is being targeted by the brother of a man he killed while he was still working for the us gov't if this sounds like an interesting scenario please don't be fooled as this film will not deliver that which its action themed story suggests br br comedian chris rock once said that when one sees an actor doing a bad film that it makes one want to send the actor 50 given that the actor must be desperate for money to be doing such poor quality work after watching this film you may want to send stephen baldwin 100 br br it appears that baldwin did not put any effort into his role in the film in the film baldwin is forced to run all over the city of los angeles in order to protect his honeycomb wife from being murdered by the brother of a man he previously killed however throughout the picture it appears that baldwin can barely pull off maintaining a light jog his laid back performance succeeds in from any suspense that the film might have intended to portray br br if you are the type of person who enjoys watching very bad films and laughing at their shortcomings than this film is for you however if you are looking for a well made action thriller it would be best to look somewhere else rather than renting this film
0	i hate to be too critical but this one really was bad i like the baldwin brothers i just wish there was more talent evenly spread between them i did like the general plot but there was just too much and not enough actual as far as quality acting was concerned br br my favorite character out of the whole thing was bald cop he reminded me of jeremy roberts i believe from start trek 6 undiscovered country just without the hair br br if you have hollywood video's mvp program and are really trying to get your money's worth then through this in with one of the three mvp movies you pick up it's worth it for a few laughs br br the single most impressive special effect in the whole show is the sound of stephen baldwin's rifle firing i suppose that lets you in a bit on the quality and excitement of the rest of the show
0	target is the story of a special agent who after carrying out orders to assassinate turkish terrorists note that this is one of those american movies for guys who love mindless nationalistic super patriotic crap movies returns home to find that his ex wife and two kids are taking hostage charlie snow has just a couple of hours to do whatever the terrorists tell him in order to get them back br br this was by far one of the worst movies i have ever seen and had it not been for someone i know actually and probably mistakenly taking it out of the video store i would never have watched this giant pile of garbage to begin with br br the movie plays out like any generic action movie story i have ever seen before in fact these are the kind of things they spoof on variety shows that is how bad it is i half expected in living the color's the to mad tv's will doing his steven segal impression to bust out on the screen half way through to remind you that this was just an exaggerated action movie but now our characters are here to spoof how ridiculous it really is there were not even any good fighting or action sequences by the way things are played out you wouldn't even think that anyone was kidnapped that there were any terrorists or that anything remotely interesting was going on br br not only is the story completely and utterly uninteresting the acting is so terribly wooden just watch the part where stephen baldwin as former special agent charlie snow is talking to the kidnappers on the telephone they tell him that they have his wife and they put her on the phone she says charlie help or something to that effect and baldwin replies it's okay honey in such a deadpan manner you think he was reading the script and trying to sound out the words phonetically i imagine that despite being such a ridiculously bad movie one that belongs on the bottom 100 on imdb a list that they should expand to at least 250 movies and should contain nearly every stephen baldwin movie someone with some talent could have at least made the effort not to ham it up as much someone anyone i couldn't get past the fact that everyone sounded like they were reading from a script save that is the only person in the whole friggin movie who has any talent whatsoever and thus should not have been in this mad tv's deborah wilson br br this was the capital cheese fest how truly embarrassing
0	dear movie director br br in the future when trying to create a sense of urgency it might be best to have your hero run instead of jog shuffle especially if you're trying to reinforce a time line for example if you're trying to convince the audience that the bad guy really will kill the hostage if the hero doesn't find her it's probably a good idea to convey the feeling that your hero believes it may actually happen let's face it though making a good movie obviously wasn't your goal your goal was to pump out some garbage that will make more money than it cost otherwise you might have hired some actors br br sincerely bored viewer br br this is the worst movie i've seen in a long time i can't say that it's the worst ever because i was able to finish it it was bad bad bad though dude where's my refund
0	cameron diaz james marsden frank langella that's an all star power cast but the box proves once again that it is not a guarantee for a solid movie the premise sounds promising a couple gets a visit from a mysterious person who offers them a million dollar the downside is that someone will die a person they probably will not know so what do you do this gives us an interesting story for about 30 minutes after that the story derails completely vague an uninspired plot lines about an alien conspiracy involving the nasa nothing really is explained here br br the box is a disappointment could have been so much better but since it is based on an ultra short story that explains the continuity errors
0	this movie sucks the acting is worse than in the films we made when we were 10 years old with a camcorder the effects look like some 80's computer game and the plot is worse than terrible even the worst van damme movies make this look crappy the accent and speech rhythm of the 'bad guys' is so bad it's funny br br i wouldn't recommend watching this unless you are a big time fan one of the actors 1 out of 10
0	this is 1 hour and 24 minutes of pure boredom br br in this 'action' movie even the gun baldwin uses hk sucks it was sent to recycling by armed forces worldwide in the mid eighties and is now only used by terrorists bank robbers and military museums br br if i had known this movie was this bad i would rather watch 10 episodes of macgyver saving the planet br br no groove no drive and no feel watch the channel – it's more exiting than this sorry excuse for a movie this movie doesn't deserve a on the scale better luck next time baldwin until then i'll sit here watch my toenails grow – that is far more exiting than
0	i rented this film when my girlfriend was away hoping to see some serious military specialist action br br after 10 minutes of watching this movie i was so terrified and horrified and sick of the quality of everything in this film that i was ready to destroy the rented disc with a flame thrower luckily i find one i´ve seen many bad films but this is not even bad it is total garbage and it does not even deserve to be counted as a movie here on imdb br br i feel sorry for the people who have been involved in the making of this total disgrace hope it wins some oscars though d
0	one of the worst movies i've ever seen when i was trying to watch this i had flu and i was pretty open minded for any brainless entertainment unfortunately this was too much how so many totally ungifted actors can be in one movie this movie makes porn look like european art movie cast just speaks out their lines without any emotions special thanks to charlie baldwin soon to be ex wife who talks about her divorce like the rest of us talk about the weather just horrible and funny br br with lots of booze and friends this might just make it as a background entertainment and few laughs just like ed wood movies the plot is a joke and soundtrack straight from some cheeky soap opera br br hopefully nobody paid to see this movie br br
0	ugh stephen baldwin i never noticed until i got the dvd home and saw his name in the credits double ugh what's worse he's the name in this low budget mindless wandering wannabe shoot'em up i mean where did they find the guy to write this refuse driving a caterpillar in the la city dump while hoping to break into the movie game the whole plot is ridiculous situation piled on ridiculous premise baldwin is as convincing as a poster boy for american gothic sans pitchfork his whole acting repertoire is looking like he needs the potty and then looking like he found it br br so there you have it folks bad script bad acting by no name actors low budget setting and a hero that's about as convincing as a girl scout looking for a cookie customer as an action hero it's too late for me to get my money back on the dvd but you can spare yourself unless you're one of those who likes to look at the dogs for a laugh frankly this one is too boring to be funny
0	i saw this at my local supermarket and i knew that debra was in it so i decided to buy it out of support for that sexy woman the plot and acting in this movie was terrible with the exception of debra wilson and i'm not just saying that because i love her she seriously was the only actor or actress who had any emotion in their acting and voice what i didn't get at the beginning is why the wife didn't just get back in her car instead of running at random like that it was so stupid and it's la nobody saw her being abducted on a public residential street nobody yeah that's realistic also in the park when charlie stole the woman's cell phone for some stupid reason they were hell bent on finding him and at one point when they did they had him at gunpoint over a cell phone in reality i doubt the lapd would go out of their way like that for a stupid cell phone the lady could've walked up to one of many of those cell phone and have it replaced the kids acting skills sucked too i think they were reading from a cue card or had somebody off camera whisper their lines because they'd be asked questions and would look around and then answer in a questionable voice i e yes i do miss daddy also how could there be all of those snipers be in the trees and on building rooftops in la without being seen i see this being played at 3 am on usa br br debra wilson fanatics will enjoy her parts she's the only actor with any real acting skills debra sweetheart stop doing these cheap d grade direct to video films maybe that'll change with the upcoming film she puts some jokes in there like when one of her superiors comes up and asks her who's she talking to she screams at her computer and goes damnit charlie i gave it a 4 10 a 4 only because of debra's good acting skills
0	i had to watch this movie for professional reasons and can only say it's a complete waste of time when running baldwin looks like an ape characters are dull same story has been told 1000 times better in other movies i think everything has been now said about this film but imdb requires me to write 10 lines so boring and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and trivial
0	this isn't a good movie plain and simple take out the hardcore sex scenes and what you have is a mediocre plot average acting at best plodding direction and dull dialogue add in the grot and you've got mediocre plot average acting plodding direction dull dialogue with lashings of hardcore porn trouble is the nothing special either so it's not a good movie and nor is it a good porno it fails on both counts they can say that women made this movie and they were intending to do this with it and that with it etc but cheap the end result is what counts and what we have here is a mediocre movie with some sex thrown in for shock value to try and con you into wasting your time watching it one of those movies where you'd rather have the time you spent watching it back
0	i never really understood the controversy and hype this movie caused especially in french and the neighboring countries in belgium where i am located for example baise moi was announced as the most shocking and the most thought provoking social drama you could ever experience yeah right it might be a little shocking maybe how often do you see someone getting shot up the arse but the weak and pointless plot surely didn't cause me to think much baise moi is another one of those blame everything that goes wrong on society films and they're generally not very convincing about 99 of the people functions perfectly well in this society so why would you blame this exact same society for the vile and hopeless acts of two deranged nymph girls the two main characters and their miserable lives are introduced separately and in flashes nadine just killed her roommate manu shot her brother and the two meet in an abandoned train station late at night they decide to travel around france together leaving a trail of sex and blood behind wherever they made a stop although we're constantly exposed to pornography and violence this film is very boring to sit through like the girls are indicating themselves all the time the dialogues are lame and the people they run into and are very uninteresting if people want to make porno movies that's fine by me but please don't pretend that it's art house film making if you leave out the swearing and the hip camera work all there is to see is not so arousing pornography cool soundtrack though
0	another french film with absurdity baise moi f ck me tells the story of two young women who come together to kill and f ck one of them is a porn star who escapes from her community after being raped and killing her boyfriend second one is a hooker who kills her flatmate and sees her boyfriend being shot dead after those incidents they meet at a tube station both misses the last train then the whole thing starts they find a bound and come very close they abuse men sexually take drugs drive around the country and have lots of sex thats all about baise moi really we can see that they have no mercy for their victims they even kill a woman for her money both actresses are real porn stars in france that affects the movie in two different ways they look so comfortable in sex scenes nonetheless they can't make the whole film worth watching as to me the film does not require no further ability of acting than that it is a version of thelma and louise on a different level i could recommend you loads of things to do instead of watching baise moi so bother to watch if you wanna see a pointless kinky film out of
0	this is my first review on imdb com and probably first ever written review of a film i've done of my own accord not for some class assignment i think that fact alone says something about this movie not a good thing i am no seasoned journalist or critic though i have seen my fair share of movies but i found this particular film so terribly painful to watch it was necessary for my own peace of mind to vent about the experience where better to do it than imdb as i forced myself to sit through the movie physically writhing from the inability to connect the dots i was sure there would be some light at the end of the tunnel a revelation to explain what in ll was going on the movie ended and i was as enlightened as dog after several rewinds to review certain scenes i still could conclude nothing sensible i found myself wanting to yell does this make sense to anybody i would recommend to not waste your time but then again if i were you i'd probably want to experience it myself if that's the case bring a crossword puzzle or something so you don't get bored
0	i'm sick of the open mind argument i'm generally quite open minded but this sort of line is basically made by people who enjoy things that should not be enjoyed you know what there is a reason so many people are disgusted by this and just because someone out there isn't doesn't make it less so there is after all a reason for the existence of the feeling of disgust and no amount of open mind or pushing the envelope should eliminate that feeling otherwise we're no better than senseless living things br br back to the film another argument is that this film puts women in the roles normally reserved for men which may be why men don't like it but just because it proves revolting for more men than would otherwise doesn't make it great maybe men shouldn't be turned on by what's dominating the movie industry but is the answer for women to do the same maybe if you don't like movies tv and entertainment having so much sexual objectification of women so much violence don't watch them br br and if you're a director don't make them br br otherwise some day someone will ask for an open mind when what happened in this movie happen in real life br br heck some people seem to like it so much
0	well how to make a movie as provocative as possible this cartoonishly straight shocker tries by having two low life paris women one prostitute one recently raped ex porn actress no less lash out and go on a national sex and killing spree of men in particular br br very short running time gives you a hint of the experimental nature of this violently hardcore thelma louise but it's done completely without irony or contemplation for any possible feminist message and since we don't get very close to the protagonists the violence actually feels muted and numbing and maybe that's a good thing br br as a liberal advocate of freedom of expression i always welcome when the serious movie industry dares to contain full on sex scenes but the question is does it work for the movie as a whole is it any good here not very although we're given a new meaning to the phrase a shot in the ass br br 3 out of 10 from ozjeppe
0	while it's true that the movie is somewhat interesting the execution leaves a lot to be desired much like blood orgy of the leather girls i spit on your grave and born in flames all superior i don't think it's not porn but porn is in the eye of the beholder if it functions as porn for somebody who am i to say that he she is wrong i was rather puzzled by the statement in generally thoughtful review such a shame that for once we actually see men's faces when they come a few years ago i did occasional freelance reviews for an adult mag and i recall seeing plenty of men's faces when they came i think this is probably more common when the film features on of the few male porn stars and especially when that male is the director though i unsurprisingly can't refer to any specific titles i know that there are some instances in ron jeremy's uh work i also don't know that i'd agree that a man is necessarily showing vulnerability in his face when coming
0	this film is about two female killers going on a tour to kill random men they meet br br wow baise moi just became the worst film of all time in my list the plot is crazy pointless and unnecessary the whole film is full of violence and sex and i am sure no sane parents would want to show this film to their children i don't understand what people get out of by making this film or watching this film maybe someone somewhere has their perverted desires fulfilled there is simply no excuse or reasons for the existence of this perverted and depraved piece of work br br the only consolation i offer myself is that i watched it on fast forward so that i have not wasted as much time
0	a movie about a french girl who gets raped by street hoodlums the rape scene itself is shot in all it's gory detail with all the male and female organs and their interactions clearly visible to the camera in a fit of rage the victim grabs her friend's or was it brother gun shoots him and runs off with the weapon she meets this prostitute who has just seen her pimp shot down they team up and make off towards paris a series of crazy meaningless and wild killings follow the girls seem to enjoy every murder more than the one before one poor guy gets shot in the hole there are good doses of sex thrown in between the numerous killings br br the movie is not the most violent i have seen i would say saving private ryan probably had more violence in it if violence is what you are looking for then there are lots of other movies out there and if it's sex you are out for then i would suggest one of those xxx ones br br i went to see the movie because of all the hype the media was giving it the movie itself is no big deal just a lot of violence and sex shot with something like a hand held camera i was surprised this movie had a 15 year age limit in sweden if 15 year olds can watch this movie they should be able to watch xxx movies too
0	this is one of the rare movies that i did not immediately discuss with my friends after watching it this wasn't because it had particularly entranced or impressed me the contrary it had given me nothing at all br br why because somehow everything was so much overdone that i couldn't take this film seriously anymore there was so much sex and violence that i got the strong impression that the film was trying very very hard to be offensive as if it was aiming at superlatives in ugliness rather than in telling a convincing tale about two women caught in a spiral of crime br br baise moi had been described as thelma louise with actual sex to me well it is true that the main idea is similar there are two women traveling through the country because they've committed crimes and know that their lives are finished now that the police are going to catch them and they decide that now that everything's over anyway there is no way to hold back br br baise moi had been described as a feminist film where women who had suffered from male dominance in the past exact revenge upon the men that they encounter br br this is something that i had never interpreted into this film simply because none of these women had ever been innocent and because they do not just kill irresponsible violent men but also men that they seduce themselves men that show the sense of wanting to do protected sex and they kill women no they are in no way better than the characters that they encounter and murder in hideous brutal ways br br how easily the heroines decide to murder and how much pleasure they take in it made it absolutely impossible for me to relate to them in any way or even take them seriously it was just all too much too much sex too much violence i got the feeling that sex and violence were only there in order to create a superlative in ugliness rather than in conveying a story or making a point br br baise moi left me with no impression hadn't set me thinking because it was so far removed from any real world so constructed unrealistic and over the top br br there was nothing that i could do with this film there was simply nothing about it to think about other than why did they make this terrible film had the intense unpleasantness going on in this film served a purpose i'd easily accepted it but since i found nothing since the film's story appeared to be not more than an excuse to squeeze as much and as ugly sex as possible into one film i filed it away under unnecessary torture decided to never ever ever watch this film again and i now consider this to be the worst film i've ever seen br br worst not just because it really isn't my cup of tea to watch people get raped rape have sex in other forms and kill one another but because whatever it was that the makers wanted to tell the world with their film if they wanted to say anything at all it just didn't work and there's nothing else that could save this film because it's also filmed in such an ugly style
0	i first saw a poster advertising this film on a street in helsinki finland in june of 2000 what caught my attention was the proud proclamation advising all readers that the movie although itself french had been banned in france upon returning home to new york i discovered that one of the art house movie theaters in the city was screening the film and so with my finnish fiancee decided to see what all the fuss was about boy did we ever br br from the comments read here and the reviews i knew the movie was violent and sexually explicit not necessarily offended by either of these two conditions i went with an open mind to see what had perturbed the sensibilities of our gallic cousins presumably as anyone who is reading this will know the story involves two women who embark on a crime and murder spree in france the movie has english subtitles the resemblance to thelma and louise however ends with that the sex is unusually graphic and in copious supply as is the violence a lot of stomping to death and a lot of blood and other organic matter splattering after bullet impact br br on an intellectual level one could make the case that the film's very essence is the relationship of sex and violence as manifested by the only sex these women know one is a small time prostitute and the other has earned money from time to time by performing in pornographic films when they during their descent into crime and murder have the upper hand over their sexual situations they react only with the same violence and brutality that they themselves know and understand it is important to note however that the victims of their rampage are not only creepy men interested in creepy sex of which there are several but innocent passersby a woman at an atm for example as well br br i myself do not really understand why the repeated porn movie shots were all that necessary except to depict the physical contact as cruel and debased and the unrelenting gore did get rather tedious after the first few violent spasms br br it is a coarse and crude movie but in fairness it is dealing with coarse and crude people and equally unpleasant circumstances from one point of view the lives of the french is explored and it's pretty grim a travelogue for france it definitely is not perhaps that's why the french banned it br br
0	saimin br br usa the hypnotist uk hypnosis br br aspect ratio 1 85 1 br br sound format dolby stereo sr br br following a series of bizarre and apparently unrelated an experienced tokyo detective ken enlists the help of a young psychoanalyst goro inagaki who believes the victims were acting on a post hypnotic suggestion but their subsequent investigations reveal an even darker force at work linked to a young girl kanno whose life has been blighted by sadistic abuse br br based on a novel by this densely plotted mystery takes inspiration from a variety of sources italian gialli traditional japanese ghost stories etc though some of the images in the climactic showdown reveal a more immediate influence the recent commercial success of hideo nakata's ring 1998 for all its ambition however saimin is a routine potboiler which stumbles badly after a powerhouse opening the are particularly impressive despite some feeble cgi effects though director masayuki who co wrote the script with yasushi rallies proceedings for an extended finale in which the startling secrets are finally revealed is best known for his film adaptation of novel turned video game parasite eve 1997 which also starred leading man inagaki a member of japanese pop group smap and while saimin echoes that movie's strong visual sense it falls short as drama and most of the characters are mere ciphers undermining the emotional pay off which is a shame because the final half hour is galvanized by a series of dynamic set pieces most notably a concert hall sequence in which 'new world' symphony is transformed into an instrument of murder and is well served by an excellent production team however those lured by the promise of gory carnage may be disappointed the film is long on atmospherics and short on splatter br br performances are varied due to the script's limitations but kanno tomie is outstanding as a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder which the subtitles on the print under review assures us isn't recognized as a viable medical condition in japan who falls prey to a sleazy tv hypnotist takeshi a prime suspect in the murders inagaki is bland in a one dimensional role and he's constantly upstaged by a veteran performer whose career stretches back to the series of the 1950's br br japanese dialogue
0	leon errol handles his double role of uncle matt lindsay and lord basil superbly but i have trouble liking the mexican spitfire series because they all are contrived to produce mistaken identities and these are telegraphed way in advance errol is funny as the stuffy lord but i would have preferred a lot more wit and much less repetition br br
0	intended as light entertainment this film is indeed successful as such during its first half but then succumbs to a rapidly foundering script that drops it down harry judd nelson a reformed burglar and daphne gina gershon an aspiring actress are employed as live window mannequins at a department store where one evening they are late in leaving and are locked within whereupon they witness from their less than protective glass observation point an apparent homicide occurring on the street the ostensible murderer miles raymond nick mancuso a local sculptor returns the following day to observe the mannequins since he realizes that they are the only possible witnesses to the prior night's violent event and when one of the posing pair flinches the fun begins daphne and harry report their observations at a local police station but when the detective taking a crime report remembers harry's criminal background he becomes cynical there are a great many ways in which a film can become hackneyed and this one manages to utilize most of them including an obligatory slow motion bedroom scene of passion a low budget affair shot in vancouver even police procedural aspects are displayed by rote the always capable gershon tries to make something of her role but mancuso is incredibly histrionic bizarrely so as he attacks his lines with an obvious loose rein although the film sags into nonsense cinematographer glen macpherson prefers to not follow suit as he sets up with camera and lighting some splendidly realised compositions that a viewer may focus upon while ignoring plot holes and witless dialogue a well crafted score appropriately based upon the action is contributed by hal beckett the mentioned dialogue is initially somewhat fresh and delivered well in a bantering manner by nelson and gershon but in a subsequent context of flawed continuity and logic predictability takes over the direction reflects a lack of original ideas or point of view and post production flaws set the work back farther than should be expected for a basic thriller
0	quite possibly one of if not the worst film ever conceived cast and acted in the history of cinema who on god's green earth would ever think to cast cameron diaz and james as a couple she looked like his mother god forgive me but i am just being honest and that was the least of the many problems plaguing this horrible excuse for a film it was a horrible statement against women but at least if you're gonna blame women for the problems of the world tell a decent story not one with so many annoying loop holes and pathetic excuses for suspense and thrills everybody should get their money back who went to see it in theaters or bought the dvd
0	the emperor's richard haydn dog is betrothed to johanna's joan fontaine dog however when virgil bing crosby arrives in town to sell a record player to the emperor his dog is attacked by johanna's dog after a revenge attack where virgil is banished from town a psychoanalyst insists that johanna's dog must confront dog so that she can overcome her doggy fears this is arranged and the dogs fall in love so do virgil and johanna the rest of the film passes by with romance and at the end johanna's dog gives birth but who is the father br br the dog story is the very weak vehicle that is used to try and create a story between humans its a terrible storyline there are 3 main musical pieces all of which are rubbish bad songs and dreadful choreography its just an extremely boring film bing has too many words in each sentence and delivers them in an almost irritating manner its not funny ever but its meant to be bing and joan have done much better than this
0	this is a movie about a black man buying a airline company and turning the company into a african centric over the top airliner they even portray the owner as not only being in control of the airline but also controlling part of the air terminal at the airport one day this guy wins 100 million dollars a the next time you see him he is walking all over the airport acting like the owner of the airport everyone calls this movie a parody but nothing about this movie shouts parody this movie is a flop and will forever be in the 4 95 bin at wal mart br br i can't even come to terms to why mgm would waste 16 million dollars on this movie this movie doesn't even warrant straight to video status the writers one black and one white should be blackballed from hollywood forever not only do they over stereotype blacks they portray them as ignorant human beings i would be ashamed of going to a movie that constantly humiliates me don't waste your time at the video store wal mart pay per view or on a sunday afternoon when the movie is shown on tbs
0	alright lets break it down why is this one of the worst films ever because there are so many answers to that question i'm having a headache come on cracker world mr the part with the arab guy its just awful i didn't really care about the whole white racism crap but when they did that thing with the arab guy i wanted to get the names of all the writers its really not worth watching 3 seconds of this movie it isn't even funny bad which was my first interpretation i hope the person who directed this movie doesn't commit suicide but it seems likely i don't see any other options don't ever watch this movie if you watch it u cant say u died with no regrets
0	i'll be honest the pimped out purple plane with snoop dogg at the helm is an amusing visual gag it would have been a decent concept for a 30 second commercial or maybe a 3 minute music video but the producers have committed the age old concept comedy sin of stretching 30 seconds of material into an hour and a half of film and the results are predictably lame the remainder of the 89 minutes are filled with the typical gamut of racist and sexist humor and fart jokes offensive and worst of all painfully unfunny the threadbare plot screams under the weight of its contrivances best to be avoided unless you are drunk or stoned
0	with awful movies like this one being even considered let alone being made it's very easy to see why hollywood is in such serious trouble with bad plots and worse remakes all the time br br i guess the viewer is supposed to be laughing their rear ends off over the 'black' in jokes the up' look and the it's so incredible 'over the top' and so bad that is even past the 'so bad it's funny again' mark and have plummeted right into 'totally embarrassing for anyone br br i'm very very sorry for every single minute i wasted on this one i want my time back br br save yourself the agony do not watch this the only reason for me to give even 1 point in the rating is that 0 wasn't an option
0	i watched this movie with my boyfriend an avid hip hop fan and he was really really looking forward to catch the soul vibe the movie claimed to have boy we were dead wrong when i finished watching the movie i felt two things remorse and relief remorse because i regretted wasting my time to watch this awful piece of dung and relief because i watched it free on cable br br this movie really really gives a bad name to black people by putting so much awful stereotypes that i believe all smart black people everywhere has been trying to spell off i'm asian and i feel very very sorry and sick for those who made this movie what more to say bad writing even worse acting and horrible storyline br br even if you're bored to death and has no other choice don't watch this movie seriously the movie really has nothing to offer except if you want to see things like minor illegal drinking animal slain women degradation and overall a really really bad obnoxious sickening awful movie yuck
0	the movie starts off relatively well and seems to be getting somewhere when an african american passenger an airline for negligence there is one scene in which his pet dog gets sucked into the engine and thats really a sad thing but the way it is portrayed makes it difficult for one to figure out if that was an attempt at crude humor or really a tragedy to reflect on the extent of negligence after this point they clearly ran out of ideas if you stuck around long enough you will soon be treated with one of the worst movies ever made it is basically a highly racist sequence of smoking dope toilet humor styling of each and every segment of the aircraft to reflect african american pop culture and pretty much nothing else you'd think that the only 3 white passengers onboard would lead to some hilarious consequences but nothing of the same happens they were basically just added to show how badly they could initially be treated and later be accepted into the hood if they behaved avoid
0	this could quite possibly be the worst movie ever made up there in a league with movies like howard the duck plan 9 from outer space and ishtar i don't understand why i decided to see this movie as it was a waste of my life i also do not understand why one would like this movie regardless of their sense of humor the acting is among the worst i've ever seen as is the writing the characters are all stupid and there is not one funny scene in the entire movie tom arnold is quite possibly the worst actor ever this movie proves it there is nothing worthy about this movie don't rent it don't watch it don't even say that it looks interesting it's bad enough i saw it
0	soul plane supposed to be a black comedy spoof of a much well known movie airplane this movie is black comedy done at it's worst stereotypes can be funny and a lot of times they are but in this picture it's disgusting okay you have clubs sex drugs everything crude that people associate with urban culture today br br tom arnold's appearance in this movie is this movie's saving grace if it ever had any should have never accepted the script kevin hart makes a poor leading figure here his appearance in this movie will probably grow annoying to many method man and snoop's appearance were by far their worst br br i am just happy that i didn't pay to see this movie
0	my friend made me watch this awful film ugh it was so stupid br br its about some black guy who gets a plane company and turns it into a stupid pimp thing br br with snoop dog acting as pilot for god knows why this movie is trashing white people and having many racist stereotypical events making fun of br br white people and trying to make the movie seem like all black people are cool pimps and all white people a losers and black people get all the girls blah blah blah and so forth br br i despise my friend for making me watch this movie i kept saying god turn it off and he's like no i bet something funny is about to happen we did end up finally turning it off half way through thank god br br i recommend this movie to people with very very poor taste in humor
0	i like to like movies but i found nothing to like about the box i was interested in the of the plot but unfortunately it never went anywhere and was impossible to follow anyone who states that they understand this movie is probably faking it so that they can feel like they are a part of something well i have news for them the emperor has no clothes br br the only undertone in this movie is that women are to blame for original sin and corrupting mankind i've heard that story before and it makes less and less sense every time it's true that this movie is different than a lot of films currently showing in theatres but that doesn't make it worth the ticket price
0	i found this movie really hard to sit through my attention kept wandering off the tv as far as romantic movies go this one is the worst i've seen don't bother with it
0	this movie was just horrendous how could anybody like this movie and for the ones who liked it because of the jokes they should really take a long hard look in the mirror and ask themselves if stereotypes are not bad ignoring the face of the racial stereotypes this was just awful it never had its moments if it paid homage to 1980's airplane it needs to pay some more awful acting terrible script writing even for a movie with mo'nique or tom arnold this movie was bad from the beginning but people might have seen the whole thing by the thought that the plane would crash one of the worse movies ever stay away
0	i gave soul plane the benefit of the doubt and thought there would actually be something of comedic value in it im not black but that does not mean i cant appreciate black comedy i know that because i happen to enjoy watching the wayans bros good times and other series br br i've seen crap movies and im not easily repulsed as for soul plane i didn't even bother finishing it don't know if they managed to land the plane and i couldn't care less it would be unfair to say i didn't find some parts funny as i did laugh but i also laugh at youtube videos of falling on their nuts so that doesn't say much the men in the movie were like a bunch of howling horny hyenas in mating season looking to get some whenever and where ever possible and we wonder why all those stereotypes don't seem to disappear to summarize soul plane makes the harold and kumar series look like the godfather
0	wow this really is stereotypical terrible trash i feel sorry for anyone who may have wasted their money to see this br br i am pretty sure i did not laugh once during this whole movie i just cannot believe they would make such a terrible movie br br i will now be more wary when i watch late night movies br br this is most definitely the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i am not saying it is the worst movie in existence though it could be but i don't think i have seen anything so stupid and unfunny it my life it makes the scary movie series look intelligent br br 1 10 i'd give it a 0 if they would let me
0	well to start with i'm straight up as black as black gets and i can tell you it's very sad when black people think a black movie sucks i can't say i've ever seen a movie this badly directed or a worse story line br br snoop is my dawg and all but he wasn't feeling this movie at all i don't know how much they paid him to be in this bucket of crap called a movie but i hope it's enough to wash the smell out br br i'm all about supporting a bothers movie but this one was bad really really bad it blew chucks in every aspect no real plot story sucked cast couldn't act and the best one there was the white guy br br i almost demanded a refund on my way out the door of the theatre half the crowd up and left before it was over i'm still wishing i had too save yourself some pain and go see something else anything else
0	this movie and i say this lightly is nothing but pure trash i feel sorry for those people that actually wasted their money to go see this in theaters i saw a screener of the movie from a friend and i've regretted it ever since br br as a black woman i am extremely embarrassed to have seen this more so i am extremely horrified that people of other races may have seen this as well and might believe it to be behavior of black people in general it's full of stereotypes against all nationalities and genders horribly vulgar coarse jokes and lame one liners out by somewhat well known african american comedians who should have known better after reading this script i must also mention the numerous rap and hip hop singers rappers that populate the movie like it was an overlong music video they had absolutely no place in the movie i guess they were the jiving singing minstrels horrible br br the writers producers and whoever had the stupidity to fund this movie should all be shot or locked in a room and forced to look at this crap nonstop for the rest of their lives do not watch this movie it's time wasted out of your life that you can never get back
0	this movie wasn't too funny it wasn't too horrible either just a fun ride aboard the soul plane it's a black owned flight service with a kick ass disco beautiful bar and pumping stewards the plot takes you through the whole idea of a black not race or color but 'style' owned plane with the same style of black humor at times there are some great rare scenes like when the main character uses the 'normal' lavatory in the 'normal' plane check that out there are lulls however and i find it most in the character who played the soul pilot watch to find out who it is all in all it's a fun movie tom arnold adds to the fun with his attitude this is one movie to watch when playing poker when you're drunk or just
0	soul plane is a horrible attempt at comedy that only should appeal people with thick skulls bloodshot eyes and furry pawns br br the plot is not only incoherent but also non existent acting is mostly sub sub par with a gang of highly moronic and dreadful characters thrown in for bad measure jokes are often spotted miles ahead and almost never even a bit amusing this movie lacks any structure and is full of racial stereotypes that must have seemed old even in the fifties the only thing it really has going for it is some pretty ladies but really if you want that you can rent something from the adult section ok br br i can hardly see anything here to recommend since you'll probably have a lot a better and productive time chasing rats with a sledgehammer or inventing or whatever br br 2 10
0	frankly i did not think there was anything humorous about this movie it was really lame and poorly done with no plot whatsoever surprisingly it got some chuckles from me at the beginning with the malcolm x terminal and that was about it seriously soul plane made even the worst movies such as gigli look like a emmy winner this movie is really not worth seeing unless of course you were blind like johnny witherspoon who played the blind man in the movie another sad character i cringed at majority of the stereotypic jokes and ruining tom arnold and d l by casting them in this movie this movie could be summarized in just one sentence wins 100 000 000 and creates his own airline sex drugs homosexuality more sex drugs did i mention sex if i could i would rate this movie in the negative however the beginning was amusing which brings this movie to a 1 10 doing the t bag pfft
0	i hate to comment on something i didn't finish but if i spare one person what i sat through for almost an hour before turning it off in disgust it will be worth it br br i decided to watch this with an open mind knowing it was on the bottom 100 br br bad idea i usually love crude humor or can at least tolerate it i love so called black comedies i'm not easily offended either br br it started off okay and quickly went downhill i laughed a few times for example when the main character got stuck in the airplane toilet but that was it and didn't compensate for the strong disgust i felt br br i didn't laugh when the dog got sucked into a jet engine i usually can't see the humor in animals dying except in animal house i didn't laugh at much else of the nastiness either i turned it off after an incident involving a blind man and a baked potato that i don't care to repeat the details of only that the wave of nausea still hasn't passed over me br br simply put it was smut filled and simply not funny with barely any plot this is one of the times when if you don't have something nice to say you should get the word out br br don't say i didn't warn you
0	i wholeheartedly agree with greg in ontario i saw this movie today with a friend who actually went to the theatre manager afterwards and told him that was possibly the worst movie i have ever seen i have seen a lot of movies with this person and he's pretty forgiving so i was actually shocked the manager gave him a free pass br br i was offended by much of the humor in the film yes the baked potato scene was on the top of the list my friend and i are white and saw the film with a primarily black audience for awhile i thought maybe i just don't get this movie because i'm white then i realized no one was laughing the writing was bad the direction was bad the timing was almost non existent br br there were a few funny moments there was just way too much time between them even airplane two was funnier than this and that's saying a lot br br i was so dazzled by snoop dogg in starsky and hutch as huggy bear that i felt i was sure to enjoy this movie nope br br was funny as usual but his role was rather small tom arnold had a few funny moments as the white guy but most other attempts at humor fell far short of the mark br br sadly i was not able to award this film a rating with negative stars
0	now this movie is the worst i have ever seen it is simply a disaster i think it's really a sick movie i just wasted my time watching this cheap crap i can't believe anyone would produce such a disaster such a waste of money and time nothing to learn from this movie it's just a hollow sick evil flick i don't think they could've make it worse this movie just earned it's title as the king of lowest crap the acting is a disaster the meaning oh well there is no meaning just a sick pain and sorrow introduced by the suffering child in the end of the movie and the killing of the wife which again was another dumb blow to this movie do yourself a favor if you actually have some self respect keep away from this awfulness
0	after a humiliating experience on an airplane wade kevin hart the airline and uses the money he wins to start up his own full service airline what makes his different is that it has sexy stewardesses an on board dance club and no less than captain snoop dogg in the cockpit br br soul plane is a very racist comedy except it is only occasionally funny soul plane has been described as an urban version of airplane the problem is that soul plane doesn't even come close to achieving the laughs of airplane the jokes in soul pane are too offensive and they are mostly unoriginal i would be lying if i said i didn't laugh since there were some funny moments however i was expecting more and i left the theater disappointed br br i would compare soul plane to airplane 2 the latter was just a rehash of the first film while the former is just a rehash of outdated crude jokes there is really no creativity behind the movie and there are only a few fun spots however i don't think soul plane is bottom 100 bad right now the movie is ranked at number 82 and that's a little harsh i'm not saying this is a good movie but it isn't a terrible on either the running time is only 86 minutes long so it isn't too much of a pain to watch for stupid comedies you can do a lot worse br br no one in the cast is very good but they all seem to be having fun and this helps kevin hart was very annoying as he had a few funny lines but he is a very poor leading man snoop dogg who was mildly funny in starsky and hutch completely flunks here tom arnold was actually tolerable and that was the film's biggest surprise the most annoying person in the movie was ryan he was not funny at all and he will never be funny the funniest cast members were missi pyle and mo'nique they gave the best lines and they made me laugh the most in the end soul plane may fit the bill if you're looking for a stupid comedy but it would probably be better if you just skip the film rating 4 10
0	somebody decided to make a black version of airplane br br somebody decided to make a really really bad black version of airplane br br somebody decided to make a really really bad black version of airplane that ran out of humor after the first twenty minutes br br somebody decided to make a really really bad black version of airplane that ran out of humor after the first twenty minutes and instead spent all of its time insulting the intelligence of the audience and the cast br br this movie managed to violate the laws of physics by sucking and blowing at the same time if nothing else it deserves to be remembered for that accomplishment br br it's not a black thing it's not a white thing it's just a bad thing a really really bad thing picking it apart point by point would be a waste of time the best thing that can be said about the movie is that there was a purple airplane in it do yourself a favor go buy a picture of a purple airplane and you will have gotten the best of what this movie had to offer br br this one definitely goes under the category of what the were they thinking
0	having watched all of the star trek tv series episodes many times each since the 1960s most being quite good to superb and only very few being mediocre my opinion is that this one is the worst of all br br in fact i think it's so poorly executed as to be an embarrassment to the series it's not that the story is so bad although it's not particularly outstanding in any way but the acting is just abysmal on the part of the two lead characters meaning those other than the regulars in this case barbara anderson gives her weakest performance ever as the daughter of a mass killer and who is on a mission of a sort she practically calls in the role from a phone and shows no real emotive abilities here although usually she's never used as more than a pretty face in most of her film tv roles usually small parts she has done much better br br arnold moss as her father gives new meaning to the term and is the only actor ever on a 1960s star trek episode that outdid william shatner in this area and actually makes shatner look superb by comparison and he gets to play a shakespearian actor no less which gives him more impetus to overact and he does so br br other than these two leads being so weak the story is such that anybody with any sense at all can tell who the killer is within the first 15 minutes i say this because i told my brother the whole plot ending at the first commercial break when we were watching the original 1966 broadcast as pre teens his reply was yeah you're right br br skip this one and watch the much superior menagerie episodes which were originally televised right before
0	this movie is very scary with scenes where the devil uses horn to open heaven and pull the good angel dogs out and them on the devil sings and dances to a few songs about the joys of being bad and at one point eats a live rat br br we got this movie free with a pizza you get what you pay for
0	this movie is very scary with scenes where the devil uses horn to open heaven and pull the good angel dogs out and them on the devil sings and dances to a few songs about the joys of being bad and at one point eats a live rat br br we got this movie free with a pizza you get what you pay for
0	because this is yet another dead one lifeless voice acting second rate animation contrived and un funny songs although the bit sung by the devil would have been worthy of tim curry and a weaker plot than land before time 99 fossils on parade br br i have to admit i haven't seen the first film i'm not a big fan of movies involving heaven or dogs especially not in combination still i hope to see the first one soon as there had to be a reason someone would create such a god awful sequel br br if i didn't get this movie for free i wouldn't have it at all for a flick the only good thing in this was the devil 2 10
0	i'm glad that i did not expect too much when i saw this sequel to one of my favourite childhood films the storyline was dull and unconvincing as were the characters and i was disappointed that some of the characters in the original were not in this sequel i also did not think that the characters themselves were similar from the previous film charlie had changed and now he has a girlfriend the first film had some good music but the music in this film was unmemorable in short this film just did not do it for me and looking at other user feedback it looks like it didn't do it for a lot of you it's not worth watching
0	i loved all dogs go to heaven so much that i went to see the sequel in the theater and i can't remember being more disappointed by a movie the story stank worse than an over aged sack of manure i mean come on how could carface possibly imagine being able to get revenge on an animal so much bigger than him no matter how angry he was plus depicting satan as a cat how cliché can you get so much for the story is it any wonder that don bluth burt reynolds melba moore and vic tayback wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole the animation was absolutely wretched the colors were all washed out and i can't count how many times i was able to see through objects that were supposed to be solid it had to be the worst animation i've ever seen i usually like animated movies but not this bomb
0	if you just watched all dogs go to heaven and learn that there's a sequel don't watch it it's horrible it's absolutely awful they rush the characters to develop sasha for example begins singing about how you can count her out for love and at the end this seems more like a dramatic romance flick than a comedy adventure film they rip charlie out of his character and replace him with a gushy soft but still rebellious version of himself br br the humor behind carface's character is just completely lost he's a totally different dog he doesn't have a cool voice anymore he isn't that villain you love to hate anymore he's just a wimp voiced by none other than mermaid man from spongebob speaking of voice actors br br charlie has a completely different voice and while it isn't horrible i don't like it it's terrible in comparison to the excellent job that burt reynolds did for the character in the first film dom deluise is wonderful as always as itchy that character stays true and that's why this film gets a 3 10 purely because dom deluise was still voicing itchy br br oh and my last complaint i know ann marie's movie was done and gone she has parents now etc but did charlie completely forget about her or what no mention at all of her in the second film i mean even a small mention from itchy would have been acceptable ex charlie we have to get back you can't take care of every kid that needs rescuing or something of the sort i mean he died living with her she deserves some kind of mention br br don't watch this if you're looking for a wonderful sequel
0	i think that this is a disappointing sequel i miss a lot of the old characters king gator anne marie etc and i don't like it due to the fact that not even half of the original voices are back to do the characters a lot of personality was lost in charlie and the villain red is not even half as bad as carface was in the first one if you're a big adgth fan like i am it's worth seeing just to see how the story is continued but don't count on it being 5 stars in your book
0	couple having financial trouble gets a box delivered to their door if they push the button they get a million dollars but someone they don't know will die do they push the button br br this is an odd film based on a richard matheson short story has a few chills but mostly is a messy affair the trouble is that there is so much going on it feels as though writer director richard kelly didn't know what sort of movie he was making is this a straight out horror film with supernatural overtones at times it seems like it with talk of moral choices damnation and the afterlife is it a science fiction film possibly there are lots of questions about that mars project and what are the strange looks that people seem to have as if in some grand conspiracy is this invasion of the body snatchers or a demonic take over film don't know maybe and that's the problem there are lots of questions most of them intriguing but there are too many little seems to have been explained and when we get to the end of the film things seem more to stop then to conclude even in an open ended way i'm all for making a film rich with themes and points but writer kelly fills his script with simply too many that director kelly can't handle or does so in such away that each theme or plot thread gets its ten minutes of screen time and for those minutes it hold court before its cast off the next bit it made me crazy i won't get into the two leads cameron diaz and james marsden who aren't very good or more likely don't know what to make of the material which is so ever shifting br br it's a heady mix that doesn't work there are ultimately too many holes i got to the end and suddenly realized i had no idea what i just saw i really didn't like it but its more in a this isn't good because it just misses sort of a way rather i'd take a pass or wait for cable where its not going to cost you anything
0	first they ruin it with the uniquely bad animation quality then they get voices that sound nothing like the original they make sooo many movie mistakes when sasha is singing in count me out the drummer disappears and then reappears itchy's shirt keeps changing color his hat keeps changing position one of the bridge is white everyone in the background appears fat keep changing colors and appearing and disappearing even heaven appears different i don't give a damn if this is a low budget film they shouldn't cut corners on animation they completely ruined the first adgth the only good thing about this movie was the soundtrack
0	all dogs go to heaven was a quirky funny movie with good name talent who's voices an adult familiarity to a cartoon basicly for kids it was just interesting enough to be likeable by adults aside from something good for the kids to watch br br unfortunately is a valueless sequel trying to make a bit of cash on the coattails of the first charlie sheen is a passable replacement for burt reynolds in this second movie and sheena voice in a few of the movies lovely but forgettable songs makes her a worthwhile pick as a co star for this add dom deluise from the first movie and you'd think this would be a decent mix to make this sequel at least relatively decent compared to the first one br br unfortunately even with the addition of other good voice actors such as bebe in the horrible role of this movie cannot be saved from the atrocious production values and animation skills or lack thereof present all over this movie horrible editing of the voices and flat out spaces where characters mouths should be moving to dialouge but are not combine to make this movie look like a college interns animation project instead of the decent sequel it could have been br br all in all i'd say unless you were a very big fan of the first movie i'd give this a very large pass
0	how could they take such a beautifully animated gem like don bluth's all dogs go to heaven and it with a charmless cheesy uninspired sequel the haunting music and delightful characters are gone now replaced with tacky animation and an unimaginative plot br br the pros charlie sheen is sometimes fun as charlie but he lacks the charming tough guy attitude that brought him to life by burt reynolds i did particularly enjoy the songs i will always be with you and it's too heavenly here br br the cons there seems to be no connection between this and the original in the beginning charlie is chums with carface but wait a minute isn't this the same character who was responsible for charlie's murder and kidnapped the sweet little orphan he loved i guess that all changes in heaven but why isn't anne marie even mentioned if itchy makes it to heaven wouldn't flo and killer make it too what is with annabelle the voice in the original it sounded feminine and charming and in the sequel it sounds like a whiny bitchy parrot the new characters aren't all that great except sasha and the animation is better compared to a generic saturday morning cartoon the constant cartoony humor is flat and unfunny and the heart just doesn't work when compare to the original which had such a moving unsubtle touch that makes me cry every time br br all dogs go to heaven is one of my all time favorite films how don bluth allowed this sequel to be made is beyond me br br bottom line not all sequels go to heaven
0	movies like these do not need sequels part of the advantage of don bluth moving away from disney is that he didn't need to suffer their endless tirade of straight to video poorly animated cash in sequels but apparently it was someone's brilliant idea to make a sequel to all dogs go to heaven so we get this br br charlie sheen replaces burt and he's not really as good most of the film is just a poor excuse for a sequel and it isn't nearly as dark different or entertaining as the original br br i feel sorry for future generations who are going to have to suffer endless sequels like this without ever knowing what it was like to have a time when hollywood didn't totally rely on successful films as a crutch to release banal crap br br please no more sequels to kids films that don't need 'em
0	this movie is horrible and wonderful at the same time i first saw it when i was about 13 or 14 years old so it has a great deal of nostalgic value for me in this movie cesar romero actually plays the character of the man who discovered santana there are also two other actors monte markham plays sam who is trying to save his daughter and peter mark richman plays the priest who have large filmographies and these are the only performances that are okay the rest of the acting and the movie itself have all of the b film qualities that some of us cherish br br i recently spent 2 years trying to acquire a copy of this movie and it is almost nonexistent i am assuming that it was discontinued very shortly after its release but i did eventually find a copy and paid a pretty penny to acquire it if you happen to come upon judgement day in a video store with a cheesy green satan on the cover count yourself among the blessed who live near one of the few video stores that still has a working copy a must see for those of you who like to laugh at cheesy attempts at a scary movie
0	this movie is so stupid that i want my 2 99 back that i paid for first this movie starts off with a bunch of wooden actor geeks with fill in talent like they got picked off the street somewhere because the real actors either did not show up because of the laughable script or they just couldn't get anybody desperate enough to do this movie the music in this movie is enough to put you to sleep flute music made for dancing in the wilderness wouldn't even be good enough for this movie and the guy dressed up as satan looks like he's all dressed up in a k mart halloween special costume there are no dead scenes except a few lame scenes when i saw what the terrible killers looked like in those bath robes with nosferatu faces i just laughed this is what the whole town is supposed to be running away from once a year this movie is one of the worst demonic movies i have ever seen avoid this one
0	my first of the live action movie trailer viewable on youtube was wow this could be perhaps one of the few better live action anime adaptations br br this time i was just wrong simply put the live action movie was a puzzle missing a number of pieces put together just enough to get the vague image of it all br br story br br the movies story vaguely follows the anime and manga but the movies story is just the frame of a car rather than a complete automobile it seems that many parts of the story originally in the anime were left out altered or completely changed in fact the ending is completely different from the manga or anime endings br br characters especially many left out or had a different feel the connection between and is reduced to that of knowing her because she's the video store lady character felt too strong already and only uttered the infamous i'm sorry a few times in the movie same can be said with we lost the shy uptight yet tall male lead the song he hums and his frequent action of calling silly other characters like and had a different toned down feel to them perhaps the dropping and toning down of other characters was to focus a lot more on and which it did way too much expecting a lot of sweet action scenes like those in the trailer well don't those in the trailer plus a few minutes is the only amount of action you will get so much of the movie is talking that while i was browsing thru the movie before watching it all i thought i had gotten a regular asian romance drama br br pacing was way too fast in the film we see the famous scene of armed with small wings and a chain gun arm in just a little less than nine minutes of beginning it there is very little time to get to know the characters and connect with them what they should have done was split it into two movies or even a trilogy if it had been not as many things would have to be changed or dropped br br but again the movie behaves like a frame the anime was more of a complete automobile because even if all those little details and such are minor they can really add up br br production br br visuals visuals were disappointing so much of the special effects turned out looking quite cheesy especially the cgi sadly they were like those found on sci fi channel movies they are bearable and this movie isn't for the effects br br music music was average much of it was orchestral background music except there were really no themes the film has dropped the addicting song that in the anime was always humming a noticeable piece of music though is the ending song heard in the trailer not a bad and somewhat beautiful song its a shame that it was not integrated into the movie as itself or an orchestrated version of the song br br casting casting was also so so the main star was actor aki maeda who is most famous for her role in the battle royale films the actor that played was pretty good but they took away the glasses from the original character oh yeah and tetsuo looks like lupin the 3rd br br unlike what i've heard from a few others the acting in the live action was not that bad i rather feel at fault is the way the story was laid out and cramming the series into just a two hour film br br what can be learned from the live action br br cgi i really wish the cgi in hadn't been that bad but even with just that we could have gotten a few more fight scenes probably the most anticipated live action anime adaptation neon genesis evangelion most likely wont suffer since they currently have weta studios assigned to do the effects br br modernism owned a video shop used a audio cassette player to listen to music and gave a mix tape for his birthday why this movie is made in 2006 not only that in the movies reality they can create such a thing as so it cannot take place in the 90s the future is an age of cds dvds and mp3 players hopefully in evangelion shinji will have a sony walkman mp3 player not one that plays cassette tapes br br story pacing as mentioned earlier the movie moved too fast and forced the story to drop out many details it was a smart move upon adv films and whoever else to make evangelion into a solid trilogy thus allowing more time to retell the story as true to the original as possible br br characters leave most of the character designs alone and let those classic quotes be said what if the live action evangelion didn't have what are you stupid or i mustn't run away sometimes as small as they seem those frequent quotes add and are who the characters are br br conclusion br br all in all the live action movie had potential it really did those you who aren't fans and see this movie you will be reluctant to start the anime or manga so don't watch the movie first people who saw and liked the anime manga don't get your hopes up on this one studies show you most likely will be disappointed it was still fun to see the anime come to life in the live action adaptation but it could have been so much more br br reluctantly i give the live action a 2 out of 5 br br as says i'm sorry br br
0	where do i start the plot of the movie which is about a love between two high school students during wartime while one is a living weapon and their struggle to maintain that love is a very good plot it is based on a manga by shin takahashi which was also turned into an anime in 2002 both of which i have yet to read or see br br this review is about this live action adaptation however sadly this honest to goodness was a terrible movie it isn't as if one could site certain aspects and say for instance the budget is at fault or the acting is to blame it is sadly a series of underwhelming and ineffectual elements that bring this film down br br the acting is poor not to say aki maeda and are bad actors but they didn't have much to work with and seemed miscast neither seemed to have the physical range to draw the viewer in the story as well as being too old for their parts to a distracting degree br br the script was weak the leads act unrealistically and behave irrationally the film also plays for the heartstrings but ends up being predictable all the while not being compelling and under developing the characters there are also pacing issues br br visually it is unremarkable the film uses green screen heavily and unnecessarily in too many scenes the other special effects also have a cheap look to them especially where minimalistic practical special effects could have been used there is also no visual flair as if there were no cinematographer or art designer to make the scenes look consistent and stimulating br br the music and sound effects were fine but unremarkable br br overall the movie isn't devoid of enjoyment and fans of the series shouldn't be discouraged to see it at least once just for the sake of completion people unfamiliar with this probably isn't the place to jump in as it isn't a very good movie or melodrama it isn't the movie or the cast and crews fault it just isn't inspired and that is what kills it
0	for a movie that was the most seen in its native south korea for most of 2004 it was a huge disappointment shows that hollywood is not the only place where people can make over emotional melodramatic movies the film was over 130 minutes long but not a lot actually happened and everything that happened was pretty much what one expected the plot was that transparent granted if one himself was korean one would perhaps get into it more but for me it didn't do much anything suffice to say that as the case tends to be with korean cinema the plot revolves around the relationship between the northern and southern parts of the peninsula south korea decides to recruit and train an elite assassination squad from death sentence prisoners to kill kim il sung br br a tedious plot doesn't bother me much if the characters are good but unfortunately that is not the case this time around either they are stereotypes and most of the acting is mediocre and too often just over the top as it tends to be in korean cinema too much time is spent on the numerous montages and the characters remain distant one dimensional cardboard cuts they should've spent more time establishing the characters and less showing us how tough and cruel the training and the soldiers are br br one thing it does remind us of is that a lesser of two wrongs is still wrong
0	this was an absolute disgrace the worst dramatisation i have ever seen german officer's with a spotless english accent they didn't even attempt to be german how were we supposed to take them seriously garbage garbage garbage leave the german acting to the likes of ralph fiennes liam neeson in future
0	i thought id check this film out as i'm currently making a film about a mysterious box therefore it would be great to see how this film took and developed the idea of a mysterious and unexpected box br br before going to the cinema i had a high expectation of this film with actresses like cameron diaz you would expect the acting especially hers to be great the acting was a sort of let down for the film the characters accents changed throughout the film it made it unbelievable br br the whole idea of a weird box that can make your dreams come true but destroy others is such a brilliant story but i feel the director let it down this film had potential it could of been a lot lot better than it was br br this film had no middle to it it was too confusing and needed a steady storyline nobody wants to go into the cinema and come out thinking what have i just watched 'i didn't get it at all ' sometimes it can be exciting and make people want to watch it again but this film made people want to never ever want to hear of the film again throughout watching i noticed that half the audience had left before the ending i feel every single person had been let down watching this film because of the high expectations and how slow parts of the film was br br lets put the bad points to one side i did like however the scene where the son is in the bathroom at the end it was unexpected it reminded me of a horror movie and the way it was put together made me imagine it and how devastating and scary it would of been to be in that position the lighting and the effects made it look excellent this scene looked slightly more 1990's than the 1970's that this film is supposed to be br br this film was confusing because it had so many different bits to it parts that you would expect to be up at the end where everything comes clear but it didn't it totally went against an audiences expectations even though leaving the film on a cliff hanger not giving the audience a reason why things happen could work and do really well but this one didn't it was a creative different unusual film i thought it had potential could of been better disappointed didn't enjoy it wouldn't buy it on dvd to be honest
0	this is yet another pseudo intellectual let's make the nazis look real bad movie the nazis were pretty bad no doubt most of already know that however that does not necessarily make every movie on the theme good a discovery channel presentation of the conference would have been much more interesting br br conspiracy falls on its ass between two categories documentary and drama it doesn't cut it as a documentary the movie is too staged and the presentation too common it doesn't cut it as a drama the characters are too shallow and conflicts too easily solved br br another thing is the tagline one of the greatest crimes against humanity was perpetrated in just over an hour as the movie shows the conference the meeting had nothing to do with reaching a consensus on the final solution the decision on the solution had already been taken by the ss the sole purpose of the meeting was to make all significant commit themselves to an already established plan there were no decisions or plans made at the conference there was only threats and some needed less than others br br finally one thing the movie does show although in no exceptional manner is man has a tendency to turn to culture and aesthetics in an attempt to hide for himself the fact that he is committing appalling atrocities this is seen in most leaders and politicians
0	this is yet another pseudo intellectual let's make the nazis look real bad movie the nazis were pretty bad no doubt most of already know that however that does not necessarily make every movie on the theme good a discovery channel presentation of the conference would have been much more interesting br br conspiracy falls on its ass between two categories documentary and drama it doesn't cut it as a documentary the movie is too and the presentation too it doesn't cut it as a drama the characters are too shallow and conflicts too easily solved' br br another thing is the tagline one of the greatest crimes against humanity was perpetrated in just over an hour as the movie shows the conference the meeting had nothing to do with reaching a consensus on the final solution the decision on the solution had already been taken by the ss the sole purpose of the meeting was to make all significant commit themselves to an already established plan there were no decisions or plans made at the conference there was only threats and some needed less than others br br finally one thing the movie does show although in no exceptional manner is man has a tendency to turn to culture and aesthetics in an attempt to hide for himself the fact that he is committing appalling atrocities this is seen in most leaders' and politicians
0	this movie examines the now infamous conference where top nazis gathered to discuss the organisation and implementation of the final solution first off i want to say i was amazed to see kenneth branagh play a nazi with the slicked back blonde hair he certainly looked the part but he didn't really act the part well there was none of the menace cruelty and in the end he came out looking like a grinning cheerleader keeping the meeting going the real would not have let the conference get out of control the way it did in the film br br the best performance of all was undoubtedly colin firth who played dr william the man who wrote the 1935 nuremberg race laws and who gave legal to everything the nazis did firth's performance was stunning the main vocal opponent to what was proposing the best part of all was when he was verbally dressing down one of the nazi thugs the thug muttered i'll remember you and firth replies you should i'm very well known the film is historically accurate but let's boil it down to what it really is 90 minutes of a group of men around a table discussing shouting and bragging there's no excitement no real conflicts except the brief argument it's just 90 minutes of talking same room same table same people br br i'm not sure if the dvd is worth the money i for one felt short changed
0	maybe spoilers hard to spoil this thing more then it is but just in case gee's i don't see how anybody could have liked this re make it was like a made for t v show and still pretty lame for that lots of fake snow bad acting by top stars bad action and that crazy pine forest in detroit what the heck i didn't really think this would be a great movie but i was hoping to be entertained nope we fell asleep half way and had to finish it up the next day i could have skipped the rest easy but then i would have missed those great woods i'm so glad i missed this at the theater bad enough to have wasted 3 50 at the video store and i am a lover of cop action and drama films this was a very stinky 1 out of 10 stars give me the original any day
0	i was looking for attack on precinct 13 there the film is that memorable who is the star of this ethan hawke or matt dillon i can't tell who the lead actor is that's a pretty big point against the movie right there gabriel byrne who could't have needed the money this badly could he drea de matteo is stunning but only because of her amazing body it took me ages to finally work out she's joey's sister off friends i agree that the so called swat people attacking the station are pretty crap as far as tactics go we were even taught better basic skills than this in raf basic training br br avoid this even the snow doesn't want to fall on a bus full of prisoners very bad continuity indeed br br avoid like the plague
0	ok here is the deal i love action movies and generally have no problem suspending a great deal of disbelief over plot holes or other implausible actions however this movie went far beyond minor flaws and went straight to the ridiculous let me get this straight the police send a notorious gangster and cop killer along with a number of other prisoners on a bus with a grand total of two guards they then are forced to stop at a precinct where precisely two cops are working one of which is a day away from retirement and the other is a burn out apparently the building was about to be shut down so somehow the police decided that everyone else in the entire precinct got the night off for new year's eve right but wait it gets better gabriel byrne shows up to take out fishburne before he can rat him and other dirty cops out although we never find out anything about their relationship or dealings interestingly the cops launching the assault on the precinct are in full swat gear with night vision goggles assault rifles the whole nine yards later on they even bring in a helicopter with more people in full gear i'm not a cop but i'm pretty sure you can't just waltz out of the station with an entire swat platoon worth of equipment without someone asking what you are doing and the police helicopter in the supposedly terrible winter storm also no one near the precinct happens to hear or see this major siege going on with flash grenades and heavy rifle fire going off i mean seriously come on i know this is set in detroit but even there it would raise suspicion on a supposedly top secret mission i also love the fact that they find a tommy gun in the evidence room and somehow the gun still works and has bullets that are still intact and usable br br i could live with some of these problems if there weren't other glaring issues also for one the opening couple minutes of the movie are shot nicely in a very frenetic and hyperactive way and i thought was going to set the tone for the rest of the movie unfortunately i was wrong the remainder of the film has no sense of pacing or tension or drama the characters don't relate to each other in any way which is probably largely due to the fact that they aren't particularly interesting there isn't enough interesting action to make this a good action movie and there isn't enough character development storytelling to make this a passable thriller drama the relationship between hawke fishburn is the only thing that the director even tries to make interesting or intense oh and by the way the final scene in the wilderness uh i thought this was in the middle of a run down industrial section of detroit and suddenly we are in the woods the acting isn't terrible in this movie it is just that the directing and writing are atrocious i really enjoy some of hawkes fishburne byrne other movies but this one is terrible
0	you expect it to be juvenile but you at least expect a complete and coherent movie what a waste i am extremely disappointed not at just having watched a bad movie but at having such a great concept be tainted by a common movie that we've all seen before if this crud makes 1 over its budget the studio would be wise to declare victory round up all available copies store them deep within the nuclear waste repository under yucca mountain and then never make another movie like it again most of this movie will keep you thinking this is not what i wanted to see this film appeals to the unintelligent and maybe to teenagers it's a true shame because most movies are made for that demographic i had much higher hopes for this film
0	is it just me or is this an awful film i'm going with it's an awful film br br knowing full well that it's a guy flick usually defined as full of car chases crashes gunfights explosions etc i still expect some small degree of credibility if i can't somehow believe in the premise the film will not work thus we come to the problem with assault on precinct 13 br br not one for spoilers i never report details of the plot however i will make an exception here because the plot is so inane bad guy is jailed in precinct 13 bad guy's buddies want to bust him out surprise the bad guys' buddies are actually corrupt cops brooding troubled but heroic young cop saves the day while romancing the girl ugh yes it really is that simple and that dumb br br assault on precinct 13 takes place in detroit not a bad setting for crime and corruption i spent 3 months there in late 2004 so i know what i'm talking about even so it's outrageously violent and insulting to the police and the citizens of detroit i have spent a lot of time in downtown detroit but i cannot imagine how the final chase wound up in the downtown detroit forest i must have missed it br br there are no refunds for watching bad movies save your money there were too many good films in 2005 to waste even 3 00 at blockbuster on this one br br final rating 1 br br only because i have seen worse films
0	i am a huge fan of the original assault on precinct 13 the ice cream scene haunts me to this day i'm 33 now and i still remember being horrified by it as a child when i heard they were remaking it i thought it might be good but when i saw the film it's 100 not the same film it's not a remake it's a bad stolen idea it was completely ruined the cast maria bello laurence fishburne ethan hawke gabriel john leguizamo and drea de matteo are all great actors but even they couldn't save this film it was just wrong even the setting was completely opposite and how in the hell did no one in that city notice that there was a war going on next door why didn't help show up sooner stupid no sense
0	this was perhaps the worst movie i've seen in a long long time forget that it's clear no research was done regarding detroit forest in downtown detroit the writing was horrible the premise completely implausible and quite frankly the characters were embarrassing i cannot for the life of me understand why seasoned actors would stoop to such a low and participate in something this god awful now i have never seen the original and don't know if this movie pays tribute to it's original form it's my understanding that the original was not set in detroit why they would deviate from that without researching details about the setting only tells me that it was more than the cast that was looking to pay the rent br br don't waste your time on this junk unless you're from detroit and wish for some comic relief
0	first time i ever felt i needed to write a review br br i have seen thousands of movies in my life and i like a wide range of movies i am reasonably opened minded and can easily say i enjoyed a movie while still saying yeah it was not good but i enjoyed it i can appreciate the mastery of great movies like the shaw shank redemption the godfather and american history x i can like good movies in a genre like horror or comedy even if the movie might not be that great i can even enjoy a bad movie that just happens to entertain me bloodsport i also will try to rate movie fairly even if i did not like it city lights by charlie chapin was not a movie i enjoyed but i can appreciate the acting and story lines for the time br br i think some people when they go on this site instead of randomly click a rating should take a few ideas into account try to rate the movie based on how good it actually was do not let your personal bias affect the rating also look at other moves you rated and compare the movie you are going to rate br br this movie was the worst piece of trash i have ever seen 2 hours of my life where just stolen the acting was awful across the board the scenes where choppy at best however the real disgrace was the story the first 20 minutes we actually had a story that tried to make sense and take the viewer from point a to b however after that it was a nightmare they kept trying to add new elements but nothing was every explained nothing really ever made sense was steward dead is he alive did he hit by lighting was it really lighting was it aliens is he an alien etc the ending tied nothing together and really did not answer any questions the only positive was nobody cared we where just happy to leave the theater br br 6 5 10 what is wrong with some of you i will admit that the 8 of us where so mad about seeing this we did think what would make it better and we decide to tell a few of our friends that this movie was good so they would have to suffer and see this movie what can i say misery loves company that is really the only reason i can see for a 6 5 rating br br do not waste your life
0	assault on precinct 13 is the absolute dumbest film i've seen since charlie's angels 2 the shame lies in the fact that they had a good cast and a good premise to work with br br spoilers i know they've said this movie is a remake descendant of rio bravo but did the writers of this film actually watch rio bravo besides the fact that rio bravo is a western classic the premise of the film was that the sheriff john wayne had to keep a prisoner accused of murder from being liberated by his brother and his gang no one wants to liberate anyone in assault on precinct 13 they want everyone dead so my first question would have to be why not just burn the whole place down from the start why assault the place at all i know the contrived plot turn was suppose to be clever and shocking but it didn't make sense and or was presented properly if the veteran cop was in on it from the start why the need for this whole movie if the veteran cop suddenly cut a deal at the back door during the siege how did he even get the chance as soon as he appeared at the door he would've been shot and they would've had their entry point it's all just fubar br br what part of any city can an all out war take place at a police precinct complete with helicopters and massive explosions but no one notices however as soon as there's a fire they have to leave before the fire department shows up how did they plan to cover up the chaos that was happening outside police issue bullets in the walls bullet casings footprints equipment usage and the fact that there were going to be no bodies of bishop's men to be found how about those police snipers how could they possibly miss so badly so often i like the fact that when the two tried to run the snipers were foiled by two tiny mounds of snow as if it's not possible to shoot a high powered through a pile of snow br br the set up was interesting although ridiculous but the movie just went off a cliff when they decided to kill that particular character with a bullet to the head for absolutely no reason at all i know the makers of the film were going for shock but all they got was disgust at the cruelty and the anger of the audience don't you think that part of the reason why this thing is bombing at the box office is the fact that word of mouth has everyone telling friends and family to stay away from this one that particular scene has to be a big part of that word of mouth that and the fact that every plot turn is dumber then dirt the conclusion remains steadily stupid as the villain pauses to deliver an austin powers like diatribe instead of killing the helpless people who he has finally captured i know several people have mentioned the closing scenes that take place in the woods of detroit city snicker but why did ethan's character just wander off in to the woods in the first place he doesn't even look to see if the suv with the secretary and his friend gets away they just cut to him prowling slowly in the woods pistol in hand i could go on but won't all i can say is that you want to avoid this stupidity at all cost
0	the original assault on precinct 13 is gritty witty and perhaps most importantly short this remake is mercilessly padded out and talky worse yet the african american hero of the first movie is here replaced with handsome white boy ethan hawke which makes this assault less progressive than the 1970s one god how i miss john carpenter and his improbable plot line and his weird sense of humor i even miss his b list actors who are leagues better than hawke and company br br i can't say i care for the new villains in this version they stretch what little credibility the story ever had to the limit the female characters are useless the criminals are all generic hoods and gabriel byrne gives another of his bored performances the music's all wrong too it's bland action stuff that actually detracts from the tension simply awful
0	the opening scene keeps me from rating at absolute zero i wish the entire movie was as gritty and real as the intro br br in order to enjoy some movies a lot can be forgiven hand guns with 60 shots hero's with super human powers all women are gorgeous and half naked but this assault on my intelligence 13 is so far fetched that i'm surprised the cast showed up for a second day of filming br br firstly how did these guys get to be cops based on stupidity i guess how do the main female characters justify being half naked in the middle of winter in detroit or wherever the heck they are as a matter of fact no character reacts to the elements whatsoever in this movie no windows no electricity which miraculously returns unexplained during the storm of the century and they are all comfy as bugs in a rug what technology exists which all cell phones radios and brain function this must be the same power which causes maria bella to walk from her disabled car knee deep in snow with no coat and hardly any dress
0	this movie definitely made me laugh but that doesn't mean it was exactly funny well then again me and my friends had a lot of fun watching it br br i doubt there is anything about this movie that hasn't been done at least twice before just like the plot itself all of the characters are overused movie cliché cardboard box roles that don't even require acting skills accordingly such skills are not delivered we have the corrupt cop a ruthless killer who claims to care about his men and their families whilst caring nothing about people he shoots in the forehead at so close a range as to have blood spat on his face we have the worn out cop on the edge so nicely pointed at in the discussion boards of this movie we have the old one day away from retirement cop who just about everyone must have immediately identified as the most likely man on the inside since he had most to gain and he didn't utter a trustworthy word throughout the movie about as see through as a glass house on a sunny day the big black gangster king was a copy of all previous big black gangster kings in movie history they could've just called him wallace but just slightly tougher and more ruthless because something has to emphasize that we also know laurence fishburne from actually good movies then we finally have the highly educated doctor who can't think of anything reasonable to do as soon as the situation differs from her ordinary life and who spends the majority of the movie sitting in a corner helplessly trying to figure out how to hold on to the weapon she was given not using it br br the whole siege story is not interesting not original having been used twice before and this movie manages to add absolutely nothing interesting to it there is the initial probe then the laying of the siege then the assault then the escape attempts meanwhile a bunch of strained stressed freaked out cops and thugs manage to hold off a police assault team with high tech equipment and the quite important advantage of vision then again in deep night with the power cut and with a snow storm raging overhead there is definitely a lot of light coming in so who really cares about night vision br br but the best part comes right at the end in the first scenes showing precinct 13 we see it is situated in an of an industrial city factories and office buildings surround it on all sides from this point the besieged walk maybe a hundred meters in a sewer and where do they end up some alley ending right in the middle of a forest a forest where did that forest come from who decided to lay a pine forest in the middle of an industrial area how is this forest in the last scene suddenly on a hill over the city in question while in the scenes inside the forest it looked deceptively flat br br from here i leave the judgment to you and to your common sense go and see this movie if you're looking for an unintended good laugh i can really recommend it
0	i don't think it's necessary to outline the plot for you because the site and other users have done a superb job of that already that said here's my take this is by far the worst movie of 2005 and there have been some really really bad ones i don't even need to go into detail because there is nothing redeeming about this movie bad acting bad plot bad directing bad special effects you name it if it doesn't stand alone as the worst film ever made it's tied with some other piece of crap i'd be embarrassed to have my friends know i was in this movie but hey most people that are gonna see it will do so no matter what reviews it gets so more power to ya when you feel the gaping void between your neurons two hours into your evening don't blame me
0	los angeles 1976 indie film brat john carpenter fresh out of film school and with one film his class no budget spoof of 2001 called dark star under his belt finishes a gritty actioner called assault on precinct 13 the story of an almost deserted police station under siege by an unseen la gang it was a minor hit on the drive in circuit and garnered small praise from the few critics who cared but it hardly set the film world on fire unlike carpenter's follow up smash halloween 1978 on precinct carpenter was still learning how to exploit his almost non existent budget by using lower shelf actors keeping the action to the one hellishly small location and moving the film along at a tight pace with a combination of editing intelligent camera work and switched on genre savvy br br no one wants or needs to be hungry in hollywood anymore particularly if the week's catering bill on the 2005 version of assault on precinct 13 is more than the entire cost of the original it does translate into a certain kind of laziness on a filmmaker's part you have a stupidly large union crew a studio and a marketing firm all doing your thinking for you which is why twenty years after watching carpenter's film i can still see every glorious moment from the small girl gunned down in cold blood while buying an ice cream to the relentless pounding synth score a week after assault 2005 i remember larry fishburne's unmoving ping pong ball eyes and little else br br forgettable popcorn actioner fits the top of the poster perfectly it's new years eve at precinct 13 a station closing down with a skeleton staff to see in its final hours on call is jake ethan hawke an ex narc now deeply troubled and hopped up on jack daniels and after his partners were iced in the opening scene iris the sopranos' drea de matteo a nympho with a thing for criminal types and jasper brian dennehy a crusty old timer one scotch away from retirement as in carpenter's assault a bus with four heavy duty criminals is to the precinct all boozy eyes are on gangster kingpin bishop fishburne still beefed up from his time in the matrix who has narrowly survived an assassination attempt from an undercover cop and plans to blow the lid on the endemic corruption in the organized crime unit led by marcus duvall a tired looking gabriel byrne soon the phones are out the power lines are down and both crims and police find themselves heavily armed with a serious police arsenal and consumed with paranoia while waging war against a task force of duvall's corrupt cops sporting white bullet vests infra red bazookas and more high tech gear than the skywalker ranch this we're expected to believe as the helicopters buzz around the top of the police station shooting rockets into windows is a clandestine operation to cover duvall's tracks he may as well have taken out billboards on hollywood boulevard br br as with the recent seventies genre reworking dawn of the dead assault 2005 takes the barest plot essentials of john carpenter's original and to quote the seventies does it's own thing man the main question is why bother john carpenter's 1976 is a cult favorite among genre buffs but is hardly branded in the public's collective consciousness carpenter himself was busy reworking howard hawks' classic western rio bravo into a tight claustrophobic urban thriller for only 20 000 french wunderkind director and rap producer jean francois a self professed fan of john carpenter's work seems less concerned with making an homage to either hawks or jc although the script is peppered with references to cowboys and injuns and seems intent on squeezing in as much flash and firepower as the multi million dollar budget can withstand the result some tense moments with hand held pov cameras an unexpectedly high and bloody body count a few neat plot twists but essentially a b grade urban actioner with a much inflated price tag as for name checking carpenter it's pure conceit on the part of the filmmakers that doesn't pay off br br to monsieur i say bon voyage and i wish you luck on your music career
0	it's new year's eve a cop killer in the form of laurence fishburne end up at a precinct that's closing down due till snow when the people are layed siege on cops have to team up with cons to survive this re make of the john carpenter classic just had to add a few beyond stupid plot twists take out all the tension and add a horrid john to the cast didn't it the first film was thrilling gritty and a joy to watch this one is more hollywood clichéd and painful to behold the only thing i took from this movie was ocd can be very annoying very the ending song is bad br br my grade d br br dvd extras commentary by and jeffrey silver scenes with optional commentary 5 minute armed and dangerous featurette on the weapons expert 7 and a half minute behind precinct walls plan of attack the assault team 12 and a half minute behind the scenes featurette trailers for unleashed white noise seed of chucky br br i got this at best buy and it came with a bonus disc including the first 2 minutes of cry wolf a 10 minute first look at unleashed the trailer for that film and a interview with john leguizamo
0	i'm sure a lot of guys will love this movie the only woman who shows any balls unfortunate pun regretted is made to look talk and seem like a guy the other 2 women are portrayed either as sexual objects with one thing on their mind sex being sexy with sex as their only attribute and skill iris or as freaked out pretty little princesses who's neurosis negates any strength and professional authority they had before all hell broke lose doc the only strength iris has in the end is the result of some advice from a big strong man besides my negative gut reaction as a feminist i have to give the camera work props and ethan hawke is great in the very first scene after that his performance loses steam empty entertainment for a brain that wants to take it easy at least the film skims the subject of the duality of good bad in the criminal mind
0	assault on precinct 13 3 10 let us forget for a moment that assault on precinct 13 is a remake of a classic action movie taken completely on its own merits assault is a debacle br br lets start with the rio bravo style scenario about a dozen people are trapped in a decaying police station in detroit if the detroit location is giving you robocop warm and fuzzies stop right now it could have easily said topeka in the opening credits and nothing would have changed in fact the last bit in the forest would have made more sense surrounding them are our bad guys corrupt cops br br now i know what your thinking corrupt cops were the nazis and drug cartels busy that weekend of course these are no ordinary cops these guys are right of the cover of the latest tom clancy video game yup we have body armor helicopters laser sights night vision goggles the works so we have thirty s w a t members special forces armed to the teeth verses 4 cops drunk mind you it's new years eve 2 girls in party dresses and half a dozen criminals br br so how do our heroes defend themselves truth is they can't they all should be dead within ten minutes tops not to mention the characters inside have an annoying habit of walking past the windows now an illogical scenario is no reason to completely pan a movie esp a b style action film however with the exception of laurence fishburne and ethan hawke all the other characters seemed to be comic relief at least i hope they were br br while ja rules and leguizamo's characters are bad enough it's minstrel show that takes the cake rarely has a more stereotypical african american character appeared on the modern screen her performance resembles a frat boy in blackface and drag acting ghetto br br in the original assault a gang member takes over an ice cream truck and drives around the neighborhood shooting little girls in the head i have had an irrational fear of ice cream trucks ever since after this assault i have a perfectly rational fear of remakes
0	why remake the original assault to my mind assault was carpenter's true masterpiece it had all the elements good carpenter movies contain external threat on a small group of individuals people taking the challenge because they are forced to do so isolation just remember the guns in carpenter's original made no sound being thus a lot more threatening than conventional devices and now this remake concentrating on main character i s psychology and on his relation to main character ii the evil but honorable the anonymous threat in the carpenter movie replaced by a rather conventional conspiracy corruption background the just didn't understand the main plot of the original and thus produced something pretty ordinary
0	the box 2009 cameron diaz james marsden frank langella james rebhorn holmes osborne sam oz stone celia weston truly disappointing adaptation of genre legend richard matheson's sci fi chiller button button by on the wane wunderkind filmmaker richard kelly who truly stretches a small well crafted piece into a grab bag a thon mysterious and ridiculously maimed man langella posits a million dollar offer to couple diaz and marsden both surprisingly vanilla bland to the hilt a box with a red button that when pushed will kill some stranger in the world sure strings are attached but does that really matter here what does is why in the name of god does kelly trowel on so much oddness i e nose bleeds watery transport systems – that's right – watery transport systems when the tension should be strung as tautly as possible oh the possibilities if this sounds like a bad twilight zone episode you are half right the '80s tv re boot actually did a decent small screen adaptation in fact rent that instead one of the year's worst films
0	i found this movie at a xxx store for 1 on vhs the interesting thing about it is that camp video bought up the rights to it and slapped on a 1986 copywrite date in the credits anyways enough of odd facts br br this film is absolutely not scary to even call this horror or a thriller is laughable there were only maybe 5 minutes at most of what you would call horror in this 80 minute film and that consisted of the acting because it was horrorible all puns aside the writing for this film was absolute garbage as well just as the special effects and makeup was laughable no wonder this is such an obscure film probably the director has spent the last 35 years scouring the country for all existing copies of it and burning them in one big pile so no one else could be subjected to it
0	have you ever watched a film when after it's conclusion your left pondering what in the world it was all about well say hello to scream baby scream it's not that the story's complex or anything like that it's just that it plays out in three completely different modes 1 a fun 60s drug movie 2 a much overplayed soap opera and 3 a horror flick with very little to scream about much to my surprise i've found out that it was written by one of my all time favorites larry cohen well i guess even the best have to learn through trial and error br br playing out much like something from h g lewis only with lesser fx this bad film does have it's perks for most of it's short running time there's a pretty cool jazz score to be heard and there are a couple of memorable scenes one of those being where a group of kids decide to experiment with acid and take a nice long motor bike ride to the zoo the camera tricks the director uses to indicate their hallucinatory state is just plain retarded but amusing trust me when i tell you there's no need to run out of the house to catch this one
0	or is this another way below the bottom of the barrel masterpiece preferably both somewhere between 1969 and 1972 came a host of several horrible horror movies that are all but lost again nothing more needs to be explained asked or screamed out loud if you followed closely at my writings about carnival of blood or guru the mad monk then you know what's in store with scream baby scream the title sounds cool it's just the weak script that should have gone someplace else even so this is hands down the most dreadfully written piece of cinematic mastery ever worked on film br br if you thought this is an early slasher which benefits the average imdb user to write up another comment better luck next time the real truth behind the script has nothing to do with the movie which supposedly tells of a blue faced psychopath out to kill and make some ugly facial sculptures on his victims it feels like you're watching another early scooby doo episode my favorite scene is the monkey cage where the four young hippie teenagers play in and hooray for an actress under the name for giving us the worst facial makeover ever 1969 has never been this bad but it is br br try finding this 30 year old rarity at a bargain basement for five bucks it makes the perfect novelty item for going back to those psychedelic days of flower power bad fashions and trashy music interesting note scream baby scream is also listed in troma's film archives on the company's website only time will tell when this reaches the top of the bottom 100 list along with a few more early 70s cheapies gosh knows they need to plan 9 is history
0	maybe you have to be a former hippie to fully appreciate this because aside from some dated fashions music and dialogue it doesn't really have a thing going for it nowadays br br four fun loving college art students enjoy carefree days of painting nude models and riding on motorcycles they take acid in one scene and go to a zoo a sign flashes on the screen that says do not feed the animals and suddenly they're in a cage laughing and hanging from a chain tire swing an evil artist larry swanson tells in flashback how his art career was almost ruined because of a crippling hand disease he sends out zombie henchmen dressed in black to kidnap people then injects them with a serum that distorts their faces he's trying to create some new form of abstract act i'm guessing here the details given are a bit fuzzy to put it mildly meanwhile jason ross harris sets out to save the day after his friend scotty chris martell is killed and his girlfriend janet is kidnapped i thought the zombie make up in zombie lake was awful but wait until you see it here it's by douglas hobart the star of death curse of a small role is played by brad the director of the z classic blood freak which is much much more enjoyable than this deadly dull turkey aka nightmare house br br useless trivia note the 1984 regal video release features the wrong cast for the brides wore blood printed directly on the video label br br score 1 out of 10
0	what about scream baby scream is supposed to make me not feel like a fool for buying it i bought it because god help me i'm a sucker for old b cinema even as worthless as this nonetheless something about this movie irritates me it's probably janet janet comes off cold snooty seemingly with the intention of coming off as deep and noble with a look on her face that screams constipation she can't seem to agree to anything her uptight boyfriend wants i'm glad that this is her only role what really irritates me is that this is a 1960's gore film gone terribly awry and as we all know awry is floridian for zero gore it's like the director started with a herschell lewis style but backed out of the gore scenes when his wife found out so instead we end up with one dull conversation after the other and basically a whole lot of irritating nothing in other words we end up with florida bore joseph adler should be embarrassed boyfriend jason is almost as ridiculous as she is this guy has something negative to say about absolutely everything come to think of it he's probably the least likable good guy in horror history the only thing this movie really has going for it is that it carries that 60's early 70's b gore vibe that you can find in stuff like undertaker his pals blood freak or most anything from herschell lewis even rodney from the gruesome twosome is in this i ithought his caveman comedy routine was irritating most everything from reel to reel is stupid even the trip scene was stupid the only positive thing at all is the small amount of beach scenery but that mostly includes janet whining about life not being perfect in the only real ironic twist scream baby scream gets even less interesting once the story finally gets started around the 45 minute mark if you happen to be indifferent to whether or not your entertainment is watchable but are offended by the color red you might not hate this why does troma distribute this wouldn't this be something weird video's area scream baby scream very well may be the worst in florida horror gore of its era but i suppose underneath the unlikeable characters and the incoherent plot lies potential scream baby scream really just seems like it should follow the blood feast pattern so to steal a quote from janet if it doesn't fit i throw it out 2 10
0	pathetic nri crap appeal to all who are not this is the worst of indian cinema made by the worst piece of nri trash the story is boring and clichéd the way nris and westerners view india go for it if u want to be bored to death br br the movie deals with the plight of widows in india before independence a lot of it is true even now in remote rural areas but not to the extent as depicted maybe because its a period movie br br there are plenty of other indian movies directed by extremely talented directors that are worth savoring this one is a definite miss watch a documentary instead or look up information on the net if you are genuinely interested in the plight of the downtrodden in india br br i wasted my time
0	deepa mehta roy and a host of other so called intellectuals get the title of intellectuals because of the fact that they love portraying india and hinduism in a bad light and deepa mehta makes her money from it anyway anyway hindus are too gentle or scared to protest the way muslims protest so anybody can take any liberties with hinduism and it is a fact that during the 1930's women in the west were also when they were widowed just that nobody likes to point out anything bad about the west or anything other than india and hindus she paints an portrayal of india and the situation of widows there nowhere is it mentioned that child marriage is illegal she ended the movie saying there are 34 million widows in india of course among a billion people there will be that many widows but how many are living life she has depicted in the movie deepa mehta finally is selling india and poverty to make dollars how pathetic
0	copy cats have copied this movie from a 1974 hindi movie called call girl call girl had an identical story line the way in which the protagonists fall in love then rebel and the climax all same in both these films call girl is better than water at least from the story telling point of view it was not as agonizingly slow as water water on the contrary does not progresses at all the aim is perhaps to make the audience sympathize with for ever are indian film makers any better than just being great copiers these days well they call it being inspired in their language it is getting inspired without any citation that is
0	deepa has again tried to bravely bring out a subject that no one wants to talk about the story line is ok cinematography is outstanding screenplay and acting are way below average i guess the blame is to the citizens of in india from where her original set was destroyed in 2000 this resulted in a totally different cast i just wonder what a spectacular movie it would have been if it had the original shabana azmi nandita das and aamir khan the current actors lisa ray who's just good for squirming in bombay dyeing bedsheets and john abraham are pathetic need basic lessons in acting seema biswas raghubir yadav and have saved the movie as much as they can the kid had done an outstanding job the editing and the flow of the movie is also not something you would have expected from deepa great subject sends out a strong message about a practice which is still pretty rampant in rural india but falls short of the standards deepa set for herself in fire and earth watch it once when its on dvd don't bother paying 10 to see it well its out beats the average hindi movie any day
0	i am a big fan of deepa mehta's work especially fire and earth 1947 unfortunately this movie of hers lacks all that is needed for a good film br br the movie attempts to showcase the plight of the widows in india in the early 20th century and the new wave of ideas of their rehabilitation around the same time shown with a child widow as a central character although the plot too banal from an indian standpoint it could still have been a very powerful movie alas the movie lacked both the sensitivity of fire and the intensity of emotion in earth 1947 br br even if one assumes that the story is a given although there are hundreds of things i would have liked different in that as well the movie making is especially unfortunate everything is said everything is shown straight absence of sensitive implied sentences absence of things left unsaid i just couldn't believe that this was a deepa mehta film br br there were some very standard hindi movie characters like an old widow with her own vested interests or a father who has double standards of the highest quality can one not write a script without having these old style standard indian movie characters br br many people acclaimed deepa for making a movie and proving a point against hindu fundamentalists well i agree that she took a bold step but should one not worry about the quality of movie or is it being a controversial one an end in itself its obvious that if you start with a story as in water you will end up feeling the pain of the widows in consideration it doesn't take an accomplished director to achieve that and the movie had nothing more than that so where is contribution to the film br br and talk about acting etc pathetic lisa ray has a pretty face an extremely pretty face but thats where it ends she can't speak hindi she can't emote john abraham is no better most widows seem unnatural the saving grace are seema biswas and the young girl they are fabulous br br and this was a period film but the hindi dialogues suck big time even there utterance is also as unnatural as it gets no rustic accents no local no nothing the only thing right was probably the shooting locales i thought that the set of the ashram was reasonably real the overall blue tinge in the whole movie is also apt br br but all and all don't watch this movie you won't get anything there is nothing in the story or direction if you have to watch it watch it for the little girl's acting
0	before you dismiss my post as not getting it let me say i'm one of the biggest richard kelly and the twilight zone fans out there donnie darko is one my all time favorites and i even thought tales had it's moments i'm a huge sci fi fan i was very excited to see the box couldn't wait for it to come out br br having said that the box is terrible behind drag me to hell this was the worst movie i've seen in 2009 and it just simply will not end whenever you think you've reached the end another change in the plot and you're off to more torture i was actually groaning in the theater by the end of the film i could hardly take it anymore br br the biggest problem with the box no matter how you slice it or try to justify it is that it simply makes little sense trust me i got it i understood what was going on but that doesn't mean it makes a lot of sense looking back on it take the basics for example the main couple cameron diaz and james marsden playing norma and arthur lewis diaz loses her finances at her job then bemoans to her husband that they are living paycheck to paycheck well sell that f ing porsche your husband is driving then they live in a beautiful 2 story house in a nice subdivision marsden is working what seems to be a high paid job at nasa and diaz is an accomplished teacher and yes marsden drives an overly expensive car but they are somehow living paycheck to paycheck no need to press the button just cut down your high priced lifestyle a bit the movie would have worked better if they showed the couple jobless and in serious debt instead they are seemingly desperate for money all the while living what i would call a luxurious lifestyle like i said you can understand what's going on yet it still makes little sense that's a rare combination br br there was an awful scene in a library that i feel will go down as one of the worst segments in movie history terribly acted too by the way it was idiotic illogical and out of place i can't even begin to fully describe it actually so i will move onto a subplot that involves nose bleeds and body possession by aliens yes i'm being serious unfortunately a kid is in diaz's class with a wicked and smile on his face a sinister smile that seemingly goes by completely unnoticed by everyone in authority at the school he starts asking diaz personal questions literally embarrassing her in front of her class no punishment is given to the kid whatsoever he didn't even get asked to stay after class for a talk then diaz is at a party and the same kid is one of the hired help ironed shirt apron and all i don't know many alien possessed kids who appear to be in junior high that also moonlight as a bus boy at parties sponsored by teachers and school officials but we found one here see what i mean you can understand it completely but it still makes no sense a rare combo like many things in the movie the kid comes and goes no real explanation about him no ending to his character moving on a lady then approaches diaz in a grocery store telling her that experiments are being ran secretly and her family is one of the test subjects well hmmm if aliens possess the powers where they can take over a body remotely and the aliens don't want to help diaz then who was taking over this lady's body and giving diaz advice again the lady was trying to help diaz and the aliens weren't interested in helping diaz so who the hell was controlling her body never explained never talked about again no nothing it goes on and on and on like this for what seemed to me like 2 weeks it would not end i wonder if this movie underwent a massive re shoot at some point it was poorly edited diaz's accent was there one minute gone the next sub plots began but never ended the numerous push backs of the release date obviously shows the problems the producers had with the finished product it's truly a train wreck br br pass on this one there's no redeeming value in it whatsoever 3 out of 10 just because i like diaz and sci fi but it probably deserves a 1 out of 10 br br thanks for reading br br jd
0	water shows the plight of indian widows in the late 1930s says in the end that the problem still exists largely by giving statistics in the end refers to gandhi several times in the movie before finally having a scene depicting him and does nothing extra ordinarily innovative or new in the movie yes the cinematography is pretty impressive but that cannot be the soul of any movie for me br br india has had several problems like many other nations but it has got rid of many of these problems at large what if a movie is made on racism in america in a particular year which ends with 'x number of americans still experience racism today' br br a how would it be relevant and b how would it be some thing so extra ordinary being depicted in cinema br br a view i read from a deepa mehta interview was that this movie is being interpreted as a voice for the marginalised every where from reviews i read every where the common thing i am hearing is how the director did a great job and was brave in bringing a problem to the world the movie is more about a specific problem a society faced and has got rid of through reforms at large br br i do not see any thing earth shattering about the movie moreover the movie lacked soul and shifted between the plots of and the young sri lankan actress portrayed the role of superbly and that was the only thing which impressed me about the movie sadly
0	if there's one thing i want to distinguish myself from all the other great reviewers here it's that i am the queen of finding strange movies in thrift and dollar stores that said you can't possibly imagine how happy i was when i found this one br br i can even remember that saturday morning when every station it so you were stuck if you wanted to watch something else then again i guess that was the idea as a kid i didn't know if i liked the way all the different characters were stuck together there are some crossovers that just do not work but i guess the special had it's intended effect don't do drugs because you will have nightmares about the muppets br br now if you watch this as an adult on the other hand you will be treated to the strangest anti drug movie this side of reefer madness i think i'll just leave it at that before i get into trouble
0	this film spends a lot of time preaching against marijuana however the plot and visuals are so insane that it seems more like the poster child for lsd br br plot the heroic struggle of michael as he battles his drug addiction while being subjected to the humiliation brought on by the likes of winnie the pooh and papa smurf br br yea yea there's a good message but it's obscured by the fact that the writers have taken a rather stale psa idea and tried stretching it into 30 minutes this includes a song sequence where you're told that there's a million rational ways to say no such as i can't smoke pot i have homework br br the writers can't make up their minds what to do with the characters they've brought in royalty free at first we see they all have to hide from the human characters but within five minutes we see them all running around in plain sight without anyone noticing soon they begin interacting with the human cast and the only one who's even slightly disturbed by this fact is not the drug abusers it's the little sister who talks to her teddy bear pooh by the way further there's the little drug demon floating around because you know pushers don't give kids drugs he too is ambiguous while he might be symbolic of michael's addiction and hence is not supposed to be seen by other people he goes and haunts little corey to get her into drugs so i guess he's uhhh moving on br br the whole plot finally culminates in some insane sequence in which michael is in what would appear to be the saturday morning carnival of souls aka a theme park from hell where the various cartoon characters beat him up and ignore him and stuff for example miss piggy eats him in a sandwich and spits him out if the writers were not high when writing this i must recommend they try getting high because they can't get crazier than this of course the film ignores the fact that michael's been having highs for two years by this point so why this tripping sequence would frighten him is beyond me br br i realize i'm completely whaling on this film but i actually just saw it again because i went through the trouble of tracking it down on ebay because of it's sheer infamy of being a bad cartoon the level of unintentional humor is is brilliant take this scene for example michael's dad is rooting through the fridge for a beer he notices many of them missing and mentions it to his wife the ever observant mom tells him don't worry you probably just drank them last night watching football while we're obviously supposed to be learning that michael is drinking beer in addition to the pot and crack we instead read further in and realize hey kids it's okay to have chemical as long as you're a grown up scenes like this are worth the tiny price tag of this film oh yea and the fact you get to hear simon the chipmunk say marijuana
0	spoiler warning br br this is probably my least favourite cary grant film i spent most of the time thinking ignore him leave him etc is he trying to kill her should we assume that after the end when he persuades her to return home with him that he will kill her after all i see from checking in a couple of books that this is a reading that some viewers critics have taken finishing early is after all a more reasonable way to film a book than to change the ending and this is a more unreasonable change of ending than for example in altman's the long goodbye unlike hitchcock's earlier example of making the murderer not the murderer because a star has been cast when gosford park refers to the lodger ivor novello's murderous habits are not mentioned the book's ending is not definitely ruled out br br in robin wood's hitchcock's films revisited he writes as one mentally from ending to ending the significance of every scene changes the apparent solidity of the narrative dissolves the illusion of the fiction's 'reality' disintegrates the film becomes a text in which the process of narrative is foregrounded i enjoy playing intellectual interpretation games as much as anyone else but unless the film stands on a straightforward reading then it fails this one fails even after considering the fatal glasses of milk that recur in a few hitchcock films br br an annoying quibble the year is 1941 nothing in the film says that it is set in the past nigel bruce keeps his money in a paris bank and goes there to do financial business does he not know that there is a war on indeed were there still any flights from croydon airport is he on good terms with the nazis how come it is never suggested that the germans shot him as a spy or something br br a curiosity when johnnie and lina have dinner with isobel the mystery writer and her brother the pathologist there is a fifth person present who is never explained nor introduced a woman in a tuxedo the credits say that she is metcalf playing phyllis is this not an example of how lesbians were coded in '40s films are we to take her as lover the books that discuss overt and hidden gays lesbians in hitchcock e g robin wood again do not include phyllis
0	i don't dislike cary grant but i've found his performances annoying in enough films to notice this arsenic old lace and bringing up baby i don't dislike him in north by northwest but i really find that movie unbearably silly on top of that i find the endless raving about grant's class tiresome i don't have a clue what his class does for the viewers who herald it it doesn't do a thing for me br br in the behind the scenes feature included with this dvd hitchcock says that grant was her fathers favorite leading man i think he was wrong jimmy stewart was a better leading man in a string of better hitchcock movies br br with it's ruined ending this is really half a movie and doesn't bear discussion and can't support the high ratings it's getting even if the movie had it's ending intact there's not much to it fontaine is a completely unsympathetic sucker she has to remain numb and unwilling to contact anyone but johnny for the whole movie in either ending for his ploys to work that's not much to work with cary grant begins every line with until i wanted to strangle him he says it about sixty times it's positively grating hitch's technique here is shockingly shallow an endless succession of rooms sets have a phony skylight projected on the rear wall as a effect and a light bulb in a glass of milk may make fans excited but it can't save a movie this poorly made br br peter bogdanovich should retire if he does one more hitchcock cary grant imitation on a dvd i think that's his whole career now as soon as i saw him i thought oh crap here comes an imitation that only he's impressed with instead there were two oh joy
0	joan fontaine is swept off her feet by the suave cary grant after their marriage she realizes that her husband is very irresponsible and owes a major gambling debt it appears that grant tries to scheme his best friend nigel bruce out of part of his life savings bruce ends up murdered and fontaine suspects that her husband will try to kill her for the insurance money this drama drags on to an abrupt and flat finale
0	there is no doubt that alfred hitchcock was a seriously talented director many of his films are undeniable classics that have stood the test of time and are highly watchable to this day this list could include the 39 steps rear window north by northwest dial m for murder vertigo the birds shadow of a doubt and a few other films br br however suspicion is not aging well at all and is really so unwatchable that it seems to me that it was probably a bad film even by 1941 standards the list of scenes that work well could be listed on a with a crayon the script is loose and ridiculous most of the time but the acting seems so forced and wooden and borderline amateurish throughout that it is almost unbelievable joan fontaine tries to shore things up but she is on a slippery slope and cary grant doesn't provide much assistance his acting is so bad at times that i have seen better performances in high school plays or college theatre experience classes where a chemical engineer is acting for the first time with no formal training br br after about 30 minutes of watching this film you may find yourself reaching for the dvd sleeve in the dark to see if you accidentally picked up some kind of special edition version that was cobbled together without any editing br br the subject matter is serious yet the film has a silly and trite feel to it that just seems so out of place you become numb with perplexity br br suspicion is basically unwatchable and another very very very overrated bad movie
0	this is unique in films of hitchcock's that i've seen in that i didn't really enjoy it br br in fact i actually found this quite predictable and annoying br br cary grant and joan fontaine are a newly married couple he's the kind of lovable rogue character that you've seen in many films without ever being lovable as far as i am concerned br br in fact it was a barely believable relationship at best and at times seemed particularly false and implausible br br unable to hold down a job and trying to live an opulent lifestyle grant is led to borrow money that he cannot pay back br br fontaine is convinced that he is trying to kill her in order to get the money she is insured for and presumably what her late father was worth br br average and rather uninteresting all round actually but as usual you can see the influence on films that have come at a later date
0	lina is a bright solitary young women who falls unexpectedly in love with johnnie a highly eligible bachelor with a penchant for losing money they get married but almost at once lina is subjected to addiction to lying gambling and getting into debt despite his flaws she is unable to resist his charming manner until she starts to suspect he may be harbouring murderous thoughts toward her br br this is a good movie well made with an attractive cast a good script and possibly the single lousiest ending in movie history okay that's maybe going too far but not by much lots of films change the ending of a book great expectations the shining etc but the last two scenes of this one not only manage to be horribly lame but also render the entire preceding plot completely meaningless the story is about a woman whose husband is driven by his greed and moral lacking and what she knows about him to kill her it should end as it does in francis anthony berkeley's book before the fact with him attempting to murder her the reason it doesn't is that the studio forced hitch to the ending one of the first examples of the godawful process of preview audience testing hitch was canny and did what he was told this was only his third film in hollywood knowing that if he played the game sooner or later he would gain creative control of his films evinced by his masterpieces of the fifties but that still leaves us with a turkey of an ending this is a great shame because it really is a very good movie with an intriguing theme does anyone really know their husband or wife that well the script is excellent with many off guard moments such as when lina's father dies and johnnie assumes she's crying about it a finely judged performance by grant who never played a villain again and fine photography throughout culminating in the famous glass of milk shot fontaine won an oscar for this performance although personally i prefer her confusion and vulnerability in her earlier wife role in rebecca i would like to rate this movie higher but i really can't forgive that ending this is what happens when movies are made for money not love which i guess is curiously the theme of the film itself look fast for hitchcock's cameo as a man posting a letter
0	lance henriksen got paid something to appear in this i hope it was a lot br br former us national champion gymnast kristie phillips starts as charlie case a gymnast turn secret agent because it's very common that munchkin gymnasts become government spies br br there's a truly hysterical opening scene where charlie's uneven bars routine is sabotaged by an eastern bloc competitor what follows is one of the most ridiculous stunt scenes i've ever witnessed and they want you to take it seriously don't worry she sticks her dismount br br everything after that is just a messy dreck of a spy movie watch the first fifteen minutes for the campy gymnastics stuff then run for cover
0	ha ha oh no what to say about this film yes green eggs and ham makes more sense than this movie where does one start a lot of the good stuff has already been said so i won't divulge into the same territory i believe you already have the movie summary so i won't paraphrase the movie br br first let's start the with good br br 1 if you like psychological thrillers that make you think as i do the first 29 minutes of this film will be for you this is one of those films that illustrates the question that you always talked about on long car drives when you were kids like what if you had to chose one family member live another to die or what if you had to die by drowning or fire this movie is a great concept bottom line br br 2 the wardrobe group did a fine job with bringing us back to the 70's realistically though how difficult is that to accomplish okay that's about all for the good let's talk about the bad br br 1 this movie feels like a 2 hour twilight zone episode this could easily be 90 minutes that might have made the movie tolerable br br 2 do you remember in the movie from dusk til dawn the movie started out interesting then halfway through the movie it just took a degrading turn yep same thing here i would venture to say that the writers started with a concept then had no idea what to do with it i've gotten deeper thought provocation out of transformers 2 br br 3 yes we get the dilemma in the film we understand the philosophical undertones and utilitarian approach but the story jumped around way too much didn't elaborate on the current story arc and took a forgive me completely insulting direction br br 4 the ending didn't make sense not at all none br br this movie would make a great term paper in college philosophy 101 if you're board out of your mind in bed sick or have ever enjoyed being hit in the face with a pie and can view this free on line by all means go for it br br if you need to pay anything to view this movie don't waste your time you're better off watching old howie mandel stand up on you tube you will get more philosophical stimulation your sock drawer
0	i have neither read the book on which the movie is based nor the letters between vita and violet if i came to this movie with any expectations whatsoever it was maybe that the group including among others virginia woolf and which the were part of would be depicted it wasn't which however wasn't a problem for me what i am wondering about is how the people behind this movie managed to make it in my opinion so very uninteresting and repetitive and most of the characters flat in spite of great material and some very good actors the script is simply not good enough i agree with the criticism of my finnish neighbor too many pointless sex scenes but only between the women while there is nothing explicit whatsoever concerning harold's numerous love affairs too many pointless scenes in general too little information about the background of characters it seems odd considering the quality of the production on the surface it seems a really ambitious piece of work but the script holds of course the most weight and that is where this movie fails br br vita's relationship with harold struck me as unconvincing although both of them act really well especially her the way they kept declaring their unconditional love for each other in a rather sappy manner i thought well simply unconvincing it makes a lot more sense that it should have happened through letters as points out i would also have liked to know where the nicknames came from the russian ones as well as mar why ever is someone called vita given the nickname mar it might be small stuff but it matters in contributing to the bigger picture br br i watched the movie with english subtitles on and where it should apparently have said it said instead that might explain my frustration with the nicknames to some extent i could not understand why vita's should be greek while violet's was russian
0	first i have to say that i have read everything about this subject and i know it inside out and i was excited about finally seeing it too but you have to read only the book this mini series is based on to realize that it's not the true story of what really happened almost 90 years ago it's loosely based on the facts the rest is taken from the scriptwriter's imagination and unfortunately these changes are anything but successful and mostly totally unnecessary br br where do i begin vita and violet didn't use the names and until their affair started and during it violet also called vita and julian it was violet who chased vita with a dagger when they were teenagers the scene when their affair started violet was much more passive than represented here and certainly didn't kiss vita first i could go on and on these examples were all included when the series was only just started besides all these alterations from the facts the characterizations are also all wrong at times vita behaves like a mad woman especially the scene where she saw from the newspaper violet's engagement announcement is just ridiculous vita kept her of emotion inside it was violet who was temperamental and let her feelings good or bad show all vita did when she read it was that she nearly fainted that's all being a gentle nature harold avoided confrontations in real life but here he is sometimes pretty stern and accusing harold and vita always discussed their intimate things in letters not verbally and violet i know that this series purposely concentrated on vita and harold but that doesn't mean that all the other characters have to be mere puppets on the sidelines here she is totally one dimensional character and the lines gave to her are mostly embarrassingly shallow actually she was intelligent gifted quite an extraordinary woman who has rarely given the credit she deserves i have always thought her much more interesting person than vita in this series her unhappiness loneliness and her problems with her mother are totally ignored viewer has also little clue of her background and family what kind of relation and marriage with denys she had or how hard she battled over vita vita was the only love of her life her raison d'etre and if harold suffered during affair so did violet after it her life was in ruins and it took time that she could pull herself back together again statue could have acted the role of denys that much depth his character has lady sackville west is just a badly drawn caricature an annoying with exaggerating french accent br br the series ends to the totally badly written scene in and that was the end of this affair according to scriptwriter no it continued a whole year after that and it's ending was much more lingering and sad than what was presented here but what one cares about the stupid ending if the whole series has been stupid from the start i have to give some credit to actors they tried to make best of those roles given to them though janet mcteer as vita is the only one who really shines through one can't complain the settings either all complaints go to director and most of all scriptwriter instead of insightful character studies there are too many sex scenes and bland conversation many of the scenes are too long some are pointless and don't bring anything to the story line on the other hand many details are shortened or omitted altogether especially there should have been more information about vita's and violet's youth and how their friendship developed this is one fascinating story which would have deserved a much better adaptation maybe someday someone will do it at the moment one can make much more of this story by reading the actual book or violet's letters to vita which are brilliant stuff
0	kristy swanson plays an elite who is supposed to have knocked off a tv reporter for a group of bad guys but once she sees this poor fellow at home playing with his kids she decides to junk the whole project and the tv reporter's life is spared the life is up for grabs as the people who wanted this reporter killed now want her dead for not following through with her assignment such is the basis for a movie called supreme sanction br br supreme waste of time is more like it we see character beat up pummel and kill men far bigger than her and she always one two fifty steps ahead of the group of murders who can't for some reason do away with this super having one woman do away and beat all these men makes the movie seem so gay it is too predictable once you figure character is going to win out anyway thus making the film boring and inept br br kristy swanson is decent actress who in her younger days was always sexy and easy on the eyes supreme sanction is not one of her better efforts however
0	when kristy swanson gets an attack of the guilts about what she does she wants out unfortunately madsen is her immediate superior in a company where giving two weeks notice ain't an option br br as a teen killing vampires kristy did a very good job the valley girl image seemed to fit but as an assassin on the run well keep running kristy run run far away this film is not a concept that hasn't been done before but it has been done better br br i didn't want to watch the rest of this film but i felt i should if i wanted to give a review of this movie i've always liked madsen and his character was a bit predictable but this movie was definitely a waste of time both to watch and make no wonder it never got released theatrically
0	the first question is how many talentless idiots it takes to screw a movie up answer one is more than enough if he writes the screenplay and directs it the second question is did anyone teach the actors to handle guns properly answer hell no i wonder if kristy swanson got hit across the face with hot brass because it damn seemed so the third question is how many times we did the super secret government agency conspiracy gets uncovered from inside plot answer a good couple too many the fourth question is are michael madsen and ron perlman overrated answer in this movie sadly yes the fifth question is can a pair of boobs save this movie answer even three kristy pair and the director writer didn't br br god if i see the most probably assassin getting her guns ready for a hit and then the morons from prop department give her a completely different set the first bloody thing in the goddamn movie the suck meter hits the peak time from beginning of the movie to me switching the tv off fifteen minutes just a little bit more than it took me in case of alone in the dark
0	please give this one a miss br br kristy swanson and the rest of the cast rendered terrible performances the show is flat flat flat br br i don't know how michael madison could have allowed this one on his plate he almost seemed to know this wasn't going to work out and his performance was quite lacklustre so all you madison fans give this a miss
0	supreme sanction is a movie about a female assassin who works for the u s government she has to kill a known tv reporter but spares his life when she sees that he has a little daughter because she hasn't killed him she becomes the next target of her employers br br the script isn't good although i've seen worse b movies a hit man with remorse the government killing innocent people in the name of fighting terror what's next aliens rescuing the victim no supreme sanction will never win any award because of the script and the acting isn't any better i'm afraid a few better known actors michael madsen and kristy swanson who clearly had a lot of bills to pay and therefor accepted to play in this movie together with some other actors who probably don't even know what a camera really looks like don't do any good to the movie either br br so why should you watch this movie well if you haven't got anything better to do but to watch some action flick and you are tired of the 10 rerun of mc or the a team than this might be the movie you want to see otherwise you better leave it alone i give it a 3 10
0	i bought this rental return for 1 99 at hollywood and overpaid i didn't expect much but thought it would be something to fall asleep by at least i quickly noted the very weak storyline the gross overacting by everyone no one talks like that except in cartoons and the seemingly let's make it up as we go along direction i know that the participants in this mess must be very embarrassed by it and i feel certain that it did not help any careers as for this movie buff of 35 years it has now provided a ready answer for the worst film you've ever seen question br br
0	i never ever ever thought i'd write the above four words but actually she's the highpoint of this little flick br br as the movie was packaged when i rented it it supposedly is a comedy about a girl who is kidnapped but doesn't have her medication which keeps her stable it sounded like a cute concept for years all we ever saw of spelling was as donna martin in 90210 and an endless parade of dull lifeless tv movies it sounded like a chance for her to stretch a little and considering that with her tv success and her rich daddy she couldn't have any financial reason to do this movie i figured she took the part because this must be a low budget jewel br br wrong br br instead spelling's part is small and the bit about the mentally unbalanced kidnap victim is just one of several storylines when she's not on the screen the movie crawls so badly i could've sworn it was longer than the 85 minutes that were listed on the tape this would've worked so much better if spelling's storyline had dominated and it had been changed into a romantic comedy with her and phil the least irritating kidnapper
0	this was my very first bollywood movie and i found it in the same way many other recent viewers did through ghost world having done a little bit of reading up on the film industry of bollywood this week i understand somewhat why there are seemingly unrelated musical numbers and romance and comedy in a horror film but something for everyone doesn't always add up to a cohesive product br br the ultra groovy musical dance number jaan ho has captivated the world in a way it probably could not have done in 1965 it's all over the internet now with many folks scrambling for a good english translation chhaya does an amazing job dancing take after take making it all look fresh new and fun even when any normal person would be exhausted she rules br br on the beach with miss kitty is a light weight fun and pretty tune in total contrast to the horror plot still i find myself singing it in hindi a week later i found a rough translation br br if you want to live in this life then listen to what i say leave your sorrows behind and join the party take my advice br br those who want to live live with laughter and singing let your hair down and relax people of this world what do you know come to me and i'll explain br br whoever there is who will see me will stop worrying in this world fish swim freely here and there br br my second favorite number in the film is the butler's dream where mehmood is entranced by miss kitty's dancing the electric tiki like idols are just wonderfully tacky as is the entire set of this number online i'd seen it described as what would happen if liberace threw up way fun br br is not a good movie as a whole that's why i gave it a rating of 3 it's actually a real stinker of a film with some fun kitschy musical numbers that have nothing really to do with the murder plot
0	be warned the next time you see richard kelly involved in any production run away fast br br kelly proved to the world after his last movie tales that he is one pretentious director it was indulgent and convoluted in the box not much has changed br br i can picture what his pitch to warner bros must have been and i bet the executives at the studio ate it right up a full feature film based on one of richard twilight zone matheson's old short stories br br big mistake do not read any further unless you want this movie completely spoiled for you br br norma cameron diaz pushes the button br br turns out that arlington steward frank langella has an alien using his body as a vessel to conduct experiments in which the fate of mankind rests his face is scarred because he was struck by alien lightening which killed him but then brought him back to life to do all of this red button testing obviously since norma pushes the button knowing full well that someone may die she must suffer the consequences for failing to consider someone else's life instead of her own in the end she and her husband james marsden choose to kill norma instead of having their son grow up deaf and blind br br kelly dances around his film's message trying to make the audience figure out what the moral of the story is obviously any person with a brain is saying at the beginning what if i was the person who dies richard kelly doesn't even let his character's have this normal human conversation in fact they avoid it all together they appear to both be educated working at a prestigious school and also for nasa so why wouldn't they both have a better ability to look outside of the box br br if he had the main characters actually have this conversation the entire movie could have ended right there instead we have to watch weddings go on forever nasa and the nsa be complacent to arlington stewart taking over these government programs teleportation to show marsden life beyond our world so it will be easier to kill his wife and controlled by steward which can be anywhere and nowhere at any time br br the most painful part of this movie is the pacing nothing really happens its a muddled mish mash of ideas that are laughable br br it is insufferable how this film is being marketed the commercials make it look like saw and even use the music from those films to sell it in reality what you get is a slow dull laughable yes half the theater was laughing at the acting and visual effects and messy film which is neither imaginative interesting nor cohesive at one point cameron diaz and her son are abducted and then suddenly she is back in the big black car with her husband on the way home where did she go why did they take her do we really care not anymore you won't br br by the end you really won't care what happens to any of the characters you will be rooting for all of them to die so the film will just end go see anything else that's playing don't waste your time or money
0	produced by international playhouse pictures it looks as if filmed in a doll house everybody's a liar everything is dream like toy like for no good reason i'm not saying everything in all movies should be totally realistic but such unbelievable fantasy things and situations in one movie are way too much how did they get these fine actors actresses particularly to this movie it's nice to see mia again if we were meant to understand why her husband wants to kill her mia does do it well not funny not moving just fake stephen dorff briefly appears at the end fitting for a play maybe less for a movie but this isn't one to measure things at terrible
0	i recently was in a stage version of this play and on the last day of the run i was excited to see that it was going to be playing on tv i stuck a tape in as it was on late at night and i watched it the next day i have to say i was very disappointed the actors in the film made few of the discovers that are in the script that is understandable as the process is probably different but it was upsetting to see a lot of the original script was changed for the movie as well to make it better for the screen but i am not sure if it helped the movie out at all i gave this 4 stars only because i know the script and the writing is a lot better than what this movie portrays
0	depressing black black comedy about a woman mia farrow who flees her house on christmas eve when she discovers her husband tony goldwyn has hired a hit man to kill her she ends up with a husband and wife scott glenn and mary louise parker and then things go wrong basically farrow keeps running and is continuously meeting very strange people and getting into morbidly unfunny situations br br this was advertised as a feel good movie when i saw it around christmas time at its very short run in an art cinema i found it sick unfunny and just depressing i like black humor but this was way too dark for me what happens to parker's character especially was horrifying to make matters worse eileen brennan is thrown in as a nun later on and proceeds to chew the scenery with gusto br br the only saving grace was acting it's much better than this picture deserves also it was a relief to see the very talented stephen dorff pop up at the end the ending itself was kind of nice but it couldn't erase what had gone on before br br sick morbid pitch black comedy a 1
0	there isn't much about reckless that feels right beginning with the off putting title thanks to screenwriter craig lucas who adapted his own play bringing the title along with him and continuing with the casting mia farrow playing wife to tony goldwyn who's young enough to be her son the couple live in an idyllic winter world that appears to be the inside of a snow globe but farrow gets a startling dose of reality after he admits he's hired a man to kill her she flees into the night taking refuge with a very strange couple who want to help her rebuild her life the production design and art direction of reckless are fine but they are services rendered for a completely inane often alienating screenplay it's supposed to be a dark holiday comedy though the cast is at a loss with this unfunny occasionally offensive material 1 2 from
0	oh my god i was so expecting something more entertaining than this when i downloaded this movie seeing as 1903 was one of my fave years for movies ever but it sucked the plot although i'd hesitate to call it that is about some dumb elephant it slowly makes its way onto some platform and gets electrocuted to death lame even for a short film the plot was too thin to keep my attention edison is like the worst director ever plus the elephant has no screen presence whatsoever and the ending wow that wasn't predictable at all sarcasm br br the picture quality is horrible too you can barely tell what's going on most of the time the only positive thing about this movie is that unlike most other un scary horror flicks this didn't spawn eleven sequels other than that this is a complete waste of money and 1 minute of your life you'll never get back
0	thomas edison had no other reason to make this film except to show that film can capture the electrocution of an innocent elephant edison was not a genius but a man out for money and profit his love for life was measured by dollars not experiences as this film shows
0	thomas edison may have done lots of great inventions but wtf is this i am sorry but this movie is simply awful the plot is that this elephant walks to a certain point gets electrocuted okay the picture quality looked like someone used it for toilet paper i thought that the early charlie chaplin films were awful okay thomas edison may have been an inventor but why did he make this film he could have filmed a baby being fed it would have been better people might say i'm being harsh on the times but would you enjoy something like this from what i have said edison may have made the but why did he make this particular movie well i might sound like a complete a hole but watch this on youtube then you will see this abomination i still can't believe this film is completely awful all in all the worst short film i have ever seen br br rating 1 10
0	we see thomas edison with a glowing smile on his face trying to electrocute a 5 ton living being eventually he was successful and so the first animal snuff film is born cleverly disguised as an amazing achievement in technology this is scientific arrogance at it's worst folks it ranks up there with the doctor who decapitated a monkey just to prove that he could keep its severed head alive for 22 minutes br br oh yes there's the absurd excuse that the elephant had been convicted of murder and sentenced to death and that this was a fair and humane execution to all the people who are satisfied with this sophistry please form a line on my right i'm going to give you all a big collective three stooges slap across the head br br go watch the advocate 1993 a movie based on the true story murder trial of a pig in france 500 years later humans are still a bunch of morons i see br br what's next we arrest birds for stealing our arrest bushes for assault and battery thomas edison i hope you have a big fat worm crawling through your eye socket right now oh wait that would be trespassing wouldn't it lol
0	this vicious little film is horrendous my low rating for it comes for two main reasons the first is that it is an animal snuff film and i find that whole concept so vile it turns my stomach filmed over a hundred years ago i can only hope that we've evolved into something a little more humane and compassionate this film is complete and utter exploitation made to cash in on the sensational aspects of the film and the subject historical interest aside this is something to watch only if one finds themselves in the grip of morbid fascination br br reason number two look at the way that the camera is set up it is placed in the best possible location to fully capture the full effect long march forward of the elephant perfect view of the electrocution platform and a cold and clinically dispassionate viewpoint of the elephant with smoke coming out of it before it finally collapses sickening br br thomas edison did many great things for civilization and his talents and intelligence aren't in doubt nobody is perfect but when you realize that this film provided a an opportunity for him to trump early cinematic competitors with a sensationalist film of an elephant being electrocuted and b he filmed the execution to demonstrate the greater effectiveness of dc as opposed to ac you can't help but wonder if the scientist in him was a little too dispassionate and cold any number of peter cushing's mad scientists would be proud the rest of us should be ashamed and revolted
0	the wizard of park was deeply responsible for many things we take for granted in 2007 even if he did not invent them without rivals or assistants he gave birth to the electric light the phonograph the motion picture camera the electric car battery the electric power grid possibly his most important but least recalled invention the pre fabricated house and innovations to the telephone and telegraph as well as the ticker tape machine and an early voting machine the total number of is over 1 000 far more than any other american inventor br br but edison was a ruthless business competitor he frequently had vast legal fights over the precedence of his inventions over rivals the best example is the telephone where he was one of seven or eight rivals with claims against alexander graham bell actually edison's invention here was not the central idea that bell and gray had come up with independently of each other in 1876 but an improvement on the sound quality of the phone receiver and transmitter that bell did not develop still it was part of the huge 1888 supreme court decision that was the longest u s supreme court decision a single volume of their reports written by chief justice morrison waite which by the way killed the poor chief justice from overwork within weeks of completing it br br in 1886 edison found an equally ruthless competitor in the area of electric power for large cities this was george inventor of the railroad air break firm had gotten the assistance of a new inventor and former edison assistant nicola developed alternating current which was a rival system to edison's direct current edison's system was basically a straight circuit system of electricity system allowed the current to be switched from one circuit to another actually it was a better and more efficient system but edison was determined to break this rival by a publicity campaign br br it started with electric power lines edison early on had his lines put underground so that they would not be endangered by weather conditions but was forced to have his lines out in the open like telephone lines when there were several accidental deaths by repair on lines in particular one incident where the repairman was burned alive in front of hundreds of horrified onlookers in manhattan's business district edison started insisting that a c current was far more dangerous that d c br br one result of all this was edison helping some subsidiary inventors with getting a c generators and for an electric chair edison himself always denied that he invented the electric chair but he helped several lesser figures along the way for the complete story read mark edison the electric chair new york walker company 2003 br br edison experiment himself with cats and dogs experiments he was glad to show the public in the long run despite assisting in the invention of a new method of execution edison failed to dislodge the public support of alternating current but he never stopped trying br br in 1903 he had an opportunity to combine his campaign against and a c with his invention of the motion picture camera he assisted in putting down a well known public elephant topsy who had killed several men he did so by electrocuting the poor beast with a c but the entire killing is on film and one can view it to this day it is a pitiful looking film whatever poor topsy had done it was a poor beast not a machiavellian murderer the moment we see the explosions of electricity sparks that show the death of the elephant we are aware it will soon be over but the sudden collapse of topsy is still an unpleasant sight to view the film leaves a bad flavor in the mouths of modern movie audiences yet sad to say it probably made a profit for edison his description of the film in his catalog of films shows real pride in his accomplishment here in 1903 it may have been exciting entertainment for many americans watching it one is glad that more people are appalled by it today sometimes one can sense the human race has improved a little bit
0	i know that so many reviews on imdb are extreme with reviewers either praising a film to the hilt or tearing it to pieces i find neither of these kind of reviews helpful and so i do not give this film the awful review i am about to lightly the film is art house science fiction of the worst kind dressed up as a hollywood blockbuster the trailers draw you in by showing you what appears to be a cohesive plot but is actually just a tiny part of a wilfully baffling series of events which are never properly resolved i like films which challenge the viewer and i do not need to be spoon fed a plot and so my complaint against this film is not that it is too highbrow no the film is just terrible as the credits roll you will feel genuine anger at having wasted your time on cameron diaz's wooden acting and a faltering plot line avoid
0	surely this deserves to be in the bottom 10 films of all time pity it's just a tv movie rubbish that only we british can produce it perhaps has some merit in the so awful it's good scale watch out for scene where they start dancing
0	this movie is such a total waste of time i can't understand anyone sitting through this piece of trash oh i would have loved it when i was seven years old i think a seven year old child may have written and directed it br br there's no script no acting just rubbish the best acting is that by the fighting i think i could whip these ninjas and i am not someone you'd consider tough totally unconvincing and did not spark the least bit of interest i was yawning and laughing by the end of the first ten minutes of the film this is one that would turn people away from martial art movies great comedy bad action flick
0	this movie is recommended only for insomniacs it will relieve them by putting them to sleep five year olds might also enjoy it but for anyone else including fans of the genre what a bore the ancient plot is reminiscent of return of the dragon and this film is just as inept but nero is no bruce lee so enter the ninja is an even worse film until now this is the second the offensive comedy bachelor party was the first film i gave 1 10 to
0	i stumbled across this movie late at night on tv my brother and i could not stop laughing at how god awful this movie is the crappy sound effects whenever white ninja or black ninja punch kick or use a weapon is hilarious this movie is almost on the same level as the evil dead series but you can only watch this movie once because of shear crappiness i'm not sure if the director meant for it to be so crappy on purpose because he knew idiots like me would buy it
0	franco nero stars as cole a ninja who comes to the rescue of his war buddy frank landers alex courtney and his fetching wife susan george to protect them from a mobster christopher george who wants the land things get even more complicated when the mobster hires cole's old nemesis sho kosugi who is also a ninja inept martial arts actioner while having better production values then most ninja movies fails to inject any life into the surroundings or for that matter actionscenes a poor effort all around
0	terrible action movie in which lead franco nero exchanges his cowboy hat gun belt and the coffin he dragged around in django 1966 for an all white ninja outfit with all the snazzy paraphernalia that goes with it despite virtually non stop action the film is utterly clichéd and unintentionally funny with a campy villain to boot in christopher george susan george no relation is the attractive woman with a washed up husband nero's wartime companion whom the villains are trying to push off her oil rich land but the latter haven't counted upon nero's martial arts and stunt heavy gymnastics the solution to their problems is to hire a similarly skilled ninja for themselves who as it happens turns out to be nero's deadly enemy played by sho kosugi who appeared in two more sequels and is currently engaged in another the climax takes place inside an arena where one man army nero george and what has remained of his gang from previous confrontations the subtle way in which he his nemesis however is effectively done
0	a combat veteran fresh from completion of training reunites with an old friend in manila and gets caught up in a power struggle with a ruthless land baron br br but do you really care about that if you're even reading this page you must know something of what to expect it's your typical chop socky complete with ridiculous dialouge mega corny villains apocalyptic sound editing and a camera that begs for your attention the only reason for being seen in public with this film is the fight sequences wonderfully choreographed by mike stone and true master sho kosugi franco nero ain't no slouch either assuming you can see around the mustache br br well i'm being too harsh there are some good laughs enjoy christopher george repeatedly screaming ninja and delivering arguably the goofiest death scene ever captured on film
0	this is one of those movies that is so bad it is awesome it has everything an early eighties movie needs flared pants big moustaches chicks with farrah hair and most importantly ninjas i have a few choice moments to recant for you cole's army buddy has a strange monkey like face and always seems to speak without moving his jaw he gets his ass handed to him about every other scene by the thugs wanting his land so he gets drunk through the entire film at one point his farm workers finally return after being run off by the gangster guy's hired goons and frank i think his name is frank is so moved he shouts to the whole group lets have a cock fight and they all gleefully move to the cock fighting area of the farm to begin the festivities this is funny on every level possible whether you take it dirty or literally it still warms my heart another funny thing is sho kosugi's little grunts and over animated ninja style movements i remember this dude from when i was a kid and he used to say he was the world's only real ninja he had ads in martial arts magazines if i remember correctly my friends and i were a little ninja crazy during the time this movie came out and i can recall seeing it in the local theater many times i was wondering as i watched this on starz last night why every sleazy american gangster type always has a stronghold in the phillipines and wears a white steve martin suit as a matter of fact this guy goes way beyond that in requiring all of his thugs to wear white steve martin suits there is a scene where it looks like 20 steve martin impersonators are attacking a 1970's sears underwear model cole as we wind up for the final battle cole very clumsily breaks into the bad guy's headquarters and is immediately spotted by a secretary who in turn alerts a guard who fires off a round from his pump action shotgun not 30 feet from the bad guys and no one seems to notice or care cole wearing a completely white ninja outfit proceeds to sneakily ascend a staircase then does a flip right into the area where all the bad guys are the second in charge tells him he didn't need to kill everybody as they were expecting him then gives him a ride to the bad guys huge cock fighting arena don't ask me why cock fighting is a huge part of this movie but it is when they arrive cole is still wearing his ninja mask even though everyone involved knows what he looks like without it the final battle is approaching as cole has killed everybody and now sho as i like to call him reveals himself to have kidnapped cole's lady aka frank's wife and they meet in the cockfighting arena you ever saw sho then very politely i might add releases said lady and the battle is about to start they do their bowing and start circling each other both masked by the way when they join in battle it appears cole becomes someone else intermittently ala finishing the game a funny spoof on completing bruce lee's game of death cole eventually comes out on top kills sho who dies with honor by being decapitated and all is well next we see cole after ruining everyone's life is about to split town again but not before foreshadowing the brutal death of a fat guy with a hook hand and then he inexplicably winks at the camera freeze frame credits done
0	this is a very famous ninja movie but it isn't a nice movie if you want to see some ninjas and some figures want to know some things about ninjas see this movie this movie only for ninja fans and who wants to make nostalgia br br first 20 minutes and last 20 minutes of the movie are best you can just see ninja figures and fight in this scenes between these are below the average nearly bad as a movie acting is bad sho black ninja is the best actor in this movie frank nero is a good actor and charismatic but he cannot fight good scenario is also not good its so simple nero comes near to his best old friend from army and war he also protects him from mafia but he is having sex go to bed with his wife and his friend knows this but don't say anything to nero negative is this possible in life what a friendship br br finally this movie started a genre ninja movies also there is the ninja master sho kasugi but some fighting scenes are not realistic and not fast even with shoo this film is below the average even it is a classic
0	any person claiming this movie to be a ninja classic film must have seen this movie before the middle of the nineties or he was less then 10 years before he's seen it otherwise i can't explain this 'classic ninja movie' title br br the fight scenes in this movie are just intolerable instead of casting franco nero as the ninja they could hire some experienced martial artist instead in any way the acting skill is not important in that kind of a movie nero's fighting ability is barely of some street fighter in a bar his kicks and punches are lame br br there's enough of old action movies with good action this is just a waste of time
0	in 1976 a mother named norma lewis cameron diaz lives with her son walter and her husband arthur james marsden one night a box is placed on the doorstep of their home and the following morning they cut open the box to reveal a button device that must be opened with a key by the late afternoon a man with terrible scarring on his face comes to their door and presents norma with an offer this man is arlington steward frank langella and he announces that if they push the button someone in the world that the family does not know will die and they will receive a million dollars in cash if they don't press it nothing will happen and the offer will move on to someone else norma and arthur are not allowed to tell anyone including their son about this deal the incentive for the family to push the button is heightened by their financial difficulties arthur who is currently working for nasa fails to be accepted into a new job he applies for and norma who is a teacher learns that her faculty funding is being cut br br one's enjoyment for this bizarre sci fi thriller based on the short story button button by richard matheson will be determined by how far they are willing to take this ludicrous premise the opening of the film is particularly problematic in grounding itself in a sense of realism with the household richard kelly's previous film donnie darko cleverly used the condition of schizophrenia to justify its excursion into paranormal activity and parallel universes without the dream like state of that far superior film the box and the very thought of a device that can kill anyone in the world is entirely implausible that norma would also accept someone into her house that has almost the same scarring as two face from the dark knight and believe this offer seems equally contrived br br if this sounds unlikely so far what follows is even more absurd involving a conspiracy about someone who was struck by lightning the possibility of alien life or some other godly being influencing these situations scenes involving gateways opening up in public libraries random nose bleeds and mindless drones stalking the lewis family become almost unintentionally comical in their absurdity to a point the film could be called intriguing purely to see where it is going kelly is occasionally clever in his ability to hold our attention through many of the films contrivances in one scene norma is teaching a class and then is asked by a strange boy about her foot he taunts her about it as she is missing four of her toes later at a rehearsal dinner for a wedding that norma and arthur are attending this same student appears as a waiter and seems to be stalking them yet the eventual justification for these all of these oddities is wrapped up in a highly contrived sci fi revelation that many will find implausible and difficult to swallow br br what is most disappointing about the film is that once the button is pressed surprisingly early on many of the moral implications that were initially promised are diminished for much of pictures duration the ending which won't be spoilt here resurfaces these moral questions again in the hope of echoing that of a greek tragedy while the resemblances can be seen by this point given the unlikelihood of so much of the film and the uneven performances there is little reason to care cameron diaz's southern accent might be unnecessary but it is surprisingly langella who is the most disappointing in the film with a very unsubtly written role as the mysterious scarred man who seems to be hiding a military base that would make dr evil proud it really is just a shadow of his towering performance in frost nixon there is not a lot for many of the other actors in the film to do in particular both norma and arthur could not be regarded as characters but mouthpieces for kelly's pastiche of ideas underdeveloped and brief conversations such as where norma sympathises with arlington over their deformities and also when norma and arthur question whether they really know each other in case the button kills either of them highlights this br br since 2001 richard kelly has failed to make a film that has lived up to the quality and the imagination of donnie darko though this film might be intriguing for a little while it is too absurd and implausible to be fully enjoyed and it would certainly not warrant multiple viewings given the film's rather illogical revelations science fiction fans might be able to appreciate it somewhat more and draw their own conclusions but what kelly is really trying to say beneath the surface remains cryptic the box is one film this year that should have been shelved
0	no no no no no no no this is not a film this is an excuse to show people dancing this is just not good even the dancing is slow and not half as entertaining as the mediocre 'dirty dancing' let alone any other good dance movie br br is it a love story is it a musical is it a drama is it a comedy it's not that this movie is a bit of all it's that this movie fails at everything it attempts to be the film turns out to be even more meaningless as the film progresses br br acting is terrible from all sides the screenplay is definitely trying to tell us something about relationship but fails miserably br br watch for the moment when patrick stewart enters the scene and you think the film might get better as he brightens up the dull atmosphere for a second
0	blake edwards' legendary fiasco begins to seem pointless after just 10 minutes a combination of the eagle has landed star oh what a lovely war and edwards' pink panther films darling lili never engages the viewer the aerial sequences the musical numbers the romance the comedy and the espionage are all ho hum at what point is the viewer supposed to give a damn this disaster wavers in tone never decides what it wants to be and apparently thinks it's a spoof but it's pathetically and grindingly square old fashioned in the worst sense audiences understandably stayed away in droves it's awful james garner would have been a vast improvement over hudson who is just cardboard and he doesn't connect with andrews and vice versa and both andrews and hudson don't seem to have been let in on the joke and perform with a miscalculated earnestness blake edwards' sob isn't much more than ok but it's the only good that ever came out of darling lili the expensive and professional look of much of darling lili only make what it's all lavished on even more difficult to bear to quote paramount chief robert evans 24 million dollars worth of film and no picture
0	enter the ninja 1981 was the first of several ninja films produced by cannon starring or co starring japanese sensation sho kosugi but the star of the first ninja film was legendary tough guy franco nero sadly not even mr nero or sho kosugi couldn't make this film watchable when you have two bad dudes in an action film and it's neither watchable or fun somethings amiss but i digress skip this chapter and watch the next films in the series they're more interesting and a whole lot of fun br br next is revenge of the ninja instead of playing the evil oriental i use that term tongue in cheek mind you he's the star strange for a western film watch that one instead br br not recommended except for die hard sho kosugi fans or cannon film buffs
0	this film simply has no redeeming features the story is incomprehensible and the script is gross sadistic and stupid the sex scenes are a joke as is the inevitable car chase the music is awful the acting is limited largely to growling and smirking a half star dud shame on directv for putting it on pay per view in a theater people might well have thrown soda at the screen
0	mockney comes to brighton despite a poor reception in the british press and state funded british cinema written all over it i rather hoped that we'd get a bit of the grimy hard nosed london by the sea of graham greene br br it doesn't even aspire to this characters straight out of their clone 'n crimp trailers reproduce guy ritchie's types the format looks more like a british tv series than a film brighton is a backdrop goldmine wasted with plastic studio work br br i watched this film in pursuit of a good performance from famke janssen she's a bit slick for this company her brand of big screen belonging more to blockbusters such as deep rising as for acting a role even the search continues circus is boring 3 10
0	boring cliched and predictable the only original bit was the brighton location for gangsters it is certainly no lock stock etc hannah was likeable in sliding doors in circus i developed no empathy with his character and couldn't give a toss what happened to either him or his girlfriend although this movie was so cliched and predictable the ending was no surprise i was so uninterested i didn't even care why the movie was given the name circus booooring don't visit this big top
0	this film could of been a hell of a lot better if they didn't use brian conley as a gangster and if they didn't start the film with christopher br br when i watched this film i had absolutely no idea what was going on there were too many double crosses and plot twists to make the film believable the film deserves a 0 but seeing as i there isn't a 0 i gave it a 1 br br i wouldn't recommend this film to my worst enemy i would rather poke out my eyeballs with some rusty scissors than watch this film again i'm telling you that was an hour and a half of my life i won't get back br br if you want to watch a gangster film don't get this watch going off big time or lock stock and two smoking barrels instead
0	circus could have been so much better if they had reduced the number of twists and developed each better the film features a very gifted cast that mostly perform well however it totally loses the audience basically everyone is back stabbing everyone else and not back stabbing them at the same time because they are backstabbing someone else and working with did i lose you well the film is even more confusing clearly written by a first timer writer it has some redeeming qualities though in the acting especially famke janssen shines as lily but sadly gets a lot of useless screen time just standing there doing nothing the dialogue is a bit cheesy and the accents sometimes irritating but its still worth watching if you're a fan of any of the actors especially john and famke who get the most screen time just remember to watch it with a notebook so you can write down who is double crossing who every second
0	br br i was fascinated to read the range of opinions on circus' from awesome breathtaking and most things between right down to golden turkey candidate' i find myself in the latter camp br br the producers obviously thought that if they mixed plenty of over the top violence with barrages of four letter expletives they'd have another lock stock and two smoking barrels' on their hands a pity that they forgot to include wit style charm and flair and it was certainly a mistake to feature a visit to welles' classic the lady from shanghai' thus serving to remind us how much better cinema can be br br john hannah gets his shirt off at every opportunity a huge american drives around in a mini minor as circus' pathetically strains for cult status and even the beautiful amanda donohoe can't add any class to these proceedings br br if you want to see a good brit film try the sublime wonderland'
0	would somebody please explain why anybody would want to make a british neo noir crime film with a cast almost entirely american the accents spoken in this film are bloody awful but entirely in keeping with the performances which are so wooden one fears to strike a match for setting the cast on fire br br really what kind of disgusting moronic cynical crud is this even neo noir films have some character you either feel for or want to feel for even if they're wretched and doomed they at least have some decency to them some sense that what they've done is wrong or that a seemingly good plan has gone wrong and that somehow they're stuck with the responsibility for it br br not in this stew these characters are putrid betraying each other themselves and the audience br br also note that they are low lives all right nothing wrong with that except that they seem to be living a life of luxury for a film supposedly about desperate petty thieves the keynote here is ennui it's all so terribly dull and dross doncha know so let's just rip some people off or maybe murder them and go get laid in a luxury hotel what ambition br br this whole mess to some bottom of swampy muck are boringly uneven pacing predictable 'action' sequences that aren't banal and incoherent set design made for bad tv camera work and editing forgettable score and an entire lack of any imagination or innovation in production and direction br br wholly unbelievable unlikeable and for less dedicated movie watchers or masochists like myself utterly unwatchable br br there are other nasty things i would like to say about this nasty film but they wouldn't print them here suffice it to say you can probably find something more useful to do with your time than watch this film just about anything in fact
0	i think that saying this film has too many is not what makes this film bad the twists are not the problem of the film the story is quite clever and could have been very cool if filmed right the major problems why everyone is complaining about the twists in the film is that the film is just not fascinating enough to make people follow them the film is badly shot at least in comparison to its genre brother lock stock worse the characters are although often well acted just plain flat the characters don't have enough time to be introduced well enough to let the viewer get involved with a single one of them let alone understand them oh and the locations are just terrible locations person i didn't bother to watch the credits for your name get another job maybe still photography or interior design
0	they are good stand up comedians young not ugly have money the girls love them the audience is appreciating everything there doing br br and then they made this film br br no story at all some jokes were old in the fifties the acting is awful save your money for something useful like a gift for your girlfriend
0	a box with a button provides a couple with the opportunity to be financially free but the cost is the life of someone they've never met this is a very tedious film to watch richard kelly who wrote and directed it decided to make a film without any payoff you are taken on a ride of slow build ups one after the other with minor revelations at best at certain moments i thought to myself this will have major significance at the end but nothing does the film just leaves one thinking this story could have been told in 30 minutes without all the stretched out nonsense i will hope you avoid this god awful film and maintain your sanity by doing so
0	years ago the feature film tried to be some kind of regional blockbuster in austria one thing's for sure i hope no one outside will ever have to see this one perhaps if you are familiar with the original sitcom it could be interesting to watch what director made of his series i think he missed his chance and wasted time and money br br so far many director's and writers have failed to make a series concept compatible to a 90min movie consider alf inspector gadget you can see how hard this is by watching ma the result of this attempt in my opinion tastes like a never ending tv episode and not a good one it fails to deliver a plot the humor tries too hard and the directing seems very unfocused as holds true for the visual style br br so summing up i'd clearly not recommend this one
0	to anyone who likes the tv series forget the movie the jokes are bad and some topics are much too sensitive to laugh about it br br we have seen much better acting by r in 8
0	i'm a fan of judy garland vincente minnelli and gene kelly but this movie just left me cold i was expecting another american in paris from minnelli so perhaps i was expecting too much br br the movie was short on songs and short of impressive dance numbers i was impressed by the very expressionistic kelly dance as on the ship i was also impressed by the nicholas brothers in be a clown too bad the song was so annoying i also enjoyed judy attacking kelly with a check lorna autobiography for some interesting information on that scene br br actually the movie has what must be some of cole porter's most annoying songs especially nina also judy and gene yell constantly like screechy children br br the plot is thin which is par for the course for musicals but it is not saved by impressive dance numbers or by memorable songs i suspect the best parts of this movie were left on the cutting room floor please some movie find those bits of film and show us what the movie could have been
0	well the movie has catherine zeta jones in it it's a hallmark television movie it's from a thomas hardy novel it has catherine zeta jones in it she is by far the only one in the movie who acts better than in my high school theater class oh yes it has clive owen in it i'm not british so that means almost as much as being a thomas hardy novel except he was in the bourne identity and i liked that that just about wraps it all up folks that really all there was i'm becoming repetitive but i do like so i stuck it out to the end the computer is telling me that i don't have 10 lines and i keep counting them i always count 11 but maybe it just doesn't like my style but that is my opinion of the movie too
0	i saw this hallmark television movie when it originally aired i lost interest in the story because a character was said to be a witch i just was not in the right frame of mind to watch this film but hallmark stands for the best quality films now there is a reason to give this film a second look clive owen who plays damon just might have a chance to be selected as the next james bond 007 when pierce brosnan passes it on clive owen might have to wait until the year 2008 the other reason is the female lead is catherine zeta jones is now a celebrity she was an unknown at the time and became an academy award winner for outstanding supporting actress in 2003 joan plowright as mrs is also in this film i like the opening line in this film deliver my heart from this fearful lonely place send me a great love from somewhere or else i shall die truly i shall die
0	i rented this because i couldn't pass up the chance to see pre hollywood fame clive owen and catherine zeta jones together but it definitely wasn't worth it the only reason i give it two stars instead of one is for the novelty of seeing them before they made it big across the pond br br zeta jones who is usually fun to watch even if she isn't the greatest thesp in the world is awful owen seems really uncomfortable to be in such a turkey plus he wears a ridiculous ill fitting chin length wig at least i hope that's a wig and not his real hair and the scene where he dances a country jig with zeta jones just makes you embarrassed for him joan plowright walks around in a daze the whole movie she's probably wondering how she got herself into such a mess br br the actress who plays clive owen's wife isn't terrible but just about everyone else is oh and the writing stinks too
0	this film is an almost complete waste of time i am studying the book for my english a level and the film only contributes in one way and that's getting across that the whole scenario is set in a rural idyll the acting is wooden the filmography is laughable and the so called dramatic scenes in the film had the majority of my class including me snickering into their texts the book although not my favourite literary choice is miles better than the film is and the sound track is just plain irritating don't watch this film unless you are looking for a timeless quality storyline transformed into mindless media waste
0	remember the wooden undramatic literary adaptations of the 1970s at their worst you will when you see this broadly acted unintentionally hilarious piece of chocolate box adaptation most culpable of all is catherine z j who while undeniably easy on the eye substitutes swishing a big dress and looking sultry for actually turning in a performance played po faced like a melodrama or cold comfort farm without the jokes this effort is not helped by a scriptwriter with a tin ear for dialogue who misses entirely the novel's sense of irony or tragedy a shame given the quality of the acting talent on offer joan plowright claire skinner steven macintosh all deserve better than this
0	thomas hardy is one of my favorite authors some truly wonderful movies have been made from his novels far from the madding crowd tess of the the mayor of and i had high hopes for this one the hallmark hall of fame of return of the native totally wrecked it the cast was terrific the photography excellent but the script was dismal and the direction positively ruinous people walked up to people said lines walked away a meager excitement developed when clive owen and catherine zeta jones very young very beautiful exchanged a bit of flesh pressing but even clive who is a superb actor couldn't save it it was awash with the usual hallmark romantic strings background music and pretend bumpkins offering plot exposition and what could have been dynamite turned out to be awful the richness of the above three movies was absent
0	a couple of teenagers have a little sex on the beach in the 1960s that's all they say they are fifteen while one of the actors is really twenty five maybe this movie was somewhat revolutionary in 1978 in its way of touching topics but i can't imagine that at that time anything shown in was regarded as br br shallow dialogues are mixed with disco music that is even shallower the selection of songs doesn't involve anything but the very very well known that are still heard on every second radio station today the plot of american pie is not much different but it is at least a little bit funny eskimo is dull flat and not aesthetic almost unbelievable that it had six sequels
0	set in 1976 for no apparent reason other than to keep the set dressers busy 'the box' was directed by richard kelly and stars cameron diaz and james marsden as norma and arthur lewis a young couple who are supposedly struggling financially even though they both have successful careers she as a high school teacher he as an optical specialist at langley virginia research center they have one child walter sam oz stone br br one day the find a parcel on their doorstep containing a black box with a big red button there is a note from a 'mr steward' indicating that he will return at 5 00 pm to explain about the box br br the mysterious arlington steward played by frank langella shows up at the appointed time attired in an elegant row suit he is polite but businesslike however his most noticeable feature is his face half of which appears to have been blown off and improperly attended to langella is the only thing worth watching in the movie however he is unfortunately upstaged by his own makeup which resembles that of harvey 'two face' dent aaron from christopher nolan's 'the dark knight ' it's like the elephant in the room one can try to ignore it but it's more than a little distracting br br steward explains that he will return in 24 hours to collect the button if during that time they decide to unlock and push the button he will give them 1 million cash the only catch and it's a big one is that somewhere a stranger will die it might be across town it might be on another continent however steward assures them the victim will be someone unknown to them as a show of good faith he leaves them with a crisp 100 bill theirs to keep whether they push the button or not br br arthur and norma are skeptical believing the whole thing to be a scam or an elaborate hoax however it isn't long before they begin to wonder what would happen if they did push the button would they really get a million dollars would somebody really die weary of the speculation norma slaps the button nothing happens however their initial relief gives way to alarm when steward shows up the next day with a briefcase full of cash they decide to call the whole thing off however steward tells them it's too late you've already pushed the button he explains as steward's limo pulls away arthur notes the license number which he later discovers is registered to the nsa national security agency br br at this point the film begins to veer deeply into territory as the secondary characters start springing nosebleeds and flashing peace signs meanwhile the town becomes invaded by pudgy slack jawed geeks in bad shirts who start following arthur around like an advance scouting party for a race of zombie alien nerds arthur eventually becomes trapped by the menacing in the library where steward's spinsterish wife shows up whom we haven't seen till now and informs arthur that in order to get out of the library he must step into one of three vertical columns of cheesy looking digital water effects 'what happens if i choose the wrong one ' arthur asks seeming far less baffled than he ought to be under the circumstances and certainly far less baffled than the audience is by this time 'eternal damnation ' the spinster says ominously br br arthur steps into the middle column of digital liquid effects and after a brief absence suddenly appears still in his water cocoon hovering over bed when she wakes up and sees him the water bubble bursts and arthur tumbles onto the bed in a shower of water which oddly enough continues to drip from the overhead water pipes just out of camera range while a sodden marsden and diaz flop around on the bed br br it's confusing i know br br we eventually learn that steward was once the public relations officer for the nsa until he was struck by a lightning bolt that destroyed part of his face he was pronounced dead but later came back to life having been transformed into a sort of superman who now serves 'the ones who make the lightning ' and whose powers have enabled him to take over the cia the nsa and nasa all by himself br br and what is the point of all this rubbish apparently steward's mission is to subject humans to a kind of biblical character test e g the of to determine whether humanity is worth saving if enough people pass the button test by refusing to push it steward's god like overlords will spare the race unfortunately those people who do push the button such as norma and arthur must be punished for their moral spinelessness to which end they are subjected to a series of dreary 'lady or the tiger' ordeals that play out like one of those 'saw movies ' except without the entertaining gore or the benefit of a coherent plot br br 'the box' represents the sort of pointless mental masturbation that freshman philosophy students like to blather on about after a few beers richard kelly's tedious exercise in existentialist eventually collapses under the weight of its own incomprehensibility the tortured melange of insupportable ideas eventually as with the mixing together of too many colors into a meandering gray goo of a film as insipid as one of those in flight movies the plot of which suffers no more or less from having been interrupted by a leisurely nap br br there is a point in 'the box' where arthur who is a technically minded guy becomes curious about how the button works opening up the unit he is disappointed to find nothing inside br br having seen the box i know exactly how he feels
0	this is a weak throw together of just about everything refugees croatia slovenia relations globalization sexual orientation a very big clumsy metaphor about slovenia being at the cross roads between its past which is symbolized by everything virgin becoming queen of the household and its future which is symbolized by listening to music in clubs and being a lesbian and never having kids br br it plays on a rather recent slovenian legend involving a virgin and a forest king assuming the shape of a goat imagery is also based on that legend but unfortunately the treatment is very incoherent weiss seems to think the end justifies the means she can use all kinds of dream like sequences and then pick and choose which ones true and which ones are imaginary how can the ride in the jeep with the forest king be real for all three girls but the scene outside the tent be real only in imaginary the ending just drags on and on i can't believe the movie's runtime is only 98 minutes have i been watching a director's cut without knowing it with the three girls having to look at the camera for about 10 seconds while looking afraid and happy at the same time so obvious br br i never thought i could spot bad acting in a movie whose language i don't understand but it didn't take long to see that is over acting most of the time as if she was playing in a silent movie br br it wasn't so bad as i kept thinking the director was just starting and wanted to capture what she thought her generation was all about on film by doing a half experimental movie until i realized that the director was actually 37 years old when making the movie and that her work is probably serious
0	i can confidently say that this is the worst film i have ever seen and i usually love foreign films the movie is nothing more than poorly made violent pornography if you choose to see it prepare yourself for endless sexism gratuitous nudity shots and a stupid sensationalized rape scene which i'm sure is the main appeal for the people who like the movie br br additionally the plot meanders aimlessly and none of the characters is likable many scenes are filmed from the woods surrounding the river the girls are on to give a constant feeling that someone is stalking them which was a pathetic attempt to make up for the lack of story to tell br br perhaps i wouldn't have wasted my time to see the movie if it had been accurately described in reviews
0	three young college women and pia go on an adventure canoing down the river dividing their slovenia from neighboring croatia in this 2002 slovenian film by maya weiss what could have been an eastern european version of the well known and exciting 1972 deliverance turned out for me to be utterly uninspiring with flat character portrayals that denied sympathetic identification with the characters br br and are not convincing as students at all though expresses a desire to be a writer and both use what seemed to me to be excessive bad language is bored with her boyfriend and seems to just be drifting along in life even less scholarly is a self absorbed adventure seeker with an attraction to other women i had some sympathy with relatively innocent conservative and starry eyed the very idea of these three traveling together just doesn't work for me the disdain that and show toward makes no sense why would they choose her as a travel companion to start with as surely they must know her demeanor and attitudes br br the three begin a carefree journey down the river on two canoes undeterred by a news story of a woman's disappearance along the river things become more somber with the mysterious appearance sometimes real and sometimes possibly hallucinatory of a rabidly conservative fisherman politician jonas br br i did enjoy the scenes along the river and of small villages the trio visit it may be because of a lack of cultural understanding but the film didn't move me otherwise i was surprised to see that the film has won some awards
0	half a mystical thriller and half the fractured fantasies of a fragile mind guardian of the frontier is an engaging trip that soon derails strong imagery and a compelling premise is soon overwhelmed by incoherent plotting hackneyed dialogue amateurish acting and the most outlandish and over the top phallic imagery in recent memory here a fish is most definitely not just a fish evidently this is the first slovenian feature film to be directed by a woman ms weiss must have been determined to prove that she could be as lurid and gratuitously explicit as any man
0	it's funny one day before i have seen this movie i had been watching a documentary about leni riefenstahl so comparison kind of came automatically of course there isn't any br br this movie is weak in every aspect acting is not convincing especially the one who plays and unnatural editing in confused and always leaves a taste of unfinished shot music doesn't fit the story doesn't flow it gets boring and the movie comes out much longer as it is oh and the characters aren't very well shown you actually can't tell much about the girls except what you see the movie also tries to shock with explicit cursing which is very laughable br br so 2 10
0	after hearing that some of the people behind the low budget flicks terror in rock'n'roll and it came from outer space and stuff were involved in making this movie i decided to buy it unseen on dvd i wish i hadn't the other movies were funny tongue in cheek and kinda stupid while is devoid of any humor at all and it is so god awful that i'm getting angry just thinking about it the worst actors possible the worst script possible the worst special effects available and the most unsexy sex scene ever uhhh and the whole thing goes on for 2 hours and 45 minutes please do not ever make another movie
0	being a completely broke film buff with a house to furnish i'm a big fan of ikea my whole domicile practically is packed to the brim with the cheap particle board stuff and you know how all those stylish household items at ikea have those funny names a called and a bathroom mirror called a well it just adds to the whole euro charm br br like those interestingly named but horribly translated items on the shelves at ikea i'd like to provide a bit of translation to some of the reviews i've read about the swedish made br br original comment for a low budget film this is pretty cool stuff it would be great to see what these guys could do on a hollywood budget br br translation the film stock is crappy the lighting is pedestrian the cinematography is uninteresting the sound recording is hollow br br original comment david sci fi drama set in a strange forest town with equally strange characters br br translation these actors are acting for free the storyline is circular and tiring the ideas that the flick desperately try to be existential but are simply mundane and the settings especially the interiors are dull and filled with ugly wallpaper br br original comment the editing is well done and the conservative use of computer graphics shows that compelling cgi effects don't have to come out of a hollywood studio br br translation when you've got sketchy cinematography to begin with hide the imperfections by digitizing all of it onto a mac and blending vigorously for three minutes ingenious br br i took a chance on this dvd because i'm a sucker for independent films especially those that attempt to tackle the often expensive and awe inspiring genre of science fiction i mean some of the best sci fi flicks of all time have been realized with little or no budget and actors take peter fonda's eco warning time travel flick idaho transfer for example a classic br br but doesn't fit the category of carefully crafted low key idea dependent sci fi it relentlessly focuses on characters that don't do much and don't say interesting things it goes round and round in circles it is much too long this coming from a major tarkovsky fan worse its concept of reality shifting aliens is twilight zone fodder from 40 years ago it's just not a well made film and i really wanted it to be dammit br br however being the ikea fan i am i did make one ground shattering observation first anyone who has shopped at ikea knows how their tricky shopping carts work all four wheels being the carts can spin a perfect 360 degrees and it takes some familiarity to handle them like a pro as any avid ikea shopper knows well i'll be damned but one of the lead actresses in goes to some dinky grocery store in the middle of nowhere and what is she pushing around a shopping cart so that's not an ikea invention after all but is yet another wonderful invention let's call it a for the hell of it from the land of doo
0	s l o w l o n g d u l l br br oh my god dull br br characters so annoying you'll cringe every time you see or the guy that played from now on they must have never rehearsed or reviewed the film in progress mel gibson was absolutely wooden br br this may not be the worst movie ever made but that it went almost straight to video says it is darn close br br
0	br br i rented this movie on 20 june 2001 and watched it for about 45 minutes i concluded that watching a blank screen would be delightful by comparison there was not a single person in the cast for whom i would have shed a tear if hell itself had opened up and swallowed the whole bunch of them br br so i e mailed all of my friends and relatives warning them and i am taking the time to urge everyone who may see this note to avoid this movie like the plague i have seen some really bad movies in my time but never one as bad as this
0	pretty pictures with a cool sound track do not constitute a 'movie' like all pop promos pretentions are are outdone only by its' unjustifiable budget one dollar spent on this aimless purposeless dross was one dollar too many stick to penning pop songs bono
0	this must be the first movie i've rented and not seen to the end complete garbage the acting the plot set and wardrobe looked like it came from a porno movie with a plot not even a b move
0	it's the one film i almost walked out of and would have if my friends hadn't been in the movie theatre with me normally even if i don't like a film i think it's still worth sitting through it to the end that way you can really claim to have given it every chance to redeem itself but with the million dollar hotel it was so dreadful i just badly wanted the experience to end as quickly as possible i think i probably would not have been so sourly disappointed if this film had been made by a lesser director one i didn't normally like so much but coming from wenders it was all the more shocking to behold i know bono from u2 a good friend of wenders's wrote the script to this abysmal film and i wonder why wenders let him as buddy buddy as the two may have been stick to the day job bono is a sentence that easily springs to mind whilst viewing this mess pretentious disjointed a mish mash of every possible contemporary film stereotype a naive and transparent attempt at coming across as kooky and daring with the most irritating characters i have ever set eyes upon especially the leads jeremy davies milla jovovich and mel gibson none of whom i dislike normally the happiest ending i could have wished for would have been for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on their collective heads so as to get it all over with as soon as possible on a positive note the first five minutes of the film are extremely good with an extremely stirring soundtrack from u2 but the film's opening shots make the rest of the film which takes a spectacular nose dive from then on all the more disappointing as they are a promise of cinematic quality that's just never delivered not even close
0	perhaps i'm just a simple person but i prefer movies that somehow make me care about the people in them i couldn't care less about anyone in this movie this was supposed to be a comedy maybe the humor was too subtle for me all the way down to the nano level the thing about it is it missed on so many things there were characters that could have been funny but they weren't there were characters that you could have liked but you didn't for instance the guy who thought the beatles ripped off his songs there was so much potential there but all he did was talk like a beatle and complain about how they ripped him off haha and the previous poster talked about the 'i am the scene like it was special what he played 'i am the on an old piano and sang out of tune is there an inside joke there it sure stank at face value this movie has the feel to me of a movie people say they like because it sounds 'intellectual' or 'hip' to say you like it that you get the whole metaphysical art garbage message the artist is expressing if you want to be entertained stay away
0	this movie just stunk i know that some people will say that anybody who thinks it is no good just doesn't get it i like wenders in american friend and wings of desire but this is utter dreck the main character is so annoying that i couldn't care less what he does he is as has been said in another review bouncing around like a little annoying monkey i just couldn't stand him or force myself to care this is the case with most of the characters who just seem to be trying to hard to be or weird i liked the mel gibson character and the milla jovovich characters and wish they would have focused more on them milla is of course beautiful pitiful and you really feel for her and what she has been thru and why she is the way she is i see gibsons character as almost frankenstien like i just wish he would have save milla and brunt the hotel down with all the worthless boring characters that lived in it milla rating 10 movie rating 0
0	even mel gibson couldnt save this slop of a movie this was one of the worst movies i have ever seen why would mel gibson make a movie that im sure he couldnt sit and watch what was this a total goofball on some heavy drugs stalking a lady who was also on some heavy street drugs for all the moviegoers out there on heavy drugs you will love this movie
0	riccardo may have a good reputation but since we now that many of his best films were in fact directed by the late great mario bava it's clear that he wasn't one of italy's most gifted filmmakers back in the seventies this film pretty much proves that as despite the simplistic plot it's a sprawling mess and overall i'd even have to go as far as to say that tragic ceremony is worse than insipid giallo effort the iguana with the tongue of fire apparently disowned this movie and i certainly don't blame him the plot simply follows a bunch of kids that run out of petrol in the middle of nowhere they happen upon a house while searching for fuel but it turns out to be a bad choice as the owner is just about to conduct a satanic ceremony ho hum the film features a lead role for camille keaton who would go on to star in the exploitation classic i spit on your grave some years later but fails to make an impression here despite acting alongside a cast of talentless performers the film features one decent gore scene towards the end but this really isn't enough considering that it takes eighty minutes of tedium to get there i have a high tolerance for rubbish italian films that don't make sense but even i couldn't stand this one miss it miss nothing
0	on the way home from a day at the beach four young people seek shelter from a torrential downpour at the home of lord and lady alexander after their car runs out of gas they don't know it but the house they're staying in is to be the site of a satanic ritual jane camille keaton the only female of the group is to be sacrificed as her male companions rush to her aid one of them accidentally kills lady alexander things really get out of hand and everyone else attending the black mass is also killed the four try to make an escape but soon discover there's no escape from what they've witnessed one by one they meet their fates br br gong into tragic ceremony i was positive i would enjoy it slow burn gothic horror is right up my alley i'm also quite fond of some of riccardo other movies like the horrible dr the ghost and i tragic ceremony seemed to be a sure thing unfortunately things don't always work out the way they should the biggest tragedy with respect to tragic ceremony is the time i spent watching this mess of a movie with a few minor exceptions nothing about the film appealed to me or worked for me the characters are unlikeable the plot is incoherent and schizophrenic and the pacing is terrible there's a subplot about some cursed pearls that goes nowhere and only serves to confuse things even further in addition nothing interesting happens for most of the movie by the time the four leads realize they're in danger i was well past the point of caring and i don't understand the reviews i've read that praise the acting of camille keaton i suppose it's a terrific performance if you consider an emotionless daze to be acting the three male leads are the very definition of nondescript they do nothing to stand out the supporting cast includes some genre favorites like luigi pistilli luciana paluzzi and paul muller but none is given anything to do in fact muller's main contribution is a two minute long monologue at the end of the movie that attempts to explain what happened in the previous 80 or so minutes it's a weak attempt to provide a wrap up to a very weak movie
0	this late ish effort from plays as a modern day 70's that is gothic thriller but comes out short of thrills certainly it's not a dreadfully bad film it's jut got that feeling which many of later films have of someone who has given up when he's seen the first it starts out good enough almost giallo like in tone then takes a turn into gothic territories with a decent albeit terribly cliché set up then suddenly seems to have lost interest in the film and all we get is prolonged shots of camille keaton and burning candles then circa an hour into the film we get some sort of violent climax with decent to poor special effects this is followed by a slow paced with a very obvious twist ending if it's even intended to be a twist and throw a few very halfhearted explanatory scenes along the way and you got tragic ceremony thus in parts it's got its qualities but then suddenly stumbles and collapses in front of you a pity br br btw stay away from the dvd a useless murky pan scan edition which kills of what could be a good visual experience
0	i will repeat what a stupid scenario br br is there anything new inside i don't know who have wrote this but i believe this guy have watch all hollywood children family teens movies ever made all scenes and u can see in everywhere why do u people making this movies children's like an adults they like money gold cars and they are positives they have lucky and emotions of course without it can be done o the young actors wow i do like when is camera concentrated on their nice faces what a crap there is 90 better children movies that this one this is not creative or funny movie this is simply nothing br br d
0	this is one of those family movies that i can't imagine having much appeal to anyone over about 9 a group of siblings discovers a sand fairy yes really conveniently located at the end of a not so secret passage at the country home of their eccentric uncle to which they've been evacuated from the london blitz and there you have it all in one sentence the story is about the role of magic in childhood and the danger of getting wishes fulfilled but neither of these issues is examined in a way that would be interesting to adults or instructive to children or vice versa the only reason i can think of for watching this is to see how starkly freddie outstanding talent stands out from the rest of the mediocre performances
0	the great war breaks out and daddy is a brave pilot who goes off to carry out some unsightly business to put jerry in his place mummy is doing her bit as a nurse so the five children are evacuated to their barmy uncle in the country where a secret passageway takes them to a mischievous sand fairy and the beginning of a magical adventure br br based on a book written the best part of a century ago they don't make stories like this anymore and there's a reason the men fly planes and author books the women change bandages and clean house the boys lead the way with their compasses and nighttime the girls do what they are told and play violin badly fat kids who wear specs are nasty all the kids speak in those clipped vowel flattening accents that are soppy and prim but which a certain economic class of english people cultivate on top of the snobbery and yearning for imperial there are plot holes a five year old would not tolerate i mean that literally my son was asking why the father disappeared before sunset why the compass didn't just drop from his hand as he disappeared the film at least tries to aim strictly for the kids until a completely inappropriate and unfunny monologue by eddie izzard what a waste of genuine comic talent plays over the final credits br br no doubt the five percent of british schoolkids who go to expensive public schools in the uk will find it all such a jolly for the other 95 percent of british families who no longer live in the 19th century the good news is wall e ratatouille and wallace and gromit are all out on dvd
0	without being really the worst science fiction film ever made or the worst i have seen 'time under fire' is still much under average the premises and the first 10 15 minutes are not that bad it starts as a x files story combining bermuda triangle mysteries with time travel pretty soon elements of other genres too many mix together but the story never takes off beyond the level of interest of a tv series soon 'time under fire' quickly degenerates into a series of clichés not only mixing altogether too many genres but also being unable to create anything memorable in suspense or special effects that would help viewers remember the movie until tomorrow acting is bad and the rhetoric lines in the script do not help at all
0	1st watched 10 29 2006 4 out of 10 dir john stephenson mildly entertaining story of a group of five kids who are forced to live with their eccentric uncle while their father and mother fight work in world war i as england entered the war they are told not to go in the greenhouse of the uncle's mansion which of course they do over and over and they discover a sand fairy who them daily wishes that only last until the sun goes down this is the it referred to in the title created by the jim henson group and voiced by eddie izzard the problem is their wishes usually bring about other problems that they are supposed to learn from this part of the movie is not done very well because it's obvious the children primarily the freddie character do not learn from them but instead keep going back to it to solve their next big problem it is not nearly as funny as it could have been with the comedian eddie izzard really not given much opportunity to improvise and kenneth branagh is wasted as the eccentric uncle although he is the best character the children are fine as far as their acting abilities but the story probably would have been much better going into the fantasy realm but they did have a human story to tell as well which probably caused the confusion with the filmmakers so all in all this was an ok film but could have been much better
0	i would think that this was one of those films whose director hadn't read the book it was based on were it not for the fact that they are just slightly similar it is certainly possible for a great film to be based very loosely on a book and this was certainly the latter but not the former br br there were a number of flaws one was that it tried to be too much like the railway children probably because adults would expect this being from the same author another is that it also sought to be too like harry potter down to the music and in the setting i have nothing against j k or the films but the book is just nothing like the harry potter ones i thought the though very well voiced by eddie izzard and in character too was almost gratuitously in a totally inappropriate environment i may have missed something here as the comments made about one of the characters' own books may have been a reference to the inaccuracy of the adaptation there was also no need for the extra characters and today's special effects could easily have been used to tell the story as it was written but they weren't br br i saw this film with my two children one of whom knows the book and the other of whom doesn't the one who does know it thought it was all right but wasn't as enthusiastic as the one who doesn't i'm not sure what this means
0	schieder delivers a semi believable part as the president of the united states with politically correct maria conchita alonzo as the female vice president the movie just stinks with so many plot holes its a wonder they got it to stick to the film it was shot on relegated to late night hbo time schedules this film is not worth seeing at all 10 minutes into it you are asking yourself why it was written 40 minutes into it you are wondering why you are watching it save the effort and watch a re run of hee haw or something anything is better than this clunker
0	ugh this movie has so many unbelievable plot contrivances that they made what could have been a good movie into a hideous mess the story is halfway decent but the holes in the plot make the execution literally laughable we're actually supposed to believe that the secret service would go against all common sense and allow the president of the united states to be put at unbelievable risk if this is an indication of the kind of thinking that passes for good judgment among the president's protectors then we're all in trouble roy scheider turns in a good performance as the president but it is unfortunately offset by the truly loathsome acting of patrick muldoon who somehow continues to get jobs in hollywood based solely upon his good looks and his uncanny knack of smirking at every opportunity regardless of whether the script calls for a smirk perhaps someone will see this and be inspired to make a good movie from the premise or perhaps someone will see it and say hey if they can get a movie this bad made maybe i can too
0	poorly done political actioner badly photographed acted and directed every single scene is including those very few that are shot during the daytime it doesn't matter what the location is at an important conference in the white house no lights are on and the only available lighting is a gloomy blue that is filtered through a few windows the of china conducts an earth shattering phone conversation under conditions of such intense chiaroscuro that he should be contemplating a bust of homer in a rembrandt painting honest it's as if he had a tiny spotlight on his face and was otherwise in total darkness the slow motion deaths are by now obligatory in any ill thought out movie br br roy scheider and maria conchita alonzo do well by their roles but scheider is rarely on screen the other performances are dismissable there is a pretty oriental woman in a short tight skirt who totes a gun and is right out of a bond movie who's accent suggests a childhood spent in basset nebraska and who should have remained the model she probably started out as whoever plays the surviving secret service agent aboard the cruise ship was probably picked for the part because he looked most like johnny depp not because of any display of talent the chinese villains representing both taiwan and mainland china hiss and grin as they threaten the heroes br br the script is pretty awful recycled from other better films there is a lot of shooting aboard the ship and practically everyone winds up mincemeat two thirds of the way through the ship explodes into the expected series of fireballs then the movie splits into two related parts part one another shootout this time in a waterfront warehouse part two an exchange between the vice president now acting president and the oily chinese premiere lifted out of both dr strangelove and fail safe we unwittingly launch our missiles they launch theirs in retaliation we cannot convince them that our launch was accidental even though we offer to help them destroy our own missiles there is even the george c scott walter matthau general who argues that their can't match ours so we should hit them with everything we've got more fireballs br br the end comes none too soon
0	coc had its moments i enjoyed the action sequences but i despised the screenplay and plot i hate this film so much i'll just write about the dumbest part first of all the plot would never happen second the bleakness of the chinese president was uncalled for that would never happen finally the dialogue employing non chinese actors to play chinese roles is understandable but to write dialogue for them that's totally off is dumb for those of you who understood the chinese in the film you know what i mean
0	this is no doubt one of the worst movies i have seen in a long time i was expecting alot more from the actors it started alright then things go from idiotic to absolutely ridiculous definitely not worth renting except if its a free rental
0	a film comes along that manages to be absolutely terrible from the opening titles on through to the studio logo tagged at the end of the closing credits this was such a film the very type you can not stop watching for fear of missing a moment of its ever descending quality br br forget the low budget that's indicated by a slow monotonous opening sequence that shows secret service agents running alongside a presidential with no crowds no traffic or location discernible forget the jumbled logic needed to even remotely make the actual plot seem plausible forget that roy scheider delivers some of the hammiest dialogue whilst completely failing to hide his shame br br this clunker is terribly paced bombarded by a score that's simply laughable and seems edited by a third grader all the while twisting scenarios to cover up the hardest thing about filming a presidential storyline on the cheap making him seem presidential br br i honestly feel asleep briefly in the last reel and when i awoke i ran it back so as not to miss a single excruciating frame try this drinking game take a shot every time you see it blatantly aping another much better film you'll doze off too br br not since 'the man' w samuel l jackson and eugene levy have i seen such a delightfully unredeemable project i may give out copies as christmas gifts zero stars a thousand laughs
0	i at first thought this little fantasy excursion would be a little entertaining i was wrong br br a good cast roy scheider as the president didn't help it any the story had every conceivable possible worst case scenario that could take place in a terrorist nuclear disaster and none of it could possibly happen br br true the kidnapping of the president could only be accomplished with the inside help of a traitor in the secret service ala air force one but everything they depicted regarding the football and the helplessness of our country if were to fall into enemy hands is ludicrous to the nth degree seriously not even the president can fully over ride our missile control the case is only used to relay orders in this situation our system would have completely deleted the codes and the whole thing would go nowhere the destruction of beijing couldn't happen there would not have been a missile launch because the silo crews would have been instructed not to communications include a system there are just too many safe guards to prevent such a thing from happening br br true film's like fail safe and strangelove gave some credibility to the concept of us losing control of the system but this film goes too far and fails to suspend my concept of the unbelievable and that makes the experience a waste of the viewer's time this film is a failure
0	the best way to have fun in this movie is to count how many clichés it is rehashing snarling chinese gangsters a female vice president a duct that happens to be big enough to fit a big caucasian male shooting through the wall to kill the bad guy a situation where you need to snuff out some innocent people to prevent armageddon independence day scenes where you snuff out some memorable landmarks in a fireball the vice president in a nice well lighted room surrounded by subordinates while the chinese premier virtually alone in a dark room with just bit of dim light shining snarling as viciously as the slimy gangsters a lone hero left alone in a ship building airplane whatever wreaking havoc on clueless bad guys with big automatic weapons etc etc etc br br the second best way is to count how many zeroes you need to put after the decimal to accurately gauge the probability of the film scenario i counted up to 45 a president agreeing to a meeting on board a private vessel the impossibly non command from the nuke box the part where the chinese decided to play shoot 'em up etc etc man the earth is more likely fall into the sun than for this film to happen br br i admit the film was interesting until the point the evil taiwanese gangsters kidnapped the president then the boredom kicked in suspension of disbelief ceased and i started thinking the fun i'd have torturing this film
0	where do i begin the story was so bad it must have been written in a high school film club the acting was so wooden i felt sorry for the actors one actor even reminded me of what a deer must look like when staring into a car's headlights another actor has this constant look of being constipated but it was the dialog that takes the cake br br our hero says to his captors all holding submachine guns if you lay a finger on a female prisoner you will be dead moments later the strongest guard built like a truck and the only women prisoner go at it when our fearless leader who has this very annoying raspy gangster voice catches wind of this transgression he calmly walks up to the guard while machine guns are trained on him and in a split second snaps this giant guy's neck like he was breaking a tooth pick he then gets back in line while all the villains with their machine guns do absolutely nothing but essentially yell at him br br i could go on and on this movie is camp gem and if you have any sense of humor it's guaranteed to make you laugh so hard your eyes will tear
0	son you must stop the experiments i have started too bad nobody said this too whoever green lighted this project i was almost literally dragged to this movie by a friend of mine for a midnight showing when we were in high school now a midnight movie in high school on a friday night you are not expecting much but c'mon and upon seeing it again years later i sill stand by my original opinion of it great special effects but so what quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made unless you enjoy blood and guts and seeing some hollywood vets steiger hunter make fools of themselves for a buck yuck
0	the kindred opens to shots of a porsche racing along a highway it catches up with an old pick up truck and gets held up as it speeds past the pick up the driver benjamin j perry as ben perry shouts obscenities and honks his horn distracted he doesn't notice an obstruction ahead and crashes his porsche he is quickly freed from the wreckage and is taken to hospital on the way the paramedic randy harrington trying to save him suggests that he probably won't make it then the ambulance is attacked and forced off the road by a van the driver of the van jackson jim as james f beats the paramedic up and steals the patient the ambulance driver harry charles makes no attempt to stop him once the injured man has been placed into the van jackson turns his attention to harry whom seem to know each other harry asks jackson not to hit him because he broke his jaw 'last time' jackson punches harry to the floor and throws a bundle of money at him the film then makes it perfectly clear we are in san fransisco by showing a shot of the golden gate bridge sharon raymond is woken up by a phone call for her boyfriend dr john david allen brooks to inform him that his mother amanda kim hunter who has recently had a heart attack has regained consciousness works for a company called the and is delighted at the news and heads off to see her once there she asks him to go back to his old childhood house in a small town called shelter cove and destroy all of her notes and experiments especially the which has never heard of she also claims that he has a brother named anthony back at talks with a dr phillip lloyd rod steiger about his mother as they had both worked together before they had a falling out with each other and questions him about her research and if he knows of anyone called anthony he claims he knows nothing when amanda dies after a visit from the sinister dr lloyd decides to carry out his mothers request and try to find out who anthony is while paying his final respects at the funeral a woman named melissa amanda pays introduces herself to and says she was a big admirer of his mothers work and research after she helped her because melissa seems to know so much about his mothers work he invites her to the house as she may possibly be able to help find some answers to various questions he has sharon melissa and three lab assistants brad baxter peter frechette hart phillips timothy gibbs and cindy russell julia montgomery plus a girl with a watermelon named nell valentine z great name what were her parents thinking they get down to business straight away but find little of any interest for some reason no one at this point thinks to look in the basement which is just as well as there's something down there something large slimy and has lots of tentacles first it kills duke the dog then it moves on to larger prey when hart is attacked by something in a barn decides he must destroy all traces of his mothers work and whatever anthony is jointly co written and directed by stepehn carpenter and jeffery obrow carpenter also acted as cinematographer and obrow as producer this is a pretty poor film in my opinion the script is credited to five writers carpenter obrow earl john penny and joseph stefano and with five people working on it i'd like to think they could come up with something a little bit better and more coherent than this nothing is explained that well why did amanda create these monstrous sea creature human hybrids what is dr lloyd's interest and his motives why does he steal bodies from the back of why does he have a basement full of mutants why do none of these so called genetic scientists think to check the basement out could melissa act more suspiciously even if she tried why are none of the characters given any background why do people keep mentioning a substance found in sea creatures called when 99 9 of the audience isn't going to have clue what their on about there is also a serious lack of blood and gore only one person dies on screen just one and all the scientists survive in a vomit mushy 'happy ending' this is a horror film guys all we want to see is the slimy monsters kill and eat people in various gory ways the one on screen death is actually quite cool someone has slimy tentacles inserted under their skin in their ear and up their nose in the films only decent horror sequence to try and up the gore there is a scene where dr lloyd is experimenting on a skinned animal but it only lasts for a few seconds and in the context of the rest of the film doesn't mean a thing melissa also turns into a fish don't ask there's no nudity either which isn't a surprise the film looks professional enough with decent production values but is just so dull and plods along at a snails pace we don't even get to see the giant monster in the basement until 15 odd minutes before the end which is far too little far too late when it does make an appearance the effects are ok and that makes it even more of a shame that it wasn't used more overall i was very disappointed and i was expecting a lot better a horror film with only one on screen death and only three in total what's the world coming too
0	i first watched kindred in 1987 along with another movie called devouring waves i remember back then i hated them both and i have never really bothered to watch them again br br however i have recently started a crusade to collect as many 80's horror titles in their original boxed form that have been deleted for some time i have got myself quite a proud collection with many more titles on my list br br the kindred although i have not as yet got a copy is high priority as all the old movies i didn't like back then i now own and have now re watched and think they are brilliant and the bits i do remember of the kindred are now driving me to want to get hold of a copy a s a p br br hurray for the 80's and long live horror
0	director todd unexpected turn into sentimental coming out drama yields a predictable result nothing new to see here attractive but unconvincing leads these 20 somethings are supposed to be in high school dribbling out banalities about confused adolescent sexuality doesn't strike me as the best way to explore the promise of anonymous which was equally self involved but also honest raw and by comparison not all that maudlin i have no idea what to make of this drab and uninspiring movie other than to hope that finds another career sure it's unpretentious but so's mike br br no single attribute however is as awful as jim chintzy electronic score which grates non stop wall to wall for the full length of this movie if i'd seen this and heard this in a theatre i would have walked out thankfully on my laptop i could scrub and hit mute
0	awful is really all one needs to know first think of all the things that could be bad about a movie and then try to make a movie that is bad in all of these ways you will have made the state of maine should feel insulted it's much too nice a place to serve as the backdrop for such trite mindless boring schlock i'm a romantic and i always want movies about two people finding each other to succeed and i tried hard to find the good in this one it was tough very tough i couldn't find a glimmer of emotional connection among any of the characters in this exercise in humdrum dreariness except maybe in one or two of the bad guys br br maine is a good this movie is not
0	this movie has too many things going on another reviewer comments on the disjointed episodic nature of the film as reflecting the director's memories that's fine if that is how it was written and performed instead what we get is straight forward narrative some of the time that jumps around under and over leaves us dangling in some instances interrupts the flow with unnecessary digressions in other instances and otherwise simply doesn't work br br there are also some plot details that just don't work for example why drag a body onto a beach in an urban area in broad daylight as opposed to night time why leave your flat sheet on the body why would an artist who knew the joe character for a brief time decide to leave him everything even if it wasn't much this sub plot was poorly developed to make that point work for that matter why even have the man be an invalid or an artist other than to provide the money and the gratuitous nude posing scenes he could just as easily have been a photographer or a opera composer for that matter how does someone rate an apartment in an opera house particularly without some clear connection to the opera the coincidences are also both too obvious and to unclear and unexplained why would the guys take everything in the warehouse and disappear if tim was a 10 year old school mate in a town as small as how could joe lose track of him for 8 years especially if they knew each other well enough that one would recommend the other for a job br br some of the other subplots like the mother and her boyfriend s and the sister wanting to escape felt like padding there's some good ideas that might have made a feature with full development or could have been interesting shorts as completed this movie made little sense and offers even less
0	i'm probably one of the few people who defend and even enjoy frisk the project that put todd on the map if that is indeed where he is i appreciated that someone had the guts to take on dennis cooper and not back away from the material fairly rolls around in it judging from what he's done since then he's well suited for that type of material and should probably stick to it a would be teen coming out film is so misguided in so many ways it becomes unintentional comedy and i'm disappointed i have to report that br br first off our hero the high school senior joe is far too old in appearance to be playing 18 when we later meet a man who is supposed to be joe's teacher it's confusing as the sweaty faced guy looks much younger than the student he's teaching joe's mother looks younger than he does and doesn't act any older either second in joe's opening scenes he looked like he was either playing or actually experiencing mental challenges to his credit he got better as the film went on and i figured out he was playing young but it just wasn't working it was weird br br it's 15 minutes in before anything is revealed about who what and where these people are and why we should care the second scene in the film is an extended bit of business in a men's toilet room that considering where the story goes later is absolutely superfluous the subplot with the teacher goes nowhere at all even as a rite of passage for our young hero one minute joe is nervously trying his hand at bathroom stall sex a scene so un erotic it makes you truly wonder what anyone sees in the practice the next minute he's an expert at sexual blackmail and violent double crossing this is followed by an extended scene with the character we'll later learn is andrew and that's about all we learn about him other than he's apparently gay but not out yet br br there's a lot crammed in to the 1 44 running time which is about 20 minutes too long i can't imagine how it played with the mind numbingly long and pointless deleted scenes of joe walking around a sub plot copped from gods and monsters with an aged patron who spouts rhetoric pos of nothing played by an actor who obviously can't remember his lines he is conveniently dispatched with in a way dickens might have come up with on a slow week a mix n match almost four way between the boys and their girlfriends a gay bashing toilet tramp a would be wise sage in the form of a nellie queen and hasn't the nellie queen suddenly taken over the role of the hooker with the heart of gold as most tired stereo type who exists only to be degraded blackmail theft murder alcohol consumption and abuse of looping music software for soundtrack recording br br what you will not find in this movie are any interior establishing master shots we're expected to imagine we're in an airport grocery store office and classroom as all the scenes in these locations consist of close ups and poorly edited to convey the idea of locales that the production must not have been able to afford one thing they were able to get appears to have been an actual gay bar either it's the worst bar in the world or there are only about 5 gay men in maine as the bar never has any patrons in it another good chuckle came when the actors were supposed to be yelling over dance music that very obviously wasn't coming from the speakers but was just more of the droning loop music of the score br br plots and characters come and go emotions are unreadable and the dialog clearly inspired by dennis cooper is film speak meaning no humans actually talk this way since we aren't given any information about these characters it's impossible to care about what happens to them it's as if joe et al appear out of the ether one day and might simply cease to exist once the credits roll certainly the character of joe's sister a wannabee jennifer grey who is bohemia crazy seems to just simply stop we never know where she is in la or what her problem is but again does it matter visually the film looks very good at times more a testament to new developments in hi def video than anything i suspect the editing is pretty clunky though there was one great edit joe is posing naked and says i wanted to play sports but and we cut to a shot revealing his butt ha ha composition is also odd at times i thought i was watching sctv's parody of persona when the boys were talking together in bed and visually it looked as if their noses were stuck together for the whole scene br br one senses is really restraining himself from making a naughtier or somewhat rougher movie like he usually does and maybe he shouldn't have held back the frothy toothpaste sex fantasy worked nicely i thought though the tone was out of touch with the rest of the movie he produces and directs this sensitive coming of age story much like herschell gordon lewis directed films without gore porn films without sex in them i got some unintended laughs out of this and it wasn't boring it just wasn't very good either
0	this film is about a young man's painful journey to discovering his sexuality br br the film is raw and unpretentious it does not rely on steamy sex scenes to attract the viewers though the plot may seem incoherent and disconnected at times and some events are not properly explained i can understand it though because this film is a collection of memories that are highly personal to the director the subplot of about his sister and mother probably does not need to exist in the film but i can certainly imagine that these are very important events in his life br br the low budget of the film is clearly discernible it is a pity that the sound effects are poorly done the narration and some dialogs particularly the scene in the classroom with the french teacher have so much echo which makes it hard to make out what is said the ambient noise notable traffic noise is also captured throughout the film when a scene cuts into another the level of traffic noise changes br br this film is probably not entertaining but it certainly serves as an insightful diary of a young man's journey to embracing his sexuality
0	this movie was unbelievably bad it's gory but the violence is just too much to the point where it looks extremely fake and predictable since everything is shown to you there is nothing left to the imagination and the plot what plot there really isn't any the pacing is unbelievably slow despite the random acts of violence and the screenplay must have been written by a deranged 12 year old kid who kills kittens for fun so this movie was banned in 31 countries i could see why not because of the gore boring and trite but because it was a terrible movie it should have been banned from existence avoid this one like the plague 1 out of 10
0	cannibal ferox 1 outta 5 stars miserable excuse for a movie which you might enjoy if you really like boring nonsensical jungle movies spiced up with scenes of graphic violence a pair of drug dealers on the run from the mob travel to the jungles of paraguay to search for and cocaine they meet up with another young traveler and his two hot babe sidekicks one of whom is an anthropologist seeking to prove definitively that cannibalism does not and has not ever existed one of the two dealers turns out to be a bit of a psychopath and he tortures and kills a couple of natives in order to get them to tell him where they hide their jewels and how they could even tell him when he doesn't seem to speak their language in the first place well the natives are suddenly not too thrilled with white folks in their jungle and capture them all for some torture poor acting poor plot and poor direction not a decent moment of suspense in the whole dreary 90 minutes even the special effects are not particularly convincing though a couple of shots will still make most viewers cringe the only good scene in the whole movie is when the two women are imprisoned in a mud hut and seem to touch the hearts of the natives with their rendition of red river valley the following is a quote from the movie but i wouldn't be surprised if many viewers weren't saying exactly the same thing by that point oh god please let her die soon oh let her die soon and let me die soon too please
0	drab dreary and a total waste of my time the plot is incomprehensible so don't think about it too much the acting is odd and wooden i would have sworn that they were all professional body builders trying their luck at acting but that might be an insult to body builders there are no interesting special effects to redeem this disaster but lots of fires explosions a gratuitous sex scene etc the only thing that caught my attention was that it takes place after a war between the us and iraq that somehow goes nuclear hmmm is roger corman psychic let's hope that iraq was just a lucky choice for corman and that the rest of his scenario doesn't come true br br
0	first thing i note is the music it's nothing as amazing as ruggero deodato's cannibal holocaust's haunting theme or the masterpiece waltz from a tale of two sisters but i don't let that stop me so early in the film br br one must assume that the woman researching her hypothesis for her phd dissertation that cannibalism as a organized practice has never existed one would think they must take into the consideration that they are wrong and prepare for the trip accordingly right or why go at all if you already believe the hypothesis to be true before even being tested that's fairly unbelievably ignorant and makes the movie seem that much more unrealistic and badly scripted br br that actually is similar to the ruggero deodato's film just totally ill prepared no guns no decent hiking clothing just nonsense through and through br br people don't go on trips like this for college without months of planning and preparation br br but i digress br br things don't get off to a very good start for our brave yet stupid adventurers as they swerve to miss a iguana and their decoy pet ferret falls out of the truck nearly to it's demise then to fall into a mud hole well i guess it's time to walk br br okay then they flip a coin to see whether they keep going or forget the whole thing how does that scene even make any sense all their conviction rests on the flip of a coin after they must've spent time and money and preparation just getting out there this just keeps getting worse some of the worst acting and scripting and music ever concocted for the film industry br br mike talks about how he and his friend's were captured by the cannibals and put into cages in mud pits with 3 inch long leeches sucking on their blood i found that interesting because if you remember the first cannibal they run into in the jungle a man they mistake as a simple native is sitting on the ground eating such leeches wonder if they are the same ones really though this movie is just terrible because the script is horrible and the acting is emotionless considering the content they just agree to off themselves rather then get eaten by cannibals like it's no big decision br br obviously mike is insane but just like in the first movie they treat the natives with such terrible behavior it's simply unrealistic br br ruggero deodato's movie easily feels the americans got what they deserved while in this movie one can hardly blame the natives for what befalls the americans yet again br br and because of that the movie feels somewhat pointless we already got the point from the first movie so why was the sequel made the name is rizzo could it get any worse oftentimes with movies such as these when you look up the cast you find they haven't really acted in much other films and their bios are all but non existent so you can imagine i was surprised to find giovanni lombardo in this movie who was in scorsese's gangs of new york now lt rizzo looked familiar and i found he was in the 2002 movie spiderman as a very tiny role as a tugboat captain reminds me of how william shatner went from being the admiral on the uss enterprise to a cop in a car irony sometimes irony works out shatner never could get the music right until his recent album has been which is really good just like bono of u2 never could get a haircut right and dan marino never could win no br br sometimes irony is just sad like christopher reeve superman can't walk irony the man will always be a legend though because he was such a great guy i digress yet again though br br at this point you can tell i'm fairly bored of even discussing cannibal ferox br br cannibal holocaust's message was about who are the real savages and what is truly evil what the savages do in natural living unknown to our moral records or what we do to others with malicious intent cannibal message seems to be 'be careful what you go looking for for you just might find it ' i will say this for cannibal ferox when gloria comes back and writes her dissertation asserting that cannibalism does not exist she saves others who would be curious and go where angels fear tread but overall this movie was really bad br br 10
0	one of the most notorious of the banned video nasties of the 1980s is also one of the most excessively over hyped make them die slowly is about what you'd expect from an umberto directed jungle yet poorly rendered native torture techniques some ridiculous social commentary yes even sillier than cannibal holocaust and lots of guts being chewed the film's exploitative violence though is often only shown in brief close up and never dwelt on for very long which diminishes its effect interpret that how you may the dialog is lenzi's usual silliness as our male heroes show their affection for females by calling them tw t and the like the cast of familiar faces including lorraine de giovanni lombardo and robert does their best in the face of the escalating idiocy including a completely ludicrous castration preservation but cannot save this overworked lousy effort
0	like anyone else who bought this i was duped by the 20 pieces of extreme gore and banned in 20 countries or whatever it says in the box i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it tom savini rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business the revolutionized make up effects in the 80's today you don't need them as everything is done on computer but computers cannot compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up but i digress br br watching fantastically gory films like fulci's gates to hell or even savini's crowning achievement friday the 13th the final chapter you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film you can't tell the difference between reality and magic br br i can't imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film if that is the reason you seek this film then you are wasting your money as many other reviewers in here have noted most of the gore is an aftermath you don't see the torture or the bloodshed as it happens you see whatever it looks like afterwords br br the gore well it's here but not as much as one would hope or expect a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts but other then those two scenes and one involving a there is nothing really much else to this film the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for maybe it's just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre but i was expecting a bit more call me sick or twisted but isn't that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places br br cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film it is much better than this tripe if you go out of your way to buy this for 20 00 you will feel cheated br br 3 10
0	i bought this thing used at a video game store's clearance bin i wanted to get that guilty feeling from watching something i've been warned is too intense to watch i wanted the shock value i wanted to feel guilty and bad about watching a banned film i was very disappointed br br cannibal ferox does not work because it is so campy and fake most of the time the camera does not show you the shocking stabs chops slicing you just see the aftermath they do show a breast hooking in detail the special effects are just ok nothing here that tells you any of the violence is real the cannibals are obviously poor people from central south america who were dressed up as jungle savages and told to act mean these people were obviously in on the whole picture to get a little money or food or both again just not convincing br br however like everyone else has said there is some real killing of animals going on here that is the extent of the realism to me that was more shocking than any gutting chopping of scalps or castration and even then the animal deaths are not that gory at all maybe just sad
0	just how bad well compared to this movie cannibal holocaust is citizen kane there's the stilted acting the atrocious dialogue the half baked plot and like its companion piece way too much in the way of on screen animal slaughter that was actually done unlike holocaust ferox is a straight forward movie it doesn't pretend to be a pseudo documentary in some ways that helps the production in that the film is very sharp and crisp compared to holocaust's graininess unfortunately we are once again given a group of people who are morally reprehensible they torture the natives and essentially bring everything that they get upon themselves there's really nothing in this film that makes it worth your while i was fairly lenient with my review of holocaust due to some actual attempt at a statement and style but in case there is no reason to watch this unless you solely get off on blood and gore
0	this film is much the same as cannibal holocaust if it weren't for the needless animal killing in the name of 'shock' ooh look at us we're hardcore we've added real death to our films these films would make their way onto my dusty classics shelf i'm a huge fan of cannibal films and zombies but as it stands it's another example of shock horror clutching at the last straws of the pile in a desperate effort to make a poor film generate more hype to sum up a crusty gore flick with limited appeal a fan of 70's gore should give this a try but anyone with modern ethics and tastes should pick something a little better written for their popcorn fest
0	this movie was quite a mess there wasn't anything really going for it the only character that had any appeal was bobbie phillips' maya and she wasn't even worth it br br the plot is standard double cross the double crossing double with a few too many double crosses to make any sense sometimes that means it keeps you guessing in this case it keeps you waiting by the end i just wanted everyone to get thrown in jail or shot
0	ever i always wanted to write that many years ago in 1993 as i recall it one of my former classmates persuaded me to watch what he called a epic masterpiece to this day it stands out to me as the worst movie i have ever seen the acting the story the effects everything is bad unless you are one of these people who just loves to appreciate trash you should pass on this however chances are that since you are reading this you've already seen it br br out of almost 500 movies this is the only non short i've given a 1 10 br br i haven't seen any other low budget asian warrior flicks so i guess there's even worse things out there scary br br p
0	so if a guy meets you and he says 'i want you to look at my erection ' don't be alarmed maybe he wants you to look at the film he made about how his house was to be built yes that's the only thing what happens in this movie it's like the worst warholian beep i ever saw it's like filming the inside of your toilet before you flush it in fact it's less interesting to look at than that br br but if you do watch lennon's erection be warned that he put a lot of background noise in it too i mean really it's as if the building is being attacked by space mutants from hell or something in the meanwhile the building in progress is growing up as an erection can do too in almost 20 minutes what an accomplishment br br so if someone does ask you to watch his erection be sure he wants to videotape it all
0	i saw this movie many years ago and just for kicks decided to rent it and watch it again the plot is a carbon copy from fright night i did like the hairy vampire and the bug eating driver otherwise it was not good at all
0	who's responsible for these behind the scenes things who are these actors did they crawl out from beneath rocks lots of yuks ' no no yuks for me only loathing and shame that i am a human being i have to avert my eyes from the set it's so embarrassing in fact i changed the channel br br i've always had a problem with robin williams' non stop 'i forgot my lithium today' rantings but at least he's funny once in a blue moon watching someone who isn't funny at all impersonating robin williams is like having each tooth in your head pulled slowly and sadistically without novocaine for all eternity br br please stop making these absolutely horrifying tv movies please
0	vampires i'm sorry but even for the 80's that's just way too cheesy to be remotely scary you can excuse the original the odd kitsch moment because it was parodying old movies and tv shows but that's been done once so the sequel needed to be a little less camp not even more outlandish plus the first movie had the presence of chris sarandon a man who could even make stalking in casual seem seductive that this one sorely lacks so there was no in anything that happened it just seemed silly br br admittedly i only saw this once when i was 7 but by then already being a huge fan of the original i remember being disgusted to me there is no sequel to fright night just a tacky spoof that doesn't deserve any appraisal whatsoever
0	i live in rome where the turkish director of this film lives and works from my italian friends i have heard many good things about his films so after seeing the preview i really wanted to see i am deeply disappointed one of the most pompous pseudo religious highly improbable and naive films i love film but this one is really heavy and bad the main character is really crazy and should be locked up in a madhouse made me sympathise with the negative character of an aunt who runs a dirty dealing company that only wants to make money and i consider myself an anti capitalist that bad
0	combines glossy film effects with a story that leaves much to be desired with a script that the screen writers for touched by an angel might have passed up as being too ozpetek still keeps us interested at times in fact i wanted to focus on the positives but i found the last act so bafflingly bizarre and awful that i think the couple who jumped to their deaths in the very beginning might have been the fortunate ones br br this movie is at heart pun intended a story built on a big twist style ending this kind of tenuous foundation can result in a tremendous success like una or god awful garbage like the films of m night shyamalan falls somewhat closer to the latter i found the cinematography in general to be above average the tracking shots of irene dutifully doing her quotidian laps in the pool were very impressive as was the atmosphere conjured by the interior of her mother's house for me the grotesque parody of michelangelo's when giancarlo comes in from the rain and irene poses with him was a bit of a stretch one big issue that i took exception to in this film was method of simply turning the camera directly into the face of his protagonist and recording the emotions taking place this worked to fantastic effect in facing windows but when employed here it seems that is no in fact besides the ridiculous story the main problem with this film is the milquetoast performance of it's main character it made the final breakdown scene even more bad br br in this movie ozpetek continues his crusade against our corporate driven societies by urging us to be more spiritual not necessarily religious and more altruistic and while i'm certainly one who is very sympathetic to this view i felt as if the audience was being hit over the head with a blunt object could the characters have been anymore two dimensional i tended to find this movie very enervating and soulless was the evil aunt eleonora anything more than a caricature it goes for the people on the side of right too like the good aunt maria clara and the elderly doorman and just in case we might have missed point he decided to clothe his opposing forces in their own br br this brings me to an interesting point about the director's use of color he clothes the opening couple who briefly take flight in all black as well as irene when we first meet her and after her life conversion the evil aunt eleonora and of course the good but confused padre black is a color that suggests a definite course the mind is set and emotionless it is the color of choice for that indispensable item of modern day armor the business suit it is also the color of mourning such as the finery sported by the suicidal duo finally black is the color of piety such as the simple robes of priests and nuns that irene emulates in the second half of the film br br the other main color and a very appropriate choice for a movie about the sacred heart is red it is a color that has an extreme inherent emotional component the character who wears red is bold emotional receptive to new ideas and indulgent red is a risky color in modern times it challenges our perceptions of the and at the same time makes the vulnerable yet red carries an enormous weight of history and mysticism as the earliest members of cro magnon man buried their dead in red and indeed the first man named in the torah adam is named after the hebrew word for red red also has an anachronistic flavor looking back on the past where red and by association a less self driven attitude towards life was more accepted so when we encounter the red filled room the mysterious covered walls complete with a red accented and a red painting of a whirling dervish of mother good characters maria clara and wearing resplendent outfits of red and finally the painting of mother in a formal red gown we can see where sympathies lie br br a word or two about the soundtrack i found the original musical themes to be excellently suited to the story the quasi baroque theme that signified irene was great for it's monotony and feeling of malaise the absolute best use of a constantly repeated baroque theme such a this would have to be in kubrick's barry lyndon with it's masterful repetitions of an 8 bar attributed to one absolutely inspired choice was a couple of seconds of an opera aria we hear as the power is flickering while irene is chasing benny through the house it is of the famous aria ne from opera la wally the aria is sung by the lead soprano who is leaving home forever as mother was a dramatic soprano we can guess that this is a recording of her singing and that she is saying a poignant farewell to her daughter as in the movie irene is soon destined to never again see benny alive i just have one minor question of the soundtrack why include the famous tango yo soy maria i love the song and personally could hear it all the time but it didn't really fit here
0	i remember vacationing in florida when this movie aired i had set up my vcr to record it the anticipation was killing me i had known about the movie ever since it was announced some half a year earlier we came back from florida 4 days after the movie aired and i immediately watched it i tried as hard as i could to like it but i didn't br br i am a huge 3 stooges fan and as such i know quite a bit about them so it wasn't like i was expecting to learn anything from the movie and i didn't i was more interested with the portrayals and seeing how accurate their information was there were many things wrong with this film the actors the script the reenactments all could have been much better br br paul ben victor is a tremendously talented actor but let's face facts moe howard was way out of his reach he doesn't look like him he doesn't sound like him and thus he can't act like him michael chiklis is also very talented but his portrayal of curly didn't quite score with me although when curly becomes ill he did very well at that john portrayal of shemp could've been rehearsed better it was more of a bad impression than a portrayal worst of all was joe besser they made him skinny and more annoying than he really was it was just plain laziness i don't like the joe shorts because as the movie illustrates he hardly ever got hit but he wasn't that annoying and definately wasn't that thin the best performance belongs to evan handler he had the most accurate stooge portrayal the problem with larry's character his hair is way too frizzy and way too red i know that's too technical so i won't count that on my list of why i didn't like this movie br br back to shemp who just so happens to be my favorite stooge he is written as a whining quivering chicken true he had many phobias but he wasn't that bad he didn't leave the group initially because he was afraid of ted healy although he didn't like him shemp left because he received an offer from another studio that he simply couldn't turn down instead of the truth this movie chooses to make him wet the bed on larry no less run into a closet and shamefully bow out of the group another problem is that shemp made nearly as many columbia shorts as curly did as a stooge but only one fright night which was his first short is shown his career was almost completely ignored plus lousy editing caused a terrible and most unforgivable error shemp was born in early 1895 and died in late 1955 that would make him how old at death well here's a hint it's not 59 as the movie states br br now for the writing which i think was flawed only because this movie was rushed out some of the lines are dumb and could be developed and or introduced much better than they were the one line that really got me was at the very end of the film when moe is showing the promoter how the is done br br that's how we do it make contact with the brow bone not the eyes looks real on film though this line was poorly written and poorly placed in the film it's meant to be one of those lines that make the audience say oh in amazement and i'm sure it did with some people but the very end of the movie was not the place for this line a better place you ask how about when they show up at columbia for the first time and are introduced to the sound effects machine i know initially there was no sound for the but moe for instance could have said what about this and curly or larry jules white then says are you okay or how'd you do that there were a lot of misplaced lines in this film which is a clear sign that the script was rushed out another one involves the origin of the name shemp although that one isn't as bad and so i will let that one slide br br what does this film do well it illustrates how the stooges were screwed by columbia which they were i'm not sure if moe was an errand boy but that was the kind of dramatization stuff that is meant to get the viewer sympathizing with them i know this film was a dramatization i know not everything is going to be crisp and clean and absolutely perfect however some of the stuff they made up and the real stuff that they ignored were in serious conflict with each other for instance curly's stroke is not even close to the way it happened in real life i know i know dramatization but the purpose of dramatizations is to make real events more dramatic curly's stroke in real life is more dramatic than what they showed in the movie here's what really happened curly was sitting in a chair off screen while a scene was being shot they called him for the final pie fight scene but there was no response moe went to go get him and discovered his little brother head slumped half paralyzed unable to speak and tears streaming down his face moe then said babe and tried to help him out of his chair poor curly drops to his knees then the ambulance was called br br all in all this movie wasn't terrible but it certainly wasn't good or even ok this film portrays the stooges helplessly and inaccurately and sometimes goes overboard with dramatizations there is a very very long list of inaccuracies in this film if you don't believe me check out a fella named stooge's list at the com news forum it is about a page and a half long some things in the movie i can let slide but others were unforgivable the three stooges were geniuses and a lot of today's comedy is based off of what they did don't believe me check out the simpsons and more so ren stimpy but this film fails to capture their genius it more so inaccurately captures their hardships which is important but if the title of the film is gonna be the three stooges it has to portray their ingenuity and originality more than anything
0	the movie was a pleasure to watch if you are a fan of the stooges the story is told from the point of view of moe howard and his relationships with his brothers shemp and jerome curly howard also the life long friendship with larry fine the movie deals mostly with the off camera high points and pit falls of the stooges multi decade career the casting director and makeup artist did a fair job of finding actors who resembled the famous ensemble the actor who plays curly howard did a fine job of portraying the on camera antics of the most beloved stooge a must see for any fan of three stooges shorts
0	stephen king tv movies can go 5 or 6 parts and no one complains right so why give the stooges only 96 minutes i'm not asking for a pbs mini series but would a two parter had killed anyone the movie steamrolled over events that should have been mentioned and mentioned events that could have been omitted i do want to give a salute to the performances of the stars they had a tough job because they didn't really look like the stooges but the spirit was there after watching the movie i pulled out a tape from american movie classics that had the real deal on it and laughed myself silly the movie was pretty tough emotionally especially after curly has the stroke and moe needs to keep the business going when curley started crying i lost it like i said the movie was good but could have been and should have been much much better maybe it's fitting though the stooges got ripped off when they were alive and now 25 years later it happens again
0	this production is an insult to the stooges especially moe it is inaccurate and poorly acted many of the events depicted just didn't happen that way and too much was left out or skipped over read the books written by moe and his daughter joan instead this was a waste of time
0	this is the worst movie i have ever seen the story line is a joke the effects are terrible the cinematography doesn't fit the tone of the movie the dialogue is cheesy and the actors do a good job at screwing up the rest people just don't act that way in real life situations my question is who would fund such crap br br the movie starts where some miners fall down a mine shaft after a fireman fails to save them next we join some bikers in a forest who ride around doing stunts on their bikes one guy falls and breaks his leg or something the fireman arrives to help them meanwhile somebody starts a fire some more bike stunts bla bla bla br br i wasted my time br br do not watch this movie
0	a bunch of teen dirt bikers are out in the forest riding around in circles they're having fun little do they know nature is about to be unleashed by an emo refugee from a deliverance or hills have eyes movie he's armed with matches and fire and he's got an eye that's bleeding or something why torch a park i dunno maybe he doesn't like smokey the bear or something but he wears army navy store fatigues if that helps br br the rangers send one single helicopter to battle the resulting blaze that's all you ever see except a bunch of people in a base somewhere talking a lot about the fire but doing nothing some cop or ranger or militiaman or whatever he is drops from the helicopter on a defective tether br br everybody now rides their dirt bikes like they're auditioning for motocross they forever pop wheelies do evel knievel jumps spin around etc they argue incessantly shots of the fire are as phony as a 3 dollar bill it's the same footage from a dozen different angles and the blaze never grows or moves and you still never once see any fire fighting equipment br br syfy channel movie which has about 0 science fiction attached to it what you can expect from this bad acting cheap effects and a story that goes nowhere like the bikes and fire go nowhere laughable insomniac cure
0	when i watched this crap it reminded me of the the title of the movie fire which is where this garbage belongs in a fire i don't even know what to say the acting blew the fire looked really fake andy the chicks exactly supermodels and lastly i don't know what you people are complaining i own this damn movie yeah happy birthday to me well i guess it could be worse i could be watching left behind 2 and to make things worse i have the whole set on dvd fire volcano earthquake avalanche all i'm missing is the awesome tornado movie which i hear sucks balls br br well until my next crap movie peace
0	arthur hunnicutt plays a very stereotypical role as a mountain man probably the ozarks who goes hunting with his favorite dog however the dog appears to be drowning when hunnicutt jumps in after him it becomes obvious pretty soon that despite hunnicutt and his dog roaming about after leaving the water that they both died in the water as no one responds when he talks to them and sees and hears people talking about his and the dog's death yet oddly hunnicutt is really slow on the uptake and it takes him a while to understand they are talking about him i think this was actually done as padding as there really wasn't enough material to fill the half hour time slot br br later in the surprise twist he comes upon heaven or at least his concept of the place he's invited in but since they won't allow dogs he has other ideas overall reasonably well acted but of dubious spiritual value with no twists or irony this episode is a bit dull not twilight zone y enough for my tastes
0	major spoilers watchable only for the action sequences not the story or acting in it nature unleashed fire has one of the longest and excruciating endings in modern motion picture history we have the fearless ranger jake bryan leading this trio of hysterical bikers to safety in of all paces an explosive fume mine shaft this during a raging forest fire it seems that ranger jake with all his knowledge of the great outdoors didn't realize that a mine shaft that's leaking with dangerous and explosive methane gas is the last place to go when all the woods around it is on fire br br spoilers from this point on all this started some time ago when ranger jake in an effort to save the not that on the ball miner tiny chris aka the let him slip through his fingers and fall to his death at the bottom of the mine shaft or did he even though we were kept in suspense to who's setting the forest fires for the first half of the movie it wasn't a surprise at all the tiny was the culprit as you would expect in movies like these tiny seemed to be made of hardened steel in that nothing that ever happened to him fires explosions as well as impaling could stop the crazed miner br br before tiny's reappearance or resurrection ranger jake got involved in rescuing bikers chris mel sharon marcus josh cohen melanie lewis anastasia griffith ross mccall who were trapped in the woods with fires breaking all around them having the usual know it all marcus among the bikers things don't go as smoothly as ranger jake wanted them to go marcus not only eggs on the meek chris to do something stupid jump with his bike over a 10 foot pile of logs but has the guy break his leg this makes it almost impossible for ranger jake to have chris air lifted out before the fires consume him as well as his fellow bikers br br for the remainder of the movie ranger jake who put himself in charge makes boner after boner in his attempt to save himself and the trapped and lost in the woods bikers all this ends with jake's brilliant idea to hide in a dangerous and abandoned mine shaft with the rescue party just yards away from rescuing them if they only stayed put and in the open where the rescue team could find them br br even though he was supposed to be the life of the party or movie tiny for all his efforts in being another indestructible super villain came across as a man who spent too much time out in the sun the make up job on tiny was so outrageous that he looked like he dumped a jar of spaghetti sauce over his head instead of having it burned to a crisp br br ranger jake came across as either somewhat very naive or retarded in his being so taken in by the dangerous tiny in always trying to save the rampaging psycho who never hid his feelings about what he had in mind for the play by the rules forest ranger in fact ranger jake actually encouraged tiny to do both him and the bikers in by showing him how incompetent he was in trying to save them the fact that ranger jake was successful wasn't because he was so smart but because tiny despite his indestructibility was so brainless
0	that is what this movie is good god the special effects suck in this movie it is difficult for anything to suck more than this movie's plot but the special effects manage to pull it off let me try to explain just how bad this movie is br br first there is the plot there are four punk ass teenage dirt bikers who are riding around in a forest in mn one of them is a dumb ass and tries a ridiculous jump and breaks his leg a paramedic comes to help him but gets stranded with them when the helicopter breaks then all five realize that there is a forest fire which we see is started by some guy dumping tons of gas all over the forest all they show us is his boots and they show scene after scene of this guys boots walking around dumping gas and starting fires meanwhile the teenagers try to escape the fire only to find that boot man has somehow managed to get ahead of them while they were speeding through the forest on dirt bikes dump gas all over the area they were riding through and start more fires he does this several times and the paramedic finally catches him and starts him on fire i won't spoil the ending but this guy's resilience will have you shouting what the bloody hell at the screen anyway they are now surrounded by fire and their only escape is through a mine which is filled with methane gas yes methane gas i'm not even going to try to describe the ending because it is too ridiculous and you'll enjoy it more if you don't see it coming which you won't because you can't possibly expect what happens this is because of the second major problem with this movie consistency br br is some semblance of consistence too much to ask for apparently so i cannot even count the number of broken limbs in this movie they keep breaking arms and legs while crashing their bikes i think each character breaks at least one limb and several more than one they then limp around until the scene ends and then forget that they're supposed to have broken limbs there is one scene where three of them who are supposed to have broken legs start dancing but then their injuries suddenly return when the plot needs them to br br finally the cgi if there is a hell it consists of watching the fire in this movie all they did for the forest fires is line the dirt paths with cgi fire you can clearly see that the only cgi fire is along the paths and all of the trees more than two feet from the path are left untouched and then they zoom out and show the whole forest being engulfed in flames it's hard to describe in words how ridiculous it looks but i assure you that the ridiculousness is quite impressive br br this movie is one of those so bad its good types there are some occasions where it descends into the painful bad category but for the most part it stays above the line and is laughably inept i can't wait to check out the other nature unleashed movies that came in the four pack with this one
0	ah the sci fi channel how often do you disappoint me quite often i think do you ever show good movies ok you have given me the great 'heroes' and the reasonably good 'the lost room' but they are series and as for the movie well there really is nothing positive to say bad acting bad directing terrible characters and a shallow story and that is just for starters i checked out the director allan a and was not surprised to find nothing of interest in his resume in fact i am half thinking that this is a pseudo name the premises of four motor bikers out motto crossing in a national park when one of them has an accident that needs a park ranger to come rescue them only for them to get caught in a forrest fire is weak and predictable that you know every beat before it happens leading man bryan the park ranger is so bad it is terrible cast as the action hero martial arts boy in the footsteps of so many others this guy makes seagal and van damme look like de nero the supporting cast are little better and well before the end one was left hoping the fire would engulf them all then the film crew avoid at all costs
0	i thought it will be a ok movie after seeing the commercials about it it was funny at some parts and some very nasty the only person i felt sorry for is horatio sans who got a hot wife who is cheating on him with other women but he never got a chance to have a threesome with until the and that was good but they should have made more bigger thru out the film
0	this movie is one of the worst i've ever seen even being hangover didn't help the plot is lousy if existent the relatively large number of beautiful girls are unable to help i guess seeing an episode of temptation island with the sound turned of would give the same kind of experience do not see this flick
0	the guidelines state that a comment must contain a minimum of four lines that is the only reason i am saying anything more about because after all my one line summary really says everything there is to say there is absolutely nothing remotely entertaining in this film
0	this movie quite literally does not have one redeeming feature the characters are one dimensional cliched incredibly misogynistic and stupid the script looks as if it was cobbled together from 100 other movies the acting is horrible and some of the 'gross out' humour made me feel nauseous br br shame on you gregory for thinking any of this would be funny or interesting br br the worst movie i've seen in several years
0	rare and auspicious are the moments in film making when greatness stands as a defining monument for the rest of the industry to measure themselves against and for us to immerse in that glorious moment br br some stories transcend their time and aspire to the lofty reaches of a classic and the stuff of legends throw in the refined skills of an ensemble cast of thespians who are at the very top of their game br br where has all the originality gone it is here as this story and it's cast through a plot and story that will not only educate but also entertain even the most seasoned of shakespearean action love story connoisseurs br br i cannot begin to imagine where the writers dreamed up this extraordinary tale where do geniuses get this kind of inspiration i now have hope for mankind knowing that this kind of talent still exists gives me hope that we will make it to the stars and beyond perhaps to the very gates of heaven br br i have like others before me dreamed of greatness though i did not write this movie i did see it and because of this movie's noble greatness i feel as if i have been elevated to a higher level of being a higher level of spiritual wholeness br br it is no wonder this kind of glory eludes most of us what would become of our world if we all could attain this level of magnificence we would probably be consumed in a white fire of super nova glory as we evolve into trans dimensional spiritual beings capable of omnipotent creative power br br the most important thing to know with all your heart and the very essence of your being is that is nothing like what i have been talking about is the antithesis of all i mentioned it could very well destroy our world for as some reviewers rate a movie on a star system i e 1 through 5 stars or even zero stars i'm going to rate a black hole br br i am willing to donate money to a cause that will put a stop to these kinds of atrocities that as of late seem to be running amuck at box offices i'm not even adverse to the use of nuclear weapons it must stop how much more of this can we take before aliens from outer space come down here and blow up our planet because we have so many stupid crass vulgar unimaginative and degrading movies spewing out of hollywood i'm not even going to dignify this movie by mentioning anyone's name that starred or produced it i'm not even going to waste my time describing the story since we've seen it a ba zillion times and all of the past versions were at least a ga zillion times better br br by the way my head nearly imploded during this movie but with supreme selfless effort and lots o luck i survived to warn the public you have been warned
0	if you want to see someone accidentally eat another man's testicle or look at a row of pathetically fake hard ons at a wedding or listen to a man talk about how good it felt to have sex with a girl while she was throwing up then this is the movie for you alternating in neck breaking fashion between romantic and gross out comedy is certainly interesting the lovely jaime pressly plays the wife of horatio tell me another one who is found in many silhouetted situations with other women but there is surprisingly no nudity jake busey is thoroughly revolting as a hound dog who you wouldn't want as your friend shannon elizabeth and jerry o'connell are both good and make a convincing couple but the movie is far too busy trying to disgust to be any good
0	here's the spoiler at the end of the movie a little piece of you dies you'll spend the rest of your life searching in vain for that missing piece but it's gone it's gone you'll wander the streets at night peering into your windows as they sit down for dinner friends and family will try to pinpoint when exactly you turned into the walking dead you'll answer their questions and concerns with a blank stare and some mumblings about a runaway testicle when amc inevitably makes the movie of the month a series of mysterious murders will take place in your city you'll wake up the next morning balled up on the floor of the kitchen with a faint taste of brains in your mouth then you'll crawl into the living room and onto the couch you'll stare at the wall wet yourself a little and then begin to laugh maniacally because once your dead inside jake busey in a thong is actually pretty damn funny
0	as a south african living in south africa again after a 32 year stay in the uk i am sorry to say that this movie is a huge disappointment the three main problems i had with the movie was a why swank and an american and a to play the leads this country is bursting with talent and has no need of imports b gillian has been trading off her struggle credentials for years now she's a very mediocre writer and even her novel doesn't stand up the flaccid direction of mr hooper and c hilary swank again such a great actor as proved in million dollar baby but that's eastwood too here dressed in the contemporary new york style whilst roaming freely around the poverty of the where was the consideration and sensitivity needed by the costumer and director yes the film is ultimately moving how could it not be but the overall mood at the conclusion is one of tremendous letdown heart's in the right place but needs a pace maker
0	horrible misogynist drivel my neighbor brought this turkey over subjected me to it and didn't have the courtesy to apologize the plot was laughable my four year old could write a better movie
0	this is movie is garbage it looked really funny on the previews but i didn't laugh once through the whole movie do yourself a big favor and don't waste your money on this don't waste anyone's money on this i gave it a 1 10 believe me i would have given it less if i could have i'm a 15 year old guy and i thought it was trash if you wanna see a good movie go out and see jay and silent bob strike back
0	right then this film is totally unfunny puerile has gags from other films has songs from other films blink mutt grand theft we luv u an unlikeable leading man a ridiculous plot and lame parodies of films like mission impossible 2 and american beauty redeeming features shannon elizabeth and jaime pressly enough said
0	highly flawed but just about watchable comedy' that runs like a farrelly brothers reject the most criminal thing about it though is the casting i couldn't for one minute believe jerry o and jake busey in the role of who could pull any woman at the drop of a hat nor could i believe the very beautiful shannon elizabeth as a streetwise tough cop story is predictable but does manage to raise a titter on a few occasions although the gross out' meant to be shock scenes one involving an amputated testicle and another set in a sperm bank are just plain awful if this film is on tv then its probably worth watching if you are extremely bored but please don't waste your money renting it
0	what can you say about a movie whose funniest episode sees a fat man wrestling a garden hose the acting particularly that of lead man jerry o'connel is embarrassing the dialogue is so contrived and unfunny it makes you cringe the controlling idea is actually not a bad one for this genre infantile teen comedy but somehow the director manages to make the least of it i rate it a 2 out of 10
0	i mostly rented this movie to see shannon elizabeth she played well in this movie but the plot sucked the movie wasn't really about anything just about trying to stay single after making a pact when one of jerry o' connell's friends gets married the other friends put together this money and who's ever last to get married get's the money 10 000 from all his friends anyway the movie just try to follow through by making no since and trying to make it more funny then making since i'm glad i only paid 50 for this movie it really wasn't good at all i rated it out of 10 stars
0	i had expected a fairly straightforward r rated graphic sexual crude teen comedy when i sat down to see this it turned out to be fairly accurate only it was far more sick and disgusting than i would have thought i don't know if the director writer gregory is sick or deeply messed up sexually but i doubt that a normal person could have made a movie like this i could probably have taken it if it was just that if the only thing that was wrong was it was that it required a tough stomach but it isn't the film is also horribly mean spirited and disturbing every single character that has more than one full second of time on screen is an extreme sexually mentally or physically i don't know if this is just the director's sense of humor but i just found it to be wrong just wrong even in a comedy there is supposed to be some seriousness the plot is stupid the acting is bad the characters are inconsistent and poorly written all of them there isn't one single likable character in the film the humor is disgusting and goes way too far the film is just so incredibly poorly done that i really don't think it's worth anyone's time if you like r rated crude comedies with plenty of sexual innuendo and graphic stuff watch the groomsmen or better yet american pie or road trip my personal favorite but don't watch this i can't possibly describe to you how bad it is you would have to experience it for yourself however this is one of those times where i'll say that you're better off wondering that way you can just imagine that this film goes very close to the bottom without knowing that it goes through it and far lower than that this movie most of all looks like a group of horny teenage guys got together put together a film crew and every time one of them got an idea they filmed it and later put the entire thing together it lacks structure consistency and taste i recommend this only to horny teenage guys who have seen every single other r rated crude teen comedy and who don't care about quality everyone else do the sensible thing avoid this it's not even worth it to see the booty believe me 1 10
0	black dragons 1942 william nigh bela lugosi joan barclay clayton moore br br just prior to the start of world war ii dr bela lugosi a world famous surgeon is brought in by japan's black dragon society as part of a secret plan dr operates on six black dragon society operatives and transforms them into exact duplicates of 6 high ranking american businessmen who are replaced by these look with their operatives in place the black dragon society's plan to sabotage the american war effort appears to be set but the f b i chief and an agent begin to piece together the clues that hopefully uncover this sinister plot according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br that synopsis gives away the entire ending which in this case might be a good thing black dragons is an incredible wildly inconsistent muddle a wiser course of action would have been to stay with the teasing supernatural angle in early scenes mr lugosi as monsieur colomb is effectively creepy confusing joan barclay as alice saunders future lone ranger clayton moore as dick martin along with a cast of old stage and silent veterans do the best they can with a story that looks as if filmmakers were making it up as they went along
0	when a group of businessmen start dying in the presence of the mysterious mr fbi agent dick martin is assigned to the case as the deaths continue to mount mr martin obviously isn't having much success by the end of the movie the strange truth is revealed which i won't reveal here br br one of the other users commenting on this states this is a classic film and should be enjoyed and not picked apart i'm sorry but i have to respectfully disagree with this opinion it is classic only in that it is old not in any sense pertaining to its quality i've enjoyed a lot of low budget b movies from around this time period but this isn't one of them br br the pacing is unbearably slow the camera work is pretty bland most of the acting is fairly wooden even lugosi isn't great in this one in my opinion and the plot while it has an interesting premise seems to be thrown together in a very difficult to follow manner
0	first nick pearl harbor was bombed in 1941 not 1942 they didn't have to predict the bombing br br second did nobody notice these six industrialist lawyers whatever were missing for a rather long amount of time they were killed before the surgery took place third how the heck did lugosi get out of cabs without being seen fourth why did the japanese not just kill him instead of putting him in jail with a convenient look alike companion and his surgical kit fifth oh what's the use this movie has a few interesting moments in it but by the time they explain what's going on you'll probably have stopped watching if not you won't care
0	don't see this movie it's repulsive the start is indeed very good but in the middle everything falls and i really regret spending 80 about 11 dollars on the ticket peter dalle should consider this as his last chance to gain peoples interest awful picture the only bright spot is the splendid work of robert lena nyman and br br hope you take my advise the picture is rubbish
0	a sprawling overambitious plotless comedy that has no dramatic center it was probably intended to have an epic vision and a surrealistic flair at least in some episodes but the separate stories are never elevated into a meaningful whole and the laughs are few and far between amusing ending though 1 2
0	bela lugosi is a real enigma in the early 1930s he was on top of the world after appearing in dracula yet again and again he made lousy decisions regarding his career perhaps he had a bad agent perhaps his drinking and drug use had a part in it or maybe he was just crazy regardless he ruined his reputation by appearing in pretty much any film ranging from excellent horror films such as the raven to big budget flicks like ninotchka to grade z flicks for the cheapest and shoddiest of studios interestingly enough although he agreed to do this terrible film he actually turned down the role that later went to boris karloff in frankenstein as for this movie it is a very silly an horridly produced wwii propaganda film that featured a dumb plot and wretched editing lugosi spends much of the movie murdering saboteurs not a bad thing at all but at the end we find out that he is himself a nazi plastic surgeon and all the american looking men he killed were actually japanese the funniest part of this is during a flashback you see lugosi talking to a group of japanese men before he changes them to american like men when the camera scans them the men are clearly asian but on all the other non close up shots they are all very western looking many with bald heads they looked absolutely nothing like japanese men i suspect the plot must have undergone a re write and this might account for the obvious mistake or it could just be shoddy production values and editing in fact early in the film they show a street scene in the city and all the cars circa 1942 are old model t fords obviously from stock footage the bottom line is that the film is bad but also very dull unlike plan 9 from outer space it's hard to laugh at the ineptitude just be put to sleep by it
0	i probably have to blame i sure as hell expected more from a movie that goes by the title black dragons and revolves on secret wwii conspiracies nazi plastic surgeons and revenge this film is a dull failure with an incomprehensible structure the actual plot which basically is rather ingenious and intriguing only becomes clear during an explication near the end but the problem is that you stop caring a long time before we see how horror icon bela lugosi infiltrates in a society of prominent american politicians and kills them one by one the story is timed right before wwii and – especially after witnessing the ending – it surely is a premise with lots of potential so it's quite a shame it isn't elaborated more proper there is however one great dialogue that i can't resist sharing man towards woman do you want to marry me why so i can beat you the only way you'll leave this place it's the only highlight in an overall very boring movie bela lugosi is lovely – as usual – but his spooky performance alone is hardly worth purchasing this film if you're interested in seeing other ghoulish performances of his in movies with decent screenplays check out invisible ghost the corpse vanishes white zombie and of course the 1931 dracula version
0	this was a strange film a bit horror and certainly film noir some fifth columnists meet and mysteriously start dying off with a japanese dagger in their hands after monsieur colomb bela lugosi shows up br br soon the lone ranger arrives in the person of fbi agent richard martin clayton moore martin is ineffective in finding the killer as he is more interested in the niece joan barclay of a missing doctor who is part of the gang br br after the last man dies and the doctor is horribly disfigured by some strange serum the true story of the group comes out and that is where it gets interesting and weird i won't spill it br br lugosi was marvelous as the skulking killer
0	black dragons is a second feature wwii propaganda film popular at the time it's not as bad as some would have you believe br br a secret meeting hosted by the respected dr william saunders george is interrupted by a mysterious stranger names monsieur colomb bela lugosi shortly thereafter the participants at the meeting begin to turn up murdered their bodies being placed on the steps of the japanese embassy in washington colomb is suspected federal agent dick martin clayton moore is assigned to the case and meets saunders niece alice saunders joan barclay who tries to assist him the reasons behind actions are not explained until the final reel until all is explained at the end the story is hard to comprehend br br lugosi who had by this time been reduced to appearing in a string of low budget quickies is actually quite good in this one he is not allowed to over act as much as he did and credit for this has to go to director william nigh lugosi's character through the shadows and is reminiscent of his dracula even to the point of the full close ups of his piercing eyes br br clayton moore a one dimensional actor at best would become tv's lone ranger in a few years joan barclay makes a good heroine br br although a little dated now black dragons is not a bad way to spend an hour
0	this film is truly a sorry excuse for film making the pacing is poor the budget must have been depressingly low and the acting is cut rate that is except for bela lugosi the audio at this point in time is also terrible with so much extra noise in the background that it sounded to me as though a jet were taking off for the entirety of the movie if these things bother you at all don't watch this film br br if you can get past this however you will find that the idea behind the film is a very good one a german plastic surgeon bela lugosi was hired by the japanese to operate on several japanese agents and turn them into the of upstanding american businessmen whom the japanese have kidnapped and killed after completing his work he was betrayed by the japanese and thrown into prison he later escapes and travels to america to seek revenge on his patients through a series of highly publicized murders br br it seemed as though bela lugosi was the only decent actor in the film and to be honest the rest of the actors were completely forgettable and stodgy the leading actress ended up being rather boring and stereotypical while the police officer assigned to her case was the common chauvinistic and always correct dominant male that is found in many films of this time period br br i also found that the camera work was completely uninspired often taking the exact same angles of the exact same rooms time and time again after a while this tends to drag the film down setting a very slow pace for the action which is more or less non existent anyway br br to me the idea is a fascinating one and with a better writer director script equipment and actors it could become an excellent film sadly these handicaps keep the film back for now and i can't recommend it to anyone but the most open of movie lovers
0	poor bela lugosi just another day at work a group of saboteurs attempting to disrupt the american war effort from the inside it's pretty hard to figure out at first because while we know these guys are up to something their method of operation just isn't very clear i won't spoil it but the ending in pretty amazing there are a series of murders perpetrated by our hero a police force that doesn't know what is going on what a coincidence that all the victims seem to come and go from the same house there are comments like a true patriot would do this or that it's obvious while suspicion abounds most of the world wouldn't know a spy or a subversive if it jumped up and bit them i also was surprised to see clayton moore the lone ranger in a romantic role i never realized that he ever did anything other than sit on a horse there is of course the smugness of the criminals as they think that they are immune from the killer's guest list anyway bela is sort of a good guy and a bad guy rolled into one the best scene in the movie is at the end but i won't spoil it as a curiosity and a period piece it may be fun to watch for some people
0	mgm hodgepodge of jimmy durante throwing a big party for everybody in hollywood no major stars show up we get the three stooges laurel hardy durante and lupe velez i didn't recognize anyone else they were probably unknowns for good reason the movie contains annoyingly unfunny jokes and some truly dreadful songs and choreography the only things that save this from being a total disaster are laurel hardy's battle with lupe velez and a wonderful color disney cartoon called the hot chocolate soldier it's a beautiful very colorful cartoon that gives the movie a huge boost otherwise the movie is a colossal bore there's no director credited what does that tell you
0	i wasn't sure where this was headed until the ending when it turned out that this was all a liberal conspiracy to hand the world over to european wimps and the united nations what a load of right wing crud incidentally the bit about canada joining the us didn't really have much to do with the plot at all and the idea was never developed the only point of it seems to be that it made the main character eligible to run for president but they could have just made him american and dispensed with that in any event this was a load of bull and not worth your time if you wan't to see this kind of thing done well check out the brilliant bbc political thriller state of play
0	no spoiler needed to steer you clear of this well bizarre film canada becomes part of the usa ok so i guess i'm unusual but i expected something about the implications of canada becoming part of the usa silly me continue with this movie and you are off to cloud land the opening premise has nothing to do with the rest of the film in which you will trust me not care a squat for any of the characters slings and arrows and due south have to be among the most imaginative series ever but in this case paul gross i'm so very sorry to say didn't have a clue about making a coherent film and wasted a lot of talented actors in the process a real disappointment
0	there could be some spoilers ahead but i doubt it i have no idea how the screenplay for this one made it past the shredder it's horrible completely unwatchable i hung in there for 45 minutes about half the running time and just couldn't stand it anymore i was an elijah wood fan in the '90s see the war and i learned to enjoy mandy moore's shifts from bubbly to serious this year see chasing liberty which is surprisingly entertaining i've seen bits of run lola run so with three leads i liked this should have been fine it wasn't nobody turned in a good performance wood's jones was flat for an aspiring writer he had next to no imagination his violent fantasies looked like they were ripped off from a christmas story and his lustful ones were huh a cross between boring and alarming potente is absolutely unlikable from the first second and i'd only know that she was supposed to be the girl by reading the box speaking of the synopsis whoever they employed for that job made the film sound funny quirky romantic and quite enjoyable whoever that person was he or she should have been employed to rewrite this script by the halfway point i didn't care about any of the characters anymore moore's lisa is an aspiring actress who's bubbly and a little conniving for no apparent reason at all but her ludicrous period play which is supposed to be funny in presentation is on a par with the rest of the script there is supposedly a happy romantic comedy ending to this turkey given the character material they had to work with i just can't envision it save your money warn your friends don't watch this movie
0	if i could give this movie a negative rating i would the humor is the cruelest i have ever seen in a film horrible things happen to good people and people who have already suffered horribly through no fault of their own there are 2 plots neither of which supports half of a film where is the depth others see in this movie that no good deed goes unpunished that only the heartless can succeed the film does start well and the black and white is very moody and well done the acting is very good and convincing witch makes the cruel humor even more horrifying if you think that the 3 stooges are too nice to each other if watching the beheading of a kidnap victim with a bowie knife is a real thigh slapper if you thought schindler's list was hilarious then this movie is for you
0	i found this movie to be a complete waste of 96 minutes jones was a weird kid and is messed up according to my memory which might be wrong wasnt he only 16 or 17 years old spoiler why did he leave college and rent an apartment with a two crazy girls who feud over boys for a and the cowboy who lives underneath jones creeped me out too how he knew what happened in the apartments didnt float past me for a minute i do not understand his thinking about the girl that took pictures for fun and stayed in her room when mandy moore was always over and is was quite obvious that she wanted to be more than friends with him i dont really find this movie funny or artsy or dramatic or anything i found it to be stupid and a complete waste of time d f
0	having loved stephen king's novels and short stories for many years i like most reviewers have been consistently disappointed in the adaptations to film from his printed works a few notable exceptions are stand by me from the body carrie from the novel of the same name and the shawshank redemption from rita and shawshank redemption this movie is by far the worst thing that has ever been produced with stephen king's name attached to it in any way it is no surprise that mr king has pretty much disavowed any connection with it i feel the thing that most offended me about this poorly acted cheaply filmed hideously directed piece of garbage is that they had the audacity to completely change the ending don't waste your time or money on this amazing bow wow of a movie
0	the first word i can find to describe this movie is awful br br this movie is one of the worst movies i have ever seen first of all is the plot a very thin plot wont comment further on this part and a plot which a lot of movies from this genre is following this makes the movie so bad because you know whats going to happen secondly does the movie contain a lot of questions which never is revealed one of the questions and this is no spoiler is what the hell are the kids doing in that corn thirdly is the characters very bad not only because the movie is bad but also because of the sorry actors they are bad as they can be br br the last thing that make this movie bad is that its a horror movie you are supposed to be scared of the killings or the sudden shocks but you are not scared you a not horrified because you know whats going to happen br br conclusion the movie is as bad as the movie about the killer ants i hoped that it was a very great movie but because the story is bad the actors are bad the film raises a lot of questions and because its not scary the movie is best unseen
0	a traveling couple horton and hamilton stumble onto the town of where kids have slaughtered the adults and are always eager to slaughter more along the way they're separated and peter horton of course must save his wife from these tiresome er terrible tykes in this very bad adaption of one of king's best short stories in the original story king managed to create tension and draw personality of his characters however all of that has been zapped from the production and all that is left is a repetitive bore which is far too predictable to be all that suspenseful also the effective ending used in the story is in favor dumped for a happy ending which makes the overall impact mute there is some atmosphere and stylish directing but no plot to back any of it up the kids are woefully unconvincing also br br 1 5 matt bronson
0	i'm sorry but for a movie that has been so stamped as a semi classic and a scary movie but seriously i think when the director has me laughing unintentionally that's not a good thing the characters in this film were just so over the top and unbelievable i just couldn't stop laughing at voice it was just like a high pitched whiny girl's british voice not to mention over dramatic stick up his butt character br br children of the corn is about a town where all the children have killed off the adults and worship a god that commands them to sacrifice any 20 aged people when a couple has a bad car accident they come to the town for help but of course they get caught in the kid's trap and are getting sacrificed but has other intentions when he is sick of following orders br br children of the corn could've been something great but turned into a bad over the top movie that you could easily make fun of as much as i love stephen king i'm sure this is not what he intended and it was a pretty lame story or at least the actors destroyed it like i said for a good laugh watch it but i'm warning you it's pretty pathetic br br 3 10
0	while this is horribly dated i must insist please no remake frankly it just won't help as there's nothing which could be added or changed to make this cinematically better br br the novel upon which this is based was atmospheric well written truly spooky work but on film it just doesn't translate most of king's written masterpieces fail to translate to film i'm not sure why this is but when you view this work if you view it you are likely to see just what i mean br br the book it's wonderful it's not a masterpiece but it's more than just entertaining br br the movie do something else you can thank me later br br it rates a 3 1 10 from br br the fiend
0	i must admit ashamed though i am that as an impressionable young teenager this below par horror chiller was one of my favourite all time films nine years after first viewing stephen king's frightening story however i have now come to my senses and am able to assess fritz work more reasonably br br indeed king's tale of a small nebraskan farming community that is turned upside down by a young demonic preacher boy and his sadistic sidekick is truly disturbing on paper but it makes for a cheap average horror show on celluloid a lot of this outcome can be attributed to the fact that almost allows the beginning of the film to become a hacker slasher show and then turns the finale into a hocus pocus special effects nightmare br br the cast are reasonable but they can only portray as much credibility as this rather incredible over the top movie will allow them and the soundtrack by jonathan elias is than the pictures br br a real shame that george goldsmith's screenplay turned stephen king's haunting short story into a shocking horror isaac and all the other children of the corn aren't really all that scary br br sunday august 7 1994 video
0	nearly everything that stephen king has ever written seems to have been turned into a film or tv series in fact i'm surprised that no one has tried to make a mini series from the guy's grocery list let's face it if they did it couldn't be any less interesting than children of the corn br br based on one of king's many short stories this 1984 horror flick sees linda hamilton and peter horton playing a couple on a long car journey who run into a spot of bother when they chance upon the sleepy nebraska town of where all of the adults have been murdered by children who worship an ancient evil that lurks in the corn fields br br although director fritz does manage to build a fair amount of atmosphere at the beginning after hamilton's silly song and dance but before we get to meet the freakish isaac leader of the killer kids he completely blows it with endless unexciting scenes in which hamilton and horton are hunted down by the town's homicidal half pints courtney gains as violent redhead manages to appear genuinely menacing but the rest of the children are not the least bit threatening as a result many of the film's 'scary' moments fail to work br br towards the end of the film when we finally get to see the malevolent force that inhabits the field surrounding the film descends into a glut of terrible 80s visual effects that probably looked pretty ropey almost 25 years ago but look positively laughable nowadays br br children of the corn might be of interest to king fans keen to see how the writer's work has been translated to the big screen but your average horror film fan will be most unimpressed
0	unless there's some huge ironic conspiracy going on my jaw dropped when i read the positive reviews of this film i cannot believe that this film was even released it's so bad br br i admit it is not my kind of movie but i tried to watch it objectively anyway you know so bad it's funny and was still offended at its sheer awfulness br br the acting is atrocious they can't have watched the rushes and i'm guessing there was one take per scene it really is that terrible it is the worst film i have seen in many a year in fact i wouldn't even call it a film it's a tragedy the gay black friend whom no one actually calls gay it's just implied because he's so crazy homophobic this is not good in fact this is downright vomit inducing the jokes die on their pathetic arses the music is so bad it defies belief the person who compiled the soundtrack essentially chose the most ear bad songs they had ever heard and put them in this waste of film stock oh my good christ i can't believe the 80's produced utter garbage like this i grew up through them and i cannot find one thing worth of note here it must have been a dark time to be a cinema goer br br if you even contemplate watching this film go see a psychiatrist he will then accordingly slap you you sick sick person
0	yumiko the pretty adopted daughter of a recently deceased japanese businessman inherits control of her father's company her uncle kazuo shun miffed that he wasn't left the business to run orders a hit on his niece when jug eared chef takashi enters the wrong hotel room by mistake and knocks out hit man invincible jung yuen he is mistaken for the killer and sent to kill yumiko instead he falls for the pretty heiress and ends up vowing to protect her however she is kidnapped by men while is preoccupied playing an arcade game with cop daniel sam lee br br uncle kazuo keeps yumiko in a hypnotic trance and takes control of the business but runs into a spot of bother himself when his gangster pals threaten to reveal his illegal activities unless he allows them total control br br meanwhile teams up with two martial arts experts lam yuen baio and lam candy lo who are hunting invincible he learns kung fu and attempts to free yumiko br br a mixture of broad slapstick humour and fight scenes no problem 2 is a disappointing film considering the talent involved 80s kung fu superstar yuen baio manages a few fight scenes but is getting a little old for acrobatics these days director kar lok chin delivers the kind of dumb parody schtick i'd expect from a scary movie film jung yuen resorts to mocking his character in operation scorpio and sam well sam lee is as annoying as always br br on the other hand collin chou as gangster ben impressed me he has an obviously strong screen presence which has not gone unnoticed by has since starred in two of the matrix movies and is soon to appear in d o a directed by corey yuen i was also impressed by but for an entirely different reason this beauty is easy on the eye and should go much further in the film business br br there is some fun to be had from working out what movies are being parodied but at 104 minutes i found this film a real chore to sit through if people pulling funny faces accompanied by silly sound effects makes you burst your sides laughing then no problem 2 might appeal to you otherwise i would leave well alone
0	set in 1945 follows a failed swedish book editor who decides to take a non stop train to berlin unfortunately for everyone around him he's a walking disaster causing mayhem everywhere he goes the train also holds a man and his mistress scheming to murder the man's wife who's also on the train a soldier on his way home two gay elderly gentlemen an angry train conductor two nuns a bunch of refugees and even more people br br meant as a mix of noir ish thriller which it does quite well at least to begin with and comedy the film fails with both it doesn't sit right as the film changes tone with every new scene and as the train races towards its final destination the film turns more and more bizarre ending on a truly surreal note br br the good bits are wasted in a myriad of pointless plots and characters is packed with famous swedish actors no matter how small the part is it feels like the filmmakers rang everyone they've ever worked with and offered them a part in the film too bad that the performances are just as bad as the script act your lines don't read them br br the comedy is more or less slapstick with the same jokes repeated over and over the pace is incredibly slow at times quite often actually with on scene in particular dragging on for about ten minutes for no good reason the screenwriter also seems to think that swearing is a good way to replace decent dialogue the film looks great though in moody b w but it's wasted on such inept film making in every other department 1 10
0	dreadful film about a doctor who goes fishing and winds up catching a mermaid when he is thrown overboard she traps him into bringing her back with him br br glynis johns in the title role is really a silly individual with a tail hanging out br br margaret rutherford is the nurse who is supposed to be so eccentric but we see no eccentricity here in fact miss rutherford was not allowed to use her true comedic gifts br br nice to see david tomlinson in the film he would get together with johns in the far superior mary poppins 16 years later br br miranda causes mischief in that two guys a neighbor's fiancée and chauffeur tomlinson fall for her br br ask any mermaid you happen to see what's the best tuna chicken of the sea as for this film forget it
0	seriously i'm amazed at all the good feedback this show has here all we have in this show is two stupid kids who keep doing an annoying laugh and they do occasional funny things only in like 2 of the shows while most of the others sucked as then they comment on music videos which i cannot stand personally while they either love or like br br in most episodes the only things you will hear are the let's go score with some chicks or i'll kick your ass beavis or the better yet and usually used quote that was cool and above all their annoying laugh br br if you want a good animated show try the simpsons ren and stimpy south park this show is just not worth the time or energy it takes to watch this awful mtv series truthfully
0	according to milan kundera a porcelain cat holding a red rose is denying the crap well those criminals guilty of making this series probably wanted to show how to make a total opposite of the porcelain cat holding a red rose because teenaged beavis and butthead are enthusiastically from the place where the sun doesn't shine and their crappiness infects the whole stoopid series mtv has received a lot of bad mouthing from it's half nude stripper beauties while this is gathering positive reviews in imdb well newsflash to everybody your butt is cool too if you go out showing it in the middle of the winter something these two probably would do still there is no need to make a film about your butt and yes these two probably would do that too
0	i don't care if this show is suppose to be communicating profound messages about human existence br br the show is crap how can anyone derive pleasure from watching it yet it was received so well this reflects a sad state of affairs for joe moron out there br br i tried watching this program when it first came out as friends were talking about it the inane laughing between the two main characters and the pitiful dialog made me want to cry br br it is beyond belief that people can watch this show yet i guess the creators had the last laugh making themselves wealthy by taking the p ss out of the very people that would watch a show such as this br br i would wager they are laughing all the way to the bank
0	i still remember when frog baseball first aired on mtv in some sort of odd surreal manner the cartoon captured the stupid actions that i think every boy growing up in america engages in i cringe now thinking about how i burned a crippled grasshopper using a magnifying glass but it was interesting at the time for some reason growing up in the 1980s we all knew stoners these were the kids who wore iron maiden t shirts to school grew their hair long had immature moustaches and were at least two inches taller than everyone else because they had flunked a grade or two we laughed at them because they were so stupid even when not stoned so it was easy to understand beavis co because we already knew them some of us were even them to the extent that like myself would spurn the excess of the 1980s and embrace the grunge movement of the 1990s beavis co were sort of a strange post modern anthem for us strange because like beavis co we didn't care if we had an anthem it was just an inside joke that we all immediately got even if it was awful
0	i tried i really really tried to think of something that would merit rating this higher than a two it's not that i don't get it i'm a big fan of asian cinema the truth is the movie is infantile in construction long winded and painfully disjointed br br i suppose that if you are of alfred hitchcock's school of thought don't tell them show them then you could try to appreciate this movie but you would still be hard pressed br br first of all the tries stream of consciousness in the style of jean luc godard and fails in this edward yang seems to understand the basics of the technique but he's very unskilled at it perhaps he gets better with age i don't know as i haven't yet attempted other yang films the point is he uses a dearth of show don't tell that really only serves to interrupt the procession of the story sure he gets in some visually arresting images but they don't draw the story together and they don't help to make it any better br br additionally the major concept behind stream of consciousness and show don't tell is that with the right images the right drama repetition and tight correlation the viewer will be able to make his or her own not to say that these will be the correct but those can be as the story progresses and every director should strive for some of this type of audience interaction in this edward yang sorely disappoints the viewer is constantly on the periphery there is no reason to be drawn in no reason to consider the characters or their motives no reason to get emotionally involved and really no reason to stay alert br br finally yang gets lost in the story that he wants to tell not the story that the movie itself is telling his art moves in one direction but like a large dog he can't control he's constantly yanking the lead trying to get it back onto the course he wants not the one that it is naturally following the most egregious example of this is the ending the ending really should have occurred at the moment of the husband's revelation the ending of the book that the movie is focusing on and by extension a possible ending for the movie has already been told to us if yang had chosen to end at that point he would have had a much more powerful piece leaving the watcher in suspense does the story play out as the book says or does real world play out differently asking the viewer to think about this is the sort of viewer interaction that yang painfully needs instead he continues to tell the story he wants to tell straining the natural conclusion for the sake of what for the sheer sake of lingering on a main character we didn't' need to know more about her superficially and yang wouldn't feel the need to tell us if he hadn't made her into a veneer instead of bothering to make her a more engaging and deep character to begin with br br why else does yang prolong and torture his movie to get in some more of those visually arresting images the movie truly suffers for it it wants to end it has a conclusion that feels natural and leaves the viewer unsettled but instead yang pushes on instead yang constructs a complex ending that leads the viewer on causing him or her to constantly ask so what the first ending the one that yang ignored that was good the second ending well my thought was so what who cares because it's not as if it is introducing something that hasn't been put forth in the storyline already but the last ending that really was a waste of time not only did the real ending leave me disengaged but i also felt it was an affront to what the story could have been yang sacrificed a potentially good story for the bubblegum melancholy noir tinged conclusion that he had insisted upon all along br br my last problem with the movie has nothing to do with the movie itself but rather its post production the subbing if you see it subbed is horrible long sentences stay up for a second or two while short ones stay up far too long also as yang quickly changes images the subtitles are removed from the screen this is one of those rare instances that subtitles should be able to stay on the screen even as the image has changed because there's not much dialog going on anyway
0	realty television crew are assigned to cover a small town high school hockey team running into a serial killer wearing a black mask and lots of interviews where the members of the crew and some of the locals who live in the town of white plains where most of this film is set talk into the camera about each other those they encounter in the town of white plains their current situations and the showbiz side of their lives the screenplay is often acidic cynical and caustic and killer movie essentially pokes fun at realty television shows featuring a cast of characters one might find on the real world if this plot is attractive to you knock yourself out i found the characters tiresome and the satire is old hat out of the cast paul wesley the director needing a big break encountering more than he could possibly bargain for jake tanner is a nice guy coming off very likable and tolerant of the crap he must contend with considering the prima donnas and immature people in his entourage who often cause nothing but migraines particularly irksome is his producer lee a tyrant constantly barking orders to everyone her poisonous attitude creating much tension she's the type of producer who wishes to capitalize on a small town eruption regarding the killer using the hockey team cover story as a front to exploit the tragedy occurring in white plains those familiar with kaley cuoco know that by now she has perfected the pampered princess got it down pat because it's the only role we ever see her in most of the time as blanca she's polarizing the way she demands attention milking what little celeb status she has to the hilt manufacturing much friction as she becomes a source of frustration and has quite the potty mouth cuoco may've taken the part just so she could escape her usual television sitcom roles allowed to spout profanity without restriction cuoco along with the entire cast services killer movie as eye candy but it's hard to find any character you wouldn't want to see hacked to pieces with a meat cleaver jason london is the sound equipment guy a real creep with a sour attitude often tormenting the others with his foul comments that are uncalled for we witness lots of personality clashes watching how these self absorbed hollywood types in the cast snipe at each other the killer's identity shouldn't surprise anyone it's quite blatantly obvious some minor gore but most of the violence is shot off screen despite some tame lesbianism not even this is satisfying leighton pops up in the film as a cute victim director writer jeff fisher assembles quite an attractive cast but i wouldn't be able to distinguish this from the innumerable slashers that have stocked the horror shelves over the last ten or so years since scream while i've never liked any of characters i never tire of looking at her but eventually she needs to come up with a role that doesn't consist of her preening with smug arrogance always whining and complaining
0	first of all let me just say that after watching this movie i felt like i'd been sold a bill of goods mind you it's not the movie's fault that imdb has it listen as a comedy first and a horror second although i don't know how that's entered maybe some moron from the film's crew put it in being a fan of the horror comedy genre i checked it out based on that and i'm so so sorry i did where to start first of all to touch back on my beginning there's no comedy in this movie it tries once or twice but never gets more than a chuckle at best my reaction was primarily rolling my eyes and wondering why someone thought such tired material would be funny also there's no horror here not a second of tension can be found you think i'm exaggerating i am not no tension very little blood and not much violence on screen sorry but in a horror flick cutting away just as the good stuff starts is a major foul hell there's even zero nudity call me a purist or juvenile i prefer some in a horror flick if it can't come up with an original plot premise and that tired as all hell reality tv show gone wrong thing it's been done before and a lot better like wrong turn 2 or ummm whatever that movie was called with edward furlong that's how bad this movie is i don't even remember the name of that movie but it was better than this i also enjoyed the one comment claiming the timing for this was good because reality tv is taking over did someone from the past post that with a time machine are you freaking kidding me this thing is trash and not in a fun way
0	sebastian cabot is a rich jerk who wants to buy up all the land because there is oil though none of the locals are aware of the oil with the help of an evil gunfighter in black they kill and terrorize everyone when the son of a murdered man arrives he refuses to back down and stands up to these forces of darkness br br wow as i watched terror in a texas town i felt as if i'd seen this film many times before and would probably see something like it again that's because aside from a few novelties such as sterling hayden using a harpoon on the bad guy it has a plot that is too familiar once again we've got a rich guy who is trying to drive out all the farmers in order to gain control of all the land and to do so he's brought in hired guns to force people to sell or kill them been there done that in just too many films br br i love sterling hayden in films but just couldn't recommend this as anything other than a poor time passer
0	big and we mean plus sized big baddie sebastian cabot is trying to run salt of the earth farmers off their land in order to get the oil rights when sea faring sterling pop is killed how will haden put an end to terror in a texas town armed only with a harpoon br br first off this isn't a b western there are no singing cowboys no daredevil stunts no interesting action sequences it's just an independent movie you know the ones that use unimportant actors to say important things and cover the general low budget of the goings on with interesting camera angles br br second this movie to avoid compromises one expects that would cause the elimination of important statements about justice in america and the rather sick relationship between the chief henchman and his girl is really low budget the main problem that causes is that the acting is really really bad sterling haden is decent enough in tough roles but he is the last guy you want playing a sensitive swedish sailor gone to find his fortune in the west sebastian cabot tries to do a sydney greenstreet as very bloated it's not a bad idea but cabot does not have the acting chops for it the guy who plays the hired gun with the missing arm and soul johnny has the best role in the film he does nothing with it br br third the script really isn't all that gets some digs in about the immigrant isn't going to get a fair shake from the sheriff in a corrupt town and the people when up against real oppression tend to back down this is a pretty stale movie message by 1958 high noon bad day at black rock devil's doorway are all westerns that deal with the evils of western society with an eye to the evils of 50s america in certainly had every personal reason to agree with those sentiments but he isn't doing anything new or interesting with them br br so given all the negatives why does this movie get a 4 mostly because there are interesting quirks throughout the movie the relationship between and his girl is um fascinating and while a mediocre writer when pursuing his political affectations is very good in creating both interesting characters and intelligent interactions between them just when one is ready to pass out from indy movie boredom will come an exchange of dialog or simple quirkiness that gets one realize that guy writing the script was not simply a hack br br if you don't like or westerns give this one a miss otherwise try it you might like it more than i did
0	outside sweden you are not expected have seen this movie happy you the cast includes several actors that are important part of modern the swedish movie history and still br br seems like peter dalle only had a an idea lasting for about 20 minutes robert gustafson is totally misused in this movie trying to copy a younger by the way is the only actor fulfilling the expectations br br credit that can be given is for the photo splendid idea using black and white music is ok br br but over all it's a waste of god actors and the time of the audience
0	greedy land baron in the tiny western town of prairie city wants all the ranchers off their land using intimidation tactics and arson to get them to vacate seems the town is swimming atop oil and when a swedish farmer refuses to leave he's mowed down by the baron's hired gun the farmer's seafaring son soon arrives slowly realizing what he's up against and attempting to rally the rest of the residents to fight another lawlessness in the west story with everybody under the thumb of the villain who naturally holds all the cards derivative and uncomfortable at times to watch with a long wait before our stoic hero finally gets his up sterling half hearted swedish accent is a big problem though he cuts a sturdy sympathetic presence on the screen and almost makes the picture worth watching director joseph h lewis stages most of the scenes stiffly like a tv western and gerald fried's bugle heavy score is no help though the rich black and white cinematography by ray is excellent an independent production released via united artists the film has a bizarre start beginning with shots from the finale followed by shots from the movie's midsection yet it does have a certain power which most assuredly gets the viewer on side from
0	i unwittingly walked into this trap of a movie br br if i could turn back time or simply get a refund i would be happy br br it was 7 30pm and cinderella man didn't start until 10pm so i rushed into the theater to catch the movie that started at 7 and i dare say god reached out his hand or retracted it and allowed me to punish myself for my film gluttony by sitting in for this film br br it may be unfair to criticize a movie that was not targeted at my heterosexual male cohort however there is no excuse for lousy sound and video editing this movie was at most worthy of a highschool project budget and i think i've seen better in those play acting french shorts that we used to do about louis br br maybe it's because i'm canadian and this film was for the la fudge packing crew and their sympathizing dames woe was me when i realized that then entire audience save me cracked up at all the jokes and entendres i fully understood the hinted humor but i just could not relate br br this show did show me supposedly how gay men date and build relationships however even if it was their purpose of the movie i feel that the gayness was focused on too heavily the humanity seemed lacking but again maybe that was the point simply to be avant gard and to make a splash br br i guess with a low budget and poor equipment you have to make your movie as loud as possible in order to get crowds and cash return i really wish i had simply read my sheldon van instead hehe i was totally the wrong audience
0	i really wanted to like this film but it barely eked out a 3 it's surprising that equal amounts of the votes were 10 the other half 1 all the characters were entertaining and even talented but as a whole the film didn't pay off sebastian hernandez is appealing charismatic and likable he even physically resembles marc anthony in a more approachable yet ultimately conscious sort of way but even he couldn't save this mess of a movie scenes dragged on far too long and points were ultimately beaten to death the banana scene on self absorption seemingly showing how much movement was in his boxers but in his defense it was his first movie as director that i'm aware of and i appreciate his labor of love it just left me empty despite what was trying to be said ultimately i think the story would have been better handled by a more experienced director from what i've seen of the there is a real story behind this and perhaps when i finish watching them i'll appreciate this attempt more
0	julien hernandez is certainly an attractive and likable on screen persona in fact his character pretty much carries this whole film or what's worthwhile about it the problem is with the exception of his gal pal played by marisa and paul as a trick date boyfriend for some of the characters no one else even comes close hernandez plays a 30 something director of cuban heritage and unknown sexuality who comes to l a and gets a job making a gay documentary in the process of meeting a group of gay people while finding subjects he comes out but very s l o w l y even at 88 minutes the film has obviously been stretched out and padded with various film school devices most of which only end up pointlessly interrupting the narrative which ain't much to begin with or pointing out the overall amateurish ness of the film making br br which is a shame because there's a love story in here somewhere and the final three minutes when hernandez's sebastien finally clicks with a wealthy west hollywood party thrower nicely underplayed by lonnie henderson and they share some sexy soulful kisses it works despite all that came before but we don't really care about any of the other characters or their situations why would handsome dante have a eurotrash for a boyfriend he wouldn't and don't even get me started on friend paulie's rules for dating no gay man i know hell no sane person period would put such constrictions on himself or others and please tell me how sebastien gets a peeled banana which is normally fairly right stuck up his butt and has to go to a doctor to get it removed br br i noticed hernandez won an award for this film as a short it probably should have stayed that way all this said i'd look forward to seeing hernandez on screen again in a better scripted comedy with more assured direction
0	this movie has some good performances as others have pointed out but suffers as others have pointed out except for the people who apparently are either friends of the filmmaker or the cast to otherwise explain why they would deem this a 10 from some self conscious and self absorbed film school padding and excess plots this is the type of plot that sex in the city could handle in a half hour episode so there was no reason for it to be even an 88 minute movie a perfect example of wasted footage is the fast forwarding montage in the first third of the movie some of the back story is merited but too much time for example was spent on daria character with the anal sex boyfriend and on the back story for paulie who was not a realistic character although the actor did a decent job with the lines he was given br br the worst aspect of the movie was the level of amateurish parts from typos in the typed material to bad jumps and edits poor camera positions angles lighting problems throughout and most glaringly a poorly written script with a badly developed concept if the writer also the director and lead had collaborated with someone he might not have ended up with a 100 rotten score on rotten tomatoes which further the ability of anyone to truly believe the people who gave it a 10 on the rating system here
0	i walked into heart of gold thinking i was going to watch a documentary about neil young instead i witnessed a self serving tribute to the arrogance of aging baby boomers who have lost their edge and forgotten their roots highly rated by aging baby boomer critics directed and performed by more aging baby boomer artists heart of gold is a bore fest from start to finish that is if you can manage to sit through the entire near 2 hour movie neil young and crew have long lost their edge and want the rest of us to join them on a rocking chair of middle of the road mediocrity what happened to the raunchy guitar of his earlier solo efforts i guess all of his fuzz boxes rusted out and his over driven vacuum tubes exploded in the hot air of his generation as far as demme goes this is the daring director of something wild melvin and howard a student filmmaker could have made a more daring film than this poorly visualized surface performance film don't waste your on heart of gold and go straight to the last waltz and shelter and if you really want to dig deep into the personality of a rock and roll icon scrounge up a copy of chuck berry hail hail rock and roll which is sorely out of print and baby boomers don't bother squawking about how this review is jaded by someone younger i too am one of those baby boomers who listened to cinnamon girl on acid and danced in the streets to the stones' street fighting man go back and watch don't look back or shelter and then come back and tell me that heart of gold has any worth as a document
0	of course i have disappeared into the movies the neil young concert film 'heart of gold ' br br there have been many great concert films through the years the best being martin scorsese's 'the last which filmed the band's last concert at west a phenomenal concert and a phenomenal film that is if you love rock and roll and felt as if you had been born into it and were part of the music and could be in the band if you had a better guitar and someone would show you the chords and that with a few chords and a lyric or two you could change the world as you can guess i felt all five to the bottom of my twenty four year old soul br br neil young was in 'the last waltz ' they had to digitally before digital actually they had to manually scrape a big hanging cocaine rock that from his nose so in the film there's a bright light that is not the star of bethlehem dangling above his lip and below his nostril it's a famous bit of rock and roll history br br but 'the last was made when the band and neil and everyone else was in their thirties and 'heart of gold' was filmed last year when neil is in his sixties and his band looks as if they are in their late nineties and the entire movie could visually be used by the christian right and the dea in the same way that those ohio state patrol films of the perils of drunk driving were used when i was in high school showing dead teenagers hanging through front windows or dangling from trees or bloody in a ditch br br close your eyes and it is a terrific concert open them and view dorian grey's hidden portrait case in point the once ethereally beautiful harris literally coming out of the darkness to sing with neil and from dark to light appearing to be a ring wraith leapt full borne out of the river in front of ghastly ghostlike a nose that doesn't appear in nature and is not an advertisement for plastic surgery eyes that make buttons on dolls look lifelike and the ability to express any emotion human or not constrained by unrestrained over indulgence in botox my mind reeled porcupine peru jack daniels living hard for decades my god sweet harris who i saw sing for free at fred's in boulder a face a 2000 year dead pharoah would not accept but the voice as pure as a thick lipped bottle of boulder beer from the waters of boulder creek and i closed my eyes and smelled an homage one must use homage at least once in any film review to fred's hamburgers on boulder mall and the steve martin pink panther movie br br it would have been a terrific concert sitting in the dark in auditorium maybe twenty rows back but close up in close ups it was a medieval morality play depicting the horrors of indulgence and the consequences of a sinful life br br the concert theme emblazoned on the scenery a prairie wind the last song guitars i counted eight and i wondered if irony was at play i don't think so a native american bass player a lead guitarist who looked and dressed like buffalo bill a piano player whose face looked like the face in the scream the chick singers actually matronly singers mostly reminding one of the lost youth of senior united flight attendants still plying the friendly skies dressed in matching full length distressed denim dresses no it was played straight br br none of them had seen i would bet a mighty wind br br it will be a great cd and would be glad to tell tales of hippy dippy boulder when neil was a long haired canadian crooner whose indecipherable lyrics seemed to mirror heartache and loss feelings as universal then as now br br but only in a dark bar
0	barbara payton is the suppose to be sultry sexy young hot wife of the geezer plantation owner somewhere in a back lot set at a cheap studio in hollywood raymond burr wears his working shirt with the top button undone as the hunky chunky plantation foreman who mrs payton is desiring to blow the joint with there is another girl some sort of peasant slave thing that burr used to fool around with but he's given her the old heave ho so the obligatory old doo hag is conjuring up a good spell to cast on him and the payton tramp i watched this only part way through because its really awful so didn't even get to see the star of the show which i guess is a gorilla that the doo hag turned someone into or whatever who cares i give this one half star out of a possible ten it's not even campy just really bad
0	this movie was cheesy and it was more than that it was about this guy who gets a curse on him and he turns into a gorilla i had to see how bad it was because of the title before this guy turns into a gorilla he gets married i was a little upset because she wasn't a bride of a gorilla she is now the wife of the gorilla she should have married him when he was a gorilla then the title would have made more sense there are all these people in the middle of the jungle too and they all want to leave this isn't just a b movie it's more like a z movie i didn't even see any bananas for a wedding gift oh right he wasn't cursed yet
0	the cast and crew of this cheap horror potboiler are more interesting than anything that occurs throughout the movie itself we have barbara payton raymond burr lon chaney jr tom conway paul cavanaugh and woody strode in front of the camera and writer director curt siodmak cinematographer charles van editorial supervisor francis d lyon and production assistant herman cohen behind it the ill fated payton turns the head of virtually every male she comes in contact with deep in the african jungle where she lives on husband plantation doctor conway secretly desires her while hot headed foreman burr's approach is quite literally more hands on on the other hand chaney is surprisingly enough the laid back but knowing authoritarian figure and strode is a native police official the plot is very simple but frankly does not make a whole lot of sense after a particularly agitated dinner complete with thunderstorm burr and cavanaugh art imitating life – more on that later come to blows in the garden over their affection for payton and conveniently for burr a large snake just happens to be crawling near where cavanaugh hits the ground witnessing the event from behind the bushes enigmatic maid a native witch no less for some inexplicable reason puts a curse on burr who has in the meantime married payton that periodically turns him into a gorilla starting from his very wedding day when his hand briefly turns hirsute consequently burr takes to losing himself in the jungle for days on end – even if the ape creature itself is barely glimpsed throughout the film it must be said however that the version that i watched ran for just 56 minutes when the 'official' length is elsewhere given as either 66 70 or 76 therefore the film feels understandably rushed and disjointed if never less than campily enjoyable as it culminates in the gorilla's subjectively shot chasing of payton in the jungle with the former being itself pursued by the gun toting chaney and conway to get back to the film's tragic blonde leading lady for a minute after a promising start in movies next to such hollywood legends as james cagney and gary cooper – in respectively kiss tomorrow goodbye and dallas both 1950 – her career soon nose dived into b and lesser grade territory thanks to her own 'colorful' off screen antics her most notorious misdemeanor was being the cause of a much publicized bar room brawl between suave husband franchot tone and brutish former lover tom neal which ended with the former in a coma and payton actually deserting him for the latter shortly thereafter but that was not all nymphomaniac payton also boasted that woody strode was among her conquests a controversial issue at the time short lived husband tone having caught infidelities on camera spread the damning photographic evidence around hollywood and this virtually served to end her days as a starlet – her last film appearance being edgar g murder is my beat 1955 which i happen to have in my unwatched movies pile the last 12 years of her tumultuous life were spent on skid row in the throes of booze drugs prostitution beatings arrests and even a stabbing – before eventually dying in 1967 in her parents' home at the young age of 39
0	i had this movie given to me and have to admit i am glad that i did not pay money for it br br the back of the box makes it seem like some kind of sex triangle with 2 women trying to seduce her but the reality in this movie is far from that br br in reality the main subject is the victim of a vicious and sadistic rape by the two other characters there was absolutely nothing in this that i found interesting at all br br even movies like silence of the lambs and wild things which the box tries to compare this movie to were riveting because of the unexpected turns and suspense br br but jaded has none of this it concentrates on the and the sick relationship with the boyfriend of one of them and the of a videotape that may prove the victims story is true br br while it does show that same sex rape is possible it is not a movie worth watching br br if at all possible pass this movie up at all costs
0	it is a story as old as man the jealousy for another man's wife and possessions there are even commandments against it br br in this story raymond burr perry mason ironside is the manager of a runner plantation who lusts after the owners wife and feels that he isn't treated with respect the wife the starlet barbara payton who was trying to make a comeback after a string of sordid affairs was lusting after burr who killed her husband paul cavanagh br br but lurking about was a strange woman the housekeeper gisela who sees everything and who was capable of some voodoo to avenge the wronged which also included another young woman carol to whom burr also professed love br br burr is poisoned and becomes or thinks he becomes a gorilla payton will have to mate with kong if she ever wants her marriage consummated as he goes into the jungle every night br br the end is predictable but the stirring question of this film is why payton would ever be afraid with those sharply pointed missiles jutting out from her chest no animal could get near her to do harm
0	certainly not a bad little low budget film this bride of the gorilla but nothing special neither and not memorable enough to be ranked among the meaningful sci fi efforts of its time director curt siodmak was an eminent scriptwriter during the 1930's and 1940's and delivered stories for some true genre classics i walked with a zombie the wolf man but as a director he obviously lacked the required competences bride of the gorilla is similar to the aforementioned the wolf man in story and atmosphere but the film looks a lot more amateurish and pitiful both handle about cursed men that turn into large animals at night but the titular gorilla doesn't look half as threatening as the werewolf even though the film got released a whole decade later during a cheesy opening speech actor lon chaney tries to convince us that the jungle is an ominous place and hiding many mysteries but actually there's no real mystery in the plot it's just handles about a plantation manager who's jealous at his older colleague for having such a beautiful young wife and he kills him a native woman witnesses his crime and puts a spell on barney that causes him to transform into a hideously big gorilla at night or maybe she just wants him to believe he's turning into a hideously big chaney himself plays the police commissioner charged with the murder investigation while raymond burr who starred in about a thousand perry mason tv movies portrays the greedy plantation manager nightly gorilla siodmak attempts to make the film look like a supernatural thriller – is it or is it not all just happening in barney's head – fail miserably and it causes way too much talking and too few jungle action several of the jungle settings are nicely pictured but the rest of the special effects are tacky and poorly done still the acting is pretty good barbara payton is looking beautiful and – although very predictable – the story is strangely compelling until the very end weird movie it probably voodoo cursed me…
0	the film is a pathetic attempt to remake ingmar bergman's autumn sonata 1978 starring ingrid bergman liv ullman and erland it did not take me more than 5 minutes to figure that out br br it is time film journalists like mohammad took out time to do some creative thinking it makes me sad when potentially good film makers waste their talents by making substandard remakes of hollywood and european films br br you've got to give the film maker something though the film he picked for copying is one of bergman's classics and easily one of the finest instances of the portrayal of a strained human relationship in european cinema
0	this film is perfect for over the top cheesy zombie lovers its a film you can laugh at from the acting to the terrible zombie action that being said i gave this a 4 outta 10 for effort cos horror is a hard genre to make going down the list the bad points of this film were as following br br bad make up terrible sound and sound effects really bad continuity cheesy dialogue one song played through the whole film stein couldn't act and in my opinion one of the worst i've seen terrible ending racist moment and stealing simpson's character named br br the good points good costume police officers seemed to have the best acting exp the actors with less lines or small roles did appear to be better good attempt with gore br br i don't wanna bad mouth the film its funny to watch cos of these bad points and i think thats what makes this film ok if it was any better i don't think it would of made any difference but it wouldn't be interesting to see a remake with all the same cast as i believe they have possibly improved over the last 7 years
0	for an indy film this is probably a bit better than a 3 out of 10 but in general it only gets a 3 the effects aren't horrible and at least they have some adults playing adult roles rather than all kids as a lot of indy low budget horror films do the acting is very wooden but at least they had a better display than some films in the shoestring budget category it's filmed a lot inside a building rather than a friend's basement the plot as a whole isn't the worst it's a resident evil rip off about an evil corporation invading a small town and an outbreak makes people into zombies i would have liked to have seen some sort of creatures rather than the big baddie just be another super zombie i try not to write spoilers but this review has one so be warned spoiler alert not only do some of the cast just seem to shrug past the zombies the same ones are recycled over and over but at least they have more then 5 people playing them but one of the plot twists really doesn't fly with me the deputy who goes inside turns out to be on the evil corporations payroll he kills one of the other employees in cold blood and then meets with the head bad guy in an office talking about cleaning up the mess the deputy has just shown us that he is a real bad person too and talks like he can clean it up meaning kill all the surviving witnesses no problem but then 2 seconds later he is helping them out there was no real change of heart emotion or anything to make me feel that this bad guy went from killing an innocent guy just minutes ago and then talking about taking everyone out no problem to being their savior there was no incident or anything to make me buy into this worth watching if you are a fan of low budget flicks otherwise you will not enjoy this
0	two years after this short the last our gang short was made after seeing this you wonder how it even lasted that much longer the quality of our gang nosedived soon after moving from hal roach to mgm and this short is a perfect example the gags are all very unfunny and last line of this being the happiest day of his life paints a bad picture in your mind of what it's like for him the rest of the time a very poor example of film making
0	is upset that he never has a big party like all the other kids spanky and the gang seek to remedy that by giving him a surprise party unaware that all the decorations and preparations are for him sabotages everything only to find out too late that the party is for him br br okay our gang comedy works in fits and starts the bits work but i don't think it really works as a whole part of the problem is that we all know where this is going and since much of the humor needs to have some form of surprise for it to work the whole thing falls down i think in a weird way the film just sort of misses its the type of thing that had they actually thought about it might have amounted to something more than a misfire worth trying if you lower your expectations
0	admittedly i watched the mst3k version of this but it's not actually too bad outright at least compared to others which deserve my cinematic hatred br br the story centers around a troubled girl wrongly sent to a reform school called girls' town along way races redemption and wackiness unintentional happen the story and acting are a little flat as is the action however the entire thing is actually entertaining to a degree if you are absolutely bored br br overall just a simple sub par 50's flick but far from the worst movie ever made with some bright spots in the movie the ave maria sequence was good for me br br if you get a chance to watch the mst3k version you won't be disappointed by it self not so much but i can think of worse methods of torture anyone
0	this movie is a laugh and a half from the first scene where we have an appearance of mel torme as a big bad jaguar drivin' stud muffin gang leader and that's a giggle fest in itself to the final image of mamie van doren now a rehabilitated angelic teen strolling out of the prison errr loving girl's home run by iron fisted nuns you can't stop shaking your head the cast of this movie is a cheesy list from mel and mamie to the talentless paul anka all i wanted through most of this movie was for him to just stop singing and the king of forty year old teens dick gloria talbot playing a humorless teen girl with more than a few chops judo not acting i last saw in the horrible misogynist 50's romp leech woman with a hairstyle so bad it looked like a dead woodchuck that had been squashed by a mac truck br br mamie is a bad bad girl she smokes swears runs wild hits teachers and runs around with gang leaders she dumps her idiot jaguar driving boyfriend chip who we see in the first scene trying to rape a blonde girl before he falls off a cliff nice guy and proceeds to take up with dick instead whether this is a step up for her is anybody's guess mel shows up at a party she's at with her new beau and accuses her of pushing the nasty chip off the cliff while i'm sure that she would have liked to she wasn't there a stupid fight scene between and his gang and mel and his jazz freaks ensues with some hilariously bad moves on both sides br br mamie ends up being sent to girls town a reform school errr loving home for erring girls run by sister iron pants and her fellow sisters of correction she annoys the nuns and us by scatting tossing off sullen one liners and just generally showing how bad she is she quickly runs into gloria talbot playing one of the misbehaving girls who gives her a chop so that she knows her place she meets a limp noodle of a girl who's obsessed with paul character why this little drip becomes her br br there's a long bit of movie where nothing much happens except st paul of anka keeps showing up and proving how saintly he is he sings way too much in this interval until you want to smack him in his huge to just make him be quiet and little sister played by princess of father know's best fame calls her to tell her she's in trouble turns out it was sis who went out with the and now mel's blackmailing her because he found out the girls all break out to go save her with a hysterical fight scene between the girls and mel and his boys this is after a race between mel and dick that is just so stupid that it boggles the mind the overage teenagers in this corny movie have a fabulous good time romping through what is basically a silly badly written and morally preachy film that accomplishes none if its aims unless its aim was to make you laugh out loud
0	with the little respect it deserves i would like to state that this movie was horrible the filmmakers had good intentions but the overall quality of the direction and production value was obviously lacking a great deal i would recommend this movie to anyone who likes a good hard laugh and then wasting two more hours of their life enduring a truly painful experience i'm surprised i even found this movie on the 1 dvd rack where it was aptly placed i thought maybe it was going to be good and that i might discover some amazing independent film i was wrong i wish i had never seen this movie my 3 year old cousin couldn't make a worse film i'm glad i saw the film because i can finally tell people i've seen the worst movie ever made and be sure of it
0	jaded offers a premise with potential as it looks at the rape of a woman by two other women and ask the question when is rape not rape unfortunately the flick seems to suffer from bad direction as it slogs through legal minutia while trying to weave some kind of story with a handful of foul mouthed and poorly portrayed characters only to end abruptly jaded is lame stuff only for the bleary eyed couch potato in the mood for some dark drama
0	this movie has one or two slightly interesting gags but they are not worth the wait after an unexplained argument between two guys picking up litter in a drive in movie theatre we cut to a family leaving hollywood and driving driving driving driving their camper van across the screen again and again as inane dialogue is voiced over at least i think it's inane the terrible song that accompanies this montage is mixed so loud it renders the dialogue at times almost inaudible br br finally the camper van arrives at night at a gas station where the family get out have another inane conversation before driving off the camera then pans across to reveal the actor we have just seen drive away he talks straight to camera and we realise he is the director of the movie we are watching which is about him and how he came to make the movie br br a nice idea which almost but not quite makes the previous sequences worth the pain br br as the movie unfolds he encounters the two characters we met picking litter at the start of the movie and they all form a motion picture company br br all sorts of not very funny and clumsy comedy ensues as they put together a crew and attempt to raise the cash needed to start filming br br this movie was obviously put together on a shoe string and a promise and there is a nice little idea in here struggling to get out but the execution is so inept that the idea gets lost comedy is more than things just falling over and everyone talking or shouting at once so much of the dialogue here is shouted by several actors simultaneously robert altman can do this sort of thing well because he has a script rehearsals decent sound techies and editing facilities everyone shouting at the one mike which by the sound of it was hidden in a dustbin in the next room does not make for clarity
0	gave it two stars because the dvd cover was good enough to make me buy this piece of horse manure i paid a dollar for it at the local dvd exchange and i want my money back i have a couple of good movies at least i think they're good that have never seen the inside of a video store after seeing this i'm really insulted by that light years worse than anything i've ever seen i can't even recommend this as a campy joke movie it is so bad instead of making you laugh it makes you angry how did this awful film find any kind of i can only believe it was self distributed as the amateurish dvd authoring would suggest to the producers of this movie get out of the business it's obvious you have no talent for it
0	being somewhat an independent filmmaker myself i really understand what these guys were trying to do and it sounds like a good idea on paper on 16mm film however it's awful i didn't realize the thing was made in the mid 90's because the film was so grainy and bad i would have sworn this was one of those 30 year old flicks where a porn producer tried to go mainstream and the sound ugh i don't know what kind of mic they were using to record but it sounds like someone is walking over dead leaves throughout the entire thing i guess i shouldn't judge too harshly after all how many feature films has my company put out none but i'd like to think that we'd at least have good picture and sound quality to go with our poor acting writing and directing a for idea f for execution
0	cyclone is a piece of dreck with little redeeming value even on the so bad its entertaining front a friend of mine took the tape from an overflowing st vincent clothes bin okay that may be a little bit dodgy but it was meant to be a clothes bin not a crappy old vhs bin something the less fortunate members of our society don't really need to make their lives better it could be considered a mercy watching a movie like cyclone would really only add to their problems anyway the basic premise of a woman with a super powerful motorcycle that it armed to the teeth with rockets and lasers isn't even properly exploited the two 'high speed' chase sequences involve vehicles travelling at less than hair raising speeds of around 40 and a super fast motorcycle that is in danger of being overtaken by a crappy old station wagon is not that awe inspiring when you get down to it there is only one scene where the bikes goofy weaponry is used at the film's climax and it is laughably ineffectual or just laughable when it is this includes laser beams that look like they should be coming out of the hands of an evil wizard in a cheesy eighties sword and sorcery that produced large bursts of flame which seem to have no noticeable effect on their targets even when they hit directly the rest of the movie is just tedious hard to watch filler lots of bad actors yes even combs and landau suck in this most of whom seem like they have been lifted from the set of a porno movie stand around exchanging really bad dialogue in a desperate attempt to pus forward the barely coherent plot there are a few badly staged fight sequences and some excruciatingly unfunny comic relief scenes with some cops and the owner of the motor cycle repair shop comedy of the sub benny hill horny old man can't stop staring at the female leads chest variety basically the scenes involving the bike actually doing stuff are few and lame and the rest is clunky filler material skip it
0	the only thing i expected that this film didn't have was an intelligent talking motorcycle br br this film is just plain awful i gave it 1 star which of course means i enjoyed it tremendously bad acting bad writing bad directing bad fight choreography the only real actor in this movie is martin landau who of course does a good job playing the villain although the character is your standard cardboard cutout evil ceo villain even the so called plot twist at the end was no shock br br there was so much to make fun of in this movie i enjoyed it a lot and it did have a few impressive car wreck stunts br br like bad movies check this one out ouch want a good movie not here
0	this movie was in a box set with 20 others with varying quality i can safely say that this title was right at the bottom of the heap br br it is pointless to go through the plot what there was of it picking out what was wrong as i haven't got all day life is to short which reminds me i have just lost around 85 minutes of mine watching this tripe br br the acting was diabolically bad in a way that made it funny though only just whilst the comedy elements like the two idiotic cops must have made any laurel hardy fans groan one of the only barely funny moments was when the leading lady made a joke about her former friends plastic t ts which would have been okay if i hadn't had to watch them bob around whenever she on the screen br br the lowest i can give is one it probably deserves that for having heather thomas in it as she was certainly sexy shapely though her acting was as bad as everyone else
0	rarely does one find a movie so bad that it achieves the often sought paradigm of having so little redeeming value that that alone makes it worth watching cyclone i am happy to report is such a film br br i knew i was in for something good as soon as i found the videotape i am at least its fourth owner it has a used movie sale 9 95 sticker on the front and a yard sale sticker for one dollar i picked it up at a thrift store for fifty cents br br the used movie sale sticker covers much of the front cover artwork meaning that what i see is a truly odd blended still of the front of the cyclone super bike a car flipping over on fire and heather thomas wearing eighties hair with her mouth open in an expression that says i a ache i saw that and thought all right the case honestly was enough with nowhere to turn and no one to trust teri is plunged headlong into a maze of danger and deceit but i surprised myself by actually getting around to watching it i always make time for the really bad films that fight club tape can wait br br meet teri teri is a stunningly well crafted character as we can tell from her introduction in which she and her friend do exercises that highlight her breasts and later her then teri goes off to hook up with her boyfriend for the evening that goes horribly wrong before she knows it teri is driven straight into a web of deadly double crosses in cyclone the vhs box tells it like it is br br left out of the box summary perhaps out of some faint hope that actual copies of this film would be sold is how awful the acting is it might have been just me but i kept thinking i could read the characters' thoughts through their eyes this is dumb thinks heather thomas i know thinks bad guy with too wide mouth br br a driving force no pun intended for the second half of this epic picture are the car chases those were actually pretty good although i'm inclined that gasoline doesn't need coaching on how to explode what really impressed me is that in all the chases the streets were pretty much empty it's like there are only twenty people in this huge city br br i know what you're thinking you're thinking gee i have to see this movie the sad thing though is that you can't find it oh no cyclone is a film that finds you just wait some day perhaps during lunch perhaps late in the evening perhaps when military scientist jeffery combs 're is murdered by hired assassins you will hear the rustle of and know that it is time
0	although i am a fan of heather thomas and i have a few of her old bikini posters around here somewhere i can honestly say that if the only movie i had ever seen her in was cyclone i would never be able to guess why she had made it as far as she had in show business br br directed by fred olen ray about as good an omen as seeing buzzards circle over head in the desert this tale of a woman thomas who must protect a high tech motorcycle from unscrupulous types is about as b movie as it gets or in fred case b minus br br the cast itself should tell you something it's not every movie that combines thomas with actors the calibre of beswick hall combs donahue tamblyn and landau if you're lucky very few movies do and even though they seem to be having fun shouldn't some of that fun be passed on to the audience i vote yes seems they voted no br br of course if you ever wanted to see heather deliver an to another woman use the f word and get hooked up to battery cables you've probably been looking for this one myself i'll be content with old fall guy reruns br br one star given in hopes that when another cyclone hits town heather runs for shelter i know i will
0	i was expecting to view a more exploitation style of film but unfortunately this turned out to be just a badly made low budget action flick that just doesn't have the talent for that story is about a very beautiful woman named teri marshall heather thomas who's boyfriend rick jeffrey combs works for a secret agency and he has invented a motorcycle that is bullet proof and can shoot lasers and rockets and has a helmet that can shoot lasers as well the head of the agency martin landau has made a 5 million dollar deal to sell it and sends two hired thugs to kill rick and teri and collect the bike a tall blond thug named rolf dar robinson and his partner hanna dawn wildsmith manage to kill rick but teri survives while at home she discovers a video tape that rick left describing his invention that helps teri on what to do next br br spoiler alert br br teri is being chased by several agents and she gets caught and tortured but doesn't talk about where a piece of the motorcycle that is needed but she gets help from a federal agent named waters martine beswick where they end up using the motorcycle for a bloody shoot out br br this film is directed by fred olen ray who has made his career out of making ultra low budget exploitation films but he made a dire mistake here by leaving out the exploitation aspect and trying to make an action film aside from a quick shower scene at the beginning there is no nudity and the usual titillation that viewers are accustomed to seeing in a ray film is no where to be found i don't think anyone was expecting thomas to get naked but she doesn't wear one sexy outfit not that it stopped me from ogling her in those tight jeans and admiring her near perfect form but ray really blew it in this case like all of his films the cast is fun to watch and many familiar faces have roles like robert quarry huntz hall troy donahue tim conway jr michael reagan and russ tamblyn stuntman dar robinson died shortly after this was made and it's his last acting effort and the film is dedicated to him you have to wonder why landau would waste him time with such junk like this but i was interested in the casting of combs in a very rare romantic role is thomas any good in this film who cares i think she showed that she could have become a popular b movie starlet if she wanted but it never did happen ray wastes everyone's time with this effort although the cast is fun to watch but he left out the elements that make him an enjoyable filmmaker
0	this movie features a pretty decent fx sequence of an earthquake for 1936 the reason you haven't seen it is because audiences in the 30s were enamored of the jeanette macdonald picture in which the eponymous star her way through countless songs while plots came to a complete standstill the fx cross time very well macdonald's songs do not and the awkward insertion of said songs to show off her only typical talent is not good br br the hoary device of two friends growing up to become a priest and a hoodlum is given another run through the machinery manhattan melodrama the departed at the 30 minute mark you've already heard the song francisco' three times entertainment in the thirties is generally an accumulation of irritation only grand hotel from the decade foregoes annoyance to the degree shown in san francisco dinner at 8 little caesar stagecoach all quiet on the western front les miserables etc
0	hard to imagine what they were thinking of when they made this movie i e the writers directors producers actors editors etc christopher plummer veteran of movies frolics along among scores of other actors with apparently no more motivation than to collect a paycheck i guess there is nothing wrong with that but once they are paid that doesn't mean anyone has to watch it br br it bugs me that there are actually good reviews for this movie here at imdb art if you want to see art go to an art gallery don't watch this movie comedy watch a re run of the flintstones about the same plot with less time wasted br br dabney coleman gives his usual performance for better or worse and some of the young actors may have gotten some good experience from doing this movie but plummer it was embarrassing to watch his performance in fact i was positively transfixed on him throughout the movie knowing this was plummer of sound of music fame i see from his bio that he called sound of music sound of so guess he didn't like it as much as the of millions who liked him in it br br i wonder if today he was asked how do you rate sound of music compared to where the heart is what would he say br br probably something like where the money is
0	san francisco oh you marvelously town thank you god for destroying it and making bricks fall on our collective heads and for pummeling into oblivion tens of thousands of your innocent obedient sheep oh lord who art so merciful in thy heavenly ways these should have been the lyrics to the title song of this oh so inspiring and utterly mindless film br br the movie starts well enough with gable discovering a cinderella with a highly annoying but much appreciated operatic voice and she soon shoots to stardom one of the many problems with our cinderella is that she is played by jeanette macdonald who if one takes the time to look through all that make up and 30s glitz facade realizes that she is kind of ugly too ugly to be playing this role anyway yet gable and everyone else fawn all over here as if she were some damn beauty or something another problem with cinderella is that her character is so utterly humble wholesome innocent god loving kind and generous enough to make you vomit for a full hour macdonald plays her admittedly one dimensional role with the sort of ahhh oh and ooh that serves to annoy rather than make her sympathetic br br tracy has been better and had better roles than playing this clichéd heart of gold god loving non child molesting priest who boxes in his free time as if priests have anything to do how cute even the ever reliable gable is not up to his usual standard he is far too animated and his character is far too selfless for someone who is supposed to be an ambitious western scoundrel though this obviously is the script's fault br br the plot is basically this gable and his rival holt play ping pong with cinderella using her as the ball how well first she is working singing for gable then she works for the square holt then she goes back to gable only to return very soon to holt and of course both want to have her as girlfriend wife and if the earthquake hadn't interrupted this table tennis plot it's a safe bet that she would have been bouncing back and forth another ten times the wishy washy little princess that she is br br there are many far too many in fact musical numbers it's almost as though they tried to make the first disaster movie musical ever how silly the stuff she sings in gable's joint is okay but when she starts belting out those high pitched annoying whines during the opera segments that is when i felt that my ears were and unjustly attacked by enemy sound fire in fact there is an opera number that lasts 6 damn minutes 6 may seem like little for those who haven't had first hand experience with such horrors of audio torture but it's like with dog years a dog's year is equivalent to seven human ones a minute of opera is equivalent to 100 minutes of chinese torture or a dog urinating acid on your leg br br i thought this was a disaster movie but it's more like a near disaster movie i read that some of the dialog in this film was written by a silent era film director jesus the melodramatic and only occasionally amusing proceedings get interrupted by the real star of this movie namely the earthquake only after well over one and a half hours when joe the earthquake finally does shake up the city and our clichéd characters in it i almost felt like saying thank god death and destruction are finally here unfortunately joe comes too late into the movie to save it from its increasing mediocrity the scenes of devastation are very good but even the earthquake part of the movie gets ruined pun by a highly annoying religious ending you see gable who professes to be an atheist all along without actually using the word itself finally finds macdonald alive after having searched for days and suddenly he is converted into a believer because cinderella is alive how stupid all that tells me is that gable's character is a weak minded moron br br the movie ends on a very dumb note indeed gable having said thank you to god for saving his girl and he does his on his knees finds god sees the light and the movie's little old devil gable converts himself into a believer how very god american an ending br br of course no one thought of asking this god why the hell there was an earthquake in the first place the sad and unintentional irony is that gable in the end becomes a sucker all along he had made fun of suckers who fall for the scam of them all namely religion and in the end he himself becomes one now that's what i call a triumph of the human spirit another irony is that the ending was supposed to have improved gable as a person but i see it quite differently on the contrary it took only one big joe to turn gable into a god fearing meek little obedient believer who joins the world's sheep family and as if this intellectual downfall of gable's wasn't pathetic and disappointing enough this first ever earthquake musical ends with a truly hair raising take this word as you will noble and hope beautiful mass choir scene dozens or hundreds of earthquake survivors and proud proud citizens of frisco spontaneously or did god perhaps arrange it sing all together the title song in hope for a better brighter joe less future hallelujah if you are a sucker for hollywood sentimentality do not skip this movie
0	i must say i found this movie very disappointing yes i know maltin gave it 3 1 2 and others think very highly of it but well the opera sequences were god awful i take it macdonald is an acquired taste yes in the short sequences i have seen her with nelson eddy she is immensely preferable to him but on her own god i dislike opera and despise operetta and she is basically intolerable at one point i had to cover my ears gable is just ok and tracy is thrown away the plot is annoying in the jm never simply tells gable she loves him and the opera and why can't she do both instead she suffers silently or not so with the compromises she makes the supporting cast is distinctly unmemorable besides the star three and jack holt and i suppose his mother they all are just background and forgettable the sequence is the only thing that saves the movie and just yes it is fairly spectacular and moving but the oh god is great seems very contrived i immensely prefer in old chicago as far as old time disaster spectaculars go spare yourself on this one
0	there is somewhere in here the makings of a decent if routine sf story it is thwarted by several factors first the actor is just awful even the competent actors are awful the dialog is wooden and stilted the plot plods along predictably this seems less like a finished movie than actors going through a walk through extremely disappointing
0	where to begin this hideous excuse for a motion picture makes plan 9 from outer space look well thought out the music it's culled from every single overwrought piece of pd shlock in existence the focus hell doesn't matter if in one shot there are thirty people standing in the road the new angle shows a lone packard with a waitress posing for mag shots paul le mat diana scarwid louise fletcher wallace shawn fine actors who must have all been starving to death at that point in their lives and the director lured them to sign on with tempting bits of cat food the production budget must have to well over fifty cents with the addition of the space alien phallic transportation machine which for a time must have meant that the oscar meyer mobile was not available when bad movies happen to good actors
0	i love movies all genres and from big dollar spectacles to small indie projects but even making allowance for this piece of junk being 25 years old and its attempt at homage to the 1950's it just suffers in almost aspect by which we judge films br br throughout the movie i was reminded of several student films i've had a chance to watch efforts where creativity is required to fill gaps where funds are needed br br all in all chances are there are much better uses for 90 minutes of your life br br 2 10
0	maybe it gets better i wouldn't know i made it through the first twenty minutes or so before cutting it off and entering a period of mourning it was obvious that the plot itself was a familiar one a man paul a professor of at columbia drives with his dog to a small town in ohio in search of his ex wife diana scarwid there he encounters people who either ignore him or are hostile oh they may smile but there's something going on underneath br br that sort of arrangement is home turf for movie makers and viewers alike and it's pregnant with possibilities you can turn out a neatly drawn commercial success like bad day at black rock or it would have made and probably did make a nice twilight zone episode br br the cast includes some seasoned performers too as well as some formerly prominent names kenneth toby a veteran of science fiction is the superficially amiable motel manager diana scarwid can give an impressive performance as she did in say for some of the others their range is limited br br but it's poorly directed and shabbily written br br example of shabby direction that dog of is disliked by kenneth toby right off the bat so when walks out to the street toby sneaks up to the window of his room peers in at the dog and something zaps cut to in the street he hears his dog howling away then a pov shot of presumably the dog zipping along towards then past him while the wind blows and at the camera cut to an identical shot coming from the other direction whatever the camera represents whatever is staring at is never shown maybe it was nothing because suddenly the wind stops and is alone in the street looking a little bit puzzled you should never have brought that dog in the first place remarks a smiling toby from the porch question what the hell is that scene all about br br example of shabby writing well two examples 1 if you were to sit down and write a stereotypical waitress in a small town diner without the exercise of any craft whatever you'd come up with an expressionless babe with her hair piled on top of her head chewing gum sauntering among the tables right 2 anything resembling believability is thrown out the window in favor of special effects car chugs to a halt then explodes while it is waiting to be fixed at the garage to a halt believable exploding supernatural not even edgar allan poe would endorse such an event br br and the invaders themselves think of a modest masterpiece like invasion of the body snatchers something is going wrong in dr kevin mccarthy's small town and it takes half the movie for the mystery to be unraveled and all the time suspense is building and doubt is growing here twenty minutes into the movie a stranger walks into a motel room and tears off his plastic face revealing a pulsing light emitting naked brain the pregnancy is aborted br br i won't tell you the ending because i don't know what it is nor do i care i suppose it had something to do with insects because why else would paul be an by the way who's handling his classes but i'm not even sure bugs were involved it's entirely possible that the bug business was the writers may have made him a specialist in insects and then forgot all about it it wouldn't surprise me
0	well i only caught the tail end of this film on hbo just the final 10 minutes or so but i must say that it contains probably the most laughable depiction of distance running ever put on film i'm a serious distance runner and a dedicated fan of the sport and i've sat through many painful demonstrations in movies before however nothing could have ever prepared me for what is shown on screen in the final 10 minutes of this movie it literally defies belief the depiction of the runners is even more ironic considering that african runners completely dominate the sport and they are elegant and graceful the female protagonist shuffles along like an overweight pregnant woman and her highly trained male supporters are no better well into the race this alleged world class runner is surrounded by pudgy overweight people many of whom are walking i find it interesting that the director decided to have her lead the female competition yet near the end she is shown passing people who look like they're staggering along on two broken legs are we to believe that this amazing stellar athlete has only overtaken a crippled person at the very end of the race maybe the director just thinks that female runners can't run faster than 12 minute miles and he has obviously never heard of athletes like paula radcliffe or br br even if you aren't a running fan you'll be astonished by the insanely inaccurate portrayal of running and this movie is only watchable as unintentional comedy here is a note to the director the next time you decide to make a movie about a sport it might be worth it to hire at least one person who actually has observed that sport in action
0	it's hard to make a bad movie with the underdog finally succeeds sport theme but this movie succeeds admirably my mind boggles at how pointless and boring this film is br br i guess the director couldn't decide whether this was about the runner or the coach it ends up being about neither ultimately who cares neither character has a likable personality there is nothing in the movie to make you care about anyone even the bad guy isn't really bad i think he's in two scenes and seemingly is on some kind of i think he asks her once and politely to leave the coach and train with him then later he kinda' asks her to move in with him that's it conflict tension what will she do br br and what's with the depiction of running has the director ever seen an actual marathon christine's form is so incorrect it's absurd as is the form of the supposed champion she competes with a character with no lines maybe they could have hired you know an actual runner br br and the speed the run at is beyond comprehension were they running or speed walking it's actually laughable i can literally walk backwards faster then they were running in the big race maybe it was too hard to move the cameras at real speed br br another absurdity spoiler i guess at one point in the big race the two women in the lead inexplicably fall at the same time what they fell on is a mystery maybe they both just got exhausted and fell down and then they get up but don't start running again for maybe 30 seconds oh yeah very realistic this ridiculous event doesn't even add any tension since the other runners are not close and besides at this point you have been numbed into a state of catatonia br br i especially enjoyed how all four of her male teammates highly trained athletes all drop out of the big race due to charlie horses or pulled tendons or something just as improbable br br but who cares this movie has almost no tension no resolution nothing some woman runner with absolutely no personality is discovered by an old boring coach with some past failure that is barely hinted at they train a lot she is not happy they train some more she wins da big race woopie br br my description is actually more interesting than the actual movie i just saved you 90 minutes avoid this one like the plague
0	this is a movie which reminds me of avatar starring khanna from the 80's the issue of parents kids divide is interesting but was handled in a rather unoriginal manner the characters were not developed fully and the kids seemed to go from being loving in the first of the movie to being totally unconcerned about the parents this transformation was not credible to say the least they have explored this a little more amitabh and jaya were miscast as this helpless old couple firstly amit was not too convincing in this role because he just did not look like he should be helpless i mean why not just go back to work where he is wanted instead of being w kids who didnt want them hema was not convincing as a 60 yr old either she didnt look a day over 50 then the whole of the book baghban winning the booker prize begged credibility all in all a movie that handles an important issue but have been made better i give it 5 10
0	watching baghban is the movie equivalent of trying to eat one's way out of a vat of saltwater taffy for nigh unto three hours this indian film is a sticky sweet sentimental soap opera that starts off like king lear moves on to romeo and juliet in the middle section then heads back again to king lear for its tear soaked finale br br raj is a bank accountant who seems to have everything a man could possibly want out of life a wife who adores him a family who loves him and a job from which he is about to retire after a lifetime of faithful service even though raj and his wife pooja have been married for 40 years and have four grown sons they still act like a couple of love struck newlyweds and sighing batting their eyes at one another and whispering sweet nothings into each other's ears almost to the point of nausea in fact the whole bloody brood is so happy loving and harmonious that they make the von look like a dysfunctional family in comparison the parents and children joke together laugh together even perform elaborately choreographed spontaneous song and dance numbers together like many bollywood productions baghban is a drama interspersed with a great number in this case far too great a number of musical sequences br br anyone who knows anything at all about storytelling is aware that such unadulterated bliss can not be allowed to go unpunished for long and that all that joy is merely the prelude to some awful catastrophe destined to come crashing down on the heads of our unsuspecting revelers knowing this we spend the first hour of the film in fearful expectation wondering just what form that disaster will take when it does finally arrive the occurs about an hour into the film when raj announces to his children that he and their mother have decided to move in with one of their families leaving the choice of which one it will be up to the kids and their respective spouses suddenly like king lear discovering the vipers hidden in the familial bosom raj finds out that his children are not quite as loving selfless and eager to share their homes and lives with their parents as he had originally thought understandably horrified at the prospect the kids in order to foil their parents' plan come up with a scheme in which raj will go live with one of their children while pooja will live with another then they will switch off until eventually each of the children has had a chance to host both parents and then the cycle will repeat itself ad infinitum much to the chagrin of the kids the parents accede to the plan even though the two are deeply in love with one another and have never spent any time apart thus the second and most of the third hour are spent with the two aging albeit married lovers pining away for one another while their ungrateful insensitive little brats do everything in their power to make their parents understand how unwelcome they are in their homes br br one of the major problems with baghban is that it lacks subtlety in both its storytelling and direction the love that ray and pooja feel for one another as well as the almost giddy closeness of the family unit is laid on so thickly in the first hour that the film almost collapses under the weight of the sentimentality then virtually without any warning the screenplay turns on a dime and converts the kids into callous self centered monsters and the parents into passive whiny victims of that callousness raj and pooja are a little too long in the tooth and a little too self reliant to be doing the dreamy eyed pouting unrequited love bit more appropriate to lovelorn school kids than the parents of four grown children the purple prose style in which every emotion is underlined and highlighted leads to intense overacting and a heavy reliance on corny reaction shots and melodramatic music for punctuation the musical numbers convey a certain liberating joy in the beginning but they go on for so long and turn up so frequently that they quickly lose their effectiveness and serve only to pad out the material to unendurable proportions at least a full hour could be excised from this bloated production with no discernible harm being done and quite a bit of good there really is no reason why this film needs to drag on for a punishing three hours most egregious of all is the seemingly endless harangue we are subjected to an the end a speech in which raj who has somehow managed to turn his experiences into an award winning bestseller lectures us all on the of parent child relationships for ten straight minutes at the very least br br baghban is a sappy corny saga filled with more sugar and goo than a king sized box of see's chocolates sample at your own risk
0	i'm a boorman fan but this is arguably his least successful film comedy has never been his strong suit and here his attempts at screwball farce are clumsily done still it's almost worth seeing for boorman's eye for talent this is one of uma thurman's first starring roles and as always she is ravishing to watch on a sad side note boorman wrote the script with his daughter who died a couple years ago
0	this movie truly shows the farce and hypocrisy of indian society what it tries to show you is only one side of the story the other side of the story is the hidden emotional and mental abuse of indian children which this movie does not show br br indian parents are culpable for the following a destroying the individuality of the children by making them completely dependent on the parents at a very early age such children grow up to be adults only in physical looks but remain children in minds since everything has been provided to them by their great indian parents they children automatically do not feel the need to work hard at something or learn the basics of human communication with other human beings apart from their parents br br b i can show you so many indian parents who try to prevent their kids making friends going out or prevent them to do anything which starts making them to grow into adults br br the reason why they do is the same selfishness indian parents expect their children to take care of them when they grow old they do no savings for themselves and once they reach the age of 50 they cry out loud we have grown old now and so we are dependent on you children since we have done the great service of bringing you to this world and taking care of you and making you intellectually weak br br most of the indian parents at the age of 50 have dilapidated bodies and health and are financially completely insecure most feel that they absolutely have no need to take care of themselves since they expect their kids to take care of them br br in the west the opposite of that happens people start planning at the age of 20 about their retirement and once they retire they are financially secure br br indian parents do nothing of that sort since like i said they have brought the kids in the world and what better investment at that br br i am a victim of my indian parents i am sure there are countless other indian kids like me who have grown up physically but are still struggling with their lives on their own and they continue to have 50 year olds who cry out loud for help all the time br br this movie shows only one side of the story utter piece of junk
0	two days ago i got a chance to watch this movie on cable tv asia i have been very disturbed since then the movie baghban has been very successful in portraying only one side of the real life it is highly partial towards parents have you ever thought of other side kids there are few parents in this world who just give birth to their kids but don't give right parental care i am a victim of that why do you parents want to have 5 kids in your life if you are merely making only rs 2000 per month i was made to work on streets along with my siblings i have no idea how i managed to reach from there it has been a long time since then but still i don't believe now i am a research scientist here in usa i have provided all the necessities to my parents along with care by my two brothers who stay along with them they could not provide basic things to us when we were kids i find this movie very resentful its very partial it has hurt my sentiments very deeply i strongly urge the producer director of this movie to look at the indian society in other point of view also and make another movie i can be reached at john yahoo com
0	ravi chopra wrote this film 40 years back wanted to cast dilip kumar in the lead br br the film finally was re written and made in 2003 and hence the subject looks dated and too superficial at times br br like the reason amitabh hema separate is too superficial even the way the youth are shown is too bad like gulshan in br br the message though comes well but things are presented in a clichéd manner salman's character is the worst looks straight out of a storybook while the climax speech of bachchan is good and also the final of not forgiving the sons is good br br ravi chopra does a good job music is decent the songs sung by bachchan stand out br br amitabh excels like always he has played an elder stern father earlier but here he plays a victim and portrays it well his last speech is great hema is good in her part aman verma stands out samir soni is okay naseer and the rest sons and wives are decent though divya dutta stands out salman khan is fake is okay paresh and lillete are lovable
0	i used to always love the bill because of its great script and characters but lately i feel as though it has turned into an emotional type of soap if you look at promotional pictures posters of the bill now you will see either two of the officers hugging kissing or something to do with friendships whereas promotional pictures of the bill a long time ago would have shown something to do with crime this proves that it has changed a lot from being an absolutely amazing police drama to an average type of television soap when i watch it i feel like i'm watching a police version of coronation street or something similar i have to say i still like the bill as i'm interested in police work and that type of thing but i really miss the greatness that the bill used to have i want to rate it as 2 out of ten because you have to admit it has been totally ruined by the people who took the bill over br br as for the script and characters they have both gone downhill most of the great characters are gone now although a few still remain i think and i'm not saying that the newer characters are poor or anything because they definitely aren't its just that they lack the tough looks personalities and script lines that all of the old characters used to have because most of the new ones are at the moment involved with silly relationships and family trouble br br overall being one of the only police programs on television these days the bill will always be a crappily interesting thing to watch but like i say it has lost a lot of its uniqueness if thats the right spelling and would now be classed as a terrible unreal television soap br br recommended to watch for a good laugh over the stupidity of the police officers involved 2 10
0	ok here's the short of it this movie is full of corny dialogue over the top acting and a threadbare script br br there are moments that intended to be very dramatic but simply come off humorous because of the over the top acting and poorly written lines i couldn't help laughing at moments that were meant to be very serious the bright spot in this movie is the circus seeing the circus in its heyday was certainly a treat br br there are moments that come through as good but then it right back into b movie territory i was tempted to stop watching it several times br br i certainly don't know how it won best picture however it must have been a slow year
0	in a year when singin' in the rain and high noon were released this overstuffed turkey somehow won the oscar for best picture half the film is nothing more than circus performances the other half is soap opera and melodrama heston and wilde both overact although they are models of restraint compared to the annoying hutton playing a self centered trapeze artist hutton acts like an overzealous high school student in a badly produced school play grahame is the only cast member to turn in a decent performance demille has no interest in telling a good story only in creating an overlong spectacle not matter how dull
0	this may not be the worst movie to ever win best picture but its up there well on second thought this is probably the worst film to ever win best picture still though you would expect it to be a worth while film that in fact though if questionable as well the film contains almost no depth and is just fun after fun if you want to call it that at first its very interesting but it seems as if everything is exaggerated on so many levels br br the acting was not spectacular to watch but it was quite interesting seeing charlton heston in his first lead role i found many of the characters like the tone of the movie annoying after awhile who i did like a lot was james stewart as the philosophical clown he to me saved the film in that he gave it a much needed extra layer sadly though after stewart there was not much else br br the directing of the much respected cecil demille was non existent to me i found the movie corny at times and his use of betty hutton was a mistake the look of the movie was very good at times but it did not generate that magical feeling that classics need to have the writing was actually pretty good considering how shallow much of the movie was br br from movies like this did the term hollywood trash come up there is no depth no valid attempt at drawing emotions out of the audience and simply no artistic value to the film then of course the many holes in the plot throughout this movie was consistently annoying and frustrating i even had a sense through this film that much of what i was watching was not only and inaccurate depiction of circus life but instead the opposite of how it really is why this won best picture is beyond me but its not like the first or the last time the oscars will and have made a mistake
0	i don't mind some adult humor but this feature was just downright dirty the first 10 minutes consisted of pryor swearing at some guy taking pictures followed my even more profanities i don't know what happened between that time the the last 5 minutes because i walked out after seeing this i never looked at richard pryor the same way again and to think that he actually went on to host a childrens' show br br if profanity and tasteless unfunny dirty jokes make you laugh then you'll probably enjoy this but if you're an old fashioned type then don't bother
0	what you need in the run up to 'what you need' every episode since 'the had been a winner to some extent this episode is the first major failure since the serling script is again based on someone else's a short story by lewis as with 'and when the sky was serling altered the content significantly removing a scientist and his machine and inserting an elderly peddler br br 'what you need' works best when it is being sweet the opening half in which the peddler provides customers in a bar with objects they will need in the near future has a gentle charm about it that may have worn thin throughout an entire episode but works well in the time frame it is allotted sadly the main plot which it sets up is full of gaping holes the minute steve performance as a two bit thug becomes the main focus the episode falls apart part is an underwritten stereotype and his flat performance highlights this flaw his exploitation of the old peddler is dull and predictable and the revelation that he will murder the old man is totally unconvincing making the whole slippery shoes scene seem completely false ernest is good as the peddler bringing a magical mysterious but warm edge to the character but he's not good enough to help the floundering script br br to make matters worse the weak script is also full of inconsistencies for instance we learn that the power to provide people with what they need stems from an ability to see into the future so how exactly does this allow him to produce a pen that will magically pick winning horses that seems like it should be a little outside his realms of power also for a man who can see the future the peddler certainly acts surprised to find the thug waiting for him in his flat there are many more holes that can be picked in 'what you need' but it's hardly worth it when the episode is so thin that you can see through it anyway
0	i guess this is in the public domain as its out on dvd first off this is a feel good propaganda movie to be shown to a wartime aussie audience so its not to be considered a serious retelling of tobruk the first half to 3 4 is very dry stuff set in australia i guess like many american war films where the recruits are getting together oh man its soooo long than we get to africa and tobruk pretty bad low budget stuff the battle scenes on the dvd copy i watched were almost completely black see it if you must but be prepared to use the fast forward as i doubt you can take it after a few minutes i enjoyed the cheesy italian battle of el a whole lot more also richard burton did an african theater war flick that was good the desert rats this movie is just a real period piece and should have stayed in that time does not hold up well today i doubt it was highly regarded back then either i say the same thing about my american counterpart war flicks so don't take it personally aussies i love australia been there twice
0	i say this if you want to see art you go to an art gallery if you want to see a movie you go to a theater trying to intertwine art and film proves disastrous in where the heart is an interesting cast is totally wasted in this embarrassment you like dabney coleman see short time you like crispin glover see bartleby you like uma thurman see kill bill above all if you like christopher plummer see the silent partner because his character here is a terrible embarrassment in fact this entire production is an embarrassment sure the human artwork is intriguing for a few minutes so make a short but do not subject an audience to pointless nonsense masquerading as filmed entertainment merk
0	red spectacles br br i loved avalon i think this director has made some awesome demented visions of the future this film however was boring pretentious crap the opening scene showed great promise for what the cover art and description promise a surreal live action style future noir i feel i got that with avalon br br with red spectacles i was only driven to feel a uncomfortable to desire to what the hell the point was the film barely made sense to me and i could not care less about the people in it this would all be ok if the film was effective art while the opening scene looked interesting and the scene with the giant robot suit person holding the giant machine gun in the rain looked cool it did not watch the film worth watching br br thumbs down
0	after watching avalon which was decent only because of the very nice digital fx and several anime films written by oshii including jin roh which is fantastic i decided i should check out the oshii cinema trilogy box set being that the red spectacles and stray dog are related i will comment here on both and let me tell you it was one of the biggest wastes of money i have spent in a while i first watched stray dogs and then the red spectacles i am sad to say that these films are quite possibly the most boring two movies i have ever seen for only about 10 minutes in each film do you get to see some action between the the characters who are only dressed in the cop outfits for a few fleeting scenes the rest of the time you will see some very drawn out scenes filled with boring dialogue in some less than impressive locations i really don't understand the motivation behind these two films at all i love the wolf brigade outfits and the idea behind the plot but the films themselves leave much to be desired i would suggest not watching these films and certainly do not buy the box set like i did unless you enjoy wasting money oh and if you are wondering what i think about the 3rd movie in the set talking head i couldn't even bring myself to watch it before i purged the box set from my dvd collection via ebay at a 20 loss if you want cool japanese live action check out or ichii the killer or the series
0	this film is strange even for a silent movie essentially it follows the adventures about a engineer in post revolutionary russia who daydreams about going to mars in this movie it seems like the producers know the communists have truly screwed up the country but also seems to want to make it look like they've accomplished something good br br then we get to the martian scenes where everyone on mars wears goofy hats they have a revolution after being inspired by the earth men but are quickly betrayed by the queen who sides with them except it's all a dream or is it and given that the russian revolution eventually lead to the stalin dictatorship it makes you wonder if it was all allegory br br now i've seen good russian cinema for instance eisenstein's battleship potemkin is a good movie this is just well silly
0	a dedicated russian scientist dreams of going to mars he eventually gets there but it takes the whole film before we are able to have a laugh at the russian style of revolution in mars
0	i have barely managed to view the entire film only after about out of the movie's did the journey to mars begin and then there were 5min left for the closure these 85 long minutes were very boring and didn't contribute anything to the film when finally reaching mars it wasn't much better plot wise it all could have been fitted into much shorter running time and nothing would have been missed br br what i cannot understand is the piece of trivia saying the because of the film new born babies were named why would someone want to name his her baby after a villain who despite having only one eyebrow apparently has 3 breasts br br the only interesting thing here is the sets and costumes for the mars scenes they are an interesting experiment in just as the cabinet of dr caligari was for expressionism five years earlier br br i give it 4 10 for the great looking design
0	on the opening night of the san francisco silent film festival i was quite excited to see films that are historical and well not common the guest speaker who opened this film created a sense of hype towards the obscurity and how this film is underrated the sci fi part of the film was very interesting and fantastic for its time but i'm not sure if it was due to the fact it was shown directly after the brilliant 1928 the wind or if it seemed that russian filmmakers take after what russian novels are famous for hundreds of characters tangled plots but i know for certain that the dramatic parts as in the parts on earth made absolutely no sense were boring and i became lost within about twenty minutes maybe it was the acting but i found myself convinced as to why this film is unknown and underrated it's boring there is no plot or basic story and the acting is horrible this certainly is no battleship potemkin however i will say that russian films do not make a real good effort in lightning up what life in russia is like
0	if jacqueline mckenzie and john lynch weren't such talented actors this film would probably be even worse than it actually is the story of two mentally disturbed people who fall in love and have a baby is an interesting one and well worth exploring however on the negative side the plot becomes increasingly over the top as the story progresses and the music choices more and more bizarre so that by the end i found myself laughing when i know the director intended for me to be crying
0	this is a truly awful movie the jokes are few and far between and the pacing is a down right endurance test the only thing funny to come out of this production is it's comparison to the classic film this is spinal tap br br avoid this film as if it were one of the plagues of the bible itself br br
0	joe whole act is profanity laced with bile he is a pot smoker who entered fear factor thinking it was a joke he said he would egg people on because he did not know how stupid people were going to be the producers of the show he explained were going on the premise of playing pranks on unsuspecting contestants to see how far they will go the level of evil involved is a little twisted mr special is just filled with the rants of someone who is too good for regular human beings i found him to be offensive and his stuff can be heard by more talented comedians such as eddie murphy or chris rock even does a five minute set on the n word overall ignore this special
0	this person is a so called entertainer who has to resort to profanity vulgarity and slander to try and make others believe he has talent i have often seen comics use a little of each with effect but when all you can say is laced with it it is a sign of a drug affected warped mind makes me wonder where his twisted and fried brain will be in a few more years of abuse poor man i admit i could not watch all of it too stupid for words the amazing part of this is that somebody actually believes he is a philosopher no wonder self respect and decency are dwindling and perversity is rising could it be that the might have been a factor in his deadened brain
0	after seeing this piece of crap you will know why the drive on the left side of the street this movie is an absolute no brainer the jokes if this is the right word for it are mostly sub standard about 98 and do miss any punch line at all save the money and get drunk you might enjoy this movie being totally wasted perhaps
0	i haven't seen many movies worse than this one the story line the dialogues the acting it's horror the story just jumps from a to b to c without any logical steps in between every time you think you've missed something but no that was the way it was intended to be and why on earth is the character that jenny garth portrays so in love with that no no loser guy who actually now plays in the movie cinderella man with russel crow o well it's no spielberg of course i have to write ten lines to get posted this movie really isn't inspiring enough to write 10 lines it's a romantic feel good movie with a lousy story so if you're up for that you'll have a ball
0	i accidentally happened upon this movie when i was looking for something to watch while eating lunch i actually turned to the we network because it said it had the last 20 minutes of some movie about the importance of sticking it for some gymnastics team i figured cheesy goodness well i got cheesy alright br br first i missed a good 20 40 minutes at the start of the movie luckily most of it was fairly quickly especially in the bedroom scene where crystal admits that she felt responsible for the death of her rapist br br i love jenny garth and will watch her in just about anything she's just so pretty and i want my lipstick to look as perfect as hers always does she looks great throughout this movie and doesn't really age over what seems to be more than a decade br br overall i felt bad for the actors as i watched this movie all of them tried to sell their parts but all were so poorly written that it was a constant struggle frankly i was surprised to see terry farrell and mitch ryan greg's dad from dharma greg in this br br but the writing was not the worst part of this movie about a half hour before the end her mother dies and when they show the headstone the death date is 1979 having missed the beginning i had gotten the impression from the wardrobe that this was taking place in the 80s not one leisure suit or bell bottom in sight shame on the person who did wardrobe for this film don't get me wrong all the outfits in this movie were beautiful but they were completely wrong for the time period it almost makes me wonder if they told the wardrobe person that it was a period piece br br bottom line good for a laugh or to feed a jennie garth fix
0	it's schmaltzy but then what else did you expect the heroine is cinderella's younger sister complete with wicked mother sister and brother in law the hero if you can call him that is an ineffectual putz and the rival love interests are full of melodramatic villainy br br the cast settings and wardrobe were all very attractive and i thought the actors did a superb job considering how weak the material was the movie was prettily filmed and boasted a soundtrack that was carefully crafted to cue the viewer about what emotions he should be experiencing throughout mcdonough sang sweetly and provided the film with some of its best moments br br if you love danielle steel you will love this film if you love archetypal romance you will love this film i did not i was able to sit through it but it was close
0	contains spoilers br br this movie is utter crap do not watch br br there is no one in this movie to root for or even like except for the wife and she wins by default everyone is selfish and many things happen that make no sense br br the acting is mediocre at best and everyone breathes too heavily about everything no one can even cry believably br br if you leave the room for even a second then something totally out of left field will happen and it will make no sense whatsoever br br for example i left the room for a second while jennie character was sleeping with her manager i come back seriously about 4 minutes later also i'm pretty sure there was a commercial somewhere in there and she's sleeping with that guy br br i gave up on this movie around the time that was being an ass to his fiancé in the car because she didn't want to call off the wedding br br i wasted 2 hours of my life you shouldn't
0	as i was flipping through the channel i came to a channel it is an urban channel i saw this movie on and decided to give it a try i almost became a mass murderer due to this film i have done home movies and they are oscar quality compared to this huge mass of dookie the lighting was terrible and the acting was absolutely bad i would rather watch star crystal holy cow maybe that is not a good example the main question i have about this film is was it to be a morality film the reason why i ask is because ther was one line where this lady in a wheelchair says i would have been another gang statistic oh my head is starting to hurt after hearing that line i went into the kitchen and pulled out a knife ready to stab anyone who dared watch this movie but some sense kicked in and i just changed the channel to watch the man with the afro paint well that is all i have to say about this movie if you want to endure this pain go ahead but not recommended for those with short fuses or a bad case of
0	i remember watching this movie on tv a few years back it was so bad i can only remember the scenes that just made me die laughing the only plot summary i can give you without any spoilers is picture a home movie made by college kids who were high br br spoiler alert starts here when the movie starts a guy's running being chased by the demon cop when in fact the man was really being chased by a halloween costume gone wrong a car pops out of nowhere hitting the guy who was running it sends him flying over the top of it and what does the driver do watches the man as he falls gets back in his car and drives away what kind of hair brained dolt would do that i would've at least asked if the guy was okay br br then some black guy stares the demon cop straight in the face then later tells reporters i didn't get a good look at him my sisters and i by then were almost choking ourselves to death with laughter br br then there's some scene in an alley where this girl with an afro pulls a machine gun out of her teeny weeny little purse it couldn't have possibly fit i can hardly remember certain scenes maybe it's because they were just that bad br br cops in the film can't even jump a fence and the acting is so wooden it makes planks of wood look like better actors br br all in all this movie brings shame to hollywood way more than any other flop could you have to see it to believe its sappy cheesy plot which it has none of as far as i can tell
0	one night on an independent channel famous for showing off the wall films was aired this monstrosity though tempted to turn it off we watched it to the bitter end hoping to see some semblance of redeeming value alas there was none absolutely nothing the film quality was cheap the soundtrack was muddy the editing was ridiculous then again there was precious little to salvage after a few minutes of cameron mitchell's doctor character narrating about some patient of his the viewer is tortured by no plot pathetic writing abysmally terrible acting and an utter lack of cohesion and continuity the rotting cherry on top of this fetid mess was the most horrendous special effects and makeup to ever disgrace the screen even for television the main character stumbles through his role in a dimestore rubber mask and a pair of gloves which appear to have been dipped in glue and rolled in beads perhaps the poor lighting and gag worthy film quality were attempting to cover up how bad to the tenth power the makeup was one can only hope that at least one deliberate decision was made in the course of this hopelessly amateurish video seriously a handful of three year old kids could've produced a better project at the end poor mr mitchell returns how desperate he must've been for money and drones out some nonsense that's supposed to connect this pile of crap with the aids epidemic please spare you and your loved ones the inhuman cruelty of sitting through this it was so bad even mystery science theater 3000 couldn't have salvaged it
0	this is a movie that was probably made to entertain the middle school early high school age kids maybe to them it's funny they may possibly even see something scary in it to me the acting is poor and plot is poor there's just not much value at all for the adult viewer i saw this film as weak and boring at times there was the possibility that the movie could become interesting but it never really materialized the creatures look pretty good but after seeing them for a few seconds they don't seem to have any substance other than the look at times i wasn't sure if the movie was trying to make another attempt at comedy or was it just another attempt at horror that failed again this movie just wasn't good for me
0	this is one of the worst movies i've seen in my life if you're looking for a nice theatrical effect skip it and watch something else br br but if you're looking for camp value this is it here's my advice gather a few sarcastic friends and watch the movie strictly for the purpose of making fun of it
0	this movie's only redeeming factor was the fact that it was on tv for free and that it probably helped the romanian economy other than that hallmark needs to re evaluate this division of their empire and maybe keep their movies more oriented towards bizarre love affairs between cancer stricken in mississippi to go into details about how mindless this movie is would give credit to it for being memorable it wasn't i remember the act of watching it there being vampires some of them teenage and some very bad dubbing whoever worked on the dubbing track of this movie needs to be relocated to another sector of society maybe food service to the deaf if you have the opportunity watch this movie just because it makes so many other really bad movies seem oscar worthy in retrospect then again if you actually ended up at this movie's profile i imagine that it may be too late
0	it really is terrible from start to finish you'll sit and watch this ridiculous idiot thinking hes cool when he's really not rubbish plot line terrible acting and complete waste of time and money do not bother
0	okay so it was never going to change the world and it bombed at the box office but honky tonk freeway is one of those films i fell in love with as a child the bbc showed it a few times during the 1980s and i happened to have a high quality vhs tape in the machine lucky that and watched endlessly i watched the dvd last night and sadly time has not been kind to this would be blockbuster either that or i've just grown out of this kind of broad dopey humour come on when schlesinger is so desperate for laughs he gives us close ups of novelty underpants with slogans what can you say about the cast or screenplay br br certainly it's ambitious interesting unusual and sprawling but it's never once laugh out loud funny i'd describe it as a children's film with some 'adult' overtones you can safely let your youngsters watch this despite the 15 certificate they won't get the drug references so don't worry about it i had a pleasant surprise when i realized i'd forgotten just how catchy both the title song and the song writing truck driver's 'everybody's going faster song were not to mention the town of patriotic anthem the whole cast give commendable performances the photography is crisp and captures the mood of the various locations perfectly and there's a real time capsule feeling about the fashions the cars the gadgets especially the dashboard mounted drum machine the interiors and the pop culture references i was more than a little surprised to hear the nutty bum in the bank loudly telling everyone i'm oj simpson particularly now simpson's legal tangles have overshadowed his sporting achievements the snag is there's almost no plot to speak of it's way too obvious to be witty and not funny enough to elicit many genuine laughs i wish i'd left this one as a pleasant memory
0	this story starts at the end so the film's opening credits advise us unfortunately that's not true as we then are treated to around 70 minutes of a typical b science fiction movie of the 1950's the story is dreary the plot is very weak and has clearly been filmed on a low budget as was often the case in those days br br the story could have covered any situation where people are taking refuge in an isolated house and being threatened by someone outside it just happened to be adapted to fit round a sci fi story br br the scenery consisted of a few rocks bushes and smoke oh yes there was a pool of water as well someone wore a rubber mask with a beak like face and what looked like feathers br br written by lou who penned several sci fi stories around that time including the she creature and it conquered the world the filming was completed in a matter of days not allowing the actors time to develop their characters to better advantage the low budget restraints also prevented this film reaching its potential it could have been a much better film than it turned out to be br br mike connors and richard brought some life to the film but even they could not lift this film into the category where you could say 'i enjoyed that film' richard acting career began in 1937 he starred with gregory peck and deborah kerr in an affair to remember and later became more well known on television in the series hawaii five o and the flying doctor series br br directed by roger corman who has many films to his credit both as a director and producer he has made some good films and is still making them he became very well known for his direction of films from the stories of edgar allan poe often starring vincent price he also made other low budget films some were good and entertaining for one reason or another and most were much better than this br br i would not recommend this film to anyone br br br br 10th september 2007
0	this is a very low budget film set in one location in a valley shielded by the effects of radiation the cast an older man and daughter a handsome visitor a couple a tough buy and gal a drifter a donkey and a radiation affected man interact during the after effects of a nuclear blast added to this is an entity watching the women take a bath br br they all have guns some of them get shot some of them are told to have children others are murdered and others just drift away and well this is the movie harvey first film it shows a certain simplicity in movie making to avoid expensive sets actors go through curtains to enter and exit the house ie the studio the location shots filmed in the hills near hollywood are the backdrop br br i would not say this is worth going out of your way to see but interesting to see how movies with human subjects were made in the 50s
0	a 1957 roger corman non epic in which a sundry bunch of characters end up in a lead lined valley sic just as stock footage nuclear heck is unleashed it's the end of the world four men with guns two women one an unmarried virgin the other a las vegas show who drinks and smokes guess which one makes it to the end of the movie time passes tensions develop or are supposed to something is in the woods eating radioactive rabbits a mutant monster seven weeks of radioactive dust has performed a million years of evolution on an already living human the result is a laughably bad zip up the back rubber monster who is strangely scared of their only source of fresh water it rains the monster dissolves the remaining two characters the hunk and the virgin set out to repopulate the world as the caption 'the beginning' fills the screen after it transpires that the brief shower of rain had washed all the radioactivity away and dissolved all the monsters running around 'out there' br br the only thing of real note about this is the incredible amount of acting' that goes on in it one of the staple elements of bad and lo budget movie making of the period was the use of curtains in the set design it was cheap finished with one set up pull a curtain across drop a different piece of furniture in front of it and you have a different location in minutes without having to move the camera or change the lighting br br acting' is a skill in which the actor will get to comment on what's going on outside any building he happens to be in it looks like rain or here they come now and it looks like they've got the sheriff with them that sort of stuff he'll do this by standing to one side of the window reaching across his body and lifting the curtain away from the window but along the axis of the shot ie towards the camera thus enabling him to pretend to look out and tell us what's happening off screen without letting the audience see he's staring at the studio wall three inches away from his nose behind some cheap velvet curtains there was a lot of that in this movie
0	a group of seven people fear they are the only survivors of a near world ending h bomb blast not only do they fear the radiation but also mutants in the surrounding hillside one of the group is already contaminated but strangely poses no real threat to the others just surviving the friction of assorted personalities at close range is the sub plot richard plays the hero mike connors is close to the edge playing a tough guy lori nelson is the girl destined to start a brave new world not one of director roger corman's best this is predictable black and white sci fi
0	that distinction has to go to the dungeon of harrow at least ed wood's misguided attempt at making a quality science fiction film had the dubious star power of bela vampira tor johnson and lyle talbot the dungeon of harrow has no redeeming qualities whatsoever what could have been an interesting and suspenseful plot about a marooned aristocrat on a leper colony perhaps in the style of the island of dr moreau or mysterious island is trashed by the heavy dialog and mono tonal acting of amateurs whose lines sink like lead weights into a sea of stupidity the special effects which took place in someone's bathtub further doom this film to the dung heap even the treatment of leprosy is something out of a victorian interpretation of the bible the fact that leprosy can not be contracted from an individual in its last stages belies the plot line that the aristocrat fallon and his lady cassandra contract the disease and end up as the original occupants of the castle de sade doomed to insanity and inhuman cruelty it is interesting to note that not one member of the cast made another film no wonder talent begets talent lack of talent begets oblivion which is where this film should find its deplorable end
0	this movie shows what you can create if you have a camera some spare paint and cardboard a toy ship a few friends who acted in community theater and the incorrect notion you can make a film the end result is an unwatchable time waster that you'll skip through unless you take it out of the dvd player and toss it through the window first br br the acting in the opening scene especially by the rotund lee morgan as and the toy ship crashing into the rocks before the credits is a good indicator of what you're in for with all the foam it looks like this special effect was shot in a kitchen sink i guess figured he save some cash by washing the dishes at the same time in terms of bad cinema the funny thing is dungeon of harrow seems to have inspired maybe by coincidence the twist ending of manos the hands of fate yep it's the same lame i was the victim and now i take the mad villain's place ironic ending the bigger irony is that two inept talentless filmmakers could make two equally wretched texas filmed horror movies and get away with it br br monotone nerd russ harvey is a noble in a great family line why they were great is never broached boring us while lamenting the death of his family line and crest before his ship even crashes we're also treating to a droning narration throughout the film sadly we aren't so lucky his family's toy ship crashes into some styrofoam in a sink and he's washed ashore with his bloated captain and some woman conveniently deposited on a mad count's island br br meanwhile the count is visited by an evil spirit who dressed in a magic kit outfit assaults him with various puppets spiders snakes bats all the icky stuff the count william overacts worse than shatner and has a visibly difficult time keeping a straight face through the typical madman ranting br br i'd be mad too if i had to be in this disaster the woman is promptly killed by the count's ferocious dogs and the two jerks are captured by his manservant the count accuses them of being pirates apparently his worst fear he slaps his manservant around a lot apparently his greatest joy fatboy gets tortured there's a woman who's a servant and one who's a nurse the rotting leper hag in a wedding dress countess in the dungeon she digs the nerdy noble and is the only effective creepy thing in the movie a lot of inane dialogue at a dining room table the captain gets killed while making a pathetic getaway to watching a sloth battle a pack of lions it's all an ugly haze to me i spent most of my time on the fast forward button br br anyway the jerk noble and nurse make a getaway and think they're going to be rescued by three guys in a rowboat on the lake yeah we're supposed to believe a lake is the ocean they don't since the nerd's hair turned gray and he scares the would be rescuers away honestly i think they simply took the opportunity to row away from this hideous film while the had the chance they head back to the castle the nurse starts rotting like the countess and your stomach by this time and we end with these two getting ready to descend into the dungeon of harrow blech br br i love old lousy horror films but they must have some sort of entertainment value i feel ripped off even at the low low price of 5 99 for this biscuit mystery science theater would have a tough time making this one fun i was taken in by a few nutty reviewers who claimed this film had atmosphere and some creepy moments wrong avoid this tripe at all costs and don't even waste a buck if you find it in a dollar bin somewhere this movie makes corman's the terror like like a masterpiece of horror and atmosphere
0	if it was possible to give negative stars i would for this br br don't get me wrong i a good crappy movie i am a big fan of films like wizard of mars queen king and others real classics of b cinema br br but this film actually makes jack nicolson and boris karloff in the terror look like an academy award winner the dialouge is so needlessly long winded and mostly inappropriately used ie i will now yes to your wishes the acting might have been a lot better if they had some more logical lines br br the story what story a count is exiled because his wife had leprosy i'm still not sure on that count a rich fleet one and the captian of one of his ships crash on the island people acting unnaturally ok i like camp in b films a lot there lies a lot of it's charm but this was just dumb plain dumb a salty sea captian who sounds as well versed as a college professor a fleet owner who is as clueless as they come i felt this guy had no idea of how to play it one scene he's spanish acting the next english european the count who's not sure if he's a reincarnation or really don't ask me how figures into this after 4 beers my wife friend and i still couldn't figure it out br br the scare factor i could show this turkey to my small grandkids and only worry about them sleeping through it i like a lot of early 60's horror movies and some still have good shocks but this thing never had a shock or even a hint of of a scare br br on the info on the back it says this movie contains scenes that are so vivid and degrading that they will surpass your worst nightmare the only degradation is watching this movie it's 90 mins the case says it's 74 mins of your life you do not get back br br i paid only a buck yes one buck for this and another film i still feel like i am owed 50 cents for even sitting though this br br to sum up dungeon of harrow had no one named harrow in it but it did have a lovely cardboard dungeon
0	why can't a movie be rated a zero or even a negative number some movies such as plan nine from outer space are so bad they're fun to watch this is not one the dungeon of horror might be the worst movie i've ever seen some of anyway i had to fast forward through a lot of it fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age there may be worse movies i've seen but thankfully i can't remember them the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint the special effects looked like a fifth grader's c set in a shoebox the movie contained unforgivable such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it without the gun having been reloaded this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits i guess no company or studio wanted to be though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn't needed this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible as the manipulator the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual one time hollywood leading man mickey rooney the only time i would recommend watching the dungeon of harrow or the manipulator for that matter would be if someone were to pay you i'm kind of cheap i'd have to have 7 or 8 bucks for dungeon and at least ten for manipulator phil the never out of the can cinematographer
0	this movie tries to be more than it is first of all the acting is horrible you have to get past the incredibly bad delivering of lines and terrible emoting the plot is quite interesting a shipwreck occurs apparently because it was made out of strings and balsa wood and a couple of guys find themselves on shore if this weren't bad enough some guy named count de sade is living there as well he lives in fear of pirates and has gone utterly insane anyway he has a large slave a young woman and some dogs there's another woman who doesn't speak and his wife who is a leper anyway things get bad as these men have to deal with this nut case he is arrogant and likes to pose and deliver lines the rest of the movie involves an attempt to escape it has an ironic ending which i won't reveal and it kind of rescues the film i wouldn't bother if i were you
0	a couple of men are ship wrecked on a remote island they are then captured by an insane count who lives there with a small group of servants while in the castle dungeon lives the count's unfortunate leper wife br br the dungeon of harrow is pretty much a hack job of a movie the amateur actors all sleepwalk through the film while an annoyingly insistent score continually plays in the background the various bits of action are all filmed in an incredibly unenergetic way in fact the film in general is completely lethargic it just seems to drag on and on and even though the ending isn't too bad you will be hard pressed to care by that point as an example of 60's gothic horror this is strictly a bargain basement example i sadly can't recommend this one really
0	i like ali g's show i believe the guy has comedic instinct but hasn't yet developed it to a talent br br the movie is a little worse than i was expecting i don't find ali g offensive just stupid jokes for 5 year olds some good some terrible br br if you want to watch a movie that seems offensive but is actually funny see tom green's 'freddy got br br 2 10
0	dungeon of harrow had a lot of things that could've made this quite a good horror film creepy mansion a torture chamber a paranoid host a henchman a ghoul in the dungeon etc but sadly to say this wasn't made very well br br a writer and a skipper get shipwrecked on an island owned by a count in a castle his slave and a mute maid the count becomes more and more suspicious that the two shipwrecked men are pirates of all things and gets more inclined to turn on them and subject them and the mute maid who befriends them to torture and imprisonment sound not bad right br br well not quite i used to call this one of the worst movies i have ever seen but now i hesitate because it had so much potential it can't really be called one of the worst however seeing all this potential go to waste is a really big hit against this film all in all it's not a very good movie br br there is a very gothic suspense scene when our hero is chained in the dungeon and is confronted by the insane and leprous rotting bride adorned in a tattered wedding dress this was both creepy and disturbing the first time i saw the horror unfold in this scene man i wish this was a better movie br br this movie had all the right stuff to make this a moody late night chiller but ultimately took all the wrong turns i suggest someone remake this one
0	this weird movie from texas is about fallon a dilettante rich boy in the late 1800s although he looks like a 60s c w singer with greasy hair and sideburns whose ship wrecks on an island owned by count pronounced de with his captain the count is afraid of pirates and tortures a young girl who was once a pirate hostage and also tortures the captain meanwhile creepy former nurse cassandra tells fallon the secrets of the castle the countess has leprosy and went mad fallon is trapped but brings supplies the captain is killed by a racist caricature slave fallon is thrown in the dungeon with the leper who always thinks it's her wedding day the leper bride is horny bu cassandra kills her fallon and cassandra escape the castle but the count and his slave chase them with dogs kills the slave and fallon kills fallon and cassandra fall in love over the course of the next year but when the supply ship comes the crew refuses to take our lovers because they're both lepers now they live for years in the castle fallon's hair turns gray and cassandra goes bonkers fallon puts her in the dungeon our tale of love and leprosy ends br br so bizarre it's watchable and you can smell the drive in popcorn
0	the basic idea behind dungeon of harrow isn't all bad the acting however is bad the lighting is bad the music is bad the scenes of torture are without emotion there really isn't much there to recommend this film you know what kind of a movie you're in for when the credits say special guest star and list someone you've never heard of might as well say rex hamilton as abraham lincoln because there's really no one in this movie you can identify there are one or two decent moments mostly toward the end and i think the basic plot outline may have contained an original idea but that alone is not enough to keep you awake through this otherwise inept yawner
0	buyer beware the alpha video release uses a print that defies description the movie was shot in color but you wouldn't know it for the first 25 minutes or so the print that is used is so faded and decrepit that it appears almost sepia toned after 30 minutes some color seeps back into the print but from there to the conclusion the color comes and goes keep in mind even at it's best the color is pale and washed out it looks like the print was recorded off a television that wasn't getting the best reception adding to this travesty is the most plodding delivery of lines that i can recollect even the voice over narration is stupor inducing every line is delivered in this irritating plodding demeanor i found myself wishing that they would hurry and get the words out for this reason i couldn't wait for this movie to end it's one of those so bad it's good movies but i wish that someone would find a half decent print
0	my bad film guru and the president of the exposed film society sprang this one on us last week there was no denying the demented gleam in his eye as he pulled it out of its brown paper bag and announced what he had in store for us the most dangerous game filmed on a budget of about 2 95 br br of course 2 95 went a lot further back in 1962 but still br br anyway there is certainly a lot to dislike about this film it abounds with serious technical gaffes my favorite was the that fired twice in two minutes without benefit of a reload the hero is a wuss who stands by while his wounded friend fights the henchman and gets killed br br more ok the plot is a shambles with no continuity to speak of the movie wastes five minutes with a 'special guest star' who serves as the physical embodiment of the villain's madness and paranoia but never shows him again the hero is choked unconscious by the henchman but makes no mention of it when he wakes up and first meets his host the mute servant girl is captured put on the rack and then the movie and the hero who put her in this predicament just sort of forgets about her br br more well the sets are cheap and the special effects are cheaper the makeup is an exception to this much of the plot is carried by the narrator's droning monotonic voice over which carries less dramatic impact than the menu recital at denny's most of the dialog is simply ridiculous and stilted as if it was translated from japanese i demand that our conversation be pleasant and the color values tended to shift violently from shot to shot as if cheap film stock and problematic lighting equipment were the order of the day note this last may have been the fault of a bad print rather than the camera crew br br but there were a couple of nice moments here and there the makeup effects were startlingly good in contrast to the rest of the film the actors were looked interesting especially the mute servant girl and the countess and in spite of everything there was a definite creepy atmosphere to be found very nasty and disturbing br br so what was the deal with this movie i thought about it a bit and realized that director writer pat basically tried to put a story from of the old ec horror comics on film that would account for the stilted dialog the sketchy character development in a comic character even more than in film the loopy interior logic of the story ec horror stories went out of their way to include a nasty shock ending and weren't big on psychological realism the over reliance on the narrative voice which belongs in captions over the panels and the interesting makeup effects that mimicked the grisly pictures that the old ec artists did so well br br in fact i'd be willing to bet that when saw his leading man during casting he instantly saw that the fellow was as close to being the equivalent of the lanky shambling figures and caved in faces that artists like johnny craig and jack davis drew as an actual human could be and still exist in the real world he used costumes and lighting to emphasize the cartoony aspect of the visuals and turned everyone into living ec comics characters see the leading lady's blank beauty the count's strong bony features oddly bronze skin and sharp chin the platinum 'do on the tall bony black henchman etc br br this would explain the movie's failings knew how to 'frame' things but he didn't know how to deal with three dimensions and moving bodies knew how to tell a creepy story within the confines of a comics page but the nuances of film and live actors escaped him he wouldn't be the first person with this problem of course look at what joel schumacher did to batman but he didn't have a big budget to hide behind br br in any case i'm imagine that walked away from this train wreck and probably spent less time thinking about dungeon of harrow than the folks who post on this film's message boards he did within certainly vague boundaries what he set out to do and you have to respect him for it even if you don't care for harrow
0	may contain spoilers br br the main character a nobleman named fallon is stranded on an island with characters so looney and lethal he might have been better off drowning count de sade pronounced dee talks to his own hallucinations and sees all intruders on the island as invading pirates he routinely beats mute servant anne and tortures his unwilling guests in the dungeon laughs are provided by giant slave mantis who talks with a deep south accent and helps de sade hunt down trespassers in the style of the most dangerous game de sade's crazed wife ravaged by leprosy provides some truly scary moments as she prowls the dungeon and embraces a helplessly chained prisoner this scene was viewed on late night tv by many kids who carried the memory into adulthood the one nearly normal person in sight is cassandra who has self deprecation down to a science i used to be a nurse now i'm not much of anything she and fallon plan their escape and ultimately encounter an enemy more fearsome than de sade and mantis combined br br this movie was shot in san antonio and directed by a man more competent at drawing horror comics than making horror movies i'll say this much for mr he does showcase his with contagion here as he did in his comics it's rather like an andy milligan melodrama minus the meat cleavers the period wardrobe library music abuse of the handicapped and all around misanthropy makes one wonder if andy wasn't called in as a consultant however milligan made better costumes and wrote better dialogue technical gaffes are too numerous to list here but you know this flick is in trouble when you see the opening shipwreck which looks like it was shot in a fish tank also a film made in texas should have had real spiders and snakes rather than rubber ones glorious eastmancolor gives this melodrama the garish look it so richly deserves fallon's initial encounter with the leprous countess is truly horrifying as is the movie's parting shot if the rest had been half as harrowing the dungeon of harrow would have been a terror classic instead it's a funny piece of schlock that trash fiends will love for all the wrong reasons
0	okay make no mistake this is a pretty awful film but i actually thought it had a couple of creepy scenes and overcame its pathetic budget every now and then at the very least it's unintentionally funny in spots and has a definite air of creepiness and discomfort a face burning scene the part with the disfigured bride br br this baby falls into the so bad it's entertaining category to me and for that alone i would give it a star the effects are terrible the acting is abysmal and the whole thing looks like it was shot in a day you gotta love that toy ship at the beginning too it brought back childhood memories of seeing this on late night tv many years ago while the alpha dvd print looks weak and as though it was recorded directly off an old television broadcast or something i actually liked that in this case
0	the film successfully gives a graphic portrayal of the suffering of forced sex labour but nothing more the agenda behind this movie could be seen a mile away and leaves viewer so embarrassed while watching if you know that feeling so the women are kidnapped and sent to ex yugoslavian territory to work as sex slaves because take a deep breath the american military institution is corrupt and looks away while their private security contractors are selling people abroad you don't need half a brain to see the relevance to iraq war and black water company br br what a load of excrement looks like i have been fooled all my life into thinking that this problem and many others were a direct result of grip on this region for 45 years but no it was the american war on iraq which is also responsible for earthquakes tropical storms and the constipation i had last week br br the film ignores the fact that 95 of the sex trade is women willing to sell their bodies for money and entry to the western block you also see scenes that are so stupid you want to pull your hair we have someone chasing down a woman in the streets of london in broad daylight beat her up then somehow drags her unconscious body half a mile back to the apartment where he rapes her no one sees this or calls the police and the running woman does not care to scream during the chase even better we later see 4 5 women lined up in the centre of london in again broad daylight to be sold one of them has a smashed face and people are shopping in the background as if nothing was happening you can't make this stupidity up br br i used to think that such trash was exclusive to hollywood but apparently i was mistaken
0	the movie begins with much voice over a bad sign then it just slides downhill with silly and intelligence insulting scenes involving and indians but it reaches new and impressive lows when all the merry mountain men square dance with each other in a high alpine meadow meanwhile the happy go lucky indians sit around watching them it's a better scene than the dancing cowboys in blazing saddles there is a minor flaw in this comparison across the wide missouri is not a comedy br br
0	of all the directors ever to sit behind a camera wellman could break your heart quicker than anyone even ford but this is one of his worst even he seemed to know it probably from its jejune treatment not much above a bonanza or big valley br br yet there is one moment typical wellman that comes out of nowhere to shatter you the death of the indian wife of gable she has gone to give her baby some water and wham is killed by an arrow instantly no warning nada br br one of the most shocking unprepared for deaths in all cinema particularly after investing a whole hour of love for the lady in what looked to be a sappy western of course the treatment of her afterwards is laden with total indifference apparently to the film even so it is a reminder of the power he has always had at his best
0	i had already heard of ali g in madonna's music video music i always think he's funny in fact he really is just last year i always thought of buying a vcd of ali g that's why some months later i bought it cheap and i started watching it br br but the movie surprised me my older brother and i were expecting it to be a great laugh out comedy it turns out that is just a stupid piece of garbage it was really really bad it also contains explicit sexuality content and very crude humor it also didn't made me laugh even just a big smile we definitely hate that movie oh by the way i have plans to sell it br br ali g was really different in his movie compared to his tv shows in such a negative way maybe he wasn't really well focused and enough serious to make this flick just because there's some sex scenes in it doesn't mean it's freaking hilarious because sometimes too much isn't that laughable anymore for the first time ever i was disappointed at him that really made me sad rather and happy br br i gave this movie 1 over 10 actually i really want to give it a 0 rating it's one of the worst movies i've seen in my entire life i wouldn't recommend to anyone who wanna watch good comedies that aren't too explicit or horrible
0	for those that might send me nasty e mails shove it there is a trend in hollywood where those that create overly quirky movies are instantly impervious to criticism garden state tends to be one of those movies br br sure zach star of a rather overrated sitcom surprises people with some talent behind the camera but that doesn't warrant the kind of praise that a film like this has been receiving the story is often times too thin and shallow to provide any real insight people have compared this film to the graduate but those type of people are the types that try to independent cinema indie films are subject to the same hit and miss mentality that typically hits the studio films but people seemed to have forgotten that there are far more bad indie films than good ones garden state isn't atrocious but its isn't great br br first off the film is too quick resulting in a rather fast reemergence of large into his former life after ten years people tend to act like he never left where's the awkwardness of course the situation is always solved by a quick drug tasting scene which i will say was portrayed rather accurately the film seem to present a lot of emotional inequities giving us the idea that the emotion will come up later in a more deeper and more well thought out way however it fails to deliver on those fronts leaving us wondering why the journey to some of his decisions and moments were quickly resolved like peter grave robbing tendencies it wasn't completely abysmal but maybe we should stop praising the film as something it isn't
0	garden state is another of these indie type pictures that supposedly skimp on production values for the sake of giving the audience some real true to life human drama oddly enough the production is very good so are the performances by some fairly big name actors as well where the picture is lacking is in zach script which seems mostly culled from situations taken from other movies br br when you're as young as is you haven't really lived enough to use the experience as film fodder experience looks to be from watching movies then repeating the same trite clichés in his own movie in garden state he plays andrew a semi successful hollywood actor who returns to his hometown in new jersey to bury his mother who took her own life after suffering in a wheelchair for many years he appears to have no feeling about any of this he has no relationship with his father who blames him for causing his mother's paralysis in a freak accident as a six year old and has no particular despondency over losing his mother in fact he attends a party right after the burial to which he was invited by a friend of his who works as a cemetery grave digger it all smacks heavily of beautiful girls also about a guy who returns to his hometown to find himself and hang with his old friends with a little ordinary people thrown in on the side br br it's really a miracle could accomplish anything at all in his life given his father and his useless friends i'm surprised he didn't kill himself who are still living their lives as though they're still in high school partying with dumb bimbos drinking and drugging etc none of them even recognize him from his tv role as the retarded quarterback natalie portman's character the most aware person in the movie does and say things like hey i remember you from junior year these guys are such losers for them watching television would be a cultural leap forward even one friend who made millions inventing a silent has no real reason to live because his whole frame of reference is high school and partying and you don't need big money to party like a high school sophomore br br it is revealed is heavily medicated which keeps from feeling and dealing with anything really like an adult would then he meets sam natalie portman a sort of lost girl who gives pet funerals and lives with her mother like a 10 year old in a bedroom that looks like a pink doll house blown up to life size anyway they fall in love and learns to feel again the clichés come fast and furious has a long delayed heart to heart talk with his cold distancing father and tells him what it is and the name of the game in one scene and portman are in the millionaire kid's house playing touchy feely is front of a giant fireplace and the bit is so routine so standard movie schtick i swear i half expected somebody to walk up and throw a sled into the fire in another visits a doctor ron liebman to get his junk and liebman tells him in easily the worst line in the movie the body can play tricks on you i once found my ex best friend's in my wife's purse and i didn't have an erection for a year and a half obviously no licensed physician would ever say that but it's dirtbag poetry a nod from to i guess his loser friends to let them know he's still thinking of them just as the 37 joke in clerks was kevin smith's nod to his dirtbag buddies br br anyway finds true happiness and gets off the dope the story plays itself out predictably but if you're going to have a movie that's wall to wall clichés at least give it some charming performances to breathe some life into it and does he has the right sort of vacancy of casual acceptance to make his role as the zonked out andrew both real and poignant and natalie portman also of beautiful girls gives the movie a big lift with her tiny features and flickering expressions of mood she just about steals the picture as his traveling companion jean smart is surprisingly good as portman's mother and peter saarsgard though much better in shattered glass is notable as the gravedigger friend i would recommend garden state if you can't get enough storybook romance out of movies but when people start hailing it as a masterpiece they're just clueless thinks you can take the same old tired plot write in a few f ks and and slap on an acoustic rock soundtrack and that the material it doesn't
0	wave after wave of directionless nausea this film wants and at first promises to be quirky and original but is in fact obvious solipsistic and mired in cliché driven dialogue which builds to a of awfulness and cheese by the end throughout the film we meet supposedly off the wall characters who are actually very dull and just don't quite work and who through the horrific screenplay like men in armour suits driving jeeps through mansion houses and spouting preppy existential obviousness accompanied by the of the film has occasional funny episodes often no funnier than a dog playing with its genitals which happened twice an index of the slapstick rudimentary humour of the film in general but by the end the film falls into an abyss' of complete detritus and the director's egocentric ramblings which made me want to gouge my eyes out watch this film at your peril
0	garden state was a mediocre film at best the film seems more like a compilation of thoughts that the writer zach had rather than a cohesive story the disjointed plot may have been more engaging if it weren't interspersed with pointless scenes that were nothing more than quirky coincidentally these scenes are often the ones that are relayed in conversation zack walking past that turn on as he passes crazy under cranked party scene shouting over a gorge the list goes on br br the main character is flat and ultimately unlikable which is exhibited most in the scene where he talks to his father selfishly ignoring his fathers problems including a recently deceased wife and droning on about his own what am i to do with my life problem br br the film ends when andrew zach decides not to go back to la because he cannot tear himself from the love of his life sam natalie portman whom he has known for 2 days which can only lead me to the conclusion that the message of the film is that love at first sight cures occupational dilemmas sure you could interpret it as a of priorities but if that is the case it could have been done better much better br br this film does not know what it wants to be a drama a comedy a teenage wasteland film or a gamut of other things i say this not as a single genre oriented person but as a person who loves multi genre pieces such as those mastered by stanley kubrick the reason i feel it does not work for garden state is because rather than blending the genres together it jumps around one scene is one genre the next another and back again so on br br i have heard many people tell me to cut zach some slack after all it was his first feature film and he debuted as director writer and lead actor impressive as it was a first film i should think that with as much money as he has he could do better there have been much better first time feature film directors michel gondry human nature david gordon green george washington maybe if he stuck to writing or directing or acting it would have been better zach is a talented performer maybe his second attempt won't be so tedious and disjointed
0	ok so i gotta start this review by saying i was really expecting to see this flick for months i use to watch its trailer and think it looked really cool little did i know that the only cool thing about this cliché driven turd was precisely its trailer br br at the cinema i watched the first 3 frames of this movie and though to myself no way this movie is so bad don't be an idiot give it a chance you've only seen 3 minutes while i rolled my eyes in shame all those frames showed get this a guy with a poker face because he feels nothing that's deep looking straight at the camera in the middle of the frame in the second or third one he stays awake in his perfectly made bed because he sleeps like a dead guy cause he feels nothing and his father calls and says john garden state is me your father oh come on i've seen a little more than a couple flicks to hate clichés such as the is me your insert parent how the hell am i supposed to react oh he has a tough relationship with him uh yeah thats exactly how i'm supposed to react br br man this is a crappy movie br br anywho as the flick goes on we learn things about his friends of which everyone is a alternative emo walking indie movie for example one of his acquaintances is a guy who works in a medieval themed restaurant who speaks klingon bizarre characters pop culture your standard american indie flick then we know natalie portman's character who is a copy of jones from a movie that kicks butt chasing amy amelie and that chick from eternal sunshine you know smart original not really cultured beautiful and in touch with her sexuality she listens some '70s band named the shins and gives what they're from this damn decade then why do they sound like that oh they have no personality ok so she hands her cd player to john garden state and he looks at her with a dumb face you know love as the song played on i heard its lyrics saying you will love this soundtrack it is so alternative and cool you will love this movie it will define you and your generation even if it is a ideological of the breakfast club ghost world and every other smart teen movie from the last 20 years you will drink coffee and read books you don't understand br br by now really unoriginal sh t starts to happen he doesn't care if he dies in a airplane crash because he is already dead and he feels nothing and he lets us know in a scene idea taken straight out of an unknown movie called fight club it is a cool scene but oh did i mentioned it appeared in the trailer then in some party and just when you think this guy is really deep and asexual he makes out with a bimbo so oh he's not such a emotional zombie after all clever character development or just a sh tty movie well lets analyze that scene it features him sitting motionless in a couch with everyone else moving in really fast speed scene idea taken straight out of an unknown movie called requiem from a dream so just a sh tty sh tty movie br br then they meet more eccentric cliché actually characters and finally one that lives next to a big hole in the ground john garden state says some crap like good luck exploring your infinite abyss and the guy says and by now i wanted to really choke myself you too and then we are gently told that neo is jesus oh no wait thats from another dumb obvious repetitive overestimated and cliché piece of crap br br finally finally some more crap happens and he enters the big warehouse showdown to defuse the bombs he has to talk to his dad who he hasn't seen in the last zillion years cause he finally cool spoilers killed his own mom you see he killed his mom so he's also dead and feels nothing that's deep now i really expected just clever and moving magnolia like dialogue between a father and a son but this is garden state so this is pretty much it john garden state father i forgive you you didn't know what you were doing when you drugged me for a zillion years but i know you love me crappy director's dad no no i'm gonna say some simple stuff cause i'm not really so deep of a character anyway like this whole movie actually so no john garden state no dad we must get along cause we are equal individuals i mean different individuals crappy director's dad no no ok you convinced me br br and he gets the girl cause he's no longer dead you know and the movie ends and i go and eat a piece of chicken that makes my day br br this made for trailer movie sucks
0	garden state must rate amongst the most contrived and pretentious films of all time the plot is a simple one involving a young man returning home after his mother's death and discovering love but really the plot isn't important what is important to zach writer director and star – is that he is able to hang from the plot all the necessary of an or 'arty' film we therefore are presented with endless cute and quirky characters and scenes that don't exist for reasons of plot or character development but simply to give some artistic credibility to the film à la wes anderson or so hopes unfortunately and somewhat astonishingly has not only fooled many on imdb but also some critics who really ought to have known better br br of course gratuitous use of the quirky alone does not make garden state a bad film what really makes garden state a stinker is script he simply does not have the writing skills to carry this film off and the dialogue and characterisation are abysmal often has to resort to blunt devises and symbolism to achieve what he can't achieve through the writing for example the numbness of the character is shown to us by his indifference to an impending plane crash this can't be worked into the plot and so has to take place in a dream later he is shown fighting back against his circumstances by screaming into a bottomless abyss life a bottomless abyss very clever mr those two scenes must rank amongst the most ludicrous and contrived ever seen on a cinema screen br br on the plus side the acting is passable despite the lack of material for the cast to work with by which i mean a script and i do admire natalie portman for her efforts as the love interest a character so badly written and implausible that she is little more than a mindless doll that moulds into his fantasy woman br br it apparently took 3 years to write the script for garden state 3 years to write a script this bad he really is inept hopefully therefore it will be some time before he makes another film
0	i have no qualms with how the movie does not capture new jersey like zach i'm from there fine whatever i lived there way long enough i don't need to see a movie that captures the garden state br br what i do have qualms with is how bad this movie is let's make it easy on you we'll use some bullet points there are probably some spoilers that follow not that you wouldn't be able to predict the movie anyway br br the music placement was maddeningly forced and patronizing example large what are you listening to sam the shins ever heard of 'em no listen to this song it will change your life and then they proceed to play that shins song that was in a mcdonalds commercial don't you love when the characters in a movie blatantly tell you the viewer how to react to something i love that hey they should have put subtitles during various scenes instructing us to chuckle say cry feel inspired etc br br the scenes were so bad so cliché so melodramatic example the entire movie but no really example they're in the rainy quarry by the ark large runs up in the pouring rain oh he's so tormented on top of a piece of heavy machinery and screams oh how moving but wait here comes sam and his buddy the annoying drug addict and they all scream but wait oh my god here it comes they kiss long deep in the rain br br the dialogue was so bad so cliché so melodramatic example they're leaving the ark and sam says something like hey good luck exploring the infinite abyss and the guy says back you too oh oh my i never realized could it be oh my god it is large's life is like ohmigod an infinite abyss another example large and sam in the airport sam says something like is this goodbye not enough for ya ok says something like this isn't a period at the end of the sentence it's an ellipses and guess what happens when he tries to walk down the and go back to his life in la you know what don't guess it's a waste of your time br br it's a grade z wes anderson rip off movie when not busy being melodramatic and cliché the movie spends lots of times with crazy kooky off kilter characters hey sam's brother thank you zach for including him because it really made the movie so much more textured also ripping off anderson the dialogue scene sam and are in a bar in walks friends vagina says one of them then they see him sitting with sam so one of the friends says sorry i said vagina and sam says it's ok br br inventive cinematography that's not inventive but pointless and annoying give me a break with the speed up slow down of film again wes anderson does it effectively in his movies and it was done well in donnie darko but really it was pointless wow a crazy party where people are taking x and snorting coke better roll out all the tricks br br you can count the good moments on one hand even if you're missing fingers that's what makes it even worse the retarded quarterback thing well that was good the little thing he says as they're about to enter the quarry something about huffing turpentine that was good oh wait that's about it br br you know zach is i think always a little too cute but he's likable but man this is forced pretentious melodramatic have you gotten that yet overly cute overly everything this movie is terrible apparently i'm outnumbered as this waste of time is currently rated an 8 0 br br please though if you're looking for something truly poignant and subtle and unique do not rent this movie
0	shot in my former home town by a couple of college kids this movie centers around some freak named luther luther recently paroled revealed to us by an arguing parole board in one of the most laughably scenes of all time runs amuck at the local grocery by eating an old woman's neck with his metal teeth br br luther runs to farm where he eats a guy steals a car ties up an old woman and gets chased and gets killed oh and the chick from the tv show gets naked
0	i'd chose either over this film this film has been in my must see list for a while because people talked about it being disturbing and also the vhs box contains lots and lots of quotes from people saying how amazing it is or how as close as you can get to texas chainsaw massacre and lines like that but sorry folks i was disappointed big time the idea is interesting but the script is so underdeveloped that each character becomes a mistaken creation of evolution and people do indeed to the dumbest films in the film br br that in turn takes away any credibility that the plot may have otherwise had i couldn't believe how unnecessarily loooooong some where is he let's find him sequences were a few gory moments to please the gore fan but they are so few that by the time we get to them there's no point if luther's a geek then the filmmakers must really be down on the food chain
0	this isn't a very good movie but it is easily the best troma studios film i have ever viewed lloyd kaufman the brains behind troma isn't concerned with a good plot or even making a moderately entertaining film his chief concern is making something bizarre and his definition of bizarre oftentimes mirrors my definition of terrible cinema br br in this film we have the titled character luther whose favorite pastime isn't baseball but biting the heads off of chickens receiving his release from lockup the board has deemed him rehabilitated despite the fact that he doesn't speak he merely like a chicken and has a set of razorblade dentures at his disposal of course once luther is set free he goes about causing mayhem first at a grocery store and later at a farm house br br violence lots of violence in this oftentimes tasteless flick luther sinks his razorblade chompers into a poor elderly lady waiting at a bus stop and then spends the rest of the film terrorizing the mother and daughter at the farmhouse br br nudity stacy haiduk delivers some noteworthy skin in his picture as the former lois lane i can't recall which superman edition she was from gives us a shower scene followed by a romp in bed with her boyfriend a guy who just doesn't have any chemistry with ms haiduk the extended shower scene footage in the dvd extras gives the viewer quite a bit more of stacy she is quite something br br story whitey screenplay may just be the worst ever written the way in which luther is released from the asylum completely throws all credibility out the window his dialogue is something that a pre schooler might write and the actions he writes for his characters border on the absurd it's as if styles spent ten years without human contact and completely forgot how people react in certain situations br br acting the film belongs to edward terry who actually does a decent job as the geek he is quite menacing in a stupid barnyard fashion joan roth as the mother does a super job in support but haiduk and her boyfriend's lack of chemistry made their roles awkward at best
0	don't tell me this film was funny or a little funny it was a complete disaster and one of the worst movies i've ever seen ali g is only funny on channel 4's ali g show after watching his performance all i can say is he is not made for movies with a daft script or more like no storyline there's nothing to keep you entertained full of annoying unrealistic character's this movie is a complete garbage all the way at the end of the film ali g gives a speech he mentions if you hated this film tell people it was good not even the speech could save the movie he probably knew its gonna be a stinker i would of given this a 0 10 but the minimum start is 1 overall don't even waste your time on this rubbish
0	this is an odd movie on the surface it's no different to many other d grade gore movies but in at least a few ways it stands out firstly the main killer character is really weird how the heck a guy who only ever like a chicken got paroled is totally beyond me what was that female parole board member thinking he's totally reformed and rehabilitated he another problem with luther the geek is the script direction for the women the daughter is so pathetic and seemingly stupid that if she was mine slap her in attempting to untie her mother off the bed she struggles with knots and just doesn't seem to think i'll get scissors or a knife later on in a similar attempt to untie her mother she wanders down stairs and starts searching in a box of scrap booking stuff for some scissors eventually she gets a knife by the way this is after the killer has obviously left in the car and just returned bizarre on the plus side the daughter did get her kit off for the shower scene so that was nice although again unusual it seems that in many of these d grade gore movies they happily show throats being bitten open with gushing blood but the sight of a female breast is somehow too strong for the audience in general it worked but it was annoying and nasty although the bare breasts made up for some of that
0	this movie was so awful that i can't even describe it i was amazed that i even sat through this pile of trash i couldn't believe that a movie like this was even thought of it was a about a serial killer that like a chicken he doesn't just a couple of times he non stop through out the whole movie he even flaps his arms like a chicken which is even stupider than anything i have ever seen i couldn't believe this came out in 1990 i thought it came out in the early '80's or something then the daughter isn't very smart either because she was protecting the geek or man chicken the end just gets worse and is the worse ending i have ever seen this movie is just chicken s t i was laughing more than i was scared and i strongly suggest going out and getting a bucket of fried chicken instead of seeing this movie
0	this is probably one of the worst movies i have ever seen the plot revolves around a man named luther who wears metal dentures bites people on the neck and walks around clucking like a chicken without the flapping of the arms he also thinks he's a chicken br br sounds bizarre right well to me the more bizarre and weird the person is the better the more gore the better and so on br br the movie starts out with the board deciding if they want to release this maniac from their institution they mention that he has created some dentures in prison that he used to bite people on the neck he also like a chicken and thinks he's a chicken br br if i had a patient like this there is no way i would release him br br first luther heads to the supermarket and attacks an old woman on a bench and walks away then he sneaks in the back seat of a woman's car and she drives all the way to her home br br while at the house luther ties up the woman to the bed when the woman's daughter and her daughter's boyfriend come home luther hides br br later through the film a cop comes to the front door and asks about the mother you can clearly see the daughter is scared out of her mind and crying but the officer keeps asking if everything is okay she replies that everything is fine the officer finally gets in his car and leaves if i saw a woman constantly crying and looking scared i would want to at least get inside the house to investigate a little br br the ending is stupid as well while the woman in in the barn she starts clucking and gets luther excited so he starts walking around flapping his arms and clucking like a maniac she finally shoots him and just sits there for a minute before finally clucking some more br br then the credits roll br br this is one of the stupidest movies i have ever seen nothing happens at the woman's house nothing br br i sometimes like campy films but this one really bored me br br i give this movie 1 star out of 10 good idea bad direction
0	this movie has been a classic in my part of the country because it was filmed in my own small town i now have many friends who are guards at dixon correctional and i myself worked for 3 yrs at the store next to the store the old lady was at however this is still the dumbest movie ever made destined to be introduced by gilbert or rhonda shearer if it hasn't been already a bit of trivia illinois doesn't even have parole hearings and dixon prison is a medium security facility housing burglars and vending machine vandals the classic clucking seduction scene is perhaps the most amusing piece of writing i've ever seen especially with the suspenseful build up
0	i consider myself a big fan of low budget horror movies the more bizarre and imaginative the film the more blood and guts the better and i really fall in love with cheaply done flicks if they are done right luther starts out well enough his origin at the circus a creepy run at a supermarket an attack of an old lady and his disturbing occupation of a woman's farmhouse all set the mood nicely a hot sex shower scene ensues when the woman's daughter and daughter's boyfriend arrives at the house when luther steals the boyfriends motorbike the movie takes a turn for the worse br br the characters are presented with numerous opportunities to a save their loved ones b get the police to help c escape or most importantly d kill luther i can't feel empathy or fear for characters that are too stupid to help themselves snub chances to arm themselves with guns and knives while luther is away a policeman eventually arrives and is equally ineffective in stopping luther even though at one point he has a rifle squarely aimed at luther while luther and does his rendition of the polish chicken dance i found myself futilely coaching my television make sure he's dead hes gone get out of there or just kill him already br br luther is a bloodthirsty savage but he is hardly hannibal lecter if you can't outsmart this egghead you deserve what's coming to you by halfway through the movie you'll be so lethargic to the fates of the half wits that only morbid curiosity will sustain you to last to the mildly amusing ending this movie was noted as one of 101 greatest movies you've never seen well fangoria is half right in the case of luther the geek
0	luther the geek 1990 is a dull horror movie and is really bad even by troma's standards it's about a freak who bites the heads off chickens and kills people by biting their necks out and he actually thinks he's a chicken himself luther gets released from prison after 25 yrs because he's been a model prisoner and deserves another chance in life which is very hard to believe after you see how he acts and treats people throughout the movie br br after killing an elderly lady in a supermarket car park he manages to sneak into a womans car and proceeds to torture her her daughter and the daughters boyfriend at their family home in the country br br then we get treated to a long winded and boring movie with awful acting all the way through before a useless cop turns up to try and kill luther once and for all oh and the film has a ridiculous and laughable ending too i love low budget horror movies and i think the toxic avenger is an all time classic but i'm afraid luther the geek is just boring illogical and dull not much in the way of gore too just afew bloody neck and thats about it 3 10
0	revisiting old films that you thought were average isn't necessarily a good thing they sometimes get worse championed by the fangoria camp in they labeled it the scariest film since texas chainsaw no luther the geek inexplicably developed a cult following as an intense horror picture actually it is just an average stalk and bite film that briefly sets itself aside from the pack by featuring a killer who like a chicken yes like a chicken to the filmmaker's credit at least they didn't make the killer sound like a duck a la the new york ripper that would just be silly br br narrative logic is completely abandoned in luther the geek i'm not saying that slasher films are abound with reason but at least in halloween michael myers escaped luther is actually paroled after a lengthy scene where people argue he is reformed even though he like a chicken and has razor dentures which he apparently fashioned in prison it is the kind of film where a couple sees a bashed in door and the girl dismisses it by saying oh my mom must have forgotten her keys she forgets a lot of things since my dad died the kind of film where the hysterical mother runs into a cop looking for luther and tells him the killer is in my house so what does he do he grabs her and literally drags her back to the house and says just show me where he is and i'll do the rest why not call back up br br it is too bad the film is filled with such horrible action and dialogue because the luther character is actually pretty interesting most of the credit goes to ed terry a dead ringer for tom noonan in manhunter who gives the clucking luther a genuine air of menace in the hands of a right director luther the geek could be on the same level as sonny boy or santa sangre and be a true cinematic oddity but albright is not that director and merely places the fascinating character of luther in tedious slasher trappings
0	this movie reeks no money no acting no nothing i caught this on on the 3am late show movie tonight and felt compelled to comment on it this movie has nothing to recommend it i can't believe it ever got released to us television nobody in this movie can act their way out of a the lame attempts at comedy fall flat on their face the special effects consist of a worm like monster i can't even begin to tell you how rock bottom this production is it looks like it cost maybe 50 000 to shoot but only because it is on 16mm and that is probably a generous estimate anyway i lost interest rapidly and had to settle for watching matlock reruns instead of finishing it that's how bad this movie is
0	i picked up this movie and was horrified to find out that the movie is based on a rape of a little girl that the parents knowingly take their daughter to my first thoughts were that i have never been more ashamed to be an indian as well as a hindu i found this movie to be down right appalling please don't waste your time as for the music there are at most 2 horrible songs and the film used is cheap the beautiful scenes are not what india is known for i just hope that i have shed some light on how disgusting this movie really is yes it may highlight how evil people in power especially when it comes to religion may be but to sit down and watch almost 2 hours of this movie can make almost anyone gag if your up for a good indian movie watch something by director mira nair
0	as i sat watching this episode i kept glancing at the clock waiting for something to happen as the hour wound down i thought they were really going to give us a big pop at the end and then nothing the whole family is huddled around the christmas tree like something from the hallmark channel then fade to black br br perhaps one of the poorest season finales i've ever seen nothing at all to drum up any excitement for next season the only thing thrown out as any sort of incentive to watch the next season was the ambiguous nugget offered up by agent harris while pawing a sub sandwich that the guys in new york were looking to get one of the guys in new jersey wow really i would never expect something like that from mobsters i'm on the edge of my seat br br it almost seems like they're trying to get everyone to lose interest they start more plot lines that end up just disappearing than any show i've ever seen they tease and hint but rarely deliver any more br br what's with the arabs that hang out at the bing they keep throwing them in front of us and magically nothing happens br br paulie knee caps some kid after tony promised his mother that nothing would happen to her son and poof gone in the wind br br and how many more meandering drug montages with christopher are we going to have to endure please have him get arrested or overdose or something interesting br br this was one of the few shows that i used to looked forward to watching but now bout it
0	bean kevin perry uk tv creations that have made successful transitions onto the big screen now its ali g's turn and i m afraid to say this is not one of them br br ali has always been obscene but funny with it this film was sick and not funny at all scenes involving bestiality gay sex and paedophilia should not be portrayed for entertainment's sake br br ali g in da house is rubbish and deserves making very little money br br 1 out 10
0	this season lacked real but as far as setting up stories to get us in the mood again season 6 is without highlights and spontaneity br br this season lacked its usual sopranos style and if you cut out all the garbage that was filled in each and every episode this season you probably would have had 6 episodes worth of real stories br br side stories like pauly's mom is she or isn't she was boring and had no purpose other than further exploration of his character i would have like to have seen bobby express his anger more at pauly in that carnival episode but to no avail br br and that's just it these side stories had no real purpose and lack finishing if they are going to finish off these stories in the next 6 episodes i'd rather not watch it because its not really worth seeing br br disappointing is to nice a word to say about this season and its finale
0	sorry i couldn't disagree more with the last comments frankly i thought this was worse than carry on columbus enough said last film for the usually brilliant charles who looked out of place as the humour had move on to the highly witty level of on the buses films of which were being made at the same time were frankly funnier barbara windsor was embarrassing a character like one of your mums flirty friends who still thinks she's eighteen on holiday with some non entity of a scotsman c he ain't the series miraculously on with like carry on behind and carry on england carry on dick wasn't bad but really with this film the end of the series was nigh a pity because up to this film i cant think of bad film before this
0	i have always liked the carry on films with their double meaning sexual innuendo dialogue and moments of slapstick comedy but i can see why the critics give this one two stars basically many british people are gathering on a coach to go on a spanish holiday to an island called to the palace hotel what they didn't know is that it is not completely built plus they have to share bathrooms with their neighbours they have crap draws and many other complications and complaints that the owner pepe peter butterworth putting on quite an amusing accent e g peace sounding like the bad p word starring sid james as vic kenneth williams as stuart farquhar charles hawtrey as tuttle joan sims as cora barbara windsor as sadie kenneth connor as stanley blunt an apparently crap i personally can't remember who he is jimmy logan as bert conway june whitfield as evelyn blunt hattie jacques as a ridiculous hag character not as memorable as her usual matron bernard bresslaw as brother bernard sally geeson as lily carol hawkins as marge jack douglas as harry and patsy rowlands as miss dobbs i admit it is not great but there are just enough dialogue gags and of course babs in the shower and going to to her bum with that iconic whistle and later a rapid rip off of her bra okay
0	i generally loved the carry on movies but this one is actually pretty awful there are very few laughs because the whole thing is so forced there is plenty of talent on the screen and some come off better than others june whitfield kenneth williams jaques and peter butterworth are fine but barbara windsor looks tired and sid james is just tacky joan sims comes off well but in the case of the usually wonderful charles hawtrey its just plain sad when you think of the sad end to his career the movie is almost too depressing to watch the homophobia of the movie is nasty and its a very unpleasant experience the set looks cheap and unlike other movies in the series the movie is very clearly set in england the sea side looks cold and there is little attempt to create any illusions here it looks like a cheap production you will be surprised at how miserable you become watching this especially if you loved the series
0	oh what the heck i'll reveal the secret this movie stinks br br yeah there are some nifty dinosaur effects that for their time were probably really exciting to watch now they don't cut it but they're not terrible they're just good enough to tolerate without being able to laugh at it so they just sit there and i sit watching this not laughing not excited just well bored it stinks br br if i can exercise my jay sherman for a moment the film really does the box promises cowboys versus dinosaurs and in very generic sense it delivers guys dressed like cowboys fight a couple of big dinosaurs but really these guys are a bunch of sissies and the hero is a loser more on this later and the dinosaurs are hardly intimidating the plot is a yawner and there isn't much technically wrong with it that's there to laugh at it's all just gray and bland br br after some dreadful night cinematography filmed in one and a half colors i called it we get the plot which involves some people doing stuff that was what i caught oh and they are at the turn of the century in mexico so they at least dress like cowboys even if they don't act like it br br so a bunch of these people who i think were human they go in the desert and they stumble on these dinosaurs after they find a miniature horse i don't know let's just move on then the movie degrades into a really pathetic king kong ripoff in the final act at that point i had lost the will to even keep my eyes at television level and i drifted in and out of consciousness br br the hero is played by the guy from beneath the planet of the apes who essentially played charlton heston's part when heston decided he didn't want to be in the sequel he was picked cause shock o' shocks he looks exactly like heston that's about all he has going for him i was really upset when he was the hero of the film cause all he does is glower bag the chick in the film who's named t j unfortunately she's not a prostitute or finally the origin of the name would have been revealed meanwhile his friend kills all the dinosaurs saves the day numerous times and what does he get for it not recognition no nothing and he dies sacrificing himself for his friends they don't even wait up for him while they escape br br boring long slowly paced with little to enjoy until the film decides to carbon copy king kong's script onto it's own it's best to avoid this film unless you enjoy pain on the scale of dropping an anvil on your eyeball
0	i'm racking my brain but i can't seem to think of another movie quite like the valley of the gwangi a western with dinosaurs what could be more natural you gotta wonder why john ford and or john wayne never tried it br br the plot – while searching for a mythical miniature horse for her circus tj breckenridge gila golan tuck kirby james franciscus and the rest of the cast characters enter a strange lost valley there they find not only the miniature horse but some other more fearsome creatures as well dinosaurs rule this place now wouldn't that be an attraction at circus – a caged t rex br br it's not that i find the valley of the gwangi a bad movie i just don't seem to have enjoyed it as much as many others who have posted comments on the movie there are some parts that i actually find almost unwatchable for the first half of the movie there just doesn't seem to be much going on i wasn't necessarily bored but i did want something to happen plodding would be an adjective i would use to top it off the movie features a very contrived love story it feels forced as if the writers decided that the male and female leads just had to get together but the valley of the gwangi isn't a total waste there are moments i really enjoyed who doesn't get a kick out of the scenes of the cowboys on horseback trying to lasso a t rex you just don't see stuff like that every day ray creatures are impressive there are some really cool shots of miniatures interacting with people and horses it might not represent the best of his work but the effects are very nice still at least in my mind these good moments aren't enough to overcome the negatives as much as i hate to do it i've got to rate the valley of the gwangi a 4 10
0	this movie is so predictable when you know the modern american dream do nothing be a loser and then suddenly whoah you're a genius and an obnoxious one and the world is kissing the ground you are walking on br br and surprisingly all the other smart people are losers they don't know anything and are bitter when our solves problems so easily and what kind of problems they are so difficult but still these professors can analyse the results in less than 10 seconds br br every movie has something good in it anyway and robin williams is it in this one
0	i sat down through 2 hours of pure boredom i look here on imdb even though it is not high on the list it is in the top 250 i was a little even though yes i am very impressed with robin and matt's acting abilities they still didn't save the movie i'm not sure what i really didn't like about the movie maybe it's because i math maybe i'm not too much for dreary talking for 2 hours even though i loved american beauty but that was it i just want my 2 hours back it was a big waste of my time if i'm missing something in this movie please e mail me i am curious why this is on the top 250 and don't say because it was a good movie br br 2 10
0	when hollywood is trying to grasp what an intelligent person is like they fail so miserably finding it hard putting words in the mouth of the purported genius br br right any genius walks around trying to rub in his superiority at every instance sure they hang out in bars and pick fights – it's not like they are generalizing wildly autistic nerds who never have a tan br br plus if you are a genius you know all about math and history and politics and of course you're constantly up to date with current events and a thorough analysis of them coz these things like all go together n stuff y'know br br plus you walk around with a smirk all the time you are just a smug son of a you know what that's how it is y'all br br and of course you smoke like someone who never smoked before but you smoke coz it's like cool n stuff y'know and you're different that is understood br br and of course you can fight – you're a bully a bully who finds time to study 10 000 books whenever he doesn't lift weights and whenever he doesn't smoke or drink beer because he follows a strict health regimen br br and you date a 30 something college student – minnie driver well i won't even comment matt damon team america has hit the nail on the head already br br this movie is a daydream of a beavis butthead type student in other words 95 of them yeah that's what i would be like if i was a genius but stupid people and stupid authors in this case cannot imagine the lives of geniuses
0	sappy br br i liked how they went to the to quote books at each other to impress the ugliest girl there br br probably the janitor at my school is a genius too but is waiting to land that big construction job br br just because you keep your nose to the grindstone is no reason to try to cut a steak with it do you like apples br br the guy nods or something br br well how'd ya like dem apples wow that is genius br br duh minnie driver would give her number to anybody robin williams can't paint and keeps the good books on the top shelf and there's a professor who always wears a priest scarf for no reason
0	if i compare two films with sacha cohen borat and ali g then ali g is immeasurably better i'ts no master piece but it's a film at least borat is complete garbage and i do not understand how it rated better then ali g br br i cannot put my finger on it there something wrong with the ali g script half of the jokes are as if written by a 15 years old not by an adult scriptwriter and a number of jokes including mr cohen's lower body are quite tasteless br br but the film actually comes together as a comedy and there are some valid jokes too that are funny such as how ali g becomes a member of government for doing something scandalous and stupid in the public sadly true in today's western society people get careers for doing stupid things in public also advice about immigrant policy and some others br br ali g overall remains a sympathetic character even though a kind of mentally underdeveloped for his age but it's ok to watch it's quite funny br br but never ever watch borat it's awful and makes every intelligent sick
0	so many fans so little to show for it i know i know these words are gonna find me in a great minority a lot of people really liked good will hunting but seriously please great film making not even close and let's put the blame where it belongs in the writing br br now i know they won an oscar for it and boy did they look good emoting on the screen but good will hunting is an abc after school special with lots of cursing in it and a slightly bigger budget br br what this movie does show is the brilliance of harvey weinstein and miramax pictures mr weinstein could take manure feed it to you and make you believe your eating bon and that's exactly what the studio did with the film they created such high buzz around it that people believed and wanted to believe it so much that they saw brilliance where there was none br br now i know some people think it's a great movie i don't think it's a horribly bad movie i like to compare it to more in the middle of the road movies and also to some great made for tv movies although not hbo films hbo films are unusually better than good will hunting would ever be it's just a nice little film with some good performances robin williams was not good in it they just gave him the oscar cause been itching to do it for a while and of course the miramax public relations machine secured ben and matt their screenwriting oscar but come one people there's better movies out there
0	i'm not surprised that so many people fell for this one when i was watching this movie a couple viewers next to me sobbed whenever you're supposed to sob or at least feel touched like when hunting said he didn't love the girl like when robin williams' character sorry i forgot his role's name was telling hunting repeatedly it's not your fault oh lord just thinking of that scene gives me the goosebumps i couldn't have cared less for what would happen to the characters many people sob for hollywood manufactured characters they can't even relate to think titanic yuck but it really only made me cringe and want to get out of the theatre i guess i simply refuse to be psychically and emotionally manipulated by all this br br folks it's not me who's being condescending those characters are and for no good reason because they're unreal worse yet nothing is new or surprising even robin williams' character is all cliched br br i gave it 1 out of 10 it's probably not that bad it's just quite mediocre but so many people went to the other extreme and gave it a 10 so i figured a single balancing vote won't hurt
0	what is about mathematical geniuses that get the critics juices flowing a beautiful mind wasn t up to much in my opinion fellowship of the ring deserved the oscar that year while good will hunting had several awards lavished on it undeservedly br br first off is the script when i attended film school i was told good will hunting is a very good example on how not to start a script and the tutor was right this movie lacks any type of opening hook and for the most part it s very very slow if you wrote an unsolicited script like this the script reader would have given up on it by page 15 br br structure aside the idea of a member of the american underclass being some sort of intellectual god doesn t really ring true ask yourself this if he s the character in the movie how come he s gone through his short life without anyone noticing his abilities not one single teacher from his childhood noticed his gift highly unlikely as is the fact he s read so much mind expanding and if will s so clever how come he s so of what happens to young good looking boys in american prisons br br but it s the casting that let much of the film down you want to get a couple of actors to play rough tough irish gang members let s get matt damon and ben affleck which is like getting russell crowe to play a pacifist or charles bronson to play a liberal do gooder i failed to be convinced by the foul mouthed damon and affleck as they about smacking people in the chops and couldn t help thinking that even though they wrote the script the parts should have been awarded to different actors after all billy bob thornton has written screenplays for films he hasn t been cast in and the same criteria should have been applied here br br there are some good points to the movie robin williams is excellent as the man who tries to show will his potential and also very good is stellan who is quite simply one of the greatest character actors to stepped foot outside of europe and despite my previous criticism of the script there is quite a moving piece of dialogue at the park as williams character explains to will what he has seen in life br br but i ve got to repeat that there s less plus points than negatives to this movie and i ve got to agree with the people who ve said good will hunting is boring and unconvincing
0	enormous suspension of disbelief is required where will's genius is concerned not just in math he is also very well read in economic history able to out shrink several shrinks etc etc no no no i don't buy it while they're at it they might as well have him wearing a big s on his chest flying faster than a jet plane and stopping bullets br br among other problems real genius shelving for the moment the problem of what it really is and whether it deserves such mindless homage doesn't simply appear ex it isn't ever so multi faceted and it is very rarely appreciated by contemporaries br br better to have made will a basketball prodigy except that damon's too short
0	oops i hired this because i thought it was bitter harvest 1981 which was recommended after the appearance of the appalling patsy kensit i checked the recommendation and discovered my mistake ok it's watchable because the main characters are very sexy but the acting is awful stephen baldwin looks morose the whole time which is understandable considering his co star is patsy competing with liz hurley for the title of the most obviously useless actor on the screen
0	a truly masterful piece of filmmaking it managed to put me to sleep and to boggle my mind so boring that it induces sleep and yet so ludicrous that it made me wonder how stuff like this gets made avoid at all costs that is unless you like taking invisible cranial punishment in which case i highly recommend it
0	i bought this film as i thought the cast was decent and i like jennifer rubin patsy kensit br br first off let me say the acting is not of a high standard stephen baldwin makes his character look almost retarded at times and at other times morose patsy kensit is so so but not too convincing in some scenes and the supposed poetry she spouts in a particular scene in her hotel room is utterly meaningless rubbish ms kensit is certainly very suggestive and sexy here but ultimately i think jennifer rubin is by far the best in this film ms character is at first innocent then sexy as she plays stephen baldwin's character travis for a fool the supporting cast includes adam baldwin no relation to his more famous m walsh who has appeared in many films also i noticed art evans who was one of john allies in die hard 2 the movie is decent and there are a few nude scenes with rubin kensit a bit of action but this is certainly not a fast moving or intelligent thriller there is a particular scene when they are in the car about to commit a crime and stephen character is wearing sunglasses and when you see him again the area around his eyes etc is painted black instead then the sunglasses reappear later when they are leaving the crime scene and police are in pursuit a very obvious error in editing br br if you are fans of either of the ladies or either baldwin then you may find something to like here but others should steer clear this is a reasonable but unremarkable thriller and not really worth more than a couple of dollars if you want it
0	it's a shame really that the script of this film had more holes than you could shake a stick at mixed metaphor intentional because kinski and coyote both supremely talented performers who are capable of great subtlety and nuance have wonderful chemistry together and the always provocative fairuza balk didn't hurt the mix either jeremy piven would have been great here too if his character and all the other supporting characters hadn't been written as a plot device as for the main proceedings the writers just didn't know how to create the suitable guilty or innocent tension for kinski's character instead they gave us confusion contradiction and by the finale downright let's hope the viewers don't notice claptrap
0	in red letters coyote is at the vortex of as a college professor who writes to a female prison inmate and gets more than he bargained for there are two reasons to watch this flick kinski is one and piven the other although it's difficult for their sparks to shine in such a complete directorial disaster everything is wrong with red letters convoluted lousy screenplay camera editing and most of all acting which is subpar for coyote etc has taken a story with potential and turned it into a seriously flawed and amateurish flick not worth the time
0	what a great cast and what a pathetic attempt at a film the script is full of holes from beginning to end incoherent not cohesive utterly ridiculous one of the most talented beautiful actresses in the world and i'm talking about nastassja kinski is without a single memorable line here worse she supposedly dyes her hair halfway thru the movie but it's obvious she's just wearing a cheap black wig bought from a drag queen costume shop the best moments are given to a character actor and his dog in the apartment building that lead actor peter coyote lives in fairuza balk is photographed poorly to boot she looks like an overweight freshman who's out at too many all you can eat student cafeteria i was so looking forward to this film i wanted to like it but i think i'd rather watch nastassja read the phone book with her own hair
0	my god how bad this is who is this impostor pretending to be ali g avoid this at all costs it replaces the smart multi layered satire and humour of his show with down and out toilet humour br br this was obviously an attempt to get him known in the states before he released his show there on hbo br br one commentator here pleads that we not judge the movie on the merits of the show due to the difference in the mediums while it is true that the standard format of the show could never have been transferred to the big screen mr sacha baron cohen could have ensured the smart use of his comic style in a more conventional movie storyline instead we have this mess which in all honesty has nothing at all to do with ali g except for the packaging br br terribly disappointing go seek out the dvd's of innit or bling bling for some real ali g
0	okay so i went into this loving i still love him her but think a little less this is one gross movie that shows a lot of male genitalia this is a spoof of the 1970s black exploitation films and is purposefully done badly the only fun part about it for me is that all of the voices have been looped with those of drag queens even the voices of real women this is over an the top nonstop laugh your rear end off it is so stupid badly made movie i would never watch this again but i do appreciate what the film makers were trying to do there is no rating on this but it would be r or even nc 17 has done much better work
0	ru paul plays a secret agent called she teams up with another drag queen agent to fight the evil manners and get her kidnapped niece back or something like that seriously i had trouble concentrating on the plot the movie is seemingly directed by somebody with severe add quick camera cuts nonstop that make it impossible to focus on anything the dialogue is incomprehensible at times and when you can hear it you wish it remained incomprehensible the acting is actually pretty ok except for ru paul who overacts to an embarrassing degree also the film is full of disgusting bathroom humor that is just revolting and not even remotely funny after 30 minutes i had to leave because i was bored sick and just couldn't stand it anymore i pride myself on sitting through anything but this went way beyond my limits people are comparing this to the early work of john waters i disagree waters' work is sick but good this is just sick avoid
0	not only the title the film itself is a long one too or so it seems that's because of the outdated style of acting and the pathetic way its hackneyed themes are bad marriages of the sisters and a homo brother who dares not speak the name of his sexual preference italy 2003 you don't believe it and you don't have to
0	i agree with most of the critics above more yet i was shocked by the presentation of the love scenes with the homosexual couple why because while they the director the producers didn't have any compulsion whatsoever in presenting the different heterosexual couples in the most passionate embraces including nudity and super close ups of french kissing and all sorts of nude contortions in bed completely unnecessary in their length and in the story when the moment came to show the same experiences with the homosexual couple they only dare to go as far as an excruciatingly painful hug almost among scholarly giggles with two very nervous actors so in reality the makers of this film found homosexuality to be unnatural as one of the characters says in some scene what a difference with the spanish cinema i remember being at the projection of an almodovar film in an italian cinema in rome and being completely amazed at the total lack of reaction from the italian audience they were afraid to have a reaction when in spain people would fall down from their seats laughing at all the situations and fabulous almodovar wit and flair obviously in italy there are dark forces in its history that the free manifestation of some very normal and natural emotions pity i must add that i was quite surprised to find that this same comment was censured by another correspondent it's very bad and dangerous when we cannot be allowed by the of others to express our opinions about certain matters where is freedom of speech i don't know if that censor will approve of the changes i was forced to make in this comment and i hope he won't receive the same treatment from some other narrow minded judge pity again
0	masters horror sounds like is set in seattle where larry pearce works as the manager of a computer software call center having lost his 6 year old son michael nicholas elia to a rare heart condition he finds that he has ultra sensitive hearing larry hears everything in ten fold from people typing on computer keyboards people whispering across the room people tapping their foot on the floor dripping taps eventually even people breathing become unbearable for larry as he is constantly bombarded with mind piercing noise eventually larry decides he's had enough if he can't stop the noises themselves then maybe he can stop himself hearing them with the help of a large meat clever br br this canadian american co production was episode 4 from season 2 of the generally hit and miss masters of horror tv series written directed by brad anderson i thought sounds like was a definite miss the script was based on a short story by mike i am genuinely surprised by the amount of very positive comments it has here on the imdb at the present time for a start i would be very hard pressed to even describe this as a horror film it feels more like some bizarre sentimental drama until the last 5 minutes when howard berger gregory nicotero the boys at knb effects actually get to do some work larry has this strange unexplained ability to amplify sound noises from the start so this episode ends up like 55 minutes of exactly the same sort of repetitive build up which leads up to a gory ending although it comes to late to save the episode this is pretty slow going while it's well written isn't this meant to be horror themed i'm slightly confused as to who this is meant to appeal to br br director anderson does ok but he just keeps repeating the same things over over again until the last 5 minutes there isn't a single drop of blood in the entire thing there's no horror there's no scares or tension absolutely no atmosphere br br technically this is very well made has good production values doesn't look like a cheap made for tv program the acting is very good actually it's shame the story is somewhat limited br br sounds like is one of the very worst masters of horror episodes a lot of people seem to like it that's fine but it's definitely not for me another masters of horror another disappointment
0	this episode was boring and was not even in the realm of horror so far this season masters of horror has produced one really good episode the damned thing it is still early i have faith that the episodes will get better i admit that the vampire episode was okay but lacked a solid storyline the episode about the couple catching the serial killer started out boring but the last fifteen minutes was really good though i am just plain out disappointed with the lack of originality and horror that the first season's episodes possessed please save this season john carpenter i have faith that pro life will redeem the entire lackluster season so far br br you're an angry little elf
0	definition of documentary a work such as a film or television program presenting political social or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration the key word here is informative i love they might be giants and barely learned a thing about them br br the interviews with all the celebrities were pretty much worthless i don't care what sarah vowel thinks of anybody and syd straw was downright irritating and is listening to people recite lyrics like they were supposed to be funny interesting it was neither i think that was the problem the movie spends time discussing love for coffee so what millions of people love coffee was the presentation of the material funny no there were hints that both men are married yet it was never discussed and what about the solo material they did what motivated them to do it these type of questions are not addressed nor answered br br i could go on and on with the negatives i did find the segment on dial a song very interesting if you want to learn about they might be giants just buy a few cd's and listen seriously this movie is a gigantic disappointment i can't believe so many folks gave it a 10 incredible
0	i found this an awfully disappointing experience but i have appended a better option of similar style at the foot of this entry br br this journey is intriguing it has drama but it is full of stereo types br br so it only serves judgemental without concern for truer justice fairness truth beyond black 'n' white judgements that fit 30 second ads of news that dot our multimedia experiences everyday especially news bulletins true or misleading in such depictions br br it is so exaggerated it reminds me of the fairytale of little red consider the innocent young girl with no identification crossing borders questioned by a guard but freed without any evidence to venture on in search of her who didn't give her an address versus the pathetically inept lack of substance in the raspy voice of the hand' befriending her with his unlikely story fabricated by the layer br br it seems to suit the directors management team that no one has faith or prays to god even in their times of desperation br br so in these early settings it orchestrates tells much of what is to come a nightmare journey that betrays the essence of substance without fairytale resolution without truth or integrity or credibility then one twist it's all over what a disappointment if you want to see a much superior movie that investigates similar themes with much more credibility with much more powerful insight watch the 1983 paul cox norman kaye man of flowers movie br br unlike here you will not be disappointed
0	you just need to see this as a poorly executed anti abortion propaganda and you will realize just how bad it really is the main message of this movie is that even the sickest of persons can't commit an abortion if you ask that's not a long way away from blowing up abortion so this guy wants to kill some poor girl but he has to convince her to do an abortion first what a load of crap and the worst part is that he has an convincing argument bringing a child into a loveless environment but that is supposed to be dismissed because he's a freak anyway and the part with the bible pushers first they throw this girl out just because she explains someone stole her money that rule must be in the bible somewhere and then on the end they are some sort of angel like deus ex machina delivering the killer from evil by harassing him on his front yard come on other include a very confusing scenario and i don't mean in a good way so this guy is just some psycho why because his mother fed his some liver once and i don't know about the rest of you but he seemed like the nicest person in the world throughout the whole move even though he was a wearing girlie clothes stealing money and taping girls in his car if you forget the idiot story this movie has a really great cinematography and bob hoskins was really great and it has one of those funny little english cars in it if it was actually about some psycho killer i'd give it a 7 at least
0	the tv announcer who introduced this late one saturday night said it should have won oscars quite a statement for a film i'd never heard of though why i should have taken any notice of a tv announcer i don't know in the event said announcer was talking tripe br br it's a dreary miserable movie that leaves a bad taste in the mouth i couldn't get on with awful burr ming gum accent can't see any advantage in it being set in the anyway br br unresolved threads abound and i wouldn't normally mind this but half of them make no sense and what about when says he'll pick up from outside her b b although she never told him where exactly she was staying or her buying into the funeral that clearly never took place and where was she during those days and ill thought through bits of business if you ask me br br it's a thriller without thrills it's full of pretentious bits of business it's depressing br br didn't like it thought it was rubbish wouldn't recommend it 'nuff said
0	ali g was funny at first his interviews were fresh and original the idea of a mock gangster wearing ott clothes and using street wise lingo was appealing at first br br but this film is just a rehash of old jokes the humour was mainly childish and revolved around the male sex organ for the most part the film claimed good actors like charles dance but their talents were wasted as they played silly 2 d characters it is not but isn't really funny at all a second time it could be said that the movie was ali g's last bastion of comedy after that he ran out of steam
0	ohhhh man this movie is awful br br this kind of tripe is what gives canadian cinema a bad name or no name well to be fair i guess most canadian movies give canadian cinema a bad name br br next to the characters there's a couple that are the most grating in movie history the most annoying thing is the editing and pace of the movie it's like a drunken snail making its way to die br br thank goodness melanie is nice to look at she's the only thing that kept me watching unfortunately the rest of the movie kept interrupting br br good for a laugh though if you're having a bad canadian movie night though br br did i mention melanie the only good point too bad they didn't have the sense to keep the camera on her for more than a blink at a time br br another addition in the canadian hall of stinking movies
0	this movie tries its darndest to capture that classic bad canadian movie feel br br quirky and obnoxious characters a few quirky town with quirky folk a quirky coffee shop or restaurant coffee shop here lots of shots of canadian stuff for postcards ocean stuff here lots of mention of gotta get out of this town downright booooring br br and it succeeds on all counts br br something to note though i couldn't figure out whether this movie was just trying to be post northern exposure quirky comedy or something surreal like a drug induced or psychotic hallucination the editing of this movie jumped around from one unrelated thing to another with zero pacing or motivation not to mention the fact that half the time we didn't even know where we were jumping take for instance the very opening shots of yelling teens in a car who are they and what the h did they have to do with anything and this sub uh plot use that word plot loosely kids that seem to span generations i don't think they actually do but the editing makes it look like they materialize from flashback all of a sudden to current time huh what did i miss br br avoid unless for laughs or you want to try and trip out on the inept editing
0	this movie tries its darndest to capture that classic bad canadian movie feel br br quirky and obnoxious characters a few quirky town with quirky folk a quirky coffee shop or restaurant coffee shop here lots of shots of canadian stuff for postcards ocean stuff here lots of mention of gotta get out of this town downright booooring br br and it succeeds on all counts br br something to note though i couldn't figure out whether this movie was just trying to be post northern exposure quirky comedy or something surreal like a drug induced or psychotic hallucination the editing of this movie jumped around from one unrelated thing to another with zero pacing or motivation not to mention the fact that half the time we didn't even know where we were jumping take for instance the very opening shots of yelling teens in a car who are they and what the h did they have to do with anything and this sub uh plot use that word plot loosely kids that seem to span generations i don't think they actually do but the editing makes it look like they materialize from flashback all of a sudden to current time huh what did i miss br br avoid unless for laughs or you want to try and trip out on the inept editing
0	i couldn't help but laugh when i saw what the public could be made to think was email back in 1996 apparently email is an interactive discussion similar to a chat with lame voice synthesis reading every comment out loud and some of the other tech aspects are also laugh out loud funny i'd swear the high tech communications centre she has actually has a few commodore 64 monitors in it almost like watching the movie hackers nowadays i guess br br despite the fact that for most of the movie the lead actress carries off the illusion of being disabled the final part of the movie has an unexplained use of her legs which somehow i can't ignore i mean why include something so stupid br br anyway to sum up the plot is pretty predictable the acting bad the killer quite but it can be amusing in a mystery science theatre 3000 kind of way i guess
0	ok at the time of writing 65 people voted for this movie bringing it to a 5 out of 10 rating my guess is that only the film crew voted so i'm here to bring some justice to it all br br never has a movie provoked the audience's intelligence more than this one given i laughed out loud quite a bit but the movie story absolutely didn't want me to br br i've seen a lot of bad movies a lot but man this one blows them all away br br speaking '96 computers ridiculous acting and wheelchair chases and we have young who can't get their ideas financed yup life's a cruel joke
0	after high school track field laura dies of natural causes during a race an event that is shown multiple times in slow motion none the less an unknown killer is murdering all the people who were on that same aforementioned team close to graduation day hence the name in this laughably inept slasher flick it brings absolutely nothing new or even good to the slasher table instead opting to merely unleash the most god awful song i've heard in quite some time with ' gangster rock' being played in a roller disco party that went on far too long br br eye candy denise cheshire linnea quigley get topless br br my grade d
0	the title for this review about sums up how i feel about this movie i can't imagine what audience there would be for this thing if not for the die hard fan of 1980s slasher films who simply has to see everything from that era otherwise don't even waste your time on this br br the story is similar to most films of its type something awful happens to one of the characters in the opening scene which inspires a bloodthirsty killer to go on a murderous rampage been there done that truth be told none of these '80s slashers were known for their originality so i can't see the point in harping on the film simply for this br br but where the film fails is in its suspense and murder sequences i've seen some pretty scary slasher movies from the 1980s that had far lower budgets than this this one just fails to create any real suspense the director throws in some nice camera angles and some semi professional directorial touches here and there but they mean nothing if you're not frightened the gore is pretty tame as well so anyone who watches these things with the intention of seeing some cool 1980s makeup effects will be sadly disappointed br br the movie manages to along rather dully honestly the key ingredient to almost any slasher is the tight pacing you have to keep things moving along swiftly and keep the murder set pieces staged at regular intervals because let's face it we don't watch these things for the great characterization and stellar plots but the pacing whether due to the script or the editor is all off the murders are spaced out at odd intervals leaving us with some long winded scenes no doubt meant to build character that serve only to bore you and leave you praying for the next kill which as i've said usually isn't executed all that well anyway br br as for the killer don't expect anything original or even remotely frightening he or she wears a jogging suit a fencing mask and his or her primary weapon is a sword i bet the writer just wet himself over thinking he came up with an original cool murder weapon but the idea just comes off as impractical and silly there's also not much emphasis placed on the nature of the film as if they either forgot or don't care to place any red herrings in the mix to throw us off br br i have the sense that the people behind this were trying to make something decent and respectable and at times it shows their intentions were probably a bit more genuine in regards to making a quality film as opposed to countless other knockoff slashers from the era but alas the attempt fails for the most part there is however some pretty good acting at least for this type of film there is attempt at characterization but none of it ends up meaning anything in the end so what a waste here all it manages to do is bog down the plot and make the murder sequences feel like they can't come soon enough br br in the end if you're really into these old '80s slashers by all means check it out if only to say you've seen it there's a completest in all of us but don't expect to be blown away or anything what we have here is a very mildly entertaining slasher movie that leaves no real impression at all
0	this movie was sheer slow plodding torture not being a fan of slasher films and preferring classic horror i may not be the best judge slasher fans may enjoy this as an early entry into the slasher genre i really would like the 90 minutes i spent watching this back the only reasons to watch this are 1 a young white pre wheel of fortune who has about 3 minutes of total screen time 2 an early role by scream queen linnea quigley with nudity and legendary beauty ej as the school secretary who added a bit of humor and sex appeal otherwise an 80's band called makes an appearance which while interesting drags on way too long just like the movie i had to keep checking how much time was left and couldn't wait to graduate to a better film
0	for me reviewing movies is an extension of my love of film and of horror cinema in particular the reviews i've written thus far have been for films that i love respect and admire and i have eagerly rewarded them with glowing accolades and perfect ten ratings a life long horror movie fan it is a tremendous pleasure for me to be able to share with others my thoughts and ideas about great horror films and to hopefully have a hand in exposing people to movies they may not otherwise seek out i only recently began reviewing films for the imdb and it was my initial intention to concentrate only on my own personal favorites examining those which i believe are of substance and of lasting value to the horror genre however the existence of films like graduation day is without pun a thorn in my side completely devoid of any merit whatsoever this 1981 hodgepodge of unformed ideas is amateurishly directed poorly acted and in every sense an unmitigated embarrassment to horror cinema during the brief couple of years before and after this movie's release we saw the appearance of domestic and canadian films such as halloween ii prom night terror train madman my bloody valentine the prowler just before dawn final exam and hell night among others these films though of varying degrees of quality clearly strove to achieve something in terms of story line plotting acting direction and overall tone not every movie released during this bountiful season of the slasher era would be of the artistic merit or commercial success of the original halloween or friday the 13th but these films were all well made and clearly contributed to the ongoing development of horror cinema graduation day an abysmal farce about a masked killer stalking members of a high school track team was directed by herb freed whom one can only hope will never again attempt to the horror genre with such a travesty the task of creating worthwhile horror films is best left to those who have a genuine love and respect for the genre this movie fails miserably on every possible level not the least of which are dreadfully wooden performances dime store special effects an irritating musical score and most of all a story lacking even the slightest hint of tension or suspense a pointless exercise in how to waste film graduation day is an utter disgrace to horror cinema
0	graduation day br br i bought this movie this past week and waited for some time where i could kick back and relax and watch some good 80's slasher gems i got this and xtro to watch never seen any of them i just watched it and realized my outdoor speakers were on also i only imagine what my neighbors thought when came on to sing their one 10 minute hit i'm sure it was loud and i'm sure they think i'm weird with that and the chainsaw sound and screaming from other movies br br this was a pretty sub par slasher movie no suspense no story some cool deaths almost seemed on the amateur side i usually like movies like that but it just didn't click with me now i will watch xtro for the 1st time and have a margarita br br dj eric austin tx
0	i have absolutely no idea why i watched ali g except for the fact that salon seemed to think a crime was committed by not nominating sacha baron cohen for a emmy for his work on da ali g show it is a sure bet that i will never watch that show as there was absolutely nothing funny about the movie comedy torture was more like it it was just about the stupidest thing i every watched i will admit that i was captivated by i had not seen her in anything she wasn't on the practice during the time i was watching so i guess i will have to check out boston legal one of these evenings to see how she does in something that may be worth watching
0	pretty lame and awful slasher about someone killing the members of a high school track team after their star runner dies during a meet br br christopher george gives a hilariously over the top performance as the track team's coach i don't think anyone has ever taken track and field as seriously as chris does here not even in the olympics it's a typically divine cg performance and if you are a fan of the man the legend you should run right out and grab a copy br br but we watch slashers for the murders you know it's true not the performances and graduation day fails to deliver on most counts there is one really good kill true horror only comes during a performance by the band never heard of 'em watch graduation day and find out why
0	this film is slow this film is cheap this film makes friday the 13th look like a best picture nominee the acting is crap the special effects are crap no one dies for like 40 minutes and all the people do is act badly the only thing that saves it is it's ability to make you laugh at all the stupidity going on the funniest part is watching the heroine fight off the attacker she supposed to be trained but she fights like a 70 year old they spend pointless scenes on people who don't die and no scenes on people who do die to the point where you don't even know why they are dieing i love slashers but this is just crap
0	first and foremost i wish to aim a big mean middle finger towards the troma dvd distribution crew who were actually stupid enough to reveal the identity of this movie's pivot killer on the back of the cover the synopsis just randomly mentions who's the person responsible for the massacre on graduation day for christ's sake i don't care how terrible or how predictable an 80's slasher can be just mentioning who did it ruins the whole point so a word of advise in case you also purchase the troma double feature containing graduation day and barbarian in dinosaur hell do not – repeat do not – turn the box around and read the back watching the film is already a painful experience but reading the back would really spoil everything br br now as for the actual the actual movie… oh boy personally i'm a fan of the cinematic 'work' of herb freed well actually i don't really know whether i should admire pity him all films are pretty bad amateurish but at the same time you can tell his direction is spirited and full of good intentions unlike with haunts and beyond evil he followed a contemporary popular genre trend and tried to cash in on the typical high school slasher films just to offer a minimum of originality all the victims in graduation day are promising athletes and members of the same track of coach george michaels awesome name i guess herb freed is a fan of wham during the opening credits we witness how a young girl dramatically dies on the field moments after winning a 30 seconds running race the debate of whether or not her coach and fellow track team members weren't pushing her physical limits too much is raised but one particular individual goes one step further and begins to sadistically kill everyone he she considers responsible for laura's death what a demented little movie the script must be one of the most incoherent ones i ever with loads of red herrings and sub plots that go absolutely nowhere and death sequences that are almost too cheesy for words there's a bloke impaled by a football attached to a javelin others are decapitated with an absurdly big sword and the unluckiest bastard of them all even falls to his death on a disguised bed of spikes herb concentrates on the the fast pacing of the killings so much that he totally forgets about the sub plots he introduced earlier in the film for example laura's sister returns home from her military training and seemly starts an investigation regarding the circumstances of her death halfway through the movie however her character hardly appears in the movie anymore also the girls' stepfather is referred to as a violent drunkard but this interesting given immediately gets ignored as well instead of carefully mounted suspense and misleading red herrings we're served disco dancing roller skating sequences and – of course – numerous images of unattractive 80's chicks stripping their tops off despite being really bad graduation day could count on a respectable cast christopher george grizzly city of the living dead greatly stars as the demanding coach carmen argenziano when a stranger calls the accused briefly appears as a police detective investigating the rising number of missing teenagers and michael pataki dead buried dracula's dog has a very amusing part as the school's stressed out principal the teenage beauties on duty include linnea quigley and white heck for some horror fans the presence of these two ladies is enough reason already to count graduation day among the most quintessential slashers of the early 80's it's a dumb film but entertainment and chuckles are guaranteed
0	an interesting slasher film with multiple suspects br br includes typical girl flashing her breasts denise cheshire as she changes into her swimsuit creepy suspect any one of them could be doing the deed expected breast baring to get a passing grade linnea quigley a very unusual forward pass more bare breasts a track and field event that will not be in the summer olympics and a ghoulish secret br br it all comes to a crashing ending no there's more won't this guy die i bet anne patch mackenzie doesn't plan any more visits home anytime soon br br if you like teen slasher films can you possible be a pervert even if all the actresses are over 18
0	after their star cross country runner dies after a race the members of a track team are stalked and killed by a mysterious masked murderer seeking vengeance for the girl's death br br from the beginning of this film it was quite obvious it was not going to be very good at least as far as true quality goes the track race at the end of the introduction scene was one of the least believable sporting events i've ever seen in a film it would seem that the winner of the race had never actually run before in her entire life not just run track but run at all ever from there we get a horribly unrealistic female navy member who was breaking numerous appearance rules with her jewelry and make up not to mention the fact that her hair was hanging loose onto her collar while in uniform ridiculously awkward camera angles pathetically done gore effects and acting that ranged from frighteningly over the top to boringly under done all in one actor mind you all help to make this film one of the most unintentionally hilarious horror films ever made on the other hand the writing wasn't all that terrible and the story was actually okay but the direction was horrible made worse by offensively bad cinematography the acting ranged from acceptable to just plain abysmal regardless of all the embarrassingly bad elements however there's something here whether it be cheese or something else that i can't figure out that makes the film extremely enjoyable and very worthy of a watch maybe it was just white br br obligatory slasher elements br br violence gore death scenes were fun enough but the gore was just awful blood squirts from impossible angles no actual or wounds from knives etc but this film has the first 'death by scene i've ever seen br br sex nudity there was a bit of nudity i mean linnea quigley is in it after all and some overly horny high schoolers but nothing to excess br br cool killer s if you think leather gloves stop watches track suits and fencing masks are cool this one is for you br br scares suspense not really any at all there is one moment that takes place in the girls' locker room that i was preparing myself to be scared at but it just led to some typical stupidity and was ruined for me br br mystery a little but if you can't figure out the killer's identity about 20 minutes into the film then i'm not too sure about your powers of deduction br br awkward dance scene there's a great impromptu jam session graduation day blues with a guitar harmonica that leads to some awesome 80s bopping this is followed shortly by some kind of weird blend of 70s disco and 80s break dancing that was probably the scariest part of the film br br final verdict 4 10 don't take it too seriously and you might enjoy it just like most everything else troma touches br br ap3
0	six months after high school laura dies during a race a killer begins to murder the rest of the track team using a variety of sports equipment as weapons that's the daft plot of early 80s slasher graduation day a lacklustre addition to the genre that offers very little in the way of style originality or decent gore br br what it does deliver however are some stunningly awful musical interludes a few familiar faces including an early appearance from scream queen linnea quigley and a smattering of nudity a prerequisite of any slasher movie br br so forget the death lame and rather instead enjoy the movie's more memorably crap elements the rapid editing that can induce migraines and epileptic seizures the roller disco which is accompanied by a prolonged heavy rock song ' gangster rock' as performed by the unforgettably awful an impromptu jamming session by the school's students christopher george hamming it up as chief red herring coach michaels and the cheesy music teacher who after his female students who for some reason find him quite irresistible br br towards the end of the film the action picks up a little with the discovery of the slaughtered kids' bodies under the bleachers and a quite twisted scene featuring laura's corpse in her cap and gown but it all comes way to late in the day to save this film from mediocrity
0	next stop on our journey through the calender slasher scene is oh yes graduation day all of those seniors just brimming with possibility and ready to venture out into the real world and become adults that is however if they can make it to graduation without having to tangle with the campus lunatic who's running around gouging the life out of students with his fencing sword yeah it all stems from a the high school track star who drops dead from a blood clot during a race and a year later her older sister returns home from the navy for graduation the track coach holds the blame and broods in his position in shop class while the girl's boyfriend still mourns her death a year later all of these characters are prime candidates for serial slasher of the year and you just have to sit through this movie until the end to find out who done it graduation day is fun though it isn't spell original by any means and there aren't a whole lot of memorable demises but there is enough going on to keep you mildly entertained like linnea quigley screwing the music teacher and getting busted with a joint 30 year old actors playing teenagers and of course gotta love that crap you can do a lot worse than graduation day kiddies
0	a high school track star falls dead after winning a race shortly after her older sister patch mackenzie returns home in time to notice that all of her sister's track team members are disappearing who could the killer be you may not care enough to want to find out br br crude cheap amateurish slasher is just about completely worthless although top billed christopher george as the nasty hard driving track coach tries to give it a lift with an intense performance not even the gore is worth mentioning the whole thing is lame from beginning to end starting with opening the movie to a track meet montage set to disco music and the casting of e j once a co star of the movie hello dolly as a character named blondie that's right blondie this may mean that we aren't supposed to take the movie seriously but in any case it's a shambles br br it's the kind of routine slasher junk that makes the friday the 13th movies look like works of art in comparison br br the only point of interest may be wanting to see an early film appearance by white of all people br br 2 10
0	i've got to say that i'm not a massive fan of troma films granted i've only seen three of them or four including this one but two blood sucking freaks and mothers' day are widely reputed to be the best which leads me to believe that all the others aren't worth seeing that would certainly seem to be the case with graduation day which is a troma take on the over popular eighties slasher while the film is never particularly bad given the type of film it's never particularly good either and by the end all i could think about was 'why did i bother watching this ' anyway the plot sees some girl die on a race track and shortly thereafter more people start dying naturally there are a few possible suspects but it's hard to really care about anything that happens of course in slasher terms it's the gore that is most important and given troma's track record where the red stuff is concerned i was expecting buckets of it there are some decent kill scenes and some of them are gory but it's never very shocking which really just makes this another dreary slasher based on a celebratory event on the american calendar it's worth noting that there's a small role in this film for sleaze queen linnea quigley but the rest of the cast aren't worth mentioning the direction plot and its execution are all very mundane and i will say that unless you're a big troma fan or someone that wants to track down every slasher ever made don't bother with this film
0	high school female track star dies of a blood clot after winning a race with the community in an uproar against coach george michaels christopher george playing him as a major butt head who is very demanding of the athletes under his watch he'll be canned after school lets out providing the flick with his motive as a possible killer some twisted psychopath in sweats much the same as what michaels is often seen wearing using a stop watch to time his executions murders the members of the track team the dead female runner was a part of soon disturbed parents call principal michael pataki wondering why their children didn't come home after a prom party inspector halliday carmen argenziano begins snooping around campus at worried parents' request instantly a beleaguered michaels becomes a prime suspect after the body of a gymnast is found in a locker ensign anne patch mackenzie returned home from her base in to receive her dead track sister's diploma and soon confronts the killer herself in the climactic chase scene kevin badger e danny murphy is the weary boyfriend of the lost track star br br rather leisurely paced slasher spreads out the death sequences quite a bit trying to mix humor within and rather failing miserably low quality kill sequences only increase the laughter such as a sword embedded within a football thrown into the stomach of a football player or a pair of garden shears used to behead a poor soul taking a leak linnea quigley has an amusing role as horny student dolores who sleeps with her music teacher for a higher grade and always chases after a male stud the recipient of the garden shears before he has a chance to bed dolores outside of the prom party white has an early role here as a ditsy blonde who discovers the dead gymnast's body in the locker virgil frye has a silly role as an inept officer
0	may contain spoilers for about the last four years i've been a keen fan of ali g sacha baron cohen is undoubtedly a very funny and intelligent guy and in my view his best creation is borat who's as funny as hell and quite shameless in what he does and says to people br br anyway to the movie i didn't bother paying money to see this in the cinema i suppose because i didn't expect a lot but when i hired the dvd recently i found the whole thing pretty sad the best part of taking the mickey out of others was largely missing and the script an plot was pretty damned awful hooking all the car batteries together to blow a safe really br br this movie goes to show i think that some things can run for too long and definitely don't translate to the big screen the movie also had that syrupy sweet ending that i've come to expect from british films where have all the good british movie making ideals gone to that said there were the odd very funny moments such as the dog in bed and audience with hm the q with the shaven haven respect remark br br so in summary i am an ali g and borat fan and i have enjoyed many of his interviews notably the one with anita of the body shop but this movie fell really flat with me if there's to be another movie i hope it's a whole lot better than this lot of old tripe br br br br australia
0	graduation day is a result of the success of friday the 13th both of those films are about creative bloody murders rather than suspense if you enjoy that type of film i'd recommend graduation day if not i wouldn't there's nothing new here just the same old killings br br even though i've given the film a 4 out of 10 i will say that it's not a repulsive film it is watchable if your curious about it just not creative
0	graduation day was released in may 1981 during the height of the slasher film craze earlier that year fans had been subjected to flicks like my bloody valentine just before dawn friday the 13th part 2 and the burning and theaters still were expecting flicks such as halloween ii the prowler and happy birthday to me i have seen all of these films and out of all the popular 1981 slashers graduation day is by far the worst br br what graduation day amounts to is an exercise in poor low budget film making with bad acting bad writing pointless characters pointless scenes unneeded nudity cheesy dialogue and an experiment in editing that didn't work so well and who could forget the classic 80's disco music that plays throughout the film the opening scene's music is only rivaled by the music that plays during a chase scene however when renting a movie like this a person should be aware that those details will be in this film so why isn't graduation day considered a classic like halloween friday the 13th a nightmare on elm street my bloody valentine the burning or prom night why do fans still seek those films but disregard this without care br br where slasher films need to succeed above all other areas is in the pacing there is nothing worse than a slow moving slasher and graduation day moves pretty slow the most aggravating part is that there are plenty of opportunities to speed things up there are numerous pointless characters who are introduced and who are never allowed the chance to be a suspect in the murders or be a victim there's a sleazy teacher a stressed principal a cunning secretary a dopey school security guard a clueless detective an alcoholic step father a mindless grandmother and a mom to an earlier victim still grieving all of these characters could have a motive to killing or a reason to getting killed but they are all wasted the worst part is that the story still focuses on them and at times designates entire scenes just to flesh out their character but for what br br what does amaze me about graduation day and its small fanbase is that people aren't more amazed by the death scenes fans go wild for death scenes like the raft massacre in the burning the washing machine death in my bloody valentine the kabob death in happy birthday to me the upside down death in friday the 13th part 3 and hot tub death in halloween ii and even the car hood death in madman but where is the respect for some truly unique even though cheesy deaths in graduation day one victim gets impaled right through the jugular with a fencing sword while another gets that sword thrown at them like a javelin the best death includes spikes under a landing mat why aren't these deaths famous among the genre like the deaths in more popular slasher films br br graduation day tries hard to be a great and unique film but there is just an element of logic and pacing missing that really ruins the whole experience its not the worst of its kind try checking out don't go in the woods alone and there is a bit of suspense plus it delivers just what fans are looking for blood gore nudity sex and nostalgia but graduation day will not be remembered as one of the all time greatest slasher films ever made it's not a question of budget almost all slashers have a low budget however it is a question of ideas creativity and craftsmanship that's all any type of movie making is br br recommended for hardcore slasher fans general horror fans might get a little bored and people who don't have much interest in horror at all should steer clear it's not the worst slasher film ever made but its a long way from being the best
0	while i am a long time shatner fan since we used to watch trek re runs over the dinner hour in the early '70s i cannot think of any possible reason why he wanted to do this film whether for personal development or business reasons did he lose a bet br br as a movie fan i like to appreciate the bad films along with the great ones but shoot or be shot doesn't have any flair or funny bits unintentional or not br br while unrated there were no objectionable scenes blink or you'll miss it nudity cartoonish gunfire violence with the endless bullet gunfights so one is led to believe that the producers merely wanted to save the fee required to get the mpaa to rate it this will make its way to cable with barely 10 seconds edited out br br of the eight people that were in the theatre with us four of them left mid way muttering statements like this is stupid br br shatner plays an escaped mental patient who has been denied release because he views himself as a screenwriter the examination board stamps his request insane he runs into a group of z grade moviemakers who shoot on video because its 80 cheaper than film and decides to force them to shoot his script at gunpoint there are a few minor subplots that develop some of the secondary characters but for the most part that is the whole movie br br if you want to spend 90 minutes on a shatner art film see free enterprise instead it is a much better film
0	this movie spends most of its time preaching that it is the script that makes the movie but apparently there was no script when they shot this waste of time the trailer makes this out to be a comedy but the film can't decide if it wants to be a comedy a drama a romance or an action film press releases indicated that shatner and hamlin made this movie because they loved the script what were they thinking if you like william shatner i do see free enterprise instead
0	ok a film about a film that takes a crack at video movie making could be entertaining could be should be funny edgy even controversial or at least interesting and yet this film is the negative version of that hamlin was entertaining as a 'b' film producer shatner played crazy yet likable and had all the best lines the rest of the characters were boring predictable boring underdeveloped boring and boring the production value was lame you'll actually see the boom come down in one scene the sound was awful in some of the scenes hey i'm a big fan of shatner's and of hamlin now but their talents are wasted here at least the story had a clichéd ending
0	some of the secondary actors try really hard and camera shots in the desert are quite lovely otherwise this film is horrible br br william shatner's character harvey is an amateur screenwriter he's also a psychopath a man who quite literally escapes from a mental institution is the point of this film that amateur screenwriters are psychopaths harvey will do anything to get his script read and turned into a movie even if that means taking a film crew hostage do amateur screenwriters grovel maybe they do br br the film's setup is way too long we don't get to the point of the story until well into the second half the first half darts and among assorted characters br br shoot or be shot is touted as a comedy but i found it totally not funny dialogue contains no subtext none of the characters are believable as real people they're all stick figures that perform action in a way that resembles cartoon characters indeed the film is basically a cartoon for adults silly inane br br i can understand why some actors are in this film they need the money or the exposure but what are insiders shatner and harry hamlin doing here maybe shatner wants more comedy roles is this the best he can do is hamlin that desperate for money he used to be a respected actor what happened br br even though the story is supposed to be a satire it comes across more as a put down of amateur screenwriters maybe that wasn't the intent but that's certainly how the film can be interpreted as such the script was very very poorly written
0	uggh hanna barbera of the 60s and 70s what lousy and unwatchable cartoons that were thrust upon us by these hacks it's a shame really as in the 1940s and 1950s hanna barbera meant quality because they produced so many wonderful tom and jerry cartoons however with the major cost cutting efforts of the late 1950s cartoons in general began to look pretty poor and budgets were slashed in fact william hanna and joseph barbera were fired by mgm and replaced by a team of czech animators who had never even seen the original cartoons so in the late 50s the team was out of work and decided if you can't beat 'em join 'em and began producing horrid little cartoons themselves with horrible animation backgrounds and writing br br it's unfortunate but the team's production of crappy cartoons worked too well making them rich and the most successful producers of cartoons of the 60s and 70s during this time again and again bad production values was their norm and a long list of very forgettable cartoons were created in this case the amazingly bad inch high private eye a completely unfunny and stupid idea if you want to know what the show was about the title says it all br br rotten to the core and strong evidence that the production team had total contempt for us kids
0	i was wondering when someone would try turning that whole matamoros mess into a pic here's a few things i learned about mexico from watching this film br br all mexican women are super hot remember that little desert town in unearthed yeah well this must be it's mexican sister city don't even bother with the hookers just put a few smooth moves on the hot bartender she'll be just as hot as the prostitutes and probably doesn't have any kids as well br br half of mexico is controlled by insane satan worshiping palo cultists the other half as everyone here in the u s knows is run by drug dealers fortunately this doesn't much interfere with the sex trade and our ultra low wage factories down there br br mexican cops are useless don't go to them go to the nearest occult bookstore and ask the hot chick behind the counter what happened to your vanished friend she'll be way more help than the cops br br when you're being gruesomely tortured by the aforementioned bloodthirsty cultists don't go reciting the psalms or any part of the bible really you'll just mess up the mojo
0	this movie clearly has an agenda which could be summed up like this never never cross the border either physical or metaphorical let's shun everything that's on the other side with a wall or a fence or something else let's pretend all are evil satanic or drug dealers all that is outside one's country's border and specially us borders is dangerous malevolent and people there will hate you or envy you or try to steal you or something else the based on true events is only a perverse tag that can be pinned on anything to give it some aura of credibility or in this case just to help pushing the film's ideology down some naïve throats out there the perversity of the film lies in the fact that it reduces countries people and all else into very black and white stereotyped categories mexicans into disgusting people mexican police into a bunch of corrupt cops republicans into the right wing morons democrats into almost hippie and so forth is there anything good about the film i hardly think so but may be you think differently
0	ok if you like yer monster moovies sullen stiff starchy and thunderously dull but with lots of then head right for lady frankenstein a stagy italian corpse walker joseph cotten citizen kane plays the crusty old baron himself and must have really needed to make that condo payment sexy sarah bay who has played in cow european b films usually as neri including hercules against the moon men plays his ambitious daughter a surgeon in a ruffled prom dress cotten makes an ugly big headed monster it really be that much effort to make a nice one who immediately cotten who took his royalty check ran and wanders around everyone in sight bay decides to switch the brain of her lover who is old and wrinkly with the brain of a younger man who is beautiful but in order to make another monster to throttle the first monster cotten made who is wandering around people well after much exposition and some the 2 monsters throttle each other for a bit stabs the first monster in the back and then has sex in the flaming ruins of her mansion with the second monster only to have him throttle her doh there is so much going on that you overlook the fact that the film is about as exciting as a dead and just as quickly the alpha video version i saw for this review was heavily edited and one wonders cow much nekkid people were chopped out not that it would have improved the film much director von previously helmed a variety of grade z euro trash including jungle warriors island of the dead as mel wells and the crucified girls of san ramon the moocow says avoid this corpse of a film and find something that at moore of a full throttle br br 8
0	when i went to see this film let's not say that i had high expectations but merely that i had a faint hope that this full length feature would have at least some of the hilarity and wit of tv's da ali g show br br but as one might expect this cannot translate from a half hour tv show to a 90 minute film the movie had no appeal what so ever and resorted entirely to toilet and juvenile sexual humour basicaly i should have ditched it halfway through but was silly enough to think it might somehow improve by the end how wrong i was i loved the show but hated the movie this movie is only for those who find fellatio by canines amusing
0	is not a terrible movie but it is quite forgettable the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain special effects are imaginative but obvious the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there of course along with the archetypical teenagers but the whole movie just doesn't gel what was needed was some dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor br br i can't really recommend that you use your time watching this movie i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor but these are sadly lacking in this film
0	really bad italian horror movie a sort of remake of hammer infamous frankenstein must be destroyed this time with a lady frankenstein taking over the business from father a few nudes several botched bits of dialogue no tension at all forgettable
0	although i had previously watched this one some time ago on italian tv i found it to be a surprisingly tolerable potboiler this time round buoyed by an international cast of familiar faces including a bemused joseph cotten as the baron and contrary to many another film of the euro cult sub genre an incident packed plot in place of lethargic pacing br br the creature itself looks a bit dodgy and cotten is a bit too old to be taken seriously as an eager scientist still dabbling in creating life forms out of corpses one would have thought that he would have made himself an army of them by now and not struggling at perfecting his technique still but ms neri does look good in and out of costume and reliable herbert probably comes off best as a lecherous grave robber blackmailer
0	okay anyone looking to see a great work of art should not watch this film a sophisticated film connoisseur will no doubt be nauseated by the horrid production values and the sight of watching an excellent actor joseph cotten whoring himself out for a buck mr cotten must have either really needed the money or he was too senile to realize that the film was crap the same phenomenon occurred with dana andrews who late in his career appeared in the campy and awful frozen dead i know mr andrews was in the throes of alcoholism but why did cotten do this mess br br as for the plot it's a reworking of the frankenstein plot the first half of the movie really looked as if they were doing a serious but seriously flawed version of the original frankenstein story then inexplicably they introduced a daughter this wasn't a bad thing until then out of the blue they decided to stop making a horror film but make a soft core pornographic flick the change was dramatic and bizarre it was almost as if they said okay mr cotten is done with his scenes and has gone home now ladies strip br br the problem is that on every level the film is just awful except for the monster's makeup while not great it is still pretty cool to see but bad writing acting and a budget of 17 46 conspired to make this a drab and awful flick one so bad that tossing in some nudity for the pervs out there shouldn't be enough to entice anyone to see it
0	a true gothic horror trash classic br br uhm actually it's a horrible movie best thing about it rosalba erected naked nipples intensely material br br oh sure rosalba neri is one fine lady never even heard of her before this flick but she is a damn fine looking lady but honestly it were her nipples that did it for me in that very last scene before the movie abruptly ends all naked and erected total dream nipples man okay sorry getting a little carried away here br br basically i got what i expected from lady frankenstein it's a sleazy and horrible flick with a big stupid ugly looking frankenstein monster and a couple of naked tits and it's got a castle in it so i wasn't really disappointed or anything it just dragged too much in certain places the first resurrection of the creature kept on going for ages with daddy frankenstein just experimenting talking trying some more there was one fun imbecilic homage to the original frankenstein though instead of throwing a little girl into a lake here mongoloid franky picked up a naked chick and threw her in a river had me laughing br br some friends of mine raved just a tad bit too much about this flick though had me maybe expecting a bit too much but rosalba's erected nipples sure were worth it aw crap i really need to stop mentioning her nipples i think i'll just end this user comment now
0	wow just wow never before have i seen a horror movie in which it seemed like a bad self insert that somebody wrote one day in 20 minutes and then i happened to come upon lady frankenstein this movie takes everything you know about frankenstein and turns it completely upside down and not in a good way if you've seen this movie you either stumbled across it on italian tv or you have the dubbed version on the 50 chilling classics box set like i have as number 24 and lets just say there's a reason why these movies are here because they're not very good enough of that though onto the movie br br it starts out with dr frankenstein trying to make the monster with his assistant who's obviously not igor for some reason his college graduate daughter shows up and states how she just graduated with a medical degree cause yeah there were so many female doctors back then so she states how she wants to help her father with his work and he says no and then he makes the monster and it kills him so she grieves for exactly 7 seconds and then makes up a story with the assistant how it was a burglar the monster escapes and goes on a rampage br br ok i really can't believe they killed dr frankenstein so early in the movie he dies like 20 minutes in and then his daughter takes over which doesn't make a whole lot of sense but sure br br so lady frankenstein decides the best way to kill the monster who's now rampaging is to make another monster oh yes how i love her logic so her new monster she gets the body by killing someone and putting the brain of the assistant in it i know just nod and go along with it so the monsters meet and duke it out i love how the assistant asks why don't we just let the mobs kill it and she answers with they wouldn't know how to kill it and in the end he kills it with an axe to the head haha oh yeah nobody else could have figured that one out so in the end the brain switched new monster kills lady frankenstein the end br br this movie was just weird it was seriously like somebody wrote a self insert there's no other way to describe this movie there were some odd naked scenes too like this girl was having naked sex in the park with her boyfriend the monster picks up the girl and the guy drives away haha nice guy she then struggles a bit and dies from to be quite honest i really don't know what she died from but whatever it's lady frankenstein it doesn't have to make sense br br this movie had a lot of those why moments to the point that i just gave up movies shouldn't do that but for some reason i see that more than i probably should br br so final word it's not the worst movie i've seen on this pack but it's a tad boring and full of many many holes and random things br br so lady frankenstein gets 3 frankenstein porn scenes out of 10
0	low budget but still creepy enough to hold your interest in another take off on the familiar frankenstein story this movie is also known as lady frankenstein the alluring frankenstein sara bay fresh from medical school arrives at her father's estate to find that he is still up to his old tricks baron frankenstein joseph cotten is murdered by his own creation and now his daughter decides to carry on the family tradition by creating herself a lover this is closer to being an eerie melodrama than horror flick supporting cast features mickey hargitay paul paul muller and herbert a rainy night could amplify the atmosphere still a fun watch
0	mel welles you might remember him as mr in roger corman's little shop of horrors directs this somewhat interesting yet wholly twisted tale of dr frankenstein's daughter carrying on her father's work after his death and creating a creature not for its intellectual ability or its likelihood to be do good but rather for its sex appeal you see frankenstein though a doctor and scientist in her own right is concerned with really nothing more than satiating her primal desires for the stable boy and making some super sex slave by using his body with the excellent brain of a man she does not love the story is tissue thin here and one gets what one might expect lots of leering and suggestive comments surprisingly most from the female lead special effects that are not so special acting that lacks depth of characterization and not really much action or suspense and while this film is almost barren in regards to good storytelling lady frankenstein does oddly have some aspects which make it watchable not highly watchable but watchable nonetheless italian actress rosalba neri aka sara bay bey plays the baron's daughter with some aplomb and lots and lots of sex appeal she oozes desire and seduction quite well her performance is pretty one dimensional but she is quite lovely and plays over the top a little too well she is also very open with her performance if you catch my drift poor joseph cotten now regulated to european horror films for money plays the father in a brief yet competent performance he is the star attraction but gone before the film really kicks into a gear as for the rest of the cast paul muller is somewhat effective as dr charles marshall the baron's assistant and an admirer of the daughter for some time as crimes and missing persons begin to unfold in the village policeman i wasn't buying this mickey hargitay starts to pump for answers despite what you might think not to her satisfaction where the movie really loses credibility is in the final third of the film where the suspect script weak performances and lackluster direction all head further south the creature is revealed and looks quite ridiculous the film ends somewhat abruptly with one of the hasty resolutions very common in the 1970s while not nearly as bad and repulsive as some might want you to think lady frankenstein is indeed a very flawed film with some perverse albeit intriguing overtones
0	what a terrible movie the acting in this film is about the quality of a high school play or a story driven pornography film this is not pornography in this film but there sure is a lot of gratuitous nudity this is one of the only redeeming qualities of the film one of the only things that saved it from receiving a rating on one star also there are a million cops that die in this film hardly offensive though since the violence is so unrealistic we can only laugh but breasts pop out and become exposed in the most surprising and hilarious times if you enjoy really really bad movies check this one out this is a bonnie and clyde type story where a mother and her two daughters are out for revenge this film also features a sex scene with two of the oldest people i have ever seen rolling around naked
0	i watched death machines as part of bci eclipse' drive in cult classics featuring crown international pictures releases on dvd as i work my way through the multiple dvd sets i am growing to love many of crown movies especially the creepy erotic psychological thrillers br br death machines is not one of them br br after seeing movies like malibu beach the creeping terror and the pink angels it is hard to say that this is the worst film ever made but it doesn't have much going for it br br no plot really no story to speak of br br the acting isn't evident – only the actor responsible for the terribly played tony with the thick fake italian accent made any attempt to get into character br br the score is annoying and pedantic br br the only thing about this movie is why what compelled the film makers to make this film br br did they think the story of 1 three ninjas 2 two competing crime bosses 3 an ancillary bartender karate school student character and 4 his pitiful love interest nurse was so compelling that the world would not be complete without this movie being made br br this is a complete waste of time and money for you me the producers writers actors and the director
0	i'm from texas so i thought i knew big hair but the female villain in this movie had humongous hair whenever she was on the screen i couldn't concentrate on anything but her hair take about stage presence there seemed to be a lot of people with hearing problems in this movie also there was a traffic warden writing out a parking ticket who somehow didn't notice the owner plunging toward the car screaming at the top of his lungs until he hit the car then there was a guy in a phone booth who couldn't hear a huge bulldozer coming at him until it was 5 feet away all the hit men in this movie seemed a bit deaf no one had to sneak up on them the one handed 'hero' of this movie was so whiny and ineffective that it was funny the bar fight was pretty funny there is a priceless scene where the hero and his girlfriend just had sex and judging from their expressions it wasn't good for either one of them it made me laugh out loud this movie is on the 50 movie pack martial arts set if you want to see a lot of bad movies with a few decent ones
0	even before this film it is clear to see that ali g has become the exact character he set out to parody i am not a fan of sacha baron cohen's character anyway but was curious to see how a man of so little talent was able to convince universal studios to fund a near 1 and a half hour feature film out of a 3 minute joke br br a paper thin plot is just a torrent of penis and marijuana jokes and i must admit i did cringe when i saw such respected thespians as charles dance and michael stoop so low for employment saying that i must admit even if i am quite ashamed to that i did raise a titter on more than one occasion and however bad this film was it was never boring and never once did i consider switching it off mainly due to the gorgeous saying that only watch this film if you are a teenage lad aged between 14 to 17 and you find dick jokes hilarious
0	bay area residents probably remember paul from the diamond center an unctuous late night huckster who flogged easy credit and cheap rocks on late night television throughout the 1980s and early 90s i mention him only because there is an actor in death machines who looks just like him playing the owner of an italian restaurant he appears in the best scene in this positively dreadful and near unwatchable crime drama about a dragon lady mari who wisely hung up her acting spurs after completing this film who controls the local syndicate our hero let's call him not paul from the diamond center plays the restaurateur with all the subtlety of the simpsons' luigi you da spaghetti and seems unimpressed when one of his patrons complains about the food no there's no fly in the soup or hair in the sauce there's a red buddha in the pasta the calling card of the murderous crime boss who sends a statuette to each of her prospective victims death machines is bad by any measure and pretty boring which is an even worse crime
0	as bad as this movie is i really like it the poor acting dialogue and action made it so funny i loved john travis from omega cop and stayed up all night working out how the death machines checked in at the airport if they can't speak probably had to shake nod at the security questions actually why can't they speak it fails to adhere to any sort of movie making convention which makes it strangely interesting to watch just lots of people getting killed around a very loose plot surrounding hired killers no machines as such and those weird face mountain things on the front cover and the trailer do not appear i love the fact that there is no good guy in this film until about half way through and i love the numerous pointless scenes of that aeroplane landing lots of people get killed who have nothing to do with the plot and no explanation is given about anything do not expect to understand this film instead admire how the main good guy can't even handle a random old guy in the bar who is presented as the bad guy yet speaks out against the barman's decision to hire a scantily clad woman to dance badly in the corner for entertainment all the good guys seem to enjoy this why did old guy get to beat up our hero and why did the random bloke decide to help old guy in the fight why did the hero collapse under one punch from old guy onto the bar where a stream of water jets out in the background so it looks like it's coming from his mouth definite top 20 b movie must check for a part 2
0	there is a point in the film where the female boss of the death machines a multi ethnic trio to please everyone being inclusive i think it's called these days talks about using leverage on a business man except such is her delivery that it sounds like at which point this viewer perked up thinking this dull film was turning a corner into new world of kinkiness but it didn't the boss lady had to do the talking as the death machines did not say a single word during the whole film and talk she does interminably there is action in the film but it is not that exciting and the plot staggers from one cliché to another the three mute death machines live to survive another day at the end of the film hopefully there wasn't a sequel
0	what a gargantuan pile of ye gods where to even begin with this one… br br well mix crap acting including one bloody infuriating woman who speaks as though she's either a chewing painfully on some ice cubes or b has just woken up after having undergone some extensive root canal surgery editing that would appear to donate that the celluloid was cut and spliced via the of an angle grinder some truly hopelessly choreographed martial arts 'action' a script that has ostensibly been written by a two year old and some of the most hideous and intrusively loud background music ever committed to any film and hey presto you have death machines aka the ninja murders although note that surprise surprise – there are in fact no actual ninja anywhere to be found in this sodding travesty br br in a nutshell if ever there was a cinematic equivalent of a particularly vehement bout of then this must surely be it avoid at all costs
0	death machines takes a fairly decent premise for an action movie unstoppable martial arts killing machines sent out to eliminate a crime boss' opponents and turns it into an unwatchable mess i have rarely seen such a breath taking combination of tiny budget bad acting and incoherent script released as a so called movie it's easily the worst martial arts action oriented movie i've seen in years eclipsing even ninja holocaust which at least had some good energetic fight scenes br br the actual star of the movie is the white death machine it's basically his vehicle so he is featured prominently in many more scenes than his two cohorts he's in good shape and he's not bad looking but as an actor he's barely there think chuck norris in the octagon only without any energy or emotion this is obviously a deliberate choice on the part of the actor and director but you have to be arnold to pull this kind of thing off and this guy is no arnold br br the movie and the director can't seem to find the time or the budget to film the scenes that would have answered the basic questions that it originally posed like who was the shadowy figure giving the mouthed asian lady her orders how did the gang war end why did the mush mouthed asian lady decide to have her zombie assassins killed and what the heck happened that left her assistant dead and her wielding a katana like a broom stick br br it does however find the time to film a completely extraneous bar fight in which a sailor well he looked like popeye destroys a bar because the juke box didn't work it's only related to the rest of the film because in the process he also k o 's the movie's hero a bartender karate student who was a victim of the death machines first major assignment he got his hand chopped off while they were killing his teacher it follows this up with one of the most un called for love scenes between the hero and his girlfriend i have ever watched the segue makes no sense at the end of the bar fight she's grimacing over his splayed limp body and the next thing they are in a tasteful shadow montage of sex and love that looks like it came from a hallmark card btw we never see the sailor again br br and wait until you see the showdown between the homicide detective and his captain it plays as if the director and screenwriter never actually saw a movie scene placed inside a police station but had heard of them second hand and decided to include some without really knowing how they worked br br the movie is a textbook case of poor casting and community theater level actors floundering without decent direction the three death machines come across as clods the hero knows his lines but can't carry the movie given that his character is an ineffective wimp his girlfriend is a charisma vacuum and all the other minor parts are barely watchable all this makes for a fairly poor movie but the dragon lady does more to drag the movie into subterranean stinker territory than anyone or anything else she looks ridiculous her tiny inexpressive face is overpowered by her ton o hair skyscraper wig she wears her red silk dress like a and she talks with a terrible mush mouth delivery that screams needed time with a dialog coach poor lady she was obviously way out of her element and as far as i know never appeared in a film again br br add to this a low budget one synthesizer soundtrack that never shuts up and never plays anything appropriate or interesting crappy film stock and lighting fight choreography that is strictly from hunger and a general all around dreariness and lack of energy in the blocking and the stage business and you have one lame movie br br i got this as part of a 50 movie dvd compilation so it probably cost me about 50 cents to watch it it wasn't worth it feh
0	hi everyone oh boy this one is a lulu it has really bad background music whenever they can squeeze it in there are three bad guys who i guess are the stars of this they beat people up and chop people up and crash trucks and bulldozers into people usual stuff br br the woman who is sending them on their missions is unable to move her mouth when she speaks it's sort of like watching a bad ventriloquist who is her own dummy she walks like she is balancing an egg on her head br br the wardrobe is 70s leisure style for the men and blah for the female lead who is supposed to be a good nurse the bad novocain mouth woman wears red a silk frock perhaps or maybe just a windbreaker that is too big br br i actually liked the ending even though it did not make a lot of sense it lets us in on what happened earlier in the film br br the police officers are ok some bad some good all stupid except two the two bright ones could have worked again in hollywood br br the movie starts interestingly enough and ends with a surprise the middle sucks the guy in the diner who gives a free hamburger to the star does a good job he is like a 1940s character actor great voice br br this one is a bit too long the lady with marbles in her mouth could have had just a couple of lines and the rest could have been said by a parrot it would have been easier to understand a bird br br her scene with a sword could have been handled by a trained woodpecker br br tom willett
0	a lot of good things could have been done with this movie using essentially the same sets plot devices and storyline for example why not plant a seed of capability before the murder of her lover why not develop erica and the cop's relationship slowly and convincingly maybe contrast eric's by including some other post event facet relationship etc in her life that she now rejects why not have her injure an innocent bystander to underscore the in actions br br instead exploits the revenge fantasy to its maximum level giving insincere lip service to the don't do this at home messages thrown in only to allow the film to qualify as legitimate br br i'm not a jodie foster fan after displaying some range in films like silence of the lambs nell and one where she plays the ordinary mother of a child prodigy foster has slipped into a succession of roles where she plays the same hard bitten heroine single handedly overcoming evil such is fine once or twice but i'm getting too used to her fight versus flight close up could have used a younger actress or one that more convincingly embraced being a woman in her forties instead of 40 something foster playing a younger woman br br is a movie with substantial actors financing and resources that manages to descend to junk
0	i don't know what neighborhoods the folks who wrote the rave reviews for this movie live in but i'm glad i'm not there if they don't comment on the cartoonish ness of this thing okay we learn to suspend our disbelief in films like the die hard series but seeing little jodie knock off a whole street gang with a glock as a novice yet c'mon all she needed was a bald head and a ripped t shirt and she would be bruce willis br br apparently jodie being the executive producer blinded her to what a joke and waste of her money this would be or she was living out some kind of fantasy where she is the only blonde and everyone else is a brunette black or hispanic even the dog is black little blondie is the only good one and except for a black police officer everyone else in town is some nasty minority out to get her has your fear of your acting talent declined so far that you think the only way you can get noticed is to be the only bright spot literally on camera in a dark morose and somber neighborhood film cast apparently she thought she was in the wrong movie the dark knight br br ridiculous plot holes furniture chewing acting gratuitous violence look girls now you can do it too spend the time with your family instead of watching this drek
0	i am very disappointed because i expected a real ride as promised in the many reviews the script is very bad with lot of holes and the direction too the director failed completely to develop each violent scene with thrills and suspense it tries very hard to follow a wannabe thriller therefore i had to watch how every bullet was spent without giving any sense to me i was always asking what kind of movie i am watching then i didn't like that she smoked aggressively one cigarette after the other but perhaps the film was supported partly by the tobacco industry the end is also very disappointing i cannot understand how jodie foster could have been nominated for the golden globe in this worst role of her life jodie therefore i liked very much panic room or flight plan this is definitely one of the worst i have ever seen 4 10
0	the brave one is about a new york radio show host named erica bain jodie foster her life is a dream living in the city she grew up in and loves she has her great fiancé david andrews whom she is planning to marry but one night while erica and david are out walking their dog they are attacked and mugged by a group of degenerates leaving david dead erica recovers but is heartbroken and traumatized later on and can barely cope with real life anymore she buys a gun off a guy on the streets for protection but one day she's shopping in a store and a man comes in and shoots the clerk dead it is then that erica shoots and kills this man and she becomes a vigilante killing anyone who tries to threaten or harm her or any others at the same time detective mercer terrence howard is tracking down this elusive unknown killer and in the process becomes friends with erica erica begins to regain her sanity as she kills these violent people but is unsure of whether or not what she's doing is morally right and as her and mercer become closer he doesn't even realize the unknown murderous assailant is right next to him br br jodie foster gives a very good performance in the brave one she portrays this type of violent morally corrupted character brilliantly terrence howard is also great in this movie both have excellent chemistry together and strengthen the film to a certain level the brave one looks visually pristine and conveys some brilliant camera work but not all of it works to a great effect the scenes where erica is absolutely traumatized and afraid to walk out her front door to face the world the camera swayed back and forth to the sides in an almost dream like way and really captured the moment with essence whereas almost every time erica killed somebody everything just had to go slo mo and show her facial expressions in fine detail the slo mo was properly used when erica committed her first murder but why keep doing this effect almost every time she committed murder the camera work creates a great atmosphere in most of the film but there a few scenes here that are just plain overkill br br the brave one is very much about how these murders affect erica emotionally her fiancé is killed by a group of thugs and suddenly her love of new york city is turned upside down she realizes that there is a dark side to the beloved city and she says so on her radio show i don't completely understand this though erica acts as if she never realized that violence can occur at night in the city and that's pretty stupid if she lived there all her life she must be either blind or very oblivious erica also seems to be a glutton for inhumane murderous people she really doesn't even have to go look for them they just to come to her as if they're begging to be shot dead for their wrong doing the brave one deals with the morals and proper use of violence strongly at first and then suddenly it glorifies it the ending is very negative and completely immoral and inhumane it also negates the purpose of terrence howard's character which the movie spends so much time trying to evenly develop and suddenly his morals take a u turn the morals in the brave one become very fractured and just plain shatter all over the place by the end so violence is okay it's a good thing to commit murder as long as it's for vengeance i pretty much refuse to believe that you know why because i have a conscience which this film surely lacks it is not right to take the life of another person no matter how bad they are or how much you hate them erica bain sets out to stop these evil doers but in the end she is no better than the horrible people she kills br br jodie foster and terrence howard provide a lot of strength for this movie the brave one contains a strong message but that message is both immoral and wrong this movie may look pretty well acted and intelligently strong but it becomes pretty rotten by the end i give the brave one a 1 5 out of 4 the message is very out of line and morally incorrect and really can't be saved by the good acting
0	first off let me say i wasted halloween movie night by watching this garbage second let me inform you that the current dvd available by shriek show is not uncut so you gore hounds will be very upset third that one scene is the highlight of the film and since it's been cut well you see where i'm going br br i know a lot of horror fans dig this movie it is atmospheric shot in the woods with some very nice scenery waterfalls and such but after the opening kill which has a very brutal shot of a machete being jammed through a hunter's crotch you get no real brutal kills after that and with a slasher movie you sort of want that at least i do the director and co do nothing new with the killer in the woods idea several of this type of movie were all made right around the same time in the very early eighties the only thing this has going for it is that you don't hate the actors as much as you might in other films they are sort of likable the kids have a reason for being there one of them owns a deed to some property on the mountain but what is not explained is why his family has property there there is no cabin or house so why buy property in east jesus especially if you aren't a hunter or whatnot well i'm sure some people do buy land for camping purposes but that just seems unusual anyway two squealing backwoods inbreds show up and start stalking the campers and picking them off one by one and as i said before you get pretty much nothing in the way of decent deaths after the machete kill in the beginning the ending has a sort of off the wall kill by connie but even that isn't enough to save this from being almost equal with the completely forgettable film the forest which is mind numbing br br if shriek show had been able to get a real uncut print then this review might have been a little more forgiving but this is the day and age of uncut unrated dvd releases of old obscure films for cine hounds like me when you slight us you get the crud review sadly the presence of the great fatherly george kennedy is the only highlight of this movie to set it apart from the other garden variety trash that was churned out back in the day
0	the brave one seems to indicate that the main character of course is brave i'd disagree the more brave thing to do in a situation like the one that happens to her getting brutally beaten along with her fiancée who doesn't live another day from it is to go after the criminals without resorting to a total distorted view of society jodie foster's character erica is a radio personality who's niche is walking the streets and recording what goes on we're given no real depth aside from 'she had someone she loved he died the police don't pursue it she gets a gun yada yada yada she gets somewhat but not really involved with the lead detective' into the character and so were left with something leftover from past movies the vigilante code of justice where taking the power in one's own hands is all there is but we're never too sure if erica is sane or not if the filmmakers take a position one way or another that is until the end which is such a stupid message to take anyway dog included as overbearing metaphor while making the new york city of today which has become significantly safer than say twenty years ago look like you'll get knifed or beaten if you go down just the right alley or just sit alone on a subway car br br there could even be a somewhat better movie in the midst of all of this perhaps just in the undercooked subplot with terence howard's detective who is involved in some custody battle of a child that isn't his and a woman who he's not linked to and a step father who i don't know what aside from owning parking lots and being a bad dude but we're left to a script that's both ham fisted and disjointed with logic it becomes laughable for example to see that at first the logical side of erica unable to really shoot properly as seen in her first shooting in a convenience store at the convenient moment of a robbery of a wife by the husband and then giving way to the illogical of her crack shot at shooting at a pimp driving a car head on at her and killing him and ducking just in time to not get run over it doesn't help that style with the camera becomes a little more than insufferable it's called a cam for a reason not because it can weave in and out br br ironically the script and direction become very good or rather work the best they can under the desired circumstances when looking at the actual beating scene under the bridge caught between a video taped point of view by one of the criminals by the regular film cam in a pace that is perfectly disorienting and when erica first comes back on the air to her radio show and she freezes up trying to do her old shtick and speaks out a 'from the heart' about how afraid she is this scene from foster's performance to the clear direction and script is the best scene in the film but aside from that there's just a lot of posturing into a psychology that's flimsy is she a de niro in taxi driver or a bronson in death wish we have her narration over scenes some of it doesn't have to do at all with her radio show observing how disgusted she is with walking around at night nothing to do but her self imposed task of cleaning up the streets but unlike death wish a movie that held more ambiguity and never held an answer at the end in a revenge scenario the path of endless violence just heeds to a message one that won't be news to anyone who's seen a second of lifetime movie of the week melodrama br br the actors make do with what's given and in the end it becomes much more frustrating trying to stay with the anticipated the hackneyed plot turns and the plain old inexplicable plus the unintentionally hilarious like a few expletives shouted by howard after getting shot in one scene and the temptation to walk out grows stronger and stronger it's a very problematic picture with only a few moments of genuine interest and clear headed convention bending
0	are we serious i mean wow just wow i think i saw this flick in an old issue of war journal this is pathetic originality is completely dead instead of trying to formulate a new idea what we receive is a bland re do of an old plot line and to switch it up we just change the gender or race of the original character it's moronic and everyone should be sick and tired of seeing it but i guess this is just a rant and will most likely fall on deaf ears to engrossed with the sound of another turd hitting the toilet water like the best western since 3 10 to yuma wait for it 3 10 to yuma thank you hollywood for killing film as an art form and turning it into a commercial barrage of neo pop junk and blatant retardation wonderful
0	this film is terrible and don't blame jesus franco because its not his fault br br this film was shot silent over many years by welles as he got the money to bring a crew and the actors together to do some shooting how much film welles actually shot is not clear although not all of the film or all of the sequences are here since several key sequences such as quixote in a movie theater are in the hands of collectors or backers who wouldn't give them up the film here is just under two hours and i would be hard pressed to imagine it ever really working at any length i'm of the opinion based on several comments that welles made before his death that he never really intended to release the film but was putting it together as a personal toy br br what exists here is for the most part is beautifully shot but dramatically dead very little happens for the first hour other than quixote and sancho wandering around the country side dull would be a kind description of the material in the second hour quixote ends up in modern spain and in a series of not very good sequences deals with everyday life this isn't to say that there isn't a few nice moments the windmill and the chicken sequences are quite good but mostly this is a vast waste of film and time br br completed by jesus franco who was welles' assistant director on the vastly superior chimes at midnight we have a bunch of film fragments that have been put together as best as possible many people have crucified franco as having been the reason the film stinks but frankly one can not make a good movie from crap material one critic has gone on record as having seen a different cut of the film in the 1970's which meant that franco made this version up on his own and ruined it while that maybe true i've run across stories of welles cutting and re cutting the film many many times over the years since he could never get it right br br this film is terrible no matter how you slice it br br ultimately i'm left wondering just how good a film maker welles was aside from citizen kane almost all of his films have been plagued by lack of budget or interfered with so we are left with the excuse that many of his films would have been better if only how do we know how can we know perhaps welles was a man of less talent than we thought and many of his borderline films just aren't that good and never would have been while this is no place to argue the place of welles in film history the surviving material of don quixote assuming it approximates what welles intended i think it does is a good case for rethinking how we view the man and his work br br 4 out of 10 for the good sequences though 2 out of 10 is probably closer to reality
0	an atrocious offense to the memory and genius of welles this senseless assemblage of self indulgent improvisation on a grand theme should have been locked up in storage along with a number of other unfinished welles' projects no one has ever seen now we know why to add additional insult to prior injury the appalling english language dubbing by amateur america dubbing actors and even the great man himself only heightens all the sloppy mistakes in story telling and construction it's as if every weekend some good hearted spanish soul gave orson a few a 35mm camera and some short ends of negative film left over from some other production and told welles to drive out to the spanish countryside and just keeping shooting anything and everything until the film stock ran out it's true that if orson had really shaped this film himself instead the notorious jesus franco he might have thrown out 85 of what he shot but we will never know as welles never took the time to edit his own work here and somewhere along the way he or his heirs sanctioned someone else to do so he is not entirely blameless for the debacle those who wish to prove that in his early days welles was the luckiest of young men because he surrounded himself with the likes of john houseman herman greg bernard hermann and robert wise need no better proof of his adult inadequacies than this mess of a film in his sad old age welles was capable of doing anything when he needed a few bucks or including selling his artistic soul the devil certainly got his due with this one
0	this review is based on the english language version br br orson welles' legendary unfinished epic was just that unfinished it should have been left as such not thrown together in this clumsy boring compilation of whatever material was available br br while i'm sure it was done with the best of intentions the filmmakers have not only failed to do justice to welles' vision they've also managed to discredit it by inflicting this version upon audiences br br the first thing that strikes the viewer is the amateurish quality of the audio not only are the newly dubbed voices rather poor performances they're also inconsistent welles' original recordings using his own voice as he often did have been retained in a handful of scenes they don't match at all there hasn't been the slightest attempt at consistency add to that an extremely empty sound mix which has only a bare minimum of sound effects atmos a long sequence during a huge festival including the running of the bulls sounds like it was recorded in a deserted suburban street with about three people making the sound of a crowd that's meant to be in the thousands br br however the real problem is the unavoidable fact that 'don quixote' was incomplete it's glaringly obvious from watching this the film consists of a handful of scenes strung together dragged out to ridiculous lengths just to make up the running time case in point the sequence where sancho searches for don quixote in the city goes on forever it's just sancho approaching people in the crowd asking them the same questions over over again there is no way that welles could ever have intended using every single take in its entirety but that's what appears here it lasts over twelve minutes when in fact it would most likely have lasted about two minutes absolute maximum in a proper finished version of the film br br while the start of the film is relatively complete rather well done the rest has massive holes which simply can't be filled with endless overlay of spanish countryside still more shots of don quixote sancho going back forth there's also no ending no resolution no conclusion no punchline no point br br although there is material in private collections that was unavailable to the filmmakers that couldn't possibly account for what would be required to make this into a complete coherent work welles simply didn't complete shooting largely due to the fact that his lead actor died before they could finish br br however putting aside the fact that it wasn't complete never could be one would think that just seeing a collection of footage from this masterpiece that might have been would be enough unfortunately by putting it all together in such a slipshod manner one is left with a very negative impression of the film overall in particular what was clearly a terrific performance from akim tamiroff as sancho is utterly ruined with the new voice with long drawn out scenes that eventually cause him to be simply irritating br br orson welles' vision for this film was something far more ambitious complex than a simple retelling of the story of don quixote but that's what has been attempted here as such the point is lost the only person who could have assembled all the material into anything worthwhile would have been welles himself he didn't br br the footage could have been put to far better use in a documentary chronicling the whole saga of welles trying to make the film welles himself even came up with the perfect title for such a doco when are you going to finish don quixote
0	this is a documentary about homeless women it was interesting in the sense that this focused on women who are engaged socially having jobs and lasting friendships but are in situations where they can not afford housing br br i found some of the women covered to be interesting but there was little focus or progression in the story the direction and editing failed to maintain my attention there were differences in the stories of these women of course but the message was essentially the same and could have been told by focusing on any one of them in more depth br br i made it to the end of the movie but it was a rather boring journey
0	black vengeance is an alternate title for ying hung ho aka tragic hero 1987 i have just seen this on vhs together with the first part of the story gong woo ching rich and famous also 1987 the poster and 2 stills featured on the page are for a 4 dvd set of movies starring rod perry the black gestapo fred williamson black cobra 2 richard lawson black fist the fourth movie is called the black six strangely while the characters retain their original names in rich and famous in black vengeance chow yun character is named eddie shaw alex man man leung is harry and andy lau is called johnny also confusing is the fact that 1994 is given as the copyright dates on both films perhaps that was the year they were american dubbed according to the release dates given on imdb tragic hero was released before rich and famous was there any reason for releasing the sequel first despite some comments i enjoyed these films although they aren't among best such as the killer and hard boiled which are truly astonishing however if one day i come across a 2 dvd set of rich and famous and tragic hero i won't hesitate to buy it hopefully these comments about black vengeance clear up which was also for me a mystery as to where it belonged in chow yun filmography
0	danny lee's performance as a wisecracking cop is the only spot of interest in this film even though it has an excellent cast including chow yun fat lau andy lau on and alex man plays a triad boss who wants to settle down to a life of peace and plenty but alex man a total psycho who has a big grudge against won't let him tries to escape to but to no avail after his family is blown to bits his cronies dead or turncoat wounded and broke returns to hong kong to get into some serious revenge br br it sounds a lot better than it is is well dressed and handsome looks pained grimaces and cries on cue but somehow or another you just don't care andy lau looks great but that's about it lau has a tiny tiny little part which was nice but she gets a bullet in the head early on so that ends that alex man is a cartoon villain he's so over the top which at times can be intriguing but the writing here is so flat that he just comes across as a garden variety nut br br danny lee is great though too bad he's only a small blip on the screen of this dark literally and essentially boring movie br br rent it don't buy it or just skip it altogether br br this is the sequel to rich and famous even though it apparently was filmed simultaneously it was released first because of power
0	tragic hero is a film that is most definitely trying to emulate the classic godfather films focusing on family crime loyalty and revenge also this is part of a two part series as the godfather also was at the time however this film comes nowhere near the level of those classic films and actually fairs worse than other triad thrillers being released in hong kong at the time br br one reason is the acting with the exception of chow yun fat the acting is generally over the top and unbelievable the audience tends to find the proceedings humorous simply because the actors' inability to maintain any degree of seriousness as a result we find the film not truly emotionally involving or intense since we don't particularly care what occurs with these characters br br another reason is its lack of focus the narrative tries to incorporate many different story elements into the film but this results in portions of the movie becoming underdeveloped as well as lacking any real sense of coherency the audience sometimes becomes lost at the proceedings we are viewing not knowing what the character's motivations are br br the film's climax does contain a decent gun fight but again since we don't care about the characters we don't care who lives or who dies the scene loses it's intensity and suspense because of this the other action set pieces are rather mundane in nature with a feeling of it being too controlled rather than free flowing br br in general this is a strictly average film and isn't recommended to the general film viewer only hard core genre enthusiasts and fans of chow yun fat should consider this film for viewing
0	you'd think a movie about incestuous sisters who eventually murder their employer couldn't help but be gripping but then you'd be wrong br br there is no plot there is no character development there is no redeeming visual beauty br br this movie is a waste of time the exploration of how the relationship between the sisters develops is nil their sexuality is never anything but a grotesque the class relationships are glossed over and employer is a silly caricature br br ponderous silences and period clothing do not equal depth of meaning
0	ok yes i know i'm a philistine and i have no knowledge of nor love for opera i readily admit that i might feel differently about this film if i did but i don't so for those of you like me skip this one unless you want to look at the pretty sometimes unclothed girls for what it's worth i thought the first segment with theresa russell who i didn't recognize was the best of the lot
0	well this was my first imax experience so i was pretty blown away about that primarily although with hindsight i can't help wishing that it had been some other less monochrome film br br magnificent desolation very much had the programme for schools feel the way it listed all the astronauts and this made it feel a lot like reading national geographic magazine in 3d weirdly it actually had a very two dimensional quality that only occasionally exploded into reality and a lot of time it felt like some presentation there was a moment in the film when an unnoticed abyss opens seemingly at your feel that had a bit of a wow factor but to be honest that may have had more to do with me being an imax virgin br br the commentary provided by tom hanks i personally found very what's a nice way to put it flag nationalistic which didn't go down too well in central london judging by remarks overheard as we left br br over all i loved the imax experience but dearly wish a different film had been on on that day the moon isn't a particularly colourful subject and to be honest a lot of the 3d effects were lost in the monochrome scenery all that would have been well were it not for the documentary inserts and distractions like the interviews with american schoolchildren which spoiled it a bit
0	the world now seems to be in an odd stage of downsizing in which objects such as dvd and cd players are steadily in size it is obviously much cooler to have a smaller ipod than a larger one this is not so with theater screens as is the case with the imax the enormous widely known theater system that has stunned audiences upon its release and to this day as long as the material's right br br the main problem with desolation walking on the moon 3d is that it uses the huge screen as its main advantage it is dull uninformative and relentlessly eager to please and amaze us with its corny special effects and inspiring quotes from famous names such as neil armstrong and buzz aldrin another problem with the film is that it doesn't even take the time to sit down and interview those lucky few who have had such an extraordinary experience as to have been to the moon instead the writers have simply pressed copy and paste and hired famous voices such as morgan freeman bill paxton and matt damon to imitate their famous quotes this tactic is unrelentingly repetitive and tedious br br i'd say without one moment's hesitation that i didn't learn one piece of information from the film that i didn't already know br br and it repeatedly insisted on irritating the crap out of me with its insistent sentimentality every three minutes there seems to be a cue for tom hanks' voice to say something like without the contributions of these brave men and women watching the film is like watching a bad commercial for forty agonizing minutes br br 1 4
0	the director is sweet as is his co directing wife but their movie sucks it has its moments and some pretty girls but there is too much of everything amélie meets breaking the waves meets pauline at the beach you walk away wanting to know more about the wedding photographer and about the girl who likes it best when nothing happens be it in movies or in real life instead you get a suicidal writer a neurotic actress and an illegal immigrant come social worker with a heart of gold it feels like there's more than one truly touching story hidden in the script but at face value it's a truckload of wasted story lines and sentimental bullshit hard to sit out as it is
0	i went to see this because i'd never seen tel aviv where the story is set i was disappointed since it doesn't offer many views of israel's largest metropolis it's also of those movies that leaves you guessing at its meaning until you ultimately give up with a shrug of the shoulders br br the main protagonist is a woman in her twenties' who works as a waitress at catered weddings her parents evidently don't care about her very much and when a little girl walks out of the sea with an ring around her feels compelled to take care of her the little girl doesn't speak and can't give her to social services because it's the weekend and the agency is closed so she takes her back to her apartment with the leaky roof and when it comes time to work in the evening she has to take the little girl with her the boss is very unhappy about this and other shortcomings in work performance br br another main character is keren who is getting married at her wedding party where is of course working she breaks her leg climbing out of a ladies' room cubicle whose door won't open and so she and her new husband cannot take the caribbean vacation they've planned they end up in a dingy hotel on the seafront without a view it smells bad there is noise from the traffic and keren is complaining all the time her husband meets a strangely attractive older woman – a writer – who is also staying in the hotel and keren worries that he has slept with this stranger br br the third main character is a filipino woman named joy who looks after old people the old woman she is hired to care for is very crabby and speaks no english only german and hebrew joy speaks english but no hebrew or german joy is mostly concerned with how her son is doing back in the philippines and wants to buy him a toy boat as he has asked she finds the perfect boat in a store and plans to buy it the daughter of the old woman who hired joy is an actress appearing in some sort of post modern physical theater adaptation of hamlet and does not get along with her mother br br the way in which these three intersect themselves is presumably supposed to mean something profound i didn't get it there is a fantasy element to relationship with the little girl and maybe non existent relationship with her parents is somehow inverted in this relationship when joy sees the toy boat in the shop window there is a strange effect used where the little sails as if blown by the wind and they do this as if they are on the scale of a real life ship keren draws the outline of a bottle around a ship that is on a brochure cover in the hotel room and a narration of the strange woman's poetry mentions a ship in a bottle but what does all this mean i thought about it for a while and realized i wasn't going to lose any sleep in the process if anyone out there has a clear idea of what it's all about maybe they can fill me in
0	when the film started i got the feeling this was going to be something special the acting and camera work were undoubtedly good i also liked the characters and could have grown to empathise with them the film had a good atmosphere and there was a hint of fantasy br br however as the film went on the plot never appeared to takeoff and just rolled on scene by scene i was unable to understand the connection between the stories all i could see was the characters occasionally bumping into each other and references to ships in bottles without that connection i was just left with a few unremarkable short stories br br am surprised it did so well at cannes
0	only if its the last thing yo do and your humour is evaporated should you ever attempt to watch this if you do watch it alone invite no one they will never return to watch another movie with you it might be an excellent tool for that very purpose invite people you want to get rid of in your life br br apparently i need to write more about his film in order to qualify as a review this is sweet irony for this film it really does sum it up perfectly after wasting my time it wastes more of your time it does have a function i take it all back br br i recommend this film watch it its provocative really go ahead watch it
0	a horrible mish mash of predictable story lines and toe bendingly poor delivered pc clichés ad nauseam races working together the heroine being smart as well pretty a guy sacrificing himself to save another life a father daughter relationship etc etc etc the movie looks like something created for network television and should have probably stayed there even the gifted tommy lee jones does not manage to salvage this bomb i urge you not to waste money or time on this cinematic ruin from the time when disaster movies roamed hollywood br br the two stars are given solely to the cgi people and the pr peoples' ability to get even one movie goer to sit through it
0	riotously cheesy lunacy about lava spewing from the la brea tar pits in los angeles even if you attempt to suspend disbelief by ignoring this ludicrous premise you'll still be howling with laughter at the inane dialog nonsensical plot contrivances and wildly reckless scientific plot holes that parade across the screen br br i have a theory every successful actor is doomed to appear in at least one bad movie at some point in his her career this was tommy lee jones's turn although he makes a decent effort the script is just so pathetic even he goes down in flames oops sorry about that most of the supporting cast is also choked by the hackneyed writing a few of the actors simply phone in their roles anne heche deserves special hall of shame recognition for her awkward portrayal of a scientist she is about as convincing in this role as pee wee herman and even he would have at least done a better acting job br br since the scientific plot holes are too numerous to list here i would instead suggest that you screen the film with friends and have a game of find the scientific absurdities the loser could be forced to listen to tapes of corny lines from the movie like everybody looks the same over and over here's a sample of the kind of nonsense you can expect a scheme to blow up a building is devised engineered and the dynamite set and detonated all within a space of about 20 minutes br br let us not forget the obligatory disaster movie clichés divorced dads scientists who get ignored by everybody obnoxious cops tough street kids bratty teenagers greedy investors etc all are present and in abundance the film also bashes you over the head with a relentless barrage of political correctness br br for fans of cheese and silliness only all other viewers beware
0	this movie is a real waste of time and effort the film lacks plot and depth the visuals are decent but nothing to write home about there are far better films out there
0	when i saw this movie all i could think was what a disaster no i'm not talking about the volcano but about the movie itself i have seen a lot of movies but this is certainly one of the worst ever i don't care about the fact if a volcano erupting underneath downtown l a is possible or not perhaps it isn't but even than this could have been a good movie but it sure isn't and i'll explain you why br br i don't know how much lava flows out of an average volcano but what i do know is that the volcano in this movie makes the and mount together look like a little barbecue i don't think there has ever been so much lava flowing out of a volcano as what we see in this film i'm sure the director had a lot of money to spend on his movie but i really wonder why he all spent it on the special effects and not on the script and the actors i'm not saying that he should have hired a top cast but this really is the opposite of what i would call good acting their performances are so unbelievably poor that it makes the entire movie even worse br br and what's wrong about the script you probably ask yourself well can you tell me who comes up with the idea of people standing a few yards or even a few feet from the lava without getting burned or having to hide for the heath or people sinking in the earth when the flow of lava isn't even two foot high br br i'm sure i wouldn't be proud if i wrote such a script but apparently there are script writers in hollywood who don't mind about believability as long as it pays good money very good money br br when you see the movie you'll probably agree with me that this is one of hollywood's worst disaster movies not worth more than a 3 10
0	this is a classic example of what happens when a sit com is on tv for far far too long everything gets tired and the jokes start getting repeated over and over again ok from the start the first couple of series were quite good you had an entertainment manager simon being pursued by his deputy played by ruth a cleaning lady wanting to become a yellow coat an alcoholic child hating punch and judy man a bent jockey and a stand up comedian as said earlier it started well but went on way too long once simon left it went downhill fast you were getting dire story lines and a new entertainments manager who ruth again threw herself at when a comedy is all filmed in one place there is a limit to the number of jokes that can be cracked unfortunately this went on so long every joke was cracked 3 or 4 times over if this comedy had been stopped after 2 series it would have gone down as an all time classic as it is it will be largely remembered for the dreadful last few series
0	the scriptwriters directors and actors have lost sight of the cornerstone of a good story the concept of suspension of disbelief in volcano the concept goes up in smoke almost as quickly as the city contrary to earlier commentators i much preferred dantes peak amongst the 97 vintage of volcano movies
0	i saw the trailer for this film before watching titanic and i must admit that it whetted my appetite volcano seemed to be quite spectacular and full of promise but what a damp squib corny is not the word for the script and the characterizations are often ludicrous the stupid daughter is just beyond belief she is supposed to be 13 not 4 but then the scientists firemen and peripheral characters don't offer any more this movie ranks just in front of cruise ii and twister but only because those 2 films are completely appalling this does have some reasonable effects but overall its a 1 out of 10 don't waste your time
0	considering the subject matter i thought that this film would at least be enjoyable if stopping somewhat short of a masterpiece i was wrong i was still waiting for something to happen and it finished i thought that the finale was the bit that happened before it got exciting the only reason i gave it 2 instead of 1 is because the effects guys deserve some recognition
0	this film is all right fairly silly and to be taken lightly but what i can't stand are the numerous heroes and that boy's sentimental comment near the end look they all look the same isn't that by far passing the good taste standards i thought it was revolting as were the heroic unselfish acts by some of the people in this film i'm not saying it won't happen like that but zooming in on all the bravery like that makes my stomach churn
0	i saw this movie and i thought this is a stupid movie what is even more stupid is that who had thought an idea that there should be a volcano in los angeles the fact is that there are no volcanoes in los angeles this movie should not be filmed in los angeles it should be filmed in honolulu hawaii hawaii has volcanoes which is a real fact that this movie should be made in hawaii's state capital this movie should be filmed in hawaii because this is the real idea and not in los angeles there are earthquakes in los angeles but there are no volcanoes to be honest with you this is unbelievable nonsense and very foolish in conclusion i will not bother with this movie because a volcano in los angeles is nothing but nonsense
0	volcano is set in los angeles where a minor earthquake has just hit vacationing boss of the o e m the of emergency management mike tommy lee jones decides to cut his holiday short go in once there he sees that everything is alright but then drives off to the of the quake where seven underground workers have been killed by a fire or intense heat of some kind mike isn't sure what to think so he brings geologist dr amy barnes anne heche in to try explain things unfortunately a huge underground river of molten lava has been released after the quake erupts at the la brea tar pits sending the lava pouring out into the city streets anything everything it touches in flames mike his men the emergency services have their work cut out trying to stop the river of lava save as many lives as possible br br directed by mick jackson this was the second big budget disaster flick revolving around the idea of an erupting volcano during 1997 with dante's peak 1997 being released a mere two months or so before volcano was while dante's peak is hardly any sort of masterpiece at least it's slightly better more plausible than volcano is the script here is total nonsense is not based in reality at all underground rivers of lava that seem to appear then disappear just as quick various character's standing inches from a river of lava yet not being affected by the heat when that guy is on the train the metal seats around him start melting but he remains perfectly fine as far as i am aware human skin is not as heat resistant as metal is it it constantly happens helicopters flying is clouds of ash in reality it would be impossible one simple blockade at the end of a street will stop the flowing lava what about down the other streets other directions being able to blow a perfect trench in a street then blowing a huge building up to make a massive dam when kelly sees the lava heading towards her car she gets out just like anyone would but then for some reason just stands there watches two firemen get burned to death waits for her dad to save her even though by this stage her leg has caught fire despite all those concrete blocks being placed together to make a barrier in less than twenty minutes the guy's do such a great job not one bit of molten lava manages to seep through loads more besides like that massive building falling on tommy lee his daughter yet then both being fine afterwards the character's are awful too although they were not as clichéd as usual with no romance blossoming between tommy lee anne heche minimal city who try to shut tommy lee anne heche up before the event labelling them there's a few badly written at times embarrassing moral moments as los angeles pulls together the black guy that semi racist cop who warm to each other by the end are wishing each other well that little kid at the end when he says 'everyone looks the same' is cringe worthy is surely a ham fisted attempt trying to say whatever colour we are we are still human beings we can all get along in time of a crisis as it brings people together having said that i think volcano is one of those so bad it's good films it entertains it moves along at a decent pace but just don't expect anything grounded in reality or any human drama either br br i suppose a film like volcano could be seen as an updating of a 70's disaster film such as the poseidon adventure 1972 or earthquake 1974 but on a huge budget with modern effects work speaking of the effects they are alright but none stand out that much the set pieces are also surprisingly forgettable sure there are a few impressive explosions a few ok river of lava flowing through los angeles effects but little else generally volcano just isn't very exciting while occasionally unintentionally funny completely ridiculous it doesn't really work in the way the makers intended br br with a supposed budget of about 90 000 000 it opened to a little under 15 000 000 at the box office it looks alright there's lots of fire but nothing stands out volcano is a pretty forgettable film overall filmed in los angeles i think most of the places featured here were shot at their real life locations the cast go through the motions with some terrible dialogue ridiculous set pieces to contend with tommy lee jones deserves better than this br br volcano is a bit of a disaster in both senses it is a disaster themed film that ended up a bit of disaster itself worth it for a few unintentional laughs the ridiculousness of it all but it's nothing great i doubt i would ever want to see it again
0	probably one of the funniest movies i've even seen obviously this isn't intentional though it takes about half the movie for the main characters to realize what the big hilly thing is in the middle of the city is spewing hot red stuff and the other half spent diverting the flow through the city using fire trucks yer right it certainly made me laugh the acting makes arnie look like a rsc thespian it is amazing that films like this get commissioned a more interesting version would be someone going near an active volcano and filming it and would probably cost about £20 to make 40 i can see some guy pitching the film to a film company well there's this big volcano and it erupts in a city pretty radical hey if you can find it in the dollar bins maybe worth buying as after watching this most other films would look good
0	the story of a volcano erupting downtown l a sounds like a nice plot for a disaster movie this one though is missed bigtime the movie looks chaotic has a storyline which is hard to follow or believe and the acting was very bad br br im in agreement with a lot of comments that lee jones is only good at bossing people around as a chief in some particular field in this one he is heading the emergency office being chief of such an office it naturally is a good idea to bring along your daughter to dangerous scenes clever thinking ann heche touching walls and walking in tunnels that suppose to be degrees fahrenheit yea right aside from the bad acting those factual errors make the film look almost as silly as armageddon the only good point of this movie is that there is no ben affleck to make matters even worse avoid this movie at all costs
0	this movie is a disaster within a disaster film it is full of great action scenes which are only meaningful if you throw away all sense of reality let's see word to the wise lava burns you steam burns you you can't stand next to lava diverting a minor lava flow is difficult let alone a significant one scares me to think that some might actually believe what they saw in this movie br br even worse is the significant amount of talent that went into making this film i mean the acting is actually very good the effects are above average hard to believe somebody read the scripts for this and allowed all this talent to be wasted i guess my suggestion would be that if this movie is about to start on tv look away it is like a train wreck it is so awful that once you know what is coming you just have to watch look away and spend your time on more meaningful content
0	as a geology student this movie depicts the ignorance of hollywood in the scene where the dog grabs the bone from inside of the burning house it is less then a foot from lava which has an average temperature of 1 750 degrees fahrenheit this stupidity is witnessed again when stan goes to save subway 4 his shoes are melting to the floor of the subway while the rest of the team is standing just feet away from the flowing lava and to finish off this monstrosity of a film they come up with the most illogical solution stopping a lava flow with cement k rails earlier in the film a reporters voice can be heard saying that nothing can stop the flow fire fighters have tried cars and cement common sense dictates this film is a preposterous and gross understatement of human knowledge
0	unlike the other spaghetti westerns this one has characters that almost make sense and can be identified to some degree it still has the goofy gunplay of other spaghettis westerns a spaghetti by the way is another word for a western with no plot no characters you can care about and goofy gunplay that doesn't make a bit of sense for the era and relying on great music to make audiences feel something this one is more lighthearted like the ones that bud spencer and terence hill made together they too were superior to the junk made by eastwood and others which sado masochists make their friends watch if they get a chance it looks like everyone had a lot of fun making the movie too it was good to see a giant actor like gilbert roland who wasn't even mentioned on the movie rental box yet who was clearly the biggest name his character was very enjoyable there is a three way standoff at the end which is much superior to the one it spoofs the good the bad and the ugly simply because the characters are at least a bit likable and a bit identifiable not a good movie but has a bit of fun to it
0	although this movie and i use the term loosely was made in 1997 we just watched it tonight for the first time my husband commented that a tommy lee jones movie that we'd never heard of made him a little apprehensive i blithely watched anyway certain that if jones was in the movie it must at least be worth two hours of my time after all he has been one of our go to actors for years although heche isn't one of my favorite actresses i was additionally reassured by seeing another well known face the list of accomplished actors actresses continued to grow so i endured more and more of this film certain that if i pushed through enough clichés and trite social statements i would arrive victorious on the other side of the plot alas there was no plot it appeared to be burned by the ever oozing lava of doom br br the characters were paper thin the plot was so chock full of holes that it literally distracted me from most of the special effects and acting in the movie was the fee for a brief consultation with an elementary science teacher too much for this film's budget no acid rain no toxic gasses like sulfur or no deadly ash no skin searing heat just a few feet from the lava wow it's the world's friendliest lava ever br br the events were no better than the characters each incident was so contrived and far fetched it's like the writers said okay we need to get rid of the little girl now and poof she's splashed by a lava bomb which burns her enough that she has to be carried to safety not from the lava but from her own helpless stupor but just moments later in the car she is in no apparent pain and soon after is running effortlessly through the groan building that oh no is about to be blown up after enduring all of this your reward is the line from the little boy at the end about all the people looking the same which has got to be one of the worst movie lines i have ever heard even if it wasn't so painfully scripted it was ridiculous timing for all the characters involved kid and cop aside as if the mother would still be in the area and just needs to be pointed out because she just isn't speaking up what she's hoping to slink off into the shadows and get away from the little brat once and for all i don't think so obviously the child's mother would be missing or dead or yelling her head off to find her toddler br br the token black gangsta tough hoodlum with a secret soft spot versus the chip on his shoulder narrow minded cracker cop with a secret soft spot scene made my eyes bleed even if such pat characters existed they wouldn't behave as the movie portrays them given the circumstances something about imminent fiery death and massive destruction tends to catch people off guard ya know br br there are too many canned movie moments like these to mention really it's just an embarrassing movie to watch those poor writers where are they now
0	is a b movie at best and at worst is more of a disaster that what it's supposed to be depicting to be fair you have to be prepared in any movie to suspend disbelief for one major concept asks you to suspend disbelief in science human interaction and common sense br br tommy lee jones gets to be the studly yet 1990s sensitive head honcho of the office of emergency management and he's fine when he's not stuck with the stupid dialogue the script provides however anne heche gives a howlingly bad performance as a smart ass geologist who becomes love interest while the city is burning down natch gaby hoffman goes from field of dreams and american president to a turn as a whimpering needy and victim for life daughter of jones don cheadle gets to sit in a really office and take jones's phone calls doing the job that in reality would and should be doing br br anyway the movie really starts going downhill when geology partner gets sucked into a lava vent while they're breaking into the subway lines it picks up speed when jones starts suggesting that they use buses to dam the flow of the lava flowing down the street geologist who loves to lecture everyone about the science of geology being apparently oblivious to the fact that lava is hot and it melts metal and rock and a dead bus is unlikely to have much effect it really starts to suck when the film introduces rodney king like racial tension between two bad actors dressed as cops and an angry black man who can't understand why the fire department is busy with this large river of flowing lava but hey in the end the three of them will be working together to build a k rail dam to stop the lava from eating up his neighborhood even though the dam is built in the wrong direction and the material used wouldn't stop lava anyway besides k rails are hardly watertight but i guess lava wouldn't think to poke its head through the gaps not when tommy lee jones is glaring at it don't even get me started on the stranded subway car subplot where a of hot lava is coming down but oddly enough it's not too hot to attempt a rescue it's not too smoky to see and there aren't any poisonous gases so everyone can breathe this must be la lava or lava lite you know it eats cars but is eco friendly br br there are moments of sheer camp here that almost make you wonder if this was meant to be a comedy for instance the two security guards packing up bosch paintings have a completely meaningless and farcical conversation about weight and at the end no sooner does the little boy jones rescued note that everyone looks the same while covered in ash than a rainstorm breaks out and cleans everyone up and then the sun comes out and heche says something along the lines of aw shucks br br almost achieves battlefield earth status but except for heche no one approaches travolta like badness and the technical aspects are handled pretty well if you are from the la area as i am it's kind of funny to think of a lava flow wiping out boulevard i gave it a three for the effects and the little amount of tension you get from this
0	comparisons to the original series are inevitable it's a shame diana rigg left the original show in the 1960's due to mistreatment on the part of the producers and macnee probably regretted this as much as any fan there's no telling how long the show might have lasted otherwise linda was ok as a replacement and her episodes still retained almost all of the quality and aspects of the rigg episodes only the rigg macnee chemistry was lacking the new avengers should have been left on the shelf a declining macnee an annoying and a who the hell is this guy gambit also the humor was forced and poor granted i only watched a few of the episodes because that was all i could watch but i think i got the idea try as many might and do it's nearly impossible to resurrect an old show as a new format or movie
0	if i had never seen an episode of the original avengers with blackman rigg or i would have appreciated this series more while the cast did its best to sustain the action and interest of the scripts i was just caught up in comparing the episodes to the original series there was an expectation of steed participating more in fight scenes and the continuity seemed as though the writers were struggling to keep up with the actors to be honest i can't blame them for trying to resurrect the fans from the original series but it just didn't work as evidenced by the fact that it lasted one season watching steed labor through this series reminded me of gen macarthur when he said 'old soldiers never die they just fade away '
0	wealthy businessman's daughter who as a young girl caught fever and now suffers from a shortness of breath discovers her marriage to a charming ne'er do well was arranged by daddy whom she affectionately refers to as darling worse than that she may in fact have only a few weeks left to live leaving her husband free to marry her conniving romantic rival pure bunk paul screenplay via jerome thin story trots out the redundant flashbacks in the second half instead of proceeding ahead with the plot which submerges the already soapy scenario in grim talk why go backwards when we can figure out what's happening for ourselves this is a woman's weeper with no faith in its target audience so simplistic is the set up dorothy mcguire swathed in furs for most of the picture isn't a canny clever heroine at all when she's upset she turns inward and stony upon realizing her marriage is basically a sham she shrinks away from her husband like the consummate virgin well that's a possibility she and van johnson sleep in separate beds after all ruth roman has the film's best moments as a society shark with her trap set for van but what exactly do these women see in him johnson can be charming when it's required but put him in a melodramatic setting and he goes stony too mgm production values only so so however director gottfried tries adding some visual flavor to the flashback segues and he attempts a lively pacing for the movie's initial half hour from
0	this film is just as bad as the birdman of alcatraz i do not refer to the acting but rather the premise of both films which try to portray psychopathic criminals as heroic figures moreover it disturbs me when well respected revered actors like alan alda and burt lancaster play such roles because their status tends to lend credibility to the director's intent to elevate the film's subject a societal outcast br br i was in junior high school during the last years of life and his death penalty appeals and books were very much in the news i remember the groundswell of opinion that the death penalty was wrong and was the victim br br get a grip people read the history was a criminal and sexual predator he drove around the la streets at night with a stolen police light in his vehicle he stopped cars with attractive women inside under the ruse of making a traffic arrest then abducted and raped the women rape is the worst trauma a woman can experience and many victims say they would prefer death to its horror and humiliation br br got exactly what he deserved it just took a decade too long no sympathy for the devil here
0	i have a question for the writers and producers of prozac nation what is the root cause and what is the solution to the widespread problem of personal depression in america in the moving performance of christina ricci as liz the film portrays a young woman with unlimited potential as a harvard student and as a writer but this is not a story of success only one of self destruction as we watch liz bring misery into the lives everyone who comes in contact with her the film examines divorce family dysfunction drugs alcohol and prescription medication as possible reasons for liz's unhappiness but none of those superficial explanations are satisfactory br br at some point in the film it would have been helpful to suggest that liz needs to take responsibility for her life and her problems no light was shed on what the film alleged to be a runaway problem in the united states of depression in the story liz had a caring therapist anne heche a caring roommate michele williams a caring boyfriend jason biggs and a troubled but caring parent jessica lange in a key scene in the film liz is lying in a hospital bed watching the break up of the space shuttle challenger instead of equating challenger with liz's life the film should have used the image as a starting point for her healing and recovery br br this film reminded me of a generic made for cable victim film on the lifetime network an excellent cast was wasted especially in the earnest performance of christina ricci the real life elizabeth obviously found within herself the resources to cope with her depression and become a successful author it is unfortunate that the film could not offer us even the slightest glimpse into her courageous spirit
0	i am writing this review simply because i am a huge fan of the book prozac nation and was appalled by the film br br i think that if you hadn't read the book you would have been lost watching the film as it provided no real back story to depression there was no real mention of her childhood her relationship with her father her experiences at summer camp her first therapists in fact the film gives the impression that she has never been in therapy until dr sterling that said if you had read the book you would have been confused by the amount of editing that had taken place br br i found the book to be a vivid portrayal of depression highlighting low points and the experiences she had along the way the film however began at harvard and literally threw the audience straight in with no real explanation of what was going on br br events that in the book were important such as miscarriage her summer working in dallas her suicide attempt whilst on prozac were omitted from the film br br also this is pedantic but did not lose her virginity to noah the suicide attempt that was shown in sterling's office was completely different to the book for a start she actually overdosed on as opposed to the para suicidal gesture shown in the film br br all in all i would say that if you have read the book and enjoyed it identified with it then don't watch the film read now again' by the same author instead or watch girl interrupted br br the only redeeming feature was the performance by anne heche who i believe portrayed dr sterling very well christina ricci was also good though her performance seemed a little stilted jessica lange made for enjoyable viewing but looked the opposite of how mother is described in the book br br conclusion don't bother
0	i found it almost impossible to empathize with ricci's character in this film if she was supposed to be a depressive i think the screenwriter and director neglected to research before making this film because ricci's character was more a depiction of a self centered worthless sh than a victim and survivor of depression br br the forced attempt at introspective narration was as ludicrous as the pained interactions between her and the people around her br br sorry but i couldn't buy it this is straight to video schlock i'm glad i didn't pay to see this
0	there must have been a lot of background info that was left out of the movie in fact in the film the girl lizzy didn't even appear depressed she just seemed like a girl that went out of control when she finally got to college mainly from doing drugs and drinking alcohol that seemed to be her problem not mental illness sure she had emotional problems because her dad left and she barely saw him as a child and her mom seemed a little out there but the way she treated noah and ruby was just mean and i don't think caused by depression she was very needed which ran rafe off but she was like that because of her dad br br but i think the main reason this movie never achieved a theater release is that not enough happens with the plot and the story is not written well br br final verdict truthfully i'd only recommend this if you are interested in seeing ricci's first nude scene otherwise it isn't very interesting
0	any gun can play 2 outta 5 stars totally routine spaghetti western starring that guy who used to play on 77 sunset strip the plot is some convoluted nonsense about some stolen gold coins and various gunmen of dubious motivation trying to track it down this is one of those lighthearted westerns which means lots of labored attempts at comedy and some really atrocious music during most of the action sequences you can tell this isn't ennio morricone's work george hilton plays a bounty hunter called stranger but he doesn't leave much of an impression he just doesn't have the style of clint eastwood or franco nero who are able to do a lot with a sparsely written character the ending is a complete homage parody of the ending of the good the bad and the ugly though it's barely amusing enough to be considered a parody the highlight of the movie is the first 5 minutes which features actors patterned after clint eastwood lee van cleef and someone else is he supposed to be eli wallach franco nero it's not very clear who are confronted by stranger it's an amusing in joke for fans of sergio leone fans and spaghetti western aficionados but i imagine no one else would see the point
0	in the real world of art elizabeth is the sexy drama queen every guy wants to do but no guy wants to wake up next to her on screen portrayer christina ricci is the ugly artsy wannabe girl that desperately wants every and any guy but no guy will touch her that's why in prozac nation the unreleased 2001 film of 1990s bestseller book of the same name there are immediate problems ok the problems start before the miscast of ricci who has the emotional range of a is it any wonder that by far her finest acting was in the two addams family films first off she is bizarre looking with big eyes and a bulging forehead making her look like the fetal from 2001 a space odyssey secondly she always plays whiney brats but thirdly is the way films try to make it appear any guy would be attracted to her in one scene in the film her pal ruby michelle williams and liz walk through harvard and all the guys' tongues are wagging at ricci not the super cute and sexy williams reality check time… this material begged for the andy warhol treatment here is his version of the film a five minute shot of a hypodermic needle a five minute shot of hairy a five minute shot of her sleeping naked and stoned on the bed she rises gives the middle finger to the audience cue credits see less than twenty minutes to distill whole life and oh yeah warhol's film would not have cast ricci even michelle williams would have been better and after seeing ricci's pallid bosom i'd take anything williams or any other babe had to offer me cinematically ricci is almost the kiss of death for a film and how she stays working is a mystery think of her performances in mediocre to bad films like monster sleepy hollow and woody allen's anything else also co starring jason biggs and now picture another actress in her role and immediately the films could seem better if not great she is the female counterpart to banal wooden milquetoast actors like tom cruise and leonardo dicaprio
0	it seems no matter what i see her in christina ricci seems full of promise but fails to deliver sure she can cry and scream but prozac nation sees ricci totally out of her depth perhaps i'm being too harsh okay i'm shifting the blame to the director jessica lange is outrageous and almost reaches faye dunaway heights of unfortunately i think lange peaked with frances and it was all downhill from there there was every chance of this film being slick and witty while tackling depression head on what we get instead is poorly acted hysteria dressed up with a stereotypical try hard eighties veneer i really had no sense of the films eighties backdrop since i was unsatisfied with the lame attempt at making believe it was the eighties just because ms ricci wears a madonna inspired dress to her lost my virginity celebration cmon everyone you are all better than this the filmmakers should hang their heads in shame and as a result of disappointment elizabeth could probably make a bundle if she sued for emotional damages as a result of the finished product go on lizzie sue i would
0	congratulations to christina ricci for making this movie and putting her mojo behind this important subject and trying to make a great film ricci is my favorite actress she is so gifted so natural her reactions are perfect and so is the energy she constantly radiates which gives credence to the often term star br br the film misses its mark for lots of various reasons but perhaps most notably for the story's seeming to the screen in making it a compelling narrative more on that later the cast at first glance is excellent but come to think of it jessica lang as the jewish mother is too protestant and not exactly right ann doesn't come close to showing the compassion and dedication of the psychiatrist from the book and when your making a movie how can you justify saying no to anne heche and jessica lange but the real problems are in the film's construction first in the failure to elicit any kind of lasting sympathy for the elizabeth character and second to say anything meaningful regarding the all too common and horrible situation that this poor girl finds herself in br br unfortunately do to the flashback construction lizzy merely comes off as certainly more affected teenager than most but not nearly as devastatingly ill as she comes off in the book this is a major problem this story had to be told from beginning to end and from the therapist's couch she is only eight or nine when her depression starts due to devastating social factors both society and the home and this is a crucial point in not only eliciting the proper sympathy for her but also of the gravitas of her case she is so talented and such a vulnerable and disaffected spirit so early on that one's heart can't help but reach out to her due to her victimization this is missed on the film br br ultimately one has to come to terms with what the film is trying to say it is a biopic of one severely affected girl but also it is a film about a nation who can't get its act together that is very clear in the book but interestingly not in the film where the chosen at harvard are even more messed up than the average college the film finally isn't able to get either of these messages across compellingly and that's too bad is prozac a good thing or is it a bad thing or a mixed blessing or a seeming necessity in a country in which so many people can't function without a chemical crutch these are tough and challenging concepts to work with and the writing does not really attempt to address any of them in a more or less engaging way the challenger disaster is an interesting image to symbolize a dysfunctional america but that doesn't have the effect it's suppose to have due to the crosscutting and insufficient earlier development of controlling themes br br ricci's performance is tight and heartfelt and one of the best of her acting career br br michele williams is also superb in her role
0	i seldom see a film with such a cast such a potentially strong story and based on a bestselling book that has been this weak and to some extent unwatchable br br the premise of a story reads like a brent easton ellis novel a lot of drugs hopelessness and self induced tragedy as a young elisabeth played by christina ricci tries to cope with being a suicidal loser that can't seem to accept that she is actually living a good life and that basically she is pathetic for being such a baby br br christina ricci is not only playing a tragic personae but also a tragic actor whose sobbing and screeching for the most part of the movie actually make you want to shout kill yourself already and let us get to the credits rolling the director is of no help as he supplies absolutely no pace and the story feels so disjointed you have no idea what this damn girl is actually on about the director apparently was on prozac when directing this imitation of a movie and hence let the movie go on autopilot making it an unbearable mess br br the only redeeming features are a sympathetic jason biggs as boyfriend who thankfully decided to dump the self indulgent egocentric egomaniac and an unbelievably good jessica lange as the cry babies mother lange apparently can not be brought down by terrible script directing and dire co actors pure class br br i don't know if this is really who is or was but the film has successfully made me totally uninterested in her writings br br in the end i finished watching this movie and instantly started to think ok time to watch something that actually is about real problems
0	last night i got to see an early preview screener of prozac nation because i love everything that christina ricci does i was very excited at first but as the movie continued i started to wonder where it was going based on a true story it is simply about christina ricci's character and her struggle with depression drugs friends and family as you can probably tell from the title in my opinion this movie moved too fast and it was way too dramatic i would say there was a dramatic moment every five minutes and the movie moved through her life extremely fast and this left no room for us to connect with christina ricci's character christina ricci's performance was fantastic as always but jessica lange stood out throughout the whole movie and i believe this movie's success will be all because of her and christina ricci i would rate this 4 out of 10 and i would suggest you rent this one or read the books by elizabeth they are good and definitely worth checking out
0	if you're coming to this film to learn something about depression forget it you won't learn anything except how not to write a screenplay on the subject i understand the intent was to show how severe depression can turn an average person into a complete wreck but the result is the most one dimensional character i've ever seen in a hollywood feature no small feat christina ricci as elizabeth spends the entirety of this film screaming at the top of her lungs viciously insulting someone bursting into tears or some combination of the three the only exceptions being some quiet sulking at the beginning and end there is not the slightest hint of what she might be like without depression not the faintest glimmer of any other aspects of her personality she just screams at one point her roommate tells her lizzie you're such a fun person to be around when you're not being depressed and my reaction was she is it seemed odd that the writers would include this comment without giving us any examples but this script is a lesson in incompetence it has no discernible structure or flow at all instead it consists of a series of awkwardly strung together scenes of lizzie screaming then ends character development no scenes of her everyday existence i e going to classes that might possibly be important details no screaming at maximum volume check it's not quite enough i'm afraid 1 10
0	i suppose that to say this is an all out terrible movie would be unfair but it's pretty bad the sub disney storyline involves dogs playing soccer and falling in love aw how cute the acting isn't bad but definitely could be better especially that of young canadian actor kevin zegers who during the whole movie looks embarrassed like he doesn't even want to be there anyway kids will love it but parents beware
0	at least if you're a disney fanatic well of the variety who loves their live action films as well as the animated stuff if you're a kid if you're a kid at heart almost to the extent that you hardly realize you're an adult if you love absolutely any film that features animals especially when they're doing tricks or if you're just not too demanding air bud world pup is somewhat enjoyable to watch i'm a disney fanatic i enjoyed this film enough and i'll gladly watch it again br br but boy does it have a lot of problems the main flaw arises from a combination of too many characters too many plot threads and not enough time to take care of them all in the space of 82 minutes we've got adults getting married teens falling in love and trying not to be awkward at it teen competition for love and jealousy preteens playing spy games dogs falling in love dogs playing soccer dogs having puppies manipulative parents who'll do anything to make their kids win being taught a lesson by their kids housekeeper dilemmas and crooks cooking up and executing elaborate plots i'm probably forgetting something but that's 10 big plot issues to be dealt with with less than 10 minutes per thread to deal with them and presumably weave them into a coherent whole that's both not too complicated this is a kids' film after all and that's also humorous and heartwarming not surprisingly director bill on his first turn being completely in charge he has a lot of previous second unit experience wasn't quite up to the task i'm sure it didn't help that there were at least three screenwriters involved and probably dictating producers as well br br the end result is that air bud world pup is extremely choppy events occur with little justification and worse often little explanation people figure out and do things primarily because they need to and fast so that everything can arrive where it needs to arrive in less than 90 minutes from one cut to the next time might jump ahead six months or so we have both adults who seem like maybe they're mentally disabled and kids who just intuitively figure out what a dog is thinking and rush into some unexpected action some of the threads should have simply been removed because it's difficult to become too engaged in the film when as soon as you're introduced to an idea it's already passed you by br br also not helping is the fact that one of the threads is basically a rip off of one hundred and one dalmatians 1961 minus a cruella de vil character and another problem is that given the way the film is edited i have to assume that the dog air bud probably couldn't do much with the soccer ball unlike the first two films a dog playing a sport is almost an afterthought here and when we see him it's in very quick glimpses every once in a while these snippets appear to be even aided by computer animation br br yet for someone like me there's a cheesy charm to air bud world pup the script and performances often teeter between ridiculous hokey and kinda clichéd i tend to like that combination it makes the film both a bit predictable and subtly bizarre and at times like the ending when the film completely abandons consistency and basically becomes a commercial for the u s women's soccer team air bud world pup is so blatantly tacky that you can't help but love it
0	i'm a big fan of h p lovecraft's books and the mythos background spawned some rather good other stories and stuff like that and in the last years there came along some boys who did movies about h p 's work – for the bigger part low flicks – and showed them to the public at places like the h p lovecraft film festival now like i said most of them don't have a big but they at least know the heart and soul of work and films like cool air or the call of are what i would think gifts for the fan base and other loonies that like h p 's creation br br and then there are people like ivan who just rip off the name and create a movie which would have been fun to watch if i had directed it myself and filmed with some friends down at the beach that is what mr did as it seems but while blokes like aaron or bryan moore's earlier movies might not have had more they somehow still had more to offer like a story real characters and some connection to lovecraft just blabbering out names like or necronomicon makes a movie not a lovecraft adaption br br anyway this flick will not only make fans of the mythos shudder and hide it will also not appeal to people who 1 like good movies 2 laugh about bad movies 3 like good c grade splatter movies or 4 watch everything that has horror written on the dvd cover i will not go into the of this waste of time as it has already been discussed by others here on this page but like i said unknown beyond is like a movie i would have made up with some geeky friends aside from that it lacks ideas for any storytelling and goes into ridiculous moronic nonsense but he it's art stuff self made flicks of this quality are fun to watch if you know all the blokes in it and ha ha see how xy is coughing out the fake blood we made from old tomato sauce and stuff – but hey you don't put this in a dvd casing declare it an actual movie and want money for it… br br i give it 2 10 because of the i dunno – effort or something like that
0	i'm sort of between the gushy review and the hate review i've been a fan of lovecraft and a lovecraft for a long time and while this little amateur film was of poor quality it had a number of redeeming qualities i went into viewing expecting the worst thing i've ever seen and wondering if lovecraft would turn in his grave over it but i was shocked to find that i actually kind of liked it br br i don't want to catalog the movie's faults so i'll only mention a few that keep this movie from being a amateur br br it's very low budget and shot on a video cam so it has the look of some soap operas but once you get used to the idea then it ceases to be a big deal the direction is pretty amateur and the shot framing and use of distance in the shots is rather clumsy still this film was actually kind of creepy and it stayed more faithful to lovecraftian intent than nearly all the stuart gordan and brian yuzna my main exception to those films being re animator and dagon put together the idea of being impregnated by some old one is reminiscent of dunwich horror and shadow over which isn't to say this movie is as good as those stories so the overall plot is quite faithful to lovecraft's ideas one thing that annoyed me was that words out of the bible seemed to make a zombie prisoner upset and afraid i'm not sure if this was meant to indicate that 'god's' words upset the old ones or just this particular zombie there was no real answer to that the rest of the christian symbolism in it reminds me of august take on the mythos so in a way this was a style take on the mythos br br i would recommend this film only as a curiosity it shows how a fairly atmospheric movie can be made with nearly zero budget i liked the setting of the wine the outdoor shots were sad though using the same stretch of beach and trees and nearly the same damn shot to convey 3 characters' long journey was really sad the director needs whack upside the head for that the acting was standard for an amateur film with the blonde zombie girl getting a personal award for best impersonation of gollum by an italian actress actually i think this film was done prior to the lord of the rings movies maybe andy sedaris watched her and thought dang she'd make a great gollum br br one little to the director though the makeup on the zombies was like bad goth kids i was upset seeing this and nearly stopped watching i was like oh so that's how we know she's evil and possessed but later on in the movie you see a girl painting makeup like that on the face of an older woman both living so it wasn't an attempt to say makeup zombie' but rather makeup was left on after however possessed zombie does equal 'blue contact heh br br on the whole i still liked this movie better than the yuzna and gordan films barring the aforementioned exceptions yuzna and gordan had much better budgets but this film did a better job at filming a lovecraft like story than they did and on a tiny budget br br one quick word to the the make up artist i know you wanted or something on fingers but long black press on nails looked really silly br br a quick word to the writer of the score i know you couldn't resist and apparently neither could the director who it but when the two characters square off with guns for a playing that little whistle from the good the bad and the ugly killed any mood that scene had accumulated it was cute but cute wasn't appropriate br br the filmmakers of this movie have read lovecraft and had a great deal of respect for him i enjoyed the little nods here and there the character carter with the bad dreams and the character pickman who becomes a ghoulish zombie
0	undoubtedly the least among the spaghetti westerns i've been watching lately basically a low brow rip off of leone's the good the bad and the ugly 1966 with three disparate characters one another and occasionally forming shaky alliances in their search for hidden gold leonard maltin rated it a bomb while it's harmless enough it's also totally routine and fatally the three main roles are stereotypes that is to say uninteresting eddie byrnes is a bank employee with ideas regarding his being transported by train gilbert roland is the legendary but ageing mexican bandit his frequent lapses into spanish when excited are quite corny who apparently is still irresistible to women george hilton as an enigmatic bounty hunter tries too hard to emulate clint eastwood's man with no name figure director castellari whom i saw at the italian b movie retrospective held during the 2004 venice film festival where he came off as the most pompous of the cult movie directors present shows little genuine feeling for the western on the strength of two above average franco nero efforts in the genre i ordered his collaboration with castellari keoma 1976 i'm keeping my fingers crossed now and the film's tongue in cheek approach is equally lamentable
0	it's a real big bummer that people easily are able too make movies because of cheap digital video cams nowadays usually i would appreciate this possibility but if you see movies like this it's just a big shame and it's also big shame if people like h p lovecraft get abused by the likes of this i rented this movie cuz of the drop h p lovecraft on it and i'm a big fan of many of his adaptions mainly those done by brian yuzna stuart gordon this movie has nothing to deliver a cheap scenery on a beach and in an old wine cellar digi cam effect red light over the whole movie no actors just some stupid low grade models who have for sure no idea what they are doing stiff as wood and so must be the director it's obvious that he tried to create some atmosphere but as the whole things is so laughable it just doesn't work and no gore effects just some blood in a river you drink you become demon and dropping here and there oh yeah the story thousands of years ago some big old colonised the world and took humans as slaves then mankind got independent so the old ones tried to destroy them and now there are some survivors in a post apocalyptic world the only possibility to save mankind is to find the necronomicon that's where it gets to lovecraft so those soldiers fight against some undead and demons on their beach and in their wine cellar unbelievable the whole thing but as it is dubbed german title des and you can find it in most commercial video stores it seems as if you can make money with stuff like that i find this fact impressive
0	as i was watching it i was getting ready to compose a blasting lambasting critique of this film it is actually video but then i saw that someone already did i pretty much agree with him but then again it looks like a lot of effort and millions of lira went into it so i guess you gotta give them some credit for trying however that being said anyone who doesn't already know the lovecraftian world and that this is what they were trying to convey will probably think well i suppose that not only is it really bad but it makes absolutely no sense thank god i read part of the other review a little gushy maybe which revealed that this guy also did the shunned house which looked pretty bad judging by the dvd box so now i can avoid it and save my mind from any further exposure to such desecration of the brilliance of h p lovecraft
0	this really is by far the worst movie i've ever seen in my whole life i'm approaching 47 the description on the back of the cover equaled the scrolling text right at the begin of the movie the further plot was nil and even a bunch of corpses would have shown more life in their acting i viewed the full length of it and was really relieved when the final character's death signalled the end of my suffering the location was either some kind of vaults or a grimy beach i suppose that home video equipment served as camera and the lighting was sub standard the dialogues were uninspired and devoid of meaning as were the actors faces which brings me to the topic make up by the looks of it they got it as gimmicks in some teen magazines my first own make up or similar what made me buy the dvd was the name lovecraft printed on the cover the only connection with this brilliant mind's works was the use of the name necronomicon which was wrongly translated as book of light the 4 70 euro i paid for this dvd were a complete loss for the dvd went into the recycling box without any further ado
0	maybe we aussies just have a totally different sense of humour and therein my lie the only problem here i have a database of all the dvds i own including those received as gifts which this was and so when entering a new one i always refer to imdb for such info as genre runtime director leads etc when entering this i noted that it was a comedy and so i decided to watch it at a time when i wanted something light and a good laugh well it was neither there were absolutely no laughs at all and an inordinate amount of gratuitous profanity are there really radio announcers allowed to broadcast the sort of filth that steve jones dishes out what if a decent child happened to tune to his station br br rather than enjoy a good laugh or even a little giggle i found the whole thing thoroughly depressing i have given it 3 out of 10 but to be honest i don't know what those 3 are for i suppose the basics of lighting and sound weren't too bad br br we have an ostensibly stone broke loser giovanni ribisi who still seems to be able to drive a reasonable car who pays for the fuel and live in what could be a nice apartment who pays his rent given the opportunity of forming what might have been some sort of meaningful relationship with what turned out to be a nice girl he even blew that perhaps it was she lynn collins who earned this movie the 3 points the fact that she works as a stripper rather than a hairdresser is one of the few aspects of this movie that makes sense i make as much in one night doing this as i do in two weeks' hairdressing br br unless you want to get depressed and bored to the teeth forget it
0	this must rate with the worst films i have ever seen it just wasn't funny my wife fell asleep i suppose if you are the sort of person who goes all gooey eyed at the sight of a dog then it may do something for you if you expect a comedy film to have some humour in it then you will be disappointed unless you find an english radio announcer saying the f word a lot hilarious the strippers in the club kept their underwear on so there wasn't even a bit of nudity to relieve the boredom what did happen in the strip club made no sense at all there was a great deal of mumbling by the lead character with whom i developed no sympathy at all mena suvari was hardly in the film presumably just there to make people think it was a serious attempt at producing a film the bad guys were unconvincing and carried as much menace as a dead sheep
0	i realize the line on my summary is not too polite br br this film written directed by scott caan starring giovanni ribisi don cheadle himself runs a long 88 minutes br br there is a dog in this puppy of a movie he is cute br br the movie opened in 2 u s theatres in late april 2007 for one week grossed all of 914 it quickly went to dvd in early august 2007 br br we were only able to take about 40 minutes before we turned the dvd off br br this was the type of movie that played on lower half of double bill you saw the main film figured lets see what this one is like you might have walked out before we shut it off br br the 3 actors the young ladies in the film all have done deserve better than this br br ratings out of 4 54 points out of 100 imdb 4 out of 10
0	let me start by saying i don't recall laughing once during this comedy from the opening scene our protagonist solo giovanni ribisi shows himself to be a self absorbed feeble and neurotic loser completely unable to cope with the smallest responsibilities such as balancing a checkbook keeping his word or forming a coherent thought i guess we're supposed to be drawn to his fragile vulnerability and cheer him on through the process of clawing his way out of a deep depression i guess we're supposed to sympathize as he stumbles through a series of misadventures seemingly triggered by his purchase of a dog but in reality brought on by his own contemptible nature i didn't get the slightest hint at any point that solo ever possessed any redeeming character which became disturbingly apparent when he failed to feed his dog for a few days no spark of humanity or glimmer of conscience gave me hope that he would ever realize his life is so utterly miserable because he's a self absorbed self pitying lowlife i didn't develop any connection with this character he didn't seem to care and so neither did i i actually wanted him to get his kneecaps busted at one point br br the dog was not a character in the film it was simply a prop to be used neglected scorned abused coveted and disposed of on a whim so be warned even though dog is in the title this film is not a romantic comedy for dog lovers br br scott caan's role is amusing and believable as the oversexed best friend cad don cheadle is sincere and magnetic i always want to see more of him on screen mena suvari was delightfully repellent lynn collins role of a stripper with a heart was well acted but the character was simultaneously absurd and clichéd not to mention there was zero chemistry between her and ribisi br br romantic hardly comedy if you say so
0	this movie looked fun on the cover and i honestly thought 'how bad can this be ' little did i know out of the gate the dialogue was unbearable it was contrived unrealistic and not even interesting dialogue on upn syndicated television shows is more natural sounding the story was implausible and had nearly zero play off at the end the end with the snake is almost confusing and seemed staged the only remotely interesting character is rose who is mute which prevents her from being ruined with cliche ridden garbage dialogue well at least until the end when even she has to speak the only thing that even gives this a 3 over a 1 or 2 is rose nude scene truly awful save yourself the trouble and rent something more interesting like a barney video
0	a bad quentin tarantino rip off at least i hope that's what they were going for because at least then i could respect the director for admiring tarantino one scene a singing scene with rose is far to well done and genius for this film and could have only been stumbled on by mistake by this director so besides his quinton inspiration and rose and her one good scene this film sucked some of the crappiest dialogue i have ever heard i'm willing to bet why doesn't speak much is because of how crappy her dialogue would have been tries to be funny never is tries to be dark and isn't tries to be stylish and is just bland who dishes out the money to make movies like this i'm hoping it was all the directors so no one else's money was wasted if not for the whole cast is awful and when is your best hmmm i gotta wonder
0	the two most noteworthy things about i won't play are it won an academy award as the best two reel short film of 1944 and it was directed by silent era leading man crane wilbur the plot of this run of the mill short is inconsequential the dialogue lacks spark while the acting is no better and no worse than that found in most war themed hollywood movies of the 1940s in other words it's awful admittedly there are moments when i won't play is funny janis paige's totally artificial look and line delivery are precious but one laughs at the picture not with it
0	the film begins with a dandy gunfight where three bandits are quickly gunned down by a bounty hunter a bounty hunter who bears more than just a superficial to the man with no name from the clint eastwood trilogy fistful of dollars for a few dollars more and the good the bad and the ugly br br immediately after you see this man in a gold train filled with union soldiers naturally the shipment is attacked and the soldiers all fight like blind guys so they are quickly neutralized however in a twist one of the bandits cheats the gang leader gilbert roland and rides away with the gold soon roland catches up and is about to find out where the gold is hidden but just at that moment the army turns up and kills the traitor bummer however the man with no name wannabe thinks roland knows about the treasure and perhaps a medallion given to roland by the traitor holds the key a strange banker also is thrown into the mix all three want the gold and all three seem pretty macho br br overall this is not a particularly distinguished western much of it is the plot some of it is that george hilton a uruguayan despite the american sounding name isn't as interesting as eastwood or some of the other premier spaghetti western stars but most of it is because the soundtrack simply sucks so often the music doesn't even come close to matching the acting and it seems almost randomly added plus it just isn't very good stuff as well this clearly isn't the work of ennio morricone music master of the spaghetti genre br br overall just a time passer and not a particularly good one to boot
0	firstly few colleges allow students to take courses from their parent's lover secondly few women professors are sleeping with dorm cooks thirdly few brassy coeds have a dad who cooks in their dorm fourthly once a second member of a college small group project team meets a violent demise the college president will disband the whole class and not turn a blind eye as the professor merrily steers the rest of the group toward grisly deaths since the supernatural elements of cult make absolutely no sense it is useful to study the mundane content of this film to truly appreciate how much this flick really sucks
0	cult starts 20 years ago on the mountain range southern china' as a guy called owen robert finds an ancient amulet said to have magical powers cut to california where has set up a cult the members are about to sacrifice themselves when one of them foils his evil scheme jump forward to the present day as five college students mindy rachel miner cassandra taryn manning bailey glenn dunk alex joel morgan victoria are researching the events of twenty years ago that have become know as the massacre' for a school project unfortunately morgan decides to kill herself which unleashes the evil spirit of owen for reasons that are rather tenuous he sets about completing what he started all those years ago by claiming souls so he can finally inherit the magical powers of the amulet for his own evil use br br edited co produced directed by joe knee this is not a good film that's being kind to it the script by benjamin oren which seems to take itself very seriously is a dour supernatural tale about a cult leader who comes back from the dead to finish what he started a few years prior as you would expect the character's involved now have links to what happened all those years ago it's as dull as it sounds the character's are bland forgettable the dialogue just as much so there's no proper horror or exploitation in it it's slow going at times it's predictable it's clichéd it goes completely off the rails at the end doesn't make much sense when you think about it the story never grips or engages you it's never exciting or particularly interesting i'd struggle to even call it average there is very little here by which i could recommend cult don't bother with this one br br director knee does alright but the film has that bland shot on video made for tv look about it it's utterly forgettable flat stuff throughout there's no scares there's no atmosphere it lacks any tension there is no gore either sure there's a fair amount of blood splatter but no proper actual special make up effect gore scenes br br with a supposed budget of about 950 000 cult looks cheap although it's not as badly made as some low budget horror films i've seen recently the acting isn't even worth mentioning br br cult is a poor film that didn't do anything for me i'd struggle to call this average there are much better horror films out there
0	while studying the differences between religion and cult in college mindy rachel miner who is the best student in the class convinces her schoolmates cassandra taryn manning bailey glenn dunk alex joel and morgan victoria to research the massacre of worshipers of kwan yin by their leader owen robert twenty years ago in california had found an ancient amulet in southern china that would give an enormous power to him after the sacrifice of human souls but one woman resists and he is destroyed however after the death of morgan who apparently committed suicide the students discover that has returned and is chasing their souls with his amulet br br the storyline of 'cult is not totally bad unfortunately the screenplay the direction the acting the lines the camera the cgi and the edition are awful i was completely bored and tempted to use the ff button of the dvd but i resisted and wasted 90 minutes of my life watching this never ending crap on a saturday night my vote is two br br title brazil o the secret charm
0	this film is a nightmare the sensation you feel when you wake up from a nightmare is the same i got when i finished watching this movie it ended what a relief i felt pain watching this movie so bad it was it's a b series low cost movie that's for sure but i think it not an excuse to be so bad i've watched brilliant low cost movies with nice plots nice production nice acting and most of all some substance this one got nothing of it the plot is hilarious it almost seems like an american guide about how to transform ancient chinese mythology into a ridiculous teenage movie with some kids playing with the occult … i don't know if the chinese tale present in this movie is real or not but if it is the damage is even worse the production is just horrible a plain zero what special effects are those there's no suspense the supposed tension scenes are a complete failure the acting is not better and what about the dialogs oh my god a movie which has for several times dialogs just like i will pass there later ok is that alright – ok alright ok – ok alright bye then … i'm sure it doesn't deserve more than a 1 10 score br br too bad to be true
0	i can't seem to find anything that is good about this miniseries why the hell would you ban chocolate when u could ban something far more practical like smoking or alcohol also the fact that its an australian program and its all set in england and everyone is faking british accents is stupid overall i think that this show is unrealistic and cheap
0	this movie was so bad if anyone out their who starred in the movie are reading this including the director i hate you lol that blonde woman who was running away screaming through the forest at least cry rather than scream and keep doing the dodgy heavy breathing and oh dear god if it was the director who sorted out the cameras on this one then go back to a normal job no one wants to be watching some scared woman's chin throughout it damn don't even think about renting buying or even having a copy of this within 100 radius of your house since it can be harmful to people who like good movies when i got home i thought id rented a movie by the acting and style of the camera
0	i watched this film last night i though i would rent a horror scary film from blockbusters and i got this one out the opening scenes were so long winded the conversations between characters seemed not to lead anywhere br br the story line seemed so poor to me she gave him hiv and then she goes to meet someone else but she is killed by the man she infected i think she may have been doing it for a long time to different people then when he dumps the body it just happened to be the man she was going to meet was in the forest and saw him dumping the body then he chased them did he ever finish burying the body and they got into a car and he somehow found them from a different direction they came from and killed the bloke br br i think the severed head was the only good thing in the film as it was quite realistic and then when the woman ran she happened to fall over in front of him so he could stab her with a spade and then it finished br br what a relief it was the most pointless film i have ever watched please steer well clear of it it is just so poorly made i counted only 5 different people in it and the scene where he kills her is so unrealistic and they only swear in it and thats it thats it from me br br steer well clear
0	i had the misfortune to see this film recently and have to sit through it a friend purchased it for £1 and insisted we watch it as it sounded good from the story on the back cover br br 10 minutes into the film it was apparent that the actors were amateurs and this was an extremely low budget effort br br the scenes were very poorly acted the script was stupid and the story contained many scenes which seemed unnecessarily long just so the movie would be of a reasonable length br br for instance when the lead character rents a warehouse the film spends a ridiculous amount of time on this scene with meaningless dialogue which serves no real purpose or necessity to the plot br br the lead actor is supposedly carrying out revenge on a woman who sleeps with guys to give them hiv he never once thinks to get tested instead he turns into a crazed killer deciding to torture her before killing her and sawing her into pieces br br if this sounds good and you are thinking this will have lots of gore think again this film has no real gory sequences and is quite tame for this type of film br br it does not scare it does not make you think it does not offer fast paced fun it may however put you to sleep it is certain to bore you to tears so please save yourself the despair and follow my heading br br avoid this film 1 2 out of 10 this does not deserve even 1 br br the film was 78 minutes but seemed as if it was 2 1 2 hours
0	to date this is still the worst piece of rubbish i've ever viewed so annoyed i even complained to blockbuster for stocking it me and some friends rented it after looking at the back cover thinking we were in for a good horror film the plot line seem to change during the film and there was lots of irrelevant padding the film ended quite abruptly i'm guessing they ran out of film sound quality was dire and the first female character had a very thick spanish accent although she talked utter nonsense anyway the guy provided a brief bit of eye candy until his bizarre attempts at murder after wasting all the time to go into in depth discussion on the workshop and its many power tools he opts to put a plastic bag over her head all in all on second thoughts i think you have to watch this film to actually believe it exists
0	this movie was so bad it looked like a home movie in one scene the camera very slowly and gradually tilts down then moves back up into place again the sound is and occasionally fades out then in again in another scene the camera man is just visible in a mirror br br then came the scene with instructions how to put down a tent which believe me went on for ages and was completely irrelevant to the plot most scenes dragged on with conversations that were not entirely relevant either in my opinion these were just to fill out the movie and make it longer even with these scenes added it was very short br br the only good thing about it was the severed head which did look quite realistic
0	lately i've been watching a lot of westerns from the 1930s to the present there are some great low budget spaghetti westerns from the late 1960s and early 1970s this movie had all the elements of a decent western a good story with talented actors and everything else although it's a spoof of this genre and for me the way it was done just didn't work and made for a disappointing movie br br this movie can easily be divided into two parts br br the first part is great it has a great opening scene and an interesting story develops of a bounty hunter a k a the stranger going after a bandit who is going after a large bank shipment guarded in part by a banker over the course of the movie these three characters form shifting alliances in an attempt to get the money there are subtle comic nods to the contrivances of earlier films from this genre but the comedy doesn't disrupt the overall story br br the second half of the film is where the comedy goes over the top and essentially ruins the movie the turning point is right at the part where the barmaid causally scolds the dwarf to stop shooting the customers as she goes about waiting on other patrons seemingly oblivious to the four dead bodies laying about the place from this point onward the movie shifts from a decent spaghetti western with comic undertones to a stupid silly spoof br br there are three horrible fist fight scenes one at the river one in the market and one at the baths that follow in rapid succession as if one wasn't bad enough the fighting is so fake it's ridiculous and since the sound is out of sync with the picture it makes it even worse in the market fight scene the banker bounces about the place on hidden and twirls around on poles like he is in the circus it's clownish although the worst part of these fight scenes is the music it's this light hearted sprightly mix more suited for a square dance or a cheesy episode of these scenes practically derail the main story br br overall this movie was disappointing because it had a lot of potential as a decent western but the comic turns just mucked it up if you want to see a good western spoof then see if you want to see a good spaghetti western then avoid this movie
0	unless you want to be bored half to death i've never been a fan of gus van sant and as part of what previous posters have described as the new youth generation i was very disappointed and slightly angry at the stereotypical depiction of the characters in the film especially as they were used to string along the film's ridiculous storyline which is pretty much enforcing to the viewing masses that are social rejects and should be blamed for crimes as a skater myself i watch a lot of skate films and the filming during the skate scenes which is obviously a major part of the plot as the lead protagonist is a skateboarder was awful and bourne identity esquire shaky camera technique was used with slow motion to give a horrible effect this film is just full of ridiculous stereotypes as shown by the soundtrack which just adds to the media myth that all are white rockers simply just a really bad film
0	this movie is awful i can't even be bothered to write a review on this garbage all i will say it is one of the most boring films i've ever seen br br and the acting is very bad the boy who plays the main character really annoys me he's got the same expression on his face through out the movie i just want to slap him basically 80 of the movie is slow motion shots of weird music and utter sh t br br apparently i've got to write at least 10 lines of text to submit this comment so i'll use up a few more lines by saying the lead character has got one of those faces you just want to slap br br meh i give up this movie sucks
0	paranoid park is about alex a 16 year old skater who causes the death even if accidentally of a security guard as the movie goes on alex deals with little issues like his parent's divorce and the sexual heat of his girlfriend jennifer played by taylor momsen who you can currently see in gossip girl while he's consumed by guilt i had seen just one movie by gus van sant so far elephant and i can assure you that he kept all his mannerisms while doing this one once again he crosses time lines once again he uses weird filming techniques like the never ending shots of people walking maybe you like these filming techniques i know i don't the plot feels unsatisfactory to me its almost to simple to be explored for such a long time the feeling i get same with elephant is that gus van sant tries too hard to make an artistic movie which causes the movie itself to loose substance also gabe was pretty bad as alex there's a difference between looking alienated or detached and looking like a robot if you're a fan of mr van sant then watch this otherwise skip it br br 3 10
0	if it's an art and essay film there is not enough art not to mention essay br br if it is a thriller there is not enough thriller br br if it is a teenage drama there is not enough drama and as far as teenagers are concerned there is not enough and too much nino br br i thought it could be a trailer for tony hawk's forthcoming movie but there is no tony hawk so i guess been cheated it's not tony hawk biopic br br if it's an action movie it lacks explosions which would have added some interest to it or at least would have make jump the sleeping ones into their chairs br br most of the characters seem to be dead inside but it's not a zombie movie in fact if it is a movie there is not enough plot if it is not a movie it lasts too long to be a music video br br if it's a music video well it's an album i will not purchase
0	when me and my gf went to see this film we didn't know what to expect however she assured me that it had good reviews so i went along with it we got into the cinema and bought tickets and went into the screen after a while of sitting there waiting for the film to start no one else walked through the door i was very suspicious as you usually get at least a couple of more people in any film screening the film began eventually and we sat there after a while of very little dialogue and very arty type moody scenes i was starting to realise why we were the only people there it was disjointed with random cuts from the main story to kids in a skate park the story it's self made no sense the kid was meant to have committed a crime when he didn't and if he did writing a letter to no one is not an answer and you shouldn't feel not guilty just because you wrote that letter he should have been punished there was no point to this film at all i have no idea why we didn't go and get our money back part of the way through the film i tried to give it a chance i guess there was little concept to this film and the execution was disgraceful the writer and director and just about everyone else who made this film should have realised what they were doing and stopped it is an hour plus that i will never ever ever get back i'm sorry to anyone who liked this film but it's just so so awful i mean really really really bad oh well at least i never have to be subjected to it again
0	this movie is honestly the worst piece of rubbish i have ever seen this is slow plot less and boring the cinematographer deserved to be shot there were various aspects of unintentional comedy one of which was jared being oddly camp raised many laughs but also many yawns don't watch with anyone anytime any place if u hate someone recommend they buy or rent this big waste of time and money thanks gus van sant not i cant think of anything else to say except don't ever see this movie it will make u want to jump off a cliff hope gus and his mates read this comment before it's too late and he makes a sequel or some other catastrophe with what appeared to be shot with a camera phone
0	i logged on here right after watching this movie feeling that it was so awful that at least its reviews might be entertaining but all you miscreants appear to kind of like it and so since i want the job done right br br from the opening shot the movie establishes its contempt for the audience's attention span by showing an entirely unremarkable picture of an irrelevant bridge for a long long time then it goes to some slow motion skateboarding which is at least a little bit cool but then offsets that glimmer of excitement by the most repellent soundtrack song i've ever heard some girl screeching in whispery french over what sounds like sheets of plywood banging together whoever decided that needed to be there has never ridden a skateboard i guarantee it it seemed to be there to test the limits of the audience's patience br br from there the movie is about 50 per cent slow motion you know what's worse than a gratuitous slow motion shot a gratuitous slow motion shot of nothing happening here's a guy walking along a path here's a guy sitting here's a guy looking around here's a guy looking at another guy after a while i started watching the movie at double speed bringing it back down whenever people appeared on screen engaging in actual dialog which was rare once astonishingly i slowed the movie to find out what a girl was saying only to find that the camera was showing her talking but the sound was another horrible horrible song and her actual voice was not audible br br this reminds me of some great advice i heard once about writing if you don't have anything to say don't use fancy tricks to pretend as though you do get back to work and think of something to say all these camera tricks like the slow motion and weird lighting and lenses and freaky music is what the absence of content looks and sounds like a lot of people have apparently bought it and perceive emotional gravity and deep meaning but i think they are projecting this onto a movie that did not do any of the work involved in creating it
0	how any of you gave this more than 2 stars amazes me i made an account on imdb just to comment on this cr p film the acting is cr p and the plot is cr p it would deserve no stars at all if it weren't for the descent soundtrack and yet there are still some outrageously clownish tracks in there too most notably the ones featuring the and sound like black and white cartoon comedy background music and in no way fit the intended mood of the scenes that they haunt and quality cinematography the dialog and plot are about as complex as that of a dr book these actors are horrible i am actually watching this movie right now and with every word am stunned you all swallowed this the only reason i didn't turn the movie off was because i have gotten wrapped up in creating an account on imdb and posting this review i dig mainstream films i dig silly stupid films i dig retro indie films and nearly any other type genre if carried out well my brother convinced me to rent this because he said he heard it was good and he generally has great taste in movies from the moment he told me the title i looked at him like he was crazy i'm having a tough time ending this rant because there is just so much badness to talk about the only way i can rationalize the good ratings on here is that you guys were paid to give this movie high ratings it is so poorly done and no where close to dramatic artsy complex well written well preformed or even bearable if this was the final product of my hard directorial work i would be to embarrassed to release it to the public so i don't even feel sorry for the director if he reads this what the hell were you thinking guy
0	first off i'm amazed to see that this film has got a rating of 7 on this site at first i thought it might be industry people logging in to imdb and jacking up the rating but after looking on rotten tomatoes and seeing that this film has something like a 76 approval rating it seems that maybe folks have just been duped again into mistaking pretentious crap for profundity i mean this film is simply awful the acting is simply terrible but the rest of the film is worse at least the acting provides some unintentional laughs br br the plot involves a teenage skateboarding boy who is being questioned along with his friends for a murder that happened by a park where they skate and that's about it the rest of the film consists of the aforementioned terrible acting terrible dialog slow motion shots of people walking of people's faces of people skating often set to music that does not fit the scene perhaps that was done to be cool or experimental or hip or perhaps it was done in hopes that it would fool people into thinking that it is somehow profound but it does not work nothing in this film works it's pretentious garbage i can't not recommend it enough
0	now please move on because that's getting on my nerves br br seriously the man behind brilliant pieces like my own private idaho and to die for and others not so brilliant movies i e the unnecessary psycho remake started an experimental phase with gerry which reached its peak with the thought provoking elephant last days had some interesting aspects but was very uneven while paranoid park his new film also has good looking 15 year olds walking around and not much else some cool references to fellini the soundtrack some beautiful pieces by nino and the elegant cinematography by the legendary christopher doyle in the mood for love are the highlights but the movie is just too artsy fartsy and meaningless for its own doom we've had much better coming of age stories and paranoid park brings nothing new i don't see anything artistic about seeing excessive shots of gabe in his underwear or showering or when and 13 year old taylor momsen the little girl from how the grinch stole christmas who plays his cheerleading girlfriend have sex for the first time just because she felt like they had to do it and after they're done she calls her friend to say how amazing it was and you can say from face how traumatic it was everybody knows that they're starting earlier and earlier nowadays movies like thirteen and even elephant itself which shows how lost their minds are in general not only when it comes to sexuality have done a better portrayal of that gus tries to be minimalist and artistic but the final result is just boring and uninteresting his next project milk a biopic about harvey milk starring sean penn will hopefully bring the good old gus back because frankly this obsession over underage kids is almost creepy 4 5 10
0	there's considerable amount of money behind this production so the look of it is very good it includes some interesting appearances by gilbert roland eddie burns and a brief cameo at the beginning by christopher lee there are a few exciting gunfights and a humorous bit or two the satire on django the man with no name and is amusing especially when they are given the names of failed presidents of the mexico revolution br br the trouble is there isn't any purpose in satirizing the spaghetti western as is attempted here the key element in the spaghettis is irony which easily blends into comedy in fact the source of all is kurosawa's yojimbo which is universally recognized as one of the great black comedies of all time and most spaghettis easily slipped over the edge into real comedy of a very sophisticated variety perhaps the best evidence of this is found in the trinity films which are both openly spaghettis and openly slap stick comedy so why bother satirizing a genre that by its very nature satirizes itself consequently i found the whole enterprise essentially unconvincing none of these characters were people i would ever care about the story was generically cliché and the production values only reflected the money involved not the passion of the director over all a banal and futile effort to cash in on the phenomenon it mocks
0	now i understand that this took two months to shoot really i'm pretty certain my crew could do it in less than a week this movie sucked so bad i couldn't even pay close attention just more proof that boob bearing women can't always save you from horrible writing acting and direction now i understand it was a no budget endeavor but there is also no continuity and no real reason to not to turn it off and watch infomercials or foreign news in a language you don't understand oh there are a few decent looking females showing the goods still there aren't enough sexy women alive to warrant watching this travesty perpetrated on the film industry one of the longest 80 minutes of my life i it out though with the help of my old friend jim beam do yourself a favor and get your gun ready cuz you may want to use it after this hack job lastly the individual moron who left a comment before mine thought this was a great movie and loved it just more proof that siblings shouldn't pro create ow burn captain j
0	i really wanted to like this film especially after all the buzz i'd heard revolving around it but sadly it just didn't work for me paranoid park suffers from the same delusion lost in translation did if you use very little dialogue be heavy on the slow motion close ups and concentrate on pieces of fabric in the setting then your story will magically come across as deep and thoughtful br br much of the plot line if you can find a plot of this film is contrived i wasn't impressed with the it all down' confessional being the way the protagonist deals with the accident so what are we supposed to believe he grew up happily ever after and wrote a book about his experiences thus was vindicated for that horrific incident br br what is i suspect supposed to be a film that evokes empathy for a young man who is directionless and faced with an impossible moral quandary instead creates a portrait of a future sociopathic personality he has no connection to anyone around him and by the end of the film has no real sense of what is right or wrong he has no direction at home and feels nothing for his friends what we have is a portrait of a non person a spirit that merely coasts through life as he weaves his way along on his skateboard i don't feel for him at all and honestly i wish he'd been caught the entire film centres not necessarily on his feelings of guilt but on how he is going to avoid punishment and or accountability for a bad decision he not only gets away with it he finds a way to subtly it quite a frightening negative message the suggestion being that so many of our youth are so disconnected from right and that they simply make up the rules as they go along serving themselves for good or ill i find it an insulting on today's youth and the pretentious arrogance of the film maker drips thick with every plodding step and shifting eye br br he did murder the guard but if you blink your eyes you miss it whether it was an act of mercy or not is hard to say it could be he was so mortified he lashed out with his skateboard when he runs to the security guard's car one of the wheels of his skateboard is stained with blood
0	it's difficult to decide who or what is the target audience for this film jean pierre presumably had the chance to explore the problems of amnesia on a serious level and opted instead to use it as an excuse to make a soft porn movie having seen loved admired and respected se souvenir des belles choses which explores memory loss albeit as the result of alzheimer's in a profound and heartbreaking way not least in the luminous performance of isabelle carre i find that is an insult to se souvenirs i have no problem with soft porn per se and even if i had i'd virtually have to give up going to movies so prevalent is it today but i do have a problem with writers directors who attempt to it by it as here in the guise of medical research the sad thing is that fine actresses like julie so wonderful in clara et moi and anna who seems to have hit into a double play after last week's le deluge and now this are wasting their time on dross like this
0	i have heard that was compared to memento for the simple fact they both rely on main characters suffering from short term memory loss well that's like comparing the silence of the lambs and friday the 13th as both involved a character that killed multiple people they couldn't be further apart in ideas br br deals with a copier man at a company who does have short term memory loss he is consistently followed by another gentleman and his boss likes to have sex with him in the office in comes a temp who also gets involved with him and may may not use him for sex needless to say he has a lot of on screen sex br br wait there's more there's a boy who runs into the troubled amnesia male and it's obvious there's more to this boy just bumping into him and there's a notebook the man keeps to try and remember important clues br br i admit i am not one for foreign made films i don't mind reading the subtitles but i do mind that sometimes that takes away from one of my favorite aspects of a film great dialogue since they have to translate or i wouldn't be able to understand for the most part i truly believe they simplify what the characters have to say this movie was no exception the dialogue was just well blah br br as for the story it was interesting enough to keep me around for 98 minutes weird yes but then again i don't live in france so i am not as familiar with their likes dislike or lifestyles such as i guess it's acceptable for a father to lie with and frolic in the buff with his son on the beach – that must be a cultural thing thankfully it wasn't two hours of time invested in watching this man regain his past and progressively move forward to his cure for when the secret is learned i was like really well okay then br br i can only recommend for somewhat decent acting good looking folks and soft porn sexual situations like every 2 4 minutes however if you're not into that sort of scene i would wholeheartedly skip this slow moving and memory regaining film
0	a disturbing film this climaxing as it does with an intensely intimate reunion between a naked man and his young son but in its confused structure it contains a poetically imagined visual exploration of the innocence of an idealised amnesiac br br the plot follows two threads the weaker of which is the gradual revelation of graham pablo's condition wound through this though is a beautiful description of his condition and his meandering path towards a partial awakening driven by his affair with irene br br the affair is the strong thread while the specifics of the plot are carried by a seemingly tacked on collection of characters graham's best friend who can reveal the cause of his condition in a clunking flashback his manipulative boss and his comic book mad scientist psychologist all of whom have an interest in keeping him lost and dependent br br the failure of the film lies in the conflict between the two threads one is visual meandering and sublime while the other is structured like an inept thriller all expository dialogue and unresolved patterns of symbolism br br nevertheless i enjoyed it keeps flirting with the abyss of taboo and shying away into something beautiful as in the quarry with the double bassist and the two women when a setup for a scene of cheap pornography becomes a segment of peace and rejuvenation i still don't get the tooth though br br odd clunky and a narrative failure but with an almost redeeming beauty
0	if you thought rosemary's baby was bad this one isn't much better easily one of the worst movies ever made like it's lame predecessor it goes nowhere fast br br rating 1 2 out of
0	i think rosemary's baby is the most overrated horror film out there not scary interesting or much of anything it's reasonably well directed and ruth gordon was wonderful but that's about it but this sequel makes it look like gone with the wind br br i caught this on tv back when i was 14 unfortunately i still remember it from what i remember rosemary's baby andrew is now grown up and the coven wants him to start taking over the world that is but there are forces trying to stop it and andrew is having doubts himself br br i'm giving this a 2 for a few reasons gordon is in this and still very good stephen mchattie was actually pretty good as andrew and there is one spooky moment at the beginning with rosemary patty duke being kidnapped by a bus with no driver br br other than that it's dull silly and needless the original didn't need a sequel ira levin's book followup in 1999 wasn't much better br br tune in for the beginning with duke then tune out not worth the effort
0	i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed i'm going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence but maybe i won't maybe i'll just imply something will happen the writers lacked any imagination this is not even a b movie it's a made for tv b movie
0	um okay this is very poor indeed if compared to the first film the very much so critically acclaimed rosemary's baby in fact it's a pretty poor film in general yes there are a few redeeming qualities but i'll get to that later br br well it has been quite a while since the last film took place in fact it's been pretty much eight years i believe rosemary is still trying to escape with her child and influence him in a good way rather than let him succumb to the evil future that the coven or tribe as it is referred to as here has laid out for him when she runs off with him and an empty bus comes and picks her up leaving her child with a hooker the hooker raises him until he comes of age where satan tries to possess him since he seems to be rejecting his evil heritage in every way br br obviously things don't go as planned and then there is the ending that i would have felt seriously ashamed at had i not seen it coming since hearing that there was a sequel to rosemary's baby okay when i was around 11 years old i witnessed the masterpiece rosemary's baby and then read the book sequel thinking that this film was an adaptation of that i tracked this film down and got it was i right in doing so well in some way yes i am a true fan of this franchise and can say that i have seen the sequel and i have some idea as to what happens after the events in the first film speaking of both this film and son of rosemary ira levin's own book sequel not yet adapted to film br br ruth gordon who played minnie in the first film is shown a few times in this film but why oh why is the coven so different the knife rosemary had dropped in the first film is shown sticking out of the ground yet minnie pulled it out the coven is now called the tribe as i said earlier they now go around in hooded capes chanting hail satan hail adrian hail satan hail adrian and so on and so forth the gothic building is now like a two story house on a lawn in the middle of nowhere it looks like a little nice suburb home or something and the child itself is pretty normal looking with his eyes only going all catty when he gets mad and kills someone or something in that vain br br as far as the acting goes it's pretty poor on all parts except for stephen mchattie whom plays a very grown up adrian duke astin replacing mia farrow as rosemary has to have one of the flat out worst performances ever to be caught on film it is so bad it's almost not even funny when she screams oh my god and cries for like the fifteenth time in the movie you're just like okay it's not funny anymore and then by the time she is gone and the movie has been on for twenty minutes only you're like thank the lord i don't have to hear her say oh my god any longer sheesh in the end this movie has very very very few redeeming qualities enough to get it at least four stars but if you look at it as a serious sequel to the first film it's pretty much non existent
0	the first film is somewhat good to me i enjoyed it for the most part but i thought it was really nothing all that special however when compared to this mess it looks a whole heck of a lot better why they felt the need to make the movie is beyond me but they should have known it could not match the acting of the first movie when they only could get ruth gordon back to reprise her role the story kind of follows rosemary's baby around and stuff but in reality it is kind of a mess it does not help that the movie is a television movie and the television look shines through very well it has more of a comedy tone to it as well which hinders it greatly if they really felt the need to make a sequel they should have made it an r rated movie that had some nudity and gore in it i am sure it would have still been quite bad but at least it would have been more watchable and fun which this movie is not despite its trying to be funny i saw this one on monstervision and joe bob had nothing really good to say about it in the intro and i do not have to much to say either i do have to say it was a sequel that should have never seen the light of day
0	pretty lousy made for tv sequel to the roman polanski classic rosemary's son adrian has grown up and is embodied by creepy stephen mchattie after eliminating rosemary here played by patty duke a coven of witches again led by minnie roman preps satan's son for world domination it's not really scary and light years less macabre than its predecessor instead writer anthony wilson and director sam o'steen opt for a satan worshiping thriller full of a lot of chanting plenty of candles and ruth gordon trying to act daffy and nasty at the same time gordon's the sole from the original george replaces john cassavetes as guy and a very hammy ray milland plays roman subbing for the late sidney newcomer mchattie is the film's only real saving grace he's very off kilter and looks really sinister without even doing anything the music by charles bernstein is suitably creepy but so over used it's ends up being intrusive rather than effective o'steen who edited the earlier polanski masterpiece shows no flair or subtlety whatsoever
0	i honestly don't know where to begin when reviewing a movie as pathetic as ernest goes to africa aside from two or three good laughs dispersed throughout the film there is nothing positive about this hour and a half waste of time and life it is incredible that someone was able to round up a group of people willing to act film and edit this piece of trash and even more incredible that this is the eighth installment in the ernest series br br during the opening credits of the movie we see ernest posing next to various african objects such as wooden masks and the heads of african animals making faces and gestures that would probably make most 3rd graders laugh this opening scene gives the viewer a taste of ernest's frequent attempts at humor and demonstrates how his comedy falls flat 95 of the time br br the first thing that really hit me about this movie is how bad the acting is everyone in the film is a typical c movie actor but linda stands out as especially terrible she is the epitome of overacting all of her lines are delivered with shockingly inhuman enthusiasm that you'd find only in a middle school play most high school theater students probably could have replaced these actors and delivered a more powerful performance jim varney at least displays some comedic ability every now and then but for the majority of the movie he just acts like a complete retard trying to be humorous by making stupid faces and speaking in different voices br br ernest goes to africa begins in africa where an archaeologist has stolen two priceless gems from an african tribe the gems then make their way back to the united states where an unidentified man is seen running from several henchmen through a flea market he hides them in a bucket of two for a dollar items and then runs from the scene ernest is looking for a gift to buy for rene a waitress he likes so he goes to the flea market and of course buys the priceless gems he later takes them back to his house paints them and glues them together to make a yo yo he gives the yo yo to rene and she explains that they can never be together because he is just an average and she wants a man of adventure rene and ernest are tracked down by the henchmen and are then brought to africa to be kept as prisoners br br most of the movie really doesn't make sense once ernest is in africa he falls out of the truck that they are carrying him in and lands in a river in the next scene we see him as a hindu servant named hey you his skin is dark and he is wearing a loin cloth at first i thought jim varney was playing another role in the film in addition to ernest but i immediately recognized ernest's idiocy once hey you began to speak br br another scene that sticks out in my mind as being completely ridiculous is the car chase scene in the african wilderness rene and ernest have taken an ostrich farmer's truck and are being chased by the henchmen driving at about twenty miles per hour on a fairly straight road both henchmen are shooting at ernest who is in the back of the ostrich farmer's truck ernest on the other hand is throwing ostrich eggs at the henchmen and their driver the henchmen never hit ernest once during the five minute chase but ernest is able to fend them off by hitting them and their driver in the face making their car swerve off the road and explode in a giant column of smoke i should also add that ernest is the eggs two at a time from a large bra br br the set design is also incredibly poor in this movie there is a large portion of the film in which rene and ernest are walking in africa trying to find civilization during their hike we see them walking through fields and jungles which probably could have been shot anywhere in the united states the fields are simply plain fields with no indication whatsoever of being anywhere near africa they could have at least digitally added some african trees in the background and the jungles look like the woods of rural connecticut with papier skulls vines and thorns hanging from trees according to imdb com the film was actually shot in south africa but i still wouldn't believe that at all br br the movie goes on and on ernest joke after ernest joke the rest of the movie doesn't really make any sense either the african tribesmen all speak english for some reason and ernest is later challenged to a battle of truth by the lead henchman who is suddenly dressed in an outfit that resembles that of a ninja yet also somewhat resembles that of a bondage submissive the henchman has a table of axes swords knives and before him while ernest has a table with a sandwich a teddy bear and a few other worthless items however ernest wins the battle and somehow ends up saving the day br br overall this movie is painful to watch i couldn't handle it in one sitting i had to stop halfway through and do something productive for a few hours to compensate for the brain cells lost while trying to appreciate humor they should really put a surgeon's general warning on the box to let people know that they will in fact be slightly more retarded upon finishing this movie i would have to say that out of all the movies i have ever seen none comes close to being as pitiable as ernest goes to africa
0	with its few touches of surrealism works as low grade horror but as a major follow up statement to the original it flounders miserably br br things begin somewhat promising during the opening credits we see and hear several interesting shots and sounds the baby's black crib with the inverted cross the kitchen knife rosemary carried into the apartment and dropped in shock the is shown sticking out of the hardwood floor and the emptiness of the itself without tenants or furniture voice overs can be heard here from the previous film's dialog interesting too is the easter egg hunt the titular child participates in the eggs and baskets are also black once the story gets rolling it never really and what happens to rosemary when she boards that bus and is whisked away to god knows where br br patty duke a poor replacement for mia farrow ray milland and tina louise as the southwestern whore who raises the child adrian andrew head this almost star cast with ruth gordon reprising her minnie role br br although not a total failure this sequel of sorts should have been released in book form first then maybe we all could have been a bit better informed and not left totally in the dark a fairly recent sequel novel son of rosemary 1999 is the legitimate followup by ira levin himself br br
0	sam o'steen the film editor on the superlative suspense flick rosemary's baby from 1968 here directs a quickie tv made sequel one in which rosemary woodhouse patty duke astin in for mia farrow is shunted off early and inexplicably presumably to help flesh out the more ghoulish aspects of this flaccid story about satan's son on earth most interesting is the return of ruth gordon to her oscar winning role as minnie with ray milland well cast as her husband roman but she isn't given much to do and looks terribly uncomfortable at being involved anyway this script is strictly low rent goods and must have shamed original author ira levin who went on to write his own sequel fairly dim and pallid with poor photography and no suspense or scares whatsoever
0	i usually seek to find good in movies even the bad ones unfortunately this movie is one where i fail miserably and the fact that there's barely one positive review on this board shows many imdb reviewers share my pain br br i don't usually watch sequels but i just had to see this since i love rosemary's baby so much what a mistake that was it simply reaffirms my belief in the fact that most sequels are lousy though thankfully very few are as bad as this in fact in my mind this isn't even really a sequel it's a satire on how bad a sequel can be movie recommended very highly for not viewing at any time ever
0	for a movie that gained so much recognition and appraise this spinoff to baby is one big mistake it starts off that andrew adrian whatever his name is because he's so confused that he doesn't know who he is anymore runs away from a cult with his mother and soon is kidnapped by a strange lady that ends up taking care of him as if she were his mother the acting is terrible as andrew grows up in his twenties and looks terrible with his sunken in face never ending grin and dukes of hazard clothes on looks more like a drunken has been than the son of satan in fact thats all he does is drink and falls sloppily all over himself as he tries to come to grips with his past and the last memory of his mother driving away on a bus screaming to him he finds a friend that seems to be an angel but he's quickly killed off and electricuted in a hillarious scene in which he looks more like a christmas tree andrew gets and the cult with the members of the first part test him to see if he's really the son of satan his dumb self fails the test and gets up off the alter glittering with makeup and jumps of the stage of a night club and dances like a clown on crack this scene is memorable and well worth a watch the ending is terrible and somewhat predictable considering how stupid he is in the whole movie do not watch this piece of trash or you will loose respect for the first part
0	this film is a bad film but to gain any nutritional value from it i recommend watching it back to back with rosemary's baby br br there is a lot to learn seeing how different directors can draw different performances from the same actors playing the same characters observe minnie ruth gordon and the fine work she did in the first film vs the awful rendition in this film br br it is also interesting to see how the same characters were played by different actors which leads me to wonder if anyone involved with the sequel were aware of the first film and did any of them watch rosemary's baby before making this br br if your interest in films is purely superficial then you would best avoid this one i have a lot more to say about this film but i really don't want to go there
0	i was hoping that pulp would be a interesting movie but was profoundly disappointed br br pulp has very little storyline and what there is never holds your interest it was a real struggle to keep watching it when its over you say to you self huh that's it this is one where you think after watching it why did they ever bother br br its too bad since michael caine is a good actor i was also hoping to see the great lizabeth scott in this but she only appears on screen for a total of perhaps one minute scott is one of the all time great film noir femme fatale girls and this was her last film br br oh well
0	this is a silly spoof of private eye thrillers as a novelist michael cain is called upon to an autobiography of a colorful waning hollywood star mickey rooney at times silliness becomes obnoxious this is not cain at his best rooney is way over the top notable support from lizabeth scott lionel and the comely nadia cassini not easy to watch
0	okay enough every time i think i've seen a film that is so misbegotten so bad in every way that i think that no one could possibly find something to praise i just come to the imdb where i'm greeted with the usual inane undiscovered masterpiece great film i mean honestly what movie are you people watching because it's certainly not the mess i just watched on the new fox mgm ua dvd there are about three amusing lines and a plot that gives incoherence a new meaning and then after ninety three interminable minutes it just stops and the end credits begin then there's another scene the dvd is fairly wretched which suits the film the source material is almost completely faded to an ugly brown it's hard to imagine this film followed get carter the critics and the public got this one right back then it was lambasted and a box office disaster and rightfully so but you pundits keep on trying and i'll keep on trying to find a movie that doesn't have someone who raves about it
0	what bird is that a maltese falcon the only thing remotely funny about this movie is michael hair which has more depth and character than the man underneath it br br the malta settings are as dry and as barren as the dialogue salutes to raymond chandler and humphrey bogart and crime fiction etc seem obtuse and just plain silly without the salvation of any humour or the reason this film has no and near forgotten is it's so vacuous an hour and half of pointless time spent in the company of second rate actors and film makers this film is what the title suggests
0	i watched this video because i like malta and this movie was filmed in its entirety there very disappointing since it fails to catch any of the flavor or beauty of the island just the hot dry and barren elements the movie was dull boring completely incoherent from beginning to end pretentious and devoid of any conceivable plot you had to be a psychic to follow the plot line or lack thereof it had its moments sure but so does going to the dentist br br in short i'd much rather endure another before viewing this horrible mess again it was so bad i actually couldn't fall asleep there are quite a few eurotrash movies out there that were obviously made without adult supervision this is one of them on the bright side who is nadia cassini never before have i seen a more beautiful set of legs she is the one saving grace of this movie br br disturbing too was the cruel boar hunt depicted in the closing credits a boar that was released on someone's property malta has very few native mammals all of them small rats bats etc and then set upon by dogs before it was shot oh well go visit malta anyway despite this film it's a beautiful colorful island rich in history and lots of fun
0	ok so one night me and some friends decided to get really stoned and watch a movie unfortunately for us we chose goes to africa ' i have never laughed so hard in my entire life this movie is beyond bad i have literally pooped out better films than goes to africa ' i poop films br br the highlight of this movie for me at least was the opening sequence when ernest is making silly faces when they showed him with a head the size of a peanut i lost it perhaps i found this so funny because at that point i was the most high perhaps you are right br br if i had to guess what george w bush's favorite movie is i would guess goes to africa ' never before have i seen a movie rely more on 1950's stereotypes of people of color there were times when words escaped me and i just stared in awe br br as i was watching this i couldn't help but wonder is this movie meant for children do literate adults actually watch this how could there possibly be a whole franchise of 'ernest' movies is this really my life is this real br br i hated this movie
0	dryly irreverent but sadly unfunny satire of detective movies with stony faced michael caine playing a british author of trashy crime stories traveling to the to assist in writing the memoirs of a would be gangster soon he realizes he's being followed and his life is in danger caine narrates the proceedings with considerable sly wit and low keyed sarcasm but his actual performance is bereft of energy caine's shrill bursts of anger or frustration seem to come out of nowhere and he connects with nobody on the screen other cast members particularly mickey rooney a silver haired lionel and lizabeth scott do very well in colorfully outré roles though al lettieri has an insulting part as an apparent cross dressing homosexual lettieri gets insulted without being able to defend himself an unenviable position writer director mike hodges has the germ of a good idea satirize the detective movies of the 1940s without compromising the hard boiled talk and milieu but he hasn't a very sharp sense of humor when a bogart lookalike asking a question about a falcon is the best joke what follows is anemic indeed from
0	one of the worse gay related movies i have ever seen since these are not characters in this story it's hard to comment on the actual film therefore since colton ford aka glen laid his life open for all to see i guess he's fair game to criticize and that's not hard to do here goes 50 something glen is a big time porn star who wants fame and fortune as a big time singer i guess 11 films makes him a star being gay and forty i have seen porno and i did not recognize him or his lover personally they all look the same to me with different hair styles face it guys he's no jeff stryker jim or casey that's ok though the purpose of these films takes place in about 6 5 minutes so they all pretty much have the same requirements if you know what i mean br br so glen wants to be a serious legit singer after he dumps the porno industry but he can't get anyone to take him seriously i wonder why was he so stupid to think that he could whitewash taking his clothes off and having sex on film and according to the film it's not just porn flicks he indulges in it's living in a house with other stars where people can hook into their bedroom the bathroom and where ever via it's 500 dollars an hour to entertain at a private party strip gigs at clothing optional hotels doing something called meth which i presume is a drug and then you have the balls to get angry when someone at a club gig tries to touch you because he's legit now oy br br the only interesting non cardboard character is the academy award winning gay screen writer who wouldn't give his name and considering this is a documentary well porn is as porn does you can tell he's most amused by the dumb bunny porn star br br glen has one hyper nellie manager kyle who wants to him as a porno participant in hopes of getting him gay club gigs he tries to do the routine wear this don't smile say this in what amounts to controlling issues but our anti hero will not be controlled or told what to do that's the first mistake i'm not saying kyle was right but if any budding singer starts questioning the manager they're not going to get far kind of like he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client br br all of this wouldn't have been bad if it weren't for one small tiny bit of information drum roll please he's bad he sucks his singing talent ranks up there with ashlee simpson it's hard to root for someone who while trying make his dream come true at 50 doesn't work like normal people no job can you say lazy ass and the whining and the why don't they accept me song and dance and after a few months of scraping the surface of the music industry he spouts off why don't i have a record deal by now what actors are waiters writers work in low level newspapers or mags whatever this guy is above that it's true he wants his success now merely because he decided he wanted it whine whine whine his lover leaves him to return to nursing but i tell ya i wouldn't want that moron dispensing medical care to me both of them were useless airheads the movie is useless unless you really like whine and people stay away do not waste your money on the crappy lives of useless people there are far more interesting things stuck to the bottom of your shoe
0	for the first fifteen minutes the story of naked fame is interesting two late thirties male porn stars in a seemingly healthy relationship decide to leave the porn industry and try for the world of singing and acting the two very buff and preening men are colton ford and blake harper with the aid of kevin and marc berkely colton makes a dance track that is then marketed in new york with the hopes that colton ford will become an instant star a unique disco singer touting his background as a porn star for pr br br the remainder of the film is grumbling and in fighting and commentary by porn producer chichi larue and the film slowly sinks into repetition and doldrums not a bad idea for a film if there were a bit more depth revealed in each character's drive to move away form a successful career though one greatly influenced by the youth both characters have lost into an alternative one it is just that a one note song wears thin quickly grady harp november 05
0	so what is one to do if you are a porno star with fading looks i know become a pop star this documentary and i use the term loosely follows the trials and tribulations of colton as he tries to transform himself from a gay porn star into a singer of electronic read dance music i only wish mr ford's voice was as muscular as his arms sorry to say his vocals are painfully thin there isn't much interesting going on here but mr ford and friends are eye candy br br see him record a song that sounds exactly like every other mindless dance tune see him travel to new york to make connections see him go back to l a with little success see yourself look in the mirror and ask why am i wasting time watching this mess
0	forget any angst ridden documentary this film is really an out and out comedy about a 40 yer old porn star whose goal in life is to sing junky circuit party songs the only problem colton ford can't sing and the film cuts away whenever he appears to be ready to burst into song yet ford and equally vapid boyfriend blake harper whine and and run around in their tank tops determined to make dreams come true even funnier is manager kyle who appears to have the i q of a turnip and whose collagen injected lips look like a bee stung him how can grown men be so self delusional ha ha as for the documentary the filmmakers don't appear to have any pov and the film is poorly structured and wildly uneven very little background information is provided about the three leads such an inclusion might have made the three seem like something other than aging west hollywood stereotypes
0	after reading so many glowing reports of 'to serve them all my days' i went out and bought it for christmas a waste of money i'm afraid i was looking forward to something in the same league as and some of the few other great productions from british television but this is decidedly not among them br br the characters are all too good to be true swathed in a very predictable plot and with the most trite and eye rolling script i've heard in years yes it has its moments but they are very thin on the ground the lead actor is interesting mostly because of his uncanny resemblance to anthony andrews sebastian in only dark but his undoubted talents are wasted on a character who is insufferably self important and priggish his is attributed to the effects of his experiences in the somme during ww1 he does the early episodes centered around his nervous condition better than he does playing the the squeaky clean socialist do gooder later on br br the women are completely unbelievable as in un real his first wife is annoyingly chipper and chirpy the girlfriend the perfect sophisticated slut and the last lady a hodge podge of political bosh the most interesting characters are howarth alan and one of the other masters named i forget the actor's name br br the high minded preachiness of the script is typical andrew davies screen writer in his early years and becomes tiresome within the first two episodes this mini series is 11 episodes long by episode 4 i just wanted to get through the blasted thing br br the music is equally tedious limited mostly to one mawkish piano tune and a sung by boys during the credits no expense was spared on the location settings which gives some visual relief to an otherwise excruciating viewing experience br br i like stories of this sort as a rule and am very disappointed at the maudlin nature of this series if you want to watch something riveting about ww1 and its after effects there are many other far finer vehicles to rent or buy one that comes to mind is 'the unknown soldier' from 1998 the characters in that masterpiece theater presentation are real and fascinating and move one unlike the 2 dimensional puppets in 'to serve them all my days ' as for films on boys' schools stick to 'goodbye mr chips' or 'tom brown's br br i know this goes against the general favorable view of this mini series but i strongly recommend thinking twice before shelling out 80 00 to acorn media for their 4 dvd set 2 discs of which on my set had insurmountable problems with freezing and skipping
0	that's all i can really say about this film it's like tree of might and the world's strongest it really doesn't fit into the timeline for the show at all though it is supposedly placed just before the beginning of the tv series the action is pretty nice in general the plot has a nice enough base with a good background establishing why these guys hate each other and all pretty good in general there the problem is there's a lot of really weird stuff i mean really weird stuff like the world's strongest there's a really really odd song in this one that could only have been created in a drug induced haze disturbing is the fact that while singing is pretty much drugged out himself creepy the villains are odd and rather comical moreso than the usual type this seems more like it was made as a dragon ball movie rather than a dragon ball z movie in general its entertaining enough but just strange
0	i sat last night to see this film being played in greek television because of the upcoming olympic games hosted by my city knowing that it is an american film i had already expected it to focus more on the american athletes story and i was really ready for it but what i saw was too much i mean when a movie has such a title first olympics athens 1896 even being of american origin you would not expect it to be so propagandizing and on the same time ignorant towards other countries' athletes and efforts the american athletes seem to have all the gifts of nature strength smartness generosity kindness politeness in contrast to their sin athletes in the games who seem being unable even to speak their thoughts or express feelings the number of times the american anthem is played during the film must be an all time record in filmography megalomania at it's best it even uses fictionalized facts which ridicules the greek nation such as greek citizens serving the foreign marathon athletes with wine in order to help the domestic ones win the race so much for the olympic spirit br br think of it being a greek and putting a bad mark to a movie whose title is also greek is something that doesn't make me happy at all but according to what i have seen i cannot give it more than 4 out of 10 being pretty generous actually
0	historically awful scarcely an accurate moment in 4 hours of one cannot keep track of the inconsistencies while watching as with all track and filed movies nobody bothers to ask for any track consultants events and techniques that weren't even created until the next century are shown from the shots of runners jogging in a 400 meters to the highly overweight actor portraying the high jump and long jump winner one would have to know absolutely nothing about track to even be mildly entertained likely thrown together in 1984 as a tribute to the games just prior to the la olympics
0	disappointing is the best word i could think for this film especially considering the glowing reviews it receives from some other users br br one thing that really spoils the film is that it is unabashedly partial in both senses of the word not only does it present a very selective description of the games focussing as it does on the us athletics team but it also contains several inaccuracies most of which serve to exaggerate the difficulties the us team faced br br what is even more disturbing is that all the omissions and mistakes appear to glorify us sportsmanship to the exclusion of other athletes with a few celebrated exceptions for example the viewer is led to believe that the us won the majority of medals in the games when in fact they won only one out of four gold medals and one out of 6 total similarly many athletes are portrayed as caricatures of their respective countrymen thus we have an arrogant brit and a wine swilling french this attitude does very little service to the olympic ideals that the film is supposed to celebrate br br in conclusion i believe that this film would appeal to that part of the us audience that is looking for a quick boost of national self esteem those looking for a detailed and historically correct description of the games are advised to look elsewhere
0	having first read the novel i don't mind for the purposes of filming how differently it is scripted as long as it adheres to or at least includes the plot for reasons known only to hollywood important parts of the story are completely ignored and a different story line added the reason this novel passed the test of time is no doubt due to the interweaving of both the characters and plot as a whole to interfere with this structure is to destroy the intricate balance of the story line and therefore the intension of the story teller although a matter of opinion the casting of this film leaves a lot to be desired characters described as very fat should at least be made to look portly to allow for the character to have credibility the days of slavery can't be over or surely actors of this calibre would have been in revolt at such a travesty of the story the face of marian is described as being manly in appearance tara fitzgerald's very feminine appearance doesn't ring true again laura fairly is described as being if not so with dark hair she does not quite fit the impression gleaned from the novel badly done hollywood br br j hunter
0	i remember watching this mini series the first time in 1984 with a growing sense of anger and indignation having read the comments on this title i must agree with those from the people in greece this was produced to coincide with the 1984 los angeles olympic games and to me it seemed like nothing more than an exercise in jingoistic flag waving american nationalism in which the american athletes are glorified at everyone else's expense some other nationalities would have every right to feel deeply insulted at the way they were portrayed in this series it may however help to explain the way in which many american spectators behaved at the 1984 los angeles olympics and the tv coverage which seemed only interested in events that americans were likely to win
0	bed is a strange movie it's very convoluted as if it had a lot of ideas but lacked the ability to bring them all into one coherent story instead we get various plotlines that diverges into their own separate little movies oh sure they eventually meet up in the end but it all seems rather superfluous of note is the girlfriend and her troubles at the hospital was this interesting then there were the we are spirits thus we have no physicality elements which leads to the same problem that people had with ghost namely if the characters have no physicality i e no corporeal form and they can phase through walls and what not how exactly do they keep from falling through the floor or float up the ceiling for that matter br br bed was highly touted as a new breed of south korean film there's plenty of special effects but the movie itself is hollow and its faux melodrama will only touch those who are easy to well touch to begin with br br 4 out of 10 br br go to www nixflix com for a more detailed review of this movie and reviews of other foreign films
0	an art teacher comes across an antique wooden bed made from trees and puts it in his apartment but it has a terrible history and he becomes hunted by a ancient spirit who sustains his human form by ripping the hearts out of people br br this beautifully crafted well actually it's more fantasy romance than anything else does raise some chills and provide some stunning visuals but the plot was hardly interesting enough and the formulaic script lacked any sort of life problem was that i spent most of the time trying to keep my finger away from the fast forward button it sure would have sped up the film's slow pacing but then again i wouldn't know about too much that was going on which was reasonably hard to figure out or keep interest in the first place the performances ranged from too melodramatic or just plain dull and that's probably because these characters are unconvincing stale and coma inducing the actual back story of the old bed and the spirits is incredibly boring and messily put together with too much focus on a flimsy romance being laughable when it shouldn't be and overall it's constructed in an ordinary manner that just lacks the oomph or conviction to carry the film what compensates for the story's shortcomings are really arty images which looked grand but the use of some images had me somewhat dumbfounded to what they actually mean towards the film what catches your eye is the faded colour scheme but sometimes the actual screen would look real grainy or snowy although from that it shows the raw intensity of the production but also add some nice polished effects that goes well with the soothing but sometimes edgy score the camera work was pretty diverse although it didn't add too much to the feature but during some of the more upbeat scenes there were too many close ups or dark lighting which made it hard to understand what you are seeing also on show are some nice moments of blood and gore but not overtly grand or distinguishable from most other films br br lethargically odd film with luminous images that look like something out of a painting but still it isn't particularly enticing watch out it might put you in a deep trance
0	i've seen a lot of movies in my time and this one really stands out as being the absolute worst movie ever made in the history of film making anywhere in the world it took me 3 efforts to watch this movie the first time i fell asleep after 15 minutes from boredom possibly because i was already tired as it was late at night the second effort i managed to get through 35 minutes but yet again i found myself asleep i can go on and on like this but i think you're getting the point nothing happens ever in this movie a complete waste of time and money this movie really sucks watch it and you will know what i am talking about if you can get 40 minutes into this movie without shaking your head and wondering what the hell is the point of it all then you are indeed a masochist the only reason i gave this movie a 1 out of 10 is because 0 was not provided as an option i just thought the world needed to be warned before either hiring or worse yet buying this trash later
0	and one of 'em are bad movies the title as it turns out refers to a killer of the human male variety not fish this is not the dante directed piranha of '78 which did have the fish and is also known as piranha piranha a trio of photographers 2 men and a woman hook up with a local hunter trapper named somewhere in the amazon jungle unfortunately they are not familiar with the film resume of william smith who plays otherwise they would have known immediately he is the villain of the piece smith may have also refused to film the ending or cut out before they finished filming see end of this comment br br as mentioned elsewhere this pic has a lot of filler lengthy shots of the local wildlife birds and the central set piece a motorcycle race which goes on too long the reason this gets a second star from me is of course william smith who can't really save this sludge but once again proves why he was the 'go to' guy 30 35 years ago if you needed a really nasty villain at his best smith could be really terrifying he's the type who enjoys killing possibly in sadistic fashion and you get that sense from the evil grin he usually puts on when a mood strikes him physically he's very imposing and you know the other 3 characters are pretty much doomed within the first half hour this was what smith brought to most of his roles it seems hopeless for the other characters against this monster unfortunately the movie continues to muddy things up to the very end as if a minute of footage was lost a confusing incomplete climax
0	this movie starts out as if it were a comedy it almost appears that the actors are reading off of cue cards especially in the airport sequence william smith plays the role of a hunter who is quite twisted and deranged smith seems to always play villains such as in the ultimate warrior 1975 and the frisco kid 1979 to name a few although in this film the villainous role seems laughable this is one of those films where senseless things take place only to fill up screen time such as the girl chasing sequence at the beginning and the long silly motorcycle race i give this film 1 10 i would have liked to see this film on mystery science theatre it would have been hilarious
0	one of the greatest lessons i ever had in how to watch a movie happened this way br br i was working in roger corman's offices like so many other before and since i was and trying to figure out how it all worked and how to make myself indispensable hah one afternoon julie corman roger corman's wife and a producer in her own right asked me to load up a tape i'm not sure why she wanted to watch it i got the impression it was a student film or a show reel something like that some sort of calling card whatever the reasons she had to see it the only free video machine in the offices at the time happened to be in the room i was working in and i was the nearest person to the machine i started the tape br br fade in on screen a figure sat at a desk facing the camera behind him screen left was a door that opened into the room against the far wall was a coat rack a second character entered through the door and started talking the first character the guy at the desk turned round to reply this is all one take static camera there are no cuts pans or dolly shots just one locked off camera the second character turned to hang his coat on the coat rack and delivered his next line julie corman said i've seen enough and left the room br br what she had seen in the ten seconds of footage she had watched was that the director was an idiot opening with two characters who immediately turned their backs to the camera delivering lines nope sorry next that's how long you've got ten seconds cock it up in the opening shot and you are dead br br i was reminded of that moment while i watched the opening of this piece of crap after an interminably long travelogue of jungle we see several monkeys apparently throwing themselves into cages a man carrying a gun laughs a jet liner lands and we see it taxi the whole way to the terminal god this is boring cut to the interior of the airport two men meet aha something is happening they shake hands cut to a different angle of the two men br br and the director crosses the line br br the first two shots of the movie that have any kind of spatial relationship with each other and the guy has cocked up 'not crossing the line' is one of those basic rules of movie grammar that keeps the characters from jumping about from side to side on the screen and confusing the audience audiences don't like to be confused mystified baffled puzzled and intrigued yes audiences love all of those confused no you loose them they walk out 'not crossing the line' is one of those things they pound into you at film school or should it's basic stuff it's not an inviolable rule there are no inviolable rules directors break it all the time but not on the first real cut of the movie br br i thought i've seen enough and switched off
0	this movie starts out as if it were a comedy it almost appears that the actors are reading off of cue cards especially in the airport sequence william smith plays the role of a hunter who is quite twisted and deranged smith seems to always play villains such as in the ultimate warrior 1975 and the frisco kid 1979 to name a few although in this film the villainous role seems laughable this is one of those films where senseless things take place only to fill up screen time such as the girl chasing sequence at the beginning and the long silly motorcycle race i give this film 1 10 i would have liked to see this film on mystery science theatre it would have been hilarious
0	the sound is terrible the picture is worse than worse the acting is awful the female leading actress is chubby and the story is wait a minute there is no story the plot is really bad and the title of the movie is misleading if you expect to to see piranhas you might be disappointed this movie has nothing to do with the piranha movies from 1978 and 1981 actually i can only think of one scene involving piranhas br br the only thing that i liked about this movie besides the fact that it runs for only about 85 minutes is the song at the end it's written and sung by jim stein and it's called love all things that love the sun br br i don't recommend this movie it is so bad it's not even funny to watch i fell asleep after the first 20 minutes and i am the kind of person who watches anything
0	i picked up this dvd for 4 99 they had put spiffy cover art on the package along with a plot summary that had nothing to do with the movie the acting is terrible and the writing is worse the only possible way this movie could be redeemed would be as mst3k fodder i paid too much
0	this is supposed to be based on wilkie collins' the woman in white but the only resemblance it bore to that story were the characters' names the time period and the settings if they were going to change the story so thoroughly i don't understand why they needed to keep up the pretense that it came from wilkie collins go read the book it's much better
0	this was absolutely the most tragic pile of cinema to which i have ever born witness not only was the name a complete misnomer since the film has next to nothing to do with piranhas but the acting is as hollow and stale as the attempt to actually make some kind of plot when you watch this film you cannot help but spend every waking second questioning when you've had enough and it's time to turn it off unfortunately i waited until the end in my case that's two hours of my life that i will never be able to reclaim
0	piranha starts out as expected stupid white people going to discover new lands and exploit them i thought for a while it might be a cannibal film it starts off like so many others showing nothing but shots off untouched amazon rain forest for all i know it could be florida at this point you figure some animal mutilation or natives will pop up instead you get the acting talents of william smith who starred in l a vice and angels die hard he plays an acclaimed hunter who i would describe him as jack palance light he is bigger in stature but not quite the jack palance goodness as for natives you don't really get that many where's the piranha should i even ask that question now hunts humans i guess he doesn't really pursue anyone till the end of the movie though just stares at them does race one of the tourists on a motorcycle in a over dramatic smokey and the bandit kind of way the motorcycle challenge happens for no real reason other than an action sequence i can't tell you how many times i've seen a tourist challenge a stranger to a motorcycle race in the jungle never actually do they live do they die will you care anybody wanna race on motorcycles caution this film contains extreme dry look my advice is to rent a jack palance classic like craze
0	let's see what are the advantages to watching piranha piranha well if you've never seen anything to do with venezuela there's a lot of travelogue footage of both caracas and the countryside and jungle side and of the various native peoples at work and play as well as plenty of indigenous wildlife if you like william smith he plays a bit of a git as he has always been wont to do br br and that's about it if it wasn't for william smith this could probably pass as a fund raising film for save the children or some other organization that benefits the third world the only time you really see the fish of the title is during the opening credits no mutant killer fish like in roger corman's named piranha you'd figure with twice the fish in the title there would be twice as many monster fish preying on the characters but alas this is not the case br br the story starts with a photojournalist and her brother coming to venezuela to do a story on one of the last untouched places on the planet but their motivation quickly changes to one of wanting to find diamonds which are apparently fairly plentiful there br br there's not a lot of real action or danger in this movie what could've been an exciting motorcycle race is dulled by the mass of landscape and animal footage that is inserted in it to draw out the films running time there's not a whole lot more action until the last fifteen minutes or so of the movie which is probably about how long the movie would last without all the br br in my view the only ways that a movie can really be a bad movie is to be boring or incredibly stupid piranha piranha certainly qualifies for that former badge and is pretty damn close to the second the only reason i won't rate it a 1 is that the added footage is more interesting than the rest of the movie
0	i got seriously ripped off with this purchase the other posters pretty well cover the failings of this poor poor film my dvd that i purchased actually had the 1978 piranha poster art on the cover with the credits for that film on the front by joe etc i was really disappointed to find the wrong film on the disc i am actually a fan of lots of bad movies there is always something funny or at least amusing on most of them somewhere not this film i am actually going to spend the three dollars in gas money to return this two dollar dvd just for the principle of the thing blatant false packaging here easily the worst movie of all time no redeeming factors at all boring not even worth checking out just to see how bad it is seriously
0	obviously this is not the piranha directed by joe dante and produced by roger corman it wasn't so obvious when i bought the dvd for only 2 95 as the dvd cover art matched that of the corman produced comedy horror piranha even the dvd menu no features of course matched the cover half way through watching this odd movie my girlfriend and i started thinking where are the piranhas once the movie reached the climax we realised that we must have been watching the wrong movie as we had seen the trailer which had completely different footage the blurb on the back of the dvd did not match the story we were watching and the credits actors producer director were also completely different instead we got some jungle melodrama about a a girl and two guys who go searching for diamonds and end up confronting a vicious animal hunter this tame exploitation thriller is boring and pointless and is only mildly amusing for old school camp value strange that a dvd can be manufactured with the wrong film in tact but i suppose it is an easy mistake to make seeing as though they are both b grade movies of the same name made in the 70's reading other posts made on this film i noticed that i'm not the only one with the wrong movie on the dvd how could this be an international error is there perhaps some sort of dvd phenomena where unsuccessful films try to get recognition by being put on the wrong dvds what is going on
0	warning i advise anyone who has not seen the film yet to not read this comment br br if you plan on watching this movie don't i warn you this movie is terribly boring and basically horrifying not in the horror movie kind of way to watch i mistook this piranha movie for another piranha movie and when i had noticed i made a mistake i decided to watch this one anyway i wish i wouldn't have this movie is so horrendous and so intolerable in every piece of material that i couldn't bare to let anyone say this movie was halfway decent for one thing this movie should be called a boring talk about wilderness instead of piranha they only show piranhas once at the same time the way this film sounds so poorly heard i got sleepy only 20 minutes into the thing at the end my mouth was hung wide open and i stared gloomily at the blank tv screen it is a very poorly directed and badly filmed piece of junk that i was afraid i brain dysfunction after watching it
0	two wildlife photographers are traveling through the amazon river basin on their latest assignment while trying to capture the wildlife of the area on film our photographers cross paths with a game hunter who is stalking the animals for another reason looking to eliminate the witnesses to his illegal activities the hunter decides according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br handsome guide peter brown as jim takes pretty blonde capri as terry greene and her good looking brother tom as art greene into the venezuelan jungle to admire the view and take wildlife pictures after they hook up with hunky big game hunter william smith as psychological dramatics surface br br a pivotal scene with mr brown in the vee of a tree and sharing a cigarette with mr is nicely staged the circular direction reappears in the later fight between brown and mr smith and it is effective early sex romp adds nothing to the story it could have been cut to take advantage of what seems like flirting between the brown and characters an attraction between brown and ms capri could have been played up also br br the music including jim stein's love all things that love the sun is fine but the film needs to be re tracked to cut out animals which do not appear on screen and there is far too much superfluous footage on display piranha is a case where less would have been more
0	the movie is great for venezuelan tourism birds birds and more birds only 1 piranha nice scenery the only highlight was the alligator seen during a very long and boring motorcycle race the end when drowns is a definite hollywood prop there is no definite storyline it goes from venezuelan scenery to a rip off of easy rider to diamond mining and a ruthless hunter going crazy for some reason who gets it in the end a very low budget movie that could have been filmed anywhere with outtakes of venezuela william smith is a very talented actor that has made some very good movies like all actors they all need to have at least one bad film don't waste the 5 00 on the dvd
0	this is just one of those films which cannot justify much of anything that happens these people are going on a trek the young girl wants to photograph animals there really are no piranhas but i guess the psychotic hunter guy is the real piranha anyway there are lots of animals and there is lots of driving there is considerable anti gun talk but we all know where that is going toward the end there's lots of action and a rape thrown in somebody must pay and they do it would have been nice to have a couple of piranhas to sort of fill the thing out there were lots of monkeys if you fast forward through the dull parts you have a tight little five minutes
0	i was duped as well here i was expecting all sorts of man eating and what the hell do you get br br an hour and a half of nothing but awkward silences with some weird guy who isn't weird enough to be scary br br i thought there was no way 5 could be too much for a movie br br damn i was sooooo wrong it was very hard to watch the whole thing br br don't fool yourself its not so good that its bad its not even that kind of movie br br its nothing an hour and a half of absolutely nothing br br piece of crap
0	an awful travesty of the greek resistance senorita cruz badly miscast as a greek girl there are plenty of attractive good english greek actresses so why pick a spanish lady for one of the leading roles and with an english actor as her father supposedly a greek doctor many of the supporting cast are well known actors and actresses from greek theatre and tv series the only foreign actor to my knowledge who has successfully portrayed a greek was anthony quinn as the macedonian miner zorba in zorba the greek as the in the greek tycoon and as a greek colonel in the guns of br br there is some historical truth reflected in the film people who remember the italian occupation of the islands agree that the italians were not harsh unlike the germans who succeeded them also mussolini's forces as hinted in the movie had been defeated by the greek army in the albanian campaign after the germans intervened in the balkans they allowed the italian military to occupy certain parts of greece so the refusal of the local government to surrender to italian forces rather than to the germans as portrayed in the film is quite plausible although i am not certain this actually happened
0	like the above poster i got burned on the title thinking i was getting the other piranha this movie is everything the above poster said and worse br br poor camera lousy acting and just plain horrid storyline br br there was very little here that was even worth watching how this movie even got released is beyond me br br make sure the movie you buy is the one you want and not this one br br the movie i bought was labeled piranha and not piranha piranha which is what it actually is this is the only way they sold this movie at all br br peace out
0	spoilers with the title of the film having the name of the killer fish twice not once you would expect to see them in action attack biting ripping and eating up almost everyone in the cast of characters instead you have to wait until the movie is almost over for you to get as much as a glimpse of the even then all you see is the water bubbling and stirring around as a poor individual disappears under it assuming that he's being eaten whole and alive by the fish br br the movie piranha piranha starts with this scary looking piranha on the screen as the credits start rolling down but spoiler that's the only time in the movie that you ever get to see the killer fish or fishes you never get to see a piranha is the movie again what you do see is a travelogue of venezuela and it's people and the venezuelan jungle along the amazon river basin together with a lot of nice and breathtaking photography of the landscape as well as the people and wildlife but that's about all br br there is some kind of a story that has to do with this great white hunter william smith which ironically means piranha in the native language spoken there is this what the title of the film piranha piranha really meant the person is played by legendary hollywood hell's angles biker and all around tough guy william smith br br at the beginning of the movie this trio of american tourists jim and his sister terry peter capri and their american guide art green tom are on their way into the venezuelan jungles to go sight seeing with terry taking photos to send back home terry is terrified of guns as we learn that as a young girl saw her father get his head blown off by a gun even when art saves her life using one when see's attack by a six foot long rattlesnake terry almost belts him for having a gun which he promised her he wouldn't take along with him on the trip br br at a jungle rest stop or bar the three run into who we first saw catching monkey's in the jungle at the start of the movie makes himself more then welcomed by the three with his knowledge of the jungle and his half baked philosophy about life and death as well as his ability to get them where their going to the local diamond mines deep in the amazon basin br br even though a bit strange at first the guy is so in to himself that he doesn't seem to notice that there are any people around him turns out to be a swell and likable guy engaging in a long and friendly motorcycle race through the swamps and jungle with art even shows terry who at one time in the movie almost knocked his teeth out the fine points of hunting and shooting wild game that he believes don't really die but become a part of him after he kills them a bit crazy but you have to admit this guy's got imagination br br it's much later in the movie that for some strange reason maybe it was the cheap booze that he was drinking suddenly goes insane and become homicidal attacking and raping terry and then murdering her enraged brother and feeding him to the deadly trying to escape from the rampaging lunatic and then being forced to have to fight it out with him art gets beaten up so savagely by the dirty fighting that he's almost left unconscious just when about to finally kill art he's shot to death by terry who after experiencing what this insane nut job is all about finally decided that guns are indeed very necessary and should be used to kill on very rare but life saving occasions br br worth watching if worth watching at all only for the scenery and nothing else it's just a shame that the movie has to advertise as a killer fish or piranha horror movie when if it was honest about itself it could have been a more or less average jungle adventure flick with smith he does have the build for it playing tarzan of the venezuelan not african jungle
0	this is an example of a movie that can have great potential and is executed very poorly i am a fan of kids and thumb sucker and many other so called teen angst films but this one bugged me br br why is every white kid made into a thug who loves rap its getting to be one dimensional the acting was awful but simple since it mainly consisted of just dropping f bomb after f bomb just a bad bad movie if you'd like to see better movies like this thumb sucker kids bully all br br those i think are better so i recommend one of those is you'd like to see a good teen movie i hope my comment you found useful and hope you hear future comments from me
0	this movie was outright painful for me to watch i understand that indie films do not have the same resources as other mainstream films but there are basic elements of film making that typically you want to adhere to first off jump cuts there are numerous in the film's opening 15 minutes there are shots in which it appears that two separate takes of the same shot were edited together what i mean by this is a character will say half a line from one take and the rest of the line is from a different take secondly the dialog i understand that many writers strive for a very realistic and true dialog for their films since this film is very specific to its location the dialog must be spoken in a specific tone also example set a movie in boston yet people use west coast slang with a chicago accent even with understanding this it is still hard to sit through some of the lines these actors present these are only the two most vivid problems i encountered with this film there were a few others i do not mean to sound like a harsh critic who doesn't know a thing i have years of experience in the film more importantly the low budget indie film industry i also understand that with many directors there is often a method to their madness i have been unable to discover this method used in this film this makes it difficult when trying to decide whether i view this film as an example of unique style in film making or just another low budget poorly put together film i honestly hope that it is not the latter if anyone has any insight into why things were done a certain way or has any thoughts views of their own concerning this film i would love to hear them hopefully i can understand this film more and my current opinion can be changed
0	i caught this during a brief run in a philadelphia theater despite its local provenance and its relation to a hometown tragedy namely the beating death of eddie in 1994 i really have to come down hard on this movie the director for reasons best known to himself decided to shoot the entire film guerilla style with nonstop handheld cameras and cuts such technique might work for the scenes of jarring violence but is utterly inappropriate for the rest of the material which makes up the majority of the film a stroll down the sidewalk a brother to brother discussion on a sofa hell even a kiss on a first date are all shot style distracting this viewer from ever being able to enter into the drama martin also undercuts his narrative by packing in far too many topics besides the birth of mob violence we get anorexia alcoholism divorce racism parental abuse did i miss anything no doubt a better cast and a better focused direction would have knit these threads together as martin surely intended to demonstrate how one moral flaw leads into and sustains a host of others but good intentions do not necessarily a great film make just a sprawling mess martin i know you're from my town and i'm down with you man i really am just do a better job next time like you did in two plus one
0	this movie just happened to be on hbo yesterday so i watched it this was a mistake i guess i got sucked in and kept watching although it was a lot like a train wreck terrible horrible but somehow you just can't look away i guess br br this is the story of a photoshoot for models on some island in the caribbean one by one they are all murdered one drinks cleaning fluid one gets blown up on a one goes over a cliff so these are not accidents but for some inane reason the police are never called and no one thinks that perhaps they should wrap the shoot and go home not just in respect for the dead but perhaps out of fear for their own lives no they just continue with their shoot because that is what's most important forget about the dead models we have a magazine to produce br br one of the subplots is the evil magazine owner played by lee majors rex is his name he is the most obvious suspect and every time a model gets killed he twirls his mustache and says well i can't say this won't be good for sales hoo hoo hoo ha ha ha ha so absurd another subplot is when it's revealed that rex is one of the models baby only when he learned of the baby he tried to convince the girl to abort she didn't but always resented him for even suggesting this br br they try to give you false clues and point toward some guy named seemingly because he's the only one with an accent and looks creepy br br at the very end sorry to spoil but this movie came out years ago so if you haven't seen it by now one of the women was found face down dead in the pool this was the last straw vanessa angel forget her characters name comes at rex with a gun they struggle the gun fires and now she's dead too while she's laying on the floor his business associate tells him that with all this bad press the magazine will be worthless and it's all his fault he gets him to sign over the magazine to him once he does voila all the dead models come back to life and you find the entire thing was an elaborate ruse to get back at rex br br oy what a ridiculous movie as someone else said if you want to see something like this april fools day is far better
0	so you've got a number of models on an island and one by one they're picked off agatha christie style we get somebody lost at sea pushed off a cliff poisoned by a solvent driven off a cliff blown up etc nothing terribly graphic br br before any of that starts one woman inexplicably has a dream of a killer in a weird human face mask br br the owner of the magazine is a sleaze who had an affair and somebody had photos taken of her before she was of age br br in the end it's all about business or something br br there's an 80s style montage of a photo shoot most of the bathing suits being one pieces surprisingly a couple are fairly translucent there's camera clicks during the montage where the frame of the camera appears as a white square or rectangle within the picture the photographer is rather bad at framing
0	terror in the aisles might look like the ultimate treat for horror fans but it has in fact very few to offer granted it presents a decent and versatile too versatile selection of horror thriller fragments that are considered classic but what's the point this documentary primarily aims for the horror loving public so we've pretty much seen all these clips already haven't we the only thing really praiseworthy about this project is the editing if you're into scream queens chases by vile murderers and that sort of things terror in the aisles has some neat compilations of the most famous sequences all these different scenes hang together by a lame wraparound story starring donald pleasance and nancy allen sitting in a movie theater in between two sequences the address the viewer and explain why we love horror so much those speeches naturally are soporific and rather obvious it's in our nature to be afraid bla bla bla and i fail to understand why many people love the concept this is worth a peek in case you're a loyal horror fan but it certainly isn't essential viewing on the contrary in case you still have to see a classic genre title beware that bits and pieces of it here don't spoil your future viewing the main reason why i overall disliked it is because it shamelessly ignores a lot of lesser known but fundamental foreign titles endlessly focusing on halloween this does result in a cool inside joke however when donald pleasance screams to the screen at his own character
0	i used to think that it came from hollywood was the worst movie i had seen that showed clips from horror sci fi crime and drama movies of course i hadn't seen this beauty yet br br what's wrong with terror in the aisles four things br br 1 it assumes that most of the great moments in shock cinema history began in the '70s when directors like john carpenter and brian de palma came along and what bones are thrown to the true classics i e the black and white films like frankenstein dracula and the wolf man are either shown with martin and lewis or abbott and costello alongside or not at all br br 2 the clips are most times so brief and out of their place that they just give a momentary shock to the viewer and for those unfamiliar with these films will make no sense at all indeed the moment where the shark jumps out of the water at roy scheider in jaws is shown much to the effect of a sight gag whereas in the original's context it had power br br 3 did we really need pleasance and allen in the audience reminding us that it's only a movie or that most of the violence in the horror movies is sadly against women so is that an indictment against the movie makers for adding those scenes or the movie goers who into the theaters and watch the same kind of fodder time and again sorry that's a whole can of worms to open for a more deserving movie br br 4 and most importantly why is the movie so short it isn't like there wasn't enough of these kinds of movies to use if they had just opened up their resources and used every available film they could have had a that's entertainment style movie that would have been comparatively more entertaining heck even drag out christopher lee and peter cushing cushing was alive then mind you and better yet even vincent price would have been more than willing i'll bet what a cheer that would have gotten from the audience br br but no all we're left with is a dreary little flick that pretends to pay homage to these movies but all it does is leave the viewer feeling cheated out of less than 90 minutes with which they could have went and watched a real movie don't get me wrong it was good to see what clips they did show but if they could have just done more with the goods br br two stars another good idea left laying in the aisles
0	pointless and pretty silly film that is just basically a compilation of clips from horror science fiction and suspense films there are unnecessary shots to an audience watching the clips and donald pleasance and nancy allen are among audience members who turn to the camera and explain why we love horror films not a bad idea but all the explanations are obvious movie horror helps us deal with real horror you are at the mercy of the filmmaker in a theatre and pretty trite also the clips are shown very quickly and the changes are kind of jarring and shown out of context these bits aren't very scary at all and it's real short i saw it in a theatre back in 1984 and was outraged that i paid 5 00 for an 84 minute movie br br still it is reasonably well edited and allen and pleasance seem to be enjoying themselves for people who have an interest in knowing more about terror this might be fun and interesting but if you're a horror fan like me you'll probably be bored silly good idea bad execution no pun intended i give it a 3
0	in 4 words captain mandolin was completely out of tune with the book the novel provided sufficient character background to understand the relationships and personal challenges the characters needed to overcome the script writer chose to ignore the details in ignoring them e g the priest's role initially as a buffoon but later as a spiritual leader the fiancee's inability to read until taught by a socialist rebel the bomb experts advice to and his eventual ironic demise the story and characters fall flat br br this was the first movie that i've ever walked out of midway through interesting cinematography great actors do not make a film the story does
0	if this was nominated for a screenwriting award by the wga a professional association of screenwriters then it's time to hang up the word processor astonishingly inept writing direction production at every level even for a tv movie no cliche goes in this jaw droppingly bad movie what were they thinking does anyone really believe kids are stupid enough to watch this
0	maybe the target audience of this disney channel tv movie will be pleased with it but if any parents are watching along with the youngsters they will clearly see that cranked out is written all over this production obviously it was no one's dream to make this movie but rather this was concocted in a board room somewhere then produced with cold efficiency there is some talent among the cast but actors like dabney coleman and jay thomas don't get much of a chance to showcase their talent the impossibly cute elisabeth harnois is engaging as the first daughter but will is stuck once again playing another dumb character though he's not nearly as moronic and annoying as in his boy meets world role the background for this movie is washington d c and the white house but there is no real presidential feel to the film and the secret service is made out to be little better than the keystone kops when it come to doing their duty the disney channel presents a lot of original tv movies and most of them are better than this
0	this movie isn't that great at all but it's good when you want to just laugh because it's pretty ridiculous there are a lot of mistakes in it and it's cheesy i got this movie for christmas like 5 years ago but for some reason i've never given it away i guess i just like it for a rainy day even though i only watch it like once a year this is a very 90's movie so it's really funny to see how everyone dresses and acts this movie is good for someone young although come to think of it i didn't even like it much when i was like 12 but that's just my personal opinion the movie was really predictable i wish it had had some extra weird twists but i guess it was trying to be an appropriate movie for everyone to enjoy i think it was appropriate for the whole family but dress was a bit but certainly appropriate enough for family material
0	five fingers is so bad that i hardly know where to begin so let me admit first that i have only seen the first half hour when the first finger had been chopped off i thought sleeping a more useful activity i told my girlfriend the meaning of five fingers and she immediately followed my example br br couldn't the producer the director and or the scriptwriter consult a chess amateur like me they should have used a digital chess clock and not an this major goof makes the mental pressure put on just a laugh how when and why did date a moroccan girlfriend such an affair is very rare in the netherlands br br calling me a retard is of course an insult to all those people suffering with a much lower than average iq moreover as far as i know retards don't play chess i do br br the biggest problem is the script of course just compare the little intelligent movie hard candy to keep the spectator in a grip the information must be revealed bit by bit a nice twist now and then also helps i understood from other reviews that there is a big one at the end of the movie any smart person can guess what it is this of course just raises more questions why is the travel guide killed oh my why should i even care the whole movie focuses on just one thing the chopped fingers the makers have not even learned hitchcock's lesson it is thrilling to get a bomb exploded it is more thrilling to show that bomb ticking but no we don't see the paper cutter until the impossible countdown is over i will not waste more words on this crap go see hard candy
0	boring movie poor plot poor actors the movie happens in a room supposed to be in morocco but actually in some american city the arab terrorists are the patriots the blonde patriot is the arab terrorist damn br br there is something good about this movie though that's why the score is 2 out of 10 the director turns the ridiculous stereotype about terrorism the media feeds us every day into the real thing the terrorists are americans or western people if you like br br the movie is divided into two parts the first part of the movie concerns the dutchman travel 15 seconds while the second part is about the staying in the amazing dark brown room 1 hour and something br br the dutch guy is going to deliver money in morocco to some charity organization gets off the plain takes the bus and ends up kidnapped in a dark brown room he is kidnapped with another guy that is shot after telling they will not shoot at us the dutch survivor is forced to play chess with a morpheus like arab guy for so long that you'll learn how to play chess too at the end the dutch guy reveals his plot not because they cut four of his fingers off but because he is tricked by such a lame game you should watch the movie for br br good when you are so tired you can't sleep
0	five fingers relies heavily on barbaric shock value hollywood tactics to elicit apparently a positive movie going response this is where this movie fails throughout primarily because it is too graphic to be taken seriously i was repulsed and disgusted that five fingers was even made and essentially had to force myself to continue watching it torture in and of itself is gruesome even the sounds coming from a room where someone is being tortured are gruesome but obviously the makers of this stinker of a movie felt that was not enough it had to go way beyond what was needed and simply and effectively ruined any chances this movie had of making some sort of valid point for this reason this movie came across as nothing more than being self gratifying five fingers also pretty much relegates itself to a b movie status solely by its indulgence on manipulation of time in other words we are shown the present and then the past is revealed in snippets this is a little bit of a twist of the normal hollywood manipulation of time whereas the viewer normally is shown page 95 in a 100 page script as the beginning of the movie and then the rest of the flick is essentially explaining the ending five fingers is dedicated to flashing back which gets quite tiring by the end of the movie overall five fingers made me feel stupid for watching the whole movie because torture is obviously obscene and it certainly was not necessary to resort to graphic mutilation to make this point i am surprised that dick cheney did not make a guest cameo appearance at the end as some sort of torture superhero this movie is a perfect example of what happens when an important topic falls into the hands of greedy mindless dolts
0	contains 1 spoiler market with br br not presenting itself as yet another remake of the interview five fingers actually is alas besides maybe the hardship of physical torture it never adds anything to it's predecessor's accomplishment in terms of suspense plot or performances in fact five fingers never gets anywhere near its level br br what i found to be in particular painful to watch wasn't the torture itself but the way ryan philippe acted out his ordeal to me it looked as if philippe tried too hard to get his accent right and it made his performance amateur which in turn even dragged down the performance of an otherwise great colm meaney accent btw being far from anything near dutch sounded more like eastern european br br besides the acting of which to my surprise turned from poor to actually decent towards the end there is the matter of the flashbacks with the hackneyed dutch scenery if these scenes were set in switzerland they would have had the cast eat cheese on with endless pastures with grazing cows wearing expensive scenery aside the way these flashbacks pushed the plot didn't work for me at all it made it being served like french fries at a drive in and caused the build up of suspense to br br admittedly the movie did become more enjoyable as acting improved but i couldn't help being annoyed every now and then with scenes that were just too implausible e g br br start spoiler br br at some point after days philippe is almost tenderly washed by the female terrorist this only to be followed by the brute severing of yet another finger why give the guy a wash if he's in for a torture and the severing of that last finger seemed to only serve the title of this flick anyway i mean he was practically begging to have it knifed off didn't make br br end spoiler br br what ultimately kept me watching was the performance of fishburn who once again proved to be a brilliant actor but who also had the best part of the script to work with br br all in all one is just far better off seeing the interview with that other matrix icon hugo weaving and when you do i'm confident you won't find this review that disagreeable br br 3 5 10 br br the interview 1998 www imdb com title
0	brought to you by the following among others br br 1 hebrew is the president and founder of the middle east media research institute br br career br br colonel israeli army intelligence from 1968 88 acting head and adviser on arab affairs civil administration in and 1977 1982 br br 2 raphael shore is an israeli canadian film writer producer and rabbi employed full time by aish he is the founder of the clarion fund a non profit organization that seeks to advance the idea that the united states faces a threat of radical islam shore is also a regular critic of the media coverage on the israeli palestinian conflict coverage which he is regularly anti israel lmao br br 3 anti defamation league funny how supports this hateful propaganda you can never tell by reading their anti defamation name title br br use your mind and see how objective these people are they have their own agenda br br i think therefore i am
0	it's complete nonsense i've studied nazism and read many manuscripts from the day the parallels use most of the classic debased apocryphal myths of nazism and then compare it with complete generalizations about what constitute 1 3 of the planet it's crafted for an audience of polly anna complacency who diet heavily on spoon fed gibberish horribly thought out arguments irrational conclusions fallacious ideas and nonsensical logic br br who made this hit peace easy br br when all is said and done que bono that is who benefits in the long run br br you don't you sacrifice money and rights muslims don't they get our bombs try again answer this and you've unlocked a major door
0	i found this movie immensely interesting yet a little jaded it talks of violence and what there doing i still don't see the point in becoming terrorists in order to stop the terrorists we have similar people in the united states and other countries justifying the use of violence and war tactics because they think they are right think of the puritans and the christian crusades against the islamic people during the medieval times lots of blood and death far exceeding the violence of today the western world has had a negative impact on the religion i do not justify their actions but western culture in the past has had a very negative effect on some but still do remember the majority of the islamic people are peaceful people of any nation feel some sort of patriotism but to start a war on the fact that i'm right and your wrong needs to be rethought again i repeat you cannot stop terrorists by becoming like them
0	i give it a 2 because of the beautiful mediterranean greece otherwise it would be 1 when nicholas cage came into with his first lines i thought he was just kidding cage as an italian i'm sorry but very wrong actor who's acting is also bad not to mention his accent the story is very loose it might have been good but with other actors and obviously with other screenplay the camera is great photography also but why the hell did you cast nicholas cage and penelope cruz for the role please don't get me wrong i don't have anything against cage he has some really great movies but he obviously isn't for every role it's really a pity that the cast wasn't better set because the story has potential
0	forget what i said about rachael ray is the most irritating personality on the food network and all of television if you've never seen 30 minute meals then you cannot possibly begin to comprehend how unfathomably annoying she is i really truly meant that you can't even begin to be boggled by her until you've viewed the show once or twice and even then all words and intelligent thoughts will fail you the problem is mostly with her mannerisms as you might have guessed ray has a goofy mouth and often imitates the parrot if you love something or think it's awesome a word she uses roughly 87 times per telecast just say it and she's constantly using horrible unfunny catchphrases like extra virgin olive oil shut up what's worse is ray has two other shows on the network i think this is some elaborate conspiracy by the terrorists to drive us mad give me more tyler florence ray is lame
0	i watched this cooking show for a few times before i wanted to pull my hair out just one question who can't cook a slapped together plain meal in 30 minutes when everything you need is at hand already bagged sometimes pre chopped and you have very little else to do except chop a few greens also almost every cooking show on tv is 30 minutes and most of these chefs do all of their prep work except for sandra lee during their show oh and yep they do full meals too br br love the comment by the guy who hated the comment add de to my list of stupid tag words br br then you have the obvious a loud gregarious woman who is truly her own best audience she laughs at her own lame comments mugs too many times for the camera because she wants to convince us that she's as good as the thinks br br no she ain't the cutest thing she's a 40 something year old woman who isn't de
0	i lasted almost ninety minutes through this dreadful movie waiting for some revelation about dance or spirit or inspiration or something and gave up what possessed the filmmakers to do this this is an old woman of limited talent who is obsessed with herself and nothing else to fill in a story without a point we get some stuff about the other folks in her thrall her aid to and of course her ten cats do not see this film and have nothing more to do with anybody who loved it they do not have a clue there are fascinating people in this world with wonderful stories to tell and insights to share but marta is not one of them the people i took to this movie say they have forgiven me but that they will never ever stop kidding me about it
0	i remember waiting to be born br br vision quest that was the american west br br we went to a psychic br br i'm sure their first reaction is that she's cuckoo br br the place is haunted br br i think there's another dimension right here br br an artist marta and her husband many decades ago left the hustle and bustle and culture of new york and moved to a god forsaken town with a population of 10 in death valley there they renovated a theater painting it is a very home spun folk art manner and once finished she putting on dancing performances for practically no one in many ways it's highly reminiscent of the werner herzog film or field of dreams though is a documentary of a real person not a mythical crazy man like klaus kinski or kevin costner her husband eventually leaves much of it apparently because of the lifestyle she chose so today she lives on with her ten cats and a sanctuary for eventually along with her new male companion tom br br what you think about this documentary depends on your perspectives if you are into new age ideas and open to these sensibilities then you'll more likely appreciate the film her talking about how she remembers her birth ghosts vision quests and psychics frankly made the psychology teacher in me cringe and this would definitely be the case for many people in addition her sanctuary and trying to preserve horses in the desert will most likely appeal to peta and many other animal lovers though with my background in environmental concerns and biology i see the and horses as a blight that would destroy the native plants and animals so on two different accounts i tend to think quite the opposite of marta who is more of a and sensing individual depending on how you feel about all this will definitely color your opinions and i am pretty sure most people will either think she's a genius or a nut you'll just have to guess what i think br br now despite all this the film is interesting and life is definitely not dull particularly since in recent years people have actually begun taking trips to the desert to see her perform there is a definite following for her and her unusual little world while i would not be nearly as positive as most reviews i also can't be as negative as the one review as there is definite merit to this odd documentary i like films about unusual people and marta certainly is unusual i also appreciate her love of her art and happy life that is a rare gift br br i teach psychology at an arts school and it sure would be interesting to show this to the staff where i am pretty sure we'd get a strong positive and negative reaction to the film probably depending on whether the teachers taught the arts classes or core curriculum it sure would be interesting br br by the way and i am not trying to be sarcastic but when husband was having affairs with whom did this occur after all they lived in the middle of no where and i was left wondering where he'd find partners br br by the way if you'd like to see her perform and or stay at her hotel it can be found at www com the site is in english french and german and hotel rates are pretty reasonable as are ticket prices
0	the satirical movie website dateline hollywood joked that son of the mask was all a practical joke star jamie kennedy played on new line cinema for his show the jamie kennedy experiment if only and if only the movie had been half as funny as that satire piece br br the mask was the ideal vehicle for the face pulling jim carrey that so many viewers dote on it also delighted males over the age of 12 by introducing cameron diaz so having a followup minus both of them was not a good idea plus you'd have thought new line would have learned their lesson after dumb and dumberer when harry met lloyd but no though to be fair having an all new cast is in keeping with the original comic in which the mask went from owner to owner as written by lance and directed by lawrence however there's nothing there in return except a steady stream of admittedly decent fx by the usual squadron of houses industrial light and magic improving on the ally mcbeal dancing baby and their own baby's day out with the studio giant killer robots digital dimension and so on in support and an even greater pandering to cartoon fans by having our hero work at an animation company responsible for such gems as siamese popes naming his character after tex avery and working in not just references to classic cartoons but actual clips br br the trouble is that last approach doesn't really work partly because most of the attempts to bring cartoon trappings to live action fall flat especially the cars getting in the party mood and mostly because the tributes to the flintstones woody woodpecker duck amuck and especially one evening show up how weak this movie is in comparison plus the movie fits in shambolic slapstick alongside strained sentiment the underlying theme of the story is family our hero isn't ready to have a son and his nemesis alan cumming as the norse god loki is far from the apple of odin's eye and what bob hoskins is doing here as odin even after super mario bros is beyond me and kennedy just isn't in the same league as carrey in the zany stakes though it's not like he gets any help from the script also note that unlike diaz the very cute howard as the mother of the son of the mask doesn't get much to do giving her the mask might have helped the movie br br further points are lost for throwing away cumming hoskins steven wright and magda szubanski for a suspiciously abbreviated running time which would account for some gaping plot holes and scenes that seem to be missing and for an incredibly bad attempt at an inside joke when our hero fails to sell the concept of the green guy as an animated tv series the mask did become an animated tv series in real life and was a far better follow up than this sequel the fact that this actually opened in britain before the us should tell you everything what with this and blade trinity new line seems intent on cornering the market on dreadful sequels with cast members from two guys and a girl what next the butterfly effect 2 with nathan fillion br br somebody stop this
0	this film and i use that term loosely reminds me of the first joke my daughter wrote at eighteen months p u stinky br br like that joke this movie can only appeal to the very young the very immature or the very stupid br br that said there are a few bright spots br br the effects where the majority of the reputed 100 million went are kinetic and convincing i mean as convincing as those kind of kinetic cgi effects can be the cgi baby effects are not great but i imagine those are very hard to do well although for a hundred million bucks they could have been better br br moose the dog from frasier phoned in his usual exemplary performance steven wright did well with a small part alan cummings was well alan cummings as villain which we've seen before and bob hoskins as odin was unrecognizable but enjoyable br br the actress playing mrs avery was cute as a button as you'd expect and jamie kennedy stunk as you'd expect his best role so far was in the scream trilogy not to be confused with the lord of the rings trilogy and in three kings he should stick perhaps to more subtle forms of comedy jim carrey he ain't br br the writing and direction were if anything worse than kennedy's performance i semi remember one clever though seven year old clever line that i wish someone would quote accurately for the memorable quotes section something about proposed costume being the crappiest crap in it was a second grade joke but sort of funny in context br br over all since there's nothing lower than a one i give this film a one
0	son of the mask is a terrible excuse of a movie i went to see this with my friend and i still wish we had seen because of dixie instead i must say that it is partially my fault as i agreed to go see it with him being a fan of the first mask movie jim carrey was hilarious i had hoped it wasn't as bad as all of the critics said it was br br ten minutes into the movie i knew it was headed for disaster disgusting and pointless attempts at being funny got little seven and eight year old children shrieking with laughter but the rest of us were left staring at the screen in disbelief br br finding the movie as repulsive and unfunny as i did is surprising to even me as i loved scary movie and anchorman two films which many people i know found crude and offensive but the thing is son of the mask is not funny unless you're under the age of ten br br the film features lots of cgi in it but it cannot save this piece of rubbish whoever allowed this movie to make it to the big screen was probably thinking it had potential considering the success of its original unfortunately it has none of the laughs fun or excitement of the first creating a mockery of the original movie i recommend renting the original mask to anyone who is thinking about seeing this one 1 star out of 10 is generous to this awful mess
0	son of the mask is a terrible movie i don't like the baby and i don't like the dog jamie kennedy and his wife are a cute couple but that can't redeem sitting through this garbage even at only 88 minutes or so it says the movie could not end soon enough for me the only real laughs come at the beginning with a brief appearance by ben stain that's it the rest is just a rehash of the first movie actually that is just an insult to rehashes why was this sequel made this movie cost millions of dollars to make why would i sit through a movie with a baby and a dog intentionally trying to drive the dad crazy jamie kennedy is talented but he has nothing to do in this movie i am not bothering to be nice to this movie 1 10
0	so the weak excuse for a story in the generic waste of time involves a guy that wants to be an animator but can't get his career of the ground his super hot wife is more successful and she doesn't seem to care that he's a loser but the man isn't satisfied with that and wants to make more out of his life one day their dog brings them a magic mask that changes his life unfortunately for him the god loki is looking for his magic mask and once he finds the man with the mask he tries to get it back and that's the whole story if that sounded exciting to you then someone needs to throw some water on you to wake you up br br this movie is terrible there's really no other way for me to say it and i just can't stretch it enough the only good thing about the whole thing was the woman that played jamie kennedy's wife who was hot but apart from her there's is nothing about this movie that is worth watching i know it's meant for kids and that's why it's so idiotic but what about the adults that have to take their kids to watch this trash why do we have to suffer through this vile vomit sack of horrid crap the original mask was a very good movie that had a great mix of comedy and great story telling this one is a lame attempt by hack filmmakers to cash in on the franchise and judging by the laughable bo gross i'm guessing the franchise won't go on any longer br br the cinematographer needs to be beaten severely because the sugary colors of the movie will make you feel like throwing up if there was music i didn't pay attention to it because i had already punctured my eardrums to prevent myself from hearing the horrid dialog then there's the acting or at least what passes for acting nowadays you could watch an infomercial and see much better acting in that than the one in this movie but i can't really blame the actors since it's the director who deserves the blame for apparently not realizing that the actors needed to do another f king take if new line is looking to start a franchise with this then they need to up their game by hiring writers that can actually write and stop thinking that the audience will watch any crap that comes out br br bottom line if you're a sadomasochistic and you love torturing yourself then please by all means check this out because it is painful to watch but if you're not and you actually like to watch movies that are good then avoid at all cost
0	this movie isn't worth going to the theaters to watch i did and i didn't like it the effects on the movie are really well done and you get a laugh here and there but the story is really bad it seemed like they had run out of ideas and what is that of loki and odin getting along that totally destroys norse mythology and i guess they forgot that powers only worked during the night if you really must see this movie rent it when it comes out don't go to the movies for this br br they could have done a lot more with this than they did it felt like they just wanted to do a movie to show off cool animation and effects
0	i actually was looking forward to this movie after reading a number of reviews before the release it sounded like a genuinely nice film one that was beautifully filmed and one with an interesting cast nicholas cage penelope cruz and john hurt br br well it might have been all of those things but it is so boring that i defy almost anyone to sit through this in its entirety and keep attention also cage's attempt at speaking with an italian accent is embarrassingly bad he's such a good actor that i cringed every time he spoke in this film br br seems to be the most often word used by reviewers here to describe this film and i totally agree br br i guess it didn't take long for word to get out about how bad this movie was because like cage's accent it did not do well
0	there was no need for this movie plain and simple the original although hated by some was something i found to be actually really entertaining mainly because it was before jim carrey started to really lose his touch and cameron diaz was well 'nuff said so why make a sequel prequel thing honestly knowing that jim carrey wouldn't do it should've been clue enough that it didn't deserve to be created but then they just make mistake after mistake jamie kennedy why is this man still allowed to breathe the writing and story terrible why would i ever want to see a baby wearing the mask moreover why would i want to see it fly ever how did someone think this was a good idea the acting is despicable in fact nearly everything about this movie is i'm trying to keep calm or imdb probably won't let me post this bottom line don't watch this piece of trash pick up the original see how good cameron diaz looked and how jim carrey used to have a career and laugh don't waste even a second of your time on this
0	contains really bad spoilers so what can i say about this it's a really horrible and awful movie too much cgi and special effects you could tell how fake the ridiculous baby is please at least go watch dungeons and dragons which is another terrible pile of trash son of the mask makes dungeons and dragons way better pure crap i hate this trash i would also like to say that superbabies 2 was also a really stupid movie probably just as stupid as son of the mask 2 was just as fake as son of the mask and also contains way too much cgi br br anyway yeah this was a bad bad really bad movie just please avoid it do not recommend this to no one please its just way too ridiculous makes no sense and really bad plot the baby on his dad was just lame
0	ok about 11 years ago the awesome funny movie the mask came out and everyone loved it and now 11 years later the mask is brought back in this awesome movie right wrong this movie was the stupidest movie that i have probably ever seen i mean when i rented it i thought that i would be laughing so hard that i would almost pee my pants like from the first one but after i saw this sequal i barley even let out a chuckle i mean no offense to the director or the cast of this movie but what a waste of time and money so the plot of the whole story was about this little baby that has part of the mask in him and this evil person is after him for some thing because that is all i really got i would have least added some more things to it so it would be higher than a 2 out of 10 stars
0	loki norse god of mischief creates a mask that endows the with cartoon like powers at the command of his father odin he spends the rest of the movie looking for the mask so that it can cause no further grief to mankind in the meantime the possessor of the mask conceives a child who inherits the powers of the mask etc etc if this sounds like a pretty thin plot line it is add to this the fact that the movie is handled ineptly from start to finish and the result is very very bad you can find worse movies but you'll have to actively search for them br br for the most part son of the mask is presented at the intellectual level of a pre schooler but in light of scenes such as the mask baby urinating copiously in six different directions including on his father this premise seems unlikely i asked my son who he thought might have been the target audience for the movie and he responded convicted felons apparently forgetting for the moment that the constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment br br but just making a bad movie is not a sin or hell would be overflowing what makes it a sin is that 72 million was spent on this piece of garbage to put things in perspective the day after we watched son of the mask my son and i watched good night and good luck a movie that garnered six academy award nominations including best picture and was brought in for 7 million that's right just one tenth of the amount of money spent on son of the mask this then is the sin to flush good money down the sewer when it could have been better used in making watchable movies or feeding starving children or for that matter almost any other purpose the producers should truly be ashamed of themselves
0	spoilers br br i love movies i've seen a lot of movies i didn't think i'd ever see a film that i actually hated son of the mask ruined it son of the mask is so bad i'm not even going to do a detailed comment like i usually do in fact i'm not even going to write a lot i think all of you should know that this movie is horribly awful and poor jamie kennedy he was awesome in scream but now this film also this film takes a can film and turns it into this goofy kids film that not even kids will like this film also consists of very rude humor like the nose woman she has a nose for a head and when she sneezes white stuff spews out of her nose there is also an exorcist parody yes a kid film has an adult parody maybe they thought the adults would like it quite frankly it made the film even more cheesier and crude br br here's the basic stupid plot tim dog gets the amazing loki mask and turns into a cartoon dog thing when tim is paying more attention to the baby with special powers cartoon dog becomes a wiley coyote ripoff then loki takes the baby with amazing powers and tim and loki have a really cheesy animated fight tim's wearing the mask it all ends happy too bad this movie is horrible br br overall the original the mask was a fantastic jim carrey movie this basically is not please please don't rent buy or download this movie i made a terrible mistake renting this i don't want you guys to make that same exact mistake i feel horrible that i couldn't write a detailed comment but really what's there to comment on br br 2 10 i'd give it a one but come on it's basically a kid film br br recommended films the mask
0	i cant believe it i thought this is a good sequel when jim carry in the film has a baby but instead its a film with crappy actors stupid plot and stupid scenes this should be in films of sh t in earth' thank god the same director did not make this because this is so stupid with some cartoonish parts like the fart was not funny not the pee and not the dancing i laughed at this because of how stupid the person made this like homer simpson making a movie about a doughnut i wish someone makes a remake of son of the mask with a plot like this the mask guy jim carry and his wife have a son which is a normal baby when the baby finds another mask he became the mask too and the mask guy tries to get his mask back this is very crap so i'll give it a 1 out of 10 fu king sh t
0	this movie is a real shame not just for the plot the empty performance of the characters it is for the lack of creativity from the director and all the crew this is maybe one of the worst movies of all times and it is hard to believe that is the sequel of one of the most famous movies of the 90's br br i am a great fan of the mask when i went to see this movie i was expecting to a movie with a good sense of humor a movie with a acceptable plot instead i saw a really bad copy of chuck jones and tex avery cartoons the movie was not funny even for my 7 years old sister so i wonder what was wrong new line cinema was it trying to repeat the success of the first movie or was it trying to create another masterpiece like the lord of the rings because if they did they were completely out of their minds
0	well i had the chance to view this film the other day i didn't know what to expect as i never saw the trailer and such but what i did discover simply by watching the first 10 minutes is that this film is the worst i have ever had the misfortune to see br br i wish i could give it this film a 0 rating the first 10 minutes were bad but as soon as it goto the party scene i wanted to just enter a coma it was really poorly done the actors didn't have any direction there was no real story i read some reviews that state its good if you have a little child to entertain for 90 minutes etc but really why should we expose children to this type of film its got poor humor rude and crude comedy at best and focuses on poor special effects to fill 80 of its time i am sure a few people in hollywood will be out on the streets after this film bombs br br also how can 39 people give this movie a 10 i mean get real anyone that gives this movie a 10 either has some mental issue and or works for the film company this movie should average at 1 5 10 instead of its current 2 3 10 due to the people that ranked it 10 truly sad
0	actually son of the mask did make me laugh a few times mostly due to the cartoonish jokes that made bugs bunny and roadrunner so funny the cgi is very impressive and is used extensively in this movie garfield for example is no where on par for cgi but i would give it the same vote br br everyone knows the story which wasn't that bad for a kids movie yes it is a kids movie and therefore should be treated as such jamie kennedy is not very good in his role his attempts to act crazy are not very good and overall acting is poor br br everyone else is not too bad br br basically my 2 and 5 year old watched the whole thing without complaining at least i was able to sit through this br br there is no way this movie is worst than shudder class of 1999 br br 4 10 for the cgi and a few laughs
0	i sort of liked this movie not a good one but not the worst ever made though everyone else says it is one o the worst movies ever created i thought it was okay there are a lot of immature jokes it wants to be funny sometimes but fails br br the story is okay it may be a little hard to follow for the younger audiences though br br the acting is pretty bad jamie kennedy is a horrible actor at most times at some times it is even laughable alan cumming is probably the best actor in here he is funny when he is supposed to be but some of his lines are god awful br br oh and the main bad thing about this movie that i hated was tim voice when he is possessed by the mask the voice is horrible also the scenes that he is in are so unfunny that they are almost unbearable i am sure they could have cut him out and it wouldn't affect the movie at all br br overall you can live without seeing this it is a nice movie to watch if you have nothing else to watch though they definitely could have gone without making the sequel but it is a decent effort 4 10
0	1st watched 3 17 2002 2 out of 10 dir mario silly sex filled master slave having too many intimate relations movie this movie seemed to care more about the sex than the story and kind of worked the story around the sex laughable dubbing of the original italian language in the version i watched with ridiculous ending where the attempt is made to give an anti slave statement or should i say one line what a waste of time for everyone who watches this trash
0	is there any reason to revive characters 10 years after the fact when the only reason they worked the first time was due to the actors playing them br br who can replace jim carrey or cameron diaz or better yet who can replace them at cut rate prices since most studios know that sequels don't bring in the same amount of revenue as the originals so they cut corners from the get go br br where are the good movies going to play if powerful hollywood studios can clog up 3 000 theaters opening weekend with whatever turds they feel like the general public can be suckered into br br enough's enough people this sequel itis has got to stop and the hollywood people need to start getting their act together or start distributing the much better foreign product that's floating in limbo br br wake up hollywood cause the people have woken up and they aren't buying it just cause it's new and shiny give us the good stuff and send the rest to the dvd shelves cause we are taking back the theaters once and for all
0	eleven years ago stanley released his true inner self and became the hero of edge city by finding and wearing the norse god of mischief mask the mask helped bring jim carrey to the forefront of comedy and reached a very popular status for its originality and just pure fun everyone knew how to spell party p a r t y why cuz i gotta now eleven years later it seems to me that the same philosophy has been applied to the new movie son of the mask someone asked director lawrence why are you making this and he responds cuz i gotta unfortunately that answer doesn't cover it because after seeing son of the mask i still left the theatre thinking good lord why and the rest of the people involved in the blasphemous film need to realize that the response given to why are you making this film should not be as simple as the answer to the debate on whether or not to party br br the son of the mask begins with otis the dog finding the infamous mask and bringing it back to his owner tim avery a clear homage to legendary loony toons creator tex avery tim played by jamie kennedy is a struggling animator who is stuck working as a turtle tour guide for the animation company he aspires to one day draw for on the night of the company halloween party tim puts on the mask and transforms into the mischievous insane character that we all expect after the party tim goes home mask still on and conceives a child with his wife nine months later mayhem ensues as the baby born of the mask has remarkable cartoonish powers otis the dog jealous of the baby's attention puts on the mask and partakes in tom and jerry type mayhem to out the baby meanwhile loki played by alan cumming is in search for his mask at the orders of his father odin br br first off ill admit that i do respect the fact that this film pays so much homage to the classic cartoons such as tom and jerry and loony toons with its wile e coyote type contraptions and the infamous dancing frog type plot however this reverence cannot save the film and makes it less respectful and more of a waste of time br br the premise of the movie becomes increasingly silly silly is not always a bad thing but in this movie the silliness gets to the point of just plain annoying the characters are not fun to watch and what's worse they're not funny the dullness of the characters can also be attributed to the fact that so much cgi was used one of the greatest things about the original is that while obviously computer animation was used so much relied on jim carrey and his exuberant style of just being jim carrey we were convinced was an actual cartoon jamie kennedy just doesn't have that kind of ability a fact that is clear when you watch him wear the mask and his facial features rarely shift the baby and dog were mostly completely animated which became increasingly distracting throughout the movie the side story of loki searching for the mask just became more and more stupefying br br the son of the mask is a sad sad state of affairs what i suggest is you go rent or buy the original the mask and thank the norse gods or whoever for bringing it to us and will consider seeing the sequel my sacrifice as i continue to ask the infamous question why the son of the mask gets one star although that star should be divvied up between the classic creators of loony toons and jim carrey who will always be in my book the mask
0	my wife received tickets for our family to attend the premier of this movie from her employer for free i only regret the price of the popcorn and the two hours of my life wasted on this garbage film br br i own the dvd of the original mask and quite enjoyed it i expected a remake nowhere near the original in production values or writing but wasn't prepared for this vulgar pile of trash weak acting poor plot a bad cgi baby passing gas and urinating in hyper mask mode a woman turned into a giant nose spewing fun huh my eight year old son loves movies like lord of the rings harry potter and star wars after this was over i asked him what he thought his exact words i hated it it's like the scooby doo movie they take something good and have to put all that gross stuff in my twelve year old daughter and wife hated it as well my wife later told me that my son her twice during it if we could leave he's never done that before i'm proud of him lest you think i'm some kind of puritan from the groans and lack of laughter i heard in the theater i think most of the patrons agreed with me br br this film represents everything bad about children's entertainment today and any positive reviews must be from people financially connected with the film
0	i can just picture how this movie came to be br br so how else can we screw up our careers br br i know let's take a film that was wildly successful and make a sequel out of it br br perfect we'll get b grade actors who have half the charisma and want only 10 of carrey's original salary we'll save millions and rake in a massive profit never mind the fact nobody wants to see a second rate sequel with none of the original actors that made it popular in the first place we as executives still honestly believe a movie was popular based on the name and story not the actors who made it so in the first place br br brilliant let's put a massive budget and get the cheapest actors we can find br br and really that's what son of the mask can be described as just a simple b grade movie that attempts to suck the life out of it's original classic br br nevertheless if the movie didn't contain the words the mask or anything to do with the mask it would be a nice kids movie for all it's massive flaws and horrible acting this really will appeal to kids it's a good natured flick that really wants to scream out like me but only those 8 and younger will truly enjoy it br br jamie kennedy is the only worthwhile mention in this movie he clearly is trying to make the material work playing the desperate dad but the script is so poor the only thing that spews out that is worthwhile was my drink after seeing this the character of loki also deserves a mention as he was the most enjoyable character and really one of the only reasons for older adults to see this film it's too bad the character is wasted on this film i would have really liked to have seen the character take on the true mask instead we are reduced to fart jokes and toilet humor near the end br br the plot is so much by the books i won't bother to mention it here it's all so clearly obvious that even a disney exec would be green with envy br br save your money this one is heading to dvd in three months from the looks of it shame on the studios for once again smearing a decent film with a horrible sequel didn't dumb and dumberer teach them anything
0	what the hell is this movie about well if i didn't know that son of the mask is categorized as comedy i would never have a clue a comedy a tragedy that's the right genre for this yet another so called sequel br br yes i've watched dumb and dumber but i never believed somebody will ever make it's title real in hollywood yes you watch son of the mask and you think 5 minutes dumb 10 minutes dumber 15 minutes dumbest and then after 16 minutes there is only one thing to say i'm out of here br br sorry my nominee for comedy crap of the year 2005
0	this is without a doubt the worst movie i have ever seen i say this without hyperbole and believe me i've seen a lot of bad movies it's embarrassing and annoying that millions of dollars went into this film and that hundreds thousands of spent so much time working on what the writers and producers must have known would be a colossal failure br br when a 90 minute film feels this long drawn out boring and incomprehensible you know that something went wrong somewhere also jamie kennedy whose work i've enjoyed elsewhere is simply terrible in this role he was obviously never given a screen test because no producer in their right mind would consider him entertaining in any way especially in the guise of the mask simply awful br br personally i can't wait to see the reviews by the major film critics because i know they're do a better job than me at tearing this train wreck to shreds br br the producers of this film should be embarrassed and more importantly never be allowed to make theatrical films again
0	mr kennedy should stop experimenting with bad movie scripts what was he thinking this is a movie that should not have passed the hey i've got an idea let's make a sequel stage of inception if there was a zero rating i'd give it but i guess i'll settle for a generous 1 it seems these days that if there is a buck to be made movie execs will dig up an old hit and run it by a set of writers and see what turns up hey i said hit and run kinda describes how i felt when this movie ended how this piece of trash ever saw the light of day is beyond me it is filled with unpleasant humor strange animation and jokes that don't quite take you anywhere besides a state of confusion if you are being dragged to this movie and someone is paying for you fine but its still going to be more painful than a brick in the forehead however if you're planning on paying your own hard earned money search out a better alternative
0	this film has made e mad i believe the original of this film 'the mask' was an awesome film worth buying and watching a lot i strongly believed that they should make a sequel but when i saw this i thought again br br this film has spoilt the whole idea of 'the mask' mask mode a baby flying around in a room my little brother who is seven didn't even laugh and he is into these childish movies but this was worse a load of crap i am telling you now please do not watch this film it is a waste of money and a waste of time instead you could actually be having fun watch 'the mask' but do not i repeat do not watch this hunk of junk thank you
0	this movie is a gay love story disguised as a tale of graffiti and friendship not one review described this movie as a gay romance film and that's the weight of the plot i don't know if this was to trick people that would otherwise be uninterested to sit through it expecting the film to be as it was marketed the film is out of touch with graffiti culture abuses and defames graffiti culture and the acting is abysmal oh yeah the graffiti sucks too this movie was a clever way to hide the agenda of portraying young boys getting gay just look at the rest of the movies the director's been involved with all contain the same subject matter boring as hell not what i expected
0	i wouldn't have given this film such a low rating 2 if its average hadn't been ridiculously high but someone had to bring it down to something more reasonable i sat through most of this film watching scene after scene of tagging and shoplifting no dialog just tagging and shoplifting finally the two kissed something happened but then back to tagging and shoplifting i left the screening i recommend this film only to those who are impressed by pretentious film making i disliked the directors previous film a self righteous defense of man boy love but at least that film had a story interesting characters dialog the graffiti artist had only scene after scene of tagging and shoplifting i want more from a film than this
0	italian rip off of mandingo and the drum is a badly dubbed italian life on the plantation yarn lots of people who don't look like they belong in the american south wear badly tailored costumes and wander around locations that look nothing like the american south the plot has something about the romance between a rich man and a certain young woman the jealousy that ensues and the tragedy that follows the film promises hot steamy sex and lots of twisted violence but nothing ever really comes of any of it its all tease its all probably racially insensitive i couldn't notice since its artistically bankrupt the final twist is at best laughable a major turkey
0	seeing the title of this movie stupid teenagers must die made me believe this was a spoof of some kind i discovered later on the original title was blood and guts both titles are misleading though this is not a spoof neither a serious splatter movie this is something in between failing in both areas a group of teenagers is attending a séance at a spooky house and then the killing starts sounds over familiar doesn't it well this movies adds nothing whatsoever to the endless stream of similar movies and it is badly made because of the lack of light the entire film is grainy now this effect can be highly effective but it isn't in this case the young cast isn't acting too badly but the director has no clue as what to do with actors in numerous scenes the actors are clearly waiting for directions but these are given too late it could also be an editor's mistake of course the characters are unrealistic and the story line just stinks the sound is terrible at times conversations are undecipherable but when talking loudly or screaming the actors are very loud indeed br br this is not the worst horror movie i have ever seen but it still is a bad one for me a 3 out of 10
0	i didn't understand the people who rated it over 5 i think it's a horrible film from any point of view plots acting art dialog music whatsoever i don't mind a low budget however you have to get some point wandering wondering pointless then two boys started kissing in bed awful just awful i love indie films don't mind it is slow however this movie disappointed me from any perspectives even the not artistic br br i was wondering what kind of people would like it i am a female in my 30's is it for teens who have some kind of the loneliness about life or i just don't get it what i gained then wasting time please go for some others
0	how did this film get into the berlin film festival i understand it got into the panorama section but still br br this film featured br br 1 no plot 2 horrible acting 3 atrocious 4 some of the worst graffiti ever captured on video br br the one clincher that accounts for most of its festival is the presence of that old standby homosexuality that's right about the only thing that does happen in this film is that one graff artist makes out with another one and jerks him off then he feels weird about it and they have a boring old breaking up conversation that you might expect to hear from your first crush in middle school featuring lines like you kissed me first dude oh and by the way this is no crying game you see the gay angle coming in the first ten minutes of the film aside from that it's mostly just bad tags badly costumed undercover cops some skateboarding and a train ride br br if the subject matter is of interest to anyone i recommend looking around the web for some underground graff videos taken by real graffiti artists there's plenty out there and they are a hell of a lot more entertaining than this crap
0	other reviewers seem to have held this film in high regard for something made by an eighteen year old film student i would say bravo but that is not the case if you want to watch a good movie about stick to the documentaries it is filmed with the same quality as a digital home video the two main characters are dismal actors and once again that would be okay if this were a student film the plot follows a lonely artist who skateboards around portland writing he is joined by another and they skate around together creating art then comes the unnecessary gay love scene then comes the dispute between them that is never actually discussed because this film has about as much dialogue as a charlie chaplin picture this movie does show the gravity street artists give to their form well and the music is nice but overall i wouldn't really call it a film
0	i wasn't impressed with the graffiti artist despite it's artsy aka low budget improvisation appeal there is little dialog and at least for me i was disappointed that it didn't give more credit or promote the work of guerrilla artists such as these instead it was a story that covers familiar territory two guys who basically do little more than tag buildings become friends tagging partners and eventually experiment with a relationship they seem like opposites rather uncomfortable together little is explained about their backgrounds and the things between the two young men happen at rapid speed although this i can understand because it's only 70 minutes or so there's been countless numbers of similar plots and productions in recent years to the point that the sphere of independent film is starting to become just as saturated with this particular storytelling just as the mainstream has become saturated with this and more br br much of the film may bore the viewer who needs immediate dialog and purpose the primary figure of this story at least extensively performs his routines with nearly no dialog no insight and nothing else to carry the viewer and for a short film i wished they could've gotten to the point a lot faster that aside from the typical plot annoyed me yet there was something about a momentary glimpse into the daily habits of at least two graffiti artists even if most of it was rather unoccupied time br br recommended if you're tired of the mainstream crap and don't mind an indie picture and have some interested into this underground urban art form but you really have to watch it for yourself because this seems to be one with a more acquired taste for more recent indie films centering on graffiti artists check out transit
0	i give this movie 2 stars purely because of its slightly liberal plot line without going into too much detail br br the acting in this movie is terrible really terrible wooden shallow br br the graffiti on show is weak so bloody weak that i can only wonder why they bothered to use graffiti artists at all it was obvious in the spraying scenes that they'd gotten other people in to do the 'work' they might as well have let the actors do the painting and saved themselves a few cents br br i would avoid this film at all costs br br the kid loco soundtrack used to be something i listened to on my ipod its going to be a while before i can go back there for fear of this movie coming back into my mind br br avoid at all costs unless you are thinking to yourself wow its been a while since i've seen a really sh t movie
0	i enjoy gay themed movies where the characters aren't stereotypically gay and that's what attracted me to this movie that and the principal actor which is the only reason i'm giving this movie one more star than it deserves although not because of his acting in the film let me tell you a lot of people complain about the cinematography but the camcorder feel of the movie added a certain underground quality to it for me and there are a couple of scenes usually around sunset or sunrise and among trains that would make any movie screen blush br br but the acting is cardboard the music is repetitive i got through the latter half of the movie listening to a soundtrack from another film you have to wait almost twenty minutes for any dialog and then it is awkward and amateur the subject of graffiti could have made this movie great had it been gracefully exploited and had the art itself been more intriguing but it isn't br br worst of all there is no climax there wasn't really a plot to begin with the movie just crawls back into its shell of silence and dies a forgettable movie
0	i remember this movie with feelings of sheer agony more than half of the film is commercials no really the slight excuse for a story could easily have been told in 25 minutes and almost is the end result is a love story of predictable schlock all obviously thrown together in a crassly commercial attempt to wring a few more bucks from the contemporary debbie boone hit yep that's how fast it was produced the song that inspired it was still big on the charts when the film was released br br despite decades of seeing bad movies this one still impresses me for its extravagant no holds barred headlong jump into the most tedious absurd and indelible cinematic badness it truly deserves to be on the imdb list of the 100 worst of all time and has never left the top 3 on my personal worst list br br enjoy it for the sheer masochistic thrill
0	debbie boone had a monster hit with her recording of the pop song you light up my life the didi conn film of the same name however was a horrifically embarrassing flop conn plays the stereotypically goofy homely vulnerable girl who is in love with michael who plays the stereotypical yuppie wannabe guy they are engaged but every one knows that isn't going to marry any one that isn't blonde and built so only didi is surprised when he dumps her needless to say didi is quite embarrassed br br fortunately she has been doing a little songwriting in her spare time and she's come up with a tune she thinks is pretty nifty she calls it can you guess you light up my life she hops in the car and drives off to the big city to sell her song and make a new life now i recall sitting in the theatre and watching her hop in the car to drive off to the big city and thinking well thank heavens we've finally got all the exposition out of the way now maybe something interesting will happen and something interesting did happen the credits rolled br br yep that was it not only was the movie badly acted badly written and badly filmed it also ended in the middle this movie is a really profoundly bad movie and we're not talking cult movie bad here we're talking unmitigated flop a real yawner from start to finish if you liked the debbie boone song by all means buy a copy of it but don't waste your time or money on this flick this is one movie you'll be glad you missed br br gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
0	first off i am a huge fan of tolkien and as one i will base most of my critic on his books br br the movie is a standard adventure movie well made with nifty special effects nice sound track and fine acting now if this movie was called something else than lord of the rings the reviews wouldn't be half this good as they are here br br the problem of the movie is that it takes the basic story line from tolkiens books but then it goes and hollywoods everything it can numerous scenes from the book are missing or changed quite a lot the characters are changed from the book also a thing that i think should be punishable what the movie lacks is deep insight of the characters in it i know that it is almost impossible to make a good film out of a good book and it didn't work here mostly the motivation of the characters is left hazy at best br br as a adventure movie it would rate 7 10 as a adaptation of tolkien it rates 2 10 br br i mean honestly what on earth was arwen doing at rivendell ford and as for the comments that this movie is the best ever i can only say that you are very young or you havent seen good movies br br peter jackson should have called this movie an adventure movie based on the lord of the rings
0	if you haven't read tolkien's masterpiece prepare yourself for maybe the best movie experience ever if you have however after having read the books several times over many years i have come to love the characters and story and feel i know it intimately i have my own personal vision of the shire hobbiton and the character gallery thus for me the movie was a disappointment why it dictates the appearance of the characters unavoidably it changes events it removes important storyline it removes not so important storyline great chunks of what makes the lord of the rings what it is is simply ignored even 2001 special effects can't do tolkien's and your own imagination justice peter jackson has made an honest attempt at the impossible and i don't think anyone else could have done it better but the fact remains i regret seeing the movie the next time i read the lord of the rings peter jackson's limited vision will leap forward not my own
0	trading on the success of the 1975 hit this film is a cheaply made story of a plantation where gets down with the slave women and the missus gets down with the big black stud and with son also in fact there is so much getting down going on that i really don't know why anyone bothered to get dressed br br so if you want to see white women rolling their naked bodies all over tied up slaves or you just like a movie with tits on display every five minutes then this one is for you br br there is a funny sad story in here but it only comes at the very end so as to not interfere with all the hot sweaty sex going on on the plantation
0	no doubt about it rampling is gorgeous a classic beauty here very young she manages to appear simultaneously sophisticated and poignant her two male foils act well too but seen in 2003 the flic is all br br american trying to be artsy and not be hollywood while shooting beautiful sh of the french riviera and three pretty young people in their cute old ca r i enjoyed the view both the actors and the nature but the movie is boring and pretentious while trying to be the opposite
0	i was a still photographer working in europe the summer that jim shot the movie three br br i did some swell pictures for him one of which i was told became the poster for the movie i didn't see the film until years later i thought it was bad a pity because the elements that went into it were compelling porter's girlfriend was as beautiful as rampling herself asked if i would stick around and be an extra cameraman so they wouldn't have to shoot everything twice i said sure but i had to return to ny promising i'd be back alas i never did get back one of life's unsung melodies br br i wish i could post the pictures i made somewhere br br rowland
0	shirley temple's films for twentieth century fox aren't negligible because they're poorly made darryl f zanuck supervised most of them after all they don't retain much of a classic stature among cinema aficionados mainly because they're weighed down with the syrupy optimism of depression era hollywood 1930s audiences were by the delight of seeing a often orphaned sunshine girl making the grown ups look foolish by comparison they fretted and wrung their hands while she danced her troubles away seen these many years later temple's vehicles barely get by on story aided always by musical sequences to bolster the content and her timing always too perfect and exaggerated reactions might leave most modern viewers rolling their eyes no one could possibly be blamed for their exasperation over temple's performance here shouting lines at the top of her lungs or the perverseness of her dance steps with a crowd of sailors to at the codfish ball still the fantasy aspect of this particular story previously filmed in 1924 from the book by laura e richard is enough to captivate those in the proper saccharine spirit seems shirl was pulled from a shipwreck by a government appointed lighthouse keeper but when a truant officer from the state board finds out the tyke isn't in school she threatens to take the kid away it doesn't really matter if the prune faced officer has a point that temple isn't being raised properly the woman is turned into the proverbial villainess almost immediately one can see right away that temple can hold her own taking care of herself and her elderly guardian in the bargain as well as the local widow who has her hooks in for the captain temple isn't the only one overly rehearsed guy kibbee's january is cued for wide eyed reactions so often you wonder if maybe if he didn't film them all in one day the dialogue is steeped in waterfront metaphors you can't rush a trout well don't give up the ship and something about the whole enterprise seems strangely pixilated from
0	in my opinion this movie is not good i hardly find a good thing to say about it but still i would like to explain before i conclude it is just another bad movie br br i decided to watch it because costas mandylor is starring in it and that was the main reason i watched it till the end i like action movies and i understand that such movies are built on the action rather than the story i know they don't go into details when it comes to the credibility of the story and the events but even that does not explain why some scenes just because they lack the sense of reality look ridiculous br br at the beginning the movie looks quite promising a tough good looking specialist and his not so tough but smart and funny partner must do a job which turns out a bit different than they expected the story takes place on a cruise ship a disaster happens the ship is turned over and only a few are left alive during their struggle to survive they have to escape a shark a professional killer and the rising water br br furthermore the movie is quite violent the main weapon beside the disaster which already took out most of the passengers is the gun which is successfully used in many cases i personally missed a good man to man or woman to woman if you prefer fight family fun i don't think so br br all in all i think this movie was shot in a hurry without a real vision what it is trying to say made of the usual action movie tricks with a bit of something called love and without a real meaning it just results in a bad movie
0	when a friend and i saw this in the recent releases we decided to get it despite the fact that neither of us had heard of it before we both like costas mandylor and it had james coburn so we figured it couldn't be that bad we were wrong it was it was really that bad no actor or actress could have made this film worth seeing it was like taking titanic the poseidon adventure and some nuclear bomb film and trying to cut and paste it all together br br i must admit that there were a couple of chuckles i did laugh when the head cabin boy is asking alan costas mandylor if he's some pussy marine the other laughs this film got though had nothing to do with the writing i would dearly love to know how the people making this movie thought that you could have a cruise liner knocked upside down and have it remain steady it isn't tipped or anything br br if you are looking for something to watch for costas mandylor james coburn or any of the rest of this cast move on find something good that they did
0	i'll give it a two because it has a lot of music otherwise it would be a one br br i saw this movie for the first time tonight and it's the first road picture i've seen i was expecting waaaaay better robert says this is the best of the road movies if that's true i needn't bother to see the others the best thing about this movie is that it has a lot of songs in the first half but that's balanced out by only one production number with dancing in the entire movie br br i didn't like the movie neither hope nor crosby came across all that well their characters weren't very charming the movie was not funny at all most of the dialog was just lame filler there wasn't much action there wasn't much spectacle br br the movie wasn't what i expected i was expecting more road but there isn't much they quickly make it to the palace and then most of the movie takes place there until the end i was also expecting a lot more of the famous road style of breaking the fourth wall wherein the characters talk directly to the audience or comment on the plot there was only about 4 instances of that one of those is an example of the non funny humor of this script br br hope the plot up to now to crosby crosby i know all that hope yeah but the people that came in half way through the picture don't crosby you mean they missed my song br br those are two weak punchlines but at least they are actually jokes much of the rest of the script doesn't even have any jokes an example is br br crosby remind me to throw you a piece of cheese in the morning indirectly calling hope a rat br br that's not funny at all it barely even qualifies as a joke but that's the kind of non joke dialog that carries most of the movie many of the scenes don't even come that close to a joke just using generic uninteresting dialog like br br crosby hey ya' take me for you think that you can just throw me to the dogs hope well why not you did it to me didn't you crosby yeah but that's because i was lookin' out for us you're not lookin' out for nobody hope oh yeah well then why did i pay the check br br the above is just from my memory it's not exact but it illustrates to you what i mean br br and so on just generic dialog with no jokes at all br br my grade a waste of time
0	i'm a big fan of patricia hodge and margolyes so i watched this show when it came on a e some years ago the show was strange to say the least but i gave it a chance because i liked these actresses this has got to be one of the worst shows i've ever seen i wouldn't watch it again and certainly wouldn't waste money on buying the video the storyline of this tv version is ludicrous and just plain stupid the kicker pun intended comes when ruth has surgery done on her leg bones that kind of nonsense belongs in james bond and sci fi movies if this version is true to the book then i won't be checking the book out from my local library the american version came out some years after i'd seen this original to my surprise the americans got it right this time as their version with meryl streep and roseanne is played for laughs and is rather funny when played for laughs the storyline works
0	i saw this piece of pseudo intellectual crap a couple of years ago and it is now making a comeback at the local film club it uses every cliché in the intellectual movie makers handbook beginners edition in order to appear as intellectual as the director probably imagines himself to be you get your run of the mill slow motion tempo brown color scale slow pans through bombed out environments blank suffering facial expressions over symbolic imagery and the requisite miserable ending br br it is a complete failure an unintentional perfect caricature of the typical russian art movie the director aleksandr sokurov has excellent command of technique but he lacks eye he doesn't see when he crosses the line into the realm of the pathetic br br this movie is a wet dream for art film haters it lives up to every stereotypical view of the genre that there is br br if it was bad in an entertaining way it would a turkey but for a movie that is so bad that you walk out afterwards royally p ed off we need a new term this movie is a sokurov
0	eddie fischer was simply bad possibly the worst scene came early in the movie when he broke into a spontaneous song and dance number centered around a piano and some conveniently placed employees the song was totally stupid i think i could drunkenly offer a few lines on a sheet of paper that would far exceed it and probably win a grammy then as if the writers could come up with no better way to escape the ridiculousness of the scene fischer says something to the effect of don't tell insert the guy's name he doesn't like music and smiles i can't describe how bad this is i felt a little embarrassed and that guy debbie reynolds works with and who's always hitting on her is so annoying too i can't even imagine someone like her wasting a fraction of time on him the jokes were delivered without any sort of chemistry between characters which made the movie crawl by at least the baby had cute hair the two stars are for reynolds who was like a swan among ugly br br see bachelor mother instead
0	this film is strictly for fans of debbie reynolds and eddie fisher br br i get angry at tcm for showing this mess more frequently than bachelor mother the delightful original i get angrier still that some hollywood boob thought it would be a good idea to remake bachelor mother filling it with some lame songs that only serve to interrupt the flow of a cute comedy instead hollywood could have spent the time money energy and talent wasted on this horrible remake to give us something new and original wow what a concept br br bachelor mother the original with ginger rogers and david niven is a spicy stew simmering with sexuality it is a 1930's wink at the hays office bundle of joy the remake with debbie reynolds and eddie fisher is strictly milk and cookies it is a 1950's handshake with eisenhower br br which cast would you rather watch debbie reynolds eddie fisher and adolphe menjou or ginger rogers david niven and charles coburn for me every member of the cast in the original version is far better than his her counterpart in the remake br br in the original a beautiful young ginger rogers is at her peak david niven delivers perfectly as a somewhat spoiled sophisticated and yet befuddled scion of a wealthy department store magnate and i always love to see charles coburn in a movie in bachelor mother he is priceless as the desperate grandfather wannabe br br in bundle of joy debbie reynolds is her usual perky self she is fine in this role although her performance along with fisher's completely changes the tone of the story as an actor eddie fisher is hopeless he is completely lacking in screen presence here he is way too wholesome for this story his acting is completely bland and clueless likewise his singing is so bland and unremarkable that it has been completely forgotten by the world at large the only time he is not completely painful is in butterfield 8 where incidentally he doesn't sing here fisher's lame performance alone is enough to ruin this movie adolphe menjou a favorite character actor delivers a competent performance but not one of his best he is more blustering than commanding he and fisher are not convincing as a father and son br br do you see a musical for the music the story being merely incidental or do watch a musical for a story with some good music used for seasoning if the former you might like this lame remake otherwise you are much better off watching the ginger rogers non musical original bachelor mother
0	the italians are undeniable masters in the questionable art of ripping off and imitating movies what they do is take an innovative money making and foreign concept maintain the basic plot and just add a whole lot of action sleaze and political incorrectness but what to do when the non italian original is already a reputedly notorious film and quite difficult to surpass in terms of slop and controversy well then i guess you simply disregard everything in terms of story building or stylishness and fully focus on making something that is practically a porno movie this italian turkey was inspired by richard fleischer's successful slavery saga mandingo released one year earlier but since the makers were even too lazy to think up a different title you shouldn't expect anything that even remotely resembles a narrative depth character drawings unsettling atmosphere or thought provoking statements regarding cross cultural relationships is pure and simply a sexploitation effort where the plot only develops itself throughout the last ten minutes in other words when you stopped caring a long time ago already the characters in this film are a gathering of despicable bastards which is of course to expect when you're dealing with wealthy and obnoxious white folks running a plantation in south america the elderly and supremely sleazy owner of the place is a widower who probably also won a couple of moustache of the year awards who exploits and whips the slaves working for him his mistress who if i understood correctly is also his cousin is a genuine bitch of a woman who enjoys provoking arguments and sneaks out of the house overnight to with crucified slaves when the plantation owner's son returns from europe after approximately 25 minutes of purely wasted running time the plot slightly begin to develop itself at last the handsome young man has sex with the bitchy woman a couple of times even in front of the slaves supposedly to demonstrate how their masters do it… but eventually he falls in love with the cherubic preacher's daughter his romantic preference obviously makes the bitchy woman mad with anger and she plots a horribly cruel act of vengeance that will alter life on the plantation forever hey … i just realized this brief description of the plot actually makes sound like an interesting film well it's not and i apologize if i raised anyone's it's an incredibly boring and hideous film to struggle through but if the themes appeal to you then definitely check out the aforementioned mandingo much rather than sick exploitation that film is a truly insightful portrait of one of mankind darkest history pages and it was also a properly produced film with real actors great music and impressive filming locations has nothing absolutely nothing to offer
0	theres not much you can really say about this film except that it was crap and probably the worst film i have ever been to see take my advice don't watch this film it just wastes your money and time br br i gave this film a 1 10 which is doesn't deserve
0	you're dead is an indescribably awful attempt at a british gangster film it has not got a single original idea in it being an atrocious copy of various elements of lock stock two smoking barrels the usual suspects and pulp fiction the acting and dialogue are absolutely excruciating the plot is ludicrous and utterly predictable despite constant attempts at plot twists and contains nothing but one dimensional stock characters and clichés it has some good actors in it but they are off form and unable to do anything much with the dreadful material they are working with it is absolute torture to sit through this drivel
0	the is a bad generic and boring movie the film has got a big problem it does not scare the performances and the screenplay are totally stupid it uses old tricks for scaring and all the supernatural events make laugh i would not call the as a bad movie i would call it an accidental comedy because it's so bad that makes laugh the only good thing about this movie is that it's short so this crap will not stay with us for so long there are a lot of masterpieces of horror genre which count with a low budget like subject two lucky or may which are sadly ignored while this crap is all a success in the box office so i do not recommend this weak and pathetic horror film which is called the
0	spoiler with plot explanation a poor family is being thrown in the middle of war between the evil guy that pops out from nowhere and no questions asked that went wacko and casper the friendly ghost trying to avenge his death with every frame movie gets more and more predictable a big disappointment ending seams completely dumb it has nothing to od with the movie itself i think someone run out of ideas or just get to the point that movie is s t this way or other so it may as well have a stupid ending waste of time resources and money actor play is very poor if you think about the dialogs you may find out that family conflict is artificially enforced by poor communication between characters some scenes seam random in summary boring predictable poor pathetic waste of time and money
0	i'm sorry but i can't agree that this was a good movie yes it looked good visually but it's the story that drives the movie and i must say the story sucked big time how in the world did they manage to slip some of those plot holes past the critics better story and i would've gave it a higher vote but i was impossible to do that and still be able to live with myself i have always been a fan of scary movies and the previews really had me fooled all the scary scenes were shown in the previews and why did the family that got killed stay to haunt the house why did the father come back again why did he decide to kill in the first place why were the kids the only ones to see the ghosts first to many questions not enough answers if i could've gave it a zero i would've
0	i almost laughed out loud when during the commentary the director said this movie is original with a strong plot line there is not one repeat one original plot line or special effect in this blah movie br br the crows hitchcock did it superbly back before cgi and even with cgi this film falls short of a well done attack scene the creepy crawly boy the grudge did it and did it better the psycho done in cold creek manor most recently however it has been done to death no pun intended disconnected rebellious teen who no one listens to about a dozen films have used this one right down to beetlejuice the stuff from the basement can you say horror doors opening unbidden what lies beneath did it with much more flair creepy farmhouse too numerous to mention br br the backdrop of metaphysics which should have been the central focus gets lost once you figure out what is happening which by the way is pretty early on br br one thing of many actually they never even try to explain in the movie is how they explain to the police that their attacker was sucked down the ooze in the basement so they really don't have a body br br overall don't bother
0	this movie was trying to something but failed miserably all the attempts at suspense were cheap and there were so many tired gimmicks and plot holes i ended up laughing and making fun of it the whole way through at least i was entertained br br the ghosts are attempting to warn the family so why do they attack the girl whose name i didn't care to remember and what was with the black and white at the beginning i know what they were trying to do but they fell far short and where the heck did that guy john corbett's character come from he just waltzes in from no where in a vast field and why did he suddenly lose it again when the ravens came and if the ravens were a manifestation of the spirits of his family then why did they attack him if it would make him try to kill the family makes no sense so many things in this movie just don't make sense and the acting ain't too pretty on the part of the main girl character it's not terrible just a little like her kiddy movie days br br so all in all this movie wasn't brilliant but i had a good time ripping at it and sometimes that's all a horror movie needs to do rent for entertainment not quality
0	directors of the danny pang and oxide pang are responsible for the eye and its sequel and their premiere american picture plays like the grudge lite set in a farmhouse a family of four move from chicago to a run down sunflower farm in rural north dakota almost immediately their teenage daughter jess starts seeing ghosts of course her parents and the police are skeptical admittedly the film is well made and there are two or three effective scares but relies too much on 'boo' effect still the plot is a carbon copy of many ghost stories and the ending is anti climatic and stupefyingly awful scares are on the low side too with a tendency toward cgi overall the is a pretty weak horror film that simply doesn't deliver 4 out of 10
0	this was one of the slowest movies i have ever had the displeasure of sitting through after the introduction where we are given the backstory of something killing a couple people in a farm house we are introduced to a white looser family that is moving to a farm and nothing happens for a time then they meet this drifter who helps out on the farm and nothing happens again for a very long time then finally the girl of the family has some stuff happens then some more happens the drifter guy goes nuts and the movie ends in between its all about how this family had to move out becuz the girl got in some trouble back home and they have no money and its done so poorly that i could care less about these pathetic people i cannot believe i actually went to the theatres to see this not only did this movie suck but some a hole answered his cell phone dumb morons were making noise and the movie sucked thats why theaters suck bad movies overpriced crappy food and idiots in the theatre i'm staying home and watching dvds from now on at least i could smoke if i was at home while watching this stupid movie stay home and bake some pie rather than going to a theatre to see this piece of typical crap dumb stupid crap
0	my take yet another lame pg 13 horror movie with predictable scare tactics and a derivative plot br br the spirits move the walls creak there's something wrong in the basement these along with several other horror movie clichés haunt the walls of yet another house in the country in the sam raimi produced the a lame pastiche of the most predictable scare tactics thrown in on a plot savagely recycled from better and sometimes even worse horror movies of the past br br when the solomon family moves into an old south dakota farmhouse in yet another attempt by dad dylan mcdermott to reconnect with the family especially with their formerly drunk driving daughter jessica the underrated kristen stewart in the more subtle countryside than their home in chicago the horror ensues when jessica begins to get little surprise visits from the house's thinking she's some teenage girl who cried wolf her parents don't believe her how could they the real horror in the is waiting for which horror movie it will savage next will it be an angry flock of crows wanting more than the family's crops a direct rip off of alfred hitchcock's masterpiece the birds will it be the haunted house with a history dating back from the amityville horror or poltergeist or will it be the grotesque phantoms taken from your familiar recent horrors like the ring and the grudge heck the movie even manages to rip off a scene or two from some truly bad horror movies like amityville 3 d and the mediocre cold creek manor perhaps all the pang brothers really wanted to do was a b level horror movie but did it have to be this bad couldn't they rip off from the best avoid it br br rating out of 5
0	this was a mish mash of a film that started out going nowhere got lost on the way then suddenly found a plot in the last 5 minutes when the title character is finally introduced there were so many ugly mutton chopped guys in this film i lost track of who was the owner and who were the i have a theory about the casting though all the bad guys were played by ugly actors and one ugly actress and all the good guys victims were played by beautiful actors indeed the actors who played the ultimate victims the slaves were gorgeous as was the innocent priest's daughter while the plantation owner his mistress and his were pretty hard on the eyes on purpose you make the call br br i hung in there till the end and some others might be able to make it as well if you just want to look at bare breasts there are plenty of them here and if you have a slave master fetish then you'll love this film otherwise watch it once vomit shower and never speak of it to anyone
0	special sneak previews are always a good time no matter what movie it is you are seeing the theatre will always be packed by people who have been awaiting the film like free stuff thought it'd be something to do or just got lost either way no matter how good or bad the film the audience alone will make it enjoyable now when said movie is a pg 13 pseudo horror film can you really delve into horror when the mpaa is on your back censoring everything you know there will be chatter laughing and breath holding with the the crowd did not disappoint giving numerous outbursts and warnings to the characters on screen as for the actual movie i feel sorry for those involved because it really could have been much better had it been paced right and allowed to stretch its legs beyond the scare fade to black show aftermath progression these films have in the end we are shown a boring plodding story with no surprises and few moments of actual suspense br br the story is a common one a family moves from the big city to the country after a traumatic event to try and rebuild their relationship with each other once settled in the spirits of the house come out to the reformed troublemaker child whose past makes it even easier for the parents to disbelieve everything told to them of course the child is not crying wolf and those around only find out when it is too late i will credit the pang brothers directors of the acclaimed the eye that i would like to watch more than before to see what they can do without hollywood reshoots on the were done by someone else but the brothers retained credit it's a shame what our studio system does to foreigners especially when it was creative independence which made the films that brings them in and not bottomline interference for really having a fitting style and for keeping the tired plot line somewhat fresh unfortunately though i also must give them credit for the almost unbearable slowness similar to why i disliked what lies beneath i couldn't stand the drawn out suspense which goes so far as to make it laughable when our heroine and her brother stand in a hallway with a ghost behind them the scene lasts about eight minutes with just static oddly composed close ups and depth of field focus changes to end up culminating to absolutely nothing for being only 84 minutes i almost think it would have worked better even shorter br br besides a very effective opening sequence featuring the fantastic jodelle ferland strangely playing a boy and a great atmospheric credit sequence the only thing that saves the film from utter garbage is the acting except for penelope ann miller who first made me wonder what ever happened to her and then after a few scenes made me understand why i never asked that question in the years she was absent and dustin milligan completely lacking in credibility the acting is very strong dyan mcdermott does a nice job as the father trying to keep his family together through all the tough times he has many little moments of light comedy to counteract his serious dramatic role william b davis everyone's favorite is used effectively as an almost foreboding character sadly not utilized more our true stars are kristen stewart and john corbett stewart plays the emotion very well and shows some promise as an actress with this and panic room on her resume as for corbett if he didn't pull off his role the entire movie would have unraveled completely i do wish he would be given more work as i've enjoyed him since the under appreciated series the visitor still need to check out his first role in northern exposure a show i haven't yet been able to catch up on it's a shame he will probably be most recognizable for the overrated my big fat greek wedding br br if anything the gave me a nice introduction to the pang brothers' work and reinvigorated my desire to check out their chinese horror catalog the mood and performances were there it was just the simple and vacant story that needed way too much padding to make a feature film if they delved more into other characters rather than just stewart's it could have been more effective while also having something more to show then ten minute scenes of nothing if our protagonist is the only one being attacked there is no suspense as to how far the creatures will go to harm her the moments of danger had no gravity to them and until the ending really just stood in as filler i am excited however for the free comic book given away after the special screening as hopefully the medium will allow for a faster paced story that engrosses before it tries to surprise
0	well at least we have to acknowledge the big hollywood horror producers are finally getting smarter and more perceptive instead of patiently waiting to buy the rights of asian horror hits and subsequently remake them in america they now discovered they could simply hire the asian directors and assign them to make their brand new ghost story directly in the states that's like killing two birds with one stone way to go guys the is pretty much identical to every other supernatural chiller that came out of the oriental countries ever since ringu roughly translated this means it's a boring overlong and entirely gore free film but it does feature copious amounts of false scares and embarrassingly weak did we scare you yet moments the pang brothers danny oxide previously made the extremely overrated the eye and it sort of is a tradition for them to build up a story with clues and hints towards a point where it becomes nearly impossible to meet the expectations of their curious audiences yet they don't seem eager to alter their formula any time soon and they're also unscrupulous enough to recycle the same old repetitive ghost topics over and over again restless spirits of the previous inhabitants trapped in the walls of a remote countryside farm the protagonist family torn apart by unprocessed traumas from the past so they first have to restore faith and trust in each other give me a break throw in a videotape and a seven days curse why don't you even the attempts to make you jump in your seat are too déjà vu and won't scare anyone over the age of 7 slamming doors filthy gradually larger growing stains on the walls ghostly appearances noises coming from the cellar the endless overuse of cheap tricks like this is almost becoming insulting to horror fans the revolves on a family on their way to a new life in the country as the growers of the family situation is kind of dysfunctional since a personal tragedy which doesn't get revealed until late in the film caused their youngest son to stop talking and the parents to distrust their revolting teenage daughter soon after the children experience strange presences in remote farmhouse but they don't manage to convince their parents to leave that's pretty much concludes the entire film little ben sees things but he can't talk and jessica repeatedly gets attacked by supernatural forces but nobody listens to her the basic premise of the is very derivative of stanley kubrick's immortal classic the shining only it lacks the constantly ominous atmosphere and disturbing tone the script takes itself far too seriously even though it's fairly easy to predict the final denouement and the total absence of violence and bloodshed is unforgivable at least the eye delivered some genuine shocks in the end whereas the happy happy joy joy ending of the is just pathetic the only positive elements i can think of are the beautiful rural filming locations the adequate editing job and the promising young acting talents and beauty kristen stewart and there's an uncanny but sadly underdeveloped supportive role for william b davis
0	despite a totally misleading advertising campaign this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clichéd sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending clue 1 for all considering seeing this turkey sam raimi didn't direct it although commercials for the movie play up his involvement in truth he is one of four producers it's too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie i don't think he would ever have directed something like this that task was left to the pang brothers br br the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other horror films so you'll find absolutely zero original content in the what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of pulse a couple that could have come from the birds one or two from the others etc nearly every scene almost every line of dialogue is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the surprise ending long before it comes br br right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts has nothing to do with this movie in fact everyone can see the ghosts the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them even quite early in the movie i'm sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal which otherwise is entirely absent now you know so don't be fooled perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors it simply isn't there all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened anyhow didn't anyone think to maybe arrest him it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots loud noises visual flashes and anything short of a figure jumping out of a closet and yelling boo all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house if there's any message that the delivers it's don't waste your time on this movie
0	this movie has all the ingredients of a great horror story and loses it in the last half few movies can actually give me chill bumps this one did few horror movie give me a sense of dread this one did it kept me guessing i cared about the story i cared about the characters the acting was decent unfortunately about half way through the movie the story just doesn't have many good directions it can go it becomes evident that everything cool about the plot is going to self destruct it does what builds in the first half as a great horror concept shifts away from horror and towards the absurd a plausible fear turns into a series of implausible reactions from the characters the story concludes with disappointment while this movie seems complete there is one loose end that could setup for a sequel the movie isn't good enough for a sequel this movie is worth seeing in the theater just don't expect to be stunned this is best suited as a movie to rent it's probably not a movie you'd want to own
0	let's cut through everything in the first paragraph the the newest film by the pang brothers danny and oxide as a horror movie is profoundly bad and just as a movie in general is a big disappointment it's nothing but a sixth sense and as long as that picture is still available there is no reason on earth to pay money to see this turkey br br lately horror slasher films such as the final destination series wrong turn boogie man the ring 2 and the grudge are becoming increasingly more reliant on big shocks with no payoff for instance something jumps out at the person on screen elicits a gasp from the audience but turns out to be a cat or a crow or something little goes into making it a genuine frightening experience like the sixth sense or signs or some of the classic horror movies of the 1940s '50s and '60s br br the relies upon the same old tired clichés as these newer far inferior films and is therefor old tired and to my surprise ended up as one of the most boring movies i have seen in awhile br br the plot has another stupid family led by dad roy dylan mcdermott the practice mom denise penelope ann miller awakenings kindergarten cop tv series desperate housewives big sis jess kristen stewart a space adventure and toddler ben evan turner who move to north dakota from chicago br br the reason for the move is never really outlined here but it has something to do with the dad's inability to find work and jess' drunken driving escapades we know there will be trouble immediately because they move into a big gothic house in the middle of nowhere a domicile that looks like the munster's summer home oh and the first five minutes of the movie show something really horrible happened there br br jess hates the place hey who could blame her but optimistic pop hopes to make a go out of raising despite the unusually large amount of crows fluttering about but when he meets burwell john corbet raising helen and looking like kevin costner in the film version of my name is earl an itinerant drifter and expert on raising things start to pick up br br but then weird things begin to happen jess is terrorized by a violent unseen force in the house of course no one else but the two year old ben can see it so she's labeled a flake and the crows keep hanging around ben also is able to detect the unearthly creatures but since he's two he cannot articulate it scene after scene of people telling the little boy to tell them what he sees finally had me wanting to yell to the screen he can't tell you he's two freaking' years old yes have the only protagonist who can solve all of these things be a mute toddler is real smart br br anyway we're left to ponder the sanity of jess when and if ben will ever properly describe the paranormal visions he sees if dad will make the sunflower thing work if the high plains drifter is a good guy or bad what the point of the george plimpton looking realtor is how a pitchfork plunged in the back can only be a flesh wound what mom's role in the family is and where are all the crows coming from br br all of this while waiting and wondering for something anything to happen the conclusion is really lame as well and once again begs the question of how a spirit which has no physical body can cause harm to a living person very dull pointless and most terrible of all not frightening in the least br br oh and there are a lot of crows in this movie
0	spoilers within what a dull predictable non scary snore fest the movie had no character development i felt no empathy towards any of the characters except may be the small boy and did not care what happened to any of them the movie had so many clichéd bits or elements stolen from other horror movies br br the movie was so predictable many times i would be saying to myself let me guess fill in guess happens next yup i was right even in the opening scene i predicted that the attack on the family was by some man probably the father because only the wife and children were attacked sure enough that is what happened of course you have to wait 79 minutes to find out for sure and of course another evil man scenario why was he evil and killing his family because he's a man duh br br as someone else stated this movie may be scary for someone under 13 years of age or for a movie from the 1970's but it is far from being a 'scary' movie by todays standards and like so many other crap horror movies a lot of the scares were fakes scary music scary music scary music and a crow suddenly flies at the window wow scary br br how did the old bank guy manage a few times to walk across an open lot without the father seeing him i thought for sure that the old man was a ghost nope just a crappy movie br br i rated this movie a 2 out of 10 because it did keep my attention enough to sit through the whole thing
0	after having problems in chicago the solomon family moves to a remote north dakota farmhouse to start anew but their attempts at an idyllic farming life is disrupted when their teen daughter jess kristen stewart and her 3 year old brother ben start seeing and being attacked by supernatural beings who won't allow them to live in peace br br the starts off decently although it eventually becomes a generic horror film that's a lot more humorous than frightening after reading the premise i thought this could have been a decent movie since it sounded creepy and it held potential unfortunately the film didn't live up to its potential although i should have expected this since the trailer was awful the screenplay was probably the worst part about it it was full of silly sequences and bland dialog the characters were not developed at all and most of them were acting like a bunch of idiots so it was hard to feel sympathy for them br br the directors did a horrible job at building up suspense they mainly relied on cheap scares like loud noises and random jumps the music was really over the top and it just made it easier for the viewer to telegraph the next scary moment i also didn't like how they pretty much just used one location for the whole movie the house was the centerpiece of the story and that's where the majority of the filming took place so it got a little boring after awhile to see the same area also i didn't like the close ups of the actors during a conversation the camera would continually jerk from character to another in the span of five seconds and it got really annoying the directors did create a decent atmosphere and they do get some points for making their movie stylish however since we have come a long way in terms of style and effects it's not really that hard to make your movie look nice especially if you are working on a hollywood film br br the acting was atrocious and if this movie had been released in december i'm sure it would have received several razzie nominations kristen stewart showed some talent in panic room but you wouldn't be able to tell she has talent by watching her performance in the she was okay at acting scared and that's it the rest of the time she was dry and unconvincing penelope anne miller was just awful when it came to everything it sounded like she was reading her lines and she had some of the worst facial expressions i have ever seen dylan mcdermott was just very wooden and he showed almost no emotion john corbett gave the best performance and he had a couple of good scenes the twins who played ben were also decent and managed to out act many of the adult actors overall this lame horror film is not worth watching because of it's blandness and lazy film making rating 4 10
0	i don't expect a lot from ghost stories but i do expect a story to make a bit of sense is that asking too much from the screenwriters and filmmakers when the bad guy all of the sudden becomes a homicidal maniac solely because a bunch of crows start pecking him then i have a problem spending 9 00 for a ticket alfred hitchcock would be spinning in his grave didn't anyone learn anything in their college film 101 class a good movie has at its roots an interesting story br br here are some of the ridiculous messages in this movie if you have desperate financial problems move from chicago to the middle of no where in north dakota to grow i kid you not if your toddler has serious neurological problems from a car accident move away from some of the best hospitals and speech therapists in the country to an isolated small town which at best has a community hospital hire a drifter to live work with you out of the blue without checking any references when you have a teenage vixen daughter a wife and toddler i'm glad they're not my parents br br a town where everyone knows everything would have no problem missing a triple homicide just outside of town and of course blame the man's lunacy on a bad crop of doesn't anything else grow in north dakota a couple of days after you buy your rundown house with huge vines growing everywhere that it reminds you of jack and the a guy from the x files ala smoking man i'm glad to see the cigarettes didn't get him i guess he doesn't inhale will just suddenly sneak up on you while you're working to offer you the sale price of your home plus 15 more for absolutely no reason br br i think you get the picture i have seen so many godforsaken awful movies in the past month it just blows my mind is it that difficult to make a movie that doesn't treat the audience like an idiot i'm glad at least the crows in this sorry film turned out to have the some brains i wish i could say the same for whomever thinks they are going to make money off this celluloid piece of trash
0	first off the editing of this film consisted of one major flaw which i don't understand how was missed you consistently see the overhead microphones bobbing in and out of the film the first time i saw it i just said well mistakes happen and brushed it off after about the 10th time it began to get incredibly irritating and distractingly funny if you haven't seen the film yet try counting how many times you see the microphone might make for pretty interesting game br br now about the film this movie started out with the makings of a pretty solid ghost story however the plot twist at the end just ruined it completely you begin watching the movie under the assumption alluded by the tv commercials that the haunted house consists of ghosts which can only be seen by children particularly young children which makes it even more freaky as they will be unable to effectively warn the family of the impending danger the opening scene did a good job of misleading the audience that this would remain the premise of the film spoiler the movie starts with the family being stalked and ultimately killed by an unseen force in the home the idea that only children can see these ghosts is set in motion when the daughter at the beginning of the movie asks her little brother to tell her where it is right before it grabs her and drags her screaming into the cellar the young boy also witnesses this supposedly unseen force kill his mother after she tells him to hide under the bed after his family is killed the boy attempts to run and hide only to be snatched away as well br br as i said this movie started out with the makings of a pretty spooky movie in which the family would be stalked by an unseen force with their only hopes of survival resting on sightings by a two year old this began to be ruined less than halfway into the film as the daughter began to see the ghosts as well completely ruining the only children can see illusion set forth by the commercials and opening scene br br regardless of this the movie didn't actually get ruined until the plot twist at the end in which the man who had been helping the family cultivate the farm turns out to have been the man responsible for killing the family at the beginning of the movie all of a sudden after being attacked by a swarm of crows the man snaps and tries to kill the mother daughter and son while having a psychotic breakdown in which he believes them to be his family which he killed at the beginning br br the whole plot twist at the end just created a whole list of unsolved questions and left me going wtf first why was the family's souls trapped in a house if the director was going for a ju on the grudge approach in which the family after dying in a fit of rage would haunt the house and kill whoever enters why did the haunting stop after the father was captured by the ghosts of his family if the ghosts only wanted to kill the man that killed them why were they attacking the new family here's another one for you it takes several months from the time you sow seeds until the plants fully blossom in time for harvest this tells me that the man who killed his family at the beginning the man that the ghosts apparently had a grudge with the whole movie was living on the property for months during all this time why didn't the ghosts just go kill him br br this movie included a lot of clichéd horror movie scares as well as an obvious combination of ideas from other horror movies however i'm telling ya this movie still could've pulled off okay if not for the plot twist at the end it's like they just ran out of their budget and just threw together something for an ending for this movie to have been a success they should've stuck with the only children can see them premise and ended with either the family barely getting away or being killed off like the family at the beginning would've opened the door for possible sequel too
0	just saw this movie on opening night i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it i must say i was not impressed i'm so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money br br first of all the is very predictable and just not much of a thriller it might be scary for someone under 13 but it really did nothing for me the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie's resolution br br furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes br br if you've seen previews for this movie then you've seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters
0	when i first looked at the back of the cover of this film it seemed like me and my friends could be looking forward to 82 memorable minutes and it certainly was memorable was the kind of movie where you keep asking yourself how this was possible how it was possible that it was released on dvd at all out of all of the movies available at the video rental store that night we might just have picked the worst and yes they had tomb raider absolutely nothing in this movie amused me even slightly who came up with the idea that it would be funny if the narrator could change the story by suggestions from the main character out of all the stupid things you can totally ruin a movie with this is now my favourite the character the village idiot played by nickolas grace is the most annoying character since they started making movies in color if there is one single movie that you definately not should see this year please let it be cause i don't think it can be any worse i still wonder if this just might have been the worst way i have spent my money and take my word for that i have made many lousy purchases over the years
0	good old jess franco the always reliable choice of director in case you're looking for undemanding sleaze shameless exploitation and 200 jess once again really surpassed himself with this utterly trashy piece of jungle adventure let's face it this film is basically just an excuse to have the ravishingly hot and actress katja parade around topless it's actually a rather disturbing thought that an innocent 16 year old girl had to walk around a film set naked in front of a whole crew and particularly before the gazing eyes of pervert franco and it wasn't even the first time since the duo previously already made linda together anyways just in case you wondered yes diamonds of the does have a plot albeit a very imbecilic one during the opening sequences a plane carrying aboard a wealthy scottish guy and a girl child crash amidst an african tribe of vegetarian cannibals i say vegetarian because they never at one point in the film so much even attempt to consume human flesh the obnoxious scot declares himself the great white leader and the girl grows up to become the beautiful and scarcely dressed white goddess several years later an expedition reaches the middle of the jungle to get the girl back to civilization and – even more importantly to steal some of the tribe's legendary diamonds this could have been a compelling and action packed adventure movie but jess franco obviously couldn't be bothered why shoot jungle chase sequences or bloody cannibalistic rites when you can just as easily aim your camera at a hot young chick sitting naked in a tree most of the jungle settings simply appear to be filmed in someone's garden and there's a massive amount of clumsily edited national geographic wildlife footage in order to fill up the gaps in continuity the back of the dvd describes diamonds of the as an ingenious feminist and adult orientated version of tarzan yeah right they just put that sentence there because katja character swings from one tree to another using a a couple of times
0	a group of adventurers travel to the 'dark to try and locate a lost heiress named diana who disappeared years before in a plane crash and who is now believed to be living with a savage tribe that consider her to be their goddess br br once again my search for sleazy european cannibal movies has taken me deep into jess franco seemingly endless cinematic wilderness swarming with sub par scriptwriting crawling with crap camera work and abundant with awful acting franco regular lina taking the prize this time for her pitiful performance as an ailing elderly woman it is here in this hellish place that i finally stumbled upon diamonds of an abysmal jungle based exploitationer so stupefyingly bad that it took me three successive evenings to finish watching it br br tawdry and unrelentingly dull even by franco's standards this wearisome piece of trash fails on almost every level the story is a dreadfully dull derivative of edgar rice burrough's tarzan albeit with a feminine twist the film appears to have been filmed in the local gardens although grainy stock footage is poorly integrated into the film in a pointless effort to convince viewers that the action is really taking place in africa and the death scenes are virtually bloodless franco can usually be relied upon for some splatter but despite initial appearances this isn't a cannibal movie and it isn't that gory br br where the director does succeed however is in his casting of sexy young katja as jungle jail bait diana running and leaping through the in nothing but a skimpy loin cloth her curvaceous bod belying the fact that she was only sixteen at the time this nubile beauty makes quite an impression franco also throws in some further nudity courtesy of mari carmen as treacherous traveller lita who gives us a glimpse of her untamed regions and aline mess as topless warrior woman thus narrowly avoiding getting yet another rating of 1 10 from me although i'm sure he'll be receiving plenty more in the have loads of his films yet to see
0	jess franco makes exploitation films and he has made tons of them franco is responsible for some of the most shocking films in cinema history and god bless him for it unfortunately the diamonds of is a truly awful movie that is not up to his usual standards br br exploitation films should be judged on story sex and gore what else is there this film fails on most of those benchmarks the plot is paper thin placing a nubile young girl in the jungle among cannibals we really don't get information on why she and her father were there in the first place as expected her father is the big white chief and she becomes a goddess sitting in trees naked add fortune hunters and precious stones and you have your basic rescue the girl for greedy intentions plot line the characters are stock not adding an ounce of believability to the proceedings br br gore none or at least very little this film is often mentioned in the same vein as the classic italian cannibal movies those seeking that type of gore need to run the other way save for one cheap be heading this movie features surprisingly little blood and guts br br as best i can tell the only reason this movie exists is so katja mess and mari carmen could run around naked actually lita mari carmen does the full frontal heavy lifting while the two jungle ladies are bare chested throughout yes there are love scenes probably the most sterile franco has ever supervised the women are beautiful but nothing here to really make this movie an erotic classic either br br this movie just reeks of low budget buffoonery the sets are laughable the acting is horrid and the editing is confusing there is no real story to hold this together and not enough of a budget or effort to shock or titillate i think franco fans have come to expect more out of the master of exploitation
0	franco films can be divided into 4 categories the often black and white and inventive the late 1960s early 1970s often involving miranda the of various periods but using full frontal female nudity as plot drive and the rest br br this is part of the rest it is not really a cannibal movie at all it is certainly no gorefest the few women in the picture dont even lose their loin cloths and there is little full frontal stuff at all the picture quality on the german dvd i watched is poor the film peters out insofar as it ever catches fire as a franco fan i would tell others not to bother do something else with your time read a book get a copy of women in 9 anything really
0	an expedition party made up of constantly bickering and obnoxious jerks go trekking into the dangerous african jungle in search of both a fortune in diamonds and a missing young lady named diana luscious brunette looker katja clad solely in a skimpy loincloth that shows off a lot of her hot shapely body who's worshiped as a goddess by a deadly primitive tribe called the director screenwriter jess franco crucially fails to inject any style or vigor into the generally blah and meandering proceedings allowing the sluggish pace to crawl along at an often agonizingly slow clip and staging the infrequent action scenes with a singular lack of skill and panache the lousy dubbing excess amount of grainy national geographic like animal stock footage groovy jazzy lounge score terrible acting talky uneventful narrative tepid soft core sex scenes and static photography don't help matters any as well fortunately there's plenty of tasty gratuitous nudity on sight to alleviate the tedium to a reasonable extent besides the delectable both aline mess as fierce wicked high priestess and mari carmen as the conniving treacherous lita are likewise real easy on the eyes the beautiful jungle scenery is very nice too but overall this picture sizes up as barely watchable and hence instantly forgettable swill
0	terribly disappointed with city of men after being swept away by city of god lost is the exciting and unpredictable storyline and instead in its place is bland predictability with the obvious attempts at audience manipulation by a superficial pretentious production and distribution team this story ended up feeling like a sappy soap opera rather than a gritty indie feature which is what is should have been this is what happens when distributors try to seek a wider audience ridiculous sweeping shots of the rio coastline etc at the expense of a gripping story and characters i really couldn't care what happened to any of the characters in this film they were all so 2 dimensional in short sad waste of potential that should have been a slam dunk following the exceptionally inspired city of god boo
0	a multi millionaire marries a female doctor he hasn't worked in a day and she is devoted to her profession he sees her off each day something has got to give br br our hero henry fonda finally decides to do something with his life he becomes a salesman in a department store but is soon fired as poorer people need the job in the meantime dr helen hunt barbara stanwyck has given up her practice what's there to do br br kirk fonda buys a bankrupt hospital and the two shall now be happy aiding others while they eke out an existence br br what's with the writing here when annoyed with her husband dr hunt says you've been acting like gestapo this is supposed to be a comedy hogwash br br a very boring tedious film very little going on here
0	begrudgingly gave it a 3 one point each for fonda stanwyck and the supporting cast br br never saw this one before am watching it right now and it has just gotten to the part where henry fonda is carrying babs over the threshold if i continue watching it will be just to see if fonda and stanwyck will be able to pull this one out of the dumper br br but after reading the other viewer comments i'm not very optimistic br br the opening ski scenes were enough to put me off my lunch the voice overs were obviously done in a sound studio and the editing between the exterior shots and the closeups was horrendous i do not know that much about the technology of that era but i can't believe there wasn't something they could do to make it more believable br br my second gasp of disbelief was when fonda wiped out and i imagine due to the extreme velocity of travel he is burrowed head first into the snow up to his torso stanwyck pulls him out with obvious staged difficulty and i imagine because she is such an experienced doctor does not react at all to his apparently unconscious state and limp posture br br look i'm completely capable of suspending my disbelief but i couldn't get over the fact that she had just jostled a man with a possible head injury and that he might be paralyzed for life not my idea of big yuks br br so as i finish this comment we have just seen kirk's first jealous outburst and dr hunt is off to perform an i'm not sure which i hate more the script the background music or the story i'm done game over click
0	you belong to me 1941 is a example of the comedy' which started in the mid 1930s and ended postwar wwii some of these films maintained their status others have earned undeserved praise when originally were critical and box office flops like bringing up baby 1938 or mr mrs smith 1941 then there is this one which value just keeps sinking br br why can be rooted in the screenplay story it strains credibility from the get go betraying a superior cast barbara stanwyck is married to millionaire henry fonda who is insanely jealous he would be content to sit back with his million and love her she wishes to maintain her profession as a doctor she wants him to become in what her eyes is a useful member of society this conflict is supposed to amuse us it cannot be salvaged by either the principals or the supporting cast br br the faults in this scenario can clearly be laid at the feet of dalton henry fondas' character is written in such broad strokes that any viewer has a instant dislike for him barbara stanwyck just has nothing to do but react to each idiotic situation of jealousy must have been spending to much time outside the studio being a useful idiot then being on the job columbia obviously did not get their moneys worth from him maybe robert should taken over
0	despite having an absolutely horrid script more about that later this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors barbara stanwyck and henry fonda aside from one or two real stinkers i'd probably watch just about anything with them in the film as i am a huge fan of hollywood's golden age of the 1930s and 40s however no matter how much i love their films i just can't recommend this film br br the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort the two haven't yet met but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly while skiing it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the in hindsight perhaps i should have just turned it off then fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help back at the ski lodge he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health he in turn becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her despite hardly knowing each other they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy br br once home however all isn't rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy the film plays it all for laughs but frankly fonda's behaviors were really creepy spying on her and her male patients attacking or threatening any man she treats tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there men and women are out to steal away his wife he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic but it's all supposed to be for laughs considering that he seems like a dangerous nut you would think that stanwyck would file for an along with a restraining order but oddly she gets mad but just can't stay mad at fonda because he's so i can't think of the right word is all that comes to mind later out of the blue multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store then through magical thinking he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions when this job falls through the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after they don't go any further with the story but i assume based on fonda's character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients br br the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together nor did the final horatio alger inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world they were like three separate plots but despite this the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy what a creepy little film thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this film but for all their other lovely films
0	technically this movie would have had it all decent actors a nice landscape no obvious sights of a lack of budget a celebrity like richard attenborough the plot summary also sounded promising suggesting a satire on silly bureaucracy and common people it br br however it never delivers the plot is simply too illogical throughout the whole movie not one person does a single sensible thing mad politicians ridiculous soldiers brain dead villagers all just hustle from one incredible situation to the next what they all do never makes sense in a context beyond the current scene br br of course this kind of movie has to be absurd and exaggerated however it's also supposed to have at least one instance to point out the madness behind splitting a city in the middle actually there are at least two attempts which unfortunately fail the main character who doesn't seem to have a clue about what's happening to him and the writer who occasionally cracks jokes from the off that might be considered funny by an audience consisting solely of 12 year olds br br what i found most impressing is that the movie tries to be funny all the time but didn't made me laugh once i've seen several bad funny movies but until yet every single one of them featured at least 2 or 3 good laughs so in this sense is really remarkable br br if you want to see a great movie with a comparable plot check out brazil don't waste your time on
0	you belong to me was the final teaming of henry fonda and barbara stanwyck as a screen team and it was a loan out film for fonda to columbia pictures fonda had signed a contract with 20th century fox in order to get the tom part in the grapes of wrath but after that it was usually his loan out films that were good while he was cast in mediocre things at fox br br but the rule was broken here though the character he plays bears some superficial resemblance to charles pike from the lady eve this film isn't anywhere near as funny in fact feminists would probably be aghast at it br br in fact barbara stanwyck herself didn't like it at all she liked working with henry fonda right enough but thought this film was ridiculous as well she should have br br fonda is another millionaire playboy who we would now call a trust fund baby who doesn't really do much with his life he's sort of lovable lunkhead who meets stanwyck on a ski slope and literally falls for her trying to show off turns out she's a doctor and they have a whirlwind courtship and get married br br but it turns out fonda has a jealous streak especially when it involves roger clark another millionaire patient of stanwyck's and he's not understanding as to her professional obligations br br stanwyck like bette davis and katharine hepburn was and is a feminist icon when she tells fonda that he ought to go out in the working world and live on a salary and see if he can do it fonda goes out and gets a job as a salesman in a department store she's so proud of him that she actually is going to give up her medical practice and live with him on his salesman's salary br br today now would be the film stanwyck did not have too much conviction in her performance probably because she didn't believe any of it i certainly couldn't br br i don't think even back then audiences believed it either but the two stars and the rest of the cast tried their best but this one was a thanksgiving special
0	a lot of actors have a multitude of good movie roles in their soul some a handful others maybe a couple br br then there's linda blair the exorcist that's it br br when you see chained heat and watch linda blair in it you have to wonder what if anything was running through her mind br br certainly not oh boy oscar for best actress here i come br br just another women in prison film like they used to make for the cheap in the '70s this one actually has names you may recognize john vernon plays the dean i mean the warden with a hot tub in his office wonder what he told the contractor stella stevens pops up even henry silva and louisa moritz show how bad they needed the work br br and special mention of course for our heroine sybil danning as a bisexual prisoner who puts the moves on poor blair to paraphrase sybil is as sybil does and everything sybil does is done perfect makes you forget what a terrible movie you're watching br br almost br br two stars one for sybil and another for trying to pass off linda blair as a sex symbol whatever could have possessed them get it
0	sad really sad this movie has nothing hmmm well maybe sybil danning to keep you watching it also hurt my eyes to see linda blair in this exploitation flick she certainly deserves better br br so what's the story about let's see warden john vernon tapes the inmates in rather inspiring positions while prisoner sybil actually runs the prison and little linda must fight to survive sounds like a b movie huh it is
0	ugly women of the flick rakes the bottom of the midnight movie barrel combining pulpy sleaze with the hoariest of girls in the shower clichés linda blair plays an innocent sent to jail we learn she was involved in running over some guy with her car facing hard time in the big house with some of the nastiest characters this side of a russ meyer pic blair is continually pawed at punched raped humiliated and harassed the dialogue is four letter word disgusting throughout and the flick offers no let up from its barrage of violence and stupidity still some viewers see this as a camp classic though perhaps its tongue isn't far enough in cheek from
0	not the best of the but not the worst either i honestly feel guilty laughing at this film considering it had to be career lows for all involved yet the acting dialogue preposterous scenarios and the ever present boom mic get to me everytime and certainly add to its bad movie charm as much of a linda blair fan i am top or topless honors go to sybil danning also special kudos to henry silva who's the only one in the cast who doesn't play his role too seriously viewing the film now though makes me look at stella stevens character more closely she plays the head officer and i have to wonder if this where hilary clinton decided to adopt her current look and demeanor after all i'm sure she had to look no further than her husband's video collection to find this film not that i'm judging i've seen it several times myself and it all makes me wonder what would've happened if mr clinton had been allowed to install a hot tub in the oval office hmmm
0	get the cd instead the show is tame and the editing sucks the crowd gets way too much screen time as does till the cameras spend more time on the same kid shaking his head around in the same way which leads me to believe it's the exact same shot than they do during richard solo in the scenes change so quickly it's impossible to tell where the camera is pointed and the replays are simply redundant not worth the tape it's recorded on
0	how can any of you call this propaganda a family film this is nothing but a pc insensitive insult to small town churchgoers the film portrays a woman as the great white savior of some small midwestern town and everyone else in the town mostly men are just mere damsels in distress incapable of honor who can't fend for themselves and have to rely on the main character for redemption this film is just some love affair that the producer has with some undisciplined arrogant pushy little squirt who he expects the audience to admire br br the person who made this movie probably spent his whole life in a seeker sensitive church and had the freedom to dump garbage on small church members as wacky lunatics and not the majority the same people who give money to the salvation army at christmastime collecting donations to help missionaries the poor and the homeless singing fellow shipping and making friends with each other what is wrong with this humble group that offends these self righteous traitors most christians in this world would step in front of a train and give their lives for any person in trouble even if they disagree with them most christians wouldn't mind if the pastor or some church worker of some church took of his or her coat or outer shirt they would not condemn her this film is ridiculous
0	edge of madness is a tale about a woman in the 1800's who gets hand picked by dirty scotsman who can't keep his penis in his pants he just so happens to have a younger brother who is against rape and kills him but continuously says it was an accident this makes his wife go crazy she gets delusional and she takes the fall because she loves george too much br br like i said this type of thing has been done before this is just more artistic because it's canadian and it's an indie production done on a low budget with hardly known actors except that one kid from lassie yea he's in it i whether this was going for oscar bait but it was sure as hell boring and this is based on a 40 page short story half of that short story is incorporated into this flick and i'm glad otherwise i'd bore to death unfortunately i had to watch it in my media fundamentals class and i had an assignment on it read the short story and compare and contrast the flick to the story boring br br you know it's harder to answer movie questions when you don't like the movie ah well i hope this is the last type of assignment me and my class get for what it's worth annie was totally hot she had a nice soft ass and i liked the nude parts of her in the movie br br 3 10 for boring oscar bait performance and graphic sexuality plus nudity
0	lord protector is kiddie fare but for whose kids obviously shot for television or stv this amateurish rehash krull has several stock characters a magician an assassin a warrior a scientist on the trail of something or other in order to defeat the dark forces about to be unleashed on their planet badly written acted and staged in available california locations like municipal parks and a ranch lord protector has nothing to recommend it not even as a time waster jay underwood is the only name actor and most people especially the intended audience of five year olds are not likely to remember him from such ancient disney fare as not quite human a no name actor playing a magician in an ill fitting silver wig at least plays it with tongue planted firmly in cheek while those around him act as if they are in a dinner theater production of king lear i was hoping at least for a decent action or special effects sequence alas the action sequences are pathetically staged and the few special effects are those old fashioned painted over cartoon gags we used to see in 1950s and 1960s fantasy flicks like bert gordon's the magic sword the filmmakers planned a sequel that mercifully never came to be often such cheap hollywood back lot productions use a combination of legit and porn actors i kept myself occupied during the film's seemingly interminable running time trying to figure which was which in this one i didn't have much luck
0	i have spent the last 5 years in the entertainment business and most recently find myself working for the company that made this movie which is a real pity because i like these folks i just can't believe anyone could possibly make anything as bad as this this was crap from every possible angle from camera work to dialogue to acting to costumes and production design was one of the worst films i have ever seen the actors in this film looked like they had been taken straight off of a porn that was being shot in the san fernando valley and put on a set with an even less talented crew br br i just can't get over the fact that i am sitting on some of the best material i have ever read and contacts within the industry that could help me make my dream a reality and have hit every roadblock possible yet the folks behind this spectacle of a film have no problems putting it together and in fact sleep well after it is released br br life what a trip
0	spike milligan was one of the funniest men i've ever seen and a huge influence on my life br br this movie is limp and awful and does his memory no credit the script is cluttered and preserves too many lines from the book intact the leg jokes here are incomprehensible the actors' performances are uniformly ineffective a great cast wasted and the lead sean hughes delivers milligan's belligerent hostilities in a plaintive whine which misses the point completely br br the gentle pacing is a killer as well farce should accelerate towards the end the goon shows often did the novel definitely did but this film if anything slows down just when you want the various elements to smash together in a final climax br br milligan narrated an abridged audio recording of in 1980 with t p mckenna dermot kelly norma ronald and jack hobbs now that's funny ten minutes of that is funnier than this whole film i believe the lp was transferred to cd but don't know if it's still in print br br there is a movie of adolf hitler my part in his downfall with jim dale and arthur lowe it too is a godawful mess but it's funnier than this thing br br it's possible that milligan's spirit is too rambunctious for the screen the other reviewers here are indulging in politeness and wishful thinking this film fumbles virtually every opportunity and never misses a chance to disappoint
0	i can't even describe it it's the worst movie i've ever seen i'm being a nice guy when i call it movie just another big budget made to someone who doesn't like to think much it's not even scary it's revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this thing to trick movie fans i guess big producers make whatever they want br br just get a big producer hot chicks allthough horrible actresses and a ton of horror movie clichés and cook it for a week or so and you'll get the nun br br and i thought bad boys 2 was horrible
0	i can only say this from portugal i couldn't say it better the worst movie i've ever seen and i've seen lots of crap when i read you comment i thought only about the thoughts i had while watching the movie when i saw who was one of the script writers i understood it uses the same tricks in all his movies and his scripts are not much better either and of course in barcelona we have tons of temples and churches around the city so we can keep cursed nuns to scare young americans coming on vacations please be serious and i do not want to talk about the quality of the actors there is something remarkable too it is fair to recognize it compared to the usual level all the spanish actors use a fairly good english
0	the nun is a revenge picture whereby a very strict nun is killed by her rebellious trailer trash charges and comes back years later to get even when the now adults visit their old school story line is predictable in spades and will hold no surprises as it slowly winds its way to the end it is a screamer of a movie with passable acting and a below average script and screenplay much of the special effects are low grade and there is almost zero believability in the final battle still if you look past these there is some suspense and acting jewels if you like senseless cookie cutter you'll like this otherwise you should pass
0	i can't believe they even released such a movie the only good acting came from the water in the movie this has to be one of worst if not the worst movie i have ever seen br br the only scary part of the movie is the bad acting me giving this movie a 1 is me being to kind this movie deserve a 0 br br the storyline and if you can call it the plot of the movie seems to have been written by an high school kid you have to ask yourself if it may have been better with better actors in it br br do yourself a favor wait for it to show on tv br br and even then watching it will be a wast of time
0	movies like this make me wonder what modern horror would be like if someone had mercifully for movie fans put an end to m night shyamalan inside the womb this garbage is a prime example of what kind of lame random uninspired last minute generic plot twists have become the norm since movies like the sixth sense and the others were released this was an okay movie until the writers took a dump all over whatever of the mediocre script they had written and decided hey here's an interesting idea lets throw in a wacky twist at the end and make the main character the murderer that'll throw the audience for a loop what an original idea
0	well first of all excuse me for the lame pun in the title i was browsing for movies to rent the other day and saw this i heard something about this so i picked it up and looked on the back and there was a short little review blurb on it from john fallon aka arrow in the head at that moment i thought well if he likes it then i gotta like it so i rented it and just finally got around to watching it last night college keeps me so busy oh and i might wanna add that i read a little of review and it turns out that out of 4 stars he gave it 1 and a half so my expectations from this movie went from very high to iffy well after watching this i once again agree with arrow and turns out that quote from the review was the only positive thing he said about that wow did this film stink or what where do i begin with why it did so well the film was so dull in my opinion not even the cool gore bits excited me and when a decapitation doesn't excite you in a movie that's bad the characters i hated a lot and from the beginning i could tell who would die and who wouldn't actually the film proved me wrong at some points but the worst thing is that one particular character i wanted to die didn't what the heck and the chemistry between the main girl and the guy she met didn't feel it he obviously was just there to be eye candy and give her a love interest otherwise i thought he was a waste and as a horror fan i should know that doing the dumb horror movie sometimes gotta happen or else there wouldn't be much of a movie but the ones in here ticked me off hello why are you making out in the room of the killer nun when you should be on the lookout from her and it was done by the supposedly smarter characters no less the twist ah it would have been alright if it hadn't been done a billion times and i didn't have to sit through this wast of film to reach that point my main point stupid movie that sucked me in with some words of my favorite actually my only favorite movie critic jerks
0	the only good thing of this movie is its final twist in 97 minutes of film we can only save one single idea which was totally wasted in this movie i must say for more than 90 minutes this film is just a collection of clichés bad acting stupid ideas and disclosures complete lack of suspense stupid deaths terrible special effects all this in a pathetic and unoriginal until the last three minutes where finally a good idea appeared it's nothing outstanding or an extremely original idea but at least was a decent good idea the only one the entire movie has i won't spoil it but i must say i think that idea with a better plot better fx and definitely a better acting would turn into a good film if you watch this movie and can stand it until the end you will know what it
0	the movie is nothing extraordinary as a matter of fact it is an insult to the horror genre nothing about it borders on scary not even close to the threshold of scary br br it's just another case of another teenage horror movie seen one and you've seen em all first few minutes in the movie and you'll know what will happen next the worst part is the script is than the most recent installment of scary movie would have been better if it's written in spanish and don't get me started with the inside jokes and punchlines br br though i will give a little credit for the special effects but trust me like any other hollywood made horror movie and special effects has little or no effect to a horror movie's ability to scare in fact it makes it worse br br between the fresh faced anita and the spooky location there's not much to see in this movie
0	i am a huge horror fan particularly spanish horror this film had so many possibilities to be good it's a marvelous idea a vigilante ghost nun as most of what has come out of mind both visual and sound effects were also pretty good but everything was shamefully spoiled by bad direction awful casting and a painfully bad exposition exposition script too bad maybe should write and direct himself a remake br br moreover i don't really understand why this had to be spoken in english by actors who can't really speak english and when they do they do it so bad it just makes their performances even more fake if you look at contemporary spanish horror films like el or rec the performances are totally in tune with this type of stylish ghost story and that is being realistic being believable as someone like ourselves like real people because that is the only way horror achieves it's goal unfortunately everything failed in la
0	i didn't buy this i didn't rent this it was on ppv and someone burned a copy of it and loaned it to me so at least i wasted no money on it for someone that did darkness the nameless devil's backbone this is a pretty lame film seems to have something to do with a bunch of girls that were at a convent back in the day and now they're all grown up and they're being pursued and killed one by one by a nun that comes out of the kitchen sink the toilet and even manages to negotiate the revolving doors in a hotel and what makes this nun so mean and nasty and wet i dunno this was so boring that at some point about halfway through i just stopped it put it away and watched something else wasn't even interested in finding out really oh sure there's some lovely young ladies to look at but hey are two of them lesbians i guess there's a picture on the bedside table of one young lady's bedroom and what self respecting horror movie wouldn't be complete these days without a lesbian couple yeah whatever 2 out of 10 if you want to see a worthwhile nun horror movie try desecration dead waters or the convent and that's the one with adrienne barbeau by the way not the one with john malkovich
0	okay now i am pretty sure that my summary got your attention and my commenting that zazu pitts is satan is not without some basis let me explain the film at first appears to be a dandy b movie about an evil organization called the crooked circle and their vow of revenge in the form of murder on a rival organization dedicated to solving crimes while this is very odd especially the idea of a club of private citizens who solve crimes and could have been interesting this film falls apart despite a rather impressive list of familiar supporting actors why well because zazu pitts never one of my favorite actresses spends most of the movie whining just like olive oyl with a bad toothache while murders are being committed people are being kidnapped or whatever you can always count on zazu whining at full volume almost like someone's obnoxious 3 year old who wants everyone at a party to pay attention to her at the same time she's not an integral part of the film but received top billing why she is even there is beyond me i assume it's just to whine and yell as a result i found the movie practically unwatchable and it was completely ruined now you probably know why i referred to this actress of dubious talent as satan i'm sure that when the actors in this film saw the final product they too felt pretty much the same way i did about her horrible overacting and amateurish performance br br this film is in the public domain and can be found for free download on the internet i can see why
0	the headline describes it exactly this dribble of a film was nothing more than the typical 'group of teens killed someone accidentally now that someone is haunting killing them off 20 years later' crap that has been shoved down our throats for decades the only twist is instead of an angry ex classmate or lovable psycho loser it was a nun nun wants to eliminate the sin from the girls blah blah girls accidentally purposely drown the nun blah blah nun haunts the girls people die movie ends the only thing that made this watchable were the death scenes which were pretty cool especially the one with the elevator door ripping off this fat lady's arms but even they couldn't make this a great movie brian yuzna should hang his head for attaching himself to this refuse i'm sure glad i rented it and didn't buy it or i'd be furious beyond belief if you want a nunsploitation flick to please the senses go watch or something stay away from this garbage
0	review nunsploitation films they've been around since forever a few that pop to mind are the mexican devil worshiping movie alucarda night of the demons 2 the convent and of course dante desecration cant blame somebody for trying to exploit a religious holy image and twisting it around to make it scary if done right it works here comes the most recent addition to the nunsploitation sub genre simply titled the nun br br the story is about this group of girls that live in a catholic school in this school there's a nun who is particularly cruel to one of the girls the girls acting in self defense against the abusive nun accidentally kill her and then decide to bury her and tell no one fast forward 18 years later and the nun is back searching for revenge from those who killed her br br this movie was produced by brian fantastic factory you know the company that makes horror movies in spain need a reminder of the kind of movies that this company churns out well heres a small reminder arachnid darkness romasanta the werewolf hunt rottweiler you get the picture about the only really good movie that this company has produced in my opinion was stuart gordons dagon thats it oh no wait i believe they also produced the excellent christian bale vehicle the machinist but thats it so when i consciously rented this movie i knew i wasn't going to watch anything that was mind blowingly good still with all that mental preparation i was disappointed br br one of the only good things this movie has going for it is its slick look the movie has some nice cinematography it doesn't look like a cheap horror film the movies special effects were alright with the nun being able to travel through water well that was an image that it self for some cool fx moments that sometimes scratched into cheesy territory but sometimes were cool enough to watch i dug that scene with the nun hurling herself at people like a bucket of water its not a particularly deadly move but it made for a cool visual there's some gore here but not a lot of it one particular scene involving an elevator death was cool but sadly the movie hit its peak with that scene and it was only half way through after that nothing really cool happens and the movie deludes into an incredible borefest br br the movie just turns into the nun popping up every now and then to give us a boo scare she would kill someone and then cut we get back to the characters talking crap going through rooms opening doors you get the drill and i just personally hate it when a horror movie turns into that people opening doors and going into rooms boring and when the characters do talk its terrible dialog in one particularly stupid scene a character decides right out of the blue that the nun turns into flesh and blood whenever she is in the water so thats they way to go to try and kill her and everyone just says ok and they all elaborate this plan to kill the nun in a water tank now who gave that guy this info and why did the others just take it for granted who the hell knows but its scenes like that that make the movie look stupid br br and yet another thing that got in the way of my enjoyment of this film was the fact that they used spanish actors who have a very thick accent when they try to speak english its very hard to make out what the hell they are trying to say id prefer to have them be dubbed then try and figure out what they are saying and become frustrated the fact that this dvd has no english subtitles didn't help matters either br br so in conclusion this is a movie that has some slick visuals nice sound effects but a terrible terrible script i guess this just goes to show that you might have the biggest budget or the best special effects but if your movie has a bad script with terrible characters and situations that your audience cant connect with then you've still got a bad movie such was the case with the nun br br if you want to have some real fun with evil nuns rent any of the films i mentioned at the beginning of this review now as for the makers of this film they should go say ten hail and light fifty candles to their saint of choice to see if they'll be forgiven for making this terrible film br br rating 2 out of 5
0	six students at a convent do the unthinkable kill a nun who was overbearing now eighteen years later the nun's spirit is back and getting revenge for her murder br br yea basically that's the short of it there's more to it than that but i still have no clue what it is the only really cool thing is the effects on the spiritual nun as i was pretty impressed for being a more low budget flick i'm also confused as to whether or not it's in english most of the actors are italian and even the title here is in italian yet they spoke english in the film i think or it might've been dubbed i still can't tell br br anyway the real premise of the film is pretty idiotic and the ending not only doesn't make sense it well doesn't make sense
0	i thought this be totally different than just another teen slasher well i was totally wrong there's a liquid nun coming out of the toilet seat and something really odd i know that spanish culture is a bit different and their movies too but i didn't expect to see a fake hollywood film they certainly faked it pretty well though why'd they make a movie without any new aspects this is just plain boring and it'd been done totally without any imagination br br i thought that having a nun as the bad guy in the be something really original it turned out to be a teen slasher if been done ten years ago then it'd have been something new br br i can't recommend this movie for anyone but it certainly has some comedy value it's like a horror parody in some points
0	the major flaw in this spanish slasher shocker is within it's script for the first half hour it's an okay effort building some suspense and an atmosphere of fear and dread we even get some nice killings too then it goes completely downhill and turns into a whole catalog of your basic slasher clichés i must admit that i was quite disappointed because the trailer promised so much more the final thirty minutes consists of some killings and a lot of running around in an abandoned convent it should have been so much better although the final scenes in the flooded room is quite okay br br first of all we have the dialog it's awful most of the time there was quite a few giggles in the audience here and there when i saw it and merely adequate elsewhere it is also barely audible during a lot of scenes drowning under the pressure of sound effects and the soundtrack however that might not be such a bad thing after all considering the stupid lines we have to listen to there is one line in the whole movie that makes a reference to the i know what you did last summer movies indicating that the film makers wrote it all as one big joke but i doubt it br br and the ending well some will hate it others will dig it for me it was mostly a question of the former because the final twist comes from out of nowhere if the audience had been given some clues to the girls mental status i might have thought otherwise it also throws all logic out of the window because the murderer could never had been in place for some of the kills but as an avid horror fan i have learned to live with these inconsistencies in spanish and italian movies br br but all is not bad the movie has a big budget appearance mainly due to the excellent cinematography the scenes from past times really shines here tight editing and an atmospheric soundtrack even though most of the actors are pretty bad anita is an exception making the most of what she has to work with real screen presence br br and like i mentioned before the killings are gory enough for the fans of such stuff and they are usually accompanied by very good special effects involving images of water but the water theme tends to get tiresome in the end though br br so to end this review it's a movie that is quite fun in a so bad it's good kind of way and it's also pleasing to the eye but don't expect too much because it doesn't deliver as you probably think it will judging from trailer and plot descriptions
0	i don't usually like to comment on the acting in a movie because it is the one thing that people who have agenda against a film will go after in this movie i will make an exception the acting in this film are below average all around i mean halfway into the film i wonder how the hell did the producer and or the director gets around casting such an ensemble of people who can't act even though the production value was good the ill written story just compounded on top of the bad performance of the actors and there is even a half hearted attempts to a twist to the ending of the movie which ends up quite confusing is all the spanish horror films this disappointing
0	this week's surprise screening at gv turned out to be the horror movie the nun la seriously i think that horror movies should try and come up with more imaginative titles even though the story's about the character as described in the title who knows soon we'll have spinoffs like the monk the priest and others belonging to various religious sects br br the basic premise goes very simply that a ghoul dressed up in a nun garb so that it can lay claim to the title goes around killing ex convent girls there seemed to be some sort of conspiracy involved as the daughter of one of the victims eva played by an eye candy icelandic anita goes on to discover with the help of a few good friends like a rip off of i know what you did last summer mentioned also by the way br br so as the body count increases it's a race against time for our emotionally scarred aren't they always heroine to uncover the truth and save the day delving into the sins of the mothers the movie did the unthinkable that with a dream sequence as the introduction i hate dream sequences as it's a pretty cheap technique if not done correctly and there are a couple of them in the movie br br in part the movie played at times like ju on gone wrong with the plenty of dark water references and they could have retitled this unholy water for the circumstances and plot points in the movie however there are plot holes abound so don't be looking into the storyline too deeply you'd come to expect the standard textbook twists towards the end about the sadistic nun and sets which look like they can rival recent thai horror movie dorm br br the acting's pretty forgettable with the cast speaking in perfect heavily accented english and since most of them are pleasing to the eye the story must weave in a love scene in the middle of a witch hunt what gives hello got still got mood ah then again the ghoul is a pretty cheap animated sfx which has a built in ai of popping up every now and then in various fashion just to elicit screams from timid audiences the characters also break every unwritten rule in the do nots in horror lore so you know and expect their just desserts br br can you possibly enjoy this movie sure you can just ensure that you're watching it in a full house should be easy since local folks are suckers for anything remotely horrific and laugh at those who are so jumpy they scream at every frightening scene it's pretty fun and adds to the atmosphere besides what's going on the screen surround sound doesn't even come close br br think of it as watching an episode of scooby doo without the wisecracks and it's a pity that the gory moments in the movie had to be censored for a pg rating those could possibly have been the best bits now left rotting on the censor's floor board
0	this is a stereotype plot a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight br br the fights are not of high standards they are way too simple in a way that 1 1 is simple to every adult the fighter has trained and enters the ring but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking the coach yells do this and do that with no success and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once this results in a turning point in the fight although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point think about the rocky movies and you'll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes the fights are also shot poorly br br there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment br br these guys really could have made some quality entertainment but the director wasn't up to the task or the other crew in my opinion maybe they had a small budget i don't know but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of 3 out of 10
0	this movie is very disappointing for one who has read the book as written by rafael this was a clean cut tale of piracy in the caribbean and it would have made a grand motion also it would have been very simple to make all the action takes place aboard ship and on a deserted island unfortunately the screen writers took the title from then threw the rest of the book away even the name of the main character was changed and his screen personality was completely different from that of the individual described in the novel it's a sad loss for one who loves a good sea story
0	i attended a screening of 'the at the toronto film festival this year while the other reviews i've read seem to be generally and mystifyingly positive i must tell you without any kind of axe to grind that this film is unimaginably unspeakably bad the very brave and candid performances by william h macy and maria bello have been horribly misspent on what is probably the least polished most clichéd script to have received the green light in years i don't know how bad the brown bunny was but i'm certain it couldn't have attained the dante style depths that this one did as courageous as their performances were perhaps the bravest thing these otherwise brilliant actors did was to themselves to such a dreadful director and abysmal screenplay br br he must pitch pretty well in the boardroom because he should never been permitted to be within a hundred yards of a camera the dialogue is so embarrassingly contrived and clumsy that i actually found myself blushing during the screening i am mortified that the talents of macy have been totally squandered in the hands of someone whose direction is as incompetent as his writing br br watching gifted actors like alec baldwin labor through kramer's appalling script and ham fisted direction was akin to watching a baby seal get clubbed to death i felt angered helpless and sickened all at the same time although i am always glad that there are investors and industry people willing to take risks on quirky scripts with interesting premises this picture was a total utter fiasco kramer couldn't have been crueler to these actors if he had himself taken a steel pipe to their knees i hope for their sakes they can all avoid similar humiliations in the future macy wisely ducked out the side door and didn't even stick around for the screening regrettably it seems that the bad luck of main character has rubbed off on the picture in the worst possible way anyone accustomed to quality independents will likely find it completely unbearable
0	even those of us who like cute animal pictures and i abhor them would be hard pressed to find any merit in this abysmally bad travesty of a film perhaps inspired by 101 dalmatians with its smart and loyal dogs its dumb and devious humans and its absurdly happy and predictable ending the alternate title 101 turkeys springs to mind that would just about cover everyone involved in its unfortunate production i dismissed it as some inane hollywood perversion of british customs before learning to my horror that it actually is a canadian film done in victoria bc that phony british theme park of a town while sucking tax dollars out of ottawa on that equally phony pit of canadian mediocrity let me count the ways it is bad the dizzy plot the asinine script the dismal performances and sophomoric direction the cloyingly clever animals the endless clichés and predictable slapstick on second thought neither i nor those browsing the imdb have time for a complete catalogue of its failings yet were i to detail its merits this space would remain blank trust me it is bad a signal monument in the vast pantheon of truly terrible canadian cinema if you have seen it already my condolences if you have not stay away from it as you would sars or bubonic plague or other movies with cute animals don't even let your children see it lest their tiny minds be warped by the even tinier minds of those who financed fabricated and filmed this frightful folly perhaps tonight when i retire i will have a nightmare with ghastly fanged beasts springing from the bed table as i flee in frantic flight i hope so it will be a far far better thing i do than watch this beastly banal but then i might dream that i had to watch it a second time and the sheer terror and cold sweat of that makes me want to stay up all night trembling at the very possibility of seeing it again even as a bad dream i might even find something worthwhile to watch in its stead maybe godzilla or attack of the killer tomatoes perhaps the instruction video for my built in vacuum cleaner
0	admirable but weak james bond film mainly because both the hero bond and villain were seriously miscast is too big and innocent looking to play bond he looks and acts more like the good natured but dim witted sidekick in a police action movie the director and writer try to establish his credibility but his saying of lines like royal north of the just aren't effective in establishing him as this worldly and suave rogue savalas doesn't do a bad job but his characterization and behavior is more fitting of a mob gangster the best portrayed characters of the movie are those of tracy and her father but the performances by those actors when sharing the screen with only serve to emphasize his deficiencies as an actor this movie is too long 140 mins for a bond film and doesn't offer any excitement until bond's mountain escape where it begins to pick up this film tries very hard but falls short many bondian elements are present and the climatic battle is top notch but i always get a sense of something missing when watching this one
0	a woman in love with her husband he's suicidal decides to have a baby to save his life she's been to a fertility clinic as has the lover she takes so both know how artificial insemination works but instead of using the method thousands of people use every year around the world the 5 turkey they engage in coitus we also are to believe that although the immigrant is in love with his fiancée he doesn't suggest the obvious alternative to intercourse further even though this is a business arrangement the first time she's with her sperm donor she takes off all her clothes as if it's a seduction plus her husband doesn't notice when 30 000 goes missing from their bank accounts does all this seem to demand more willing suspension of disbelief than even most hollywood fare far fetched on all counts
0	i've always found the dilettante man ray and his artistic efforts to be deeply pretentious and i've never understood why his work attracts so much attention apart from his which he invented by accident and which are merely direct contact photo prints his one real contribution to culture seems to be that he was the first photographer to depict female nudity in a manner that was accepted as art rather than as porn but surely this had to happen eventually and there's no real reason why ray deserves the credit the critical reaction to man ray reminds me of the story about the emperor's new clothes br br de merde whoops de mer features a lot of blurry photography and a recurring visual theme of a starfish which is never explained have the fascinating ability to regenerate lost limbs and even to regenerate entire duplicate bodies but if that has anything to do with this movie's theme ray neglects to say so i was much more impressed by this movie's title cards which in french manage to include rhymes a pun belle and some br br as so often in ray's work there is indeed a beautiful young woman seen in this movie unfortunately the photography is largely so blurred that we have little opportunity to appreciate her i'll rate this mess one point out of 10
0	for a horror film this is criminally dull a few memorable gruesome bits can't compensate for a really poor script very little coherence is achieved and the movie relentlessly overplays its one basic idea a killer cat until it becomes repetitive and things are made even worse by the constant use of shots from the cat's point of view 1 2
0	predictable cliche unbelievable boring what else can i say it's only the caliber of the cast that saves any redeeming qualities of this bloated mess oh yeah and the entertaining end zone antics br br but wait for the eleven o'clock highlights 'cause the outcome is as predictable as who's going to win the washington generals matchup br br i was well into the second act before i figured out these were supposed to be pro teams we were watching all clad in vintage brown and cameron diaz character's imitation of a youthful georgia was ill conceived on the page not your fault cameron would you like to go to dinner br br enough of this i'm only on a rant because i was looking forward to this film rent the longest yard instead br br
0	stone has tried another type of movie any given sunday falls short of a the above average the last boy scout and the below average against all odds stone can be fantastic see the doors natural born killers or platoon but he can also repeat himself see nixon or born on the fourth of july his real brilliance is realized in the michael caine perfection the hand
0	i looked forward to seeing this movie because the trailer made it look so cool but the fact is that this movie is boring and totally muddled there is no plot and half the movie is fast flashing shots from football games zoomed in shots that gives you no overview of the games i was constantly looking at the timer to see when the movie was over br br there's only one good thing about this movie the sound the soundtrack is awesome don't expect anything from this movie
0	this noisy dizzying football film from director oliver stone seems to have everyone in the cast well everyone except william h macy who could have tackled the role played by mr stone the team doctors or the fruitcake selling cereal if you're a fan of the foul mouthed there are some great profanity laden knock down drag out put down phrases you can try out on two faced friends and way ward lovers the film is sometimes good as lively background party atmosphere especially during the first two hours it even features some mtv styled music video scenes br br any given sunday 12 16 99 oliver stone al pacino cameron diaz jamie foxx dennis quaid
0	another lame attempt to make a movie gritty and thought provoking whatever the hell that means they have al pacino say a lot of words like television killed football yeah whatever this is another movie that showcases oliver stone's delusions of grandeur if stone is trying to show us that football will be our downfall or something why does he insist on romanticizing the sport with his stilted camera movements and kid rock songs he even throws cameron diaz into the fray for purely aesthetic reasons it's a shame that diaz and pacino have to meet in a movie that is so bad br br ever since scent of woman writers and directors have used pacino to romanticize their pathetic lines his characters are nothing more than loudspeakers their voices covering up what would normally be redundant and trite he needs to reinvent himself showing how he can act without yelling he has to stop feeling sorry for hokey scripts with cheesy lessons like organized football is messed up and act out a good story
0	i have never seen a more unrealistic movie than this foul piece of dung the acting was over the top the direction was tacky and amateurish the script was just a joke the story looked penned by a person that has never been around a high school football game much less a professional game and why why did oliver stone feel the need to place himself in this movie as an actor he was terrible playing the most unrealistic announcer ever he could not even get hired to do professional wrestling contests then you have jamie foxx who throws like a girl but he is a tad more athletic than the aged dennis quaid seriously stone wanted to direct this film at 16 year old males with add that is why we hear the loud music the quick cuts and numerous edits it just became a bad mtv video shame on al pacino for doing this crap cameron diaz heck that no talent takes any role that comes down the pike when lawrence taylor is the best actor you got going well your movie sucks and this one does
0	the duke is a film based in the heart of the british aristocracy where an old duke john neville dies and to avoid his large property and the vast riches to be taken from him after death by 2 devious aristocrats oliver and sophie heyman he passes his down to his dog the dog's best friend an american girl named charlotte played by draper whose parents die becomes orphaned by the former duke due to him being her great uncle a young chef named arrives with him and charlotte instantly connecting creating a romantic sub plot which in its own way acts as the under tone for the main plot line being the activities of hubert the and his many activities and love interests with other dogs all this is watched over by james who plays a butler who is determined to try and serve his old duke by doing his best to serve his new master hubert acts as the older character there to comfort and advise the younger ones whilst he over looks and performs various ridiculous tasks under his new master a fine comedic performance mixed with elements of drama to end the career of a fine and influential actor br br though from the technical viewpoint i dislike this film as i only watched upon discovering james role though the plot is good elements of the writing and directing have to be obscured ignoring the absurdity of a doggie duke i personally dislike the over use of comedic and outrageous jokes upon the 'bad' characters due to their ludicrousness the dependence on hygiene related humour as you like is much too apparent and general silliness of many characters doesn't appeal to me the director phillip uses mid long shots too often with either an overdubbed voice or affecting the overall sound quality plus the acting of and heyman whilst good at the dramatic and romantic sequences fall drastically short fulfilling the wholesale requirements regarding the role br br but as a mature movie fan i find it easy to be over critical of a simple family film designed to make you laugh i can admit i found certain bits funny and other bits touching along with a plot that may be far fetched but has definite connections i do not recommend this film to mature movie fans but i do highly recommend it to dog lovers families who wish to enjoy a funny film for their child and james fans who wish to see in his final role
0	i just got back from after seeing it i'm convinced that no matter how much it's written how he extensively researched the film stone never has watched an nfl game in his life great cinematography give me a break the game montages were almost and 90 of the other shots in the film were close ups was there anything in this movie that wasn't brought up in north dallas forty br br aging star player check young hot shot check painkillers check owner who doesn't get it check crazy off field behavior check br br also it's the playoffs in dallas i e dec or jan in an outdoor stadium yet people sitting there in tank tops and shorts and what was with those lights were they playing in a japanese kabuki theater or a sports stadium br br and the strategy shown in the game was laughable it's fourth 1 inside the sharks' 30 dallas leads 35 31 kick the frigging field goal not only would this had made sense football wise but you'd then have an even better final sequence where they could have scored and had to go for the two point conversion hell tie the game w the extra point and stone could have made it an even 3 hours with overtime br br were the lame montages of old time football players supposed to be a tribute to the game give me a break br br and the script ugh more cliches than you can shake a stick at oops there's another one br br was better than this movie by far br br 1 10 br br skips this at all costs br br
0	beautiful images propaganda and history as toy the ingredients of this film good interesting but with many shadows shadows jefferson is more than the hero of a mythical america he is silhouette of a vision about life and society an extraordinary thinker teacher of large part of north america in film is only superman the delicate contour of ideas are crushed the subtle birth of essential truth is forgotten and jefferson is basic instrument for create a good image of american realities the end and fake romance and heroic is gun suicide of a story who may be tall with more wisdom and the war against avatar is another gray stain for one who heard nothing about jefferson movie is a good beginning for the others disillusion it is like the precious silk of a tailor but the tailor is fascinating about silk and the clothes are only ordinary cloth so a sad experience slices of beauty and boring lakes patriotic lesson and the crush of expectation a film who must impressive and the ash of a story who could be magnificent
0	when i first watched this film i thought that it would be rally good because it featured my favourite actor of all time he gives a sterling performance though it is fairly obvious he didn't have to life more than half a finger to make the work he is the only good thing in it you're into explosions and american dream working class hero trash which i'm not br br i don't get it how can this film get away with being so that bit with the little boy being rescued i mean come on you can't tell me that he would have been rescued without the fire guy wearing any goggles i know for a fact that it would have been pitch black in there and you can't see for more than a couple of feet infront of you and no breathing equipment he'd have choked after 2 minutes this film was just bad ok br br why robert br br sorry if this is your favourite film
0	the man who gave us splash cocoon and parenthood gave us this incoherent muddle of cliched characters poor plotting you've got to be kidding dialogue and melodramatic acting i guess everybody has a bad day at the office now and then he's allowed
0	the basic plot is good and can be engaging the music is so great that it became the theme music for the tv show iron chef though it is way overused and too intrusive in the movie so how did this movie end up so poor well the plot was about 95 predictable and the characters were about as 1 dimensional as possible and the dialog what person would actually allow themselves to receive credit for coming up with the stupid macho bull crap that purports to be dialog you get much greater realism from most cartoons the bottom line is that this movie has some good points but is so marred by hackneyed clichés and rotten dialog that it quickly becomes tiresome and this is a shame because firemen deserve a better tribute than this mess if you don't believe me look at the number of goofs listed on imdb for this movie way in excess of what you'd expect to find they just didn't care enough to work out all the kinks and problems so as a result the movie seems rushed and in need of a re write and re editing
0	if you can watch a film without worrying about the plot or corny acting then is definitely the one br br however if like me you like watching films that you can believe then has some serious flaws it doesn't offer anything new and there are hundreds of 90's action films that follow identical formulas whilst not being quite as clunky br br after two firefights i'm thinking this has got to go somewhere else i mean how many big fires are there in one city surely firemen do other things such as getting cats out of trees well i was wrong and the repetition continues again and again up until the end br br a good aspect of the film is the fire itself well filmed and i must say i felt quite hot while watching it which suggests that two hours of watching fire without a story or acting would have been more suited to my taste
0	i loved this movie when i was a teenager loved it it hasn't grown up with me though maybe that's because it's a melodramatic load of old rubbish full of macho posturing cheesy dialogue overwrought slo mo and characters saying a lot the lumpy narrative blobs gracelessly from one character to another one plot strand to another without ever bringing it all together and it doesn't help that william baldwin's mono expression of a performance is wet enough to put out every fire in the movie's overlong runtime robert deniro and donald sutherland are worth watching but no one's really at the top of their game here and the women folk get particularly short thrift the only real impact comes from the impressive firefighting sequences and hans zimmer's majestic score which remains one of my all time favourites
0	the other day i showed my boyfriend a great movie stand by me a movie i have shown to many people and they absolutely adored it but for some odd reason he didn't like it he lends me a movie called and he tells me that he's shown it to many people and they loved it instead i hated this movie i don't think i've hated a movie so much in a while how this movie has even a 6 6 rating is beyond me i couldn't keep up with the five million stories here billy baldwin becoming a fire man the random sibling rivalry the random love story s the who's being an arson story the investigator the fire who has a personality of it's own i just have a problem that this movie can't keep up with all these stories they didn't balance out well enough make the film interesting i would have just preferred if this movie was about being a firefighter or the investigator and how he came to be one or what it is exactly he does and why br br the movie tells the story of a group of chicago firefighters two brothers stephen bull mccaffrey the elder brother is obsessed with the beating of the fires that he fights brian the younger brother quit the fire fighting academy school several years before then embarking on a number of other unsuccessful careers before returning to become a firefighter he is looked down on by his elder brother who expects him to fail in his newly chosen career as a fire fighter donald shadow is an arson investigator who is dedicated to his profession he is called in because a number of fires that have occurred have somewhat similar connections martin is an on the city council he has obvious hopes of being elected to mayor but has had to make a number of budget cuts to the fire department many of the rank and file firemen believe that the cuts that he has made are endangering the lives of the firefighters however is initially successful in portraying the fire department as bloated and ineffectual after firemen are repeatedly being killed in blazes br br i just couldn't get into this movie i don't know how anyone else could it was incredibly unrealistic and portrayed firefighters all wrong i loved how they had every action cliché in the book to match this action flick i just felt also like there was great talent wasted on such mediocre roles donald sutherland great actor but such a strange role that could have been taken by a lesser known man who had the upcoming talent at the time i know ron was going for great quality but i think him casting such huge actors in small roles was a mistake for this film i even had to joke my way through while watching this movie commenting how the doctor in the background was probably kevin spacey the fire was so unrealistic and the movie was just so out there i didn't enjoy it and honestly wouldn't recommend it to people i'll stick to the recommendations in my relationship from this point on br br 2 10
0	the unfunniest so called comedy i've ever seen br br not a patch on the naturalism of the hilariously dare twin town br br vegas i like normally but this script is so dire so predictable so well english in the worst way in recent years the english films have been awful all of them ireland at least produced the commitments scotland with braveheart and trainspotting 2 stand out great movies and wales had twin town zulu last days of torchwood doctor who and under milk wood etc br br the comedy is paint by numbers the actors are dead men walking because there is no characterisation and no originality and it's just so unfunny br br england is falling behind no matter how many grim up north movies they produce it's the old class system that destroys english films the graduates spewing endlessly clichéd scripts about working class people they've never lived with it is pathetic monty python wasn't funny neither was anything from br br let guys like jonny vegas and peter kay rob billy connolly or write their own dialogue and forget the archaic failed class system let the working class people and the real talent that comes through the system properly take over the writing and the british and english film industries will rise again what next prince edward to write a modern day oliver twist
0	now i like johnny vegas which is a good start i also enjoy toilet humour br br such as young ones and bottom etc this however failed to bring even a br br small smile to my face the story follows johnny around after his wife br br chucks him out how he got his good looking wife and kid i dont know br br as he attempts to shag anything that moves failing normally i was looking forward to this but found it to be totally boring and a waste br br of my time altogether unless you are stuck for something to do for 90 mins apart from wash the car then dont bother br br
0	i had the misfortune of seeing this effort on television a few years ago suffice it to say michael gross phones in his performance and hasselhoff is the least convincing thief psycho ever if you have a couple of hours to kill watch it and prepare to laugh
0	i have no idea how anyone can give this movie high marks i didn't rent it thinking it was the next great horror flick the next great horror spoof or the next great low budget horror spoof obviously this isn't meant to scare but one fatal flaw with the production entirely sapped the joy out of the viewing experience the sound editing was horrible i had to work the volume control the entire movie you can imagine how difficult it is to get into something even a low budget spoof when you're either turning the volume up or down or trying to anticipate the next time you have to do so the regular dialogue is very low and all screams noises etc are very loud we're not talking about between 5 and 7 on the volume control finding a happy medium at 6 we're talking between 2 and 9 on the volume where it is virtually impossible to leave the volume alone again this movie might be a decent example of what it is meant to be but you're going to be spending so much time adjusting your volume control that you'll never have the chance to enjoy it
0	oh sex lives of the potato men what foul demon created thee this is a film that you watch smirk a little during the runtime and then when you mention it to others having seen it you just cannot help but smile as you talk but it's not that sex lives of the potato men is actually a funny film and one that inspires you to smile when talking or thinking about it it's just that the film is so bizarre is so insulting and is no shameless in its attempt to get across a meek laugh to do with sex and sex lives in general that you just cannot help but have your mouth break out into a grin do bear in mind that what follows the smirk is a sinking of the head a consequent shake of the head and a raise of the index finger and thumb to both eyebrows as you gently rub them in an attempt to reminisce about your time watching this trash br br but that's what the film is it's trash it's very brave and shameless trash but trash none the less whoever came up with this idea put it to paper and then spread it around the industry trying to get it made must either be very brave or very desperate it's strange to have a film that is most definitely something but one that does not have under any sort of circumstance a decisive narrative this follows on from that idea that most of european cinema is artistic and its stories are ambiguous and open ended and themes take precedence over most other things in sex lives of the potato men the same situation and technically the same joke are replayed over and over again and that is an that consists of 'sex is a very very funny thing ' these ideas are perhaps more suited to an american film so it's no wonder that after a while watching this film things start to feel a little out of sorts br br the film begins and ends in the same manner creating a feeling of a circular journey a circular journey that has gone absolutely nowhere and absolutely nothing has been achieved three blokes sit around a table talking and what not their boss joins them and the conversation is limited to whatever crude and disgusting stories situations or scenarios each can possibly think of the odd thing here being that whenever one man says something nasty the other grimaces but has an equally filthy story to give in return creating a contradiction in what these men find to cross the line and what they do not the men are dave vegas and ferris crook two people joined by coleman whenever the film sees fit to throw in a third face to crack some more nasty sex jokes or break some peculiar stories they are employed by jeremy a man who has deeper issues and problems but issues of which the film is more concerned with exploiting for the sake of humour rather than study br br so what's the situation in sex lives of the potato men the three to four men are in a crisis and for the duration of the film we will adopt the role of the hapless fly on the wall as we witness what foul play these people get up to over the period of about a week if the humour revolving around dave and ferris is disgusting and repulsive then for jeremy things are just spooky it all begins rather innocently and it appears there is a female he likes and one who equally likes him in return but when the essence that jeremy is merely a stalker creeps in that's when the jaws drop the character of jeremy is used and put across in a way that makes unrequited love and stalking in general merely look 'funny' jeremy sits in his apartment listening to classical music and writing out letters of abuse to ruth davis echoing some sort of psychotic persona more associated with hannibal lecter writing his to clarice in 2001's hannibal but whatever sympathy we might have for him at this point is rendered absolutely false when later on it is revealed the true origin of their relationship suddenly we as an audience feel cheated into feeling a mite sorry for him earlier on and for whatever reason he did do what he did in the first place just seems cowardly and distasteful to say what it was would ruin whatever few surprises lurk within the film br br quite sad how in one of jeremy's letters he writes about something or other exclaiming it to have no artistic vision – just one big mess i hate it when words said by the characters echo the film they're in sex lives of the potato men does not explore someone's psyche or particular interest in a fetish or why they feel the need to go around having as much sex as possible it just uses them as a front to pile on ridiculously unfunny jokes and situations rather than take group sex and explore what drives a person to seek it down it makes a daft joke out of it tickets with numbers on rather than get into the mindset of a fan of sadomasochism the film has someone hang from a basement ceiling and warn everyone of salt and as he climaxes ferris covers his face in disgust and the camera fades to the next scene without too much of a fuss it's a relief the film got to no audiences abroad this is one section of british culture indeed of the british mentality that i pray will be confined to our shores and ignored accordingly
0	sometimes when a film is panned by the critics one just has to see it to see if it is really as bad as the claim well in this case it was i believe it was meant to be a sex comedy but it was neither sexy nor funny i think i chuckled once when johnny vegas failed to vault a roadside fence and that was it br br the film follows the lives of four men who deliver potatoes for a living each of them has a problem with their sex lives dave has left his wife and seeks out an old flame who once invited him for a threesome a few years before ferris is living with his mother in law who treats him as a sex object has an obsession for involving strawberry jam in his encounters and jeremy claims to be in a loving relationship but is in fact stalking some poor woman br br the tone of the jokes varies from tasteless to i don't believe that anybody could write that an example of the the latter being when they tell a small child his father has died in a car crash then for the punch line when the boy asks how his mum is they tell him she is in a coma the blame for this all lands squarely at the feet of the writers the actors obviously made a poor choice agreeing to be in this film but i didn't think their acting was all that bad not that it was all that good either surprisingly for a fairly sleazy film about sex there is no nudity and the sex is never erotic br br i certainly wouldn't recommend seeing this for any reason other than morbid curiosity although judging from other reviews this seems to be a love it or loathe it film i suspect it would be better watched after a few beers and with your mates
0	there are no spoilers for this film as nothing could be written that could make it any worse the dictionary definition of puerile should now read sex lives of the potato men unless that is you like dog poo and in which case this is the film to see johnny vegas et all what were you thinking
0	the daily christopher had some choice things to say about this film among them watch it all the way through its 82 miserable minutes and i guarantee you'll be shaking your head and asking 'have we really descended to this ' yes we have for if ever a movie testified to the utter cynicism tastelessness and moral corruption of those who commission and make british movies it is this abomination continues aimed squarely at oafs with unwashed underwear filthy minds and knuckles that the pavement when they walk this sex comedy is so sordid unfunny and that it is enough to put you off sex and indeed films for life before concluding sex lives of the potato men is not merely a truly vile film it is symptomatic of a new national culture of instant self gratification and sadism that is now being celebrated on screen normally i don't listen too closely to the critics but in this case was bang on the money this film goes beyond bad indeed it goes beyond being merely unfunny and enters some bizarre parallel universe where every painful minute drags on for an hour and where the definition of 'hilarious' seems to be tw t in a brummie it's depressing to anyone with half a brain who grew up with the goodies monty python spitting image not the nine o'clock news and fawlty towers br br ideally sex lives of the potato men would have quietly vanished after its cinema release and joined the equally dire spin off the fat slags 2004 and the ill starred all saints vehicle honest 2000 in the celluloid graveyard but as it seems destined for endless late night schedule filling screenings and misguided best film ever raves from people who should know better so i must apologise in advance for trying to right a wrong that the british film industry in all its wisdom has inflicted onto an undeserving world yes i really am sorry to bring this one back from the celluloid dead but i actually remember thinking it can't be as bad as the critics said it was but as god is my witness it was worse br br acting dire from start to finish special mention to mackenzie legs on a young man's body' crook br br soundtrack cut and paste mostly ska based lager lout friendly pub jukebox piffle which brought back horrible memories of seeing those chirpy doin' the lambeth walk to a watered down imitation of the specials knob madness on every single comedy variety programme in the eighties and 'ace of by motorhead as the title music what the hell trying to evoke memories of one of the most genuinely exciting scenes ever offered by the young ones indeed ever offered by any comedy show cheap shot way below the belt br br script written by a 12 year old who's just read every single back issue of smut and zit in one long red bull fuelled session surely c'mon no real proper worldly grown up person could possibly set this kind of retarded hogwash on paper and mark gatiss was in it mark gatiss the least annoying member of the league of gentlemen and goodies fan taking part in such a towering heap of fly blown cinematic excrement 'one of the brightest british comedy stars' not any more he's not on the subject of league of gentlemen somebody give me a pair of lead lined diver's boots and steve 'face like a collapsed pemberton and a long weekend in a room before i die please br br cinema british or otherwise just doesn't come much worse than this kent the headless eyes 1971 is a new wave masterpiece compared to this repugnant smut
0	i found myself watching sex lives of the potato men with a furrowed brow puzzled why so many talented and witty comedians decided to be involved in a film so totally devoid of humour br br poo and wanking jokes are funny when you're eleven eighteen plus and you begin to lose friends around the water cooler br br maybe some enjoyment could be had from this movie if you're the kind of person who frequently plays practical jokes involving dog mess brown bags and matches or maybe partake in 'man' competitions on nights out by vomit urine etc when you're not back at your parent's basement punching your teenage wife br br even then sex lives it's hard to recommend perhaps if you're really weirdly into masochistic cranial surgery and spend your evenings happy slapping the elderly or watching toilets flush you might think a close up of a bogie is worthy of cinematic distribution br br i'd discuss characterisation narrative or performances had i not zoned completely out following the lengthy tuna paste vagina comparison
0	i watched this film with a sort of dangerous fascination like a hedgehog trapped in the headlights there is no doubt that even if you enjoyed it it's a bad movie but the important question is why it has a good cast it's lively it's prepared to tackle sex head on with some of the characters actually getting some of it here and there which is unusual for a british comedy it also has johnny vegas and mackenzie crook marmite performers agreed but they've have had their moments in the past br br what it's principally lacking is charm the characters are impossibly idiotic unbelievable and alienating so that instead of a film of men behaving badly the producers have made game on any mediocre writer wanting to make a film about the sexual attitudes of sexist british men would have got hold of a few copies of loaded zoo or even viz to read sid the sexist and the thing would have written itself instead the producers clearly tried to make up some moronic difficult to care about characters character comedy as opposed to slapstick etc only works if the audience can recognise some human truth to the situation but watching this film is like being told an annoying joke that you know is not going to end up funny but you can't stop it br br sadly the film is also poorly made the plot structure is weak there's little character delineation or development and many of the scenes aren't funny time after time the same lame reggae chips in to divide scenes pointlessly and gratingly there's a lot of needless repetition when you've done one joke about parking outside a sex party you don't need to do it again one wonders what the uk film council saw in the script br br this is a world where most men are rakes and most women are continually up for it the apartment and alfie much the same world view but the producers of this film accept it without criticism thus they've ended up with a kind of inferior update of confessions of a window cleaner somebody british needs to have another go at this kind of thing and do it properly – a good next project for simon pegg and edgar wright i think
0	ever watched something so awful you just have to keep watching to be sure it really is as bad as it looks this is one of those films it was slammed by the critics on it's release not least for the way it was funded i caught it on tv last night and gave in to curiosity br br in the event it is what it says on the box no more nor less low level humour crudity very much in the on ' vein but with 'adult' language indeed it harks back to the 60s 70s uk porn industry cheating punters by promising real sex and not delivering spot the nipple that whole tawdry era is lovingly recreated here but with modern cinematography br br it has the benefit of mackenzie crook the office pirates of the caribbean and much more and also johnny vegas the chip shop girl is genuinely sexy beyond these unexpected positives it does leave me wondering what happened to england junk food low paid work council estates desperate lives as a bonus there are some nice shots of leafy birmingham foreigners might find it informative about british attitudes and aspirations overall though i still feel disbelief that i sat through it
0	sex lives of the potato men is about the sex lives of several men involved in delivering potatoes so there are no surprises there it is in fact pretty much what you might expect from the title that is it's a quirky comedy involving sex and potato men at times the film works it's an edgy sometimes uncomfortable comedy about the lives of some rather unimportant and rather average men who are having problems of various sorts with women where the film clearly does not work and why it failed at the box office is that the quirky uncomfortable parts are perhaps just a shade too quirky and uncomfortable instead of laughing during the scene of a man suspended from a basement ceiling masturbating over another man while he makes love to his wife i think most of us just kind of groan awkwardly and wonder what andy humphries was thinking well perhaps we are shown what he was thinking all too clearly
0	so why on earth would i see 'sex lives of the potato men' answer johnny vegas and mackenzie crook vegas i have seen live and thoroughly enjoyed i think he is an intelligent and unique intellectual comic who manages to retain extreme crook i know only from probably the greatest comedy of the last 10 years along with 'alan 'the office' as gareth he was simply hilarious and i was interested in how he would convert to another character on the big screen br br ok so me and the boyfriend went down to the multiplex last night and the film was very funny only because the mediocre nonsense dialogue and banter ferris and dave had was delivered with aplomb and enthusiasm by the talent of vegas and crook they are destined for better things have done better already infact and i even believe vegas would make a decent straight actor the trite scenes where he says he misses his wife came almost close to touching although the spoiler tacked on scene at the end where he is taken back by his wife needed to be lengthened it just wasnt believable and throughout the film vegas only appears to miss his wife 2 or 3 times br br the film became grotesquely unfunny and plain old well grotesque when sex was mentioned not i add when it was shown on screen gratuitous explanation of what was in his sandwiches and why was not even slightly funny and just made me feel a little bit ill also totally was the inclusion of the character of jeremy picking his nose before showing a close up of the bogey on his finger just him picking his nose would have raised a smile he was a pathetic character and it would have just made him look as low as possible but showing the snot close up was just not needed and was rank br br one scene i did think was hilarious involving sex was vegas in the threesome his conversation with the second bloke just highlighted the fact that threesomes arent always endless ecstasy not that i'd know br br that's about all i can say really i will end with this and this is actually my main critique of the film this is supposed to revive the british film industry it is no 'trainspotting' that is for sure it isn't even a 'love actually' you'd have to have a heart of stone not to throw up at that one and 3 million pounds really could have been put into a better project 'mike basset england manager' was a wonderful little known british comedy and was made for far less than 3 million i only hope that the will learn from 'sex lives of the potato men' and not get so gratuitous in future although the terrible reviews this film is getting are only enhancing the box office
0	i watched the world premiere of this on the starz action channel they call it vampires the turning the plot was a little confusing there is a voice over in the introduction about an 800 year war and i didn't quite understand the movie is about a young couple somewhere in asia maybe in china i don't think the movie specifies the couple has an argument and meredith monroe runs off and is kidnapped by a biker gang of vampires the boyfriend finds a group of vampires that don't kill humans and enters into a battle with the bikers a human group of slayers somehow get involved and the final fight sequence takes place during a solar eclipse this movie is not related to either vampires or vampires los muertos confusing but decent action four out of 10 stars
0	nothing special to see here the animation has being outdated and the plot is a typical futuristic era this film has an original story but if it doesn't have an original plot or characters so in my opinion it's not worth seeing i'm not saying that the movie was bad it was just a typical anime story and i thought i watched this movie like a thousand times so if you are looking for something original see another thing
0	man oh man this was a piece of dog sh t i read a few reviews on here after seeing the case in the local video store and thought to myself ah this seems like a half decent movie vampires swords thailand how can you go wrong right no no no way f cking wrong jesus if only i could gouge out my eyes and not remember this film i would be happy the lead actor had the gayest voice ever man it really was bad i gotta save my girlfriend f ck off my buddy and i actually changed the audio track on the dvd to just so we didn't have to hear the guy's voice subtitles and all and this improved the film i'm serious if your anything like me and wondered what this film was like stop wondering i have the answer worst vampire movie ever no good action no good gore and only the smallest smattering of nudity just pure sh t for 90 mins don't rent this buy it think about it or watch it at 3 00am it just doesn't cut the cake at all in any way f ck this movie and watch all anal 7 real deep cover you'd have a better time i'm sure
0	this movie is really bad the hero can't play you see too much that he learned his walking moves by heart and believe me he walks a lot for 45 min nothing happens he only walks to places and gets out like if the story was so short that they had to extend it by adding useless and boring looks like a scenes br br dialogues are very poor i counted around a lots of hello's and few hang on on the 1st part br br blood is orange like the you put on kid's and scenes are not following themselves a bloody neck on a scene a clean neck on the following br br the story could have been improved yeah i mean what the hell is the story br br martial arts where is that martial arts watch how hesitant and slow are the moves if giving a kick and receiving a punch is called martial arts then i am bruce lee br br the only good point i have found is on fight scenes they don't play with zoom and fast switching scenes that gives you headache in most of action movies br br there are plenty of low budget movies that are great that one was just to make money nothing else
0	firstly i'll admit i haven't seen vampires los muertos but i've seen the original vampires film and love it i rented this film having heard nothing about it i didn't expect to be impressed i wasn't br br i love the idea of shifting the action to the far east which should have opened up a lot of new avenues for the action sequences as well as the story line but not enough was made of this the fight scenes and the motorbike chases were painfully boring br br there were some parts i liked like the way the slayer team weren't shown as heroic good guys as they were in the first movie br br i'd been hoping since i saw the old hammer movie legend of the 7 golden vampires a few years ago that someone would one day make another good asian based vampire film this was not it
0	well i watch tons of movies and this one really sucked big time i am sure we are all sick and tired of the low budget ploy to make vampire movies using some martial arts teacher turn actor type of movies i am also so tired of the guy knowing some form of fighting technique and then able to fight his way through a somewhat boring movie i forced myself to watch it and one of the main reasons were that the lead actress is quite pretty ha ha well i hope this helped a bit and if you have time and want to give your brain a rest watch it well hopefully one day this type of movies will not be released but then hey where will all the low budget actors go br br the movie also contains many but that i will leave to you to find because it adds quite a bit of fun while watching and also if you a bit of a perfectionist it will bother you cheers
0	the plot is simple an american couple is in vacation in thailand somehow they are attacked by the chinese vampires and the girl is kidnapped by the big boss of the vampires this is ok till now the girl's partner is left to search for her and now the horror begins he comes upon a strange group of semi vampires or something they only drank animal blood these vampires are in conflict with the bad guy for about 800 years however with the help of the 'good vampires' the guy begins to search his girlfriend br br now the fight scenes begin what a karate movie without fight another thing i have noticed is that the vampires are very ugly guys i mean a vampire is an old fashion guy he is alive since for ever he's got style there are also modern vampires but in this movie the vampires are weird like come on they ride a bike they are all dressed in leather and they destroy everything in their way br br the worst thing is that you can clearly see that this movie it is an low budget one the script is boring and the actors aren't too talented the music is pretty good but the effects are not that great br br to sum up the movie it is not that great but if you have a free afternoon watch it and tell me if i'm right or not
0	i watched this movie tonight and i do need to say that it is horrible i expected it to be great because you know usually we don't have many movies about asian vampires mixed with asian culture but already in the beginning it started in a bad way the introduction of the movie seemed not to have an end the plot is so weak and if you take the fights and the soundtrack off you really don't have anything useful at all the director of this film doesn't look to have some important notions about how much time to spend in introduction and flashbacks for example not to mention some other things br br for people like me who wants to watch a great vampire movie i really recommend to watch or ''the interview with the
0	an in name only sequel to john carpenter's vampires this movie takes place in thailand and involves a sect of bad vampires who enjoy killing people and a sect of good vampires who do not while it's an interesting idea to set a vampire film in thailand the writers don't seem to do a lot with the exotic locale this film could just as easily have been set in los angeles which brings me to my next point which is that this seems a lot like blade lite we've got the rock soundtrack the martial art battle scenes a dance club bloodletting and of course lots of sharp objects going through vampires what we don't have is the budget and talent yes the hero is a good martial arts fighter too bad his acting wasn't as good and there's plenty of decent wire work and tons of revved up fight sequences maybe too many the problem is they just don't have the same impact as the ones in any of the blade films perhaps it's just that the film has a been there seen that feel to it br br however for me the biggest problem was that the filmmakers didn't take enough time to establish the relationship between the lead played by the buff and bland colin and his girlfriend she gets snatched at the very beginning of the flick after a whiny exchange with her boyfriend we have no vested interest in her welfare at this point and no reason to believe that her boyfriend would be willing to risk his neck to save her now that's a major drawback when that's the major thrust of the plot br br in the end you could do worse than waste 85 minutes of your time with this but i can think of a lot better things to do with your time like renting any of the blade movies
0	there's a good story well hidden and never really used br br the film is short and overly dependent on action and thematic photography somehow character and story development have been forgotten what is left is muddled and superficial br br turn off your brain and will probably find that the time goes quickly enough but unless you are the sort of person that finds soaps deep and meaningful you are going to get no real satisfaction from this film br br watch only if you have nothing better to do and then only if someone else pays for the video rental
0	this movie vampires the turning isn't even really worth the 2 out of 10 i'm giving it the movie is very predictable from beginning up to the very end when our hero kills the leader of the vampire slayers the use of music in this movie was even bad it kept playing as if you were to expect something significant to happen at any second though it never did the acting was b rank at best and the movie was just dull the only reason i give this movie a 2 out of 10 is because the story had potential though it ended up unable to deliver oh and did i mention the wardrobe the wardrobe for this movie was obviously cheap to non existent because our hero and his girlfriend whom he's trying to save throughout the entire movie wear the same outfits through the entire movie i'd suggest this film only if your really bored and don't have a good wall with fresh paint to watch dry dave the horror cowboy
0	even though this was set up to be a showcase for some kickboxing and swordplay vampires the turning could have aspired beyond that because it doesn't even aspire to be a good vampire movie fails to deliver any punch that it may have been attempting to br br using the idea of an 800 year old thai vampire was interesting but the story about progeny she mistakenly brought into existence and now must wipe out actually reminds me of gizmo and his plight in gremlins and that isn't a good thing when it come to a vampire flick br br stephanie chao is attractive and serves as the good vampire very well but her lack of any accent grates when you realize that she's an 800 year old vampire added to that when she tells connor he's a young soul she doesn't deliver the line with much of the weight you would expect from an old soul attractive but not believable br br meredith monroe was more believable in her role but for a dawson's creek alum you would think she would have more screen time the question of whether amanda succumbs and turns is the most compelling reason to continue watching this movie and you never get it you get a tease of it but you never actually get any type of development out of the characters for that plot device it's a cheap way to play your audience folks br br if you want something that is a good vampire movie go find lugosi's dracula and if you want a sexy vampire movie you have dozens of flicks from hammer with a lot more strength than this one in the end if you want good or sexy this isn't the place this is just forgettable
0	sylvester the cat stowaway upon a ship that tweety bird happens to be on with his owner granny oh i don't even have enough words to convey how much i disdain both the tweety and granny characters they simply are not funny to me and made this short quite the chore to sit through indeed sylvester is a great character on his own but there's only so much he can do when confronted by the sheer awfulness of that accursed bid and senile old witch of a granny this animated short can be found on disc 4 of the looney tunes golden collection volume 1 and features an optional commentary by micheal barrier br br my grade d
0	in thailand the americans connor colin and his girlfriend amanda meredith monroe quarrel in a thai fight and amanda leaves connor alone she asks the direction of the hotel to a stranger indeed the mean vampire don hetrakul and she is bitten and kidnapped by his gang of evil vampires in motorcycles connor joins to a clan of good vampires leaded by sang stephanie chao trying to save amanda from the claws of br br i expected that vampires the turning were a good movie the locations and the cinematography are beautiful the very heavy music score is excellent stephanie chao is gorgeous and attractive but unfortunately the screenplay and the director are terrible and the very loose costume of meredith monroe does not help her fallen breasts the story is very short and the unknown marty weiss uses long scenes with motorcycle race fights and boring flashbacks to complete a minimum running time for film my vote is four br br title brazil vampiros a vampires the conversion
0	more suspenseful more subtle much much more disturbing
0	most american remakes of european films are pretty poor but this is in a league of its own in fact this might even be the worst sandra bullock movie ever made i daresay i might have passed it off as just another innocuously bad hollywood thriller had i not seen the dutch original spoorloos the altered ending here is stupid enough and executed with particular ineptitude but a far worse crime than that is removing all the intelligence and depth of character that marked out the original as a classic the real horror to be found here is in the fact that the same man who directed spoorloos is responsible for this atrocity will the real george sluizer please stand up
0	george remake of his own superior film is a complete waste of time why was it even attempted kiefer sutherland plays jeff whose girlfriend sandra bullock who only has a small amount of screen time is abducted at a service station by barney cousins jeff bridges now barney is portrayed as the kind of guy that no one would trust in a month of sundays he lopes about like frankenstein's monster but without the sympathy and bridges' acting is totally awful sutherland comes across a little better when his character turns detective with the help of new love interest rita baker nancy travis br br a major problem with this version of 'the vanishing' is its obvious need to cater to hollywood audiences by avoiding the bleak ending of the original film here the ending is happy which seems forced and unbelievable and completely wrecks the story however by this time the damage has been done as jeff bridges turns the bad guy into a huge laugh
0	this movie was so poorly acted what was with jeff bridges accent horrible and unbelievable was it supposed to be french scandinavian the script was lame to have the heroine trip over the grave of her boyfriend while running from the jeff bridges character are you kidding me how convenient that jeff brings his dirty shovel in the house after he disposes of bodies in his lawn do these people just not believe in calling the cops okay i'll get into the car with you why not duh why was daughter obsessed with making her dad have an affair is her mother that evil or just plain dull i did not see the original it would be hard to make myself after seeing this movie
0	there are just so many things wrong with this movie br br jeff bridges weird accent br br rita's ability to crack the password code br br the entire script br br the ending esp the last scene when two coffees are brought to the table for jeff and rita and the publisher j r laugh and say we don t drink coffee anymore well why did they order it then they obviously did if they didn't and the waiter brought everyone a coffee by default there would have been three coffees br br total tosh
0	i can't believe this movie has 6 stars on imdb this is one of the worst movies i've ever seen that wasn't an episode of mystery science theater 3000 the plot is predictable i couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters the dialog is cheesy several moments in the movie actually made me groan out loud including kiefer crazy neighbor and the incredibly lame joke that ends the movie jeff bridges' accent is goofy i can't tell what country he's supposed to be from it has to be one of the least thrilling thrillers i've ever seen as well after sandra bullock's character disappears absolutely nothing happens to advance the story for a good 45 minutes i would give this movie a negative amount of stars if i could
0	a real insult to the original spoorloos which is one of the most genuinely disturbing films and i intend this as a compliment i have seen in the last years br br where the original is chilling and brilliant the remake is flat and even boring especially the happy end finale takes away what little suspense there was in this film in the first place br br while such a distortion especially grafting a happy end which wasn't there previously is quite frequently the case in hollywood remakes of european art house movies and could've been expected the biggest disappointment lies in the fact that this inane mess was created by the very same filmmaker who did the original spoorloos br br why mr sluizer decided to ruin his masterpiece in such a fashion is beyond me br br avoid this abomination at all cost as it might spoil the original for you even if watched after that let alone the other way round
0	a couple are split apart during a vacation early scenes lead us to believe barney jeff bridges' character has kidnapped the girl in an unexplained but premeditated abduction the film plays out some years later where despite a new love interest jeff kiefer sutherland is determined to solve her disappearance br br the storyline is definitely intriguing but there have been some really bad decisions made during the making of this film culminating a pretty shoddy piece of work br br ok here we go the abduction scene aside from two major continuity errors there is a point where sandra bullock and kiefer sutherland are made to perform a little signed pet love ritual that's drowned in over sentimentality to the point of nausea we know they're in love the i do solemnly swear never to leave you speech only moments prior was ample thank you jeff bridges' robot accent is another example what is that for starman is back and it seems after a decade on the planet he's turned nasty the entire plot is then able to be resolved by the introduction of a needless character who by a rather fortunate twist of fate has quite miraculous powers of observation the climactic sequence itself has essentially been done before only much much better it's riddled with further annoyances and another blinding continuity blunder i could go on but something positive needs to be said at a stretch kiefer sutherland is the only one to save face with a fairly decent performance br br the 1988 original of the same name changed from the dutch title 'spoorloos' for english speaking audiences was recommended to me only for an online rental company to send me this later hollywood version by mistake i was surprised to find both having been directed by george sluizer and would be interested to know his motivation for the remake i am reliably and thankfully informed it is of a much higher quality in all areas including plot for that but it really doesn't take much doing
0	i've watched this movie after having seen the original spoorloos a few times in anticipation of the chilling ending br br i can't even begin to explain the anger and disappointment that i experienced when the ending came and went and the movie continued to have a happy ending what a waste of time it was watching this us remake br br if you have a choice please skip the vanishing and watch the dutch original spoorloos the suspense is very well built up you feel the frustration of rex in search of any trace of what might have happened to his girlfriend after she entered a gas station and never returned to his car the search takes him three years and when he finally gets in touch with the person who knows the truth about what happened to he must agree to undergo the same thing that has undergone the ending leaves you speechless in your chair
0	opening with some blatantly reused footage from for cat' s o fails to live up to that classic cartoon instead we get an example of friz freleng's tweety and sylvester series at its most generic unlike chuck jones's road runner series which strived to introduce new jokes to the same setting freleng's series seemed happy enough to recycle jokes as long as the characters were in a different place s o then basically amounts to this time let's put 'em on a boat it's not an entirely weak cartoon there are a few good jokes mostly involving granny's glasses but they are outweighed by gags you can see coming a mile off the seasickness routine and it all builds to another of those endings where someone else other than tweety says i i a putty tat a joke that worked well once but has diminishing returns s o will probably please children who enjoy virtually any cartoon but for big kids like me who are looking for more than the same tired gags it's definitely one to avoid
0	man what an awful film as with many terrible films the structure of its awfulness lies in the script this is such a pathetic attempt at a psychological thriller that it gives the entire genre a bad name okay here's one major problem sandra bullock's character is abducted by jeff bridges in his car at a busy convenience store in broad daylight somehow her boyfriend kiefer sutherland doesn't find a single witness to this act and subsequently spends most of the movie completely clueless as to her whereabouts come on personally i find this completely insulting to even the of audience members yet we are forced to buy into this nonsense of equal frustration is the poorly explained motive for jeff actions his character is a bit of an eccentric academic to be sure but far from the sociopath who would do these things he goes through about ten minutes give or take spilling his beans to sutherland as to why he has performed his cruel actions but the explanation itself lacks even the most elementary sense of logic therefore no intelligent audience member can really believe in the possibility of his evil and if you subtract that element from the story the entire thing falls apart br br also of major concern jeff bridges using a weird pseudo french accent for no reason br br the entire boring subplot involving nancy travis most especially her saving the day by turning the tables on bridges br br the crazy woman who somehow manages to remember jeff bridges' license plate number despite also thinking that the lucky charms leprechaun is real br br sandra bullock's character's name diane conveniently re scrambles to form the word vanished are you friggin' kidding me the logistical impossibility of drugging abducting and burying in a very remote location a human being within the span of forty minutes as bridges specifically alludes to br br this is a movie that made me remember the fictional impossibly stupid yet very successful donald kaufman character in adaptation many screenwriters are brilliant inspired artists some are just bozos who convince the nitwits running the studios to make their drivel this particular script is so stunningly dimwitted that donald kaufman himself would have managed to sell it unfortunately for all of us in the real world todd graff actually did
0	this is the most frightening film ever made in hollywood it is a cautionary tale of how to take a european masterpiece and suck the life of of it until it is a dry husk like an insect carcass on the the frightening because it reveals how the world of hollywood really works ignorant money begetting dross it makes me wonder how many great films could populate the corridors of my memory if the hollywood process had not leveled them to forgettable mediocrity cry for the murdered children see spoorloos or read the golden egg if you dare because they will come back to you forever in the idle moments of your life when you're walking along the street and you see a 'missing' poster in ordinary looking parking lots when you hear the tour de france on the radio and especially when you you think what's the harm in wearing a sock with a hole in it on a perfectly ordinary day br br if only i could give this a zero
0	if i had to pick the most depressing movie try to be suspenseful i've seen it'd be this one i know about how good the original is supposed to be it had better be better then this one the movie's so dark and depressing but it isn't interesting to watch either i've seen depressing type movies that were saved because of the suspense to and the dark quality vanishing didn't have that this was so disturbing to watch to begin with and there was nothing positive to make this a classic type movie i think another imdb poster got it right in saying this genre has just seen thrillers done in a far superior way i completely agree i would recommend skipping this one maybe i'll watch the original some day but i doubt it i give this a 2 out of 10
0	spoiler alert it just gets to me the nerve some people have to remake and i use the term loosely here good movies in the american version of this dutch thriller someone decided the original ending wasn't enough for american audiences so what do they do they create a new one a stupid improbable i pretend i'm dead but come to life again so the good guy can kick my butt some more kind of ending do yourself a favor and get the original one
0	i know it's hard for you americans to find european films on video dvd particularly from the 80's but please seek out the original version of the vanishing title spoorloos 1988 and you'll see why the hollywood version of the vanishing screws up bigtime particularly at the finale br br i really like sandra bullock kiefer sutherland and particularly jeff bridges but this is just so so lame compared with the original what where they thinking can you imagine seven with a happy ending with gwyneth paltrow running happily into the arms of brad pitt in the finale the whole point the original was such a major international success was because of the shocking finale so why do you accept this kind of remake really avoid this and get the original
0	george original version of the vanishing aka the man who wanted to know offers one of european cinema's most quietly disturbing sociopaths and one of the most memorable finales of all time shamelessly stolen by tarantino for kill bill volume two but it has plenty more to offer than that playing around with chronology and inverting the usual clichés of standard 'lady plots it also offers superb characterisation and strong underplayed but convincing performances br br unfortunately i can only assume that when it came to the remake sluizer was so determined that no one else was going to get the chance to ruin his film when he was perfectly capable of doing it himself but few people could have anticipated how comprehensively he trashes his own work his career never recovered from this disastrous misstep br br chief culprit is an astonishing performance by jeff bridges that has been over thought through in every detail to a truly disastrous level a friend who produced one of his earliest movies noted that bridges was a great instinctive actor as long as you stopped him thinking about what he was doing and this film is the proof of the pudding every movement is overly mechanical in its precision making him look like a rusty clockwork toy while his voice is a bizarre mixture of tootsie from taxi and a dalek who have all been taking elocution lessons from tah e ville no banality of evil here just a looney walking around with an invisible sign over his head saying please let me kill you thank you for your consideration ' but the blame really needs to be shared out here none of the performances are good often they don't even look good – keifer sutherland looks more like a baby hamster than a distraught man at his wits end in the hurried scenes at the gas station nancy travis flounders badly and sandra bullock makes no impression at all as the object of his obsession not that they're given any help by either director or writer todd graff the script is particularly weak the chronology has been altered to put the focus firmly on bridges at the expense of the couple at the opening of the film worse is the rush the film is in draining the life and character from each scene in its race to get to the next rather than the high low mood shifts in the couple's relationship or the apparently casual but careful establishing of the feel of the location we just get a couple of arguments that give you the impression that he's probably better off without her as for the new and improved happy ending – standard woman chased by nutter in the woods jeopardy stuff complete with lame 'let's end on a joke like a tv cop show' moment – best not go there… which is advice that holds for this entire trainwreck of a movie even a shockingly bland and uninspired jerry goldsmith score can't do anything for this one
0	skip this hollywood version a real piece of garbage a cheap insult to the brilliant original spoorloos or by the english title also called the vanishing it completely misses the mark in typical grotesque hollywood fashion usually due to a bunch of talentless corporate bean counters who haven't the vaguest idea about anything artistic they just look for the successful formula and want it applied to everything to glean a profit much like the awful the scarlet letter made in 1995 which twisted the original story around so much to suit the crowd that it became an aberration not even a bastardization but a pile of goop that has been sort of shaped similar but does not look feel or even remotely resemble the spirit of the original except that movie at least had gary oldman who is interesting to watch in anything he does this dog has nothing going for it even the usually very talented jeff bridges is an embarrassment great tragedy is not nor never should be the feel good movie of the year but rather takes one or more of the sadly much too frequent tragic events in life and allows the reader viewer to draw meaning and insight into the human condition br br do yourself a great favor if you're looking for a rental and skip this grotesque garbage and pick up the original made in a dutch french collaboration in 1988 that is a great film this is a horrific mess
0	when george sluizer was told he could direct an american version of the book het gouden the movie spoorloos outside holland this movie has the name the vanishing too he was told that this would only go through if the ending was changed he was told that 'the american wouldn't approve the original ending of course the original ending is much better and without it the movie loses its impact because i have already put this in the trivia section i won't give the original ending and keep my comment spoiler free if you want to know the original ending watch spoorloos or read the book this movie is absolute rubbish and the first kiefer sutherland movie i don't like watch the original dutch movie which is one of the best thrillers in the world
0	the film starts out with a narration of the protagonist explaining certain crimes occurring all over the city and then we get to know that the hero is a cop who is either suspended or has probably retired i did not have the patience or the interest to verify the above before commenting if there is a stereotype for narrators to have a deep sleep inducing voice then it is high time to put an end to it i seriously fell asleep and did not bother to shut the movie down either am still trying to figure out what the movie was all about and why there were no outdoor shootings a third rate tv serial will have more number of sets compared to this crap of a movie and i still pity the actors and producers involved in this huge bullshit of a movie it ought to have been produced as a normal tv serial or maybe even as a local theater drama instead of putting it out on the big screen total waste of time and money the movie was supposed to be in production for a long time and it would have been better to have left it that way with redundant sleep inducing dialogs and sets this is the worst movie i have come across
0	once upon a time theresa russell made a few halfway decent movies so i keep hoping that one of her efforts from the past decade or two will merit a rating of at least 6 or 7 out of 10 however dark world is just the latest in a string of disappointments the first 90 minutes are very hard to watch the lines are delivered by the lead actors as if they are being read at a first rehearsal or even a casting session in which the actors are doing it for the sake of their agents but do not really want the parts for which they are perfunctorily reading the sets and props seem off somehow what kind of a police department would allow a detective to have a whole living room wall shelved full of case file holders the screen is constantly cluttered with meaningless time and which appear with no rhyme or reason now if the scriptwriter were standing here after the lights go up from a film fest screening they no doubt would crow about how all these shortcomings are really clever clues to the plot turning topsy turvy in this final five minutes well for those audience members whose only other movie experiences are tv the movie and surfer dude they might be bamboozled into nodding their heads in agreement but it is hard to believe that anyone who has seen 10 or more movies in their life and is not a close friend or relative of a dark world cast or crew member could fall for such a lame despite what the d v d box might lead you to believe this movie has about as much resemblance to sunset boulevard dead narrator device or hitchcock schizophrenic protagonist device as a drained jim beam bottle with urine has to booze
0	i happened to catch this movie on late night tv i saw the opening credits and thought this looks good well i was very wrong while not excruciatingly bad it had some funny and tender moments it lacked any sense of cohesion br br it started off well enough with kathy having a midlife crisis of sorts when her husband leaves her and her singing idol is murdered but kathy has played these disaffected women so well before think fried green tomatoes the problem wasn't kathy it was the clueless screenplay that wandered all over the place it was as if the writers must have been thinking what will we do next the script also felt very contrived br br some others who have posted comments on this movie have wondered why it didn't receive a cinematic release the main reason i think would have been to avoid embarrassment and the critics would have murdered it br br having said all that i thought the small woman who played was fantastic and stole the movie not to mention how beautiful she is
0	watched this months ago on netflix instant and left a review there br br let me say most of the other reviews are very accurate this movie was bad writing bad acting and bad directing i too had liked russell and pare back in the old days and was very hopeful for them in my netflix review i mentioned that i lost interest in the film and proceeded to wash the dishes and make a sandwich yet still watching the movie from the kitchen when i did return to the living room i was very confused as the last 5 minutes of the film unfolded i even rewound it to make sure i was not missing anything this film totally crapped out on how to do a twist ending i suspect that the idea sounded good maybe the script was intriguing but the budget was so non existent that sets were really lacking and yes i suppose all those bad sets were an effort to give the viewer a clue all it told me was low budget br br anyway the reason i came here was because over the weekend i saw a review of shutter island and with what the reviewers were saying or not saying lead me to believe that shutter island is the same deal only with a budget 50 to 60 times more actually i have no idea how much dark world cost but i hope they didn't spend more than 1 million br br so that being said i kinda thought that if someone reworked the script a bit got a bigger budget for a better look whether that meant a better scenic designer or better post coloring just someone with a vision they could remake dark world into a passable product now it sounds like shutter island is doing that looks like they got the vision right but the scripting could still be off money can't buy everything but it should in hollywood br br ps my 2 star rating is for russell and pare
0	this film is absolute trash and proceeds to become even worse towards the very protracted end br br the plot is confused and laboured the actors have a couldn't care less attitude maybe they were paid in advance bad move or knew they weren't going to get paid and the sets were featureless boring and cheap br br i fell asleep twice and actually decided to not bother with the last 5 minutes as i assumed the actors would have fallen asleep themselves by then more life time wasted br br if you must watch it then take it to the bedroom and forget the sleeping pills for once but maybe you'll need an antidepressant instead br br sometimes it's good if celluloid degrades
0	i was hoping this would be a good weekly vehicle for tim curry one of my all time favorite performers alas and it is not there doesn't seem to be any chemistry between anyone on the show the dialogue is decidedly uninspired and even the laugh track appeared to be brutal
0	i rented this movie because i noticed the cover in the video rental store i saw nolte connely madsen 40's time setting and thought hmm can't be too bad unfortunately after watching it my impression was not too good br br its kind of a chinatown ripoff but the worst part is that other than nolte the other members of the squad didn't get enough screen time but its a decent movie to see once i guess and melanie's role was small enough that she wasn't given a chance to be a nuisance
0	william petersen that c s i guy has a small uncredited role but it's the best part of the movie his character comes across smart ass and tough and it's a fun surprise to see him in this he has a range that allows him to play just about anything after his 5 minutes it goes from looking cool to just nothing much it leaves you hoping that his character will reappear in the movie but after 20 minutes you give up hope the movie itself is pretty poor worth a watch on or a pick up at the library but not much more too much of it reminds you of l a confidential except that where that movie starts to get complicated upon itself this one is so loose it steers everywhere but where it should 2 out of 5 stars
0	i went to see this film at the cinema on the strength of its potentially interesting subject matter good cast a director who had previously done the highly rated once were warriors and my liking for noir ish films set in l a in the forties and fifties i would argue that i am reasonably easy to please in this film category i appreciate the classics of the genre but i will sit through and enjoy a half decent if derivative effort as well however i found this film completely unbearable br br despite a good situation in which to place the story nobody seems to do or say anything remotely interesting or entertaining in the whole two hours plus of this sorry mess good actors are wasted in endless scenes of dialogue ranging from banal to embarrassing the narrative is slack and drags unbearably and none of the events it depicts is handled well enough to do anything other than bore the audience to death there is no drama no atmosphere no tension absolutely no entertainment value and by the end i simply didn't care what happened because i did not believe in anything in the film br br l a confidential came out a year later and regardless of whether one version of the story is more true to life the latter film deservedly gets all the plaudits for its excellence in every department mulholland falls by contrast fails in every department a fact made all the more tragic by the amount of talent involved if they ever show this on a plane i will still walk out
0	i saw this movie on the shelf at blockbuster and thought it looked cool the dvd case touted so many great actors and i wondered to myself why have i never heard of this movie then i turned over the case and saw the director lee and thus the answer began to explain itself br br first of all i want to defeat the idea that a great cast equals a great movie but more importantly i think i should explain why this movie is so terrible okay the script is awful and full of one dimensional characters this is the worst role i've ever seen chazz palminteri play and i'm surprised he would do something this ridiculous however under appreciated yet talented actors must earn their money palminteri plays a one dimensional police detective who comes off about as dumb as a c movie mob henchman him along with the lead detective the poorly directed nolte the great but simple michael madsen and the late chris penn whose role along with madsen's was completely thrown away make up an elite squad of la detectives tasked to rid the city of mobsters sometime in the late 30s or 40s the movie introduces this squad as cops who will break every law to make sure those who think they're above the law don't operate in their city at the beginning of the film the cops rough up a local restaurant grab an alleged mobster william peterson and take him to a place they call the mulholland falls they toss him off one of the cliffs on mullholland drive and this is supposed to demonstrate how serious these guys are about ridding the city of crime whatever this was nothing more than a cheap excuse to use a crappy title that's designed to make you think of la and its famous sites somewhere later on they find the dead body of jennifer connelly and the plot begins br br on to the direction which was nothing short of amateur and weak aside from the fact that the characters were b movie quality the overacting by those such as treat williams the guy who plays the chief of police and the awful daniel baldwin are just a few highlights that made this movie seem like it was lee first film there's not one good performance in the movie aside from maybe melanie griffith who some might argue was the worst in the movie she won a razzie for this film in the end it was her character that was not that great and she really didn't have much to work with br br as with any bad movie it all begins with the writing and this script was no gem plot is formulated simply on the basis of setting up the next scene and never takes into consideration characters' motivations the way the characters behaved was unbelievable cops taking the law into their own hands is believable within the right circumstances see la confidential but in this case it looked like these guys could get away with anything including murder and never bat an eye about cleaning anything up i guess we as an audience are just supposed to assume that no one saw anything and that people won't ask questions everything about the story is predictable and is spoon fed so well that we understand everything that's going to happen a good while before the characters do however it doesn't make us feel smart but rather makes us angry at how stupid the hero is despite the fact that there aren't any heroes in this movie br br in the end the best component of the movie was the great score by david from the beginning it invoked a since of chinatown which quickly faded when i realized how unbelievable just about everything in the film was it didn't surprise me to learn that it made a whopping eleven million in the box office what i will say is that this film is worth watching for a few laughs nick nolte's acting is like an unsuccessfully domesticated junkyard dog and i laughed every time he tried to be serious i also nearly fell on the floor at each of the slow motion shots used in the film i think there are three with one during a key fight scene when you have to use slow motion in the heat of a dramatic moment you clearly have some problems so even with my negative criticism i will recommend this movie solely for the purpose of enticing laughter that is if you appreciate the good movies like la confidential
0	the four la cops in fedoras driving around in a big black convertible look faintly absurd and even more ridiculous when it turns out that nick nolte the dumbest looking of the lot is in charge the writer never manages to create a spirit of camaraderie among the squad members and the director fails to wring out of the man mountain nolte questioning anyone nolte's character lights a gets mad and beats interviewees to a pulp his methods get him nowhere until at one point in the action he is wandering from tossed residence to tossed residence with his mouth open and his brain shut he smashes up an fbi squad and throws two military officers out of a plane in flight with only a vague report of anger at hq and no punishment at all at the end of the film he is as gormless and muscle bound as he was at the outset how he managed to get a beautiful whore to fall deeply in love with him is a mystery as is the eternal devotion and tragic sense of betrayal expressed by his jobless wife two interesting shots in the picture one of an atomic explosion the other of a gigantic crater ostensibly caused by a bomb it's almost as wrecked and puffy as nolte's face
0	a special unit of four police detectives are dispensing justice in their own unique way in 1950s los angeles nick nolte plays max hoover the unit's lead officer and his partners are played by michael madsen chazz palminteri and chris penn also starring are melanie griffith jennifer connelly and john malkovich among others quite an impressive list of names unfortunately that is the only thing even remotely impressive about this film br br our story begins when young allison pond played by connelly turns up dead in a remote area of town currently under development our band of four detectives is called in and it is immediately obvious that nolte's max hoover is going to be taking a very personal interest in this case we will soon find out that allison in addition to knowing hoover quite well was also involved with some rather important military and government types who may have had reason to want her dead but who exactly was involved and why exactly would they want this seemingly harmless woman dead hoover and crew set out to find out sounds like an interesting premise but unfortunately it goes nowhere br br despite the impressive array of names the acting here leaves much to be desired nolte is overacting madsen seems incredibly bored palminteri and malkovich come off as caricatures penn has hardly anything to do and griffith is dull as can be by far the best performance is connelly's in all too fleeting flashback sequences the dialogue throughout the film is forced and wooden the sense of drama you would expect from a mystery of this type is missing altogether nothing dramatic really happens in fact nothing at all seems to happen for the bulk of the picture instead we just slog along towards a rather ludicrous and incredibly disappointing climax when the mystery is solved you may find yourself saying oh come on now is that all there is but it gets worse as after the mystery is solved we get a completely ridiculous and utterly unbelievable action sequence and even then we are made to suffer further as another awful badly acted completely unnecessary scene is tacked on at the end and then mercifully it is over and not a moment too soon
0	if this is film noir then noir must be french for glacially slow take a cast of completely unlikeable characters give them nothing to say punctuate the whole thing with gratuitous ultra violence and you've got the formula for an aggravated dash could be subtitled sleazy hollywood types attempt to make money from chinatown rip off bruce dern's one minute part is orders of magnitude better than anything else in this flick by the way i didn't like the film
0	this movie was produced by the biggest producer in costa although their authors brag about it as a the biggest movie in costa ever made and their actors even dare to say that they didn't get an oscar nomination due to it's political relevance with oil he he right well this is all a lie this movie was supposedly based on a book written by carlos salazar about a love triangle super cliché soap opera like subject and it secondary story is about an oil problem on the atlantic coast of costa with an american oil company who wanted to explore oil deposits on the region but at the end it never was approved by the government now it may have some nice footage about the beaches but that's it nothing bigger than that it is all in the camera most of the actors are lousy except for two or three the rest lack of sense of what acting means they overact most of the time the story is completely common and cliché worthy of a cheap mexican soap opera as i said because the crew advertised it as a protest movie about oil but 80 of the movie is based on a stupid love triangle the script is nothing impressing it is very simple and the dialogs are not very thought it has also got some editing problem on a couple of scene changes but besides that is pretty decent the director did an alright job i mean he is not like an oliver stone but he did his job with the resources he had handy i would like to question him why instead of using actor he spent most of the money on foreign ones i mean after all they about being an 100 production that's what you at least expect final the end is is not well done there are flaws and details that don't match or are useless besides being the most elaborated movie in all history i think it's mediocre you can make way more interesting and better pictures with less cash never heard of pi anyway if you are curious about costa rican or central american movies this one will do but you are definitively not missing anything
0	this movie is very modern and forward it is about 75 in english it is aimed at english speaking multiplex going young audience basic plot is similar to ddlj acting is below average br br unfortunately they are portraying a wrong picture and setting a bad example for the youngsters is shown drinking from a bottle or taking shots of tequila about 5 6 times in the movie the director does not even acknowledge she is an alcoholic and has a drinking problem all through the movie she only wears bikini tops whether she is at work at a beach or at a wedding the heroine of the movie doing this makes the youngsters feel this behaviour is acceptable br br the less that is said about failure of chopra doing shahrukh khan's ddlj role of arrogant girl chaser the better the movie is about equality of sexes but equality should not be about making the same mistakes instead about doing the right to do the right thing if men have been shown as chronic casanovas in movies does not mean women should also portray same behaviour br br even though the movie is made in light hearted fun spirit it promotes so many wrong social notions in the name of being forward that fun part of the movie makes no impact not even in canada women dress like this or guys behave like they have shown in the movie it is certainly not a reflection of indian society or even canadian society perhaps they should have a disclaimer at the beginning stating all characters and events in the movie are imaginary and do not reflect the actual culture of the cities and countries mentioned in the film the only good thing about this movie is the length 1 5 hrs thank god
0	this movie is not worth anything i mean if you want to watch this kind of stuff flip to hollywood movies this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name neal n nikki seriously sucked never watch this movie as for the actors it appears the acting genes skipped a generation couldn't have worn less and chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director's spoiled son all of that halla re was amazingly stupid the songs are eh and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it bottom line i hated the movie do not let your kids watch it and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it buy the cd if you must as i said the songs are eh at least it is better then the movie
0	oh my god why did i waste my precious time on this film it is pathetic waaaay ott and unrealistic and one of the worst films i have ever seen in my life yes my life i am embarrassed for yash raj films the poor guys have to live with the horrible news that yes they produced this terrible film br br this is by far the most trashy sexual eyebrow raising movie i have ever seen by yash raj films i cringe for them i really do along with the terrible acting or no acting for that matter by chopra combined with the lack of talent of the look at my boobs neal 'n' nikki has not one good thing about it at all even the music is not upto the standard left by the director arjun did an embarrassingly bad job here br br honestly i expected more much much more
0	i did have some expectations from this film because 1 it was a yash raj production 2 when the songs were first shown on tv they seemed catchy 3 the star cast was new well i must tell u that i just couldn't sit through this movie with his red lips what were the make up artists thinking tries hard to look cool but fails miserably i won't even get started on his acting if u can call it that queen' with all her screaming and ranting n raving just makes you want to pull your hair out in frustration i think was slightly more tolerable than her she seriously needs to take acting lessons from her sister the story is pathetic the same old tried and tested formula absolutely no originality there is nothing worth watching in this movie makes me wonder why it was made in the first place
0	i agree that this movie is about sex without any seduction or love in fact it makes sex seem so boring and makes me wonder why bother i actually don't think at all this remotely speaks of how canadian indian second generations feel about sex at any rate did you know the first hotel drunk idea was copied from a korean movie made in 2001 or thereabouts that korean film was actually brilliant as comedy but at the same time compels the audience to reflect on the complexity of man woman relationships and man woman difference in experience and thinking i mean most of the neal n nikki hotel drunk segment was emulated take by take can't bollywood movie makers try to make originals only please seriously i never enjoyed a hindi flick that is a copycat the ones i enjoy have always spoken indian feelings through indian cultural means
0	i'd give this film a 1 10 this film is devoid of common cinematic substance and concentrates way too much upon the current skin trend in bollywood movies i'd definitely not recommend teenagers to watch this movie what really makes me feel dejected is how could such an impressive banner like yash chopra films ever succumb to such an awful production they have perhaps forgotten to keep in view that there is a larger audience than adult audience too which when exposed to these sort of gross movies may wreck their growing mind set and succumb to things devoid of sense and recognition br br on the whole films must not only be entertaining but also must comprise of some sense as well certainly this film is an immense disappointment to yash chopra fans especially me myself i am really disappointed over the plot acting and everything else why can't people put in some substance that can be cherished after confronted with in the films at least for once throughout the film the point is clear i'd like to put my opinion in short horrible disappointment lot of adult material lack of sensible substance lack of normal psyche worthless could grab a or a temptations chocolate instead
0	neal n nikki is voted on of the worst films of the year by its hard to believe the famous chopra's have produced this lousy movie it was presented as a movie for the family but turns out to be a ridiculous sex comedy nor does it make you laugh but cry of boredom and nor does it have any sexy girls to make the film look sexy the title song is the most annoying song of the decade i'm the neil i'm the man rock star superstar chopra is one of worst actors ever with no acting talent after making many super flops and not receiving any movies from a producer rather then his family he gives a total crap performance that bores you to death who is and will always be known for being sister gives a dreadful performance both actors have the most annoying chemistry and are very immature for their age it has a special appearance by the very cute in a pathetic role the ending was so daft and stupid i cant believe i actually paid money to rent this crap
0	yash raj films are so funny whatever works they follow it yet they are called the best production house br br seeing bhatt films working they copied the formula bikini and everything plus casting low actors like and br br the film is so horrible it makes you cringe br br the jokes are so bad and horny it makes you slap them resembles a gay plus a monkey br br resembles an idiot br br the director thinks we all are idiots arjun takes the audience for granted music is saving grace camera work is good br br chopra hams like an idiot looks like kajol in k3g if kajol was annoying der then is worse the rest are okay
0	it is definitely not worth spending either money or time it is the same hackneyed plot of a guy and a girl meeting and falling in love but this is with a western touch but it fails miserably in either depicting a love story or giving it the western touch never do we feel that the hero and heroin are in love there is no depth to either of their characters probably with a better cast some justice could have been brought about to the characters finally it is a movie with no fun no acting no theme no plot no comedy no action no thrill no romance i associate romance to something more passionate definitely not a movie you would want to go with your family overall if you are looking for a movie with some content this is definitely not an option i shall wait for the day when bollywood movies are something that i can wait to watch and i can refer to my friends as a must watch movie
0	this is the worst film i have ever seen and what disappoints me the most is that this is yash raj film so at first when you see the promos you think yes thats definitely another yash raj hit but when you see the film your eyes will water with disappoint the storyline is stupid and dumb we've seen it many times boy is soon to marry and falls in love with a girl blah blah blah if you do see this pathetic film don't go with you family there is too much exposure and kiss scene i don even see why you would go to see it on your own overall this is a disgraceful disgusting and anything else which is bad and starts with a d film don't go to see it you'll end up hating yash ji and yash raj films
0	i have just seen a couple of nights ago at the annual vistas film festival held here in dallas and i must express my discontent the opening caption tries to tell us that the film is a portrayal of the current invasion of south american countries costa in this particular case by north american oil companies and the negative effects both economic and environmental of this invasion the main characters are a married couple who live a simple pleasant life maintaining a banana farm right away a woman arrives and announces that she is the wife's half sister i'm not going to go into specifics about this and to be honest i don't feel that i'm spoiling anything with this review yet another key point is that the company to whom they distribute their bananas drops them due to budget demands in a poor economy so the main conflict that is supposed to be addressed in the movie is of the husband between the rock and the hard place trying to preserve his livelihood on one hand the reynolds oil company has basically offered him employment and financial compensation basically a bribe to use his public influence to encourage the town to allow the company to begin drilling in their town compromising his standing with the community and the community itself on the other hand he is faced with being dead broke but on the side of his community protesting the drilling given the length of this film it would have been ample time to explore the issues just described but it just doesn't happen and i'll tell you why you will notice that this film has won a couple of awards so far one for direction and an audience award i'm not going to pick apart esteban's direction it wasn't bad or good enough for me to be all that passionate about writing anything the audience award was at a film festival in spain and for it to gain an audience award i'd have to imagine that spanish people just dig soap operas in fact central and south america dig soap operas as well i know that much i assume that esteban was either aiming to take advantage of this or that he himself digs soap operas because that is what unfolds over the course of this film so much to the point that it kicks the whole oil company plot to the side almost as if they imagined halfway through the making of this film that it had become tiresome because it seems like at least three of the supporting characters have had their back story and character development severely compromised to make room for more sex and crying scenes the only true villain in the movie is one of these three characters and at no point do you actually get to find out who the hell he is it's almost as if they cut his screen time just short of taking him out of the film entirely from time to time they toy with the oil against community plot but these are digressions at best what we see a lot more of are scenes of passion jealousy betrayal adultery etc these themes saturate the story to such a degree that the oil company becomes unnecessary it's almost as if this was a stunt to legitimize a romantic drama soap opera by throwing in a little political relevance nevertheless the film gets so caught up in the romance that it ultimately doesn't know what to do with itself resulting in an ending so tacked on that you're left wondering what it is that you've been waiting around for or if there was ever anything to begin with here are two things that i think could have saved this movie either cut out the half sister or cut out the oil company it's obvious which one of the two they were more interested in or perhaps if had been an hour longer they could have worked this all out regardless i'd have been fine with a straight up soap opera and i think that the subject of oil companies exploiting foreign nations is in dire need of addressing by the film community is both and neither these two angles could have worked together had they been balanced accordingly but with a romantic plot running around in circles and taking up almost twice as much time as necessary at the expense of an oil plot that's barely been established to begin with both sides suffer best of all the romance plot is never even resolved i'd like to say i'd watch this movie again to see what i've missed but i have a strong feeling that i already know what it is as far as i'm concerned it wouldn't matter if i saw ten more times i've missed it because it is simply not there
0	what a crappy movie the main character in this movie was supposed to be born and brought up in canada yet he had a thicker indian accent than his parents is it just me or does look gay in this movie also do all the chicks in canada dress like sluts at least that's how it is in this movie all the females are dressed like strippers don't waste your time with this one the only good thing about this movie is the setting in beautiful vancouver wonder why bollywood is going through a slump it's because of movies like this i miss the good days when hindi movies were actually entertaining i couldn't even finish this movie because it was so bad i think bollywood needs to stop trying to replicate the style of hollywood because it's just not working out they need to stick to their roots because that's what makes indian movies entertaining
0	as a fan of nearly any period drama and at that a huge jane austen fan i was horrified by this adaption as a fan of the 1999 version of mansfield park i was constantly comparing the two and this fell far short it felt hugely rushed and very one dimensional so that it became boring very quickly there seemed to be no subtly to the relationships particularly that of fanny and edmund and little atmosphere despite being set in a beautiful location despite having looked forward to the jane austen season since christmas i turned this off after an hour and went to bed i will be interested to watch the adaptations of persuasion and northanger abbey of which i have no much loved version to see if they still manage to bore me in such a manner
0	i started to take a critical view on this adaptation within the first few minutes but as a dedicated jane austen fan i persevered through to the end however this is not a programme i would recommend to someone unfamiliar with her work as i don't think it does the book justice nor makes particularly entertaining television in its own right there was something about this adaptation that lacked believability many of the costumes and even the actors did not have an authentic look and i found the acting to be at times poor there is no doubt that the actors were all very good looking but this didn't provide enough variety to create really diverse memorable characters it was far too static being set entirely in the same location and missing out fanny's return home which is one of the most interesting parts of the story the best actor was blake who captured the wholesomeness of edmund very well and the crawfords were effectively cast too i do like billie piper as an actress but this role did not suit her and was much better played by frances o'connor in the 1999 version who gave overall a far more subtle and convincing performance jane austen adaptations will always provide a love story to leave you feeling good but unfortunately this is one of the worst i have seen
0	i agree with several of you that this film was rather boring and dull i found myself disliking the main character and the following actors actresses that came in the scenes the camera work was non pleasing itself random shots and shaky film scenes made me quite annoyed and i turned the film off i will make up my time by watching the 1999 adaption and hope that it fits agreeable along with sense and sensibility emma becoming jane and pride and prejudice i've only a few others to watch besides these films but i believe they were done in great taste the music was kind of out of place with the film also reminding me of another show i had seen this year it was called hex and a show from bbc i came across it one night on the web i rather liked the first season but the second season was dry and pulling things out of thin air that should of stayed with the clouds i found the main male character who was henry in this film out of place perhaps i just do not like his way of speaking or his stature well i would not recommend this film to anyone unless they were going to have it muted and they wanted to look at the fashion of the era or the way homes were kept at the time again i will watch the 1999 version and hope it is a better and does jane austen some justice to her writing
0	mansfield park in its second half is my favorite of austen's novels and fanny price my favorite of her heroines so i'm saddened by the unhappy fate she's suffered in her big and small screen representations the only good reading of the character i've heard was done for radio by amanda root who gave it the same quality as she did the character anne in the film of persuasion a stern sure heartfelt moral centeredness if the actress had been younger she would have been good visual casting as well but the that have reached our eyes to date have more resembled respectively mary crawford ruby the scullery girl and in this incarnation a jovial serving wench or possibly tart with her high moral principles pulled down a peg br br well i had hoped for better but had feared worse the serial had a solid edmund in an actor who was best at likable saps and the perfect i e perfectly abominable mrs norris otherwise it was dullish the film which was apparently intended as a deconstruction or some other bad theatrical idea came off as a mixed up burlesque after such disappointments and the more recent disappointments of this production's sister pieces the new persuasion and northanger abbey i couldn't help but have mixed expectations for this one and on the whole it left me feeling slightly better disposed to it than not it condensed the novel intelligently and in the end left me with much the same feeling as a comic book version might on the other hand to do so it had to rework most of the characters except the crawfords and it incidentally diminished or eliminated most or all of the most memorable things in the book including its most famous character and what should be if it isn't its most famous scene br br the character is the officious aunt norris always ready to direct other people in what to do but always managing to avoid having to do any of it herself here one gets no sense of that at all and with her goes much else her remark that cuts through fanny considering who and what you are sir thomas's discovery that she has forbidden fanny a fire in her room all these years and his roundabout apology for her fanny's honesty in acknowledging during a visit home that aunt norris for all her faults could manage the household better than either of her sisters but then that entire trip is missing from the story and so is most of what goes on at the theatrical rehearsals and most of what sir thomas on his return and in fact sir thomas himself and his wife are different from what they were above all the scene in which crawford proposes to fanny one of austen's most complex is simplified to a bare telling missing from it is fanny's staunch upholding of what she knows to be right and what she knows to be very probably true against all the distractions crawford and anybody else can throw at her to a male reader now no less than when it was written it reveals with unmatched clarity unmatched at any rate as far as i know what a woman goes through in trying to deal fairly but firmly with a man she has reason to distrust it's a brilliant scene in the novel on tv it's just a scene br br and fanny oh fanny when will we see your like
0	is it just me or are most of the actors in this adaptation miscast age wise br br redgrave although a superior actress seems as if she should be joining her children instead of nodding off on the couch i would have loved to see brenda in the part her connection to the latest pride and prejudice notwithstanding br br blake and rory kinnear were the only two whom i felt lived up to their characters in spirit and performance every else looked confused or out of place br br luckily i'm not very familiar with dr who i've only seen a few episodes so far or it would have definitely soured this further br br too bad mansfield park has not yet seen its due on screen either large or small this novel requires the talent of a robert altman to balance all the complexities of the characters successfully
0	1999 adaptation of mansfield park is far superior to this ostensibly slightly more faithful film the 1999 film is reviled by many austen purists but i admire the job did in making mansfield park her own it may not be strictly jane austen's mansfield park but at least it was well written beautifully shot and well acted by a superior cast i don't see how austen purists can be any happier with this 2007 version from itv and rebroadcast on masterpiece theatre pbs the screenplay is shoddily pasted together and dumbed down to boot the production values are lackluster and the cast apart from redgrave and blake are largely guilty of bad acting i can't think of a worst miscast than billie piper as fanny price her look was all wrong bleached hair and dark brows and her talent simply wasn't suited to the material sir thomas looked constipated the whole time michelle ryan as mariah was on autopilot as were the actors who portrayed the crawfords when i think how superior alessandro nivola and embeth davidtz were in the '99 version i just kinda shake my head br br i haven't seen the 1983 version so i can't comment on it but i'd advise anyone who's curious to give the '99 version a chance read the novel before or after and make up your own mind
0	for a teenager who has never read austen this adaptation might be fine but only for them this is a disjointed cliff notes version of mansfield park and if you have not seen another version or read the books parts of it would be head scratching br br why has it been so hard to do a good adaptation of this book the one in the 1990s took such liberties that it barely seemed to be the same book the mindset was completely modern and prurient br br here we have billie piper who looks like a pretty country wench she has a charming personality that develops nicely but she has flagrantly died blonde hair with black eyebrows and through much of the pic dark brown roots so much for unspoiled cousin it is incredibly distracting and the rest of the cast is in the greasy hair rumpled clothing genre that shows a real disrespect for period accuracy br br one thing is good here haley is the best mary crawford of all the versions she is note perfect flirtatious without being at all modern or suggestive flippant and completely without any moral or ethical compass henry here is actually good looking enough to be a slight temptation for our heroine br br redgrave takes one of the most interesting roles in the story and manages to make her actually boring until her last scene much too sensible this is just a production that really missed the mark a real low for austen fans br br the only serviceable version is the one with odd duck perfect for the role la despite the very very gay henry crawford he's just laughable
0	i've read plenty of jane austen in my time and approve of several cinema tv adaptations but this one we just don't need br br rating is a 2 as i wouldn't say it's awful just so boring you will feel like you've wasted 90 minutes of your life dull script matched by even duller acting i've heard billie piper is ok in dr who not a fan so can't confirm but in this she just sucks there is absolutely no chemistry between the leads this is austen it's supposed to be a romance br br please don't let this put you off austen or historical dramas there are plenty of better programmes to view
0	why did they have to make such a dreadful adaptation the whole complete jane austin series as a part of masterpiece classics looks like a huge disappointment characters are totally miscast and there's no chemistry on the screen the whole thing feels rather rushed the 1999 movie release based on the same novel seems like a masterpiece compared to this i really want to forget it i'm really happy though that pride and prejudice won't be re made as part of this project and we will see the iconic and magnificent colin firth and jennifer elle as protagonists if you skipped this mansfield park production consider yourself lucky
0	this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that have done br br it looks like a commercial from beginning to end the the whole time on a tripod it doesn't have pace rhythm it's illogical what a mess you can tell what's gonna happen since the first 15 minutes and the ending wow br br spoiler br br jesus christ how the hell got shot are you serious worst scene of someone getting shot ever br br end of spoiler br br bad directing bad script bad acting really bad overall i wouldn't recommend this movie at all it's a waste of money and time
0	why bother itv admittedly mansfield park is the most difficult of the novels to get and fanny is certainly the hardest to like but if one is going to take it on then have the courage to risk being true to the book and its rather complicated spirit and for heaven's sake have the guts to cast fanny as she was written a prissy good hearted sweetish whiner mrs norris wasn't nearly as awful as she should have been and what the heck happened to the contrast between fanny's rather dubious family and family home and the splendors of mansfield is key to well so many aspects of fanny's refusal of henry her uncle's rejection henry's near transformation to a good person etc etc again given the complexity and challenges of the novel why did they bother it's beyond me
0	this was just telecast here in the u s others have commented on the faithfulness or lack of same to the novel the 1983 bbc version is far superior on this and all other counts given the scope of the novel it should not have been condensed to 85 minutes key sections have to be rushed or alluded to or omitted there barely enough time just to get in the chronology of events so character development has to be sacrificed we cannot get much of a sense of who the people are which robs us of what makes austen so great br br one major negative for me was the cinematography which i thought was just awful and quite literally sickening the camera is constantly doing ultra closeups and swirling around and around in circles maybe on a small tv box this is ok but on our 40 hi def screen it was so literally dizzying that both my wife and i had to look away from the set repeatedly my dramamine supply had run out of course this did distract from the rather lackluster i'm just reading what's in the script acting isolated scenes are nicely done but not enough to save things br br adding up the score so far in the complete j a sweepstakes i'd rate northanger abbey a success because of superior direction and production values and the story lends itself better to short treatment persuasion ok though not the equal of other versions with again being at fault both far ahead of this attempt i will hope for better in the two remaining novels in this tv reader's digest jane austen like others i am thankful they left p p alone
0	please if anybody gets the chance to read this before watching the movie if it can be called so refrain from it do not waste your time i too watched this film right after finishing the book and was seriously disappointed the main character is basically a new made up fanny for she shows no resemblance ever to the book she's so lively and laughing all the time if there was one thing the author wanted to set on this was that she was a very shy introverted character please all the most important parts of the story which are supposed to convey to the ending are simply not taken into account and the rest made up i think one is better off using the time to either read a little bit of the actual novel or simply do nothing
0	when we all know no one does it like the bbc br br being an avid fan of this sort of sunday night watching i was quite looking forward to this how disappointed was i in the first thirty seconds i didn't think it was looking promising and after two minutes i was finding it hard to watch br br however me and my friends persisted only to find bad acting and a complete misunderstanding of half of the characters the plot was hurried to the extreme and the make up and costumes gaudy and very 21st century in a robin style this modern style may have been able to be placed within sharp camera angles and visually sumptuous cinematography but unfortunately we got neither the direction felt decidedly sloppy for both acting and shot choice br br after 30 mins we couldn't bare to watch it and went out and rented 'the which is very good btw maybe it is unfair that i judge this as i have watched so little of this but rarely have i felt so compelled to warn people not to watch something however me and my friends did think that the house and were pretty but thats as good as it gets
0	i'm no jane austen purist but why make a film like this if you have nothing to say br br billie piper was so wrong for the part it is difficult to know where to begin wrong personality modern make up completely wrong hair there is no way a young lady of her age would have around in public with her hair loose and like that she didn't seem particularly meek nor put upon by the family and i didn't understand why everyone seemed to think of her as particularly saintly or kind br br the picnic substituted for the ball was so low budget it was embarrassing to watch and missing out the section completely destroyed the point of the piece as well as losing scenes which could have added a gritty counterpoint to that oh so claustrophobic pink sitting room br br to those responsible if you haven't the imagination even the budget doesn't matter so much as the imagination to do something meaningful with an adaptation please don't pretend to be producing jane austen br br it was about 10 mansfield park and 90 nothing much at all br br ps edmund was very good
0	oh dear the bbc is not about to be knocked off its pedestal for absorbing period dramas by this one i agree this novel of jane austens is the difficult to portray particularly to a modern audience the heroine is hardly a elizabeth bennet even edmund is not calculated to cause female hearts to skip a beat however i must say i was hoping for an improvement on the last and was sadly disappointed the basic story was preserved but the dialogue was so altered that all that was jane austen's tone manner feeling wit depth was diluted if not lost if some past adaptions may be seen as dated the weakness of this one must be that it is too modern 'his life is one long party' the cast was generally adequate but i think billie piper was the wrong choice it needed someone more restrained i gained no impression of hidden depths beneath a submissive exterior she was more like a frolicking child i see i must wait for the bbc to weave its magic once again
0	well this latest version of mansfield park seemed to try and take the edginess of the 1999 theatrical version outright copied some of the ideas from it in fact but tone things down a bit to bring it more in line with the original story unfortunately the result is a rather lackluster and schizophrenic production and as with all the other versions of mansfield park out there the character of fanny price is no where to be found instead there is a strangely child like bleached blond woman running around who never really fully develops as a character at least in the 1999 movie the character they call fanny price is firmly established as rebellious tomboy who is too clever for her own good this fanny price is a complete enigma someday i would really like to see a dramatization of mansfield park that actually includes a depiction of the character of fanny as she was written by jane austen a sweet kind compassionate girl with a timid personality and frail constitution she is reserved in manner and painfully honest but also strong in her convictions loyal extremely intelligent and remarkably astute a bit of a late it is not until her eighteenth year that she finally begins to make the transition from awkward adolescent to self possessed young woman and she wants nothing more in life than to be of some real use to those she loves most it's a wonderfully complex character that i look forward to one day seeing faithfully portrayed
0	i doubt whoever wrote this screenplay has ever actually read mansfield park or if they have it was not very well none of the characters are what they should be fanny is lively and conscious of her mistreatment while sir thomas who treated her very well seems to have accidentally fallen into aunt norris' personality additionally a first person narrative by fanny is highly inappropriate to both the story and her character fanny is not an entertaining heroine and i would contend that she is not meant to be additionally in the movie version fanny flirts shamelessly with edmund from the very beginning when they have been raised as brother and sister austen's fanny would have from flirtation of any sort and the novel paints the fanny edmund pairing as highly uncomfortable as it should be unlike some other jane austen novels p p emma mansfield park does not rest on the strength of its female protagonist it is a very different sort of novel than the others it is not meant to be a love story i watched this movie because i have just now finished reading mansfield park and i am absolutely horrified by what i see miss austen is rolling in her grave
0	i watched 40 minutes and couldn't bear it any longer – the television went off and i returned to some light reading lobotomy for beginners br br it was hard to say what aspect of this production was most displeasing dialogue made up entirely of sound bytes or the acting by numbers br br it was difficult to determine the period in which the drama was supposed to take place there were throw away references to lord nelson and slavery but edmund the cleric to be played by blake was the only actor who one could believe inhabited the early 19th century the other bright young things had make up and costumes more appropriate to a 21st century fancy dress party the bleached blonde fanny billie piper being the least credible character br br uk commercial television obviously believes heaving bosoms pouting lips and deep meaningful looks make a good story fortunately jane austen had other ideas br br if you want to find out the story of mansfield park buy the 1983 mini series dvd
0	this film with fine production values features secrets and how friends use each other henry may long is a very well acted dimly lit depressing turn of the century period piece about a friendship between a fatally ill man and a melancholy indebted junkie talky drawing room dramas are not my cup of tea and all the crying wears thin recommended if you like independent slyly intellectual slow paced merchant ivory type features br br i suspected that the main characters were in love but their connection was so intimated it didn't really have the emotional impact of mountain ' it features some good writing with a scene discussing how to disappear in life but it is truly a dark and depressing film
0	mom begins at night in the middle of nowhere at what looks like a wooden building in the desert a pick up truck pulls up an angry father chucks his slutty daughter virginia monroe claudia christian out leaves her there but she isn't alone as the shadowy figure of nestor brion james watches her from a short distance virginia tries to make conversation but as she grinds a cigarette out under her leopard print thigh high high heeled boots nestor grabs her by her throat drags her off into the darkness nestor then rips her top open turns into a monster starts to eat her innards virginia is the latest victim of a serial killer that have lieutenant carlo hendrix art evans the lapd baffled or at least that's the message a local tv news reporter named clay mark thomas miller is telling his viewers clay is happily living with his pregnant girlfriend alice mary beth mcdonough therefore his mother emily jeanne bates has a spare room going which she decides to rent out to the 'blind' dark sunglass wearing nestor unfortunately for emily she accidentally knocks sunglasses off which reveal he has strange coloured eyes nestor then turns into a monster again bites emily turning her into a flesh eating monster just like himself nestor takes emily out to train her they find a suitable homeless bum rory murder him eat his guts but emily's son clay has witnessed the whole thing he must choose between doing what is right his love for his mother who now just happens to be a grotesque bloodsucking flesh eating monster br br edited written directed by patrick rand i thought mom was a pretty awful film looking at some of the other comments on the imdb the genre listing it has been given it appears many seem to think that mom is a comedy horror well i can tell you now that i didn't see any comedic elements in mom at all because there aren't any unless they are very subtle the only thing that i can assume is that people see comedy in the actual situation which mom presents that being an old lady turning into a flesh eating monster the predictable problems emotional angst that it causes to her son who finds out there are no jokes apart from naming a prostitute beverly hills stella stevens slapstick humour or anything even remotely funny in the film itself as far as i could see it is played totally straight throughout it's 90 minute run time so with there being no comedy in mom that must mean there's lots of horror right wrong mom sucks is painfully slow to watch especially after the first thirty odd minutes which consist of nestor turning into a monster a couple of times biting emily showing her how to hunt for food clay finding out until this point mom was moving at a fairly decent pace had some ok special make up effects had me interested unfortunately mom runs for another hour which is basically the emotional crap suffered by emily's son the eventual breakdown of his marriage him being torn between love for his mother the fact that she's a flesh eating monster this part of the film is incredibly slow boring as dull as dishwater even having the nerve to resort to a clichéd role reversal scenario where clay tells his mom to go to her room stay there locking the door behind her telling her off putting bars over her window so she can't escape her room mom's script totally ignores the monsters origins ask's us to just accept that this thing exists without giving a single reason why we should no matter how silly an explanation might have been i think some background to the monster would have helped technically mom is bland cheap looking although i can't say it's badly made it's very average stuff all the way with nothing that particularly impresses or anything with which i could make fun of to pass the time the special make up on the monster are ok but their used in very quick flashes blink you'll miss them don't be fooled by any fancy video box artwork like i was the monster is only in it three times maximum all of those are within the pacey first thirty minutes there isn't much gore either a severed arm some brief intestine eating a burnt body a drill in someone's arm is all we get the acting is ok but please mr brion james what is that dodgy accent all about at least james had the good sense to know he was in crap sensibly opted to be killed off early on in the proceedings everyone else are nobodies expect the black lieutenant who was also a black police officer in fright night 1985 but you may recognise him from die hard 2 1990 he made mom die hard 2 in the same year talk about opposite ends of the spectrum overall there is nothing by which i can really recommend mom as a horror film it certainly isn't a comedy as far as i'm concerned very poor very disappointing yet again i've been conned by fancy video box artwork with lots of stills of cool looking monsters definitely one to avoid
0	the good news for imdb is that this movie was so very bad that it compelled me to register and make a comment i should add here that i'm a film buff who rarely passes harsh judgment but sometimes a movie is so poorly acted poorly conceived poorly edited with a such a poor story line that it begs criticism br br i'm surprised by all the claims of how superb brilliant dark and beautifully shot this movie was i can only conclude that the cast and crew are active posters here the acting was extremely thin the pace of the movie was agonizing i gave it new chances at every turn mostly because i didn't want to feel like i was wasting a saturday morning in ny but with every new scene it dragged longer delivering characters in which i took no interest with which i could not connect for whom i could not empathize br br when i see negative reviews on imdb of small independent films like this i sometimes wonder if the poster has a personal axe to grind something like he used to date the gaffer she dumped him and now he's going to trash everything she ever works on but here nope i know no one who worked on this film and i wish it would have been great but the film wasn't dark as some have mentioned or depressing as others have claimed those suggest that i connected with the film nope henry may long was just too long empty and tedious br br that's the tomas take on this one
0	on the plus side this does contain interesting information over a wide range of topics particularly concerned with himmler the ss and their research branch it also has some good piano music some interesting footage and some excellent camera work br br however it is a very poor piece of historical work it has no clear aim to it and the entire thing could be summed up as follows br br himmler set up a department in the ss for research into the origins of the german race they went all over the world they did some things and launched to all manner of places of these avenues were explored the results were not shown and the arguments were barely refuted they wanted to establish that the aryan race and the german people were one and the same thing through historical proof they didn't find any the members of this research group were leading professors members of the ss and therefore linked to the holocaust and were seen as ok after the war and went on to lead german institutes br br these facts in themselves are fascinating but they are never explored in depth and no coherent argument is presented in the program that either condemns these people or them nor does this seem to be the aim of the programme the aim of the program is unclear it hops from topic to topic the witnesses though presented as credible are few and unsupported br br sadly this programme does not know where it is going or why and fails to impress the topics are fascinating but this program tries to take on a huge area of research and consequently appears to not know what is going on i would avoid this br br also the 'holy the german bloodline nothing to do with the holy grail of christian mythology except in passing mentions of to look for the christian holy grail are made but never followed through the title is misleading and the content of this documentary unconvincing and incomplete
0	br br very dull laborious adaptation of amis's amusing satire the hero is portrayed not as a likeable loser but a merely oafish cretin most of the rest are pure caricatures with only helen putting in real quality and providing something of the novel's wit the period setting is camped up as if it were the 1920s not the post war period of horror comics and roll a real dud even by the standards of bad uk tv br br
0	in this silly symphony a mouse from the country visits his cousin in the city most of the short is the two mice exploring the dinner table the animation is fine where this short suffers is in a lack of humor perhaps i've just seen this dinner table adventure in one too many tom and jerry shorts even though this came first i just didn't find it that enjoyable
0	this movie was a total yawnfest that took forever to get going but never really did it was simply boring to watch so much in fact i could just never really get into it this movie is not a horror movie by an stretch of the imagination the cover of the videotape made it out to be one instead it is a thriller type movie with a few elements of horror thrown in as to make the movie more interesting of course it does not help this movie at all mostly all i remember is that this movie was kind of like a movie from the 1970's called the deep bunch of looking for treasure rival groups that sort of thing there are supernatural twists in it too but to tell you the truth i was so bored when watching this movie that i kind of zoned out so i can not really tell you what the supernatural elements were i kind of remember footprints on the bottom of the sea so maybe it was some sort of walking dead or that may be me thinking of lucio zombie movie instead as that one was a horror movie that was set in a tropical island and as outlandish as that one was it was a lot more entertaining than this movie that day we learned a valuable lesson never rent a movie based on its cover art
0	minor plot spoilers br br i must confess to having a soft spot for wayne crawford i know little about him but he appears to have masses of enthusiasm to compensate for his lack of talent in his films he usually performs multi tasks perm any 3 from lead male director producer and script writer tackling story lines from the sub basement despite this the end product is usually enjoyable fun for the non discerning br br 'the evil features crawford as a down on his luck captain of a ramshackle charter boat a bit like bogart in 'to have have not' the similarities between the films ends here though br br the story begins with an underwater scene with two divers searching a wreck before being attacked by an unseen creature bit like the start of 2' the wreck turns out to be that of the 'el diablo' which went down centuries earlier the ship was manned by heretic priests on the run from spain with a cargo of stolen church treasure this allows the introduction of various links to supernatural forces with lucifer and the armageddon both getting a look in the films title refers to this sunken devil ship rather than any malevolent sea creature br br whatever faults the film has and there are many it is fun to watch and competently made you can't help but like a film which in the final 5 minutes copies the famous beach scene in 'from here to and the final line from 'casablanca'
0	max cash a charter boat captain who works off the caribbean island san sebastian is hired by sarah who's looking for legendary boat el diablo and its stolen treasure that sunk out in the reef in the 17th century but something seems to be protecting the whereabouts of the ship as people who knew anything about it are being killed br br i have to agree with those that were under the impression that this was going to be a horror feature instead what we ended up with was a low rent b grade late 80s take on 1977 deep sea adventure film 'the deep' but with a baffling supernatural origin and an injection of mystery the story is a tame muddle so many inconsistent angles don't make a lick of sense and encourages a pace and the technical side is clunky nice exotic location and under water photography though while the carefree performances weren't too bad either a gruff wayne crawford is enjoyably witty and june chadwick is fair along side him sheri able is pretty much eye candy there are some bizarre developments that amuse and one or two eerie sequences however there's a real lack of cohesion most of the cutaway deaths happen off screen except for the bloody fitful opening kills done by something unseen again just another thing that leaves you high and dry the music is generic with its thumping cues to warn us of approaching danger and the pov shots get a good working out tatty but watchable
0	the evil below starts on 'the straits of san sebastian as the 17th century treasure ship the el diablo sinks in a violent thunderstorm jump to 'the straits of san sebastian present day' where two divers are exploring the beautiful underwater coral that are rich in wildlife the come across the sunken wreck of the el diablo explore it but are attacked killed by something that looks like a vicious eel captain max cash wayne crawford owns runs a boat for hire named the which caters for tourists who want to fish dive generally explore the islands sarah livingstone june chadwick is an art teacher who dives for treasure as a hobby well we all have to do something to pass the time right she hires max his scantily clad assistant tracy sheri able so she can try to locate the el diablo get rich talk of sunken treasure excites some of the more unscrupulous members of the local community as they dodge the criminals thugs it is brought to max sarah's attention that the el diablo has a sinister past a past that supposedly still leaves it's supernatural legacy behind even now br br directed by jean claude dubois according to the imdb with a little help from star crawford although the version i saw only listed dubois i thought the evil below had some potential is a bit different but unfortunately that's not enough to save it from sinking to the bottom of the sea like a stone the script by arthur payne starts off ok with the two divers being killed by some sort of sea creature but this opening is never referred to again the creature is never seen again there are no more supernatural killings the evil below then suffers from a serious terminal case of identity crisis it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be as it chucks bits pieces of various genres in there from underwater adventure horror action thriller crime it even has time to throw in a little murder mystery religious nonsense as well as a result the evil below feels very bitty fragmented since the best scene in the entire film is the opening sequence i found myself sat there becoming more more frustrated at the lack of any consistent horror as it went downhill rapidly the fact we never see the sea creature thing again the evil below is dull slow uneventful predictable silly lacks any sort of charm or intelligence in short the evil below doesn't do anything right that a good film should br br director dubois fails to liven things up although he obviously shot plenty of underwater wildlife material as at times i thought i was watching a national geographic documentary with all the shots of fish coral the wildlife in general forget about any gore some blood stained water blood coughing is about as gory as it gets i'm afraid br br technically the evil below is very basic it's bland totally forgettable apart from nice underwater photography of fish this is point shoot stuff as a whole the production values are very low even the place where this was shot doesn't look very sunny or appealing the acting is poor but then again did you expect anything else br br the evil below is a poor film it's basic story is all over the place it can't decide what it wants to be as a result it ends up being a mess add that to the low production values the fact there's no gore here absolutely minimal horror content you have a film that is probably best avoided unless your absolutely desperate even then surely there are better ways to spend 90 plus minutes of your life
0	the vhs cover for the evil below makes it look like a cool underwater horror flick sadly it's closer to a boring adventure flick and has no real horror elements it starts off with some divers who get attacked and we see a bit of blood but that's the only blood in the entire film br br the evil below isn't the worst around but for a horror film it is tediously boring the acting is decent and to be honest the only thing that keeps you watching is the developing romance between the two leads there's a few nightmare sequences where it just seems like the director didn't know what to do i manged to sit through it all just about but i wouldn't recommend this film to anyone horror fans might want a copy for the cool vhs cover but it's best left at that
0	uncle fred olen ray once again gives us a little of his retromedia goodness in the form of this soft core cinemax non classic br br a numb nut pair are out looking at rocks when they come across a swirling vortex a black hole as the intelligent dolts put it pretty soon an attractive cave girl from one million years ago happens into out time line and she beds her way into the future pretty soon her studly other half makes his way into the future as well and blazes a path through the beds of the future br br ray again delivers a passable but barely smut fest that has horrible acting but some decent skin yeah it's barely titillating but heh if worse comes to worse it will cure you insomnia br br reviews 1 5 or 3 10
0	lame b horror that takes itself too damn seriously considering its subject matter concerns an aging old dear who has been turned into a creature of the night by a lodger who has come to rent a room from her when said lodger is killed off mom has to go out to feed on her own and that causes some family strain and also garners some attention from the authorities br br my main complaint is that this film should have brought the funny it failed to do so although it did have some mild gore and schlocky creature makeup effects to keep the b movie crowd happy i've seen worse but i wouldn't give this one a rec 4 5 10
0	i rented this movie after hearing chris gore saying something to the effect of five stars on that attack of the show show well when i turned around the dvd and it showed the 3 stages of hell well i had to buy it just to see the spectacle of a mother yelling at her son to drop her other son into a flaming pit br br i wasn't expecting ecw or for an hour and eighteen minutes but i was expecting at least a summarized version of what seemed to be the main highlight of this movie well sadly there wasn't anything like that the 3 stages of death part happens right from the beginning and its pretty much downhill from there nothing really happens in this documentary it was pretty raw bare and unbiased not a bad thing but there is a narrator in this one you'd expect him to have opinions on the subject of this documentary but he doesn't which would of been nice to have a message or reason for this doc there was no real reason to have a narrator there should of been just text explaining some of the less obvious scenes br br it doesn't really explain the lives of these wrestlers either it shows a few moments of some dramatic scenes which sound interesting but the reality isn't as great as it sounds for instance mom watching her son wrestle with light bulbs and tacks for the first time at a public park instead of seeing her reaction to the wrestling they show her reacting to the camera instead of say a interview later on or just actually witnessing her reactions br br document wise this one ain't the source material was flimsy to begin with nothing truly profound or interesting really happens no conclusion to a few of the more interesting stories no real point or final thought to backyard wrestling edited together badly and its and its basically a cheap failed rip off of beyond the mat br br wrestling wise this is pretty boring the better bumps are at the beginning and slowly become less amazing and shocking if you have seen japanese wrestling indie wrestling or even backyard wrestling dvds than this wont shock and awe you if you want wrestling don't make the same mistake i did and see this one go get some ecw or dvds instead br br the only thing i got out of this documentary was how stupid people can be not for supporting self mutilation or doing dangerous stunts but their reasoning for committing these acts the seem stupid for wrestling most of them are jobless and probably have a few issues in their head and wrestling is a type of therapy for them than the supporters seem even more idiotic mothers basically take the whole if ya cant beat em join em reasoning to cope with the fact that their sons are basically killing themselves school authority figures support their students in their dangerous stunts because its an alternative to joining gangs and to a lesser extend doing drugs which is kinda funny since that segment took place in a rural town where like people live 20 miles from one another people are stupid thats what i extracted from this documentary br br if you want to see the reasoning and thoughts to someone brutalizing themselves in wrestling and basically what the back of this dvd promises get the life of nick mondo its more amazing and interesting than the backyard and a lot more entertaining oh and its actually good
0	does anyone care about any of the characters in this film or for that matter what happens to them i doubt it that is the key problem for a tragedy to work we have to care about at least one of the characters and none of them inspire any sympathy or appear to have any redeeming qualities at all br br what may have worked in the 16th century certainly does not work in one can only assume 'post apocalyptic if that was indeed what it was meant to be the problem is the characters in post apocalyptic liverpool whilst still driving around in cars using mobile phones and watching television have reverted to speaking in shakespearian language with a liverpudlian dialect oh dear bad enough you might think but this often lapsed into pure scouse with comments such as lah are you a cockney and was that a announcement during one of the scenes filmed in the underground well the good news is that in post apocalyptic liverpool the trains are still running br br the characters without exception are badly drawn wooden and more like on the lines of the joker penguin in batman and robin except there is no real storyline to speak of or if there is it is one that doesn't work in a modern setting where half the sets are gloomy and 'blade and the other half are fluorescent garish or just 21st century normal costumes are also mixed up with half wearing their everyday clothes parkers are big in post apocalyptic liverpool apparently and the other half wearing costumes from the leftovers of a fancy dress party br br the film explores the ideas of lust incest and revenge in the most inane fashion imaginable the tragedy is that this film was made at all br br
0	i really wanted this to be good as i am from liverpool where it is set but it truly awful the acting from everyone involved is cringeworthy the script is terrible absolutly terrible terrible
0	nice attempt to bring shakespearian language alive in a post apocalyptic setting but the final result is dreadful futuristic liverpool is not convincing at all the budget was obviously not very big but the production designer could have come up with a slightly more creative approach to the matter alex cox has made some good films e g repo man and highway patrol man but i really don't know what he was thinking here just an opinion
0	it is difficult to compete against classic greatness but once you make that choice and the decision is in play you need find the best and brightest resources to keep your product top drawer and on the cutting edge of quality if your intention is to aim for second or third or fourth best why even try it is with that i wonder why this version of the ten commandments was written produced and aired i would ask the producers what were you thinking were you endeavoring to create a projected deficit if perhaps the producers were thinking we want to examine this biblical story from another point of view then i would say ok i watched the show now what's the point of view the premise of this possible point of view theory eludes me i can generally watch programs and right or wrong at least get a sense of what the creators were trying to accomplish not so here i recognize names such as robert the producer and i can associate his work with some eye catching product tin man flash gordon jason and the argonauts low budget entertainment based on myth history and comic book entertainment a perfect genre for sci fi channel so i still have to ask robert what was the point of this ten commandments what were you thinking
0	from the english accents to the so unnecessary violence after violence showing moses as a murderer people who actually believe in the old testament will just sit there and shake their heads i am not a religious person at all but even i felt as though the writers of this movie were trying to turn us all against god and the jews when moses picked up that rock and threw the first stone at the woman to kill her for committing adultery i wanted to stone the writers i can't believe in this day and age that hallmark and abc disney would attempt to show such garbage as this don't we have enough problems in this world already
0	for a really wonderful movie you could also try seeing the movie about saint francis of good for any audience best thing i liked about this movie was the mexico landscape it gets the movie up to a 2 i was surprised that these actors didn't have terrible sunburn they were so were not desert dwellers and moses is said to have a speaking impediment but certainly not here even the miracle scenes were contrived un believable and what's the point if you can belief anything in a tv story talk about dumbing down i thought this hallmark made movie was pathetic i can see why others hate hollywood i don't just some of these corporate profit you don't have to be any kind of religious to benefit from jesus of nazareth but for this waste of celluloid you need to be bored with nothing to do dumbed down religious and for a real movie experience try short cut to nirvana a very highly rated film
0	this movie could have had a lot of potential certainly with today's technology one would expect real special effects but movies are not made with special effects alone of course acting is needed this film lacked both br br first let me say to those who are upset with this not following the bible why can't a movie take artistic license if you want to know about the story of moses read the bible i have seen very few movies that follow a true story fact by fact look at of movie from its artistic br br in viewing this movie you will inevitably compare it to the 1956 version it fails miserably in that heston and had presence they became their roles you don't see this here br br even if you don't compare standing on it's own this movie to too rushed parts where a scene should be developed it does not it becomes boring br br my advice skip this and watch the other as campy as the other is it's far and away the better movie
0	this movie was a waste of 3 hours of my precious time in the first 10 minutes i was already annoyed as i am familiar with the real version on the story according to the torah 5 books of moses but i decided to watch it to get my moneys worth and too see how bad it sucked well it sucked way more then i thought it would first and for most lets start with the script and characters the skeleton that makes up the body of a movie if you study torah at all you'll see that the story is all wrong here are some of the mistakes moses doesn't do slave work because he was in the tribe of levi moses doesn't kill anybody at mount but yet the movie depicts moses being whipped and aaron and himself killing people not when moses speaks to the burning bush he knows who hes speaking too but the movie makes moses look like an idiot he states that he doesn't know who the g d in the bush is whatever aaron his brother well regardless of their distance growing up aaron was known for his calm composed peaceful nature but yet he is depicted as angry and arrogant in this movie moses looks like jesus in this movie how ridiculous pharoah the real one was actually and ugly dwarf who sat upon a pyramid of stairs so he could appear bigger then he was and moses was more then 10 feet and in the movie pharoah is taller then him and hes hot with light eyes the woman of am israel nation of israel covered themselves meaning their hair and bodies and they didn't dance or sing in front of men they did not participate in the golden calf so they would definitely not dance with a man in public as the movie depicts wife was married to moses and she therefore covered herself and being as humble as they were did not cuddle or hold hands in public daughter the one who adopts him and saves him from the water actual converted to judaism and therefore would have been proud of moses when he said he was going to go free his people fast fwd to mount moses comes down the 2nd time with two sets of with gibberish writing on it at least put the writing in the holy tongue hebrew or english and put it on one tablet not two sets bottom line is the movie is horribly written directed and the characters are all wrong basically everything is wrong about the movie the old one is inaccurate as well but its more realistic and they actors are believable am israel chai
0	the reason why this movie sucks have these people even read a bible everything in the movie was about moses god was staying out of it that didn't happen god directed everything he told them where to go and what to do also the people wandered for 40 years after they arrived at and betrayed god again they didn't wander for 40 years then suddenly find it it was a punishment for their doubts maybe if the people who made the film actually picked up a bible first they would say oh no we got it all wrong try again everything in this movie was about moses they made god look like a jerk who was messing with moses the whole time no no no no no god was their the whole time and he wanted the people to see he was taking care of them how dare they say otherwise not even close to the passage and moses was kept out because he was angry at the people and blatantly disobeyed god he sinned badly and was told he would not be allowed to enter for it when did moses run off and yell at god for everything in the bible never actually read your story before you make up whatever you think is a good idea also this whole god stayed out of it for the most part and made them do it themselves is not true god did everything for the people he provided for them in every way and god told them where to go he was there the whole time the whole we have to do it ourselves is true in some ways but back then thats not how it worked yes today he doesn't work directly for everyone to see but back then he actually killed people after the golden calf thing god worked directly with the people read the bible next time echo bridge or don't make another bible movie
0	this is probably the most uninvolving film i've ever seen i watched it because i have a soft spot for leon everything else has done has been just awful in my opinion with the exception of the script for wasabi and jean reno it's a testament to just how bad this film is that reno one of the most charismatic and effortlessly affable actors admittedly he's just starting out here can't make this film or the moments in which he is on screen watchable br br it's all very film black and white no dialogue people doing things for no apparent reason people chasing each other while in turn being chased by a shaky camera and predictably none of it is entertaining br br it's not a french mad max as some people have claimed actually i think they mean mad max 2 that is a superficial comparison based only on the fact that both films have a post apocalyptic setting and is just the kind of comment you'd expect from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about mad max 2 was pulsating mad max 2 was exciting mad max 2 was worth your time le dernier combat is none of these br br i know it's supposed to be cool to like arty black and white french films and equally cool to say you saw something in them that other people did not or you managed to sit through it without feeling drowsy which is why i wouldn't trust anyone who claims to like le dernier combat because i see nothing of worth in it whatsoever it asks for so much and gives nothing back i found myself drifting from it after about five minutes and it never did anything to regain my full attention anyone who can sit through it isn't human or at the very most is psychotic actually they're probably just trying to seem cool
0	widow hires a psychopath as a handyman sloppy film noir thriller which doesn't make much of its tension promising set up 3 10
0	if you're a fan of the original ten commandments this movie will make you weep inside granted i'm only about 1 2 hour into it currently but it's so painful i felt it was my duty to warn away real ten commandments fans before they are subjected to this bastardization i didn't think it was possible to actually make the special effects worse than they were in 1950s when the original was shot but this 2006 remake proves me wrong i can forgive some lame special effects but the craptastic dialogue melodramatic lifetime movie style schlockiness and the stilted we are wax figures come to life acting makes me hope they'll rewrite the plot and drown moses in the red sea
0	i really wish hollywood would come up with some new ideas and quick instead they go around and recreate and mess up a perfectly good movie with a re make this movie is awful from the demille version all the way through this movie i was saying to myself huh what i don't remember that part the only exciting thing in this movie so far was the parting of the red sea and in heston's version it was a heck of a lot better than this version did anyone else see an atomic or nuclear bomb cloud fade in and out when the red sea was being parted i think i did anyway i might might watch the last part tonight br br i wish hollywood would tackle different ideas and subject matters when they are making new movies instead of re hashing old films br br they should of left well enough alone br br update br br well i watched the last part did moses make up the second copy of the ten commandments with his own hand or was i seeing things please someone email me and let me know horrible
0	i realise it's very hard to live up to the first the 10 commandments movie which was grandiose and personally not a charleton heston fan but wow this movie mini series was disappointing even the animated the prince of egypt was better br br the one thing that threw me off was compared to yul version paul version just seemed so weak and un like the acting really wasn't that great for a modern adaptation i was expecting something better it just didn't look as stunning visually as the first one i guess they were running on a tight budget or something there's an occasional voice over narrator which i found strange and unnecessary it also broke up the flow of the story and um god's voice lines were kinda weird
0	this movie was dreadful biblically very inaccurate moses was 80 years old when he led the people out of egypt the movie has him about forty moses was about forty when he fled egypt was gone for forty years and was with them wandering for forty years moses was 120 years old when he died and was denied the privilege of crossing over to the promised land i realize movies use a lot of poetic license as the biblical account isn't that long but if making a biblical movie they still need to reflect the facts known and keep the general flavor of the main biblical character this movie fails in this aspect and in many others even though the 1956 version has its problems as well theatrically it was much better
0	i as a christian am outraged after seeing just the first half of this picture the film's website says they researched the movie before writing but i believe they forgot to consult the ultimate source the bible i sat with two different versions of the bible and could not find half of what happened or was said in this picture it was like they made up what was not in the bible and changed what was in the bible to what they thought modern film viewers would want to see instead of the truth i personally am too young to remember the 1950's ten commandments but it can't be any worse than this i have written to the network and can only hope they publicly apologize for this travesty
0	i appreciate the effort that the filmmakers wanted to depict the story of moses and the exodus of israel and that the film helps viewers to put themselves into moses' shoes and gain understanding of the intense burden laid upon moses' shoulders as excited as i was to see this film i was greatly disappointed in the storyline i'll leave out the special effects and artistic ability in this review what is most disappointing is the historical inaccuracy of this movie and how it is so far from the historical accounts from biblical texts one of the overarching principles from the bible is that god led his people out of egypt and he promised that he would take them to a land that is flowing with milk and honey not only did he give this promise but he led his people in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night he never left them he always was visible to the israelites the movie however depicts a god who remains silent during the entire wandering through the desert this movie changed the essence and theme of the biblical text and instead depicts god as a silent cruel void br br in addition the depiction of moses was just as wrong moses was known as a man of faith why else would he be such a father figure to israel throughout the old and new testaments even that moses is known as a man of great faith however the movie depicts him as a pragmatic angry insecure loner who despises the calling that god placed on his life ok i'll allow some creative freedom for the filmmakers in the exodus story but this is beyond creativity it is heresy
0	with a name like 10 commandments you would expect a film to be representative of the account in the bible specifically exodus not so here this is standard procedure with any biblical hallmark made film remember noah that was utter fiction and one of the worst films ever made at least this film had some truth to the original story however who was a major character in this movie half brother of moses is not in the original story other characters were absent not to mention important events were completely eliminated so what you may ask because this should be representative of the actual story otherwise some might and do believe that is the way it actually happened in today's age people get their religion from movies instead of church and reading the bible also it is a great error see revelation 22 18 19 the script is already written why change it other than the account in exodus itself which should be the main focus you have the cecil b demille film to compare it to which is clearly a far better presentation br br the night it first aired my wife was anxious to see it i told her not to get her hopes up because it was a hallmark film she looked puzzled and said why hallmark makes good movies that might be so but they butcher the bible i'm sorry to say that i was correct not just the story but the acting as well with today's technology you should be able to make a wonderful biblical movie i'm still waiting
0	if you are a christian or a jew hoping to see an accurate biblical or torah portrayal of the events in exodus you will be disappointed by this movie in typical hollywood fashion people who are not even in the bible have been created for supporting characters and play a large role in the movie jethro's role is changed completely and he becomes nothing but an untrusting father in law instead of a shepherd priest who gave moses excellent advise god is largely removed from the movie and instead viewers are given the impression that moses had to figure things out for himself nothing could be further from the truth br br this movie is a typical humanistic twist on biblical things and attempts to put most of the responsibility on moses for trying to understand what god wants and what he should do those who know the book of exodus well will see not only inconsistencies in the movie but outright glaring changes to events most importantly they will see a near total absence of god's dialog with moses which determines everything moses does after the burning bush far from being alone as portrayed in the movie moses is guided by god with detailed and direct communication br br even hallmark apparently can't acknowledge god's direct role and without his spoken words to moses many events make no sense to compensate hallmark has actually changed some things for instance after the golden calf god plagues the people and they must look upon a symbol of a serpent to live hallmark creates a civil war instead and the israelites pick sides then slaughter each other moses side wins of course br br there may be minimal value in this movie to unbelievers since it may cause them to seek answers but believers should stay away the twisted events and changes make this a danger to anyone who doesn't know their bible read exodus for yourself there is no substitute
0	this movie deviated from the bible and fell so below the bar of the 1956 movie i hate that they replaced the 2006 movie over the traditionally seen 10 commandments moses looked like a criminal in this movie not like the kind looking man heston in the 1956 movie i will not waste my time again watching this movie they tried so hard to modernize this movie in order to keep you on the edge that it was more like a soap opera and not a good one at that i'm pretty sure that younger ones out there who never paid attention to the original 10 commandments may disagree with me but to each his own also it took them 10 years to make the first 10 commandments it probably took them 2 months to make this one the special effects were not as amazing as the first one and after all these years with so much technology you would have thought they would have done better now
0	i had high hopes for this movie i even gave up a night of watching stargate for this movie i found it had a rushed feel about it and a lot of the key biblical moments and facts were missing i might be a bit jaded and spoiled for the 1956 version as i have watched that one every year for the last 20 or so years i doubt this one will make it to the realm of yearly classic as the other one has if you have not seen the version you might like this one but i seriously doubt it and urge you to skip this one and go rent or buy the classic one this has some nifty special effects but that is not what i look for when telling a movie like the ten commandments i was kind of looking to see how they told the story and the writers did not do a good job with this one
0	every great romantic comedy needs conflict between the romantic leads to lend suspense anticipation and allure to the plot this story falls completely flat in this area there is no conflict at least none that would inhibit the eventual joining of the two lead characters and so suspense is flat there is no anticipation and there really is no allure at all br br the chemistry between richard gere and diane lane is representative of friendship at best and with the talent of these two particular actors i was quite surprised during the movie i expected them more to play a game of and chat about the weather than see any moving passion br br while i'm a fan of both actors i do believe that the casting in this movie was off or perhaps the direction was off base and it impacted their deliveries the writing was very weak which also might have impacted the performances most certainly the script could have used some help from some harlequin writers who have real experience putting the heat in romance br br this movie may be worth watching on a rainy sunday afternoon but only after it's on the cheap shelf br br sorry diane ladd and richard gere
0	i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b demille's classic epic of 1956 starring charleton heston yul and sir cedric hardwicke of course i was let down yes they had all the biblical characters correct but they didn't give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes that held your interest throughout the first movie if you going to have a mini series you have to have some scenes the burning bush parting the red sea drowning armies building pyramids could have been done with todays' technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as lord of the rings or the matrix obviously they didn't want to leave a lasting impression of faith and sacrifice which is much needed in these trouble times
0	the only reason i am giving a second star is for the first half of the movie this was a good rendition of the story i enjoy seeing a few fictional characters added to add some color to a well known story but the second half was horrible yes there were violent aspects of this story but the writers of this movie chose to only include the violence and forget about the good things god did for the israelites towards the end of the movie scott looked as though he were getting messages from the big giant head instead of talking and hearing from god this rendition had some huge problems with deviation from scripture and big surprise there are no favorable deviations their portrayal of moses as this screaming naked lunatic who did all of this against his will is totally false it showed a moses who had to scream in order to get god to talk to him wrong the scripture says god spoke to moses all the time and not just after a temper tantrum they got the people's complaining right but failed to show that god spoke to moses at in an audible voice that the followers could hear and believe chapter 19 they also forgot the pillar of fire and cloud which guided them in the day and night br br what was the whole joshua thing the righteous peace loving jew who would not fight until moses threatens him wrong he was known as a great warrior what about the great speech that moses gave the army telling them god had helped them enough and now they were on their own wrong they only won through god's help as shown in their own scenes with moses lifting his staff and what was that sorry looking ark of the covenant instead of it with gold this movie was on a tight budget and attached little gold chips to it oh yeah it was a molten calf not a straw one with little chips tacked on someone forgot that they came out of egypt with a huge amount of gold tribute from the egyptians you wouldn't know it from this sorry looking bunch br br by the way the part about them slaying the israelites after the golden calf incident says men and does not mention women and children which the movie delighted in showing the viewers oh yeah manna wasn't the only thing sent from heaven don't forget the birds for meat also the bible mentions jethro bringing moses his wife and children and then says jethro went back to his own land it does not say that moses gave up his family br br oh well if you know nothing about the real story read exodus for yourself if you know the real story you will hate this version
0	i nearly fell asleep during a screening of this of a boring story that seems to go on forever it follows several days in the life of a male prostitute who falls in love with one of his tricks after a heated affair the trick leaves a long letter explaining why they cannot be together and how they must go on their separate ways br br the male prostitute then goes on a downward self destructive spiral trying to find his one true love repeatedly returning to the same places they frequented looking for more clues or signs as to where he may locate his love br br in the meanwhile he hooks up with one ugly guy who i thought was also a male prostitute a gay basher and some guy who ends up having a three second sexual intercourse session with him in a back alley br br it never ceases to amaze me how films still portray random sex acts as scenes that can take place in a brief matter of seconds such as in this case where the trick barely has his pants before thrusting three times and miraculously experiencing orgasm br br all of these random encounters end with the sexual partner asking him to call them to which he discards their telephone numbers br br there is a brief side plot involving the main character visiting his busy mother who seems to have no time for his lifestyle there is also another brief side plot involving some random conversation with a young woman who has noticed him several times standing on the bridge from her window and there is also one more brief side plot involving him showing the letter to a male acquaintance but the audience is not advised of his relation to this person br br none of these things really connect with each other only to show us how lost and confused this young man really is he seems to be living life like a ghost there was one good scene in the entire movie that involved him rummaging through a yard sale looking for a particular record with the world's saddest song on it br br otherwise this movie just seems to go on forever filmed in black and white it may seem very dreamlike but sitting in the theater for nearly two hours watching this drivel will resemble something more like a nightmare br br i found the ending to be confusing as i wasn't quite sure whether the young man had died and gone to heaven that would have been a nice pay off to end the misery that both audience and the main character had to endure in this meaningless tripe but seeing as this is an independent film movies with endings like these are supposed to encourage you to use your imagination br br for those of you who are seeking out nudity there are only brief scenes and most of them are filmed in such a way that anything suggestive are artfully concealed within the shadows in other words don't waste your time with this one br br my rating 2 out of 10
0	a very very very slow moving aimless movie about a distressed drifting young man not sure who was more lost the flat characters or the audience nearly half of whom walked out br br attempting artiness with black white and clever camera angles the movie disappointed became even more ridiculous as the acting was poor and the plot and lines almost non existent very little music or anything to speak of the best scene in the movie was when is trying to find a song that keeps running through his head he goes to a used record store to buy it for his lover and has to sing the song for two sales clerks before they find the album cute scene gave promise but it went downhill from there the rest of the movie lacks art charm meaning if it's about emptiness it works i guess because it's empty wasted two hours
0	a terrible deception controversial film winner of the teddy in berlin 2003 mil nubes de paz turned out to be a fiasco the actors are all reciting well they are not exactly actors the film tried to be a high bet but ends up being a doubtful bet it stays in the superficiality of two guys kissing and a guy whose lover is gone it has no purpose nothing to do with the homo sexuality presented in other films e g before night falls 2000 by julian technically the only thing that works is the photography otherwise the camera is put in strange angles to make it more art film' and the whole film runs in a black and white atmosphere the film is so pretentious that bothers i mean it's good to be pretentious when you have talent to support it or maybe it is that it's so art cinema that it's incomprehensible the story flows slowly slowly slowly to me more form than essence superb edition it was good superb direction don't think so the film is weak it was an interesting project it's a shame it's a flaw one star out of four
0	it's astonishing that some people saw this as art we saw it as a poorly filmed shaky hand held camera and all generally badly acted unscripted mess that seemed more like a high school film project with the kids experimenting in black white film making injecting mounds of poetry in place of a story does not an art film make when we watched this in the theatre people were starting to have fits of the giggles us included at the endless stupidity of this self indulgent meandering mess and believe me it does seem endless had we finished our candy and popcorn we too would have walked out of the theatre with the other two dozen people who packed up and left looking for something more interesting to do
0	but even caricatures need a plausible plot line i suppose in 1934 some part of that audience long ago would enjoy this tepid farce it doesn't age well it does give nat pendelton and zasu pitts experienced and expert support players a shot at leading roles pendelton who is featured prominently in the thin man series tries his best but is over matched by witless plot with the backdrop being a stage play with gangsters its not exactly original material movie's saving grace is the always excellent edward everett horton in a wasted performance but don't waste your time watching everett in this film i would encourage anyone to watch him in his effort in holiday with cary grant and katherine hepburn same era 1936 but much better script and storyline better gags and needless to say star power as well
0	surely one of the lamest shows ever to be produced on these shores and thats saying something even many of the lead actors didn't stick around for the duration the fact that it ran for eight years is a sad indictment on the average intelligence and cultural nous of the aussie viewer it went round and round in circles with repetitive gags and poorly drawn characters arthur macarthur for god's sake did they actually pay the writers of this show i wonder if anyone checked their qualifications there were tired gags about rural people and second rate farce situations that were poor imitations of a thousand english and us sitcoms that had gone before i think that's what i hate about it so much that it appears no one involved wanted to make it memorable original or clever instead opting for the lowest common denominator each time
0	while the david lynch version of dune is choppy awkward and unfaithful to the novel it is visually well designed and well acted the best one can say about the sci fi channel's attempt to make dune into a miniseries is that it's ambitious actually that is virtually the only positive praise one can offer the actors with few exceptions seem happy to recite their lines with the least emotion possible and the least appropriate accents the costumes seem to have been designed by someone with a a large surplus of fabric on hand and an unhealthy love of unflattering br br in part this miniseries suffers from living in the shadow of lynch's already well known effort however it takes elements from lynch's film which were not present in the novel and copies them nearly wholesale i e the guild navigation sequence and this only encourages encourages negative comparison to lynch's film a for effort d for virtually everything else
0	if you have never read the classic science fiction novel this mini series is based on it may actually be good unfortunately if you are a fan of the book you probably won't be able to watch more than the first hour or two all of the political intrigue has been taken out of the film the most important scenes from the book have been taken out characters motivations have been changed completely and words from the wrong characters mouths where in the novel paul was a teen age boy with incredible political skill and a great understanding of the way the world worked in this film he is hot headed and and frustrated avoid this movie at all costs
0	this movie is the final straw as two dedicated fans of the romantic comedy this movie has finally made us realise that nothing good has come out of this genre since love actually there was nothing good about the film whatsoever it was an affront to love death and everything in between including horses and beaches there was absolutely no chemistry between the characters this movie took the spark out of nicholas sparks diane lane cannot act to save her life she was unconvincing in her laugh cry and dance and she needs a better haircut there is no reason to watch this movie save yourself the romantic comedy is officially dead
0	this is a total piece of crap it is an insult to the awesome book by frank herbert they have mangled the story and characters the acting is average to bad the only character done right and played well is duke leto played by william hurt unfortunately he dies pretty early in the story and then its all downhill from there not that its a very tall hill to begin with br br the 1984 movie was directed by the legendary david lynch i was not overly impressed with the movie but considering the technological limitations of the time they tried their best amazingly the crappy mini series makes it look so much better by comparison it was at least somewhat true to the book which i really love br br they had the chance to do it right this time sadly it was not taken
0	the dune miniseries opens with a flashforward montage of action sequences the realisation quickly dawns that these are the best scenes out of the minute running time and they're not good not good at all oh dear br br but let us not judge a book by its cover even though that's exactly what we're being invited to do let's give dune a chance to redeem itself br br well here's the expected watery opening on but who's this petulant strangely ugly man paul atreides this is paul atreides this generic plastic puppet and why does he look so old what's that the actor's only 25 well he doesn't look it and that's way too old anyway br br but at least he has charisma right wrong alec newman is a stumbling mumbling buffoon i'm picturing him being discovered sitting in the dark in a remedial acting class because nobody liked him enough to tell him the class was over and he's just too dumb to realise it when your paul atreides has all the screen prescence of soggy toast and an acting range from petulant to blank your production of dune is doomed from the start br br the other actors take pity on poor alec though and give uniformly insipid and incomprehensible performances so that he doesn't look too bad by comparison at least i assume that is what they are doing because i'm charitable you see br br to be fair they are clearly being given no direction at all random gestures blank or inconsistent deliveries missing their marks it's all here this is like a master class in how not to do it br br and sure there are more elements of the book in this miniseries than there are in the 1984 movie but there aren't twice as many because of all the pauses to fill time br br but we can forgive all this because of the small budget of 20 million or only 5 million per hour nobody could be expected make quality science fiction on that sort of budget br br except perhaps stargate sg 1 which makes do with 1 4 million per 50 minute episode or farscape at 2 million and frankly i'd rather watch four episodes of either of those while being punched in the kidneys than have to sit though the travesty that is dune the miniseries again
0	what can i say after having read herbert's books and loving lynch's movie version i was extremely disappointed i felt i was watching a reject version of buck rogers the sets looked like left overs from a star wars tv special i felt the acting was a bit amateurish by most the costumes were garish and over done which gave it a '60s flash gordon pulp feel the worms they're supposed to be sand worms and yet they appeared to big with a mouth at the blunt end the effects in general were pretty second rate i won't even start about the disgraceful navigator effect br br this so called frank herbert's dune wasn't even to his books it should have been called frank herbert's dune for dummies key plot elements were left out names were changed and the entire feel of the story was sanitised i didn't even recognise the in fact most of the characters appeared nothing like herbert's descriptions had depicted them i'm starting to get upset just remembering what a tragedy it was i'm glad i couldn't stomach the second installment
0	drivel utter junk the writers must not have read the book or seen david lynch's film not worth wasting your time br br longer does not make better while more in depth then lynch's film it has gross in accuracies and down play's key parts of the story br br a night at the roxbury is more worth your time
0	this is the battlefield earth of mini series it has with a few exceptions all the disastrous ingredients that doomed that movie and will follow it to the grave in the turkey cemetery they are both adaptations of books with a endless amount of pages who has been turned to a complete mess by a script writer and a director in this case they are the same person who clearly don't know what they are doing they have both a messiah wannabe that don't really deliver as a hero played in this case by a guy that looks like mark hamill but sadly the force is not with him and a bunch of stupid bad guys who likes to betray and mess up the life for each other they are both containing scenes stolen from better productions and they are both cheap productions who tries to look expensive with some often badly made computer animation the exceptions that actually makes the whole thing worse is the terrible work made by the lighting guy who don't even have the skills to turn on the light in his own living room the camera work that for no reasons at all sometimes are in tilted battlefield earth mode but for the most of the time are flat as a pancake the extremely cheap and to small desert set that only contents a pile of sand in the front of a backdrop painted as a desert that turns very old very fast because it appears in almost every scene and the bad idea by the costume designer to try to mimic the fifth element 's fashion madness with the addition of the silliest hats ever made silly moments to remember 1 every scene with the guild guys who looks like mst3k's observer guys but with silly hats 2 shows up at the party dressed in her butterfly dress why was the one with stuffed parrots in the cleaner with matching silly hat together with a couple of guys with silly balloon hats 3 paul the stand up comedian 4 baron in over acting overdrive screaming i m alive 5 every scene with the backdrop because it newer fits the foreground 6 every scene with the fake religious specially the water of life 7 the battle scenes where the same guys gets killed a couple times and the same things explodes over and over again it is a lot more but it is a 1000 words limit on this so i better stop before i gets carried away
0	that's a weird weird movie and doesn't deserve a better mark than david lynch's one the special effects are badly made the actors are majorly bad actors and in this movie it's not about a race which is the minority of a planet and tries to fight against the but it seems to be a crazy movie which pays homage to sect kind of organisations that's surely not the will of frank herbert the author of the six part epic check out david lynch's one that's the perfect tribute to the novels
0	i looked forward to watching this film since i loved the david lynch version in my first attempt at watching it i fell asleep nothing was happening the next night i tried to watch the rest and again it was putting me to sleep nothing ever happened in this movie that could keep anyone's interest alive the only time it got a bit more exciting was when i tried it on fast forward the dvd came with a second disk which contained bonus material needless to say i had no hard to go through the torture of watching more of dune 2000 here are the low points the acting was bad the plot moved in slow motion the sets were and looked cheap the direction was pathetic and the cgi visual effects childish br br if you want to watch dune save your money or rent the 1984 version
0	this miniseries movie was so terrible at times that i nearly broke down and turned it off i am a great fan of the novel however this movie suffers from multitudes of problems the costuming is poor and many of the more emotionally charged scenes are blase the departures from the novel are poorly chosen significant nuances are missed or rewritten br br
0	i agree in many parts with the fairly thorough review already posted on the subject of the miniseries and agree that it does have its pros not only its cons for example the original film manage to much of the middle and final sections of the novel into a single montage including the discovery of gurney halleck and the love affair of paul atreides and which on reading the novel is a travesty probably born of the studio cutting of which the other reviewer writes this was one of the great failings of the original film and the miniseries to its credit does include many of the original plot lines that were cut out of the lynch film due to the expansive nature of the herbert novel br br however this in itself is a double edged sword rather than complete a text to celluloid transfer of the novel the creators of the miniseries were tempted to create their own plot lines absent from the original novel similarly although this is surely a fuller account of the storyline of dune it is also a break from the originals heart and soul main vision that of prophecy where are the internal monologues that characterize herbert's writing and demonstrate what the many different characters are thinking without the need to suddenly switch viewpoint or expand in words or unnecessary and stilted spoken monologues gone so much of the original agony of paul's decision to choose the jihad or death the choice to fulfill the prophecy or swing away from it surely the most interesting aspect of the novel itself and one which captivates people who are far from science fiction fans is missing br br without prophecy what is the point of dune it is simply a more educated and learned version of farscape or andromeda how sad that this is all we are provided with lynch's film was flawed yes but a flawed film could lead to a correction by another film maker taking on some of the best points of lynch's film making and rejecting some of the more overblown aspects of the style whilst restoring the storyline now this story shall probably never be translated to film again and this i find heartrending
0	the apartment complex is a campy comedy full of characters created in lieu of a real story which tells a young psych student lowe who takes a job managing an apartment complex and becomes embroiled in a murder mystery um if you can call it that this low cal watch contains no suspense no thrills no drama no action precious few funny moments a dash of nudity and almost no romance the apartment complex is passable forgettable junk food for only the most needy couch potatoes
0	we thought this was one of the worst movies ever i had to volunteer to watch the end the romance was not believable the characters were not developed the love affair made hardly any sense it was miscast and scenery was absolutely stupid because it was either my opinion like the adams family goes on vacation just creepy gypsy and cheesy and the does not look typically like those houses on the surf and who would spend the night in one during a hurricane if it was not theirs also it was not realistic give you plenty of notice to down the hatches br br also the friend was superfluous and did not match the story what did the civil war have to do with the anyway i also have to mention the wardrobe did d lane have to have a scarf shawl on in every scene it was overdone she looked good enough to not have to hide things without making them obvious like with light slacks br br lastly i am concerned with the impact on our landfills when everyone has to dispose of this stupid and i mean stupid movie don't fall for the hype on this one we did not even watchable
0	i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time but dear gussie whoever thought this script was worth producing the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face looks like a bad b movie from the 40's
0	i suppose i'm supposed to take something like this with a grain of salt these laboratory movies and yes they spend a lot of time in the laboratory always fail in one dimension there is an understanding that single people fooling around have uncovered secrets beyond the comprehension of anyone to this time of course they pay a price because their experimenting has the same shortcomings that dr frankenstein's did there is always something they didn't anticipate there are so many things from pure science to fashion for young ladies to outrageous cover ups that don't work here the young woman is certainly fetching and the doctor can't help himself but he could have been a little bit discreet or even made an effort to shelter what he was doing things go wrong and because of this intellect she gains tremendous power including an understanding of how she came to be rock hudson looks pretty fit here he never quite makes it in this role however it wanders all over with lots of clichés and silliness which diminishes the basic issue once she has her revenge a more suitable thing would be for her to wander off and allow him to seek her out and destroy her in some grand way
0	rock hudson's second venture in the science fiction genre after seconds is embryo a film that combines elements of the bride of frankenstein and pygmalion in one rather weird film about for lack of a better word a test tube baby that grows up to be barbara carrera br br hudson is scientist experimenting in organic development and gets a chance to first experiment on his own doberman pincher when it is accidentally hit by his car br br some secretions from the female dog are given to a prematurely born puppy and it grows remarkably into an adult exalted with his success hudson takes a fetus from a dead accident victim and gives it some of the same stuff br br what he gets is barbara carrera and she develops physically and intellectually at a prodigious rate what she doesn't do is develop emotionally still hudson passes her off as his new research assistant to friends and family like sister in law diane ladd son john and daughter in law anne br br embryo doesn't explore some of the real issues in this kind of science it exploits them instead the special effects as they are are pretty second rate hudson looks like he lost interest in the project about halfway through the film br br now what would have really been interesting is if he had gotten boy child and it grew up to be a harlequin novel hero now that would have been something rock hudson could have sunk his teeth into
0	after his career as a romantic leading man ended in the late 1960s rock hudson starred in lots of different projects including tv shows and lesser films however i believe that embryo is his only turn as a mad scientist and that's probably a good thing i guess he needed the work br br driving along one dark and stormy night brilliant dr paul hudson hits and injures a doberman which he brings back to his lab that looks somewhat like a dank midwestern basement he then manages to raise the dog's unborn puppy outside the womb so naturally he decides to do the same thing with a human being he raises victoria the beautiful barbara carrera from a fetus the same way victoria grows at an astonishing pace and soon blossoms into a gorgeous young woman br br predictably things go very wrong after a halcyon beginning sister in law martha diane ladd begins to wonder where the young woman came from and victoria herself begins to show signs of instability and violence the final sequence is one long car chase straight out of smokey and the bandit after which has shockingly aged in just a few assaulted by a frantic who tries in vain to destroy his malformed creation along with its unborn child all of this is accompanied by screeching tires roaring engines a car fire and lots of sirens the limp bunch of paramedics frantically working on victoria while writhes in more labored than creepy br br although just made in 1976 this movie is very dated the only difference between this and the many 1940s mad scientist movies is that hudson plays the lead role rather than boris karloff the sets are pretty cheap and very antiquated to today's audiences to the extent that hudson's reel to reel tape recorder is about the size of a refrigerator much of the action takes place in a poorly lighted laboratory hudson sleepwalks through his sordid role giving the impression that he's truly a washed up movie star while ladd and carrera are much more believable surprisingly roddy mcdowall pops up briefly as a chess player br br the passport video transfer is very substandard looking as though it had been made from a poor vhs copy using home equipment if you're nostalgic for 1976 watch this once just to say you did otherwise watch a football game or soap opera instead
0	although embryo could have been a potentially thought provoking examination of it degenerates into a stereotypical frankenstein parable putting across the by now monotonous lesson that there were some realms man was not meant to enter or study br br scientist rock hudson is experimenting with ways to prevent babies from dying after success with a dog he immediately jumps to humans violating medical ethics and any sense of plausibility with the equally unrealistic assistance of a hospital administrator his experiment works too well with some decidedly unpleasant side effects br br although barbara carrera is reasonably good in her role and some of the animal training is spectacular the film suffers from being too fantastical even though a message at the prologue assures viewers that this represents contemporary technology the scientific work depicted looks far fetched even for the twenty first century let alone the mid 1970s furthermore the scene where carrera is able to find a cure for the side effects of simply by typing a question into a computer is laughable
0	first and foremost i'd like to state for the record that it's incredibly dumb to call your movie embryo when the subject matter exclusively revolves on scientific research performed on fetuses animal as well as human aged 12 16 weeks the embryonic stage is over at the end of the eighth pregnancy week and from that moment on the unborn critter enters the fetal phase okay in all honestly i didn't know all this but i took the effort of looking it up and that's the also the least thing the creators of embryo could have done don't worry i'm not just stumbling over details or being exaggeratedly bitter as there are several more reasons to state why embryo is a huge failure actual science can be considered as boring and inaccessible and thus science fiction is a cinematic genre created especially to make the otherwise tedious yet educational science topics more interesting and comprehensible to larger audiences by depicting ambitious scientific experiments that go horribly wrong or space missions that encounter evil aliens instead of light years of void filmmakers usually manage to entertain people with spectacular special effects and at the same time teach them useful little trivia about science in order to make a good or at least halfway decent science fiction movie writers and directors only have to comply with one basic rule don't be boring if they can't fulfill this one condition the viewer might as well read a theoretically accurate book something must have gone wrong during the production of ralph nelson's embryo the basic premise is potentially fascinating and even involving as we're all sensitive about saving the lives of unborn babies there also were some very prominent names involved in the production like main stars rock hudson giant seconds diane ladd chinatown alice doesn't live here anymore and director nelson himself was responsible for the acclaimed classics soldier blue and charly then what went wrong simple the script is irredeemably boring clichéd and the whole thing looks incredibly foolish because the lab scenery scientific equipment is clearly too primitive to achieve any medical breakthroughs with br br rock hudson in a very poor performance plays a doctor who hasn't put any passion in his research work ever since his wife passed away when his car hits a pregnant dog on a rainy night his passion returns and he does everything possible to save the dying animals' fetuses he manages to keep one fetus alive impressively its growth process and trains it to become an extremely intelligent dog because his procedure is so successful dr paul convinces his friend at the hospital to repeat his tests with the human fetus taken from the womb of a pregnant teenager who committed suicide the female subject unexpectedly keeps growing at a fast rate however and after only a couple of weeks she's a full grown ravishing and super intelligent woman the good doctor naturally falls in love with her but the groundbreaking new growth treatment also begins to show horrible side effects absolute nothing happens during the first 45 minutes of the film apart from a lot of implausible and overly melodramatic mumbo jumbo and one or two deeply impressive tricks performed by the dog that second half of the film does contain a little bit of grotesque action and suspense but by then the stupidity of the dialogs and the implausible plot twists already ruined the potentially fabulous sci fi idea there are some really cool scenes most notably the chess showdown between victoria and roddy mcdowall in a highly memorable and ultra obnoxious supportive role the grand finale is absurdly grotesque and literally on the verge of ridiculous and it almost feels like ralph nelson put in that final disastrous shot because it was the general rule in contemporary thriller sci fi cinema the last sequence including the horrible freeze frame shot at the end certainly doesn't fit the tone of the previous 100 minutes of the film but anyway my sincere admiration and respect to the dog and his trainers an animal with such intellect and talent surely deserved to demonstrate its tricks in a much better film
0	a research scientist is experimenting with human dna in an attempt to create the perfect human being his work has made it to the point where he can take a human fetus and accelerate its growth to that of an adult within a few days his latest creation is a spoiler omitted but side effects from the process spoiler omitted according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br embryo opens by promising the film you are about to see is not all science fiction it is based upon medical technology which currently exists for fetal growth outside the womb it could be a possibility or today according to dr charles m iii right and dr joyce brothers appears later at a party with roddy mcdowall br br first we see rock hudson as dr paul light a cigarette and drive recklessly watch that speedometer during a storm unfortunately he hits a dog mr hudson takes the wounded canine home he learns it is pregnant and manages to save the life of one of the puppies due to his experimental knowledge of fetal growth what this really boils down to is that hudson uses an experimental drug to grow the embryo so that it can survive outside the mother's womb the dog number one grows to adult size rapidly and is passed off as its mother br br hudson lives with his sister in law diane ladd as martha douglas since his wife nicole also a doctor died in another car accident ms ladd seems more emotionally stable about nicole's death than hudson who survived the crash that killed his wife things begin to get creepy when hudson's dog shows an intelligence level far above any normal dog then hudson decides to use his accelerated embryo growth on a human barbara carrera as victoria spencer br br hudson and the cast try their best but the embryo storyline is wretchedly absurd nonsense if you take away her silly opening and closing scenes ms carrera's valiant characterization almost works she might have been a bigger star if offered better films than this the infantile ending suggests a sequel but happily the idea was aborted
0	a buddy and i went to see this movie when it came out in 1980 it was playing in a huge theater and we were the only two people in the place it lasted two days in the theater before they stopped showing it it was so bad that we laughed all the way through it since that time we rate movies based on kill or be killed as the worst movie of all time like other reviewers have mentioned it is so bad that it is funny it isn't worth a second look that's for sure i just can't bring myself to give it more than a 1 because i don't think the makers of the movie intended for it to be so bad and i can't give credit for an accident sorry
0	master plan have the winning team in a deadly tournament one of several martial arts action pictures that attempted to capture the flavor of the famous enter the dragon from '73 this one is an effort from south africa the villain's stronghold is a bit different appearing as a white castle like fortress in the middle of the desert from a distance the villain himself a baron or general is a slightly more perverse version of the dr no or han mold of master villainy having strange flashbacks to the glory days of nazi germany he does wear the full regalia nazi uniform at some points his main ambition in life is to hold an illegal martial arts competition tournament against his japanese rival an extension of their complicity in the 2nd world war my army is better than your army it sounds silly and it is though the suggestion of madness and crazed machismo almost works the central hero steve chase ryan resembles a white 'bruce character having a similarly lean lithe physique though obviously not on the same level of martial arts expertise i thought he would be some secret government agent here but apparently not he and his girlfriend have joined the baron's team of fighters but decide to quit what did they think they were getting into of course it's not that easy there's an odd sequence of them escaping through the desert using a wrecked car with a rigged sail those desert winds can do wonders for travel it seems br br the plot kind of meanders in the 2nd half as the hero joins the team of the villain's competitor and the girlfriend is held hostage by the villain in a cell under threat of rape by the hero's rival the most interesting character turns out to be chico a dwarf who is the villain's assistant he's loyal to the baron but is sympathetic to the plight of the hero much of the fighting utilizes the ballet like capabilities of the hero with a lot of leaping and slow motion the sound fx are also amped up and exaggerated in an attempt to add more impact to the blows there are a few good fights during the tournament towards the climax but none really stand out if one had to pick i suppose the best involves the brutish muscle man henchman of the baron introduced late in the story he lifts the back of a car at one point you wonder how the hero will take him out at the end since the brute seems to shrug off most of the punches the acting is very mediocre descending into camp as far as the girlfriend who tends to laugh for no reason as if she's high on grass though she is very cute some of the training scenes are also campy especially all those guys running over or rolling down the desert sands and with such a title there's surprisingly few actual killings ryan as steve chase returned as a traditional agent in the sequel kill and kill again hero 4 villain 4 femme fatales 4 henchmen 6 fights 6 stunts chases 4 gadgets 2 auto 3 locations 5 pace 5 overall 4
0	to be honest i did never read one of the comics and cannot remember part 2 and 3 at all i can compare to the first part werner and this one here is really disappointing compared to part1 as well as compared to most other movies i watched the last weeks the first minutes seam to be just a needless clone of the first movie intro and then it is becoming even worse there are a few good funny scenes but in total it is just another boring second rate try of german film industry that cannot succeed nearly as usual one good thing the movie is quite short 75 min the bad thing it only contains story and jokes for 45 minutes don't watch it
0	warning 1 tiny inconsequential spoiler you're right this was no bridges of madison county as soon as the lonely woman and richard gere checked into the big empty hotel it was a foregone conclusion something kind of fun would happen the question is how will it come about the answer is some stupid connect the dots story not worth sitting through in one supposed bonding experience they get drunk and clean out the cupboard of old cans that was my spoiler and the next day they put them back lol it wasn't compelling at all i'm an old married lady like the one in the movie and my friendships are more interesting than her romance with richard gere lol it did have that advantage you walk away and go oh brother even i could have written something more believable than that i guess my life isn't quite as dull as i thought it was if i can scoff at a romance with richard gere lol and that friend inherited that totally contemporary probably computer generated mansion resting half in the ocean from her grandmother who built it after the civil war maybe her grandmother is oprah and this was way after the civil war and yes where was the email what alternative universe do these people live in i never want to see another movie that pretends we don't have email and facebook and and ok maybe these people have a horrible aversion to delivering news over the phone but don't ask me to believe anyone in this age of instant communication that someone just drops into your life without calling first
0	having sat and watched this film i can only wonder at the reasons for creating the film this was without a doubt one of the worst films i've ever seen and had no redeeming features br br if it was supposed to be funny then it might have managed to be a very weak comedy but as an action thriller it was dire br br slow no plot no real action nothing approaching good dialogue and i've no idea about the characters what else can i say avoid
0	i began watching this movie on t v some weeks ago but gave up after the first 10 minutes or so at the start the person on the witness protection scheme located in an isolated farmhouse becomes nervous about his exterior placed guards and then asks the guard inside the house whether he can make a telephone call only to discover the line has been cut br br shortly afterwards roy scheider as one of the assassins turns up and duly executes the witness and his wife upon which the roy scheider character duly picks up the wall telephone in the kitchen a number and then speaks it is done that was it for me
0	directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john is a little lacking in the emotions department unhappy with the new home situation their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou until his mom is well steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle's living habits he even decides he wants to change his name to franz set in the early 60's this drama is a bit comedic change that to zany not being a macdowell fan unstrung heroes assures my attitude albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste
0	boy oh boy does this movie stink this movie is one of the worst pieces of trash i have ever seen in my whole entire life please even if your life depends on it do not and i repeat do not under any circumstances view this horrid piece of garbage only watch this thing when it comes on as a mst 3000 episode that was the only way i could sit through the whole thing if i had to watch it without that show i would've stopped watching it before it was over it does have one use a cure for insomniacs
0	this joins the endless line of corny predictable 50's sci fi shlock out there as usual it's pretty bad there isn't much of a plot that i could detect and the over exaggeration of the leads only adds to the unintentional laughs the title is misleading also catching this on mst3k is probably the only way for it to be viewed and it's better left that way
0	i suppose you could say this film has a grain of potential but nothing more because boy did the filmmakers botch it the plot is practically incomprehensible the pacing is lethargic and the acting is pathetic and what the hell is a trade rat worst of all though this movie's climax is the anticlimax of all plus the title doesn't seem even remotely accurate the only redeeming feature of this film is the pretty dark haired woman well the blond girl was pretty too but she was annoying and not as good looking as the brunette anyhoo as with a lot of movies this is one to be seen only on mst3k
0	as a kid this movie scared me green as an adult i couldn't stop laughing br br i have not had the pleasure of watching this movie via mst3k i caught it instead on a late saturday afternoon when there was absolutely nothing in the theaters and there was nothing left to do outside but rake some autumn leaves i figured this had to be better i was wrong br br the movie has some very good elements a water mystic a beatnik painter couple of idiot ranch hands an elderly history buff and an evil wind um i mean evil head an evil head which will as soon as the systematic hypnotism of each and every one present is complete be looking for its evil body br br the whole story takes place on an evil ranch which apparently neither grows crops nor raises evil livestock br br as everything is declared by their resident mystic to be evil you either roll your eyes horribly or laugh til your sides split depending on your mood me i laughed until i had tears streaming down my face br br i remembered this movie fondly as one of those which really scared me as a kid but some kids are afraid of santa claus too no anyway if you're into 50's horror camp then this is definitely a movie you shouldn't miss br br if you're looking for a good story line this movie has that it's the over the top dramatics and downright innocence of the time that makes it so horrid the acting was just bad but it still had some good elements perhaps it rates a remake br br it rates a 4 3 10 from br br the fiend
0	jessica is a young virginal and very innocent girl who lives with her aunt on a remote ranch jessica is also a powerful psychic capable of retro cognition and esp when young and handsome gordon hawthorne comes to visit he is instantly skeptical of jessica's powers until her skills uncover a lost wristwatch and unearth an ancient treasure chest however the treasure chest holds the severed head of a centuries dead satanist named gideon drew whose powers are far stronger than jessica's despite her warnings of the evil in their midst drew manages to mentally enslave everyone unfortunate to make eye contact with him but drew wants jessica most of all he needs her skills to unearth his body so that he can rise from the dead and rule over the human race will jessica's powerful de lis combined with gordon's love ward the ancient evil off before it can destroy them all br br this isn't a very interesting movie it certainly could have been the basic story is interesting and imaginative but the acting is leaden and the whole thing moves much too slowly to hold interest jessica is also too innocent almost annoyingly so and gordon her love interest is wooden stiff and totally emotionless none of the characters are very likable and the low budget is painfully obvious a rushed ending also doesn't help matters avoid unless it's the mst3k version
0	if you ever visited acres as a child and wondered could there be a worse vacation spot in the world well you could have watched this movie and had your answer flavia a k a dude ranch is often frequented by business casual gordon at least since resident water witch jessica was 13 but jessica can find much more than fresh spring water with that rod – buried tray shure lost jewelry dead bodies even a talisman that will keep her from dressing like a slut and raising drinks with a phony beat and a suzanne pleshette look alike while hypnotized by a disembodied head evil evil evil
0	yes this movie features a gal named jessica who says everything is evil and she causes trees to land on people too well she only causes a tree to fall once but she does say everything is evil this movie is about a farm that apparently rents out rooms to people but offers little else in the way of entertainment jessica can find things with a stick and she finds the head of an evil guy of course they don't know this until the owner of the helpers open the box containing the head the head proceeds to hypnotize everyone it can so it can get to jessica and use her powers to find stuff to help look for his body this movie has an interesting enough story but it plays out very bad here everyone in this flick will get on your nerves at least once
0	not quite a bomb the only thing missing was the enriched uranium actually the script may have worked if the lead roles had been cast with younger actors but the dramatics of an aging diane lane acting as if she was a teenager or even a twenty something was too much to stomach every time she adrienne would jump into the arms of richard gere and then pull both heels up behind her you could almost see the grimace of pain on his face as he was probably thinking oh my aching back this babe sure doesn't weight 125 lbs anymore anyway both characters were distinctly unlikeable especially richard gere's a self absorbed plastic surgeon dr paul that was on some kind of soul quest after a botched operation left him with a dead patient an older woman from a small farm then there was her angry husband and son he had to deal with to explain what happened dr is on his way to meet said angry husband at the husband's request when he meets up with adrienne she is recently split from her unfaithful husband shock and is helping out a friend by watching her beach front cottage rental of course that's where dr ends up staying and they both end up falling madly in love especially after she finds out he is a rich doctor and a plastic surgeon in between romantic interludes and a nauseating song dance routine that lane adrienne performs while listening to an old lp no cd's they both try to figure how their lives got so totally screwed up dr was also not much of a father and has a son who is also a dr who resents him for not being there for him while he was growing up naturally dr was more interested in his medical career at the time rather than raising an impetuous distracting boy to make a long predictable story short adrienne helps dr face his inner demons as well as confront said angry husband and son of the woman who died on his operating table after going in for a routine removal of the face dr is finally able to tell the husband played excruciatingly sympathetic by scott glenn that he is sorry for what happened even though it was all the fault of that anesthesiologist i told him she was too old for that much juice glenn's character robert appears to accept dr apology it's hard to tell because his emotional response is so passive by this time that you wonder if if he is even hearing the good dr at all or thinking about some that he needs to plow ever more circumspect dr then decides he needs to visit his son who is now practicing medicine pro bono in a third world country to mend their relationship unfortunately that means he must temporarily bid adieu to adrienne of course while entertaining the natives in timbuktu he writes a love letter every hour on the hour to adrienne who nearly swoons like a school girl every time she gets one and tells her that the hardest thing he ever had to do was to tell her goodbye evidently apologizing to robert for his wife's death was the second hardest thing in the end he gets killed in a freak mud slide poetic justice as in mud pack and she is left with just the memories of what could have been hopefully no more gere lane sequels
0	for all its many flaws i'm inclined to be charitable towards thing there is the nugget of an interesting creepy claustrophobic hitchcock style story here put this in the hands of a writer like theodore sturgeon or if you prefer british perspective robert bloch or the guy who wrote day of the triffids and you might have had a nasty unsettling little spook story that was the best thing in an book anthology of horror and suspense stories br br however someone chose to tell this story as a feature length movie and a cheap 2nd rate at that and so most of the potential is wasted a story like this really needs a voice like to bring out interesting quirks of character in a better light his classic story the the and is an example of how he can gather together an isolated group of ordinary characters and in the space of 40 pages can turn them into the most amusing sympathetic and fascinating people you've ever met a good writer can with a few chosen words make the reader see some of the most vivid and memorable events ever to scar his emotions br br instead we get a movie where some of the most irritating and unlikeable characters ever made are lumped together and made to interact in unconvincing where did that come from moments that just lie there ie the blond psychic girl declaiming that you're all evil and i hope you are destroyed we get leaden pacing and slow motion blocking and dull sets and stiff actors i blame the director for the and part these are all 3rd rank character actors who never made the big time but they are also 'real' actors and a good director could have gotten better performances out of them we get uncalled for lesbian overtones that make the viewer feel uneasy and exploited without delivering any kind of payoff if i'm going to have my baser instincts exploited and feel guilty about it i want done by stuff staged better than this and we get over an hour of creepy build up diffused in about 35 seconds in one of the worst anti climaxes i've ever seen br br good things about thing um well some of the closeup shots of the head silently mouthing its directives were pretty effective the miserly and shrewish widow rang true to life even if i wanted to stuff a sock in her mouth the first scene where the big simple ranch hand silently turns on the oily cowboy and kills him had a bit of shock value because the plot had taken the trouble to establish the big guy as a fairly sympathetic character and like i said earlier the idea of an insidious force from the past turning the members of an isolated community against each other is a good one and can sustain interest far above the actual merit of a bad performance br br which this definitely is br br but as i said i'm inclined to be charitable because the director was probably working under a budget breakneck time constraints and the best actors he could find for the money heaven knows how future generations will judge facile crap like the cave wrong turn or the remake of house of wax 40 years from now i hope they are charitable towards our own tastes in supporting our generations wastes of film stock
0	while out for water a young psychic woman named jessica burns carolyn stumbles upon something else altogether she discovers a chest that has been buried for centuries on her aunt's ranch instead of the treasure her aunt is hoping for the chest contains the head of gideon drew a devil worshiper who was beheaded by sir francis drake telepathically controlling the hired hand who opened the chest drew's head goes on a murderous spree in search of the rest of his body – also buried on jessica's aunt's farm while jessica is certain she feels the presence of evil can she put a stop to drew's plans and will she be in time to prevent his becoming whole br br i thought i was fairly familiar with most of universal's horror output prior to 1960 but this is one universal film from the 50s that certainly gets little mention while the thing that couldn't die isn't what i would call a good movie it does have a few things going for it first the film has some interesting ideas and is actually rather ambitious director will cowan whether by luck or intention is able to give the movie some nice atmosphere from time to time and the special effects involving the head are certainly creepy but the whole project is undone by the acting i'm shocked to learn that any of the supposed actors in this thing ever appeared in anything else you would think that this was a one and done type of movie for most of those involved is the worst offender she's horrible also the thing that couldn't die may have been a bit too ambitious for its own good given the budget and other limitations there was no way the movie could aspire to its more lofty ideas finally the movie ends rather abruptly just as things are starting to get interesting the end what's that about
0	i love this movie even though i rated it a 4 that's because the acting the plot and the budget were all slated to the b universe even before this movie was released but that's ok it is an entertaining film that has a lot to offer br br i remember what leonard maltin said about plan 9 from outer space a film so bad that it's great lacking the ufo alien plot the thing the couldn't die relies on the supernatural a buried head looking for it's body hypnosis etc to tell it's story the acting is stilted the camera work second class and the settings are limited but boy what a movie this film is available in the bootleg market if you find a copy buy it
0	yes the movie is not a piece of art but the first time i watched it i was 10 years old my parents were out and i stayed home with my two brothers it was may 1970 i know that because i found a note about the cycle of horror movies that one network had it's one of the most vivid memories i have with the guys we ended all in one bed and covered up to the head our very first horror movie we kept talking about it for years and laughing about the moment those were horror movies nowadays horror movies are always the same or was it better when we were kids enjoying without analyzing the plot and the cast and the dialogs most sure it was that but for me this is a great movie
0	hollywood had a long love affair with bogus arabian nights tales but few of these products have stood the test of time the most memorable were the jon hall maria montez films which have long since become camp this one is filled with dubbed songs anachronistic slang and slapstick it's a truly crop of corn and pretty near intolerable today it was nominated for its imaginative special effects which are almost unnoticeable in this day and age consisting mainly of trick photography the only outstanding positive feature which survives is its beautiful color and clarity sad to say of the many films made in this genre few of them come up to alexander korda's original thief of baghdad almost any other arabian nights film is superior to this one though it's a loser
0	this is the worst movie in the world the only reason i gave it a 2 was because the first 10 minutes were hysterically funny in a is this for real sort of way it was so cheesy and low budget they should not have even bothered there was nudity and violence for the pure sake of having nudity and violence and the effects were just so so bad you would not believe it think ketchup as blood and cabbages for severed heads do not rent this
0	a majority of exclusively made for video low budget fright flicks from the 80's invariably stink worse than raunchy old socks this particularly dismal and amateurish no budget chicago set bargain basement nasty necrophiliac nutcase on the loose bloodbath serves as a depressing affirmation of this borderline fact a bearded disheveled long haired bead and flower shirt wearing wild eyed psycho hippie fruitcake embarks on your standard random gruesome killing spree graphically slaughtering libidinous young couples who are engaging in strenuous coitus whenever the deranged lunatic attacks hmm do i detect a fairly obvious and self righteously puritanical have sex and die message here gee could be man boy is this mentally unbalanced sicko one real way gone pup after his female victims our certifiably crackers killer enjoys making love to their freshly slain bodies warning possible spoiler ahead towards the picture's end the corpse copulating crazy gets rudely interrupted by the cops while he's in the middle of doing the unthinkable with a nubile cadaver thereby provoking the foul pervert to cut loose with an understandably anguished and ear splitting cry of nooo now ain't this gonzo guy a definite sweetheart and a half br br too bad this flick is so poorly done if it had only been made with a modicum of flair and proficiency it could have been a sleazy little gem of a horror exploitation item alas wally koz's ham fisted direction lamar larry stubbornly static and immobile cinematography frankie hollywood insipid monotonously head banging hard rock score the pitifully cheap and unconvincing make up f x flat conspicuously uneasy plywood acting by a hideously all thumbs and unappealing non pro cast lethargic pacing too much screen time is tiresomely squandered on the police's drab efforts to catch the wacko an especially lame would be shocking surprise ending the mystery killer's true identity is guaranteed to have you groaning in disgust the uniformly boring incessantly bickering and positively braindead characters and a steady succession of dull soft core sex scenes that are about as erotic as watching two slugs mate for 90 minutes straight all add up to one profoundly putrid and unrewarding limp soggy noodle of a crummy clinker however to be fair this film does possess one stellar virtue the mad dog slasher has unquestionably excellent taste in garishly tropical louder than thunder day glo hawaiian shirts
0	well i didn't know what to expect from 555 matter of fact i had never even heard of it until a few months ago but being a collector of just about all types of horror i figured i would go ahead and grab this obscure 80's slasher br br basically the storyline has to do with a killer that kills every 5 years for 5 nights in a row what the third 5 in the title means nobody knows anyway the killings start as the killer searches for young teenagers fooling around in obscure places he decapitates the men and brutally knifes the woman to death after this he proceeds to rape the dead corpse the police think they have a lead on the killings but really have no idea what is going on how will they find the killer does anybody care br br this movie is filled with some of the worst actors i have ever seen no wonder none of these actors went on to do anything else literally the three lead actors consist of two detectives and a sexy female reporter i am being sarcastic when i say sexy she is about as un sexy as it gets the two detectives are like watching tweedle dee and tweedle dum one of them underacts his part and the other one may have gone to the shatner school of acting the acting is so bad that it almost forces you to lose your interest in the movie thus almost putting you to sleep br br the only thing holding this terrible movie together is a few decent gore scenes for a movie on this budget the makers must have put all of there money into the special effects which still aren't that great br br unless you are like me and have to own every single horror movie out there i would suggest steering clear of this movie 4 10
0	oh the horror i've seen a lot of gore movies in my day but this one just makes me gag with with laughter rather than repulsiveness this is definitely a crazy movie and is very low budget i might add but if you're able to look past the cheap audio horrible dialogue ugly girls the obviously fake gore scenes and overall of the film then you might find some of this film to be somewhat entertaining the story is about a copy cat killer who goes on a killing spree every 5th day of the 5th month of the 5th year wow how original and it's up to two detectives one of whom gave a valiant effort at trying to make the dialogue good to stop the killer's bloody rampage the killing scenes which are done with a plastic toy knife are pretty brutal which is a good thing but very annoying due to the constant repetition of an obviously recorded scream which is very ear piercing as for the gore there's plenty of it but it looks very fake especially the blood dude c'mon purple blood but if you're a fan of gore videos like myself then you'll find something in this video to cherish like i did the crap talking detective he's the best thing going for this film other than that all you're going to find is a bunch of senseless nudity which is also a good thing but too bad the girls are and a very idiotic hippy necrophiliac serial killer sorry but this one sucks
0	well well i had seen a lot of reviews on this one and a lot of promo always showing the decapitation scene but this flick is a tough one and i mean it by all ways it's hard to find a copy because it was a low budget independent release and because mpaa was on the hunt for every copy on vhs it came out unrated but it had to be rated for the mpaa so copies disappeared into the underground scene all people involved in this flick never did anything else in the biz so it made this flick unique vhs copies almost never pop up on ebay or other sites and if they do you will pay over a 100 to get one but due us connections i was able to catch a release on dvd sold worldwide limited but it was to be a sort of official one now and then there are still some screenings of this splatterfest but is it worth all the hype surrounding it as said earlier it is a tough one to catch but also to sit through there are gory killings there is necrophilia there is nudity but there is also a lot of talking between the coppers and to be honest if you would like to see the movie in 5 minutes watch the ending it's a flashback in the killer's mind the blood flows and indeed it's a splatterfest but not the full 80 minutes splatter galore for 10 minutes the quality of the movie is okay sound okay no hiss colors okay black is black and not blue as in many low budgets it's okay to watch it but you never will be frightened but it's one to watch with your friends having a beer and a pizza i guess 555
0	i had high hopes for this film even though i had not read the book richard gere and diane lane together should be good already but the film does not deliver on the promise i kept waiting for more depth to the characters and there wasn't i have no problem with the fact that it only took a weekend for them to fall in love that can happen but we never really get to know the characters i would have liked more focus on them the film reminded me in places of bridges of madison county and that film was far better i really felt for the characters in that film and there was a chemistry much more passion between clint eastwood and meryl streep that there wasn't between gere and lane each of them are very good actors in his or her own right simply not the right movie for them together
0	always enjoy the classic horror films however this film was really a big waste of time and if it were not for john carradine playing the mad man doctor who is able to control human beings through his experiments this film was made during ww ii and john carradine was a german nazi working to find a human weapon against the entire world bob steele playing in many roles as a cowboy or gangster and in this picture bob seemed bored to death with his role in this film and acted like this was his first film mantan moreland jeff gave an outstanding performance with great comedy which helped keep the audience attention i hate to criticize a film made in 1943 but this is really a big disappointment if you like john carradine and the roles he played as count dracula throughout many films during the 1940's you just might like to watch john doing his best
0	revenge of the zombies is a pretty weak and barely passable zombie effort br br spoilers br br traveling in the bayou larry adams robert lowery and scott hugo are informed that a friend has deceased meeting with local dr von john carradine he repeats the notion that they mysteriously died while they are staying there they realize that the help consists of zombies reanimated dead people who are doing the bidding of their master as the bodies pile up he reveals that he has been making the creatures for use in various experiments and all try to stop him before it's too late br br the good news this here gets very little right the opening is easily it's best as it's got several great marks for it from where it starts with the creepy silhouettes walking in the dark all the way through to the revelations this one works wonders for both it's mystery and great imagery the big one is a really scene where the creature emerges from a coffin in a long slow and creepy shot these here are all done before the opening credits and is a fun sight the scenes in the middle where the creature reawakens inside the coffin is pretty chilling and looks really great the last big positive is the really fun ending with the sort of ending that feels reminiscent of so many universal attempts this one fits in with that style from the creepy to the real action involved near the swamp this one is fun and really works with the others to give it's only real positives br br the bad news this one here only has a couple flaws but they are major ones the first one is the film's major boredom from inactivity almost nothing happens in here mainly due to the tendency to do everything with talking rather than anything else there's only intermittent scenes relegated to the zombies yet there's nothing here that devotes any action to the film this one simply doesn't have any action and that's what hurts the film it rarely generates a scenes that keeps the interest going and at times this makes it feel a lot longer than it really is the last flaw in the film are it's pathetic excuses for zombies those used to more modern fare will have a hard time getting any fear out of these creatures and they really only serve several scenes this here doesn't treat the zombies as threats making them even less frightening little screen time nonthreatening nature and un modern behavior from these zombies really destroys this one these here are what really hurt the film br br the final verdict with bad zombies and hardly anything worth watching this one here is a curious effort those used to modern zombies will find little of interest in this one and come out the same as this one is while only classic horror fans are advised to give it a shot br br today's rating pg mild violence
0	there is not much to say about this one except that it is probably the worst of the early spate of zombie movies i may get to watch another one revolt of the zombies 1936 before the month is out for all star john carradine's intention of building an army in the service of the third reich with them they are not seen to do much at all james uncle remus from song of the south 1946 plays their leader who also serves as carradine's manservant black comic mantan moreland reprises his 'fraidy cat' chauffeur role from king of the zombies 1941 as does the exotically named madame te wan as carradine's housekeeper unfortunately for carradine his supreme achievement – the zombification of his wife – brings him all sorts of trouble not only do her relatives turn up at his remote abode lab to inquire into her sudden death which means he has to fake a funeral service but she actually proves disobedient and indignant eventually her fellow zombies to rise against their master also involved is cowboy star bob steele still best known for his bit in howard hawks' the big sleep 1946 who plays a u s secret agent posing as a nazi posing as a sheriff thankfully director would have much better luck with his next genre effort the day of the triffids 1962
0	one of low budget horror schlockmeister actor john carradine's more animated roles as a implied nazi scientist who is turning humans into zombies to serve the reich mindless scuffling brain dead only able to obey the most simple of orders bit like staff in mcdonalds br br hitler isn't mentioned by name since america wasn't at war at the time they was filmed but it's pretty obvious who the bad guys are working for br br there seems to be two types of zombies in film the traditional voodoo type popular in the old black white films of the 1930's and '40's blank eyed and just following the commands of someone else as they stumble along and then there is the type we know from later films like 'the night of the living dead' and 'the evil dead ' still roaming about but with only the intention to kill and eat the flesh and brains of their victims both have their moments in various movies over the years br br features the former zombie type although these are particularly goofy looking and would look more at home in an old time freak shows as geeks as they bite the heads off chickens one black zombie named lazarus with his wild hair looks like a young don king br br as to the plot the evil doctor decides to make his wife a zombie along with the others and that's where he makes his mistake even though he lets her keep her heels as a nice womanly touch as he turns her into one of the living dead she's not happy about it br br it all goes horribly wrong and ends in tears and the moral of the tale must be never ever turn your wife into a zombie it's just asking for trouble br br the film is interesting enough and it quickly rolls along to a finish but never rises above it's poverty row origins not a patch on any true zombie classics but fun just the same
0	i watched the first show of each series just to see and what a waste of time the girl from emmerdale she was fat so yeah she should be in fat friend but no one every lost weigh br br like itv made a big mistake with this br br bad girls is better br br i feel that the whole show was just about large people trying to loose weight but never did then they tried to have love storyline oh my god what a a waste of time and also air time this show has not been repeated on 3 4 yeah thats how good it is br br i would say do not by th box sets just a waste of money br br beware
0	this movie was terrible the acting was awful the script was awful what was even worse were the camera shots and sound half the time the voices did not match up with the actors lips and different camera angles in the same scene would be completely different hues the worst part had to be when one of the actors was at the top of a huge cross shaped building the building had to have been 50 stories high and probably 100 feet wide however when the actor was on top of it in another shot they had recreated the top of the building the building's width had been reduced to about eight feet wide how could a building hundreds of feet high be eight feet wide i know the film was low budget but it is inexcusable the movie itself just pushed ideas about a rapture then actually having a storyline or point this reduced the script to mere rubbish the characters seemed to be selling ideas in their lines rather than conveying emotions and moving the movie along in a direction it was a complete waste of time watching the movie gives christians a bad name if it is one of the current best christian films out there
0	the back of the dvd for this movie raves is the quentin tarantino of christian films this isn't so much an insult to quentin as it is to christian films this film is poorly written stiffly acted and edited with a purposeless intensity the scenes play out in a confusing and unrealistic way and are interspersed with some nice time lapse photography flashbacks fades to grey freeze frames to tell the time unimportant in the story are all done with out any apparent reason other than to give the movie more cinematic credibility the camera is haphazard some nice crane shots are cut with ridiculous montages that have no significance poor blocking and lighting leave the viewer wondering who is talking to who in many scenes oh and the audio is terrible the special effects were decent and thankfully limited but this is all just technical the movie fails to engage on an emotional level the dialogue is so fake sounding and the actors seem to have only read it a moment before the camera was rolling the story the things that happen in sequence have no motivation behind them the characters are struggling to take hold of one dimensionality and the characters have to make a stance on christianity and faith in every single scene take a queue from m night engaging christian films don't have to have the characters saying the name of jesus christ in every scene for the movie to be christian goodness please don't try to show this to your unsaved friends with any expectations other than laughter
0	this movie was terrible you couldn't fast forward fast enough to get to the end of this movie it came down to the last 20 minutes of the film and i literally hit the eject button right in the middle of the scene it was one of the worst movies i have ever experienced worse than all dean cain films combined to start the acting was terrible i realize that the main actors were from the cast of survivor but one would think that any tv experience would have given them a little more talent the movies other main problem was the campy visual effects and the poor film quality in the movies defense the theme of the show was well intentioned and the story was all right
0	the other reviewer was completely correct about this one the writing was awful the acting was awful the subject was awful the actors looked like they were not really into the movie like they almost had to be there there were some unique camera effects but they were not really germane to the story or what there was of a story and they weren't produced particularly well br br i suppose they were trying to on the success can i say that of the other influenced movies omega code left behind and yes it does make christians embarrassed when these types of movies are produced i would not recommend this movie to anyone especially a non christian
0	as an avid fan of christian film and a person trying to maintain a keen eye for improvements in the realm of christian film making i was excited to get a chance to see this film i was ready to see something that would make a new mark in quality movies i was left disappointed br br the beginning scene is excellent though a slight rip off of leon the professional on the angle it showcases some great cinematography in the early goings everything after that was pretty much downhill br br i was barely able to sit through this one i was tempted multiple times just to shut it off br br the acting while quite possibly sincere was incredibly awful but then again the heart of the problem was the screenplay itself the dialog was worse than anything i have ever seen and even my amateurish screenplay the awakening soon to be an independent film looked like a hitchcock thriller next to this which isn't saying much the bright side of this film is that it was filmed on sony's brand new high definition 900 cameras shooting in this film and star wars attack of the clones were the first movies ever to use these new technology cameras that year unfortunately the camera's performance seemed to be wasted with bad lighting poor angles and awkward handling br br the only good feeling i got coming out of watching this movie was how good my rookie indie film is going to look next to it 4 10
0	lonely disconnected middle class housewife in the midst of a divorce seeks solace to reflect on her immediate future at some sort of bed and breakfast by well literally in the sea the ocean that for some sort of odd reason she subs for the owner enter lonely arrogant richard gere he is a plastic surgeon he is the only guest at the inn in the sea diane lane is the lonely housewife you'll never guess these two fall immediately in love a tropical storm makes them true lovers br br the subplots in this melodrama make little or no sense the locations photography are fine gere remains one of the most over rated actors in cinema and does not disappoint ms lane must've needed the money but phones in her part with grace
0	not to waste your time watching this vanity project i've had my comment deleted twice now for reasons that i have yet to understand other than the suspicion that someone involved with gone isn't happy with what i had to say so i've pared things down to the nitty gritty this time with an excerpt of my original comments that can in no way be taken as a personal attack on anyone nor unfair commentary br br gone is the sort of train wreck that gives new meaning to the words horrible stilted dialogue a script that just plain about like a fish out of water acting that would embarrass the most self centered of community theater divas cinematography inspired by the survivor school of swooping crane shots followed by static nostril exploring close ups terrible adr work special visual effects that aren't pedestrian music that totally fails to sustain any mood or emotion terrible editing with utterly pointless freezes and fades no art direction to speak of the litany of badness just goes on and on i felt genuinely cheated out of the time it took me to fast forward through most of it time that could have been better spent staring at a wall under no circumstances should anyone unfortunate enough to be reading this subject themselves to this movie because long before it's over they will be wishing they had been raptured before they made that mistake br br case closed amen
0	i'm a christian and i have watched pretty of christian movies but this one is too bad they try to make this good but it's too hard for them i think br br you can see the film is badly dubbed in many places you can almost think that the in this film was the only ones left behind i think there will be a lot more of them br br the quality is poor and the acting could have been better too the story is not so very bad but could've been better the only plus i give is to the story in this film but totally i can't rate it more than 3 10 watch left behind instead
0	one of the reviewers here wrote good acting good special effects great br br location even better ending all i can say is ugh this movie was painful to watch let me start by saying this i am a christian considered extremely conservative by many people i know so what i am about to say is not biased by the br br christian content of the film i'm not gonna bash it because it's christian i am gonna give it a 2 10 because it's a horrible movie the writing is bad over the top way too preachy and much of the preachy stuff is just plain irrelevant to the story it just makes for bad scriptwriting whether i agree with the br br screenwriter's beliefs is irrelevant make a good script that flows well stays on track and is believable the acting was amateurish at best but hey when you cast amateurs you get br br amateur performances dirk been may have been on survivor but that show br br requires zero acting ability playing on his name and reputation to sell units is in bad taste cast unknowns who can act and you'll have a much better film the effects were horrible the scene with the hail and the subsequent falling of the stars was embarrassing to watch and what was so great about the ending it made no sense yeah i know what br br tim was going for but it missed the mark big time i bought this film and expected so much more based on reviews and the br br misinformation on their website and although i was hoping for more i got what i always get when i watch christian films an under budget poorly written pathetically acted badly produced piece of ka ka maybe someday someone will finally step up to the plate with an end times film as well written and as well made as gibson's passion was 2 10 stars
0	the relationship between the lone ranger and tonto was always good for a snicker but to take the joke out of the joke by building a movie around the gay appeal of the legend oh the horror the horror br br
0	i waited quite awhile till i was able to watch this lone ranger movie i finally got to see it on the lone star channel today and was very disappointed in the whole movie clayton moore and john hart acted better lone rangers and jay as tonto than the two stars in this movie very poor acting was done by everyone in this movie even the plot was bad and far fetching i believe the horse portraying silver was the best actor throughout this movie i am glad i didn't go out and buy a copy of this movie when it first came out as i feel it's a waste of good money i am truly sorry the characters that clayton moore john hart and jay played and brought to life on the silver screen have been tarnished so badly unless in the future they find actors worthy of portraying the characters in the same manner which clayton john and jay did so well in the past i'll not spend the money to buy the movie i'll not watch this movie again br br wayne davies
0	whatever the producer was going for he missed entirely the lone ranger is not camp but the icon for good doers all over the world and it's a total violation of the spirit of the character that the only real lone ranger mr clayton moore was forbidden to wear his mask in public appearances when this movie was released br br long story short the single saving grace of this gross and poorly done distortion was that in that year i had the honor of meeting mr clayton moore in columbus ohio as part of a tour resulting from the bad press over mr moore's treatment needless to say mr moore's character integrity and presence far outshined the movie br br some things cannot be done better there is only one lone ranger
0	i loved this movie when it first came out but i was just 12 years old then and i had forgotten this film existed until one day i found a used copy for sale at a gas station i bought it and i couldn't wait to watch this film that had i loved as a kid and then as i saw this film again many years later it hit me why in the world did i like this film as a kid watching it again as an adult i realized that this film is terrible the saddest part about this film is that they had everything in place to make the greatest western ever and they blew it the costumes are perfect good actors there are 2 music scores the score is wonderful and keeps with the classic spirit of the old timey lone ranger alive the second score is a series of songs by country music like merle and the statler brothers and those songs like the man in the mask are so bad that they are funny this movies strongest point is that it had a briliant storyline and one of the best western plots ever and for a while its fun to watch as john reid is nursed back to health after he and his fellow rangers are ambushed its fun to see him grow into his new life and identity as the lone ranger as he his identity and goes on a revenge run to get the gang responsible for killing his brother and all his fellow rangers to whom he rode with but unfortunatly as good as the storyline is its all ruined by merle haggard narrating everything as you are watching it happen for the love of god why did they do that between merle narration and the statler brothers singing corny stupid songs like ride little cowboy being playing in the make this movie impossible to take serious i would love to see a really good producer take this same script and story and re do this film right because at the heart of this silly film is a great western i would this film as a beautiful woman dress in the ugliest clothing i give it 4 stars out of 10 if your 12 years old and dont know better then you might love it
0	i guess it wasn't entirely the filmmaker's fault though the film suffered from the unimaginably stupid decision to tell clayton moore who had done the role in the 1950's and was the lone ranger us old folks grew up with he couldn't wear the mask in public now mind you the poor guy wasn't making all that much money doing so and it wasn't like he was going to take anything away from this film but the whole thing seemed gratuitous br br the other thing the film suffered from besides a leading man whose voice was so awful they had to overdub it was that fact that westerns weren't so hip in 1981 john wayne was dead and we had just been subjected to a decade long major liberal guilt trip about how the west was built on genocide of the native americans that and blazing saddles sent up the whole genre the campfire scene enough said hollywood shied away from westerns because science fiction was cool then br br the one scene that underscored it was when after rescuing the drunken president grant and seriously i'd have let grant stay with the bad guys the country would have been better off grant asks tonto what his reward should be honor your treaties with my people yeah right like that was going to happen
0	there are so many things wrong with this movie that it is hard to pick just a few let's start with the silly and annoying songs like ride little cowboy which just tended to accentuate the city slickers look of the silly kiddie cowboy songs going on in the background during the movie hurt any credibility or momentum that the story had going for it br br i had seen the media hype before this movie was released and i saw interviewed on various tv shows and he had a very soft sweet lilting voice his body language was not exactly what people remembered who were fans of clayton moore and the lone ranger tv series did not help things by acting like a diva and talking trash about clayton moore after the producers got an injunction moore from appearing at conventions and other events as the original lone ranger clayton moore was not even allowed to sign as clayton moore the lone ranger he could only sign as the masked man the incredible amount of negative publicity that this move gave the film was only added to by the petulant attitude of who was very quick to tell reporters that clayton moore would be quickly forgotten once the movie came out br br sadly even after the movie was a total flop the company that owned the lone ranger refused to lift their injunction against clayton moore and he was never again permitted to sign anything except as the masked man and he could not don his black mask at any public appearances between diva personality and the negative publicity the movie got it certainly did not help to make a good impression on the public worse yet a few weeks before the movie was finally released the news was leaked that voice in the movie had been over dubbed by james because the producers thought that did not sound very convincing as a cowboy the ridicule and derision that this news brought on the talk shows and comedy shows of that era put the last nail into the coffin br br but then there was merle haggard narrating his way through the movie apparently the producers were hoping that the macho image of haggard one of the outlaws of country music would add credibility to as the lone ranger the narration by merle haggard was just another annoyance that audiences had to deal with at times haggard rhymes his narration and it sounds like some weird kiddie movie combine the rhyming narration with the ride little cowboy songs and any credibility that could have mustered was destroyed by haggard and the soundtrack br br tonto was played by michael horse and as others have pointed out horse had a lot more personality than in fact perhaps because of allegedly combative attitude during filming it seems like horse was given a lot more dialogue and screen time than anyone would have expected of tonto tonto takes charge and often is the leader instead of the lone ranger i was expecting or hoping that billy jack would make a cameo as brother it would have made the movie a lot better horse is not only more interesting than but he says more and has better scenes perhaps it was a case of horse stealing the show from however since the movie was so wretched horse did not get much recognition unlike horse has had a very productive career in the film industry br br perhaps the last negative about this movie is the powder blue outfit of the lone ranger the material that was chosen for was more blue than what clayton moore normally wore at appearances that choice of color for the outfit just made look more effeminate in his role the comic book version had shown the lone ranger also wearing a red shirt and black pants and that alternative outfit would have helped look more convincing as the lone ranger br br the supporting cast mostly mailed in their performances they all look as if they were working on a tv episode and nobody seemed very convincing even the villain lost his edge due to the people around him overall i feel sorry for not only did he do a terrible acting job but it is obvious that the production and publicity were horrible and effectively sabotaged any chance the poor guy had even if he had been an excellent replacement for clayton moore i doubt that the movie would have done well as a result of the other factors as it stands this film is funny in a sad way
0	i remember this bomb coming out in the early 80's at first it sounded like a great idea a retelling of an american classic with the help of modern movie techniques of the day there was a bit a of a back lash over the treatment of the original lone ranger clayton moore the movie studio had threatened legal action if moore continued portraying him self as the real lone ranger moore was performing at children's hospitals as the lone ranger for sick kids to many americans clayton moore was just that the the one and only lone ranger i had always felt that the studio could have done justice to both the fans and legacy of the lone ranger if moore had been treated better maybe even a cameo in the new movie how ever this was not the case and many of the viewing public stayed away in droves also the story and acting were weak all this added up to a big box office bomb and rightly so i personally i'm glad the studio lost big money after the way the real lone ranger was treated you don't treat an american icon that way
0	while i am not a woman i can enjoy a chick flick if its good this one however is beyond bad you have the by the book story girl is getting divorced boy with issues shows up boom magic happens and his demons are banished as she realizes her life has a new purpose br br now while i can believe that kind of thing might happen i am not an idiot it wouldn't happen over a weekend of geriatric rumpy pumpy it would take time yet here the producers know they only have 1 hour and 30 minutes so they force the changes of the two to happen i suppose a night of getting hammered and a night of gramps and granny going at it like dogs in heat might be enough if you believed romance novels were the gospel but most people don't br br now if that isn't enough the producers remembered that a chick flick needs to make the viewer cry well they tried to make you cry with the two senior citizens getting jiggy with it by failed so how could they hit you again why i know lets kill off one of the characters for no good reason at all except that a random death will surely bring a tear to the eye and now lets have the teen daughter magically bond with heart broken mom for no reason besides the fact that it would be nice completely unreal but who cares br br so there you have it girl find boy boy find love death finds boy and mom cries what a movie not
0	i very well remember the bad press this film got because of the producers' court order against clayton moore using the name lone ranger or donning his black mask at personal appearances quite apart from any consideration of the film's quality this was the absolute height of arrogance and stupidity on the part of the producers and their attorneys and i suspect that the lesson was well learned after this film tanked which was widely perceived as some sort of karma for the jerks responsible for the court order against moore br br in more recent times it has become the custom when reviving a legendary film or tv project to invite the original star or stars for cameo appearances and rightly so show some respect you idiots and even if they turn up their noses at the prospect which has happened at least the offer was made this is proof positive that film producers studio executives and entertainment attorneys are not quite too stupid and arrogant to be taught by example
0	this movie contains the worst acting performance of all time lacks energy to say the least energy is what clayton moore gave us in spades i never felt once in this movie that was anxious for anything revenge love justice not in this guy's portrayal br br there is also no chemistry between tonto and if the plot did not force them to be friends you don't get the impression they want to hang out with each other plus the sidekick has the more interesting personality ewww br br the dialogue is predictable and boring br br the narration is stunningly bad and if you are familiar with the dukes of hazzard you can picture what this is like i cannot believe the director would agree to this it insulted me as a viewer by explaining every plot line i just witnessed br br hey at least the horses and locations looked good maybe that is what happens when you hire a cinematographer to be your director br br rating 2 you may be able to watch this one for laughs or to demonstrate to an alien what a bad movie is
0	the untold origin of the lone ranger it shows who he was and how and why he became the ranger br br legendary bomb the idea was not a bad one reinvent and introduce the lone ranger for 1980s audiences right off the bat though there were problems the studio ordered clayton moore the original ranger to stop appearing anywhere as the lone ranger it led to a nasty little battle that made headlines i know of people who refused to see the film because of how moore was treated also they hired the awesomely untalented to play the ranger was very handsome and muscular but had absolutely no charisma and just couldn't act in fact his whole vocal performance was redubbed by another actor also his off screen antics public drunkenness and beating people up didn't help matters acting aside the script is dull and slow also the ranger himself doesn't show up until an hour in there were some complaints at the time that the movie was too violent for a pg however i don't think it was that bad br br there are a few very few things done right here the photography was truly beautiful michael horse was excellent as tonto christopher lloyd is lots of fun as the villain and when the lone ranger finally shows up with the william tell overture booming from the soundtrack it's really rousing but all in all this is a boring and terrible attempt to bring back the lone ranger it's easy to see why this bombed a 4 mostly for the photography
0	this movie totally sucked don't even rent it you'll hate it the plot didn't make sense the characters sucked and why was that penguin trying to get the pebble anyway if that girl penguin would only like him because he has a pretty pebble than the relationship would not be based on love only on money i very much disliked this movie hate is such a strong word and penguins cant fly even if they believe than they can do it they cant p s i am not who you think i am
0	would it surprise you that my ears and eyes almost bled from watching and listening to this awful movie my eyes almost bled from watching the awful animation and insipid plotless empty story my ears almost bled from listening to the songs that sounded like they were sung by a chorus of howler monkeys then my brain almost melted because of this film's complete lack of intelligence it's formulaic every step of the way talking animals are one thing but a penguin who can fly just to keep with the dreams can come true schtick show some more faith in the children's intelligence please next to rock a doodle this is one of bluth's worst
0	whoa i mean whoa i mean whoa whoa br br i saw this movie waaay back when i was eight in 1996 back then cgi films were a rarity and good ones even more so also back then we listened to things called cd players but i digress i used to like this movie a lot way back then and up till viewing it again i've held reaally fond memories of it hey it's don bluth anyone who hates all dogs go to heaven is clearly a robot but again i digress br br then i saw it again this really isn't one of his best i can say now eleven years later i've seen a lot more films and i've garnered a little bit more knowledge now sure the voice acting is good i'll give 'em that story's okay i mean we see it all the time a lot but it works the musical numbers are what irk me this would've been more at home in the eighties with these kind of musical numbers in '96 most kids movies had epic numbers like the lion king which came out a year or so previous but whatever or stuff like that you get showtunes here vaudeville style br br the animation kind of hurts too at times choppy and at others completely changing style and format with the change of a shot it's really hard not to notice br br i still like all dogs go to heaven but this could've been waaay better br br 4 10
0	i rented this when it came out on video cassette in 1995 after rewatching it again my idea about it hasn't changed much br br i was an adult then and i'm still an adult now lol br br the illogical elements mentioned by other reviewers didn't bother me this isn't a documentary it's a fantasy story where animals can talk br br while i didn't care for much of the songs i liked the one at the end of the picture where it's sang by barry manilow and another person br br some people seem to make an excuse for it's primitive animation by saying that cgi wasn't used often in animated features but let's not forget that the lion king was released about a year earlier and that packed possibly more excellence than any animated feature that came before it br br but i think it's pretty fair to say that the pebble and the was made on the cheap while the lion king wasn't br br the high points for me in 1995 as well as today is the suspense generated by the few dangerous mostly underwater chase scenes br br i also liked the opening scene which takes place on a music notes page and a little bit of the love story but most of the time the story dragged on and was boring br br worth a look if you like animation but if you're an adult and not a risk taker go get another walt disney production instead of this
0	i'm an animator myself and an all around buff of the medium so when i saw this movie in a 5 bin i figured it was worth a shot to add to my collection while i never regret having a new addition to my animation library this film was definitely disappointing br br the premise has enough potential a penguin named finds the perfect pebble to give to the girl he loves as the penguin equivalent to an engagement ring but before he can give it to her he's cast out by an evil rival and lost at sea he then befriends another penguin who helps him find his way home that set up isn't great but it's enough to set up what could be a fun adventure unfortunately the duo's exploits never really amount to much and it all gets pretty repetitive most of the situations they find themselves in are really uninspired and lacking in creativity and the bonding the two of them under go is cheesy and forced br br animation is good but not up to don bluth's usual standards this is the guy that gave us the secret of nimh land before time and an american tale all of which had an attention to detail that often surpassed disney the granddaddy of feature animation this one doesn't amount to much beyond high end tv fair br br the music is alright but pretty forgettable and the voice actors are all wasted talent martin short is particularly wasted here as the lead character who in spite of being spoken of as a is practically a straight man through the whole film br br in short the movie will probably appeal to very small kids but a good family film should appeal to all ages and unfortunately it doesn't got what it takes
0	like the troll from bluth's a troll in central park lacks the spark of personality to be the main character that carries an entire movie we're supposed to like him because he's nice but that's about all he is br br his character design is unappealing the top of his head is a sort of dome that is than the pudgy bottom half of his head br br and penguins should not have teeth i know that iago the parrot in aladdin had teeth but maybe that worked because it made him look more like his voice actor gilbert gottfried with his weenie little voice provided by martin short looks funny with that big set of chompers in his beak br br tim curry who is usually delightful at being evil does some sort of dippy surfer dude accent as the villain might have been a good voice for a comic relief accomplice not the supposedly menacing main villain br br the entire plot revolves around the hero and villain's love for female penguin marina who is just as dull as both of her suitors br br worst of all is the pacing we keep cutting back to the villain to watch him threaten marina some more this time in dialogue this time in song br br barry manilow may be a great songwriter but in animated films like this and his songs feel limp and listless especially the ballads the only song i liked was the 1930's ish good ship misery song br br i read that the distributor made some cuts in this film against the filmmaker's wishes and that could have caused some of the problems though i suspect the real problem is that they didn't cut the rest of it
0	by the mid 1990s the career of animator director don bluth had seemed to drop to its all time low before bluth had made a series of popular animated films many which remain beloved today such as the land before time 1988 the secret of nimh 1982 and an american tail 1986 but beginning with in 1994 his films seemed to decrease more and more in quality and popularity and one of the many unfortunate entries is 1995's box office bomb the pebble and the penguin a film that didn't attract audience members beyond parents and children under the age of seven frankly the latter are the only audience members i can comprehend taking enjoyment out of this rather bland animated feature br br the story is absurd the film stars a poorly drawn stammering and chubby penguin named voiced by martin short who falls in love with a female penguin with a surprisingly healthy flower on her head voice by annie golden sort of like in real life penguins present their bride to bes with a pebble as a substitute for a ring but when is swept away by the current he teams up with a lone james belushi with a dream of flying and they race against time to return to antarctica before it's too late the reasons why they could be too late is one of many underdeveloped elements of this weak story that would still be weak even if they were there br br it becomes very clear very early on why this animated children's musical does not and will not work for anybody older than say six or seven years of age it just does not have any of the qualities that are required for a good animated feature number one the film looks bad on account of a very poor drawing style the animation in this film is very cartoony even as far as animated films go it's dark gloomy there is no vibrancy in the colors and on top of that the design of the film and the elements in it are universally droll and laughable take for instance the penguins who star in the film with only a few background exceptions every single penguin looks absolutely nothing at all like a bird for example looks absurdly ridiculous with wide cheeks a stubby beak big eyes and that preposterous hat that he wears wherever he goes combined with his hand like flippers he looks like chris farley in a penguin suit result he's an ugly poorly drawn cartoon character but the most absurd looking and absurdly designed character is the evil penguin drake who frankly looks nothing at all like a penguin he's a muscle man wearing a penguin mask he's got a chest broader than that of arnold schwarzenegger and teeth larger than the teeth of the leopard seals and killer whales that serve as the film's predators basically he's a two dimensional recycled villain he lives in a cave shaped like a skull he wears a cape laughs a lot and gets mad when people laugh with him result who cares and what's also bad and maybe worse is that this is an animated musical and there's not a single noteworthy or memorable song to found anywhere within its running time the opening hymn was memorable but harmless but after that the songs became duller and duller and there was one in particular that had me grimacing all the way through it's the moment that viewers press the fast forward button for whenever it comes up br br i felt the pebble and the penguin was lame all around save for the very few moments when and the penguin are placed in peril at the jaws of leopard seals and killer whales who were thankfully given no dialogue and treated as animals instead of cartoon characters but in a way for this reason i cannot wholeheartedly recommend this movie to children this is the reason the film displays killer whales are the natural predator of the penguins my concern is that children familiar with free willy 1993 may be offended or by seeing their favorite denizen of the sea portrayed as a bloodthirsty the leopard seal was a better antagonist and was more funny seeing as how his jaws opened wider than a and how he appeared to smile while growling but the point really is these moments with the there are only a the only interesting moments and they're not enormously interesting mind you br br bottom line i cannot recommend this to anybody below the age of seven my advice if you have children around that page rent it for them they might enjoy it
0	this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen br br casting richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself supporting cast not too memorable br br story the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting the story is weak not enough happens to make a movie about there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here br br the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive br br not destined to be a great one to remember
0	this movie was obscenely obvious and predictable the scenes were poorly written and acted even worse following the horrible scenes was the terrible script filled with pointless and poorly thought out lines i would never suggest this movie to anyone who would have any sense in watching decent movies this movie was not only with the same ideas as the show the bachelor and bachelorette but also contained many parts in which you would know what the next move and line was going to be without ever having to watched the movie before the casting was fine but the actors played there characters horribly with more drama then should have been used and said lines in was that wanted you to change the channel quickly as a note please don't watch this movie
0	ridiculous film where two swinging college graduates move out to california and one becomes a movie star and the other his manager br br as 10 years pass the star's popularity is so it is determined that there will be a television show where women will compete for his affection br br the film is obnoxious and ridiculous the girls who vie for lover boy are made to look foolish only one girl seems to be the choice of the producer of the show she is really an amateur up against some of the other women but she is wholesome and brings good ratings to the show as well br br by the third scene you realize that the manager is falling for her br br we know that ryan really was meant to be a bachelor while the ending is somewhat cute you really know where this was going
0	it's painfully clear that all effort in this film was directed toward cinematography and very little attention to everything else most obvious mistake is the miscast of the entire female cast many of them are very experienced and capable but they all seemed out of place and having an amateur director certainly didn't help the story is a very common geisha story and characters behaved very inconsistently thus making it extremely difficult for me to connect with the heroine br br this movie's theme is modern prostitution but still it was annoying how anna's lead character kept talking like a female motorcycle gang member while everyone else spoke in old japanese fitting for this setting this movie has very beautiful vibrant colors similar to zhang yimou's hero but viewers can easily tell it's filmed in a cheap elaborate set br br the two sequences with shiina insert songs were really nice though in mid section of the movie i actually really disliked her music before but they fit perfectly in this movie although is a complete failure as a film director she has a major potential in pv music video production br br i believe the story felt very plain because the director failed to focus on character development and because anna's unconvincing acting as an oiran had this film been directed by a known director with any other known actress in japan it would've had the potential to become a masterpiece
0	i just realized why the colors and sets in were so flashy and gaudy and just painful to look at the story is about a high class prostitute known as an oiran in japanese their kimono were always flashier and gaudier than other kimono so that the oiran would stand out but the director had to make sure that the director stood out even more than the main character or even the story br br what anna did in the movie just gave me the creeps you couldn't call it acting it was nothing more than catering to her flipped out high school girl fan base hey anna good luck on that one as you get older yeah right an oiran as a crude and vulgar prone to violence biker chick didn't we already see you portray this character in a more appropriate movie br br the story was painfully boring and predictable what is the story of an obnoxious little bitch ever remains true to her self which is just that an obnoxious bitch she finds that inexplicably men are attracted to her and that she has an unexplained ability to manipulate men and becomes a successful high class prostitute even though she talks and behaves like she's a member of a female biker gang this so called seductive ability of hers is talked about but we never see it in action probably due to the ineptitude of the main pretend phony biker chick i mean actress br br the main character of the movie makes a wealthy and powerful man angry at her because she keeps him waiting while she services a much more lowly customer not very oiran like is it how could such a woman ever become an oiran oh because the previous oiran got herself killed and the house needed a whore that could demand a high price who would pay a high price for a slut so cheap rumors get around how could there be no repercussions for what she did to the powerful guy because the screenwriters are dolts they just made up a bunch of crap br br then an even more wealthy and powerful guy falls for her why and she throws him over for a penniless guy who is generally cold and distant toward her but respects who she really is which doesn't make sense how can anyone respect someone so worthless br br speaking of crap it's like the director down and took a huge psychedelic colored dump on the aesthetics culture and society of the edo period what of such things as mono no aware subtlety elegance a hierarchical society all shat upon by a director who comes off as a senseless parvenu the amazing thing is that so many other japanese in watching this movie down around the director and took steaming spoonfuls of this blazing colored stinking crap and exclaimed how tasty it was br br argentinean tango music with violin and as backdrop for the edo period when japan was totally isolated from the international world except for the 3 7 acres of why not just have anna the bad ass biker oiran answer her cell phone and the rich and powerful character drive off in a hissy fit in his red ferrari the music we had to listen to was jarring and anachronistic the same as the art design br br near the ending i liked that there were only two or three tiny flowers on the shrine cherry tree but earlier the second she said she would leave the quarters when it bloomed we all knew exactly what would happen how boring to telegraph the ending so clearly but what's the point of the old tree blooming that rich and powerful guy already made the pleasure quarters bloom in cherry blossoms like the mountains of in spring that didn't impress her at all no of course not i already know that about whores the guys that treat them nicely get kicked in the balls maybe it bugs the whores to have people them when they themselves know the truth of who they are just cheap and worthless br br considering the director's obsession with goldfish the second to last scene should have been of a goldfish bowl on a verandah accidentally knocked over two fish tumble into a stream which carries them off to escape beyond the walls of the pleasure quarters belying how goldfish are stuck in their bowl and can't survive outside just like the denizen's relationship with the pleasure quarters otherwise the talk of the fate of goldfish has no meaning br br in the final scene the cherry trees were full in bloom but the brevity of the blooms is one thing special about cherry blossoms i couldn't help thinking that soon enough dusk would wipe away all the soft pink color and warmth from the scene the sky would go quickly from hints of shadow into an ever deepening gloom and night would fall it would become cold very cold and dark that really wasn't a happy ending was it romantic love in the edo period could survive in the face of terrible poverty and being ostracized for about as long as those cherry trees bloomed maybe a few days unless it sooner but the romantic love we see here it's existence in this period is incomprehensible br br anna walking in the shoes of an oiran she couldn't do it literally check out the scene of her promenade where she seems to have the correct footwear on but she has to hold on to some guy's shoulder to keep from tumbling on her ass br br i was going to give this movie two stars for the art direction but then i realized what that was all about sick dominance on the part of the director those colors and sets are just the way the director has of screaming i'm the most important one here me it's all about me
0	in his feature film debut yellow ' chris chan lee attempts to enlighten hollywood's portrayal of asian americans by departing from the stereotypes typically depicted in mainstream film however in so doing lee commits a far more heinous crime he exaggerates asian americans' own stereotypes of themselves to the point of incredulity the result dreadfully one dimensional characters and an outrageously shallow script triggers the cast into a frenzy of over acting ultimately resulting in a film that is physically painful to watch br br don't be deceived by any of the positive reviews garnered by each falls into one of two camps in one corner e g right here on imdb com you find asian americans who are so elated that an asian character can be depicted onscreen without thick glasses and a math book that they somehow neglect the idiocy of lee's final product on the other hand you find movie critics who have simply presumed that it'd be uncool to give the thorough bashing that it deserves after all it's an edgy asian american film made by an independent asian american filmmaker protected territory for now br br case example main character sin lee michael chung writer director lee accomplishes a monumental feat with sin by editing in such a way that sin never appears onscreen unless he is either scowling or yelling see sin his friends' support scowl see sin walk along the beach and brood scowl yelling ensues see sin closing up his father's shop scowl see sin urinating scowl see sin breathing scowl br br gee i wonder if sin is full of asian american angst do you think i'm not sure scowl scowl br br just to be thorough lee introduces us to father lee soon oh throughout the movie whereas sin simply scowls or yells mr lee scowls and yells in fact this is principal role in simultaneous scowling and yelling br br gee i wonder if is an asian father with an authority complex do you think i'm not sure scowl yell br br if lee's one dimensional characters don't annoy you his story line will meet mina mary chen and joey john cho two characters that exist in this film solely for the purpose of spinning a tangential and entirely irrelevant love story into the film you see lee learned in film school that every good movie must include some sort of love related subtext and these two characters allow him to fulfill the obligation mina and joey's excruciatingly inane flirting dialogue consists of one liner insults culminating in a kiss nerd ' ' eyes meet understanding smile kissing ensues br br but rest assured somewhere out there sin is scowling while this all takes place br br that neither mina nor joey contributes in any way whatsoever to the film's plot does not perplex me so much as lee's insistence on the most hackneyed movie cliches to accomplish his and trust me the flirting sequence is just the tip of the iceberg br br towards the end of the film we find lee attempting to explain his constant scowling and yelling to girlfriend teri mia in what i am sure lee meant to be a poignant moment what a surprise as invokes a metaphorical story about the homeland to illustrate his point ripped straight out of reader's digest his voice quivers in that extra special paternal way the camera pans into an obligatory shot of trembling hands we feel compelled to roll our eyes except we realize that explanation makes no sense whatsoever but lack of substance didn't stop lee from making the movie so why would he cut this particularly ineffective scene after all the world can always use another cliché br br well you say the movie may be painful but at least it must be a technical masterpiece say like what dreams may come ' sorry on a technical basis disappoints as well lee's edits are awkward and disrupt what little rhythm exists in the film at all but i'm sure lee thought they would seem hip to make matters worse every frame is either or overexposed although the light meter was invented in 1932 somehow the technology didn't make it onto the set br br in light of the film's utter deficiency supporting actor burt who plays best friend alex performs relatively well although overacts slightly you can't really blame him when lee's script consists solely of scowling and yelling castmates on the other hand show no restraint in their overacting whatsoever br br i have not seen a film as bad as in a very long time and i truly pray that i will not see a film as bad as for quite some time as well please do not waste see it life is already way too short thank you
0	br br to make this short and sweet i hope this movie will not be considered the seminal work for the gener asian of american film making the acting was sub par relying on stereotypes raised voices and exaggerated eye buggery to convey its message chris chan park does not delve very deep into the any of his characters allowing them to remain caricatures of angry frustrated distant uncommunicative asians these depictions do not make characters mysteriously appealing it makes them confusing and unsympathetic i like to think that us asians are more complex than that br br i came out of the movie unconvinced unconvinced that these characters had a life long blood brother like connection with each other to go to the lengths they did to help their buddy out unconvinced that the main character had anything beyond a superficial attraction to his girlfriend unconvinced that hard working immigrant parents wouldn't pay for their son's college education unconvinced that all of the characters were even necessary i e janet who is put to bed in the back of the car and quickly forgotten br br the story line which i actually think had potential was not allowed to come into its own for two reasons 1 flat characters for whom i had no sympathy affinity 2 the plot is overshadowed by meaningless non sequitur scenes such as the donut shop sequence with amy hill which was simply ridiculous and unnecessary br br i commend park for his efforts as i'm sure it took a lot of hard work to even produce the film and i'll even give him the benefit of the doubt this time around as a rookie director screenwriter but i sincerely hope that next time around he'll go a little deeper just because the film is one of the first of its kind about the korean american experience doesn't mean it's automatically good
0	a single mom her son and daughter and their hippie chick friend are camping in the woods a muscle bound machete wielding maniac in a yellow ski mask appears he starts terrorizing and sexually violating the family before murdering them with a machete wet wilderness is loaded with ugly hardcore sex forced incest and blatant racism it's as politically incorrect as xxx get the score is stolen from seminal hitchcock's horror classic psycho and also jaws the acting is hilariously awful the editing is bad and there are some huge lapses in logic the repetitive nature of the sex scenes grinds the movie after while so the brief running time is a blessing the scenes of violence are quite nasty for example the hippie girl is stabbed with the machete in her groin and one can see blood on her crotch 3 out of 10 and that's being generous
0	there was a time in the us that everything was possible on film so came the movies containing horror and explicit scene's the best known are forced entry and but of course those were made with a bit of budget all shown on 42nd in ny but hey there were other grindhouses out there that showed no budget wet wilderness is an example of it it circuited the underground scene after a while so copies were available but as seen on other reviews some copies were abrupt cut at the end but the version i watched was complete well i would call this one more a porn one then a roughie there is a serial killer around but he likes more to watch others have sex instead of killing them when he kills it's done off screen the acting is the worst i ever seen and i guessed that the so called actors didn't like what they are doing for example in the beginning when we have the lesbian scene watch one girl stop performing and pulls a pubic hair out of here mouth then continues doing what was happening or when mother is riding the black man the daughter is sitting in the grass annoyed by ants but it is the storyline that made this one famous incest and racism is what this made it famous when there is blood watch the two girls sitting there waiting for a cue to act god this is worse but still one to have if you are into sleaze and grindhouse be sure that you have the full version
0	ok before i get into this let's go ahead and get the warning out of the way this movie is the quintessential cinematic definition of sleaze there are movies out there that can definitely out shock or out disgust this movie that have way more artistic validity than can be said for this turd of a film so what makes it so sleazy let's take a closer look at wet wilderness for a moment br br made in 1974 for practically nothing this roughie has no real genuine plot to speak of other than portraying what would happen if a family went into the wilderness to relax and spend a day while being accosted by a fat dude in a ski mask wielding a machete looking for kicks the kind that end up with everyone being forced to have sex with each other while being systematically murdered by the masked creep so those sensitive to themes dealing with incest are encouraged to look elsewhere then to really either add a level of surrealism or just demonstrate a complete ineptness for the art of film making the daughter of the group runs away after being forced to have sex with her brother and finds a random black dude tied to a tree branch that fat sum bitch left me here for 3 days with virtually no explanation whatsoever he is saved or is he of course not they are caught before they can escape where our killer forces them to have sex as well while forcing the mother to join in ending up with a dead black dude courtesy of a hatchet through the chest when all is said and done then our killer forces the daughter and mother to give him oral sex when one of the women grabs the machete and the movie abruptly ends just like that no warning no tied up loose ends it's simply over now there might be a proper ending to this film i honestly do not know but i have only seen the extremely crude alpha blue archives version their version appears to have the ending either cut out completely or this is how it ends if this was intentional then in film making 101 i'm sure there is some sort of rule of thumb on how to end a film but it shouldn't be done like this fans of the film psycho should rejoice upon hearing the soundtrack music as it's all through the film i'd be willing to bet no rights were licensed or anything also even though this is a violent film there's not a hell of a lot of it so gorehounds will find nothing of real use here none of the violence is graphically shown only the results one of the victims gets stabbed with a machete right above the vagina area also the sex is some of the ugliest sex i've ever seen the interesting thing about this film is it's too ugly a film to work as an effectively erotic porno or turn on anyone but those with a tendency to like things sleazy nasty and ugly but not violent enough to garner any real notoriety with those looking for something really brutal like cannibal holocaust or other flicks like that the only notorious thing about this steaming pile is that violence was added to an adult film a fairly new concept at that time especially when you consider than porn chic was all the rage and the grindhouses that filled 42nd street played stuff like this to a most jaded group of porn mavens this wasn't and isn't mainstream porn at all br br if you were in film making school and there was a list of movie making this film would be a shining example of that lesson this cinematic swill demonstrates what happens when cerebrally challenged filmmakers are given a budget in this case probably about 142 cuz it looks it and ignore all the and turn them into do's yes this film is that bad one more thing those who get offended by racial epithets are also encouraged to watch something else the black man in the film is constantly being verbally abused about his color and the killer is obviously racist but there was no political correctness in the early 70's i'm not sure a film like this could be made today br br to be honest this won't shock anyone or titillate anyone but those who get off on ugliness actually i got bored the sex is so ugly and mundane it's hard to watch with any sense of eroticism so if you chance this you will thank god for the fast forward button the acting if you want to call it that is amateurish at best i mean it's even bad for porno with not one reason to care about anyone or anything in this if you just gotta see this anyway then download it as you'll really feel like a heel if you buy this some things are simply that worthless and wet is the only thing more unpleasant than watching this film would be watching this film sitting in a theater and looking around at the others in attendance watching it too and suddenly feeling unsafe probably not society's greatest collection of thinkers and intellectuals but if you're up for some stupid yet sleazy porn garbage give it a crack it's 54 minutes and yet it feels much longer would love this then again maybe there's something wrong with me for seeking this out in the first place lol caveat sleaze lovers
0	too much stock footage almost one third of this 53 minute film really slows this one down granted that the plot is that john weston john wayne is sent by marshall george higgins george hayes to participate in a fixed rodeo say ro day oh but character development and interaction are sacrificed the relationship between the bad girl usually a latina even in the great duck soup 1933 and the 'heroine' polly ann young a loretta young look alike hey it's her sister could have benefited from more screen time the happy ending is too abrupt although this time john wayne actually kisses the girl br br the most interesting stock footage was the lengthy rodeo parade of real indians and but when the best part of the movie is the stunt work by the mighty yak yakima canutt who gives us jumping from one horse to another and several different running leaps onto a horse you know we're in trouble as noted by others the final fight with the villain is very poorly done br br my copy from disc featured an added sparse ill fitting pseudo classical stereo music track that ruins the authenticity of the original film the dvd box had audio 5 1' on it if you're going to modernize and colorize it you should add a 'western' sounding score with acoustic guitars and an accordion br br finally we have to say this is one of the weakest lone star efforts
0	here in australia nights in is being promoted in the same class as the notebook quite frankly what a lot of rot br br this film is a like a recipe on paper we have all the right ingredients richard gere normally perfect in this genre diane lane an old favourite from under tuscan sun and unfaithful ocean side location solitude and yet the movie sucks at the session we went to yesterday afternoon a women next to my wife fell asleep and half way through the movie got up and left the main problem is there is no build up or credibility to the relationship in the first place and perhaps there are too many long faces and downbeat if you like histories that gere and lane's characters bring to the movie there's hours of those balanced out with perhaps 5 minutes of what we can to see romance there's no warmth from gere's character lane looks dreadful at the start of the movie and all washed out so as the viewer we cannot really connect to the characters br br others here say the book is great well be it the screenplay direction or production someone here has made a real mess of this movie it's like the scenes and the buildup are a deck of cards except instead of being in the correct order they've just been thrown together all over the place br br very disappointing save your money for when it hits the video shops and even then wait for a good deal when it goes to the weekly rate
0	i can't believe the high marks people have given this film on this site the writing is incredibly bad with people coming in at just the right time and revealing exactly what the heroine is doing to try to escape don't you just hate it when that happens and the acting is so very very bad that you may get a splinter in your eye from all the scenery being chewed br br a nut is holding her hostage children are outside the open screen so she whimpers for help instead of screaming when only a moment ago she was brave enough to be smashing windows to yell to these same children br br she's finally free and alone in the house her chance to go for help so what does she do wanders around the house and lies down she's in the basement locked away so what does she do takes a little nap come on most of the movie is the nut wandering away and finding her sitting there snoozing when he wakes her up four times what if the writer is too bored to actually write a real plot why should we be paying attention i think the key here is that it was originally a play for the radio so they filled in with the heroine just sitting around rather than pretending to be screen writers and actually writing any action br br and the ending is horrendous br br the whole movie is completely implausible horribly written and almost comically acted beware this movie at all costs
0	the man from utah opens with a singing cowboy strumming a guitar on horseback this is how we're introduced to john weston john wayne heading into town and looking for work when he helps marshal higgins george pre gabby hayes foil a bank robbery with his fancy shooting the marshal offers him an undercover job as a deputy to investigate the dalton valley rodeo apparently the annual winners of the big prize money in the rodeo are a tight knit band of bad boys in the employ of spike barton ed who also happens to head up the rodeo committee serious challengers to the supremacy of barton's top henchman cheyenne kent yakima canutt wind up severely ill or dead br br even back in these 1930's lone star westerns john wayne had a charismatic presence that hinted at future star quality if for nothing else seeing wayne so young in these films is a real treat the movie itself clips along at a quick fifty three minute pace much of it taken up by stock rodeo footage of and indian parade and dance in the deciding rodeo event weston avoids disaster by discovering a poisoned needle inserted into the saddle of dynamite a formerly bronco on which he must cheyenne br br the ending is no surprise as barton's bad boys forsake winning the rodeo events and go for the whole thirty thousand dollar pot of prize money deposited in the local bank but the marshal and weston are there to foil their plans and save the day for the dalton valley rodeo and as we've seen before in films like the arizona skies and randy rides alone wayne's character closes out the film in a clinch with a pretty young lady this time the judge's daughter marjorie carter polly ann young who for him throughout the film
0	i don't understand how some people can stand playing half life counter strike when there are so many better first person shooting games available br br counter strike is a game that doesn't use any imaginative ideas in its weaponry all the weapons in the game are real life weapons but there could have been at least a cheat that allowed players to have access to a supernatural weapon like the all powerful bfg in the quake doom games br br another problem is that the player actually has to reload the weapon manually this can become extremely annoying especially while in the middle of a firefight when you are so close to killing the enemy the reloading delay also gives the feeling that the gun is slow at performing its task br br there are not many choices of characters to choose from if i remember correctly there are 4 types of characters each for the terrorist and counter terrorist forces this means that many of the characters look the same as each other which really brings down the game's realism br br the game is pretty sexist when it comes to character selections in the early version of counter strike there was a woman available to choose in the terrorist force selection which was good for the female gamers in the latest versions however the female character was deleted and replaced with another male character i wonder if the women who played the game were disappointed at the newer versions br br finally the maps in the game are very small the biggest map seems to be the desert map but it has standard detail in fact all the maps in the game have standard graphics in other words nothing new br br to sum up i think half life counter strike is the most un imaginative first person shooting game of all time there are plenty of better more imaginative shooting games to play so why waste your time on this boring game you're better off playing the unreal tournament quake and doom games avoid this over rated over hyped game br br i give the game a 1 10
0	this movie is bad so bad that my mother who can barely stand the suspense of disney's snow white was chuckling through out the entire movie my first warning should've been that it was in the 5 50 bin at wal mart but i have actually found some good movies in that bin so i can't fault if for this debacle the second warning should have been that when the cashier rang up the dvd it was actually 3 88 again i have never been one to ignore the cheapies this movie is definitely not for people looking for something good to watch and it most certainly isn't for everyone that enjoys the occasional bad movie if you need background noise while you are doing something like playing cards with some friends then get this but if you are looking for something to actually watch don't even bother it was really disappointing because there were a lot of good actors i felt like i was watching a chocolate version of willard
0	this movie wasn't the best but it did have some good actors in it washington was pretty good as a homeless guy guy was good as his handicapped brother ice t was humorous as the landlord and surprisingly the actress tami roman was good as the judge in the movie i didn't even know it was her and i am a die hard real world fan she was totally believable hopefully this movie won't hinder these actors development i know that has left this movie far behind with the success of grey's anatomy ice t with his regular role on nypd special unit and tami roman has landed a recurring role on sex love and secrets new soap opera i wish the same for the other actors because one bad movie doesn't a bad actor make
0	spoiler it could be the one the worst movie you see you might like it like i did i really like it its one of those odds movie br br there is man who seen to have a had day in life blacks rats some how feel sorry him which i think was a good idea br br the killer rats become friends with man two big man come making feel unwanted so the man set the killer rat on them and floor to floor both bodies covered in big black rats not that much blood br br but think about big black rats all over body but start to little killing people but rats are going over bored until the rats kills his friends and girlfriends br br ther one scene in were seating on the toilet while rats are going into the pipes leading to toilet and rat goes up his you know and come out of his mouth which mean the rats must off eaten everything inside in body's i had me laughing for weeks br br why did i like this movie yes it's different of the rest i for one like it when little creature takes on mankind br br if you have seen any of these movie slugs slither them spiders snakes tremors cujo crocodile shark octopus br br if you liked them and check out hood rats br br it better then terror toons that all i can say 4 10
0	i normally am a glutton for poor movies but this thing stunk br br do not watch this movie br br terrible effects and very little humour what the hell was the point of making this movie no gore to speak of and no acting to speak of br br i could only manage 45 minutes of this rat dropping of a movie and that is rare for me br br something positive to say about this drivel cover art was ok i am pretty sure the movie has a ending too even tho i did not make it to it br br the rats were unorganized and blew their lines constantly they lacked intensity and seemed just to be going through the paces for their paycheque the actors were worse
0	i can't believe that isaiah washington and ice t were in this mess the plot and i use that term very loosely centers around an army of rats that terrorize an urban apartment complex at least i think that's what it was about the script made no sense at all i couldn't have cared less about the characters and the camera work consisted of repeatedly showing shadow images of rats standing on their hind legs or running running is what i should have done as an african american male i often read pleas from my brothers and sisters to support african american films i try to help out but enough is enough no one should watch garbage like this for any reason whatsoever please brothers and sisters don't produce any more direct to video rat turds like this please
0	hood rat is absolutely terrible this is a urban version of willard i just can't believe this movie got made let alone distributed someone in universal studios thought that people would watch and like this movie the only good thing in this is ice t as the landlord he was funny br br the one thing i hate in movies is sped up action once or twice is bad enough but the whole movie is like that every scene transition is some fast motion special effect the director should be banned from making movies forever br br trust me never see this movie
0	there are bad movies and then there are movies which are even worst saw is just that br br the movie is simply bad on all points the plot the acting the camera work the music and everything else is absolutely terrible and i cannot begin to comprehend how such trash made it to the big screen br br the simple fact is that saw is riddled with plot holes the beginning is enticing and leaves much to be expected but it does not hold up and the plot becomes absolutely ridiculous and absurd the film is not creative and will not leave you with a single bit of credibility people that claim that this movie is gory violent sadistic and scary are sissy girls who have nightmares after watching csi because it is far from that br br so i am warning you know do not attempt to watch this if you have any form of intellect because you will be disappointed a true bore and a mediocre film as can be
0	eh this is a popcorn movie nothing more i watched this with a bunch of friends and though that might not be the best way to view a horror movie and most of the dialogue and action was laughable br br it left me yearning for a real film br br the main problem is the lack of tension in the film it keeps flashing back to scenes which dissipates any discernible tension br br and the character relationship 'twists' yeah they suck i won't say what they are but they just don't add anything to the film storyline br br by relationship i mean the two main characters br br eek my recommendation is this watch this movie if you can't think of anything better mediocre at best maybe not even that
0	frankly after cotton club and unfaithful it was kind of embarrassing to watch lane and gere in this film because it is bad the acting was bad the dialogs were extremely shallow and insincere it was well shot but then again it is a big budget movie it was too predictable even for a chick flick i even knew from the beginning that he was going to die in the end the only thing i didn't know was how too politically correct very disappointing the only thing really worth watching was the scenery and the house because it is beautiful but if you want that watch national geographic i love lane but i've never seen her in a movie this lousy as far as gere goes he's a good actor but he had movies like this so i'm not surprised an hour and a half i wish i could bring back
0	danny glover and carey elwes obviously forgot how to act when they made this movie the acting is absolutely atrocious the pay off is even worse i feel sorry for danny glover i hope he got paid well for this because it makes him look completely foolish the same goes for mr elwes an absolute slap in the face to any horror movie fan despicable this is probably the worst display of acting by veteran actors i have ever seen i wonder if they bothered to look at the script or if they did it must have said forget everything you know about acting because this makes the two of them look ridiculous for two seasoned veterans to act this way is appalling i hope the pay check was very large i thought at first it was a spoof if you can find satisfaction in this movie then more power to you
0	there were so many things wrong with this movie i have trouble keeping them all straight but one thing that really bothers me is that if jigsaw was the one laying on the ground in the bathroom what happens if never shows up what if was killed by danny before he made it to the bathroom does jigsaw simply just get up and walk out could the guy in the middle of the bathroom not be jigsaw but another part of game what if killed the wife and kid how does jigsaw get him the antidote for the poison if he's lying in the middle of the bathroom why does the doctor wait till the last minute to finally cut off his foot it was too late it was after six and as far as he knew his wife and child were already shot dead it wasn't the best time for heroics these are just a few questions i had about the film but i may be missing something or everything as i have only seen the movie once please help
0	why is it that every time i mention this movie to somebody i have to hear 10 minutes of praise about it i have come to the conclusion that any movie that has a twist upon a twist is deemed genius by anyone who watches it is that really what film has become or is it that any time someone says wow that is so cool everybody has to agree with them and has no opinion of their own how this movie has a 7 5 rating is a disgrace to the film industry in general it has also become yet another movie that needs two sequels for it so i am going to have to hear about this horrible franchise for quite a while longer br br now to the film and why it is so bad the original concept of it is actually not that bad as there has not been a good serial killer movie in a while the writing for this film is horrible as well as the execution ok so its a low budget movie but that should not change the story or writing the actors could not be worse in their attempt to make us scared of this killer or just scared of this movie so they go out and get a big name in danny glover but his talents whatever those are are wasted because his character is worthless why was he even in this movie what was his whole fight at the end turned out to be useless and misleading for what the audience believes is happening this is of course the filmmakers intent but couldn't there have been a better way to do this without making us watch all that garbage and then the big twist comes was this the third or fourth and the whole audience is shocked and walks out of the theater like this is some kind of masterpiece sure the movie gets people talking about the storyline and what not but that was not the only flaw in this film the direction was trying to be way too creative with what it was working with and the flashback sequences were used merely as a shock effect br br after watching this movie even if you enjoyed it go back and review the film and you will soon understand why it is not worthy of the praise it is receiving for an amazing serial killer film check out se7en if you have not done so that is what this film wanted to be i have gotten into more arguments about this film than probably any others and will continue to argue against it please do not support this franchise for not only your sake but mine and everybody else's sake as well hollywood needs to find a good horror movie to make rather than 1 000 remakes sequels and shock factor films such as this oh yeah the saw 2 tag line sounds real promising oh yes there will be blood sweet blood that must mean its good right give me a break sorry everybody who love this movie but poor writing flashy direction and bad acting does not make a good movie
0	this was the most unrealistic movie i ever seen br br i can't believe that the writer and director didn't see that almost all the movie looks like a sf one br br for example br br 1 it is impossible for the killer to stay on cold and after 10 hours to get up so quickly br br 2 you can't get electrocuted trough a water pipe like in the movie believe me it's my domain br br 3 with a saw you can cut 10 pipes in 10 hour very easy let's say that the chain was made from steel but the water pipe was rusty and it was made from iron br br 4 if you try to cut your foot with a saw you faint in the best case it's more likely to die because your hart fails before to get to the bone shin br br and there are more other examples
0	i'm a big horror film buff particularly of the 1980's name one – i've probably seen it last year a new little horror movie that seemed to slip under mainstream radar called saw was about to hit theaters i was moderately excited having not heard anything about it i thought it looked quite promising judging by the previews and posters well except the back and white ones with the severed hands and feet those just looked terrible i saw the film on opening night it was one of the worst experiences of my life this movie was literally mentally and psychically painful to watch because it was scary no because it was one of the most awful movies i had ever had the displeasure of seeing first off the construction of the screenplay and editing was utterly atrocious even by horror movie standards starting off a sequence in an interrogation room with a victim smith who recently survived a serial killer's attack then showing a flashback of what she survived not scary it was impossible to feel any type of tension whatsoever knowing that the aforementioned victim was perfectly alright sure that reverse bear trap thing was creepy but why should i feel in the least bit frightened when clearly you just showed me she survived the ordeal unfortunately the entire film was constructed this way it starts with two guys in a cellar then they show flashbacks of how they were abducted not scary why because we already know what's gonna happen to them seeing as how we just saw the result of the attack they're fine move on with the story even more unfortunately the actual story was meager at best i couldn't have cared less for these annoying pitiful excuses for characters and the acting didn't help cary elwes was solid for the most part and then suddenly towards the end he started crying like a lost infant while straining to keep his american accent in tact it didn't work – the audience i saw this with was in stitches this drove him to a rash and idiotic decision even the most simple minded wouldn't attempt he had other options better ones smarter ones even given his intense emotional state horribly communicated through horrible acting it was still irrational i didn't buy it bad writing alert furthermore even when certain sequences were played straight through and flashback free they were painfully predictable i constantly found my foot tapping impatiently waiting for the dumb sequence to end this happened for the entire film i saw every single twist coming twenty minutes into the film i had already called the killer's identity not to mention his connection to his accomplice s as soon as they appeared on screen better acting might've been able to overshadow the awful script instead the actors might as well have had red herring or accomplice tattooed across their foreheads br br by the end of the movie i was utterly outraged i had wasted even a fragment of my life on this film and the entire theatre was laughing hysterically at the downright horrendous finale seriously you'd think they were watching a monty python movie i would've been laughing too had i not been so angered at the film's total and utter failure to accomplish anything it set out to do when we left there was no joke a line to speak to the manager of the theatre to get their money back didn't happen i was absolutely positive the movie was going to be a box office bomb the following week you couldn't have imagined my shock to find out saw had hit number one at the box office and everyone was talking about it mostly individuals who found napoleon dynamite to be a thought provoking epic tale and thought satire was some type of rubber i am so utterly sickened to hear people praise this film that i often feel as though i'm going to vomit it's entertainment for the most feeble and simple minded of the human race those who find some weird jigsaw clown puppet riding on a threatening it's a doll – knock it over and leave – what's so frightening about that br br don't get me wrong i own every friday the 13th love my splatter movies thought napoleon dynamite was hilarious can't get enough of freddy michael pinhead or leatherface have a font appreciation for unknown horror gems and rank sleepaway camp ii unhappy campers amongst my top 10 favorite slashers however i realize these films aren't the most sophisticated american cinema has to offer – i appreciate them for what they are – quick easy fun saw is cinematic garbage the film attempts to be a smart and semi sophisticated nasty little thrill ride and bogs down to an irritating annoying waste of time money energy and celluloid atrocious on all accounts every single copy should be incinerated along with its feeble minded fans shame on all of you br br will i see saw ii maybe after i take a double shot of liquid before i gouge out my own eyes and impale white hot kabob into my ears and colon my rating 0 10 avoid at all costs
0	i really tried to like saw the story was good and i admire the breakneck pace of the way the film was shot however there were too many clichés and elements that while they may have looked cool they really made no sense br br first what i liked about the film was the overall tone of the story and i thought the premise was fantastic the character of the jigsaw killer was intriguing and reminded me of vintage dario argento danny glover was excellent in his role as an obsessed detective and monica potter was good in a thankless role as a doctor's abducted wife smith's scene was incredible and both wan and should be commended for using that scene as a demo to get the backing for the film the whole notion that the jigsaw killer finds a way for his victims to kill themselves is an excellent notion but once the film got going logic began to get away br br once they showed that zap was the one holding dr gordon's wife and daughter hostage it was apparent that he was not the jigsaw killer and part of it the scene where he puts a stethoscope over the heart of the terrified diana while allison screams at him through her gag was one of the most gratuitous scenes i've ever seen it was supposed to be chilling but establishing nothing also since the jigsaw killer finds a way for victims to kill themselves he has no problem slicing the throat of a police officer i guess it's a way to show that he doesn't want to get caught and will go to any means necessary to ensure that doesn't happen but to me it just didn't make any logic especially when he shows no remorse over the death of another detective which i did like that setup just would've been better if given to someone who actually deserved it br br i felt leigh was fine as adam it wasn't really a showy role and he has a lot of potential as a character actor however i wasn't too fond of james wan's direction the story may have been original but the direction sure wasn't i guess i'm tired of quick mtv style cuts in favor of the old approach to directing but a lot of scenes involving the jigsaw killer reminded me too much of se7en way too much of it as the film progressed to me it was starting to become a series of demo reels like hey look what i can do instead of being intriguing it became very distracting but hey it worked he's now directing final destination 3 so he's on a path to a successful career and i think he will become a top notch horror director in years to come br br what really did it in for me was the ending like i said i knew that jigsaw wasn't zap and i liked how adam discovered the mini tape player after killing him it would've had a terrific ending except for one fatal flaw i felt they should've left it where you didn't know who the killer was the way it was done was only done for one reason boy are we clever uh no to me it just didn't make sense br br some of the better horror films are made for a reason where there is a reason for the violence we see in the story while saw started out very well it started to become undone by the filmmakers' insatiable need to be cool and detract from the winning story they had perhaps if they weren't too insistent on making the films themselves and relied on a more experienced horror director to helm it i think it would've been the horror classic that it undeservedly has been given over the past four months if this and cabin fever are the future of horror i'm very scared
0	the main problems of are related to the tremendous script mistakes that only a uncritical spectator will just the main question is what's is the purpose of the killer in his lying in the middle of the floor the film tries to show that the killer's aim is to cause evil and destruction in his victims he loves to play with the lives of other people and to feel control over their the fears and so why does he just pretend to be dead between the two main characters a tremendous unlikelihood can a man pretend to be dead for more than one or two hours without moving a single muscle or even without breathing in order not to be discovered by two men who are in the same room it has not sense at all except to be the final d effect of the movie the killer seems to have always the control along the plot and if it's lying like a dead body this can't be possible finally it doesn't work the right place for the killer should have been a darker and untouchable shadow behind the false shadow the male nurse but not the floor of the white room the director shouldn't have showed the killer's face and maybe the site where he is hidden then the film would be a quite good thriller however is just a fiasco hitchcock please come back
0	this review does not necessarily expose the plot of the movie however it may change one's expectations of the movie and thus make for a less enjoyable experience br br ever rented a scary movie expecting to be on the edge of your seat in fear and instead ended up howling in laughter at each and every stupid turn of the plot this movie had so many opportunities to impress and actually scare the viewer it was cut poorly and jumped around too much making references to the past seem more like excuses as to why the plot was heading in its particular direction the writers must not have thought about how the potentially excellent plot should have been carried out because the poor construction of time throughout the plot is discouraging to the viewer and makes the movie increasingly tiring to watch br br almost worse than the writers having abused what could have been an excellent and classic thriller was the fact that it gradually relied on cheap tactics for a scare the acting didn't make it scary and the situations hardly made it scary therefore it needed a few dark scenes with things jumping out at you to make it worthwhile even those were predictable br br not even the gore could've saved the plot and it rivals the gore of the successful thriller se7en br br speaking of se7en i feel like saw tried to follow se7en's incredibly fascinating psychological theme but failed miserably in doing so i was terribly disappointed in the lack of analysis and plot structure surrounding the psychology of the killer the beginning scenes tease the viewer into thinking that this is a psychological thriller believe me it is far from that br br oh did i mention poor acting at first cary elwes seems makes a convincing performance however this completely deteriorates at the most crucial parts of the plot i was left in tears of laughter at this performance which is worthy of a razzie the performance of leigh is also terrible and too played out although not as bad as the performance by elwes and the big red flag with this is that is also a writer for the movie br br the end of saw could never make up for having lost the entire middle of it and that is what makes it a huge failure it was an opportunity wasted and i have no clue as to why monica potter and danny glover chose to take roles in this movie br br i am mad at myself for wasting money on just renting it it was definitely not worth the 4 and in the future i will definitely avoid seeing anything having to do with elwes or james wan the big tragedy in this is not that it lacked basis to its plot it's that the great potential storyline was thrown away and poor acting added insult to injury i'll avoid the poor puns involving the title and just conclude with this don't watch this movie
0	i have to give this movie a 4 because of a couple of things br br 1 what i'll call the stupid victim syndrome if you have the killer on the floor and you have his gun shoot him please if you are a cop and you have your shotgun pointed at the killer's back shoot him please br br 2 when you are in a high stress situation and you have your finger on the trigger of a gun your first instinct is to squeeze this is one of the first things they teach you in handgun training and the reason that you don't put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to fire ask any hunter or infantryman if you are electrocuted your muscles should also contract making you squeeze your finger br br 3 it's really hard to lay on the floor completely still for 8 hours without 2 other people one of them a doctor not noticing that you aren't dead even more so if you are supposedly dying of a brain tumor and were in the hospital just a few months earlier br br 4 technically the killer did kill one of his victims the guy he injected with poison that had to get the antidote if you poison someone that is murder br br 5 what was adam's lesson that he was supposed to learn yes the doctor needed to be there but what was adam's crime maybe i just missed something br br other than those things i would have given this movie a higher grade the plot was pretty good and the ways the killer chose to kill his victims were very inventive i can even forgive the terrible acting on the doctor's part the scenes with his family were enough to make me sick the cinematography and soundtrack were very good but the ending seemed contrived and just didn't work for me thank goodness i didn't have to pay to see this or i would have demanded a refund
0	this early film from director bob clark porky's black christmas a christmas story didn't really pump my nads like i expected in fact it straight up annoyed me it's about a theater troupe who sail to a burial island consisting of dead criminals where they plan to conjure some evil forces and resurrect some corpses the leader of their group a conceited black magic enthusiast and possible homosexual attempts to summon satan's help with the re animation of an exhumed body which fails so they take the corpse to the nearby deserted house and play with it nothing interesting happens until the last fifteen minutes or so when the undead finally spring from their graves and go after the the make up effects are okay the gore is very minimal pg rating and the extremely irritating characters are focused on way to much which really got on my nerves i guess having group of terrible actors bickering for an hour was suppose to equal some comedic status yet i found no humor in it whatsoever the entire concept is just ridiculous how these kids are willing to dig up and monkey around with a dead body for as long as they did the characters are stereotypical and bland and the movie is just plain boring don't waste your time with it
0	richard gere and diane lane star in a chick flick romance with the sort of ending i get really angry about lets just say its not my cup of tea just like the dime store romances are not my cup of tea br br the plot has a doctor stopping at an inn and meeting a woman that he has a deep but brief affair with he goes off to meet his estranged son and she goes back to her life br br well acted and well made the filmmakers forgot to get a real plot line this is the stuff of dime store romances that makes the women swoon and the men shake their head in disbelief i wouldn't be so adverse to the film as a mindless romance except that the film takes a turn in the final reel that is so out of left field as to be completely unbelievable why must certain types of movies do stupid things like this it really ruined it for me br br if you like romance give it a shot though wait for cable
0	it's always interesting to view a horror movie after hearing so much praise from other fans experience has taught me that you should never generalize fan taste within a genre my expectations of this movie were a great deal higher than my viewed opinion br br children shouldn't play with dead things is a movie with a good intended plot that trips up too many times to carry it out the whole idea of a band of actors staging a of dead corpses had me intrigued however everything degenerated into cinematic chaos the actors who for the most part were competent and amazingly expressive were offered roles that fail to maintain consistent characterization some of these characters go from ambivalence about the whole act of defiling a cemetery to outspoken criticism back to ambivalence it's one thing for characters to have a change heart in the course of the film it's another to produce an overly dynamic circular attitude that loops every ten minutes br br another inconsistent element of this film is the premise does the main protagonist intend for the ceremony to be theatrical prank or does he actually conspire with dark spiritual forces to raise the dead even with the aforementioned flaws i would recommend this movie to other horror fans since i believe that only true horror fans will appreciate the dark atmospheric components and be able to ignore the plot's inconsistency the scene where the dead rise out of the grave is made extremely haunting even to a veteran zombie enthusiast by the excellent combined use of scenery and sound and the great choice of skilled actors chosen to play the reanimated dead current filmmakers should learn from about using the proper video and audio techniques in mood development br br all in all if you are zombie movie like me you should take time to locate and view this movie it's a fun watch
0	i'd heard a lot of bad things about this film before seeing it but thought all the negative comments were probably down to the film's low budget and poor acting both of which i can deal with when it comes to zombie films however what i didn't count on is this film being really really boring if there's one thing you can count on from low budget zombies its gore and entertainment but unfortunately this film has neither i'm quite surprised because the previous two horror films i've seen from director bob clark and black christmas were both highly inventive and entertaining films but children shouldn't play with dead things just doesn't cut it the plot line follows a group of young adults that travel to a burial island in order to mess about with rituals to bring the dead back to life however they soon learn that playing with things they don't understand is a really stupid idea when their rituals actually bring the dead back to life and the corpses of the island return to feast on their blood br br the plots sounds like it could lead to a decent flick but what i didn't mention is that the interesting parts don't start until the final twenty minutes and as this is a ninety minute movie i'm sure you can guess that this isn't a good thing the opening hour and ten minutes are padded out with poor acting and even worse characters i can understand setting up a situation so that the horror is more potent once it comes along but please if you're going to spend so long on it you've really got to make it interesting all of the characters in the film are over the top and annoying and personally i just wanted the zombies to hurry up and eat them the film is not without its merits however as the atmosphere is a standout lucio fulci would show seven years later how an isolated island and flesh eating zombies can blend well but bob clark already did it with this film the direction isn't bad either but it's brought down by poor make up effects and a distinct lack of blood which isn't likely to please fans of zombie movies overall i really can't recommend this film but if you're a hardcore zombie fanatic you may get a kick out of it
0	strange often effective hippie zombie flick starring the unforgettable husband wife team of alan and anya this movie isn't as bad as most in its genre but is still way high on the cheese factor includes several bargain basement zombies outrageously campy dialogue a scene chewing performance by alan several gay kinky grave robbers and one soundtrack wife anya puts on a performance that's so odd one has to wonder if she's really acting at all there are much worst pics of this kind during the era look for any al adamson flic but it's no night of the living dead director writer benjamin clark is really bob clark who went on to create the purile porky's early 80's teen exploitation disasters he has only now resurfaced after 1 inexplicably good movie a christmas story to return to his dreadful ways with baby geniuses weirdo alan later wrote the kinky kinski malcolm mcdowell version of cat people moocow says check this hippy horror movie out for fun zombie frolics and campy dialogue 8
0	i haven't laughed this hard since granny got caught in the wringer says one of the potheads in this hilarious quasi spoof of all those val lewton and george a romero walking dead movies we have come to love or loath depending on your personal taste through the years br br in this story a young actor pair play a ghoulish prank on the rest of their troupe after one spooky night they visit a cemetery island their artistic director alan pretends to bring the dead back to life by conducting a highly stylized ritual br br way too much screen time is misspent the amateur dialog includes lame witticisms melodrama and other kinds of unnecessary filler commentaries and can't alan stop that irritating laughter way too much once the action kicks in which comes close to the end of this film it's worth the wait br br i saw this one on a late night local station television program that ran films very much like this one only this one scared me at the age of 13 but then again you might laugh your way through it until the bitter end which is probably the reason nowadays why very few people still wear striped hip huggers
0	it seems like an exciting prospect a modern dress othello with christopher eccleston who was so frighteningly good in shallow grave and especially jude and eamonn walker who brought such intensity and introspection to his pivotal role on oz one would think them both natural shakespeareans but both performers misfire walker's othello is a fairly cookie cutter take on the part with a whispery delivery that doesn't make much of an impact and eccleston hams it up appallingly as iago winking at the camera in almost an outrageous parody of the role it's likely he was egged on by his director whose florid approach might have worked better with elizabethan language but who seems a jarring pretentious choice for this modernized screenplay and the screenplay itself is less disappointing in being modern than it is in being obvious – it's as if andrew davies sketched out the famous plot and then just wrote whatever dialogue first popped into his head all in all a failure 4 out of 10
0	othello is set to burn the eyes of the viewers of this film the bad depiction of shakespeare's characters and the terrible rendition of the love that desi john had made this movie the horrendous filth that it is by far othello directed by jeffery saks is beyond mediocre and atrocious br br the movie othello is a pitiful drama about the love between john and desi their faithfulness to one another will be tested by the man's friend in the opening scene of the film it is clearly shown that the love between john and desdemona is inseparable beyond belief moments later ben john's friend pops out into the screen scaring the viewers and showing them right away how much of a liar and power hungry person he is br br by far this movie was much more horrid than the shakespeare novel itself with that being said it does have a miniscule amount of good parts for example the love that was shown between john and desi was depicted very well and it looked that the couple was so inseparable just as it was explained in the book although the love between them was shown exceptionally well it still did not show the jealously that othello had between cass and desi as well as it should br br love jealously deceitfulness this movie is based on all three of the main topics that were in the shakespeare novel the novel however really explains how all of this came together much better than the movie could for example the conclusion of this story ends much more differently in the book than in the film much more detail is also put into the novel this is why this film is such a disappointment trust me those who have read it will find it disappointing as well br br in conclusion this film was by far the most horrendous depiction of a novel that has ever been put out by mankind by avoiding to see this film not only will viewers save themselves an hour two of their lives but also save themselves an eye or two from the distasteful face of ben popping out at them
0	it's about jealousy it's about racism it's about manipulation but the underlying message is love geoffrey sax tried to pull off shakespeare's othello by bringing it to modern day context however the actors were not convincing enough to pull this off there were extra bodies to help put everything in to perspective however john othello played by eamonn walker over reacted a lot in this film causing for the down fall of hawes eventually ending in death br br ben played by christopher eccleston was seen as the main character in the film he didn't give enough evidence for to be cheating on othello with michael cass played by richard coyle instead he just played a friend to all and gave one reason as to why she was cheating in the play it took a lot more convincing from iago to make othello even suspect anything this change made the movie more about rage for the wrong reasons than what the book was based off of however the movie did have a few good points it turned the army scenes into more a racist group toward blacks where othello is the main chief of the police squad these scenes are made believable by the raging crowds and burning fires you are able to sense the amount of racism in the movie more so than you can in the book this book plays up the modern day scenes by making it much easier to understand than the shakespearian times it was written in in the play iago gets tortured at the end but in the film he gets his satisfaction and gets othello's position he never gets what he deserves and is never caught for telling the lie to othello until it is too late i saw this as a downfall in the movie because i feel that the villain is granted his treasure of the promotion out of lying and in the book he is found out by rodrigo overall the movie could have done a better job based on the play than what it did i feel that the director of the movie left out some of the most important parts of the play that were mentioned or there to make the play flow or make it more of a tragedy i would say that you should read the book first in order to understand all of the events that happened in the movie otherwise you may find yourself lost and confused
0	in all the episodes i never saw any real action or drama or comedy br br the plot is so repetitive br br somebody gets something old and then somebody else tells them a little bit about it and how much it's worth and who made it and where it comes from and how much it could sell for and if there was any work done to it br br i watched about 30 of these i realized there is no drama nobody ever loses a limb or life or gets divorced or hit by a car or air plane br br there are no car chases or explosions not even a horse race with old carriages br br all those guns and swords and nobody goes on a violent killing spree what gives no no axe murders no gun old englishmen in bad suits just you have an old tea set and it came from the country of germany back in blah blah blah br br i'm still waiting for somebody with a time machine to go on screen and ask about it but no it never comes to be and the only thing that happens is that some stuffy englishman or woman serves up some crap about something old being sold in boston or china during the ming dynasty big deal br br can't anybody ever kidnap one of the leads and hold them for ransom is there no alien spacecraft that will obliterate the entire floor who the hell writes this stuff as a series and expects us to stay awake this is about as entertaining as watching paint dry only with commentary br br there's no sex there's no comedy or romance no action no suspense no action no drama no mystery or martial arts br br this show sucks what ever happened to supermodels wearing thongs and spewing lasers from a futuristic weapon antiques roadshow more like grab a blanket and pillow and go to sleep show
0	it is very possible that i simply didn't give the movie a fair enough chance because it was so immediately unappealing to me something similar happened with triplets of belleville but i really should have caught on when i put the film on and my roommate an exchange student from japan immediately started laughing at the movie saying that it sounded dumb now i don't agree that it is dumb the animation is very simple but clearly very skilled it's like classic animation with added layers that add another element of realism to them while remaining strictly in the realm of the surreal at the same time br br but the subject matter is entirely unappealing to me it has an interesting message about and greed but it is wrapped in such an unpleasant package that it is almost not worth learning especially because you already knew it anyway the sound effects while the man is loudly gobbling and cherry pits for example are indeed repulsive br br there was a clever scene of animation as we kept diving endlessly into the hole that the man finds in his head when he pulls the out of his scalp but it goes on for so long that it seems to overshadow everything else there is so much stock put into that one sequence that it is almost like the whole movie is about it br br as i said about triplets of belleville this would have been a great thing for a late night tv program like adult swim or its japanese counterpart but an academy award nominated film it gives me the impression that there is not generally a long list of animated short films for the academy to choose from
0	i love japanese movies having seen at least 100 200 so it's obvious i am not afraid of japanese films however sometimes there are japanese concepts for film that just don't translate well to westerners they might be hits at home but abroad they just don't seem well normal it's like the live fish my wife ate on a business meeting or odd ps2 games such as dating or things that are accepted there that confuse non japanese this is probably the way others view things americans take for granted such as american football fried snicker bars and paris hilton well the king of strange japanese films that just don't seem right to americans might just be yama now the style of animation isn't the issue it's different but nice enough no it's the story concept itself and the rather bizarre ending that's what make this a truly unusual film and it goes like this there was a stingy man who for no apparent reason had a tree growing out of his head it was little at first and he simply cut it away but again and again it grew back so he just decided to let it go and after a while people began living on his head under the shade of the tree oddly while they were under the tree they were tiny but when they left they were full sized again then after finally getting sick of it all and yanking out the tree the man drown himself in the hole in the top of the head where the tree was the end br br see i told you this was very very odd but not in a good way like tampopo or happiness of the katakuris just odd o d d odd and unless you have a very high tolerance for this sort of thing i doubt if you'll feel bad to know that this oscar nominated film did not win frankly that makes me happy as i really don't want this film to spur on such similar films the only reason it earns a 4 is due to nice but not spectacular animation br br this film made my brain hurt i hope that isn't a sign that i have a tree
0	my husband brought this home from the video store so i could watch something while stuck home sick the sort of sick where you could never concentrate on a book but a sorta silly light romantic flick sounds just right that and a bowl of chicken soup well he meant well br br my first thought as some others post here also was that the house must be fake it's not only isolated alone on the beach but set on into the loose sand and so close to the ocean that the surf waves go directly under the house this looks so obviously dangerous in hurricane country in the fall so potentially disastrous that i was sure filmmakers had simply cgi'd the whole thing or used movie magic to plunk a cute b b into the surf br br but i have to tell you guys thanks to i can say that the house serendipity is very real is indeed near and except for some window dressing and shrubs appears mostly as it does in the film you can rent it yourself off season for a week or about in summer go for it but interestingly the house has severe problems the second thing that struck me after would be washed away was what about the plumbing electrical in that surf and sure enough serendipity was condemned for a break in the sanitation caused by from the ocean they are rebuilding br br and the house isn't from the civil war not to mention that viola davis playing cliché black best friend thankless role for a fine actress last seen in doubt is not remotely old enough that her grandmother could have built anything in the civil war hello that was 150 years ago try great great great in reality serendipity was built in 1988 laughably recently br br the basic film is built on a typical nicholas sparks weeper which means a lot of coincidence and trite predictable happenstance it is also aimed in a very pandering way towards women you know us women who love b bs antiques and knick who dream of romance and guys who look like richard gere and dancing in the moonlight don't give us plot or thoughtful character development just set up some mechanisms and bring on the love scenes br br gere plays a plastic surgeon who lost a female patient during a routine surgery for a benign on her cheek of course she died of an overdose of anesthesia so you wonder right away why the surgeon is guilted up and not the anesthesiologist hello where is that guy why is the wrong doctor feeling guilty br br gere has come to pout and confront the woman's husband and is staying at the remote b b who should be there why the only other person in the inn diane lane she's a lonely divorcée with rotten kids and an ex hubby who wants her back while she's trying to decide about that the cliché best black friend has her subbing as hostess at the b b br br now in the real world if this set up ever even happened the doctor would look like ernest borgnine and the lonely divorcée like rosie o'donnell he'd spend his vacation horndogging 22 year old girls on the beach while she sulked and thought about going on a diet but this isn't the real world i digress br br the couple confess all fall in love a hurricane hits they make love fall in love he has to go away he dies and she cries a lot about that the end br br there i've saved you from it now you don't have to torture yourself or any male acquaintances husbands sons boyfriends from sitting through this tripe very wearying br br someone else asked why diane lane a perfect tiny woman whom filmmakers seem to love to cast because she's just pretty and thin enough that most women would like to look like her but she's and not over the top so she isn't threatening is constantly covered in big tarp like shawls this would make sense if she was chubby but she isn't br br anyways someone throw a pretty paisley shawl over this film so we don't have to watch it conclusion read a book unless you are too sick if too sick go to sleep
0	this is a good blueprint for a study of corporate power and the between required public life and the need for privacy robert taylor has been primed by corporate head burl ives as a surrogate son to replace him as head of the corporation he sends him to england to negotiate a deal where taylor is both taken aback by the ethics and morality of the men he is dealing with and manages to fall in love with a refugee while he's at it he comes back handed having done his duty but having told the truth to the english about his motives he attempts to marry the refugee rather than the boss's niece and so begins an attempt by ives to discredit the refugee as a suitable wife for a corporate executive it could have been gritter nastier and less romantic the amount of time spent on the romance skews the film away from the points it's trying to make about corporate ethics br br somehow the costume design was nominated undeservedly for an oscar it's all business suits and the two women in the film dress conservatively studio politics at work yet again no doubt br br what is however is the black and white cinemascope cinematography which is excellent this if anything deserved the oscar nom it was mgm's first film in b w br br not as good as it could have been but not terrible either
0	i would like to make it very clear that i am not at all religious i am an atheist but i could see that richard was contradicting himself over and over again i would also like to make it known that i am not the sort of person that argues against something with philosophy all the time but i feel that when comparing science and religion we must be philosophical and be willing to question the belief in main stream science as well as questioning religious beliefs br br i wonder if richard ever spends any time to think philosophically about belief anyone who thinks long and hard enough about science and religion will realise that science is indeed a religion in itself yes there is a fundamental difference between the way that scientific beliefs are held when compared with other religions but at it's roots it's faith in a particular human instinct br br throughout this series richard insists that science methods are the only right way of thinking and that it makes sense to believe in something only if the evidence for it is strong enough if you dig deep enough into how science functions you'll realise that it is just as irrational as religion and that it comes down to faith in the end faith in the evidence faith in our sanity faith in our senses but more than anything else faith in our instinct to follow patterns of br br this is not easy to explain but think about how the laws of physics were decided it was because they were and still are the most common patterns of that we are aware of i think that human beings have an instinct that makes them believe that the longer something remains in a certain state or place of existence the more we just assume out of blind faith that it is more likely to stay like it for example we don't expect that gravity will suddenly work in reverse tomorrow by this i mean pushing matter away as supposed to attracting it but the only reason why we don't expect this sudden change is because we have known for so long that it has always attracted as far as we are aware however that doesn't mean that it couldn't do exactly the reverse tomorrow or even right now it doesn't matter how long something may stay in a certain state or change there is no rational reason to make assumptions about it but we do out of instinct i would ask you to consider what is a long and short amount of time there is no such thing i don't know exactly how long it took for these supposed wise men to decide that everything must be made out of matter sound light etc but lets give them what they would consider to be an edge way lets say far longer than it really was 12 years is that a long period of time years makes 12 years seem like an incredibly short period of time for all we know there could be an extreme amount of change in the so called laws of science within the next trillion years it's all about comparison only when we compare things can we say that is long or that is short it's the same with big and small wide and thin heavy and light strong and weak and others br br i doubt that any scientist could tell me why they think that trusting this instinct makes sense i certainly don't see why it should but that doesn't mean that we as humanity should necessarily stop using it with this in mind the most hypocritical comment that richard made was when he said that faith is irrational a process of non thinking he said if what we have in this instinct that i've been describing and this instinct that we all possess on some level isn't faith then i don't know what the hell it is other times when he is being hypocritical is when he talks about the religions being bronze age bronze age myths he says i would like to point out that no matter how much scientific methods have been changed over the years due to experience experiments and evaluating the pure rules of science are getting older and older all the time they could even be described as the holy bible of science he was going on about how he is sick of the different religions being stubborn i am right he is wrong but looking back on how rude he was to the various interviewees he seems to be just as stubborn him self to be fair to him at least he doesn't try to bomb religious communities i appreciate his hatred for certain religious beliefs that generate war but i don't respect his arrogance in his own beliefs br br as far as i'm concerned richard has the right to believe in science if that is his way i am scientifically minded as well but i don't think he has the right to go up to religious leaders having unfriendly arguments trying to force his opinion on to them and virtually describing them as stupid despite all his education experience and discoveries he seems to fail to have the wisdom to properly question his very own system of belief i have read what he says in defence of this argument that open minded atheists such as my self put forward what he states suggests to me that he is totally missing the point br br finally the title of the documentary root of all evil this states that religion is the root of all evil it isn't true there are causes of evil that have nothing to do with religion br br all round the documentary series was frustrating narrow minded hypocritical and flat out rubbish
0	i have watched the root of all evil with the avowed object of refuting this so called scientific atheist i don't know where to start as he is such a rich source of stupidity br br he is obviously not a else the odds of 2 1 of him burning for all eternity would have pushed him towards belief in god br br he regards science as religion and expects us to believe him as we do god one has only to look at the language used in his br br regarding faith this commodity is used extensively in everyday behaviour just think about it when he gets in an electrician be believes that it will be wired correctly and turns on the switch when he gets in a plumber he pulls the chain in his bathroom and expects the water to flow in the right direction regarding faith in science when i was in chemistry class i believed and was taught that the atom was the smallest particle and the onion skin theory of electrons both of which have now been discounted i was taught this as the atomic theory in stone' so to speak so why should we believe any scientist especially when he goes beyond the parameters of his field dawkins states that religion will be the downfall of civilisation religion is civilisation can he or any other atheist please tell us what civilisation was founded and nurtured by atheism barbarism or savagery please he is now living in the last stages of a christian based civilisation and taking all the benefits from it without any admission for its source i found dawkins to be arrogant dictatorial judgmental an obvious believer in eugenics and a nazi in his attitude towards the young how dare he say what a parent can teach their child the child is theirs not the nation's and as the parents to it their genetics so do they their beliefs his dismissal of adam as he never existed as he has no proof was an example of this same attitude so i have no proof that joe blogs lives in new york but he well may do i just haven't found the proof yet that does not negate his existence i note his argument with the bishop of oxford that the is selective with what he takes and believes in the bible well dawkins also does this where does he draw the line between it as a historical document and a religious statement he is also selective i heard the lot when dawkins came up with the altruistic gene what a hoot he is desperately looking for proof for his wackiness and as the man was invented so now we have this so called altruistic gene which us to looking after our young and other members of our the trouble is that all animals do this not just apes and with evolution it is survival of the fittest not the kindest and if he really thinks we are becoming kinder as a race he is not reading the same newspapers as i am i found his arrogance beyond belief in declaiming that as we only have this life we should enjoy it to the full so how does he equate this with his obvious position as a well off european to a destitute person in africa who has had all her family wiped out and probably raped and is starving will he help her i note that all his opposition to religion is a that they go to war well g k chesterton declared that the only war worth fighting was a war for religion b we are against using contraception and abortion and homosexuality all sins against the 6th commandment funny that br br as a catholic i find his dismissal of pronouncement of the dogma of the assumption in 1958 to be erroneous he never said that it was revealed to him while he was sitting somewhere by himself in case dawkins does not know it revelation ended with the last apostle would have taken years of advice and studied documents handed from down over the centuries to have come up with this pronouncement also as a catholic i find his dismissal of all religious people as satisfied what utter rubbish we everyday fight the world the flesh and the devil we are the church militant we are also able to glory at a sunset and admire the beauties of nature even if we believe in god the trouble with dawkins was that he interviewed whacky zealots and them to all of us
0	i'm sorry but i just honestly cannot see why anyone would actually like this it's stereotypical and real are nothing like they were on this show personally i'm glad it got canceled after the first few episodes i mean this kind of show would certainly be alright if everyone knew that weren't really like this and the whole story was just for the show but unfortunately not everyone is aware of this if anyone out there that watched this actually believed this is what goes on in the life of a then i honestly feel sorry for them this reminds me of the kind of portrayal they have of kids in mean girls it's sad really that people think this way this is complete garbage imho
0	this proves just how awful the wb network was in the last few years of its existence as a i of course deplore this show for its ridiculous fantasy land obscure unfunny stereotypes about the kids being weird hippies who are so smart they're alienated from the super cool high school students sorry tv writers the world as viewed from inside your ass containing your heads apparently when you wrote this show is not the world we talented people see with our eyes as we live in a little thing called reality as for those who actually liked this show please dear sweet jesus please rethink the statement that you actually liked this crap over a very long walk the acting is even more hollow phony and wooden than the stereotypes the whole show was built around thank you wb for doing the right thing and putting this horse out of its beginning to end misery this show never ever should've even had the privilege of being made no less having so much as eight awful episodes i really hope that these actors eventually got a clue and stopped playing roles in garbage tv shows like this as soon as this show ended
0	i haven't any idea how commentators could regard this as a decent b western or how one commentator said the plot was more cohesive than most nothing could be farther from the truth this movie is one huge non sequitur it is an affront to the noble b western films of the '30's i have seen many of wayne's early lone star and republic westerns and this one is easily the worst br br the bad guy is known as the shadow for crying out loud initially the shadow's scheme is holding up open sided stage coaches simultaneously his gang rustles all of the cattle in the territory then they decide to move on to bank robbery to do this they need to shoot up the town with a machine gun no explanation of why that's necessary or how he got that neato little toy br br no single scheme is revealed in enough detail to suggest a plot here the shadow is obviously just a generally bad guy with all kinds of generally evil schemes br br he imparts his instructions to his gang through a fake wall safe knock knock who's there he is apparently clairvoyant because whenever his henchmen need to talk to him they knock on the wall the safe opens and presto he's there i can just imagine that he has met them face to face and says i have some secret nefarious instructions to give you about our next evil deed meet me at the wall safe and i'll give 'em to you just why the shadow requires the safe to communicate with his army of outlaws is like most of the elements of this mess never explained br br he has a nifty tunnel to the ol' hollow stump across the street from which vantage point various of his baddies perform assassinations he also has a hidden panel not in his secret lair behind the fake safe but out in the main room br br when not behind the safe he hangs out on his cow less ranch masquerading as rancher matlock we learn that he has murdered the true owners of the ranch two brothers and assumed the identity of one the daughter of the dead brother has recently arrived from 1930's nyc judging by her wardrobe and she apparently never met her real uncle because he dupes her too br br if you thought that bad guys always wore black hats and good guys white hats you need to see this movie here the good guys all ditch their hats in favor of white head bands that make them look like they have all suffered head wounds before any shots have been fired it's like a game of pick up basketball only wayne has them tying 'round their heads instead of just taking off their shirts br br perhaps the weirdest of all is the ending immediately after subduing the shadow and his gang we jump far enough into the future to see wayne and his wife the while niece on the front porch of their home never mind that there has been scant romance there yak is playing with wayne's 3 4 year old son dressed up in injun garb fun br br no thanks to this nonsense wayne went on to become a screen legend only a super star or not could surmount this entry in a film resume long live the duke
0	the star is one of about 152 000 000 westerns that john wayne acted in during the 1930s well the number is a bit exaggerated but it seemed almost like this many this is because these b movies were quickly made with very low budgets in order to be the second or lesser feature in a theater most bs were pretty cheap and tended to cut corners to keep down costs and the star is no exception to save on costs incidental music is not used running times were kept to under an hour the writing was often rather derivative and the actors are mostly lesser talents and wayne himself was definitely far from being a household name at this time some of these wayne features are pretty good while others like this one are watchable but also rather silly and inconsequential i enjoyed this film and most of the others but it's probably because i cut bs a lot of slack br br wayne stars as john travers a us marshall investigating the actions of a local gang out to chase locals out and steal from the stage this is odd as the film was apparently set in the modern time or close to it as they used telephones and modern machine guns things you just wouldn't expect to find in the old west such anachronisms are actually pretty common in b westerns as gene autry films for example abound with them wayne's sidekick is yak played by stuntman and real life friend of wayne yakima canutt br br the bad guy is an unknown figure referred to as the shadow and he dispenses his instructions through a black screen that hides his face this sounds exactly like a character from a movie serial the sort of baddie that kids loved but grownups groaned at because they were so silly and at bit like or dr evil the problem is if you listen to his voice and pay any attention at all it becomes obvious early in the film that this shadow is george hayes now speaking of hayes this is the same guy who later in films was known as gabby hayes but here and in several other of wayne's early films he looks and acts nothing like gabby in the star he was well dressed articulate and clean shaven imagine that in real life apparently this was more the real george hayes though i doubt that he was evil now as you can tell from the last paragraph that there really is no mystery in this film you are left with acting passable and nothing more and stunts which were actually pretty amazing again and again one amazing stunt after another occurred such as men jumping from horse to horse and some great fight scenes all done by the way by canutt and his friends canutt was often john wayne's double in films and this went on for decades the problem with some of the stunts however is that it appears that the film makers actually killed a few horses to get those great stumbling horses bits seen later in the film up until about 1940 film makers often strung thin metal wire and ran horses across it at full gallop in the process the horses' legs were usually broken and the horses were subsequently euthanized one of the worst examples of this was the film jesse james where several horses were brutally killed leading to the american humane association insisting that a representative of the organization be on film shoots to that animals are not hurt in the production so since about 1940 films bear this little disclaimer the star was made well before the disclaimer and i can't see how the horses did these tricks without being killed br br overall this is at best a time passer due to a poor plot occasionally poor acting and an unbelievable cruel attitude towards the horses i am no bleeding heart but just can't understand this disregard for a poor old animal
0	sad to say this is one of the sillier of john wayne's series of poverty row westerns for lone star productions here he is a united states marshal on the trail of a bandit known only i kid you not as the shadow br br no it's not lamont cranston it's some dude who gives his orders through an open wall safe so his men don't see who he is but the voice is unmistakable you'll know within 10 minutes of the film br br and another reviewer here is quite wrong no squeals or groans from the audience would have occurred because gabby hayes was still playing a variety of roles and he's clean shaven here he had not yet found his niche as the lovable oldtimer sidekick of various movie cowboy heroes like the duke br br later on he does lead his men quite openly in the climax so i'm not sure what the point of the original gimmick with the wall safe was i don't think those that wrote this one knew either br br wayne gets yakima canutt as an indian sidekick here and the relationship is just about the same as an unmasked lone ranger and tonto br br it's all pretty silly if you ask me
0	i watched the beginning twice could not make sense of it and it bothered me for the whole movie br br so work this out with me wayne the good guy jumps on the stagecoach disarms the drivers steals the money and takes off br br disarmed one driver is then killed and the other wounded by the bad guys thanks to wayne who disarmed them and then watched it happen br br then wayne drops the money in the dirt rescues the girl rides into town chuckles it up with yak too bad about the dead guy i guess and then later says he found the money back at the scene and everyone's okay with that br br and he's the good guy and i'm pretty sure there weren't small hand held flashlights at the time and bell did his first phone demo in 1876 were they in houses then am i thinking too hard about this one normally i'm happy to suspend judgment to enjoy a movie but this one bothered me and that's a sign the move didn't really work for me
0	lone star productions sure churned them out in the 1930's and star has the feel of one of the more rushed ones john wayne is u s marshal john travers investigating a crooked hoodlum known only as the shadow responsible for stealing cattle stage and the like and giving orders from behind the door of a phony wall safe yakima canutt is trusty indian sidekick appropriately named as well yak br br early on we find out that union head matt matlock george pre gabby hayes is really the shadow the dead giveaway is when he offers to buy out his supposed niece anita's half of the matlock ranch since this is no place for a girl as anita verna doesn't have much to do in the film although in a comic moment she gets to use a six shooter to blast the butt of one of the villains in a night time scare raid br br there are a few in the film for one wayne's character alternately rides a white horse and a dark horse in the first half of the film in what could have been a neat device a hollowed out tree stump used by a henchman is located right in the middle of the street and finally the movie doesn't truly live up to it's name as sheriff travers never wears a badge throughout the film that is a star without a star br br the horse chases the runaway stage scenes the stagecoach off the cliff another curiosity the horses conveniently get loose from the stage are all pretty standard stuff but john wayne fans will want to see this one for the charisma he displayed early on in his career for those more critical the white worn around the forehead by the good guy posse could only mean that they all had a headache
0	if you read the book before seeing the movie you may be disappointed like i was the book was great and i was sure after seeing the movie preview that the movie would be great as well however i felt like i was watching a movie where the director and cast did not even read what these characters where like the movie is short and they do not really ever make us feel that these people were truly in love and felt like sole mates even if the movie did not go in the same direction as the book at least they could of made the romance between these two characters feel more intense i think both diane lane and richard gere were perfect for these two characters and they have good chemistry however they just did not develop a long enough storyline for us to see how they longed for each other the book was true love story and i think this movie could of been a lot better
0	with great expectations i went to see this film spain's contribution to the oscar race this year part from being completely pointless banal pathetic badly written edited acted and directed the movie is too long it fails in delivering the message it tries to give fails in its storytelling clumsy historical settings and above all in its rhythm there are some so extreme misfires i haven't seen in a movie in a long time the story of lucas whose dead sister lives in his head the divine revelations all that lizard nonsense the spanish speaking audience around me was yawning and rapidly losing patience and some of the commentaries i overheard was whether the members of the spanish academy had taken drugs before choosing the film for the oscar contest
0	is a bunch of short stories with an only common point the little town of in this film the director tries to explain some of these stories by using a young reporter as a continuum the result is a strange film as it has any main character the movie spends about 20 min to each tale other than the town of any story is really well explained and the fact is that they result very boring it was by far the best film of the year in spain but well that's not saying too much the only good thing of the film is the precious scenarios it is filmed in a very precious valley and it is more enjoyable to spend the time watching the scenario rather than being aware of the story
0	i am looking at all the good reviews about this film and i start thinking to myself am i going crazy can't i see the beauty from a film like this am i just dumb enough to not understand the message this film is trying to point out i don't know maybe one of those lizards entered in my head and ate all my brains as well the film idea was going nowhere i was sure it would have a foggy end and of course it did nothing exceptional not even the landscapes i hopped that being placed in a mountain village at least the landscapes would be nice but no just a lame story about a crazy teacher and of course her crazy students now all grown up each of them with his her own fixed ideas and boy some of those ideas were stupid like the lizard story for example at a moment i thought i was watching x files with the lizard entering in the ear and all no from my point of view this movie is a waste of time not to say money if u pay for the ticket the only part that i did like was the acting of the young blue eye german kid he played very well and convincing for his age the rest nothing i read the previous review and i think the script writer and the director were both on drugs when they came up with those ideas well considering that there are a lot of people that enjoyed this film i think to myself again maybe i am the crazy one advice don't waste your time with this
0	although this starts out promisingly a woman in a car is weaving around dark roads in the middle of the night in the middle of the forest until she almost hits a man holding a lizard this gave me the impression that we were going to see something special something almost david lynchian if there is such a term but unfortunately the film starts to go everyplace not having a core center just sort of meandering story about a woman trying to solve a mystery of a small town the character study goes all over the place and i couldn't really care for any of the characters it seems especially when some of the story all of a sudden goes into flashback mode i had some hopes for this movie but all in all it was a bit of a letdown
0	i saw this movie and thought it was a sleeper sometimes i can get into intellectual romantic movies this movie just did not move me i felt like it was about one hour too long camille is portrayed as a very sympathetic sculptor who loses just about everything i thought the whole movie was just sad and downcast if you like tragedies you might like this i just thought it was too long which meant it has many unnecessary scenes which ultimately lead to about one hour of boredom i would not recommend this movie if you want to see a good romantic tragedy go watch titanic
0	while the design and locations and photography are strong assets in this film it is a turgid and melodramatic affair which demonstrates the limits of cinema to convey truth br br the case is the use of the soundtrack music a mix of gustav and andrew lloyd webber that plays constantly and loudly and would have made max steiner grimace at its over use as it instructs the audience how difficult how ecstatic how tortured it is to be an artist and then it really counts the story the details at the end br br this heightened and kitsch exploitation of emotions was once well ridiculed by peter ackroyd about a yukio mishima book this is not writing this is barbara cartland precisely the same critique can be made of this film a deceptive mawkish vanity project
0	forget the lousy acting that can be forgiven in this sort of film or even the terrible unnatural dialog and illogical events if my subtitles actually reflected what was said far worse is the blatant absence of a skillful or experienced director who maybe took a holiday with the editor while the film was being made watching the film it feels completely out of date even though it was 'only' made 7 years ago a computer virus as a portal to the afterlife lol a dial up ghost images photoshopped on pictures he look over there is that is that a face zoom in on face oops sound breaks off next scene scenes and sequences are poorly edited and as a result don't flow at all you'll be watching a girl finding a corpse still hanging from the knot in one scene and then literally 10 seconds later seeing her again at some place apparently unaffected smiling and going about br br apart from the many problems i have with the movie in terms of production value it is also painfully long and repetitive and thus utterly boring br br i recommend in stead an oriental thai horror movie done well
0	i never fell asleep during a movie never this movie did the impossible br br while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts this movie was a lesson in over abundance as in the movie was 30 minutes too long it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work but instead all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement the acting was absolutely terrible bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script did these people even get any direction were they coaxed to be boring and dull either wouldn't surprise me br br what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side either way they all stunk don't watch this film that's all i can say unless you're an insomniac
0	do not see this film in most cases such as that of ju on and the grudge the japanese film are infinitely better than the american remake however this movie was terrible the ghosts much like a trick or dressed as a sheet ghost moan and in an attempt to be scary in the absence of good makeup or special effects and the acting is just horrible the story itself is inconsistent and confusing not everything is explained leaving the film to go from bad to worse do not waste your time with this movie it's not worth it and i am sure that there are more entertaining things to do like watching paint dry
0	i can appreciate movies with subtitles from foreign countries and specially the ones in which the subtitles are weak and don't really seems to follow the story or really make sense but this movie had too many parts that didn't really make sense br br all in all i can admit to a few scary and freaky parts but they are repetitive i felt like i was watching a loop trailer seems like it was a short film shot with different actors br br in the veins of ringu and grudge but not even close the the hype the excessive length killed the thrill br br unless you are a die hard fan of these types of movies wich i thought i was don't waste your time on this one
0	let me get this straight br br hotshot plastic surgeon loses a patient on the operating table while removing a from her face and ends up falling in love with recently separated bed and breakfast hostess within about 24 hours of meeting her due to her solid advice on bedside manner br br wow move over the notebook there's a new kid in town br br where to begin well how about the depth of this relationship i think we can safely sum up the foundation of this undying love in the following steps br br 1 exchange polite over a bite of salad 2 drink copious amounts of jack daniels play basketball with old food 3 provide glib unsolicited advice to each other on your crappy lives 4 make love during a hurricane 5 devote your lives to each other via br br i noticed george c wolfe has the hairball and united kanye west project in his would stick to your genre be too harsh enough said i think most would agree that the best love stories make us cry or laugh or even hope but the reason they are able to do that is that somewhere during the storyline we really start to care about the characters we're watching on screen to make us care there must be time spent developing these characters their lives their history why we're watching them now wolfe didn't seem to want to waste our time with such trivialities and instead provided us with all of about 8 minutes of background information on each character before hurling us into an intense one on one interaction between two actors we've all come to adore but two characters we could care less about br br for one brief tender moment when richard gere exclaims that he doesn't expect her to listen to his problems and she invites him for dinner the viewer sees a glimmer a beginning of something special between these two characters but instead of being allowed to enjoy the anticipation and playfulness of what happens next in the wonderful unpredictable joy that is courtship we are instead pushed headlong into a love affair between two people we hardly know br br let's face it we have all heard cheesy one liners in romantic films but the reason we cut some slack to bogart in casablanca or nicholson in something's gotta give is because our hearts and minds have been lifted to the heavens and dragged through the mud and back again with these characters and by the time they deliver the line we're so deeply involved with their plight we don't even notice the cheese factor since wolfe doesn't allow us to love or even like our protagonists all we're left with a fromage sandwich and a few snickers in the audience br br wolfe takes the old hollywood director's phrase cut to the chase much too literally here as each stilted one liner is delivered by our cast the viewer is left wondering if director wolfe is subliminally saying to the audience c'mon it's a richard gere romance just buy in br br it is as a result of this stunning lack of character or relationship development that the film's climax fails miserably to tug at our hearts when gere's character dies i felt like i was watching the news about someone i didn't know passing away or watching a ladies' eights rowing race during the beijing olympics just didn't care br br epic fail
0	would be promising if it were a student film never seems to know where it's going next as if they decided on each next scene as they were making the film as a result much repetition and a deadening pace there's an absolutely confusing procedure by which the ghosts affect people in this world it involves the internet phone calls a computer science experiment a suspicious grad student withdrawn behavior red rooms dark stains and then suicides good luck figuring out the connections or when a character is a ghost yet or just acting strangely characters are barely sketched which could be ok but they're completely uninteresting it's far too long and ends just when it reaches a promising scenario although the conclusion is nonsensical weakest moment when the boss sits down to give some incoherent advice
0	i saw this movie because every review i read of it said that it was one of the scariest movies of the new millennium i really don't understand what all of the hype was about for one thing the dialogue in this movie was laughably bad what if something strange is going on what the acting didn't blow my socks off either it could have been because the script barely gave the actors anything to work with the characters are purely 2 dimensional to me and i didn't give a hoot about them at all another thing is that the movie extremely boring extremely sure there are a couple of jolts here and there but for the movie's 112 minute length it sure didn't use it's time up wisely most of the movie contains characters talking about stuff that had barely anything to do with the plot what was the point of that br br to top it off the movie makes no sense yes i believe i understood the intentions of the ghosts but how that fits into the events that actually occur in the movie is beyond me also much of the movie is played out in little vignettes which makes the story hard to follow at times and don't even get me started with the ending what exactly happened there br br i can give kurosawa credit for placing some truly frightening images throughout the film there are very creepy shots of ghosts and other unsettling images if they reflected more on those images and elaborated on them it would have made the movie much stronger but they didn't and instead elaborated more on social commentary which was interesting but again portrayed in an extremely dull way yes it's a message movie okay fun i'll just get the message of my review right out here in the open find a better way to spend your spare time than watching this
0	i was so excited to finally watch pulse after receiving it from amazon and i have to say i was utterly disappointed i perhaps think i was too hyped up i had expectations set by its fans that simply couldn't be met after loving other asian horrors i thought i knew this would find a place in my heart br br the story was slow painfully so i am a diverse fan of horror i love the brutal bloody craziness of the devil's rejects and i love equally the steady growing macabre of a tale of two sisters pulse offered little from either spectrum sadly br br along with the of the plot it was also very muddled i hadn't a clue why characters were doing what they were doing and how what they were doing would help their problem it seemed as if the director spouted off the plot in a sentence or two and the rest was from our actors unlike a tale of two sisters which also has a rather hard to follow plot line pulse clears up very little at the end and left me feeling frustrated confused and uninterested in the characters' endeavors my closing statement about the plot was its inconsistency at first it seemed as if the story was about the ghost world overflowing and their medium of escaping is the internet that's a damn original idea i like that but as the plot drones on plot holes and unexplained happenings their heads in it seems the director switched to some apocalyptic tale as evident by the ending that just hasn't been clear enough throughout to execute br br i realize the dreariness of the shots and the setting was intentional to make the viewer feel bleak and isolated but the dullness of the movie was only intensified by the grainy shadowy surroundings i will admit there was a certain feel of surrealism with the movie but that may have just been my attention waning in and out br br the actions of some of the characters are a little bit ridiculous as well and perhaps if i was more enthralled by the story i would've been able to suspend more disbelief but as well myself being unmotivated so too were some of the characters like i mentioned previously the logic behind what certain characters did were absent and contributed to the incoherence of the plot perhaps it was a result of the plot's incoherence that the characters do questionable things to be honest i don't really care br br the acting was decent certainly nothing outstanding but nothing terrible either no to mention on either side of brilliant or plain awful br br now i'll stop sounding so sour and mention that there were a handful of creepy moments one towards the end especially that if there were more like it throughout i would've enjoyed this movie almost wholly i thought whenever the website was shown it was pretty unsettling as well as some of the ghostly encounters our two main characters face the things that went on between these ghastly run ins were just too lackluster baffling and wtf for me to truly appreciate br br now for something pertaining to the dvd itself release of pulse comes with subtitles yes but the subtitles are off they aren't said at the correct time of the character's speech it may sound nit picking but it bothered me a little and it may bother some others i think this is the only north american release of the film though so you either have to deal or watch dubbing never watch dubbing i tried to like the film i really did i wanted this film to live up to the hype but sadly it fell flat for me if you're looking for other creepy asian cinema i can recommend you audition shutter a tale of two sisters strange circus and all of which are more my palette
0	kairo or pulse as it's known amongst english speaking audiences is set in tokyo starts as sunny plant sales employee decides to visit her friend taguchi kenji to about a computer disk he's been working on when she gets to his place he gives her the disk but then rather inconsiderately commits suicide in front of her meanwhile a student named ryosuke haruhiko kato has recently hooked up to the internet keeps getting spooky messages images on his monitor so he ask's computer whizz koyuki whats happening she doesn't really know but it seems that the place where people's spirits go when they die is full they need somewhere else to go earth is as good a place as any right these spirits don't like sharing either so they sort of make people commit suicide or turn them into ashes or something like that i don't really know because the films a bit of a mess br br this japanese production was written directed by kiyoshi kurosawa right off the bat i have to say i hated kairo i hated everything about it it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that asian cinema can produce something as crap as any american filmmaker the script is an overlong mess the thing simply doesn't make any sense with scenes which seem like they are from a different film sequences which make no logical sense or are not explained in any way kairo is also the most downright boring film i've sat through this year at two hours long this is a real chore to sit through i really wanted to fast forward it but i'm fair if nothing else so i stuck it out to the bitter end frankly wished i hadn't there are so many things wrong with kairo i suppose the filmmakers were going for a surreal ambiguous deliberately incoherent feel but those are traits which i despise in a film unless they are done properly then there's the whole internet thing which i just couldn't relate to at all i use the internet all day it's not in the least bit scary to me in any way then there's the fact that kairo as a film provided zero entertainment value for me maybe i'm a neanderthal but i kind of like the films i watch to entertain me make some sort of sense not bore me to death br br director kurosawa has made the ultimate insomnia cure as far as i'm concerned if you have trouble getting to sleep stick this in the dvd you be fast asleep within 10 minutes i guarantee you i didn't think kairo was scary in the slightest the whole internet thing was laughable as for scary you should see some of the penis enlargement pop up ads i get now that's scary i hate this film i hate this film i'm sorry i just need to make that basic point again twice forget about any action tension or gore as there isn't any if you have a very nervous disposition then there are maybe a couple of scenes which might creep you out otherwise this is kiddie friendly pg rated stuff all the way urgh br br the film looks so dull boring it's untrue the camera just sits there for very long shots when it does move it moves very slowly this has all the style of a mexican soap opera since kairo is sub titled it's difficult to judge the original performances so i won't bother it's hard to care for someone when they don't even speak the same language you don't know what they are saying br br kairo is crap i hated it it's as simple straight forward as that just because it's an asian flick doesn't automatically make it any good the mess of a story the plot holes the fact it makes no sense it's an absolute bore means kairo would rightly be torn to shreds by people if it were an american production the worst film i've seen this year by some distance kairo got a hollywood remake as pulse 2006
0	this film is about a gap that exists between the real world and the world of the dead there's a lot of mumbo jumbo about the internet i e if you install a program on the computer you see dead folks much like if you play a videotape you'll die in ringu frankly most of this seemed rather silly and lost me what i did find interesting is the idea that the dead live within their own separate existence being totally alone for eternity this was sobering and fascinating br br i love japanese films and have seen a huge number compared to most americans however one genre that has become popular in recent years that i just can't relate to very well are these horror films i know they are super popular especially since they seem to be remade so often in the states i've seen both ringu as well as the ring ju on and the grudge and was rather ambivalent despite their popularity about the only recent horror film i really liked from japan was a reworking of the great british film on a wet afternoon and what do i think made different well unlike the other films as well as kairo gobs and gobs of money weren't spent on special effects or trying to scare the audience instead the emphasis was on the story the bottom line is that these other films are a lot like american films like halloween or friday 13th with scary things jumping out just to scare the audience and plot is purely secondary at best for me i want story not cheap thrills or ghosts as the primary focus of the film br br with a relatively high rating i know i am in the minority but i just don't find this a very satisfying film all too often minor things occur that might startle someone slightly but the characters begin screaming and crying and acting as if to say this is the scariest film ever made so you'd better start shaking well i think it just tries too hard and i wish it had focused more on the afterlife seen at the end of the film and plot progression not scare tactics
0	gritty drama emotionally powerful blah the bbc has lost out big time to masterful productions such as the wire sopranos and carnivale from hbo okay so the budget may be a lot smaller but 'the street' last night was badly acted predictable unrealistic stereotypical insensitive and a big fat waste of time tv british tv is not as good as it used to be and is falling further and further behind the american productions br br there was no sense of brutal violence from the there was no indication that this man was enough to beat up a man he has respected for such a long time there was no remorse when he did it and this shouldn't be the sort of character that would back down when bob hoskins called his son a pansy in a display of 'bravery' br br i wish i was more eloquent to express my disdain for this show but i am not and although i can't prove my point well enough believe me when i say that this was rubbish shock tv that provides no real inward looking perspective on life br br 1 5 stars
0	well this movie is really plumped haha get it thats kinda like the attitude of this movie the plot is just a copy of pulp fiction okay thats acceptable but to make this piece if plump haha is really unbelievable the storyline is so pathetic and the whole thing only gathered a few laughs it did try making a few jokes from various other movies and it failed most of the times i mean i do have a sense of humor but this isnt really the way to go to get a laugh most of the supposedly funny moments are completely ironic the film is quiet short running at around 75 minutes overall they could have done a much funnier job seeming they made fun of a blockbuster film they were gambling and hey i think they lost br br in overall plump fiction is but you wont gather much at all br br worth watching over and over again no once is enough actually its more than enough br br so is it worth the rent ummm as i said its but you will only gather a few from it br br overall out of 10 a 4 out of 10
0	about this film was the title song after 30 minutes i discontinued watching because it was so lame bad story bad actors bad movie if you want to watch a good movie watch pulp fiction instead
0	if you watched pulp fiction don't see this movie this movie is not funny this is the worst parody movie ever this is a poor attempt of parody films br br the cast is bad the film is bad this is one of the worst pictures ever made br br i do not recommend plump fiction i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino this is one of the worst parody films ever made br br plump fiction is not a good movie it is not funny it is so dumb and vulgar
0	this is by far the worst movie i have ever seen its been a few years since i saw it and nothing has come close since then and i doubt that there ever will be a movie produced that is as bad as this it tries to make fun of a variety of different movies for example and instead of funny its just pathetic whatever you do don't rent or by this garbage and if someone throws it at you turn around and run the other way
0	i like all different types of movies so this is not a bash on romantic movies from a guy who only likes the matrix etc etc br br i just felt it was a lousy movie i don't feel that there was enough buildup of the characters to fall in love they were there for a few days and while dealing with a severe hurricane and major issues in each of their lives richard gere and diane lane fall hopelessly and helplessly in love it isn't realistic this movie didn't make me buy into it and feel it emotionally and that is something that you look for in a good plot some emotional connection if someone can relate to them falling in love that quickly without any true substance than so be it you are neither right or wrong different strokes for different folks br br another very unbelievable component to the movie was diane lane's very rude teenage daughter becoming nice and sympathetic at the end of the movie does a teenage girl who is that miserable and aggravated at her mother for not getting back with her cheating husband going to just have a switch turn on and be nice this movie in a nutshell had some big names but to me was a major disappointment
0	the worst movie ever made if anyone asks you what is the worst movie you've ever seen tell them plump fiction of all the movies i've ever seen this gotta be the most lame experience even the poorest sequels are pure masterpieces compared
0	when this movie was on br br what a bore an attempt at humor but really not pulling it off too well some good ideas were cast and the actors makeup and wardrobe were ok br br i expected a lot more unfortunately i couldn't sit through any more of it i switched off halfway through the video and ejected the tape went to the rental store to get my money back
0	br br this movie being one of them br br i remember in the middle of the movie me and my friend just br br looked at each other our heads and laughed in despair br br see it if you wish if you feel that you have the time to waste br br and don´t mind 1 5 hrs of catatonia
0	this can hardly be called a good movie actually it's not even close but i have to say that there was a few things that made me not laugh not giggle but something like that the dogs parody was one of them the rest are not important enough to be remembered br br to be honest i was a little disappointed by this movie the plot sounded like an idea but it quickly fell to the ground the whole thing was just to messy and the actors where not good for the characters most of them simply overacted there was also a whole lot of sequences that was a total waste of film i do realize that it would make the movie about 20 min shorter but it would only make it better br br now with the good and the bad things lined up let's go to the conclusion two out of six toilet seats up for this one
0	this is a spin off of pulp fiction i thought that it would be good for a few decent laughs well it turns out that this movie really was terrible the whole plot doesn't follow on the pulp fiction plot it turns to other movie like forrest gump and more some laughs came out of this movie but all and all it totally took 90 minutes of my life away from me if you are thinking of renting this movie please don't it will waste 90 minutes of your life reconsider renting this and go on and find a movie that actually makes sense please if there is a plump fiction 2 i will definitely not go on and rent the sequel just giving a heads up for those out there
0	now first let me say i love god awful movies especially horror films mainly i watched hundreds of movies on mystery science theater 3000 with no pain but this is the absolute worst film on the planet i had to turn it off it was so bad it was unfunny and just plain unwatchable give me 3 back to back viewings of manos the hands of fate or monster a go go over this any day avoid this film like the now excuse me while i go gouge out my eyes to cleanse them of the filth i had to watch to get a decent judgement for this film only one decent gag in the part i watched was the now are an extermination pair for exterminators even that wasn't to great of a gag
0	i've never understood this type of spoof movies you get some serious semi serious movie that everyone knows about and takes the seriousness out of it through immature fart jokes and such we've seen it many many times and it's never really been funny it's just an easy way to laugh at something you don't understand in my opinion this seems to be one of the more obscure and less liked of the genre though i honestly don't see anything in this that is much worse than that of spy hard or hot shots this movie as is clearly understood simply from the title concentrates on making childish fun of pulp fiction that's the main reason i decided to watch it as i found that film to be overly indulgent of tarantino's sick mind and powerfully overrated i had hoped for one or two good jokes making fun of the overly violent and pointless type of movie that pulp fiction was in every aspect in my anything but humble opinion i was sorely disappointed the plot is pretty much a rip off of tarantino's film with a few scenes spoofing other often better films in the same childish and humorless fashion the pacing is poor and often you'll sit there being able to guess the outcome of every scene predicting every joke often thinking of a better one at the spot bored out of your mind the acting is bad the characters are clichés and stereotypes and are intentionally paper thin in order to make fun of the characters they're based on problem is it doesn't work it just makes the movie that much harder to sit through the humor is juvenile and lame the only positive thing i can say about this film is that they managed to find some actors that looked like the people they were supposed to look like the film is an awful waste of the actual real actors involved possibly slightly entertaining to fans of the typical spoof movies of the same kind i recommend this only to people who truly loathed pulp fiction or fans of the zucker parody films everyone else avoid 1 10
0	it's painfully obvious that the people who made this movie have never seen such brilliant spoofs as the naked gun and hot shots this movie is terrible and so are the actors they wouldn't know acting even if it hit them in the face as i felt like doing while watching this total pile of rubbish br br the movie is stupid and has no humor in it what so ever i'm sure that i could make a better movie with my friends to me it's amazing that a movie can fail this much not a single clever or funny line no trace of intelligence behind it it's a pathetic movie and i'd like to meet the person who actually likes this movie yuck
0	without a doubt the worst movie i have ever seen in my life there was nothing entertaining about this film i know it was supposed to be a comedy but it actually made me cry at the thought of losing the 4 75 admission price
0	i consider myself to have a decent sense of humor but this movie left me stunned in my chair br br it's so bad that it could just not have been any worse not once did i laugh at the sadly attempted jokes in this movie i have watched and enjoyed several parodies of big movies but unfortunately this one will be the one i remember best in my nightmares br br the only reason anyone should want to watch this is if they want to enter a coma for a brief period of time br br this is the worst movie ever
0	wow not because of the 3 d imagery which at times was used nicely to provide good deep imagery but what a lame ending the end of the movie just seems to implode on itself this film has got to be one of the goofiest movie monsters ever and one of the most pathetic attempts to try to explain it the misogyny of this film is painful as well if you are looking for a bad 50s sci fi film to laugh at aka 'bot fodder go for it otherwise look for better films
0	police officer michael tomas the church has his hands full while investigating a serial killer who's been leaving parts of the bodies of the people that he's been murdering at the house of one recently widowed tracy joanna pacula mike has to find a way to stop the bodies from piling up while perhaps finding love in the process br br a feeling of the 'giallo' films of yore pervades this film even though we know who the killer is from the get go and the film contains a few good set pieces a scene later in the film set in a school for the blind being particularly memorable but it doesn't make all that much sense when all is said and done either all in all not nearly as good as bava's earlier macabre nor his first two demons films but enjoyable enough if you can forgive the rather outrageous plot twists towards the end of the film a pity the image entertainment dvd lacked extras of any kind as i would have been interested in some br br my grade c
0	tu pa tam is one of the worst movies i've ever seen but on the other hand is better then most of the movies from slovenia who are filled with depressing characters and story without any bright ideas tu pa tam is bright optimistic and without any artistic moments in many interviews director tried to tell us that his movie is top quality just because it didn't cost a lot of money but thinking that way is wrong tu pa tam is for me very bad movie the dialogs are really bad written 90 of the script is consisted of cursing the characters are stereotypical morons the story and its twists are very predictable and the action sequences this movie supposed to be an action comedy are filmed very very bad and without any style is just thinking he's even bigger than quentin tarantino so he's copying his style over all 90 minutes the humor in the movie is very cheap and primitive probably thinks that constant cursing is funny in my opinion is tu pa tam very cheap not only by budget movie with stupid story and very very bad acting
0	of the thousands of movies i've seen so far this is the first one which made me think of the wasted talents expression i had never ever seen so many fine actors giving so dreadful performances pierrot elsa and so on the aging make up is quite awful and to make it worse lit broadly the use of music e g love at first sight for the young aide de camp is at times so that i could feel most spectators around me smile awkwardly so far antoine de has been quite a good actor but seeing this one and les de i think he should start considering quitting please antoine give up that master of project i doubt you deserve it
0	the actors are so bland that it's almost impossible to tell them apart pauline kael said of this movie the actors have names but they're truly anonymous and the special effects are really bad they simulate with people hanging on cables and by recycling the trick that let fred astaire dance on the ceiling in royal wedding but none of these guys move well enough to make it look convincing br br the low point of the movie is when one of the characters an airplane tycoon is trying to convince some other giants of industry to come in with him in a moon rocket and he shows them a woody woodpecker cartoon that explains how a rocket works at a 2nd grade level and to think that robert heinlein worked on the screenplay br br the only plus is that the production design manages to communicate a sort of amazing stories sensibility and even that is done much better in the producer's george pal subsequent movie when worlds collide which has similar bad acting but is much more entertaining however pal's best sci fi movie has to be the time machine
0	this movie may bear some historical importance and it sure seems astonishing how well the facts are together the setting the rocket the space suits the surface of the moon all scream a classic but in the end the result makes a pretty dull movie for todays eyes and the 50ies tech scenes you might hope for in a movie like this are by far not enough to reward sitting through all the tacky dialog and predictable plot developments the characters and plot may reward a scientific sociological analysis but bear too little entertainment value many times br br much of this movie seems like a good movie for nine year olds the mature themes the human drama and the violence are kept to a level for children as well br br the images of the earth and the moon seen from space may actually be more accurate than the ones in 2001 but so what if their use is dramatically inefficient especially 2001 may seem like a stretched out meditation over themes of this movie and has star wars not somehow modelled it's space scrolling opening titles on the opening titles of this film but then again the inheritance is marginal br br if its a real groundbreaking and mega influential mature sci fi classic you are looking for however check out forbidden planet
0	i didn't even watch this whole movie now i like 50's sci fi movies even when they are wildly inaccurate but this one just annoyed me for one thing one member of the crew on the spaceship talks and acts like he might have made it into the tenth grade he sounds like he ought to be on a bowling league not a space ship out the window of the spaceship the crew is marveling at earth and this boob says 'can you see brooklyn ' and another guy says and the boob says 'gee i wonder who's pitching ' pardon me a moment i think my sides are splitting br br when they first get up into orbit the boob says 'the moon is just for looking at take me back down ' watching the crew making stretched mouths and screaming from the g forces of acceleration during takeoff is also not one of the better moments of the film perhaps the film's best moment can be identified by a big the end on the screen br br we also find out that they can't open the hatch because 'the greased it before they took off sure a space vehicle is going to be by a member of the crew who we later learn has never even had a space suit on before and doesn't know anything about zero gravity as baby huey the overgrown fat cartoon duck once said that sounds logical the no gravity in space effects are so bad it's painful to watch everyone knows in the absence of gravity everything tends to go up br br how this movie gets 6 3 stars out of 10 when other vastly superior films don't rate any higher is a mystery to me i really do like old sci fi movies but this one is not realistic and the lame attempts at character humor by throwing in that boob from a gas station grease pit does not work at all it just ruins the movie i think in retrospect it's not the whole movie i hate so much as the fact that 'the is so obviously not someone who would be on a space ship not even to the hatch ' omg i wonder if he checked the fan belts too maybe if they'd left 'the off the trip it might not have been quite so excruciating even so it's only average what everyone else is raving about i don't know br br you want to watch a neat 1950's space movie x m' beats it all to heck maybe not so much 'realism' but a more serious story and less goofy characters
0	this film is just another waste of time the plot is ridiculous forced usa drama the characters were all really weak especially the uncharismatic goya and the bad interpretation of bardem who only was alright in his classic interpretation when acting as french ally br br just another chance lost of have spent the money in a good film i guess it was no a low budget film definitely not recommended maybe the director's should think a bit whether the film has sense or not before wasting so that money maybe they do not bother as they have profits before launching them in the cinema br br no more hope in cinema
0	i'm going to recommend putting this one in the skip it pile as well i was mildly excited by the concept when my fiancée rented it and a bit more excited when i saw that milos forman directed it ah well br br the costumes were nice sure but they were typical there was nothing about them that said they were from anywhere but the period costume department of any major hollywood studio there was no distinction between spanish british and french everyone dressed like they were at court in versailles the sets somehow didn't evoke the qualities of the settings the prison didn't feel like a prison the mansions didn't feel like mansions and the outside scenes looked like they were filmed on a back lot for all that they were probably practical locations br br the score was dramatically less than it could have been i have been a fan of film scores since my youth noticing appreciating and collecting them by which i mean more than john williams my fiancée is a professional film composer an award winner who has had her works performed at lincoln center and a rising star in the industry at the start of the film we had high hopes for it and it did indeed start off nicely it rapidly deteriorated and at several points including the scene of the release of the prisoners it actually reached a level of annoyance i actually reached for the remote to turn down the volume the score was never anything more than the most obvious choice for scoring a specific tone of scene and didn't integrate itself into the soul of the film think of the music in babel and you'll have an idea of what i mean it never attained the grandeur it wanted to but then neither did the film br br javier bardem as talented as he is was awful for the first part of the film his mannerisms are so distracting that it takes over his performance during the second half everything that was his character in the first half is gone replaced by an entirely different set of annoying mannerisms and he looked like the love child of keith richards and stuart lestat i never got the idea that he cared about the role which is to say that the character cared about his life and actions or that the character was ever drawn by the writers as anything more than an opportunist who for whatever reason changes his mind and decides to stick by his principles at the end br br natalie portman was very good although her performance lacked the shades of increasing insanity between her release from the prison and taking lorenzo's hand at the end that i would have needed to call it truly an effective performance the character of alicia was never defined enough to truly discern and if it weren't for the superb makeup on her eyes and cheeks someone seeing the beginning of the film and the end wouldn't know they weren't the same character the prosthetic teeth were horrible artificial and distracting but that's no knock on ms portman br br stellan skarsgård was fine as goya not oscar worthy but serviceable and generally believable i don't know much about the life of goya or his deafness but it seemed to be tacked on to the movie as a requirement of biographical information rather than anything that was utilized in the film i am sure it affected life much more than just requiring the need of an interpreter but you'd never know it from watching this for the record words and sounds can only be correctly interpreted roughly 30 of the time through lip reading br br don't get me started on randy quaid at least he was a minor character br br the script reads like one of the choose your own adventure books i used to read as a kid at several moments through the film several outcomes are possible and none of the actions preceding them lead with any certainty to the way the film actually plays out ironically the film is also predictable especially its meager attempts at the mood through small bits of humor the joke about the hands maybe it's because i paint not well as a hobby and know what a pita hands are to draw paint but i saw the joke coming a mile away as well as the reprise in the second half was the baby ever there for any other reason other than to be taken by there might as well have been a line of bread crumbs br br disappointing br br note this review is a copy of a reply i made to a thread in the forum
0	this isn't exactly a complicated story it's not a mystery or a plot you have to spend time re watching because you missed an intrinsic part of the dialog claiming a movie has to be seen multiple times for you 'to get it' may apply to a very few films however this isn't one of them those type of movies have substance and are so involving it's easy to miss an important portion of dialog or a subtle nuance to plot details you may have overlooked with ghosts this doesn't apply the main flaw in this movie is an absence of detail it jumps from one character to the next never giving enough substance to any one set of scenes to allow the involvement of those watching because of that you don't connect with any of the characters you don't get to the point where you care either the main actor is gone just as the movie seems it's going to redeem itself or their actions are despicable and you're not inclined to anyway refusal to go very far to help is a good example his refusal to commit himself further mirrors the overall tone of his part the only characters you may momentarily feel for are when she's being questioned and then tortured after her rape by lorenzo any focus on her character is pretty much gone following that the only other in depth involvement comes from the best scenes in the movie centered around lorenzo's invitation to supper with family and her fathers all out attempt to force lorenzo into signing a bogus confession and getting his daughter back then just as things start to be developing again they're gone from the movie i've read a lot of the comments here about how the movie didn't know what it wanted to be etc i found that basically it succeeded in not being much of anything from lorenzo's return and the coincidental viewing of daughter by goya everything seemed nothing more than contrived without much of a storyline no effort to really examine the turbulent times they lived in took place the essence of who goya was didn't materialize other than his actions or lack thereof proving him to be more self centered than anything else as for his art the movie seemed intent on examining a few of the paintings he did but again away another opportunity in examining the reactions to this work rather than the work itself to sum things up best the movie had no cohesion it grossly lacked the substance to delve into the historical environment it covered and upon ending left you feeling like what you'd just seen was a series of aborted attempts to engage the viewer by switching from one thing to the next without adequately engaging the viewer in any of them you can't watch something like this several times expecting it to improve with added examination there's just not enough to it to waste the time it's not a case of your missing out on something it would just be more proof that the ingredients needed to make this movie good just aren't there as for best film ever made it's not even the best film i've watched today
0	having watched this movie several times i have come to the conclusion that milos forman made a very daring decision to manufacture a muse for goya when the artist led what most would consider a tempestuous passionate life while the french revolution and the napoleonic era raged across europe surely one that would have sufficient drama upon which to draw while i do understand that mr forman was relating in the microcosm of the tragedy of life the devastation of the world at that time i was left feeling that there was just so much of goya left out so much of his humanity the strongest and most eloquent point this film made was that because of man's fallen nature each of us is a potential villain in the stream of life each of us has evil within us that we must fight with the help of god how eloquent when goya says he should have helped more how true for all of us we must defend and protect the innocent the superbly ironic scene in which the once imprisoned priest sentenced to die pronounces the death sentence on lorenzo who condemned him originally is the stuff of genius i was left wanting something more when the credits rolled maybe less of the unreal coincidences and more of the inner life of the characters
0	in all honesty i haven't seen this film for many years but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory as anyone who has seen it will understand i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties and it scared the hell out of us kids in a fun way i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze i can't risk giving away the ending except to say that it was surprising to say the least i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history and yet oddly moving in a way you have to see it for yourself which is not easy these days i don't know if it's available on home video or not but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults
0	i had this dvd to watch thinking that i would see a type of biography o painter goya but the movie was about everything but goya this movie is about a young woman taken away from her family by the holy inquisition allegedly because she practiced jewish rituals only because the poor girl did not like eating pork the rest of the movie is about torture humiliation driven by a poor script can't believe it is by jc carrière as i could not believe this cr is directed by mr milos forman centered on a religious man and that young woman and that is all br br ah and there is goya i forgot playing a completely peripheral role that could be the role of john paul peter manuel joaquim jose or anyone very disappointing one one these movies that will be forgotten for ever if it has not had happened yet rent the name of the rose if you want a movie about the holy inquisition and i don't know what you should rent if you want to watch a movie about spanish painter goya maybe a director of a good caliber not forman still needs to make it ps the spanish painter goya the title role who is lost in the plot is portrayed by a scandinavian actor something that makes this film even more difficult to be taken seriously maybe next time we should send javier to play the biopic of norwegian painter munch
0	then the second half of this movie is hard to follow i got the first part with the spanish but the film skipped many years forward with the french ruling spain the movie does little to fill you in on what happened and i don't remember much about it so the movie gets confusing then the movie begins when daughter of a rich merchant is accused of by the church specifically father lorenzo she is put to the question and forced to confess even her family's wealth can not buy her out of prison her father forces lorenzo to sign a confession saying he is the offspring of a chimp in hopes of getting released all it does is give a reason for the church to condemn lorenzo who runs off to france br br then the movie skips many years and the french revolution is in full force is released from prison it was very good make up work to make natalie portman look that tore up she finds her family dead and seeks goya for her help she tells him she had a child in prison goya sets up a meeting between her and lorenzo whom is now with the french and in power he is the father goya sees the daughter and tells lorenzo whom decides it's best to send her off to america so no one will find out but before his plans get carried out the british join the and spain reclaims power and he is now the persecuted that part is not well told in the film it's like the film shows this to happen in a day br br final verdict the movie is good until it skips many years in time after the then the movie expects you to understand what is going on it just got too confusing to me then
0	with a title like that you will be forgiven for thinking this film is about the great painter goya then after half an hour you decide it is more about the roman catholic inquisition with even more latitude perhaps it is just a snapshot of the period with lurid characterisation too many axes to grind and a scant regard for fact milos forman dishes up a colourful but shambolic rambling mish mash that fails on all three accounts br br milos forman who lost his jewish father to nazi concentration camps is the great director who painted the artist mozart as a buffoon and got away with it won awards for it in fact his life in czechoslovakia gave him a taste of diverse repellent regimes especially communism he also made the equally over the top but rather impressive one flew over the cuckoo's nest so at the age of 74 how does he come to offer us this mess in ghosts goya is one step removed from buffoon the main character is brother lorenzo passionately acted by javier bardem natalie portman is equally vibrant as model and later in the film her own daughter the tenuous connection with goya is that he happens to paint both of them br br lorenzo tortures and then rapes who he suspects of being a jew her father tortures lorenzo napoleon dashes in to liberate spain briefly gets out of the dungeon the church has left her in and searches for her child goya is still painting but has gone deaf his main preoccupation seems to be helping and so on br br historically goya was also a historian as forman had sadly the idea of a biopic of goya the painter this one fact could have been used to pull the whole film together – a large slice of history as seen by goya but the painter is too tangential to receive any weight similarly a document of the terrors of the inquisition should be done – compared to other despotic orders throughout time the holy see has been forgiven with barely a confession though one might ask if forman is competent enough to be trusted with a factual account of anything br br i thought this could be the heart of a wonderful story he says in the production notes there were a great many parallels between the communist society we lived under and the spanish inquisition but the story is too tenuous to hold our attention against our expectations and with a background of something major the life of a great painter the horrors of the inquisition and even the french revolution we are instead asked to feel involved in a concocted if kind infatuation of the result is that we feel cheated br br background detail is appallingly handled goya went deaf in when the film starts not 15 years later napoleon is as believable as a cut out from a cereal packet we see the church passing out a death sentence when the normal procedure was for the church to insist that the secular arm did that dirty work battles look overly choreographed and stagey a peppering of gratuitous naked bosoms hardly makes up for it br br on the positive side the production values are mostly good the colours are vivid the pacing excellent at least until we give up on finding any worthwhile storyline bardem is excellent and portman is a joy until she goes into overdrive as a mad woman while it doesn't say very much about goya what it does say is nice even if superficial and pretty irrelevant br br i once had a late night drunken conversation where my friends and i asked each other if you could choose a director to depict your life who would it be on his record forman would sadly have to be at the bottom of my list
0	perhaps i missed something but i found ghosts to be a tedious costume melodrama as to the story it was trying to tell i found that a confusing mish mash that went off in all directions and perhaps it should have been made by a spanish director with the appropriate languages subtitled rather than in unconvincingly accented english i can't judge the historical veracity of the story but it seemed to move along with a similar artist's model's tragic fate plot line as girl with a pearl earring was the movie a commentary on the religious injustices of the inquisition false piety torture then and now or what i never seemed to be able to figure that one out natalie portman's various characters also seemed ridiculously stereotypical and ultimately the movie was crowned with the concluding melodrama of a disheveled head and body hanging on the edge of cart heading off into the and goya following along milos forman do better than that
0	i did here this movie was good from various people plus i do like natalie portman and javier bardem as well as the director milos forman yet after watching this movie i really had nothing to admire about it br br first off the acting was very much below average the performances were just not powerful enough to really feel shocked by what the inquisition did javier bardem did give a solid performance and was probably the only one who actually had as spanish accent it is pretty obvious why this bardem was the only one natalie portman who i think is a very good up and coming actress did not really make me feel sorry for her being tortured like the movie there was nothing to admire about her performance stellan who i do like gave a very average performance like the other actors giving a boring performance this movie was essentially about him since he plays goya yet he did not become what he needed to be to make this movie good what about randy quaid you have just got to be kidding me him playing king carlos iv look he is great in comedies but him playing a king that just describes the whole movie for you br br the directing was just horrible in this movie when a movie is a mess there are usually two people to blame for that the director and the writer i get the feeling that milos forman really didn't want his actors to put a spanish accent on from the very few battle scenes in here they were all displayed horribly also as a director he needs to give you the feeling of shock of what the inquisition did after this movie i felt like i could careless about the event to sum it all up he poorly shot the scenes and misguided the actors br br the writing which was also done by milos forman was just as bad or maybe even worse than the directing there really was nothing memorable of the movie except for one seen where bardem does get the same treatment that portman's character has gotten other then that the movie did not give you the feeling of the time period and at least it could have made up for it with a quote or two br br after finishing this movie i was just looking at the t v thinking ok why should i care about any of this i do care and are very much interested in history but when movies like this come up it feels like the producers robbed you of something good that could have been taken away from the movie when movies are this bad we highlight a lot of the technical faults in a movie than if it was good like the accents i'm not sure people would have emphasized the lack of spanish accents if this movie was good br br whole point of this review is to say just don't watch it
0	this movie had very little good points the special effects and acting was horrible for sure but it was a movie made on a low budget so you dont expect much from it it does have some laughs i doubt they are intended though the scene where the old woman bends down and touches dung that was on the floor then puts it to her nose and goes in a really stupid raspy voice was priceless all in all if you have nothing else to watch and just want to laugh at a really crappy flick trying to cash in on the blair witch success then grab it other then that dont bother
0	we rented the movie and it maybe the worst movie ever the box they had in the video store had a cool looking monster on the cover but in reality the monster was a creature from the black lagoon mask awful awful awful you actually might have to rent it it's so bad it feels like you are watching a bizzare o home movie
0	the according to this mockumentary is a mysterious br br creature that has been killing and eating hispanic goats in latin br br america and mexico for years one has crossed the border into br br southern texas and a cute intrepid no i did not br br make up that word go to an isolated ranch to find one her uncle br br was killed by the creature and some grainy video footage of the br br monster exists she takes a badass black guy with a gun and two br br cameramen for easy to edit coverage and they go for br br ten minutes into the film they find it br br the rest of the film has the team of documentarians getting br br attacked by the bloodthirsty monster and stilted dialogue at one br br point the team runs into a couple of hottie witches who lead them br br to the nest for 100 if only the fbi knew about how br br cheaply tex witches could be bought as informants whole br br decades of mythical beast reports could be cleared up with a br br blank check br br in the end after the bloody deaths of characters you don't give a br br goat's patoot about a is captured killed and br br autopsied the only point of the autopsy scene is to highlight the br br makeup department's efforts in such a cheap film br br the film is shot on video just like bwp yet the cameraman br br characters never reload their tapes or their camera br br batteries the lead actress here is awful the beauty of the br br average bwp was its use of improvisation during the production br br here all the lines are written and are delivered like a poorly br br rehearsed christmas pageant br br the film is tinged with racism as well the only african american br br here is a loudmouthed gun nut at one point as the crew breaks br br into an abandoned house they find a trio of illegal immigrants who br br comically ask them if they are from the ins chortle chortle br br the monster itself is a guy in a rubber suit and nothing more for br br such a lumbering and awkward beast he is able to sneak up on br br the cast pretty quietly whether they have idiotically locked br br themselves in a giant cage as bait or cannot seem to get their br br only vehicle started br br the gore is gruesome but when surrounded by this kind of br br stupidity it loses all of its effectiveness i do not know if this was br br shot before or after bwp but i can honestly say this is the worst br br film ever made in southern texas about a mythical beast pray br br there are not any sequels i will start a letter writing campaign to br br troma br br this is rated r for strong physical violence gun violence strong br br gore and profanity br br
0	i vowed some time ago to never get another joe castro film perhaps after near death but i sort of ended up with this one by accident since it was a troma release i didn't read the cover carefully oops well i watched it and it's by no means good but it's i guess sort of tongue in cheek if it's not it sure seemed that way some intrepid folks from the university of the rio grande set out to find if the exists because of surveillance camera footage from someone's goat barn that shows this weird thing hopping across the field of vision and also because the person that this thing supposedly killed was the uncle of the leader of the expedition there's a couple of camera men one of whom whines the whole time and there some ex marine named army who is some kind of munitions expert or something at any rate the do find the on some guy's ranch set out to find it getting involved with two supposed witches along the way the creature itself is rather ridiculous looking with spines on its back a great big long tongue that gene simmons would die for eventually after a bunch of folks done get killed so does the and they take it back to the university for an autopsy so is it from another planet is it a genetic creation from some lab in puerto rico uh they don't tell us really not exactly intriguing but not quite terrible either definitely not a wide audience for this one 4 out of 10
0	this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film it just well sucks i can't even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few but lloyd come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good oh wait that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but don't take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don't say i didn't warn you
0	i've seen a lot of bad movies in my life date movie that was bad but this this is just it's not good house party 4 is the worst movie ever it's as simple as that it's basically ferris bueller with black people in it oh and it's not funny it's awful so awful chris may be a superstar on bet but he's an idiot he can't write a comedy or a horror movie i like to refer to him as a blacker lesser known uwe boll except uwe boll's films are funny awful if you know what i mean you can invite some buddies over pop in alone in the dark and have a great time laughing and eating snacks with your buddies chris is like that except if you invite friends over to watch house party 4 with you no one will be laughing not even the biased token black guy or the illiterate jock i'm serious i didn't laugh once throughout this whole movie the acting is terrible and the movie looks like a bad indie film what was the budget for this movie 5 damn dollars i mean what the hell this movie just sucks don't waste your time with this crap it's disgusting
0	the quickie tells of a decadent russian mob family who lives in malibu and well frankly this awful attempt at drama isn't worthy of commentary br br jason leigh introduces herself to mr mob guy as being from pacific exterminators with huge letters in plain sight on her back which say west coast exterminators eventually the mob guys get suspicious because she was exterminating in a bedroom duh br br in another scene mr plays russian roulette giving a hooker 4000 to bet whether he'll live or die she has 5 chances out of 6 of keeping the money if she bets live well she bets die double duh later she complains it wasn't fair and wants to play again triple duh br br the list of flaws just goes on and on while this intelligence insulting film stinks and sinks in a quagmire of lousy music mediocre camera work poor direction boring story etc pass on this loser d br br note the barebones dvd which i rented had no english same language subtitles or closed captions
0	the quickie 1 outta 5 stars br br pretty poor movie an old as the hills story about a high ranking gangster who wants to quit passing on his empire to his inept son of course it's not going to be easy for someone in that line or work to just quit so a contract is put out on his life after throwing a big party an exterminator jennifer jason leigh who i guess is never going to act in anything other than tv movies or low budget direct to video trash ever again is called to the scene our hero makes a pass at her offering her big money for a quickie she turns down his offer even though she needs the money but winds up staying overnight anyway even after being brutally harassed by the overzealous son who thinks she was sent to kill his father ugh the story just goes on and on you can see every twist and turn coming a mile away weird soundtrack by some group called the tiger lillies will drive most people nuts but i thought there was one kind of cool track towards the end or maybe i was just excited because i could tell that the movie was almost over jennifer jennifer jennifer what the hell happened to you
0	i wanted to see this movie because i liked prisoner of the mountains and brat brother with bodrov jr and the thief with vladimir well unlike the other movies the quickie was a total waste of time the story that makes little sense very uneven acting lesley ann warren was especially bad really awful dialogs poor cinematography what else could go wrong i find it amusing that in practically every american made movie when the same language speaking foreigners russians in this case are left alone they prefer to communicate with each other mostly in broken english and when they happen to speak russian for some reason translators feel obligated to add a lot of f ks in the sentences which have no profanity literal or non literal at the same time native english speaking actors choose to speak in broken russian why is that getting back to the story most of the subplots of the movie e g betting the house inviting latin american paramilitaries etc either make no sense or do nothing more than confusing the viewers it is too bad that bodrov and leigh all good actors in my humble opinion got themselves involved in this disaster
0	this movie came very close to being a good flick the direction needs to be a bit smoother to progress from one piece to the next to make it more plausible in particular the main character's need to escape is not explicit enough is he trying to kill himself is he trying to escape his life does not seem to be that bad so it makes it more difficult to swallow that he wants to leave his life so much also it is not very clear how much in love he has fallen with jennifer jason l if the movie was reworked with some more attention to these details it would have been great on the other hand for an indy flick it's pretty good maybe if you have a couple of drinks to dull the logical thinking it would be more fun br br
0	any fan of russian cinema will have great difficulty in believing the sub par performances phoned in by and bodrov jr and will perhaps be utterly perplexed by bodrov sr 's hackneyed and confusing script which is coupled with uncharacteristically weak direction most of the characters wander through the movie as though they have no idea who they are or what they are doing it is also sad to see that jennifer jason leigh's acting skills have not advanced one iota since fast times at ridgemont high and her screen exposure is mercifully limited this is a terrible mafia movie so much so that it makes the godfather iii look like a winner in the genre to see the key russians at their best check out bodrov sr 's work on prisoner of the mountains which also features jr turn in the thief and bodrov jr 's new criminal in brat
0	i was a fan of buffy and hoped it would come to a proper end when angel got only one more season but when the end came closer i was exited to see that and what did we get this episode called not fade away was the very last one br br i was so disappointed by this episode this is absolutely the worst way to this series why couldn't it get a happy ending why did have a few of the main characters to die why did angel not become a human and was reunited with buffy again no angel has to sign this piece of paper that he'll never become a human how stupid br br and the end is a cliffhanger br br what could have been worse the began so great such as angel but the hole universe ended so crappy somebody should put a spell on the man who wrote the screenplay to this episode and make sure he get's lost in hell br br so don't bother watching this it's so bad it hurts totally 1 out of 10
0	hey i know angel isn't the kind of show that gives people a happy ending and i know they couldn't just make everything perfect but i couldn't believe the ending to angel i absolutely love the show it's possibly the best show ever however i really hated this ending as well as the whole way the 2nd half of angel season 5 went similar to buffy season 7 my favorite characters deaths were pretty much pointless and did nothing for the plot was one of the best characters on the show and once she and angel were finally going to get together she turned all evil and into a demon i wanted so badly to have her back don't get me wrong the episode where comes back is fantastic but i was still really mad she was gone then on earth was up with fred dying right after she finally got with wesley there was no sacrifice it was pointless it did nothing whatsoever for the plot and blue haired demon girl is an awful useless character they spent way too much of the end centered around her another big problem is they didn't connect the elements well enough i know those dudes in that black thorn wanted to bring about the apocalypse but there wasn't even a date set for when it was supposed to happen the apocalypse should have been carried out and discovered throughout the entire season rather than just mentioning there are some evil dudes an hour before the season ends one of the biggest problems is every character who the audience cares about is either dead or has nothing to live for my three favorite characters died and angel spike and gunn who i'm not sure even survives have no office aren't even back to their helping the helpless are in the middle of a huge battle and have lost everyone they care about angel and spike are never redeemed they lose the girl they care about and just about everyone's dead and they still have to fight this weird evil army i get the whole you never stop fighting but it was stupid to end it right in the middle couldn't there have been some redemption with knowledge that there would always be many more battles to come i don't get why this episode is so highly rated because i think the buffy ending was 10 times better and i wasn't even a giant fan of that one why did they have to slip at the end season 3 and 4 and 1st half of five were so amazing then they went and messed up the show
0	my only reason registering to this site was for the opportunity to write a comment to this movie i felt that i had to get rid of some of my anger by writing it off me br br the movie must be just about the worst film i ever seen i really do believe that the script may have seen to been able to become a pretty good movie or at least ok but somewhere on the line something happened what makes it even more odd is the fact that the cast appears to be quite alright on paper put to practice both script and the cast fails to deliver there are to much action it happens to much things and you can't help wonder why it happens and then the cast the actors make such a poor effort that you almost start to cry br br if you have to much time at hand i would say you can see it if not don't
0	although i rarely agree with i have to say that this film while not awful just didn't make me care at all and it all just seemed to be out of place it had its moments three or four ones that made me snicker but most of the time i was just sitting and wondering why why did the characters do this even hot shots characters felt more thought out and fleshed out br br if you want to see a nice film then watch there it was more than random ethnicities that just walked around shooting each other on the swedish tundra br br i am so disappointed
0	another movie from swedish hillbilly country which is always the northern part if black people were shown this way there would be shouts about racism and for good reasons br br this is a farce and you are supposed to laugh at the clever farce clichés but it's mostly tiresome a gangster comedy with the bad russians as always and the bad and stupid finns and most stupid of all is of course the norwegian according to stockholm prejudice br br andreas wilson is the only one who tries to make a performance reminding us of reality this is not funny this is not even exciting a burlesque too raw to make you interested in any way
0	i'm not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies which it is not even though houston did appear in he played a totally different character he was eight years older in this film okay so reid and martin weren't the most talented and couldn't carry a film all by themselves but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference albeit minor to the earlier movies i'm sure everyone who wanted to see it was hoodwinked into thinking that they were seeing a sequel not a totally different film with a familiar name and i'm sorry whitley is not funny and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris ketty lester or dc curry in the earlier films although good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion i have to give this a thumbs down just naming the film down to the last minute would have been ok furthermore the brothers who produced the first three movies were not involved in the making of this film
0	wow what an overrated movie this turned out to be it was supposed to be an extremely suspenseful tale of a crazed killer holding a woman hostage and in terror in her home well i doubt it terrorized audiences in the early '50s and i know it would put today's audiences asleep br br sends shivers down the spine proclaims the new york times no the only shivers i get is that anyone is left on the planet who believes anything the n y times prints about anything br br well it was about a deranged man who held a woman hostage for a short time in her house but the man howard wilton robert ryan was actually harmless and friendly in fact this was one of the nicest roles ryan ever played yes wilton was nuts but he never harmed the woman and only wanted a friend to trust br br the film even turned boring after awhile with very little going on except a lot of yakking br br beware my reader this sucks
0	performance is very disappointing it seems she is trying to make up for her lack of emotion by substituting obscenities why the r rating includes is beyond me there is no nudity or steamy love scenes the plot is old and tired
0	if this film won the lumiere award for best french language film then what kind of garbage is coming out of france these days br br the subject matter is an important one how the african economies are kept as economic hostages by the international organizations that are supposed to be helping them namely the international monetary fund and the world bank about 40 of the governmental budgets of several african nations go to payment of western debt while their people suffer from disease and illiteracy br br but the subject matter was treated in the most dry manner that could be conceived by man dryer than the sahara that surrounds the country of in which this film takes place more monotone and action lacking than any documentary i've ever seen and i'm a fan of the genre one witness after another comes forward in this trial that is captured on film that condemns the world bank imf some critics may site the colorful visual asides within the film but they were out of place and had no complementary soundtrack when they were on the screen they belonged better in a coffee table book than in this film br br even the characters in the film say something like this trial is boring and when will it be over everyone in the theater laughed were those people on the screen reading our minds br br danny glover had a brief appearance in this film it is a televised movie within and it was set within morocco or it was also more ridiculous than any spaghetti western i've ever tried to avoid the only redeeming part of these five wasted minutes was where a caucasian bad guy accidentally shoots an african woman carrying a baby and shows no remorse whatsoever perhaps it was to symbolize the insensitivity of the world bank and how it is unintentionally killing africans br br and one last technical parting shot the subtitles were difficult to read with so much light colors on the screen and not enough black outline to the subtitles themselves br br i've already summarized the movie for you don't be fooled by the hype no need to see this film you'll never get these two hours back in your life
0	endless repetition about the evil world bank imf globalization and the americans are blamed for all of africa's the movie is long about two hours but it seems longer the french actually occupied the country in which the movie takes place for centuries but are only peripheral bad guys br br one doesn't learn enough about any of the characters to really care what's happening to are completely marginal to the preaching which goes on and on and on there's no plot no character development no humor except for a few pokes at bush and but that's almost cheating it's so easy and the production values are redemption there br br it is amazing that a movie can spend two hours preaching about such a big topic and convey utterly zero real information the irish ballad i was dying and then the famine came has more content br br the movie is boring the sub titles are tough to read there is no real content about the subject of the film and the propaganda is relentless br br skip this one
0	may have known what he was doing when he made but the rest of us can just sit back in and confusion trying to figure out what that purpose might have been br br the nominal plot involves a young african singer who's planning on leaving her unemployed husband to find work in the city but far more of the screen time is taken up with what the publicists for the film describe as a mock trial against key financial institutions dealing with the overwhelming economic hardships of africa that's all well and good i suppose but when the arguments and ideas are put forth in as undramatic and pedantic a way as they are here they lose both force and impact put another way if the director had found the means to actually incorporate issues such as the injurious effect of colonialism on the african people and the problem of african debt into anything even remotely resembling a compelling storyline the film might have achieved the intellectual and emotional resonance it now so clearly lacks br br the topics the movie is dealing with may be relevant and important but trying to pass off what amounts to two hours worth of speechifying as an actual honest to god movie is not likely to garner much of an audience for one's message
0	this film has it's heart in the right place but unfortunately it isn't much of a film it is more of a documentary under the guise of a narrative is basically a newspaper op ed piece put on celluloid however your average well researched op ed piece is far more cogent and concise than anything presented here the filmmaker is trying to relay to the viewer the hardships of african life in particular the country of due to the unethical practices of the imf and world bank by using the setting of a mock trial against the aforementioned there is an extra 10 minutes dispersed throughout the film that makes a half hearted attempt at a narrative plot and a bizarre hollywood western style shootout scene where the director seems quite pleased with his own cleverness hence the frequent godard comparisons br br of course as the film begins what and who is on trial is never explained but as we know by now the french refuse to spoon feed their audience br br there are many impassioned arguments made but they are often long winded delivered in a shrill monotone one that becomes quite easy to tune out after awhile and very light on specifics the last point is the most frustrating of all since there is a very well reasoned specific case to be made against the institutions on trial here unfortunately all we get in 2 hours is that the imf and are evil oppressors and should forgive 3rd world debt we are given no more than the occasional hint to the specific reasons why the organizations on trial are guilty but never a clear case the mock trial arguments and the footage of the surrounding village makes the suffering of these african residents clear but one wonders why we must sit through 2 hours of it when a far more precise picture could be painted in a 20 minute newsweek article or bill episode in the end there is something very important to be said on this issue it simply isn't presented very well or very clearly in this pretentious indulgent piece
0	i was looking through tv guide last night and saw a movie starring heather grahm on who i liked in movies like boogie nights and austin powers so i decided to watch it it started out ok but you could tell the story was lacking and at about half way through it started to deteriorate i do not remember this movie being in the theaters and i'm sure if it was it wasn't there long the acting was stale and unconvincing the dialogue was silly and predictable and the story was confusing and stupid definately one of the worst movies i have ever seen and i like movies like the ones this has been compared to like fight club but this one doesn't come close heather grahm has done much better things since i gave it a 2 out of 10 but thats because i clicked on the wrong number i meant to give it a 1
0	i got hold of this film on dvd with the title evil never sleeps it gives front cover billing to carrie ann moss but she plays such a minor character that i didn't really notice her in the film br br i'm afraid that i consider this one of the worst purchases i have ever made the dialogue was stilted and the delivery wooden i found the acting to be disconnected from the plot graham's performance to me was of someone who's wondering whether she's left the gas on at home br br all in all both my wife and i found this film painful to watch and it is not a valuable addition to my collection watch it at your peril but spending 90 minutes having your fingernails pulled out would probably be a better way to spend your time
0	honestly this is a very funny movie if you are looking for bad acting heather graham could never live this down it has three titles for a reason to protect the guilty beautifully bad dialog do you like ribs and a plot only a mother could approve this is your friday night entertainment br br my roommate rented this under the title terrified because he liked heather graham but terrified is what we felt after the final credits not because the movie is scary but because somebody actually paid money to make this turd on a movie reel br br horrible movie there are a few no name actors that provide some unintentional comedy but nothing worth viewing heather graham's dramatic climax also was one of the most pathetic and disturbing things i have ever witnessed i award this movie no point and may god have mercy on its soul
0	what a crap that movie is the script is simply non existent the movie at times seems like a music video but it cannot even be that since the soundtrack does not really match pathetic way of combining action and rap one might think it being a recipe for a successful flick here it fails miserably dialogues in this flick just killed me the scene when harlan is interrogated by some policeman is merely pitiful generally speaking recent seagals films are hardly watchable what the hell happened to the guy i know he's old but can't he get hollywood to drop him a decent script or something is he running out of dough for his escapades to india that he takes on anything they serve him
0	the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal's driving but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie br br it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot so just plan to enjoy the action and do not expect a coherent plot turn any sense of logic you may have it will reduce your chance of getting a headache br br i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies
0	watching this movie you just have to ask what were they thinking there are so many noticeably bad parts of this movie you might get the feel that its intentionally poor as some sort of joke br br i think the worst part about the film is the directing there are so many bad uses of camera angles and other cinematic elements in this movie that are laughably bad the funniest example of this would be in the beginning where the party guests are receiving their invitations by email the same camera angle is used for each shot which last an awkward 2 seconds a piece and the same computer screen with the same desktop window program etc appear it even looks like the thing is shot on the same set each time the whole sequence was also completely silent with no music or sound effects overall it was a poor way to convey the idea that an email was being sent all over town br br if you listen closely you may notice that the music sounds very similar to other movie sound tracks this is no surprise most songs including the one that opens the movie are in fact slight alterations of scores from other movies see if you can guess which ones also i noticed that the music is not played by a real orchestra it sounds like its been written and played through a low end midi keyboard if you are familiar with the scum adventure games the timbre of each instrument sounds like something from the engine br br everything else about the movie just plain sucks the acting is terrible the script is derivative ferris there is no joke in the movie remotely funny unless you see the whole film as one big joke being played on a paying audience don't rent this don't even watch it when it's rerun on comedy central just forget this it's terrible
0	really is this necessary how can somebody make such a film disgusting seagal with funny hair and fat like an elephant stunts all the time cars persecutions with an annoying soundtrack not to mention the ending completely nonsense with the presence of the little girl br br steven seagal wants to be robin hood well at the beginning a fortune teller answers something nobody has asked seagal's wife has nightmares and she can see the future they must be kidding steven segal passes out after a car persecution and i know he can't act it was terrible nothing can save that film br br i lost 90 minutes of my life see you
0	stephen seagal plays the role of a dude who gets talked into driving an armored car for a bank hold up and drives into everything that comes across his path however the police seem to appear on the scene very quickly and seagal smells a rat who gave the police advanced notice the story gets into many twists and turns and the money from the hold up has disappeared and nobody knows its new owner poor seagal gets a bit framed into this hold up and naturally he is out looking for the person or persons who are trying to put him away for a long time in this film seagal tries to be a good guy but the forces of evil are against him unfortunately this is not a great film and rather boring and too long
0	ah yet another seagal movie in no less than a few mere months arrive to populate the video store shelves as bad as submerged no but that is not saying much like perfume on a pig br br seagal is professional thief who wants to quit but goes for one last job only to be double crossed by his boss he lands in prison and is befriended by a gangster who helps him to break out and seek payback br br its good to see seagal finally not playing an agent cop or what he usually plays we actually get a usa location in las vegas it seems then an eastern european territory as usual there is no wire fu either here don does an okay job br br however most of the action and fight scenes with stevie are clearly doubles scenes from other movies a lack of realism and logic in even tiniest situation seagal and make a so so team inspiring unintentional laughs one minute sighs the rest br br several notable faces turn up to slum it sleepy kevin tighe is a long way from his emergency days nick mancuso shows up in sleepwalking mode to take a check no more rappers please at this point the action scenes and plots are more predictable and recycled generically more than ever its a stale scene that seagal needs to get out of or hang it up he should have gotten out a while ago
0	i love watching steven seagal movies not because of the action of the great plot holes but just because it makes me laugh br br oh it makes me laugh so hard this movie totally got no point and is ridiculous compared to this movie pearl harbor rocks and ben affleck need no acting school at all just to give a impression how bad it is br br first off all there so many goofs and bad acting its just getting worse like when steven is try to get out of jail a chopper lands at first the security notice and they led them land when they fly away all of the sudden a guard start shooting br br or when he killed that guy in the car he and both walk away you can't see no oil on the ground behind him steven notice that there is oil without even watching a lighter and the car blows up br br and there are plenty of more goofs steven uses his basic action when someone is pointing a gun at him he grabs it and shoot him totally bullshit like some gangster would let that ever happen br br the acting is also very worse at the fight scene in the jail outdoor place you can see steven clearly wait to come in action just rewind it a couple of time and you notice the bad acting br br its just makes me laugh i hope one day it comes to the cinema's here in holland then i'll go there with as many friends as possible just to laugh my self to death
0	is probably the single worst piece of trash to ever hit the straight to video selection they take a scene from the order starring jean claude van damme and this angers me because van damme is a personally favourite for b movie comedy segal has done some fine work in the past but he has dropped very low in my books and he will probably never pull out another or marked for death unless he sits down and has a very good brain storming session with himself br br it also annoys me how he didn't do many of his own stunts like he has done in previous films in conclusion of all this if you are prepared to see a movie fit for a trash can or woodchipper then rent today you die
0	to start off i love steven seagal the man is a genius but recent movies leave me to wonder is he trying anymore his latest movies show almost no effort on seagal's part in out of reach its too obvious that his lines are dubbed over what seagal does in this movie is not only a slap on the face to his fans but even more to jean claude van damme and his fans in the 2nd scene or so when he prepares to zip line into the drug dealers penthouse to steal the jewels and money it shows him set up the gun and hook it on a neon sign your might be saying to yourself so what does this have to do with van damme ' well that scene was stolen from a jean claude van damme movie called the order rent both watch both compare both and you will lose respect for seagal not only was today you die garbage but it was dare i say an insult seagal's aikido moves are still good but why isn't he doing great movies like marked for death or above the law hes still got the moves and the attitude i'm just left wondering 'why seagal why ' there are such idiotic scenes in his newer movies that have nothing to do with the storyline and such idiotic story lines on top of that i hope the up coming black dawn movie will be another exit wounds or beyond justice because these last chain of movies he made especially today you die really made me wonder if he has the stuff to make more great action movies like double team please don't watch this movie unless you hate seagal if you love his movies don't watch this it will make you question his future in the action film genre
0	i love his martial arts style it is quick close up and oh so fast but it seems like his movies are becoming more and more crime based lifestyle quality and less meaning i thought he was out to bring forth a deeper message at least some of the movies had a hidden meaning or agenda this one had some good redeeming qualities of the character but the rest was so far off i was very disappointed the martial arts is also suffering i am hoping to see a more devoted segal in his future films this movie also lacks in keeping the story line going there are too many gaps so the thought is lost too many things are cryptic without a solution
0	today you die was the 4th seagal movie in a mini marathon i just held wow i don't know where to start he seems to mumble his lines more and more as time goes on and the scenes between seagal and where they seem to improv are embarrassing and what did his girlfriend's dreams have to do with anything else in the plot i can't recommend this to anyone but the most die hard seagal fan and even then you are better off with his earlier work of the 4 films in my marathon submerged into the sun foreigner and today you die today was the worst a previous reviewer mentioned this but the usage of stock footage was quite obvious
0	i have just seen today you die it is bad almost very bad br br 1 the direction and editing are awful just awful almost made me turn off the movie the director has no idea what he is doing he seems to be filming things at random and some scenes don't make sense at all also i hate it when the same scene is used again in the same movie in this movie some scenes were used 3 or 4 times pretty bad br br 2 the dialogue is sometimes good sometimes awful i like the fact that they wanted to make seagal's character and character seem like they were in a similar relationship to the characters in lethal weapon but it did not work simply because some of the dialogue did not make sense and i speak english very well it's not that i did not understand the words it was the fact that the jokes and dialogue lines had no meaning whatsoever br br 3 the script is pretty bad why do they always try to complicate dtv action movies seagal's wife in the movie has psychic abilities why is it useful to the movie no seagal eliminates a whole bunch of people who work for the guy who betrayed him and he knows these people without having ever met them in the movie stupid the story sometimes goes off track and the jumps back without any reason the story is messy and pointless sometimes they should have kept it simple and it would have worked br br 4 in some of the action scenes it is not seagal it is his stunt double you can tell because they only film him from behind and never show his face he also beats the guys with movie martial arts not real ones like the aikido steven knows the stunt double uses cheesy kicks and punches br br 5 steven is good in the movie 90 95 of the lines are said with his real voice the rest is dubbing but it is not that bad this was good also steven seems to be enjoying himself in the movie and is more into the action that he was in submerged he likes as a partner at least he does not seem to dislike him also he seems to have been in better shape than in some of his recent movies i hate the fact that he wears clothes to hide his body but in the same clothes that he wears on the dvd cover he looks more than ok and he should have wore those clothes for most of the movie not the stupid long leather coat br br i really think that seagal was willing to make a good movie the fact that he came late and took off early from the set on two movies directed by does not look like a coincidence to me i think he realized that the crew were amateurs or only in it for a quick buck and he did not give a damn anymore br br in the hands of a better company and crew this might have been a damn good action movie for seagal something like out for justice or above the law i honestly believe that but the people who made the movie are not very good at their jobs or they did not have enough money to do the job properly too bad since i liked steven in the movie and was cool ice cool too but the rest was bad hey at least this gives me hope for black dawn and shadows of the past i think that mercenary might be just as badly handled but hey steven seemed to be back into the same mood he was in while making his better movies and at least that is reason enough to watch the movie br br i liked it but it could have been so much better 4 10
0	today you die starts as honourable criminal harlan banks producer steven seagal is hired by sinister businessman max stevens kevin tighe to drive a security vehicle with 20 000 000 of cash in the back from point 'a' a las vegas casino to point 'b' him sounds simple right well what max forgot to tell harlan that the money is stolen that he has just become the getaway driver in an armed robbery bummer things get even worse for harlan when the local cops catch him chuck him in prison for a long time however harlan managed to hide the money before he was caught with a nice 20 000 000 at stake unaccounted for harlan has to watch his back as the crooks want it as do government agents harlan teams up with ice kool anthony criss in prison they both manage to escape at which point harlan goes looking for some revenge br br photographed directed by don e one has to say that the shot in eastern europe straight to video action films that steven seagal specialises in these days aren't getting any better today you die is a good case in point this is a terrible film simple as that really the script by producer danny lerner kevin moore les gives seagal a new sort of character to get his none existent acting skills around that of a criminal rather than some government agent cop soldier one man army cliché he usually plays in fact if you were being charitable you could say today you die is a rip off of mel gibson's excellent thriller payback 1998 where he too played a really nasty piece of work to such good effect while payback was a superb uncompromising hard edged film noir type action thriller today you die isn't pales into insignificance by comparison unfortunately here seagal is terrible he has no on screen presence or menace either the audience is never quite sure whether he is meant to be a bad guy that we hate or not for instance initially his character's is set up like a modern day robin hood as he steals from the rich drug dealers scumbags to give to the poor as well as keeping a tidy profit for himself which is just ludicrous in itself but then it has seagal turn around murder a lot of people which contradicts the likable criminal with morals that the film went to such lengths to set up in the first place the story is full of holes for instance agent knowles is contacted by the on the run harlan is then reprimanded by her bent superior for meeting him it turns out that he found out by tapped her phone in that case why didn't her boss use the information he had to catch harlan the story is the usual dull predictable bland fight over lots of money with surprise surprise the investigating government agent is actually a bad guy wow i didn't see that coming i must say br br director slows everything down to a snails pace today you die feels like it goes on forever the action scenes set pieces are also severely lacking in entertainment value the infrequent fight scenes aren't great most are either shot in shadow very quickly cut edited or with the camera played behind seagal's character to try disguise the fact that most of the stunt work done here is by a double again seagal looks fat out of shape uses long baggy overcoats to try hide it it doesn't there's a pretty cool car chase through the streets of las vegas in this at the start i thought that today you die might be alright but it seems the whole sequence was stolen from another action film called top of the world 1997 which is about a las vegas casino robbery as well as using footage from that film today you die also edits scenes from the charlie sheen action film no code of conduct 1998 the jean claude van damme action film the order 2001 the wesley snipes prison based action film undisputed 2002 so quite how much of today you die is original footage is anyone's guess br br technically the film is alright considering it's edited together from four separate films as well as it's own footage it's just about competent consistent enough all the footage of the us locations are obviously lifted from the films already mentioned with all the original footage shot on the cheap in bulgaria the rap style music that litter today you die is awful by the way the acting is poor seagal just mumbles his way through his lines as usual br br today you die is a really bad film made up from other bad action films seagal looks old fat the action scenes are average at best most of the story is fairly random it doesn't come together at the end that well at all one to avoid unless your a die hard seagal fan if such an animal even exists
0	i too am a house party fan house party i is my favorite movie of all times house party 4 is a disgrace to all of the and to kid n play this was supposed to be part of a series really there was nothing about kid n play in this movie or any of the other veterans yea kid n play was probably too old to be throwing a house party movie b c its kind of focused on teens but kid n play could have at least made a cameo appearance you can tell how good it was b c it didn't even make it to the movie theaters immature was in house party 3 so it made sense for them to carry on the legacy but they should have represented right they should have left it at house party 3 i am 27 years old and i have been watching house party i since i was 11 when it came out in 1990 16 years ago and i have been a fan ever since when i first seen house party 4 i was like what are they really thinking about there was nothing familiar about this movie that would compare to the previous 3 movies i thought it was a black ferris bueller days off
0	steven seagal is a thief who specializes in robbing drug dealers giving to the poor and unfortunate heh harlan the robin hood anyway harlan wants to go straight for his girl jada mari morrow so he takes on a job as the driver of an armoured car for a max stevens kevin tighe wasted in an underwritten role max intends to have the millions for himself and his unscrupulous associates with the intent of using his loader bruno robert to bring him the money but harlan has other plans escaping the police hiding the money and ditching bruno who had a loaded gun pointed at head threatening to shoot him if he didn't drive after evading capture by ramming a huge dump truck harlan passes out charged with the murder of police among other things as a result of the damage caused by the high speed chase harlan is imprisoned and many wish to know where the money is harlan joins forces with an inmate ice a leader of one of the many gangs in the prison breaking out with the plans of finding max and eliminating every member of his corrupt entourage soon dea agent rachel knowles sarah becomes part of this scenario thanks to her boss saunders nick mancuso who claims there's drugs involved also injected into the plot is desire to save a children's hospital about to close and jada has mysterious dreams regarding max br br seagal and cut up with each other speaking in gangsta while spends time trying to help harlan uncovering the possibility her boss is in cahoots with max character is an odd duck allowing rachel much leeway despite the threat she is to his career tighe shows up for five or so minutes tops which is a shame seagal's harlan escapes prison and finds each and every rich associate of max's inevitably discovering his whereabouts after cracking a few skulls snapping some wrists and breaking some bones speaks in his rapper speech and seagal tries to answer him in kind providing some unintentional laughs as you'd expect a lot of people get shot and seagal doesn't break a sweat it's interesting seeing seagal in prison among the convicts helping out when a group of plan to take him out
0	this is only the second time i have been moved enough to write a review unfortunately both times they have been for movies that can be described with several 4 words that can be defined as or excrement the other movie of such calibre was masked and anonymous br br onto the review there are several key things wrong with this movie which i will describe below br br 1 steven has lost the plot i e in all his other movies family friend gets killed steven gets angry steven kills people the end br br 2 steven has run out of money there was a good car chase scene at the start but i think he blew his budget on that and couldn't afford a decent script writer or editor br br 3 steven no longer appears to do his own action instead the from memory 2 fight scenes were shot neck down and from the back so you couldn't actually see his face most likely a stunt double i'm guessing chuck norris br br in summary worst seagal movie ever second worst movie i have seen in recent history and i've seen a lot of bad movies
0	ah yet another seagal movie in no less than a few mere months arrive to populate the video store shelves as bad as submerged no but that is not saying much like perfume on a pig br br seagal is professional thief who wants to quit but goes for one last job only to be double crossed by his boss he lands in prison and is befriended by a gangster who helps him to break out and seek payback br br its good to see seagal finally not playing an agent cop or what he usually plays we actually get a usa location in las vegas it seems then an eastern european territory as usual there is no wire fu either here don does an okay job br br however most of the action and fight scenes with stevie are clearly doubles scenes from other movies a lack of realism and logic in even tiniest situation seagal and make a so so team inspiring unintentional laughs one minute sighs the rest br br several notable faces turn up to slum it sleepy kevin tighe is a long way from his emergency days nick mancuso shows up in sleepwalking mode to take a check no more rappers please br br at this point the action scenes and plots are more predictable and recycled generically more than ever its a stale scene that seagal needs to get out of or hang it up he should have gotten out a while ago
0	i usually spend almost as much time writing my reviews as i do watching the film but with today you die i feel that doing so would be a criminal waste of my time br br so here is a five minute rant about how bad this film is br br there was a time in the mid 80s when a single look from steven seagal was enough to crack your ribs a full on scowl could knock you off your feet if he actually got a hold of you he would snap you like a twig br br these days although he is still capable of doing considerable damage he no longer looks the part he's gone to seed and just doesn't know when to call it quits he walks like he's dumped in his pants yet somehow still manages to look constipated and he has put on weight his trademark long ponytail has gone but his hair still looks stupid how this man keeps on working in the movie industry is beyond me br br today you die is the usual seagal mix of bone crunching fights car crashes gun battles and pyrotechnics seagal mumbles his way through the dull script delivering his lines with zero enthusiasm or believability in this third rate action flick he plays harlan banks a thief trying to go straight who is conned into partaking in a 20 000 000 robbery he gets caught goes to jail escapes and seeks revenge yawn br br there are some pretty good car chases and gun fights which intersperse the boring stuff of which there is a lot but reading other comments on imdb has revealed that these were actually borrowed from other better movies seagal is also body doubled an awful lot in this one br br seagal turns in one of the most dreadful performances of his that's saying something considering the lousy 'acting' in some of his recent efforts most hilarious is his totally embarrassing attempt at ebonics african american street slang 'i da man actually steven you sound like an arse with a ridiculous script and plot lines that go nowhere this film is a waste of time money and effort and the final moment where harlan banks saves a children's home from closure is enough to make you blow chunks br br damn i just looked at the clock i was enjoying trashing this steaming pile of dreck so much i went way over my five minutes it's time to post this comment and get to watching something decent
0	i ran across this movie on a local tv channel last night frankly i have never heard about this movie before simply i lost track of recent movies for each one is worst than the previous one here again we have a dull seagal as if he was insisted by his girlfriend to make this movie and he accepted forcefully the plot is ridiculous acting is below zero and there is no single aspect the movie is not falling apart i simply don't have any idea why seagal did this movie man it is even worst than out for a kill if you watch this movie you will start feeling sorry for seagal he seems to be running out of ideas enthusiasm and money avoid this movie and do something worthwhile
0	ho hum just another flick with steven seagal pretending to be some spiritual being but bashing heads and killing like it was nothing he of course justifies it in the end by donating the money to an orphanage how sweet lay the world to waste and we'll ignore it if you take care of a little girl this time he is partnered with ice cool anthony criss gotta have someone to lay all those cringe inducing lines on man and there are plenty the dialog is pure crap br br they go after bad guys nick mancuso and kevin tighe two people that were born to play the scumbags br br he's squeezing mari morrow and impressing soap star sarah how cute br br i guess if you gotta have some july force excitement this may suffice if nothing else it will help you get your degree in
0	harlan banks is thief at the top of his game but after a successful career he has decided to settle down with his woman and retire however he decides to take one last routine job in las vegas all he has to do is drive the car and it seems simple unfortunately someone tips the police and after a hectic car chase he winds up in the slam only to escape and take revenge on those who betrayed and got him there in the first place a typical action fest ensues br br steven seagal plays himself surprise wearing a trench coat and sporting his beloved colt 1911 along with his usual bone breaking aikido the colt and aikido have always been with him but the first i recall him with the trench coat is in 'the foreigner ' it isn't particularly impressive but it does add a little notch to seagal's lethal arsenal of or it covers up those extra pounds he is packing look at it however way you choose his main buddy throughout the film is played by another new thing a rapper in an action movie and they both uncover a little conspiracy of bad guys on both sides of the law and give each evil doer his due br br the film's main problem is that is it painfully and i truly mean painfully unoriginal seagal just follows a clockwork plot throughout the movie and even that manages to get more and more dull as the film progresses then it goes from dull to utterly ridiculous in the final scene as people who seemed to be dead on killing each other suddenly for no reason start to talk groan inducing in every sense of the word the only real positive thing here is the decent opening a car chase in las vegas complete with flipping police cars and generally entertaining mayhem but after that brief highlight you've seen it all before 3 10 br br rated r constant violence and profanity
0	poor action films are the graveyards for aging martial art stars in such films they struggle to maintain that dangerous demeanor that made their early work successful but they all end in failure seagal is too old for this type of role but he wont let go no matter how silly he looks some hope his current work will somehow bring back the magic but there is no magic left the late '80s and early '90s belonged to steven seagal and his work made me a fan i could see him fit nicely in a slot on the sopranos where his overweight body features and sullen attitude could have found a home i wonder what the return is on his run of direct to video films since he produces them i'm assuming the is more than satisfactory if this is the deal we will be subjected to poorly done seagal action films well into his late 60s and 70s
0	star rating jodie marsh michelle marsh marsh rodney marsh hackney marsh br br harlan banks steven seagal not quite as bad an actor as kevin costner but you get it is a modern day robin hood listen close you can hear brian adams music playing in the background no not really the kind of guy who steals ill gotten blood money from drug dealers and uses it to keep run down orphanages open but now he's been approached to drive a getaway van in a heist from las vegas in one of those last things before retirement type jobs but of course it all goes wrong and he winds up the patsy for the big guys at the top and in jail here he meets a guy named although you wouldn't know it from paying attention to the movie ice cool who he forms a friendship with and ends up breaking out of jail with once free he's out to prove his innocence locate the missing money and naturally get even with those who framed him br br of all seagal's recent straight to video films today you die has that look about it most of all that it belongs in a cinema even with a rap star as his co star like his previous cinema films half past dead and exit wounds yes it seems when he's not making films about looking after the environment he's pretending to be black and co starring with rappers but is not a cinema film and that's a luxury the great one is never going to be enjoying again until under siege 3 materializes if ever br br the film opens with a slick polished look that commands attention but it all quickly goes down hill from there once seagal hits prison the plot quickly loses it's coherence indeed character just seems to pop up out of nowhere without any introduction as his sidekick and from there you quickly lose interest in it br br that's it i know i've said it before but i think i mean it this time i don't think i'm going to be giving any more of these straight to video seagal films any time i honestly have no enthusiasm to watching shadow man at all in fact i can honestly say that i've not really enjoyed any of his stv films up to this point and today you die is certainly no exception an apathetic boring effort all round best avoided by all
0	it's been 3 months and you know what that means a new seagal movie seagal has really been on role making horrible film after horrible film each time every movie getting worse and worse he's really amazing i don't really know what to say about first it's a piece of crap the story makes no sense at all secondly he uses stunt men in all his fight scenes and last but not least a lot of the footage is taken from other movies it amazes how this guy continues to find work he comes to the set late and leaves early and because of that his films are full of plot holes and stunt men why do we continue to buy his movies why do we continue to have hope that maybe just maybe he will make a great movie
0	i saw house party 1 3 and i loved them but this one wasn't funny at all first it can't be a house party movie without kid right this one sucks and it was more like a black version of ferris bueller's day off than a house party movie second who the heck is john john these new character's can't even compare to the ones from the other three movies now i know why they put it straight to video it has horrible music weak plot untalented actors and no hilarious jokes at all my advice watch this movie at night only if you can't get to sleep they should have ended the series after house party 3 since separated after that one i hate this one am glad my local video store doesn't have this film and never want to buy it or want to see it on comedy central either just because chris strokes has talent managing an up and coming r b group doesn't mean he has talent directing and producing films am i right or what finally the female characters were all dressed up like cheap two dollar hookers throughout most of the flick separated a year after this flick got released probably due to the failure of this film and are all but forgotten nowadays in terms this movie just plain old sucks
0	steven seagal is back here with his third film released this year of course as a one time fan who has become increasingly disgruntled i can say it comes as no surprise that this is pretty lame firstly the film made headlines because of apparent problems in production due to seagal he would turn up late on set change the script crew etc and generally cause problems for the director don e faun leroy his lack of talent his trouble enough this also happens in their second collaboration the upcoming mercenary which promises to be just as bad as this garbage this also marks a big turning point in seagal's career because this film is the first of his to really dig out the stock footage there was a little in ticker but this film takes the biscuit they borrow bits from the order a van damme movie seagals biggest rival in dtv movies no code of conduct undisputed and also an entire action sequence from the little known peter weller starring vehicle top of the world interestingly the car chase stolen from weller's epic made almost 10 years ago and ironically probably cheaper than this garbage is actually by far the best action scene of the film i was shocked enough when dolph lundgren had a brief stint in the stock action video world which thankfully he has escaped from seagal though is the leader of the dtv action market currently with van damme and snipes his main rivals seagal still manages to sell movies and for the life of me i don't know how surely the fans must be getting bored of this awfulness longing for a return to the likes of above the law the story here is totally lame in fact the film has so many plot holes it doesn't bare thinking about for example at the end of a film there's a little girl that seagal apparently knows at an orphanage who he gives a necklace to why i don't know but we never see her at all in the rest of the movie or hear her mentioned seagal has a girlfriend in this movie who at the beginning of the film is with a psychic and she becomes haunted by visions which by the end of the film are never explained and mean nothing the film is so ridiculously glued together by a series of meaningless pap that it becomes headache inducing this is by far seagal's dumbest movie seagal himself is as wooden as ever however to his credit he doesn't get dubbed in this one as far as i could tell seagal does however feel the need to talk like he is a gangsta rapper making me long for the days he would don his brooklyn italian american accent in his classic early films he also has a painfully unfunny double act with who i assume is a rapper it is funny how producers seem to think that the combo of seagal plus hip hop star seems to work because his team up with in exit wounds was his most successful film since under siege clearly though if no one has heard of the rapper it won't work this is an action film though and so the action itself must be judged unfortunately the action that didn't come form the nu image back catalogue is strictly routine there are a few small fight scenes with some classic seagal aikido but when 90 is performed by his stunt double who really does have a rigorous work out in this film it really doesn't impress much there are also some standard gun fights which really only have some nice violent and bloody going for them all in all this is a painfully boring experience and once again i'm left giving the same verdict seagal has lost it i keep asking the years old question now why do people still watch his movies that is all very well and good as a question but the sad bastard that i am continues to watch his films in the deluded hope he may do something good once again chances are slim unlike seagal's ever expanding waistline 1 2
0	this is on my tv right now but only long enough for me to finish panning it in this comment the previous comment let me know that this movie will not get any better no matter how much i hope and pray i will concur this movie is a colossal waste of my time and would be of your time it is not going to get any better i can't believe this screenwriter is doing atlas shrugged i hope he has improved a million fold i see some other credits on his resume that have had good reviews but i'm still not convinced if you are familiar with his work please post something here because i really want to see atlas shrugged and would hate it if this guy turned it into the garbage that this movie turned out to be
0	i only wish there was a grade lower than f to give it i scored it a 1 in the vote tally i am grading this not even as a regular film but as a t a film and this is the worst lamest crappiest and most awful movie i've seen the acting story and music are all terrible not to mention there isn't even any nudity for the t a it's about a male cheerleader and the viewer is made to sit through many painful scenes of him doing cheers avoid this piece of trash at all cost this is the worst of bad 80's teen cinema
0	flashdance meets meatballs iii or maybe it should just be called meatballs iv this is my friend all time favorite movie largely because he still has a thing about j v cheerleaders as someone once said this is fine more than fine but as you get older you need to branch out whether you want to or not society demands it br br gimme an f has cinema's greatest j v cheerleader mary ann played by beth miller who looks like a sweet faced alicia silverstone from before her clueless days wesley hates miller's other film the horrific teen wolf too made three years later where she plays a fickle southern belle much like martha smith's character in animal house personally i admire miller's range as the two characters could not be more different and she is convincing as both br br anyway mary ann is a naïve novice cheerleader from a member of the lucky ducks squad who comes to camp for cheerleading instruction she's befriended by jenna karen lee kelly the leader of the tough girl squad appropriately named the demons jenna becomes protective of mary ann after her main rival takes an instant dislike to mary ann br br later mary ann gets a crush on tommy hamilton the head instructor tommy is spending his summer wrestling with the dilemma of having to grow up and move on which is a problem as his only skills are teaching cheerleading and performing elaborate dance routines in the shower for the enjoyment of viewers who get off on that sort of thing phoebe daphne is tommy's long suffering girlfriend she has a well adjusted attitude and an experienced perspective she even tolerates tommy's flirtation with mary ann trusting that tommy will not actually take advantage of young mary ann br br while these four characters are solid and their relationships have a nice charm the supporting cast is almost as weak as the material they have to work with which is a shame because had they brought some actual comic relief to the production it would have been a decent film jennifer cooke plays pam a social climbing and terminally peppy instructor who is carrying on with camp's money hungry owner and there is another couple with a thing for the characters from mad max since nothing is very funny you are left with only a cute semi romance and some great dance routines br br an attempt is made to create some suspense by slowly leading up a final competition but unless this is your first movie experience the outcome is never in doubt and there is a back story about some japanese businessmen wants to get money from but it goes nowhere dramatically or comically br br then again what do i know i'm only a child
0	this movie is too stupid for words even if you consider it to be a parody on movie making if you consider it to be completely camp even than you're wasting your time watching it for you've seen it a hundred times before but maybe you are a big fan of high shrieking girl voices you're still loving barbie and ken and you can stand this typical '80s electric guitar background noise well than you'll have a chance
0	at cheerleading camp the goody goody two shows lucky ducks cheerleading team must get in cahoots with the 'tough' bad girl cheerleading team of the demons to beat the dastardly falcon team who always seems to win at this camp i guess this being a typical clichéd '80's teen lame sex comedy who do you think will win but what the film lacks in originality it more than makes up for it sheer bloody awfulness oh and insanely bad dance numbers and the obligatory japenese businessmen who want to buy the camp on the condition that male cheerleader tommy hamilton stays with the camp of course simply awful forgettable and sadly has a surprising lack of nudity br br where i saw it hbo comedy br br my grade f yup i did indeed give it to them
0	one of the worst movies ever made if you can get through this movies without falling asleep then you are doing pretty good considering no matter how hard you turn up the volume you cant hear what the 'actors' are saying and if you can acually see whats going on from the terrible film i mean hell if you cant find anything that works better use a home movie camara at least you can acually tell whats going on br br it is beyond my imagination how people get a movie like this to slip through the cracks and escape on video and further more how do people making this not know how terrible it is good god br br after what i have just told you if you are waiting for me to give you a summary of this piece of trash movie there is nothing to tell a group of campers on motorcycles get lost in the woods and a bunch of people terrorize them or somthing to that whats more so an action movie than a horror this 'movie' is of no interest if someone acually likes this i feel for you br br absolute trash not even one of those cheap funny flicks to watch go rent 'plan 9 from and have a ball
0	a less than redemptive junk that is mercifully free from the ravages of competence some northern idiots come to the deep south looking for some confederate rifles stashed on the legendary whiskey mountain they are menaced by scary hillbillies in a wide nod to 'deliverance' but it turns out that the hicks are for a northern marijuana trafficking badass this is brought to light so early that it doesn't even qualify as a twist the women are locked up and raped into catatonia rather than rescuing them the guys run down to town to get the sheriff who is lazy and doesn't believe them i think if my girlfriend were being raped i'd kind of take the shortest route to the hideout anyway it's ok though because as soon as they show up to the baddies the girls get all cheery and hop around if only trauma were like this in real life also featuring a backwoods guy with a beard who cackles a lot not exactly bursting at the seams with ideas
0	music and lyrics written and performed by charlie daniels 'nuff said just don't be expecting anything along the lines of devil went down to georgia ol' charles sorta talk sings through one song early in about the whiskey mountain duh and that's it for lyrics hey though fans of arty rape scenes will get a kick out of the polaroid montage my second hand copy is classified as a family film and who doesn't love interminable scenes of rednecks gawking at wimmen the box art made the movie look a hell of a lot weirder than it was with the promise that you can lose your life or your mind but mostly it's two couples trekking through the sticks and acting natural love that hermit
0	the most obvious flaw horrible horrible script this movie had a potentially good story but it was ruined with bad dialogue continuity problems things that were never explained gaping plotholes sub plots that went nowhere and just plain stupidity not to mention the awful cliched directing of sandra locke not even two great performances could've saved this movie so it didn't matter that devon and rosanna arquette give horrific performances the thing is they're better actors than this movie would have you believe the best of the rosanna arquette silverado after hours desperately seeking susan has some fine moments like a great scene in the beginning when she painfully pulls her handcuffs off but gives an overall weak performance by her standards and devon dick when trumpets fade and the brilliant my so called life is much worse acting with no conviction or emotion what so ever but i won't lay blame on the actors who have been good in other roles the script is awful and the bad direction doesn't help do me a favor avoid this movie
0	i've never saw the first three but i know they're all better than this trash it's about some kid who throws a party wow sounds amazing sarcasm is it nooo it starts off with a kid laying in bed and he's getting woke up by his mom so the kid pretends to be sick so he doesn't have to go to school he goes to his uncle's house and rounds up some people and throws a party i didn't laugh at all while watching this trash i can't imagine someone sitting down and writing down this dialogue thinking man dis is gunna be big yo makes me wonder if they even had a script for this movie i watched this knowing it would be bad but usually watching a bad movie makes me feel good because it gives me something to make fun of this just disgusted me two thumbs down
0	i would agree with another viewer who wrote that this movie recalls the offbeat melanie griffith jeff daniels comedy something wild in which a rather eccentric free spirit hooks up with a conservative and very orderly young man and the two pose as a couple and basically her personality gradually has an effect on him he looses up and learns to enjoy their short lived tryst that is exactly what happens here except insert convenient store robbing eccentric alex rosanna arquette in melanie griffith's role and super cautious teen lincoln the name is no coincidence played by devon in jeff daniel's part this movie even shares the same twist and abrupt genre change where the creepy violent boyfriend suddenly shows up in the end and things end up quite badly only here instead of it being ray liotta playing a throwback to 1950s film goons it's peter greene br br the story is about a teenage kid who is in his own little world he has some sort of fascination with death following his brother's suicide and his parents have disconnected too behaving quite strangely the mother is convinced christmas will be arriving shortly despite it being august then on a night out with the guys one of whom is played by jason of the wonder years trying to buy them beer he runs into alex who decides to kidnap him and his friends car with his permission of course and they take off for mini adventure across the deserts of the west coast robbing convenient stores in robin hood sort of fashion and of course indulging in the routine self discovery as each asks more about the other's life but alex has left behind a partner in her trade of theft and he isn't going away easily although we're not consistently reminded of him or anything as in repetitive flashback or cutting over to his point of view at least this much was done cleverly br br 'do me a aka trading favors is a mostly underdeveloped story of criminal mischief and self discovery that lags quite a bit for the first half of the film but delivers the goods a little to late once alex and lincoln arrive at her home out in the middle of nowhere by the time the filmmakers give you enough stimulation the film is unfortunately almost over i would recommend that if this is the sort of story you're in the mood for and despite rosanna arquette always giving a good performance even in a poorly written film i would still recommend catching this in its best form something wild
0	as much as i love trains i couldn't stomach this movie the premise that one could steal a locomotive and drive from arkansas to chicago without hitting another train along the way has to be right up there on the impossible plot lines hit board imagine two disgruntled nasa employees stealing the crawler that totes the shuttles to and fro and driving it to new york and you get the idea br br having said all that it's a nice try wilford is at his oats best and levon helm turns a good performance as his dimwitted but well meaning sidekick bob balaban is suitably wormy as the corporate guy and the little guy takes on goliath story gets another airing
0	oh my god i am lost now i know everything this guy does is pointless r j a wrote at august 13th 2006 posting no what an awful experience it looked like a bunch of 3rd graders stole a video camera borrowed some old editing software from 1995 and played a joke on each other trash wrote at august 1st 2006 posting no 747 this movie is a piece of it sucks calling this a movie would be misleading this was a group of friends having a good time and videotaping one another the storyline was very hard to follow the attempted artistic camera angles detracted from the story and in to themselves made the entire time a dizzying experience the acting although comical was very amateurish the concept is ok i guess perhaps next time the producers should raise some capital and hire actual professionals and try again i must say that i'm sick and tired of so many thinking that making a good movie is easy it is not easy this fact seems to be lost or ignored by many that believe that without any training experience and talent that they can make a good product i guess in the end they will learn just how difficult it is i am so disgusted i have no comment wrote at august 5th 2006 posting no
0	ok so this is horror i get horror but i don't get horrific black white is artistic but too much black is overkill enough said about the lighting the story a serial killer lot's of these around it's been done in the past and yes it will continue to be done but i hope not my question is when will the audience tire of reliving this maddening dilemma i guess the director thought he would do something different portray killing children well that's been done before too so i guess he had to go to shock value have them killed in the darkest of fashions okay the audience was shocked sickened disgusted numbed and getting up out of my seat i felt all of these things so was the director successful yes absolutely these are the things he wanted me to feel and i did now what do i do with the feelings and more importantly what is the message here with the amazing talent that francis xavier was gifted with could he ever consider applying it to making films that speak of dare i say coming out of the darkness i was left in the dark after viewing this film my soul was assaulted is that what this craft is about there are many such films out there they make the bucks i'm told so what's up with the people that want to see all these visuals what is going on in this world that people will pay to be horrifically shocked would i see this again not ever
0	early talkie feature based on a popular stage play a murder has been committed and a bunch of people hire a medium to conduct a séance to see who the murderer is while the lights are out there's another murder so it's someone in that room br br what follows is an obvious dull and creaky murder mystery most of the cast overacts to a ridiculous degree they act like they're on stage where you have to overdo things and it looks silly on screen most embarrassing is bela lugosi two years before dracula who really overdoes it as a police inspector static direction by tod browning who was always overrated doesn't help br br for browning and lugosi completists only i give it a 3
0	some years back this film had been scheduled for broadcast on tcm uk as part of a tod browning retrospective – but what they actually showed was the 1937 remake my brother had watched it and in hindsight it followed the original pretty much scene for scene even down to the set design – though no classic he said it was a far more satisfying viewing experience than the incredibly creaky earlier br br this being the first collaboration between browning and bela lugosi i had high hopes for it – but these were quashed when it became evident after the first reel of tedious conversation that the film's main concern was to appease the still novel sound technique and consequently the result is stagey and extremely static the thriller plot isn't exactly exciting either even less appetizing is the ostensible british indian setting with the characters' affected accents and upper class demeanor – not to mention the over use of corny idiosyncratic idioms such as i say rather and now look here – rendering the whole risible more than anything else br br apart from this there are a few unintended howlers margaret as a fake medium pleads with police inspector lugosi if anything his undeniable screen presence is already evident to give her some time to out' who the culprit of the double murder really is the evidence points to her own daughter played by leila – she hears a tapping and is deluded into thinking that the spirit world has genuinely made contact with her…but then lugosi enters the room and in his unmistakable accent straight tells her i knocked twice – you didn't hear me at which my brother and i almost fell to the floor in convulsions of laughter the editing is really sloppy too during one high angle shot of the main set a mike is seen being rapidly pulled up out of camera range – and even worse are a couple of instances where a person walks off screen ostensibly into the next shot to another part of the each shot is held on the other actors for an absurdly long time so that it appears to take forever for this person to walk just a few paces br br the thirteenth chair marks the third non horror browning talkie that i've watched – even if both this and miracles for sale 1939 deal with murder and occultism and could therefore still be linked to the genre much has been said about the director's apparent with the coming of sound however flawed though they may be the 4 straight horror films he did throughout the 30s are infinitely better than the rest – which i've always found stylish and bizarre enough to suggest that browning wasn't as much at sea during this period as has been
0	spoilers i rented tesis or thesis in english on the strength of director alejandro amenabar's later effort the others based on what a brilliantly measured and horrifyingly effective creepfest that film was i assumed his earlier efforts would be of a similar quality and i was in the mood for some good horror instead i wound up with the most tedious preposterous excuse for a lame brained slasher movie i've seen since the german film anatomie which this one kinda reminded me of br br the plot has potential but it's thrown away within the first 20 minutes it revolves around innocent n pretty psychology student angela's ana torrent a jessica harper deadringer thesis on the subject of violence in films through some far fetched circumstances too dumb to go into here she winds up in possession of a 'snuff' tape on which two men torture mutilate and kill a young girl for the camera angela and her horror buff friend chema fele martinez are both shocked yet intrigued by the tape and decide to get to the bottom of who's responsible for it br br this leads to well nothing br br they never really give a reason for why they want to find the girl's killers since they resolutely refuse to contact the police throughout any of the unfolding events even when their own lives at risk and the mystery itself is as limp as graham norton in a room full of bunny girls there is only one proper 'clue' the type of camera the killers used is discovered and that's a a really weak one and b wheeled out in the first 20 minutes the rest of the so called 'unravelling' just occurs through blind luck increasingly ridiculous plot twists and a slew of awful transparent and thoroughly pointless red herrings that are chucked in merely to pad out the running time br br seriously amenabar might know his stuff about ghost stories but he's clearly never read a detective book in his life the key to a good whodunnit is to have a large cluster of potential suspects and to eliminate them one by one with clever deduction and the gradual discovery of more and more evidence before moving in for the final twist in tesis potential spoiler ahead the killer's identity is guessed correctly by the amateur 'detectives' almost instantly and then we get 100 minutes of the writer trying feebly to throw us off the scent until he runs out of ideas throws his hands up and says ok ya got me it was him after all as for any kind of logic or motive behind the crimes no such luck you're watching the wrong movie if that's what you're after br br the only thing that drags tesis down further from just being a dumb badly written thriller is the way it actually tries to make some ludicrous muddled up 'point' about violence in films i have no idea what stance it's attempting to take on the subject but it seems determined to cram in a ton of misguided confused psychobabble in between the rest of the gibberish and say look at me i'm political the final scenes in which the point of the movie is supposedly hammered home are so utterly absurd and puerile one can't help but wonder if amenabar feels embarrassed now when he watches this if he doesn't he certainly should this is total 'amateur night at the slasher house' stuff br br overall i can't believe i wasted two whole hours it felt like at least six on this just hoping something might happen the urban legend of 'snuff films' and that is basically all they are despite the way this film tries to suggest they're some kind of criminal phenomenon sweeping the world is an area that can be so tantalisingly exploited in good horror films videodrome anyone but it's so easy to step over the line into childlike 'wouldn't it be cool if ' territory with it ie my little eye tesis hits an all time low for the 'snuff movie' genre on every level this one is better left dead and buried i'll award it a 1 out of 10 for some nice lighting but that's all it's getting
0	great acting great production values good direction br br but the script starts out with great pacing and interest in the first half and then falls apart in the second half we're clear on character and motivation for the first half but then the second half leaves many questions unanswered br br the conflicts raised are compelling but the follow through is weak for instance we're very clear that rudyard kipling is pro war but we don't know if that philosophical stance changes through the course of the film br br this is the sort of picture that makes me want to look up the facts in history books i don't feel i can rely on the film to get a clear idea br br the depiction of the war itself is heart breakingly accurate though the women's lack of enthusiasm doesn't reflect the war hysteria that swept britain at the time perhaps this is historically accurate like so much in this film i simply don't know
0	this has got to be the worst show i have ever seen i always liked chuck norris in films but why do we need to make these shows politically correct by adding a black side kick who is as threatening as shirley temple in little miss marker i also thought the show was limited because how many times can you kick a guy in the face and make it interesting i know an african american who looks like this guy and he gets his butt kicked about once a week he is all attitude br br chuck norris is the man and he deserves all the kudos he gets i think this show started great but lost steam as time went on br br they should have dumped chucks side kick
0	i'd never thought that i would be caught saying this but i think dog the bounty hunter is more entertaining than this 90's era cop drama walker is very melodramatic and actually set a standard of the genre of high octane cop shows such as csi csi miami and so forth i'm not saying all these shows are bad but they aren't good either i like the karate chop action that walker dispenses on the enemies of justice and the diverse cast of characters as much as the science tech of the csi series but there are some elements that i hate in a show like this stereotypes that's right stereotypes unfortunately this is a show for the of red state america who refuse to part with the old prejudices of yore especially when it comes to crime for example there was an episode in which a kid with psychic powers ventures into dallas where he encounters group of kids in goth punk clothing and they start harassing him now this is exactly what middle america perceives the goth punk culture i mean come on how often do people that dress like that rob and steal from people just minding there own business whenever there are blacks and latinos in the plot it's always about gangs in some impoverished neighborhood okay not everyone who's a minority is a desperate recruit of a gang surrounded by crime drugs poverty again this is what middle red state america sees of these people finally why is the the bumbling sidekick can't you make the sidekick an equal ass kicker
0	spoilers ahead this same exact plot from this movie has been done before it has been done in ferris bueller's day off bat man houston plays sick his gullible parents believe him his sister knows that he's faking but she still must go to school she is mad he has a party with his friends while his parents are away by the time his parents get home he is sick again and his parents never found out about the party i like immature better when they were in house party 3 and still immature
0	this series is formulaic and boring the episodes are the same thing every week simply with slightly varied settings some purely evil character does some dastardly deed walker goes after him and it ends in a karate match the villains are super cliché super stereotypical evil villains the good guys are all pure honest and saintly and the story lines are simplistic and unrealistic after about 2 episodes the show becomes totally unwatchable by all but the least discerning fans certainly not norris's best work his other work may be cliché but it usually does not drag on for weeks if you enjoy formulaic boring repetitive clichéd snooze fests then this is for you
0	walker texas ranger is one of the worst shows produced in the past 10 years the script for james walker's sidekick is about as pathetically written of a part as wesley crusher on star trek tng and is played with about as much conviction br br on this show people don't respond the way people respond to things in real life everyone is polarized everyone is either a completely good guy or a completely bad guy unless walker himself has a 2 minute talk with them and then they change instantly that's not how life works that's not how people are this show doesn't take place in this reality br br the plot lines are about as realistic as murder she wrote a show where an arrogant old lady can just walk into people's houses without them getting angry and she can demand that police officers do what she wants and they bend over backwards for her with walker everyone on the show including the bad guys act like he's the sort of hero that myths and fairy tales are made of and time itself bends to his whim the lines that sometimes come out of people's mouths on this show are beyond ridiculous it's as if the scriptwriter for the part of wesley crusher for the serious parts and the scriptwriter for bob saget's funniest home videos for the humor parts got together and wrote all the scripts for this show br br this show is for people who think that good always prevails over evil it's for the elderly it's for wishful thinkers it's for people who want to be guaranteed to always have a happy ending it's for people who want to drift away into oblivion it's for people whose drug of choice is their television br br i cringe every time i see even a commercial for this show my opinion is that it is the worst show to be on television in the last 10 years br br i used to like chuck norris but this show has forever tainted him in my mind i can't even watch his older movies without thinking of this show
0	this tv show is possibly the most pathetic display of crap on tv today horribly predictable obscene usage of slow motion photography cheesy story lines chuck norris is an abomination who should never have been allowed to be filmed in anything the way he chooses to make each episode into a public service announcement is really annoying his acting sucks so bad that it makes a person cringe with embarrassment i will give the series some credit though it does get entertaining at times but not enough for it make any difference with all the negative points this series has i still prefer it over reality tv it can't really get any more worthless than that
0	this show is the worst show ever norris and his family write it produce it direct it etc etc the only reason i ever see it is because my goofy wife likes it how many times can norris fly though the air from plain sight to land a kick on an obviously blind villain no trees no building just whoosh thin air he always solves the case or is the best at whatever skill there is no co star ever gets the glory its all norris its truly apparent that norris is awful stuck on himself and will not allow anyone to one up him in any scene no matter what the content terrible acting terrible script terrible series
0	the fact that this cruddy series could elicit dozens of comments much less hundreds of speaks volumes as to the decline of western or at least american civilization br br read proust you morons or at least dave barry or calvin and anthologies br br chuck norris wrap your brains around the fact that in order to rate or write about this series you'd have to have spent minutes nay hours viewing this poor sod treading the boards and spewing lines with less emotional impact than the gal who used to call off the correct time on your local service br br please don't watch this show spare your few remaining brain cells
0	first of all no one with any law enforcement experience not er or but real law enforcement takes this show seriously walker would be drummed out of any police force in the us for his illegal and totally unprofessional tactics on top of that he is a comic book character no acting ability incredibly trite lines no character development the fact that alex cahill loves him shows just how dumb blondes really are and is the ultimate clown in black face come on if you think walker is a heartfelt show without bias then explain why jt is treated as a dolt always is the subject of walker's jokes never is allowed to be the one to solve the crime and never rescues walker who should be dead 50 times over for the stupid things he does while it may be true that many criminals are even dumber than the detectives who go after them and believe me most cops are dumber than dirt the smart ones walker comes up against never seem to get the point that once walker is captured the jerk needs to be put of his misery but then again norris produced the show as well as starred in it so how could he willingly get rid of himself or even show how stupid his tactics are as if six guys are going to wait around to take him one at a time what a terrible series it is more demeaning than any of the hokey westerns like the lone ranger roy rogers the cisco kid and wild bill hickock though i would imagine that most of you on here are far too young to remember those shows but like those shows in the same way as those shows walker tr is just as insulting and just plain silly
0	i just don't understand why anytime someone does a show about one of the largest metro areas in the country houston dallas austin san antonio etc they portray the average person as someone who wears wranglers cowboy hat talks with a drawl has zero fashion sense and drives a truck on his way to either the saloon or his next hunting trip rodeo skeet shooting or country music concert i have never even seen a small town cop driving a police truck anywhere in texas br br the funny thing is this is not done for artistic reasons or comedy they are actually serious and i guess believe the average person is too stupid to know the difference the bad scripts and equally bad acting give that away this show makes goofy shows in the past like knightrider look like high brow entertainment at least knightrider had the talking car
0	this was a shockingly bad movie and i literally gasped the first time seeing the blue screen puppets imagine the worst blue screen special effects you ever saw make it somehow far worse and then combine this with poorly made rubber and play doh puppets that look like something from a semi retarded pre school art class then add some screeching esquire melodic metal guitar solos stuff that is way too loud and lasts way too long the overall film is absolutely awful and makes look like rashomon its one of the worst movies i've ever seen with every metric spiraling dismally downward much like a waterlogged turd in the perpetual slow whirlpool of a broken rest stop toilet still though a film like maximus is not to be missed by the bad movie out there even if only by looking up clips on youtube or someplace this movie is a bit of an eye opener if you can stomach the ride i think this director may be mentally ill though which is a bit watching him discuss the project you get the sense that he truly believes that he's created something wonderful i guess he's the star wars kid of gonzo filmmakers what a mess
0	ok what to say about maximus br br there are some bad movies that are so horribly awful they circle 'round to awesome there are bad movies that just suck in their own right there are good movies and so so movies and movies that are just fun then there's maximus you can't make a spoiler for this movie because to do that you would have to understand the action enough to comment this particular movie is worse than turkish star wars one and the sequel too those movies are so bad they circle 'round to awesome and they make you feel drunk even if you're stone cold sober circles 'round from bad to awesome but then it doesn't stop there it takes another trip to then 'round again to awesome then finally it sets up a little feudal kingdom on the border of bad and stock footage of paint drying while a harpy screams incoherently if you are into self punishment this movie is for you it actually will cause your brain to hurt
0	i got this movie as a buy one get one deal at troma com with the ruining which isn't much better the main reason i wanted it was to see star worms ii attack of the pleasure pods the dvd is a double feature with that movie i really didn't know what maximus was at the time and when i saw the trailer i got scared it looked awful but hey what can you tell from the trailer well apparently i could tell a lot this movie honestly made no sens to me the special effects were so terrible you cannot tell what in god's name is going on i understand mark hicks had a extremely low budget but come on and it is sad because in the interview he sounded like this was to be an epic film and meant more than you could see but sadly watching the film is one of the most boring hour and 15 minutes of anyone's life it is so utterly painful to sit through i really can't even explain the plot to you because i didn't understand it at all and i have sadly seen this film two times apparently they used some type of puppets for the alien dinosaurs like they did in star wars but these special effects are awful i can't stress it enough and most of the time bad special effects are okay but this film needed them badly it takes place on some futuristic planet where alien dinosaurs battle each other and bad actors in hooded run around and they look like they are in the kkk and some box with a blue light on it is the president i know in the interview mark hicks said something about making this a television pilot well i can see why this didn't make it to cbs or nbc there are two good things about this film 1 the music is actually pretty good it has an epic score that sticks in your head for days and 2 lloyd kaufman's introduction is as always hilarious overall don't waste your time but check out star worms ii attack of the pleasure pods
0	i know it sounds crazy but yes i am a huge fan of house party 1 and 2 and proud of it i hated part 3 and then here comes part 4 i was like are you kidding me with this kid 'n play are nowhere to be found in this movie and that would've been okay had they not foolishly entitled the movie house party 4 as if it was in any way shape form or fashion related to its predecessors every time this movie comes on late at night on usa i shoot my tv with a rifle quite frankly it really is just that atrocious hurling br br as the only remaining fan of kid 'n play that will actually admit to being a fan tee hee hee i was appalled remember that stupid little boy group immature they snuck their way into house party 3 okay fine and well but how can part 4 be just about them and nothing else and it also seems like they're not even the same kids from part 3 confused house party fans do yourself a favor and stick to house party 1 and 2 and class act beyond that everything else is ridiculous
0	this movie is awful i'm sorry i bought this to get star worms and actually expected this to be better after how disappointed i was in star worms oh just kidding turns out this is the worst movie i've ever seen the acting is garbage not that there really is any and the main character is a big stupid box who gets attacked by like stuff or something i can't really tell the special effects are so bad that you can't even see the warring dinosaurs which by the way do not war but just stand and kind of move their mouths or whatever those things are the movie is a headache it's very obvious the director is trying to establish a universe really this movie is just abominable even by troma's standards the only good thing i can say about it is that it's got a lloyd kaufman intro as he tricks us yet again into watching something that isn't fit for consumption
0	a gaggle of unpleasant city dwellers descend on le for a week's holiday stories intertwine characters fight make friends deceive each other have sex br br blanc has gathered together a stellar cast for his adaptation of connolly's book but to little avail what should be hilarious is instead at turns tedious and irritating all the characters are either pathetic or unpleasant or both and in the end despite the farcical nature of things this viewer was left caring little about what happens to any of them br br credit to the always wonderful rampling plus bouquet and viard but that's it and looks like he's rather overdone the nips and if you ask me
0	sickening exploitation trash plays like a bad and reverse death wish ripoff but the ugly and untalented makes charles bronson look like al pacino with her performance as for ferrara's stylish direction when a film is so vile dumb and deeply offensive it's hard for the viewer to pay attention to such details
0	mild spoilers but you probably know the plot br br woman gets raped and decides to take out her rage on all of mankind oh did i mention the rape victim was mute that s the problem with ms 45 the rape victim decides she s going to kill men but is there any logical explanation to any of this surely the whole film would have better if we had give a voice over as to why she s bumping off any man she comes across there s just not enough development to this plot br br as you d expect from a film by ferrara it s not a complete waste of time it s far better than i spit on your grave and pseudo intellectuals will have a field day pointing out the irony of the woman holding a knife like a penis as goes on a killing spree at the end but the script is somewhat silly and underdeveloped and hinders any serious comment the film could have made
0	as someone has already mentioned on this board it's very difficult to make a fake documentary it requires tremendous skill pacing patience directorial ' a plausible premise a narrative ' and really believable acting aka great acting br br such is not the case with 'love machine' it starts to show its faux hand about the 20 minute mark with 60 minutes left to watch and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in it's downhill from there br br director gordon simply peaked too soon but to be fair to his problems started early as he explains in the extras he began wanting to do a real doc couldn't get funding and settled for a cheaper way of making his film br br the premise people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website was perhaps more interesting in 1997 98 when the film was made does a lot of tricky stuff a pushy ' hand held cameras zooms grainy blacks and whites all i guess to elicit a sense of authenticity but it just doesn't work the film is confusing and forced but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue
0	this movie is truly unbelievable in every sense of the word i couldn't believe what i was seeing and hearing and i didn't believe it anyhow hepburn is probably my favorite actress but this was ridiculous being a hillbilly myself i know what it should sound like and it's not kate's back bay accent the only thing i found funnier was the fact that the guy who played charlie chan so many times sydney toler was cast as another one of the hillbillies with accent to match maybe this was a practical joke come to think of it i can think of no other reason for such peculiar casting well maybe this i noticed that natalie schaefer lovey howell on gilligan's island appeared in this play on broadway can you imagine what part she might have played
0	spitfire 1934 john cromwell katharine hepburn ralph bellamy robert young br br mountain hillbilly katharine hepburn as trigger hicks is a religious back woods laundry woman going on 18 she begins to attract male attention and responds by throwing rocks the arrival of a dam building construction crew triggers dreams of romance in ms hepburn she quickly attracts the attention of suave engineer robert young as john stafford who hides his marital status supervising engineer ralph bellamy as george fleetwood is also interested in hepburn but for different reasons mr bellamy wants to know more about jesus christ whom hepburn worships br br after hepburn employs the power of prayer to heal a child neighborhood folks suspect she is a witch br br if it weren't so serious spitfire might be more amusing it is an atypical and wildly inappropriate vehicle for its star who is thoroughly unconvincing of the leads mr bellamy performs best however the best characterization is essayed by sarah haden as etta dawson who appeared in george cukor's stage version along with louis mason as bill grayson will geer as west fry grandpa walton in the 1970s has a small role an unexpected ending helps
0	this is a really silly job of miscasting about as bad as hepburn playing a chinese woman in dragon seed the lead part hepburn plays is a combination of granny from the beverly hillbillies and a faith healer this film is even worse than bogart's swing your lady because at least bogart didn't play a hillbilly he was just surrounded by them and the dialog sounds as if it comes right from a li'l abner strip the problems don't really end with the outrageous casting though as the plot is completely muddled and the love story might make your head hurt for no reason whatsoever married robert young falls for this ozark bobcat was it her lovely personality that won his heart i doubt it as she as the fiery spitfire the movie was named after and she really seemed to like fightin' and and hollerin' was it her feminine charms with no makeup and fashions that looked like they were designed by ma kettle i doubt if this was the case as well to top this off in the end somehow ralph bellamy also fell for her though once again it really doesn't seem to make any sense br br so here we have two city fallin' for a scrappy she beast played by ms hepburn now that's a recipe for a good film
0	katharine hepburn as a mountain woman who mixes prayer with positive thinking and is thought by the local folk to be a witch kate works overly hard trying to convince us she's a backwoods hick named trigger hicks but you can see she doesn't even believe in this unintentionally comical scenario constantly smiling robert young plays a foreman working on the construction of a mountain dam who becomes first crush but alas he's married no amount of white magic can resuscitate this formula based on a play and brought to the screen by r k o with too broad a hillbilly flourish it is ungodly and just about unwatchable 1 2 from
0	any chance to see katharine hepburn in something i haven't seen or from her early movie career is a treat and on that level the film is amusing but she's horrible miscast as a hill billy her famous new england enunciation slips through making lines like i'd better rustle up some pretty ludicrous she's so pretty and so it almost overcomes this major flaw the story is an old fashioned melodrama and there fore a younger generation may think this pretty corny stuff but this was the staple of american entertainment well into the 1940's it has its moments but you might need to be a die hard movie buff to appreciate it
0	sometimes it is funny to watch films implode from your couch but other times it is just horribly painful to both your eyes and your mind house party 4 down to the last minute is one of those rare examples of when both your eyes and your mind are pleading with you to turn the film off this final installment to the house party series is by far the worst not just sequel but film released by hollywood it becomes very apparent early on in this feature that director chris loved ferris bueller's day off with a passion i say this because it becomes very clear that had no trouble lifting the originality of bueller off john hughes' hands and choosing to create a film completely void of humor you would think that by stealing themes and images from a funnier film your own film would at least be able to generate a giggle or two with house party 4 proved that he does not have what it takes to direct a sequel much less a hollywood film from his confusing and choppy story the inability to make sense of his characters and recycled old tired cliché moments all is doing is hitting a bigger nail into the coffin that holds the house party films it reminds me of that student that forgets about his project due in an hour and quickly slops together super glue macaroni cat hair chewing gum and straws and presents it as hannibal crossing the alps it just looks horrible and you feel embarrassed for the creator br br so where did this film first take the plunge into the realm of comic stupidity honestly i do not think that most places will allow me to speak that long so instead i would like to hit upon some of the larger topics that hit me the hardest to begin i still cannot shake the ferris rip off it was as if director was ashamed of having to direct another sequel to house party and decided to bring in a completely random formula from a funnier film and see if he could cut and paste elements from the original series into that formula that was a huge mistake when a director tries to do this what eventually happens is confusion within the audience we think that we are going in one direction but instead we head in another one that is exactly what you can witness in house party 4 in one instance we have john john trying to have the biggest party of the decade while also trying to score a record deal ok kinda reminds me of the original house party but then we whisk away to this random island where uncle charles is afraid of flying grandma gets drunk and some idiotic mind dulling moments with a supposed killer again we begin somewhat strong and end chaotic this is the confusion in which i speak director did not have the ability to keep his hand on either the pulse of humor or the ability to tell a sequential story he would rather cut corners keep the jokes cheap and think that the audiences are idiots than attempt to revive a stone dead series one would think that when a director was handed that task of filming another house party film he would walk into it thinking that he she would be the one to revive it or bring it back to life instead just wanted to get paid br br i realize that i am slowly growing older as the days go quickly by but i do believe i still keep my hand in the younger generation's culture i listened to rap and r b growing up but the group immature never made it to either my cassette deck or my cd player why i don't think they ever quite had a following but apparently to director chris it would be beneficial to cast them as leads in his new house party film didn't anyone at any studio realize that this was going to be in the red rather quickly or how about the option to have himself play the comedic car repairman nothing like a director with no sense of comic timing casting himself as the only source of possible humor it was one of those few instances when i actually missed robin harris and i never thought i would find myself saying that to any film outside of a go nowhere band playing the lead role i also thought that the remainder of the cast only continued to suck the life out of this film uncle charles was annoying when he attempted humor kim was completely wasted for her scenes both literally and figuratively while … well … everyone else pretty much falls into that category br br where did chris spend most of the budget for this film not for special guest stars because while this film may have boasted some there were definitely none present at the unforgettable house party nor the possible dream that perhaps kid or play would make one final appearance house party 4 followed no preset design which ultimately ruined this feature from the foundation down can anyone explain to me why there was any need to use the escaped murderer who happened to be a licensed driver routine for humor was reaching deep within the bottom of the barrel and only produced more muck instead of substance for once i can admit to there being no redeeming value to this film house party 4 buried the series and while i do hear that there may be more in the pipeline i only hope hollywood realizes that this series has died hollywood needs to let this series end forget about the past and move forward in the future i think a sequel to who's the man would get them started in the right direction br br grade out of
0	i will never ever forget watching this show around the age of 13 even at the young age i remember thinking this is a baywatch rip off show without the one thing that makes baywatch tolerable the girls in bathing suits nonetheless i was too small in those days to be the holder of the remote in my house the high point of pacific blue was an episode in which a couple of out gangsters are coming to whack someone with submachine guns on bikes as a thirteen year old i never laughed so hard at something that was supposed to be taken seriously even i knew that the task of going out and acquiring for murder is a task that should never come before borrowing someones car for the day that had been the defining moment of this show simple crimes and situations tailor made by hack writing so they could be taken care of by the unsung hero of the crime fighting world the bike cop does not get much dumber
0	this feels very stilted and patronizing to a great extent the whole plot is extremely forced especially the gallant effort to save the college from ruin and the moralistic overtone especially by the leading lady grates a bit br br but there are one or two comic moments that do help relieve the boredom and the dancing is quite fun especially for alleged amateurs ha ha br br the shop proprietor and the young guy doing spectacular tap dancing were particular highlights and i liked peter hayes impressions of charles laughton and ronald coleman as well
0	the stage star grace hayes stars in this obscure little film after years of being on the stage she is going to visit a small college town to check up on her son who is being raised by his grandfather the kid doesn't know who his mother is and when she sees him in a local malt shop he's a boorish jerk part of the problem is that he is a college clown the other part is that he's really spoiled br br interestingly it turns out that mom is really quite wealthy and has been not only funding her son's life but is a hefty contributor to the college so she has the idea of forcing the young man to mature she talks to the man who's raising peter and has his allowance cut off completely hoping he'll rise to the occasion it also turns out that she puts the screws to the school because she thinks all these kids need to stop playing around and be more responsible br br now here's where it gets pretty dumb to show that they know the value of hard work she hires a bunch of them to sing and dance at the malt shop she just purchased talk about contrived what happens next is like a long and not particularly good talent show or perhaps a poor man's version of a judy garland mickey rooney musical i'd suggest the kids try to do something else to earn money or perhaps sing and dance until people pay them to stop i know i would pay them br br considering that the talent is far from talented peter is a bad actor and his change from lout to responsible adult is almost instantaneous the whole thing is a bit hard to take not a very good film by any sane standard this is an obscure film that should have stayed obscure br br by the way it is interesting that ms son in the film peter is actually her real life son the only problem with that is that peter lind hayes is a truly awful actor he's not handsome enough to be a leading man and he comes off as either dull and uninteresting or downright obnoxious in particular all the stupid impressions he does are really bad and he has the charisma of the gelatin that you scrape off spam despite this terrible performance he did go on to have a reasonably successful acting career who would have believed it if you'd seen him in zis boom bah because here he's about as welcome as the bubonic plague
0	oh gawd i want to time travel back to monogram studios and throttle someone in their 2 room front office for this sloppy musical it is one watt above flat lining for 60 of its 61 minutes and then actually shows for the one thin minute spread in second across the hour that there is real life talent being badly photographed i just don't see the point of going to some trouble to actually make this film that could easily be energetic and actually funny and allow lethargy to be the main thing on view the weird storyline shows cranky vaudeville trouper grace hayes her blowsy way into a college where her rat bag son is rich college clown she's gonna fix his playboy ways no matter what her real life son weird looking peter hays plays her screen son his real life wife plays her secretary talk about nepotism i suspect this talent package was almost the raison d'etre for monogram financing this back lot musical produced by resident schlockmeister extraordinaire sam katzman as with other monogram musicals it just looks more like a reason to film recent new furniture purchases and light in order to show off to other studios that monogram pictures are in their b grade ways have a ghastly look at swing parade of 1946 for genuine evidence of this they just constructed this gigantic nightclub set then found an excuse to film actors and musicians running all over it story none anyway zis boom bah is more bah than boom where was gale storm and mantan when monogram really needed them probably standing at the boom gate of prc pictures wondering if it looked safe to enter there junior jive roland dupree springs to life to tap his teen legs around two wobbly dance numbers especially in the 'big show' finale set in the new and expanded malt shoppe club set the usual crumpled curtains are loosely hanging on the back wall and the stage set of mis matched drapery even has one dark main rag that is yanked back and forth as each amateur sequence elbows past the previous one the chorus girls and their very plain looking partners in this finale just look like monogram office staff borrowed from typing and carpentry for the morning of filming they have absolutely no dance talent and are so ordinary on screen all the girls look like they are all called joyce there is even a costume calamity where they wear frilly hot pants on one leg only it is all so awful and crummy and actually annoying when one more tweak up by all concerned would result in zis being actually fun the one strangely interesting thing is the dialog delivery between grace and her son daughter in law it is so casually delivered that it actually works in spite of the script and logic she has a very life like presence which is the only thing that allows the ridiculous story to be slightly compelling the dupree kid is the real star he can actually do something in spite of looking like a tubby liberace tap dancing teen you read that right
0	having some idle time before going to work i looked at my 50 movie pack comedy classics dvd collection and picked the most obscure title in the pack zis boom bah starring a forgotten grace hayes classics is obviously the operative word here since most of the titles i've never heard of and i suspect they're all in the public domain anyway this movie also stars her son peter lind and his wife mary healy who i just found out is a new orleans native from the state i live in louisiana with benny rubin as a malt shop proprietor and huntz hall taking a break from the east side kids as peter's buddy the plot about a vaudeville mother trying to turn her rich carefree son into a responsible one with him unaware of who she is is for the birds and doesn't have many funny scenes though i did like peter's celebrity impersonations and his dance with hall in drag and the songs and dances are entertaining in themselves rubin however is all over the place with his confusion of the american vernacular of the time and almost everything concerning him makes no sense whatsoever though i did like his funny dance since this was only 61 minutes that i'm sure played on the lower half of the double feature bill i'll be charitable and give this one a 3 for the few entertaining bits that i mentioned enjoying
0	the main portion of this lightweight musical story is located at fictional college which peter peter lind hayes attends due to the largesse of stage actress grace hayes his real life mother who fills the same role here and who manages to supply his love interest through her secretary mary healy who is his real life wife directed from a weak script and additionally hampered by excessive cutting and poor editing this film does provide some treasures among its eight songs including the title number and has nice turns by soprano healy benny rubin as a snack shop proprietor and the dynamic tap dancing roland dupree
0	honestly on the subject of the death penalty i could take it or leave it the problem i have with this documentary lies in the fact that it is a complete love fest for the murderer with absolutely no sympathy for the family the execution of wanda jean with it's completely one sided view only reinforced my view that she should have been executed for her crimes it tried to argue that she was mentally retarded but nothing in the video supported that view she seemed uneducated but so did her entire family but that doesn't mean they were all retarded i can completely understand if someone is opposed to the death penalty but to completely ignore the crime as if it didn't happen and try to put wanda on some moral mountain top is offensive in nature and that's not the side of the issue i would be associated with
0	deep sea 3d is a stunning insight in to an underwater world only a few have had the opportunity to view first hand br br from the opening sequence when a wave rushes towards the audience momentarily us in the ocean the filmmakers make full use of the imax format a jelly fish field appears to fill the whole theatre a shark powers towards us predators pounce from behind rocks and devour their prey it is a beautifully captured under sea feast for the eyes br br our ears on the other hand are not given the same treatment the film is narrated by hollywood stars jonny depp and kate winslet both sound so ridiculous it positively spoils the enjoyment of the visuals depp sounds slightly bored whilst winslet sounds as if she is reading a bedtime story to the village idiot i was shocked that an actress of her status could have pitched her performance so wrongly the script is fairly silly and contains very little depth the soundtrack is filled with strange unrealistic sound effects which i assume are meant to be funny but in fact detract attention from the material which should have been allowed to speak for itself br br danny elfman has provided an excellent score which gives plenty of impact to the ups and downs of life under the sea when it is allowed to play out without the silly bubble sounds or which pepper film br br the film is a technical marvel but with it's childish script annoying narration and misplaced sound effects it cannot be taken seriously
0	although this was the first hunter s thompson documentary i have seen it was average at best despite the of huge star appearances such as johnny depp bill murray gary busey and a few others i was let down by this and yet it was still a little interesting what kept me watching was some of the old clips from fear and loathing in las vegas and where the buffalo roam not that good mostly because of the old guys rambling and things any fan would already know i still think they were milking it because it could have been compressed down by at least half still if your a fan i would you'll like anything that has to do with hunter best regards
0	this is by far the worst british comedy ever how it made it past the first episode let alone the pilot is beyond me the acting is weak from the main character played by ben miller to sarah alexander from the fantastic coupling right through the cast the plot story lines were unfunny and very very predictable using many worn out ideas a very painful series to endure but sadly put in a slot between two excellent shows describing it as britain's answer to ' meet the parents' does a disservice to 'meet the parents' and is as about as fresh as an old shoe that has a run around with the family dog britain should have learned that rip offs from other countries never work from looking at america's sad attempts at doing so
0	a long time ago way back in the early '80s a late night tv show fridays came to abc trying to steal the limelight away from nbc's badly listing saturday night live it didn't but it did introduce some repugnant sketches and semi talented comedians to the world like mark for example br br which in a roundabout way brings us to jekyll and hyde together again which is repugnant in ways all its own br br is about as subtle as a pew full of whoopee cushions going off after communion and about as tasteful too this is just his drugged out character he played on the ill fated fridays show stretched out to feature length and if you didn't like him there why are you reading this review br br any time it takes more than one or two writers to write a movie that's a bad sign then when it goes for headed jokes that would get you thrown off every improv stage in the western hemisphere and replaces gags with gross out things can only get worse br br a comic take on a robert louis stevenson story about as good an idea as making a sitcom out of poe's fall of the house of usher br br aside from a few very few gags that give a slight grin this whole film is an exercise in waste wasted actors wasted film wasted opportunities br br no wonder they showed original author stevenson turning in his grave what more observant a review could they give themselves br br no stars no not even for armstrong who should have known better br br hyde from this one
0	trekkies is really not a movie about star trek fandom it's a freak show about those star trek fans who have no sense of reality as a freak show it's fine but it is a mistake to think that this movie gives you an insight into star trek fans most star trek fans cringe at what this movie shows
0	this owes a great deal to the plot of captains courageous although he is quite grown up it is partly the story of a wealthy lad who is as a crew member aboard a cargo vessel and becomes a man in the process moran of the title is a boyish young woman also brought up on a vessel owned by her father when the cargo burns she and crew members are evacuated to our lad's ship however the captain has smuggling on his mind and his intentions are not honorable where moran is concerned the inevitable ensues our lad falls for the moran and she for him in the end evil is subdued and the lovers are united some interesting dialogue points out that moran belongs to no man and no woman a nod to sappho here dorothy dalton is appropriately sexless as moran and not too attractive either valentino does well in a romantic action role his sexy build and physique are shown off to advantage and the role is quite a masculine one he is very appealing this is no great film but it passes the time what it really showcases is beauty and sexiness
0	this movie was nothing like the book br br everything was mixed up or changed most of the movie was things that weren't even in the book br br this movie never should have been viewed it was a great disappointment to me when i enjoyed the book so much and then to watch how this movie trashed the entire thing br br i would never recommend this movie to anyone that is a fan of nora roberts or j d br br honestly this movie is not worth watching with how off from the book is really is
0	moon' is an adequate made for tv movie about a girl with psychic powers who returns to the town where br br she grew up in and where her childhood best friend was murdered turns out that every year on the same date another br br young girl is murdered and tori played by claire forlani must solve the mystery before she ends up dead claire forlani meet joe black csi new york is the female lead and does a pretty good job of it ably supported by the rather delicious oliver and a still luminous jacqueline bisset the script adapted from a nora roberts novel is bog standard and the plot br br is tediously predictable that however is offset again by like i said the rather delicious oliver hudson
0	i don't leave imdb comments about films but this this film was bad very bad i fast forwarded through most of it stopping where i hoped the acting had improved since the last scene only to continue with the fast forwards formula plot once the obvious murderers were discounted there was only the one left and that was in the first five minutes scene by scene it felt as though i'd already read the script before because there were no surprises no mystery the tori character bad bad acting a true waste of time on dvd and a definite 'let's go to bed option if it's the only thing on television if you watch this film you will find yourself realising you'll never be able to get back the time you've just wasted
0	a total and absolute waste of time bad acting bad story predictable simple pathetic after a while i was only watching to see what happens since i'd already invested my time into it totally surprised mrs forlani played in a weak movie as this honestly just don't bother a total and absolute waste of time bad acting bad story predictable simple pathetic after a while i was only watching to see what happens since i'd already invested my time into it totally surprised mrs forlani played in a weak movie as this honestly just don't bother a total and absolute waste of time bad acting bad story predictable simple pathetic after a while i was only watching to see what happens since i'd already invested my time into it totally surprised mrs forlani played in a weak movie as this honestly just don't bother
0	the story is about a psychic woman tory who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past the death of her childhood friend and abusive father tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders br br you really don't need to find out because oh my god this was so so so so bad i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of 10's then the rest of us will see an imdb score of 6 and actually think this movie is worth watching but do not be fooled the ending was predictable the acting terrible don't even get me started about the southern accents y'all and the story was trite just remember you were warned
0	first let me state that i have no idea who nora roberts is so the book may have been great but the movie isn't br br i have spent my entire life living in the region of nc i have never heard southern accents as ridiculous as the ones in this movie i have lived in two small nc towns and charlotte and raleigh on occasion you will meet people with a strong southern accent but i have never encountered a town where everyone talks like a bad imitation of gone with the wind br br in response to gore won from the atheist community your comments reveal more about your warped psyche than it does about the movie if we were to stretch our imaginations and pretend that there is anything realistic in this movie which there isn't then the truth is that bad people such as father will always find some justification for their actions the author chose religion as a counter to supernatural abilities your that the true character of the gospels directs a man to beat his daughter is about the most perverse and interpretation i have ever heard before you start spouting off about the gospels maybe you should read them first br br back to the movie the dialog is flat unnatural and unbelievable most of the time in particular many of the things that said to tory are inappropriate and do not match the mood context or way they are said br br the exciting twist at the end of the movie is lame predictable and lacks any credibility some have also claimed that jacqueline bisset does a wonderful job in this movie but the truth is that the bitter mother character is also a stale predictable one dimensional character is that fault i don't know br br if you have a choice between watching this movie and a twenty year old rerun of the muppet show i recommend the muppet show
0	i watched this movie for the hot guy and even he sucked he was the worst one well okay i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too he was even worse the guy wasn't that cute in the end he had the most terrible accent and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can't stand up to his mom for the one he loves there's ever been overall and if this makes any sense to you when i go to pick up movies at the video store i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so well at least it can't be worse than carolina moon the most terrible movie and the most terrible writing acting plot everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips it was the most horrid movie i will ever see with way up there too i hated it and trust me if there was any number under 1 imdb had for rating i'd choose that in a heartbeat
0	i read a lot of high hopes from readers of the book that this would be a faithful adaptation of nora roberts' story not having read the book i don't know if this adaptation was faithful but i do know it wasn't good actually the screenplay was the best part of the movie so kudos to nora roberts br br i planned ahead and watched carolina moon because of claire forlani i've never been sure if she's a good actress she's been decent in some movies average in others and really bad in this one but forlani wasn't alone the performances were all over the place oliver hudson was wooden and boring josie davis was hammy then amidst all this b rate acting there's jacqueline bisset she didn't have a lot to do other than portray bitterness but even sleepwalking through that she was miles ahead of the others br br still forlani remains one of the most breathtaking women in movies and i was not disappointed in that capacity here i believe forlani can be more than eye candy but until she turns in a good performance in a good movie she continues to excel at that and i'll continue to faithfully watch everything she participates in fandom is fun that way br br this movie though carolina moon was pretty bad in addition to the bad acting fake southern accents are really distracting the direction was pedestrian it wasn't horrible it was just the boring made for tv caliber you're used to seeing on lifetime br br if you're a fan of any of the stars you can probably enjoy carolina moon for that reason as i did if you're a fan of the book you might enjoy seeing the story on the screen albeit in a lackluster form otherwise this movie is unremarkable
0	i did not quite get o – it is one of the weirdest ones i have watched the soundtrack was quite unusual as well – written and performed by jean michel jarre it makes the movie weirder than it was i have to admit that i was almost going to change it and watch another one instead times the movie seemed plain dumb to me or boring – or confusing there are quite a few sexual references in that movie – trough they too are kind of messed up probably the only phrase that i will remember out of it is going to be when you are alone you can control things – and i will show them or something like that the boy in that movie was obsessed with the idea of not growing up – the last summer as a child he thought once – and he sure lived it to the max so if you have few hours to spare you can watch this movie – but you won't miss much if you don't
0	this fantasy was utter garbage i thought michael moore cornered the market on ridiculous anti government movies but this one was far worse than anything he ever did no wonder critics of the british media complain it's driven by tabloid journalism this movie is a left wing greatest fantasy come to life on the big screen anyone even slightly to the right of such rabid bush bashers should be appalled it ever got funding to be made i'm sure it will do well in syria iran pakistan and north korea though it's hard to believe that in these days of insane muslims blowing up innocent there is anyone in the u k who thinks britain should surrender in the war on terrorism i guess it's no longer the country i admired for standing alone against the nazis nearly 70 years ago all hail neville chamberlain and the pathetic policy of appeasement
0	the film begins in latvia just after wwi being a history teacher i knew that multinational troops occupied much of russia during this time there was serious concern about the spread of bolshevism and the troops were there ostensibly to protect their nations' interests however some times they flew missions or had armed conflicts with the communist army as the nations involved really wanted to see the so called whites win however the whites were deeply some wanting the return of a czar some wanting a republic and some wanting something in between because of these mixed goals and a lack of a real commitment by the foreign armies the whole expedition was doomed and left the ussr after only a year or two however what i did not know was that german troops were also involved this surprised me as they had just lost wwi and weren't in the best shape to be mounting such an expedition br br this is the backdrop for the film but it's also about a pro communist rich lady and her ill fated love for a childhood friend who is among the german troops she throws herself at him repeatedly but in each case he rebuffs her so she then these desires by various affairs while none of this sex is all that graphic this and the underlying reason the man isn't interested make this a rather adult film and one i wouldn't show to younger audiences br br while the setting for this film is interesting the overall film is as gray and lifeless as any i have seen i don't recommend it unless you are an amazingly patient person or you are really into overrated german films i especially warn away anyone who suffers with depression as it will no doubt make it worse the simple fact is that there are so many better german films out there waiting to be seen such as mostly martha das boot mother goes to heaven wings of desire or ali fear eats the soul among others
0	leonard can write lyrics but he sure can't sing nor has he had an original idea in his life just a floater from the looks of this nasty little puff piece note that his publishers and stewart were involved in the production he didn't know how to live either the woman he loves is only mentioned in passing and no woman is allowed to speak in this nonsensical advertisement while irving layton was given a credit the other poet interviewed earle birney was to remain nameless i come from the generation just after cohen where all the boys seemed to idolize him his lack of commitment was probably just calling to them i hadn't realized what a disappointing he was back then i was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because of his age br br whiny little rich prince and not one memorable line in his oeuvre no dedication to social change outside of the sexual arena br br you don't speak for my generation lennie and not for my gender go back to the monastery and stay off the screen br br as for my local public broadcaster i will let them know what i think of them wasting my time on this guy not a has been a never was
0	would have won an razzie for the worst film in 2004 may be overall too if it were global when it comes acting badly aka showing attitude yawning over not acting halle berry is no match for while the catwoman had supposedly hot actress in microscopic costume and some action sequences had nothing at all br br one of those movies which makes me wonder why imdb does allow one to rate a movie as 0 10 yet again i think that movie does not even deserve a 0 it has to be something negative or minus infinity br br ok what about the plot outline it is a giving arrogant full of attitude choreographer meet an useless skill less loafer who aspires to be an actor tale the story is so short that if just another sentence imdb might ban me for writing a spoiler about the story telling its like a bunch sorry 2 people for the most part of people moving in super slow motion don't try this movie if you have bought new dvd player you would end up believing that either dvd is in bad shape or dvd player is struck not its fault at all br br at the end of it all you end up giving some credits to the director at least he realized that both and abhishek bachan at least at that time can't speak dialogues convincingly so there are not too many dialogues in this movie so you can at least sleep your way through the movie with some annoying noises from those song sequences br br do watch this movie if you are new to bollywood cinema once you have tolerated this movie you would be able to see any bollywood movie and enjoy it br br there can't be worse 3 hour torture than this
0	ram gopal verma usually makes so so cookie cutter formula fare lifted from some hollywood flick his every film after shiva is in the cookie cutter genre occasionally he makes a truly horrible movie like this one br br for the first 55 minutes we are introduced to the only 2 characters a struggling gymnast masquerading as a skilled dancer go figure and a wannabe actor trying to strike it rich in bollywood they fall in love zero becomes hero dancer gymnast gets no break gymnastics angst the usual heartbreak more gymnastics angst song dance angst some more gymnastics more ridiculous gymnastics and before you know it you're fast asleep and this despite the hot sexy hot hot sexy hot bod of the leading lady cum gymnast cum dancer br br but hey you're not alone the editor director photographer in fact the whole cast and crew are asleep thru out the entire production only difference being they got paid to snooze while you paid money for this crap so you lose ha joke's on you don't feel sorry for yourself but for our poor broke gal as she tones up daily in her high rise penthouse in the sexiest of leotards and exercise wear puh leese when will the poor thang get a break she's starr br br cannot act rgv's lost his marbles abhishek tried hard but failed no plot no story nothing she must've paid rgv handsomely to make this all nonsense stuff in addition to free gymnastics lessons on his casting couch what a super deal no need for an acting career br br such absolute rubbish can only be made in bollywood of course
0	in most parts a lethally dull venture is about this dancer choreographer who regards herself as some kind of auteur beyond the petty commercial compromises that people around her including her actor beau abhishek bachchan build their careers on nice idea only it turns out that she has the most bad concepts about costumes and dance movements stuff rotten enough to make even the forces behind those ultra cheap south indian potboilers squirm in severe embarrassment br br the story follows a yawn inducing predictable pattern dancer and beau meet and have an affair yes sex included beau gets success but she spurns his attempts to help her beau throws attitude and they walk out on each other dancer meets a most unlikely director who wants her 'to do what she incongruous effort bags even more incongruous popularity attempts to reach out are rebuffed until a climax where he bursts out about how he can't live without her d uh end br br actually i didn't really expect this film to be much good so why did i watch it because i have an fetish she's an actress with imo sufficient talent to reach grand heights provided she has the opportunity alas her role in the film looks far better on paper than in actual execution ironic for a film that's supposed to be about an uncompromising character to give her credit she puts in a game effort shining well in the few scenes that actually ask of her as an actress i just wish the movie had been more worthy of her abhishek bachchan also throws in a few good punches the last scene salvaged somewhat by a simmering turn which pleasantly reminds you of his father br br only recommended if you can sit through humongous piles of for the return of a few of good moments courtesy the lead actors
0	a more detailed review can be obtained anywhere else in the web this one is a good portrayal although i do not agree with it entirely is a commercial guy and hence views from his angle only br br ram gopal varma rgv seems like a political party has created a marvel in rangeela so this one seems like a pale reflection of that one in some parts i'm not even going to compare urmila and both are good the former has better acting talent although the latter is catching up nicely br br anyways i like character she is true to her art not touched by any unnecessary emotion and definitely not too practical she is a dance scientist actually she is so sure of her theories that even comparing her to a scientist would offend her hey donald trump maybe you gotta ditch melania here is and you've already built a taj mahal ain't this easy abhishek on the other hand is a practical fellow who wants money power fame etc hence these two albeit were struggling to get a break into the film industry cannot get along given their different styles and approach to life this is very typical but what i like about the movie is that it says what an abhimaan would say in its total runtime in one scene what's new this movie takes a different angle to the film industry and how different people get into it there is always something different about rgv's movies this one is different too it is way too slow for his standards in parts it drags one almost to sleep br br noticeable it is tough to notice anything other than in the first half of the movie i think this skin show was necessary for the dance sequences involved also looks like is a pro in yoga she is way too flexible almost like a devi aby baby is improving as an actor with every movie i am sure his blood is paying off rich dividends the title song was really good the music overall was above average
0	after reading the mostly glowing comments about this movie i decided to rent it despite some suspicions of tv movies i should have followed my instincts br br i tried so hard to warm up to the movie and find merit in it but i just couldn't the story never draws you in or rings true and the acting is perfunctory at best and laughable at worst everything in this production is amateurish br br always a joy to watch mary mcdonnell may be the only performer to escape this disaster without damaging her career or reputation i won't even bother checking the name of the leading man hopefully he's back doing commercials br br even poor vanessa redgrave whom i adore and respect seemed to be channeling katherine hepburn all the time appearing as if she were really drugged in the home maybe she needed the money br br if i can save one person from wasting 100 minutes on this tripe i will feel vindicated
0	this film is enjoyable if you like poverty row public domain films from the first half of the 20th century or are a fan of amateur film making the film splices together public domain thrillers together along with newly shot scenes in which the actors with the sole exception of redfield doing a near dead on lugosi rip all of the performers are simply dreadful attempt to interact with the stock footage the new footage is covered with digitally added film scratches as is some of the already substandard old footage as near as i can figure out the plot has something to do with a bunch of strangers being brought together on an island for a will reading this film while boasting a creative premise ala 'dead men don't wear is a technical and creative wreck in one dreadfully over long sequence and injured sailor on a ship describes an abortive trip to island' whatever that is the flashback then incoherently weaves together old footage from totally different eras and of totally disparate film quality unrelated scenes from 'the lost world' 1925 the most dangerous game 1932 white zombie 1932 bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla 1952 and some other poverty row productions this is done over an incredibly bad voice over which seems to have too much room echo as if the audio was recorded on a cheap home video camera br br the filmmakers seem to think that they are paying homage to the great actors of yesteryear by giving characters the surnames of famous actors carradine zucco etc etc this tactic was done cleverly as well as subtly in 'final here it's just obnoxious bizarre and painfully unfunny jokes about spiderman dracula and superman abound even the old as dirt and lawyer reference is used here this was old and tired when the three stooges used it in the 1930s br br the film stock and audio don't match scene to scene and dozens of different sources are used for lugosi the finale effect is that he seems to be getting older younger older thinner heavier younger and older again minute by minute oddly the film didn't use this as a comedy subplot and squanders a good chance for comedy br br truth be told though it was great fun to watch this late at night in bed maybe thats what they wanted to happen
0	what a waste of time i got about five minutes into it and became very antsy and was soon fast forwarding a bit and pretty soon the desire to take my thumb off the fast forward button was nonexistent actors mark redfield and barry murphy did very capable jobs i thought but no one else i saw gave anything like a good performance again take this review with a large grain of salt because the movie was just so unbearable i couldn't make it to the end heck i couldn't make it to the middle br br i find myself unable to submit this review because it isn't long enough maybe this last sentence will put it over the top
0	i didn't really care for this had they gotten rid of the comedy slapstick and focused on the dramatic philosophical aspects of the script this might have been worthwhile br br the more the film went on the less i liked the protagonist mailman he does have interesting things to say but he's also a hypocritical insecure jerk br br 3 10
0	artificial melodrama with a screenplay adapted by mel from his play the man concerns a boarding house proprietress taking in a troubled handyman who may be homicidal despite solid work from ida lupino and robert ryan both trying their best this tedious yarn isn't very inventive within its one primary set which quickly becomes visually dull and underpopulated cast of characters there is however a smart pooch who senses the worst hokey and humorless with a stilted direction from harry horner perhaps lupino should have directed where's all the suspense promised by the ads also served as a co producer 1 2 from
0	i'm not a big fan of musicals although this technically might not qualify as a musical but i thought i would give it a chance as i love war movies it was mediocre at best br br hudson seems totally out of kilter in this role it just didn't work for me julie andrews probably played her part as best as she could but i just find it hard to buy her as a conniving deceptive spy sorry i know that is classic stereotyping on my part but i have to say i think this is julie at her most beautiful and feminine looking i always thought of her as more matronly but then surely that's a result of her roles in sound of music and mary poppins no doubt they were desperately trying to get her out of that typecasting in this role she was quite beguiling in appearance here but i still didn't buy her as a spy br br i couldn't keep my focus through the whole movie and found myself tuning in and out and having conversations with those in my room which i usually never do i'm always everybody so that tells you how little it held my attention don't waste your time
0	problems 1 although billed as a loving tribute to poverty row a lot of the old footage is not even from poverty row films much of it is from rko's the most dangerous game 1932 with some from the silent version of the lost world 1926 br br 2 much of the old footage is just used as filler the old shipboard footage or as silent shots for example of bela walking looking or staring often repeated br br 3 where is the pantheon of poverty row master thespians bela boris lon chaney jr george zucco john carradine buster crabbe tom neal etc emoting their lines as punch lines to the 'new' characters jokes as in woody allen's what's up tiger lily or steve martin's dead men don't wear plaid even mike nelson's feeble commentary on the colorized reefer madness is funnier than this br br high point the long but extremely enlightening lecture by gregory which makes you give new respect to and admiration for bela john carradine and george zucco that's worth the price of the dvd alone
0	being a fan of bela lugosi boris karloff and lon chaney jr i had to see this what tripe the only thing good about this is the clips of lugosi karloff and chaney jr along with all the vintage clips that do not gel with the new black and white footage not even close to steve martins dead men don't wear plaid that was done great with all the technology we have now why was'nt this done better if you are planning to shell out 5 bucks and some change be warned this is really bad but if you like lugosi karloff and chaney jr then watch their movies instead even ed wood did better then this one new actor mark redfield is pretty good as an imitation bela lugosi the clips they use are the ape mr wong most dangerous game lost world indestructible man and devil bat that notorious bela lugosi classic i believe this production was very low budget and it shows 1 out of 10
0	this isn't so bad it's good it's so bad it violates the geneva prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment only by reading the synopsis can you even figure out the plot of this straight to video disaster it's a hodge podge of grainy stock footage spliced together with some of the all time worst acting you'll ever have the misfortune to see comparing this incompetent turgid humorless mess to dead men don't wear plaid is like saying that gigli is like citizen kane the talentless cast are costumed in cheap j c goin' to church clothes and there isn't the slightest attempt at period hairstyles or make up if you really want to see how this sort of homage can work check out the lost skeleton of cadavra it's clever well written and best of all performed by actual actors who aren't such agony to watch for that matter seek out the work of phoenix artist paul wilson whose sci fi short the attack of the 70 foot courtesy lady leaves this film in the dust the people in terror in the tropics look and sound like they were pulled off the street and given their scripts to read during the one and only take this is an insult to bela lugosi boris karloff lon chaney and anyone else involved in the films they cannibalized to make this schlock fest money isn't the problem a lot can be accomplished with very little expense a good script decent actors and above z grade costumes and production design should have been a given before the so called director created this stinky pile of cinematic offal let's hope the promise of a sequel doesn't come true that was by far the scariest thing shown in the whole movie
0	take it from me as a camera man who worked for republic studios from 1946 to 1950 and then warners bros and paramount from 1950 to 1993 this is a piece of crap sure it would be great to show it to your favorite friends at a house party but to try to sell this on a dvd is absolutely br br i have seen bad acting in my day but this is no acting the hero is almost laughable and he really thinks he is something judging from his comments on the specials i hate to see his fan club the old films did not jive with the action in many of the scenes what the hell was that garden scene with three of worst actresses i never seen a garden on a ship they could not even emote i would not mind it if they could have once ounce of acting but the only one was the guy with the accent i am sorry but this is not a clever film as some persons are stating i would think horror film buffs would be insulted by this piece of film
0	i had a bit of hope for this hour long film made up of footage from old poverty row movies certainly it had the possibility to seem like more than a home video mass marketed to the world unfortunately while funny this movie still feels like a home movie but with stock footage spliced in br br the plot concerns the planned reading of a will on a liner at midnight somewhere in the tropics the ship sinks and well thats the movie br br the film promises karloff lugosi chaney and others being lifted from old movies to interact with new footage we get that alright but mostly we get lots of new video footage made to look like scratchy black and white film in which new actors prance about old footage is inter cut mostly to set the scene but very little of the old and new actually matches so its clearly just a put on its not very convincing and is very disappointing for someone like me was looking for a better constructed film br br still if you know and love the old poverty row films its very spoofy this might be worth a viewing i would warn against buying this but it can be had for about five bucks the price of a rental so the choice is yours though if you can get away with not paying for it do so br br disappointing
0	the thomas crown affair is a terrible remake of a not very good movie redeemable only for the topless shots of former supermodel renee russo br br that's it the plot is negligible pierce brosnan phoned in his part and dennis leary as usual plays an annoying irish cop but i couldn't take my eyes off the beautiful ms russo there's an okay love making scene on a stairway a terrifically sexy ballroom dance a topless beach scene and a roll in the sack oh and there's a painting stolen from a museum and a gets sunk br br but let's hope other directors recognize ms russo's perky attributes and cast her in more highly visible roles
0	i am sure i'm in the minority i know i am among my friends but i found this movie long boring and gratuitous the fact that the role played by denis leary is the most likable character the only other time i liked him at all was in a bug's life speaks volumes rene russo's character was irritating beyond belief and thomas crowne himself was flat and stereotypical to say he was two dimensional may be a little generous no the scenes with his psychiatrist did not help make him real br br with the exception of two wonderful scenes both involving the museum caper and not involving rene russo this movie made me wish i were at home watching televised golf
0	this film is a total bore entrapment is way better in all aspects plot acting stunts etc plus the soundtrack is one of the most annoying i've ever heard i was close to muting the film just to shut it up 3 out of 10 stars
0	i had the funny chance of seeing this on mystery science theater 3000 four years ago i must admit it wasn't as badly done as some other science fiction horror movies of the time the plot revolved around an astronaut that came back to earth with alien inside of him now the plot is quite weird well if you can even call that a plot seeing a space program run out of one building and an old pickup truck is drop dead funny i'll admit it was horrible by today's standards and 20 years ago but i can see myself 43 years ago watching and being charmed by this movie it's not even close to the badness of invasion of the neptune men manos hands of fate or future war br br
0	i've been trying to write a plot summary for several minutes now and can't seem to do it but with a movie as bad as night of the blood beast the plot hardly matters an astronaut crash lands and is believed dead his body later reanimates but is found to be carrying the embryos of some strange alien life form but how did they get there and where's the alien that implanted the strange creatures in john body br br imdb lists the runtime for night of the blood beast at 62 minutes is that right 62 minutes it had to be longer than that it felt interminable to me even with the mst3k commentary which was very funny by the way the actual movie felt much much longer and it's pretty much a snoozer from beginning to end i like a lot of these alien invasion type movies of the 50s but not this one it failed to grab my interest on any level the baby aliens were too silly looking to be taken seriously the titular blood beast was pathetic and none of the characters did anything for me add to that the usual low budget roger corman trappings and you've got a real loser of a movie
0	i don't know what the makers of this film were trying to either accomplish or say but they badly failed at whatever it was unless of course the object was to totally confuse the viewer i watched this movie simply because drew barrymore was in it and it turned out that she had a smaller than small cameo in it the whole idea of having this kid go on some wild car trip to win a big money prize from a gas station game and meet up with all sorts of wackos is utterly ridiculous
0	i accept that most 50's horror aren't scary by today's standards but what the hell is this when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth yeah which is what the people wanted br br the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast but the title really kills the movie night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn't any blood to speak of br br i like how the 50's movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one this movie isn't the worst i've ever seen but its almost up there br br 2 out of 10
0	this movie has a fairly decent premise one gruesomely featured again and again in science fiction films most spectacularly in alien and some decent he man performances from the male cast the possessed astronaut's wife to me is the weak link in the ensemble she doesn't seem to know what to do with her face in a lot of her most prominent scenes for which i blame director corman br br given a decent budget for props and special effects and a more focused and coherent screen play blood beast might have been pretty decent but the inherent cheapness of the production design and the continuity errors and gaffes undermine the proceedings for instance every time i saw the comatose astronaut laid out on an examination table the width of an ironing board i broke into giggles probably not the the emotion the crew wanted to invoke and the monster's costume needed some serious work fern covered parrots just aren't scary or convincing br br still the premise was strong enough that i hung on to the end just to see how the plot would resolve itself and the alien's motives were sufficiently ambiguous at first that i could sort of think of it as an enigma and the scene with the shot of the murdered scientist had a bit of punch to it along with the plot development where the alien claimed to have assimilated some of the dead man's personality br br it's corman it's cheap fast and mildly watchable if you don't think too hard or expect too much what more needs to be said
0	what a travesty of movie ratings injustice a 2 1 on the imdb scale as i write this folks this is a lot closer to a 3 0 i'll even go out on a limb and say 4 0 where i've put it come on how can you have a movie about a net of static electricity surrounding the earth and alien cell structures and not give it at least a 4 0 for creativity then you've got all that great dialog like dave look at the composition of this mud you know i don't think they ever got back to that mud no matter this is the kind of flick that 'z' movie diehards live for and i can now rest easy actually i saw this quite a few years ago without the proper appreciation for it along with corman titles like attack of the giant leeches and the wasp woman i don't know what the fascination might be but to quote a character from the film whatever it is it works fast br br back to that alien cell structure i liked the idea of a third element competing against your standard red and white blood cells when astronaut john corcoran michael returned from the dead i had visions of a scene that might have been a precursor to 1979's alien but that was not to be instead budget restrictions limit the picture to a de feathered big bird knock off even though that concept was still almost a decade away who knows where one idea leaves off and picks up with another br br look this is not that bad not that good but not that bad anytime you can hook up crash landing astronauts with alien beings committed to taking over the earth you've got a winning combination throw in the cheesy monster factor and you're on your way just remember a wounded animal that large isn't good
0	for those viewers who thought the 1979 film alien the first to depict a male earthling being impregnated by a malevolent extraterrestrial night of the blood beast made 21 years earlier may come as something of a surprise in this film america's first man in space back on earth and after examination is thought to be dead he later comes to again only with a half dozen or so alien growing in his abdomen the mama alien also pops up to terrify the small band of scientists who are observing our hero and she seems to have the body of a bear and the head of the rock creature from a 1969 star trek episode anyway with its short 62 minute running time small group of scientists and cheap looking monster this film suggests nothing less than a grade z warm up for the outer limits which would premiere four years later but without the fine writing that that show usually boasted despite the lurid title this film is decidedly sci fi not horror and offers no scares no laffs little suspense and little food for thought afterwards it looks as if it cost around 100 to make but probably cost twice as much and its musical score often seems to have no relation to the happenings i won't use the word action on screen by the film's end many questions remain just how was our hero to give birth to these critters why does the alien need to decapitate people to learn our language to justify that title no doubt why can't the space traveling aliens land on our planet rather than needing to hitch rides on our ships how was our hero impregnated to begin with these are all matters that this little cheapie can't be bothered with it really is for 1950s sci fi completists only
0	another gray horrible bit of schlockiness from the family corman the first space capsule into outer space crash lands back on earth with some of the worst special effects ever and the pilot appears to be dead but appearances can be deceiving he's actually more alive than the rest of the cast including a patronizing misogynist old doctor who'd also really really boring a greasy guy who looks like he's cornered the market on hair oil another guy so dull he doesn't even make much of an impression a female scientist who never seems to be hurt or angry over the old guy's patronizing and a female photographer with a farah fawcett haircut pre farah of course and about as much liveliness as a dead duck br br what are any of these people's names i think it was steve apparently everyone in the cast including the women were called steve anyway the dead pilot steve turns out to not only be alive but to be baby aliens or or shrimp or whatever inside his torso the momma beast that implanted these little critters looks like a giant bald parrot with claws once again i am impressed by the laugh ability factor of the monsters created by the house of corman the space carrot from venus in it conquered the world is still officially the worst most laughable monster i've ever seen grace the screen but the cormans always manage to deliver when it comes to bad cheesy looking monsters br br they also managed to deliver on their other trademarks as well i e a boring confusing plot long gray shots thank god corman did most of his films in black and white since his color stuff still manages to look somehow gray two or three locations max stupid and lame props and special effects and lots and lots of dull dialog there's only two deaths in the film if you don't counted the roasted parrot err alien blood beast being offed at the end of the film cheers rang out through the land i'm sure when the alien rips the old doctor's head off and apparently eats it now it can talk in english and has the doctor's memories it can also move the pregnant astronaut around as though he were pinnochio br br the monster's apparent intent is to rebuild its race using human beings as food and giant there's a confusing bit at the end well more confusing than usual anyway in which the creature tries to explain why it is doing this but it makes no sense whatsoever something about how humanity is about to follow in its race's footsteps and destroy themselves by something they'll soon create it never really said what that was it could have been anything from toaster ovens to digital watches who knows its baby minder stabs himself rather than let the alien shrimp crawl out of his body and the oily guy and the other guy burn the parrot alien to death with a molotov cocktail ahh the smell of roasting chicken err alien end of story in which the rest of the characters wander off and leave their dead comrade laying on the ground to rot oh hell why not save yourself the expense of a funeral i'm sure that was what corman was thinking when he was trying to cut corners and make his scenes as cheaply as possible
0	another winner from that 50s 60s era that i love so much for the comedic value they give with each viewing these days corman never lets you down with these films they take themselves seriously and they have very low budgets a recipe for good watching for sure ed nelson a very competent actor got started with corman as well as many other favorites who show up in superman and many of the westerns of the day the costume is pretty bad and the sound of the alien speaking well the reverb was a little off but thats the beauty of it film making for the love of it not looking for perfection just digging the action of doing it it comes thru these films are a fun time even better is the mst3k version
0	warning spoilers dear roger br br during your distinguished career you've made a wide range of entertainment some good some night of the blood beast falls in the latter category it's not as awful as say the phantom from 10 000 leagues or maybe the dunwich horror nonetheless one of my greatest criticisms of this movie is that i could have made it for you faster better and cheaper br br let's start with the and titles roger the rocket sequences look like something from disney's man into space not as good of course the futuristic looks like nothing in contemporary 1958 why didn't you just use a vanguard atlas or even a viking launch better still why not dispense entirely with the launch and start with a shot of space and the capsule floating in it that's what i would have done for you roger second why have the spaceship crash upon even a middle school physics student could have told you your astronaut would have arrived on earth extra crispy and largely i would have shown your astronaut becoming possessed by the monster maybe by using that great negative positive stuff you used in war of the satellites losing contact with earth and landing in the wilderness that would also explain how you blood beast could impregnate your astronaut during the tremendous heat of but still be destroyed by fire even with these stupidities the first half of your movie is pretty good had you spent some money on decent music it would have been as good as a mediocre episode of outer limits but once again your writer describes ed nelson as the designer of the landing system then gives him some stupid dialogue regarding magnetism the biggest problem with the second half of night of the blood beast is michael he's terrible as the doomed astronaut you should have fired him on the spot and replaced him with ed nelson you could have combined nelson's responsibilities with those of john and saved yourself the cost of one actor i don't know if you actually paid any of these people but at least you would saved the cost of catering three meals a day i'd had also ditched the scorched parrot costume and spent the extra money using makeup to have the astronaut turn into the blood beast maybe that was a little too close to the creeping unknown for you but it would have helped the pace of the second half immensely if you are going to have a blood beast wouldn't it be a good idea to show a little blood yeah i know the title comes from the embryos in the astronaut's blood but kowalski could've done a lot better job for you if he poured a little chocolate syrup around after all it looks like blood in black and white what've that cost you maybe two bucks i'd have also used some closeups for some reason insipid dialogue and bad acting don't seem quite so bad in closeups look at almost 70s tv series and you'll see what i mean oh in closing roger a note to your writer you can't use a to show some poor schmuck full of alien embryos when you don't have any electricity remember you fried the generator in the first reel oh and i almost forgot roger couldn't you afford a fake knife you know the kind where the blade goes into the handle i had one of those when i was 9 which also happens to be the year night of the blood beast was made it cost maybe another two bucks i think i knew enough then to make you a better movie i know i know enough now to do so so roger if you decide to remake night of the blood beast or if you are looking for a writer director to work with you on some other project i'm your man i'll work cheap 'cause i'd really like to make a movie for you roger br br i give night of the blood beast a 3 special note if you like to watch kitschy movies like night of the blood beast the dvd i bought for 3 99 was very good quality you can also get night of the blood beast along with a lot of other terrible horror scifi movies at places like for about 6
0	after an astronaut dies in space he is brought back to a military base inside the man are discovered alien embryos he is the host for what could be a terrible alien invasion this film comes to us from director bernard l kowalski who also directed attack of the giant leeches see separate review but may be better known for his work on columbo executive producer was roger corman known as the creator of much better films than this one particularly in the 1960s br br this movie is cheesy and poorly constructed what comes across as interesting is the poor effects not the actual film itself one scene shows a close up of the alien embryos and it's an embarrassing cartoon representation even for 1958 and then when a full grown alien appears you'll wonder why he is wearing shoes or if you're really perceptive you'll wonder why you've seen the alien suit in other movies br br by no means is this the worst science fiction film you'll ever see and you almost have to give it some credit the alien host overtaking a military base idea predates both the thing and alien by a number of years i don't know if these films were inspired in any way i doubt it but at least it was ahead of its time beyond that though the film flops and is only great for heckling when drinking i haven't seen the mystery science theater version but this sure is one film worthy of their insults
0	an astronaut michael dies while returning from a mission and his body is recovered by the military the base where the dead astronaut is taken to becomes the scene of a bizarre invasion plan from outer space alien embryos inside the dead astronaut resurrect the corpse and begin a terrifying assault on the military staff in the hopes of conquering the world according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br a roger corman american international production the man who fell to earth impregnated mr as john corcoran does all right angela greene is his pretty conflicted fiancée and ed nelson as dave randall is featured as prominently with a bigger budget better opening and a re write for crisper characterizations this could have been something approaching classic 1950s science fiction br br night of the blood beast 1958 bernard l kowalski roger corman michael angela greene ed nelson
0	this slightly ponderous late 50's sci fi horror schlock isn't entirely a loser it's about a manned space rocket that crash lands in a remote area a bunch of scientists go to investigate and discover that the astronaut is in some kind of coma he's being kept alive by alien embryos that have been mysteriously implanted in him anyway the title alien monster soon raises it's head causing general havoc including partial head removal br br the main problem with the film is it's pacing it takes quite a while for the blood beast to appear and he really only comes into his own in the last 20 minutes or so he is undoubtedly a completely ridiculous creation but that's really not a problem as he provides a fair amount of comic relief at the end of the movie where we have the final stand off and this ludicrous creature starts talking with the voice of the doctor he killed earlier you will be doing well not to have a giggle so too in the brilliant x ray scene where we see the alien embryos floating about in the astronaut's body it's just too funny for words br br but unfortunately the fun moments in night of the blood beast come too few and far between if you're a 50's sci fi nut though then it's well worth checking this one out just don't expect too much
0	i'm not going to say too much as this movie isn't worth the effort to put it simply the movie absolutely sucked this is the worst movie i have ever seen the storyline was stupid you couldn't follow what was happening the characters were so annoying especially the main guy i wanted someone to kill that kid and put him and the movie out of it's misery br br very very bad
0	oh there are many worse wayne movies this movie is edited poorly but it has a campy element that makes watching it enjoyable the villain is an anglo actor who sports ridiculous mexican clothes and affects an over the top mexican accent which is hilarious the girl is dressed like a jean harlow wannabe this is 1934 after all at least the location shots are beautiful and enjoyable br br watch it and laugh don't expect a serious western but rather a lightweight and superficial story with poor acting but occasional flashes of camp humor wayne is almost ludicrously young and handsome and one can see his acting ability blossomed years after this regrettable venture
0	what distinguishes some of the 'lone star' films and many others in western and adventure films of the early thirties was their lack of what we recognize as formulaic story telling to be sure they had good vs evil the basic element of any western boy meets girl and some stock characters such as the old rancher and his beautiful daughter or grand daughter and sometimes the evil banker or other businessman but the way the action played out was often different from film to film br br 'the lawless features earl in his big star turn not as for some inexplicable reason pandro a 'half apache half american posing as a mexican who speaks the language fluently ' his biggest posing as a mexican seemed to be his outrageous mariachi clothes the only plot seems to be that he wants to steal ruby the granddaughter of old dusty gabby hayes when meeting her for the first time gives her a long once over look that puts him in the big leagues with sexual predators you'd think that because the opening scene shows killing john wayne father off camera it would play a bigger part in the film it doesn't too much chasing back and forth between heroes and villains br br we get many good stunts though from yakima canutt including pulling ruby up on his horse when he rides by jumping on and knocking them off their horses a horse leap off a cliff into a lake and even the same slide down the sequence that was in the lucky texan 1934 although this time the mighty yak uses a body surfing log instead of straddling a tree bough and its inclusion is just as illogical this time too since they are in a desert br br the high point is clearly john wayne's measured and methodical well photographed walk across the desert after the fleeing and stumbling with those fantastic cliffs of red rock canyon seen in countless serials westerns and science fiction movies framed behind him no final gun duel at fifty paces with the heroine running from the wooden steps of the bar to embrace and kiss the conquering hero in this movie when john wayne finally catches up with him drinks poisoned water from a and dies br br after a couple too many chase sequences gang is finally captured in cabin emerging one by one from behind a cabinet that apparently leads to a canyon now blocked off by having been no riding off into the sunset or kissing the girl the final shot is ruby now mrs john tobin on the telephone to the now sheriff john tobin what would sheriff tobin like for dinner the film also has poor lighting and editing at the beginning the pacing is slow some parts with the sheriff cause it to drag and the horse chases fill up the film so despite the different and unusual elements it comes off as one of the weaker lone stars
0	this is probably wayne's poorest movie at least the poorest in which he had a starring role it's just incredibly bad the editing is especially awful it really appears that the editor if there was one literally picked up pieces of film off the floor and pasted them together the opening has to be seen to be believed john wayne must have cringed every time it was mentioned i know there are b films but are there h films if so this one's an example and i say this as a devoted fan
0	while most of wayne's b efforts are entertaining in a fun way this film is so sloppily edited and written it is a dud the first ten minutes alone show wayne and bandits in nighttime scenes intercut with stock footage obviously shot in the day plays a half white half apache bandit with a heavy mexican accent and he cannot seem to pull off any nationality i give this a 3
0	the most die hard worshippers of john wayne will cringe when they watch the lawless frontier even for a poverty row studio this one is one stinkeroo br br unusual for a western we have a criminal who is a sex crime perpetrator earl plays a halfbreed white and indian who for reasons that are not explained pretends he's a mexican hokey accent and all sounds like the of advertising fame back in the day br br he and his gang happen upon gabby hayes and his daughter sheila terry they really don't have anything worth robbing but just wants an excuse to kidnap terry and have his way with her she hears the dastardly fate she has in store and she and hayes flee the ranch br br where they happen to meet john wayne who's on the trail of the bandits they also run into one very stupid sheriff who believes wayne is one of the bandits again for reasons i can't quite fathom br br it was a tough way to earn a living grinding out horse operas like these for the duke fortunately better things were on the way
0	even die hard john wayne fans will have to concede that this film is a mess wayne's character john tobin is after the gang that killed his parents led by half apache half white renegade pandro earl posing as a mexican br br there are almost too many silly plot points to count but those that stand out include sheriff williams jack rockwell a captured around his boot so all has to do to get free is remove his boot friend dusty george pre gabby hayes takes a thrown knife in the back and comes back good as new for the rest of the story in a chase scene tobin rides a makeshift log through a drainage trough surrounded by log walls in the middle of a desert and missing his mark chases actually walks after on foot through the desert seeks relief and drinks from a pool of water but oops he didn't see the sign above the that states don't drink poison as collapses dead tobin resumes his chase after the remainder of the gang and captures the whole lot by blowing up a rock wall that seals a secret passage into cabin how convenient br br in the closing scene the new sheriff tobin is seen on the phone talking to the new mrs tobin sheila terry daughter ruby who earlier in the film was a kidnap target of gang apparently the studio was intent on wayne's getting the girl in virtually every film they made with him as this type of ending is completely predictable for almost all of lone star's films
0	what a silly movie while it looks nice it doesn't make a lot of sense on the one hand the film suggests that madness was that she was just a woman ahead of her time on the other hand she has an obsession that is right out of the worst victorian novel of the wronged woman and that does seem a sort of mental problem like miss in a castle this movie is what elizabeth would have been if elizabeth had not been able to get past essex's sexual attraction
0	vicente has made a terrible historical movie it shows the poor resources of the spanish cinema in the movie an script shows just as a faced to worried only for sex but sex with others not with her the technical mistakes begin with the wedding ring that shows isabel of nobody noticed that then the voice in off seems as a documentary actors and actress in the movie sometimes laughs take a look to the sequence when arrives to the council which want to keep her isolated the castles are almost broken when in the age of the movie they have been recently built crowds are just four people lights are bad placed compared with amelie poulain the french movie for the oscars it has no sense to speak about a bad movie like la
0	this film is a great disappointment director vicente has provided many interesting films throughout his long career some of them were highlighted by strong and powerful performances by spanish actress victoria abril in la he relies on a gifted actress as well newcomer pilar lopez de but this is barely the sole positive element in an otherwise terrible mess of a movie while lopez de tries hard to portray as a romantic and passionate young woman completely obsessed by love to her handsome husband it seems as if she weren't able to develop her character over this one dimensional feature was an important figure in spanish history and politics of that time were essential in her storyline but here she's introduced as a romantic leading lady out of a soap opera this is a real pity and the film a missing opportunity to show the way personal lives can influence history and vice versa worst of all italian actors daniele and turn out in real bad performances which in the case of is a real problem as he portrays el a pivotal role in this story it seems a clear choice to attract young audiences as both of them look like top models of this era on the other hand talented actors such as giuliano gemma and pastor are completely wasted in supporting roles clearly underdeveloped even if this was a big budgeted film little care was taken in bringing a good screenplay or creating period pieces on the screen costumes are particularly grotesque in some of the group scenes as if they were taken from stock material without regarding of a real coherence all in all the main problem with la and this is what makes the difference with far superior historical films as la reine margot or elizabeth is the lack of a director's point of view this a strange turn in career as he was able to develop it in other works and come to my mind creating very personal and interesting movies while this really is no more than a routine academic historical piece and a not very good one at that
0	allegedly the true story of de the eldest daughter of the catholic queen isabella yes the same who funded columbus's expedition the film charts the progress and degeneration of her morbid obsession with her husband the philip of austria known as the handsome and played in a rather manner by italian hunk daniele at his most and beefy here this is a groan familiar story of late 15th c early 16th c intrigue betrayal and bodice ripping it drips destructive lust from start to finish but while la reine margot succeeds in making cruel sensuality and ruthless cut throat intrigue entertaining to watch la just doesn't pull off it just ends up feeling like a big budgeted soap opera with below average lazy or over keen acting looks positively bored and pilar de in the title role – though to be fair she may mature into a proper talent – just seems to be trying too hard switching back and fourth from two dimensional horny looking to spoilt teenage hysterics all the way through some of the supporting cast are ok with the exception of another italian pin up voluptuous and beautiful but really no actress to speak of i couldn't in fact bring myself to feel any concern towards any character nor for that matter did i feel strongly in a negative way against any of the supposed villains what a waste of a substantial film budget this one sadly is just so rhetorical and deja vu nodding to other films in the genre rather than to its source material history for inspiration it seems to me that such a fascinating and complex historic era deserved a far superior film maker to evoke it
0	some movies are off beat but enjoyable but many movies are just mind numbingly weird fits not so nicely in the latter category many seem to like it because of endless guest appearances and a total lack of sense but those two things can only take a movie so far and simply doesn't have any other merits to its credit br br delights itself on plot improbabilities its main character gus is a cussing 10 year old on a roadtrip across an imaginary country trying to collect game pieces to win 500 million when interacting with adult figures none of them seem to notice or be concerned with the fact that he's 10 years old at first it's incredibly funny but it quickly becomes just too unbelievable especially considering the people he runs into and the fact that he seems so unfazed by a lot of the disturbing to someone that age imagery going on around him gus has no depth and as an anti hero who has no problem causing misery for others to get his game pieces it's hard to feel sorry for him when he encounters trouble br br that trouble is provided by a slew of guest appearances each mistreating gus in more and more strange ways besides making the already worn out plot even more unbelievable and less enjoyable the characters share lack of depth and are equally unmemorable the character's actions can get a little interesting but the actors themselves don't add anything to them thus negating the whole point of getting big names they could've been played by anyone and the character would've been the same these guest appearances seem to have been signed more for marquee value than anything else br br should be interesting it's a unique idea but there's too little semblance of sense in the script for it to work incidents that should have a lasting effect on the anti hero and the viewer don't as the movie quickly moves from incident to incident in the hope that something will eventually make the audience feel sorry or understanding for gus that never happens as by doing so nothing is allowed to connect it just jerks back and forth as if on a conveyor belt one incident after another with a story so nonsensical it ceases to be enjoyable and a main character who never evolves to care for himself or anyone else on a higher level has little to offer except a brat sneaking around and trying to get rich why should we care about that
0	ok i've seen over 100 troma films and some of them are pretty bad sizzle beach u s a was horrible and i was a teenage tv terrorist was unwatchable but this is the worst film in the troma library br br a bunch of women are kept in a prison and tortured as they try to escape br br this is really terrible even as exploitation films go doris wishman and gordon lewis would probably kill the director if they saw this poor excuse for an cult film avoid this movie at all costs br br
0	escape from hell is not made with enough artistry to disguise what it is crass exploitation the direction and writing are both sloppy for example the camera work during the fight between and wilson is so bad that you can barely make out what's happening also if the alcoholic but kind hearted doctor hadn't killed the warden the guards would never have followed him and the girls after their escape the fake plague plan had worked fine until then but he just had to ruin it i would have given this film a 4 out of 10 the sweaty lesbian scene is not bad and christina lai has an amazingly beautiful face and body but a particularly disgusting scene of abuse forced me to cut 2 more points of course some sickos will take that as a recommendation after all one thing even more disturbing than this film is that some people actually gave it positive reviews
0	have you ever wondered why these guys seagal stallone willis et al manage to survive all those gunfights in which they're outnumbered i think i've got it figured out the enemies always miss and the hero doesn't br br here seagal has a pistol and a half dozen heavies firing at him from a few feet away one of the heavies has a shotgun or maybe two of them have it doesn't really matter there could be a thousand shotguns blasting away at him and seagal would still emerge with his ponytail intact br br and when it comes to mano a mano combat forget it the evildoers may or may not be armed with swords or knives or blunt object but seagal with his skill in aikido or or or play do or whatever it is brushes them aside with a few dismissive blows not only is he a master of these outré skills but his physical strength is herculean more than once he snaps somebody's long bones as easily as we would break a toothpick one he breaks a guy's spine over his knee br br i'll tell you something i'm getting into the spirit of the film here because seagal uses that line i'll tell you something several times along with what's that supposed to mean these guys are fully deserving of extinction in any good handbook they are all black speak with unintelligible may can accents wear dreadlocks that look in dire need of a shampoo they torture and murder with aplomb and here's the worst part they're unchristian that's right they practice voodoo br br actually the voodoo element comes close to being the most interesting element of the film they got the constituents of the ritual pretty well cigar smoke rum spitting the sacrificial chicken they only left out the possession dance in which the spirit rides the dancer they should have read on voodoo br br otherwise the plot adheres to the usual conventions what was done to bissett by the voodoo practitioners in the deep is done here to a friend of seagal's what was done to john wayne when he was stuck between trucks in is done here to seagal himself at the movie's very opening when seagal makes a brief speech about having seen too much pointless violence in his dea career so he's now happily retired and when we are introduced to his friends and family i tried to keep track of his to see if i could pick out which ones would be horribly murdered or maimed to generate his quest for revenge br br the acting doesn't really require much comment but charles the jamaican cop played by tom wright is really pretty good wright has considerable range here he's an associate of dubious allegiance rather sinister but in the pentagon wars he has a comic part that he underplays perfectly br br the never flew as movie villains i don't know why exactly it's a small movie market and if you go to stick to bay however if you want to see jamaican voodoo drug dealers as heavies and if you're in the mood for another typical standard action flick this should be a satisfying view
0	so seagal plays a dea detective named john hatcher who lost his partner on a drug investigation into surprise surprise colombia not to brag or anything but my father was born and raised in colombia hence my last name and now he's a doctor in california so no matter what the movies would have you believe there are some things other than drug dealers and cocaine that come out of colombia br br at any rate in a drug bust gone bad hatcher loses his partner and accidentally kills a naked colombian prostitute inspiring him to go to confession somewhere that i have never seen him go before in any of his movies before or since it was actually pretty interesting seagal has a tendency to come off as almost asexual the way he never gets much involved with women other than as a plot device and the way the occasional seduction attempt whether by a stripper or by a lover never the slightest bit of interest from him he's all get the bad guys all the time br br but in the confession booth he confesses to having lied sold drugs evidence and even slept with informants in order to get the information he needed to put the bad guys behind bars i hope i'm not getting in trouble with god by telling you the priest tells him to go to his family so he decides it's time to retire from the force br br the next third of the movie is an exercise in the paper thin characterization characteristic of seagal's films marked for death is the story of seagal against a band of mystic jamaican drug dealers and these guys have no discretions about pushing their products in broad daylight br br hatcher goes back to visit his old high school coach max a minimal effort by keith david and right in the middle of practice there are some of these dread locked sitting right there in the bleachers crack to some bookworm looking high school girls br br maybe i just had a sheltered experience in high school but i didn't know crack dealers and hung out at school in the middle of the day at any rate it's not long before hatcher learns how evil these guys are they're not just crack to high school kids but the coach has been losing football players regularly to their drugs they engage in stare downs with max and since that's not enough his 13 year old niece died in their br br ah ok we get the picture i'm sure they also torture puppies and beat up old women and maybe steal candy from children too just for good measure is it really this hard to establish who the bad guys are 13 year old niece died in their wow br br anyway not only does the movie not know how to develop villains without resorting to what basically boils down to movie name calling where evil deeds are shallowly assigned to them through dialogue but they also don't know how they should act br br the leader of the drug dealers is named and i suppose that alone should tell you something about the kind of movie this is is a cartoonish jamaican man with these bright bizarrely green eyes which i am guess must be an important part of his character because he spends a good majority of his screen time with his eyes half bulging out of his head his favorite means of intimidation is to scream really loud in his wildly overblown jamaican accent with his face quite literally less than an inch away from whoever he's yelling at this guy likes to get so into guys' faces that he has to turn his head to the side so their noses don't touch all i could think about was how the poor guys would deal with his breath br br man they do not want you to forget that these guys are jamaican by the way their accents are so exaggerated and overblown that for most of the movie it's nearly impossible to understand them not that it matters it doesn't matter what they're saying all you need to know is that everything that comes out of their mouths is some kind of evil drug related thing they're just the psychos that peddle drugs and kill people the movie must have been a huge hit in br br my biggest problem with the movie is that the theatrics particularly of the bad guys as i've described are spectacularly goofy even for a seagal film they are so cartoonish and weird that it's impossible to take them as anything other than a goofball b movie creation something slapped together to provide fodder to whom seagal can distribute his characteristic brand of smack down retribution br br but there is also a bizarre kind of mysticism in the movie that just makes it all come off as weird for example a mystic i guess you would call her at one point puts some kind of curse on by if i remember correctly spitting of onto a live rooster that's hanging upside down before beheading it and dripping its blood onto a picture of hmm interesting br br sadly it's this same woman that warns hatcher that his family has been marked for death by these people meaning they've got some voodoo hex on them not to belittle anyone but if i was told that my family had been cursed by people like that i would just laugh at it hatcher doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to take much stock in freaky voodoo curses br br but the set up as you can see is pretty standard for a seagal film unique villains i guess you could say although not very impressive definitely the weirdest film of seagal's early
0	marked for death 1990 spends more time on action sequences than it does with focusing on its characters after his first two impressive efforts above the law 1988 and hard to kill 1989 this third steven seagal picture makes the idea clear anyone who opposes him is meant to look like a fool the bad guys are just there to make him look good br br seagal had been steadily building an audience that seemed a bit larger than those that follow the kick 'em up antics of chuck norris or jean claude van damme br br in marked for death seagal tosses aside any pretense at style and heads full throttle into exploitation this film contains loads of graphic violence gore and nudity that seem to be there for no reason other than to please rowdy moviegoers who are unable to distinguish between action pictures that tell a story and those that simply pour on the thrills without rhyme or reason and he deserves some real blame for this lapse in taste as a producer of marked for death br br seagal plays john hatcher a retired dea agent who comes home to chicago where his family is being attacked by a jamaican street gang who attack his sister's house and the film proves that it isn't squeamish when hatcher's niece danielle harris is shot in the crossfire hatcher gets mad and he decides to team up with his old friend max keith david a school gym teacher and charles tom wright a jamaican cop br br naturally hatcher declares war on the chief bad guy a dread locked jamaican voodoo priest called basil wallace a nickname that apparently means outrageous overacting br br and it is almost unbelievable in the way seagal picks off various members of the gang he gouges one guy's eyeball he breaks a guy's back and he breaks numerous arms and limbs br br all logic for this movie is thrown out the window through the glass that is why aren't hatcher and friends indicted for all the property damage they cause or the body count that piles up and how did they get their cache of automatic weapons from illinois to by plane without being detected br br seagal has a clint eastwood stoicism about him that fans once seemed to enjoy and despite the three different characters he's played in as many films each dresses in oriental black and wears a ponytail one of the problems that i have with some of seagal's movies is that the main characters never seem to be in serious jeopardy and because he's the star of course no one can lay a glove on him except for the bad guy br br seagal's heroes are all interchangeable as are most of the plot lines and action sequences regardless of whether he's masquerading as a ship's cook a fire fighter or an l a cop wearing love beads seagal is always seagal which is exactly what his fans want in fact the of these films is such that if i wanted to i could take an old review change the names and have a reasonably accurate take on the new movie not that i'd ever really do that
0	just finished watching this movie as it were playing on tv and i did'nt have anything else to do went right here to imdb too look on the trivia page and happened to glance at the user comments and what do i find every dumb idiot raises this movie to the sky i would'nt even have written anything but when no one else takes the time to spread the word about this suck ass movie i thought that i could br br the acting sucked from pretty much everyone in the cast the worst one was the guy playing brian wilson think i got the name right as he were overacting especially when he was high the rest was'nt as bad as him but no one was good neither i ain't no expert on the beach boys though so cant really complain on the story that much except it sucked though no motivation for any of the characters decisions most of the time but hey maybe they were idiots in real life to and what i found worst was that i thought it were going to be a movie about the beach boys but you really only got a grip about a few of the characters i hate when they do that in movies same thing in the doors even though i like that movie more don't have any energy left to write more it sucked don't buy or watch it
0	i love the beach boys and their music so being that i am a filmmaker i thought wow a beach boys movie sounds great well wrong i just actually turned off hdnet the channel the movie was playing on because it was so bad someone above mentioned about editing well they should have at least looked at the monitors while they were filming i don't know if anyone else caught the mustache falling off the face of one of the guys after he kissed his wife and then he it back on with his hands ever heard of re taking a scene acting was terrible direction was terrible make up was terrible possibly the worst make up job i have ever seen brian wilson's fat looked like pl ado br br this is honestly the first time i have ever commented on imdb and i know it really doesn't make a difference but come on what the hell were the producers thinking
0	another movie that makes the story of the beach boys worse than it is i especially remember the scene when brian says he's to quit touring and the other boys calls him traitor i didn't happen like that and like the movie indicates in the beginning is that some scenes are over reacted a movie about the beach boys doesn't have to be that way because a lot of things happened anyway the sad thing is that this movie gives the wrong picture about the boys to those who ain't so familiar with the group hard core fans like myself knew that this isn't the entire true story and that's why i gave it a low rating 3 however it is the best movie about the beach boys i've seen so far that says quite a bit about the other movies if you want the truth i recommend the documentary endless harmony
0	while not truly terrible this movie is still largely a waste of time and paints an incredibly inaccurate and revisionist picture of beach boys history br br basically this movie would have you believe that mike love was the brains behind the band and brian wilson was just a pathetic psycho in fact none of the characters is developed beyond a one dimensional parody but this is a tv movie so what do you expect mike love's foul stench is all over this turkey as he attempts to re write history with himself in the role of band figurehead and resident genius yeah as if br br on the plus side the music is excellent unlike the previous beach boys made for tv bio pic summer dreams this movie actually features real beach boys music rather than anemic cover versions also it features a surprising number of beach boys related rarities and seldom heard tracks the i live for the sun being but one example br br this movie was originally shown in two parts on american network tv part one is the superior of the two and documents the boys early days and rise to the top by the time part two rolls around the brian wilson character has become a mere cartoon and the actor seems to be playing for laughs but how could anyone take this crap seriously if you're not a beach boys fan you probably won't get much out of this movie except an extremely warped and one sided view of the band's history but then again why would you watch this if you weren't a fan
0	you would think that a film that starred three of the biggest male film stars of the post world war ii era would have become a classic these three who also happen to be three favorites of mine walk around in a daze looking like they'd rather be any place but there br br the sad thing is that the way west definitely had some potential to be a classic in these days of political correctness a film about american pioneers and the travails of their migration is something not done now it should have been better done back then br br kirk douglas is a former united states senator who's heading a wagon train west to build a settlement in valley being he's an ex politician he rates above the hoi he's leading the script calls for him to have not only a covered wagon but a carriage to lead the train br br you think that's ludicrous you ought to see the whipping scene where douglas orders his black servant played by roy glenn to whip him i won't spoil it by saying what causes douglas to demand this of glenn but trust me it's bad br br robert mitchum is the trail guide and of the three stars he looks the most bored there was supposed to be considerable friction on the set between widmark and douglas but mitchum just through the film above it all br br maybe the friction helped somewhat because the movie calls for douglas a widower to have an eye on mrs widmark played by lola albright now she's the best looking thing in the movie br br the film billing says introducing sally field this was made in between her gidget and her flying nun days she plays a piece of white southern trash with the musical comedy name of mercy we first see her in the movie sitting on the back of her parents wagon legs akimbo and inviting of course she gets taken up on her invitation br br her character is something like what's found in every trailer park in america and then again what was a wagon train but one large trailer park on the move br br despite this film sally field went on to a two oscar career what that woman had to overcome br br victor mclaglen's son andrew directed this item and together with a lousy script turned this into a turgid mess shame on andrew mclaglen he's certainly done better in his career br br and so will you unless you're a stargazer
0	this oddity contains bunuel like touches but doesn't sustain one's interest a 10 year old roams a bizarro america in a stolen mustang while the usual cult movie suspects dick miller mary woronov susie tyrell commit malicious acts in the name of comedy like his after hours and vampire's kiss the screenwriter delights in making you squirm i remained unaffected due to the broad acting you know you're in for it when meat loaf and flea give the most appealing and what did this kid's screen test look like he's insufferable recommended to the dozen or so fans of sonny boy '87
0	the only reason i checked this film out was to see the early kim bassinger that and the fact that my tv guide said it was a gripping suspense and it was three star rated the rating must have come from the man who wrote this drivel because the only suspense in this movie was whether i would finish it or not robert culp turns in what has to be the disaster of his career as a cop who is not even close to being believeable at one point everybody is a suspect including a frail old woman if you want to deliberately set out to watch a badly written badly directed badly acted movie then go for it it may make you appreciate fine films by comparison i wish i had that hour and thirty six minutes back
0	spoilers this movie called eaten alive here in the uk is quite possibly the worst film ever made and is brilliant just for that a sexy rich girl teams up with a rugged action man to search for her sister in the new guinea jungle what follows is an unspeakably crap mixture of cannibalism insane cults and religious maniacs that has to be seen to be believed the cannibalism scenes are quite horrific but are so badly staged and acted that they prove quite amusing the cast are awful except for janet as the female lead who is excellent look out for the scene where she is stripped naked and covered with gold paint my rating 1 out of 10
0	barf yuk yuk disgusting puke city worst piece of junk ever made sick weird horrible enough said hold your nose don't eat after seeing this sick demented garbage pail of a movie you won't be able to eat your food for a week but maybe that's good a new diet has been invented go to see this vomit inducing film get sick to your stomach and you will be so turned off by the whole mess that you can't eat for at least a week and you drop about 15 pounds br br me me lay with a name like this it's really amazing that she doesn't have a cult fan following she rates as the worst actress ever her films make ed woods look like gone with the wind this movie rates a minus 10
0	i recently viewed a copy of this under the title 'eaten alive' talk about dreadful any movie ed wood ever put out looks like oscar material compared to this laughable tosh to be fair a couple of lines from the script will live long in the memory such as these people cannibals don't buy frozen meat from a supermarket like us they get it fresh everyday from folk like you or me classic the mad type leader out in the jungle was the best character in the film he really did look like a nutter i think he was the only actor not to be dubbed in badly if these italians must have american characters in their films why dont they get americans to dub in the dialogue instead of english people trying their best to sound like annie oakley i'll give this 3 out of 10 i'll give it three because it really is funnier than most comedies out these days
0	why is it that in the '50s and '60s italians made so of the best movies and then during the '70s and '80s made nothing but zombie and cannibal movies probably because art films didn't make any money the cannibal movie unlike the zombie movie which was created by americans and by italians is a purely italian creation designed as a mondo exploitation showcase and to make as much money as possible no artistic integrity getting in the way here eaten alive came during the cannibal movie heyday the director umberto hadn't even hit his stride yet his genre classic cannibal ferox was still a year away br br in plotting similar to read ripped off from ruggero deodato's seminal cannibal classic cannibal holocaust a woman janet receives word from the police that they've received a 8mm film from her sister she's gone missing in africa and it's suspected that the tribal ritual depicted on the film may have something to do with it mel ferrer as a professor of tells her that a man named jonas ivan rassimov has started a jonestown like cult in new guinea and that's where the sister is the woman hires a guide robert to take her through the jungle to find the cult and her sister and wouldn't you know it the jungle is full of cannibals br br one sentence should sum it up if you've seen on cannibal movie you've seen them all mostly because these films steal shamelessly from each other copied cannibal holocaust to make this film and retooled this to make cannibal ferox deodato copied parts of this for hit and run and because they all share the same material they all feature the same traits awful photography boring scenery terrible dubbing overacting and exploitation exploitation exploitation genre fans will have a ball since everyone in it is a genre veteran rassimov and have a scenery eating contest exists solely to be naked raped or in peril plenty o' gore for all the sickos out there the cannibals who do actually appear to be native cannibals eat lunch met disguised as human flesh and in the grand tradition of cannibal movies any live animal shown onscreen is usually killed shortly thereafter overall really not a good experience but i'm sure there are psychopaths out there who find this excrement entertaining i know i did
0	umberto hits new lows with this recycled trash janet plays a lady who is looking for her missing sister it turns out the sister is part of a jim jones type religous cult in new guinea she hires a scruffy guide played by robert to help her get to the cult's compound located in the jungle this is another cannibal movie and i probably would have liked it if not for padding this film out with scenes from his superior the man from deep river i mean every cannibal scene is directly lifted from this film which i guess makes him about as credible as al adamson i felt ripped off spoiler 1 2 star and that's for the dildo scene
0	this movie contains real animals been killed like a monkey been eaten by a snake and an been cut open i find this totally deranged and sick and seriously question the mental health of the director of this trash br br this movie is so stupid and daft that it has no logic at all br br there is a lot of boobs and sex in this movie still don't bother viewing this trash for that if you want to see boobs and sex watch a porno instead there is also rape scenes in this movie which i found disgusting like women been raped and cut up and eaten this movie is for sadists and those who get their kicks seeing people been cut up and eaten br br a lot of the animals like the monkey that appeared in this movie there is none in the jungles of new guinea the local characters most of them appeared to be asian and none look like they come from new guinea it looks like this movie was made around the grounds of a resort which i bet it was br br stay away from this trash its sick and deranged
0	a snore gore i saw this piece of horrible stinking worthless junk at the cameo movie house now the famous night club on washington avenue on south beach in 1980 or 81 i was 17 and my three buddies and i laughed at this horrible gross piece of trash the theater was on it's last legs and there were mostly drunks snoring and sleeping in the place they didn't miss a darn thing the worst acting ever these actors deserve the academy award for the worst and i mean worst acting roles in the history of the cinema joke was the theater was showing another mi mi lay a great name at least stinker barf city enough said if you're under 12 years old you might get a few chills over 12 you will be snoring after the opening credits it's just amazing that anyone spent a cent on making this movie and to think it's considered a cult classic yuk
0	eaten alive goes down much easier than ruggero deodato's cannibal holocaust but it's also a far more sillier film i mean at times it can be unintentionally hilarious but the plot is so mind numbingly idiotic that it was impossible for me not to lose all patience by the end tough guy robert cannibal holocaust teams up with janet the gates of hell here with an intolerable accent to search the jungles of new guinea for sister who's been brainwashed by the leader of a religious cult ivan rassimov along the way they fall witness to sometimes real animal torture and some cheesily rendered cannibalism as directed by umberto the movie is so over the top it's hard to take seriously but if you enjoy trash cinema with more than a few unintentional laughs it's not bad br br 4 10
0	eaten alive plays out like a bad rehearsal for the following year's cannibal ferox the characters are universally bland the locations are criminally under utilized there's no attempt to create tension or suspense the physical effects are either laughably bad or shamelessly stolen from other movies and the ubiquitous tribal rape scenes are barely worthy of a pg 13 even the scenes of animal are more tedious than usual the only mildly shocking scene involves crazy jonas going a bit goldfinger wielding a blood soaked dildo a scene that is just plain bizarre rather than graphic my beloved wife she of the 'romeo and juliet collector's watched this movie without so much as a wince of disgust and it calls itself a cannibal movie all in all a pretty lame effort that thoroughly betrays the cannibal tradition cannibal ferox follow up is a far superior example of the genre
0	a 10 year old kid fed up with his parents arguing decides to hot wire a car and go on a surreal journey across america to find cards which is a gas station card game that if he can find to spell out he has a chance to win 500 million dollars he meets many bizarre characters along the way no one can make an cult classic' joe previous after hours achieved that by sheer merit an amazing director but it wasn't instant this movie on the other hand is just bizarre just to be bizarre no rhyme or reason to any of it the plot is incidental at best and seems to exist just to showcase various cameos it's just not a fun film nor a thoughtful one it's way too slapped together i've heard many comparisons between this and david lynch films that's damn near heresy as even lynch's 'worst' film worst in quotes as he doesn't have an bad films really is still miles above this dreck br br eye candy cynthia king is topless very briefly br br dvd extras trailer for joe
0	largely forgettable tale in which mercenary employer travel into the jungle in search of missing sister br br despite its connection to the cannibal movie family this film is more of an extreme version of rene guyana crime of the century clearly aims to exploit the at that time topical jonestown massacre by depicting a rogue self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion with sister in toe attempt to stop the rot but after several failed coups they end up fleeing into the green inferno only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites br br one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others but with much less success br br was it the so called amazonian natives who looked like they were bollywood rejects this film was made on location in sri lanka or the inept decapitation and castration scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in cannibal holocaust you can decide without spoiling the conclusion it appeared as though put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending where all loose ends are resolved most unsatisfying br br as with the others where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited thankfully the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks unfortunately the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk that deal with the subject matter more convincingly br br if there are any redeemable features at all is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man and his bevy of scantily clad co stars lai and provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings
0	i love umberto lenzi's cop movies rome armed to the teeth is my favorite and his desert commandos pretty much the italian euro war phenomenon by managing to actually be a pretty good movie give him guns machines some guys to run around talking tough and it's hard for him to miss br br what a shame it is then to encounter his eaten alive and cannibal ferox they could have been by anybody really and one watches them with a sense that he was under contract was told what kind of films to make was assigned a cast crew and given a budget deadline and script then went out and executed his films the same way that a guy at mcdonald's fixes a batch of french fries of the two eaten alive is the more original which is kind of amazing considering that it features extensive footage copped from three other cannibal movies and easier to enjoy than cannibal ferox though not much br br i will let others outline the plot what fascinated me about the film is how staged it all looks and yet what a somewhat infamous reputation this film has as some sort of all out assault on good taste it isn't though the film is an exercise in bad taste complete with a title earning scene where two of the pretty supporting ladies are quite literally sliced up and eaten alive by cannibals which is the film's high point the problem is that lets us get a good long look at the cannibal feast scene and it has the convincing ring of a 3rd season star trek episode complete with a fake jungle set for the really gory close up shots and i don't know about anyone else but if someone was slicing off pieces of my person and eating them i wouldn't just lie there and look distressed br br my problem with the film might be that i have a lot of respect for as a filmmaker and again this could have been directed by anybody all of your cannibal movie conventions are touched on but it never feels like they are filmed with any real conviction other than to try and bully ruggero deodato out of the sandbox the two directors certainly must have known each other and either had a sort of juvenile rivalry or an actual dislike for each other's work and a conscious need to upstage them invented the cannibal genre with man from deep river deodato blew it away with jungle holocaust fired back with eaten alive deodato blew him and everyone else away with the superior cannibal holocaust and fired a last parting salvo with cannibal ferox which is about as realistic as that krazy commercial where the guy his hardhat to a and hangs in midair br br this film is less desperate and a bit more hesitant to push viewers into the abyss with everything holy than ferox which remains as a sort of misguided attempt to upstage cannibal holocaust this one is more of a mish mash with an interesting jungle adventure crossed with a jim jones like suicide cult the cannibals seem like they were added as an afterthought rather than the reason for making the film i think that fans of the genre will have a better impression of the film than fans of lenzi's films looking for something new by the formidable director it isn't as entertaining as slave of the cannibal god adventurous as his own man from deep river and certainly lacks the wallop of cannibal holocaust combine those considerations with the recycled footage stomach churning scenes of animal violence misogynistic scenes of sexual violence and stagy wooden methodology of film making and what you get ends up being an ok jungle thriller with two or three standout scenes and umberto was capable of so much more br br 4 10 gore freaks will go nuts however
0	an asian assassin takes out victims in niagara falls and new york city before getting run over by a car sheila morris former miss sweden janet given a hilarious southern belle dub to show she's from alabama finds a connection between these killings and the disappearance of her sister diana paola and sets out to investigate this brings her to new guinea where she promises a sleazy guide robert i e american porn star r bolla 80 000 dollars to help locate her sister after barely making it through a jungle full of bloodthirsty cannibals they finally locate diana who's under the control of jim jones type cult leader jonas melvyn ivan rassimov jonas does the typical mad guru style things like passing out lsd initiating group suicide threatening to kill anyone who disobeys him and raping with a giant dong dipped in cobra blood every once in awhile a character will look to the right or left and see a gory scene lifted directly from jungle holocaust or man from deep river both of which were also directed by i'm pretty sure they also use at least two scenes from cannibal holocaust as well here we get the expected animal slaughter scenes gutting a gator natives eating live snakes plus some additional nudity and a castration me me lai shows up to give her breast implants another workout playing a widow who is gang banged by three of her brother in laws on top of the ashes of her freshly cremated husband mel ferrer briefly appears as a professor and isn't given much to do br br so anyway with you pretty much get a promise fulfilled with all the nudity gore dead animals and bad taste you expect with one of these titles so if you're a sleaze hound by all means watch it personally i got bored with it about midway through and just wanted it to end the original heavily cut u s release in 1985 was titled the emerald jungle in order to trick people into thinking they were actually renting john boorman's emerald forest it was also called doomed to die and eaten alive by cannibals
0	eaten alive is a little film that opens in new york city and the arctic where tribe men shoot snake venom at a few people then a woman enters the police precinct who's trying to find her sister that has disappeared after 6 months sheila is from alabama but her accent sucks she is teamed up with an adventurer who seems to just want her money and seems to say it a lot throughout the film they venture through the amazon only to find a community with people and they find the sister they're confronted by a mad man who has probably seen one too many jim jones preaches he will bring them to a better place it could be heaven but no mark and sheila find out later its actually a suicide cult br br why do i call eaten alive a little film ill tell you but when i watched it i was floored through all the run ins with the cannibals robert has a different role than his professor in cannibal holocaust he's a bit annoying once we meet him at an arm wrestling match that looked like russian roulette we know hes one tough guy plus the strong misogyny just makes you cringe and it looked like i saw it somewhere oh the scenes of animals killing each other but the whole film revolves on those scenes its like were actually watching a images of nature with parts of a film but after watching this film i realized that most of the films scenes are taken from other cannibal films even the demise of 2 of the characters well most of the film is that's why i call this a little film when i did found out that scenes were borrowed i felt like throwing the disc across the room this isn't a film just a simple montage of sorts
0	one imdb reviewer calls eaten alive a passable film for the cannibal connoisseur are there such people i didn't know but if you are one of them hey have a ball the rest of you might find this tripe a bit hard to swallow pun intended even if like me you consider yourself a horror film connoisseur i have been an avid horror fan for about 15 years now although i never got around to the cannibal subgenre until a few weeks ago and i guess i owe my short lived interest in these groan inducing movies strangely enough to china's total disregard for copyright laws you see i bought a two disc dvd collection of all of wesley snipes' films for 20 yuan about 2 75 which turned out to include last cannibal world mountain of the cannibal god eaten alive cannibal holocaust next with nicholas cage and something called voodoo lagoon along with blade 1 3 in chinese nice br br being a second sequel i immediately got a sinking feeling when the movie opened with a cannibal in street clothes wandering around major american cities shooting unsuspecting americans with poison darts and then scrambling away at full speed having run out of ways to keep movie cannibals scary it seems that now they have made their way to the mainland later you may be shocked to learn that this guy is on a training exercise lock up your daughters br br before long the movie settles into the old missing sister routine as a young blonde woman named sheila begins her own investigation of the disappearance of her sister who looks nothing like her in any way but she's willing to spend most of the movie naked so i guess that doesn't matter it seems that after shooting one of his victims the hapless cannibal we met early in the movie not used to big city life ran into the road and was struck dead by a moving van br br the brilliant police force find a mysterious bit of film on him showing sheila's sister involved in some bizarre ritual behavior but other than the film the guy is a complete mystery as the piteous police chief laments we know nothing about him except that he's dead poor guy he must be getting a headache from all this i recommend a nap luckily sheila is the kind of girl who can throw around tens of thousands of dollars like it's nothing in the search for her sister perfect for hiring a plucky backwoods guide caricature since the police are clearly going to be no help br br obviously nothing new is added to this miniscule sub genre quite the contrary cannibalism almost seems like a background to a completely different kind of bad movie about the rescue of a missing person from the dangerous elements thickening the plot of that clothesline is not difficult all you have to do is add in a cartoonish jungle cult of people who follow some guy who calls himself jonas who believes in using pain as a way to reunite man with nature a process they call purification personally i prefer just peeing outside occasionally br br one of my favorite parts of the movie is when sheila is caught by one of the cult members an overweight guy who looks like he took a three day weekend from the office to appear in this movie as he pulls out his trusty medical kit to give her an injection he warns her if you don't believe in jonas and purification through pain god help you he then gives her a shot and when she winces from the tiny pinch he politely apologizes to her i sense a true believer in this guy br br as far as the gore there are plenty of nasty sound effects over random shots of animals getting slaughtered and more than enough disgusting footage of women being cut up and eaten alive so i guess right there the movie lives up to its name the acting is astonishingly bad as can be expected and interestingly enough the editing is also spectacularly botched but still strangely effective br br unfortunately i think you have to be able to relate to people who believe in utterly insane cults in order to relate to anyone in the movie there are plenty of outlandish religious ceremonies that take place which make it more and more difficult to understand why sheila's sister decided to turn her back on normal society i'm all for individualism and doing your own thing but come on br br after a while the movie descends even further into your basic run of the mill escape movie just before we witness the most wildly inappropriate rendition of glory glory hallelujah in film history wow br br note in this movie a woman is raped with a severed snake if you need any more reason never to watch it seek professional help avoid this mess at all costs
0	eaten alive follows a young woman janet who searches for her lost sister turns out her sister have joined a sect that has disappeared into the jungles of borneo with vietnam veteran mark at her side she sets off to find her sister br br as per usual the acting isn't of the highest quality but you do get cannibal flick poster girl me me lai spending most of the time on screen with her breast bare female lead janet covered in gold paint and abused with a dildo dipped in snake blood among other things now that's gotta count for something br br but i must say that i find it bit hard to recommend this title if you are fan of the genre you will most likely recognize every gore scene in the movie bar a select few and i mean that literally a lot of the gore scenes are lifted straight out other cannibal movies like man from deep river and last cannibal world there's probably more movies stuck in there br br ultimately this is one for die hard fans to check off their list if you haven't seen any italian jungle movies you'd be better off watching cannibal holocaust and if you're an avid fan you have seen most of the gore scenes in other movies
0	personally i didn't really gain a whole lot from the act of seeing with one's own eyes i've noticed a lot of really highly rated reviews on here for the film and i'm kinda surprised maybe i missed something that other reviewers felt moved by but i found the film pretty tedious and basically pointless br br the action of the film is a bunch of autopsy footage that is filmed in an art house style lots of extreme close ups weird editing etc and with no sound or dialogue br br i guess the act of seeing with one's own eyes could be considered a study of human anatomy or maybe if you really wanna dig a little some sort of comment on the fragility of humanity or whatever but i personally found it to be a bunch of semi interesting but ultimately dull autopsy footage if that's your thing then this will be a winner for you as for me i've seen more interesting er footage not a bad film as it isn't really a film in any traditional sense i just found nothing really notable about it 4 10
0	i didn't hate this one i just couldn't adapt to the story it didn't really grab me michael mann is a very good director but i have to disagree with his methods in this i'm also a fan of daniel day lewis some projects he's been in are pretty rubbish but his acting is brilliant my favourite daniel day lewis films are there will be blood and gangs of new york br br there is one thing i loved about this and that was the musical score it gave the film a lot of atmosphere thats about all i liked in it though this film has a high vote as well which is a bit random i can see that a fair few people will like this but not enough to make the overall rating 7 8 br br i would give this film a miss if i was you but there is a lot of high votes for this so i guess you should watch it and make your own views on what you think i didn't really like it 4 10 j d seaton
0	armed and dangerous is not one of the greats of john candy this film about a fired cop who ends up working for a small security system run by the mob is very weak and not very much a comedy there are some moments that i did enjoy like looking at candy in a pilot suit but it doesn't seem to matter much armed and dangerous is still a dangerously disappointing dud brought to us by the director of the equally dumb actioner commando what a sad excuse for a comedy br br 1 out of 5
0	john candy and eugene levy star as inept security guards who chase down a big time mobster inept is truly the right word for this alleged comedy a few laughs but mostly groans and thoughts to yourself like why am i watching this c p yes that is meg ryan in this too which i am sure she doesnt want to be reminded of a waste of a talented cast on a scale of one to ten 0
0	sigh i'm baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design seen many times before the whole weak tim burton ish style and the story that goes nowhere and we got the joke about shooting the crows with the 45 the first time alright br br but i guess what's really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa 1999 called lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge as any quick internet search will reveal i mean what is this this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake as don cherry might say
0	it's really too bad that john candy wasted his skills on so many horrible films delirious wagons east who's harry etc this one has maybe a few chuckles but it's mostly just really bad one liners and dumb physical stuff let's honor this comedian's memory by remembering things like planes trains automobiles and uncle buck
0	i'm a fan of the old sctv show from the late 70's and early 80's and john candy was a major reason why he was given very funny off the wall characters and was simply hilarious unfortunately he could not get these roles to play in the movies time after time i was disappointed by the mediocre movies in which he was almost playing the straight role instead of the funny guy armed and dangerous rarely tries to use john's comedic abilities or that of harold ramis for that matter it is simply a very predictable cops and robbers type of movie if you are a john candy or harold ramis fan the movie is watchable just don't expect to laugh much
0	i saw this movie with a friend who ran a marathon with me and we both had the same feeling about it it wasn't terribly motivating and didn't even broach the idea of what a training schedule would look like so that non could have an idea of what it would take for them to train and run one in fact there was almost zero technical information at all i didn't expect this to be a tech heavy instructional video but when that info was near zero then the film just wasn't balanced and wasn't particularly useful to non contemplating their first run br br there were other problems some of the very first images were people collapsing near death while trying to run a race yeah real inspiring the timing was also hard to follow because it was semi chronological but the filmmakers rarely gave you any good clues as to what point in time you were looking at and they withheld information you see that has an injury and you just assume it's from all her training but then several scenes later they finally clue you in that it's because she tripped over a pine cone in her yard br br some parts were very good though like the bit about a woman defying race officials who wanted the run to be men only and the coverage of a chicago race where two of the runners portrayed earlier were vying for first place br br off the top of my head i'm thinking of other chronological documentaries like supersize me and grass where you always know where you are and you feel like they told you everything you wanted to know br br in short it wouldn't have been hard to make a better marathon film and as it stands i can't recommend this to non to educate and motivate them to try one because i don't think it will have that effect
0	as a serious i was seriously disappointed in this film its target audience is clearly those who have never run a marathon or novice following the stories of 2 first time one senior one injured runner and two elites as they prepare for the chicago marathon the film dedicates the majority of its attention to one female beginner whose story is for lack of a better word boring while i did enjoy the brief glimpses into the training sessions of the brief history of the boston marathon and in general let me emphasize these were brief watching some joe runners prepare for a saturday run with their water bottles and talking about how they view the marathon is not inspiring and the nonstop clichés about achievement and feel good grinning runners will make you wish the film were about an hour shorter if you are a first time this film may give you a feeling of i can do it for anyone else run away
0	honestly this short film sucks the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven't made up my mind if this helps or hinders it if the film was a little grainy it might have added some creepiness factor to what was going on i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others are more shocking than in aftermath all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull this is an expensive beautifully filmed turd it's not that shocking it's not that disgusting if you insist on viewing it rent it i give it a 3 for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos the filming is good and it does have some gore if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore but other than that absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess on the other hand genesis sequel to aftermath now available as a double feature released by unearthed films is an absolute masterpiece of a short film really showing what a good director really is when given the right material although i don't care for aftermath at all genesis is so well made that i will forgive and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future
0	ok so this is about 30 minutes of gore with no story whatsoever there is no spoken dialogue no subtitles not even any real characters you see three people in the entire movie that are alive and two are just there for very little reason the main guy has no emotion and just mutilates corpses for no apparent reason that is the entire movie i love to see very gory movies especially since in america real gore just isn't very common in modern movies so yeah the gore effects were pretty cool but it just isn't really disturbing why does everyone think it's so disturbing there are no characters at all there are just 3 living people and 3 corpses no one has any personality or back story you see three corpses being hacked apart and you can't really identify with it unless you just identify with death itself and how this could very well happen despite the guy losing his job and going to jail very shortly after to be disturbing the viewer has to care and to care they have to identify with the victim for example in a good horror movie you should really care about the main character here it's just a guy and a corpse it's as deep as a puddle made from only a single rain drop they never give you any reason to care about anyone in the movie all it is a guy hacking up a few bodies then he has sex with a body now with the sex scene here is an odd thing about it he makes sure to wear gloves but doesn't use a condom so he couldn't care less about catching some weird std from having sex with a corpse but as long as his hands don't get messy there is no problem now that is really logical i don't really dislike the movie i liked that it was very gory but when it ends there is no reason to watch it again no reason to even care and it just isn't a very compelling movie i say if you can find it for under 10 dollars then you might as well get it but if it's more than that it just isn't worth it
0	this movie is not so good as i thought it would be there is no story whatsoever no characters and some dialog would have been nice the gore effects are good and it gets quite bloody at times but nothing over the top it starts with an autopsy on a man and when that is over the scene with the girl starts the music is a classic score and fits the movie very well they should have made a 90 minutes version in which they could have had some time for character development so we can feel sorry for the person on the autopsy table and some more info about the would have made this movie far scarier than it is don't expect a scary movie but a nice gory special effects reel
0	is there anything else on earth to be more enticing than to learn what expects our frail bodies after um death spanish director ignacio a soul mate of his german colleague jörg buttgereit provides blow by blow answer to our curiosity and invites us to an exciting journey in the world of preparation tables scalpels surgical saws human entrails and warped minds br br welcome to the autopsy room br br i don't know which facets of the film apart of its notorious reputation may have helped it to acquire sufficiently high rating br br storywise it's fairly simple and straightforward a day in the life actually half an hour of a troubled coroner or perhaps assistant pathologist or whoever he is that is fed up with his routine morbid duty and discharges his psychological tension in a non traditional fashion right at his workplace i'm perplexed of what particular message the authors tried to deliver with this one note plot i suspect it may be somehow inspired by udo character's quirky demeanor in andy warhol's frankenstein br br artistic values of the film are also questionable it's hard to evaluate the performance of the actors that don't squeeze a single word their emotions are concealed behind the medical masks there's also not enough room for great camera work basically the entire action unfolds mostly within four walls br br authenticity effects and makeup are impressive and the setup looks very plausible but only a handful of medical forensic experts can judge how truthful and anatomically correct the dissection is carried out here if anyone cares honestly i used to think that the autopsy is done to examine the condition of particular organs and to ascertain the cause of death now i know that dead bodies are severed raped and humiliated intestines are ripped apart brains are retrieved from the head stuffed into abdomen and mixed with guts then the body is stitched back and washed nothing personal and what are these poor lads expected to write in their deceitful autopsy reports afterward br br shock and disgust factor it's much unlikely that an unsuspecting viewer would discover to his horror that the disc he was intended to watch with his wife and kids beside a christmas tree turns out to be a graphic video manual on vivisection this obscure item is barely available sought by people well familiar with the subject and not easily offended hence it would be pointless to warn anyone to sabotage this film they are well aware what exactly they are watching and what they want to see br br is really gifted and stylish director which is clearly obvious from at least two other parts of his trilogy preceding 'the awakening' amazing black and white short and 30 minute visually stunning and moody piece with an off beat and interesting concept and i'm pretty sure that one day he will conquer the hearts of moviegoers with his new more mainstream oriented material and sooner or later would become a rarity for the meticulous collectors of his early warm up works br br but in the meantime i'm afraid it may be recommended strictly for medical students or specialists that study mental disorders and sexual deviations
0	don't worry no spoilers here just saying there is a very predictable plot a couple decide to live in his father's love nest so they can write a book article newsletter on his fling with a famous tragic hollywood starlet this whole production ran kind of like a high school troupe doing an episode of murder she wrote the only acting i was sold on was the old they interviewed for sources in the story apparently the directors thought the movie was getting too long so towards the end they stopped pointing their camera to a kind of creepy image of the starlet and brought in plot enhancers to wrap this thing up don't waste your time even the tried and true horror intrigue classics fail in this movie
0	the 70s were without a doubt the golden age of made for tv horror this is one of those that was probably churned out as an abc movie of the week it's the old story of a house and or ghost possessing one of the new owners the movie has promise but it's never realized everything is rushed too much tension and suspense need time to build and grow and there's nothing new we've seen it all before and one better br br one final thought i don't understand why robert wagner's character would fall for the long dead movie star when he's married to kate jackson for goodness sake
0	you may like tim burton's fantasies but not in a commercial like show off lasting 8 minutes it demonstrates good technical points without real creativity or some established narrative pace
0	attractive husband and wife writing team robert wagner as joel gregory and kate jackson as donna gregory arrive at the spooky mansion of actress lorna love actually silent film star harold lloyd's house mr wagner and ms jackson are contracted to write the silent movie star's biography wagner has a personal interest in the project since his father was once the famed star's lover mysterious events unfold and jackson must fight to save her husband from the spirit of the beautiful blonde who is perfectly preserved in a crypt on the estate moreover the evil woman seems bent on possessing her husband and murdering jackson br br this is very much a night of dark shadows variation co starring genuine dark shadows alumni kate jackson who knows and plays her part well robert wagner lacks david selby's intensity sylvia sidney as mrs josephs sidesteps grayson hall hill is not a match for lara parker or diana bill macy as oscar payne is good in a part that would have been played by john in a dan curtis production br br there are smooth cameos by joan blondell john carradine and dorothy lamour ms delivery resembles joan bennett which begs the question why didn't producer aaron spelling get more of the original dark shadows regulars br br director e w was bridget husband he worked with ms blondell on here come the brides and with jackson on the rookies death at love house has arguably a tighter storyline than the night of dark shadows film it differs in the movie star angle and in its father eternal fire ending it more closely resembles the laura the phoenix storyline br br death at love house 9 3 76 e w robert wagner kate jackson sylvia sidney
0	the cast of all that returns for good humor in the good burger a place similar to an old fashioned fast food restaurant the comedy is terrific the fun is non stop and though cliché is a passer for kid and family comedy br br a movie for all ages this movie is meant to enjoy laugh and pretty much a lazy movie for a rainy day as that's what i'd save this movie for a rainy day usa aired it today and since i know that the cast of all that is in it i thought that it might be a bit of a chuckle burner but in good fun as keenan thompson and kel mitchell probably one of the best young duos of that time were terrific together the pieces came together and everything worked out and it made it into good family fun together with some lazy day work to get off the bad day br br may i take your order
0	ed kel mitchell is a teenager who lives for his job at good burger a small but friendly neighborhood hamburger stand while his buddy dexter thompson also works there but lack ed's single minded devotion to his job he's there because he accidentally destroyed the car of his teacher mr wheat sinbad and has to raise money to pay the damages when mondo burger a mammoth fast foot chain opens across the street it looks like good burger is history until ed formulates a secret sauce that brings hundreds of new customers to their door however the monomaniacal manager of mondo burger kurt jan is determined to get his hands on the sauce and put good burger out of business meanwhile ed and dexter must rescue otis abe vigoda the world's oldest fast food employee from the demented hills asylum and ed might just find love with monique jackson if he could take his mind off the burgers long enough to pay attention to her good burger is a comedy directed for kids decent story acting and overall a pretty harmless kids movie
0	this movie is about a man who likes to blow himself up on gas containers br br he also loves his mommy so to keep the money coming in he takes his act to broadway br br see cody powers jarrett blow himself up on his biggest gas container yet tonight 7 30pm br br however one day his mommy dies and jarrett goes berserk he kidnaps the audience in the theatre and makes them all stand on top of a huge gas cylinder br br losing control further he makes them all scream made it ma top of the cylinder in unison br br the noise is so deafening that it bursts eardrums causing him to topple from the cylinder into a vat of acid br br this warner bros movie is not all it's cracked up to be
0	it's been a long time since i have been in the art house theater and i went to see because it has gotten such great reviews in the papers br br the thing is with this movie is that it has no head or tail but merely a section in time about the life of the three main characters br br when it started i already knew that it was gonna be a long sit down but sometimes things can get better in this case not there is no real character development or interconnection between the players you start in the middle of a situation all of the sudden there's a girlfriend and then there's a guy with whom he needs to be friends with in order to fulfill his sports ambitions but the way they are put together is quite odd since they are just put together so it seems br br and all of the sudden they have sex with each other at least one you can see of the feeling of guilt or jealousy with the other guy is hardly noticeable and really all i could think of during the movie was when are they gonna have sex again and when you think of it it's quite insane really because it basically means there is nothing really worth looking at but three teens going at it and that for me at least makes it a very crappy movie stay clear from it and save your money my 50 is wasted there are better art house movies than this one br br i give three stars for the acting performance one each
0	i chose this movie because i was looking for a triangle friendship between a girl two boys as i lived this situation and get lost in it i hope a similar story would inspire me br br my major concerns are why a how b the triangle forms why c how d the triangle degenerates br br a the movie offers a plain answer because it's better br br b here it's an open triangle the three share things together mine was a closed one every ones knows the others but never the three are together or speak about the missing one br br c the movie doesn't offer spoken explanations but rather prefer visual emotional assumptions the end comes with sensuality sexuality coming up in the triangle or more accurately when for one member deep feelings are tied with intimacy and as for the latter and the former they can be divided i agree with that br br d in the movie in my story silence is the proof that something isn't well and in a ironic and painful way the tool for this sad times is always the phone i lived this dreadful planned phone call call me back i wait you … and when time comes the phone is a variation is also shown when the line is connected but one refuses to all those scenes were very very hard to see for me br br if the movie was a great help in that way he got also a lot of flaws br br i zapped on the boy's family problems br br why the shower scene on the dvd cover is cut on the movie br br how gets finally into the hotel br br is clément always seeing salomé he says no but has her address and who is the girl with him in the bar his girlfriend how can she knows about the address br br what finally happens to vanessa the ring at the final shoot is a proof of engagement with whom
0	other reviews have talked about how frank this film is especially in terms of male frontal nudity well those who've seen grande with its frequently naked actors and expect something similar are in for a big disappointment other than a few seconds in the judo team locker room the two leads' side by side shower lasts a grand total of 15 seconds the female lead has comparably brief frontal moments a lot of this film's marketing is geared to the gay male audience but those expecting even a hint of homoeroticism between the two male leads best friends who have a three way with the girlfriend of one of them will be most disappointed there is not even the hint of either one's being interested in the other or even scarcely aware that the other is part of the menage a trois as a film is curiously uninvolving the viewer gets very little sense of who these three young people are of how they are feeling of why they behave as they do about one hour of the original cut was deleted perhaps this is why the finished film seems frustratingly undeveloped stick with grande a french film which more than delivers on its promises
0	bronson took the money and ran with this film he must have house payments like me this low budget film made in mexico reminds me of a few of those italians stinkers from over seas i heard i do not know if this is true but companies make these films in foreign countries for tax purposes i believe this because why else would they make this film it sure wasn't to make money we had a whole lot of these canadian made stinkers because the government gave tax breaks to create a movie industry i wonder if it payed off in the other countries like in canada anyway back to topic this film is poorly made in every aspect i believe they grabbed charles bronson in order to sell this stinker that dead body at the end looks very phony 3 10
0	the evil that men do 1984 was one of the few non cannon films charlie bronson made during the 80's unlike most of the cannon films charlie starred in this one wasn't fun or entertaining charlie basically tortures and people for over an hour and a half if you thought he was mr emotion before wait until you see this br br in this one charlie goes to an unnamed central american country and shows the populace that whoever messes with chuck or his people have to pay the piper this one is no fun it's not cheesy or campy just brutal sadistic and not in a good way br br i didn't like this one i have no love for this film no recommendations because it's not worth watching maybe if they didn't cut the hell out of it watch with br br don't bother
0	the evil that men do begins with a truly repellent torture scene followed a little later by graphic verbal descriptions of equally repellent torture methods that the sadistic heartless villain likes to use but despite the use of such strictly for shock effects the filmmakers can't really cover up the fact that this is just a dull low grade bronson vehicle bronson himself is solid here but he should have chosen a better script
0	sigh i'm baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design seen many times before the whole weak tim burton ish style and the story that goes nowhere and we got the joke about shooting the crows with the 45 the first time alright br br but i guess what's really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa 1999 called lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge as any quick internet search will reveal i mean what is this this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake as don cherry might say
0	this is one of the few movies maybe the only that truly haunted me for years it was the first i had ever seen people tortured so much that blood was flowing of their mouths from gritting their teeth and screaming etc it was brutal the worst thing i had ever seen on film br br dr clement played by joseph mayer is still one of the most evil characters i've ever seen on film and i've viewed thousands he was so sadistic that i would never watch this movie again nor would i recommend it he makes hannibal lecter look like mr rogers if seeing people tortured is not your idea of fun then stay away from this film br br i know there are a lot of sick people out there many of them professional film critics who probably enjoyed this sordid sick story it's a b movie anyway with stupid dialog and some wooden acting by charles bronson this is not one of his better efforts even if it was there so many horrendous scenes in here you wouldn't want to watch trust me on this one
0	does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents one edition featured charles bronson robbie coltrane being interviewed about his new movie br br it's about a man an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner br br and after what next for bronson br br we're using a new angle my family don't get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same br br this accurately describes the evil that men do it's a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn't down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained br br bronson is a retired hit man who isn't giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of the doctor not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture it's never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents br br as you may guess it's a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor's sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included br br in many ways it's like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons believe me this movie won't be shown until well after the watershed
0	it's hard to believe that there are some people out there in the world that actually think this is a worthy charles bronson vehicle br br bronson is a good actor that can do more than tote a gun and knock off bad guys he was quietly moving in the tv movie yes virginia there is a santa claus and showed a lot of class and style in the sean penn directed the indian runner br br in the evil that men do however bronson again plays a character that sees injustice and sets it right with fists knives and of course guns there's nothing here you haven't seen in the last five death wish flicks br br wait i take that back this has to be the most sadistic and repellently violent film bronson has ever had the dis service of being in not just repellent in the scenes of torture or the descriptions of torture but in the fact that these scenes were put in a film just to sell tickets and jose ferrer what in blue blazes was he doing here i mean he won an oscar for crying out loud br br okay sorry about that outburst let me just say that the evil that men do has to be one of the worst movies i had ever seen that was based on a book yeah that's right i wonder if it was written with bronson in mind br br no stars watch death wish instead at least it was topical
0	once again bronson's talent is mostly wasted on this shock value 1984 thriller which uncut is far more disturbing than most of what is out even today the fact that the evil that men do is very disturbing in its verbal and visual depictions of torture is not the problem it is the shameless gratuity in which it is presented interestingly this film seems to symbolize that latter part of bronson's career in which he has tortured many of his fans with the same predictable and uncreative plots one hopes this fine actor will rise again
0	yet again director j lee thompson unites with actor charles bronson for a violent and uncompromising action flick in fact this is probably bronson's most brutal film quite a feat for a man who appeared in death wish ten to midnight and chato's land however brutality doesn't on its own make for a good film and the evil that men do is ultimately a disappointment if you were to take away its brutality the film would have precious little else of interest br br the story is about a retired hitman bronson who lives a cosy life on a caribbean island he is persuaded to come out of retirement to track down and eliminate a sadistic torture doctor who has been plying his vile trade around various south american hell holes throughout the film especially at the beginning we are treated to some graphic torture scenes to show us just what a nasty piece of work he is br br these themes are actually quite serious torture does go on in latin american dictatorships and everyday folk are made to suffer some despicably painful experiences simply for voicing an unpopular viewpoint but the evil that men do for all its worthy posturing isn't really bothered about the plight of these poor people it is bothered purely with giving charles bronson an excuse to blow away some unpleasant scum bags it's just an exploitative actioner which hangs its coat on genuine issues the torture sequences make you the viewer feel like a dirty sick in the head voyeur rather like someone who gains pleasure from viewing snuff movies the script is full of horrid dialogue including some excessive descriptions of acts of torture the evil that men do fails to explore its disturbing ideas its serves them up as entertainment and asks us to enjoy them sorry but that's just wrong
0	during an eight year stretch of the 1980s when charles bronson made nine films only one was released by a company other than the cannon group 'the evil that men do ' a tristar films pickup from sir lew grade's itc entertainment firm bronson was already in the thick of his collaborations with director j lee thompson which ran through numerous actioners until forbidden in 1989 br br expectations should run pretty high with bronson and thompson working for a better funded outfit like itc but 'the evil that man do' is a great disappointment on many levels while still from the low budget b movie mold of the 1980s 'evil' has tantalizing potential for a great film everyone in the production department however took an easy way out and sold hack work undeserving of bronson's imprint 'the evil that men do' had a concept and technical resources that could have been used to make one of bronson and thompson's best films but instead will go down as one of their most average br br this 1984 political thriller actioner opens in brutal fashion with clement joseph maher a british doctor holding his special training class for political leaders in the gray haired passive is an expert on torture methods who is employed by numerous political regimes in the opening seven minutes we witness using electrical current to inflict unbearable pain on jorge hidalgo jorge humberto a dissident journalist as you may expect the scene is awful to watch and was cut from the original vhs release br br hidalgo was none other than a friend of holland bronson a retired assassin who is enjoying life in the cayman islands holland was approached by the journalist years before to rid humanity of but turned the offer down a mexican professor named hector josé ferrer visits shortly after death to talk holland into finishing the job bringing videotapes of testimony from the doctor's victims while in denial at first holland eventually agrees to the dirty work targeting and his doting sister claire antoinette in guatemala br br holland enters guatemala city with help from an adviser max ortiz rené he poses as a tourist with widow theresa saldana and young daughter sarah amanda nicole thomas in tow as with most of bronson's later output his character knocks off henchmen one by one crossing paths with a sleazy american diplomat john glover and his supporting hit man roger along the way a brutal ending takes place in the crevices of an mine where the doctor gets just deserts from several of his victims br br 'the evil that men do' is based on a forgotten novel by r lance hill and jumps at american political dealings in latin america during the 1980s indeed 'evil' is hard boiled in every sense of the term as it uses sensationalism and doses of brutality to cover up huge weaknesses in plot and character development for every plus this film has there are three or four minuses resulting from shod craftsmanship br br while 'the evil that men do' has a great concept the film is never truly more than an excuse for bronson to wipe out foreign based scum in the style of bad pulp fiction 'evil' is filled with cardboard characters that we never get to know or understand holland despite being played strongly by bronson never talks about his inner feelings or explains what motivated him into becoming a killer for hire a terribly weak part for theresa saldana is disgusted by holland for much of the way but later feels an affection for him where does her love come from especially after watching holland kill several people and wanting to go home just a few scenes before br br the most interesting characters are actually and his sister claire because so many questions can be asked of them naturally we never find out what has brought them so close together how and where their torture dealings started what claire's exact role in their business plot holes can go on forever especially with the paint by numbers storyline that seems to make things up as it goes along why is daughter brought into such a dangerous situation other than for her to be conveniently taken hostage by if bodyguard randolph raymond st jacques clearly saw holland and in the cockfight arena why is he so friendly with them in a bar afterwords is his memory that short and what really was the purpose other than cheap theatrics of holland throwing chauffeur jorge luke off a window ledge when the murder could have been handled more discreetly in claire's apartment br br the overall acting is decent and somehow bronson gives one of his strongest performances j lee thompson's direction is lacking at points but may have been compromised by limited time on site besides filming in mexico the presence of itc is clear through better production values cinematography and music rural locations are well used to convey the hot and dusty atmosphere of latin america and cinematographer xavier cruz provides rich color and clarity the orchestral score by ken thorne war' is refreshing in an era of synthesized junk oddly enough these positives only add to the frustration of a good movie that is screaming to come out peter lee thompson's editing is better than usual although with more laughable continuity errors br br 'the evil than men do' was perfect grindhouse material for the early 80s and i find it hard to recommend for 21st century action fans the dvd from columbia tristar entertainment is an okay presentation offering widescreen and standard format with four language subtitles while the video quality is well above average 'evil' was originally recorded in plain mono audio the theatrical trailer is offered and actually has a grindhouse feel with eroded color and fuzzy sound quality br br out of 4
0	originally the spiders was planned as a four part serial and it shows i dislike serials they're typically ridiculous convoluted and banal this one is no exception in the first part of the spiders 'the golden lake ' a rich adventurer thwarts the plans of a gang of criminals the spiders to steal gold from incas a silly love triangle ensues with some cowboys and indians action the sensationalism and exotica of it didn't entertain me br br one can legitimately trace themes from this two part series to lang's later far superior work and the film making is better than in other serials i've seen from this time including 'les vampires' 1915 in the spiders the camera isn't as static and this film is fast paced thankfully the tinting and lighting are adequate too none of that's remarkable though it's nearly unseemly however in how closely this series resembles louis serials the criminal gang dresses and behaves like those in 'les vampires' only the names and to a lesser extent the situations have changed br br for the further comments on the spiders series see the web pages for it
0	whoever likened this one to raiders of the lost ark certainly knew he spoke he might as well have likened it to some of the adventures of the pulp heroes that followed kay reminds one more than a little of both lamont cranston the shadow and clark savage doc savage the shadow quintessential man of mystery and the very first dark knight was also thought to be one kent if one were to take savage's first name first and add to it the kent you end up with voila clark kent funny innit like indiana jones isn't above pilfering the artifacts of an ancient civilization though his thefts are often more blatant and less charmingly roguish than jones's unfortunately this two parter is a far cry from subsequent serials from any era in terms of overall quality one of the first indications that something is amiss vis a vis the cinematic storytelling is a scene where desperados on horseback quite literally breathing down his neck simply watch as escapes their clutches in a hot air balloon why they don't bother to shoot down the balloon is just one of the many movie making mysteries that plague these two films br br the second half of this two parter is even worse than the first granted this was one of the first ever serials and as such should be cut a bit of slack but there are limits even to tolerance at one point the capture of the hero is effected not on screen but in the narration itself talk about cutting corners fritz lang happens to be one of the greatest filmmakers to ever make films unfortunately for those of us who admire most of what he did the spiders is a bitter pill indeed to swallow
0	well well even if you're a fervent admirer of lang's silent films this early one the first part of a two part unfinished four part serial will leave you in doubt about fritz's narrative skills his directorial skills aren't that evident either but here and there one senses his talent for building up atmosphere br br the just pure juvenile nonsense which wouldn't be half as bad were it not for the long ponderous stretches in between the childish action scenes br br but the whole affair almost gets by on its amiable innocence br br 4 out of 10 inca treasures
0	this is strictly for pryor fans just because he was a great funny guy doesn't mean this is more than a b movie the script is awful it just meanders around constantly ridiculing crime and prisoners of war it balances between comedy and melodrama and keeps falling on its face doing justice to neither br br first there are 30 minutes of rather unrealistic uninspired vietnam prisoner of war time – the guy is playing basketball at one point how more can you pander to your audience that prison time is boring unconvincing and already can easily put one to sleep br br back in the u s the guy for no real reason at all is considered a war hero yet he is of course quickly forgotten by the public and seems to be stumbling into all kinds of wacky mishaps or are they really we will soon find out yawn there are annoying clichés his sick mother his little daughter he never meets a high end whore falling in love with the hero etc it is very odd how this movie constantly switches from tragedy to slapstick in one instant doesn't work at all br br overall this in fact is just a bad comedy and does a disservice to prisoners of war just because this guy was a great stand up comedian played in a few good movies and died of ms is no reason not to be annoyed by this silly unconvincing unfunny comedy but if you like richard pryor you will probably be thrilled by him reading 3 hours of dadaist poetry
0	the movie uses motifs that could be plagiarized from wait until dark 1967 a much better movie by terence young starring audrey hepburn dead silent is a pale paraphrase there is nothing new here the hidden object in the doll the bad men wanting it the bad guy posing as a good guy the disability though has shifted audrey hepburn couldn't see the child in ds cannot speak but both stories hinge on the handicap where wait until dark built up unbearable suspense dead silent lets you guess the outcome the story being such a stereotype
0	i was reading in a stuff magazine about some of the goriest bloodiest films that asia had to offer and i immediately jumped to netflix to quench my thirst boy what a mistake i made this movie is one of the worst films i have seen first and foremost no plot what i expected to be the plot see revenge turned into a series of events just happening in a effort to spend their special effects budget of 14 89 and waste studio time they should have kept their money and not wasted their time nor yours br br when a major plot twist occurs tetsuo ii body hammer is given a new identity and i wasn't buying it a flashback is given that should answer our questions but seemed to me like i turned on showtime at 3 47 am and dropped acid the movie continues and spirals out of control with cheesy graphics and special olympic effects br br do i seem bitter about this film yes did i see iron man no was there a plot no was it so symbolic that i didn't understand no was there a body hammer beats the hell out of me so take my advice and stay away br br i must admit though i have had so much fun writing this and laughing to myself about this film that if you want to laugh watch it
0	i was rather disappointed the first tetsuo made me an instant fan from the first 5 mins of the film it was fresh innovative and just different i rather enjoy having a movie be in your face and push all those make you squirm buttons tetsuo did just that where for me few movies can br br for those of us who enjoy getting a breath of fresh air those that appreciate those offbeat styles used that make indie films so worthwhile ii will likely be a if your looking for that visceral hyper kinetic feel of the first movie skip this one as thats all been stripped away tetsuo ii is for some odd reason just a typical hollywood style action flick i was rather confused however it's still worthwhile in my opinion for any die hard fan
0	this movie was a disappointment the story is essentially the shining with a castle or a very cheap set masquerading as a castle to be specific substituting as the hotel and a monster instead of the ghosts the budget is the same you'd see from a cinemax softcore porn as is the photography sets lighting and video it was shot on the story is a failed attempt at sincerity there's no easier way to make your audience feel sympathetic for your characters than to show them experiencing emotional trauma and the trauma in this movie is pretty trite want an example a blind girl listening to a language tape teaching the italian words for colors begins to cry at what she will never see br br this movie had a few things going for it however the monster is actually pretty cool pretty scary looking and there is a pretty decent amount of nudity from herself a star of italian erotic films the gore however leaves much to be desired as does the acting even from the experienced jeffrey combs br br other than this i've only seen two other stuart gordon films re animator and from beyond both of which were outstanding but i won't let this little footnote in his career keep me from watching many more of his movies
0	i really couldn't get into this movie the plot is some old woman has been torturing someone so long that he is deformed she dies and he is left in the basement to starve months must pass and a family moves in the daughter is blind because of an accident caused by the father well anyway this guy in the basement who for all rights should be long dead is still around he eats a cat and now is superhuman he now wants to eat people and have sex and when a hooker dies father gets the blame i always dislike movies where someone else is blamed for the killings because you always here the typical lines i didn't do it i could never do such a thing blah blah blah and the family storyline could be a lifetime movie storyline
0	a chilling and gory tale of a couple inheriting a 150 room italian castle while still grieving the loss of their young son the couples marriage seems to be on the rocks due to the car accident that took the life of their son and left their daughter blind upon taking inventory of the castle for a future sale a hideous tortured and misshapen creature breaks lose from the bowels of the 12th century castle pretty gory with great horror atmosphere and some sexual overtones starring jeffrey combs barbara crampton jessica and elisabeth
0	this is a candidate for worst films i've ever seen it wanted to be as shocking as silence of the lambs but has neither the style nor the wit of the aforementioned the make up is excellent the acting is pretty good but the story seems to drag on for years and the murders are so gruesome that they're more disturbing than entertaining
0	gordon goes over the top in typical full moon fashion but that's to be expected combs is surprisingly low key keeping his performance at a more realistic level than we are used to seeing also gone is the usual stuart gordon in black humor br br the film is quite effective in showing combs' break down and his final heroic act to save his wife daughter you actually feel sympathy for his character despite his short comings br br personally i was more surprised at the nudity and borderline porno sex scene than i was shocked by the graphic violence gore br br not classic gordon but certainly something you might enjoy if you've seen his more famous films
0	this film has some pretty gorey parts like a boob getting bit off and a other big bites castle freak himself is a good monster i would be scared to pieces if he was coming after me however the movie had some dumb parts about it br br a husband goes drunk driving and kills his 3 year old son and blinds his teenage daughter i suppose death is a greater damage than blindness but you'd never know that the parents actually feel bad about their daughter being blind all they care about is that j j 's dead while their teenage daughter walks around running into things and talking about how she'll never be able to drive a car the parents are like honey stop walking around without a guide you know better than that and then they cry and don't ever stop being depressed because jj's dead sounds like favortism to me br br the lines of dialogue are not very realistic or well done for example when a giant crash is heard in the castle everybody runs down into the basement to see what it was it was a huge mirror that crashed to the ground and shattered the husband runs to the broken mirror in horror and plainly says the mirror broke i don't know i would say a little more than that if a giant mirror mysteriously crashed to the ground in my castle br br the husband and wife have some major relationship problems and it's funny to watch how dumb they are with each other no one ever believes the blind girl advice if a blind girl says she hears things believe her and don't tell her to shut up i think this is the moral of the story listen to people when they tell you things or else you might end up killing yourself to prove your point br br lastly i thought the best character was the main police officer he was the best actor and character everyone else besides castle freak was pretty run of the mill 3 10
0	i remember seeing a clip of this movie on hbo when i was a kid and it scared the ever living crap out of me when i found it i watched it i wish i hadn't the movie wasn't scary br br the plot revolves around an old woman running the castle she feeds this horribly disfigured person in the cellar of a 12 century castle she continuously beats the poor guy every day and feeds him well that day she dies then a few months later a family moves in a father a mother and their blind daughter the father was involved in a horrific car accident that got their son killed and left their daughter blind br br later through the film the daughter hears sounds things break etc and everybody is not concerned about anything at all that is until a few people turn up dead apparently the creature in the cellar has broken free and is killing people how this thing survived for the past few months without food or water is impossible every time i saw the creature it gave me the creeps the creature goes on a gory killing spree and the police blame the father for the deaths br br it was a pretty bad film br br i give this film 3 stars out of 10 creepy not scary
0	watching the first few moments you realize it's going to be a parody and certainly it is a parody but i'm not sure of what a fairy tale an opera a hollywoodian c movie if there was something like that and i can assure you it's not worth watching it's simply a pointless film cf a good parody is everything but pointless with pretentious shallow speeches of extremely sketchy characters it's like a commedia or better it's like a botched commedia and the score sung in an intentionally incompetent way something greenaway will use much more efficiently it is painful to listen to unless one wears some sate of the art earplugs haha go for quality movies e g a how czar peter the great married off his moor 1976 and steer clear of this mistake
0	the story starts off in the home of a little girl who is going to have a birthday party and both the mother and father seemed to act rather quiet and reserved with each other they proceed to give their daughter her present which is from both of them and it stuck me funny the expressions on the two parents faces as they gave their child this gift it was almost like 'i hope she likes it' there is a killing in the film and catherine mary stewart julia reaper 2000 gets involved with the case because of family ties julia is working hard to become a doctor and this particular murder disrupts her entire life rob lowe kevin finney view from the top 03 is a next door neighbor in the same apartment dwelling as julia and he eventually goes to bed with her and tries to help her in other ways this is not a bad film but it is certainly nothing to go crazy about unless you like a film location in canada and a good looking catherine mary stewart a native from canada
0	the only reason this movie is not given a 1 awful vote is that the acting of both ida lupino and robert ryan is superb ida lupino who is lovely as usual becomes increasingly distraught as she tries various means to rid herself of a madman robert ryan is terrifying as the menacing stranger whose character guided only by his disturbed mind changes from one minute to the next seemingly simple and docile suddenly he becomes clever and threatening ms lupino's character was in more danger from that house she lived in and her own stupidity than by anyone who came along she could not manage to get out of her of her own house windows didn't open both front and back doors locked and unlocked from the inside with a key you could not have designed a worse fire trap if you tried she did not take the of having even one extra key nor could she figure out how to summon help from nearby neighbors or get out of her own basement while she was locked in and out of sight of her captor i don't know what war her husband was killed in but if it was world war ii the furnishings in her house the styles of the clothes especially the children and the telephone company car are clearly anachronistic i recommend watching this movie just to see what oddities you can find
0	alain resnais directs three parallel stories that have to do with fantasy and imagination in the adult world in one of them is a sort of operatic bordello story where a rejected architect attempts to manipulate a group of people into throes of happiness only his attempt misses it's only real target the woman that he pines after in the same unfinished château he built a group of teachers search for love in a more modern story as one woman believes ineffably in the role of romance and the cynical tries to teach her a lesson by setting her up with the biggest jerk in the group meanwhile a bunch of kids fantasize a george melies like adventure of a prince that saves a girl in distress from swamp creatures and then kills the evil king bringing upon the kingdom of love the two primary themes life is a fairy tale and life isn't a fairy tale br br which sounds better than the movie actually is resnais is the type of director where oftentimes the concept is good or bad but the exposition is what matters here the concept is great but the movie is downright painful to watch horridly off tune songs bubbly characters without an ounce of dimension backdrops of sickening pastel instead of giving your inner child an ice cream cone resnais drowns it in a bucket of cake frosting add some french philosophy and you get a weird witches brew one that doesn't bubble bubble toil and trouble but just kinda sits wrong in your stomach until you want to regurgitate it br br resnais is a risk taking director and even in his worst you can see he's trying something that might not work with full clarity of action in i want to go home he manages to pull past annoying characters and ditzy set pieces by showing some real change and having a moment few moments of quiet to catch his breath here he submerges directly into a fantasy that doesn't really reflect fantasy only its baby's room wallpaper reference the biggest problem is that he somehow managed to make a movie more flamboyant than an 80s pop video and more kitsch than golden era hollywood musicals the fantasies are beyond childish and naive but the movie with nudity and profanity is definitely aimed for adults a target he decidedly missed br br however he sticks closely to his theme and never if anything this movie is impressive simply because its unapologetic br br polarisdib
0	this film tries very hard to be an action film but it fails miserably br br steve guttenberg plays the head of an elite counter terrorist team that fails in attempt to keep a mysterious group from stealing a deadly nerve agent br br the story the acting the special effects all fall flat br br definitely a must avoid
0	my friends and i rented this movie mistaking it for another one about skateboarding watchin steve guttenberg as an action hero is hilarious the movie is so incredibly predictable and over the top that it ended up being a laugh fest even though i gave it a 1 10 this movie should be seen especially if u manage to catch it on tv anywhere
0	all i can say about this film is to read the back of the video case and then put it back on he shelf and pick anything else i mean anything a blank video would be better than watching this
0	this movie was bad on so many levels the writing was horrible so even the best actors could not have made this movie watchable it's a shame because they did have some good actors in this movie i mean if anyone has seen any of the police academy movies you would know that steve guttenberg was good his character in this movie was very serious which was a big difference from characters i have seen him play before so that was a plus and i did think that steve guttenberg was extremely hot in this movie with or without the shirt you can not deny that he has a great body sexy face too loved the 5 o'clock shadow look it made him look dangerous at one part in the movie he is lying in bed without his shirt and i have to say i would have gladly jumped in there and tried to take his mind off of his problems so honestly i would watch this movie again just to fantasize
0	it sounded so promising in the rental store the premise sounded great and i couldnt wait to get home and watch it it was apalling the diologue is dreadful the action is extremely badly scripted and the plot takes a nosedive from the beginning gutenberg puts in a pathetic performance sean bean tries his best but with a script this bad there wasnt much he could do br br this isnt even worth watching even if you can get it for free borrow it off a friend for instance dont as you will regret it and waste 90 of your life br br 0 10
0	seriously this film is not steve guttenburg is constantly forcing his tough guy dialogue and then giving everyone the evil eye all the time he just wasn't believable he seems like he's trying to be a badass and he sucks at it i just remember him as the millionaire dad with the olsen twins in it takes two so this is a big change i rented this film for sean bean and he dies as usual only this time he didn't get impaled on a boat anchor patriot games smashed by a giant satellite dish goldeneye or get run over by cows the field he just got shot real quick like and civil and that was all i got from this film that they didn't kill him off in an extremely grotesque and morbid way how sad is that i was only watching it for the 3 seconds that sean was in it and then the rest was rubbish i actually tried to watch and understand the plot but there really wasn't one seemed a little like mission impossible with the hole oooooo there's a mole it's the leader of the group and no one expected it let's trap him let's frame the underdog good guy so we can get away with it cliched and tired this movie was a waste of time
0	wow this is the kind of movie that makes you wonder who's idea this was and what soup kitchen are they eating at now to say this was bad is an insult to the bad movies we all know and love br br when i saw name in the tv guide i figured it would be a spoof maybe it should have been could have made for a better movie br br look for the scene where they are in an airplane in mid flight with the door open and there is no wind what so ever they could have sprung for a fan at least br br look for several canadian c list actors in the movie this is the kind of movie that litters the b rate cable stations you never watch except on a rainy sunday
0	this is so bad it will be my contribution to the next bad movie party i go to it is clear from the start that steve was taking this role seriously the other principles were walking through their lines i think they got a whiff of how much it stank early on and they were going through the motions for their paychecks sean bean acted as usual but was spared sharing space on screen with any of the principles till the final scene where it was like an actor walking onto a high school stage that is how defined the contrast was some actors do not look good scruffy some actors should not bulk up for a part those two statements apply to police academy steve his scruffy look translates to bum and indigent and his up makes him look potato lumpy not buff pair that with one of the worst scripted dialogues in hollywood history and you have bad movie i can only guess that all of the principles really really needed the money for or something or their agents signed them before the script was written by the monkeys that must of typed it out i would love to know the back story to this disaster
0	might contain spoilers br br ok lets conclude this movie in one word bad two words really bad now why do i think that let me explain br br guttenberg leads a special ops team consisting of four persons that get assigned to retake an lethal virus after some arms dealer stole it from a lab they do this by attacking the arm dealers in mid flight and somehow gets back the virus after some fighting however suspicions arise about guttenberg because one of the terrorist knew his name after debriefing the team members get attacked by unknown persons and everyone starts to suspect everyone else is involved after deciding they cant trust their bosses they decide to once again steal the virus and try to lure out the possible attackers br br in theory this is a plot that could have worked in a low budget movie that just aims to be aired on tv however the plot is compromised and the movie ruined in several accounts firstly the plot is totally predictable and it is not fun to know how the movie is going to end after three minutes second the acting is really bad or the actors are directed to act as there aren't many emotions change of facial expressions at all etc i was especially disappointed in guttenberg that i believe can do so much more but fails completely in an attempt to be a rough action hero in addition though i am not by any means any expert on the subject i totally believe i could assemble a better covert ops team by picking up five strangers and train them for a week this seems to be a theme in the movie to do things as stupid and unprofessionally as possible this go for good guys bad guys and bystanders as well then i sincerely doubt the scientific and technical consultants if any of the film for example i have poured liquid over my hand and i didn't break instantly br br don't know how to conclude this really but lets say that this movie has a predictable plot bad acting and they seem to be amateurs in whatever the do sorry can't be any nicer than that do not watch this movie it is not even so bad it is funny 2 10
0	julia catherine mary stewart is working hard to become a doctor suddenly julia finds herself the guardian of her young niece amanda after her parents are found murdered julia has a new neighbor the mysterious kevin finney rob lowe her hectic life comes crashing down when it becomes apparent that the young amanda holds the key to a terrible secret for she too is now the target of the killers julia must discover whether kevin is friend or foe and unlock the sinister mystery before the murderer strikes again according to the dvd sleeve synopsis br br this thriller quietly falls apart at the seams but it is interesting some of the time stalker sean devine's background telephone scene outside the police station and mr lowe's violin restaurant are tensely played but early on it's difficult not to miss the fact that one of the supposedly sophisticated killers purposely twists his foot in some red paint at the murder scene unfortunately this is not an intricate plot point and there are worse story stumbles afoot overall dead silent is not a bad way to spend some time if there is nothing better on or you're into lowe and his co stars br br dead silent 1999 roger cardinal catherine mary stewart rob lowe arlen stewart larry day
0	a cut above from the usual straight to video actioneer airborne has enough in the tank to keep it going for the full 90 minutes although you can't help but think of how low former '80's comedy golden boy steve guttenburg has stooped to be in such a cheap production and playing a hard man too the plot is simple the baddies have stolen a deadly virus and guttenburg and the rest of his goodie pals are sent to retrieve it not bad of its kind but not in the same league obviously as the films it is compared too on the cover such as air force one and con air the cast is good though with sean bean reprising his brit bad guy character which we have had a glimpse of in such box office smashes as goldeneye and patriot games
0	i reveal two 'twists' at the end of the film do not read if you want to watch this movie for some reason br br oh my this is bad and for some reason sean bean one of the greatest present day actors has sold his soul and appears in it the only consolation is that the scriptwriters must have realised that someone as ultimately pathetic as steve guttenberg could never in his life aspire to kill someone as cool as sean bean instead he is killed in what must have seemed like a marvellous twist at the end by the good guy who was meant to be be killed by bean but was actually his boss and faked his own death don't worry i haven't ruined anything for you the acting itself is spectacularly apalling with patented hey look i can pull a chuck norris face hard man stare dominating most of the two hours of hell on earth added to a plot that i could have written whilst being tortured and hung upside down with both hands cut off there is also a completely nonsensical critical error in the fact that one moment the virus will escape if they so much as look at it wrong while another moment steve guttenberg is bravely running around with it throwing catching bashing and generally abusing this which has the distinct look of a collection of those little balls of soap you put in your bath my final word if you are suicidally depressed and feel like you want to laugh manically at something that should be a bad comedy but even worse isn't tape it next time it's on channel 5 at midnight then burn it when you realise that i am indeed telling the truth
0	this film suffers horrendously from its direction julian grant and its incompetent lead steve guttenberg who's putting a solid effort to win a bruce willis look alike contest the writing is reckless hollywood action thriller sean bean whose one of my favorites david fraser and kim coates give a decent performance the film is definitely below average 3 out of 10 i wonder what hollywood studios thought actually giving the go ahead to weak director such as grant and i'd say to sean bean what were you thinking even considering participating in a film like this after such great films like goldeneye ronin and patriot games
0	i love most movies and i'm a big fan of sean bean so i thought that i would at least like this movie also i'm canadian and this is a mostly canadian movie so i was prepared to cut it some serious slack nothing could have prepared me for the garbage that is airborne steve guttenberg as an action hero give me a break the acting throughout the movie was so bad i am going to have trouble sleeping tonight i now have only two wishes in my life br br 1 i hope that you never have to sit through this movie 2 i wish i could get those 6 hours back oh wait the movie's under 2 hours it only seemed like 6 hours br br don't watch this seriously
0	i had a bad feeling ten seconds into the film as a pair of overworked tumbleweeds probably left over from a bad western blew across the scene the bad feeling grew ten seconds later when the obligatory opening stranger turned human sacrifice for no apparent reason lowered his rear view mirror to see a shadow in the back seat for the next five minutes over the opening credits we are treated to an overhead shot of the car rocking back and forth and only the dramatic made for tv movie music informs us a killing is taking place not a make out session for the next 27 or so hours we are treated to two idiotic psychotics who for some reason seem compelled to drive through the desert southwest together going after each other like a demented abbot costello even with the shocking twists at the end we are merely left to shake our heads and wonder if the producers and director writer feel as ashamed and embarrassed as they should for creating this inconsistent incoherent nonsense
0	the setup for nature of the beast is ingeniously simple and fraught with limitless potential for suspense harried salesman jack a very domesticated lance henriksen picks up trouble in the form of hitchhiker adrian eric roberts who seems to be in possession of incriminating information against jack oh and over a million dollars has been stolen from a casino and someone dubbed man' is dismembering people in the desert sounds great right sort of like the hitcher meets psycho one or both of these men has a secret and nothing is as it seems well unfortunately writer director victor salva of jeepers creepers and powder fame doesn't have enough ideas to keep the movie going the scenario arouses no tension or suspense poison for what is supposedly a 'thriller' and the inclusion of an underlying homo erotic tone seems out of place henriksen evokes an unusual not quite earthbound everyman even sporting an ample gut but roberts is about as threatening and scary as an extra in death wish 3 we're never sucked in to the point where we actually care about what's happening and the conclusion slides into improbable territory i kept thinking it was going to be fight club all over again but i was mistaken too bad nature of the beast could have been something else instead of nothing else
0	personally i've watched it because of lea thompson's appearance and i didn't really expect to enjoy the movie as such but surprisingly i kept watching it until the end br br let's face it it just one of the saga like stories and isn't particularly original or entertaining but strangely it just keeps you by the tv my opinion about will of their own would be much better if there wouldn't be one point that i just don't get br br there is lovely and really touchy scene in which lea thompson's character is running on the street holding baby in her arms the snow is falling she is cold scared and has no place to stay she doesn't know what to do next and then about 10 12 years later when things are better for her she just leaves the same kid without any warning to take up the career she was dreaming about br br i just don't get it i don't see how is it possible that she would do such thing it was the opposite action to all that she done so far in her life when all that she was doing was aimed on that child survival after this character flip i just couldn't enjoy rest of the movie
0	the critics were like a movie that will break your heart etc so a friend of mine and i had great expectations when we decided to watch this movie br br i'll make it short and leave it up to others to write about its content this movie tries to touch you to reach your heart but it fails at least for me and for my friend too br br everything that happened happened only on the screen it was always there not here where i am i thought most of the time hmm something's happening on the screen but it's only on the screen it's not real br br movies which succeeded much better in touching me east of eden 1955 terms of endearment 1983 jerry maguire 1996 babe 1995 mies 2002
0	american graffiti is one of the best movies ever made i've seen it at least 30 times and am emotionally affected by it each time i see it i graduated from high school in 1962 br br however more american graffiti is one of the worst movies ever made br br it is hard to believe than anyone associated with the great original movie was involved with this terrible sequel the part of the movie set in vietnam was extremely inaccurate i served 18 months in vietnam with the 101st airborne division br br the whole movie had nothing worthwhile in any part of it br br if anyone ever wants to make a case against making sequels to great movies more american graffiti would be the prime example of what can go wrong
0	were it not for the fact that this came as a 2 dvd set paired with the original american graffiti were it not for the fact that i've been here in iraq for several months and at this point will watch pretty much anything i would have tossed this movie in the garbage after the first ten minutes this movie was appallingly bad on so many levels i just don't know where to start poorly acted shot directed written scored edited my 9 year old daughter's first forays into film making are superior to this and she was filming the dog sleeping come to think of it i give that piece of cinematography 9 stars but i'm biased if you have even the slightest appreciation for quality film making then avoid this piece of garbage at all costs no character in this movie has a single redeeming quality save for the icelandic girl who doesn't even have a single line in english i'll not waste more of my time describing what a bad movie this is
0	rob lowe must have eaten up the entire budget but i can't fault him for running with the money even he would have to agree there was nothing good about this movie filming editing direction dialogue sets makeup writing casting especially the young girl and imposter child psychiatrist and the story all were just the worst i have never seen such a horrible movie pass this one up for any other rental selection or find yourself shouting out vile comments at the tv dead silent should be silenced for all time
0	i suggest if you have already seen the original american graffiti do not see this movie if you haven't seen the original i still don't recommend this but it will be a lot less painful to watch the characters from the first film are great and by the end you fell a connection to them this movie sets out to show how bad their lives have become it's a chore to watch br br set on new year's eve in 1964 '65 '66 and '67 we have four stories about the characters from the first film in we have john milner paul le mat who is now a professional drag racer he meets a foreign girl eva and though his plot really goes nowhere it's the best of the four in 1965 we have toad charles martin smith who is stuck in vietnam and more than anything he wants out he tries to find ways to hurt himself or do stupid things to get out in '66 we have debbie candy clark the girl who toad picked up in the first movie now she is a pot smoking hippie and really i'm not sure what her plot was about it was her going to a concert not much of anything happened finally in 1967 steve ron howard and laurie cindy williams are having marriage problems that end in a anti war rally and police action br br none of these stories are very good the script in some parts features very very bad dialogue these poor characters who i enjoyed so much in the first film ended up where they are here why why was this sequel made i guess if a sequel was made it had to feature the vietnam war and hippies and police action but the real thing is that this movie shouldn't have been made br br the direction was stylish but it just amounts in a huge headache each story has a different style is just a regular depending on how you watch it wide screen and is filmed how the rest of the movie should be plot was shot in 16mm and what it amounts to is a poor looking picture which is the size of a small box in the middle of the screen debbie's plot is shot in multi screen at one point there might have been one screen but for the good majority it's anywhere from two to twenty screens up at once don't bother trying to follow the screens since there's nothing going on anyways steve and laurie's plot has the weirdest filming style it's style really doesn't mean anything and is dumb and pointless instead of just a full widescreen it's a condensed widescreen that looks like a full screen version of widescreen though i don't like the others at least i understand what they were going for this one just doesn't make sense br br the music is this movie's saving grace not that it could save this bob dylan simon and stevie wonder marvin gaye and dozens of others have nice songs featured here they don't save the feature they just make it a little better than it is it's still bad br br overall this is a pointless sequel any fan of the original should avoid this lackluster sequel br br my rating 1 2 out of 110 mins pg for language drug use and violence
0	i loved the first american graffiti with all my heart and soul that i considered it to be the best movie about rock n' roll along with being the best teenager flick i've ever seen the first film spawned the careers of george lucas who would later do the blockbuster epic star wars before doing the prequels two decades later while making richard dreyfuss a star in jaws close encounters of the third kind and other films as well br br somehow without those two the magic died off br br more american graffiti shows audiences what happened to the rest of the characters later on in the sixties where steve ron howard and laurie cindy williams are protesting against the vietnam war while their friend terry the toad fields charles martin smith is in the war himself and trying to get out john milner paul le mat is still the hot drag racer in california where he never quite left home the rest of the supporting actors in the film from candy clark's debbie terry's girlfriend to the pharaoh's gang members along with harrison ford and others really don't do much the original film showed teenagers cruising the streets without any bloodshed with the early music of rock n' roll from buddy holly the chuck berry fats domino bill haley and the buddy knox and more that brought back the nostalgia bug in classic music the soundtrack for more american graffiti is a mixture of rock soul country hippie music and whatever fitted the mood during the late 60's of protesting drugs sacrifices and more br br after watching more american graffiti it looked like it wanted to show audience members what happened after the title epilogue of the four main characters in the first film with the exception of dreyfuss's character where it wasn't necessary this film wasn't necessary either as i was glad to see that neither lucas or dreyfuss moved on to bigger and better projects
0	the gang is back for more ron howard and cindy williams are now married her brother is demonstrating against the draft and charles martin smith is doing everything he can in vietnam to get sent home br br the issues of the 60's are brought to light here but it's all over the place beginning with new year's eve 1963 then three minutes later it's new year's eve 1964 then three minutes later it's new year's eve 1965 then three minutes later it's back to 1963 again martin smith is talking about his friend dying in a drag race a year ago and a couple of scenes later this friend is winning his next heat in a drag race and to top it all off the drug scene and the flower children enter the picture or pictures in some cases as many as three different camera shots are shown on the screen at the same time br br if you want to watch this film you have to watch this film but i'd advise you to stick to the original and leave it there wolfman jack is heard in the beginning of the film before almost every song played in the background but where'd he go maybe he couldn't keep up with this film either and quit 2 out of 10 stars
0	i really don't think producer george lucas didn't really set out to make such a horrible sequel as more american graffiti turned out to be but in retrospect it was the first crack in his then seemingly impenetrable armor coming straight off the huge success of american graffiti and produced basically at the same time as star wars this film was the first that lucas successfully took away from coppola without having to bother directing it himself the result is typical lucas far more interesting in terms of its structure and the way it's edited than the actual material the writer director bill norton has been allowed to use a variety of different screen and split screens to produce odd associations in the images while it's interesting to see ironic juxtapositions of the 4 story lines the style ultimately only epitomizes the fractured nature of the film itself br br lucas' brilliant original film was all about a group of friends on the archetypical last big night before school ends and kurt ron dreyfuss and steve ron howard are supposed to go off to college one thing that made that film work despite the fact that it's very episodic is that you had the core characters together at the beginning and they come back together at the end there's a disposition of time like in nick ray's rebel without a cause where a certain period of time becomes very elastic and takes on more meaning than such a specific time really would in actual life but everything takes place in a static space more american graffiti is basically the opposite the space is very dynamic with toad charles martin smith off in vietnam his former girlfriend debbie candy clark partying with hippies in san francisco steve and laurie cindy williams involved in student protests in berkeley and john paul le mat drag racing on the semi pro circuit in a contrived meeting early in the film all the principles are brought together to watch john race but after that the threads don't come back together and weave apart the way they do in the original instead they split off and we follow the characters through about 3 years' of time just seeing various events on new years eve in what seems to be 1967 68 and 69 it's easy for the audience to become confused and i think it's fair to say that we do while the original film seemed to condense important events and rites of passages into unreal theatrical time that produced an experience of nostalgia even for those who never experienced those events this sequel drags and stretches the few plot points from the epilogue of the original and attempts to make them into a coherent film br br the best parts of the movie to me are the ones with candy clark in sf and charles martin smith in nam some of the jokes do fall flat but the style of those sections is interesting and they form a neat contrast with each other a good movie could maybe have been made if these parts were just a bit better and if the other parts weren't such a drag speaking of drag racing the whole plot with milner talking to a foreign exchange student was really lame unfunny and throwing in mackenzie phillips for a cameo didn't help at all it was just another contrived moment like when they briefly explain why curt isn't in the movie because he's already in canada instead laurie just has another brother who is basically identical to curt but has a different name and is now played by a very boring actor there's a black kind of satire to some of the vietnam stuff very similar to what i would imagine lucas and john original idea for apocalypse now would have been like and there's some of that manic fun in the san francisco scenes that made the first movie fun but still along with that fun stuff you have the rest of the movie dragging it down as if anyone wants to see steve and laurie argue in their horrible suburban abode as if they were auditioning for a spielberg movie about divorce and child abandonment i think even if those parts of the movie weren't so painful it still wouldn't really be comparable to the first movie because there's no closure and no sense of coming back together or of anybody having learned anything it just sort of ends at the point when they ran out of money or something a cheap freeze frame imitation of two lane blacktop and so many better films br br like the original however this film has a great soundtrack of period hits that is probably worth owning for its own sake and almost makes the movie itself palatable the performances by country joe and the fish are great and scott glenn all up as a hippie in love with candy clark is a sight to see i wonder if even back then he had to use a wig i couldn't possibly recommend this movie and yet it has some small affection in my heart because i love the original so much every couple of decades i guess i have to give this movie a try just to make sure that it's really as worthless as i remember it being it's a party killer but it's something that every fan of american graffiti or george lucas in general will want to see at least once or twice it shows how a lot of effort can go into something and it can still turn out pretty half baked it makes you reflect on how much of a miracle it is that lucas actually made such a good movie as american graffiti in the first place as if all the elements were in place and all the appropriate gods had been unfortunately such was not the case for this film or for bill norton
0	like a lot of people i loved the original american graffiti was one of the great movies of the 70s the sequel more american graffiti is a horrible depressing mess of a movie it wasn't funny the wide eyed likable characters had become cynical and jaded and the stories were contrived such as laurie's character having another brother because richard dreyfuss didn't do the sequel and terry the toad and pharaoh joe somehow managing to serve together in vietnam they even have a police officer by the name of harrison ford's character in the original who makes a cameo he doesn't even look like harrison ford who was way too big a star by 1979 to even bother with this garbage br br the operative word here is funny this movie isn't even amusing debbie candy clark is a stripper mixed in with a bunch of dope hippies and trying to bail her dealer boyfriend out of jail steve and laurie ron howard and cindy williams the lovebirds in the original have two kids and have become an annoying bickering couple adorable little tomboy carol mackenzie phillips has become rainbow yet another hippie child john milner paul is a loser race car driver whose fortune was foretold at the end of the original even wolfman jack whose voice was such an integral part of the original and gave it such a great flow only is heard sporadically br br perhaps it was different writers a different director and the complete lack of a cohesive story line that makes this movie such a dismal failure br br the episodic charm and authentic nostalgia of the original is nowhere to be found in the sequel it was a movie that didn't need to be made and its best just to remember what a great movie american graffiti was and avoid the movie with more in the title
0	as with many sequels this one just doesn't have the quality or the impact of the original the first one belongs up there with the rest of the greats this one just doesn't cut it the first film had a magical good time feeling about it that is totally missing from this film we became enamored of all these characters minus richard dreyfuss in an age of innocence now a few years later they have changed so much that they are largely different people while this is what happens in real life we don't expect this to happen to our favorite film characters the film doesn't have the humor that the original had and we were expecting to laugh what little humor is there is dark the first film also featured what is probably the greatest soundtrack ever while this one is good but not even close to the original's this film is so totally different from the original that it isn't even actually a sequel i gave it a 4
0	the final frames of the original american graffiti provide one line summaries of the fates of the film's four central male characters while somewhat sexist in omitting the female characters the ending of the original film provided all the information about those people that even the most ardent fan of the movie would want however someone felt that mega bucks could be made by detailing the dreary lives of these characters after the original film ended bad move making an insurance salesman and his wife a nerdy private in vietnam a drag race driver and a overgrown hippie into interesting characters in interesting situations was far beyond the talents of those who wrote this nearly unwatchable movie while most of the original cast is back with only richard dreyfuss having the good sense to stay away more american graffiti is a mess of silly situations that involve protests car races country singers and the vietnam war the use of split screens once thought innovative and daring is overused here to the point of distraction and adds confusion to the already confused goings one this is a sequel that demonstrates nearly everything that can go wrong with a sequel perhaps it should be screened in film schools as a lesson even the use of period music which was a delight in the original is poorly done here if you want more american graffiti see the original twice
0	the trouble with this sort of lyrical film making is that you either make a masterpiece or a lemon there's little middle ground putting it gently this is not berlin symphony of a city or man with a movie camera unfortunately it's not much to look at either br br the problem with this one is that it's glib and half baked as if michael moore had come on board it doesn't really have anything to say or rather to show us with pictures and sounds uses images cumulatively to propound a thesis this is just a patchwork in search of a point though quite inadvertently the movie tells us more about the mind of uncle sam than it intends there is something profoundly paradoxical about an anti technology anti civilisation anti media movie that is so profoundly souped up with technology 'do as i say and not as i do' you just gotta love the yanks eh tonally there's something sour and misanthropic about this episode both the prior episodes had moments of lyricism and exhilaration this time the tone is consistently glum it simply doesn't work over this duration as gustav will tell you br br stylistically naqoyqatsi is a mess the digital stuff is particularly misguided it gives the whole thing a totally fussy look and it also undermines the 'realist' nature of the footage' i mean i pity the guys part of the joy of was that it was a homage to the use of optical film but now optical film's an historical artifact they have to 'take on the digital domain but i don't think they bring it off the digital stuff often looks like video links from cnn or bbc world and with the found footage well the digital manipulation is often ugly and usually just silly and the false colour and solarisation kept me thinking of br br ahem br br james bond title sequences br br ahem odd as it may seem there is also the possibility that the movie has been simply stolen by yo yo performance it's about as unobtrusive as a lawrence olivier voice over the images would have to be jolly compelling to stack up against all that charisma br br philip glass himself is on odd form never expected him to knock off the verdi requiem made me laugh which of course is not the desired response to any part of this movie there's even one piece of music that sounds like perhaps they've changed his pills br br from our department is geoffrey actually a hopi indian at all or did he just do a in hollywood hills oh and are the various snippets bits of footage from earlier 'episodes' in the trilogy a commentary on the way these movies too are part of the global media slushy
0	is simply the best film i've ever seen it's a masterpiece where everything is at the right place some scenes are not nice or beautiful but the camera never peeks or intrudes this is exactly what's happening here the camera is used to intrude to disgrace and to ridicule there is no magic flow here no sense of greatness or respect instead some scenes are cobbled together without greater purpose or plan the music is disturbing just as i rated the best film ever made this one is the worst it's a pure movie too but this is the negative form exactly that which should not be done
0	dear reader watch out this movie is not really a movie though its creators have the to call it so if you have not been warned about its content here it goes the film is simply a sequence of imagines which flow continually and are trying to transmit a certain feeling concept they could be called therefore symbols the images are accompanied by a soundtrack it's purpose being to create atmosphere as well however the images the director has chosen can only transmit feelings to an american audience because they are in an overwhelming number american icons though the film is intended to express the idea of civilized warfare it fails to do so not only because of the general chaos but also because it is far too long and tiresome and i strongly felt that a lot of the scenes have not to do with war in whichever conception to conclude i was greatly disappointed by a documentary which is not a documentary a movie which is not a movie a something whose only strong point is the extraordinary use of technology in image processing
0	the first 4 episodes of season 6 are just to throw up to predictable and the worst scenario i've seen won't and hopefully i din't buy it also seen in seasons back that episodes about space they did suck even more all i want to say to the people who make this is don't do whole episode about space because they suck the point is that season 6 sucks even more than the seasons before gets worse from season to season i got so disappointed and frustrated watching first 4 episodes of season 6 that i just had to write this only people who are brain washed can watch this crap seems that people writing the scenario are getting out of ideas for a long time think that my 2 year old nephew had a better idea for the episode than these people do
0	what i hoped for or even expected was the well known stop motion imagery and extreme slow motions extreme zooms and all embracing fish eye takes in short the art of a finding interesting visual events and b capturing them in a way the human eye is not capable of to be replayed so that the human eye can see the stuff that made the other hits br br i just wondered how the creation of the whole would fit the title br br having watched the movie i got the feeling that the focus in this third part was on the message and not on the wrapping that's fine especially since the message is so valid but i already knew the message and it appeared there was nothing else left for me more then half the film was or colorized or or transformed through some other filter it looked a lot like the effects your video camera does but you never use a lot of the images would have been prettier without the filters like the giraffe and zebra chase you could say that or whatever human based malicious source disfigured our beautiful nature' but why use these seventies effects to symbolize that at the point that there had been more than 10 minutes in a row of this cheap looking effect i was ready to leave the hope that the rest just couldn't be that bad made me stay but then there was the slow motion slow motion is good because it gives you time to analyze the moving picture but if there are no more than 24 or maybe 50 or 60 frames a second then there's just not enough motion to slow down please record the motion to be slowed faster like was done with the beautiful shots of the foaming and splashing water some of the laughing people and the drill song singing soldiers i acknowledge that archive pictures can't be redone but i had already seen a lot of that footage anyway it could have done without it it must have been a lot of work to search through the archive footage and the effects can't have been that easy to apply and arrange as well on top of that a lot of the work was mixed with each other it shows that the creator wasn't out to lengthen the movie or to spare himself but i didn't like the mixed stuff one bit the idea behind it was sometimes nice or even clever but the implementation was insufficient the computer generated images didn't bother me that much however out of date the streaming along circuits in the first part of the film looked more recent and were nice is always fun the mountain was less i was pleased to hear a cello playing a major role in the music a little less vibrato at certain moments would have been appropriate with glass' music but that's a matter of taste as is all of the above of course i do hope that there will be another story to tell soon where computer imagery will have a less significant role and that will inspire somebody to get into the field again br br
0	there seems to be a spectrum of cinema on the left there are movies made mostly for entertainment and or commercial purposes in the middle there are movies that are both entertaining and artistic on the right are movies that are not as commercial but are focused more on cinema as art than cinema as product br br i'm not here to say any one part of the spectrum is better than any other but that when a movie goes too far to either end it's rarely good such is the case with naqoyqatsi br br i had no idea what to expect when i saw it advertised a few friends were going and asked if i wanted to come along none of us knew what to expect and by the end none of us were pleased br br yes there are breathtaking images yes i'm amazed at the lengths the filmmakers went to in searching through archival footage yes the soundtrack is enjoyable to listen to and probably the best part of the experience the thing is this goes so far to the right side of the spectrum i mentioned that i can't say anything nice about the movie as a whole br br it's preachy it's a jumble of symbolism and obvious morality it's not saying anything new or forcing the viewer to examine life in a new way it's just telling us things we already know that is if we can even figure out what it's saying br br this movie is simply art for art's sake an attempt to say look at how deep and thought provoking we can be by using montage when a film becomes more about how clever or intelligent its creators are than about its subject it ceases to be a film and simply becomes celluloid self gratification
0	i was very disappointed in this film the director has shown some talent in his other endeavors but this just seemed to be filler there may have been a deep meaning behind it but it seems to me to be nothing but a director who has access to some toys br br i would highly recommend his other works to people but certainly not this one as i watched it i kept on thinking it would pick up after an initial slow period but it never did at the end of the movie i was neither entertained nor moved nor thought of things in a new way i could only say to myself what was that br br there were a few really striking parts of the film but not enough to warrant sitting through it again
0	the peace and beauty of koyaanisqatsi was a powerful affirmation of the natural world in naqoyqatsi we are assaulted by images of the synthetic the competitive the violent and the digital the destructive constructs of our culture br br some liberties are taken with the images with distressing and much slow motion the connections between the sequences are inscrutable if there are any naqoyqatsi is defined at the film's end a missed opportunity to place the images in context br br the film is difficult to watch the quality of the archival footage uneven and it's most redeeming qualities are its theme and the hypnotic score of philip glass
0	koyaanisqatsi and powaqqatsi are both beautiful films but this final installment of the trilogy is a major let down they got too carried away with stock footage and photography so little content the executive producer puts his own image in the film its just pretentious maybe if they had more than 3 million to spend maybe it would have been something i actually thought steven soderbergh directed it because it was so bad but godfrey the director of koyaanisqatsi and powaqqatsi directed this i'll have to assume that they just didn't have the budget to make a decent film you would think that francis ford coppola would have wanted to be a part of this film and help get more money together
0	the first two movies of this series excelled for their footage of the natural world and ordinary people stuck in the midst of society this movie doesn't have any of that natural footage which i understand is part of the point but it really makes the entire video component of the film seem like random images stuck together ones and zeroes flying around computer models of human skeletons and so forth occasionally the stock footage is put to good effect the nationalism finance segment around 35 00 but usually it makes the video appear to lack any meaningful content and demands you accept the context of the stock photographers rather than the context of the director it's no better than the video displayed on a karaoke machine three stars added for the philip glass soundtrack
0	please if this is about technology and what man does to kill others and ourselves i think i missed his entire point because i walked out feeling like relied on cold war era footage of space exploration and had nothing new to add to the dialogue about fears of technology trails of 1 and 0 denoting technology and math and science done that anyone out there see the matrix and motion studies of people in motion ever heard of edward at least he uses exact clips of photographs of human motion studies br br this film was derivative and the score is just enough philip glass to sound like everything he's done in the past 10 years avoid this film at all costs
0	the director godfrey must be a very charming and persuasive man for this dreadfully botched project to have seen the light of day message so powerful and resonant in his previous two films is hopelessly jumbled here athletes equations oceans laughing heads etc mingle without purpose the parade of banal imagery is mostly generic stock from getty images et al and the heavy handed digital manipulations are amateurish in the worst way imaginable surely someone involved steven soderbergh executive producer could have pointed out that applying a filter to nearly every frame was a very bad idea the crude looping layering and distorting of images recalls a freshman photoshop class and to make matters worse the computer animation sequences are more artless than a 1980's wall street pie chart this is not to say that improved aesthetics alone would have salvaged this film but some meager effort in this direction may have made it tolerable as visual fodder for the accompanying music i feel compelled to point out that the score by philip glass will certainly satisfy his fans not a radical departure but rather a refinement of what glass does best with lovely violin contributions by yo yo ma if you decide to see this film be certain to focus your attention on the brief opening sequence while you may already be familiar with detroit's once majestic but long abandoned michigan central railroad station 89 minutes later you will find yourself remembering this image of 20th century decay as the critical point when you should have headed for the exit sign hit the stop button etc you've been warned
0	i've seen all 3 now i just can't believe how bad naqoyqatsi is not in comparison to the others but simply on it's own merit or lack of br br i can't understand how the average rating for this movie is over 6 out of 10 i gave the first 2 movies 8 out of 10 they were thought provoking and beautifully done i gave this movie a rating of 1 if a 0 or negative number was available i would have given it that rating instead what a total waste of time it was watching this movie i thought after the first 30 minutes that i should turn it off but then i figured that it was just a very slow starting movie i thought the same thing after 45 minutes then 1 hour etc then i realized that it wasn't going to get any better br br it's very tedious to watch and without any redeeming qualities don't take my word for it watch it yourself be sure to see the first two movies before this one if you see this one first i can just about guarantee that you'll never want to see the first two but they are definitely much much better than this piece of work br br the best part of the movie is when the credits role at the end that's when your penance on this earth is complete and you can 89 minutes in purgatory for the suffering that you've endured watching this film if god is truely merciful he'll be more generous
0	having enjoyed koyaanisqatsi and i was looking forward to this third part of the trilogy and seeing what direction it had taken rarely has a film so spectacularly failed to live up to its predecessors and lost its way although it tries to represent civilised warfare in the form of sport science trade and other forms of competition it lacks the global scope and even the coherently developed themes of its predecessors war is chaos but even wars have an aim in mind and this film had little structure and unclear goals br br naqoyqatsi is flawed by being a chaotic melange of images that does little to develop its theme on the plus side it wisely avoided using some of the iconic images of last century's wars br br naqoyqatsi is also so insular that several times i had to remind myself that i was not watching an advertisement promoting the american way of life perhaps this reflects the ongoing war on terror when representing sport as war the prominent team logos ensured that the usa was depicted as the winner hence it missed the opportunity to depict some of the many sports around the world and showing that humanity is united in its use of sport as a form of civilised warfare br br apart from newsreel the footage seemed to have been shot on a budget in the confines of new york and there was little recognition of life as war in the rest of the world the gallery of faces waxworks gave only a nod to the existence of important personages outside of the usa the makers missed the point that globalisation does not mean br br the philip glass soundtrack sounded much like every other philip glass score i've heard with the possible exception of koyaanisqatsi and at best can be described as inoffensive neither adding to nor detracting from the chaotic imagery
0	people get a clue i mean the writers dont have one so i would expect you to this show is such a pale imitation of the show that you can laugh at it and the sixties show is the one with the cheap special effects and is in b w fer chrissakes yet the mood and the writing on the old show is miles ahead of this drivel get hip kids if 98 degrees or brittany told you to watch it you would you know it just bypass them and tell all your friends you were 'in' with the before it became too cool
0	i am a gigantic fan of both koyaanisqatsi and powaqqatsi but this movie is just not good the reviewer below is entirely correct that the stunning imagery of the detroit station is the first and last memorable scene in the film i really really wish i had left after that instead of continuing to hold out hope throughout the film maybe my expectations were too high but i felt let down br br the score is almost completely a rehash of the previous two not necessarily a bad thing if you're a fan but there's only one piece that stood out to me as being fresh it was good enough though that i'll still probably check out the soundtrack br br but just keep this in mind if you see this film if you come to realize at any point that you're not enjoying it go ahead and split you won't miss a thing because it won't get any better br br i'll even give the executive summary here warning spoilers lots of shots of athletes that look almost good enough for a nike commercial shots of smiling people inexplicably dull frontal head shots of famous people's wax dummies wtf were they thinking here some giggling babies some photoshop effects some imagery that's meant to suggest a comparison between the flows of water information money and people i think and then a bunch of quick unrelated scenes of mass violence and then a bunch of stock space footage br br i could remake this movie in 10 seconds here's my pitch br br 2 seconds of a happy daddy with a shaved head and lycra biking shorts playing with a toddler playing with a kitten playing with string 5 seconds of that scene in network where the guy talks about messing with the elemental forces of nature and how money flows in money flows out 1 second of reginald denny getting brained with a brick and then 3 seconds of alan bean bouncing around on the moon br br there you go that's 88 minutes and 50 seconds of your life i just saved of course i'd get a copy of after effects and apply a filter or two so it wouldn't look as blatantly stock as it is if steven soderbergh's reading this hey i won't even need much money for this project br br if you insist upon watching a movie about life as war i suggest bowling for columbine instead it may not have the pseudo intellectual veneer so fashionable among the black crowd but at least it's funny
0	this is a failure so complete as to make me angry br br all of the subtlety and structure of early films is gone leaving nothing but a hash of digitally smeared images whose sole purpose seems to be whining about bad things humans do just how do star trek like wormhole graphics slo mo colorized seascapes of obviously fake computer icons and shots of athletic competition that incidentally show that no one has ever been able to top or even match leni riefenstahl for filming bodies in motion edited together with an overlay of video colorization that a 1980s dr who producer would have rejected as too cheesy add up to a polemic against civilized violence there is no intellectual emotional or visceral connection between these images as assembled and mutated by and way too many digital effects artistes and the cautionary tale i assume he wanted to produce with all of the dramaturgical consultants involved no one seems to have pulled his head out the his own feeling of saying something important and considered that they might all be failing to say something new br br only people who watch too much television could make such a film and believe that it's meaningful this is kindergarten stan and ultimately gutless in its relentless obviousness the only irony and tension evident here unlike in koyaanisqatsi where the relentless beauty and strangeness of time altered ordinary images forced you to consider their meaning was when the dvd i was watching jammed and skipped this is mtv for the noam chomsky crowd based on reflex rather than reflection and signifying nothing two stars for the music which is in glass's best cesar franck style and features some passionate cello from yo yo ma i hope for his sake that he didn't have to record his parts to a playback of the film there are some things you shouldn't have to do even for a paycheck
0	what a disappointment i've enjoyed the jon cleary books about malone but there's little resemblance between him and the cinematic malone in the books he's a city detective who is devoted to his wife and doesn't get involved in fisticuffs for the film the character has been spiced up into an outback copper who uses his fists and isn't averse to jumping into bed with a gorgeous girl though quite what she and the film's other sex interest see in him i don't know taylor was 39 at the time and his face was getting puffy br br but his character's stamina is remarkable he flies in from australia apparently goes straight to the house rather unwisely seeking to arrest him during a black tie reception saves him from assassination getting into a fight in the process goes to a casino with one girl leaves with another and takes her to bed so much for jet lag on the way back to the house showing a good knowledge of london back streets he gets beaten up by the baddies but is still first down to breakfast it's also remarkable that the limo has its windscreen and headlights miraculously repaired within minutes of the assassination attempt and that one character has a touching faith in the precise of a clock activated bomb br br the best thing is joseph the butler's disdain for the uncouth malone and at least the film avoids being a london travelogue though some scenes take place during the tennis week
0	if any movie ever made italians look bad this is it br br duke mitchell what an a hole duke mitchell i s t on your grave seeing as practically every person gunned down in this film by the cowardly mimi is either black or of some other racial or ethnic minority it's hard not to become convinced that the guy ultimately owes his allegiance to the ku klux klan or skinheads awww but he doesn't shoot the little black kid in the elevator in the opening sequence so that means he can't be all bad right wrong typical sentimental tripe br br while i do understand why some people might be struck by and even to a certain extent admire the film's audacious totally un pc verve it's certainly unashamed of its own hatefulness and sense of self involvement but this doesn't change the fact that the main character mimi and by extension duke mitchell is thoroughly loathsome human being who earns not one iota of empathy or interest especially given that duke mitchell is such a complete bore as a performer but what do you expect from a guy whose main claim to fame apart from this dog t d of a movie was being a second rate dean martin imitator
0	that is the answer the question is what is the single reason to watch this movie i loved her in my name is julia ross that is one of the best films noir of all time noir or whatever one may call it it's a very unsettling movie br br she is fun in one of the worst major studio releases of all time too that would be the guilt of janet ames this one has a spooky promising title it has a good cast it has a fine director i was expecting something dark maybe something a little tawdry instead it's an uninspired routine espionage movie it's pretty much is a total bore at least it was to me ms foch is captivating and that is about it
0	we've all got to start somewhere it was in films like escape in the fog that somebody like budd boetticher could learn his trade before turning out good films in fact the film was dated before it even hit the movie going public on june 25 1945 br br the war on europe was over for almost two months of course not even harry cohn could control the events of history so i'm wondering why even back then the public didn't question why a nazi spy ring was helping out the japanese another very bad historical inaccuracy was that the fbi had nothing to do with the pacific or asian theater the cloak and dagger stuff was the territory of the oss in that part of the world br br when you're an fbi man like william wright it sure good to have a psychic girl friend like nina foch he's about to go on a mission to the orient to deliver the names of key underground leaders to start a general uprising in china against the japanese occupation germans who've been bugging otto house learn of this and the whole movie is spent with these guys who've already lost the war trying to help their allies who by the way they refer to as 'japs' when foch is sideswiped by a speeding car and knocked unconscious she dreams about wright's danger and sees what is about to happen to him on the golden gate bridge she goes there and foils the plot br br all the stuff you'd expect from a nice noir film is there the foggy atmosphere of san francisco the dimly lit sets budd boetticher tried his best as did the cast but they just weren't convincing probably because they didn't believe this claptrap themselves br br it's possible but not likely that nina foch's dream and its psychic consequences might have been more developed and the developments were left on the cutting room floor i think it was just a lousy screenplay br br and budd and harry cohn at columbia pictures had the fast moving events of history going against them here
0	a tedious effort from not yet great director budd boetticher and pretty but not yet un bland actress nina foch this movie is as one of the other reviewers notes is the quintessence of a certain kind of b movie it's just not the good kind and a promising premise and an overactive fog machine is wasted br br basic plot nina a nurse on leave from wartime duties on account of her nerves has a nightmare she meets a dashing fellow at the resort where she's giving her nerves a breather and realizes he's in the dream even though she's never met him before meanwhile it turns out our dashing guy is working as a spy and is about to go on an extra secret hush hush mission that must not fail br br of course there are nazis and plot holes and smart people acting in a fashion most likely to get them into entirely unnecessary scrapes so that the running time can be spun out past an hour at the end the movie becomes a contest between which group of spies can act more foolishly if the fbi and oss had acted like this crew we'd have lost the war in '42 br br the movie itself is rather flatly shot despite the best efforts of the fog machine and the acting as it seems to be in many of the columbia bs tcm has been showing lately is curiously unengaged it's less stylized than what one might find from a similarly budgeted warner bros movie but also less fun to watch br br strength of course is a rather matter of fact style which allows the strong stories and acting in his randolph scott westerns to come to the fore maybe the problem here is that such a style is not going to work when the script is lousy and the actors tired from their five film a year schedule
0	this version of the magic flute is not only the worst production of mozart's great opera that i have ever seen it is also the worst video production i have seen of any opera br br i'm a big opera fan and i have more opera on dvd than movies the sets are cheap and cheesy doesn't even have a bird costume he is just dressed like some guy the sound is in mono the color is really bad it is saturated in orange most dvd's from this period have the color digitally restored but they did not bother with this one also the language has been changed to swedish instead of the original german br br this is not a movie version of the magic flute it is a filmed performance and it is not a good performance and it was not filmed very well you can pick any other available dvd of this opera and i guarantee it will be better than this one my preference is for the version conducted by james levine with sets by david
0	the positives it's shot pretty well has some interesting peripheral characters likable main character albeit weak br br the bad plot story editing characters wasted jessica alba br br i'm a fan of sappy movies but this movie is cringe bad i don't understand how anyone can hand over 12m to this guy and before i go any further i just want to say that i don't dislike jessica alba i really wanted to like her in this film however jessica alba in her fake accent and her model poses made me miserable she has absolutely no screen presence in this movie and she ruins every scene she's in needless to say the romance does not come off as believable not even a tiny bit br br all i saw throughout was the actors flapping their wings trying to get this thing off the ground with what little they were given but sadly all this movie does is sink there is no emotional connection no emotional conflict and nothing is gained it's a pretty empty movie
0	like the beauty of the jungle jessica alba's gorgeous smile and sultry looks loom over the film but alas they are the only two things worth watching this film for when in theory we should be watching for the narrative br br the plot is thin on the ground and hard to believe as beautiful as jessica alba is she doesn't add any of the spark that she injected into the credible 'dark angel' series since dark angel it seems that alba has been reduced to mere eye candy but what eye candy and is the sole reason for putting her into films br br the concept of the sleeping dictionary is daft and implausible with little character development or character for that matter to make us want to undertake the 109 minutes run time with this world despite the films short running time it still manages to feel to long and too laboured br br it seems a shame that such talent such as brenda blethyn emily mortimer bob hoskins are wasted on a threadbare narrative which barely raises a pulse this film seriously misses a trick an exotic setting a more than capable cast with lovely cinematography and a chance to utilise the themes and the concepts of but there is little narrative to speak of no drama no sense we are watching a story of love more a story of lust and woman happy to please men without question lets be honest if jessica alba was freely allowing you to sleep with her do you seriously think you'd be able to concentrate on learning a tribal language therein lies the great problem both in suspension of disbelief and also what the female characters are limited and reduced to take for example the fact that jessica alba's character undergoes the mental and physical tribulation of pregnancy and birth to her forbidden love yet all we see is her looking lovely and curvy one minute then lovely and curvy with a baby the next br br it's a sorry state of affairs to see a film with promise not live up to anything near it's potential i could write endlessly of the films flaws but it pains me to do so the film looks good the premise could have been made into a lovely film but sadly it wasn't to be
0	o dear god i suffered having to watch this film four times in my sisters house and was it dreadful a story of sex and guns and very cheap unexplained acting unless you are at gunpoint being told to watch this avoid it ja rule just proved he cannot act ving rhames also gave the most dreadful acting ever in any of his films there was not one part of this film made me laugh or make me jump or feel any emotion i would be surprised people actually enjoyed this i have seem some dreadful films in my life but this would be in my five worst films ever the music in it wasn't good and the storyline i think was made up by a couple of guys who ordered a pizza and just sat down wrote ten bullet points and then made it into a film absolutely dreadful
0	yes it's true that it was jessica alba who leads me to this movie because without her i should have never pick it br br but i find it long dull and above all unoriginal all along i thought that the story was full of clichés and the directing very boring so it was a surprise to see that the director and writer are the one and same person i take notice to remember to avoid all his next movies br br it's a pity because all good things were at hand malaysia is a beautiful jungle it was the british empire and the cast is wonderful jessica knows how to open her soul and for one time she has found an appropriate movie for this bob hoskins shows a great experience and he should have won an award for this role br br the only positive thing is that it makes me open a world map to locate this island because if you guess it happens in south asia you don't know where exactly ah the little plane flight with red lines in the indiana jones movie
0	i just saw a terrible film called the sleeping dictionary one reviewer on four word film review www com got it right right when he wrote from a to the story is about an english colonialist jerk that comes to malaysia to the savages so to speak and ends up falling in love with his sleeping dictionary a sleeping dictionary is a native malaysian prostitute fluent in english that services englishmen colonialists and teaches them her native language in return for well the movie never really makes that clear but i can only assume he gives her money or something needless to say the movie focuses a lot more on the sleeping part than on the dictionary part of the job description things get complicated for our young hero when the forbidden love affair gets compounded by her culture his soap opera domestic situation and his own boundless stupidity in every major decision he makes throughout the film br br so yes the movie has some major flaws but on the other hand it delivered exactly the two things i rented it for in the first place a beautifully photographed exotic location and an even more beautifully photographed and exotic woman that plays the sleeping dictionary jessica alba my friend told me that this crappy movie was her at her most beautiful and damn was he right she's not a great actress and doesn't quite pass for malaysian and its pretty obvious that they use a body double for the nudity but who cares jessica alba has that rare face and figure that's more than just sexy but also beautiful in the way that a vivaldi violin concerto or a rembrandt painting is br br p s sorry to all you feminists out there who discourage women the male gaze etc etc but i hope you can understand that i mean no disrespect
0	based on a fairly bland best seller this film like most other lifetime movies played out more like a reenactment than an actual movie the only difference here was that meredith baxter wasn't in it the women in this don't age even over a span of like 20 years and the acting in general is pretty bad br br the characters in this were all cliché and one dimensional the story was of the cheesy nature i wouldn't recommend it but it's the kind of thing that people who loved the book and people who watch that network all the time will think is great i only watched it because my girlfriend wanted to see it so she wouldn't have to read the book her sister loaned to her it wasn't made for someone like me my girlfriend cried a little at the end though so she didn't think it was as terrible as i did
0	who is minding the store here how could any producer network executive director let a crew stick the fakest plastic palm trees in film history in the sands of a wintry canadian beach and try to fob it off on us as the tropics those trees were to real palm trees what a pink tinsel k mart christmas tree is to real and who let dermot mulroney go in front of the camera with painted on grey hair that wouldn't have passed muster in a high school play and didn't any of the geniuses doing quality control on this thing think to correct the excellent canadian actor when he said gaz instead of gas everybody involved with this plodding slug of a movie writer director actors has done not just good but brilliant work elsewhere paced way too fast between events and deadly slow within them devoid of any emotion except the obvious expository and contrived maybe this only seems like one of lifetime's worst movie because of all the red carpet hype with which it was presented and i'm saying this as somebody who love lifetime what gives folks br br all of that said a certain actress's work at a certain critical turn in the movie and if you've seen it you'll know exactly what i'm talking about was so brilliant that the movie would have gotten a 10 from me if that was the whole movie unfortunately it was only about five seconds of it
0	the memory keeper's daughter in the form of a novel by kim edwards was a highly successful bestseller and probably was featured in more reading groups than any other novel during its circulation so what happened when the novel became a made for television movie perhaps it is the below mediocre screenplay oops teleplay by john that consistently along in an awkward pedestrian fashion removing all sense of credibility to the story perhaps it is the cut and paste direction by mick jackson that misses the pacing and character delineation perhaps it suffers from the cinematography of an uncredited source or the musical score by daniel for whatever of these or all of these reasons this novel to film survives because it does make a good case for educating the public about the capabilities of those born with down syndrome and for that it is worthy of attention br br dr david henry dermot mulroney a successful orthopedic doctor is married to the beautiful norah gretchen mol and their lives are becoming changed by their pregnancy on a stormy winter night in kentucky norah goes into labor and the henry's rush to a nearby clinic where david delivers his wife the doctor is caught in a snowstorm with the assistance of his old friend nurse caroline gill emily watson after the delivery of a perfect boy child paul norah continues to be in labor and surprisingly delivers an unexpected twin girl david and caroline immediately recognize that the little girl phoebe is a this is before the use of the term down syndrome and david having a history of losing a little sister because of a birth defect decides to send phoebe to an asylum for the mentally challenged caroline is to make the delivery and norah is told the second twin died at birth br br caroline follows instructions sees the conditions of the 'home' where phoebe is to be deposited shrinks in horror and decides to keep the child aided by a friendly trucker caroline changes her solitary existence and mothers phoebe finding a new life in her pittsburgh norah insists on a formal funeral for phoebe a fact that deeply disturbs david's psyche and the henry's life goes on with only the one child paul leaving submerged pains about the lack of presence norah gifts david with a camera lives are like a camera that's where they live in a room captured by a moment' and david becomes obsessed with photography norah grieves drinks and loses david's attention while david traces existence with caroline sending money and letters to pittsburgh paul tyler to jamie grows up discovers his mother's infidelities and is angered about his father's lack of communication and understanding and decides to fulfill his goal of becoming a musician and off to he goes meanwhile phoebe krystal hope has matured into a very highly adapted young girl and the manner in which the broken marriage of the happens and the healing atmosphere of and paul's lives coupled with the courage that has supported caroline struggle to gain acceptance in the world for those born with down syndrome forms the conclusion of the film br br the cast of well known actors tries hard but only emily watson is able to resurrect a credible character from this squishy script jamie gives evidence of a young actor with much promise dermot mulroney and gretchen find it difficult to mold empathetic characters form the corny lines they are given to deliver the film is a mess but the message about acceptance of down syndrome children and adults is an important one grady harp
0	great book poorly done movie cheesy performances and contrived situations make this movie a sentimental bore fest flat and uninspired work from most of the actors leaves this film in the after school special category no doubt there is a lot of talent to be tapped in this cast and crew but something went horribly wrong the very talented gretchen mol attempts to pull this film out of the mire but even she can't seem to rise above the silly dialogue feels like everyone just phoned it in even the makeup mulrooney ages 20 years over the course of the film looks amateurish and crude don't waste your time on this clunker go read the book
0	this was the first chan film made by monogram what a come down from fox values and standards i was shocked when i saw my first monogram after seeing the great fox films this is boring and uninspired with wild music playing as chan calmly walks across the street chan is now working for the us secret service rather than the honolulu police department he is assisted by benson fong who plays no 3 son tommy for the first time he also has a daughter along iris chan played by marianne mantan moreland also makes his debut as birmingham brown he is a cab driver in washington dc here rather than the later chauffeur to chan in the later films
0	a true yawner and a bad film even for the chan series i like a good charlie chan film or even a reasonably good one but this one falls way short of the mark charlie is enlisted to help figure out the murder of a scientist working for our government when someone in the house has stolen the plans for another power the mystery is very pedestrian and the acting doesn't fare much better the only saving grace for me in the film was the presence of mantan moreland as birmingham brown he gives the film a little comedy and has some good scared faces but after that the pickings are rather slim benson fong is here as tommy chan and pairs up with chan's daughter of all things what about sidney toler he is pretty decent but looks like he is straining to carry the film what i noticed most was the way the film was shot chan director phil rosen of whom i generally like most of his entries uses lots of long shots with no action like charlie's initial walk into the house from outside why the film is only 64 minutes long for crying out loud shots like that tell me the director had to fill time up because the script was even weaker than he was accustomed to this probably isn't the worst chan film ever made but up to now it is the worst i have sat through unfortunately
0	this is a below average whodunit with the cliche everyone in the living room routine charlie chan is a secret service agent doing government work and he must find who killed a scientist working on a bomb to defeat german u boats in world war two there is little to recommend with this movie since the neither the bomb nor the scientist nor the war have much to do with the plot charlie chan fans will most likely find this movie disappointing who who cares
0	i honestly thought this movie was going to be cheesy even though i've liked alvin and the chipmunks for a long time i was was very wrong it was great it has been the best movie i have seen since october in my opinion it's the movie everyone should see this holiday season enchanted i thought anyway was awful the golden compass was alright but the ending was pretty crappy to his dark materials fans and i am legend well i haven't seen that yet or national treasures 2 but it looks alright br br i'm not about to give anything away but this movie is great for anyone especially kids
0	it is difficult to rate a writer director's first effort after all it is one more movie than i have written or directed james hunter wrote a story that was interesting but suffered from an uneven flow br br after all the idea that a man ja rule has to choose between the thug life and going straight is common and even falling in love with the daughter ali of the man you killed has been done doing it again demands something that is original and originality is lacking in this film br br i was drawn by the inclusion of so many favorites tia carrere lies wayne's world pam grier jackie brown frank langella dracula good night and good luck and ving rhames dawn of the dead they did not disappoint in their performances but they had little to work with br br direct to video is becoming more and more common but that doesn't mean it has to be a waste of time maybe the sophomore effort of hunter will be more enjoyable
0	the writers missed so many opportunities and created so many plot holes br br example when dave retrieved his keyboard from the rain i was eagerly anticipating the funny sounds that were going to come out of it nothing are you kidding me a truly witty writer would have not only had a field day with that but it would have eliminated the major problem of the entire audience wondering how a digital keyboard can become completely soaked but then work perfectly br br there were at least 10 other similar situations overall small children will enjoy this parents will endure it without too much complaining
0	i'm surprised to read all the positive comments on this movie even my 4 and 6 year old were bored the chipmunks are cute but the storyline is overly obvious not recommended for young ones with the least sophisticated tastes br br we did hear a few laughs from the audience while we were in attendance but i wondered why br br i don't admit to ever being a fan but i expected to be entertained it's not even an movie as far as i can tell simply a heavy handed view of too young we've seen more than enough of that with britney spears et al haven't we br br don't bother
0	you know the old saw about a train wreck the one about how you can't look away this movie isn't that good the only reason you're still there is because you brought your kids and you can't leave them alone in the theater you might catch a nap br br tim hill should never work in film again after delivering this awful piece of junk he manages to take a decent comic actor in jason lee and turn him into a robotic unsure actor in this production br br i didn't have much hope for this movie in the first place i admit if it weren't basically the only family film i could take my son to around christmas my wife and i wouldn't have gone god i wish we could go back in time and stop ourselves i leaned over to my wife about 10 minutes in to tell her what a stinker i thought it was but she beat me to the punch br br i'm not kidding it's putrid only david terrific as usual work saves this review from being only 1 star br br the story is cloying insulting and stupid as might be expected for a movie in this genre although the recent curious george was blissfully intelligent and enjoyable the acting is mostly poor the decision to update the chipmunks songs for today's audience was inadvisable at best and boneheaded at worst it does not work br br the chipmunks of old were clever mischievous and sly these chipmunks are dumb somewhat mean spirited obnoxious and in a surprise needy to the point of uselessness br br either as a retrospect a tribute or as a completely new production this film totally fails the final straw my son couldn't wait to leave spend your money renting curious george instead
0	when i finally got around to seeing this film recently it turned out to be exactly what it looked like to me at first glance yet another hollywood cg live action rehash of an established cartoon franchise nothing special or memorable whatsoever designed in every way possible to appeal to very young children and very immature adults making heavy use of comedic devices such as farts poo eating and the size of theodore's butt br br this film would bother me a lot less if it weren't such an obvious step down for the chipmunks even their characters i found were changed for the worse for this movie while in the past each one of them had a very distinct personality here they all behaved like immature smart alecky children with add constantly bouncing erratically off the walls it especially bothered me to see simon portrayed in this way he's supposed to be the smart serious nerd who acts as the straight man to alvin's crazy antics but here he's pretty much a carbon copy of alvin one joke in the film even implies that simon only thinks he's smart but really isn't and honestly if i had never heard of the chipmunks before seeing this film i would have agreed br br in my opinion this film is just another obvious cash grab and i'm more than a little sorry it was even made the fact that it's a kid's movie doesn't excuse its flaws to excuse a stupid movie that degrades a classic franchise just because it's for children is insulting to children and any kid would deserve something more intelligent than this film
0	as cute and adorable as they are the story of three singing chipmunks just doesn't seem to have enough meat to it to sustain it for an hour and a half i thought that the first half hour or so of this movie was well worth watching it was fun it had a few laughs in it it was full of energy then it somehow just lost that i wouldn't even say it faded away because it seemed quite abrupt to me the fun was gone the laughter disappeared my daughter noticed it too she's 4 she laughed uproariously several times in that first part of the movie then her laughter stopped perhaps it took on too serious a tone the evil movie producer working the chipmunks to death something happened anyway and it wasn't for the better br br of course the movie is trying to tell the story of how the chipmunks alvin simon and theodore began everyone knows the christmas song here we discover how they met dave and got their start the movie is updated to the present time although their real origin is noted by dave's street address of 1958 which was the year when the animated singing rodents were first created jason lee did a pretty good job as dave and the chipmunk voices were also pretty good david cross as the evil ian irritated me to be blunt and i couldn't figure out the point of the character of claire played by cameron richardson she added little to the movie it's a movie you can watch with the kids it's probably a movie you'd only want to watch with the kids in fact it gets a 4 10 from me
0	i went into this movie with semi high expectations after loving the cartoon series in my childhood and this nearly wrecked that love for me jason lee david seville in the film is horrifying i understand it can't be easy to act with cgi characters who aren't actually there but i really found his performance atrocious along with all the other non animated characters the chipmunks were adorable yet sometimes blatantly obvious at moving the plot of the story along and therefore did not tempt me to stay in the theater for longer than half an hour into the film if you feel you must see this film rent it at the most it is not worth eight bucks to see it in theaters unless you'd like a good laugh at the horrible acting
0	something of a disappointment lee j cobb is the anti union head of garments in new york his partner in the business is killed when an elevator is unleashed and plunges twenty seven floors to the bottom of the shaft in the scariest scene in the film br br cobb doesn't know it or doesn't let himself realize it but the man behind the killing is richard boone who protects the business from union organizers br br then son kerwin mathews returns from europe determined to learn the business and join his father in running a clean shop he's shocked shocked to learn that boone has been clobbering the union members and killing a few who have become irretrievably irritating br br robert loggia is one of the organizers who is killed by a couple of boone's goons led by wesley addy loggia leaves behind a widow gia scala with whom mathews understandably and takes up br br in the end cobb pays for his self deception addy and boone get their just desserts and mathews winds up with the succulent scala after whom an opera house is named br br there isn't a sparkle in any line of dialog a couple of lines are stolen verbatim from on the waterfront you'll talk yourself right into the grave the plot is schematic and holds absolutely no surprises vincent sherman's direction is pedestrian the photography is flat an uninspired though there are a couple of nice shots of new york streets br br lee j cobb can act in this case it must have been easy for him because he replays johnny friendly from on the waterfront only this time with a soft heart richard boone can act too joseph wiseman in a minor part does a good job gia scala hits her marks says what the script demands and does what the director tells her to a stunning woman her life soured early on the director and photographer do a good job on wesley addy he has white hair a face eyes the color of a glacial lake and he's sometimes shot through a wide angle lens than turns his surprisingly fleshy lips into those of some kind of parasitic fish i don't see him as a low tier muscle man though he and boone should have switched roles harold j stone is his reliable self although he's forced to be more italian as tony than comes naturally to him nobody else in anything resembling a major part is more than mediocre and some performers don't clear even that bar kerwin mathews may be a nice guy in real life but he's blandly sterile and belongs in domestic dramas on afternoon television br br great title suggestive of intrigue and shadows some good people in the cast a potentially explosive expose of a business nobody knows much about but which deals in megabucks br br and it all comes out like this
0	tom stern and jeremy slate are swing bachelor's planning to hijack a casino ala ocean's 11 and pin it on the hell's angels bad move for a film with the words hell's angels and the number 69 and featuring actual hell's angels this movie is surprisingly tame the hell's angels truly deserve a better film to be centered around them not this luckily this is one of the dvds that features commentary by joe bob briggs so the pain of having to sit through it is greatly if you watch it any other way let me recommend something to you don't br br my grade d br br dvd extras joe bob commentary conny van dyke's message to her fans she has more than one photo gallery theatrical trailer and trailers for blood shack hell high samurai cop and the hollywood strangler
0	the hell's angels did come out the losers in this movie sonny stated to the director that nobody does this to the angles and gets away with it his version was the two dudes were to be to death but his suggestion was ignored they were stoops to even appear much less be technical advisers in a stink bomb of a movie like this hell's angles on jap bikes c'mon although in sonny's autobiography he says f k harley davidson and that if they was smart they would be riding read his auto he hates harleys can you imagine the angels whispering into town on their sewing machine sounding jap bikes not too intimidating they would get laughed out of town
0	steve smith has finally run a fairly weak series right into the ground with this movie poor actors thrashing a horrible script pretty much sums this one up two hours of your life you'll never get back go get a root canal instead you'll enjoy it more
0	why did i buy this movie on dvd well the short answer would be i really don't know as for the longer version it pretty much comes down to the fact that i genuinely like ali and she plays alicia in this br br now does ali give a genuinely good effort in this movie i must say that it is one of the better and she is shaping up to be a rather decent actress i am very much looking forward to see her in action when better material will be available br br this being said this movie was terrible and my score is given based on this 1 star for not being the worst movie i've seen 1 star for the performance of ali and 1 star for not thinking that it only deserves 2 stars there are worse movies for that br br ja rule should stick to rapping not my favourite rapper to say the least but some seem to like him and if he is contained there i would be delighted not to see him contaminate the acting scene br br ving rhames ah man wallace what are you doing here you used to be cool man just because michael caine is a fiercely brilliant actor who has been in so many terrible flicks as well as good you don't have to copy him ving br br the rest of the semi big names in the cast it's ok there are bills to be paid and we all have to do things we're not proud of time to time br br the movie itself it so massively flawed it's pretty difficult to know where to start it's more like a bunch of scenes thrown in together as were the director to say we need to tell this and we need to tell that there is a story unfortunately there is nothing surprising about or within it to say the least the plot changes in the story were overly obvious and it was therefore predictable what was going to happen all the time br br to sum up in one word
0	essentially this is a dreadful film with a few features that may or may not redeem it for you depending on how much you want them to in opening up the red green show for the big screen the filmmakers jettisoned the rustic charm carefully honed over a decade's worth of episodes set in and around lodge in favor of a blandly photographed road movie with a ghastly faux hollywood big musical score and profoundly boring storyline that's not embellished with enough good gags to make it as entertaining as even the most mediocre episode of the tv series br br having devised a plotline that keeps most of the members of lodge offscreen for most of the film and requires virtually everyone concerned to be despicably mean to the loveable harold who's the hero of the film the usually crusty red being relegated in this incarnation to nothing more than the role of head harold abuser the only performers who really get to shine are patrick mckenna and peter as harold and ranger who deliver satisfyingly large screen versions of their small screen characters
0	i waited a long time to finally see what i thought was going to be a fun caper flick and was shocked to discover shoddy direction awkward dialogue a lackluster pace unmotivated slapstick gags and an overall coarseness that permeated the film throughout just not funny the sets looked cheap the costumes by the usually excellent are garish and distracting even the title song is annoying the whole children's book characters doesn't come close to representing the married couple whose life is turned upside down when he loses his job for a film that seems to aim a dart at the unfairness of welfare and unemployment systems the filmmakers have no problem in being unfair themselves allowing hispanic black and gay stereotypes played at such a cruel level the look of the film resembles any episode of love american style this is not a compliment tacky seventies fashions abound in this world of white collar theft that only lends an air of implausibility to every situation outside of a clever initial idea and two capable stars in jane fonda and george segal this dated exercise in social commentary comes off as forced and mean spirited to minorities especially to gay people if you want a better caper film you're better off with the hot rock with george segal and robert redford or what's up doc with ryan o'neal and barbra streisand now that's funny
0	this film without doubt is one of the worst i have seen it was so boring that i simply could not wait for it to end i talked my girlfriend into watching it after this site had good reviews and after even 30 mins in she looked at me as if to say your nuts the scenery was as boring as the film with nothing but driving around in the car looking at the wind blowing bits of bush around the acting was un inspiring and the film was simply a waste of what have been a good idea into a waste of a br br guy pierce should have stuck to neighbours as at least he washed his hair all he done was talk on his phone but yet sold nothing as a salesman he would have been sacked weeks before his girlfriend once in coyote ugly should have remained dancing on the bar as at least she looked hot in that br br the guy who played vincent those who watched know was so annoying with his phone calls that any normal person would have drove to his house and hit him with a bit of 4 by 2 br br i do not on this earth know what anyone liked about it i actually want people to watch this to suffer the torture i went through
0	what can i say not much to this one at all pretty dull and uninteresting br br the actors performances are just ok the only one that shines in any way is simmons but he only has maybe 3 scenes i understand that by keeping his screen time to a minimum he retains the mysterious psychic aura he has but i can't help but feel his talent was wasted no one else rose above mediocre br br the story itself seems like it may be intriguing at the beginning but then just doesn't go anywhere there wasn't a single scene in the movie that impressed me or made me feel like i had just seen something special the cinematography was fairly bland i mean desert in a washed out sort of sepia not very inspiring br br the story of his childhood pal back outta prison seemed only partially thought out and didn't really add anything to the story other than making an average 'twilight zone' script into a full length feature br br drab
0	first snow has an intriguing beginning a traveling salesman has his fortune told by an old man who's predictions turn out to be amazingly correct from this point on the movie plays out like a bloated twilight zone episode i mean nothing but car trips phone calls and paranoia william fichtner gives his usual interesting performance but guy pierce is anything but a sympathetic character disregarding other people's well being for the sake of his own paranoia the ending is especially weak with absolutely no payoff for the long suffering audience do yourself a big favor and avoid this one not recommended merk
0	what is night vision well according to the star williamson let's see one package store owner says to him 'it's getting dark to which he replies 'it makes for better 'night vision ' what in the hell does that mean in fact what in the hell is this movie trying to say it has plot holes that you could drive the killer's van through not to mention a cop on duty drinking robert forster sleepwalking through this bizarre attempt at cashing in on the serial killer craze and a killer who videos his murders that's actually all i remember br br the film took place in texas had a few car chases and a clichéd ending perhaps if one watches this film with their eyes closed it might be good after all without being able to see it it would make for better night vision did that make sense nope and neither does this film
0	trying to catch a serial killer did they ever think of tracking the license plate number of the black van or fingerprint the video tapes he sent oh brother the plot of this movie was so full of holes it was pathetic now i know why there are bad movies in the world this one however was one of the worst
0	the only reason i bought this dvd is because cynthia rothrock is in it now everybody knows she is the queen of martial arts b movies the trouble is this is not a martial arts movie cynthia rothrock has about a minute or so of fight scenes in this stupid movie now if you were a film maker and you had cynthia rothrock in your movie would'nt you want to have a lot of martial arts action all she does in this movie is walk around looking bored just like i was when i watched this pile of crap i own a lot of her movies and they are all b movies but at least they had some cool fight scenes in them if you are a martial arts fan avoid this no matter what i'm still mad i wasted 4 dollars to buy this dvd
0	fred the hammer williamson delivers another cheaply made movie he might have set a new standard for himself look for the painfully obvious special effects mortar cannon that is visible in the street during a chase scene you don't see it just once you see it several times look for the out of focus shot in one scene and the camera operator try to fix it as the scene rolls on watch this with a group of people and make your own mystery science theater
0	fred williamson one of the two or three top blaxploitation stars cynthia rothrock one of the two or three top american female action stars imagine a film with these two together for the first time now imagine the worst film that could possibly be made with these two together for the first time welcome to night vision of course this movie was made in 1997 and they were both past their prime but that doesn't mean they didn't have what it takes anymore they just needed the help of good writing and direction they got neither here rothrock does get to throw a couple of kicks near the end but this film is so atrocious that you probably won't be awake to see them
0	i'm usually a fan of art and foreign films but when i saw this one my reaction was it must be called experimental because it makes no sense the action is static while at the same time it bounces from one location to another there aren't enough titles to make it clear who is who and what their relationships are apparently the main point was to show that in the face of murder adultery and generally weird and dissolute behavior the cure offered by the powers that be is to banish a totally innocent black man
0	unlike most of the reviewers of this particular movie i'm really not the much of a cynthia rothrock fan to say the least however when i saw that the movie had fred williamson and robert forster both great actors i just had to watch the film williamson is a dakota smith an alcoholic cop who is to scrubbing toilets with a toothbrush and even worse having to team up with cynthia at the behest of the captain robert forster forster is always watchable it's just a crying shame that the movie itself is so damn trite and clichéd it also features one of the least terrifying villains ever to be committed to celluloid williamson would return to the dakota character in a few more films the next one being down n dirty br br eye candy nina richardson shows some t a mary goes topless br br my grade d br br where i saw it showtime extreme
0	by far the most racist and cartoon for children 7 kids who watch this cartoon will most likely try to dress talk and act like the characters portrayed i am disappointed in nickelodeon and nick jr for agreeing to air this terrible program the wayan's brothers may be good in movies meant for the young adult viewers they should stick to the movies and not make any more episodes for this cartoon usually the young celebs start off working in movies and doing voice overs for cartoons and then as they grow older they move up to programs for young adults a good example is nick cannon he first started out with appearing in all that later on he starred in mib ii then drumline and now his tv show nick cannon presents wild 'n out where comedians compete by telling inappropriate jokes this comment was originally for but i wanted to show examples of how celebs kids watched on tv not long ago can become those who get involved with non kid friendly programs it is very sad that this happens but all celebs change and grow up it is just the opposite with the wayan's brothers new cartoon it is bad enough we have to deal with all the bad people from the ghettos with allowing the young generation watch this program it will just convert the kids with possibilities to the ones who don't have a chance at a good life just my feelings on this cartoon and my beliefs on what will happen to our children if they were to watch it
0	this cartoon is not right lol i totally disagree with a lot of things it portrayed however it ended on a positive note but as for me and mine we will not be viewing this in our household mainly because we fight against stereotypes every day and this cartoon just confirms what most white people feel black people act like br br the comment one of the little black girls made on the cartoon was that her boyfriend was so conscious he was white that really offended me that's not something we as black people take lightly conscious is a state of being that black people achieve when they realize their true ability
0	this movie is silly and very short of being a funny movie unhappy are not pleased with being out west so they hire a drunk wagon master john candy to lead them back east sight gags were just not funny enough to carry this one and richard lewis gets on your nerves very quickly but then i honestly don't like him at anything he does ed lauter is hilarious as the bumbling villain br br the movie was dedicated to candy he died from a massive heart attack ten days before the movie was completed a stand in and digital enhancement enabled candy's character to be seen in the final scenes candy was a very good comedian and gave us some real good knee slapping belly laughs in his career this movie was just not the caliber of his best br br also in the film you will recognize william sanderson gailard sartain ethan phillips ellen greene and rodney a grant
0	wagons east is widely known as john candy's last movie as he died on the set that's just what makes it so sad not simply that candy suffered a fatal heart attack but that it was on the set of such a crummy movie seriously i don't know what they were thinking when they came up with this piece of crap but the flick has no redeeming qualities it's as if they took every unused script for stupid westerns and just mixed them together and filmed it no wonder john candy didn't want to make the movie maybe his contractual participation was what did him in br br anyway the point is that candy did much better than this throughout his career to be certain he had already completed michael moore's canadian bacon in which the united states declares war on canada just stick with that one and you can say that candy ended his career honorably as for richard lewis who previous had co starred with candy in eugene absurd but hilarious once upon a crime he made up for this piece of crap by frequently guest appearing on countdown with keith in later years
0	john candy was very much a hit or miss comic actor his death was a tragedy and we all miss him a lot but wagons east in which he plays a bumbling who agrees to take a group of pioneers out of the wild west is even sadder i don't understand why it was even released the story is pointless and weak and the jokes aren't there it saddens me even further that candy's last film would be his all time worst movie so let's forget all about this one and remember him in his better films such as summer rental planes trains and automobiles and uncle buck br br 0 out of 5
0	wagons east was a big disappointment for me but the saddest thing about this movie is that it turned out to be john candy's last film role he died just before shooting was completed on this there are only a few laughs throughout this western spoof and for a comedy that doesn't cut it if you want to see a uproarious spoof of western movies the answer is obvious see mel brooks' classic blazing saddles or if you want to see candy in much better material see summer rental spaceballs or uncle buck just to name a few these three movies as well as others shows us what a great comic actor he was wagons east does not what a shame br br out of four
0	jeff fahey has such alert eyes and a insidious smile that every character he plays seems villainous therefore it doesn't really work to cast him as the good guy of the piece the audience is just waiting for his character to crack and start blowing people away drew barrymore fresh off her acclaimed role as poison ivy must have done this film simply as a favor to director phedon papamichael he was the cinematographer on ivy playing a character named daisy drew she's bumped off right away which leaves us with no one to look at but jeff fahey and sean young who hasn't had a single subtle moment on camera since blade runner this witless script by michael angeli concerns a police sketch artist who draws his own wife's face from a murder testimony and while that's not a bad idea for a plot it would be much better suited to an hour long tv series this cable made movie is short on inspiration beginning with the casting and shorter on surprises from
0	in the aftermath of september 11th in new york this drama about american firefighters was conceived as a salute and tribute to their professionalism the story is told with a series of flashbacks where after firefighter jack morrison joaquin phoenix has crashed through the floor of a burning building and only communicating with captain mike kennedy john travolta via the radio the flashbacks basically show how jack grows from being a recruit seeing kennedy as a father figure to being a firehouse legend of course in the present day jack's fellow firefighters are trying to reach him but they are too late and in the end he lets them leave him and it forwards to his funeral where he is praised as one of the best firefighters they have known also starring barrett as linda morrison terminator 2's robert patrick as lenny richter morris chestnut as tommy drake billy burke as dennis balthazar getty as ray and tim as tony corrigan the blazes of the film are ultimately all i could pay attention to and enjoy seeing the characters tackle them the rest is a bit too chatty for my liking adequate
0	first off i'm not a firefighter but i'm in some kind of para firefighting unit the guys who get called if an earthquake hits and the real firefighters need more people for so i had some training and simulation but i have no real life experience br br but still there are some points one notices as totally unbelievable i can understand that they removed the mouth nose pieces of the masks and that there is not enough smoke because the public would otherwise see nothing but some things defy logic br br no second mask attached to the oxygen how the hell do you want to rescue people trough the smoke without one br br rappelling people no it's not done like that i'd be screaming too if somebody hitched a rope around me in that fashion and hung me from a building if i could scream that is and not pass out from want of air because the rope squeezes my lungs the second time when they're jack it's better but still weird br br aim high no you bloody don't you always fight fire from as low as possible you don't fight want to sprinkle flames you'll want to the fire and that's below the flames br br no discipline they're running around like chicken and they shout all the time instead of using radio and keeping discipline br br no tactics why don't they work in teams of at least two you still can get separated but it takes much more than if everyone just scurries around alone in search for victims br br do they really enter buildings without bringing water i europe firefighters would never enter a burning building without br br firefighters on the roof wtf do they think they're doing there without security lines or water exploding rooms wood and brick does not explode suddenly br br the better points are actually camaraderie and the other non firefighting parts of the movie it's a lot of kitsch but that's alright i'll give it a point for this
0	this experimental silent film made in switzerland by an independent british film company is chiefly remembered as paul robeson's first film it's very artistic with shots often seeming meaningless to the story which is difficult to understand anyway because of the lack of enough inter titles from what i gathered robeson's wife is in an inter racial love affair with a white man called thorne it doesn't bother the cigar chomping owner of the bar hotel where thorne lives and she seems to be having a lesbian relationship with a barmaid but an old lady expresses the town's point of view in an inter title if i had my way we wouldn't allow negroes in here thorne is also called lover by someone in the bar tries a reconciliation with pete robeson but eventually leaves him wife astrid goes off the deep end brandishes a knife cuts arm and cheek and somehow dies thorne must have been accused of murder because we learn he was acquitted as for pete he gets a letter from the mayor telling him it is best for everyone that he leave town so the film is more about racism than anything but in an up note the owner tells pete the sad thing is they think they're right that's the way we are the meaning of the title is a mystery it may refer to being light skinned a borderline negro or to the borderline behavior of of the main characters
0	this film basically try to portray the heroism of firefighters by making the whole movie revolve around a american dad with a good heart that puts others before himself now i know they try to show jack morrison joaquin phoenix as a typical american father that is a firefighter but like there is just nothing interesting in about him what so ever thus when the movie gets to the climax there is just little to no emotion this movie basically tries to make the life of a firefighter exciting but it just comes off as boring as any other jobs except you save lives or property by extinguishing the fire john travolta plays the captain of the fire station but anyone could have played his role and he is a dull character as the rest of the film what could have been a good film is that the firefighter are put way up as heroes because they are firemen and turns the whole scenario into a uninteresting melodrama br br 4 9 10
0	this really is a cringe making exercise dressed up as a tribute to fire fighters it contain stupid scenes of we're just a bunch of wacky guys in the midst of the my goodness this can be really dangerous parts mostly it is just plain dumb you couldn't believe for a single minute that real fire fighters act like this it is so awful i couldn't bear to watch at times if my daughter hadn't rented it and then insisted on seeing it through to the end i would have had no option but to turn it off br br thing is i'm a john travolta fan every interview of his i've seen just raises my opinion of him i think this was one strictly for the money i'm sure he'll be happy when this one gets forgotten
0	one of the worst movies ever made let's start with the superficial joaquin phoenix is first of all too fat to be a rookie fireman the nyfd does not recruit pillsbury dough boys john travolta has a bad dye job and the strange gleam in his eye throughout the movie made me think that he was on some sort of extended scientology bender the plot hits on all the tropes and clichés of what the average joe believes life as a firefighter is really like they all get drunk get into fights have a hard time expressing their emotions their wives all stay at home crying they all have father issues everyone has a boston accent et cetera an execrable piece of that plays on our lingering cultural hero worship of firefighters after 9 11 which was by the way valid cultural hero worship this film unfortunately presents no believable heroes to worship
0	wow thank god i was on an airplane and could look out the window bad hollywood fire scenes predictable terribly acted who the hell was that awful woman who played the wife badly casted awfully written this movie was apparently made to appeal to the type of person who's willing to kneel at the alter of either firemen specifically heroes or gods in general i suppose i just don't have enough bad things to say about this film it couldn't have been cheap either with all the stars that were in it plus all those special effects and fire scenes had to have cost a fortune yet it still sucked worse than any movie i can even remember seeing funeral scene astonishingly bad courtship between fireman and aforementioned awful woman corny contrived trite firehouse pranks don't we all wish we could be both so manly and churlish at the same time
0	is there a fire fighter cliché that is not used in this film from the opening line i'm getting too old for this through the antics of the firemen to the worrisome wife the loss of his best friend in the firehouse to the final funeral for the fallen brethren this film looks and sounds like it was written by the marketing department at disney our studies show that audiences really like it when and then they stuck it in br br there is nothing original here any emotion we feel for these guys is brought in for our admiration and feelings for firemen br br go watch rescue me if you want to see real heroes everyday guys with flaws that think nothing of running into a burning building to save strangers
0	as much as i respect firefighters for what they do i was unimpressed and bored with this film the acting was ok but joaquin phoenix was a poor casting choice to say the least br br what bothered me the most about this film was the celtic music whining on and on and on at the worst possible time in the film the directing and continuity was pretty bad too br br spoiler for example after phoenix's character falls several stories and is badly injured he can barely move to speak to his captain on the radio then miraculously he manages to crawl across a huge space covered in rubble and fire to punch a man sized opening in a double thickness brick wall using only a foot long piece of re bar and to top it all off he then gets ultra weak and busted up again br br did anyone also notice that throughout the film whenever you see shots of joaquin fighting fires and rescuing people there is little or no smoke in the buildings i would think the smoke should be pretty thick in a flame engulfed building br br i also got tired of hearing the search and rescue team yelling i need some equipment over here br br i really thought i would enjoy this film but i found it to be a weak attempt at representing the true life of a fireman the intention was there but i honestly think that this film could have been so much better i couldn't help but think that the producer was trying to meet a deadline with this film and had to rush to put it in theaters more time should have been spent on editing and ensuring there was good flow to the film br br the special effects were impressive in some scenes but disappointing and almost ridiculous in others kind of like a jerry bruckheimer movie br br call me critical but i just can't see what's so great about this movie at least it wasn't as bad as the whole ten yards which is by far the worst film i've seen in recent months br br i really hope there isn't a ladder 50 in the making
0	this is a poor poor movie full of clichés unrealistic moments punching the air in celebration after putting a fire out never mind that someone's lost their home and possessions announcing a pregnancy in a bar along with all your mates before telling you in private first walking on the roof of a burning building for no apparent reason the stereotypical funerals and strained relationships the very dodgy cheesy music at the end the unrealistic treatment of the girl who was rescued from her apartment the very unrealistic explosion from that same apartment did they have a couple of oxygen tanks in the attic or something anyone with an ounce of wit can see that this movie was a joke it's a pity because firefighters do an awesome job and they deserve to have a good movie made about what they do but not at the expense of common sense
0	i'm sorry perhaps this is part of the wave of praise for fireman since 911 perhaps it's an old fashioned story perhaps it's not meant to knock your socks off but i'm sorry this film is awful as in the title cliché 49 i think it has at least that many clichés it's a dreary story impressive managing to be dreary when there's dangerous fires and lives being saved about a fireman and his dreary life told in a pointless from now' flashback to the past style we begin the film with the hero in peril in a collapsing burning building the entire film is about trying to get us to love this guy so we squeeze a few tears out when he meets his end in the finale of the scene from the start of the film i found it hard to care and wished he'd gone up in smoke earlier clichés abound such as death of best friend love at first site hazing in a new job a worried wife with a husband with a perilous job a father figure boss superior 2 4 kids well 2 but close enough sacrificing your life to save others awards for bravery on and on it's every life every police officer nurse doctor in some way it was lazy if it was meant as a 'life flashing before his eyes' as he died then god help the poor chap i'm surprised he didn't suck in more smoke to go quicker the flashbacks are mostly mundane and predictable dully acted and with a soundtrack that could put the laughing cow out of business it was so cheesy it actually sounded like muzak or copyright free elevator stuff to be avoided at all costs unless you need something to watch with granny of a sunday evening or maybe if your related to a firefighter warning your life will end horribly or you will be scarred for life if you are a brave fireman according to this movie unless your john travolta strange style hair in this one
0	if you pack all the clichés about city firefighters into 105 minutes you have ladder 49 br br it has a story but is highly clouded by all the clichés it turns it into movie that with every event becomes so predictable it's not worth watching there is no depth to the story and even the acting seems superficial br br it looked like it wanted to be a tribute to firefighters but ended up being boring and pretentious the parallel between jack morrison being fatally trapped beneath an inaccessible part of a building and firefighters being trapped beneath the rubble of the twin towers was all too obvious br br it doesn't compare to movies like and certainly does not set an example for future movies about fire personnel
0	it's just a bad film not as bad as r i c c o but bad it got me hooked at the then totally lost me after that the acting was way off then on then going way way way off do not see this movie at all costs trust me with all my heart the directors who are brothers are not the next hughes brothers who made really great films like dead presidents from hell american pimp and menace ii society the only person who made me watch this was the acting of paris campbell who will be a great actor one day if he makes better films than this christina also did a nice job for what she got i hope the fittest is 10 times better than this piece of crap
0	this film is about a struggling actor trying to find satisfaction in life especially love which he has not had a taste of for 5 years br br it basically is a film featuring a man with very poor social skills and he says wrong things all the time the plot is hollow and contrived the main character james is lonely but this theme of loneliness is not adequately explored it is more like an empty statement which other subplots stem from sadness and disappointment after being dumped are superficial there is a serious lack of emotions in the film br br it is not funny as a comedy either there are some funny one liners but that is it it lacks the happy and uplifting atmosphere to infect people with happy mood i don't find i want someone to eat cheese with funny
0	beware my lovely 1952 dir harry horner br br production the filmmakers rko radio pictures br br credulity straining thriller from the pioneering producer team of collier young and ida lupino aka the filmmakers with lupino pitching in with some uncredited direction br br robert ryan is the and ida lupino is the 'woman' in this entry in the in peril' style film ryan plays howard wilton a tightly wound psychotic handyman drifter noooo ryan i know hard to believe lupino is the lonely war widow helen gordon who hires howard to do some work around her house things go downhill from there as howard makes helen a prisoner in her own home br br howard has a nasty secret not that he could reveal it you see consciousness is a real challenge for him maintaining it that is he has an unfortunate habit of coming to and finding his employers dead this is part of the film's problem the nature of howard's psychosis is so extreme that it is nearly impossible to believe that he's been free to roam from town to town even in the year 1918 when the film is set he can't remember anything that happened ten minutes ago his violent threatening anti social tendencies are set off by the smallest and most common of things a young girl flirting inadequacies involving the war due to his being rejected for service i don't know how he even made it past the interview with helen there are other implausibilities if you were locked in your house with a madman but nonetheless left on your own for periods of time couldn't you figure out a way to escape br br ryan i think is defeated by the material it feels like he's overplaying his hand his series of tics and spasms and the tightly bursts of dementia all have a been there done that robotic feel to them at this point in his career he'd probably played this character to some degree ten times and it shows we are encouraged to empathize with howard i didn't through shown bits of humanity like him being stopped in his tracks by a music box and his relating to a group of children who won't judge him lupino just has to act frazzled and in distress which she is more than capable of and does br br the picture had one thing going for it what would be the eventual resolution of the conflict so naturally there was a disappointing ending that was abrupt and ineffective br br of slight interest was a recurring motif where the camera would catch howard's reflection in mirrors water christmas tree decorations this indicated something going on or about to go on in his head horner 1953's vicki who made his reputation in production design does a fine job of making the house feel like a prison credit too the always reliable rko art department for the work on the house in the end sub standard work from the principals who all have much better films to their credit br br ½ out of 4
0	i really enjoyed the film it was really cheesy at times they destroy the villain with hair but where are they plugged in it's a unique film though and i enjoyed the acting of courtney draper and tamara hope i also enjoyed however you write it liking megan's charecter because she called him a dweeb besides the acting the rewinding and showing what happened on ariel's and then megan's point of view was quite interesting i saw it twice and i'd see it again
0	i say ben johnson and my fellow canadians say ben johnson he was a goddam movie star guys a cowboy and by 1976 he was scraping by playing a sheriff in stupid made for tv disaster movies such as this cashing in on the deadly swarms of killer bees that everyone apparently thought were coming to get us at the time so there's these bees and they kill some people by flying in their mouth and going after them underwater eventually these idiots find the swarm and die and this woman is trapped in her car by the entire swarm the cops are like what do we do uh bees die when it's cold so where could we make it cold i know the stadium in new orleans so they drive this car and its attendant swarm of killer bees on and on through the streets of new orleans with a bullhorn saying get off the streets or you will be stung to death and the future home of tens of thousands of flood victims with its broken toilets so becomes the narcotic doom of this particular bees i don't know which is the greater indignity on this great city well i do but this one sucks too most appropriately viewed on an extremely faded to orange 16mm print although betamax is a good alternative
0	first this movie was made in 1978 so that tells you that the movie is going to be bad anyway but i am not saying that all old movies are bad second the special effects we're terrible for even that time finally the acting was so bad bozo the clown could have done it better it makes you wonder how people get the money to make movies this pathetic this movie sucks
0	1 bad acting br br 2 for a bunch of castaways on an alien planet it sure looked like home especially with the houses and roads you can glimpse in the background br br 3 terrible plot with stupid making idiotic decisions and blithely losing precious survival equipment and clothing left right and center br br 4 cool 70's scifi possibly the only good thing about this movie br br 5 interesting ship at the beginning this crew must have been watching space 1999 a lot too bad it blows up so early the escape ship also got sunk too fast sigh br br 6 anthropologists might find some aspects of the movie interesting in terms of primate group behavior
0	a spaceship in some unspecified future where human beings are equipped for space travel and have laser guns for weapons crash lands on a strange young planet where dinosaurs are coincidentally also evolved and only on this world have not gone extinct yet the survivors of the crash roughly ten bland characters wearing blue white and yellow suits fight for survival against the alien prehistoric monsters br br planet of the dinosaurs is a peculiar movie like i said in my summary above the stop motion animated dinosaurs in the film are the only colorful actors the models are crude but effectively animated and they are much more fascinating and intriguing than these characters portrayed by inexperienced actors and speaking lines from a script that must have been written overnight without a single revision obviously most of the budget was put into the dinosaurs and although there is a fair share of them there's not nearly enough to save us from our boredom these human characters are only there to scream run around and mutter these poorly written and verbose speeches about survival and unfortunately not nearly enough of them get eaten by the dinosaurs br br overall planet of the dinosaurs is not a film i plan on seeing again some people will simply love it for being so cheap and so poorly made sometimes i enjoy movies like this but this particular film is just too long too boring and very exhausting on the mind
0	now i love bad old movies as much as most people and i understand that a budget is a budget that said planet of the dinosaurs is as bad as a bad movie can get the thing has no actors and only one attractive female whom they kill off two minutes after swimming ashore there are literally no redeeming qualities to be found in this pile of wasted celluloid the only thing not wasted was paper the screenplay must have been no more than four pages long surely no one actually wrote dialogue this pointless i'm constantly amazed that such movies ever got made much less released i'm only glad i didn't pay to see this waste of time it's 75 minutes of my life i'll never get back
0	after the success of star wars there was a boost in interest in sci fi movies this was one of those cheap attempts to cash in quickly br br a group of survivors from a spaceship land on a planet inhabited by stop motion dinosaurs where half of them are systematically killed off the people not the dinosaurs porn movie level acting cheap special effects even for the time although it looks like a lot of effort was put into them br br costumes were pure 1970's as were the hairstyles ahh the 70's i expected a disco to break out at any minute br br nothing to really recommend in this film
0	the first half of the movie is not that bad actually although there's not really too much depth in the characters the story is somehow funny and generally ok with potential to get better which it doesn't br br in the second half things start to turn for the worse not only for the characters in the movie but also for the viewer who will be basically waiting for the story to come to its obvious end br br the previous user comment mentioned it's a love story a road movie a thriller a comedy of errors an 80's movie and most of all it's a jonathan demme movie br br well please allow me to rephrase that it's a boy gets girl story they happen to be driving around in cars the thrill is gone as it is all too clear how things will evolve there wasn't any scene in this film to which one might laugh out loud it does have some slight 80's feeling and yes jonathan demme really was the director
0	this is the kind of movie that could have ruined several careers if garbage could ruin motion picture careers these days br br melanie griffith took off her shirt and in her pre enhancement surgery days she really should have stayed dressed br br jeff daniels was completely wasted but fortunately for him and for us he has gone on to much better things since this this this well heck piece of garbage br br strangely all of its major players have gone on to bigger and better things including director jonathan demme his work here was also wasted but deserving of a grudging admiration i mean anything not worth doing is not worth doing well but he did it well anyway br br still there was one bright shining aspect ray liotta who is named way down the credit list just absolutely stole everything liotta was magnificently mesmerizing hypnotic enthralling br br i saw this piece of garbage while it was still relatively new in a friend's private theater for some strange reason my friend loved it i sort of think it's because melanie griffith took off her shirt and really honest she shouldn't have though he tried to claim it was other more artistic reasons br br anyway i thought even then after his first scene that ray liotta would become a major star or at least a major highly respected actor br br despite the aspects of the script the sheer ugliness of the whole story liotta made it almost worth watching in fact it is worth seeing once just to see how far ray liotta has come i mean for one thing his name is now usually listed at or near the top br br even then even in a pile of garbage ray liotta shone like a diamond br br just if you do see this trash be prepared to hold your nose every major character is either amoral or immoral terrible movie terrible movie idea br br added comment too many people answer was this comment helpful with a no because they disagree with the expressed opinion maybe imdb should ask that question instead do you agree with these opinions
0	the movie opens with charlie jeff daniels a business man just finishing his lunch in a neighborhood deli it appears he doesn't have enough cash to cover the check instead of reaching for his plastic he glances around to see if the coast is clear and ducks out of the place without paying unbeknownst to charlie lulu melanie griffith had been observing him from the other side of the deli br br lulu is decked out in what passed for cool back in the 1980's with a brunette page boy cut she follows him out to let him know that she saw what he did he tries to deny it but can't escape her accusation thinking he's in it charlie is surprised when lulu says she doesn't work for the deli and then offers him a ride back to work br br when she heads in the opposite direction thus begins their cavorting across the middle atlantic seaboard br br we're supposed to get titillated as thoroughly modern lulu puts straight laced charlie into humiliating situations it's all right when the two consenting adults get a little kinky in a motel room but off putting when they out of paying the check at a family style restaurant stealing the labor from hard working people is not my idea of wild charlie is a jerk br br lulu is a loony jerk she starts to pass off charlie as her husband first to her mom who blithely tolerates the charade and then at her conveniently timed 10 year high school reunion an event used later by another too cool for its own good movie grosse pointe blank br br the marriage comes as a surprise to lulu 's real husband ray liotta who's just been recently released from prison for armed robbery ray gives the two a welcome comeuppance and shows them how nasty crime really is br br i can't add any irony by writing that i first watched this by sneaking in the movie theater no i don't do that sort of thing i taped it off of cable tv and assure you i view it strictly in the privacy of my own home br br so i got to thinking why i taped it when i don't like it very much and conclude that 20 years ago i was on a reggae kick and the soundtrack of something wild does prominently feature reggae the closing credits start with the treat of sister carol performing her version of wild thing
0	this is absolutely awful it's everywhere nowhere doesn't have any sort of point i have never understood what is good about jeff or sarah silverman bonnie hunt is so above this drivel she must have been personal friends w people involved because there is no way she would have read any part of this so called script thought yeah i wanna do that most movies i can find at least one or two things that are redeemable or funny there is zero of that in this it's extremely dumb there really isn't any other word to describe this this is quite possibly the biggest waste of money on making of film that i have seen in a long time skip this at all cost you'll be glad you did
0	there needs to be a 0 10 option for bilge like this br br it was painful to watch but strangely compelling all the same compelling because it seemed unbelievable that a movie could actually suck this much i kept thinking it must get better it got worse and worse br br how on earth were people conned into producing such a categorical piece of junk i'll never know the most surprising thing of all though is all these reviews i see of people actually loving the movie yes the acting was good but the movie was very very very bad worst movie ever
0	something not so great silence of the lambs remains demme's only good film and i'm of course including all the overrated left wing exercises in big screen indulgence some of which i haven't seen and never will br br this is a light comedy that takes a thriller turn somewhere half way the first half is a little hard to sit through it's neither funny nor particularly interesting daniels plays an over the top dumb as dirt naive moron who is so gullible and trusting that it defies belief his animated acting is often annoying and barely funny he actually lies to griffith at the outset and tells her that he is married with children when in fact he is divorced in all the history of mankind and movies any man who is married and meets a woman he likes will lie if he lies and say that he isn't married later on the not at all credible or believable rationale behind this was revealed he wanted to protect himself what a load of crap the fact that his character makes all the wrong decisions and does all the dumb things in the movie made me actually look forward to liotta pounding on him when he caught up with him in the former's apartment br br what then happens in daniels's apartment is the classic end of movie fight to the death which the good guy albeit the very dumb good guy predictably wins still at least the last half hour has some action something going on and daniels isn't given any more the opportunity to be animated the film lacks credible characters whether main or marginal and the feel of it is too 80s which means the movie has a rather bland look visually ugly sayles yet again makes a cameo as a policeman the film is also perhaps a bit too heavy on the coincidences side griffith once again plays a soft talking dumb sounding bimbo but as usual she is convincing because she is a soft talking dumb sounding bimbo this was an earlier film before her lip enlargement and breast enlargement surgery compare the natural breasts she exposes in this film to the ready to explode balloons she briefly flashes years later in nobody's fool br br if you're interested in reading my biographies of griffith and other hollywood intellectuals contact me by e mail
0	very poor quality and the acting is equally as bad this movie is a prime example of present day england and the mindset there is no mention of jesus in this movie nor does the movie feature any type of scripture christianity as most know it br br i am also very surprised because this film is a bbc program and the bbc is quit well known for their quality programing but it looks like the bbc's attempt to rival the hollywood psycho drama films are failing completely br br poor acting poor plot poor culture that seems to be without religion i would not even bother buying this instead better to try to rent this one or buy it when it goes to the 2 dollar bin
0	why i disliked the movie apart from the sheer ugliness of the actors themselves is that someone might actually believe such crap br br first of all the second coming of christ will be at the end of words and when jesus christ will come on judgement day he will not come as he did before in human form he will come in his full glory as god and we shall be judged not only for our sins but also for the consequences of our actions everyone will secondly i have seen the eternal gay pride illustrated in this movie with the all unquestionable i read the bible last night and it's not written anywhere well it is moses cites on 3 different occasions that men who make love to other men or women who make love to each other as if man and wife should be killed because these will never inherit the kingdom of god as they are foul if it truly were for us to follow the bible word for word there would be executions now wouldn't there but i think misinforming people does more harm than this would that was the in the old testament br br there are lots of lunatics in psychiatric wards who think they are the son of god but to make a movie after it truly makes you think of how many idiots out there can make a movie
0	the film tells you to be aware and conscientious it also destroys any and all things the bible claims to be true to people like me the first episode was interesting and the second was disastrous it has been called blasphemy and it is if you are a believer it is sad to hear that many people think of it as a good sequel to the bible however the film shows you a lot of things and subjects that can be interpreted as a filmic version of the revelation some of us think that such things are not to be abused one good thing about the film is that it strongly encourages ethical awareness and makes you consider your actions twice the director just seems to forget that some people act that way already solely based on the fact that they believe and love as prescribed in the bible why attempt to change that unless you be the devil yourself
0	in my opinion the ending is what completely ruined the whole thing the initial idea of having someone suddenly realize they were the son of god and the second coming was somewhat clever people started to believe him and his friends became the new disciples people went nutty demons were possessing people all kinds of fun of course then it all went wrong it was bad enough that they had to take on the impossible task of looking through a vast amount of writings to find the third testament in five days but then at the end it became this ridiculous humanist fantasy i won't spoil it but i'll just say it comes off as if it were written by a teenager with a very limited knowledge of theology i hear they are making an american feature version of this story i just hope they change the eye rolling ending
0	i remember seeing this years ago it had a reasonably promising start with an interesting premise but then it degenerated into nonsense quite quickly uninteresting characters failed attempts to add drama and tension and a bit of simplistic philosophy thrown in too all culminating in a terrible ending br br simply it's trash br br before i saw this tv film i didn't think i would ever have any film that i thought was the worst i had seen but after i finished watching this i knew that from then on if anyone asked me what the worst film i had ever seen was i could say without hesitation the second coming br br avoid
0	i went into this movie hoping for an imaginative twist on the second coming boy was i ever wrong bbc are dullards at pacing a movie total idiots at creating suspense fools at building intensity and this movie is no exception to the rule of how much bbc sucks br br ugh the pacing and time wasting laborious dialogue was just painful to sit through the first 30 minutes felt like 2 hours i kept looking down at my watch wondering when the pointless monotonous drivel would end they wasted a perfectly good actor in the lead role because the material is so lazy and sloppily written everything that happens is just to kill time br br out of 155 minutes only 15 minutes are interesting the controversial ending what a shame reading the plot summary is more interesting than watching the movie the preaching the am i god endless blah blah blah ing the dumb as boring miracles ugh br br do not watch this crap
0	one should have the right to expect from people who make a film about the second coming and the third testament that they had read the other two or at least knew a little more about them than miracles and judgement day this film contains absolutely nothing of relevance for viewers who are interested in jesus religion or philosophy there is only the standard british social realism with guttural dialects and plump characters in pubs br br actually good candidates for a real third testament have been published several times like a course in miracles or conversations with god they all have thought provoking new twists and angles for christian faith and theology br br the most interesting information in imdb's rating is not the number of stars but how many people who have bothered to vote in four years only people have bothered to vote for this film as usual the enthusiasts are the most eager for comparison have a look at jesus christ superstar original version from 1973
0	as i don't have a tv and had never heard of this mini series i didn't know what to expect from the second coming and hired it purely on the strength of its plot synopsis which sounded interesting br br dear god every pun intended if someone told me that this had been written by a class of thirteen year olds who had been given the project of turning the second coming into a school play i wouldn't have been surprised br br why oh why did they decide to portray jesus mark ii as what amounted to an idiot savant is there anything in any of the gospels to suggest this okay an ordinary bloke but a great northern moron i don't think so br br apparently all jesus did to impress people was his miracles because according to this take his preaching sure as hell never impressed anyone certainly without the night into day stunt mr jesus eccleston would have been floundering without a canoe a paddle or any kind of following at all br br and the odd little gay polemics put in willy nilly without rhyme or reason other than of course russell waving to his fan base jesus turns up in the pub to recruit more gormless northern losers and of course the gay writer's standby the harpy woman nag nag nagging away gay rights are rammed down his throat to no real purpose almost like russell thought he it to the to put jesus on the spot br br i can't really see the real jesus coming out with well i've nothing against it personally mate only someone truly middle class and woolly could imagine jesus to be quite this wet br br and don't start me on the ending come in and eat rat poison because the only way we can be truly free is if god br br it was like an eddie izzard sketch of god as bill gates hello i'm bill gates and now you've pointed out to me that my global domination is cramping your style i'm going to give it all to you my customers and eat the rat poison of course br br i'm often mystified by the ratings on imdb but the high rating on this one takes the biscuit br br never mind jesus for the new millennium this is jesus for brainless mtv lads br br god help us all indeed
0	how i deserved to watch this crap worst ever the acting was awful when i read that this was a comedy i expected at least to smile once or twice but if you are to loose hour and a half of your lives this is the right movie i recommend just look in a wall or something anything else but watch this film can even watch a documentary if you are a guy about pregnant women i guarantee it will be more entertaining the actor in this one i forgot his name is not that bad and i am surprised how hi accepted the role anyway i want someone to eat cheese with is the right film if you want to punish someone
0	possible minor spoiler br br it's not a terribly objective review but i just found this movie horribly depressing like a lot of russell t davies' br br work it asks more questions than it can answer his best work bob rose doctor who revels in hope against the odds and perseverance even after apparent defeat these uplifting themes seemed strangely absent here i suppose the fact that i'm still thinking about it days after viewing is a testament to the quality of the program but the resolution was just too bleak for my tastes br br i would however disagree with the reviews i've read complaining that the end feels tacked on i think each conclusion follows logically from its premise and the ending represented a sound personal belief that neatly resolved the primary theme of the show while i never really questioned the progression of events i felt like there was much that could have been expanded upon i've also read that it was originally conceived as a four part series instead of two and it's possible that the has done some harm to the completed piece however these flaws appear throughout in sequences and themes that sometimes feel rough or sketched in br br to his credit davies is totally unafraid to write big and you have to admire the sheer audacity and scope of this project the premise he tackles here is the stuff of movies or novels – it is a brave and ambitious thing to tackle it in the medium of television strong points include christopher eccleston who is positively mesmeric in the lead for me he was and remains the best reason to watch the depiction of the humanity was brilliant thought provoking and engaging and a real credit to both davies' writing and eccleston's acting i also thought the depiction of the modern world's reaction to the second coming rang true br br so two stars simply because i personally want my entertainment to be entertaining i would rather be uplifted or at least distracted by my fiction i have a whole big real world around me – as filtered through cnn or the newspapers if i choose to be horribly depressed there are definitely less subjective reasons by which to judge this piece but i'm afraid my judgment in this matter is clouded by my emotional response
0	this is a silly movie with much singing and dancing acting is average but writing leaves something to be desired there are rememberable performances by buddy with a short but outstanding performance by gypsy rose as the bitter wife of a rich playboy a totally unbelievable portrayal of college life which ends with a superb ice skating of alice in wonderland many parts are worth watching but do not be afraid to fast forward through parts of the movie
0	the movie that would be included if mystery science theater 3000 had a home game version the source material for tacky comments in this movie are endless i found the video of terror in the jungle at a garage sale what a find
0	an unbelievable plot laughable characters and obvious errors in one scene where several grass huts are supposed to be burning a gas torch can be seen repeatedly trying to ignite one of the huts this film is a real dog
0	this is indeed a spectacularly bad film but it is the rare kind of badness that is endlessly jaw droppingly entertaining i want to add to the other comments on this film br br the rock band on the plane look like three skinny drunks from casual labor wearing bad wigs br br watch for the severe continuity problem with the kid's stuffed tiger it turns into a lion a leopard and back again it's filthy or clean depending on the shot br br spoiler the stuffed tiger turns into a real animal to save the kid and the writers br br the sight of little jimmy floating down the amazon in a coffin clutching his stuffed tiger and away will stick permanently in your memory br br listen for one of the most inept sound effects ever late in the story when the priest is setting out to find jimmy the guide demands his monk's robes as payment the priest drops on one knee in a moment of resigned contemplation and there is the sound of a bell not the deep of a church bell but the ding of a bell from a boxing match br br this is an absolute hoot to watch
0	if there's anything worse than this movie i don't want to see it i remember so many amazing things a nun dropped out of a coffin to make a raft for a little blond boy the little blond boy himself adored as a god lots of stock footage of peru as an ideal vacation spot shining path and alberto should blast away any notion that peru is a vacation paradise the whole thing is so awful that plan 9 or even robot monster is an aesthetic treat by comparison this film should be bombed and and bombed again
0	if the following sounds tempting then by all means rush down to your local blockbuster and rent this movie post haste br br 1 awful 60's hairstyles from pathetic perms to dodgy br br 2 the worst child actor in the world ever who does nothing but cry and say daddy in the most annoying voice imaginable br br 3 lots of stock footage of alligators and monkeys that doesn't mesh with the film at all br br 4 stereotypical indians who use and talk oh and it goes without saying they whoop around a campfire br br 5 hilariously fake plane crash mechanics where the cast actually throw themselves into the corners of the cardboard set br br 6 the exterior shots of 5 which look suspiciously like a toy jet on a string being led around a studio lit with blue light br br 7 terrible special effects which make the ones used in the first star trek series look cutting edge by comparison special mention the little boy's blond hair glowing oh dear br br 8 laughable editing and continuity where background items move between scenes the soundtrack changes completely without any warning etc br br 9 not got enough money to hire a professional dancer get any lady from off the street to prance about like an idiot no one will notice the difference er br br 10 a climax involving quicksand snakes more stuff from the archives and a ton of fake blood don't forget to put in a stupid sounding song either br br the more sensible among you however will wait for it's inevitable appearance on mst3k when this classic tv show is resurrected and then you can watch it in the spirit it was intended any other kind of enjoyment to be derived from this crap is unthinkable not to mention unworkable so don't even try it 0 10
0	terror in the jungle is a real find if you saw it you're one of the few lucky ones it's hilarious br br the story is about an airplane crashing in the middle of the south american jungle the crash scene has to be seen to be believed everyone dies in the crash or they're subsequently eaten alive by crocodiles only a young blonde boy survives a nearby tribes brings the kid to their village and they all males venerate him because of his golden hair i kid you not at the end there's a lot of wrestling between the natives and the man on the search for any survivors of the downed airplane all the while the kid sits on a throne and his blond hair is surrounded by a golden halo and he cries nonstop it's a hoot br br very obscure and contains very questionable subtexts a must if you're into obscure it's so bad it's good movies
0	thats what this movie really takes a big piece of cheeze this movie is about a sister and brother bonnie and clyde type of duo that creates their own party line in order to lure their victims in and trap them and kill them but for what reason just for the fun of getting away with it in comes richard hatch who comes across as a wishy washy ladies man a real bad version of a ladies man and he gets involved with finding who's behind all the killings across la he finally meets a teenager who helps him find the killer and rest is for your fun and amusement but there are parts in this film that really get me going like the scene with garret dressed in his mothers wedding gown acting like a sissy in front of his sister telling her that he needs her and can't live without her and watching as she slaps him across the face him i can't believe that was well i guess i could but it's worth watching but only to see one of worst films that he ever did
0	yep it's me again mr 'i sit through crap so you don't have to' br br what do you think this is about could it possibly be about a woman who call a sex line and arrange to meet bachelors in a secluded area then her cross dressing boyfriend comes along and slits their throat with razor before they make off together with his cash wow what a guess and if i tell you that the cop who is put on the case is forced to team up with a sexy assistant da to nail these suckers what conclusion will you come to do you reckon the sexy da will go undercover wearing a flimsy red dress to an attempt to meet the drag queen but then end up being kidnapped and having to be rescued by the maverick officer who has already handed in his gun and badge zing you get 10 points br br frankly this film bored me to tears why do people insist on making this kind of rubbish its a waste of our time their time and yet they still carry on regardless filming a movie that no one gives an iota about if it has any redeeming features there's the fact that it has some of the prettiest ladies i've seen in a motion picture for a while i hope they spent what meagre wages they earned on plenty of botox and they'd look great on the cover of vogue or perched on the top of a car in a bikini they should just leave acting to the professionals like shannon tweed br br talking about future careers i ran into the director the other day he sure does whip up a tasty chicken burger meal i must say too that the uniform really does suit him i asked him about 'party line' and his eyes went to the floor before he mumbled something about extra fries oh well guess it didn't quite work out never mind they're letting him take over the drive thru tomorrow hurray 1 10
0	great ensemble cast but unfortunately a bunch of undeveloped ideas make the film drag one feels not fulfilled at the end after waiting for some kind of conclusion closure or at least an ironic twist br br it had that familiar curb feel without dare i say it larry as the annoying polar opposite the music was there the about nothing' scenes pop up but without any common thread or suspense it falters as a solo project that ran out of budget br br spoilers the movie title speaks about cheese but she prefers the rice pudding is cheese a better selling title than rice pudding he prefers just any junk food regardless of the sell by date maybe i want someone to eat dogs' or ice cream in a pirate suit would have at least tied some scenes together br br marty this is just not funny and overdone people just don't care about a 'show' within a show a coffee book table about coffee books was funnier br br unless you are big fans of the cast save your time and eat some cheese it doesn't even have to be with anyone
0	people call a party line to talk dirty to strangers and perhaps meet up for a sexual liason a deranged somewhat incestuous sister and occasional transvestite brother use the line to find people to kill usually married men but they don't discriminate a pair of sixteen year old girls also call the line for fun pretending to be older of course one of them works as a babysitter for a married man who's hot for her or anyone br br meanwhile a vice cop is borrowed by homicide when he's the first to discover one of the victims he's teamed with a female assistant of the district attorney br br nothing too special here richard roundtree has little more than a cameo as the police chief one of the dirty talking sixteen year olds is played by an actress who also voiced peanuts character peppermint patty according to the imdb the other died quite young just several years after this movie sad
0	it is sad that some find this film worth watching i am russian and i am disgusted there is nothing in this film that deserves praise except cinematography however i am not one of those who find beauty in death or perversion i think this film is poorly designed and directed there is nothing more irritating and even enraging than shameless speculation in art if you can call this garbage art wanted to shock the viewers by pervasive evil and he succeeded in creating a hopelessly dark film but the biggest shock is primitive directorial work i would never advise any of my friends to watch it huge disappointment
0	while i agree with the previous post that the cinematography is good i totally disagree with the rest this is nothing more than a porno movie disguised as an artsy film showing little boys naked is not art and amounts to child porn steer clear of this dud stupid is what this film is
0	i understand the purpose of the director to tell stories that aren't stories but the way he tried to show time passing by the couple of who first appear jogging together than jogging with a sic than the man alone and to link the adventures of the characters the final scene with the maid climbing a mountain seeing the big black guy on another cliff and then seeing the boat with her former employer and saying oh a boat were awful at the same time i liked the way he portrayed the middle high class even in an excessive way i think it is a lousy movie if you want to watch it do it as a film school student trying to see technical aspects and issues it will help a lot
0	altioklar master of the thieves br br watch some movie steal some parts of them write a script it must be very easy to be a director in turkey i think altioklar watched identity 2003 saw 2004 a few series which is about crime murder etc then he said eureka eureka i have found it after that he wrote the script of the movie br br you can guess the murderer at the beginning of the movie it took only 10 minutes for me he shouted i'm the murderer i'm the murderer there is no mystery br br tamer karadagli is same sux exaggerated mimics funny macho man br br there is only one good thing in the movie the performance of is very good you may see the movie just for that
0	persuaded by the 7 0 points in imdb which is pretty good i decided to watch this movie however i found this movie quiet boring about 2 hours and full of clichés a little girl getting multiple personalities after a childhood trauma etc tamer karadagli is quiet funny in this movie dialogs motions etc you will have to see it he is kinda the tough cop you see on american movies perhaps copied too much i would describe this movie as ordinary american thriller with a little bit of turkish touch unfortunately yet again i'm convinced that comedies and dramas are the only genres worth watching in turkish cinema anyways i gave this movie a 4 its too boring and full of clichés
0	populist approach manifests itself in all his titles from the worst to the best he doesn't care or has no clue about art all he cares is to make people think they've got a kick in the groin by watching his movies the problem is the effort is way too evident and as events unfold with all the senseless exaggeration into them the effort fails badly br br on this turkish movie who knows where the original or originals were made since it felt extremely hollywoodish to me altioklar is trying to be some sort of tarantino mr tarantino if you're reading this please watch the movie for the best comedy of your life he doesn't use subtle moves to do that all he does is to use extreme stuff and it gets unbearably absurd and laughable br br as the forensic guy with the cow licked hair is just hilarious i'm hoping to meet him in person and ask how he felt about this movie himself because i really found the role insulting for him groping her genitalia was also uncalled for and did nothing other than making everything look fake another specifically idiotic aspect of this movie was the 100 faulty pace setting when things need to be taken slowly scenes flow abruptly and at other times it makes you sleepy to watch the slow ridicule going on br br if altioklar is so deeply in love with lame hollywood superficiality he should use michael as his name instead even such a move wouldn't be half as ludicrous as what he has done on this movie he should first learn not to imitate directors whose levels he'll never approach then realize he's not in hollywood and then take private lessons from or on how to lay the flow of ideas out in the plot this useless movie couldn't be saved even by those but perhaps he can make watchable movies in the future by taking these steps br br by the way i've seen some infamous failures such as propaganda and and i still can't divert from saying this one was the worst turkish movie ever
0	this for one has nothing to do with the absolutely fantastic first flick and of course us americans just have to remake everything successful into english because man reading subtitles is sooooo hard isn't it from what i've see in the new trailers with the adorable now pregnant jessica alba well that sure ruins every teenage boys fantasy everywhere doesn't it it looks exactly the same but probably w double the budget i thought the original was one of the best horror suspense mystery flicks i have seen in any language in quite a long while i would recommend watching that one and skipping this one all together there is no reason to watch this as there is no reason this even called the eye 2 except to capitalize on the excellence that was the first flick do yourself a favor watch the eye with the volume turned up and get ready for some probable jumping i watched it w headphones on and was pleasantly surprised on the excellence that was the direction of the pang brothers if the eye remake does well which i'm hoping it does for the sake of the pang brothers movie careers but at the same time it seems a shame that people won't can't see the original because very often almost always the remake isn't as good as the original watch this one if one wants to be mildly kinda of boring flick but the original is no comparison to this sequel in name only flick
0	probably will contain spoilers br br after a successful attempt to get attention i would not call making sure that you get help before you die a failed suicide attempt joey finds out that she is pregnant and starts seeing images of spirits br br overall the movie was a little slow going but entertaining enough to watch the whole thing for a horror movie there were only a few minor creeps and thrills halfway through however was a really good scary scene i wont give it away though i watched this movie because i really liked the preceding movie the eye br br i was a little confused however to determine that other than being a supernatural suspense movie from the same creators the eye 2 had no relation to the eye whatsoever different cast different story the does not even have anything to do with eyes br br the movie had a few questionable scenes joey attempts suicide 3 times 4 times if you count the time when witnesses say they saw joey trying to jump in front of the train she is associated with brutally defacing an attacker she freaks out in a restaurant and witnesses say she was attacking people and yet she is allowed to go about her business freely without even so much as a psyche evaluation or put in the hospital for reasons other than her pregnancy br br the movie was not the greatest horror movie the story was rather far fetched even for a fiction movie p the spooks were either few and or nothing we have not seen before however it was an interesting story and once you know what the truth is behind the spooks it was an interesting twist on the ghost story br br i rate the movie 3 out of 10
0	the beginning might be a spoiler br br the eye 2 is the sequel to the eye it's about a pregnant woman who is able to see ghosts and spirits after an incident happened to her br br the sound effects scared the hell out of me though momentarily but that's the only scary thing some of the scenes from the prequel are comparatively similar and repeated so the chilling effects certainly have chilled br br the eye has quite a frightening and indelible impression whereas the eye 2 is a forgettable horror cum drama film omit watching this watching the eye is good enough
0	as a recent convert to curb your enthusiasm which prompted my viewing of all season's episodes i expected more much more from jeff's efforts br br when i view a film offering a slice of an average life i need reasons to be interested to care to feel and believe and with jeff at the helm i also expected a bevy of shining comedic moments this film failed me time and again br br jeff plays a living with mom plump sad sack who is a social disaster he has not had a relationships real or even casual for many years he appears to be mostly unemployed and as noted shacks with his mommy dearest can things get worse sure in short order he gets sacked by everyone around him including silverman second city his comedy workshop and his agent all reinforce his 'loser' status silverman's 'fatty' experiment was as cruel as it was absurd his obsession with the role of marty as the means of his career's salvation also hits a big dead end br br while the film's final moments offer a glimpse of better things to come the cinematic ' albeit with occasional golden glimmers was sadly lacking
0	i just watched this yesterday and wanted to read other peoples scathing comments but found some high marks br br what this was probably the worst asian horror movie i've seen br br spoilers there were just so many fundamental problems with the story a lot of asian horror has the twist of spirits trying to help but just looking scary with notable exceptions ringu and ju on this is the case here except they aren't scary a pretty asian woman who looks a little pale isn't scary at all the monk character straight up explains everything as being a perfectly natural cycle of life nothing scary there either but the woman just doesn't get it she would rather kill herself and her baby then let this poor ghost be reincarnated my friend and i were just laughing when she jumped off the building twice and the ghost waits until after the second time to tell her why she's been following her around that information would have been nice to know before she started jumping but whatever br br that said i did like a couple of parts right in the middle first she rides a taxi with a ghost ghosts ride taxis that has a whole lot of extra hair which inexplicably is creepy right after that at the bus stop well you need to see it as it's pretty messed up br br all in all this movie is a total bomb i gave it an extra point just for those two scenes above this is a poor quality asian horror that manages to make ghosts flying into women's almost beautiful while trying to scare you with the same images
0	harmony hate him or hate him on this evidence loathe might be a better word not him of course just everything he does but it could've been so different because the first ten minutes of this film promises so much including a fantastic idea of a michael jackson impersonator falling in love with a marilyn monroe impersonator fantastic and set in paris this could be great but unfortunately may spark the odd decent idea but because he is an awful writer the story fails on every level and the audience i witnessed about an hour in is proof positive that he is the most boring and pretentious film making out there apparently the walk out rate at its premiere in last years cannes festival was quite shocking instead of focusing on the two protagonists he switches the story stupidly to the confines of a château to introduce a bunch of other impersonators making the whole experience tedious and narratively barren when will the independent cinema stop funding this upstart
0	i watched this movie and all i can say is this i am not a film student nor am i some artsy intellect who tries to look for a deeper meaning into everything that i don't understand however if i were to do that with this film my thoughts would be br br yep he's on drugs and i can picture it now he was tripping one night and sat around with his buddies laughing and saying stuff like hey wouldn't it be funny if nuns really could fly like what if one just fell out of a plane and free fell for a while bounced to the ground and got up and walked away cackles or if buckwheat gave the pope a bath oh my god i'm cracking up just thinking about it dude we gotta make a movie about it and then he says to his friend as he's laughing oh and wouldn't it be hilarious if people loved it and called me a genius for it so to me this is what happens when some guy does one too many drugs and writes a script and produces a movie should i have been doing lsd to understand what this guy was thinking so i could have had a laugh too because i have to tell you i wasn't laughing i was yawning and checking the time br br i think everyone who is trying their hardest to find a deeper meaning is hysterical i had never heard of this director until i came to read the reviews which i did because i was mad that i lost that last 2 hrs or how ever long it was it felt like 12 hrs of my life and i can't ever get it back anyway i have read that this guy is a heroine addict and he wanted to die for art what the heck is that so my point is sort of proved this guy is not all there he's a drug addict and his movie is evidence of such so please quit trying to find a deeper meaning to it if one really wants to understand everything in this movie go drop some lsd and sit back and relax then it might actually make sense br br it reminded me of the time i watched gus van sant's last days another movie i was mad about watching i cannot help but wonder what the ratings would be for that movie if the same people reviewed it who reviewed this one it seems like if the movie's director is totally off his rocker or if it's a french movie with sex and subtitles or if it's a cartoon it is going to get great reviews hands down anything else is boring and has already been done blah bring on the boring please
0	harmony i'm not sure what he was trying to do with this film if it was to turn my good day feeling into a night of disturbing memories than i guess he succeeded br br i know that there were big questions raised in this movie like who are we really what are we here for is there really a god all great questions but i really don't think that is funny when you have the questions along side such tragedy i'm all for real life being portrayed but come on it's never funny when a wife is being raped someone killing themselves and family and friends find the body and people die for unexplained and unnecessary reasons br br the only good thing about this movie was the location it was filmed there is a lot of beautiful places br br i'm not a film student or even know all that much on the subject i admit this but i do know that when i leave the theater with a feeling of disgust then it was not a film i would recommend to anyone
0	korine's established himself by now as a talented and impressive image maker the promotional posters for mister lonely all include the film's most impressive compositions though there's one in particular i've yet to see in promo material that of a blue clad nun teasing a dog with a stick surrounded by green forest with torrential rain pouring down the opening images of this film of michael jackson lookalike diego luna riding a small motorbike round a track is strangely compelling and beautiful roy mister lonely plays on the soundtrack and the images unfold in slow motion there's also a funny and terrific sequence in which the same character mimes a dance without music though a radio sits like a silent dog next to him in the middle of a paris street splices in sound effects and jump cuts that evoke both a feeling of futility and dogged liberation in the character's dance routine br br the first instance of the segment dealing with the nuns is also strangely poignant father werner herzog is an autocratic priest about to fly with some nuns over and drop food into impoverished areas nearby in a scene that is both light hearted and affecting herzog must deal with a stubbornly enthusiastic local who wishes to make the plane trip with them in order to see his wife in san francisco as the exchange develops herzog draws out of the man a confession he has sinned and his frequent infidelity is the cause of his wife having left him in the first place this scene short and sweet gains particular weight after one learns its improvised origins the sinner is played by a non actor who was on set when and co were filming and his adulterous ways had given him in real life a lasting overwhelming guilt br br henceforth the film is hit and miss a succession of intrinsically interesting moments that add to a frivolous muddled narrative whereas gummo and julien donkey boy maintain their aesthetic and emotional weight via coherent structural frameworks mister lonely feels like a victim of editing room ruthlessness a few scenes were cut from the film which would have otherwise painted fuller pictures of certain characters due to continuity errors in costume a result no doubt due to the absence of a shooting script and korine's tendency for improvisation one deleted scene in particular in which denis lavant and 'madonna' morgan have sex would have added much more emotional conflict to a scene later on in the film i won't spoil it but it's there to deflate any feeling of warmth or celebration and as it is only half succeeds br br the two strands of the narrative unconnected literally are best approached as two entirely different stories with the same allegorical meaning one compliments the other and vice versa it's something to do with the conflict between one's ambitions and the reality of the current situation but there's not enough of the herzog scenes to merit their place in the film and so any connection between these two allegorically connected threads is inevitably strained and the inclusion is in retrospect tedious br br this is an ambitious step forward from julien donkey boy that suffers mostly at least in the lookalike segments from having far too many characters for the film's running length a flaw that would have been even worse had big star names played everyone as was originally planned br br with many of the imagery's self contained beauty and moments of real genuine connection with the soundtrack this feels like it'd be much more suited to an art installation or photo exhibition as an exploration of and the nature of impersonation it'd lose none of its power indeed for me it would perhaps be more impressive the loneliness attached to iconic such as that encountered by both the icons themselves and those who aspire to be like them is well captured in images such as that wherein a gorgeous samantha morton seduces the camera with a seven year itch pose in the middle of a forest or when davis jr ' jason settles post dance rehearsal with his back to the camera overlooking an incredible tranquil lake br br as it is moments like these and all those where the titles of randomly chosen michael jackson songs crawl across the scene are married to one another in a film narrative far less affecting than it should be br br for those who see it i lost all faith during the egg singing scene late on you'll know which scene i mean because it sticks out like a sore thumb as some sort of gimmicky attempt at the new cinematic language for which has previously been hailed
0	why would anyone make a film like this why would anybody invest in a film like this why would anybody in the film business work on a film like this why would any theatre show a film like this why would any tv channel program a film like this why would any critic bother to review a film like this why would anybody watch a film like this why would mental examinations not be made of the writers producers directors of a film like this sometimes there are movies that are so bad they're good this is a movie that is so ghastly that it's horrible imdb really must institute a 0 or even a minus scale to embrace works of this appallingly pretentious awfulness
0	too fractured to be enjoyable too loose to be interesting and too clumsily photographed to be tolerable mr lonely is an interesting idea ruined by really bad film making like a ken russell film at its worst or day of the locust remade by amateurs mr lonely might have seemed like a good idea on a few scraps of paper no script you see and a free holiday to somewhere but in the end we have a widescreen film that seems as if it was made by film students whose parents told them that everything they did was a brilliant creation or did i get the film maker right mr lonely is a waste of resources trying to be gawd quirky and deliberately off kilter it ends up being annoying and indulgent and pointless what's the point of going to a commune in scotland what a stupid idea in this film about hollywood delusion maybe wanted to remake godspell well the result is god awful oh and there is some subplot like leftover footage from including werner herzog nuns and a plane add slo mo drifting and violin music all wistful and melancholy add james fox who seems to hope he might be seen as daring like in performance and the result is amphetamine fantasy alphabet soup in widescreen it might have been fun to film but the result on the screen is a mess imagine american pie band camp with food poisoning
0	i can name only a few movies that i have seen which were this bad this movie has terrible everything the dialog is corny and cliché' the acting is poor for the most part with a few exceptions the cinematography is nothing to cheer about and the plot is silly a fat woman stalks a suburban family because her daughter didn't make the soccer team this is so bad it's funny to watch if you can catch this on lifetime i'd recommend it highly as a comedy as for being a serious movie i'm afraid i'll have to rate this a 2 br br don't watch this film if you are a serious movie fan and looking for an interesting and challenging storyline or good acting there is none to be found br br edit hmmm i think a group of people who work for lifetime must have written some phony reviews and voted all the negative ones down don't believe them this is a really crappy movie
0	or should i say unintentionally hilarious either way this is one of the best comedies i've seen in a long time i was laughing throughout at the antics of some of the dumbest fictional characters this side of homer simpson it's just one forehead slapping painfully stupid scene after another as the clownish dim witted cardboard cutouts substituting for actual humanoid characters push pull and drag the plot to its inevitable and obvious conclusion br br if i had to describe this movie to someone i'd call it a mutated hybrid of fatal attraction dumb and dumber and the three stooges with a climax uncannily similar to the episode of family guy in which the whole family gets into a knock down fistfight in the living room br br advice to benson family next time you get a new pet do the poor animal a favor and don't name it fred
0	the acting is awkward and creepy and not in a good way at all the writing the dialogue and the chemistry between the actors is horrible nothing makes sense and every close up of an actor's expression or reaction lasts 3 or 4 seconds too long making it seem like a mexican soap opera everything about the writing is unrealistic and all of the actors involved make it that much worse with their campy interpretations of the script am i the only one who sees this to use the word cheesy to describe this canadian disaster would be the understatement of the century did the director even watch the final cut before it was put on the air
0	when they announced this movie for tnt i was excited a travesty from donald westlake's enough was one of my all time favorite stories after i watched it i was not all that thrilled recently i had the chance to watch it a second time with my aunt and once again i was disappointed she didn't like it much either and she'd never read the book in this movie they managed to sap all the charm from the book and turn it into dull mush a big part of the problem was william h macy i like him fine in other films but he played terry carey as a stammering incompetent in the book takes a lot of valium for his nerves but remains outwardly collected at almost all times which is part of the fun spoilers follow they also left out a big part of the story other than a 2 second glimpse at the embassy where solves not 1 but 4 homicides for the police this is important not just because it's funny but because it helps set up the relationship between fred and in the movie fred's betrayal in the end is not nearly as affecting because they don't seem all that close in the book they become pretty good friends especially on fred's side which makes it all the more ironic that he is he one that arranges downfall fred also suffered a bit from casting i love adam arkin but he was not a cheerful happy to be alive upbeat sort of detective character traits which book fred possesses which makes it more obviously out of character for him to mess with evidence and thus more shocking patricia and were pretty close to the book and james cromwell was great despite not looking much like martin balsam the whole boring boat house scene which was entirely added for the film was much less interesting than the police finding body after ships it to seattle and blaming the death on the mob kit was okay although she was mostly rewritten and it would have been nice to see her die as she did get slightly annoying i don't mind changes to books to make movies i know they are necessary because of length and difficulty but it would have been nice if some of the changes in this movie had been funnier or smarter instead of duller
0	so bad as good not only the script is obvious but the acting is not just poor but pathetic the worst of all is the definition of the characters unrealistic ingenuity affected reactions camera forcing to watch superficial aspects which are introduced as keys to the plot br br can't prevent laughing when at the end main character says to second something like 'your daughter plays no soccer and knows no such offense to female intelligence defines the level of this film br br is the film about the psychological behaviour of the second character about its impact on the main character or just a sequence of events set in order to heat for the obvious ending br br make more of these i had a good time guessing what next would go wrong
0	this was shown on a premium channel so i didn't realise it was made for tv even so i like some of the movies on lifetime lifestyle here in uk but this was awful the family were so cheesy love you mum love you even more honey then after they were broken into for the second time 10 mins later they were at it again love you mum big cheesy smiles etc she phones her husband and tells him not to bother coming home they were only broken into by a guy that wanted them dead have a nutter living next door who needs help she has her teenage daughter and a cat not for long to look after her br br however as a comedy i'd give it a good 7 i might even show it to my friends next time i have them round could be great fun after a bottle of vodka or 10
0	'the mill on the was one of the lesser novels by mary ann evans who wrote under the male pseudonym george eliot i tried to read this dull and very turgid novel years ago but was unable to finish it i'll review this film version solely on its own merits as i don't know how faithfully it follows the original novel br br the film's opening credits are printed in an old english typeface that suggests the mediaeval period and so it's a very poor choice for a film with a 19th century setting on the other hand about halfway into the film we see a close up shot of a advertising an estate auction this is set in authentic victorian type fonts and looks very convincing most of this film is extremely convincing in its depiction of the architecture and clothing of early 19th century england the precise location of this film's story is never disclosed but judging by the actors' accents i'd place it as somewhere in the perhaps br br the plot what there is of it involves a mill that changes hands a couple of times over a couple of decades between two rival families one wealthy and one working class i disagree with another imdb reviewer who claims that james mason has only a small role in this film mason has the largest and most central role in this drama as the scion of the wealthier family as the spoilt and petulant tom mason is darkly brooding and impetuous his performance here belongs in a better film it made me want to see 'wuthering heights' recast with mason as heathcliff br br as this is a multi generational saga something which george eliot did much better in several of the main roles in this film are split among two actors apiece child actors in the prologue adults in the main narrative the prologue of this film features a very well written scene establishing tom as wilful and bully ragging from an early age and young philip as decent and thoughtful through hard labour philip has earned a tom tries to bully it away from him but is unwilling to take the coin by brute force he wants philip to give it to him all the child actors in this movie male and female are talented and attractive unfortunately all of the children speak their dialogue in posh plummy voiced accents that are utterly unlike the accents of the actors and actresses who play those same roles as adults this discrepancy calls attention to the staginess of the material regrettably none of the later scenes are as good as this prologue br br the climax features a crowd of labourers in a rainstorm much better paced and photographed than the earlier scenes but modern viewers in britain at least can no longer take this sort of material seriously by now practically every british comedian has done a trouble at t' mill squire comedy routine parodying precisely this subject matter so i had difficulty watching this movie with a straight face br br the character actress martita hunt is good in a small role but the opening credits in that old english typeface her as i'll rate this dull movie 3 points out of 10 one point apiece for james mason's performance the early scene with the children and the authentic victorian in that
0	lord david cecil wrote an interesting book in the 1930s early victorian novelists where he looked at the works of dickens thackeray eliot mrs gaskell charlotte bronte and emily bronte he selected these writers as the popular favorites of the first half of the victorian period and he explained their strengths and weaknesses as he saw them to the reading public some of his comments are quite relevant to this day but like all criticism it gives an idea of the spirit of the times of the critic's life as well br br cecil thought highly of george eliot mary ann cross who wrote about seven or eight books including sketches and poetry but for most modern readers they are usually acquainted with her shortest book silas marner which is still read in some high school curriculum the other books felix holt the radical daniel the mill on the floss adam romola scenes of clerical life are still in print penguin for example has most of them in print but are mostly unread the one of most interest today is her last novel where she discusses the jews in english society and an incipient pre type of zionism romola is her sole attempt at a historic novel about experiment of a religiously pure republic in florence in the her meatiest novel is which is concerned with english society in the provinces in 1832 the year of the great reform bill of lord grey i had to read in college for a literature course it certainly is a thoughtful book virginia woolf called it the most grown up book in the english language but it suffers like all of eliot's novels from one defect she cannot write livable exciting prose while dickens is overly exuberant at times and thackeray can become pompous and prolix and can become as lord cecil says very ordinary in his discussion and charlotte bronte can fail to explain certain relationships well and mrs gaskell seems best dealing with female characters all of them and emily bronte in her single novel hold the reader's interest reading most of eliot's novels is like trying to chisel sentences out of blocks of marble with a toothpick br br to date i have read about fifty pages of mill of the floss i notice that one of the other reviewers never finished the novel too but i have read a synopsis of what it is about the maggie and her brother tom are the central figures they own the mill in the title although close at the start of the story maggie falls in love with the son of a neighbor whose father is involved in legal difficulties with mr sr tom takes a dim view of this relationship and the tragedy of the story is regarding the split between the siblings culminating in their demise at the conclusion maggie runs back to the mill to rescue tom during a heavy flood and they die together it must have been a success with victorian readers but it is very gloomy and depressing to modern audiences br br the movie changed the ending a little maggie geraldine fitzgerald does die at the end with her lover and tom james mason notes their deaths at the conclusion in his record book the story is totally rewritten except for a double death in the flood at the conclusion it doesn't really help matters although fitzgerald and mason do pretty well with their parts they can't really pull the film up by their work alone the end result is a fairly minor film that fortunately did not hurt the lead's careers the only other thing to note is that the boyfriend was played by frank lawton who two years earlier played david copperfield as a grown up opposite w c fields lionel barrymore and maureen o'sullivan but then lawton never really had a major film career he just happened to always be around in pictures some good some mediocre
0	i saw this film purely based on the fact that it was on the dpp video nasty list and while i'm glad i saw it because it's now 'another video nasty down' on its own merits andy milligan's film really isn't worth bothering with there are of course far worse films on the infamous list but that doesn't make the pain of viewing this one any easier the film was obviously shot on an extremely low budget and that has translated into the script as blood rites works on an idea often seen in horror cinema and doesn't do anything new with it basically the plot centres on three couples who find themselves at a house awaiting the results of a will it's not long before they start getting picked off blah blah blah for most of the film nothing happens and then when we finally get down to the scenes that justify the movie being banned they're so amateurish and silly that they're impossible to take seriously on any level it's a very good thing that this movie doesn't have a very long running time as otherwise it could have been used as a particularly nasty method of torture it all boils down to a fittingly tedious ending which also succeeds in being a non event of epic proportions apparently this movie is still banned here in the uk but somehow i doubt it's because of its shock value basically blood rites isn't worth seeing and i personally can see no reason to recommend it unless of course you've made it your business to see everything on the video nasty list
0	well well at last a view of this underrated flick but you can't find a good copy of it terrible copy full with green drops the editing isn't the sound do has sometimes that terrible hiss and sometimes you even can hear the camera recording overall it's too dark a waist of time you should say but it isn't it's a bit slow the first half part of the movie it's all talking and making love to each other it is even still weird that the girls in movies from the 60's never wear any when they enter the sleeping room it's full glory anyway banned in the uk since 84 and still on the video nasties list the reason is simple it's gory for their time being it really has some nasty and it's creepy in some way due the fact that it is filmed handycam way so every shot the image is moving things they do these days with the steadycam the ghastly ones could have been better if the quality of the film was better but still better then other films of the time like schoolgirls in chains
0	out of all the films i could have chosen it had to be this when i was last in new york i went into a times square store and out of the hundreds of dvd's they had i chose joel m reeds bloodsucking freaks 1976 and this on a double feature dvd that also included seeds of sin 1968 did i regret it read on to find out the film opens on an island near milligan's staten island home where two lovers are walking along with a massive parasol seemingly made from paper at one point he gives her the top of a weed as a gift out of nowhere colin hal a retarded hunchback pops up and kills both of them for no reason at all after the opening credits which are joined by some of the worst headache inducing music i have ever heard at least it got me used to it as it's used constantly throughout the film we are introduced to three couples the wives are all sisters vicky ann linden and veronica eileen hayes and bill don williams plus elizabeth carol vogel and donald richard ramos they each receive a letter from a lawyer h dobbs neil that request a meeting so he can read their late father's will dobbs informs them that they must spend three days in their childhood home house' and fill it with harmony and marital love' that it had never known because of the strained relationship between their father and mother he informs the couples that the will is highly irregular but legal after three days the inheritance will be settled the couples are also told about the servants martha veronica hattie maggie rodgers and the retarded colin who welcomes the couples by killing and biting chunks out of a rabbit in front of them later on that night whats left of the dead rabbit is found in one of the couples beds with a note that says 'blessed are the meek for they shall this starts a series of events which end in gruesome murder and reveals dark family secrets br br co written photographed and directed by the talentless andy milligan this is an absolutely horrible film in every way possible lets go through just some of it's faults the music it's awful and headache inducing sound you can barely hear what characters are saying and certain scenes don't have any sound effects plus at certain points you can hear milligan shouting out orders to his actors oh and there's a constant hiss on the soundtrack throughout as well the acting probably among the worst i have ever witnessed the very un special effects colin pokes someones eye out in the opening sequence it's the size of a tennis ball the part where someone is tied down and has his stomach opened up with a saw looks really awful as are the various hands and legs that are chopped off photography milligan has absolutely no idea how to stage or film a scene he regularly cuts the top bottom or sides of peoples heads and faces off the screen and his camera jerks and shakes around like it's operated by someone who is constantly tripping over there is also at least one scene so badly thought out and filmed that a crew member is seen the film is often so dark you can't see whats happening too editing again some of the worst i've ever sat through he seems to cut scenes before they've finished cutting away while characters are in the middle of a sentence the script if there was one credited to both milligan and hal sherwood it took two people to write this is all over the place and is incredibly stupid there is one unbelievably bad sequence where the killer follows a victim down into the basement the killer walks right behind him at one point the potential victim turns around what does the killer do to avoid being spotted they duck down right in from of him the killers close enough to give the guy oral sex yet he doesn't notice them right in front of him you have to see this sequence to believe it i still can't believe what i saw bizarre sub plots just happen and then totally disappear check the scene out when richard has to borrow money from his brother walter producer and co writer hal sherwood who turns out to be a gay priest who has had an incestuous relationship with his brother before he was married a strange scene that's there for no reason at all martha the housekeepers reaction to the first murder she's more bothered by the fact that it's thrown her dinner schedule out there's load of insane dialogue as well patty and martha discuss colin patty says if only i didn't beat him so hard martha sympathetically replies you have to patty you have to delivered totally straight faced and don't start me on how ugly the wallpaper looks throughout the house the only good thing i can think of saying is that the costumes look reasonable for the time period it's meant to be set in i could probably go on all day about how amateurish this is but i think you get the idea one to avoid unless your a serious masochist i didn't regret buying or watching it for a second though
0	this film was released in the uk under the name blood rites it was banned outright and never submitted again for release br br as the ghastly ones it was supposedly a hit with the horror hungry denizens of new york city's famed 42nd street grindhouse circuit if you are looking for some bloody horror then you will find it in this film br br unfortunately to see the disabled colin hal chomp down on a live rabbit you have to put up with shaky 16mm camera work that makes ed wood look positively marvelous br br three sisters are to spend three days in the family homestead with their husbands before the old man's money is naturally in such a situation people start dropping dead family secrets are exposed and lots of blood is spilled especially during a gruesome dismemberment br br maybe it was the bunny bit that the brits objected to i know i did
0	staten island filmmaker andy milligan is well known in the horror community for being an even worse director than ed wood and with this as a dim example of his output i'm apt to agree with them in the ghastly ones we basically have three bickering couples traveling to their childhood home located on a conveniently secluded island to collect an inheritance there they are killed off one by one and the events unfold in murder mystery fashion with a scarred retard hunchback butler added to throw you for a loop the film is in such bad shape that it looks like someone just ran it through a dishwasher the sound is terrible the dialog is otherworldly bad there's some primitive mannequin gore plus some dismemberments and guts and it's technically inept in every possible way it can be inept but is it enjoyable in a bad movie kind of way sort of it's excruciating to watch but oddly entertaining in a train wreck fashion approach with caution if you're not a fan of horrible movies better deep six this one
0	take a bad script some lousy acting and throw in a politically incorrect morality tale and what do you get something that is supposed to pass for quality family viewing br br seven alone is the story of a family in the 19th century who travel across america in a wagon train hoping for a new life in oregon there are seven children three boys three girls and a baby whose sex i'm not quite sure of hence the title of the film br br the story opens up with the family living a seemingly normal 19th century life on a farm in the middle of nowhere eldest son john is a precocious teenager and good for nothing' as his father constantly reminds him we see right off the bat that he has a penchant for practical jokes when he ties string to the hair of his sleeping sisters and connects it to a nearby mule when the mule is moved of course the poor girls are jolted out of bed john is caught by his father and is immediately punished with a strap br br that same day a wagon train passes through pa is tempted to join up as it promises a new life in the wild wild west so the family hitches up their belongings and head off br br from the very beginning the film seems weak and amateurish the acting is below grade as if from one of those films shown in school about the pioneers i can't blame the actors however because the lines in this film are silly and just too sickeningly sweet and optimistic br br i must tell you that i caught this film while flipping channels one boring saturday afternoon on a christian television station not of a religious mind myself i watched in horror as seven alone offered up moral statements that were not only outdated but downright offensive if i were a good christian i would hope that i would have had the good sense to complain to the television station for airing such trash however because i am a cynical non believer with a wicked sense of humor i chose to sit back and laugh myself silly br br in one of the opening scenes the role of the father as the stern ruler of the house is established when he proposes the idea of heading off for oregon to his wife her response is a heated over my dead body we are expected to laugh i suppose as the film cuts to the next scene with pa and ma smiling as he steers the wagon along through the prairies oh i suppose even the most staunch feminist would have to admit that this 'father knows best' attitude was the norm in those days and one could argue the need for such dictatorial rule when living conditions were difficult but i somehow got the feeling that this film supported that notion even for today lovely message coming from a christian television station br br anyway things get worse for the family and the films moral integrity is further diminished an indian or native american robs john as he lay sleeping in a field like a common savage the indian takes johns clothes and belongings thankfully pa with the help of kit carson is able to kill the indian as well as a couple of his delinquent friends kit carson tells john that his father is a true hero br br the family is accompanied by the wagon train's resident doctor dr dutch played by aldo ray he shares sentiments about john stating that he is a useless brat perhaps so but he also the best thing about this film aldo ray's doctor is buffoon who seems unable to tie his own shoes let alone treat one of the girls for a broken leg thankfully the young child didn't cry when the wagon ran over and snapped her leg in two because dr dutch didn't seem to have the appropriate bedside manner we know the drawbacks of constantly belittling a child here's a film that promotes that behavior br br later on pa develops food poisoning or something i wasn't paying much attention and he dies his death bed scene is the stuff great acting is made of frankly the man didn't even look sick br br soon after ma dies too the children are left to fend for themselves and that's when the real adventure begins slugging it through the rapids encountering more indians these ones are nice though and venturing through snowy terrain these children do it all and i was left thinking what a bunch of garbage br br sorry but there was nothing redeeming about this film this low budget little house on the prairie is a shameful waste of time and an insult to everywhere i'm surprised that in 1975 at the tail end of the feminist movement and at a time when treatment of native americans was coming into focus that something like this could actually be made br br
0	this film is an attempt to appeal to a younger demographic of fourteen to 24 yr and an insult to all of them i refuse to believe that that age group is that vapid as to be entertained by this unnecessary remake early in the film one of the characters proclaims i am surrounded by idiots this is the defining moment in the film which goes steadily down from there full of clichés red herring scares and unexplained events the film is also full of characters who are not exactly brainiacs a formula all too familiar in dumb horror movies and that crappy it's so dark i cant see scenes stolen from chainsaw massacre but merely annoying not building any tension nor horror it's difficult to film in the dark and sometimes darkness is a great vehicle in a film that's suppose to have tension but my own feeling was that the less you see in this case the better maybe he didn't want to wait until morning because he didn't care other than it might cost him more money to do night scenes well or he doesn't know how who knows unless you have never seen a horror film in your life or you are two or three years old every aspect of this film is predictable and done before warning paris hilton is in this movie enough said all in all a blasé slasher film which begs the question where the h ll is the wax it was treated like a lost leader if you're bored as possible and all other rentals are out or you're just in the mood for a bad horror film which isn't really scary or you'd like to see paris have a pole smash through her head go ahead and take a chance it's not the worst movie i've ever seen but if this is what the producers of this film thinks a younger audience wants i pray that they are deluded a profit driven film with no attempt to achieve any kind of art nor respect for the genre you know smart characters make for a scarier movie i believe this is debut as a director besides commercials and music videos he has another one coming out in 2006 called goal 2 hopefully his goal is to make a better film
0	seven pioneer kids strive independently across many miles of indian territory and harsh weather to reach oregon br br according to history who traveled by themselves through long distances of land such as with the were manipulated and exploited by being abused and sold into slavery but these kids are pretty tough and they try their best to prevail in accomplishing their goal of making a homestead out west film is a little too syrupy at times but ok for fans of 'the and 'little house on the br br dean smith gives a cool performance as
0	i bought this movie for 99 cents at k mart several years back along with breed figuring anything with gabriel byrne and amanda is surely worth that much it wasn't dark obsession the title i bought it under was a slight cut above breed imbd rated at 2 4 but not enough to allow me to even keep it in the house i threw both movies in the trash br br this thing fails on so many levels it's hard to narrow it down but let's just say it's tawdry incredible boring hedonistic confusing and even at 100 minutes way too long br br i love byrne as an actor but this schlock really looks bad on his resume
0	extremely slow movie there are fine performances from all actors which is why above 5 score surya and are supposed to be this ideal husband and wife and we are shown this till it gets to a point you start asking is there a story then one day discovers surya's diary to find his failed college love story the college love story is totally unconvincing as surya is an arrogant senior who is always picking on bhoomika beats up her friend yells at her in public and despite being terrified of him she falls in love for him even after that he continues to dominate her using crude language i certainly could not appreciate the meek character played by bhoomika i don't think any self respecting woman will fall for such jerks in real life so decides to bring them together and what happens after that is the climax the story is extremely weak in its characters a extremely arrogant surya to bhoomika is the exact opposite with and there is no reason given for the sudden change in character again a extremely meek bhoomika becomes a big extrovert when she returns wonder if she had turned so super confident why didn't she try to find her love as she no longer feared anyone
0	this film's a big bore it has a plenty of predictable plots endless sentiments from the start it starts good with a classy number but seems lost midway br br surya on screen chemistry works out really good a good part by bhoomika why include in it he disappears totally after a good half an hour proves his wit again by timing comedy br br tunes sure will last for sometime but he could have done better what ever be the drawbacks still it's worth watching once if you feel alone at home or looking for a good time pass
0	well after the hype surrounding the film and after surya labeling the film as path breaking i went into the theatre expecting something big boy was i disappointed br br first of all the characterizations in the film are so weird which wife would do what jyothika did an idiotic coo coo one and what was the point of her standing in the rain with her child baby after she and her husband had a fight what was the purpose of that scene anyway to start a vulgarly shot not only was the song not canned aesthetically it was just not needed in the screenplay not needed at all secondly the first half of the had practically no story the entire first half was a freaking drag every scene in the first half of the film had no significance what so ever to the real story of the film and also how did aishwarya bhoomika chawla change so radically all of a sudden and how did gautham surya and lead a happy live together after six years even though they were so unhappy about marrying each other and if gautham did love aishwarya like he claimed he did why did he even marry even if it was his uncle's death wish why that's the question you keep asking whilst watching the film and how fair is the ending to aishwarya after all she was gautham's first wife krishna the director of the film claimed he worked on the script of this film for two years but his script is filled with flaws and leaves the audience utterly irritated thirdly krishna's un imaginative picturizations of awesome is just disappointing surprisingly anthony's editing usually superb for the new york song just sucks the whole song looked like it was a slide show made on microsoft power point chorus was wasted showing gautham playing football who wants to see the freaking dude playing football during such a beautiful chorus whats more the whole movie only needed two songs and adi the rest of the songs inclusive of new york and oru are just not needed fine efforts are simply wasted on a stupid film directed by an amateur director fans of rahman you ask why rahman keeps moving to bollywood after looking at the way his songs are picturised in why would he want to stay here what's more irritating is that after krishna decided to include into the film the song was cut by half which truly truly br br surya looks handsome in his new get ups save the ones during the college scenes and packs in a so and so performance his expressions during all the songs he was featured in really do not fit the way the singer sings the songs was jyothika even acting in the film all she did was cry would you call all that crying acting one of her worst performances ever what's more her new hairstyle does not suit her she looked way better in her costumes during the new york song are way off bhoomika chawla is just gorgeous during the film and does justice to her role comedy is annoying when one is watching him one wishes they could slap him on the face it is who is the show stealer during the comedy scenes and why the heck did even agree to do such a minuscule role which could have done by just anyone and why is her make up so heavy when she has perfect music by a r rahman is just awesome new york and oru deserve special mention r d cinematography is ok and isn't as good as his previous films though the scenery during the adi song deserve special mention anthony's editing is really really disappointing the film is just so freaking draggy and could be trimmed severely br br krishna's direction just sucks dialogues a c and krishna are just too corny to digest especially the part where bhoomika professes her love for surya the screenplay and script krishna are horibble the film moves in the more un interesting pace ever and krishna's script is just filled with unexplained sub plots br br and for goodness sakes why was there so much advertising in the film pepsi maggi suzuki you name it was the producer of the film k e low on budget or was he just desperate overall oru is a damp squib with a title like that one would expect a heart warming and cooling love story but what you end up is a painfully botched up love story really really disappointing
0	i acquired this film a couple of years ago and on trying to find some info about it i found that even the mighty imdb didn't have it listed that should have been all i needed to know br br with friends like these is an anthology that plays like a collection of second rate twilight zone outer limits episodes all linked together by a bus journey that never really seems to tie in with the rest of the film of the three stories the only one that i gleaned any entertainment value from was the second episode in which a man of sorts grows out of the bacteria in a guys fridge this episode wins points for a few spots of humour and it's bizarre premise other than that there is an episode with a talking car bland and directionless and an episode where a girl visits a very unique dating agency my dog guessed the ending of this one br br as has been mentioned in other comments the 18 rating is entirely unwarranted there is nothing to offend here if you're after a good horror anthology check out asylum or the creepshow films instead
0	my grandad gave me this dvd with friends like these the front cover looked quite scary thought i'd watch it what a bloody mistake br br basically the film follows three people on a bus and what happens to them involving friends br br the first one is about a guy who buys a car that talks to him the second is a about a guy who wakes up to find a clone in his fridge and the third is about a woman who does online dating but it turns out he has a robotic arm br br the dvd case rated this film 18 but even a 5 year old can watch this and not be or entertained the film should be rated 12 for slight scares and the swear word bloody br br all in all this film is utter shite don't go near it
0	with a cheap pound shop having just opened i thought that it was worth looking to see if their were any cheap dvds that looked good and while the back of the cover made this sound like a jeepers creepers type of film it is actually an anthology film and thought one or two of the stories feel very familiar its still a fun light horror comedy the plots br br story one the classic br br a young couple feel the it is time that they should try to in prove their financial life by picking up a 1500 car but when the guy goes to pick a car a car starts to talk to him the car called says that to get everything that he has ever wanted in life that he must buy for 5000 so while the guys relationship crumbles does everything he can to show who really is in charge br br story two kitchen culture br br a guy that might get thrown out by his land lord due to how messy his flat is discovers that due to keeping a tuna pasta in his fridge for six months the it has now moulded and evolved into a green mouldy version of himself and while they start off as friends they end up having a big falling out the leads to a final battle to see if the real guy or his fridge clone will survive br br story three too good to be true br br a girl signs up with a dating agency and she gets matched with a guy the is perfect for her but she is unsure that the guy is too perfect and when she thinks that she sees him 'shut down' she starts to get spooked view on the film br br the first thing that i have to mention is the rating for the film in england where it has been given an eighteen rating even thought it has no nudity swearing or blood at all and the other odd thing about all the stories is that they all have happy endings where the goodies win and while the first story is too close to the stephen king classic christine the second story is easily the highlight of the film with director tom parkinson making the of the story feel like a low budget muppets episode br br final view on the film br br while it does have a bit of a feel their is enough wackiness to make this a good horror 'comedy'
0	this is perhaps the most ridiculous crap i have ever watched three unconnected stories about completely stupid and random things are occasionally interrupted by a bus and a boring monologue about relationships by a stupid man christ knows why so many people got involved in this highlights green fridge man reading jean paul sartre the slob mans dinner guest and her horse manure hair products a ridiculously unreasonable woman in the third short who suspected a man of foul play just for taking an interest in her generic activities blowers br br i need to use up a few more lines apparently so may as well mention some more stupid things about the film the first film involves a man driving a talking car around and obeying its unreasonable demands for absolutely no apparent reason the only way you would watch this film is if you were blind and had other debilitating defects in your personality and brain it is kind of funny in an ironic way but also extremely wearying like being forced to chew for a very long time on a stained rug
0	its hard to decide where to begin i bought this for a few quid and its the worst few quid iv ever wasted the back of the dvd had no pictures and a few lines plot summary this should have warned me but i usually like bad movies for a laugh so decided to give it a go the movie is made up of three short stories each revolving around someone who was on a particular bus at one point its never made clear what the significance of the bus is or what city its set in br br possible spoilers as if there is anything to be spoiled the first story is about a man who is persuaded by a car to it against his wife's wishes the car is sort of like a demonic and takes over his life br br the second is about a slob of a man who never cleans his fridge and a monster bacteria man grows out of it br br the third about a woman who goes to a dating agency only to discover her date isnt all that normal br br inbetween these we are treated to shots of the bus or a bus anyway while a narrator on a load of garbage about relationships really its like he is on commission for saying br br the movie actually has no redeeming features whatsoever the acting the costumes and the little are all disgusting there arent even any attractive female cast members to admire simply put this movie is a debacle
0	ignore the extreme votes about house of wax in no way is it either a 1 or a 10 i will try to be of help to anyone thinking about seeing house of wax or for those who saw it based on the trailer and feel cheated the trailer makes this movie look very promising which is what trailers are supposed to do there is only one thing for sure with trailers if the producers can't together a minute of interesting elements to make a trailer it is a pretty much a sure thing that the movie is a major suck fest but a good trailer only tells you that a few things about the movie are good it does not give you much idea about the total package here a little research can be valuable br br house of wax stars elisha cuthbert whose acting skills are closer to kathy ireland than to either her fellow canadian sarah or her lookalike rose and was directed by a music video artist formerly known as in his feature debut these are not good signs but if you are like me you ignore them and go to see the work of production designer grace walken who was responsible for the look of ghost ship once again walken's work is worth seeing so much so that it looks like 90 of the movie's 30 million budget went to production design the rest went to cuthbert to compensate her for the abuse she has to take throughout the film finger cut off lips glued shut tied up and lots of wading around in assorted gooey stuff by the bye cuthbert looks considerably heavier than she did in the girl next door about one big pig out away from having a major weight problem br br which means they had little left over to pay the rest of the cast and crew and judging from the what was on the screen this might actually be true it looks like everyone else donated their time to get their first acting or crew credit unfortunately whether it was inexperience or jealousy over the pay disparity the contributions of all these inexperienced incompetent volunteers amount to less than zero br br inexperienced steven dp work was about as awful as you are likely to see and working in league with an incompetent editor like joel insert pearl harbor here they manage to take away most of the value added by the production design group rather than linger over and showcase the sets window filmed this stuff with bad lighting and jerky zooming bobbing camera work compounded the problem with an insane number of disorienting cuts poor lighting an add like camera and flurry cutting are what you use to hide cheap and crappy production design not what is needed when the movie's only strength is its expensive and detailed sets br br chan hayes did the screenplay and charles who wrote the original story is credited as the writer although except for the title and the use of wax figures there is absolutely no similarity one saving grace is that the movie does not take itself seriously as a horror film and is mostly parody insert van helsing here the murders are played for laughs too extreme to be scary or even creepy to anyone over age six the audience particularly cracked up when a certain high profile hotel heiress got her homely face run through by an steel bar although her earlier half baked striptease was the only genuinely creepy thing in the film another comedy highlight was when cuthbert sticks her finger through a grate and has it clipped off by the bad guy br br the good scenes take place in house of wax a waxworks that has something to do with a closed sugar mill conjoined twins and a lot of roadkill which cuthbert gets to bathe in all this is supposed to be happening somewhere in rural florida although from the many hills it sure looks like paul hogan's country attention location scouts the gulf coast is not noted for it's rolling terrain the screenplay apparently intended to play up the connection bad pun between the two sets of twins but somewhere during production or post production most of the dialogue concerning this was trimmed since what is left about the twin connection makes no sense and goes nowhere you wonder why it wasn't also cut to reduce the boredom factor br br what is particularly sad is that the producers did not have the brains to recognize in mid production that they had the ingredients for a first rate horror classic even with the existing cast what was staring them in the face was a chance to go somewhere with the illusion of a town of wax because it is a photographic medium modern film is intrinsically naturalistic almost without exception prone to creating an illusion of reality here they had a ready made opportunity to give the photographic medium a theatrical element of extreme stylization like an impressionist painting the town creates the illusion of reality from a distance but reveals itself as a highly stylized wax fabrication up close of course they would have had to find a visionary director and dp to bring the thing off successfully but everything else was already in place for this to happen
0	this is a very strange film with a no name cast and virtually nothing known about it on the web it uses an approach familiar to those who have watched the likes of creepshow in that it introduces a trilogy of so called horror shorts and blends them together into a connecting narrative of the people who are involved in the segments getting off a bus there is a narrator who prattles on about relationships but his talking adds absolutely nothing to the mix at all and just adds to the confusion as for the stories themselves well i swear i have not got a clue why this movie got an 18 certificate in the uk which would bring it into line with the likes of nightmare on elm street and the exorcist nothing here is even remotely scary there is no gore sex nudity or even a swear word to liven things up this is the kind of thing you could put out on children's tv and no one would bat an eyelid i can only think if it had got the rating it truly deserved a pg no serious horror fan would be seen dead with it so the distributor probably buffeted the bbfc until they relented anyway here are the 3 tales in summary 1 a man becomes dangerously obsessed with his telekinetic car to the point of alienating his fiancee 2 a man who lives in a filthy apartment is understandably freaked out when a living organism evolved from his six month old tuna casserole 3 a woman thinks she has found the perfect man through a computer dating service that is until he starts to act weird and there you have it some of them are pretty amusing due to their outlandish premises my favourite being number 2 but you get the feeling they were meant to be a frightening and b morality plays unfortunately they fail miserably on both counts to sum up then this flick is an obscure curiosity for very good reasons
0	cates is insipid and unconvincing kline over acts as always as does lithgow while butchering an english accent at least i assume that's what he's attempting and the tone staggers uneasily between farcical and maudlin as with most pet projects showcasing a celebrity couple it's a relief when this shoddy piece grinds to it's forced and jarring conclusion
0	story of an ex navy seal who is now a combat medical officer assigned to a state of the art russian sub with a nurse this is to answer a call for help set off by a dying member of the original crew the sub has been overtaken by terrorists who are bent on destruction so we see the duo try and gain control back and this happens with the fear of the us naval forces is about to unleashing everything it has got on the terrorist sub to prevent it from launching its arsenal be careful of the early explicit sexual scene in the first quarter of the movie a couple of unexplained scenes towards the end watch it when you have the time nothing to miss out even if you let the show run while you go get yourself a cup of coffee slow moving
0	this was touted as a sequel to crash dive which was a very good film in the low budget category i assumed this movie would be good also but boy was i wrong first this movie has nothing to do with crash dive other than they both take place on submarines secondly the plot can be slow tedious and in some cases totally preposterous br br this movie will not hold most people's attention i remember reading a book during the slow boring scenes there will be scenes that are supposed to be used for dramatic effect that will make the viewer laugh out loud the corkscrew scene is definitely one after i got over my initial shock that anyone would slip this in and not know people would not only disbelieve it but laugh at the sheer silliness of it i was able to find humor in it br br if you want to see md in a good sub flick watch crash dive and leave this lame film on the shelf
0	the movie has a good story line the action is good in some parts but not all of them some of the parts i just felt like the bad guys wouldn't have dosed off yet from my experience from taking martial arts some are the actions are long like always mostly for the boss but for the least important ones they were killed or dosed off with a few hits but some where quite unrealistic or could have done a better job at br br the least important actors or stunt people were the right picks for the movie my girlfriend started to have a crush on them that she started to watch the movie more than she spends her time with me br br the movie is good that is all i can say
0	i rented this tv movie version of and out of my library last thursday and simply could not believe my eyes where should i begin no effort was made to make the play look remotely like it was about the trojan war all the actors were wearing elizabethan dress moreover most of the actors were too old and horribly miscast with his white beard looked older than nestor was at least 30 hector looked like a spanish pirate ajax was badly played anyway and was a transvestite br br likewise the action is poor the duel between ajax and hector is short and amateurish the camera angle focuses more on face so we can only see what is going on in the background which is frustrating in itself nor is the at the end given it's due respect we do not see and fight nor anyone else for that matter paris and menelaus just seem to mud wrestle in front of even death was omitted all this was a major disappointment considering i waded through a very dull 2 and a half hours of bbc costume drama to get to that point br br nonetheless it wasn't all bad i thought the incredible orlando as and john as hector were well played even if they didn't look quite right i'd say the same about kenneth haigh as achilles since he didn't have the striking countenance and was a bit dry at times spoiler the climax at the end the death of hector was perhaps the best part of the film achilles' dialogue here is excellent and sums up the attitude of a cold seasoned murderer however the gruesomeness of the scene when achilles stamps on what was head sets it apart anyway br br charles gray as was delightful as a sleazy old pervert and i thought the actress playing did an ok job the war mongering however was annoying and i think that the play would have been better perhaps if he had been murdered by achilles instead of a like hector br br conclusion ok but could have been better if it had had a younger cast and costumes that at least attempted to look ancient not to mention the lack of action 5 10
0	the final entry in the on the buses trilogy sees the usual wasters go about their business in wales i feel sure the franchise could have continued but harold pinter complained that the screenplays made him look bad in comparison and so no more were made br br it's actually less than two minutes before we get our first dollop of sexism a woman running for the bus finds her breasts fall out of her dress for no reason whatsoever still it does at least make stan reg varney laugh but then what doesn't he and jack bob grant spend the entire movie laughing uproariously with little or no provocation you get the impression that they'd wet themselves watching paint dry br br as before the only funny element is the genuinely amusing stephen lewis hilarious as blakey he's on his own though with a cheesy dated script that even wastes first rate talent like wilfrid brambell and henry mcgee yet it seems as if only lewis understands how to time the shaky material wringing laughs out of even the weakest lines describing how her daughter fell in a river stan's mum laments i hope it's not polluted well it will be now blakey quips br br the plot if indeed there is one sees stan lusting after a young girl but being continually thwarted by her domineering mother it's a recipe for side splitting hilarity i'm sure you'll agree and whether it's on a storm lashed boat or the swimming baths stan and exploits always produce the same result abject boredom later conquests include maria an italian stereotype and a staff co worker even stan's mum gets a one night stand with stan reminding her to put your tin drawers on br br when one of the comic highpoints is arthur overhearing olive trying to locate a light switch in the dark i can't find it and thinking she's talking about sex then you can see why this work reaches the upper levels of literary sophistication in fact why it didn't get in the bfi's top 100 movies is beyond me br br other rib tickling shenanigans involve olive anna karen breaking her glasses i don't know what's more surprising the lame predictability of the set up or the underdeveloped pay off the short sighted olive follows a man in a kilt into the gents thinking he's a woman in a skirt the next shot sees her marched out by blakey and redirected to the ladies and that's it next she ends up in another man's bed and is ordered out by his wife and no that's all there is to that scene too br br when holiday on the buses was last screened on british television there was a breakdown in transmission it actually came as blessed relief
0	the problem this film has is the same problem the tv series had and that s the laddish stan and jack there s nothing wrong with laddish characters but stan and jack are played by actors who seem to be in their late 40s early 50s and there s something objectionable not to mention defying as they cop off with girls young enough to be their daughters br br as for the rest of holiday on the buses i found it instantly forgettable it s basically a 30 minute episode spun out to 90 minutes with having all the action take place at a holiday camp instead of a bus station br br amazingly almost a third of voters on this site have given it a 10 come on guys this film doesn t deserve more than a 5
0	this has got to be the most appalling abuse of the word comedy ever witnessed it is simply not funny and the scriptwriters have obviously just tried to use the name of the tv series in order to make a few quid at the box office this film makes a carry on seem subtle as far as sexual innuendo goes no mean feat and has all the charisma of a corpse with a complete washout i'm afraid
0	this movie is a window on the world of britain in 1973 a world of holiday camps fags and birds i was actually at while this was being filmed so it's fascinating to see where i as a kid and what a world we have left behind the 'plot' such as it is concerns stan and jack's attempts to turn a job at a holiday camp 25 quid a week into an opportunity for chasing young women and winding up blakey they are joined by the rest of stan's family and some laughs are to be had from arthur michael robbins and anna karen persistent as well as the sheer oddness of blakey but the idea that young women would see anything desirable in stan reg varney or lecherous jack bob grant is just risible harmless enough in its time now it's just a curio from a bygone age
0	the third film based on charles play entitled mystery of the wax museum 1933 targets generation x twin screenwriters chad hayes and carey w hayes spend more time developing the main characters than other slasher movies a promising start their condition guarantees an authentic point of view the role of paige paris hilton was not much of a stretch for the world's favorite heiress she in style stripteases boys chats on a cell and frets over an ill conceived pregnancy her regular routine has been altered beyond repair hilton reached the peak of her performance not so hot during the 1 night in paris 2004 parody while the pimp my ride is in motion she looks for lip balm in her boyfriend's robert ri'chard lap finally the actress for using the n word on the sex tape director serra molds his take on the twin thing contrary to the theme of the past each exhibited opposite characteristics back then whereas a pair of either good or bad can come out the womb today however the latter does not rule out the former childbirth constitutes the luck of the draw spectators can hardly consider vincent brian van holt a contemporary quasimodo granted the recluses share some similarities such as artistry disfigurement submissiveness and murder yet one small variable between the two makes all the difference vincent is even uglier on the inside than he is on the out house of wax pays homage to actor vincent price from the first remake in 1953 the film leaves obvious van gogh puns to the imagination of the audience still the choice to split the antagonist in two eliminates a vibrant twist at the end professor henry vincent price unmasking receives runner up but the most terrifying one in horror movie history belongs to lon chaney in phantom of the opera 1925 as far as the new contender is concerned the aftermath of separation surgery downplays the effect a surgeon should know operating on siamese twins scars them physically and psychologically their father needs to call a couple colleagues dr phil to consult and dr mcnamara to nip tuck despite what the trailers said wax is not forever in fact you can rid yourself of it by burning it
0	the 3rd and last big screen spin off from the very popular itv sitcom of the early 1970's holiday on the buses is every bit as resistible and crude as the previous two efforts and observing from a standpoint three and a half decades later it is truly mind boggling that even one film was produced in this franchise br br what constitutes the plot surrounds the adventures of stan butler reg varney his conductor jack bob grant and their autocratic inspector blake stephen lewis after their from their regular jobs at the bus depot they all find work in similar positions at a holiday camp with stan's family doris hare anna karen michael robbins following br br british cinema had a deserved and considerable reputation for high quality in the 1960's but much of this was due to american financial support and guidance which sadly drew to a close as the 1970's dawned thereafter notable homegrown titles get carter being the among these very few exceptions became as rare as mick jagger in a stable marriage and uk cinema went down the road of cheap budgets sleazy and witless sex comedies the confessions series come play with me and flabby elongated celluloid versions of various tv shows mostly sitcoms this being one of many hideous examples only dad's army and porridge came off fairly respectably in this regard the quirky success of the first on the buses film it was the biggest box office hit of it's year in 1971 nonsensical to think now led to two further sequels br br to be fair the tv series itself had a cheerful ripe non pc vulgarity about it which was reasonably tolerable in half hour sitcom form but stretched to three times that length it taxes the patience beyond belief it's ironical that hammer films produced this effort as it virtually resembles a horror film in the literal sense with ancient puns hackneyed poorly timed slapstick and awful seedy production values br br a chance to send up the cheesiness of the british holiday camp is totally wasted here in favour of the above elements and it is most bizarre if not gruesome to see the obviously 50 something varney and the nosed long toothed grant managing to instantly charm young women barely in their early twenties while constantly laughing at their own bravado and lame jokes the presence of wilfrid brambell from steptoe and son romancing the aged miss hare does not help matters either and even though the film lasts about 1 and a half hours it drags on to an interminably depressing degree br br thankfully this was the last film in this most dire of film trilogies and the tv series itself came to an end around the same time with a sequel don't drink the water which was roundly savaged by the critics and ignored by audiences following in 1975 most of the leading actors involved were not seen much afterwards but the worst affected was bob grant afflicted with depression and other mental problems for many years he committed suicide in 2003 a sad coda to a sitcom that was the most popular of it's era it has not aged too well either and should have remained that way rather than the three financially successful but artistically hopeless big screen hybrids which diluted the happy memories and occasional merits of it's tv counterpart br br rating 2 and a half out of 10
0	this was one of the shows that i wanted to follow up on but i'd just couldn't bring myself on devoting my time to this show to have a show that centers on the topic of politics you really need a strong plot with twists and turns to enhance the mood of the show something like the west wing or commander in chief rob lowe was ok but actors like kyle chandler just couldn't act he was awful in early edition it was a pain to sit through this show with its lack of suspense urgency and characters who can actually act i just had to give up on this show and am glad it was canceled so i would have nothing more to miss br br grade d
0	i watched this movie with big expectations the blurb on the back indicated that this was going to be a nasty one but it was pretty tame and a little unsatisfying the violence was nothing i haven't seen a thousand times before the gore level was only average mind you there was probably more than what has been seen in hollywood in the last 5 years perhaps more and at no stage was i even feeling uneasy let along frightened again a cat 3 movie with big wraps has not lived up to its hype br br sure hire this movie but don't go in with any expectations i am so keen to get into the whole asian horror scene but am continuously disappointed i did love ichi and audition but then again miike stands alone at the moment br br please inspire me there is a large cluster of jaded genre fans who are starved of quality horror
0	anthony wong stars in both this and the original far superior untold story but the similarities stop there wong doesn't reprise his role obviously and instead plays a bumbling policeman who gets involved with a rather suspicious female fung 1994's miss singapore sun who's a repressed nut job sure but her tame jealous wanna be with a guy who's with a girl killer is no where near as compelling as what wong played in the first one the movie itself seems tired and by the numbers yeung fan as the love unfaithful girl tries to keep one from total boredom by stripping down whenever possible and sun does have a nice ass but even that can't save this dud br br my grade d br br mei ah dvd extras sub titled interviews with cheung kam ching sun anthony wong filmography a very brief synopsis theatrical trailer for the film trailers for chinese erotic ghost story and twenty something
0	martin lawrence is not a funny man i he just has too much on his mind and he is too mad which trips his puns pretty early in the game he tries to make fun of critics which boils down to f them then he goes on to rather primitive sexual jokes on smokers with throat cancer and it just goes downhill from there 3 10
0	i saw this late at night on a minor channel and i put it on expecting a laugh or two martin lawrence is a good comic actor and i reckoned he might be a good stand up comedian actor in the style of richard pryor br br i couldn't have been more wrong this concert was awful it was full of racist comments directed at white people muslims and people from india muslims and indians are the same thing in lawrence's narrow mind and rambling clichéd cod philosophy lawrence like many black comics and directors can't resist the urge to preach when given a platform do we really need a lecture on martin luther king and the civil rights struggle during a stand up comedy show then there were his fawning comments designed to ingratiate him with women it made my skin crawl listening to him br br worst of all the show simply wasn't funny and i found it boring i turned over halfway through and flipped back to find him either still preaching or going on and on and on about the birth of his child there was no humour in the story of the birth of his child and it was self indulgent on his part to bore us with the details he clearly didn't have very much to say or he would have cut this section of the show out br br this show was rubbish
0	it's the single unfunniest thing i ever watched it's sad how he tries so hard to come up with a good joke and all he does is curse and thinks his disgusting vulgarity is funny he is the most bitter person i ever saw his whole act he is trying to show how much he doesn't care and by that only showing how much he's angry at the critics and the people with any taste and sense of humor who'd rather go through immense torture than go watch his show there are good comedians there are bad ones and there are horrible ones but this guy is in a league of his own i feel sorry for him and even more for the people who find him funny
0	i usually really like lawrence and being in australia i haven't seen much of his stand up so when i saw this at my video shop i thought yeah i'll have a look i wish i hadn't seen it now obviously lawrence had a profound experience that opened up his mind and i guess he wants to share this with others but this was neither the time nor the place br br this whole experience seemed like a motivational speech in hell it really did i believe the catch phrase of the night was ride it until the wheels fall off which he intermingled with just plain lewd jokes revolving around sex and sexual organs br br don't get me wrong i don't mind crude humor but lawrence lacks the gift of classing it up in the fashion of eddie murphy richard prior or robin williams lawrence was just plain lewd the only time i laughed was when he relived his experience with the law and his recovery in the hospital if there were minus points i would give them
0	it is not uncommon for a celebrity to be faced with the proverbial wake up call and should they survive this event they come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of their particular good fortune however in the case of comedian's they are rarely as funny after their epiphany as they were prior to it such is the case with martin lawrence frankly i pay little attention to celebrities as i have much better things to do with my life than to spend it monitoring others' so i was unaware of the majority of what lawrence had gone through prior to this film it was interesting but unfortunately all to common i was left with the larger impression that this guy's stand up act just wasn't very funny save the big life messages for a book just be funny on stage if you want to see a funny martin lawrence go rent some of the old def jams for which he hosted don't rent
0	martin lawrence could be considered a talented man but those days are long gone shows a man who at once tries to play the sympathy card to his plight yet takes responsibility for it whenever he thinks it'll benefit his ego the sad truth is that at this point in his life his best days were behind him his half funny show was dead in the water after his co star left and to today he faces a career of voice acting and god awful action films br br one gets the impression that this concert film wasn't made to give lawrence's career another boost after his humiliation but rather a childish attempt to clear the air by both trying to pathetically salvage what remained of his life and somehow twist it into something to be proud of some defining moment in which he showed himself to have his fame sadly the concert is nothing but a gravelly voiced martin incoherently trying to be funny invoke pathos and then claim he doesn't care about it at all because hardcore the sad truth is that this is the real public embarrassment for lawrence the way he rambles on invoking sad pity laughter makes you wish that he would just strip down to his underwear on stage wave a gun around and just reenact it all over again there is no real insight to his performance at all much like the childish title states martin is trying to make his ultimate moment of truth his own in his way and fails miserably he would have been better off waiting for the e true hollywood story instead of running on a stage and making an idiot out of himself for the second time br br perhaps the saddest thing about this concert film or rather career eulogy is that martin didn't put any thought into this what was this film supposed to prove sadly that his fame was fleeting he was a flash in the pan before the underwear incident and now that the only way he can get work is will smith or a pixar production they might as well called this concert because that's what it is martin lawrence just dies on stage here and with it goes what could have been an interesting career now just a pathetic side note in history
0	a horrible horrible horrible film i saw the original when i was a kid and it gave me nightmares into my teens when i found out a remake was on the way i groaned why oh why remake a good film well we can thank dark castle for yet another classic horror film this time they've replaced a somewhat interesting story with gore slower than slow pacing and yawn inspired characters someone previously said that s he was surprised that paris hilton can act uh were you watching the film she plays a prissy little tramp sounds like typecasting to me half of the people in the audience actually cheered when she died that tells you why people are seeing this film if that's your only reason then find a better one because like a black hole this thing will suck out more of your life than you'll want had i been alone i would have left 10 minutes into the boring exposition this thing is like a moron's guide to crap film making in bred southern git stupid but attractive leads knives a plenty gore a plenty stock menacing truck i could go on after watching this film i began to really appreciate jeepers creepers and i thought that film sucked save yourself and avoid this crapfest at every cost
0	to paraphrase the previous reviewer's comments if you're a stooges fan avoid this one at all costs my basic question is being the experienced troopers of comedy that moe and larry were why did they insist on attempting to continue the act when it was so obvious that their home studio columbia was so clearly not interested in giving them serious writers and veteran comedy directors this movie plays like someone who's giving a pale imitation of the trio and you can see how very hard moe and larry are working to make every little bit of slapstick relevant joe de rita despite his background in vaudeville is just not up to the job as a replacement for curly shemp or even joe besser if that's who moe and larry had left to pick from they should have just closed up shop and enjoy their retirement years leaving us fans with better memories of far better films they had done earlier always leave them laughing is the motto for comedy and always quit while you're on top hence seinfeld's leaving the sitcom while right up there instead of sticking around for the inevitable decline
0	barricade finds alice faye without any songs as a refugee trying to flee china and without passport she's in a heap of trouble i won't say what exactly and even american won't help her out br br i mention that because one of the grievances that the chinese including the bandits who attack the american mission in this story set deep in the chinese interior was that particular institution whereby american citizens who committed crimes were tried by american courts set up by our we were far from the only country doing that however br br anyway the story opens with her on a train for shanghai trying to use a hokey russian accent the accent intrigues warner baxter who's pretty plastered br br bandits however interrupt the journey and the two of them seek refuge in the american consulate presided over by charles winninger he's the best one in the film and i only wish that a better story was given because i liked his character he's a widower and a proud member of the service appointed in 1900 by william mckinley he requested a transfer ten years later and that's the last he was heard from as assistant secretary of state jonathan hale aptly put it he's the real forgotten man br br baxter does all right in a role that someone like clark gable would have done in his sleep at mgm the heroics would have come more natural to gable than to baxter as the mission is barricaded and defended against the bandits br br alice faye did have one number to sing why alice's song was cut out god and zanuck only know one thing i'm still trying to figure out is when the mission inhabitants take final refuge in the cellar with a trap door just who was left upstairs to pull the rug over the cellar door br br barricade had the potential to be a lot better than it was but sloppy editing and lost faith in the project made 20th century fox release a project unfulfilled watching barricade is like eating a badly cooked meal
0	you may be interested to know that barricade was viewed as a failure by the studio and shelved for a year before alice faye's popularity reached such a high that the studio decided to release the film despite the fact that it was never fully completed it fared modestly ok at the box office br br faye refers to a murder during her nightclub stint in new york city and this scene was actually in the script and was the way the film was to start instead it is entirely missing and what could have been an exciting sequence including a complete song number by faye was never filmed however the rest of the story is pretty much intact and made release of the film possible at a running time of 71 minutes br br a tired looking warner baxter is too old to be believable as faye's romantic interest and is merely perfunctory as the broken down reporter audiences today would be offended by the depiction of chinese using fractured english phrases like me make noisy key luke is one of the chinese loyalists but plays his role in a low key straightforward way arthur treacher is all but invisible and yet gets fourth billing on screen due to editing changes in the story originally joseph schildkraut had a role in the film but his part was eventually edited out br br a mishmash of a film that will serve as entertainment only for the most die hard alice faye fans who will get a chance to see her in a dramatic role albeit a weak one charles winninger is totally wasted as a kindly man running the american consulate br br despite all the weaknesses there are a couple of scenes involving narrow escapes that are effectively played and karl freund's b w photography is top notch
0	an ex informant of the east germany finishes in mexico like spy of a student group in 1971 in where she falls in love with one of the activists this is the first co production of mexico with germany and although it is a good picture of the ideals that marked and continue marking at least to the youth as much finishes being something insipid since to the internal dilemmas that it faces dark brown like the passion by his ideals that adela feels as soon as they glimpse in the case of him i want to suppose by the barrier of the language and in the case of her by its lack of experience reason why in the end a concrete identification with any of them does not exist which causes that what could have been films that even served as document like red dawn finished being one more a film although i want to clarify that in the room many of the assistants were excited in the conversation with the director which says to me that no longer they are so young or my ideals have changed
0	a very sensitive topic 15 y o girl abandoned by mother as a baby and who goes to visit her continues to be ignored is raped by her mom's boyfriend becomes pregnant there was not enough depth displayed of this situation too much of time is taken up on the chase with the truckers transporting the baby interesting this baby with asthma you never see him cry except once be fed have is diaper changed during the whole truck transport ordeal i would have liked to have seen more of the interrelationships more focus on the fact that this girl was a minor this should have stood up in court immediately br br and this was a true story it deserved a better telling than that br br if it weren't for the subject matter i would have given this closer to a 0 rating i rented this from the library only later i found out it was a made for tv movie br br oh well
0	contains spoilers br br as a fan of rachael leigh cook i watched for this show to finally come on so that i could see it i taped it so i could watch it several times and there is something about this show that really bothers me br br i recognize that this was a made for tv movie not only that but it was made for lifetime which is a channel that i despise because it was made for tv i can ignore the huge plot holes i can ignore the massive lack of character development in ally sheedy's character i can overlook the fact that george c scott and rachael leigh cook both of whom are very talented actors were definately not reaching the best of their abilities i can look past the fact that don character was so cliche'd that you knew when you saw him he was the villain i can even pass over the obvious mistake in the timeline she's raped during her winter break and then over a year later she has the baby from it br br the major thing that i can't get over is this there are two trials for the custody of the child in the first trial custody is awarded to the child's father because he is better educated has a degree from a community college and has a full time job in the second trial the judgement is reversed because the judge feels that there is lack of evidence that emma character is an unfit mother and custody shouldn't be taken from the primary caretaker and given to someone with no previous interaction with the child br br the problem is this nowhere during the course of these trials is the fact that a year old man raped a 15 year old girl and got her pregnant taken into consideration whether it was a rape or not he had sex with a minor wouldn't that be taken into consideration when the judge is choosing him for custody because he's a mature adult mature adults don't have sex with minors br br it's not the worst cable movie that you would ever see but it's not a great show either out of
0	this is possibly one of the worst movies i have had the dis pleasure of watching in my entire life the plot is ridiculous and the characters are horrible people i watched this film with 3 friends and we all agreed to turn it off 30 minutes before the end ben kingsley's character is just plain stupid but not funny at all it is a wonder why an actor of his talent would be involved in such tripe tea leoni does a fine hillary clinton impression throughout to portray the very cold and uninteresting female lead who has all the endearing qualities of a broom handle throw in a pointless and unexplained sub plot and a horribly cringe worthy montage and you end up with a waste of 93 minutes 60 in my case avoid this film at all costs
0	comedy what's so funny about watching an ugly deadbeat alcoholic attending 6 sessions by the time i turned it off of anonymous set off by a woeful script of grunts and mumbles and drunken served up with lashings of hollywood's religious god will save you redemption drivel another reviewer mentioned the sassy dialogue of tea leone well i managed to watch nearly an hour of this boring film and i still haven't seen any sassy yet in fact my 80 year old grandmother has more amusing comebacks than tea's character in this rubbish tea is more stony faced and shows less emotion than keanu in fact one wonders if she too isn't addicted to something maybe botox her face is so wooden save yourself from being killed with boredom from this film
0	i love ben kingsley and tea leoni however this is easily the worst movie i have seen in 10 years and i see my share of movies a stinker this is a bad idea for a movie poorly executed nothing about it is funny credible or interesting i was looking for wit irony and genuine humor instead this looked like most of the cast members wandered on to the set to do tea leoni a favor it's too bad such acting talent was wasted on such hollowness don't bother i have to wonder what opinion the makers of this movie have of their audience to subject them to the idea of polish gangsters in buffalo ny sending a contract murderer to san francisco to become a mortuary assistant while attending aa meetings bill pullman should begin reading scripts before he agrees to be in a movie sad
0	i went to this film full of hope with so many capable and humorous actors headed up by sir ben i thought this is going to be a little treat br br oh how i felt like gouging my eyes out as the credits rolled that i had wasted of my life this film that was clearly doa there are some real problems with this film and it will probably be easier to list them 1 no jokes i am not particularly hard to please comedically high or low brow but there really is not one laugh in this film br br 2 sir ben mumbles through every single line whether he is supposed to be drunk or not 3 there is no effort to to begin let alone develop the relationship between the love interests in this 2 people bumping into each other randomly in the street would instantly have more rapport br br 4 all the acting talent that is assembled is completely wasted don't be fooled into watching this because of the names br br 5 for a cold ass hit man he rubbed out more people in gandhi than this flaccid waste of time a by the way dyed beards look really creepy i was hoping that this was a slow burner but in the end the only thing that could inject any life and justice into this is frank pulling out his 9 and offing the whole cast starting with tea and ending with himself sorry it was that bad
0	is this a game fmv or a movie in all honesty i watched this one out of choice less ness it is a very big waste of time and money br br it seems hk movies are heading in the opposite direction of the rest of the world br br try to put more effort and money into a production and make us want to watch rather than something you want us to watch br br the graphics are so horrible than they looked like something out of the early to mid 90s low resolution games in comparison to today's br br the way they made this movie is almost exactly what they did in the 90s' wing commander game namely the third installment of the series stop and make us asian look so bad at this compared to the big guns in hollywood br br sure they have big budgets and better actors but we have some of the oldest histories the myths and the legends the best and possibly the largest computer graphic talent base in the world so what went so very very wrong did you start using the same old companies that have been working with you for so many films please stop wasting our time and money this is the reason why hk movies are heading downhill so rapidly didn't you claim to be the hollywood of the orient guess not
0	this film has no plot no good acting to be honest it has nothing the same songs play over and over awful acting and if you can actually sit there and watch the whole thing and enjoy it there is something wrong with you i wish i could give this 0 out of 10 but i cant so it has to be a 1 which is generous ice t isn't even a good rapper and even worse at acting every bit of the film is rubbish i got this film on dvd without knowing what it was for the price of £1 99 and thought that i had picked up a bargain i then looked at the imdb rating and didn't take it into consideration but after watching it found out that the dvd i had bought was a complete waste of time money and electricity if you have this film there are two things you can do sell it to someone who doesn't know about it or burn it
0	frank it isn't that i'm sorry i killed them it's that i'm sorry i killed them badly br br wow talk about a swing and a miss you have a great cast and a great plot with endless how do you f ck that up well apparently john dahl has found a way with an atrocious screenplay featuring jokes about as funny as a malaria epidemic and dialogue so painfully dry it makes none of the characters likable 'you kill me' might be the biggest cinematic failure of 2007 on a positive note ben provides another great performance as the alcoholic polish hit man trying to get clean but the material he has to work with is crap tea leoni is good as well as is luke wilson dennis farina bill pullman philip baker hall and the rest of the cast i guess the best way to describe 'you kill me' is a terrible movie with good performances grade d
0	this movie stars ben kingsley as frank a hit man for some russian mobsters based out of buffalo he is also a raging alcoholic and this has caused his job performance to decline after he falls asleep in his car during a would be hit his mob boss uncle sends him to san francisco where he is to attend aa meetings and get a job as a assistant if you're thinking that this makes absolutely no sense you're not alone br br it gets worse well it actually gets better but not before getting much much worse frank suddenly becomes a master mortician in spite of a complete lack of training but his reactions with the people in the funeral home and the aa meetings are interesting the viewer starts to root for him as they notice positive changes in his life luke wilson is a welcome addition as frank's sponsor although he is given almost nothing to do his character does tell us he is gay but this ends up having no significance whatsoever the movie plunges headlong into idiocy with the introduction of the tea leoni character she is completely unrealistic and her role as a love interest to frank flounders as the two actors have no chemistry together around the time she comes into the picture frank becomes much less engrossing as a character his characterization is seemingly random there is no consistency in his behavior the comedy is low key and only intermittently funny especially disappointing considering the comedic pedigree of the cast br br problems abound in this one kingsley's accent is terrible and inconsistent it alternates between italian russian and hispanic throughout the course of the movie frank tells numerous people he is a hit man including an entire aa group but nobody seems to care or wants to do anything about it the movie relies on cliché scenes to carry it through its final act most notably when insufferable character chases frank down at the airport just when he is about to board a flight back to buffalo br br though it has a strong premise and an interesting first half hour the movie quickly becomes a total disaster and devolves into complete nonsense at the end of the film frank celebrates one year of sobriety i hope to celebrate many many years of not having seen you kill me br br my grade d
0	as the title suggests there is a philosophical thread running through this film if a man has the talent and looks to find his way into society and money what might be the outcome if he is denied it for failing to have the x factor this question is unsatisfactorily dealt with in this adaptation of patricia book and left me rather cold along the way br br matt damon is the ripley of the title and apart from his way on a funded to europe falls under the spell of his commissioned target dickie law homoeroticism and social insecurity get all tangled up in a violent conflagration which escalated and complicate themselves for the rest of the movie law damon and the damningly pleasant paltrow as girlfriend are ok i liked philip seymour hoffman's cameo ish freddie miles the bluff society friend that ripley can never be the problem is that the story is lumpen without arc or redemption for that matter which makes it rather difficult to swallow 4 10
0	the book is great it's one of my favorite books ever the film on the other hand is amazingly insipid and bad when i heard damon would play ripley i knew this production was doomed but i didn't expect it to be this bad the actors go around and act very showy except for law and even he is guilty of some showy acting all the actors here are near amateurish speaking italian and moving one's arms or hair about shouldn't be considered as acting damon is miscast he's way too stiff for a character that's supposed to be a chameleon paltrow is forgettable and hoffman plays yet another effeminate slimy character talk about typecasting br br what's really unforgivable about the script written by the overrated director is that it completely forgoes every subtle details from the book and comes up with many of its own and none of them work the addition of the jazz music stuff is totally wrong i guess idea of italy in the late 50s early 60s is clouded with images of chet baker roaming the italian countryside and spreading amore yep is a true visionary the film is so bleeding obvious that silly scene when ripley drives through the narrow street full of mirrors very laughable yes we get the point every point or detail comes across a mile away so much so that the film might give the audience the false impression that they have psychic powers we know for example that the blanchett character introduced at the beginning of the movie will return later on only complicate things and the soundtrack at times is totally inappropriate whimsical when it shouldn't be the film goes on for too long and in all sorts of pointless directions there are too many boring characters the landscape many that weren't in the book this film is bad really bad br br apparently son told his father that the ripley novel was his favorite mr then proceeded to direct it as a favor of sorts to his son well the director did achieve what he set out to do talented mr ripley with its hitchcock aspirations is a film strictly made for 12 year olds
0	this is the worst movie of all time no doubt and schindler's list did in fact have more laughs this not only tells you how unfunny this movie is and how great sl is considering it's heartbreaking and contains 1 laugh i wish i could meet yahoo serious so i could personally throttle him for this and all the other very very very bad movies he's ever been in there is also very few things to say about australia seeing as they like this stupid fruit don't get me wrong people mel gibson from australia are great they brought us mad max it makes me very nauseous that people like this garbage a review i just read said it was very funny sickening isn't it i personally will be this movie and will start a petition online to ban and burn all yahoo serious' movies for being so and i emphasize this so retarded br br these are just my personal thoughts no doubting they are shared by everybody who has seen this movie br br note if you are forced to watch this movie clockwork orange style call me to commit euthanasia on you for free
0	i know everyone said this movie was utter crap and i agree with them i spent a few years after seeing it telling other people it was crap i recommended they not see it but when it came on tv we saw the ad i turned to family and said i know this is sad but i'm thinking of watching it my sister turned to me and said yeah me too and you know what it was funny br br by no means is this a good movie it's absolutely a waste of time but it's a good waste of time you may still think it's crap and fair enough but i thought it was a really funny slapstick comedy i didn't like a couple of bits like when the fish got hit by the car but apart from that i thought it was good i loved sitting there and picking out all the famous australian faces elle garry mcdonald etc br br so if you like to waste your time watch this movie otherwise see a drama or something
0	it pains me to say this about an australian film but mr accident ranks with the worst of the worst films i have ever seen what's even more tragic is that it doesn't fit into the 'it's so bad it's good' category what annoys me the most about this film is the fairly large amount of money that has been away on a pointless unfunny underdeveloped inept screenplay dumb performances what are garry mcdonald and elisabeth gore aka elle doing in this trash inadequate direction no plot and a general sense of meanness totally take away from the interesting production design and leave you with a truly horrible taste in your mouth comedy ha do yourself a favour and stay away
0	mr accident is a deliberate series of non stop disasters and near death experiences reminiscent of saturday warner brothers cartoons like the coyote who falls off the cliff 5 times per episode the leading man more like an over grown klutzy child always manages to postpone his meeting with the grimm reaper br br this australian surprise is offensively unfunny and at times even depressing the 2 out of ten are is for the visual stunts some never attempted by anyone since daffy duck and the use of vivid colors like in those high class national laundry commercials br br there may be an age bracket where this comedy finds a following i have definitely passed that age long ago calling all preteens here's a ha ha for ya
0	yahoo serious is like a 3 bottle of wine had no substance to begin with and just gets worse with age this film proves he is completely toxic we can only hope that this is his final film and that its serious lack of success will diminish his chances of obtaining finance for any future ventures it is right up there with lightning jack and les patterson saves the world as the most abysmal example of australian comedy imaginable how tragic it is that with so many infinitely superior comedic talents in australia yahoo is given such vehicles to express his brand of puerile school yard comedy and to think he had 7 years to come up with the script true genius
0	this movie was a poor movie the plot was poor and the comedy they tried to deliver came out poorly the accidents seem contrived and predictable i thought the actors tried to some extent but with this movie it was so lame it can only go so far one of the worst films i have seen and don't recommend it to anyone the only accident to mr accident was it's release
0	it borrowed scenes from lotr matrix star wars etc the humor is so dry contrived and corny that you can't help but laugh occasionally at its inanity and the fact that you are watching it exactly what you'd expect from an hk comedy the average person would enter with an iq of 100 and leave with less than 80 stephen chow is an obvious omission from this movie the humor would have worked better with stephen the mandarin version of this movie is not as good as the cantonese original the graphics are poor compared to its hollywood counterparts there is on low quality cg my biggest complaint is its ending the origin of the white horse is so clearly described in the journey to the west that this alternate explanation does not work well with story line despite its many flaws this movie has far more entertainment value than the other movie nicholas tse starred in the promise
0	i cannot stress how bad this movie is this director took every cheap little unintelligent shot at making these people look so distressed why are their clothes so dirty why on earth would you get the new clark kent to play a crack head you should be banned from motion pictures for the rest of your life buddy giovinazzo br br i take serious offense to this fool wanting to cast real actors as thugs and lowlifes as some kind of clever joke why would you ask clark kent to play a crackhead why are they yelling so much why is everyone so mean why are those kids so filthy no one would want to be so filthy not even a crackhead child br br you need to grow up and not make any movies ever again
0	i feel dumber after watching the first 20 min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly not being lame but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is ''a good be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for in a life time keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don't spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace love
0	most awful casting i've ever seen clark kent as a crack head a very feminine looking woman as a trans and on and on br br stupid ass violence just for the sake of being violent no content no meaning this person has never been on the streets it's a joke br br the only thing dumber than this movie is the fact that i finished watching it i just kept thinking it couldn't get any worse but it did to the very end br br trying way to hard to be an off the hook movie trying to be freaky so stupid i really have no more to say but can't leave a comment unless i write more br br please take this advice and do not bother watching this movie awful
0	a young man falls in love with a princess but then has to go to battle to save her father's kingdom while away he accidentally kills an enchanted animal which brings a curse upon him he becomes a beast and begins to kill even his own comrades when nobody returns to the kingdom from the battle the king renders the land of battle cursed and forbids anyone from going there one day a rebel who wishes to marry the princess decides that it's time they ventured into the cursed land to claim it for the king and the king agrees when they reach the land the king is captured by the beast and the rebel returns home to lie to the kingdom that the king has been captured and killed he assumes the throne and prepares to marry the princess but the night before her wedding the princess escapes to the land to go and battle the beast herself it is only when she gets to the cursed land that she begins to realise that her father is still alive and that the beast may not even be that evil after all sadly her discoveries lead her to pay the ultimate price in their revelation
0	what can be said of this independent effort beyond the fact that it was shot with television cameras and whether that was by conceit or budget constraints doesn't make the watching of this variation on a theme by romero any easier i was constantly reminded that i was watching somebody's school project at best derivative at worst cheap br br writer director georg who also appears in the film does some interesting things with stock footage but that says more about his editing style than his directing style which consists of in your face close ups with tv cameras which made me think i was watching public access television instead of an actual honest to goodness film br br the story copies and bits and pieces from various sources including the aforementioned romero's dead trilogy the road warrior dig that stock footage of a future that looks like the past and the blair witch project br br what results is an hour and nothing's worth of zombies tracking down and eating humans okay the humans in this case are clones but that doesn't change anything it's the same menu br br the year is 2031 and the first strand of people who were cloned nineteen years before have started to malfunction particularly in the area of course when clones go bad the first thing they have a taste for is human flesh or in this case cloned human flesh it's not safe to be indoors it's not safe to be outdoors it's just a matter of time before the flesh eating ghouls devour our heroes have you seen this before br br i don't mind people ripping off romero if it's done well but no new territory is covered in this film it's night of the living dead meets the blair witch project shot with television cameras what is particularly disappointing is that the dvd cover makes it look like it was shot at the very least with 8mm film this wouldn't have been a problem with me if the story had not been equally cheap the film offers a bleak vision of the future in which technology has evolved to the point where human cloning is possible must we continue to clone our favourite movies
0	historical movies always take liberties conversations are concocted where no one could actually know what was said customs are adjusted to be comprehensible to modern audiences etc however historical films about actual historical personages should make at least a minimal nod to history this film does not the only scene i actually remember is when our hero surprises an assassin who creeps into his chamber at night he confronts the dangerous intruder with i don't remember sending for room service the main entertainment value is in its badness i recommended my local video story put it on the turkeys shelf
0	as long as you go into this movie with the understanding that it's not going to contain any historical fact whatsoever it's not bad br br it's on par with sam raimi's hercules the legendary journeys as far as plot acting humour and production values are concerned you'll see the similarities at several points most of the fight scenes are not as good however and the film suffers from that br br jack palance commands the screen as well as ever and at no time do you have the impression he's giving anything less than his level best same for oliver reed the problem is that their strong performances make square jawed don less than stellar acting skills seem even more awkward perennial bit player was very good as well playing a character much like in the aforementioned hercules br br if you enjoyed the low budget swords and sorcery movies of the early 80s you're probably going to enjoy this show as well it's actually a shame they attached the marco polo name to it it really has nothing to do with life contrary to the expectations of most of the people who will want to watch this movie
0	help once again paul schrader has sabotaged his own intentions with dull pedantic storytelling i rearranged a vacation so that i could see this world premiere what a mistake why did schrader even want to make an exorcist film lofty intentions are fine but if i wanted 2 hours of theological babble i would visit my nephew's sunday school father struggle with his faith as presented in his younger days is a potentially interesting subject but an exorcist movie needs more the relentlessly draggy presentation along with ridiculous special effects makes for a strange production who is this movie for i didn't bother seeing the harlin version but at least they apparently tried to deliver some sort of visceral thrills br br the exorcist series has been quite strange the first film was excellent but every sequel has been unloved and pointless why do they keep making them i suppose schrader made it so that he could get a lot of money but why should we go
0	ok last night i saw the world premiere of paul schrader's the exorcist the beginning at the brussels international festival of fantasy films with all the commotion around the film it was highly anticipated br br the director was there and so were most of the stars except br br unfortunately the movie sucked big time it was a real disappointment for me because i'm a huge fan of both and friedkin's rip original 1973 film br br what was wrong with it most of it actually the fx you would think that the matrix and lotr digital revolution never happened it was so badly rendered the editing no real pace or rhythm the acting only at times could convince the script was a imo set up to explain the african scenes in the original film so the movie had the feel of a set up scene only it contributed nothing br br the only thing that i did like was vittorio cinematography although i've seen better from him now br br all of the time i was thinking this was just a rough cut a work in progress and that given the well known circumstances is probably what it is but that doesn't change the obvious problems with the script br br i had the chance to meet schrader very briefly but i didn't have the guts to tell him what i thought of the film and i was so nervous this is the guy who wrote taxi driver for christ sake that i forgot to ask him to sign my copy of his taxi driver script
0	well i remember when the studio sacked schrader and hired harlin to do reshoots to this film they were quite right to do so br br dominion prequel to the exorcist is simply a bad movie it's boring really it is br br it would be nice to think that the studio put aside a psychological masterpiece and that all those who in such big words condemned harlin's version and praised even if no one had ever seen it would have been right br br but they weren't br br to put it in a nutshell schrader has no idea what a horror film should be and it shows in a big way br br droll boring unintentionally funny in all the wrong places and bad supporting cast br br save your cash and your nerves don't see it
0	first there was tsui hark's zu warriors 2001 which is visually ground breaking but much lacking in the acting and writing departments now this movie which is visually almost as good as zu though no longer ground breaking but is even worse in the acting and writing departments it's really sad that there seems to be an almost complete lack of acting and writing talents in the hk movie industry i guess you need to understand cantonese to understand how bad and vulgar the dialogs in the movie really are it's like some delinquent kids talking in the street it's that bad to make it worse the actors and actresses themselves look like delinquent kids and can't act even if their life depend on it i understand that this movie is supposed to be a comedy aimed at the younger generation in hk but has hk youths really become so brain dead that they can't appreciate anything but such juvenile and vulgar acting writing if that's the case it makes me ashamed to be from hk br br i wish hk movie makers will learn some lessons from directors like zhang yi mou or ang lee and finally make a movie that's both visually stunning as well as competent and mature in the acting and writing departments and stop using young singers idols heartthrobs as actors because they can't act however many fans they may have in hk
0	i don't know about you but i go to horror films to be scared and this was anything but scary the movie had several chances to be truly scary and failed miserably every time several of these supposedly suspenseful moments were haunted by some of the worst cg you will see this year perhaps decade i mean when i say the cg looks like daytime tv i'm giving daytime tv a bad name i've seen better stuff on the sci fi channel who i really feel sorry for is the actors that they have their names attached to this film they did a good job i cared about most of the characters and i felt that their performances were quite good but that was not enough to bring this movie out of the gutter whats really amusing is the reuse of some of the sets if you have seen exorcist the beginning it will be easy to spot the reuse of some of the buildings however what i thought was the worst thing about this film even above the cg problems was the main demon he was just not scary in anyway his form the way he talked he was extremely bland all in all this movie was a horrible experience and i would have walked out of the theater if it weren't for my wife wanting to see the end
0	let me begin by saying that i had been eagerly anticipating this film's release for awhile after finally getting the chance to see it last night i'm sorry to say that i was incredibly disappointed it's hard to imagine a film that could make last exorcist the beginning look good but dominion does just that no wait it makes it look like a great film br br perhaps i got myself too excited about this movie and that contributed to the let down after all the idea that warner bros was releasing two versions of what is essentially the same film within six months of each other was an exciting attraction plus i'm a huge fan of stellan and in true fashion he gives a great performance despite the often ridiculous content of the film on the other hand the supporting cast in this film is abysmal clara seems to be capable of only one expression blank stare and delivers all of her lines with the same monotonous tone while gabrielle mann's father frances is just ridiculous the effects in this film are laughable at best and the sheer cheesiness of it all is enough to rob the film of any chance of being taken seriously this movie brought about more stifled giggling than anything else and with the exception of one really chilling shot that lasted about three seconds and made my friend cover her eyes and whimper it neglected to offer anything in the scare department either i could go into more detail and possibly give away some spoilers but frankly i'm too exhausted from thinking about how bad this film was to write all the things i'd love to say br br the saddest part about the whole thing is that the basic idea that both versions of the film tried to give a story about a priest who has lost his faith and then regains it after coming to terms with his troubled past had huge potential especially with as leading man unfortunately for us that potential was wasted go and see this film only if you're really curious about how it differs from the harlin version but don't expect to see a good film or you'll regret wasting your money and two hours of your life otherwise be content with the version first released and move on
0	don't get me wrong i love most of paul schrader's movies so it was with sheer excitement i was able to attend at the rolling thunder screening at the parisian french cinemathèque with surprise movie on the 17th dec 2004 of course the surprise movie was the exorcist and most people were there for that i was too the film was then finished but the score so p schrader used excerpts from the return of the king and some other movie i forget was it conan anyways apart from that the movie was the happy few there maybe 200 people were told to please not write about the film on the internet or magazines since it may have jeopardized its chance of getting selected to the cannes film festival then came the film then came the realization that the film might not get selected for the festival because of its quality never in my life had i experienced such a feeling of awkwardness in the audience as people went from being skeptical to plainly laughing out loud at the pity full spectacle i couldn't believe how low the author of light sleeper mishima blue collar and affliction had sunk br br forced over the top acting thorough stupid ending black and white moral awful fxs worst take on christianity from schrader ever not even suspenseful just boring as hell no pun intended and unsurprising at all some good locations but sadly miss used or at least not fulfilling the initial hopes in the end i was 100 times more satisfied by the schrader penned rolling thunder and wished my 2 hours back br br don't believe the hype even the john boorman movie is more exciting and original oh and the billy crawford casting the poor guy does his best but what where you expecting he's now part of the small club of worst casting mistakes ever i give the movie a 1 5 just because i didn't leave the room but i should have
0	i have nothing at all against paul schrader in fact hardcore 1979 is one of my very favorite films but some horror movie fans were in a premature uproar when his original version of the exorcist prequel dominion this one you're reading about right now as it turns out was scrapped by warners and when renny harlin was substituted to spruce things up and make a new version that was more scary in my opinion some viewers were prejudiced and became automatically up for hating renny harlin's take on the subject exorcist the beginning before the first frame of film was ever even for them to judge and i ought to know because i myself went into the theatrical premiere of beginning with stubborn arms folded and prepared for the absolute worst which i was sure had to come imagine my surprise when i found harlin's beginning to be much more serious than i ever could have conceived with a good performance from stellan as a young version of father who was struggling with his faith in god it wasn't a great film by any means but it was nowhere near the garbage i had prepared myself for well in advance sight unseen br br well now i finally have seen the true garbage version and it's paul schrader's dominion prequel to the exorcist it was relentlessly talky uninteresting and insipid stellan troubled priest was nowhere near as interesting as he had been for me in harlin's film and the actor himself not as good in the part for all those who pointed out the obvious cgi effects in beginning guess what they're here in dominion as well remember the silly ending in harlin's rendition which i'll also agree tainted the rest of that movie well you're going to find that this ending from schrader isn't a hell of a lot less lame br br let me also say that i resent the nonsense that's been presented by those who appreciate this film better than harlin's by saying that we're retards or cannot appreciate subtle film making as a person who despises stephen mtv fashioned mummy of '99 and being a true fan of the very suggestive and discreet old horror films of the '30s and '40s i can assure you this is not the case with me at least there was some degree of terror and exorcist type goings on in harlin's beginning this one here is just a real exercise in tedium and a great challenge even for the most certified of insomniacs it's going to be quite interesting to hear horror fans try to convince themselves that dominion prequel to the exorcist was as good as they'd already made their minds up for it to be in advance just as they were already pre disposed to lambasting harlin's beginning the second they learned paul schrader's name was getting soaked with the white out
0	i found dominion to be a lousy attempt to continue the success of the story the original movie was a story about evil and how it can infiltrate our lives br br schrader's version is lacking in evil viewers do not get an overwhelming sense of dread fear or even foreboding harlin's version offers evident evil shows violations of the church's sanctity and builds a convincing story that is plausible given father background schrader's story leaves one wondering exactly what happened dominion does not evoke the emotions of the viewers to empathize with father and leaves the viewer wondering exactly why he was troubled in the first place br br anyone interested in seeing a sequel which lives up to the original should see exorcist the beginning
0	absolutely one of the worst movies i've ever seen the beginning was not the greatest either but better than this one this is not a good way to lead up to the original movie it's just simply awful the cgi hyenas were so fake looking in both movies why not use real animals i enjoyed the old sinbad movies better than this i was royally disappointed the only good thing i can say about this waste of film is the cinematography and clothes which really captured that era well i understand why this movie was redone as the beginning it's just that bad in my opinion where does the money come from to waste like this give me a multi million dollar budget and i'll show you how it should be done
0	once again i've been duped by seemingly intelligent reviews making seemingly intelligent comments about an obviously crappy movie i actually put my shoes on got in my car burned expensive gasoline and drove to the nearest rental place after reading said reviews and paid the requisite 4 dollars and change to rent this thing i'm telling you this one's not worth the minuscule kilo spent on lifting one's index finger to switch channels on a tv remote br br i even gave it a few more minutes after seeing all the tell tale signs of a pedigree dog pile these presented as clinical symptoms of a director who is a going senile or b is only marginally interested in the film he she is obligated to create i saw similar deterioration with john carpenter's string of ridiculous over the past number of years br br here are a couple of scenes as incriminating evidence the priest is having a disturbing dream supposedly a harbinger of nastiness to come since he seems hell bent on opening the archaeological feature which houses the demon the dream is a goofy collage of disjointed images right out of the twilight stock footage a ticking clock careens through the dream blackness implying what the unfathomable mystery of time big deal a disembodied head painted in demon features with convenience store quality halloween make up flickers back and forth in a convulsive frenzy every time i see this effect a big fat rip off from jacob's ladder it pisses me off this in itself almost instantly discredits a film br br the whole build up of the archaeological dig itself is laughable everything is so obvious so tired and over wrought the only possible response is boredom at one point in the dig the priest comments on finding the statues of angels surrounding a sarcophagus they're all pointing down toward the crypt with their weapons he queries look at these surrounding statues it's as if they are holding something down this is supposed to build tension critical mass but it doesn't even come close how can there be suspense if you treat the audience like a bunch of morons having to explain the suspense as you go along the imagery is over done in the first place but the added comments only add insult to injury in my opinion soon thereafter the tomb is decorated with the remains of the soldiers placed there to guard the main another shameless rip off of the keep btw who for crying out loud did the make up effects for this film the blood actually had that pinkish quality one might see in 70's tromaville flicks at this point i became almost convinced that they simply forgot the make up and had to go to wal mart in the interest of time and money br br don't listen to glowing comments on this one i'll be keeping a suspicious eye on schrader too looks like it might be time to hang up his gloves perhaps a close friend will offer a gentle admonition to quit while there's still dignity in memory of films gone by
0	i hate to admit it but they were right to sack schrader the opportunity is here to build an atmosphere to draw an audience into a movie it wasn't done the characters are weak the story was weak the directing was very poor schrader was out of his depth and it shows i've watched it several times now in the hope that there will be at least one redeeming feature but no nothing the next stage will probably be a remake of the original or hopefully it will be left well alone anyone wanting to know what the best sequel to the exorcist was should read 'legion' penned by blatty it has to be the best follow up to an original piece to be committed to print sadly it did not translate to to screen very well and i doubt if it ever could be as for dominion beginning avoid at all costs
0	well after seeing beginning i thought why the hell they burned version and did that poor one but now after seeing dominion i deeply understand this decision even they got it not much better br br sorry but this movie is really crap some good moments but a really boring story telling and some major plot holes are killing this movie br br i thing the exorcist story has a lot and in a prequel on this you can built on a lot and give references the audience will like to see but there is so much little of it in the movie the effects are really bad not even tv standard
0	this movie was childish in its writing and laughable in its visual effects scenes where father is tossing in his bed and his glimpses of a native are signs of bad acting and poor imagination nothing seems to fit the story jumps from scene to scene the elementary writing leaves no fact to the imagination and leaves no room for suspense the lady doctor at one point states that she thinks the town is going to explode soon from all the crazy happenings there was in fact nothing in the movie to make that line relevant from the terrible job the movie had done i would have never known that there were any tensions in the village if you are into cheesy movies go ahead and rent this but if you want to see this done right check out exorcist the beginning
0	it's like someone took a fantasy type video game and put it in a blender and the resulting scene mishmash is what we have to sit through br br now let me go on record by saying how much i love chinese fantasy films from the fun and silly to those focusing on martial arts to the more dramatic and romantic a genre i very much enjoy films like a chinese odyssey pandora's box and a chinese odyssey cinderella both of which were written and or directed by jeffrey lau the bride with white hair butterfly sword green snake a chinese ghost story ii zu warriors from the magic mountain crouching tiger hidden dragon and others which is why i was looking forward to a chinese tall story one of the film's characters is the monkey king aka sun an extremely well known character in chinese mythology first told in the stories of the journey to the west the epic adventure written about 500 years ago the story of the monkey king and his disciples is also the focus of the chinese odyssey films amongst many others other familiar characters that appear in the film are zhu the pig character and sha br br so how does it all go wrong well let's take an example familiar to western audiences how about the robin hood mythology a well known story from ye olden days let's say that our robin hood film starred wesley snipes as robin hood and haley joel osment as friar tuck maid marian is none other than rosie perez let's give sir robin an uzi as well because you never know when you might have to waste the sheriff of nottingham they might need rocket packs also and while we're at it give them a tactical nuclear weapon because that sure could come in handy if you think this sounds like a really neat retelling of the robin hood tale then a chinese tall story is the movie for you as i indicated above this movie is a jumbled mess in the first 30 minutes we are introduced not only to sun zhu and sha but also to the monk who is actually the main protagonist kidnapped children a millennium bug demon which shoots laser beams an underground tree god a lizard imp tribe an angelic girl in an intergalactic egg the lord chancellor tortoise a sea dragon king a ever morphing magic golden staff a imp girl wormholes in space and the four heavenly knights all this wouldn't be too bad the tales and myths passed down over the years certainly do have all sorts of fantastical elements but i guarantee you the chinese mythology does not include much of the stuff we get subjected to in the last half of the film helpful advice to the filmmakers just because your computer effects guys can come up with cool looking spaceships and depictions of intergalactic war does not mean they should br br you know your chinese mythology movie is on the wrong track when the director asks and i am not making this a direct quote from the commentary i asked the composer whether or not we can have a more rock and roll type music when she transforms into some kind of android like thing is there a story hidden in here somewhere yes yes there is most of the adventure follows played by nicholas gen x cops time and tide my schoolmate the barbarian and the lizard imp girl played by charlene choi and a computer choi is the best thing going in this film you may know her as half of the canto pop group twins and from other films such as the twins effect a fun flick and just one look a surprisingly good drama romance comedy poor choi being a lizard imp and all is hardly recognizable with her warts snagged out teeth nose and hunched back that is until the computers get a hold of and beautify her which somehow makes it worse tse is passable but all of the supporting actors were abysmal a couple of recognizable faces in bit parts are wasted br br at one point i was debating with myself if a chinese tall story was a spoof i was almost able to convince myself that it was when the intergalactic egg girl played by a very pretty fan bing bing got out and lit up a marlboro while talking with who was practicing martial arts dressed in a spider man costume but it is not a spoof of course there is the typical hong kong silliness but the movie takes itself seriously enough with enough scenes of romance and pathos scored with a of violins and evocative and rousing action and adventure br br you might think that you could watch this on a netflix rental and it wouldn't cost you anything oh but it'll cost you all right br br is there anything good to say sure the colors are vibrant they are the best thing about this movie and the filmmakers certainly were trying very hard too bad all that effort went into a movie that is not much more than a bad video game
0	how does a movie become a biblical epic simply by quoting a couple of scriptures using some names out of the bible for your characters the only thing that was biblical about this epic was the names of the characters oh i almost forgot the 3 kingdoms israel egypt sheba were also used where did king vidor get the rest of his story from it surely wasn't from the bible it was complete utter nonsense if you want to read about solomon's reign as king in israel then read 1 kings 1 11 2 chronicles 1 9 you will even come across in 1 kings 1 2 the queen of sheba who doesn't show up until king solomon has been king for about 20 years or so which by the way is long after joab had been dead can be found in 1 kings 10 2 chronicles 9 one of the first thing solomon does is make an affinity with pharoah by taking his daughter br br yes king solomon did get involved with the worshipping of false gods this is why the kingdom was split after his death not the temple being destroyed by lightning also i think solomon was too busy marrying providing temples to the false gods of his 700 wives tending to his 300 concubines to be fighting egypt let alone a dead brother br br like i said this movie was utter nonsense if you aren't gonna use the story in the bible then call it something else this could've just as easily been called romeo juliet or sid nancy br br
0	tyrone power was cast in the lead as solomon however part way through the film he died unexpectedly the studio chose to cast yul brynner in the lead and re shoot the scenes that power had done in hindsight considering how awful this film was power was lucky as this would have been a horrible way to end his lovely film career br br of all the biblical epics i have seen this one is by far the worst and that's saying a lot because hollywood has made many dull biblical tales so many you wonder if the creation of these films was an atheist conspiracy in fact the film was so dull that it deservedly was included in harry brilliant book the fifty worst movies of all time there are so many reasons to hate the film but the worst is how incredibly ponderous the whole thing was sure casting people with italian eastern european scottish and english accents to play egyptians and israelis was pretty bad but at least this made the film oddly humorous having bosomy gina lollobrigida playing the role of a woman reputed to have come from a place around ethiopia was also just awful but at least she was beautiful even if she couldn't act having an overweight and post middle aged george sanders play such a young role was also pretty bad but at least he had a pretty voice creating an orgy scene that was choreographed and revoltingly dull was pretty bad but at least you got to see in the credits a mention of a person as the orgy choreographer no the worse thing about this movie is that almost two and a half hours it seemed like nine it was so poorly paced and insipid considering that the only mention of this queen of sheba and solomon is only in a few measly verses in the old testament it's amazing the film just went on and on and on the greatest story ever told was a bit longer but that movie was based on four gospels not a dozen or so verses br br the bottom line is that the film is wretched in practically every way except for gina's cleavage even for devoted christians and jews this is a must avoid film because it plays so fast and loose with the truth as well as injects an amazing amount of sex into a biblical film terrible in almost every way it is truly a blessing for tyrone power that he's not remembered for starring in this bloated turkey
0	mostly uninvolving biblical mumbo jumbo that drags on for well over two hours the only thing that saves this film from god's wreath and there is only one god remember is the unintentionally funny dialog and a good battle scene which comes far too late in the movie for most of the two hours until the action scenes there is too much talking the dialog is so inept that the movie just begs to be spoofed by mst3k br br george sanders is absolutely awful one of the most animated overly theatrical performances i've ever seen brynner isn't much better his stiff wooden acting combined with the horrendous fortune cookie wisdom utterings make for a rather boring and silly solomon it seems that every time brynner opens his mouth something oh so wise and ridiculously high and mighty comes out to an extent it's not sanders's and fault because of the crappy comical dialog and the typically biblical one dimensional characterization but they made little effort otherwise accent even reminds a bit of schwarzenegger's this is not a plus only lollobrigida manages to avoid embarrassing herself by playing the role with more conviction and in an appropriate way which befits a role in such a silly film to describe these biblical characters as one dimensional would be too give them undeserved credit the characterization is half dimensional
0	solomon and sheba was the kind of film that you just had to go and see back in the late 50's when i was a kid a biblical epic spectacular with well known performers unusual costumes lots of extras and battle sequences so i went to see it but i remember that back then solomon and sheba didn't impress me at all which was a strange thing since i had enjoyed a lot the ten commandments quo vadis helen of troy and others the point is that when you are a kid you disregard things in pictures that adults don't bad acting for instance and you are easier to please with warriors in their armors battles sword duels and action so if your'e not impressed then something is wrong with a product of this genre br br this film though it has some of such features is definitely standard and average yul wooden performance as the hebrew king doesn't even light when he has voluptuous and half naked gina lollobrigida dancing around him provocatively she is better and renders an acceptable acting george sanders doesn't look interested in what he is doing and marisa pier twin sister doesn't add at all as a sort of conscience br br the final sword duel between brynner and sanders is just for the plot and lacks interest and intensity it had to filmed that's all br br not a good farewell for director king vidor solomon and sheba will probably be remembered as ty power's last unfinished picture
0	this movie and several other movies from the 1950s with a religious overtone such as the robe quo vadis and samson and delilah unfortunately depict all pagans or anybody who isn't a jew or christian as morally depraved and decadent the focus is only on biblical related stories that ignore the world outside the bible as far as they are concerned nothing good came from pagan egypt greece or rome br br any movie that preaches about the one true god gives a short shift to freedom of religion the movies ignore the fact that ancient lack of religious freedom made it a fertile ground for religious extremism most 1950s religious movies also overlook the loss of freedom the occurred after christians assumed political power in the 4th century
0	it wasn't until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic you know when you've been painting a wall until you're completely bored well that's the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they're swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner br br the plot centres on the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it you can't really blame them since there's few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents br br after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed and no that's not praise we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a egyptian army who can't read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them this is what i don't get even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they're charging towards a gaping ravine isn't this somewhat illogical it's also something of a revealing error since the horses chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures br br anyway the film ends with killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory but who needs dayan sharon or god when you've got an idiotic enemy who can't see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall
0	solomon and sheba has come down in hollywood lore not for the quality of the film but for the fact that tyrone power died while making it i was in the 5th grade and well remember the huge news for days when that tragedy happened i didn't know who tyrone power was then but i learned and learned to appreciate the body of his work br br i often wonder if ty had a sense about this film and what a dud it proved he was the unnamed producer of this as well maybe he just didn't want to face the critics good thing power actually went out with witness for the prosecution although you can see him in long shots if you look close br br what we have here is a biblical stew that probably would baffle the great solomon himself several incidents described in the bible that the bible treats separately are woven together into one plot with a few additions tossed in by hollywood br br the actual story about the queen of sheba is that she went on a trade mission to the kingdom of israel solomon up a bit came back with a lot of trade goods and that was that the story of a romance between her and solomon is of legend the ancient kingdom of sheba is about where yemen is now and her people purportedly moved to the african continent which is how ethiopia was founded br br the queen never witnessed solomon's famous case involving the two women with separate claims for a baby nor was she involved with the building of the first temple nor was she around for the destruction of same for that matter neither was solomon br br and she was not involved in the dispute over the succession when solomon's brother put in a that is the heart of this film upon hearing the news that king david is dying declares himself king of course david rallies temporarily and says that god came to him and said solomon should succeed him when david hears about what did he says that's what got god all bent out of shape being greedy after that gets to plotting br br things seem to come full circle in that ty power collapsed on the set while dueling with george sanders as sanders and power were rivals in many films most particularly in of london which was power's breakthrough role if sanders is not quite the jaded sophisticate he was in samson and delilah he's still sanders the biblical cad br br when power died yul brynner was brought in to play solomon and given a wig so that existing footage of power in long shot could be salvaged brynner invests the dialog with the proper dignity but i think he probably regretted doing the pinch hitting br br gina lollobrigida is the queen of sheba and she is alluring as a biblical temptress in the cecil b demille tradition she seems not to have any real conviction and my guess is she was shocked at power's sudden demise and having to do it all over again marisa as may give the best performance in the film br br the real story with is not as elaborate as this film he disputed with solomon for the succession and gathered around a group of some of king david's court as supporters solomon pardoned them once and then asked for in marriage in the bible and here was an adopted daughter of king david in his old age when solomon hears that he decides is getting greedy again and has him killed the bible mentions someone named who was going around basically doing contract hits on supporters br br what we have in the film is a spectacular climax involving a miracle that i searched for and couldn't find it came from the fertile imagination of director king vidor who ended a long and distinguished career on a sour note it was a question of vidor trying to out do cecil b demille in biblical spectacle br br he didn't make it
0	right this moment i am watching this movie on tv here in tokyo beautiful scenery beautiful sets of biblical proportions beautiful costumes beautiful color beautiful gina great climactic scene when god destroys the idol and a lot more with de at the moment when yul and gina are about to consummate their love yul does a halfway decent job of delivering his lines though he sounds a lot like yul delivering his lines as or george sanders sounds like george sanders playing george sanders given the limited range of acting she is asked to display in this role gina does a good job though by the time the movie ends she is completely converted into a demure remorseful lass and looks likes she might be playing in a biography of mother teresa i guess will do that to you but it is almost breathtaking how quickly she jettisons her own beliefs for her new religion the supporting players are mostly awful lacking credible emotion and timing the usual big battle scenes what passed for lascivious dances in 1959 and an orchestra blasting out plenty of trumpet calls behind a huge chorus singing lots of but none of it quite of topnotch hollywood quality the final swordfight between brynner and sanders is at the laughingly low skill level of a junior high school play the film is one big piece of eye candy but not much more
0	in short this movie was awful br br i understand it's a disney movie which are generally shallow movies with mediocre plots and bad acting however i must say this is the worst of all disney movies with bad acting lots of irritating shrieking teen girls my god and an extremely unrealistic plot even as a 12 year old there is no way i would have liked this movie the only way this movie could have been any worse is if they attempted to put it in theaters or tried to sell it in a local video store br br do yourself a favor and change the channel before watching this no matter how bored you are on a sunday afternoon
0	if only disney had stayed away from it see i think that this movie has some potential well the main character's situation does at least take out the whole jordan cahill thing and you've got the beginnings of a decent movie of course you also lose more than half of the film but oh well not that much of a loss br br so here it goes you take a typical preppy suburban teenage girl danielle panabaker who's actually a decent actress whose best friends screech a lot mostly over a pop sensation i'm assuming it's a direct quote from the movie movie's like this almost always involve that particular phrase named jordan cahill except of course wants more out of life enter brenda song's character a sophisticated individual who is just what needs honestly i don't care what the character's real name is i like the acronym better the two new friends go to see jordan cahill one to drool one to make fun of the and they come out of it with his cell phone hijinks ensue and everything turns out alright in the end br br if only disney or any major film studio for that matter didn't have such a low opinion of 8 to 14 year olds or maybe if 8 to 14 year olds expected a little more out of the movies targeted at them it's sugar coated crap like this that make me more than a little unsure who to be more disgusted with a little film called 'high school musical' comes to mind
0	i was watching the beginning of this on a friday mid day while working at computer at home relaxing a bit after a hectic week and cleaning up some files and answering some communications got interrupted a couple of times so had trouble getting all the details straight although it's hardly a work of hitchcock proportions where missing a detail can through the whole story off kilter and besides it was not exactly an engrossing piece of work br br so during a commercial read the only prior comment here by 1 and pretty much can agree with its details br br not quite in the category of a film so awful it is fascinatingly good but i'd like to catch on tape when run again rather than seeing it as aired so i can fast forward as needed and see the parts which i missed this first time br br give it a 3 because of the attractiveness of the four primary characters
0	i found the film a bit predictable and boring but i am 14 br br i was really annoyed with my little cousin as she was very hyper that day so i saw a film on the disney channel and put it on and told her to watch it br br she is 6 and she loved the film some bits she didn't get like the ending but i didn't get that either y was eddie the star of the video shoot i thought it was jordan's video but she did enjoy it br br i noticed the mistakes such as at the end jordan was not actually playing the guitar but she never br br it is definitely a film for if you are seriously bored or 10 and under br br it calmed my cousin down well br br although all she did was sing for the rest of the day then
0	i grew up in the 90s therefore you must understand that i witnessed firsthand the premiers of the greatest i was there when brink appeared zenon johnny tsunami etc these movies constitute my childhood when these movies came on not only myself but whoever i was watching them with would stand completely in awe for 1h30 talk about it for the week to come and catch it again the next weekend i don't think words could express the amount of excitement disney brought br br even when i watch them now the dialog doesn't seem that bad so effective in fact that i actually remember parts of conversations literally word per word from movies i saw over ten years ago the characters are believable funny granted a little stereotypical but that's what makes disney's charm br br i sat my little brother down in front of the disney channel to try and convey and make him understand my feelings for enter stuck in the suburbs my brother looked at me slightly puzzled asking me if i had always been gay i feel more disappointed and betrayed now than what could i compare this to when han solo found out lando sold him out to vader br br half the movie and i'm not exaggerating is flashbacks there is no talent in these young actors some of which are older than i am whatsoever the plot is ridiculous it feels like a bunch of old rotting corporate people over at disney sat around a table and asked themselves how can we seem hip to these youngsters ok maybe all the were like that but they at least made a little effort to not let us realize they think we're complete idiots br br and apparently this type of movie works stuck in the suburbs is rated almost as much as zenon or airborne how is this possible got even cheesier and people prefer them now though apparently the lack of curse words is enough to give it 10 10 for some people christ it's a completely different generation
0	i'll not comment a lot what's to stereotype characters absolute ignorance about reality awful mise en scene poor color choice not funny it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some music it's beside the nonsense scenes very poor actors direction if you see somewhere those people i mean the interpreters you'll know they are at least good but seeing this so call film it is impossible to guess it you get tired of the music this comedy has no rhythm the only good rhythm in it it's the rap sing in the final credits pathetic doesn't it etc etc it has been a long time i haven't seen a movie so bad
0	i don't understand the exaggerated good critics about this film except that a lot of people from venezuela are understandably very excited based on that the venezuelan cinema is really a bit behind of what other countries are in the region br br the movie first of all is too repetitive a lot of scenes are almost identical from each of the both leading roles so you get the impression that it's a time filler a time filler is also a good point as this movie is definitely too long with 105 minutes you will start to get tired after a while and watch on the clock br br all actors are quite bad by exception of the venezuelan guy edgar ramirez who brings in a bit of slapstick and plays the role of the venezuelan recruit pedro br br by the way this is not a representative movie about the people of the region caribean zone it tends to ridicules them
0	you want to know what the writers of this movie consider funny a robot child sees his robot parents killed beheaded as i recall and then moves between their bodies calling their names yeah what a comic moment this is the worst movie i ever paid to see
0	the only redeeming scene in this movie is when the robots are sent out to fight style' there was one good spinning side kick and that is the best 3 seconds of the movie unfortunately the rest of the movie has very little to recommend it there are better spoofs out there
0	oh man this movie was toe cringing bad bad look awful story the list of good things is shorter than the list of bad things about this movie br br yes sure it's supposed to be a comedy and all but something tells me that this movie was supposed to be the real deal the movie most certainly does not start of as a comedy but more as an adventurous movie with fun elements put in it you can especially tells they were serious with this by the acting that was in a serious and non comical way with the exception of a couple of over the top sequences obviously it seemed to be me that at first they tried to make a real and serious adventurous science fiction movie perhaps even a franchise but soon began to noticed how bad it all was and simply decided to insert some more and deliberately overdone comical sequence to make the movie seem more like a comedy and prevent it from turning into a complete disastrous mess br br the movie is a weird attempt to mix adventurous swashbuckling pirate movies with serious science fiction action the movie was obviously inspired by the star wars movies and its success the movie isn't even too ashamed to copy entire sequences and even the way the story progresses sets characters and robots show similarities they tried to hide this by putting in some obviously spoofing sequences but i'm not falling for it so the movie is not even original on its own despite its original concept you can say that this movie is a poor man's spaceballs without even really being fully a spoof br br the movie is bad looking with some video games special effects in some sequences even literally awful looking costumes coat of mail and swords in outer space the sound is at times even laughable seems like they shot some sequences without sound and then forgot to add all of the required sounds later again in post production the mixing is also really bad they tried to conceal this by putting the sound down to a minimum at times and by tuning up the bruce broughton musical score br br at times the movie is so busy trying to make the movie look humorous that it totally forgets to tell the story it makes the story of the movie seems extremely messy and poorly written with an almost completely undeveloped main plot it also doesn't help to make the movie really ever flow lots of thing don't get explained and some are even dropped after a while the movie begins as a movie who constantly are looking and steal water since its scarcely and there is only one planet in the entire galaxy remaining with water on it yeah right however this plot line gets soon abandoned especially in the middle part of the movie in which the movie seems to become a totally different one with different motivations it's just like the one weird and bad silly sequence after the other without really making a click it also keeps the characters way too shallow and uninteresting to care about br br sad to see that actors like john carradine anjelica huston and a still young and unknown ron perlman were attached to this disastrous movie br br ok i admit that i liked some of the moments especially the ending when they go through the time warp was original and fun but really non of this all was enough to save the movie br br i didn't even liked the movie in a campy kind of way br br 2 10
0	after missing out on this innumerable times on tcm uk i decided to check it out given its sci fi adventure camp pedigree i knew i’d be in for a thoroughly silly ride – but it was also astoundingly bad anyway perhaps appropriately given the characters involved the script rips off many sci fi titles then of recent vintage – soylent green 1973 zardoz 1974 run 1976 to the extent that it was filmed on some of the self same sets star wars 1977 alien 1979 and mad max 2 the road warrior 1981 br br the plot is simple but not exactly engaging from the title one can deduce that water has become scarce on the planet where all of this takes place – so our ragtag buccaneer heroes take it upon themselves to steal ice blocks from the tyrannical templar rulers also involved is a beautiful princess mary crosby daughter of bing in search of her father the deposed king by the way the cast includes another famous offspring anjelica huston daughter of john as one of the pirate band – thankfully the mistake in accepting such a role would soon be forgotten in the wake of her winning an oscar under her father’s guidance no less for honor 1985 since star wars had peter cushing as the the film makers opted to have a screen legend of their own – 78 year old john carradine who’s seen strapped to a sort of operating table during his one brief scene br br the most notable bits for all the wrong reasons are the alien using the toilet the castration machine the clumsy antics including karate style combat of the inevitable robot companions the goofy slave eunuch make up worn at one point by the heroes the recurring attacks by the whatever that is the climax in which the characters are made to age when going through a time warp crosby becomes pregnant gives birth and sees her son grow up in the space of 30 seconds while leading man robert urich himself is replaced by john ford stalwart hank worden for this scene – incidentally the jump cuts adopted here intending to denote the rapid passage of time are not only unsuccessful but downright irritating
0	wow the storyline to this was just incredibly stupid i realize that this movie was supposed to be of a comedic genre but still even nonsense is supposed to make at least some vague sort of sense br br water has become incredibly rare substance br br well that's strange considering that oxygen or hydrogen is one of the most plentiful substances there is in the universe and pretty easy to make together hydrogen and oxygen atoms and voilà water br br instead of water the rarity of crystals or some such thingamajig should have been used as a plot device as something the pirates would go after water as a plot device was just dumb dumb dumb br br the comedy seemed labored and contrived and forced the comedy in the tv series red dwarf was labored and contrived and forced but it was actually amusing here instead i felt like saying ha ha that was just so funny i forgot to laugh br br sigh all that money put into sets costumes actors what a waste br br rather than just whimper and whine and complain at it's lameness my recommendations to make it better 1 use a believable plot device 2 get rid of the comedy none of the actors were really any good at it the movie would work better as a serious action adventure br br the obvious intention of the writers was to do a spoofy comedy but they didn't quite pull it off it's not likely i'll ever watch this again it's too much a total hack job
0	i like the star wars series i like a good cheapo sci fi flick every once in a while too heck i even like the roger corman produced nickel and dime br br i do not like the ice pirates though br br for one it just looks too cheap you know for a movie that's supposed to take place in outer space it feels cramped and closed in like it's being filmed in the front seat of someone's and the special effects while appropriately cheesy look more than anything like foam rubber painted metallic gray br br usually i don't let things like that bother me especially if the story and the characters are worthwhile br br they ain't br br the whole storyline about these ne'er do well space pirates who decide to find a planet loaded with ice they can melt down and sell as water a hot commodity in the future i guess is about as original as the jokes which is not a compliment br br the humor comes in at about crotch level like that castrating machine you'll see early on and everyone seems to have a cranky attitude and who told john that he was funny whoever did shame on them good old robert urich tries but he's a reliable actor on board a badly sinking ship or starship in this case br br i watched this one about three times and ended up feeling the same way every time br br no stars in spite of of the presence of huston one year prior to prizzi's honor and carradine at the tail end of a once lofty career these pirates should walk the plank
0	i do not know what some of these filmmakers are thinking by making the same type of clichéd film over and over where the bad guys bad girls in this case win weak acting and very predictable nothing original about it this same movie has been made over and over again not different from goodbye lover 1989 slow burn 2005 or at least ten other movies with the exact same storyline and ending there are a lot of holes in the movie too it is as if they ran out of money and just stopped filming or perhaps they ran out of ideas but do not waste your time with this one it will only leave you upset by having wasted your time watching it
0	i can't knock this film too terribly because it's obvious midway through the the watching of it that they were trying to make it bad or 'campy' if you prefer anyway many of the parts they tried to make funny actually are but often simply for the cheese factor watch the 'space game actually played as real life scratch your head at the bumbling robots oh the and watch the whole thing go way over the top near the end with the 'time warp' and the sexual innuendoes just keep on flying i'm actually surprised this got away with a pg oh well a fun way to waste a couple hours but star wars trek this ain't folks 3 out of 10
0	a long time ago in a galaxy far far away sound familiar water has become the most precious commodity this has got to sound familiar and a small minority control its distribution what a surprise just have a heart attack and die from that surprise a group of ice pirates water bandits oh wait that last one's been used try to discover the route to a fabled unlimited supply of water with a lovely but spoiled princess en tow and a group of villains in pursuit br br this movie has the potential to be a really great comedic parody star wars david lynch's dune but was just not handled correctly it goes for i believe the term is low brow humor it doesn't really succeed in being all that funny which is a shame since it has angelica houston ron perlman and robert urich hence the three stars who aren't exactly slackers in the acting department br br definitely a rental and definitely have a drink straight up
0	awful star wars knock off with a slightly more comic tinge robert urich stars as the leader of a group of ice pirates who steal ice because water is the most valuable substance in the universe now how all the poor people stay alive is a mystery he hooks up with mary crosby daughter around 25 and a total cutie a princess looking for her missing father also in the cast are an embarrassed looking anjelica huston in some hilarious sci fi get ups and a pudgy short ish ron perlman whom i thought was seven feet tall from his other roles and john carradine who looks days from death and hollywood squares relative term bruce if you ever wanted to see bruce get decapitated here's your film but then again even that's not worth seeing as it doesn't shut him up at all think he might have been a robot but i nodded off a couple of times
0	i saw this movie in 1956 and again on cable a few days ago the movie hasn't improved with age quite the opposite it's a true spaghetti epic br br the trojans are heroic and likable the greeks are nasty petty and sneaky br br so what if paris ran off with the king's wife hey love is love
0	of follows the story of helen and the outbreak of the trojan war this is more of a love story between helen and paris who is shipwrecked and falls in love with helen without knowing she is queen the film portrays the couple as lovesick and wanting nothing more than to be together other films and books have different portrayals of the characters but in this one they are simply hopelessly in love the film is pretty slow moving in some places but the battles and the detail to the scenery are done pretty well there are also some good performances i thought that the slave girl did a particularly good job and she was one of the most well liked characters br br overall this is a good adaption if you can look beyond the slow moving story in places and look beyond some of the cheesy romance and dialogue in my opinion a perfect iliad film version has not yet been created but this one is entertaining and does have some good bits
0	go up to any film fan and ask them the title of the film which was directed by robert wise with second unit direction by yakima canutt and sergio leone was designed by ken adam and scored by max steiner starred sir stanley baker sir cedric hardwicke and brigitte bardot was filmed in colour scope and stereo at cinecitta in 1955 with a thousand extras and they'll tell you to go away and stop being silly br br they'll tell you that no such film exists that the names you've quoted never worked together they weren't even contemporaneous and that you've just picked the names out of a movie publication at random and are attempting to them br br at which point you can direct them to imdb and show them the cast and crew of helen of troy they'll be amazed this lesser known sword and sandal epic has all these names and more niall janette scott and good old harry andrews br br and it is certainly an oddity after the war 1 000 italian extras cost about 25 a day and toga dramas were a staple of italian cinema the orgy scenes were shot twice one with tops the other without you can guess which version britain and america got i believe even la sophia is an extra in this one br br either way the names stagger the mind but it's really just a coincidence all of said names were either just reaching the ends of their careers canutt steiner or beginning them everybody else br br only robert wise and niall were in the middle of their careers br br for the record leone was uncredited and learning his trade adam still had to invent the descending circle in the ceiling of sets a trademark he'd go on to put into all the early bonds baker had yet to star in and help produce the likes of zulu and robbery and go on to direct a welsh tv company called then die tragically young br br while harry andrews would go on to become one of britain's favourite character actors janette scott daughter would never make the really big time but who can forget her in day of the triffids even though her bit was added later for padding and a happy ending or crack in the world br br sir cedric was theatre but knew how to mug on film and bardot was bardot for br br but what were these stellar people doing in this camp old nonsense don't ask me the two main stars were no name italians helen had a moustache and paris was pretty while the brits were only there for support br br to summarise i think you can just mark this one up as a major fluke in stereo to be honest if i hadn't seen it i wouldn't believe it either
0	i can't believe some of the comments here in the reviews the film is dated of course and from our comfortable viewpoint in the age of a lot of the special effects are deeply unconvincing now but even allowing for this helen of troy is so bad that it is almost laughable br br the scripting is awful just awful with no characterisation at all the performances suffer as a result you can see the likes of hardwicke and andrews writhing in an agony of embarrassment as they deliver the most ridiculous shallow trite codswallop lines the writers seem to feel the need to explain almost everything in a dreadful didactic screenplay that allows the viewer to decide nothing for him herself at all the beginning of the movie spells out the historical background as if no one had ever heard of ancient greece i know they had american audiences to take into consideration but the patronising way we are told everything twice to make sure we understood the action is really awful br br i honestly can't believe the comments above describing this movie as a great epic film even allowing for the comparatively primitive cinematography and the relative sophistication of today's audience this movie truly stinks
0	i was sorely disappointed in this movie twice i was to walk out because segments of the movie were so and depressing the movie has elements that allude to all the seamy things in life pornography murder suicide fornication hatred gang warfare the graphic nature of the violence in this movie was particularly disturbing br br and richard does a great disservice to the lds church in portraying missionary attitudes commitment spirituality and obedience as unfocused and lackadaisical br br my biggest objection to this movie however was that it is the exact opposite of a feel good movie br br god's army one was okay his brigham city was quite good this movie in terms of casting acting and drama was his best but in terms of being inspiring or uplifting it was as awful as it could be in fact this movie so me that i am sorry i went i have lost interest in ever again supporting in an lds themed movie with a ticket purchase
0	this very finely crafted film commits the unforgivable which is ironic given the film's theme no one coming into this film knows what they are in for worse than that 3 4 of the way into the film no one still has any clue of what they're in for because everything up to that moment is a different movie br br as a front row fan of first two films easily competing for the best 2 mormon films to date competing with saints and soldiers and now new york doll saw that at a screening had me wanting to see his film for a very long time i was there i wanted to believe believe that i'd see the next great mormon movie one that would hold the numero uno spot for a very long time but no three fourths in the film took the sharpest of left turns and dragged me through something that i never wanted to go through he takes on the mt everest of all moral issues yea both of them with little time or emotional capacity left to adequately address them but instead waves them both off with a nod towards jesus as if that will make all things well instantly true it is that jesus saves don't accuse me of not believing that that's not problem br br is the film shot well indeed do the actors act they acted their pants off was the music appropriate all but whatever was over the closing credits everything about this film was superb except the story which was so dank and wrong that all else doesn't matter i learned dank from new york doll very decent show by the way the third act of the film was neither desirable nor pleasant nor faith affirming i know was bending over backwards to make it so but i was so far shoved out of the movie at that point that nothing no thing could have brought me back the preposterous unbelievability of dozens of details in the final minutes didn't help anyone who's been on a mission knows what i'm talking about especially anyone familiar with events surrounding someone being sent home from a mission early for moral and or psychological reasons it's as if a parallel universe suddenly sprung up where normal rules or behaviors suddenly don't apply br br there are a million things good about this film but they were created and only to be trampled upon and thrown away in a knee jerk fit of ooh this will really get them elitism hence unforgivable i can only hope that when puts the finishing touches on his next film falling apparently that he remembers that film critics can only buy so many tickets and that it's the fans that pay the bills that's why the first god's army was such an unqualified success br br shock and awe approach proves that when it comes to the big issues he is in way over his head having neither the spiritual nor creative maturity nor business sense necessary to take them on i —he learns his lesson and that years from now he and we all look back with a chagrin and rejoice that he pulled his head out of where the light doesn't shine and really successfully takes on those and other issues and changes the world forever because of it
0	i had heard good things about states of grace and came in with an open mind i thought that god's army was okay and i thought that maybe had improved and matured as a filmmaker the film began with some shaky acting and i thought well maybe it will get better unfortunately it never did the picture starts out by introducing two elders mormon missionaries and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them instead the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries something that undeniably exists but rarely on the level that portrays and it becomes almost laughable br br only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience the film in no way reflects reality missions are nothing like what shows having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity br br the conclusion which i'm assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all was both unbelievable c'mon the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other and cheesy next time try making a movie that someone can identify with
0	i saw this movie considering this as a normal hollywood movie but then came to know that its a movie made for tv channel on my dvd cover out of 2 critics comments one of the critic stephen from it as a best movie of the year br br all the character were simple and decent performances except the brain's character which never gets scope which director wanted to keeps mystery till end there was suspense till end but when you see the end that lady police officer and main culprit had a lesbian affair seems to be totally stupid idea god knows what happens to dave the male lead character br br the other critic from mr brown's movies said that shocking and effective but doesn't quite live up to all the hype which i saw after watching the movie for which i was partially i should have read this first before taking the movie
0	i have no respect for imdb ratings anymore i think a bunch of mormons flooded the website and voted for this this is not an artistic movie it is mormon propaganda nothing wrong with that but the plot outline and the way it is described is totally misleading if you are a bible thumping christian or a mormon watch this movie you'll love it and think it is truly amazing for anyone else don't bother the story is so contrived random stuff happens that really doesn't follow in a coherent way this guy tries to commit suicide cause he sleeps with his neighbor are you kidding what a pussy anyways this is an awful movie
0	a woman finds herself caught up in an apparently inexplicable rash of suicides then again are these really suicides it seems as though there's a ghost on the loose guess what the ghost has long black hair that hides its face and it moves about with its head or arms twisted this way or that making for a very weird looking specter recurrent theme music plays from unexpected locations to announce the arrival of the ghost and bizarre sound effects which resemble the sound of small twigs being snapped always accompany this hapless spirit does any of this sound familiar well if you've seen a few asian horror movies in the last 10 years it should borrowing heavily and unabashedly from the ring one last call and a few other recent horror hits this film tries to carry an uninteresting and worn out plot to a climax but we've seen it all before avoid it unless you're desperate or haven't seen any other asian horror movies in the last 10 years
0	this is a movie from toilet pictures if the name of the production company is any indication how stinky a movie is then this would be it i think i'm not really a fan of horror movies not that i'm chicken but rather this year alone i haven't been genuinely spooked by what's on offer so far be it from the west or from asia 9 56 is no different great premise but poor execution relying on clichéd techniques i think these are the only tools of the trade available to try and elicit some heart thumping moments br br se jin ko so young is a lonely career woman who one day notices that some apartments in the block of flats opposite hers undergo blackouts simultaneously at precisely 9 everyday no she's no voyeur but a series of unexplained deaths in the neighbourhood including one which she encounters herself on a subway start to draw her deeper and deeper into the mystery surrounding these deaths br br with horror movies there's always a pseudo logical explanation within the movie about how the spooks come about that's just about the most interesting thing that happens in the film the of the truth although it won't take seasoned film lovers to guess the plot halfway through which of course makes it a very unsatisfying experience watching this movie br br there's a myriad of characters like the wheelchair bound girl and the neighbours who take turns to care for her as well as a schoolgirl detective a mentally challenged boy and a spooky train commuter but following genre formula these folks are there usually as fodder for deaths or in this case pointless red herring characters whose sole aim by the filmmakers is to mislead the audience nevermind if they convolute or add little to forward the plot br br and don't get me started on the techniques employed here quick cuts sudden appearances long hair ghouls so passe who can't move properly copious amount of blood like it flows down a mountain for free and the list goes on but credit to the sound engineers for creating some ear piercing bone crunching sounds used each time the spooks move though it seems like a one trick pony br br don't waste time on this even if you're a horror fan it's a complete waste of a promising premise and in the end you feel like you've just be taken on a ride a very long and painful one to endure it's high time for some innovation in this genre otherwise one film will easily look like another with ugly long haired monsters moving funny but with the ability to make sudden appearances accompanied by loud sounds oh and can someone oil those doors while they're at it as well
0	br br i understand that people have different expectations of low budget arthouse movies i also know that john sayles has a sort of glow about him that earthy intellectual anti hollywood vibe a la tim robbins the coen brothers and atom egoyan that makes him a darling with the critics from the get go br br but this is not a good movie i'm sorry it just isn't br br it meanders it has too many characters its tone is uneven its point of view is muddled the acting is all over the board from naturalistic to over the top it lingers for long moments with minor characters we don't care about and cuts away from tense scenes just when things are getting good br br it misses the mark br br the worst flaw in the movie is that the two closest things to a protagonist edie falco's and angela desiree are straight jacketed in characters that have no drive is an apathetic drunk steeped in her life's own inertia desiree is a woman trapped in her own repressed pain when your two main characters' world views can be summed up with the phrases i don't care and i want to leave here why should the audience give a rat's br br i'll be plain sayles writes funny dialogue he's very adept at crafting a scene the problem is these scenes don't go anywhere there's no spine to the movie no drive the movie doesn't create rooting interest in any of the characters in my opinion he's also too preachy about big bad corporate america gobbling up the little guy br br if you want to see a quality small movie see david lynch's straight story pass this one up
0	tonight's film course film was the legend of the fortress and during its 87 minute running time it managed to quickly jump into my top five most difficult films of all time that's difficult to watch films so different to everything else that you're seeing something totally alien a brief synopsis would be a group of georgians are trying to build a fortress to defend themselves from invaders but every time they are about to put on the finishing touches for no readily apparent reasons it collapses so they go and see a fortune teller who advises them that if they want to get the fortress to stay standing they need to find a youth a tall blonde blue eyed boy to be buried into one of the walls during the construction and his presence will ensure that the construction job will be completed smoothly and sure enough in those closing moments there he is gladly being smeared in cement and eggs giggling as he's buried alive with only his mother to grieve br br it actually a fairly simple story but the director sergo working in soviet georgia in 1984 not too long after leaving a fifteen year jail term doesn't follow any of the film making rules we are used to there are very few close ups very often the action we need to be following is hidden in the bottom left hand corner of a landscape shot extra ordinarily easy to miss there are very few close ups and at times its hard to tell whose doing what to whom and why every now and then the film goes off on digressions which have no relevance to the main plot and generally serve to confuse the viewer the music is utterly mad with found sounds on screen instruments and church organ dropped in seemingly at random at times when nothing seems to be happening someone will break into a jig almost playing time until the next scene comes along but infuriatingly there is an obvious cinematic voice behind it all so you're compelled to try and understand the message whatever it is one of those times when your eyes are glued to the screen simply because you can't believe what you're seeing
0	i simply cannot understand how any who fan or just plain anyone could find this awful lazy poorly written abomination even remotely funny it is so embarrassingly below par that it qualifies as a genuine tragedy the potential for this was huge it could have been great what a shame that all that acting talent the sets the props the goodwill of everyone involved was so pathetically wasted by a script that should have been burned br br there is an obvious lack of any rigorous production and quality control here like those hammy hollywood movies mad mad mad world casino royale where the stars are just mugging for each other and 'having a great time' which basically means picking up a cheque for doing nothing br br i could have written a better who send up in my sleep in fact i have while awake though i did it in year 10 in high school and performed it with a bunch of classmates it was better i look at it now and the gags are funnier steven moffat you are a no talent bum what a waste what a wasted opportunity makes me want to cry
0	from the start this film drags and drags clumsy overdubs explaining the history monochrome acting boring sets total lack of any humanity verve or style the actors look as if they are drugged potentially an interesting story completely wasted surely somebody realised how bad it was at some point in producing it
0	i awarded this presentation 4 stars they are all for the script which has been butchered beyond recognition in places what can possibly be said they took one of the finest plays written in the last century and methodically robbed it of its heart humor and humanity i don't really blame the actors who are probably doing their best with shoddy direction and incomplete characters because the very complete characters of the stage version have had their insides and insights ripped out i do very much blame the director who seems to strain to find ways to undermine the script there are so many awkward pauses awkwardly re staged moments and awkwardly re imagined line readings in this tv movie that at times i forgot ever loving the play i'm not one of these people who thinks that genius plays are automatically inferior on film quite the contrary but this particular genius play has been tremendously under served by this outing now i hope they'll make a real film of this play the world deserves it
0	or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by 90's flicks br br i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past very bad things groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts br br noble idea totally in it's execution
0	i usually don't write reviews for shows unless i've seen them in full however there were so many positive views of this show on here i felt it was necessary to balance it out with a bit of realism br br this show is hysterically bad i don't think it was meant to be but it is i see that there's lots of praise being showered upon the show and i honestly can't understand why this show is so poorly acted the dialogue is so awful and the plots are thin around their holes br br i think that this show is interesting in that it is a definite litmus test of your standards some elements of the show work and perhaps those elements are just more important to some people than those that don't work which make the show nearly unwatchable to people like me br br if you enjoy making fun of a show as you watch it anticipating clichéd lines and such this can be an enjoyable show to ridicule if you have that sort of time on your hands br br the pilot is a pretty fair example of the whole show if the nonsense saccharin cliché ending doesn't leave you in a dumb shock then this may be a show for you
0	all i can say is this movie is made for the lifetime channel on tv which means no solid characters no particular style weak acting all kinds of suggested sex but no breasts and because boy that would just catapult the film into the depths of sleaze wouldn't it but the heavily simulated sex well that's ok br br when watching these films i have to ask myself when will these types of tv channels and their advertisers ever grow up i think these companies are actually way behind the times they really have no clue what the younger generation is in tune with and if they knew they would demand we change the whole point of many american tv channels like these seems mostly to regurgitate the same sanitized garbage over and over like a generic movie assembly line i guess it works for them or at least it has not sure about the future though br br don't bore yourself to death like i did seek out some real tv movies on hbo showtime ifc starz etc any channel that puts effort into their work and doesn't have to ask a priest what they can or cannot show
0	the only thing it has to offer is the interesting opposites of and jack their choices and viewpoints and the philosophical questions that it raises feels that she is helping people who aren't supposed to die and jack feels that they are supposed to die and she is messing with plan or the plan or such whatnot br br but she is obviously able to change things so there is obviously no such thing as fate in the series' metaphysics jack has no basis for believing that there is and very conveniently never asks him the right questions nobody does which obviously proves that the makers of the series don't have an answer br br there simply is no plot br br instead they leave it murky in order for the series to be able to continue with it's boring girl stuff only occasionally interrupted by and jack's racing against each other towards ends that are unknown br br it turns out that there is nothing to any of it a teenage pop series with that pretends to be something else br br your time will be better spent sleeping
0	calling was good but it could have been great the concept was intriguing and allowed for seriously strange and frightening story lines that might have been explored in future unfortunately the writing and an actor let the show down br br the writing wasn't too bad but there were holes in episode 13 drop dead gorgeous an incredibly toxic poison was supposedly used to kill the victim this was so toxic and killed so quickly the victim had no time to run or even scream for help yet there was no plausible explanation for how the killer obtained such a powerful poison br br in episode 15 the getaway the off duty policeman responded unrealistically in the second diner scene he meekly tells the robber to drop the gun and when she doesn't follow the order and in fact turns the gun in his direction he allows it to turn into a standoff and then escalate into a hostage situation – the very situation he'd been warned about his response should would have been to shoot the robber when she failed to follow his order and upon her turning the gun on him there are other faults in the stories but i'll leave it with these two examples in spite of the writing faults i did like the show br br the other problem i had was that i just could not accept eliza dushku in this roll in my opinion she is too inexperienced and lightweight to carry this part she never walked anywhere she marched and far too often she came to an abrupt stop on her mark br br she also lacked any really emotional facial expression or intonation she either has a pensive look or a cute smile rarely are other emotions apparent when she tries to appear dramatic she begins her line looking away and turns her eyes to her fellow actor or alternatively she begins her line looking at her opposite and then looks away both are annoying when done as a replacement for true emotion an example of her lack of intonation is in episode 20 two weddings and a funeral during her second wedding speech is devoid of emotion eg hearts in our hearts br br i liked all of the other actors in their respective parts and they were all believable with improved writing and a lead change calling might have made it
0	eliza dushku is a very talented and beautiful actress she manages to be the rock steady centre of calling but that's not enough to rescue her tv series from mediocrity it's a real shame that a woman as attractive and talented as dushku should go from a meaty supporting role in buffy the vampire slayer to this clunker br br unoriginal and desperately trying to be hip calling fails to excite on any level above hormonal the eponymous heroine spends a lot of her time running hither and yon across what must be a very small city in order to avert the deaths of good looking corpses to be that she's already met in the mortuary where she works despite all the running she does she always arrives looking like she's just stepped out of a portable air conditioned dressing room br br in every episode eliza dushku and the rest of the cast struggle to breath life into the bland characterless screenplays but it's a pointless exercise calling just lies on the slab gazing lifelessly at the ceiling
0	the brands in this film like suit supply take away from the story cause it's supposed to be set in the eighties it's not a very thrilling film also the single from on the soundtrack is very bad it has a chorus that is repeated numerous times' like i'm a cruel man i take it all away i'm a cruel man i'm here to stay couldn't those have come up with something better than that i guess they wrote it in a couple of minutes br br it's really annoying just like the product placement in this that cashes in on the controversy and publicity around a criminal who should not be a celebrity like he is now made out to be but should be forgotten like rats ought to be
0	after some quite ok dutch action flicks like lek and van god los gerrard wants to make a movie about the life of a dutch mobster well mobster is a big word for he isn't a real international big guy like george jung blow or pablo he is just an amsterdam lowlife who made some money by selling soft drugs things are often blown up in the netherlands and this movie is just an other example but even then the movie could be very nice if the story was okay told now there are major jumps in time one day is just an ordinary drug boy the next shot he seems to be a big player in the drug scene nobody knows how's that possible except for those who read the book the acting is really bad the non dutch movie watchers get to see one of the worst actresses in the netherlands chantal when you think she finally gets naked then you are watching a stand in model so bad acting bad montage crap story de br br please don't watch it even if other people say it's good because it isn't i've warned you
0	to begin with i have to admit i've never been a big fan of the dutch movie genre unfortunately watching de hasn't made me change my mind it shares some common flaws like having a plot that's too predictable and linear for my taste br br worse however is that the cast has their dialogues as if they were stage actors in a play unfortunately this is common too in many dutch movies and at least to me makes it impossible to feel any kind of involvement with the main characters br br the actor that plays i'm sorry i forgot his name at the moment is at least delivering a decent performance and is one of the reasons i don't rate this movie even worse another reason is the fact that at least it seems to have had some budget and the production seems professional br br ironically the fact that the acting is often too articulated might not be so much of a problem if you don't speak dutch although i already warned you that the plot isn't spectacular either but at least it might make it an acceptable movie to watch
0	de is based on the life of a real dutch gangster in the movie he is called i have my doubts that events presented in the movie have something to do with what really happened but that doesn't really matter because it failed to grab my attention this movie bored the crap out of me it lacks substance and style the substance part could have been forgiven if the acting was any good and if the director tried to do something original without the substance you at least have to bring some style or decent action don't we need to be entertained it would have helped if the director had seen more gangster movies it is obvious that he didn't otherwise he wouldn't have made this the way he did this movie got a lot of publicity because of a little scandal surrounding and a member of the dutch royal family this scandal has nothing to do with the movie what so ever without it de never would have been successful i am sure of it
0	this is the only movie that i can think of where after it ended i was seething with anger at the waste of money and time on the part of myself and everyone involved in making it no wonder alan moore refused to have anything to do with v for vendetta a phenomenal film after this debacle br br it's not bad in an entertaining way like showgirls it's bad in a way that makes you want to claw your eyes out plot holes the size of planets the worst script in memory horrible acting by decent actors visuals that should be great but somehow flop br br it could have been so good
0	25 august 2003 league of extraordinary gentlemen br br sean connery is one of the all time greats and i have been a fan of his since the 1950's i went to this movie because sean connery was the main actor i had not read reviews or had any prior knowledge of the movie the movie surprised me quite a bit the scenery and sights were spectacular but the plot was unreal to the point of being ridiculous in my mind this was not one of his better movies it could be the worst why he chose to be in this movie is a mystery for me going to this movie was a waste of my time i will continue to go to his movies and add his movies to my video collection but i can't see wasting money to put this movie in my collection
0	i will be honest and say i gave up on watching it somewhere mid way and then fast forward with a few breaks then i came back here and read many of the reviews already made br br maybe is just me and i can not help it but this cartoon to north american society seems to have a purpose of lets save them from themselves and iraq comes to mind right away it seems to me that this is a justification or part of for another invasion with good intentions br br the lady to me seems a self indulged person and i frankly got annoyed at her portrait of trying to raise pity and feel for her well in this case this could never happen because just like a history teacher has already mentioned here i need to know how come her family was so wealthy above average manage to keep that were they playing both sides maybe and send her to paris now if this would have been made after a poor girl's biography i could see myself having certain emotions but as it stands its release timing this is just pure propaganda movie even worse since its cartoon it overplays the soft side of too well for its own good in order to possibly be taken serious br br besides there are those clichés regarding gays well a woman that fights toward winning her rights should not have at least some compassion for the underdogs of society just like her the message is obviously self indulgent from the view of a ruling class member br br i only give it 2 stars because its production and related stuff a propaganda movie obviously has interests in convincing manipulating my thoughts and therefore generally is well done appealing to certain visual emotions that i can not deny i might have as well
0	the lifetime channel aired this in october but i only got around to watching it now it's the old eternal triangle again — small town connecticut boy dave ford matt long has a quick fling with his best friend's girlfriend emily emmanuelle on the eve of his departure for law school in new york thinks about her for the next five years while he isn't doing contracts and briefs runs into her again when he returns home after the death of his father on the eve of a big exam five years later and gets involved with her romantically again but director and co writer matthew cole weiss goes way over the top framing the whole thing in flashback as dave confesses to murdering emily her husband and another one of her lovers in front of here comes the spoiler a lesbian cop who's also a flame of emily's weiss overdoes the effect by which dave gets to see chunks of his previous life flash before his eyes even before he's actually dead cutting those in even while dave and emily are having sex and thereby ruining the soft core porn shots that give even some otherwise pretty lame lifetime movies at least a bit of audience appeal i couldn't help but flash back myself to james m cain and how much better he wrote women like this in his classic thrillers all adapted into hit movies the postman always rings twice double indemnity and mildred pierce it also doesn't help that the film ends with the bad guys the bad girls actually triumphant and the decent if naïve and stupid hero seemingly on his way to the lethal injection table — or that the actors playing the people dave and emily are cheating on are both better looking than they are incidentally though this film went straight to cable in the u s there were some blank spots on the soundtrack indicating where swear words were so i presume this got a theatrical release somewhere in the world
0	the only good thing about persepolis is the shadows created in the german expressionism style of animation and a hint of history this movie bored me it was about a woman dissatisfied with her culture who tries everything else and then goes back to her roots here she finds great discontentment once again and finally leaves for final to let everyone else in her country figure out the situation and what they will do now that she is not there to support them it comes to no conclusion and leaves us with a feeling that this woman has no loyalties mind you she is torn between cultures and doesn't have enough of a background it seems to figure what is important and real she is listening to ever so many voices and will most likely end up a world citizen of some kind than one with any ties to her native culture of iran the only thing i received from this movie was angst
0	although allegedly autobiographical this movie demonstrates very little insight both into the protagonist's psychology resulting in a flat fragmented characterization as well as into larger scale historical processes and my hope of either learning something new or improving my understanding of contemporary iran remained unfulfilled instead i found my sensibilities somewhat dulled as a succession of bearded islamic villains replaced each other taunting torturing or killing the wantonly victimized prototypical middle class iranian whose western cultural sympathies were patent and whose the movie quite blatantly seeks the deeper understanding the movie does seem to demonstrate is that of the mass media market as it serves to nourish prevalent occidental folk ideologies i e a crowd pleaser br br what redeemed the movie from being outright boring was its creative animation genuinely minimalistic imagery which nevertheless always kept the screen rich expressive and unambiguous no small for which i do give it some stars
0	it starts quite good but after a while you start to expect more from this film than you are actually getting everything becomes unclear and unclear it stays czech filmmakers were good 20 or more years ago but after they transfered to capitalistic country here it is czech unofficial but well known mentality copying copying copying of everything they consider good when they see it in another movies or countries or elsewhere i think that this is a good example of making art and politics and horror and humor and film and money and it remains me of the one flew over the cuckoo's nest which can not be compared to this film in the way of art and actors and story and politics i think this film is boring it could be done better at least they tried sorry guys not recommend
0	when jan svankmajer lets his imagination run wild get ready you're in for dark harrowing films like alice and little or short gems such as down to the cellar and jabberwocky all of those are excellent films that represent disturbing surrealistic film making at its best br br on the other hand when svankmajer attempts to make a political statement of any kind you're advised to leave the room in a hurry films in this vein tend to be both adolescent and preachy presenting straw man caricatures in repetitious fashion to express his pseudo brilliant insights br br lunacy unfortunately is very much this latter type of movie cartoonish ideas and characters are stretched paper thin for an appalling two hours there are a few moments that briefly hold interest but these few are separated by vast deserts of boredom br br if you found dreadful monotonous short film et cetera brilliant and hilarious you'll probably love lunacy if you've never seen a svankmajer film before please start elsewhere
0	talk about creepy if you really want to sit down and watch this episode where the girl who was in firefly later on gets kidnapped there's entertainment for you but only if you like this sort of thing i don't so i thought to be frank this episode was appalling thankfully it's one of a few duff episodes in season 3 and the only charles grant craig episode so you don't get much of this sort of thing in season 3 so overall verdict just read the summary at the top this is a strong contender hell money says hi for worst episode of season 3 to be honest though i hadn't really expected much i wish i could this episode altogether that's one thing they got right the title
0	thank god you're here is painful positively painful the title is apt in a sense if aimed at the large studio audience paid to laugh like they were watching the second coming of the marx brothers and trust me they are paid br br as creatively barren as the entertainment industry has become i refuse to believe that nbc brass really have faith in this turkey rather i think thank god you're here is what all of you get who didn't watch or didn't appreciate studio 60 which previously graced the peacock network's monday night lineup you want to turn your nose up at caviar fine here's some lovely alpo direct from menu foods for you to slop around in
0	this show is terrible i cannot get over the complete waste of great talent this show contains this is not entertaining improvisational acting it's just a cheap attempt to throw someone famous comedic actors onto a stage and have them perform a poorly improved scene i have actually done improv work as an actor and this show is not improv br br what the audience is actually laughing at if they're actually laughing at this show at all it looks quite fake is the embarrassment of the guest star being lost like a deer in headlights the dumb completely unrelated things they come up with are what people laugh at and if it's not part of the scene the actors will tell them that it's wrong i find this show is disgrace to the art and makes me cry for shows like whose line is it anyway which had great talent great improv games and on top of everything else didn't make me want to change the channel
0	with nbc's thank god you're here the network may be trying to replicate the successes of abc's improv sitcom who's line is it anyway in which host drew carey would judge the performances of a handful of cast regulars asked to improvise scenes of some kind in the nbc show dave foley and co host dave alan grier oversee a handful of notable comedians who must improvise their way through various scenes which all begin with thank god you're here it takes itself far too seriously why must viewers be repeatedly reminded that the actors have never seen the sets before both co hosts seem less then enthused after watching the continuously sub par unfunny attempts by the actors to some laughs i am left wondering whether the live audience is genuinely laughing at what transpires or whether they too are improvising expect this time slot filler to be a very short lived one
0	on the positive i'll say it's pretty enough to be watchable on the negative it's insipid enough to cause regret for another 2 hours of life wasted in front of the screen long whiny and pointless and i'm not saying this to be mean i really wanted to like this film it seemed to have everything going for it had the so called buzz and was a hassle to track down besides had a little more effort gone into it on the story side i believe this would've been amazing and i expect the team behind it will produce wonderful work in the future they clearly have the ability but i recommend waiting for their future efforts let this one go
0	this is the worst movie that i have ever seen at first i thought that it was going to be good because i'm interested in the bermuda triangle but instead it was terrible all it did was offer a bunch of lame that didn't make sense if time moves differently there how come the woman didn't age and her son aged rapidly and have a horrible sappy ending next time the guys who made this go to bermuda they should take all copies of this movie with them please everyone vote for this movie so it can get on the worst movie list
0	saw this as part of the dc reel affirmations film festival i hope they got better movies than this because this film failed to deliver on any of the hopes that audience may have entertained from the fantasy of seeing james franco without his shirt down to more simple wishes such as decent acting coherent direction character development or actual production values plagued by film school effects such as freeze frames to show moments of emotional distress and obvious influences ranging from my own private idaho to terminator 2 this film failed on almost every level to engage the audience after the first twenty minutes of valiantly trying to take it seriously the audience collectively threw up it's hands and just started to enjoy the inherent crappiness of the film i could be upset that i paid nine bucks to see it and it was two hours i'll never get back but on the other hand it was an entertaining two hours i'll never get back this would have been a classic mystery science 3000 episode
0	the bermuda triangle we are told in this waste of celluloid is the portal to another time and dimension and can be crossed using cheap special effects by bad actors spouting inane dialogue br br i simply was unable to decide who the makers of this thought would be its target audience as it seems impossible anybody could derive even a modicum of pleasure from the outcome avoid its not even bad enough to be good
0	got to confess right up front that i didn't watch this entire movie i missed the first hour during a sci fi channel broadcast or was i spared the first hour the other reviewers sum this one up nicely it was badly conceived badly scripted badly acted br br but the worst thing for me was the adr the entire film which appeared to have been dubbed sounded like it was done in somebody's garage there was a voluminous echo to the words which just served to make the bad dialog hang and hang and hang even a made for tv movie should have recognized this br br and the idea that alternate dimensions are differentiated by color saturation went out in the 80s folks
0	if you feel like wasting 86 minutes on a film that makes no sense is badly written with a bad plot and bad acting then this little gem is for you recommended for those who are about to fall asleep major annoyance will be felt by the awake viewer do not pay to see this movie
0	if you're a north american looking for a here it is was this trading spaces visits tuscany there were way too many stereotypes little attention was given to character and plot development yawn highlight of the film the flag throwing poor guy i thought he was going to loose an eye
0	this is just another one of those american finds romance with charming foreigner in exotic european locale this genre has been cinematically bankrupt since the 1950s yet they continue to churn them out i let my girlfriend talk me into seeing this bad idea we both hated it if all you want to see is tuscany try watching stealing beauty with liv tyler a marginally better movie br br this types of genre movies are very hallmark greeting card ish
0	this movie was thoroughly unwholesome unsettling and unsatisfying apart from a few nice shots of italy there's nothing to recommend this movie as usual hollywood draws the wrong conclusion from a fractured existence the next guy you meet whom you sleep with after knowing for a few hours he must be mr right as for humor there is some in the movie but i can't see how anyone could possibly label this a romantic comedy since about three quarters of the movie is totally depressing my recommendation skip it in the theaters wait till it comes out on dvd then skip it there also i want someone to give me back the two hours i wasted watching this dreck drivel dross
0	this movie was supposedly based on a non fiction book i'm not sure what book the script writer s read to write their adaptation but it has absolutely nothing to do with the true life adventures of frances in italy instead it is an uninteresting tale that takes liberties at every juncture to bash men note the following examples br br br br spoiler details br br br br bash number one lane's husband cheats on her and her marriage ends in a divorce br br bash number two lane ventures into a local italian town and is promptly solicited by every male on the street br br bash number three lane is saved from the horny town folk men by a charming gentlemen she falls for him after an afternoon of love making she later finds out that he's already attached and cheating with her br br bash number four you have to broaden your horizon for this one because the reference is definitely is in the movie her lesbian couple friends decide to have a baby by sp fertilization i am told that in most lesbian relationships you have one person assuming the female role and another assuming the male role in the movie after the female has been made pregnant the male lesbian decides to run out on the relationship because she can not handle it br br in conclusion this movie has nothing to do with the book that it was supposedly based on
0	the movie had no excitement and does not have anything to hold your interest the movie had nothing exiting funny dramatic or romantic about it how can a movie be romantic if the girl never gets a the right guy until the last seen in the movie than the movie ends maybe part ii will be romantic but somebody else will have to risk wasting their money i have nothing else to say other than do not waste your time the movie had nothing exiting funny dramatic or romantic about it the movie had nothing exiting funny dramatic or romantic about it the movie had nothing exiting funny dramatic or romantic about it the movie had nothing exiting funny dramatic or romantic about it
0	diane lane is beautiful and sexy and tuscany is gorgeous but this film is no better than mediocre and that's being generous the story line is grafted onto a travelogue and remains thoroughly uninvolving br br set in let's say a suburb of newark the plot would be deemed ridiculous all that saves the movie are the tuscan countryside and occasional scenes set in florence and and a film of the while the sun sinks slowly in the west variety would have served better to show what it certainly one of the loveliest locales in all the world
0	ridiculous nauseating doggerel with terrible acting ineptly superficially and condescendingly trawling all the most banal clichés about tuscany and italy divorce and midlife the main actor nervously grimaces her way through the film struggling to portray the appropriate level of smug self congratulatory self pity the worthless character and script call for i'm sure the book was bad but it can't have been this bad the camera is permanently fitted with a vomit yellow tuscan lense filter perhaps the tuscan sun wasn't tuscan enough which they forgot to remove when the scene shifts to rome and how imaginative the coast you've never seen the white marble of vittorio emmanuelle monument looking so yellow i mean tuscan one of the worst movies ever and therefore quite worth a look
0	a quick funny coming of age matinée romp appealing to the underdog in us all it functions in effect as a vehicle for justin long who has subsequently erupted onto our screens in the fourth die hard via pc vs mac ads dodgeball and the break up he's funny earnest and young a big career ahead br br a town's worth of college wannabes find a fake website long has set up to delude his judgemental parents and descend on the like it were a short notice facebook party lewis black the anarchic philosophy as a stand in dean long's delinquent friends provide support for the subterfuge and consequent appeal to grander traditions of education and friendship adam deserves special mention for his never flagging slapstick contribution well executed feelgood and instantly forgettable 4 10
0	i quite enjoyed the wrecking crew 1999 which was the last of the three films in this series the first being urban menace 1999 which i've yet to see i know it was baaaaad but the three leads did a pretty decent job all things considered br br this however was truly atrocious ice t was dreadful and he's the producer can't say i've ever heard of the shocker who apparently never learnt how to spell but his performance was one of the worst i've ever seen in a movie br br miss jones did pretty well in her small role though she later went on to make some atrocious racist jokes on her radio show after the se asian tsunami plus other occasions sadly way to go girl br br no one else comes out with any credit strangely tj storm and ernie hudson who are both pretty bad here are far better in the wrecking crew which was made along with urban menace at the same time as corrupt how that works i don't know br br i'm going to try the ice t commentary now to see whether he apologises for the film or tries to make us think it's a great piece of film making
0	yes i really found this film distasteful br br i didn't like the sandra oh character she really annoyed me it is unlikely she would be accepted into rural italian life due to the fact she is non white this was a bit of pc nonsense br br the film is also offensive to italian men for instance the one man she diane lane has an affair is turns out to be a cheat but guess what at the end your typically plasticky american brick head turns up all cheesy white smile and tan and she finally finds what she wants all along a real american man and now she has colonized another part of the world br br in fact this film is quite racist in its depiction of italians and the way it subjugates them as either smarmy lotharios or backward peasants br br the photography was good but the film and its attitude were trash
0	well to do american divorcée with more money than brains buys a rundown villa in tuscany much more money whilst having to dicker over the price she subsequently manages to cook sumptuous for her workmen and wander around italy indefinitely with no job or apparent means of support interminable boredom and the inevitable italian lover ensue this is a chick flick in the most pejorative sense of the term lane acts like an unskilled clueless teenage ingénue throughout which dynamically clashes with her seriously fading looks along the way smashing into a variety of mostly italian cardboard stereotypes dykes divas senile and gigolos among them bloated with unnecessary scenes the most ridiculous being a clumsily inserted and pointless recreation of the fountain scene in 'la dolce vita' a similar conceit was used in an effective and appropriate narrative context in 'only you' norman vastly superior ode to italy and romance sun' may be the most vacant piece of cinema of the last decade despite its admittedly well lensed panoramas of italy bonus negative point for the extraneous lover in at the last minute to provide requisite hollywood ending for its targeted audience of oprah brainwashed housewives avoid at all costs unless of course you view oprah and dr phil as pinnacles of intelligent discourse
0	please do not go see this i did have several laughs throughout this movie but they were all due to unintentional comedy br br there were only three characters in this movie so it was amazing how bad the character development was pacino played pacino again and was aggravating most of the time the scenes in this movie seem like they were put together from 20 other bad movies by a really poor editor there is no continuity and i found myself wondering why i didn't leave 15 minutes into this br br i would suggest never seeing a movie directed by d j caruso this really was awful
0	this is by far probably the worst film al pacino could have starred in the movie had no real plot it kind of careens into 24 different directions it seems that the target audience for this film are people from anonymous mat mcconaughey's character is not believable enough to be pacino's so he won a few bets for some degenerate clients as a sideline to a shitty job recording on a 900 service does that automatically supposed to convince an audience of his skills it was just plain stupid to think of the trailer did promise to show us how he makes his sure shot picks but after going through the whole film i have yet to see what skill if any he ever had if you want skill try looking at robert de niro's character in casino now that is showmanship at some point in the film character picks his winning bets at a flip of a coin anybody could do that al pacino seems to talk a lot and i mean blabber mouth in your face dialog i think that style started with scent of a woman and worked for him because he finally won an oscar but now i think its just irritating he seems to be always sermonizing he does do a mean act of portraying a man having unstable that's an impending heart attack its typically reminiscent of his acting in part 3 which he plays the aging diabetic mafia don corleone but other than that pacino's talent is wasted on this film rene russo is just plain eye candy for this film she's kept in shape and shows it off in the tight clothes she wears throughout this film is plain crap do not waste your money on it it is much worse than the gambling picks of mats character in the film
0	pacino and really hit the mark with this stinker i swear i am an avid movie goer and fan i have been a fan of most of the people in this abortion at one time or another until now the story crap the acting crap rene major league was good the plot crap the subplot garbage the teenage attempts to relate to sports betting junk br br i have vowed to watch romy and michelle's high school reunion 2 times a day for the next seven days as my punishment for not turning this bag of a movie off after 10 minutes i was out of town for a seminar and this pile of mung cost me 9 99 and 2 hours i have been cheated this director should be in jail for fraud br br get with me if you have other review questions i am always right
0	just finished watching the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend something i never do needless to say i was very disappointed the story has so much potential and it's frustrating to see it get screwed up i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey first off i am not a mm hater i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off 3 4 times yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body but i think most people knew this 10 years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman 3 4 times in the movie is totally unnecessary i think one time would have been sufficient it wouldn't surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling unless enough about that let's get into his role i feel his acting was very forced and he didn't seem very comfortable i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner but his lines were corny and cheesy it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times in short i didn't like his character even though i was supposed to the accent his shirt off corny pick up lines weak sales pitches his character was just too much of a tool as brandon or jonathan pacino and assante were great but that' no surprise piven is fun to watch as arie i mean jerry i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly it's insulting that they could take a great story and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success 1 cool story that appeals to the male man 2 hunky hollywood actor for female women make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights 3 al pacino with 4 great speech scenes and 25 great one liners 3 every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan 4 jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school 4 throw in armand assante to seal the deal 5 plot good writing character development and intelligent casting are unnecessary br br this will be good enough for most people but not me anybody who disagrees with me ask your self this would this movie be much better if a directed by sodeberg b decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br br i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants big budget crapola
0	another entry in the pacino as mentor sub genre you know the drill young hotshot with hubristic flaw in this case matthew mcconaughey trying to jump start a flagging career by latching onto pacino's coattails hey it worked for keanu and colin didn't it is discovered by glamorous and delightfully corrupt father figure pacino natch young hotshot learns from father figure all the ins and outs of a lucrative yet degrading career this time it's football father figure plies young hotshot with money and hookers and power but we all know that this decadent state of affairs is on a collision course with dissolution and despair that is until the young hotshot finds his moral center by rejecting the father figure and all or almost all that he stands for clearly stone's wall street pretty much set the ground rules for the pacino as mentor sub genre br br we are also meant to take these latter day pacino films as a parallel to reality again you know the drill living legend actor demonstrates his unquestioned superiority as compared to an inferior young actor the latter may bear and grin through the process but he must recognize that he isn't going to get any of the good lines much less get a chance to chew major scenery before the denouement now it must be said that there are actually two good movies in the pacino as mentor canon scent of a woman and donnie brasco in the former case it was a one man show anyway in the latter case pacino had met his match as a scene stealer in the person of johnny depp however those two movies were serious minded not merely an exercise in showboating for sake pacino has made damn certain that his younger co stars in the films since brasco are nowhere near as charismatic as depp by the way none of this speaks very well about the living legend actor like his contemporary de niro pacino has spent the last 10 or 15 years resting on his laurels two for the money is the worst example yet worse even than devil's advocate which at least had the virtues of featuring a naked connie nielsen and being chronologically prior to this movie well this is what happens when you're crowned king too damn early just ask marlon brando frankly i've seen one too many al pacino films with the same plot and the same overacting from the star to be charitable any longer did i say none of this speaks well actually it's humiliating for everyone involved including the paying audience no one's going to accuse matthew mcconaughey of being a shakespearean actor but even he doesn't deserve the role of second fiddle to this intolerable old show off with the added implication that he mcconaughey will never measure up to the greatness that is al br br i've not wasted space on the plot particulars if you want a synopsis imdb provides a no nonsense summary though i think i laid out a fairly comprehensive summary in my opening paragraph basically you've seen this movie before many times the particular milieu in two for the money is the seedy world underworld really of sports pacino runs an office of bet advisers that is between you and your bookie and even has a cable tv show co hosted with several of his top guys one thing the movie got right was the sleaziness of these type of shows but one detail they got dead wrong was the constant use of the words gamble and gambling if you've ever seen or other shows of similar ilk you'll never never hear jim feist and his cohorts say the word gamble they ask you to call their 1 900 number to get their picks but if you were from say mars you'd have no idea what you were supposed to do with those picks gamble is the f word on sports tv shows strictly verboten br br gambling is against the law you know br br 1 star out of 10
0	i will leave it to my uhh betters here to gape and gawk at this wonderful movie and just say that i thought it stunk the great thing about this site is you always get a variety of views and seek them out by all means no telling what you will come out of the film with for me the ones who saw through the and shenanigans of it have my money there was one dead on perfect when he pointed out the two grand moments of the thing which belong to pacino the meeting and the airport other than that well what a waste of time utterly pacino is just doing the same thing over and over and over he would have been better served by taking the performance down about five notches at about the level of his protégé everybody always says but this movie could have been so much better sure they all could have been but really most of them just should never have been made including this one
0	al pacino was once an actor capable of making a role work without resorting to constant use of profanity in other words when he could act he didn't have to talk like some street junkie mcconaughey must have been impressed by pacino because he became a promoter of the f word also this might be the kind of society that they actually live in but most of us have the common decency to watch what we say in mixed company i don't recall the exact words that a professor used in explaining the constant use of profanity but it was something like this it shows a lack of intelligence poor language skills and disrespect for all those that have to listen maybe it is time that al takes some acting courses again to sharpen his talent oh yes the movie probably the worse thing that mcconaughey has played in hopefully his next role will be in the company of more talented people rene russo as always was hot
0	for all the cast and crew who worked on this excuse for a movie another payday in l a for any audience hoping for a fair return for the price of admission a huge waste of time and money the saddest aspect of this ugly exercise to me is that we are watching an extremely talented actor pacino seemingly playing a parody of himself that's what remained with me as a total mystery i can fully understand the need for movie industry people to work and thus make a living what i fail to comprehend is an artist of al pacino's talent prostituting and embarrassing himself with this level of mindless junk hopefully he'll choose projects of better value in the future and for value save your time and hard earned money skip this let's send hollywood and al a message
0	i wasn't so impressed with this film finding it quite tiresome and plain the plot line was interesting a kid creating his own college and hundreds of kids but the laughs were few and far between the jokes weren't really funny and i didn't bust a gut at any of the scenes the characters weren't intriguing and i didn't feel for any of them even the fat kid with glasses who tried to enter the frat group it was a good first watch but it didn't blow me away and its not one that i would recommend comparing it to other films in the same genre ie american pie is just cruel because there is a film which was laugh a plenty this accepted failed to raise a smile
0	this movie was utterly and unequivocally terrible the plot was so predictable and boring and the script so corny and pretentious that by the end i wanted to stab my eyes with the nearest pen br br normally i don't write reviews but i was astonished by the number of positive reviews it got while i admit that the acting was okay at some parts the script's deficiencies more than outweighed the decent acting the only reason i watched this was because a few of my friends were watching it introducing it as most likely the worst movie ever made judging by the trailer we were not disappointed in the least its only saving grace is that it contained my new favorite pickup line br br brandon i just want to get to know you br br girl you just want to get into my pants br br brandon i want to get into your mind your heart your soul i don't see you wearing any pants in this equation br br overall i would rate this movie as the worst movie i ever saw that took itself seriously
0	very poor script and acting i was very surprised that the director was able to convince his cast with his empty story that tells us nothing new all is in the cliché of the mentor and the talented immature pupil the characters even interesting nor sympathetic artistically it is as empty and insignificant the colours are very impersonal and light only the poster may be appealing al pacino tries very hard to give depth to his character with no success too bad because the sport betting can be a really interesting subject to which many could relate but i can't have a complete comment on this movie any way as i got out from the theatre 20 minutes before ending everything was so predictable that it was a waist of time
0	i went into this movie determined to like it i usually enjoy dramas like wall street glen gary glen ross boiler room etc i went into this movie thinking i would be on the edge of my seat plus i am a big pacino fan br br what a piece of garbage quite possibly the worst movie i have seen in five years this makes pacino's debacle in any given sunday actually look good first half the movie is watching matthew mcconaughey lift weights ok we get it you are in shape matt we don't need to see every other scene with you pumping iron shirtless br br secondly how many plot holes are in this movie why introduce the phone call from long lost dad and never address it again what was the point of his mom hanging up on him why even have her call to say he is sending her too much money what was the point of that the guy from puerto rico who lost 30 million also since sports betting is illegal in ny and its acknowledged its illegal how can they possibly guarantee everyone's bet at the end br br this was simply a very poorly written script it had potential but it was devoid of a coherent plot i thought pacino learned his lesson about script selection after any given sunday but apparently not my gosh this is the same actor that starred in the godfather br br don't waste your money
0	i am usually a big fan of pacino scarface serpico devils advocate but since scent of a woman he pretty much plays the same role and shouts a lot this movie had no endearing characters to warm to brandon played by bongo is the least likable of the bunch he nowhere even approached a real human being pacino was hopelessly unlikeable and my goodness how old is renee russo the only high light of this wretched mess was the hot hooker with the perfect lipstick and she has like 10 lines total even the usually reliable jeremy piven was utterly unlikeable br br note to writers of movies they do not usually work unless one of the main characters is at least a bit likable exception scarface as the movie closes and old brandon is at the airport my only thought was please let a plane crash into the airport and kill brandon
0	i didn't have much high hopes for this one before seeing it the story yelled stereotype at me br br i mean come on it's so stupid the plot line about the innocent android that realizes that the people who created him are immoral then decides to change everything br br i had to see it three times the first two times i fell asleep because i was so incredibly bored by it it's very rare that movies bore me so much i fall asleep during them the third time i forced myself to watch it simply to be able to warn people about it br br i got the distinct impression that the people responsible for this mess had tried to take all the cool neat things from other scifi action movies and put them together to make a kick ass movie they took the android robot lots of action thin story stereotype characters and a big fight in the end and threw it together unfortunately the movie sucks the acting is so wooden you could build a house out of it the storyline plot is absolutely laughable the camerawork and editing is horrid the direction is non existent and to top it all off everything is so cliche and ridiculous that it just annoys the hell out of you br br i was left with the feeling that i could've spent the time watching this one doing something much more creative like trimming my fingernails or watching the grass grow
0	you know i only watched 15 minutes of this film so i can't really describe how great it is i mean the concept alone is so original and intriguing it just did not let me go then there is the mass of academy award winning people involved here plus the academy award nominated director you just can't miss i mean imagine it is the middle of the night and you're not sleepy yet this film comes on you watch it and are shocked it is so brilliant so original it is so great it will feel to you that half an hour later you've turned off the screen but as you go to your bed you see it's only 15 minutes after midnight enjoy br br 3 out of 10
0	mario van peebles tries to go the jean claude van damme route and play a renegade robotic soldier who goes awol to preserve himself however the government isn't going to take this lying down so among the simplistic plot van peebles protects villagers from the rebel forces and defeats a improved version of himself in this disappointing film this blatant rip off of universal soldier which is far more fun then this simply goes nowhere the main problem is that the movie is so unbelievably inert van peebles just waits around and there just isn't enough ass kicking to justify a viewing on the other hand the movie does sort of resemble a competent version of r o t o r although where as that abysmal bad movie was hilarious this one only yields occasional laughter in its laughably unconvincing action sequences also like r o t o r it makes no sense in its narrative and basically the movie is awesomely boring plus the villains are disappointingly weak and basically the movie needs an actual action scenario to work because the material is too dull in all regards solo is a very weak film br br 1 2 out of 4 poor
0	solo is a poor film that cannot be ignored the acting for the most part is very wooden the only exception is adrien brody's performance as solo's creator bill and the story is slight enough that you would probably forget it whilst you where watching the film that said such films are more about the action than the plot acting and as such live or die by the action set pieces that after all is the point of such films to give 14 year olds something to smile at whilst the adults watch films of actual substance and even on this solo fails to deliver what little action there is is poorly done dull and uninspired after seeing the trailer for this on television i was hoping for something along the lines of predator with a robot replacing the instead i got a fairly lifeless action film with a poorly constructed attempt at depth by taking on message that robots can feel too watch terminator ii or predator instead both classics that this film desperately wants to be except it lacks the inspiration or to be fair the budget
0	when you see barry corbin in the cast of a movie you can never be sure if it will be a classic or trash guess which category solo falls into apparently derived from a popular sci fi novel weapon solo stars mario van peebles as a human looking robot who decides to think for himself and is thus targeted for elimination he hides out in a mexican village obviously to save money on locations and extras paying in is cheaper than paying in dollars i suspect william sadler is along for the ride as one of the robots and soldiers sent to destroy van peebles van peebles manages to beat them all with ease of course while corbin watches all this with bemusement from afar the movie is a horrible ripoff of the the terminator and cyborg series and apparently has little to do with its source material it is horribly written and acted and the big fight at the end if downright comical van peebles a decent actor elsewhere is a scream as he pretends to be a robot covered in synthetic flesh he looks like he is doing the robot dance most of the time
0	i had the dubious opportunity to view this movie on tv it's the perfect example of how to take a terrible script and turn it into one of the worst films ever made not only is the acting bad and the effects terrible the movie has more logical holes than ten pounds of imported swiss cheese br br i would highly recommend this film as an example of how not to make a movie and what director not to use in one of yours br br i turned off the tv during the last ten hideous minutes of the show calling it pathetic is a gross understatement
0	inane awful farce basically about a young man who refuses to conform or better uses non conformity to attain his objectives fool his parents into thinking that he is attending a college truth is that this jerk has been rejected by every school he has applied to after viewing this junk you will see why br br what a ridiculous name south hampton institute of technology you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out the initials of this school of nonsense problem with these type of films is that in the end the non conformist becomes the accepted mode br br let's step back to the world of reality and call this film what it really is excessive manipulative junk
0	solo starts as a team of us soldiers go into america to blow up a rebel airstrip joining them is a robot named solo mario van peebles who can use any weapon ever made is fifteen times stronger ten times faster than any human being something goes wrong though solo refuses to kill innocent civilians which colonel frank madden william sadler isn't happy about back at base general haynes barry corbin orders solo to be shut down one of solo's main directives is self preservation so decides to escape back into the south american jungles where colonel madden his men are sent in to recapture it br br this mexican american co production was directed by one has to say solo is awful the script by david corley was based on the novel by robert mason is one cliché after another robots were popular at the time solo was made in hollywood at the box office so solo rip offs the likes of robocop 1987 universal soldier 1992 the two terminator flicks as well as having the same setting basic story as predator 1987 this is the usual rubbish about an emotionless robot who grows a sense of humanity while being around people at first he doesn't know what a joke is or why one person would care for another but by the end he develops emotions starts to befriend people sounds like terminator 2 judgment day 1991 to me the character's are poor colonel madden in particular is given absolutely no motivation for hating solo at all why he would kill other us soldiers disobey orders to destroy it you know i saw this on cable telly last night for free thank god i didn't spend any money on it i looked it up in the tv guide do you know what it said my tv guide described solo as a sci fi action starring mario van which when i think about it is a perfect description of solo in less than ten words my tv guide has hit the nail on the head i mean it's a sci fi action film it certainly stars mario van peebles it's definitely dire enough said really br br director doesn't do anything particularly special here the action scenes lack any real excitement the sci fi elements are virtually none existent apart from the fact solo is a robot so the military lose solo colonel madden is sent in to recapture it right i'm not being funny but wouldn't the military have put a 'self mechanism inside solo in case something like that happened surely at the very least solo would have had a tracking device inside it so the military would at least know where it was at any given time i'm not being funny but these people can come up with a walking talking robotic soldier but they are not clever enough to realise that a tracking or self destruct device might be useful if anything went wrong the violence is mild there are a few ok fight scenes but this is pretty weak stuff really br br technically the film looks alright is competently made it was actually shot in mexico the makers of the dolph lundgren action flick agent red 2000 edited footage from solo into that film the acting is poor van peebles was the perfect choice to play an emotionless robot william sadler deserves better than this it was only a few years prior he was staring in the fantastic die hard 2 die harder 1990 br br solo is a really bad sci fi action flick which is basically a huge rip off of big budget hollywood sci fi action films like robocop universal soldier the terminator films not recommend i'm going to start pay more attention to my tv guide when it comes to choosing films to watch
0	the novel weapon which serves as the basis for this atrocious piece of garbage is one of the best techno thrillers to come down the pike in a long time the character of solo who is not supposed to look like a human is a wonderful creation and it was simply awful to see him reduced to just another terminator clone with mario van peebles horrendously trying to act like a robot there is nothing worthwhile about this film br br why does hollywood insist on snapping up the rights to excellent novels and then butchering them there are so many things wrong with solo that listing them seems as unfair as inviting a man with no legs to a brisk game of avoid this awful film and seek out the 2 novels by robert mason that feature the awesome character of solo the books are weapon and an excellent sequel solo but don't pay any attention to this awful dreck of a film
0	solo is an action movie about a terminator like android that is constructed and trained for the military when a flaw is discovered he is issued to be rather than face death he chooses to flee into the jungles of central america where he takes refuge in a village the military chases him into there leading into a big action feast br br mario van peebles does a decent performance the android his movements and gestures look mechanical enough to get the job done actual scientific realism is abandoned in order to make a good action hero and it works out the action scenes aren't that spectacular but they aren't all too bad either the acting from the other characters is pretty bad but i was not expecting anything too good the special effects were decent as well br br solo is decent as an action flick but very forgettable it lacks the substance that most movies possess but if you just want to pass a couple hours without much thinking this will get the job done
0	i was told about this film from a friend who saw it late night during the week he told me it was so bad that i had to see it so i went on an auction site and bought the film this is probably the worst film i have ever seen it makes you laugh when it really shouldn't terrible acting and terrible storyline plus he looks nothing like michael jackson br br i still recommend buying this film as its one of the funniest things you will ever see van peebles is a joke in this film br br robots cant bluff psyche br br i have to say though the special effects are actually amazing psyche dvds were probably even out when this film came out but if i had my way it would be a straight to vhs release yes people it is that bad
0	this film is a load of crap it's quite disturbing to see that anyone is able to say that this is one of the best films of the year what can i say bad acting bad action scenes which becomes really comical in the end pardon me if this was a comedy then i didn't understand it if it was i regret laughing of the tent scenes do yourself a favor go to bed instead of watching this good night
0	firstly let me make it clear that i love aircraft and usually any film with them in is worth watching and i've sat through some shocking ones however the same is not true of this film james stewart is an excellent actor but he is wasted in this strategic air command promotional film the acting is mediocre and the direction is weak i had to stop watching this awful rubbish about half way through this was despite some really good maybe even the best aerial photography the trouble is even for an aviation nut like me making something out of the shocking aircraft featured b 36 and b 47 just grates on the nerves too much it's a shame that the film wasn't made when the b 52 appeared then the superlatives used for the aircraft in this film would have been valid then i might have been able to sit through it perhaps i'm missing the point of the film which may be the angst suffered by loved ones while their beloved are on active duties in any case it could have been done much better recommendation well worth missing
0	this is a low grade cold war propaganda film crossed with a it may have some long term significance as a snapshot of 1950s us thinking but there is little else to commend in the mawkish storyline wooden acting and grating style there are some interesting photos of long gone aircraft but that was not enough for even this aircraft enthusiast to leave it on the screen for the full length
0	an anonymous film which could have been directed by anyone at all where is anthony mann the director of such classics as el cid the naked spur or the man from laramie br br there are marvelous shots of planes in the clouds lovingly filmed the story is very trite and almost completely devoid of dramatization the couple lives an almost routine life and the user who complains about june choice for the wife imho totally misses the point with her less than attractive look her hoarse voice she was the perfect housewife the screenplay needed at the time women were barefoot and pregnant there 's not one single woman among the base staff even in the desk jobs all they had to do was worrying about their who were fighting for democracy and against an enemy whose name we never hear but in 1955 it was not hard to guess it br br one wonders why a young person who has never seen a mann movie should choose this one among all the great movies he made
0	this film reeks of production line planning it appears like the filmmakers looked at recent hit movies and threw spaghetti on the screen jimmy stewart june allyson anthony mann baseball war baby airplane roll 'em the film does address the age of the stewart allyson performers though i'm certain we are still supposed to think they are much younger br br there are messages in strategic air command i found curiously shocking and offensive but i'll stick with one truly wretched element the happily married couple is challenged when mr stewart's character makes an important decision without consulting his wife in the film's most dramatic scene she calls him on it it ends completely unresolved allyson is crying her heart out on their bed and stewart walks out on her no discussion he simply says he is correct and walks out on his devastated wife for all he knows she could slit her wrists br br later allyson apologizes for questioning her husband's decision br br unbelievable br br stick with stewart allyson in the stratton story 1949 br br strategic air command 3 25 55 anthony mann james stewart june allyson frank lovejoy
0	if good intentions made a film great then this film might be one of the greatest films ever made the film has great actors a master director a significant theme at least a would be significant theme undertone of fifties existential world weariness aerial scenes that ought to have thrilled both senses and imagination and characters about which one might deeply care it is about patriotism and about patriotism in a healthy way br br not quite ten years after the film i knew air force officers who taught my r o t c classes at university they were intellectuals they thought deeply about their work they has senses of humor one had been a crew member on the first plane to drop a hydrogen bomb i have wondered if any one of them died in vietnam i imagine that they flew missions there br br regrettably the film fails the movie lacks visual interest drama expression of feeling and celebration of the very patriotism that underlines the narrative no actress has been worse used that june allison in this movie her susan holland is a woman that one would flee not embrace col james stewart who as then a colonel makes a good stab at this role as lt col and later col dutch holland but the most interesting thing he does in the role is bite into a sandwich i'm not kidding stewart was good as biting in sandwiches as he did in the spirit of saint louis br br one might think of ted williams but i don't when i watch mr steward in the role i do think of william holden as lt harry brubaker in the bridges at ri the comparison is not good for mr stewart who seems wasted in this film br br footage shot from a b 36 looks like outtakes from commercials for an airline though beautiful the aerial shots are mundane for the time they might have impressed viewers the crash in greenland involves unexciting modeling you expect the outcome to be good br br the undertone the subtext for the film voices the tedium that air force flight crews must have felt during their long missions and the banality that the air force used to make its business well business like any other business one imagines how a la nouvelle vague director might explore this theme and then one begins to think about how someone with imagination might have filmed this movie little moments are missed when crews returned from long missions the members of the crew got a shot of scotch and a massage before debriefing the mission showing that might have helped br br banality was the image the air force wanted and mr mann accommodated the brass maybe in that sense the film works but not for me br br i mourn when i watch the movie because i think all of us director actors crew viewers and members of the armed services might have enjoyed giving and getting much more than we get here br br i don't think that this movie had to be dr strangelove or 2001 both of which it presages but it had potential never realized yet i enjoy watching it i think of the airmen on their long missions and the ground crews in isolated places there is a certain sense of honor celebrated here and i celebrate that honor br br i certainly understand why people who praise this movie here and other places appreciate it if there were no intentional fallacy it would get a 10 from me br br
0	i see absolutely nothing funny even remotely funny in this stupid movie an unrealistic silly ridiculous idea just completely ridiculous hard to believe that the main character who seems so articulate intelligent and imaginative would not be accepted to any college even more difficult to believe is that no one shut the place down the actors portrayed characters straight out of we have seen their lot many a time over in many films nothing new here i found it on late night tv and since there was really nothing else on i watched the whole boring stupid film what a total waste maybe if you are a teenager you may find it amusing films are made for an immature mind so teens go for it the rest no way
0	it may be although there are still two or three i've missed this film constructs an interesting nocturnal cityscape reminiscent of so many foggy scenes from sherlock holmes movies and it with sinister kafka esque characters into their midst the movie drops mia farrow who sounds like she's still playing hannah and woody allen who seems to be reprising his nebbish role from play it again sam are we supposed to laugh at his stammering and hand wringing i suppose i would if the rest of the movie were clearly a comedy but it's not at least i don't think it is
0	shadows and fog is surely one of woody allen's weakest films right up there with september and hollywood ending though nothing allen has done equals the awfulness of anything else br br shadows and fog is allen's homage to the german expressionist style of film making all stark and stylized light and shadow and you guessed it lots of fog but you can tell allen got caught up in the technique and the parody and forgot to make a movie that anyone would care about br br luckily he made husbands and wives the same year so things weren't a total wash for him br br grade d
0	a wonderful semi humorous homage to expressionistic black and white films of folks like fw murnau fritz lang carl dreyer marcel carné and others allen plays a character caught in a kafkaesque nightmare at first thinking he is part of a vigilante group trying to catch a killer and slowly realizing that he might be a suspect the writing is a little forced this is after all woody allen trying to be a coy kafka but the point is made and no harm done the cinematography is interesting about 100 shades of gray but make sure you watch in a very dark room with a good screen or details will get swallowed in the fog this is an amusing little movie with a few laughs that are actually snorts of uh huh the acting is fine considering the odd vehicle and it's worth watching if you are big woody allen fan also of interest to those knowledgeable about expressionistic films i'd give this a 6 5 out of 10
0	meet cosmo jason priestley a nerdy young bookie content with his boring life crunching numbers for the mob and living in a stark basement apartment at a senior citizens center his only recreation is watching tv and the occasional tryst with his quirky prostitute pal honey janeane garofalo but one day all this changes when the mob boss is killed and the well regarded cosmo is selected by the smooth and persuasive new chief gordon robert loggia to become a full fledged hit man it's an offer the reluctant cosmo cannot repeat cannot refuse and he quickly trades in his mundane solitary existence for a crash course in revenge under the tutelage of veteran mobster steve peter riegert a relaxed suburban bon vivant who relishes the job's maximum pay and minimum hours in no time cosmo surprises both himself and mentor steve by displaying an absolutely uncanny aptitude for the work though he's never touched a gun before cosmo proves to be both a crack marksman and after an initial wave of moral hesitancy a cool detached killer soon cosmo is dispatching deadbeat clients with speed and style and his natural flair with a gun quickly establishes him as an invaluable addition to gordon's mob br br reality gets in the way though when one night while being massaged by honey cosmo admits feeling a bit uptight and she recommends he try yoga to relax cosmo takes her advice and joins a nearby yoga class taught by a beautiful young woman named jasmine kimberly williams cosmo is instantly taken with the kind and gentle jasmine who soon becomes drawn to cosmo now if she can just get rid of her pesky abusive boyfriend randy josh charles maybe she and cosmo can actually start something cosmo using some of the skills of his new trade eventually persuades randy to disappear and his relationship with jasmine takes off br br writer director m wallace a two time emmy award winner for his work on the tracy ullman show and the simpsons has fashioned a script fusing his three genre loves i like comedies gangster movies and romances explained so i essentially smashed together all three to create this film but what he's come up with is a film so disjointed and improbable that it looks just like a very long sketch on saturday night live it's monotonous tone doesn't so much match it's droll sense of humor as underline the fact that a lot of money was spent on a vehicle for jason priestly to blithely shatter his nice guy image which doesn't even fully succeed because he plays his character not as a nerd but as a laconic zombie a nerd may be naive but a nerd has passion passion for inwardly directed things but priestly plays his character as mentally deficient almost the anti forrest gump unfortunately coldblooded doesn't have the sense of scope to actually be the anti forrest gump br br peter riegert local hero animal house turns in a fine performance as usual and kimberly williams does her best with what she has to work with but janeane garofalo hbo's larry sanders show is practically wasted in her role as cosmo's friend probably not for long though garofalo has all the enthusiasm and charm of an apple waiting to be picked and it's just a matter of time before she'll be given a meaty role hopefully doing a tag team thing with marisa tomei br br
0	can there be a worst film even ed wood at his horrific worst couldn't come up with something this bad cheesy stupid long winded preposterous and those are the good points i saw this trash back in the early 80's when i was incredibly bored to begin with and actually sat through the entire thing without blowing my brains out although that probably would have been a more pleasant experience i actually remembered it because it was so bad it makes me sad in a way because some of the best directors got their start by making tv movies ie spielberg and it was a wonderful way for them to get their initial material before the public but crap like this just totally killed the entire process
0	it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen and who will die it is about 4 women and a man who on a vacation this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death br br this movie like the others of that era contrives to bring this about and the viewer knows this there is no mystery or suspense the people squabble but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time it is laughable br br the five people happen upon two savage young characters and go nuts everyone is nuts so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda br br for some reason the guy is attracted to the blonde who is really not much to look at and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over one must remember that in the seventies movies were meant to appeal to women and not men br br totally crap and totally depressing
0	you'll feel like you've experienced a vacation in hell after you have sat down and watched this horrible tv movie this movie is an exercise in over acting very bad over acting to situations that made out to be more than what they are i won't give away the plot but once you realize why the people in this film are running from the native man in the film you will demand the two wasted hours of your life back the only plus is seeing marcia brady running around in a bikini
0	this has to rate as one of the cheesiest of tv shows in a long time br br jose ferrer played the title character nemo he did the part justice and certainly looked the part but nowadays it strikes me that the nemo he was made up to be bore more than a passing resemblance to captain bird's eye from the tv commercials or maybe it's the other way around br br his nemesis professor cunningham was overacted brilliantly by burgess meredith he never seemed to get over his penguin days from batman although he doesn't do his penguin quack here he is without parallel as the maniacal professor only john of battlestar galactica fame chewed up the scenery better as a maniacal despot br br i never can recall what the grudge was between nemo and cunningham but it must have been severe since the prof never missed a chance to try and nemo and vice versa br br the effects were nothing special though prof cunningham's submarine was way better looking than nemo's it also had a crew of strange fish like amphibians that served cunningham and did his every bidding br br however the most memorable aspect of the whole show was prof cunningham's secret weapon the delta beam he was forever saying fire delta beam whereupon a fishy crewman would horribly the motion of firing the weapon by use of a full shoulder shrug truly priceless they don't make them like this anymore and perhaps just as well but like other series of this era for those who remember it it will always have an affectionate if cheddar covered place in our hearts
0	i know this film was shown on local tv when i was a kid but i can't remember whether i watched it or not seeing it now considering how utterly forgettable it is i still don't know – so i counted it as a first viewing there have been several films featuring the title character a creation of visionary french author jules verne these include 20 000 leagues under the sea 1954 with james mason in the role master of the world 1961 vincent price mysterious island 1961 herbert lom captain nemo and the underwater city 1969 robert ryan and the mysterious island of captain nemo 1973 omar sharif br br this version stars academy award winner ferrer however even if the premise itself isn't half bad – awakened from suspended animation in his submarine the nautilus and finding himself in modern times nemo adopts all his ingenuity to aid the u s navy in defeating megalomaniac scientist burgess meredith – it emerges as easily his most infantile adventure yet for instance five seconds into the film meredith's assistant – donning a steel mask – rants that the world shall be ours equally hilarious are the zealous gesticulations of the similarly decked out midget whose task it is to fire the professor's all important delta beam and how about those android type minions aboard meredith's vessel who never seem to do much of anything br br ferrer manages to maintain his dignity throughout but meredith is an embarrassment in what is virtually a retread of his penguin characterization from the 1960s batman tv series and film where the budget was so tight – mostly invested in bland production design and shoddy special effects no doubt and both evidently influenced by star wars 1977 – that apparently they couldn't even afford him a decent costume he looks positively idiotic wearing a tie in a sub the supporting cast includes mel ferrer playing a saboteur in the vein of joan fontaine from another irwin allen production voyage to the bottom of the sea 1961 and who engages in a swashbuckling routine with his namesake inside the engine room of the nautilus lynda day george unsurprisingly she's the only female character around and horst buchholz as the king of atlantis – for whatever reason nemo is obsessed with locating the famed lost continent br br by the way having been reduced from a three part mini series for theatrical exhibition the film obviously feels choppy – though one is still able to discern where one episode ended and another began
0	this film was utterly horrible stupid premise and horrible acting by all whoever wrote this trash should be hanged reminds me of a hack student film but worse who ever produced this should give up now i know opinions are subjective and all and some may think this fantastic as some think dune 1984 was fantastic well get off your horse and watch some real films ok the acting was tolerable and with better direction could have been far better but it didn't so it suffers i don't know how much more i can say about this waste of film other than to totally trash it anyways it was horrible and i recommend to avoid it like the plague if you come anywhere near dreamland rent the movie beside it instead
0	let me start by saying that there's really no reason to watch this movie i only sat through it because i was trying to kill some time before going to work br br basically it's your typical sophomoric comedy aimed at the teenage set there's nothing remarkable about it other than the complete ridiculousness of the story not to mention that there are plot holes big enough to sail a carnival cruise liner through obviously this isn't supposed to be a realistic movie it's supposed to be funny sadly it mostly fails on that count as well i must admit that i laughed a few times but mainly in a holy sh t i can't believe how stupid this is kind of way br br if you never see this movie you're not missing a thing
0	i can't believe there are actually people here who recommend this movie this is such a slow pos going absolutely nowhere oh yeah ok it goes somewhere but you see that coming from miles away acting really really bad maybe the bartender was kind of ok editing bad i suppose the editor was told we need at least 90 minutes cause half of all the scenes could have gone in the bin music don't get me started on that the lousiest score i've ever heard who is that singing in the last scene for crying out loud directing oh my david lynch sucks but someone trying to copy him sucks even harder skip this one
0	this film has absolutely no redeeming features it's not even worthy of being in the 'so bad it's good' category it's simply bad badly acted badly shot badly written badly directed terrible sound recording and the whole thing is just incredibly amateur quite how this got a release is beyond me br br oh and could someone please tell the lead actress that if you're playing that does not mean that you should constantly fiddle with your hair in a film that was generally irritating this was probably one of the most irritating things of all br br on the plus side i think this is the only film ever to feature a nazi
0	i cannot believe anyone is giving this film a good rating in addition to the terrible acting thin nonexistent plot line and pace this would be the movie to watch if you were really trying to fall asleep the writer's and director's brains must have been fried eggs to ever have concocted something as abominable as this based on the plot summary on the dvd case the premise really sounded promising but within the first ten minutes i knew it was a lost cause if you want to see a really creep take on the area 51 idea check out the remake of the hills have eyes dreamland will soon fade away as all pathetic films of its ilk do next
0	maybe james p lay knows what do to in the sound department if a director him br br in 2007 ' however he cannot accomplish anything as a writer or as a director br br there is absolutely nothing in this film no story no character building no events no atmosphere no plot no twists no acting that deserves that name br br in any of those departments this movie is billions of light years behind any short film that has some actual thinking in it even a one minute one br br it has nothing to do with any of david lynch's works br br i actually think it could be used as mental torture or as negative propaganda material against the west br br recommend it only to your worst enemies
0	ed wood perhaps the worst film maker of all time left us gems that are so bad they delight being unintentionally funny and therefore charming and innocent br br james lay and his financial backers mom and dad it seems from the credits have created in a film just as poorly made as any ed wood film but lacking any charm or innocence dreamland simply stinks and about the only good thing about this 90 minute waste of time is the certain knowledge that james lay and his fellow perps will never make another picture again br br i must mention some of the dramatic lengths some of the crew took to avoid being associated with this horrible picture i'm sure the production controller once seeing the completed film demanded to have his or her name changed in the credits to and the accounting done by one can imagine with his roll of 5 dollar bills paying the crew at the end of a shooting day br br i wont mention the many technical problems with this pathetic little videotape but i must mention a few commentaries that compare this slag to the work of david lynch you know you have turned out a real stinker when you have your mom log into imdb and post such astonishing bs no one save violent mental patients could ever mistake with anything produced by lynch what a horrific slight against mr lynch and his work br br go back to film school mr lay
0	i have to say this is the worst movie that i have ever watched in my life i cannot believe that i wasted 10 at blockbuster this movie should be burned and who ever thought of it has issues who ever actually spent money to make this movie was insane d this movie has terrible actors and some of the scenes make absolutely no sense well the whole movie doesn't make sense also the part where those men come into the diner department of national securities that happened to be the worst part of the film how dare they say frank sinatra's name in vain also what is up with those glasses when the guy and girl are in the car and she drinks water you can totally tell that she isn't even drinking also what is up with the freaky dinner guy and everyone knows that you don't stab tires you slash them
0	i never comment on a film but i have to say that this was one of the worst films that i have ever seen i feel it was made by a beginner film student and not to put down talented film students but this was horrible i did not buy the lead actress and felt i was in acting class with her while she was on film her decisions were very safe and i feel she was mimicking other actresses in films and not acting and making her own decisions the direction was very confusing and the sound was louder than the actors themselves the end may have made a little more sense if there was someone narrating the events and not a song i love patsy cline but she her songs appear quite frequently in films maybe the song selection could have been a little more original the song crazy was such a cliché as i said before i never comment on films and have seen my share of good and bad but this was the worst sorry
0	the lives of megan jackie and dylan shane elliott change in the nevada desert between reno and las vegas they stop to eat at a small greasy spoon where they reluctantly learn about the infamous area 51 by the café proprietor jonathan breck after getting back on the road in their forty year old lincoln the radio gets a little crazy broadcasting hitler's speech at the 1836 olympics and then later a 1958 news bulletin of elvis presley being drafted into the military the car slowly breaks down and the two are in for the scare of their lives as mysterious unexplainable things happen in the lonely radiation poisoned desert remnants of nuclear testing megan meets a lost little girl channing nichols and a wounded wwii soldier the nightmarish journey doesn't end there is impressive to a degree and writer director james lay makes good use of patsy cline tunes all in all moderately interesting sci fi
0	i watch a ton of movies and enjoy the occasional b movie but this movie was awful aside from the homemade quality of the film it was very slow and seemed to make no point i'm only commenting b c of another comment i saw here that said it was great wow maybe ok to watch on a rainy day when nothing else is available br br the characters were disjointed and didn't fit any discernible pattern of reality the dialog between characters was forced and at times very confusing br br i guess if you were very into the whole area 51 and understood some of the nuances other comments reference it may be good but for me the average joe i don't get it
0	i watched this because of the description and cover art and yet again was deceived i am getting sick of all these new stupid straight to dvd horror movies once in a blue moon 1 will be ok it started out with a confusing scene and then jumped 30 years and showed a couple one night during a thunderstorm which was ok because i like storms and it set a nice mood then it turned into a cool road trip where they ended up at a diner encountering bizarre people the rest got weird and then got confusing i did watch it til the end but was even more confused when it ended so badly i had higher hopes for this movie but it was more like a science fiction then horror and something that should have been made for tv
0	seriously i don't understand how justin long is becoming increasingly popular he either has the best agent in hollywood or recently sold his soul to satan he is almost unbearable to watch on screen he has little to no charisma and terrible comedic timing the only film that he has attempted to anchor that i've remotely enjoyed was waiting and that is almost solely because i've worked in a restaurant but i digress aside from it's terrible lead this film has loads of other i understand that it's supposed to be a cheap popcorn comedy but that doesn't mean that it has to completely insult our intelligence and have writing so incredibly hackneyed that it borders on offensive lewis black's considerable talent is wasted here too as he is at his most incendiary when he is unrestrained which the pg 13 rating certainly won't allow the film's sole bright spot was jonah hill who will look almost unrecognizable to fans of the recent superbad due to the amount of weight he lost in the interim his one liners were funny on occasion but were certainly not enough to make this anywhere close to bearable if you just want to completely turn your brain off or better yet don't have one then maybe you'd enjoy this but i can't recommend it at all
0	dreamland started out moderately interesting but never went anywhere except tedium city a low rent affair with no name actors and laughable effects not recommended for any reason the best thing that could be said is it looks like they really filmed it on location in the nevada desert that's it i can't think of one thing good besides that about this stinker the finale is supposed to be some kind of revelation but falls flat like the rest oh i thought of one other good point about this cheese it clocks in at just over an hour although it still wears out its welcome long before then when the girl starts walking around in the desert at night it seems to last forever and just keeps getting worse from there the attempts at horror aren't effective in the least the story is an attempt at a twilight zone style feel but fails badly check out for a good science fiction b movie
0	this is seriously the worst movie i have ever seen right from the start the movie goes straight down hill with its cheesy music score poor acting and total lack or real story or plot even for a b movie this is down right awful after reading some of the good reviews i thought i'd keep an open mind and watch it but all the bad reviews were so right i totally can't understand how anyone could have enjoyed it i'm a huge sci fi fan and this was way more than i could swallow do yourself a favor a move on to a different movie they are many other better movies that deal with this subject matter you have been warned
0	a really terrible movie really low budget with terrible acting a convoluted and inane plot a modest reworking of the vampire tales mixed with modern science br br the result is a total mess without meaning for most parts with very limited and cheap effects it is not even fun like several of the low budget independent movies of this kind br br a waste of time
0	a friend of mine loves tacky horror films so i often get to see low budget stuff like this this is however the first time i have been compelled to write a review of one br br put simply this is probably the worst film i have ever seen even worse then boggy creek ii br br the entire budget for the film seems to have been spent on a brief scene in the middle when dr klaus stands in this chamber thing turns all vampire ish br br the only good thing to say about it is that it was hilarious after a few beers but for all the wrong reasons
0	how poor is this movie well i got it less than two months ago and can hardly remember what it was about br br i also paid a £1 for this on dvd the old story of 'put a new cover on the box and some fool will buy it' syndrome all i really recall it that the cast ran around a lot use of cars must have been too above the budget and that a vampire was involved then again guess you could know that from the film's title br br straight to video rubbish or straight to cheap jack dvd as it is now this stuff will be in the bargain bins at rental shops supermarkets and charity shops until the death of the sun only cockroaches will rule the earth but this trash will still be around god bless the dawn of the dvd age
0	bought for £1 project vampire is one of the worst movies i have ever seen wooden acting lame effects and a terrible storyline all add up to be a movie you have no reason to even want to see pv is one of those movies that don't even have the good grace to be bad in an enjoyable way instead this bile seems to try to make itself as offensively dull stupid and crap as humanly possible br br a vampire has created a serum he sells to old people as a life enhancer and those who take it fall under his control a former lab intern teams up with a nurse to try and stop him someone should have stopped the makers of this rubbish br br no one has any reason to see this movie and i am actually appalled at the human race on the grounds that at time of writing 2 people have given this atrocity 10 out of 10
0	ouch what a mess we have here not so much of a mess as a painfully dull half assed excuse for exploitation brought to you by the one and only j g pat patterson yeah the same one from moonshine mountain doctor gore formerly known as the body shop is i guess somewhat inspired by frankenstein and god knows what else the late mr patterson also stars in this joke as a heartbroken scientist plastic surgeon who has recently lost his wife in a car accident and is driven insane from grief to the point that it becomes clear that the next step is to slaughter countless females then maybe rob a few graves for body parts in order to put together the perfect mate it won't be easy but thank goodness his pal gregg the hunchback is available to lend a hand and to offer moral support br br if proof was ever needed that some peoples goals are not meant to be accomplished here it is gang this patterson hayseed obviously never had any business directing anything much less following in the footsteps of good ol' h g as a master of gore i've never seen a gore movie that just flat out refuses to give the viewer a single reason to keep watching even the gore is boring almost remotely humorous at times but impossible to tell whether it's intentional or not i pick not br br shot in north carolina home of the california axe massacre on most likely a 3 digit budget by a guy as untalented as he may have been who probably had an appreciation for drive in trash so maybe we should give good ol' j g a break i mean he tried i assume which is more that can be said for most and this movie is better than any of the big budget super hero garbage the theaters put out these days although i realize that isn't saying much besides doctor gore is quite the improvement over previous failure the chair so it's slightly possible he would have improved his craft in time had he not died so maybe it's not all that terrible especially compared to the other movie on the dvd how to make a doll so what the hell check it out 4 10
0	nothing but the director's juvenile fantasy come to life this 'movie' is nothing more than an excuse for the director actor to play kissy face with an attractive young woman who would otherwise never give him the time of day br br the plot is simple the direction is nonexistent and the movie drags while the actor director writer narrator narrates don't be fooled by the 'x' rating there is no nudity and minimal gore
0	ah yes it's yet another retelling of the classic sociopathic murderous doctor creates female frankenstein and falls in love br br from the same director who brought you such timeless classics as 10 000 maniacs no not the group and blood feast this unfinished film virtually cries out for the mst3k treatment the doctor's assistant even has overtones of from the classic manos the hands of fate i don't know if the graphic if fake looking violence or the frequent stretches of dialogue free tedium could have scared the crew off though br br the main reasons to bother sitting through this movie are for the hysterical scene the laughably serious ending and the rock bottom production values i actually watched all of the credits after this movie for the same reasons you're inclined to slow down your car when you pass a serious traffic accident that and the sheer genius of the end theme that sounds like a watered down my favorite things played on a toy piano goblin this ain't
0	i own this movie and it is terribly hard to find it is a unique low budget little gore flick about a doctor seeking the perfect companion it has the really humourous low budget feel to it and the gore is suprisingly good for what appears to be a 500 budget the director is claimed to be the master of gore i wouldn't go that far but maybe in his time he was overall 6 10 on the gore chart
0	this movie was downright awful most of the comedic scenes seem stale and trite and possibly the funniest scene in the movie had already been given away in previews the entire premise of the movie is so unbelievable and ridiculous its hard to really get into it the actors themselves portray the most unrealistic characters its not just the fact that the movies so hard to swallow but its how they keep forcing it down your throat expecting you to dumb down and accept it the plot itself is so shallow and easy to predict boy somehow gets rejected from every school he applied to i suppose he completely forgot about attending community college and decides to create his own school for fellow rejects all goes well for awhile until the validity of his school comes into question all the while the dorky character manages to woo his beautiful neighbor into falling for him with his witty sarcasm which apparently is a skill only he possesses then comes the final struggle with the students somehow all bonding together and fighting for the survival of the school of course the main character then persuades the state board of education to allow his school to stay alive with some inspirational speech this movie would have been more fun to watch if i was under the age of 16 and still ignorant of all college matters and issues
0	before i saw this movie i believed there were two kinds of bad cinema 1 your average completely uninspired fare i e constantine and 2 the work that is charmingly bad or so bad it's good a la manos the hands of fate now that i've seen dr gore i know there is a third kind of bad movie the utter crap sandwich that will be irrevocably tattooed on your memory a work that is mind bendingly execrable anathema br br i have hated certain films before but i've never hated a film so much that my loathing reached its hold and became self loathing have you seen a movie that not only makes you regret losing the hour you spent watching it but makes you grieve for another hour after that mystery science theatre disciples beware this is soul sucking cinema go rent circle of iron or the killer shrews instead
0	one of the commenter's is wrong this is not the only pat patterson film and he didn't die two years after this was made he shot a film called the electric chair in nc he shot this a few years after doctor gore patterson died in the late 70's i know this because he used my house and he left a cat there it sucked also this was a big deal when the movie came out no independent horror films were being made in nc this movie didn't help matters patterson used to do gore effects for h g lewis he was also good at magic his gore scenes in body shop were actually well done the film was shot in a building that also housed a 7 11 you can actually see the tops of the walls in some scenes the budget was less that 20 000 and the script looked like a child wrote it only patterson could understand it still it's entertainment and it's a classic
0	spoiler it gives away the very irrelevant ending br br at the beginning of this movie there was a brief intro to the world of gore by the master of gore movies h g lewis he talked about how this movie was lost and then found years after the director's death he also talked about how gore movies were measured by the amount of stage blood used in it blood feast was a 2 10 000 maniacs was a 5 but then he goes and claims that dr gore was a 15 i want to know where half of the 15 gallons went watching the movie i saw very little near 15 gallons agreed there was a fairly large amount of blood but no where near 15 gallons some of the dismemberment scenes were definitely pretty gory and realistic strings of flesh and all but i wouldn't say 15 gallons br br end does that sound familiar that's what you should have been saying near the last half of this movie after the igor character was tossed into the acid bath the movie slowed to a painful crawl there was no coherent end as it didn't fit into anything the 90 minutes before it provided she drove off in a van with a total stranger big deal that's what happens when you keep an individual i won't say person because she doesn't qualify as a person very innocent about the world around her the doctor teaches the girl that a man is to be loved so every man she meets she loves br br even though h g lewis told us at the beginning of the movie that we may not like the acting the directing or even the gore i will go with choices a and b both were terrible it was enough to give me bad dreams of cut editing and people with shifty eyes as they talk to one person but i made it through the movie and came out stronger too bad i couldn't say the same after finishing robo c h i c br br this was a bad movie i can usually take my doses of vinegar in good stride but every once in a while you get a movie that bites back i think this movie took off an arm or a leg haha sigh admitted i did enjoy the stare down scenes where the good doctor stared at his future victims and opened his eyes really wide and just stared it was very similar to in blood feast when he stared at that lady in his catering shop and did not use his power after that i guess this movie picks up where powers left off br br final judgement the movie should have stayed lost good day br br scott
0	i know this movie is a low budget horror movie intended for those in favor of shocks and inexpensive gore but even considering that this movie is just too dull filled with an incoherent plot along with awful music and obvious signs that this movie was never finished br br without giving any spoilers i'll just say that by the final reel things are wrapped up with no at all either by film or narration the girl is real attractive but yet that is not a good enough reason to enjoy this movie br br if you are a fan of those gore movies from the 60's and 70's then you should watch it but be warned that it does not even reach to the usual plateau of these kinds of movies
0	i can't believe i even tried to watch this filth as an avid b horror movie fan i was more than riveted at the prospect of this film by popular budget horror filmmaker herschell gordon lewis unfortunately right from the opening of the film i could not for the life of me think of a worse movie than this well maybe gigli but i firmly believe dr gore the body shop is worse when i think about it a horrible plot that moves incredibly slow the movie drags on with no real horror to speak of however i will admit to the pure hilarity of a couple scenes when dr gore is his soon to be victims the camera zooms in on his overly large bulbous eyes while the whole time there is this purely putrid soundtrack to add to the amusement i laughed for the better part of 10 minutes after he his miracle woman the movie wastes away nearly 20 minutes just showing him and his girlfriend as he is teaching her to speak then they talk frolic among have picnics etc unfortunately there is only music playing during this whole fandango with no speech whatsoever this portion of the movie will leave you wishing you had slit your wrists with the dull edge of a butter knife i almost want to puke at the very thought of this movie if you like movies that are bad watch this one
0	after the wife of a plastic surgeon dies he gets his hunchbacked assistant to help him bring her back to life with various parts of other nubile young girls this film wants to be a gordon lewis type romp but fails miserably the acting is beyond bad the gore effects atrocious no not in the good way the plot almost none existent and no fun to be had skip it you want to know how incompetent it is at one point you can actually see a movie quite obviously br br eye candy candy gets topless and again in a flashback br br my grade f br br dvd extras commentary with jeffrey hogue and cynthia a second feature how to make a doll alternate title sequence with gordon lewis intro 2 shorts quest of the perfect woman and maniac hospital cover art gallery with music by the dead trailers for dr black mr hyde boots and the preacher the doctor and the the gruesome twosome wizard of gore awful dr wacky world of doctor morgus lust monstrosity fanny hill meets dr and i marquis br br easter eggs theatrical trailer a scene from just for the hell of it and a trailer for axe
0	my friends and i have watched this so many time i have lost count this is worth seeing for those in the right frame of mind meaning that this is not so much a good horror film as a film to lampoon for its funny quotes and bad effects this film is best watched with other like minded individuals so you have someone to laugh with br br you'll laugh as greg leaps and shuffles around the lab petting his pet rabbit while his hunchback shifts from right to left on his back greg stop clowning scolds dr brandon you'll laugh as j g patterson gives hand signals to direct greg to the other side of the operating table while his hand is in the shot and you'll probably chuckle when you realize that the final woman has none of the features he used to construct her with
0	the lines in the title of this review are the first lines in this film's theme song a wonderfully demented parody of the in my opinion horrible song my favorite things from the sound of music and this fun little detail isn't the only aspect that makes the body shop aka doctor gore 1973 recommendable to my fellow gore trash fans the film which was created almost entirely by j g patterson jr who served as producer writer director and leading man as the eponymous dr gore is crap no doubt but it is also beyond doubt that it is amusing and that everyone involved probably patterson especially was aware that they were not exactly making a masterpiece br br dr brandon patterson a famous but totally insane plastic surgeon looses his beloved wife a model in an accident along with his hunchbacked assistant greg roy he henceforth kidnaps beautiful young women in order to build himself a new perfect wife out of their body parts br br doctor gore is doubtlessly a film of the 'so bad it's good kind' but it is also has qualities beyond the usual ridiculous trashiness mad science has always been one of my absolute favorite horror topics and as a matter of fact it is also one of the coolest topics for ridiculous gore trash flicks obviously shot on a minimal budget doctor gore pays some homage to the frankenstein films especially james whale's masterpiece bride of frankenstein 1935 and resembles the look of the early troma herschell gordon lewis gore flicks such as blood feast 1963 only that this looks a lot cheaper and crappier obviously j g motive was not merely to make a fun gore flick being a rather ugly weird looking fellow his role of dr brandon gave patterson the opportunity to make out with a couple of hot scarcely dressed young women who would later end up as body part donors in dr laboratory br br most of the gore is actually pretty well made regarding the obviously tiny budget the dialogue includes some extremely hilarious lines get that it might be the door and put a coat on so they don't see you're a hunchback besides the aforementioned theme song doctor gore also includes a wonderfully crappy appearance by a country band called 'bill hicks and the my new favorite band not for the rest of the film i kept wondering whether bill hicks and roy who plays the hunchbacked assistant are twins or even the same person the two look exactly the same and having two unrelated obese red bearded guys looking this weird in one film would be a huge coincidence other than j g patterson most of the cast members never did any other films this is the first film i've seen out of the few by patterson sadly the man died of cancer in 1975 br br overall doctor gore is a film that certainly isn't for everyone as a matter of fact it is total crap but it is also amusing and recommendable to my fellow fans of weirdness and cheap camp stuff should show a from this film under flick'
0	a couple of clarifying comments are in order herschell gordon lewis contributed a brief introduction to the video release of doctor gore aka the body shop wherein he touched upon his collaborative efforts with j g pat patterson director and star of doctor gore patterson concocted the gore effects for the gruesome twosome and a few other lewis movies in the late 60s lewis remarks that whereas 2 000 maniacs was a five gallon film referring to the amount of stage blood required the lewis patterson productions were fifteen gallon pictures lewis does not describe doctor gore as a fifteen gallon film he's only talking about the films he patterson made together lewis has confessed elsewhere that his introduction to doctor gore was improvised before he'd even seen film so take it with a grain of salt br br this may be an unfinished film but like some unfinished novels it does have an ending it's just missing some tissue br br patterson has definite stage presence a dry sense of humor helping to make this simplistic show somewhat more watchable than it should be there's an extremely bare bones plot even blood feast is more complex and a gratingly repetitive musical score by william a bit of nudity lots of skin the entire middle section of the film involves the construction of a perfect woman this is concentrated gore for the bloodthirsty and laughable br br patterson the director is in way over his head but he tries hard to tell his story creatively if it's possible to use frankenstein clichés creatively but the best reason to see this film on something weird's dvd if possible is that it features a perfect nashville weeper bill a heart dies every minute ain't it the truth
0	telly savalas put on a passable but no better than that performance as pancho villa the notorious mexican bandit revolutionary in this account of raid on the town of columbus new mexico in 1916 villa is not really a historical figure who i'm overly familiar with so i won't say much about the historical details of the film as a movie this isn't great although it has a smattering here and there of both action and humour chuck connors' performance as colonel wilcox commander of the u s army base near columbus struck me as a bit over the top and clint walker as gringo sidekick scotty didn't really do very much for me the movie is obviously a pretty low budget effort of limited technical quality for a movie with a runtime of only slightly over an hour and a half i have to say that this movie dragged in places particularly in the last 20 minutes or so raid into the united states was an interesting if in the overall scheme of things not especially important historical sidebar and probably deserved better treatment than this 4 10
0	synopsis kid is not accepted into any colleges he creates a college where he and his friends can party by using their parent's tuition money br br wow a paean to ignorance br br if you believe that we're all ok man then this movie is for you furthermore you must understand that br br 1 kids have it all inside them they just need to let it out br br 2 teaching really the innate creativity that everyone is born with br br 3 someone else should pay for you to follow your passion br br 4 300 teenagers can live together in harmony as long as you take away those restrictive rules br br 5 extemporaneous speeches are often much more convincing than a prepared presentation br br 6 if the board of education allows you to open a charter school with teaching techniques it's because they have your best interests at heart not that they are willing to let go of low functioning students who will end up working fast food anyways br br this movie is one in the college comedy genre i e animal house it follows the pattern pretty closely what's new here though is a complete attack on higher education not a parody of the bad elements it's missing the sympathetic insider a professor who embodies the worthwhile part of university life br br this lack of balance will doom this film to the back rows of blockbuster it is so one sided that i wondered if it was an ironic self referential take on the whole genre for about one minute the movie has no deep meaning no layers no introspection it's as if they let some kids who never went to class do what comes naturally and what is natural is what the name of the school is s br br never thought i'd say this go see something with will farrell instead his comedies can be surprisingly sophisticated
0	telly savalas hams it up as the mexican revolutionary though he's matched by chuck connors as a military martinet in this jokey yet rather boring pastiche on the famous historical figure's life and times an earlier attempt villa rides 1968 with yul brynner in the role and co starring robert dealt with these events more soberly and on a grander scale as such pancho villa is an all too typical european venture and an undistinguished one at that despite its credentials the end result is more often silly rather than amusing though a few moments most notably the action set pieces and a scene involving a brawl inside a church offer some mild pleasure oh and savalas even gets to sing over the end titles
0	this movie was definitely on the boring side the acting was decent and the film looks pretty nice the soundtrack is definitely for fans of kenny g and michael bolton speaking of the soundtrack i found it very ironic that a film about telling the truth and not stealing decided to use a song in it's titles that was a blatant ripoff of paul simon's you can call me al except that they don't acknowledge it at all isn't there something a little hypocritical there the scene that the main kid was in where he was mimicking a game show host was my favorite 10 lines i have to write ten lines about this movie to be included what a ripoff i don't think it's too fair to force people to write more than they would just to get it included
0	an aging roger moore is back yet again as bond this time trying to find out why agent was killed and why he had a forgery of a egg with him and where it came from he ends up in new delhi india then in east germany after finding out about a russian general trying to detonate a nuclear bomb at a circus hoping nato will push for complete disarmament so he can take control of western europe then the rest of the world br br despite the way it sounds this is really more of a romance i think between bond and octopussy than an action movie and longish but still somewhat fun but there are way too many attempts at humour in this one at times it seems like it was intended to be a comedy also timothy dalton would have been better than roger moore in this so there wouldn't have been so much of an age difference between bond and octopussy br br useless trivia the small plane used by bond in the pre credits sequence is now hanging up in a steak and lube restaurant in largo area florida usa br br 1 2 out of
0	i saw roger moore huffing it on the scenes that required running or exercise he was a james bond who would be most comfortable sitting at a bar telling stories with his fellow british knights nothing against the elderly in age appropriate roles but how realistic is it for a frail looking 58 year old man to be fighting on the wings of planes hanging off the side of a train swimming in a swamp with crocodiles etc aside from the fact that octopussy was incredibly silly vapid and moronic the fact that a frail oldster engaged in many death defying stunts just made it so much easier to laugh at james bond by 1983 roger moore was clearly looking his age and he was long past the time when he looked like he could fight with younger men i saw this movie in the theater and the howls of laughter were many and very often any credibility that james bond had built up was gone after octopussy br br the only thing missing from octopussy was benny hill and his supporting cast another low point was that the incredibly lame louis jordan was one half of the axis of evil jordan helped to make the whole concept even more laughable and the russian general was a total goof octopussy works better as a comedy spoof similar to spies like us br br even the fight scene on the train was just a bad copy of the same train scenes done in many other films by better actors take emperor of the north 1972 where lee marvin ernest borgnine fought all over the top bottom of the train and made it look exciting and real br br roger moore had a thin frail body in 1983 and yet his stunt double was clearly a younger taller athletic muscular man even the hair color did not match this only made his fight scenes more comedic the moore stunts looked like those old low budget chop socky kung fu movies especially with the bad editing the director seemed to try to make the bad acting and bad stunts better by providing several views of the same stunt this only accentuated the differences between moore and his stunt double the fact that the train scenes with moore were shot inside a studio could be noticed from the lighting when moore was in the shot versus the exterior shots of the stunt double on a real train though many of the bond movies have to be the worst ever when it comes to editing their stunt fights you can usually clearly see that the bond actor is not actually fighting overall octopussy has to rank as one of the worst movies ever made and easily the worst of the worst bond movies
0	firstly let me get this of my chest i hate octopussy with an absolute passion what is so frustrating is that it had so much potential and had a very good opening sequence unfortunately post the opening sequence it all goes downhill firstly there was absolutely no plot to begin with just an excuse for moore to tell his corny jokes next there are several sequences that would make a bond fan cringe for instance the sequence in which bond turns up to a bomb dressed as a clown the villains are pretty poor louis fails to make an impact as kamal khan and bollywood veteran kabir bedi is equally poor as his henchman it's funny that when people debate over what the worst bond movie is and octopussy gets overlooked when it can easily give them a run for their money
0	well first off the twins are exactly the same there is no one is girly and one is tomboy ashley is taller than mary kate though and their boyfriends aren't even french so that is bad because they are faking the accents lamo it is also not that bad not their best i am a big mary kate and ashley fan don't get me wrong the storyline is ok and it is funny to watch it is not the type of movie that you would watch over and over again but hey when they made this movie they were still new at the whole making their own movie thing the girls also act like they are older then 13 but if you are a young viewer this is a good movie not so good if you are older than 13 unless you are a parent watching a movie with your kids then it's ok good luck mk a with your future movies
0	now i watched this when i was hungover one sunday and my auntie and uncle were visiting one day with my 2 cousins one was 11 the other 9 we stuck on the tv and passport to paris had just started my cousins both had said that they watch two of a kind sometimes and i said they could watch the film if they liked since i was in no fit state to get up i just stayed in the living room with them and ended up watching the film i have to say as a person who has no interest in those kinds of tv shows or films i actually enjoyed it it must have been the alcohol lol but i do admit it would probably only appeal more to girls aged between 6 and 13 but it was a movie to pass the time there's always a movie or a show that you don't think you'll like but for a laugh you enjoyed it
0	this is horrible film it is past dumb first the only thing the twins care about is how they look and what boys like them they are in 7th grade not to say i am a prude or anything but it sends the wrong message to girls of all ages being pretty and popular is not everything but that is what the twins make it out to be the plot is even worse the girl's grandpa just happens to be the sp to france he has a co worker take the girls around paris and they meet two cute french boys with motorcycles they sneek out to meet the boys start to really like them etc they meet a supermodel in process and go around paris with total strangers they think are cute need i say more this movie may be cute to 8 9 year olds the twins play ditsy losers that want boyfriends it makes sends the wrong idea to girls the film itself is not great either i don't recomend this to anyone i give passport to paris 2 10
0	just what the world needed another superficial cookie cutter mary kate and ashley olsen movie this movie gives out horrible messages to girls everywhere complete with stereotypical junior high experience they make learning anything at all seem completely taboo i can't stand the fake french accents or those guys on the mopeds racing around who eventually fall for the twins why am i putting everything in parenthesis because its all stereotyped the twins even complain about not having a stereotypical grandfather they should be happy they even have a grandfather at all how does this fit the mary kate ashley mold this one has them fixing up a single guy who gasp isn't their father yes folks they actually have a mother who appears for all of five seconds i haven't even sat through thirty minutes of this and i can already tell how it will end up this movie is so pitiful it makes miss usa seem like an academic bowl really
0	this movie sucks so bad its funny to see what a poor story this has where two pea brained american twins who know about nothing outside their school can come to another continent and do unimaginable things there its just so stupid and so bizarre how can they just find two french guys hit on them and in the end kiss them not knowing anything about them more realistic would have been having the guys take them away and rape them which could have easily happened in such a situation as for the bit where they make the french president drink 'bad water' that was just lame i don't think he would have been too pleased in real life everything worked out too easily for the girls and they could have been in real trouble many times in the movie if it at all depicted real life br br my rating 0 10
0	the most accurate description of how billy crystal fairs in my giant is to say that this movie is to his career as ishtar was to warren it didn't ruin it but it slowed it down a lot crystal should know the three golden rules of hollywood 1 never play opposite a kid 2 never play opposite an animal 3 never play opposite someone that is almost 3 feet taller than you is as innocent as a kid and acts like an animal br br what is this story a comedy i guess but i didn't laugh except at the scenes where crystal is on his own and not burdened with his what is her role in this movie ex wife or the afore mentioned giant did i mention there's also a kid in this film well forget about him the son is brought in to make us feel sorry for crystal and we do but for the actor not the character billy crystal is a funny man if you don't believe me watch him in old episodes of soap or saturday night live go rent city slicker or running scared or when harry met sally br br giant is more ho hum than fee fi fo br br
0	oh yes i admit i have made myself guilty of the crime of seeing this piece of trash i can't say i was forced by aliens who pointed a gun at my head tied me to a chair and made it impossible for me to close my eyes and then turned this awful excuse for a movie on no i did it with free will i deliberately tortured myself let's go through the fact here folks the acting is an insult to humanity the plot if it exists is ridiculous the character development is horrendous the characters that appear in the movie are so clichéd you would br br recognize them in your average comic book the editing is sloppy and unimaginative the camera work is low key the dialogue is simply the worst in cinematic history the directing well let's say i bet it wasn't hitchcock br br then to add to these facts there was absolutely no talent involved wath so ever the director must be smoking crack now to forgive himself for inflicting this poison to the world br br bottom line passport to paris is one of the worst movies ever made permanent
0	this movie is pretty predictable nuff said from the delayed kissing scene to the inevitable coming around of grandpa this is a great movie for the 10 12 age group but beyond that it has no market i give it 4 10 only because it achieved exactly what it set out to do and nothing more
0	ok i watched this movie someone needs to kick me why must the olsen twins insist on subjecting the world to this putrid torture this was another movie of watching the olsen twins travel to an exotic location meet some cute guys look pretty and have everyone drooling over them the direction the plot development ugh the acting i don't know about the u s but in my country it is considered extremely stupid to hop onto the bike of a guy u met like 10 minutes back though i'm now convinced that these girls will never learn to act i really hope that one day we'll get to watch a movie with an original even slightly plausible plot
0	the boys were the most appealing things in the entire movie the girls were lame and pathetic i mean how can they own their own clothing line dolls movies producing studios and not smell this bomb from far away in order to gain some sort of responsibility which i dont really see the sense in the punishment they are sent to paris far far far away from home to live with the so called strict grandfather who holds an important standing with paris i cant really remember what he was so who really cares the detail doesnt help the girls are sent to paris to learn something so what exactly do they learn when they meet two french boys and are able to manipulate the guy that supposed to watch them so they can meet these guys on scooters the typical pre teen movie having all pre teens wishing to and be able to afford the trip to paris or some far away country away from parents i dont really like the anyways they never could really shake off the image of michelle on full house in case you didnt see that then you were lucky from the start f f
0	a stupid movie with a stupid plot feels like they threw every imaginable cliché in a blender i especially liked the part where two teenage girls gets the french president to clean the water because we all know how dedicated america is to conservation of the environment kyoto anyone and the french chef who has apparently never seen or tasted a hamburger this is why people think americans have no culture that and the fact that we meet your kids when they come to europe to see the world i e eat at mcdonalds in foreign capitals they are not as dumb as the two ditsy preteens in this movie but they have just about the same amount of cultural enlightenment and good manners
0	i was once a big olsen fan i received this movie when i was six and watched it almost nonstop until i was nine then it lay on my shelf gathering dust until yesterday i was left speechless br br mary kate and ashley play allie and mel two twelve year olds who are sent to spend spring break in paris with their ambassador grandfather along the way they meet as one might expect two cute french boys who show them the more fun side to paris i guess the two boys were okay fake french accents aside br br the plot is predictable and the humour is shallow and corny mary kate and ashley play two shallow girls with too much make up on their face br br don't watch this movie if you're not into the olsen twins or family movies
0	this movie was alright mary kate and ashley play twin sisters sorry for stating the obvious who against their will are sent to paris to spend the week with their rich uncle or something like that br br right away two french boys who looked slightly inbred start talking to them and taking interest blah blah blah it's an olsen twin movie we already know what's going to happen between them anyway along with that the twins meet a fabulous french model because they're in paris the fashion capital of the world they make bffs with the model and spend a fun montage of shopping in the city of lights yep br br plotwise i frankly can't remember what happened i guess that could say something but hey it's an olsen movie olsen movie seems to be synonymous with light entertainment br br overall this movie was annoying i mean can i really identify at all with two girls who are devastated upon hearing that they're going to paris really also the jokes really weren't that funny however i watched the whole movie so it had to be somewhat entertaining the fact that it was set in paris was what probably kept me watching
0	i have seen this movie and i did not care for this movie anyhow i would not think about going to paris because i do not like this country and its national capital i do not like to learn french anyhow because i do not understand their language why would i go to france when i rather go to germany or the united kingdom germany and the united kingdom are the nations i tolerate apparently the olsen twins do not understand the french language just like me therefore i will not bother the france trip no matter what i might as well stick to the united kingdom and meet single women and play video games if there is a video arcade that is all
0	one of the more prominent popular episodes but clearly one of the worst a red shirt female falls for khan instead of dropping dead for a change and then proceeds to betray kirk and the enterprise as if loyalty were a non existent character trait on the ship makes one wonder what kind of psychology tests this supposedly brilliant starfleet uses to test people when hiring we have the same kind of absurd lack of loyalty in wink of an eye when a red shirt male takes the enemy's side just because he falls in love same as in ss however in that episode the betrayal plays a tiny role in the overall plot this is very silly because it once again makes kirk's crew seem like a bunch of soft headed easy to impress morons who once they fall in love with the enemy are capable of doing just about anything the fact that switches back to kirk's side doesn't the illogic in any way lord and the lord br br why is khan kept behind a regular door when they know he has superior strength that's one of several st plot devices that undermine kirk's intelligence why does khan hold a knife against mccoy's throat if khan is of such superior intelligence then one would expect him to be more wily with the way he carries himself and what's with a sikh being played with a latino accent montalban should have been provided with a vocal coach i was half expecting to hear the the in the background at any moment why the hell would kirk or any ship captain provide limitless use of the ship's library concerning the innermost technical details of the enterprise to anyone is the starfleet an institution solely consisting of idiots br br ss is a very cartoonish silly episode so no wonder trekkies love it it doesn't have too many sci fi elements in it which is what trekkies hate the most it also figures that the st franchise chose to revive this dull character for the second movie that way pleasing rabid trekkies who were so very disappointed with the first movie which you guessed it had far too much sci fi for the average tiny trekkie brain
0	i saw this at my in laws' house one night when it popped up on tv and my mother in law said it was one of her favorite movies well she can have it br br look i can enjoy a chick flick now and then as long as it's good but this one's extra sappy unrealistic and just plain predictable despite some decent performances from rock hudson and jane wyman it's uncanny how quickly a woman can accept having her eyesight taken away from her oh well they say love is blind br br the neat and tidy happy little ending nearly made me gag too and how often did we need otto kruger repeating the title it happened not once not twice but three times
0	this is one of the most predictable movies i have ever seen and this supposed to be funny boring boring boring find the fast forward button at your remote and use it i can t say i laughed once and the only good feeling this movie gave me was relief when it ended
0	daft potboilers don't come much than this but it's a douglas sirk movie which makes everything alright except in this case it doesn't based on a sanctimonious novel by the sanctimonious lloyd c douglas he wrote the robe and already filmed in 1935 with irene dunne and robert taylor it's got more uplift than a bra br br rock hudson is the arrogant playboy who not only feels responsible for making jane wyman a widow but later is directly responsible for the accident in which she loses her sight to make amends he takes up medicine becomes a great eye surgeon and restores it no it quite that daft he had planned to become a doctor before becoming an arrogant playboy in between times they fall in love br br try as i might i can't quite find the redeeming social commentary and critique of american mores that are supposed to lie just below the surface of sirk's films this one isn't too deep on the plus side rock hudson isn't half bad i think i am rediscovering him and of course it looks great in sirk's films people live in rooms the size of cathedrals nothing in this film matches the best of his later work and even in soap opera terms this is definitely daytime tv
0	i would like to know the real name of the lodge where scenes from the movie were filmed it is truly beautiful and hearkens back to 20's and 30's architecture like the hotel del i know it was on either big bear lake or lake arrowhead and would like to hear if it is still in existence as for the movie itself it is truly amazing that jane wyman was even nominated for an academy award this must have been a period when she was well liked by her academy peers it really would have been interesting to get a true impression from wyman and the other actors in this movie regarding the script the script of this movie like the recent kevin costner movie with a message in a bottle is so unbelievable that it it limits the credibility that the actors can bring to their parts rock hudson can be forgiven he was never a great actor was able to get by mostly on his looks and didn't get credible roles until later in his career pretty maids is the exception but wyman must have been forced to take this movie through contractual requirements or the studio system
0	douglas sirk's inaugural women's picture weepy for universal based on a preachy dogmatic didactic novel by the intolerable lloyd c douglas author of that other beloved piece of crap the robe rock hudson in the role that catapulted him to stardom plays bob a drunken playboy worth untold millions who is more interested in chasing skirts and racing than in finishing his medical degree in the first scene he wrecks his boat on a sumptuously photographed lake the accident nearly kills and thus he requires a rather mysterious machine to keep him alive meanwhile across town beloved surgeon dr phillips finally drops dead from a heart condition since the local hospital can maintain only one at a time phillips dies so that the louse may live when learns of this he tries to make apologetic overtures to phillips' family especially to the widow jane wyman coiffed and clothed in matronly hauteur but indeed anyone and everyone who knew the surgeon spits at like a brace of cobras one doctor on the hospital staff even calls it a total waste that the playboy lived instead of the christ like surgeon might have had something to say about that br br these early scenes are where you'll find the typical the director rubs our faces so much in the unpleasantness of middle class mid century america that one finds oneself rooting for the wastrel playboy to put whoopee cushions under the of these moral hypocrites but alas no the risible plot of the novel must proceed and soon finds himself getting converted by god in the guise of pipe puffing otto kruger an artist who claims that phillips made him a better man and even a better painter why don't we see any of this amazing art we learn that the intolerably ubiquitous dr phillips would often refuse payment for medical services rendered though who exactly qualified for these magnificent is never made clear this is supposed to provide our hero with a whole new outlook on life and an example of personal conduct kruger even tries to make it all sound very illicitly exciting once you start this thing there's no way out of it it's an obsession a magnificent obsession so tries it out by again the widow with apologetic overtures but he somehow causes her to get hit by a car she loses her eyesight apparently will have several more stations of the cross to trudge past before he can be accounted a decent fellow br br but sirk continues to sneak in his even as the movie grows more and more preachy the most obvious bit has to be the presence of agnes moorehead as the head hospital nurse and friend and unrequited lesbian lover note the disappointment on face when finally redeemed as a doctor shows up to save life near the end hudson's own homosexuality an open secret in hollywood at the time is also used to great ironic effect he and wyman dowdy and fifteen years older generate absolutely zero erotic heat in their scenes together which by the way are purposefully few presumably because any more scenes between the stars would hopelessly expose this whole enterprise one thing we feel certain of if rock hudson was obsessed by anything it certainly wasn't jane wyman it's a chronic case of tea and sympathy sirk seemed to enjoy tweaking everyone's noses by having this gay actor who was attractive to the innocent ladies of the era coolly drift through these exquisitely colored women's pictures in fact the director worked with hudson 6 or 7 more times to best effect in the follow up to this film all that heaven allows which re teamed hudson with wyman but was also accompanied by a realistic plot in obsession meanwhile we must endure god kruger gazing down from an observation window onto and his medical team as they prepare to save life in tandem with a musical score of swelling vocals from a cheesy hollywood choir br br but to see why sirk is considered an auteur check out the scene wherein wyman explains to her grown daughter that she can in fact tell the difference from night and day the entire frame is blackened here the daughter is barely visible and face is faintly silhouetted against a faint light she goes on to say that she hates the night because i know that dawn will never come again a great chilling moment that deserves a much better movie than magnificent obsession br br 4 stars out of 10
0	this movie is not very bad but one cannot find anything new about the personality of marquis de sade from this movie the movie tries to stay on the borderline between erotic and insightful and it cannot succeed at either the cinematography is really bad to video quality br br
0	the revisionist history making the evil marquis de sade a semi heroic romantic is mind boggling enough but the atrocious acting amateurish cinematography and terrible dubbing make this film achingly bad the only reason to keep watching is that almost all the women in the film are gorgeous and amazingly being tortured for days with hands bound overhead apparently doesn't detract from a woman's beauty hairstyle and makeup my guess is that the producers filmed mostly in russia choosing women for their looks and willingness to work cheap rather than acting ability if you decide to watch this because you have nothing better to do or are a film student looking for bad examples fast forward through every scene not involving nudity
0	i really don't know much about the marquis de sade not having read any of his book but i never imagined him as a flaming queen carson of queer eye for the straight guy or jack from will and grace would have fit easily into the role that nick mancuso gave us br br the movie itself was rather thin and seemed more of a parody or an excuse to show the paris whorehouse several times with men and women having a good time on the couches in the parlor what they can't afford a room i did find it cute that the madame irina felt she was doing her patriotic duty taking care of the soldier's needs br br the movie was just an excuse to show a lot of breasts and i mean a lot fans of gimli john rhys davies might be interested in seeing him in a different role as inspector marais
0	i have never felt the need to add a review to this website until now but having just sat through the film i felt it necessary to warn parents who may be thinking of showing it to their children please don't this is no disney film this film tells us 'life is cruel' and if you show it to your children in my opinion you are too br br the video box describes the film as a for all and the imdb plot outline describes it as a 'family film' i just had to find a definition of 'family film' and came across the following usually consisting of comedies or adventures these films are often based on children's literature and can involve any number of helpful animals friendly supernatural beings and fantasy worlds all geared to stimulate and appeal to the imagination whatever the situation there is little or no offensive material and generally a lesson is learned on the way not an apt description of tarka the otter which contains some thoroughly unpleasant scenes totally unsuitable for young children and an ending that qualifies the film as a 'feel bad' movie the lesson learned as i said life is cruel family entertainment i don't think so unless you hate your family that is br br another review more revealing than this but worth reading can be found by following the reviews' link
0	i love ustinov's distinctive literate narration and the photography is quiet nice we put the film on for our 3 5 year old who sort of wandered in and out of the room so for our first viewing we only saw about 1 3 of the movie and were quite charmed when we re watched sitting down for family time we were all mortified at the violence and life threatening situations the poor otter got into about halfway through the movie there's a rack of dead bloody furry animals lots of blood not just a little then at the end there's a wild struggle with a dog then blood clouds the water you'd think given the g rating that's all you'll see that they will imply one of the animals died nope they drag the carcass out of the water and show it plainly for several traumatizing seconds personally as an adult i love horror movies and am fine with violent movies ala scorsese cronenberg tarantino heck i love the ultra violent battle royale but those aren't kid movies and don't advertise themselves as such if you are deliberately raising your young ones to see the harsh realities of life for cute animals then this is the movie for you if you are like me and my wife though you might want to spare your child nightmares and avoid this one
0	except for the glossy look this show had little to recommend it the writing was patronizing and convoluted without exception the characters were shallow and unsympathetic the female characters came off the worst reduced to spoiled selfish airheads whose soul ambition was to run around in slip dresses and and try to bag a man this aspect of the show is all the more curious as the series was produced by two women the acting for the most part was dull and humourless with the cast playing one dimensional characters attacking every scene on the same note this is not entirely the actors fault had they spent more time developing the characters and the storyline adding a little injection of style and humour mvp might have been a hit what we're left with is something flat and vaguely unpleasant
0	i don't know where to begin perhaps the whole idea of this movie was just a disaster waiting to happen there is nothing slightly humorous about a kidnapping i don't know what was more offensive the subject matter or david arquette's performance it was like watching a bull get it's penis cut off although i think the bull felt better afterwards the filmmakers should find something about sinatra other than his son's kidnapping to show like i don't know his talent as a singer his family shouldn't have to relive that horror thank god it was just shown on hbo and not released in theaters please don't watch this if you have any self respect
0	i'm still laughing not i'm still asking my myself what the point was i barely got a chuckle this movie sucks it tries to be charming and touching but it turns out stupid i do not recommend it
0	the most positive points in this film were the credits text style and some moments in ice t's acting the story line two rival gangs having to fight it out with the sub plots of betrayal power and change are well worn plots but in this case painful very to wade through the decrepit scenery which added slight believability in places and questionable lighting constantly distracted from any interest identification with the characters the shine off of the actress's forehead nose was blinding not to mention other scenes with the same problem not even half way into the film i wanted to know more about how and why it came about as opposed to what was going on on screen a disappointment if you have seen ice t in other roles kudos to other actors actresses who seemed to get into their roles despite the weak direction side kick and the other restaurant worker
0	yah i know it has the name sinatra in the title so how bad can it be well it's bad trust me i rented this thinking it was some movie i missed in the theaters it's not it's some garbage movie made by the folks at showtime cable station geez these cable stations make a few bucks they think they can make whatever garbage movies they want it's not good i am as big a sinatra fan as any sane man but this movie was just dumb boring dull unfunny uninteresting the only redeeming quality is that assuming they did stick to the facts you do learn about what happened to the captors of frank jr otherwise it's just a stupid film
0	goofy story about a young man arquette who convinces his friends that they should kidnap frank sinatra jr nicholas the film is written ridiculously direction is odd dialogues are out of place and scrambled the actors didn't do it much justice either arquette is annoying throughout ian nicholas was nonexistent macy was decent but only because hes a pretty good actor and probably just tried his best not to come out of this project with a totally embarrassing performance he was at least tolerable this is a stupid film in my eyes boring at times not entertaining just a film that i wouldn't recommend to anybody imdb rating 5 5 my rating 4 10
0	only light spoilers in here br br stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers dimwit victims and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time br br you will see some poor performances all around in this movie the drama is forced and the humor makes no sense whether you're watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won't shut up or a victim's father responding to the criminal's death threat with care for some tea none of it is believable this quite comfortably fits into the wannabe movie category br br you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it's quite unprofessional and adds nothing it's really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty br br however if you're able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertained by the adequate storyline br br i voted 4 10
0	i thought this is an unbelievable boring movie i heard the director can't speak french and so he left his actors tell what they wanted well valeria is great as usual but i can't say the same of other actors they have nothing to say especially bruno br br they all seem very tired this being one of the movie plot tired of being together of living abroad of their live in general so they spend half the movie sleeping in a hotel room after a while i felt sleepy myself br br i gave 4 because of some very beautiful scenes including the last one
0	i usually much prefer french movies over american ones with explosions and car chases but this movie was very disappointing there is no way to write a spoiler because nothing really happens this french couple has been living in lisbon for years and they return to paris for a friend's wedding they announce to another friend they are having dinner with that they are going to split then nothing much happens they don't seem to know whether they want to separate or not i don't necessarily think that their make for a bad movie it is very human to hesitate before making such a decision for good but this could be treated in an interesting manner giving some flesh to their desires and their relationship but that does not happen one gets out of the theater unsure of why these two got together or want to split the only piece i enjoyed was the conversation with the drunk that was true to life
0	this movie is very difficult to understand why do the couple want to divorce no reason is given we don't know anything about their life in lisbon and even nothing about marie's job we may only understand that a certain bore appeared in this life we don't even know who took the initiative of asking the divorce br br the way of filming is kind of special i didn't know the director's name before the end of the movie when i read it on the screen i understood why it was so slow only 42 shots in a hundred minutes i counted them it reminded me of some japanese movies i saw in the 90's in fact we must accept that this is the expression of another culture even if the set is occidental i don't know if this story would have suited a japanese couple br br one can see the logic of the scenes but the result is a bore anyway i decided to watch it to the end because i wanted to get the spirit and the meaning of it all in fact i only understood that the story of these two beings may not be over yet since the train leaves the station without marie this is few for such a long time i can't recommend this work
0	i am partly a fan of miyazaki's work i say partly because most of his films fall into two categories brilliant and boring sadly this film falls into the later category br br this film suffers from the same fundamental problems as miyazaki's recent film howl's moving castle an intriguing premise is set up but then immediately reduced to little more than a backdrop for some unfathomable events that only serve to confuse the plot rather than explain it br br the first third of the film reveals the post apocalyptic world the story is set in and actually looks like an very interesting story is about to unfold from then on things go down hill the middle part of the film is mostly made up of thinly veiled eco propaganda and the ending is heavily marred by the reliance on the kind of impenetrable spiritualism which ruins a large number of japanese animated films br br overall the film feels as though someone ripped out every other page from the script before passing it on the the animators what is left is something which is visually stunning although sadly the version i saw was an nth generation copy with poor colour which gives rise to the common myth that nausicaa shows her bare bottom when flying but which makes little sense and ultimately left me confused
0	this is a review of the later english release by disney featuring alison lohman patrick stewart and co br br i really wanted this film to be good really really i'm a huge fan of princess mononoke and spirited away and after seeing all the glowing reviews on this earlier miyazaki film i was eager to see it but i was shocked shocked i say at the quality of this film those later films boast well crafted plots 3 dimensional characters and the best film music since well ever this film just doesn't come close br br might as well start w the positive aspects though like all miyazaki films this one is still very imaginative with a bizarre fantasy sci fi setting in a post apocalyptic world where insects are the dominant species nausicaa can also boast some far superior animation to other films from its time though not as beautiful and fluid as miyazaki's later films and the english voice acting is quite well done br br but this film just isn't good the characters are all cardboard from saccharine sweet little nausicaa to the ruthlessly evil tolmekians to everyone in between once you've seen each of them for 30 seconds you've seen all there is and the fact that the plot just ambles along doesn't help br br then there's the music now hisaichi is hands down my favorite film composer but nausicaa doesn't do him justice half the music is 80's keyboards on overdrive and it usually enters and leaves so abruptly that it distracts the visuals rather than helping them i highly suspect that hisaichi was told to compose a lot of the music before he even saw the picture br br but wait there's a great message with this film right let's all save the environment too bad that this film hits you over the head with it like a sledgehammer there is a scene in which nausicaa hugs a tree no really i ain't kidding br br it makes me a little sad to talk about how lame this film is but for some reason all the other reviews on imdb seem to adore it and when the characters have to talk to themselves in extended sentences to tell you what's going on that's lame br br if you're the kind of person who worships anime enjoys 80's music and plants a tree every arbor day you will probably like this film otherwise save your money for his later films because they rock big time
0	br br the play has been heavily edited and the order of the scenes has been completely mixed up the acting is appalling especially by helena bonham carter and the cinematography poor br br the result is a slow confused boring film which will put those new to shakespeare off shakespeare instantly br br if you can't see a stage play then at least see the olivier version 1948 instead of this drivel
0	admittedly the only reason i watched this film since it's been about a decade since it was released was because of ian holm i was intrigued to see his portrayal of my second favorite character in this play at any rate this film is as gritty as anything the old has produced since jesus of nazareth but some of the best parts of the play have been left out i understand the directing editing choices but i don't think that it really does justice to the play perhaps i'm too much a purist i would have to direct people who have read this far toward branagh's version if it weren't that i despise his tendency toward over dramatization all the same he plays a better hamlet than gibson but then weren't we all waiting for gibson to prove himself as an actor now all he's done is to prove that he wants to make films in extinct languages br br perhaps the only shakespearean worthy acting here is scofield as the ghost
0	i saw this movie a while ago and i was looking forward to it my biggest problem was having seen the trailer i was expecting a very stylish marshal arts movie with plenty of action and maybe a bit of plot to think about along the way i was sorely disappointed as it would seem that once you have seen the trailer there is nothing else worth watching if what you are expecting is as described above my girlfriend at the time gave up half way through and whilst i continued to watch in the hope that something interesting might happen nothing did i found no attachment or real interest in any of the characters i would say just don't bother unless you have a few hours of your life that you don't really care about losing
0	franco zeffirelli's the taming of the shrew romeo and juliet jesus of nazareth othello third stab at transferring shakespeare to the screen works very well with the casting of mel gibson mad max lethal weapon and pre the passion of the christ notoriety in the role formerly owned by sir laurence olivier and rightly so see my review on his hamlet arguably the best interpretation of one of the bard's timeless and most quoted tragedies and redone 5 years later by kenneth branagh as a full bloodied treatment explaining its 3 hour 22 minute running time combined with a dream cast and a lot of little additions which were well chosen and expertly done by the contemporary master of william shakespeare kenneth branagh the director of henry v and dead again joining the lethal weapon star are glenn close the big chill paul scofield a man for all seasons alan bates ian holm michael maloney who would be cast as roderigo opposite kenneth branagh and laurence fishburne in oliver parker's othello see my review of olivier's stage version of the tragedy though he only starred in it and who branagh would cast as laertes in his 3 hour version of hamlet a proper homage to sir laurence olivier and his classic version of the play see my review on that one as well 5 years later nathaniel parker who would be cast as cassio in his brother's version of othello 4 years later and helena bonham carter who would be cast in mary shelley's frankenstein 4 years later br br zeffirelli intended this movie as a homage to sir laurence olivier who had died 2 years prior to this movie and it works pretty well for the most part what i was slightly uncomfortable with was zeffirelli's a lot of lines and in one scene he gives one of hamlet's lines to the ghost also helena bonham carter did not convince me as ophelia she was too dull and unreal whereas jean simmons who had immortalized the role in olivier's version and kate winslet who did an acceptable job in kenneth branagh's uncut epic revisionist reworking of hamlet were good in the role with jean simmons being the best ophelia ever that's why she was nominated for best actress in 1948 she didn't win what a shame ian holm said his lines too quickly not slowly as i expected him to in a scene with him laertes and ophelia but then again i'm more used to felix aylmer and richard briers' interpretations of the role and i think that they did better jobs than holm in their respective versions of hamlet both done by great directors actors text editors producers and stars of all their versions of the bard's work as polonius br br the rest of the cast however was excellent the scene where hamlet confronts his mother was very well done but olivier and branagh heightened the scene to better lengths to create even more emotional intensity and suspense that the scene required br br i recommend this version just to pass the time but it's ideal as a teaching tool for 12th grade english teachers i recommend showing olivier's version first then branagh's and finally this version despite the film's pg rating there was really nothing objectionable in the movie only what the play called for br br the best versions of hamlet are br br 1 sir laurence olivier and kenneth branagh both were so good that i can't decide which one was the best see my reviews on these versions for more information br br 2 franco zeffirelli this one was alright it started out alright with a scene not in the play but should've then progressed to the actual beginning of the play where a guard cries out who's there nay answer me stand and unfold yourself that scene scares the hell out of you because you're sitting quietly and then bam you almost jump out of your skin in short that scene sets the tone for the rest of the play huge blunder on zeffirelli's part to omit that scene it also misplaced a lot of lines and cut others that i think should've been put in such as the line where hamlet says to ophelia get thee to a nunnery why thou be a breeder of sinners that line was supposed to have occurred in that scene not where it was placed in the film after the to be or not to be soliloquy this version struggles between cutting out too much or too little from an excellent piece of literature kenneth branagh would remedy that 5 years later with his uncut version of the tragedy making his version a more fitting homage to sir laurence olivier as several of the actors aside from him had performed hamlet on stage or on film many times on different occasions however zeffirelli's take on hamlet is faithful to the play and that's what i was looking for the setup for the final act duel was the same as in olivier and branagh's versions only that the denouement in branagh's version was more violent than the denouement of the previous two faithful versions more in line with the play olivier toned it down and it worked equally well and stuck more closely to the play with branagh throwing in a few harmless touches of his own to very good effect br br this version is not rated
0	it is one of the joys of shakespeare that there can be no definitive performances no single performance can be but some can be wrong and this one is there are at least two things about hamlet which cannot be dispensed with 1 his indecisiveness and inability to take any kind of action for god's sake that is what makes the play last as long as it does if you had othello there instead of hamlet claudius would be dead by the end of act one any production has to try to explain why hamlet delays why he is incapable of action 2 his sexual disgust his total revulsion at the thought of what his mother and uncle get up to in bed fill him with an utter disgust for all things sexual and this means that any kind of relationship with ophelia is impossible at the slightest hint of sex hamlet throws up so what does mel gibson give us lusty action man you could not get further from the character of hamlet if you tried there are lots of ways hamlet can be played but this isn't one of them what i don't understand is since they managed to get such good actors for the other parts claudius polonius and so on why couldn't they find one to play hamlet as well mark rylance in the part would have made this a great film this whoever he is completely let down the rest of the cast and lets face it hamlet without the prince really doesn't work
0	well to each his own but i thought gibson's hamlet was the most god awful rendition i had ever witnessed as subtly nuanced as a paper bag and as inspired as a call the only reason i watched the movie through to the end was that i held out hope that either it would get better or become unintentionally funny no luck br br no disrespect for the supporting cast or for zefferelli's staging but nothing can make up for the bungling of the main character i have seen hamlet well portrayed as an african prince as an animated lion as a rough and tumble warrior as a romantic poet etc etc etc but imho this portrayal was just a plentiful lack of wit together with most weak hams
0	this is by far the worst version of william shakespeare's tragic masterpiece i have ever seen it seems the filmmakers didn't actually read shakespeare's text no they just took what they wanted from the olivier movie the plot is out of order and slimmed down to its bare necessity yet there is time for the non canon olivier created incest hint between hamlet and queen gertrude could we have had the something rotten in the state of denmark bit instead casting is another issue i understand that the far superior branagh movie had its weak bits robin williams and charlton heston come to mind but this one has very few good moments i do like laertes and polonius but the rest of the cast is stale mel gibson's creepy stubble is irritating and one often wonders if he has any idea what he is saying many of the actors seem to have just memorized the part they know less about what is being said than sophomores in high school br br if you want a version of hamlet check out kenneth branagh's or even olivier to be frank even disney's hamlet is better
0	it's so depressing when film makers try to be cool and it's so obvious here this has below average acting laughable dialogue split screens that are difficult to watch and many goofs in it's attempt to be a period film and autobiographical this film should be avoided at all costs i was told not to go and see this film i wish i had listened
0	when i voted my 1 for this film i noticed that 75 people voted the same out of 146 total votes that means that half the people that voted for this film feel it's truly terrible i saw this not long ago at a film festival and i was really unimpressed by it's poor execution the cinematography is unwatchable the sound is bad the story is cut and pasted from many other movies and the acting is dreadful this movie is basically a poor rip off of three other films no wonder this was never released in the usa
0	this movie was so frustrating to watch the split screens don't allow you to get very involved in the emotions of the actors i was constantly going back and forth watching all these tiny images that i found myself with by the end this is basically a rip off of the talented mr ripley and timecode i was very let down with this film makers attempt to be cool i wish i had walked out like so many other people did
0	i saw this film without knowing much about it at all the split screen device was immediately irritating and things didn't improve for me after the title sequence had finished the plot characters and dialogue were all extremely cliched poor guy from abusive family gets thrown out of home wants to get out of his reinvents himself changes his voice dresses in others' clothes is adopted by a gay man who he proceeds to on his way up to becoming part of an international set of drug taking british aristocrats br br the estate of patricia highsmith talented mr ripley should be suing the makers of this film the triple screen to me together with the over 120 min duration emphasises the almost non existent editing can't decide which image works and is the most powerful why not show three and hope you get it right with one of them this gimmick removed any connection or interest i had with any of the characters important dialogue was repeated 3 times across each screen as if to say 'this is an important moving deep moment ok ' br br don't waste your time br br
0	i was so looking forward to seeing this at the film festival in sydney i left the theater like many others before the end credits because i couldn't sit through it any longer it was badly shot the sound sucks and the acting was worse than an episode of the love boat now i know why this film hasn't been able to find an american distribution company to release it in the united states this screams of a low budget high school production
0	what can i say about this movie it really is one of the worst gay themed movies ever to come out of the uk i can only imagine the likes of diana quick and georgina hale needed the money what story there is is such a rambling mess that you loose interest pretty quickly it's supposed to be based on real life events well all i can say to that one is that it's an insult to the real life characters the dvd is out at the moment in the uk it's available in either the split screen format which must make it even worse that the full screen version i watch gay cinema can be so much better than this and we deserve more
0	since this show was changed from the screen to attack of the show it has gone down hill with yoshi and kevin rose alex etc made the show awesome then they got fired from for an unknown reason when the show switched to it became less about computers and more about gaming and magazines it also promoted bands that nobody had heard of or cared about finally i couldn't watch it anymore once kevin rose left he kept it interesting but he went off to do his own thing which is good kevin rose now has several online pod casts and shows etc on the rev 3 network check it out com i think you can get to it by going to www org if you want a real tech show rather than then go watch kevin roses shows or listen to the twit br br j
0	what a self indulgent mess duncan roy's film is apparently autobiographical however it's impossible to find any glimmer of emotional truth in this chaotic badly acted and woefully amateurish fiasco br br in a way you have to admire the balls of a man who through grim determination and a very generous benefactor manages to make a film about his own rise and fall from abused working class lad to criminal english lord however the tone is either so self pitying or so arch that it's impossible to engage with either characters or plot the raw material is potentially great stuff however roy seems unable to tease out the kind of tale that should grab you by the throat then move you to tears and it's a complete mystery why it was ever made to be screened as a triptych of images presumably because a single image would have been too tedious to watch br br it's also interesting to see so many otherwise good actors bill nighy diana quick lindsay coulson giving career worst performances
0	i was very interested in seeing this movie despite the article i read about the director in magazine i don't judge movies by what the director may or may not have done this debut feature was very difficult to watch i found the split screens to be a distraction to the drama in the film some of the supporting characters gave bad performances and the film to be a copy of several other films i have seen there really wasn't anything fresh about this
0	i'm a bit spooked by some of these reviews praising a k a not only do they sound as if they were written by the same person but they contain all kinds of insider information that surely you could only find by reading the press book from cover to cover please don't tell me that the director is writing his own reviews as that would just be too sad to contemplate br br afraid i'm another one of those who hated the film and was surprised by its unapologetic amateurism great idea shame about the execution and it was most disconcerting to watch so many good actors as well as some very bad ones including the leaden lead all apparently thinking that they were appearing in a series of very different films br br i wish that a k a had been audacious innovative or just simply interesting sadly it was like watching an unintentionally hysterical home video with arty aspirations a missed opportunity
0	unlike one of the reviewers below i don't think that a great and glittering career should lie ahead for the director of this inept and tedious piece of navel gazing whereas it is good to see a british director attempting to break out of the confines of convention only claim for innovative fame rests on the novelty of the triple screen at first you think that this might prove to be an interesting device but its only real contribution to the film is to test your eyesight and patience seeing the same character from 3 different angles in a 2 dimensional movie does not make it more revealing or complex if you can forget the triple screen which granted is very hard to do you then have to deal with the unintentionally hilarious script the audience is beaten into submission by chiche upon chiche about the british class system the film has the political and emotional sophistication of an episode of upstairs and downstairs to sum up the emperor's new clothes and a rather poor outfit too
0	aka br br aspect ratio 3 x 1 78 1 within 2 39 1 frame triptych br br sound format dolby digital br br 1978 a working class teenager matthew leitch assumes a false identity and high society where he learns harsh lessons about the divisions between rich and poor br br autobiographical feature by director duncan roy jackson my life your fault an exposé of the pre thatcherite aristocracy as seen through the eyes of a low rent whose world view is transformed by his adventures amongst the upper classes unfortunately roy's screenplay says very little we didn't already know about the excesses of the idle rich and the narrative is only briefly ignited by relationship with a handsome but self destructive rent boy peter youngblood hills who turns out to be no less hypocritical than the very people he seeks to emulate also starring diana quick as an outrageous snob who believes working class people are embarrassed to be alive bill nighy as the black sheep of a wealthy family lindsay coulson eastenders blake different for girls and georgina hale in a typically flamboyant cameo flashing her boobs at all and sundry without a care in the world br br unfortunately much of the film's impact is diluted by roy's insistence on using a triptych effect three separate 1 78 1 images are letterboxed within the 2 39 1 frame each one providing a different viewpoint of individual scenes which shrinks the image and distances viewers from events on screen a long pointless film too personal for wide appeal and hampered throughout by a cinematic process which fails to reconcile the story at hand a single image version is also available framed theatrically at 1 85 1 with the on screen title aka lies are like wishes
0	duncan roy's writing and direction is really and regularly below par actually it sort of stinks aka is almost as bad as his recent horrible self serving remake of dorian gray absurd contorted dialogue among the 'upper characters at once idiotic and pretentious amateurish stilted to its core and script and sometimes the acting is creaky like a school play but worse there's a sort of peacock self certainty about the direction which is just soul destroying when the director clearly hasn't grasped he's just no good diana quick must be cringing with embarrassment dr you should just get out of film seriously
0	as a person who knows the filmed ship and some other ships too i cannot see the movie as a movie only as a movie is has some great wonderful shots of the ship most of them done on an existing vessel apart of the ones in the disaster scenes of course and a certain room under deck but regarding the story and dialogs i only can call it big crap nothing of that would happen like this on a real sailing vessel no wonder the film had bad impact on the existing ship if i didn't know better i wasn't tempted to do a sailing voyage for sure definitely for europeans i recommend to switch off once the ship ran after that the over emotional very american part begins which i couldn't bear the pics are really really great no wonder in a ridley scott film but if you can avoid listening to the text it will become much better
0	the story as i understand is based on real events that can be either good or bad depending on what sort of license is taken with those real events and how they are rendered br br in this case the results are enough to gag a maggot i wasn't expecting much going in anticipating a story of rich high school kids taking an ocean cruise under a stern skipper that is what i figured was a coming of age movie along the lines of something about boot camp or basic training the kind in which the drill sergeant says my duty is to snap you out of your winsome civilian ways well it is that in a way the kids start out as kids and end up as an organic group but this is far hokier than any boot camp movie i've ever seen outside of a deliberate comedy who wrote this thing the air is filled with slogans that belong not in high school but in the third grade the dialog offends the ear br br jeff bridges usually does a better than average job but in this case his performance is mediocre he brings nothing extra to the part although given his lines it's hard to know how he could do much with them the rest of the cast is undistinguished and a few of the kids are painfully inadequate there's a lot of tearing up and considerable crying the best scene involves a dolphin br br the immature clichés continue to the very end the coast guard is cast in the role of the hard hearted court at the hearing that follows the disaster the interrogator does nothing but hit bridges over the head with his misinterpretations and of events you let the crew drink alcohol didn't you a couple of harmless drinks and you didn't punish them though you punished them for killing a fish the dolphin business the technical details surrounding the sinking are left murky what is a white anyway and if it's as dangerous as bridges claims why weren't the whole crew alerted and wearing life vests but why go on if the albatross were a it would still be torpedoed and sunk by the ludicrous comic book script
0	lois weber's film hypocrites was and still kind of is a very bold and daring film i enjoyed it and was very impressed by the filming and story of it the priest sees the hypocrisy of the people in his church and tries to show them the naked truth the people are appalled when he reveals the naked statue portraying truth after failing to lead them to it and the few that did help along the way the people do not want to face the truth that they are doing anything wrong but it shows them putting things before god going to beach parties acting inappropriate their materialistic ways and other things in which the people of our world do that tend to not be morally right in the end failing to gain any followers he must enter into the gates of heaven alone this film seems to me to be very bold in the fact that a naked woman is shown throughout it especially considering the time period in which this film was made the imagery and symbolism portrayed in this movie i found incredible the way they made the naked woman translucent and using a naked woman to symbolize the naked truth shows a lot of creativity and art showing the different sins of the people as they walked down the road and refused to follow along the path each with different excuses setbacks and or higher priorities was a great way of representing the people of today this film does a very good job of getting the moral message across to its audience lois weber has a tremendous way of capturing her spectators' attention with her creativity symbolism visuals and through auditory even the music of the piano throughout this film is very beautiful and fitting with the whole theme
0	the worst movie i've seen in a long time this whole thing rings false and the billy crudup character especially so the potential for a good story is there but this movie never comes close to delivering every plot element just drifts away
0	this show is what happened to the screen after g4 got its hands on it taking it from a useful source of computer related information to a show that had as its high point the shoving of a miniature web server up someone's posterior br br as ratings plummeted they moved away from their original target audience gamers to generic hormone driven young men adding eye candy to the staff and a sex advice segment now even the gamers who applauded the show initially are turning away in disgust i look forward to the show's and the network's overwhelmingly overdue and well deserved demise
0	the reviewer in variety said this was overwritten and overlong and i kind of agree with it it has some events that seem forced and unlikely like when cal crudup once again as the 'lost vacant and kind of male and julianne moore find a map of the us in kind of an unbelievable place the story is one of those 1970's guy must find meaning in his life stories and i found myself imagining jack nicholson in his prime playing the role of cal the whole hitting the road to find meaning in life theme is still kind of interesting though does it all really lead back to family i wasn't so sure the acting is okay i particularly liked karen allen and james who unfortunately only have supporting roles i'd give it a
0	i am one of those people that respect every film maker as having achieved each film i watch i usually respect although i admit i select carefully and for what it is not any more this is truly one of the worst scripts i have seen produced as a film so much so i felt compelled to warn others off it the dialogue was truly unbelievable the main was about the last person i would be interested in finding out more about a scene were an old school friend it like it is' made me laugh only because it was a pathetic attempt to reveal the subtext of an already concluded plot the direction is glib at best and at worst film making by numbers to compare this film to the atmospheric majesty of a film like five easy pieces is a travesty
0	this is one of those road movies that would like to tell you a lotta things about women the universe the better life the terrible solitude of the brilliant architect from manhattan who all links with everyone including his three years old child which may seem irresponsible to some actually the hero wins hands down when it comes to selfishness and the scene with his old school pal which begins as some kind of good old days conversation and ends on a threatening note is the oasis in a desert movie br br the scene with the father who left home when i was a child has been told and told and told of course it did not prevent the offspring from making his way of life and when you see the hero's wife's attitude you may think she must never have heard about woman's lib br br the best is the soundtrack which includes superb songs by willie nelson tom waits or bonnie raitt but you can enjoy them without this tedious pretentious work
0	this film was so unfocused rambling and uneven that it was an effort to watch the whole thing i actually thought some interesting plot elements might develop this was nothing more than a coming of age film for the thirty something generation total crap and i have no idea what julianne moore was doing in this since it was the only reason i picked it off the shelf at the rental store
0	what a waste of talent although it appears that crudup in real life is a lot more like the vapid self absorbed character less character he portrays in this disappointing movie br br in art sometimes the empty spaces reveal more than the painted or created content what this movie reveals is the unconsciousness and the contradictory competing unresolved impulses consciousness of the film's director writer it unintentionally shows the lack of awareness that a truly evolved deeply aware character should have and be tormented about in order to deserve audience empathy or sympathy or the lack of which is used to serve as a cautionary tale to the audience but this film fails on either level in that regard br br the fact that cal the main character very much an antagonist not a protagonist in the true sense of the word has no empathy for anyone especially those most deserving of it which does not include him and that he has such overblown entitled self pitying whiney sympathy only for himself combined with the hallmark lack of remorse and no sense of guilt or awareness of his impact on others all converge in this film to make him the epitome of the self involved arrested narcissistic sociopath somehow this is now the gold standard for males on film and in the world at this point and time br br one of his counterpoints james legros states with a laser true flash i bet you haven't done one good thing in life and i bet you won't it captures the absolute essence of the cal character something the other characters he over in the film seem to realize fairly quickly despite the director having stacked the deck to manipulate sympathy for cal that is a testament to the supporting cast's talent and skills br br cal's eventual has nothing to do with character development transformation or evolution of consciousness it has only to do with the ultimate capitulation that until something better comes along he may as well be back in his comfy cozy status quo of entitled where the living is easy and no one will demand that he grow up something of which he is willfully incapable and uninterested in doing br br the film could have been pointed and intentional about showing the traps and tragedies the devastating effects of this kind of lack of conscience consciousness but it excuses and glorifies it instead in fact it wallows in self pity right along with the arrogant selfish emotionally stunted main character br br and it sure sent chills up my spine when thinking of the recent revelations about convicted murderer scott peterson br br if you want to see crudup at his most nuanced and full of an exciting potential that has never been truly realized in my opinion see the underrated the
0	the other is a supposed horror movie made during the 1970s it is not to be confused with the similarly titled the others which starred nicole kidman br br the plot is as follows a woman with strange supernatural powers teaches her twin grandsons something referred to simply as the game one of these twin boys niles is supposed to be good the other one holland is supposed to be evil br br the idea sounds interesting enough as an abstract concept and the movie was adapted from a novel i can only hope the novel was interesting as the movie was incredibly boring from beginning to end br br the execution of this movie is very much like a tv movie of the kind uk residents might see on channel 5 in fact this movie looks like it was made to be the daytime afternoon movie for this tv channel a slight trimming to one or two scenes and this would be a u rated movie of the kind disney produce but even the youngest of children are more likely to be bored than scared by the other br br you don't need to check out the director's cv to realise horror is not his forte br br mr mulligan relies heavily upon the characters to drive the story this is obvious from the get go i haven't seen any of his other movies but to kill a mockingbird is a highly regarded crime movie on this site unfortunately in the other the characters are given too little to do and the plodding script ensures the movie never really takes off in the way one might expect br br the direction is as bland as you could possibly find almost every single scene takes place in the daytime think about this a scene shot in the open landscape in rural america during daytime with the camera focusing on vast area does it sound scary or atmospheric believe me it isn't it comes across as something more akin to an episode of little house on the prairie than a horror movie and yes both the aforementioned tv series and the other were shot in california br br there is a noticeable absence of danger or malice that makes the whole exercise seem rather pointless br br the ending was clearly meant to be highly disturbing and perhaps influenced that of another movie from this time period i won't reveal which movie but i'll give 2 clues a young boy was a main character and the movie is well known and i'll add that the concept was used to much greater effect in the latter movie br br the acting is actually quite good and is the only reason why i have awarded 2 stars the actors playing the twin boys along with the actress playing the grandmother all try hard with the poor material they are given br br diana muldaur is completely wasted in a thankless role as the mother of the twin boys do not be fooled by her high billing on the cast list she gets very little screen time and her presence just comes across as a ploy to cash in on her long established tv career in order to help attract tv viewers br br i paid careful attention to the blurb on the back of the dvd cover of the region 2 version in the uk comparisons were made to the exorcist which i thought was a complete insult to that movie there is no comparison the exorcist had everything this movie should contain but does not suspense tension tongue in cheek humour highly disturbing content great acting superb characterisation and viewer involvement ironically the exorcist was made only a year later but in terms of style and execution seems like decades ahead of the bland drama known as the other the other comes across as a work that would have seemed tame in the 1950s let alone the 1970s br br the 1970s was a great era for horror movies with classics such as the exorcist the omen the texas chainsaw massacre the legend of hell house salem's lot to name just a few being produced for this reason the other proves an even greater disappointment br br if anyone finds the synopsis of the other interesting they might want to read the book or do a little more research on what the book was about i would advice everyone to skip the movie
0	wow after the first five minutes of watching this film i was quite tempted to put a bullet in my brain and end my life it's really hard to describe what exactly this film is about i honestly don't know what kind of human being would even finance a piece of excrement the film looks to have either been shot on video or 16mm i normally don't have a problem with movies are shoddily made 16mm films but this was just so awful and where did they find these actresses i have seen some bad acting but this takes the cake watch the first 5 minutes and you'll see what i mean bci entertainment should be for distributing this god awful sludge this has to be the worst film i have ever had the displeasure of viewing i want my 74 minutes back if you are able to sit through the first 5 minutes without either shooting your tv or committing mass homicide then give a shot after all what have you got to lose
0	i like bad films but this thing is a steaming heap from the shaky cameramen to the horrible sound and devastating acting don't waste a second on this pile fifth graders could have made a better film and first graders could have written a better script want a real synopsis ugly chicks in neon bikinis dancing for way too long a disjointed plot made worse by hideous acting the on location sets weren't even passable the church scenes take place in a dance studio and oh yeah what's with the two tap dance numbers that come up out of the blue br br oh and the total number of naked breasts which couldn't have even saved this film 0 add this one to the trash heap
0	ok say some college in southern california has an movie making class and some dudes were enrolled just to film girls and they gave them a camera and then they were drunk stoned or just to plain stupid to actually use a camera and they turned this in for their grade and failed br br that is my only explanation for this this thing good god they left the date and time counter on during some of it the picture started in new scene way before the sound and forget about a plot well apparently there was one and they had to tell you all about it once the 3 hour introduction sequence was finished but i am glad they did because i never would have gotten it by watching this br br stay away from this
0	is where i'm assuming this movie came from i mean i've watched plenty of b movies over the course of my young life so far and i wouldn't even classify this as a b movie i remember seeing films in my high school mass media class that surpass this one br br so the premise is a bunch of dancing numbers and goofy crap happens women in bikinis who aren't even that great looking to begin with dance in the beginning and sing guys with hairy chests show up and girls with fangs who are out in the sunlight i mean i can barely put together a cohesive sentence just thinking about this movie according to most people on this site manos the hands of fate and pod people are the worst movies mst3k classics d i used to be one of them then i saw this movie usually i don't try to trash a movie too much but the people who made this really do deserve it it is that bad and that unbearable and i'm assuming the director or an actor in the movie is the only person who rated this a ten
0	as a flagship show attack of the show is endemic of the larger fall of g4 tv it is a show and a station that has fallen so far that it parades sex to try and cover its glaring faults its predecessor the screen was a venue for technology problems and scouting out the latest and greatest in technology it was a nice show with a likable staff and it was fun to see some of the and other experiments the crew could put to together br br the acquisition of by g4 bothered some longtime fans of the station but early returns were actually promising the emphasis on gaming was a nice addition and i really enjoyed a lot of the coverage of and other big entertainment events br br unfortunately now stands as but a shell of its former self those overseeing the channel have shifted the focus of the channel away from technology and gaming and toward anything that might elicit drool from young adult men the result is that spends as much time parading olivia munn or touting the adult film industry as it does covering games it is so bad it is practically unwatchable br br while some may get puerile joy out of this sort of thing those who genuinely enjoy gaming may wonder where the good coverage went equally troubling young gamers who might tune into g4 thinking their getting gaming that active gaming group between 10 15 are instead being fed things aimed toward a more mature audience on a channel like hbo or cinemax things like that are expected on g4 it's tragic br br at least another male aimed channel has good programming like csi and g4 has very little good left to offer br br too bad really
0	move over manos back off boogens it doesn't take a baby genius to know that malibu beach vampires for the rest of this tome is now and always will be unless someone makes a sequel to the invader the worst film ever the only horror in this thing is watching it i wonder if this was an attempt for someone to meet babes by casting a movie if this was the case the babes ain't babes just like this ain't a movie it's dreck no wait i dishonor the word dreck by calling it dreck ulli lommel of boogey man fame would call it uber dreck or it should be used to torture prisoners if you find it on a shelf in a video store back away from it quietly and notify the authorities
0	if a copy of this movie fell into the wrong hands the world would be in grave danger i am a huge fan of b movies and i have seen my share of bad ones but there is not a letter in the alphabet that could adequately describe this rancid piece of solidified puke this movie even surpasses the so bad it's good phase and goes straight on to the so bad your world will seem a little less meaningful for having watched it phase br br it is hard to say what is more disturbing 1 the fact that the people who wrote this thought their political satire i use the term very very very loosely was witty enough to film 2 they were able to find so many other people who agreed with them enough to work on this garbage for obviously little or no money 3 that someone actually thought it would be a good idea to pick this crap up for distribution on a horror anthology dvd br br were i a weaker man i most likely would have jammed grapefruit spoons into my eyes and then blindly flung myself to my death in oncoming traffic after watching this as it stands though i live but i am forever scarred by the experience
0	wow this movie was really bad you talk about formulaic typical movie plot watching this movie was like hitting my head repeatedly against a brick wall the transitions kept trying to be cool but failed the plot twist at the end where we find out who the bad guy is was unexpected but doesn't make much sense until his monologue even then the amount of gore in this movie doesn't help either are all of those images necessary my last complaint is about the plausibility of chunks of the movie would the pd really send a lone officer into an warehouse subway tunnel or wherever to find a body when the location of the perp is unknown and why does the romance at the end just kind of happen all of a sudden it's like the writer was trying to fit in every hollywood cliche he could don't waste your time seeing this piece of something
0	a formulaic story with all the tired cliches i was shocked that the horrible script became a movie what a waste how many original scripts are scattered around without being produced br br at the climax i could predict what will happen in every single shot br br oh and don't even get me started about the idiotic sexual tension between the gorgeous female cop and the paralyzed cop who can barely move a finger yeah right i can buy that what next fingers porn
0	i wouldn't recommend this to anyone except cinema goers who like to laugh at a film not with it br br quite a promising premise and set of actors get progressively worse over a film which ends with perhaps the worst ending ever seen in a film i won't spoil it but basically the most over used set of movie cliches get done badly and half heartedly for the most disappointing last five minutes to any film ever br br the movie also includes the most cringe inducing scene ever the attempt at on screen chemistry between the two lead roles when we're presented with a close up of angela jolie stroking denzel washington's finger lovingly it may be the only thing he could move but quite why the viewer is treated to a zoom of washington's finger getting stroked amidst the kind of dimmed lights and music appropriate for a sex scene is beyond me i laughed out loud and shook my head br br the direction of the storyline borrows heavily from se7en but here it is executed far more simplistically and far too obviously to call it a poor mans se7en would be an understatement this really is nothing more than a made for tv movie and even jolie and washington's best efforts can't convince that this is a box office film
0	am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera by the time he returns still no senior cops or other assistance for the lovely jolie this is new york isn't it it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence only after she'd stood in front of an to stop it disturbing the scene br br i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images the horror continues not in the film itself pretty ordinary i'm afraid but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene entrusts the work to an untrained cop a rookie cop who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible now that was a bright idea eh i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable br br i have given this film 4 10 for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie's lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended
0	the bone collector is set in new york city starts as one of the world's foremost crime scene experts lincoln rhyme denzel washington is involved in an accident which leaves him a bedridden jump forward four years alan gary swanson his wife lindsay rubin olivia are kidnapped soon after new york cop amelia angelina jolie is called to a crime scene finds the buried mutilated body of alan amelia notices some unusual crime scene evidence makes a note of it which impresses rhyme when he is asked to work on the case he quickly realises the evidence are in fact cryptic clues to the whereabouts of lindsay having cracked the clues the cops get there too late to save her but this is just the beginning as a sadistic serial killer continues to kill leave forensic clues for rhyme the police br br directed by phillip i watched the bone collector last night i have to say it's one of the worst big budget post the silence of the lambs 1991 se7en 1995 serial killer thrillers i have seen in fact it makes friday the 13th 1980 look sophisticated realistic the script by jeremy was based on the book by jeffery is so poor on so many levels i hardly know where to begin for a start it takes itself deadly seriously that makes all the other flaws seem twice as bad the character's are truly awful i didn't believe any of them were actual human beings first we have lincoln rhyme who is paralysed from the neck down there's just not a lot the script can do with him in fact he quite literally can't do anything but lie in bed for the whole film he is seemingly impressed with amelia because she stopped a train thought a fresh footprint near a murdered person might be of relevance i'm not being funny here but wouldn't any cop realise a footprint near a murder victim might be of some relevance why is he so impressed with her then there's cheney who is not only unlikable shouts at everyone for no apparent reason but is so incompetent that he failed to connect several murders committed in a short space of time where each victim had sections of flesh skin surgically removed from their bodies how exactly did this guy get to be a police captain then there's the killer whose motives are less than plausible are you trying to tell me they devised an intricate plan to murder at least seven people because they spent six years in jail for something they actually did if they wanted revenge on rhyme why did they kill all those other people who had no connection to anything i could maybe just about buy someone wanting revenge against the guy who put them away but not to kill several other people who have no connection to themselves the intended target rhyme anything else also after devising an intricate plan to kill these people get away with it they suddenly turn into the most stupid person in history as despite holding a large knife being able to walk use their arms they are actually defeated nearly killed by a who has no movement in his body below his neck how did that happen i should also mention amelia who is a terrible character she actually buys her own camera to take crime scene photo's shoots rats for no apparent reason br br besides some of the worst written character's ever the story plot isn't much better we never find out why the killer is using the bone collector book as inspiration we never find out why the killer was taking strips of flesh from his victims it's never explained why a rookie cop like amelia is allowed to enter crime scenes even before the proper forensic teams there is no reason given for why the killer chooses his victims also the killers clues are a little obscure aren't they i mean a bloody animal bone shaved rat hair logically how does someone go from a bone rat hair to the exact pinpoint location of the next victim has the whole of new york to choose from there's some nonsense about a bird that sits on rhymes window ledge which is just totally random at almost two hours the bone collector is really slow going there is so much wrong with the bone collector it all comes down to one of the worst scripts ever it's atrocious on all levels has zero credibility apparently angelina jolie has stated that she shot nude scenes for this film but they were cut because they were felt to be too distracting br br with a supposed budget of about 48 000 000 the bone collector is well made with good production values that hollywood gloss about it i also must add right now that i think angelina jolie gives one of the worst performances i have ever seen i think she is absolutely terrible in this denzel washington just sort of lies there really queen latifah is awful even michael rooker can't do much as he is stuck with a clichéd one dimensional character br br the bone collector has to be one of the worst hollywood films i have seen in a while i saw it for free on telly last night i still feel cheated ripped off there are just so many things to poke holes at it's silly embarrassingly awful or should that be awfully embarrassing works either way to be honest
0	i can envision the writers of this story thinking up this script br br 1 let's make a serial killer movie like se7en knight moves copycat and silence of the lambs people like serial killer stuff it'll sell 2 the killer needs to adopt some sort of pattern i know he'll copy it out of a serial killer mystery novel that hasn't been done yet at least not exactly like that 3 now we need some kind of way to make this movie unique of course the good guy can be bedridden like in rear window 4 lastly we need a twist ending that will give this movie the success of the sixth sense and the usual suspects br br okay now that you know these things you know the whole movie so don't waste your money one thing i really hate about moviemakers is that they take a perfectly good concept for movies and completely run them into the ground i wrote better stories than this when i was in junior high i just kept checking my watch every five minutes when the twist ending finally came i wasn't shocked i just said oh who cares the characters are two dimensional they have your typical movie personalities this movie is just proof that stealing the elements of other successful movies is no excuse for a bad script i give this movie 1 out of 10 normally it would earn at least 2 or 3 but i'm so sick of the unoriginality when will they learn 1 10
0	criticism does mention spoilers br br i rarely make user comments but this is one movie i have no problem slandering this movie stinks and its mediocre of rating of 6 and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were despite what its ad claims this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie was extremely slow i actually left for about 10 minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolie's character debates denzel about cutting off a hands the movie is not at all scary but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie's character and denzel washington's of course what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two with such a crappy movie i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off anybody with a 4th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved a situation which alfred hitchcock's rear window the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen esoterically speaking i even think the murderer's intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial game' and gets with his pet project angelina br br if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts like i am you will not appreciate this film if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship the horrible trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka see this movie but even then its too slow paced and you'd be bored
0	the storyline has too many flaws and illogical sequences to be worthwhile jolie's acting is pretty flat and poor washington's is ok the rest of the cast are cardboard cutouts somehow almost everything about this film oozes mediocrity the plot is lame the only thing i liked more or less about this film are the fairly original methods the perpetrator uses to end his victims technical details are worse than the most far stretched csi and gizmos and halfway the movie one wonders if the director even cared about detail credibility some spoilers hereafter i mean an machine with a pure sinus wave reflecting a man's heartbeat a with full body muscle spasms and one working index finger sure a killer gutting a man's bowels whilst keeping him alive to allow the rats to feast on him followed by a rat aiming for the guy's face what's with all that stupidity then there are quite a few continuity goofs but you can find those elsewhere here on imdb honestly i found it a bit of an insult even to my limited intelligence br br waste of time still 4 out of 10 to keep my girlfriend from kicking me
0	this meandering tale of mob revenge is simply not very interesting even with ed mcmahon in a ripe role as the chief heavy jim brown kicks ass effectively gloria hendry proves again that she can bring life to even the poorest roles and brock peters is decent as the cop who plays by the book it's still dull and badly constructed and even the print shown on cable is now emasculated of its original james brown score
0	spoiler alert br br a cliché riddled film that somehow makes an anti death with dignity statement though it attempts to do the opposite washington is a paralyzed forensics officer who has been suffering and wanting to die for the past four years apparently he wrote his huge selling book only a year ago though so it hasn't all be despair he arranges for an assisted suicide with his doctor who will return in a week br br in the meantime he helps out on a serial killer case he recruits the gutsy i don't wanna do it but i'm just so good at it cop jolie and they track down impossible clue jumping to highly unlikely conclusions in matters of moments hey that old bolt means that the killer has the millionaire's wife in a steam tunnel by the old building right it's laughable yet no is smart enough to figure out that doctor who's going to assist him is the killer br br when he comes to washington to murder him ahead of schedule he has a change of heart and struggles unbelievably for his life cut to the obligatory bad guy about to shoot the good guy scene when bang the gun goes off but the bad guy didn't fire no the woman steps out of the corner she has just shot him in the back
0	this is one for the golden turkey book it's another of those putting on a show flicks the dialogue is turgid the music is terrible the costumes may be the worst ever and the nick castle choreography is hilariously dreadful check it out oh ye who love bad flicks only perry como is tolerable
0	i just saw this early this morning on the fox channel quite by accident my dog woke me up i had seen it years ago and thought i remembered it fairly well as a kid i had enjoyed it but now as another poster commented several of the reels were out of order and while it was disorienting at first and bizarre it seemed to fit the production what was just awful became surreal and amusing musical numbers for what i think was the big fundraiser show you're in show business i'm in show business most of the kids are in show business let's put on a show come out of nowhere before all the talk about putting on a show and then fade without applause to totally unrelated straight scenes the leading man's girlfriend shows up spits out lines and lines of dialogue then disappears i was half awake and loved every insane minute of it
0	boston blackie movies have some strengths mostly in that the pacing is swift and the hero is cheerfully unfazed in even the worst circumstances but the plotting is frequently atrocious and the unrelenting comic bits often kill the pacing if the plot happens to be atypically good or are just unfunny and inappropriate br br this one involves blackie chasing an escapee from the asylum steve cochran in a really poor performance who has become fixated on beautiful nina foch who puts in a nice rather subtle acting job inspector of course believes blackie has gone homicidal maniac he at least has some evidence in this one for that and is incompetently trying to jail him as blackie goes after the real killer the plot has possibilities but any time any real tension gets going we a get a not funny comedy routine it doesn't seem like anyone at columbia understood that in a movie about a pursuit of a really dangerous maniac cute little comedy scenes about hiding an inconvenient body from the inspector disrupt any willing suspension of disbelief one just concludes our clever hero is an idiot deadly for a film like this br br this one is not worth the time for a well plotted episode of this series see alias boston blackie
0	what's the point of this film it's totally forgettable unless you have a serious bunny fetish look elsewhere so the bunnies had a merit demerit list no chewing gum in front of the customers are we supposed to find that interesting
0	a trite fish out of water story about two friends from the midwest who move to the big city to seek their fortune they become playboy bunnies and nothing particularly surprising happens after that the final 15 minutes are especially cheesy but at least the bunnies looked good
0	i was on a british airways flight from london to new york when i saw this movie i wish i could have fallen asleep the story line was very thin and the editing crew did their best to stretch it out as long as they did br br gary played by andy garcia was such an unlikable character that i found it hard to be supportive of him andy's acting ability is good but not good enough to make up for the poor writing in this movie br br andie macdowell did a fine job with her portrayal of linda gary's romantic interest i can not say anything bad about andie i always enjoy her acting the problem here is that the romance between andy and andie is so far fetched and unbelievable the two do not make a good pair on the big screen br br the end of the movie was almost as much of a let down as the movie itself a nod from the pope and all is forgiven come on the event that allows this movie to have a some what happy ending and that the writers would expect us to accept it is pathetic gary does not change and only by the death of a dear friend does his situation get better br br there are tons of great movies that should be seen before this one don't waste your time br br
0	the movie was supposed to release in 2002 and was much awaited due to the promos but it finally released in 2003 after the producer died br br the movie is good in parts but overall isn't great br br the scenes between rani and ajay are okay but the other scenes are not well handled br br the film is too similar to bollywood hollywood and though this was planned before that got released first so originality is lost br br milan disappoints overall after br br music is good but too many songs br br ajay devgan looks jaded and his appearance gives away that the film was delayed and his acting looks boring too rani is good sonali is good too rest are okay
0	my girlfriend wanted to see this lol this is the case a lot so i rented it then i saw how acclaimed this was nominated for 10 oscars great this should be good ol' drama this movie had a lot of potential the direction and the way everything was paced was very well but once the movie ended i couldn't help but ask myself if this story was really worth making a film for virginia hill annette bening was extremely annoying i just couldn't tolerate her character at all warren beatty was excellent in the film acting wise but again i just found it hard to have sympathy for his character he just came off essentially as a idiotic loser of a gangster who had no place in 'the life' in the first place how'd he get in with the likes of meyer lansky and lucky luciano anyway this film just left me with a bland but uneasy feeling what was the big deal with this movie i just didn't feel a completeness with bugsy beatty's antics although acted quite well just seemed too random and illogical i'm guessing that's how siegel really was but it was just too much of that there just didn't seem to be much of a real story here my basic assessment of it would be br br a hot headed playboy underachieving gangster falls in love with a loser of a woman comes up with the idea of 'las vegas' but his failed attempt at the casino he builds along with having no regard for his mob bosses' money gets him killed br br what else is there besides that i just didn't see the big deal with this and it was a big disappointment there must've not been many movies to come out in 1991 how this was nominated for 10 oscars is beyond me although the two it won is justifiable 1 5 4 stars
0	bugsy siegel was 31 when he went out to the west coast in addition to his dreams about las vegas he toyed with the idea of acting he was a good looking guy and about 7 years younger than his pal george raft so it wasn't such a crazy idea br br warren beatty was 54 when he made this movie and despite the hair dye he's too old for this part beatty was miscast bugsy should have been played by someone like alec baldwin bugsy was a tough guy feared by his contemporaries beatty just doesn't radiate menace br br this was a vanity project for beatty who hasn't come to terms with the fact that he's no longer a leading man br br the other big annoying miscast is mantegna as george raft raft had a distinctive voice and mannerisms none of which mantegna even attempts to match you never once believe that mantegna came from the streets br br warren beatty and robert redford have both been pretending to be younger for years by massive use of hair dye and now it ll be a shock to suddenly go gray and play character parts
0	i rented this movie primarily because it had meg ryan in it and i was disappointed to see that her role is really a mere supporting one not only is she not on screen much but nothing her character does is essential to the plot her character could be written out of the story without changing it much
0	a tedious gangster film that leaves you wishing someone had edited it farce more ruthlessly i would have thought that the story of the creation of las vegas would prove interesting but it fails at almost every turn warren beatty's performance as the stupid and unlikeable bugsy seigel leaves you wishing you were watching someone else once or twice he flashes through the fog of his performance to deliver an interesting scene but most of the time you just can't care about him annette benning gives a skilled turn as his untrustworthy lover but even she's only faintly more than he is br br i really wouldn't bother with this turgid drama unless you're a benning devotee
0	not as bad as billy but close try as he might warren beatty just could not be believed as bugsy whenever he flipped out instead of being shocked by the violence i found it pretty embarrassing because it was so phony the other actors don't fare as well either annette bening just doesn't have what it takes to play seductive women she is better off with safe characters as many have noted joe mantegna would have fared better if the script had him as a more believable george raft only harvey keitel emerged unscathed but then again this guy can do these movies in his sleep and robert beltran with just one line steals one of the big beatty bening scenes with these films i'm never sure if the director is intent on making the mobsters seem like normal businessmen or if it just comes out that way either way i don't like it these guys were killers and no matter how much las vegas is indebted to bugsy siegel i don't think that a movie should be made glorifying the guy especially one with a big studio backing
0	the reality of the mafia environment is absolutely dog eat dog where a gangster will be killed for showing any sign of weakness because they become a liability i've got no problem with the human side of being portrayed but bugsy steers too far in the direction of soft comical men the film is enjoyable but is only light entertainment and not a biopic of a man who though exciting was extremely dangerous and fearsome br br the acting's all good and the direction very solid the locations and era are very well represented and the themes very interesting did bugsy really want to kill
0	it goes without saying that a modicum of allowances has to be made when a true story is being adapted for the big screen but if you shoot a fairy tale that has next to nothing to do with what actually happened why call it bugsy and make the audience believe this was a halfway true story the godfather trilogy processes many real characters and events once upon a time in america does it too but they don't claim to be telling true stories br br spoiler br br in the movie benny has this grand vision of a in real life lansky had to argue him into going to nevada benny deemed the notion of a counterpart to monte carlo idiotic and he'd have preferred to continue his life as a playboy in l a not until much later benny warmed to the idea but of course he's the hero of the movie so naturally the idea had to be his br br in the movie benny wants to use count to get close to mussolini in order to assassinate him because he was hitler's partner and hitler killed jews in gas chambers after all obviously we're supposed to like benny so the screenwriters invented this nonsense in real life at that time nobody knew about the gas chambers least of all benny who was completely uninterested in politics in fact he did use the countess' connection and he did visit mussolini but not to kill him but to sell explosives to him he even met goebbels and goering during his sojourn in italy br br the whole greenberg subplot was nonsense greenberg didn't turn stool pigeon he didn't seek refuge with benny benny didn't kill him that was up to albert at least they got the name right br br i guess it was supposed to be very romantic to have virginia return to benny offering him the money she had stolen the movie even goes so far to tell us via text panels that she ruefully returned the money to lansky after benny's assassination let me just say revisionism just doesn't get more impudent than this br br this list is by no means exhaustive there's the issue with benny's family not living in l a the way benny deals with and adonis the portrayal of costello a disagreeable corporate type lansky a lovable teddy bear benny himself an aging windbag who wouldn't have reached age 12 if he had regularly gone bugsy in situations like those in the movie and what's more who neither has the good looks nor the charisma of benny siegel and many others apart from a few hard facts nothing's right in this flick br br spoilers end here br br all in all this is the one mafia movie that manages to be even more ridiculously bad than harlem ny but honor where honor is due this is a feat in itself
0	it s funny how instinct warns you of something for example as soon as the company credits read nu image i knew instinctively i d seen a really crap film by them somewhere before but couldn t remember where nevertheless i just knew judge and jury was going to be crap and it was maybe i m psychic br br mild spoilers br br the opening is rather violent with several people getting blown away for no more reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time i don t know about you but i m geting slightly fed up with exploitive violence onscreen nowadays along with bad language especially if it s spouted by actors as bad as the ones in this movie anyway the plot revolves around the bad dude getting executed and coming back to reek revenge on the man who shot his wife oh did i mention the bad dude and his wife murdered a couple of people on their wedding night yeah he s a serious badass mofo in fact he s so bad and i don t mean the acting i ll get to that in a moment that he s impossible to take seriously and this is before he s executed only to return as elton john elvis a french chef etc i wonder if keith david got paid for this because he looks he s having so much fun on screen that s the only reason he s playing the role what a pity this reviewer didn t have any fun whatsoever watching judge and jury hey maybe the producers could send me keith s fee gawd only knows i deserve it br br i disliked this movie a lot as if you t guessed and my main beef isn t with the stupid plot or the cheap production values but with its attitude to violence if like me you ve had a wine bottle cracked over your head or been kicked in the ribs very hard several times you ll know violence is an obscene painful thing but judge and jury will have you believe that if you re thrown through a window crash through some and fall twenty odd feet onto a table not only will you be unhurt but you ll be able to outrun a couple of rabid devil dogs it could of course be argued that any film starring sly arnie or bruce also suffers from this same dishonest showing of violence but with judge and jury it yanked my chain
0	i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a 3 should have gave it a 2 i gave it an extra star just because david keith's gun was cool
0	so much for judge and jury which lives up to its nonsense title what good is there the lighting is terribly foggy another horror movie you ask well that's perfectly explainable david keith actually does pretty good at disguising clowns chefs and other shenanigans while being the killer who escaped death row but overall despite some new twists it's reasonably stupid has been putting out some ludicrous productions recently and this one only means so much we the jury find this film guilty for its indecent exposure to many of us sitting around believing it's a total waste of our time
0	if this is not heavily featured on every list of what not to watch it should only be because those keeping that particular list are not aware of its existence which as long as that remains so is the acceptable alternative i'm not kidding you this is a bad movie joseph meeker returns from the dead with various vague undefined supernatural powers the most employed of which would seem to be appearing in new increasingly comical looking and ridiculous and never scary or creepy in general when this goes for the latter of those it winds up just being bizarre and attempts at the former just don't work period outfits and stereotypes archetypes and he is portrayed by david keith whom i respect in well at least daredevil doing a more often than not terribly inconsistent which could also have to do with script and often over the top performance a character or two have personalities so unbelievably irritating that they're painful to watch the editing thinks it's considerably more clever than it really is and what on earth was with the red tint for the flashbacks cinematography oh dear framing coverage effective use of angle that one could be attributed some to editing too perhaps please guys stop me when i say something you've ever heard about the existence of as far as the technical side goes this is a pretty lousy excuse for something more worthwhile to put in the projector than film but why stop there the plot is just poor the basic idea's been done and it's been done so much better than this the crow would be one the way it's told is gimmicky and while there is some explanation behind the flashbacks it still doesn't satisfy pacing is about non existent the lead is distinctly unlikeable and there's more personality in a barn door not to mention that those are also considerably less wooden kelly and thomas ian nicholas what in the name of all that is good and just pun intended are you doing in this you were already funny before this on the drew carey show nicholas well i haven't seen you in anything preceding american pie but if nothing else you were funny later on and in those productions the amusement was intentional dialog is the less said the better language is unrestrained and tends to be stupid the violence is shoddily done and they don't even seem to care to try to hide it hinting at it might have been the smarter strategy characters don't get me started why spend so much energy on portraying unexciting at times utterly illogical events the more you think about this the worse it gets it's not even passable as a bad horror flick or a b movie it may very well pass through the rest of the alphabet and go further still it couldn't scare you on the scariest day of your life if it had an electrified scaring machine i recommend this only to people who want to disprove how bad this is and don't say i didn't warn ya 1 10
0	before i begin let me get something off my chest i'm a huge fan of john first film project the film a b grade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit spawned two sequels a spin off br br judge and jury begins with joseph meeker a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called bloody shootout which seems like a poor name for a killing spree – meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store being led to the electric chair there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love who was killed during the shootout expressing his revenge for the person who killed her – michael silvano a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team and ends up harassing his son's coach but once executed meeker returns as a or as kelly calls a hamburger without the fries whose sole aim is to get his revenge which basically means making life a misery br br let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film it is a supernatural action film with meeker chasing silvano using his ability to change form which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad as his moustache a drag queen a clown a stand up comedian a shotgun which fires explosive rounds an invulnerability to death although that doesn't stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for killing meeker's wife br br director john does not seem interested in characterisations instead focusing solely on action scenes which the film has plenty of but that is the film's main flaw since there's nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting is surprisingly good with keith delivering the best performance supported ably by kove as well as paul koslo who plays the washed up cop quite well kelly is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse
0	well i saw this movie during the last san sebastian film festival the reaction to it was let's say as funny as the movie is it happened that they showed a copy with terribly wrong spanish subtitles they seemed to be a translation from chinese to english and then to spanish it was all confusing the genders were switched girls appeared as boys and boys as girls and my friends and i remember great lines but because they were so absurd all in all not a good movie but if they ever show it on tv and you have nothing to do and if you want to laugh again not so much with the movie then go ahead visible secret is your film
0	d o a is a non thrilling thriller from directors rocky morton and annabel br br the acting is okay and the screenplay is pretty bad this movie also has some moments which will make you laugh at how stupid the scenes of violence br br are for example someone is shot near a window we then see from outside br br the building what looks like that person jumped i laughed my head off when this happened this movie tries hard but ultimately fails only watch this movie br br when you have no other choice br br my critique br br rating r br br rating reasons violence and language br br there was no rating reason available due to its age
0	what i miss most of all in this film is that it lets no place for imagination everything is said it is like a documentary film but not as good as a documentary because it is no documentary a patchwork film without a continuous story very superficial nothing to think about because the film tells you already what you are supposed to think too many different problems are touched but none is worked out in order to make you think i do not even know if it is a funny film that wants to be serious or a serious film that wants to be funny many scenes are very unrealistic and the acting is quite poor the film is quite boring
0	this very forced attempt to fuse robert altman and quentin tarantino who is wildly overrated himself is neither informative nor entertaining the character development is arbitrary and unbelievable especially in the final scene of the thugs and the little boy as other reviewers have noted also a couple of humorous moments aside the film is not as funny black humor or otherwise as the director seems to think it is
0	i had to lower my rating of this movie to a 4 due to the terrible sound track i'm pretty sure it was not a problem with me or the tape because some actors and the sound track sounded great but most of the actors voices were distorted or garbled beyond recognition especially for non brits br br there are plenty of cute little twists that would make this an enjoyable movie ending up in bosnia by mistake is great but much of the humor was lost in the sound
0	as i write this in november 2005 i've become aware that the great british boom of cinema has come to an end and while people will claim much of this is down to the british government not giving film makers tax breaks i think the cause is much simpler a lack of diversity on the part of producers over the last few years let's have a look at what the brits were producing 1995 2005 br br funky gangster thrillers lock stock and two smoking was a truly great and thoroughly entertaining film and people went out of their way to ape guy ritchie's style with usually disappointing results br br romantic comedies yeah okay i do realise four weddings notting hill etc were produced by american studios but they're still vaguely british films unfortunately because they're guaranteed to make a profit for the studios they have to follow a winning formula which usually involved hugh grant playing hugh grant for the umpteenth time br br black comedies can anyone explain what a black comedy actually is in the british context it's usually a rambling film with often contemporary political statements made and which often resembles mike leigh's naked br br jasmin beautiful people is a good example of the third type of british movie filmed in 1999 but set in 1993 it opens with two men having a fight on a bus and it's later revealed that one's a serb and one's a croat so we get a bite sized rundown of what was happening in the balkans at that time though what's the odds of two former enemies in the balkans bumping into each other on a london bus this sums up one of the major flaws of the movie irony takes precedence over likely situations you can appreciate the final irony of the subplots but is the outcome likely perhaps the greatest irony is the title of the film it's called beautiful people but certainly this audience member found them clichéd stereotypical people that i couldn't believe in as three dimensional characters
0	old bat transforms to younger ok looking girl after drinking a potion this movie was dreadful the acting atrocious the camera work made me head spin and it features the longest most excruciatingly boring strip tease ever put to film piero should be ashamed for directing this eduardo been blacklisted just for writing something so awful don't rent this movie the only exception i can this of is maybe if you're dying and only have less then 90 minutes to live watch this film cause it will feel like an eternity and you'll be begging the grip reaper come a little early br br my grade f
0	dr marnie bannister magda is a horribly disfigured woman when one of her colleagues discovers a rejuvenation formula marnie sees it as her opportunity to become beautiful when she's denied the drug because of possible side effects she kills her colleague to get what she wants the drug works and she becomes beautiful but the formula brings out the worst in her and it's not long before she's left a string of bodies behind her br br have you ever heard the expression as exciting as watching paint dry that pretty much sums up during the film one of the characters utters the line something so horrible it's inconceivable i wasn't sure if he was talking about something in movie or the movie itself i'm really disappointed because i had high hopes for this one had possibilities but they're never realized at every opportunity the plot has marnie do the dullest things imaginable the writing is horrible and part of the problem is magda she's not that appealing and cannot carry the film on her own br br another big problem with is the direction and editing it's a mess we see things and places that have no bearing on anything in the movie the camera lingers on shots too long after the scene is over i can't think of a single shot that would call anything but unoriginal this group of filmmakers exhibits little in the way of imagination or talent br br i may not be familiar with the italian comic on which is supposedly based but i'm sure it's got to be better than this
0	deformed aged female scientist kills fellow scientist in order to steal formulae for rejuvenating cells and reversing the aging process she takes it and turns into the beautiful evil magda who goes around seducing and murdering wealthy businessmen br br she dresses very stylishly in late 60s mod clothes and manipulates those around her looking a lot like the late marisa from the film coincidence br br however in spite of all this it's amateurish and sloppy without the james bond pop art that had had even the madrid and lake geneva filming locations don't make up for this br br the soundtrack is by manuel roberto and it isn't bad at all consisting of lush orchestration with a little fuzz guitar used as an embellishment perfect for one of those european cds that came out in the 90s br br the retromedia dvd also uses a substandard grainy color print that's in poor shape with an explanation at the beginning saying that this was due to the age of the film bull they either didn't bother looking for a better source or they couldn't find one at all there are only a few stills of magda and that's it br br sloppy poor all around this one gets a 3 out of 10
0	this spanish italian co production tells an interesting and weird story about dr bannister a woman that not only has the best years behind her but also has a scarred face that makes her look like a freak but in madrid a professor she knows has conducted some experiments on animals with a substance which cells the experiments were successful but the animals became aggressive because the professor won't allow dr bannister to be the first human guinea pig she kills him and consumes the substance she becomes a beautiful young woman but also a vicious killer when it comes to keep her secret a secret br br the plot of the film is great fun but piero had not enough skills and money to make a cool movie out of it also the film becomes boring after a good start and doesn't manage to regain a fast pace even though the film's running time doesn't exceed 83 minutes and as the setting changes to swiss city geneva for the last third of the film it sometimes even looks like a vacation movie as we see how beautiful geneva is which it is indeed but it doesn't help to push the plot forward so with a more talented director better actors and a bigger budget could have become an obscure italian classic but as it is it's just a lacklustre and boring crime film that isn't really worth looking for rating 3 out of 10
0	they call this film euro trash horror br br well it's not horror the film takes place in europe so yes it's euro trash ah yes it's trash all right br br you know you're in for a great movie when right at the beginning the dvd gives you text on the screen apologizing for the quality of the print you're about to watch expect crackles odd jarring cuts and for the movie not to fit the screen plus there's the sound at first i thought i was watching a dubbed film then watching the lips carefully i realized that no it's that the sound quality is embarrassingly bad and out of synch br br the plot itself is fairly goofy an old disfigured woman named dr bannister kills a scientist for his youth formula i'm not giving much away because when you see the old woman it's pretty obvious she's under a layer of thick badly applied make up anyone with a lick of sense seeing the fake old age knows what's coming next br br yes the old crone is miraculously transformed into a beautiful young woman complete with face make up and a long wig of hair br br when i say the old woman is disfigured i mean she has cornflakes glued to her face the film makes no attempt to explain how the cornflakes got there for that matter there is no attempt to explain anything at all relating to any of the characters they're never developed beyond the level of finger puppets br br the two policemen pursuing our anti heroine just wander about apparently baffled by the simplest clues the murdered scientist was working on a youth serum the old woman has disappeared and we keep running into a young woman how do these pieces fit together what does it all mean one of the cops sweats a lot and pats his face with a cloth the other smokes a pipe that's pretty much all we get character wise br br dr bannister the crone now a beauty goes around wearing odd costumes and then taking them off so we can see her flesh she has affairs with men she gets in a catfight with a young woman in a nightgown she goes to geneva so we can see the lake there she water skis a bit then takes off her wet suit to reveal a strange bead curtain bikini she takes off her clothes again in a strange ninja costume striptease br br the ending well without giving anything away it's just a bizarre tacked on conclusion that makes about as little sense as the rest of the picture it's the sort of thing a writer comes up with when the director wakes him up at 4 am and says quick we need an ending for our movie what happens next br br the writer mumbles something half awake and the director runs with it br br what's good about this movie some of the music is campy and fun that classic 60s organ music that's so corny it's enough to make you laugh out loud there are some odd seduction scenes bizarre dialogue goofy moments br br it's very close to being so bad it's good i did manage to watch it from start to finish without gouging out my eyes or sobbing i guess that's praise of sorts '
0	i don't know why i even watched this film i think it was because i liked the idea of the scenery and was hoping the film would be as good very boring and pointless
0	possible spoilers br br i love dennis quaid and i like meg ryan i was looking forward to seeing them together being married and all i wanted to see their on screen chemistry okay that being said i guess the fact that they are actors their off screen relationship didn't have to permeate their performances especially with this script br br how stupid can a professor be to glue himself to anyone i don't remember the original but i can only assume that o'brien probably was handcuffed to his leading lady probably in a more inevitable way if i were bonded to someone i'd be pretty angry the crush i would have would definitely have dissipated quickly meg showed not even a little annoyance only slight surprise dennis would have to take me kicking and screaming that whole section of the movie was so horrible especially meg having to go to the bathroom 2 between dumpsters in the dark at night ewww no f ing way br br what's with dennis socking every single suspect in the movie sock first ask questions later not once not twice but too many times i could have kept count if i were so inclined br br the most interesting part of the movie was nick and his family drama too bad that couldn't have become more of the plot the assumed off screen drama leading up to this tragedy i think it could have been written in without distracting from quest br br my blame lies with the writer of this screenplay unless the director and others doctored it up so much that it's unrecognizable br br i won't even get into the real reason poor dex was murdered how ludicrous is that even when dex confronted the real killer and the reason was explained a true film noir moment everyone on screen seemed bored oh happened oh yawn dex even says this is a silly reason for a triple murder oh the tension you could cut it with a spoon br br if anyone but dennis had been in this movie i'd have to give it 1 2 star only because i really have seen worse but in this case 1 1 2 stars br br for dennis and meg stars see anything else
0	i bought the dvd out of a big bin for 4 99 thinking i'd lucked into some documentary pearl that would actually show extensive footage of the mountains and in particular fast forwarding through the film i reached the climactic scene in which the climbers catch their first sight of mount towering to all of 13 260 ft in canada's coastal range at least one of the several bozos geared up to climb clearly has no idea what the real mountain actually looks like he has to be assured by his friend and climbing partner that he wouldn't have been brought by said partner to an ugly mountain given that one of the film's premises is that 27 or so people have lost their lives on you might think that the jerk in question might have taken a minute or two to bone up on a few basic facts but the clown seems to think that preparations on this scale while good enough for the likes of reinhold are beneath him to be honest i haven't watched the whole thing what i've seen makes me cringe they say that you get what you pay for at 4 99 i've been ripped off
0	mount godwin austin otherwise known as is the world's second highest mountain and if the evidence presented in this film is to be believed is the hardest mountain to climb successfully without getting yourself killed is basically a buddy flick set in the breathtakingly dangerous world of mountaineering while the outdoor photography takes in some truly awesome scenery the characters standing in front of all those glorious landscapes are a crashing bore and therein lies the fault with the whole film br br cocksure lawyer taylor brooks michael biehn and his quiet married friend harold matt craven spend their free time rock climbing during one of their trips they meet up with another bunch of climbers funded by wealthy mountain enthusiast philip raymond j barry team are in training for a forthcoming shot at the infamous a mountain that taylor and harold would both love to tackle but could never afford to do so during their training run however two of team get themselves killed in an avalanche taylor and harold put themselves forward as potential replacements despite initial reluctance gives them the nod of approval and the pair find themselves joining his team in the himalayas harold's wife cindy julia nickson soul is distraught that her husband is going to take on such a dangerous climb especially since he has recently become a father tensions in the climbing team mount as taylor repeatedly clashes with another member of the group the equally brash and arrogant dallas woolf luca meanwhile himself grows increasingly ill as altitude sickness takes its toll on his body will the guys reach the peak of or is their quest destined to end in disappointment or even death br br spends an inordinately long time introducing its somewhat dislikeable characters biehn as a foul mouthed pushy adventurous type is especially hard to like as is barry as the hard nosed mountaineering millionaire but on the other side of the coin craven is so dull that it becomes difficult to believe his wife could possibly give a damn about him going off to climb heck she'd be better off if he never came back rounding off the main characters is whose characterisation as dallas woolf is as campy and over the top as every other role he's ever played the story itself is totally tame and disposable – just a straightforward yarn about guys trying to reach the top of a mountain there's a bit of male bonding thrown in but the whole subplot about harold and his wife amounts to nil and the personality clashes between taylor and dallas ring totally false scores its few merits solely from the stunning cinematography by gabriel – during the himalayan sequences the scale and awe of the mountains is quite nicely captured i'm completely with critic kim newman on this one who hilariously stated in empire magazine on this evidence climbing can't be any harder than sitting through it quite true kim quite true
0	i can't believe the amount of reviewers who praise this as realistic i'm a million miles from being an expert and i'm never going to climb a mountain but even the very basic knowledge attained from reading into thin air and watching everest beyond the limit and a few other everest docs meant that this film just got more and more ridiculous as it went on there is some good climbing footage at the start and when the billionaire mission leader asks early in the film how much experience above 8000 metres do you have i was encouraged to hope that this might be a gritty and accurate man vs nature odyssey instead you have a bunch of climbers zooming up a mountain with no climbing with goggles off in full sun and they are barely ever out of breath performing miraculous feats of endurance only near the summit is a little fatigue suggested to dramatically accentuate the physical feat of climbing such a monstrous peak almost as an afterthought if you have no knowledge of mountaineering give it a look be prepared for some clichéd heroics although no more clichéd than a hundred other passably diverting flicks and a clichéd outcome i've been developing a minor fascination with high mountains and was looking forward to watching but other than some amazingly beautiful scenery it was a let down because it was so far removed from reality i can imagine some experts being employed in the making of this movie but then being conveniently ignored in the pursuit of the heroic and sadly fantastical storyline also you would sound like a bit of a tit if you said welcome to the death zone at feet
0	seems like a pretty innocent choice at first the name employee of the month might ring bells with office space and the show office clerk i think not this isn't even a dark comedy the director of this movie whoever the guy's name was a complete jerk and has a sick perverse mind there is no pleasure in being lured into feeling sorry for a complete loser who cheats on his wife steals from his top notch job and lies through his teeth 24 7 the second i walk in to the room when my family are watching it and believe me they were only watching it more because they were praying that there would be at least some relief perhaps even some fable in the end sending a warm message of good justice done and when the good guys look good all the good guys were killed so long ago that they had no time to look good no memorial was made br br this movie has borderline insanity it the elderly the dead and women and the director tries to make people to like it br br i gave this movie a two only because the soundtrack was good but not even that was all that memorable if you were lucky enough to not see this in theaters my friends do not do this at home
0	this is a crummy film a pretender to a genre of surprise ending movies and a genre that has been done so much better before the plot limps along with a predictable ending yawn the characters are unlikeable and some are so unlikeable they are almost unwatchable matt dillon a fine intense actor is totally miscast here and is stiff and mannered the others are forgettable much of the dialog is sophomoric again a pretender trying to be witty i wouldn't hire the screenwriter to write my grocery list yes it's that bad veering from misogynistic to just plain gross as in beyond frat house gross with so much real talent out there i'm really surprised this movie ever got made it shows the total lack of imagination of the office suits
0	this is the worst exercise in middle class pretentiousness yet to hit our television screens i unfortunately did not see it when it was first shown but paid for the joy of watching six hours of excruciating drivel and i'm still waiting for the laughs to arrive i love having been a big fan of both black books and green wing and therefore know that she is capable of the very best of comedy parts however she played this part as well as she was able considering the lack of any decent comedy material provided please broadcasters bear in mind that the trades descriptions act may well be invoked if you continue to bill as comedy material which is at best pseudo psychological romanticism and at worst a drama which poses as a quirky comedy to hide the fact that is neither fish nor fowl
0	if you live in the suburbs are relatively well off financially and do not really have much contact with the city life of england then this is the comedy for you not something a mass audience would go for but if you're like these characters they show you'll love it to pieces overall this is a comedy that the snobs at the bbc will sit back and laugh at for their pleasure and only a select few of the publics comparing it to bbc comedys like only fools and horses fawlty towers black adder and other classics this series tends to drift away from the bbc's regular product to the audience and deliver to somewhat of a folk culture
0	why watch a tv drama billed as a comedy in which none of the characters are likable or even interesting people i can sort of see what the writer david was trying to achieve the and bad taste surprises that he put into one foot in the grave etc i admit that the script made a bit more of an effort than most on british tv at the moment but really who cares about these people they are cold bores br br another poster mentioned the scene in which the woman sits down to watch a video of herself and her deceased ex boyfriend shagging that was the moment when i switched off this programme never to return br br p s it's interesting to note that the posters who didn't like this series are all british whereas those who praise it are mostly in other countries this reflects the fact that when the bbc broadcast this series it was ignored by viewers and sank like a stone br br p p s good news for those who liked it there will be a second series in autumn 2007 though without the male lead it sounds like the bbc have decided to turn it into a more conventional 30 minute sitcom
0	this film tries to skewer the studio era in hollywood and the morals of the 1950s guy stone is intended to be a rock hudson type but both the script and actor matt end up channeling a smarmy cruel baritone voiced version of george hamilton instead which makes for an unpleasant character br br guy stone is such a reprehensible human being that the audience has trouble liking this waste of human skin unlike hudson who was sweetly promiscuous stone is a hateful person who knowingly uses and then throws away the sweet handsome young men who share his bed every few hours br br veronica cartwright is jerry stone's celibate lesbian manager cartwright is very good but the director doesn't quite know what to do with her the fault lies in the dialogue which is a bit clumsy and the film suffers for it br br carrie preston's sally owes more to ellen greene in the little shop of horrors as written preston's sally is good for a laugh but little else newcomer adam greer is lost in this movie he cannot act and seems to have been cast for his hot body and good looks br br like many recent films straight jacket is a dramedy a comedy film which switches messily to a drama about two thirds of the way through the film and like almost all straight jacket fails miserably br br despite the expensive services of skywalker sound the sound quality of the film leaves a lot of be desired the over use of the musical soundtrack creates a distracting amount of cues as well br br the film really doesn't managed to satirize anything about the 1950s unlike singin' in the rain which perfectly captures hollywood's ambivalence about the advent of sound as well as the studio mentality about formula films straight jacket doesn't manage to depict hollywood in the 1950s at all well the dialogue sets and behavior of the key characters are nondescript rather than dead on stereotypes of the 1950s hollywood the same can be said for the lampooning of the general mores social trends and fads of the 1950s as a whole compare the transformation of guy's home to the dead on satire of the 1950s home in little shop of horrors there is no comparison little shop hits the nail on the head while straight jacket doesn't even know there is a nail br br motivations too seem haphazard rick foster is supposed to be a principled liberal yet he falls almost immediately for a materialistic schmuck like guy stone rick is fine with guy's closeted status for many months but when it comes time to go to italy he becomes conflicted for reasons that are completely unclear and even though sally appears to fall in love with freddie during the party this plot point simply disappears a few minutes later without comment rick comes off like a gay man from the 1990s not a gay author of the 1950s indeed modern morality this film which it shouldn't if it were really a satirical look at homophobia in 1950s hollywood br br plot holes in this ragtag film also abound saul repeatedly says that he's going to turn freddie stevens over to the feds but never does so allowing freddie to out guy jerry and saul's plot to in guy never makes any sense nor does sally's sudden decision to take the blame and although guy has admitted he is a homosexual apparently it doesn't matter and he ends up a famous star and playwright anyway br br unfortunately none of the production values manage to save this film the cinematography by michael is pedestrian at times the film almost looks like a filmed play rather than a motion picture especially the scenes in saul's office everything is restricted to medium shots and the film has an incredibly static the editing by chris doesn't do the film any help either long scenes which would benefit from the insertion of close ups or shifts in point of view remain uncut whether this is due to lack of coverage or bad editing is not clear but the overall effect is to create a sense of lethargy br br the film relies heavily on cgi effects of guy's home created by visual effect designer thomas dickens but the cgi looks clumsy and hokey and it is very noticeably amateurish br br my overall impression of this film is that the jokes are cheap and easy the plot muddled the characterizations wildly inconsistent and way off the mark the satire nonexistent the performances overbroad and off the mark and the comic timing off it's almost an amateurish film it is as if someone took a high school production and threw 10 million at it
0	director and playwright richard day adapted his own stage material for the screen clearly inspired by rock hudson's real life dilemma from the 1950s what to do with a screen idol who is secretly homosexual marry him off to an unsuspecting woman in order to quell the gossips and keep him working wispy thin idea given some energy by the good cast and retro production design which amusingly resembles a greeting card by shag the dialogue isn't very clever and there's some slapstick goofing around near the beginning which fails to work spitting out food etc still when a serious tone comes over the final act it is handled with great taste and is far more welcomed by the viewer than all the klutzy silliness matt does good work as movie hero male whore guy stone but are his experiences here enough to strengthen his character or would he be right back at the bar the next night the movie seems not to know or care day wants to get off a few one liners and one carefully written pro gay speech a plea for tolerance but he has no other agenda for audiences who invest their time and interest in these people the sentimental bow on this thing can look like nothing more than a prank 1 2 from
0	this review contains a partial spoiler br br shallow from the outset 'd o a ' at least starts as if it might be a slick entertaining piece of nonsense like fincher's 'the game' it's central character dennis quaid suffers from a nightmarish sequence of events that appear to be setting up a twisted and cunning thriller but the plot rattles along at too great a pace leading to a dramatic twist not half way through when the character learns that he has been poisoned and has only 1 2 days to live and this simply is too big a twist to add casually to a story once this has happened the film's only chance of success is if it treats the psychology of someone in this situation as its principal indeed its only subject matter but 'd o a ' continues as if this was just a normal revelation like any other you might usually encounter in a thriller the problem is two fold firstly quaid's actions don't convince as what someone is his situation would be likely to do and secondly even if they did convince it's hard to care about what happens next when the most significant point of plot has already been prematurely resolved the rest of the film is pretty standard fare for a film of this sort but made more tedious than usual by the character's slightly treated predicament which logically dwarfs the events the film is interested in dennis quaid in the lead role doesn't convince either as a burnt out professor or as a man who is destined to die meg ryan is as often ditzy and annoying another negative feature is the ugly 80s soundtrack watch 'the game' instead which from similar roots remains tight and character driven whereas 'd o a ' drifts into developments that only undermine its own premise as the premise is itself quite intriguing it's a shame to see it drowned in a surplus of over cooked plot
0	when king kong stripped her of her top in the 1976 remake i was breathless i don't know how many times i went back to see that movies hoping to see more jessica lange was not a great actress then she became one but she was so hot i went to see sweet dreams when it came out because by that time ms lange had become a great actress it looked like a wonderful story and she's always exciting to see br br i never walked out of a movie faster my wife concurred br br when we got into the car i turned to her and said if you had told me i would get bored watching jessica lange take her clothes off i would have said your crazy i just got bored watching lange take her clothes off how bad is that
0	a potentially good idea gets completely let down by a weak script which throws all credibility out the window leaving the actors very little to work with roth covers it up as best he can by being all mouth hurt has about as much menace as a fluffy bunny and stamp can't seem to decide whether he's playing an ex london crook or some straight off the playing fields at eton as for poor laura del sol she does what she can but her character is no more than every northern idea of the stereotypical latino woman who's all pouts and hot temperament if you're a fan of any of the main actors don't disappoint yourself or fool yourself as i suspect many of the other reviewer's here have done watch it by all means but stay critical you know these guys can do better
0	this film holds 7 0 rating on imdb so even i sensed something rotten in it's synopsis i decided to try it out what a waste of 100 minutes first of all the 80's were not a good decade for crime and thriller genre most of these in those days were badly done with silly plot if they had any so there are very few that can stand out and even if they were good they are still not very good the hit however suffers from everything that made silly crime pictures silly it has poor character development improbable plot and wasn't written or directed in a decent manner and when you have such shortcomings the acting doesn't help stephen frears often tried to emulate french new wave in english style film making and the two don't match br br first of all terence stamp is 10 years in hiding because he testified against some of his former partners in crime he hides in spain of all places he is finally caught up with and than first kidnapped by a group of silly looking spanish thugs just do be driven away some distance to the two hit man that are supposed to deal with him these two are john hurt who is supposed to be hard boiled stone cold killer and tim roth in his first role as the devil's apprentice they don't kill stamp right away they first dispose of the three amigos they shouldn't have hired in the first place and then they are driving stamp to paris because one of the buddies he testified against wants to confront him ok that's possible but even with stamp being such a dangerous figure that they had to hire four guys to overpower him they don't tie him down don't incapacitate him in any way and drive around with him like he's one of the buddies stamp doesn't object and is happily going to paris to be shot not using any of a half a dozen chances these professionals offer for him to escape than it appears that tim roth is just a school boy bully making the idea of big crime boss teaming him up with a hard core hit man like john hurt even more improbable especially on an important job like that but than john hurt is not so hard core himself he spends twenty minutes of the movie killing or not killing the totally surplus australian played by bill hunter whose only purpose in this film is to introduce the lovely laura del sol his mistress who he says is 15 but she looks more like 25 and whose role in the story and acting capabilities suggest that she was offered the role solely on the basis of being the director's or producer's mistress at the time after much deliberation hurt kills the australian but takes along his mistress for no apparent reason than he wants to kill her but roth with his subtle ways convince him not to so even she kicks him bites him and scratches him through the entire movie he stays true to that deeply buried human side of him br br than you have plain idiotic scenes like when hurt and roth lock the car from the outside trying to prevent the people inside from getting out anyway the movie drags on tim roth falls asleep guarding terence stamp with his gun on his chest and stamp just waits there watching the waterfall than the whole shamble of a plot comes to the point where everything we've seen in the last hour and 20 minutes just goes out through the window let's recapitulate the whole point in not killing stamp right away except for having a movie is to take him to paris so his former partner is to have a last word with him and the whole point in him not running away is that he is prepared to die saying it's just a moment we're here then we're not here we're somewhere else maybe and it's as natural as breathing why should we be scared but my friends here is where the plot twists hurt kills the man while still in spain and we ask why bother and drive around for days he could have done it in the first 15 minutes and than contrary to his philosophy stamp is very afraid of being killed so we ask again why didn't he run and he had plenty chance roth gets killed too but he shouldn't be in the movie at all and del sol well she's promised a role in this film purely for romantic read sexual reasons so she stays alive again even she attacked hurt for the 15th time in the movie he killed all the others but not her she must have maximum screen appearance the movie was made on a shoe string budget and it shows but when you have no story and card board characterizations it shows even more and yes fernando ray appears and goes through the movie as the guest star having a single audible line of dialog awful
0	laughed my ass off but probably because i was stoned that aside this is in no way a horror movie there is no horror whatsoever in this entire movie and the plot holes are so huge that even a below average iq person would think it was stupid on top of that i am living in denmark and have been for all my life and can assure you that denmark is way too small a country that you need and maps to find your way back if you got lost i would estimate that unless you really put an effort into it you could never be farther away from town or other people than maximum 3 hours on foot secondly i don't think any part of the movie apart from two shots from copenhagen where none of the actors were in were actually taped in denmark the bog woman is talking swedish not danish the helmet on the first bog body is brand new the girl they find in the forest is hiding under a type of rock that does not exist in denmark this is just stupid
0	spoiler alert wasted 85 minutes of my life watching this film first of all we think it is hilarious that the producer in the film as the autopsy doctor with a horrible unbelieveably unbelievable accent what the hell was that anyway romanian and how is it that in denmark no one speaks danish except the bog creatures note the scottish camp director and who does the shopping for the bog creatures their pants looked like they were purchased at banana republic very nicely dressed for being 1200 years old this one was worse than scarecrow slayer we didn't think that was even possible we basically fast forwarded through 75 of the movie looking for any gore death scary moments none found do rent the dvd just to watch the 2 hour behind the scenes of bog creatures featurette who are these people are they serious and the filmmakers are like 60 years old i think this is their holy grail and that's pathetic enough in and of itself br br best line from the movie hands down not bad for a girl who never even went to graduate school my blind grandma who has alzheimers could make a better movie
0	i saw this movie yesterday on a public service channel they had advertised it as an awful movie and so i was drawn to see it and i was not let down br br a group of 18 19 year old go to an excavation site at an old viking castle in denmark to try to uncover the myth of the berserker vikings strange things happens something is in the forest and people start disappearing br br the main thing about this movie that really bothers me is that the story is supposed to take place in denmark where i happen to live there were so many places in the movie where the hollywood style overlapped danish reality it really made the acting and drama look ridiculous in my eyes br br you never see the characters interact with any of their surroundings its feels like a mini hollywood in denmark and it takes away the credibility of the movie when at one point you hear someone speak old danish it sounds exactly like modern day swedish really bad research considering the director is from denmark br br the characters in the movie used gps and maps and that's really funny since denmark is about the size of your backyard where you are there is never more than 50 km to the sea and 500 meters to civilization and if you are at a castle there are going to be tourists everywhere we see a lot of overviews of forests in the movie and sometimes we see what appears to be north american vegetation the story did not exactly appeal to me maybe because the acting was so bad when the characters see the bog creatures for the first time they are not even scared i guess their acting skills were insufficient to display realistic emotions at the end there is an unexpected twist but it didn't impress me since i didn't really care br br the bog creatures are cheap but they had the potential to be scary unfortunately they fail since we get a good look at them standing in the forest when the characters arrive at the castle also there are no really scary scenes since the bog creatures are mostly just standing around br br anyway conclusion disregarding the facts the movie is your typical b horror flick i guess people from other countries can enjoy it more as long as you are unaware of reality it doesn't matter just like i think of usa as one big action movie set everyone else can think of denmark as a forest with a castle and some living dead people in a bog
0	bog creatures shows exactly what can happen when very enthusiastic people get together with a little cash some knowledge of movie making a mixed bag of aspiring actors and a lot of determination yet all without the necessary knowledge and skills to pull off anything more than a fairly poor looking after school special in a bad way not a nostalgic good way i mean this is so so quality home movie student film stuff if you want to pass it around to family and friends for free thankfully i found it in a discount bin somewhere sure there may be some sort of market out there for this kind of thing but it is a market that seems to only exist by default because there are so many poor b movies out there even more so now in this day and age br br the only people i would recommend this move to is aspiring guerrilla filmmakers first i would recommend that they watch the special feature making of thing included on the disc see the film crews enthusiasm their hard work joy and very high opinions of their own product then watch the movie within a few frames you will hopefully understand what went wrong bored i went through the whole thing and clearly the director and cinematographer tried but just don't know enough about what they are doing they knew enough to have fun but in the long run without necessary skills this interprets to they knew enough to be dangerous this is like a bad nickelodeon movie as apposed to a more decent one i guess a couple of the actors did ok and the cool stoner looking dude with the tattoo real or fake tattoo i know not was probably the best and most natural and i hope he makes it but their natural acting talent was what was coming through despite the bad movie bad script and so so directing principles if the director had spent more time helping these aspiring actors to develop their characters studying successfully proven camera techniques and lighting principles to direct his crew better and if the script had been actually worked on instead of written in a week or so according to the very indulgent documentary then maybe this could have been more of a film instead it's a film that has a feeling of some potential and has a few moments in it due more to the genre than the film itself but ends up showing nearly every frame what not to do if you want to see what a decent low budget horror movie can really look like watch phantasm or even laserblast if you want a glorified home movie no joke get bog creatures
0	although many billie dove fans are delighted with her work here i have to pass as a socially prominent member of the british smart set her british accent is basically non existent and her line readings sound just like well line readings and her emoting seems trance like and ponderous basil rathbone usually a fine actor seems off kilter throughout and also speaks with a weird sort of accent in his case something like italian though we cannot be sure the script manages to keep his precise ethnicity a secret he is further hampered by the script which gives him one of those old movie diseases something to do with nerves which requires surgery the only real entertainment is provided by the illustrious kay francis sporting a lacquered bob with side curls in her role as a depraved countess who shamelessly devours men including rathbone and then spits them out she pulls it off with her unique aplomb she is the only living thing in this dead sea of a film
0	an unintentionally hilarious early talkie melodrama with kay francis as the countess chasing everything in pants at the beginning of the film she throws back the for being too young before setting off for the chauffeur the high toned english set she moves in is such a clichéd bunch of ers that it's ridiculous but the topper is basil rathbone as an italian violinist with a chico marx accent my how weel i ever play eet again my is cold it's campy beyond belief
0	all right let me start by saying i love the original rs for the 64 the graphics were new the ships were really fast and cool the missions were a challenge but you had a strategy to come up with the computer didn't tell you every step of your mission you could wander and explore br br that's the first thing that's wrong with rl everything you do is under a timetable and controlled by other people i mean shouldn't you as the leader be telling people how to handle each and every mission br br and speaking of missions why do they intersperse the original trilogy with completely made up crap never mind br br i was so waiting for this game when i heard they were going to allow you fly through the asteroid field from empire strikes back i think anyone who is a fan of the films wanted to do this so they give it to you it's the stupidest level in the game you start by flying through the asteroid field with ties chasing after you and your whole objective is to get farther into the field while shooting the ties you have to kill them all to get ahead hey remember how many han killed when he was in the field none they all had poor piloting skills compared to him i just wanted to be able to dodge the asteroids as they came at me but instead i have to use my automatic aim guns to kill ties behind me br br that was the biggest disappointment you have no control over your flying everything is sluggish all except for the a wing probably the fastest and most ship in the entire fleet but oh yeah didn't han say the falcon was anyway br br you finally get to the battle of endor here is the ultimate level you get to destroy the death star everyone's first instinct is to pick the falcon and be the leader but of course you get there and have to do stupid pre chosen strategies like finding not to mention deciphering the difference between the tie bombers this is impossible in the falcon by the time you have spotted one group the gets destroyed the only way to get passed this part is to pick the a wing after this you have to attack the star destroyers and that's a real stupid chore this game makes you feel like you're the only one defending the rebel alliance br br after you frustratingly get through that 'fun' fight you get to the death star and here you might think i get to destroy the death star' and again like in the asteroid field you have to do some tedious thing while narrowly getting passed the tunnels of impending doom your mission is to protect the ship in front of you remember that from the return of the jedi it's so moronic because if you pick the falcon you'll die because you're not enough but if you pick the x wing you have to keep locking and unlocking your s foils so it's a choice to either kill the bad guys or try to catch up to lando who apparently doesn't know how to maneuver thus dying in the process br br the bonus stages aren't even worth aiming for as each level just gets more and more frustrating it makes me feel the way i did when i saw the new three films upset and in need of killing something lucky for me smash bros melee exists br br i hope with the wii they come up with something a lot better and have the original trilogy levels to full capacity i'm going to sell this game the first chance i get
0	interesting plot but painfully dull the script lacks lacks acting to me this film compares with made for tv type movies i was lucky to survive the film without falling asleep in my popcorn i watched this film with my family it is fairly safe to watch with your kids only 1 semi sex scene if you wish to see a young meg ryan check out this movie very 80 ish you will like this movie if you like the combination of depressed people at christmas booze super glue and tar or maybe you are like me and have have a higher standard for acting in films however i did like the way the movie began and ended mark
0	i'm the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to season from the b grade to the hollywood but this movie was something different i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable but some bits were just weird well the acting wasn't to good compared to the shockers performance in hot boyz quite good and ice t in new jack and svu great the scene where corrupt ice t kills the wanna be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude this kills the jamaican however ice t is unharmed very similar to ice's other movie urban menace which stars both of these actors were snoops character is supernatural however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon when mj gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird benny isn't introduced in this movie and the scene isn't in the film it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn't mention what happen 2 other main characters mj and lisa the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed not wearing a helmet and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team it was ok tho but me being from poverty i love hood films however if u don't love em like i do don't watch it only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with 100 dollars and my love of the genre br br nathaniel
0	i am a lover of bad movies i own r o t o r and boa vs python and am working to build up my collection to such great titles as troll 2 and what's up but storm trooper is not even bad enough to make it to the list of wonderfully terrible movies it's just lame the guy who said he's had better dialogue with his potted plants has it right everything about this movie is stupid when the robot guy runs into the car it seems almost as if he knew it was going to blow up there was just no reason he would ever run in that direction judge jury and executioner the perfect cop but they went too far i mean come on why do people bother making these movies anymore r o t o r makes it because it is hysterically awful but storm trooper is just a waste of cinema because it isn't even bad enough to be so bad it's worth watching this belongs in someone's home movies collection something they can be sort of proud of but that is all i am p ssed off it was on an hbo channel with only 1 star which is why i watched it because it didn't belong there even if you love bad movies do not watch this movie it is shameful
0	anyone who thinks kool moe dee carol alt and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i'd love to try sometime where to begin lousy soundtrack hammy acting action in places this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was's love to star in i actually felt embarrassed for the stars in this film the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman who if he would have been in the movie would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad rather than just plain bad br br there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed do you think i'm an idiot yes carol i do your agent does and please for the love of all that is decent and holy go away and stop degrading yourself like this this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in br br i would tell you what the plot was but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway so i barely paid attention
0	i think this is the worst movie i have seen since mortal kombat 2 the action including the effects is like in a cheap glen a larson tv show the acting is terrible and the dialogs are even more stupid than in mk2 avoid at all cost
0	normally for movie reviews i try to be constructive and objective but there is only one word for this uh film sucks the dialogue acting special effects plot set and characters all seem as if they were made up by well my potted plants don't see this for the sake of all that is good and right in this world
0	alright a sci fi horror action b hybrid directed by jim wynorski and in the final scenes we get to see a cyborg with a metal head killing off multiple people as with any wynorski flick he throws in a whole bunch of crazy ideas and subplots that mostly don't lead to anywhere but storm trooper is more like a two movies for the price of one kind of deal on the one hand we got the drama thriller part as such the film opens with carol alt killing her incredibly annoying ungrateful husband a plot that simply leads to nowhere and on the other hand we got the cyborg on a part night of the living dead style with carol and the cyborg being the ones trapped inside the house and a bunch of special ops bounty hunters playing the role of the zombies trying to break into the house needless to say this flick is not up there with the greatest zach galligan of gremlins fame especially is painfully bad and corey feldman in a small supporting roll is once again completely wasted on this movie wynorski even rips off one of his own movies here since i am 99 sure he used some stock footage of his previous film evil ii the scene with the exploding truck and the motorcycle yes it's so not good and so much fun this is strictly for wynorski fans only and i am one of them in case you didn't know already
0	normally i don't bother wasting my time writing comments for junk like this that i forget almost as soon as i see it but since i saw this movie just yesterday on one of the comcast showtime channels i think i decided to make an exception br br besides the fact that i enjoyed watching carol alt i can't give any rational reason why i watched this movie through to the end i'm always amazed that good looking women are willing to appear in awful movies like this but i suppose she thought this movie would lead to something better i hope she was right for her sake br br otherwise this is an all too typical straight to video laugh riot or just a piece of garbage depending on your point of view while there are a few decent moments of action in this movie they don't really connect well with the story such as it is br br the setup as i recall involved carol alt as a depressed housewife who believes her husband a cop is cheating on her there was also something about their child dying in an accident and she blaming him for it but before that storyline went anywhere she shot and killed him br br on the same fateful night a wounded stranger comes to her door and she tends to him and almost immediately her house is under siege by government stooges and mercenaries intent on capturing the stranger who appears to have almost superhuman fighting skills br br this same kind of material has yielded decent entertainment plenty of times before most notably in matt damon's the bourne identity and could have done so this time as well but this particular movie was let down by poor production values and a lousy script br br this movie really falls apart at the end when the mysterious stranger turns out to be a cyborg who was programmed to be a policeman and after discovering that carol alt killed her husband he tries to kill her the movie wasn't particularly good up until this point but the ending really ruins it by trying to turn a modest action thriller into a lumpy terminator robocop wannabe br br i also thought that the violence in the movie was a bit excessive at the end with the demented cyborg gouging out poor carol eye before it finally bit the dust what was the point of that for that matter what was the point of anything in this movie it held my attention and entertained me for about an hour until the end when it reminded me that i wasn't watching a first rate movie it wasn't even really a second rate movie for that matter br br the final scenes seem to hint at a sequel which i don't think ever happened although i haven't carefully checked the web for it needless to say that i'm not in any hurry to see any sequel to this movie
0	i tried to give this show a chance but it really doesn't sit well with me although the performances are good the writing isn't the two oldest step siblings derek and casey are equally annoying i get the impression that we're supposed to side with casey given that she's the protagonist but i don't find her at all likable the parents are continually portrayed as utterly clueless the three younger children are the most watchable things on the show lizzie and edwin are sweet the way they team up and marti is adorable the plot lines are a bit far fetched and the whole premise is mostly hard to swallow blended families are common yes but this family isn't really trying all that hard to blend on the whole i think it grades thumbs down
0	as a parent of two girls 14 and 11 i have grave doubts about this show and all the shows aimed at tweens first i am always amazed that the living conditions of drake josh zac cody hanna carly derek sunny etc always make most houses look tiny and cramped most people work hard all day to pay for living quarters less than half the size yet on these shows nobody is going or coming from work paying utility rent mortgage or insurance bills mopping sweeping changing fixing toilets etc just walking in and out and down the ubiquitous wide stairs that only exist on tv sets cracking jokes most of which involve lying and the hilarious results and shirking work i think kids watching these will have unrealistic expectations on how hard they will work and how luxurious their lives will be second there is never an intact family always a mom or dad but never both who are always going on sexless dates but never seem to have any of the downside of divorce alimony support arguments again kids may get the impression that if mom dad get divorced there will be fun fun fun actually mom or dad are often not around if that helps the plot needless to say there is no mention of spirituality forget specific religion finally there is a theme that troubles me there are nerds that are good in school jocks good in sports goody two shoes as well the protagonists are not good at school sports or charitable but make wisecracks about those who are the message is don't be good at anything just be one of the nothings who blend in cracking jokes needless to say i give all these shows a zero and turn them off all the time and am just short of forbidding them in my house
0	it is really a shame that imdb doesn't let you give negative votes this is the most hideously awful show ever foisted on the american public by our usually likable neighbors to the north the parents are a and a neurotic hag he is as charming as a well used fire with the same hygiene standards she is a wax museum mannequin programmed with more neuroses than the entire cast of the view the kids are non entities if female and repulsive beyond belief if male especially the title character the boy is a serious contender for most insanely smug self satisfied arrogant and vain male character on disney which is saying something this show was obviously conceived as the anti brady bunch but it comes off as the anti christ and why is the photography so dark
0	there is so much not to like about this show it's hard to know where to start unlikeable characters horrible plot lines terrible writing and terrible acting don't even get me started on the obnoxious theme music br br on top of all that the show is out of touch with u s audiences due to the heavy canadian references all throughout it oh say derek will you be going to queens college in the fall how have you bean we should go br br granted other shows are filmed in canada for financial reasons like stargate atlantis but while those shows may have suffered from some annoyances like rodney calling a z p m a zed p m the show didn't focus on life in canada br br mtv is running degrassi another show based on the experiences of the canadian teenager during daytime hours when no one is watching to fill time most teens are at school when it airs i'd wager it's for the same reason shows that focus on teenage life in canada don't translate well to a u s audience br br this show should be canceled and the remaining masters burned in a furnace
0	i'm a fan of the 1950's original and about 20 minutes into this remake i started to think this was going to be as good as the original but it wasn't the motive for the murders was incredibly stupid two of the lovers in the movie turn out to be brother and sister excuse me while i barf the main character stops in the middle of the movie to have sex which doesn't make sense considering the situation he's in if the film makers wanted a sex scene they should have put it earlier in the movie before the main character dexter played by dennis quaid found he's about to die and that he's accused of a crime there is a reason for where the sex scene is at early in the movie dexter isn't living life to the fullest so he's not interested in sleeping with meg ryan i still feel it would make more sense for the sex scene to have either been cut or earlier in the film and the two siblings not to have been lovers br br one of the dumbest parts of the movie involves a gun fight a couple people getting killed and one person being run over all within 15 yards of a crowded carnival and yet nobody at the carnival notices also in the scene is the tar pits the university where the movie takes place is built on if you fall into the tar you sink to the bottom and in a matter of seconds not only is it hard to believe stuff would sink that fast in tar but more importantly who builds a university on tar pits i would say more about how stupid the end of the movie is but i don't want to put a spoiler in my post
0	based on what little i have seen of this show i don't think i will ever watch it again its not even remotely believable and frankly the derek character just makes me angry br br sorry but seeing such a spoiled brat get his way time and again why would i want to watch that no thanks there are plenty of other shows that involve devious characters phil of the future's for example where the evil one doesn't win or if they do not in the way they though br br not to mention that i think this is a terrible picture to paint about living with step siblings yes life isn't rosy but one could attempt to portray a character that wasn't outright evil and wins br br my suggestion is that you watch this only if you like seeing the villain win
0	what ever happened to shows with united parental figures the parents in this show are nearly as irresponsible as the children instead of punishing the youngest child for being manipulative they let her get away with murder they can't ever agree on a course of action when it comes to dealing with the children and instead they do nothing yeah great plan just ignore their behavior because they're cute this show tells the already manipulative preteens that watch it that the divide and conquer technique is the best way to get their parents to cave the oldest children are constantly running amok and getting themselves into all sorts of impossible situations but there are no consequences for their actions yeah great television all right
0	i won't be too hard on this show because i enjoyed the first season but then things got worse the concept is nothing special just about a girl named casey who is trying to cope with a new step brother derek and his loud crude family while she gradually forces her princess standards onto each of them br br in season 1 the story was actually interesting i liked casey back then because she was smart strong independent and conservative she was well mannered and deep i felt bad when she was being harassed at her new school by her new step brother she was a perfectionist but not as annoying as the later episodes oh and she dated a nice guy who is now currently portrayed as one of derek's idiot friends the season grasped the true tension the title of the show was trying to capture br br now i can't say the show has really gone downhill because the story is sometimes interesting but i root for derek now instead of casey now there is little if any interaction between the two siblings if they interact it's only briefly oh and i don't want any fans in my face people that's called incest even if they are step siblings my tolerance can only go so far but that's not the point br br it's strange derek as the antagonist has gotten more sensitive over time while casey the supposed protagonist is more neurotic and unlikeable than before i like how the younger kids get more airtime but the parents are even more clueless than before but that's not the biggest problem br br unfortunately we are forced to see everything from casey's point of view with lame nauseating background music she has gotten stupider and more shallow over time in one episode she got whiny and wanted her boyfriend to be more chivalrous so she purposely dumped food on herself and blamed derek now what happened to being a strong independent feminist i haven't watched much of the fourth season but i hear she is dating a guy named truman who is a jackass and is arrogant oh i remember that fencing episode she constantly reminds him she doesn't like him freaks out over being by a sword and in the end hooks up with him because she can handle him what the hell why go with a guy like that in the first place the 1st season casey would have just punched him in his never mind or maybe that would have been my reaction oh and she's a cheerleader not that that's a bad thing but i think she fell on her head at one of her practices and in a prom episode she cried because she couldn't find the dress in her dreams and wasn't completely satisfied until she became prom queen one thing i've noticed is that no matter how bad casey tries to tell us her life is thing's almost always go her way in the end she gets the guy she wants derek gets some kind of revenge people all love her etc derek is still quite immature but i see that he really has matured i don't see why many people hate sally she seems nice and it's good to see derek in a serious relationship with someone he cares about rather than playing the field he is also treating edwin slightly better and is a good brother to marti br br really the show is so so and i rated it low because despite some character development the character i once admired has now become like any fashionable teen queen you can see anywhere on tv but it was good while it lasted
0	greeted with derision by most critics when it first appeared has recently done the rounds of uk tv i remember seeing it on its original release and thinking then that if hitchcock wanted to parade some kind of screen confession about his ingrained he couldn't have found a nastier little vehicle to do so br br but time alters perspective and so what was nauseatingly bad in 1972 might all these years later be worthy of upward re evaluation br br might but not is dross the dross of an ageing director who desperately wanted to exploit the artistic freedom of 70s movie making without seeming to realise that freedom imposes its own obligations notably the need to bring integrity to one's work br br there's none here and not much evidence of the earlier directorial brilliance either the switch from spine tingling implicit to odious explicit is neither shocking nor for a supreme stylist stylish it's just banal the prolonged murder scene is precisely that prolonged without pace without reason without purpose other than the cheapest of directorial desires to appear as contemporary an artiste as say that other acclaimed practitioner of cheap sleaze michael winner br br and it goes from bad to worse with dialog that defies any human provenance not least in the ludicrous diversion into the home life of our dear wooden inspector and his wife's cooking br br perhaps the scene that best sums up and endures as the most explicit indictment of hitchcock's persona is the clunking exchange between two lawyers in a bar where they discuss the serial killings and then agree that at least the women had a good time first by being raped br br i remember my revulsion at that scene back in '72 and it's still because this wasn't hitchcock being clever or sardonic or trying to make some universal point big themes big truths were not hitchcock's forte nor personal preference it was just hitchcock allowing a reflection of his own distorted mirror on life to shine through the texture of the movie br br calling hitchcock's last great masterpiece is to betray little if any understanding of just what hitchcock actually achieved in the way of cinematic trickery cinematic thrills and dazzling cinematic mastery br br is therefore now what it always was a cheap nasty and ham fisted movie that did no service to any of those involved or to the memory of a film maker who really was in his hollywood days one of the greatest there has ever been
0	not even hitch but simply a bad movie the cinematic equivalent of a dirty old man ugly in every way unimaginative script static point of view putrid clothing ghastly hair unlikable actors and one truly gratuitous rape and strangulation scene the director's perverse sense of humor is present but it is not applied consistently the movie comes alive only in its cruelty the women fare especially badly could be used as proof the director was a misogynist though a better explanation to me is that perhaps beginning with his tv series and 'psycho' which he himself described as an exercise in thrift an experiment to see if a television crew could shoot a passable feature alfred hitchcock had pretty much abandoned art and settled for commerce in the great master seems to be bowing to convention trying to go with the times and give audiences what he thinks they want in the form of unappealing nudity nudge nudge winks and general nastiness i don't begrudge an old man his rest but i don't want to remember him tired and lazy and pandering time to watch again
0	oh dear quite how alfred hitchcock north by northwest spellbound the 39 steps could turn out this nasty cheapjack shocker is beyond me don't bother looking for hidden depths or deep meanings there aren't any this is just horrid seedy and cheap the one redeeming feature is the home life of the inspector who leads the investigation his wife fancies herself as a gourmet cook and constantly serves up her revolting culinary experiments to her poor husband this is amusing and just about saved me putting the film in the 'awful' bracket but the film as a whole is one of the most unpleasant i've ever seen i believe this was hitchcock's next to last film perhaps someone was trying to tell him something
0	spoilers spoilers what's going on here br br barbara hershey looking decidedly unsexy as if she'd stolen her granny's spare wig puts in an unconvincing performance as a woman who kills the wife of a man she has had an affair with 'in self defence' after hitting her forty odd times with an axe br br like lizzy borden she is acquitted but after the most unconvincing argument ever presented to a jury by the representative of a supposedly defendant i have ever seen br br lizzy borden took an axe and gave her father forty whacks when she saw what she'd done she pleaded self defence br br i don't think so br br i find the defendants guilty of screening an unconvincing portrayal and have no alternative but to award this film a sentence of 4 out of 10 which would have been lower but for the previous good behaviour of some of those involved br br
0	i won't waste your time by describing the plot for this the other reviewer already did this quite well i will however give you my opinion of this movie this movie is basically anti japanese the japanese are portrayed as evil b tards who have respect for nothing as well as having very poor martial arts skills groups of japanese men get there asses kicked by single women on more than one occasion the fact that the japanese fighters lose almost every if not every fight in the movie kind of takes away the suspense the plot is actually quite solid and perfect for a kung fu movie though the problem lies in the fact that there's not much fighting when there are fights some of the fighting is quite good but other scenes are choreographed badly one scene angela mao takes on six japanese in a church and kicks all their asses the problem is they show her fighting them one by one when they're all supposed to be attacking at the same time i gather this movie was cheap considering how cheap some of the sets are they use the same village set for when they are in korea and when they are in china without changing it at all some scenes are filmed at real locations though and they look good overall the only real problem with the movie is it's slow moving and uninteresting plot since there are few fight scenes we have to rely on the plot for entertainment and well i wasn't entertained br br one and a half stars out of four
0	the dvd version released by crash cinema was very poorly done the mastering engineer must have been either drunk asleep or not even in the room while it was being done it looks like it was mastered from about a tenth generation copy and about halfway through the film the audio synchronization disappears the dialog is about 10 or 15 seconds behind the audio if you're thinking about purchasing this dvd please save your money i remember seeing this film at the theater back in 1973 also the vhs copy of this film under the title of when taekwondo strikes looks better than the dvd but the remaining several minutes of the movie are missing where is the original camera negative
0	the old man mouse in this cartoon would have you believe that all men are created equally evil so if we have to kill men in order to stop hitler we are just as bad as hitler was killing the jews well i don't buy it mr mouse but i guess it paints a pretty picture and makes a cute cartoon but it wasn't the reality then and it ain't reality now
0	great story and great lead actors quaid and ryan but the movie suffers from bad directing bad screenplay and bad script the lead actors do their part but could not save the movie at all too bad because this could have been a good 80's style hitchcock suspense mystery thriller ryan looked so young and fresh in this one though an ok look for big ryan fans
0	i saw this film when it premiered in la i think i laughed 2 or three times the rest of the time i was in shock at how ridiculous poorly shot and poorly written it was kirby is in fact the only saving grace in the film i was disappointed at the performance of larry whom i usually find entertaining if you enjoy watching your friend's crappy homemade short films that they shot on their mom's 8mm video camera then there's a slight chance you might enjoy this film then again part of what makes those movies enjoyable is that it's your buddies playing all the parts you don't know these people so you'll probably find it as dull and stupid as i did dear mr nelson go back to film school intern for a while as a pa or a grip or some low level job so you can see how things are properly done in film then look for as long as you must to find a director of photography who knows what f stop means make sure he has nd filter on hand then try again repeat as many times as needed
0	mirrormask was a terribly disappointing film for me i had expected much from a jim henson production and had found favourable reviews comparing it to the labyrinth and alice in wonderland unfortunately the film ended up in one of those style over substance pile of movies br br whereas most kids dream about running away from home to join a circus helena is a kid who has grown up in a circus child labour anyone who wishes to run away to join real life helena wishes that her mother drop dead which is a bad move for a spoiled brat with a princess complex in a kid's fantasy movie next thing you know helena's mother flops over and for some reason she is suddenly transported to another world br br meanwhile i felt as if i was transported to the museum of contemporary art with a pair of foggy sepia tinted glasses br br the showcase of cgi generated creatures and backdrop was interesting at first and i liked the orbiting giants it got a little too tiresome after a few minutes though and i felt my mind wandering br br with no sense of narrative and mtv style clips and soundtrack the reminded me of basement where's your head at i did not feel involved in the plight of the protagonist and also frustrated as we waited for the film to lead us wherever it wanted hopefully towards the exit signs of the theatre
0	i'm trying to understand what people liked about mirrormask i am an avid film viewer and film maker as i was telling friends during my lunch hour mirrormask may well be my biggest movie disappointment of the year just like the short the film missed its marks several times during the movie it made attempts at humor it sets you up for the laugh instead of making you laugh it leaves you feeling empty the jokes reminded one of the recent star wars films they weren't funny unless you were five and the acting felt similarly terrible i've seen actors actually act in front of a blue screen and i've believed it but not in this film not for a second br br this film takes a formula and tries to apply it with pretty and though the script is totally workable and the special effects quite beautiful it has no heart to it and fails miserably i left the film shaking my head and considered leaving the theater i felt and miserable and still haven't gotten the sour taste out of my mouth from it i love independent film i encourage people to view independent films to support them but not this film this film shouldn't have been made at least not like this why did the director miss the marks so clearly they were clearly not just the humor but the emotions the drama even the lines were poorly timed and delivered it was like the film walked on three legs instead of four its steps are awkward and miss timed and it could fall over with the slightest don't see this film i don't care who you are it isn't worth your time
0	having enjoyed neil gaiman's writing especially his collaboration with amano in the dream hunters in the past i figured mirrormask to be a sure thing and was very disappointed the beginning live action section of the movie was intriguing enough the relationships between the characters was believable and easy to empathize with and i loved the sets the costuming and helena's artwork the subsequent computer generated scenes however were excruciating the dialogue was awkward and pretentious the interaction between the live actors and the cgi horrifying events occurred for the flimsiest reasons and most events seemed superfluous to whatever plot may have existed i only watched the first twenty or thirty minutes of the movie so i'm not exactly an authority but i strongly recommend that you don't watch any of it at all and stick with gaiman's strong written work
0	this film is really really bad it is not very well done and is a lack lustre attempt at something but i am not sure what i watched it and was very disappointed it promised a lot but delivered nothing at all the characters are shallow and wooden and the music if you can call it that is dreadful there are of course all the creatures and animated beings but they are so poorly done that it does not come across as anything other than a third rate movie it is a real shame that more attention could not have been spent to the special effects not the be all and end all of a movie i agree but in a movie that is based around them it's a very important factor for me a very sad attempt and should be avoided
0	well that was sure a waste of dave talents wasn't it don't get me wrong when it comes to graphic design dave may be the best in the world right now the layered textured look he can accomplish with just a few pencil lines on rough paper make the efforts of people like peter greenaway and david fincher look like what they are has been the godfather of a revolution in the look of comics film even magazine ads which borrow the distinctive collage effect he has pioneered br br but this movie it's junk complete junk the story from neil gaiman is unfortunately exactly what gaiman has been giving us ever since he ripped off clive barker for the first time a pseudo mythic overblown dreamscape populated by characters which have titles in all capital letters rather than names everything is allegory to the point that it is impossible to get any human drama emotion or empathy from anyone involved people make pithy speaking in riddles which bring to mind what rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead might have sounded like if tom stoppard had suffered a debilitating stroke halfway through its composition really gaiman get over yourself you're not a prophet you're a poser br br directing doesn't help his pacing is poor taking fully half an hour to actually rev himself up for the main picaresque plot and then simply providing a disconnected sequence of events none of them given any weight the monsters don't menace because they're not foreshadowed simply thrown at the screen the plot doesn't engage because we don't really care about the rancid little protagonists half the dialogue muttered into into shirt fronts and ubiquitous masks is unintelligible br br some of the visuals are pretty and i'm sure the fanboys will lick it up pity think of the amount of really good work could have produced if he hadn't been stuck with this lame project br br grade d d
0	wow what exciting visual effects i also loved the costumes and artwork the circus and ethereal feel to the film was sublime it just required the need for the viewer to worry about the fate of our protagonist as she is trapped in her imagination there is never a sense of peril unlike say david lynch's films which haunt every time this also draws attention to which age group this film is aimed at who would this engage br br mirrormask is obviously going to draw comparisons with labyrinth with the teen angst fantasy theme but unfortunately it doesn't really come close to delivering the same henson essence the ill mother theme is never fully explained and certainly not something that you care about while lapping up the eye candy br br not agonisingly awful a la the cell nor as engagingly dreamlike as labyrinth a forgettable but good looking fantasy
0	i saw mirrormask last night and it was an unsatisfactory experience br br it is a film that is visually rich but with slow direction poor plot line and 2 dimensional characterisation br br i did however know this when i went in i was willing to trust the two gentleman that i went with comic buffs that the visuals would be out of the ordinary and so they were unfortunately inexperience of direction meant that scene after scene passed with little in the way of dramatic tension or conflict though this is a comment that could be made of many artists whose work is transferred to screen and who are given charge of direction the pace of the story is lost as the camera lovingly dwells on the pretty pictures br br i would not have gone at all without that reassurance that the style of the film would be worth seeing i have tried with neil gaiman's work but am always left with the emperor's new clothes feeling i live in hope but last night was no exception br br i do not think i can continue with an analysis of gaiman's work without losing the will to live read the rest of the comments and all his faults are eloquently described i cannot comprehend however how he imagined that he had any understanding of the mind of a fifteen year old girl nor that what he had to say added anything to the sum total of human knowledge on growing up and assuming adult responsibility or the changing relationship that a girl might have with her mother these are the central themes of the film and they are handled ineptly stereotypically and with no depth of imagination all the pretty pictures in the world cannot make up for a piece of work that is flawed at the core
0	i didn't really hate mirrormask i just really wanted more from a movie than pretty visuals the movie begins with a young girl named who works in a circus but while other children supposedly want to run away to the circus she only wants to run away from the circus during a heated argument with her mother wishes she would drop dead bad move the mother gets ill with something presumably cancer and needs surgery on the night before surgery she dreams she travels to a wonderful world composed of her her dreams and nightmares where she finds herself personally the movie got crap for me as soon as she started dreaming the early scenes show the weird and wonderful world of the circus and then contrast it with the bleakness of the hospital and the filth of an apartment block but a soon as she dreams the whole films shifts to cgi land where nearly everything is a computer image the problem is that this dream world has none of the mystery and wonder it should have while films like the wizard of oz seemed enticing to explore mirrormask shoves images in our faces and then snatches them away to give us another image there's little rhyme or reason to the design in this film and even though some things are very pretty the librarian is a masterpiece they just disappear so quickly that they're soon forgotten and her sidekick valentine are annoying at best and unbearable at worst overall mirrormask is like a pretty stake that you bite and find out is actually ash stick to the real world kids
0	so many people loved this movie yet there are a few of us imdb reviewers who found mirrormask excruciatingly uncomfortable to watch and arse boring i fall into the latter of these two camps and i will try to explain what it was that made my toenails curl so unpleasantly br br firstly to set the record straight i like neil gaiman's books i sometimes find his knowing sarcastic humour a little geeky and i actually prefer his work when he is playing it straight and leaving the jokes alone but even with his occasional lapses into crap gags i find his creativity and imagination to be something a bit special br br interestingly one of gaiman's strongest works is coraline a gothic fairy story for kids that is very low on jokes and high on tension and creepiness his latest novel boys overdoes the and tends to read at times like terry does the sisters of mercy not the nuns but the band mirrormask inhabits similar territory to coraline and when i saw the stunning visuals in the trailer i got a bit excited that somebody had managed to transfer gaiman's spectacular vision and imagination to the screen br br in praise of the film some sequences do look stunning however the visual effects are occasionally ruined by cgi animation that looks like a media studies student project backgrounds and scenery are often incredible but some of the character animation looks clumsy amateur and cheap in an early dream sequence the spider is animated beautifully but the book eating cat beast looks poorly rendered and very compared with the standard of animation found in productions such as 'the corpse bride' mirrormask occasionally looks very amateur indeed however in defence the budget was tiny for such a grand vision and a few creaks in the effects can be understood and forgiven br br what cannot be forgiven is the stilted stagy cringeworthy and pretentious dialogue the actors struggle desperately with the dialogue and there is so much of it that they are constantly hampered and stumbling over it conversation is rendered completely unnatural the jokes fall flat time and time again and the turgid speeches appear to be the writer's only method of plot exposition combined with the fact that the actors are working against a blue screen which always adds an element of 'phantom this renders the film almost unwatchable in such an unreal setting the actors need to work twice as hard to be believed and in the main they fail terribly the girl who plays the lead role puts in a valiant struggle against the impossible stage school dialogue and occasionally shows real promise but it is never enough the god awful cod 'oirish' of the valentine character with whom she is forced to spend an inordinate amount of screen time puts paid to any chance of this young actress rising above the material it appears to be valentine's job to explain the plot to younger viewers and to add a bit of light relief personally i wouldn't want him anywhere near my 15 year old daughter br br what else is wrong with this film answer rob what's annoying for us brits anyway is we know rob can act we've seen him hold the screen for half an hour on his own doing those monologues and in the first 'real world' bit of the film he is fine however stick him in front of a blue screen and he loses all sense of character and turns into the worst am ham i've seen in years a real shame br br what else is wrong answer the wanky slap sub courtney pine and too high in the mix soundtrack that never shuts up god the music is incessant loud distracting irrelevant and if that isn't enough has wanky slap bass wanking all over it it makes the dialogue very hard to hear but that could be a blessing in disguise br br what else is wrong with it answer the whistling mime artist in modern society there should be no place for mime apart from certain secret places in france every moment the camera lingers on the gurning whistling moss juggling yogurt weaving idiot i understand why the edinburgh locals get a bit anxious and when festival time comes round again br br my final criticism is that the film is pretty dull surrealism often is dull – it either requires its audience to slip into a dreamlike zen accepting state or for the audience be constantly wowed by bigger and grander surprises a story with a bit of pace involving characters that we could believe in and care about would have gone a long way to giving this film the emotional centre that it sadly lacked whilst stopping the eyelids from drooping br br finally apologies to all those who found depth meaning and wonder in this film you have managed to suspend your disbelief you have seen past the creaky cgi ignored the crappy dialogue and the abysmal performances that resulted and understood the maker's grand imaginative vision i wanted to but i couldn't see past the real world failings that dragged it down br br i hope neil gaiman gets it right next time if he gets or even wants the opportunity
0	rudolph film from 1950 is given a revamp for the 80's dexter cornell dennis quaid is a university lecturer who used to have a successful writing career but thats now gone down the tubes along with his marriage the initial exposition plants the notion in the viewers mind that everybody has something against him so when the revelation comes that he has been poisoned we are not that surprised unless of course you are familiar with the original dexter after being told he has less than 48hrs to live decides to trace back his steps with the help of one of his students sydney fuller meg ryan but they find they have many obstacles in their way br br the film begins promisingly in black and white as dexter staggers in the rain towards the local police station where he wishes to report a murder his own but the huey lewis style 80's beat that accompanies this scene only serves to remove any sense of tension and tells the viewer that this is going to be pretty bad its only a question of how bad sure enough we are soon using the old flashback medium but now the film resorts to full technicolor there are some brief homages to noir as the embracing couple stand in front of a venetian blind but there's really nothing here to recommend it the performances are awful ryan in particular doing her usual dizzy blonde with a cutesy pie smile routine the film is a lazy attempt to put some unneeded into an already fine movie premise obviously trying to cash in one the body heat audience the seeming results are undoubtedly aimed at a teen audience and to be sure they are welcome to it 4 10
0	there are no saving graces in this dreadful stagey boring snooze fest which brings to mind the ransom of red chief br br even though there are some big stars in this film the acting is almost uniformly terrible br br glenn ford normally a laid back kind of guy hams it up with forced emotion br br donna reed is so over the top as to prove laughable br br leslie nielson is woefully miscast and is terrible br br the son is such a repulsive little brat i found myself rooting for the kidnappers br br the only decent performance in this mish mash is the relatively minor role of the butler br br perhaps i'm being too harsh on the actors after all all they did were to read the lines given them in the script ah the script that turgid piece of contrived dreck that would like to tug on your heart strings but merely turns your stomach
0	by 1971 it was becoming more and more obvious that hammer film studios were on the way out hands of the ripper is a case in point where even the idea smacks of desperation the spirit of jack the ripper posses his own daughter yeah okay no one was expecting a documentary but this plot seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for stupid premise and you do find yourself questioning why on earth the producers brought jack the ripper into the story was this to give the movie a snappy title br br the production values are unimpressive and the cinematography gives the whole movie a cheap tvm feel but you know you're not going to be watching a classic hammer horror as soon as the title starts because the music is laughably inappropriate i think the composer was trying to make the theme tune haunting and touching but the music resembles something out of a soppy romantic movie i will give the cast some credit as they do take their roles seriously in what's a far from serious movie br br i didn't enjoy this film much and it instantly reminded me of the phantom raspberry blower of london town from the two ronnies which i'd been laughing at in the weeks before i saw this
0	i've watched this film a few times and i never really liked it i'm not a fan so termed nu horror so i can't be dismissed on that account i found it a little sleazy i think the thing that irks me about hammers is the sexploitation aspect not sex mind you but sexploitation i'm surprised at how many people have rated this film so highly so i'll have another look at it but for me it wasn't creepy it had no atmosphere just a bit of omigod look at those bad stupid london prostitute women and that little innocent anna about to get raped by yet another nasty man i suppose ultimately for me the film had no depth whatsoever just a bunch of nasty priggish men and women only there for the titillation value this no doubt was to some degree what victorian england was like but the sets are even too clunky and dull impart a sense of victorian menace roger corman's horrors on the other hand now that's style atmosphere and elegant horror for me this was just exploitative flat footed trash
0	strained and humorless especially in light of its rather dubious psychology but well paced and comfortably lurid this genteel body count movie highlights the unusually hypnotic presence of angharad rees as a young woman periodically possessed by jack the ripper thus allowing for some nasty gore effects amidst the edwardian propriety it's all pretty standard stuff for hammer but is handled with a good deal of visual elan even if the central relationship between psychoanalyst porter and rees drives the narrative without ever being satisfactorily explained
0	hands of the ripper br br aspect ratio 1 85 1 br br sound format mono br br an edwardian doctor eric porter uses freudian analysis on a young girl angharad rees who turns out to be the daughter of jack the ripper and just as deadly br br unlikely hammer horror in which a respectable society figure takes charge of a beautiful young waif without attracting so much as a whiff of scandal even when she takes to murdering all and sundry with a variety of lethal implements broken mirrors hat pins etc l w davidson's screenplay wanders aimlessly from one murder to another sacrificing the material's inherent subtext porter's obvious attraction to rees in favor of commercial melodrama and the tone remains subdued throughout some of the gore scenes are surprisingly vivid even for hammer and these were clipped from the original us release despite an r rating from the mpaa though the complete version is now available on home video porter and rees give excellent performances and the climax in st paul's cathedral is a definite highlight but the rest of the film is strangely hollow and unaffecting directed by peter
0	this representation of the popular children's story on film is pretty pathetic to watch i know it is one of the earliest efforts at moviemaking but this 15 minute picture is unimaginative and poorly shot the great train robbery 1903 which i also commented on is much more creative and exciting to watch br br we see little long haired jack trade a cow 2 men in a cow suit for a of beans from a merchant and later a grows from where his mom throws them in the yard i guess poor jack attained the wrong kind jack dreams of a goose actually it seems to be a chicken and golden egg and the next day climbs the stalk into heaven br br there is no effort made to be creative in this film the stalk looks like a rope with leaves on it the giant is just a tall bearded guy in a home with nothing abnormally large in comparison to jack and the climax to the film where jack makes his escape with the goose chicken and its golden egg is miserable as a stuffed dummy falls from out of in place of the giant and then the actor takes its place rising up on his feet in a exaggerated death dance like in most early films the leaf covered rope comes trailing down from above and coils neatly on the giants forehead br br watch something else
0	this is the kind of movie which is loved by 50 year old and people who consider themselves aware in social issues but really haven´t got a clue the actors i think all of them are amateurs do their best but the script is so full of cliches and stupidities that they can´t save it br br worst of all though is the cabaret that the kids are working on brings back all your worst memories from acting classes in school the lyric to one of the songs goes something like this in a fast translation 2 30 in the morning i´m the dwarf of society an emotionally crippled individual br br please
0	after watching stop loss i find myself against disappointed in hollywood for making such a stinker gone are the days of glory of the films of the 1940's that made one proud to be an american fighting the evilness that desires conquest abroad and death at home what we are left with is dribble frothing at the mouth of rabid anti bush radicals the story tells of three young men who return home from the war one descends into out of control madness culminating in his death the main protagonist deserts his country at a time of war and destroys his best friends relationship with his fiancé at the same time the third truly is the hero of the story electing to continue the fight that was brought to our shores nearly eight years ago what makes this movie bad is not the acting but the premise behind it we are lead to believe that decorated soldiers are in fact haters of our country desertion is akin to treason in a time of war and the main protagonist flirts with it throughout the movie this paradox is designed to weaken the audience's reaction to the central act of the movie we are not supposed to find fault with king since he wears medals but his actions don't just merit it but cry out for it he is not an anti hero in order to accept the movie the audience must accept the correctness of desertion because the story paints king as nothing else short of a hero i cannot accept that since it is like asking me to call the sky yellow on a clear blue day furthermore derision for the real hero is heaped upon the man who re enlists and continues to serve his country i would only recommend this stinker to someone who needs convincing of the decay of hollywood as it is a clear example of it no wonder it fared poorly in the box office
0	this is one of those so called hollywood social commentary films that wants to have it both ways and believe me in this film both ways are clichéd and stereotypical stop loss is a 21st century john wayne film dealing with some anti war sentiment but clearly ending on the note that if you are a man in today's society you get your act together and march off to war with your buddies in many ways the film was a great sequel to taxi to the dark side as it portrayed a military equally as insane and out of control a quasi frat party animal house extravaganza mixed in with a texas red neck world of repressed homo erotic proofs of masculinity this movie had it all in one scene after another of clichéd imagery and then rebellious military deserter ryan phillippe goes on a road trip with best friend's girlfriend an artificial storyline manipulation to visit families of dead servicemen maimed soldiers in military hospitals etc and finally to broach the issue of fleeing to canada or mexico but male honor and patriotism win out in the end as all freshly scrubbed and handsome he rides off into the sunset on a bus with his buddies back to iraq and a world that a few minutes before he assured everyone he could never again tolerate full metal jacket meets sands of iwo jima but in the end john wayne rides again and a hollywood blockbuster ultimately gets to keep both sides of its audience in the palm of its at least it would like to think so as far as i was am concerned just take me back to the more convincing reality of in the garden of
0	it is unfortunate that between this film in the valley of lions for lambs and home of the brave seem to all be based upon common stereotypes about veterans from the wars in iraq and afghanistan the boozing the fighting the short fuses the broken marriages guys freaking out and digging a foxhole in their front yard when they're drunk etc etc etc br br does it happen yes but not as often as one would think after having watched any of these movies i think that it is unfortunate that these directors producers writers choose to grind their axe against the political establishment by portraying soldiers in such an atypical way in this particular film kimberly didn't even throw us a bone like showing the new children that were born while a family member was deployed or the kid who grew up in some ghetto who can now afford college thanks to the gi bill or the couple who can afford a house or start a new business earn their citizenship etc etc etc instead we are treated to the stereotypes because the people who made this film only want to show you the bad side br br a couple of issues with the film itself 1 somebody screwed up by putting phillippe in for a bronze star with v after he led his squad down a tight alleyway after having been baited by a gunman in a taxi pretty stupid but yes it happens 2 the didn't have any turret armor so we are supposed to believe it is a near the beginning of the war yet every soldier and their brother has an and every possible attachment for their m4 sorry don't think so 3 timothy olyphant as a lieutenant colonel it's hard to believe but i just checked an he turned 40 in may so the timing isn't too off 4 he strikes two soldiers to escape being sent to jail after saying that he wouldn't return to iraq upon having learned that he had been stop so he's a fugitive then when he finally turns himself in at the end and they take him back he keeps his rank and deploys with the same unit sorry don't think so br br i can only describe it as one giant stereotype of the army and the infantry do some of the events portrayed in this movie happen to some soldiers yes however in this film you get practically every stereotype in the space of about 100 minutes and really things just aren't like that for most soldiers returning i wish the director had made a point of doing a little better research instead of starting off with her agenda and then making a film br br of the movies i mentioned at the beginning of this post the best one is probably lions for lambs which is more a commentary on the sad state of generation y than it is about the wars in iraq or afghanistan or the bush administration if you really want to see this film wait for cable or netflix it don't pay cash directly to rent it
0	danger watch for falling spoilers br br boy was this a bad movie i know that they were going for a true love conquers all kind of thing but about all this film conquered was about 3 which felt more like 9 hours of my afternoon which i will never get back the movie is about two young lovers named kai and who live in a remote town in a fantasy world kai is the much abused bellboy at a hotel owned by father at first ignores advances but she eventually warms up to him much to the disgust of you guessed it father as if this obstacle wasn't enough to overcome an evil snow queen shoots a shard of glass in eye and he becomes a mean person treats poorly kai is eventually taken to the snow queen's fortress which is the same set as the hotel just covered in ice because the good people at hallmark like to go all out and sets out on a mission to get kai back along the way she runs into the 3 other seasons that are evil in their own special way but escapes them with the help of some dull and forgettable characters she meets along the way all the while you will want to turn it off but can't force yourself to do it it's probably the most evil and most effective spells cast by the snow queen anyways i will spare you from the ending because anything you can think up in your head right now is probably better then how they ended it so in conclusion the snow queen is an incredibly boring movie which takes the fan out of fantasy
0	i find it terribly ironic that left wing hollywood continues to hedge its bets making these awful lukewarm movies that neither condemn the war on terror nor embrace it br br if you're a sixties survivor and a committed pacifist and you're hoping for an all out condemnation of war like born on the fourth of july or all quiet on the western front this movie will really feel like a rip off none of these soldiers actually question this war or any war or the idea of war they just gripe about having to do another tour br br on the other hand if you're a patriotic american who wants to see a story of courage and honor this movie will really feel like a rip off none of these soldiers loves america or even loves the service the way they pout and sulk makes them come across more like suburban teenagers than blue collar tough guys it's not we were soldiers and it's not sands of iwo jima it's not even mindless action and the war scenes are less rambo and more buffy br br ryan philippe so completely cannot carry this kind of movie though he's devastatingly sexy in a rough trade men's room bisexual sort of way it's hard to picture him as a slow talking' texas boy who wants to stand up and be counted this is no sgt croft in the naked and the dead he's more like joel in truman capote's other voices other rooms he can't sell you on the idea that he's been in combat and done his bit or that he wants his woman and wants her right now he fizzles on the battlefield and in the bedroom scenes looking as if he would much prefer to bend over and take a good stiff attack from the rear
0	my mistake for thinking this was a serious war is hell movie prior to seeing it that all ended seconds into the film when the mtv logo appeared it might as well been called national lampoon's sexy n loose and it did play to the mtv crowd the movie that followed those comical first few seconds played like the music videos they used to play 40 years ago at least disney was smart enough to ship its rated r stuff over to and allowed us to take it seriously okay i'm being harsh it wasn't that bad of a film however it definitely has its share of overacting and the film is extremely biased one sided admittedly i'm not a war movie buff i can't watch ' 'full metal jacket' or 'saving private ryan' more than once sure they were good movies but they're not my forte and they all seem to blend in after awhile to where i wouldn't be able to distinguish one from the next following a tour in iraq phillippe plans life after the war but is drawn back in due to a clause in his contract or at least that's the military's plan until he goes awol and the characters speed cross country on a few bucks amazingly never caught no i haven't been in any war nor to iraq nor do i agree with it i also don't have all the knowledge when it comes to recruitment or signing their contracts i can say this though i am sorry they're drawn back into this conflict i can't feel too much for someone so dumb not to read the fine print it's like someone on their deathbed leaning over to finally read the surgeon general's warning on their box of cigarettes and say oh they're what deadly i'll sue them
0	over acted heavy handed full of speeches preachy on the nose and over stylized in a way only mtv could be guilty of stop loss is prop garbage i expected a lot more with talented young actors such as joseph gordon levitt and ryan philippe but screenwriter director kimberly does a hatchet job of portraying the ill effects of war on american youth i'm sure she did some work researching the iraq war and the young men fighting in it but you'd never guess it from watching stop loss in many ways this mess reminded me of catherine hardwicke's lords of dogtown an equally inept overly stylized tv movie like waste of solid subject matter br br http eattheblinds blogspot com
0	the story isn't very strong don't expect a bourne identity kind of movie it started of strong tara speaking russian and it even sounded credible not that i'm the russian language expert moscow had that darkish depressing look what gave this movie potential i still believed in it to bad it only took about half an hour to see they really missed the spot with this one acting was poor maybe because the story itself was not very strong there is this part in the movie where gordon patrick nick moran is having a conversation on the phone with the c i a like you're listening to a chinese w t f too bad the writer didn't even take little effort to give the main characters depth also bit of a cheap and easy ending br br plus point is almost every scene where tara reid is in not that she's acting that well in fact she doesn't but she really looks great in this movie overall it was a bit of a disappointment rental maybe
0	at least during its first half if it had started out with the three buddies in the navy and concentrated on the naval action scenes it would have been a much better and tighter film the second half of the film is worth it especially for the action sequences and close up shots of early 20th century ships but it's like a dull toothache getting there also don't watch this film just because ginger rogers is in it she has an important role but it's a small one br br the film starts out showing three new york city buddies working the tourist trade and also in good natured competition for the hand of sally ginger rogers a singing candy salesgirl along the avenue world war i breaks out the three buddies seem completely indifferent to the struggle yet enlist in the navy anyways the one of the three with the least industry as a civilian bill boyd as baltimore winds up the commanding officer to the other two robert armstrong as dutch and james gleason as skeets to make matters more complex sally has fallen in love with one of the three but doesn't have the chance to tell him before the three sail off to war br br the film is a little more interesting on board ship mainly because of the close shots we have of the ship itself and also because the chemistry among the three buddies is believable however james gleason at age 49 looks a bit long in the tooth to be a swabby especially when the sign at the enlistment office said you had to be between 17 and 35 to be eligible br br one real obvious flaw in the film that made me believe that everything outside the naval scenes was slapped together with minimum care is the costume design or i should say the lack of it in the scenes in new york just prior to wwi we have everyone dressed in the fashions of 1931 and everyone driving the cars of 1931 no effort was taken to bring this film into period br br in conclusion if you watch the few scenes with ginger rogers in them and the last 45 minutes involving the naval suicide mission you've seen everything here worth seeing the rest is padding
0	the threesome of bill boyd robert armstrong and james gleason play coney island carnys vying for the hand of ginger rogers a working gal who sells salt water taffy with the outbreak of world war i the threesome enlist and pursue ginger from afar the first half of this rko pathe production is hard going with the three male leads chewing up the scenery with overcooked one liners and 'snappy' dialogue that quickly grows tiresome the second half concentrates on action sequences as the us navy pursues both a german merchant cruiser and a u boat these sequences are lively and well filmed but overall this is an overlong and unsatisfying comedy drama with a flat ending for fans of the stars only
0	i generally like sion work but this movie was completely retarded but sadly not retarded enough to make it entertainingly retarded i just sat mouth agape wondering when it would end the plot makes only a whisper of sense i think it was intended to be campy i mean haunted hair extensions how could it not be but the humor such as it was fell flat not funny not scary not gory i would say perhaps was a hired hand on this project but he appears to have written this boring trash as well i still need to fill a couple more lines what else is there to say i suppose i could finish by saying better luck next time san
0	what a drawn out painful experience br br that's over two hours of my life i will never get back br br this film festival director's delight is awash with overuse of the long slow shot however that's not the only thing that makes a script br br avoid this movie at all costs
0	this self important confusing b w film watches like an infant on a very bad acid trip you're dealing with something that reminds you of a piece of rotting lettuce that accidentally fell out of the back of a garbage truck no one cares to touch it because it will probably be washed away on its own down the storm drain there's no room for plot when you've got visceral imagery and subtle allegory to me it seems like the director tries to make the next great art movie while begging for intellectual accolades i didn't bring my beret either watching this i felt almost insulted since the film does such an effective job of distancing itself from you
0	first let me say i'm not someone who usually cringe at the fact of having to think while seeing movies i love movies for example is also a favorite but this the positive points can be summed up easily the photography is splendid and the music is perfect does it make a good movie i used to think so but this one is a perfect example of one that for me doesn't make it maybe it's because i'm too dumb possible but i don't think so for example also used very long shots but what he never did was filming 5 minutes of the exact same image of two people walking and i mean just their heads because in this movie there are a lot of those shots but sometimes it is effective the general result is plainly boring even with the intelligent undertones which are done in a way that while intelligent is above all very pedantic br br you also always feel that the director is making some of the long shots not for the aesthetic or symbolic effect but just to spare on budget br br i'm very disappointed in this film because i really liked the first 30 minutes or so but it just went on and on without even keeping the same level as in the first scenes br br while reading the very praising comments on this page i also get the feeling some people just try to see much more in the movie than there is to it when a movie is slow and arty it doesn't necessarily mean it is very profound yes it is an allegory on musical theory placed in the context of a small town which is quite interesting on itself but it does not make a profound movie except for people who absolutely want to make some sort of intellectual masturbation out of it but then it's not what you find in the movie but what you find in yourself an exercise that in my opinion can be made much more effectively while watching stalker or solyaris than harmonies that owes much to but cab never equal it's level
0	the snow queen is based on the famous and very beautiful fairytale by hans christian andersen about a girl gerda who goes on a dangerous journey to rescue her friend kai from the clutches of the snow queen this adaption attempts to capture that story's sense of adventure and luminously intricate imagery through lavish sets and production design but fails on a number of counts br br like so many hallmark productions the potential of the story is completely undercut by heavy handed scripting and direction the two actors playing gerda and kai are blandly pleasant but forgettable bridget fonda as the snow queen looks the part but is otherwise miscast for the role there's a notable lack of dramatic tension to this meandering three hour miniseries at least some of the pacing problems can be attributed to the addition of filler scenes that add very little to the original story particularly in the opening hour that introduces the main characters br br that said the snow queen would be just about ideal for pre teens with a liking for fantasy and a bit of patience it's great eye candy without being scary and the acting is pitched at the sort of pantomime over the top level that spells out the storyline in very very bold text just make sure you read them andersen's story too
0	this movie is a shame especially considering is not an amateur but professional director however this movie fails to deliver anything you could expect br br first of all i am polish so i can tell all the background story because i read books but how can you tell there is even a war from this movie bunch of people are going back and forth some soldiers are shouting this is really the second world war or soldiers are on vacations br br acting and dialogs poor miserably poor a d m w kowalski a fit in their roles the rest of polish cast is out of the place most notably m one of the leading characters what an unfortunate choice 99 of the dialogs are not spoken they are just put there actors had difficulties to perform and it is no surprise considering what odd things they had to say br br and this leads us to the most disappointing issue you can't feel it everything is so theatrical artificial there is no real life there is no feeling in it there are a lot of original footage from the wwii and guess what the material is much more powerful dramatic than what a did br br i can see only one positive despite historical mistakes like acronym it was made for post 1945 propaganda purposes to please polish that was gone and now there was but in 1940 there was no luckily it is undoubtedly shown killing in katyn was done by soviets yes it is a fact not some controversial gossip great two hours for 5 10 minutes scene br br anyway time and potential wasted this is tragedy of epic proportions will to fight in 1939 barely shown not declaring war against soviet union by polish authorities sic not shown here imprisonment of soldiers shortly after living in the outrageous conditions not shown here hope and fear what will come next barely shown and then extermination hand to hand with germans soviets were exterminating polish nation aimed at people who constituted the backbone of poland unfortunately they succeed and the results are still visible to this very day
0	i'm guessing that the movie was based on a hefty book given the number of characters and subplots during katyn i thought that the movie creators perhaps the writer or director intended to create an epic movie but really there wasn't enough time to properly spend on developing characters or story aggravatingly there were many unrelated side stories that could have been edited out br br in relating the events leading up to the mass murder of all these intellectuals and officers i don't think the movie explained any reasons why murder was necessary was it political philosophical revenge the interesting part of historical movies are seeing personal motivations or emotions instead the murderers of katyn seemed like automatons controlled entirely by stalin who's appears occasionally framed as a charcoal sketch the portrayal of the russians and germans seemed entirely one dimensional are polish people just that angry at the russians besides being badly edited and biased or at least unrealistic choices of music and cinematography felt mismatched to each other and to the movie itself i don't think you can really shoot an epic war film or war event on hand held camera but if the director went with a character driven story perhaps by focusing on a single family maybe the handy cam approach would have worked better and if you use really dramatic music it needs to be better balanced to the type of shots made
0	oh what a disappointment this movie is i can't believe it was directed by there's practically no plot and 90 of the movie consists of various people walking in and out of the screen weakly trying to interact with each other while talking about the katyn massacre the most interesting part comes right at the end but by that time i simply stopped caring while trying to suppress my yawns br br almost the entire movie is filmed with a hand held camera which is supposed to convey the feeling of personal immediacy but there's nothing personal or immediate about most of the movie instead the constant jerking of the camera made me seasick to be fair there are some great shots too no pun intended but nothing that makes you go wow br br if you're not familiar with the katyn massacre the movie will leave you scratching your head if you are familiar you'll be scratching your head too although maybe for different reasons basically the movie states and over and over again that it was the soviets who murdered thousands of polish soldiers in 1940 this point is hammered repeatedly as though someone in the audience needed to be convinced of this basic historical fact however the movie never tries to explain as to why they were killed after all tens of thousands of polish soldiers in the other soviet pow camps were not harmed and were released in 1941 it is also never explained adequately how many people perished although the figure 20 000 is thrown in a couple of times br br the acting is adequate with only old woman and lt jerzy giving noticeable performances but they get to act for maybe 10 15 minutes in total certainly not enough to carry the whole movie many other actors seem to have been chosen more for their matinée looks rather than their acting abilities but i won't mention their names suffice to say that they are definitely not the oscar material so any claims that this movie was robbed of the academy award are simply laughable br br the tone of movie is wrong as well on one hand it tries to be an accurate historical drama on the other it resorts to cheap anti soviet propaganda such as showing a russian soldier tear up the polish flag and using it to clean his boots then there are some puzzling scenes which have absolutely no bearing on the plot such as a couple climbing on a roof or the of the university br br there are many missed opportunities to make this movie more interesting such as adding a political angle to the story or showing the german discovery of the graves or even portraying anna's trip from the soviet occupied part to the german occupied all of these aspects could have been the major part of the movie but instead they're reduced to a couple of minutes in the end we get a collection of loosely fitting confusing boring scenes about the reaction of poles to one of their greatest tragedies of wwii not very compelling and not worthy of at all
0	first of all let me say that i am in no way denying the importance of the subject quite the opposite i am polish and i have been aware of the katyn massacre for quite a long time in fact two of my family members died there so i was looking forward to this film unfortunately i was disappointed br br i think the main problem lies with the script which encompasses too many subplots and characters none of which are properly developed the characters are painfully one dimensional their stories are intertwined but lack overall meaning in my opinion the cast doesn't really have a chance to show their ability the exception is portraying jerzy the only interesting character i wish the story was more focused on him br br as a result the film lacks emotion before seeing it i thought i would be moved if only for sentimental reasons but in fact i was watching it with an odd sense of detachment throughout except for the final execution scene it is done well and its placing is interesting and provides a climactic ending although the idea of the lord's prayer being recited in unison by the executed officers seems a bit far fetched br br to conclude i suppose the film may have some educational value for those who are not familiar with the portrayed historical events but in my opinion it fails as a work of cinema
0	i bought this because it was 1 99 and harry carey was in it and a friend of mine was in it and for 1 99 how bad could it be then i read some comments here on the film and began to get excited maybe this really was a lost gem one of those terrific little b movies everyone had forgotten about but which deserved to be resurrected wrong i'm not sure how anyone else can give this thing the praise it got from some quarters here but i found it one of the most tedious and blatantly bathos filled movies i've ever seen and i'm not talking about richard carlson's hokey texas accent straight from the georgia part of texas i guess it's just dumb no one in the film behaves like a real human being no one and no one does anything believable or interesting it's not even a cliché fest it's just 80 something minutes of frames going by it even managed to make harry carey maria and c aubrey smith boring now that's unbelievable
0	this movie certainly is a weird one to say the least the basic plot is 3 old business associates invite 2 strangers into their home for returning a lost wallet with 10 bucks in it the two whom show up fall in love the 3 older business men die and come back as ghosts to try to help the two younger guests out okay so that may make sense but then we have 3 old guys whom apparently have some bread living together slightly weird here harry carey plays his part way off base you can't tell if he is a nice guy or really a prick i mean really make up my mind i can handle it then there is richard carlson playing james houston from texas hmmmmm he sounds way more like a southern gentleman from kentucky than a person from texas this one isn't even close then we take the 3 ghosts whom would stand a better chance of helping the new orleans saints win a play off game than actually helping out in fact they are really no help at all and why they are even in the film is beyond any scope of knowledge silly film in which a cast of characters act totally out of character you can avoid this one
0	i can see what this film was intending to do unfortunately it just never quite completes the deal the reality crime aspect works fine and the shots are all first rate in fact quite a few of the scenes are incredibly evocative in a moody sort of way notably the silhouette of the detective talking to the beat up woman the scene of the detectives going through the garbage and the father tying flies on occasion s few scenes bog down in too much dialog instead of showing the viewer the writer treats it too much like a book but the real problem lies in the editing the story does not flow it fails to make a whole out of the sum of the parts in the end you are confused as to what is actually happening those who like this sort of detective movie like to follow along piecing together the puzzle at the same time the lead characters do with such poor editing it is difficult if not nearly impossible to do this
0	i find it amazing that so many people probably poles have voted for this movie giving it such grades mostly tens ok the movie was fine funny but it was nothing special on the other hand the only good thing about is the dialogues rather not comprehensive for non poles screenplay is primitive the acting except for jerzy stuhr as awful it's too much ado about nothing fortunately it's not included in the top 250 p s the sequel 2 2 is on the way and it's just the same story
0	this movie was absolutely terrible the only explanation i can think of for the good reviews it received from some here is that they were written by people in the cast it was actually painful to watch this movie even my grandchildren ages 6 13 could not bear to watch it as far as i know this movie never made it to theaters and for good reason it's as if some people were sitting around having a beer and said hey let's make a movie who wants to be in it it's that bad besides luke perry who is only in a small part of the movie i did not recognize a single other actor that's not necessarily a bad thing but it is in this case i liked i and i generally like stupid and silly movies but this movie doesn't have a single redeeming quality the people who wrote it don't have the slightest clue as to how children think talk or act and the movie is a disjointed mess of terribly corny lines and stupid jokes i rarely write negative reviews but this is the worst movie i have seen since man's best friend and it's definitely one of the ten worst movies i have ever seen in my life if you rent it remember that i warned you the fact that some people actually rated this movie as being good is a sad commentary on their taste and intelligence i'm not exaggerating
0	first off this movie is not near complete my guess is that someone actually bothered to steal every other page of the script br br the movie contains bizarre time travels without notice inconsistent dialogs misplaced details all over the music isn't very bad at all other then misplaced tracks and besides the fact that the volume goes up and down between the different tracks the cutting room did a descent job actually and that says a lot sound effects ruin the tension though br br luke perry does what he does best just looking worried and occasionally coughing up punchlines from hell br br i seriously rate this movie as the worst of 2007 and i've seen a few bad ones do not spend money on this one it's not so bad it's a laugh it's worse ratings above 1 star should render a blacklist at imdb because it's a damn lie
0	sometimes hallmark can get it right like the 10th kingdom but many of their fantasy films plod and this falls into the latter category the version i saw may have been cut a demon shown in the trailer and publicity stills didn't appear but anything that made the movie shorter can only be a blessing br br possible spoilers if you are unfamiliar with the original fairy tale br br anyway the film updates the story to the early part of the 20th century and makes gerda and kay here called kai being a fan i kept expecting him to say the dead do not solve 18 year olds hans christian andersen's basic story is followed the boy gets a shard of ice in his eye goes bad is taken off by the snow queen to solve a puzzle in her palace and gerda goes to find him having various adventures on the way br br as the two main characters are older than in the original a lot of time is spent getting them together and in love' unfortunately i was never convinced that they were particularly in love and certainly not enough in love to make sense of quest by the time the main plot kicks in the movie's pace has slowed to a crawl alas when gerda begins her search for kai it only manages to pick up the pace to a leisurely stroll br br there are a few odd additions to the story that seem to go nowhere at the start of the film the snow queen kills mother but no explanation for this is given a polar bear living in the snow queen's palace is more than he seems though this is possibly because the producers realised that the bear's feelings towards the snow queen would be ok in a fairy tale but not in a modern film again this is never explained also hints that the snow queen has an erotic desire for kai are dropped but never followed through the script is also full of anachronisms that really jar you out of the fairy tale' mood br br the production looks good though there is evidence of penny pinching the snow queen's palace is the hotel where gerda and kai lived covered in ice the three main characters are played with varying degrees of success kai comes across as bland as does gerda initially but once she sets off to find kai you warm to her bridget fonda looks great as the snow queen but seems to be in a different movie to everyone else br br ultimately the film is unsatisfying it looks good but drags and lacks magic
0	just in case the title didn't give it away this movie is garbage br br short review yeah br br i decided to spend as much time writing this review as hollywood probably decided to put into the script i doubt it'll be published considering how poorly i worded everything but if this is and anyone reads it stick to cherishing the first movie it completely surpasses its predecessors in every single way the sequels aren't ever worth buying or seeing and everyone involved in making them should be ashamed for ruining what has to be one of the most classic original films of our childhood
0	wow this movie sucked br br this movie was a embarrassment to the original br br everything about this movie was awful br br the acting was horrendous every part except the part of the manager was terrible br br luke perry though only bit parts was absolutely awful this was is worst role ever even the kid actor playing him as a kid was someone you'd want to punch even in the end lol br br this movie reminded me of those kid movies that go that extra mile making a part goofy way beyond the funny stage the humor was for 6 year olds br br if your over 12 and want something worthwhile to watch skip this movie and watch a sitcom instead
0	the what now yeah i thought it was a stupid name as well chris carter remains blissfully unaware of the scum in his writing staff starting off with the usual cheery x files teaser a baby getting run over by a train this episode well i can't really say it goes downhill because to be honest it was never going uphill br br poorly written with us feeling no pathos for any of the characters except maybe that baby at the start the writer makes us hate characters before brutally killing them off it's the worst technique ever are we supposed to feel sorry for the characters of hate them don't ask me br br not only is it boring and un scary but it's like watching a really bad omen sequel with overblown and disgusting death sequences and rotten special effects although to be brutally honest that's the least of my worries br br sara b began her x files career with a whimper and thankfully ended it with one as well br br verdict br br in the words of my maths teacher mr horrible awful
0	i admit i was lured to this one from the hype and i didn't stop to consider the sources one of the best indie exploitation flicks of the year 1999 shocking and a must have br br well i wasted my money but not all was bad in this movie they at least got the gore right as well as some of the most unique methods of murder seen in a long time there is even a storyline kinda and that is about it br br but for an exploitation film there is a surprising amount of content but no exploiting we get gay sex sorta we have 3 inter racial babes maybe we have a psychotic vietnamese hooker nice back oral sex ok that made me wince and some female version of gene simmons i don't get that part we have an honest to goodness capone rates among the best of the actors in this film that is not a compliment and finally we have a government conspiracy thrown in to i don't know try to connect the vengeance random theme killing by jimmy boy to make the vietnamese psycho seem sane if nothing else this movie proves that the italians and the americans do not have a lock on this type of movie the latinos can make crap as well as the rest of them kudos goes to anyone involved in this accomplishment that overcame it and made a career for themselves
0	i don't think it really matters too much what the plot of this movie is about the main thing you'll notice is the extreme amateurishness of the entire production the acting is what you'd get if you chose people at random off the street the sound is really annoying a medicine cabinet closes with all the gusto of a gunshot going off in your ear while at the same time the dialog is perhaps one fifth as loud miscellaneous on set noises dominate the soundtrack to a huge degree with dialog taking a distant back seat the theme music sounds as if it was about a quarter done when the movie was released as large portions of the film don't have any music at all camera work can best be described as a gnarled mess with close up shots where a medium angle would be much better cameramen walking around and jostling the camera every which way absolutely no attention paid to framing any scene they just shot everything from whatever position it was most convenient for the cameraman to stand if the cameraman was a foot taller than the actors and you end up looking at the tops of everyone's heads well so be it editing is just a butcher job everything is tossed together in the most abrupt manner possible nothing flows or transitions in any sense of the word i don't know if this was shot on video or perhaps a rented camcorder i tend to think it was the latter br br i only made it about three quarters of the way through this thing before i turned it off i just got so annoyed at the low quality of the production i couldn't take it anymore it's like a ninth grade audio visual class project
0	we picked this up as a part of a brentwood set under the title the broken skull shot directly onto video with widely varying sound and lighting quality this movie winds up with a hyperactive quality that may inspire the viewer to feelings of nervousness confusion and irritability and not in a good evil dead kind of way br br without going into spoilers what appears at first to be a simple revenge ghost story becomes increasingly convoluted and bizarre while there are some interesting ideas here the overall effect is likely to leave you scratching your head and saying hunh br br this is a very very gory movie the gore effects range all the way from full bloody head appliances to a silly video toaster effect that has to be freeze framed to be dis believed the fangoria level of gross out effects in this film is really amazing and should likely please the gore hounds while making anyone with a weak constitution feel a bit on the queasy side br br the broken skull is also an extremely noisy movie it features not only ambient noises captured by mikes and not replaced in post but there is a lot of shrieking no no i mean a lot a lot a lot characters scream wail howl and yell and laugh maniacally turn down the volume if you value your eardrums and your nerves but you can't fault the cast for their enthusiasm they really eat up the scenery and sometimes the effect is rather entertaining in particular the actress playing a certain vietnamese immigrant delivers all of the above with a remarkable amount of gusto br br in fact very few of the actors were wooden some of them may have overacted a bit oh just a wee smidgen but most of them are certainly fun to watch go off the cast is ethnically diverse and kudos to the filmmakers for that the two middle aged white women however are two of the most spiteful exasperated characters since the shopkeeper in the mst3k classic the brute man just watch them seethe at all the other characters it's fun br br in closing the may not become a horror icon on a par with jason voorhees michael myers or freddy kruger or even the leprechaun but we can definitely say this this was a movie
0	i got this for my birthday in a box set under the name broke skull well after watching one on the dvd and being pleasantly surprised i popped this sucker in it was worse than i had expected and i didn't expect much this movie is basically a convoluted story about a guy who dies and comes back to life with the mob and other bull crap there was some interesting ideas in this that were never followed up on now everybody has been saying there was a lot of gore can somebody tell me were i saw a bad effect of a head being crushed brain tissue or something and blood coming from the penis area two times i have to say the the part were the guy gets his man hood bitten off made me squirm that was the only good thing about this movie and that gay sex scene was just thrown in there for no reason the acting in this was atrocious really it blew that asian chick was annoying then the annoying mexican boyfriend who comes in to just be killed i say if you get this in a box set that is fine but don't spend any money on it at all
0	there's something strange about the antisocial sentiment you can find in some cheech and chong material one of the songs in up in smoke well i often wish more songs these days began that way but in this excuse for a video the stoner duo are showing us the videos for four songs from their album of the moment also titled get out of my room you hear a voice over during the opening credits in which some anonymous producer describes the record as being a novelty recording that will just take up room on the charts unfortunately this opening voice over hits the nail right on the head br br most music recordings endorsed by the seem to keep to a rule of putting the best material early in the album often when one gets past that first song the discerning listener notices that the recording has little if anything to hold their attention bands that defied mainstream convention on the other hand often saved their best material for last or at least spread it evenly throughout the disc in this case cheech and chong appear to have decided to hedge their bets the opening piece get out of my room is a hilariously themed song with an incredibly bad video many a viewer of a 1980s music video will find the sloppy direction somewhat nostalgic cheech's conception of british punk is also incredibly funny br br where it all goes downhill is the second number i'm not home right now nothing kills interest in a song quite like repetition and it's tough to get more repetitive than this aural turd honestly one feels the urge to slap cheech in the face and tell him that we get the idea he isn't home right now so please move on the next song along the theme of love being a strange thing is the absolute rock bottom not only for this collection but for cheech and chong in general it's almost as if this song was made for the sole reason of padding out the album's running time br br fortunately the stoner duo saved the best for last but it is also curious to note that chong is completely absent from this cut born in east l a is a simple number based upon the old bruce springsteen number that mocks reagan's view of multiculturalism as one is by cheech's tale one has to wonder how many poor schleps who couldn't speak a word of spanish were deported to mexico simply because their skin wasn't bedsheet white racism was an integral part of america's culture in 1985 and it remains so today if anything it has gotten worse so one has to wonder what born in east l a would be like if it were written in the current era br br unfortunately two cuts does not an album make especially when there is so much boring filler between them the interviews before get out of my room for example are quite funny not side splitting like much of up in smoke but funny enough to justify their existence unfortunately the two middle songs are reflected in their making of footage boring song makes boring filler if you cut out the middle half hour of material from this video you'd have something substantially better br br i gave get out of my room a three out of ten they are earned by the first and last video i'm pretty certain that the stars look at material like this today and wonder what they were thinking
0	visually this film is interesting light is literally thrown in a way together with cinematography and an alluring introduction before the titles that had my hopes up at the start but then a b movie is a b movie is a b movie no matter how much spectacle is seen this film surrounds the life of albert fish one of the most well known serial killers in the world active around the start of the 20th century life is hastily and blurry dealt with before before he started killing children at an old age this film is based upon two tracks life and that of william f king lead investigator of the case what saves this film from becoming a hallmark spectacle and debacle of the usual sort whenever films about serial killers are concerned is the direction which is a double edged sword director scott l flynn sheds focus enough upon the b actors not to let their flaws shine through too much but at the same times created a truly dull and stereotypical view of the american police through the king angle sure enough he dealt quite thoroughly with meet with grace budd the 10 year old girl that he killed even though i'm not really sure if her mother was the media crazed person that flynn really tries to emphasise that she was i miss more psychological diving into fish not to mention the very little time which was spent on post capture all in all interesting for those who are into serial killers but mostly a let down however if the director will make another film about another serial killer i'd definitely see it in hopes that holes were patched up
0	a bad bad movie terrible plot hinges on bolo charater but he speaks maybe 20 words in the entire movie and only has one fight scene still in great shape considering he was also in the kung fu classic enter the dragon interesting to see william johnny from the karate kid in another martial arts role
0	this 3 hour made for tv miniseries came home with us from blockbuster's this weekend the production company clearly spent a lot of money on sets costuming bridget fonda especially and special effects including a great jim henson talking polar bear reindeer they should have spent a bit more money getting a coherent script the story line was so loose that it really never came together one can overlook irish accented germans but not herky jerky storytelling with senseless loose ends which included a special guest appearance by the devil this one is certainly not destined to be a christmas classic a shame that they wasted good performances by the two female leads
0	after seeing 1 and the buckets of blood they shed i was ready for another rousing of open handed heart massage and in a cage but nooooooo this was like the barney version of the first movie with that lamer from the karate kid at least bolo yeung still kicks booty although he needs to do more movies like bloodsport and caddyshack
0	disney like entertainment with some un disney like moments of graphic violence and sexual references lousy comedy alongside cliché ridden moralizing noah as abraham lot as his wicked buddy laughable special effects overdone acting with bad timing and were destroyed before the flood strange twists and too many sub plots the bible doesn't mention god as a doubting father who just needs to be entertained by whistling before deciding the world has to be saved from disaster br br b movie wannabee director john irvin adds another failure to his worthless list of poorly directed movies that seriously lack plot and direction
0	just when i thought nothing could be as offensive and or irritating as a billy mays infomercial i had the intellectually shattering experience of renting this piece of garbage peter barnes and john irvin should be brought up on criminal charges for smuggling this script into the public venue the actors need to be charged as accomplices serving no less than a lifetime away from the public eye br br this production offers the disclaimer for dramatic effect we have taken poetic license with certain facts or some such inadequate statement to fully brace you for the absolute repugnant rewrite of a bible story which needed no drama added what they did add was enough to make your i q drop three full points for every five minutes of viewing time br br the poetic license taken invents characters so bizarre you'll recognize nothing but the names of a few and of course the ark br br for some reason noah and lot are both living in so maybe was vacationing in switzerland on a skiing trip lot's wife played by carol kane is a harpy and when she's turned to a pillar of salt lot breaks off her finger and carries it around in what appears to be an empty baby food jar if that's poetic i'm a br br when noah who has now begun drinking wine in quantities that could help float the ark whines about the tough job of the building project he awakens one morning to find that god has delivered enough lumber to lighten his burden at least i think it was god it looked like a delivery from 84 lumber neatly stacked and bundled maybe 84 lumber is really an agent for god rather than bore you with the cargo being loaded i'll you with the account of the pirate attack on the ark incongruous you think this movie is filled with such insulting nonsense after an untold time on the waters noah spies a pirate ship heading right for them and who might the salty sea captain be well duh it's lot of course my only surprise was that his uncle wasn't aboard if you're going to slaughter a plot line slaughter all of it the piracy attempt is unsuccessful and the swashbuckling was pathetic not poetic i think it was around this mark that my nausea prevented me from punishing myself anymore br br an ugly senseless moronic distortion of anything remotely resembling a bible account on a scale of 1 10 this movie is premeditated mind abuse stupid and insulting you'll be more entertained by reading the yellow pages
0	i have wanted to say this since i first saw the movie i still will not allow any of my children or grandchildren to watch this at least not until i tell them and they understand that it is completely fiction the only thing that i saw that was correct was that animals went onto the ark everything else was false lot and noah fighting on the ocean like a pirate movie make sure you tell your kids the real story before you allow them to watch it but really until they are old enough to understand that it is not real they may have a messed up vision of the bible this was the worst bible movie i have ever seen bruce and evan almighty were much better and had more to teach let your children watch those
0	this is pure crap and probably the worst biblical theme film ever absolutely inaccurate i mean they've put and before the great flood they've described lot as a friend of noah although he lived after noah to make things worse later lot became a pirate and attacks noah's ark during the flood and what's with the merchant who comes along on a boat which is moved over the water with a bicycle mechanism and exchanges alcohol for a food and water and then noah is portrayed as alcoholic mockery and continuous one after another and it goes on and on and on film maker and all participants surely secured themselves the front row in hell with this garbage br br please stay off this crap because you will save yourself nearly three hours of your life
0	i was so excited to see the cast in this movie that i was completely surprised at how completely wrong this movie was i love john voight but i have no idea what possessed him to be a part of this travesty the biblical accuracy was completely non existent and i honestly could not stomach watching the movie with my children my kids stood astonished because even they know that lot was not even thought of when noah was building the ark i think that nbc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing producers to make a mockery of the word and cause even more confusion in a world that barely knows the truth as it is please do not buy this movie i have considered burning my copy but i have every intentions on writing the producers and sending them the scripture references that they should have read before making this movie
0	nbc should be ashamed i wouldn't allow my children to see this i definitely would tell my church to stay away this movie is proof as to why nbc has always been a 3rd rate network the producers actors and writers should get on their knees and beg god's forgiveness for making this work of fiction there were no pirates noah's wife didn't parade around on the deck of the ark the ark had no deck lot wasn't even born when this event took place did anyone attached to this project try reading the bible there were more than two animals of each type taken read the story in genesis how could anyone bring this to any screen small or large
0	how this film could be classified as drama i have no idea if i were john voight and mary steenburgen i would be trying to erase this from my cv it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules abraham and moses got melded into noah lot abraham's nephew lot turns up thousands of years before he would have been born wandered the earth really what were the scriptwriters thinking was it just ignorance i remember something about noah and animals and lot and and all that stuff from sunday school or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible from christians jews and muslims to historians archaeologists geologists psychologists as a matter of fact did anyone not get offended anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one
0	recently i borrowed a copy of this mess of a movie which took me three sessions over three days to get through that's another comment in the making br br but what i wanted to comment on first was the carelessness on the special features of the dvd it included a game of memory which asks the player viewer to match up pairs of animals in order for them to board the ark however every time it reveals the chosen animal the screen prompts the player to find or congratulates the player on finding it's mate this is a spelling error since it should be its mate as possessive pronoun not a for it is it is an annoying error to keep repeating 16 or more times to finish a game of course it's a kid's activity really but teaches kids incorrect spelling br br and oh yeah the game never changes it is the same game with the same locations of the same animals each time plus it doesn't keep score like the number of moves it took to solve the game so there is no lasting value or challenge to it it's just a feature to list on the packaging br br simply put there could have been more thought and care put into this special feature just like there could have been more thought and care put into this muddled film
0	i've seen some bible based trash this one tops it all to make matters worse it lasts about three hours a horrible waste of time unless you want to match your kid's biblical knowledge against the innumerable aberrations do yourself a favor take a walk in the sahara instead since i am required to give you a ten line statement of why not to watch this movie let me just say there is absolutely no redeemable quality to it god's conversations with noah are ridiculous the whole thing has a stench of let's make the biblical account look retarded the basic logic goes if they spent the money on a biblical film why not make it worthwhile since the basic logic is not met something is amiss the movie starts with a disclaimer about poetic licenses taken that is the understatement of the century poetic rape but then poetic would be an unmerited favor
0	for all intents and purposes showtime was the worst movie i have ever seen br br why because having deniro in the cast adds immediate credibility and makes you want to watch the movie i had also made the mistake of watching 48 hours and beverly hills cop recently before seeing showtime and for some strange reason thought eddie murphy was still funny well he's not in fact it almost seems like he has been neutered as i watched this movie i was in amazement that deniro decided this was a good enough script to lend his name too no chemistry between him and murphy whatsoever horrible writing horrible jokes a movie that you think is supposed to be good can't get much worse than this not too long after sitting through the wretch that was showtime i happened to watch national security starring martin lawrence the movie had its funny parts but wasn't that great but still it was 20 times better than showtime please if your a deniro fan do not watch this movie
0	i think hollywood should seriously consider never doing another biblical film again if noah's ark is going to be the norm aside from the horrible completely uninspired acting from the whole cast voight and steenburgen undoubtedly rue the day the agreed to do this film the time line has been completely rearranged i also missed the part in genesis about the pirate fight on the deck of the ark or the traveling salesman coming by on his paddle boat hello everyone else was dead except for noah and his family according to scripture god stacked lumber and added plans to build the ark when noah questioned how i also don't remember reading anything about noah's wife constantly nagging him during the 40 days or noah wandering around glassy eyed and dazed all the time the script writer obviously had very little knowledge of the book of genesis or just didn't care that his abomination of a story completely mocked it
0	this film is a completely inaccurate depiction of the real story of noah's ark the producers probably did not even read the bible this is the worst movie i have ever seen noah's wife was never mentioned by name in the bible but the writers of the film gave her the name this movie depicts the destruction of a good 1000 years before it happened and what about it too was destroyed at the same time was maybe the producers thought that not including in the story and showing the city of as in you know what would raise more eyebrows this film is utter filth and mocks god and the bible it is a wonder that any true christian would want to participate in the production of this abysmal hideous mockery of the bible
0	this rendition of noah's ark has set and turner's reputation back about 100 years however the production has it's bright side a learning experience for neophyte movie in how not to make a movie br br where in the annals of biblical literature and common sense can one find these quotes and situations br br ok boys let's saddle up it's too bad that god created the sun to shine only during the day when we really needed it at night we're not kissing we're only whispering in each others' mouths br br lumber for building the ark with georgia pacific stamped on it metal nails kids flying kites a peddler how can james coburn sleep after this selling chinese hats pirates attacking a wooden ark which they wished to capture with flaming tar balls of fire shot from glass bottles of wine noah was in a continual state of it was a miracle that he could see the ark let alone build it lady mary in a blond wig tromping around the ark on a white horse still rated g off biblical pirates with an iron teflon lined frying pan landing on mount after having passed through the straights of hercules br br etc etc etc br br special effects you've got to see them in order not to believe them br br the list goes on this movie must not be missed but if you want the full tv version you must call nbc for the screen version but only if you agree to absolve nbc of all responsibility of ever having aired the thing in the first place only the expurgated version exists in video stores no pirates etc that is those video stores that dare to stock it br br marvin cohn br br
0	oh boy where do i begin on this piece of slime this is one of the few real high budget films on my list that i've actually seen fit to give a 1 rating and that's not for the production values which are pretty high this movie has absolutely no respect for the account in the bible and treats the whole story as laughable fantasy i could not recommend it to anyone except to see how low as a society we have become br br for the first thing noah was absolutely not friends with lot anyone who actually read genesis could tell you that was who they were thinking of the writers were just trying to pad out the story with the whole subplot and it seems out of place because it is noah is treated as a prudish goofball you were kissing you were kissing but at least it's a step up from voight's hilarious overacting in anaconda br br however these offenses pale in comparison to the heretical treatment of god in this movie god is portrayed as a petty being who changes his mind at the slightest whim i'm one eternal perfect but i can be wrong what where are they getting this from this kind of god no one should ever pay any attention to much less worship praise or love what the director's saying in this i do not claim to know i just know that a responsible treatment of noah's ark should not take such an easy way out shame on these people
0	how offensive those who liked this movie have probably never opened a bible i can imagine those at nbc saying ok let's make a movie to appease those pesky christians but they'll never know the difference if we don't have anything factual or in the correct chronological order well they were wrong anybody associated with this atrocity needs to find a church and repent for their involvement in this blasphemous atrocity i only gave this movie a 1 because i couldn't give it a 0
0	even though i have great interest in biblical movies i was bored to death every minute of the movie everything is bad the movie is too long the acting is most of the time a joke and the script is horrible i did not get the point in mixing the story about abraham and noah together so if you value your time and sanity stay away from this horror
0	who wrote the script for this movie the staff at disney studios this is the most adaptation of any story ever i wanted to laugh at a few scenes and cry at others and that was only because of how pitiful it was i'll have to hand it credit it did have a few funny scenes but i could've spent better time with my evening very seldom do i turn off a movie after only a quarter of the way through
0	how can so many blundering decisions can be made all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation are you kidding it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well
0	i just wanted to say that i was very disappointed after seeing this movie i was expecting a biblical story visualized with great special fx etc but during the film i found out that this was an absolute disaster it wasn't biblical at all only the boat and the animals were similar to the story if you want a visual of the bible version of noah then don't go watch this movie
0	this move is terrible they took gods word and made a mockery of it the acting was terrible too why bother doing a story on something from the bible when your not even going to tell it correctly there were not just a few changes but the whole thing was wrong do not see this movie
0	i don't understand jokes i do believe this is my problem with modern cinema or those films that are made with millions of dollars in hopes that it will become the next greatest sensation isn't it odd – people just don't laugh as much anymore and i do believe one of the diseases to that problem is the film showtime there was absolutely nothing from the beginning to the end of the credits with all of the bantering between murphy and de niro with russo as eye candy with even standard clichés which make the general population swoon with pre programmed laughter there was nothing in this film that made me laugh there weren't the overbearing physical jokes or the calculated mental vocal jokes at all throughout this debacle of a film from the beginning i didn't buy the match up of de niro and murphy as anything more than hollywood excitement throughout the commentary the director vividly talks about the hijinks and laughter going on during the shoot – where was it in the film this falls to either two problems – the director really doesn't have a sense of comedy or the editor didn't understand the value of the film either way they both doomed the entire hour and a half spent on the hollywood nightmare showtime br br outside of finding no reason to laugh there was no reason to follow these characters through any moment of the film there was a glimpse of humor with de niro's desire to pick up pottery as a hobby but the director had to write on the machine so audiences would understand – who does that but that was dropped and never developed there was the idea that murphy was an actor but outside of that one opening monologue nobody would have understood that he rents a room in a producer's house in which he can afford on a police officer's salary this just didn't compute even for hollywood standards there was a bad guy who wanted a big gun but the gun was never developed nor was there any true test of the weapons capability … even at the end it became a bigger joke to laugh at an accent than remember the guns where was the television show in this russo had to get permission from this random guy at the beginning but there were no consequences there was nothing in the middle of this film outside of further questions and meaningless dribble random characters were introduced forgotten re introduced and forgotten all over again the director and producer laughed at this while we the meager viewer must suffer through inside jokes and cliché stereotypes br br was there a love interest in this film was there a truly sinister bad guy that went apart from the comic duo to bring true evil to the screen were there any pop culture references that didn't come back to robert de niro was there random chaos throughout this film if you need the answers to these obviously you won't find them in showtime the fact that i am this review with question upon question only means that this sub par actually well below sub sub sub par filled no quota or resembled anything of value to the cinematic world sure it had big names and one really neat explosion but there was nothing of substance to this at all it was almost as if the director said prior to the shoot that he wanted clichés but not regular clichés – go with the bad ones the plot had no linear structure the jokes were boring the characters were drab and underdeveloped this ranks below even the best of buddy cop films i like to give films the benefit of the doubt but nothing worked in this film not even shatner could save this film and he even tried hard br br overall i cannot nor will i suggest this film to anyone with a pulse the commentary only confirms the pathetic nature of the film with obvious flaws horrid jokes and creators questioning the validity of their work if creators can't stand behind showtime why should we i didn't want a lethal weapon when i watched this but i did want something like that i understand there was some form of criticism of reality television and the corrupt nature of the media but that message didn't make it off the page in fact i believe i saw media leave the theater first when i watched this shame carries its heavy hand with this film and i cannot blame it murphy used to be a big star comedy was his middle name see coming to america but lately he seems to have lost his edge de niro obviously wants to get away from an image that haunts him but making these sort of films is only going to set him back further one of these films is equal to one scorsese picture br br skip this one i promise it will make your final cinematic days worthwhile oh and if you laughed at any of the jokes in this film – i am truly sorry br br grade out of
0	if you are going to make a movie from any book be sure that the characters are with that book this movie not only defied the biblical story that has been told for thousands upon thousands of years to children one way or another but it clearly took liberties that no adaptation would probably ever try at least the lord of the rings is close enough to the books that people understand the story more if they read the books than this noah's ark tried to
0	this is the most inaccurate and disgraceful biblical film i have ever has the misfortune to watch i would like to know why anybody on earth could enjoy viewing this i am so surprised that a big name like jon voight would agree to act in this disgraceful piece of garbage many people who may not have read the bible will now be mislead by believing this film was accurate and the thought of that really bothers me i think the makers have a lot to answer for the worst thing is that i believe nobody could make such obvious mistakes with a biblical film since they can research the bible for the truth so i believe the makers deliberately twisted what the bible says and that is something nobody has the right to do and i find that very offensive there are no words strong enough to describe exactly how i feel about this
0	i could not believe what i saw once brilliant actors appearing in this dire effort that should never of been made the plots are dreadful and the dialogue at first i thought it was a spoof and the acting abysmal everything about it is bad from the cheap sets to the phony backdrops a bunch of paintings enlarged respectable filmakers struggle to get their vision realised yet this blasphemous pathetic attempt at a mini series makes it to our television's with 3 oscar winners making appearances i can only guess everyone involved somehow hurt the writer and director and were forced maybe at gunpoint to star in this worthless t v trash
0	dramatic yes historically accurate not quite this movie twists the bibles details of the deluge by placing lot meeting noah during the building of the ark fascinating time travel for lot made in part by nbc being lot had not been born until years after the thats like having george bush meet with william shakepeare and whats with this guy floating around selling items to noah br br you can make a movie based on historical facts dramatic but don't twist it around placing people where they weren't especially when it comes to gods word
0	sorry about that but if you have seen this epic you will obviously know of the utter disregard for the actual text of the bible now i'm not exactly the next in line for sainthood but i do know the basics and the basics were this god wanted to wipe everyone of the face of the earth because he believed they have been corrupted to the point of no return he chose noah the diamond in the rough and his family to be spared due to their ways noah builds an ark as instructed by god to house he his family and two of every creature while he floods the rest of the planet those are the basics in this movie you have other people roaming around the seas such as peddlers and pirates but i thought that everyone was wiped out i guess the executives at nbc have never been to church there are other inaccuracies i'm told but being the average joe i have no idea what they are sorry back to the movie it was inaccurate as stated before the acting stunk but some of the effects were good i'll give it that but as a whole i've seen a better and more tasteful rendition of the story done as a little scene on the simpsons god help the nbc executives come judgement day 3 10
0	this is one of the worst mini series i have ever seen on tv i sat through the first half hoping it would improve but it only went from bad to worse needless to say i could not bring myself to sit through the torture of a second nights viewing what was jon voight thinking when he made this
0	i'll dispense with the obvious review of factual inaccuracies they are too numerous to name a much shorter list would be what they got right 1 dude named noah 2 ark with animals on it br br if you want a much more accurate portrayal of noah's ark and the destruction of go rent the bible 1966 it depicts the story of creation through abraham attempting to sacrifice his son isaac it's a much better movie and it may be that the abomination called noah's ark 1999 drove you to seek just such a film http www imdb com title br br i really couldn't stomach watching the whole movie from reading other comments i can see that even the atheists found it grossly inaccurate as a christian it was intolerable to me possibly the worst movie ever made no real point to this movie either except maybe to showcase their sub par computer animation br br was it a complete waste maybe not god can use evil to work good br br romans 8 28 says 28 and we know that all things work together for good to them that love god to them who are the called according to his purpose br br genesis 50 says 20 but as for you ye thought evil against me but god meant it unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive br br in the second example joseph's brothers meant to kill him but god turned their evil into a very great good he may have done the same thing with this movie br br people were so astonished by its lack of biblical foundation that they probably broke out the dusty old bible and read the story for themselves to find out about lot and they would have to go the whole way up to genesis 19 before god destroys and gomorrah by then they have read almost half of genesis so they might want to finish the next book is exodus which the movie the ten commandments was based on and much more accurately if they have seen that movie then exodus becomes an easy read so now they have read at least two whole books of the bible just because they watched a pathetic movie about noah's ark i'm sure this actually happened to someone out there br br god works in mysterious ways
0	this movie could have been an impressing epic but the makers seem to have done their utmost to make it appear foolish even god himself is not spared in this movie in that his words are drenched with childish jokes the result is blasphemous and annoying only people who don't care to see a cheap parody on the biblical story may perhaps watch this film without embarrassment the makers of this tasteless production should see the gospel according to mathew a film of pier paolo pasolini who shows that it is unnecessary to pervert the words of the bible to make a good story the most impressing result is obtained by a sincere rendering of the plain text itself
0	nbc had a chance to make a powerful religious epic along the lines of the ten commandments and the greatest story ever told and instead they chose to make some halfhearted cartoon that was more like waterworld than anything else i don't recall a bible passage where lot turns into a pirate and attacks the ark nor do i remember one where noah's son develops a serious friendship with an orange nor do i remember noah being some crazy old loon who suddenly acts like he's commanding a naval fleet and runs around shouting nautical terms like hoist the mainstay this was possibly the worst marketing decision in history obviously the majority of people watching this were going to be jewish and christian parents with their kids so why on earth make the movie so offensive to those people if they were intentionally trying to offend why not advertise it that way and at least reel in the right audience i hope they make a real noah movie someday one done seriously and thoughtfully one that actually appeals to people and makes money until then don't waste your time with this trash
0	i've spent quite a while going through all the reviews for this film i'm in total agreement with almost every reviewer in saying that noah's ark is crap crap crap crap crap don't the executives at nbc have any class i feel sick to my stomach for actually watching both parts of this mini series the script is so dumb so pointless and yes totally inaccurate i can understand making a few changes for dramatic purposes but this film changed just about everything in the story god himself is going to go through the trouble to kill off the entire earth's population but he somehow misses one guy that's sailing around trying to sell stuff to noah give me a break and what was up with noah's sons acting like indiana jones saving girls in distress if all that isn't bad enough there's the part where god apologizes to noah and says i'm sorry noah i was wrong newsflash nbc god can not be wrong this film is the most tasteless and disgraceful biblical film ever made
0	bubbling just beneath the surface of showtime is a good idea actually it's more like two or three ideas that constantly fight for screentime this film doesn't just have its cake and eat it too it has the whole bakery br br detective mitch preston robert de niro has a drug bust interrupted by the media and a brash cop slash actor named trey sellars eddie murphy when preston's partner is shot he angrily shoots the camera out of the hands of a newsman and the tiff lands him in a new reality cop show produced by chase rene russo in the first of many errors and oddities in the movie that injured partner is never heard from again or alluded to for the remainder of the film br br de niro's best gag is his speech to a classroom of small children to open the picture about how tv cops don't act like real cops funny thing is as the movie progresses his character and murphy's begin to act more and more like the clichés they supposedly clash so strongly with in a smarter movie de niro's diatribe could have played as ironic comment here it only shows to point out how truly lame the movie is while a spoof of a reality based cop show could be funny the team of writers and director tom dey who made the far superior shanghai noon a few years ago see that movie instead seem to be on unsure footing and instead of slamming the tv industry they really let them off light the harshest thing they seem to be able to say about network execs is they like to play ping pong at work russo's character has a glint of fiendish delight in her eye but her dialogue and actions rarely match the actress' enthusiasm br br with little on screen to keep my attention my mind began to wander and that's dangerous in a movie with this many plot holes for instance if showtime the name given to the cop show is such a popular smash why doesn't anyone seem to recognize de niro and murphy when they are on the job for that matter if their investigation of smuggler and all around mean guy vargas is being televised why the heck hasn't someone mentioned to him that they are on his trail then again given this villain's actions maybe i shouldn't be surprised this is the same joker who is very angry at an associate for using his new without approval jeopardizing a deal and then dispatches him how by using about ten of the to level his entire house of course that's like putting out a fire with a bigger fire br br occasionally showtime gets laughs but there simply aren't enough for the film's nearly two hour running time even worse the really smart gags suggest that this movie really could have been on to something if only they had put in a few more drafts of the script murphy mugs and talks as fast as he can with minimal results and de niro looks flat out bored through most of this after a completely unnecessary fistfight between cops and gangsters that remarkably results in no injuries and no arrests russo's character shouts that's great television ' perhaps it's great television but it's far from a great movie
0	seriously i can't imagine how anyone could find a single flattering thing to say about this movie much less find it in themselves to write the glowing compliments contained in this comment section how many was on during the filming of this movie was he giving a bonus to the actor that spat his lines out with the most speed and least inflection or thought the dialogue is bad the plot atrocious even for a screwball comedy and claims that the movie is an homage to classic film comedy is about the most inane thing i've ever heard the cinematography is below the quality and innovation of that exhibited by the worst made for tv movies the acting is awful although i get the feeling that the fault for that lies squarely in the lap of the director and speaking of which did i mention the direction is so haphazard and inscrutable that it defies the definition of the word the whole thing is a terribly unfunny even in the much beleaguered world of so bad it's funny clunkers soul sucking waste of two hours of your life that you'll never get back be afraid be very afraid
0	while the new pride prejudice film is gorgeous to view and the soundtrack is lovely we are not seeing jane austen's pride and prejudice the film is for some reason set back in the early rather than the regency period where the novel is set as scholars have long shown the estate is ram shackled and looks like cold comfort farm yet the in the novel are gentry class they own a farm but the pig does not walk through the house nor is the of manure and chicken droppings contiguous to the home scenes are re set from the novel and lest we forget jane austen placed scenes in certain locations for a reason for example the film puts the big darcy proposal scene outside in a storm in front of a temple as opposed to inside the collins' why did jane austen put it in the because while lizzy and darcy speak with total if brutal honesty to each other in this scene the have never shared an honest word why the rain and the outdoor proposal it looks like jane eyre meeting rochester and when elizabeth walks across a windy field to stand on a cliff and view the panorama one expects her to cry heathcliffe at any minute austen has been judy dench is a great actress but lady catherine is supposed to be tall and striking the petite tom hollander is a brilliant actor but mr collins is described in the novel as tall and heavy looking which suggests that his terrible dancing with poor lizzy is matthew is another favorite of mine from mi 5 on a e in p p however he is more the young heathcliffe never smiling though austen observes in the novel that darcy smiles at lizzy quite a bit and she realizes this when she sees his wonderful smiling portrait at a portrait that in this movie is for some reason replaced by a sculptured marble bust and much of austen's dialogue is changed to modern speech mr has been turned into such a clown that one wonders why darcy would have him as a friend and why jane bennet would love him the bottom line is that while this is a great movie to watch and hear it deviates from jane austen's novel so much that any student who watched it thinking she could substitute viewing for reading would fail
0	let me begin by saying that i adore the book and loved the a e miniseries i was hoping to love this film and i was absolutely willing to allow it a moderate degree of artistic license in interpreting and the actual story however this film scarcely resembles the original book if only the names had been changed to protect the innocent i would have possibly enjoyed the movie as simply an entertaining if inaccurate period piece br br unfortunately putting the name mr darcy on a character who is emotional and weak giving the name elizabeth bennett to a reckless snippy often teary eyed hoyden who cares nothing for the rules of society and making mr a wide eyed dimwit absolutely destroyed the idea that the director had ever read jane austen's original story br br there are some really stellar moments in this movie perhaps a total of 10 minutes are truly excellent charlotte's explanation of why she accepted mr collins' proposal begins beautifully she is 27 years old quite near the hopeless spinster age in those times she is becoming a burden on her family and she is not romantic she only wants a comfortable home however the beautiful dialogue is ruined when she blubbers don't you judge me elizabeth don't you dare judge me and runs off in tears later you see charlotte to lady catherine de which was not at all in her character as described in the book br br another good moment is when darcy catches elizabeth in his home while she is touring the area with her aunt and uncle it was well done in the a e series but the film version with keira knightley made the audience feel acutely how very humiliating that moment must have been for elizabeth very nice br br the ending also illustrated a level of affection between elizabeth and darcy that was not shown as obviously in the miniseries i actually appreciated that scene simply because i like to see a happy ending rather than just know that it took place br br altogether though this movie eliminated the subtlety that was such an integral part of austen's pride and prejudice the characters speak in a jarring combination of austen's dialogue verbatim and modern phrases and colloquialisms information that was only alluded to or suggested in the original work is blatantly stated in this version yes time was a concern it's only a short movie yada yada but turning a complex beautiful book into a superficial love story is ridiculous br br some have commented that they loved the moment when darcy first sees elizabeth because it is so obviously a case of love at first sight love at first sight huh one of the best aspects of the book is that elizabeth is not supposed to be a traditional beauty and darcy comes to love her for her wit and liveliness he literally loves her for her mind br br this version also had a moment during first proposal when the two are yelling furiously at each other while leaning closer and closer and almost kissing but they suddenly step apart ugh what a sad cliché they're angry and disgusted with each other but so attracted that it doesn't matter that at the time they don't even like each other ridiculous br br the characterizations were all so far removed from those described in the book that it really was like a different story mr bennet was dour elizabeth usually acted just as silly as her younger sisters charlotte was emotional somewhat unintelligent and desperate for a home of her own unlike the intelligent slightly scheming woman with an abundance of common sense who is portrayed in the novel jane and elizabeth's relationship is merely topical instead of the deep rooted love and admiration they are supposed to have for each other br br all this i could have accepted as merely poor interpretations of the novel but i refused to accept all that in addition to the many many historical inaccuracies miss walked around scarcely clothed her dress looked like what the others would wear as tight undergarments elizabeth walked to with her hair down and allowed to fly all over the family lazed about one morning though mornings were supposed to be reserved for calling on acquaintances or being called on at your own home elizabeth walked outside barefoot in her nightgown and in a really appalling scene walked into jane's bedroom and conversed with her and sounded like an idiot when she was ill br br most people would feel these are minor points but i simply wanted either a an historically accurate film or b an accurate representation of the characters in the novel br br the director writer whoever sacrificed accuracy subtlety and a good story for a trite tale of love at first sight i can concede that those who have not read the book or who are not familiar with the social conventions of the time could very easily like this movie and there is nothing wrong with that i simply couldn't overcome my desire to see a film that involved more than just two pretty faces
0	i think it is saying something that the bollywood bride and prejudice stayed more faithful to the source material than this 2005 hollywood version did i also laughed more at the bollywood version mr priceless if you have read the book or seen the 1995 bbc version and liked them you will be in for a nasty surprise going in to this film then my friend however who had seen neither was mildly amused by the film if you are a jane austen purist though or even a film goer who dislikes historical inaccuracies it will be painful to sit through this br br ugh the script the script was the biggest problem i imagine the actors wouldn't have fared half so badly if they'd had a decent script perhaps penned by somebody who actually loved austen's work br br what were committed well you'll be forced to endure such incredulous lines as don't you dare judge me lizzy and leave me alone for once in your lives not only are such lines far from anything that could come from jane austen's eloquent pen but can anyone honestly believe words like that spilling from the mouth of a genteel young lady from the regency era the usage of modern colloquialisms is one of the many irritating ways that the screenwriter butchers the book the writer also decided to give characters lines that in the book were said by a completely different characters and all for no apparent purpose worse of all when they do try to stick a bit closer to the book's writing the screenwriter has a nasty and unnecessary habit of rearranging austen's phrases and substituting awkward synonyms for her already perfect words it was as if the screenwriter sat down with the book in one hand and a thesaurus in the other when writing the script stick to austen's words she did it better than you i assume all of this was done in a revisionist spirit and in an effort to distance this film from the iconic 1995 bbc version however for me it also made a travesty of the true spirit of austen's most beloved work br br the casting did have potential though it was quickly dashed away once the script kicked in but keira giggling excessively and baring your crooked teeth does not equal charm and and i think mr though i find him tolerably handsome enough his script and was under the impression he was playing heathcliff and not the formidable mr darcy i really did enjoy brenda blethyn kelly reilly and the actor who played mr collins their interpretations were really rather refreshing br br oh but donald sutherland somebody described his performance as seeming like a hobo who had accidentally wandered onto the movie set and i must say it is an apt description and can somebody tell me why they fashioned after legolas though he was in the movie for under two minutes i daresay and without his impressive archery skills to perk up the movie br br on a wardrobe note i would kill for miss bingley's dresses because they were sumptuous and would fit in more with the modern century a sleeveless regency evening gown please more versace than austen that is sure and poor keira all of the budget went to her salary and not her wardrobe oh and i'm sure they eventually caught the bastard who stole the one from the movie set unfortunately they didn't catch him soon enough to comb the actresses' tresses before filming rolled br br in short with this new hollywood version bid adieu to austen's eloquence subtlety and wit because you'll be getting the complete opposite
0	from the film's first shot keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn thus invoking all the clichés cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself br br joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen's subtle nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain not to mention that jane austen and in particular p p is not about passion sexual tension or love it's about different strategies of negotiating the of eighteenth century society which was completely ignored so that the house was a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shouts at once runs around leaves their underwear on chairs and pigs wander happily through the house the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety br br the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and enabled by that speechless gap so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots particularly in this film to function was completely erased subtlety in general was nowhere int his film sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances br br it was so obviously trying to be a serious film the humour which is pride prejudice both austen's methodology and her appeal was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama and when it was allowed in was handled so clumsily pride prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points yes but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour they are embedded in it you can't lose jane austen's technique leaving only the bare bones of the story and expect the themes to remain not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous cinematography br br elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clear sighted keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine elizabeth's wit her combative verbal exchanges her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody's follies including her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with what a lot of giggling and staring into the distance rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation and not genuinely raging either no these were petulant hissy fits and where the great strength of austen's elizabeth at least in austen's eyes was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining propriety knightley's elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention furthermore she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance in which quest for blandness and weakness she was ably matched by matthew br br donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic his special bond with lizzie as the only two sensible people in a world of fools was completely lost not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact mr was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen delivered with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy br br just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache
0	maybe if you've never read any english literature or only ever watched the hollywood version of any book you might find merit in this awful film it has the directorial and scripting skill of the bbc 1995 adaptation is both very enjoyable and close to the book and captures the atmosphere between elisabeth and darcy very well br br the characters in this production are badly miscast sutherland as bennet seems a total buffoon likewise acts the fool and it is that he my be a friend of darcy i can't imagine how judi dench could have accepted the role maybe she thought it was a surreal comedy version br br quotes from the book are thrown in out of context huge chunks are missing the important episode with is glossed over br br mr collins is however very good and towers above the other members of the cast br br the only good thing is we didn't pay to see it wait for the dvd and use to keep a table from wobbling
0	sorry to say but was disappointed in the film it was very very rushed as i suppose you can understand a movie length version of pride prejudice would be and i felt that a lot of the major scenes were glossed over just to get through the story as the movie is so rushed unfortunately you don't get to really know about and feel for each of the characters much at all br br not only that this movie is boring i say that with a capital b 1 3 of the way through i started yawning and couldn't wait for the movie to be over as i have read the book and watch the bbc version i knew how many scenes had to go before i could finally leave the cinema mr darcy whoever he is in this movie definitely can't act he looks also too young to play mr darcy every word that comes out of his mouth is rushed like he needs to get through the script or something where is the build up at first he seems confused with everything he is just bizarre it all looks put on br br was trying not to compare to the colin firth version but if you love that version you will most likely be disappointed anyway br br the costumes are absolutely shocking where are the corsets i know elizabeth is poor but i think she still knows how to dress as some sort of ladylike fashion and hasn't been brought up in a her dresses indicates she might be the poorest peasant in all of england br br i didn't agree with a couple of scenes in the movie in the fact that i don't think it would be considered proper in that society for men to do such things honestly mr who has wealth should know better there is some things that are said that sound too modern for the period this movie is set in and not at all like jane austen bingley's character is shockingly to me he behaves like a simpleton not a character to like and respect what about that laugh of his i hardly has a presence and mr mrs hurst and a couple of other characters have no presence at all keira did okay but it just ain't the same
0	i went to see suspecting i would hate it i did everything about it was wrong it was like they were filming a different book granted the locations and houses very lovely if not a little miscast yes even the house were wrong for their parts keira was too modern dull and frankly i found it unpleasant to watch her were everyone else sees darcy as a sex god the writer of this saw him as sexually frustrated and inadequate was stupid and dippy he isn't meant to be and the bennett's were shown to be destitute and for some unknown reason farmers this is incorrect and ludicrous the very idea that mr bennett would answer the door in his night gear with the rest of the family dressed in their underwear to in the middle of the night is stupid they had servants mr collins was not repulsive and greasy merely stupid and obnoxious georgina darcy was ugly and old and miss wore a sleeveless dress what as if it is historically inaccurate and even the ending is unsatisfying i could go on for days i hated it so much as not only was it nothing like the book but i fear that for many people it will be their fist experience of this great novel and it will give them the worst possible idea of it the bbc version is so superior it's not even funny and everything about this version is an insult to its memory in short if you must see it be sure you have read the book first or seen the bbc version other wise you will be lead done the deluded road that this is what it's like which its not
0	if you have never heard of jane austen seen the original movie or the 1995 bbc adaptation or even seen a pop up version of the book then this farcical attempt to show this classic love story may be considered vaguely endurable br br from the opening scene this film must be remembered for its awful acting abominable miscasting and complete lack of the classic wit of jane austen br br whoever decided to cast actors with the exception of the excellent judi dench who have obviously never heard of jane austen let alone read her should be punished keira knightley grimaces and grins through every scene and came across as being so obnoxious that no one would want to marry her darcy looked as if he was trying to remember his lines throughout the whole film and the rest of the bennet girls were interchangeable in their lack of portraying their characters as they were originally written br br this version failed to show the proper pride and prejudice that both darcy and elizabeth suffered from and at the end of the longest two hours of my life who cared whether they got together or not absolutely abysmal even the too few minutes of judi dench cannot save this rubbish i cannot think of anything good to say about this film apart from that it eventually ended
0	well wright may have made a gritty depiction of life around 1800 as he so repeatedly and anally goes on about because of when it was written as opposed to published but it is his not austen's and shouldn't claim to be an adaptation br br mrs bennett looks like a rural this is a pampered woman they have servants remember the book scene with the servant dressing the hair etc but wright portrays her with rough skin all down her chest rough hands and working in the kitchen and the pigs wandering through if he wants bucolic he should try tess br br mr bennett the script makes too cuddly and modern and ignored the weakness in him the scene where he stops mary playing is supposed to make you cringe not pass in seconds if it doesn't don't include it br br macfadyen is very weak in the part and seems to be doing some kind of pride by numbers acting the first proposal he looks like a nervous schoolboy rather than a man overcoming his pride to make a proposal beneath his station most of his lines he could as well be reading a shopping list br br lydia is awful completely over the top with excessive shrieking and skipping indeed knightley plays elizabeth more like the giggling inane character lydia actually is in the book at times br br and elizabeth half the time knightley is clearly mimicking voice and intonation close your eyes to see what a copy it is and in her role you see wright's major error there is no prejudice br br from the first encounter with darcy she clearly fancies him when he comments to on the attractiveness of the women in the hall she initially looks hurt not shocked and the latter should set up the prejudice side of things and when she and are prancing round the room she comes across like a tease obviously all over him and by virtually cutting out you don't get elizabeth invested enough there to set up the prejudicial aspects falling out of that relationship br br and apparently it is caroline not miss and mr happily wanders into jane's bedroom and and and wright can boast about how great he is with period all he wants but a few panorama shots of rural life which show the preference for hardy don't excuse him the glaring blunders all over the place br br the cinematographer who clearly wants awards should have been in he veered between bronte and hardy throughout the film and wasn't the last proposal shots lighting from tess the need to see darcy walk along through the with unkempt shirt was just dumb but most importantly when going between those 2 very different landscapes they forget the most important one austen she'd have laughed out loud at the elizabeth sad therefore rain running through to picturesque folly wet darcy rubbish br br i admit i found it impossible the watch the film without using the book as context i was prepared to give it some leeway as it had to provide the story in a short space of time but to forget fully one half of the core of the book in prejudice and darcy to continually look more constipated than prideful made it almost unwatchable i could only see it as a mess with generally poor performances when knightley wasn't aping ehle she was gurning or skipping or both and only calmed down a couple of times to indicate she does have some promise but about on swings to convey emotion isn't a substitute for a poor script and poor direction although for some it was simply a case of bad script br br tom holland alone would escape censure while he toned down the comic aspects of collins he did turn in a very interesting approach dench does superbly the schtick she can do in her sleep whether it be here or in oscar wilde but this was supposed to be lady catherine de not lady she was just a little too sane br br the shortened length could have been handled by a competent screenwriter surely not characters filling in story gaps and helping along the audience all over the place elizabeth couldn't have come up with the figure and while they wanted to cut time with her learning of involvement in marriage the lines didn't fit with lydia it was the worst case of incongruous exposition in the piece br br it really is appalling stuff anyone who reviews it saying it works well in the context of the book is someone i frankly don't believe has read or understood the characterisations in the thing wright seems to think his characters are in the 1990s not the from their behaviour i'm not convinced he has read the book he certainly doesn't understand it he doesn't understand austen's acerbic wit or lightness of touch he certainly made a dull plodding film out of it br br what is possibly worse was the sad pathetic need of the chick lit lovers to need the 'i love you i love all over the place so they can sigh and get off on it the fact that it has no place in a work by austen is apparently irrelevant br br anyone who reviews it as a film alone well more difficult for me except i would note the poor acting the weak darcy and the gurning skipping inane irritation of the whole thing if you are going to adapt you can change a lot but if it loses the spirit and key motivations then don't insult the book by taking it's title
0	this film is one of the worst adaptations of pride and prejudice ever filmed and if jane austen were alive she would demand that her name be removed from the film austen's novel is only superficially a story of the development of true love between elizabeth bennet and darcy it is also a commentary on the class structure of regency britain this film focuses only on the love story thereby disappointing viewers who hoped it would do justice to the novel br br there are numerous problems with the historical accuracy of the film in the film the dance at which darcy snubs elizabeth is not the refined dancing done by the gentry to which the bennet lucas and darcy families belong but is rather the dancing of the lower classes the gentry would not have been dancing as if they were at a peasant barn dance there are costume and hair problems too the custom of the period required married women to wear white cloth hats to cover their hair and for women to wear when outdoors women of the regency period were not so liberated as to forego the bonnet requirements in public the worst historical inaccuracy is the early morning meeting of elizabeth in her nightgown and coat and mr darcy sans cravat and vest at which they admit their love for each other this is an unforgivable liberty with the novel no respectable young woman or gentleman would venture out of doors in such a state of undress or seek to meet someone of the opposite sex at such an early hour br br but the worst thing of all with this film is the mangling of austen's dialogue and the atrocious modern dialogue austen's dialogue needs no assistance from a writer who thinks he she can write like austen the writer of the non austen dialogue not only lacks austen's talent but also has no feel for austen's style the juxtaposition of the two styles is jarring br br as for the acting the best is done by judi dench who clearly understands the imperiousness of the aristocracy brenda blethyn takes some liberties in making mrs bennet less awful than austen's portrayal her portrayal is interesting and seems to work donald sutherland is miscast his affected british accent is terrible and he portrays mr bennet too much as a father of the 20th century and not a father of the late 18th century matthew portrayal of darcy is flat i can't imagine anyone falling in love with his mr darcy keira knightly is a pretty elizabeth but her portrayal of elizabeth bennet is far too modern knightly focuses on the elizabeth's but her portrayal completely lacks an understanding of the social mores and conventions of the time she would have done well to actually read the novel before attempting to portray elizabeth and to do research on the behavior of women of the period br br if one is making a period movie one must be true to the period this film needed an historical adviser who actually knows something about the regency period it also needed a writer who has a better appreciation and understanding of austen's text i can only hope emma thompson decides to do a film of pride and prejudice in the near future to erase this abomination from our minds br br the best thing that can be said about this film is that it contains many pretty scenes of the english countryside chatsworth is well used as as it was in the 1995 bbc adaptation but pretty scenery and pretty actors cannot save this film true fans of austen will rush home to watch their dvds of the far superior 1995 bbc production with jennifer ehle and colin firth or to read austen's text in order to wipe this version from their minds
0	eddy murphy and robert de niro should be a combination that results in a great comedy great often lead to dissapointment and this proves to be the case br br when eddy as a police officer spoils a drug deal being done by detective robert they botch it so badly that they end up doing a live action reality tv cop show logic is not a great component of this movie the super gun that they spend the second half of the movie chasing down confirms it a twelve machine gun that leaves large holes in and three will destroy a house in about a minute without reloading is as more a fantasy than science fiction a five pound gun firing hundreds of shots per minute without any recoil is certainly the weapon of the future using the technology of the past br br it is clear this movie was designed for neither adults nor children so if you are somewhere in between this is the movie for you
0	this movie is simply bad first of all the story is just weird and it's not good written it leaves you with questions when you're finished sometimes that's ok but not in this case br br the acting is nothing to write home about the adults does a ok job but the kids taken in consideration they are kids does not a good job i thought the lead role ian costello as mickey was worst well to be honest i'm not sure that was the lead role never quite figured who this movie was about mickey or pete br br there were some shots that stood out but over all there were nothing exiting about the cinematography the sound however was better there was a nice score a little adventure kind of score though this didn't look like an adventure film to me it had some elements of an adventure film but it was more of a drama however it was hard to tell who this film was meant for children hardly there is too much language and violence for that adults i don't know it had to many elements of a children's movie in it it was like a adult movie in a children movie wrapping br br the story was just weird i don't have much of an idea of what it really was about you was thrown right in to it without knowing anything but there were all the time references to something you felt you should know the fact that the children's parents were dead for instance and that mickey blamed pete for it you expected to get to know what happened but you never got br br all together this movie was bad and a waste of time there was no drive in it nothing to really move the story forward this is not what you spend your saturday night on
0	this is probably the worst film i have ever seen mike myers tries to be a dramatic actor and fails miserably the children who have the major roles are almost impossible to understand and are really unpleasant characters it was not even worth the price of the rental
0	as was mentioned by others could there be any other reason to see this film other than to see former wayne's world star mike myers play a serious role the story line is interesting but lacks development and is sabotaged by loose ends and bad characters if there was any good scenic shots of ireland then it would give it another reason to see it but instead it focuses on a little normal village that is obviously surrounded by the 'green of the emerald isle that are often shown in irish films if there was any cultural to admire the irish personality it would be worth seeing however this could have almost been shot in england too bad for myers but this one fails to please or satisfy the heart of anybody who ever wanted to visit the land of guiness
0	pete's meteor i seen this referred to as authentic and a gem i caught this movie on a saturday afternoon i kinda wished that i didn't br br apparently this was noted as being mike myers' first dramatic role unfortunately it had to be this movie the first thing you'll notice that pete's meteor suffers from is a complete lack of plot or rather a bunch of little subplots that aren't really connected and don't go anywhere young orphan mickey lives with his younger brother and sister with their grandmother a meteorite lands in their garden and is eventually collected by a scientist named hugh despite the title of the movie mickey is the one who lays claim to the meteor and the storyline actually has little to do with the meteor in any shape or form from here on out several other characters and subplots are introduced but like i said before they don't really go anywhere br br things go from cute family movie to dark thriller pretty fast when pete mike myers is introduced and starts to play a role micky blames him for the death of his parents though we're never really told what happened or why hugh has romance problems because his girlfriend can't get past his cosmic fascination and pete's drug related past starts to catch up with him and temporarily draws his own girlfriend and the rest of the cast into the mix when shady characters start trying to kill him this would seem to be the main plot until you realize it doesn't even have a role until halfway through the film making everything else feel like pointless filler hugh's girl problems bad behavior the meteor what on earth do they have to do with this not much br br so the 'plot' is disjointed and half of it is pointless but a good cast of characters can save it right keyword good the majority of characters are terribly unlikable people most of which you'd like to see die horribly at least i know i would despite the title mickey seems to be the main character which is a really bad move once you see him in action he is one of the worst little kids i've seen in a movie with an extremely bad attitude problem he a car harasses and talks trash to hugh an adult for taking the meteor actually attempts burn the man's house down when he doesn't get his way and even tries to stab pete with a knife you'd think a kid like this is on his way to the jail house unfortunately one of the worst things about this movie is that mickey never gets what's coming to him i'm not sure at what point you're supposed to be sympathizing with his character because he's always a nasty little brat he's the ringleader for his brother and sister so they predictably end up taking and backseat and just following whatever he does amazingly they're pushed back so far that i can't even remember their names they might as well not even be there br br their grandmother is pretty much a borderline alcoholic she tends to be just as nasty to hugh as mickey and likes to push people out of her house and give them evil glares when she's not down liquor bottles and drinking herself silly pretty ridiculous when you take into account that she's supposed to be taking care of three children her issues with alcohol are never really addressed though she does collapse from time to time in the movie br br hugh is one of the few likable characters in the movie but that's only because he's the punching bag for the majority of characters and takes their mess without giving it back the kids treat him but he always comes back and tries to teach them and do nice things with them he's got a taxi driver girlfriend who seems to take every aspect of his life as a scientist as a personal offense attempting to leave him several times in the movie when he goes off into his cosmic lingo or does something to prove that he isn't exactly on the same wavelength as the rest of the characters thankfully br br then there's mike myers as pete pete despite having the only solid purpose and plot in the movie is extremely underused and doesn't play any kind of role until the second half it's unfortunate that myers got stuck in such a position for a dramatic role even when pete is getting screen time half of it is just myers running through dark alleys and hiding in small corners and even though he was the only real point to this movie when his plot line brings the movie to a close it's a strange unfulfilling conclusion that has all the characters laughing on a good note with a quick and strange explanation behind the title of the movie making you wonder if they were just performing in the movie you were just watching br br the only thing worth seeing in pete's meteor is mike myers' role as pete and that's if you can wade through this disjointed mess long enough without lashing out at another human being due to the extremely unlikable characters and nonexistent plot line no sir i didn't like this one at all
0	the only reason for me for watching this little known irish film was the question could mike myers have played a normal dramatic character well he could and his acting was pretty good but unfortunately that was probably the only good thing that i can say about this film in the beginning film follows life of twelve years old orphan mickey who lives with his brother and sister with their somewhat eccentric grandma despite some strong language it looks like a family film but after a while it becomes clearly that pete's meteor is a hardly suitable for young audience drama and the worst is that it is a drama with so much ridiculous and even totally implausible plot one preposterous story line turns into another and all the time there is no much sense in the events on screen i suppose when a life drama needs a meteor or what is more something that looks like even more ridiculous spiritual content that's a really bad sign the characters are not much better than a story despite all his troubles young mickey by no means is not a likable character but it's clearly was somehow we were supposed to care about him and even feel strong sympathy to him it doesn't work the same thing with other characters they are mostly as ridiculous as the story itself with the title character although he wasn't the main character as the only bright spot towards the end of the movie i still had a strong hope that there is something behind of all that improbability and absurdity unfortunately even if the writer of the story had such intentions and i'm sure he had in the film they are hidden and practically under such a weird script br br grade 3 out of 10 those of you who are interested in seeing mike myers as a drama actor can watch pete's meteor for that reason but the rest of viewers most likely will be bitterly disappointed
0	too bad mike meyers picked this for his dramatic debut this film looks like it was put together by a committee that couldn't decide if it was a comedy drama suspense or sci fi it starts out sort of playful then quickly gets darker and then at the end apparently shortly after one of the main characters has been killed the whole family is standing in the backyard laughing about something it's totally weird and impossible to string together the acting is extremely uneven with the older professionals engaging your attention and then the younger and less experienced actors looking like they are in a high school play this movie showed me that it's probably harder to make a good movie than is evident from the truly professional fare we see in the first run and art houses this would be a good film for a film class to analyze plot character theme consistency they are all either faulty or missing from this film
0	this movie was flippin awful i wanted those hours of my life back for god's sake stay far away from this awful ball movie at all costs its not worth mentioning the title but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this and where do i begin the dumb a kids in the movie the zero plot or story the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping or the very bad acted teen angst innuendo my god it never ended i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor then sit through this one again br br but what do you expect most people with the brain power to look up reviews are not going to be the target audience here at all so go see 2 again or the jet lee one if your debating to yourself look this movie will just cost you your soul your money your energy and your brain cells heed the warning
0	a group of four young men attending a prestigious private school belong to an old covenant that was formed by their ancestors during the time of the witch hunts of the late 1600s they each possess a power that ages them whenever they use it and they suspect that a new kid at the academy might be from a family that was thought to have perished long ago this new guy wants everyone's power for himself br br this not a horror movie as it tries to present itself as yes there is magic and all that supernatural stuff but this is really just an action movie a very mediocre action movie focusing almost solely on being cool and slick and paying only minimal attention to the plot which has plenty of sadly unused room for interesting twists but none were put in and even before the movie is half over you'll know what is being played and by whom br br there are a few good scenes here and there most notably an exploding car that is magically reconstructed after colliding with a big rig but that's about it what's worse is that director renny harlin who has some very entertaining if not smart movies to his credit relies heavily on blasting metal music and overly sexy leads to carry that film and that makes it quite possibly the silliest horror movie since the disastrous alone in the dark it is not as bad as alone in the dark since the few slick scenes are actually slick and not ridiculously incompetent but in the end the highest this film can hope for is a nice and cozy home on late night cable 3 10 br br rated pg 13 violent action
0	think with testosterone instead of estrogen and you get the general idea for this picture a very lame story with mediocre effects and an anti climax ending to let the door open for a part 2 let's hope someone has the sense to spend their money wiser i'd suggest a the movie' because compared to this kicked ass and i only watched that show to please my girlfriend wait and watch it on dvd on a rainy sunday when you've got nothing better to do or better yet download it so you don't waste your money the first 15 minutes were alright but the funniest line from the movie and also the only highlight of this movie is when reid says kiss my ass harry potter while driving of a cliff although they are not worthy to kiss potter's ass because potter is way cooler and at least his movies have a story the goblet of fire was even scarier than this
0	ok before i even start the more or less constructive criticism of the movie i'd like to say a few words which come from the heart this movie sucks don't go to see it unless you really like sweaty boy bands and wooden acting no plot stories so let's go to why i think the movie is so bad 1 there is not story line there is no plot the director tried to create a mystery it the feeling just wasn't there 2 the whole thing looks like a big hour and a half promotion for some kind of goth wanna be but still looking like band all guys in school have perfect abs no fat or ugly young people there is no good looking girl in the movie as well not one the main character is either wet in the swimming pool or all sweaty in his bed poor guy must be awful to go on a date sweating like that 3 can those guys do something good with their powers anything good like put off the fire in that old barn or help his friend who got into the accident instead of just running around breaking things and showing of in front of each other 4 wooden acting the main character only has two expressions on his face expression number one sad expression number two trying to look seductive but still seems sad in that boy band there are 4 guys the main his best friend who got into the accident the and the fourth one what was the name of the fourth one i think he only spoke twice throughout the whole film once in the beginning he said the jumping from the cliff using the power won't kill them and second time at the end when he and the lost the girl the movie could have been done without him and no one would notice anyways my verdict 1 is the perfect score for this film guys do not go to see it there is very little action no suspense no hot girls girls a least the actors are good looking what i would advise you people is to get a of this movie that's the only thing i liked about it
0	minor plot spoilers ahead br br how did such talented actors get involved in such mindless retreaded br br drivel robert deniro plays a dumb hollywood version of the standard br br violence prone tough cop i e he beats up the bad guys and rolls his br br eyes at cops who prefer to stick by the book and eddie murphy plays a br br not so tough cop who would rather be an actor i e he screams out br br freeze police and has his tough look down pat naturally they br br are partnered when bobby's loose cannon tactics get him in hot water br br with the media and he is essentially blackmailed into starring in a br br cops like reality show take a breath cuz that's as funny as it br br gets br br no energy was put into the script it feels like a pale retread of br br every copy buddy movie tossed into a blender with 15 minutes starring br br yes deniro himself as pretty much the character he is playing here br br the jokes fall flat the action feels listless and no one seems to be br br having a good time it's dead on the screen br br please don't waste your time even if you have an affinity br br for one of the actors avoid it and do them a favor if this br br makes money these kinda of scripts will be perfectly acceptable br br for actors of their quality br br and to mr deniro you used to make serious films i remember them br br they were good you were nominated for awards for them remember how br br much fun that was now after analyze this which was good meet the br br parents which was also good and the adventures of rocky and br br bullwinkle which was not good i think we need to see you parodying br br yourself less and being yourself more casino feels like a long time br br ago and no i don't count 15 minutes as serious bobby anyone who br br took that media satire seriously must get their weekly world news
0	the story was disjointed the acting was not of any you can more of a serial pilot than an actual movie i wanted to like this movie but just could not find anything to like about it whatever it was that made the lost boys so likable was obviously absent here altho it tried hard plot hooks were clumsily placed amidst what could have been an episode of dawsons creek with dark clothes and the story arc was going nowhere soon very disappointing for me the end scenes were special effects driven convenience and how the villain of the story planned his whole scheme who was he or she trying to kid talk about naive stick with films of this kind of genre from the eighties when they had more of an idea
0	i feel really bad for reviewing this movie because i wish that i had only watched it as a concept production the covenant looked like it could have been a really original piece but sadly they lose the great idea in the translation to the screen br br the story follows four five teens that are the descendants of the families that started the town of a survivors of the salem witch trials they also happen to be a part of the secret sect called the covenant their power must be used sparingly as it drains their life force in small amounts and is highly addictive in theory this would make a pretty good action sci fi at least an interesting teeny flick br br but there were just too many glaring downfalls that don't allow this movie to reach its plot's full potential that acting wasn't good the sound track was mediocre and we found a lot of unnecessary sync issues for sure the biggest issue is the poor editing job the movie has little to no coherent flow and makes one fight to keep a mental timeline or any feel of pacing br br the movie has it's moments but overall was a little disappointing br br a witchy 4 10
0	the tv ads for this movie showed the warlocks hitting a truck head on then getting smashed to bits and reforming on the other side of the truck i thought the special effects were good but the general style of the movie was wimpy this is the charmed tv series with three boys instead of three girls br br the big surprise for the three teens who are about to become adults is that there is an unknown fourth member of the clan who is out to get them and consolidate all their power besides driving into trucks these kids can fly up the sides of houses climb out of windows push each other into stacks of garbage and make the veins in their necks pop out but if they use their powers too often they become prematurely old and feeble the father of one of the boys is evidence of this as he sits in an attic made up to look like a mummy but he is only 45 years old br br the three good warlocks are each filthy rich in his own right completely spoiled obnoxious and annoying in any public school these kids would be beaten up every day their glares and facial ticks would not cut any mustard with the boys from the hood unfortunately for all good people these charmed boys were sent to reform school for the warlocks that couldn't get into harry potter's class br br so what was the movie all about three teenagers acting out with each other and their girlfriends one other teenager who envies their power and money and happens to be a lost relative after a few scenes where the charmed boys show off their powers and have sex with their girlfriends the movie gets around to the unknown warlock teen's revenge plot the predictable stuff happens the bad warlock ambushes various friends of the other warlocks and eventually starts attacking them too the final confrontation happens and that is about it br br the special effects are not bad but nothing special if you like to see fireballs spiders and blue veins then this is a good movie to watch
0	most of the critiques on this flick have been pretty damn accurate it is an hour and half waste of time following a bunch of very pretty high schoolers whine and cry about life there is about twenty minutes of magic and absolutely no scary or thrilling moments our actress are treated like pieces of ass and seem to be perfectly happy with their position the lead characters these sons of are walking poster boys for any pop culture clothing store you can't relate with them hell you barely can understand them the story steps all over itself and when it finally gets to the final battle its no more than a volleyball match that doesn't last long enough to make up with this trashed script raped from the o c
0	anyone who rates this movie above a 3 has a very distorted view of movies anyone who rated this piece of sh t 7 or higher i have absolutely no respect for their taste in movies and doubt they have ever seen a good one i am always up for giving any movie a shot and i did with this one i tried to pay attention i tried not to let my money go 2 waste but 15 minutes in my friends were laughing at me cause i was 2 my ipod 25 minutes later i couldn't even watch the overacting that was occurring within the film so i up and left i have never ever ever walked out of a movie until this garbage anyone who said they enjoyed it is a liar or they should be banned from this site i get so angry when i see a person rate this an 8 when the godfathers overall rating is a 9 1 its like saying that that movie was close which it isn't
0	from the beginning of this film with it's the lost boys rip off opening sequence to the bad wire work and even worse dialog ending this movie along at a snail's pace the covenant came highly recommended from some of my co workers who i am thoroughly convinced were playing a practical joke on me at least i hope that was the intention and their taste isn't that bad this movie was not much longer than an hour and a half yet felt much much longer then that the story was so basic that it could have been summed up in about 15 minutes maximum they could have at least filled the rest of the movie with some entertaining magic or fight scenes however someone decided maybe the director but i don't know if anyone really directed this movie that it was going to be filled with some poorly executed artsy camera shots and nonsensical scenes of the boys swimming and getting into bar fights about half way through this film i thought that maybe bashing my head against a wall would be more entertaining and partially to rid myself of this horrible dirty feeling i had for continuing to watch it so i did bash my head against a wall and i did enjoy it more then the movie i watched it all the way to the bitter end hoping it would eventually offer me more enjoyment nope my efforts were rewarded with how about i make you my whee i vomited and then just felt embarrassment for the screen writer and pity for the poor actor who had to deliver this drivel the acting really wasn't as bad as other reviewers seemed to think but even the most talented thespian could not saved this work and work it did on my nerves i give movies a chance even bad ones because they usually offer some form of enjoyment and this actually wasn't the worst movie i have ever seen after it was over i did feel like watching the movie stealth again and wow it was so much better this time around oh yeah case in point don't bother with this movie really don't watch a few episodes of charmed and watch the lost boys after having a fair amount of alcohol and you will be a much better person if you do fall into the same trap that i did and watch the covenant make sure to keep all sharp objects far far away from yourself you'll thank me for it
0	if i were to pitch this movie idea to some hollywood bigwigs i'm sure it would sound like this br br me four boys at a private high school are good friends and they are witches br br hollywood that sounds like the craft br br me no no i said four boys not four girls br br hollywood that still sounds like the craft just with boys instead of girls br br me ok but there is this fifth unknown boy that comes into the picture and he wants more power br br hollywood still not much difference because one of the girls in the craft also wanted more power br br me ok ok i'll make these boys part of the in crowd they'll be rich and the school is on the east coast br br hollywood now that sounds original that is nothing like the craft here's a billion dollars br br this movie was so cliché and uninspiring even the manufactured drama between chase and the brothers of was very blasé a bunch of rich kids with their biggest problem being what color bentley they want for their 18th birthday and 18th car don't interest me at all even if they have powers every single kid in this movie looked like they stepped out of a magazine and of course there had to be the gratuitous male nudity and female 80 nudity just to drive home how out of shape you are i wanted to rename this movie the witches of o c oooh rich kids and their problems let me pretend to care br br this film was completely unimaginative and predictable the final fight was lame and dragged out and the ending was very anti climatic this was a movie best left on the cutting room floor
0	i feel very generous giving this movie a 2 out of 10 okay noted that the special effects are 'okay' and renny harlin did make one my favorite genetically altered sharks attack a research station movie that of which you may know as deep blue sea also the opening credits are done fairly well with a remix of more human then and it does go fairly well with what is in the context of this 'movie' but enough praise lets get to the reason why this movie sucks so much br br not since uwe boll's alone in the dark did i ever feel that the special effects in a movie were totally wasted okay our story starts with four guys who are descendants of four different families each of which possess a never fully explained power from a never fully explained family background that did a never fully explained art of witch craft oh and for some reason these descendants are all 17 all go to the same school are all on the swim team and all for some reason or another sit in bed with their shirts off sweating and talking to each other on the phone i have nothing against gays gothic or thirteen year old's but that is what this movie is aimed at 13 year old goth who question their sexuality yeah there's girls in it who sit on their beds in their panties or whatever but how come they don't take their shirts off hey its only fair br br anyways the characters in this movie are told that when they turn 18 they will ascend and be granted new profound almost god like powers but before i go any further i forgot to mention that when they use their powers they age slowly and they grow more addicted to it that explains why they got people in their late 20's to play 17 year old's oh and if something needs explaining don't worry someone will explain it all in one large piece of dialog god this movie sucks where was i oh yeah the ascension part br br okay apparently there was a super secret alpha one family that the others forgot about or some s t like that i don't know i was dozing off at this point but they were written out some how and the new kid at school who is befriending the group is one of these descendants from the fifth family and i say because anyone who has seen any of the previews of this movie knows that this new guy is the bad guy he has greater power then the others because he's older i think anyways bob say it out loud things happen and we get to the final fight in the movie br br to be honest i was all game for a witch battle you know like vs gandalf or anything along the lines with magic battle because you know this is about witches and stuff now when these two witches throw down its more of like how can i put it a very very crappy version of a dragonball z type battle they throw stuff at each other talk throw stuff talk throw stuff talk etc when i say 'throw stuff' i only say that because i have no clue what the f k their throwing at each other it looks like big gobs of slimy water god this movie sucks anyways when our main witch he doesn't get very powerful at all he just throws bigger gobs of slimy water things happen and it ends in a way that you as the viewer know its gonna end the good witch wins bad witch loses br br you know how shitty a movie is when the bad guy says something so incredibly stupid as 'i'm gonna make you my thats where i wanted to punch myself in the face for sitting through this whole thing br br yes i admit the thought of witches doing battle using powers in the modern day does sound kinda cool but when the execution is this bad i really wished they didn't make this movie maybe if it was r rated had and threw in more deaths with a dash of gore it might have worked might have worked br br if your interested in watching this don't buy it or even rent it wait for it to come on tv or borrow it from your sucker of a friend who bought it just don't waste your time with this hack of a movie if you spend any money on it there's a good chance your putting an effort towards a sequel to be made by uwe boll called the covenant 2 alone in the dark with the house of the dead
0	no one really knows how the power came to be not even the book of damnation recorded its beginning but those who mastered it have always been the families of formed a covenant of bla bla bla after this intro we suddenly see take that or was it the backstreet boys perhaps well i don't know which of these they belong to but one thing's for sure the descendants of salem are a boy band can you tell them apart i couldn't if you can tell me which is which i'd very much appreciate it these boy band boys looks so damn seriously now is this a horror movie or a film for teenie boppers it's sad that the anyway weak horror genre has been kidnapped by teens and this is one of the i've seen so far the movie is visually solid but the cast is so bland the acting so awful that it was a trial finishing the movie as bad as the cast was after all boy bands and fashion models are rarely good actors the absolute stand out in this regard was the guy playing the villain sebastian stan this guy's overacting is right up there with the worst in the history of film i have rarely seen someone make such annoying and silly grimaces in such a short space of time what's worse he has the most baby face of all the boy band baby faces in the entire cast i mean it's a joke
0	wow i just don't even know where to begin with what made this movie so awful maybe i should start by just saying that during a heated confrontation between the antagonist and protagonist i had to leave the theater because i was laughing so hard yeah the acting really was that bad the acting was not even the worst part though the plot was almost entirely shown in the previews the characters are all grossly underdeveloped the dialogue and dramatic moments are ridiculous the bad guy is a caricature of an out of control power drunk sadist br br but hey the actors are pretty so guess that was supposed to make it all better
0	there comes a time in every big name actor's career when they get sloppy and accept projects that they wouldn't have touched with a 1000 ft pole in their golden days remember taxi driver that was a fine film i can hardly believe that the de niro of showtime is the same actor br br i would rather watch time chasers twice than see this film again if anyone offers to take you to see showtime or gives you free passes or whatever run away as fast and far as you can
0	when i saw on the voting panel that some people had given this film a score of 10 i assumed they were unaware that the score wasn't out of 100 this is a disaster movie in the real meaning of that term poorly written and weakly directed with so called actors unable to act but able to grimace when ordered to for the first 60 minutes the story appears to be going in one direction then it changes tack and gets involved in a power fight with extremely poor special effects unable to work out an intelligent way for the hero with limited powers to beat the villain with super powers the writer cheats it is obvious that the father was added to the so called story line because it was easier than working out an acceptable denouement not that the write would even know the word denouement some movies go directly to dvd this one should have gone directly to the dustbin
0	let me say first off i didn't go in expecting much and watching it at prime time on opening night should have helped i believe it would have had there been more than 20 people in the theater br br it sucked so hard the acting was robotic at best and nothing was really explained until the last 30 minutes of the movie i guess that was their way of twisting the plot keep everyone in the dark on crucial info to understand the movies direction until the end and then explain things and hope it feels like a twist of plot br br unknowns until the end of the movie what the eff is a dark ling the cg was cool but i want to understand why cant powers be willed especially if mass murder is the ultimatum why is willing away powers so bad your just normal after right who farted br br roughly 50 of the minutes with just men on screen were shots of them in wife beaters sleeveless t's and then a gut wrenching pool scene of all teenage men in the low riding speedos knowing to ever have been manufactured i swear you could see the start of the one guys well it was close to soft core and of course there was a shower scene and to mix it up it was of the dudes butt cracks were abundant a sausage fest in progress but there was a single girl shower scene in which nothing was seen and she ambles around the best looking dorm bathroom for around 12 minutes then there was a girl talk pj party the other thing i couldn't get over was the amount of driving that caleb did in his super cool ford mustang gt it was a ford commercial for around 1 4th of the movie br br don't see it or go see it with a friend who likes to make fun of bad movies then it could be worth it but don't expect anything breathtaking
0	it seems whenever a mainstream film company wants to make a movies for teens it concentrates on only one thing sex don't get me wrong i'm no prude but the fact that these people seem to think getting my rocks off is all i'm interested in is highly offensive take the a film that relies so heavily on you finding the main characters attractive it thinks it can get away without a plot and or a script that wasn't written by a six year old this is essentially the craft with supposedly hot guys and yeah that's it it bored me to tears even my friend who usually laps us crap films hated it it is really stunningly bad to the extent where it can actually be funny i would have laughed if it wasn't for the fact that several other females in cinema attendance seemed to be enjoying it they were accompanied by several shifty looking guys who positively curled up and died when the really cliché boy on boy kiss happened towards the end watching them squirm really was the highlight of the film i don't think mainstream hollywood cinema will ever put out good films for teenagers or indeed for anyone so i think i'll give up unless you're a teen who likes the pussycat dolls thinks paris hilton is hot and watches mtv it's like some sort of wasteland life's hard when you're a fifteen year old who likes art house p s someone should have told the director that not all teenage girls find would be boy band members totally hawt lol 111
0	basic summary used to be a community of witches and escaped the salem witch hunts by forming a covenant of secrecy the first born males descended from these families have supernatural powers and must come to terms with the seductive addictive nature of using those powers br br well i usually give movies the benefit of the doubt and start from a 5 going from there br br production 1 for very obvious audio out of sync 1 for nicely done special effects the darkling actually gave me chills 0 5 for nice colorization i like the dull blue 0 5 for the stupid sound track 0 5 for the opening sequence i'm a sucker for stylish compositing and flashy title design br br story script 1 for decent main idea 0 5 for matrix street fighter ripoff pastiche 1 for not explaining some plot threads very well spiders darkling 1 for boring predictable ending 1 for gratuitous exposition both as words on the screen and as bland br br acting characterization 0 5 for bad bad acting although it gets a little better as the film progresses 1 for lack of character development especially among all the females br br other 1 for gratuitous male and female nudity which is fun to watch and 0 5 for no sex scenes which for this genre are usually done very badly and end up being boring rather than hot 1 for hitting its target audience teenage sci fi horror thriller fans even though this movie is not exclusively any of those genres br br conclusion this is not a film this is a movie there's really nothing to analyze it's just good relatively clean fun lots of really attractive actors and actresses lots of boys fighting in the style of and street fighter if you like cute actors and actresses supernatural special effects and or mindlessly fun plots this movie is for you if you prefer oscar worthy exquisitely produced film masterpieces with tons of multi layered allegorical plot threads and groundbreaking visualization techniques you probably won't like this film br br using my twisted logic this movie gets a 4 10
0	oh boy films like this really bother me if this movie is supposed to close to truth then i assume that rommel knew hitler for a time before wwii started in the movie rommel mentions how hitler had changed from before well i can't imagine that rommel wouldn't have known something about hitler's government policies so rommel must share some guilt for the german atrocities with that in mind i have a problem with a movie that makes life at the end a tragic one he made his choices and we have to feel bad for him i can't do it i also can't buy the theory that if the more competent generals were allowed to fight the war the allies would have had more trouble winning it if more competent people were in charge wwii may never have started in the first place from a movie watching aspect the film jumps from place to place and most of the time seems like a history special with big name actors playing the historical roles leo g carroll has a couple of good scenes with james mason and i liked the fact that everyone spoke english without the ridiculous accents but other than that not very essential
0	i hoped to learn something from this movie but i was disappointed it is all about rommel and him as a great general but at no time in this entire movie did we ever get an idea of why he was great what made him so successful was it his drive his unwillingness to accept defeat his discipline with his men i was looking for a patton like rendition that really gets into the character but this fell way flat most of the dialog is contrived and sensationalized and feels stale and artificial there is some good action here and there but not much the tail end of the story which discusses his involvement in the plot to assassinate hitler was the most informative part and probably the most interesting but as a history lesson on germany's greatest general this was a failure
0	despite the fact that he worked for the worst government of the 20th century erwin rommel is generally well regarded by historians and world war ii buffs as a gentleman a soldier's soldier and a brilliant in the field of mechanized warfare if only hitler had given him the troops and he had desired in africa the argument goes things would have gone very differently and that's probably true rommel was in fact a military genius and by all accounts an upstanding honest man br br but this film goes out of its way to portray him as a near saint he does his job trying to win the war for hitler but constantly the fuhrer interferes and gives him ridiculous orders which rommel james mason expresses amazement with but rarely actually questions and never ever disobeys only when it's patently obvious that hitler is leading germany to ruin does rommel think of treason against him this dilemma plays out as the main theme of the film a good man in bad circumstances trying to do the right thing br br mason is fine as rommel but it's hardly a memorable performance along the lines of say george c scott as patton of course rommel wasn't as colorful as patton but this film is so intent on making him look like a decent human being that it forgets to make him interesting he occasionally lapses into some warmth when with his wife lucie a young jessica tandy well cast but usually mason is called upon to give a stiff british performance – as if the brits were trying to claim rommel for themselves though in all fairness all the nazis have english accents except hitler br br done on the cheap with any battle scenes swiping stock footage and the beaches of southern california doubling for tunisia there's nothing to particularly recommend this film a remake could be interesting i'd pick ed harris only because of a slight physical resemblance and well harris can act were it spiced up a little but this movie mostly demonstrated to me how much more demanding we as viewers have become in the last fifty years a biography this bland would never cut it any more
0	for me this movie was a disappointment somehow i expected that it would explain the reason for general popularity and his success as a military strategist in ww ii but there is none of that it deals with the last year or two of his life and tries in a way to whitewash him so i just have to suppose that rommel was primarily an amoral and apolitical in the conquering and killing business without any particular charm or notoriety in behaviour such real life people just do not make good movie material i almost feel sorry for james mason really one of my favorite actors who had to impersonate a pretty wooden character actually a good director and a lot of great acting talent was wasted on this movie – with the exception of luther adler who gives a really memorable and weirdly naturalistic portrayal of adolf hitler br br there might also be a cultural problem for people like me who are part of the german speaking world famous british actors impersonating germans are just not credible rommel for example is perceived here not just as a german but as a typical from you immediately think of a certain dialect a certain kind of wit a certain way of seeing the world the total opposite of eg a prussian i also think that there are now mixed feelings about the assassination attempt of july 20th many of those who were in on the conspiracy were not democrats and just wanted the german troops to join the western allies against the advancing bolsheviks thus prolonging the war forever br br the best movie portrayal of an intellectual intelligent military mind is in my opinion still patton 1970 incidentally general patton can be glimpsed for a short moment in the ample documentary footing used for this movie a low angle shot while he is inspecting passing vehicles the open holster and the revolver with the mother of pearl grips are clearly visible
0	perhaps it's just me but this movie seemed more like sequel or follow up than the separate project why when it was filmed just few years after the war most of the viewers probably knew why rommel was so famous why his death was so important to allied why he was hitler's favorite general but now 50 years later it isn't so obvious anymore br br desert fox the story of rommel is a decent war movie but it's just isn't in any way explained how rommel did get his nickname what was he doing that allied considered him as their best general why their soldiers were so afraid of afrika that's what is missing in this movie we see his fame his character his way to treat soldiers and enemies but f e we also see that hitler was complaining about his achievements in africa calling him coward etc so we're missing the big picture here it is the story of rommel but unfortunately the desert fox part is missing
0	most of you out there really disliked this movie you were right a small minority of you really loved the movie can't say you' re wrong for me this movie was too stupid i have seen many dumb silly comedies but this one surpasses every one of them as i was watching i couldn't stop rubbing my eyes not believing what i was seeing and trying to decide if i should laugh or cry as really stupid stuff were going on on the screen and people were leaving the theater br br according to the leading characters time travel is accomplished just enter any museum and you will actually travel to the past plus if you are seeking an after death experience just go to the nearest there you shall meet lord sorry and be given important commands all te above t really make sense right well go ahead watch the movie i almost never regret the movies i watch you probably won't like it but you will be intrigued by the writer's ability in producing the ultimately stupid script br br i' m giving it a 3 out of 10 not good far from being the worse
0	the movie is not as funny as the director's preceding and only other movie shanghai noon showtime did have its moments but it did not satisfy me why it needed to be so foulmouthed i don't know but i give showtime
0	this is a stupid movie when i saw it in a movie theater more than half the audience left before it was half over i stayed to the bitter end to show fortitude i caught it again on television and it was much funnier still by no means a classic or even consistently hilarious but the family kinda grew on me i love jessica anyway if you've nothing better to do and it's free on t v you could do worse
0	stanley stupid tom arnold and his wife joan like to sleep in bed with their heads under the covers and their feet on the pillows they have two equally challenged children buster and petunia one day mr stupid notices their garbage is gone again there must be someone stealing it from the curb he goes off in roller blades after the garbage truck when he finally gets to the dump he is startled to learn not only that other folks garbage has been stolen too but that there is a secret organization meeting at the landfill he is determined to defeat the garbage of the world it seems meanwhile petunia and buster visit the police station and a chinese restaurant in search of their parents for joan comes up missing too will they bumble their way through their problems this is just a stupid stupid movie with the culprit being the terrible script the books by and marshall are hysterical and only a couple of situations from the books ends up in this film arnold is actually quite nice as mr stupid and the other cast members try very very hard to make the film work the production values are very high with the dog and cat belonging to the adding a little oomph to the film but it is all for naught as the plot is wandering and weak perhaps someday someone will take another stab at translating the very funny books to the big screen therefore if you love to laugh rent something else while you await a new production and by all means go get the books too but stay away from being stupid yourself as anyone who watches this movie to the end could hardly be called intelligent
0	how this character ever got hired by the post office is far beyond me the test that postal workers take is so difficult there is no way that a guy this stupid can work at the post office everyone in this movie is just stupid and that is probably the point of the movie how they could go their entire lives and not see an elevator is also puzzling i didn't take this movie too seriously but it was so stupid then he tries to start the car without his keys lots of horrible scenes and horrible acting and this movie is not funny at all it's just a sad stupid mess i liked the moms dress though br br send it back to sender as soon as possible
0	i vaguely remember this film i do remember it for the one solid reason that it is the only film that i have ever walked out on and since then i have never seen it available to rent anywhere i can't spoil it for anyone cos i can barely remember it to think looking at the cast it seemed a winner with john landis directing but good god they must have been paid a whole lot for this drivel all i can seem to recall is that the dad goes missing and the family try to search for him by trying to put an actual photograph into the disc drive of a computer i walked out after about half an hour of this i must confess though i'd love to see if i can get a copy just to see if it really was that bad br br it wouldn't surprise me if this was on every actor's black list i mean christopher lee was in this the legend of all bad guys who'd been in star wars and lord of the rings as i said black listed movie the
0	i couldn't even sit through the whole thing this movie was a piece of crap i had more fun watching tell mom the dead it was just too painful to watch say besides austin powers has tom arnold ever been in a hit movie
0	i don't care what anyone else says this movie is the worst piece of trash committed on film what was john landis thinking br br i know it's based on a series of children's books but c'mon even kids hate this movie it's pointless and boring tom arnold once again amply demonstrates that his only talent is wasting production money br br i think the only reason the hasn't appeared on the 100 worst films of all time is that only 20 or so people will admit to watching this garbage at least hobgoblins made it on mst3k
0	this movie was chosen quite frankly as a pig in a poke from our local video store it turned out to be quite a pig the plot line such as it is was disjointed inconsistent and predictable the actors constantly looked embarrassed to be mouthing the poorly written lines the only funny moment in the entire film revolved around the dangers of smoking and the deployment of an airbag the remainder of the film lacked the punch to amuse either of my young daughters aged less than ten years myself my wife my mother in law or even the cat or the dog my advice if you are tempted to borrow this turkey is to save your money and your time look for something else
0	would it be too trite of me to create a review of just me saying the word stupid over and over again probably br br this is arguably the worst movie i've ever seen seriously there are better movies on mystery science theater 3000 i saw this movie for the first time at a friend's birthday party when it was still in theaters even though it was actually with friends and at one of their birthday parties i had to leave i actually had to leave i just excused myself and walked out fortunately some of the parents were doing the same thing so i didn't look like a total jerk anyway this film is awful there is nothing to like about it it's painfully as in actually causing physical pain slow and sickeningly literally does induce vomiting unfunny you almost feel sorry for tom arnold but then you don't because you remember he was actually in the movie it really does pain me to even think about it br br it was on tv a few months ago and i decided i had to watch it all the way through just once i remembered then why i walked out in the first place and felt guilty for boosting its ratings by even one viewer the gags aren't funny the characters arn't interesting it's just a senseless mess of pratfalls and stupidity br br there is a small crowd of then eight year old kids who watched the movie when it came out and considered it brilliant if you think that having your face removed piece by with an ice cream scoop is brilliant then by all means go rent it but if you have any dignity whatsoever avoid this big stupid mess altogether score 0 10 maybe a negative 1 actually
0	this is beyond a shadow of a doubt the absolute worst movie i have ever seen it's been a long time since i've seen it but the jokes are not funny the plot is painfully forseeable calling the main characters stupid is to vastly upgrade their intelligence uggh i just wanted to punch tom arnold and make him cry because he wasted two hours of my life when i was done watching this piece of cinematic filth i don't even know why i ever wanted to watch it but remember if you see this movie don't say i didn't warn you br br ps tom arnold's character sings a song in this movie called i'm my own grandfather nuff said
0	this is probably the only film i've seen where the imdb reviews on both sides of the spectrum are 100 accurate the is an atrocious dim witted film with absolutely no artistic merit whatsoever and is a denigration to a director like john landis and that's what makes it great br br in order to appreciate the you have to keep in mind a little known but very true maxim spoken by director abo i urge you to learn to look at bad films they are so often sublime in order for any film to work the film must establish and follow it's own logic and if it does so convincingly and sincerely then it's actually possible for the film to work for example when you watch freddy got fingered as a traditional gross out comedy it's complete and utter garbage when you watch it with the understanding that it's actually a neo surrealist comedy it's brilliant br br it works with good movies too if jaws hadn't accepted the reality it created the air tank explosion ending wouldn't have worked but a lot of people think jaws is vastly overrated for this type of reason and they aren't wrong but it has it's strengths doesn't it the point being that a movie like this makes sense if you look at it with the right perspective some people like me get it right away while others never will no matter how often it's explained jim jarmusch made a compelling defense of showgirls once and even afterwards i still can't see it from his p o v doesn't mean he's wrong though if you have the right frame of mind when you watch this movie and no i do not mean stoned i'm gonna put that to bed right now you can actually enjoy the movie for the dumb cheap pointless slapstick late 80s early 90s style farce that it is br br the defenders and haters of this film are right it's stupid and that's the point the movie accepts the stupidity of the characters much in the same way the jerk accepted navin johnson's idiocy and because it takes that and runs with it the movie focuses exclusively on using that to forward the plot and to define the characters a bad movie would actually do this and fail to use that logic properly bad movie are bad because they make it up as they go along whereas movies like the knows where it's going what it's doing and why from the beginning br br i can't defend the film from an artistic standpoint which is why i give it such a low rating the acting is mostly bad the jokes very superficial and the live action quality probably ruins what would have worked as a cartoon but i can't deny that it is entertaining in its own way and that's why i defend it i got it right away and i pity those who don't br br i'll admit i was drawn to this movie because of christopher lee's delicious cameo appearance hearing him say release the drive bee would have been worth the rental price even if i hated this film but was amazed to find that aside from the tv studio applause sign segment with jenny mccarthy i was never bored and never disappointed in fact many of the jokes because of their cartoonish context were hilarious in particular the airbag cigarette explosion they were dumb but they were funny and the movie doesn't pretend to be anything else a stupid comedy about stupid characters and instead of apologizing for it it enjoys itself br br and that's exactly why it works
0	with all the hype surrounding the stars of the movie this movie left me wanting i expected a much better movie considering the inclusion of the talents of murphy de niro and russo but found that the movie fell flat on it's face comedy sequences were overdone and the superior performances of the stars especially de niro and russo couldn't save this one br br out of
0	i just saw this movie i liked the soundtrack i saw first the trailer and was magnificent like all hollywood movies they know how to sell but the movie is almost awful first 30 minutes are interesting but then like almost all new movies they blow it up i don't get the idea why that kid died is a cliché every movie must have a kid to be killed and everybody must become good after his death lol i don't understand what is the connection with the movie and is so predictable you know the end from the very first minutes nothing new in this movie i saw 'you got same idea but also something new this is something like but is not a little bit difference between them if you have no other option watch this movie but be sure is the last option you take and the choreography is worst than everything before this is not a must see for sure
0	seriously i don't get why people are all like oh my god step up is the best movie ever it's a bunch of junk the acting first of all is ridiculous and let's not even begin to talk about the dialogue because it was terrible movies are supposed to be entertaining and this let me be the first to say was not entertainment i was actually laughing because i was so embarrassed watching it the music and dancing didn't do anything for me as well and what's with the channing tatum hotness that all the girls talk about whatever the movie was pathetic don't waste your time or your money unless you're a dancing movie freak but movies like that are not movies they're jokes
0	'take and 'you've got and roughly jam them together and what do you got this god awful movie custom made for dull normal adolescents the plot very closely follows 'you've got served ' three ghetto afro this time living in john water's far from their time getting failing grades in high school and dancing in dilapidated 100 year old buildings with mamas to finance their expensive baggy hip hop clothing tastes they steal cars and deliver them to the local chop unlike john tony travolta who worked in a brooklyn paint store so he could purchase his polyester disco clothes br br tyler gage one of the black three musketeers gets caught trashing the local fame high school and is forced to perform janitorial duties he meets nora clark a 26 year old white high school student and discovers he's irish american much to the chagrin of his black buddies mac and skinny br br as in 'you've got crime doesn't pay and skinny the youngest member of the trio gets shot by a bad bad leroy brown that doesn't stop the heart stopping finale
0	the actors cannot act all was plagued with bad accents and loss of character channing tatum never moves his lips or changes his facial expression ever br br the story is nothing new at all some kid from the street gets involved in a professional world of dance and it turns his life around that coupled with the whole incident involving the little kid is taken straight from you got served and save the last dance i'm not saying that those movies were any good either but that is to say that this movie brought nothing new to the table br br and the dancing there were only 3 dance sequences in the entire movie and 2 of them were taken straight from the commercial perhaps i'm being overly critical because i am a dancer but maybe thats what needs to be heard channing tatum is not by any means a b boy his little solo in the parking lot had little style technique or any wow factor all of which are part of a street dancer's criteria all of the jazz and ballet in the movie had nothing to offer except bad technique and a few acceptable twirls but nothing more the grande finale left me thinking ok now they're gonna get serious all the way through the end when i realized it never was going to happen br br i'll admit that im sure it is difficult to make a good dance movie but step up is no exception to the rule you got served with the exception of its inconsistencies with street dance culture at least had the dance aspect save the last dance was garbage and so was just about any musical from the past 10 years although i was impressed with moulin rouge look to center stage for ballet look to beat street for hip hop
0	i wasn't really interested in seeing step up but my friend just kept bugging and bugging me to see this film especially since she is so in love with channing tatum i tease her constantly about it saying how that's the only reason why she loved the movie but she somehow convinced me that it was a movie worth seeing that if i loved movies like dirty dancing take the lead and save the last dance that i should love step up eh what the heck i guess every movie in some way has it's right to a view br br well you know those movies i just mentioned up top dirty dancing take the lead and save the last dance well put them in a blender with some gangsta love in it and that's what you have not to mention if you've seen those movies well frankly you have seen step up because channing is lower class with street smarts who just naturally feels the music while that snobby up class girl must follow step by step how will they ever fall in love if they are so different after all this is their chance to step up to the passion the mystery and the lust of the dance br br ok that was a silly plot explanation but like i said as long as you've seen those movies i mentioned or even if you just saw the plot you get the movie i don't understand how it actually has a 5 5 rating i bet it's those channing lovers lol i'm kidding with you guys but it's all good i guess i just didn't get what others did with the passion the mystery that is the dance oh antonio where are you when we need you br br 4 10
0	step up is a fair dance film about some kids that get their big performance break the film is average in every way with little more for the viewer a jock fights external prejudices to become a dancer with an accomplished partner and a teach who sees something special the acting was fine but the dialog and directing had little to add to overcoming a predictable story none the less you still feel quite good about the outcome of the film there were some dark scenes and some typical generalizations about dancers that went a little overboard this is a class b film with moderate continuity errors and dialog mishaps the scenery was good and the characters held true to life it is worth the watch if you like that kind of film
0	going into the movie with the right expectations i somewhat liked this movie like most reviewers who have seen this movie i fully agree that the plot was razor thin clichéd and i could predict every plot twist from the very beginning of the movie but the dancing sequences were very well done and i really enjoyed the fusion of classical and hip hop dance both which i enjoy watching the music soundtrack of the movie was also very good which made the drama scenes more bearable the leads jenna dewan and channing tatum were ok as actors but their dancing throughout the movie was impressive and mesmerizing br br all in all a movie worth watching if you like to watch good dance sequences and this movie is much much much better than you got served in terms of the plot and drama then again that doesn't say much does it p
0	teenage exorcist is one of those god awful films to video that makes the viewer give up any expectations of decent entertainment for low brow sexual antics adolescent humour and empty writing this film delivers exactly what its was trying to deliver it is about a girl moving into a house where a baron de sade hmmm once lived and finally being drawn to him through her own inner demon her sister and brother in law along with an irish priest her boyfriend and a pizza delivery boy try to save her and exorcise her demon well not much here in way of horror or suspense in fact one line from the film pretty much sums up what to expect mike the girl's brother in law has tied her the name is diane by the way and she is played by brinke stevens up after trying to chainsaw her sister he removes a gag from her mouth and says something like this won't be the last gag we see tonight indeed it was not the special effects are cheesy and poorly crafted and the film makes use of this by playing on its comedic appeal some of the lines and situations are funny robert quarry old count yorga himself really steals his scenes as an irish priest he hams it up wailing biblical verses and crooning irish songs you know you are in trouble however when eddie gets top billing does his schtick and has a couple nice moments as well but the material is just too threadbare than to be anything more than teenage sophomoric time filler michael berryman from the hills have eyes also has a brief but interesting cameo in the film as for the other thespians well they are all pretty good at being pretty mediocre stevens is lovely in fishnet stockings and french cut panties but beyond that don't expect too much more from her her sister is played by elena and she shows a bit more than brinke a very lovely young lady by the way and out acts brinke by miles her husband played by jay richardson shows off his ability to act and be funny amidst mediocrity again not a bad film to waste a little time that involves no thinking on if you are a robert quarry fan watch it for his performance at the very least
0	as i watched this movie i felt as if a plastic bag was slowly closing in around my head the acting was horribly stifling and it was bad acting the most brilliant piece of acting in the entire film was the guy who had to play laid out in state in a coffin i felt nothing but relief when it was finally over i was expecting that this film was going to be some real tragedy with some deep psychological intrigue in the aftermath all around it was stupid no beginning no climax no ending just rambling on and on and the plastic bag kept getting worse let's get real here this is an awful movie
0	this movie was horrible and corny james agee is rolling in his grave this movie was nothing at all like the book and made a mockery of it no one should see this movie unless they want to gag
0	two popular actors are paired in showtime like de niro and murphy playing a police and an actor although they share the most screen time together they do not reach their expected performances such films like analyse this meet the parents dr doolittle and nutty professor the film starts interestingly but becomes a thin ordinary comedy which is quite disappointing it feels like especially de niro doesn't enjoy being in showtime thats a shame because he really shows his feelings thats what i think unfortunately if the idea had been used cleverly this could have been a more interesting piece of work and could be followed with a sequel like any other popular hollywood movie well i don't think there would be a sequel to this at least casting de niro and murpy again out of
0	writer director patrice takes a universal and potentially bottomless subject friendship and turns it into a flat and meaningless farce despite a list actors fine cinematography and elegant production design it's all in the plot and the plot is laughable teach me how to be likable art dealer françois daniel auteuil tells a random stranger boon and that about sums it up we learn next to nothing about friendship and daniel auteuil may be a fine actor but not one minute do we believe he could be the cut throat egoist the script depends on him to be just as we hope the travesty is over pulls one of his usual cathartic third acts fast forwarding from damage to disaster like treasured greek vase everyone and everything in this movie is a fake only asset is julie in the part of business partner catherine looking swell and sexy despite a major mishap of a haircut
0	don't be taken in because the premise of this film is a good one it is but that does not a good film make br br comedies require a well honed script and masterful direction sadly this poorly executed film has neither a good director in other genres does not deliver in his comedic farces les series being another example br br the comedic timing is terrible some jokes are telegraphed some are re hashed from other movies others just sit there as if they were giving you time to laugh the plot has messy subplots the allergic daughter the lesbian co owner and just does not develop or envelope the viewer it isn't funny and it isn't believable for a second br br compare this to any comedy by billy wilder some like it hot a foreign etc or by francis veber a true genius at french comedy le diner de cons le placard les la la grande blonde etc and you'll see the difference in their tight scripts great comedic acting and timing with each joke leading to the next one br br watching mon ami twice would be cruel and unusual punishment not a good sign for a comedy
0	i have always wanted to see the movie because i loved the novel but was warned away because i'd heard that the movie was a stinker it is wrote the script and i could follow it fine despite the fact that i read the novel over thirty years ago br br the soundtrack is execrable jarring jangling and utterly inappropriate breaking any attempt at mystery or mood in the movie i suspect that the director must take a lot of the blame as even michael caine is terrible in it and he was already doing excellent work in alfie a couple of years earlier br br the mysteries evoked by the book are not well translated onto the screen i'd love to see someone remake this one
0	i loved the gorgeous greek scenery but the story which is not something you can follow anyway was even harder to follow in the movie i cannot imagine how anyone watching the movie can get any kind of grip on it if they have not read the book and then like me they would probably wonder why australian allison turned into french anne and many other seemingly pointless changes in the story the mysteries in the book seemed to be chopped up or left out in the movie i saw it when it first came out and had the same problems with it then since i had read the book several times i recently watched it with my granddaughter very intelligent at 20 and usually into movies i like who was mostly amazed at how young michael caine and candace bergen were in it but otherwise could not imagine why one would watch it except for the scenery
0	since the magus is a confusing puzzle that really has no solution one should sit back and enjoy the scenery set on a remote greek island it stars a very uptight michael caine as a teacher working at a school for boys who gets caught up in mind games with local wacko mystery man anthony quinn and his daffy girlfriend candice bergen quinn looking like pablo picasso with white hair and striped sailor shirt is actually pretty good but caine looks like he's ready to explode bergen although stunning should not put on a british accent ever she's not very good at that type of thing guy green's direction is fine but unless you have infinite patience with the circular logic of the film you will not enjoy it a real sour note is the casting of the effervescent anna in the completely joyless role of caine's girlfriend after seeing her in the likes of a woman is a woman and a band apart her presence here is quite jarring
0	what an utter disappointment forget this abysmal film and get hold of the tv series instead what on earth were they doing making the american president relatively sane all the politicians should have been bumbling buffoons peter cook is good as the british pm it lacks the biting satire of the original going instead for lowest common denominator slapstick 1 out of 10 if i'm being generous this is unfortunately yet another example of a remake which totally misses the point of the original the difference with this one being that they were both written by the same people
0	i don't care what anyone says this movie is hilarious it combines the bleak seriousness of threads with an anarchic blend of alternative comedy and the results are a severely dark but outrageously funny satire on the policies of both the western and eastern at the time you gotta give the filmmakers credit for even attempting to top the real life lunacy of duck and cover or protect and survive br br imagine someone made a movie based on the dead kennedys track sex makes the world go round' and you're pretty close to whoops apocalypse add on top form as an insanely ott sas commander and you've got it exactly a worthy companion piece to dr strangelove and that's saying something
0	this film wasn't good at all i was able to catch it at a film festival and didn't appreciate the content i was forced to watch it's a well shot film about family looking to reconnect after the death of the family's cornerstone gabrielle union dies the film stars billy dee williams as union's brother well actually gabrielle union portrayed the woman in her early years which should help explain why the woman was billy dee williams older sister this had to be billy dee william's worst performance in his career ever he looked as if he didn't remember his lines in a few scenes he was an unlikable hardly ever empathetic character who fathered a daughter while married to a white woman whom he already had a daughter with as well the two daughters are older now and while the daughter he had with the white woman lucy was trying to connect with him his other daughter didn't want anything to do with him billy dee's character was so pathetic that the only way they can get him to fly in from paris for his sister's funeral was by telling him that the funeral had already passed and his late sister left him with the responsibility of handling her paperwork why they had to fool him because he didn't like attending funerals i know you're asking but he didn't want to attend his own sister's funeral too yes he claims he didn't like being around the forced feelings of emotions that is shared amongst the people paying their respects he didn't want anything to do with that now we're suppose to empathize with that a hole the rest of the performances in the film were flat with equally flat characters the director and editor didn't care to consider the pacing of the film the flashbacks were painful to watch it was a bad film however it seems to be the favorite at black film festivals a film that glorifies african americans dependence on caucasians to find a love that they can settle down with even if it is a healthy relationship when lame love stories like this win best of festivals at the black film festivals it makes me question the judgment of black people on film in these same festivals the only films that win awards are educational films about african american culture and black films directed by caucasian directors i'm not saying that anything is wrong with a white person directing stories written for people of color the problems with these films is that they never argue from both point of views which are usually the films that actually speaks to the masses these films are often one sided forms of these films fail at executing the powers of both sides of the argument that the film is revolved around the writers and directors never compose the scenes and sequences that contradict your final statement with as much truth and energy as those that reinforce it these films always slant the argument what i am saying is are the people running these black film festivals judging a film off of pure content which to me means directing acting writing cinematography editing etc or are they judging films off of strictly the message being delivered about african american culture are we suppose to expect a film like constellation to have a shot in the world against films like million dollar baby and sideways what happened to film being entertaining when i mean entertainment i mean the ritual of sitting in the dark staring at the screen investing tremendous concentration and energy into what one hopes will be satisfying meaningful emotional experience why can't these festivals appreciate films that get their messages across without preaching why can't these black film festivals acknowledge films that are well told pieces of work that are brutally honest telling the truth i believe we have no responsibility to cure social ills or renew faith in humanity to uplift the spirits of society or even express our inner being we have only one responsibility to tell the truth robert mckee now that's something i totally agree with these same black film festivals put down hustle and flo as if it is that awful film stereotyping blacks however it's an honest film about a pimp with a dream a pimp can't dream i recall the last time i saw a real pimp he was a human being and aren't they pimps and prostitution a harsh reality in our society at large not just in the black community but all over the powers that be in black hollywood believe that films like this are making afro americans look bad in the eyes of others as if others don't know that there are pimps in the hood the truth is until african american people in film can accept the truth about themselves and dare to share it with the world then our films will never have a chance in the world this film was awful the best thing was the cinematography and zoe
0	this movie is absolutely horrible i thought because it had good actors in it like gabrielle union hill harper and of course the infamous billy d williams the movie is long and drags on with a documentary style of showing gabrielle union who has died in the movie talking about her family which by the way is a confusing family because you never know who's who and who's related to who i would not recommend this movie to anyone and i wish i could take it back where i got it from i fell asleep from time to time because of the boredom do not waste your time or money on this movie it could had been more true to life with more drama and less boredom
0	i'm going to be generous here and give it a 3 only because i live in huntsville and it was great to see how well the city was filmed that said this movie was pretty bad it's like they started off with hardly any script and the director just told the actors to stare at each other meaningfully with a lot of music playing over it and billy d williams looked like he'd rather be anywhere but in this movie it's just a mess i think i could write a script better than the dislodge for this film and i'm no writer br br there is one thing i've seen mentioned throughout the reviews and message boards everyone is under the impression that the movie begins around world war 2 and actually it seemed more like it was supposed to start out in the late 1950's early 1960's while the military was not segregated by then i'm pretty sure that any troops waiting to board a train would still be segregated in a place like huntsville al if the beginning of film was supposed to be the 1940's then billy d lesley ann rae dawn would have to have been in the 70's and 80's instead of their mid 50's or early 60's br br don't waste your time unless you really really like the actors because the story isn't very interesting
0	watching showtime i got the impression that the producers got the idea to put robert deniro and eddie murphy just for the sake of having a film that co starred the two of them other than that i can't think of a reason to justify the film's existence not that it isn't amusing in spots it certainly is but the concept is so completely ludicrous that the laughs are somewhat muted br br the thing that really got me was eddie murphy's character i can't seem to wrap my mind around the concept of someone being a police officer as strictly a day job when i was working person at new york state crime victims board i had to deal with all kinds of cops and they ran the gamut between the really dedicated and some real slugs but i can't think of one who thought that this was just something i do until i get my career going in an area far afield i mean can you really see eddie murphy or anyone else going through the rigors of the real police academy not the screen version just to get a day job br br anyway deniro is your basic hard working detective who's on the trail of a major gun dealer he's undercover and murphy is part of his backup so what does the showboating murphy do he calls a reality based tv series like cops to film the action br br so deniro's bust gets blown sky high but the producer of the show gets some good footage of murphy and deniro and decides on a new reality based television series so these unwilling partners get joined and try to continue working deniro's case with all the tv cameras around br br eddie murphy's a funny guy i loved him in beverly hills cop and in the doctor doolittle movies but he's done better things than showtime and robert deniro certainly has br br i guess murphy wanted a chance to work with deniro and deniro must have gotten one hefty paycheck to do this film
0	i's a big struggle as a story that is surreal this movie could've been great as great as it is rated by some here but mixed with the acting director and relatives playing major roles due to financial reasons i reckon found in here although calling this acting is not only a stretch of that word it's giving it a new meaning a whole new meaning br br if you are into surreal movies there are some that i do like actually see the japanese strange circus for example you might be able to overlook the flaws see above and enjoy this more there are great ideas here after all many great metaphors and ambiguous scenes but while watching this with a group of friends almost all of us just couldn't stop laughing not the intention of the director of course again everyone has their own liking as one can see by the high rating of this movie but i could only recommend the movie if you're aware of the work that alejandro jodorowsky has done and or are a fan of his
0	such pain pain in the shape that it had promise in its central idea but it never fully recognised it and goes on to blow a lot sand in your face i wouldn't say this straight to video south african canadian uk horror flick is awful but its just too bland predictable and there's just very little memorable about it it's a guarantee you'll forget it not too long after watching it i tried watching it last night but had to finish it during the morning as i couldn't keep my eyes open even then i couldn't remember where i got up to which left me watching it from the beginning again the only thing that hit a chord was andreas sharp cinematography of the vast harsh and eerie desert locations a nice glossy chic creates a striking visual sense which can't save the film from that overall empty feeling everything else is below par and almost comes off grating like the head scratching revelation of the beast huh the computer generated special effects of the ominous monster are tolerable and there are some grisly flashes of stripped flesh and bones but there's too little as there's no hiding the fact that the clichéd script wants to ponder on the generic character conflict to build tension and uncertainty that would be fine if the wilted script was more than just basic shallow fluff because it never generated any strong lasting suspense but makes it labour on the lead characters are superficial and the token support fall in the dispensable basket it's your stereotypical bunch scott and warrick grier's performances are colourless and the beautiful rachel shelley tries but looks rather weary
0	i think the bone snatcher should go after anyone associated with this movie watching this will seem like the longest 90 minutes or so of your entire life the plot is boring and stupid there were no scenes that were horrifying even remotely if you manage to endure this fine piece of cinema art all the way to the end you're either going to be highly disappointed or die laughing hysterically i bought this movie based on some other reviews i'd read i wish i had my money back what a if you're looking for a horror movie that will hold your interest watch u turn it may be based on a kooky plot but it's full of those creepy scenes that keep you jumping from beginning to end
0	the name of this film and the clips that i saw caused me to believe that this film would have excitement and interesting moments i was disappointed the desert sands were interesting but this film along at a snails pace it started fine with an underground cave and something coming out but then tried to involve us with the lives of some very unlikeable human beings as they found dead bodies or should i say skeletons with some flesh on them they began a search for the reason why at times it became somewhat different as something was following them in the desert some type of black ooze or something that would begin to eat the flesh of humans as the flesh was munched upon a bag of bones began to creep after the remaining humans the reason for this black ooze as we find out was pretty bad ants unbelieveable then the ending made no sense i guess the motto of this film will be when you have an itch and see an ant quickly kill it before the friends smell your flesh
0	no really im not kidding around here folks and i so cant believe how many people here have given it really really positive reviews oh wait its the imdb comments section silly me its interesting to note that at this date there have not been enough votes to give this film a rating out of ten yet there are dozens of comments that rave about the film what does this mean i wonder anyway the script is terrible character change their personality and motivation and actions every scene in order to keep the movie running along at something that vaguely resembled a pace it wasnt even dumb behaviour that was there too but the pure idiocy of the script transcended any dumbness the characters displayed for instance karl is disobeying an order because there are two dead bodies in the desert and the killer is out here somewhere so he forces everyone to travel in order to find the killer disobeying orders and p everyone off when the hero spots something nasty in the darkness and warns karl karl tells our hero to stop being an idiot and that there's nothing out there so they are all going home next scene he is refusing to let it go and must hunt down whatever it is it is just a joke yes the monster is very impressive but the crap that the humans say about it just tries to cancel out its interesting aspects and the predator and alien rip off moments were very tedious and the ending the ending jesus the worst film i saw the year and i saw bug buster
0	this horror tale takes place in the desert of africa a canadian systems analyst zach scott is sent on an assignment for a diamond mining company although he hates field work he finds himself in a truck with a rescue unit in the open desert fighting sand flies and whipping blowing sand four diamond prospectors are found well whats left of their scattered bones are discovered during a long cold desert night a shape shifting monster makes its appearance zach and his colleagues are terrified when their truck is stranded and members of the unit are dying horribly one by one there is no character development let alone dialogue to speak of the desert set in its own way is beautiful and without giving anything away the creature is as old as the desert sands also in the cast are rachel shelley warrick grier and patrick
0	spoilers spoilers some bunch of hillbilly types are out in the desert looking for diamonds when they find a hard mound in the middle of a sandy desert area spoilers the dumbest one starts hitting the mound with a pick and cracks it open then he looks into the hole and sticks his head in and surprise something eats him the other two are not seen alive again scott looks like a pizza delivery boy but he plays some kind of expert scientist with a medical degree which means he should be about 35 years old minimum is supposed to join camp c and help them find diamonds the truck that picks up to take him to camp c has a handful of the kind of that usually populate movies like pitch black the thing etc the truck happens to drive across the first truck and they decide to investigate how come that truck did not see the other truck when they were driving to pick up since they were travelling the same road so they find the eaten bodies and there are some decent special effects relating to bones with little bits of flesh on them the main lunatic in the group karl decides that they must find the killer so the truck drives around in the desert following some tracks and eventually it has an electrical short and the crew is stuck in the desert the dumbest guy in this group had picked up a bunch of bones using his jacket to carry them around when he takes a nap wearing the same jacket the creatures eat him alive and another guy runs over and sticks his arm into the goo and that dummy loses his arm too sounds exciting so far except that a few minutes later dr realizes that the creature is really hundreds of thousands of ants who are using the bones to hold each other together so they can travel to a new hive because the miners cracked open the old hive now last time i checked ants could move around on their own without having to kill people in order to use the bones for structure if all they need was something hard they could have put a bunch of sticks together and used those to create a form the whole story is really really dumb and the ant explanation is the only one given the rest of the movie is just about the group getting killed off until they find the new ant nest and kill the ant brain sort of and the hundreds of thousands of ants then walk away on their own itty bitty feet there is a spare ant brain found off camera and sent back for analysis thus creating a reason for a sequel
0	when i saw the poster at the theater i thought that it is a new line of a horror story without a famous cast worth giving a try but after i went in i wanted to leave after 20 minutes there was a lot of non sense and logical flaws to me it is a movie that is not worth putting in theaters it is not even worth seeing
0	i wasted 5 dollars renting this complete piece of crap dr zack is the most unlovable lead character i have ever seen the movie was full of every cliche you could ever think of and contained not a single ounce of originality there was the typical sexism portrayed by rugged foreigners all the guys had those 'too proud to take attitudes that are as stale as grandma's christmas fruitcake the concept and deaths were really cool but they lose all novelty once the monster is revealed read the spoiler at the end nothing else is really revealed though the ending is the biggest cop out you've ever seen i predicted everything before it happened including who would die and how the dialogue is lacking and that's an understatement by far there's mostly just random yelling thoughtful staring and chunky sentences the actors are just god awful i don't want to talk about this movie anymore it's making me angry i just wonder if the director even watched it when it was done br br spoiler alert save 5 dollars the monster is just a bunch of ants that evolved so now they need bones so they can move around nevermind the fact that this serves no evolutionary advantage whatsoever and that the ants just killed whoever was available though the movie acts like they kill out of necessity this movie made me dumber the end consists of the lead idiot killing the mother ant a big blob thing which destroys all the other ants pretty cliche eh he almost wusses out at the end because of a sudden emotional attachment to the mother thing that overcomes him give me a break
0	i gave this movie 2 instead of 1 just just because i am a polite person this movie made me loose 90 minutes of my life in which i could have done something useful for the human kind or just me br br the dialog is poor the actors never look scared even if it's supposed to be a horror movie for example the scene in which kurt collects the bones of his former colleague he should be frightened but he looks quite normal the chick of the movie is such a cliché the one thing i liked about her is the dress she wore in the final scene and by the way the end was extremely predictable with the cocoon blinking in the box as a matter of fact i was thinking more of an ant walking around on the back seat of the car but it still didn't surprise me
0	i put down this vehicle from robert de niro and eddie murphy and murphy in particular the first time but having seen it again recently i can see that it does have some very funny bits br br this is by no means to say that this is the greatest buddy comedy of all time but really what can you do to the already exhausted subgenre what director tom dey has tried to do is make it a satire of the clichés of buddy comedy and the media early in the movie the executive of a cable network asks how is this different from cops when chase is pitching the idea of a reality show dealing with de niro's character mitch preston hilariously boring name by the way that's when i saw it in a new light that i hadn't previously noticed br br the idea is to show all the elements of the buddy comedy and put a twist on them de niro's reluctance to star in the show and to partner up with murphy is right out of every cop film you can think of you can say that de niro is actually playing himself asking why would i do another movie playing a cop chase is portrayed to be a hollywood phony but if you look at her opening scene again she is merely doing it to save her job she somehow sees the ridiculousness of what she is doing but she wants to succeed despite that one line says it all who doesn't want to be on tv maybe this is reading too much into what is essentially a lightweight film merely set to entertain but it does give it a little spin that i hadn't noticed before br br as for murphy you got to applaud him for looking this ridiculous trey wants to be a star so bad that he is willing to sell out everything he comes in contact with murphy was a big star and maybe it struck a nerve that it is all so fleeting br br the plot with the gun is of course pretty boring the action sequences are nothing special except the end which required a lot of effort both from cast and crew one thing that i noticed about the villain is that he is dressed like an 80's pop star george michael comes to mind and that adds to the whole media spin br br so i trashed it the first time around but what the heck if you are gonna do this why not point out how ridiculous it really is and de niro and murphy took a big chance doing this
0	this is another alien imitation and not a very good one at that replace outer space with the south african desert throw in the same ingredients a group of people stranded in an inhospitable landscape have them hunted down by an alien creature and you have the same old story of a very ordinary film trying to ape a classic film a group of miners and scientists go on a hunt for some missing colleagues and find their bones in the desert stripped clean of flesh their vehicle breaks down and they head for civilisation while being stalked by the monster the african location is pretty enough but that is basically all this film has going for it there is a vain attempt to build up the tension but i found this didn't really work and made the film rather boring the creature didn't appear much and when it did it didn't really install a feeling of horror there is one scene where someone gets the flesh ripped from his arm but that was basically it on the gore front in conclusion i found this film about as exciting as watching paint dry i give this film 4 10 and that is only because of the interesting location which alone isn't enough to save this movie from being a total snooze fest
0	the bone snatcher is about a group miners who go on a search for a missing crew of miners in the desert when the find them they are nothing more than bones stripped clean and they could not have been dead for more than six hours the story keeps you interested as to what exactly caused this the characters are well enough and the acting is pretty good br br about an hour and ten minutes in when you find out what is causing the bones to be stripped clean you sigh oh that is really stupid the movie is ruined by bad writing and a non exciting ending up until that point the movie was pretty good and it is a shame that it took such a bad turn so i cannot recommend this movie i gave it a 4 10
0	this horror movie starts out promisingly enough and there is a moment where i thought to myself this is going to be really good however it gets rather boring rather quick at the end the acting is fairly good as is the location and the story starts out rather well too the problem not enough kills on screen and an ending where you have the monster basically turning tail and running i wanted to see more especially after a very good sleeping bag scene where i thought the movie was picking up and going to be a winner unfortunately after that the movie showed the monster very little and the back of the dvd lied as it told me that the desert beneath the people literally came alive and was capable of devouring their flesh now that would have been some movie a nearly inescapable situation granted that would have made viewers uncomfortable and it might of ramped up the tension but that is what horror movies are supposed to do instead we have very few shots of the creature or creatures as it were and when we do see it it is mainly on the defensive still it wasn't all bad it just needed more horror less hunting and more chomping
0	the bone snatcher starts out extremely promising with the introduction of a new and original type of unseen evil as well as with the use of the sublimely isolated filming location of the african desert whilst checking out in the desert three miners are attacked and killed by a seemingly unworldly creature that devours their flesh and only leaves a pile of half eaten bones the expedition crew sent to rescue them discovers that the monster is a mutated ant queen and pretty soon they find themselves trapped in the uncanny desert as well director jason sustains a respectable level of tension just until the nature of the monster is identified immediately after that the film rapidly turns into an ordinary creature feature with all the characters dropping out of the survival race one by one the second half of the bone snatcher is boring with the inevitable love story clichés as well as a complete absence of gory murder set pieces the characters all are insufferable stereotypes that act and say exactly what you predict several minutes in advance there's the rookie who has to prove himself the female with brain capacity apart from her hot looks the obnoxious experienced guy who redeems himself at the end through self sacrifice and – last but not least – who could forget the wise black guy who refers to the monster using all kind of voodoo names tries too hard to make his monster look like the outer space menaces of alien and predator the ant creature has infrared vision and crumbles when shot at yawn the movie actually just benefits from its unique setting and the handful of nasty images of bodies this could have been a modest gem but instead it's less than mediocre avoid
0	my jaw fell so many times watching this flick i have bruises okay granted i really wasn't expecting the quality of say the others or even thirteen ghosts the new one which was just dreadful and is still head and shoulders above this insanity someone else noted the thin characters i wouldn't call them thin thin implies there might be something to them how about almost non existent in no particular order we have the girl who will scream the american who will figure it all out the macho guy who will just bull through everything until he gets killed the wise black man who will die early the extra guy who is there to die first the extra woman who is there to play tough that's it that's your character list and that is what they are and what they remain from beginning to end if they were thin they might at least change a little bit from beginning to end but they don't well okay the american guy decides he's going to stay with the at the end and the screaming girl goes back to wherever she came from that's the change other than that they all act according to their assigned roles and rarely betray any real emotion when they finally meet up with the menace br br now the producers get props for an original menace i will say i had understood the story was going to be tremors but with ants instead of giant worms i give the writer credit these are very cool very scary ants and what they do with bones is excellent the first time the bone snatcher appear i admit i jumped a few feet unfortunately the very cool concept becomes alien in the desert very quickly we get a lot of commentary on ants that may or may not be true but we don't get much of the mythology on which the menace is based and we get every monster movie cliché ever made people go into places they know they shouldn't and when they have no compelling reason to moronic characters try to hinder our heroes and die for it one character does double duty as scientist who doesn't want to kill the monster but study it a very cool gadget is introduced only so the american can tell everyone something about ants that gee i hope everyone knows anyway then the gadget is broken our heroes run out of the one thing that can keep the menace at bay and then there is that final annoying moment when we know the menace is still with us and wonder exactly what and how the hey the hero or heroine came by it it completely renders everything that went before as useless and false br br three stars for the cool use of ants and bones nothing at all for clichés clunky dialogue and dim bulb characters
0	this may just be the worst movie ever produced worst plot worst acting worst special effects be prepared if you want to watch this the only way to get enjoyment out of it is to light a match and burn the tape of it knowing it will never fall into the hands of any sane person again
0	nine out of nine people who watched this have declared themselves to be mentally scarred for life no one should ever have to see this abomination the english language is poorly equipped to express how utterly dreadfully atrocious this film is it's really not worth the plastic it's made of no greater crime has been committed by the human race in the entire history of creation never is there likely to be anything worse br br it was agreed unanimously that the scene involving the shrunken head of tommy and the young girl's blouse was unbelievably sick and twisted in fact many of us have not yet recovered from the ordeal and are currently sitting in the corner of the room rocking sucking our thumbs and whimpering br br the fundamental question on everyone's lips however has to be why how is it possible for anyone to create such a monstrosity and then subject it to so many innocent people after viewing the trailer we thought that this film might be a laugh how wrong we were br br please sign the petition to rid the world of shrunken heads so that no other poor civilians be exposed to it please for the good of humanity
0	i am appalled to see that so many people have given positive reviews for this film this movie has no redeeming factors the music is not good the acting is pathetic i have a difficult time understanding how someone could enjoy this movie let alone sing its praises the idea is horrible certain scenes linked to the plot such as the continued love story even though the male romantic interest is a shrunken head are so bad that i wanted to do myself bodily harm while watching them the fact that there is scene in which a shrunken head flies under a girls' shirt so he can feel her up and she likes it is reason enough for everyone associated with this film to perish the link to west side story can only be a mockery since to reference such a great movie in such a horrible one is grounds alone to destroy all copies of this movie to make a long story short this film is horrible in every way and if i had my way everyone who likes it should go straight to hell
0	being a former mst3k watcher even i found this movie unwatchable the awful attempts at humor heck the awful attempts at acting nobody needs to read a harangue on this piece of junk br br i just like how all the positive reviews were clearly written by cast members or family friends just click on their other reviews and wow they are all reviewing modern vampires give me a couple of bucks and i can make a movie better than this one of the most incompetent pieces of film making i've ever seen and that's saying something watch at your own risk br br rating 0 10
0	this is quite possibly the worst film i have ever seen i would think you could get that from the title also there is a particular love scene that could be the strangest in the history of film i can't even remember why i saw this film or when only that is an absolutely horrible movie viewing experience on the other hand if you are looking for the absolute weirdest movie to waste two hours of your time then by all means rent it good luck finding it at your local store though i doubt this movie is in a very wide distribution and please do not show this to children by any means as it may warp their impressionable minds forever
0	i watched deadly voyage because david suchet was in it after enjoying him in the poirot series and joss ackland is always worth watching so i went into the film with an expectation of it being a potentially worthwhile film alas it was not to be br br i won't bother critiquing the performances the pacing the cinematography or any other structural aspect of the film others here have already given their opinions on those elements the only thing i want to address is the film's message since it proclaims in the intro that it's based upon a true story and therein hangs the film's supposed importance br br deadly voyage primarily focuses upon an impoverished black african man named kingsley who wants to move to the us because he believes that he can make money there nothing more nothing less his motivation is utterly selfish of course some people will by saying that he was doing it for his family but in fact he decided to have children on the income he could make in so he really just created his own problem to that end kingsley decides to stow away aboard a russian freighter bound for new york in the process of doing this he faces harsh conditions racist crew members and other challenges br br but this is precisely where the film leaves me unsympathetic why should the audience be expected to care about kingsley simply because he has a goal goals aren't such a rare commodity that his should be privileged above say the goal of the ship's captain or the woman he left at home with his newborn child kingsley's goal is illegal in the eyes of the us government it is also illegal in that it steals from the russian shipping company if he makes it to the us it would involve taking out of a system that he has not put into and if he gets caught the shipping company will be fined 45 000 i doubt very much that any of the care about what their chosen course of action is costing anyone else they're clearly just out for their own gain he could've spent the 1 000 he won in the lottery at the beginning of the film for legal passage to the us and applied for residency and a work permit instead he takes the illegal and dangerous route br br so since kingsley's voyage is illegal selfish and cannot be ethically justified why should we care about him or his ordeal simply because he faces challenges why should his challenges be privileged above the challenge of the russian shipping company getting to new york without because he's black and the shipping company is white the reason seems to be because danny glover the film's executive producer and others involved want us to root for kingsley as if he's a hero on some sort of noble voyage but once you accept that illegal immigration theft and a fool's mission aren't noble at all you can't really care about him br br before anyone plays the race card i assure you that i would've felt the same no matter what ethnicity nationality the involved parties were imagine if a british person decided to stow away in a train headed for sneak across the border and collect unwanted buddhist antiquities to bring back to britain to sell how much sympathy could the challenges he faced generate very little i'd bet so why should we feel different for because he's black because he's poor by american standards the filmmakers are banking on us sharing their views that the ends justify the means and that a shipping company being fined 45 000 is inconsequential compared to the remote possibility of an unskilled laborer earning slightly more in the us than he could've if he had just stayed in his own home country i didn't buy it for a minute
0	this is one odd film it seems to be aimed at a younger audience but is filled with sexual innuendos the whole premise is rather absurd not just the idea of some shrunken heads of three dead kids doing some crime fighting but the same said kids taking on a gang of tough older guys is a little far fetched but then again the parents are mainly absent in the film and there is a lack of authority figures to keep the kids in line br br the cast are good though meg foster plays a very butch mafia like leader with the handsome a j as the leader of the bullies egan and rebecca are well cast as the young lovers though for a comic actress of her talent leigh allyn baker is notoriously wasted in this film br br overall the film is unusual but i don't think that is enough to make up for the poor quality and bumbling execution the scenery is all rather dull and the special effects quite dismal sit this one out unless your in the mood
0	apparently shrunken heads was the last movie that julius harris had a role in i have not seen all of his movies but julius harris was in many good movies and i remember him best from live and let die where he played tee hee and which was full of voodoo references something that is common here in south florida i always thought live and let die was a great movie because it had some atmosphere and mystique unlike most of the 007 movies in shrunken heads julius harris is back in his voodoo persona he has a great style for mystery and the occult and his part in this movie is excellent sadly the rest of the movie is something of a comedy spoilers three kids who look like they were fired from the cast of the little rascals get killed by a neighborhood hoodlum who looks like he got fired from the cast of fame or as a dancer on dick clark's american bandstand in other words these kids give low budget another dimension julius harris goes to the mortuary funeral home cuts off the three kids' heads and nobody notices and then takes them to his condominium unit where he has a giant cauldron of boiling liquids the three heads get tossed in along with some herbs spices and voodoo items at some point mr harris has the ugly little heads on a table and he spills his blood on them and they come to life as talking heads they can fly make jokes roll their eyes and exact vengeance from the evil doers they usually look pretty funny flying around but the effects are not bad for some reason one of the kids always has a switch blade in his mouth and he uses it to slice people's necks and to cut holes into tires this movie is weird and funny but only the first time you see it meg foster is in this movie and she looks fatter than rosie o'donnell and meg plays a masculine leader of the local gangsters strange movie
0	it's impossible to make a film based on such a book as the brothers by f m br br richard brooks is a great director but that film is on a very low level br br the worst part of the film was the ending well let's think of the book in the end we have the guilty karamazov afterwards they sent him to siberia in the end the famous of the friends and family making a plan to save him but that's it a nd now the film takes two steps more and shows us an illusion ending of the escape of and i think just from the moral point i'm sure that would finish the book with an open end because one the one hand he is not guilty is the real murderer and so he have to be a free man but on the other hand he goes to his father to kill him so he has decided to commit the crime that's a moral dilemma and so the following point is an open end well for real it's just not full open br br william shatner as karamazov i'm sorry no br br the others characters playing in a good performance as we have to expect it from such great actors in front of course a superb performance of yul as i think that there are not many actors who can play this part in a better way br br but as i said in the beginning this book is unadaptable it never should be film in two hours that's impossible i think that there are some films so maybe they could do the right thing but i just keep the opinion that this book can't be adapted br br so 3 points br br a point for the great director richard brooks br br a point for a superb performance of yul brynner br br finally a point for one of the greatest writers of all time
0	a tedious yawn of a film that retains nothing of the zing and of its predecessor gold diggers of 1933 the production code was firmly in place by the time of this film's release so the humour is all of the hokey variety and gone are the dry one liners that sounded so cosmopolitan dripping off the lips of the gorgeous dames from the first film a cast of second tier stars and character actors go through the motions here and the on a show motif seems awfully forced instead of the make or break world of broadway the show here is a charity event hosted by a swanky hotel who really cares whether or not the show goes on the score here is bland too of course the movie's big number is lullaby of broadway which accompanies a long fantasy dance number about a new york eventual demise from too much partying doesn't exactly have the same effect as the searing forgotten man number used as the finale in busby berkeley directs as well as choreographs this film and whatever promise is built up in the film's fluid opening scenes quickly deteriorates unfortunately no one learned any lessons from this and there was yet another gold diggers movie two years later br br grade c
0	after his widower father dies in a horsing accident young tom burlinson as jim craig is left to manage his australian snowy river farm with only wizened peg legged prospector kirk douglas as spur to help times are hard so mr burlinson goes to work for mr douglas' wealthy silver haired brother rancher mr harrison also played by kirk douglas when a big job comes up the silver haired older douglas feels burlinson is too young and inexperienced to go along so burlinson stays behind and falls in love with the boss' daughter sigrid thornton as jessica harrison br br the least satisfactory aspect of director george miller's the man from snowy river is a weak storyline observe for example the jessica is lost sequence of events the damsel gets lost in one of those freak storms while running away her worried father rounds up a posses of drunk men to find her after predicting bad weather damsel jessica rolls herself on to the edge of a conveniently appearing cliff father and the suddenly sober men don't check farm hero burlinson discovers the damsel after building a fire he decides to kiss her br br the romance is played too innocently for as obvious an attracted man and woman as burlinson and ms thornton to make matters worse the douglas brothers have a dark history which is revealed before any mystery is built up regarding the matter the main attraction herein is the australian scenery br br the man from snowy river 1982 george miller tom burlinson kirk douglas sigrid thornton
0	dreadful a friend of mine who obviously thought i had an abysmal sense of humour recommended this br br it's bobbins i almost switched it off it is only my anal desire to not leave things unfinished that prevented me doing so br br this was evidently a british attempt to make a movie with a bunch of also ran tv actors using some lame script from their mate in the business i struggle to think of anything even approaching the paucity of this movie less funny than global warming br br i'm not normally so vehement but i watched this well over ten years ago and thought that i wasted an hour or so of my life on it is destructive br br puerile plot less useless tosh br br i'd rather eat my feet than watch it again
0	and i bought a vampire motorcycle staggers all over that line like a drunk with his tied together some 'bad' films are quite enjoyable like norman j warren's some 'bad' films are just bad like kent headless eyes but 'bad' films that try and do the post modernist thing of being knowingly bad should always be approached with extreme caution a lot of people think troma's terror firmer is a bad taste masterpiece for example but i'm guessing anyone over the age of nineteen will shrug it off as worthless dreck then there's john carpenter's dark star yes it's quaint and certainly a product of its time but as a film it's only two notches above worthless this no budget british black comedy horror outing tries to achieve a satirical tone with its endless references to its fellow shoestring splatter flicks among them psychomania horror hospital and pretty much anything by pete walker but due to dismal performances by second string tv actors the leading lady looks like amy a script that appears to have been written on the back of a peeled beermat by two with no understanding of how film comedy works dean intentionally dire elevator rock soundtrack and production values never rising above mediocre the net result is a film that can only be laughed at rather than with if your idea of whoopee is anthropomorphic turds chinese called fu king and references to long forgotten tv ads you'll enjoy this one but don't expect too much
0	the plot here is simple country boy farrell goes to the city to sell the wheat crop falls in love with a waitress kate duncan and marries her bringing her home to a hostile father and a group of woman hungry reapers there are shades of they knew what they wanted and mice and men here the courtship taking place in two lengthy sequences set in the restaurant consume the first half hour and are lethargically paced is so weak he allows his father to mistreat his wife who is propositioned by mac richard alexander one of the reapers to come away with him duncan and alexander are the only good things in this tedious potboiler which lacks the insights and the cinematic beauty we expect from murnau farrell's character has no backbone so we wind up rooting for a real man mac to take kate away from it all with audience sympathy skewed the film loses its narrative progression the father's conversion at film's end is unrealistic and unbelievable making for a contrived denouement this film is for fans of the stars and the director only general audiences need not bother
0	big spoilers flesh feast of 1970 is a more than unworthy conclusion to the great veronica lake's career this has the wide reputation of being an awful stinker and rightly so i must say as a huge fan of low budget horror exploitation especially from the 70s i nonetheless chose to watch this mainly due to the cool camp looking picture on this site but after watching it i had to recognize that the picture actually has nothing to do with the film the picture here on this site is the cover of a dvd collection entitled feast' containing four films including sergio martino's mountain of the cannibal god and i eat your skin what the collection does not include however is this boring turkey flesh feast is not only camp and ridiculous but mostly quite tedious which is even more pathetic regarding that the film is only 70 minutes long also don't get fooled by the title the film is not gory at all yet it is watchable if only for its trashiness and especially the extremely stupid but therefore somewhat entertaining ending the film follows a ridiculous plot about dr elaine frederick veronica lake an ingenious female scientist who can somehow rebuild youth with the help of flesh eating maggots don't ask how a bunch of criminals or terrorists or whatever who are paid by a radical political group assign the doctor to restore the youth of a 'mysterious' commander after an endless hour of nonsensical drivel it turns out that the mysterious commander is actually hitler himself it was quite obvious before but i still had to burst out laughing because the film's finale was so unbelievably silly and unintentionally hilarious this is a film that is very inadequate as the last film of a great actress and former beauty queen like veronika lake except for lake the performances are ridiculously bad even for a zero budget production like this bad performances however are something i can easily forgive in films like this one what i can not forgive though is extreme boredom the final five minutes make this watchable for hardcore fans of camp stuff but i would still recommend to skip it
0	flesh feast starts at miami airport ace reporter dan carter harry kerwin he is also credited as production designer phones his mate ed casey phil philbin to let him know that he has just returned from south america where he has been investigating carl doug foster that he was onto a big story but while still talking on the phone he is stabbed in the back killed meets dr elaine frederick veronica lake she also executive produced who has recently been released from a mental institution together they discuss their grisly plans the news of death has reached casey he decides to take the story up himself do some investigating well actually he gets his secretary day to do most of the investigating just report back to him lazy bugger virginia informs casey that they have someone on the inside named kristine heather hughes since dr frederick rents her spare rooms out to nurses kristine reports back to casey about dr grotesque youth restoration experiments involving human flesh specially cultivated maggots br br co written co produced directed by brad f flesh feast is a pretty poor film on all accounts first lets start with the script by thomas casey who was also responsible for the cinematography you get the feeling that most of the cast crew had more than one job basically it's terrible the character's are one dimensional idiots have no personality i didn't like anyone in this film for what it's worth i quite like some of the ideas here the flesh eating maggots the basement laboratory stealing bodies from a hospital that unforgettable 'twist' ending that's almost worth sitting through the rest of the film for on it's own unfortunately the dialogue is so badly written stiff unnatural sounding it's untrue i mean there is one scene in which a nurse says that they won't let us out of the house which is fine except for the fact that she is speaking outside in the garden to someone no thought has been put into the story as no explanation is ever given for why flesh eating maggots are able to restore youth in fact at one point near the end when questioned about this very thing dr frederick claims there is no time to explain at that point which to me sounds like the people who wrote this didn't have a clue either even at an extremely short 68 minutes long flesh feast is very slow dull the poor editing doesn't help with scenes shots lasting for far too long for example there is a scene in which an ambulance pulls up outside a hospital drives up to the doors the guy gets out he walks to the back doors opens them etc etc did we really need to see every single detail there is also another sequence in which dr frederick enters room puts some gloves on then she takes them off walks into the opposite room puts another pair on i personally think that probably didn't shoot enough material so he stretches every scene out as much as he can to make the run time up i do like that bizarre ending though i really do technically flesh feast is complete crap i'm not sure what the budget was on this but it must have been small very small just about the entire film takes place in one house dr laboratory consists of a table some plastic test tubes some ancient looking electronic medical equipment a strange screen with funny colours on it don't ask the cinematography is poor the music sucks the entire film looks dubbed badly dubbed too the exploitation elements are also disappointing there are a few maggot shots but they don't actually do anything other than a bit there is a brief scene where a dead body has it's leg off a ok looking dismembered corpse limbs hanging on hooks the acting is awful from everyone concerned i mean really bad which makes the rubbishy dialogue even worse do yourself a favour avoid flesh feast yes there are one or two unintentionally funny moments that ending is well unique to say the least but for the most part this is real amateur film making that quickly becomes painful to watch i doubt most people will make it through this is one sitting i can tolerate just about anything but even i considered switching it off definitely one to avoid you'll be pleased you did if you really have to see it don't say you weren't warned
0	i can imagine what happened for this film to come into being a bunch of studio guys are sitting around drinking gin and tonic maybe a joint and one of them comes up with the idea that it would be great if they could find a film that would bridge the generation gap which at that time was about as far apart as archie bunker and mick jagger something that both college age rebels and their parents would find equally interesting for different reasons perhaps but still a ticket is a ticket what interested hippies asia philosophy pacifism and wild sets and costumes what interested their parents musicals eye candy a feel good script and nostalgia very well then lost horizon the old classic as a musical in color can't miss right it was a bomb lost horizon by james hilton is perhaps less than a classic but not a bad novel in broad terms he sketches out a utopian society in shangri la the valley of the blue moon near tibet inhabited by peacefully contented villagers who serve an abbey of i very i long lived monks intruding into paradise is a gilligan's island like of outsiders a veteran of wwi a missionary etc each with their own spin on the situation what plot there is concerns the reaction of each of them to being presented with a choice to live in paradise or try to return to the tumult of the twentieth century taken on its own terms it's gentle pop lit fluff presenting hilton's own conservative british views in oriental dress as exotic and as familiar as a fortune cookie as captive honored guests of the monks the castaways are forbidden to leave the valley but never pressed into work or prayer not that the monks do too much of that themselves treated royally and given simple yet luxurious who'd want to escape in this middle american heaven on earth the monks are both cultured and wise the climate is warm the food is plentiful and tasty the villagers are picturesque and nothing ever changes the nuns are chaste but encouraged to look pretty and even flirt a bit the reason given is one of the most hilariously inaccurate explanations of tantric sex i've ever read even their religion is nonthreatening revealed as a best of both worlds blend of christianity and buddhism there's little to offend any but the fundamentalist or the oddballs out there who actually knew something about tibet which in the early thirties was a very small number br br as a capra film focussing on the adventure character interplay angles it was enchanting and perhaps steven could have made it fly if he'd been around as an early seventies hollywood product the adventure was over too quickly and the updated roster of characters too bland to make much of an impression deprived of the sketchy suggestive qualities of classic b w the monastery resembles a de beauty spa in white and pale blue and while at least some of the monks' robes tried for historical accuracy most of the rest of the inmates looked as if on their way to a morning massage and bath with a couple of holes of golf in the afternoon maybe stephan sondheim could have restored some grit to the story playing up the very real conflict inside each character's reaction just five years afterwards brian would have captured the tranquil atmosphere to a t instead bert and hal david were given the job of writing the songs which marry muzak like melodies with some of the new agey lyrics ever penned quite naturally for the time every song calls for a dance number which range from the merely forgettable to the completely boring and so is the script which has not one line worth quoting br br tie ins with this movie were legion there were everything from to posters planned to promote this film and such was the hype that i actually went out and bought the album just about the only thing good i can say about it is that it made enough of an impression on me to write this review completely from memory nearly thirty years after the next month i read bought a copy of the and hence learned about real tibetan culture moan br br
0	lowe returns to the nest after yet another failed relationship to find he's been assigned to jury duty it's in the plans to somehow get out of it when he realizes the defendant is the girl he's had a serious crush on since the first grade br br through living in the past by telling other people about his feelings towards this girl played by camp lowe remembers those feelings and does everything in his power to clear camp of attempted murder while staying away from the real bad guys at the same time and succeeding in creating a successful film at the same time br br i've heard that st augustine is the oldest city in the us and i also know it has some ties to de leon so the backdrop is a good place to start unfortunately it's the only thing good about this movie the local police are inept the judge is an idiot and the defense counsel does everything in her power to make herself look like joanie cunningham i don't know whether to blame the director for poor direction or for just letting the cast put in such a hapless effort br br in short this movie was so boring i could not even sleep through it 1 out of 10 stars
0	once upon a time way back in the 1940's there lived an actress named veronica lake a beautiful talented young woman who was once in high demand for many big budget hollywood pictures fast forward to the late 1960's age alcoholism and all around bad luck has tarnished everyones favorite actress now a miss lake decides the time has come to follow in the foot steps of her peers joan crawford and bette davis and fall back on good ol' reliable horror but flesh feast really she couldn't have possibly been that washed up to put it delicately flesh feast is a lifeless pile garbage possibly one of the top 5 worst films i've ever seen and i've seen them all lake plays a scientist who is plotting with nazi's to bring hitler back to life with youth restoration experiments involving maggots that's right maggots unless you're a huge fan of heather hughes run away and never look back br br i know very little about this veronica lake person as well as 40's flicks but to think that such a successful career actually became that dismal is actually pretty sad flesh feast is almost impossible to get through and by almost i mean absolutely directed by brad director of nudist camp pictures and the man who coincidentally brought us the greatest b movie ever made blood freak just a couple years later one has to wonder is this what blood freak would have been like if hadn't co directed with steve hawkes if so then god bless steve hawkes you wouldn't think that a religious dope blood craving turkey monster could be that much better than experiments involving maggots and hitler but it really really is so forget you ever heard of this one and go find blood freak it's just waiting to entertain you fast forward a couple years later veronica lake dies of broke and forgotten the end i hate you flesh feast 1 10
0	in the 1940s veronica lake made a meteoric rise to film stardom thanks to her sultry beauty and her highly exploited hairstyle she starred opposite big names like alan ladd and march scoring screen successes in films like this gun for hire and i married a witch she held her own with female stars as well and she surprised even her detractors with her performance as a bitter navy nurse in so proudly we hail but changing times and her own failings caught up with her and by the end of the decade her heyday was over with two unsuccessful marriages behind her and two more in her future veronica headed for new york city where she made occasional television and summer stock appearances before dropping completely out of sight it was briefly big news when she was found working as a barmaid in a second rate hotel in the early sixties but by now her longtime alcoholism and years of hard living had robbed her of her looks without them public interest in her soon faded again she did return to the stage in assorted vehicles but her success was minimal eventually she relocated to miami florida where she lived in relative obscurity in 1966 she went to canada for a part in an obscure movie called footsteps in the snow which had no u s release the following year she was discovered by some industrial filmmakers who had long wanted to produce a commercial feature they approached her to star in their film time is terror and convinced her to invest in the project as one author put it if ever a movie queen suffered a terminal comedown this was it surrounded by amateur performers and pathetic production values she failed even to rise to a minimal level in this miami florida shot quickie looking utterly ordinary in long shots and luridly aged in close ups poor veronica didn't act so much as walk through her part as a deranged doctor who has hit upon a successful youth restoration formula using flesh eating maggots she looks both bored and confused her most unintentionally hilarious moment coming when she is forced to ad lib while she struggles to don a pair of rubber gloves the supporting cast is no help at all merely advancing the plot by talking it to death director brad apparently only required the actors to move while the camera was pointed at them no need for anything resembling entertainment there is admittedly one unintentionally hilarious scene involving a private detective nurse and a corpse in a wheelchair that predates at by almost 20 years according to veronica herself the film was shelved for three years because no master shots were filmed but in 1970 the production company scraped it together changed the title to flesh feast and released it to cash in on lake's just published biography and because former leading ladies such as bette davis joan crawford and olivia de havilland had unexpectedly revived their careers in horror movies this travesty was promoted as veronica's comeback film this seems a strange course of action for the filmmakers to pursue though because it's unlikely that the young audience for a horror film of this quality either knew or cared who veronica lake was as expected it did nothing for veronica's career and she died in poverty three years later a previous reviewer cites a scene in which the female detective working undercover as a nurse in the doctor's laboratory overseeing the theft of bodies from a nearby morgue enlists the help of a multi talented chauffeur to cut up the body parts poor mrs lustig she sighs i hope she doesn't mind leaving her body to science try not to think about it advises the chauffeur sawing away i guess you are right hans concludes the detective nurse what is done is done what a sad end to the career of a still fondly remembered star
0	since i was just finishing the book mrs by virginia woolf i was excited to see that it was on one of the movie channels last weekend what i encountered however is a film that was boring incomprehensible and non sensical one cannot entirely blame the film it tried the best it could with the material it had but when the source material is virginia woolf and is almost entirely written in stream of conscience style with extended periods of and little actual dialogue one would certainly think that there shouldn't be a film made from it just because a film can be made from it br br vanessa redgrave who plays the title character does not deserve any blame for the failure of this film nor do any of the other actors it is just simply a film that could not be made from the story that wrote and should not have even been attempted don't watch the movie read the book br br shelly
0	i kept waiting for the film to move me inspire me shock me me in some way but it stirred none of my emotions it just meandered along to the end none of the characters seemed very unique or complex they just seemed like actors reciting their lines i think it could have been a better movie if the characters expressed more emotion the only one who did and was believable was the veteran and he probably committed suicide just to get out of the movie as soon as he could it was a waste of talent film their time and mine if there is a message or meaning or genius in this story it certainly is well hidden or i am very dense which i doubt
0	i couldn't believe this was the same director as antonia's line br br this film has it all a boring plot disjointed flashbacks a subplot that has nothing to do with the main plot what so ever and totally uninteresting characters it was painful to watch soooo painful
0	can you say boring with a capital b it's slower than watching grass grow it's more boring than watching paint dry you'll sleep right through it we all did don't do it you'll regret it
0	i usually like period films but this one just seemed to drag and drag i'd perk up during rupert graves' scenes but vanessa redgrave just put me to sleep br br i was disappointed in the film it lacked a little punch at the end that i'd hoped it would have
0	one of the most boring pointless movies i have ever seen the title character is self centered self absorbed and wholly distasteful the secondary plot line is incomprehensible and its relation to the primary plot line is mystifying hated it
0	during filming was vanessa redgrave taking it was like she was reading from an autocue i've seen more life in a wooden spoon or perhaps that was all part of the character whatever it was very very annoying i kept wanting to shake the screen to hurry her up i read the book a long time ago didn't like much about it except that descent into madness was very well done but i don't think rupert graves showed this very well his acting was all on the surface the connection between his life and is not very well done either but i suspect the attempt is to show the sacrifice soldiers made to enable people like clarissa to continue their vapid lives the film is very bitty and has no real unity to it hated it
0	pretty twisted horror film that has a few good moments here and there with some creepy blood transfusion scenes however it's just too dull for it's own good all the characters are ok and the story while had a lot of potential is rather dull however the blood transfusion scenes looked frighteningly real and as a result they were extremely disturbing it's well made and decently written and it started out really interesting but it just couldn't keep up the pace plus i found the ending to be disappointing linnea quigley has no more then a very small role in this so i was also disappointed about that and stephen knight does a good job as the lead as he was pretty twisted plus i got this in a dvd horror set called a taste of evil along with a bunch of other horror films there is lots of blood however it's not all that gory and for it's low budget it was pretty well done however as i said it just couldn't sustain it's interest this is a pretty twisted horror film that has a few good moments here and there with some creepy blood transfusion scenes however it's just too dull for it's own good i would pass but i guess it's worth a watch if you have nothing better to do the direction is ok elly kenner norman thaddeus vane do an ok job here with decent camera work and doing a good job on it's low budget however the pace is too inconsistent for my liking the acting is actually alright stephen knight is great as the lead he was creepy twisted sick and gave a very creepy performance the most creepy thing about it though was he seemed like a normal person linnea quigley did well in her small role christopher mcdonald is ok i guess sin his short time rest of the cast are ok as well overall i would pass but i guess it's worth a watch if you have nothing absolutely better to do 1 2 out of 5
0	but unfortunately no one thought about having van killed in order to save this doomed production the only positive thing about him in the film is his nice singing voice too bad the songs are mostly insipid and sappy why did i hate van so much well throughout the film he seemed like he was doing a third rate soupy sales imitation with lots of mugging bad jokes and way too much energy spent trying to make everyone laugh the worst of these moments was when he was teaching the class these kids laughed at everything he did heck van could have read the phone book or showed them autopsy photos and they probably would have laughed now van was not the only bad casting decision in the film he was just the most obvious of course having john gielgud a lovely actor play an asian was ridiculous as well as having michael york play peter finch's brother the bottom line is that because of these insane casting choices the film was doomed from the start and the worst of them was the god awful bobby van now in real life he might have been a lovely person and it's sad that in real life he died so young but with the material they gave him here i just wanted to rip out his tongue to get him to be quiet br br now i also mentioned the songs those terrible songs the original lost horizon by frank capra was a subtle delight throughout and not a single song and dance number in the film so why did they decide to add a bazillion songs that did nothing to help the film they only served to make it seem like a gooey mess like the original doctor doolittle combined with lost horizon the end result is a sickly sweet children's movie not one that can be enjoyed by anyone over 8 br br now if you can remove these problems you have the basis of a decent film after all the plot is lovely and is still hidden beneath all the goo peter finch is particularly good though certainly not the equal of ronald colman in the original but considering that the original was a near perfect classic why bother with this sticky confection who wants to wade through the treacle br br by the way this film was included in the 50 worst films book by harry medved while i too disliked the film it wasn't bad enough to merit inclusion in the book i think it was included mostly because it was such a huge box office failure and because it was released just a few years before the book appeared an excellent book just not one of the best selections to the hallowed hall of dreck
0	intriguing premise should have been a 20 minute short that's how long it would take his biological parents to think hmm we lost one son and never found him who is about his age and he looks like our remaining son oh yes and he's a runaway hmm but no this is the most clueless family in history and the conclusion while trying to jerk tears manages only to induce more groans of disbelief
0	slaughter trail is a b western with some grand pretensions but it's come down in hollywood history for a most ignominious reason br br watching this film with it's musical score which can only be described as overbearing i have a feeling what howard hughes was trying to do is recruit a singing cowboy for rko films they already had tim holt who was as reliable a b picture cowboy hero there ever was but he was not a singer i guess hughes saw what money herbert j yates was raking in with roy rogers over at republic and decided he'd get one as well br br so terry who was a very good performer and much better song writer got recruited and sang some of his material which was not his best and worse looked like they were shoehorned into the picture but worse than that there's this annoying chorus which sang a lot of the story and frankly overwhelmed the actors extras even the horses needless to say terry never got to be a singing cowboy but he did write such classics as the bare necessities and dean martin's great hit memories are made of this br br the plot concerns an inside woman on a stagecoach jewel robbery that's right the outlaws who are gig young myron healey and ken plant virginia grey in the coach as a passenger which they receive word is carrying some valuable jewels br br it's a great act grey and young pull off young takes her away from the coach to presumably a fate worse than death and they do properly act out the scene within earshot of the passengers but what he does is slip her the swag last place the authorities might look if she doesn't run off with it br br but when they flee the robbery it's on tired horses so they stop at a cabin to take some replacement mounts and shoot three navajos who object that puts the navajos back on the warpath didn't help that one of the casualties was chief ric roman's brother br br that's the situation that captain brian donlevy at the fort has to deal with when the coach and the outlaws arrive there for protection how it all works out is predictable but in a gaudy sort of overproduced way br br in fact that's the problem with slaughter trail it's a simple no frills b western that got souped up into something almost grotesque br br but the real reason slaughter trail entered into history is that this film apparently marks the official beginning of the blacklist originally howard dasilva was to play part and may have in fact completed his scenes when howard hughes officially fired him for communist sympathies his scenes were completely re shot with brian donlevy in the lead br br considering what a fiasco this film turned into i'm not sure whether donlevy or dasilva ought to have thanked hughes or kicked him in his private preserve
0	hilariously inept like she wore a yellow ribbon remade by five year olds br br spoilers ahead despite its title and the high bodycount slaughter trail is in fact a musical with injun battles instead of dance numbers br br if you ever wondered what ed wood might have done with a b movie budget this film should answer your question some decisions may have been bad only in retrospect such as filming in the short lived process which resulted in faces changing hue within the same shot but there was definitely some ill advised skimping on the film's main set a cavalry fort that seems to be partly a norman castle br br terry who later wrote the 'the bare for disney's the jungle book supplies a score full of original ditties which would have been wonderful for a cartoon but which fit western action like a fuzzy slipper stuck in a one song tells how horse hooves pound and their melody sounds like the serenade during a dead serious scene of a cavalry patrol other songs literally narrate the story shot by shot introducing characters describing their moods and gestures as they happen on screen and even stop to advertise the process br br the script sends ferocious navajos on the warpath to avenge the killing of two of their band by an outlaw trio by the end of the film what looks like a hundred navajos and have bitten the dust thanks to repeated footage of the same characters dying over and over but the chief is satisfied once he sees the trio of badguys have been slain as the singer helpfully informs those of us who weren't paying attention the navajos ride away their battle called off the cavalry captain surrounded by the corpses of his fallen comrades waves his appreciation br br the direction could most charitably be described as wooden or more to the point wood en navajos are consistently shot off their horses in pairs never just one virtually every red man on foot dies by throwing his hands in the air and keeling over the film also employs the most cautious stuntmen in hollywood who crouch before dropping off a one story roof and still fail to stick the landing or turn to look behind them as they slide dead down a rocky slope br br the star is brian donlevy who surely deserves an oscar for not blushing after the endless final battle scene climax is scarcely the word he scans a list of the dozens of his troopers killed and shrugs it could've been a lot worse trooper andy devine gets to sing and robber murderer gig young laughs at andy's antics which leads a character who had been held up by masked bandits to rat gig out i'd know that laugh anywhere br br and lest anyone forget just what a nasty piece of work howard hughes could be recall that as head of rko hughes was first in line to blacklist original star howard da silva when huac denounced him it would take hughes another six years to finish running that once celebrated studio into the ground but it didn't help things when he insisted on da every scene for this film substituting donlevy br br it was nearly a decade before da silva was able to work in hollywood again but all things considered for getting him out of slaughter trail he should have sent hughes a thank you note
0	anyone who knows anything about evolution wouldn't even need to see the film to say fake it's never been disproved also is a weak argument saying the universe was created by a giant hippo cannot be disproved although to be fair it does seem like the only people who do believe are the same people who open email attachments from people they don't know or give their bank details to a dude in no bones of any primates are have been found in the united states or canada there is also a good reason why legitimate scientists don't bother studying this the same argument goes for the loch ness monster ghosts and god
0	i saw this movie years about 8 years ago when it first came out and the only memories that i have about it are 1 that it was awful 2 that in one scene linnea quigley applies suntan lotion to her arms and legs repeatedly for about 15 minutes straight it seemed that long anyways 3 one scene where a character gets a sledgehammer rammed into his head in this scene when the hammer connects the head smashes like glass it's quite bad
0	this movie is a bad movie but after watching an endless series of bad horror movies i can say that it is a little different from many i have seen not in the plot which is a fairly regular slasher story but more the way the scenes are cut murder weapon gives us a lot of inane dialogue scenes but they go on for a lot longer than in most movies of this type because of this some of the victims seem slightly less like cardboard cut outs just slightly i had a difficult time figuring out exactly what was happening at the beginning and kept wondering if certain events were dream sequences my favorite scene is when two guys are on the run from the killer and take refuge in a car in the glove compartment they find a handgun thank you god one of them happily exclaims that guy's head suddenly looks like a head and it went on for just enough time for me to wonder what is that where is that mannequin in relation to the two guys in the car then boom the head explodes and i figured out that it was supposed to be one of the guys in the car getting his head shot off with a shotgun i love that scene but the movie is a very bad movie 3 10
0	a pig tailed linnea quigley drinks milk strips and kills her sister and her sister's boyfriend after they have sex she goes to an asylum makes a best friend out of amy karen russell and the two blackmail their way out of a mental institution by sleeping with their psychologists one is played by carol burnett show regular lyle waggoner on the outside these two man hating mafia princesses stop taking their medication and invite six slimeball ex boyfriends over to their large country home for a party where they're systematically slaughtered in very gory ways by a gloved leather clad mystery killer br br the hideous david barton fx are so bloody but so unrealistic that they take on a sort of surrealistic quality same goes for the movie the dialogue is so strange and stilted the film so ineptly paced and edited and the acting so other worldly you'll start to doubt your own sanity this film actually attempts to have a plot and three dimensional characters but it's all so poorly handled it's almost like what would happen if ed wood did a rewrite of an ingmar bergman script and like any good bergman film this has a mature moral to abide by any good party needs a proper guy girl ratio so there will be enough chicks to tickle your lizard see it for yourself or don't br br linnea the only reason i was even interested in watching this to begin with is very amusing in this one has a lot more dialogue than usual and has several eye popping nude scenes unfortunately she also completely disappears from the final third of this film and the movie suffers because of it br br score 3 out of 10
0	preposterous twaddle executed in a bewilderingly amateurish and inept way or perhaps several since the incredible lack of continuity tone realism plausibility suspense and much more combine with walter attempts at charm to produce a cinema curiosity to rank with some of fritz lang's other stupendous failures i thought the german ambassador was actually played by lang but apparently not they could have been twins if you cannot predict the ending from several away you are not actually alive br br i was eagerly awaiting this dvd and was totally surprised and disappointed by such dire crap even with george sanders and john carradine maybe i can wash my mind out by watching in italia instead and for the umpteenth time br br anyone want a dvd used once there may be a movie to be made about the making of this atrocious film and how so many talented people could be wasted so completely
0	essentially a undistinguished b movie that mysteriously is directed by one of the golden era's major talents fritz lang even with the stellar names of lang walter pidgeon joan bennett and george sanders be prepared for a ludicrous storyline bad acting patently phony sets and miscasting for transparency sake i have to admit i am an ardent non admirer of walter pidgeon who was lucky to have found a niche at the artificial dream factory of mgm and somehow worked in secondary roles supporting greer garson and others he is wildly miscast acting in a chipper '30s ray milland madcap comedy tone in a role where his life is in danger and he is in hiding joan bennett's cockney accent is excessive but her lacquered hair perfect makeup and classy outfit belies a street wise cockney slum girl george sanders is incapable of bad acting but disappears after the preposterous opening finds pidgeon somehow pretending to shoot adolph hitler surprising for fritz lang is the unevenness of tone i found the film wavered uneasily between occasional moments of suspense thriller surrounded by light hearted comedic interplay hitchcock totally reversed the ratio using comic relief to occasionally pace the suspense there is a reason this film is unknown it didn't serve or propel anybody's career or reputation and is forgotten because it's a surprisingly bad film from such a group
0	disappointing film with walter pidgeon as a hunter who goes to germany to assassinate hitler when he is discovered he is coerced into signing a document stating that he acted on orders from england his refusal to sign the document brings us to the plot of the film br br pidgeon is pursued back to england by the evil george sanders and his cohort john carradine who speaks little but is again as always the embodiment of wickedness personified br br along the way of being pursued pidgeon meets up with joan bennett the latter displaying a wonderful cockney accent br br the story gets bogged down somewhat as love develops between the two but again as we approach world war 11 realism becomes the object of the day br br the near ending scene in the cave between sanders and pidgeon is nicely realized but we know where that arrow is going to go to br br very interesting that while pidgeon is fleeing nazi germany he meets up again with a young roddy mcdowall one of many co stars that same year in the memorable how green was my valley how green was man hunt
0	i was an extra on this film in the part shot at the airport in the first 15 minutes or so i was one of the fleeing mostly mexican refugees running across the at ryan field in tucson at one point standing around in our turbans as we waited for another shot one of my fellow extras turned to me asked me what the move was going to be about i told him it was going to be a remake of lost horizons only as a musical there was a long pause then he replied man this movie is gonna suck pretty perceptive of him i thought i had a good time and made a bit of money but even with some interesting personal memories attached to this movie i can't sit through the whole thing br br if you ever saw the movie the swarm you can pretty much get the idea you get to see a lot of famous and talented people wasted on an an idea that on the face of it is just bad the idea seemed to be that if you throw enough money at a movie and hire enough big names then a good story and good writing aren't necessary just turn the big crank and out comes the product it's just not worth watching
0	i am assuming that the rave reviews on this page were from people who have never read the book unfortunately for those of us who love the text hollywood outdid itself on destroying this one br br i am not sure where on earth the woman love interest came from except that she replaced the cat nor why our rogue male acquired a helpful family back in blighty in fact the vast majority of the book has been cut out and replaced with your standard cruddy love story the ambiguity about which world leader was in his sights was removed completely and our rogue was given a name neither of these appeared until the second book br br i gave it a 2 rather than a 1 simply because of the wonderfully bad cockney accents joan bennett outdoes dick van dyke in mary poppins by miles and this goes a tiny way towards saving it br br ah well brits should probably avoid this trust me
0	the book gets 10 out of 10 stars br br probably contains spoilers of both the book and the movie br br if you've never read geoffrey household's rogue male the source material for man hunt you'll likely enjoy fritz lang's treatment of the story on the other hand if you're in my camp and have practically memorized the book the movie will be a crashing disappointment i'll assume you've already read a synopsis of the story and proceed to my complaints household's little novel is one of the all time great suspense classics taut and spare with only a bare handful of characters to propel the action fritz lang and his screen writer dudley nichols feel the need to throw in the protagonist's brother and a sympathetic floozy the latter of which reduces the depth of the story by injecting an motivation into the screenplay where the novel needed none in fact the true climax of the book was not the nameless narrator's escape from his underground lair but rather his self acceptance of his true motive for going on his hunt in the first place and that's another thing if david fincher and quentin tarantino can get us all the way through fight club and kill bill 1 without revealing the names of their respective protagonists why can't lang what hat did they pull that out of which brings me to my complaint household's hunter is so quintessentially british he would bleed a union jack if you cut him but walter pigeon who plays him is canadian he can barely sustain the accent which is only slightly deeper and more convincing that kevin costner's in robin hood he looked about right in the role and was a fine actor for the 1940s but as rogue male's reluctant hero let's look to the isle itself for a more convincing version remake soon with subtlety and with please i'll direct it for
0	where do we start with an offering like this i nearly said film but that would be going a step too far the only thing hellish about this film is that it is certainly a marriage made in hell between nothing and nonsense baloney and these films should carry a physiological health warning so as not to damage one's spirit to the point where one might believe that all good film makers have left the planet and their resources have been handed to the dunderheads who have make this classic piece of trite garbage just like it's sister in arms league of extraordinary twaddle they are neither science fiction nor fact entertaining nor thought provoking humorous nor weighty but lay in a twilight zone devoid of any and all that entice people to give up their valuable time sit in a darkened room and generally be more enlightened enlivened or happy at the end of it if we could award turkey points for films like this this would be a turnip as we would gone through the turkey ham potatoes sprouts gravy and all other embellishments before reaching rock bottom
0	hellboy revolves around classic comic book action superhero genre story lines essentially hellboy is a kind of demon who has found his way on earth he is brought up from a child by a priest and within a government society and has chosen to protect the people of earth from the supernatural rather then be a menace the normal career route for a demon br br the set up of the story involves creative uses of history combining nazi experiments with the occult it's preposterous but so is the whole idea of a demon roaming the streets i find the explanations of the characters who they are and how they came to be very well handled the sequences are to the point and very entertaining in fact the opening is the best part of the film therein lays the br br essentially del toro who both writes and directs this piece bottles it the film is absent of all tension or any major conflict hellboy is essentially established as invincible within the first act and so the rest of the film comprises of scenes in which any conflict is automatically rather crass because we know inevitably hellboy will be ok and the bad guy will die i hear you cry that this is the case for any action hero film well yes it is but once we are drawn into a well made action film we can't help but feel the hero may die die hard works because john looks likely to die at all parts he escapes death by the of margins the stakes are raised as his wife is also in danger etc etc… terminator and terminator two work because in both cases the villain is far superior than the hero the threat and tension is constant br br some of the other major weaknesses are del toro is also guilty of employing deus ex machina characters generally disappear and reappear as their skills are needed within the story the villain is featured in maybe three scenes he has no motives turns up unexpectedly and inexplicably in the one scene hellboy looks to be up against a real threat groups of monsters a character unleashes her abilities the screen fades to white and inexplicably the monsters are dead but everybody else lives a minor character established in an irritating and undeveloped love story becomes the key to the conclusion of the film her character is so thin the relationship so undeveloped it is clear she is nothing more than a prop of sorts to push the plot along and to make it all make sense i don't want to ruin the ending of the film but essentially a character that is dead is miraculously and unbelievably brought back to br br the film suffers from poor dialogue and one liners that just aren't smart or funny after a while it all starts to grate br br what's more del toro blows the action scenes with some uninspired visuals and whoever made the creative decision to make primary weapon a gun instead of his clunking arm should be fired essentially the use of the gun weakens the concept of the film degrading the fights to nothing more than a one sided shoot out br br the few positives include the cinematography is very good at all times a sense of mood is established by the dark lighting and the darker colour palette as well as the use of interesting locations yet perhaps it is all a bit samey as well br br the use of cgi and fx is well done never do we get an over load when effects are used they are used well and the sense of realism is kept rather similar to how nolan used fx in batman i much prefer this method to the effects we often see br br all in all this is a pretty poor film the real shame is that despite not reading the comics i found the film wasted a lot of potential hellboy as a character has a lot of instantly apparent fascinating dimensions which are completely unexplored the film has watch ability in the sense that if it comes on tv and nothing else is on it might be worth a viewing but in any other situation i wouldn't bother with it
0	we sought out this hard to find vhs after watching two excellent merchant ivory pictures back to back knowing it was an instant box office failure a failure as a rental i thought it might be worth seeing anyway based on m i's reputation too bad nine years ago it was very much a liberal agenda objective to trash the founding fathers and indeed they had some success in eradicating the founding fathers from many american classrooms including for example new jersey whose eradication of our great founders quickly ended when the washington times shone the spotlight of truth into the nj school board and their subversive deed a small part of this was headlining the alleged sally hemmings thomas jefferson connection disregarding the inconvenient dna findings which failed to support the wacky agenda never mind they got james ellis an author of dubious reputation to put it in a book and columbia university sealed the deal by giving ellis a pulitzer br br as to jefferson in paris the liberal agenda spin begins in the opening scene wherein james earl jones is claiming to be the son of jefferson the spin simply continues in flashback mode to paris the unmistakable truth is that even if a person assumes the lie is true the hemmings allegation would be an insignificant detail into the larger matter of prolonged and vital diplomatic mission to paris as well as to the netherlands where he secured crucial financial backing for america when our infant nation was without funds br br besides the liberal spin job there is nothing else of interest in this drab and tortuously dull movie some of the other history is indeed accurate adding credence to frame the lie but this movie takes one of the most interesting moments in american history and reduces it to a remedy for insomnia br br please do not ask me why liberals set out to trash the founding fathers because i don't waste time explaining the acts of such people don't ask them either they usually respond to such questions with the same answer shut up
0	even though this film's trailer and poster imply that sally hemmings was an important character i might not have been as shocked to discover she was just a minor and i do mean minor character if this movie was suppose to being told by sally's very own family i mean if you are going to tell the story of a member of your family that has been ignored by history would you really tell it with the man who relegated her to obscurity at the main character his other lover who happens to be white as the actual love interest i know i wouldn't i am as pale as they come and normally a big fan of ivory flicks but i couldn't stomach this film's treatment of poor sally hemmings
0	i looked forward to spending part of my independence day weekend watching a good film about jefferson this film was not it it was rather long drawn out dull and unbalanced too much time was spent exploring relationship with and not enough time was spent on his relationship with sally hemmings the lady who played sally thandie newton was absolutely awful her acting was so bad it was like watching an a1 airhead trying to recite shakespeare her constant whining voice grated the nerves nolte's accent made jefferson sound like an ignorant man rather than a genius relationship with his daughters and their feelings on slavery was also underdeveloped yet his eldest daughter's rebellion patsy is a key event late in the film the film was too long and the script lacked energy and excitement on the positive side the costumes were quite beautiful and greta scacchi played the part of well if you want to watch a film about the revolutionary era and or jefferson then watch it's much better than jefferson in paris
0	jefferson in paris is a truly confounding film it presents thomas jefferson nick nolte in the most unflattering light possible painting him as a liar racist and pedophile yet offers not a shred of condemnation for those sins this is the way he was the film seems to say end of sentence end of movie the door's behind you br br after arriving in paris with his daughter patsy paltrow jefferson proceeds to win the heart of maria greta scacchi the wife of a homosexual english painter the criminally underused simon callow a turn of events sends maria to england however and jefferson proceeds to forget her with astonishing speed for a man who mere minutes of screen time before was asking her to live with him in america br br he's been bewitched you see by sally hemmings thandie newton one of his slaves just arrived from america just why he's bewitched is hard to tell although sally is undeniably beautiful she acts like a simple minded child in front of jefferson when she isn't telling ghost stories in exaggerated speech patterns she's slinking around his bedroom practically oozing lust for her distinguished br br if her behavior is an attempt to excuse it doesn't work jefferson damns himself further when maria tired of waiting for his letters travels from england to see him i've not changed toward you he insists offering weak excuses for not writing to her credit maria sees through his brazen lies immediately when sally appears and she and jefferson flirt openly and cruelly to my mind in maria's very presence the illusion falls apart completely br br no one today believes that jefferson washington and the rest were utter of virtue and morality yet are we supposed to believe that the learned distinguished jefferson would be attracted to sally a woman whose most intelligent conversation is about how frenchie friends aw corn and who rubs herself against his front as she passes right before maria's eyes br br even if we let that slide it's followed by the horrifying revelation that sally was only 15 when this affair took place jefferson was 41 strangely this fact comes out only toward the very end when sally's brother james is furious at her blase announcement that she is carrying child br br jefferson is equally blase when told that sally is carrying his child and tells her that she'd be far better off under his protection than free and living in france with her brother but he promises i'll free her when i die and our children including any more that come jefferson says in a chilling declaration of sally as his when they reach 21 oh thank you you feel like telling the screen big deal br br the worst scene is still to come however involving daughter patsy she is already angry at him first for breaking his vow made to her mother on her deathbed not to marry again obviously the woman wasn't just talking about matrimony jefferson has also refused to allow patsy to become a nun as she wishes despite earlier moralizing about freedom of religion that seems to mean freedom to agree with him br br having promised sally and her brother their freedom jefferson calls in patsy to witness the bargain and promise to fulfill it should anything happen to him sally's brother blurts out the impending birth of the child and jefferson asks do you swear paltrow's performance in this scene is brilliant although she has almost nothing to say her face nearly contorts in agonizing pain at this revelation yet she controls her grief and whispers yes br br if anything and the filmmakers could have had something if they'd emphasized this point more jefferson in paris is an indication of the status of woman in the late 18th century viewed even by men like jefferson as attractive property pleasing but without true intellect or souls we see jefferson shed a few tears over a letter from maria obviously telling him where to get off but he's soon laughing away at a wild dance from sally complete with tossed hair and heaving bosom br br i don't know whether this is an accurate portrait of jefferson or not i don't care to watch it however just for the sake of watching it this jefferson is no hero or even an anti hero he's a selfish lying child and one who gets away with it not the kind of man i want to see a movie about
0	the lavish production values that you generally find in a merchant ivory film are all here but this is an exceedingly dull take on what could have been a very lively affair i agree with an earlier poster that it makes no sense for the story to be unfolding through the eyes of an african american family and yet their own ancestor sally hemmings has barely a role to play in the proceedings there is not much clarity to be found in helping the audience understand the motivations of any of these historical figures and i was very bothered by the accents of a number of the characters nancy marchand sounded very british for what one assumes is a french nun and both gwyneth paltrow and greta scacchi seemed to be trying out different accents in various scenes in fact gwyneth is very poorly served in this biopic her role as thomas daughter martha is written in such a manner that we never get a handle on who she really is one moment she is slapping a slave and another moment she's the whole system of slavery nick nolte performs the role well enough but doesn't ever make us truly care for jefferson or any of his exploits very disappointing all in all
0	a day in the life of a dimwitted cab driver sometime around christmas the cab driver picks up a fare they have a interlude he drops off the fare he picks up another fare another interlude and so it goes on like this for 90 friggin' minutes none of it convincing or interesting for even one minute skip it
0	to remake lost horizon as a musical the need for a rodgers hammerstein or lerner lowe type musical composition was needed burt bacharach and hal david were the wrong choice having said that my favorite thing about lost horizon is its score it's just that the score doesn't fit the piece the cast is made up of mostly non musical talents ullman finch and hussey were all dubbed and still don't sound all that great br br frankly the novella on which this and the earlier non musical film versions were based is mediocre at best while the possibilities for a truly good cinematic musical version exist they are not realized here the film succeeds at being a good rainy day vehicle to pass the time otherwise you are better off buying the cd of its soundtrack only recommended as a curiosity piece due to the film's awful reputation i've seen much better but i've seen much worse
0	if you have ever wanted to know more about cab drivers then this is an excellent movie to watch for informational purposes only i can just hear it now wait just wait a second why don't we follow a cab driver through his entire day are funny and so are the people they meet and they only talk to each other for just a couple of minutes so the other actors should be cheap harry you take care of production joan you've got materials brian you go round up some actors and we'll all meet back here tomorrow to start filming br br the first 90 of the movie could not have been any worse had that very thing happened at least with no planning whatsoever there is always the element of surprise to be found some of jim carrey's movies have stuff added as they go along and they always do well at the box offices the problem here is that the first 90 is pretty well scripted out and it pretty much sucks paul dillon plays the cab driver in chicago who is working all day we pretty much see what he sees people get in and out of his car and he drives all around town he talks to those people for a few seconds and then we get some more people br br i'll admit there were a couple of funny bits here and there a religious family tries to talk the cab driver into going to church with them he takes a pregnant lady and her husband to the hospital breaks up a rich businessman from his girlfriend a poor girlfriend from her boyfriend and takes a rape victim home i guess the moral of the movie is that a cab driver is more than a cab driver and has a larger sphere of influence over the lives of his passengers than you might originally think for some people he's just a means of getting from here to there but for others his very ordinary words help change the direction of their lives br br the last passenger of the day is used to try make sense of the rest of the movie and to a small extent it succeeds it had a bit of that deathbed repentance feel to it where the good majority of the movie sucks and then at the very end it tries to make it all better in just one or two changes i wasn't too impressed with the movie as a whole but there were a few bits and pieces worth watching again as far as the actors go paul dillon is it john cusack gillian anderson and julianne moore are all in this for about 30 seconds each but don't watch this for any of them or you will most certainly be disappointed i will give the other people some credit that it's not your ordinary movie they have produced here but it wasn't a very good one either there just wasn't enough material to keep you going for an hour and a half it was a decent effort but it failed none the same
0	i don't know if i hate this movie as much as i did when i watched it two weeks ago but if you're expecting the events described on the box forget it that would have been a good movie the great descent described on the box is nothing compared to the descent into utter that i took viewing this movie if you've seen hbo's taxi cab confessions this is the same thing only fictional and not even remotely as interesting if you really want to see something interesting about a cab driver check out the 20 minute short they run on encore from time to time it is actually worth watching i have never ever asked for my money back for a movie until i saw this thing boring boring boring it does offer one unique trait which is this it leaves you to decide what happens to each of the passengers letting your imagination fill in the gaps which would be great if you actually cared about any of these people instead i found myself yelling at the screen weeping like a child praying for either the end of the movie or my own death the cab driver himself though well played considering runs through emotions seemingly at random from sarcastic to sympathetic to raging lunatic to apathetic sometimes it is appropriate most of the time it's just a display for it's own sake dammit i learned all these emotions in acting class and i'm gonna use them now that i've been thinking about it again i do hate this movie as much as i did
0	the girl in lovers' lane 3 out of 10 homoerotic subtext in the movies is a well known phenomenon plenty of dissertations have come out of film schools about the hidden subtexts in such films as top gun and spartacus the girl in lane certainly fits the homoerotic trope in fact it is so blatant and over the top even mst3k whom rarely notes such things in their riffing simply cannot avoid it br br the film is about two drifters one a rich kid lowell brown running away from home with a hundred dollars and no street smarts the other is a professional hobo brett halsey the hobo saves the kid from a gang of thugs and they end up in a small town consisting of a diner a pool hall and a whorehouse our drifter scholar gets a second look from the waitress joyce meadows as the titular girl in lovers lane who clearly is past the age of being and whose only other prospect is creepy jack elam doing a steve buscemi impression br br on the surface this seems like a strange film for the mst3k treatment while the cast are to old for the characters they are playing the acting is actually pretty good with both brett halsey and jack elam giving solid performances the story is slight but hardly the robot vs aztec mummy material and the production values are cheap back lot but relatively competent br br it is the strange batman and his ward homosexual undercurrents that make this film both awful and hilarious over the top objections to the kids attempts to get laid in the whorehouse are hilarious his inability to commit to the waitress or at the least get past first base are telling and the dozens of glances between him and the kid a hand on shoulder the sleeping arrangements blowing off dates with the girl so he and the kid can shave each other you have to be freud to figure out this undercurrent
0	i have noticed that a lot of films that have been featured on mystery science theater have received a tons of low ratings on imdb however a few of the films featured on the films weren't that bad and it's not fair to rate a film that's been given the mst treatment with the hosts making funny comments during the film now i am not saying that the girl in lover's lane is a great film but it's not nearly bad enough to merit its current imdb score of 2 1 br br the film begins with and danny meeting is a veteran drifter and danny a younger guy who seems to have no particular reason to be wandering about the country once they blow into a small town needs to rescue danny again and again because danny is quite naive a nice way of saying he has the intellect of a tomato br br along the way something happens to the self assured he finds a nice young lady and finds the lure of staying put pulling at him and in an odd subplot jack elam plays a super creepy sicko who wanders the town scaring the crap out of everyone yet oddly the police don't seem to take much notice nor does anyone on their own do anything about him ultimately however when elam puts the moves on a girl who is falling for things come to a full boil br br overall while not at all a great film there were many interesting plot elements in this film enough to merit a score higher than 2 1 the biggest negatives are a simplistic conclusion to the mystery that occurs near the end as well as the total stupidity of danny one time too often considering the minuscule budget however it's a watchable little film
0	okay for the most part and all its cheesiness this movie was actually pretty good for an mst3k flick but then they decided to ruin what little goodness it had about fifteen minutes before the ending spoiler alert the film is very basic a rich mama's boy named danny meets a bum named and the two of them travel to a small town where meets a pretty girl named carrie who is so very now this film's basic premise seemed promising enough all they needed to do was follow the simple chemistry of any romance movie carrie loves loves carrie a creepy guy in town lusts for carrie now i know what you're thinking fights the creep and ultimately decides to settle down with carrie and danny returns home and they all live happily ever after right wrong because carrie gets murdered by the town creep because is too gay to commit there are so many homosexual undertones between danny and and then the whole town decides to lynch even though the town creep would've easily been the prime suspect then the town creep confesses to killing carrie without much hesitation must've felt bad the poor dope then danny brings home with him that's the film's happily ever after sad huh all i can say is thank god for joel and the bots because they turned this horse hockey into one of my favorite mst3k episodes
0	the girl in lovers lane is one strange little low budget film on its surface the movie tells the story of a tough drifter named brett halsey who spends his time looking out for a young kid named danny lowell brown and the girl carrie joyce meadows that meets who would like to look out for him nothing overly interesting happens goes out with carrie gets danny out of trouble carrie's father drinks a lot etc until about 10 minutes to go in the movie when carrie is murdered her father blames pulls him out of a jail cell and just about beats him to death now their roles are reversed and danny has to save br br until i read the reviews on imdb i thought that maybe it was just me reading more into and danny's relationship than was really there but i see now that i'm not alone it was quite obvious to me early on that and danny had more of a relationship than you usually see in a movie from 1959 the homosexual nature of their relationship while never openly expressed is still quite obvious their living and sleeping arrangements reaction to finding danny in bed with a prostitute inability to commit to carrie and that phone call at the end when danny tells his parents he's brining home a friend are a few examples of moments that lead to the inevitable conclusion that there's more to their relationship than initially meets the eye i'm sure they exist but i can't think of any movies i've seen from the 50s that scream homosexual quite as loudly as this one br br as for the movie i don't know any other way to put this – it's boring as i wrote earlier nothing much at all happens for 90 of the run time the characters are dull and the actors aren't good enough to give the girl in lovers lane much of a spark the lone exception is jack elam his crazy jesse is the one character interesting enough to be worth watching elam had creepy down pat but i guess the biggest problem i had with the movie was with character motivation and logic carrie is killed and is immediately blamed what about crazy jesse who has been stalking carrie for probably her whole life anyone think to ask jesse where he was that night her father has seen him bother carrie at the diner yet he never considers that the leering jesse might have something to do with his daughter's death not a lot of logic there and what about jesse's confession danny grabs jesse by the lapel and this is all it takes to force a confession out of jesse real tough guy huh why would he confess so easily and after he confesses no one thinks to grab him it's awfully nice of jesse just to stay put and not run off in any other reality he would have never spilled his guts and would have run like a rabbit if he had been fingered for the murder the fact that the girl in lovers lane asks me to accept these ridiculous actions on the part of the characters is something i'm not willing to do overall i'm giving the girl in lovers lane a 4 10
0	a young man named danny has run away from home and meets a drifter named who agrees to tag along with danny and watch out for him and his money they end up in a small town where they meet carrie a shy naive girl working in her father's diner starts seeing carrie but he plans on leaving soon because he's a drifter see he's no good understand meanwhile the town creep jesse played by a perfectly casted jack elam keeps showing up at the diner and bothering carrie danny keeps inadvertently picking up whores left and right because he's loaded with money – he has almost a hundred dollars whom has to constantly chase away there are a lot of ambiguously gay overtones between danny and in this flick eventually and danny decide to leave town but trouble is a brewing due to jesse the creep br br my review of the movie itself a terrible dated troubled youth flick from the '50s br br my review of the mst3k version of the movie i've got to say that this is one of the best episodes of mst3k ever the riffing is dead on all the time except for the somewhat downbeat ending this movie is easy material for joel and the bots especially danny's constant screw ups that has to rescue him from the host segments are pretty good too especially the segment with the train song ' hopefully rhino releases this episode to home video one day
0	this one is one of those classic b movie following the exploits of 2 hobos it's done really cheesily and big stupid running off one liners like a cardboard cassanova but jack elam steals every scene he's in as the creepazoid jesse now jerome my favorite scene is the lynch mob and the dad's voice going up 10 octaves you loved her danny big protege is surprisingly stupider but not as loathsome as our lead star there's also a quaint scene of a guy pimping at the diner joyce meadows is the sweet naive nice gal and probably the least annoying and those yellow oh and booze is evil according to mr stupid br br this movie's a hoot watch the mst cover of this and terrific elam homage
0	here is a movie that was so pedestrian for 90 of it that it had no right to become so challenging and frustrating at the end did the director decide to become auteur suddenly 80 through the making of this movie yeesh spoiler alert thing start out typically enough for 50's youth gone wild there are drifters good girls bad girls gangs the kindly old diner manager and the town creep things follow the expected path until about 15 minutes before the end when the only likable character is killed off and the anti hero is blamed this would not be so unexpected if this were the main plot of the movie but all this stuff starts happening and during the final reel major curve ball then things get weird the kindly old codger forms a mob and beats the hero to a bloody pulp the mere presence of the hero's friend somehow drags a confession out of the real killer the leering creepy town nut which in any real universe he'd have been the prime suspect to begin with even if the anti hero was found with her body br br we're left with a somewhat feeble happy ending which is about as out of character with the rest of the movie as the events of the 10 minutes preceding it br br even more odd is this film's insistence on playing homosexual innuendo to the hilt but constantly presenting the two male leads as straight maybe this was on purpose perhaps resistance to settling down with the girl was more because of his sexuality which in the 50s would have to be kept quite repressed and thus not discussed or even admitted by him than his need to be a drifter if the director's intent was to spin this as a sexual yarn that the drifter drifts because he feels he's an outcast sexually that his paternal regard towards danny is not in fact paternal but spousal that his inability to remain with carrie is rooted in a sexual revulsion that even he does not quite understand it could have been made more clear instead we get this very bizarre alchemy of homoeroticism and behavior that is completely heterosexual br br these young men sleep next to each other even when they can get some room to spread out when danny is propositioned and once even in bed with a woman flips out and takes him away danny pays way sure there is another explanation for it but it still strikes a chord every time you see danny buy lunch they end up living together at the end not since hitchcock's rope has homosexuality been so blatant but denied br br mst3k did the right thing by taking this one on aside from jack elam there is little to commend the film
0	it is a shame that a movie with such a good cinematography as this one had no plot to be supported by the work of sarah cawley cinematography and adam film editing and above all no sense of what goes on in mexico city the movie tries to be a very realistic depiction of life in city but it is unable to do it it is a shame a lot of film wasted an american woman tries to find her brother who has been the first account of the story is powerful and interesting very realistic but it seems that there was no effort to come with a better narrative of the ordeal especially when it comes to the issue of the attitudes of the us embassy personnel in mexico city when dealing with an issue like this one compare as an example with frantic 1988 which deals with a similar issue something similar can be said of the role of local authorities compare as an example with todo el poder 1999 the movie is worth watching if you want to get a sense of the looks of the city itself paying little or no attention to the rather weak plot and the many twists that require a rather extensive suspension of disbelief who is going to believe that a mexican patrol from mexico city is going to go all the way to catch the main characters to the mexico us border and that this policeman is going to be able to use its radio from the border to mexico city only the producers of this movie it is worth mentioning that unlike frida and other movies about mexico at least in these one mexicans talk spanish
0	this movie would have been alright indeed probably excellent if the directors would have left the interviews and the concert footage separate into the void is a great song and i hate how it is cut off at the best part to go to an mumbling interview with ozzy osbourne that should have been at the end of the film or located in a special feature the best part of concert dvds is to put them on and let the music play but black sabbath the last supper is hard to put and and simply let play because the music is continually interrupted nevertheless there are a few strengths to this film the concert footage when it does play it excellent black sabbath returns to the stage after a long hiatus without osbourne and this film captures that well sabbath basically rocks the fans the fans of course have a sweet advantage in the film because they are seeing the band live of course but also they do not have to put up with the incessant interviews that the dvd viewers are burdened with shame on jeb and monica hardiman the directors for doing this to the film also shame on wyatt smith for editing the film in such a way
0	nicodemus is almost a copy of red in the odd behavior sense but this episode focuses on other people in clark unpredictable life when a poisonous flower finds it's way into smallville jonathan kent is the first to be effected by it the flower causes people to reverse their behavior and when it effects jonathan he becomes short tempered and violent however clark manages to stop him from doing anything rash until his father finally passes out okay so far so good next up is lana the episode was good up to that point for the flower causes her to attempt seducing clark at the last moment he refuses her but the damage has already been done this episode causes the wrong impressions and isn't suitable for people under the age of twenty due to it's adult content the first part was good the last part focusing on the effect the flower has on pete was good but the middle that was all about alternate personality was most defiantly not and that ruined what could have been a brilliant episode i give this episode two
0	stick around is one of the brief series of films that paired bobby ray with oliver 'babe' hardy before hardy's immortal teaming with stan laurel several critics have suggested that ray and hardy the gormless little man and the overbearing big man were a prototype for laurel and hardy but that simply isn't true ray and hardy play off each other well but really aren't a team in each of these films ray has more footage and is clearly meant to be the hero while hardy bullies him in a manner very much unlike his later ollie character's treatment of stanley it's very clear that the relationship between little bobby and big babe was inspired by earlier chaplin films in which the little tramp was bullied by huge mack swain or burly eric campbell br br however in stick around hardy sports a bowler hat that's identical to his later ollie although with a fuller moustache and he and bobby after spending most of this movie as adversaries end up as drunken comrades br br bobby is a for the firm of and with hardy as his boss when the bobby tries to pretend he showed up promptly there's some clever physical business between the two men that reminds me of a routine performed by roscoe arbuckle and buster keaton in 'the a bit later bobby ray whose brief acting career never firmly developed a screen persona performs an impossible gag that would have been inappropriate for stan laurel when he pulls a long out of a much smaller br br the go to work in a sanitarium and there are the usual unrealistic depictions of mental illness one resident insists on sitting on a piece of toast because he thinks he's a egg there are also some howlingly racist and tastelessly unfunny gags involving a black man who obligingly lets the inmates crack open walnuts on top of his head when he sees a picture of a lion not even a photograph mind you he goes all cowardly as if it were an actual wild animal br br stick around is fairly dire most of the pantomime and acting is much broader than it needs to be for a slapstick comedy even hardy already a very subtle actor by 1925 badly with his over acting here there are several bad examples of shot matching i was impressed with one unusual camera set up when a fat face is and we see a close up of his reflection in a hand mirror rather than his actual face br br spoilers coming during their brief pairing hardy typically played ray's boss or adversary or both here for once they end up as pals it's a nice ending but it doesn't make up for what's really a poor film my rating for this one is only 4 out of 10
0	this film is terrible not only is the story unbelievable the situations the characters put themselves in are so silly to the point where it isn't shocking i find it sad that daisy star of broadway's the secret garden decided that this would be a career step the idea is interesting two young girls coming of age very quickly but the sex isn't even arousing the film is silly the story is silly the performances are silly and the whole concept while interesting falls flat i'm sure all 14 year old girls make out with guys after they've had their first period and tried to flush their panties down the toilet better luck next time guys my scale t scale
0	if this movie had been directed by a man he would have been jailed while adrian lyne was shackled with a lawyer in the editing room to oversee the gutting of a classic piece of literature to appease the censors and to avoid running afoul of the child pornography protection act of 1996 a woman dumps ripe on us and everyone applauds did i miss a meeting in addition to the blatant pedophilia this movie is utterly preposterous has this woman never set foot on an active military base has she never met a soldier whose army is this the uniforms must have come from uniforms r us just throw on some patches who cares just make sure each and every one of them has a big red one there is a slight inside joke here that no doubt went over the auteur's head but might possibly have been slipped in by whoever furnished the military vehicles certainly there were no military advisors the u s army does not operate slums temporary base camps in jungle war zones are cleaner than this the u s army does not put 14 year old girls to work on military bases nor allow them to use the firing ranges or training courses there is much drama to be mined in the sexual coming of age of teenage girls this movie has absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever
0	uninspired pretty much all around the only exceptions were a couple emotional scenes with keena violet with whose performance i was pleasantly surprised and occasionally moved beyond that it ended up being little more than a bad flick
0	ripe is one of those awful indies which manages to get into circulation and give indies a bad name telling a stupidly incongruous tale of pubescent twin sisters who crawl from a firey car crash which kills their parents and then hit the road while happily shoplifting making goo goo eyes at some guy and ending up on an army post so dilapidated no army would want it yeah right an apparent attempt at a coming of age flick ripe is an almost complete loser which wanders aimlessly as the players drift in and out of character finally ending clumsily with nary a shred of credibility to be found anywhere not recommended for anyone
0	this movie was in one word terrible it was boring predictable and downright creepy i kept waiting for it to end and when it did i was horrified the ending left a bad taste in my mouth to say the least my advice to anyone interested in movies about budding female sexuality stay away from this movie movies like this give classics like lolita a bad name
0	this movie did attempt to capture the naive idealism that many young teenaged girls have for fun friendship escape danger sex maturity etc the problem was that it failed to establish these things on every single level which is why it failed to build a decent story around them i couldn't follow the point of any part of this story nor any reason why i should care br br this movie is not an exploration into pedophilia at all it's basically about a girl being in love with her sister and her sister being in love with the idea of men while the latter tries out her love of men the former tries to win her sister back by getting even br br the plot is weak the characters are weak and the reality of it all was similar to an amateur porn filmmaker without the sexual substance
0	thinly cloaked retelling of the garden of eden story nothing new nothing shocking although i feel that that is what the filmmakers were going for the idea is trite strong performance from daisy that's about it i believed she was 13 and i was interested in her character the rest left me cold
0	there are so many things wrong with this movie i don't even know where to begin the story is not cohesive at all i guarantee that five minutes into the movie the average viewer will be scratching his her head in confusion br br here's what i remember of the movie before i was bored into unconsciousness a quasi abusive dad chases some pre teen sisters through a house but turns out to be not that abusive after all in the next scene the girls are about 15 they're driving with their parents and hit a deer the deer must have been explosive because their car blows up one sister drags the other from the burning wreckage then the girls are drifting in a boat on a lake and make a huge plan to go to kentucky and start a new life in the very next scene the girls are hitchhiking toward a military base and what a military base it is actually it's more like a hog farm converted to look like a military base with plenty of confused extras playing soldiers the base office is particularly awesome because there are random things like an ak 47 hanging on the wall and a drill sergeant hat mounted to a plaque so the audience is sure to know that this is a military guy's office then some random dude pushing a motorcycle shows up and the base commander orders him to go into town to buy some porn mags and to make sure the soldiers don't think that he's on the pink team so our character takes a pickup converted to look like an army truck to town and loads up a box from a nondescript book store with a blowup doll by the front door the girls hide in the guy's truck when he stops to gas up and look through the porn stash to find items inside like the anal invader i guess that's enough of the plot to scare most people away plot aside the sound quality is terrible and the movie is full of cheesy attempts at symbolism like a radio preacher talking about forbidden fruit during the scene where the slutty sister meets the main character for the first time or how the camera lingers way too long on certain shots to try to convey a message br br if you ever see this for sale or rent or whatever stay away it's not worth the money in either case
0	i always think it would be nice if you could somehow have a 'sneak preview' at some of the old movies that are re released on dvd before you purchase them that way you could save yourself some time money and a certain degree of when you feel so utterly let down br br the buddy holly story is such a movie br br i do not wish to go into the characterizations or the holes in the plot or the messing around with historical facts that this movie encompasses for i had already come to terms with them twenty years ago when i first began watching it br br i had recorded it on the old beta machine back in the early 1980s and liked it so much that it became a regularly played favourite the best part to my mind was gary busey's performance as the young buddy and his near perfect vocals and guitar playing br br i looked forward to the day when i could have it in stereo and that is where the disappointment comes in br br this dvd version is supposedly re mastered in both audio and video according to the shell information but i'm afraid it left me sadly let down and glancing at my watch wishing for it to end br br the sound is murky bordering on the unintelligible and so unprofessionally mixed that it had me yearning for the crystal clarity vocals of my old beta tape br br despite what you think of the images or the plot or the characters the real draw card here is the music and if you can't hear the lead vocals because they are drowned out by the or the backing harmonies or other then there's not much left is there br br i'm going to convert my old beta version to mono dvd for subsequent viewings and put this one where it belongs out with the rubbish br br extinction is the rule survival is the exception
0	this is one of a rarity of movies where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man mo and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film br br the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something's photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts mo and wolfgang's collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses plastic holding passion there's also beetle banging as violet would have put it this plastic peen goes up your butt the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome br br alright so if you are still reading let us explain who we are mo teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students who finishing a film class with her decided to get poop faced and watch here directorial debut she also wrote uptown girls i can't tell you how much that's been hammered into our skulls so this movie is quite the experience at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie br br about 13 minutes into this game none of us could see straight the sheer amount of in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper because that's what we all do the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director's history of homosexual pornographic experiments we wish we were kidding br br enough intellectual contemplation on to the drinking game this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one it's very simple and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care br br the mo ripe drinking game 1 every time you see anything related to pornography take a drink 2 every time you see auteur mo name appear take a drink 3 sex 4 plastic peen require two drinks 5 any time somebody points a gun at another character take a drink at this point you will probably need to pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body 6 any time there is blood including lady blood please take a sip 7 the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second 8 gratuitous use of the magic black man requires one drink 9 if you can't figure out the through line keep drinking 10 whenever you are able to predict a line take a drink trust us it's easy br br that's it internet keep drinking and try not to get riped br br hawaiian punch jr
0	ah the classic genre of 80s sex comedies this is set on two beaches one a nude beach featuring myriad fully unclothed women the plot something about a bunch of attempting to get laid the usual fans of gratuitous t a and p should hunt this one down
0	the tv show was slow moving and the characters were sometimes irritating only through the miracle of fast forward was i able to make it through the first 2 hours br br the write up indicates that it's some kind of comedy mystery but i didn't see much of either br br if it really picks up after the first 2 hours please let me know because i doubt that i will watch the rest without a recommendation br br this review is supposed to be without spoilers so i will continue in a vague non spoiler fashion i found the two main characters uninteresting and unsympathetic i found myself asking a normal adult do that ' the man with the hedge trimmer looking out the window was irritating and when the male lead interacted with him he looked pathetic would a normal adult put up with someone as irritating as him
0	now we were chosen to be tortured with this disgusting piece of blatant american propaganda it came no wonder for me that this is admired by most american viewers and hated by europeans this show is made for americans it is too stupid and full with hatred and clichés to be admitted elsewhere almost everyone involved must be return to school acting is utterly predictable and bad script is pile of garbage all round operator work is ground zero etc etc br br you have been warned it doesn't even have guilty pleasure entertainment for those brainwashed iq 0 human beings br br i wish i could enter negative values anyone
0	i thought this series was going to be another fun action series with some dynamic plots and great performances i was wrong while i like jamie denton this show is hardly worth watching at all unless you enjoy watching some people brutalized and the actions of the agents supposedly warranted under the theme of national security the show is great propaganda for the current government and spews out jingoism as though we talk that way every day after a couple of episodes it was boring the hell out of me and i started watching reruns of house invaders on instead rather watch csi and without a trace without a doubt
0	in watching enterprise for the first time as we all no doubt do with all shows i went into it with an open mind enjoying about half of the past star trek efforts and disliking the other half br br enterprise has fallen short but this episode a night in made me seriously question why i bother the shows from monday night on sci fi br br masking some idea that it is one of those 'a day in the life' episodes in which we learn about what makes certain characters operate as humanoids the writers seemed to forget that this was supposed to be a starship vessel not the and the br br a planet especially one whose people had been offended previously by the enterprise crew for eating in public was no place for a dog as an animal lover myself i would have never taken one of my pets into an environment that had proved in the past to be tense br br but what made this episode even more ridiculous was the endless problem with all of these st shows constantly depicting things that are sacred and insulting to other cultures as tho they are offering some insight into american religious zealots br br the aliens were now offended when the dog on a sacred tree yet the aliens were quite capable of taking the dog urinating as an insult br br strange how the dog's urinating wasn't regarded as some form of worship i wonder how that one got by the show's writers br br from there we are subjected to a captain who was misguided by his duties in watching the episode i found it very easy to forget that bakula was supposed to be the ship's captain br br he chose to sleep in and from there we are given more inanities of behavior sigh that we aren't supposed to understand and that causes us to brows br br the doctor non chalantly clips long hairy toenails and feeds them to hungry caged animals then a white bat creature escapes br br oh how is anyone supposed to sleep with all of this going on clipping for crying out loud i was waiting for something that feeds on vomit to be presented br br then we were inexplicably given some idea that the captain was in love with t'pol and that perhaps he was masking those feelings with his concern over the dog br br endless amounts of rubbish br br your dog is ill so go have sex you'll feel better and of course the captain had to apologize and we humans had to regard his apology as completely ridiculous because we are so everyone smile very sarcastically narrow minded saw depictions such as this endlessly droned out on tng br br oddly enough the only thing missing from this awful episode was that trip person offering his smirks and downhome tho bakula seemed to be covering all of that with the silly dog br br oh the dog survived so now go play fetch
0	this episode sucks br br over the past few years i have watched all episodes of next generation and voyager and am now watching enterprise br br i am thoroughly enjoying this series until this episode i stared at the screen in horror at the destruction of character and entertainment it is more like an attempt at slapstick br br it does not build the characters but throws them out on a limb and leaves the audience gasping it does little to build the series br br why this was ever allowed to go to air amazes me was it the writing was it the directing was it the producer we'll probably never know br br but one bad apple isn't bad i suppose i say that hoping it is only one
0	kasparov vs deep blue is no doubt a fascinating story but i don't think you'd know it by watching this movie i think it focuses too much on the conspiracy theory that ibm cheated and what does this theory hinge upon the idea that at one point the computer made a move that looked human i am not a chess grandmaster or a computer scientist and while i don't doubt that the move looked human to me it doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility that the most powerful chess playing computer ever created could make a surprising move or that such a machine could beat even a genius like kasparov the movie gets way too much mileage out of this theory and not enough out of the personalities of the people involved that could have made it a much more interesting story the direction also relies way too much on the conceits of a pointlessly whispered narration and the imagery of an 18th century chess playing machine that looks like one of those animatronic gypsy you see at the carnival also the story was slowed down by many empty shots of kasparov revisiting the scene of the crime i don't doubt that kasparov and the chess community found behavior vexing but i don't think it's any different than you would find from any other big corporation at the end of the movie you are left with the feeling that kasparov is a huge crybaby and the deep blue programmers are either victims or cheats i think if the filmmaker wanted the viewer to believe the conspiracy theory which he almost certainly did he should have presented a lot more evidence in fact more evidence would have been a good idea in the first place the whole thing left me with a sour taste in my mouth
0	this documentary was neither professionally nor objectively made the whole thing played out like a conspiracy theory by ibm to win the match in question just to make some money garry kasparov has an ego problem he was puffed up before the match and when he lost he didn't like it i remember playing chess against computers back in the 80s and it wasn't too difficult to win as time went on i started to lose and didn't like it today i simply don't play against computers anymore because they're just too good not only that the games are uninteresting and lack the appeal of human games where both sides are more likely to err and open the game to exciting possibilities this documentary keeps showing us images of the which is an ancient chess playing automaton that was really controlled by a human being from the start until the end we are lead to believe that ibm short of literally hid a human gm in the back of their cupboard sized computer i'm a computer scientist and take offense at the notion that just because garry lost ibm must have cheated i know how computers play chess it's not magic and it's no mystery they can be trained have huge amounts of chess knowledge and they most certainly see positions and possibilities in unprecedented detail compared to humans it's really no surprise that deep blue won perhaps at the time it was if it happened today given the ever increasing processing power of machines people would hardly blink if a machine couldn't at least draw with a gm today people would think the program was weak
0	being an admitted chess addict i was excited to see a documentary about the 1997 rematch between garry kasparov and deep blue supercomputer i was hoping to see an in depth look at the match and a lot of what kasparov had to say boy was i wrong and misguided by a mile this documentary is a lot like many modern documentaries there is a lot of flash but no real substance after watching it i am sad to say i felt like i wasted my time one of the most annoying aspects about the documentary is that it does not stay at one place for a decent period of time it has the typical mtv type editing where the camera shows different images and quick sound bites from people every five seconds it is very sad that film making has been watered down to the attention span of a 10 year old child br br i understand it is difficult to make a film about chess but that does not mean one should make it flashy 'game over' did have a couple of interesting ideas though it brought up the idea whether computers can think like human beings or not whether computers have advanced to a unique new level this is what kasparov thought after the match but this film does not go deep enough with this idea also this film tries to bring in a bizarre theory it tries to imply the paranoid that a human being was making the moves along with the help of the computer kasparov had suspicions about this but still to this day there is no evidence towards the end of the film it tries to imply the bizarre that maybe might have been the human being who was secretly making the moves with the aid of deep blue interesting to think about but i don't know how plausible or realistic it is i still would not recommend this movie though not even for chess addicts
0	the most generic surface level biography you could hope for busey's impersonation of holly is accurate but who wants to hear gary busey sing maybe baby typically the members of the are used for comic relief and melodrama smith and stroud respectively instead of as people or even characters when holly uses a string section the old jewish looking guys who come in tell him he's using the same techniques as mozart it's just this kind of cheeky statement that makes film biographies like this and amadeus about the aforementioned mozart so worthless some entertainment can be derived from holly's excellent styles and songs done in a b variation
0	i was disappointed in this documentary i thought it would be about the second chess match between grandmaster garry and deep blue the supercomputer designed by ibm computer experts to beat any human chess player kasparov was and still is considered the greatest chess player ever the movie takes us back to 1997 where had agreed to have a rematch with deep blue after defeating it 1 year earlier but instead of focusing on the game it focuses more on what happens before and after there are snippets of the game but not very many much of the film centers around paranoid obsession that the match was rigged as part of some conspiracy theory and that he lost the match unfairly the movie also includes interviews with people who are not interesting in any way they even chat with the manager of the building where the match took place who cares i also found it very dry and slow ultimately this movie was unsatisfying this is just my opinion of course if you like conspiracy theories this movie might interest you for people not into chess or conspiracy theories this movie would probably have no value i am a chess fan and i only stuck it out because of that i give game over kasparov and the machine 4 10
0	what game over kasparov and the machine does best is to delve into garry psyche during the 1997 competition against deep blue you see him becoming more and more paranoid and increasingly unravelled all because in the second game deep blue made a move that seemed too human for his preconceived notion of chess computers kasparov thought then and still does that ibm cheated br br game over tries to seem unbiased but it is clear that the director thinks that ibm cheated however they give no real evidence to support the cheating claim only that security surrounding the computer room was because ibm really had grandmasters hidden in there overriding the computer on certain key occasions and assertion that the computer didn't play like a computer usually does at one point in game two in game two kasparov played a game that was designed to trick the computer attempting to sacrifice a pawn in a situation where previous computer chess programs would have taken the pawn leading to the eventual loss deep blue didn't take the bait and kasparov was so rattled because the computer seemed to play like a human that he didn't even see that he could have played deep blue to a draw and ended up resigning that game psyched him out so much that he was unable to recover and after playing games 3 4 and 5 to draws lost game 6 horribly br br the question of whether ibm cheated all comes down to that single move in game two where the deep blue made the move that any human would make but that had up to that point tripped up computers joel benjamin a chess grandmaster on programming team explained in the documentary that they knew that chess computers always got tripped up in that situation and consequently spent a lot of time and effort programming deep blue so that it wouldn't make the mistake that other computers do if you believe benjamin's assertion then the case is clear ibm did not cheat unfortunately the director quickly moved on and never mentioned explanation for the rest of the movie preferring to cut between shots of the chess playing hoax of the 19th century the and shots of deep blue hinting that deep blue was really controlled by a human as well as someone who has an understanding of programming the explanation by ibm makes perfect sense if you knew what you were doing it would not be terribly difficult to put something in the code so that if thus and so conditions are reached then do thus and so in other words tell the computer what to do if a situation like the one that kasparov created in game 2 ever happened this isn't cheating it's doing a good job of programming a chess computer br br in the end it's eminently clear that the director thinks that ibm cheated and the repeated comments about stock rising 15 the day that deep blue won suggest the idea that ibm cheated to pump its stock price kasparov even compares ibm and deep blue to enron however there is plenty of outside opinion within both the chess and computer science communities that deep blue won fair and square and that kasparov lost because he simply couldn't get past his view of computers as dumb machines and got psyched out by a machine that didn't seem so dumb after all i just wish that the director had let us see the alternative opinion br br
0	i'm writing this note as a chess player as well as as a movie viewer i watched the 1997 kasparov deep blue games on the internet i know something about the issues that were raised other chess players will come along and want to know whether this movie is worth seeing buying and i'm talking largely to them however i'll try not to ignore those who aren't into chess br br this movie is about the 1997 match between garry kasparov and the custom built computer deep blue however the first image you see in the movie is not of kasparov or of the computer but of the this is an automaton which was built in europe at the turn of the 18th 19th century and played winning chess against all comers i put the word automaton in quotes because it was as everyone now knows a fake there was a man inside it br br if you don't like seeing the then you won't be able to stand the movie because the has as much screen time as kasparov maybe more both in modern footage and in b w footage from some old movie the reappearance of the every few seconds underscores charge that deep blue had human assistance that it was to some degree a fake computer that ibm cheated that there was a man inside it working behind the scenes to help it win not only does kasparov believe this but the filmmakers seem to believe it too and so this is not really much of a movie about chess games or about programming chess computers it is a propaganda piece about a big corporation supposedly misusing a helpless grandmaster really it is a lot like a negative campaign ad as it is chock full of ominous music and evocative camera work and spooky sound effects and innuendos we never found out what was behind that locked door and the ever present br br now most people in the chess community are pretty much convinced that ibm did not cheat and that this was paranoia at work to start with in order for a human to help deep blue beat kasparov it would seem that you would need a human who was better than deep blue and better than kasparov since there was no such person the whole idea is a bit suspect from the start furthermore by the time this movie was made there were computer programs that could run on your pc that could beat strong grandmasters today much more than in 1997 we take it for granted that a computer can do things you might not expect and we are less likely to take it as a monumental human tragedy that a computer beat a guy in chess and in fact the bottom line is that kasparov beat himself with two bad mistakes including resigning game 2 in a drawn position br br as for the chess games you actually see very little of them there are a few comments from masters and commentators that tell briefly how they went but really you don't get to see hardly any of the strategy or tactics at all naturally as a chess player i take this as a major shortcoming but i think that non players are being cheated too imagine a baseball movie for example where you don't hardly get to see any of the game just a commentator telling you that in game four the white sox defeated the astros with such and such a score nobody would make a movie like that but here for example we are told that kasparov made a bad blunder in the opening of the decisive game 6 but we aren't shown the position on the screen or told why it was a blunder or what he should have done instead or anything we just see a few seconds of kasparov holding his head in his hands and then more atmospheric sound effects and camera work br br since i saw this on dvd let me warn chess players about the dvd as well the jacket promises you that the extras include the games with analysis is this grandmaster analysis which people like us might find interesting no it is the automated computer voice synthesizer analysis from some version of that tells you when a piece is attacked and a pawn gets isolated and that you are in the caro defense main line br br someone might then come along and say well clearly this movie is meant to dramatize the match for the non player and so it's unfair to be impatient with it but actually it doesn't do a very good job of reaching out to the non player either it skates over some points that a true novice would really want to have explained for example it says that kasparov could have gotten perpetual check in the second game but it doesn't explain what that is or show what it would have looked like on the board which would have been interesting it flashes back to the kasparov matches but doesn't explain why there were two of them or who organized them etc i didn't need this information myself but i'm familiar with it if you don't already have chess experience there are places where you are going to be confused and this is just a defect in the film br br ultimately i can't recommend the movie which like the itself is not what it purports to be a documentary but more of a stage illusion
0	i am a chess player and i wanted to like this film trouble is the content could have been fitted in a 30 minute documentary br br there were lots of shots of corridors being walked down and kasparov gazing out in the hall where he won the world championship there were other shots of kasparov being walked round the site of the 1997 match and being told where he sat and where deep blue was located this just looked like filler br br also i didn't find it interesting to see in detail where deep blue was now and seeing an ibm techie trying unsuccessfully to it what would we have seen of interest inside anyway a little grandmaster br br also the recent match against i no longer follow professional chess enough to know when and where this was it would have been nice to have been told was this a one off 'just for the money' was it part of the world championship cycle what was the final score the of the film was the play in game two could would ibm let kasparov see the machine that's where the focus should have been
0	as long as you keep in mind that the production of this movie was a copyright ploy and not intended as a serious release it is actually surprising how not absolutely horrible it is i even liked the theme music br br and if ever a flick cried out for a treatment by joel or mike and the mst3k bots this is it watch this with a bunch of smart ass wise crackers and you're in for a good time have a brew butter up some large pretzels and enjoy br br of course obtaining a copy requires buying a bootleg or downloading it as but if you're here on the imdb then you're most likely savvy enough to do so good luck br br and look for my favorite part where dr doom informs the ff that they have 12 hours to comply with his wishes and he actually gestures the number 12 with his finger while doing so it's like evil sesame street hoo boy br br and of course mrs storm declaring just look at you the four is just so heartwarming you'll laugh you'll cry br br so if you love schlocky sci fi this one's fantastic for you
0	yes this movie was just bad in every way in things like cast effects boredom excitement and of course being fantastic and we all know the four heroes in this one were a bit more colourful compared to the new ones but it still has to go a fantastic bore like this really was just silly trash which i knew nobody would like when i saw it i mean surely with that budget about 3 or 4 good movies could have been made but no i am just glad that the new version made this year totally showed everyone how the fantastic four should have been made with good story great cast like jessica alba one of my favourite actresses otherwise it would have been totally forgotten but thankfully no the new one was excellent when i saw it with my mates at the cinema but this old fantastic bore has gotta go
0	drifting around on bootlegs sometimes thought an urban comic book legend the first ff movie is pretty much as bad as everyone fears i guess marvel comics now pretends it doesn't exist what with the 2005 version out in theaters earlier this year but it's out there a reminder and the last of the first wave of bad low budget marvel super hero adaptations captain america punisher most of the tv movies 'low budget' is too easy a description for this ff pic due to basically no funds showing the powers of the super foursome was limited to very quick shots mr fantastic quasi animation torch and fades invisible girl the easiest to do the thing suit was not bad and probably half the budget the face part was especially almost convincing the acting alex hyde white as reed is pretty good the other 3 are ok tho jay as johnny acts like a spaz at times to sort of show off his temper the dialog is comic book style and it's the supporting cast which ends up floundering trying to make it work dr doom is way over melodramatic and unintentionally comical and his two main henchmen are a case study of how not to act or write dialog br br the plot not too good it was quite faithful to the origin story of the ff more so than the later big budget version and even though the non budget again restricted showing for example the actual crash landing it kept the essential ingredients of how they discovered their powers in an isolated area it's the best part of the picture tho you have to wait a full half hour for it i also found the music odd in places when the 4 are bathed in those cosmic rays a kind of church choir is heard as if it's a religious experience the rest of it however is hopeless even with no budget the story could have done without the character resembling the mole man villain of the books it spends way too much time with him and his underground gang as well as the blind alicia these sections are a waste of celluloid and very boring the climactic struggle with doom his men starts fine but degenerates into an awful mess as the torch races a laser beam cool animation but belonging in a cartoon fans can have a laugh at the bad ff fx and witless storyline if they don't get depressed outraged first
0	this is truly awful the attempt at a comics adaptation ever committed to film every possible thing about this movie that could be bad is music acting lighting sets special effects about the only positives i can find are that sue looks cute in her blue tights and that the thing make up is almost passable face only that's it zip don't bother tracking down that bootleg copy it's really not worth your time even the aborted captain america movie from the early 90's is far less excruciating than squirming in your seat while you try to endure this mess
0	without a doubt this is the worse movie every made period yes it's worse then dolph lundgren's 1989 punisher yup worse then the 1979 1991 captain america movies oh yeah it's even worse then christopher reed scripted superman iv quest for peace movie that movie was so bad that the guy who played nuclear man only starred in one other film and it was only on t v op br br this movie is d quality i had a chance to watch it on the scifi channel back in 1997 i had heard it was pretty bad but had nothing else to do that night so i figured i check it out what a waste of an hour and a half i would have been better off watching reruns of different strokes besides having the lamest special effects and worse acting i've ever seen the whole script was just awful and not well directed at all thankfully a new fantastic four movie is being done and hopefully this version will do the heroes justice i was hoping for a new spawn movie in the future but it has yet to materialize br br do not rent this movie if you happen to see it being televised on cable check it out be warned though you'll most like be flipping the channel after the first 15 mins
0	i have always loved bad creations rhetorical criticism and my film professor validated that for me in college this is not as bad as the star wars holiday special there is nothing bottom of the than that mistake this the fantastic four film complete with the i have no idea why hes excessively tweaking his fingers doctor doom is high on the list of colossal mistakes doom's dialogue kill him let him go is classic as it is staggering in its hilarity the editing is good and the director of photography isn't half bad those are the up sides i cannot however subject all my friends to watch in its entirety but if i can get the chance i show them the can jonny and sue come to outer space with us scene i do i also include the final scene scene where redd richards in his ff outfit for some reason alongside his bride sue in her wedding dress get into the limo the payoff is the arm in farewell as they drive away most people are in complete disbelief that something like this exists
0	the best part in this movie is the first one located in sicily i suppose shows a good talent for photography and the movie start is delightfully surprising the rest of the story is quite boring uselessly insists on stereotypical situations and characters trying to melt suggestions and video music technique surrealistic and a very annoying and completely off topic soundtrack leading the whole thing towards an end which gives you the sensation of an exaggeratedly long story cut abruptly short frankly this is a real overrated movie and is a real overrated director
0	this is the worst movie i have ever seen in my entire life period this movie goes beyond ridiculous it is like the director wants to get his ass sued by the actors for wrongfully their roles as the fantastic four i believe the movie should have been released in comic book stores in order for the only how u should say it desperate geeks who cant get enough cheesiness and want to see more and more crap movies in conclusion to my paradox statements and thesis i do believe this movie has had great disadvantages to the futures of the cast's contributors with the exception of jay underwood's character in which i do believe it was his best performance considering roles such as the not quite human movies in which the story is told in a way that he has no character he cant act and people have made good decisions to not go see his movies this is why he is most likely not going to be any huge roles unless he sparks his career in a most rare but interesting way
0	whether or not this adaptation of the marvel comic was made – and shelved – so its production company could retain the copyright to the characters it doesn't change the fact that it's utter rubbish the dr doom and especially thing costumes are surprisingly good but everything else suffers from a deficit of either cash or talent director can't even point a camera at stuff without including such howlers as a blind woman's pov the dialogue is absolutely dismal the team's costumes don't fit properly and the effects are appalling the human torch seems to be drawn onto the film with felt tip pens while mr powers are brought to life using a bendy blue stick with a glove on the end joseph culp compensates for having to wear a mask by wildly waving his arms about jay underwood is incredibly annoying the rest of the cast hit various levels of terrible and while it's hard not to feel sorry for all these guys who thought this movie would get a release it's equally difficult to imagine any of them believing it was actually any good
0	admittedly when the chance to see this horribly infamous legend of a movie my expectations were pretty low they weren't low enough roger corman somehow came into ownership of the rights to produce the marvel comic book characters sometime in the late 80's or early 90's and handed it off to whose directorial work has largely been in campy tv series such as and with a supposed total budget of 1 5 million dollars it was produced shot and briefly released on video and then sent to the wasteland of forgotten film there it should have remained however like a banana peel in a vaudeville act this fantastic four sits out in the ether waiting to cause a pratfall for those rare people unlucky and foolish enough to step on it br br if you have ever heard of these comic book characters you know what to expect the people who made this were very true to the source material and that is the only thing for which they deserve any credit in this fiasco this presents the origins of the heroic group that develop superhuman powers when the shielding on their experimental spacecraft fails to protect them from cosmic radiation reed richards alex hyde white develops the ability to stretch his body and becomes 'mr his girlfriend sue storm rebecca can become invisible and her brother johnny jay underwood can spontaneously cause fire to erupt from his body finally ben grimm to both michael bailey smith and carl receives superhuman strength when his skin mutates to a rock like hyde and is then referred to as the thing there is a prologue that sets up a former classmate of reed's victor von doom joseph culp to become their enemy dr doom who orchestrates the sabotage of the fantastic four's space flight as an act of revenge for injuries he blames on reed there is the set up then the discovery of the powers the revelation of the villain and ultimately a climactic fight there are more details to the poorly written script but they are negligible br br this is a movie that was made simply because the creators i use that in the technical sense of the word there isn't a whole lot of creative imagination at work here had the legal rights to do so the plot will be undoubtedly mirrored in the anticipated big budget release set to be directed by tim story in 2005 but tackling a massive special effects project like this without a comparable budget or qualified actors qualifies as an act of cinematic insanity what special effects exist are mostly hand drawn or simple camera tricks that have existed since the days of the original 'the great train when half of the climactic fight reverts to full on hand animation you're almost relieved to be watching a cartoon instead of the poor actors who were damned to be in this project there is very little consistency of style in this mess as well most scenes are either shot flat in available light or wild primary colors and the only dressed sets are the obvious sci fi pieces there is camera work but it is mostly just keeping the characters centered on the screen and minimal information flowing to the audience editing includes leaving in extra lines and using obvious wipes at one point there is even a transition using the center of a number 4 editing spins are even used to supplement the poor special effects when the thing transforms the one scene where morphing technology was put to use was shocking only because it was such a positive jump up in quality br br limited camera work is not unforgivable in 'clerks' only the most basic camera movements are used and there is almost no style it worked for that film because it was about people whose lives had no style and it was consistent kevin smith never let his reach exceed his grasp 'the blair witch project' caused some audiences to suffer motion sickness from the jerky hand held stuff that put that pseudo documentary together when all was said and done it was an effective work about the terror of getting lost and being consumed by a frightening situation there is no sense of story or theme here on either a spoken or visual level with this four' you never get more than an accidental laugh at the fact that the film makers and performers seem to be actually trying to rival other comic book movies with this poorly budgeted entry br br any film involves a great deal of time and work it just so sad that so much of both was poured into a project like this if you're one of the people who were involved with this it was most likely done as a stepping stone on the road of a hopefully improved film career everyone knows about taking jobs to make the most of what appears to be an opportunity for those who are curious about watching this movie my advice is to only do so with a group of friends so you can all point and say you watched it too who have been forewarned about the experience so nobody gets hurt from the shock and maybe you can come up with a drinking game to ease the pain between the accidental laughs br br 1 out of 10
0	i gave this a 2 and it only avoided a 1 because of the occasional unintentional laugh the film is excruciatingly boring and incredibly cheap it's even worse if you know anything at all about the fantastic four
0	i am almost a two decade old human who's been reading comics most of my life i'm not a huge fan of the fantastic four but i'm fairly familiar with them in 1994 roger corman b movie legend produced the first i think feature length fantastic four film the result was such pure schlock that it was never given a release still copies exist mostly on the net and at conventions if you're looking for a laugh and can find a copy do yourself a favor and check this thing out br br the film basically retells the origin and an encounter with doctor doom and a villain named the essentially the mole man with a penchant for petty larceny as is the case with these comic book movies everything has to tie into everything so the ff play a vital role in dr doom's creation and he and the play a vital role in theirs br br first i'd just like to mention that despite everything that went bad in this movie i actually sort of liked the guy that played doom he doesn't get many decent lines but when he does he hits them the armor looks pretty good too br br as for the rest it's a dirty dirty mess bad plots bad acting bad effects bad everything basically boos especially to jay underwood bringing new meaning to the word overacting as johnny storm he's not overacting he's br br as for the ff well they all sort of look right and sue's played by a very attractive actress but they just don't seem like a real team for one thing they have no reason for sue and johnny to go into space in an early section ben and reed go to visit the two johnny's like 8 and sue's about 12 it only stands to make their eventual romantic pairing a helluva lot creepier the thing costume looks more reptilian than anything else not very rocky and the only time the human torch is really a human torch he looks like the silver surfer tinted red br br i could type for hours but i think the scene that best sums it up is a climactic encounter featuring the aforementioned not so human torch he's racing a laser beam and he eventually destroys it with a punch yes a punch a laser beam with a punch then he flies around and goes a whole lot whereupon the camera tilts down and he flies back toward earth evidently reed the intellectual forgot to inform johnny that fire doesn't exist in the vacuum of space this and many other scenes operate like looney if the character doesn't know they are over a cliff they don't fall br br i laughed i cried i was glad it was never released
0	when hulk hit theaters in 2003 it wasn't long before dvds of the old incredible hulk tv show popped up in an attempt to cash in on the craze we saw a similar occurrence a year prior when spider man cartoons appeared on dvd to coincide with that hero's big screen debut companies leap at the opportunity to ride on the financial coattails of a hot brand br br so the fact that this picture never surfaced on the shelves of wal mart as its featured heroes clobbered the box office in the summer of 2005 says a lot i guess everyone involved would just rather forget to be fair the fantastic four is not as bad as everyone says let me rephrase that it's not as unentertaining as all of its negative reviews might suggest br br veteran television actor alex hyde white no you don't remember any of his roles leads the way as reed richards the brilliant scientist who along with his crew gains bizarre powers after an outer space mishap he's left with the ability to stretch and contort his body to outrageous lengths his future wife sue storm rebecca can suddenly turn invisible while her brother johnny jay underwood may now ignite himself at will then there's poor ben grimm michael bailey smith the lovable lug whose body morphs into a mass of craggy orange rock br br just as the friends are becoming accustomed to all of this they are called upon to rescue the world from certain chaos it seems reed's old colleague victor von doom joseph culp is living up to his name and that villainous ian trigger isn't exactly helping old ladies cross the street either can our heroes save the day of course they can like any superhero movie it's just a question of how and when br br what's striking about the fantastic four is how amateurish it is in virtually every aspect the dialog is so lame and tired it sounds like it was written by a junior high drama class the acting is so unpolished it makes a third rate afternoon soap opera look like shakespeare the special effects are surprisingly good considering the minuscule budget but there are still some positively embarrassing moments when the human torch fully ignites his body for instance the entire movie briefly turns into a cartoon i can just hear that production meeting oh no one will notice they'll be too intrigued by the action i mean really a cartoon at least give me a mannequin on fire held up by a string prior to that the scene in which the foursome come to on earth after their spaceship crashes is pure teens in the backyard fare the crew simply found a field and lit a vaguely spaceship like object on fire that's the only remnant of such a major disaster br br of course there wasn't a whole lot to work with in the script there is a fairly coherent story here but it's all so simplified when reed and ben decide to go into outer space they simply drop by the house and ask if they'd care to join them is it really that easy don't these sort of things require oh i don't know years of training and expertise not in the world of these writers who seemed to be inspired by the underrated genius on display in full house reruns but as bad as that may be nothing can compare to how painfully clichéd dr doom is he was pulled right out of those awful superhero cartoons from the 1960s right down to the evil laugh and slamming his clenched fist down on the table to punctuate his remarks no comic book least of all fantastic four has ever featured a villain so obscenely one dimensional br br ultimately the fantastic four is saved from being a complete turkey because it's just so damn innocent you can tell the people involved as little talent or experience as they had really tried they didn't know the final result would be so embarrassing they were under the impression that this was their big break that people would flock to the theaters it bears repeating that they had virtually no money to work with and i'm sure half of that was eaten up by the cool thing costume all things considered they did well and for its many flaws the finished product is a fair amount of fun for comic book fans
0	i never read the book now i don't really want to i had no clue what this movie was about when i walked into the theatre i still don't really know what point it was supposed to get across but i do know that a good two hours was wasted from my life two precious hours i can never get back br br the storyline was so predictable it's laughable werewolves or something a very romeo and juliet type plot i predicted the within five minutes into the movie and i was correct br br the acting isn't horrible the only two cool characters in the movie were the british cousin guy and the rambo graphic novel the other characters are too the dialogue is very bland and predictable br br the absolute worst part of the movie is the transformations between the humans and the wolves if you wanted something kick ass like van you're gonna be really upset imagine a bright light then a wolf yep that's about it br br just avoid this movie period especially if you've read the book because you'll just wanna punch babies
0	i'm going to talk about this movie from two different perspectives here first is from the view of if someone sees the movie and never read and may not ever read the book the second is from someone who has br br movie without book from a movie standpoint it was an okay movie nowhere near as good as either of the underworlds but much better than and i'm not just talking plot line either the visual effects were iffy in many of the parts though the wolf transformation was very nice the characters has very little development and vivian didn't even seem to truly care that her love was killing off what was left of her species some of the other characters could have had more air time like the five the plot was way to similar to underworld for my tastes br br movie with book as many have stated other than the title character names and a few minor parts the movie and the book are nothing alike in the movie gabriel was a lot older and was the father of rafe thus astrid was once his mate in the book gab was about 24 never mated with anyone since wolves mate for life astrid is trying to win his affection and astrid was the mother of not rafe another important thing is the location the book took place in maryland also why they moved from west virginia is very different the movie has it being fault and her entire family was killed due to it in the book the original leader of the five named axel killed a girl from their school hunters tracked down the wolves and killed many of them father included forcing them to move also mom was a major character br br one thing from the book that would have made the movie better would have been the dance for those who don't know it's the ordeal where all the bitches females of the pack fight to see who is the one to be the mate of the new leader since earlier there was a fight for the males vivian won it trying to save her mother from astrid who is a horrid evil woman in the book and thus was supposed to mate with gab there was no prophecy anyway if you've read the book and you liked the book i highly suggest not seeing this film
0	may contain spoilers br br i was super excited to go see blood and chocolate with my friends i couldn't wait because the book is one of my favorites but as soon as the movie started i couldn't believe how different it was at first i was like okay so both of her parents are dead maybe it'll be okay but then came the rest of the movie by the time it was over i was furious nothing was correct but their names and the fact that vivian fell in love with aiden by the end of the book gabriel was my all time favorite and then the movie goes and turns him into a complete heartless idiot the movie also showed the or werewolves as these vile evil creatures were as the book shows them as just wanting to fit in and keep their pack safe they would never kill humans for the fun of it br br if they wanted to make a movie like they did they should have given it a different title and named the characters different because then i would go out and watch it again and buy it but when i think about it all i can see is the bad you couldn't pay me to go see it again or buy it
0	from the makers of underworld we have by far the worst werewolf movie i have ever seen it is basically a reconstructed version of underworld yet lacking vampires not a big deal cool effects a big deal and generally just about everything that can possibly be done right to produce a decent film dealing with lycanthropy the biggest deal of them all a twenty something lycanthrope chocolate maker named vivian is currently residing in romania ever since her family was hunted down and executed in front of her years ago in america for being werewolves there she belongs to a small society or pack of werewolves and is apparently chosen to unwillingly wed the pack leader gabriel whose son some toad with a british accent takes it upon himself to hunt outside of the pack they have apparently been discovered in other countries prior and want to remain settled in romania by avoiding negative attention so of course such activity is considered forbidden vivian ends up falling in love with an american artist who is oblivious to her involvement with the group of blood thirsty predators when they end up discovering the secret relationship things get messy when someone is killed and the human is forced to participate in a deadly tradition in which he is set loose in the woods and is hunted giving the pack a chance to transform into their wolfy selves all this really consists of is a big leap before they light up and land as a wolf very cheezy effects the entire movie is like a tamed down underworld with some drippy romantic montages and very little action watching this in the theater i could not wait for it to end a devastatingly boring disappointment avoid
0	possible spoilers below br br what a long and mostly uninteresting movie who were these characters why didn't i care about them if i'm going to watch a movie for two hours i'd like to care about somebody or something br br we know that salvatore dreamed of the riches to be found in the new world beyond that though we learned little about most of his family's hopes fears etc as they embarked on an adventure into the unknown br br and why was lucy even in this movie she said little we knew little about her or what she was doing was she forced to service men in exchange for being allowed to board the ship or what her plans were upon reaching new york to those who might suggest that she was needed to underscore the point that a single woman however cultured could not get into this country alone i say that that fact is not enough justification to give her so much screen time that point could have been made in five minutes with lucy as a momentary character br br more questions why wasn't the twin brother at the boat to meet the family we heard about the brother and some closure on that point would have been helpful in giving the movie some cohesiveness also how long was the journey from italy to new york given the conditions on the ship it makes a difference to the viewer if the voyage took five or 10 or 50 days someone said something about seeing land a week at one point but i think that was when they were already en route i needed these types of details to better appreciate what they were going through br br the only scene i really liked was when the boat filled with passengers left the dock br br if you choose to rent this movie do so with remote in hand you may want the fast forward button handy br br finally may i suggest that with the right voice over providing helpful information about the times and the circumstances for immigrants particularly during the slow stretches of endless shots of the countryside people walking etc this movie might have made an interesting public tv documentary
0	ok to start with this movie was not at all like the book i read the book when i was 13 and since then it has always been my favorite when i'm waiting for a different book to come out this is the book i turn to to fill in the time i have 3 copies for god's sake anyways i knew this was not going to be anything like the book but come on they could have done a little better than this i mean seriously if i wanted to watch american werewolf in paris or london than i would watch those movies they took a perfectly good story and twisted it around into a copy of a story that has been told over and over again and quite frankly i'm tired of watching it i mean hello the best part of the whole f g sorry story is she ends up with gabriel he doesn't die what was that about and he's old in this movie gabriel is supposed to be only 24 not 44 da it awww and astrid who the he came up with the idea of astrid being aunt no no no no astrid and vivian hate each other awwww anyways yeah that was my little rant seriously pi ed off hope this helped
0	my first impression when i read the synopsis for the upcoming movie was that it was going to be very very different from the book the movie trailer said that the movie is supposed to take place when vivian is 19 years old after her parents were killed in a fire in america she meets aiden an aspiring graphic novelist working in a chocolate shop in the day she must accept that she will never be normal because every full moon she becomes a a thought to be mythical creature that can be closely compared to a werewolf br br most of the little changes didn't sound too bad to me even though i am a fan of the book with the shared titled by annette curtis klause i knew it would be different but i wanted to see it to support the book thinking that an age change a setting change and a few little occupation changes wouldn't impact the storyline as a whole enough to make me want to tear my eyes out of their sockets and leave myself bleeding on the movie theatre ground br br the movie unnecessarily killed off many important characters one being mother right off the bat in the fire that was supposed to have killed her father i pushed that aside and ventured forth into the movie weary and slightly annoyed running through romania the camera angles were decent the scenery was beautiful and the music was interesting but it left me with the impression of why does vivian look like that and why is she wearing a hoodie jumping to later parts of the movie i must say that i am surprised that the screenplay writers seemed to support incest in a way and rather than sticking to the character relationship from the book between vivian and rafe the leader of the five now became her cousin through her surprise aunt astrid who in the novel was the bitter and hated rival of mother and might i add no way related to either of them br br to top off character distortions gabriel had somehow become the leader of the pack and obsessed over vivian being his mate so they could fulfill some nonexistent prophecy not only did his physical appearance take a complete 180 from the description in the book he was apparently also the father of rafe yes that's right it's a nice little incestuous knot of all bundled up tight br br little things that irked me were scenes like the forest hunts there was a red head that stood out from the rest of the crowd the one who kissed their enemy before their prey was set free to run and be hunted why was she there why did she look like astrid i suppose my mind is not vast enough to understand why such a character had to exist in the movie without any explanation as to why she existed other than to kiss pretty victims br br i loved how the amoeba was completely cut out of the movie i loved how legally entwined past was what between the supposedly dramatic scene where he was telling vivian about how his father wanted him to learn self defense and then beat his father up in self defense to make him seem like such a tragic character br br character are a lot of fun when they are completely unnecessary at the end of the movie i felt as if some person skimmed over the novel scribbled down half the list of character names drew a few connections here and there mentioned that gabriel was a bit of a jerk vivian fell in love with aiden he fears her when he finds out she is a of the legends and somebody is killed by a silver bullet and there is some sort of happy ending because vivian finally feels accepted by somebody who loves her for who she is br br i gave this movie a 2 10 because the camera shots were relatively decent and the casting could have been worse but as far as directing goes why do the leap into the air in human form as if they want to fly with their arched backs and penchant to leap from high places shimmer briefly and then fall onto the ground as wolves the only aspects of this movie that even had me watch it through to the very sordid sorry ending were the wolves the beautiful scenery and the eye candy boys br br all together i must say that in order to enjoy this film at all one must be ready for misconceptions strange happenings that are not always explained incestuous innuendos and have either not liked the book or have not read the book
0	the only reason i didn't delete this movie after 20 min is because we already wasted 20 minutes on it br br the only and i repeat the only effect that they used is a weird from india jump on a half meter wall trash cans i mean effects doesn't make a movie but sheesh me and my friend hoped the entire movie for some real effect a huge wolf something but all we got is a jump on a 0 5 meter wall they used and they found guns in the pharmacy i mean what the hell oh i forgot there was another effect contact lances as green eyes every 10 min we shouted the only thing that can save the movie from the disgrace is a giant wolf who kills them all besides that the script was so awful that you don't know who you would like to die first you actually pray and i mean pray that the good guy will die hopefully in the beginning br br make yourself a favour and send letters to delete the movie from every archives in the world
0	there were only two redeeming features about this movie the beauty of bucharest and its architecture and the way they depicted the transformation from human form to wolf form forget about the plot or storyline from the book they're completely absent from this movie in fact about the only things carried over from the book are the names of the main players even then you'll barely recognize the characterizations if the film makers had made a good movie even though unrelated to the book i wouldn't have been so disappointed unfortunately they did not the plot and storyline are typical of low budget horror flicks the acting is wooden and the directorial efforts mundane oh yes the way the bow to their leader is pure hoke i suppose a nod of recognition is due for the animal handlers the wolves were beautiful animals and well managed in their roles
0	this movie was boring very much like underworld only even less interesting it's not much of a werewolf movie and no where near a horror film the lead couple were boring i totally didn't care about vivian and aiden and there was so little character development that i didn't care about any character in the film the plot was paper thin the transformations were basically nil i did like the wolves themselves might as well have have done a wolf documentary i would have liked that better i wouldn't recommend this movie i didn't find it fun or interesting it just drags and everyone in it is a boring drag this movie could win an award for how not to make a werewolf film
0	the best thing about this movie for me was that bryan dick played rafe and made me melt rafe and all his made the movie worth sitting through even though i to get up and scream i have never seen a hotter man br br ahem but that's not the point br br the title that is indeed what it is they took the beautiful story written by annette curtis klause and threw it out i will in all my anal retentive glory point out what was missing what has changed and all else wrong with the movie br br sit tight and here goes br br apparently rafe is son of astrid and gabriel and apparently is no longer child like in the book and as i recall from the book rafe and astrid were lovers br br astrid is apparently blond as opposed to the notably red hair described in the book i believe the book said that she looked more like a fox than a wolf and the movie also shows that astrid is aunt br br where did axel go br br vivian is 19 in the book she was 16 br br vivian and aiden meet in high school which they both attend in the book vivian goes to see aiden because of his poem 'wolf but according to the movie aiden beat up his dad escaped and now lives in romania and draws graphic novels this made me go 'what the f k ' br br there is no in the movie where was the kelly in the movie the kelly in the book however hated vivian and she also dated aiden after they broke up vivian even gets tipsy in the book and trashed her room br br gabriel bears a striking resemblance to a columbian drug lord in the movie and he sort of sounds like one too his acting was very good but his appearance threw me off br br vivian had no parents in the movie her father and mother and 2 other siblings died in the movie yet in the book when she comes home one night her mother is sitting on the couch after fighting with astrid over gabriel and vivian has no siblings only her father died in the book br br aiden accepts for what she is this really got me he kills rafe in the creepy church confronts vivian and she saves him from the others wolves except aiden shoots her so they off to find medicine and then they try to leave the city together wtf in the book aiden freaks out when she turns into a wolf and cries like a chick throws stuff at her and so she panics and jumps out the window then he makes up a story that he tried to break up with her and she threw a chair out of the window that doesn't sound accepting to me br br aiden wants her to runaway with him in the book he wants nothing to do with after she turns for him nor does he lovingly hold her face and say she can control it he cries like a woman because he is scared of her br br and the final indignation the one that nearly gave my three best friends and i heart attacks in our seats br br in the movie aiden and vivian run away together and has killed gabriel as in she shoots him gabriel dies in the book not only does vivian not kill gabriel i do believe they end up together as in she doesn't end up with aiden she ends up with gabriel what the hell br br small things were noticed too red hair which he gets from astrid has been changed to brown in the movie and vivian works at a chocolate shop br br a horrible shock i am ashamed the book really wasn't hard to follow if disney can use a random h school why couldn't the directer have found a random h school br br sigh i was really looking forward to this movie i loved the book it's sad that it didn't follow it one bit i give it a 2 only because as the top of this review states rafe played by bryan dick was dead sexy and agnes bruckner did a wonderful job and they kept the poem from br br with love br br caitlin
0	the movie blood and chocolate is nothing like the book the plot has totally changed and whoever chose the cast needed to read the book first the girl is not an introvert aden is vivian was the one that chased aden her mother was to have survived and be the one after gabriel astrid was the one that did all the murders along with ralf an ex of gabriel is not old he is old looking and aden did not get vivian in the end gabriel did the title came from vivian comparing kisses from aden sweet like chocolate and gabriel delicious like blood she picked blood because it promised more and he understood her more that reminds me gabriel is not against humans like in the movie he just avoids intimacy with them because they hurt him in the past really the book is sooooooo much better than the movie but if you want o see running a dating montage and a lot of jumping then this is the movie to see
0	i read the book after seeing the movie and didn't care for it finding it somewhat trashy but trashy books often make good movies and this one certainly could have the story of a teen girl's exploration of her attractive power over boys which she finds as irresistibly stimulating as it is doubtfully and which has an even tighter grip on her than it would on a normal girl because it affects her through her this story would have an obvious appeal to the young audience for which movies are made an appeal of one kind to girls and of another kind to boys and i don't understand how the movie makers could be blind to that and turn the story into one with little appeal to anybody br br to begin with take the title which is the best thing about the book it's drawn from a quotation also used as an about a person running in fear and tasting both blood and chocolate in his mouth one tasting as bad as the other this is a wonderful metaphor for the heroine's state torn between her human and wolf sides savoring each but equally fearful of both the movie dispenses with the and instead introduces the character working in her aunt's chocolate shop i can understand how the book's title might have suggested to the movie makers the erotically charged chocolates of like water for chocolate and led them to want to link the same symbol to werewolves but they didn't so why is it in the movie in the book the characters are in high school or in and out as with the five a teen gang who favor black jeans and t shirts and fall somewhere between being the heroine's nemeses and her pet peeves in the movie they've become decadent twenty something in the book the heroine is 16 just of an age to be discovering how her sexuality operates on the boy she wants as well as on herself she's the one who initiates the contact then steps back re initiates and so on in the movie she's no longer a girl but a woman and the guy is no longer a high school poet on the fringe of campus life but a fugitive from the law and a comic book artist to boot it's he who comes on to her in a manner as unattractive as that of her wormy cousin she initially puts him off but then gives in as he's confident she will hey you know you want it i would have thought a female director would have taken the chance the book offered to show a female protagonist in an role but no br br in the book the heroine's clan is driven from their home because of the five's delinquent behavior in the movie it's because she went for a run she's a great runner prone to kicking off from building walls and both she and her scale buildings in a trice very like heroes of martial arts movies and very unlike wolves or anything resembling them in the book they don't turn into actual wolves but things bigger than wolves in the movie they're just ordinary wolves in the book they metamorphose in howling style with crunching of spines this is one of the things that make the heroine aware of the pain her body brings her as well as the pleasure in the movie the werewolves have become magical taking great swan dives and transforming in mid air shimmering yellow like tinker bell it looks cool means nothing br br in the book the clan is a slightly white trashy family that has relocated from west virginia to maryland in the movie they live in bucharest but all talk in different accents none romanian in the book nearly the whole pack want to lead normal lives and agree that to insure that and indeed their survival one necessity is to keep their true nature secret from humans and so the characters keep saying in the movie yet the head of the clan is some kind of underground boss but apparently not a crime boss since he despises criminals and has a standing deal with the police who supply him with meat for the pack this seems a big exception to the rule of keeping humans from knowing but maybe the police are considered safe because of their known tolerance for eccentricity and cult murder br br at the end of the book the heroine learns she can't be something she's not when in her effort to live a divided life she gets stuck between the human and animal states unable to be all one thing or the other her boyfriend isn't sure or strong enough to accept her for what she is the pack can't risk having him around and the two are forced to separate in the movie she rescues him like lassie and they drive off to paris why paris in an ending that's smiley faced but not really happy since the conflicts between their natures between her natures remain unresolved br br but the difference in the movie that hampers enjoyment the most is that whereas the book characters behave conventionally within the realm of young adult novels those in the movie for some reason have been made as annoying as possible every other line is a threat or some other kind of you'll be sorry you don't belong here you won't get rid of me i gave you your chance etc i prefer to steer clear of people who deal in that way br br there have been many good vampire movies never a good werewolf movie had this one stuck to the book it might have been the first br br but no
0	i think the best way for me to review this title is to split it into its pros and cons br br pros they turn into wolves rather than plastic cartoony monsters the chase of the wolves through the forest cash machine by hard fi being played br br cons some parts of the script makes you cringe for example the terrible part where the woman escapes the of the fortunate five boys and there's about half an hour of dear cousin and a round robin of yes see we know gabriel's law the diving transformation is ridiculous the obvious and ridiculous ending aiden being told thousands of times to leave and then goes if you cared about me you would have left me the obvious characters the unnecessary the completely unnecessary slashing of the arm by aiden cringey speeches by gabriel br br you see what i mean br br i adore werewolf films and i tried watching this a few times to see if i'd like it better but it just made it worse i think i'll just read the book and see how i get on br br don't bother with this unless you have a 12 year old brother or sister into spooky things anyone over that age may suffer and want their hour and a half back
0	this straight to video cheap flick is based on a true story i don't doubt it doesn't mean it's particularly interesting unless you are one of the main characters who actually lived though this experience a young woman named angela buys a great big old country home really really cheap well as we all know from watching horror movies when you buy a big house cheap it usually means it's haunted in some way shape or form in fact the second the house is being handed over to angela the wise guy kid who lived in the house up to now takes a moment to introduce angela to one of the ghosts nice guy huh angela gets in touch with a psychic and a paranormal expert and tells them that her house is haunted and invites them to come over and see the ghosts for themselves they come to a party and sure enough there are ghosts walking around sitting on the couch hanging in the garage and trying to seduce people in the bathroom a few friends sleep over the night of the party see the ghosts and vow never to come back in the house again check out the girl who i'm so scared i'm so scared totally emotionless if she was so scared why didn't she get up turn the knob and leave the ghosts don't really do anything menacing aside from show up and there is no or aura about them they look just like regular people they steal celery from the kitchen move chairs around a la poltergeist and one bisexual female ghost seduces angela who get this doesn't seem to mind this scene plays like the kind of soft core porn you see on the spice channel ummm not that i'd know hahaha the actresses aren't your typical porn stars though they should hit the beach and the gym more when not making love to the dead she gets mad at them and stands alone in a room screaming why won't you leave this is my house get out they don't leave i couldn't help but think of all the times i've heard psychic sylvia brown on tv saying that if you have a ghost in your house you should calmly rationalize with the ghost and say look you're dead it's time to cross over to the other side in other words get out according to sylvia brown as long as your not hostile and nasty about it they'll leave this movie looks like it cost about 50 to make it has a really cheap feel and bad acting i could have made this movie with 5 friends and a camcorder
0	being a history buff i rented this movie because of the subject matter the idea of the ellis island experience at the turn of the century focusing on one small group is intriguing unfortunately the movie falls flat much of the story is simply boring nothing much happens for long stretches the director uses goofy imagery offered up in the form of daydream sequences in an apparent attempt to break up the glacial pacing but instead it clashes with the authentic look and feel of the movie the characters are also poorly drawn in the end we don't really care as much about them as we should it's a shame that this wasn't what it could have been i would still like to see a good movie about the american immigrant experience but this one isn't it
0	this movie is supposed to take place in milford nj i know the house that it is based on as well as the person as you see at the end of she was killed in the world trade center incident i know that because i was one of the police officers that helped with the identification of her remains she was the only one in our area lost the nudity in the movie went a bit far i am not a prude but the actors could have filmed the scene with the two woman without actually showing the whole thing this movie is in poor taste and i cannot see how her family would give there blessing to it this is an insult to the person whom it is based on
0	this junk bore as much resemblance to the novel as a pickle slice does to a cucumber the film makers took the alamo section out of the book made it into a movie and said it was based on the book hah wonder what they did to induce mr michener to endorse this piece of fluff it was just another davy crockett flintlock rifle santa ana 13 days of glory collection of poppycock i almost started rooting for the mexicans just to get the damn thing to end and what was that scene where stacey keach was trying to get james bowie to let him look at the knife the sexual innuendos he used were juvenile and unnecessary they could have used the film they wasted on that silliness to put in some real dialogue this show was an embarrassment to hollywood or can those clowns be embarrassed
0	i should have realized that any two video set being sold for only 6 would be bad i even read the reviews before watching this film and that still didn't sway me i loved the book and i knew it couldn't be as bad as people said br br yeah it is br br a patchwork of film video and what appears to be stock footage combine to make a three hour tour of one chapter of james a michener's epic novel well the time period covered was one chapter but i don't remember many of the situations actually occurring in the book the packaging on my copy of the movie gives maria conchita alonso top billing though it turns out that she is only in one speaking scene on the second tape br br the actors are to be commended for playing their roles well despite a smarmy overwrought script they are to be insulted though for accepting the roles in the first place
0	i rented this movie to get an easy entertained view of the history of texas i got a headache instead the depiction of history in this movie is so comical that even mad tv would not have done a better job
0	the texas revolution of to 1836 including the periods preceding and immediately following is depicted in this mediocre 3 hour made for television film whose only redeeming value is bringing light and paying homage to stephen f austin the so called father of texas whose life story had long been overshadowed by that of the legendary sam houston the rest of the film is simply the usual santa anna is a tyrant storyline and with a weak attempt to show the mexican perspective with a fictional hispanic character displaying stereotypical latin machismo combined with short low budget battle scenes such as the and san jacinto this film is recommended only for real history buffs who who do not come from mexico to its credit the mexican uniforms look accurate and the romantic subplot another love triangle doesn't take up too much screen time overall this movie depicts the violent secession movement by texas' anglo saxon racial minority to be a positive and just revolution against mexican tyranny as personified by the general antonio lopez de santa anna the so called napoleon of the west
0	although it's been hailed as a comedy drama i found to be mostly depressing it's hard to imagine how spike lee could look back affectionately on so much chaos petty cruelty irresponsibility and mean spiritedness
0	crystal voyager is a strange documentary about an eccentric surfer living in australia an american by birth george has surfed and photographed himself friends and recently dolphins in australia for 35 years all using various re invented cameras which he either straps on his back board or boat in the mid 70s he teamed up with surf mag editor and budding film maker david to create this visually interesting tale about this life and photography the 75 minute feature crystal voyager is the result even in the 70s audiences were a bit puzzled by this film neither surf ing movie nor surf movie because george swims about on a children's zippy board not a real surfboard it offset the tedious droning of george occasionally so dry or droll that it was actually funny like almost setting himself on fire or falling over something with a spectacular 'you are there' power glide through a wave that ran for 23 minutes all set to pink floyd music in 1974 when the sydney opera house opened it also contained a cinema crystal voyager was booked in there as an arty sporty oz pic and by default became a hit as the house cost far more than a movie ticket audiences flocked to see this film as an excuse to 'have been to the sydney opera house' so the film did record business as a low budget attraction to locals and tourists who wanted to tell neighbors that they had seen a show 'there' this created this myth that the film was a huge crowd and the reputation spread as a result it was teamed with the fantasy cartoon fantastic planet and had a trippy run through the uk and europe as a double feature i ran it at a coastal cinema in the 70s and the crowd was rather nonplussed about it all recently george has re emerged lord of the flies style with another well photographed sea adventure called dolphin glide that offers viewers a dive and swim with the wild dolphins of byron bay it is an eccentric 20 min short with an even more eccentric 20 min 'how george did it' short each were met with a collective yawn by both the media and the pubic in january 2005 all of which makes crystal voyager a 'you had to have been there' fluke all those years ago however at a special oz surf night at an outdoor cinema last year 2000 people turned up but then 2000 turn up every night to see anything there during this summer season of films so the damned thing another box office binge how many actually enjoyed it is very much open to debate again they were more than likely just plain puzzled by this mad film with an astonishing reputation however since 1975 has gone onto a stellar career as a major producer and director of many lauded australian and international films look up no worries or starstruck or undercover or rabbit proof fence or love in limbo for clear and present applause at his achievements george however is still floating around out there somewhere droning away and looking for something else to film or drop a camera on
0	well to start off i was like wow this is new so when is the film starting and out of this in between stuff but it never ended the film is just one big in between and after 10 minutes of waiting for something to actually happen apart from water splashing around i just started getting angry there is nothing in this documentry and nothing will be learned completely boring and rubbish
0	i wish i had read the comments on imdb before i saw this movie the first 1 hour was ok though it did make me wonder why everything was centered at chicago and why no one reported any weather anomaly from outside us isolated acts of nature of this magnitude are unthinkable but beyond the first 60 minutes the movie just drags on like a never ending story the screenplay is horrible as for the actors very poor choice only the people hired to run in panic stick to their roles but i do have to agree that this movie has got some good 'special effects' if you rented it on a dvd and would want to watch the movie despite the reviews then play it on maximum speed your player would allow
0	there have been some great television movies in that past epics such as roots and lonesome dove come to mind category 6 day of destruction will not be remembered for advancing the cause of made for tv movies a laughably bad story surpassed only by the horrible screenplay as i like to call it inspires more sympathy for the actors involved than terror in nature that the movie was supposed to bring out that sound you hear during the movie is supposed to be the sound of wind but instead it's actually the careers of randy quaid brian dennehy and thomas gibson greg of the dharma greg duo plummeting faster than houses and trucks and cows can fly away from one of the 15 tornadoes we see in the first 5 minutes of the movie the movie was advertised as nature gone amok instead we get a lame story about how 15 different weather systems conspire to produce 150 degree days in chicago then a blizzard the next day from a hurricane that was in the gulf of mexico that combined with a storm system from canada but actually had it's origins in a jet stream changed by global warming enough it didn't matter what the story was the acting was terrible the words the actors said were dumb and 13 scientists throughout the country had after hearing the dribble that came out of the movie i didn't care what happened to any of the characters the special effects were sub par even for made for tv standards and the story lines were pointless all in all i really really dislikes this tv event
0	talk about being boring br br i got this expecting a fascinating insight into the life of the man who wrote the mythical night on the galactic railroad i expected to see crazy stories and hijinks of an eccentric man and to discover his inspirations for such bizarre material boy was i wrong br br spring and chaos is mostly boring with only sporadic moments of innovative animation it's certainly nothing to write home about and nowhere near as good as which is something that i suggest you watch instead leave this bore alone if you absolutely must see then either rent it or find it somewhere cheap do not pay top dollar
0	br br never ever take a film just for its good looking title br br although it all starts well the film suffers the same imperfections you see in b films its like at a certain moment the writer does not any more how to end the film so he ends it in a way nobody suspects it thinking this way he is ingenious br br a film to be listed on top of the garbage list br br
0	this made for tv film is about every cliché you can come up with for a disaster movie the only problem is it isn't very well done br br my brain is still insulted from the scenes in which brian dennehy is supposedly looking at a computer monitor looking for weather pattern data and showing on that monitor are stock footage scenes of weather turmoil ala the weather channels commercials why would watching local news footage of a washed out side street give insight to global weather patterns you got me br br also interspersed through out the first two hours are some of the worst cgi effects known to man watch for the semi truck and the airplane that look like they were rendered on a commodore 64 br br all the foreshadowing in this movie is done with the subtlety of a sledgehammer the dialog is forced and i can't think of a likable character that i want to survive the second half br br the character i hate the most is the stupid wife who's husband is cheating maybe if she lifted a finger at anytime during the show instead of being a helpless woman who stands in the the same 10 square feet of the kitchen all day her husband wouldn't be sleeping with the pr rep for a rival energy company she is so helpless in fact i want to put her out of her and my misery i hope everyone in this movie dies in the second half
0	what a mess and i'm not referring to the destruction in the title i could go on about the hackneyed plot the lousy effects the actually notable cast grimacing as they deliver the worst lines of their careers etc i'll just say there weren't any palm trees in chicago the last time i checked and leave it at that br br hmmm need ten lines to get this posted on imdb ok well i think a dvd release with outtakes could be interesting maybe dennehy will reveal what favor got called in for him to appear in this thing maybe dianne will show us the bag of money it must have taken to get her involved maybe cbs execs will apologize
0	i can't believe i actually spent almost three hours of my life watching this this must be one of the most unbelievable predictable and cheesy television movies i have seen in a long time i was hoping for some good special effects and action instead i spent the entire time rolling my eyes and yelling oh come on at the screen the dialog is shallow and obvious the acting strained at times and as the story moves along isn't it just funny how everything happens at the same time not to mention the obvious and nauseating ending now i've seen more than my share of disaster movies i am a big fan actually and think that often they can pull off completely unrealistic stuff as long as it's done in a fun way but this is definitely not it this is just an insult to intelligent viewers everywhere what were they thinking when they made this movie
0	i think category 6 day of destruction was very unrealistic the digital effects where like a children's cartoon br br the actors didn't act realistically for example when the girl was shot she acted like she got tomato sauce on her br br the movie was boring but i watched it because it was on br br the only interesting character was tornado tommy he was funny br br please keep the special effects real br br i liked the comment what did we do to p i s s off mother nature br br i don't know what else to write to fill up the 10 lines what else can i say the movie is so boring i think my comment will be equally boring
0	what is this its so bad the animation looks so terrible it looks like a ps1 type game the actors are awful they just cannot act to save their lives i sat through all of this film an then at the end i was annoyed when i realised i had wasted 3 hours of my life i've not heard of this film did it ever actually come out in the cinema or did it go straight to dvd a girl got shot what is up with that it was just a stupid film they totally copied 'the day after tomorrow' its got to be one of the worst films i have ever seen i would definitely recommend to people to not waste their time with this you could spend your time watching 'the day after tomorrow' its a lot better well thats what i think of the film actually why have i wasted my time writing about it ah dam its really annoying me its wasted 3 hours and 10 minutes now
0	the first two hours of the televised version are full of character and plot exposition after an early brief sequence of las vegas being hit by tornadoes the action doesn't really start until the second two hours still some character relationships don't become clear until the second part the actors turn in competent performances but nothing special however better than those in aftershock earthquake in new york an exception is randy quaid whose character is superfluous and incredibly annoying the plot is a pretty standard mix of parts of independence day speed the day after tomorrow earthquake the towering inferno and several other films you can predict what will happen next and come close to predicting the dialog word for word the special effects are unbelievably bad despite the effects in twister the tornadoes in this film seem less realistic than the one in the wizard of oz and other effects were obviously done for less money than such series as csi and cold case spend on the totality of a single episode if you have to see a made for tv disaster film see the day after asteroid or special bulletin instead you'll get better plots acting and effects
0	this one was truly awful watching with fascinated horror i kept on asking why have they done this that is taken all the scenarios out of the day after tomorrow the perfect storm and twister and them in a three hour miniseries directed by long time junk tv director dick lowry with every disaster movie cliché known to man and not an ounce of real suspense many of the cast were unknown canadians and location filming was done in canada doubling for chicago so no doubt tax breaks had something to do with it although some ambitious special effects were attempted the execution is so poor no decent spectacle is achieved the actors may be a competent lot the script is so bad no one had a chance to show it except perhaps for randy quaid as tommy the tornado chaser who went right over the top and was quite amusing br br believe it or not the producers have since made another one of these canadian disaster turkeys called category 7 – the end of the world which was very tastefully shown on cbs in the us a few weeks after hurricane katrina how could the network of ed murrow and walter cronkite do such a thing in prime time pt barnum nobody ever went broke underestimating public taste is proved right once more
0	the only reason i know this film exists is because i wanted to see what nancy had been up to since the facts of life ended when i searched her name up came this relatively new tv movie after much investigation i managed to locate a copy was thoroughly disappointed with what i viewed d grade acting poor script terrible fx it was like watching a toned down more stupefied version of day after tomorrow that went for 3 hours despite the long running time the characters remain fairly under developed we do not care about them in the slightest in most cases are longing for their demise combine that with terrible lighting cinematography you have a real disaster of a film how they con so many name actors i e dianne randy quaid brian dennehy to appear in such trash is mind blowing in summary i want those 3 hours of my life back
0	what i hate most in this garbage is the arrogant attitude of the film makers and network execs who foist this nonsense on the public because they really think the audience is so stupid so undeserving so tasteless as to deserve these kind of cons there is an inherent entertainment is seeing disaster movies and with the magic of today's cgi effects artists are given powerful tools to explore what before was denied them with that allure we sat down to watch some mayhem and destruction well guess what the only mayhem we saw was in the ads touting next episode what a let down but wait there was even a bigger one the script itself was the bigger disaster and then there was the direction and the flaccid acting by everyone involved in this turkey but we knew this before right we knew that effects alone do not an entertainment make but yet the network bozos who this tv movie didn't care about that because in their mantra is the everlasting line never underestimate how stupid the audience are these guys must actually live by this motto and i am so fed up of it no wonder the audience has abandoned us drama in droves and pitched their camp in reality shows at least in those programs no one is trying to make it look like anything different from what it is intellectual pornography well category 6 is worse than that because it assumes to be different and original yes this was a disaster movie alright but the disasters are not what they advertised
0	contains major spoilers on the off chance you would actually care about the story line br br ok we have storms that destroy a city and a computer hacker who the power grid br br predictable schlock from the start and if that weren't enough the 5 second action bumps between the movie and the commercials kill what little suspense there might have been for example will they make it to the airport in time things look dim as we go to a the action shot before the ad shows them bouncing around inside the plane well i guess they're gonna make it after then again they had to because they're good guys br br the acting wasn't any too impressive exception and welcome relief randy quaid as tornado tommy the effects were kinda lame the bad guys got it and the good guys came through the real disaster of this movie was the script especially the ending not only did they wrap things up happily as quickly as a soap opera given 24 hours notice of a cancellation but they glorified the hacker as well intentioned so he caused a bazillion meant well and of course an uplifting final tv report about people coming together barf it was everything i expected from the commercials and i'm glad i wasted my time watching it it will make great conversation at the lunch table tomorrow br br is cbs insulting us by making this we watched it didn't we did you count many ads there were for home backup generators during this pig br br here's hoping for the next plan 9 from outer space which gets better with each viewing this isn't it br br 1 star
0	this is possibly the worst movie i've ever seen it was horribly done it didn't flow it was very choppy because of that many people didn't understand the movie at all i had to watch this movie several times before i got an idea about what was happening ok its like this a kid stole someones car and while running from the police he totals it for some reason the cops let him off and he has to face his parents who sent him to live with his uncle out in the wilderness there he meets a girl who loves to rock climb and he gets into the sport and has to beg his uncle to let him enter a contest for climbing and yeah thats about it like i said horrible movie
0	this movie has to be the worst film i have seen there is a reason it was made to be a mow movie of the week the continuity was all wrong palm trees in a chicago setting even though it was filmed in toronto canada the effects were left to be desired for the year of 2004 hello lord of the rings had better cgi than that but i guess they also had the money for it the budget will for sure affect the outcome but anyone that calls this mow more than a 2 needs to go back to film and tv school next time remember that care and time make a classic not rushing for a tornado box office or tv smash hit br br also i know networks can reuse footage from old networks or but using 80's footage for 2004 i have a hard time buying that
0	this movie is something horrible i was laughing all the time i was forced to stop in some scenes because my mom thought it's not polite to laugh when people are dying but in this movie even death looks ridiculous especially when tornado tommy is sucked into one tornado br br explosions of cars thrown onto buildings by the forces of wind look like ones from the old school side game called r type dialogues are very bad and i am interested how they managed to persuade some of the actors to play in this movie it is simply amazing how such bad movie can make it into the tv br br only real reason to watch this movie is to have some fun of nonsense and absurdity
0	i expected this movie was originally supposed to show before the election cbs's last shot at throwing a dig at bush this movie was just awful yet i'm still watching it minor spoiler i think cbs got the same people who provided the to do the semi cut in half sequence what is with the bad boyfriend storyline can the acting be more contrived or the dialog more like a ed wood movie who ever came up with this script please do us a favor stop writing if you want to see decent b grade disaster movies then see earthquake flood etc avoid this mess of a movie hint to cbs avoid showing us this crap give us re runs of csi instead better acting and more believable
0	anyone who complains about peter jackson making movies too long should sit through this cbs event there's about 45 minutes of story padded by 2 hours of unnecessary subplots featuring bland by the book tv drama clichés bad science is a staple for crappy weather disaster movies so i'm not going to complain about that silly science can be fun to watch if it's executed in an amusing fashion what kills this movie is it's 10 subplots all of which could be excised without destroying what is supposed to be the central plot the one character that is entertaining to watch in category 6 is tornado tommy despite being a very annoying stereotype br br note that i also didn't bother commenting on special effects their quality should come as no surprise br br not recommended
0	if you thought day after tomorrow was implausible wait till you see this br br okay so the premise of most disaster films is usually a 1 in billion event occurring compounded by other circumstances in this case the even is the joining of two huge storm systems fair enough so far oh but hold up no the event is the sabotage and subsequent destruction of the power grid br br next throw in loads of human interest elements in this case a cheating husband a psychotic gun wielding boyfriend a rebellious daughter a hacker with a point to prove a senator trying to push an agenda a reporter trying to stand up against the man and a pregnant women stuck in an elevator br br finally add a handful of taster events to add excitement br br jeez if the director tried to fit in any more meaningless plot lines there would have been no time less for the actual disaster which given the pitiful state of the computer graphics was almost certainly the intention br br jeez if you can't even model a truck convincingly you really should not be taking on twisters exploding power stations las vegas getting ripped apart or destroyed oil stations br br in case you didn't already gather how appalling this movie is let me just add that all three bad guys get killed in separate and wholly ungratifying implausible manners that stunk more of moralising that good film making br br i'm have no problem with first month film students writing jaded hackneyed cliché soaked scripts but for god's sake that doesn't mean anyone has to make them into movies br br it manages to make the abysmally implausible 10 0 apocalypse look not quite so dreadful avoid them both
0	a wasted effort on the surface it's a typical disaster movie we're involved in the lives of a few people who get caught up in the big event however the script is so awful and there's so much explaining of the characters' background within the dialogue that we feel we're being treated like morons even sesame street didn't explain the origins of mr snuffleupagus or how mr hooper died we can work it out someone thought that entering into the script would give it currency when discussing power companies the acting is by and large bland with the exception of the older performers randy quaid brian dennehy and after the first hour i couldn't care less about who the storms took out br br but maybe there are the special effects to watch sadly no even on a 20 year old tv set i could see one tractor and trailer were computer maybe there are budgetary limitations so i can forgive that one footage of a plane trying to land looked pretty real but i kept telling myself i had seen that before this site confirms it it was from an earlier film nowhere to land br br so in summary the only good bits are from another film and when you see the best action sequences compressed into a 30 second network promo it makes category 6 look quite good my advice rely on your network to do some good 30 second clips watch them and save yourself two nights
0	i hope that matt dorff's original script for this was much better there are signs of it dialogue that should happen well before big f x scenes to introduce characters that would make sense much earlier is jammed in later in the time line perhaps the original script was for a longer running time but maybe not in any case this reeks every character is uninteresting and everybody speaks expository passages as if they are speaking the word of god there are characters that are entirely expository dianne secretary abbot is just awful explaining things to her assistant and incidentally us in endless speeches that no one would say to anyone ever in real life when she isn't explaining things to her assistant that she already knows her assistant explains things to her that she already knows there are characters who are entirely one dimensional the evil power company guy the pilot who will just not shut up about his personal life and concentrate on his job the well meaning power company hacker guy who can crash br br everything in chicago including the phones and then gives the oh no what have i done speech but not leave himself a back door the crusading reporter who abandons her principles at the drop of a hat the power company shift supervisor who abandons his post in the middle of the worst crisis in chicago since the fire with no consequences hospitals abandoned by the doctors and nurses during the crisis i'm not kidding that's in the movie br br oh yeah and it's filled with hollywood morality clichés generally women are good men are evil unless influenced by a woman the ultimate is the punk with the gun deprived of a woman's influence he literally goes insane an evil stupid act like what the reporter did with hacker bozo is all right so long as you well' evil men die capitalist evil men die as horribly as possible everybody else lives well except randy quaid and did i hear someone say that the nuclear electrical power generating stations had to shut down because there wasn't electricity to run the safety systems think about that one br br there is one ray of sunshine if you'll pardon the expression randy quaid basically plays his character from independence day you know hello boys i'm this time as a storm chaser with an infinite range suv and batteries for his camcorders nevertheless they kill him mostly it seems so that the audience will appreciate that tornados are pretty dangerous things kinda shallow that br br give this one a pass
0	i was sitting at home and flipping channels when i ran across what potentially sounded like an interesting film i like destruction type movies and decided to watch it i don't know why but i ended up watching it the whole 2 hours we have seen this type of movie i don't know how many times br br back in 1998 2000 there were dozen of films that dealt with global destruction of some sort the best one on my list so far is deep impact which was more believable than this one here are my problems with this film 1 cheap special effects like something out of the old computer 2 no background information or explanation on weather patterns if you are going to make a movie about weather at least have some decency to entertain the viewer with technical details 3 how come only 2 or 3 people figure out that the storm is converging on chicago no more experts left in the field 4 where are some interesting characters i truly don't care for anyone except maybe the pregnant woman i felt that there was no character development 5 no thought provoking moment what so ever and factually incorrect theme and this is only the first part of the film i bet the conclusion will show us few destruction scenes and a search and rescue operation just like it has been done many times before and judging by the special effects in the first part of the movie i can only imagine what we are to expect of course at the end the main characters will survive and life will go on how original
0	without doubt one of the worst films ever made sluggish and without structure tension or story the film coasts on the thin premise of putting together a show conflicts are resolved within two or three seconds of their inception and dialogue is random and incidental everything is put together in a slapdash order and often stepping out feels more like a deleted scenes reel than an actual movie the film seems to exist merely as a showcase for gaudy and totally random liza musical numbers shelly winters can be seen in the far superior epic tentacles and the real liza can be found in the showtime release of queer duck the movie
0	a coming of age story about a teenager rebelling against the church and her minister father in a small norwegian village the countryside setting is picturesque but the story is rather pretentious and plodding with much of the film devoted to quoting scriptures it's like watching a religious propaganda movie who has made only one other movie is pretty good as the sensitive young protagonist as are as her strict father and as a woman that is fascinated with the film aims to be fresh and charming but feels rather stale and tired director and co writer who has worked mostly in tv is not up to the task
0	as their entire career was a pale impersonation of the beatles it is no surprise that shortly after the great fiasco of the beatles magical mystery tour the monkees would follow up with their own insipid and creative morass of a movie called head both movies are not so much a true story with a plot though mmt attempted to define a plot as they are a hodge podge of skits and snippets interspersed with music and songs and out takes br br head has no plot other than the pre fab four trying to break free of the box they are in i e the type casting of being monkees and the surrounding commercialism and yet always finding themselves back in the box most skits involve breaks in the fourth wall and crossing over into other seemingly unrelated scenes filled with anti vietnam war messages and attempts by the group to show their other talents the film bounces around haphazardly also to be blamed on the multiple directors br br the film like magical mystery tour is now excused by some fans as wonderful symbolism and misunderstood artistic statements like mmt it is too many guys with access to too many drugs all trying to make something artsy and making crap br br like mmt head has some clever moments and offers some relatively unknown monkees songs that are quite decent it does develop a bit more charm than mmt and is a bit easier to sit through but it is not ironic at all that like everything else the monkees did this was just a mimicry of something the beatles did first even when it comes to laying an egg
0	the james dean story is introduced as a different kind of motion picture explaining the presence of the leading character in this film has been made possible by the use of existing motion picture material tape recordings of his voice and by means of a new technique dynamic exploration of the still photograph the only tape recordings of his voice noteworthy is one short recording mr dean make while visiting his family in indiana he wanted to record any family recollections of his great grandfather cal dean intrigued because he played a similarly named cal in east of eden dean asks if cal dean was interested in art and learns the relative was an james dean was interested in art and had warm relationship with his family obviously that's the only 100 accurate revelation in this documentary james dean was interested in art and had warm relationship with his family br br an amazing screen test outtake from east of eden appears near the film's end it's a black and white scene between dean as cal trask and co star richard davalos as trask dean is at his mesmerizing best if this scene appeared only here and no east of eden film was completed this documentary would be an essential high rated film but the scene a perfect 10 in isolation should be considered an east of eden extra dean's traffic safety film is also worth seeing br br there are the expected interviews with family and friends my favorites were the guy lew going through a box of stuff dean left with him and dean's family there wasn't enough from aunt and the letter from dean to his little cousin was very nice more reading of dean's letters would have been welcome dean's unidentified writer friend seemed to have a better thesis for the film filmmakers might have considered developing it as a main focus br br robert altman's direction of martin gabel's reading of stewart script is dreadful what were they thinking perhaps filmmakers can be forgiven due to the closeness of dean's passing don't expect the james dean story at all this movie is more about dean's effect on people both the fans and filmmakers than the man it is very clearly an early piece of the james dean myth making legend tommy sands sings let me be loved the narrative refers to dean as he with a god like air the shots of dean's family seeming to know the moment he dies are truly wretched br br the james dean story 8 13 57 robert altman james dean martin gabel richard davalos
0	this was a sordid and dreary mess i needed a shower when it was over it goes something like this some socialites are murdered and a woman homicide detective is assigned to the case she discovers that the victims belonged to an underground lesbian society and she befriends an associate of the group who may have relevant information since the detective is an attractive woman of course she is horny and intrigued which reveals much about hollywood and its psychosis about women what's surprising is that none of this is very sexy or interesting just depressing and yucky ellen barkin gives a respectable performance as the lead detective and julian sands provides unintentional laughs as a cross dressing psychiatrist which is why it escapes a one star rating
0	let's get right to the heart of the matter this is a terrible movie the story is confusing the supporting cast is laughable and the lead actors look like they were forced to be in it the story asks us to believe there is a underground lesbian sex cult where members are being murdered by their psychiatrist who just happens to be a transvestite ellen barkin investigates the crimes and develops a crush on peta wilson whose job it seems is to be the cult the sex scenes are equivalent to bad porn and when barkin and wilson kiss poor ellen looks like she's in pain barkin's talent is totally wasted in this b grade sexploitation piece of junk and i hope she gave her agent the pink slip after landing her in this film
0	br br very slow plodding movie with a confusing story line the movie's only hope of keeping the audience interested is the gratuitous nudity thrown in at regular intervals ellen barkin is miscast and her looks do not hold up when she is on screen with the much younger peta wilson not sure what this movie was about
0	this contains some spoiler information but the movie is not worth watching anyway br br why ellen barkin and peta wilson agreed to be a part of this debacle by writer director damian harris is beyond me the story is full of unrealistic police investigating techniques which includes going to a party with a suspect and inviting that suspect over to your house and getting intimate with them the tale also features a male psychiatrist who seems to have nothing but female clients and he sleeps with them all br br even more over the top is the notion that the female victims to a horrendous s m crime belong to a large yet secret group of s m lesbian executives br br full of bad editing and continuity errors the film is sterile in all of its ritzy locations including barkin's detective salary apartment and the lame dialogue is fit to put one to sleep br br damian is a bad writer and a bad director he tried and failed miserably to create a atmosphere at times furthermore he couldn't get ellen barkin to give 110 i firmly believe she realized the film was pathetic and gave up trying br br standouts were peta wilson who wasted time studying with a dominatrix for the part the highly under rated character actor marshall bell gave his absolute best as always br br and since damian couldn't deliver on any level it was hard to feel emotion for any of the characters br br most importantly he doesn't know much about the real world of bdsm and chose to create the typical hollywood reality of gorgeous men and women who are perverted and dangerous br br save your time money and braincells and pass this one by
0	as much as i love ellen barkin who is really underrated i have to boo this movie if you can't tell who did it and why in the first half hour you obviously have never seen a psycho sexual thriller or have never watched 20 20 it's like the filmmakers and actors didn't care that they way they were shooting it and they way they were playing the characters would be a dead giveaway br br overall this movie serves to turn on the dirty perverts who like to mix violence and sex not a fun movie to sit through although if you like ellen barkin it's nice to see her place a tough lady
0	this one is a bit more stylish than the average erotic thriller and peta wilson is a very sexy presence but it plays like they lost a few pages of script somewhere subplots come in and out of nowhere the connections between some of the characters are murky and the killer's motivation is unclear to say the least maybe they could get away with this in a porn version but here some more clarification is needed
0	mercy the movie actually starts out as a somewhat decent film and ellen barkin does give a strong performance but if you have read the book and actually got to know the characters and cared who done it the movie just does not compare it is always hard to brink a book onto film and this one ends up failing 3 out of 10
0	than you easily spot the biggest fault of the movie what was the motive the details of the murders were used but never explained i guess the team got too much into the atmosphere which is great but the story is definitely lacking there is no thread to follow i guess if that was done properly the movie would've lasted a bit longer but it would've been worth it at least for me br br casting is very good i loved wilson as the vulnerable vicky br br not much more to say really but i really wish they've concentrated a bit more on the less obvious br br
0	i got about halfway through this movie and was very disappointed it was just flat out boring and completely unrealistic i can get past being unrealistic in a lot of movies but not when it's supposed to be a crime drama thing the evidence collection and interview processes were just plain oddball i started fast forwarding to see how it ended and then got bored with that and just turned it off and returned it the main character played by ellen barkin just wasn't believable at all peta wilson acted very well in this film but her character was way out there and there wasn't anyone for her acting talents to play off of that made it work
0	at a saturday matinee in my home town i went with an older friend he was about 12 and my mom let me go because she thought the film would be ok it's rated g i was assaulted by loud music strange images no plot and a stubborn refusal to make any sense we left halfway through because we were bored frustrated and our ears hurt br br i saw it 22 years later in a revival theatre my opinion had changed it's even worse basically everything i hated about it was still there and the film was very 60s and has dated badly i got all the little in jokes too bad they weren't funny the constant shifts in tone got quickly annoying and there's absolutely nothing to get a firm grip on some people will love this i found it frustrating by the end of the film i felt like throwing something heavy at the screen br br also all the monkees songs in this movie suck and i do like them br br for ex hippies only or if you're stoned i give this a 1
0	this film tried but ultimately it was a waste of talent it tried to hard to be sexy i'm not putting down the works of such actresses as ellen barkin and peta wilson who will find something besides tv's le femme nikita worthy of her talents i just didn't find even in ms wilson's so called near seduction scene with mrs barkin any real emotion even though i know the thespians tried very hard to make the scene work if the sexual elements of wilson's disturbed sex victim didn't touch our heart which it didn't even by an ending it didn't deserve neither did the murder element of the plot perhaps it was the script or perhaps the direction but i didn't feel for anyone in this movie and without this feeling a movie doesn't work for me if you are interested in a movie about lesbianism there are a least two films on either side of the to check out 1 the pleasure of bound which works well in a noir setting and 2 the more honest and touching story of a lesbian growing up in hell's kitchen called all over me it's a well defined indie from the mid 90's that handles that coming of age issue with feeling not forced sexuality both would be a better rental than mercy which has next to nothing
0	i have read the 28 most recent comments by various people regarding this movie and was surprised that no one mentioned the fact that the first victim shown on the bed with the missing eyelids as the camera pans up and away from her face blinks yes blinks i recorded it as it came on hbo this past weekend and when i saw this i literally had to replay it several times focusing on one eye at a time to make sure that i was not seeing things of course after that it was hard to take the movie seriously although there were a few interesting and intense scenes with julian sands very disappointed and give it a 4 mostly due to the fact that the 1st victim blinks in one of the last frames as the camera pulls away from the body face too bad
0	i caught this on hbo under its category of guilty pleasures and i would agree that i felt guilty and pleasured watching it one it's trash and really raunchy trash two the plot is slow and predictable and once you learn who did it you think so what however i must admit to being enough of a male chauvinist pig to want to sit through what is obviously a poor movie if for no other reason than to see peta wilson get completely naked a number of times do i feel dirty for having watched it yes am i sorry i watched it no so there's the contradiction between being a lover of good movies and a lover of the female anatomy even when in a poor movie sigh
0	first of all even imdb is with this movie as the list of cast is very even main characters are missing from it like buddy for example br br now back to the movie i love watching movies but this one tortured me throughout the whole 82 or however many minutes it was horrid probably the worst movie i have ever seen and the reason why it bothers me so much is because i was quite excited about seeing it beforehand br br the plot line itself is good it could have been a great film if done properly and with careful casting golden brooks was a huge disappointment i now see that the only role she can be good in is the loud fun loving energetic sexy chick she plays on girlfriends melodramatic roles are not for her at all she basically killed her character rachel br br i love some of the cast like deborah cox mel jackson and darrin dewitt henson but even they couldn't save this catastrophic movie of course it is only my personal opinion that i can not stand hill harper as a man and he didn't help me get to like him more here either br br golden brooks' voice bothered me so much that i actually had to force myself to finish watching the movie it seemed like she whispered throughout the whole joint the director i won't even waste board space on he did such a bad job the editing photography camera focus and just about everything about this movie was sad not to mention the dialogs absolutely unreal and many times straight hilarious when it was supposed to make you cry and search deep within yourself br br as i said it could have been a very nice movie but it was seriously messed up i would not recommend it to anyone unless they are cinematography major and want to see a 'what not to do' example for their future work br br have a great day everyone
0	i have been a rabid star trek fan since 1966 still am one thing i learned from star trek is that the special effects are secondary to the characters encounter at fails in its mission br br superbly produced br br poorly directed written acted d c fontana really blew this one this episode is so embarrassing the master tape should be burned br br the first half of the first season didn't fare much better
0	the series does not start as it means to go on although it's first two seasons are crammed with incredibly average episodes as well as numerous duds afterwards the pace picks up and one of the finest space operas is born the first ever episode of star trek the next generation is remarkable for two things it's hugely enjoyable introductions to all of the main cast and marina peculiar accent which would later disappear seeing how it all began is very satisfying and viewed in mind of the rest of the series rather moving actually otherwise it is a very mediocre episode featuring q and some giant jellyfish that's right
0	is the kind of experience one waits an entire lifetime to avoid ranks as one of the worst film directors of all time if however you love bad films see this at all costs
0	the first thing you should know about is that it was shot on video so it has that peculiar home video ish look that is terribly distracting and makes it hard to take this seriously as a real film and indeed looks as if a bunch of amateurs got together for an attempt at a real serial killer thriller it's not quite that but it's not as bad as it looks either having a woman as one of the two detectives on the case puts a spin on the exploitation genre dona adams gives an appealingly amateurish performance in the role her obvious inexperience in front of the camera somehow works for her plus she puts up a great fight against the killer at the end the red herrings appear ludicrous at first but ultimately they work i guessed the killer incorrectly and you have to wonder if perhaps tarantino had seen the guy when he came up with the idea of the gimp for pulp fiction 1 2
0	wow this is the movie that should be shown on tv at two in the morning on cinemax for all those insomniacs lord knows they'd probably pass out from boredom watching this movie terrible acting the killer is quite far from scary i've seen clowns at carnivals that were scarier lot's of unnecessary in this film pseudo porn scenes which are just horrible in more ways than a million a soap opera style script which really hurt the movie and the director really had no flair for whatever genre he was trying to create with this film i could see a group of teenagers with their parents camcorders doing better work than this i don't think there is a part of me that could recommend this film to anyone
0	creepy and slasher movies have gone together like cheese and chives throughout the lengthy lifespan of the cycle people often assume that it was john carpenter that started the trend but as is the case with many of the genre's clichés the italians did it first movies like eyeball torso and blood and black lace were the originators of a hooded maniac in a murder mystery there were also a couple of american pre halloween slashers that warrant a mention classroom massacre keep my grave open and savage weekend clearly pre date 1978 whilst the town that dreaded sundown is widely regarded as one of the first teen kill movies br br carpenter's seminal flick may not have been the maiden masked nightmare but it certainly started the competitive race between directors to unveil the spookiest disguise for their bogeymen over the years we've seen some memorable contenders but my favourites would have to be my bloody valentine's maniacal miner the sadistic soldier and wicked games' copper faced assassin i'm also keen on many of the killer clowns that have made an appearance throughout the category the final scene in the house on sorority row has to be listed as one of the best and the clown of midnight also ranks highly amongst the greatest costumes br br a leather mask was probably the last type to be used in a slasher movie probably because they are widely linked with sexual perversion which of course doesn't exactly make for a scary disguise but in later years both blackout and this obscurity decided that fear could certainly be incorporated with a gimp suit here's how the later of the two br br the screen lights up with the rush of blue sirens as cops race to the scene of a hostage situation it seems that a stressed out gentleman has possibly had enough of being cast as an extra in cruddy low brow turkeys so he's decided to hold his wife and kid at gunpoint detective shine david clover manages to wrestle with the gunman but unluckily for him he looses the fight to grab a loose pistol and it looks like it's the end of the road for the grey haired officer fortunately he is saved in the nick of time by some precision marksmanship from lisa ryder donna adams the california police department's hottest female law enforcer br br her heroic encounter earns the brunette a promotion to detective first class and its a feat that is heavily envied by her male counterparts meanwhile a leather clad maniac is around town slaughtering hookers and dumping their bloody corpses on street corners ryder and shine are put on the case of the murderous gimp and their first call of questioning is a sleazy back street photographer called michael walker john mandell lisa is such a top notch inspector that normal police regulation doesn't seem to apply to her so before long she's dating the cameraman even though he's suspect numero uno when the bodies continue to pile up around the city she decides to go undercover in an attempt to flush out the s m br br if anything effortlessly sums up all that went wrong with the slasher genre towards the end of its rein what started as a great stepping stone for up and coming filmmakers and thespians had been reduced to a sewer of cinema by movies with flat direction zero suspense or shocks and talentless mediocre actors the boom years of early eighties splatter flicks managed to conceal their lack of strong dramatic line ups with gooey special effects and exciting directorial flourishes unfortunately by this point in the cycle titles like rush week deadly dreams and the had seemed to be produced in a conspiracy to put the category where many of the aforementioned characters ended up in an early grave br br donna adams doesn't even vaguely convince as an officer of the law and her inexplicably idiotic behaviour which includes doing a striptease for a top suspect in a nationwide murder investigation is more mind numbingly pathetic than you might ever expect it to be couldn't direct traffic and the wide majority of the cast members would struggle to get a second reading for a radio commercial i searched and searched but found nothing here of merit or note br br on the plus side if you manage to keep the tv turned on until the end then you may be fairly surprised by the killer's identity to be honest though i doubt that by that time you'll even care and another plus point well erm the disc is perfectly symmetrical which means that you could use it as a matt to place your cup of tea upon aside from that there's really no other reason to go out and buy bad bad bad and not in a good way this is 90 minutes of my life that i could have spent more constructively by plucking my chest hair abysmal
0	the monkees head is one of those peculiar phenomenons i've noticed that when something doesn't make sense people will try to read things into it and give it great deep meanings which its creator never intended such is the case here br br the movie is a stream of consciousness spectacle of the monkees floating in and out of various sketches blackouts set pieces etc similar to the ones on their tv show but while the tv show was played for laughs this doesn't seem to be played for anything except a sort of deep trippy pseudo intellectual state that this brand of psychedelia imposes all in all it's the monkees doing the same schtick but now it's consciousness raising because the laugh track is removed there is not a stitch of humor or meaning to the whole thing it just drones on with colored lights br br the music in head should prove to anyone beyond the shadow of a doubt that the monkees had not a scrap of songwriting ability the tunes are mostly garbage the only one that's even listenable is song which opens and closes the film but the thing is that was a gerry carole king song and while it's above average for the monkees it's below average by and king standards it's like hearing one of the old peter and gordon songs that paul mccartney wrote for them you might think it's a pretty good song but then you find out who composed it and you realize it's a throwaway mike nesmith's song is maybe passable the rest is worthless davy jones has i guess what the filmmakers imagined to be the big number in the picture since it's the only song presented as show biz and not cut into a film montage or dream sequence but it falls flat too just because the song isn't any good br br i have to admit i always liked the monkees so the movie is a real disappointment sure they were cheesy but they were so cheerful about it br br they knew they were cheesy and they were cool with it but then they got ambitious in head they actually joke about being a manufactured pop product but the truth is they wanted something more they wanted to be great musicians and taken seriously as artists maybe not like the beatles but something approaching that head proves that they failed on all counts 1 out of 4
0	og intense and enthusiastic is a documentary like story of a male choir up in in the very northern part of norway where the weather is cold and hostile the days are dark during the winter and the towns are faced with young people moving to the more populated parts in the south of norway where the climate is warmer and there are more opportunities br br the most beautiful part of this movie is the humans themselves the people in the choir who are aged from 30 to 95 all have unique colorful lives and are very enjoyable beings they are characterised by the harsh climate and the recession of the north and have adapted to the way of living required throughout the movie we learn a bit about many people in the choir and we follow them through songs some events in a church and on the harbour and in the end a trip to br br the outside environment filmed in the movie is very beautiful and characterised by the norwegian nature the scenography is also natural and taken directly from the choir and from the peoples lives that we meet r the bathroom the kettle on the oven there is nothing artificial about this movie not the people not the environment not their music and not their feelings everything is as real as can be br br it all loses out though when it comes to giving a story it is very beautiful and real but why do we see it is it because of the songs is it because of the nature or is it simply just to see a story about mens choir about their life and some of the trips they have the message if there is any is that this small society copes with life through such social events like the choir the choir have kept the people together for many many years br br it is all nice but being as popular as it has been seen by almost 200 000 in norway there is something wrong there is no beginning or end to it nobody gains or loses anything nobody reveals any message or tries to convince the audience of that this is good or that life up there is great why was this movie made br br i am sorry it is a nice movie about good people but compared to the average european scandinavian or norwegian movie this does not deserve a 9 out of 10 it is closer to 4 out of 10 and that is what i will give it br br if you see this movie in a theater you should expect the average age on the audience to be around 55 60 it has reported to be consistently high in all theaters maybe this is also the reason for it receiving such very high praise in the news and good grades also on the imdb it is a movie about elders for elders it is a movie of i regret nothing in my life and a story saying that living in a small town like might be a nice life too
0	i have read several reviews that ask the question why was this film made i myself found that question looming in my mind as the hour and twenty minute feature seemed to drag near the middle only to give off the sensation that it was picking up steam at the end when in actuality it was doing nothing of the sort so why was this film made i think that is a great question for those watching og to ask themselves this reviewer is proud of director erik jensen for giving us this powerful image of hope brotherhood and inspiration with this all male choir but i do not think that jensen did enough to bring a gripping story to the table let me pose this question to you do audience members need more in a documentary than just a straight forward story to maintain interest my answer is yes and this is where jensen failed og was a good documentary but it was far from great jensen did a horrible job with the story and dedication of the subjects it was great to hear the songs but over time those songs seemed dull overwhelming and a bit precocious from the opening scene where our men are singing their hearts out in a blinding snow i knew that i was hooked but as the film developed i lost interest why jensen never took us the audience members to the next level he kept the playing field level and ultimately hurt the overall tone of the film was this a movie about the music or about the men in the choir the world may never know br br again i would like to state that jensen did a phenomenal job of finding an interesting story about this group of men who have definitely seen hard times and how they coped with that through music but it was as if the all male choir were a bunch of the most boring men ever created jensen gave us the music superbly but it was the characters the subjects that i knew nothing about by the end of the film in the mix we had a 97 year old man who still had his driver's license we had a large man in a tub singing classic american songs we had old men who were once heartthrobs in their youth we had some tension between the youth of the choir and the veteran singers and we even had an ex drug addict that had only been clean for eleven years did jensen develop these interesting stories at all nope he left them on the table it was obvious that these singers were willing to talk further about it see the political man who missed his political days but jensen seemed to clear away from those heartfelt moments and head straight back into interesting places that he could have the choir sing to me the music was defined at the beginning of the film i wanted to be introduced and hear the stories of these individual men they were all captivating yet jensen seemed to ignore them completely br br by ignoring the major subjects of this documentary jensen became unsuccessful in creating any sort of tension towards the end without giving the ending away i felt like jensen was coloring in the lines instead of being bold outside the lines he chose to create no moment of sympathy emotion nervousness or sadness jensen took our subjects from point a to point b to point c without asking us to become involved in any way shape or form i can see how national sentiment had made this film into a huge success in norway but for everyone else watching i e me more was necessarily needed i wanted to feel for these guys i wanted to know if they were going to do well as they traveled or just find themselves loved in their own city there was no story mostly in part to no development of the subjects when you watch modern documentaries oddly this film was made in 2001 you want it to play out similar to any hollywood feature film you want suspense realism and drama alas with og you get nothing of the sort br br overall i must ask the question again why was this film made my final answer alex is that jensen wanted to show how troubling times and a changing economy can still produce happiness in even the coldest places of earth i think that jensen wanted to show human dedication and how something as simple as singing can unite a population with that said jensen demonstrated that perfectly in this film but he did not create a good documentary when you make a film of this nature i feel that you must look within the group examine the choir participants and hear each one of their stories to bring about an ending that will grip your heart the only thing that this film gripped was my attention span as it attempted to leave the room at rocket speed again i do not want to sound negative about this film because the music was excellent and the men singing did bring about a feeling of honesty but i needed more with documentaries becoming a bigger staple of the film community one expects a bit more than what og handed to us i want to see reality and people not just another song and dance routine br br grade out of
0	this is among one of many usa attempts of remaking a old classic british tv show that's more famous than this one from what i see none of you haven't mentioned or even acknowledged that you knew there was a tv 50's 60's called secret agent man the original secret agent man starred the great patrick mcgoohan the prisoner braveheart ice station zebra the phantom etc a man who was tapped to be the first james bond but he turned it down because mcgoohan was a very devout man and he considered james bond's bed hopping and violent ways to be against his values br br this show was done in black and white and it's a pity for those who haven't seen it you are missing out on a lot the character mr mcgoohan played in secret agent man was named drake and after he finished with that show he went on to the do the very popular though at times bizarre and controversial tv series called the prisoner the character he played in the prisoner was that of a agent who's identity is not revealed is kidnapped and transported to a island where he does not know where he is or who it was that is responsible for kidnapping him what he does know is that his captors want to know the reasons behind his resignation from the british secret service and on this island the populace don't have names but they are referred to by numbers and character is assigned a number which is 6 it was argued that his prisoner character was in fact the same character he played in secret agent man but mcgoohan himself disputed this br br there is the unmistakable famous theme song that the original secret agent man spawned it was written by johnny rivers a famous 50's and 60's pop musician and from what i read some of you are actually think that the song comes from this version of the show you're very wrong about that it was johnny's and it comes from the original tv series so let me help to set the facts straight to those of you who complained about the name of the show being stupid well in england it was actually called danger man and in the us it was retitled secret agent man for such a supposedly stupid name the show did well enough when it was first aired br br granted this current show has little to do with the original no such main character named drake in this one and i guess they did their best to make this show their version of secret agent man but it does use the redone version of the original theme song so that does tell you that this show was indeed meant to be a redone albeit however inferior redone version of the original series
0	i've watched hundreds of kung fu movies and i've heard some good thing about this movie so i decided to give it a try what i saw was one of the worst displays of movie making i've ever seen br br i can't help but feel like the director want to have every muscle guy in hong kong in this movie everyone overacts to the point of stupidity even conan the barbarian had some civility this movie just has half evolved men screaming in every scene and stupid women who has no self respect the narrator's character should've be killed for sucking so much she really didn't deserve to live til the end the entire movie was a melodramatic mess with horrible acting bad directing and bad action they should've just rename this movie to 'the stupid one armed caveman with a blade here's a question why do some director use quick cuts for some action movies answer to can hide the deficiencies of the actors nearly every scene was close up and quickly cut without any kind of flow the movie tried so hard to show intensity but it became almost laughable please stay away from this movie it you have any kind of taste in kung fu movies or any taste in movies
0	this is one of the worst movies i've ever seen it's supposed to be a remake or update of the one armed swordsman by chang cheh the ham fisted direction and crappy fight choreography mean that the fight scenes aren't even worth watching the script tries desperately hard to seem serious but is full of cliches like and i knew then that nothing would ever be the same again or if only i'd known what a heavy price i would have to pay ugh and who is that girl who plays sing someone find her and have her eliminated she's awful if you like chinese martial arts movies you'd be better off with lau gar leung this stinks
0	i've heard a lot about the inventive camera work and direction in this movie i thought both were a mess br br also some truly terrible acting the main 'heroine' in the movie is irritating beyond belief and has absolutely nothing useful to contribute in any situation everything she does or says is stupid and she generally just seems to mess peoples lives up if she could fight i might forgive her br br overall all the women in this movie are stereotypical in need of a man to save them and all the men in this movie are muscle bound dim wits capable of saving no one br br this is a poor movie and i urge you to avoid it watch something like 'the sword of instead i hear its much better than this confusing mess of a film
0	as jennifer used to say on square pegs gag me out the door i would definitely vote this movie on imdb's worst movie list br br dennis christopher plays t t a guy from chicago who goes to california his brother's jazz records he is supposed to be a barney placed in the locals only surfing community but he acts more like he is new to civilization just try to get through his sex scene without squirming there are also the on going adventures of the rest of the local population that the viewer must endure that of duke seymour cassell the volleyball expert who tries to get t t to act like a normal human being the obnoxious drunk surfers who cheat on their girlfriends and the guy who makes a bet with another that he can live in car for sixth months br br california dreaming is just a big old mess it starts out like a typical seventies romp complete with bad 70s music even though this movie came out one year shy of the 80s and dennis christopher comes off as the most irritable loser it makes the movie hard to watch keep your finger on the fast forward button even if this movie was supposed to be about the surfer culture the surf scenes are almost total garbage the people at the surf contest look as though they can't keep from falling asleep br br i guess the only cool thing is seeing tanya roberts outside of her role as midge on the sitcom that's 70s show and cassell wasn't bad he was just in a bad movie
0	seymour cassel gives a great performance a tour de force his acting as supposed washed up beach stud duke will always have a place in my heart the film is centered around a nerd who just came to the beach in hopes of honoring his dead brother's dreams what he gets is lame surf hijinks guys cheating guys fighting and guys getting drunk going to watch surf documentaries with the whole town of la on a friday night duke takes the nerd in and tries to teach him how playing volleyball is like touching a woman next time my woman talks back i will pretend i'm the ball br br back to seymour cassel the end of the movie turns into a good drama since the first half of the film really had no point duke plays a wonderful game of volleyball the best he's played in over ten years the way the scene is shot is beautiful you can feel the heart this man has for the game and the love of being on the beach those five minutes will go down as one of my favorites of all time 3 10 bad to fair the rest of the movie was lame
0	two little girls strike a friendship one tries to convince the other she's a witch the other is a pushover who bends to the would be witch's will on and on the movie drags with the pointless interaction between the two little girls with many a dramatic cut away as they pose shocking questions you know the kind sweet little children shouldn't ask such as how do you make a deal with the devil oooh creepy br br in the end the pushover is sick of being controlled by her witchy friend her belief that her friend is a witch leads to a tragic end but by the time it comes you won't care in the least br br i can imagine this film may have been frightening to a very religious 1960s mexican moviegoer but it doesn't even hold up as a charming relic it merely drags on it is boring it is pointless it is not to be watched br br there are many here who have a lot of good things to say about it based on their knowledge of the director's other works and of course that common denominator everyone says about pointless films ah the cinematography is wonderful those reviewers probably have a point but for the ones who found this movie with no prior knowledge who don't care about its photography its atmosphere or its whatever else it has for these viewers then who just want a good movie that will entertain them for an hour and a half do yourselves a favour folks br br skip it
0	as i sit and think about poison for the fairies i realize that i may not being fair with the film my rating of 3 10 may have more to do with my disappointment with the film than its actual quality or entertainment value based on the plot description reviews on imdb and the 7 6 imdb rating i would sure that i had stumbled on a little known gem sadly it just didn't do much for me for whatever reason poison for the fairies all but put me to sleep br br poison for the fairies is the story of two young girls in 1965 mexico city one of the girls veronica is a compulsive liar and tells her friend that she veronica is a witch the other girl flavia is so gullible that she believes and is frightened by everything her friend tells her that's really about it in reality nothing much happens and the film drags on and on as veronica attempts to terrorize and dominate flavia one commenter on imdb described it as the scariest film in 80's mexican cinema my comment – if that's the case there must not have been many horror films made in mexico in the 80s another commenter wrote watch it if you wanna get scared my comment – are you sure we're talking about the same movie my opinion is diametrically opposed to these examples i've given to me it was dull uninspired and poorly acted the scene framing is especially annoying as director carlos enrique doesn't ever show the faces of any of the other characters veronica and flavia carry on long drawn out conversations with members of their families and their teacher but we never actually see these peoples' faces it's an annoying gimmick
0	this is a poor excuse for a movie a film noir done by berkeley please first let's forget about the plot a truly simple minded version of a cynical tough guy turned into a saint by the love of a pretty blonde so what turns her from despising him to loving him along with a group of other guys he helps keep a kid from drowning as they all swim in a water tower and try to survive as the water is off them it isn't exactly heroics but she's suddenly smitten it's truly painful to watch claude rains trying to portray a hard bitten tough talking noir type cop a crooked grimace is his main and rather pathetic acting tool along with a growling voice most of his energy seems to go into trying to hide the intelligence that shines in all his other roles how he ever got talked into taking this job i'll never understand enjoy it if you can for a few period details the old cars and gas pumps but don't expect a decent film experience it wasted 1 1 12 hours of my life
0	the mad monster starts in dr lorenzo cameron's george zucco laboratory as he perfects his discovery of how to turn a human being into a vicious wolf like monster by injecting animal blood into a human subject who happens to be his dim witted servant glenn strange apparently he plans to put the serum at the disposal of the war department who will use it to create an unstoppable army of these monsters the ultimate soldier however first things first as dr cameron has his sights set on some sweet revenge on the people who dismissed his experiments forced him to resign subjected him to public ridicule dr cameron puts his plan into action uses his monstrous creation to murder professor blaine robert strange in an unfortunate turn of events dr cameron is unable to control the beast is spotted by a local farmer jed harper eddie holden who spreads the news like wildfire in another unfortunate coincidence a reporter named tom gregory johnny downs gets wind of the story starts to investigate he starts to suspect dr cameron since gregory is going out with his daughter ann he has plenty of opportunity to sniff around br br directed by sam this is really low budget stuff from the 40's even worse it's dull unoriginal low budget stuff the script by fred drags the extremely thin premise out to almost 77 minutes which is far too long there is no variety in the story it's basically the same thing over over the character's are dull clichés the mad scientist who conducts pointless experiments that create a monster the fragile pretty daughter the reporter who plays the hero by pure coincidence happens to both be investigating the mysterious deaths said mad scientist is responsible for is romantically involved with his daughter the dumb servant stupid idiotic police stereotypical shotgun wielding farmers who are always accused of being drunk this was probably clichéd even back in 1942 the film plods along at a fairly slow pace director never manages to maintain or generate much in the way of excitement or atmosphere which is a bad thing technically the film isn't great obviously the budget was minuscule the mad monster itself looks lame resembling an old homeless wino who hasn't shaved for a few weeks has had a pair of plastic joke shop fangs placed in his mouth the black and white cinematography is basic static like most films from this period while the good dr cameron's laboratory consists of a couch a table with a few sorry pieces of scientific equipment on top the acting is stiff wooden with looking like he's on dope throughout the entire film zucco as the mad scientist doesn't convince is forgettable the mad monster is a pretty lame horror film there is very little here to entertain although at least i made it through to the end in a single sitting which when i think about it is a bit of an achievement in itself
0	not to be confused with the 1943 george zucco movie the mad ghoul the mad monster is a film that zucco appeared in the year before in this fairly paint by numbers affair zucco perfects a way to turn his dim witted handyman into a wolf man hybrid by means of wolf's blood injections and then wastes little time in sending the transformed doofus to slay the former colleagues who had scoffed at his experiments it is a very simple plot really and an extremely low budget production glenn strange who plays the man wolf here would soon achieve greater fame playing the franky monster in films such as house of frankenstein 1944 and abbott and costello meet frankenstein 1948 the makeup job on him here is pretty lame and only succeeds in making him look like a hippy with bad teeth like the one in 1957's teenage monster the sets in this film in addition are fairly nonexistent and the denouement is abrupt and unconvincing i have given the movie a very generous 4 stars in part because i have an abiding love for 1940s horror films but truth to tell most objective viewers would probably deem it laughable crap and i suppose it is it's certainly no well crafted universal affair or val lewton masterpiece that's for sure still zucco is always fun to watch even in undemanding piffle such as this if you can spare 72 minutes of your life i suppose you could do worse than the mad monster not too much worse of course oh one other thing this dvd is from alpha video and you know what that means fuzzy images lousy sound indeed the worst sound of any alpha video dvd i've encountered so far and no extras you've been warned
0	george zucco was a fine actor often playing eyed villains with a lascivious intensity however even he couldn't save this dull and flat footed b flick br br zucco plays the usual mad scientist dr lorenzo cameron who believes that wolf's blood injected into humans can create an invincible army of wolf men who can win the world war ii go figure experimenting on pedro the handyman glenn strange zucco creates a werewolf that looks rather like the ones dave allen used to play in his comedy sketches pedro is obviously based on lennie from of mice and men and you almost keep expecting him to say duh okay george there's one startling moment when the werewolf kills a child by reaching in through the window and grabbing it but for the most part this is a routine and pedestrian very pedestrian 77 minute tread through all the old clichés that are done far better in other movies we also get the revenge motif from the devil bat worked in in itself a borrowing from son of frankenstein br br zucco is wasted and you only have to see him in films such as adventures of sherlock holmes the mummy's hand and dr secret to see how wasted a few atmospheric swamp scenes are all it has to offer really and the scene where zucco demonstrates his wolf man technique to those who doubted him again shades of dr jekyll and mr hyde is unintentionally hilarious br br not one of the better 40s b movies
0	for reasons i cannot begin to fathom dr lorenzo cameron george zucco begins injecting wolf's blood into his dim witted handyman glenn strange the result – is transformed into a hideous as hideous as someone with a bad wig and pointy teeth can be killer beast dr cameron uses to get his revenge against those in the scientific community who scoffed at and ridiculed his ideas and why wouldn't they dr cameron's nuttier than a fruitcake br br overall the mad monster is one dull and poorly made poverty row thriller there's really only one positive i can come up with to write about in the mad monster george zucco can be fun to watch as he plays the mad scientist about as well as anyone his dr cameron is a regular loony he has no qualms about killing he has entire conversations with people who aren't there and as with most mad scientists he messes in god's domain actually i'm not sure anyone accuses him of this but it fits but beyond zucco there's nothing here to recommend everything else from the monster effects to the supporting cast to the music is plain old bad there are far better examples of poverty row horror from the 1940s than the mad monster
0	pretty bad prc cheapie which i rarely bother to watch over again and it's no wonder it's slow and creaky and dull as a butter knife mad doctor george zucco is at it again turning a dimwitted in overalls glenn strange into a wolf man unfortunately the makeup is virtually non existent consisting only of a beard and dimestore fangs for the most part if it were not for zucco and presence along with the cute anne this would be completely unwatchable strange who would go on to play frankenstein's monster for in two years does a lenny impression from of mice and men it seems br br 1 2 of four
0	there are so many holes in the plot it makes you wonder if they knew they had an audience for this and just threw it together i don't know much about george zucco but i've seen him in two movies obviously he has been cast as the loving father mad scientist vampire guy he looks so ordinary i'm surprised that he ended up in the genre this is the typical i will create monsters that can be used to fight as an army by transferring wolf blood or is it coyote to his hired hand he turns him into a werewolf glen strange who was one of karloff's as the frankenstein monster plays the kindly lovable hired man who is victimized because he trusts the mad doctor at first the scientist is able to control when his name can be transformed but like the invisible man suddenly he starts morphing on his own and becomes a liability there is a little love story of the daughter and a reporter with kind of a high pitched voice golly miss brooks she wants to leave but her father the doctor won't allow that he is also driven by a group of his peers who mocked his research before and now he is going to have satisfaction the way he plot to embarrass or kill them is pretty far fetched and depends a lot on and the guys sitting around waiting to be attacked it's not a very good movie the strong point is atmosphere of the woods as people and monsters lurk around the spanish moss once again the townsfolk are a bunch of morons who look like they escaped from a bad western one thing that stayed with me was that a little girl is the first victim and that seems unusual for a film of this era there's also a pipe smoking old lady who knows about werewolves but nobody listens to her
0	first of all i have to say that i am not generally a big fan of werewolf movies in general it's not that i don't like them just that i don't like them a lot there are some that i have enjoyed werewolf of london 1935 stuart walker an american werewolf in london 1981 john landis and some that i have thought were okay but nothing special the wolf man 1941 george the howling 1981 joe dante dog soldiers 2002 neil marshall are some examples but overall the werewolf sub genre is not my favorite but i had this one on one of those 50 movie sets so i thought i'd give it a watch and see how it was br br spoilers follow br br the mad monster is a werewolf tale but the werewolf is primarily used as a vehicle for revenge by a mad scientist dr lorenzo cameron george zucco dr cameron has discovered a way to transform human beings into beasts specifically wolves but was ridiculed and ostracized by the greater scientific community forced out of a prestigious position he goes mad and plots revenge on those who mocked him in an old country mansion where he lives with his daughter the lovely anne and his assistant glenn strange of limited mental abilities using his serum dr cameron transforms into a werewolf and sends him off to kill his old rivals eventually though the werewolf gets out of control and both the mad doctor and his creation are killed br br the movie also plays out somewhat as a murder crime drama with journalist suitor johnny downs investigating the doctor's strange behavior and the rash of murders the story seems to borrow many elements from other big pictures that came before it there are reminders of frankenstein 1931 james whale in the creation of a monster which runs amok and the creature killing an innocent child visions of dr jekyll and mr hyde 1931 mamoulian or the 1941 victor fleming version and the wolf man 1941 george also come to mind and that is one of the problems with this movie in my view it comes across as a mediocre melding of some great films it doesn't add much to the genre br br true there are some redeeming qualities george performance was convincing and the scene showing dr lorenzo talking to his visions hallucinations of his tormentors works well for me in showing his insanity there is some reasonable character build up at least in the case of his character but glenn character is not at all convincing and seems to have this comedic quality whether intentional or not i'm not sure that just doesn't fit into the movie as a whole br br i seemed to like it more than most imdb users based on my rating of 4 10 but it was still a below average film perhaps worth a view if you are a fan of early werewolf movies or a big fan of the 1930's and 1940's horror films but unlikely to appeal to you if you are not
0	dr cameron a discredited scientist succeeds with his experiment in creating serum the transforms men into wolf like creatures originally developing this formula to help the world the scientist decides to use his newly created subject to exact revenge upon the scientists who were responsible for his from the scientific community the scientist's daughter grows wary of her father's actions and shares her suspicions with a newspaper reporter when the scientist loses control of his creature it falls upon the scientist's daughter and the reporter to stop it according to the dvd sleeve's synopsis br br mad scientist george zucco as lorenzo cameron creates his formula rather unimaginatively by mixing human and wolf blood this brings the beast out in hulking glenn strange as aka pedro who is directed to act like lon chaney jr in of mice and men johnny downs as tom gregory and anna as cameron are a likable werewolf hunter and damsel in distress certainly the mad monster is no substitute for the wolf man but it's a serviceable addendum the grainy black and white photography enhances the foggy cow webbed atmosphere god uncredited strikes up a well done ending too like blaine robert strange said the blood of man and beast is downright sacrilege br br the mad monster 1942 sam george zucco johnny downs anna
0	thankfully you don't need a lot of book to understand where this thing's going obviously a poverty row cash in on universal's big hit the wolf man which was made just one year earlier this finds the always watchable george zucco in another of his patented mad doctor roles as brilliant vengeance minded scientist lorenzo cameron cameron who has set up shop deep in the swamp lands of what i'm presuming is the louisiana bayou is plotting revenge against four of his former peers who both humiliated him and forced him to resign from his previous job you see they scoffed at his claims of being able to mix man with beast to create an unstoppable army of wolfman creatures that would come in handy during war time thankfully cameron has found the ideal test subject for his wolf blood injections a hulking child like half wit named glenn strange is pretty clueless as to what's going on doesn't ask too many question and lets the doc strap him down to a table and shoot him up with whatever happens to be in his syringe this results in a time lapse change of man turning into a werewolf cameron lets him out of the mansion using a secret passageway so you basically get a big guy strange was dressed in overalls with a bushy beard hairy paws and a set of over sized plastic teeth running around in the woods the majority of the time after an eyewitness sees the beast and a little girl is killed the locals grab their rifles and organize a posse to hunt it down dr cameron who can control the beast with a whip and also has a handy antidote to reverse the effect also drags along to the big city to try to track down the professors who had made a mockery of his original theories and destroyed his reputation in the process also hanging around the house is cameron's daughter anne as well as nosy reporter boyfriend tom johnny downs whose first inclination is that they're dealing with an upright walking prehistoric creature br br though a typically chintzy prc flick in many ways with unimpressive sets cinematography and make ups as well as a fairly bland supporting cast it remains watchable thanks to the histrionics of star george zucco i have no clue why downs received top billing he shows up half an hour in and really doesn't have a whole lot to do nor is he all that impressive doing it this is show all the way and he's great ranting and raving talking to himself while fantasizing that he's talking to his peers i'm not interested in your imbecilic mouthings and temporarily sliding in and out of sanity strange seems to have patterned his performance as the hilariously naive and slow talking semi retarded country bumpkin around the entire oeuvre of lon chaney jr from his turn as lenny in of mice and men to his performance as the aforementioned wolf man in any case strange and zucco do a fairly good job playing off one another my favorite part is when zucco calls him his guinea pig in front of a colleague while just sits there grinning and staring at a doorknob some of the foggy swamp scenes are pretty atmospheric too
0	ok i've now seen george zucco in at least four separate horror suspense films recently as i worked my way through various 50 pack collections and i have to say the guy had a limited range but he was good at what he did he wasn't karloff but prc was lucky to have him br br but the poor guy was stuck in a kind of back water ghetto of horror films and he wasn't good enough to take them to the next level of interest not with the thread bare screenplays and direction and budgets he worked under that's the case here br br this movie is well slow stodgy and unexciting for the most part the heroine seems to be doomed to be a rent a center version of judy garland the hero is bland as white rice and the poor guy playing the monster doesn't even get a good transformation scene out of the deal his make up effects aren't scary at all he looks like a slightly more shaggy version of a farm hand is all br br it's not a total waste zucco looks good on camera he chews the scenery while managing to deliver some terribly affected and contrived set speeches without flinching or losing the flow there are some moody b w shots here and there that don't completely suck br br so all in all this movie helped some c through z level actors pay their rent for another month and it never sinks below a certain hacked out level of quality watch it once if you like george zucco or just feel the need to see every wolfman themed movie ever made
0	i think downey was perhaps inspired by french new wave br br who wasn't br br unfortunately what he ended up creating here was more along the lines of crackhead new wave br br a synapse is obviously a terrible thing to lose and downey appears to have lost plenty br br just say no indeed in more ways than one including to watching this film br br i couldn't bear it after a while and began fast forwarding through it it would have been wiser to have just skipped it altogether
0	ok this movie seems to have been pretty well covered by earlier comments but there are a couple of items i wish to add the mad scientist is producing a serum from the blood of a caged animal in order to turn a man into a werewolf if we suspend our disbelief enough to buy into that fine but the animal in the cage is a coyote that would make a did audiences in 1942 not know the difference between a wolf and a coyote they're easy to tell apart that's weak br br secondly this movie was covered in the third episode of mst3k on the comedy channel it took joel and the bots a number of episodes to get up to full riffing steam and they weren't up there quite yet on this one they did add enough to this snoozer to keep you awake until the end but it was not one of their better episodes they never even mentioned the glaring omission of an actual wolf and that joke was just hanging in the air waiting to be smacked
0	a scientist george zucco wants to create wolf men out of american soldiers to fight the nazis but is branded as mad he uses a simpleton gardener glenn strange to experiment on by mixing his blood with the blood of a wolf strange constantly his dialogue with the tones of lon chaney jr in of mice and men has no idea what's going on only that he sleepwalks the victims begin to pile up including a little girl which modern viewers might find rather disturbing and two of rivals there is some good dialogue on how man should not mess with nature still prevalent today and play god motives may be honorable but his methods are most questionable and then there is his daughter anne who is sympathetically nice to strange yet has no idea of her father's deeds johnny downs is a reporter who gets on bad side by questioning him but wins heart thus creating the usual and always dull romantic subplot in classic horror films at 77 minutes this is about 15 minutes longer than usual for a horror film of the early 40's particularly one out of prc who released this one so the romantic story could have been trimmed for costs and to speed things up a bit zucco fortunately is never hammy he left that to bela lugosi who always hammed in a deliciously theatrical manner which endeared him to audiences and england's todd slaughter but try not to think of bride of the monster's laboratory while looking at the one zucco works in or some of lugosi's dialogue in that now classic cult film mad monster lacks a cult following more because it is not delightfully bad just has dull pacing in more than a few spots for prc and monogram lovers i would recommend the corpse vanishes or fog island higher than this
0	george zucco was like boris karloff in the fact no matter how poor the film he appeared in was he would always maintain a sense of dignity and turn in a fine performance the mad monster is no exception to that rule it is by all standards a poor if entertaining film the filmmakers obviously didn't know how to make the most of their low budget and the script seems as if it was turned out in one or two days still zucco is fine and believable as the mad scientist br br the film itself is enjoyable on a camp level normal horror movie fans for the most part won't take a liking to prc films however these poverty row productions have a small but loyal cult following occasionally they would rise above their limitations with detour being the best example of this usually they looked like this for all its technically poor qualities the mad monster is an amusing enough way to kill a rainy afternoon the dvd from retromedia is recommended as it pairs this with another prc production the black raven the original theatrical trailer and best of all an interview with glenn strange talking about his role in this movie 4 10
0	i'm working my way through the horror classics 50 movie pack collection and the mad monster is one of the movies in the set br br i am sure that george zucco was a good actor but this was only the second film in which i saw him the first being dead men walk in which he played two parts however even good acting couldn't save the mad monster br br zucco plays a mad scientist dr cameron who was banned from academia because of his unethical and inhumane experiments he believes that he can control evolution by bringing out the characteristics of one animal into another br br in this case like so many others of its ilk it is a transfusion of i assume wolf's blood into humans his goal is to create an invincible army which he can control through the antidote the subject of his experiments is his hired hand a retarded gardener whose dialogue slows down this snail paced classic to almost a full stop br br beyond his experiments dr cameron also plots revenge on those who discredited him using his transformed gardener however he loses control of his subject who begins to transform without the transfusion yikes br br the werewolf transformations are classic hollywood stop action makeup effects no doubt these were groundbreaking techniques of the time but in today's digital age it's hard to imagine audiences being scared by this
0	a paranoid scientist creates a wolfman by wolf blood into a meek quiet but very large gardener in order to prove an hypothesis so the gardener begins nightly rampages and the scientist tries to use him to reclaim his credentials but is rebuffed by his former colleagues for tampering with nature island of dr moreau frankenstein and various wolfman films all blended together into a terribly dated goofy morality play br br though the subject matter is pedantic and unoriginal at best this film is not too poorly made and interesting to watch as a representative of horror film making of its time like most mad scientist films this is a weak warning against fooling around with mother nature it doesn't have the power or intellectual challenges of frankenstein but it doesn't ever extend its reach anyway the acting is passable as is the cinematography and the film moves along at an entertaining clip some of the dialog is utterly ludicrous but hey it's just a movie and a b minus one at that there are also a few nice shots of a wolf and a smattering of humor tossed in to prevent the film from appearing to take itself too seriously always a plus for this genre
0	this has got to be the most god awful piece of cinematic crap i have ever watched it makes mel brooks movies oscar worthy by comparison jim needs to be publicly slapped for trying to pass this off as any form of entertainment br br while some may say that this movie is true to the low budget genre of such classics as the texas chainsaw massacre or night of the living dead the production value is not in question it is ability to cast and present a plausible story line the casting is deplorable for the role of charlie he must have picked the first actor he saw with a beard and long hair never mind that this actor's hair came halfway down his back manson's never went much past his shoulders this actor spoke in a dreadful monotone without so much as a fraction of the personality that steve railsback or even jeremy davies lent to their portrayals of manson the actor chosen to play tex watson had curly blond hair instead of straight dark hair a fact that anyone who has shown even the most remote interest in the manson case knows he looks like a minnesota farmer on little house on the prairie the actress playing susan atkins has a butt wider than oprah's while those familiar with the family members know that was considered somewhat retarded the actor portraying him did so in such a campy chaplinesque way it was like watching an old act instead of sharon tate looking like a beautiful pregnant woman the actress looked like bloated alcoholic trailer trash speeds up the filming in some places for artistic effect yet this technique hasn't proved remotely useful since the munsters the end credits list every known family member yet we are never introduced to the majority of them and those we are introduced to we aren't sure who they are sometimes br br facts are destroyed in this movie as well did not die in real life steven parent was shot four times not twice did not have her throat slit where were mary and bruce davis during the murder patricia never sported a dorothy hamill hair style br br the most baffling aspect of this movie is what the modern day freaks had to do with this movie why was the girl wearing a rubber mask with a dildo attached what was their problem with the journalist what was the meaning or purpose of the final confrontation why were they included period the viewer never knows br br holy mackerel i could go on and on but space prevents it don't try to eat popcorn during this garbage because your hand will be too busy scratching your head while you repeatedly say what the f
0	i heard legends about this film quotes used so as not to insult films for a while so when i finally got the dvd with it i impatiently started watching it by the end i had to fast forward through just a few of the most moronic ineptly made nonsensical scenes of this pointless childish mess to make it end quicker br br this may be the worst film i've even touched and i used to be associated with troma for a while manson family makes the bottom of troma's entries look like daring and groundbreaking art house filmwork i could go on and talk about the skeleton of a plot it has the revoltingly bad acting the painful inept directing the sets and props with their dollar ninety nine look i especially loved the plastic toy guns used in the tate murder scene or the nauseating look and feel of this whole bag of garbage i think it was supposed to represent a drug induced hallucination i have absolutely no idea how a drug induced hallucination looks or feels nor do i want to find out but i guess drug junkies with burned out brains will love this film they seem to be the ones who made it i've seen many films from various worst 50 lists traditionally opened by eddie wood's ones and eddie wood would be appalled by the sheer ineptitude and talentless of van webber or whatever his name is i certainly don't want to remember it i've never seen superbabies or its sequel but i strongly wish that manson joined them on imdb's rating fortunately this obscure garbage probably won't be seen by enough viewers to warrant it sufficiently many 1 votes and so much the better
0	i got encouraged to watch this film because i've heard good word of it it was supposed to be this thrilling true crime milestone disturbing shocking all that jazz well i am disturbed because i spent money on it and i am shocked that something so god awful actually got released that's about it br br this is a supposed new look at charles manson's family of insane loser junkies and their murders but if this is a new look then it's probably new as in fresh and totally inept just watching it gave me a headache and i had to give up trying to make any sense of it or even understand just what the director intended it to be br br i suppose i should say something about the plot but fact is it was so stupid and incoherent that i barely remember if there even was a plot at all there was something about a manson tape delivered to a radio dj or a tv producer then an hour of pointless random footage of the family in '69 then the polanski murders looking like a bad school play and finally some idiotic part about a bunch of skinheads getting drunk and beating the hell out of one another in an alley i kid you not and then it ended thank god don't ask me to make any sense of that i'm just recalling what i saw the performances were terrible too and how difficult is it to make a convincing manson get a short skinny scrawny bloke put a dirty wig and a shaggy beard on him there's your manson but this manson doesn't even look right he just looks like uh a bloke in a cheap wig and a glued on santa beard painted black br br or maybe that's what this film is actually about manson's family didn't make any sense so this film doesn't make any sense either it's symbolic yeah right i'm still so angry at spending money on this i stopped my normal lurking on this site and registered just to vote 1 for this film and post this warning that will hopefully prevent others from spending their money on this garbage stay away from it it's not even worth renting br br ps the recent us tv production helter skelter got bad reviews here but i saw it last month i saw the 1976 original too and let me tell you compared to manson family that new helter skelter is brilliant and flawless and i was disappointed in it that's how bad manson family is it makes a flawed and mostly disappointing tv movie look perfect
0	the only thing of interest about this movie is its subject matter taking a look at the manson family from the point of view of the family members themselves is a great idea however trying to make sense of the uncomprehensible is something that can really only be accomplished in a masterwork and this ain't it br br presumably because there was so much information to squeeze into a screenplay this film was done in a faux documentary style with reenactments thrown in trouble is the writing and directing make it impossible to establish those things that make a movie watchable like character story theme and so on br br worse there's an incredibly weak sub plot thrown in that follows a little band of latter day as they go after a reporter who's working on a story on the anniversary of the killings it's dumb and pointless and a complete waste of time br br all in all this movie is one big wasted opportunity the one ray of sunshine is the acting of marc who plays tex who in real life did most of the actual killing whereas the female characters come off as giggly airheads in the 60s flashbacks manages to convey real feeling br br in short don't bother with this movie
0	okay last night august 18th 2004 i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr van at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival here's what i have to say about it first of all the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger roman polanski oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i've ever seen second of all in a short q a session after the show mr van immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them that the film was based on his van take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news and i'm assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative so i had second on questions i asked if he was trying to present the outsider mtv sex drugs and rock 'n roll version and not necessarily the true story this question obviously off the by now sloshed director who started shouting f you shut the f up this is the truth all those other movies are bullsh br br well anyway i didn't even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film you've heard the laws side of the story now hear the story as it is told by the manson family excuse me if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn't want to have anything to do with how in god's name can he tell the story for them this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock 'n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small dimly lit theatre and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock 'n roll mind of a man who couldn't even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen this film accomplishes little more than warping the public's image of actual events which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual br br the film was definitely very impressive to look at the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie's work with the family off of his lie album the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving probably the best part of the experience the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow lethargic and chubby representation that was actually presented br br all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie or maybe it was linda declares at the end you can write a bunch of bullsh books or make a bunch of bullsh movies etc etc case in point even the disclaimer based on a true story is a dead giveaway signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap or actually maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead br br all i can say is this when the film ended i got a free beer so i'm glad i went but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f up for asking the director a question peace
0	black and white satire of a madison avenue ad agency being taken over by blacks they're headed by arnold johnson who is determined to change things however he turns out to be even worse than his white predecessors that's about as original as this gets br br i'm sure this was considered daring and shocking in 1969 but it just seems silly today the jokes are either unfunny the president is a midget how is this funny cruel or obvious and the film is full of unlikable characters it's done in a very experimental way which makes it even harder to take or understand the movie just gets more bizarre and surreal as it goes along the ending comes out of nowhere to make it worse with the sole exception of johnson all the acting is bad antonio fargas a regular in these types of films is especially annoying as the arab this gets three stars because the commercial parodies done in bright color are amusing and there's a rare good line here and there i heard this was a cult classic but this is more interesting than good skip it unless you're in experimental 1960s films
0	strikes me as routine as far as tv movies go i can believe that it's based on a true story because the plot seems too clumsy to have been written by anyone with storytelling skills br br for instance good old john ritter now a rather bulky and bearded villain poisons his wife enough to make her ill then accuses her of being psychosomatic and leaves to marry another young woman immediately fourteen years pass before the story picks up again why fourteen years i would guess that though the narrative doesn't demand it history does br br some of the particular scenes however are so cinematically apt that they were almost certainly dreamed up by a writer pawing through her attic ritter's first wife stumbles across an old electrical appliance and has one of those black and white flashbacks with stings on the score suddenly she recalls when fourteen years ago she discovered ritter shaving from a rectifier carefully collecting them and putting them in her shampoo and her liner or whatever it's called later it develops that he was putting it into her coffee as well br br frankly i don't believe it i don't believe either that she had that particular epiphany in the attic or that ritter put into her shampoo or eyeliner is referred to in the movie as a toxic metal and i suppose it is in sufficient quantity but it's also an anti that's sold over the counter in drug stores and swallowed someone will have to demonstrate as no one does in this movie that it is a topical poison many people have tried the nicotine patch and failed so how come some in her shampoo gives immediate and drastic headaches and her eyes become as painful as boils when she applies makeup i think the anthropologist e b called this simple minded idea sympathetic magic but i'm not sure br br mais je anyway ritter evidently tries the same stunt with his second wife fourteen years later although no evidence of trickery is ever produced when she becomes ill with the same symptoms wife number two is taken to mexico and apparently cured but suddenly drops dead shortly after her return circumstantial evidence piles up against ritter who plays the villain with all the stops out when his first trial is dismissed he smirks at who has prompted the investigation br br you see was good friends with ritter's second wife and was terribly disturbed at her demise and its manner i'll bet and she wants to prevent the same thing from happening to the wealthy young woman who seems lined up for third place in ritter's marital schedule sure the best performance is given by the guy who plays detective lawrence dane everyone else acts by the numbers they project emotions and thoughts with the subtlety of a warning at a railroad crossing but dane does little things that are original i'm told you want to report a murder long pause while he sits down and waits then abruptly thrusts his face towards and inquires in a reasonable and curious voice so who was murdered i suppose except for the bare bones of the historical events nothing prevented characters or their actions from being drawn differently than they were in real life i mean what the heck ritter is still in jail convicted of murder and character is dead so who is to object i wish the forensic stuff had been made clearer ritter seems to have used so many poisons and toxic metals let me see cyanide a massive dose of and maybe something else that i was confused by it all not that i was rooting for ritter here's a mathematician with a ph d who insists people call him doctor he even corrects people who address him merely as professor most ph d s get that narcissistic problem behind them very quickly call me whitey even though i know how to get a standard deviation and you don't average tv fare
0	one of the most boring movies i've ever seen three immature young people have sex and talk about very little except their love of each other they don't seem to be interested in much but each other and only passively so i was left feeling shut out most of the exterior scenes take place at night so one can't even enjoy well lit sights of paris i gave up after an hour and ten minutes
0	this film is about a woman falling in love with a friend of her boyfriend from then on she has to divide her time for the two boyfriends jack during the day and joseph during the night br br this film feels like as if it was made with minimum budget the majority of the film is set in a flat with minimal furniture there are only three main actors all the other actors listed in the credits make only momentary appearances the wardrobe designer doesn't seem to have much to do as the actors wear very down to earth clothes and actually most of the time they are naked anyway br br the film is very dialog heavy which should have made up for the shortcomings described above however the dialogs sound too composed and awkward in the beginning of the film most of the dialog is a person saying a very long sentence and then the person says 'me too' after the frenzy of agreement the dialog descends into a mess of disjointed and confused word salad br br the only merit of this film i can think of is that it serves as a feminist outlet which conveys that it is not just men who can be unfaithful br br this film is a great disappointment
0	i was looking forward to watching this film and was therefore extremely disappointed when i found it to be complete and utter rubbish direction is both heavy handed and cliched how much more cliched can you get than paris at night the male cast seems to have been chosen entirely for their to egon angst ridden self portraits yet the themes of jealousy and betrayal which should have been the primary focus of a film of this type are left virtually unexplored what is left is a turgid melodrama which takes an age to get started and even longer to finish the only advantage with this sort of film is that it makes you realise how good goddard and truffaut really are
0	this hbo original is pretty straightforward and pretty dumb armand assante once again doing a poor stallone imitation is ray wellman a ex con just out on parole all he wants is his old girlfriend lacy played by a young marcia gay harden back unfortunately for ray lacy has hooked up with stalwart elliot played by sam neill further complicating matters is that ray's old cell buddies want some favors and they kidnap lacy to make sure they happen ray and elliot team up despite mutual dislike br br what follows is violent and slow but marcia gay harden shows us why she would win oscar in the future she's not as polished here but her raw emotion sincerity and some rather explicit nude scenes almost make this worth watching almost br br rent fever no the title doesn't fit the film if your a fan of hers otherwise skip it and be grateful it's stars went on to better things br br note this is a hard r flick for language violence and nudity
0	i was expecting born to kill to be an exciting high tension film noir instead it's got two good action set pieces one at the beginning and one at the end and some marvelously atmospheric cinematography by robert de usually a glamor cameraman and a surprising credit for a noir but the rest of the film is pretty boring lawrence tierney goes through his psycho kick but it's a strictly by the numbers performance mechanically churning out what the audience expected from him after dillinger an overrated movie but at least better than this claire character is too stupid and unmotivated to have any audience appeal and the action such as it is stays so resolutely inside that damned house in san francisco the film becomes claustrophobic instead of genuinely thrilling it's one of those movies in which the supporting players notably elisha cook jr whose character's homoerotic itch for tierney's is one of the few subtleties in an otherwise pretty obvious script and isabel jewell out act the leads it also doesn't help that nearly half a century after alfred hitchcock and anthony perkins revolutionized the depiction of psycho killers on the screen in psycho tierney's is so gross and obvious he might as well have psycho tattooed on his forehead also there's no indication in the film as it stands as to why the source novel was called deadlier than the male but perhaps james gunn made the female characters stronger and more interesting than they are in the film born to kill is a real disappointment from robert wise who already had some quality movies under his belt and would go on to a stellar career
0	fellow giallo fanatics beware and or proceed with caution … for this movie isn't exactly what it appears to be it surely looks like a giallo with its juicy vhs cover showing a busty naked girl and a big bloodied knife rhythmic title and the names of two veteran italian actors in the cast john phillip fernando rey but it's basically just an erotic thriller without much of a plot the version i watched is presumably harshly censored – with a running time of barely 77 minutes – but then still there's a severe lack of suspense character development and most of all sadistic and typically giallo carnage eyes behind the wall can briefly be summarized as the gathering of a bunch of perverted characters and the extended depiction of their sexuality issues it's an interesting effort notwithstanding because writer director giuliano his only film clearly attempted to do something special but the overall result is unsatisfying and regrettably tame inspired by hitchcock's rear window the main character is a frustrated elderly and wheelchair bound writer he and his much younger lover get their sexual kicks from spying on the single male tenant living across the road the tenant respectively likes to perform gym exercises around the house whilst being naked and clearly has bisexual desires wheelchair guy sends his wife over and they have sex then there's also the butler who repeatedly rapes schoolgirls are there any normal characters in the story well no of course not the film benefices from a continuously ominous atmosphere with a moody soundtrack and nifty photography but none of it ever leads anywhere so it's all just sleaze sex without significance there's a truly bizarre twist revelation at the end of the story but it comes too late and too randomly to boost up the overall quality not recommended to fans of italian horror cult cinema but maybe it is great viewing for psychology students to analyze the characters freud style
0	i'm almost embarrassed to admit to seeing caligula twice the problems with the production are almost too numerous to mention the script is sub standard it's easy to see why vidal tried to disown it the direction is worse most of the movie consists of long shots inter cut with close ups interspersed with cross cuts of mostly un erotic porn more prevalent obviously in the uncut version the cinematography is especially sub par giving the whole production a cheap washed out look that undermines some of the elaborate set designs the movie should've looked a whole lot better the overall concept of placing name actors in what would've easily been an x rated movie called it wears thin after the first hour after peter o'toole and john guilgud exit bob obviously lavished a lot of bucks on this but it all seems like a big waste if you want a far better understanding of the roman empire in the 1st century watch the mid bbc production of i claudius instead and if you want porn louise look somewhere else
0	i rated this movie a 3 and that was generous the scenery is ponderous and gaudy the acting for the most part is terrible i do think peter o'toole did a good job of acting but he must have been mortified when he saw the final cut of the movie john gielgud brief his appearance in the movie still seemed to be playing a role from hamlet the hard core pornography parts were neither erotic nor did they do much to further the story okay malcolm mcdowell had a nice butt and the guy who played macro was handsome the guy who played claudius looked more like the traditional depictions of nero and was certainly at odds with robert graves' picture of claudius the climactic assassination of caligula wife and child is inaccurate in that it shows him after death lying on stairs in an open air area when in fact he was assassinated in the underground passage on the hill which ran along the front of the that still exists today there are places in this movie where virtually anything drew my attention away from it merciful distractions if you want history read or if you want pornography and sadism watch salo but by all means stay away from this movie
0	caligula shares many of the same attributes as the 1970 fellini satyricon with bizarre sights and depictions of sexual excesses all set in the glory of ancient rome but fellini it ain't first of all it is not as entertaining far too much screen time is devoted to bug eyed rubber faced mcdowell in the titular role his performance is far too fey and campy to be convincing the portrayals by jay robinson in the robe 1953 and david cain in emperor caligula 1983 are far more persuasive and believable with the latter being the most nuanced relief could have been provided by developing the surrounding characters more fully as it is they are little more than cyphers one example is the role of macro played by guido who has tremendous screen presence in an important role but is mostly left in the background the only positive features to credit are the adroit use of some and themes in the music score and the inclusion of some of the distasteful but nevertheless accurate actions of the despot these two factors are far less than what is needed to relieve the prevailing tedium however
0	writer director robert downey sr a pioneer of the underground film movement in the 1960s satirized the new york madison avenue advertising world with his avant garde comedy downey doesn't confine his ridicule to advertising but tackles black militant culture the dynamics in hollywood's portrayal of race the elite white power structure and character of corruption in any power struggle as audacious and ambitious as strives to be it qualifies as a terrible film amateurishly made on a shoe string budget with a no name cast and humor that lacks hilarity everything about this movie reeks with improvisation stirred up controversy during its initial release with its politically incorrect handling of race issues and consumer culture like most marx brothers movies the plot is thin providing an excuse for downey's anecdotal gags most of which are terrible br br the chairman of a prestigious madison avenue ad agency dies during a board meeting before the body has been removed the board holds a secret ballot vote to determine who will replace him each member understands that they are forbidden to vote for himself sheer accident occurs when everyone votes for the token black member arnold johnson since none thought anybody would cast a ballot for him pink slips all but one of the white executives surrounds himself with black pistol packing employees and renames the firm truth and soul advertising decides to alter the face of american advertising he refuses to accept clients whose products are alcohol tobacco or war toys clients stage an exodus after he becomes the ceo and attracts a new line up of clients that show up at his office lugging bags of money and prepared to suffer abuse from militant employees exploits his african american staff too ruthlessly appropriating their ideas after he fires them and conjures up a number of offensive advertising campaigns all of which are hailed as a 'new wave' of marketing genius incredibly conservatism proves successful but the agency becomes the target of government operatives who argue advertising tactics constitute a threat to the national security the high point of this black white 85 minute comedy are the television commercials shot in color unfortunately downey doesn't know when to cut off these ads that consistently start out cleverly but wear out their welcome the funniest part of involves our eponymous protagonist's dealings with u s president in washington d c pepi hermine a marihuana midget with a kissinger like teutonic adviser larry wolf spouting tasteless jokes while trying to convince to come up with an advertising campaign for his new car the 6
0	probably not the same version as most of the other reviewers because there s no real hard core sex what do people mean by hard core sex the sort of explicit hard core sex seen in films starring traci lords and big john holmes well anyway this is really poor film i doubt if i ve ever seen so many big name actors wasted in a film the script is really poor and plotless the directing and cinematography is awful and the editing is non existant it truly is an absolutely awful film you could watch this ten times and still not understand what the hell it s about the only memorable scene is the one where people are buried up to their necks and a giant lawnmower comes along and decapitates them yes you read that right a film set in roman times has a scene with a head chopping giant lawnmower br br trivia point many years ago a pirate copy of the thing 1982 version was doing the rental rounds on my island and it been copied onto a rental tape of caligula meaning the pirate version of the thing starts with the first few seconds of caligula of the man and woman walking through the forest then the title sequence of the thing starts this led people who d seen the pirate tape to believe the forest scene was the opening of john carpenter s 1982 film and were very confused as to what it meant well that s what you get for renting pirate videos but having seen the whole of caligula i don t know what it meant either
0	who really wants to see that disgusting violence disgusting sex for such a long time i do not want to but i always stayed true to my philosophy to watch any movie as bad as it may be this was the hardest right after next friday br br it's basically just crap how can you possibly call it anything else the story of a roman emperor as an excuse for gore and t a yeah yeah hey it's realistic they have been like this fine but why bother us with it i don't care if it has been like this and there are a lot of scenes where i truly doubt it the point is why should anyone wanna see it problem is there is only one reason you could like the film and that would be that you like violence there's nothing special about it just cruelty you can say cool as you'd say in splatter slasher movie but horror movies with violence at least can give you chills and excitement maybe characters you care about but here everything is dark dull and boring every character is mad the story of an emperor who can't deal with his power what in the very first scene he runs naked through the woods with his sister i have no problem saying that we saw a madman for 2 1 2 hours br br but maybe you get turned on by seeing helen mirren being pregnant and dancing or 5 minutes of hardcore scenes that some people see as the message of the movie or castration yeah right that was fun real birth scenes how hilarious humans animals who cares let's just treat them as toys br br i don't care what anyone says this is no movie this is just 2 1 2 hours of blood and sex degrading and disgusting go watch a porn movie if you want sex or watch a horror flick if you want violence at least those movies don't pretend to be some artistic masterpiece and they are shorter br br 0 10 6 1 6 0 4
0	as a semi film buff i had heard of this infamous movie a long time ago i had heard that it was basically a 15 million dollar film about the tyrannical rule of the roman emperor caligula complete with hard core pornography what struck me was that it was a porno movie yet it had great thespians like peter o'toole john malcolm mcdowell and mirren in it a week ago i saw a documentary about caligula on the history channel and this film came back into my head and finally my curiousity got the best of me i foolishly rented the dvd and even more foolishly watched it br br within the first 30 minutes i was seeing acts of sex and especially violence that would earn an nc 17 even by todays standards was it really necessary to have a scene of a man having his urinary track closed and then have gallons of wine poured into him and then have his stomach cut with a sword all in very graphic detail and a scene where a guy gets his d cut off and fed to dogs again in very graphic detail and this just scratches the surface the argument for this movie from those who like it seems that it is the only film that honestly portrays pagan rome and it's excesses when in fact what this movie really is is sheer exploitation from beginning to end you see nothing but endless torture and decapitations and every kind of violence and crude behavior imaginable sadomasochism rape it just never stopped there is no insight into caligula himself what might have propelled him to go mad the horrible childhood he had that molded him into a sadist as an adult this is not a historic film it is sleaze even the porn in this movie stinks and through much of this when i wasn't gagging i was just incredibly bored by the time it was over i was depressed didn't feel much like eating and this movie does the impossible it actually can turn you off of sex br br what were these great actors thinking when they got into this i did read that the porn segments were filmed after the principal shooting was completed which explains why none of the main actors are in any of these scenes and why the quality of these scenes is so poor but still and all these actors must have known what they were getting into right at the opening credits it says penthouse magazine and bob presents and the scenes that the famous actors actually take part in are completely repulsive in and of themselves apparently director brass wanted his name removed from the completed film entirely as did the screenwriter gore vidal of all people even john and peter o'toole were begging people not to see this when it opened at the cannes film festival br br for the amount of money the producers spent on this the movie's quality is terrible everything is underlit and murky as if the film was dropped in a swamp prior to being developed and that's when you're lucky enough to view a scene that's actually in focus the sound is poorly dubbed much of the music is awkward and the editing is god awful br br anyway i brought this movie on myself my advice don't watch this don't watch this don't watch this as for myself tomorrow night i am going to watch something lighter like dawn of the dead
0	210 minute version extremely hardcore or so i hear or the r rated version released into theaters both are terribly awful of course peter o'toole and malcolm mcdowell have both claimed they wish they had never made this film the latter of the two men reported this in an imdb interview and i can see why nothing but a nonsensical mess of softcore porn and a half hearted attempt at a plot br br not much of anything here other than cheap tricks and stupid scenes i liked what mcdowell himself said about the film it was like one moment i'd be staring admiring my mule or something and the next scene would be two lesbians going at it br br how true br br what an awful movie br br 1 5 stars
0	although its plot is taken from the history of ancient rome is not made in the style of sword and sandal epics like or that style of movie making was out of favour in the late seventies rather it more closely resembles a cross between a soft core porn movie and a video nasty at least the shortened 150 minute version does i have never seen the full 210 minute version but to judge from the descriptions of it on this page it would seem closer to a cross between a hard core porn movie and a video nasty br br as one would expect from a film produced by the publisher of there is much naked flesh to be seen and the film lovingly catalogues caligula's sexual perversions including his incestuous affair with his sister drusilla what is perhaps unexpected from the publisher of a magazine so closely associated with the heterosexual male lifestyle is that there is as much male flesh as female on display and distinctly homoerotic overtones to many scenes the obsession with sex is balanced by an equal obsession with violence as though bob gore vidal and brass were trying to kill two taboos with one stone it is a remarkable coincidence that the director of such a brazen film should be called and the scriptwriter of such a gory one should be called 'gore' characters are put to death or mutilated in a variety of sadistic ways and there is a charming scene of homosexual rape br br the emperor caligula and his predecessor were certainly known for their debauched lifestyles so the film's concentration on sex and violence is not necessarily historically inaccurate i do however question whether such a concentration is necessary to help us understand this period in roman history both 'the fall of the roman empire' and were set during the reign of commodus an emperor quite as cruel and licentious as caligula in neither case did the filmmakers find it necessary to turn their film into a mixture of ' 'emmanuelle' and 'the texas chainsaw massacre' and both those films are artistically far better than br br the acting in the film is not particularly bad with a few exceptions such as the horribly wooden teresa ann as drusilla malcolm mcdowell makes a suitably insane caligula suitable that is in the context of this film the real caligula was doubtless both cruel and eccentric but historians have debated whether he was actually mentally ill the great mystery is exactly why so many distinguished british actors should have agreed to take part in such a trashy production in the case of helen mirren the only dame of the british empire with a past as a porn star it was probably connected to her rather regrettable tendency to alternate between the highbrow and the sleazy but heaven alone knows what peter o'toole and john gielgud thought they were doing unlike some other famous stage actors such as laurence olivier and richard burton gielgud did not always look completely at home in the cinema but here he gives a dignified interpretation of the role of a decent and honourable senator of the old school unfortunately in the context of this film any attempt at dignity is as out of place as a pearl on a br br clearly succeeded in his ambition for this film to become something of a cult classic of decadence whether brass and vidal had quite the same ambition for the film is open to question the film does not however succeed upon any other level either as art cinema or as a study of the politics of dictatorship even seen as erotica it is second rate 4 10
0	i found the movie at my local video store and i was surprised to see it on dvd i had heard about the explicit sex scenes gruesome violence and the notorious debauchery i sat and watched and i began laughing the set decorations and art direction was cheap and fake the nudity was sardonic and incredibly unsexy the story was poorly written and it was just a parade of incredibly beautiful and talented actors being held hostage to quote the worst dialogue ever written the incestuous relationship between caligola malcolm mcdowell and his serenely beautiful sister drusilla theresa ann a vulnerable beauty can't be taken seriously it's not even shocking or repulsive peter o'toole and john were obviously held hostage during the making of this film luckily they die in the first thirty minutes of the film the cinematography was a joke and i was even more amused when they used a quote from the bible the book of mark no less if you are looking for shock value this movie will disappoint you if you are looking for camp cult value you will be even more disappointed i know i was i have seen shocking and this is two hours of your life you will never have back
0	as an ancient movie fan i had heard much about the controversial movie caligula assessed ambiguously as one of the most realistic epics by some and as one of the most disgusting porn movies by others i decided to see it in the entire uncut version to evaluate it myself hoping to find something positive that would make justice to the many accusations towards the film i sat down in my chair one autumn evening and started to watch the beginning quotation from the new testament shocked me a bit and raised the first controversy in me why to entail a sentence from the gospel by mark in the movie about pagan rome but the prelude pastoral scene with a young half naked couple caligula and drusilla running hopelessly through meadows seemed quite sentimental the music which sounded memorably whilst the credits also provoked me in the positive sense yet the negative feelings raised in me quite soon particularly at the death of the cruelty seemed very intense and sexuality exaggerated however it was not that horrific to the middle during the second half of the film i felt as if i watched no historical epic but an extremely disgusting porn in the end i said to myself this is one of the movies that one may really hate i am aware that a movie may be controversial but i had never expected that caligula would go that far in removing all limits of taste i hate this film due to many reasons but particularly one br br caligula does not serve a purpose of an ancient epic which it claims to be but bob the director and the founder of penthouse pornographic magazine aims at combining film art with porn that is i think the most serious matter the film may be accused of movie is an art that should be reigned by taste by message by some feeling of epic grandeur whereas this movie kills all limits of good taste caligula shows the most bestial side of human being in the most wicked decadent manner some scenes are so disgusting that i don't think there are any people whose psyches will not be affected by them some say that the rome under caligula's reign was so brutal yes it is true corruption bloomed at that time various sexual deviances were preferable to roman citizens yet i do not think that it is right to focus on these deviations so strictly and make it constitute an emphasis of an ancient epic i believe that it rather proves the bizarre psyches of the producers and their strange tendencies br br huge historical mistakes the screenplay by gore vidal is notorious for inaccuracies it is noticeable for instance with the figure of donato placido a historic roman senator yet the film shows him as a simple soldier on whom caligula forces his most decadent ways of tortures and rapes moreover livia was not wife raped by caesar on her wedding what lies behind changing the stories of historical characters into the stories filled with unbelievable vulgarity and violence another example of historical travesty is the figure of portrayed by helen mirren she is presented as caligula's wife together with drusilla his sister in fact caligula married long after the death of his sister the sexual abuse on his new wife in the temple is a hilarious scene with no historical bases i also hated the moment with the killing machine a pure imagination of the director that has nothing to do with historical facts br br technical aspect and cast from the technical point of view the film is nothing special the cinematography cannot boast to be exceptionally fine and the sets together with costumes are as well nothing outstanding yet the only strong point of the movie are the performances particularly the one by malcolm mcdowall as caligula he does a perfect job in the main role portraying madness and cruelty of the emperor mcdowall raises the value of the film if everything bothers you in caligula you may at least admire his performance i also fancied helen mirren as and teresa ann as drusilla yet the film is based on a gossip by that caligula made love to his sister sir john gielgud as and peter o'toole as old are also memorable o'toole does his finest piece of acting in the capri grotto sequence portraying the decadence and the exhaust of the old emperor yes i admit that the only thing i like about caligula are the performances therefore i don't rate the movie 1 10 br br lame continuity the historical inaccuracy of the film also goes in pairs with poor continuity let us analyze just the beginning caligula comes to capri grotto where he sees the awful pleasures of old then after about 15 minutes the action moves to rome where a black bird near drusilla and caligula's bed constitutes a bad omen and immediately the characters are again in capri where john gielgud is dying br br all in all i don't recommend to see caligula to anyone if you want to know the story read robert graves' gorgeous novel i claudius and claudius the god or watch herbert wise's mini series with the magnificent performance by derek jacobi caligula is a sick film the most serious crime of which is the destruction of art it is in its most part a porn movie that should never be called an epic br br there are movies that are truly artistic and sharpen people's taste of beauty br br there are movies that are average entertainment yet they have something to offer br br there are movies that show extreme violence yet they still convey some moral br br there are however movies that show sickness and decadence for their own sake and consequently harm people's minds br br caligula unfortunately belongs to the latest group
0	incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman who went insane leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path i know there are several versions of this and this is based on the 102 one that i watched but i can't fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck br br i'd heard for long about the alleged shocking content of sex nudity which honestly there isn't much of here at all and boring when there is and blood but beware it's the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project camera work is hopelessly inept full of strange zooms failed framing and confusing pans to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage complete with a grainy photo quality lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven is it day or night are they in or outside have they changed scenes who is or is meant to be in the shot editing is the final sin here making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum story progression and involvement there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story but these faults distract so much it's tragic br br a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan burnt and fellini like turkey that's only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o'toole who makes a most memorable oh yes which brings us to the big name actors i'd like to line them all up one by one and just ask who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this there i've wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time period br br 1 out of 10 from ozjeppe
0	i'm currently slogging through 'fall and decline of the roman empire so i've had all things roman on my mind i'm not very far into it yet maybe two hundred plus pages but it is amazing just how many of these roman were killed i believe i've read through maybe 15 so far and only antonius and haven't been killed or at least suspected of having been killed i have also been fascinated by the mad excesses of many of these princes of rome not the least practitioner of these was caligula this brings me to reviewing this film i'm thinking of the film on a historical basis as far as i understand it from explanation of rome as well as other research from some good web sites and some fiction novels dealings with the period br br my point is i do not think that this film is what it is thought to be by many of it's i do not think the depravity shown with the sex and horrendous violence of this film qualify it as accurate the general ideas of the film seem accurate caligula is raised on an island exiled with his family and in content fear of being murdered by the increasingly mad suspicious and strange emperor he grows up paranoid and afraid and can never shake the cutesy nickname given him by his guards little boots this helps him grow up feeling abused and powerless he is handed the empire after dies the senate hoping he will steer away from the informer squads which brought death by whim of the former paranoid tyrant and lead rome away from the madness that dictator had settled it into caligula begins as a decent if hands off emperor but gets sick almost dies and comes back from the brink of death a true monster his with his sisters do begin here if not before he does have macro killed and many others who were his originally supporters the acts of madness seemed not to be the murders of caligula as much as his new thinking of himself as a living god him seen talking to the statue of jupiter as an equal doomed him his violent mad excesses would have doomed him anyway and three years seems to have been quite a decent run for the successors of well the film basically sticks to these lines while it manages to be coherent which is not common through it's entirety it does so while trying to shock the audience at all turns in every single scene the film begs you to be disgusted by the depravity of ancient rome the shocking scenes are what this film is built entirely upon and where it entirely fails it is just too much to see successive rulers have man after man murdered raped tortured for no reason but fancy the depictions of the violence are possibly but not probably accurate murder certainly was the order of the day in imperial rome torture beforehand was rote but the director's visions of these deaths and the bored amusement of their protagonists while the bystanders watch with nonchalance i just don't see it having gone down exactly like that the death machine the is certainly something like you've never seen in movies and something once seen you shall probably never forget even as i you wish you could the wine drinking while the penis is roped off is the same once you've seen this shame it is yours forever these things strike me the director's and that porn magnate's fantasies they sprung from their sick imaginations and not from any proved record br br the acting is pretty good i actually think mcdowell is the weakest link here mirren is always something to behold and here in her youthful years she is formidable and beautiful the portrayals of and are done very well by their respected actors the film could have done so much better story telling it is such a failure that way its just a whole other layer of what a shame this thing was for example it could have given opinion on how and why caligula went mad or shown that he was mad paranoid before his illness and that fever then broke the mental restraint he had possessed previously it could have shown the weakness of claudius and the miracle it was he survived caligula it could have these and many other things but it stuck to it's sad nightmares br br finally about the sex it is porn it shows these sex acts being done all over the palaces by many people male on male female on female male on female it is passionless disgusting sex sex that if your point is to get off on it i seriously doubt you could both and caligula may have been sex addicts and orgies may have been common enough but the visions in this film seem to recall more a greek time than a roman i don't think that kind of acceptance of homosexuality or orgies right out in the open were common until the the strange depraved reign of and he was killed for it br br this film should probably never be watched if your curious about it let it go it is something as i said earlier if you do watch this you will unfortunately retain it's sick visions in your minds eye for years to come i don't think its an accurate historical picture in particular even if it is historical in whole
0	it's a rare sensation to come across a film so embarrassing that you feel an urge to turn away from the screen but when you see a noble actor like sir john gielgud surrounded by naked copulating couples that's just what you'll want to do add to that peter o'toole as syphilis ridden emperor and malcolm mcdowell sticking his finger up a male victim's anus and you begin to appreciate that caligula is solely of interest to addicts of sick outrageous films br br the film charts the life of notorious roman emperor caligula mcdowell a highly disturbed individual whose story is told through a series of sexual encounters decapitations betrayals murders incestuous relationships and lesbian sex scenes br br although caligula was totally mad in real life and probably did succumb to his base instincts more often than not the film is still inexcusable filth the sex in the film isn't used as one aspect in a multi layered story the sex is the story after a while all the nudity hip thrusting and nipple sucking becomes tedious due to sheer repetition the performances are totally undisciplined particularly mcdowell who throws caution to the wind and gives a performance that is all wild eyed posturing o'toole seems to be treating the script with the contempt it deserves surely he's in it purely for the money rumours abound that additional pornographic scenes were added without the director's consent during post production but in truth there isn't a single minute in caligula that is dignified or well made it is doubtful that this amount of time talent and money will ever be thrown at a porno film again so in that sense caligula is a one of a kind experience on the other hand it's so monumentally awful that perhaps the fact it is one of a kind is a blessing in disguise
0	starting with a tearjerking poem and images of american missiles starving children and mutilated palestinians i quickly realised that this was not going to be a objective documentary 5 youths convicted after the gothenburg riots are interviewed and give a very confused explaination why they had to trash the and then oh my god actually have pay for what they have done i kept watching and many questions are raised were the trial properly done and did the cops have the right to do what they did lots of questions asked and then dropped no interviews with judges or going through documents about the trial nothing br br in short nothing new from what every swede has seen on tv a hundred times just poor propaganda
0	i saw this film at the tender age of 18 with a group of friends its reputation had preceded it and though all my friends were also of legal age i alone had the courage to enter the video store and actually rent it we gathered at a house where the parents had left town for the weekend though we sat in close proximity to each other we did not speak or otherwise acknowledge each other's presence as it turned out the film both merited and did not merit the anticipatory shame we felt it did not disappoint in terms of sheer gratuitous content but it disappointed in every other way br br caligula attempts to transcend genres by combining a historical epic with a brazen porn flick it fails miserably in its ambition subjecting the audience to the worst of both worlds the film's obvious selling point is its pornographic aspect and it does indeed provide far more than its share of real graphic sex but in setting this sex in the context of caligula's depraved reign it dignifies the act even less than the average adult movie sex without context might at least be physically pleasurable for the consenting adults involved but pleasure and perhaps even consent are largely absent from the world of caligula in it sex at best serves as an idle pastime and at worst as an instrument of sadistic domination in the present day it is somewhat common to hear words like sin and depravity used to describe acts which are enjoyable yet considered taboo according to certain moral or religious perspectives caligula takes the viewer beyond the facetiousness by depicting true depravity and demonstrating that no joy or pleasure comes from it br br the historical portions not only fail to meaningfully the sex they fail to entertain enlighten intrigue or interest the viewer in any way they only provide lengthy stretches of unremitting tedium rarely has a film proved so boring the sex after the initial shock and astonishment fades only contributes to the overall monotony of the picture br br rarely do discussions of this film involve its violence while many films more violent than caligula have been made few can rival it in terms of the shock value of its violence apparenly unrelenting as well as hyper depraved sexuality characterized caligula's the violence is even less for the faint of heart than the sex br br a review like this will likely generate as much curiosity as it i understand why someone would want to see this film after all i myself succumbed to the same curiosity i simply hope that my review by plainly describing its lack of redeeming value will at least give potential viewers the knowledge to make an informed decision about whether to see it or not my high school criminal justice teacher described police work as hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror this statement perfectly describes caligula you have been warned
0	it's rare to see film that strikes out in every aspect but caligula surely must hold this title i'm not sure what is more horrendous the violence the sexual perverseness the acting or the plot or severe lack thereof br br the two and a half hours basically follows the ascension of the infamous roman caesar caligula to to throne in and shows the atrocities and perverseness he supposedly committed whilst in power the acting is lifeless and dull but that's just the tip of the iceberg obviously knowing that this film was severely lacking of anything legitimately interesting the directors decided to throw in as much nudity and orgy scenes as was conceivably possible but don't be fooled these scenes don't ease or take focus away from the hideousness of this film the camera work is shoddy dialog is laughable in fact you'd have to congratulate malcolm mcdowell playing caligula for keeping a straight face through such farcical lines and then there's the violence br br if you are about to see the film be prepared some atrocities are committed in the film not just through the writing but through disgusting violent acts which are of little point or purpose other than to repulse the viewer this is only objective this movie achieved one must wonder how the makers of this film thought that bestiality necrophilia and castration just to name a few would be appealing to anyone when it belatedly ends after two and a half hours you take nothing from this film other than some disturbing images and the knowledge that you may have witnessed the worst film ever br br you've been warned
0	some describe as the most controversial film of its era while this is debatable it is certainly one of the most embarrassing virtually every big name associated with the film made an effort to distance themselves from it author gore vidal actually sued with mixed results to have his name removed from the film and when the stars saw the film their reactions varied from loudly voiced disgust to strategic silence what they wanted of course was for it to go away br br for a while it looked like it might caligula was a major box office and critical flop producer had to rent theatres in order to get it screened at all and although the film was released on vhs to the home market so many censorship issues were raised that it was re edited and the edited version was the only one widely available for more than a decade but now is on dvd available in both edited r and original unrated versions and no doubt john gielgud is glad he didn't live to see it happen br br the only way to describe is to say it is something like deep throat meets david lynch's dune by way of fellini having an off day vidal's script fell into the hands of penthouse publisher bob who used vidal's reputation to bankroll the project and lure the big name stars and then threw out most of vidal's script and brought in soft porn director brass then when felt brass' work wasn't explicit enough he and giancarlo lui photographed hardcore material on the sly br br viewers watching the edited version may wonder what all the fuss is about but those viewing the original cut will quickly realize that it leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination there is a tremendous amount of nudity and that remains in the edited version but the original comes complete with xxx scenes there is very explicit gay lesbian and straight sex kinky sex and a grand orgy complete with dancing roman guards thrown in for good measure the film is also incredibly violent and bloody with rape torture and mutilation the order of the day in one particularly disturbing scene a man is slowly stabbed to death a woman urinates on his corpse and his genitals are cut off and thrown to the dogs br br in a documentary that accompanies the dvd release states he wanted the film to reflect the reality of pagan rome if so he missed the mark we know very little about caligula and what little we know is questionable at best that aside orgies and casual sex were not a commonplace of roman society where adultery was an offense punishable by death and certainly ancient rome never looked like the strange slightly oriental oddly space age sets and costumes offered by the designers br br on the plus side those sets and costumes are often fantastically beautiful and although the cinematography is commonplace it at least does them justice the score is also very very good the most successful member of the cast is helen mirren who manages to engage our interests and sympathies as the empress gielgud and o'toole also escape in reasonably good form the same cannot be said for mcdowell but in justice to him he doesn't have much to work with br br the movie does possess a dark fascination but ultimately it is an oddity more interesting for its design and flat out weirdness than for content some of the bodies on display including mcdowell's and mirren's are extremely beautiful and some of the sex scenes work very well as pornography but then again some of them are so distasteful they might drive you to abstinence and the bloody and grotesque nature of the film undercuts its eroticism if you're up to it it is worth seeing once but once is likely to be enough br br gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer
0	as i read the script on line i thought capote needed a trim having just seen it on ppv i can tell you it wasn't trimmed it was butchered like that poor family example in the script truman dubs shawn adorable one here he is mr shawn br br bad enough the amateurs behind this movie de flame capote and bash his circle are we to really believe they thought so little of they mangled her little opus like an obnoxious in joke they turn perry smith into this oh so sensitive victim even as he's shown dispatching the clutters it's one thing to fudge the facts it's another to drop the ball the executions were carried out between 12 45 1 19 am april 14 truman is shown at the prison 22 hours later br br i was totally underwhelmed by the acting keener doesn't even try to sound like an alabama native the way cooper kept shouting alvin i was waiting for the to show up hoffman gives us not the charming gadfly but a pathetic suck up who sees an horrific act as his ticket to the big time when hoffman whines about being tortured by the endless appeals i wanted to give him a shotgun so he could do us both a favor and blow his brains out
0	in this film we're invited to observe the descent into a moral and emotional funk of someone who isn't likable to start with what was the point of making the film then to show that it would have been better not to have had in cold blood a book i admire incidentally in order to have kept our hero's integrity intact hardly he behaves at the party at the start of the film exactly in the same way he behaves after his triumphant reading from the book so his degradation is a matter of degree are we supposed to care enough about capote to take seriously his claim that he and murderer perry smith are kindred spirits with the former having had all the breaks while the latter had none mr capote's plight didn't touch me at all i'm afraid so if that was the central idea it was wasted on me but even if i could fathom why the filmmakers visited this pointless project on us the clunky storytelling would still have bored me as it did hoffman gives a bravura performance to no emotional effect while keener and cooper are so warm and interesting that i was yearning for more of them dreary beyond belief
0	many people said this was a great movie with hoffman delivering a great performance i went from suspended disbelief to boredom to almost walking out there is no there there br br hoffman does go all out he is committed to the performance but sometimes him playing an affected man looks just like affected actor chewing on the scenery br br no characters in the movie other than capote are much more than nell jack perry shawn the sheriff are all one dimensional br br yes the film shows the manipulative preening dishonest sides of capote it shows them so many times i started to wonder why do the filmmakers think we need to have everything spelled out and again and again it refers often to capote's genius but does not show it it shows him surrounded by fans and but never convinces us why br br but my goal is not to deconstruct the film i am sure others will have other interpretations for me this was a two hour movie that felt like five
0	this is one dreary inert self important bore when the only thing that suddenly gives a film life is a hanging you know the venture is botched philip seymour hoffman plays truman capote as a narcissistic tic ridden self indulgent cartoon voiced insect like caricature why he is this way is never explained and we get scant background information the script focuses on capote's writing of 'in cold blood' and his attachment to the damaged brothers who murdered a family of four the acclaimed writer of 'to kill a mockingbird' harper lee catherine keener accompanies capote in his initial inquires into the crime and her presence immediately suggests a far more interesting subject for a biopic unfortunately lee is quickly sidelined in favor of endless scenes of capote bemoaning his pained existence watching him is like watching dr smith from 'lost in space' complain about his delicate back to anybody who will listen for two hours the difference however is that smith was fun to watch while capote is not the film's precious self importance kills it as does director bennett miller's reluctance to add any kind of shading like the morose piano score the film is a one note wonder providing no contrast no emotional coloring and no intimate drama if capote really was this irritating why make a film about him and expect audiences to watch it though the supporting roles are well performed chris cooper is his usual stalwart self they serve such little dramatic purpose because ultimately it's all about capote director bennett and screenwriter dan futterman fail to emotionally engage their intended audience because they were clearly overwhelmed by the cultural baggage of capote's legend their product is stillborn oscar bait and is more evidence that one great genre pic has more truth in it than a dozen piles of oh so sincere crap like this
0	awful awful awful times a hundred still doesn't begin to describe how crappy biggest loser is picture this take two fat couples with nothing interesting to say humiliate them and let them work to lose weight all on prime time television am i the only one who thinks that this isn't something people with iqs in the 3 digit area want to watch everything drags on forever with the lumps of lard whining on about how losing weight is going to mean so much for them and their lives does anyone care do they think we care do they care if we care probably not i think i'll videotape myself doing crunches and sell it to some major television corporation if this passes for television then so can my workouts
0	i occasionally let my kids watch this garbage so they will understand just how pathetic the show's contestants are they are pathetic not because they are fat but because they whore their dignity for a few minutes of fame and fortune br br for anyone to appear on national tv and blubber sniffle and whine about being fat entirely their own fault is nauseating what does this say about us as a nation does it suggest that your lifestyle choices and the consequences of them aren't our responsibility br br the biggest loser is an appropriate title but it has nothing to do with one's weight br br absolute trash
0	when all we have anymore is pretty much reality tv shows with people making fools of themselves for whatever reason be it too fat or can't sing or cook worth a damn than i know hollywood has run out of original ideas i can not recall a time when anything original or intelligent came out on tv in the last 15 years what is our obsession with watching bums make fools of themselves i would have thought these types of programs would have run full circle but every year they come up with something new that is more strange then the one before ok so people in this one need to lose weight most americans need to lose weight i just think we all to some degree enjoy watching people humiliated maybe it makes us feel better when we see someone else looking like a jerk i don't know but i just wish something intelligent would come out that did not insult your intelligence
0	the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience br br it's really rather messy though fellowes doesn't seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves br br the dialogue is inconsistent stagey here vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional cliché though there is no over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can't create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces there's also a very prosaic dare i say it british feel to the filming i didn't want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story br br finally it is in fact the story which lets the rest down just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes woven as a vehicle for character examination wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow br br i'm disappointed not that it's bad but that it could have been much better 3 10
0	four things intrigued me as to this film firstly it stars carly pope of popular fame who is always a pleasure to watch it features brilliant new zealand actress owen thirdly it is filmed in association with the new zealand film commission fourthly a friend recommended it to me however i was utterly disappointed the whole storyline is absurd and complicated with very little resolution acting is fine but owen is unfortunately under used the other actors and actresses are all okay but i am unfamiliar with them all aside from the nice riddles which are littered throughout the movie and pope and owen this film isn't very good so the moral of the story is don't watch it unless you really want to
0	david comments nearby are exceptionally well written and informative as almost say everything i feel about darling lili this massive musical is so peculiar and over blown over produced and must have caused ruptures at paramount in 1970 it cost 22 million dollars that is simply irresponsible darling lili must have been greenlit from a board meeting that said hey we got that pink panther guy and that sound of music gal lets get this too and handed over a blank cheque the result is a hybrid of gigi zeppelin half a sixpence some mgm 40s song and dance numbers of a style daisies and boaters so hopelessly old fashioned as to be like musical porridge and mata hari dramatics the production is colossal lush breathtaking to view but the rest the ridiculous romance julie looking befuddled hudson already dead the mistimed comedy and the astoundingly boring songs this spectacular film into being irritating lili is like a twee 1940s mega musical with some vulgar bits to spice it up star released the year before sadly crashed and now is being finally appreciated for the excellent film is genuinely is and andrews looks sublime mature especially in the last half hour but lili is poppins and dolly frilly and i believe really killed off the mega musical binge of the 60s and made andrews look like poppins again which i believe was not edwards intention paramount must have collectively fainted when they saw this and with another 20 million festering in catch 22 and 12 million in on a clear day and 25 million in paint your wagon they had a financial abyss of cleopatra proportions with 77 million tied into 4 films with very uncertain futures maybe they should have asked seer daisy gamble from on a clear day lili was very popular on immediate first release in australia and ran in 70mm cinemas for months but it failed once out in the subs and the sticks and only ever surfaced after that on one night stands with on a clear day as a sunday night double thank god paramount had their simple 1million yes one million dollar film love story and that 4 million dollar gangster pic the godfather also ready to recover all the 77 million in just the next two years for just incredible